Tech Over Tea - Exploring The Depths Of Linux Support | Joshua Lee

Episode Date: December 1, 2023

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Good morning, good day, and good evening. I'm as always your host, Brodie Robertson, and today we have a returning guest. Welcome back to the show, Tanley J, Joshua Lee. How you doing? Not too bad. You can just call me Josh, by the way. It works. I'm going to call you Joshua every time now, just to bother you. That's perfectly fine. Anyway, how you doing, man? that's perfectly fine anyway how you doing man uh not too bad uh i just got off work after you know having a stressful situation at work where you know machines suddenly decided that was just

going to explode on us oh that's exciting yeah yeah uh don't don't buy uh cheap machines from china how long had that been uh going fine for was it just like all of a sudden well uh i mentioned last time working plastic injection molding and uh you you watched like that little video i showed you how it works yeah well the the big clamp that closes the mold uh it decided that was going to spontaneously break during the during the peak pressure mode which is basically right before the mold is actually considered shut and it's done. So what happened is that

the central clamp on it, because it's a toggle machine for viewers, there might be somebody that knows, but basically what happened is that the toggle exploded because of a critical joint failure. So that's why I had to uh say hey can i buy an

hour from you right no that's fair that's fair um um yeah yeah it uh if you're watching my channel i posted a short where i showed a hammer on a machine uh it's that same machine by the way ah yeah okay i see it yeah yeah yep because recently that machine had a hydraulic line had a hydraulic line fail but uh i also had a mold that i needed to get open to uh you know get the parts out before they were permanently stuck inside the mold oh right that makes sense yeah so i'm sitting there i'm swinging a 20 pound sledgehammer at it which uh i think that's like 35 36 kilos so it's a heavy ass hammer just to force this thing back which inevitably i did thank goodness but uh

those things uh hold about 80 tons of pressure so when you so when you manually slap one back like that, it gets very scary. Yeah, I'd be worried about losing a fucking hand. I did not lose a hand, but I could have lost a leg. Thankfully, stakeholders

at OSHA ain't got shit on me. Try not to do that. That's probably for the best. Fucking hell. There's a proper way to get it done that, you know, takes like six or seven hours because, you know, the contractor that has the device will literally take that long to get to you. Right, right, right. Or there's a not proper way, but still efficient way to get it done that might be a little on the sketch side that's really that's really what it is yeah don't do that uh yeah

that's probably for the best yep but hey look six hours or no losing a leg you know I think I know which one I'm gonna choose but maybe that's just me I mean that's also fair yeah no I kind of like my legs they seem pretty useful to me

maybe that's just a me thing though so uh why are you here why do you why were you like yo oh god like let me do the podcast again what what's the deal here uh i think i think uh what was it during a live stream uh you were talking about anime that is that is one of the reasons sure we don't want to scare them away that quickly. Yeah, and you know, I have disagreements with you about some animes that, you know, I want to cover and explain to you why they're good.

I'm talking about current season animes. Well, the other thing you mentioned was the Intel Arc GPU stuff. We'll do that first, and then we'll scare people away. Oh, I need to grab a prop. Okay. I need to grab a prop. Okay. I need to grab a prop. Because, you know, I have to do props.

Sure. You've got a lot of props in your background. I put some shorts on. I almost debated not to. Okay. So, if you've watched me on the Linuxcast, I've talked about these GPUs quite a bit bit the a770 and so on uh intel arc life is good life uh because i don't know how to install video drivers anymore

because they just work okay that's nice yep yeah uh the only trade-off is that, you know, as a guy that likes to install and test out Linux distributions, especially when, you know, those Linux distributions also intentionally ask you to install their distro and test something out for them, not every distro works because not every distro ships a 6.2 or newer kernel. And some of them that do still don't still uh black

blacklist uh the i9 15 driver to the point where uh it wants to work off of the integrated gpu on my cpu compared to the dedicated gpu that i have installed 6.2 hit eOL in May this year. What is not shipping at least 6.2 at this point? LTS distros. That's a fair point. That's actually... Yeah, like, I think OpenSUSE Leap is still shipping a 6.0 something kernel. Okay. Red Hat still is shipping the 5.15 kernel.

Debian is still... I think current Debian stable is 6.1. Ubuntu, I don't know what the current LTS kernel is, but I know by default the installer is pulling up 6.1, but you might have an update to like 6.3 or something like that. Ubuntu, Linux... But you know, it's not Canonical that's asking me to install something. That was actually the Linux Mint team.

Let's see. What is it? I'm not finding... I'm sure someone probably reported on it at the time, but I can't find... I know that it released with the 6.1 kernel. Okay. There are some times where

they were through the update cycle they they pull in a brand new kernel or you know they backport drivers and such all i know is that last time i tried the lts it still didn't work right so if you wanted to use it on that you would have to go through that like there was there's a list of setup steps you can do to get it working on that stuff yeah you yeah you basically just act activate the uh kernel the development kernel uh ppa uh which is shipped and maintained by the Linux kernel team themselves for Ubuntu. And then you can install the Intel repository to pull in the version of Mesa that's properly compiled, and then everything should work after that.

But, you know, it doesn't always work because, you know, everything else is pretty old at this point. Right, right. But I can safely say and highly recommend old at this point right right but i can safely say and highly recommend that at this point if you're running a more a more modern distribution like fedora or arch linux or anything like that intel arc has a heavy recommendation because it works faster on linux than it does windows i have verified this and also believe it or not legacy support on linux games work better than windows right and this is because proton uses dxvk by default

which means that your directx 8 and 9 games actually work on on Linux where they don't work on Windows. Which, yes, I know you can set up and install DXVK on Windows, but it is not a good experience. I don't recommend it. Also, if you're using Intel Arc, use Wayland, not X.Org, because the X.Org drivers are a little sketch because, you know, it's minimum viable.

Let's just get this thing working so you can have a basic display output. That way you can install the wayland version of whatever desktop you're using with the uh which makes sense with the uh dx9 stuff uh nvidia was doing something themselves with dxvk on windows i don't know the full details there were uh they were integrating a fork of dxvk into their driver uh to my understanding and then their driver was supposed to translate dxvk that that way they could drop like directx 8 and 9 support directly on their next generation the 5000 series gpus but that's as much as i know because i don't have an nvidia card although i have been debating buying a nvidia card just to

see how bad bad it is these days because the last time i used a nIA card. Although, I have been debating buying an NVIDIA card just to see how bad it is these days. Because the last time I used an NVIDIA card was when it was the easy driver to install. I've never used... Actually, have I ever had an NVIDIA card? I don't think I've had an NVIDIA card even when I was back on Windows. I think I've always had an AMD card.

Yeah. It's entirely possible because, you know, there was a point in time where AMD was the value purchased to buy and their drivers were just bad enough to actually justify the powerful hardware. Because the difference between AMD and NVIDIA is

up until about the 20 series AMD GPUs, the AMD GPUs were always, hardware wise, more powerful than NVIDIA. It's just that the driver support has always been worse. Okay, that's fair. Yep, because AMD doesn't have nearly the investment into the GPU market that NVIDIA has,

because that is NVIDIA's entire market. That's like 90% of their business is GPUs, whereas AMD, they also make x86 CPUs. They've been killing it lately on this. I didn't realize just how big Nvidia was. They are one of the top seven companies in the US. Yes. Massive, massive company.

Yeah, and if you thought Google was a powerful company for for like lobbying uh you haven't looked at what nvidia has been paying congress members well the thing with nvidia is nvidia is basically like the people that show up to the gold mine to sell shovels that's nvidia everybody needs nvidia cards that's why they're such a massive company well it's not that they're selling the shovels they're selling you the shovels, the carts, and the truck. Yeah. Yeah. Don't mine gold, sell shovels. Sell carts.

Yep. I, but, but, you know, you can, in fact, mine Nvidia GPUs for gold because per GPU, there's more gold in, there's physically more gold in an NVIDIA GPU than an AMD GPU right now sure but if you're unless you're getting them for free uh I don't think you're gonna be getting too far trying to do that not really so with the uh with

with your arc cards you said that you bought six Intel ARC GPUs. Yes, I am up to six so far. I've got one in my desktop computer, I've got one in my home theater computer, I've got one in my server, and then I've got three more that are like the other versions,

so like the 580, the 380, and then another undisclosed one that I'm testing out for somebody else. Because, you know, he wants to work. version so like the 580 that the 380 and then another undisclosed one that uh i'm uh testing testing out for somebody else because you know he wants to work work right now i don't want to like talk about that one because you know it's a secret secret not that it's a secret model it's an existing model but it's got special sauce going on with it that we're working on a low-key project for. Right, I see. Yeah. It's a contract for a customer. Mm-mm.

But I'm using it on the HTPC because the HTPC cannot decode AV1 because it's got that old of a CPU in it. Mm-mm. But, you know, you can buy an Intel Arc A380, which doesn't require PCI Express power. Even though they got the plug for it, you don, you can buy an Intel Arc A380, which doesn't require PCI Express power. Even though they got the plug for it, you don't need it. You can just slot the card in and it can draw from the bus. And that one supports AV1 decoding as well as encoding, which is why it's in my server.

So my entire media library at this point is AV1. library at this point is AV1. Which, by the way, shrunk an 8TB dataset to almost 3TB. And I have seen no loss in quality whatsoever. AV1 is a

fantastic codec, more people should use it, and yes, YouTube supports it. I think they support it for streaming now. When do they start doing that? You can stream AV1 and HEVC to youtube supports it yeah they i think they support it for streaming now i when do they start uh yes yeah you you can stream uh av1 and hevc to youtube uh that's hevc was came out like last year and then av1 was just earlier this year i know epos epos vox did like a live stream like the same day that they uh released it i think we're still waiting on av1 on twitch though

yeah uh twitch has promised av1 they've been promising av1 for like five years now but it requires a lot of hardware upgrades because it turns out that twitch is still using a lot of 10 series gpus well 10 series equivalent because you know they're buying the enterprise one right right right right sure is for that but uh that's what they're working on so that and uh you know twitch is weird with uh how their setup is because you know twitch is owned by amazon you would think that amazon would just like go go and say hey twitch here's a pile of money upgrade your crap that's not how it works apparently uh twitch is effectively a an entirely independent company that even though they run through aws they still have to pay aws well my understanding is the reason why they uh amazon

bought twitch was for the tech not for the actual platform. My understanding is Twitch doesn't make the money. Uh, no. I would be surprised if Twitch does make any form of profit whatsoever with the amount of transcoding that they have to do alone. Not just in storage. The transcoding.

You think storage is expensive in the cloud? You ain't paid for hardware acceleration yet. I have priced those. That's like $1,000 an hour. No thanks. But

Twitch does not make any money but the one thing that Twitch has that Amazon wants is patents. Which if you're a US business, you want to does not make any money but the one thing that twitch has that the amazon wants is patents which if you're a u.s business you want to file as many patents as you possibly can because that's because you know if you're in technology that's where your money is before we get out way off topic i actually was considering buying a uh a380 just solely for the sake of having an av1 encoder in dakota because i just shifting that off of my like amd gpu because the amd the amd gpu encoder is not

very good it's really not very good it it's better but yeah sure but that's saying like you know this pile of shit is better than this other pile of shit. Like, yeah, but it's still a pile of shit. Like, I don't want to eat it. Well, it's not really a pile of shit anymore. It's just a pile of crap. Yeah, that's true. It's...

I... I would like to buy an NVIDIA card. Like, I really would, but... I just don't want to deal with the nonsense that is an NVIDIA card on Linux. I really don't. Well, my recommendation, especially for, like, Arch Linux users, is that if they're going to buy an NVIDIA GPU, just use the LTS kernel.

That's fair. Now, I know Zany came out and made a video the other day saying that you don't want to ever use the LTS kernel on Linux. That's patently wrong, because, you know, if software is giving you an issue because your kernel version is because that software worked itself, or, you know, yet another Arch package

maintainer is building their package wrong. Which, that's been a bit of a crusade myself. I'm already banned from the Arch Linux GitLab. What did you do on the wait i'm sorry what yeah uh i i it's called i open a package build i look at it i go that's compiled wrong that's compiled wrong that's compiled wrong and then i open an issue on the package with a link to the arch linux philosophy where they ship vanilla packages without vanilla features.

My favorite... See, I haven't dug that deep. My favorite is the fact they just refused to ship OBS properly. Yeah, so the issues with OBS is that there are OBS packages, of course, missing the browser plugin. For a while, for the longest time, it was built without the Wayland support or even Pipewire support.

I didn't know it was that bad the longest time it was built without the wayland support or even pipewire support uh which recently was that bad yeah it was it was pretty bad uh but they they recent they fixed that like sometime last year or something like that uh but the main reason why the web socket controller doesn't doesn't exist in obs is because they're using the tarball from github and not the obs cdn thatN. That they tell everybody to use. In their build instructions. My understanding is the. Version of CF Minimal they're building against. Is completely incompatible. That was my understanding.

That too. Yeah. That too. Which you know. They're using an automated build server. It only takes like two and a half hours. For me to compile the Chromium framework. If you have a remote server,

just push the get commit, let the GitHub action work through or the GitLab action work through it. And then it will send you an email when it's done. You know, it's just like installing Gen 2. Portage is the world's fastest package manager. You tell it to do something, you go to bed,

you wake up, it's magically done. You really said a build flag wrong you just didn't notice and i mean that happens too eight hours gone but but normally it's pretty quick about telling you that yeah that's true it's when you run out of memory that's the issue yeah just get more memory it's fine well yeah it's called it's called go to download moreram.com or you know do the Linus Tech Tips thing and mount your Google Drive and swap that was

when I initially saw the because I saw the tweet that video was based on I was like there's no fucking way that's a thing it's a thing I have to show people uh turn Google Drive

Into swap Let's see if I can find the LTT video Real quick Wait is this it? I think this is it From 2021 Yep here it is So this absolute Fucking psychopath

I found the LTT video for you Here it is. So, this absolute fucking psychopath mounted G drive as swap. So, in this case, they had 500 gigabytes of swap. Now, to be fair, this is possibly the slowest swap. Actually, you know what? No. Having a tape drive as swap would be slower this is one of the slowest methods of doing swap well it also depends on how much data you have uploaded to the drive folder because if you have more than 250 gigs uploaded to google drive it will act

uh the google api will actually intentionally rate limit you too i didn't know that huh yeah if you're if you're actively using that much data they will rate limit you too. I didn't know that. Huh. Yeah, if you're actively using that much data, they will rate limit you. Which makes sense because, you know, they don't want people from Data Hoarder backing up to Google Drive anymore. Mm-hmm. Well, yeah, they used to have these, like, really cheap, unlimited plans. They, uh, kind of... It was, like, Lifetime Unlimited or something ridiculous.

Well, what it was is that you just signed up for, like, the Google Workspace account, which is, like, their business unit. And then you just gave them $20 and they gave you unlimited drive storage. Yeah, that seems like a... Which there is no way that was going to last very long. Well, it was the same reason that they started deleting old private videos. Because people were using YouTube as a backup for all their family videos. And it had terabytes of just

private videos there. The funny thing is now there's actually a way that you can translate a just a normal file into a static MP4 file. And you can still do that with YouTube. You can just upload the video as a private and then have just like infinite cloud backup via YouTube. They won't notice the data storage. Turning YouTube into unlimited...

There's a video I haven't got around to watching. I think it was something like... I saw the post on Reddit. I didn't actually watch a video. Ah, it's fair. Yeah, yeah. Video by BKBiner, I think this is the video. I- it's- it's probably about the same, like the post or the video came first, one of them? Uh, uh, yeah. That looks like the same thumbnail that I saw.

Yeah, so they basically transcode the- the... Oh god, what did I do? They basically transcode the data into a video and assuming the compression doesn't beat the crap out of it, theoretically you can store as much data as you want. Yeah. I mean,

it's just FFmpeg magic. FFmpeg doesn't care what you're giving it, it'll just turn whatever into whatever for you. Well, not quite whatever. Whatever into a media file that FFmpeg magic. FFmpeg doesn't care what you're giving it. It'll just turn whatever into whatever for you. Well, not quite whatever. Whatever into a media file that FFmpeg supports. Which is why he is feeding the file as a text file into FFmpeg. FFmpeg's a really cool project. It is a really cool project.

I doubt that there's any person that actually knows everything about ffmpeg well it's one of these things that like it's very foundational to the way we do a lot of video stuff on linux and i don't think people realize like how foundational it is if you there's a lot of video editors a lot of media players a lot of video editors, a lot of media players, a lot of just random video-related tools. All it does is just run a couple of FFmpeg commands in the background and just puts a nice GUI around it. Even GIMP hooks FFmpeg. Firefox, if you build it with the hardware acceleration,

ships its own version of FFmpeg. It's done that for years. When I was talking to the guys that run... Media Center, Open Source Media Center OS. Media Center Software, sorry. It used to be called... Cody? XBM xbmc um whatever cody yeah yeah yeah that's it yeah that's what i use as cody yeah they uh like when when we're talking about like you know projects that they rely on like they're like yeah we couldn't do anything without

ffm like this is just like without this it just would not be possible to make anything we do at all work i mean if ff if ffmpeg never existed would you want to write that library yourself oh god no god no that's almost as bad as building your own web browser from scratch almost look this is why everyone just forks Chromium. Like... Yeah. As much as it would be nice for people to build their own browsers, like... Maybe- back in like the 90s it was viable, but the web is so massive now, there is so

much that needs to be implemented to have modern websites actually function that no one's no one's insane enough to do it you're gonna just let chromium do it like the same reason why no one should implement a fucking date library just let someone who understands date libraries do it because you're gonna get something wrong and don't just randomly pull it from javascript from the javascript library because you know the javascript library is probably only like three lines long and you could just add that yourself and then and then when that library gets inevitably removed three years later because you know the developer of that one library just burned out off of maintaining three lines of code now you

now you suddenly you have an entire uh multi-billion dollar website go down well the thing with with that is back when um left pad got pulled from npm like they've they've actually like this giant policy now about like how to get something removed from npm like you you have to be like extremely extremely like get removed. Like, you've either got to be malware, or, I think if, like, one or two projects depends on your project or something like that, you can't pull it. Like, it's real

strict at this point to get something pulled. Yep. For good reason. Like, LeftPad was a giant, giant mess of a situation that I don't think anybody wants to see repeated uh there's a there and it's not alone in that example range either there's several javascript packages that are like that yeah which rust is actually starting to get that

way now too with cargo uh but you know they're a little bit smarter about about it because you know the cargo maintainers are being a little bit more strict about what goes in there rather than just randomly pulling from github yeah they're pulling from github things in set like i don't know how they how it's worked at all remotely this well like it's it's it's it's impressive that it's not all just collapsed in itself yeah it is impressive and it has been a very wonderful experience lesson in computer science that's really what it is uh because if you if you want to uh sit there and figure out how this hasn't broken yet just and you quickly realize that uh microsoft is a heavy contributor to no js because guess what they're guess what several windows programs use uh then you start to then like

things start to come collect and make more sense because you know if microsoft wants it to work micro okay one thing that microsoft does well it does actually well with like windows or like their applications is that when some is that they will make that thing work forever you can't say that about linux because you know on you i can pull up windows 11 and i can get software working that was written back in the late 90s and it can still work i can't do that with linux i mean i can if i build an app image or a flatpack for it. Not Snap, because Snap doesn't have as much legacy support as flatpack or app image. In fact, app image actually does the legacy support thing best.

Because you can't package everything up for FlatHub. Sure, sure. But you can't do that on Linux. Or if you can, you have to manually compile it yourself which then you realize that you know this this program is using like an old version of c that you know modern gcc doesn't support now you have to now you have to sit there and find an old cc gcc package or compile it yourself which by the way if you thought compiling a web browser was bad, wait until you compile your compiler. Because that takes forever once. And when you compile your GCC compiler,

it's going to compile multiple times because it wants to make sure that it's right. Because you want that to be right. So GCC on any operating system, except for Linux from scratch will at least compile itself three times when you compile it. And

unless you're a savage with a server farm like I am it will probably take you quite a while. And then if you have packages that are dependent on GCC or that version of GCC they need to be recompiled against that version of GCC. Otherwise, they don't work.

So on Gen 2, by the way, when GCC updates come in, they tell you that you don't have to recompile the entire operating system. But there are people that still do because you know it's kind it kind of matters especially if you're a dwm user especially one of the things that i i often i i see people get confused about with the whole back from the bad billy thing because people say linux is great for legacy hardware which is true in most contexts. There's a lot of things people kind of, like, oversell on it. But I hear people try to, like, extend that argument to, like, Linux is great for running legacy software. I don't know how they get this far.

I really don't know what they've read, like, who they've talked to. They're like, oh, yeah, you know, Linux is great for legacy software. I think, I think the biggest thing is a lot of people have been like weirdly conditioned into thinking that everything is like Xorg. Xorg hasn't moved in so fucking long that there are like 15 year old X, like X11 applications that still work with absolutely no issue because the API is not really updated. It's pretty much the same thing for the past 40 years.

That's not the way most things work. Most things there's going to be a bit of changes. There's going to be a bit of bit rot. I don't know, man. People are weird. Think about it this way. Xorg is still the de facto standard for graphical applications on Linux.

So as a result, rather than the application developers having to maintain their project, think about how much effort it goes into to make sure that Xorg still works with modern things. That is not a light task. Not at all. One thing you mentioned with

the Arc GPUs, I'm not surprised that they work a lot better on Wayland. It does make... It makes perfect sense. Like, it does make... It makes perfect sense. Yeah, it makes sense. Weyland is the direction... Look, we get into this topic

every single time. Every time I talk to anybody, I have to get into the topic. Weyland is the direction we're going. It's happening. We all know it. Whether you like it or not, it's happening. I mean, it's happened for me, at least, because, you know, I bought the ArcGPU and I realized that my screen

freezes every three and a half seconds. Let's try this Wayland thing. Hey, it magically works! What are you actually running your desktop at this point? So, I have been playing around with jumping around across all the different hyperlink compositors I possibly could find, which

includes ones that haven't seen an update in like two years, which, you know, surprisingly, still compile and work. Waymonad is actually pretty interesting. The only reason I don't have a video for it is because... I heard you said Hyperlane compositors. Oh. Yeah, I have tested Hyperlane.

Hyperlane is just WL roots at this point. It's just taking over everything. The funny thing about Waymonad is that Waymonad is actually very functional and actually pretty good. But it's built against a version of WL roots that you have to recompile the old XDG portal for. Which, by the way, that version of WL roots does not support the WLR portal. So there is no screen capture on that one. Ah.

So that's why I haven't posted a video on Waymodad. Wait, I'm sorry, why are you even trying out Waymodad? I uploaded it like four years ago. It's free and open source software. I will do whatever I want. That's fair, you can do that, but I'm just confused why

that one. Because, you know, I honestly think that the xmonad project should probably look at it because it is xmonad for weyland almost quite literally it's just that they basically just need to rewrite it at this point just to get on a modern version of haskell and modern version of wr roots it's not going to be a small task but you know the example is there right right right because i know when they uh they initially did have a look at it and they just wanted to like scrap it and sort of start over again yep and that makes perfect sense yeah but you think it's at it works as a baseline as sort of like a a bit of reference material about like what a a wayland version of xmonag

could be like uh yes i i honestly think so uh that said uh i don't know haskell programming i've only ever done any programming in like very bad bash scripting and lua that's about it so what are the what other wws composers you tried uh i have of course tried hyperland i posted a video on that one i posted a video on lab wc which lab wc if you're like an open box fan uh give lab wc a look because it's literally open box for wayland it's not waybox waybox is more true to that but uh lab wc is still maintained and uh the only thing that's real that that's really different is that uh lab wc respects gtk themes it doesn't necessarily directly support like the old open box themes although you can use the open box themes with it

okay it would just translate the open box theme into a gtk theme so uh it and uh it's one of the few uh dedicated compositors for wayland that just straight up is a gtk compositor so if you're looking for like that floating experience uh that's that's where you should go uh that's the only thing that i had that i have verified in like a commenter on the video that was verified is that the dynamic menus don't work but how many people actually use the dynamic menus on openbox dynamic menus being what i don't uh so openbox works off of a right click menu sure you and you can edit edit the menu you can add whatever you want so a lot of people just put like that menu as like their application launcher and uh you and on openbox you can script it so that way you could get like your mpv status get your MPV status or your NPC status.

I mean MPD. That's what I mean. So you can get your music playback progress or you can get it to post RSS feed updates for you. It's actually really cool. Actually, DistroTube's config makes use of it in a couple scenarios. DistroTube's config makes use of it in a couple scenarios so if you haven't looked at that you might want to play around with it

because Openbox is still a fantastic window manager even to this day it's just remember that it hasn't seen an update since 2008 because you know Xorg it doesn't matter sure I'm sorry what? hold up it hasn't seen an update since 2008.

What? Yeah. Because Openbox was declared feature complete in 2008. All right. Yeah. That's fair. I mean, if it's declared feature complete, then the only thing that you need to work on

is just stability and security patches. Well, it's a window manager that runs on Xorg. So so does security really matter only if you launch xorg with root so if you just don't launch it with root then the security doesn't really matter that much so then the only thing that you're working with is stability patches which you know openbox has 10 years prior of just nothing but stability patches for it so it's super stable. Seems like the last update was 2015, which was a add include of Cairo.h when using lib SVG. It's like very much a minor. Yeah, update version 3.6, add missing file, merge, minor branch. All of this is like very, very minor minor changes in here update your wage and

translation add yeah when was a galician when was the last time a a a feature was actually directly installed uh added uh let's see here there's a commit here update my email address in 2014 um i can't see anything like super featurey it seems a lot more like maintenance stuff just making sure shit still works it seems like it might be a couple of bugs that are getting addressed here and there but like

nothing like actual featurey yeah and that is the wonderful work that you know corporations have put into x order just as a proof of concept right there this is my favorite commit commit double space just removes it up random double space. Just removes it up. Random double space. Just removing random double space. Here's the syntax fix.

Beautiful. The best kind of commit. I am a happy child whenever I'm looking over a git log and I see something like that. I'm like, what's this commit? Oh, let's look at that diff file. It's only changing a single character. And the funny thing is when you're messing around

with a programming language and you see that commit where they're adding the missing comma. Because Lua is table based and every table has its own index. And those index separators are commas. And a comma is such a tiny character that it is easily

missed. Especially when you delve in other programming languages that don't require commas in their tables. Thanks Python. We love Python. Python is such a great language. It is a fantastic language that I will never learn. I have no reason to so why would I learn it? To stop using bash script for everything and use Python instead. My bash script is only like two lines long so why that's fair fair point uh to use what's that what's that python qtile that one qtile oh i i guess that would be the most python i would ever write which you know i've had people

request i do a qtile video because you know I have this series on my channel called the Window Manager Project where the goal is to eventually have a video on every single window manager that exists on Linux. It's a long journey. It's a long journey. I've got a list. I'm sure there's some real obscure ones that you're gonna look at at some point.

There are definitely some very obscure ones. Like, when's the last time that you've heard of anybody using FVWM? I think I might be the only other person who knows what FVWM is. Did you know that it's still maintained? No.

Yeah. There's a version 3 for FVWM. It is still maintained. FVWM was the base for a couple of window managers, from my understanding. Yeah, ex-FWM came from that, yeah. Now, the fantastic thing about FBWM

is that it is a historically important window manager because it was the very first window manager to bring to you virtual desktops. Because FBWM is something like fancy virtual desktop window manager because it was the very first window manager to bring to you virtual desktops because FVWM is something like fancy virtual desktop window manager. Huh. I didn't know that.

TWM, by the way, saw a commit recently too. If you want to use the standard of window managers because that is the official XOR window manager. I'm still trying to figure out how to write a X resources config file for that

one. The documentation is fantastic and doesn't exist. Wait, I wonder. TWM Unix porn. Surely there's going to be at least one person. Oh, I wonder. TWM Unix porn. Surely there's got to be at least one person. Oh, I found one! Oh my goodness, I want to see this. Is it three

open terminals? Let's see. Let's see. It is, in fact, one open terminal, a web browser. Oh, we've actually got four Windows spawning in here. Is that impressive with TWM?

So, the thing about TWM is that when you're in TWM, you can't launch an additional program. It has to be launched via X resources on the TWM launch time time which is why when you you run into the xorg fallback session now that some distros run and it boots up twm it immediately spawns three x term windows because that's the only way you can actually really realistically

launch anything oh that makes sense yeah uh there's a reason why people don't use it anymore. Yeah. I see why FVWM sort of became a lot more important. That said, there's a reason why TWM is actually one of the most resource-efficient Windows Managers you can actually run. It literally only uses bytes of memory rather than kilobytes of memory like twm wow yeah because you know it's literally because all twm does like literally all it does is just tell xorg paint the window for me and then it just plops whatever windows you want to launch inside it that's it it's almost like what dwm does except

dwm also has like fancy tiling rules because you know they actually want a functional window manager it's funny to call dwm functional but i guess relative to twm yeah that's true yep uh but yeah there's there's another uh window manager called TWM it's actually like tiny window manager it's only like 200 lines of code yeah yeah I know about that one yeah yeah it basically just does the same thing except that

you know it actually supports like application launching and floating windows wow that's crazy what an insane feature that is yeah what an insane concept oh it has hotkeys whoa oh wow uh alt plus button one uh interact with this is terrible documentation uh documentation interact uh interactive window move alt f1 raise focus window wow that's a really big feature you can actually raise the window height crazy yeah let's put it on top of the stack please it's basically just like let's put the window in focus

the fact that you need a hotkey to put it in focus like just well it supports click to focus too because that's just a that's just an xorg standard feature right right that's fair that's fair you know xorg's totally secure. My favorite thing I learned about Xorg is that any other window can redraw any other window, which is just amazing. So if you have, like, you know, a password prompt,

another application can just draw over that password prompt and just be like, yo, that's mine now. Yeah, and that's how your pull kit daemon works. Because the way the pull kit daemon actually draws a well the way that the gnome pull kit works or used to work was that it would draw is that uh when something required root privileges would launch through gnome it would spawn the pullkit window in a sub terminal underneath the window window manager and then that would spawn the graphical window that you type your password into right and then it would just effectively copy paste it from the graphical application to the sub terminal and then it would launch your application

i don't efficiency i don't think i've used the canone one before i think i had the the kdu one installed because the the terminal based one's been broken for like a long long long long long long long long very long time you're also technically not supposed to use that one as a user that's why don't expose it to me as you use it. There are some random terminal applications that try to use it, and it's like, what are you doing? Like, what are you doing? Like, because it uses that as a fallback, obviously.

If there's nothing else actually installed, and if you're on Arch, nothing else is going to be installed if you just have a window manager. I had to make sure I installed something. I think there was like what was it was like there was a cpu z clone uh that i'm forgetting the name of cpu x yeah that one uh cpu x which i needed a pocket name installed and i didn't have one so i was like uh what's what's what's happening why is it it broken? Yeah, you sit there. I think you use D-Men. You say you open D-Men, you tell it to launch it,

and just nothing happens. I think you could do, like, the basic functionality, but there was a couple of things. I think it was, like, you couldn't check temps or something? It wouldn't be able to check the clock speeds, the boost levels, the clock speeds yeah yeah boost levels the bus speeds or but it could basically get everything that you could out of just caddings slash proc slash gpu info yeah so not super useful but could be less useful yeah which realistically like it do you really

need to know that much if you get the processor's model number, just post that into Google. If you have an Intel GPU or a CPU, Intel's Arc website is literally the reason why I still buy Intel CPUs. Because I know what that CPU's got. You really like these Arc GPUs, don't you? Well, I do like the Arc GPUs. Because, you know, I like not having to install a video driver after i install a linux linux uh distribute distribution and uh you know uh it just works like it actually just works and it's fantastic that and intel has hands down the best driver

support of all the graphics stacks if If you look at it, because they've got the only GPL-endorsed driver. Whereas AMD's is MIT and then half the driver's proprietary firmware decryption. A lot of people forget about that part. They're like, oh look, AMD's got this great

open-source driver. Yeah, let's just not talk about the firmware. Nope. Yeah, wait. Try to install Trisco with your AMD GPU and then this great open source driver yeah let's just not talk about the the firmware nope yeah wait uh try to install trisco with your amd gpu and then realize that you're that you're hard limited to it to a 720p screen resolution actually less than 720p you know what you could do not use a meme distro you could do that or it could be like me and have a single ultrawide as your only monitor and then go like i'm gonna i'm gonna daily drive Trisco for a month and then find out that

my screen resolution is hard locked to 1024x768 on an ultrawide which by the way looks double bad because now not only is everything monstrously huge but it's fat oh because it's trying to stretch across the entire screen

it does stretch it. Oh, no. I thought you were saying it was going to put like a square in the middle. No. That's, that. Because, well, the signal for the square resolution

will be translated through the HDMI cable to your monitor, but the firmware of the monitor will sit there and go like, hey, this doesn't fill my entire screen. By default, I'm going to fill up the entire screen. Same thing that your TV does. Sure, sure. Otherwise, if you're watching

a Netflix on your smart TV, Netflix will buffer down the video resolution for you. That way, your Netflix movie is still full screen when you when it's broadcasting for ADP that's fair that's fair which by the way Netflix doesn't work on my internet connection now what happened this give us more stories about your garbage internet situation oh uh it is actually

not garbage now oh because yeah the local town suddenly suddenly realized that after one of the council members signed up for this dish network internet service that satellite internet sucks yeah no fucking shit are you in an area that gets like really like snow or like really hot uh yes yeah okay that makes sense it does snow out here and it does get mildly warm in fact uh i live in the state of ohio for clarification for everybody uh when i kind of got that from the shirt yeah well i mean it could also be oregon Linux Fest, but it's actually Ohio Linux Fest. That's fair, that's fair, that's fair. Yeah, but, you know, in Ohio, the most snow that we get out of a day is maybe like 10 inches, so like that much snow.

There are places that get a lot more. There are places that get a lot less. I recognize that. Sure. But the thing about ohio is that snow very quickly turns into water which means that winter here is a giant muddy mess and every time it gets super cold all that mud freezes and now we've got ice everywhere now the secret the secret about this and why I'm mentioning it specifically,

is because snow is not bad for electronics. Water turning into ice is because when water freezes, it expands. Boom, science. Water expands something like 2.5 times when it turns into ice that's why your ice that's why when you're filling an ice cube tray to freeze it freeze and make yourself some ice cubes you don't fill the tray all the way to the top you fill part you feel like halfway it depends on how quickly it freezes, I believe But it does it does grow in volume nine percent greater. I don't know we got

250% No, okay, okay, it I'm just throwing like I'm not a scientist all right I'm not a scientist either that's why I went to Google. I own and operate a factory. I'm not a scientist fair enough fair enough I hire I hire a hire you hit a machine with eight tons of pressure with a fucking hammer yeah you're clearly not a scientist i mean it worked so yeah you okay what what happened with your internet situation because you were saying okay they tried out the satellite it was garbage. He pushed out an emergency legislative bill to cancel the contract with Dish Network

and sue them for the refund which they got pretty quick. And then they then took all the money that they got back and dumped it on the ISP. So my ISP will in fact last for the next 15 years. Oh, wow.

Yeah. So my mom and pop ISP will continue in the next year. Sweet. That's awesome. And as part of the upgrade, they get to redeploy their entire network and they're redeploying the fiber optic lines. Wow.

Yeah, they're going... I'm going from phone lines to fiber hell that's a nice upgrade yeah uh and uh i might have you know influenced the network admin to place a hub directly across the street from me that way i can get fiber to house because you know uh technically i don't live in town but I live in a small community outside of town so we can justify

that's justification to put a hub right there because you know this ISP serves all of the buildings in this little spot that I'm in so it makes sense to have that hub there that way you can run service to all the buildings right right so i'm going to get fiber directly to the house

nice the only trade-off is that i did in fact have to pay for this sure uh it was not a tiny amount but it is already paid for and i'm not going to disclose how much i paid for because then it tells you how rich I am Which secretly I'm not nearly that rich anymore Yeah, five five is expensive is yeah, yeah Well, the fun fact is that fiber is not actually as expensive as you think it is digging holes because Well, they're putting this up on Okay, what are you? well they're putting this up on okay they're not digging yeah we put all our wires on poles

yes here because you know if we well here's the thing if we put it underground it gets exposed to the water and ice that actually is a good point which i don't know which wire you want to fix do you want to fix the one that's up on the pole or do you want to fix the one that's up on the pole or do you want to fix the one that's underground? That's actually a fair argument. In Australia, the only thing that's not underground is the power lines. And a lot of places do underground power

lines as well. I mean, it looks better and honestly, it's probably more environmentally friendly for that wire to be under the ground rather than above the ground. There are legitimate use cases for it being above ground yeah okay that's fair that's fair uh that said if the fiber line breaks uh there is no such thing as just splicing it back together you have to replace the whole run yeah yeah which thankfully thankfully i think the deployment plan is for every five miles there's

they're going to install a relay to help boost the fiber optic signal and you know keep that light being nice and bright so uh that's going to be a break in fiber line every five miles the issue is that if that fiber line breaks you have to replace five miles line which i i believe that there are some patches that you can do but it's not like an actual fix it's basically just like a band-aid for temporary service right right it's not as simple as like taking a copper line just like yeah which you know if uh you know you're a massive corporate isp like here in the united, that temporary fix might be temporarily permanent. Yeah, yeah. You might just keep pocketing the money

that you've been given for 30 years. But thankfully, the big advantage of fiber optic lines is the wire itself has no actual cap on the amount of capacity it can serve. At least not one that we've been able to measure as a species of humans with our current technology.

We have been completely unable to measure that. The one thing that, the only limiter, is everything that connects to the wire. That's the splices, the boosters, and all that. That's all you really need to upgrade for a modern service. Which, you know, their network switch can serve up to, like,

I think they said it was a 300 terabit switch. Yeah. Yeah, and that's a small one. So, we're going to have some bandwidth here bandwidth here yeah so what sort of speeds are you possibly looking at for yourself uh i am no longer gonna be on the dumb pipe uh instead

i'm gonna be on a normal person service uh and i'm going to just be going for just standard gigabit even though i can go significantly faster if I so want to. Ha ha! What? How much is gigabit going to be for you? Just out of curiosity. If she can say that.

If I don't... To avoid disclosing my super special me discount how much would a normal person pay for it will say uh the normal person would probably pay like 120 a month for right okay yeah because you know uh this is new rollout they gotta like payback bills and they're they're doing the things where they're promising that the bill might go down in the future after they get everything paid off which this isp does actually do because they've done it before but that doesn't mean that they're going to do it that other massive companies like you know verizon spectrum won't won't as well they

most times they just don't i okay the australian dollar is obviously weak in the US dollar but I pay $110 for $250 by $25 yeah so I think $120 let's see what $120 USD is $120 USD to AUD is $184

I would pay $184 yeah I would pay $184 for yeah I'll pay $184 for gigabit though yeah I'm fine with that lighted uh the idea is that even though like the main reason why I'm getting fiber to house is because

you know I'm less than a mile away from from uh the actual ISP that's why I was on the dump pipe for the DSL to begin with because you know I happened I'm less than a mile away from the actual ISP. That's why I was on the dump pipe for the DSL to begin with, because I happened to be physically close enough that they could justify it. Which, for the viewers, if you don't know what I mean by dump pipe,

it means that I had no actual cap on my data speeds. It was literally served to me as fast as it can possibly be served to me. That's really it. Which, of course, means that if the network is under a heavy load, I

am naturally going to be the lowest priority on the totem pole, unless, you know, I dial number two on my speed dial and go like, hey, can I get network priority, please? Which I have done before, for the sake of distro hacking. What sort of, uh, what sort of, like, max speeds had you ever seen through that method?

Obviously it was still DSL, so, like, you know. I have gotten up to 64 megabits. Pretty impressive for DSL. That's just down to it. Yeah? Yeah. Upload, i've never gotten more than like 10 to 11 gotta bear in mind that this is being done through a phone line which is very skinny

and very small yeah yeah uh it if uh you don't know what that is think of an ethernet cable but like a quarter of the size i don't think my audience is about my age. I think most people know what a phone line is.

Well, you don't know about the podcast, listener. Actually, let me find out what... No, I think my podcast has an uptick at the 65+. Oh, does it really? Yeah. Let me have a look. My goodness. Audience.

People were saying maybe it's people just selecting, like, just scrolling down the age list and just selecting whatever's at the bottom. Yeah, so biggest group, 27.9%, 23 to 27. Second biggest, 28 to 34, at 24.2. Third biggest, 35 to 34 at 24.2. Third biggest, 35 to 44 at 23. 2.8%, 45 to 59. 1.7%, 60 plus.

Oh, well, if you worked for a certain telecom provider like I did in the past, I've had to explain how to put batteries into a remote before, so... Some people just don't know things. the past uh i've had to explain how to put batteries into a remote before so uh some people just don't know things oh actually let me explain my fucking nightmare of an internet service i had so i don't have a local mom and pop isp i have this like mid-sized isp so in australia uh every isp is a reseller so we have the national broadband network everyone resells the nbn's lines there is fixed pricing basically like there's no movement the only difference is like the individual like networking gear um so for a while i was getting absolute garbage upload speed i was getting my download just fine i was getting absolute garbage upload speed. I was getting my download just fine. I was getting my 250,

but my upload was stuck at like 5.5-ish, maybe sometimes 6, 6.5 when I should have been getting 25. Now this was at like midnight, so there should have been no issue getting full speed. I had four calls my ISP, I had four calls my ISP three calls where they all wanted me to do the exact same thing are you on wi-fi make sure you're not on wi-fi I'm literally I literally have a cat6 cable running from my modem into my computer make sure you're not on wi-fi like oh okay you're not on wi-fi make sure you're not using 2.4 gigahertz we just established i'm not using wi-fi why are you go off script a little

bit please setting up like bridge connections doing all of these things and like can anybody go off fucking script like once i've done okay so you can i explain that to you yes yes okay so i used to work tech support for an isp uh-huh uh they they have the big letter v and they serve they serve a fiber optic internet service in uh new jersey and northern california i think it's northern california might be southern california i i can't i don't really remember it this was like 10 years ago but anyways uh yeah uh the the system that they that they uh that you would type all the customer notes into is literally a walkthrough wizard because the people that they pull into that job you have to first of all recognize that this is the world's crappiest job because people will call you and the only thing that they ever do is file a complaint because

you're working tech support you literally signed up for this of course you're going to get the angry phone call and the phone calls are almost never happy to start with sometimes they end very happy other a lot of the times they end passively and there's a certain fraction where you're sitting there explaining how to put batteries and batteries into the tv remote when your wizard is telling you that this is a customer issue it is not your problem now uh this wizard literally will not progress unless they ask you that stupid question and yes they can cheat it however every single phone call is potentially monitored and every single phone call is potentially audited because they don't tell you when they audit the phone calls and if you and if you cheat your way through the wizard that's immediate grounds for termination it's a bit harder to fire people in australia than it is

in the u.s so well i'm i'm i also live in a right to work state where not only do you have the right to work you get you basically have the right to get fired for any reason that is not federally banned yeah we we don't it's it's a lot harder to fire people we have a lot stronger unions here i'm just a lot stronger like employee protections it's a lot harder yeah even if they're fucking garbage it's a lot harder to get look okay as a small business owner i recognize that you know it's nice to have like those right to work laws because you know then i can just fire the person that's obviously not doing their job. But, you know, as a person that has been an employee in the past and has applied for jobs and worked a lot of crap jobs, like, you know, scrubbing porta potties or working tech support for the letter V, I also recognize that it's very easy to get yourself fired.

It's also very easy to become the wage slave in in america because you know that credit card application it's like right there and you're already pre-approved so it's very easy very easy to overspend so with this isp i eventually ISP, I eventually got the call escalated to a manager who was willing to actually, like, think off the script. And it turns out that there was a

so, like most ISPs, like, they give you, like, a modem that they want you to use. This modem had a firmware update and added a new feature called QoS, quality of service. Ah, yes. And, uh, it enabled itself by default. Of course. So it had put, uh, I think the default mode was like general or something like that. So it was like, ah, like general or something like that so it was like ah so most people don't need the full upload pipe because most people like uploading videos to facebook they're doing snapchat like five megabits

fine and it was yep hard locking to five megabits like hey try turning this feature off i'm like i don't know how this feature got turned on. Turn it off. Boop. Four hours. Issue solved. Four hours of calls. One person is like, hey, try this feature. And it's like, okay, it's done now. Yeah. Now, by intention, QoS is supposed to not do that.

Because the way that it works is that if you use your internet service for longer and you were constantly using the upload speed to upload to youtube it would eventually prioritize that traffic the issue is the policy that they're having might not be a self-adjusting policy it might just be a hardlock policy it was very yeah so it could just be prioritizing voice traffic right it was different modes there was like a streaming mode a gaming mode yeah but like the mode that was on it was was like the general basic mode. Yeah, because when you upload to YouTube, you're just doing a general upload of a file. And a lot of the general upload is actually, you know, just syncing.

And that was probably their intended use case because, you know, that's what the normal person would do. Is they only use their upload speed because, you know, they happen to be running like a cloud sync store storage or something like that which in that case the speed doesn't really matter because what you pass the initial upload you're just uploading file changes yeah the one thing i do hate about this this one thing i really fucking hate about the modem they gave us so it doesn't have a web interface to control it the web interface just gives you a couple of status things you control it with a fucking smartphone app i i cannot stand this thing is fucking terrible yeah uh i uh i briefly bought starlink uh and by briefly means that i almost immediately returned it after I realized that in order for me to make

any configuration change to that firewall I would have to call Starlink and have them change it for me there's a fun story about Starlink that I'll send you I just saw this early today oh yeah the fraud detection

yeah so anyone just listening Starlink's overzealous fraud detection. Yeah, so, anyone just listening, Starlink's overzealous fraud detection locked users out of their accounts. Now, there is, on, like, the Starlink login page, there is no, like, number to call. There's nothing. The only thing you can do

is send them a support email that they probably won't read. That is the only option you have. Well, it also depends on how new of a customer that you are. If you're a brand new customer, they might respond to it a little bit quicker. Or if you're a business, they're kind of mandated to respond a little bit quicker,

but that doesn't mean that they're going to respond any quicker. My housemate, when we were having this internet trouble was like oh let's get starlink like no we're not fucking getting starlink on a on a house i have fiber to this fucking house we're not getting we're not fucking trying out starlink there's a if there's a hardware connection that's like larger than than a phone cable you know like that good old-fashioned rj6 phone line then don't get starlink no no no just don't like there it's great if you need you have an rv like that that situation is absolutely great for something like starlink not even no it theoretically it would work but starlink geo locates you and it will hard lock to you unless you like pay them an extra fee

because you're in an rv well no i mean like they do have their rv yeah version which even then you have to like use like this you have to log into like your Starlink account portal and tell them that, hey, I'm in an RV and I'm about to move my RV every time you do that. What? Yep, that's a thing. Okay, take back what I said. You know what?

Just get a wireless hub and just accept that you won't have connections in giant portions of the country. That'll work better yeah or you know you you can either not have service or you can pay for multiple providers which uh there's a lot of rv people that actually do that they pay for both a verizon bill and an at&t bill because those are two major providers providers in the US. Verizon, if you're East Coast, AT&T if you're West Coast. If you're in the middle, you buy both.

Okay. Huh. In Australia we we don't have as much of a monopoly in that regard. You can generally get good service with everyone. It's usually in the weird in that center bit, you can generally get good service with everyone it's usually like in the weird

in like that center bit you get like really iffy service like depending on it but yeah it is australia doesn't have as like hard of a boundary as it's like you know i i understand the u.s is like this this weird non-compete between the major companies. Like, we will not encroach on your territory as long as you don't encroach on our territory sort of deal. Well, the one that happens to be in the general populace area, lawmakers aren't going to say anything. Well, they probably will, but they'll be encouraged not to. Yeah, they'll...

Look, it's just a bribe. Just call it what it is. I mean, I'm in Ohio fun fact about Ohio we literally had a a legislator go to jail for 20 years because he was accepting bribes

thanks First Energy if any of you are curious about that look up Ohio House Bill 6 and that will give you the whole story thanks cleveland.com but yeah this uh this energy this uh nuclear energy provider first energy was literally paying this guy under the table to pass legislation saying that their profitable power plants were going to fail

oh wait i'm gonna remember where i said profitable power plants it's just that they weren't as profitable as they used to be because suddenly green energy exists people are building solar panels and putting them on their houses. Wait, I'm trying to... There's a story I'm trying to find an article on that fucking... Every website's terrible. Another US politician. Oh, yeah.

That's... Okay, so when I'm talking about like representatives i'm talking about a state representative not a federal representative uh the u.s is a little weird compared to other countries because uh each state government wise almost acts like an independent country but it's not an independent country think of it like the eu, but the EU has more power in their union. Right, right. So, like, rather than, you know, suggesting that, you know, the nations have the laws, the EU law is the law. That's generally how that works. But when I'm talking about, like, a Ohio representative, I'm i'm talking about like a representative that reports

to columbus ohio which is my state's capital and like their state house and he represents not only my and he represents a portion of the state of ohio in my case being like uh our maps changed and i think it's just uh uh, my County and then like the two counties North of me. Right, right, right. Yeah. I don't make a secret of where I live.

I live, I live in Logan County, Ohio. Uh, you could, you could easily Google my name and find me because I used to be a public advocate. There's no way I'm hiding that shit anyway.

You probably can find... Like, there was some stuff a while back with a certain... What was it? Server provider. Certain server provider that had a data leak. So a lot of my stuff's out there, at least. It's some older stuff now, but you can find some stuff if you look hard enough. Yeah.

I'm sure there's been plenty of other data leaks my stuff's been in that I just never realized. I'm sure that a lot of my data is out there if you go searching enough. I have a US credit account that's older than 2014, which means that basically my entire financial record is available on like the dark web. Thanks, Experian. Wait, what's the deal there?

Oh, Experian had like that big hack where like every single person that ever had a credit record ever, because, you know, they are one of the three fundamental credit agencies in the United States, which means that they had all of your data. They just so happen to have it on the Internet on a plain text file. And they only paid like $26 million in fines for it. I'm sorry, what? I'm sorry, what? Yeah, multi-trillion dollar company posts financial records for every single person in the United States that has a record account, which is like half the population.

And their fine was like $26 million. And a lot of bad press for a year. I feel like there's a couple zeros missing from that. There are, in fact, a couple zeros missing from that. There are, in fact, a couple zeros missing from that. Fucking hell! Yep. Not only are there a couple missing zeros from that, but that company still exists.

And they are more profitable than ever. Yeah, I'm not surprised. It's fucking hell got you have a great country it is a fantastic country uh you should totally move here uh never never never mind that you know there's a very good reason to not move here that said if you if you do want to move here i will literally help you get a visa because i need employees i'm good i'm good chilling in australia where i can walk outside and there's just uh i was gonna say just some crackheads around but you guys have that as well you probably have more crackheads well my state just very recently legalized recreational

marijuana so uh yeah they're definitely outside now australia is very slow in this regard i think there's medical in like one or two states but like that's pretty much it yeah uh we we have medical here uh we just authorized uh recreational which that doesn't take effect until like next month is when that law actually takes effect, but that's not stopping anybody. Is that... Because why would... Is that, like, full legalization or just decriminalization?

Full legalization, the... And, uh, so, the way that the marijuana law works in Ohio, well, at least starting next month, is that it's literally regulated just like alcohol. Right. So, can someone open up a store, then, at least starting next month, is that it's literally regulated just like alcohol. Right. So can someone open up a store then, if they wanted to? Yeah, you can open up a store.

And you can grow the plants yourself. Because it's just like alcohol, you need a license to open up the store and distribute. But, you know, it's like a $50 fee for a license. The US is really really weird like like when you're comparing to the eu because like you have that overseer the eu that like sets major eu laws

obviously different uh countries have their own like individual things on top of that but like the fact that there are like there are states that are are fully open with just growing and selling weed, right next to states where it's very, very illegal, and you just go across the board. The fact that anything functions in that country, I don't understand. I have honestly debated for a while now, where I should just do a video where I explain how the government infrastructure works in the United States, because it is actually quite fascinating because I have the village. I have the county.

Well, I have the village. I have the township. I have the county. I have the state. I have the tri-state. And then I have the federal and then the actual federal. What is a tri-state? What does that mean?

As in there's a three state that as in for every block of three states so in my case being ohio indiana and michigan uh there is there is a subcommittee of the federal government that can manage that aha yeah we don't have enough states for that to be a thing well I've got 50 of them yeah give or take there's probably going to be a commenter that says that the tri-state representative is not a thing, it actually is

a thing, it's just that it's an executive thing not a legislative thing that's basically what it is I didn't have a clue that existed at all yeah it exists but yeah i've i've honestly debated like doing a video about that but you know like every town government works slightly different from others as well but in general there's like you have the town council and then there's a mayor and then you know there's like a judge uh they're all elected uh and then you and then you have the county you have like the

staff for the county sometimes it's council sometimes single guys other times it's like a couple guys or you know sometimes there might be just one person that does all the county functions for the entire county you know i'm sure there's like some local level governmental stuff in australia as well but here the thing about australia is no one gives a shit like when we get like local elections that come around nobody has any fucking clue who a single person on there is uh it's the same way here except that uh you know people tend to overestimate just how powerful the federal government is in the United States. When in reality, you should vote in your local election, not the federal election. If you want things to actually change.

Because Donald Trump can't do nearly as much as he claims that he can do. Because your local town representative is supposed to do that for you. Well, I think that the reason why a lot of people... Here's, I think, what the big difference is. In the US, people choose to vote. So if you're going to choose to vote... Obviously, there's people who just do it because they feel like that's what they should be doing. But if you're going out and choosing to vote,

most people at least are going to have like some even if they don't have a good understanding they're going to have at least some level of interest in it whereas in australia everybody is forced to vote so nobody fucking wants to do it yeah actually the fine for not voting isn't even that big that's the thing it's probably only like uh twenty dollars or something like that probably something set arbitrarily many years ago when the country was founded and the currency was uh not nearly as depreciated as it is nowadays you actually got it right back then you got it right on the fucking bowl it actually is twenty dollars well a hundred years ago twenty dollars was a lot of money yeah because you know, you got to think about it,

like back in the day where it was like if you worked an eight hour shift and you made a dollar a day, you were making good money. Nowadays, it's more of like just an inconvenience fee. Like you just don't want to have to go and pay.

It's like, oh, whatever. I'll fucking just go. It's not difficult to, I don't know how you guys do it, but we just have, so we have our polling day we do early voting as well for people that might be out of

the state or out of the country at that time also we don't really care about mail-in it's just like whatever mail-in's fine no one gives a shit about voting so no one's like voter fraud voter fraud voter fraud no one cares if it's discovered that someone's like burning a bunch

of ballots like okay whatever doesn't matter um but we have polling booths like everywhere like every school has a polling booth there's polling booths like just random other place like there's just polling booths everywhere It's not difficult to find a place. Yeah. I mean, it's also not difficult in the United States either. It's just by law, there has to be at least one booth per county, which a county is a sub-state of a state. So there's at least one. And then it's up to the states if there's more.

So in the case of the United States, there might be a section of a city that's in a county, and that county only has one booth to serve roughly 4 million people. Yeah, when we walk into a polling place, there's lines of booths on each one. They'll have

10 or 20 booths. It'll get there at 9 in the morning as one person in there. Yep. Same way here. But, yeah. And then, the only reason why people claim that voter fraud is an issue here is because

they don't realize that the election process for, like, counting the actual votes is actually very, very restricted and very much verified multiple times. So when they call for a recount, it's actually a giant pain in the ass. Because, so here's the thing it in in the united states when they're counting the votes i as a citizen i'm allowed to walk into the board of elections and watch them count the votes so i can watch them count the votes it's called poll watching or and uh and verification but uh there are there are parties of the united states that are convinced that there's a lot of fraud when, in fact, when there was an actual investigation and there was an actual court case and they presented their issue for fraud, the evidence that they showed was that the fraud was so minimalized that even if there was fraud, it would not have affected the actual results of the election.

Because what they would show is, they didn't show, like, massive buses of illegal immigrants voting. Instead, they showed a woman that's been voting using her husband's name since, like, the 30s, because that's what they used to do back in the 30s. Mm-hmm. So now that we've pissed enough people off... I am sure that I've frustrated at least a third of your audience.

Now that we've done that, let's scare the rest of them away and talk about some anime, because that's what you wanted to do. Yes, anime. Bad anime, good anime. I'm sure that there's going to be some bad anime takes. What takes do you think I have that are a problem? I want to talk about Free Run. Okay. Because you said that was basically mid.

No, okay. I said I felt like the first couple episodes were not that great, and now the starts involved, it's really good. Yeah, it's better. Now, what a lot of people are mistaking Freerun for is that it's not actually about Freerun. Freerun is actually about Himmel the Hero. In fact, if you go to Crunchyroll to watch your anime,

which in the united states you're probably doing that because monopoly uh you can see me in the comment comments going like this is the tale of him him of the hero he he he inspired this person to do this or his effect was so mighty he did this so uh you can find me commenting in there because in truth in the very first episode this is this is the tale of hero the himmel his might his might was so was so mighty he literally made a thousand year old uh elf cry on his passing or uh you know this is him this is the tale of himmel the hero his uh influence was so powerful that that he literally had statues built of himself.

Or, no, like his... I'm losing words right now. He was so proudful of himself that he literally built statues of himself just so he can be remembered. Yeah. Or this is the tale of him of the hero yeah he is so powerful that he inspired a mage thousands of years before he even existed to do something

so I am actively like in the Crunchyroll comments typing stuff like that up just for fun I'm waiting to see a reply I hope that if somebody has a Crunchyroll subscription and finds that comment that they give me a reply because you know i'm waiting to see a reply i hope that if somebody has a crunch roll subscription and finds that comment that they give me a reply because you know i'd love to have it i'd love to have a tale about him all there is 1400 comments on the first episode i

don't think i'm gonna find it but yeah good luck yeah i didn't think it would go too well but okay yeah i i like freerun i think it is really good i just don't don't understand why it is being hyped up as like one of i think the score has dropped on now now but like when the first episode came out it was like fucking i think it was like number three or something something insane well the biggest thing that it has going for it is that Freemantle is generic epic fantasy. Oh, it's ranked two. Yeah. It is generic epic fantasy.

It is very well done. Like, the art in the show is beautiful. Yeah. In fact, I have literally paused it, taken screenshots, and I've turned some of that stuff into desktop wallpapers because this show is that good

with just the art. And then the voice actors nail it. In the most recent episode, right there at the very end, that's like gold star voice acting right there. Perfect.

Also Free Runs the Savage. Perfect. Also, Freerun's a savage. Yeah. I really enjoyed the last episode. That was really, really good. Yeah. And they do demons, right? Like, a lot of the shows,

like, here's a demon. They have, like, this goofy thing that they do. Mm-hmm. You watch Freerun, and you're like, this, here's a demon. They have, like, this goofy thing that they do. You watch Freerun, and you're like, this is what an actual demon should be. They are just monsters, and they are pretending to be humans. That way, they can

eat humans. Yeah, that mini-arc was really... I think that's where I really decided to enjoy it. Like, for anyone who... Yeah, this is going to be spoilers. So, basically, when they get to, like, the town they're in now, there are some demons that come through,

and Freerun has basically spent, like, during her time with Him or the Hero, like, she murdered, like, tons and tons of demons. Oh, even before? Even before, yeah, sure. Like, with her, like, tons and tons of demons. Even before? Even before, yeah, sure. Like, with her introduction story as well. Like, her village was killed by a bunch of demons. But, like, she understands what they are at this point.

And for some reason, the people of this era have just gotten... I guess they've just gotten too used to peace. And they're like oh they just don't if you look at if you look at the start of the episode it's literally 80 years after the death of himmel so it's at least it's at least 100 years since the demon king's been defeated that's fair that's fair yeah and basically yeah the the demons have they have no no like empathy no human emotion but they're able to emulate it really well and sort of make it seem like they do in a way that convinces a lot of people that they can be reasoned with when in reality it's basically like trying to reason with fire like

it's not gonna happen. It's just gonna burn you. Good luck. Yeah. But, uh, the- Honestly, it is also just a good generic fantasy anime, which, it's been a while since we've had just generic fantasy. Because a lot of it's been, like, isekai.

A lot of it's been isekai, yeah. Which, uh which uh you know people are saying that this isn't an isekai uh but so uh isekai is its own genre isekai is not really a genre it's a trope there's a difference that's yeah i think it it's become i don't know it's one of those things where even even though you are right, it is a trope, there are so many things that sort of get attached with isekai that it kind of became its own genre. There are some shows where it's just like, why is this even an isekai? I mean, Far Away Paladin?

Does that really have to be an isekai? I stopped watching it. Yeah. I have to be an isekai I stopped watching it yeah I have to rewatch the first season because I don't know what's going on in the very first episode of the second season so I kind of stopped watching that one and I told myself I need to go back and watch the first

season because I remember like the show actually being decent I don't remember it being like awesome or good yeah yeah yeah but i remember being decent so it's work it's on the watch list i'm just not actively keeping up with it this season i always like to go check on uh what like mal rates things because i know mal has absolutely no taste 6.85 for the first season which is basically a zero yeah mal works off a four point scale anything below a seven is basically the worst thing ever

yeah uh and then same thing with like rising of the shield hero that's uh on his third season which supposedly the third season is actually really good it's just that the second seat the second season had such a bad start to it okay i hit give me one second i'll give me one second i need i need to show you something oh he's got a shield he's got a shield guys does he have a shield oh does he have the light novels this guy's true weeb trash i just the shows he he watches like he he actually reads the novels in mangas holy crap oh you have the whole thing i i just grabbed a bunch of them from the middle uh is that all Shield Hero? It's not all of Shield Hero, but yes, this is all Shield Hero.

This is... Alright. What is it? Goes up to volume 15 here. So, I like Shield Hero, as you can tell. Now, the part... Oh, I dropped one. I dropped an ore.

Okay. Let's see. So, the part from... Yeah one i dropped more okay let's let's see uh so the part from yeah here we go here's there's season two volumes yeah now the problem i don't know what the fuck they were doing with the pacing that that part of it definitely seemed a little messed up that part of the the light novel i fucking love when. When I knew they were doing a season two and we were gonna see that stuff being adapted, I was so excited. I don't know what the fuck they did to ruin that. Like, that is one of my favorite parts of the series. But then the anime came out, and it wasn't anymore. Yeah, I heard somewhere where it's just, like, even the author wasn't, like, the biggest fan of, like, that specific arc, and was kind of confused as to why they even put it in the anime.

Mm-hmm. I remember reading that. I don't really know for certain. Well, then when it got to the end, they skipped an entire volume just to get the, um, get the town set up quicker. Yeah. Which, you know, it's an anime they have to make concessions somewhere. It's just that these are a little questionable. I haven't read the light novels or

read the manga, so I don't actually know. I think what they're doing this season, they are going real fast this season, but I don't know why it feels better like where where where where is it oh yeah there we go that's you got out love there well what at learn fall and yeah that's yeah that actually that's that's... Actually, that's the Aquarium.

That's the dragon we're gonna see in a couple of episodes. Spoiler, I guess. But, like, they went through Sedina's... Sedina's... Volume in, like, a fucking episode. Like, can't they do, like, two episodes? Bear in mind, for clarity's sake, I haven't watched all of season two.

I kind of just dropped it because you know it it i mean that's season three this is season three yeah oh we're on season three okay i haven't watched season three yet because i have yet to complete season two season three is so much better than season two they've like upped the animation quality they've somehow fixed everything but that was wrong because. I also had a problem with season one. Season one was so badly paced. Season one was badly paced, but

I honestly think that the first season of Shioda Hero for the non-reader is amazing. The very first episode was definitely a drastic change. It is a very rough change if you're sensitive. But that is a banger of an opening episode.

Yeah, it was really good. The only thing that... The only gripe that I have is that he wasn't bad guy shield hero for very long. I would have liked to see him fall more. Yeah, that's okay. He's now a good guy. Everything's good guy from now on. Yeah, and, you know, they call it a shield hero,

so of course he's going to rise and be the good guy all of a sudden. He rose to be the shield hero. No, I think episode one was incredibly good. My problem is there was a lot more time spent between Nafumi and a bunch of books. So, um, now for me and rough Talia, when, when she was young and like getting to know each other, cause it kind of felt like, oh, like rough Talia, we meet now, now we're like rough Talia. It's like, no, we're really close.ia, we meet, now we're, like, Rav Talia, like, we're really close. Like, that just, like,

jumped, basically, straight away. There was, like, an entire volume. That was interesting, where it's, like, you're watching a single episode, and, you know, she's young, and then the very next episode she's basically, like, young adult. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they just casually mention, oh, yeah, when they gain experience, so

they tend to show their age, get older as their age, oh yeah, when they gain experience, they tend to get older as their age. And then like the second, I think the second season, she was back to being a little kid. It was when I dropped in and he found her. And then I was reading. I read the comments and that was,

and the commenters didn't like it. Yeah, with season two, they completely changed the way that segment worked. I don't know what they did. They, like... So, the thing with Shield Hero as well is there are certain segments

of the light novel, of the series that have been just entirely rewritten on each different adaptation. Like, the light novel is different from the web novel, it's different from the manga, it's different from the web novel is different from the manga is different from the anime so i don't think the author is entirely sure how he wants like certain segments to play out that's awkward so i don't know i think maybe i should be buying the books maybe uh what what what else are you watching what what other what other bad takes do you need to correct me on uh let's see let's see let's see

i uh apothecary diaries is somewhat mid i'm not watching it i've heard it's good okay animation wise very well done plot wise very well done character wise a little bit on the low end the best character is the main character cause you know she's actually down on earth

all the other characters mid to bad mid to bad mid to bad by the way attack on titan is still very mid I agree 100% I watched that final episode here's a hot take I can agree on

do you watch the final episode I have not watched the final episode yet because you know here's the thing about attack on titan i never i've never watched it on time i tend to just you know leave it sit and then maybe i'll get around to it eventually so i i only just started the first season of the final season i watched the final episode the day it came out. I was like... Yeah, don't be afraid to spoil it, because I just don't care. So... Did you want me to just...

I can just spoil it. Just go right ahead, man. So, Eren's not actually a bad guy. So, it turns out that he... He had, like, conversations with all of like his friends beforehand about like what his plan was but then he deleted their memory and it was only going to come back after he after he was killed by them um of course so the reason why he tried to genocide the entire planet and successfully genocided like 95% of the planet was so that he could become the villain so that para- what the

fuck was- what the fuck's the island called? Paradise? Paradiso? What the fuck? Whatever it's called. The island- the Titan Island so that no one would attack them because they would be seen as like the heroes they're the heroes that saved the world from the evil attack Titan so he genocided most of the planet

for that reason that's his entire yeah let's pull out our Lelouch our let's pour our Lelouch please let's let's not bring Lelouch back yeah I'll do that again yeah I don't watch season two of Kodagias ever because it is not worth it it's great don't know okay good nah what are you talking about season one perfectly fine don't watch season two if you if you love season one if you love season one don't watch

season two if you're that curious and it is bothering you to watch season two then go ahead and watch season two just remember that as soon as you watch season two, season one is ruined. I watched it so long ago, I enjoyed it back when I watched it. Yeah. I guarantee that you won't get nearly as much enjoyment out of season one now. See, here's what I've realized. I stop giving a shit if something is good.

See, I watch absolute absolute garbage and i'm like you know what turn my brain off it's fine like i'm watching a series this season called uh toad or son which is about a dude who plays an mmo it's basically an isekai it's it's an isekai mmo series but he's not actually an isekai. He's just playing a VR mmo And if you don't if you don't know what it's called it's called Shangri-La frontier. That's also really good That's actually one of the best things there is right now. This is a different one isn't it? No, this is trash Shangri-La frontier is actually good Anyone not watching Shangri-La Frontier should be watching it uh yes

I haven't watched episode 2 yet but I've watched episode 1 and I agree you're not go fucking catch up on Shangri-La Jesus Christ I've got a backlog alright yeah I've got a backlog as well nah so

I've got a backlog I'm currently working through arknights so the um you know the characters you see in the opening like the purple hair girl and the blonde like it it's just getting now to the point where people are teaming up like the next episode is going to be like when they start teaming up to like go do shit together but man some of the first some of the fights in this series have been like the one thing i don't like about mmo anime is as someone who plays mmos there's some things where i'm just like no sane fucking person would design this into a game yeah like the only one that I think really did like MMO mechanics right

was the very first season of Log Horizon that's yep I'll agree with that yeah yeah that's the only MMO anime that actually did things right which by the way did you know after the season four of that show so what he didn't know

nobody knows that's that log horizon has a season four wait i watched wait no there's not the season three there there's a fourth season. I'm not seeing one. Eh? Are you sure? Yes. I need some details here, because everyone's saying whether it be season four or what.

Here's the thing about season four, right? It's been recorded it's been produced it even aired in japan they have been promising hinting that they're going to release it to like the rest of the world uh but are you sure because i'm sure someone would have should have would have i am i'm sure i'm sure because I actually have a friend in Japan that's watched it. Uh, I'm not seeing any... I- I feel like your friend's lying to you. I'm- I'm not seeing any details on this, and I'm sure there would be someone who's, like...

We get simulcasts of bait, like... People sub shit straight away. I promise you, it does exist. I don't think it does. I don't think it does. Unless I can see evidence. Ev evidence of that being the case uh i'm gonna i'm gonna say that i'm gonna set your friends probably memeing wouldn't be the wouldn't be the first time somebody's mean mean me but uh you know this this one i this one i I do believe because I want to

believe because that show is secretly good yeah season 2 was a bit of a downer but I honestly think that the show is actually good and it's probably worth the watch you know no see I think Log Horizon is really good I don't remember any Log Horizon is one of those series that has a few too many characters

season 1 was easy to follow because it's just like the main group and then when it's like you have all these different sub-parties doing all this It's like when I watch Have you ever seen a certain scientific railgun? No, so Magical Index

Index is the Index by the time it gets to World War III, I'm like, what the fuck is happening? Hang on a second. Okay. Hang on a second. What the fuck's he doing?

I might have an obsession. Yeah, yeah. When I watched the latest season of Index whenever it fucking came out like 3 or 4 years ago I'm like who are half these characters I don't know who any of you are the hard thing

about that season of Index is that the only way it actually makes sense is if you watch all of the content I've watched all of it i just don't remember most of it the the biggest issue that it has is that they went with a very very very fast pace and that's why you don't remember anybody that makes sense because every single one of those characters you can re-watch everything go like oh that's where that

character came from i'm sure if it were a rewatch, it would make sense. Yeah. Yeah. And the issue with it is that they said that they're not going to make a new season of Index. Depending on Blu-ray sales for Railgun. Right, right, right. So they're kind of hard limiting it. Which, honestly, I think that Railgun is actually the better show. I like Railgun. In index itself. I do think Railgun's better.

Yeah. I might have been... I might have declared Misako a waifu at one point. I have better waifus these days, but Misako was the original waifu. Mm-hmm. So, okay. Is there anything else seasonal? What is your full list of seasonal things?

My full list of seasonal things right now? Ark Knights. Actually a good show. I'll take your word for it. Yeah. So, if you watch Arkknights the premise is a little weird because it's based off of it's basically just like fire emblem because it's based off of a video game called arknights yeah it's basically just like it's just like fire emblem where it's

just like you play your character. The main protagonist of Arknights is you are the strategist that runs the party. The premise is a little weird, but it kind of just comes together and actually makes sense into an actually decent show.

Not like anime of the season, but pretty right fair enough uh of course i'm watching freerun uh i'm not watching dr stone because you know i never really enjoyed it really uh yeah i i'm not i'm not a big senku fan because you know uh i it doesn't make sense that some of the things that he does is just like he just magically knows exactly what to do it's great that it's great at portraying him as like this genius character

but it's just like can he please have like something that he actually has to spend an episode figuring out no every character is a trope that's what's great about it like Taiju is just like strong man every single character is just an extreme trope yeah uh goblin slayer of course going to be once again anime of the season

i am not watching it not because goblin say is bad because i never got around to watching the movie and i need to sit down sit down watch it and then catch up with the episodes that i'll get around to probably soon-ish. I love Goblin Slayer. I haven't watched it. Of course I'm watching One Piece because I haven't missed a single episode of One Piece in over 20 years now.

Now, I am watching One Piece, right? But I am not up to modern One Piece. That's fine. I am currently watching the fight with Crocodile. That is fine. I am currently watching the fight with Crocodile. That is fine. Yeah. Okay. Alabasta.

So when you're watching One Piece, and you get up to... I read the whole cake, feel free to spoil anything. Okay, you read the whole cake. Well, when you anything. Okay, you read the whole cake? Well, when you get to Punk Hazard, that's when you stop, take a break, come back, and then binge watch it 20 episodes at a time. Because, believe it or not, that's the best way to watch One Piece,

is to binge watch One Piece. You don't just sit back and watch a single episode yeah yeah yeah there's a reason why i don't watch one piece every single week when i say i don't miss an episode means that i sit back for like a month and i watch four episodes in a row right because that is the best way to watch one piece yeah yeah because uh they they stretch it out so they stretch it when it comes to that point they they start to stretch the it out so... When it comes to that point, they start to stretch the episodes out so long that you can sit back, watch an episode,

and feel like nothing happened. That's why I read the whole cake. I read the whole cake when Whole Cake was current. Yeah. And I was like, I can't do this. It's not happening. Yeah. So, honestly, I think that you should watch One Piece.

But just remember that the best way to watch One Piece is to binge watch it. Yeah. And it's a very sad day when you get caught up. Because then you realize... Nothing happens. I mean, yeah, there's the occasional episode. And then, you know, like, you're going through the current arc. And then they make a reference to, like, the actual overwhelming plot concerning the world government.

And you're just like, mind blown! Well, I've seen, Crunchyroll's really good at posting spoilers, so I've seen, like, all the Joy Boy stuff that's happening. Yeah. There are episodes, like, individual episodes like that, but it's very rare. Oh, no. Like, as, like, a person that hasn't read One Piece, I was very disappointed that we're, like, one day I googled One Piece. And then ever since then, my YouTube feed has been nothing but One Piece content. Spoiling Gear 5 before Gear 5 was actually revealed. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

And, like, thanks, YouTube. Yeah, I know about that in the manga as well. So, yeah. And when they get to it in the anime, they drag it out so freaking long. Can we just get this done and over with already, please?

Gear 5 is amazing. I don't think it was dragged out as long as Super Saiyan, though. It was not dragged out nearly as long as Super Saiyan, no. Because, believe it or not, Dragon Ball Z would not pass the modern day test. That's why Kai existed. Yep. Let's see, let's see.

Spy Family. Of course. The thing about Spy Family, i don't have anything to say about spy family because it is literally just season one but more of it and that's okay i have no yes we we want that yeah that's exactly what we want to do no changes yep in fact you can go to cruncher or watch a clip see all the characters do things that characters are doing and they're doing the exact same things. If you show me an episode in season one

or an episode in season two, I don't know where it is. Unless... Unless Bon... Unless... The fucking dog's in there? That's the only thing that will give me any indication of where it is. Anything else, I don't know where it is. That's it.

That's it. That doesn't mean this show is bad. No, it's right. Because they do it really, really, really well. It didn't have to change anything. It was perfect. Just keep it perfect. So what the show is, is that it establishes the characters,

and then it throws the character into the situation. And the character almost always reacts exactly to the situation as you've been grown to expect a character to react to this situation. There's no surprises, but that's not a bad thing because it is fantastic. They do a good job. Absolutely.

Let's see. Eminence and Shadow. Because, you know... Yes. So you've seen the latest episode you've seen the uh dealing with I have seen them digging the holes I like

okay this I think might be Shadow's biggest being a fucking idiot situation he forgot that he gave the message to beta yep he's like how do they know

he doesn't even know they have the gold yet well the reason why he wrote the message was just to get them to go away he says it so why would he remember about it I don't think he ever expected betaates to be able to translate it. That's the thing. Yeah.

The best part is that all these characters are super not aware of Sid. And that is the best part about the show. Because, okay, so, like, the show, without Sid, our main character, the show would actually be pretty decent but the fact that they're injecting this guy that's just like trying to pretend to be this other guy and he's doing a fantastic job of it is the best part because i honestly think that his power is not necessarily like his magical power i think he has a secret power where if he imagines things they're real well that's the theory that people have with the uh with the with the light novel people were initially thinking like the entire series

was just a dream which would be that'll be that'll be the biggest shit post imagine it's like i used to wake up from a coma bye end of the series now yeah that i mean that would probably make sense i i would not be surprised to see that happen from a coma. Bye. End of the series now. Yeah, that, I mean, that would probably make sense. I would not be surprised to see that happen, but it would be hilarious all the same. Like, I don't even know, like, this series

just does whatever the fuck it wants. I'm just like, okay, I just accept it. And they're doing a good job of it. Yeah. Yeah, it's just, come with any bullshit i'm fine with it it's all good yep uh and then i'm watching the rurouni kenshin remake because i'm hoping that they actually do a good job of it i've never seen rurouni kenshin so i'd okay so if you watch the original rurouni kenshin it stops after the big final arc of like episode 45 even there's like

97 episodes every single episode after that is just filler uh yeah yeah but it's a fantastic show and definitely worth the watch just remember that when he kills the big bad guy don't watch any more episodes it's done after that He was the big bad guy. Don't watch any more episodes. It's done after that. That said, that said, of course, there are the issues with the author. And as a result, there's a lot of people just refusing to watch the show because author.

Which I think. It's either Treesicle or Bonsai Pop has an amazing video about it. Like, if you go to YouTube and you type in Rurouni Kenshin, you'll find their videos, because he's got the most popular videos about it. But I'm watching the show because I think it's a good show. Yeah, and it has not proven me wrong so far. It is still a good show. Under Ninja, great. Yes yes under ninja is fucking legendary i yes legendary i put this show on my list i have zero expectations about i just

read the description like okay whatever it's giving me something dumb what the fuck is this series this actually is one of the best things i've seen all year i don't understand like it's like okay let me just explain one plot point in under ninja so there is a homeless crackhead who lives in the park who drinks breast milk and The kids that play in the park call him Mr. Breast milk, okay? And he keeps offering everybody breast milk now turns out the homeless crackhead is not actually a homeless crackhead the homeless crackhead is actually a ninja wearing a full bodysuit and inside is like this like this leader of the ninjas like running this small like small part of the ninja clan and

In this world ninjas are just like a normal part of Japanese society, but everyone accepts you just don't talk about them normal part of Japanese society but everyone accepts that you just don't talk about them so there's just crazy shit happening everywhere and everyone's like nope nope we're gonna talk nope it's fine don't worry about that and then

there's this Russian dude the Russian the Russian dude who comes to Japan he's like I will be I will become ninja every little sign he sees he's like okay this will be i will become ninja any every sight little sign he sees he's like okay this must be a sign from the ninja and it's like if you pee on if you pee on my street i'll cut your dick off okay so if i cut three guys dicks off they will let me become ninja it's like what are you talking about? You fucking psycho.

And then there's the whole plot point with, like, the main character's not even the main character. He's just, like, not even in the latest episode. He's just, like, going to the other character. I don't even care. And you know what? That was one of my favorite things about, like, Durarara, if you remember that one. Because, you know, every character in that show happens to be the main character, by the way. You just don't realize it until after the main

character's gone for, like, four episodes in a row. That's actually a really good comparison. Yeah. Because that series has all of these different plot points going on at the same time that don't make any fucking sense until, like, 12 episodes later. And that has the same feel here. Like, a lot of shit's going on that's all like linking back into each other now uh that's the

kind of show that when you watch it you're probably best off taking notes like actually like this is where i last saw this week yeah uh it is kind of disgusting that's why you take notes yeah because uh i am currently reading this fantastic fantasy series called the wheel of time and they do something very similar in that book and I have decided I'm going to pick up the notebook and start recording character names and locations

because there's a lot of characters in that book too and I don't necessarily remember where I last seen them all yeah good luck with that in that book too and i don't necessarily remember they all were i last seen them all yeah yeah that's good luck with that yeah i'm i'm working through it uh i am now for like non-seasonal i am watching the legend of the galactic heroes because you know i love space operas politics uh if you love if you love a thinking man show that is is the show to watch. I don't. Yeah.

I like turning my brain off. Yeah, I mean, you can turn the brain off, but this one is just legitimately good, and I recommend it. I have watched the Mushoku Tensei, and I have, in fact, cheered for the main protagonist at the end of the season,

because, you know, he finally got it up yes we had an entire season about that I do have a bunch of light novels of that on my shelf as well not as many I love Michelle Kutensei so much I'm waiting for the current season

of Tony Kawa to finish I think it might be because you know I really enjoyed the first season because thaticawa to finish i think it might be because you know i really enjoyed the first season because that that's a bit of a trash show actually speaking of trash shows you know do you know what's really trashy what's that which one is that i don't know the japanese uh uh what let me find the english name i live in in America, so I only get the English name. You only speak American. The English name is...

Where's the English name? The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You. Oh, I have heard about that one. Watch it. It's fucking trash. I imagine it is. Is it like every new episode introduces a new girlfriend that absolutely has to love them?

So, the anime's only gonna have the first five. Yeah. But I checked on, so this is one of those series where I'm like, surely they don't commit to the bit. They commit to the bit. They commit. I went to the wiki, and the wiki currently lists out

his 26 girlfriends. Now, the fun thing about this series is each of the girls is, like, an extreme trope. So, the first girl's introduced is, like, this big boob girl who's just, like, super horny all the time, who's introduced alongside this, like,

the most generic tsundere like ever like tsundere textbook level tsundere hang on they're testing the siren right now so give it a minute there's a tornado siren

that they test every Friday about this time and it's currently going off so like if i talk quite a bit here you might hear in the background i i can barely hear it like oh okay okay it kind of sounds like fans on the background yeah yeah it's going to get a little bit louder here yeah and then it's going to get quieter uh quieter as it points away because it's one of those spinning sirens oh yeah it'll go for like a minute or two something like that they said they test it every friday that also tells me that it's also my reminder on friday is to go to bed what time is it for you it's like 11 no it's noon 12 yeah it's

12 yeah it's noon god imagine being noon it's uh 3 30 in the morning yeah uh i i honestly think that time zones are bullshit they need to be abolished and everybody just needs to use utc that way you know i can actually schedule phone calls with like my my uh chinese support staff that live in china see i've i've mentioned this before. Not make it ridiculous. But, you know, I actually have said this, but then people are like, oh, but does that mean, like, fucking 8am is gonna be midnight somewhere? Like, yes.

Yes. Yeah. Yes. That's fine. And it's only a bad thing if you care. Now, if you're a system admin, now, if you're managing, like, international phone calls, then you would absolutely agree with both of us.

Absolutely. Just everyone operate on Unix time. Just send people... Send people a Unix timestamp for when you want to schedule something. That's what you need to do. Oh, I should do that. If I'm ever on the next episode, I should just give you the time in Unix

format and let you figure that shit out yeah it's not a bad idea honestly because half the time when I ask them what their time zone is they're like oh it's a I don't know fucking they're like I don't know MDT

and it's like no you're not in MDT right now you don't need fucking daylights they'll know the daylight savings or the not daylight savings form but they never know like which one they're actually in like can you like just know your goddamn time zone to be fair i don't remember i just go to i just convert it every time well i i have been trying to like uh in like my live streams i've been trying to give like the utc time yeah yeah because you know that makes sense because i have a fairly large european audience and i'm sure that they appreciate when i give them the time in utc rather than

eastern time which which is minus four utc yeah i usually try to give like a couple of times like if you go UTC and then I don't know like MP or EST or anything like that that's enough to cover most people yep let's let's see what else am I watching

let's see i mentioned to mention that uh whatever happened to my hero academia why is nobody talking about it anymore uh there's no season right now it's it's we're waiting on the final season well i i have seen that there's a season five and season six but i haven't watched them and i haven't heard anybody talk about them. Like, has the show gone bad? It's very... So,

the appeal of My Hero early on was it was something different. And then, it's like... It's... You know how Spy Family is the same, but you don't care? My heroes like that, but you do care. I see, I see. And, like, I don't know.

I like it personally, but once again, I just turned my brain off. I'm just like ooh sparkly colors big punch so then I shouldn't tell you that I think that Sword Art Online is actually a somewhat decent show no I love Sword Art Online it's fucking incredible I think

so here's my hot take here's my hot take Sword Art Online is an amazing show until Kirito does Kirito. Uh-huh. Which, if you don't know what I mean, is my favorite season of Sword Art Online

has been the most recent one. Oh, when he was in a coma. When he was in a coma, and he was trapped in the virtual world, and he didn't know who he was until it got to the end of that arc and then suddenly he remembered who he was and now the whole show is ruined i because the the show is at its peak when kirito isn't being kirito so i read all the light novels up until War of Underworld,

back when that was like, that's the latest arc the anime's done. I honestly think the introduction set, this is how fucking weird SAO is. I think the best part of SAO is when Yujiro and Kirito were cutting the tree. That is unironically the best part of the entire series. And in the light of it, there was an entire volume of them just cutting the tree. And it's incredible.

Because it's the one part of the series... This could have happened with Klein, but it didn't. Klein just got sidelined because he wanted to be a solo player this is the one part of the series where Kirito interacts with another guy and actually like forms a friendship with someone he's not

trying to fuck yeah and it's great I support that venture and I wish that they explored it more in the anime yeah but you know the anime they did a good job of like showing their friendship with each other and i i honestly really enjoyed that my here's my hot take uh i feel like the sort of part before war of underworld that should have been 50 episodes. There was so much stuff cut out.

When they were still at the sword school, there was a tournament arc that vanished. Didn't show up. Oh, I didn't even know that was that. But, you know, for what I got as the anime-only watcher, because

I watch animes. I don't read the novels or anything like that because you know they're kind of hard to get here in the united states even though you can buy them off of amazon pretty cheap uh you don't necessarily always get the latest right not not for a little bit sure sure but uh you know i think that for what we got in the anime, it made sense. Everything that they went through. I wish that they stretched out the first half

of Alicization. I do agree with you that they probably should have spent more time with that because I really, really, really enjoyed Kirito before he did Kirito things. Kirito things as in he suddenly realizes that he has a second sword yeah basically and becomes like overpowered and just dominates his opponent

that's that's basically what i mean uh so i i i really enjoyed that bit and uh the show does kind of fall off when that happens and i don't necessarily enjoy those moments of the show but i still think that overall each each and every season of sword art online that we've gotten has actually been pretty good i think i think look i will agree with people that the um the original alfheim arc is not super great no no i mean it's a bit lower overall because we went from like dark fantasy to happy fun time fantasy yeah yeah yeah i don't agree with i don't agree this terrible i just think it's it's definitely a low um but coming back to Alphame with the

Mother's Rosario arc is real. That is actually my favorite volume of the light novel. It's really good. Yeah, it was a fantastic watch too. It felt a little rushed in some spots for the anime. It was...

In that part of the anime, they adapted a story they forgot to adapt so this is the fun thing the sword that Kirito has like he has the fucking Excalibur or something at that point they forgot to adapt that part when they adapted um uh when they adapted Alfheim originally so they had to like throw it in there somewhere, otherwise that part just wouldn't make any sense. They could have retconned it, because it doesn't matter after that point.

But yeah, they had to move some shit around, otherwise it kind of just fell apart. Okay, okay. Oh! Another show that I am watching, and it is currently airing this season, is the Pokemon anime pokemon horizons i'm not watching it um i was watching journeys and i haven't finished it but i i've haven't

heard anything about horizons is it okay good horizons is japan only but thankfully using a certain uh cli application that you've done a video on in the past you can watch it but uh okay but the show i honestly think is the best anime original airing this season like hands down original anime because uh they were doing the great thing of putting together a show that's not specific to a single region. Because that's what they've done before. Well, that's what Journeys was as well. Yeah, and I haven't watched Journeys because I wasn't watching it. Yeah, fair enough.

I figured that there's a brand new anime coming out, new protagonists and everything. I'll give it a try I enjoy Liko I do enjoy her character I think that bear in mind this is a show that's slightly aimed at children

so yes you're going to get like those character development in every single episode go like hey this is the theme of this episode this is how we develop it this is how this is how we pass it but uh the the storyline is actually i mean it's fairly basic i'll be honest with you because you know like i said it's intended for children but the way that they present it and the way that they go through it it's i think that it's probably the best pokemon uh video content

that we've gotten from them is it better than the games i don't necessarily know i mean the game storylines are a little mid in the in the current generation i think that i still think that the sun and moon still had the best storyline in Pokemon. Let's go to Hawaii. With the anime, they've been trying a lot of different things since X and Y. X and Y, they were like, let's just up the battle animation

through the roof. There were some incredible fight scenes in X and Y, and I highly recommend anyone who... So, you know how... If you, if you think back on how Pokemon was when you watched as a kid, like, you think it was a lot, like, well, a lot better animated than it was, and you realize, like, it's not, it's actually terrible, um, X and Y is what you thought it looked like, like, it looked really, really, really good, uh, they make use of a lot of,

um, 3Dd backgrounds allowing for like really dynamic camera movement actually they're really obsessed with camera movement every time they go into a gym they do a fucking like sweep around the entire gym it's like just to show the fact they have a 3d camera now um then sun and moon they changed the art style and tried to go this more like they tried to go like a more comedy style and i think it worked pretty well journeys was the first time they tried to do like the cross region thing like it was obviously focused it started focused around um sword and shield obviously but then it was like the first episode was about lugia that is like oh yeah lugia is here for some reason why not

who cares uh and horizons are like you know what let's try a new protagonist and i think that they needed to do something there because especially with how horizons ends like horizons uh like ash beats like the he beats the um the the main gym the the the big champion guy in Sword and Shield who's supposed to be the best trader in the world so it's like where do you go from there like you beat the best trader like you're the Pokemon

master now like go away we need a new protagonist yeah and I'm glad that Ash finally got a W at the very end he deserves it he spent way too long he did technically win the league in Sun and Moon.

But in Sun and Moon, they didn't have a league. So the league was made because Ash came to the region, and like, let's just have random people do the league. It's the exact same thing in a video game, too. Let's see, one that I watched from like last season uh that you know they helped they kind of kind of fell into like uh development hell then they just dumped the last six episodes

on us at once uh near automata i i was playing the game when the anime came out the the game okay the the show caused caused me to spend money and buy every single Yoko Taro game. But I'm all on Steam because, you know, I really enjoyed the show. You are funding his sadism. I have this love-hate relationship with Yoko Taro. He...

The games he makes are designed to hurt you, but you play them and you enjoy them. Yeah. I have finished Nier Automata. I actually finished it just a few weeks ago. Wait, so like all the playthroughs? Like full on finish?

So you've seen the disgusting credits ending? Yes. Where there's like the bullet hell where it makes you hate your entire being yes uh i absolutely hated it so absolutely hated it that i okay i hated that when i was doing it then i hated it more when i realized how it actually works when it like asks you to delete your save to like help other people that's bullshit that's bullshit because they've got these um they've got seed saves in there that don't get deleted, that were made by the devs. Because otherwise the system wouldn't work. Like, it just would not work

because you wouldn't have enough people finishing the game and deleting their saves to make the system function. Yep. And I'm glad that the show went with a unique ending. That makes sense. A unique ending of the first playthrough. I'm glad that they did that and they didn't the first a unique ending of the first playthrough

i'm glad that they did that and they didn't go down the rabbit hole of all the alternative endings right but i'm glad that they kind of teased at some of the other endings well that's a very near thing to do like i i've been meaning to go back and actually play through some of like i want to go back and play through nearier. I want to go play the... What's the other one that got a remake? Replicant. Yeah, Replicant, which is

a remake of the original Nier. That's one that I... That's the next game on my video game list, but I'm going to for a different genre of video game to play for a minute. I just need to figure out which one I want to play. I need to finish Yakuza first.

Here's my thing with video games, right? I have a Steam library of video games. I don't play all of them at once. I play one game, and I play just that one game, and that's what I do. Because I am not what you call a gamer because

you know my gaming is uh dungeons and dragons and warhammer this one's not painted yet those are my games i'm a tabletop gamer. I'm not necessarily a video gamer. Those are the games I play, and as a result, I don't take time on the video games. Mostly because, you know, I just bought a brand new army and I need to paint it.

Never paint. Just leave them unpainted uh technically not allowed in tournaments yeah yeah well i should just pay somebody else to paint them for me oh you could do that yes i could do that in fact rates are actually pretty reasonable surprisingly yeah but you know Yeah. But, you know, I have more fun in building the models and painting them rather than actually playing the game. That's fair. Yeah. By the way, the best way to play Warhammer is to

actually not play Warhammer. You just play one-page rules. Because it's a funner system to play. You actually get to trade turns rather than have one person move his entire army for one turn taking 40 minutes of your time. Yeah, no.

I see the issue. Yeah. Warhammer. Fantastic universe. The game system at the time that it came out is a lot better because the only other game system prior to that was chain mail was uh basically the other popular rule set which uh chain mail has its rough edges and it was intended for larger larger armies where you

were dealing with hundreds of miniatures rather than a hundred miniatures or like uh miniatures that represented it represented a thousand different miniatures right right right and and stuff like it got a little convoluted there towards the end well i i i i words yeah that was words are hard words are hard we should probably end this off because we've gone way over two hours now it's like closing in on two and a half hours I'm sorry

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