 Host today, Tyler. I'm Josh. And I'm Steve. Steve's going to be promoting some stuff hardcore throughout the stream. Welcome everybody. This is the live version, the edited version. Everything will actually be up on Matt's channel. So if you want to wait to watch that for whatever reason, or you're watching this afterwards and you'd like to see the edited version because you know it's got timestamps and nice stuff like that in it, head on over to Matt's channel. Hopefully it'll be up by the time you're watching this. Maybe, maybe not. He's sick. So, you know, give him some headway. And yeah, we're going to go ahead and get started with today's fun little stream. So we've got, we're going to do our normal stuff, go through our, you know, normal news articles, and then we'll get to the info information stuff, move on, pass that, do some more stuff, get to our thingies of the week. Hopefully there's no time constraints on this, and I will not be guiding us towards the end of the podcast like Matt normally does. So fingers crossed, buckle up. This is going to be a long ride. All right. So what's our first news article of the day? I guess, I guess we'll go with Steve leading us off. So what's, what's your news article that you will start off with? I want to start off. Okay. My first news article you caught me off guard is KDE delivers more Wayland fixes and Plasma 6.0 changes. Of course it's going to be KDE news from the KDE Supercell. Well, they, they are fixing a lot of things. I need to reopen the freaking article. Cause I didn't. Let's see here is come down to the good old fashioned bullet points on Pharaonix. Here's what I'm reading. ARC, the archiving program added more features because you know, more features to go features on, on KDE Plasma is always a good thing. Several UI enhancements to make Alisa hopefully a good music player, which is still not. Uh, ocular document viewer has a, has a brand new default toolbar layout because standards. Plasma 6.0 will expose global actions for system restart and shutdown via keybinding. So we have some implementation of global keybinds on a Wayland session improved error reporting. We're importing VPN configurations because you know, sometimes you don't want to troubleshoot your open VPN connection. That's been an issue for a lot of people. Yeah. KDE Discover will actually tell you how it's download progress for flatpacks, which is amazing. Showing the actual, because the issue currently with Discover is when you download flatpacks, it will show you a quick, it will go from zero to 100, but the package is not actually downloaded. It still needs time to download it. So it stays at 100% until the package is actually downloaded. I've been through that and I, that's why I don't use Discover. And another issue with Discover that they really need to figure out that Nicolo talked about recently is the fact that, uh, the reason, uh, because Matt talked about it and he reacted to Matt's video, uh, where Matt complained about Discover being slow. The reason the Discover is slow because it is because they integrated the, uh, the KDE store in it, within it to update the widgets and, uh, themes that you get from the KDE store. But because the store is continuously having issues on the back end, it causes Discover to hang and stall and sometimes crash. So they need to freaking, even if they have to, in my opinion, even if they have to remove the KDE store from it, remove it, make Discover responsive and stop hanging. Create a separate store if you have to for the widgets and whatnot for KDE store, instead of keeping it hidden within settings. Not a lot of people look deep within settings to figure out where to get widgets and stop. Either separate or fix the goddamn store. This, the issue with the KDE store.org, uh, has existed for over three years. It's actually existed way back in the day because it's still using the old plain store front end. They need to fix it, get a new host, get dedicated servers. I don't know what to do. Just stop with your, with this, with this shitty back end. It's been, you've been putting it on the back burner for long enough. And then, uh, for keyboards with an emoji key hitting, uh, what? Hitting, hitting it will now open KDE's emoji picker now. Well, yeah. Hello. Thank you. It should have been the case like a while ago. Fixing the way GTK apps, uh, the way GTK apps scale themselves within the Plasma Wayland session. Yeah. More Wayland fixes. I cannot talk a lot about Wayland because. Nvidia. Plasma no longer quits, crashes when, when an app sends a window, uh, title that's too long under Plasma Wayland session. Yes. Uh, uh, this was mentioned by one of my users earlier today, I guess, uh, he tried Wayland. He installed Wayland on zero Linux, enabled Wayland on zero Linux. He logged into Wayland and he's got window because he uses his language. I forgot what language it was. Some titles were much longer. It was causing windows to crash. He reported it today on my GitHub. So, uh, this is something good to see. Uh, screen recording and task manager thumbnails now work properly for Nvidia GPUs with the proprietary drivers on Wayland. That alone to me is the biggest part of the whole article. Yeah. We, we definitely need to start seeing more bullet points on these kind of articles hitting the Nvidia GPU section when it comes to Wayland. Which is wild, like the biggest point, like, hey, it works. This is the biggest one. Yeah. I think it's fine because my GPU right now works better on Wayland than it does Xorg. Oh, by the way, Josh, Josh, since you are the only one, well, since you are you, it's normal that you're the only one who has the ArcGPU. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we, uh, me, uh, and many other distros, uh, decided to remove the XF86 video Intel. Because a lot of people with the ArcGPU told me that GPU, that driver has been deprecated for a long time. It's all baked into the kernel now. And actually, actually keep it installed. Well, you should keep it installed for older Intel, like, um, what is it, older Intel IGPUs? Because, so what that pulls in is the old i9-15 driver, which the i9, which the ArcGPU does actually make callback to the i9-15 driver for, you know, stuff like the quick, the quick syncing code. In the article, it was something along the lines of i195 is causing crashes and what have you. So a lot of distros started removing the Intel XF86 video driver from their distros. I decided to remove it as well, but I told users, if you need it, you can manually call it. Yeah, and, uh, older X applications will actually talk to, to, uh, the, uh, and to the, uh, XF86 and Intel driver, uh, purely for, like, legacy library calls and stuff, too. So it's actually. So basically, uh, that driver is still required for some legacy hardware. Yeah, it's required for your old fashioned Xorg applications. I don't think, uh, any, I think it's purely Xorg that's still making the calls. It's nothing like the application itself. So stuff like DWM, DWM doesn't make any calls that are dedicated to the GPU itself. It's handling that through an Xorg library, which is what talks with the video driver. No, that's why the drivers start off with X, because they are directly related to X. Yeah. And the only ones I include on the Xero Linux ISO are the, uh, the virtual ones, the virtual machine ones. And, uh, that's it. Uh, everything else is offered via the tool. But should I reintroduce, should I reintroduce the ability to install the Intel drivers? Yes. Uh, it should be there. I think. I'll, I'll, I'll report it. If, if it does start causing crashes, then you can remove, but I'll be honest with you. I'm using it just fine. And Josh, and Josh is drinking out of the Xero Linux call. Thank you, Josh. Well, uh, so actually I'm glad that we started off on this article, because it did remind me of what we skipped. And that would be what we did this week in Linux. So, um, just because in chat, I've already seen quite a few people ask, ask cause I am back on Linux. Um, so I'll go ahead and start off and then we'll go clockwise. So Josh and Steve. Uh, but so what I did this week in Linux is I finally, not finally, but I got off of windows. Uh, the, the fact that like the power mafia in Microsoft is still super fucking strong. Like no matter what you do, you're not allowed to not have your computer go to sleep. Like windows will not respect your never selection. No matter what I even edited registry files, that bitch still goes to sleep and kills all your applications, which is just, and well, actually I did find a way around that. You just constantly have to have a game running in the background, which for me and my addiction of projects, that's not a problem. Yeah, it's not, it's not hard. I can do that. But so, um, I did go ahead and switch off mainly because I, I really just wanted to find the Linux distro that was like very focused on stability, but also at the same time, zero. Well, no, it was very polished. Like I just wanted everything to match. There's a high, there's high script. There's a high display rate, uh, uh, rendering properly, you know? Yeah. High DPI, you know, rendering is kind of like actual good high DPI support. Yes. That zero G, zero G, zero G. No, no, no, it's no. Um, and it's not because it's zero G, it's because it's good. No, uh, GNOME does, does not treat my ultra wide properly at all. Does not there's a whole bunch of stuff that GNOME doesn't do right. And also still to this day, it's not a completely cohesive experience, which it's much better than KDE, but still is not. And on the bright side, as long as you're using the applications intended for your desktop environment, it actually looks beautiful. The problem is that you only have a selection of about 30 applications to pick from. Yeah. Now, so I tried out elementary OS, which I've picked on in the past, uh, for being a new user focused distro and it just not being that great. Um, it's fucking phenomenal. Um, they've changed a lot since the last time I checked them out. It's great. High DPI display support is phenomenal. Um, it making use of my ultra wide very good. Um, it's not perfect, but it is surprisingly good. It's very, very close to Windows. Uh, if anyone who's on the elementary dev team ever wants to like fix it completely, talk to me. Uh, we can do that. Uh, I'll tell you exactly what needs to happen and what's not happening on a vertical ultra wide. I got you. Um, but yeah, like it's, it's been phenomenal. I have really, really enjoyed elementary OS and it is polished throughout. Like the amount of work that's going on with pantheon is insane. Like it's, it's really good. Now it's not customizable. It's not at all. At all. Don't have a problem. It's a no downstream fork. Well, it, yes, but it doesn't, like the problem is, is like when you use it, it doesn't feel anything like, you know, at all. Like it's totally different, but that's, that's what I've been doing this week. And that's why I'm back on Linux. Uh, Josh, what's you been up to? Uh, so, uh, last week my venerable 5700 XT died. Uh, the one, the one GPU that has served me very well the past four and a half years. Uh, it's done everything from crypto mining to Plex transcoding. Uh, and I think it finally decided to burn up and die in a pit of fire in, in the wonderful clouds of the blue smoke when three of the, when three of the capacitors blew up on it. Oh, fun. And I'm sure that doesn't have anything to do with the mining that was happening on it. Like sure it doesn't, but you know, uh, we went back when we were mining, mining on it. We were not undervolting it like we were supposed to. We were overvolting it, you know, just get more mining performance. Yeah. So never, never, never mind about the fact that we're going to do anything reasonable with our hardware. But anyways, since then I have, I've gone all in, uh, I am running a 100% pure Intel stack from top to bottom, CPU and GPU these days, uh, as because, you know, the Linux 6.2 kernel came out. Unfortunately, the Linux 6.2 kernel does not exist for Debian and, uh, the Lycorix kernel does not ship Intel Arc drivers. Who knew? So, uh, that, that was a complete disaster. And of course I failed the, I failed the district challenge. So I had to go buy Matt's steak at some point this summer. But anyways, as a result, I decided, you know what, let's install Arch Linux and then Arch Linux wonderful, wonderful distribution works flawlessly. No problem whatsoever. Not the fact that I actually had to dial up the network administrator at my ISP just to set up a dedicated packaging mirror for me. Uh, which, uh, you know, it's not. Yeah. And then, uh, you know, I just ran, you know, a YATAC SYU running something like 60 plus, uh, rather critical AUR packages. And of course the whole operating system broke. So I installed zero G, which, you know, I had this really old ISO for zero G. I ran an update Brooke grub. Oh no, the terror. So it's like, okay. So then I had to blow up, blow up zero G and then it's like, tell you what, we're just going to take the time to figure out like all this wonderful tooling that Steve uses for, for his distro. We created our own fork of zero Linux. We call it hype zero because we're not using hyperland. But just to let you know, just to let you know, Steve, your mirror works a lot more reliably than any other Arch mirror that I've actually experimented with besides my ISPs dedicated, uh, package mirror, just to let you know. Get lab activated. Those were generated from Lebanon. So, yeah. So, uh, right now we're currently running our own fork of, uh, zero Linux. It is not actually zero G. There is no fancy theme work. It is literally just bunstock gnome with no actual applications besides gnome applications because gnome is king. Well, all right. Steve, what's you've been up to? Hopefully not jumping through hoops like that. No, no, definitely not. I was just trying to get calamaris to look as awesome as it ended up for all the people who downloaded the latest release, which, which went online last night. Well, uh, calamaris looks better than it ever did. And thanks to the, to the, to the guys over at Coraiso, uh, telegram channel, uh, they helped me a lot. Uh, I ported it to 3.3 alpha, but it's, I don't consider it alpha, uh, alpha quality. I consider it more like RC quality because it's been in alpha to stay for like a year. But I've been tinkering with calamaris a lot and, uh, working on, uh, with someone from, uh, Mastodon, uh, on the new zero Linux too. I was supposed to ship it with the new release, but due to, uh, work and hectic work and stuff on his end, he wasn't able to finish it. So I'm going to release it as a, as an update soon. Uh, but other than that, I was, uh, uh, uh, doing something that we're going to talk about at the end when we reach our thingy over the week because it's going to be hilarious. So buckle up, people. All right. Okay. So let's get back to the articles because I'm sure we're going to take plenty of time with all of these. Uh, Josh, what's your article of the week? Oh, my article is a spicy one. Docker apologizes, uh, but they're still going to force you to pay up, uh, if you're in an open source team. So anyways, uh, Docker is, you know, a buzz phrase that's been going around in industry and all that. And, uh, you know, everybody loves Docker. Everybody loves pulling things from Docker, but unfortunately the Docker hub itself needs to monetize and, uh, they've badly needed to monetize since 2017. They're, they're Docker's finances are something else if you ever want to go down a rabbit hole. But anyways, what's going on is that Docker put out an announcement about three or four days ago saying that the any, or any team organization is going to need to start paying for the, for a subscription. That way Docker will actually host their projects on Docker hub. Uh, the $120, I think $470. It is $60 a year per project. Basically, if you're, if you're in like a full team is 300, if you're a proper business making profits and all that stuff, it's 1400 or something like that. But anyways, uh, so because they did a wonderful missed communication, even, even up to this article, uh, basically they're saying that, uh, yeah, we're, we came out with this program saying that, hey, if you're an open source project that's, that's operating as a team, you can, uh, you can, I need to learn how to talk. Give me a second. Don't worry. I'm right. I'm right. This is going to be one of those days. As soon as my article comes up, I'm going to do the same thing. But anyways, uh, docker came out and said, okay, so you can sign up for like this sponsorship thing where we'll, where you can still use a team account and still publish your thing. Uh, and people will have sent in emails asking for, uh, access to the sponsorship thing of which they've gotten no replies. And, uh, all of their third party, all of their official communications are being dealt with through Twitter and GitHub issues, which, you know, is a great, fantastic resource to do anything but make a blog post on Docker, on Docker hub's website like they should to address all these concerns. Dude, if I'm going to get customer support through Twitter, fuck that. I'm done. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Never at team YouTube for anything is just a waste. Yeah. But anyways, uh, this doesn't affect just Docker. This will also affect Podman because this is a container registry host. This is the repository you're pointing your containers from. So realistically, the only solution right now is to stop posting your projects on the Docker hub and instead either self-posts or find another register to pull your Docker containers from. I know the Linux server IO team actually has their own repository that they're going to be posting all their containers to. And that's really about the only group that I really know of. Hmm. Thankfully, a lot of the self-hosted applications that you're pulling from the Docker hub are actually not team managed, but they're actually individually managed for, which for that basically means, uh, means that the, if you're posting your Docker container as an individual rather than a team, it's actually free of charge. Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm interested to see, uh, how Docker does financially in the future, because you are right. If no one's checked out, Docker's financials. It's fun. Check it out. Yeah. It's a lot of fun. It's a wonder. The only one here that has never used Docker or got interested with Docker or needed Docker. Well, your websites hosted on Docker. Yeah. What? Your website's hosted on Docker. Yeah. It's hosted on Docker. What, what, what does that mean? I don't know what you mean. Well, it, it, it's hosted through a Docker container, which most, most are, I mean, most, most VPNs are using essentially Docker for, or not VPNs, VPS is for very basic stuff. Like, well, that's what a lot of people use is just, it's essentially a Docker container. If it's not literally a Docker container. Oh, it's a, it's a regular web host with C panel. Yeah. C panel only distributes their software through a Docker container these days. So when you see panel interface connected to a Docker container to be able to host that. I learned something new today. Okay. You're welcome. No, I mean, that doesn't mean you're like getting into the nitty gritty of Docker, but still like Docker is one of those things where like, even if you don't make use of it, you probably, especially if you're hosting stuff or doing stuff on the internet, you're probably making use of Docker in places where you're not directly having to. If it's a VPS, if it's a VPS, most probably they're using Docker. There's like a 90, there's like a 99% chance unless it's some old school shop that's still using BSD for other servers. Or even, even if they're not using Docker, they're using a Docker-like solution, probably proprietary or something. This is how, this is how they, they distribute on the mass scale, basically. Yeah. Yeah. Docker makes it very easy. Yeah. It's reproducible. That's what it is. And you can clone stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. By the way, should I do this update? It's got ALSA. Probably not. ALSA topology in the name. Probably not. It's something to do with ALSA. Just, just probably not. We should not update your system at, you know, a podcast. Yeah. Yeah. All right. No, because Spamac has been nagging me in the trade telling me there are updates. Yeah. So I'm like staring at it. Okay, should I do the update? Trust me, that bitch can wait. All right. So for my article this week, I've got NordVPN has open sourced its Linux VPN client and libraries. So that just means that today we can talk about our sponsor NordVPN. No, I'm just kidding. All right. No, we're not, we're not going there. All right. So I was about to say you better not start a VPN segment because, you know, I will rage at you. Hey, hey, come on. Like we got to get money somehow. And I'm actually ignored. Look, look at the FBI. Can I ask a question? Yeah. Yeah. What is a VPN? You don't know what a VPN is? Seriously? You don't make use one so. Realistically, this is how a VPN works. Have you ever heard of like a proxy before, right? Yeah. Or basically you just bounce here and you either use a proxy. Yeah. A VPN is literally just a proxy, except that you're sending all your traffic through the one pipe. Yeah. Basically, all you're doing. Doesn't it blow up? No. No. No. So like the most basic. I was just kidding. Well, that's what I said. Are you serious? And you said, yes, like there are people out there who don't know. I wanted you to see if you're going to believe it or not. Like, oh, geez, virtual private networks. I know what it is. Okay. I'm glad somebody knows. I don't use it. Especially at Lebanon. I figured that you would know exactly what that is. Everybody uses it here, but I don't understand. I tried to use it once and it slowed down the internet traffic maybe a hundred thousand fold. Yes. It will slow down your traffic depending on where you're connecting. And my connection is slow already. So why would I need one? Well, you would need one when your country cares about piracy. That's when they come real and handy. Which my country doesn't. But people use it mostly for something called Flixnet, Netflix, something like that. Yeah. Try to get that American Netflix or something like that. Yeah. Actually, Japanese Netflix, to my understanding, is actually really awesome. And I should try connecting to Japan. And well, I mean, I've connected to Canada. I think it's some shows. You'll be watching a lot of anime. All right. So something like Japanese reality TV. Well, all right. So for those who do understand what VPNs are, and then you've probably heard of NordVPN, the best VPN, definitely not a honeypot. Like there's literally zero chance that it's FBI owned or funded. Zero chance of that. So they've decided to open sources. What does zero Linux have to do with it? You said zero. Well, hopefully zero. Zero Linux is also funded zero percent by the FBI. But you know, I don't know if there's something you got to tell us, let us know. But yeah. So NordVPN is trying to be more transparent, which sure. Okay. So I got to ask the question. Now that NordVPN is going to like open source some of their stuff are like would either of y'all be well, I know Steve's not interested in VPN, but Josh, like, do you now trust NordVPN more? No, because I prefer a wire guard over open VPN. Oh, come on now. Come on. Actually, I don't even think Nord using the open VPN. I think they're using their own VPN protocol. Oh, yeah, I definitely don't trust it. Okay. So Nord said we're making these products open source as a sign of our commitment to transparency and accountability. That is that is a load of market speak and it's a heap of shit. That's what it is like the most accurate market speech off of a NordVPN ad that I've ever seen right there. But you know, at the same time, that doesn't mean that I'm going to sign up for NordVPN. I genuinely, I just saw this. I was like, all right, we have to talk about it because if there's one VPN company that I truly believe is a honeypot and ran by a government agency, it's NordVPN. It's definitely NordVPN. Because you know, they're the ones that are like paying YouTubers to advertise that. You know, you install the NordVPN and suddenly you're secure and private from every website ever. Yeah. In reality, you're only secure from where you are to where the VPN is hosted. And that's it. Thrift Shark is also pretty bad, Clay. You got that right. But at the same time, all VPNs, all VPN ads, just take them all with a grain of salt. They're not, they're not as private as they actually claim to be. Even, even MOLVAD. MOLVAD, private internet access, like it doesn't matter. They're all, they're all stealing your shit. Like if we're being honest, or at least documenting it. Like I guess people don't understand like laws and regulations. Like where these places are read. As soon as your VPN is ran off an island in the middle of bum fuck nowhere, they're keeping records. Like it's how it works. You said keeping record. Vinyl records? Yes. Yes. Vinyl records. Yes. I like that. That's the best way of storing information. Oh, wait. Hold on. You guys don't have, you guys don't use records for your ISOs? Where do you, where do you post them? We use, we have big collection record. Big, good, these black, these. Well, I would like one with zero G on it, you know, as quickly as you can sit at home. Well, you know, I still have a bunch of floppy disks with Slackware 3. Why? Why? Welcome to the 21st century, boss. Because I paid $17 for back in like 2007 or something like that. And what about that $17 airmarks it for never getting put in the trash bin? No, but on a serious note, you're right. VPNs, they keep records even if you, if they tell you that, no, we don't. And we don't track you. We don't know. Don't, for them to say that, to have a reason to say that, that means they are doing it. Yeah. Well, of course. I guess just some people don't understand the idea of a honeypot. Like they, like the idea. The only VPN I will actually take any privacy, I'll take any privacy features with seriously is Bolvad. And that's just because you can write your account number on an envelope and send them cash. Yep. That's the only one I trust for that reason. But yeah, when I was in Dubai, I had no choice but to use a VPN or I used to call them the proxy breakers because over there they blocked, they controlled the media and the newspapers and stuff like that. They only wanted you to get informed through their controlled media. Yeah. So any outside sources, kind of like China, but not on that massive a scale. Yeah. Still, you can access the pirate site, porn site, other news outlets. So we had to use VPNs for that. But back in the day, back in the nineties, we never called them VPN. We just called them anti proxy. Yeah. Yep. I mean, that's quite frankly what they are. That's who it is. Exactly. But did you notice immediately? Virtual private, like the private park there, like it sells the product so much better. Yeah. Private is not really private. They keep your data. They sell it whenever they want without even letting you know all that. That's why now, because I used to work three, like a few years ago, I worked there for three years, tried to use VPNs, but the government banned the use of VPN. If you try to use a VPN, as soon as it's detected, your internet account gets a flag. That's when you spin up a VPS and just SSH tunnel everything, basically make your own VPN over port 22. That's one way of doing it, but that's the long way of doing it, the Josh way of doing it. But still, it's annoying because a lot of people in the Emirates wanted to watch content on Netflix that was outside the UAE, because in UAE is one of those countries where they had movies made specifically for them with love scenes cut out, with kissing scenes cut out. Oh, a live update for my article, by the way. Instead of blurring or any of that, God forbid, they just, so if a movie was an hour and 48 minutes, you end up watching 59 minutes, a movie 59 minutes long. Yeah, they got to censor all of the all of the disturbing scenes, like, you know, characters. So exactly. And people wanted access to the full, unedited version, uncensored version and whatnot. They needed a VPN, but now they banned VPNs because the UAE, the most, the VPNs were mostly used on routers because in the UAE, to make a FaceTime call, you had to pay around 15 extra bucks on your cell phone carrier or whatever to make a WhatsApp call. It's 25 bucks extra. I mean, that's what VPNs were always for, is getting around legislation in your area that was bullshit. Yeah, but why do they have a lot of data on everyone? Why do they have a lot of data on everyone? Because everyone is using them. Well, all right, so let's go on to the contact information, then we'll move on to the next round of articles. So let me try to do this without completely butchering it. So if you would like to contact us, here's where you can go to do it. First thing that you probably want to do is go over to subscribe to Matt's channel, like let's get that out of the way. So you go over, go over to the linuxcast.org website. No, stop talking about Project Zomboid, stop. Okay, so go over, you can subscribe, and you can also check out Matt's website, and it has all of these links to everything over there. But make sure you go to the Linuxcast channel, subscribe to Matt's actual channel to get the rest of these podcasts and stuff. You can also go over and hit them up on Patreon at patreon.com slash the linuxcast. Also, subscribe. Again, already talked about that. You can also subscribe here because who knows, might be doing this in the future, have no idea. And you can also subscribe to Josh's channel and check out his website at tindleyj.com slash stalker, perfect URL, beautiful. You're welcome. You can also check out Steve's channel, link to that will be in the description. And you can also email us at email at the linuxcast.org. Matt will get that, I will not. And then you can also check us out and contact us through the linuxcast.org slash contact page as well. Also, don't forget, we do have a merch store as well. I don't think it's down in the description, but I'm pretty sure you can find that over at the linuxcast.org. So if you want to pick up, you know, shirts with Matt's logo on it or my meme face on the back of it, you can do that. And yeah, I'm the only one here without merch. Well, it's probably a good thing because like, I got to be honest, I checked on their T-Spring and it's been a year since I did that. And so I was like, oh, I'm sure we'll have an order. We didn't the last time I checked, which is probably like a way to start plugging it. Well, that's the thing, we do such a terrible job of plugging it. Most people don't even know it exists. So yeah. But yeah, so we've covered the contact page and I guess we'll get back into the articles. And I guess I'll let Steve kick us off with the next article. The next article, this time I have it in front of me. Wine 8.4 released with the early Weyland graphics driver code, 51 bucks. Finally, wine is giving love to Weyland. Not that I care, but for now. People don't get angry at me. For now, I'm still me, I'm going to say one thing before I start talking about this article. I talked about it on my podcast, but I need to get it out there. Because Matt keeps complaining. And sometimes me being a KDE supersimp, sometimes I don't understand. Okay, KDE, I agree with everybody that says KDE is full of bugs. Yes, I do agree. KDE has bugs. Oh boy, I know. But if you're patient enough, you remember that bug I kept telling you about for multiple episodes that I get whenever watching videos, something happens, it stutters for a second and then it goes back to normal. Well, I thought it was at some point, I started thinking it was something wrong with my hardware, but finally it got addressed. It was an issue with the AMD U-code in the kernel. So AMD sent a last minute patch to the kernel 6.2.6 where they fixed it. Oh, it wasn't me. So be patient with KDE, be patient with everything. With enough patience, everything will fix itself. That being said, wine getting support or initial support for Wayland, that's a huge step forward, especially for gamers. For me, that means the Steam Deck will at some point integrate Wayland once wine gets more stable on the Wayland side. But what the article says is the wine Wayland DRV is already in the code. Unfortunately, this article is very on a diet because that's all it says, basically, that the Wayland driver is already inside wine, but not activated. Isn't yet ready for end users or gamers, but is at an early stage work in progress. It will take some time still before this native Wayland support is ready to complement the ex-Wayland support. Well, ex-Wayland is like running Xorg inside Wayland. Just so we're clear, the Steam Deck does actually use Wayland. It uses pretty much all the games or ran through, no, not pretty much all, all the games or ran through GameScope, which is actually a Wayland compositor. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, go back a second. You're telling me that the Steam Deck is running on Wayland? Yes, but they were running on Pulse Audio. You can use Pulse Audio with Wayland? Yeah. That said, the only reason why PipeWire is used on Wayland is purely for video. Or using it on OBS. Yeah, that's why you keep hearing about PipeWire on Wayland. Plus, Pulse Audio doesn't have actual native support for recording desktop applications on Wayland as well, because it's the Wayland protocols. So that's why there's a PipeWire back-induced Bipulse Audio. So you've actually always had PipeWire on the Steam Deck. All right. I noticed that when I updated them, I lost all my settings. Yeah, it's just now that they're actually using it by default. So they have both Pulse and Wayland, and PipeWire. PipeWire. Yes. Since I got it, they've been using Pulse-PipeWire for certain stuff. I just noticed that when they updated and broke all my settings. If you open up the terminal and just type in P-A-C-T-L info, it will tell you what backend you're actually using. Yeah, but I noticed that during the update, after it broke my stuff, it said Pulse-PipeWire. And I was like, all this time, I was telling people that the Steam Deck is not using Wayland because it's using Pulse Audio. I was wrong. Now, when you enter Desktop Mode on the Steam Deck, you're actually using Xorg. I actually don't think you're actually using Wayland on Desktop Mode. Yes. The Desktop Mode, I'm 99.9% sure, loads up using X. I believe you can switch it over to Wayland. But it's also QD on Wayland, which is something else right now. It's functional. Yes, it is functional. You can switch. How can you switch if you don't see the lock screen when you log out? It takes you to the Steam UI. Okay, you can do it. I'm pretty sure. I don't know the steps, but it's not going to be logging out, switching it at the log in manager going back in. I think you have to edit config files so that when you load up the Desktop Mode, instead of loading up with Xorg, because essentially, when you're switching from the Steam UI Mode to the Desktop Mode, it's using the same type of configs that a login manager would use. So it's doing the work of a login manager behind the scenes, and then you get hit with the Desktop Mode. So I'm pretty sure you just added configs. Yeah, I need to edit the SDDM config or whatever. Again, I don't think they're actually using a login manager, but they essentially have their minimal, not really login manager. Oh, okay, I got you. Yeah. I'll have to edit the config of that. Yes, and then you can get in. I know I've seen some people talk about it, because I've read about people switching over the Desktop Mode. So I wasn't wrong by telling people on the Desktop Mode it wasn't using well? No, you're not wrong. It should be running X, but when you load up a game, I'm pretty sure even in the Desktop Mode, the way Steam is configured, it tries to load up every game still through using Game Scope, which Game Scope is a Wayland policy. Of course, because if you get the overlay and everything. Yeah, yeah. Well, all right. So, yeah, so back to this article, I still think this is a big deal for everyone who is using Wayland on the Desktop or... It is definitely a big deal, because as somebody that's been tracking Wayland progress for a very long time, Wayland is actually a lot more efficient than Xorg. Simply because, you know, Wayland is not actually running like a full display stack in the background on your system. So as a result, you're getting improved battery performance and you will actually get better GPU performance, because GPU is actually doing less on Wayland. There was one report, sorry to cut you off, Josh, but there was one report on my server where someone switched to Wayland and ran a game on Wayland. You notice that anti-aliasing was not all that great on Wayland. Well, let me get to that. I was actually just getting to that. That said, a lot of GPU drivers, especially like the AMD and Intel drivers specifically, Intel seems to actually work a little bit better than AMD in this regard, but the actual driver stack for Wayland is still not nearly as mature on Xorg. That said, specifically for stuff like anti-aliasing, there's a difference in the way of how Wayland translates anti-aliasing than Xorg does. And that's actually part of the reason why. So yes, there are still some pain points, especially when it comes to your video games looking great and amazing on Wayland compared to Xorg. How do they do it on the Steam directory? How do they make them look so good? Because your games are being ran through XWayland. That's why they're not Wayland native. Not yes, no. Well, some games are Wayland native, yeah. And also, the big thing about the Steam Deck is their driver stack that we're complaining about is much better than any other way. Yeah, they're using their own implementation of the Mesa driver. Yeah, they're using them. And it has already reached their repositories, 23.1 reached their repositories, and it's not even on Arch yet. Yeah, that's kind of why the Steam Deck is not a great comparison because they're essentially cheating compared to the rest of Wayland gaming world because they have their own driver implementation that it's just more fine-tuned for what they're doing. Yeah, because it's a device that was created for one thing and one thing only with one target. Whereas on the more broader scale, it's supposed to do a million different other things at the same time. Yeah, I would see why it's so much better on the Steam Deck. All that, but the battery is still, to me, abysmal on the Steam Deck. Yes, but at the same time, it's really hard, really hard to stuff a battery in a device like that. That's running a lit, a legitimate, like, yeah, technically it's a laptop processor, but not really. It is a beefed up laptop processor, and it's just, it's difficult. And the funny part is, I could literally watch the battery go down. Yeah. Well, I'm playing. I can watch it. That said, it's also with game optimization because PC games are not actually optimized for efficiency like they are on consoles. It's doing double the work. It's pulling double duty. It's running the game. It's converting the code. And the fact that she's playing double duty. Really, in all honesty, you do have to give it to them. The fact that she could run Cyberpunk on that device with decent settings and get two plus hours, like you probably won't get three, but you can get two plus hours. You can get more. You can get up to five to six hours playing the Cyberpunk. If you play it via remote, like render it on your PC and via streaming, that would give you a lot more hours playing Cyberpunk. And the cool part about that is in a lot of use cases, that's how people are going to end up using the deck. Because you're going to, you're already going to have your big desktop computer somewhere in the house. But if you want to play that game that you would play sitting at the computer on the couch, where you can have the random conversations with your family, you're going to get way more battery life out of it. And it's probably going to be a more useful use case. Yeah, and especially with, if you want to run games directly on the Steam Deck, the Steam Deck is beautiful. Or in Tyler's words, sexy. Yes. When you play indie titles and emulation. Really? In all honesty? It's built for that. It's built for that. Even if you want to play AAA games, it is the great part about the Steam Deck is a short, if you want to play a AAA game and you're close to beating it or you just want to get into it and you've got a short flight, man, the Steam Deck is lit. Like it is awesome. Because if you've got a short flight, you can get in the battery most likely will not die before you land and you can have a nice. I'm going to be testing it. I'm going to be testing it because my flight is an hour and a half. Oh, perfect. Perfect. Yeah, you could definitely fit in a nice AAA gaming experience on that flight. No problem. Yeah, but I'm, and so everybody knows, I'm going to be joining the Project Zomboid team soon as soon as we get off this call because it just finished downloading and it was only two gigs. I thought it was bigger than that. No, no, it's a super small game. It's great. Yeah, I'm going to be installing it via GOG installer because I got it as a GOG dev game because it's still in development if nobody knows. Yes, that's actually actually we're going to pivot and we're going to talk about that for a second because again, we're going to make this longer and we've only been going for less than an hour, so we got time for tangents boys. So speaking of Project Zomboid, actually, I believe it was Josh that made the argument. He took a look at it. Oh, I tickled the bees. I woke the bees. So he took a look at Project Zomboid and said he was not interested because it was early access. No, no, no, no, no, no. It doesn't say early access does not mean it's not good. Exactly. It doesn't matter to me that I've been playing. I've been playing Wreckfest since the day it started. They released it as an early early alpha. Well, hold up. So the point of early access is for games that are not finished and that are currently under active development and change frequently like a game that like Apex Legends should not be early access because all you're going to do is be adding more content to the game. That's all you're doing. DLCs. Exactly. They should launch them as DLCs. Exactly. Or just consistently update the game. That is not a use case for early access. Early access means active development and where the changes that you're going to be making literally change the gameplay itself. And a good example of that is like, I think it was like six months ago, Project Zomboid did their animations update where they overhauled a lot of the animations and the actual difficulty of the game got way harder. So everything about like the early access argument with Project Zomboid, I don't get because it's one of the few games in early access for one that doesn't denigrate the name early access because it's not just a shit game. And then two, also, it's literally exactly what early access was originally designed for. It's a game that you can play and you can have a lot of fun with, but also is under active development. Like, essentially, if you won't play Project Zomboid because it's early access, you should not ever touch zero AD because that bitch is still an alpha and it is. I mean, it's been an alpha for like, what, 20 years? Yeah. And that was great. Yeah. But my big complaint about like early access is that there are some games that are like 10 plus years old that are still early access and they haven't been online for three or four years. Yeah, Eve online is actually one of them. But even though I don't buy Eve online through Steam, I buy it from the proper channels. Well, I've literally never played Eve online, but I have heard of it a lot. Case in point, Diablo 4, the beta, it's still in development. Active development, it won't be ready until summer. But they're using it for in the correct terms, developer beta or whatever they're calling it. Same thing with Wreckfest. I've been playing it since its alpha days and it was constantly being developed. But like Tyler said, Wreckfest was not really in development. It was more adding content throughout its alpha, beta and gamma, whatever you call it, days until it got released. They were constantly adding cars, tracks, stuff like that, but they were not developing it. They were just adding content. So they were not using the correct terminology because it was on Steam, it said early access. Now, I will go ahead and give the devil his due on Josh's argument. No matter what, if the game is still in development, I don't think a game should go early access period anymore just because early access itself holds a very bad stigma, like very bad. Early access is like giving you first dibs before it goes online. Really, my argument stems from the fact nowadays, no matter what, there's so many shit early access games, you honestly get surprised. If you find an early access game and it's got a demo or you end up buying it and it's good, you're surprised, which is not a good thing. So in Josh's defense, I don't think Project Zomboid should be an early access game just because of what early access has become. In Project Zomboid's defense, it is a very good early access game and it's also knit for early access. Yeah, still. And I got it and I have good news. I got it legit. I just need to install Galaxy to be able to access online stuff, but I got it legit for free. Why? Wait, hold on, is it still available? Because it's in active development. Is it still available for free through GLG? Well, here's the thing. No, the copy I got says it's four months old. Ah, gotcha, gotcha. So that one is when they stopped giving it for free. Gotcha. So four months ago, they pulled the plug and now you have to buy it. But I got an older version that's legit, but it's four months old, so I won't have access to the latest updates. I can't update it. Might also make it more difficult to play multiplayer. Yeah, and I cannot update it. The guy over there, I have a friend who has internal access and stuff like that, that kind of thing. He was like, I have a copy of Project Zombo, but it's four months old. This is the last one that was available for free. You won't have access to the latest, greatest, and whatever. I was like, it's fine. I just want to test it. I just want to see what my friend Zany is on about. So it's okay. I'm going to be playing it alone by myself anyway. I'm not a multiplayer gamer, so I'm just going to see how it goes. If it's like you said, I need something. I realize this thing about myself lately. I don't play games that have action, a lot of action anymore. I sit back and relax on a game. Okay, you told me this is a frustrating game because the game literally starts by telling you this is how you died. I saw it on your stream. I was like, what kind of game starts like that? Okay, I don't have a problem in dying in this kind of game because I saw its isometric perspective type of view. So it's kind of relaxing. You can go into a house, you can plumage in the house, and you can spend hours in the house without being attacked or attacking anyone. To me, it's a bit of both. It's a little bit of action when you go out to survive, but you go back to a house, you close all the doors, you're good, you're relaxed, you can do some base building and enjoy and discover. I'm like, yeah, okay, I'll give it a go. That's what I really enjoy about the game. It's got a balance of both worlds. If you leave the house, this is when you want the action to happen. You want to get frustrated. You want to die. You want to restart. But I have a question for you, Mr. Project Zomboid. When you die, what kind of death is it? Do you restart everything? Do you lose everything? I assume that you lose everything because the zombies eat you. Yes. So what happens, it's a very really interesting game. So your map creation is separate from your character creation. So you can load up a world, create a game instance with a world, and so you have a start date in the world. And so you can go in and survive. Like let's say you survive in game for six months, then you get bitten and you slowly die in turn, or you just get overwhelmed and eaten by a horde. Like what's going to happen? Your character screams, like dies, and then they'll turn back into a zombie and you're given an option of quitting. And you can go back and just overwrite that save or delete the save, whatever, and create a whole new world and a new character. Or it'll also give you an option to just create a new character. And so you can create a new character with different traits, whatever. And you can go back into that same world that you've already been in for forever. And you can start over fresh again. You'll be later in the world. So like it'll be later after the apocalypse and everything. But you can actually go back with that new character to where your old character died. And you'll see the zombified version of you. You can beat the shit out of them and take back all of your old gear that you had on. Oh, OK, OK. That's an interesting way of doing things. Yeah, it's actually really cool. Start over from scratch. Or you can build a new character, but pick up where your old character and kill your old character because he's a zombie. Yeah. Now, I mean, again, it's easier said than done because you're again going to be starting off as a completely new character with you're going to have negative traits. So you're going to have to let's say you're a smoker. You're going to have to find more sigs lighter. You're going to have to get equipped to go back into the area. Because if you died earlier, unless you died somewhere super safe out of starvation or whatever, you're going to have to go there, kill the horde that killed you or whatever. And then be able to get your old body and get everything back. So yeah, but you have OK, OK, OK. Wow, that's interesting. That's that's that's I've never seen that in a game before because yesterday last night I was playing dead cells. And what's interesting about dead cells, every time you respawn, it's random. The world changes. Yeah, there's not you start off with the area looks similar where you started the first couple of times. But as you move forward, the area has changed. It's no longer three doors. Now you have ledges. You got zombies. You got skeletons and you got enemies. It's like the world randomly regenerates. So I really got frustrated with the game and stop playing it because of that. I was like the way I used to play games back when I played indie games was like, OK, I died multiple times in this in this game at this area. So I memorized. Yeah, you die so you can learn like. Yeah, you die so you can learn. But in this one, you cannot learn. You have to always unlearn what you have learned because the world keeps randomly generating. I'm like, that's frustrating. And Matt warned me about that because that's the game he played on the Steam Deck. I was like, how frustrating could it be? And yeah, I cannot play with cheats because the world is randomly generated. So I'm like, yeah, I give up on this game. I just want now Project Zomboid and I want and I'm playing Wreckfest to death because the last time I played a Destruction Derby game was in the PlayStation one day, Destruction Derby 2. Well, so we are we are going to need to get back to the the topics because we have been talking about video games for like 15 minutes. And I'm sure some people in chat are like, I thought this was going to be Linux. So we're going to talk about games on Linux. I mean, it can I talk about an upcoming new distra that everybody should be installing right now? Sure. Well, you see, apparently there are now more than dozens of open SUSE users. There are now hundreds as open open. Open SUSE Leap last month has reported that they're getting 360,000 downloads in a single day. And as a result, you know, apparently if you are using SUSE, there are there are geckos. Holy crap. You got geckos. Yes. The only art the only news article referencing this that I found was this super, super opinionated article where it's just like a Haiti. A lot of it's really just like going like, yeah, people are using open SUSE because apparently the entire canonical is bull crap. Well, I mean, we're being honest. That's the reason. That's the reason for the for the new Linux. I mean, you want to flatback remix existence. So, yeah, but, you know, this is 2020 or in June 2022, the number of downloads of open SUSE Leap skyrocketed to around 360 K. Yeah. And it stayed consistent all the way up until last month, too. From what I'm seeing, let's see, if we go to metrics.openSusa.org, we can see that way more than zero Linux on February 27, 360,000 downloads. So, yeah, it's insane, like that the people are actually downloading open SUSE. Now, how many of them are sticking to it? Yeah, that it doesn't say that anything, you know, but, but, you know, if you guys have never checked out open SUSE, I actually recommend that it's worth, you know, a look because open SUSE actually has a very unique approach to like doing things and their installer is something else, but you know, after you take the time to actually figure it out, you actually realize that their installer is actually pretty cool if you actually dig into it. If you have patience to wait like I did when I installed open SUSE Leap for the first time. Yes, it's also really really slow. It took me six hours to install. The entire back then, we had a little bit more power, so it took six hours to install. Yes, but it also pulls down so much stuff when it's installed. And small packages, because the packages, it's not like pulling a package and then extracting and installing the package. No, it's downloading and extracting at the same time. Yes. Yes. And like it, that's the one thing that people normally complain about when it comes to open SUSE is when you install it, it pulls down way too much stuff. But at the same time, you won't have to do that in the future. Yes, and you know, if you actually read the output of like the zipper command in the terminal, which I know that there is no reason to use the terminal in open SUSE because JASTA is a thing. But if you actually take the time to actually read the output, it's actually really wordy, and it tells you exactly what's going on, too, which is actually a thing. Yeah, isn't JASTA the Octopi look alike? Octopi is actually influenced by JASTA, but they're very different projects. They look alike. They look similar. Yeah. Yeah. That said, it's one of those distributions where it's just like, before you like, you actually look at all the history reviews that like talk about it. And honestly, like, just give it a shot if you haven't given it a shot because they have a boss band. Like you should give it a shot. Like they actually have a band. It is. Yeah, they actually have a band. You can go to SUSE's YouTube channel. You can watch them make parody music videos because, you know, they actually know how to do advertising. Yeah. Yeah. But don't ever don't. I had people call open SUSE open SUSE. Yeah. They gave me a bandaid package because, you know, I cut my finger while I was at Ohio Linux Fest and they had like first aid kits. Yeah, it's awesome. I know, right? SUSE. It's open SUSE. Not open SUSE. Yeah. There's a video about how to pronounce SUSE. Yeah. And you're the one who sent it. Yeah. And it's also not, it's not as, or not, it's not, it's not like the FSF telling you how to pronounce stuff. It's not in a very, you know, denigrating way. So it's actually. I like the video though. I like the video. It's not always going to be slow. Zipper is actually sort of like DNF where it will actually self optimize after you use it for some time and it actually does get pretty snappy. Just remember that unlike DNF and everything else, Zipper is entirely in Python from top to bottom on the stack. So of course, it's good. And because of the way that it actually downloads in extracts packages, it does take longer to install a package on SUSE compared to like a package manager you're more familiar with being like after pack in, which will download the compressed binary, uncompress it and then install it on your system. Yep. It's but the way the main reason why they do it this way is because all of their packages are downloaded and installed transactionally, but basically more like it's much closer to like a get pull that than it is an actual extraction and just replacing binary. All right. Well, so I guess my article is the last one, which is good. I told you guys we'd come back to gaming at some point. All right. My article is about the steam deck now lets you transfer your games over your from your PC. If we only knew how. Well, supposedly it's not that difficult. I believe somewhere in this article, it talks about how to do it. And it's like essentially really all they've done is they've tried to make it this update should make transferring your games easier. As long as your steam versions up to date and everything, I don't think you have to be on the beta. It's a feature called local game transfers, which allows steam users to transfer existing steam games from one PC to another PC to the steam deck over the local area network. Does it not actually tell you where the option is? Well, hold on. The desktop mode received several changes, blah, blah. A new UI for account selection, blah, blah and a new UI that temporary places the what's new section in the library when pre-purchase games are available to preload and install and play. So there's been a whole bunch of UI changes and I'm going to assume because up here it's got it transferring game files in your. Well, I will say I will I experienced it. Number one, there is one other change. I don't know if it's mentioned in the article or not. I didn't read the article, but you can download boot animations from the settings now. You don't need to have a custom CSS loader, but as to how to do it, they don't mention any articles. We need to figure that out on our own, I guess, or Google for it. I would definitely Google for it, but I'm also going to assume it's most likely going to be under properties in Steam. Let me see, do I have Steam open? I do. So I'm going to assume it's probably going to be somewhere in properties, maybe in Manage, but I don't want to test it because I want to be on the deck. Let's see, local files. No, there's no transfer button there. I don't know. We'll find out. I think what you do is right next to the play button, there's that little down arrow. Oh, wait, hold on. Oh, let's go back here. Might not be on Zombo, but like on other games. Well, Project Zombo, I believe, is the only one I got installed right now. Yeah, but if you have another game installed, you'll have like a little drop, you'll have a green drop down arrow right next to that play button where you could probably just select that and you can tell it to, and that does show up all other devices that you may be logged in to Steam on. I bet you that button probably appears when my Steam Deck is on and connected to the network. I bet you that would show up. Not sure, but just throwing shit at you. One second. I am in my library. Okay. I love how we're trying to test this out live. I have to configure Debian on this laptop to enable package repositories for 32-bit. So give me just a second here, sudo dpackage at architecture i386. Somebody in chat said there's a support page for it that says how I'm sure there is. There probably is because you know it's Steam. Yeah, and we can also, I'm going through the client update local network. Yep. Yep. Here we go. So active local game page. How it works. Before you start download or update a game on Steam, Steam will first check if there are other PCs running Steam on your LAN that could transfer it to directly. If a potential PC is found, your client will ask the Steam back-end server to contact the other PC's Steam client and start a game file transfer if the local network transfers are enabled and possible. If the game, yeah, so it's got a full guide here. I'll go ahead and I'll just, I'll just post this in our chat just in case anyone wants that. It'll be there in chat. And yeah. So we've covered all of the articles and stuff and we're below an hour and 30, which is wild. Did not expect that. So let's go ahead. You know, we didn't have Matt to sit there and complain about the, like some KDE application for the KDE article. Yeah, that is true. That is true. But hey, I mean, we still went off the wagon talking about Gaben and stuff and we were fine. Very surprised. So I guess we'll go ahead and talk about our thingies of the week and we'll wrap up with, I guess, saying I'm sure that there's going to be a few projects on Boyd Streams at some point here in the next, like, little bit. So if anyone wants to catch those, you can. I'll probably be streaming it as long as my family doesn't demand board game time today. Fingers crossed. So I guess I'll go off with my thingy of the week, then we'll go Steve and Josh. We'll go counterclockwise. Yeah. All right. So mine will be Pantheon. I'm kind of really enjoying the desktop environment. I like it. It's definitely not for everybody, but if you want something that's polished and just looks good out of the gate and has a simple light and dark mode with exit theming, if that's all the customization you want, you're probably going to really enjoy it. It's nice. It's a nice desktop environment. And yeah, so onto you, Steve. What's your my thingy of the week? Sorry, I'm trying to download the God of War on this team. Let's see if it's going to copy it, but it doesn't seem like it's doing it. So it's downloading through internet. So anyway, my thingy of the week is Amethyst. And hold on to your horses, boys and girls. We're going to have us a little session of laughter. Because if you pull up, let's say you go to my forums if you can. I'll send you the lengthy DM. You have to show the screenshot. You have to. I went through a lot. I ran it on my system to do that. So where are you, Zany? I'm going to send it to you. Okay, if you can put it up. And the first screenshot and show the first screenshot. And I'm going to read it, because that's going to put a smile on everybody's face. Successfully upgraded repo packages. I don't know how you pronounce this. Scoot, not find the remote packages for Wib32 Wibwap. Whoa, Ram. You have an InstaWeard. Yes, it's an AUR helper for the people who don't know what it is. It's yet another AUR helper, but this one's got a personality. You can turn on or off. It's called the personality. And for people who don't know what UwU person, I just go on YouTube and search for OWO. What's this? This video is amazing. She reads a whole article in UwU mode. It cracked me up. I couldn't understand the thing from the output in terminal because this thing replaces the L's, the R's, and almost everything with a W. So it's going to be very hard to read. No upgrades available for install a UwU package. Yes. It essentially gives your desktop a list, which is interesting. It appears that at least one program you have installed, upgraded, has installed a back new config view. These are created when you have modified programs, configurations, and package upgrades. I'm like, okay. You want to enjoy your system, install that, and enjoy because it replaces Pacman and AUR. It's one command for both. It's like running Peru or Ye basically. And it runs with the same flags. It has a config file where you can turn on or off this UwU personality. It's better done by women because, let's be honest, it's not for men to be like that. A few settings, not a lot, but you have to do it via configuration file. But this personality thing, this twist, just got me rolling on the floor from laughter because I couldn't read for the life of me what's going on. And there's only one caveat to it. I don't know how to get rid of it. I even messaged the developer. I don't know if you got my message. But if he can get rid of this, because naturally in Arch, Pacman creates a backup called Pac.PacNew. It adds PacNew. Every time you run Amethyst, it asks you, do you want me to show you PacDiff between the old and the new? I'm like, stop with that. This is what Arch does naturally. So every time I want to update my system, I need to see that and answer no. There's no way to turn it off. So other than that, it's hilarious. But it gets old really fast, like everything these days. But for a while, I recommend everyone to run it for a little while. If they had a bad day and they want to relax on their computer and have a laugh and forget all the hardships that happened throughout that day or difficulties, just look at the terminal output while enabling the ooh-woo mode. And dude, I promise you, you're going to forget everything bad that happened throughout that day. It's so good. That's a good advertisement for it. Just whisk away your day's problems. Yeah, it solves the day's problem. It doesn't solve them. It just makes you forget them for a short period of time. And like I said earlier, it will get old with time. So it's not something you're going to be using for like ever. It's something you're going to use for a short period of time, but do use it for that short period of time because it's super funny. It's super funny. It's something to use. Oh, yeah. Awesome. Well, Josh, what about your thingy of the week? My thing is not nearly as fun, but I would actually argue that it's actually more useful. It's called Junction. It's an application chooser. So basically, it's very gnome specific, of course. But anyways, say let you install like your favorite text editor, like VS code that sets itself as the default for literally everything from opening files and everything. Well, what this application does is every time you try to open up a file or, you know, click a link that's going to try to open up like a web page or something, it's going to pull up a menu that will actually display all of your different web browsers. So that way, you know, you're not always accidentally opening things in Firefox when you actually mean to be opening them up in Chrome. Instead, it will just give you an option to pick from where you want to open this. And it will actually persist afterwards. So that way, if you would click that same link or open up that same program in the future, it will just automatically default to what you previously picked. And you can pull up the Junction application itself, and you can actually reset these permissions as well. It's actually one of those programs that if you use gnome, it's actually probably not a better idea to have this installed because, you know, gnome and default applications can be a little tricky sometimes. Yeah. And I'm sorry, boys, everyone who's been listening to the stream have been hearing my elementary OS notifications. Sorry, I just turned on do not disturb, didn't realize there's probably been like four throughout this entire stream, my bad. But yeah, so this looks neat. I like that. I'm surprised that gnome doesn't just have this already. It does and it doesn't. It's actually really, really stupid how gnome does it because what you have to do is you actually have to right click and select the open with dialogue and gnome. This is, this just seems better over like they should just, they should just integrate this into gnome. It's a lot like gradients where it's just like, you know, gradients should ship with gnome now too. Yeah. Expecting gnome to integrate, you know, reasonable things that, you know, almost like every user would benefit from. No, no. Give them six years, then they'll do it. But all right, I, we have actually successfully done the podcast that's wild. So yeah, I guess we'll go ahead and close it off here. Thank everyone for, thank you everyone for being here. Thanks to all of Matt's patrons who make these streams possible. I would throw up a screen for it, but I could have asked Matt for that, but I didn't think about it. It was a mad dash getting set up because I definitely didn't sleep for 12 hours straight before this podcast. It definitely was not a thing. But yeah, so thanks everyone for being here. Don't forget to go over and check out, you know, Matt's website and his channel. If you're not, for whatever reason, already subscribed to him. Yeah, I think we're going to end it off here. Thanks everyone. All right.