 Hey guys, I'm here at the office today. I'm really not working today. Obviously, it's the Christmas holiday Christmas Eve and the next couple of days I've got obviously to to spend that with the family right I got some family events I've got to attend on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day I really didn't have a video plan today, but I decided I wanted to make one of these boomer style phone vlogs You guys love it when I do these I typically don't do these on tech related topics Usually they're more life kind of videos kind of off topic from the usual stuff I do but today what I wanted to do what inspired this video was you know I stopped here at the office for about an hour or so to check on some things before I go away for a few days and I was reading some of the comments on my videos and a recent video I did was about the ADM 42 keyboard, which is a very unusual keyboard kind of a different kind of layout with some extra keys on the Cluster and any time I do videos about this kind of stuff I like the moon lander the split keyboard back here on the desk I get people that make comments like how can you possibly use that thing or they make it up a very generalized statement How can anybody possibly use in certain name a product whether it be hardware whether it be software How can anybody use e-mix? How can anybody use them? You know I get these questions Thousands of times right over the years. How can anybody work in the terminal? How can anybody choose to work in the terminal? How can anybody choose to use command line utilities when there's graphical utilities out there, you know? If I had a dime for every time somebody asked me How can I choose to use e-mix when things like VS code or g-edit or notepad exists? I'd be a wealthy man, right and I don't understand people that ask these things like how can you choose to use these kinds of Keyboards no one would choose that. Well, obviously people do choose that right because I'm using these kinds of keyboards Right now use them every day right that moon lander behind me. I've typed on that thing Every day for the last three years right that is the keyboard I actually use so obviously I choose to use it and I'm not the only one because a lot of people have bought that keyboard A lot of people have bought things like the 8 a.m. 42 and some of these other I guess weird People's opinion nobody would choose to use those. I know actually a lot of people Choose to use these things and I don't understand the point of the comment because I'm sitting here I want every time I get these comments. I always find it. I'd because I am so Not this kind of person in my entire life I can't ever think of a situation where I just blurt it out to the world. How can anybody possibly use in Certain name of product because I've never been one of these people that care I don't care. I don't care what other people choose to use if they find it useful. Let them use it, right? And it's so I guess that's why if I'm asking these people, you know If you're one of these people that you know, just always have to constantly make statements like why would anybody choose to use them? Whatever it happens to be Why are you doing that? What is the mental process? I'm assuming that That you're asking because you for whatever reason don't want to use these products or maybe you I Because they're typically very negative in tone. I think these people feel offended almost by products like these Mechanical programmable split keyboards or whatever it is to me And they feel offended by things like VIM or e-max or the GNU core utils command-line utilities in general Like they take offense to it like the fact that that even exists offends me because I don't use it That would be like me saying, you know what I don't drive Toyota cars So, you know, I'm gonna make sure that everybody in the world that drives a Toyota knows I don't drive it and you shouldn't either Why would I do that? It's just weird. I'm assuming these people are offended It's almost like they they think it's a arrogant thing, right? Like like I use that keyboard just to be arrogant to be elitist, right? I only use e-max to be arrogant and elitist, right? And that's a very strange almost Counter-intuitive way of thinking because think about it if you're asking other people Why are they using something that you yourself don't use and you're taking offense to it? Who's being the arrogant one there? Anyway, just some food for thought. Merry Christmas guys. Peace