Tech Over Tea - Fedora Codecs, M1 GPU Drivers & Burnout | Solo

Episode Date: October 5, 2022

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Good morning, good day, and good evening. Welcome to episode 130-something-or-other. Probably 135? Yes. My name is, as always, Brodie Robertson. I was going to say, my name is always your host. Whatever. If you've watched this show for long enough, you know that I cannot do my intros, and I never redo them. And today, I am doing something that I haven't done, I think, in, it's gonna be like two months at this point.

Maybe, I don't know, when was the last time I did a solo episode? That's what I'm doing. I'm doing a solo episode, not because I can't find a guest to do this week. I was thinking of having Christian from the Digital Life on this week. I'm doing that next week now because I just wanted to do a solo episode to talk about just whatever I want to talk about. It's been

a while since I've had like, I've given myself a chance to do a solo episode and I enjoy them. It's kind of like this nice, it's this weird live stream sort of training so when you do a solo live stream for example and you're not doing a solo live stream with a really populated chat you need to keep the stream entertaining somehow what's a better way to keep the stream entertaining than practice by literally not having a chat there and going for

like an hour, an hour and a half, however long, maybe two hours, however long I end up going for. Look, I've somehow managed to make it this far and I'm not going to stop anytime soon. But something I wish would stop sometime soon is there have been so many issues going on with Linux, like, not just as of the past couple of weeks, but, like, past month, maybe even two months at this point, there's just been a lot of just, you know, the grub issue, then last week I was talking about some, like, distro derivative build issues, then there have been, like, other issues with Arch, and then issues with Manjaro like other issues with Arch and then issues with Manjaro and issues with that and issues with that. And the thing that just happened literally

yesterday as of recording this was the whole Fedora codec situation. I really hope that by the time you guys are seeing this, this has all been dealt with, it's all blown over, they've taken the correct response here and actually, you know, did something sensible. From the initial reporting I saw and initial discussions and what I've discussed with what I've, like, what the people involved in Red Hat Fedora have told me, it seems like it's going to turn out pretty well. So for anyone who somehow, you know, missed that whole situation, basically the gist is Red Hat is pretty much the owner of Fedora, and Red Hat is a US-based company.

So being a US-based company, they have to, you know, respect US law, US patent law, and things like this. Specifically US patent law in this case. So for the longest time, and pretty much every distro under the sun does this, Fedora shipped in their Mesa package support for the H.264, H.265 and VC1 codecs. Only decode on VC1 and encode and decode on all of the others. About five months ago, I want to say, five months or so ago back in April,

the Mesa project added the ability, by the same guy who actually made this new thing in Fedora, added the ability to disable these proprietary codecs because that's what H.264, H.265, and VC1 are. They are proprietary, licensable codecs, I guess you would say, owned by MPEG-LA. And that's also a US-based company.

I want to say they're in Colorado and Red Hat's a North Carolina- North Carolina. North Carolina-based company. So what Red Hat and what Fedora have been worried about is because they are shipping this patent support, this codec support, that if MPEG-LA wanted to, they could decide, we're just going to be a copyright troll

and we can, say, pay up the license fees. that if MPEG-LA wanted to, they could decide, we're just going to be a copyright troll, and we can, say, pay up the license fees. And they'd pretty much be in the right by doing... Not they wouldn't be, like, morally in the right, but legally, they'd probably have the right to do that. Because if you want to use any of these codecs, you do need to go and pay a license fee. So this isn't the case for other codecs like VP8, VP9, and AV1. These are codecs developed, I want to say they're all developed by Google. I know V8 and V9 are. I'm not sure

about AV1. I presume it is because it is also being used on YouTube. AV1 is developed by the Alliance for Open Media. Okay. It is not developed by Google, but who works on the Alliance for Open Media? Could Google be on that committee? Let's see. How do I developers... Wait, members?

View our member organizations. Okay, here we go. Google is... Okay, there we go. Google is, okay, there we go. Google is one of the founding members, but various other companies are involved as well, like Amazon, Netflix. I don't know why ARM's involved. I totally understand Google, Netflix, and Amazon, because AV1 is a video codec, but I don't understand many of the others. And then promoter members, VLC, Billy Billy also makes a lot of sense. Alibaba? Sure. Okay. A lot of these don't make sense. Vimeo obviously does.

A lot of these don't make sense, but I presume there is a reason why they specifically want to get involved. Snapchat also makes a lot of sense, because that's like a web-based video and image sharing platform. Things like that. But yes. AV1, VP8 and VP9 aren't affected by this. So what they did is.

They five months ago. Added the ability to disable these codecs in Mesa. Which is pretty much like a core part of your GPU video drivers. So by disabling the support in Mesa, certain GPUs are now unable to do hardware video encoding or decoding with the affected formats. The issue, or first issue, is it doesn't affect everything. This is an issue, but also like a benefit. It only affects AMD and I believe Nvidia with the open drivers, so the Novo drivers, but no one uses those because they're bad.

When it comes to the like usable nvidia drivers and also uh intel they're not affected so in intel's case they have a separate package called the intel media driver package most distros package it fedora packages it not on the main um fedora repos but on rpm fusion i'll get into that in just a moment. So they have that available, and then in NVIDIA, NVIDIA uses... Basically, they have their codecs built into their proprietary driver. Like most of the stuff with NVIDIA, NVIDIA does their own thing. It doesn't matter

how it works. No one knows. Only NVIDIA knows. Obviously, they have the open kernel modules, but besides that, the rest of it is like NVIDIA doing the NVIDIA thing. Um. Yes. So. that the rest of is like nvidia doing the nvidia thing um yes so mesa amd uh mesa amd you know what it's a pain in the ass but don't have someone here to like remind me where the hell is going with stuff so they disabled the package and right rpm fusion so they disabled the package and what is going to be done is pretty much the same thing that's been done with things like

FFmpeg, Gstreamer and things like that. So FFmpeg and Gstreamer have the exact same problem where to handle H.264, all of these codecs, you can't just use the base version on Fedora because Fedora is a distro that only ships free software. So, to include this support, they move it over to a repo called RPM Fusion. RPM Fusion is basically Fedora's software patent haven. It's basically the equivalent of a tax haven for software patents. So US software patents only apply in the US. There are some countries that will acknowledge them and handle, you know, the legality there, but like strictly speaking, US patents only apply in the US. If you want a patent in Europe, you need a patent in Europe. And if you want a patent anywhere else,

you need a patent anywhere else. The problem is that in Europe, you generally a patent in Europe. And if you want a patent anywhere else, you need a patent anywhere else. The problem is that in Europe you generally can't do a software patent. So if you have a repo like RPM Fusion hosted in Europe, well, you've basically created a software patent haven where the company just can't really do anything about what you're doing. From my understanding, it's totally legal. Not a lawyer. Don't do stupid things that the guy on the internet tells you to do. Speak to an actual lawyer. But from my understanding,

it's completely legal to just circumvent patents by just distributing the software from somewhere that isn't America. distributing the software from somewhere that isn't America. But this isn't, like, it's a weird issue, right? Because I've spoken to both Dave Arley, Dave Ailey,

I once again apologise, I'm not sure how to say your name, and Matthew Miller. Dave Ailey, Dave Arley, is the guy who made the change to Fedora. Matthew Miller is the Fedora project lead. He was not saying much. He was just like being very, very cryptic with what

he was saying when he replied to anything that I was saying. Funnily enough, he was replying to other people, which he didn't want to reply to any of the things that I said with anything besides cryptic messaging. Dave Ali gave like a reasonable explanation. I think I should have it here somewhere.

Okay, my Twitter notifications are just fucking full of nonsense right now. Because I've had multiple tweets that just popped off a little bit. Here we go. Here's the Dave Arley one. So, here's the, where can I read from to explain it?

We'll read from this. What's not clear is why they decided to make the change now after years of having the Codex support. This is what I said. Then someone else called Thomas Cameron said, especially with open source lawyers, have to do reviews often. If anything changed in the vendor's TOS,

they're required to react. To not do so would be professional malfeasance and could open their clients up to massive damages. I replied by saying, that's the part that's not explained. All we've been told is legal reasons. I would like to see that expanded upon. As it stands,

the user loses out on a feature and don't have any idea why. Dave Ali said, so legal reasons. Once again, I really hate this legal reasons explanation. Before now. I wasn't across patent licensing in video. And how it works from a legal point of view. I am now.

It didn't work like I and 90% of people assume it works. I took responsibility and I'm cleaning it up. Then I'll show you a blog post that has a good summary particularly about things like, only the company that puts the brand on the product has to pay the license fee, e.g. Samsung, for a smartphone and with hardware

blah blah blah blah. And also, but it calls some API from the OS or the browser to do the job. You don't need to pay the license fee since the hardware slash OS slash browser vendors have already covered it. Once again, it's like real, even Dave Arley's responses have been like kind of

not clear. Like, it's not like, hey, this is why we're doing this. This is the problem. It's like, here's this post and here's like quotes from the post and go work it out. Go speculate and work it out for yourself. And one of the guys who follow me called GradyDoesTweets said

so then is this a preemptive measure to prevent a lawsuit and Dave said it's bringing Fedora back in line with our pre-existing understanding of the problem space to avoid possible future problems in that space basically

by removing these. This Mesa stuff. Removing these Mesa codecs. It brings them in line with the way. They would typically be handling these patterns. But what Dave is doing. Is he's fixing the packages. To allow the possibility.

Of a Mesa Varpi Drivers free world. Being built by RPM Fusion. And hopefully that happens. From what I've been seeing, that seems like the direction it's going. So that would be the pretty much extension package that adds this support back into Fedora. Here we go. So this is the blog post in question.

Set all your questions about H.264 license cost once and for all. Hopefully. And it starts off, for anyone listening, it starts off with the Billy, it's time you learn about money meme. And the importance of oh wait, fine, and then he chucks the money into the H.264

license machine. So, not going to read the entire thing here, but there are a couple of key takeaways. In a nutshell, the license fee is required by the patent managing group MPEG LA, which I've mentioned before, if you fall into two groups.

Distribute H.264 encoder or decoder, paid or free software or hardware, or distribute content in H.264 format, except free internet videos. This is not related to our issue it is a whole separate issue this is more of a issue that like youtube netflix and things like that would happen i would have to deal with so distribute the capability of creating or consuming h.264 videos licensing is required if you can if you give consumers the ability to create, aka encode, or watch, aka decode H.264 videos.

So, on the hardware vendor side, this applies to device vendors that ship hardware H.264 encoder or decoder with their devices, like Apple, Samsung, Dell, HP, Sony, for their smartphones, computers, DVD players, and whatever else you might have out there. A hardware encoder slash decoder may go through the factories of many companies along the supply chain before it's sold to consumers. Only the company that puts the brand on the product has to pay the license fee, e.g. Samsung for a smartphone

with hardware H.264 encoder instead of Qualcomm who actually builds the chips. And this is where you actually start seeing a really big issue with the way that this license fee is paid. So, as for the software vendors,

this group also includes software vendors whose products contain H.264 encoder or decoder. Like Microsoft's Windows OS, Adobe's Flash... I don't know. When was this written? 2020.

Why did you include Flash Player in 2020? Apple's QuickTime Player, and Google's Android OS. Why didn't you just include iOS? Something relevant besides fucking Flash Player. Note this rule applies even if the software is free of charge. But if it's open source and you distribute the source code instead of the

compiled binary, you don't have to pay the license fee. So yeah, if you're just distributing, like Gen 2 for example, Gen 2 would distribute a source version of FFmpeg, and the license fee is not applicable there. But if you distribute a

binary, like on you know, Fedora might, then yeah, you would. But if you would distribute a binary like on, you know, Fedora might, then yeah, you would, or you can remove the functionality. This is why people host downloadable pre-built binaries of open source software like FFmpeg in countries outside of the US where the same patent laws don't apply. Right, so here's where we start seeing the issue. There's an example right down the bottom here. Finally, let's, I think that was all. Yeah, no, it's mainly just like about pricing in here. Finally, let's have a quiz. Consider the following scenario. Ada recorded the video on her iPhone and used a mobile app called WeStudio to edit and publish it to the video platform iTunes.

WeStudio invoked Video Toolbox provided by iOS to decode H.264 video, compressed it with WeStudio's own encoder, and uploaded the video to the iTube server. iTube employed a public cloud transcoding service from vCompress to further reduce the size of the video. When another user, Bob, watched the video in the iTube app, why is there a word missing there? app in the itube app why is there a word missing there on his android device itube decoded the video using an open source software decoder created by open codec codec codec so among the companies that appeared in the story apple with their iphone and ios we studio with the video editor itube with the video platform v Vcompress, the cloud transcoding platform, Google with

Android, and OpenCodec, the open source decoder, which ones do not need to pay the H.264 license fee? And the answer to this is OpenCodec. So everybody else in the chain needs to pay it.

This is where, like, this is a big reason why it's a mess. So, Apple needs to pay it. This is where, like, this is a big reason why it's a mess. So, Apple needs to pay it for the iPhone hardware and the iPhone software. Then the developers of this application need to pay it as well.

Then the app, everyone else needs to pay, with the exception of OpenCodec. So, the reason why they don't have to pay from the way that I understand this. Is that that is... Wait, where was the example again? Is that because it's being used by iTunes.

So this isn't the application being used directly. It's being bundled as part of itube right so itube is the user facing brand and that brand is the one that needs to pay for the license that's the way that i understand it and this is where it gets like really weird with the uh with the gpus so nvidia amd all usually, like, you would expect that because they are the ones who made the GPU, they would pay the licensing fee, because it's an AMD GPU, but it's also a gigabyte GPU, or an EVGA GPU, or it's, uh, whoever else out there. Does that say gigabyte? It's the add-in board partner's GPU as well.

So AMD and NVIDIA can actually pass the issue of paying for the license onto the add-in board partner. But then the add-in board partner can say that they're not going to pay it and then pass it onto the OEM system builder because you're buying a system that is branded as an HP system, or an Alienware system, or a Dell system, or anything else out there. So, it's still technically fulfilling that issue of, as we saw near the start here,

up here somewhere, a hardware encoder slash decoder may go through many factories of many companies along the supply chain before it's sold to consumers. Only the company that puts the brand on the product has to pay the license. So who's putting the brand on an NVIDIA GPU?

Is it NVIDIA? Is it the add-in board partner? Or is it the OEM system builder? The answer is all of them. So, they keep passing it along the chain, and in some cases, it just doesn't get

paid. So by the time it gets to the consumer, no one is paid for the licensing fee. And you can find this information out by going and uh looking in you should have some sort of like licensing documentation for whatever hardware you bought or you can probably find it online and things like that you may find that you don't actually have that hardware license in the first place because no one actually paid for it. It's such a mess of a situation. Like, US patent law, US software licensing, it's a fucking disaster. And it's a beautiful disaster.

It absolutely sucks for anyone, like, really involved in the software development space. But when it comes to, like, an entertainment perspective, it's actually pretty fun. At least for people like me that get a kick out of just the absolute mess that software can be. Which, if I didn't get a kick out of that, I probably wouldn't be making

the style of videos I did. I wouldn't be like, hey, I'm gonna make videos on fucking distro issues and all of this random other junk. I would, be like, hey, I'm going to make videos on fucking distro issues and all of this random other junk. I would, you know, make, I don't know, something else, anime videos. I don't know if you know this, but there was a time when I was going to make anime reviews on my main channel. I did like three of them, two of them. I don't know.

Ransom's probably going to be like, this is exactly how many you made. And I'm going to link the fucking videos and people go watch them. So, yeah, you can find those on my channel. I think they came out like two or three years ago. I'm not gonna do another one again. Maybe I'll do another one again at like 50k or 100k sub, just for the meme. Maybe

at 50k I review Serial Experiments Lane. That's actually not a bad idea. That's actually not a bad idea. That's actually not a bad idea. I might have to write that down and remember that one. Because a lot of the

G guys, a lot of the the more 4chan-y people in the Linux space, and especially my audience like Serial Experiments Lane. I've never actually seen it. I have no idea if it's any good. When did it even come out? in the Linux space, and especially my audience, you know, like serial experiments. I've never actually seen it. I have no idea if it's any good. When did it even come out?

Years ago. I know way, way before I cared about anime. Yeah, I just wrote in serial, and it's one of the first results. 98. Who actually animated it? It's a 13-episode series. Can you show me the MyAnimeList page? MyAnimeList, yes. Okay, it has an 8.1 on MyAnimeList. Here we go, I'll show you

the page. It is animated by Triangle Staff. Who the fuck is Triangle Staff? What have they done? They did the original Boogie Pop. Colourful. Is that- that looks like it could be hentai. Did they do any- Did they stop making stuff in the 90s?

Did we stop using cel-shaded- cel-shaded for anime- fucking cells for anime let's say fucking cells for anime and they're like nah, it's too hard. We don't like this digital thing. Wait, no. This is a relatively I was going to say relatively

modern. No, it's just they started with, I think they started with digital like that's too hard and just fucking gave up. Like that's what it looks like here. Well, they made like, I have not seen it pretty much anything they've done this is studio that fucking lived and died in the 80s and 90s and nobody

remembers that they actually exist at this point what is this Kazu and Yasu Hiro Tanjo. Why are there just like two Japanese dudes on the cover? Wait, what? Who are these dudes? Is this like based on their story or something? Why are there just two Japanese dudes

on the cover? Sure. Whatever. So yeah, I'll have to watch Lane at some point, so people can, like, I don't know, I think it'd be funny, I think it'd be funny to just do a, a Lane review, uh, Lane, uh, let me see, I'll zoom in, so you can see it a bit more, uh, let's, you know, I'm gonna zoom out out because I can't actually read it now because it's not on the screen. Lane Iwakura, an awkward and introverted 14-year-old, is one of the many girls from her school

to receive a disturbing email from her classmate, Chisa Yomoda. The very same Chisa who had recently committed suicide. Oh God, okay, this is dark. Lane has neither the desire nor the experience to handle even basic technology yet when the technophobe opens the email it lead i can okay i can fucking see why why the g people like this it's like your death it's it's your first delve into software into into computers

it leads her straight into the wired what, a virtual world of communication networks similar to what we know as the internet. This came out in 98. What a weird time to make a series about the internet. Lane's life is turned upside down as she begins to encounter cryptic mysteries one after another. Strange men called the Men in Black begin to appear wherever she- Oh, so she- So she start- so she gets schizophrenia. Okay, that's fun. Asking a question somehow knowing more about her than even she knows herself.

With the boundary between reality and cyberspace rapidly blurring lane is plunged into surreal and bizarre experiments where identity consciousness and perception are concepts that take on new meanings what the fuck did i just read what did i just read look i'll watch it and before anyone's like hey brody go go watch lane go watch lane sure i Sure, I'll fucking watch Lane. Why not? It sounds like an absolute trip. And I haven't watched a 90s anime in quite a while. It's a very different style of doing anime than it is today.

So it'll be a, you know, a fun little side adventure. It's not like I've been watching much in the way of anime recently. I've pretty much dropped all seasonals at this point. I kind of wanted to break from it. It's weird. I really enjoy anime. But I'd been watching seasonals for so long that it kind of got to the point where it felt like I was just watching things for the sake of watching things like I'd cut down a lot in the amount I watched but

I think I just ultimately needed a break from the week-to-week anime because it'd been like six or maybe even seven or eight years of watching seasonals when actually I think I know which season I originally started on. Um. I want to say it was like. It wasn't 2013 was it? Fall 2013. If it was.

That's going to make me feel old. Uh. Uh. No. Let's go. Was it fall 2014? Um. Uh, no. Let's go... Was it fall 2014? I think I've specifically mentioned it before.

No, it's definitely not fall. Maybe it was spring... Wait. Maybe it was winter 2014. Something like that. That sounds right to me. No, that's a little... A still, maybe spring. I know like what I- Well actually, you know, why don't I just look up the series that I watched in my first season?

And that would answer the question. Because I know some of the shit that i watched during that for it i think it was summer yeah wait maybe i'm a year off because i know i watched this stuff when it was airing so it was probably it was somewhere between like 2013 and 2014 so i'd been watching seasonals for a long ass time and yeah you, especially when you watch a lot of fucking junk, um, a lot of junk is like, this is, this is not fun.

And you shouldn't be watching anime if you're not having fun. Like, I get that some people like the, you know, I'm gonna be an anime critic. I'm gonna be critical of everything i watch i'm gonna be i'm gonna have like super super serious anime taste i'm just like haha naruto go rasengan like i've watched no anime in the past like two months or so

that wasn't fucking naruto i am like 380 episodes into Shippuden. Like, and I, like, if I watched Naruto Shippuden when I was, when I was watching a lot of anime, even though I did have that, you know, watch sort of everything, I still, like, in some part of my mind had like a snobby anime taste it was weird like i watched everything but i didn't because i didn't enjoy everything i sort of had like this hierarchy of the way like i like of what i enjoyed so i still probably wouldn't have enjoyed it but taking a break from anime and then sitting down like i'm gonna watch some naruto it's fun like i just enjoy it it it's fun! Like, I just enjoy it. It's good to... I think it's good to take a break from anything you love and then come back and you'll probably enjoy it, like, considerably

more. I think with anything you do, it's very easy to get to that point where... where you start feeling, you know, kind of burnt out. Like, whether it's music, whether it's anime, or in my case, actually, like, a recent issue I've been dealing with is with YouTube. So, I think it's been, like, what, three? Two? Three years? I don't know. It's been a long-ass time that I've been doing, like, daily uploads. And the past couple of weeks, I've just...

I've just kind of felt, like, past couple of weeks I've just I've just kind of felt like off about it I don't know I don't know how to like explain it it just felt like I was on this infinite tread treadmill where no matter how many videos I made it was like never the end which obviously is like how it works like i i understand that from a from like a a non-lizard brain perspective like i every week i'm doing these videos and every week i like i'm just doing it more and more into the future but like there was a brief period where i don't know like it wasn't that the videos were doing badly, and that was affecting me, because the videos during that period were doing quite well, it's, maybe it's the topics, I just really, I, what, I don't know, all I know is, until earlier this week, like,

Like... I just... I just had no interest in... I didn't have like a similar interest in doing the videos. I think this recent mess of... Like Fedora has sort of rekindled that fun and like random other things are just a mess right now. Like this... this week What... I'll go over what I recorded. I think that's a big part of why I was more excited this week as well. So I recorded a video on the strangest

AUR package you'll ever see. It's called Deezer. It's a really weirdly packaged application. I'll go watch the video on that. I did the video on Arch Linux dropping Python 2. I did a video on Arch Linux, uh, dropping Python 2. I did a video on the global hotkey patch being merged into XDG portals.

Uh, Firefox being basically the only thing saving content blockers. The next steps for Rust in the kernel and also DistroBox. All of these videos I found really fun to plan and really fun to record. But I don't know why. Like some of the other videos I've been doing, like when I planned them, I was like, this is a fun video to plan. This is a fun, this is going to be a good video. But when it got to actually like doing the video itself, a part of me just didn't want to do it. But like something at the start of this week sort of just clicked, and it got back into the

swing of it. I think, ultimately, what I need is, I just need to, like, find some time. I was going, it was going to be, like, earlier this year, but find some time and take, like, a week off. Not take a week off from, like I still have videos scheduled for that period. But, take a week off from the video planning and video recording phase and just

chill for a bit. I'm not going to do it at home because if I do that, I'm going to be like, you know, whenever I take a break, whenever my parents play, so I just going to be like, you know, whenever I take a break, like whenever my parents play, so I just try to take like a day off, it's always something in sort of the back of my mind. They're like, hey, you should be doing this. You should be working on videos.

You should be planning on videos. Maybe you should be testing your software. Maybe you can do some like longer running stuff like, you know, Hyperland, for example. All of this stuff is like in the back of my mind whenever i'm not doing the videos so it's it's can be hard to relax sometimes and i that's one of the things i've definitely had to deal with uh as i've been doing this video thing longer and longer i feel like i'm a lot better at it than when i was at uni. It's weird. I was actually less stressed about the channel back when I was in uni. I think back then, it was also, I just didn't really care about it.

I think that's one of the things I need to, I need to like, try to bring back in some way. Like, bring back that, bring back that excitement about doing a new video like I had back then. Like, back then, I was like, hey, I'm going to do a video. I think that's what's really helped with these videos. These are all really exciting topics. They're not like just your run-of-the-mill normal stuff that I've been doing. As much as I enjoy things like the software showcases, for example, it does get to a point where some of them are like dragging on and yeah I know I did like the Distro Box video, but Distro Box is like a really cool and really exciting piece of software

But I think in the end I just need to take some more time for myself on the weekends Really like try to separate myself completely from the whole channel stuff. Get everything done by Friday. All of that fun stuff. And then during the week or then at some point in the future take like a

week off. Something like that. But you know maybe I just need to get out. I do I, I do exercise, like, I get on the, uh, the, I've got a, I've got a, like, a bike trainer out there, basically, like, a, you know, a regular bike, but set up to be, basically, an elliptical, so I get out there and exercise a bit, but I think I just need to get out, like, get out more, besides, you know, go, going for a walk around my neighborhood, like, go out and out and like get out and do things do things with people like hit up some of my mates from uni go get some lunch with them

or something like that like that i think is i think that's that's the main thing as much as i enjoy playing games and i think i i've said it before i don't think games are a waste of time i do think that i do think you need to mix up what you're doing, that, maybe that's it, maybe I felt like it was kind of, like, a bit of a rut, where it doesn't matter what day I wake up on, it just feels like it's the same day over, like, the same day over and over again, like, the way that I set up my weeks, like, I i generally do the the same stuff at the same time every week like monday is my video planning day tuesday i do four videos wednesday i do two videos um thursday i do the stream friday do the stream then weekends i don't work and then somewhere

during that period i'll have a podcast and like fill out the video editing and thumbnails and things like that. But that's like, that's my overall schedule. So if I wake up on Monday this week and then Monday next week, you know, and then you just do it again and again and again and again, it just, it feels like you're just repeating the same week over and over again, especially in cases where it's not a, not a super exciting video. I think, I think that's it. But

I think one thing I can definitely do to address that is just trying out new things in my, in my free time, not just be like, Hey, I'm gonna just play some games, like, one thing I've, uh, I'm, I'm gonna start doing very shortly, probably, I think it's gonna be here tomorrow, I am going to be learning the guitar, so I did, I did a bit of guitar back in, how old was I, grade 8, grade 9, so like 13, 14? Like 13 to 15, somewhere in that range. So it's been a while. And when I did guitar back then, I really enjoyed it.

You know, all things considered with the high school guitars not being in tune and my high school music teacher being fucking terrible and not knowing how to explain anything. And most of the course not even being about playing instruments it's like the other stuff not just you know learning how to read sheet music things like that and like chords and all that but they wanted us to do like making digital music with i what's the garage band i'movie. It's not iMovie. GarageBand. Because that school was like a Mac school,

so they used Macs for everything, and it was a mess. That shit I didn't enjoy. But the actual instrument playing, I did. And it's not expensive to get a guitar, especially if you want to either get a second-hand guitar or an entry guitar. It's really cheap. So I'm doing that.

And I'm just going to start, you know, I'm going to start messing around with that. I think because the hobbies I have, like when you have a hobby for a long time, whatever it is, you end up getting to the point where you get good at it. Like maybe you're not, you know, world-class, exceptional at it, but you're good point where you get good at it like maybe not you're not you know world-class exceptional at it but you're good enough where you hold your own and it doesn't feel like a challenge anymore that's how i feel with you know studying kanji um you know video games anything else i do but when i when i do golf for example golf is something i'm fucking horrible at video games, anything else I do.

But when I do golf, for example, golf is something I'm fucking horrible at. But I can see how you can get better at golf. And guitar, well, I haven't played guitar in 12 years, so I'm going to be horrible at that as well. But, you know, there's a lot of resources out there. and when you, when you are doing some sort of new thing, if it's something you're going to stick around with, you can generally see that there is, like, there is area for improvement here, like, you might not have any idea, if it's like, you know,

I used to do martial arts, for example, I used to do, I used to do taekwondo, you might have no fucking idea how you, how you just suddenly appeared on the ground. You might have no idea how you got dropped. But if it's something that you enjoy, you can usually see, at least from the way you're personally approaching it, that there are things that you can do that will handle things better. I think a great example of this is video games, for example. Let's say you're playing a shooter, and you're just getting started with FPS games, and you don't know about recoil control, for example. If an FPS game is not something you will ever enjoy, you would probably never even consider that controlling your recoil is something that can be done.

But if you do enjoy the concept of an FPS or a third-person shooter or any sort of shooter like that, you'll eventually come to this point where you're like, wait, I could shoot and not miss things. That's a thing that can be done. And you start working on those skills and you start, you know, building up that repertoire of knowledge in that in that in that discipline in that hobby or whatever you want to call it and that's the sort of thing that's fun

when you first start doing something when when you pick up something difficult and you're like I don't know what I can do here but I know that there is a I know there is a way to get better, and getting better when you're, like, just starting out with something is always, that's always the most fun part, but I don't know, I, I'm, I'm gonna try out guitar, see how it goes, look, maybe at some point, I'll do a cover of the fucking free software song, I think that would be amusing, uh, so, software song, I think that would be amusing, uh, so, you know, it'll be, it'll be, uh, exciting times, and hey, maybe I won't like it, I just stopped doing it, I'm gonna give it a couple of months, though, and, because that's, that's what I've heard is usually the, the, um, general, what's the word,

general... What's the word? The general time frame to give it to really decide if you actually want to keep going with it. And I think that's a pretty fair

window to give it. So, we'll see how that goes. But, I want to get back to something involving Linux. So, we'll see how that goes. But I want to get back to something involving... involving Linux. So I was going to talk about something completely different. I want to talk... well, it's still the same topic, but completely different aspect. So I want to talk a bit about what's going on with Asahi Linux and the work that Lina has been doing. So I was going to say, hey,

the work that Lina has been doing. So I was going to say, hey, Lina has managed to get this cube rendering. I'll show you the cube. She managed to get this cube rendering and it like rotated and, you know, it's a cube. She managed to get a cube rendering with her completely open source driver for the M1 GPU. And that's where I was going to say, hey, look, it's crazy. Look at the work she's done. But this is Lena we're talking about. So she worked really fucking hard.

And before I recorded this, she's already done way more. So the other thing that I was going to mention is that she initially got KDE loading with a black screen so you've got the KDE logo loading you got this down here and it like boots KDE it didn't work it instantly crashed but it booted which was so much better than anything she'd done. And then, once again, because it's Lena, literally the following day, she booted full GNOME, and GNOME just works. And not just, like, booting into GNOME and GNOME works, she can go on YouTube and it does hardware encoding on... hardware decoding on YouTube. And like, Inochi

2D runs. And not just like, just Inochi 2D, but all of this other stuff running in the background as well. Like, what the hell is going on? I remember a couple of months back, back during the... No, a year ago, actually.

Yeah, maybe it was even longer. Back when... Back when the M1 GPU project and the Asahi Linux was first being discussed. When did I do my first video on Asahi Linux? Brody Robertson, Asahi Linux. When was it? Seven months ago?

Wait, over a year ago. Over, okay. A year ago I did this video. So, April 15th, 2021. Shut the fuck up, Brody. I did this video. So,

this was a long-ass time ago. And since then, it's not even that long ago, actually. I say a long-ass time ago, but it was like fucking 17 months ago. You went from

booting the kernel and pretty much nothing else like some basic stuff there. I think the bootloader was working. It was actually the proper bootloader at that point there. M1N1, but it might not have been even M1N1 at that point. It might have just been like a very

alpha version of that. You went from nothing to GNOME in 17 months with a GPU that has no documentation. You had to reverse engineer it and bring it to this point where, like, it's actually functional. functional it like from my understanding the the current implementation for the the gpu and getting this actually working is like a lot of uh lena said it has a lot of hacky codes uh i had a lot of hacky code in it and it's like a lot of code that's not necessary and it's not clean or anything it just it works but it's not optimal like it's not going to be the fastest it's going to be it's not going to be the most it's going to be, it's not going to be the most stable, anything like that. But, the fact that it works, the fact that it works is the

impressive part. And the fact that once we, once we got to the point where we had basic GPU encoding, we've gone so far past that. Like, I have no understanding about how this GPU reverse engineering would be working. What I do know, though, is it looks seriously impressive to the user when you go from nothing functioning with the GPU

to a full desktop functioning with the GPU. Now, it is also Wayland. I don't believe X.Org is something at all being worked on. Which makes sense. You know Wayland is kind of the future. And also it presumably is easier. Considering it's like not X.Org.

It's not this ancient code base. And like mega code base that you have to support. It's not this ancient codebase. And monolith... Not monolith. Like mega codebase that you have to support. But I don't know. Maybe there's some other reason for that. I don't know. Either way, Weyland-on-Gnome works now. Which is crazy.

So I don't know where we go from here. I really don't. Like, I'm guessing maybe... Maybe it gets to the point where you're getting, like, 3D rendering. Like, fast 3D. I don't know. You probably already do that with Blender. I genuinely don't know what the next step is here.

I'm guessing it's probably, like, stability and cleanup. That would be what i guess but regardless it's it's it's kind of crazy like it's just crazy what's going on and i am i don't have any interest in owning a m1 mac but i'm very happy that this project is going well because now you can buy an M1 Mac and you could legitimately use Linux on it. Like it's still very early stages like this is still very alpha very beta software whatever you want to call it but it's probably at most a year away from being, maybe not production ready, but like, ready to the point where you could do it reasonably if you wanted to, which is crazy, like, absolutely crazy, I, I got so many initial comments being like, this is a stupid project, why would you ever do this, no one would

run Linux on an M1 Mac, this is impossible, GPU, writing a GPU driver just can't be done because there's no documentation. It's gonna, without Apple supporting it, it's just never gonna happen. And now we're here. This is the power of, this is the power of fuck you basically. This is the

power of I'm gonna do this, and I don't care at all what you have to say about it. Which I think is just cool. I think it to do this. And I don't care at all what you have to say about it. Which I think is just cool. I think it's just really cool that's being done. And I'm excited to see where it goes. And I hope that as, you know, obviously the M2 is out now. But I hope that as newer generations of the Apple Silicon comes out, it continues to support it in whatever way

is going to be possible. I know that they're more like iterative changes between the generations, but even with those iterative changes, there are obviously breaking things that may happen. I do know that with the getting it working,

like back when initially getting it working on the M2, it was like a 5 hour stream at most and it's just like, oh, it works now, it's, it's feature equivalent with the M1 version, which does sort of indicate how similar they are, but even so, um, it's cool, like, I think it's cool, and if you haven't been following Lena's work, I recommend you go and do so, and if you haven't seen it yet, I recommend you go and do so and if you haven't seen it yet I recommend you go and watch the podcast I did with both Asahi Lina

and also Luna the developer of Inochi 2D who just recently went full time working on that project which is absolutely awesome as well yeah that's cool. That's really cool.

And I think it's great that we're seeing this younger generation of really great software developers come up in the FOSS space. Because you've got the older names that everybody recognizes. You know, the Greg Carl Hartmans, the Linus Torvalds, people like that. But those people at some point are eventually going to be out of the FOSS world and, you know, eventually going to die. So it's good to see that this really great crop of new software developers are coming up and making really great software. And in many cases, addressing software concerns that weren't really an issue for a lot of other people.

Like, you know, no one in their 60s is going to be like, I'm going to make a VTuber program. Like, that's just not a thing that most people would really consider. And then Luna's like, I'm going to do it. I'm making a game. I'm making, I think the, what was it? It was initially going to be for a Foxgirl

I'm pretty sure a gay Foxgirl hentai game. Maybe not the hentai part, but a gay Foxgirl game. I know that part. And now it's like, oh, this is the premiere premier open source

competition to live 2D. Like, oh, this is the premier, premier open source, like, uh, competition to live 2D. Like, what? Like, that's insane. But, you know, enough, uh, enough discussing how, how cool the, the FOSS space is nowadays. And how, uh, how, how fun it is starting to get again let's talk about some uh let's talk about some video games yeah we'll do that so recently on my gaming channel I've been playing through Cult of the Lamb if you've not played that game yet I highly, highly recommend you do so. So Cult of the Lamb is... How do I describe this game?

It is... It is... Fuck, how do you describe it? Combine a roguelike, a roguelike like Hades, for example, with Stardew Valley.

Broke like Hades, for example, with Stardew Valley. It sounds fucking stupid when I say it like that. But I think that's the best way you can describe it. So, you are the lamb. That's literally just your name. You are the lamb. this you are the lamb that's literally just your name you are the lamb and you are brought back to life by the one who waits basically the devil and the devil's like hey go start a cult go kill the other people and like make people join your cult and you you're just a cute little lamb. Which is. I think the best part about this game. Is just the style it has.

It's like oh you're a cute little lamb. And you go murder everyone. So basically. You start this cult. And you go through. The dungeons. Picking up new slaves. Cult members we'll call them.

And the thing is. I thought this was mainly going to be a roguelike game with a little bit of the cult management. No, no, no, no, no. It's the other way around. It is almost primarily the like cult management stuff and you only go into the dungeon for the sake of getting a like getting new resources like hey you need some food how you need some new slaves how you need all of this stuff but most of it is just running around dealing with the bullshit of your cult and the fun part about the cult management

side is it sort of just gives no shits about what's going on. Pun intended. Because so, one of the fun things you can do is you have your farm around the place and you need some fertilizer.

So, what do you use for fertilizer? Well, you use your cult members' shit. You just pick up their shit and sprinkle it on the crops. And you can build an outhouse later and then harvest the shit from the outhouse and put it straight onto the crops. But not only can you use their shit

to deal with the crops. But not only can you use their shit to, uh, to deal with the crops, you could also, um, use their shit and feed it to them. You can make a bowl of poop and just give it to someone. It does give them, like, a 75% chance of getting ill,

but you can do it. And if you're, like, desperate for food, you might have to do it. So. There's just stupid things like that. Or other fun things. You also get these like quests. From your cult members as well.

So they'll sometimes want to like play tricks on each other. Or they'll ask you to go save someone. Or things like that. So a common thing that one of my people were doing. I think his name was Snow. Yeah. Snow was like that. So a common thing that one of my people were doing, I think his name was Snow. Yeah. Snow was like, hey, wouldn't it be funny if we made Louie eat a bowl of poop? So sometimes

they don't even ask, so sometimes they'll ask to eat shit themselves. Like, they were like, hey, I would like to eat poop. Like, why? Okay, sure. I'll give you the poop. But sometimes they'll not play tricks on each other.

But let's say someone gets ill or they get elderly. The funny thing about the elderly system, so eventually they'll get, like, too old to be able to work. But when they're elderly, they're only, like, 50. Like, they are, like, unable to do any sort of work when they're 50 years old it's like mate stop being fucking lazy and get to work 50 is not too old for you just just get out there and start digging some holes so when they get too old you have a couple of options for what you can do so So, you can do these things called

doctrines. Doctrines are basically the buffs you get for certain things you do in your cult. So, if you go down the, you can go down all the trees, but down the afterlife tree, there are some things about how you can deal with the elderly. So, whether you want to go and let the elderly die of peaceful causes, or whether you want to go and. Let the elderly die of peaceful causes. Or whether you want to sacrifice them to the devil. Or murder them. Either. Either isn't a good option.

You can do whatever you want. So. If you choose like one or the other. It'll give you like a buff to your faith. If you let the action happen. So if you let someone die of old age, and they just die in the middle of the street, everyone's like, wow, he died, that's so great.

But if you go down the sacrifice route, and it's like, hey, when you sacrifice the elderly, your cult gets more faith. It's like, wow, we killed somebody. Yay, we're such good people. It's so... It's... If you just think what's happening in the game,

ignore the cute aesthetic, it's a fucked game. What's happening is absolutely insane. So... You start going around doing that stuff. And then, if someone dies in the street, you have a couple of options to deal with them. You can either bury them,

which costs you like, you know, to go and build a hole for them, which may cost you like resources you don't have. Or you can just slaughter them and turn them into meat. Because sometimes your cult members will say, Hey, I wonder what a person tastes like. And it's like, okay, well, we can arrange that.

Okay, sure, why not? As I said, this game is kind of fucked. But it's fun. If you have not played Cold of the Lamb, I highly recommend it. Even if for nothing else, besides the soundtrack, I'm going to bring up

a bit of the soundtrack. I know it's fine to play because I played it on stream and I didn't get a copyright claim. Let's play this one. This is Starter Cult. The intro is chill, but when it gets past the intro, that's when it gets really good. I think just this is enough spot. How could you not enjoy this song? Like, the entire soundtrack is this same sort of, this same sort of, like, chill, nice, funky style. I love it.

It's such a great game with such a great soundtrack. There have been a lot of indie games this year that have come out with these incredible soundtracks, whether it's Cult of the Lamb, whether it's Stray. This is a good year to be involved in indie games. I think it's great. And I'm very

happy that good games like this are coming out. But one of the things that's weird about Cult of the Lamb is, by all I think it's great and I'm very happy that good games like this are coming out but like one of the things that's weird about Cult of the Lamb is by all accounts the game should be horrendous like this game should not be good so think about it right so this is a game

where it is a city management action RPG with, like, fishing mechanics and farming mechanics and, you know, social relationship mechanics. And then these weird, like, these cult mechanics we have to sacrifice people sometimes. And you can bring them back from the dead. Then you can also turn them into demons. And you can, you know

do all this random shit some of which seems like it should be kind of contradictory but it just all fits together it just all fits so neatly together into this nice little game

and it shouldn't like if you jot down everything this game does you would say this game is made by a crazy person and it should be terrible but it just works and it's not like the dev has that many like that many Like, this is a very small... It is published by Devolver Digital. But their existing games are... A platformer. I don't know if it's any good, but a platformer. And...

Another platformer. They've literally only made 2D platformers. And then they made this. Like, they made only 2D platformers and then they made this. Like they made only 2D platformers and made this game that isn't a platformer. There's no jump button. This is not a platformer. You cannot platform. It is a... it is a roguelike with all of these crazy mechanics in it and it's insanely good. I't get it i know devolver digital like a lot of the time will publish these really great games like this is a this is a publisher that has that has some crazy titles like they've got the new return to monkey island shadow warrior uh let's see top

sellers what is the top seller from devolver Digital? Enter the Gungeon from 2016. Crazy game. Katana Zero. Loop Hero. Death's Door. Haven't played that one. Hotline Miami. Broforce. Serious Sam VR. Serious Sam VR. Serious Sam 4. Like, all of these great games.

Devolver Digital is a the Talos principle. Like, Devolver Digital is a Talos principle. Like, Devolver Digital is this company that has, like, crazy shit. I remember when they were really, really... Oh, they did Metal Wolf Chaos XD. Wait, they

re... They pub... Wait, they published the remake of Metal Wolf Chaos XD. Have I talked about this game on the... I don't think I've talked about Metal Wolf Chaos XD on the podcast before. So this is a game made by From Software. So in case you don't know, From Software, before they made Dark Souls, before they made Demon's Souls,

and during the middle period between King's Quest and the Souls games, case you don't know, From Software, before they made Dark Souls, before they made Demon's Souls, and during the, like, middle period between King's Quest and the Souls games, they were a company that primarily made mech games, which is not what you would think at all from modern From Software. um from software games games ranked by difficulty uh where is it they so they did the armored core series they did the armored core series they did a game called chrome hounds like this is a company that has done some weird shit that nobody remembers. And they also did Chaos Wolf XD. Now, Metal Wolf Chaos XD. Metal Wolf Chaos XD. So this is a game where you are the US president. Who also happens to pilot the mech. So the game literally- like one of the earliest scenes in this game- I wonder if it shows it in this trailer. Maybe it doesn't.

One of the early scenes of this game is you blow off the White House. Like you just jump out the side of the White House destroying- wait here we House. Like, you just jump out the side of the White House, destroying... Wait, here we go. Like, this... Okay, this is just, like, shortly after that. So, you're like... You will jump out of the White House, basically blowing up the fucking White House. Like, what? Like, what? What?

I do need to play this. I do definitely need to play it, because people told me about it on stream not long ago and it's going to be a... It's going to be a game! It is going to be a video game that was ever made.

It is going to be a video game that was ever made. And I wish I had played this back when I was a kid. Like, this would have been so, so crazy to play as a kid Wait what? In case you weren't sure that it was a from software game. Here's the mech holding the Moonlight Greatsword

Why is the Moonlight Greatsword here? Why? Why is the Moonlight Greatsword here? Why? In case you don't know they actually had the Moonlight Greatsword all the way back in the King's Quest games. That's not like a thing that was made for the Souls games. King's Quest Moonlight Greatsword. Moonlight. Great Sword. I think I had a different name. I said King's Quest.

I meant King's... If I said King's Quest, I meant King's Field. My bad. King's Quest. Ignore me. I can't speak. King's Field. Yeah. Moonlight Greatsword has been it has been there since the start

of FromSoftware doing what FromSoftware does it's like, hey fucking have a Moonlight Greatsword in your mech game or have a flamethrower flamethrower that's fighting...

You're using against the chopper, I guess. This game is just ridiculous. I don't think I've ever actually played a mech game, now that I think about it. Yeah, I don't think I actually ever have. it yeah I don't think I actually ever have so let me actually read the description of this game the country is in peril president Michael Wilson defends the nation against a full-scale scale rebellion led by Vice President Richard Hawk and the mechanized legion he commands.

As the 47th President of the United States, it is your sworn duty to take your country back by any means necessary and end this unjust coup d'etat. Back to lead your advanced mech armed to the teeth across iconic American landscapes,

including the Brooklyn Bridge, the Grand Canyon, and the front steps of the White House. Video games. This is the most American game ever made, and it's made by a Japanese studio. Oh, also you can fire

robot sharks. Yeah. Um. From my understanding, the Armored Core games were actually like really complex mech games. Uh, but Metal Wolf Chaos XD is...

It's a bit more simplified in that respect. It's more of a just fucking everything's mental sort of game i think it's still got some of that some of that holdover from the armored core games but not as much i think the main thing for metal metal wolf chaos xd i love that name is the uh is sort of the style of the game and all of that fun stuff but we'll play it on stream and I'll let you know how that goes. If you think of games that I'm not playing on stream,

I've also been playing... I've finished off FFXV finally and I don't want to... FFXV makes me depressed. In case if you've not seen it, I recommend you go back and watch the original trailers for that game.

Like, back the early EA stuff with the original build of the game before they completely destroyed it. Because the original build of that game would have been such a different game. And then the end result we got was like, eh. But games that don't make me sad. I've also been playing through another is game so a while back i finished off is eight our recommendation of hex dsl who didn't finish the game himself he thought it was like a fairly down-to-earth jrpg it wasn't you fight god because it's a jrpg um i'm right now playing through Is Memories of Is Memories

of Celceta which is I think a remake of the third game or something like that, it was released for the PS Vita it is very fun I think honestly combat wise it's better than 8, one of the issues I had with 8 was 1 the dinosaurs that

roared that would stun lock you no matter what you did. Like you just couldn't avoid it. It was impossible to avoid. East Memories of Celceta doesn't have that. They have not introduced the primals yet. Primals? Primordials. Primordials which are basically dinosaurs.

Also it's got more of a fixed camera. So you're not really fighting over the camera. And because of the way the camera's set up, the hitboxes, I think, are a little bit more, a little bit more reasonable. Like, it felt, it honestly felt like in 8, you would dodge and you'd still get hit. Because the hitbox was bigger than it should have been. And like, or you got hit early. Like, before the attack was anywhere near you.

It's like, why did I get hit? I don't know. It's just the way it worked. I think what 8 does way better than... I think what 8 does way better than Memories of Silcetta is the characters. Like, the music still slaps. I don't think it slaps as hard.

But it does slap. Um, here's the opening. Like, great songs. Great game. Great game, great music. Characters, I feel like, are a bit worse. Like, I don't hate them.

It's just they're not... They're not as... They're definitely not as well, like, fleshed out. A lot of them sort of feel like they show up, like, Hey. Hey, how you doing? We're good buddies already. Or like, hey, we hate you for some... Like, every time you go to a town, it's basically, at least initially,

it's like, hey, everybody here hates you. And the idea with Memories of Celceta is that you have amnesia. So you've already gone through this journey before, but, like, and every time you leave one of these towns, like, this journey before but like and every time you leave one of these towns like something really bad happens so every time you get there basically they blame you so yeah it's kind of like the story already happened and then you're like retracing the story back um so you don't have these you know these first introductions with

characters like you had in eight in eight you would actually meet characters you don't have these first introductions with characters like you had in 8. In 8, you would actually meet characters you didn't know anyone there. With the exception of there's a character from Memories of Sulceta that shows up in 8. Because this remake came out just before 8 did. So I guess they wanted to throw a recommendation. Like, hey, look, here's Griselda from Memories of Solstice. But besides that, like, everybody in 8, it was like, they started from nothing

and then built up a relationship over time. In Memories of Solstice, it's more like, hey, we already know each other, and just continuing on from there. Yeah. Combat-wise, they're great. Combat-wise, absolutely great.

I think even, like, the combat doesn't even feel as repetitive as 8. I don't know why. Maybe it's just that enemies don't feel as spongy. Also, unlike 8, I'm playing the game on hard mode, which is funny because the game's actually difficult now.

Not difficult for regular enemies. I don't think I've died a single time against a regular enemy. But against bosses, it's actually pretty easy to die still. The only issue I do have with the modern-ish games... I know this isn't a thing with the older ones. Especially with the older ones before you had a party. Because it's not an issue then. But the modern-ish games, a party, because it's not an issue then, but the modernist games,

your party can't actually die. So, most JRPGs, your party members have AI, and if they get hit too much, they will die. So, you would have to use, like, revival items and healing items on them. Can't happen in IS-8, IS-7,

IS-7, and a couple of the other ones can't happen as well. So, yeah, definitely in VII. So, they drop down to 1 HP, and they're just invincible. Like, they're literally invincible.

When you're poisoned, you also can't die, but that is nice. Just in case, you know, imagine getting poisoned and then wiping, you know, like the older Pokemon games did. You would get poison, you'd be away from a Pokemon Center, and then your entire team would be dead. Which was fun.

So, yeah, I definitely didn't enjoy that. But, I like the not dying on poison thing. One thing I did notice about Memories of Celceta, though, Memo- I can't- I can't say the word. about memories of celceta though memory memory i can't i can't i can't say the word memories of celceta is sometimes when your party members get down to one hp their ai breaks and they just stop doing things like they literally stop moving

i don't know why i feel like it's a bug. But it could also be intentional. Like, I don't know. I really don't know. But if you've not played Memories of Celceta, you've not played ISA, I really recommend the IS series. It is a very slept on JRPG series. Like, people know about Final Fantasy.

They know, less people know, but people know about the Dragon Quest games. But the Ys games is a... like, Ys has been going on basically as long as those series been going on for. But it's sort of always in the... Always in the background. Some people know about it, most people don't. I think the main thing is a lot of the games just never really got much... I think a lot of them didn't get translated until way later and also just a lot of them didn't really get much attention initially. 8 I think was the first game... well 8 was the first like proper full 3D game but also yeah before that nothing else really got people's attention.

8's a really good game, though. At some point, I still want to go play Ys IX, Monstrum Nox. I've heard it's not, like, some people have said it's not as good, but yeah, I don't really care about, like, critics for games or critics for anime. I just do things, and if I enjoy it, I enjoy it. If I don't, then I guess I don't. I don't really care. Yeah, I don't

really care how other people... What other people's opinion on it. There are obviously people I will trust to a point so I don't just buy everything. But like, as a general rule, I just try it out. If I don't like it, I don't like it. I'll just move on. But, like, as a general rule, I just try it out. If I don't like it, I don't like it. I'll just move on.

But, yeah. Hmm. Anyway. What do we talk about? Right, I want to talk about this weird encounter I had. So, on the rare occasions where I do go outside, because of the area I live in, it's not, like, it's not like,

it's not the nicest of all areas, so, you know, sometimes you interact with some, you know, occasional crackheads, things like that, you know, fun, everyday sort of fun people, um, so, I was going down the street, and I see this guy with a bike, now, he, like, a push bike, a, you know, regular push bike, he wasn't riding the bike, he was bringing, like, he was just pushing the bike, but not pushing the bike forward, not like, you know, you have a, you know, punctured tire or anything like that, he was walking backwards, right, right, I'm gonna, like, you know, i don't know why i'm demonstrating in case you don't know walking backwards is he was walking backwards walking backwards and he was pulling the bike backwards right like wheeling the bike backwards but you know if you were gonna walk if you're

gonna like wheel your bike backwards you would turn the bike around so you know the front of the bike is going backwards so you can like the front of the bike is going backwards, so you can, like, control it with the handlebars. No, no, no, no, no. That's not what he was doing. He was wheeling it backwards on the back wheel, but also not holding the, um, the handlebars. So, he would wheel it back a bit, right? And then it gets, like, this weird point where the front wheel are, like, turned, and then it would, like, stop. And then you have to, weird point where the front wheel are turned, and then it will stop. And then you have to lift it up so the front wheel would go back into place and keep wheeling

it backwards like that. I see this guy, I'm like, what the fuck are you doing? I just, because I'm walking towards him, I'm like, okay, this is going to this is a podcast story right here. I have to talk to this guy. So I talk to him. I'm like, hey, hey mate, how's it going, what, what's up with you

walking backwards, and he's like, oh, there's fucking magpies up there, if I go down there, I'm gonna fucking swoop by the magpies, I'm like, okay, sure, but why are you wheeling the bike backwards? And then he goes on this, like, long-ass tangent about, like, yeah, my, uh, my, my dad doesn't like me riding my, this bike around here, and my other bike got stolen by the train station, and it was down by Elizabeth, the other,

the other bike got stolen, and then I bought this bike from Cash Converters, and that got stolen as well. It was like, fucking people keep stealing my fucking bike. I was like, yup, um, okay. Um, so, never got an answer for why

he was wheeling the bike backwards. But what I do know is there was magpies there. There weren't magpies. There were not magpies. I don't know what fucking magpies he was seeing, but there was no goddamn magpies. But not't know what fucking magpies he was seeing, but there was no goddamn magpies But not just only that the bike that he had that he said he's like dad didn't want him to ride The reason you want him to ride is like all these bikes varying like a couple hundred dollars The bikes expensive apparently it was not expensive

So it was an expensive bike when the bike was new but this bike right it was rusted to shit when the bike was new but this bike right it was rusted to shit the you know the you know how bikes have the like the clamp break that thing didn't work there was no front brake it was like broken apart the chain was rusted to hell the uh the seat like the the metal pole for the seat rusted to hell the handlebars rusted to hell like this bike this bike, at most, was, like, fucking 50 bucks. At absolute most. But it was, like, an expensive brand when it, like, was new. And sure, it was expensive then. But now, not so much.

I still don't know why he was walking... Like, if you're gonna walk away from Magpies, why wouldn't you turn around? And then just, like, wheel the bike forwards? Like, I think ultimately he ended up going, like, down some side street and all the way around to, like, circumvent the Magpies. For the record, if there are Magpies, the Magpies are going to be everywhere. It's that time of the year where the Magpies start coming out and the Magpies start. If you don't know, a magpie is a... I'll show you a magpie.

I feel like... I realize I should explain what a magpie is to someone who's not an Australian. This is a magpie. It's like a crow-looking fuck. It's a black bird with like a... Usually, it's black with a white back. That's typically how it goes. Is this another type of magpie?

What is this? These are... I didn't know there were other types of magpies. Apparently, there are Asian and European magpies. Okay, the Australian magpies are fucking terrifying. So, these things... Like, they will swoop you if you go anywhere near their babies, which they don't make it clear their babies are there. They will, like,

put their babies at the top of a fucking power line. You can't see them for shit, but they're like, woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Mate, I'm going to hit you with a club. Fuck off! So, um, yeah. I understood

why he was going away from them. I still don't know why he was going backwards. If anyone knows why he could possibly have been going backwards, oi, camera, why are you not focused on me? There we go. I am, I am the boss here. Don't focus on the background or the figures or whatever the hell you're focusing on. If anyone knows why

he could possibly have been, like, like, going backwards, let me know. Because I would love to know and I still don't have an answer. I've not seen him again. Oi, why is it focused on the background again? What is this camera doing? You good now? You gonna stay focused on me?

We good? I'm watching your camera. Okay, I think we're good. For now, at least. Mmm. Ah, tea. Cold tea. I made that, like, an hour and a half ago. My housemate's like, hey, if you're gonna make some tea, why don't you just drink it straight away? I'm like, I don't know.

I'll drink the liquid over time. I'll drink it as I'm thirsty. There used to be a time where I wasn't a big fan of iced tea. I guess, effectively, it's iced tea when it gets that cold. It just goes... Right now, it's probably like 11, 12 degrees outside. So, it's a relatively cool drink. And if it's cooled down to that, it's, I guess it's technically an iced tea, by some definition

of the term. Um, I'm just like, I'm too lazy to drink it. I make it with the boiling water, and I just leave it there, and eventually I feel like drinking it. Sometimes I forget about it, and it's still there, like, four hours later. Which is certainly something that's happened

on quite a few occasions. Especially times when I've made tea before a stream and then just forgot about it. Fun times. Fun times. What else do we have on the list? What else do we have on the list?

Talk about that one. Actually, you know what? We're going to talk about something... Yeah, we're going to talk about that. Yeah. So, have you guys been to The Verge recently? I know The Verge is like a questionably good at reporting stuff, but have you guys been to The Verge?

Because the new site redesign on The Verge is without a doubt the worst site redesign I've ever seen. It's not a good news site anymore. I liked The Verge before, not because I liked their reporting. Stop focusing on me again.

Not because I liked The Verge's reporting. I liked The Verge because anything that was remotely popular, they probably had a story on. So I could use that as like a prompt to sort of go to another story. That's why I like The Verge. This is how it looks now. Ignore Elon Musk's really creepy robot. But like, this is how it looks.

I don't know what's going on. Like, it's so... It's such a mess. So, we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6... Uh, how many other fonts do we have? We have 7 for the

italics there. Uh, 8, that's another one. And I think this Twitter bit down here, yeah, nine. There is nine, this is another one, nine different fonts on this one page. I don't know what this design is. Like, I really don't. None of it works together.

It, it's just all, it's all over the place. it works together, it's just all over the place. Before, if you don't know what The Verge looked like before, it was basically your typical news site, like gaming on Linux, for example. It was just like, it wasn't as neat as gaming on Linux is, but it was like, hey, here's a story, here's a story, here's a story, here's a story. And now it's this. Where, like, if I'm not using the full screen, there's literally one story on the page. There's not many websites that are worse than the way The Verge is designed now. Like, I'll give it to the Apple site.

I really don't like the way the Apple site's designed. iPhone 14. The main reason I don't like it is it's so fucking wasteful and there's nothing, nothing on the screen. It's just, let's have a shitload of animation. So you open up the page,

iPhone 14. That's all the information you get. I guess you get this up here, but like nothing else. Bigger. Big and bigger. And, like, you scroll up and down and, like, change the font size, which is so disorientating.

And, like, you keep scrolling and it's, like, scrolling. Like, it's scrolling through an animation. Like, it's one thing to have an animation it's another thing to have your animation tied to your scrolling like this is just oh so it broke

wait wait that bit of text just stays rendered on the screen I think that's not supposed to happen. Oh, no. Okay. It opens up before it should open up. This is wonderful, but

spelt wrong. I guess that's the joke. It's wonderful. It's full of wonder. I hate this. This is so bad. Like, someone got paid a lot of money to not only design this site, but to program this.

This is what happens when you let the designers have a bit too much control over the way your design works. And then it, like, completely falls apart when you get past that. Then it's like, here's this tile design, and there's a different design again, and a different design again.

Oh, back to the scrolling animation nonsense, but it's a different design again and a different design again oh back to the scrolling animation nonsense but it's a different style of scrolling animation oh this is an actual animation now oh i see if you're just listening to the audio version of this go to the apple site and go to the iPhone 14 page and tell me this site is well-designed. Like, it's so flashy. I'll give it that. Like, it's without a doubt, like, a technical marvel and a design marvel and, like, really flashy.

But it's so bad from a user perspective. It's so annoying to scroll through. And if you're using any, like, reasonably slow device, like, it would be a disaster to scroll through. Like, if you're using a couple year old Chromebook, like, this site would just lag to hell.

It's a fucking website to buy a phone. Why is it lagging? What? Like, it lags sometimes on my system. Like, that doesn't make any sense. It's just a fucking phone website. Like, it's not a game, it's nothing else. It's just a phone.

Oh, it's so stupid. It's stupid. But I guess that's, uh, that's what you get for buying an iPhone, it is what it is, um, oh, I got a, uh, I got a tweet from someone, uh, from Iggy, I actually, he's not, Iggy, why are you not following me, follow me, damn it,mit. If you're gonna reply to my damn tweets, fucking follow me. Got a reply from Iggy on my...

One of my posts about the Fedora Codex situation. Thanks for covering this stuff. At this point, I'm getting most of my news on this from you. I think that's... Surely I'm not the only one talking about the Fedora Codec situation. I looked it up before.

And I didn't find any other... Any other videos on it. H264. Am I... I better not have the first video on this situation. I'm not seeing anything here. I look up Fedora Codec H264. And there's nothing here. I look up Fedora Codec H.264 and there's nothing here.

I am... Why? I am so late to all of these stories and everybody else is so much later than I am. Why am I the only one here? i am just a dude in my fucking room why am i the only one talking about like big linux issues whether it's the i think i had my

grub issue out before pretty much everyone as well a grub issue my grub video out for pretty much everyone like why is everybody delegated the like really hard Linux topics to me maybe because everybody else is like has other things they want to do in their life and don't want to fucking sit down for like three hours looking at mailing lists and looking at issues

and going over this nonsense that's going on like I get it I totally get it but like come on give me some competition in this regard like fight me for the topics fight me for the views like give me something here

but I guess it is good for me like it's interesting like I've sort of got this, I've carved out this weird niche in the Linux space. Like, I do general Linux stuff as well, but I've carved out

this weird niche where I am the guy who's doing these, like, deep dive weird news topic sort of things on things that I think a lot of people care about but nobody nobody is like digging deep into them and it's it's been working out well a lot of people like really receptive to it I've had videos recently where it's like seven and a half minute plus watch time which is a nonsense

watch time so my general watch time for like a normal video is a couple of months ago it was like four and a half minutes which is in many cases lower than half the video length now i'm getting six minutes plus which is over half which means that i Now, I'm getting six minutes plus, which is over half, which means that I guess whatever I'm doing is working out well. Um, yeah, it's just, it's just working out well, I guess. Um, I don't know, like, I, back to the thing I was saying before, like, I, I think the topics that I really enjoy the most are these deep dives. As much as I enjoy the other stuff, I really enjoy the deep dives.

The only problem with the deep dives is the deep dives are also the videos that take the longest. It's like, Hey, do you want to spend three hours? Just, just reading mailing lists and nothing else. Do you,

do you, you do, fight me for the views. Tomorrow's video as of this, like when I'm recording this, is going to be the Fedora Codec video. I'm going to get the rest of these news topics out as well this week, so it's going

to be an interesting week for the channel, that's for sure. But even... I gotta fucking... The voice crack. Voice crack. Even that...

There have been a lot of, like, really big topics that have been coming out recently. Like, that... The ArchGrob video did 30,000. Like, what is that? Like, 30,000 is massive for this channel. Like, I've had a couple of videos on the, like, above, like, half a page of videos on YouTube, like, above 50k.

But I've had a bunch of videos recently that have been, like, 10k plus. Like, that's nonsense's nonsense like that's crazy numbers for this channel and i appreciate it like everyone who's enjoying the content i'm very very happy you're joining if you're a patron if you're not like if you're just enjoying the content if you're using adblocker if you're not whatever you're doing thank you for watching the content and um i'm glad that people are enjoying it and that people are, you know, generally actually talking about the content and the topic and not complaining about my hair or my beard anymore. Because that was a period of the channel that I'm happy died. So, hey, Brody, are you going to shave your beard?

Hey, Brody, are you going shave your beard? Hey Brody, are you gonna shave your head? No, no. And maybe I'll stop getting the, hey Brody, you're putting on weight comments that I've been getting recently as I progressively keep going down the working out route. The working out route. I've lost like. I think I've lost. Around. I think like half a kilo.

I've been doing like. Most day. Like every morning. Like the past week. I believe. Yeah. Before I was doing like every couple. Like. A couple of times.

Like. Most days of the week. Like four or five days a week, I'm getting on the bike. But now every morning I'm getting on the bike instead of going and doing a walk. So doing that bike ride every morning and I'm really enjoying it.

I really used to enjoy cycling, like going out and cycling. And I enjoy it just on the bike trainer as well. So it's nice. Plus it gives me a time to like listen to podcasts in the morning because I don't usually like to, I'm not usually a sit down and listen to podcasts kind of guy. Like when I sit down, I'm usually watching videos or something like that.

When I listen to podcasts, it's usually when I'm either walking somewhere or I'm at work and I don't want to deal with customers or I'm working out those are my podcast times and I've been watching too much of Joe Rogan and I

at the point where I literally caught up on the episodes that were out obviously there's a thousand episodes earlier, but I have to scroll so far down my list to find things that I haven't watched. I've started watching, like, other podcasts as well, like, you know,

adjacent to Joe's, like, um, I think I watched a couple of episodes of Lex Freedman's podcast, I'm watching Two Bears, One Cave, which is Tom Segura and Bert Kreisch's podcast. I'm, honestly bears one cave which is Tom Segura and Bert Kreischer's podcast I'm honestly I might start writing out into other podcasts again because a lot of science podcasts I used to listen to as well that I just haven't really gotten around to doing so in a while

maybe I should start listening what I should do actually is I should start listening to some Japanese podcasts. Like, do my... Do my... What's the word? It's a specific type of immersion where you're not paying super close attention. Basically do some immersion stuff while I am working out and doing things like that. Obviously, you won't get the most out of it compared to

just sitting down and then properly doing immersion, but having that audio playing there is going to definitely help out with the Japanese study. The Japanese has been going. It's been going. Like, every time someone's asking, like, hey, Brody, how's your Japanese study been going? I'm just like, it's going. Unlike, you know, it'd be pretty easy to demonstrate to someone, like, how your martial arts is going, how your, how your music is going. When someone's like, hey, how's your language study going?

It's like, I can tell you a sentence, but, like, you have no idea whether it, I could just make up noises and you'll think I'm doing well. But, it's going. I'm progressively getting further and further along, understanding more words, getting a better grasp of sentences. Forming sentences myself is still challenging in many respects, but when it comes to following along with the gist of a conversation, that definitely has's a lot... That definitely has gotten a lot easier.

Especially because I've always been interested in Japanese games anyway. I usually play with Japanese audio. So... It's sort of at the point where... In Final Fantasy XIV, for example, there is a lot of

cases where the translation is a mess. Like it's not even remotely close to what's actually being said. I'm like, oh, that's what, so that's actually what's being said. It's like, oh, okay, you just made something up for the translation. Like I don't like the, when you do a localization, I don't like the idea of localizing it to the point of losing all context. If you're going to do a translation and either localize it, like, terribly, or do no localization at all, I would prefer no localization at all and just do, like, a pure translation.

Like, obviously, format it in a way that makes sense in the language but don't bother changing any of the core structure like if it's Japanese jokes just fucking wing it like if it's like language puns just go with it just accept it as it is like compared to doing like

a bad job at doing that like there's enough bad jobs out there that I just don't want to deal with it. I wonder if I'm going to go do my lifting after this or if I'm just going to do that tomorrow. Because it's 10pm now. I could go and do my lifting and then do that again tomorrow as well. Maybe, maybe but also want to finish editing some videos and things like that before I go to bed

Oh I don't know it's I I I I I I What words? We're gonna try that one again. Okay. I don't know where I was gonna go. It's a solo episode, guys.

It's a solo episode. I don't know what I'm doing here. We just fucking wing it. And we'll go from there, basically. We'll go from there, basically. Next week, there is going to be a guest. As I mentioned earlier, we're bringing Christian Lemper back on the Digital Life. Great dude. Known him since

he had... I think he initially had less subs than I did, and now how many subs does Christian have? The Digital Life. He has a great channel. If you've not watched Christian's channel, go watch it. ATK. He does a lot more

editing and production with his videos. But he also makes a lot less videos, and they're more of like the corporate, not corporate, more like, I guess the sort of corp, like, what you need to know in a corporate context, or, like, more server-y stuff, things like that, not like, hey, I am Linux user,

Linux is, Linux is the, the only thing you're allowed to run, like, he uses Windows, he uses Windows Server, even, he'll use Linux, obviously, in server context, but it's not like Linux is the only thing that is correct. Use the tool for the job. Things like that. General sort of DevOps.

There you go. It's like DevOps, server management, things like that. Go watch his channel. Great videos. I don't think I actually have much else to say right now um i think i've i've pretty much covered everything that i wanted to cover so i could just drag it out for like you know 15 more minutes or i could just end it 15 minutes early. I think we're gonna do that. So, if you like the podcast, then that's cool. If you don't, then go and, uh, go and double smash the dislike button. Do that. Yeah, double smash it. smash it leave a comment let me know how much of a soy boy I am

I got one of those comments over on the gaming channel the other day soy boy because in my podcast my gaming channel I usually wear the cat ears because I'm a cute anime girl they're like fox ears, aren't they?

They're furry ears. That's what they are. So, you know, I get the soy boy comments every so often. I'm like, yeah, man, you're literally sitting here leaving insulting comments on the internet. I'm not insulted by you. Like, you clearly have no life. Yeah. So, main channel, Brody Robertson.

I do Linux videos there. Six days a week, generally. Go check it out. The gaming channel. Right now, I'm playing through Cult of the Lamb. And the world ends with you. I feel like I need to play Metal Wolf Chaos XD after I finish the current games I've got.

Maybe I'll play it after I get Cult of the Lamb off. Because after the world ends with you, I think we're going to do the next stage in the Kingdom Hearts saga. So either Birth by Sleep or 358 Over Two Days days i'm not sure which i'm gonna go with first i love both games they're so fun um but we'll work it out and this channel if you're listening to the audio version the video version is available on the youtubes uh and if you're watching the video version the audio version is available wherever the YouTubes. And if you're watching the video version, the audio version is available wherever you

can find audio podcasts. Whether it's iTunes, Apple Podcasts, whatever it's called, Google Podcasts, other things, there is an RSS feed. You will find it. And yes. That is going to be it for

me then. Thank you guys for listening. If you're still listening, I don't know why you are. But yeah. Oh, one thing I want to briefly say is finally Arch killed Python 2. And that's great. Why is my voice cracking? I'm going to stop talking now.

Enjoy the rest of your day, night, afternoon, whatever time of the day it is for you. I'm going to go, and... Peace out.