Tech Over Tea - #25 Podcasts, Trucking & Hive - feat Unkle Bonehead

Episode Date: August 20, 2020

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There we go, my hacky audio solution playing from my phone. Welcome to episode 25 of Tech of a Tee. I'm as always your host, Brendan Robison, and this week's guest is a... I wrote it down. I had a script I wrote down and I just forgot to read it and started... Anyway, this week's guest is a trucker and he has a live show over on MSP Waves called Bonehead Media. Sorry, Bonehead Media Live.

Welcome to the show, Uncle Bonehead. What's happening? That's about as much of a truckpe as you can expect from this show. I don't... I plan stuff out and then I just do something different when I actually start. But hey. I know how it is. Trust me.

The podcast is where I just do whatever I want. I don't plan this stuff properly. See, the good thing about podcasts is you can do editing and doing a live you're you're screwed right out of the box oh absolutely oh i just realized i'm also using the wrong versions of my scenes whatever oh no no i i darkened the background a little bit so it's not that bad obviously like the webcams are still in the same place it just doesn't look as good it's fine though i'll fix it maybe in post if i feel like it probably won't you're like me don't edit yeah well basically the only time i edit is there was one time where i accidentally showed a password on the screen i was like hmm probably shouldn't show that one

I did an episode of the self-hosted podcast. This was actual edited. I didn't even realize it. I put it up on PeerTube and had it on Library and 3Speak. It was all about how to sign up for Hive. I didn't even it was all about how to sign up for hive didn't even realize that my private keys were showing and it was up for like almost a month and i'm like i should take that down yeah lucky uh this is one of the times where i'm sure you're really

happy that you don't have a super popular content because that would be real bad exactly i quickly replaced it when i realized it just on the off chance that anyone paid attention to that yeah exactly i'm still trying to get signed into the library it's still not happening it seems to be fine on my end i've got the desktop open just fine but is library tv having some problems? It's looking like it. Oh, now we got success. Yay. I don't know why you're trying to get logged in anyway.

I just wanted to look in on it. I hadn't looked at it for a while. It's on my other partition, my Arco Linux partition, but it's not on this Ubuntu studio. Yep. So I haven't checked into it. Yeah. I haven't noticed that, uh, it's been like a month since anything went up on that account there.

So you're actually uploading your stuff separately now. Is it just a live show? Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm, what I'm doing is cause I'm big on hive right now. I'm trying to get them, you know, priority for content that I'm doing to do every place else. Yeah.

Okay. That makes sense. Just that kind of thing. Yeah. Cause I noticed your podcast fee didn't have anything either. Yep. Yeah. I did post a audio version of the couple of shows.

Okay. And my live show is now two hours long, so it's pretty much a pain in the ass to edit because I play copyrighted music during the show most of the time. Yeah, yeah. So I've got to kind of edit those out. The stuff that I do leave in is either you're not copywriting or I've got the okay to play it anyways in a podcast.

So it's that, that kind of thing. It's, it's a pain in the ass cause I'm only home from Friday night till midday Sunday. And then, you know, my show Saturday night,

got to squeeze in time to be a dad and a husband and all that stuff too. you know i'm strapped for time so it all comes out eventually well i was gonna ask you about how you managed to manage your time because i did mention the intro just before that you are a trucker so you work a lot yep uh anywhere from 50 to 70 hours a week. Jeez, okay. So how do you even find the time to do, like, is it just the MSP Waves show that you're doing at this point or are you still doing other shows? Oh, no. No, I'm, well, technically it is the MSP Waves.

The self-hosted podcast is kind of fading away a little bit. It's because it just started as a way for me to explore how to use Why You Know Host for posting your stuff. And that computer that I was using burned up in a puff of smoke, and I haven't been able to play with it that much. So it turned into more of a checking out decentralized stuff like Hive and BitChute, D2, all that stuff. so it turned into more of a checking out decentralized stuff like hive and oh bit shoot detube all that stuff and that's how i got back into library i remember a library when

it first came out three or four years ago and it was like utter shit nobody would ever used it you know because it didn't hardly work and now it it's this big, huge booming thing, and it's absolutely awesome. If you trust their numbers, they claim that they're the biggest D app right now. I don't know whether that's correct or not. Honestly, I don't know if it's correct, but I tend to kind of believe it just by the sheer user base of it and the amount of accounts that are on it and there's all kinds of youtube videos about it i mean so there's something to it they they did do it the right way by getting the youtube sync to get the users to come over

yeah it's only a matter of time it's only a matter of time. It's only a matter of time. Well, some competition is better than no competition. That's for sure. Yeah. The only thing I wish that there was more emphasis on libraries is that it does more than just videos. Well, they are working on other stuff right now. They recently released a new toolkit for making blogs on library. It doesn't have a way to easily embed images and videos yet.

You still have to write out the HTML tags yourself, but that's supposed to be coming pretty soon. So hopefully blogging comes properly to library and then hopefully they split it off into its own thing. So you can actually find blogs. Is it, is it, what would be cool?

Cause it's got, you know, it is a desktop app. It's also the protocol. If somebody could just like, see, I'm not a coder, so I couldn't do this, and I'm probably talking out of my ass, but if somebody could take the library app itself,

the desktop app, and the Android app, and just copy it over and change, tweak it to where it showed blogs instead of videos and it would be so simple well and you know all they would really need to do you could do it with the existing library app you just need to say tag it as a blog and then just have like a separate blog to tab or something like that and just then you can easily go through blogs like that because i do like as it's not a secret that i don't particularly like uh hive or steven or any of those platforms like that i have my problems with the way they're set up but what i do like about them is i do like blogging right i that's what i like the most about

library is that you could theoretically if you was to do it right, you could make your own. It could be your website. You're from your desktop app. Yeah. That's what's the coolest thing about me. Sorry, I just got distracted. I just got a new video up i was checking out the dt is awesome i like there oh yeah i really do want to get him on the show at some point i've

dm'd him a couple of times um back when my show was tiny and he said he'd be happy to do it but i was just like when my show had like 500 subscribers on library i was like hmm i feel like I've just been leeching off you just bringing you on the show at this point I know that feeling sorry if you could hear that discord bot just went nuts oh I didn't notice anything okay I don't know if it came through or not

you got the beep beep beep beep it's annoying yeah a little bit I think I saw I didn't watch the video that dt put up just before but i wasn't it something about library pack at a library on linux package management or something like that uh linux fails and it's holding us back the biggest failure of package management i think that was something about judging by what people said on mastodon i think he's shilling for flat packs so i'm not a fat flat back pan i don't he's got a tag as app image so maybe he's shilling for app images i don't know i haven't watched the video so

i like app images and i like the snaps but snaps still have a problem for me because they take forever to open. And if I want that, I'll use my Android because that shit opens like I can hit the open button and I can go brew a pot of coffee

and then come back and maybe it'll be to open. They're cool in concept, but the app images, they just work. I haven't even bought the images yet. I really should do that. At least on my

machines. I've got a Dell I don't know what this Spirion. It's an i3 with 16 gigs of RAM. And for an i3, it does everything I need it to do, but I need to go back to my i5.

Got to have RAM for it. Yeah, I've brought in something a little bit more powerful than that. I've got my Ryzen 3600X, which it could be overkill, but also I don't want to wait like a couple hours to render my videos so because kate and like doesn't have gpu rendering for whatever reason oh i i've gotten into using shotcut here lately and i like shotcut it's different it's for my workflow it's a lot easier. What I end up doing is I use bit cutter and I'll go through and

cut out stuff that I want to keep and then just stitch that together and shot cut, throw in a couple transitions and Viola, I got a video. You don't do too much anything, but you do way more than I do with your stuff.

It's not super good i like trying to cut out as much bloopers as i can yeah then maybe put the bloopers at the end or make it so whole thing used to back when i was in the centralized media stuff but on instagram i would do like you know because you can only do like one minute videos and i would just do short funny stupid jokes and shit and i just stitched them all together and put them up either on youtube i got a couple on library and it's those are fun to do in the in the truck because they're short and fast, and they did get a lot of reactions, but it's a trucker thing, I guess. You must have been off Instagram for quite a while

because you can do longer videos on Instagram now. Oh, I have it? Yeah, you've got Instagram TV now, which is, I don't know what it's supposed to be. It's like a long form vertical video for some reason really why i don't know it but because it's the instagram crowd it has to be very punchy like it is a one minute video so it's hard to make good content that actually fits into that sort of ecosystem right well i've i deleted my instagram not long after i think it was like episode eight of the self-hosted podcast and i started the self-posted

podcast a little over a year and a half ago so it was episode a i was doing them weekly then so So it was episode A. I was doing them weekly then. So it was right about a year ago when I deleted the Instagram. You're not really missing out on much. There's not really much going on on Instagram. I didn't think I was. I have a post. I'm still on Mastodon.

I haven't actually posted on Mastodon for a while. on mastodon i haven't actually posted on mastodon for a while um my biggest problem with social media period is everybody thinks that opinion is a fact yeah and i can't deal with that yeah there's too many people who are in their own little world as if they are the the center of the universe and i i'm sorry go ahead go ahead i was gonna say um i try to avoid getting into discussions with people i will post something on like mastodon twitter whatever and then i just leave so maybe i'll go and reply to people who reply to me but i won't join in on other people's conversations. I genuinely don't care. Just go do whatever you want. Do a little drive-by posting. Pretty much.

I had somebody tell me to try Gab. I'm like, okay, I'll give Gab a try. I was literally on Gab for less than 24 hours before I deleted my post, my account. All I did was make one post about a truck stop with a great restaurant in Arkansas saying that it was a great restaurant, home-cooked meal.

They said that you were a Jew and you were being paid by Soros. Kind of. The only comment was Trump is a racist and you're a Nazi. I'm like, what the fuck does that have to do with a restaurant in Arkansas?

I deleted it. It's just like, seriously, dude? God. I guess I must just be thinking of our bit shoot. I'll find some of my bit shoot comments. Some of them are so bad. I am on BitChute, and I haven't posted anything ever. But I do have a friend of mine that does a daily radio show on BitChute.

And he literally, all he's doing is literally, it's very radio format. He'll play a couple of songs, say something, and play more songs. And it's an hour long every day, Sunday through Monday. And he literally gets some of the dumbest emails and comments. But he's got like 500 or 600 people that, you know, subscribe to him or whatever. He used to actually run three radio stations on radio. Yeah.

And he, he was big. I mean, he had an average of 4,000 listeners an hour and this, the shit he gets on bed. You just cracked me up. And I think he just turns it into a trigger show sometimes. Just to trigger people.

Okay, I found one of my... I had to go back because BitChute only shows you your last three notifications. So I did a video about the Windows Package Manager. And the first comment I got on that was, I wonder if Bill Gates' forced vaccines will need as many updates as his piece of shit Windows. And I have other ones that were, like, saying, asking if I'm a jew because i talk about proprietary software wow okay like that's got anything to do with it i i love bit shoot just because the comments are just always terrible there's not a single good comment on this platform

no it's almost as good as youtube comments i i actually do like the youtube hater comments because once you start thinking about those people as just really sad people who have nothing good going on for them in their lives you start feeling bad for them yeah just hanging out in the basement just wonder what to do because i know that if you go on reddit and you check someone's comment history if you find someone who's just being a massive arse, most of their other comments are them being an arse. YouTube, though, you can't go back and check people's comment history. I bet if you did, though, you would see exactly the same thing.

It is very sad. It is, but what are you going to do? At least libraries typically better when you get comments on there, but most people don't really comment just because notifications aren't a thing yet. Soon, TM. Soon. Eventually. Maybe.

You get distracted again yeah looking for the analytics where they move come on you stupid there it is hmm huh it's up to 164 followers probably I'd actually post stuff on there it's just my most viewed content is still the best coronavirus memes of course yep and I think that's because of

Michael H his song I used his song for the music oh and library yeah I love that song i got it on my phone it's a great song to be running 75 mile an hour down the road listening to because the dude play guitar really really good and then jesus christ discord oh you broke again likes to do that oh you broke again likes to do that no it's yes the stupid bot oh what is this what is this discord bot you keep talking about and there's uh in one of the the hive servers discord servers

they they've got a bot that for tweets they go out for a certain keyword and apparently there was a shitload of them just then so you know i've got some topics on here so why exactly what actually got you to hive like how did you end up discovering hive and what made you decide that you want to start putting content on that i'm going to blame scott c business no it's scott and bryce crypto and oh girl gone crypto i've been watching them for a long long time on youtube and scott's always talking about you know getting into the crypto thing. I hit him up a couple of times, talked to him and I was just looking to get into something. I wasn't really

interested in crypto for the monetary thing. I wanted to get into the social media and the dApps and all that. The library was technically my first sorry for hitting the mic was my technically my first crypto love because i've never had any experience you

don't have to have any experience boom you're getting getting crypto just by using it and hive is basically the same way you know interactions earned you the crypto and i was kind of tossing between steemit and hive and it was at the same time that their hard big major hard fork was going on and i was like well you know i've read about what justin's son did and kind of his ass hat move with steam and from what i everything i read about hive being open source and there's like no ceo and everything i like well this more lungs aligns with my philosophy and so i joined it and kind of just hung out on it didn't really do anything for a while and then it's just like a month or two ago it was like you know i'm going all in i'm just gonna make my content you know not exclusively but priority yeah and because i still like library i want to be on library

it's just that i'm getting so much time consumed learning about stuff and doing stuff that what i like the most about lot hive is that is you basically have a i i think of it like an rss feed like a podcast right you got the blockchain that's your rss feed and it doesn't matter what front end front're on, whether it's 3Speak, Hive.blog, PTE, whatever, that content comes to you. So it doesn't matter what you're actually using, you're still getting the content and you're still able to interact with everybody else. And once that clicked in my head, the decentralization isn't the app. The decentralization is the user. And that's what kind of, I was like, dude, I like this better than Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat.

All that stupid shit that just turns us into products. That's stupid shit that just turns us into products. So Hive's got itself set up in a position that Library keeps claiming that they're in, where they have a decentralized system, but they only have their one app. Hive already has the existing interfaces that you can connect to the same blockchain with. Right.

The biggest problem I see with Library is that it is just the one thing. It can be the same thing Hive does. The problem is they don't have that. But nobody else is doing it. It's like everybody's relying on Library Inc. to provide that stuff. to provide that stuff. And for me, it seems like they're the governing thing over everything. But technically, they're not. Anybody can go make their own version of library.tv that they want. Or as long as they're using the library protocol, everything will show up. But my problem is nobody else is doing it.

That actually does lead to this. I'll come back to this in a bit, but there actually is another thing that is popping up. But we'll stay on the Hive story for just a bit. So I've talked about why I don't particularly like Hive or Steemit. They both have the exact same problem. And this is why I don't think they're ever going to become anything more than little niche platforms. Obviously, they're great as that. But the problem they have is they have too many keys.

And no one wants to deal with all the keys. Right. I understand that. The thing about the keys, though, you don't need all of them all the time sure to interact on on hive you really only need your posting key if you want to do something with your wallet like you know trade crypto or whatever or convert you got to have your your your active key and your owner key is not supposed to be used for anything except for account recovery.

So it's like a password super user and a master. Yeah. Then there's another key called the memo key that's basically just for encryption of messages. So if people would, if people didn't focus on having all these keys and they just wrote them down and saved them somewhere, preferably not on their computer in a plain text file and just,

you know, wrote them down on a piece of paper, just like any other kind of transaction for crypto. It's they're responsible. You're responsible for your own protection. I get it from that side, but when I'm thinking about someone who's a bit less techie, someone who, yeah, you dived headfirst into it, but people who are sort of like, they use a computer,

but they don't really pay too much attention to like what they're actually using. Those are the sort of people where I think won't really understand the difference between these keys and why you need all these keys. And I know people who just forget their passwords just every other day. Like it's a great system,

but outside of the very techie people, people like you who dive headfirst into it, I don't think it's really going to but outside of the very techie people people like you who dive headfirst into it i don't think it's really going to expand outside of those groups excuse me i understand that and you know like with library okay yeah you gotta have the password but you also gotta have an email to do that you don't have to have an email anywhere to have hive. All you gotta do is keys. Once you get those keys,

it's, those are the only four things that you have to have to get around and interact with anything in hive. Like, uh, if somebody was to make a, anotherblog, you'll have to have a different password for that, correct? Yeah, I believe the current login system is centralized with library. Yeah.

See, that's to me, that's not decentralized because you're relying on somebody else to keep your password in a database encrypted or not. You know, but when you get the keys, you're relying on that. Oh,

I'm not. Hive is not decent. Hive is much more decentralized than libraries at this point but yeah it's it's gonna have some hurdles to come to me that's the selling point to me yeah it my security is in my hands yeah not some company whether it's library inc or whether it's google google alphabet whatever they're centralized, central. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's, it's even with like Mastodon and peer tube and all that.

Yeah. It's decentralized because it's federated, but you're still relying on somebody else if you're not hosting your own instance. Yeah. So you're relying on somebody else to me to me that's not the definition of decentralized sure okay yeah i get where you're coming from with that and if you can if you can get people to understand this distinction and understand like the usefulness of the keys and

uh i guess what the uses of the keys are you can branch branch out a bit. But as I said, I think that's a pretty massive hurdle to overcome. It's for the people who are really interested in decentralized stuff, it's going to be a great choice. And I think it's always, at least in the techie crowd, it's always going to have a position there. And I think it will expand pretty much as much as it can inside that crowd. And anyone who has any interest in decentralization as well. Well,

I can, I can, I can tell you from personal experience that being 50 years old and half a century old and not hardly knowing anything about computers, but I have been into Linux since 2010. thing about computers, but I have been into Linux since 2010. I'm the kind of person that will open a terminal and

copy-paste commands not knowing what the hell they do. I have done the RM command in a terminal one time just to see what it did. Yes, I read a song.

But I'm planning on doing that live on the show one of these days. As soon as I get a capture card. Because I've got this Chromebook sitting over here running Gali MOS. I just want to fuck with it live on the show. You can get some pretty cheap USB capture cards. There's one for like $30 you can get that a couple of people are using. I've seen Eposbox. How do you pronounce it?

I think it's Eposbox, yeah. He did a couple of reviews of a couple that was really, really cheap and they actually work. Yeah, that's always good. So I'm just going to, I'm going to get one of those and just, just have fun, you know, that kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. But not knowing how stuff works and you,

when it comes to the internet, but I understand how things get hacked and people are lax believe me i've got friends that think facebook is the greatest thing ever and i've also got friends you know older friends that are like what the hell is facebook and i try to explain to them that they're not private. They say they're private, but your shit's your product.

Eventually, they're slowly starting to understand because they'll go out car shopping or something. Then they come home and get on Facebook and look, oh, there's a Dodge ad or Chrysler ads and GM ads all over Facebook. Then they'll go to the store, to the grocery store, and they come home, and there's Scope and Toothpaste ads. And they're like, gee, these guys must be really good.

I was just looking for that. And it's like, no, you were tracked. Yeah, everyone my age already understands. Like if you have your phone anywhere near you, it's probably listening to your conversation. And if you talk to your friends about something, you're going to get an ad for it. Yep.

You know, they do the, hey, Google, you know, and I think it's the greatest, you know, it's like, dude, no, don't talk to that. But if, if, if they can understand that they got to have passwords to do this, that and the other, they can understand they got to have the keys to navigate. And once they figure out that they only got to have those four keys and one of them is the only one that they got to have all the damn time they'll they'll get it sure okay eventually but eventually like it's like everything else like you know mastodon i thought mastodon would be huge by now yeah but it's still not and the number one reason is you got to host it yourself if you want to really be decentralized.

I don't think that's the reason why it's not taking on. I think Hive actually does have this problem as well. It's sort of a problem with decentralization. People are sort of too used to like a centralized entry point. So having all of these different points of entry, it ends up confusing those people who aren't very techie. You can obviously train people to be used to that, but when people are used to going to youtube.com to watch videos,

when you say, hey, you want to go to PeerTube, you have to go to that specific PeerTube instance that has the videos you want to watch. Or if you want to go to Twitter, it's Twitter. But if you want to do Mastodon, it's all of these different instances of Mastodon. Right. They don't understand all the federation part of it.

But the biggest problem is, like you said, they're used to the centralization because that's what they've been trained to do over the last, what, 20, 30 years. Yeah. That's what we've come to expect is we get free shit and when they figure out that they gotta pay for a server from godaddy or hostgator or whatever to put an instance up they're like i gotta pay for that what are you nuts you know and that's that's the problem you know they seem to think that the

internet is free and it's not it never was somebody's paying for it somewhere and you're paying for it somewhere usually with your data and your life i hope it's not too much of my life i need i kind of need that one well what i meant is by your lifestyle i get what you're saying not your flesh and blood but not not yet at least well it could be on the dark web i haven't explained explored that yet well with biometrics you're gonna pay with you at least party life yeah yeah you got the the fingerprint and the uh the was that the near nfc the google pay apple pay stuff that works in the nfc yeah that would be cool but i don't i don't really know my screen just went to sleep so hoping it got out yeah i don't particularly want to attach my credit card to my phone no i've lost my phone before i don't want to do that that's a bad

idea dude you know how many phones i've gone through in my life i have driving oh yeah that makes sense yeah did you guys have the next telephones down there with the push to talk two-way walkie talkies uh what'd you say i'll find a picture next tell next tell they're now they're now sprint i think but they used to have a uh like a two-way walkie talkie type thing it was back in the late nineties. Uh, 2000. Yeah. That's a little before I got a phone, but I had one of those for work and, uh, I did a lot of back and forth between Grand Rapids and Flint,

the whole parts. And I was, you know, just go and drop a trailer and then go. I was talking to the boss on the two-way walkie talkie on the phone and doing something i was changing a taillight or something on the truck because i'd already dropped the trailer and i just set the phone down on the frame of the truck went got back in the truck and started driving i drove like three blocks before i started looking

for my phone and i'm like oh shit, shit. I was lucky enough. I walked back there and it was still sitting on the inside of the frame rail. If I had got on the highway, the thing would have been a little bit of ground up pieces of plastic. I had one time I was getting out of the truck and I dropped the phone

and I was holding it in my hand, talking. I dropped it, hit the step of the truck and i dropped the phone and it out of i was holding it in my hand talking and i dropped hit the step of the truck bounced down to the second step of the truck and then into the snow like six inches of snow and i had to dig around like i was digging through muddy water looking for it found it and dude i just last year i broke my LG G6 I've dropped that phone probably 150-200 times and it never cracked never had a problem

but one time I drop it on a gravel parking lot and it hits one little rock and it was almost dark you know but not totally dark and it hit in it was almost dark you know but not totally dark and it hit the hit the ground and i could see the flash of the screen i'm like shit and i was i'm sitting there crap how the hell am i gonna call anybody

because i was all by myself you, and it was one of those things. But I got this OnePlus, and I like this OnePlus. Is that your current phone? Yeah, it's a OnePlus 6T. It's not the latest, but once I get this one paid off, I'm going to jump up to the 8 because it looks really good. Yeah, I always buy my phones outright i always buy like pretty mid-tier phones this one is a uh a real me i don't know the exact number model number

uh i think this was like 350 australian which is probably 280 us something like that yeah it's uh it's a chinese brand so it's probably stealing all of my data but i don't know stay off of tiktok oh i i have a few people at work who are like hey you should get on tiktok because i i work in a supermarket so there's a lot of younger people there i'm like no i'm not doing that i i've got you know i understand you know people want to watch tiktok and yes some of it can be funny and entertaining but probably 80 90 of it just does not look very interesting well it's gotten better now that a lot of the comedians have jumped on it back when it was just kids dancing and stuff it was garbage but then the comedian's like wait there's all of these people here and we're not making content for them yeah what are we doing

that would be good but what it to me what tiktok is the modern day vine well yeah that's exactly what it is yeah it is vine was good but it wasn't all that great with dancing and stupid shit like that i want to see that i'll go watch youtube videos and you know the fail videos or whatever they're called i've really been paying too much attention to what's been happening with tiktok i know there was the um the u.s ban that was being proposed or went through or something i don't know exactly what happened with that it's it's not banned yet at least as far as i know so there's several different stories you The official story, I guess, is that President Trump was saying that the Chinese

government is stealing data from it. Of course, they denied it. Microsoft says they're going to come to our rescue. Oh, yeah, right. I forgot that Microsoft's going to buy it, aren't they? Yeah. The story I hear,

because my wife and daughter are big BTS, you know who BTS is, right? That South Korean boy band, yeah. The BTS Army is the one that had something to do with they got Trump from trending

or something or some stupid shit. Anyway, that's the unofficial story that I heard. But that's BTS fans. Don't keep saying BTS because they'll start commenting on this video. Yeah, I know. Don't keep saying BTS because they'll start commenting on this video. Yeah, I know. But I just kind of, you know, happy wife, happy life.

Just agree. Go, okay. Yeah, I don't know what the deal is with TikTok. It obviously has ties to the Chinese government because so does every Chinese company. But whether it's a Chinese spying tool, I have no idea. We can't look at the source code, so I couldn't tell you. That's the biggest problem. You can't look at the source code for most shit out there. And even though I can't read code,

but at least if it's there, I feel a lot better because I can look at it. Sure. Or anybody can look at it. Somebody that knows what they're doing can look at it. I can look at something and go. Just nod your head and agree. Exactly. I can just make it look like I know what I'm doing, but that's it.

But at least I can see it, so that makes me feel better about it sure so apparently tiktok won't be banned in australia after the government deemed it does not pose a national security threat probably because we have lots of ties to the chinese government we don't really want to piss them off that much most of of our country is being bought by China. I could do an entire episode about... There's reasons why Australia doesn't like China, but... Yeah. There's a lot of reasons why nobody likes China.

Well, the problem that we have is a lot of our properties and a lot of our land is actually being bought by China. Ah. Okay. I will say one thing. You guys got some awesome shows come out of there tv movies because i watch a lot of on netflix because that's you know what i do sure during the week while i'm driving or not driving but when i'm getting ready

while you're driving the, uh, Oh crap. I can't think of what the name of it is now. The last one I watched, it was a something about a cop in a, in a small town and people coming back to life. It doesn't really go to me. I don't watch that much. Uh, how many TV shows? There's, there's several of them that are pretty good but i'm just weird like that i guess well the extent of my here's a tv show i have seen the extent of my knowledge on trucking basically comes from outback truckers

it's a good show it It is a pretty good show. My stepdad is a massive fan of it. He's got like all the seasons on Blu-ray. That's always, there's two things I've always wanted to do. I always wanted to do, go up and drive the ice road. And then I also wanted to come down to Australia

and pull one of the big trains. Just, I can say I did it. And it just looks like it would be so cool to pull that much weight. I'm big into that. My truck I drive is a 2007 Peterbilt 383. It's got a 630 horsepower motor in it with an 18-speed transmission. And that thing will just fly. But it's not anything compared to one of the other guys' truck.

There's two other guys that have the same kind of truck I've got. One's putting down 943 horsepower, and the other guy is over 1,000. Jesus. 143 horsepower and the other guy is over a thousand jesus yeah i don't know much about uh much about cars or trucks but that sounds like a lot it it is there's there's nothing they can they can't pull so how much does uh does your truck pull then how much do you normally do i'm i'm typically depends on what day of the week it is, because I'm quote-unquote a local driver. But on Mondays, I'm usually just running local loads

around Western Michigan delivering or down to Detroit and back delivering. And then the rest of the week, Tuesday and Wednesday, it's a little bit longer you know but still in state and sometimes wednesday through friday i'm out of state right you know two states away and later in the week you know wednesday through friday is usually when i'm close to 80 000 pounds 40 tons and the truck makes quick work of it going up and down the hills so that's nice the average truck here in america is somewhere between 350 to about 430 horsepower

okay so i'm i'm 630 so I'm above average. That's so I can get my weight in. Yeah, that definitely will hurt, won't it? I'm losing weight. Just make sure you're always in orange light and wearing black shirts and you don't even notice. Dude, I'm 243, so I'm there. Let's see what that is in kilograms i have no idea um two kilogram that is 110 okay i like your number better 110

110.223 Uh, yeah, I, I, I think the only thing that I don't use that, the only thing I use in like the Imperial system is for height. I do like feet and inches for height. Most people typically understand that. Um, but I just, it would pick one for everybody.

Yeah. Well, that would be nice, but America kind of wants to do their own thing. I mean, I live here in Michigan, and we're real close to Canada, so we get Canadian trucks in traffic all the time. And you'll see, because our speed limit here in Michigan is 70 or 75 mile an hour. Yeah. And you'll see people coming over from Canada, they see the 70 number, and they're looking at kilometers an hour. Yeah. And you'll see people coming over from Canada trying to, they see the 70 number

and they're looking at kilometers per hour. Or you'll see the trucks come over and they're, you know, typically the trucks in Canada are, are what, 60 kilometers per hour, I think is what the Canadian speed limit is. So do you realize you're doing 90 kilometers an hour right now? Yeah. And it's like, dude dude you guys need to like slow down or you know or you the canadian truck will come over and they're trying to do 65 mile an hour

but they're actually doing 60 kilometers an hour you're like dude you going to get ran over. Well, I guess you could get like a speedometer that has a dual thing on it. Like some of the new digital ones you can switch back and forth. Yeah, the old analog ones, even the one in my truck's got the kilometers on the scale below it. Okay, yeah. But you can't really tell because where the the needle is at because you're looking at the point of the needle where is where the number's at and then when you're looking at kilometers down here it's you know it's wider yeah and you're going am i doing

60 kilometers per hour or am i doing 70 i guess that's that's one reason to have your phone on you you can get like the speed actually your gps speed apps that'll work it's close enough you're at least not going to be doing 60 kilometers an hour in a 60 mile an hour zone yeah i've tried using some excuses with that but it never works yeah don't think i've only i got i've only gotten like three speeding tickets in my life so one of them was he was cool because of they had just lowered the speed limit he was just warning people about it another another time i got a speeding ticket was actually on my log book back in the old days old days we had to have paper logs you know whether you were actually driving or on duty not driving sleeping and you know that kind of right and she

was the d.o.t cop was in kentucky she's going through my log book she's like wow you drove 180 miles in two hours i'm like right she's like you marked it down i guess you're gonna have to sit down for eight hours like shit the the my third speeding ticket was me in a flatbed was running down the interstate and we were making good time and there was this little black taurus that uh was running in front of us. And the dude, you know, he'd get out,

I'd get out. Then the flatbed would get out. We'd pass everybody. And then he'd move over. We'd all move over. We'd come up on some more traffic. We'd move over and let him out, you know, boom,

boom, boom. It was just awesome for a good half hour, 45 minutes. We were, we were hauling as close to 80 mile an hour. We come up on some traffic and he got caught.

The car got caught up in the traffic. I couldn't slow down fast enough to let him out. Me in the flatbed just blew by him. Next thing you know, here comes this black Taurus all lit up like a Christmas tree with disco lights going on. It's like, shit.

He pulled us both over and he comes up and he crawls up in my truck and gets in. He sits down and he goes, I hated to do that. We were making such good time. He says, but there was just way too many witnesses. He said he clocked us at 78,

80 and 82 in a 65. And he, he wrote us for 66 or 67. I don't remember what it was now, but it was only a mile or two over. It was what he wrote, wrote the speed limit for. Okay. Well,

that was it. If it was, if he had wrote it for 15 over in Indiana, it's automatic jail time. Wow. In that state, because that's considered reckless driving. Right. Okay. He was cool.

Then he proceeded to tell me about how he buses one driver for 120 in a 65 one night, like 4 o'clock in the morning. It was, it was interesting. He was a cool cop though. I've been pretty lucky with, um, with fines. I've, I've never gotten a fine from driving.

I did get a warning once cause I had one of my brake lights out, but he was like, Oh yeah, that's a hard one to test yourself. I guess I can just let you off with a warning. Just get it fixed tomorrow. It's like, okay, that's a hard one to test yourself i guess i can just let you off with a warning just get it fixed tomorrow it's like okay that's awesome thank you fixing tickets are cool but it's just it's still you know like on our cd all that stuff still follows us around yeah so the way they've set up the cbssa and the the deck driver what is it called driver accessibility committee or whatever it's a record that follows you everywhere right so like if you like a lot of shippers and receivers they'll load you overweight and then they'll say well take it take it, we'll pay the fine. And the driver will say, well, okay. But they don't stop to realize that that shows up on your record.

They don't have records on shippers and receivers because the shipper will just say, okay, an overweight ticket, that's going to cost $200 if you get a ticket. But that's going to be on your driving record. Whether or not they paid for it, that's your points. Right, yeah. driving record whether or not they paid for it that's your points right yeah there's a lot of people and a lot of drivers here in the states that are just they're either too afraid to say no or think they have to do whatever dispatch says and i've never been that way. I've been driving for 30 years.

So a long time ago, I figured out that I'm the one that controls the truck going down the road. And until they have self-driving trucks and my dispatcher can do it from the computer in the office. We're still a little bit away from that one. Exactly. Well, they're saying that once the 5g network is all up and everything, that's all we need is to connectivity. But here in the States, I don't honestly see it happening because you got to get the general public to accept it first.

A lot of people's not going to be too excited about 80,000 pound vehicles running down the highway at 70 mile an hour with nobody controlling. I reckon for the first couple of years, you're going to have to have a backup driver in them. Yep. I think they're probably going to have to have somebody on board all the time, no matter what, because that stuff's going to break down oh yeah of course that's always going to be a big deal as well you're going to have to have an onboard mechanic because it's it's not going to be something like on uh wally where there's a little cleanup robot that follows him around all the time they're they're going to have to have to have somebody on board because lights are going to burn out. Tires are going to blow.

Axles are going to break. It's just normal wear and tear on a truck. That job would sort of shift from being a driving job to being just a mechanic job, basically. An on-duty mechanic. Right. And you're also going to have to be probably a part-time computer engineer. Yeah, that as well. Just in case something goes wrong on that front.

Shit will get hacked. That's the biggest worry, actually. It's not just the trucks going down the road at 80 miles an hour. It's the fact that at any moment, if there is a security breach, it could be hacked. Yep. And they've already proved that they can hack

self-driving vehicles in a heartbeat. I think, what was it, something simple through a door lock or something they hacked a Ford with? I don't remember. I remember it was some stupid way they did it. Like a Bluetooth connector or something. They were able to get a hold of it.

This hack could take control of your Ford. It was something stupid simple, too. Using a $300 software-defined radio, a security researcher says he has discovered a way to take control of some Ford. Okay, no, it was through the radio by the looks of it. Oh, it was the radio. So, yeah, they meant to take over an F-150 through the radio. Yeah, that's not a car that I want someone to take over. I mean, that's a pretty good-sized truck.

Yeah, a little bit. You know, it's a pick-up truck. I mean, it's, that's what, a quarter ton pickup? We're only recently starting to actually get those trucks here. Like most of the, up until a couple of years ago, we were running, do you know what a ute is? It's a. Ute? A ute, yeah.

It's basically a sedan with a flatbed. Oh, okay. It's basically a sedan with a flatbed. Oh, okay. It's an Australian thing. It's what we call like a, almost like an El Camino, which is a car with a pickup bed. Right, okay, yeah. Yeah, basically the same thing, yeah. I think I've seen some of those around here,

but they were all conversions so up until recently we've been but most people have been using those but our last car manufacturer has uh pulled out so we had holden here and they were manufacturing in my state they're now owned by gm and aren't actually making cars in australia anymore so i don't think people are gonna like they're gonna keep making utes so they're like the f-150s and all those other big pickup trucks are now coming into australia and nobody knows how to drive them and our car parks are not big enough for them like you'll see someone roll in with an f-150 and it like goes across two of the different car parks

like what are you doing just get a smaller car and it's all you always see it's like some some housewife that has it as well it's like why do you have this they got the got the big big port expedition the big giant suv they get in it they gotta have a step ladder to crawl up in it yeah get in it try to squeeze it into this little itty bitty six foot wide space and it's like you know i'm happy with my hatchback my hatchback fits everywhere it's great nothing wrong with that i've got a got a dodge caravan we've had for probably six years. It's been a good band. It's well over 100,000 miles. It's been paid for and

it just runs. Yep. I bought this at I think 140,000 kilometers which is miles 86 40,000 kilometers, which is miles... 86...

Oh, nearly 87,000 miles I bought this at. Wow. Nothing wrong with that. Yeah, it's a bit of an older car. I think it's a 2001 model, so it's got some years on it, but it still runs perfectly fine. If it runs and you don't have to have a trash bag

and a shovel in the back to pick up the parts along the way it's a good car yeah no when the parts fall off that's usually my fault like when i i bump the sidewalk and then i lose one of my hubcaps that happens it happens my wife but i got home one time and I was driving the van. I come back in and I'm like, so what's wrong with the mirror on the passenger side? She's like, well, our garage is a two-car garage

but there are separate doors. It's a tight squeeze to get in there. I know what she did. She caught one of the door jams on the way in the garage and or or out one of the way i'm like so what's wrong with this mirror oh no no nothing i didn't hit anything it's like really that's why the mirror is over there going oh no i've bumped my mirror a few times to the point where i like it it's way off where it should be

but i've never done it that bad well she didn't know but you can on our mirrors you can fold them in ah okay yep she didn't know about that i'm like you can just go like this and then you don't have to worry about how close you are just Just kidding. It happens. It's not as bad as it could be. There's much worse things that could have happened. Oh yeah. Yes, there is. A whole lot worse.

So, we'll go back to that thing I was going to mention earlier about the library having a... not really being decentralized So they had a thing here, I'll send you a link to it They had this website go called freeze peach dot fun, and they're running a thing on here called Odyssey and Odyssey was basically another front end for library. They've gone and put a password on it now so I can't get onto it.

But this was library themselves running a second thing. I don't know what exactly they're doing here. Because it was basically just library TV with a few different tabs. You can't see it now, which is annoying. Do you have a

secret password from somebody in their discord server or is this just like a project that they're working on and going to release later maybe well they have a new employee called julian chandra who is their i think head of promotions now or something he used to be the head of partnerships over at tiktok and i think he realized that he was going to lose a job soon, so he decided to come over to a new company. But now he's like the head of promotion at Library, and his work, like this is apparently one of his projects, but it's still not really, even though it's a second interface for Library, it's not a decentralized thing, because then it's still being run by library inc unless

the plan was to open source it and then hand it off to the community or something like that right that's the only thing i could think for because it basically just looked like library tv so i imagine it was sort of like the the same approach that hive has where it has a bunch of different interfaces. So maybe they were trying to just kickstart the different interfaces or something because no one else had done it already. I'm not really sure what they were planning to do with this. I was just looking

at the page source, trying to determine. It just looks like it's an aesthetic site on a tdn there was something different here before but they've changed it very recently which is annoying if you let's see yeah no's... That's actually really annoying because I did want to talk about that, but that's fine. I wonder if you could...

I don't know if you could do it on Firefox, but maybe throw the library protocol on it? It's not going to work because I don't have a library installed. That would be cool. Just see if we could open the library app. Oh yeah, that would be cool. So

yeah. That's one thing that Hive needs. It's got this app called Essency. Yeah. Which is a desktop app, and it's also a mobile app. And it's for Hype, and it's a desktop app. Yeah. That's very cool.

It's very similar to the library, but the library's got the desktop app. And to me, that's a cool library. But. Library's got. The desktop app. And that's to me that's a cool draw. Yeah. It's just if you could separate. Separate out the different. Kinds of content. That's a winner for me.

Yeah that I think would be a really big seller. Because you obviously can have the content. On library. But it's so difficult to find anything. That't video content right now that it doesn't really make any sense right it's just that I don't know I still love library I'm not dishing it for anything or sure yeah this is there's so much more that's possible with it and it seems like there's way too many people that are just relying on library to do everything and that takes away from the decentralization of it there are a few people running community projects but like you've got library nomics obviously then another

guy's got library lytics which is a similar thing but this is more focused on channel analytics rather than just overall library analytics so you could see things like how much uh lbc you're getting per day how much lbc other channels are getting per day and like just seeing how like how stuff's actually moving around how many views you're getting what your top videos are things like that stuff that's just sort of missing from the official library tv app so that's more of a of a block scanner or whatever yeah but with just a friendly interface so you can focus on um the actual channels themselves rather than the blockchain right that makes sense librarynomics a few times and i'm not i'm not a technical guy so i

don't really know how to read analytics and all that but i think it is coolest prettiest looking website ever i do a one obvious problem with it that is that you can't actually zoom in on the website and this was intended by design if you try to zoom in it would just make the font smaller and that's that's something they had to do on purpose. That's not something that accidentally happens. Why would you do that? I don't know. I'll bring on Brendan and ask him why he did that. Well, it's not opening for me right now.

Maybe you're just being slow or something. It's being a dick. dick yeah number one is library yeah that doesn't count the second one is also a library channel as well that's uh library cast bombard's body language is number three i'd never heard of this channel before i came to library but apparently they run a fairly large channel over on YouTube as well. Really? Hmm.

The Corbet Report is number five. MH He's awesome. I like him. I'll never forget that one video he posted about his cheap green

screen was a towel on the towel rack behind him in the bathroom. If it works. That's right. There's a blue towel. That was cool. Let's see I figured she'd be bigger by now

Yeah that's Actually kind of weird Well the problem is a lot of people Even though they have big Followings outside of YouTube On Sorry outside of library They don't know how the support system works.

And that is pretty key to any sort of growth on the platform. Right. I understand how the support system works. It's just, I don't know, I'm more interested in, i don't know i'm more interested in i don't know i want to say the say wrong i don't want to say pay to play type thing it's you know if it's gonna if i want to promote it yeah i'll pay for it you know that's the way it is that's business but i don't my stuff isn't the business i'm here to have fun and learn stuff sure it's that's how i got how how i started getting into podcasting years ago was i was trying to learn how to record my guitar and then i found all these other musicians out there that

are better than me and i did start doing a podcast and then've just not into, I've never been into it for money. I've never thought of it or looked at it as a business. And I'm not interested in that. I want to learn stuff and see how stuff works and have fun doing it. If I can't have fun doing it, I'm not going to try to learn it. Well, it sounds like you enjoy your day job as well so it's not like you really have to get yourself out of that i love my day job i just there's times that it's just monotonous yeah and you just want to go home

but you can't but then there's times where i sit and think well i could get a local job you know go work here in town or whatever and then i'm like i'll be sitting there twiddling my thumbs going i gotta do something i can't sit here you know i a, I made a promise to one of my high school teachers that told me I would never find a job looking out a window. And I've been doing it for 30 years. Getting paid to look out a window. Well, if you're enjoying it,

Hey, it's not for me. That's not the, I would, I would absolutely hate doing your job, but if you like it, then we need people to enjoy that. It's fun because yeah, you get to see a lot of gorgeous, gorgeous scenery. Yeah.

But then there's times where you've got like downtown New York city or downtown Chicago where you're driving in and you're like, I hope to God I get out of here still alive. It's all rolled up into one. It's all part of the deal. But at the end of the day, when you park the truck or the end of the night, whichever shift you happen to be driving on,

you park the truck, you get back there in a month and you fire up you know library tv or or three speak or whatever youtube whatever and you start watching netflix or whatever you're like it wasn't so bad and just do it all again so i hear about how bad traffic gets in some parts of the u.s and i i like i look at how bad like peak hour traffic is here maybe like half an hour stuck in traffic what actually is it like in some of those big cities when it's at peak hour because i can i see pictures of and i hear how bad it is but i can only imagine there's there's two real spots three technically but mostly nowadays it's two real bad spots atlanta georgia and then the other one is la

um which neither one of those i have to deal with i haven haven't dealt with them in years, but I do have three of my friends that, that, uh, one of them runs up and down the West coast, California to Washington. And they, all three of them live in the LA area, San Bernardino Valley type thing. And there are times that I've carried on a two to three hour conversation with them and they move only like two or three miles. Jesus. It's insane. It is very insane. Because people look at Australia and like, oh, the country is so big. It must take so long to get places.

I can drive out to my parents' place. It's 150 kilometers away. It takes me like an hour and a half okay let's put it this way texas the state of texas okay you can only drive 11 hours legally in a shift texas at one point from east to west is over a thousand miles. Sure. So you cannot drive from one state border to the other in an 11 hour shift. Right. And that's just one state. Jesus.

And like, uh, used to, I would go down to Dallas and then every once in a while run down to Houston and do a load down there. And they're like, well, once you get to Dallas, drop and hook, grab this other trailer, run down to Houston and get a couple stops off. Okay, no problem. And then you get down there and then you start driving from Dallas to Houston and you realize it's four hours

from one city to the other. And it's like, dude, I can't make this. But then we've got these little states like Illinois, Indiana. They're 150 miles across. You can do that two and a half, three hours. Yeah, okay. Five hours, you can drive across two states. Then you hit Ohio, and it's five hours just to the other side of Ohio.

Right. It's annoying sometimes, but the hardest part is when you get into traffic like Chicago. Typically, if you hit Chicago at about 3 to about 4.30 in the afternoon, you're good. You will slide right through Chicago, just slick or snot.

But if you hit it from 4.31 until about 7 o'clock, you're stop and go, bumper to bumper. It's annoying. But then there are times that you'll be like, oh, it's midnight and I'm going to slide right through Chicago. You'll get almost to the middle of Chicago and somebody will be a stupid drunk driver or crash and they shut down the interstate and you're stuck for three hours

while they clean up the track. Jesus. It's really a crapshoot for Chicago. Atlanta, for trucks, unless you're delivering inside the city, you're not allowed inside the bypass, so you have to always go all the way around. That's a long ride around the bypass so you have to always go all the way around that's a long ride around the bypass but it's it's LA has got to be the worst there you've got six seven eight lanes wide on each side you know and i my buddy rob he sent me pictures of bumper to bumper what you know that doesn't even that doesn't even make any sense like

i think the widest lane highways we have here are like three lanes three lanes for like both direct oh yeah three going one, three going the other direction. Well, most of our road engineers have this bright idea that more lanes will alleviate the traffic. No. What alleviates the traffic is less cars.

Yeah, that'll help. But they, you know, they'll probably, they'll call me up. Dispatch, you got me set up for three stops today. And look at this shit. I got to walk. He's like, I ain't going to make this. It's only 10 miles to my next stop and I can't get to it.

Jesus. That sounds about as bad as I'd heard. Well, it's not like Michigan. In Michigan, we've got a lot of back roads, county highways, county roads that are truck friendly. Yeah. But you don't know them. They can be kind of scary. Right.

Because they typically are skinny, maybe truck and a half wide, where if you meet another truck, you got to slow down and ride the grass on each side to get around. But they're not marked as being no trucks, so guys run them if you know them. But I can go from our yard all the way to Benton Harbor and never get on the highway. And it's awesome. Because in Michigan,

the back roads are typically smoother than the highways because there's less traffic. That doesn't even make any sense. How are your's that bad well they the biggest problem with michigan is it's basically a giant sandbar right okay between the great lakes that's part of the problem the other part of the problem is we've got 160,000 pound trucks that are in state michigan only and yeah they've got a lot of axles to spread the

weight out but when you've got four of them running together that's the equal to eight regular trucks okay on the exact same surface and we get 90 degree weather in the summer. So that blacktop just kind of melts, you know, and we get these big ruts and the sand underneath just starts buckling. It happens, you know. Right. We get a lot of freeze and thaw

because of the weather and the seasons. That's the way it works. Sounds like lots of fun. Some drivers will say I'm blaming the heavy trucks, and I'm not. It's just, that's the way it works. I blame the lawmakers.

Sure, yeah. There's only so much that can really be done. Right. It's not that it's a bad thing to have super heavy trucks but what they need to do is change the pay system because typically when they've got the heavy super heavy trucks they've got they're paid by the pound or paid by the walk if they would you know switch them over to where they were paid by the mile or paid by the hour it'd they would switch them over to where they were paid by the mile or paid by the hour, it'd be totally

different. You'd have lighter trucks, more roads, that type of thing. It's all in the way that the industry would adapt if they just changed the law. Makes sense. Why the hell am I talking about trucks?

This is a show about tech. No, I don't know what this show is, to be honest. It's a tech podcast in name only. I've heard some stories, something about somebody in the backyard at a party, I think was one of them. in the backyard at a party i think was one of them uh i remember something about that what oh not ringing a bell it's been a couple episodes back several episodes back actually yeah i i make too much content to remember everything i say

i don't have the feeling seven videos a week in a podcast is a little bit too much content to remember everything i say i don't have the feeling seven videos a week in a podcast is a little bit too much to remember everything yeah that's why i just use my my videos as as my podcast yeah yeah well the podcast is the thing where i just don't care what i'm doing most of the time like with the main channel stuff that's all like prepared and actually trying to say intelligent things here. It, I've kind of got it set up the same way that I would be if I was live streaming it.

Basically it's just me chatting with someone or just random, got nothing by myself. The only difference between the prerecorded and if I was to stream it, is there's no chat. Right. I like your, there are your videos about the terminal apps. Cause when I'm, when I'm using Arco Linux, I've really gotten into using Awesome and I've just fallen in love with Awesome.

It's like the first time I've ever actually done a tiling window manager of any kind. And it runs great on this thing and it gives me some really great CPU usage and RAM usage. It's like I'm using Kubuntu for my Ubuntu studio here, and my RAM is pegging pretty damn hard right now. It's running at 62%. Jeez. And also, it's maybe running at 15 or 20. It's maybe running at 15 or 20. And I can have, you know, four, what are they called, tags? Different desktops.

I don't know what Awesome calls them. They might just be desktops or workspaces. Yeah, workspace. I can have like four of them with an app running on each one and switch between them and be running 15% CPU. It's like, dude, I love this. Yeah, it is nice. And then videos like about Ranger and all the terminal-only apps. It's like, dude, this is sweet.

I can do this. I feel like a geek. I've got a series coming up soon when I eventually get around to working on it there's going to be pretty hardcore terminal stuff so a couple of guys in my discord have been talking about a way to show graphics without a

without a graphics server so showing it directly just in your TTY really? you can work with these things called frame buffers basically i guess the best way to look at it would be like a mini display server and you could just play videos without a uh without any sort of graphical environment oh that's cool so that's going to be fun to mess around with, but it's not practical. I would say it's just fun to experiment with.

Right. I started playing with that, the color thing that you had about the different colors. Ah, yeah. I started playing with that and I never did finish it, but it's, I like that kind of stuff.

That's kind of such cool. Well, that's awesome. Cause I do enjoy playing with that kind of stuff. That kind of stuff's cool. That's awesome, because I do enjoy playing with that sort of software. Is it... Uh-oh. Is that you or me? I think my housemate's awake.

I don't know. Doesn't matter. Wasn't sure if it was me or you. She's not even talking to her dog. I don't know. I didn't get a text. They usually text. They know that when I'm up here in the studio slash office,

whatever you want to call it, I usually lock the door because, you know, my kids tend to walk in. My kids tend to walk in. I've been doing podcasting and streaming as long as my daughter has been around. She's been on quite a few episodes of my old shows. She'll just come right on in and start talking. Back when she she was she's 16 now but when she was little uh i was doing a live show on the bush radio and she actually cut a i did for him it was i love the bush i love the bush it was funny just singing she was like six five or six years old. Wait, how long have you been doing shows online then?

I started in 2005. Oh, wow. Okay. I didn't realize you've been doing it for that long. I did the Uncle Bonehead show. It was my first podcast. And I did that for six or seven years. And at one point, I had just a little over 3000 subscribers.

Do you remember the band? They're not the band, but the, the website garage band.com. No, it was back when my space was popular. Yeah, no,

that's before my time. That was where it was. The biggest tab was a garage band.com. And then, no, that's before my time. That was where it was the biggest at, was at garageband.com. And then switched over to doing a live show on the Bush Radio. And it was just running on a server in the guy's house. And they crashed the server. So it was kind of cool to be able to say that. But there was probably maybe 15 or 20 people listening live on his home

connection. And then he, he actually went out and got a big, big circle. I'll be back in a second. That was you. Okay. Hit pause.

Hello. Hello. Yeah. We've got a, a single car garage at my place, but it's one of those long ones. Oh, my video is lagging. That's interesting.

Blurry. I guess we're going to be like this for the rest of the show now. I'm going to turn my webcam off. I'm going to try to fix this. Anyway, yeah, we have a single car garage at my place And My car was parked behind my housemates Ah

He had to move Yes Okay If I Oh wait no it's fine That was weird I don't know what happened What kind of cam you use I'm using a Oh wait, no, it's fine. Fuck. That was weird. I don't know what happened.

What kind of cam do you use? I'm using a Logitech C920. Just the webcam that everyone uses. Uh. There we go. Get your white balance. I usually have it so my white balance is just hard-coded, but for whatever reason I forgot to set it up.

So we've been running with this adaptive stuff this entire show, which is fine because I've got my point lights over here. So it's okay. My face is a little bit this side. It's a little bit too bright, but it's fine. I don't do lights. Really? I've got a light. I just, I need to get a capture card for,

cause I'm using a camcorder and I was using my phone, use a screen copy. I think that's how you pronounce it. And it just it doesn't do justice because you know, I'll forget to put it on airplane mode or whatever and I get notifications popping up on my cam on the screen. It's like, yeah, I know that ain't gonna deal with that. Having to remember how to do that.

Remember to put it on airplane mode every damn time. And then that plus, I'm planning on once I get my capture card and my cam set up and the actual studio booth set up and built, that I can use my phone to bring

in people from Twitter that are live streaming or other places, you know, bring them in through screen copy. I can make my lighting just as good as yours. I'm going to set something up. Just entertain people for like 30 seconds. Do it, do it, do it.

Okay. My daughter used to have some. Oh, there you go. Now it looks like a... Oh, you can't hear me. You ain't got the headphones on. Oh, we're not done yet. i have a little bit more to do now it looks like you're doing this has been such a long interview it's

in the nighttime now there you go yeah okay we're almost there and now where is it here we go Where is it? Here we go. We're now in a disco. There you go. I had some LED lights that my daughter had.

Just cheap $20 lights that she got. Another $5. They did that. The plan was to have them up here above the frame, doing the disco thing. But there's a short in them somewhere. Yeah, this is just a smart globe.

I don't really like Internet of Things devices that much, but this is cool. I like this. It gives a good atmosphere, especially if you're wanting to do something like a fun show. That's what I'm doing on MSP Waves. I try to stay away from talking about tech all the time because I've had it for a while,

but a very strict no politics rule on all of my podcasts and because I I'm an MSP waves I just want to have fun like there's in the chat room on their chat room is on the

discourse or a lot of people actually just listen to it through discord or watch it through discord and there's a every time somebody levels up in the chat room the host is supposed to take a drink supposed to technically be a adult beverage and i had an adult beverage with me. I think it was my first show, and I basically pounded four of them during the opening song, which was the William Tell Oversure, and just for the fun of it. And probably it all started kicking in

like towards about halfway through. So the first hour, and then my cheeks started getting that feeling, nummy feeling, you know, and you're, you're feeling good. And the next thing I knew,

uh, their chat room had me telling dirty trucker jokes. And I was like, dude, Ron's going to kick me off. And that's my first show. And for some super reason, they asked me to come back. Well, you're pulling in the traffic.

Yeah. I had a couple of my trucker friends. Well, three of them actually called in and they spent two hours and it was just two hours of trucker bashing everything. two hours of trucker bashing everything and if you don't know the trucker lifestyle and yeah there's been a lot of movies smoking the bandit you know convoy and all the old trucker movies they glamorized the lifestyle made it fun yes it is fun but a lot of it you know with being on the cb radio the cb radio is like i guess basically 4chan a precursor to 4chan and or reddit and they on the c, you will hear the most vile, filthy, disgusting things. We can make sailors blush and bikers blush. And it gets pretty rough sometimes.

And that's what those two hours was of that episode. They asked them to come back, too. I was doing a show, a podcast. We've got three episodes on YouTube. There's actually like six or seven episodes that we did. It's called Break19 Podcast. And it's me, Ratchet Jaw Rob, Monster, and Wolfman. Those three guys did their own podcast called Trucker Nation USA.

And we joined up to do Break One Night Podcast. The idea was that we were going to do it every week, come hell or high water, use an anchor. We can do it on the phone while we're driving. And we only got like five or six episodes done because there was always something you know somebody's sleeping somewhere somebody can't doesn't have a signal and so we tried doing it with just you know missing somebody and it just it wasn't the same because that's what we actually do every day is call each other and talk on a group call all day long.

And we were just, you know, fuck it. We'll record it and put it out as a podcast. There was quite a few people that like trucker nation USA. My podcast trucking nuts had, I don't remember how many subscribers it used to have, but it is trucker nuts trucking nuts was uh that was one thing i had to pay a lot of attention to when i get because i get tired all right this week on trucker nuts i'm sitting on them but it was the the uh it was trucker nuts i tried to keep it family friendly, but Break19 Podcast is anything but family friendly. Yeah.

And on YouTube, we've got like maybe 10 subscribers, I think. But we also only posted three episodes on YouTube, and there was a year between episode episode two and episode three so we weren't really into the youtube thing yeah but robin monster are big big gamers i don't know what they play but it's some some military game and they've got a dedicated time that they put together the team you you know, and play online. And I'm cool with that, but it's also the same time that I'm on at MSB waves.

So be on all the time. We were shooting to try to do a three hour show from nine to midnight. And I don't think we're going to be able to do that either because the other guys can't make it. So that's the one thing guys can't make it. That's the one thing that sucks about trucking is you never got a set schedule. They say, there's this old wives sale that truckers get into these

habits. It's a whole habit thing. It's a habit that you're never the same. Every day is different. Every day is different. Every schedule is different. That's just the nature of the business. But if something like being able to record a video on a library

or Hive or YouTube or whatever, if you could do it from your phone while you're driving, we will do it. We were using Skype for a while because it's got the recording. Yeah. It was cool, but you can't separate the audio out.

We're all on Bluetooth headsets and it sounds like shit and one guy will be louder than the other guy you can't equalize them you can't normalize anything you gotta do your best you can with one track

I don't like it so that's why we never really kept with the Break One Night podcast it's a bitch and post yeah i have enough trouble like lining up a time with just me and a guest every single week that trying to get three people lined up at the same time is going to be a massive pain like i'm like my schedule is usually pretty open i can do I heard most of the people I bring on are much busier than I am. And even that's hard enough.

So getting three people who are always busy lined up, I can't imagine how difficult that would be. Yeah. Back God, it's been, I think it was 2009. No, Obama was president. So it had to be 2007 or 2008. We did a, me and my buddy john he's he's a truck driver as well and charlie from the bush radio and gary fender my the singer that was in i was in the band with us four did a a show every wednesday night live on the bush and it was also on ubsn.net and it was called local loud and proud and we was supposed to be all about local musicians indie musicians

here in mid michigan but we ended up it turned into we did skits. We did all kinds of, we had a segment called Love Tips with Dr. Pfister. And then we did, we did Ask Uncle Bonet about trucking and uh we had a sponsor called charlie's choke and poke wholesale rape equipment and emporium and gary always did these little skits you know like fat guy falling down the stairs where he just put together a bunch of sound effects and if we did a lot of fun stuff. And the funniest thing was, like for the Dr. Love Tips with Dr. Fester, it was written by Gary. And he would, you know, the emails. And we actually started getting, you know, he would write the emails like he was somebody wanting actual advice from Dr. Fester. And the gimmick was that no matter what it was, it could be, should I give flowers to my girlfriend?

It would always, the answer always turned around to the answer was anal sex. And Gary would write it out, you know, and we'd script it. And then probably six or seven episodes in, we started getting actual real emails from people wanting to get love tips from Dr. History. It was fun. And those were even better than what It was fun. And those were even better than what Gary was writing. It was a blast.

That sounds awesome. That sounds like it would be so much fun to do. It was a blast because it was every Wednesday night. We started at 7 and we were supposed to be done at 10. But a lot of times we did an after show thing that would go to like midnight. And John Charlie, he lived in Florida. So he was on Skype.

John was on Skype with, with me. John was, would be making a delivery or a pickup somewhere around Minnesota or western Wisconsin every Wednesday night. And then Gary, he just lives 15, 20 miles away from me. So he came over. He was actually in the studio with me. And then we started getting Crispy and Nurse Nuda would come down from Saginaw and And they would come down every week. So I would be sitting there in my basement studio with three other people and then two people on Skype. We ended up, you know, it'd be midnight sometimes on a Wednesday night. And I'm thinking, I'm like, guys, you got to get out of here.

I got to be a worker for a lot. You know, and it was fun, but, you know, shit happens. People grow apart. We ended up having to stop because we were using, I was using two desktop computers and a laptop. And one desktop the hard drive crashed and couldn't get

another one to replace it. So we just kind of slowed it down you know, went back to like an hour long show type thing. Something that we could just wing and then eventually it was just like yeah, schedules changed. John's schedule got changed and Charlie

had to start working nights. Show just ended. But it was a blast. It was probably the funnest show I've ever done because there was never anything you could expect. We played a lot of good music, talked to a lot of cool

local bands, and it was just a blast. That's awesome. I don't know how we got to this. I'm not sure how this trip actually started. I lost track at some point. Yeah, me too. You're just having fun reliving your old memories.

Yeah, yeah. It's kind of like a trip down memory lane, and you set the atmosphere with the lighting. So now it's like, you know, we're, you know, like a 2020 or CNN interview, you know, where we're... I'm close and personal. I guess so, except I'm a much less fake person. Much more real person. We'll go with that one instead of trying to double a negative out.

No doubt about that. So by the sounds of it, you've been using the name Uncle Bonehead for a very long time then. Yeah. best friend John his son gave it to me when he was three four and he's 21 now because John used to just call me

bonehead all the time and then little Bubba I call him Ryan he just started calling me Uncle Bonehead he pronounced it Uncle Boathead Boathead. Boathead.

You could have went with Boathead, hey? That would be a bit of a different meaning. Yep, but we just, it kind of stuck. And when I joined the band that John was in, I was in it for probably five or six years, and we'd get on stage, and that's gary would introduce me as his uncle bonehead and it stuck there's my friends all call me bonehead and you know we've we we opened in 2011 we opened for great white at the soaring eagle casino and they referred to me as uncle bonehead people was asking for autographs and shit and

i did a mc for the middle of the music festival at uh mount pleasant michigan and i had a guy come up to me between the bands and he's like are you uncle bonehead i'm like yeah and he goes i thought i recognized your voice he was a listener i was like dude that's cool that's awesome i got recognized i did find i they haven't talked to me in person i did find out that someone who watches my channel also goes to my uni so that's interesting that's cool very cool my wife she didn't usually used to go to the gigs the band gigs with me a lot

mainly because when she did everybody called her Mrs. Bonehead I think that's probably why she didn't always go that's actually a pretty cool story of how you got that name and then it kind of stuck because like ah if a bonehead can do it then anyone can do it so it kind of just worked with the sort of direction you're going with now so that's that's how i

started with the the cell phones and podcasts i like, I wanted to learn about why you host. And my idea was for the podcast, because I was between doing podcasts. I knew I wanted to do a podcast. So I just kind of went with that. You know, if I can do it, anybody else can do it. So it's easy to pay attention if you know what you're looking for to protect your privacy

and your online data and all that. And self-hosting is, to me, that's the way to do it. But it's just so difficult in cost and the know-how that the average person isn't going to do it. but it's just so difficult in cost and, you know, the know-how that the average person isn't going to do it. You know, there's things like the freedom box,

you know, where you can carry your internet with you and your stuff with you. And it's just like, that's cool, but you got to know how to set that up. Don't tell me you don't know. I have no idea what that is. It's like a

Raspberry Pi, but it's a server for your stuff. You carry it around with you and hook it onto Wi-Fi, hold your email, everything. Huh, that's actually pretty awesome. You can set up a Mastodon server. There's a version

of it that YNO host has. It's called's called uh crap i can't remember what it is but why you know host doesn't make it freedom box makes the box that you can buy from right it's all set up or you can get the just download the the distro and install it on your own stuff. Yeah, I've actually already really been hardcore into Linux for the past year. I'm sorry. Don't be sorry. You know way more about it than I do. I started on Linux in 2010 with Ubuntu 10.04. on Linux in 2010 with Ubuntu 10.0

excuse me, 10.04 and I up until just a couple of years ago I very rarely opened a terminal. If I could do it through the GUI, I didn't do it. There was a time for about a year I actually

when Windows 10 first came out and I got a new computer, I was like I'm actually going to give Windows 10 a try. And I ended up dual booting. And I spent more time in Ubuntu than I did in Windows. And I did it for about a year. And then I completely wiped Windows off. And I haven't been back since.

Well, to be fair, I came from a programming background. So I'm in my final year of a software engineering degree right now. So I already had a lot of that experience, like messing around with terminal apps anyway. It was just shifting what I'm doing over to Linux. My hat's off to you and people that can do stuff like that because to me that's just, you're, you guys are like wizards and sorcerers.

Cause I couldn't do it. You know, I look at it and I see a bunch of characters, you know, question mark and exclamation point, you know, parentheses block or whatever you call it, the square thing.

And it's just like, I can do Mark now. Well, there's a reason why a lot of people in the software industry, software industry has have autism. You kind of need that, that extreme focus on one thing. I can see that.

I can definitely see that me. I'm not, I'm watching something. It's like, Ooh, squirrel. Yeah. You wouldn't get very far that's why it's like you know it's like library nomics it's the coolest of looking website around especially you see all the wheels and the graphs and

and it's just like i have no idea what I'm looking at but that's cool as shit I don't know why it was written in the way it was written it's using some pretty old libraries I don't know why they decided to do it like that but it works I guess because it looks good if it worked

why try to make it new I guess that's fair. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Yeah, I guess so. But usually if you're going to start something new, you're going to start it with the new stuff, not just start it from the old stuff. Even though, yeah, it's fine.

It worked. It's done better than I had expected. And it's had a lot of improvements recently that have made it fairly usable. Cool. Because early on, there was a few problems with it where it was a bit slow. And if you, like, scrolled, sometimes the bar at the top would jitter as you're scrolling down the screen. I used it mostly. I looked at it mostly on my phone because you know i'm on a mobile you know six out of seven days a week yeah so most of the stuff i do on the phone

like i've started doing i said i was gonna do it semi-ily, and it's been a week since I've done anything with it, but it's from the driver's seat, like a daily trucking vlog. And I did like three episodes, and last week I didn't have time to do shit all week because we were busy. Yeah. And I wanted it to be something to where I can do while i'm driving because i can see i've

got my old lgb20 and it's got a good product but it's i don't even know where the hell is that i think it's downstairs but the uh you know it's got the sd card in it you know so it's got good storage it's got a great camera no sim card card, so I can't do anything online with it. But I can use it to make videos. Yeah. And I've got another amount on my dash. I've got two mouse now, one for my regular phone and then one for my V20. Yeah.

regular phone and then one for my b20 yeah and so i can actually record something while i'm driving you know i get that driver's point of view from what i'm trying to do is record with one phone over the dash you know just point out over the hood and then the other phone i'm trying to get you know the face and i'm trying to record the voice on one and then the other one i'm just going to kind of sync up ah yeah when i so you can still hear the sound of the truck from from one of the scenes and then but you can still hear me over the truck because i'm talking to and uh i'm trying to get that and i can't get it to line up right but it's eventually i'm going to figure this shit out and it's going to be cool what i actually should probably just do is you know spend money and go buy a damn gopro and if you're trying to sync it

up just clap yeah but it's kind of hard to do that when you've got 600 horsepower going on one of them. Yeah, that's a good point. I didn't think of that. Clap really loudly. Well, the problem is when the one that's not got the headset connected

is sitting on the dash, I can reach up there and touch it so it's at arm's length. But the truck is so loud just sitting there idling. You can't hear me talking. Okay, yeah. If I didn't have the headset on,

you couldn't hear it. That's just the nature of the truck. I'm just trying to get them to sync up. I should probably sync them up. I'll figure it out. Yeah, there trying to get them to sync up. I should probably sync them up. I'll figure it out. There'll be a way to do it. The problem is

on Mondays we're so busy because we've got anywhere from 10 to 15 loads to deliver and there's only three guys because one guy is out right now with COVID. He doesn't have it. He's just scared to work and uh the so we're trying to cover the work of four guys with three guys and it's not going too well right but

eventually i'll figure it out yeah yeah we've got the same sort of problem over at my work um so i do night filling in the supermarket and there's a couple of people who either they got covered or like their partner got it so they can't work and we just have we're kind of just bleeding people right now we it's stuff's getting done but it's always a problem when when you're down staff and you can't bring people in when you need the hours it's just like there's only so much that can get done i have during the big shutdown and everything was shut down so long that the d.o.t opened up the restrictions on on the hours of service and our governor here in the state opened up all of the roads. So there was no restricted truck routes except for, you know, height.

Sure. Yeah. But, you know, you were able to drive anywhere, any road you need. Just get, get the job done. And the hours of service was lifted. No matter what you had to go, Got to go. Work anytime you want. All that stuff. And it was awesome.

There was like nobody on the road. Truck speed limit here in Michigan is 65 on the high interstates. And there was many times that I was running with three or four other trucks and we were pushing 70, 75. And pushing cars out of the way because we had to go and we had one car that was probably three or four o'clock in the morning i was coming back from detroit and there was a truck in front of me and a truck behind me we were in the left lane trying to pass this car and the car sped up and got in the left lane and brake checked us because we should be driving that fast. Just as we were coming by a rest area and there was a cop sitting in the rest area, he come out and pulled over that car and let us truck.

It was like, yes. It was awesome. I know that in a few places in australia we have um open speed limits so in my state the max speed limit is 110 which is 70 miles an hour but there's like i think in victoria maybe northern territory they actually have like open speed limits so you could do like 120 130 if you wanted to those are nice i think nebraska used to have a safe and reasonable speed is what they called it and i think they actually did end up putting a speed limit on the trucks because trucks are a bit different yeah let's just face it you know physics is

physics you can't get around it sure yeah you know that 13 and a half feet tall by 75 feet long and you're 12 foot wide doesn't isn't exactly a ferrari well yeah if you tried to do some of those speed limits on some of the dirt roads out here you're gonna flip your truck yeah i've heard i've heard stories about that out back in the and the dirt roads yeah you either have a really soft sand or it gets wet and then you get stuck in like a two meter hole yep we've got uh a lot you know we got a lot of sand here in michigan there's i used to deliver to a store in uh ion, no, not Ionia, Standard, Stanton. And it was, it's a tight place to get into anyways, but it doesn't look tight because it's a big lot and there's grass, but it's grass growing out of sand.

And if you didn't know where to drive, were you would sink you know like that and there was there was a uh they had a wrecker company you know a couple miles away that was on call because you know somebody would always come up and if you when you pulled out of the dock you had to automatically start turning right but you didn't want to because they had a wall that comes up you were always afraid you're going to hit that wall with your trailer so you you know just kind of eased out and if you if it was a new guy that's never been there before he'd swing way out before he started and that was where he would just sit and the record be there like 10 minutes, hook up and winch you out.

Jesus. It was fun. Oh, it sounds like it. Oh yeah. Lots of places like that up here in Michigan that you, especially in the dark, if you don't know where you're at and what road you're on,

there's an old saying here in Michigan in the wintertime, especially if you're running down the highway and you're the only one there and you can't really see the road. If it's news out, get back to the left. Cause you're in the ditch. So you want to be on the bumpy parts that's the highway yeah that makes sense i had a friend of mine his name was chance it was cb handle was chance and he used to run out

to toronto a lot and he they sent him way up north to quebec in the middle of winter he'd never been up there and he was telling me that he was driving he said it felt like for you know 10 15 miles he's like i'm on this highway you can it's moonlight you know You can see where the edges of the trees are at. It's a curvy kind of highway. But he didn't see another car, another truck, nothing for 15, 20 miles. That's when he realized he was driving on a frozen river. He said he stopped that he you know just pulled off to what he thought was the side you know on the shoulder he said he got out and he's standing there looking around he

started slipping a little bit and he's and he heard a big cracking noise he's like i'm on ice he said he got back in the truck just kind of put it in granny gear kind of ease closer to the shore because it'd be shallower there if it did break through but he he ended up getting the the canadian what are they called mounties or whatever come out and they got him out but it was funny you know that was he that was the last time that he ever went to went to quebec yeah i'd be a little scared after that as well you're not i mean he's lucky that's what he is yes he is that's why his nickname was chance oh lord he was cool dude so we've been going for two hours now i'm having to go keep going if you

want to i know it's getting pretty late for you i'm good it's like only like 9 20 here but okay i thought it was later i can talk oh no sorry i was going off the utc time yeah that makes sense yeah that's utc i'm not utc yeah no you're in um yeah e something or other i don't remember it's 9 p.m anyway yeah eastern something or other that isn't standard time is that what it is uh it's actually daylight. Yeah, it's standard right now, but it'll be daylight savings time in October. I hear you. Cool.

I'm one of the unlucky ones that have to change. Sorry, what was that? Oh, I said I'm one of the unlucky ones that have to change my clocks twice a year. Yeah, pretty much everywhere in Australia acknowledges daylight savings time, so we just accept it as a normal thing. That's annoying, ain't it?

Yeah. I don't even realize when it changes until my clocks just change themselves, and then I realize the microwave's out. That's the way it works. Pretty much. But Australia just has pretty messed up time zones anyway. We have half hour time zones.

That's weird. So my... In South Australia, where I am, it is UTC plus 930. Yeah. I don't know why. I'll see if I'm fine. That's weird. You guys are in winter right now,

aren't you? Yes. Yes, we are. Here we go. Copy image address. Yeah, it's winter,

but it's like, it's, it's not, it's okay, Australian winter is not really winter. The coldest it gets here is like one degree, maybe, which is, what, 35? Yeah. Something like that. Zero. Yeah.

That is weird. In some places in Australiaralia it does snow we'd like some of the mountaintops does snow a bit and there are like ski resorts but most places it doesn't really so you got most of the mostly dry type where you're at yeah here the uh at least in the place i'm at we get a lot of mist so early in morning, you will wake up and it's like, oh, I can see two meters in front of me. That's great. It was so bad a few weeks back where they had to ground all planes

until midday or something. Wow. That's some thick stuff. That's one thing I hate driving in. Most truck drivers will drive through snow will drive through ice will drive through rain but fog yeah is if you can't see past the nose of your truck it's your it's no that's that will send chills down your spine fog at night is one thing but when it's fog during the day there's so many people who just don't put their lights on you can actually

see better at fog during the day than you can at night but what cracks me up is people that turn on their bright lights they can they can see better you not, because all you're doing is seeing the fog better. I found out my car actually has fog lights the other day, which are pretty useful. I should have noticed those a while back, but... Well, technically, what color are they? Yellow or white? I think they're white.

Okay, if they're white, they're technically driving if they're white they're technically driving lights okay they're on a fog light button so they're they're there is a difference okay fog lights fog lights are yellow because yellow cuts through the fog so you can see and they're supposed to be aimed up a little bit you know like headlights driving lights are white and they're supposed to be angled down and towards the edges of the road those are so you can see the edges of the lane or the road right that's that's the difference but car manufacturers and everybody just calls everything fog lights as long as it's not a headlight okay that makes sense It's not a headlight.

Okay. That makes sense. I can't replace them with yellow globes. Like, that wouldn't be difficult. No. It's not hard to make a difference. But it's just being a truck driver, that's kind of, you know, we got a lot of pet peeves. And that's why it's like, you know people people tend to bump you know different kinds of

people together you know not like a racist thing but you know these people are this way this people are this way and truck drivers don't do that we see these this car group this is a Prius. They drive like this. This is a Yugo. They drive like this. This is a Tesla. They drive like that. That's what we see. It's like Dr. Crypto wrote a post on Hive the other day, tagged me in it, saying that he was coming out as a Prius driver, even though I'd be upset about it.

We don't see individuals. We see the cars and the way that people typically drive those cars. Because somebody that drives a Cadillac drives totally different than somebody that drives a Mustang. And typically, Prius drivers, they typically seem to be the ones that want to remind everybody that you're not supposed to be driving that fast or they're they want you know you know they they've got the attitude i've got a prius i'm an eco-friendly person. And it's like, that's nice. You bought that car for a reason. Now get out of my way.

That's just the way, you know, we look at it. We don't see people. We see vehicles. Right. Okay. So I don't know why I just blurted that out. I'm getting messages. It's Sunday.

Don't mess me to work. Go away. Who's that that even messaged me? Who in the world is Dan? I don't know. I'm transferring to a new store. So I was working at this one, and it's a bit further away, and they stopped giving me hours.

So I'm like, you know what? I'm just going to go to a different store. And now I don't know any of the managers at this new place. Wow. That sucks. Yeah, but it's fine. At least you can win hours here. Was it your wish for the transfer, or was it them? They kind of forced it upon me by not giving me hours,

but also my direct manager, he let me work at a different store, and that's when they screwed up. When this other store found out I was good at my job, then they just kept pestering me about transferring. Yeah, that's a good sign. That means you've done a good job. Well, it's filling shelves. It's a pretty hard job to be bad at.

I consider the default state to be good. Believe me, I know some people that could fuck that up. Oh, I definitely do as well. It doesn't matter what the job is it can be the easiest job could be the easiest thing for everybody or one person but there's always going to be at least one person that doesn't understand it or can't do it because we're all different individuals. It's like my son, he's 25.

I don't want him anywhere near a big truck. Sure. I mean, but he can get in to get on a bike and he could do stuff on a bike that I could never do. Everybody's totally different. to get on a bike and he could do stuff on a bike that I could never do. You know,

as everybody is totally different, everybody's got different, different skillset. And what we see as being simple or non-trivial can be very complicated to the next individual. Sure. Okay. People can fuck it up. Yeah definitely can i know some people who are i will be putting stuff on the shelves three boxes to their one i'm just like

these when it when you're going that slowly it's it's more like it's less like you're not able to do it and more like you just need to work harder. Because if you're that slow, you'll see them just moving really slowly. It's like... They're clock milkers. Sorry? Clock milkers. Yeah, pretty much. This is what happens when you pay people by the hour rather than how much work they do.

Yep. That's true. Anyways, what else did you want to talk about? Let's see. What else do we have on the list? So... You said you had other stuff. I'm taking your word for it.

So, Parler was one of the things. I know you don't really like... You had some interesting things to say about Parler a few weeks back. A month ago. Yeah, a month ago, I remember it was. I'm still using the platform. I use it occasionally, but I'm just keeping an eye on it to see what it does.

Right. I don't really know what's going on with this platform. It feels like it's just basically another media platform. It's like, oh, we have Gab, we have Twitter, we have Mastodon, we have Parler now. Yep. My thing with Parler is they advertise it as the free speech platform. Say whatever you want. But then when you look in their terms of service, they specifically state that they can delete your account for any reason they want to

or no reason at all is exactly the words they used that's not a free speech platform no definitely not that's false advertisement and then when you look at keep dig into more of the terms of service they say that you have to defend them you have to pay for an attorney and you can't do a class action lawsuit against them for anything and that's not a free speech platform i'm sorry well speaking of the other class action thing um patreon kind of set themselves up in a really terrible position by doing that where it's like oh you can't you can't do a class action okay well have fun dealing with all of

these lawsuits individually and that's kind of coming back to bite them right now so i i understand i can i understand a company wanting to protect itself because their main goal for being in business is to make a profit. Sure. I don't have a problem with companies making a profit. when you bind your users to say that you can't sue us for doing something that you don't like,

that's bullshit. And I don't care what anybody says, if you can find an attorney that where the payout is going to be worth his money, he will sue them on your behalf, no matter what their terms set. And there are courts in this country that will do it. Well, you guys have an interesting setup because you're like the U.S. is very big on states' rights.

So there's always some random state where there's some weird loophole that you can exploit. Whereas Australia, we've kind of got far more unified laws for the entire country. Yep. Well, there's supposed to be all for state rights, but there's certain jurisdictions like all the software patents, any kind of a suit over that always go through one district in Texas because they always go for, tend to

vote for the ones that brings it there. I mean, they could have a software company in Silicon Valley will sue something and then they take it to a court in Texas. It shouldn't be that way. It should stay in Silicon Valley. Right. It should stay in Silicon Valley. Right. It should stay in California. You shouldn't be allowed to run to whatever jurisdiction is going to be in your favor.

That's not right. I guess. Go ahead. I was going to say, I guess that there are some benefits that do come from that. Cause then you, if there is a state that at least for a, on an individual level, if there's a state that you don't like whatever it's doing for you then you can go somewhere else and have a completely different set of our i guess laws around you like

you have are there some states that basically don't have income tax or don't have income tax at all yep yeah that's not a thing in australia everywhere in australia has unified tax laws so from an individual's level there are some benefits that come from that but it can definitely be exploited if you have the money to exploit it right well see it's in texas and florida they don't have the income tax, the state income tax, but they still have to do the federal income tax. Right. Okay. So nowhere in the country you're going to get out of taxes.

There's no way. Well, if you just take your money overseas. If you don't put it on the table. Yep. But like here in Michigan, during the shutdown we you know she locked us down for everything for a long long time just to the south of us is indiana and you know people were going to indiana to get a fucking haircut they couldn't get a haircut in michigan so they just drove 30 miles across the state line and got a haircut we've been pretty harsh about people crossing state lines here because right now victoria is

under basically complete lockdown just because they've had a couple of all the cases have spiked up and it's just like nope no one comes in and no one comes out of that state and we don't really have that many ways to get in between the states. It's usually just like a major highway and that's it. Obviously, there's all of the nothingness that you could walk across. But as for roads, we pretty much only have one or two ways to get out and in of every single state. Right. Well, I can understand, you know, for its health risk and health problems.

I can understand that. But if they were to, like, if a state was to lock down a border and not allow anybody to go across, you know, outside of the COVID situation, they would not be able to enforce it because we've got so many back roads in this country that actually there's towns where half the town is in one state and the other half is in the other. So there's like no literal way they could ever enforce border

between the states. They could somewhat do it around the country you know with canada and mexico but inside the states they'll never be able to enforce that you know yeah yeah well you guys also have a much more of a focus on i guess guess, people's freedom. Whereas in Australia, it's not like we'll listen to everything the government say, but if there's just a thing where it's like, don't go to Victoria or whatever like that, generally most people are going to just be like,

okay, whatever, I'm just not going to go to Victoria. Whereas, as you were saying, people going to different states to get a haircut. As you said, people going to different states to get a haircut. Yeah, it's here we've got, we've got, how can I say this? It's not that there's a lot of people that will do what the governor says or the president or whoever and listens to the government. Everybody's wearing masks. That's not the problem.

What the problem is, is we've always typically, for the last 200 some years, we could go anywhere we want, whenever we want. And nothing could say, you know, anybody could say anything about it. And if you're going to lock down a state and not allow, you know, free travel between the places, you're going to kill the economy, your own local economy, because everything, not every local state gets all their food and all their merchandise from within the state there's a lot of interstate commerce that happens in all 50 states and everybody depends on everybody so if you're going to do that you're going to have to lock down the truck traffic and the train traffic and the air traffic and there's just no way to physically do that so yeah it's a mess of a

situation that's pretty much what it is yeah but it's it's going to eventually stop it'll you know it's not like it's going to be this way forever yeah it'll get back to normal here another month two months three years two years whatever well one thing that has slightly bothered me is people who will take they'll say like look at japan look at south korea look at how well they've done they're very very different cultures and they have very different structures of their country like japan has basically eliminated covid at this point but they already had a culture of wearing masks and they have a culture of you know listening to what the authority will tell them right and also they just have way less people yeah but that's one thing that's always been

bothering me from the get-go about the whole thing is that we were told there was going to be like two million dead by now just in the united states and we've got a population of over 700 million people just in the united states and we're just barely at 160 000 that i'm not saying it's a deadly divide virus or anything like that, but some numbers ain't jiving here. Well, the, cause you know, it was believed early on. It was going to be way,

way more deadly than it was. And it. Right. I understand that. But, but the way the media reports it, you know, most,

a lot of the people in the United States believe that we've lost 30 to 40 percent of our population already and we're far from that was 100 million people but it's it's just i think they've blown it all out of proportion because they report on so many cases each day but they don't they're not saying that those are people that even have symptoms or even knew that they were infected yeah we've got the same sort of problem here where it's just when it was really bad here it basically was just wall-to-wall news coverage like oh there's a new case in this town there's a new case in this town new case in this town and nothing else is being said like other things are still happening in the world right well see see our governor she was she was she locked down

everything she started off really good with the with when when it's when it's first hit she was doing a good job and then she started doing stupid things. Like saying you could do this. But you can't do that. Yeah. Like we were confined to your homes. Stay in your homes. Okay this is a respiratory illness.

Let's put everybody into a room. That won't make anybody else in the room sick. Okay. And then she did like New York did in a couple other states where they forced the senior citizens together that had COVID and were positive for COVID, still made them go into the nursing homes with the unsick people. Well, there are other weird ones. the unsick people well there are other weird ones i know there were places that were opening up bars but they weren't opening up comedy clubs even though they had the the same number of people that would be that would be in there like that doesn't make any sense still to this point here in michigan you can go to a bar and all that but you can't go to a bar and all that, but you can't go to a gym.

Why can't you go to a gym where there's 15 people in a 5,000 square foot room and you're like 20 feet apart? But you can go to a grocery store with a six foot wide aisle and walk side by side with people that you don't know. aisle and walk side by side with people that you don't know did but you can't go to and work out on a rowing machine that's 12 feet away from somebody else did the the farmers markets ever shut down for you guys i don't know we've got a local farmers market here in town they shut down for a while i think they were open a couple weeks ago okay because we never shut down our farmers markets and ours got real like they were basically more packed than a grocery store because generally they're this like stalls are pretty close together everyone's kind of like bundled up together so there's not yeah it's it's not a good system i'm happy a lot of the supermarkets now are bringing back the like home

delivery that's a good idea but it should have been there from the start yeah what cracks me up is like i'll you know i'll drive and i'll be at a truck stop or something and and i'll see guys kids you know young kids to my age or older, they'll come in, they've got the mask on, you know, all bundled up, you know, looking like they're wearing a hazmat suit. They go in, go to the bathroom, stand there at the urinal, get done, flush the toilet, walk out and don't even wash their hands. But they got their mask on. The mask is very important.

So they're being sick. And it's like dude seriously my favorite are the people who wear the mask but only over their mouth they have their nose visible yeah i'm being safe or even better the people who put the mask on just hanging around their ear yeah they just have it there so they don't get a fine. Here in the States, you know, used to be, you see, everybody's got like the fuzzy dice or something hanging off the rear view mirror of the car. Now it's a mask.

Everybody's mask. And, you know, you'll see, I see this a lot. The, oh, what do you call it where one parent's got the kid for a week and then the next week the parent's got the other kid. I know what you're talking about.

Yeah. I'll see them at McDonald's or whatever. I'll be driving through the parking lot cutting through and they'll be dropping off one kid going to the other parents. They'll get out of the car., cutting through, and they'll be dropping off one kid, going to the other parents. They'll get out of the car. The parents won't get out of the car.

The kid will get out of the car with the mask on, run over to the other car. Mom or dad, whoever hugs them, they take the mask off, get in the car. Aren't you like supposed to quarantine for 14 days? If you're swapping kids from household to household each week

Is that not like a carrier? I don't know what They were recommending that when you go get groceries To leave your groceries in the car for three days So that the virus on the bags doesn't get transferred. And then when you come in, you're supposed to wash the bags and all this. That's fine and dandy, but what about clothes? Just like all your clothes and alcohol.

I mean, people come in. I mean, at the height of the the thing there was a time when i'd get home because i've been gone all week there set it closed there and a towel go take a shower join us when you're done and i wouldn't see them until i got out of the shower once everything was cool you know everything's settled down and nobody's getting sick but there's you know there's there's like our my friend that's supposed to be working but he's off because he's scared technically i can see because his wife is really bad with her autoimmune system.

Okay. In that case, I can see why you want to do it. And his dad is on oxygen and lives with them. So he's got to pay attention to that because it's, they're both high risk. So that's why he's not working, but he he'll call us and talk on the phone when he gets away from the family for a while.

He'll call us to get back to normal. And he tells us that he'll go out to the store or something. He comes home and he's got to put the booties over his shoes. And then, you know, change his clothes, put the booties over his shoes. Then he can go in, take a shower. And, you know, his wife makes him do all this shit before he can even come walking into the actual house. Which is cool. I understand.

You know, she's high risk. So he's got to deal with that. But. I don't know it's I understand being careful for the high risk people of course yeah I've got a few people who are a bit elderly in my family here I wouldn't want to be

seeing right now right my dad's 95 you know I haven't seen him for several months but he also you know 400 haven't seen him for several months but he also you know 400 miles away from me but he's 95 he hasn't been out he used to go out walking

at Walmart a mile every day before this and he hasn't been able to do that since so he's griping the mostly about that because he wants to get out and walk you know at 95 that's the highlight of your life is walk. But the.

The. You know, the high risk people I can understand, everybody anyways, to force everybody to wear masks, that's not right. If you're high risk, you should be wearing the mask. If you're not high risk and you're not worried about it, that should be an individual choice. The problem that I've been seeing, I can accept the mask. I don't really care about that. The problem I have are the places that we're locking down,

like walking tracks and parks and places where you can actually get outside, places where you would be separated from people, and you can just get some sunlight. Yeah. Well, the scientists are saying that sunlight kills yeah i have been hearing that very weak virus you can kill it with just simple soap and but yet they closed our governor closed down lakes resorts campgrounds i can understand you know the campgrounds. I can understand, you know, the campgrounds, you know, you typically got a playground there somewhere and kids like to lick things like playground equipment, you know, kids are not exactly smart. Hey, look, I can lick this rock.

And, and the, but like she'll, she, you could go out. She's, she went so far as to say, you can go out on a boat as long as it's not motorized. What the hell's the difference? Okay. I, I don't have an answer for that one.

And she, there was at one point where she was about to open up everything up North. I don't have an answer for that one. There was at one point where she was about to open up everything up north. Because in Michigan, we call it going up north. Because it's all wooded area up there. There's a lot of state land. People go camping, boating.

A lot of outdoor activity up north. And that's like a weekend thing, tradition tradition in Michigan. It was the beginning of summer, and she was about to start opening stuff up. And one dude at a press conference asked her something about getting sick, and the only way he thought that he got it was off of a gas pump. Because he put gas in the car without the rubber gloves and was rubbing his face. And he thinks that's the only way he could get it.

One dude, one case like that report, and she shut it down for another month. Yeah, the lockdowns for you guys have been crazy. Like, we've had a couple of cases spike up here. Usually what happens when, like, when there's a case at, like, a school, they'll shut down the school for, like, two weeks. That's what they do. They don't shut down the entire state.

Or, like, there was a case, I think there was a case at a gym, a school, and some other public area. And what they did, they just shut those places down for two weeks and that's all they did and then tell the people who were at that place quarantine yourself and that's what they did they didn't you know lock everything down we're taking a more i guess directed approach now rather than just saying okay well nobody can be outside. That makes sense. Like here, our schools have been closed since the thing started. And now each individual school's district is making up what they're going to do planning for the next year.

Most of them are like the one in Lansing, the capital. The entire school system is online online that's it nothing no extracurricular activities no football no nothing here in our town st john's there you can either do online or you can attend you know in, in class, in person. And my daughter's like, I want to go, I want to go. I want to see my friends. I want, I need the interaction, you know, but she's also scared to death of the rules and the restrictions and how it's going to be. And I tried, you know, her mom tried to explain it to her that it's going to be basically the same thing as last year, except you're going to be wearing a mask. How would you even police that with kids?

Like, because kids like to go up and touch each other a lot. Like, how would you, you wouldn't really be able to stop that. No, no, it's, that's what i mean they're trying to it's almost like they're trying to police personal behavior and you can't you can't police personal behavior what you can do is try to educate people and get them to do and and ensure ensue personal responsibility to get them to make a choice to do it themselves. But that's where our society here has gone way wrong because in our school systems over the years, we've taught

them that you're not responsible for anything. You fucked it up. That was so-and-so's fault. That wasn't yours. It's not the fact that you didn't do the work and actually turn in your homework. That was Billy Joe Jim Bob that asked you to go play this game instead of actually doing your homework. That's

where we've gone wrong. And now we've got a society where it's nobody's fault. Nobody's responsible. And we're supposed to give them for free. Yeah. And you think,

God, you're an asshole. no i mean i completely agree with you i it's not as bad here but there's definitely a lot of people i know who are they don't take responsibility for the problems that they cause themselves they'll always try to find some reason why it's not their problem why right someone else should deal with it or why just like, it's, it's a big problem with, um, well with university,

for one thing, there's a lot of people who make, who like to complain about how, so our university system here is actually pretty great. Our loan system is really generous. And a lot of people who like to complain that, oh, the university system is too expensive or this and that, like people who make comparisons to the US system

where you guys actually do have a pretty fucked university loan system. Here, you don't have to pay a cent back until you make over $45,000 a year. So you could never get a good job and then just never pay it back. But these people who know what they were getting into and then know the risks that had kind of come along with it then complained to someone else that they decided to do... Like, they decided to go to university.

There are other paths they could have taken. They didn't have to go. they could have gotten a trade and like there's a lot in my like because i i grew up in a fairly poor area there's a lot of people who actually do have a lot of respect people who go and work a trade but then when i went to university i got a lot of the people from uh like the more poshy areas who have a bit more money who kind of look down on that sort of work and who think that's not really going to get you anywhere

in life and things like that and think the only way to get anywhere is through university and then because they went to university they're going to complain about the system that they decided to join themselves I never went to college university I did they're going to complain about the system that they decided to join themselves. Yeah.

I never went to college university. I did a month of electrical engineering and I was like, this ain't for me. And then I went and drove truck and I've had a pretty successful career for 30 years and I don't even have a high school diploma. So, you know, it is what you want to do. If it becomes a passion, it will never be a job. If it will never be a trade, it will never be a profession. If it's something you like to do, it will be your life. That's plain and simple.

But these people that go and they get $50,000 a year to a university for eight years to study to become a doctor, and then they come out and they expect to be making $70,000, $80,000 a year working at McDonald's. And you're like, you wasted your money, dude. Because universities, they just- They have have a purpose but there's too many people who go to them as the default choice right it is it's yes you can go that way if that's your passion and that's what you want to do but if you're okay with working a trade job if you're okay with working a trade job, if you're okay with being a welder or a truck driver or a mechanic, if that's what you want to do, that's okay. I mean, you're not, you know, you got to accept what you'll get paid, what you'll get paid in that profession and in that trade.

Because, you know, a software engineer will make a hundred thousand dollars and a mechanic will make 70 or 80 you're not going to make the hundred thousand as a mechanic but you're also not doing the same damn thing but the question is are you happy doing what you're doing that's a big one a lot of people don't really consider like yeah you can make lots of money as a software engineer as a doctor as a lawyer but if you hate your job are you going to really stick it out for your entire life exactly like like if i had stuck with the electrical engineering would i be happy doing it now no because i hate wires and that was what i was doing was learning about circuit boards and things like that i hate i hate absolutely hate soldering there's nothing more i mean i can i can do electrical wiring here in the house i can do electric wiring on the car and the truck.

Not a problem. But I, you know, I take, I look at a motherboard and it's like, uh-uh, no, I'll drive the truck. If you did stick with it, hey, you would eventually have to learn how to program as well. So. Exactly. Exactly. you would eventually have to learn how to program as well. So exactly, exactly. And I, you know, I, I,

I don't know if it's just the way my brain works, but I cannot look at code and understand anything. I can look at commands for, you know, a terminal and I can understand, you know, the pipe command and, and grep. I can understand that stuff. But as far as actual code you know if this then that stuff it's like new i can't do that yeah that blows my mind with enough time you could probably get yourself to a a reasonable state but if you're not enjoying it then you're not going to want to put the effort into it anyway yep that's why this that's why i like the you know like getting into why you know host and all that i can understand how this you know maria dv works

on this and this i can understand that but actually writing a bicycle database or php or anything like that i Uh, I can understand. I need this for that to work. Yeah, I can, I can do that. Even in, even inside of tech,

there's parts that I have no interest in whatsoever. Like I enjoy programming that I, I find to be fun, but if you stick me in front of some networking equipment, I'm just gonna be like, can I leave? I don't know how to set up a router right well i like i like figuring things out you know like if i've got

like you've heard of internet dj console i'm gonna google it it's like it's like a really cool Linux only Radio station DJ type stuff Oh that sounds pretty neat And you can I like to figure out Things with Jack and

Audio stuff Because I like to play with audio I like to record I like to make music I like to make music. I should eventually look into Jack. It's you can and it still works

but from what I understand they're trying to work it into pipes to pulse audio so eventually Jack's going to go by the wayside I guess. Okay. So it's going to be mixed in with pulse audio falk tx is the guy that's doing it he's the kx studio guy and he's like a genius when it comes to audio stuff so he probably does other stuff too but i I just know him from KX Studio.

KX Studio's got everything under the sun for Debian and Ubuntu. But Internet DJ Console, I still love it. I miss it because it doesn't run on Ubuntu 20.04, and that's what I'm running now. And I want to try to get it running on my Arco Linux, but it's just because I like it because I can, I was using it to record my podcast, even though I wasn't streaming anywhere. And you could use it to record in FLAC, MP3,

anything that FFmpeg does, it'll record those files. And it just records it as you're doing it. You don't have to worry about anything. It's got a section where you can do your set up your bumpers, your idents, and just set up playlists. It's just for me, it's the ultimate

DJ stuff. And I don't have a server to stream to. Because MSP Waves just uses OBS. And it's really cool the way they've got it set up because you can stream to a server and then it automatically switches over to the next host. So it just keeps going and going and going. And the live shows just roll just like that. There's no dropping

of listeners or anything when you switch or anything. That's actually pretty cool. It is very cool. It's nice and smooth. I don't know how he's using it. I know he's using for the biggest part of the days that there's no host. They just do random

music from indie musics and that's running on crap i forgot the name anyways it's it's a it's free software it's based on uh well similar to uh uh libra time have you ever heard of libra time where it's based on, well, similar to LibreTime. Have you ever heard of LibreTime? No. It's all internet radio station stuff.

Okay, yeah. This is not a scene that I've really looked much into. It's okay. Airtime was made by SourceFabric for a for a long time and lever time is just the open source version of it right but uh yeah it's just freaking awesome the way they got it put together they've got some big plans coming down the pike on on how to integrate it into the Hive blockchain somehow. I don't know where it's actually part of the blockchain or something. I honestly don't know how they're doing it, but it's just...

Let the tech wizards deal with it. Exactly. I don't care how it works. Just tell me what's cool. Any more subjects uh let's see what do i have left um there's actually a another platform that popped up um Storyfire. Did you ever hear about that one? No. What's this? It's a video platform that exists. I'll send you a link

to it. It's another centralized video platform. But they were pulling in a lot of the big YouTubers. So this was actually made by a guy called Mick Jugger Nuggets. Jugger Nuggets? Or at least that's the guy who's funding it.

And he was bringing in some real big creators. Like you've got Boogie, Keememstar a bunch of other donut operators here uh just a bunch of other fairly big names some ordinary gamers just fairly big names on youtube and they just all suddenly joined this platform but it doesn't seem like much is really happening here the problem that has we're bringing new people on is you can't actually go and create a channel on here without getting approval It doesn't seem like much is really happening here. The problem it has with bringing new people on is you can't actually go and create a channel on here without getting approval.

Really? Yeah, so right now it's sort of still in like a testing phase, but the fact they could bring in all these big people pretty quickly, I don't know, maybe it'll be something, even if it doesn't end up having even if the terms of service are just as bad as Parler it still might be something

There's still definitely a spot for these centralized apps to exist even though a lot of decentralized stuff is getting really good now I don't know this this is centralized yes or is it decent okay it's centralized yeah i'm just trying to figure out what the what the draw would be that i think the i i honestly don't know it's sort of just youtube but i i don't know what is supposed to be

the big draw here. Well apparently the blaze button doesn't work whatever that is. Well that's very useful isn't it? But I went and made an account on here for both my channels just in case on the off chance it takes off um just so i can have my name actually uh owned by me but i don't see it going anywhere because it sort of like with parlor where it got real big real quickly and then nothing really happened because everyone stopped talking about it oh blaze is blaze yeah, Blaze is... Yeah, there's a... It's not a crypto. It's sort of like how Twitch works, where they have the, like, Twitch points.

Okay. I'll keep an eye on it, but I don't really see it going anywhere. It doesn't really do anything that YouTube doesn't already do. And it's not decentralized or anything like that. It's just another video platform like Dailymotion. So

that's just a draw as another place to put your videos. I think the draw is supposed to be that they're not going to censor people like YouTube does, but you can't really trust a random centralized platform to not do that. Nope.

I don't trust anything that doesn't show you the source code. Yeah, that's a fair position to have. Like I know what I'm doing when I'm looking at the source code, but if they're open about it, I'm more accepting of it. Well, on that note, about it i'm more accepting of it well on that note you i i know you saw the thing that uh i retweeted over on twitter just before just before the show started you sell out yeah so um if anyone hasn't seen the tweet basically i did a video on the Vivaldi browser and it got retweeted by The Vivaldi team themselves and the video is called Vivaldi explains why they make proprietary garbage

Which is I love that I could get them to actually tweet that up that tweet that out themselves that's honestly amazing I could get them to actually tweet that out themselves. That's honestly amazing. Basically, they posted an article talking about why they don't make their software completely open source. And I wanted to see how badly I could title it. And I've managed to get their response from it, which is great. Because it's sort of a reference to an old DT video because DistroTube did a video talking about

how Vivaldi is proprietary garbage and why it's not actually open source so i thought why don't i just take that and mix that in and see what happens and then someone made this beautiful image of me in a vivaldi shirt and a vivaldi hat which is you made your profile yeah it's now my profile picture that's awesome I did used to use this browser it's a good browser but it's not completely open source

the backend is so most of the important stuff is but the UI code isn't so I guess if you're not a fan of that then yeah um but yeah apparently i'm a valdi shill and i'm gonna keep this profile picture until i get bored of it i i've honestly i've never i i used tried by bal Bali once or twice and it just didn't seem any different than Chrome to me so why there's if you go into the settings there's a lot of customization you can make and that's sort of the big draw of it so if you like messing around with how your browser looks and stuff like that that's sort of why you'd use it so what. So what are you running right now? What browser?

Right now it's Firefox on my Ubuntu Studio and Brave when I'm on Arco Linux. Okay, yeah. Yeah, I'm running Brave as my main browser right now. As much as I don't like running a Chromium browser, I do like my internet money.

I use Brave on the phone just because it's the fastest thing that I've gotten so far. Yeah. I did find this one called Kiwi Browser. That rings a bell. And so far, as far as I've been able to find, it's the only mobile browser

that actually uses extensions. Alright then. Yeah, I can't think of another one that has them. It supports most Chrome desktop extensions. Huh. I don't know why this isn't normally a thing. That's actually really useful. Oh, you can't even see it.

But I've got the Hive Keychain extension on it. I hardly use it just because Brave is faster. Yeah. But that is just cool to have extensions on a mobile browser. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. I've never seen another browser that does this. There probably is one

But I can't think of one Firefox, Chrome or Brave Not one of them uses extensions And I don't know why I'm sure there's a reason for it Maybe the speed problem Is sort of why they don't do it It could be

But it Seems pretty fast sort of why they don't do it. It could be. But it seems pretty fast. I mean... It would probably help if I had my Wi-Fi turned on. That might. So, when you actually get your payouts of bat from brave do you actually just let it sit there or just not really okay yeah i would honestly i like my hive stuff i understand the hive power

and i try to put everything i can into high power but but outside of that and the bat and the LBC, my LBC is still sitting in my library. I don't know what to do with it. Honestly, I don't know what to do with the crypto when I do get it. My wallets are just sitting in my wallets. and my wallets are just sitting in my wallets. I know with Library, I should probably go through and actually spend some on promotion and stuff, but it's like the hive stuff.

It's there. Yeah, yeah. Just accumulate. I've got no real need for it. I'm not in it for the crypto. I'm in it because I want to have fun. Yeah. And eventually I will learn stuff and learn what to do with it.

But like I said, I'm not looking to make a payout with it. Right, yeah. I think it's cool. what to do with it but like i said i'm not looking to make a payout with it so right yeah i think it's cool i'm i'm enjoying this because i like i kind of want to be financially independent at some point so i'm building up investments and stuff like that so one day hopefully i can just be completely you know independent of anyone else which would be be awesome. That's a good long-term thought of it. But, you know, like I said,

I'm not looking to build a fan base. I'm not looking to build an income with it or, you know, anything. I've always done it just because it's fun to do. Well, yeah, you wouldn't be doing it for this long if you didn't find it fun, that's for sure. Yeah, it's just like driving's like driving truck to me it's like

it's fun and that's why i keep doing it so there's times that i really don't understand why i'm doing it but it's like dude that's cool because every day I find something new that whether it's on Hive or just crypto in general, that just totally blows my mind. The whole concept of the Dapps or Dapps, however you want to call them, is what really blows my mind. If I could get a computer and all it was on it was DAPS, I would be happy because then I would never have to go to a website for this or that. I just open the app and there it is. I know about Beaker Browser and IPFS and all that. IPFS is cool, but it's slower than it's not. I don't know if that's

what DTube's problem is, but I know BitTube has IPFS on the back end, so that might not be it. But BitTube's also tiny, so I know DTube, your videos are only technically visible for like seven days or something like that and then they get put on the ipfs where where it's

it's if you're looking for older videos it's a pain in the ass to watch yeah for sure and if if you're uploading through ipfs dude it could take two or three hours to upload a video and it's like no that's not right dude but like on hive there's a and a d app called d sound used to be on steam but it's on hive now dude i can upload an mp3 you know one of my songs i can upload that through ipfs and it just boom you know it's posted and then i can go back on some other computer and it's still there and it still plays but it's still using ipfs so i don't know if they're using some kind of magic juice or whatever but it might just be the other ones might just be using ipfs

in a terrible way i don't know i wouldn't know how they're actually running it on the back end yeah i have no idea either so i just know it works yeah well i might take a proper look into hive um i haven't really done much of a look i just saw that it has the same sort of key problem that steam has so i was like but the major difference between steam and hive that i can understand because i was never on steam because i've only been on Hive because I joined right seven days after the hard fork. Yeah. And there were only like four dApps.

And that was Hive.blog, 3Speak, PeakD, and like Pen, Pen, have you been here, Penpple or whatever and it was it's cool and then it's just exploded in the last three or four months and but from what i understand the

difference is steam there is a group of individuals led by Justin Sun that tried to take over everything and make it centralized. And like 99% of the developers, I guess, that's probably an exaggeration, but they already had Hive set up because they were going to port anyways. And they just ended up forking.

And the way Hive is, is that there's no CEO. There's no one central authority. Everybody votes for 30 people that you think should make decisions, the major decisions, which makes sense to me. make decisions, the major decisions, which makes sense to me. As big as of a network that it's going to end up being, that is set up like a governmental type representative system. But what the cool part about Hive is to me is that there's all these different apps that you can sign into with one keyword or one key, one password, whatever you want to call it. And you can post, I can post a video on 3Speak and my buddies that are over on PeakD all the time is going to see that video.

It's going to pop up in their feed because they're following me. They're not following an identity on each website. They're following an identity across a network. And to me, that's what the coolest thing is about IVE. And I don't know if it was just a rumor on Twitter. I heard something about EOS or EOS or whatever. I believe it is. And Ethereum or whatever they're, they're looking at partnering with hive and making stuff work back and forth.

I don't know if that's true or not. It's a Twitter thing. Yep. I have no idea. But if that is true or not. It's a Twitter thing. I have no idea. But if that is true, then if we can get all these different blockchains to work together,

do handshakes, whatever you call it, and make all these dApps work no matter what crypto you're on, dude, that's just mind mind-blowing this is one of the biggest problems with all of these different crypto projects that none of them are compatible with each other it's like oh we have this d app ecosystem we have this d app ecosystem we're all going to solve this problem by ourselves when the real solution would be some interconnected network you know like this thing that we have called the

internet i've probably never heard of it before i got in to hive and you made a decision to jump on hive i was looking at all these things and i was you know ethereum i'm like dude this is gonna cost way more money than i could afford to do anything it's gonna cost too much time you know and then i got to i saw i ran across block stack and i'm like dude this got a lot of stuff i joined block stack i'm looking at stuff and i'm going through all their daps and i and I'm like, dude, this is sweet. They've got this. They've got this.

They've got this. They even got a freaking email on Blockstack. You know, crypto blockchain email. That's fucking cool. And then I'm looking at it for like a good month, and I'm like, there's like no activity. It's just the developers test post, comment test post test comment test this test that and i'm like really you guys got a podcast you got a ceo you got a couple of you two or three

youtube channels and you're all talking this up but nobody's using it and i'm like it's not for me, and then that's when I made the decision because Hive was looking good. I actually went through, and I read the stuff on Hive.io about the statements and all that and the open source and their policies, and I'm like, dude, this is is for me and that's where i'm at and so far i honestly when i thought that i was going to get into was that i was going to get

into a bunch of internet marketers that's going to want to try to sell me stuff want me to buy bitcoin or or i was going to get into a bunch of bots you know that's just going to be tweeting stuff you see them on mastodon all the time of course yeah the bots that you know the tweet that to the somebody's twitter account mirrors it on that i thought i was going to get a lot of that and what i found is a lot of people that are actual real people that I'm talking to and they're actually the everybody I've run across with maybe the exception of one or two have seemed to be genuinely interested in helping me to learn about Hive, how to use Hive, and how to write better posts, be a better person on the social network.

And you don't even get that on Twitter. You don't get that on Facebook. You'll find people on Twitter that'll say, your opinion's wrong. You know, you'll find people on Twitter that'll say, your opinion is wrong. And there was, I'm not going to get into, I'm not going to name names, but there's a rather large crypto influencer from Twitter that's on Hive too. That I made a post about ugly footers on a post. It's just geared towards content creators because you see people on YouTube, library, everywhere.

They've got three lines of description and then 30 lines of this crypto link, this crypto wallet, this donate here, donate there. That's my description. Well, I've got no problem, but there's a better way to work. I completely agree with you. It needs some work. That's what my point was that, you know, there's coin tree, there's link tree.

You just point to that and make it shorter and you can actually put some content in there. And people, they're interested in donate. They could go to your link tree or coin tree, whatever, and donate to you there. But this chick, crypto influencer, thought I was singling her out. And I wasn't. And it was just in general. thought I was singling her out. And I wasn't. And it was just in general. And she was doing a live stream about how bad Hive was.

And as soon as I tuned into the live stream on Twitter, first thing I see is my face in that post on screen. And she's saying my opinion was wrong and i was just like and i'd only been actually seriously posting on hive for like three days at that point she didn't know who i was or anything but she said my opinion was wrong and she since left hive because i guess there was no there was some rather large whales that kept downloading her that's yeah that's my other problem i have with our hive the fact that you can uh if the whales don't like you they can suppress you into oblivion that i do consider that to be a pretty big issue that is a very hot topic in all of the discord servers and how to stop it

so it'll come up in a hard port sometime yeah hopefully i've i know there's been talks on there's been like sort of talks on library about trying it out maybe and i've i've just been saying do not do this like nope this is why steam it has like the steam whale steam bots like there's a website that's just a list of all the bots and that's how you do everything on steam like you do not want to get yourself in the same situation right i just i can understand the concept of the downvoting thing, but I don't know how you would take away the monetary content. from ripping up somebody's reputation or whatever to where it screws with the person, it would make sense if, I don't know, the more of a whale you are, the less your vote means so that it remains proportioned to an average user

where you can still get the monetary crypto, but your vote weight doesn't hold that much weight. Right. Okay. That's what I would see. That would make sense. So like even if you're a whale and you've got 2 million hive, just because you've got 2 million hive power doesn't mean that you can upvote somebody

really good and your vote weighs more than somebody else just because you've got so many hive. That should be more proportionate to the time you spend on the platform, the interaction. Because there's people that just go buy Hive or Steam or whatever and never post anything, and they're a whale, and they can make you or break you if they don't like you, and that's not right. You should have, my opinion,

you should have so much interactions and actual use of the blockchain other than monetary, you know, trading or whatever. Yeah. You should actually be on there posting stuff. Like they call me Dan.

He's the, the investor, I guess, for three speak. Oh yeah. Okay. But he's, he's,

he's big. He's a whale. But he's also on the damn blockchain every day, all day. He's all over Twitter promoting it. But he's not there for monetary gain.

He's there because he's wanting the blockchain to grow. And he wants freedom. Plus he hates YouTube. Well, yeah, that definitely does help, doesn't it? Well, I think that might be a

good place to end off the show, because we've been going for a bit over three hours now, and I've got things I want to do for the rest of the day. You're thinking, God damn it. I thought this was only going to be an hour. I didn't think you could talk like that. No, I've done a four-hour podcast before.

No, I was meaning me. Oh, yeah. No, I thought you would have been tired after doing your other show. Plus, it's getting a bit later there. Dude, I get to talking about things that I want to talk about. I don't shut up. I'm surprised that I'm still married after 16 years. Hopefully next time I'm a bit less busy and we can go for as long as it happens.

Right now I'm kind of in the middle of my uni semester and have assignments and stuff I have to get done. So I can't go six hours or something crazy like that well one of these days you know if i can get if you can get up early enough yeah maybe well i don't know i might change time slots i don't you never know hey so if you do if you do let me know i'll be happy to come on okay cool it'll be fun trust me i'll bring you i'll bring all my trucker friends with me oh yeah that'll be an absolute shit show then absolutely it always is oh lord so do you actually watch much like youtube content or content in general or on library or hive or wherever i watch library and speak three speak

youtube is a search engine for me okay yeah so is there anyone who you feel deserves a bit more attention they already have any name you yeah top of your head just give me someone i'll show them on the screen uh nixie pixel on or not nixie pixel i'm sorry pixie post on uh hi she's on three speak she's got a really cool uh she does videos monday wednesday friday and saturday and she's i don't want to sound like an an absolute dumb ass but she's a disabled person i don't know if you call her disabled but she's person. I don't know if you'd call her disabled, but she's vertically challenged. I'm trying to be cool.

Pixie's awesome. Her name's Jen. She posts some of the coolest, most uplifting videos talking about just being happy. She does kind of like a blooper reel at the end of all of her videos.

It's they're pretty funny. Um, another one is, is pH 11 Oh two. He's on hive also, but he's, he does videos while he's taking his evening walk. So he's doing the selfie stick thing and talking and I'm not sure where he's taking his evening walk. So he's doing the selfie stick thing and talking.

And I'm not sure where he's from. Pixie Post is in Nevada here in the States. And PH1102 is Norwegian, I think. Or is it Portugal? It's in the European area. Norwegian, I think. Or is it Portugal? It's in the European area. But he's cool. His name's Zoltan. Everybody calls him. And of course, on Twitter, there's Nathan Mars 7. He's just the biggest, baddest shrill

for Hive. I think he's actually an artificial intelligence from the future because he tweets 24-7. I don't think he actually sleeps. Yeah, there's a lot of tweets in here.

Well, that is awesome. I will be sure to check them out, especially when I do eventually try out Hive properly again. Hopefully it comes up soon. Right now, I just sort of don't have too much time to invest in trying out something new right I totally understand that it's it's fun it's different it's just once you get into it you get sucked into it you start when all adapts and it's like dude this this can be me

and you know I'll spend more time with the library if people will start making more this can be me. I'll spend more time with the library if people start making more daps. Hopefully that does happen. I hope it does. Right now it's just the way it's lean and it's much more dependent on Library Incorporated. That's just not for me. it'll be nice when it does happen but i can see why you wouldn't be a fan of that but i just i gotta get some stuff up though

i'll get some more stuff uploaded in the morning before i take off for the week as for me i recommend checking out distroTube. Great channel. I've been watching his stuff for a long time. He's on Library as well as YouTube. He's doing pretty well on Library. I'm slowly catching up to him, and then he got a big boost of subscribers, and now he's 2K above me again.

So that's happening. Well, that's TT. Yeah. One day I'll bring him on this show. That'll be fun. I reckon I could have a fun conversation with him. Oh, I bet you could. I would love to hear that between you guys.

That would be cool. I actually haven't seen him on anybody else's show. He was on Big Daddy Linux a while back. No, Linux Spotlight, sorry. Like a year or so ago, he was on Linux Spotlight. Is he still doing retail? I think he's still in retail. He hasn't said anything about leaving it.

But with how much content he puts out, he probably could leave if he wanted to. I know he was saying something. He had a video here a while back about he was on hold for retail or whatever. Okay. Because he didn't really pump up the content. If he's making the YouTube money, he's still putting it out. Well, I know how much he's getting on Patreon.

So just that is enough for me. I think he's over $1,000 on that, plus the YouTube income, which if we go by my numbers, I reckon he would probably be in the realm of $2,500, $3,000 a month. That's not bad. It's definitely not bad for doing what you love. Yep. You ever heard of Leo Moricelli?

The name's not ringing a bell. He does Frog Leap Studios on YouTube. Frog Leap Studios. He does heavy metal cover songs. Oh, that sounds awesome. Last time I looked was probably a year and a half, two years ago. He was getting 4,000 a week or a video when he puts out a video every week and that was just from patreon i count what he gets from youtube so he's he built a new house and a new studio with it

last year so does that tell you anything yeah well do you online media definitely scales Do you online media definitely scales pretty, pretty crazily if you get in the high end for sure. Yep. Well, he does very high quality stuff cause he does own a recording studio. That'll help. Yes. He is very good.

He is astounding. Go check out probably studios. You'll thank me later. If you're, if you're in the metal, you'll thank me later. you're if you're in the battle you'll thank me later definitely i'll be sure to check that out afterwards so before we end off the show uh tell people where they can find you just look for bonehead media or uncle bonehead pretty much anywhere uh boneheadmedia.com i'm letting die. I'm just saying the hell with it.

Yeah. The best way to do it, I guess is coin tree, C O I N T R dot E E slash uncle bonehead. And that's got all of my links for anywhere I'm at. Cool. When is your MSP wave show? That is on nine o'clock to 11 o'clock PM UTC time.

Every Saturday, MSP waves.com. Cool. And it's, it's streamed on them. Dot TV, um, three speak online and theta.

I think they added theta. Okay. That's cool. There's also an audio only stream. If you just want to listen to the audio. So it works great on a phone. Get a transistor radio app off of F-Droid. Works really good. Well, I'll be sure to leave links to all of your stuff down below.

So if there's anything that you forgot about, just send me a link afterwards and I'll be happy to add it in. Okay, cool. Sounds good. Cool. So before we go, I would like to thank my supporters. So a special thank you to Joachim, Colbinion, Craig, Nathan, Andrew, Montezar, Joseph, Peter D. Rode, Tony, Donald, John, Marek, Mikel,

Spaghettin, Thais, and Zilver. There's too many names on this list now. I probably should cut out the $2 tier. Also, if you're watching this on Library or YouTube, there's an audio version available on Anchor, which will link out everywhere you can find audio podcasts. So wherever you want to listen to it, I don't really care. If you're watching the audio version as I said

it's available on library and YouTube and I have a main channel which I upload properly produced Linux content so yeah properly produced produced I will say at all so yeah I think that's

everything for me for us i will play out the what you got there oh you got the uh feed up yeah there you go what are you listening on is that antenna pod antenna pod also yeah i've been using the same one myself i like antenna pod works pretty good yeah it is pretty nice i used to use dog catcher it just i don't know what it was it just started bugging me every update they came up with just looked ugly yeah that's fair to me on a phone it's gotta have looks it's gotta have eye candy yeah for sure antenna pod it does the job well enough. It's not perfect, but it's as good as I need.

Yep. It works. Pretty much. So I will play out the outro then, I guess. That's the Joe Rogan podcast. There we go. Perfect. It's the porn music thank you for listening to the porn hub

thank you guys for watching that's how we're going to end off the show I guess sorry I had to say it I was like don't do it guys for watching. That's how we're going to end off the show, I guess. Sorry, I had to say it. I was like, don't do it. No, the funk definitely fits. Don't do it. Don't do it.

Do it before he goes. Do it before he goes. Oh, lord. Thank you guys for watching. Toodles.