Tech Over Tea - Amateur Sci-Fi Author & YouTuber | HexDSL

Episode Date: September 7, 2022

Since the last time I spoke to Hex DSL he's completely shifted his direction, now beginning to move away from Linux and instead focusing on writing science fiction novels, so of course we had to get deep into that topic ==========Guest Links========== Website: https://hexdsl.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/HexDSL Twitter: https://twitter.com/HexDSL Buy Books Itch Io: https://hexdsl.itch.io/ Buy Books Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hex-DSL/e/B09NMCQLHX ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3d5gykF ► Other Methods: https://cointr.ee/brodierobertson =========Video Platforms========== 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBq5p-xOla8xhnrbhu8AIAg =========Audio Release========= 🎵 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/149fd51c/podcast/rss 🎵 Apple Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-over-tea/id1501727953 🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3IfFpfzlLo7OPsEnl4gbdM 🎵 Google Podcast: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xNDlmZDUxYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== 🎵 Anchor: https://anchor.fm/tech-over-tea ==========Social Media========== 🎤 Discord:https://discord.gg/PkMRVn9 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechOverTeaShow 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/techovertea/ 🌐 Mastodon:https://mastodon.social/web/accounts/1093345 ==========Credits========== 🎨 Channel Art: All my art has was created by Supercozman https://twitter.com/Supercozman https://www.instagram.com/supercozman_draws/ DISCLOSURE: Wherever possible I use referral links, which means if you click one of the links in this video or description and make a purchase we may receive a small commission or other compensation.

This is a pen. Let's talk about pen for a bit. I've got a thing over here. I literally just talk shit for five minutes. Well, I felt like this was pretty good content, so I just started the recording. You bastard. How you doing? Welcome back. It's been a while since you've been on. I don't know when you last on. I don't either. This is my third time? Is it my second or third time? I feel like it's my third.

Tech over to HexDSL. Let me have a quick look. You're on a year ago. I found a USB lead around my neck. I don't know why that's there. That's not even a bit I'm doing. I genuinely don't know where that came from.

I feel like it's your second time here. Is it? I thought it was my third. It might be here it doesn't matter i'm stuck here now fuckers yeah basically um well uh let the people know who you are in case they don't know okay so okay so historically you'll know me as hex dsl of hex dsl.com and of youtube hex dsl but in the last 18 months, I've been slowly transitioning away from doing Linux-type videos because my own interests in life have moved in different places. And now, I'm borderline just being

a full-time writing channel on YouTube, right? But I have a unique perspective, especially for your audience, because I've gone from Linux full-on power nerd, right, to Windows for reasons which I'm happy to explain on the show, right? And I'm using Windows full-time now, right? And don't worry, I'm not saying it's better. It's not.

But it's interesting because I don't hate Windows, right? And everyone I know in the Linux community tries Windows. Like, it doesn't do this, it doesn't do that. And I'm sitting there going, yeah, it does. Because we in the Linux community are always complaining when Windows users come across. They're like, this doesn't work, this doesn't work. We're going going yeah it does because we in the linux community are always complaining when windows users come across they're like this doesn't work this doesn't work we're going just learn to use it properly well they're saying the other way there's so much shit they say there's so much wrong shit like so many linux people say things about windows you're like

that's just wrong it's just not true that was true 15 years ago it's not true now and like yeah like linux is, for the record, still the superior operating system. I'm not here to bash Linux. Linux is still the better operating system. But for my needs, Windows is required at the moment. I saw this post on, I think it was r slash, I don't know, one of the Linux subreddits.

It was this post about why the Linux terminal is so much better. And all of the reasons that they gave. Like, you can control your system from the terminal. It's like you can draw some windows. And it's like you can customize your system settings. Like, you can literally do your registry edits from the terminal. What are you talking about?

I fucking do. Just literally, that's what I do. You can't back up Windows settings. Registry, export, save, done. What are you talking about? I'll give you that PowerShell is a disgusting shell. No, wait. Nobody on Windows uses PowerShell.

They're just using Bash. They're just using Bash. Okay, yeah. If you live in WSL, that's fine. What is that? That Pepsi? It's a cherry pepsi which i'm told is

i'm taught weirdly like wing who's the co-host of my own podcast he lives in ireland he can't get this shit and this is like heroin over here

this is like this is like this comes out of fucking taps in this country like they can't get it over there zero sugar i don't drink sugar

you see it's got lots of other chemicals that aren't sugar though it's not good for you. But I would never... It's better for you than drinking full fat Pepsi. There's no sugar, though. Full fat Pepsi.

I want my light Pepsi. Also, before I forget as well, I know this is off topic. Yes. But you know why I'm late here? You're not late. I just had a faulty coffee pod. Right? Okay.

You know coffee pods, okay right you know these things right yeah they're little pod things that you put in a little machine and you turn a handle and coffee comes out right right i just had a faulty one i was like how does that even happen I put it in the little machine I closed the little track now I'm usually a tea drinker but I drink coffee when I need waking up like after fucking work

like you jumped me after my job to tell me to come here right so like I need to wake up so I need some Pepsi and some coffee here's the coffee

by the way here's my coffee and I'm just burping as I could be running around on Pepsi that's not nice yeah so I put one of these

in the machine I turned the little handle and it takes about 40 seconds so I got time to like I got time to empty my bin I got time to like make sure

my mics are right and then I go back and I go back over there it's fucking water so I'm like my brain's going did you forget to put the coffee pot in you big idiot and

I go no because I leave the old one I take the old one out put it in the bin I put the coffee pot in you big idiot and i go no because i leave the old one i take the old one out and put it in the bin i put the new one in i close it like how do i miss a step it's like it's i do it a lot right so i stops it and i look at the water it's just very slightly brown water and i get the coffee pot and i'm like it's fucking empty i've an empty coffee pot like there's nothing in it. It's just, it's just water. How does that even fucking happen? Like how, they're mass produced.

How does it even? Okay. I'm going to, okay. As someone who works in a supermarket, I can tell you for a fact that sometimes things show up and I don't understand how, how we get them. Like sometimes, so you get like a box of like two minute noodles, for example.

Like not the cup noodles, but like in a big packet, right? Yeah. And they go in the box in a certain way. So like the front of the packet is like at the front of the box when you open it. Sometimes they're just all face backwards. And I don't know how. How did you manage that?

So, yeah. So I work in a supermarket also i work in hr at a distribution center right i'm not gonna say which one because i get sacked um but over the years i've seen some products that are just mad also like i've seen like a crate of beer where all the cans are empty like these things happen right but when you've got one faulty coffee fucking pod, you're like, how? So I'm guessing the rest of the box they came in is all fine. It's just that one. I just changed it.

I've got a cup of regular coffee. Look. Mm. Mm. Yeah. I just... Anyway. And the time it took me to...

Yeah, a couple of minutes. I was just looking. I'm just going... It took... My brain couldn't function. I was like, I don't understand what's just happened. I almost felt like I should keep the empty coffee pod to show people. What do you show

people? Look, there's an empty coffee pod. Yeah, you've used it. No, no, it was empty before. It's not really a story worth telling, is it? Not really, no. Also, when I got up and dashed across the room, I accidentally showed the fact that while I'm business at the top, I'm wearing Cookie Monster jogging bottoms at the bottom.

So. That's fine. Good job, me. I think most of my viewers are audio listeners now, so if you just didn't say it, I wouldn't have known. Thank God. Well, in that case, I'm HexDSL. I'm devilishly handsome and dressed wonderfully.

There you go. Unlike Brody, that looks like a rat is biting his chin and just hanging there. I'm HexDSL, I'm devilishly handsome and dressed wonderfully. There you go, there you go. Unlike Brody, that looks like a rat is biting his chin and just hanging there. Well, actually, I don't know, can you see? Yeah, you should be able to see. Yeah, here we go. It's backwards for you, but my shirt says Influencer Free Zone.

It's not backwards for me, that's not how cameras work. It's flipped for you, it's the right way round for me. Wait, is it? That's how how cameras work. It's flipped for you. It's the right way around for me. Wait, is it? That's how Discord works. No, Discord's showing it flipped for me. It's the right way around for me. That's how Discord works.

The display I'm seeing on Discord is backwards. No, they do that on purpose so that when you move your arm, it's the same arm and it's not mirrored. They do that for you. Fine. If all cameras was flipped, we would have same arm and it's not mirrored. They do that for you. Fine. If all cameras was flipped, we would have worked on that

over the years, Brody. Look, I just assumed Discord's doing it in a really stupid way. No, Discord's doing it the way that all video call software does it. Look, I don't... I have my camera... It's 1am, I know.

When I'm doing the podcast, I've got my browser open so I can show you a website and all that fun stuff. have my camera it's what i am i know i'm doing the podcast i so i've got my like uh i've got like my browser open so i can like you know show your website and all that fun stuff i have that sitting over my camera i never see my camera i i've no idea what's going on with it is it even there i look i that's a problem for you to deal with i'm just looking at a black screen right now i think it's there i don't know sorry i I think it's there This happened last time as well Come on, you've got like topics And I'm just like fucking

Swerve, we're out I've said this to other people before If I'm not talking It means the podcast is going well If you can derail us Anywhere you want us to go, that's fine I'm good with that We're like 15 minutes in

and i've just wrecked it so i'm doing well i think but yeah yeah i'm gonna the coffee yeah anyway the coffee thing baffled me and that and then and then i was like i need to calm down so i was like i'm here brody and i took a mouthful of peanuts and then he answers instantly i'm like he's chewing at him for like a good like minute're lucky I didn't start recording back then I know, I literally was like Are we recording? I was just like yeah I've outed myself anyway, I might as well have just recorded it

I've got a guy who Who does timestamps for the podcast And he's going to hate this episode You've got people You've got people Why don't I have people? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know.

I'm sure you can find people. No, I'm not going to make that joke. Yeah, so Windows user HexDSL, ask me anything. I'm here for questions. Well, you know what, since you're so Windows user HexDSL, ask me anything. I'm here for questions. Well, you know what? Since you're the Windows user HexDSL, what was the reason you actually decided to leave the whole Linux space?

See, that's the thing. I've not left the Linux space as much as... I use my Steam Deck pretty much daily, right? And that's a Linux machine. I've got my other laptop, which is down there, which I use for fixing stuff, and it's a linux machine i've got my other laptop which is down there which i use for like fixing stuff and it's my work but my work tool sort of thing that's linux as well but the main machine i'm on right now my my actual desktop pc is actually under that blanket over there the video list the audio for the audio listeners i'm pointing um a while back i was uh

i was doing because as you know last time i I've sort of got heavily, say heavily, I've sort of writing has become my primary pastime, right? I like to write novels that are now available at itch.io if anyone's interested but you can find all about my novels if you're interested on hexdsl.com, right? Always shilling. And that's become my primary pastime. And

as much as the Linux community will be wrong, in order to do full-time writing, there are only two applications that are viable to write a novel. And that is Microsoft Word or Scrivener. Those are the only two applications where you're going to write a novel in, right? Depending on what sort of person you are depends on which tool you use. Both are equally as good at different ways.

What about LaTeX? So this is the... You know what? I'll get back, you know what? I'll get back to this in a minute. I'm going to come, I'm going to circle back around to this. So if I want to write a novel,

right, I'm going to need a competent word processor. Not a text editor, word processor. Now, so obviously I was in Linux. I was like, I tried writing,

I wrote most, I wrote one novel in Vim, which was, there were problems with that. Let's just say that. It's spanning in Grammar Engine from the 80s, I swear. It's like, people are going to go,

but you can install a plugin to get Grammar Tool. The built-in, does it have a built-in Grammar Tool? No, it has a built-in dictionary. No, it doesn't. It doesn't have built-in, but? No, it has a built-in dictionary. No, it doesn't. But you can add a grammar tool, as in the...

But it's not what you call, like, in Word, I just right-click and go, click, click. And when I'm in Vim, I have to be like, run this command to run the grammar tool, the processes, go to the... It's a lot more mental space to use

to correct grammar. It's like almost like you do a chapter, then you go and correct the chapter, right? So it's a lot more mental space to use to correct grammar it's like almost like you do a chapter then you go and correct the chapter right so it's a lot more work anyway we'll come back to that um so i was like because i'm in linux i wrote one in vim didn't like it i thought i actually need an actual the thing people tells me i never i've said it myself over the years unless you're writing a novel you don't need a word processor you need a text editor if you're writing letters maybe you need a word processor. You need a text editor. If you're writing letters, maybe you need a basic word processor. I needed a really competent word processor. So I did what we all do. I installed LibreOffice.

OpenOffice. Whatever. They do not work, is the short version. They work up to about up to about 60 that most most word processors are fine up until about 60 000 words right okay that's the point at which they just stop not even straight away you're writing like i'll open up a word the same word i got a document 70 000 words right i'll open it. It'll be fine. I'll be typing. And as I'm typing, it's just going, oh, shit. Oh, shit.

And it just slowly just dies. And it just stops working correctly. And at first, you're like, what is happening? It's only text. But what you've got to remember

is the word processor is constantly scanning the entire document looking for spelling errors. If I zip back up two paragraphs and change one word and zip back down,

anything after that paragraph has got to be reanalyzed, right? And if I zip back up to the first page to change a character or if i want to do a find and replace because i've decided to change a character's name it was lee um i i have to like do that on 70 000 words which the truth is the open source solutions just wasn't very good at they just did some weird shit right and i multiplied i had the time i went over the edge and i'd saved the document when i opened it again it looked different not a lot different but the indents was different and the and when you're writing you need to like and again this is probably right in your audience right but like you need to just open it up fucking fucking write. Anything between you and writing is wasted creativity.

Because if I'm in the mood to write, I open my word processor, I hit control N, so at the bottom I just start typing. Anything that's not just typing into the hole stifles that creative urge. And with Vim, it was the constant mental cycles of this tool does this, I don't agree, this constant back and forth. But that's the thing, Vim is still the best text editor but when you get to the point you need a word processor i haven't found a terminal one that does the job genuine and i've looked right um so i i tried a few things open office didn't work so i'll use google docs right google docs pretty good no google is pretty good okay pretty good until Docs is pretty good. Okay. Pretty good. Until you get to 20,000 words.

Right. Well, my experience with Google Docs is... So, I used Google Docs years ago. My school was like... So, when they first rolled it out, they first rolled it out to education and stuff. Basically, they sent it out to schools to be beta testers. My school was one of the beta testers.

It was fucking horrendous. Because I think they were running it on like i don't know a server they had sitting under like a couple of blankets or something it was constantly disconnecting um it's a lot better nowadays yeah it's probably running something like that's it um just on like some server sitting under a desk somewhere um it was terrible back then so i'm sort of jaded on google docs but it's you know if it's if it's functional for the most part it's that's good it's usable up until 20 000 right yeah you get and then it's janky but but doesn't die up until about 60

then it just most it seems in my experience which that wide, really, things start to misbehave at 60,000 words. That's the point where things, they just don't cope with it. So then I tried Word Online, the Microsoft Office Online thing, right? Word Online copes better than any other tool I've found, right? It's still not right. It's still weird, and it's not quite right. So I was like, I'm just and then then i had this big thing where i switched to scrivener and scrivener is a windows only application it's like the vim of of

the vim of pros right basically what'd you say it was called scrivener scrivener would you like me to post you a link into chat uh scrivener i know i found it it's all good it's by literature and latte is the program, yes, yes. I found the website. Awesome. Okay, yeah. Scrivener is, it's a phenomenal piece of software.

There's videos about it on my own channel. It is wonderful. It's just brilliant, right? Oh, it's on Windows and Mac OS. I see, I see. Exactly. Now, I did a video. I go working in Linux through Wine, right?

But it was crashy. Okay. Not massively crashy, but on a Sunday, when I do my writing session, that's six motherfucking hours I'll be there, right? Yeah. And if it crashes twice, that's two times I could lose a whole chunk of work, right?

Now, Scrivener's pretty good and does a lot of saving, so I wasn't too worried. I tried it and it just felt like the wrong tool. It just felt like you knew it was running through a compatibility layer. It just didn't feel right. Yeah. And when you've got writing software, again, writing software responsiveness is as important as it is with a game. Because when I start typing, I need to see the words.

Because like you're writing, I'm looking at the screen and I'm sort of half reading what I've just written as I'm thinking of the next line. And I kind of need that responsiveness that's just not there. So I ended up going, this is when I bought the laptop I'm talking to you next line. And I kind of need that responsiveness that's just not there. So I ended up going, this is when I bought the laptop I'm talking to you right now on, right? So I ended up going, I'll use Windows as a laptop and I'll use Linux for everything else, right?

But then when the thing I'm doing most with my computer is writing, I was just sitting here with my monitors, with my laptop open, just that didn't make any sense, you know? And slowly over the period of time, I was just sitting here with my monitors, with my laptop open. Just, that didn't make any sense, you know? Right. And slowly, over the period of time, I've eventually, and again, Scrivener is phenomenal.

I have nothing bad to say about Scrivener apart from I realized that because I'm a tinkerer by nature, that's what I do. I should be tinkering with words, not with programs. Right. Tooling should not be there so i tried a lot because i had had i picked up an office 365 subscription because i wanted the terabyte of storage you get from one drive because even on linux it's fine it's like it's like 60 if you get an offer you can pay 40 quid for a terabyte of storage for the year so it's really cheap so i had so i was like i installed word locally on my laptop and i was like this it never dies ever like you can have hundreds of thousands of words you can have a half a million words and it so i was like i installed word locally on my laptop and i was like this it never dies ever

like you can have hundreds of thousands of words you can have a half a million words and it doesn't give a shit it's resource light it works on my android tablet that has a physical keyboard as well like because of the way the integration works with one drive it's just i can just like be right on my laptop close it walk into my bedroom open up my tablet and just carry on and it's just it's just there right and it never because it has built-in version control it never loses anything either because just every time it's say every like minute when it's saved it just does a backup because you've got a fucking terabyte who they don't give a shit right so you end up with like these very and in windows you can just write to come the file and see all the history just go

restore to this point right so it's got very good version control you're not going to get without using Git and that's got a layer of manualness. So yeah, I ended up just going, I'm just going to put Windows on my main machine. It felt weird to say that, but I was like, the main thing I want to be doing is writing. The thing I love is Linux as a thing to do, but I'm

trying to get this done. And the only one of the few fields where Linux isn't the dominant leader is writing, right? That's one of the few fields where linux isn't the dominant leader is writing right that's one of the few fields where the software is just not there and the open source stuff's not as good if i was into maths if i was a mathematician that would be brilliant because linux is where we live you know if i was if i was a scientist it would have been linux if i was an aircraft roller it would have been linux but writing is one of those places and i think a lot of the creative fields windows is better at, not because

the operating system is better, but because the software is there. It's not the operating system. You can make an exception for 3D modeling because of Blender. That's one area. I think that's probably the one area you can say

is equivalent across both. I can't think of anything else. The problem is, when I tell Linux users this, I get a lot of shit comments, right? If I make a video about this. But the reality is, Linux is better for every way you can measure, right? Apart

from, I'm trying to get a specific task done, and that task is better in Windows. Now people are going, when people say to me, oh, you shouldn't use Word because it's closed source. I'm working with documents. If Word becomes shit tomorrow, I'll go find something else

and I just take my document with me because I've got, you know, it's not like, if you, again, the good example

of my friend Callan Leafshade who's Callan Leafshade on YouTube as well was talking about was if you're making a game and you want to use Unity, it might take you four years to develop.

So that's four years where you've got to hope Unity don't turn into advertising software or don't suddenly become something else. And that's what happened with Unity. And all these people had all these programs with Unity and then go duplicate work to reproduce it in Unreal because, of course, they went to the proprietary software. And his argument is, in that case,

when you've got the project you're working on is so tied into the software, you should be using open source by default. Because if you have to change, you're fucked, basically. But with me, in worst case scenario, I go control A, control C, I open up the new thing and I go control V. Like portability of documents.

So you lose your formatting, that's one. Yeah, but again, I've got pure text. When I'm drafting, I use line breaks as paragraph breaks. So for me, it's like, who gives a shit? For me, at the moment, the tool that works best is Word. I hope that one day the tool that works best is something open source. I don't want to rely on online-only software because we're in an energy crisis in the UK and probably the rest of the world as well, right? software because we're in an energy crisis in the UK

and probably the rest of the world as well, right? But there's something of an energy crisis in the UK where prices are going up and there's just talks in the media about perhaps we'll face rolling blackouts and stuff, right? I don't want to have to face a time when I've got, I literally, I've got a laptop with a battery and I've got a massive power bank and I'm ready to go and I can't use it because I don't have internet. You know what I mean? I'd rather keep all these things locally available um so if you know as we approach the apocalypse at least I've got somewhere to write so I'm not comfortable with just using online solutions which is one of

the reasons things like um dabble.app and stuff didn't work for me because that online component is I need to know it's offline as well um so yeah and then i ended up just migrating to windows but when i kept because i came to windows not resentfully but i came to windows in with the mindset of okay this makes writing easier which is the thing i love right everything else is things i like and i enjoy but the things i love is writing that's what i want to do with my life you know i want to do writing um so i came with it kind of with open arms because like you've solved the problem like you know it's not like i've left linux forever and as i said as i started using on my laptop i realized more and more that it's like running two operating systems one for writing and one it

didn't make sense so it ended up on my main computer and then as as time's gone by i've been like i like just be able to pick up a laptop and leave so i had put my actual computer over there um and i just i've got a laptop here on a stand um and i've got a monitor here and i've got a wireless keyboard and mouse um and i've got an external gpu which is a little box tied under my desk and i just like i sit i come in i plug in my external gpu i test the power button monitor fires up i'm good to go right and then if i want to leave i just turn off the bgPU, unplug the cable, one cable, and just walk away.

And it is absolutely fucking liberating, right? I did have to upgrade the laptop because, you know, things. But like, you know, it's liberating. It's beautiful to do that. And because if I want to play games, you know,

I've got a Steam Deck. Ah. You know? And I do play games on my PC. I play Monster Hunter on my PC. There's a lot of games I play on my PC, on my laptop, because I've got that eGPU

and I've got a bigger screen and stuff, right? But like for anything else, I've just got my Steam Deck. Most of my gaming nowadays is actually done on my Steam Deck. So, yeah. So I thankfully, because I came to Windows

with kind of open arms and not resentfully, I spent a little bit of time figuring out the Windows ways of doing things. And that's when I started a bit a little little bit of time figuring out the windows ways of doing things and that's when i started to realize a lot of things people say in linux aren't really true like one of the big ones i hear is windows gets more unstable with every release i'm like no it doesn't like no it doesn't like that's literal not true you've not been presumably not even paying attention to the recent stuff that's been

happening in linux space um i've been i've been going hard on the arch team about this because they have fucked up terribly and they're like huffing some extreme copium about not having made a mistake here um so grub uh shipped an update oh i saw your video yeah i saw your post i didn't watch it oh okay i saw it so grub release an update uh basically forcing every single arch linux user running uefi to rerun grub install and rerun grub mate config um and this that's a problem the arch team isn't fixing it instead what they're doing is having an update that tells you to fix it tells you to fix it manually and upstream is like hey maybe we should fix it like they realize like how big of a deal this was probably partially because i fucking called everybody out for it and the video popped off real hard and now everybody's talking about it and now

there's like a guy from the Arch Linux maintainer team who's like oh this isn't actually a problem with Arch, this is a problem with the derivatives and their Pac-Man hooks like no, it's happening on base Arch as well, shut the fuck up, you are literally

maintaining Arch, don't pretend like you don't know how this operating system works like i have to ask though is everyone not using system d boot like is everyone just okay so system d boot ships with arch um the reason a lot of people don't use it is because a lot of people traditionally recommend grub so you have a lot of people that still use grub and a lot of the install guides recommend grub and a lot of people just use grub so you have a lot of people that still use grub and a lot of the install guides recommend grub and there's a lot of people just use grub um grubby bastards but i have been hearing a lot of people think about switching over to systemd boot i did i did see one person who uh tweeted at me

saying oh i'm a beginner at linux trying out arch which is bad bad combination it's like oh with this problem i'm now going to go back to windows 11 like okay well i don't know why you came to arch is your first history like like if you're gonna do it before even before i left linux i'd come to the point that i was like i just use debian because debian doesn't have this shit like debian tests so much They're so slow moving. But, like, you just, like, Debian, for me, in my mind, like, Debian is, like, just the correct distro because it's just, like, everything is just, like, it's just so straightforward with Debian.

And they don't make these kinds of fuck-ups because they're older, they know better. But, yeah, SysMD boot's really good, though. You have to manually configure it in a text file using them VIMs and them terminals it's very robust like systemd networking I know there's a lot of hate for systemd

but all the stuff that systemd took over on my system I was like well this is fine this is fine, no problems at all it was fine systemd boot wasn't even, it's not even a systemd tool it's just gummy Boot rebranded. That's all it is. But a lot of people think it now

because it has the name SystemD boot, it's related to it. Therefore, it's bad. It's like, stop it. Stop. It's just like a text file. Do this. Go.

That's it. And if there's an update, you just got your file backed up. You just like, do this. Go. It's hard to break SystemD boot. Arch makes it really easy because they

don't have the kernel version number in the kernel file name. They just have it called Arch Linux kernel or whatever. Some distros will have the version number, and that will break systemd boot. But one thing I was going to mention before their site actually

broke. I had this Gryffindor site open, now it's not loading. Yay! I noticed that it has a perpetual license, which is quite nice. I'm sure definitely... It is much nicer than paying a monthly Microsoft fee.

Oh, yeah. Well, see, I agree, right? I don't want anyone thinking I'm disagreeing with that point, right? Like, the Scrivener, you buy it once, but when they release an update, when you buy version 3, that's literally down. No way. We've

killed it. We're not even live and we've killed the Scrivener website. I know. I don't know what happened. Wow, that's impressive. I didn't even know what happened there. Yeah, like, so if I buy Scrivener 3, I own Scrivener 3. When Scrivener 4 comes out, I have to pay again. Right. So, probably not, you know, like, you can argue whether that's good or bad or not. And I think that's, I personally think for a small team where Scrivener is like a couple of people making it, right,

and it is a great piece of software um it is it is reasonable for them to try and maintain long-term income and to do that they have to maintain a high quality piece of software and increase the version number so you don't feel like wasted money um so i think that's a reasonable way of pricing something right the problem is with the argument against microsoft's method and i agree in principle the reality is i'm going to be paying for that storage anyway right so if it was 40 pound a year for storage if it's 60 pound a year for storage and 60 pound a year for word i would pay both of those because i'm using both those things right so the fact it's 60 pound for the whole of office and they give you a terabyte of storage

like it's reasonable and and i don't think like you're getting more for your money there than you do off dropbox for instance right um so while it's not and again you're supposed to pay this yearly that's why that's why it's the same price as a game basically like they're expecting people to pay yearly so they're not trying to tie you into a month by month payment like it's amazon prime or something right the expectation the the default ways to pay yearly and it's the right amount of money where it's like i can pay 60 pound a year for my storage whatever it is you know like it's not it's not affordable and that terabyte of storage with unlimited transfer it's kind of a nice deal you know um and dropbox is charging a little bit more than that and like there's a few others that are a little bit cheaper but i'm also getting that

bonus of i've got word and if i ever need it i've got excel if i ever need it i've got you know i've got all these other things if i ever need them i can just install and it doesn't seem egregious um and with the storage i think it's a pretty good deal but if you don't there's gonna be people again because there's gonna be people because they're always out it's like i don't need the storage it's over the top don't fucking buy it then that's your answer i don't like if ever you think something's unreasonable or too far just don't fucking buy it that that's that's your choice like just just do that go do something else but for the but if the people that think it's you like if i as someone that thinks it's reasonable suddenly when the value is gone and i leave

that should tell you it's not worth it you know that should be your indicator where people that think it was worth it suddenly go something's changed changed, it's not. At the moment, I'm happy to pay that for the version control alone. In theory, it's not going to go up anytime particularly soon, not massively. I think when it comes to just buying a single version, it depends on the way you, what you consider valuable. For example, George R.R. Martin uses a DOS word processor. Like there's nothing wrong with sticking on.

Yeah, WordStar 4.0. There's nothing wrong sticking with a single version if you feel really comfortable in that particular piece of software. And I can totally understand the benefit of wanting that storage as well, but I can also understand the benefit of you want to have a tool

that you know is always going to be the same thing. You're fully comfortable with it. I totally agree with that because there was a Word update recently which changed a very minor menu item, which made it so that I no longer could go tap, tap, tap. I had to go tap, tap, tap, tap.

Right? And that's nonsense, right? But the fact I went, what the fuck is happening? Because you don't get any warning and proprietary software does not tell you when they change shit. So yeah, I agree with you. I do, but for my...

I think they both have their merits. They broke what? I think both approaches have their merits. Oh yeah. Well, those that think they broke their merits, I was like have their merits oh yeah well those i think they broke their merits i was like what are we fucking talking about uh no they do absolutely and scrivener is a phenomenal piece of software right but word is is and very very elegant and people in limits like no it's not shit like it really is like trust me if you're using if i mean i've written 200,000 words this year, right?

And the minimum is 200,000 words I've written this year. And in that time, I've learned to use Word properly and I've learned where things are. And it's very elegant. And there are things I can go like, I want my document to look like this so I can save that. And I can just highlight it all and go, boom, and the document looks like that, right? There's a lot of things about word that's really elegant and the truth is if you look at

open source word processors not editors word processors they're all following word none of them are setting no one is setting the standard they're all just following words design and following words elegance right but word is the one that's setting that gold standard and it shouldn't be true and it's annoying that it's true but it is true and this is the bit where the linux community tends to to cope a little bit it's like the fact is you're playing catch-up and you shouldn't be it's fucking shocking but you've got a lot of coders but no designers you've got a lot of people that want to write you've got what you might have a lot of people that want to use a word processor but you've got no novelists. Go talk to Stephen King

for about a week and then come back and see what changes you want to make because that's the thing. If you're going to make an airplane, you're going to talk to a pilot, right? And I feel like a lot of the things in open source, they have coders that want to make it. Nah, just a pilot. They're fine. They're fine.

But you know what I mean? Even an engineer wouldn't build an airplane yeah it's fine what do we need engineers for we'll just rely on God it's fine but yeah

it's um shape it like a bird it's fine you derailed me how the fuck does that happen Jesus Christ um yeah but like

it is it is it is a shame that we can't just get some really smart UI designers and some really people that really understand what a writer wants to go and make a piece of software. But the problem is with open source stuff is they'll go,

it's the writer's word processor. No, there's no such thing. Just make a good word processor and everyone can use it. We haven't got to go, this is a tool for writers. Because guess what? If you're opening a word processor, you're a writer. So fuck off. And with Scrivenervener they did that but they did it properly because they had a writer as a coder you had someone who could code and write like he writes novels and he writes software so he made something that works for his writing method which

works to be fair it's a beautiful piece of software but there's too much to tinker with and i just get distracted and and you know i want i need to go to that just really nice hole to put words into which is you know but i do when i when i switched when i switched scrivener myself because i went hard into scrivener when i was like i suddenly started using word people's like what's wrong with scrivener like there's nothing it's great but i need it's me i need to not be distracted with With the, I actually totally understand the issue you're having with the amount of words because this happens not just in word processes,

but in code editors as well. Oh, yeah. So I've worked on like 50,000 line code files and sublime, older updates, like sublime text, Atom when it wasn't dead, things like that would completely fall apart.

They'd be like, this file's too big. I don't know what this is. I don't know what to do. Yeah, but that's because it's doing intelligent stuff. It's trying to tag it all up and stuff. But it's long, and it's tagging all this stuff up. That's a lot of fucking work. That's why Vim can handle a 300,000 line file, because it's tagging all this stuff up that's a lot of fucking work yeah that's why vim can handle like a 300,000 line file because it's doing fucking nothing which is which is the genius

of vim yeah yeah yeah and when he argues the plug-in that plug-in is his own little application that's running and then if it crashes the rest of him's

fine because that thing stopped working but the rest of him's fine now vim's genius but yeah i agree and i think that you probably have the last i've encountered

the same thing with video editors like i like kaden live we don't want to edit a two-hour movie in it no fucking no no look no look if i'm gonna edit a movie on on linux i'm just gonna i i don't know what would i use blender yeah if you're gonna edit a movie on linux put blender into video edit mode learn to fucking use it because blender is the best editor. It's a lot of work to learn. The learning curve is like a rollercoaster ride that goes backwards at the start, right? But believe

me, if you learn to edit video in Blender, you'll never need another ready video editor, ever. Just because it's amazing. I mean, you know, the movie Frozen was edited in Blender, that should tell you something. They didn't just make the 3D art, they didn't do all of it, they did a lot of sequences in it, though. But yeah, that should tell you something. They didn't just make the 3D art. They didn't do all of it. They did a lot of sequences in it, though.

When you look at things like Frozen that was mainly Blender and they did a bunch of the VFX edited in there and stuff, you go like, why does Premiere exist? And the truth is, Premiere exists for that hobbyist level. It exists for that prosumer level. And then as you go on, there's

YouTubers that are doing amazing stuff with it it but when you get to hollywood they're using different tool set because they're on they're on the next fucking level you know they're using this tool set i think it's final cut pro actually but you know but my point is like you know there are things that are right at different levels of of of things and vim is lovely vim is a is a fine word processor alternative when you write the letter and you're using latex or markdown right um and then you go you want to write a short story i want to write short novella open office libre office they're all the open source things they're fine when you're writing a novel you need software that's fucking designed to handle that shit i've not had a i did read the uh i guess it's the the law

yeah the law post you put onto your website about you can't read the law post that read the book that'll make no fucking sense that'll be yeah i was reading through i was i was interested i'm good look i'm gonna read the book now i was the law post was interesting um like if you haven't read the book that just sounded like the ravings of a lunatic Even at the beginning of the post I was like read the fucking book first guys Yeah no you're right We got to the bit where

There was Spoiler Spoiler warning Also I want to say before you go any further I write fiction I write science fiction urban fantasy Everything he's about to say makes before you go any further I write fiction I write science fiction, urban fantasy Everything he's about to say makes me sound like I'm mentally ill I'm not, alright?

Just carry on Look, with the space elves and the space vampires, I was like, okay I can accept this Then we got to time loops, I'm like, okay, sure, whatever Then we got to combining different races together to make the super race that kills the other super race and then they breed together like when the humans

breed with the other races they lose the immortality oh so humans are immortal in this universe like okay what the fuck am i reading but all of that makes sense when i spend 300 pages in the original book. I was going to ask you how long the book actually is. It looks like I'm going to get a hold of it. I've got the book. Let me put it down. Oh, and then we got to the end where it was like,

golf does not exist in this universe. I'm like, okay. Yeah, no, that was, I'll do with, okay. So the book itself, the book itself is a total of 327 pages, right? In print, right? the book itself is a total of 327 pages in print if you read that the law post is then supplementary material you're not supposed to read it without reading the book because it makes

no fucking sense it makes no fucking sense if you do that I can't hear a fucking word you're saying mate yeah no i do that a lot don't worry um yeah the golf thing golf doesn't exist there's loads of like weird like one of the things when you write in science fiction right the thing that sells it is the stuff that doesn't matter right like uh the famous one the most famous example of this is in the tv show babylon 5 you ever seen babylon 5 you know babylon 5 nerds love those love babylon 5 right there's this whole thing that every intelligent

race in independently invented swedish meatballs right it doesn't matter right fans fucking love that line it's one line in the whole thing and people have got swedish meatball shirts and shit right because when you're making science fiction it it's that, it's called iceberg theory, right? Like, the writer shows you the tip of the iceberg, but the writer knows that the iceberg's under the water, right? Which means that when the writer's asked a question, they can reach down through the water

and like, and there's a big old pack of shit there that they can pull on, right? Like, they just know all this shit, right? So when I wrote my law post, I know more than is in the law post, right? But I just thought it'd be fun to share some of that iceberg with the with people that read i don't use the word fans that seems conceited but the people who read the book enjoyed it asked me for more stuff they asked me questions i thought i'll write this law post that's just basically like

this whole massive information dump as basic like if you want the iceberg you want the whole iceberg there you go there's like a big old chunk of the iceberg if you really want to see what's under the surface because the book is designed by design not written like that law post the book is very much imperative that follows characters because you like jump around constantly yeah well you can't you can't i mean that's again i wrote at the top of the law post i was was like, don't fucking read this. Like, don't read, this is not, this is not for humans, right? But I did, I wrote it at the top, I was like, don't read it, you shouldn't read this post. But yeah, that was like me sharing with the people, because there are people that care about, they fucking love this stuff, right? So things like when I say that, like, in the final universe that's created, in the final iteration of reality that the goddess created, all makes sense, don't worry, I'm not meant to deal, right?

Don't believe me. This is fiction. In the version of the book, in the version of reality that the characters in the book are living in, golf doesn't exist. And also, neither does the country of France. Never existed. French never existed in this universe. There's no reason!

It's just a ma! It's just a ma! You are the bane of the English teacher that will ask you why the curtains are red oh yeah no um yeah no writer intent um yeah reading with writer like you know i'm very much on the on the side of death of the author right like ultimately as an author it's my job to we're gonna go all right nerd here sorry sorry listeners i'm sorry you're here for the next i'm gonna write a nerd i'm really sorry i do this a lot but like this idea that like when you go to school and

they're like what did the author mean when they say that it doesn't matter in my opinion and i'm there's two sides this argument i'm on the side of death of the author right it doesn't matter because when the author writes something if they don't explain themselves they're leaving that open for interpretation if you fail to make your own interpretation you're failing the author's intent the author if he wanted you to know why he made the curtains red he would have fucking told you he's a he's literally spending hundreds of hours with thousands of words if it was important he would have mentioned it and if he failed to imagine if someone like like james joyce a good example someone that that writes in a way that's supposed to be interpreted right if you try and interpret it to the lens of the author you're missing your own interpretation the best analog for

this right is in in in literature when i write a novel i am the director and i am the writer but it's the reader who's the actor it's the reader that's going to take the direction and the words and in and then they're going to put in their brain and their brain will tell them the story on the page. And if they choose to make someone taller than I made them, or they think one line has more gravitas than it did when I wrote it, that's them interpreting the book. And that's what I loved because I tried my best not to be clear because I

try my best to get the essence of what I want. Well, I try my best to get the essence of what I want on the page I try my best to get the essence of what I want on the page. And it's up to the reader to perform that. Right. And the law post is literally just like, it's just a post of, it's no different to when you find a sword on the floor in Lord of the Rings

online or World of Warcraft. And it's got that little bit of text that tells the history of the sword. No one gives a shit. Right. The only person that she is a shit about that are law nerds and the person that wrote it and that law post i made is for that audience it's for those people that read the text on the sword it's for the people that read the book and go i really want to know the history of everything well i wrote the history of everything you know it was i wrote

a 10 like what uh six eight thousand word law post and that's like a little layer of what i actually have in my head for the next four books you know um but for the people that like it they have liked it and that that post got a lot of traffic and people seem to like it um which is which is good and i've had a few emails where people have asked me questions based on the law post so i've got a follow-up to write at some point but yeah that it's weird being a writer though because yeah it's like no one should read that that's a post for a very specific set of the audience that is not probably most of the people who read the book.

And it's probably worked against me because people are going to read that and go, not read this fucking book. It's mental. No, that is very, I like, I just finished playing Final Fantasy 15 earlier today.

Oh, you'll love this then. Shit being fucking mental. You must've read the law person. Vampires in space that comes from there was there was placeholder races like i had when i was writing it i was like i want a certain race i wanted to be vampire-ish so as a placeholder i called them vampires with a capital v right as a placeholder and when i got to the end i was like that works i can just

leave it it's fine it works yeah because like it did because i'd written with that in mind the whole time but i over committed to the point where instead of writing that as a placeholder i just wrote that and i was like by the time i got to the end i was like this kind of it's weird but it works but the pretense is obviously it's about reality being changed by by god essentially it's about god changing reality while we live in it right and in this world the the pretense is that the fiction of our world is the reality of another world that used to exist and in our reality things like vampires that are legends that's how god in air quotes stores things so that when that god wants to pull them back for a future iteration that's like they're stored there

and they pull them out of fantasy and bring them back to reality and you know and that the book is about the final version of reality and how we cope with knowing that reality is two months old and stuff like that spoilers you know but that's that's what the book is about it's about science fiction setting where the characters are dealing with that right i'm not meant to deal i don't believe any of this it's fiction every time I tell people about my fiction, there's nothing worse than when someone you don't really know very well, like you're at work and someone goes, you write books.

What's it about? And I go, Oh no. Science fiction. I like science fiction. Is it like Star Trek? No. What's it like?

I'm just like... Imagine doing DMT and then put it on paper. The book's not like... The law is like that. The book's very... The book makes sense. The law does not...

Yeah, because it's abstract and out of... I just want to defend myself. The book's written. The law post is just like, here you go, plop. There you go. You asked for it.

Yeah, the book's got characters. It's not not at all it's a very different writing style the skill of writing a law post is facts facts facts facts facts the skill of writing a novel is to withhold them facts and allow the reader to come to their conclusions but right yeah it's different skill set you should see my evernote my evernote is a fucking wow i used i switched to evernote because you saw my law post imagine how many notes i have to keep to keep this straight in my head that makes sense yeah there's hundreds of posts in my evernote every character has got an entire backstory that's like thousands of thousands of words long every they're all they're all hot reference so they reference each other and that's the only way i can keep this straight in my head and i'm currently writing the third novel in that series

yeah wow the second one's second one's gonna be out before christmas it's currently being proofread um the third yeah the third one all right you did mention the second one was coming didn't you no yeah yeah the second one um is called in her we trust and it is gonna be out before christmas i don't know when because it depends on a few things um mostly whether or not i need to revise some points in it um then it's gotta go back for another round of proofreading once i've done that but yeah i'm hoping i'm definitely getting it before christmas just in case of when but yeah i won't shut up about it i mean when i do it i'll just i'll post everywhere about it

obviously um but yeah if you like denouement um yeah the follow-up is i had no idea how to say the name it's um do you know what have you heard the word before do you know what it means no i've had no idea what it was i thought you made up no no it's a french word again i removed french from the universe so it's kind of a little joke to myself i've made the title french and then i removed french from reality right let myself laugh with that one um but then why is a french word we don't have in english and it means the end of a narrative it's the poor show you know when you read a book and all the actions happen then there's that little tiny bit at the end where it's like oh that's fun wasn't it you know like that that that like

little bit at the end where it's all wrapped up it's just that little bit to finish off that's the denim right that's that that's the denim white of the novel um sometimes it's called a coda um and so my entire book is a because it's about reality has been rewritten by god you know it's it's about dealing with the fallout which is the the denim white of the universe it's the it's finished it's what happens afterwards which is where the where it comes from right that makes sense the amount of people that didn't know that i mean i knew that i mean i think it's because i'm a writing wanker and we cut and we find words like this like yeah i saw the video you did about writing systems so that that makes a lot of sense yeah i'm a writing wanker it's true my current my current writing wanker book is writing into the dark um which someone recommended to me based on my writing they watched my writing video and there was like dude you need to read this which is how i got all those books in the video because

every time i'll say something someone's like you should read this and because i'm a writing wanker like i'll read that um so i'm going to write in into the reading writing into the dark which is a discovery writers they're all bollocks every one of the bollocks just fucking right like those things are skills you need to learn writing, which is like, like plotting and story arcs and stuff. But the actual writing systems, they work for some people. They don't work for me. I just want to sit down and I write

and then I figure, I fix it afterwards. And that's how I write. Like I have like, I'm currently writing the third in the series, the end of my series. And like, I know where I want to end. I know a few key things that I want to happen.

And I have a rough idea of what character interaction happened on the way but all that's in my head and i just sit down i just start writing and then i might go out chapter didn't work i'll save it for later or this scene's great but the chapter's bad and i'll save that for later or i might as in the case of the last two chapters i wrote just sit down and be like boom don't you know like first time like this is what i'm after and then that leads then the events that almost I discover as I write lead me to write new things and lead me to a different path. And perhaps I won't hit all the beats I want to hit.

And that'll be safe for another book. Or perhaps the end, I'll get towards the end and I'll go, oh, it's going, you know, I need to do something different. Because I wonder, if I surprise me as a writer, the reader won't see it coming either. But it's the job then of a discovery writer to go back and do a really good job on the editing to make sure that you don't realise that halfway through I was like, I don't see it coming either. But it's the job then of a discovery writer to go back and do a really good job on the editing to make sure that you don't realise

that halfway through I was like, I don't know what's happening! Because that's what editing's for. You know? That's, yeah. Writing wankers. The problem with the writing book sounds a lot like the problem that

people pointed out with self-help books. They are all basically the same book, just phrased in a slightly different way with slightly different jokes. That can be useful. That can be useful because programming books, what I've got, I love C, the language C. But I had a tough time learning the basics of C.

Now, I'm not a coder, but I'm a coder enthusiast. I like to know enough about any language that I understand when I look at code and stuff. But I'm in romantic love with C c i think c is a beautiful language but i had real problems learning to understand it so i bought a lot of books because i like book learning that's how i learn i like books more than videos right videos a thing i use but i like books when i'm learning something right um because i can put post-it notes in and write things in them, you know, I very much abuse my books. But with C, which is a very, very complex, right,

to have the same thing explained three different ways is actually really useful, because you go, okay, all these three different ways of explaining it tell me the same thing, but they all come at it in a slightly different point of view. And I found that reading multiple tutorials about the same thing in C was really useful. And I think that's true in anything, but it's more prevalent in things like programming, found that reading multiple tutorials about the same thing in c was really useful and i think the stats true in anything but it's more prevalent in things like programming where you can sort of like

go this worked for my brain but not everything these authors say to work for my brain but by reading all the same tutorials for three different authors i'm going to come to you know i'm going to get this well-rounded approach where i'm being shown different ways of thinking about the same problem found it really useful and i think with all all computer stuff it is useful but with writing with tech i absolutely do agree with that what i was mainly talking about there was when it comes to like the putting your life in order style of self-help books oh yeah it's like hey um don't be a fuck up the end get, work out, touch grass, eat good food. Fuck that.

Don't do that shit. Yeah. Like, the thing is though, right, self-help books are weird. Now, I'm not someone who reads

self-help books because, I have an addiction for a while. Yeah, it's not something I find useful. I find it interesting and I have read self-help books, you know, because I wanted to know

what it was all about. I've watched self-help videos on YouTube. There's one, there's actually one where I was like that's really clever i'll tell you that in a bit um but yeah like like overall i did not i'm not someone that needs them like like i've got like i'm a functional human as but i know what i like and i'm comfortable with who i am right so for me self-help books don't really offer a lot but i can see i can

see the better like the problem is they're gonna go don't be fat, try to talk to people properly, don't dress like a muppet, get a job. That's it. That's all any of them say, as far as I can tell, right? And it's like, pandering different ways is fine,

and I'm sure they help some people. I'm not devaluing self-help as a genre. But yeah, the basic message of just try and be a normal, functional human and don't be creepy

will get you a long fucking way. Like, just do that. Don't be creepy. Yeah. Usually a good start. That's my thought, but yeah. But I did see one self-help video once where I was like,

this guy's really smart. And then I watched the next video and I was like, this guy's an idiot. So that was, yeah. But he said something really, no, this guy, I don't know what,

I think he's called like someone himself. I stumbled across it right you know that thing YouTube does but if all your friends are watching a video or a couple of friends get really into something

it starts it starts getting you're like this too because your friends are dumb and it starts like flicking things well some of my friends

must have been watching self-help videos because it randomly comes up my feed and there's this like YouTube short of this guy and he says he comes in

he's a cocky looking wanker he walks into a room and he's like self-help's easy blah blah because you need to divorce your divorce your sense of self-worth from opinion i was like oh buzzwords and then he points it yeah he points a guy in the audience who's just this bald guy like sitting there like this and he goes how does it because how does it make you feel if i say i hate your blue hair the guy goes i ain't got blue hair and he goes yeah but how does it make you feel he goes i ain't got blue hair i don't give a shit right and the guy goes okay so if i say if i say i think you're stupid why do you care and he goes because oh and he's like he's just like he's like if you know you're if you know you haven't got blue hair people insulting your blue hair doesn't matter if you know you're not stupid people call

you i'm not stupid i don't care and he's just like you need to separate the two he's like if you know like if someone goes you're fat and you know you're not why do you care if they call you fat like why do you care you're not fat he gives a shit like i don't care and i was like that's really smart i watched the next video and he's like fucking women am i right and i'm like oh for fuck's sake like oh fuck you but like yeah so that one video i was like that's really that's a really interesting way of looking at something i was like and i think i kind of take i think that's something that i kind of live with anyway but like seeing it framed in that way was kind of insightful i enjoyed that he seconds a video but yeah i didn't want to go down.

I didn't want to join him for his white supremacy after that, you know, but I enjoyed that little bit of his video. So yeah. Again,

you can have video, you can have like, like loads of comments that go, I know that, I know what that was. I've seen that fucking video. I was,

I was definitely a white supremacist. My assumption was it was just an Andrew Tate video. I don't know who he, I don't know who he was I don't know who he was It was some thin guy that dressed like he was homeless And he had stupid hair

He had hair, okay, it's not Andrew Tate then Thin guy He looked like he was wearing Someone's socks around his neck And he had a shirt that didn't fit properly But he seemed to be a look he was going for on purpose And I never saw As soon as i was

like i saw a couple of more videos i'll just block just i don't want that again and that was the same night that someone someone told me about this the same night this is all sitting in bed watching you just like flicking through you know we all do it right you just can't the same night that someone i don't know who it was when i find which friend is i'm gonna slap them silly somebody like youtube was like i know what video hex wants and it just goes sigma empath and i was like fuck off fuck off i don't even know what that means but i couldn't block fast enough i like i'm going to mevio fucking i'm out uh yeah that was that was that was what that was what i did with my time but yeah there's some some of this self-help shit some of these videos on youtube like just like it's borderline

dangerous just stop it just stop being a freak you just make him more freaks you freaks so on my course the script so i've know the scrivener

website has just started working again i just i've had it open this whole time it's just pinged back i'm like oh maybe uh two people visiting at the same

time because it just shut down no it's like i know you've never heard of it because you're not a writing wanker like me, right? But Scrivener's like, Scrivener is like the number two piece of software for writing on the planet. It's like, they make bank,

like they are a big deal in writing groups, right? Like every writer will know about Scrivener or at least tried it. So yeah, it's not like this weird backwater thing I found. It's a big thing that you'll see. I mean, a few people have cited it as reasons they bought Macs like it's like you know it's that it's worth buying a Mac for because the Mac version is usually

up until recently was always a version ahead but anyway don't want to go back to the writing man crew so how long did you spend working on I guess both your books it takes to write a book the way I write. It takes between

four to six months to just write the book, right? I don't consider it work because I love doing it and I find it's very good for me emotionally. It's a different type of creativity to YouTubes and blogs. It's a kind of very solitary creativity. And it takes, for the way

I write, four to six months, depending on the of novel depend on how depend on how many stumbling blocks i have and then there's there's probably another two months of editing and that two month is working as hard at editing as i did with writing like again hours every day like you know hours and hours every day and then when i've done all that and i'm happy with it i've done at least two passes of editing and then pass it to a proofreader it takes a couple of weeks to just go through it and make sure that i haven't done any stupid things like write the word shit instead of shirt which i do all the fucking time um yeah just like do that and then when i've done that i'll then read it one more time and that's when i basically start working on the formatting and that takes a little

bit of time like a couple of days of work, to get the formatting exactly right. Then I'll publish the print version and the digital version. Historically, I've always gone with Amazon's exclusivity deal, but I've had enough people ask me about itch that I've actually now released my books on itch.io, which meant I had to take a pay cut with Amazon. And as of yet, no one's bought it on itch, so I think I've been stitched by the internet.

I'm trying to find the link now this is why you don't listen to people on the internet they don't know what you're talking about yeah so so okay so at the moment I've had a total of I've had a total of views oh my god there's no totals here so I've had 40 views over two days right and I've had a total

of six sales so you know good job good job I think I don't know how much money I mean yeah there is a conversion right there and actually I'm not going to tell but

that might have actually been a good decision I'm looking at the money that actually might have been a good decision actually good job bitch I was right to listen to you. Yeah. Yeah. Three people have bought

both books. I don't know if they're the same people. Six in total. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Anyway, sorry. Yeah, that might actually... I was dissing that, because I expected no one to buy it. And actually, yeah, might have been a good investment. Let's find out. What is the Amazon cut? If you're with KDP, which is the Kindle Direct Publish,

which is their exclusivity deal, I get 75% of the total revenue, right? Right. If I'm not in an exclusive deal, I get 35%. 35%. Now, I'm the one that did all the fucking work there. I wrote the book.

They did nothing. They just go, you know. So my initial response was, percent now i'm the one to do all the fucking work there i wrote the book i thought they did nothing they just go you know so my initial response was i'll take the big chunk fuck you i'll take the big chunk but i don't write for money no one should write for money but it is nice to get paid even if the amount of money i earn off my book just covers next year's amazon like just if it just covers next year's subscription to word and whatever other writing software like if it just covers the software it's not a bad payoff and i like telling my stories like as you can tell from the law post i have a lot to say about things right so i really enjoy spending i really enjoy doing that right so it was never about the money but

you may as well take the big money if it's an offer you may as well take the bigger cut right um and then i got a few emails not loads but i got enough people email me there i was like i should probably make an effort i should probably give them what they want and the only way to get out of amazon's exclusivity deal is to take the pay cut and then go to itch i'm also now i'm out that i'm also going to put on the the barnes and noble store the nook store i think it is and stuff um so i'm going to put all the places now just put it out there but my theory was most people are buying on amazon anyway so i might as well just give it to them where they want what i forgot there was that i have a history of being part of the open source community lots of my friends lots of the people my discord are in episodes and they want drm free

so even though i had on amazon at drm free they just didn't want to go to amazon which i respect and i'm not critical of that that's totally reasonable um which is why i was like fine and the third book the second book um the second book in the series is my third published book i'm gonna put on itch a day before amazon right i'm gonna put on itch before amazon not a lot before just a day or so before but like i feel like i should just go if you're gonna do this i'm gonna reward you like you can have it first you know um but yeah it's i'm not yeah it's i was i was unsure about doing it because i'm like i'm taking a pay cut i don't get a lot of money and it's a difference and again they sell well i've sold like a few hundred copies of each book oh wow it's not like no one but people are reading people are reading them but we're not talking i'm not jk rowling i'm not paying my

mortgage you know i'm i'm buying video games and snacks you know like you're paying for script now i'm paying for word you know and and this mouse i guess technically um i uh yeah so it's not you don't and if you are someone this is my bed this is the advice after two three books in two published right and advice i have for people that want to be self-published authors right if you're doing it for the money just stop now and go and get a job like there is no money in it there are thousands of books published on amazon every year it is entirely possible that you are a modern day hemingway and you will never sell a book right it is also possible you'll be an absolute fucking hack like jk rowling and you'll hit just the right

people to sell a trillion books right um but it's most likely that what'll happen is you'll put your book out there and you'll make a couple of hundred pounds and that's it it's not worth the hourly rate like once you look at how much work it takes to write a book if you're doing it for any reason other than to tell your stories you're you're misunderstanding what writing's about right and those people that say, you should go and get traditionally published, I don't think it's worth losing your creative control over the thing you wrote

for the very small check they give you. But that's just my take on it. Maybe your mileage may vary, but there's a lot of work to find an agent. Then that agent will then put in a lot of work that is billable hours to find to publish your book. And then you'll publish it and they might go here's five grand which sounds good but then your agent fees are going to get taken out and then you've still got to get a job you're still in the same boat you might as well just put your stories out there and let people read them

you're probably not going to be better off that's my thoughts you have a paperback version of your book yes yes it's on the shelf what is what is the process you went through to actually get that to be so i have to i have to format it a very specific way for amazon and how that is is the left when you go pages they have to be offset to the left and right so that when they put the pages together they're both away from the middle right right and that's called print formatting right there are lots of software to do that for you words can actually do that if you want to put the effort in but it's a pain in the ass i use um i've been using atticus for it but scrivener's got this built in as well so you format it a very specific way so the pages are offset so once the left ones to the right once

the left ones to the right so that again when you open it what happens if you don't do it is you open your book right and you'll get the one side will be further towards the center than the other side and that results in a weird look you also want to make sure you pay attention to how big your page is going to be versus how close to the edge you go with your prints right right lots of things you need to learn for that but again the software will help you once you've got your your pdf and they do want pds formatted properly if you know if it's worked if you've hit page down it goes bit bit bit bit bit left and right as your page down because you go what the fuck's that about you know if it's worked, if you hit page down, it goes bit, bit, bit, bit, bit, bit, left and right as you page down because you have to go, what the fuck is that about? When you've done that, you don't put a cover on it.

You then get to Amazon and you go publish print book. So once you've already, you should already have your e-book set up at that point. And you go, I'm going to add another format. And the format I'm going to add is print, right? And it will go, do you want a ISBN number? You do because Amazon gives them to you for free. So you'd be stupid not to. A book requires an ISBN number, which is,

for those of you who don't know, most people do, it's the number above the barcode on the back of the book, and it just says ISBN. It's a long number, right? That's how libraries order your book. So if you want your book to be available in libraries, it has to have an ISBN. Amazon will provide that for you, which is really nice of them, to be fair. They must do

something for their money, I guess. If they did provide that for you, how really nice of them to be fair they must do something for their money i guess if they did provide that for you how would you even go about getting that you can buy them you can literally buy a job lot of isba you can buy like 10 isbns for 100 pounds and then you just go on the website the writing bureau website and you're like this book this isb any link to this book by me and it's available from these places and that's it um it's not hard it's just money that you don't really want to spend. Like, you know, it's like 20 quid per number minimum is the cheapest, obviously. And Amazon just do it for free. But anyway, then you just go down.

You put your cover on. Again, the cover has to be, you want front, spine, and back. And a very specific size with very specific dimensions. They give you like a template. By the way, their template was wrong. It was out by five pixels, which doesn't sound like a like a lot but annoyed the shit out of me anyway um what's he just so what i did was i made the trans page transparent and i lined up my assets and that so that when i when i when i make the cover transparent i can see through it and like this all lines up you then

or you then you know you then go it's done now then they make you pay to send you a publisher copy which is a copy of your book with not for resale printed across the front in big writing which is super annoying because you like what i paid for you fucks anyway when you're happy with it you go do that and then they just publish it just turns up on the kindle store with your epub just as a second format and if i was to add uh if i was to do an audio book which i'm not planning on doing if i was an audio book the process is similar but you just go through this other website and it links back to amazon it's okay it's an amazon owned website but they keep it separate because there's a lot of tooling involved right that's it it's not difficult and that's the process on amazon there are other ways to do that

and and there are vanity presses where you can just go like i just want 10 000 of this book go print them um but you don't put again there's no money in writing for most people so if amazon are willing to do all the work just let them let them and then someone goes i want a print copy but i don't want to go to amazon i'm like here you go print it yourself like that that's your answer like i'll send it to you you go get printed yourself i'm not doing it you know um but that means by doing it all this way i maintain the copyright of my own work and i maintain ownership of my own work so that i can just do what i want with that writing

i don't have to worry about like what the publisher thinks and stuff i can just do what i want and i don't i don't do this as a full-time living and i would never be able to probably so i just do my i just tell my stories i think it's probably the healthiest way to do it anyway. Like whether, not just with that, just with sort of anything that, whether it's YouTube, whether it's writing, whether it's, I don't know, whether it's writing blogs or anything else like that. I think any sort of creative endeavor like that

is best to treat as purely just a hobby. And maybe at some point, doing that enough over time, it gets to the point where it's actually viable as a job, viable as a career. But I think that early stage, at least that's the way that I've approached it with YouTube. I do this a lot. i spend a lot of time

on it but i haven't been treating it like a job per se it's been like i do this i work on this stuff and that's what i do but i enjoy it and i think when you start treating it a little bit too seriously that's when it will start sort of draining the enjoyment you get out of it, if that makes any sense what you're saying I completely agree with, but I would say, especially with my writing I do take it seriously I work as hard as any writer does

on their writing, right, but I just want people to read it and enjoy my stories I've had some people email me I'm not there for the money I'm doing this, I'm going gonna get paid mostly because if i do that mindset i'm gonna make a worse book yeah like if i go what if i'm going i want people to buy this one so i have to pander to you have to do fan service in this book that's going to result in a worse story which then hurts me in the future so it's not like the only way to approach these

things is like this is what i do this is i'm not looking at money i'm doing this because i love it because ultimately if no one was reading my books and people are reading them which is beautiful and brilliant i love it and i said hundreds of people have bought my book but i do it for me to read for my friends to read and so that i can like you know i did this it's a good feeling that you don't get from other things well i do want to make one thing clear. When I say I don't necessarily do it as a job, like purely as a job, that's not me saying that I don't care about the money. If I didn't care about the money,

I wouldn't have ads on the videos. Like, I wouldn't have a Patreon. Like, I care about the money, but it's not like the main driving force. You know what? I don't think you do care about the money, right? Because forget what the reality is, that i'm doing the work for fun i may as well allow i may as well allow myself to be paid that's not the same as doing it for money because i write my books

and i sell them and the reason i sell them is because if i give it away for free people are going to take it and not read it if they pay for it they're going to read it right as a general rule of thumb so you can for mine with, I add value by putting a financial barrier there, right? Which sounds mental, but believe me, the research is there. And with your videos, you're doing it anyway. You're making, I don't like the word product because it's bullshit, right? But you're doing something and you're outputting some work you've done, a work of entertainment or education depending on the video

right why should you not have the facility there if people want to give you money they can that's not the same as asking for money like if you went oh my videos are exclusive to patreons now that's being an asshole that's doing it for money but to say if you like my videos you want to give me money that's great like that that's the way we should pay creative people and that's correct like if people if the people who make superhero movies when the movie's free but if you like to give us some money that'd be great like a good example of that is i watched a movie recently that i may have acquired from the internet through dubious legal methods i enjoyed it and when the movie was over i pulled out my phone i loaded up Google Pay

Google thingy and I bought the film I'm not going to watch that because I've just watched it but I gave them money because they made something I loved and I was like

I like this so much I want to give you the 20 pounds whatever it is for this movie because it's good and whether or not something has money

has a financial cost associated does not affect me watching it for free. Or any of us, let's be honest. We all can get these things. If we really want it, we can get any game we want for free. But we pay for it because we want to get...

No. No. Okay. I am legally obligated to say I've never done this. Okay. But you're aware of how to do it. You have the skill set required, I'm guessing. I've certainly heard about the skills yeah but what i'm saying is functionally a barrier of payment

does nothing because we choose to give money like when i buy an indie game off steam i can absolutely get that indie game for free in many places that is no more difficult than steam right but i want i like the fact it's easy to get on steam i just go click and it installs and i like the fact that i mean like good example of this is backpack game i played recently what's that called the game with the backpack we get the mouse with the backpack backpack hero there you go good game backpack hero backpack here is really good it's a good game i've not heard of it 13 pounds like that is good yeah 13 pounds right it was highly recommended by a friend of mine that played it in alpha right

so i gave him 13 pounds i absolutely could have gone and got that for free right the pay barrier didn't do anything you we all try and reward things we like we go here's some money make more of that and that's the same with youtube and with writing and with art i like a thing here's some money make some more that's how we should do it and that's why patreon's a great idea why they take a massive cut is their own is another conversation but the idea of going i i made a i made youtube videos if you like them give me some money if you want or if not just share them i guess you know that's not you that's not you doing it with money in mind and that's not you expecting to get paid that's that's just how things are supposed to work but we've got confused by

disney mostly i think it just depends on how you want to frame it um no i totally understand where you're coming from with that i don't know i mean maybe i think more about it, but... Yeah, I'm not... Hearing what you've said now, I'm not too sure the way I would frame it. Brainwashing, yes. I'm looking at this game right now, Backpack Hero, and it looks actually really cool. It's really cool.

What's the deal with it? It's a roguelike of some sort. I'm going to stop writing wankering now, and I'll talk about some computer stuff. Sorry, guys. Steam. Let me go to Backpack Hero on Steam. Backpack Hero Steam.

So the game is basically... It's a bit of a contrivance. But basically, you go through a dungeon screen by screen, right? And you have the items in your backpack. And every turn, you use energy to take something from your backpack and use it, right? But you have finite space in your backpack and every turn you use energy to take something from your backpack and use it right but you have finite space and you don't level up your bag gets bigger right so you can store more stuff so if you've got a sword in your bag it's also inventory management like there'll be a thing like there's a sword and the sword is more powerful if it's

next to a pair of gloves so you have to arrange your backpack to put the sword next to the glove so when you use the sword it's more powerful or it'll be like this is heavy so it drops the bottom of the bag right so that might be i've got to move everything up or i can't do that because if i have that item i can't put the sword next to the gloves and you know or like this is light it floats to the top of the bag you know um and it's kind of a contrivance and it's very gamey but it results in this interesting this interesting game where you get to you get to kind of like it's like the game is inventory management almost and it's kind of like it scratches the itch of the old diablo players and stuff as well ultimately it's slay

the spire with a with backpack items rather than cards ultimately yeah i'm playing through but i do buy right now it's very fun it, Backpacking is different games. It's different enough that it's... Oh. I lose it? Oh, I lost him. Oh, well, let's... I'm back. Oh, now I'm in your spot. I'm back. Oh, now I'm in your spot.

I'm sorry. It's not my fault. My Discord crashed. Oh. I don't know why. Okay, now we're good. Okay, cool. I was in your camera spot for a moment. For some reason, it flipped around when your camera wasn't on. I don't know why it does that.

Sorry, guys. I'm chasing a bug that I think is a Windows bug ironically where if I'm on a video call, this guy just dies after an hour. It's pretty much bang on an hour. It just closes and reopens. It's fine when it reopens,

but it just closes. I meant to warn you, but I totally forgot. My bad, sorry. I hope I haven't fucked up your recording. Yeah, it's, we do Trendy Talk, my podcast,

which is two hours, right? So halfway through, we have the little crash Just a little crash Every week I have no idea why I even doubled my laptop That I use as my main computer I had 16GB of RAM So I upped it to 32 thinking it was a RAM issue

Made no fucking difference So I don't know what that's about Electron I guess I don't know Probably, I don't know what that's about electron i guess i don't know probably i don't know yeah it doesn't do it on voice it only does it with video that's why i think it's some kind of buffer problem that's really weird who knows yeah i'm wondering because like i've got my egpu is um is got an amd card in there and amd drivers are an absolute dog turd on every operating system.

And I know Linux guys are like, no, AMD's a source. Those drives are a bag of shit. Stop it. You're lying to yourself. It's a bag of shit compared to a bag of flaming shit. Yeah. No, don't get me wrong. I understand. And I chose an AMD card

willingly during my time when I was on Linux. But now i'm on windows i really wish i had an nvidia card because fuck me anyway sorry side note i think i think the drivers like do some minor reset every so often i think that causes some interference because my egpu has got usb ports in the back and my camera and my microphone are plugged into the egpu because obviously i want one cable for my laptop yeah right so i don't want to fuck everything plugged into the GPU, because obviously I want one cable for my laptop, right? So I don't want to fuck with everything plugged into the GPU. And I think it's doing some kind of timeout with the drivers for the PCIe.

I don't know. I'm digging into it. I'm looking into it. Because it doesn't bother me, because I'm not usually on the video call for an hour, so it's not too much of a concern. But before you disappeared, we're talking about Backpack Hero. I've been playing through Slaveay the spire on stream and i really like i didn't like roguelikes when i was younger

but i've sort of gotten into them but i'm kind of sick of the you know the dead cells the hades the you go through this dungeon and you get upgrades and you fight things. I want a different style of roguelike. And Slay the Spire is a card game. Backpack Hero is inventory management. It's a different gimmick on the same sort of baseline. Yeah, no, I agree. My favorite roguelike at the moment is

definitely Vampire Survivors. It's such a great game, Vampire Survivors. So good! So good! Actually, side note of that, Vampire Survivors, when you first play it,

you're like, this is a fun drop-in, drop-out little game where I jump in and have fun. No. 50 hours in, you're like, this is a fun drop-in, drop-out little game where I jump in and have fun. No. 50 hours in, you're like, this is fucking half an hour. I am here till the end, motherfucker. And it's not whether you will finish the run. It's how fantastically you'll do the run. It's like, will I die?

Will I die in a flame of glory or fucking fireworks and God? You know? But yeah, I can't like, I play it less now I'm better at it because I just like, I liked it better when it's dropping drop out like just dropping 10 minutes drop i really like that i do multiple runs but now it's like half an hour of run i'm just like there's my steam deck like like this is this is my life now like you know i do yeah anyway sorry can you even see anything going on on the steam deck you know have you not got steam deck no i'm in australia i haven't why don't you just

not be in australia they're expanding to asia so asia's close to australia so asia australia look at some yeah look by the time we get him here it's a steam deck too yeah i was talking to uh liam door uh the other week uh giving a look guy about steam deck yeah he's very happy with his so i love i i use my steam deck a lot more than i thought i would right like like a lot more than oh look my sorry i've just had my ea play subscription expire i don't care um whatever i've got i've got game. I don't give a shit. Yeah, so, like, it's big enough in your hand that when you're playing it, like, it's not, it doesn't feel small because you have it so close to your fucking head.

It gets bigger as it gets closer. But I, as of yet, the fact that it's basically a 720 screen, it's a little bit bigger, but the fact it's, like, a fairly low-resolution screen, it's that right size and the right distance from my head that i haven't given a shit i just mean with vampire everything's small in that game honestly no it's it's fine like i didn't even give it a thought i haven't even given it a thought it's just fine like you know it's absolutely fine there's a couple of updates and it runs a bit better than how it did to start because when the steam when i first got when it first came out it was a bit better than how it did to start with. When it first came out, it was a bit

rough on the deck apparently, but it's alright now. It was a bit rough just in general. Yeah, it was. But I really love Vampire Survivor and my default since having my Steam Deck, if a game works on my Steam Deck, that's where I play it.

Which also explains how I'm fine using a laptop as my main computer as well, I guess. It's pretty good. Steam Deck's great. When it comes out, all the ones. I would love to get a Steam Deck. I've heard nothing. I've heard one bad thing about it.

It was just... If you take the back off, make sure you take your SD card out because otherwise it'll snap in half. Don't forget about that. Just don't forget about that one. Multiple people have done it at this point. Like, yeah.

But besides that. I mean, that's on you. Besides that, it seems like a really really cool device and there's no downside to it weird there's no downside to it i kind of missed the days when i had like a nintendo ds and other handhelds where i could just like lay in bed and just play video games i don't have a switch sadly i i've been meaning to get a switch for ages don't bother don't't bother Since having my Switch

Since having my Steam Deck I've just stopped using my Switch I've got 3000 games on Steam My Switch has got like 8 I've got a Steam Deck now It's basically powerful enough To emulate the Switch as well I haven't done that

I messed with it when I first had my Steam Deck But I decided that I couldn't be arsed Because with it when I first had my Steam Deck but I decided that I couldn't be arsed I just like because like it's so easy to go on Steam and go I want that

and it just downloads and I did the effort to make Game Pass work on it you know like you can do the xCloud stuff so I can play Halo on it

and I can just install things on Steam and I'm like that's enough games like I've got 58 games installed on it like that's enough games like I don't need more

and I've got a Switch and I've bought all the games I want for my Switch. I've used the Steam Deck since I've had one. When I pull out my Switch now, it's a tiny baby thing. It's so small. It's so small.

Steam Deck feels powerful. I recommend Steam Deck, and yeah, it's become my main way of playing things, and I can't see that changing until the Steam Deck 2 comes out, which I don't want it to be soon, but, you know, it's pretty much, as far as I'm concerned,

the default way to play games for me now. So Steam Deck, okay, it hasn't been fully confirmed, but there was some marketing material that came out a little bit ago that did say that it was going, that it was going to be like a multi-generational thing i'll see if i can find it because i don't see it no no i know what you mean it's the leaflet they dropped in yeah yeah yeah thing is though i don't what of course it is like they weren't gonna go

here's a steam deck we're done see you later of course they were going to do a steam deck too that'd be dumb do you you remember Steam Machines? I think the question was whether it was going to do well. And it's done well. It's doing well. Steam Machines didn't. That's the difference. Steam Machines was Valve

trying to move too soon because they hadn't got the infrastructure in place. In case anyone forgot about Steam Machines, Proton didn't exist back then. Yeah. The problem with Steam Machines was that they were just like, here's Linux. What does it do that an Xbox

doesn't? Nothing. It's worse. Can I put Windows on it? Yeah. I can just buy a Windows PC then. What am I buying? What's the point? They had no purpose. The Steam Deck takes my windows light takes my my current existing library of linux game of steam games and i can play them on the toilet i can play them on the i can take it to work and play vampire survivors and lunch right

like and if i don't want to i can sit in this little this little cradle i've got here and plug in the usb and if i turn on that TV my Steam Deck's on that TV now And I use this PlayStation controller, and I just sit and play here and that it's a it's got It gives me something other things don't so of course it sold well Whereas the only console that gives me what the Steam Deck gives me is the switch But with way more expensive games way less power and like let's face it and let's face it really uncomfortable controllers yeah so yeah no i think the steam like the steam decks sold so well they can't make them fast enough people have to remember that the only reason there's not the only reason

there's not more steam decks out there is because they're still making them so like if you think about what they came out during the hardware shortage so that's obviously a big a big issue with that if if okay if the steam deck had come out like three yeah let's say like let's say it came out like six months before covid it would have been an insane device it would have been i wouldn't be surprised there are a couple hundred thousand units out there already if if it came come out back then the numbers are the numbers are higher than that already aren't they they? Do they have the numbers public? Anything they did? They don't, but someone's done the maths

on how many they ship per day. They're shipping an estimate. They was shipping 6,400 units a week. And they're now doing, according to Google, 13,000 units a week. And they're now doing, according to Google, 13,000 units a week. Right? So if you do the maths on that already, based on what we know,

there's definitely more than two out there. Definitely more than two. True. I think they have said it's coming up to a million Steam Decks. Like, out there. That wouldn't surprise me.

Well, considering they're still expanding into more countries and continents, that's the word. They're expanding more continents. Like, there are areas that haven't been able to buy them yet. Yep, absolutely. Absolutely. And it's definitely going to be a big seller. I'd be very surprised

if it's not a big seller in Asia. i yeah it's because the asian market because the asian market tends to be way more into portable gaming anyway and they tend to be a lot really to land stuff and the steam that's kind of great for that um like it's a land party in your pocket really um it's a weird size i mean if i had to be critical of the steam, I understand why it's the size it is, right? But, like, I do kind of feel like it's just, it's too big to be truly portable. Because if I take this Switch, put it in a slip case and drop it in my satchel,

because I have a satchel when I go work. I take a satchel because I have a lot of paperwork and a laptop and stuff, right? I can slip a Switch in my bag. It's fine. The Steam Deck case, right? Like, is this. That's a bag on its own. it's got a handle on the back it's like it's a briefcase like it's not really portable in the same way is it like

that you're gonna like like you might take it on a train journey that's a that's backpack portable it's not yeah i mean like i took i could like the reality is the weight the size of the steam deck the size of the packaging if i want to play vampire survivors at work i've got my work laptop in my bag i can just pick up my actual laptop put that in the bag as well wouldn't weigh very much more it weighs about the same if we're honest with the power pack and stuff and the battery is better like there's not like it's it's portable and i get it and i'm not saying it should be smaller but there's still a place for my little tiny switch right you know there's still a place for my old ds there's still a place for you know other devices um but i also get why the steam deck is the size it is and i think i wouldn't

be shocked if we see at some point a revision where they just make it all a little bit smaller i wouldn't be surprised if we see that at some point. Or Steam Deck 2 is physically a little bit more streamlined. That wouldn't shock me. But I like the power. I like the 16 gig of RAM because I think that's the right amount of RAM for gaming. Wait, it has 16 gigs of RAM?

Yeah. Fucking hell. I'm going to check this now in case I'm wrong. Steam Deck, tech, specs. If I've got this wrong, I'm going to feel like a right knee um i believe you that i just know i'm checking myself yeah 16 gig of ddr5 i see why people are using it as a desktop oh obviously i've done that yeah there you go there's a tech sheet yeah 16 gig it's got i mean the's got, I mean, the specs are, it's an APU, Zen 2 architecture,

with 8 RDNA 2C cores. Yeah, whatever that means, yeah. It means it's faster than, it means the Steam Deck graphics card is probably ballpark as fast as the 5600 XT that's in my GPU. Yeah, it's definitely faster than the GPU I have in my, I'm running a 570.

Do you not enjoy color in your games what do you not do you not like colors do you not do you have to really black and white or is that on a crt um they're like oh i have oh that wasn't my end this time no i think that might be my connection i am in austral. I think that's Discord playing up. Could be. My computer over there, that's under my window there, right? That's like an R5,

like an AMD R5, with like 32 gig of RAM and like NVMe's at the yuha. And I put it away because I'm using HP EliteBook laptop as my main computer and that felt pointless right like like don't worry about your graphics card i'm using a laptop and i feel happier because of it that's mad like we have so much compute in the modern day and like most games i play i'm gonna go e gpu has got my e gpu it's a nice it's it's to be honest i've got a nice e gpu

um it's got hard drive bay in it so all my steam games because steam's really good at connecting and disconnecting libraries thanks to steam deck they had an update right it's nice because all my steam games are on the one terabyte ssd in the nba in the um the gpu so i just plug it in it's like steam goes i found them yay and then when I unplug it, it goes, they're gone. And like, it doesn't care, which is really nice. But between GeForce Now, Xbox Game Pass,

and my Steam library, I don't find my GPU gets ramped up very often, to be honest. I don't find it. I don't really use it that much. Most of the time, I'll just play Halo with some friends, or I'll play Monster Hunter, or, you know, like there's not a lot of things my desktop pc doesn't need to be gaming grade anymore and that's weird to me it's a weird transition partly because i'm playing less games but partly

because like i played like the new the last game that came out new that i wanted to play was spider man and it came out steam deck certified on day one, so I just installed it on my Steam Deck, and that's where I... I've not even played it outside the Steam Deck, because why would I? You know? It's weird. Don't worry about your shitty graphics card, because it doesn't fucking matter. It genuinely doesn't matter.

I want a better graphics card. I want an Nvidia graphics card. I'm just so fucking sick of Red Team crashing on me every time I fucking do something weird. I did notice that you were talking, you talked about Stray a little bit ago on your channel. Yeah, I have mixed feelings, Stray. It is a very fun, I finished it, it's

very, okay, it, I was like, hey, this, I didn't know anything going into it besides it's a funny cat game. I was like, oh, this is going to be a cute game about cats. I was like, oh, no, it's Cyberpunk Dystopia. Like, okay, this is going to be a cute game about cats. Like, oh, no, it's Cyberpunk Dystopia. Like, okay, sure. Okay. Okay, so according to Steve, it took me seven and a half hours to finish Australia, right?

Again, finally on Steam Deck. Finally on Steam Deck, right? So you finished it, right? I did finish it, yes. Can we put a spoiler warning up because I don't want to hold back. We've got a spoiler warning. We can absolutely go. Spoilers.

Absolute spoilers here. Spoilers. I'm doing it over here like my camera's over here. Like I forgot't want to hold back. We've got a spoiler warning. We can absolutely go. Spoilers. Absolute spoilers here. Spoilers. I'm doing it over here like my camera's over here. Like I forgot where my camera is today. I'm dancing now. No, no, no, no, no, no. I've got the shirt for it. Oh, wait.

How am I wearing a more ostentatious shirt than you? You're the one with the shirts, aren't you? Wait, I've got. I can. Hew it up. I don't have a shirt here, but we can wear this. No. I don't have a shirt here, but we can wear this. Take it off. Wait, but it does this.

Keep it on. Yeah, so... Oh, fucking hell, yes. Okay, so Stride, for those that don't know, it's Tomb Raider with a cat, right? So it's Tomb Raider, but she's a cat now, right? That's literally Stray, right? And instead of being in the forgotten past of Earth,

Tomb Raider cat is in the future, in the forgotten past of Earth, which is the future for us still. But it's Tomb Raider in the future with a cat. Which, which is the future for us still but it's tomb raider in the future with a cat which when i realized that i was like ruined um yeah that is but like tomb raider set now looking at our past and this cat's in the distant future looking at its past it's tomb raider with a cat. Yeah. Anyway, sorry. It is though.

It literally is. I have a couple of problems with... I like the game. I enjoyed it. I'll probably never play it again. Right? Yeah, I fully agree.

Which is interesting because it's $23.99 so it's priced, I think, priced very reasonably. I did not begrudge the money I spent on it, right?

It was a good game, but I am never going to play it again. There is no replayability. Because it's so... It's beautiful. And if you take... Because, I mean, seven and a half hours, that was me taking my time,

exploring the environment. I looked at everything. But, like, there's no surprises. There's no depth to it. It's just everything you see is what you get. That's it. And once you know how to solve the puzzles, which, and I say the word puzzles loosely,

there was not one puzzle that made me go more than, oh, okay, I've got it now. Like, the most complicated one was the one where there's like a thing in the middle of the room you need to get and you've got to roll barrels to get to it. That one, I got confused because I didn't see the thing you had to go and jump over. That's why I didn't see the photocopier in the cupboard.

And I just opened the cupboard and got the photocopier on wheels out. Like, that's basically what happened, right right but like like it didn't stump me even to the point where i think there's more complex puzzles in tomb raider in like in like the recent tomb raider games there was one that really got the got me early in the game um so it's just after you get little flying robot dude um yeah and you who's the actual only character in the game yeah yes um so you have to go and unlock a door and there's a code you have to find and like a room you go back towards you didn't see the code did you i saw the code i thought it was said like 42 plus something and then i went closer and i realized the plus wasn't actually a plus it took me like

10 minutes to realize it wasn't it's like there's gotta be some code somewhere there's gotta be another number somewhere in this room yeah that you know what honestly i kind of know what you mean there because that's kind of done in a way that like you like i just moved the bucket and i could read the code your brain goes no fucking way is it that easy right and that's when you go what's the trick you like yeah it does it almost stumps you by being too fucking easy but like cats are stupid so you know but like maybe then when i was like onto the game like there's a bit later where now the code is like the numbers on the clocks that are stopped and i now i was onto the game at that point I was like there are four clocks

Every code has four numbers It's the fucking clocks Yeah but If you okay I basically That puzzle was again Like I was making a cup of tea And the robot guy

That's in the room when that happens just goes Where will we find the codes? It's telegraphed to the point. I reckon if you wait longer, they'll start chiming and flashing. But again, the game is supposed to be a fun. It's not supposed to be hard. It's supposed to be a fun adventure in a weird cyberpunk robot world, right? Yeah, yeah.

Which is fine. I'm great. That's that's fine right i have two criticisms right right and like these criticisms aren't even big criticisms because i enjoyed it but there's two things that piss me off so bad firstly why can the cat read and everyone goes the cat can't read the robot reads right and then the robot speaks cat okay except for before you get the robot there's a sign that says help with an arrow this way right if that sign had have just been symbols and then you pick up the robot then you can read it i would have gone oh that's smart right but the cat can read cats can't read that's stupid if cats can read i need to throw mine out when i'm watching porn no i i there is definitely a lot of that stuff early on i i thought it's like nice and like

fancy like hey look we're pointing in direction with the environment but that's a very good use an arrow you have a light flashing like lead the cat through flashing lights like even have an arrow and it's me the gamer that did it but when you see the word like lead the cat through flashing lights like even have an arrow and it's me the gamer that did it but when you see the word help and the cat goes all right let's go then like fuck off cats can't read that's not and the other one that pissed me off right is i guarantee i want to talk to the developers of this game because i know what they're i figured out their original ending and it's i think genius because it's so obvious right all the way through the game the you know the little the little pig mice they're attacked attracted to metal yeah yeah

they chased they chased the cat right right they changed the cat now the robot thing goes it's me i'm attracting attracting them. Bullshit. There was a version of this game where the cat's a robot, right? There is a version of the game where you get to the end, it's like, cat's a robot. And you were supposed to go, wow. And I guarantee they play tested it. Everyone went, ugh, right? And they changed it.

Because the version of this game where at the very end, the cat's a robot would have been dope. It would have been absolutely brilliantly. Because thing is the whole game is like it's not even modern day cyberpunk it's almost like mid-70s cyberpunk it's like it's almost got this vibe of like um of like some like moon is a harsh mistress and stuff like that kind of like classical sci-fi so for it to have that classical sci-fi vibe and then when you get to the end and the facilities like really 50s and weird right for it to have a 60s sci-fi ending would have been fucking dope right and they bottled it and i won't ever forgive them because it would have been cool if the cat was a robot at the end right but instead the cat what's he do he leaves his robot friend

and fucks off yeah sniff with the cat's asses? Who gives a shit? Just kill it now and not bother. I actually was kind of bothered by the ending because I got to that ending and he just like stands on the ledge and then it just ends. I was like, wait, did I miss something? Is there like a secret ending that there's like extra... Oh, it looked as well! There's nothing.

Yeah. I thought there was going to be like another cat that comes over and they're like, he rejoins the cat gang. No, he just leaves. He's just over. He's just like, oh, fuck yeah. But there's this big thing with the robot, the robot human robot thing. Like, I want to know what that's about. That's the story I was there for.

Yeah, yeah. I don't give a shit about the cat. The cat was, it's like, I feel like the cat was almost the tool the robot used. It's not a game about a cat. The cat is the interface by which the robot has the adventure, right? Because it's a cat. It doesn't have fucking used it's not a game about a cat the cat is the interface by which the robot has the adventure right because it's a cat it doesn't have fucking it's a cat you know like so when the robot is the one having the adventures because it's not the cat's agenda it's the robot's agenda it's the robot that we're really following the cat is like it's just there it's cute and i

like it but the robots I want to know, tell me about the robot's history. The robot used to be a human, they say, at one point. Is he? What's that about? Where are the humans? There's all this stuff that's so much more interesting than a fucking stupid cat. So if the game used the cat to explore these things,

I would have gone, oh, bravo. But instead, it's just a shallow cat game, and that's just kind of sad, because it was so good. But even then, the two areas, like the first area, and then the little town thing you get to, are like these interesting open areas

with not so much puzzles, but intricate exchanges that happen. Mechanically, like, you do a thing, and then this happens, which makes this happen. So then, you know, there's all these things that happen there, but in between, you're walking through corridors. And the in-between bit is very boring, right?

The only reason you don't notice is because you're constantly waiting for something to happen. So you don't notice it's boring. But you'll never play it again because the next time through you'll go, Ugh, corridor! I actually did go back and play through some of the chapters. Because I missed some of the memories. And going back and doing through some of the chapters to because i missed some of the memories um and going back and doing that i fully agree yes it's just can i get to the next bit i know where the memory is can i just go get there i don't care about this don't care about this running

to the end yeah yeah you're running there you're not experiencing the game the first time you kind of basket it because you don't know what's happened but once you know where it leads you just barrel running through to get to the end and that's not a game you want to replay you want to replay a game you want to bask in like for all its faults you'll bask in cyberpunk 2077 you know you're not basking in cyberpunk cat game yeah well yeah but actually there's a game that it does so little with what's happening but i still have replayed it multiple times. Journey on, I guess, PS3 and PS4. Oh yeah, Journey's a good game. Yeah, Journey's good. It's on Steam as well, isn't it, Journey?

I didn't know it ever left PlayStation. But that's a game where nothing happens. It's just a journey. And there's something that draws you back into it. I don't know what it is about that world. But there's one

thing i wanted to say about stray did you pick up on some of the really fucking on the nose references like which ones uh elliot the programmer which is a very obvious mr robot reference no i did not i i i'm not i've seen the first season mr robot and at the end that was all right yeah he's elliot the programmer and he's a robot it's it's the most obvious fucking reference in the world he's literally mr robot yeah no okay that's yeah okay that's cute it's cute because i mean i probably mean i missed that so that's cute yeah it's kind of it's fine i don't guess yeah one thing i love about the game is the soundtrack man that's the first

when you first enter the slums and like everyone's running away from you I can't talk about the soundtrack because every time I load a game the very first thing I do is go and turn off music

in every game really wait so it's not true there's one sorry sorry Doom and 2016 and doom eternal don't turn off the soundtrack for and stolaris i don't turn off the soundtrack for every other game turn

off the soundtrack wait so that bit where you had to go take the the the tape and put it into the the music player to get the like the the guy in the shop to like come around to like turn the music off so you could steal the thing you didn't hear that track no that track plays with the music turned off okay okay i didn't i gets worse i didn't hear it because i didn't have my speakers turned on i i don't i don't know what i don't know if i'm wired up wrong but like game music game sounds are just annoying and i don't need them i just don't i don't know what's I don't know if I'm wired up wrong but like game music game sounds are just annoying and I don't need them

I just don't I don't I mute everything I just don't I don't give a shit like I play Halo with no sound most of the time

why it doesn't do anything for me I just you know why like while while I played Stry I think I was listening

to Kylie Minogue's disco album on loop very cool like for the audio listeners for Very cool For the audio listeners For the audio listeners Brody's like stunned And terrified and annoyed He's rubbing his head in disbelief at this

Okay I just don't give a I've got a Spotify subscription I'll pick the music I don't want to listen to your shitty ambience When I could be listening to Kylie Minogue Well okay i can agree with listening to music listening to other stuff when i'm like when it's a game where i don't really care about the music when i'm doing like i don't know dungeons and ff14 i will listen to music and stuff but a game where it's entirely

like the ambience of the world i'm gonna listen to that in-game music if i could if there's a button to turn off to turn off the music track in movies i would press it every time this is the sad be sad now this is sad time just i like i i don't get i play halo on mute um i quite like the soundtrack for doom but once i played it once i'll mute it after that um because the doom soundtrack is like kind of good music independently of the game right like and because there are certain sound like like the soundtrack to games is usually something that only works when you're playing the game right the soundtrack to doom is a banging album even without playing doom right you could never play doom you got a cool rock album right um so that kind of got past the first time but after that i just yeah it's like yeah that got a cool rock album right um so that kind of got past the first time but after that just yeah it's like yeah that got a one time on but pretty much always i'll be like ugh

whiny melodramatic harps and shit fuck off yeah and i know again this is something where i know i'm wrong and this is because like i care about different things like i like with most games there's two types of game for me there's there's games where like stray where i'm there to bask in it and i'm there to like read the law and i'm there to be part of the music is just a thing that just to distract you you know like i'll bask in the law like like if i'm playing an rpg i'll bask in the law and i want to know and i'll go and explore and i get involved most games i'm just there to shoot aliens i don't really care and i want to know and i'll go and explore and i get involved most games i'm just there to shoot aliens i don't really care i just want to shoot like most games i play i'm there for the mechanics some rpgs with really strong stories my writer brain kicks in i just want to know about

the story right and stray the first time through art like implied more depth than was there and made me excited to find out about the world turns out there's fucking nothing in the world but like you know i got excited to explore that world so i got played a different way than most games i'm interested in mechanics and i don't really give a shit about a lot of other things no i do agree with stray that i when they started okay the cat stuff was cool at the start when they they started introducing the robot dynamics and this community of robots, this lack of humans,

that for some reason these robots have grown their own personality over the years. For some reason, these alien things are here to destroy the robots. All of this stuff, I feel like... No, no, why? Why? Yeah, and there's a bit where you see these giant creepy eyes on the wall

and there's a bunch of little orange dudes running around. What the hell was that? Yeah, I feel like, yeah, I feel like Stray is set inside a larger science fiction. I feel like Stray needs a lore dump. I'll write that. Let's go. Fucking yeah, let's do that. But no, like,

I feel like if Stray was the same game it is, but it was set to happen alongside Half-Life 1 or Half-Life 2. So Half-Life 2 is happening, but you're a cat, right? So everything happens in Half-Life 2 happens, but you're a cat, right? That in half-life two happens but you're a cat right that'd be fucking dope that'd be amazing because all they don't need to spend time explaining stuff because half-life done that you'll just see the whole thing as a cat

and i feel like that you know or in the case of in the case of stray i feel like we're playing the cat and there's another game that explains all the fucked up lore of robots that's supposed to exist that doesn't and that's kind of my abstract critique of Straits it's a small part of a larger world which should be fucking fascinating but they haven't bothered fleshing it out

I do hope that the devs do something with the world if they don't it feels like such a wasted opportunity yeah like we're at the end when the dome opens and the robots see the sky for the first time i'm like i didn't even realize i couldn't see the sky like this yeah there's things you do you don't realize how deep you are and stuff and like yeah like make an rpg now like a full-on rpg about robots that carries on from there onwards and stray was the prelude to something amazing that'd be that'd be cool but i don't think we're gonna get that i think we're gonna get another shitty cat game that's what we're gonna get another cat we're gonna get cat 2 or we're

gonna get like a continuation like we're gonna get more of the same we're not gonna get something but or the devs are gonna take the money from this massive here and just go make something something else better like an actual more of a game but yeah either way it's fine but i am hungry for more and i want i want to know all the things that wasn't in that yeah i totally agree also i'm just looking at images of journey journey was dope i think i listened to the soundtrack i think i did listen to the soundtrack for it because i couldn't turn it off because it was on PlayStation when I played it. Just turn your speakers off. Oh, I've done that. Yeah, I've done that before now.

As I said, most of the time I play Halo a lot with friends. Almost always forget to turn any sound on at all. Wait, so not even like gun sounds,

just no sound? Yeah, just silent. Yeah, silent. Don't bother me. I've got eyes. It's got a radar. No one's going to sneak up on you in Halo.

There's a red dot in the corner. Fucking do I need sound for? Clear footsteps footsteps i don't give a yeah no i'm i'm i accept this is one of those things much like the fact that that i think quiche is the greatest food on earth you know i accept that i am a minority here and i'm senseless wrong you know like the rest of the world has decided that i'm wrong but i still think the soup is the best one The rest of the world has decided that I'm wrong, but I still think the Super's the best one.

Yeah. Well... I know it's really long, but can we talk about my keyboard before we go? Oh, sure, yeah, we can do that. We'll do that and then we'll end it off. Okay, because... I have...

Yes. ...historically used a Unicomp Buckling Spring keyboard, right? Which is, I believe, historically, used a Unicomp Buckling Spring keyboard, right? Which is, I believe to be, the best keyboard ever made, right? It's got some engineering issues, but it's astonishing. I think that's a pretty... I think a lot of people would disagree with that one. That seems like a pretty fair...

The people that like the keyboards really like them. Yeah. But with my new laptop lifestyle, and the fact that I use a Steam Deck, and a laptop, a lot, right? And I was writing on my laptop. So I bought the...

This is the MX Mechanical Logitech. It's called an MX Mechanical Tactile Illuminated. It's a wireless keyboard. It's a low-profile mechanical keyboard. What? Yeah, it's a low-profile mechanical keyboard. It's the weirdest thing, right? Yeah?

It has got a steel plate. It's rock solid. It's overpriced as fuck, right? It's like £ plate. It's rock-solid. It's overpriced as fuck right? It's like a hundred and sixty pounds It's so bright the reason I bought this particular keyboard is because got three buttons and I can have three separate profiles If I hit button two, that's just my steam deck Right and I've got a mouse with a button on and I can just go click click and I'm on my steam deck So if I turn my TV on I go click click and I'm using my steam deck with the keyboard and mouse in desktop mode which is brilliant right but with this laptop

lifestyle i'm leading i wanted kind of like a wire free desk as well so i went with this keyboard this keyboard really good it's not as good as unicomp but with my minimalist desk with my little laptop on a pedestal and my little mouse and you know my unicom looked fucking ludicrous like it just looks stupid it looks like here's all this elegant stuff also we've got a piece of 1970s there if i had more space and more usb ports i'd probably use it but i use this keyboard via bluetooth and i've written probably 50 000 words on this keyboard now the last few weeks um and this is this is a hard recommend if you don't mind the fact that it's a logitech keyboard because you know logitech keyboards but yeah it's a great keyboard well people tend to people have people say everything blogic keyboards of like the letters

rub off oh okay yeah or like the batteries. There's like, people have strong feelings about Logitech keyboards. I think historically, lower end Logitech stuff has always been bad, but the higher end Logitech stuff has always been excellent in my experience.

I mean, I'm using an MX3 mouse now, that's my mouse. I've got a G305 here and I've also got a G600, which is under my speaker, so I can't pull it up yeah i've uh well i mean i did have it my my lgg pro was the it was the best matter of ad right but the wheel was broken so if i scroll down every so often it'd scroll up i was like you

know and it got really annoying so i i wanted and i kind of wanted a mouse that was a bit more productivity focused i went with with the MX master three, which is again, because I was going for all Bluetooth because I, I don't want to do any wires. I just want to kind of have a clean desk. And yeah, I,

yeah, so I went with that and it's a really good mouse. So when I went the keyboard, I was like, Oh, if I buy the Logitech keyboard, I can use the same software because the software works better. I was like,

okay. So that kind of drove me towards it. And again, this is a windows problem. Linux users will just use you dev. I know better. I was like, okay, so that kind of drove me towards it. Again, this is a Windows problem. Linux users will just use Udev. I know that, right? But it's got this feature that I've never seen before, right? Never seen this feature before.

The lights on the keyboard go off, right? And then they come back on. I've never seen lights go off. No, this is the bit. It comes on when your hand gets near the keyboard. Right? What? So if I move my hands towards the keyboard the lights fade on i feel like a fucking wizard that's cool yeah i don't think i can replicate it because i don't know how it works i can't i probably can't show

you so just stay really still i think it's sensing my hand though to be honest but like basically all these lights go off right and i just put my hand there and they come back on again and it's fucking mental that's awesome and we'll wait hold on see if i don't think i catch it on camera but it's like it's the it's the stupidest little thing right um i'll just tap it a couple of times but it's the stupidest thing that just makes you feel absolutely awesome and it's basically a reason to recommend the keyboard the problem is sometimes it's like oh you did a bit of typing, I'll stay on for ages so not to distract you. And then now I can't illustrate my point

because the keyboard decided that it wants to stay on. So I guess I can't illustrate it. But yeah, what I like to do is just wave my hand over it like a wizard and it just comes on like, oh yeah. And it just feels very cool. But yeah, hard to recommend. It's a good keyboard if you can get past it being a logistic keyboard. because most people aren't writing novels on their on their bluetooth

keyboards um i would think that i would think that i will probably get more use out of it in the next six months than most people in its lifespan so i'm going to do like a video six months in where i'm like this is the fucking state of it because like my laptop keyboard all of the keys have basically got this this glow where i've taken the first layer of plastic off it and because it's backlit like the dangers that i really mean when i say they glow somewhat so yeah i'm pretty close to just having blank keys on my key on my laptop um so i'll see if the same happens on this and i'll give a six month review and be like you know i'll be like two novels and i'm like 275 000 words this shit broken um so we'll see what happens but yeah that's that's my yeah that's my keyboard story so there you go it's not going off now it just knows i'm typing

it does this well actually i don't know if you know what keyboard i have i have a case casey cherry stream oh it's an actual cherry keyboard yeah actual cherry keyboard oh you I don't know if you know what keyboard I have. I have a Casey Cherry Stream. Oh, an actual Cherry keyboard? Yeah, an actual Cherry keyboard. Oh, you don't see them a lot. Yeah, you don't see them a lot. It is... I don't like... I don't like Cherries.

Hmm. I'm like... Even though I'm using what is basically Cherry Red now, after using the Brooklyn Spring, I'm like... Oh, these are... Just buy a Brooklyn Spring. Okay, this is a Cherry keyboard. It's not actually a mechanical keyboard.

It's a... No, you've got a non-mechanical Cherry keyboard. It's's a scissor switch keyboard it's the same switch as you have on a laptop i used to think that you know what there was a point in time up until probably about six months ago where i would argue to bollocks that you need a mechanical keyboard right but as i said when i did my rearranging i just typed like a hundred thousand words on a laptop keyboard and i've come to the conclusion that i don't give a shit like like you just go oh that's nice they just go carry on i prefer a mechanical which is why i shelled out for this beast you know i prefer mechanical um but i don't i don't know i'm not convinced they're actually better past the tech like

the tactility is nice but i'm not sure it matters and if i'm gonna get a mechanical keyboard i'm gonna get a low profile one like that yeah it's nice it's really'm not sure it matters. If I'm going to get a mechanical keyboard, I'm going to get a low-profile one like that. Yeah, it's nice. It feels like it's heavy, but the keys are so low-profile. One thing I can't go to with regular mechanical keyboards is the normal keyboard switches. They're just too high.

You have to bend your wrist. I don't like it. it feels it you have to bend your wrist it's it's i don't like it i know that you have your yeah you have this giant guy this thing right this is my um comparison actually this is this is i think this even though i'm not using it now i think this is the best keyboard ever made right i genuinely believe that i've typed a lot this is the best feeling keystrokes on any keyboard i've ever had but it doesn't really work for my setup because of space and stuff right if you look at the if you look at the size of this motherfucker right yeah yeah right and then just look at this oh fuck i can't even shop

look at this look at the fucking difference it could eat it you put it inside of it yeah yeah i could truly put inside of it yeah yeah I could truly put it inside and again I don't want anyone to think I'm not

because like this Unicorn best keyboard I have ever used like it is by far the best keyboard I've ever used

no doubt whatsoever it is brilliant but it just feels like the wrong keyboard with my current setup it just feels kind of weird to use it

I might plug it into that and actually, and give it a little flashback with it tonight. But yeah, I'm not sure what I'm doing. Long term, I'm not sure if I'm going to go back to my Unicomp or stick with my elegant wireless. I'm really not sure. But if anyone's on the fence about Unicomp, if you like clicky, this is its daddy.

This feels like pulling a trigger when you push a button. You feel like people dying when you type in. That's how feels you know and but weirdly this this this little wireless i've got is probably the same weight as the unicom because it's got this massive steel plate on it so it's like it's chunky it's chunky it's like highly recommend chunky but yeah but not not quite the elegance and the monster that is the tank on my desk. That's my keyboard story. We can finish now if you want. Yeah, well, that's...

We'll finish now, I guess. Well, let the people know where they can find you, where they can find your books, all that fun stuff. Okay, so very quickly, hexdsl.com is where you'll find everything I do. You can find me as HexDSL on YouTube

I do not produce as much YouTube as I used to because I'm busy writing novels and you only have so much creative juices and like

writing novel takes longer but you get more output right so like yeah so I do make YouTube videos still I do a minimum of a couple of videos

a week but that is no longer my focus because I'm focused on the writing but HexDSL.com is where you'll find some ridiculous

law posts that won't make any sense if you haven't read the book but on the sidebar there are links to my books those links do take you to amazon but you can find my books on each now if you search for hexdsl um the two my two books i've actually published are on there um and they are available if you would like if you would like if you want to read my books and you can't afford it or you don't want to give me money send me an email i don't mind sending you a pdf of it that's fine i'm happy enough to do that if people just want you know don't want to don't want to read my books and you can't afford it, or you don't want to give me money, send me an email. I don't mind sending you a PDF of it. That's fine. I'm happy enough to do that if people just don't want to roll the dice sort of thing. Or if you do read my books and you want to talk it out, you want to talk to me about it, you can get me on my own Discord,

which is linked below every video, basically. And there is a book club there, which is where we do all the talking about books and stuff. And if anyone cares, my current read is the final empire by brandon sanderson which i'm which i'm 111 pages in and so far yeah it doesn't look very far it's not very far but i mean that's like half of a regular book though yeah it looks like a thousand pages i don't know actually this. I bought all three of these in print, right? And this is like 600, 700 pages, and I'm like 110 in. But that's my current issue. That's why it's currently...

I don't use bookmarks. I just leave it on the desk, which is really bad. Which is really bad. No one wants my books after I'm done because they're just broken. That's my current read. If it works, it works, I guess.

I've got another one here as well, it works, I guess. I've got, yeah, I've got another one here as well. The other one I'm reading. I'm just like, I'm an animal. You don't listen to gay music, you ruin your books.

What do we do with you? Well, you don't want people, I'm always, again, I'm going to go off on a small tangent here, but you know people who collect books, right?

Fuck you. Don't collect books, have books. If I buy a book, I read it i love it or i or i hate it and i throw it across the room right yeah and if i read it it's going to be a worse state than the one i threw across the room because the one i threw across the room will just will just be picked up and put on the shelf but the ones i read and love will be dog-eared and bent and out of shape because I love the words. Which is one of the reasons I switched to Kindle. Don't collect books. Collect stories

and have books. That's the way to do it. Fair enough. Bye! As for me, main channel Brodie Robertson, Doodle Linux Videos, Hex is eating a USB cable. I hope that's not plugged into anything. I wouldn't be plugged in. It's the end that you plug cable. I hope that's not plugged into anything. I wouldn't be plugged in.

It's the end that you plug in. The other end of the keyboard. Yeah, I thought you could have had it plugged into a phone or something. I'm not an idiot. I am an idiot. That's probably fair. Anyway, gaming channel Brodie Robertson plays. Right now, I'm playing Slay the Spire and The World Ends With You.

And as for the podcast, if you are listening to the audio version the video version is available on youtube at tech over t and the audio of the the if you want to listen to the audio version uh you can find that anywhere itunes google podcast look up tech over t there's an rss feed add it to your whatever you want to use it should be good. Have a final word. What are you going to say, Hex? Oh, my final word is Bob. Our writer.

Sure. See you guys later. Are we out?