Tech Over Tea - Recovering From COVID & AI Ranting | Solo

Episode Date: February 1, 2023

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Good morning, good day, and good evening. Welcome to episode 153 of Tech of a T. This... why is that button not working? That's the wrong button. That would be why. Uh... ruined my whole intro, goddammit. This is a bear taking a selfie. I don't know where I was going with this, but look at the bear. It's adorable. It'll probably eat your face, and you don't want to be anywhere near it, especially if it has cubs near it, but

look at that. Look at it. It's cute, and it's a bear. This was a trail cam photo where I guess the bear had discovered the camera and for whatever reason kept getting like really up close and personal with it. 400 of the 580 photos captured were of this bear. Why the bear had an obsession with the trail cam?

I don't know. but uh, it certainly did. I'm sure there were other pictures on this link here, I didn't actually check it. All I know is that there were those pictures. Uh, no, it's just a write-off about the trail cam itself, and there's other things, you know, there's like deer and whatever, other, other neat things you'd normally see on a, did I just say deer and I pointed at a fox? Whatever. Um, it's going to be one of those episodes. So this is going to be a kind of a weird episode for me, maybe not for you guys, but I don't know.

Maybe you enjoy me, uh, me suffering trying to record things. So, I'm recording this considerably later than I normally would. Right now, it is Monday of the week this would normally go live. That might not sound crazy, that might sound like, you know, a normal time to record things. With the podcast, I usually like keeping, you know, a week behind or a week behind, a week ahead, a week ahead. So normally this would be recorded basically like anytime between this time last week and like Thursday, like Thursday, Friday of that week. And then this week I'd be doing... This is 1.53, so 1.54.

1.54 is still getting recorded this week, but it's getting recorded at the end of the week. The reason why I'm doing it like this, not by choice. Not by choice, even remotely. Last week, I could not record anything. I am just barely getting back to the point where I can reasonably bring myself to be on camera and be somewhat entertaining. And it's still kind of a struggle at this point. And we'll see how this podcast goes as we progress. I have a feeling it might, you know, go and just fucking fall off a cliff around the halfway point. Um, hopefully not. So last week I woke up on Monday and I felt, you know, kind of tired. I felt lethargic.

I had like a bit of a headache. I thought I was just, you know, basically being a bit of a bitch about it and didn't want to do anything. This is not the first time. There's a lot of times I've woken up on a Monday being like, oh, the weekend was so fun. I want to keep like not working. As much as I enjoy what I do on the channel, you know, doing other things like playing video games, practicing guitar, things like that are all so fun and I would like to spend my time doing those. So I've woken up a lot of times on Monday, especially if I didn't get like great sleep and just didn't want to do anything. So usually when that happens, I go for a walk,

I have a cold shower, I, you know, try to have some breakfast, and after that, usually then, even if I'm not in, like, the best of states, usually then I'm ready to go and get things done. But after all that, I felt about the same or maybe probably a little worse actually. And I kept getting worse and worse and worse throughout the day. It got to like two, three o'clock, something like that. And I was just like, you know what? Maybe, maybe I have COVID. It's two years after everyone already got it. Maybe I got it now.

And I don't know how I would have gotten it. Maybe I did. So I went and did a test. And when I did the test Basically straight away. It was like you're positive like ah lovely alright Let's send a message to work and not go to work for the week because I can't stand up right now Because I can't stand up right now.

Like, I was putting off doing the test basically to the point where I could hardly keep my eyes open. And couldn't even, like, properly sit up in this chair. Like, that's how bad it got throughout that day. So, I told the boss, like, yo, I can't come in. Right now, I think procedure was, like, 72 hours. And then after that, it's, like, play by ear. If you feel can't come in right now i think procedure was like 72 hours and then after that it's like play by ear if you feel fine come in if you don't take more days off you know i don't know what businesses in your uh country are doing but here that's the way it works at least my job i don't know if like it's different place to place i don't think that's a government regulation. I think that's just specifically what

my work does, but that's not really important. For me, it was 72 hours. So for the rest of that first day, I, here's the thing, right? I didn't taking a day off mondays i basically plan out all of my videos uh i'm not planning out videos on this monday because of something i did also last week so usually i plan out videos on monday i was like you know what surely i can plan out videos on Monday, I was like, you know what, surely I can plan out videos when I have no idea what's going on, I was getting kind of delirious, I was like, I need to drink water constantly all day, uh, and somehow, I did actually plan out six videos, and it didn't take me longer than it normally would. Now to be fair I did go and pick like kind of easier topics that don't require as much

thinking so that obviously is going to lead into that but by about six o'clock I had like everything somewhat outlined to the to a usable point. Turns out later when I went back and looked at it, a lot of those videos were poorly structured. I forgot to include references. So if I bring up, say, a blog post, for example, I want a link to the blog post so I don't have to go and search it when I'm recording videos.

I didn't include a lot of those, so I had to go and sort of remake them, rearrange things, get to the point where the video is in mostly a state where I can work with it while recording. It doesn't have to be in the exact, like, exactly the same as how I'm going to lay it out, but the points need to be there. And yeah, basically. By the time we hit six o'clock though, all of that was done. After that, I was like, I don't know what to do now. Because Monday to Wednesday are usually all hands on board.

So I'm like, I don't want to just chill here and do nothing. It's going to throw up my entire week. But I didn't have anything to do. So I started watching some anime. Like I had nothing else to do. I know. So I did do thumbnails. I usually on Monday,

I'll also decide what videos I'm going to record for that week. And then I'll do thumbnails for those videos. I don't know how I did thumbnail faces during that. I couldn't tell you. I somehow managed to make it work. I see if I can find... What's one of the videos that went up during that period? Or that was recorded during that period?

The... Ah, this one. Yes. Give me one second. Recently... No, shut up, this one. Yes. Give me one second. Recently fired. No, shut up, Brody. Don't care. Uh, this one. If I didn't tell you that I was, like, sick and had no idea what the fuck was going on

during this, you would think this is just a regular Brody thumbnail. Nothing really stands out here. A little obvious... Uh. I was going to say it's more basic, but I did the rest of the editing afterwards. The only thing I did on the Monday was take the thumbnail picture and cut it out.

If I didn't say anything, you probably would just never really notice it. So, besides that, what was I watching on Monday? What did I watch? Oh, Bluelock.

Yeah, I was watching through Bluelock. I will talk about Bluelock in just a bit because it's a really, really good series. But, by the time it hits 8? 9 o'clock? So, I didn't want to go to bed really early.

I could have gone to bed at 9 o'clock and then just slept, tried to sleep until like 8 o'clock the next day or something. But like with the other things, I didn't want to throw up my sleep schedule. So I wanted to stay up till at least like 10, 30, 11. So it's mostly where it is. I usually try to get to sleep around midnight or so. But I couldn't sit up past nine o'clock. Like my back was hurting.

Everything, like I was having like pretty bad muscle pains that first day. And I could not sit up in the chair. So what I did is I took my phone and basically laid down on my side, trying to find a spot where I could lean my phone without much effort, and just watched anime until like 11 o'clock or something, which it felt like the longest five episodes I'd ever watched. There were multiple times when after an episode ended, I, like, fell asleep for a minute or two, but I guess I just woke up again for whatever reason. Oh, I never wake up at, like, you know, one in the morning or something like, what the fuck's going on?

But that pretty much concluded the first day. When I got to 11, I was like, you know what? We're done. I'm going to sleep now. Let's hope that I'm better in the morning. In the morning, I wasn't much. I was definitely better, but I wasn't like good. So Tuesdays, I usually try to record four videos usually this one I couldn't even like I couldn't even talk for more than five ten seconds without coughing let alone the fact that my voice didn't really work either

i i my voice was i couldn't really maybe like much above like this volume anything more than this and it was just and it was like i couldn't put any effort into my voice either. If I did, I would just cough. So, like, I couldn't record the videos like I would normally want to. I couldn't, you know, put the level of energy in that I would want to either. Some people might argue that might be better. I don't care. That's not the way I want to record the videos.

So, I was not want to record the videos. So I was not gonna record that day. I tried for like maybe 30 minutes or an hour and I just could not get past the intro. And I was like, you know what? This is a waste of time. Let's find something else to do. I ended up just planning out videos for the entire next week. So this week right now. That's why I don't need to be recording anything. Or I don't need to be planning anything on this Monday. I still do plan to plan out two videos. Because they're like kind of news topic-y things and they can just fit into my um

fit into my upload schedule but i basically spent the the same the second day doing the exact same thing as the first today i also got most of the topics for this podcast set up as well this podcast set up as well. Um, I don't remember at all what I planned out that day, but somehow I planned out another six videos, which usually I don't get

six done in a single day. Usually it's like four, five-ish. Usually when it's six, it is shorter topics. And in this case, they were shorter topics as well. There were things that didn't require, like, a ton of deep diving into a GitHub issue,

into a bug tracker, things like that. It's more like the surface level is the entire depth of the story so i got those done um during this process i think it was on the first day i don't know if it was the first day or the second day once again those i was kind of delirious at the time and things were kind of blending into each other uh my housemate asked me if like i wanted anything i i was pretty much set like i had food for the limited amount of food that i could feel like eating i had you know i had water things like that i could always go like go fill up water from the tap outside my room in like the kitchen anyway um but I asked him to get go get me some Gatorade

I didn't specify which flavor he bought me pineapple and kiwi or something like that I've never had I don't drink Gatorade the only reason I wanted it was like just get me something was it Gatorade Powerade one of the two it doesn't matter. Get me something with electrolytes in it. I don't care what it is. Just get me something. So I think I ended up having over Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, probably like six or seven of those bottles. Maybe six.

But the other ones are gone I didn't drink them and I know that the ones I drank because the bottles were on my floor when I was done with everything he bought this box of Gatorade because I wanted

some while I was sick and then drank almost most of it himself He bought them so you can do that if you wanted to but like You buy them for the sick person and then you go and drink them you he's not a Gatorade drink He just he doesn't drink Gatorade is like a regular thing. It just happened to be there. So we drank them But um thing. It just happened to be there, so we drank them. But after we got to like six or so o'clock on the Tuesday, things pretty much went back to the same thing as Monday. I didn't need to lay down in the bed while I was watching stuff. I did end up shifting there around 10.30 or so? Maybe like 10, 10, yeah, about 10 o'clock.

Just because beds are comfortable when I felt like sitting there, I felt like laying there. Wednesday was, I think Wednesday was the really annoying day. Monday, I was very clearly out of commission. Like, I couldn't record. Tuesday, I tried, but couldn't really record. Wednesday, Wednesday was a problem, because I felt like, you know, imagine you're, I don't know, doing a sport, martial art, anything like that,

and you know how it typically feels to sort of get into gear, get to that point where you're ready to perform, but during this, I kind of felt like there was sort of a step missing. Like I could, I could see the doorstep, but I couldn't step up to it. So I, I knew that I could record if I really tried, but it would take a big leap to get up to that level where I typically would be at. So that day seriously pissed me off. Like I wasn't good enough to do a stream, I wasn't good enough to do just to maintain my sanity if things like if things were slightly better a day earlier I probably would have done this podcast last week instead of this week um that day I sort of just I of just wrote that day off. I just spent the day playing video games pretty much.

And as much as I enjoy that, I don't want to be doing that during the period where I'm supposed to be working. I want to be working, I want to be doing stuff on the channel because that's what I'm supposed to be doing during those first couple of days. When I eventually got to Thursday, that's when things, I still didn't feel exactly ready to record videos, but the gap wasn't as big. It took me maybe 15, 20 minutes to do like the first line in my first video. But once I got that out, then everything sort of mostly clicked back into space. Click back into space. Um back into space. I got I think I got like five videos done on that day. One of the things that did help with this week is the

previous week I had recorded seven videos rather than my typical six. So there was one less video to do that week. So it didn't, even though it's one less video, it still felt like monumentally less work to get those five videos done. I could have obviously like done an extra

video on the Friday or something, um, but I didn't need to because one of the videos was exceptionally short. It was the Linus Torvalds video. That one I got done... I think that one took me like 20 or 30 minutes to record. Why am I getting messages on my phone? Oh, it's the gym being like, you should shine up to the gym. Fuck you. Where was I at, where was, something,

recording videos, five videos, whatever, I got those five videos done, I got them edited, I got, like, everything ready to queue up over the weekend, and I was pretty much in a decent enough state. Now, the one good thing about Thursday is there was no risk of the boss calling me, asking me to come into work. The reason for this is Thursday was January 26th. January 26th is Australia Day. It's a national holiday. It doesn't really matter what the national holiday is about,. It's a national holiday. It doesn't really matter what the national holiday is about, but it's a national holiday. It's a public holiday. So my work was not open, which is great. So I got everything done that day and got to Friday. Also Thursday,

I would normally be doing a stream with Ren. That's when I do the Pokemon stream. I was like, I can't. I can't do this right. I felt like I could do videos just because I can take multiple takes on a single thing. And it doesn't really matter if it takes me like 20 minutes to say one thing. I didn't want to make people sit through that on a stream. So I'm like We'll do the stream next time and then

be good from there. But that was kind of annoying because I had to cancel the previous Pokemon stream as well because that's the one we had a lot of tech issues, because our hardware encoders stopped working in OBS, so that was good, so we had two weeks without the Pokemon streams happening, that's going to be happening again, I guess the Thursday that this comes out, so go check that out I guess I think there's going to be like two or three maybe four my guess would be on three episodes

remaining assuming we don't wipe on the on the elite four or champion which is a very very high possibility I don't know what's gonna happen there. But I don't have high hopes.

But, Thursday got all that stuff done. Friday, I could have tried to do the podcast then. But I wanted to get at least one stream done that week, and there was no way I was going to be able to do a stream and a podcast at the same time, like on like the same days. I normally could, but I just did not have the energy to sort of really get that done

because throughout this entire week, and actually still till today, done because throughout this entire week and actually still till today I don't really have my full appetite back I think around Friday or Saturday I sort of I sort of leveled off around my recovery so I still have a cough right now you probably noticed it a couple of times uh throughout the video but if that first day i felt like 10 maybe 5 now i'm at like 85 90 but it stayed at 85-90% since Friday. I got up today, I was like, Do I really want to record?

But like, it's not so bad that I couldn't record. It was just... It was just to that point where... It feels like I have weights on on and I'm just being held back and I don't know if that's gonna go away this week I don't know if I'm gonna be stuck with that for like a month or so I'm not really sure what's going to happen going forward well I really hope it doesn't stick around um that long so one of the things that happened on the Thursday Friday one of them because I didn't really have much of an appetite

and just you know wasn't eating really much I was I was still trying to eat I didn't want to go that entire week like not eating even if I just didn't feel like eating, I knew I'd be in a much worse state if I avoided eating altogether. So I sort of forced myself to have, like, a little bit here and there. But I hadn't had a cup of tea probably in three or four days at that point. So I don't know when this started, but I did realize that on the Thursday, at that point,

I couldn't taste anything sweet. Now I definitely can. But on that Thursday, I made a cup of tea. I put some sugar in it. And normally, I know how the tea I make is supposed to taste. I couldn't taste the sugar even slightly. It tasted like I just put the teabag in there and just drank it as is.

Which isn't terrible. Like, I can certainly have that. But it's not my preferred way to have tea. I like to have a little bit of sugar in there just to take off a touch of the bitterness. I don't know what the deal with that was. I know a lot of people have reported having issues with their taste afterwards. I don't know, I've not heard anyone specifically say about sweetness by itself. I didn't test, you know, every kind of, um, every kind of flavor profile, but I could still definitely taste salty things. I could taste, you know, I could taste spicy things, I could taste bitter things. It seemed like sweet things just weren't happening whatsoever.

I don't have much of a sweet tooth, so it wasn't really like, Oh no, I can't have my sponge cake or whatever. Like, the sweetest thing that I have is maybe like, I don't know, sugar in my tea or like sweet chili, things like that. I'm not much of a soft drink drinker. I'm not much of a dessert taker. I don't eat ice cream, things like that. So like, it was fine. Like it's annoying. Like if someone offers me a cup of tea it's gonna taste a little bit off, but at the time I wasn't too worried. That mostly got better by Saturday? Friday it was still definitely- I could taste sweet things by Friday, but I could definitely tell the things tasted

weird. Like I could definitely tell the things tasted weird. Like, I could taste the sweetness, but it wasn't sweetness as in I would, as in the way I would generally, I don't know how to explain it. It's sort of like, you, like, you know how, like, I don't know, a chocolate bar is going to taste, for example.

And then, all of a sudden, they change up the recipe. It's still the same chocolate bar, but it tastes off. Like, maybe they switch from using real sugar to fake sugar, fake sugar to real sugar. And it just doesn't align with what your brain thinks that thing is supposed to taste like. And that's sort of where I was at at the time. It's good that that's gone, but yeah, it was definitely weird. Over the weekend, I pretty much just tried to chill. Because the week, like, as much as I can chill during the week,

during the week, I know I'm supposed to be working. So I have a much harder time actually just accepting that I should be resting. On the weekend, though, not so much. On the weekend, I'm just like, you know what? This is the time I would normally rest. I don't really have any qualms about doing so. If things are not done, they can get done next week. And I did mostly rest. I

had to go out and do a little bit of shopping just because I couldn't rea- I was running out of food. Also, on that Friday, I did end up going to work. It was like a kind of a slow day, not for me or not for the work. It was a slow day for me. As much as I was like mostly ready to go back, I still couldn't put out the energy that I would normally put out. So things got done, but they didn't get done as quickly as I would like them to get done. We were sort of cutting it very close at the end of the shift. I think the boss ended up staying back like, I don't know, half an hour, an hour, which was great for him because he also just came

back from COVID. So yeah, I know I didn't get it from him because the last time I was at work was on the Thursday the week before. And there's no way it's going to have like a three day incubation period before any signs at all are being shown. So I would have had to have got it on the... Probably on the Saturday or Sunday. I don't know where, because Saturday I just did a little bit of shopping, and Sunday I saw a movie with one of my mates. And he tested negative.

So... I really am unclear where it came from. he tested negative so I really am unclear where it came from but there's no use worrying about it just worry about yourself basically so hopefully by the end of this week hopefully by the end of this week

I'm like I would like to be 100% 100% would be nice, but even just like 95, 99%, get rid of this fucking cough, get rid of this sort of, this sort of lethargic feeling, get rid of this, like, you know, when you have like a cough there's like a bit of your throat that feels like no matter what you do it's always going to be dry that's sort of a feeling i've got right now as well it's not bad enough where i can't record but it is bad enough where every so often it's going to set off a cough. So, not having that would also be great.

Um, yeah. But I've spoken about my Rhino experience for like half an hour now, so I think that's enough of that. I hope you guys are, you know, informed about what it was like now.

Because I didn't really talk about it on the main channel. I did talk about it a bit on the pod... No, not podcast. On the Twitter. On the Twitter and also a little couple of mentions on the Discord. Just because there were people on the Discord who, like, you know, followed my Twitter and posted things along. I didn't want to make a big deal about it at the time. like, oh no, I've got Rona, pray for me, like, I'll be fine, like,

it won't be, it's, it'll be annoying, but, like, it'll be fine. Um, so I just focused on my own stuff and went from there, basically. But let's talk about something that isn't the Rona. Let's talk about something that would actually help me in the way that I record my videos. I don't know if you guys have seen this yet, but NVIDIA has a new tech that's been floating around. This is from four months ago, but it's sort of just recently making the rounds on YouTube.

If you don't know what's happening here, so this is a regular video. The guy is just like doing his thing. And NVIDIA has this new camera tech where it can adjust where your eyes are looking to make it look like you're always looking at the camera. It works through glasses as well, obviously not as well. This is one without the correction, there should be a demo. Yeah, here we go. This, I don't know how I feel about this. I'm sure there's absolutely going to be people who use this during video recording.

It's pretty much... Unless you're pixel peeping... It's pretty much undetectable. If I just showed you... Where is it? If I just showed you... This part of the demo without showing you the original footage, you would think I'm just

showing you a guy looking at the camera. It's really good. There are... Okay. I think with glasses it does really start to show where the slight issues are. If you stare at this little bit right here, you can see some tiny, tiny

artifacting on his glasses. But that's also easily confusable with like a flickering light or something flickering on your screen. It's not like... It's definitely not the most... screen. It's not like... It's definitely not the most... Like, something that's going to take you entirely out of the situation.

But without glasses like this one... Like, if I didn't tell you this was from an AI demo, you would not be able to tell that her eyes are corrected with AI. Even remotely. You would think she's just looking that her eyes are corrected with AI. Even remotely.

Like, you would think she's just looking at the camera, and there's nothing off there. I'm curious how it would behave with someone that has, like, a lazy eye. Because what it tries to do is tries to find your eyes' natural resting place and then sort of adjust it based on that. But I would imagine the data set is primarily on people that don't have lazy eyes. So it might try to correct the lazy eye

and make you just look at the camera I'm not sure. I've not seen anyone do a demo like that. What I have seen is a slightly unsettling demo AI Eye contact or eye correction. This is a... I don't like this one. So, people have been going around using this tech

on various movies. So, this is on... I wonder if I can bring a bigger video of that going full screen. This is on Jurassic Park. I can't. Because video play is stupid. But I don't know how well you can make this out.

Every single shot here. They've adjusted the actor's eyes. Actually, here's a good point. This is how well it works with glasses, even in bad lighting situations. Like, it's doing everything it needs to be doing. Here's glasses here with hair in the way, still doing everything it needs to be doing. So it does work pretty well with glasses.

Obviously not as well, but pretty good. I don't like... I really don't like the movie demos. There's something really unsettling. If I play the audio, they're just like, it's just random scenes from the movie. When they are looking at the camera, it kind of feels more like it's a, um, it's a documentary as opposed to a movie. Because generally you don't look at the camera in a movie.

But it's not that uncommon in a documentary. I don't know how I feel about that. And I really hope people don't actually use it for a uh for an actual movie um is this is it I know there's another set of demos on movies that weren't Jurassic Park uh it's not that one is this it I think yes here it is so this is on a bunch of other movies. And, like, especially in, like, the scenes that are supposed to be, like, creepy scenes or ranty scenes or, like, big long discussion scenes, having them stare into your soul.

Oh, even here, here's another great example of where it's actually incredibly good. Horrible lighting. Like, you can barely make out his eyes, but it's still doing it exactly well. The other thing that, uh, thing that this so this this tech has existed for a while it used to be really bad at Not having people blink Nowadays it does support blinking which is good because It's one thing to have felt okay. Shut up, you know It's one thing to have the actors stare into your soul. I think the best demos are where they have the side-by-side.

It's one thing to have the actors stare into your soul. It's another thing to have them stare into your soul. Never, ever blinking. I can certainly see this being used, especially in, like, YouTube video production. But where I can also see this being used is in cheating on exams. So, I really think the idea of online exams is stupid,

I really think the idea of online exams is stupid, and they were fine like GPT-4, whether it's this AI camera correction, where you could be looking away from the, uh, away from your camera, away from the test, uh, the, uh, the notebook and still have it look like you're looking at the thing. Actually, I kind of want to, I kind of want to run this for an exam. Just have it look like you're staring at the camera the entire time. Never look at the test the entire time. You're just writing like this the entire time. Like, obviously, that's very clear that you're doing something off. But looking at the camera is just like one situation. There's no reason why you couldn't have the same concept,

but looking at other points, like looking down, looking up, looking to the left or to the right, or maybe both at once. Like have your pupils pointing out in other directions. It's just, looking at the camera is the most obvious use case where, like, this has a use in video conferencing. But I can't imagine this is a limitation of the tech.

There's probably also more footage of people looking at a camera as well, as opposed to looking at various directions, making it much easier to produce a dataset and then test against a known set of properties. I am so curious to see what happens with this AI future we're walking into. Because tools like this aren't going to take anyone's job. But they are part of this set of growing AI options that are... AI partners, AI options, AI

tooling that's available that is sort of really changing the way that we work. changing the way that we work. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I don't know where all of this AI stuff goes in the next five or ten years. I am very much on the... depends on how you're looking at it, either the DOOMer or the... or like... you know we'll just go down the D doomer path of all work is going to be done by ai one day like you could say that's a good thing you'd say that's a bad thing i'm pretty much of the camp that in probably i i'd be surprised if it's not in my lifetime like most of the work being done by ai especially anything involving computers like there's definitely going to be a lot more issue with like manual labor work like it's going to be much harder to to fully automate brick laying or fully automate plumbing or for maybe you could definitely integrate a lot of a lot of

ai tooling into like electrician work but when something is purely physical it's going to take a lot longer for that to be for that to be automated but when we're talking about like office jobs like you know you're a research you're doing a research position you're doing some low-level web dev you're doing some data entry you're doing some data analysis a lot of this stuff in like probably no more than like 20 years, I can't imagine most of it still existing or existing like at the rate it exists today. I feel like probably a long time into the future, you're going to need, you may not need it, but people are going to want a sort of human sanity check because a lot of these ai systems we have are very good at seeing things that are wrong confidently like a chat gpt for

example you can get it to say pretty much anything even if that is completely wrong, and it will be incredibly confident about it. But that's not useful in every situation. If you just want it to say things, fine. But if you want it to be right on things, then you need some other system to follow up on that system and you may have an AI system that does that but I think most people are going to be more comfortable having having some sort of human there just to like check over what's going on like I've had this discussion with someone probably a couple of years back about like the whole automated trucking. I think the idea of like fully autonomous cars fully autonomous trucks is

probably longer away than the advocates want them to be. I know there are definitely like a lot of stuff in the works. When does Tesla think they'll have their fully autonomous trucks?

Fully autonomous trucks Tesla. uh okay fully i right i put in truck but the people in the u.s call a a a ute a truck fully autonomous semi uh i know that they they're definitely trying to get the electric trucks onto the road. Are they on the road already? I'm not seeing any, like, recent discussions of them, so I'm guessing they aren't on the road yet. Yeah, initially they did say they wanted to do full self-driving, but...

Oh, here we go. So... Tesla's first semi-trucks will be delivered to Pepsi in December of 2022. I don't know if they're on the road just yet. But they might have them in their fleet. Assuming that Tesla isn't very behind on things, which is very Tesla to be. Okay, there are prototypes on the road.

Yeah, okay, so they have made trips with them, Okay, so they have made trips with them, but they are not... Yeah, they're not obviously full self-driving yet because Tesla doesn't have full self-driving. As much as there is... Oh my God, there's so many fucking people. Have you guys seen the videos of people who are asleep at the wheel of their Tesla?

Because Tesla, in their infinite wisdom is allowed to market products as autopilot and full self-driving i don't know why they're allowed to use these terms when the general public obviously has a has a perception of what these terms actually mean i'm fully fine with them trying to do that if like if they get to the point where you can have like autopilot and full self-driving go right ahead and call it that. But until we get to the point where you can sleep at the wheel, can we not, can we just please not call it that? Just please, please, please, please. The problem with full self-driving isn't, isn't the car itself. Like, i'm sure that in a test track you can you know have it drive around perfectly fine the issue is in the real world there is other cars there is signs there are people there are there are animals and that don't follow rules whatsoever like Like, you need to build a system

that can account for basically infinite variables. And it seems like they're definitely a lot better than they used to be. But there's still a long way to the point where people are re... I was going to say people are going gonna really trust them but then i remember the people that fall asleep at the wheels regular people who are not insane who sleep at the wheel of their car um for those people to trust it i was having this discussion with my housemate a

couple of weeks back about if one day it'll get to the point where you can be in a full self-driving like we get to the point where full self-driving is like actually full self-driving you don't have to touch the wheel unless something goes wrong because something's always gonna have a chance to go wrong and he was saying will we get to a point where you just don't need a driver's license to use one of these cars? He argued, yes, that'll happen. I don't see a world where if there is a steering wheel, you'll be allowed to drive a full self-driving car, like an actual full self-driving car without a license. Because even though 90, let's say 99.9% of the time, it's perfectly fine. It does everything that it needs to do. If there is a situation where the user needs to take control, that user needs to know how to drive to be in a situation, to actually be

able to take that situation from being dangerous into something safer. They need to be able to take control as soon as possible, you know, get off the road in a safe manner or slow down, or put hazards on, or whatever is the best approach in the specific situation, and then, you know, deal with it like that. If there is the ability for the user to take control, I don't see a world where... Well, I know people... He's not the first person who's talked about this. I know there is definitely people who think that one day, you know, we're going to have fully autonomous taxis. They're going to have no driver.

You can just let your car go out into the world and make you money. Not only is that really stupid because people are going to vandalize your car and people are going to try to steal it. people are going to try to steal it. And if something goes wrong, then a person in the backseat can't reasonably get into the front seat to take over, or maybe have a steering wheel in the backseat. But if you have a steering wheel in the backseat,

now you can drive from the backseat, which is also probably not safe either. is also probably not safe either. I'm curious to see where the self-driving thing goes. I don't want to say it's impossible. I think it's way, way further out than we think, but you can't ever really say something is impossible in the world of tech. Like, there's the... What was the Bill Gates quote about RAM?

Bill Gates, never need... You never need... Oh oh what was it in 1981 when the ibm pc was introduced bill gates supposedly said the 640 640 kilobytes of memory ought to be enough for anybody i don't know if that's actually a real quote. But it is certainly a quote that floats around. Like, there's articles from the early days of the internet where people were saying that nobody would really need the internet in their home. There were discussions from the early days of computers

where people were saying that people would, like, actual researchers were saying that people would actual researchers were saying that people would never need a computer in their home. And we know how that turned out. So I don't want to say that it's impossible that we actually see full self-driving.

That's one where I'd be surprised if we see that in our lifetime. There's definitely going to be a lot of tests, like there's going to be a lot of tests of maybe not like road trains, maybe not full semis, but like small load trucks doing a fully autonomous. The other problem with a fully autonomous truck though is you can't have a fully autonomous truck just go out into the middle of nowhere by itself. Because what happens if that truck breaks down? What if it gets bogged? What if it is in a crash because, you know, someone's car hits them? What if an animal comes out the middle of the road

and takes the truck out or something? You need someone in the truck to be able to assess situations like that. Because like, let's say you have, let's say you're going through somewhere like, um, the middle of Australia, you go through the Hay Plains, um, the Hay Plains, I'm gonna, I'll show you Hay Plains, so, the Hay Plains are the world, are world renowned as the flattest place in the southern hemisphere, um, this is the Hay Plains. I can show you any picture of the Hay Plains and it will look exactly the same. This is the Hay Plains.

It is a straight road for, I actually don't know how many kilometers. Let me find out. How long is the Hay Plains? How long is the Hay Plains? It's 1500 kilometers but it only takes about 16 hours to get through

because it's 1500 kilometers of just fucking straight road, it's not really straight it curves a bit but it's nothing so if you are you have a fully autonomous truck and you break down right

here and let's say you send that truck out with absolutely not like no people on it the nearest town is Mildura this is probably like a three or four hour drive just to get there or they could probably yeah I think Mildura is the closest major town there's probably like some little towns around here um but you need someone in the truck

to be able to assess that because you can't just leave like let's say you're I don't know bringing it's a food truck for example, you can't just leave that in the middle of the desert for, like, five hours by itself without any idea the truck's broken down, especially because you might have a reporting system that also breaks down because, I don't know, there's, like, a fire in the truck or something, so even if we get to the point where we have fully autonomous trucks at least for those big trips you're not gonna have unmanned trucks i think that's the big

distinction i think the idea of a fully autonomous vehicle can probably happen in our lifetime maybe possibly but i don't see unmanned vehicles happening at any reasonable point let alone just the fact that no sane regulator would allow there to not be a like not be a backup not be a fallback system in the case that something goes wrong because what happens if something goes wrong on a highway and there's no fallback system do you just die like who's at fault if there's a crash because clearly the driver isn't at fault because they couldn't drive so is it the company? is it the government for having shitty roads? is it the person who hit you?

if they hit you did they hit you? or did your vehicle malfunction and you hit them? it would be a mess it would just be a giant mess. And I want to be old enough where I don't have to think about it. And look, at the rate we're going, I probably will be.

I don't think we're seriously going to be talking about fully autonomous cars. Or especially unmanned cars. Telling me my 70s or 80s. That would be my assumption. I know that obviously fully autonomous cars are going to be in the news probably until that point, but I mean like seriously in discussion as like a mainstay on the road that a lot of people have. Right now, right now, the idea of electric cars is still... It's still a fairly niche idea. Like, there's definitely a lot more electric cars

on the road right now. Like, you've got cheaper models coming out, like the Leaf. It's been around for a while. Cheap electric cars. Let's see. Let's see what actually shows up. What is the cheapest electric right now that you can buy?

Keep in mind, this is going to be Australian prices. So, yeah. Cheapest to own. Okay. Can we just have a fucking list? Jesus Christ. According to 2022 car Running Cost Survey, the midsize MG ZS SUV is the cheapest EV to buy

and most affordable to run. Just under $42,000. And that's if you can actually buy it at that price. You know, car prices are a mess right now. Good luck actually buying something at MSRP. MG's HS 1.5 Turbo Excite at $48. Mitsubishi Eclipse at $51. A Hyundai Ioniq 5 2-wheel drive at $78,000.

I know there is this big push for electric cars, like, you know, phasing out ICE cars, only having electric cars. And there's obviously the issue there with battery tech, but let's just assume the battery tech issue is not there. Like this, this idea that you're going to phase out ice cars by what? What does California want to stop?

When do they want to stop selling them? Um, California bans gas cars uh they want to stop selling new cars by 2035 okay that's actually further out than i thought i think when it comes to new cars that's definitely possible the issue you have though is getting petrol gasoline gasoline, whatever you want to call it, cars off the road. Because while you can certainly say only electric cars are available, unless you have the money to buy a new car, right now you're not getting an electric. And let's assume that you do manage to afford like a second-hand electric. Let's assume that you do

manage to afford like a secondhand electric. Let's see what we can buy a Nissan Leaf for right now. Nissan Leaf Secondhand. Let's see what we can find on car sales. Auto Trader? One of them. car sales, uh, or auto trader, one of them, okay, not 2022 models, let's order by, can I order by price, is that a thing I can do on this website, price, yes, oh, no, I can say a max,

fuck, can I order by price here, yeah, here we go. Price low to high. No, that's... Price low to high. Okay, there we go. $15,000 free 2012 model. What is the range? Ah, there it is. 175... 175k. Fuck, that's actually rough.

That would be fine for, like, city driving. But if you want to do any sort of like long-range drive that's actually useless um 17,000 17 okay so they're actually getting to the point where i'm actually a little bit behind i i thought they were still a little bit more expensive on the second-hand market this is getting to the point where regular people can afford them. But think about, like, your first car. Like, how much did you spend on your first car?

Mine was about three and a half. Yeah, I think I spent about three and a half on my first car. My sister spent, like, I think she bought her first car. No, wait. No, the second car was the ship box the first one was the ship box that didn't run her first car was this what was this something like it's like a red miata no it wasn't miata i don't know i don't think it was a Miata. It was some, like, sporty little thing that she bought,

uh, in her words, to impress a boy. Um, it broke down in the first month and sat in the, uh, in the driveway for, like, an entire year. It was a shitbox. Then she replaced it with this other car that was, like, $500. It was not safe. It shouldn't have been on the road. But it lasted like three years. But that's how much like a lot of people spend on their first car. And I know people like who don't spend more than that. And like the most they'll spend on the car is like maybe five, six grand. So until you get, and this is only like 113 Nissan Leafs.

Obviously there are other electrics, but this is one of the cheaper models. It's going to take still quite a while to get to these cars down to that price. And then when you have electrics down at that price how old are these cars and what sort of state is the battery in because you know we can say what the range on this car is i presume that's the new range uh i'm gonna check because i i'm almost certain that after a hundred thousand k's it's not gonna have the same range as a new car especially a 11 year old battery yeah that's the uh the new range that's kind of disingenuous um i don't like that car sales lists what the

new range is because that's yeah that's that's, that's definitely not gonna, definitely not gonna be the case at that point, um, same with, like, the early Tesla, like, anytime you have batteries, they're going to degrade over time, I wouldn't be surprised if this is more like, you know, 150, 160, I, I doubt it's, like, much, much. I could have degraded more. It could be like 110 or whatever, but let's just be nice and say it's 150. You're now getting to the point where the car is slowly becoming less and less useful. And when you look at like Tesla, for example, um, Tesla's my favorite example because Tesla battery replacement cost where someone was charged because Tesla wants you to replace the entire battery where is it? I don't know if the price has changed now. At the time, you couldn't replace individual parts.

You had to buy the entire thing for $5,000 to $7,000. Let's actually see what the price is for a Leaf. Nissan Leaf. Battery replacement cost. Uh-huh. Uh... Where is it? It said nine... Here it is. Uh...

Beyond the manufacturer's warranty period, Nissan has introduced a subsidized battery program for vehicles sold by its Australian dealers. Uh... Nissan Australia will exchange a working 24kW battery with a state of health of 8 bars or less with a new 24kW battery

for $10,000. And it has a warranty of 160,000 kilometers. Okay, maybe after 110, it'll be fine. But what happens when you have a 2012 electric car in 2030? Because that's not unreasonable. Like, my first car was from 2001. I bought that in, like, 2018. And there's a lot of people on the road now who still drive like you know 1999 cars

2000 like 2001 cars 2005 cars and if you're a really heavy driver obviously the amount of wear and tear is going to be different so if you're a like you know big cross

country drive which you're not going to fucking do in a leaf anyway let So if you're a, like, you know, big cross-country drive, which you're not going to fucking do on a Leaf anyway, let's say you drive a lot. Like, you drive, I don't know, an hour to work every day. It's not crazy that, you know, over 10, 15 years, you have, like, 250,000 kilometers on the clock. Then if you sell that car, someone buys it, the battery replacement might be more expensive than buying a car.

And how long are these battery replacements going to be available? Are you going to- are we going to get worse with the way that we do rights for repair? Is it going to be harder to buy parts of them? Are you going to have to go rather than to a third party repair where you might get cheaper service, you have to go to the first party? Don't get me wrong, I think the electric cars are really cool. From a tech perspective, I think they are really cool. I have serious concerns over whether they will legitimately replace ICE cars.

I keep saying ICE, Internal Combustion Engine, in case anyone doesn't know. I think there's more hope for, like, hybrids. I think there's more hope for like hybrids hybrids have been on the road for quite a while now and you actually get like reasonable range from them and also they're cheap which is

certainly nice I think there's anyone saying there's not going to be a place on the road for electric cars I think is really stupid like I think they really stupid. Like, I think they are pretty much here to stay, especially, especially once like serious car manufacturers get involved. Like when Ford's doing stuff, GM's doing stuff, Nissan, Toyota, like basically every car manufacturer is making electric cars. Even if they were to stop right now,

making electric cars, even if they were to stop right now, there would still be electrics on the road for like, you know, 10, 15 years. Like, here in Australia, we are only now kind of just fading out gas car. Not gas as in what Americans think of gas. What do Americans call of gas. What do Americans call a gas car?

USA, I guess we just got LPG car? What do you guys call them? Propane. Oh wait, what do you guys just not even use? Wait, do you guys not even have propane cars?

Or use... Wait, do you guys not even have propane cars? Uh... Or autogas? Or LPG? Okay, no. Apparently, you guys did? Well, everyone sort of phased them out. I certainly can't find as much information about them.

Okay, so it seems like you guys had them way earlier and have mostly gotten rid of them. Here in Australia, for a very long time, LPG, autogas, whatever you want to call it, was really, really easily accessible. I wouldn't say popular, because it was never really popular.

But for a long time, our taxi industry relied on LPG. Let's see if I can find something. Australia Taxi LPG.

I probably can't find them, can I? Uh, for a very long time our taxi fleets Oh, I guess we started back around the same time. Um. And then we went to hybrids around the 90s. Uh, hybrid gas and, uh,

petrol. Um. So, it was really easy to find LPpg here probably up until like six or seven years ago and there was still lpg cars being made at that point but now uh if you go like around to petrol stations the older ones will still have a sign up for Autogas, for LPG, but the vast majority of them do not sell it. Like, they just have the sign

there, and will never have a price listed. Probably one out of one out of five? Yeah, maybe like one out of five, one out of seven you go to will actually have a pump for LPG. But even then,

those cars are still on the road. And I think the same is going to be true for electrical. Even if we get to the point where we realise, you know, maybe electric cars are a bad idea, we want to go do hydrogen, let's say. Which I don't see... The problem with hydrogen is

the infrastructure just isn't there. But unlike with electric cars, where, you know, the petrol station has electricity, so you can retrofit relatively easy in comparison you know, electric charge points, you know, like hook them up to the wiring in the petrol station

the hydrogen problem is a much bigger deal like hydrogen would basically be in the same state that petrol would be in if petrol just never existed, like if we came up with petrol today everyone would be in if petrol just never existed. Like, if we came up with petrol today, everyone would be like, why would we want to build other infrastructure?

We have the infrastructure for petrol, so it's not really an issue to consider. Hydrogen is very expensive to install. Let's see hydrogen USA fill USA hydrogen car fill

point map. You can buy a hydrogen car today, but good fucking luck actually driving... Actually this map might be bigger than I thought it was. Map of... Oh no, okay. I thought this was better than... I thought this was actually better. This is a map of where they would like there to be hydrogen fill points. Not a map of where they are.

Let's have a look at a map of where they are. This is... Is this from 2021, 2022? Where is this from? That's 2018. I want something a little bit newer than that. 2022. Why can I not find a USA map? Surely. Okay, that's a horrible map that shows f***ing everything. That's a horrible map that shows fucking everything. I cannot find a fucking... I know I've seen a map like this before.

Fuck, I can't find it. The point I'm getting at is the map is very empty. There's not many things on the map. Is this... Actually, no, this is a good map this map will do it here we go so

it doesn't point to exactly where they are but it does give a general estimate of how many are in each location so Texas why the fuck does Texas have one, um, pretty much unless you're in, um, California, uh, how the fuck, California, pretty much unless you're in California,

good luck actually owning one of these cars, like, there are all these states in here where there are zero hydrogen fuel stations. Like, if you live in, is that Utah? You have to, like, go to the state over, like, either Arizona, what is that one? I don't know. Nevada? Or this is really fucking testing my US geography.

What is CO? What the fuck is CO, give me a second, I'm bothered by that, USA, CO state, Colorado, that one, yeah, you need to, like, go to the state over to use a hydrogen car, California is just, like, over to use a hydrogen car. California is just like, California is California. Um, they're gonna jump all in on fucking anything. Uh, plus, it's tech stuff,

so, it's being made, a lot of, like, the tech stuff is being made there, a lot of the hydrogen cars are being made there, like, being tested there, so, you know, if you live in fucking Silicon Valley, you want to do Silicon Valley things, so you need your hydrogen fill points, I think this is how it started with

electric cars as well, like, when they first started hitting the, um, hitting the market, I'm pretty sure most of the recharge points were California as well, um, but nowadays, you can actually, can actually reasonably fill it plus you can fill it at a hotel house. Near my work there is this single electric fill point

electric recharge point in a random car park. It's not like off to the edge or something like that. It's just there. And there's one of like that. It's just there and there's one of them. So it's very likely that if you own an electric car and you try to park, you're not going to get that spot like at all because nobody cares. Nobody gives a shit about your electric car. But I have been seeing a lot more electrics on the road.

Like, I don't live in a super well-off area. It used to be a much poorer area. It's currently getting gentrified. Houses are getting a lot more expensive. A lot of new housing developments are going up. But there's nothing here. Like, there's really not much here to justify the houses going up as much as they have.

But, you know, all houses are going up, things like that. They are, like, redoing the shopping centre to make it all, you know, fancy. Once again, gentrifying the area. But if you go, like, two minutes over to the old section where they have all, like, the old 70s houses, the people are still there. So the people there that own those houses are sitting on, like,

some of those houses are, like, 300,000, and they're fucking shitboxes. Like, they are absolute garbage. They're falling apart. But because everything around them has gone, like, you know, if a house that's getting built is, five, six hundred thousand, it's going to naturally raise up the price of your shithouse just by nature of being near it. Plus, there's going to be people who want to buy the land for development, things like that, uh, and if you can subdivide a block and get two houses on it, you're willing to pay a little bit more for that land just to make sure that person leaves. Um, but I have been

seeing more electrics, probably, maybe not on a daily basis, but I also don't go out every single day. Maybe like every second, like one and a half times I go to work, I'll spot at least one electric. I will see a lot more petrol electric hybrids. I think the thing that's really gonna push a lot of those cars on, especially the hybrids onto the market, is a lot of the government cars here are now hybrids. So, you know, every couple of years,

they will upgrade their entire fleet. And when those cars get dumped down into the second hand market, that's when you're going to start seeing a bit more of a adoption of them. But they're not full electrics, they are hybrids. So you're still not going to see that electric adoption that

some people would like to see. But, you know, it is what it is. We've been talking about this for way too fucking long. don't even know what this episode is i'm just i'm just going like for 40 minutes on a single topic at this point and if people are listening that's cool um i don't know why you would be, but if you are, I appreciate it. Speaking of things and topics, let's talk about this one. So when Elon Musk took over Twitter, basically he just got rid of everything and just sold a bunch of stuff. See if I can find the rest of the auction.

Twitter auction. Bidding. No, I want to see the weirdest stuff you can get at the Twitter auction. Okay, here we go. See what? It's written by Cockburn. What an unfortunate name Cockburn is. Post by Cockburn.

Cockburnexample.com Why is your name Cockburn? Whatever. So you can buy things like a neon Twitter bird light electric display, the Twitter bird statue, a statue or a sculpture of the Twitter at sign. Oh, there's links here. Lovely. So I can show you. Cool. So this is a light up Twitter sign which actually looks pretty cool. Like, you know, we can meme on Twitter for everything Twitter is. And everything Twitter fucks up with.

I kind of wanted this. That's actually pretty cool. They have a sculpture of the at sign. Which has, like, fake plants on it for some reason. I'm not entirely sure what the deal with the fake plants is. But, sure. I guess someone might want that. I'm not entirely sure what the deal with the fake plants is. Uh, but sure, I guess someone might want that. I'm sorry, what?

48 cases of KN95 protective mask. How much did the mask sell for? Can I see the price? Uh, we're always, price of this law has not been published. Why has it not been published? Also, why are you selling

48 I hope someone didn't, like, spend an unreasonable price on this. But someone bought this. Someone bought, okay, the only, the only uh, like, people, But someone bought this. Someone bought... Okay.

The only... The only, like, people... The only thing that's reasonable to buy this for is if you're a company who sells them. I really hope that some random individual didn't buy 61,000 masks. Like... This is not about, like, you know, whether they like this is not about like you know whether they're

useful or not you will not use 61 like there is no way that you could use 61,000 like how many are in a box if there's 48 cases oh wait 48 cases

oh so I thought oh I thought that meant 41- 48 boxes Each of these boxes is a case Oh, you're- That didn't click with me. 48 big box... I hope an individual didn't buy it. I could see a YouTuber buying this just for the memes. Framery Acoustic Soundproof Conference...

That's actually... That's Actually how much is one of these worth I Kind of want to see if someone with a price that isn't published But I want to see how much if you wanted to buy one of these you would be paying Frame re the pioneering soundproof office booth Allow Pioneering Soundproof Office Booth. Allow... Can I see prices?

Or is this going to be like, you've got to contact us to get a quote. This is going to be, you've got to contact us to get a quote, isn't it? That's what it looks like. Let's find a price somewhere. I'm seeing similar booths in the range of

seven actually no, it's a single person booth, isn't it? So like 14,000? 14 to like 17,000 is probably not unreasonable for that price. for that, uh, item. Uh, Rock the Bike Fender Pro Recharge Station. What?

Oh, it's... It's Electric Bike Recharge Station. That's fucking amazing. It's electric bike recharge station. That's fucking amazing Cockburn can't understand. I'm just wait isn't this by Cockburn? Why are you speaking in a third person Cockburn? Doesn't every office need a stationary bike with a device charge? Oh wait oh wait oh no no no i misunderstood it this is basically an elliptical that you can use to generate electricity why do they have these there are ellipticals that will generate electricity. Let me just... What?

We'll have a look at some of the other stupid things. Rock the bike recharge station. What even is this? What if you could turn your phone charging into an ice-breaking experience, shut up, and high-energy gathering spot for your event? What?

The recharge station is just that, a place to relax, pedal, and get people's hearts going, help them make connections, all while adding juice to their batteries. The company won't offer you USB ports to charge your phone, like, integrated into the wall. What they want instead is

for you to pedal your bike to... Pedal your bike to recharge it. I'm sorry. Wait. They're $4,000 to buy? They start at $25.

That's about what I would pay for them. That's a fucking scam. Holy shit. So. This is the kind of bullshit that you buy when you have too much money. And Twitter doesn't have too much money.

Twitter didn't make money. Why they bought these, I don't know. It's not even, like, it doesn't even look that fucking comfortable elliptical. Like, this thing looks like it rattled the fuck out. Like, look at this back bar here.

If you shift left to right, you're just going to fucking shake. This is so stupid. Well, let's have a look at the demo video. Let's see if this guy can sell us on the bike. What even is this? Oh my god, this early version. I don't know if this is an early version or just so scuffed. It's just like a bunch of plywood stuck together.

Uh-huh. Okay, we're going to set it all up. Set everything up. Wow, you turned a fan on. Free energy. Minimum watt is 20 watts. Maximum wattage between 200 Two. And three hundred. I have a feeling.

Uh. I have a feeling. That two to three hundred watts. Might be a little bit. Tiring. I don't know. Maybe that's just me. But I feel like that's a stupid product.

Uh. Oh. The reason I brought this up. Is. Someone brought. Maybe that's just me, but I feel like that's a stupid product. Oh, and the reason I brought this up is someone bought the Twitter sign for $100,000. I'm surprised it sold for that little. I thought someone paid more. Like, this is not a little sign. It is... No, this at sign is six foot. How big is the bird?

What? That's a nice fucking desk. Ten grand? I don't know if I paid ten grand for it. There's a bunch of other cool things in here. Okay, let's have a look at what else sold for a lot here. Twitter sold a high-end Lamazoco Strata 3 espresso machine.

Retail $30,000. That's a good deal. Someone got this for $13,500. Once again, I hope you didn't buy this as an individual. You don't need a coffee machine like this. Go buy a regular coffee machine. Um. But. Uh. Hold the fuck up. What? Zoom and

enhance. Zoom and enhance. Does anybody see this, uh, this connector here? I don't know if that's just the way it looks because of the camera that looks bent that looks like it's about to snap off you might be doing some rewiring and reattaching this plug because that looks like it might break. But yeah, if you're a business and you want to get a coffee maker,

that actually is a good deal. On the lower end, Polycom conference cooler speaker phones were going for at $300. Okay, okay. Here's a chair. New $1195. Um... Here's a chair. New 1195. Someone paid $1400 for-

Haha! Someone paid $1400 for a second-hand chair. What a fucking idiot. Um... Can we see some of the other things? Can we see- Why is my mouse not working? I can scroll on other tabs.

Why can I not scroll on this tab? Anything else exciting here? Table. Lots of fucking tables. What is that? Bench? Am I just going to be scrolling through nothing exciting? I think I might be.

Yeah, it looks like- it looks like most of it's- It's fucking 11 pages. Okay, I'm not gonna scroll through 11 pages, but I'm sure if you- like some of these chairs, if you get some of these at a reasonable price, like, that's not dumb. The problem is that if- if one chair sold for $200 over retail, I can only imagine that, uh, multiple chairs sold for $200 over retail. Don't do that. Just buy a new chair.

There's nothing special about the Twitter chair. Oh, god. They literally tell you the price of the chair. Go and buy a new chair. It's probably better, because it hasn't had other people sit on it who are probably damaging it. And if it's anything like

the coffee machine, where it has a broken plug, it's probably going to be in a better where it has a broken plug, um, is probably gonna be in a better state than having a broken plug, goddammit, now I have hiccups, we good, yes, no, possibly, okay, seems like we're good, oh, fucking not, so since we got like you know 25 minutes of the show left let's talk about um some anime i've not talked about most of the stuff on this list but fuck it not all of it is really uh that time dependent anyway so there is sort of three things that i finally got around to watching uh bocce chainsaw man and now blue lock uh i want to talk about mainly blue lock and chainsaw So, how do I describe Chainsaw Man?

The hype that Chainsaw Man is getting is basically deserved. Chainsaw Man, very early on, like, it's obviously dark in the first episode. If you haven't seen it, basically, it jumps straight into demon killing. Like it's not- it's no fucking chill, main characters are like, yeah I'm a demon hunter, I fight demons, I've- I have this little demon pet that is a chainsaw. But it's still got this like

air of happy-go-lucky, you know, the demons are bad, but, you know, when the demons are not here, everything is chill, sort of like, you know, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kimetsu no Yaiba, Demon Slayer, um, but the difference with Chainsaw Man is, Demon Slayer where with the main character sort of he is a happy character and he does want to like get along with everyone. He wants to be friendly. Denji the main character of Chainsaw Man is not like that at all. Denji is just a bad person. Like not to say that other people are good people.

Like, he is a bad person because ever since he was a very young child, ever since his dad died, he has had to work for the mafia. The reason he has to work for the mafia is when his dad died, he left Denji with millions of yen in debt. Maybe billions of yen in debt. I don't remember how many numbers they were. It was a massive debt that as like a seven-year-old or whatever he was when his dad died,

you're not paying like that much money back. You're not paying that much money back for many people in your entire life. Um, you're not paying that much money back for many people in your entire life. So, he sort of got forced to join the mafia, and not long after, meets this demon called Puchta. Well, I guess he called it Puchta, and he fed the demon blood, sort of to bring him back to health. Because when demons drink blood. Then they recover. So series starts. After a bit of a time skip. At that point.

Series starts at his age. Goes back and shows how they met. Not long after. It turns out that. The leader of the mafia. Got. Sort of. out that the leader of the Mafia got sort of tricked by a d- tricked by the zombie demon because every demon in this series is a demon of a concept like the Pochta is the chainsaw demon then you've got like the leech demon which is more like the titty demon

you've got the eternity demon the katana demon or devil whatever doesn't matter sometimes translation uses devil and demon interchangeably I guess devil is technically correct not the point the point is every one of the devils is a is based

on a concept so the leader of the mafia is so tricked by the the zombie devil and gets turned into a zombie uh denji gets killed and pochiter is like yo yo, I don't want you to die, man. So like, I'm going to become your heart. And that's how he then becomes the, he becomes Chainsaw Man. He is this half human, half devil, which is different from the fiends, which are humans that are possessed by demons. Or devils, whatever. Why is it different? Doesn't matter.

But it's different. They make a big deal about fiends and whatever Denji is. Being this different thing. So it goes on from that. And they're happy and go lucky days, uh, we meet, we meet Makima, we meet Power, we meet, um, what's the fucking Foxboy, um, that I'm forgetting the name of, uh, why'd I blank on his name? Chainsaw Man, Why did I blank on his name?

Chainsaw Man... What the fuck is his name? Aki. Aki Hayakawa. So, meet our main cast, and sort of go from there. But where the series starts to really shine is during the arc with the Eternity Devil. So they are locked

in this hotel and the gimmick of the Eternity Devil is it can sort of grab a point in time and then lock people at that point forever. So they're on the 8th floor of this hotel

and it's like 8pm or whatever time it is. 8, 12pm or something. And they realise something's up when they try to go to the next floor and appear on the same floor. They go through a window and then appear on a window on the other side.

They go through the ceiling, come up through the floor. So... They're kind of stuck in this room. And... During this, a lot of the- a lot of other characters becoming point characters are introduced as well. Like Kobeni and... Girl that I'm forgetting her name as well. With an eyepatch and likes to smoke all the time. So, you sort of start to see how all the characters fit into this world. Like, Aki is working the entire time, trying to find some way out of this area. Kobeni and the other newbie to

the government devil hunters where Denji is working now are freaking out. They think they're going to die here. They're constantly having panic attacks. Kobeni tries to kill Denji later on because the devil's like, yeah, you guys can leave if Denji dies. I just want Denji to die. Um, during this Denji, like, like during the, like the panic attacks and stuff, Denji is just sleeping. He doesn't give a shit. He's like, I'm just going to chill here. Like, I can't get out of here anyway. So like, why do I need to worry? And Power, who is by far my favourite character, Power, who is a fiend, and basically has a single brain cell,

declares that she is going to become Prime Minister, she is going to win a Nobel Peace Prize, become prime minister she is going to win a nobel peace prize and is going to raise sales tax to a hundred percent so you've sort of got these joking characters around these freaking out characters they eventually get out of that because denji uh decides he's like, you know what? I'm just gonna fight the Eternity Devil, and what's it gonna do to me? Like, I'm the, I'm the Chainsaw Devil, uh, and Denji being this half human, half devil thing will also heal by drinking blood, so he just jumps into the Eternity Devil and just starts slicing it to bits and eating it from the inside and he can't die like he's at this point he's already like an immortal or close to immortal at least everyone thinks he is i don't

know if he actually is later in the series if you get whatever if something bad happens but at this point everyone just assumes he's immortal and everyone he fights is basically not able to do enough damage to test whether he is immortal or not so he fights the eternity devil from inside just eating it and just causing as much pain as possible because the devil's like you're not leaving here like i'm just not gonna let you leave so denji like okay if you're not gonna let us leave I guess I guess I'll just hurt you until you give up uh like 40 hours later or something he's still fighting and eventually the devil

gives up and they get to leave um but you've still got this like sort of joking like air around the series that is until the next arc with the with the katana devil so the katana devil is until the next arc with the Katana Devil. So the Katana Devil is another

devil in a similar state to Denji with a devil heart he can transform into a devil. And they sort of look the same. Denji has chainsaw hands and a chainsaw head. Katana Devil has katana hands and a katana head. This arc gets very serious.

I'm not going to say who, but characters die. A character we think... There's a character that dies that we think is dead. They literally... This series will kill characters on screen and then give you a reason why they're not dead. Because of...

So every one of the devil hunters has a contract with a devil and that's how they can fight the devils. Besides, obviously, the fiends and Denji, who are exceptions. But, like, regular humans will have contracts with devils. And some of these characters characters we don't know

what their contract actually is so them bullshitting themselves out of a situation isn't really like it's not complete bullshit but characters die like the series gets super super dark for a little bit and builds up to this big fight with the katana devil which i feel like kind of went by way too quickly the fight sort of started it went for like maybe 6 12 minutes i don't know how long it was it wasn't a like a full episode fight and then just ended. But because the Katana Devil is technically also mostly immortal like Denji, there's not much that could really be done to get rid of him. So at the the end of the fight, where Denji's won, they have him locked up.

Um, like, not locked up as in prison, like, locked up just against this train. Denji's like, hey, so, you know how that Katana devil dude killed our friends, right? Let's just kick him in the nuts until the cops

get here. And aki is this like super straight laced at least you think he's a straight laced character um he's actually a little bit like unhinged he's just got this this sort of mask of being straight laced and he wasn't gonna be into it at the start until he changed his mind and that sort of like fades out into them kicking this dude in the nuts putting him in as much pain as possible

I highly recommend you watch Chainsaw Man even if like even if it's not your favourite series I guarantee you're going to enjoy it it has an absolute banger soundtrack Like, even if it's not your favorite series, I guarantee you're going to enjoy it.

It has an absolute banger soundtrack. It has absolutely incredible animation. And it deserves all of the attention it's getting. Another series that I guess isn't getting much attention, I don't hear that many people talking about it, is Blue Lock. Right now, there is 15 or 16 episodes out, something like that.

Okay, no, it is getting some attention. 8.27 on Mal by 100,000 users, ranked 265. So, Blue Lock basically is about the fact that the Japanese soccer team is shit. Like, that's the premise of the series. The Japanese soccer team is shit because they care too much about friendship and teamwork. I don't know anything about soccer.

I don't know if they're any good in the World Cup. They might be. They might not be. In this world, they're shit. So, the main character is a high school soccer player. And he just, his team just lost, I think it was like, the semi-finals in the regional tournament. So they weren't even at the inter high yet so we just assumed that

he wasn't that great his team's not that great either but teamwork um he gets a letter uh trying to encourage him to join the japanese soccer associate japanese football union i think that's what it's called yeah the jfu the japanese football union um I think that's what it's called. Yeah, the JFU, the Japanese football union. He thinks he's some special character. He gets there and finds out there is 299 other high school students there. He's been invited to this program called Blue Lock. And in Blue Lock, only one person is going to truly graduate and join the Japanese team. This is 300 people all aiming to become a striker.

And sort of it goes on from there, kicking out characters in every single stage of the Blue Lock selection. every single stage of the Bluelock selection. So the first stage, they're not even technically in Bluelock yet, is just to eliminate the absolute weakest of the weak. The people who care about teamwork. Because the, uh,

the guy running Bluelock is a character called, uh, Ego. His name is literally Ego Jimbachi. E-G-O. His name is E Ego Jinpachi. E-G-O. His name is Ego. So he thinks that the Japanese team is shit because they care too much about teamwork.

And he wants a Messi. He wants a Cristiano Ronaldo. He wants this star player that is going to be the centre point of the team that everybody looks up to and is a

massive draw at least that's what initially the way he frames it as things go on he sort of lets more on like what he actually thinks is is a top tier soccer player but he brings this out in sort of stages as they need to know so the first stage is basically a game of dodgeball but you have to kick the ball because it's soccer and whoever has the ball at the end whoever's are tagged um they are going to kick the ball. Because it's soccer. And whoever has the ball at the end. Whoever is tagged.

They are going to be the one. That gets kicked out. So. There's this character called Kira. He's from the team. That the main character Isagi. Ended up losing to. In that match before.

At the regional tournament. And Isagi looks up to him because he thinks that he's a bad soccer player. He thinks this guy is great. This guy is obsessed with teamwork though. He is the epitome of what Ego has a problem with

with the Japanese team. So they go around this match. They go around this like. Dodgeball thing. This like. Bold dude has the ball most of the time. But eventually. He kicks the ball to someone else.

Or the ball gets taken. No I think he kicks the ball. He kicks the ball to someone else. Yeah. But. Take it? No. No, I think he kicks the ball... He kicks the ball to someone else, yeah. But... We find this character called Bachira. He ends up being one of the main characters. He really doesn't like this kiddo dude. He really wants to just get rid of him. So he doesn't even get hit with the ball. He steals the ball from the guy who has it, and this is at like five or six seconds remaining. This then introduces what Bachido is really good

at doing. He's really good at passing. So he passes the ball over to Isagi, because he's like, you know what? This guy's probably going to, he's probably going to kick the ball. I, I, I can see the monster inside of him. I can see that he is, there's something to this guy that is going to become this amazing soccer player. And Isagi kicks the ball and knocks Kira out. Um, that then gets them the right to sleep at Blue Lock and live Blue Lock. Now, initially, everybody is convinced that they are the worst soccer players in Blue Lock. Like, not the worst,

but like the worst division. So there's 300 people and they're split across five buildings. And initially, we are led to believe that there is a... Like, there's a B, C, D, E...

How many buildings do we have? How many buildings do they need to be? We're convinced that there are these rankings of buildings. And the top building is where the greatest players are. So they go through their first... So the first major selection is team matches. So whoever you're in your dorm with, which is going... I think it was 11 people at the time, you then play a match against other teams. So the main character, he is on the lowest team, the Zed team,

face off the X, Y, and... X, Y, W... Yeah, the X, Y, and W team. X, Y... Was there another one? X, Y... And V another one? X, Y. And V. Yeah, also the V team. I don't know my alphabet. So, the V team's the best team. Like, at least in their division.

But they're still, like, you know, rank... I don't know, whatever... 250 or something. So, they're they're still like really low rank um they go through the matches and whatever the two the top two teams those teams are going to pass and then the top scorer from the other teams those are also going to pass. It turns out that there wasn't this breakdown of, you know, the B building, the C building, anything like that. Everybody was in the same sort of set. There was- everybody at the time was given a number from 250 to 300, or whatever the range needed to be. So they thought there was these people that are way better than them. In reality, that was there to convince them to work a lot harder.

After that first ranking goes down, people get eliminated. Then they're given their real ranking based on... is it based on how... no, then they're just given their real ranking. Then it goes basically straight into the second selection where they're given a new ranking based on how quickly they can complete it. And sort of this is the general sort of loop the series is in. Right now, we are in the second selection. The gimmick here is at the start, you make a team of three. And the idea is you have to defeat other teams until you have a team of five.

But you don't fight the other lower-ranked teams. You only fight... So if you have three members, you only fight against teams that have three members. If you have four members, you only fight against teams that have four members, so on and so forth. When you beat a team, you get to steal one of their members. So at this point, it's Isagi it's Isagi Bado, Bado is this guy who's like he can perfectly score from

up to 28 meters away and then Nagi, who is this guy who's just started soccer but he's this genius he is grasping soccer incredibly quickly and is a god tier player

but if a team loses, they will then lose a player and go back down a rank. Now, if they have two members and lose a player, then that player who doesn't get picked ends up being eliminated. The main character actually had a different team at the start of this arc, but through their infinite wisdom, because they're like, yeah, you know what? We can only get stronger if we fight the people who are better than us. Ends up fighting this team of the top three people at the time with this character called Itoshi Rin. He is the brother of this character called Itoshi Rin.

He is the brother of this character, the one good character that would possibly play on the Japanese team. He plays for like Spain or something because he can't stand how shit the Japanese team is. But if he wanted to, he would by far be their best midfielder. So this character is the brother of him, and main character gets completely dominated. This sets up this sort of, this rivalry,

because up until this point, Isagi, while he's been getting better, he's been learning new abilities, everything that he does is sort of, it's sort of only facilitated by Batshida being there, because his ability, Isagi's ability is direct shoot, like, he doesn't stop the ball to make a shot, someone passes the ball to him, he will then kick it straight away, This only works well when you have a good pass made to you, and Bachira is really good at passing. So, Bachira is the one that ends up getting taken when Isagi loses. So, now there's this, like, rivalry set up where the second that someone stops being on your team in this series, they will fucking turn on you. Like, they'll be like, you know what?

We were good buddies. We were, you know, great teammates, all that fun stuff. I'm going to defeat you. Because, you know, they all want this one spot as a striker. They're happy to work with each other when you need to work with each other.

But when it's not time to work with people,. But. When it's not time. To work with people. They don't give a shit about you. They will fucking. Go straight away. And sit on. Whatever team they need to be on. So now.

We're sort of trying to get back to Bachida. Trying to. Trying to rebuild the team. In the current arc. So two of Isagi's old team members. Kunigami and Hyoma. They thought that Isagi would have been further along in the selection. They didn't find out that Isagi had actually lost the team member. And had to fall back.

So the next match we have is Isagi's team versus Chigiri Hyoma, Kunigami, and also this guy called Reo. So Reo is the... He's sort of

Nagi's equivalent of Bachira. Nagi, he sort of only just started soccer. And he's getting really good. But everything that he was doing was sort of facilitated by... By Deo being there giving him good passes. Now Deo's on the other team. And now there's this rivalry between Nagi and Dio as well because Dio's sort of really pissed that Nagi left him

and went to someone else's team. So it's sort of... There's a lot of these little individual rivalries going on. It's a really good sports series. I'm probably going to go read the manga um i am seriously enjoying it i want to read the manga for chainsaw man as well it's been a very very long time since i've actually uh like sat down and wanted to go and read something um i actually don't know how many chapters of Blue Lock there are, like where the manga is right now. Let's find out. Blue Lock story arcs. Because I would imagine they are like out of the core...

yeah, the core selection stuff. So here we go. Right, we are in this arc, the second selection arc. Next up is the world's best arc. I guess this is technically a spoiler. Because it says the five members that they have together. Then there's the third selection arc. Then there's the under-20s arc. The Blue Lock 11 will face the Japanese under-20s in a national representative match for the chance to secure control of the Japan national team and show their skills to the world. But with Saitoshi leading the

team and Yusei Shido joining him, how will Blue Lock overcome this immense challenge? So this is the guy I was mentioning before, the brother of Rin. So in that arc, I guess they're facing off against the Japanese team to straight up just like replace them. Okay, sure. The second phase of Blue Lock sees the program turn into a massive entertainment project with the sole purpose of further training its players for the Under-20 World Cup. Under-20 level teams of Germany, England, Spain, Italy, and France are brought to Blue Lock,

and each Blue Lock player must choose a country they want to train under and then put their skills to the test in a hyper-dynamic tourney. and then put their skills to the test in a hyper-dynamic tourney, the top players during this selection will be chosen to play in the under... Wait, so they're not even playing in the under-20s World Cup. So they probably win against the under-20s team, but they're not allowed to play in the Cup until they... until they go through this phase to then also Jesus Christ

okay so that's the current arc alright then sure and there's 202 chapters by the looks of it it's a very good series it's a very very good series like I don't know right now

if I would say it's gonna live on in my mind like uh you know like Haikyuu does but it's definitely definitely up there definitely one of the

it's one of the best sports series I've seen in a long time and it's probably one of the best sports series I've seen in a long time. And it's probably one of the best sports series I've seen. Where I would rank it depends on what I say when it's all well and done. I'm not sure where

the anime is going to end. My presumption is either at the end of second selection or the end of World's Best. Those seem like the most, the most logical places for it to end, but I don't know, maybe I'm imagining stuff. Um, yeah. And we're past two hours now. Uh, I guess we'll just end the show there. Uh, I've talked about hardly anything on my list,

but, you know, sometimes that happens in a solo episode. Sometimes I jump from topic to topic. Uh, it sort of is what it is. I'm surprised I got through the episode. Maybe I'm at the point now where I just need to, like, sit down and just fucking work. Like, there's still that barrier that's gonna push me back initially, but

if I just sit down and fucking do something, then things will clear up. I don't know. I hope the Rona stuff clears out properly by next week, but it probably won't. I'm probably still going to be here with a cough and suffering, but it is what it is.

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there's an RSS feed. Go check that stuff out as well. So that's pretty much going to be it for me. Next week is going to be an episode with Gaming on Linux Liam Daw. And after that, some point there is going to be an episode with Gaming on Linux, Liam Dorr. And after that, some point there's going to be an episode with Trafton,

a small VTuber doing, like, sort of tech videos, things like that. Uh... What? Oh, I just read a stupid comment. Um... And...

Yeah! That's going to be it for me. So I'm going to head out um and yeah that's gonna be it for me so I'm gonna head out and I was gonna play my outro because I'm used to a stream right now I don't know why yeah see you guys later see you guys see you guys later I'm out