Tech Over Tea - I Got Offered A Real Developer Job!! | Solo

Episode Date: March 30, 2022

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Good morning, good day, good evening. I am as always your host Brodie Robertson and today we are back for episode 108 of Tech of a T. And today I've actually been talking to one of my mates for about like an hour and a half today about a job he's been trying to work out how to do and work out if I am able to do it. It's a programming position for a very very short-term job but it's one of those short-term jobs that the more you think about it the more you realize this is a lot a lot bigger of a job than you really thought. Like still fairly fairly manageable unlike the other time I talked about a job on this channel back with the Luke Smith one but it's

a lot bigger than I initially thought and it's requiring a lot more knowledge than I actually have the basic idea and this is why it sounded really simple you have a table of data you parse the data and

certain segments of that table are marked with a color. So if it's green, if it's blue, anything like that. If it's marked with a color, that's good. If it's not marked with a color, that means that that data is missing. Basically, it's a table that indicates which data is available in their system. So that table needs to be aligned with the actual data that is available. But because they're currently using a manual data entry system, some people don't update it when they put data in. Some people update the wrong section when they put data in. So you basically wanted to automate that entire process to,

you know, make it so you don't really have to think. Everything just happens and it's just good to go. Now the problem is that like with a lot of manual data entry systems, they're not designed to be automated. So when you want to automate any sort of system, you need to first massage the data into a form that is one, consistent, and two, relatively easy to work with. Now, two, actually first problem, two problems, no, there's much more than two problems. Problem number one, problem number one is the table exists inside of an existing Excel spreadsheet. So it's in an Excel spreadsheet, but it's not

an Excel spreadsheet by itself. There's other data above it, there's other data below it. So you'd have to go and parse out where the table you care about is actually located, because otherwise you then start changing data policies in the company, and that's considerably harder to do. So you want to work with what they have and then go from there. Second problem. That's not second. Second is two fingers, Brody. Second problem. It's an Excel spreadsheet. Now, if you don't know, Excel, sure, while you can export as a CSV, the Excel format is a binary format. So you're not going to be parsing it by just opening up the file and extracting the data out. I would have liked it to be something like, you know, XML maybe or HTML or anything like that, but no, it's a binary format. So I'd need some sort of library that is able to

parse XML, or parse Excel. I keep saying XML and Excel backwards. Parse Excel in a consistent and able to bring out the data that I care about. Because here's the problem. I don't necessarily care about the data in the cells. This is what I mean by it is a manual data entry system that's not designed to be parsed. I don't care about the data in the cells. The data in the cells is meaningless.

Every cell has a 1 in it. So what they've done is they've marked each cell with a 1, I guess to make it... I don't know. I don't know why there's a 1 in every cell. But the way they mark if data has been entered by a crew, so there's, I think, there's four or five crews. Each crew is assigned a color.

So you have crew A that's yellow, crew B that's one green, crew C, which is another color, so on and so forth, for every single one of the crews. If that crew has entered data, then that cell will be marked with their color, not with a number or a letter saying crew A, crew B, crew C, or 1, 2, 3, and 4. No, it's marked with the color of the crew. So I can't go and take that spreadsheet and export it as CSV because the colors aren't kept with that data. I can't go and export it as a tab separated value, same reason.

If I try to do HTML, HTML from Excel is so incredibly garbled that parsing it is not an easy feat. I would have to spend probably probably a good couple of days just trying to work out what everything is in the spreadsheet and then what is actually consistent. Because I expect if you go and add any extra columns and extra rows and extra crews and extra colors, anything like that, any of the IDs associated with the classes in the spreadsheet are likely going to be shifted.

So I couldn't just go and you know manually set them or anything like that and then be done with it. So that's not gonna work as well. And we spent basically an hour and a half going back and forth trying to work out some sort of method where this could be done. Now, work out some sort of method where this could be done. Now besides just parsing the spreadsheet, the other problem, this is something that's not that difficult, it's just not something I've had experience with. The other problem is they want to make it so when you upload data to the Dropbox it will be updated in the spreadsheet. Or you can have it run like

once a week or anything like that. basically make it so when stuff's in the dropbox it can then be represented in the spreadsheet now i don't know how to work with the dropbox api that's the first problem second problem is i would need access to a dropbox developer account inside of their organization and i'm sure they wouldn't want to give that to someone who's just a random contract they brought on for a, you know, a five-hour job. So you need to go through all the hoops to get that set up and it would just, it would take probably like a week or two just to get absolutely anywhere. But working with the Dropbox API from what I can see, it's pretty straightforward. I'll show it on the screen if we can find it. Dropbox

API with Python. So yeah, I was also going to be using Python and yeah it seems pretty straightforward. So getting a list of files is the main thing I'd care about. If the file is there in Dropbox then make sure it exists in the spreadsheet. Now, when it comes to parsing the spreadsheet with Python, there is a library. I think it's called like XLRD or something. I don't think you can get colors. I think basically it turns the spreadsheet effectively into CSV, stripping out everything that's not supported in that format. So it works if you care about the data, but as we've established, I don't care about the

data. So basically where I ended up getting to is this job is doable if you change all of the data policies in your company. If you get it to the point where rather than using ones in every column, you use a one or an A to represent the crew that entered it. And if there is a one, A, whatever you want to use, there is data there. If there is a zero, there is no data. You can still stick with your colors,

but make sure that everything is being set up the way it should be. Because I could fill in the spreadsheet. That's the thing. I could fill in the spreadsheet with the data that I would want to be there. But getting it in the Excel format that they are using, it's just not something I have the knowledge to do. From what I know, from what I know, I could have a Python script that goes and checks goes and checks Dropbox and then do a

Excel macro to modify the spreadsheet and then call the macro from Python. That I think would work. I think that would be fine. Uh, I would have to go and make it on Windows because I can't do VBA. I think you can do VBA on Linux? I actually don't know. I also have never written any VBA in my life. Um, Linux VBA. Linux VBA. Maybe you can. How to run a VBA macro on Linux machine. VBA is a visual basic for applications.

Run on the side of Word, Excel, etc. All of them can usually run on Linux by using Wine. Okay, so I could do it through Wine, but then that adds an extra layer of, am I testing it correctly? Does it actually work? Or is it just like working weirdly through Wine? It would be a nightmare to test. And then I have to make sure like, I've set it up, set up wine properly, or I could go and do it on Windows. I had an extra setup,

uh, extra setup stuff, so then I have to go and set up my dev environment on Windows. There's just all of these things. Some them are me problems other other problems are just if they just don't have a an a possible data policy in plant uh in place and to take them from their existing data policy where they're doing the colors and shit it would be very expensive and it would be very very time consuming i don't think judging by what he's told me about the uh he did a phone call with his boss to ask like if we can at all modify the policies and basically the boss's answer was no no i'm not doing that which i i understand because it yeah it would be expensive it'd take a lot of time and it doesn't really save that much time like it saves

a couple of minutes and it ensures the data is not inconsistent it ensures that people don't have the issue of it like entering the data wrong but this isn't something that you know adds up really quickly it's something that'll you know it'll be cheaper to run it in an automated fashion in a year or two years. It's not like, hey, a week from now, we are saving money. So yeah, it is what it is. But hey, if I come up with a solution

that I can address it with like the knowledge that I have, as I said, I know that I can do this with VBA and then Python to deal with Dropbox. I've just never done VBA. That's my only problem here. If I have a solution, I will let him know and I'll let you guys know what ends up happening. So I'll let you guys know if we come up with a solution

or if I find someone who actually does have the knowledge and we can work it out together. But yeah. like we come up with a solution or if I find someone who actually does have the knowledge and we can you know work it out together uh but yeah so that's uh that that's that's my day uh so I'm recording this podcast like way way later than I normally would I started this at about 3 40 3 3 35 so I'm gonna be done with this I think like 20 minutes before I go and have dinner yeah I didn't even realise I talked to him for that long, that's the funny thing

I did the initial phone call, like I think it was 10 or 11, that lasted a half an hour, and then we did another phone call trying to work out a solution, it lasted another hour, so either way way it is what it is now speaking of it is what it is uh something has actually changed a little bit with obs not with my obs but uh with the way the obs is now being distributed over on the windows and the mac os side. So normally you would

just go and download the application from their website or is that how you do it on macOS? Is it on the app store or whatever they call it on thingy? I don't know. Maybe it is, maybe it's not. Either way, normally on Windows you'd go and get it from the OBS website, but that isn't how, or that isn't the only way you can do so now. Now, if my internet's gonna work, I'm gonna try to fucking demonstrate it, and it's just not gonna be, it's not gonna load at all, is it? Okay, sure, it's just not gonna load. Yeah, lovely. Um, we can see it from the, the page that's not working here. Uh, it's now available on Steam. Why OBS is on Steam is a question that I don't actually have an answer for. In some ways, it will make it a little bit easier to manage. So, normally on Windows, you do the updates. I guess you do the updates through OBS itself.

I presume it comes like a built-in updater or you would go and... you'd go probably and manually download the new version or something along those lines. Oh, there we go. Now it's working. Cool. But now. You can go and download it through OBS. It says it was released in 2014.

Because it's technically. Wow it's actually that old. I didn't realise. Either way. Now you can go and have OBS manage it for you. Steam manage OBS for you. And basically just let it do it's thing. I don't know if it'd be less

performant or anything like that I know it would make it much much harder to install extensions because then you have to go to the location where it's installed on from Steam rather than the regular install location, but it wouldn't make it really that much

harder I would say only problem is because now it's being managed by Steam. If Steam was to crash, so would OBS. That's sort of the big reasons why I wouldn't want to do this. The other reason is that it's actually not available over on Linux. So there is a Windows and a MacOS version and yeah that's it, no Linux version I wonder what the requirements are

so minimum requirements an i5-2500K or a Ryzen 1300X a GeForce GTX 900, a Radeon RX 400 or a Intel HD 500. That is so much slower than this, I don't even know why that's even considered. Um, hardware and code is recommended, but hardware and code is not recommended for the recommended version? Uh-huh, sure. Uh, recommended Windows 10, uh, i7-8700K or a 1600X, makes sense. Uh, 8GB of RAM, a 10 series, 10 series or a 5000 series Radeon card, really? That's what your recommended specs are? are sure that's something you've just pulled straight out of your ass you just made up that number why why why this why is that

why is that what you're recommending sure uh and then the mac os side uh oh there's no there's's no M1 version yet. That's sad. Yeah, this came out, I think, earlier today, actually. Oh! Oh, wait, but because it is inside of Steam now, you can, uh... You can go and...

Uh... Show how much time you've used it. Someone's used it up 8 hours already. Lovely. Why? Why? Someone's gonna... I guarantee as soon as it is possible, someone's gonna have a review here with like

10,000 hours saying that OBS is terrible. This isn't the only bit of software that's available on Steam. Like, Steam has a whole software and... Yeah, it has a whole software section. Not much, because, you know, there's not really many things

that really make sense to put into it. But it does have this section here, which is kind of cool. What is photo editing? Why is it photo editing? What is available here? Motive Squirrel Rife. I guess if you're a less popular... If you're a fairly...

Not less popular. Fairly small, whatever you want to say, application. It kind of makes sense to distribute yourself on Steam. It gives you a way to get more publicity than you otherwise would be getting, I guess. Either way, it works. I'm not going to use

it, because it's not available on Linux, but either way I'm not going to use it, because I don't want my OBS window tied to my Steam window. That seems like not the best of ideas. But hey, if it works, it works. Also, I just closed my browser window.

So I'm going to fix that now because I'm... Oh, wow. It reconnected. That's impressive. I don't know how it did that. Magic. Magic OBS magic. Speaking of magic,

Elden Ring is a game that looks like a lot of fun, but it seems like every other day there is some crazy bug that either breaks the game or just makes speed running so much more efficient. One of them being, uh, Elden Ring exploit sends PC players into infinite death loop. So basically, here's, here's what happens here.

basically, here's what happens here. Basically, your game will crash or save or whatever happens. Then you'll be in infinite falling and a death loop. And there's no way to get out of this. From what we've seen, at least until it is patched, unless it's been patched now, I actually haven't heard. But

while this was going on, uh, the one way you could get out of this without ruining your save file is if you managed to quit out of the game before the exploit killed you once. If you did that, sometimes you would be safe, but it wasn't consistent and Yeah It's not like why are from software games such a mess like My understanding is This is what else would have been told from software games are basically running off of a codebase that is still effectively the Demon's Souls codebase. So, as the games are getting more and more and more complex,

you're seeing more and more and more bugs start to show up. Like, for example, Elden Ring's latest glitch which lets you take wha- which lets you which lets the horses take flight there we go I can say words this one isn't a glitch that's gonna destroy your game if you break the bug you just die and you go back to spawn point but basically on some of the ledges in this game you can fall fall down, jump off your horse, and then for whatever reason, I guess the horse still thinks it's in the hovering position or something like that. And then all of this ground out here gets turned to solid.

hovering position or something like that. And then all of this ground out here gets turned to solid. It does have limits. As I mentioned, if you jump, you die. You will just fall off the horse. I don't know if you fall off the horse, but I know you do die. You can raise your height if you rub up against something that does have a bit of a ledge. So like this here, this rock here, you like raise yourself up and you will maintain that height. But you can't go down

without getting off the horse. So, I don't know how speedrunners are going to use this but speedrunners are going to use this. Whenever you give something that literally gives people the ability to fly, it's going to be a bit

of a part of the speedrun. Like, there's no way that something like that doesn't somehow make it in. Now, I haven't played Elden Ring, so I'm not really sure the context in which the locations that this occurs

actually exist. That was not a sentence. Not having played Elden Ring, I'm not sure about all of the locations where this can take place. There we go. But it is a subset of locations and if you go to this guy's channel, or if you watch his streams,

he will probably tell you how to do so. This will probably be patched at some point, presumably. Unless FromSoft is just like, you know what? Nah. Nah, we're just leaving. Honestly, that would be kind of funny.

I kind of like it when, like, this isn't something you accidentally do. This is something where you have to land on a very specific part of the mountain as you're falling down. So, it would be really difficult to accidentally do. So, actually, no really difficult to accidentally do. So, actually, no, I can think of one

reason why they might get rid of it. Because this would be very exploitable in PvP. Because you can use magic off of your horse. So, can you? Pretty sure you can. Can you use magic off a horse? Wait, I'm pretty sure you can. Um, Elden Ring.

Horse magic. Yes. Elden Ring Horse Magic Yes, so what you could do is you could be flying and then just fucking throwing magic at people from like on high and they have no idea where you are so I think that's a fairly

fairly valid reason to address the problem. But! I kinda like it when devs just leave bugs in for the sake of speedrunning. I don't know if I've talked about... This is a very obscure speedrun. But the speedrun for Ys VIII. Ys VIII is a very busted game. Um...

In that game, if you bind... I think it is your... What is it? I think it's your... Dodge roll and your character swap. Yes. If you bind your dodge roll and your character swap to the same button, basically the game breaks. Basically, the game breaks.

Oh, no. It's dodge roll, attack, and character swap. Yes. Because it lets you do this. Wait, here we go. Where is it? There we go. Yeah, it lets you do this.

Yeah, it lets you do this. Like, it... It's such a broken system. Or it might just be your dodge and your attack and then character swaps on a separate button. I know there is a later form of this. Yeah, there's a later form of this where you do have them all on the same button. I think it's here.

It's when you triple... Yeah, when you do triple Dana. I think you can just... Yeah. This is how it is. So the game just straight up breaks here. Where is the... Where is it? Somewhere around here?

Where? It's a 16 minute speed run for a 50 hour JRPG. Where is it? Where is it? Show me the flying bug. Oh, just before that. Yeah. Here it is.

So, this literally can just be exploited by anyone. You just press one button, you do character swap, dodge, and attack, and you just fly. And the game just it's always been there. Literally since the game came out, on the first patch of the PS3 version, that bug has

been there. And there's basically no hitboxes outside the map map because why would there be? At least in this game it does have the slight advantage that you can't just go across the entire game. So the zones don't load in unless you go to the correct loading location, but you can very easily skip most, like the majority of most zones, and this one here you can just skip all the way to the back of the room without going through the way it should be. So there are some zones where it is like that, but most of them aren't, and most of them you can just like completely

bust. That sort of stuff is fun. I love that sort of speed aren't, and most of them you can just like completely bust. That sort of stuff is fun. That- I love that sort of speedrunning stuff, and I love games where they- not- like this is obviously a bug, and the same thing with the Elden Ring thing, but I love it when games intentionally put like design choices into the game specifically built around speedrunning. It doesn't make the game a worse game for regular players. In fact, once they work it out, they might actually start abusing it and get better at the game. Take games like um, like uh, Hollow Knight, for

example, or you take a game like Celeste. Both of these games have weird design choices that from a regular, casual player's perspective, you probably don't realize like why they are there but there are things like how you can dash and then jump straight away in celeste and get a massive speed boost or i think it's like a duck dash and other weird dashes like

this where you can get a lot of speed that otherwise wouldn't be possible normally. And this is how you actually get through the entire game by... I think it's not using your double jump. Yeah, there's an achievement for getting through... I think there's an achievement for getting through every area without using your double jump or something like that. I know there's one for getting through the first area like that. And then Hollow Knight, same thing. Hollow Knight has this... So when you hit an enemy, you actually bounce off that enemy.

So normally that's just slightly annoying and gets you away from the enemy and gets the enemy away from you. But if you... This is something that's not really possible by a human, but in a tool-assisted speedrun, if you do frame perfect timing, you turn around, like you turn to face the enemy, you hit them, and then you turn back the other way, you actually get a bit of a speed boost that normally wouldn't be possible, and this is possible not just on enemies, but on the environment as well, so if you watch a, Actually, Hollow Knight Zero Geo TAS. This actually shows it off really well. Here we go. Can I find it? What's a section that shows it really well?

There's a lot of this that doesn't show it super well. But whenever there is a bit to exploit the way the jump... Yeah, here it is. Okay. Whenever there is a bit to exploit the way the jump mechanics works in this run, it is going to be done. So basically you can hit these little over-the-top things and get a speed boost that normally you wouldn't be able to do. Same with here. Like when you're fighting these enemies, if you

turn around, hit them, turn back in an instant, literally frame perfect timing, you get a speed boost. Obviously, it's not something you can actually do as a regular person. Like, the amount of time, the

window for error you have is basically non-existent. And even then, it's not just window of error, it's it's it's just reaction time in general. But this speedrun is just stupid enough by itself

because it's not just a tool assist speedrun, this is a zero geo speedrun. So geo is basically the money in the game any of those um any of these like silver things you see on the ground that's money and the uh the hitbox for picking up money this is actually really annoying playing the game normally but the hitbox for picking up money is basically the shape of your character minus your horns. So if you're going for pixel-perfect movement,

you can avoid all of this in an insane way. Once again, not avoiding it through human means, but it's possible in a tool assist context, and this speed run actually is doable by a human, just not at this pace. I think the human speed run is like 20 minutes or half

an hour slower. It's still incredible. It's still, I want to say 20 minutes actually. I think the world record zero, uh, zero geo is still sub hour, um, zero geo world record. Also, this is sort of like a meme speed run anyway. Um, like it's, it's not a real speed, like it it's not, like, a serious speedrun category, yeah, uh, 44, is that it? Might be quicker now. Either way, it's really fucking fast,

considering, like, how long I've been playing Hollow Knight for, um, much longer than 44 minutes, so speedrunners are kind of insane. I have, I have no interest in getting involved in that world but I totally respect people who do, if you want to spend, you know, tens hundreds, thousands of hours working on your pace for a game

that's cool, that's honestly really cool, better if you can, you know, actually be an entertaining person while you're doing so, you know, like Small Land or Easy Speezy, people like that, and then turn it into an actual job. Problem is that when you are spending thousands of hours on a game,

usually you don't have thousands of hours to spend on having a functional personality. And there's a lot of people, this is actually true for a lot of the like really high end really high end gaming stuff there's a lot of people in that space who have incredible gameplay and if you just watch them for what they are capable of doing great content if you want to see someone who's actually a good online entertainer, well, you're better off watching Paint Dry because a lot of these people don't say a word. And I can get it because you're trying to focus

really hard on what's being done. But I think that's why people like Smallland and Easy Speeds are a lot more entertaining because they are speed runners, but they're trying to... They're trying to make entertaining content as well. Easy Speedy gets away with doing voiceovers afterwards. Obviously, Small Ant being a livestreamer can't exactly do that, but he's got his own ways of being weird, but doing weird speedruns. I think the reason I found Small Ant, I think the way I

found Small Ant was when he was trying to become the world's or hold the world record on sharpening pencils. I believe that is the way I found him. I think after he did that, people actually overtook his record.

Imagine spending months of your life, like, learning how to sharpen a pencil as quick as possible. Finding out which sharpeners are the most efficient sharpeners. Which sharpeners are going to give you the least resistance while also shaving

off the most of the pencil. Without, you know, potentially breaking the pencil and slowing you down as well. That's a weird speedrun. But speedrunning in general is just a weird hobby to have. I just looked at my Discord. And I saw someone talking about the whole Proton on Steam thing. And they said something that doesn't make any sense to me.

Imagine OBS. Did I say Proton on Steam me. Imagine OBS, did I say Proton on Steam? I meant OBS on Steam. Imagine OBS running under Proton. You just see a black screen, except few Windows apps, and then go off on a tangent. So I think what they think

is that if you are running an application, like running OBS under Proton, the only thing it'd be able to capture is other Windows applications, which is not how screen capture works whatsoever. In fact, OBS wouldn't function at all because the capture APIs between Windows and then Xorg and especially Wayland are very different. So OBS is not an application that you can just run through... Through Proton. I've mental blank there. Same reason why you couldn't just run OBS through

through X Wayland because of the lack of capture API on Wayland. I say X Wayland, X... X Wayland, yeah, that's what it's called. Yeah, yeah, yeah, X Wayland. The translation layer between Wayland and Xorg. You need some way to have the ability to capture and that's why over on the Wayland side they're now using our pipe wire. I haven't actually swapped over to... At least as of the recording of this, maybe

by the time you guys are seeing this, I have. But as of the recording of this, I haven't swapped over to Sway yet. But it is certainly going to be happening soon. We'll see what happens. We'll see if I stick on it. We'll see if I leave. I've been hearing very,

very mixed messages about the state of Wayland and the state of Sway in general. Some people saying, oh, people are saying I've been using it for four months and it's been absolutely incredible. I had some other person saying I've been using it for four hours and it's god awful and I never want to use it again. I did have one weird comment regarding that, though, where they were complaining that Sway wasn't supporting something or wasn't offering support for something that has nothing to do with their project.

So if I remember the comment correctly, it went something like, I didn't have audio working on Sway, so I went to the Sway devs and asked them what the problem was, and they said that audio was not a part of Sway. Now, any reasonable person would see that and say, yeah, that's true. Audio is not a part of Sway. Audio is not a part of GNOME, it's not a part of KDE, XFCE, AwesomeWM, DWM, anything like that. Your audio is

part of your audio stack, not your display stack. So, yeah. Like, this was a problem with, it was actually a problem with Pipewire or Pulsar. I think they were using Pipewire at the time. My guess is they installed Pipewire

and then didn't install Pipewire Pulse. So Pipewire Pulse was not actually managing Pipewire and was not managing Pulse. And then had no idea what to do with the Pulse audio streams and was just like, yeah... Okay. Well, it just doesn't work that's it make sure you install pipe wire pulse very important they're very very important to

make sure pipe wires actually are going well if you need to do any audio work make sure you also install pipe wire jack the pipe wire package by itself it is used by I know that what is it called now? It used to be called PulseFX What did they change the name to? PulseFX is no longer PulseFX EasyFX Right, that makes sense EasyFX is a

native Pipewire application now I don't think it even supports yeah I don't think it even supports. Yeah I don't think it actually even supports. Pulse audio anymore. Wow it actually looks considerably better. Like the UI itself. It did have.

A bit of questionable design. Last time I looked at it. But seems like. It seems like it should be better. Maybe. Hopefully. I'm not sure. I need to have another look at it. Like, it seems like it should be better. Maybe? Hopefully. I'm not sure. I need to have another look at it.

I think I... Did I do a... You're not seeing this. You're not seeing this. Sorry. Sorry. I think I did have a look at EasyFX or PulseFX at one point. But I didn't... Did I do a video?

Did I do a video on Pulse Effects at one point. But I didn't... Did I do a video? Did I do a video on Pulse Effects? I feel like I planned one and then didn't upload it. Brody Robertson Pulse Effects. Yes. Yes I did. Okay. Maybe I should do another video on it and just

see sort of the state that it's in now. See if it's actually better, if it's worse, if it's the same. I don't know. But, um, while I haven't had a shot to try Sway yet, maybe because I just haven't gone around to it, when it comes to Pipe Bar itself, I have no plans to swap. It's still going really, really well. Everything

about it is absolutely rock solid. Honestly, I'm struggling to find things to say in a video just because it's been that good of an application like basically the video would just be me like saying how great pipewire is this is great that is great everyone should use pipewire and that doesn't really it doesn't really make a super entertaining video

now does it like i guess i could talk about some issues people are having. Like, I think people are still having issues with Bluetooth. Pipewire, Bluetooth. I still don't care about Bluetooth, so I still don't use it. My understanding is it is better, but not perfect. So far, while my experience with headphones and Bluetooth and Arch has been very mixed, when using Pipewire at a time, it just completely skips audio. Pulse audio, on the

other hand, just tends to noticeably degrade the audio, like down to that of a phone call. What? Well, neither solution is ideal. I'd really like to know if there's anything I can do to make Pipewire's Bluetooth function similar to how... Let's make I can do to make Pipewise Bluetooth function similar.

Let's make, do we want it skipping or sounding like shit? Which one is better? As the skipping can't be on barrel at times, whereas for a new podcast, for example, lower audio quality is hardly an issue. I'm having a similar problem with Pipewire, with Pop OS. See, I just don't use Bluetooth on anything besides my phone. Like my Jaybirds,

these exist solely for not being home. If I'm going to be at home, I'm going to plug in a cable because it's just easier. It's just easier. I don't have to deal with bluetooth being really sketch on fucking everything even on like mobile it's relatively sketch like it's not it's not terrible it's not unusable but even then there are like some situations where uh i connect my my phone to my my car stereo and sometimes i leave these plugged in sometimes it switches to my car sometimes it doesn't i don't

know what criteria you know makes it do one or the other i don't think there's a setting to make it so it automatically swaps when that thing comes in range. So why it swaps over, I don't know. I genuinely don't. But Pipewire is just, it's fun if you like cables. And I'm yawning a lot, so I apologize. It's going to make for an interesting hour I have a watch on. Interesting another hour 20 minutes. I do have a

watch somewhere around here. I just don't wear it. I have a smart watch that I was given. I'm just not much of a watch guy. Basically I wear watches. When do I wear watches? That's a very good question. I don't know. I've had it sitting in my drawer for quite a while. Actually is it in my drawer or is it on the shelf?

It's on the shelf. No, it's in the drawer. I wear watches very rarely. I did actually have a nice watch in the past. Not like a super expensive watch. A nice looking watch. I just don't wear watches. If I need to tell the time, I just take this out.

I'm not much of a jewellery guy in general. I do have the necklace that I always wear. You've probably seen it in a couple of videos. But besides that, I'm not much of a jewellery guy. This one never comes off. That's always on. That was my 16th birthday present. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, let's talk about something that

is not that, let's talk about, let's talk about, what do we talk about, uh, oh, let's talk about, uh, Ninokuni, a game I've still been playing quite a bit of, so, Ninokuni, a game I've still been playing quite a bit of. So, Ninokuni is a weird game. So, I've talked about the story before, and I've talked about the general gameplay, but around, I think it's chapter 5, chapter 6, yeah, I think it's chapter 5, you unlock the boat,

chapter 6, you unlock the ability to cross the, There are these big ravines that exist in the ocean. Now, you might think that, you know, with this relatively large map... Here we go. With this relatively large map, there would be quite a bit of content going on. Oh, there is something in the middle map. Oh, I guess something does get added later on.

But you'd think that with this relatively large map, something would be, you know, hidden around somewhere, especially when you get the ability to jump over these ravines and then go behind all of these islands. Turns out, of these islands. Turns out, um, behind these islands, I don't know if it was, like, cut content or

what it was, but circumnavigating the entire map, there is one, one hidden cave. So, all of this one, one hidden cave. So, all of this space out here is just completely waste. Unless there's something that I didn't see for whatever reason,

I was trying to pay fairly close attention. Like, I couldn't find a single hidden cave around the entire map. So, that took about, like,, 15-20 minutes to go around. And there's nothing there. The other thing is, if you go around the inside here. Getting from, say, this little place right here in the middle of the ocean. This is a city called Hydropolis. Going from Hydropolis back to evermore takes like five

minutes and there's nothing there because after i think the enemies are around 30 30 to 35 once you are past level 40 41 i think it's like six or seven levels above the the enemies they stop attacking. So, it literally, if you want to go from one place to another, because there is a couple of hidden islands on the inside here, it takes a long time, and there's just nothing there. You're just

going across the ocean for the sake of going across the ocean. Honestly, I feel like the map of this game could have been taken and then shrunk down, like, half the ocean. Honestly, I feel like the map of this game could have been taken and then shrunk down like half the size. All of this ocean here just doesn't need to be here. There's nothing there.

Like, sure, obviously have a bit of an ocean, fine. But I shouldn't have to waste like five minutes going across the map with there literally being nothing there. It's sort of the problem that a lot of open world games have. So, Skyrim has this to some extent, but Skyrim is still fairly good at, like, good at handling its open world. When you go around the map,

you're gonna run into caves. You're going to run into events happening. Maybe there's like some, some going to run into events happening maybe there's like some some barbarians maybe there's a fox that's gonna run by and it's chasing a rabbit like it's not events that are overly unique and as you play the game as you've played 100 200 hours something like that you're gonna realize that there's a very small number of them but the difference is that things are happening. Something is happening, even if it's something you've seen 20 or 30 times before, but when it's just literally empty, you have to question why there's an open world. One good thing about the way the map does work is we live on a globe, so this is the entire planet from what I can tell because if I go all the way

over to the right here, I will show up on the left. If I go to the top, I'll show up on the bottom. So I guess this must be the entire planet because otherwise there's no reason why that would happen. It's a really good mechanic though. I actually kind of think more games should do that

because I thought when I'd go outside the map it'd be like, hey, you've hit the edge of the map, time to die or you've hit the edge of the map, here we're going to put some arbitrary invisible wool. I think

living on a globe makes it a it's a better mechanic. It is a much better mechanic. But it did make it kind of weird the first time I saw it, I thought, like, I left the map, and then I got to, like, a new bit of the map off to the, like, off to the side, turns out I was just over here, um, so in some cases, actually getting around the map is easier, like, if, if you say go over to um for what this city is called it's the city i'm at right now let's say you go up to the um what's some place i know the name of let's say you go down to goldpaw and you actually don't even have a boat let's say you go to uh where's a where's a place we can go i don't, let's just say we go up to the,

the, whatever this city is here, if you want to get over to this side, it's much quicker to just go this way than sort of, like, going around, uh, if you can get in here, I don't think you can, though, but from my understanding, I think in chapter seven, we unlock a blimp um I keep seeing areas where there's literally no way to like get up somewhere so it's very obvious

that there's some sort of there's some sort of flying mechanic in the game whether it's a I'm pretty sure it's a blimp I know the first game the first game if I remember correctly, had a dragon. But that doesn't really make as much sense

in this context. So, we're going to a fairly advanced city at this point. Them giving us a blimp sort of makes sense. Especially when the... I guess... I guess you would call them the antagonist? The antagonist of this section. Yeah, we did get a blimp.

Came in on an airship. So I guess we're going to steal his airship or something. And that will unlock areas we just couldn't get to before. Which means more of nothing. Some things, but still more nothing. I really wish it wasn't like that, because the first game, I don't remember it being that bad. Like, not bad, like bad as in just a lot of nothing going on.

It does really feel like the game has had some content cut. And people actually seem to be asking about this on a forum. Oh, the final dungeon is a pathway with zero enemies. That makes sense. Dungeons are forest, underground style. That's actually the other problem. So it's not just the fact that there are no dungeons, there are no secret caves, anything like that.

It's the fact that when you go into a cave, every single cave is the exact same cave. Like it's literally a copy-paste cave. There are some caves where you just walk into the entrance and there's nothing there. Like it's just a cave therepaste cave. There are some caves where you just walk into the entrance, and there's nothing there. Like, it's just a cave there for no purpose. Although the forest as well, like, it's just,

these all look like the same forest, it's a completely different part of the world, and well, that's great. I don't want this to be a bad game. I really like the game. It's a fun gameplay loop. But after playing the first Ni No Kuni game, I really like the game. It's a fun gameplay loop. But after playing the first Ni No Kuni game,

it feels like a massive downgrade. I didn't think it was this much of an issue when I first started playing, but the more I played, the more I realized that, yeah, it's the same thing

over and over again. I know there's DLC for this game, it's the same thing over and over again. I know there's DLC for this game, so maybe the DLC adds content at endgame or something like that. But I don't know why it's set up like this.

I really don't. I would say that I still think the first Ni No Kuni game is probably my favorite, my favorite or one of my favorite JRPGs. It has plenty of issues, like the fact the game is full of grinding, very, very grind heavy. This game's a lot better at that. I don't think I've ever had to grind for anything. Yeah, I don't think I have. Like, maybe some items,

but because of the city system where you can have your residents basically be your slaves and gather items for you. Even then, it's not that big of a deal. The difference with Ni No Kuni 1, though, is you did have to grind out your little monsters you recruit, your little Pokemon.

In this game, in the second game, because you're just fighting stuff as is, yeah, it's not as it's not as much of a problem then um but i'm gonna keep playing it because it is still fun it is still fun and we'll see where it goes uh story is still it's good in places but other places it's like how rushed is this game like i think with hydropolis basically you show up they're like love band like the the plot actually the section is that love is not allowed because for some reason which doesn't make any sense either the queen of

the city has frozen time there But not really frozen time because people can still go about their lives. They just Know when ages I think But if people come and go from the city they can do that fine it's just you're not allowed to live there because the reason why they froze time is because allowed to live there because the reason why they froze time is because they don't want any more souls to exist on the city in the city or something because if there were something would happen to the city it wasn't really well explained it just sort of happened and then that arc was over that's the other thing with this game. Um, a lot of the game is spent doing basically fetch quests.

So the first game had its fair share of fetch quests, but most of the game was the game was, was the main story. You were learning about the world, all that stuff in the second game, the main, if you just ran the main story, uh,

and you just like, let's just say every side quest auto-completed, because you do need to upgrade the city at some point to make some progress. But if you just did the main story, you could probably finish the game in, like, 10 hours at the absolute latest. Because most of the game happens where you finish chapter, you finish a city

and then the rest, like the next 10 hours or so is spent doing side quests, recruiting people to your city, going back to the other cities to make sure there's no one there that needs to be recruited, upgrading your city, doing that stuff. Finding out about

the world is fairly minimal, which is strange because, or not just the world, finding out about the political discourse going on in the world, I think it really feels like after the second city you go to, after you go second, I guess Forest of Nihal is first. Forest of Nihal is where you go first, and then after that, you go over to Goldpaw. I guess it's in the same chapter, though. Yeah, well, that's in the same chapter. So after you do the Goldpaw section,

I feel like the game starts going kinda slowly downhill. Goldpaw is the gambling city. You find out that all of the city is controlled by dice rolls, but turns out the dice rolls are not

being done fair. They actually have a little control where they can set what number they want on the dice. Basically, they are rigging the way that stuff is working and taxes are set through dice rolls mortgages are settled through dice rolls everything is settled

through dice rolls so it's a really cool city um you go and deal with all that stuff and yeah it's it's an interesting place to be but then when you get to hydropolis it's just not as good and now going to the next, which I don't even remember the name of. It doesn't even matter. Let's see. Ninokunitu Cities. Broadleaf. Broadleaf is the name. Yeah. Yeah.

As said. I'm gonna keep going. And we'll see what happens. And. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Anyway.

Speaking of things. That maybe someone actually cares about this time. And not me ranting about ninokuni uh a game from the first one from like eight years ago second one from three years ago i went and saw the jujutsu kaisen which is a really annoying name to say, Zero Movie, the prequel to the much beloved Jujutsu Kaisen. It is very, very, very, very good. I highly recommend that you go and watch it. This is going to get into spoilers. I just keep that. If you're not going to go and watch it fine if you are i'm

going to spoil everything that happened in the movie so basically our main character the movie is a kid called yuta he from from the start we believe he is possessed by this spirit or this curse, I guess called a curse, this curse called Rika. She was basically his friend who, they were I think like 10 years old or something, and they agreed that they would get married when they became adults. Turns out she shortly after then died in a car crash. For most of the movie we believe that she is basically

cursing him she wants to basically ruin his life um he still really cares about her though and that's obvious by the way that he sort of acts around her and it's obvious based on the fact that she's still there because what we realized later in the movie is that she's not the one cursing him because everyone's really confused about how she became such a powerful curse because she is a special grade curse the ranking system is fourth third second and the first then you have curses that are above first grade which are the special grade curses that are above first grade, which are the special grade curses. The ranking system in this game doesn't really make any sense, because basically every single antagonist is a special grade curse because the main characters are that powerful. So the fact that other rankings exist

don't really matter. So we find out, yeah, it's not actually... she's not actually the one who has cursed him he didn't realize because he was so traumatized by it that he had actually cursed her so once he realized that towards the end of the movie that's when really really cool shit starts happening so anyway um this is set a i think it's a year before the main series takes place um so yeah it is a year because panda and all of those guys are first years at uh jujitsu high school which is the place where they learn to exercise curses um so we get to see them being a bit weaker than they are now. So Maki, for example, is nowhere near as good at fighting as she was. Panda, actually Panda's still really OP. What was the curse voice?

The guy who uses curse speak, what was his name? Fuck, what was his name? um fuck what was his name the guy who talks in uh talks in sushi ingredients uh Inamaki Inamaki Togo um

he is considerably weaker than he was like in in his second year we see in the main series he can say like one or two curses and then basically is down for the count where in the main series. He can say, like, one or two curses and then basically is down for the count. Where in the main series,

fucking crazy fights happen. Even so, like, the fights are still pretty great. So, the whole idea of this movie is Geto, the main antagonist, or one of the antagonists of the

main series uh this is before all of the stuff happened with him and then he was replaced like a pseudo version of him or whatever um he shows up to the school after finding out that yuta is there and it's like yo how's it going buddy and then's just like, and fucking Gojo shows up and like, go away or I will kill you because he doesn't like him, obviously, because reasons from their past. Basically, his plan is to, Geto's plan is to take Rika from Yuta because she is such a powerful curse and he wants to destroy everything. He realized that if he managed to get his hands on Rika,

then he would basically be able to take over everything, kill everybody. The only person who'd really be able to stand up to Rika is probably Gojo. And even then, he said earlier in the movie that it's not confirmed that he would be able to do it he's like a little bit worried about whether he'd be able to win that fight anyway i've jumped like way ahead um so yuta joins the high school uh joins the the jiu-jitsu high school he goes

through doing the things he he ends up going on a mission with maki and the first time they go on a mission everything goes to shit uh basically maki gets eaten by a curse and yuucha gets eaten by the curse as well and they're like uh well what what do we do and maki's like i fucking know i lost my weapon outside and at this point yuucha hasn't been told that she is not able to use cursed energy and Without her weapons. She's completely useless. So she basically Passes out and is like well, I guess we're dead now That's when Yuta Finally Kinda works out how to actually summon Rika.

Because before that point, the reason why I actually came to this high school is before that point, she was only being summoned by accident. Anytime he'd be bullied or get into a fight or anything like that, basically Rika would come out and be like, don't bully my husband and then murder everyone. So he initially went to the school because she

I think killed four people who were bullying him and then stuffed them into a closet um yeah at that point he didn't realize that he actually had control over Rika uh so he was very traumatized by that

by the fact that Rika did that, not really knowing why it happened, um, but yeah, so, at that point, Yuta realizes he can summon Rika, at least, he kind of works out how he summons her, and then Rika just, like, fucking claws the shit out of the curse, and they ended up leaving, um, but a bit later in the movie. And they ended up leaving. But a bit later in the movie. When they ended up. I think it was with. Toge and Yuta. They go on a mission together.

Toge was supposed to go on the mission by himself. But Gojo was like. You know what? Go along. Help him out. Learn something. Or whatever it is you do. Turns out it was a great idea.

Because Ghetto was there and decided to bring along an extra curse. It was supposed to be, I think, a grade 2 or a grade 3 curse or something for Toget to go against by himself. Turns out they had, I think it was a, what do they call it, a pseudo grade 1 curse. So a much stronger curse

that he was not able to deal with himself. You know, what I'm thinking of a bit later himself. What I'm thinking of a bit later. No, I'm thinking of a bit later. That was a cool fight as well. Basically, he bring... Did he bring out Rika for that fight? No, I think he might have just used Cursed Energy for that fight. I think by that point,

he'd realized he can extract the cursed energy from Rika and then use that as he battles. But Rika being, you know, this curse that is devoted, madly in love with Yuta, any time that Yuta was really close with Maki, she clearly wasn't happy with it. There was one point where Maki after Geto came to the school to try to take Yuta after everyone had gone off to defeat the

giant horde of curses that Geto had summoned. It was just Maki, Maki and Yuta left the school. Maki got really hurt, and, uh, Yuta was like, yo, Rika, pick up Maki, put her somewhere, put her somewhere safe, and Rika was like, it's a woman, I'm gonna kill her, I'm gonna kill her, I'm gonna crush her skull! And Yuta, I guess,

was at the point where he was starting to realize what was going on, because he, like, put his foot down and was like this like Maki saved my life treat her like you would treat a delicate flower or I will never speak to you again and Rika being

this actually can I show you a picture of Rika actually not actual human Rika form curse Rika form, um, uh, uh, cursed Rika form. So, here we go. Uh, do you, why, no, show me, show me Jujutsu Kaisen Zero. What are you doing, Brave Search? Uh, uh, Rika? Yeah, here we go. Actually, this is a great picture that shows you the side by side. So, this is human Rika, this is cursed Rika. Uh, cursed Rika is much bigger than go. Actually, this is a great picture that shows you the side by side. So this is human Rika. This is cursed Rika.

Our cursed Rika is much bigger than this. There we go. This is a better one. Sort of stands above Yuta. So, yeah. Basically, he got angry with Rika. And she, like, started crying about it. Like, don't hate me.

Don't hate me. You can't hate me, don't hate me, you're gonna, you can't hate me, no, that's, no! And, like, you just see this crazy looking fucking demon thing, like, just crying about the fact that her, her, actually, the guy who

cursed her is, uh, may possibly, may possibly hate her, is, uh, may possibly, may possibly hate her, um, so basically, that goes on, they do all their things, at the end of the movie, uh, Yuta hadn't fully realized what was going on, but he sort of, he realized how to control, like, Rika's energy, how to control like rika's energy kind of how to control rika and use her in fights um because he agreed with rika that he would forfeit his life to unlock her full powers and that's where you see the uh i guess this this is a drawing a different art style um but she opens up like the eye in the middle of her head they have a giant fucking

laser battle because anime um and uh yes where is it going with this um words right uh he said he would forfeit his life to unlock the power to defeat Geto and save his friends, because power of anime. Turns out, he was not the one who was being cursed, he had actually cursed Rika, and by saying he would forfeit his life, basically, he used up all of the curse energy he'd fed into Rika. And she was allowed to pass on into the afterlife. And basically, she had the option at that point to say if she wanted to, she could take his life because he did agree to forfeit it and curse logic, whatever. Only if she wanted to.

Because she was still in love with him, she decided, no, he can do his own thing. I'm going to move on. Um, but my understanding is, uh, Yuta does come back in the, like in the second season I'm going to be seeing, I guess it's going to be like a couple episodes in actually. Um, cause being a year since a year, a year and a half since that happened, I'm not sure how long has passed in the main series.

Yuji is going to show up and have a fight with our, our main character. I'm forgetting the name of. Isidore Yuji, you know, a fight with Yuji and I guess guess they're gonna train or something, I'm not really sure the details, but I know he gets, like, a new four, like, a new version of Rika, like, not actually Rika, because she's moved on, but, like, a, a, a, because he has so,

so much cursed energy, because he is, I, he is a distant relative of Gojo. And also a relative of some other really powerful... Really powerful... What are they called? Jujutsu-ist? I don't know what they fucking call themselves. Yuta. Okotsu Yuta. Here we go.

Let's go to the wiki. He is a relative of Michizane Sugawara, which is uh, he is one of the, according to the wiki, he is one of the big three vengeful spirits.

Um, and also an ancestor of Gojo. So, like, they have the same ancestry. Uh, it explains why he is. You know. Nonsensically overpowered. Here is another picture of Rika. Yuta also fights with a katana.

Because of course he does. He also has the ability. To replicate. Other people's. Like other people's abilities. So it's not just that he's able to like i guess use these crazy reeker nonsense he's he was even able to replicate um the curse speech that toge uses so when he was fighting i think he was fighting ghettohetto. And Ghetto summoned this horde of, like, little curses.

And he just screams out, die. Which is not the way you're supposed to use curse speech. Because basically the idea with curse speech is if it fails, it will backfire on you. That's why Toga is very particular about the words he says. But he's just like, fuck it. Die. And all of the curses explode. And he's able to use

some other copy abilities. I think, what is the copy for? Somehow, because of Rika, he's able to copy things. Literally, the wiki just says Yuta's connection with Rika also grants him the ability to unconditionally copy cursed techniques.

Why? I don't know. Don't ask why. It's anime. But he can do that. So I'm very excited for the second season. And very excited to see. Sort of. What happens with Yuta.

What happens with Yuji. It's a really good movie. If you still want to go and watch it after I've sort of ranted about it for a while, go ahead and do so. I don't really have anything bad to say about it. Reacher is also voiced by Kanahana. So that's also a good enough reason to go and watch it.

Who voices Yuji, actually? Megumi Ogata. Who... Who voices Yuji actually? Megumi Ogata. Who? What were you? What's that find a voice that's fairly recent? Anything? Anything notable?

Anything at all? I'm not seeing anything notable in recent years. Literally nothing notable in recent years. Okay, voices a grandma from Dragon Ball Z. Sure, okay. Either way, go and watch it. Really good movie, great prequel, and a great setup for the second season. Also, please do watch after the credits. Because it's not super important. It just introduces the fact that Yuta is coming back in the second season. And he has a different look.

That's the problem with Yuta actually. It's not as much the case in the manga. But in the anime, Yuta looks like a fucking spitting image of Megumi, the guy from the main season who summons the little curses. They look

the same. So, he's been given a haircut now, which is good because otherwise it wouldn't be able to tell them apart. The only difference they have is that Megumi wears a black shirt, and Yuta has one white shirt, I guess. That's pretty much it. I need to talk about something regarding YouTube Vanced. So, if you don't know, YouTube Vanced was shut down, I think it'd be like two weeks ago at this point, something like that, and recently I did a video about the write-up that one of the developers did, uh, explaining why the project was taken down.

Not explaining it properly, still using a lot of, uh, bullshit nonsense. Bullshit nonsense? We'll go with that. Bullshit nonsense. Uh, sort of avoiding why it was shut down giving a reason which doesn't make any sense saying the reason why they were shut down is because they were using the uh the youtube logo and using the youtube name in their name but they've been using that setup for god knows like eight years nine years something like that so it doesn't really make any sense why they were shut down now. I feel like it's more likely it's due to the NFT that they were selling, or they had minted, they hadn't sold it yet. Yeah, it's possible because it got more popular because of LTT.

It was in that weird gray area of being a piracy app and not being a piracy app because it was sort of circumventing the way that YouTube Premium worked and devs living in Russia, they didn't live in Russia. But besides that, Vance was shut down. Vance, if you don't know, I've mentioned it a couple of times, Vance is a third-party modification of the YouTube app. It was not a standalone application like, say, NewPipe or a standalone web service like NVIDIUS, but it was its own thing. It was just a modification of the official app, putting it in even more of a legal gray area and probably having it on YouTube's watch list. For a very long time.

Now there is this. Really stupid theory. Not theory. Really stupid statement. That was passed around by. I believe it was in the telegram. I want to say it was in the telegram. For Vance.

If I can find it there. I will show it. Where they say the reason why they didn't open source the project is because they don't have source code. Now, anybody who has done any sort

of development knows that is the stupidest statement you've ever heard. Because there is no physical way that you can make a coding project without having source code uh it may not have been the telegram was it on the twitter they posted it somewhere so they they basically said we can't release the vant source code because Vant doesn't have source code. What they actually meant by that is they don't have the source code in a format that is typically associated with source code.

They don't have it in Java or Python or Kotlin or anything like that. That does not mean they don't have source code. It's not like they just went into the YouTube app and said, bippity-boppity-boo, and, whoa, look, it's now advanced. No, they actually did modify the way the application works, but they weren't modifying the... I guess it's an Android app.

It's Java or Kotlin directly. They were modifying the bytecode. Now, these bytecode modifications, I would consider source code. I think anybody who's being honest about what's going on would consider that source code as well. Because this would be like saying that if I have, let's say I have an application written in assembly, then I say the source code doesn't exist.

That would be an inaccurate statement. The source code is real. It's just written in a format that people don't typically use for source code, especially for modern applications. But in certain contexts, let's say you're doing very low level embedded work, or you're a game from the fucking 80s or 90s. Writing the game in assembly wasn't really, you know, that unheard of, especially when you're trying to do things that were very, you know, exceptional for the time. There are parts of Doom written in assembly. Because it was just quicker.

You could just optimize it. More than you could optimize it. In any other format. So. Was Doom one? I feel like Doom was part of that list. I know there are a lot of games out there. Which were definitely written like that. Especially if you go back far enough.

But I don't know why they've sent out this really stupid... I wish I knew where they'd set it. Because I would love to show it, but people keep sending this around as if they're making some sort of actual

point, when all that is being done is that Varnst is playing you. Varnst doesn't have source code. If I search by

recent, like in the past month, new pi month. New Piper. Yeah, new Piper source code. It's open source. Why? I should have saved it. It was on

Data Hoarder. I should have saved it because... Wait. Wait. Code? should have saved it because, uh, wait, oh, wait, it, code, uh, advanced to the modified version of the official YouTube app, that's Google's code, Google's property, everyone, lawyers, yeah, we know that, uh, we know that the, they wouldn't be releasing YouTube source code, this is where I think, I think they're trying to sort of push off the responsibility. Not the responsibility.

The push off the people asking for source code. Because there are a lot of stupid people out there who will just buy really dumb reasons. Because Valanced is a modification of the YouTube application, they're making it seem like there's no possible way that their modifications can exist independent of the YouTube app. You don't have to release the entire YouTube source code to also release the patches they have written. Like, if you do, you've written the application in a terrible way like you've written the application

where it's impossible to it's impossible to maintain which i really doubt the fact that vance has been going on for so long i really have my doubts that they are actually doing it in that stupid way. But the funniest thing about it is over in the write-up here, they didn't use that really dumb explanation. They did say that they can't release the source code because making the source code available on the internet will cause serious complications for us. The reason why they can't release the source code because making the source code available on the internet will cause serious complications for us. The reason why they can't release it is because they're probably told they'll be sued

if they do that. Not because the source code doesn't exist. Actually, I want... I think I posted in the Discord. Yes. Source code. Did I post it? Did I? Did I? Vanced is dead. Devs are screwed

if they release the source code. Yes! Here it is! Wait, no. Shit. I think this is just... Is this it? No, this is different article. Legal reasons. Source.

No, where did I find it? They released NFT collection. Vance released... Uh... they... No, I can't find shit. I really wish I had a link to where this was originally seen. Because people keep sharing it around as if it makes any fucking sense

and they're not just playing you Too bad if I find it and I remember to link it I will link it is in the in the description down below But as it stands if you hear anyone saying that VANCED doesn't have source code, tell them they're an idiot and don't know what source code is. Because they are. I wonder if it's in my history. I'm not going to spend a ton of time looking at this,

but if I can find it... If I can find it, I would love to find it. Source code... No, it wasn't on Hacker News. It definitely wasn't there. Speculation about that one. Source code? Everyone...

I keep seeing people saying that... I keep seeing people saying that... If you release the source code, you have to release the YouTube source code. Like, that's just a dumb statement. Anyone who thinks that has no idea what they're talking about. I'm just not finding it. It's just not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen, is it? Well,

okay. That's no fun. That's just no fun whatsoever. Hmm. Anyway, I guess we will move on. Bytecode is source code if you have written bytecode by hand. So shut the fuck up.

You don't know what you're talking about. Anyway, have you guys seen the trailer for Hogwarts Legacy? I didn't think... I like Harry Potter. I like Harry Potter. It's great. I didn't think I'd be excited for a Harry Potter

game, but man. This game looks really, really, really cool. I'm going to show a bit of the trailer. I don't care about

character creation. It is, I don't know if it's an open world game or just a really large world, but it's just something poppin Yeah, wait, haha. There's some pop in in their fucking trailer Wait see we can find it pay attention to this glass right here Yeah, it'll just that's beautiful. Surely you would have addressed that Basically, it's not set during the time the main series...

the movies take place. It's set in the 1800s. So, none of the teachers you know are going to be there, but there are obviously going to be a lot of similar things, like the ghosts that were around back then and things like that are all going to be, you chilling around the school um the combat is where it looks really cool though uh here yeah here we go so you're not just going to be you know going around the school being a student all that boring shit uh you're also going to be exploring the world and having battles with dark wizards.

Laser battles are boring, but here's where it gets kind of cool. So it's got... I don't know what the combat system is going to play like. All we have is the combat system looking really cool. And you can combine these spells to different... You can, like, freeze someone, pick them up, throw them on the ground. It's a really cool system.

Obviously, this is still very early, and without seeing how you would actually interact with it, it's hard to say how it would really play. Um... But... It certainly looks flashy flashy and I like flashy magic systems and what I like more than flashy magic systems is fast-paced magic

systems. That's sort of the problem I have with a lot of magic systems games. Also you have a dash which is always good. Every game that has a dash is always a good game. You can fucking pick up this sword, like knock the sword out of their hand, grab the sword, and then throw it through the statue or golem, whatever it is. I honestly, it looks cool. Also, you can take like a... We don't really know how it's going to work, what it's going to really do to affect the world. Also, you can like pick shit up and throw it in the ground.

You can actually take like a light or a dark path as well. So later in this, you actually use like one of the... Use the killing curse i believe so you can actually learn how to use spells like that you don't have to be necessarily just a good guy who just goes around being happy wizard man you might there might be a path where you can actually go and chill with the Dark Wizards, which seems really cool. And it's probably the path that I'm going to take.

Actually, if I play this game, I'm probably going to end up playing a light and a dark path because that sounds cool. But you can also... There's also stuff throughout the school as well, like making potions and doing shit like that. There is this weird mobile-esque system like every game needs to have at this point.

Where is it? Where is it? There's a bit where you have this room that you can upgrade and grab. Yeah, here it is. The room progression or something? Something like that. And basically and grab. Yeah, here it is. The room progression or something? Something like that. And basically collect items, then there's a time to when it comes back. So it's a game that sort of like makes stuff slower in a sense for the sake of that, but

I think it's fine because it seems like a lot of stuff to do outside in the world. fine, because it seems like a lot of stuff to do outside in the world. Also, there's a... there's kind of a party system where there's... there's characters you can recruit and go around doing things with. We don't really know the extent of how this is gonna

go, but so far they've shown off three characters. They all look kinda cool. I can't remember what they're, what they're really all about, but, uh, they haven't shown anyone in Slytherin, which is sad because I want some asshole from Slytherin to be my party member. That's the plan. Just run around breaking shit, using the killing curse on teachers and shit.

You know how it do be. Uh, this is the most viewed bit. Why is this the most viewed? Okay, let's go back to the start of it. So there's a dragon horse. Okay. Oh, minecart. Let's look at this.

This is really cool. But yeah, the combat system, you're fighting fucking skeletons for some reason. It's just Dark Souls. It looks really cool. It looks like a really really really cool game oh here we go here's where they use

killing curse so clearly there's a lot of cool stuff you can do I'm not going to pre-order games because I don't pre-order games I will wait for it to come out I will see if it is good and if it is good

I'm going to play it I'm definitely gonna play it. Um, and uh, yeah. It's not like I don't have enough games to play already, but you know, you can always add more to the list and just, uh,

just keep going and going and going. Keep going and going and going. Never run out of things to play. Never play the things you'd plan to initially play, and just, keep going and going and going. Never run out of things to play, never play the things you'd you'd plan to initially play and just uh yeah yeah. Anyway, cool game, I'm gonna probably check it out. Now um back when the Steam Deck first came out there was this, maybe it was first came out or just after. It's pretty obvious that Microsoft wasn't going to go out of their way to

actively support the Steam Deck. So if we go Steam Deck Halo, there was this article back on March 12th, March 11th, something like that. Halo games don't run on the Steam Deck, which is wrong. Halo multiplayer doesn't run on the Steam Deck. You can play Halo perfectly fine if all you want to do is play the single player. Now, that made sense. Everyone

understood that. But it's not necessarily the case. They're not going to go out of their way to support it inside of Steam or anything like that. But they will support it in Xbox Cloud Gaming. So there is a Linux version of Edge. You can install Edge and Microsoft, as actively said, they're happy for you to do this. So you will literally have articles that are six days apart where Halo doesn't run and Halo does run, which is great reporting. And people should probably look more into the information they are reporting

Good thing I didn't make a video on this yet Maybe I will maybe I won't I don't know probably won't I'm talking about it here. So this is my video on this I'm gonna maybe I'll clip this I don't know Yeah, you can download edge and get it working through that from my understanding It is a little bit through that. From my understanding, it is a little bit a little bit

of a difficult process to get working. Here is Jason talking about it from Linux for Everyone. Probably seen his channel. Go watch Jason's channel. Great channel.

Anyway, this is truly awesome, but I'm uncomfortable with encouraging people to disable read-only mode for this functionality. Basically, the Steam Deck ships with a read-only root file system, and

you have to disable that apparently. Isn't there a simpler way to achieve this without all the command line voodoo? So, you have to disable that apparently. Isn't there a simpler way to achieve this without all the command line voodoo? So you have to go... You modify some permissions with your flat pack. Pseudo SteamOS read only disable. Lovely. On the desktop, launch Steam.

Head to your library and locate Microsoft Edge Beta. Right-click on it. Properties. Change the name to Xbox. Wait. Wait, seriously? You... You have to change the name.

Why do you have to change the name of Edge to Xbox Cloud Gaming Beta? What? Why is it... Why is it like that? And then you just change some launch options. You make it load up Xbox.com play instead. Weird that it requires

Edge. Does it not... Does Xbox Cloud Gaming not work in Chrome? Xbox Cloud Gaming Chrome. Maybe it doesn't work in Chromium. That could be the case.

It might work in Google Chrome, but not in... Yeah. Not in base Chromium. Also, it's not supposed to work on Linux altogether, but I guess they are going out of their way to make it work on the Steam Deck, which is weird.

Because they've said, we work closely with our friends at Valve to support xCloud Xbox Game Pass through Edge for the Steam Deck. But literally a couple of days earlier, there were people from Valve saying, we don't give a shit about the Steam Deck, but literally a couple of days earlier, there were people from Valve saying, we don't give a shit about the Steam Deck. Or people from Microsoft saying, we don't give a shit about the Steam Deck.

Like this and the other one makes sense. Microsoft is a weird company where they will take the easy approach to make money if it is available to them. But if it is not, well, they're not going to bother. I have a feeling The Verge reported on both of these things, which, if they did, is kind of funny. Now, if they can make a TV app and get the service running anywhere near the performance of GeForce Now or Stadia,

I will resubscribe. Is Stadia still a thing? Do people still use... Did people ever use Stadia, I will resubscribe. Is Stadia still a thing? Do people still use... Do people ever use Stadia? Huh. Well, I guess some people like Stadia. Stadia works well on Steam Deck. There are various videos on YouTube

on how to start without installing anything through the browser. I don't have a Steam Deck, but I play it on Stadia on my Android TV and PC. It works super well. I play in 4K on TV, and I already have over 100 games because of my Stadia Pro subscription.

Well, no. You have 100 licenses that will disappear once Stadia shuts down. Because Google is well known for killing things. A TV app through YouTube TV on Nvidia Shield Pro. When does the Shield Pro come out? Wait, I want to find out

Shield what the fuck was I even typing? I had my fingers like shifted one set of keys over and I had some weird things I was writing out Shield Pro here we go

we'll go back to this one for a moment while this is great and all, I feel it'd be easier pro. Uh, here we go. Where is the thing? We'll go back to this one for a moment. Uh, while this is great and all, I feel it'd be easier if Microsoft just had a lightweight standalone cloud gaming client akin to Valve's own Steam Link app. Well, that would make sense now, wouldn't it? But that's difficult.

I hope that when it is out of beta, Steam will include it in its build like they did Chrome. Do you mean including Edge? Maybe. Maybe they'll do that. There is a solid chance that Google will deliberately sabotage xCloud on Chrome, deliberately adding code to Chrome just to continuously break xCloud. Google has shown in the past has no problem sabotaging their own products to hurt competitors. That sounds like a lawsuit and when it comes to you know little guys they can get away with that. Microsoft, I don't think they want

to go, I don't think they want to go toe-to-toe with Microsoft. That seems like a bad idea. Anyway, Shield Pro. Nvidia Shield Pro. Tegra. Yes, Tegra X1. Wait, did this not come out that... When did the Shield Pro come out? Android. Wait, is the Shield Pro still being updated? Has Nvidia just...

Has Nvidia and then just none of the tech guys talked about it? And that's why nobody cares. and then just none of the tech guys talked about it. And that's why nobody cares. Shield Pro visited one year later. Is it discontinued? 2019? What is the current version of Android?

I don't even know that. Android version. Okay. No, it is a couple of years old. So it came out in 2019. Right, why did I think the Tegra X1 was newer than it is? That's the same, same chip that's running in the Switch, and the Switch is running ancient hardware, and that's why the Switch is very easy to emulate. Which is kind of nice, actually. I don't emulate the Switch, but for the people who want to, it does make it quite easy. very easy to emulate. Which is kind of nice, actually. I don't emulate the Switch, but for the people who want to, it does make it quite easy.

And once the Switch generation is over, emulating it is going to be very simple when I start doing it myself. Yeah, anyway. So you want to play Halo on the Steam Deck. If you want to play single player, it works great. Don't listen to the fact that Valve says it's unsupported. It works great.

If you're a multiplayer, go and play it through Edge in xCloud, I guess. I don't know how well xCloud works. Judging by a lot of the other cloud gaming solutions probably works I don't know if it'd be great for multiplayer probably wouldn't it'd probably be

fine for single player on like mid to low difficulty but as, as for higher difficulties, I really don't think so, all right, um, right, I forgot this, I forgot this other thing, uh, I need to show you something, so, um, we know how Sonic 2 is coming out, right, because there needs to be a second Sonic movie, um. Yes, Xbox is doing a thing. We might need glasses because these controllers look fuzzy. Follow and reach me with Xbox Sonic 2 sweepstakes

for a chance to win a Sonic 2 Xbox Series S custom console and control... It has a custom console as well. Oh, no. This is a... There are two versions. There is the Knuckles version,

which is the red version, and the blue version, which is the Sonic version. They have fur on them. These are Xbox controls with fur on them. Now, I don't think I need to tell you how terrible of an idea that is. That's a PlayStation troll.

We'll get an Xbox and troll out. So, okay. There are these things called joysticks or analog sticks. And when you have things jammed in here, let's say this toothpick. Well, they become considerably harder to move. Do you not realize how quickly the second fur falls off of this? Those are going to be impossible to use. Let alone the fact that your sweaty gamer juices are going to completely destroy the fur,

probably in the first, like, 30 minutes to an hour. If you want to put them in, like, a display cabinet or something stupid like that, hey, I guess that's an idea. But, yeah. If you actually want to use these, please don't. I wonder if on the rules page they have a picture of the consoles themselves. Or is it just the rules? Can I enter?

Do I have to be in the US? Let's find out. These official rules govern the operation of the blah blah blah entry period from the 22nd of March, which is, I guess, yesterday as the recording of this,

and the 30th of April. Eligibility. Here. You must be a legal resident of any Xbox Live supported region, so Australia, uh, is one of those, obviously, what countries are not supported, it probably says which countries aren't, uh, oh, the, are these all the countries, are these just all the countries in the world, okay, sure, uh, sure, this is all the countries in the world according to microsoft uh anyway so a lot of people obviously can't enter but i can uh if you are 18 years of age or older but have not yet reached the age majority in your legal place of residence you must have your

whatever uh if you're less than the age of consent um you have to have a parent enter uh so i can enter Oh, here we go. Where can't we enter? Employees and directors of Microsoft Corporation and its subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising agencies, and promotion parties not eligible, nor a person involved in the execution

or administration of this sweepstakes. Obviously. And you're allowed to enter in places where giveaways are illegal. In Cuba, Iran, North Korea, I don't know who's entering, or who'd even consider entering from North Korea.

Sudan, Syria, and where otherwise prohibited by law. To enter, you have to register your Twitter account follow Xbox retweet the promotional picture include the hashtag

all required elements must be included to be eligible you must remain a follower of Xbox for at least 7 days following the entry period so you can't just follow them and then just unfollow them that's great you know what?

I kind of want to... I'm going to answer. Look, if I can... That would be great content, wouldn't it? Like, that would be just exceptional content. Also, it would be exceptionally valuable. Holy shit. Especially if the console itself is also

furry. Why would they make a furry console? I don't know. They made a furry controller. Don't ask questions. It's just gonna happen. It's a terrible idea. Oh, yeah. Here we go. Here's a picture of some some people holding them. Made from the 1970s toilet seat covers that were perfectly preserved. Yup. Yup. Imagine touching these with

any of your Dorito fingers. Just... Oh, wait. Is this the console? Oh, the console's way more boring. Is this Elden Ring? Oh, that's such a boring... I hope that's not actually the console.

That's so boring compared to the furry controllers. Those look much better. Those honestly look really cool. Like, these legitimately cool-looking controllers, the furry ones just look stupid. What the fuck is Bloodborne trending? Oh. Oh. I just tally streamed it.

That would be why. Very confused there. But that makes a lot of sense. So yeah. If you want to win a furry set of Xbox controllers. And a pretty mid looking custom Xbox. That you can probably sell for a shitload of money on the internet, especially because, you know,

current-gen consoles are still very expensive. You could probably flip it for, like, $800, $900. If it was just a regular one, you could flip it for $900. Being a custom one, you could probably sell it for, like, $5,000 or $10,000 probably. There'll be someone stupid enough to buy it. Oh, I love it. I love it.

So I'll let you guys know if I win. I won't win, but I'll let you guys know. There is a chance that I win the furry controllers. It'll be a funny chance, but it is what it is. Now we are on the final stretch of the podcast, and I have finally ordered that lens I've been meaning to order for a very, very long time. The Sigma 1.4.

Am I logged into CC Warehouse still? I can show you the exact product. I will log in right now. Why are passwords so long there we go here we go there we go now we're logged in um this is a great retailer by the way if you're in australia they sell gray market um gray market camera gear which is you know camera gear that's not specifically meant for the Australian market. But also not, you know, legally acquired gear. It's just gear that's not supposed to be in that market. Anyway, I literally searched for the product and it doesn't show up.

Why? Why would you do this to me? The Sigma 1.4... Sigma... Oh, my fucking God. Sigma 16mm. There we go. EF-M. This one.

This one here. The 1.4 f-stops. This lens I'm using right now. What is the f-stops of this one? It's a... It should be, say, on the lens. 3.5 to 6.3. So... Actually, I'll show you what happens if I turn up the f-stops. it should be say on the lens 3.5 to 6.3 so

I'll show you what happens if I turn up the f-stops, so right now it's on 3.5 basically the f-stops control it's one of the things that control why is the fucking focus there one of the things that control how much light is allowed into the camera it also controls things like how much

bokeh, how much bokeh we have, like the bokeh we have. The bokeh is basically the blur in the background. But if we go and... I guess it goes up to f22. Why did I say 5.6? Whatever.

Anyway, now you can't see anything because we have f20 which is basically letting in very little light. We can go and turn up the ISO. Hey, it worked. But wow, look at that. It's very grainy.

That's the problem in turning up your ISO. I like to keep my ISO as low as possible. This would be a functional recording setup if I was like outside. But being inside is not gonna happen. So basically by going with this lens that has a much lower f-stop, it's going to allow me to bring more light in and theoretically I can lower the brightness of my lights or I can do some other things like that. Maybe keep them at the level, but then, you know, lower my ISO even further and things like that. I'm gonna bring it down to where it should be.

So that's... Should be at 320 and then my F stops at 3.5. The problem is that if I was to just take it and then stick it into my current setup, it's going to be very, very, very overblown. Obviously, I could lower the lighting, but then there's still the backlights, which if I start lowering those,

then it sort of lowers the quality of the color. But there is a solution. So the solution is buying sunglasses for your camera. I'm not memeing, this is actually a thing. Um... Okie dokie. This is something known as a... I have to be careful with it because it doesn't have any cover. Known as an ND filter. Basically, an ND filter...

Just stay careful when I smack it close. Basically, you put it over your lens. They are different sizes based on the lens you want to use. This is a 67mm ND filter. If I wanted one on the lens you want to use this is a 67 mil nd filter the if one of my my lens i have now i think it's 49 i'd need a 49 millimeter nd filter so or whatever like whatever glass you're putting on top of your your lens um basically it lets me keep my f stops at the level i want them to be at, get the camera sort of keyed in at the level I need it to be at and then

lower down the amount of light that is able to get into the camera. And there are other sort of, you know, filters you can put onto your your camera as well, like, or your lens as well like that, but at least from what I'm doing, the ND filter is going to do what I need it to do. But because I'm buying, you know, not a nonsensically expensive lens, like $500 obviously is a lot of money, but it's not a $3,000, $4,000 lens.

You can easily get into that range. You can get way higher than that. But you don't want to be000, $4,000 lens. You can easily get into that range. You can get way higher than that. But you don't want to be putting, you know, the cheapest filter you can get, like, onto that glass. Why would you buy a really expensive lens and then put really shit glass in front of it? It would be like, let's say you have a... Let's say you get a new windscreen put in your car

and then you put some tint on the window and it's like got bubbles in it and it's put on terribly. You wouldn't want to do that, it ruins the entire quality. It's the same thing here. You want to make sure if you're using any sort of glass on top of your lens, you want it to be good glass that doesn't get in the way. This is why it is in a little pouch here and not open until I can get my lens and then put the lens cap on it and not be a problem.

I definitely make sure every time I'm done with my camera, the lens cap goes right back on. And now you can't see anything. But it does have some limitations because I'm not made of money.

There is, I think there's a version of this that does have a zoom. This is just a 16mm lens. So 16mm with this lens would be, I think it's like here. That's 16, 17-ish. There's not actually marks between 15 and 18. So 16 would be about there, I would say.

So that's roughly how the shot would look. So I'd want to like raise up the camera just a tad. The lens is a little bit longer, so it might be closer to what it's like at 17. So it'll be something like that, I think. I'll have to see what it's actually like when I have the lens itself. So where's it going with this? I don't remember.

Yeah, I don't remember. Oh, right. Zoom. So this lens I'm getting doesn't have a zoom. This one does, so I can do remember. Yeah, I don't remember. Oh, right. Zoom. So this lens I'm getting doesn't have a zoom. This one does, so I can do this. Whoa. But when you zoom in, it also lowers the f-stop sort of possible, which is not good, especially when I'm in a dark room

and I'm not using... If I said it's like automatic ISO, I could deal with that. But then I think I've showed auto ISO with this camera. Or with this setup. This happens. My lighting setup is really strange. Like, I can get it to be... I can get it to be usable.

But... It's not great. And when... By letting the ISO just do whatever it wants, it tends to... Oh, now it's settled into a sensible point. But if I, like, put my hands in front of it, it's going to break...

Might break again. Just because it thinks it's, like, way too bright. That's the only problem with this. I like having, like, key to an ISO, but having my ISO be automatic does let me do things like this and it still be

usable. I might work out where I want my lighting level to be at to make it so I can still have it have it so I can zoom in. Zooming in is still kind of... Zooming is funny if you're doing a stream.

If we lower these lights, can I actually get it to the point where it is usable? It might make the footage kind of grainy, though. That would be the only concern. Oh, no, it's actually usable at that level. The background looks really weird. But I probably could address that by like... Lowering the brightness of the background? I guess when I'm not using this setup, it wouldn't be as big of a deal.

And I would have... Yeah, if I had the lights set up in a light bar configuration, which is the plan, at some point in the new place, then it wouldn't be as big of a deal. I could get away with it, especially when I have an overhead light running as well. Yeah, you can see it just doesn't know what to do. There's just too much...

The light isn't consistent so it's just... it's sort of just trying to make something work. It's like where should I focus the light? Do I want to light up the face? Do I want to make sure the background is is too bright? Do I... what do I... what exactly am I trying to do here? Maybe if I went really over bright it would sort of compensate in the other direction or maybe it'd get worse. You know it might not be that much better actually. It's closer. It's definitely closer. Either way though this lens, the lens I showed you, this is the one we're going to be

using um i think if i wanted to get one that did have a similar zoom range to what i'm using now it'd probably be closer to like probably be closer to like a thousand or more than that 1200 maybe even which i don't want to spend. I'm not a fan of that. Now I don't even know where my lights, like what level my lights were at. This is the problem. This is why I don't touch my lights and I just leave them at the

level that side where the buttons are. Leave them at a level where I know they look like they should. And just turn them on when I need them. Is that roughly? That's roughly where I was at.

Yeah. Funny thing is, this lens costs about as much as my camera. That's the problem. Lens cost about as much as the camera. Which is not terrible. Because, you know, lenses will way outlive the lifespan of the camera which is not terrible because you know lenses will like way outlive the the lifespan of the camera itself i as long as i keep buying canon cameras buying canon cameras using the efm mount i can just keep using those lenses for as long as i need and i have no plan to you

know ever stop using i have no plans to, you know, buy a nonsensically expensive camera. I'm happy with the camera that I have. I'm happy with, um... You know, if I did upgrade, my upgrade path... My upgrade path is

very short because there's just not that much that I'd really want to do. I want to get it to the point where I think there's maybe like one camera upgrade or two camera upgrades I want to make above this. I'd never want to go and buy like, you know, I'd never want to go and spend the money on a RED camera, for example, like you see with LTT. That I think is just needlessly overkill for what I'm trying to do. For what they're trying to do, sure, it might make some level of sense. I'm just not shooting, you know, B-roll.

I'm not doing these very highly produced videos. I'm just talking shit in my room. And it is what it is. Basically, it is what it is. What are we going to talk about for the last 10 or so minutes? What should I talk? Oh, right. I hit 30k on the main channel.

I just didn't talk about this last week. And I sadly didn't get a chance to talk about this on a live stream. Because internet issues still bring internet issues. Some point, they will stop being internet issues and they will start working again, but they probably won't because I will be moved by then. We are still, you know, a couple of days away from moving. Only 71, I want to say. I want to say 71, 69,

69, wow, it's 69 days, that's fucking crazy, 69 days, 6 hours, 17 minutes, and 46 seconds, um, um, why was I talking about where I was moving, um, Why was I talking about where I was moving? 30k, right. The plan, if I had the working connection, was going to be doing a celebration stream, you know, doing all of that fun stuff that you would normally do when any sort of relatively big milestone is hit.

Instead, what I ended up doing is posting a community post saying, hey, we hit 30K. Yeah. I don't know where the future of Linux is going. You know, just normal stuff that I say whenever there's a big milestone being hit. So probably what the plan's gonna be is it will be

like a combination moving stream combination celebration stream, things like that. Basically I'll be like, hey, we've hit 30k. Actually by that time it might be like 33 or whatever. We hit 30k about 3000 to go.

We hit, we've moved to the new place. We have all this nice setup. We have a much bigger space to work with. And just merge it all together. That'll end up being the I think it'll be my third stream that week actually, which will be weird.

Going back to streaming three times a week from doing none um uh what day is june 1st i think it's a wednesday i want to say june 1st is a wednesday yes so i'll get there on the wednesday i i don't know if i'm gonna do the thursday friday streams that week or just a Wednesday, yes so I'll get there on the Wednesday I don't know if I'm going to do the Thursday Friday streams that week or just do the Saturday stream because I'd want to make sure everything is maybe I'll just stream where everything's

fucked, maybe that's the plan just boxes everywhere just streaming, I could do it hmm, maybe. We'll see how I feel. As I've said, I might get stuff I might try to get stuff over a little bit earlier anyway.

Just so it's not as big of a hassle. Stuff set up on time all that's good. I'm thinking of taking that week off from making videos. I'm still uploading. I just have of taking that week off from making videos. I'm still uploading. I just have a backlog that isn't too much of a big deal if it gets eaten from.

I think I've got like... I was going to say eaten out, but that's maybe not the best phrase to use there. Anyway, where was I going? there. Anyway. Where was I going? I might take that week off just to get everything set up. I don't know if I'm going to order the phone before I go there, because I've

said before I want to put up SoundFoam. Or if I do that afterwards and just... Probably we'll end up doing it afterwards, just because I don't know exactly how much I'm going to need, um, so I think I'd want to, like, measure it out first, and then do whatever I need to do there, it's not, either way, it's going to be fairly easy to do anyway, uh. My plan is to probably get. Probably get.

A3 pieces of paper. Stick a bunch of them to a piece of paper. Or like staple them to it. And then get the. Get the. What are they called? The strip. The tape strips everyone uses.

The ones you can like pull down. And stick them on the wall in like four pieces, just so they're much easier to get up and get down but if there is an easier way to do it, I might try to do that this is $214 how much do you get for $214? $104 you get

this is wedge eggshell why is the why are there two versions of the wedge and the oh they're bigger sheets that makes sense is that double

oh it's a little bit less than double so 60 pieces of 50 by 50 by 5 that's still not enough. Maybe it's... I haven't worked out exactly how much I would need but this is probably close to how much... it might be close to 300 which for sound foaming a room and it's not necessarily the case that I have to do every single wall, like if I have

a like a cabinet there or I have a if I have something there that already disrupts the sound, it's not that I have, I don't have to go and sound foam that, it's already basically done the job of

sound foam, the purpose of sound foam is to capture the sound and sort of bounce the sound around in a non-flat manner. Like, the reason why you have echoes in a room is because the sound is bouncing back to you. If the sound is bouncing in all random directions and most of it's not being made, like, most of it's not coming back to you and a lot of it is being absorbed, then the issue isn't necessarily there. I know that it's going to be an issue though because, as I've said, there is a

bit of an echo, especially it's mainly the roof that echoes here. In this room there's an echo so there's definitely going to be echo in that room. No way to tell how much. But I feel like a roof echo might be a little bit more noticeable, especially because they'll have a standing desk and all that stuff.

So I want to address that. But anyway, I think that's going to be pretty much where we end it today. It is like 10 minutes till I have to go and make dinner and get ready for work. Because I spent a lot of time on the phone today. But yeah. Next week, we don't have plans. I don't plan stuff on the podcast. I don't know what I'm talking about.

Main channel doing main channel-y things. Doing Linux stuff, doing Linux gaming stuff. Brody Robertson, go check it out. Brody Robertson Plays, we're doing more shorts because I can't stream. But when we can stream on

June 2nd, probably, then there will be non- short content. And we'll be going back to five shorts because I won't be rationing content. And then the podcast, the audio release is available. Basically, anywhere you can find an audio podcast. The video release is on YouTube. I think that, yeah, just on YouTube.

And yeah, that's going to pretty sure... I'm going to end it. Bye. I'm out.