 Okay, I gotta see if this is working. If it is working, if this is working, this is a big deal. It's a big deal, I've got my computer here. So, I'm going live, I'm in the middle of nowhere, I'm actually very close to where I live. I stumbled upon something very great. I better go ahead and pull this out, pull this up and make sure that I'm not just talking to myself. So, usually, when I'm recording videos, when I'm walking around, well actually, when I'm not even recording videos, I usually just go on walks every once in a while. Only every once in a while do I take my phone to record a video or something like that. I mean, obviously, I'm not the take pictures kind of guy. But a couple days ago, I had this crazy idea, I've actually done this before, but when I first moved out here, I would go around with my phone and see what kind of reception I would get. Like what kind of, if I could get internet. And basically, my conclusion is that I could get internet nowhere. Okay, it's basically impossible. But, okay, my life, it looks like I'm actually live. Let me just check this. Yeah, oh, wow, it's actually going through, okay. But this week, I actually stumbled across a place, a place, if you look here, there's this abandoned building here. Actually, around my house, there are a bunch of abandoned houses and barns and stuff like that. I mean, there are real houses and stuff too, but there are a couple of these where, well, basically, I was walking around here and just on a lark, I was like, let me test what kind of internet connection I have here. And to be clear, nowhere else around it, you get awful reception everywhere on your phone, but right here, I get like 100 megs down and like 30 up, okay. And in order to live stream, you basically need five up and that is a rare thing to find around here. But for whatever reason, it's like on some kind of magical fault line. Like every cell tower is like 20 miles away from this place. I don't know how this place is getting reception. It must be like, I don't know, FBI surveillance or something, I don't know, but I'm just saying I get great reception out here. So what I'm gonna do in this, I guess we'll do this like a normal live stream. I'll sort of talk about stuff, answer questions, but I'm actually gonna be doing work as you see. So this building, okay, really it's a barn. It's like a log cabin barn kind of thing. There's an entrance that's right there that's been covered in brush and I'm going to remove all that. I don't actually have very many good tools, but I brought some. Oh, and this place is like nearly walking distance. I mean, it's basically walking distance from where I live, but I took a car just because, you know, I don't want to deal with that. Let me actually, okay, let me just double check, we're still on. If you want to give a donation, I will look at the chats every once in a while. If you want to give a donation, go to donate.luxsmith.xyz. That is preferred over super chats. I mean, you can send a super chat, but whatever. Let me just check and see where actually going through. So my idea is basically I can do in this place, okay, oh, I should say this is not my land. I'm on someone else's land. I think I know whose land this is. When I go walking, I'll usually just go, I mean, it might be on land that maybe a family member owns, maybe just like no one goes around, like people hunt in this area. There's nothing really that much else. So it's pretty much okay if you just walk around. But I should, I mean, I am going to do some gardening here and clearing up this brush, but I should probably make sure before I actually decide to do live streams here. But my ideal would be I can be in there and I can do a live stream every once in a while, walking distance from my house and it actually works out. Okay, so, all right, so let's see. I'm gonna go ahead and get this thing. We're gonna get a little, you're gonna watch me do yard work, okay? I hope that's what you signed up for. I brought this little TV tray out so I could put my stupid phone on it and my computer. Okay, here we go. So, check this out. All right, I'm gonna look at the chat. Gonna pull up a chat, chat, chat. Here's the key for four seconds or less. Current, okay, whatever. It looks like the stream health is good. Like this is literally miraculous. Like I don't know what exactly why the reception here is so good. Okay, let's see if anyone's saying anything. Luke is invading private property. That's what, I mean, I'm on other people's property all the time. Again, like this, I'm nearly certainly, I'm nearly certain that this belongs to a family member that I know. I'll ask them next time. I'm basically 100% sure. If it doesn't belong to him, it belongs to another family member I know. So, and they don't care. Like all of our family hunts on this property or like even friends of the family they hunt on this place. Like right over there, there's some hunting stuff. Actually, the only reason walking around here might be annoying to some people is because actually right now it's deer season. So if I'm too stinky out here, the deers might get a little antsy, but you know. All right, so whatever. I'm gonna start cutting stuff. If no one has anything interesting to say. But to be clear, I am doing this mostly as a test to make sure that like it will actually, the internet out here will actually work. The only things I have to cut all this crap is basically this and this. Like I literally do not have good materials. Well, we're gonna make it do. We're gonna make it work. Let's see, let me see. Okay, is it even trespassing if they haven't told you, they wouldn't care. Like they know I walk out here. Other people walk out here. They're actually people we don't even know that sometimes come out here. There was one time I was out here like walking and shoot, stupid thing. And all of a sudden this like random guy comes up. He's like, I guess what you think, he's like sort of a hippy liberal kind of guy who like does not belong around here. You know what I mean? Like you could tell he was just not from around here. And he was biking. That's another weird thing. If you bike out here, that's really bizarre. But he was asking me basically, hey, if I go down this dirt road, are there gonna be any houses? Am I gonna be trespassing? And I was like, dude, you're already trespassing firstly. Which, you know, if we knew you, it doesn't matter. But yeah, it's just weird. You'll see people out here all every once in a while but it's usually weird if you don't know them. All right. Yeah, I really should have gotten, I didn't know I was gonna be doing this today. I should have gotten some better tools. Actually, let me show, oh, another thing. Okay, let me show you over here. There's this big complex of brush and stuff. Obviously, I'm not gonna remove this. I'm just gonna remove enough so you can get to the door. But over here I noticed, I'm pretty sure this is bamboo. We have like a bunch of bamboo growing. Just in the middle of nowhere. I've never seen bamboo around here. But I wanna say last year or something, there was something I needed bamboo for. And I was like, oh, I need to really find it somewhere. But apparently it's here. I might take some of this and propagate it. Cause I mean, out here it's just growing like a weed. So, you know, no big deal. I wonder if someone planted it there. I assume someone planted it there deliberately at some point, but who knows why. Told you, like I literally, I found this place an hour ago. And I'm just, okay, we'll solve them out. Oh, I should patch it. So around here, there are actually a bunch of different, shoot, it's torn. There are actually a bunch of different sheds. This one obviously is the least, I mean, you can't even get into it. But every once in a while there will be like homeless people. I don't think like every once in a while, but you can go in there and you can tell someone is slept there at some point. I don't think there, like this is not a place that's conducive to being homeless. I'll just tell you that. But, you know, probably someone, some teenager, if they want to camp, let's see, wear gloves. No, I'm not gonna wear gloves. Why would I wear gloves? That's silly. So, yeah, you guys, you guys tell me if the connection goes bad, but it looks like everyone is, you know, no one's complaining about the connection. Let's give it to this one. Okay, we can almost get in. All my, hey, I say one or two more. You're supposed to punch it to cut it down. Yeah, I forgot about that. Okay, okay, hold on. All right, we're almost inside. Then we can officially, we can officially have a live stream from the inside of a remote cabin. Okay, let's use these, cut some of these thorns and stuff. Okay, let's see. Actually, I'll probably need those, but it's not easy. But again, I don't want to cut everything. As I said, sometimes you'll have like teenagers out here or like people who just want to go larping. So they'll sleep in these. So I don't want them, I don't want it to be easy to get in here. But, okay. So, oh, you know, look at, okay. So pretty low here. I don't know if this, I doubt this was used as a tobacco barn, but the wood seems in pretty good condition. Although you can see this is sort of falling apart. This does not actually look that old. This is, I don't know, maybe 30 years old. I don't know, but you can see it's falling apart like it, see over there. Okay, I'm going to get the computer and try and get it in here. And we could do a live stream. Well, we already are, but we can do it more normal. This is actually pretty nice. I'm trying to think what kind of roof this has because some metal roofs, they'll be a little scree with, you know, cell reception. So let's see. Yeah, I'm pretty proud. Well, I'm proud I found this place. I mean, I knew it existed before, but I guess I never thought to check what kind of reception I would get around here, you know? I just assumed it'd be bad, but it's crazy. Like I get like high speed internet out here on my phone, which is weird. I mean, it's like, again, walking distance from my house where you get literally nothing. In fact, it's actually even further away from the cell tower than my house, or at least I think there might be another cell tower somewhere over there, but I don't know. Okay. I'm going to take the table in. Got my little TV tray with my computer on it. Let's see if we can get this in without scraping everything up. We probably can't folks. Give me a second. Yeah, this is the raw unedited content that people actually came for. They don't care about that high production value. Okay. That's what I'm talking about. Here we go. Looks like there have been a lot of hornets nests around here, although they're all on the ground. See, hornet nest. Actually a bunch over there. I don't see any now. A lot of normies, they get really afraid of hornets or like wasps and stuff, but dude out here, like they're just so all over the place. Same thing with like fire ants, you know? Some people are just afraid of them. Okay, so let's see what people are saying. Luke, can you please talk about the world becoming controlled prison due to the virus? Do I need to tell you anything? You already know that that's happening. So I don't know what hot takes you're expecting from me. Yeah, it's just not an issue. Historia of the month, hold on. All right, let's see. Yeah, I think we lost some connection there. Let's see what we're doing. Hello, okay. Well, okay, it's weird because I have connection. Okay, connection on my phone is working. Okay, is this still messy? Okay, is this live? Can someone please say if it's live? Okay, it's better now. Yeah, I don't know where. See, the thing is, again, the reception here is really, oh, you know, it's probably because I talked about the COVID thing, so I can't say anything about that. But yeah, I don't know. It might be the roof of this thing. I'm not quite sure. It has a metal roof, and that can be screwy with receptions. So, all right, so Marcio sent in a donation. It's just like Bigfoot hunting in GTA San Andreas. I've never actually played, I don't know if I've played GTA San Andreas. I know that I have played back in the day some GTA games. I forget which one's which. I don't know. They never made an impression on me. Let's see. The connection is way better in the shed, to be honest. Okay, is this, no, it's not a prerecording. I'm literally doing this live, actually, somehow. Maybe I should say this because people always tune in late. I found a place in the middle of nowhere, not too far from my house that happens to have a little log barn that is by far abandoned, on property that I know the owner of. And it seems like I get really good reception here. So, I might be able to come here to upload videos or I'm literally live streaming. That is unbelievable to me. Like that you can live stream at any place in this county is amazing. Okay, I know that there's like one or two places where you can, but this is pretty unexpected. And I just found this today, okay? It's HD now, but it's breaking a lot. Okay, yeah. I really gotta, when I'm not live streaming, I'll probably do the thing where I like do a speed test, like holding the phone up here and then like holding it down there and stuff like that and see where it gets the best reception. But just in general, I'm really happy. Again, like usually to do a live stream, you need like five megs up. That's about good enough. But around here it was getting like something like 30. So that's fantastic. But it might be a little inconsistent. Arstinero says, Blink twice as the feds are monitoring your stream. I mean, they're monitoring everyone's stream. Who cares? So it's not like an issue. Let's see. Yeah, I don't know. I don't really have anything to talk about in the stream. This is really just an experimentation just to make sure that I can stream from here. But it looks like it does actually work. So I already have, there's my, so people, a lot of people spend a lot of money on like their YouTube gaming rigs. Oh, my content creation station. Here's my content creation station, kids. There it is. This is more than I could ever ask for though. Cause usually in the past two years, if I've done a live stream, it'll be either me at awkward. That's weird. Either that or me at someone's house. I've done a couple of times of that. Let's see. People are saying F again. Yeah, thank you. A nice cut shed, bro. Thanks. This is my favorite cut shed. Yeah, people are saying it's buffering. Oh, what is the math? Is it, am I streaming in 720 or 1080? I actually do not know. Streaming settings, videos say, oh, I'm streaming in 1080p. I should probably have decreased that to 720 just as a test. I'm sure it would be way better if I was doing 720 just as a maximum. So, well, I know, yeah, some people are saying, oh, it has super low resolution. It might on YouTube side. But if I were streaming out like in 720, which that is frankly enough. Like just if you wanted to look crisp, you do 1080p. And then like, if you want to just waste bandwidth, you can do this 4K crap, which, you know, the human eye can't see more than 10 pixels an inch. One thing about that meme, that was an old meme people used to say. I realized that people on the internet, like there's so many old jokes that like you can't even make anymore. Because people will just think you're stupid. They're like, I don't even understand that this is like being sarcastic. I noticed when I put up the new podcast episodes for not related, by the way, go to notrelated.xyz. But the logo appeared. And of course in the logo, it's always been the big brain podcast. The brain spelled B-R-A-N-E-D, a big brain podcast. And like I've littered back two years ago, no one would have blinked about that. That's just like, oh yeah, people make that joke. In fact, it's very funny since it's like, you know, I don't know, obviously there's something stupid about spelling it that way in the context. But I've had multiple people, ha, did you know you spelled that word wrong, dude? Not as smart as you think you are, buddy. And it's like, I don't know, like jokes that people, people are just dumb now. Let's see. Some Pajit constantly saying, when will you upload Linux video? Who cares about, I've already uploaded every Linux video there is to do. Okay, if I do another one, I don't know. What do you want me to do one on? Just like meaninglessly, if I feel like there's something to talk about with Linux, I'll talk about it. Okay, but everything else, I'm not the kind of person I do 10 videos on the same thing over and over and over again. So that's why I don't do freaking Linux crap all the time. I've already done them all. Like if you are really interested in finding Linux videos, not only are there 30,000 people on YouTube doing that nowadays, but you could look back at like the 400 videos I've done and I don't know, whatever. Sir, please do the needful. Yes. Okay, a bunch of people just typing random stuff now. It's moving too fast. Let me check donations, donations. You don't really get donations unless you tell people beforehand that you're doing a live stream. Well, you sometimes do. There's a spider behind, yeah, I'm sure there is. There are probably many spiders around. Now around here, you actually get a lot of black widows which normies are very afraid of. Black widows are like the most common spiders out here. But when will you upload Windows video? So one thing I was thinking about when it comes to Windows, okay, I haven't used Windows basically in like five years. Every once in a while, a normie will like assume that I know stuff about, which I mean, I do know. I mean, fixing things for normies on Windows is basically just having, you know, general, being able to look for things on menus and stuff. Like that's all you need to know. So people will ask me to solve Windows problems too, even though like I don't really know Windows. But I was thinking, you know, I keep thinking about having like a normie kind of, let me fix your computer job, just for fun, just to hang out, meet people in town. But yeah, I would basically have to use Windows again and figure out how everything breaks nowadays. Of course, most problems on Windows can be solved, or at least most viruses, can be solved by just going into the startup log because basically every virus puts itself there. So, you know, you just go there, find out where the virus is and delete the virus. That's about it. Now, okay, so here, anyone want to have an entrepreneurial idea of what to do in your area? Here's a nice idea, especially if you're in a small town, but big cities, it works as well. Learn to digitize VHS tapes, okay? That is one thing that I figured out. So many boomers want that. They have no clue how to do it. And people will charge these people like 1,000 bucks to get some VHS tapes digitized. It is actually a super easy thing to do. You just gotta have connectors, maybe an HDMI capture card, maybe a VCR that goes to HDMI. There are different ways to do it, but it's like such an easy way, like I digitized my parents' old videos the other week. And of course, it takes a while because you have to watch through every one of them. So I just had them playing in the background or the back room while I was doing other stuff. But the digitizing VHSs, that is something that's big in demand, it's easy to do. You could basically buy, you know, put, you probably have most of the equipment now, you know, a VHS, especially if you have one with an HDMI plugin, but you can get the equipment for like 100 bucks, practice on your own tapes, easily make money doing it for other people. That's a little entrepreneurial idea. I need to do this too. Yeah, you should learn how to do it. And once you do, it's a fantastically easy thing to do. Yeah, literally, like it's crazy, look up online or just like in person, contact yourself, a tape digitization company and ask them how much they charge. And you will be dumbstruck. Considering all you have to do to digitize one VHS is basically like sit through it, okay? So I mean, if you really scaled this up, like if you, I guarantee you, you know normies right now who have VHSs or like recorders that they're not using. So you could just have a farm, each VHS or VCR digitizing a different tape for a different person. Man, you can make that so efficient. I was just thinking about, I'm actually thinking about kind of doing that for at least some people I know. I don't know if I'm gonna charge them because I don't know, maybe I know them too closely, but whatever. All right, yeah. Look at this innate, so I was talking to someone, all right, so at the beginning of the year, I'll do a video on this, but at the beginning of the year, I said that I'm gonna quit YouTube by the end of this year, okay? And I still hold by that. In fact, functionally, I've nearly totally quit. YouTube is so bad now. So like I'm just looking at these comments, I'm not calling anyone stupid, but I was talking to someone, or actually multiple people, I feel like I've had this conversation to multiple people, including multiple people on YouTube. The quality of like YouTube comments has decreased so precipitously in the past like two or three years, okay? This isn't just for me, this is for other people. And I think honestly, my conspiracy theory on that is that there are now Google AIs and there are now neural nets that will just go on. And if your comment is not like utterly brainless, like something that they can predict what you're saying basically, they just assume it's like, we're gonna delete that, that's like probably hate speech, that's probably this or that. So what I have, I've seen this happen, especially in the past year or so, or maybe two years, every comment in the comment section is just like, I mean, it could be written by a robot. And of course, I'm not saying that these people are robots, but I'm saying like the dumb memes, they are allowed because they go by, basically it's predictable thought, you can understand what people are saying. If anyone has a long-winded, like if they wanna, I don't know, have an effort post or like say something intelligent, that will not get through basically. If you are writing up posts like that on YouTube, they will probably not appear. I've noticed this in my own posts and stuff. So that's, anyway, that's like one of a million reasons, like YouTube is just like, I don't trust it anymore. It's stupid, like I don't. I mean, I haven't really been putting up that many videos on it. I did notice that I've been putting on subscribers at a slightly higher rate. I mean, I used to get maybe 30 subscribers a day, but now I get actually a little more than double that, but it's just like, what's the point of it? I don't know, like I don't know, I'm very, I've been burnt out on YouTube since I moved out here because it's just like, I don't know, it calibrates you to real life more. And it's just, I don't know, I'm not interested in that. So let's see, no interesting comments to note. Or at least they're always crowded out by just dumb stuff, you know, let's see. Yeah, literally, like the stream is like literally unusable because it's just like the same two people saying the same two things over and over again. And then like everyone who has something to say, of course they're non retarded, so they only say it once and it just gets drowned out. But I'm just gonna like hide all of the users who post something twice. I need to just have a bot that does that automatically. Let's see, are you worried about food shortages? No, not out here. Again, it's one of those things. I missed the donation, did I? Yeah, I mean, it's always when I give, when I do streams, it's always better to give donations at my personal site, which I guess I don't have the link to, but I will check. Let's see, viewer activity, I think that's where they put them. I don't see any. You need a janny? Yeah, I don't know, I might get a janny. It's just not worth it, like especially if I'm just randomly doing a stream. The other weird thing about YouTube, like YouTube and Google of course will go to great lengths to censor like political stuff or like just, I don't know anything that's inconvenient for them. But then, what is the one domain you are most likely to get email spam from? It's always Gmail. What is the one like, in terms of social media sites, what's the absolute worst one for like crap like this? Well, it's YouTube, or well, other stuff as well. But it's like the social, it is an arco tyranny in a sense, where like social media sites, they will clamp down on anything that's like politically inconvenient or just things they don't like for their own social engineering kind of stuff. But then they just let stupidity, I mean, I don't know, it's just sad to see the state of the internet now. I mean, it really, like you Zoomers like legitimately, you will never know what the internet was like 15 years ago. It was just like a totally different thing. But that's how it is. Perhaps says, is Yeshua Jesus's actual name? I mean, Yeshua is the Hebrew, or I guess it would be the Aramaic pronunciation of Jesus's name. Luke, do you think that hyperinflation is coming like Jack Dorsey's? Oh, of all the people that look to for financial advice, Jack Dorsey, Jack Dorsey is an absolute idiot. I mean, he's worse than like a shill. Like he's a guy who allegedly, according to himself, has like deep convictions, and 100% of the time he will not follow them because he literally just lets these like Twitter idiots tell him what to do, tell him who to ban, tell him how to control thought, and then he'll say some nonsensical stuff about, oh, I'm for free speech, and I'm for like a free economy and Bitcoin, and all this, he's an idiot, Jack Dorsey's an idiot. However, responding to your actual, oh anyway, do you think that hyperinflation is coming like Jack Dorsey says, or do you think we're headed for a stagflation scenario like the 1970s? Some of both, I mean, you have to realize, why did stagflation happen? It happened because of supply shocks, and we do have some of that stuff now, but we also have basically hyperinflation, I mean, not hyperinflation yet, but we have this massive increase in the money supply too. So, both, I mean, things are just gonna get bad. Let's see, what's the best way to navigate the internet without a search engine? Honestly, there is no place I know of. I can't give you a good answer for that. Other than over time, you get used to good sites on the internet, and from those, you find others, that's all I can say. I don't know, maybe I should do this. I don't know, I should probably build an index site of good stuff to look at, because it's so rare. It used to be, if you found someone's site, they would link to the 20 sites they liked, okay? Just as a convention, that no longer occurs, because people rely on search engines, but that is a convention that, I don't know, needs to be started over, basically. Perhaps says, is messianic Christianity following God? What does that, when you say messianic Christianity, is that like Jews? Like people who are just Jews who believe in, I mean, no, I mean, Christianity is messianic. I don't know exactly what you mean by that. I know that there are some idiots out there who are basically purport to be Christians, but they're really just, they love Jewish stuff and they love Jewish aesthetics and they love celebrating the old law, even though the entire New Testament is why you shouldn't do that. So, Luke, what was the religion you said believed that they're Catholic, but the Roman Catholic Church wasn't the real church? It was something that wasn't the Eastern. I mean, I might have been talking about the set of vacantists. There are people who basically think that the Vatican right now is heretical and that there is no legitimate Pope that may have been what I was talking about. But even like, so let's say the Chinese Catholic Church in China, actually the Chinese Catholic Church, they're basically set of vacantists, biggest set of vacantist congregation because they actually sort of split from the Vatican a little bit before Vatican II, like they don't accept Vatican II. So in most things, they're actually way more traditional now, even though originally it was split off because like, oh, we wanna make sure this church will like not be anti-communist or whatever, except for now, ironically, the Vatican is much more communist than Communist China's Catholic Church puppet. I mean, that's how things is, you know. What are your thoughts on Web 3.0 and Metaverse? Like, you shouldn't use it, that's all. Accelerating Universe says you're probably thinking of SSPX, no, I mean, they believe that Pope Francis is in fact the Pope, they just like don't like him. They're like, oh, you know, the Popes teach heresy and they're basically not Christians, but somehow they're still the Pope legitimately. Whereas the SP, so that's the Society of St. Pius X, there's also the Society of St. Pius V, they're set of vacantists or more set of vacantists like, it's very confusing, but there are a bunch of different things. Thoughts on transsexuals? None that I can say on YouTube. Do you know about Keith Woods? Yes, I'm aware of his existence. For some reason, I looked him up the other day. Like, I don't really watch that many YouTube videos, but yes, I know about Keith Woods. He seems to have good videos, good people watching his channel. So I don't know, you guys might wanna check out Keith Woods. But yeah, I don't really watch that much stuff on YouTube. I think he watches my channel. I don't know. I wanna say, I forget exactly, but yeah, I don't know the guy personally, but he seems like a good guy. More like a NRX kind of guy, I think. It's always, you know, a little inaccurate to use terms like that, but you know. All right, we're now getting to the section where every comment is, what do you think about X? We'll see if there's something interesting. What do you think about mental outlaw? Mental outlaw's fine. I like one of the only good, I guess, YouTube channels or whatever. I mean, good tech YouTube channels. I don't, now again, I don't really watch YouTube, but I keep tabs on his stuff. I think I have his stuff on RSS. Do you use AUK? Yes, I use AUK. Are you still using the Epic Domain Registrar? Yes, I am. Yeah, I mean, if those people who are like, Luke, why don't you do more Linux videos or whatever? I'll give you the same spiel. I've already done them all. I might do some if they come to me, but I don't do uninspired videos. I'm not gonna repeat them. However, if you just want Linux and technology stuff, just go to Mental Outlaw's channel because he basically has the same editorial stance on nearly everything, probably everything. I don't know, maybe we disagree on something, but Mental Outlaw is in general a good channel to watch. All the other tech channels I do not recommend. So, do a pull-up. I can't really do a pull-up on this because it's not really tall enough. I don't know, maybe, well, I'm holding this with my other hand. Now, if I could do a one-arm pull-up, can't really do that. Not strong enough for that. Pull-ups, I've always been pretty hard for me because I've always been a, I've always lived a sedentary lifestyle. Make a Not-Related episode about John Dee and I guess you were gonna say the Anarchy in language. I do plan on doing an episode of Not-Related on Hermetic Thought and Alchemy. So, that might be in the next month or so. I don't know, actually, I've never read that much of John Dee's stuff and his stuff is a little later. Sort of in like the, I guess, the, I don't know if he was like Raza Krushan if that was after him, but like that's sort of late, late alchemical stuff. So, I'm a little less interested in it. Luke, do you use IRC? No, I don't. Mental Outlaw is the reason I use Arch and be able to use them. Well, that's good. Luke, what's your opinion on homosexuals? Nothing that I can say on YouTube. How many years have you been doing tech? I mean, I haven't really been doing it. I don't know, using technology my whole life. Using Linux maybe five years. Are you an, are you an atheist? I guess that means atheist. No, I'm not. Maybe do a video series for internet landchats. Yeah, I am planning on doing that. Okay, I will say, I shouldn't say I'm not gonna do, I'm not gonna do tech videos. So, landchad.net, when I made that site, it's very nice, very useful. I have been meaning to record a series of videos just going through those tutorials, setting things up just because people like them in video format. The reason I have not done that is because I have not had access to good internet. I actually, my internet has gotten even worse in the past couple weeks. Okay, maybe I should just record them out here since there's so great internet out here. I should do that. That would be a thing. I don't know, maybe I can decorate this. It does look a little steep. It actually looks better on the camera than it does in real life. It's actually very grimy looking in real life. It looks a little lighter. I think the camera like adjusts to make it look a little, I don't know, brighter. But yeah, I do plan on doing those and hopefully I'll finish them before the end of the year. Now I said that I'm probably gonna quit my YouTube channel at the end of the year. That does not mean I'm gonna delete it. I'll probably keep it up. And it actually doesn't even mean like I'm not gonna do videos. I'll probably put stuff up. But like, I would rather, I would rather have a thousand viewers per video on PeerTube than have like a million D on, like 10 times as many on YouTube where YouTube is just like a sucky platform. Again, like for a million reasons. And I'm just participating in the social, the social engineering behind it by being on that as my primary platform. Now my videos still go on Odyssey. They're automatically queued up from YouTube. But I usually put up things first on PeerTube. So if you go to videos.luxsmith.xyz, that's my PeerTube instance. For example, there's a video that I think is gonna go up on YouTube tomorrow that came out earlier today. Usually I put up things a little quicker there. Marcio says, what's your take on the 2007 financial crisis? Any plans for a podcast on the subject? No particular opinion. I mean, if you're asking something specific. I mean, it's the same kind of, I would put most of those crises in the same kind of sort of like the coronavirus thing where it's all manipulated for like something that happens that's bad is manipulated and used to, oh wow, we can further the government's control of this or we can put people out of work and put people in bigger companies and stuff like that. Now the coronavirus thing has been much, much worse in terms of like putting small businesses out of business. But I did an essay. I should probably do a video on this. My views on economics and stuff. But I did an essay on this on my website a million years ago that I think it's entitled, it's in the economics tab. It's like, it's on GDP, okay? But what I talk about in there is, when people are talking about economics, they're doing everything backwards in essence. Because they talk about GDP as being a good thing, like oh, we can consume more product. Where the argument I make there is basically GDP is a bad thing. It's really the amount of output is required that is required to, if we're a person to continue, okay, how did I put it, it's much more eloquent. Now I'm spilling it out like spaghetti. Basically a lot of people think about GDP as being this is our output. But in reality, it is this is the amount of work that is required to continue our lifestyles at this setting, right? An ideal would actually be a zero GDP place where you are self-sufficient, you can take care of your basic needs without having to rely on the economy. The GDP is basically a metric of reliance on the macroeconomy. If the GDP is going up, not always, I mean, it can mean other things, but in general, when you see the GDP going up, especially in developing countries, that doesn't actually even mean that people are living better lives. It usually just means this is traditionally an economy under the table, off the radar. People are producing their own stuff, they're giving it to their neighbors, they're trading it with their neighbors. Now it's on the ledger as being part of GDP and that looks good. So therefore it's good for us to centralize more economical stuff because it becomes easier to measure in GDP. Whereas long lasting products, they're bad, they're bad for the GDP. Actually curing people of diseases, they're bad, they're bad for the GDP. So my view actually is that a long standing depression that is not overcome with Keynesian magic is a good thing. Okay, maybe I should go into this in another video, put it more coherently, so I'm not just ad-libbing it on a YouTube or a live stream or whatever, but. Well, you get Starlink. I actually am on the Soilink wait list or whatever. Allegedly I'm supposed to get something by the end of the year. We'll see if that happens. Philip donates $10. Thanks Luke, God bless you for exposing me to many worthwhile things. Here's your favorite type of question. What's your take on Sam Hyde? JK, now for real, what piece of advice would you like to give a 20 year old self? I don't know if you're sarcastically asking what I think about Sam Hyde. I mean he seems to be an okay guy in general. I know people kind of look to him. I don't know. I guess he does kind of what I've ended up doing. He started doing like dumb. He started doing like just goofy comedy stuff and then people like just ask him life advice, which in most cases, most of the stuff I hear Sam Hyde say is pretty sensible. There are like one or two things I might disagree with him on. I think he uses Reddit. I don't know what's going on with that, but I remember some video he talked about using Reddit and I was like, oh wow, that's kind of cringe, dude. But in general, he seems to be a pretty good advice, I guess. Anyway, now for real, what piece of advice would you give to a 21 year old self? To my 21 year old self, okay, I'll tell. If I went back in time, I would tell him, I guess I was just about to graduate college. I would probably say don't feel obliged to finish college. I mean, maybe finish it. I mean, you just got a little bit left. I was on the Hope Scholarship then, so basically it was free. I mean, I had to pay a little bit, but maybe finish it. But I would probably say yeah, don't go into graduate school. Even if you don't have job prospects, move into the country now instead of 10 years later. That would be a good, if I could have moved out somewhere like here 10 years ago, that would have been freaking fantastic for five million reasons. Too many to enumerate. So I would not, things I would not tell him, I would not tell him, oh, work hard and get a good job. I mean, it's important to work hard on important things and get money, but I'm very glad, I'm very glad I actually graduated during the financial crisis because that, there weren't many good like wagey jobs. Like there weren't many opportunities in the Soistum for me to even get a job in, right? So that was probably like retrospectively, if I had gotten a decent job there, like working as like some kind of bureaucrat, you know, with my economics degree, I would probably be in a worse place. I probably have more money than I do now, but I'd probably be in a worse life situation. So I would say like go ahead and move to the country if you haven't moved to the country, get a sustainable job in terms of a job that's actually doing stuff, not like where you're part of a corporation and you're like non-essential and they can fire you if you don't get the facts or something like that. Just a job where you have like basic autonomy, be a little bit more, I think it's probably good for people to be a little more, not egotistical, but I don't know what the word is. Just kind of be more of a cowboy. Like don't be pushed around by bureaucracies and sure you might miss an opportunity, but that can be a very good thing if the opportunity is for you to become more and more of a wagey slave. That's what I would look at. Now, oh and think, if you're 21, think less about girls. That's another thing. You probably won't follow that advice, but you probably should. Yeah, well, okay, let's see what else people are saying. What sort of metaphysics do you follow? What do you mean my metaphysics? Josh Jones says, I remember a while back you said you'd make a video about your PhD. I got offered a full ride overseas for a master. Curious about your thoughts. I work remotely, so I'd still be able to make money. So, if you're doing a master's because you want to be a professor or something like that, just go ahead and quit it. Don't even look for a reason. I would have to tell you my whole life story, but don't ever try to go into academia. Bad idea, no matter how smart you think you are. Actually, being smart is a liability, frankly, in academia. Even if you're good at following directions and doing what you're told and you're a good paper pusher, you will still have a living nightmare of a life in academia, don't do it. So, I don't know what you're doing your master's for exactly. If it doesn't interfere with a lot, it might be something worth looking at, but it depends on what you're doing a master's on. Like, I can't tell you everything. I'm always against giving specific people recommendations because I don't know your example. But I will say, especially graduate degrees nowadays, unless you have something very particular, like if you think that this master's degree will give you good general skills, it might be worth it. However, most people do not get master's degrees for that. They do it because, oh, this is required for this line of work that I wanna go into now. That might end up being a waste. And it's especially a waste if you're going into graduate school because that's what people do. And if you say you have a job, you might just wanna, I don't know, depends on what kind of job you have, but you might wanna consider that. So it's possible that what you're talking about might not be a bad idea. It depends on the particulars, but I'm not gonna tell you one way or the other. You just gotta be careful. Again, think about it in terms of, am I increasing the possibilities I will have in the future or decreasing them? If you are going into a particular line of work where you can't do anything else, you are decreasing your freedom in the future. If this is just a time killer and it might open some doors that are not just in one area, but many, maybe that is worth doing, okay? Matteo says, do I not related on zetetic astronomy or Kings dethroned? They are revisionist astronomy books. Yeah, I've never heard either of this. Maybe I'll take that into account. The 21st reaction says, but what if you want a family? I don't know what that's in reference. Let's see, maybe he gave a comment before. I don't know what, what do you mean, but what if you want a family? I didn't tell anyone not to have a family. So yeah, I don't know what, none of this is incompatible with having, I mean, you should, well, I will say for men, okay? Oh, if this is the guy who says, or I said like, don't think about girls as much. I mean, if you have like a 100% perfect girl who you want to get married to at 21, be my guest. But I will go ahead and say that most 20 year old, 21 year old guys do not have that. Maybe they have some, maybe they have some girlfriend that they're like sort of attracted to or some girl they theoretically like or multiple girls they theoretically like. It's not like, it's not really serious. And maybe you could get married to one of those, but it's not like, I'll just say with men, it's probably better for you to get married just a little later because especially when you're 21. Okay, so think of your position when you're like 2021. Okay, you're just graduating college as a guy. So here's some, I don't know, universal advice. If anyone gives you identical advice, whether you're a male or a female, they're giving you bad advice, okay? The dynamic for girls is very different from the dynamic from guys. Now when you graduate college as a guy, nowadays people are basically looking at girls their age, all right? In most societies, there's usually an age gap between men and women who get married, like men are usually a couple of years older, but if you're a 20 year old guy looking at 20 year old girls, like you don't really have that much to offer a girl to be honest, like even, and this isn't your fault, but unless you're a freaking millionaire when you're 20 or like you're a sports star or something, like there are very few guys who have anything to offer girls. So that means, even unless you are absolutely fanatical with the girl you found and she's perfect, I'm not telling you not to marry her or whatever, but if you're just mad about your girl, I will tell you in a couple of years, you will probably be able to get a much better girl, okay? When you're 25, try to get a girl who's like 21 or something like that, okay? And girls, girls go for that, girls are definitely more aware that they sort of have this, they like guys who are just a little bit older than them, sometimes a good bit older, but a lot of guys sort of think of it in terms of like, if you're the same age of a girl, if you're in the same life position and you can't offer her anything that she doesn't already have, you're not gonna get like a super great girl unless you're just lucky. If you are lucky and if you have a fantastic girl, hey, that's great, not telling you anything about, like Marrier, that's fantastic. I have a cousin who was married at 18, fantastic, he's doing fine, so I'm not against that, but I will say for 90% of guys nowadays, especially if you're in a Bugman city, getting married at 21 or like getting married that early, unless your girl's just perfect and you just really like her, don't get married just because, oh, I just gotta do it now because you don't have to, guys, you have a little bit more time where you can make those decisions. Girls, that is not the case, okay? Girls, girls are at their peak around 20, like you're just gonna be, by the time you're 30, there's a big shift that happens, right? A 20-year-old guy is not that attractive, like compared to girls, it's a girl's market when you're 20. It's a guy's market when you're 30, okay? That's what I'm trying to say, like a guy who's 30, he usually has a job, might have a house, have a lot of property, stuff like that, so it's easier for him to get a more desirable girl who's maybe 25, a little younger than him. So anyway, that's my point. So I'm not telling anyone, don't set a family. In fact, if you don't wanna have a family, that's like, I view that as incredibly suspect. It's like, why even live, like seriously? Warcammel says, is there anything particularly that you miss in city dwelling? No, I'll go ahead and tell you that. Does living in the countryside require an entrepreneurial spirit or is it feasible to get a regular wage-y job as an electrical engineer? So, no, I don't miss living in the city. There are a couple things every once in a while I'll want to do that I can't do here. And this is, I think I said this in a video before, this is a weird thing to say. Last year, I just really wanted to go to a Shakespearean play. Okay, that's something I can't do out here. You know, when I lived in Atlanta, there's actually a place called the Shakespeare's Tavern that, you know, they actually have, they do Shakespeare nothing, they do nothing but Shakespeare all year round. But they were closed for the COVID hoax anyway, but you know, thephesbians, you know them. So there are a couple weird things like that that I miss, but like the general stuff, the things that you think that you might miss, you're not gonna miss, okay? Unless you're like some kind of like irredeemable normie who wants to, I don't know, like drink and party and stuff like, I mean, you can do that out here. There are some cities you can go to, but like, you're not gonna want to. It doesn't really require entrepreneurial spirit or anything like that. Well, I mean, if you're talking about jobs, I should say, oh, I got 15% remaining on my battery, so we might have to call it quits pretty soon. I think that in a small town, okay, I'll go ahead and tell you the things that, every small town will probably be short teachers, okay? That's something that's pretty common because a lot of people move out. So even if you don't know anything, you could at least be like, okay, I'll work at the middle school or something. There are those kind of jobs that they're always gonna have. So if you don't have any plans, that's sort of a safe bet. You might want to think about that, doing that for a year or so. I actually did that when I moved out the first year here. I just taught for a year because I wasn't sure I could make enough money online, but that was just a precaution, basically. So there are some, I will just say that I don't feel like there are people out here who are unemployed, like who are really looking for jobs, but the thing about being entrepreneurial, you might get that feel because I always want people to be entrepreneurial. Again, I said, hey, if you can digitize VHS tapes, if you can fix people's computers, make money off that because that's you employing yourself, okay? You just work in your own home. You can have, you know, basically work all the time, work at your own schedule and you can do something else to make money. You can have a full-time wage-e-job if you want. So I definitely recommend people to be more independent in the process of moving out into the country, but you don't have to. You can get a wage-e-job. Like, I know people my age and younger, like people in their 20s and stuff who live in the area. And yeah, they have jobs. Like, you can do it. It's not hard. Yeah, there's not like a job shortage out here, frankly. And a lot of the jobs are more real. Like, a lot of the jobs in the city, they're fake. You know, they're like bureaucratic BS jobs, you know, as David Graber says. Harris, Newsteader, sends in $10, but thanks to YouTube CSS, I cannot read the most recent donation comment because it's stupid how they arrange this. So someone will send in another donation and I will be able to, oh, you know what? I could plug my phone into my computer. That'll give us a little bit more time. Let's plug this thing in. Let me check to see if I have any donations on my site. Okay, Logan donates $5. Instead of SSH-ing into an interactive shell, try using SSH-FS to mount your VPS file soistome to your ThinkPad. Okay, maybe I'll look into it. But that sounds like it would require constant internet connection, which I don't often have, but I've never looked into that. Let's see. Have you banned someone from your channel and why? I mean, I ban spanners, like spammers every day. Like every time I do a Bitcoin video, you will see in the comments, Bitcoin videos are so relentlessly spammed by like fake accounts. So yeah, I ban those all the time. Every once in a while, I'll ban like a normal human, but I'm trying to think of an example. It'll usually be for something like, someone is just like spurging out, like just like making a fool of themselves and like harassing people. I'll usually just like block their account or whatever. But that's pretty rare that people do that. But people will like spam, I don't know. The weird thing about spammers is they will go through so much effort for you to make one click to ban them. Like that's the weird thing. Like why do you care so much? People even like create multiple accounts and it's like, dude, this is much harder for you to, it's much easier for me to just click a ban on each of your accounts than it is for you to create 30,000 accounts. I don't know why people do that, but people are psychos, you know. Who freaking understands? Zigginsag says, here's some shackles. I have nothing good to say. Okay, well thank you. Okay, and that brought up, and now I can see Harris's message. Harris says, a certain amount of submission to soy stumps and wage-ism is necessary for a nation to be successful and produce great things, think Japan and German technology products. Okay, it's an issue of like on what, yeah, sure. Well, A, that sort of assumes that like being successful economically is like my goal. Okay, that doesn't necessarily mean producing a bunch of crap, okay? It could, I'm not saying that's bad, okay? I'm not anti-technology. I am just on the side of, you gotta think about, I don't know how it affects you first. Then you can think about making cool technology. And so yeah, and there's also, when you're talking about the system as a thing, you have to realize, especially in America, like capitalism, so-called, is not just something economic now, okay? It's not like, oh, let me get, I'm just gonna get some office job and I'm gonna do this and that's it. Now there is like a very open political turn to that and it's like evangelical, it's infectious. Like these people are taking over everything. Like these people, like, they want to make everyone live the life that they want them to live, okay? And participating in that system, I view that as a evil thing by itself, okay? So I don't view that as a good thing. If you're talking about just people being nice at work and making compromises in the United States of 2021, we need more cowboys. We need more people who say, yeah, this is stupid. I wanna think about the actual ramifications of what's going on because I said in that video I put up on PeerTube. It'll be up on YouTube probably tomorrow. I don't know how this, you know, crisis has, I don't know, spiraled out of control. It's like, it's not just about producing stuff for them. It's more about like social control, okay? So that's my issue with it. If, again, compromises, you know, in a business setting, that's a good thing if you're accomplishing stuff, if you're getting things through. But you know, if you're like selling your soul, that's dumb, okay? And I don't think that's what you're saying, but I just wanna make that distinction clear. Advice on living off of the land from AU, Vax, what's AU? Trying to think, is that Australia? I don't know, is that the abbreviation for Australia? Either way, what was I gonna say? Yeah, hold on, look at it, something. Okay, I don't know, specific advice? Just do it now, rather than later. It's only gonna get more difficult. That's kind of the point, like things, just do it now, do what you know is right now. I don't know, I don't know what, if you have property, if you have something else, like just look into buying property, like far away as you can. I can't really give you any specific advice about that. Harris sends in $10 more dollars. Most of the production of systems is total BS agreed, but a nation must survive technologically against countries like China who would otherwise dominate you. See, no, I don't think that at all. So people have this weird notion of world domination. So I think world domination is what a country want. China does not really care about world domination. They put their tentacles everywhere for their economic good, but this idea that Chinese people wanna come here and convert us to Chinese, no, that's not something that's gonna happen. However, the reason people think that is because we live in this weird evangelical culture where there's this cult of democracy and human rights, and Americans have this very unique idea. And some people in Western Europe have this unique evangelical democratic idea that it's like their goal to convert the entire world and everything else. But that is an idea that is basically specific to our cultures. If you go to Russia, they do not feel the same way about the rest of the world. They don't have this desire to, oh, let's go to freaking Nigeria and convert them to our form of government. Americans absolutely do have that idea. Americans do feel that way about Afghanistan. People in China don't, okay? So now I'm not saying, I mean, you should be independent of the system. I'm not saying, oh, well, we gotta let the Chinese do everything. That's not what I'm saying. But the natural state of the world is local communities are very hard to infiltrate. That should be how things are throughout history, like unstated, like stateless languages and cultures have survived for millennia, okay? That's not a big issue. It's not like, these other people are just, oh shoot, now my computer's almost out of battery. 5% left on that. It's not like everyone else is trying to convert everyone to their religion. Really, that is only the case in America. America has this weird idea that they have to like spread their contagious worldview to the entire world. And everyone else who doesn't comply is like some kind of evil person who has to be like invaded or like, you know, they're a domestic terrorist or like whatever. That is an American thing. Other countries do not look at the world like that. Okay, yeah, I'll probably, okay. Last donations go ahead and give them now. I'm gonna go ahead and read through them as quickly as absolutely possible. Looks like I got a couple here. Philip, $10, thanks. Luke, God bless. Oh, wait, did he already, wait, I already read that one, I guess. Yeah, sorry. Logan, I think he donated before, but he has another one. Your podcast kept me sane at my Wagee production line job. Now I have a better Wagee job where I can actually be creative and experience joy. Thank you, okay, great. Moving up on the Wagee ladder. Someday you'll get off of it. You gotta get off of it, but you know, that's a goal. Let's see if there's any other super chats. I do not see any new ones. See what people are saying in the chat. Truman, doctrine. Taiwan, Ukraine, yeah, Taiwan is part of China. I'm sorry, like, I'm sorry, America. Like this is, no one is fighting a civil war that they won 70 years ago. Like no one could, Taiwan is part of China. It's so stupid for Americans to have this freaking CIA idea that like, oh, Taiwan, which is basically this puppet American government that is a holdover from a civil war they lost a million years ago. Stupid meme. Dr. Cruz sends in $5. Thoughts on space travel. Hard to colonize Mars without high technology. I'm not against high technology at all. I am critical, oh, yeah, thanks, guys. I'm getting all these social credits going. I should be, so, sorry, people are talking about how good of a Chinese shill I am. I will say I had a friend a while back. I would always rant about American foreign policy. And I had a friend from Iran, and he would be like, dude, you should really get a job on press TV. That's like the Iranian state news where they just talk how terrible America is. So maybe I'll get a job there. Maybe I'll get a job with China. Anyway, so Dr. Cruz sends in $5. Thoughts on space travel, hard to colonize Mars without high technology. I'm not against high technology at all. Is that basically, okay, now I have 10% on this. I got a little bit left. My view is that basically technology, technological advancement so-called has to happen at a slow and artisanal level, okay? And it needs to be, but it needs to basically be decentralized, okay? It as much as possible. So we have internet technology now, and it's only after the internet that we realize that we can have things like encryption and stuff like that. And now we have to look at going back at that technology and kind of rewriting it to make it fit, to make it fit this higher standards. Same thing with Bitcoin, something like that. It would be better if Bitcoin had zero knowledge proofs at the beginning, so it could be nice and private. So my view on technology is that if you're having high level technology, you wanna have it, sorry, this thing is beep, I have zero percent. I'm going to pull up, just shoot. I'm sorry if I miss your donation because this thing's about to die. I should just turn it off because I'm not giving a good answer to this question because I'm just freaking, I'm turning the computer off. I'm gonna turn off the stream, but I'll answer this question. Yeah, so really my view is that technological advancement has to happen at a slower rate and people always have to have that ability to live without it, okay? That's really my view. And that's a difficult thing to do, that's a slow process, but it's gonna happen. That's how it has to be if we wanna retain humanity. Now as it comes to conquering Mars or whatever, I think that's something to look at. I mean already we've seen this happening, like it used to be when is the American government gonna get to Mars? Now people are thinking about, and it's weird to say this is an improvement, but they're starting to think about when is Elon Musk gonna get to Mars, right? Now it's gone from the government to being a private thing for billionaires. And I think as we perfect the technology and stuff like that, it'll be something that's more and more accessible to normal people. But I'm just absolutely not against technology per se, even organization dependent technology so-called, that's the Kaczynski term. It's just that I think that it always has to be under the control of the people, of people basically rather than the reverse. And that's a gradual and kind of, it's a process that takes a lot of, I don't know, experimentation, right? And people, I think the most important thing, I guess I'll go ahead and pack things up since my computer died, the most important thing is just like people not to fetishize technology, just as this like magically good thing, like every new kind of iPhone or whatever is like somehow like world revolutionary, it's gonna change everything. I think it's really just people need to view it with more suspicion. And if we're suspicious of technology, we can trust it more. I know that's a weird thing to say. You know, if you're suspicious of like different companies, you can live in a society where companies will do better stuff on average, okay? Because the standards are higher and it's the same concept, right? You know, you gotta be suspicious of technology. So anyway, I can't read what people are saying on the chat. I'm gonna stop streaming. The live stream is probably gonna stay up because I have to turn it off on a computer. So hopefully I'll have enough battery at home or like reception at home to do that. But thanks everyone for watching. It's nice to know that I can actually do this, like do a stream out here. So I may do some later on that'll be more organized, you know, aside from this where I just like randomly said stuff. So yep, see you guys next time.