Tech Over Tea - #85 Facebook Outage, SteamDeck & More | TechHut

Episode Date: October 13, 2021

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Good morning, good day, good evening. I'm as always your host Brodie Robertson and today we're here for episode 85 Okay, we don't we don't restart we don't recite Second I start recording What was that that was it was me it was my fault it was a little fan I Even put on the cloth so it wouldn't do that. But, oh well. You live, you learn. Okay, welcome to episode 85 of TechMatee. Welcome TechHut. He has an annoying fan.

Normally he just has a really calming voice and not the fan. But welcome to the show how are you doing i'm doing quite swell thank you so much for having me on here i don't know how you managed to get a blue yeti to sound so good i think it's just your voice when i had a blue yeti i found like i found the the sound it produced to be kind of annoying but also maybe it's that i didn't know how to use the blue yeti as well yeah me i don't know how to use it either it's the i i just have it in the middle i have no filters or anything like that ever in obs or anything it's just the grains in the middle and pretty close to my face and it's good to go i got this thing actually we were talking about this i found this in a goodwill which is a thrift store over here for uh it was like 12 which is a pretty good deal for a blue yeti you can find these for like a hundred dollars usually that's at the rocket retail yeah yeah and then i saw it when i walked into goodwill i can

see it from the other end of the store because it has the big silver. It was awesome. Because even if it didn't work for $12, I mean, I could put it on a shelf in the background. Look, a $12 ornament is honestly cheaper than most people spend on their background stuff. Getting you like, you know, the, I don't know what they're called. You know, those like diamond shaped lights that... Like, all the streamers have? Yeah, yeah. Those things are in the range of, like, hundreds of dollars.

So Blue Yeti, you know... Look, if you wanted to... If you wanted to, like, put a lot of effort into it, you could, like, hollow it out and put a light inside of it and use the grill to, like... As, like, a lighting effect. Yeah, that would look really cool, actually. It'd be a ton of effort, but...

Yeah, I'm not doing it. I've got a blue yet. I want to do that now. I'll hit up my stepdad and see if he can help me out with that. I don't have the tools here, but... Drill more at the bottom. It's not like I need the blue yet. I've got a backup mic anyway. Before I had the Shure, I had a

AKG P120. It doesn't sound sound amazing but it does the job um yeah yeah this does the job i got uh some other cheaper amazon microphones that i got cheaper than 12 or cheaper than a blue yeti normally costs cheaper than this msrp those were like 50 bucks or somewhere around there but even this is still a little bit cleaner audio versus some of the other ones i have cool because i wouldn't consider something cheaper than what you paid to be much of a backup no that would be the range of like you know the earbuds that have like microphones in line i know people who've recorded videos with those they you can they don't work no

not at all you can get them to work as long as you're not using them as earphones if you like you know put it very precariously on your desk like hanging right there i guess it can function don't do it just like they're they're apps oh sorry i was gonna say like random people's videos when they're holding up these headphones like this, trying to talk like, well, that's a little better than just letting it dangle. Like, honestly, just put it, I don't know, five minutes of effort into editing and use your phone. It'll sound so much better. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Just throw the audio in Audacity and compress it and it'll make it sound decent. You were complaining about your webcam before. I don't know what you're using. It is... It's not a Cine 20, is it? It's one of the super popular ones. It's a Logitech 1080p. It's probably...

Yeah. It's another one I got a decent deal. I try to buy things like secondhand all the time. So I got this for like 40 bucks. I think it's like an $80 webcam. But I mean, it works. The only time I ever use it is for live streams and stuff. I'm usually recording on this thing, which is a Canon M50.

Oh, you got an M50 there. Yeah, this is what I usually use. It took me forever to actually figure out how to use it. A Canon M50. Oh, you've got an M50, dude. Yeah, this is what I usually use. Took me forever to actually figure out how to use it. But after a while, I have the ISO as low as possible. Just every... Yeah, it took a lot of light to get this thing to look good. But it looks good with enough light. Yeah, I'm rocking a Canon M200.

Nice. I didn't like the idea of having the... Yeah, I'm rocking a Canon M200. Nice. I didn't like the idea of having the... Actually, there's a way to get around the capture limit the M50 has, isn't there? Because it's supposed to have like a 30-minute capture limit or something like that? Yeah. Yeah, it does. I never changed it because I try to... I don't like my...

I try to do like 15 minute Recordings So there's ways to get around the capture limits and all that this could cut out your audio for just a moment there Oh Basically, yeah, there are ways to get around the capture limits, but uh, I never do it So that's why you don't use it for like live streams and stuff if no well with the live streams, I would hook it up to... Does the HDMI... The HDMI out doesn't have any issues like that, does it? No.

I mean, there's a slight delay of like a fraction of a second, but nothing that you're going to notice too bad. Yeah, that's fair. If you don't do the HDMI. Is that just the kit lens you have on it, or did you actually get a new lens for it yeah just kit lens i haven't gotten another lens yet i would like another lens because this one is like you don't have much to work with and i have it fairly close to me so because there's a wall

right here but uh yeah so a new lens would be nice, but for now it does the trick. I'm still rocking the kit lens on mine. My room is really small and it doesn't do any favors in that regard. I show this to everyone that comes on, but this is as far back as my chair goes, like where I'm sitting right now. where I'm sitting right now. My room is, I think it's three meters across? I don't know, is that like eight, nine feet? Something like that. That's about how big this room is.

If I had a bed right here, I'd be in the same situation. That's about as far as I'd be able to get. I am very excited to move to my new place because that's going to be, it's going to have like an extra meter of space and the entire room is just going to be better. And I can split off half it into a studio and actually do stuff with my

backdrop. Unlike this, what's going on here. Nice. Yeah. This, it's a good space that I have here. It's a,

like I said, probably the same size of your room. Yeah. It would be, this would be a good space as well if i didn't have the bed here that's my problem yeah yeah but i got some big things in here like right here uh can't really see it my mic's in the way but i have a huge like what is this four foot tall server cabinet that i have a bunch of stuff in i it's basically empty i just got it for future proof upgrades and things that was my

what i told myself when i bought it but like my actual computer did and i have a couple small mini pcs with like jellyfin servers and all that kind of stuff but i don't need this it. Huge proof is always a good excuse to justify spending more money than you should. Like, I don't need this mic. I don't need this mixer board. Future proof, though, I'll never replace them. Yeah, that's what I told myself when I bought this. I'm never going to need anything bigger than this.

So, as big as I think I'll ever need. So it worked out i can't think of unless you like go full on like what linus tech tips is that like um where you like automate everything in your house like that's the only time you need like anything bigger than that surely but right i can't even imagine how much he's spent automating shit in his house at this point oh yeah no every couple months there's a new video of some project in his house where he's spent automating shit in his house at this point oh yeah no every couple months there's a new video of some project in his house where he's running internet cables everywhere i want to do that though eventually that'd be the coolest thing just have internet ports everywhere

and um with this on the server rack when i i'm gonna probably get a house in like two years or so once i get my diploma and all that uh this is gonna be in a garage and i want to run like a thunderbolt single cable through the wall and just have a plug-in and a little dock station with my monitors and all that that's my what i eventually want to do and do it nice with like the actual wall outlet yeah yeah that would be super cool i would i would love to do that when i get my own place right now i'm just uh i'm not even renting a house i'm'm renting a room This is everything that I'm renting I'm moving in a couple of months into one of my mate's places, he works in the

he works in the mines so he's like not there for like two weeks at a time and he doesn't want to leave his house empty He's like, screw it, I'm going to rent out a room, why not So that's going to give me a lot more space to work with and I can actually do stuff outside of the room because it's Not like this weird thing where I'm I'm renting a room for people. I don't really know

Yeah, yeah, but at some point I will buy a place and I'll do the same thing I'll probably get solar as well and do a bunch of fun stuff like that nice Yeah, that's one of the reasons why I Stopped because if you like look at my old channel videos i did stuff for like a couple years i stopped for five years and i started again yeah i was gonna say how old because i i sorted your channel by oldest and i noticed there's minecraft videos from 10 years ago it's old it's old there's uh probably like the 10 000 subscribers were all from that period

when i was in high school, just playing around on Minecraft, doing like bucket plugin videos and stuff. And yeah, I stopped for four years cause I was working a lot and I was renting a room. So for me at the moment, it wasn't practical, but now I have this whole room is dedicated to the,

that it's, it's nice. Oh, wait, I didn't even notice the wallpaper you had yet that that that um whoop that like really high definition um or breaking wallpaper that every minecraft video had yep yep yeah oh yeah that was fun doing that because i started the channel as a general tech channel which kind of what i still am i obviously do way more linux stuff than anything else but i don't know minecraft then was just super fun and like if you do go back every once in a while

i'll do a general video kind of in the same format that i do now you'll see me in like linux mint doing a minecraft video not focusing on the linux part of it just that's what i used but yeah that was fun times i've uh i've done stuff throughout time but i've always whenever i had like a new idea for what i wanted to do it would always be on a new channel so i've got channels dating back to 2008 2009 um i was very young back then i would have been what 2009 how many years ago was that 12 i would have been 11 i guess geez yeah that's about i have channels i don't think they exist anymore because i didn't like log into them for 10 years or whatever it is but one was like uh i was probably in like sixth grade in middle school doing videos on like finding like glitches in call of duty and showing people how to like cheat in like the nazi zombie games and all that i uh what was i doing back then I was doing runescape videos yeah nice nice that's fun

I I played that game for seven or so years I've been I don't want to play it it's not I keep I've looked at old school runescape like I know I will get addicted to this if I play it I'm not touching this not gonna happen yeah I played it for a little bit. My big thing for the longest time was Oblivion Elder Scrolls. When that first came out for like four years after that, I played that all the time and replayed it and did all the side things. All that. I never got into RuneScape. I had friends that were super into RuneScape,

but I played that for probably like a month. And then something else happened i don't know yeah runescape first month i would say is good but then you get to a point where leveling up becomes a very slow process like getting to like i think the first like 40 or so levels are fairly quick then you know from 40 to 50 it's basically all of that time you spend yeah in the other first 40 and then it gets worse and worse from then on like when you get like i got a couple of skills to max level which everything at that point max level was 99 um and the i think of playing every single day it took me like a month or so to get a skill from 98 to 99

which is just insane that was like five six hours a day yeah that i would have time i i don't have time now but i as i said i was doing it when i was in in like early high school you have nothing but time when you're in early high school yeah when i was doing that like you i said i just came home and just played minecraft for six hours and then when or call of duty one or the other that was my jump back and forth in between those two games i sadly didn't really get that much into call of duty i didn't get a um a ps3 until like a year or so before the ps4 came out so i played i've played the other ones that like at friends houses but the only one i actually owned myself was black ops 2 which to be fair is probably the best one to own yeah

yeah my first one that i really owned myself was black ops 1 and that one was fun too that one was my favorite for sure um but before that like my parents had a PlayStation 3 and I play like Call of Duty 3 on that one and the online experience for like Call of Duty 3 is like that was an afterthought that they just made work it was it was interesting the how they actually worked that like these huge maps that make no sense with an eight-person limit. And so if you got like three kills in a game, you were doing really good. So I've never played a COD that old.

The oldest one I've played is 4. And 4, they'd already worked out very tight corridors and sort of stuff. So it was basically like battlefield maps with a smaller player size mm-hmm and call duty 4 was fun too well okay it's fun if you decide to make it fun because if you don't everyone's just gonna run the exact same build it's gonna be m16 and painkiller which is just objectively the best build in the entire game. Yeah, exactly. You're going to do good. After Black Ops, I really stopped.

I didn't continue after that too much. Yeah, that's fair. I don't really play that many FPS nowadays. There is one game people keep trying to bug me to play. They want me to play Doom Eternal on stream. I should at some point. I hear it's very good. I played through a bit of the first,

like the new Dooms. The problem with streaming like an FPS though, especially because I'm not very good at them, is you probably know this yourself. When you stream a game, it's at least two times harder than it would be off stream. Yeah, because you're paying attention to other things. You can't just sit there and be quiet and focus.

That's not how it works. And I think I wasn't playing on... I wasn't playing on... Was it Nightmare? I think I was playing on Nightmare. Which you need to pay a bit of attention to. Yeah. I wasn't making much progress. I didn't think it was making good stream content, so I just didn't really get

back to actually finishing it. yeah it's next native to the uh split gate it was like that weird cross between halo and portal yeah yeah it uh yeah i streamed that game it was kind of that situation where i was doing really really good i'm like i'm just gonna stream this and as soon as i hit start stream i went negative kill death ratios the entire time. Yeah, that one's unlisted. I think that there's some games that sort of work, games that have sort of natural downtimes. Like a puzzle game, for example.

Like if you can be entertaining, a puzzle game works fairly well because obviously the puzzle part requires some level of concentration, but it's not like it's constant action. Or I've been... I just finished streaming through Celeste. Nice. Have you played the game before? Not played it, but I've watched other people play it.

If anyone who doesn't know what it is, it's a precision platformer game, same vein as like Super Meat Boy, something like that. While the jumping part is obviously very difficult, you don't have to jump straight away. You can, you know, wait for a second and then read chat. Or there's sometimes going to be parts throughout like the jumping puzzle where you can just break for a moment

and actually read. Stuff like that I feel like works fairly well. All games that you're just generally fairly good at, right now I'm playing through Bloodborne, and I've played hundreds of hours of Souls games, so it's sort of an extension of that, and I don't need to pay full attention to play through the game. I got none of that. I don't know what's happening with audio today

is that better i can hear you now i don't know what's going on no it's fine what i was saying is the the last technically game i streamed was i was actually doing a uh the just debian install and and they have like tetris and all that it was taking forever so i i was streaming myself playing tetris while debian was installing and reading chat because it goes pretty slow that reminds me of my uh my deb my my gentoo stream my gentoo stream where i was i wasn't compiling the kernel i was compiling something else oh it was xorg i was compiling the kernel, I was compiling something else. Oh, it was Xorg. I was compiling Xorg. And I just played chess. I just played chess for like half an hour. Yeah, people really wanted me to play chess, but it was almost over.

Mm. And I would have looked like... I would have started and then looked like I was in a bad spot and left, because the install would have finished. I ended up... I don't know how to play chess that well. So I basically just let chat make my moves. That's a good way to do it because then it's not your fault. No, there was some like, there was some grandmasters in my chat. Like, I don't know what's going on.

We just smashed everyone. That's awesome. So, well, speaking about generally linux game before did you hear about the uh the the linux challenge that linus tech tips was going to be doing i think i was uh i was kind of skimming your stuff before we started and i saw you mention that and then i watched some of the uh what is the the land show the land show, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I know they're going to be switching to Linux and there's some rules here and there

for their gaming systems, but after that, I really don't know. I know that Luke said he's going to be using Mint. And at this stage, I think Lion is either going to be using PopOS or Endeavor. Okay. People in the chat were trying to get him to use gen 2 which yeah that's a good idea he did have arch on the list as well but arch was there sort of he knew arch was going to be a joke distro that wasn't he wasn't gonna get very

far with that one yeah he's probably gonna end up going pop os yeah they've done a lot of videos on pop os before so yeah that seems like the most obvious choice. Yeah, when you watch them, the two they bring up the most is Pop OS and Manjaro. It's their two they... Or at least Anthony brings up those two the most. Yeah, any time Linus Texas is brought up, it's just like a wall of comments

just basically praising Anthony. Yeah, no. I did a joke on a video a long time ago where i was comparing pop os and manjaro and i stole a little clip of him saying like he's the most important person in linux what he says is it was funny but yeah it's everybody loves him because i don't know he's he's just a very likable person he's very likable person he's basically the only person i have on stuff that actually understands linux well like he um i hadn't heard this before but apparently he runs arch on his home system so he actually knows what he's doing it's not like oh he's used linux once five years ago and that's all his knowledge yeah and you could tell in some of the videos they do when like they did that one where all their servers are failing or when they build a new one

and he's always on the terminal mounting all the disks and doing all that stuff throughout those videos. I, I don't watch a ton of stuff from Linus Tech Tips, but I do appreciate the videos that Anthony does do. I've heard some people say they should just start up a Linux channel and just let Anthony do videos every so often. I, I'm sure the idea has been floated around internally, but I,

I don't know if Anthony just doesn't want to do it or uh if they just don't think it's a good idea yeah he's on the main channel a lot so that's probably what's holding him back from that but they did the mac one that's yeah that's why i think that's why some people are saying they should do a linux one as well because they do have that mac one yeah but it would be kind of funny if they did do a linux channel because it would become the most popular linux channel literally overnight overnight yeah it would i would i would subscribe to it in two seconds it would easily within like a day it would easily triple like dt subs no doubt yeah they would have 300 400 000 in a couple days if of days, if that. I don't, honestly,

I don't think it would be a bad thing for everyone else though. Like that would bring a lot more attention to just the Linux space in general. And if you ask someone who already makes Linux content, it would be a lot of people who may not have already been introduced to Linux, who are now looking for extra Linux stuff to actually consume. It's not like, like YouTube isn't like Twitch. It's...

Like, you can watch multiple things in a day. Like, if you're going to watch a Twitch stream, usually you're going to sit there and watch one stream. But most videos aren't, you know, three, four hours long. Yeah. Yeah, I'm probably on... Because I get a lot of the stuff or ideas for doing things from YouTube. So I'm probably watching other people's stuff for maybe a half hour to an hour a day.

Just trying to figure everything out and see what other people are interested in. And like, I watch your stuff. I watch DistroTube. I watch Linux Experiment. All those guys. I watch all of them. I mainly use... I don't actually watch that much Linux

I've said this before because I make so much stuff when I'm not making videos I sort of want to be doing anything else most of the topics I get are usually from places like from Reddit nice

the only problem with Reddit is there's a lot of people with really bad takes when it comes to that Linus Linux challenge there's a lot of people with really bad takes when it comes to that Linus Linux challenge there's a lot of people saying that Linus will do Linux dirty he's a bad representative he'll say bad things about Linux and as long as you just ignore that part of it

there's always going to be those annoying people on Reddit they're everywhere but Reddit, they all sort of congregate on reddit yeah yeah i i'm not on reddit too much i i do like that's good you shouldn't be yeah that's good i i do a lot of uh podcasts like walking or driving to school or something like that. I'm always listening to tech podcasts. I have them on a thing, so I forget the name. It's the Linux Network or something. I forgot the exact names of them. There's four hosts.

I'll figure it out. I'm not choosing myself. Let's see. What do we have on here, actually? While you're looking for that, I guess. You know what? Let's just go straight into the big thing that happened. I guess it's a week ago for you guys listening, but yesterday for us.

The Facebook outage. Oh, yeah. I woke up basically as it was ending i didn't even realize it had happened i just like opened up messenger i was like oh okay messenger's not working that's cool but i didn't realize how bad it was until afterwards yeah yeah it was the one of the first times my grandma called my cell phone number directly because she's on because she's on facebook all the time and she uses messenger and all that and i got i was getting a call from her i'm like oh no it's an emergency because that's when she would call my cell phone number and i answered and she's

like she wanted me to fix her phone for her or help her figure out what's wrong and like i think everybody's having issues it's not just you this time i promise oh god um i as i said because it was i think it i think it basically ended around 10 a.m here i didn't hear anything about it which is good um but uh did you hear why it happened like did it like what, what Facebook actually did to break it? I heard it was something to do with a router configuration. Somebody screwed up a file or something. So, where is it? They messed up their DNS routing. Basically, someone...

Okay, messed up's not the right word. Basically, someone... Okay, messed up's not the right word. Basically, someone deleted it. Just all deleted. Whoops. Just like, yeah, we don't need that. So, Facebook... It was still working. Like, there was nothing wrong with their servers.

It's just there was no connection from the servers to the rest of the world yeah why man i okay i have to send you this image i don't know why this is the picture that this article decided to use for zuckerberg oh no that's that's a good choice yeah i heard it knocked out like in that short amount of time like six billion dollars of his like personal net worth i think it was eight eight yeah oh no look an extra two billion when you've lost six billion that probably isn't that much it stops mattering i think i think facebook so uh it's stock dipped by 30 or $40. Yeah. So,

but it's basically gone back up. So if anyone, if anyone bought at the bottom there, man, you could have made a bit of money very quickly there. Yeah. I almost did. I was refreshing a fidelity that effort at school and I couldn't move

anything though, because they have all these rules and all that. So like, Oh, cause it was like negative 5 percent yep yep someone's gonna lose their job though someone is losing their job oh yeah for sure and that's just his personal network i don't know how much percent of the stock he owns but it was probably way more losses than that just in total company value and well yeah they couldn't revenue alone how much millions per minute they could have been new and all that well they've got all

of the advertisers on the platform then there's all the data they sell uh i i can't even imagine i can't even imagine what what what that number really looks like yeah it's probably more than I could comprehend there has actually been some some extra parts with it as well like some people have been they've been trying to link it to the the whistleblower that came out the day before, the two or so days before. Then there's people saying there's like a database leak and stuff.

There's not really any evidence that any of that's really happened. The leak that seems to exist is someone went and scraped public profiles, which isn't a leak. Yes, saw that. Yeah. Yeah, and even if it's not connected it's still very inconvenient for facebook because then people are going to be looking at facebook and they're going to see the first news story as they're down the second news story is hey there's a whistleblower

and people are like what's this so all this did is drive way more attention to that whistleblower story than would have it would have gone anyways i think facebook has actually been dropping in value the past couple of days actually like before the uh the leak actually happened uh let's let me see i'm pretty sure it has been but i haven't been looking at the rest of the market so it very well might be okay no yeah it's been going down since the end of August, but I don't know if that's related to the rest of the market as well. Everything might be down. I'm not too sure. Yeah. Facebook isn't that good of a platform regardless.

Really? It's because actually finding things like if you're looking for something specifically on facebook chances are you're not gonna find it and like even for like i have a tech hut page on facebook but i don't never touch it it's and even for like doing video uploads to facebook they have all these weird rules and things you have to follow like very specifically otherwise it just won't reach anybody because the whole platform kind of like tiktok in a way but the entire content discovery platform on facebook other than random people sharing it is just chance while you're scrolling well facebook literally holds search algorithm

results hostage they will tell you this is how many people could be finding your your page if you pay us money to boost it yep yep yeah i had a small cleaning business a while ago and i always got those numbers like hey if you give us 30 we'll'll show your stuff to four thousand people you're not boosting anything you're just not doing it right you're just suppressing it because other things will come up first it's like if google like engine worked when it comes to search results like facebook would nobody would use it. Well, Google does have advertised, they're like advertised banners at the top sometimes, but nothing to the extent that Facebook has. Yeah, that's like two or three,

but they won't intentionally suppress anything. Well, they would, but not to the extent that Facebook does. Yeah, yeah. Not like openly doing it, saying, yes, we will not suppress you if you give us money yeah exactly yeah i saw a lot of that when i was running a like a service business in a local area but they really can they make some good money off service businesses because there's a lot of people in that demographic that are on facebook so it's worth it to a point but just for general content

consumption and stuff it's it sucks yeah i i have a facebook page as well i don't upload to it i or i have like a uh there's a site called transferring videos that will automatically do it for you okay and i just it's not i think it's like uh it's actually not that expensive maybe like a hundred dollars a year or something that's not too bad for that and i've got it like you can actually go from from youtube to facebook and then youtube to twitter and other things like that and just does it all for you um but yeah i do it like that and i i occasionally get messages on my facebook uh account like people send me dms asking me stuff. I don't check these. Don't.

Yeah, I know. Like contact me anywhere else. Mastodon, Discord, Matrix, anywhere. I'll see it there. Even Instagram, I'm probably going to see it more. Right. Yeah, me too. My main use case for Facebook is like talking to those relatives.

Yep. Who are only on Facebook. That's my main use case for it. Yeah, WhatsApp never caught on here. So everyone I know still uses Facebook Messenger. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know anybody here who uses WhatsApp. I know in some places like WhatsApp is just the default way to communicate now,

which seems really strange to me. Yeah, I used it one time to uh is it do you get as because i get them all the time like random uh chinese uh amazon companies trying to send you things no what like oh on like on my business email oh that's what you mean yep yeah just every day like two three emails of these like bluetooth speakers that they want to get reviewed and all that i'm sadly not big enough for that i've i've had a couple of people um uh someone that you actually work with contact me um i'll mention after that it's something that's not released yet uh but you've you've done stuff with them before okay cool you could probably work it out from

you tested a early hardware um oh yeah yeah yeah that's super cool by the way it is um um but all the time and it's because a while ago i did a video on this like smartwatch it was a chinese brand smartwatch it was pretty decent i did a fairly it gave it a decent review but after i uploaded that video the amount of smartwatch emails that i got trying to get me to review all these if i said yes to like one other one but probably at least one a week yeah yeah for those smart watches i uh i mainly get it's mainly digital services for me i'll have um i've had a sketchy chinese game key reseller contact me uh the bunch of those actually i've had a i had an indie game company try to send me a game

keep like wow we we love your gaming content. And they send it to my main account. What gaming content? What are you talking about? Yeah, it's funny when they say, hello, Tech Hut. And it's in brackets that they didn't get rid of. Because it's the email a whole bunch of people. Yep, yep.

If they are too lazy to write a dedicated email, I usually just delete it but this audio is being a pain in the ass today i i probably respond to about 10 of those emails and uh out of those 10 i make a video off of two percent of them yeah Yep, yep. If that. Yeah, there's been a couple. Like the KVM Switch I have, I got that sent to me. One of those.

And this thing is awesome. It's for input, so I have it. I did a whole separate video on it. But it's hooked up to two different computers. My main computer, a dedicated mini PC that I use specifically for doing distribution looks. So they're not in VirtualBox because I would always get some sort of issue. And that would look like the distribution's fault when that's not the case. Yeah, that's fair.

Then I have my Jellyfin server so I can hit like three on it. Then I have my Jellyfin server so I can hit like three on it. And then my main 16 by 9 display will switch over to a server. And all my keyboards and everything switch so I can do something on there. Hit the one and it goes back to my main computer. It's cool. And this vertical monitor that I have here is hooked up to my main computer no matter what. So I could have OBS on this vertical thing.

While my main monitor will switch to the different inputs, so I can use a capture card and record things and still have OBS open. Right! And that's what this is for, because my, uh, the keyboard! I love that keyboard! The keyboard switches inputs, but I still can play OBS. Ah, yeah yeah yeah so i this little keyboard with the trackpad built into it helps with that so that's nice but that's one of the few things

that i got sent that was like super cool uh one thing i was considering working with but they sadly didn't ship to Australia is there was a, um, one of the first emails you got, I think it was back when I had like two or so K subs. Some, it was like a independent coffee company. Um,

but they didn't send to Australia. I was like, you guys are awesome, but I, I, you don't send here. So I, I'm not going to do it sadly.

Yeah. Yeah. The weirdest thing i got sent was a toothbrush what like it's like a electric toothbrush yeah it's like okay it's i'm not gonna it's like not like for a full dedicated review it's for like a little 30 second splice spot but i still have no idea how i'm gonna integrate this into anything so i'm still trying to, trying to figure it out. Cause it can't be like this server tutorial sponsored by this toothbrush. It's nothing to make sense. I could,

but I got to figure something out. Use the, use the toothbrush to clean a computer. That's full of dirt and stuff. Clean the motherboard, get all the dust off of it exactly it has a load setting and you can use it on these components to dust it yeah I

oh the weirdest one I got yeah the weirdest one I got was this VPN I've talked about this one before, I still love it though this VPN company that was trying to so they're saying we are this is a vpn company owned by military veterans firstly i don't care like that has nothing to do with how well you can run a vpn company i think they assumed i was

american and saying military veterans would give me like you know the you know like the the military spirit the patriot that's the patriotic spirit yeah um i don't care sure but then you got into like what the vpn did and it can raise your your internet speeds by upwards of 100 megabit like okay i'm sorry what what could it do like if you can't list some revolutionary stuff, like... And then there was, like, a weird edge case where they included, where I think it was, like, it was avoiding something that was, like, dropping the speed down. Like, yeah, sure, if you're doing that, yeah, of course you can do that.

But most of the ones I get, I just don't bother responding to. Because I've done videos on platforms like Odyssey, I occasionally get all of the little video platforms like, hey, come check out our platform. Do you want to join our platform? Put your videos here on this platform that has five people on it? Like, not really. You can kind of automatically post there.

If so, then sure. Why not? If not, go away. That's one of the reasons I did Odyssey. They made it so easy to get everything over there. I don't even think about it half the time. I just, like, after a video has been uploaded, it's usually there like 30 minutes later or so. So then I go over there and I make sure I might change the thumbnail

because I have this problem where 30 minutes after a video is up, I change the thumbnail three I have this problem where 30 minutes after video's up, I change the thumbnail three times. That's something. I can't do that because I'm asleep. I post videos at 6.30 in the morning and I'm up an hour and a half later. Yeah, I'm incredibly impatient. I have a Kdenlive project for looking at Deepin. And as soon as it's edited, I'm going to render it and upload it.

And I'm going to do the check on YouTube. I'm incredibly impatient when I upload videos. It's very hard for me to schedule them. Yeah, I want it to be up at around good US time. So I'll sort of have to schedule. Yeah. Yeah, me, i usually do in the mornings um like 9 a.m my time is where i try to make it land because from like 5 p.m my time to for some reason my most active time is like 6 a.m my time and that's probably because like on the east coast it's like 9 and 10 a.m and in like because i a lot of my views come from india probably

probably 12 which like 14 is the united states so they're viewing in the afternoon later and everybody on the u.s is viewing it in the morning so and everybody on the US is viewing it in the morning. So, I have a really weird peak time. Yeah, I wouldn't put too much weight into peak time. It sort of depends on... Your peak time will sort of adjust around when you post anyway.

Like, there's obviously better... Oh, sorry. The audio's completely cut out there. Yeah, no, I realize that because I've been all over the place on my upload better and i'm sorry the audio is completely cut out there oh no i was saying yeah no i i realized that because i've been all over the place in my upload schedule because i'm just doing it as i can fit it in for school and i'm really trying to have a video at least their day or every day if i can actually keep up with that yeah i it's not the easiest thing to do no i i i know i i was doing videos every day while i was in my final year of uni um luckily my final year was sort of a joke year um nice because um so my with my degree when

at the final you have a full year project where it's supposed to be like a an industry project you're working with some company working on like some something they want you to do. Like I've had some of my mates were working with like the social services trying to rebuild their, like their online application process, for example, things like that. My project, I basically was just like a code monkey for one of the lecturers who wanted some VR stuff done for a research project. I maybe wrote two or three thousand lines of code across that entire

year. And that was your year project, that's nice. Plus I also got a scholarship as well. Nice. So in Australia, I'm not sure, I know for some place, how much does this university run? How much does it usually cost down there?

I did software engineering. That was a four-year degree. That was, I think, around $40,000. Yeah, that's about what it is here to go to a state school. Things like aviation can be easily $100,000 plus. Yeah. things like aviation can be easily a hundred thousand plus yeah yeah here if you do aviation it's about like 85 on the low end i've seen but yeah yeah i'm in my junior year and i just started and i've done gaps because i've worked like union jobs yeah yeah uh for like chunks of four years here and a couple things there um so yeah yeah, I just started my junior year.

And it's really, like, I have one class that's kind of difficult, but all the rest is GIS stuff, which is all computer map making and stuff like that. So it's pretty easy if you understand, like, data sets and all that. Yeah, yeah. pretty easy if you understand like data sets and all that yeah yeah me i have no formal training in or barely any training in like coding server administration any of that all this is like watching videos and just screwing around look to be fair okay for formal training in regards to my my education was basically watch some some linda videos and you'll learn everything you need like i i'm not even kidding some weeks it was just like resources three linda videos and that's what you got yeah yeah yeah our like the labs we do

are sometimes there are links to other people's youtube videos like man i could have done this for free like i just need the piece of paper no it would be funny if you're a systems admin class and it just links to someone that you know yeah that wouldn't surprise me it's like oh no they don't realize you're like it's like, oh, no, they don't realize you're, like, it's something, like, that you've done. They don't realize you're in the course. They just link to your video.

It's like, oh, hey. It's some basic terminal thing. I actually did have a basic, like, a sort of introductory Linux course. And I have a feeling that if I had done it now one of my videos may possibly show up yeah yeah and the thing is if i got sent my own video i'd probably have to re-watch it too because i probably i probably forgot what i was talking about honestly that's why i do a lot of the videos i do is because i'll kind of forget stuff yep Yep. Yeah, I can't tell you how many times I've...

I've memorized it now, but I have a video on editing your FSTab file. I have no idea how to do that. I can't tell you how many times I've gone back just to get the link to something else to get the right arguments and all that for different things. Yeah, yeah. But... Yeah. Yeah. But yeah.

Yeah. There's a, there's a program that will automatically generate everything you need in that file. And that's what I do. I don't, I don't know how to write the file. Yeah.

You can, you can just use like gnome disks, something like that. But for like Ubuntu server, I have a, for the jellyfin server, I have a USB three, a little SSD thing that I hook.

I have it hooked up and I have it reading as if it's an internal drive. I have to not accidentally unplug it. Otherwise it won't boot. Oh, it weighs your boot drive. Yeah. Yeah, for the server. Because I have an operating system on a really small SSD. Sure.

And a huge terabyte that all the media is running off of. Not a huge terabyte, but it's like a four terabyte hard drive. It's not that big compared to some, but I don't have that many movies. Jeez. So, I actually scrolled back through your channel, and I noticed that you were talking about davinci resolve uh about a month ago i i haven't used it myself but i've had some people tell me like oh you should try it out and see what it's like no no davinci resolve is awesome it's if you are on mac or windows it's way easier sure but on linux it's if you have a nvidia card you're good to go okay it's gonna be it's gonna be yeah that's neither do i if you have a nvidia card it's a fine

experience like i i had it sitting somewhere around here i had a little 1650 that i just said screw it and i put it in there just to run davinci resolve properly sure but if you uh if you're running arch it's not too bad because you could get it needs the pro drivers very specific pro drivers from amd to run properly so on all time that it's worked with no issues at all for me on this um the editor is beautiful um the i like the node system the color correction is outstanding the actual editing and the timeline is beautiful they have different uh i forgot what the technical term is but little tab pages for different uh steps in the editing process and like me i'm not that good at recording i cut out so many like yep half the time i'm recording i'll like completely freeze and think about what i'm going to say next and then start talking so then

it's not like a huge jump cut so i'll be sitting there completely still for like 10 seconds while i'm thinking about so i have a lot of that so that cut page is nice because it's you're using the keyboard you can run through and just cut out all the parts with no audio really quick and then put it together and then do all your other editing so that's one of the reasons why i like it but another issue with it with linux is the file sizes it has to use um unless if you buy the paid version. It uses uncompressed MOV files. And they're astronomically large. Like a 10 minute video rendered out from DaVinci Resolve is like 30 gigabytes. And you think that's just the 10 minute rendered out. You have to convert all the other footage into the right format so you can even edit it.

So one of my project folders is like 120 gigabytes for a 10 minute video so as soon as i'm done with that project i have to move it to my backup drive and delete it yeah yeah otherwise i'll run out of space in two three videos on my hard drive yeah other than that that yeah, that's a pretty big problem. Yeah, that's the major problem. And the file size thing. But it's such a good piece of software. It makes me want to purchase it, but it's still, with all the other little Nvidia versus AMD issues it has,

it's like... Kdenlive, for what what i do is really good i if i do a video that's like very involved with a lot of animations and um it's a lot of me talking to the camera i'll use resolve but if i'm doing like a distribution review where it's a pretty simple process and i just need to cut things out then katedenlive is perfectly fine. You've seen how lazy I am with editing. So like, I don't do much. I actually did have one of my subscribers come to me and ask

if I actually need an editor. I'm not at the size where I can actually justify the price for it, but at some point I would like to have my videos looking better. It would be nice. I just make so many of them that I could justify spending more time on it. It's just I have other things I want to do as well outside of YouTube that you have to decide, okay, is there going to be any value in actually doing this?

I could go and animate stuff and do all of that sort of stuff and it would make the videos look better, but is it something that is going to add value? Yeah. And a lot of times it doesn't. And cause there's like examples that I could give you where I spent four days making a video with editing everything and it does it does not do well yeah yeah and then there's a video that like I woke up at 7 a.m. I was like oh I have an idea I record a video for 30 minutes I edit it for 30 minutes upload it

within the span of an hour and it's one of the best purporting videos on my channel for like a month well yeah I can just tell you about the video I uploaded today. It is currently, I think it's doubling my normal views, tripling my normal views. That's always nice. The video I uploaded on the Linux challenge that Linus Tech Tips was doing, that video was no effort. I just watched a 10-minute clip from Linus Tech Tips. I'm like, I'm going to talk about this. Yep.

I'm just going to throw this up real quick. See what happens. Those do good, but I'll do a jellyfin video. Yeah, yeah. Going through all the just setting it up, loading Ubuntu server, hours of editing, and it's like 8 out of 10 on the little side

thing. Anything below 5 is just depressing. Yeah, the last one I uploaded, I like making the videos, so I do them anyway, but with the PinePhone, the Linux operating, the mobile operating systems,

those videos never do good on my channel. Because I don't do them that often, and it's not what people subscribed for. But they're still super fun to do, but that one's 10 out of 10. Oh, God. Yeah, and it's just, like, I'm not going to... I would have thought... Oh, and you do a lot of distro... Yeah, you do a lot of distro stuff.

That, okay, there's your problem. Yeah, my main thing is the distros people love those videos i was gonna say because if i did a video on a pine phone i feel like my audience is i i know people that have a pine phone like i feel like people watching my channel a bit more bit more interested in like the i i guess just dicking around with stuff i guess that's a good way to put it yeah yeah it's deeper into it because the the linux distribution videos they're cool saves people time from screwing around with it themselves basically and i go through and I cover what's new and all that. And those do really well. And I don't know,

they're fun to make too, but I really like making like hardware videos and doing things with the pine phone and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. But I do talking head video every once in a while too. And those do well too. When it's like you find something that's just now starting to be talked about and you do a video on that real quick. Yeah. And those do well too when it's like you find something that's just now starting to be talked

about yeah yeah do a video on that real quick yeah and those do those are fun to make too like the one last one like that that i made was um the manjaro cinnamon using velvety that was the last time i did one of those and people liked that video i think it's just that there was a lot of people that were angry about it. That's sort of... Yeah. Yeah, it's just a community edition that one person maintains.

So it's like, it's not that big of a deal. But I can see... A lot of the articles I saw right there were like, really... Okay, your your title fully embraced the clickbait as well made it seem like it was gonna be like you know KDE

Manjaro drops Firefox yeah it's not the first couple lines I'm like Manjaro cinnamon oh yeah okay when it comes to clickbait a lot of people i think a lot of people say they hate clickbait but i think i think they they sort of misinterpret the problem here a lot of people hate being lied to they hate being misinformed but they don't hate clickbait itself like if you have um like i could have

probably come up with a more clickbaity title for that that linus tech tips video something like um light light uh linus sebastian embraces linux gaming something like that yeah um you're right when it comes to the lying thing if you are just if it's blatantly false that's no good but like you could like exaggerate a little bit or not really embellish but you can be a little dramatic yeah and what you're saying as long as it's still true and you immediately can what's actually going on in the first 30 seconds yeah yeah yeah that's what's important um or yeah embellishing is a good way to put it like when i did a video on the arch release guided installer like back in april uh the title actually i need to change the title because it's actually a good program now what was that called the video?

yeah that thing sucked for a minute Guided Arch Installer is an absolute joke yeah now it's decent it has problems it works better last time it just didn't make any sense trying to use it

things like when you set it up now it still in any sense trying to use it. Things like... When you set it up now, it still only does the basic petition configuration, so you get root, swap, and boot. But I always recommend that people have a home petition as well, and it doesn't do that at this point. There's other little things like that.

I think you can't set the locale either. Yeah, it just sticks sticks whatever the default is um but before like if you typed b instead of a it would just crash yeah that's not that's not good yeah what i haven't used it in about three months or so so i can't say if it's like working today but um archify that's what i've used a couple different times to install arch and that one's pretty good because it doesn't give you a graphical interface but it makes it a little prettier and it's very guided it holds your hand through the entire thing it's not calamaris but at least when i used it it worked every single time i ever used it i've had some people telling me to look at archfire maybe like compare the guide installer

with archfire and i i need to actually do a video on archfire i know everyone's already done videos on it but um i feel like even if a bunch of people have done videos on it there's still some there's still some value that can be added to it if you approach it from a different perspective if you try to bring your own thoughts into it like uh a common common example a recent example was with the epic data leak um a lot of people did videos on that like as soon as it happened saying this is the data that came out i did a video on that a couple of days later but my approach was this is how not to handle a data leak like i want to do a video more on the the management side how epic approached it and how how they didn't approach it but it's a better way to put it just

let it happen yeah if i never like if i thought of a video idea and i went on youtube to make sure nobody else done it before i'd probably have like 12 videos on my youtube channel because everybody's done something but like you said as long as you bring your own twist nobody else done it before i'd probably have like 12 videos on my youtube channel because everybody's done something but like you said as long as you bring your own twist you try to either approve on what's already out there so people are getting more information more options anything like that it's fine it's i'm sure you get the comments every so often saying you're copying insert their favorite linux youtuber oh yeah oh yeah and yeah all the time i the only person that i admittedly copied here and there and it's because i he was uh i copied a couple distro tube videos not like direct like word for word but and i would

mention that because like the uh the first time i did it going over like five it was like a one of the top five video things right right and i put at distro tube here's my top five sure i got a kind of thing so things like that are you could look at that but yeah there's been those comments or people like hey somebody did this exact video and then i'm like did they and then i look at it and they did a completely different method on how to do that that happens here and there the one time where i would say like the only time i've seen someone actually copy a video um well there was a video that Luke and Mental Outlaw did. Was it, it was a command line video. I think it was a command line video.

Um, see if I can find, Luke does not play many videos. I should be able to find it. But they did the exact same topics in the exact same order, making the exact same points. And they came out like a day between each other. That's funny. and they came out like a day between each other that's funny yeah there's been times too when like um like it happened with a switch to linux like he uploaded a video on linux mint and i had it like scheduled and it followed the same step by step everything that we talked about and reading the changelog and all that almost identical video and so that's happened a couple

times but there's especially if you're covering something that's like new yeah when it's topical yeah yeah with what's going on there's going to be a couple that are very similar like if you're talking about um you did a video on eac and battle eye recently like yeah Yeah. There's only so much you can say about that. Like, yeah, EAC and BattleEye are supported. Here are the games this will potentially affect. Yep, yeah. Yeah, did not have much to talk about, but it was something that I wanted to...

Because even in their announcement, they didn't really say too much. There was, like, a paragraph that you could pull out of that and try to stretch that out into three minutes at least oh i'm actually waiting on three minutes um yeah i i also talked about like i went through the list of the top 100 games on proton db and talked about like here's the games that this will actually affect um actually that does remind me i've got a topic on here. The Verge actually went and contacted a couple of game developers to ask them what they are doing with this,

whether they're actually going to enable it. So I know that Valve has been sending out dev kits. So I would be very surprised if most of the big devs don't at least have one of them yeah uh because i know there are devs that do have them right now so there's some of the companies have given basically no comment some have confirmed it um yeah it looks like that nobody said no, no one said no just yet. Oh, okay. Well, no is really bad for PR, especially right now.

No comment is sort of, it's sort of an implied no. Yeah. But, um. There's a lot of yeses here, though. Sorry? I said there's a lot of yeses here, though, Dead of Daylight. To be fair, half the yeses here though Dead of Daylight To be fair Half the yeses already have native versions

Oh okay Nevermind I think Uh well Yeah I can't remember exactly what title it was on War Thunder has a native version I know that a couple others on here Do have native versions as well

Rust Pug no comment no comment Yeah I know that a couple other on here do have native versions as well Russ pug no comment no comment. Yeah, I Okay, I'm still hopeful I'm there I'm still hopeful that when like when we get close to the launch they've Actually got something in store because otherwise like it doesn't really matter that it's supported in proton at this point if the devs don't do anything about it it's the exact same situation as before yeah what i can see happening is even these ones that are saying no because it's not a difficult thing to do but for the developers saying no when the because so many people pre-ordered this thing when people get it and they see the sales of the people who have this working right out the gate

their money talks and when they see sales shoot up for all the ones that are natively available on it they're like ah and then they're gonna hopefully get it ported or not ported but hopefully enable the anti-cheat and all that i'm uh i'm sure you've been hearing about people saying wow linux is above one percent on the steam hardware survey for the past three months i do have a video coming on this and the white not the one percent itself why the the one percent is bigger than just the one percent um the numbers that's a lot the numbers been slowly going up it's not just it's above 1% it's it's a gradual climb upwards um but that 1% equates to about 1.26 million monthly active users and that's a lot of people on linux it is a lot and i don't know how many steam decks are gonna sell but that could be basically double

or tripling that number uh i think doubling would put us above mac os so no tripling is above mac os yeah well you can't really play games on it. It's not a good platform. Especially with the... It still has 2.47% though. True, true. There's some games... Like, I can play City Skylines on the Mac. You can do that. You can do Rocket League and a couple other...

I know a lot of the, like, esports titles work on it. Okay. Yeah. And, like, indie games like stardew valley and stuff like that yeah let's see i yeah sorry i'm sorry go ahead uh no i was just gonna say i i i'm i'm hopeful i'm hopeful that if it sells well, these devs will smell the money. Yeah, that's ultimately what it comes down to. In any of this, is money.

Which, if it's there, it's there. It is, yeah. One thing I... Okay. One thing that is going to really confuse me is if Epic doesn't get their shit together and get their games working on Linux. Like, guys, you literally made this work. If Fortnite is not available on Linux,

I don't know what you're doing. Yeah, that would be silly. Oh, that was the other one. That was... I was looking over here. Oh, Fall Guys is no comment. I'm still kind of skimming through all the... Which, that's the one I care about.

That's the only thing I spin up a Windows thing for, is to play Fall Guys. Fall Guys used to work, and then they added EAC, and then it didn't work. Yeah, after the fact. I remember, because Fall Guys... Because I started getting into Linux again probably a year and a half ago or so,

and that's right when that came out. Yeah, yeah. So, I got to play it for, like, two weeks. Yeah. And then I just didn't. So, that sucked. It was an incredibly fun game. I kind of skipped that entire trend.

I never really got into the game. I was very, well, I was busy with the channel and uni at the time, and, yeah, I didn't really have time for games. Yeah, it's not really it's not too much fun to play by yourself but if you're like in a discord server with somebody or a group of people and you guys are doing it that's when it's really fun i guess that's why a lot of people live stream it like you did live stream it yeah because then because if you die you're like oh and then you just back out but if you have three other people then you want to watch them screw up yeah that's that's when that game gets fun i'm not too surprised that

um microsoft didn't really say much about halo like with the eac of battle eye whatever it's using yeah no they didn't say nothing uh i think's a maybe. DayZ is a... I expect... I expect a lot of indie studios to do it. Indie studios are typically a lot more... A lot more willing... Even though they have way less resources, a lot more willing to support Linux.

Yeah. Because they want as many people as possible on their games. And usually the games are more like games of passion rather than games of how much money can we make this quarter yep exactly which is a lot of the games that we need unfortunately yeah well look dead by daylight's on here so that's that's that's one thing that's one thing that but yeah apex apex is a big one bdo um and yeah like people will say okay people have said oh you wouldn't want to play rainbow six siege or apex legends on this anyway but one you can dock it so there's that you can just plug a monitor into it but two this is more than just the steam deck

this is about gaming on linux as like as a whole any changes made in regards to the steam deck are going to affect everybody gaming on linux yeah and we can already see it just Valve alone is the probably the only reason why this is even possible is what they've done and even there's the old video of Linus Torvald saying if anybody's going to push use

for a Linux desktop it's going to be Valve yeah he started that quote by saying I don't think games are important but some people seem to like games so i guess they're kind of important yeah he doesn't understand why people care about games but he understands that there's a lot of people who do care yeah the primary driving force to your entire ecosystem other than server stuff yeah yeah um i don't know i i'm hopeful as i said i'm hopeful but i'm not holding out too much hope because if you do you'll be disappointed exactly i need to scroll down i have this picture you sent me earlier of Mark Zuckerberg. I need to get that out of here.

There we go. Someone actually... They shouldn't have been doing this, but someone did... We don't know if they're entirely accurate. Someone did potentially post benchmarks from the dev kit. Ooh. That was shared on a Chinese news site,

so a grain of salt um oh yeah but the numbers that it's showing don't look don't look impossible the numbers seem to make sense yeah shadow of the tomb raider at 60 for the lower. The problem is they don't exactly say what they're running. It's just generic lower. Yeah. So is that like how low do you have the resolution and all that? Because if you're playing on 720p, yeah, it's going to run okay. Sure.

But Doom 2016 on higher with 46 frames that's pretty good that's very playable well one way you can always save yourself a lot of uh a lot of performance is just disable shadows dynamic shadows kills kills a lot of games oh yeah to compute it's always cool to look at the specs of the steam deck um yeah i don't really have a great point of comparison like it's it's because we don't really know how the rda units are going to perform yeah we we can we can speculate about it we don't particularly know yeah all i can do is look at the core count in gigahertz and but when it comes to the actual architecture and platform you don't know until it's in your hands and you can

actually do it didn't they we were talking about lion's tech tips earlier didn't he go on go to seattle and play with one for a little bit yes he did uh... What did he play? He played Doom Eternal on it, and it played... It played better than the numbers for Doom 2016 here are sort of indicating. So... I don't know how much weight we can give to what it has here. Yeah.

But... One thing that will be really interesting is, fsr amd's um amd's competitor for dlss the uh the the upscaling thing you could probably get some pretty ridiculous performance out of the steam deck by just doing upscaling rather than running a native resolution and at the site what is it it's like eight inches? Seven inches. Seven inch screen. It's not that big.

If you put it onto a monitor, sure, you would notice the upscaling issues, but on a seven inch screen, you could probably get away with some pretty harsh upscaling. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's where they're going to run the best. I think it's funny the Cyberpunk 2077's here at 20 to 30. That's surprising to me.

I want to know what their high is because that's actually really impressive. Because that game doesn't run well on good hardware. Yeah, it doesn't run well on anything. It doesn't run her well on anything. I have been watching some of the gamers' videos on Cyberpunk as he keeps doing them. And how they've decided to improve the performance of the game is actually beautiful. They're just like, let's just disable traffic. No traffic.

We don't need it. I forgot what it was, but I was watching something where they were showing off the water physics. Comparing games. And like most of these games are really cool. Some of them are kind of cheesy. But then they showed somebody

like shooting a pistol in the water for Cyberpunk and just nothing was happening. It was beautiful. I was never excited for that game. Like I heard about it back when it was first announced i was like okay so when it came out and it was trash like okay that's cool i just watched the train wreck yeah i'm not much of a gamer so i kind of just kind of pay attention to what's going on but like i i've been i've had this system on my computer for like four or five days or so and i don't think i even have steam installed yet because i'm i jump

back and forth between linux distros all the time that's for uh for reviews like i'm on open suza right now and because it's going to be a long term i'm going to be in this for like a month here's my review type video and i mean it's okay it's weird it came a long term, I'm going to be in this for like a month. Here's my review type video. And I mean, it's okay. It's weird. It came with Adobe Flash pre-installed. So that was interesting. Yeah.

Wait, what year is it? It's, yeah, Adobe Flash, Flash Player. Sure, okay. And with the known version of OpenSUSE. Sure. So I'm going gonna be mentioning that so do you have a distro that like you made at all or is it just you swap to as you swap i just swap i don't have like dot file saved and get hub repositories or anything like that so i just change them out on a monthly basis

to familiarize myself with different environments. Yep, yep. The number one that I get recommended is the Gentoo one, but I'm pretty sure people are doing that just to see if I will do it. Gentoo's not that bad. It's just very time- just very time yeah very time consuming and like the one of the main reasons for using something like that is to like slim down the kernel and really get performance perfect yeah but me like i would just install the entire

lts kernel and not care and throw whatever so for me you'd still buy every kernel and install gnome on it. Yeah. Yeah. After I get everything installed, it doesn't matter. Yeah. That I'm not a Gentoo anymore

because I've bloated it. Yeah. I think Gentoo, I don't know that, there's a weird audience of people that are obsessed with watching people install distros. I've noticed that like, when I do it, like when i do a

like uh arch install stream or a gen 2 install stream my like view account goes way higher i don't know why i don't understand it but yep these people really just they just want to see people in a terminal yep the that wasn't in the terminal at all but like like the Debian stream that I did where I just installed Debian because I was going to benchmark it for something else. And that one had like double the average people on the live stream just because Debian was in the title and... Yeah, I think it also does help when you just put a distro name in the title. I put Archie in the title and my views go way up.

Yeah, that's... it's a given that's gonna happen if you put a distro's name you put a number so you do like five best seven awesome yeah yeah something like that you give somebody a list of something that's what people like that people laugh at watch mojo but they know exactly how the algorithm works. Yeah, people laugh at them, but then the last video they upload has 7 million views. Jesus Christ. Imagine being the writer for WatchMojo.

Like, imagine that being your job. Every day you upload. All right, got to come up with another list. 10 things. What is the latest list that WatchMojo has done? Let's find out. Six hours ago. Oh.

Okay, yep. They know exactly what they're doing. Top 10 most shocking moments from Squid Game. Top 10, that's a phrase most shocking so they're hitting all the keywords top 10 iconic movie scenes of the 2000s got some numbers in there top 10 satisfying level up sounds in video games. Man, they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Satisfying level up sounds? Oh no. Jeez.

I'm really digging. I wonder how many employees they actually have. Because clearly you'd need a lot of people to be sorting through junk like this. Yeah, they probably have two or three people that are solely making the lists and then they pick the list and they probably send it off to somebody else to make it like to get all the graphics and figure out what movie clips they are and aren't allowed to use yeah probably a lot of work that goes into that that's probably a big part of what decides what they can use, actually. Yeah, so they don't get a strike.

Because doing stuff like that, that would be my biggest concern. If I use five seconds of this movie, are they going to completely take everything down? YouTube's sort of gotten better with stuff like that like on my um on my gaming channel i've gotten a couple of copyright claims not uh not strikes for playing the intro to a game yeah just because like uh the the intro is like you know it's it's um they'll have some like singers for it yeah yeah it's not like made specifically for the game i think one of the reasons why it's because especially in the last couple years with how much uh like reaction type videos there are that is such a heavy amount of viewership on youtube now and that's just people

basically replaying other people's content with uh paused opinions here and there and if they were to be really strict on using little clips of movies and stuff that would cut down so many watch hours on youtube that that's what i think is the main reason why that's been getting lighter and lighter with how strict they are i think i think what also happens with that is a lot of especially game studios um but movie studios as well are starting to catch on as well realize that there is sort of a a mutually beneficial relationship there as long as someone isn't just uploading your entire thing in just without anything like they just sit in the corner like yes that happened

yeah don't pause it at all to say anything just yeah yeah at the end of it like oh that was good i think when people are actually adding some commentary to it uh they're really like there's a it's basically free marketing that's what it is basically free marketing for them exactly yeah i've gotten a one strike on my channel the the one strike i have on my channel was from a video i upload like i got it like eight months after i uploaded the video and it was um uh what's that distro it's it has the onion browser installed it's i don't want to say the words because i don't want them to happen to you. It's the one distro.

You can only run it off of a USB. It's meant to use the Onion web browser. I think I know. Ah, yes. Yeah, it was just a thing. It's fine. We just talked about Sonic. Yeah.

Yeah, it was just a regular distro review on that. yeah it was one of the uh it was just a regular distro yeah yeah review on that and since i went on the the bad side of the internet for like two seconds to show that it worked that's the one strike i have on my channel it's been on there forever every time i log in i got a big window saying yeah you're in trouble yeah it's like oh you got a warning oh yeah my my warning was it's so dumb because there are videos on it that still exist now is a video on youtube dl i i cut out i like uh luke smith got kicked off for like a week because of that and some other people got strikes so i have a video that was old that went over like uh i think it's seven terminal utilities yeah yeah i had youtube dl in there and i went and i just took that chunk out because i didn't want to risk it i took that so i go from like i application number three to

application number five yeah in that video because i just took that right out because i don't want to risk it still an odyssey though, my video is still there as well. It's so... I'm literally looking at videos on YouTube DL right now. And these were uploaded before my video. Yeah, that's why I got all sketched out and got rid of that because I don't want another one because then that's two strikes. Yeah, two strikes is a problem.

Yeah, because then you got to be real careful. Can't do anything wrong. Your first strike is always a warning um at least when i got it i don't know if they it was different you got that one um i still have it yep channel violation warning yeah when you get that that second strike that's when i think it's like a you can't upload for a week or something like that yep which you know for you hey if it happens when you have your exams it might not be a bad thing no it'd probably be beneficial but then i would just still make a video every day and then schedule them out and then have two a day up yeah yeah because i have no time management skills when it comes to youtube. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

I've gotten better at it. I now tell myself, you're not working after like 5 p.m. Once it's 5 p.m., just leave it till the next day. Yeah, that's what I've been trying to do. For me, it's like 6. And my time is when I usually just drop it. It sort of depends on when I wake up. I sometimes wake up later and I'm like, like okay we'll keep going a bit later then

yeah doesn't always happen though yeah no it doesn't like Monday I was doing stuff till 7.38 because like screw it it was a public holiday on that day

so I was like you know what i'm just gonna i'm just gonna keep going i'll get all my videos planned out today yeah yeah me i've been super busy doing this because i've been trying to pump them out and um i've been working on forms too and i don't know like i had to teach myself how to use the software and all that yeah it's kind of a node. I saw you just did a video on the node. The people over there are awesome. They are. Yeah.

So I did discourse forms. I'm trying to set that up. It's a lot because I'm so used to using just regular cPanel and having normal websites through that. But this is my first time in a VS actually having to run it through docker and all that so i've been spending a lot of time recently on that because i'm trying to get my main website away from wordpress because wordpress sucks uh-huh like if you were on the blog tech tv it's garbage i haven't like every once in a while i'll put an article up where

there's more than like two commands for the description and that's about it but the form website looks a lot better and it's more interactive and all that my favorite page is um here it is it's it's it's this one here we go it's it's it's this one oh sample page yeah sample page just left it there yep sounds about right i'm guessing when you first make a thing with wordpress it just makes that and you just never got rid of it yeah yeah i don't i probably i probably deleted it from the menu but didn't actually get rid of it all the way. Because you could delete pages.

WordPress is, it's not that bad. It's just a static blog, basically. So I'm not really motivated to go to it and publish things to it. Sure. Which would be good to do. But that's why I'm going to the forum. Because I'm more used to using other people's forums and just the formatting, B code. I know all the B code and all that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, that's why I'm building that. It's a fun little project. It does sound like a fun project. I don't know. Maybe I should try out something like that at some point. I don't know. It could make a fun video series as well.

Yeah. And it's open source. It's a free open source source thing i think mozilla uses it for their forms ubuntu uses it for theirs manjaro uses it a lot of people use them use discourse there's a couple others too but it seems like discourse is the better when it comes to free and open source i've used non-free ones like there's other form software like zenforo and all this but because you get support for a year and then you have to repurchase 50 extended support licenses and all this crap uh but speaking of um ubuntu Speaking of Ubuntu, so you know how the Snap application doesn't have support for third-party stores? Yeah. Well, someone wants to fix that.

LOL. Yeah, they just called it LOL. LOL Snap. The Snap custom server. The the variant of snap that's awesome run lol refresh to upgrade yeah it's just basically taking the piss here i i do love it that's beautiful uh there's some people that are trying to basically take what is in the main snap repo and just migrate it over and apparently it's pretty much just one command to migrate stuff so at some point i don't know if canonical is gonna like that if you just mirror the store into another server but

they're gonna do it anyway yep yep it's harder to keep track. They like to have all their numbers. It's gonna ruin all that. I don't hate snaps to the level that some people do, but... A lot of people, especially like, I did a video on installing Nextcloud, and I did it with a snap. The main part of the video was linking it to a domain and all that yeah the installation part was just run sudo snap install and people did not like that at all like half the comments were like why would i use a snap and the other half were normal yeah but but there is a good point too because like with the uh snap package for next cloud for example uh there's certain plugins that require some dependencies that you can't get into the snap package like if you want to run uh video encoders so you convert videos on your

server externally in the background uh you can't do that through the snap because there's have no way to incorporate ffmpeg into the snap package but there's a couple things like that but like me i'm not doing that yeah so the snap is fine for me but some of the things people say make sense and they're fair but a lot of people just don't like it to not like it there's one snap that i've been tempted to install because it actually makes the program better and that's obs i ran this it does because especially now because there's things that rely on like the obs team's um youtube keys so like you can do like youtube integration twitch integration and stuff like that yep yeah i haven't tried i because i didn't they update that recently with a whole bunch of

different things yep i haven't i haven't deep dived into it too much yet so i'm still i'm not too familiar with the youtube integration and all that but i know on running obs on a snap package i've never had an issue with that either there are some things that snaps and flat packs and i'll use app images that much but snaps and flat packs are really good for but like next cloud for my specific use case was a perfect use but i could see how doing that is limiting sure sure realize you need something but you've already been running the snap for a year and you have everything on there probably a pain to migrate something like that so i i wouldn't know with uh with next cloud next up some things are fine like some things are pretty fine migrating like migrating steam and stuff like that from the the native version uh flatpak is dead simple, but I'm sure there's a lot more to Nextcloud than that.

Yeah, I haven't done any migrating Nextcloud, but it seems like it would not be the... Well, no, because I do have a backup thing, but it's still setting up everything. I'm not sure if the settings import

properly or anything like that. Right, right. But I know you can back up your actual like file structure and all that really okay but yeah I was gonna say like application because you can install third-party applications and stuff yeah yeah yeah and migrating those settings would be

I've been wanting to looking at next cloud for a very long time i just never it like i i have a list of topics that has about a thousand things on it yeah yeah no so do i there's so many things i have to get around to that i've said i would like in other videos but i've obligated myself to do Like, I have to do the video on installing DaVinci Resolve. Yeah. But there's a way to do it depending on if you're in Fedora, if you're in Ubuntu, if you're in Arch. So I got to, like, get...

It's going to be one of those videos that's going to take a while. And, like, I have to do part two of a Jellyfin guide that I said I would do. So, yeah, I got got and i actually have it on next cloud where it's like these things where i could put it from a to do doing done thing and the to do is like you scroll for a little bit that's the one good thing though is with the type of content we make it's very hard to run out of things i'm sure yeah i'm sure you're at the point as well where people suggest stuff and the list is

basically self-perpetuating like yeah it will never grow shorter no matter what you do no no like even like i have a discord server that has a chat, like, a chat room that's just suggestions. Yeah, yeah. And I could just go on that and scroll and find something in a couple seconds that I could do a video on. It's, yeah. And that's allowed even considering, like, just doing whatever news stuff shows up. Yeah. Yeah, that works too the like the one that i was just last suggested somebody wants to know

the difference between like a bash and zsh and fish and all those but that's one of the reasons why i like doing this completely no and then that forces me to learn it and then i have to learn it enough to the point where i can actually talk about it and know what i'm talking about just wing it just see what happens see what i'm talking about there's some of it like i wing some videos but it's usually if i already have a yeah yeah if i tried to wing a video talking about fish i would look like a complete idiot like if you did a video on like Caden live for example you could you just talk about generally using Caden live you've used enough at this point where it's fine I could make a 25 minute video on Caden live with no like if I hit record right now hmm I just go

because that's I use that thing so much even before i was uh it was my alternative when i was doing like just like little clips of completely unrelated things for like family and all that i that's i've been using kate in life forever but i still like to venture resolve a little bit better but like we said earlier it has it's faults yeah I've had issues with Kdenlive in the past some versions were just not stable it's gotten really

good nowadays, I haven't had any problems with any of the versions recently but I mainly use Olive at this point I want Olive to be good it's very alpha yeah I've used Olive at this point. I want Olive to be good. It's just, it's very alpha. Yeah, I've used Olive in a couple videos. And, like, I would like it to be good as well. I can see where, like, in two years, probably.

Yeah. It's going to be a wonderful video editor. There's just one dude working on it, though. Really? That's it? There's one, yeah, the dude's a YouTuber as well. It's not like he's just dedicating all his time to working on it though really that's one yeah the dude's a youtuber as well it's not like he's just dedicating all his time to working on olive yeah yeah but i can see how because it kind of follows the same kind of node structure with some of the effects and animations and things you want to do as davinci resolve does and that's an incredibly professional

video editing application but um yeah with caden live you as of recent i have it that a lot of people used to have with like the random crashing or anything like that and if it does they it's really good with recovering yeah so if it does crash and it pulls it up the issues i've been having with caden live are when i have effects like sometimes it just works perfect and i don't have an issue but there'll be times where like i'll bring you little credit things with the patreon names yeah and during the transition slide or the fade the screen is just black for three seconds yeah i'm like oh nice so then i gotta go back and and then i'll like move the clip like three frames over and re-render it'll work it's just little things like that i do my uh youtube shorts in caden live just because olive doesn't have all the stuff i

need it to do uh so i will crop my video and my game and then also like resize it to fit in like the vertical layout sometimes it just doesn't apply the effect or it'll apply the effect wrong yeah it for cutting caden live is beautiful but you you'll have to if you use it on a consistent basis you'll find yourself re-rendering every once in a while for sure and yeah the same thing happened to me because i i don't do shorts too often but like the last one i did was a boot speed thing top and bottom yeah and i brought in the names and they just flashed in instead of the slide and things like that and another thing that happens i'm not sure if it happens to you but when you're cutting just like regular footage if you cut too close to an audio wave

i'll get these like loud like chirp like right once it goes over the cut that happens to me a lot i can't say i've seen that one before. Yeah, I did. It was like basically saying why I liked Adventure Resolve, complaining about Kaden Live, where I was scrubbing over it and going, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, over the... I played it.

That though. Man, these audio issues are a pain in the ass. I haven't had these for so long. Oh, me? Yeah. I didn't hear any of that last bit. There we go. Oh, other than some things like that,

those are the only issues that I've had with Kaden Live. Right, right. But they're substantial enough that they're super annoying. Yeah. Especially if, like, I'm, like, especially recently because I just started school, they're substantial enough that they're super annoying especially if like i'm like especially recently because i just started school like i'll render a video and i'll have five minutes before i have to leave and i'll skim through real quick and they'll be like and then i gotta hit re-render and then i had a video that i it was like a sponsored one that i said i'd have up in a

certain time so I had to re-render it but I had to go to school so on my computer screen I left the window open and I left YouTube open in the upload page I had to call my fiance can you click on the file get over to the other window like I had to have her upload it for me because of a feed and live rendering issue i luckily don't have that limited amount of time um like i i work nights so if i you know forget to upload something beforehand i'll just do it at midnight or so yeah and because like time zones and stuff like it's not a big deal i just schedule stuff yeah yeah i need to

start scheduling things that's my big problem right now it'll it'll real when i started scheduling videos honestly it it felt so freeing like i don't have to worry about it when it needs to go up yeah i always like it because like the only time i schedule things like um the node as a sponsorship they're really nice to work with i don't even have to show them the video so they're super cool but like uh there's other ones that you they have to like approve it yeah make sure you're not saying anything absolutely ridiculous during the video and those ones i schedule out it's nice because i'll be like it'll get approved and like oh yeah i can just have this come out today instead of stressing about

what's going on and so i'll just publish it and it's nice i yeah i i do like lenode for that like they've like when i when they first contacted me like oh do you want to like add some free credit to do some stuff with this and you you want to, like, try something out. Like, that's really helpful. Like, the EIs want to do this. Especially at the time, I was only at, like... I think at the time, I was maybe only at, like, 10k subs or something. So, I wasn't a big channel by any means. Yeah, I...

My channel is really weird because... Oh! My channel is really weird because... Oh! Did that work? Am I back? You're back. Hi. I'm not going to cut that.

Okay, that's fair. I got in as quick as I could. Hello. Hi. Thank you, OpenSUSE. Like I said, I've been in open suza for a couple days so the right i'm still learning the distribution what i was saying yes is my channel's weird because it's old and it was basically a different channel before yeah yeah yeah like my the first 12 000 subscribers that i have i can't

really count because none of those people watch this channel right because they subscribed in 2012 when i was making minecraft videos and it's probably all just inactive google accounts at this point but so when i look at my numbers it's like I actually have this many that I can count. Yeah. Driver base. But yeah, that's what I was saying before Discord crashed. Well, to be fair, considering that your channel does really well, even with those 12k subs not really counting. No, I've been really

and there's a trick to it that I think I kind of figured out is the every once in a while there's a certain type of video that I know is going to do good on a long term basis like me saying something about like the Manjaro thing

Manjaro and Favallity I know that video is going to get a lot of views really quick and then just flatline a video that's going to happen to a video like that but like i have a couple other ones like the uh benchmarking videos right that i do here and there where i just get the numbers and i see if there's any significant differences between Linux distributions those do well on a like steady long-term basis so if those like and the YouTube algorithm is really weird so if those videos do well and people watch those they'll start getting recommended my recent ones that are more kind of short-term growth videos and yeah it's it's difficult to figure out but there's kind of a

method to it making videos that are strictly that i know won't do well initially but have long-term potential versus videos that i make strictly for the people who are subscribed. I'm trying to search your channel on Social Blade, and there's another channel called Tech Hut, but it refuses to show your actual... Oh, there we go. Now it's showing the right channel. Yeah, it's Tech... Because I had to change it. I literally searched for this twice,

and it didn't show up until a third time. Whatever. Yeah, your growth has sort of spiked recently geez videos thought yeah your channel is really well for its size Wow yeah the it's it to a point to me it doesn't make sense but why why is your arc right because your original stuff like your uh social play still thinks you're a games channel yeah because like a majority of the views are on because i did like top 10 bucket plugins that have like 900 000 views from 10 years ago and so it thinks i'm a games channel but i'm waiting for that to change someday someday that might change maybe uh i

wouldn't hold out hope for that one no no i don't use social blade too much i kind of look at it to see like kind of compare to others but i i do like i always love social blades estimated earnings yeah it's just so like the range is so wide it's usually somewhere right in the middle of what they say let's see let's see for mine what does what does mine say at this point uh broody robertson yeah 17 like that's a lot about right in the middle right in the middle sounds that seems about right yeah yeah which is good because i uh i left my job february and i kind of it was super because when i first left my job using only youtube adsense all that was technically in the red by like 400 every month. So I was like, well, I hope this works.

And I had a savings account, so I knew I could sustain myself for this amount of months. Nope, well, that didn't work. Well, you're in a much better position. It is like the end of the year, so you can't really count end of the year metrics too much, but judging by the numbers, you're in a much better position right now. Yeah.

Yeah, it's doing decent, which is good timing for being in school and all that. Yeah, I worked while I was going through uni, but I totally get that if you can focus entirely on it it makes more sense to do that you're gonna have to repeat this i can't tube in school is fucking audio i hate this this is like one of the reasons why i i stopped using discord with some people one of the reasons why I stopped using Discord with some people.

Yeah, and I'm usually not... I use it for the typing and the server thing a lot of the time, but it's very rare. I'm usually in the audio chat for the server, and that really doesn't matter. If it cuts off for two seconds, you just go, What? What'd you say?

It's usually better than this. Some days, it's just rough, though. Yeah, but. Yeah. But, yeah, the channel's going in the right direction, which is nice. Well, up is always the right direction. It doesn't...

Some people have said to me, like, oh, your channel's not growing as much as so-and-so channels. Like, that's fine. I don't care. As long as it's not going down. As long as I'm not Brian Lunduk. Yeah. I don't care as long as it's not going down as long as I'm not Brian Lunduk um yeah he did it to himself though

right for me like this month if it does go down for a couple months that's going to be fine by me because if you average out like the last 12 months it's like the last couple weeks I don't know what happened, really.

Well, let's see what you uploaded. Top five distro of 2020. Sure. Okay. Yeah. That's inherently going to do well. Yeah. People love GNOME videos.

I don't know why. Yeah. The theming ones I uploaded because I recently just started using gnome and I uh I was on KDE for like a year and a half KDE plasma and I forced myself to use fedora 34 for a review for a long term like one month type video and after that I like gnome now because type video and after that i like gnome now because i forced my i didn't like it before and my like when i would review distros or talk about them my main complaints was it's gnome right and i was like well this isn't really fair so so i forced myself to use it and now it's my main thing at the moment i i used i3 for a long time, but I never got used to the tiling thing.

I sort of forced myself to learn tiling. My camera just disappeared. Whatever. I sort of forced myself to learn tiling. And I just, I now can't live without it. Yeah. Yeah, I used Cronkite for for a while which is the little extension for plasma and that was cool because they could pop open settings and disable it and then have floating

again my only like i would probably use tiling like i used i3 for a couple months but my main issue which isn't an issue anymore because of how i record now is like trying to get virtual box to work properly with it and record it it's kind of a pain um and using multi monitors with i3 and having to do like the configuration file and like for a while there i had the the it was a stacking display yep and like i had the wrong oh yeah no i3 is gonna be weird like that yeah yeah i3 was weird yeah my backgrounds were flipped and it took me like a couple days to figure that out how to switch those back like one of my benchmarking videos that i was talking about that did fairly well if you look at the computer in the background i have like my backgrounds are

like cut in half all weird. Because that's when I was using i3 and trying to fix it. Yep, yep. But it's mostly the keyboard. I'm not much of a keyboard person. Like, so I'm not good with memorizing hotkeys or setting things up like that. or setting things up like that. It's like even trying to remember to use the super key to get into the gnome shell and start typing something.

I always end up going and clicking activities just because my hands aren't on the keyboard. That's one of the things I kind of like about Awesome. I disable it because I don't care for it. But Awesome, every window has a status bar on it like you'd see in most floating window managers. So you can full screen it with that, you can close it with that. If I go and like right-click on my taskbar at the top, I can swap between like the windows that are open. There's a lot of the typical floating stuff inside of Awesome.

Awesome does a really good job at bringing the two workflows together I actually use a lot of floating windows in awesome like my my browse window just so I don't have anywhere sensible to put I just float it and just put it above my face so I didn't see my face yeah I I like the option of having floating there, but tiling is my go-to. Yeah. On my laptop for a real long time, I use their built-in GNOME tiling pop shell thing. For awesome, because have you configured i3 before? I have, yes.

That was my first window manager. Yeah, it's fairly easy to configure. You can figure it out, 30 minutes oh you'll know how to do it good luck with awesome yeah yeah that's i was gonna ask the comparison how would you compare the config awesome is in the same boat as things like qtile and xmonad okay yeah xmonad is difficult xmonad haskell uh qtile is python this is lure i could probably do qtile because i know a little bit of Python. I can at least read it and edit it.

I can't just start typing and make something. Well, the thing I like about Awesome is Awesome is, besides the key bindings being made by a crazy person, the Awesome is good at, like, okay, what I mean is, SuperShift

Q, the key that normally kills a window, kills Awesome. Before I change that, I don't remember how many times I killed Awesome trying to kill a window. Just go black screen for a couple seconds. That's fun.

One thing I don't like about i3 is it uses Vim key bindings to move windows around, but they're shifted to the right. So instead of H, J, K, and L, it's J, K, L, and semicolon. Yeah, I noticed that a lot. It took me a while to figure that out. That's one of the things I fixed literally on the first minute I used it. Like, this is dumb.

What is this? Yeah. on the first minute I used like this is dumb what is this yeah and I like to use the uh like I'm a super normie when it comes to a lot of this I like I set it up to use the uh just the arrow keys that's fair for a lot of the window movements in i3

and it worked pretty good just super in those but I wish I would have got a keyboard that had a number pad that was a I that had a number pad. That was a... I do have a number pad. Let's not break stuff. There we go, number pad. Yeah, I got a... It's like a ducky

mechanical. It's a nice keyboard. I don't want to pull it because with my luck I'll bump a button and kill Discord. I'm running a Cherry Stream right now. This is $40 Australian, which is probably like, I don't know, $5 US.

I don't know. No, it's not that bad. I think it's like $20 or $30. Yeah, it's like 80 cents to the dollar. This one was kind of expensive. It was like, I think it was 100 US. So like 120 Australian. And it's pretty nice. It has a silent reds in it so you can't really hear it too bad when i'm typing unless if i hit

the space bar and it's like boom when you're typing but it works pretty good i i'm just not really a fan of mechanical keyboards i like my scissor switches I got a lot of hate comments on the video where I talked about scissor switches And then I had overtime like that's one of the videos that sort of overtime just generally does well I now occasionally have people sort of who are also scissor switch fanatics coming like wow There's someone else who likes this which is I didn't know anyone else existed Yeah Yeah, like this thing i actually like i'll switch my setup to using this keyboard and like i'll forget to switch back the keys on that

thing they actually looks like the most generic like something you'd get in like a dell box with a computer type keyboard there is no travel on those keys is there no not at all not at all it's just it squishes oh that's gross yeah but it works if i have to hit record on obs yeah that's fine that's all you're doing i guess it worked like a media pc and stuff as well yeah no it's good for, like, hooking to a server, or if you did have it in a, like, a media cabinet for your TV and all that, this would be a good keyboard. I like the ones that fold, like a tri-fold with the, have you seen those before? What? No. No, they're super cool. They, uh, they, like, fold, so then it's, like, a little square.

You can unfolds as, like, a a trackpad and the rest is a keyboard. What are you doing? Painfully unergonomic. Yeah, no, that sounds horrible. I don't know what you're... I've never heard of this before. Here, here, here. Okay, let's see.

This is just a random Amazon link. Okay. It's a Amazon link. Okay. It's a painful link. I didn't take any of the extra crap out of it. What is this? It's perfect for a home media PC that you only need to hit play on a movie. I guess so. Oh, the trackpad's useful to have there, I guess.

Yeah. I guess that's... It has the buttons. It's technically a keyboard sure It's technically a keyboard. Just don't sit there and actually try to type stuff out on you'll hurt your wrists Why does it have iOS Android and Windows buttons on like the QW and E keys? I just noticed that this was a completely random one. Maybe it's to like Switch free systems devices. Oh, it has multiple devices. Ah, okay. That's actually useful Yeah, and it's small That's actually good. Yeah, so I'm not crazy. So try full little keyboard Huh, I don't like it Yeah, so I'm not crazy. So, trifle little keyboard. Huh.

I don't like it. Yeah, neither do I. But it's cool. That's why I got this one. That's why I got this one. There's a picture at the end here of someone putting it into their work bag as if they're going to do, I don't know, journalism on it. Work with it? No.

Yeah, I would not recommend doing any journalism on a keyboard like that. You're gonna give yourself carpal tunnel. Pretty much straight away. So, we are just closing in on the two-hour mark, actually, and that's roughly where I want to end it. Sounds good

to me. I didn't hit on most of the topics we have. We just went on, like, random tangents, which is fine to be honest. A lot of these topics aren't super timely. Yeah. Works for me. Where can people find you?

People can find me both on YouTube if you just search TechHut and look for a generic thumbnail with a laptop and a Linux distro over the laptop, you will find me there. Or you could go over to TechHut on Twitter, and I am also there. I'm not too active on Mastodon, but I do have an account. Odyssey, if you do prefer that platform, I have everything over there. And I'm actually quite active on Odyssey.

I love the platform. Yeah, you can go to forum.techhut.tv as well. But YouTube's the main thing. We should have talked more about Odyssey, actually. Especially, like, it's been a while since the whole SEC thing happened. Yeah. I haven't heard anything about that i i i don't know they're still on their twitter they're still they're still like saying they've been they're

being bullied by the scc yeah basically the thing they've been doing for months um yeah they've been talking about how the platform's been like massively growing still but i i'm what am i i think my account is the 71st biggest account on the platform and i've had maybe yeah maybe five or six hundred sub growth over the past like five or so months which is nothing yeah mine mine has been decent like your your numbers are way better than mine over on Odyssey. Well, no, my problem is that the platform's apparently growing, but, like, none of the channels in the top 100 list are seeing much growth. I think it's because it's probably a lot of people who aren't really into tech are figuring this out.

And I can see a lot of, like, the conservative... Yeah, the political crowd is probably what's going to jump in on it. Yeah, that's probably where a lot of the growth is coming from especially here with some of the like i'm not gonna pick a side or anything but the deplatforming that's going on they moved to here because the last thing they were using what was it a parlor that social media service that thing got borked so they need somewhere else to go that's probably a chunk of the numbers. The problem with BitChute, which is where a lot of people go, is BitChute is very hard to make money on.

Yeah. I think they have like an ad program now, but like you have to be a really big creator or something. Yeah. Yeah, it's hard to... Anything other than YouTube, it's like really tricky to work and actually get pull any revenue out of unless you're using it to direct people to other things like um a patreon things like that yeah then that's doable but like even odyssey it's like you can make their tips and all that

but it's not really the best when it comes to revenue and income. But it's still a magnificent platform. I think I just hit 2,000 people over here. Oh, wow. Which is decent for not that popular of a platform. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I still have my old picture and my old banner and all that i need to update some things i've been meaning to like make a new banner and stuff for my stuff uh i i just haven't gone

around to it i i just changed my banner on youtube and twitter it was so bad like it had the a th in the middle with like thumbnails for videos that were older than dirt and i just got rid of it and replaced it with what was the best until i can figure out what to put there which is literally just a picture of like my ryzen cooler hey it looks pretty cool yeah it does the trick i guess so i think that's gonna be pretty much everything then um you guys can find if you're watching the video version of this the audio version is available pretty much anywhere audio release on sorry video release on YouTube and Odyssey

my main channel BrodyRobton upload Linux videos, I've got a gaming channel BrodyRobtonPlays and yeah that's pretty much it for me, do you have anything else to say? Not really I have a lot of projects coming up that are going to be fun so check those out other than that i am a-okay okay cool i'll you know i i never tell people this because they never watch to the end but i

let the guest always do the outro so give us an outro all right well thank you for watching or listening to the podcast uh we enjoyed having you here make sure like was already said you subscribe to both teca and brody on both youtube and odyssey and check out brody's patreon to support him over there with all that said i hope you all have a beautiful day and goodbye wow that was the most professional outro we've ever had here i like it