Tech Over Tea - Every Operating System Is Useful!?! | The Digital Life

Episode Date: October 12, 2022

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Good morning, good day, and good evening. Welcome to episode 136 of Tech of a T. I am, as always, your host, Brody Robinson, and today we have a returning guest. Welcome back to the show, Christian from The Digital Life. How are you doing? Hey, everybody. Yeah, thanks, Brody. Thanks for having me back.

It's great to be here again. It's been quite a while since we talked yeah i think i guess 71 72 79 79 so about a year ago whoa okay cool yeah time is passing by so fast yeah that's crazy can i just say i don't know how you've done it but you've managed to make your camera look really good even on Discord. Like, even with Discord's compression, it still looks really, really good. I don't know.

I just use the Cam Link 4K from Elgato, and I just use that as an input source for OBS, and that's fine. What camera are you using at this point? I'm using the Sony 6400 but it's a 4K DSLR camera.

So I... Yeah, I know that a lot of streamers and YouTubers use these Sony cameras. Before I had the 5100 from Sony that's a full HD camera. And then I upgraded to 4K. And that improved the quality a lot.

Not just in resolution, but I also believe this camera is much better when it comes to color. And yeah, the detail of the sensor, it's always better. It's always better. It's definitely better handling low-light situations as well, which is the way you kind of have your setup. You've got, obviously, your face and all that lit up, but your background with a terrible camera would be pretty blocky, and it kind of looks kind of messy. Absolutely, yeah.

I tried to film it with a webcam once uh so like a logitech c920 that's what you're seeing right now on discord ah okay all right yeah but in a low light situation it just looks terrible for for usual meetings i turn the lights on or um yeah i i open the windows and and let the sun come in, and then you have some natural light. Then it looks okay, I would say, but in a low-light situation, no way. You need a good camera, and you also need a good lens for that.

So that's what I learned. Are you using your kit lens, or did you go and buy another lens for it? No, I'm using the Sigma lens, this 1.4 lens that everybody else is using. Is it 16mm? Yes, I guess. It's like, yeah.

That's this lens which creates this blurry background. I saw that a lot of YouTubers, streamers, they all use this lens, I guess, because it's fairly cheap, I would say. Or it's like a low-pric pricing lens compared to what you can get. Yeah, that looks great for what you get for the money. It's perfect. Yeah, I'm using the same lens on the Canon side, but my camera is not as expensive as the one you've got. it's not as expensive as the one you've got.

I've still got my entry-level camera, and I've been thinking, like, hey, maybe I should go up to the next tier. But the problem is that on the Canon side, they're actually cutting out a lot of their, like, their, like, entry-level, mid-level cameras because they want people to move over to their, like, more expensive platform. So I bought the Canon because

I heard better reviews for the low end, but looking on it now, it may have been better long term to just go down the Sony side. Yeah, maybe. Well, I'm not so into cameras. I just did some

researching and I heard a lot of good reviews about the Sony. I can definitely recommend this one because it's great. If you just want an entry-level camera, they're both perfectly fine. It's just whether you want to keep upgrading further down the line, then you might get a bit of a problem on my side. Yeah, I think you can...

The best what you could do is you can upgrade to 4K. I think 4K is definitely worth it. And yeah, after that you can go as far as you want, but there is just a little advantage

in the high price range. When you go, like, you pay, like, double the price for the camera, then you got, like, 5 or 10% increase for the quality. That's probably not worth it, but yeah. You need to find that sweet spot, I

guess. And the Sony, the 6400 is great. Maybe I upgrade to the 6400 at some point Maybe I upgrade to the 6600 at some point because this one got image stabilization, which this one doesn't. And sometimes it's a bit annoying when I

don't make videos in front of my desk and I use the camera to film something. Then don't have image stabilization. That's sometimes a bit annoying. I'm okay

for now. I think there's nothing I would upgrade in the next year. You say this now until you see something off to the corner of your vision like, hmm. Yeah, maybe. Well, I wouldn't say never.

But these upgrades, in terms of gear, I got everything that I need to make great quality videos now. So I'm totally fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I think we've had this exact same conversation before. Like, you can just spend as much money as you want. Like, this microphone, we both have the Shure SM7B. This is a great microphone

you can get more expensive microphones sure, but like you don't need one you won't hear any difference unless you're an audio professional you could buy like a $20-30,000 red camera, but like

do you really need, like do 8K footage like no, this is useless I mean we are we're still talking about youtube and content creation yeah not not professional filmmaking so then it would be a difference obviously but for what we are doing i think we have already a pretty good yeah well yeah you like but hey who who knows who knows i just want to say one thing about the 4k who knows if we need that in the future

going forward with YouTube because they just cancelled 4k I saw it on Twitter this is crazy someone told me that for some reason he didn't have the option to choose 4K in his videos.

Although he uploaded 4K videos and then he was asking, so what the hell is going on? And I was wondering, maybe this is an issue or a bug on his side. Because for me, it was all working. But then I read a post on Twitter. Okay, so YouTube has confirmed it. But then I read a post on Twitter. Okay, so YouTube has confirmed it. It has turned off 4K videos for some people who don't have YouTube Premium.

I have YouTube Premium, so I never had this issue, but I heard it from other people. So they can't watch videos in 4K anymore. For anyone just listening and who isn't up on the news, basically YouTube has begun rolling out, moving their 4K video behind the paywall of YouTube Premium. on the news. Basically, YouTube has begun rolling out moving their 4K video behind the paywall of YouTube Premium. Honestly, I don't think anyone

would have had an issue with it if it was from if it was behind Premium from the start. Like, if they rolled out 4K, it was like, hey, you need to pay Premium. Like, whatever. Fine. That's okay. 1080p is perfectly fine. But the fact they've had it for years at this point. It's always a bad idea to take something away from people.

They had before. The thing with YouTube Premium is I don't really know what the value proposition is for it. Because before it was basically just no ads is that all you had with it before i i don't have youtube premium well there are two main features that i can remember i guess there are some more but the main features i bought it for are no ads so this is very important for my son when he's watching youtube he's four years old and i said yeah he can watch some videos from i don't know yeah maybe some child-friendly videos on youtube there are quite

a few ones that that um you can watch but the ads are really they are i don't know what they think what they're doing there but there But there are sometimes ads for some games or whatever. You can imagine what I'm talking about. Some violent games or half-naked characters in a computer game. And my son is watching that. I don't think this is a good idea. So that's why I bought YouTube Premium. And you also got, when you use YouTube on your mobile phone, my son is watching that i i don't think this is a good idea so that's why i bought youtube premium

and you also got when you use youtube on your mobile phone you can't minimize it right um yeah yeah you can still watch the video when you minimize it that's actually something that was really annoying for me so I I'm using this a lot so yeah enjoy that I have it but yeah it's that there are the two reasons why I bought YouTube premium hmm I think you can also do offline video on mobile as well if I recall correctly hmm yeah maybe that can be I don't know honestly because I don't use it. Yeah. But hey, who knows what they want to do with it. I heard at some

point that they want to go more into the TV show business. So they want to... I don't know what the hell they want to do with it. If they want to bring up shows on YouTube, who knows? But that might be something they want to integrate in premium as well.

Who knows? Yeah. For a really long time... I don't even know if you even know about this. For a very long time now, YouTube has had a service called YouTube TV, which is... Oh, okay. Yeah, you basically can, like, stream various TV channels, like Fox News and MSNBC and AMC and all that stuff.

Oh, okay. But, like, it's this whole separate and AMC and all that stuff. Oh, okay. It's this whole separate thing that they don't ever advertise, so no one knows that it actually exists. Okay, yeah, I don't know it as well. Maybe it's even not existing in Germany. Sometimes you have to... Very possibly.

But, yeah. They always announce something they want to do and then yeah google is really great at like making these really cool ideas and then no one knows about them and then they're like hey chuck it in the bin like stadia for example yeah google stadia yeah i was about to mention that as well yeah another great example but i feel like um that's what yeah most big tech companies ran into they they have some great ideas they publish something similar happened with microsoft and the streaming service mixer uh that that they got and google stadia that was also a great idea but now they

canceled it well well i think i i don't know so much about um about Stadia and why it wasn't a success, but I can imagine a few things because I thought about it. I think one of the major reasons is it just wasn't really advertised because NVIDIA has their NVIDIA... Not NVIDIA Cloud. You know the thing I'm talking about. They have their NVIDIA streaming thing. Yeah, NVIDIA has it as well.

And Microsoft as well. Yeah, yeah. Xbox Cloud, yeah. What Google could have done with Stadia. I can't remember who said this, but what they could have done is, you know how on a YouTube video for a game, it'll say the game under the actual video? If that game was on Stadia, that would be great.

If that game is on Stadia, what they could have done is, if you click on that, it's like, hey, try this game on Stadia. they could have done is if you click on that it's like hey try this game on Stadia and then like it just onwards people onto the service from their existing service they're already using like that would have been like that would have made Stadia this massive success

absolutely yeah yeah who knows what happens but I can imagine a few things yeah first is I think a gaming platform stands in force with the games. And I guess they didn't have any great platform games, or at least they didn't advertise them. And I guess that's what they were completely missing.

Sometimes when you invent something like a technology, you are so excited and so engaged about the technology itself because you can say, oh, we can do cloud gaming now. But yeah, all you're caring about is from a technical perspective and from a technology perspective, oh, this could change the gaming industry, blah, blah, blah. But what you're completely forgetting is the focus of the customer.

So the customers want to play games. They don't care about the technology. They don't care if it's cloud or if it's a console they're buying. They want to have two things. They want to play games. They want to have fun. And they don't want to pay so much for it. So they want to have it for cheap.

That's what they should have done. And I think Xbox and PlayStation, they do it better. They have their platform-exclusive games. Stadia should have done something similar. There should have been a reason why you would need to go on stadia instead of buying an xbox or playstation and another thing is um in my opinion the price yeah i think you needed to buy the games uh too right yeah you needed to have a subscription plus you needed to pay for the games too, right? You needed to have a subscription, plus

you needed to pay for the games, right? Yeah, there was the... And the thing that the NVIDIA service has, I believe that would hook into your Steam library, so it used your existing games. With this, you buy the license specifically on Stadia, and if Stadia

shuts down, or the game is removed from Stadia, well... That's what's happening now, yeah? Yeah, well, Stadia, and if Stadia shuts down, or the game is removed from Stadia, well, you just... That's what's happening now, yeah? Yeah, well, Stadia is removing itself, so it doesn't even matter. Yeah, I think that was a big issue. I mean, they are not even competitive with Xbox. I just

recently bought an Xbox Series X because I wanted to play some games, and all you get when you buy this Game Pass for like $10 a month, you get like 400 games in this Game Pass, and you can play them on Xbox. You can play them on cloud. I can even stream the games from my Xbox to my mobile phone

or play them directly from Xbox cloud. It doesn't really matter. You are just paying for this subscription, and I think this is... directly from Xbox Cloud. Doesn't really matter. You are just paying for this subscription, and I think this is... Google Stadia is coming with their subscription, plus you need to pay for the games, and then you don't have any exclusive... I mean...

They should have seen this coming, I guess, right? Well, I'm looking at the list of games they just have available as a trial on Stadia, and there is nothing of note here. Now, this isn't all of their games, but you would expect that if you have a trial, it would be like, hey, let's put some exciting game forward

that's going to encourage people to want to sign up for our service, but there's just nothing here. And anything that is noteworthy is a game that you can get off of Steam for like a dollar or two and it'll run on anything, like Golf with Friends or Overcooked. These are really lightweight indie titles

that pretty much anything... Oh, sorry, I found one game. No one cares about that. Halfway down the list, Far Cry Primal. The one game that's remotely exciting on this list. Wow. But yeah, you can get that on every platform, I guess, right? There's no reason.

But I guess that's always the case when, even when big tech companies, they want to break into a market that's already pretty satisfied. I've seen similar things with the Windows phones, for example. That was a similar thing where there was already an existing market that was satisfied. And then a big tech company, they had a great idea. They want to break into the market, but they don't give any reason why they are different and then they also couldn't bring the developers on board to develop software for that system and i think the same happened with stadia because they couldn't get

game developers to specifically develop or make the games ready for stad. That was a big problem. And I guess that's somewhere in the same area. You need to somehow... Yeah, if there is already a system where developers are actively developing stuff, they got their tools, they got their experience, and then a completely new technology

comes into the market. So how do you get the developers to develop for the new stuff instead of what they already know? And I think this is a very, very difficult situation. So I don't know any solution. The same is completely true with Mixer as well.

They had to get creators onto the platform, but to get creators onto the platform, you have to have viewers. To get viewers, you need creators on the platform. That's a chicken and egg problem yeah yeah youtube i think is handling the um the streaming side a lot better right now because they're like they're starting to like oh yeah pay for a lot of big streamers to come over but they're doing it in these sort of communities so they're grabbing these people that all know each other that play games together who very likely share an audience,

whereas Mixer, they were like, hey, Ninja, have a lot of money and no one else. Yeah. And the platform just died. Yeah, their intention was to bring some big names on the platform and everybody will follow them. This is just not true. That was a pretty big mistake.

You need to bring some of the... well, YouTube also has the advantage that it already has that existing user base, so it wasn't like building something up from scratch. Like, people already were watching videos on YouTube. Going over and watching streams isn't, you know, that crazy of an idea. They don't do a great job directing people to the content but it's you know they're already here it's kind of crazy but we can um also compare this to cloud gaming somehow because i think cloud gaming as well as live streaming is something like a supplemental way of consuming content on a platform that already exists um twitch might be an exception to this rule but every other platform like if you watch instagram they got live streaming if you go to tiktok they got live streaming facebook i think even facebook got live streaming and

with facebook gaming pretty uh popular uh youtube has live streaming now, which is the only platform that is just built around live streaming. I think that was only successful because they were one of the first to make this game live streaming popular. I think they had

streaming before YouTube did. I want to say they were the first big streaming platform. But they were the first big streaming platform. But they were the first made it successful. They made it big. But now I think cloud gaming is in the same

niche, I would say. It's not like, if you now go and invent something like a cloud gaming platform, I don't think this will be ever successful anymore. You need to have something like a gaming platform. Like PlayStation, Xbox or whatever. And then offer cloud gaming as a supplemental way of consuming games on your platform.

I think this is the only way it can work. On YouTube live streaming I see this as well yeah i also um i also thought a lot about yeah if i should do live streaming on twitch on youtube yeah i struggled a lot i still have my twitch profile but i'm not streaming anymore on the platform but i also thought a lot so which platform should i go on and i think yeah uh if you already got an audience on something like YouTube, so why not stream on YouTube? There might be a difference if you are a full-time streamer or if you are a YouTuber who occasionally do live streaming. Yeah, then it's like a supplemental part of your content. It's not like your content is built around your live streaming, but your live streaming is built around your videos or whatever.

is built around your live streaming but your live streaming is built around your videos or whatever so then just use a platform where you're already on and use this uh way to supplement your content this is yeah the only good strategy the only issue with with youtube is it's unclear whether streaming on the same channel that you normally upload to will start to i guess devour your uh like your general um your general viewership like a lot of people have this concern where if you're streaming on your main channel because your your average watch time is going to be so low of the video it's going to start interfering with your regular content because you know you might have like a say you have like an average six minute watch time on your channel but you do like eight minute videos but you still have

maybe like on your stream you have a 15 minute watch time but it's a two hour live stream so it's a much lower percentage of that content the only issue yeah i youtube doesn't really make it clear how much of an effect it has that is right but they don't they don't make it clear um at all yeah they don't share so many details about how their algorithm works but i'm pretty sure they can differentiate between videos and live streaming and they handle it differently um we don't know for sure but i don't think it will be a big issue so when i do live streaming i do it on my main channel for the simple reason that all my followers get a notification yeah if i would start a second channel nobody would watch it so i would need to

invest a lot of time and effort into bringing those people to my second channel if it doesn't have a following or audience. Doesn't make any sense to me, so why not just stream on my main channel? And what you can also do is you can when you upload those live streams, you can uncheck

a checkbox so that live streaming, they don't show up on your regular timeline and then just um put them in a separate playlist somewhere on your home channel because people usually don't watch recordings of live streaming so that might be a big exception so some people do that but the majority don't watch live streaming recordings because yeah why should they but because of this like weird confusion i think one of the ones that does make sense is having a separate clip channel like if you live stream a lot and you have like a channel where you do regular videos it's probably best to split like your stream clips out to somewhere else just because especially if you're

going to be doing a lot of them. That might be right, yeah. Especially now with YouTube Shorts, where the way a lot of clip channels work with Shorts is that most Shorts do terribly. So you just upload a lot of them. Absolutely, yeah. Throw as many out there as possible and some of them will do well and you'll slowly build up that audience, but

I think Shorts is a weird one. Absolutely. I know you've still been doing some shorts here and there like it's I thought a lot about this too but to be honest I don't like consuming shorts I don't like making

shorts because it doesn't make sense to me I did that just to try it out and see but it's like hey I'm just making shorts because it doesn't make sense to me. I did that just to try it out and see. But it's like, hey, I'm just making shorts because this is a new feature and I want to test it out. There's no real reason why should

I make shorts to inspire people or to get people to watch something or to learn something. It doesn't really make sense with the rest of my channel. It might be for other channels completely different so they will will highly benefit from making shots yeah maybe

but yeah you got a pretty good point with how does that affect your performance on your main channel I actually don't know but there's one thing I'm a bit concerned about and uh this is not specifically the youtube algorithm because the youtube algorithm i think

youtube algorithm knows what are shorts what are live streams what are videos and it's just my assumption i don't know but i i believe it does differentiate. Yeah. But the main problem I would think about is the main performance of your channel in regards to your sponsors. Because I know a lot of sponsors they take care about what is the average view

count on every single video. So that's how you calculate somehow the amount of payment you get from sponsors. So that's how you calculate somehow the amount of payment you get from sponsors. So when I make a shot that drags down my overall performance, yeah, it doesn't affect the YouTube algorithm.

But when I go to a sponsor and I say, hey, I want to have X amount of money because I have an average view count for my videos. And then I say, oh, no, that's not true. Based on our calculation it's it's down and yeah you include the shots but yeah this is a discussion i don't want to have i mean it's like i don't know how many youtubers care so much about sponsorships but that's something i

care about so i i i wanna yeah have a consistent yeah consistent uh view count or a good overall performance of my channel. Just to make sure I know what I'm talking about. And when I go into a discussion with a sponsor, I can say, here are the numbers of my channel. I know exactly what I'm talking about. And you don't need to discuss about live streams or shorts dragging down your performance. That would be, yeah. So that might be a great reason as well, why you may or create a second or third channel, who knows? But yeah, I know this might be not so important for every channel.

Yeah, no, I get what you're saying. I think it's pretty clear that clips should be somewhere. I think that's a pretty accepted thing. Streams, like... Yeah, I... When I was, like, streaming on... Like, doing the Linux streaming, I was doing it on my main channel. I think if I was going to start it again,

I'd probably do the same. Just because of the fact, like, that's where my audience is. But I do want to try it out on... On my second channel, just to see what happens. Like, see how many people I can direct from my main channel over to that channel. It could go terribly.

Like, it certainly could. Interesting, yeah. But it's worth at least experimenting, just to see what happens. Yeah. Well, I can tell you, I started a second channel a couple of months ago. Well, I can tell you, I started a second channel a couple of months ago. The second channel, this has my real name, and I make videos in German language. But I actually don't know what exactly I should do there.

I have some people from my main channel, they are all tech guys. They come to my personal channel, they wanted to see tech videos in german and i say hmm that doesn't really make sense to me because it's no different from what i'm doing on my main channel yeah so why not just translate the script yeah but honestly this is so much work i don't want to do the same stuff it's a boring task so i want to do something different on my personal channel but i actually don't know what it would be. Yeah. I will take some time. Think about it.

Maybe I do some vlogging or some, yeah, maybe even videos talking about content creation, whatever, something that I don't do on my tech main channel, something that I can do better in my, my main language in German, because I can speak better freely in front of the camera

I don't need to cut out so many things because when I speak in English, yeah, I I would need to cut out So much stuff. That's why I script all my videos also on my main channel Yeah, well the problem is I can tell you where my struggles are Yeah, well, the problem is I can tell you where my struggles are. So here in an usual conversation, we can speak. That's what I can do. There's no issue. But when I need to explain technical things in English, that's where I struggle a lot.

Especially when I dig into topics like the last video was about Active Directory that I did. And that's not my day-to-day work, right? So I just looked into that because I was doing some experiment. And I thought, yeah, let's do a video about Windows Server because that's what I don't see so often on YouTube. So I wanted to do this, but I first need to learn myself about what are the details about Active Directory, how does it work, and then to explain it in a foreign language.

Well, this is so difficult. I can't do this. So I need to write a script. I need to read through it like three, four, five times, correct it, and then I can make a video about it reading from my script. So this is what works. And this also shrinks down the whole time

that I need to spend in editing yeah because that that made me crazy yeah i had to cut out every every second every third sentence yeah this was horrible and i thought i need to change that so i need to script my videos and word by word yeah i sometimes start improvising something or add whenever it makes sense but i i script out every of my videos um but i don't want to do it for a second channel that would be too much work yeah so that's yeah that's why uh that was also a reason why i thought well when i want to do a second channel i want to do it in german it's much easier for me yeah but who knows what i will do with the second channel yeah maybe i will upload a few videos maybe not whenever i find time because my main channel

should be my main focus it's something i realized yeah when you start a second project you are very excited about it yes you spend a lot of thought process and time and effort into making the second channel, you are missing the stuff for your main channel. And I got into trouble with, yeah, I'm a bit behind my time schedule and I also started to make some mistakes in some of your videos

because I haven't had the time to research it properly and I need to stop making videos for my second channel, right? I need to really focus on my main channel now and who knows what I will do in the second. That's what

currently goes on my side, yeah. That's where my struggles are with my second channel. And if you still got a main job, yeah, that's something you can't forget. I also got a main job yeah it's something you can't forget i also got a main job yeah i also need to care about uh you just don't have the time to do it you would never have enough time absolutely yeah so when you just need to focus yeah when when you like sit down to

do a video let's say your your video on like your windows server or anything like that what is the general process that you usually take to actually you know go from nothing to completed video okay well um so what i first do is i i have something like a list with ideas that i write down so ideas for videos that i want to make and then i do a research for every single topic that i want to make so i've i a research for every single topic that i want to make so i've i've come up with a process that works now pretty well but like if we talked a year ago it was a complete chaos so now i'm a better organized i would say yeah so i start with an idea that i have um also sometimes people on my channel they they come up with an idea they say

oh it would be great to have a video about xyz yeah i think oh yeah maybe maybe not yeah sometimes put it on the list most of the times yeah i put it on the list and then i do i then i do researching first because i don't make videos for a single request yeah that's what yeah um i research if this is a topic that would actually work on YouTube so I got a tool that I used to make some SEO and see if this is actually a searched topic and if it is

then I come up with a title or a concrete or particular idea so how I'm gonna pitch this video right so to speak so what is the reason for making this video what is the reason for watching it and who is this video for so i really write it down before

actually starting working on this because there's no reason researching a video that nobody would watch right um i started doing this before and that actually the result was I made some videos that worked pretty well, some videos which actually didn't work at all. And I was wondering, so why is this the case? Because in my head, it was a great idea. But that doesn't

actually mean that other people are researching this on YouTube, right? And that's why I use a tool now. Before I start working on this video, I research it. I give this video something like a ranking between low SEO value, mid SEO value, high SEO value.

So high SEO values, these are videos I want to make as fast as possible because they are currently searched. They are interesting, so I'm going to write an outline for this video. I make some notes, I research the topic, I write documentation sometimes depending on if it's a technical topic about a software or whatever.

I test it, I document it on my GitHub page and so on, and then I start writing a script. I record it and I also came up with a process it might be a lot of work because I record the a-roll. Wait this is where a lot of work starts? I thought that early bit was a lot of work. Yeah well um it is all a lot of work yeah to be honest but yeah the recording is the recording is a bit of work because a year ago, I started

recording this on the fly, so to speak, with OBS and ScreenShare and installed software. But the problem was I made mistakes so often that I need to roll back the whole stuff. I need to stop recording, record it again. And that

made me completely crazy. So that's why I came up with a, record it again. And that made me completely crazy. So that's why I came up with this script word by word. I record the A-roll in front of the camera. I speak everything from the script. And then after that is completed, I start recording the B-roll. So then I start recording what I do on my PC. And then in the editing, I somehow cut it together. I don't know if it's

the best process to do it. It's actually a lot of work but the result is the video is exactly how I want it to be. So I want it to be on point. I don't want to spend time saying two

or three sentences that are redundant. I don't like this in the video i cut everything out that is redundant um because i like to have a video that is right from the beginning to the end is full of full of content yeah that people can watch and learn something and yeah they don't lose time on me talking about some random stuff or searching for a command I need to look up or whatever. So that's what I completely cut out. That's how I do it. Yeah, and then I do editing and publish it, write a description.

Because I've all researched it before, this is not actually a lot of work. And yeah, that's how I do it. If you had to guess, how long would you spend on a average video wow um i would say like researching probably yeah it depends a lot on the topic sometimes i research that over a few weeks. I'm not spending every single day, eight hours a day researching. If you did, that would be a really long research video. Yeah, hopefully. I mean, I want it to be accurate. But that's a pretty long time.

But let's say like four or five hours of researching okay for a complicated topic something about active directory windows server whatever and then i've write a script so this can take pretty long i i guess like three hours maybe maybe even four depending on how long the video is i and i i read it through correct it then i start recording start recording. Recording is pretty short. This is like 30 minutes, 40 minutes. Recording B-roll is the same. And then editing, like three, four hours sometimes. Editing is pretty long.

And yeah, I add a lot of stuff like transitions, some background music, zooming in in zooming out when i record and screen so i can see both yeah they we are like over 10 hours per video probably yeah so it's a pretty long time like yeah i always like to hear everybody's video process it's it's kind of interesting because everyone i've talked to has some like different different method of doing it you're like really seo focused i've seen some people that are more focused on like start with the information worry about the rest of it later and i've seen something like that schedule out every single thing they're gonna do they do like

a pomodoro timer and they're working in these specific time of locks and i don't think i've spoken to anyone who's like yeah i just i just you know i follow this this guide i found online well you can do that right but to be honest these are the videos that i don't watch um this is like i watch a lot of stuff on youtube not so much tech stuff to be honest right yeah most of the stuff i watch on v on youtube are about entertainment movies i watch a lot of stuff about rings of power currently so there is like um a podcast um they have an episode podcast that goes even longer

than the episode itself because they talk about every single detail. I watch that because I enjoy this. And when I watch tech stuff on YouTube, it really needs to be on point. I don't have time to

watch a video where somebody just just goes and speaks about ah i found tool xyz online and this is my opinion about this and blah blah blah and then they make me try to install it no it really needs to be on point i i need to learn something there are a few youtubers who are tech youtubers who I enjoy watching, but to be honest, it's like tech stuff that I watch on YouTube, maybe 5-10%. And the stuff that I need that I'm watching, this really needs to be

accurate. This needs to be on point. And it shouldn't be boring. It should be somehow entertaining. Because otherwise, I can go somewhere on an IT course site and watch an eight hour course about windows active directory right yeah i i'm sort of in the same boat i don't watch anything that's like i like i don't usually go and watch like hey here's a distro review or

something like that if i'm watching something tech related it's usually kind of like tech adjacent um for example the ps5 recently uh got jailbroken so there's a bunch of videos sort of explaining how that happened like that i find interesting but i'm not going to go and watch a video going on like the super technical stuff it's sort of more about like what this means how i had like a higher level how this was done things like that um if i care about exactly you know the implementation of how the exploit was done i'm gonna go and read the like implementation like that's a much better way for me to get that information but i i get why people like the video format of that as well like i you know a lot of the stuff that i do um it's just not

something that considering that i i do a lot of these videos myself that i want to then go and watch something in that same vein after i'm already done like if you don't probably don't want to go watch the same sort of video that you're going to make anyway like i just finished 10 hours of doing that, I want to do something else now. Um. Yeah. Sorry, but can you repeat? I didn't got that. Um.

What did I say? Something about you probably don't want to go and watch the same sort of videos that you would make on your own channel. Ah, okay. Yeah, interestingly, yes. Sometimes I do, but only when I search for specific topics.

Yeah, yeah. If I want to learn something specific. It's something I even sometimes don't understand. Why are people watching so many tech videos? I don't know. But hey, it is what works yeah but there's also something i try to skip a few things in my videos so um of course not the things that i want to explain but i'm my approach is this way yeah i try to make videos about stuff that i'm learning because i'm interested in and i explain the things that I believe are worth explaining because this was the missing piece for me.

So I give you an example because I had a comment lately about somebody who said like, well, I did a video about explaining self-signed SSL certificates. And I used the tool OpenSSL to create CA and create a sign-in request, sign the certificate, and so on. And somebody in the comments said, like, you're using OpenSSL. Why didn't you explain how to install OpenSSL? And I said, like, hey, okay. So first, if you're going to create a self-signed certificate I guess you can probably find out pretty soon how to install a tool like OpenSSL if not well then you've got a pretty long way to go right should you also explain how you installed your operating system and how you built your computer where you bought the parts from like you have absolutely I

get exactly what you're saying here like I've had the same thing where i feel like initially i was going too far down that route where a lot of my videos were going into those details that don't really matter um yeah whereas you've got it it it's very important to explain the parts that aren't self-evident like yeah yeah that's how i do it as well that is something that you would need to explain to understand somebody to understand it yeah if this is a simple thing somebody could look up well then you probably don't need to explain it but if it's something about yeah for example the video about active directory yeah i could just go and make a video about this is how you install a windows server this is then you click on this button create the active directory then click on this button and so on but no i also did a part with explanation about the active directory itself

um because this is something very important to understand why why you should use this what's the whole point of the video because i i wanted to explain why the windows server is still useful in it business right this is a question i get from a lot of people hey why don't you use linux this is yeah of course you can use linux for these and these tasks but there are specific tasks why businesses are still using windows servers and there are reasons for that. And I want to explain these reasons to you, right? And this is where I spend time, because I believe this is really the important part of the video that people need to hear. They don't need to hear,

hey, you need to click on this button, then you need to click on that button, then you minimize the window, then you blah, blah, blah. This is what people could look up, right? So I still do it it but I go over these parts pretty quickly and sometimes I skip things that are that you could just google in a minute or so it depends on whether you want to do

a two hour video on setting up Active Directory or whether you want to explain the important parts you can still do that right there are probably a couple of videos that are two or three hours long about Active Directory. I get it, right? I also skipped a few things, but all those videos start with, what is an Active Directory? These are the objects, and this is a forest, this is a domain, this is a subdomain, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is a domain.

This is a subdomain. Blah, blah, blah, blah. I think this is what you can say in one sentence to just people understand it and get the idea of it. If people want to really know the details, they can still look it up. That's not my job as a YouTuber to make a course. I mean, then I could probably put it behind a paywall and let people pay for IT tech courses. But that's not what I want to do. I want to inspire people.

I want to make complicated topics a little easier to grasp. You can only do it with some sort of being on point, being a bit entertaining maybe and really focus on the parts that people the missing pieces people the missing

pieces that the people miss to understand the bigger topic. That's how I do it, how I see it. And yeah, that's how I create my videos. But obviously, right, there are different types of content, different types of people. Some people watch longer videos. Some people prefer to watch

broader videos explaining things. Yeah. Have you gotten, I get these occasionally, have you gotten the comments saying, hey, why didn't you just, why does this video exist? Why isn't this just a blog post? Because I get those every so often. People who just really don't like videos.

And I don't know why they're on YouTube. Because, like, you've got this video website. Like, what do you expect to see here? Yeah, I don't know why they're on YouTube because you've got this video website. What do you expect to see here? Yeah, I don't know. Sometimes you've got those crazy people there. I really expected much more pushback from people when I make this Windows Server video because I usually make

content about open source software, about Linux and then I make a video about Windows Server so this was like a shocking moment for some people I don't know I think you put yourself in a good position with that you're not like a Linux channel

you're a server DevOps sort of channel absolutely yeah that is what I wanted to say, because this... In the first days, once I started on YouTube, I did some Linux content, and then I got some... I don't know, but I was in the corner of the Linux channel somehow. I don't know how I could come to this position, right?

And it's not a secret that... It's not a secret that I wanted to go out of this, right? I did some controversial videos about explaining this. But I now believe... I really thought

about, should I make videos about these topics? Because they somehow interest me. Like, I was thinking about a video about the Linux community and the toxicity and the Linux community. And I guess this is a pretty interesting video. Yeah. Good luck with that one. What?

Sorry. I said, good luck with that one. Uh, if you want to, if you want to get the Linux people angry, that's a good way to do it. Yeah. Well, I don't care about making somebody angry what i care about is uh explaining this to people who want to get into id right yeah yeah and then i also thought about this well it could be an interesting video i would watch a video like that about the toxicity in the linux community but the second thought it it went through my SEO process, and then it completely falls down.

Because the key reason, what should be the key reason for me to make this video? Because just like I said, my audience should be about IT, tech stuff, about technologies like DevOps. Why should anybody watch this video? There's no real reason. What is what I want to teach or to tell the people? And that was missing for me. So that's why I didn't make this video. Because I could make like a video 20-30 minutes about ranting about what about this topic yeah what what is the problem i even wouldn't say that the linux community is toxic because i think there are

parts in the community you are but i've i've made uh other experience as well right so i could talk about this probably but i don't know i don't want to be the guy who wants to be in the focus of this discussion. This is why I started to position my channel differently. And I just focus on this stuff. Well, I want to educate people. I want to inspire and teach people. I want to focus on the positive things and not want to make a video ranting about something that I don't like. I think there's no point doing this. hey the channels are different yeah right there are other

channels who just focus their content on this stuff and this is okay i just want to be that i just don't want to be that guy that's not me this is not me i don't feel comfortable doing videos like that so but that was a pretty long thought process since i started on youtube because you have a lot of interest yeah some are technical some are non-technical yeah and you need to find your yeah you you need you really need to find uh yeah your your specific uh angle of so how are you going to present your videos how are you going to present your topics? How are you going to present your topics? And this is what I was struggling the last months, really. And I think I now

have a much clearer vision of what I'm going to do. And then I thought, well, instead of making a video talking about Linux community or whatever, instead make a video about Windows Server. Teach people something different. Teach people something positive that they can use, right? And this is something that I feel comfortable with,

so that's how I got my channel probably in this position to make those videos. The weird thing about the Linux toxicity thing is if I made a video like that, my comment section would be full of like, yeah, yeah, Linux is really toxic, Linux is really toxic. Everyone would agree with me. People are like, fine. And if I talk about specifically Arch Linux toxicity or anything like that, everybody is in agreement.

Everybody inside the sphere is allowed to rant about how bad the sphere is. Don't talk about it from the outside, though. They don't like that. Yeah, that is true. What I have noticed is, hey, you don't do this on your channel, but your Twitter, you do like to mess with the Linux people every so often. Well, yeah, maybe because I'm sometimes really angry about that, right?

And this is something that affects me. You also said something like watching this from outside. I think I'm part of the Linux community, right? I'm probably not part. It's not part of the... I'm probably not. Sorry, I was gonna say, you're not part of the Linux desktop space, which is the like the really angry, loud people.

Yeah, that is right. I'm not part of this desktop community, right? But I'm still part of the Linux community because I use Linux a lot on my servers. I use Linux a lot in my work, my day-to-day work. And yeah, why am I not allowed to speak? Right? Because that is something that is worth discussing, I would say.

But yeah, so on Twitter, yeah, sometimes I get angry about these type of comments, or I watch something, or I make a video, somebody is going to make a comment about this and that. And those comments that come from, I wouldn't say the Linux community, because as I said, this is a very small part within the community who is just

disagreeing with everything that you're saying or just likes to be negative and make those offensive comments. And sometimes I just get angry about this because I think my channel is not about that. My channel is about teaching

something. And my channel is not about Linux desktop. So when about teaching something. And my channel is not about the Linux desktop. So when people are telling me, hey, I'm using a wrong tool, I should use a different tool because of this and that. And why are you using Ubuntu on your servers? Why don't you use that? Yeah, sometimes I yeah, I make a tweet about that because it really makes me angry. But yeah, I should stop doing this, to be honest. No, it's funny. Keep doing it. It's funny, yeah, maybe.

But yeah, at least I shouldn't make videos about that. Well, yeah. I can tweet about this. Do your second channel videos ranting about Linux in German. There you go. This is something I really thought about, to be honest, because this would be, yeah,

did what make perfectly sense because this is a topic that interests me personally. It's not tech stuff that I do on my main channel, but it could be part of my German content, right? But then you're, I mean, in German community, it's the same,

right? It's not very different. The only thing that you are going to achieve is to get a lot of people angry. And for what? Just to be part of this YouTube Linux drama? That's not me. It's fine, I'll take a little Linux

YouTube drama. it's not me i'll take it's fine i'll take a little linux uh youtube drama i'll happily live in that space like i don't okay i don't try to make drama videos all the time but it is kind of funny when certain distros keep making mistakes over and over again like i could not talk about like that's an option but it's also really funny and like this is the sort of stuff that's really interesting me like i i want to talk about what's going on like i don't just i don't know if you've seen any of the recent stuff i've been doing but the way i like to dig into a lot of these any like any drama top like like for example the one that just happened a couple of days ago

so I don't know if you know about this but there is a project called Us He Linux which is to get Linux working on the M1 Macs I didn't watch that yet but this would be something I would watch the devs are really cool people I've had one of them

on the podcast before. But Manjaro decided to ship a broken version of their kernel. And it's just like, guys, they literally told... There's a reason they don't ship this to their users. Like, stop it. So I sort of dug into all of the stuff that was going on. And rather than just be like, hey, Manjaro bad. They did this thing. I go over the explanation of what was happening and why this happened and sort of what they could do better in the future rather like i think adding that extra context

is where you can turn something like that into an actual interesting video rather than just yes being angry for the sake of being angry yeah this, this is... Just leave that out there already. Yeah, but this is why I would watch such a video, because when I want to inform myself about a topic, like, you took your time, I don't know how many hours you spent on digging into these different things, and what was published, what was said by this and that, and how is it really, and so on. I don't have the time to do that myself. So I'm going to watch your video, which is like 10, 15 minutes,

and then I'm perfectly informed about this topic. So this is really nice. So this is also something that I sometimes watch. I think I need to watch some content about the M1 Mac because I'm really interested in in uh apple and mac uh recently i started because i bought um the m2 mac yeah and now i'm really thinking about well at some point i should switch my main pc from windows to mac who knows i'm really interested in this topic yeah i was gonna ask you what your like i know you've got a lot of systems.

Like, you've got your Homelab. You've probably got a Windows system, at least one of them. You've got your Mac. What do you actually, like, use as your daily driver? Or do you swap around for different things you're doing? Like, what do you typically use? Yeah, currently it's a mess, to be honest. Because it's like a mixture of Windows and Mac.

Yeah. I wanted to use my MacBook Air more because it's like a mixture of windows and mac yeah um i wanted to use my macbook air more because i really like it i like the system i like um the hardware i also like the operating system yeah and i want to use that more but there are still some tasks i can't do on this laptop because it doesn't have the performance i i still need a mac for a desktop use case but i don't have that right now so i still have my pc and now i have something like as a mixture i have on the right screen i have my macbook air on the left screen i have windows and i need to switch around them and that's technically it's working pretty well with a synergy. So this is an app that you can, you can use the same mouse and keyboard on two,

three or more different systems. Yeah. And that works pretty well. But sometimes, yeah, you can't easy copy something or yeah. Live streaming is also a bit difficult or to record something. Yeah.

Because I have the windows on the left side, the Mac on the right side. I started recording my screen shares on the mac now because i i just like the system and i start to build um my workflows on on this operating system like my favorite terminal program actually i i have now found a terminal program that only works on Mac, but this is my favorite now. I would love to use that on my desktop PC as well. This is so... I need to buy a Mac somehow. I need to switch it at some point, I guess. But yeah, I'm still waiting for new Mac Pros

to be released hopefully next year, and then I will probably buy one and switch. But yeah. I'm switching operating systems quite often in the recent years. I started using Windows for work like

seven years ago. I used Linux a lot, even on desktop. I was a Linux desktop user these days. And yeah. Then I switched back to windows for reasons and now i'm probably switching to mac yeah who knows yeah i actually don't care so much which operating system i'm working on i just use what i like and what makes the most sense for me in my workflow now and yeah currently i'm really excited about mac to be honest so for your workflow what is the selling point of mac like for context the last time i daily drove a mac

was mountain lion so a while ago um okay yeah why do you want to use a Mac? What's bringing you towards that system? Yeah, so the reason why I originally went to Mac was the MacBook Air. And this has nothing to do with the operating system. This is just about hardware. I was searching for a laptop where I can do video editing. And this laptop should be small, it should be light, and it should be powerful enough to handle 4k videos without any issues and when you start searching for a laptop you barely find any yeah at least in the windows space yeah you can find these 15 16 inch gaming laptops which are this

thick right or you can go with a really really expensive laptop or if you want to go this light you want to have a thin laptop then they only got internal graphics cards which are usually not powerful enough for 4k so yeah i had a problem searching for a great laptop yeah i was thinking about maybe getting a samsung but they don't have a dedicated graphics card. I was a bit in trouble searching for a laptop. And then I thought, well, what about the MacBook? Because I heard a lot of good reviews about the Apple Silicon, the M1 chips. And then they announced at the same time when I was searching for a laptop, they announced the MacBook M2 Air.

And I said, OK, this is a perfect laptop. This is what I need. I did a research. Can you do video editing on a MacBook Air? I thought maybe it's not powerful enough. Boy, it is, right? It even renders faster than my PC with a dedicated graphics card. This is so crazy. Even one minute faster rendering a 4K video. I don't know why. There are certain tasks which the MacBook Air can't do. For example, when I have a 4K

cam link on and do streaming and this kind of stuff, then the M2 processor is not powerful enough to handle the CPU intensive stuff. But for a graphics, maybe there's an issue on my side as well. I need to test it again, but I got some problems with that kind of stuff.

But for video editing, this thing is really crazy fast. And I thought, this is just like the perfect system. And now I also, the more I dig into the operating system, the more I like it. Because on the Windows side, I always had the problem of using Linux tools on Windows. I got a pretty great solution with WSL2. That works pretty well.

But it is an extra layer, right? It is an extra layer of virtualization that causes some hiccups and some problems sometimes, especially with networking and so on. And there are some things that are kind of difficult where you need to find workarounds yeah it's working pretty well on windows side you can absolutely use it i i like it but yeah to have like um a unix lag system yeah directly accessible that that makes a difference for me right so that's why i like mac os because it's really for me personally it's yeah i i think i tweeted it uh one time and now i get linux people angry but i said yeah mac os is

the best linux distro yeah this is obviously a joke yeah so yeah it's pretty good i had like it is obviously a joke but on twitter i had 20 30 people explaining me why macOS is not Linux. And I said, yeah, I know, guys. MacOS based on VSD is not actually Linux. Shut up. No one cares. And it was so crazy. That is where I got a lot of people angry for, yeah, I don't know.

It was obviously a joke, but some people took that. So there were so many people explaining to me why Mac OS is not Linux. And they were so detailed. They sent me multiple responses, multiple tweets, and they sent me a Google link where I can look it up and so on. So they were really highly invested into convincing me this is not okay right i got

it guys uh yeah i trolled i trolled some of them i just responded really why can you explain this once more please because i didn't get it but yeah this is just unique the. Oh, someone got it. He's trying to start a riot. Okay. One guy picked up on it. It doesn't even use the kernel. You know what? Does WSL2. Windows is the best Linux desktop. True. Very true.

It's also great, right? Yeah. So that's why I, well, back to the topic, right? But that's why I like macOS, because I can use my Unix-like tools, right? The terminal ZSH, and yeah. Bunch of other cool stuff

that I use there, and yeah, I got the terminal application I recently found is pretty great. What application is that? Sorry, what? What's the application called? Warp Terminal. And I guess that's only

available on MacOS, as far as I know. That's ringing a bell for some reason. I don't know why it's ringing a bell. Oh, I know about this one. Yeah. Yes, I do know about this one. It's pretty amazing. You can do a lot of interesting things.

For example, when you are in the terminal, you can use the mouse cursor to move around, even in a text document. When you're using the Helix editor, I don't know if you know Helix, but it's similar to Vim. It's a bit different, but Helix is something like a Vim-like text editor. But it's not Vim. It's not.

You always need to add this, right? But when you use Helix, which is a terminal editor, you can use the mouse cursor to even select text in this editor and use it for copying or moving around. It's pretty nice.

And the Warp Terminal also has AI-based suggestions for commands and it's really great. So it feels like a sophisticated, modern terminal application. I really like this a lot. And this is, as far as I know, only on Mac. So that's what I really like. Yes, I'm talking about it about maybe a year or so ago.

They are planning to do a Windows and Linux version, but right now, yes, only on Mac. So this is one application that I really love, and all other applications like DaVinci Resolve, okay, this also works on Linux, but

FDMG Designer. No, it does. I don't No. No? No, it does. I don't know. Okay, no. Let me explain DaVinci Resolve to you on Linux, right? So, DaVinci Resolve on Linux. Go on. The free version,

you cannot render in 1080p. What? Why? But you can render in 4K or what? No, no, you can't do it while setting it. What? This is the free version. So then it's not...

Ah, okay. Well, then it's not working on Linux. Well, it's because of weird, like, codec stuff or something. It feels like a video editor from, like, 15 years ago. Oh my gosh, yeah. I didn't know that.

But yeah. Another reason why I another reason why I'm not switching to Linux for other people who are wondering. My video editor doesn't have GPU acceleration. Oh my god. Really?

The only video editor on Linux that has working GPU acceleration is Blender. You know, the 3D modeling program. I just don't know it as a video editing program. Oh man, yeah. Yeah, this is usually...

Yeah, on Linux you can get the stuff to work sometimes. But it's always like you need to invest so much time into tinkering and finding workarounds for stuff that already works in other operating systems right out of the box yeah but anyway I don't want to go into this topic

maybe you I don't know but that's another reason why I use a Mac or Windows just because these programs work better on these operating systems. And Mac, for me, is the perfect of both worlds. It has the business applications. It has email programs. You even can run Microsoft Office on this if you want.

You have designer, Microsoft Office on this if you want. You have designer creative applications on Mac, but you still got this Unix-like underlying system. You got the terminal apps, you got the Unix tools and all of this stuff. And this is for me the perfect because I'm living in both worlds. I'm a technical guy

who uses this for work, but I'm also a creative person who uses this for content creation. So Mac seems to be honestly the best system for me. The only thing that I don't like is you only can do this with Apple hardware. But since Apple has done some really great hardware recently. I think a lot of people don't want to admit that. But yeah, the M1 and M2 systems are impressive pieces

of hardware. Absolutely, yeah. So this is just a reason why I don't choose a system or software based on if it's open source or not. I don't care about this. I care about if it works for me,

how much does it cost, does it do the things that I need to do, and Mac OS currently just seems to be the best fit for what I'm doing. It might change. Who knows? I'm not really saying

oh, Apple is the best, and I'm only buying Apple devices. However, I need to say, Apple devices make the most sense when you get everything from Apple. Yeah. Because they just work the best together. But I'm not really saying, okay, I'm only using Apple for forever or something like this. Completely crazy. It's just currently the best fit for me. Might change in the future, who knows?

Well, something else you've definitely got a lot of is your home lab. I saw a couple of videos of the server you're running. I've got a six-port switch under my bed. That's the extent of my home lab.

A $50 Netgear switch. You've got a lot more than that. Yeah, obviously. But hey, this is what I do for my main job, right? I'm in network security, so I need to do this stuff, right?

And that's why I started my home lab. I started this, like, setting up this I started my home lab. I started this like I'm setting up this like a playground in my home. What I'm doing at work. But because you often have this situation when you want to explain something to a customer or you want to. Maybe a customer has an issue with something. You want to troubleshoot it. You just need the devices.

troubleshoot it. You just need the devices. You need this to recap what is the problem, to learn and how the customer is really using that. And that's why I got a lot of networking devices, also network security devices in my home lab. And the servers are usually for my NAS storage. That's what I have mostly for the the video files storing this on my network. And the other server is for creating virtual machines. So there I'm testing stuff like Windows servers where I can play around with Active Directory. So I really can set up this home lab just like it

would be a small to medium sized company, right? I can spin up a Windows server creating an Active Directory and maybe just have one Windows client as part of it, but I can create a user. I can connect it to the firewall. I can check how is the authentication with LDAP or Active Directory working with firewall and stuff. So really, I can replicate at least the most common use cases in these professional fields in my home lab as well.

And that was the main reason to build it like this. And I obviously also got an advantage because I didn't pay for the switch and the firewall because this is from the company where I'm working for. So that's why I got these, right? Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have them because they usually cost a few thousands of dollars. Yeah, I was going to say, we wouldn't have them because they usually cost a few thousands of dollars yeah i was gonna say that's a pretty uh pretty big switch for a home setup yeah and this is even the smallest rack

switch that we got you can even go bigger i mean we are not really a switch vendor these are the first switch models that we have um yeah published or shipped right and of course i wanted to get them because customers are asking me for that i've also got people in the community asking hey are these switches any good and yeah of course i need to test them when i'm working for this company so i just ordered them or just ordered this one that I got and it also powers my homelab on my access point and all this network connections

If you had to guess you probably don't want to say this number but if you had to guess how much money is sitting in that in your servers So you mean an entire homelab without the PCs? Yeah, just the homelab. Just the homelab, yeah.

Just the hardware costs, yeah. So when I add the numbers for the Firewall and Switch, which I didn't pay, I would say like 8,000, 9,000? Somewhere like that. All together, yeah. I would say i would say yeah yeah you need to say that the rack alone costs like five six hundred yeah okay yes and the the nas the hard

drives this entire machine costs three thousand the firewall like two k 3k i think yeah it's it's a lot of stuff yeah absolutely just realizing this is crazy this is just crazy yeah yeah because you start you start pretty small yeah yeah yeah um and then you add another machine you want to do something different you add another machine yeah you don't buy this all at once. You didn't drop 10 grand all of a sudden. It's like, hey, I want this and I want this. I wouldn't do this. I realize, oh no, I've just bought a car. Yeah, but it's

really crazy. But I see this as part of my business. I see this as part of, not just for my main job, but also on YouTube. It allows me to create videos about all of this stuff. And this is what makes money as well. So I see this as, yeah, usually expensive. Yeah, I think that makes the most sense.

If you're doing this just as like a hobbyist thing, you know, that might be a big deal. But if it's going to be used to, you know, whether it's just for the youtube or whether it's for your like day job like i think i think that's when you can start to justify making big expenses like that it's not an area that i personally have like a deep interest in but it is something i would like to maybe try out at some point i've done some you know some some stuff with the vps like that's the extent of my messing around with

servers. But it would be kind of nice to have something local that I can actually mess around with. Yeah. I also tell this to people when they ask me always. You don't need a big server to start. You can just buy a Raspberry Pi

and install Ubuntu server on that and start from there. There's really not so much that you can do. Maybe you can't do virtual machines. So what I strongly would recommend people to start with a Homelab is get an old PC. You probably have something like an old PC somewhere that you don't use anymore. Or maybe if you don't, just buy an entry-level or used PC on eBay, right, and install

a hypervisor on that, something like Proxmox, or you can just, you can do VMware ESXi or XMPNG, it doesn't really matter, or you can even use Windows Hyper-V if you want to do that. Just try it out and

start using a hypervisor. Then start creating some virtual machines. Test different Linux distros. Maybe test Windows Server, whatever. But this is the core foundation of how you're going to start this. And you actually don't need expensive equipment to do it. The stuff that I got, I only got for a very specific reason, and this is because I use it for work.

If this is a hobby, I would never do this. I would never buy such expensive equipment because I also the current process that I have since I started the YouTube channel, I built this up and I added more and more stuff. The process that I have now, because we have

this big crisis this energy crisis in germany uh because of the ukraine war i don't know if you know what's going on here but we have really big problems we have like six seven eight times higher costs for um energy and for um yeah for power i think the costs have have doubled two or three times more for power cost, like it was a year ago. It is crazy in Germany. So we currently have a pretty big crisis here. And what I'm currently working on is shrinking my systems a bit down. Thinking about how can I maybe move some productive systems like my dns server what i need 24 hours

dns server needs to be online how can i move the dns server maybe to a more efficient machine yeah maybe to a raspberry pi so i'm making a video about that how to get a raspberry pi and moving on the docker containers for my dns server over to this smaller machine so i can turn off the big server and only run it when I really need it, when I want to play around with Windows server or digital machines because all the rest of the day this server can be off.

So I'm going to make a video about that as well. So how to optimize the power costs and how to save energy in a home lab because I think this is a really important topic currently that really lab, because I think this is a really important topic currently that really interests me, because I think, yeah, how I think about this, right?

We all have these problems in the world. We have this climatic crisis. We have global warming. We have the Ukraine war. And we see as our society our resources uh yeah are limited we need to save resources we need to we need to change our minds yeah we need to change our ways and how can i sit here in my office have this 10 grand home lab running 24 hours for what yeah that's what i i want to change i i want to really change that and i hopefully

can make a few inspirational videos how to do that and come up with some ideas because i think there is a movement especially in the home lab business or on youtube where people are always presenting the next big server machine the next whatack server, oh, I got a new who knows, five, six grand new powerful server. You see those videos quite often. No one is talking about how can we save that a little bit,

or how can we shrink this down. What I want to do the next couple of months as part of my project in my home lab, and yeah, yeah hopefully you said to make some great videos and this is always what i say yeah you don't need this big stuff you can start very small yeah and you you can you can go big as as big as you want but actually the software is the same the software that's running on a petabyte server is the exact same software that you can install on a small refurbished desktop PC for $100.

It's the exact same software. It's not as powerful as that, but you can still learn the technology. You can still learn the processes. And this is what I always tell the people how to start. There's really not much of a difference. Yeah. I think a lot of people get excited about the really

big stuff. Like, hey, I want to jump right into that. If we link it back to where we started with the discussion, all the way back at the start, a lot of people make this mistake with buying YouTube stuff as well, where they'll just get started and like, hey,

I want the $2,000 camera. I want the $1,000 microphone. And you're just starting out. You don't know if you're going to keep doing this. You don't know if it's going to really... If it's massively overkill for your workflow. I think, yeah yeah especially when you're

starting out with anything you're better off just trying it out first going with the thing that's gonna you know get yourself uh get yourself involved in it and then go from there like so you're going to in the end it's going to add up to be more money than you would have spent but also it's much less money if you decide that maybe you don't want to keep messing around with this stuff like one thing that I'm doing for example is it was supposed to be here

last week it's supposed to be here sometime later this week now is I'm going to start learning guitar soon so I could have went and bought a $3,000 guitar but that's stupid why would i do that why i should go buy like i should go buy like an entry-level acoustic guitar and get started like that and then if i keep doing it then sort of go from there and build up experience decide hey maybe i want to get this bigger thing and maybe this is gonna

better suit my workflow now and i it that's sort of true for pretty much anything you want to do not just not just tech pretty much anything just start small and then build up from there yeah i also think like with a home lab especially this is when the people start watching linus technics video with petabyte server and say i want to do the same i think but at some point yeah videos like that are you need to be realistic it they're cool and exciting though like that's that's why they get views yeah absolutely yeah that's true but i i do think there's a lot of value in the i don't know how how many people are actually talking about but i do think there's definitely a lot

of value in discussing like even if you don't really care about the climate and all that stuff just saving money on your power bill i think that's that's something that will interest a lot of people when it comes to messing with this really power hungry tech like you know a big server is going to be yeah that's also what i need to think really careful about so So I'm really interested in these topics like global warming and how to save energy because of these reasons. Also the Ukraine war and so on. But that

might not be the case for other people. And I don't want to point the finger on other people saying, hey, you are running these big servers, you are a bad person. This is not what I want to do. So I'm really focusing. Again, I try to be as less controversial as I can be. Try to focus on servers you are a bad person this is not what i want to do so i'm really yeah focusing again yeah i try to be as less controversial as i can be framing it try to focus on the tech helpful way that's gonna you know yeah show you how to do something rather than like you're

bad person you should be doing this do it my way absolutely yeah well uh if you want to change something i always say you need to start by yourself. And that's why I'm doing this project in my home lab, just as an example to show people how they can do it. But I'm not saying, hey, you must do it. Yeah. This is stupid in any way. No, I do think that would be really interesting to see.

I don't have a home server myself, but I think there would be an interesting way to, know i've got my my $50 netgear switch um but i think this would be if you can present it in an exciting way presenting an interesting way would definitely be worth putting the time into like if like you're doing it yourself anyway so it's it's one of those things where like you're doing it so you might as well share that knowledge with other people because maybe a lot of other people didn't have that knowledge themselves. Absolutely. That's the whole reason why I'm doing these videos. I usually cover the topics that I want to learn myself and then I share it.

and then I share it. Yeah, there's a lot. We had this discussion before when I said, yeah, people are suggesting new topics, new topics. But usually I don't follow this too much. And yeah, I know some people would want to have a video about software XYZ. Yeah, maybe recently I made a video about a tool that I use for my technical documentation,

and I got so many responses like, hey, what about this other software? What about this other system? And I thought like, okay, I can do these guys a favor and test out every single software they just mentioned and do like a comparison video. But honestly, there's no point for me doing this because I already made the point that I wanted to make in my last video and this is about how to use this tool to write

technical documentation this was not about a software this was about how to write technical documentation and how to use Markdown for doing this and I just used a tool I could use any other tool right and this is sometimes what I don't understand when people are always so focused

on these particular solutions, or these programs, rather than the stuff that you want to accomplish with it. This is actually more important than which specific program you use. You often have so many alternatives you can't try them all out yeah but at some point you just need to decide for one yeah and just just use it and if it's good then just stick with it why would you try out 10 different things that

all do the same kind of thing it's just for me it's a waste of time but it's um yeah for other people might be interesting to know i don't but you need to find the way how you want to um create your content you need to find your way of doing things the same like with this home lab and energy stuff yeah some other people might be excited to see the next big machine and the next big server yeah but that's not me yeah i'm i'm excited um to learn new things and um yeah do projects and i'm not so interested in the next big hardware machine yeah more interested in what you can do with it and how you optimize it and so on yeah but that's yeah that can be different for for other people yeah that's that's i think there's definitely a place like i i certainly do a lot of the hey i look at i like i've done a bunch of videos on a bunch of different terminals

at the end of the day they're all a terminal like that doesn't matter if you use item you use alacrity use the windows terminal at the end of the day it provides you a show prompt you run your commands it's gonna do the thing. Like, that's all that matters at the end. But, like, there is that audience that does like to see the comparison between the different software. Even if the workflow

may be very similar, it's like, hey, what does this specific thing add to the workflow? What does this let me do that maybe the other application doesn't? or maybe like a workflow optimization or something along those lines? Absolutely, I can understand that.

Yeah, I also sometimes do comparison videos about software when I tried them already out. It's just like I don't follow every single suggestion, test out something that the audience but that is the main part but i can see um well um this is going and obviously there is a big interest in software because you as a viewer you don't want to try it out you want

somebody who has already tried it out to explain what are the difference then you can make your decision based on that video so i totally get it that's a valid reason i just say like um this is where i struggled a lot in the beginning trying to find my way of doing things and which topics are really interesting me because if you just follow what other people say that you should follow you don't become happy doing this a longer time so this is i'm now at a, I'm doing this for more than two years now. And at some point, yeah, you, if you do stuff

that doesn't come from yourself, so if you just do something because it works great on YouTube, or because other people are telling you to do it, this becomes more of a job than something that you actually enjoy doing yourself. But that is

the point, yeah. I definitely know exactly what you mean there. I've thought about, if I wanted to do, firstly, if I wanted to get views on YouTube, I wouldn't be doing Linux videos. I'd be doing, you know, calling dead people at four in the morning videos.

But if I wanted to get views in the Linux space I would be doing distro reviews I would be like hey is Linux Mint better than Ubuntu is Ubuntu better than this I could do that and a couple of videos maybe

would be exciting but I would drive myself insane so quickly and I can't imagine that even though I've been in sort of but I would drive myself insane so quickly. I can imagine that, yeah. Even though I've been in sort of mostly in the Linux niche the entire time I've been on my channel, I've certainly been experimenting with the type of content I've been doing. There was a period where I did, I don't know what,

some of them did relatively well. I did a lot of videos on Vim plugins, a very specific part of the linux nation that somehow does well i don't know why um but there are a lot of people that care about vim plugins and then i went to do a lot more of the you know the software showcase stuff and now i'm i'm more in the the deep dives into linux news topics that are happening like i did a deep dive in um the fact that rust is going to become a supported language in the linux kernel uh within i think by december it's going to be added the support's

going to be added like this is a really exciting topic and this is where my, my focus now lies, but Hey, maybe in a year from now, I shift again into like a slightly different area. This is the, the, the good thing of not tying yourself down to a soup. Like it's good to be in a niche,

but you don't want to be in a really, really tight niche where there's no room to move around. You don't want to be in like, I am doing the Ubuntu server with engine, really tight niche where there's no room to move around you don't want to be in like absolutely i am doing the ubuntu server with nginx videos like that's there's only so much you can talk about there and it's gonna get very very boring very quickly yeah well you can find ways to make it exciting but it's like um you absolutely that is that is a really important point yeah you need to find some uh a niche so you you need to find something that you enjoy

keep doing even for a longer time but it also need to resonate with uh a part of the audience in the best way a big audience but that's where you need to find that sweet spot, right? Where you want to be and where there is an audience that's watching. But the other thing is, and maybe this is, might be a tip, but that's how I figured out on YouTube since I started, because

you as a content creator in the Linux space, I would say you have built yourself an authority. I don't like that I have it, but yes. You definitely have it. Yeah, no, distro developers will reply to things that I'm saying, like, why are you talking to me? I am just a dude in my bedroom.

Yeah, but the time. Don't underestimate yourself. The time and the effort that you have invested into making this content and pumping out these amazing videos, also with deep dive explanations, this has made you an authority.

But this takes a long time. You need to realize that. If you start doing YouTube videos and making videos, here's distro and my opinion about this distro is blah blah blah who cares right if you haven't built yourself an authority you can't make these videos pretty successful so what you can do is you start with seo content something like distro reviews it might be boring but you can probably you can do a few of them or you can at least if you don't want to do comparison videos you can show your favorite distro right or

explain but not just like i'm using this distro because of this and that because people don't care about that people care about they want to know they want to learn something so that's where the seo algorithm works pretty well at least for me i've realized that so making these explanation videos works really well especially in the beginning because people are searching for something they want to know something and if there isn't a video that explains it yeah and your video shows up there because you're the only video that explains this particular topic in this area people are going to watch it no No matter how bad it is, how bad quality your camera is or your microphone, it all doesn't matter

because people will want to know it and you are the only one explaining it in a good way. And then if you have built this, if you have spent some time doing this, you have your audience and you start building yourself in this level of becoming an authority. And then you can make videos like, hey, I think about this specific this or this and that because of these reasons.

And people are going to listen to you because they know you. And this is something that I needed to realize because I started it the other way around. I started making videos like, hey, I switched to Windows because of this and that. But people didn't know me. They don't know her. This is just a random dude in his studio explaining why he's switching to Windows. I don't care what this guy's saying. So it was too early for me to make these videos.

But at some point, you can go into this route. That's what I figured out as an outcome for this I think it's a pretty interesting point I had never thought of it like that that makes so much sense I needed two and a half years to find it out yeah no I'm just discovering

it right now so that makes so yeah no of course if you want to if you want to be talking about especially if it's something where it's not like it's not your opinion but you want people to be trust like you want if you're going to talk about something important you want people to trust that what you're saying is actually the is what's actually going on. So you want to have that, because most people aren't going to go and read all your sources. I leave all my sources in the description

whenever I'm doing like big research videos. So you can go and read them if you want to, but most people aren't going to do that. So if you want to be in that position where you are doing those deep dives and looking at any of these topics, you need to have built yourself some level of credibility. That makes so much sense.

Why had I never thought of that? Well, it's the same like when people see these big YouTubers doing these really videos with less substantial and having these great sponsorships, I don't know, Manscaped or Skillshare or whatever. And you're wondering, I can do the same.

No, you can't. Because these guys have built the trust with their community. They have built this credibility that people are going to listen to them. And if they recommend something like Manscaped, people are going to buy it, no matter what it is. Because what they have done before, the same as goes for twitch subs or youtube memberships people are not going to give you money because they like what you do now they they give it to

you because you have helped them across a pretty long time period yeah they sub or they they they subscribe to you or they they support you because what you have done before because you have helped them before you have changed something in their lives or whatever it is or you have entertained them yeah if it's not educational content they have watched all of your videos before and yeah you made them laugh a lot or They had a great time watching these videos. And that's when the people are going to give something back. And I see so many content creators,

especially in the Twitch community, Twitch streamers, who go the complete different way. They think like, I just need to copy what those big guys do. And they completely miss this part of this, yeah, building this credibility and building this. those big guys do. And they completely miss this part of this building this credibility and

building this. And this takes so much time and you're not getting anything back, especially in the first years or months, whatever it is. But at some point, when you be consistent, I think you can build this off-board team.

I thought about this a long, long time, and this is why I currently see myself in this. I'm currently in the mid-phase, because I think a lot of people know my channel, especially in the homelab. I see that I get a lot of reactions

even from bigger channels in the homelab space because people are watching this stuff. So I have some kind of credibility there, but I'm not finished. My goal is to be even more successful, so I need to push out more

inspirational, educational videos. I need to help people more. I need to do this instead of just making opinionated videos do this. Instead of just making opinionated videos for this, what I... Right? And, yeah, this is how I see it, but it...

Yeah, this is how it works for my channel. No, I totally get what you're saying there. That makes... Yeah, no, that makes a lot of sense. I don't know where to segue from that well i don't know um i don't know what to say yeah i just i i completely agree there like i've not put as much thought like i've clearly not put as much thought as you into the, the, I guess the SEO side, the foundational side of like what makes a channel a good channel.

I, for the most part, I kind of just wing it. Like I, I sort of slowly trudged through the swamp into this point where I feel like I'm doing quite well now, like the channel in the past, uh,

the past, I think three or four months has actually kind of started to pick up a bit like my watch time i did something on my watch time like went up like an average of two minutes uh i'm like gaining subs at a much quicker rate at this point so i've done some like this this current shift i've done in the content is clearly a a good direction for like you know the the style of uh videos that fits with this channel like even though i built this audience with slightly different content this direction i'm going has sort of brungled that together and pushed it out to a much larger audience than i was

i was a part of before and it wasn. And it wasn't something that happened overnight, but it did start to build over and over again. And now it's much more consistently in that range of like that much larger watch time, that much larger sub growth. And I think the position that I'm in is there's just not that many people in the Linux space. First, there's not that many people in the Linux space. Secondly, there's not that many people in the Linux space doing videos in the style that I'm doing. Like, there's a lot of people doing the distro views.

There's a lot of people doing the purely opinionated stuff. There's a lot of people just doing you know looking at software or doing tutorials on stuff but there's not that many people doing there are certainly news channels like nick from the linux experiment he does his i think weekly news series i don't remember exactly how often yeah he does his news but there's not that many people doing these like single topic super deep dives like there are times where i i will just read a mailing list for like two three hours digging up like what the developers are saying about this specific issue like not many people are doing that and i think it the way that i am sort of divulging that to the users, sort of bringing it into this more compressed form.

I think whatever I'm doing with that is working. And yeah, I, I, I think, I think whatever I'm doing is clearly working right now. And I'm gonna, I'm going to keep going down that path and see where it leads me.

Yeah, sure. Please don't, don't be um yeah hesitated or whatever by what i'm saying yeah this is my thought process um that works for my channel it doesn't necessarily mean it works for a different channel or for a different person um this is something that i also learned yeah you need to find something that works for yourself if and this is just you can go through this by trial and error there's really no way around it i've watched a couple of videos on youtube um from people who teach how to be successful in youtube i watched a couple of them do you want to know how do you want to know the funny thing about those channels a lot of them don Do you want to know how- But actually- No, do you want to know the funny thing about those channels? A lot of them don't have successful channels.

They're successful on YouTube, making videos on how to be successful on YouTube. Yeah, that's actually quite funny. Well I was focusing on the big ones. There are a couple of big channels doing this kind of content. But the interesting thing is, everything that I learned was not from these channels. It is from my own experience, from this trial and error process that I've gone through.

And this is where you learn the best and the most, because what these guys are telling you on YouTube is, and this is an assumption from my side, and this is always the same with any consulting or course selling youtube kind of business idea is they teach you the basic stuff yeah because they want you to start but if you really want to be successful you need to buy my course and then i'm telling you all the secrets there that's what i always see from these channels and yeah there there are basic tips are helpful to get started but most of the stuff that i learned i've gone from trial and error and this is where you get the most substantial knowledge i guess

no i think sure you can buy a course i think you still need to make the experience i hate this because sometimes um what i was gonna say is I think they do a good job at teaching you the, like, how to do, how SEO works, how titling works, how thumbnail works, how, like, this stuff I think you can teach. But when it comes to the feel of what makes sense for, not just what makes sense as a video topic, but what makes sense in the way that you speak with your style of presentation for the best kind of video that you would make like

i could write a video script for you and you could do my video but it's not going to be the kind of video that you make it's going to be a very different style of video and the way that you approach a video might be very different like it might just not work with what i put together even if on my channel it would be like you know a hundred thousand view video like just because you speak in very different way you present in a different way that's the stuff you can't really teach you can get ideas about stuff and absolutely that's about as far as you can really go with that that's at least that's the way that i i feel about it yeah you're absolutely right and that's i i believe this is because everyone is unique and if you try to to imitate something or it's just not going to work

um yeah um it's also pretty hard um to read from a script. These are sometimes the struggles that I go through. I can clearly say, well, not 100% accurate, but most of the time, who is using a script and who's not? Because you can feel the difference. If you watch some of my videos and you watch this conversation or the live streams, you definitely hear the difference. You can see I was reading from a script in this video. I hope, at least, I'm pretty good at trying to make it

as natural as possible. But there will always be something like, yeah, you kind of see it when you really try to focus on that. So reading from a script is pretty hard to make it natural, to make it good, entertaining. That's kind of hard. But this is also what I wanted to say, because everyone is unique.

For some people, that might work. Some people can't read from a script. They say, it's not going to work. Other people prefer this way. I've also gone through some process. First, I tried

to do it without a script. Then I started to make the introduction script, the introduction, and the rest was unscripted. Now I completely switched to a point where I script everything. But this is like, it's actually pretty difficult, yeah. I've slowly been moving towards that. I still don't write a full script,

but I went from nothing and just talking, going through all of that, and it doesn't work. Like, for certain types of videos, it can work, but a technical video, you cannot do one, like, completely unscripted. Then I went to, like, sort of dot points, like, going over the main topics.

The problem I had there is sometimes I would write them poorly, and by the time I get to the video, I have no idea what in the world I was talking about. So now I'm sort of in this weird like pseudo dot point script thing where

some parts are scripted out other parts are just dot points and there's a lot of there's a lot of just fill in whatever works here. Like I, I will include most of what I need to say, but it's not going to be word for word.

Like a lot of time I'll write a full script for something. And then I completely changed it up. Like when I'm on, like on the fly, it's like, Hey, maybe saying it this way is going to sound better. And sometimes I'll do multiple takes of like different ways of saying

something to get it to the point where it feels maybe not the most natural like some some cases you don't want it to sound really natural at least with what i'm doing sometimes you want it to be like you know we're intentionally emphasizing this for the sake of you know uh comedic value or something like that yeah Yeah, absolutely. I totally get this. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, because I do it the same way. I just write everything word

by word. But sometimes, sometimes you have a pretty great idea in mind while you're researching, and then you write it down word by word because you want to say it in this particular way. I totally get it. This is also the reason why I started writing

scripts because for me it doesn't work without. It's interesting that you also script specific parts, but you don't read it word by word. That's what you're saying. You improvise a lot over your script yeah but you need to at some you need to write down something yeah just

like you said yeah especially when you're explaining um a topic there are certain videos that i can i have done without a script on my second channel the german channel i've done one video without a script uh and this was about my apprenticeship in IT so I started my job because there I could just completely tell a story from my past so this works without a script but when I explain something well I need to write it down one of the things I will really commonly do is I will have my so when I go through my notes script whatever you want to call it I

will draft it like three or four times but sometimes when I get to actually recording the video I get to that section I'm like wait why is this here wouldn't it make way more sense if I swapped these sections around and I'll go through all of to that section i'm like wait why is this here wouldn't it make way more sense if i like swap these sections around and i'll go through all of the topics but it's just like for some reason

when i'm just going through that planning phase sometimes you don't really think of the video flow in the the way it would actually sound like sometimes i will actually like when i'm when i'm drafting stuff i will actually like do a dry run of the video, basically. Just going through the script, going through the notes to make sure it actually makes sense. But even doing that, there's a lot of times where I'm like, nah, this doesn't actually make any sense. Doesn't make sense, yeah. You need to switch sometimes the ordering.

Same case for me, yeah. I've write the script, but I often change it. Sometimes I swap sections around because it makes sense to explain something before doing another step and so on, yeah. Totally get it. Well, we should probably be ending this soon. I would like to go a bit longer, but...

I had the same feeling. I have to make food before I go to work, so... Yeah. But to be honest um i haven't really done any podcast or live streaming for months and this made so much fun i'm i need to do live streaming again man this i always enjoy these like i can i've done 130 or something of these and they're always fun yeah absolutely I also have always fun when I'm here

well let the people know where they can find you where they can find me on YouTube Twitter obviously, the digital life on YouTube then you can find me on my second channel you can find with my name Christian Lemper and this is also where you can find me on my second channel you can find with my name, Christian Lemper. And this is also where you can find me on Twitter.

And read some of my funny Linux community comments. I will make sure all that stuff is linked in the description down below. Awesome. As for me, main channel is Brody Robertson. I do Linux videos and tech videos me, main channel is BrodyRobotson.

I do Linux videos and tech videos there. Gaming channel is BrodyRobotsonPlays. Right now we are playing through The World Ends With You and probably still Cult of the Lamb. If you're listening to the audio version of this, it is available on YouTube at

TechOverT. If you are watching the video version, the audio version is available as an RSS feed. You can find it on any podcast platform. Chuck in your favorite podcast app and go ahead like that. Do you have anything else you want to say? Not really.

I'm so happy. And yeah, this was so much fun and I always enjoy being here. So so yeah thanks everybody for watching it's always great to have you here man and for listening well that's gonna be it then what's your final word what do you want to say

to end off the podcast I let you end the podcast oh wow you're the first person who's ever sent it back to me well that's gonna be it for me. So I'm out.