This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,677 for Tuesday the 6th of September 2022.
Today's show is entitled.
Hacker Public Radio 2021-22 New Years Show Part 4.
It is hosted by Hamedu and is about 194 minutes long.
It carries an explicit flag.
The summary is, the HP our community comes together to chat.
What's going on here fireworks?
Ooh!
I like to sit there with me it's half a half four.
Oh, right now it's 815 PM.
815.
That's...
It's 830 PM, so that's evening.
Yeah, it's 830 PM, Joe.
But I'm standing over here trying to move heavy things.
Looking at the time on my computer.
Yeah, it's 337, so yeah, if we want to be completely accurate.
It's 937 PM here, 2137.
And my watch says it's like a third signal, but it's not accurate, it's a bit in front of the actual
time.
It's 637 PM here in California and I'm definitely not going to make it to midnight.
Yeah, I don't think I've made it to midnight.
Josh, you all sound like you're about to fall asleep.
Yeah, I think that's a true choice of apnea.
Yep.
If you want some tips and how to stay awake, I have lost them, well, a couple of them.
First off, talk a lot, because then you won't feel thirsty, hungry, or tired, which is the
one I'm employing right now.
I've got to say that you're going to say either high doses of a caffeine or lots of lots of
things.
I don't.
Yeah, they definitely be the math.
Well, the whole problem we do here is he is staying awake and drinking and drinking
is not conducive to staying awake, but the problem I do, guilty, well charged.
Another way, like a caffeinated gum is to discount all the caffeinated stuff, because
we know caffeine works, right?
But it works only short term, long term, it's not that great, and then you need to ingest
a loss of caffeine just to get it through tonight.
This is something which has relatively little impacts apart from the fact that you're staying
up all night.
Um, so let me tell you, as you get older, it's actually easier to do an all-nighter.
Problem is, is you're paying for it a lot longer.
Yep, truth.
Probably.
Yeah.
I've heard that well, warrior.
It's not that hard for me, actually, right now, because I've got a couple of
them already.
Um, it, it, it, it's just that you need to know the trick, I like, I said talking already,
but there is another way, and that, um, does have a greater risk of falling asleep, but
that depends on what you're watching.
If you're watching something, action-filled, an action-filled can literally just be Gallifant,
like the first time I did this day up all night, or was when I was watching Gallifants,
and Gallifants isn't the most scary thing.
There's a lot of singing, but it has action, and there has some stakes, and it was
watching it for the first time, and I was like, um, I, I, I, I, I thought it was pretty cool.
I found the easiest way to like stay up all night, not realize you've stayed up all night
is to have a really, really large book that's actually interesting.
Yeah, but if you have something that's actually interesting, for instance, the first time
I tried, I tried watching time team, absolutely riveting thing.
It's about our geology and stuff, and it's really cool, but if nearly fell asleep, so
I changed it to stuff, and now I've got, um, the bad batch, uh, right up there, um, yeah,
I've got some troubles with, um, Star Wars rebels, uh, season two, like, yeah, but I've just
got the rebels up there, uh, no rebels, I've got a bad batch up there, stuff, uh, should
probably turn off, but I'm busy talking, shanaking, turned off, um, the, the, the, the, the,
the headphones, Bluetooth headphones, um, a keyboard, and just the screen, just turn everything
off.
Yeah.
Up there.
Screen already.
Yeah.
Debating if I should still go to bed or not, it's 24.
No, you shouldn't go to bed anymore.
It's too late.
No.
You should just turn it off, or you could watch it.
That's another option, but then you should also watch the Clone Wars, which, like, that
would also make you stay up.
It's already turned itself off.
Okay.
Great.
Yeah.
Cause, uh, I, I was actually just watching it, but then I was like, you know, I'll have
a quick chat and maybe come back later, and then I didn't, and yeah, but I, I, I, from what
I've seen of the bad batch so far, quite like it, and I've seen the whole Clone Wars
and I quite like it.
Does anyone have any, does anyone like Star Wars here as well?
Well, I'd prefer to watch the Mandalorian.
Oh, I already watched the Mandalorian.
Oh, the book about the set is up now, too.
The first episode.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We watched it.
Yeah.
It was cool.
It was confusing.
I'd be, but, you know, it's might not be if, if I've watched a loss of explanation
videos on a lot of things.
Maybe it's not confusing if you've watched it.
He's doing three different time periods and bouncing back and forth, and you have to
keep figuring out which time periods they're in right now.
Ah.
And, and how to use it.
How to use it.
And how to use it.
Boba is.
Oh.
Like, uh, like Clone Wars does that also.
Um, like first, it's not not that bad because you think it's in the same time frame
basically.
And it's kind of the same time frame I think, but it's like sometimes it just, um, goes
between stuff.
Like, if, like, for instance, if a major character has died, then we don't go back to see
what that major character did before.
Well, Star Wars movies would have been a lot more interesting if he'd have let the
actors know what they were doing.
Because they didn't get a chance to really do any acting because they were just doing a scene
and doing another scene and doing a different scene.
He didn't have him in order.
He didn't have anyone know what their motivation was.
He were just supposed to go read the lines.
Which, um, which, which, which trilogy we're talking about.
We're talking, uh, four, five, six and one, two, three.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I can see that.
Yeah.
But they're not too bad.
They turned out really well.
Uh, they could have better.
They could have better.
They could have better well.
Could have been better.
They paid all these actors so much money to do nothing but read your lines
and not know why you're reading them.
Yeah.
Could have been better.
But to be honest, um, this might be, um,
some, but I think Anakin was very accurate in the prequel.
And that is how someone with zero society with, like, who likes someone.
But who has zero, like, zero, um, the, the social skills, social skills.
That's how they would act.
They would, well, if, if from Anakin's, uh, if, like, Anakin's, uh, surroundings,
also influenced it.
But like, because it was accurate that doesn't make the movies not suck.
No, I like the movies.
I like, the thing is, I'm younger than revenge of the Sith.
By a couple months, same year, but like,
I'm younger than revenge of the Sith.
I always had these prequel's and stuff.
So I, I might not have known the full plos of it.
Like, I did with the original trilogy because people kept spoiling it.
Because they assumed I'd have watched something from the 80s.
Even though, um, I didn't know.
I hate to tell you this, but, um, Star Wars is fairly in the 80s.
Yeah, yeah, well, still 80s, still.
Well, I remember seeing episode four first run before they even called it episode four.
And, uh, it was just Star Wars.
That's all it was.
And, you sit in the front row of that theater and here come the lettering and then the ship's going right over your head.
And you're going, ah, and that was special, but they still didn't have any acting worth writing on them about.
Wasn't that, uh, late 70s, Moss?
Yeah, late 70s.
Yeah, I think it was 78.
Yeah, that even produced me by a year.
About a couple of years.
Yeah, kids.
Think to last one.
Yeah, well, I was still in my first marriage pretty early in it.
And she was taking her students, uh, to go see it.
And I went with them one time.
I literally just watched it because my friend kept trying to keep spoiling it.
Like, all grounds going to blow up.
But you see, I'll never go over your head on the screen.
And it's a whole different thing.
Yeah.
Well, did anyone bother with the new matrix, by the way?
I watched movies on the original matrix.
You must see, like, I watched movies.
No one talks about it, but not the movies.
And then one actually talks about that's why I watched all MCU in the summer, which, by the way,
took me a long time because it did watch from 2008 to nowadays.
There's all the movies.
I don't know.
I don't know.
This way in other countries.
But like, the MCU is like, I swear to God, like 90% of what's in theaters.
Now, I'd actually like those movies.
But like, that in headaches or why I stopped going the theater.
But I did actually see the latest matrix because the company I worked for
basically, at least where I was, say, hey, whoever, you know, we're just going to run out
of this, like, tiny non-profit theater.
And whoever.
What's Irish TV show?
I've, I know, is Father Ted and I love it.
And apparently, it's only from the 90s, which, like,
it could be from any period.
It's like the technology kind of gives us a way, but I'm not that old.
So I don't know.
I have trouble placing it.
What?
Making me feel old here, man.
Well, maybe.
Well, I feel sometimes, and I am only, I'm less than two decades old.
So yeah, when I, if I feel old, that means that everyone,
everyone all in and me probably is old.
I like that.
I usually joke that people, like, if they're, like,
even second older, like, like,
a sense of me to short, is that they're, like, old or they're, they're, like,
short.
It's not funny if they're actually old or short.
It's funny when they're, like, when they're still, like,
considered either young or when they're, like, everyone there just,
well, I'm more than twice your age.
Yeah.
So I doesn't stop people making fun of me because I'm, like, five feet.
But I don't work that way over Zoom, but the people in there, like,
holy crap, you're short.
And I was like, yes, thank you.
Yes, you're short.
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I'm sorry and it's like it's fine everyone more to use it
It would be fine roughly if it would be fine if literally just everyone except
Netherlands used it then I would be absolutely fine with with stuff but like I
I
Well did he was created by Gary Gagax in the 70s and I'm pretty sure he was American so
Yes, but now used by people from all over the world
I know you can't be useful sometimes because sometimes you know some specific fact
But you only know it in metric so you can just imagine that it's the same size even though it
Actually isn't if you would convert it
Americans are pretty selfish. You know so 5v is 1.524 meter
Yeah, well apart from my grievances would fit. It's not actually that bad if you just tell me afterwards
Yeah, I just have to say that just not too
That doesn't necessarily I'm you're a PM. I have a few things I find myself talking to not
I have been using the European Union to complain about about a non-metric stuff
Yeah, you said you have to complain about at least three times a year
Yeah, and and and and say that that
That good health care that the the Europe has good health care
That's also something after city. It's for quiet. Sorry. We get told that you guys don't really have
Good health care or that if you do have health care the
Weight times are so long to get anything done that will I will waiting and we don't want to talk about the fact that they take a long time here
to
Yeah, might bankrupt you
Yeah, may I point that I I do actually like if I think that if I lived in America if I grew up there
I don't think we'd have enough money for all the stuff which I needed for me to just function as a
As a normal person, and I don't have it that hard. I just have trouble with my guitarics that that's it
Sherman
I just want scrappy back crappy guitarics and and I know I'm autistic that's basically the three main things
Look my kids all have well my middle child has different sets of medical issues
But dyslexia dysgraphia trying to get them proper education is difficult enough
But my middle child has a tumor that is like right next to her brain on her eye
She's an optic nerve essentially and
MRIs at least twice a year always with
New glasses she has multiple chemical sensitivity. So anything can set off for allergies
She's required to carry an epipen everywhere she goes along with a slew of
Medications that help keep her alive and and it's okay
Yeah, it's extremely difficult to keep ahead of
Pain for all of that I was talking to you
Hey someone who lived in Kansas in America and then moved to the Netherlands and he actually said because we're trying to think of America
It's like the entrepreneur the he said it was actually easier to freelance in Europe if for no other reason then
You can't get bankrupted by medical costs. I had a lunch group
I was talking with and they're all like very American libertarian like they're very like and it actually been to Europe
And they claim that Europe sucked basically like they just like the basically wine about Europe and I told them about that guy
And they lost their minds
But I tried to ask them I was like okay, well, how would we do it here?
Like let's assume yes the Europe's Pete Europe sucks, but then so does America
So how can we do it and they couldn't give me an explanation so it's very much like an e-o thing here
Like I think at this point and there's like a lot of my peers really want like this single pair of healthcare system right now
Which I don't think's realistic and
It doesn't but like here. I think we just don't want admit that we like done it long for really long
No, there's so much money involved with our with our healthcare system. I mean we pay
And cost in any other countries that I'm aware of even with insurance. We pay those higher costs
And we're paying insurance on top of that. There's a lot of people making a lot of money off of us doing the way things are done now
Which is why I'm there influencing your governments, which is why you'll never have change
Yeah, this thing that's why every that's why in every argument on the internet
People from Europe always give that thing because we think it's just such a basic fact of life
They you if you have something like
If you have someone who has a tumor like that's something the government has to pay for
That's not something you can pay for yourself. That's something which happened and isn't your fault?
Communism is what they what we would call it
And we would have to find communism or socialism. I'll never tell that you just
The thing of America is that
We are like raised from the ground up
Even if we're kind of on the more liberal and progressive side. We are raised from the ground up to be incredibly distrustful in the government
And we're very big on like self-reliance. I think it's carryover from kind of like the pioneers men kind of mentality
And I admit that sometimes when I talk to other Europeans I kind of find myself also having a little bit of it
But I at least can kind of step back and say okay, you know, here's what I'm used to
But here's maybe the best way
I tend to agree with actually a lot of other Americans on like like I think the government's good at certain things
But not a lot of other things, but health care is the one where I'm like yeah
No, that probably I definitely would trust it more to the government in companies because I think what a lot of Americans here
Miss or at least the more conservative ones is that like it's right now companies controlling a lot of things
Yeah, and they really don't care
Like you can argue
Go for it. Go for it. Go for it. Let's go out here. They basically companies are worse. Yeah, they basically come up with this government here
Like they run for them, but they are the carries in the health care. No, yeah, I'm playing about the entire
Insurance system because well, it sucks and but then they want to also complain about you know a
Government run system because that socialism mechanism
Exactly, but regular insurance is groups of people paying against a possibility and they're paying small amounts over a long period of time
And those small amounts end up going to
Well profit mostly, but a large chunk of that goes to a one or two individuals who get really sick
But that's the exact same idea behind the
Socialistic medicine the socialized medicine
Yes, excuse me. Excuse me. We missed our can we missed an hour here
You hear me someone else we can yeah, we hear you
So I use that to mess with people I liked in all the time. There was a guy that was like because the big thing here is we don't like redistribution of wealth
Like that's a big kind of trigger here for a lot of Americans and so big some guy was going on
Like then about redistribution of the other I was like well, what do you think about insurance and he actually didn't like insurance either
Which at least he was consistent on good credit for that, but I use that to mess with them. I was like okay, so
We don't want redistribution of wealth. We hate tax and we hate so how do you feel about insurance?
And they just they get so mad at me. It's so funny. No, I can't wait to have a market to move
Well, it all goes up. Yeah
If you got rid of the
Anyway, I think argument that if you got rid of insurance it would actually force the
Medical market to normalize to where people could actually afford it. I agree. Yeah
I wanted to interrupt. We did miss the 10 o'clock. It was my time
So somebody maybe they're in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean just passed into the new year five minutes ago
Yay
New year
Be the late new year
And I also wanted to say Joe. I can make you feel young um when I was in junior high
They published the second paperback edition, which is the first authorized edition of order the rings and they were 95 cents a book
Okay, okay, that was long ago
You win that's very long ago like north of the rings movie
Well, long ago. Oh, shut up
Blood of the raise movie was like I'm waiting to move right
I thought it was so well the book but but the movie's not
Books are great and amazing. No, no, oh, but I can book the two towers that book is perfect if you have a severe case of insomnia and you want to pass out by the end of the first chapter
No, I very much into description more than any other author. He does a better not a bit than any other author
Lord, I go lord. I go lord go lord. I love the Hobbit the Hobbit was
Talkin's best book, but
Recently there's a free and show to his kids
He wrote that for his kids and they hated it. Yeah. I like it. I read the Hobbit like several times
My dad keep trying to get you to read the rest of the Lord the rings. I was like now
Some people they are completely different works. I hate the Hobbit and I fell in love with
Lord and the rings and read it 20 times before I was out of high school. Well, I've read the wheel of time series probably 20 times now
Maybe 20 times. I've heard a loss of the wheel of time. Well, I haven't read it
But I am watching the series about the wheel of time never heard about wheel of time. I actually
Anyway, I've heard it from
one fat one channel in YouTube and from you that's basically where heard it from now the wheel of time series that's on Amazon
I'm sure it's a great series. I've tried watching it and my dad really liked it and I really wish I could sit down and watch it
But it's it's so
Different fundamentally different from the books that it just trips me up when I try to watch it
Joe, what did you tell me about watching the Dresden TV show?
Yeah, you had to let it go. You had to let the story go and I understand that and I tried and I tried
When it came to the wheel of time on Amazon
Yeah, I had similar experience with a version of the thing from Terri Pratchett. So
Like you
Yeah, I was going to say Garth or I bad was it Garth's Garth's Garth's Garth?
I know
It was something the watch it was the watch it was the watch it was the watch it was the watch it was
No, it's not the book this series so there's a series
Uh, called the watch and I watched them. I got my hands on it and I had a look at it
I and my parents
Really know the books and love the books and there I would suggest reading all 41 of the books and then all the other books
He has written because they're all amazing well apart from
Just a tip you don't have to read one and two first because they are apparently
But pre-calls written before the story like I before the rest of the story I didn't know that and that's very useful information because
He definitely
Spikes in quality right after those two like there are a couple books which are very chaotic
But basically that series like the opposite but I get to that in a second going that series changed so much of really
Good stuff. They could have just like gone per book or did something like
There are ways of turning the watch
Like all the the watch arc basically of the disc world into a series and it was very well
And good almonds is a series based off of a book of turtleneck and new game and good series
Yeah, good book good series and it's I do have to see the movie of the color of magic color of magic
Yeah, that's the first
First book was it very I'm talking about the movie was the movie very chaotic
That's what I'm asking because I haven't seen a movie. I've read the book and the book was very chaotic
Well, you should see the movie just for our girls and sake. Yeah, I'll
I'll have a look if I can see the movie somewhere
But yeah
There's a
Sir purchase really good who are I was actually read the books of their purchase? I haven't read all of them
There's sure I probably only read 12 or 14 of them myself. Yeah, I probably haven't read that many
I read all of them all at leery times same I'm actually on a kind of diet for the second year now of
Um of a no tear projects for me because I read them all and then a read them all for second time and then I was like
Okay, I have to stop before this isn't fun anymore
Because after two years of reading it for half a year
It kind of gets you kind of know what's going on and what's going to happen?
And I don't actually want that because I really enjoyed the books and they're really good
And that's why I read them for a second time
I got burnt out on the Dresden files which one the Dresden file is not right
Yeah, that's not practice, but no the Dresden files is currently what a 15 book series 16 16 book series and I know that
Moss is reading it because I kind of you know
It's going to be 21. It's done. Yeah, according to Wikipedia there are 41 discworld novels as well as a number of short stories
Yes, I'm a friend of all four teachers and there's a number of other novels other than just yeah
That were great
I've read the one about poo. I've read the where's my cow, but those are both like like stories set within
this world and
And I've read a bunch of other books he read he's written. I've read the
Johnny saga. I've read the familiar
The ad. I've read
The reboot the read did a carpet people. I've read a couple of short stories from his
From his earlier career
Which are like turn their two books of that and I've read those
Dodgers, Nathan, that can stuff
Um, the only ones I didn't read are like long-world and I couldn't stuff but my dad said that crap so
And I'm really very terribly proud to see so yeah
So is it does is there a bunch of is there a bunch of books that he hasn't that he didn't release before he died?
I just came back in well book 41 was released after his death so he was basically
Um, I didn't know for certain. He he if you look at the release dates
He released a book about every year
He is not L. Ron Hubbard. He did not continue writing after his death. No
But he did
I was a little confused because Moss Moss said something about it. Be 21 after it was it was done or something
I don't know
Dresden is going to be 20 when he's done
And the death was forty by it will actually end up being there when we're going to do 20 books and then I think a pocket
I'm watching well
Laptop issues. In fact, I yeah
Well, I support one of those small Linux businesses about a year ago and
Nice idea set to laptop I got
Had put out a few problems from the beginning really and then it got worse
Like my internal sound breaking when I played YouTube for example
And then it freezes up sometimes I was not done it for well
But when I was on the earlier just at the end there it just all froze up for the most part again
And then the batteries all stuck inside so I have to let it basically pair off and die
And then it's okay again
Well, I need to show you a fix it
Do you know a trick to fit make or I die?
What destroy are you running?
It is
But it's a button to you, but it has a PPA where to go. You've changed a little bit as well
Say lucky mate improved the harm by I was where we does
Well, the improvements may have been are what's breaking your machine
It might it might be it might be a sister it might be that his PPA doesn't work as well
Is he said it's done with another PPA Joe?
Oh, yeah, usually they call it a different another district although have you checked the wards is the city wall still
Oh, I didn't know absolutely make sense of the fall sound that was probably a separate shoe like the
Like the YouTube video went correctly. It is February. Oh, I thought I could send a laptop back
But I don't want to because I will be on lots of zoom meetings this pandemic
I've got to use a slap top four kinds of things. I've been on a computer a bit too much
And last two years because of yeah, and
And and and now it might be okay. One year one to use going got another guy who fixes laptops if I was totally stuck
But I'm it kind of works, but it doesn't completely work and
Main thing is the internal sound doesn't work since that YouTube video web it went correctly and it just sort of
Peony stopped
And it can and it can freeze up sometimes like earlier. It sort of repeats itself
Like it might be ram issue because he said that the guy got it from might be the ram inside the laptop
Let's go a bit loose, but I don't know and then it
And you tried if you tried loan or boating a different district maybe from a USB
Well, so when it power is off
It it it's like it's not but it's not power off completely or laminated keyboard
So like that's still this up when it does that and you can see the power buttons
But I that's but that was it. I can't do anything until it died
But luckily I was in about 30-3% earlier so I thought right I'll have a break then
But now we'll so later I cut which is now I'll come back I guess if it's working
The laptop so is the battery in turn?
Yes, well, yeah, it's under a little squeeze. I'm not gonna be sitting now and screwing the
laptop for that
Well, if you're wanting to make sure whether it's hardware to software to ram stick to them and see the same problem
For real separate
Oh, it would life see you be mean. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'll say
Yeah, but I might be worth a try actually, but I don't know I mean I think my sound issue is probably this is actually broken
But I know what are broken if they were crackling and it's most likely that the speakers themselves are broken
Yeah, well, yeah, because because I I'm using it now right headset that's fine
I can also stream music via Bluetooth to a different device I've got that works
But obviously internal sound I can't play I can't play any videos when you think it gets sound
So I shouldn't speak because of broken back in February
Probably an easy fix
Hardware wise
Whole bunch of magic to me. I don't if you think about it technology like what you're talking about right now
Sounds like alter nonsense to me like I can understand a couple words
But it
It's a bit
It's a bit hard to understand for anyone who isn't active leave
So yeah, I'm not like magic now. I remember now. You know, you know as techie as we yeah
Yeah, they're working still, but very surface level on this
I thought we were just talking about the simple things. Yes, well, yeah simple simple things
I'm doing air quotes. You can't see it because it's sound, but I'm doing air quotes simple
I understand some words. I am not completely oblivious to all things technology, but close close enough
I
Infernally readily accessible as soon as you open the thing up and it's literally going to be a two-prong connector for both of them
But this is broken inside you. I can no I figured the speakers are blown but
Probably the okay now. We're going to get more complicated. There's a little gain on top of the foil
That's like really super long that runs in the middle of the speaker and most likely that is popped somewhere in the middle
It's just a place that they probably have popped because I'll tell you what I did as well
I was telling my my tech friend this and he said like well in a way. It's your fault
Then and I was like really but I've done this on another laptop and I've had this problem
So yeah, I was playing like some metal or rock or something on YouTube though
Back in February, right?
Serpent didn't come out. It didn't sound as good on laptop
Like it doesn't all we do on laptops. So I went into the
Pabu control, you know, pulse audio and
I up to sound past 100% to about 153% and that's I've done another laptop
No problem. But this laptop
Let's start with a crackle and then it and then it went
Yeah, so you missed let me let me try for let's assume that there are people like me
Who might not understand everything technical and which is totally fine by the way that you're going to do
Technical so it's HPR after all. It's expected
But so what you're saying is is that you missed with the thing
Past the limit where you're supposed to mess with it and then it broke and so it's your fault that it broke as you missed with the thing
You're not supposed to mess with
Be so well kind of a sceptor sceptor sceptor
I wouldn't completely agree with that because I would do it because in what I went into it the sound settings and you can
up it past 100% as in the normal
It says the sound might get distorted or it might actually sound best so when you do that
And normally a laptop is okay with that
It looks like the impedance of the speakers
Wicked my age of the speaker
Yeah, yeah, he does the thing like it's not really your fault for doing it
How unless you like this the laptop and figs and change it the thing is to yeah, and that's your
Elefing this laptop supposed to be brand new or but you're about year old because I I know then then it makes sense
Yeah, if you're supposed to be able to mess with the thing and
Even though it might be risky and you're supposed to be able to mess with it
No problem and the thing is also
New then it then it makes sense
Yeah
I yeah, it costs about that's clear before if you don't know
Cost about five hundred quid on it's own before I upgrade it slightly so I put more of a got more ram for example and I
Got more space on the SSD and it was like full gigabyte ram by default so I would be able to purchase
Speakers for that model
Yeah, we're ultimately low cost and it should not be hard to replace them. No, yeah
I'm a bit like I couldn't you do I try and send it back by didn't really want to do that
Why do get my other guy and lemme fix it now?
But oh, it's some stage
Just a little bit for straighting though
And also the freezing thing. I don't know why it does mic occasionally do that
Well, and it kind of copies on the menu that like repeats everything it's like in the you're all in the address bar
You know on the web well web page if I put down the letter a or types of me in it because of repeat that
And it used to repeat everything on down the menu on gloom as well
The answer is install Linux Mint and two app
Yeah, I doesn't sound like there's anything wrong with the I mean that it sounds like there's some wrong operating systems
Well, I said for the speech that the speaker is below the speaker issue is probably set pro that's probably was me because of
Whoever or is a hardware that will just be because one good enough in machine in the first place
But yeah, the other thing well, but you're having you're also having like the everything
Studying and the with the videos freezing, right?
Right, but
We're working previously now. It could technically have been an update that caused the driver issue where there's a conflict between a 3.5 millimeter
Port and your internal speakers and the mouse can freeze sometimes to
For forever reason like it. Yeah, I mean it's just just install Linux Mint real quick and see what
Why are we saying mint? There was a there's just a mint guy. We had them earlier
I am a mint guy. I'm one of the hosts on the mic. Yeah, yeah, yes, so any time you're having problems with machine Mint will pick the most of them
Yes, the answer is almost always install me
Like is called a driver's bill in as well more so always it just because he likes me
I'd like me
Almost just every mind running out there says the same thing
If your computer isn't working right I'm willing to try my cat
This just reminds me of like in the indeed there's this late joke doing that
Hey, if you're in a troubling situation and you're spellcaster just cast fireball
Not gonna get bad happens when you cast fireball
I get this one fix some somehow well enough, so but
There was not a little step as I can out loud. Oh, that could be interesting
Comes out at the end of January as well
between
Starlapse some sort of small UK one I think
They've got like a look uh, of course some laptops that were already but they coming out with like a
14 inch one and then also like an 11 inch one black and that book but better
Uh, or and it's not yeah, it leaves me cheap
I think for the price and you can upgrade that slightly to like let's change a powerport
Well, it's a more ram or SSD or space or something
It's good man go
What's that?
I'm gonna use the deal
I have yet to find a deal laptop that I couldn't install in the front oh
Dell uh, I'll take up one for sale in the UK but it was like my friend told us that the last look
Our last look for a lug meeting in December right because we did this got mentioned and it was about
4,000 pounds or something stupid out
Yeah, yeah, I'm like it's hidden away. It's under being a business laptop and it's there
Here's in the way kind of thing and it was like
Or one thousand two but I know it was more than a Mac basically
And you think that and it was like really oh it's got a nice Nvidia graphics card possibly or some pin but
It's like it was like really
Gaming laptop
I don't know
I'm just told you they're still in the way there, but there's a slightly upper keyboard if it's gaming and up to no
No, all gaming all gaming things should have a should have lighting up your parts
I got a little bit of an up keyboard on this laptop, so it's nice. You can change the colors and things, yeah
I haven't got a little of keyboard, but a good little headset upstairs in my uf you'll set up
This is my dad set up which has like open mic thingy where if I do this you might hear it
I know did anyone hear anything
Yeah, yeah, I was I was just touching to mic something
I used to do to my headset
And there are some Bluetooth keyboard balls that are bought separately a USB that were lists up and things as well
I'm just seeing one on the plane somewhere once and I'm like well that's looking nice. I want that
Oh keyboard like that and I got one
Wasn't I say with Dell Hp and the Nouveau and Ace is a good one to kind of just sort of change the subject a bit here
But but it's delayed to Dell because something mentioned Dell
I, you know Dell Hp Lenovo, Ace Aceus, all those and I've been wanting to know the big
All those big laptop computer companies that how I see it as this Hp as well
How I see it and I've got laptops making issues from Hp originally and I've got that two
But that's the side point but how I see it as this all those companies
They just don't care about Linux, not seriously they do
Some of them have super computers or servers with Linux because that's where the big money is, right?
But for like the dust off the home, you can see the consumer they couldn't care about this
disagree with you right there when it comes to Dell because Dell is one of the few companies that actually releases a full on
Linux laptop and that's the Dell XPS
13 developer edition. Yeah, hang on has a key word, right?
That's the developer edition. Yeah, yeah, but it means like this is
They still conventionally released, not not normal people, right?
It's still going to work with Ubuntu and as a matter of fact most of their laptops and especially their tablets work with Linux
I have two problems installing any version of Linux on to Dell tablet either the venue 11 take your pick on the model number or the Dell
Latitude. All right. Yeah, now you don't have enough. However if I don't need to I'm not the one I could load up by now
A Dell UK site or Merit or whatever but if I if I'm just looking for a laptop
I'm just a usual person. Let's say right don't really know much about computers. I know a bit
But I'm looking for a laptop. I used to Dell website me
But then say you but if you like yeah, it could be you if you want
Probably although you're dazzling to the next you do have some kind of idea what Linux is unlike most people
But yeah, that's not my point quite either however the usual person let's say looking for laptop
It goes to the Dell website HP as well. They're not going to find a little laptop. They're going to find the Windows laptop
Yeah, and that's how it is. I would look for Linux stuff. I thought you were going in that direction
You thought I was going into yeah, I didn't know it's hard to follow a conversation if you only understand half the words
It's like if I started speaking English right now combination between Dutch and English
It's first of it'd be very hard because I'm not in that mindset right now, but
I've been talking English for a couple hours. Yeah, but
Must have seen spring in the chat. Yes, so you know is computer machine the one I've got now
You know it's like that that got got us like a like a Roman Roman version of a
Or was a name can remember I'm tired probably offended her just now who knows no one that was on earlier
Yeah, do you know is that is that's Roman goddess, right?
I didn't know there's bosses linked to some of the UK limits companies
So I said I said the machine them on there was a
You know, yeah, I think they get I think the actual laptop is maybe a
Comes come and bring it comes from somewhere else in Taiwan and I think he buys in a web as he'd then breathe ran
That was something
But yes, do you know computers this one? Yeah, yeah, Clevo that was it. Yeah, Clevo
Must in the chat so they get like a Clevo thing
Rebrand it was something but yeah, do you know computers is what I bought here?
Then there's entro where will we stay, which I know about anyway? That was like old camp sponsors and things
Um, yes, Juno does come from mythology and it's also
One of them loons
Uh, and there's a
Yeah, but the moon of Saturn is named after the goddess that's the thing anything astrology where you're like it's also
Astrology like it's mythology, but also astrology all this astrology stuff is named a astronomy
And there's a book from Spain yet when I'm about that as well
laptops or laptops
And there's the salsa UK and there's maybe one more that we're forgetting or something
But I was just here to be annoying interrupt and to remind you that there are people out there who might not know what they're doing
But what what what's going on and that's totally fine by way if I if I interrupt like this
Just continue talking except if I want to make a point
That's fine if you want to talk as well at some point isn't that yeah, it's a conversation
I'm I'm being annoying which is what I do in conversations
I just got tired of being I was talking over someone or being talked over so I've just been posting things in the chat
You're used to podcast with an excessive number of hosts
Anyhow the other one as I posted in chat is Tuxedo in Germany
Most of them are Cleo machines, but they do a lot of work to them. They don't just get the machine and put their brand on it
The biggest thing is apparently there's a problem with some of the Wi-Fi
Models and the modules in them and they have to completely replace those and that's usually a nice soldering job a lot of
Companies don't take cleavos and then just rebrand them. Does the Wi-Fi works on this laptop, but it seems and I go blue too
as well
May I just say if anyone if anyone ever has trouble with me talking too much just do the exact same
Wouldn't have advised anyone to do this with anyone else but me, but do the exact same as I do I will usually
If we're talking over each other and that can't over power though the person I'll let the person speak and then
Tell my thing later on
Especially if I'm talking for hours now
Yeah, that's why I do sometimes
I'm just talking about Salvador
Or you sometimes want to get back on something because it doesn't mean it's a subject to you
Like I want to make a point for for for for at least more than a quarter of an hour
But I'm I'm I'm just waiting and waiting until the correct point to make it
Yeah, don't forget what you're going to talk about them. Oh, no. I already I've already once
I already I already thought you guys were going to talk about some technical stuff probably and
I already knew I was going to save this long before I even yeah
I think might even be from before December. So yeah
I have been saving up this year because people don't don't don't want to talk to me that often don't want to talk to me enough
So yeah, I was talking to you. It's just four hours of non-stop talking sometimes have other stuff to do
Where's West cinead from what was the name is?
Shnade and my sister
I
I did think it might be new sister. I wasn't sure
Um, I I announced sir when she came in you might not have been there
Right, okay. I got to you in that case one and do is this right one my I got a question for either you both can answer and
And you seem to be want to be talking about something else you can mention afterwards
You'll turn how after that however my first question is
My question is this right apparently the Netherlands is in another lockdown
So I read somewhere tell me about that. Oh, yeah, she maybe I'll be able to tell you most about it because she
Actually, she's gonna have a real job. She's not like doing school stuff
Basically with me. It's just that while there's no lockdown
We are having one each year apparently. It's gonna be a new tradition
But yeah, I'm not very into the whole news thingy on the Crown variant stuff. I'm pretty sure and
Um
week week week of basically not good enough government
Lots of should not be in charge anymore, but that's just my opinion. I can't focus. So yeah
Yeah, pretty much for
Only a lot of war not lower at the socials except if you're in an exam year or like me
Yeah, to be honest, not the worst because then at least I'll be
I'll be able to have more I'll be able to learn more than I would online
Because they expected to know as much
They did they did that here last year, right in England in the end well
I've probably the whole of UK actually got them well
Northern Ireland I think as well, but that definitely England, but the flop but the thing is every year, right?
There are two lots of major exams that happen depending on the age you are
So if you're 16 or 15 to 16 you're going to be doing a GCSEs
You're a year 11 and then and then which I'll
Pretty important to get your grades and knows ideally as well and then and then people tend to do the A levels after that
If they want to get university and things, right?
But because they cancel all the exams and
All the exams, what can someone that was locked down and everything and the coursework is only part of it
Basically in the end it was based on
The teachers faking the grades basically by
Doing using the predicted
More grades and so some people got better grades than they would have got
None has got really cool grades and complained about it
Yeah, I swear everyone just passed well everyone everyone got to grade it on in the first time they did they had the exam so
Luckily there were luckily for schools there were already a bunch
Oh, the way it goes is that there's like big exams at the end of the year, but then for half there's the other half is like
Normal
Testants of during the year
So they just counted all the stuff during the year as your final exam thingy I'm basically
If I had that now I'd pass with nearly everything
And then they got rid of the education minister in the end because he wasn't much good to be fair
But yeah, that's a bit of a I don't know
I'm I'm glad I didn't have to do any of that and the whole mess in school thing as well
Which lot of them had to do in things or social distance in the classroom or have your support bubble absolutely mess
Can't
Maybe have to wear a mask when you walk around the hallways
Not supposed to socialize where people outside your
bubble in the school or whatever it was
Absolutely mess yeah, but what I want to say is
Related to well the whole techy conversation from before which is why I wasn't too first about
Basically talking earlier
It was basically if you think about it like technology is very much like magic and this is very useful for people like my dad who doesn't understand
Well, or refuses to understand sometimes. I didn't know it's hurt to tell sometimes
Like fantasy stuff like Star Wars is fantasy
Um, you can't you can't argue on that. It's just fantasy
You're just stating Clark's second law here. Could argue that it's sci-fi
What's the second law? Yeah, you can argue that it's sci-fi, but it's it's like fantasy in space if you
There are like medieval versions of the songs and they usually have like
Uh, art of like Jedi if they were not if they were actual nights and they look really like exactly the same
And they literally mean exactly the same it would it wouldn't change that much if
Technology
Technology well
It's not really my I mean it kind of is like magic when it works
It let you know your screen like so it sounds like magic you turn your phone on when you're computer
And you're greeted by all this fashy like light that it's not just light
Then you look what actually goes on and you click around and there's like there's like
Magic brick where there's like yeah, we'll get to where it doesn't work in the chat
Some people there
And it just and it works and you got all light lit up stuff and there's menus and there's programs
All kinds of magic yeah a magic brick with all the lines of the music and do all don't need power
Yeah without power you get nowhere
Actually, yeah
As I said, we're we're just talking Clark second law any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
Yes, and we're ready to start point well
Clearly you nearly it depends on how
What can I say knowledgeable you are about it because when it doesn't work we call it my next project
When it works
Well
What happens when magic doesn't work you're like
I'm talking about from a perspective of someone who doesn't have a clue about how it works
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, we don't try
Because like let me let me just put this in perspective. I'm just a normal like normal guy who just
I happen to be friends with a bunch of mages, right and you guys are a bunch of mages who know all about magic
and and love to tell me about magic and stuff and
And they love to tell you about magic because you too can be a wizard
Yes, but it takes a lot of time and and
I'm supposed to be a wizard and I might want to be like a
Hey, it can be Harry Potter. Well, if you too can be a wizard what about you be 40 of what?
I don't think they got the reference mass
You can be Harry Potter, but what was I saying? Yeah, so when it doesn't work
It's just it's just a abusive break basically when your phone is not charged up
It's just a black thing horrible looking thing when you learn the top of the work it's this
Not only talk as well, but you guys are making me smile. Okay. Yeah, I think about electronics that need fixing and I don't have any
Nice, I think this laptop needs it could do with a few little fixes as I already mentioned
But if you want to mail it to me, I will work on it. I've got a box sitting here that I should have made all three of you months ago
Yeah, and but like when a normal person who doesn't know anything about like technology stuff
Um, and when their phone breaks or just something like my computer has some like weird things
It does sometimes it doesn't happen very often, but usually I just try things and hope it works like I know for a
context like turning it off non again that might work, so
Well, then you have to just
The thing isn't just a whole new technology. Sorry. That's what this thing that's you fit how that's basically how how how a normal person would
Use magic and technology and I say we already reached a point where I'll tell you what some people do
Work the laptops don't work right and I've said I know somebody who's done this unfortunately
With at least two laptops and this is what you don't do the laptop right but some people do this
They seriously do this do never do this with a laptop seriously
Yeah, all with a phone or a tablet or any of them never do it, but yeah
I mean if you accidentally if accidentally your tablet falls in the bin or something that's
A little bit different however some people really do just do just that
The laptops got hard with problems. It doesn't pair on it. It doesn't work
They just chuck out in the black bin bag. Go buy a new one. Yeah, it's not a tracer lamp.
Some people do that instead of sending it to Joe like they sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
One one girl who I spoke to online before years ago
She she she she threw one in the bin and beverage it up in Scotland and pretend to tell me that
Don't do that either because the thing is put these devices are made out of plastic and they made out of
Other moons as well. My nose and and it's just not beautiful to environment
It's just like with magic if you use magic wrong you kids you create either chaos man like like like
Indiany there's like
There are two types of bad magic zones. There's basically like
Uh, where magic goes haywire and it's okay all stuff over there's dead magic and there's no magic and magic can't be used
Yes, throwing batteries in most places is absolutely illegal and um there are
uses for batteries most dead batteries can be at least partially resuscitated
Now there are times when you shouldn't do that, but you should always dispose of batteries properly
Yes, but the thing is the the thing we were talking about is like technology all this Linux stuff
It sounds like magic. What if they explode it? Well, that just magic explodes stuff right that's like isn't that a thing?
Which is oh yeah, yeah, I'm coming down a chat from Slees says sizzling and and yeah, I'm I'd be able to find a you
Post exploded battery. Yeah, well, well, well, well, hang on hang on right so me said
Yeah, she said if you put it
Polish shouldn't take them in the bath where do you either to that topology? Yeah, don't do that. Yeah, especially if it's plugged in charged as well
It's just like magic if you take if you take a dragon with you in bath
Drag my nut like it and then my diet or like um ascension magic I to me which was sleeping
You might not know that and then whoops now now it might not like the water and then you're dead or like
Um for instance, you might just pick up around them acts think like oh, this is a good acts
And the axe then they're tuned with it and oh look suddenly you've you look like a dwarf
This is an actual magic item an actual artifact which is a really powerful like super magic power
um weapon item basically in Dungeons and Dragons
It's a specific acts like from dwarves stuff so that's explains why you look like a dwarf
So only dwarves can basically
Attuncted without not without turning into dwarves because they're already dwarves
Um
I might have been so as someone who is almost dwarfed
Yeah, oh you should you should read Terri Pratchett books. He has a really good explanation on dwarfs by the way
Like like it's it's really cool. Oh, I just realized I just remember something
I forgot that but yeah about 20 minutes ago. I believe
You've you found and hit the new year because don't that flowers in the heart?
Time zone behind UK, right?
Well, those have the other time zones, yeah
Wow, yeah, well uh we did call it a new cat really do you
I'm doing everything wrong
Anyway, you know, so they can see I'm telling the tell um whatever his name is a little secret about magic and computers and
Tech right that everyone else a lot of people here are gonna know
But I'm the time a little secret right
That is that a computer and a phone and a tablet and all this stuff. It's actually stupid
What I mean by that it doesn't that you have to basically tell it what to do
via a computer program or it does nothing. Oh, yeah, I know that but that's yeah
I
Basically that well, yeah, I know that because I remembered from long long ago from
When dad really tried to push me into
Becoming a Linux person, which didn't work as you can obviously tell I like magic way more than like
Technology and it's not really magic. It's just clever people
It's a bit like it's a who have done well
It's the same with the it's like we're decoded vaccines, right?
We will be in an absolute more of a mess of a pandemic if to work Maxxies
And those people who were worked on the vaccines. They are just really clever some of them
Yeah, really clever people you know good doing and the same with like engineers and things
You could not have without a plane and go all the day and things right
Who may who invented a plane who works on planes clever people? Yeah, but I usually I am
I have quite some stores which I just thought up in my head and never actually risen
And there's a couple which I actually tried to write but never finished so if I ever finished a story
Just know that by the way there's an entire like universe out there. I was surrounding that story
But basically in that universe magic there's both magic and sci-fi technology. It's this isn't like Star Wars where it's like fans well
It's kind of this isn't like Star Wars where it's like fancy and space because by the way
D&D and Star Wars both use like an incredibly similar way of magic
D&D has the weave which is like like weave of magic
So many I used to all that I used to really enjoy all their stuff
What do you mean? Yeah, I like we all people are on a side note on fires. I and theater
You like the magic sci-fi theme however I was just yeah and come like burn it slightly was coming
But it's a bit like actually know it's like gravity, you know way back the apple fell off the tree
And it was like why is it do that and somebody could figure that out that the ankle gravity
And it all kind of went from there or or it was like how how
He used to think that thunderstorm was the godspeed angry and then see the figure out that there's like electric in the sky sometimes
Yeah, this kind of thing and then people forgot and read discovered or something and that kind of stuff
But basically what I have is I know that's probably what would happen
But what if magic didn't want it to happen like magic actively destroys
Technology unless you like in chant every individual piece that's why I that's how I can still have
Fantasy set fantasy stuff all not having a clash with
With the cool space government, so I can have like
Close up, it's like fantasy and medieval stuff and that can stuff so if it's very technological
It's not very technological advanced
Then it's probably because it's there's a high
I
There's a loss of magic in that area and that magic in that area specifically doesn't like technology because it might be gonna have sentience
Oh, it's very potter and
Pings the chamber of secrets the second one the one the flying car
Yeah, yeah, just a normal car until the magic. Yeah, fly
Yeah, that could be possible basically on their my rules, but then you have to basically take the entire car apart
In chant every single piece of the thing like it if even if it's like their screws
You have to unscrew the screws to get them at every single moving part every single
Thing which can be a different object like friends. So I've got a keyboard here and I have to take out every key
All the things they're attached to basically I have to take it apart and reassemble it again
But but when I'm reassembling it, I have to enchant it and then enchant every object which comes from that
So it's very expensive and very hard to have enchanted items and
The and
some stuff are
Like magic accepts it until certain levels so depending on the magic
Um, where it is it kind of accepts it in a certain level and um, also I I'm now playing after
Watching Rick and Morty this here. I watched Rick and Morty this is really more yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, I've seen a little bit of that, but uh, not one of the whole lot. There's a lot to see
Yeah, but yeah, that's like yes, yeah, so I basically thought first like how how are you usually get this story is like
Um, well, there are multiple ways, but one of one of the most common ways to get some elements into the
Whole universe thing, but I wait the universe kind of started when I
When I had a I still have a jacket with dark industry on it and then I thought that could be a company and then I kind of grew
Stay in bed, but I like the idea. I like the idea of parallel universes like a lot of
Yeah, that's basically what I saw what if I was like the Rick what if I was Rick and then
Made this whole armor thing from uh using a loss of stuff from starfiner and then after that I kind of discarded but I
Um, uh that's I'm gonna use that as a discourage one of the old stuff along with the old concept so I had was basically like powered armor
With a skirt and they're we're gonna be called scourges the reason skirts is because it's a ballistic skirt and it's
Supposed to protecting the joints in your leg and that's actually something being used and that's why I
Use the skirt thing. I should make just I should just make episodes
Explaining
universe
Moss yeah, that's good what you do in the chat, but uh you could do on the podcast as well. Sure
Yeah
I
Just I
Not my job and two everyone else is talking
I did at least somebody that like two years through it two well four years ago, however that was they did
There's a day would do they have a power I think for bet. Yeah, right this took places in new year and I haven't that one
Okay, I was going to crunch bang. Do I make crunch bang then looks and his wife remember those and then but yeah
He was that yeah
I didn't either would do it anyway that time
Um, but yeah, it's the most places we're going to do. Yeah, just now. Yeah, and it says
Nova Scotia new bronze wick
Venezuela, Bolivia and western Brazil
We're doing an a whole chapter in geography just about Brazil if any Presidents are this thing be happy
We have an entire chapter about your country like
Specifically chose Brazil apparently because it's a good mix of everything we had already. So that's pretty cool
But I will sing so um I I wear wherever we again. Oh, yeah
So I was reading out a lot of magic because I started to do magic the gathering
Um, new share and um then I just thought of like an entire government system and stuff and now I have
Interspatial government and they don't allow a lot of travel between dimensions because they're scared of
Of uh well because most of them live through uh COVID times so they're scared of
Um people trying basically they're scared of a commodity happening
And so if there was a whole civil war with that and
Basically they're trying to limit their own government but at the same time limit their own people so
It's a very very wonky thing in a loss of layers. There's at least four layers and the whole like
Um like uh like um ethics uh side which saw so very important and stuff and it is it's just kind of
Written down in a document on my laptop. Um, you know what you know what um
Ethics magic time travel sci-fi yeah time travel um
I don't know I mean if you know actually imagine if you go back to like you know like 2019
Some you know before all of this COVID and everything that's happened right and you can go to yourself and go
Oh by the way um
Or anybody else oh by the way yeah, there's gonna be face masks and we locked down there gonna be
All kinds of stuff. I'm sure you know things would happen. There we go like you want about
Oh yeah, yeah, but that's also like the only
Time travel is very hard to actually make a good story because you can either do it the
Terpratured way, which is really good trousers of time
Also say we're time travel to Ned as as has been shown in in
Bicken multi as well, which she was just talking about will so um but also very sci-fi movies etc
Is that basically if you go and change one little thing in the past it might be that have a really big effect
Yeah, it will have a really big effect. That's why also in my universe
Time travel is banned. I think it's technically still possible but very hard
But it's banned. It's supposed to be actually uh the real world is supposed to be a part of it
Who knows? I might just be another version of myself froming around
Tuning the same story over and over and so and then when I die, I'll become an ancient undead
Spirit god thingy, which I actually I actually got quite quite like I would quite like that now
When I'm the parallel universe right where you are all into Linux and all this as well
Yes, yes that definitely I and that's actually that's actually the only
I mean that I think in that society people it would be
Wouldn't be the norm
That that they that people were into Linux, but the people who were would definitely gain benefits because I
Definitely respect people who can do Linux stuff and like
Engineering us of course. I realized the value of that and I can any sci-fi thing it's always the
Engineers might not be in charge, but they are invaluable without an engineer you can't survive in space
Without an engineer you can't have a like a massive
City instrumental city thing without any of those
Without any of those mosquitoes and slugs and that kind of gross things rapples that
And when I'm some shop star in a pandemic with a lockdown and yeah
There's and you find it like all that still is well and part of my interest
There's there's a problem yeah, but yeah
Would it actually be a good thing to have a
Just a podcast but like on-age period just my little universe and all the tweaks I'm making to it and that kind of stuff or
Would that not be a good thing because I didn't know it's I think would it be something people are interested in or
Me two you said a book that's a podcast
I think just do it your dad would probably be happy with that and then he put up with a show
Yeah, okay. Let me save this. I
Vittled with links from about 2002. I got a little bit serious between 2010 and 2012
In 2015 I got to completely serious in 2018 the end toward the end of the year
I joined mint cast without knowing what the blank I was doing and in the two and a half years
I was on mint cast I learned more about Linux than in all that time before and
And also people sent me nice computers and things. I was sent for Raspberry Pi is each one a different model
I've been sent a number of laptops. Yeah, it's good for you get involved. Yeah. Yeah, I think
If anyone listening to this is interested
I don't know how I don't know how a HBR actually works
I I said to dad that there should be in there should be instructions because I have no clue how it works
But there is some right right to tell people to comment, right? I'm not that that's
Two things. I go into notes when I was 17 or 16
So he said open source
I was like what's that? I was the first to ask you family computers about them and then one old and then an old family computer came mine
It was like a special for dog or two one there. Grab goes wrong. I can't even get the wife
I'm working at this time and this rapper win. I don't know
I've got even at later, but yeah, and I'm used to ever since because it's good and you get it and you get in stuff
But what but the thing is right you're probably sitting there thinking oh everybody's a program right here
I'm not a programmer. I can come in. I can code H to ML on the website and CSS
But I'm not a programmer
I'm not a programmer. I'm not a programmer. I am not a coder. I am not a IT guy
I am not anything. I'm just someone who uses Linux. Joe is not a programmer, but he's someone that uses Linux
He also has someone that picks his things. We each had different things get into a podcast with a group of people and see what you can learn from each other
And from your audience. Yeah, and it's also kind of like I've never actually finished writing a story
I've started writing stories and the people who've read the stories were like well those are great
Starts and stuff. I've never actually had you know
I usually just stay on the topic for a little while and then I
You can buy a story on Linux as well people or something. Yeah, I'm sure an alternate reality me would write a story on Linux
But I do consume I do think I know
I'm kind of experimenting with stuff with world broadening and I'm having lots of fun with it even if I'm writing nothing down
I literally the only things I have are like a couple documents on my computer just in case and some old
Some older notes in
stuff and yeah, I've already experienced like a great there was great shifts in my way of thinking writing that kind of stuff
And I've actually revisited a lot of the old stuff and there were some great ideas which I forgot
And so if anyone like if you want to try something I would just suggest trying it because I'm I'm just trying
This thing and and I like it and I think most people actually have I have at some point had a little
World inside of their head like how they like their fancy stuff and if you can write that down
And actually make a cool story out of it then it can really grow into something
Yeah, if you try to connect every single thing into one key is a cohesive
Reality then eventually it will
Actually work yeah when I was between the ages of like
12 and 16 I want to say I had like a whole sort of characters and they had a whole universe and all of that
And even though I wound up not doing anything with it because I figured out I didn't want to like draw all day
I'm so glad I did that because it made me think through a lot of things
Yeah, like house societies work and stuff like that because I do like this and then this it's like well
That doesn't make sense if people were you know
Yeah, I've looked up smithing
smithing just for like one sword
It's a really cool sword was made by four gods fused into one god
But it's just a sword one singular sword on by one boss of one company dark industries is like one of the oldest characters
Building a really cool sword and now I like retrofitted him because he was kind of fading away from
Importance he used to be the most important character the most important connection he was the connection between everything
Derek the
Like the boss of dark industries and
Originally I had him take over dark industries, but after
Little later I had a found a dark industries so
Yeah, he used to be very very important, but after that like
Rick and Morty really shifted everything towards
Inter I I had made a list listing everything and either
Well not everything but like a lot from actual real stuff which exists from small to big and then
Some of the stuff which I which we don't know about yet
I just filled in with stuff and there were some repeating stuff, but yeah, basically
It was pretty fun, but um, I use that to basically like
My government and basically my inter into a
Universal multi-first or
Inter multi-first or government is from this size to this size
Like have done that so yeah, and since since then I
I I've had a chain in like a gradual
Basically just went away from the dark industry's thing, but it's still really like dark industries. It's the
or one of the oldest
All this and most resilient parts of the thing and I want to connect every sword with at least a mention of
This mythic dark industries
Um, but just like a little easter egg. So um, I think I'm I have retrofitted him to be
Which is something I've done a lot with dark industries. I've retrofitted him to be another version of
I don't know what I'm going to call him, but they're literally just versions of me. I it's it's very
It doesn't reflect my ego very well, but it there the the
Inter into air galactic government thingy is going to be versions of me
They're going to be immortal gods, but like I have the power. Why not use it? So yeah, the yeah
What do you think what do you guys think about that?
There's a sound interesting um
From the creative side of things
Um, you know, there's there's used to be enough rich material that you've laid out to
Have enough
Sounds like in enough different motivations
There's enough for an entire MCU
Actually, the MCU is part it can be written as part of of this yeah, like in Loki was also kind of a big inspiration for
Yeah, that's the thing to you know, because you know when I see a lot of other fiction that I've read
a lot of it falls flat when they don't
Kind of hard to describe until you get to a certain point in the storytelling
But the easiest way to describe it would be like Mary Sue or Gary Stu syndrome
Oh, where there's more character that is untouchable and now that's not the case
Basically what I have is that this
This person basically that I always just thought that as other versions of me
I know about Mary Sue. That's the thing. I am aware of those things
Uh, the only way they can turn into gods is if they die and if their soul isn't destroyed and even then
They aren't immortal. They can still die. It's just a tad bit harder. They have to
Yeah, if they
Manifest physically because they can go between not physical and physical
You can still just kill them. They they're they're killable just just chop them in half or something
Just just just whack them hard enough and they'll die. They'll just come back a little later
So you actually just have to sever their connection with you know
The well whichever realm they'll they're connected to and
You can do that several amounts of ways and that's why they try to guard it that much. It's
Yeah, and mostly they actually
Connected they keep they keep their connections involved. It's not kind of stuff
Try to have it
Yeah, it's the thing they they want it to be safe and the safest is with the government but at the same time
It's also like was if someone in infiltrate the government and stuff and
Also all the old like dead dead devons are all going are all live in like the
Usually they go to the capsule basically which like
Yeah, that that basically city that can teleport to places and stuff. I think I know
Because obviously if you're so if you're if you turn into a normal god
It will be pretty sad that everyone you ever love will be dead later in not that long of a time
Can um to you so if you then go to a place where people don't die like that also they have to choice to turn into that
They don't actually have to so they can also so still die and I'm specifically not using the dead
the dead ones like the gods as
As as characters because I know that will be way too overpowered they could just use stuff
Not not not die for instance or something
There'll be no tension. Oh, I'm going to use stuff like a necrolutioner the necrolutioner the necrolutioner
Illutioner who's not dead yet and tries his best not to be that kind of stuff
Who might who might actually
Yeah, I have problems if he were to actually die or something or like people who aren't
Of that group who can still normally die that that kind of stuff. Do you understand what I mean yeah
Like as long as there are
I'm it's to what the powers can do that's that's actually very important and as long as it's it's
Establish that they can do it like
For instance, I haven't seen the the episode seven eight nine, but I know Ray can do a lot of overpowered stuff
Which doesn't make sense like bringing bringing people back from the dead
That's simply not possible in Star Wars
So but that's like apparently the finale of a movie so that's not something I'm going to do
I'm not going to bend the rules to
To make them either feel or succeed. I'm going to try to make it as limiting as possible
Without defeating the core concept of what they are because they aren't like God's gods
They're like really powerful individuals who are bordering on God's they can't actually they can't
usually they can't
Like work reality in their place. They can't do anything of that sort of thing
They're like ghosts
We can come back, but then as now there's like shells of who they were like actual versions of who they were
Like still physical and stuff
They're just immortal and the mortal meaning they don't age or get sick
That's the definition of immortal they can still be killed right
Alice, I think that's a good phase to build on
I've a lot of more dumping right now
Yeah, and then that's happened, but it happened yeah
One thing that I've posted on the chat were a couple of links to some
handy open source
Software that might help
One problem I personally ran into with a lot of my earlier writings and
Earlier code and other creative endeavors was that
I didn't use open source software to do those things so
You know over the years I've lost a lot of things
because the files can't be opened anymore
And you know because it's a proprietary software and you can't find it anymore and the and the computers yet I used
Yeah, that's a good point. I mean I don't have my self, but I was reading about
And by that school before so it's about that kind of thing where basically people had
There were that old documents by she's maybe as well whatever word processing
But there's all done in proprietary software
It was done on old computers possibly as well and things change as time goes on
And then if it's more proprietary you might use access or the computer doesn't work
And that's advantage of open source as well because generally speaking and anything that's open source as long as people are still interested in it
And and our developers of course that that will carry on it will be around for a long time to come
It's a bit like Linux is based or well not Linux kernel, but aspects in the operating system
The base on on unix still all similar to unix and that's from the 1970s so that just kind of
gives you an idea how much history there would be so
Yeah, so one thing um, if you haven't already
You might consider using things like
Libre office
Goblin, yeah, Goblins a very good suggestion too
I'm sorry to leave right now
I don't really like the Libre office like sweet. Yeah, like the
Because it's basically a good free alternative of free as in Libre and free as in free
Yeah, there's a little bit of this stuff. I think that's that proud at the same time
I used to write all the stuff down on like
paper and stuff, but I kind of ran out of a script of what's it's called a notebooks and stuff
So I began using the Google Docs on my school computer because I already used that and stuff
But it's got to be past it. Yeah, good Google Docs
I mean that's that's I'm thinking where he was talking about with all software and then you do that with us now
Google Docs is probably not the worst thing because that's probably gonna be around for another
20 or 20 years or something yet come how are they could drop Google Docs one day and just go, you know
Well, we can't be bothered with this anymore. Yeah, that's why I'm running Joplin because then you can kind of have that like sharing across devices like Google Docs without being beholden to Google
Yeah, I think what I'll want to might do
Um, uh, later on, I don't know. Uh, is copy
The copy the documents over though. I'll have to go through all the documents because I do have lots of like
On the important school documents. Well, I say on important school doesn't think it that way, but they are
Um, like in the grand scheme of things. They're already finished most of this stuff. So not really that
Important and I'll just copy paste it over that's like the most easiest way to do because it's literally just text
There's no I usually don't use any images for just um
For anything like that. I just yeah, yeah, and that's what a WordPress process or texture. So it's full really it's text
I mean you can't put images into a WordPress asset, but yeah, that's a bit yeah, it's been a little bit
It's for exactly my point. I can just copy it over. Yeah, I like I can use the
Uh, I didn't know if all those things the same um shortcuts as my laptop those which are very useful shortcuts like um
Um, yeah, there's some for a fancy letters and stuff like I know Libra office
My mother uses that that I'm pretty sure I think and like there are
Things that we sell to be fair, but I think we both risk you can change some of those shortcuts if that's sorry
And you can even change the layout like how it looks a bit as well. Yeah, keeping things in plain text
You'll definitely be your friend for longevity
Yeah, yeah, don't think so you mean dot text. Yeah, it's been the mouse. Yeah, and um at a paper is even longer as long as the paper is kept in good condition
Which it is I've got all but yeah, well, actually well, yeah, but if you had a file or something you your paper could possibly get burnt
But if you've done that perfectly, you could have your backups. You can have your copies of your electronic documents
And then hopefully and they could just perform the cloud or something maybe now. Yeah, you could just
Scat and the problem is is that
When you scan something it doesn't always get the faint
The faint pencil stuff and there's always like images like I I when I write
As something in just notes it usually like yes scribbles stuff or like great also these small and
Pain make you can also try on a computer sometimes with the right with like a pen
That's my that's the problem is converting the paper things to
The computer because I already like writes up on the computer now when I want to make notes
I've actually got like
stats for like four well
two are finished and
two are not
Like creations from that a necromancer illusion in which I already mentioned
um and um uh and uh yeah that works just fine but if I want to convert my
My things written on paper to stuff on the computer it's a bit hard to do I could try to scan it
But that it genuinely when I try it it doesn't work out that great you don't get the detail
You usually have from just looking at it your eyes work
Better than uh than a scanner
Certainly um one middle ground there would be
Who um if you got a sketch or an image developed to a certain point that you would want to go back to it later
Do uh perhaps take a picture of it
Most smartphones could take a picture in sufficient detail
Capture them well yeah depends on the thing like some of it yeah
I I think I could take a picture of it. Some of it I might even be able to scan
But some of it the text is faded enough so that you can still read it otherwise I would
Re-write it uh which would probably just make it worse for copying but um
I don't want to race it just in case I erase something important but um I
I
Can still read it but it doesn't register on either
Taking a photo or scanning it it I am yeah because most of it is
Puy Souls already like maybe more than
A more than a year definitely more than two years maybe don't know exactly but uh yeah
Like for instance the sort of a talking about like that has a bunch of stuff and it's also like very very small writing like I start
I big then they get smaller and smaller and smaller
The more I realize I don't have any space left and then eventually it's so small that you can then it's
Barely eligible that that's how I that's how I make notes usually oh well one other
a couple of other things that I
Posted uh there are some links to some sites
Our
Proposal friendly um Obsidian log seek and Zettler um as well as joplin posted
Um those of our open source applications that are also available
On Windows and Mac so it's not just Linux but the super power behind those apps that might really help you out as you
Flush everything out um they let you have notes
Set up links to other notes
Without having to provision a wiki
Um I I think that might help you at at some point especially as you get closer to actually writing or like
Putting together like whatever form your project will take like if it's going to be a podcast or youtube videos or something like that
Because you'll be able to write a note and say okay this
Place
Ruth was built by XYZ in the visual and then you can have a link to another note about XYZ in the visual
and you can start to
Um like it might help with uh linking things together and
You know help flesh things out and make them perhaps more realistic or well relatively speaking of course, you know
Um and you know it could be very helpful in you know helping to manage that complexity
Um and you might even discover like things that are possible
As more characters and more places get added in
What is actually possible yeah if then then I might not forget like all the old stuff because I've
Faintly remember like yeah but then I also have to try way hard and not just rip off some monelsus creation
Which is how I usually start out my creations and then if it doesn't and if I
Can't get it any better well then it just it's rip it it's literally just sometimes
Is that because I ran to that two or one brother that I helped some other people remember that nothing's really
Actually truly original everything's just different combinations of different things. Yeah, so if you find you're having a hard time kind of being original just say okay
What are like you know take multiple
Yeah, the fictional universes and kind of mind things is a new thing that for instance if I have a character
Which I I usually use the indie to create stuff because they've already got some rules and stuff and I
And I have a lot of trouble limiting things
I always had like really overpowered like creatures and stuff like
so
Limiting things is is very very it is is hard for me so I'll
I've come better at it, but
I'll usually look towards another thing which has already done it to
To basically figure out how I'm supposed to but sometimes then if I take inspiration from something
I'll say D&D I might literally just for instance make a character
Which is for instance a teeth link a teeth link and how I'm going to explain that it's a
T-fling anyone who's got good eyes can tell it's a teeth link and stuff and most of them
Not very good with coming up with names so then you've got the problem of what I'm
I'm going to name it to make it original something else which isn't teeth link the
T-fling sense of good already that kind of stuff. Yeah, it'd be helpful
So usually something else is a template does help you focus more time on the parts that are truly unique
I just have it's very useful something else is template one thing I
Posted in the chat is a quick link to the heroes journey up a lot a lot of narrative arcs and storytelling
Yeah, and you know it's amazing like over thousands and thousands of years of human history and mythology
and you know
position and culture how many
Dories that are central to human civilization can be
Can be described as a variant of that heroes journey. You know where
You have a very specific character who
Even if they are predestined to
One of the gods there's still a process there's still a
Or lack of a bit of where they ritual that they must go through
Like a departure from wherever they are
Initiation to prove that they are ready for the final conflict
They're of ultimate return to greatness
um and a lot of the good stories have
That it's core
There aren't too many
Enduring tales of antiquity that stray too far from that
So some people is some circles would have a very low opinion of the heroes journey
But the thing is when you look at what they write
You know or are the things that they create it's is very boring and flat because they haven't
You know they haven't come up with a truly unique novel way of balancing
All of the things that the heroes journey can balance for you
Yeah, I mean, I think I wondered about why everything has to follow something of a heroes journey
And I think just there's just narratives that appeal to human beings because we're selfish and it's like, you know
We want to see things escalate and
The hero's journey I think is kind of the most sure far away to do that because if we can't see ourselves in something or character then
We don't really care
Yeah, and I think this is it's very useful definitely
Also, yeah, I think I haven't really used it that much. I really haven't gone that far usually in writing things
The furthest story I got is actually it's pretty pretty good, but it's in it's in the default
things which I've just kept around kind of like not just decided and really want that
Way of having magic in the world anymore. Don't want a specific place full of magic
But basically so there the guy is I know if it follows heroes journey so the guy right is a
Our main character is a jook and he's doing a yearly
Is is a pretty powerful but very young jook and
Can do some magic and
He holds a like festival thing and
People come from all over for the festival. It's a yearly thing in the kingdom
And then it
Who was being set oh yeah, so one guy is not really very being very nice
So because the jook is already quite powerful actually he knows his way around the politics table
And this one is in the opponent and he catches him doing a little thing which is
Which is technically punishable. I know exactly that what it was again, but it was
Was he thought nobody was ramped, but yeah, it was a wrong thing to do
Because this is basically like the worst person in history
Not necessarily like like evil. It's just that he's a massive massive of douche basically
Um, and
So basically then the I
He gets captured and put into well basically the jook digital tent for the king to later on the side
If he is guilty or not because he's also a powerful like guy and then
Then he's gonna send an assassin to try to kill and they were gonna be like some events which he
Part of him and eventually there was gonna be an epic battle between the two to see who would win and then
The jook
our main character would win just and
He feed the the douche back to the creature he had a
Yeah, they kept in his in his somewhere rather some he kept a dangerous
Seek creature and he just people he didn't like he fed to it. So they charge him on a lot more than
Uh, they eventually found a lot more on the dirt on him than
It was originally charged for so yeah, and then he dies and that's yeah, nice
He kind of kind of becomes the power behind the throne that that's basically the story
Is I don't think that's hero's journey. Is that hero's journey?
Um, this is what it is probably not I mean whoever he rose into might go on the hero's journey
But his interactions with him might be events that happen on that other characters arc
Yeah, um another thing that comes to mind is the game of thrones
Uh, which is basically based on um you know European history around the time of the
Hundred years of war and the Italian city state's period
Yeah, which actually curiously enough that very few people
Use that period of history as a template to drop on oh, I love that I love that type of like little city states like
I love the politics. I uh, I preferably I didn't particularly like
Like creating
Game of Thrones
Just like the book game of thrones
Because it was very very dark. I wouldn't have killed that dog now that dog was you could kill the humans
But not the dogs that would be evil and he killed the dog and that's just evil like we I'm I'm not gonna kill dogs
Well depending on the dog, but like not gonna kill like
No an on sentient magical dog now. So
But yeah, I I I actually quite like the politics of the whole thing and
The politics of those six states and stuff and yeah, you think that's really cool. See I continue
Yeah, so yeah, there's um yeah, I definitely think you have enough material to start something at least
Um, you know, it may well be that um as you start to
Realize this project find more details may co-op along the way or new opportunities may come up along the way
To link things together in a way that you perhaps have it expected before
Um, but yeah, I think you definitely have enough to start for sure
And then you know, there's you know the main thing as far as like using our leveraging
Technology or the the the magic of technology to help you bring that life, you know
Just as far as possible stay with you'll be sore stuff so that you don't get locked out of your world
You know in a few years, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, I think of well
But most of my world is just stored in my brain. I just remember it that that that is some you
It's a very fickle thing. It's very hard to remember all the exact details but all the like the hard stuff
I've written down at least somewhere in paper and I'll I'll make sure that I
That I'll be able to access all the documents I need but um yeah
Yeah, yeah, I think this might also be very useful for other people or just like who might just be interested in like the same stuff as I am
Making something out of their own little world which are big world who knows depends on how much stuff you've got right
Yeah, I just get a
Little concerns sometimes when I see so many creative people
Especially knowing what I know now about open source. They think that
Are they put so much of their time and their effort and their life work?
Into
I lows, you know these proprietary silos. You know, I've been burned that way and
Other people who have been burned that way too, but yeah, that's
This is literally just
What what do you mean because this is literally just so hobby. I'm I'm not gonna make a job out of this
Well, you know, it's maybe maybe now I don't think so. I don't think I'll ever be able to make a job out of this
But I'm able to have fun with what I have yeah, and that's
This certainly valuable
The situation I personally ran into I had a bunch of
Well, code and art and some lore or a couple of old video game projects that I put together
From a time where I wanted to you know, you know, because there was a space game and then they
RPG that I wanted to make
And bitches for
Basing game that I had and some of those projects were fairly far along
It was in like a rough prototype under RPG
However, uh, because I used a lot of old software
That was
proprietary. I lost it all
Because I don't have a computer that can open the files anymore. I add a backup of some of the stuff
But the backup wasn't
a it was also a proprietary program and I lost access to that as well
And so there's you know, even though it wasn't a commercial project per say that I
Was going to make a lot of money on it. That's a good chunk of my life
That yeah only exists
And the string of ones of zeros that I can't even get to anymore
Um, and so if that kind of thing does wear down on you after a while or at least it doesn't
Yeah, for me because you know, it's like, you know, even though I
You know, my my livelihood does it depend on getting a hold of that that's true
But at the same time, you know
It would be not really to review it, you know, to look at it, you know, to remember some of the
Cool things, you know, because yeah, because I have that with my uh with my also it like all the
Notes and stuff. I look back and then and think oh, that's cool. Hey, I can use that again
And if you can't access it. Yeah, so basically more of the story you're saying is
Make sure that never happens to you
Basically, yeah, exactly
Um, always make sure you're on top of if the software you're using is up to date or not or
Could be taken away and always make sure if you've done something on one type of thing
Make sure you copy it over to whatever boss
Yes, yes
Make sure there's at least one other copy of what you have a
Perfection would be the three two one rule, you know three copies of your data
Two different medium one off site
But yeah, even just one other copy that is not on the same
Place that you normally work in you'll be a lot more than what a lot of people have so yeah
But yeah, everything I do nowadays. I make sure that I'm using something open source
Um, because like in the I've only been involved in open source for about
Well, it gets about eight or nine years now
And yeah, everything I did in the past eight or nine years. I can get a hold of generally speaking
Yeah, that's very useful like I have a lot of stuff bookmarked on my phone
Like a lot of music and stuff
So um today actually or was it yesterday? Oh, yeah, yesterday because it's already five in the morning
yesterday
Shnit aid
showed me a
thing on an asteroid called spottaflyer where you can basically put your else in it and then
Um, it'll get the music and it will you can download it on your phone
So I've basically just got the best ones and I put it on my phone and I'm gonna put all the music
I've bookmarked on my phone, but that's gonna take ages
Like I've got like at least a good 10 seconds worth of well more than 10 seconds good
A long time of scrolling down and then it's just all Kevin my glove Kevin
Good that guy made a lot of song like I made a lot of music. Yes, I
Clearly definitely don't regret telling us all also somebody knows how to help me please
And touch
There's no helping you anymore
I know I was afraid of that
Yeah, yeah, oh open source can do a lot of cool things. I only realized that this year
Um, I wanted some songs. Yes, this also has to do with songs. I just like music
I don't like making it but I like listening to it
From a game and it was in all game. It's like
Frozen bubbles and you have to like
Do the colors and stuff and I'm actually and because I wanted to listen to the songs
Uh, at least the first couple seconds of the songs the ones which I actually heard because I was
I became really good at game and that's why I'm here the first couple seconds because I was
Because it was like yeah, that level's done that level's done that level's done
Even with random stuff
Really really funny how that happened like I'm usually not good at video games so that this one specific
Um, color sorting color shooty ball reflecty thingy
I'm actually good at because I want to listen to the music but um, I asked that if he could put it on my phone
Because um, what I did my idea of putting it on my phone was basically
Me
Going to the credits looking at all the songs screen shots
Then looking them up on the internet and maybe then downloading them from the internet or something
This was before us I knew about spotty the spotty flyer
So I might just have put marked it
But basically what he did is he just went into the game files and he took him
It's like like he did one way and it's so inefficient
But you don't know of any other way and then someone else just comes out of the middle of nowhere and it's like I can do it this way
Like way better and that's really cool and
And then I will talk about it and like oh that's so epic to one of
To I know I is someone and they said it's the most basic thing ever and but I was and I was like I know
But it's so epic. It's so cool. I I didn't notice the power of um of them
Yeah, I opened source before that basically but it's that that was really cool
Yeah, open source. Yeah, it's turn
Owners about to come up
Turn about four minutes
Very nice very nice. I say what better way than to talk about
Fossossossossossossossossossossoss I think he liked to scream at us
First some other cool fast tools that some people are using one that I want to call out is it's called
YouTube dash dl and it'll actually let you download videos and they had a very interesting I recommend looking up
Uh, they had tried to have been sued closed down
Yeah, how I think I was hosting and got threatened by our fancy companies and they've never quite been able to get shut down
And they're pretty awesome
They're useful if you do any sort of video editing or YouTube that you can download videos and then put them
Obviously they can't protect you from like you know copyright issues and stuff so grab that in mind, but
Awesome little tool. So pull straight audio out of something oh
Yeah, yeah, you can use it for all kinds of things. I just I use it for like its own purpose, but I've I had no idea what's up
Was it an idea what I heard no idea then?
Yeah, I think you said you think you said there were no idea where you're talking about I was kidding
Love that tool. Oh, yeah YouTube deal. Yes, uh, I suppose
Um, see there's um uplands that layer dump and Krita actually
Prize that how well they've come along
These are versions of those two tools have been very nice with it, you know experimenting with
Destration
Definitely not what it was even just a few years ago
Where's it also helps that I've really had
Out of good use of
And um mail spring actually mail spring is open source
Very good alternative to Thunderbird which can be a bit clunky and heavy
But I have too many email addresses more than I care to admit oh by the way
Happy new year everyone. It is now
Midnight in the eastern time zone. Happy new year. Happy new year. Happy new year. How late is it everywhere?
It's uh, I've gone basically through the entire night now. It's six
six here
To this is the midnight here in the eastern time zone. So that's um
Canada
East of the prairies of course
Down through the eastern United States
All the way down to most of Central America most of Latin America
But one of my uh
chunk of the Caribbean as well
um
22
Wood of state
I have a discord. I have a discord server with a bunch of my friends and to celebrate. I'm saying
Happy new year is to celebrate here's a bunch of jiffs to commemorate 2021 and just a bunch of middle finger jiffs
Yeah, I found 2021 to be like like worse than 2020 like you have all the
All the stuff from from 2020 just still around and they ended with a lockdown and you
Is a nom like all the positives of the uh of covid stuff kind of disappeared is the whole like like
The covid had a kind of thrill to it at the beginning. It was like oh cool. We were part of history
Something important and you didn't have to go to school back then and stuff
With um first when it came when covid first came out basically you didn't have to go to school here in
And so all very fun and enjoyable and that kind of stuff
But on after a while it just it's tiring now like like if you're not immediately affected by like
People dying or people having seriously medical problems. This is how you basically feel it like beginning it's
It's kind of like it's not the greatest, but it's it's different and interesting but
Now it's just boring and we've seen it all before and
Better ended one way or another
Yeah for I actually was lucky me and Damien have the same social group and I think we managed to avoid
COVID for the most part. It's just now kind of starting to hit into my circle at all. I
My mom and a friend had to test for covid because they uh well my mom worked in a nursing home. I got like seven cases of covid
It actually took out some of the residents which was kind of sad thankfully my mom didn't get it
Not a friend that had a really bad flu or cold and tested and thankfully he was negative
But yeah, it's finally starting to kind of get to my circles and it's like
That's not a fun feeling. I had that before. I had that already before in in 2021 and it's not the best I would say it
Um though luckily everyone I care about has um uh not as not going to COVID and only one class
Well uh which I can remember a couple classmates and teachers have gone COVID but they haven't died
Only one I heard had uh problems later on
Um but he was fine for the most part just a little more trouble with breathing which sucks but they yeah
Don't really know anyone in the class that well. Yeah, I'm trying to avoid COVID because I feel like with my luck in my system
I'll get the type of COVID where you're on a toilet for two weeks
Yeah, but I remember like mom with her work
Um a lot of stuff had COVID a lot of people in the in in the homes and had um COVID and stuff
I remember that I don't know any specific specifics of course. It's so classified and stuff
Blady Blady Blady Blady Blady Blady. Yeah, we were talking about our own sort of open source software
What was that other name that they came out with for gimp? Oh, Krida? No, Krida's the whole other
application uh there was some people who were uh like the name of gimp so they came out with
They forked it and came out with a different with basically the exact same thing just named differently
Oh my god, that's so funny. Yeah, there was such a
Made the look like Photoshop. Was that? Oh
Yeah, I just uh Google this let's try to call it glimpses. That's it
You know, I think it's not fast, but everyone's no I'll you get these like really petty
crap that's like stuff like that. Oh, yeah, yeah, they um they weren't able to find enough maintainers
or enough contributors rather but what's the uh the popular
version of Audacity now that I've been following I haven't I haven't seen consensus built yet
Um I've been looking at that with pen interest
Audacity is a one of the early success stories for open source audio editing
The corporate entity that bought Audacity has done some very shady underhanded things
to basically try to blow source the application and push the fairly invasive telemetry
the code base um so they're basically taking what was once a freely-bray open source application
and turn it into yet another data harvesting product so there will have been a few
forks of Audacity in the past few months I have not found a good basement. I think
20 life is winning the race right now. Fascity?
Tenacity I believe is is winning the race right now. I believe tenacity might have been actually
replaced in some of the repos. I'm not sure one I just want to I think about I think it has been
replaced in some of the repos for Audacity. Why do companies always like like uh they always
think of um the short term bed well looks like they only think of short term like money gain
and stuff and then completely ignore um things like actual quality in stuff like I know for instance
I've got a friend who is way further in watching all the Star Trek stuff than I am and he said
that at a point they basically just the the quality went down so far that he thought yeah that
he thought that earlier season was like way better or something and the same happened with Star Wars
and even stuff which isn't like which isn't uh something like that they get a good thing and then
they suck all the joy and happiness from it and then you're left with something terrible which
no one wants anymore and that hurts overall overall profits if you just make good thing then people
will want the good thing but companies don't seem to get it. Yeah I work in a QA and the thing I was
kind of trying to beat into people is because I've like from my experiences with QA the problem is that
people just want to add like companies want to add more and more features because the stakeholders
of the board members say hey we need more features so that our stock prices tie that up and I keep
trying to really push into them like if your core features that people use your app for don't work
they don't give a shit about the other stuff and it's really and you get people with NBA is
and all that that just do not understand this and it just makes everyone's life harder and then you know
I can't tell you how many fast food apps and stuff that I've used that have become so hard to live and
who removed dislikes they removed dislikes but they left the dislikes button they just
they left the dislikes but this has no use anymore they because people were abusing it
and we abusing it in which way but they would get groups of people together like fast food
for bots and just have you know thousands of people go in and dislike a video for no reason
and it would mess with the metric it was affecting people's ability to make money
yeah what's up one other view on that is that several large corporate brands also did not
appreciate or having their official narratives challenged by large groups of people who didn't
agree with them but yeah of all the organizations on earth YouTube would be one of the few
organizations that would have the resources to do the kind of network analysis regression analysis
artificial intelligence to detect when someone is getting bot bergated and mitigate that
but instead they've chosen a path to do the tick the lazy way out they took the easy way out
yeah and even something like me who thinks in it doesn't even know if that would even be
possible I just think like wouldn't it be handier just to like make it make the dislikes
not count towards algorithm but still show to this likes to the people like the problem
isn't necessarily the problem is for instance if you want to see a good tutorial on something
you don't know if there's gonna be a loss or if it's good if you only see the positive things
because you know it's maybe it's a type of thing which people don't engage with often maybe
maybe there is a lot of engagement but people really hate it and it's not very helpful
and then you don't know it because of the dislikes and it's not like people still can like
if it doesn't have any effects it's the same as just like yeah uh having a comment underneath
the video and like upload this if you um if you don't like the video and then everyone
uploading the comments that it's the same thing basically except um if you don't count this like
thing so they're literally more easy and more satisfactory ways to um to to uh make make to make it
better like it I saw so many memes about it and I was like oh I haven't had that and then I had it
very annoying but I'm a bit concerned to see what will um what impact it will have when the platform
wants a critical mass of videos are uploaded ever new the history of the video you people have
pointed out that a lot of other kinds of abuse will become so much easier because they took the
shortcut so they may wind up and dangering the very hoping to protect anyway yeah or claiming to
protect they mean to hope to protect um also isn't me or are people just like closing out randomly
like I'm pausing in my sentences because that's how I speak but like people are closing out
um it seems like people are um hopping in and out yeah but with you when you're talking it just
cuts it doesn't say you're talking and then you and then uh wait it's for a couple seconds
and then uh it resumes and you're uh further on in a sentence than where you were.
It's only as it's all your setup but yeah it's push to talk setup. Oh okay because uh yeah then then then then then uh yeah.
Yeah it'll probably start uh it start uh uh my glove might pick up as soon as it starts
hitting the sound so sometimes it takes a second for the sound to kick in. Yeah yep yep.
Hopefully that's that too uh distracting it normally works out fairly well because it helps cut
ways and feedback. I'm able to make out most sentences but yeah but I'm cutting out a word here
and there I'm not. Yeah it's like cut ways and feedback that's that's like this is might be
just a sentence which uh in which that is important I don't know but I was I'm able to make
out at least. Oh a one quick question about this particular podcast um new to mumble
is the chat history saved or no okay and the same you leave it's gone okay we do we do have a link
uh on the HBO website to some lovely show notes where if you would like to save some of that
information it can go on the there okay and then then when I when I post it it uh uh all those
notes ish July ish alright uh it uh it'll uh I can use those show notes uh to put it well I can
use those uh the stuff in the show notes and the post. Yeah I don't think I'm gonna have to ask you
for a segment this year. I know orders went out with a friend this evening so no more of Kai saying
something insane. I still like the fact that you guys had added two tells. I love it. She hates it it's
perfect. Yeah and apparently around like 945ish the uh my laptop just that was rough doing the
stream. Just completely I'm guessing it went to sleep or something because I come down stairs
the screen is black and like the little lights were flashing in the front it just it like shut down I
don't know what the hell happened I don't so I read it I don't think so I mean magic horrible dark magic
yeah well the problem is my recording is on the stream and uh the yeah the stream goes out
to anybody who just wants to listen and post my recordings on there so missing large chunks well
I'm not sure how large of a chunk as I get my made it down here like if if it missed anything it's
many about 10 minutes. Oh okay because the guy the the recording laptop is called this guy so
back about it go back in the history to about like 945ish this guy well okay mine is
cc so it's it's uh back about four hours back about four hours okay. Yeah 9. And that was nice before
more than no. Of course we're gonna drop the ball. 947 this guy was moved to audio tests so that's
had to have been around the time that that something happened with the laptop and then 948 he
uh does disconnected so but I got it back on at 950 so I don't want to lost a few minutes they're
hopefully okay yeah well I don't think it'll be the end of the world right uh two minutes that
you cut out man put in the secrets of the life universe and everything yeah well we were here
air well I I I I I I know exactly when it was but people were here people have heard it we can
be the wise ages and you know the answer is for it too yeah yeah is is said that I've been spending
a good part of the day because there was a reference to uh uh uh to uh to that earlier and that
was trying to figure out what remember what the number was it's kind of sad that you didn't know what
off top of your head yes yes that is sad I felt that could be sad actually your father made the
made the reference and it wasn't picked up and I was gonna say 42 but I've been just the number
wouldn't I completely out of my head you know I I thought of something right so the answer is for
you too we know this the question however that's another answer I think I think it's the maximum
I think it's the number of tear of the discworld books before the universe explodes is 42
when when there are 42 discworld books and universe will explode that's my theory that that's
why he died before um before he could write another book because if he didn't then the universe would
explode he was logical yep very very logical very logical logic there yeah you know I'm sad that
Terry good kind is dead but I'm really glad he's not writing the Richard and Caleb novels anymore
which one very good kind for the truth in novels I didn't pick that out the sort of truth in
novels Terry good kind never heard of him if you decide to read the series don't go past the second book
yeah okay yeah I have a similar series where it's like good in the stars and then it gradually
just gets worse and then every series written by Orson Scott card never out of them too but it's
something you wrote and there's game I might have heard of and there's game but I wasn't it wasn't
something yeah then really I look into it basically but it's Orson is foul it the first book is
really really good and it's like you probably have you heard of it yeah Orson is foul have you read
the books okay so the first book really really good I would advise reading that second book
um also pretty good third yeah fourth uh they kill off uh yeah there's there's a major death
which I would have put later on in the series but anyway not so bad fifth still okay some
slight amount of time travel it kind of gets wacky and wacky but it's tolerable on like fifth
fifth there's a reason and they only like uh they're in it go to like parallel like um
they uh they time travel quote unquote um into the future is simply by like yeah not having
the correct destination in the in the weird time place. Orson Scott card is actually a fairly
prolific writer his problem is is that he cannot properly and a series and by the time he gets to
the usually third book in a series it's complete in total garbage the exception being the uh
Ender's shadow series which is good all the way through the third book and then at the fourth
book it kind of slides downhill but he should have ended it at the third book like the like
he was originally planning um now the Ender's series itself Ender's game um speaker for the
dad speaker for the dad is still decent but then everything after speaker for the dad really
slides downhill and then the album maker novels they're good through the second book and then
by the fifth book even the editing is terrible and then um let's see the gate thief novels um first
one is good second one is very meh and then yeah don't even bother with the third one.
Yeah sometimes people just have it like I I tried I tried right we had a whole conversation just
before um but yeah and um I can never just just uh I can never finish it just because I'm I
already moved on to something else but that Artemis file thing right right up until the fifth book
it's still made sense but then he gets time travel in both and it's not like the good
terrible time travel it's it's not good time travel like there's problems and all that kind of stuff
and um eventually one really stupid thing is in book eights which like um there is a person
who time travelled from the past uh to the future and then the future version of them kills them
and instead of like uh the feet the uh like the same in the world but
and existing themselves yeah not only existing themselves everything they've done exploded
why why does it explode this is such a random thing we're literally told between the two
possibilities either everything fades away and you know the logical thing that they don't exist
in the timeline all the things exist at the same time so each of these objects are in two places
at the same time everything that they've touched or moved and so because object can't
or if you can't occupy two spaces at the same time everything goes boom yeah the thing is
though they influenced the uh creation of like mobile phones and stuff so everything like all the
human technology stuff goes boom and um well that's a bit like um yeah if you if you would
explain like that in the book I would be like okay that does make sense yeah but they just say
there are two opinions on it either this happens or that happens and um well that just it just
doesn't feel right in the book itself should have been explained the problem with Terry good
kinds writing is that you don't realize that it's going downhill but you read the first one it's good
you read the second book yeah it's good but you're kind of realizing that there's a lot of
things like that aren't some as foul to be honest and then you get into the third book and it's
still you know it's good but okay and then the fourth book yeah it's good but it's kind of
repeating the second book and then the fifth book is kind of repeating the third book and on and on
because in one book Richard will get kidnapped and then in the next book um Caleb will get kidnapped
and then back and forth and back and forth and getting fried yeah back up get it get somebody gets
kidnapped because that like repeating thing of somebody gets kidnapped reminds me of cad fell but I think
cad fell is different cad fell starts off with like um it's it's a monk in medieval times
and he's basically like a murder mystery detective right and then each book has the exact same theme
and that's um you know it's bad murder yeah that sounds like cad fell it's like murder
murder each time you know who's gonna get murdered there's somebody gonna get murdered there
and there's also gonna be a sub-block with uh two people hooking up usually 40 or 50 times
throughout the book you get the explanation of how a confessors power works and by the end of it
you're so tired of hearing about how a confessors power works and you just want to choke the
shit out of the person that wrote it and then you realize you can't move on oh that would suck
because uh yeah you don't want to listen to how uh to exposition about 20 times over you want to
listen to it once and if you don't know exactly you come back again so if I can understand yes
if you want a lot of the explanation then you give a lot of exposition like for instance
this is how um this is uh what the specific castle looked like and this is the defending thing
of the castle now we're not gonna attack the castle because it's gonna be there but now you know
the thing about the castle or like hey this fairies are like casually being mentioned but
here's like the whole thing and here's three of our fairies which both I've written I've done something
like that well like I'm saying give me something new don't really tell me the same thing in the same
book a hundred times yeah I understand you know wanting the novels to be independently readable
and re-explaining it once at you know towards the beginning of the book I don't need it explained
over and over and over again in every book and the other thing with Terry Goodkind was he finished
the series I read all the way through till he finished the series and it was a good solid finish
despite the fact that you got tired of the overarching theme and the explanations I stuck it out
and then he tried to write a new series and that's expanding on way distant future events in the same
time but nobody bought it so he went back and continued on with the original series dropping
that new series and it just that he's feeding a dead horse and it was you know you'd already
done okay well the world was split up into this one into two sections well we opened that section
up and now these two sections are merged together but oh wait there's another section that's
blocked off in the world over here so then we opened that up and then oh wait there's another
section that's blocked off this is just another small chunk of the world the world is much bigger
than you thought got annoying yeah yeah that's very annoying it's yeah yeah but like that that's
not something that does well cad felt kind of as a problem I think with the writers actually
very tongue or walls I know if they're alive still but very talented writer and being able to
kind of make a good story around it just I'm pretty sure that people who were who were basically
like what's it called producer of the book no something like that they basically they basically
wanted to have the in the beginning she kind of set out a kind of theme like there is murder
and the two people are gonna hook up and then want to hook up but can't and cad fell it's
gonna solve it some way and the problem wasn't the hunger games yeah I haven't booked for terrible
but it was a hunger game wasn't twilight that was garbage it could make it past the first chapter
I haven't even tried reading it is sometimes you know it could be handy to have a look at it like
the sequel trilogy of Star Wars I need to have a look at it to combat it effectively but
Twilight I don't even need I just know the summary of it a lot of the movie version
I don't care if you're a vampire I love you yeah I could make it the first chapter of the
first book of twilight but at least twilight didn't have Jar Jar Binks
hey Jar Jar Binks is a cool Sith Lord okay I've looked at everything it is a Sith Lord
tell you Jar Jar Binks is a Sith Lord and there's nothing what evidence is there again
Jar Jar not being a Sith Lord have you even been trying to find his asshole with both hands and
a map that's what he wants him to say that's what he wants you to think so I went back a while ago
and I decided I was going to rewatch everything from episode one all the way up until I mean even
like Rogue one going into new hope and watch everything for the beginning do you know what
what's that the Clone Wars see what she Clone Wars what the animated animated I just
thought I liked it I made you watch the animated you are I have not made it through the first
season of Clone Wars because the first season of Clone Wars is most most of this of every episode
is we went to this place we watched it last night yeah I didn't watch those old 80s I might have
seen them back with the previous videos but did you watch the horror series in mind though but
past like if you get that later in the series it goes a bit like there's bigger there's there are
actually arcs like punk rail everyone hates punk rail and you'll figure out why once you reach that
part so I know there's more to the to the Clone Wars I just I have to make it past those big
at those like basically the first season yeah once they make it past the first season it's supposed
to get a lot better but yeah when you're confused and you're like okay they're gonna beat
up these guys they're gonna beat up this yeah yeah yeah it's just like we went to this skirmish
we it was really iron we beat these guys but there was like no there's no like real rhyme or
reason then anything but it's like we went to this fight we won yeah we went to this fight
they took our droid we got our droid back we won yeah and that was like it there's no like
yeah our broader story but my initial point was when I initially started this whole journey
I might my previous thought was that Jar Jar Binks wasn't that as annoying as he was
and that everybody was just blowing you out of proportion and then I went back and rewatched it
oh he was really that fucking really that bad I I was I had to not lose my self thinking
that Jar Jar Binks wasn't like that bad he was just like okay he's kind of comic relief
no no he was that bad he was either check to themselves enough into the the episode one to be
so annoying that it was horrible um I watched it I didn't mind it personally but I watched it
with the first time with the perspective of him possibly being a Sith Lord and when I did that
oh my god he's definitely 100% a Sith Lord you can't he he he's such a good Sith Lord
he even manages to fool palpating into thinking he's just a clown that's how good of a Sith
Lord he is and then what does he do in the empire he disappears why we don't know he just disappears
after helping palpating rise to power he disappears why or grazing like
because we just interrupt this real quick just to say happy new year from Miami
yeah hoping you all are are having a wonderful 2022 so far yeah it's fantastic talking about
Sith Lord and how to run with it definitely one yeah all right y'all thank you I'm off take it easy
yeah happy new year but literally I also watched the Clone Wars and there was for instance an
episode right and I first I didn't know why he was doing what he was doing I thought it's silly
maybe he's not a Sith Lord how can I explain this for him being a Sith Lord very easily actually
so what he did is he went up to like the pilot and he he accidentally uh air quotes
went up to the pilot and messed around and caused the ship to crash well turn south that the guy
who was um who outranging him was killed he's now in charge now charger banks isn't charge and because
charger banks isn't charged things don't escalate that's the thing he just takes control of the
tanks things don't escalate which um yeah basically there's a all like pirate thing and people
were being kidnapped who you know republic versus separatist thing and the pirates are in the middle
and some people were betraying the pirates and it was gonna end up very very bad for everyone
especially the very cool pirate guy um if charger banks hadn't stepped in and um mediates with
the situation then you might ask why would a Sith Lord want to mediate the situation the reason being
is that the Clone Wars is orchestrated by Palpatine a Sith Lord and it would probably um probably
stop or at least uh the plan would be hindered the great plan which the Sith worked to thousand
years for would uh be hindered it not delayed or just stopped if duku uh was died died if duku died
or was captured by um by uh by the republic because yeah that was the stakes so basically it was
if um the way charger banks did it it made that um duku could escape and that the republic
and that the Clone Wars would continue and otherwise the whole thing would basically collapse so
you made sure that the empire could exist yeah that's just one example there's like many like
literally every episode he he appears in there is something which uh which explains all his actions
I take your silences uh uh as a response that your mind is blown by my factual by my uh great
observing of charger banks go go if yes it makes sense though come on sure i'm gonna go with it
if you there's a choice you can either be super annoyed by charger banks and hate him and that
kind of stuff or you can think he's really cool because he's an evil Sith Lord and self
i'm just going with the one which gives me the most enjoyment like for instance um in the new
canon they um they don't have the yuchang bang which i didn't read any of those uh stories of the
expanded universe because i was way too late for that but i always liked the concept of like the
yuchang bang um so i think like the grisk which replaced them um have are being uh are being like
a driven out by some scouts of the yuchang bang so like um they try to fortify the galaxy which is
like what the chissor doing and in response the chiss are trying to fortify the galaxy against the
grisk so yeah if you understand what what i'm talking about it it's very cool does anyone even
understand or care what i'm talking about uh what was it? a lot of it in species lots of just
choosing the choosing the option which gives you most enjoyment yep sorry i had two two
conversations going on at the same time uh we were uh arguing about the movie the joker uh
and a couple of other things in the in the chat as well as the the conversation about jar jar so
i got a lot yeah i haven't i haven't been reading the chat to yeah never reminds me
um you can do two come let's say that's a pretty good two conversations in one by the way
but um like the new canon stuff i i only arrived to the sourcing after the whole new canon stuff
so um the way i deal with the canon thing is basically like if it's not contradicted by the new
canon and you like the legends version then the legends version is canon for you at least and um
if if you um and the way i do it is i basically prefer if something is canon unless it was
in the sequel trilogy then i don't like it because i just i started watching it and i nearly literally
threw up because it was it just the start it they they ripped off like uh they tried to rip off
and new hope just they well i've i've been trying to look at a lot of it as um i'm just gonna relax
and uh try to enjoy the ride because you know a lot of people were talking about how the uh
uh was an episode six but god damn it the the newer uh season the the newer series of the
star wars was was was crap and how the new one was exactly like new hope and i tried to just
taking it as hey it's a fun cool movie i mean yeah but i was just so confused and i had to like
uh stop watching it and i i went on to watch Marvel stuff um and that's how i actually started watching
all um msu thing is um i i started watching it it's not necessarily that it was bad at least the
the part that i watched it's just that um they give no explanation for why the new why the first
order appears it's like who's the first order what's it doing and i think well that happened
an episode four but an episode four we get a we get later on we get the prequel series who
literally just sets up all this stuff from before season four and in between all the gaps
between the movies is filled up with animated shows like um like uh um the clone wars
bad batch and rebels they completely fill the holes in between the movies so where is any explanation
from what why the empire was defeated in episode six but why is there another empire in episode seven
just at the start that that yeah that was just like yeah oh yeah i'm playing it did a horrible
job trying to explain anything that happened between or or if like the the the last of the Jedi
as was supposed was originally just um basically basically um beforehand it was Darth Leia and uh
haunt uh Luke and then um what's his name do uh well i guess was southern palpison or whatever
the uh after after the others died i mean you should have just been um Leia and Luke and
i really haven't watched that far so well you're talking about uh well actually i that that's
not true either because then there was the uh apparently Luke had started a school for whatever
remaining uh Jedi's were left and you know where they was able to find and scrounge together
but i don't know i i i i said i tried to a lot of times with movies like this i tried to just
kind of sit back relax and try to enjoy the ride i don't need to. My my expectations for
continuity is is down to nothing i just basically i hope for the best the best people who have
done anything with continuity has been the embassy you and you know they haven't screwed it up
screwed up continuity yet but that's because they've had basically one guy running most of it
well we always say they're working on screwing up their continuity right now but they're working on
doing it in such a way that you know accent. Molteners yeah they're trying to do it in such a way
in which it's in actually enjoyable and so they can replace aging actors or actors that want to
leave the series. Yeah what's the place in character yeah which is a good thing to be honest
that should be possible but it's such a long thing actually uh uh when when i heard like
multiverse i was like well that's that's a very interesting thing very well done there
give yourself a pass on the back well i i i quite i quite also like the lowkey thing
we had a nice look at it and it was all very clear to me all the stuff but then again what
clear to me none necessarily means that it's clear to other people you know and i i just hope that
the that the MCU doesn't screw up the multiverse like uh the whole DC does. Multiverse is how they
explain the fact that they can have 15 different versions of one character. Uh yeah um i have
on cough spiderman cough cough. I want to see the new spiderman. I want to see it so bad.
I haven't yet seen spiderman don't spoil spiderman yet spiderman home coming.
i haven't seen it either but i know that the other two spiderman are still in it.
Oh yeah me too i definitely know that that was unavoidable but that that's just pretty cool
because people apparently like those movies haven't seen those movies but people like them so
if people like them why not bring them back and then with the original people who did it
that that's what i like that they bring back the original people who were um who played
all the they yeah villains and like eras and stuff all the other characters yeah.
i want the Netflix uh Marvel shows in the MCU now.
Yeah i heard something Netflix uh i heard something like Marvel shows like i was very confused
what actually was canon and what was not because i definitely know like all which movies are canon
into the MCU. Well now it's a bit more um a bit more hard to pinpoint now with the whole
multi-first thing but um which series like i just know like um want a vision um lowkey
lossyth and uh Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
Are there more? Well Hawkeye just came out.
Oh yeah all of those are basically kind of like uh to keep pushing the original stories forward
a bit like uh uh want a vision was a way to continue telling the story of wanda and well
wanda and vision they basically brought vision back from the dead and uh yeah so one
that turns i think a little bit more evil and then uh vision. Yeah it turns more towards good but
it's it's like a whole bit. It's really good it's really good how they did it.
I watched it all like all in one day because that's how good they did it they uh they also
thought told me about um sitcoms which i was very happy surprised about because i definitely
would like the twenty ten stuff i recognized it but that was from also um now that's probably
because it was carried over into like um after twenty ten so yeah like that they um get like the
people and then they um and then they have the people on those chairs and make them tell about
their points of view that kind of stuff and they really brought it nice together with like the
with what was actually going on. Yes. Are you there about sitcoms you've never heard of it
with sitcom before? Oh no i heard about them and i've actually watched them that's what i
said i recognized some of the things it's just that i i'm not that old so i haven't watched that
much old so i literally i i only recognized the last uh i only recognized well big things from
the last uh last uh type they did i mean i knew some stuff from before but like i don't really
watch that so yeah i used to watch that and well my sister used to watch um something from the
last type more um more often so um i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i thought that was pretty cool also
educational. Should stop what you're doing but watch all uh buried with children right now.
Very with children well and yeah that wasn't very much of it. Yeah i watch 18 seasons of it.
Yeah i'm not sure if you'd want to watch all of them. I will not sure he would want to watch all of them.
What was when uh did they adopt the kid for a while or did she had another kid? No no she was pregnant
and then she lost the baby. Okay and then she was the baby. Yeah the actress actually lost the
baby. Uh uh like and you know they had been spouting they've been really really talking about
how she was pregnant she was pregnant and they were going to have a baby and then she didn't
have the baby because something happened in real life and then so they just completely ignored that
afterwards you know it never happened in the TV show and then she got pregnant again and they kind of
just took her off the show for a while just had her do um bone-in scenes and stuff like that.
Oh that's what they never mentioned it. That's what you'd love to like uh her family or something.
Yeah yeah she went into like a season with her family or something.
So um they just kept on watching a baby but they never mentioned it on the show and then they
adopted a kid or like cousin or something just showed up and stayed there and then they you know
retcon to that and then they brought the kid back but he'd been like hiding out of the Darcy's
it's out confusing. I've never watched them all in order but if you want to watch like true
sitcoms a lot of the beginning stuff of one of vision was more towards like the witched in
Dick Van Dykeshow asked. Yeah but you pretty much taught me a big Marvel fan for her
one division. Yeah but I mean yeah but I don't think he is yet.
I'm a big Marvel well uh no I'm not really very proficient with the comics but I did.
When I watched him one division you must realize I've spent that entire summer just watching
Marvel movie after Marvel movie after Marvel movie. So the hits just keep on coming.
Yeah then I've seen like uh an Easter egg and I and um I'm like oh that's the thing and then
uh in the YouTube video which I saw about the thing they like all that so cool and I'm like
how did nobody notice that for 10 years or something. I know for like very long time
because I'm like oh yeah I've just watched the two movies after each other like this like
I watched a movie and then I'm a couple of other movies in between and then other movies.
Yeah very easy that kind of stuff. How are you one of the simpsons? Simpsons.
Simpsons. No one. No one. But since the thing that's in the movie well I didn't watch the movie so
fair enough. I get to like 40 seasons now or something. Something like that they still just the
hits just keep on coming. There's a lot of comedy and history. Yeah. I know that predicted
the laws of stuff that's for sure. Well you do all my stuff I'm sure it's going to happen you
you know. It's kind of like the spray effect. Yeah, if you're going to do enough stuff,
then eventually you'll be right. If you're going to spout a bunch of nonsense for like a year
nonstop, then eventually you'll find something. Somebody might look back at it and find something
which will have happened. Right. Yeah. And then when you're done watching the Simpsons,
you can move to South Park. No. I've also heard about South Park. Yeah.
Less than a minute. Mostly, um, uh, well, the thing I can remember now is when Rick and Morty said,
my socks have now joked it. What? Happy New Year. Happy New Year. And you know,
all them Texans out there. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Happy New Year, Joe,
Danny. Happy New Year. What you do to do is just find yourself some Nick at night and go back
and watch things like, uh, like I said, watch, uh, be witched and, um, uh,
what was a little bit Dick Van Dyke show. The problem with the names. They changed, uh,
the dick. Yeah. McHale carries. McHale back and watch McHales neighbors.
Oh, that. Absolutely. Yeah. Or, or, or, uh, Filk. Yeah. Um, no, what was,
Hogan's heroes. Hogan's heroes. Yeah. Don't know, um, what was the show, uh, was Sergeant
Billco. Uh, Sergeant Billco. No, that was the movie. The, the, the, the TV show was named after the actor.
Oh, um, Phil Silvers. Yep. The Phil Silvers show.
That was a good show. Didn't see that one. Okay.
Yeah, I show. I don't think I'm very much a, uh, sitcom person. Well, that depends
on the premise of the sitcom. Of course, like, if it's school, like, fat and see probably, like,
something, I know, um, good character, second stuff. Um, and I start watching it from the first time
it's released. Well, then I can just keep an updating basically, or like, if it's, like,
hermit craft, I, it, it's, that's kind of a sitcom, right? It, except it's made,
not made by a TV crew. It's made by just bunch of random people on the internet playing Minecraft.
Hey, Joe, did you realize there's a Sergeant Billco movie starring Steve Martin?
Yes. Yes. I watched that too. It's a good, well, the decision movie.
It's like less than two stars on, on rotten tomatoes. 31%. What do I know?
Yeah, usually with when people say that movie saw, um, I usually, um, I usually don't mind.
Like, it's very rare. That would be, that matters. How it sucked, why it sucked, and who says it sucked?
Yeah, true. Yeah, kind of. Yeah. Or maybe you just like it, maybe, maybe it, um, yeah,
good. My, if it's something which could be better. Well, yeah, I generally don't go for stupid
comedies. Well, that's my, that's the sum sum. The sum sum and, yeah, it's not my stupid comedy.
It's this. Well, okay, don't look. It's not all these, uh, what's his name, uh, cartoon? No, no, no.
No, there's this one guy that does a whole lot of really stupid movies as a really stupid character.
And they, he makes a lot of money doing it. I don't know what to carry. No. Oh,
describe it a little. Well, the water boy, the water boy Adam. Oh, um, Sandler. Yeah,
I'm Sandler. I cannot stand anything he's done. Yeah, and the name is familiar.
Adam Sunder is he isn't Jake from Brooklyn and 90's he? No, that's, uh, no. Um, that's,
I say Sandler. Yeah, um, dang old on. Oh, come on. Right. There's more with both of them in it, too.
That is players like that. This is a 90's Sandler. Yes. Yeah.
Similar name. This is both in a at the beginning and then S at the end. Yeah. You know what I mean.
Yeah, yeah, a lot of good actors in that show. Yeah, Brooklyn in the United States. It's a good line season just up like yeah, with like nine episode
Yeah, I can only watch a few seasons of that before it just got to be too much the same thing, but
I'm very proud we're really made that show more than anyone else in Terry Carl. It's actually
I haven't seen the latest season yet, but I do love the previous season say
um they they they they do have a it it it well they don't really have a like
a repetitive thing that's the thing I can't really find that
like some um no but always all the sticks are repetitive
I think they bring out of stories at one point though
There's always that um that company which he signed up for the pyramid scheme
I always want them to resolve that that's like something
I just want to happen there's a list of stuff they could fit they could just like address
and boom yeah boom boom camera I haven't watched an ages and I'm tired so have you watched the movie
idiocracy oh yeah not usual why does that smell that would make me feel honky honky
uh honky you're asking idiocracy look it up look it up status documentary ever
yeah pretty much like judge pulled it off the off of the rotation because he said I wasn't
trying to make a documentary I was trying to make a satire Terry Cruz is fabulous in it
Terry Cruz is fabulous and then everything he wasn't going to go to the linebacker
fair enough um it's I want to throw up get smart if you're going to chance to watch the
real series of hits smart it's one of the best I can stream that on Cody nobody remembers
who are the producers on that the producers wasn't that uh uh oh god damn it
it was Mel Brooks and rock Henry that's a I knew Bill Brooks that's all the name of searcher
you know I don't really recognize most of those names I I'm only just like a kind of semi-young person
who um only recently actually started watching movies and stuff with uh stuff that's
more mainstream media stuff so you've never watched Mel Brooks movies I've heard of it might have
I didn't know well there are great Mel Brooks movies and there are sad Mel Brooks movies
that's very true you can't beat blazing styles or young Frankenstein oh I've I've watched
blazing saddles that's how it works I yeah well then on that's a movie that could never be
made today oh no it's a great movie it's a great movie yeah it's a well depends on where it's made
yeah solid like in some places it's not as much as a problem as uh as in America
yeah I do we're talking about that before I've been talking for well well I started at
for me it's uh it was um uh quarter past one I think yeah quarter past one and it's now uh about
ten past seven so yeah um it it's being a while already solid movie was a great movie
but the the the frustrating thing is I really wanted somebody to talk I know it's called
silent movie and I know it's supposed to be a period on silent movies but I really wanted
somebody to talk oh yeah there wasn't episode in show we were watching as family and it was
supposed to be like um well if not completely silent mostly silence because the guy who
it was focused on was dead dead so um uh it pretty quiet movie pretty quiet episode but you
just want someone to talk like if you just read like tech like all the sounds muffled and the
detects their text explaining uh what the people are laughing or signing then it's a bit like
yeah then it's something just want someone to talk or something I anxiety was fantastic space balls
I really did not like space balls really I've heard of it I thought they made a remake
then they it's sort of like Robinhood men and tight they should have never made the movie
but then they should have never made uh Robinhood prince of thieves either which is why he made the
movie exactly but that's but that's why I mean if it's stupid to the point where he's
fried and I looked at movie well yeah this is a brightest place yeah we were not talking about
princess right now but I just thought of it right yeah yeah I love the space balls because it's
such a it makes so much fun of it but it's it's just so fun I'm a mug half man half dog my own best friend
maybe we maybe I would get a reference if I actually had watched it yep so it was uh you know
wookie's that's something uh that a parody of wookie's in space balls called a mug which is
easily a set of half man half dog ah yeah okay half man half dog played by John Candy
president Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Duke Amacho love words gotta get your lecture lectures
uh going back to idiocracy of course yep rondo you know I think blazing saddles right
is that I personally wouldn't find it that bad if it would just be made in the modern time
if it would be made today um I personally wouldn't think it as a bad concept because um it
not I'm not talking about remix and just like if the thing the original would be made
in the modern day or would like modern uh atmosphere I wouldn't personally find it bad but I think
many people would misunderstand the meaning behind the movie itself and therefore I think it's
it's like um promoting racism or stuff and we were talking earlier and um we noted that there's
a lot more um focus on race and stuff in America and that's very interesting I'm actually quite
interested to know why specifically in America and what is there an equivalence of that in like
Europe that kind of dips into a whole well of um yeah that's uh it's a it's a it's a it's a
a dark muddy place that is hard to explain and go over and try to um thank you because there's a
lot of people who have very very so this last couple years has shown that there has been a lot
of people who have very strong feelings on either side of many different conversations and they
do not feel like that there's any reason why they should ever you know try to find a happy
middle ground to anything uh with that and with COVID in mind and with other things yeah so anytime
any of those sorts of kinds of get brought up you're going to find where people sit on that
and they just kind of feel nobody nobody wants to find a happy middle ground they all want to hold
on this side very strongly and the the whole conversation will you know we'll just turn into a uh
you know that sucks uh not a conversation but just shouting that so it's yeah you don't want
to necessarily want to what but you know wait into the grounds get it we'll talk on your
opinion of the certain orange skined curtain it all have the pence and you're paying on and
and people's you know perceptions of things that are going on and people's perceptions of
everything and uh is one right is the other right doesn't matter it there's there should be a happy
reason right that's that's more like the questions people should be asking like I'm sometimes
astounded by how quickly people are to anger just I'm personally a very just mellow chill person
by nature but just I am very bold by your statement what no it's I'm I'm kidding I'm kidding
I know what you say you said he was very angry by my statement but yeah basically people usually
just get that angry like about that kind of stuff when the whole point of talking about it is not
getting angry right and there should be you know people should have a discussion and then things
should go into place to to and they could want to fix the problems but if people are going to be
angry yeah if people are going to be angry well if people are you know if if they're if you can
work it out together and can find a compromise well maybe not everyone will be happy but at
least everyone will be equally frustrated at the solution and then we're all more equal and
I think I think that's is isn't that a thing people want nowadays to be more equal to be equally
frustrated I don't think so well they're more equal than if if if the other person is more
frustrated then eventually problems will arise that way and people will complain and that
kind of stuff if you are more frustrated then you are more likely to complain about it and that
can so if both you are equally frustrated and both know that of the other people of the other person and you at
least got to rip them off or something like that they you both the best way to have a compromise
is that both parties think they got the better deal that's actually it like if that doesn't
work then both parties have to be frustrated but if the best compromise with people who don't want to
see the other side is for them to both think they've won at the same time and because they'll never
talk to each other they will not notice that they've actually both have got equal so or at least
what how much they are worth like equal to what they're worth basically like I wouldn't give like
one person as much as a thousand people yeah got you yeah I might my point being that it's it's just
a tough conversation to get into because people's yeah and again people are stupid that way
yeah it's that it's that it's around here I think if if you've never seen the I know you
haven't but I and if you ever looked at the some of the HBR mailing lists anytime there was
something come up about like COVID and you know masks and backs and it's like that a lot of that
is just it's shaky ground because people seem to to stand firm on whatever they believe in the
community yeah it gets it no one wants to kind of wait and wait into that middle ground at all
and try to find the compromise they all want to hold tightly onto whatever it is they believe so
you try to kind of you know you're touching on it a little bit like in this situation and then you
just back away graceful yep yeah just thought that yeah the blazing saddle isn't actually
I wouldn't think that that is something which wasn't too much of a problem subject matter no
were the wording that was used the vocabulary that was used would not fly at all maybe yeah
yeah I haven't watched it in a long time I don't think yeah vocabulary but the underlying message is
something which could be could be something today it's basically like racism bad and
um not racism good and um I I do remember to scene where they like go from the fake town
into Hollywood and stuff and that that was funny very very well done yeah I've got the
cleansing in my head hey boys look who I found hey where do I pull my neck I get a lot of it
it's just like the words and stuff that you just that that would just not fly yeah the verb
well it's really supposed to most rich or prior not only one little too most people actually
um who fight are actually like uh the same type of people who just have a different perspective I
know it's just that that's just something I uh yeah yep and they're both saying that exact same
time so yeah that's funny you have been listening to hecker public radio as hecker public radio
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