This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,667 for Tuesday, the 23 August 2022.
Today's show is entitled, Hacker Public Radio 2021-22 New Year's Show Part 2.
It is hosted by Hum Keemagoo and is about 188 minutes long.
It carries an explicit flag.
The summary is, the HP, our community comes together to chat.
Early this semester, you were every time anybody posts anything.
It's a little ding that happens on mumble goes through.
I have no idea how to stop that because the way the stream and everything is set up.
Well, the way the stream is set up and that's where it's going through is just broadcasting
basically any sound that goes through that would come out of my laptop speakers.
And I don't know how to silence the ding.
I'm sure there's something in the settings, but wait a minute, it's not doing text
of speeches.
That's just that.
And then I know, I don't know, it's been a while since I've played with mumble, actually
just configured mumble on my, yeah, I heard it over the stream.
I'm using mumble as so, I'm not even worrying about that.
I'm still doing text of speeches, yeah, I hear it, but it's doing the text of speech.
I think it's in the messages setting, at least on the mumble client that I'm using on
Papa West, which is the Ubuntu based.
So correct me if I'm wrong, it's 16 or four UTC right now, right?
You are correct.
All right, just trying to follow along here on the show notes to add my blog.
Oh, you can put it anywhere, we got one in your room.
Yeah, I'm hearing the text to speech through the stream or wait, no, I'm listening through
the mumble.
I should try through the actual stream itself, my bad.
Oh, I think I did it.
Yeah, I'm not hearing text to speech, like, of anybody's through the stream.
Excellent.
So for future reference for other people, I guess, go to configure settings and messages
and show us a bunch of check boxes and we're on the right hand side where it says sound
file.
Just unclick all those boxes.
Get into now, so he's doing a show on that.
I just did it.
I think Ken's doing a show about mumble.
Do you just write up a page about it?
Yeah, we should do something to add this information.
Maybe to the page, so it's a sort of permanent thing you can get too easily.
Not a bad idea.
I never knew.
I've never looked to the config page before, but it seems to shut up all those incredibly
annoying beeps and gotps and stuff.
Yeah, sounds like there's we're only using a fraction of what mumble can do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I just go on the principle that the less I poke around things, that's like, to break it.
Being an adventurer, breaker and stuff.
I'd be a little bit of a cautious though.
The trick is, it's not the start switching things around right before you're about to record a show.
Yeah.
And also keep a record of what you fiddle with.
So you can unfiddle it when you need to.
Yep.
Need to do a screencast of things as you're doing it.
Right.
Kind of like the legend of when on TLL T.S.
Dan was compiling the kernel and brought down the entire show.
Either that or the cat paid on the route or something like that.
Did you not have a Tomcat that tended to go into your innate in inappropriate places or something?
I believe so.
We may have to hear from him soon if he connects.
I don't think I heard him saying he would, but he usually does.
Yep.
Well, it's so far it's pretty quiet morning here.
I have just one of my three sons here.
They're all much older now, so they're two youngest are in their teens.
Well, this is 20.
So he'll be coming over later.
My middle one just left to go to the gym and my youngest is still sleeping.
Yeah.
It's kind of laid back here.
And I think it's about to get a little more noisy in my house.
My two were at basketball practice this morning.
They have a tournament game starting tomorrow at 9 a.m.
So that should be fun.
But it looks like the car just pulled up.
Sounds good.
Nice son. I think I said earlier on is at work today. He's working from home.
He's a ostensibly at work.
And my daughter is getting ready for an interview on Tuesday.
I forget which job she's been job hunting for several months now.
She's got an interview.
Very strange interview.
They wanted to do a maths test and an English test prior to the interview.
It's like sort of a school child type of test.
It's not that the job interview would lead that sort of stuff.
That's interesting.
It is quite odd too.
Well, I've heard some places where people can't make change and stuff.
Some of the basics skills have been overlooked by people.
Yeah, that's what I said to maybe they've had bad experiences in the past.
So job as a communications officer. She's just had a done an MSC in science communication.
And it's for a college of animal welfare, not even true where it is.
London, I think, though she can work remotely. She gets it.
But it's a bit unusual these days, isn't it?
Can you show us how you show us this right?
And you show us you writing your name.
So we prove that you do stuff, right?
It's not something. It feels like, you know, some sort of Victorian thing.
Well, actually what they're saying is that expensive degree that you just got may or may not actually mean anything.
I think that could be that could be it exactly is.
They will use the degree to keep the route rabble out.
But after you get the degree, they don't know whether it's worth anything.
Yeah, they must have had some less than powerful intellect to making in the past.
Well, I can guess.
Well, also those questions.
And the fact that she would cooperate with that shows that she's willing to put in the effort.
Yeah, yeah. There's a certain element of compliance.
If we ask you to jump through this particular hoop, what do you do it?
So yeah, yeah, that's a good thing, but we'll see.
Well, go ahead.
No, I was just going to say she also, I just just reminded me that she'd asked me to go and find her Scottish diploma certificates from school.
I want to see them.
I want copies of them as well as, you know, it's usual to, you say you've got a degree, you should prove it.
But these are the Scottish higher education certificates she's supposed to present.
I'm inclined to say, do you really want this job, you know?
Well, also the person hiring her may use a lot of this paperwork to cover their butt.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
The sort of processes that HR sections want you to do in particular in academia can be bizarre and extreme.
I always sewed the instance where when I joined my last, the last university I worked at,
I was involved in interviewing and stuff.
One of the standardised form that went out to applicants was had a question in it that said,
last day school attended.
Well, that meant was last day school was opposed to, I don't know, night school perhaps.
But everybody read that as, what was your last day at school?
So they wrote Friday or something like that.
So it took years for HR to recognize this was stupid.
And why did they need to know this particular anyway?
And so, and to take it out.
It's just a piece of nonsense.
Well, funny.
Well, I have a couple of things.
One, I take the regular transit bus from my neighborhood.
The roots changed a little bit.
But their, the speel that they're using is the same speel that a private bus company was using when I was a kid.
There's this one place where the bus crosses over through a signal intersection.
And then they go down about half a block.
And that's where the, where the current bus stop is.
At one time, the bus would cross the intersection, stop in front of a certain business and let people out.
And then people could cross over at the signal intersection.
Now, they're using the same speel to say, well, if you want to change to another alternate bus route, you get out here and cross over.
But the stop has been moved away from the signal intersection.
And they haven't changed the speel from when I was a kid.
It's always been this way.
It's tradition.
You can't change these things.
Also speaking of Massachusetts has got some interesting traditions.
One, we have our own GED that they call MCAS, which has been found to have incorrect answers as correct answers in it.
It is a, it is a secret exam.
And when people start passing the exam, they add more material to it.
And this is an exam that you have to pass in order to get your diploma. You can graduate high school and do everything.
But if you do not pass the MCAS test, you will not get it diploma.
Now, the thing that they're avoiding like the plague is the GED that would actually tell people across the country what is actually going on.
Also a few years ago, they took young certified teachers.
These were people coming out of the teachers' colleges and gave them a cold exam for the first time since kindergarten.
Failure rate was about 40 to 50%.
Yes, they can believe that.
Well, I was a sea student until I got into junior high and then I was an A student and anything that I put any effort into.
Now, I didn't suddenly take a smart pill.
I said, however, I was able to because they will tell you exactly what's going to be on the exam.
I would load my head up with a bunch of data, put it on the exam and then move on to the next subject.
That worked great in high school and probably would have worked okay in community college.
But when I went to college, it might lack of study habits or lack of solid foundation became glaringly obvious.
It used to be a bit like that in the UK.
I think the Scottish school exam system was different from the English one.
I took what they called A-levels in England in 1960s.
And you got a curriculum.
You got a little booklet because these were curricula built by various high status universities like Oxford and Cambridge and stuff.
And you had a curriculum that said, not timing, but the content.
The cause content would be this subject broken down to these parts, etc.
So you could actually use that as a guide to work out what you needed to cover and what you didn't need to cover.
It was an excellent way of structuring what you did.
Plus also they made the previous years exam papers available at a cost I think I could do remember. It wasn't much.
So you would do rehearsals of exams to the umpteenth degree.
So the people I was working with at that age all did this as seduously.
We would be testing one another with this sort of stuff.
And we became, it's a bit like learning to do crosswords or something.
It's a puzzle that you practice in order to become good at.
It's nothing to do with your inherent intelligence, other than intelligence to fiddle with systems and stuff I suppose.
But yeah, so we all did really well at that because that sort of process where many of us had been classified as idiots.
Because you know, it was just not a structure that the appeal to us.
I mean, I went to school in the sixties with draft riots and everything.
And they would cover the constitution every year in our history classes.
But they wouldn't talk about the civil war where they actually had draft riots and whatnot, hundred years before.
Whatever you do, you can't teach anything that's relevant.
You just have to teach the same old shit.
Oh, very much so, very much so. My daughter, she went through school spotted that quite early on.
Very, very angry that the subjects were being steered away from.
And even the ones that were being handled were not being handled very well.
She was a great critic of a scholastic system, which I think can't lie.
She was applauded over being so perceptive of the crap that she's been dealt with.
And if you think she was given crap back then, whenever that was,
with this critical race theory and stuff that they're pushing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, we don't from discuss what element of your learning is critical.
It can involve critical thinking because you think that critical thinking would be an element of a science.
She would she trained in science, she was a biologist.
But there was never any teaching about how to think and how to analyse things and how to spot the rubbish amongst the diamonds.
And that's a common thing that they don't want.
They, if you believe in, they don't want people to be that perceptive of things.
That was our conclusion anyway.
Well, yes, well, if you look at our entire narrative in the US,
it's all, there is one narrative that the media and the government and everybody is beating the same drum.
And, you know, we had like outrageous,
uh, uh, quarantines and whatnot and whatnot when the government just throwing its weight around.
And there's no scientific basis.
They just decide today.
We need a quarantine period of 14 days tomorrow.
It could be 20 days and last week it could have been seven days.
Yeah, it's the same here.
It's quite arbitrary.
I think it's just, uh, whoever the latest scientific advisor has been or maybe
hiking back to advice earlier on when the less was known about it, about the way the coronavirus spreads and those sort of things.
Any more of stuff?
Any more of the quarantine times are a balance between necessity and, you know, actual safety.
So safety is taking a back seat in necessity.
I think the quarantine time officially got moved down to like five days from 10 days.
Yeah.
That's what I had specifically because we need people to work.
Yep.
Yep.
Of course, if that number's wrong, then you get people to work.
If you then get people to work and spread whatever they've got as it is the downside of that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That number is absolutely wrong.
I think the, um, infectious time for corona is something like 28 days or something that effect.
But it's, it's saying what's happening here anyway.
The UK is that, um, if you have corona, then such and such it happened.
But it doesn't say if you have corona and you vaccinated, which will be a whole different
game because the viral load will be less in most cases because the immune system's handling a lot better.
But you still, you still have it, you still be infectious, but not for as long.
You know, it's, it's not, it's not an absolute.
Right.
And it's probably also different between, you know, different people.
So yeah.
Yeah.
That's also a factor.
Um, there's a guy I've been following on Twitter, a Michael Mina who's an epidemiologist and viral
ologist and a clinical medical man.
And he was very vocal at the start of the pandemic, uh, talking about how,
what first of all, the, um, uh, cheap testing and plentiful testing of the lateral flow type.
And sort of stuff was vital and it should be there now.
Don't you know, keep your numbers low by not testing.
I love that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you just look the other way, you won't see that man being mode.
So it's not happening.
Hey.
I know.
I'm also all of this, everybody's got a mask and everything.
The best studies say that masks are 20% effective.
20% effective is better than 0% effective.
Oh, yes, it is, but I mean, everybody has been treating the mask as if they're, you know,
armor.
Yeah.
You're right.
I've seen that too.
It's, it's a very important thing.
That plus distancing, that plus ventilation, that plus not being in building to lots of other people.
Um, and minimizing exposure time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All of those things together make a, make a big difference.
But you can't just point it one to say that there's not 100% so we will know,
bother with that.
Exactly.
So also like seat belts and the, and the, and the effect.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Founders are not 99% effective.
So nobody should use them.
Ah.
As thin as all the way, right?
It's a really bad thinking.
It's funny because the way this all works.
It's, it's not, not really that different to the,
the idea of defense in depth that we see in information security and whatever.
Um, it's pretty much the same thing, my opinion.
Hmm.
Dealing with an external threat and and mitigating it as much as possible.
Exactly.
Well, I think what happened with the Christmas season is the fact that they're, uh,
the old rules knocked out a large part of our transit system.
I mean, aircraft, you know, airlines and whatnot.
Uh, was, was a wake up call to someone.
Like an action again.
Point it.
Also like New York's, uh, you've got to be vaccinated,
even if you're a medical professional so that they let go.
What was it?
20, 30,000 medical professionals because they wouldn't get the shot.
Yeah.
It was a lot of money.
Even for medical professionals.
More like, especially medical professionals.
Yeah.
Well, I know they were also not taking an account any kind of, uh,
other conditions or the fact that you may have had COVID already.
You know, natural immunity stuff like that.
They were just saying, everybody who hasn't got the paperwork.
Well, they have to be able to draw the line somehow.
And the vaccine seems like a good place to draw that line.
Yes, there are people that can't get it.
But for whatever reason immune compromise or whatever.
But if that's the case, then should those be people be working in high risk environments.
And the natural immunity, um, there's been a lot of research done into the efficacy of natural immunity
and how long it lasts.
And according to the research that, you know,
I've vaguely skimmed over, so I'm no expert, but, um,
the vaccine is supposed to be more effective than natural immunity.
It's my understanding as well.
Yeah.
And yes, people still get sick.
Even if they're fully vaccinated have their booster, whatever.
It's just, um, they don't get as sick.
And they don't stay sick for as long.
Well, also, I think people, I think,
you're getting, um, the random nature of a lot of these orders, uh,
as reduced the kind of trust you need for people to get their vaccines and to get,
you know, sensible care.
Well, remember last winter,
it all of those little, uh,
checks that were put out so that people could dine outside in COVID safety,
instead of dining indoors with heat and ventilation and potential
sterilization of the environment and stuff like that.
If I, I was seeing some of those,
everything from inflatable bubbles to little shacks put on the sidewalk.
And all of them were to keep people out of restaurants where,
where the environment could be controlled,
including, you know, sterilizing surfaces and whatnot,
because you know that those little, uh,
checks or bubbles or whatnot, we're not going to be, uh,
narrowly as easy to deal with.
It's an ordinary restaurant.
Well, I am going to have to leave you all and go and hunt for this certificate that my daughter needs
and, uh, until I can't find it.
So she could look as well.
So I'd better better stop now and, uh,
take a bite to everybody.
It's been great talking to everybody and, uh,
maybe catch up with some of you tomorrow, um,
possible.
Okay, thank you.
See you later.
Take care.
Good talking to you.
Cheers.
Well, we'll look forward to hearing from you whenever you can get back.
Okay, okay.
I'm going to see if I can switch to my laptop because I need to charge my phone.
So I'll be back later.
Happy New Year, Indonesia, Thailand.
Your card at Bangkok, can I?
If a long pen.
Happy New Year, everybody.
This is short fat ball guy.
It's curious if anybody's tracking, uh,
HPR users in different times zones and see if we cover the whole globe.
Well, I don't know how to tell where people are,
but this is my second and more complete experience.
And we, we will sweep the globe if people can stay awake.
I'll do my part.
I'm definitely not doing 26 hours.
Well, I'm doing what I can since I don't know if I'll be back next year.
Wait, where are you by the way?
I'm a loss assistant.
I don't hear an accent.
I'm northern Kentucky.
Well, I can't travel.
Are you on short.
Try to put yourself on a push to talk because your audio is bleeding
bleeding back through the system.
That's all good for that next.
Am I?
Well, sure.
If you're listening, my, uh,
I travel from Maine to West Virginia,
getting all the states between and,
and it's sort of flattened my accent.
Also, I've done a lot of reading.
And part of it could be, uh,
I'm, uh, slightly autistic Ashburgers syndrome.
I could have some effects.
About 10 minutes about 10 15 miles south of us is where you start to pick up a Kentucky accent.
I used to pick up the West Virginia accent from being narrowly like a week.
Right.
I've got a, I've got a cousin who, uh,
depending on where she's at is how her accent goes.
Yeah.
My dad was for much Virginia up near Morgan time.
I miss that country terrible.
Definitely.
That's like pretty parts.
I like the Appalachian area.
Well, also my grandparents both in Maine and West Virginia are very welcoming.
My parents, uh, made it quite clear that even with the,
the place where I was raised was not,
my, was their home, not mine.
My dad, my dad was, uh, Eastern Kentucky.
And we could drive down there today.
Not having seen those people for five years and, and tell him who we are.
And we'd be inside and swapping stories in minutes.
Well, when my parents divorced the West Virginia side of my family went virtually silent,
except one guy who was my dad's brother,
who used us to keep track of my dad who moved up to Maine to drink himself to death.
We're going to pop out and run some errands that we back on in two hours probably.
We have a big crowd later.
Yeah.
Well, cold before.
Let's see. Yeah, I got a 20 minutes before the next, uh,
Happy New Year.
Well, folks, at 1730s,
Lulu will be welcoming Mandela and Miramar,
Nikoko's Islands into 2022.
This reminds me of my days back when I was a security guard at a condo complex.
Yes, I am one of the rare people who has actually been paid to watch Paint Drive.
But I'm sure you have some interesting stories.
Don't you?
Yes.
I'm going to describe an environment and then show you how to use a pistol in this environment.
First, overhead or pre-craft concrete slabs.
The walls are senior block.
The floor is cast a mat. They're very few doors.
And generally, it's Ricochet City.
One New Year's Eve,
Twitledy and Twitledom come in here into this hall and get into an argument.
Twitledy is carrying a pistol in a shoulder holster.
The opens his jacket.
Twitledom looks at the pistol and therefore misses the sucker punch.
That is delivered shortly.
In a heavy Ricochet environment, that is the proper use of a pistol.
Use it as bait for a sucker punch.
Now, carrying a pistol to a New Year's Eve party is stupid,
but at least he didn't do anything but fly shit.
And then use his natural weapons to make his point.
He also had a young lady who lived in a two-level condo.
Who's mother was a nurse who worked overnight.
It was our job to try to limit her access to gentlemen callers.
The security force celebrated her birthday,
her 18th birthday almost as much as she did.
With the two-level condo, you could be at the main door downstairs
and people could be going in and out on the floor above you
and we did not have coverage to cover both entrances.
But then our front gate was a speed bump in the stop sign.
Thanks for sharing the entertaining stories.
Well, there was the time that one of our guys,
well, somebody came through a guest of one of our residents
and I believe that I was hacked by a federal agency.
We had a jogger come through asking for directions
or otherwise keeping me occupied and then a car followed
one of our residents guests into the site.
Since this guest was a well,
he was allegedly connected with unofficial financial
organizations or what the English would call a turf account bookie.
It did seem like that I was being handled
by some law enforcement agency unofficially.
Also we had a state patrol officer who came in wanting to just
check on an alleged girlfriend.
And I had to explain to him in simple words that there are two ways
that he could come on site.
One, give me the girlfriend's name.
I would call her up and you could have a late or early coffee
with her or give me the person's name.
And his official reason for needing to speak with her
regularly and then I would lock up the gatehouse
and escort him up.
But I was not going to allow him just because he was in
a state patrol car in uniform to randomly cruise our facilities.
There were two ways that he could get in and the third way
that he wanted to get in was officially forbidden.
One of the reasons I was being paid was to limit
random access to the facility.
Well, happy new year.
Miramar, coconuts, islands, dark on,
Mandela and others that I can't pronounce.
What's the topic?
Well, the topic has been random stories from my history
as a security guard and happy new year to Mandela
and I hope the road's still there.
The road to Mandela being one of the many road pictures
of Bob Hope and being crossed with.
Welcome back.
Thank you.
Work calls probably going to be happening all day.
Well, if you can solve the problem from where you are,
that's pretty good.
Yeah, I think it's just that my boss is bored
except problem.
Unfortunately, managers have this instinctive belief
that they need to manage.
So today's not officially the holiday.
That'll be Monday, but yeah, there's still not going to be
a lot going on today.
Still not going to be a lot of people
that are actually working today,
but he's on vacation.
I suspect those that are officially working today may not be
the extent of maybe conserving energy.
Yeah.
Security guards learn a lot about conserving energy.
Yeah, I was a security guard for a while.
One of the interesting things that happened, I was we had a
Detects clock and a large Meg life light.
We were supposed to carry around with us often.
We left the Meg flashlight alone because it was a big,
you know, fire cell sucker.
Well, pretty good long ones.
Yes.
And they gave us this pot, you know, this 10 pound pot metal
Detects clock on a long leather shoulders strap.
And I still call this unarmed security.
Yeah, because you weren't allowed to carry a gun.
Yes, but I suspect that in a emergency situation that clock
could make a damn good maze.
Excuse me, for me.
Also, we lose complex the part that we were working for
was on one side of a divided driveway.
The original plans for the complex was that this entire
peninsula was going to be filled with condos.
And that didn't really work out.
Well, we were supposed to secure one condos on one side of
this divided road.
And we were not supposed to secure condos on the other side of
the divided road, which meant people coming through.
We just say, I'm visiting the non-secure side of things.
And there's nothing we could say about it.
Also, the back side of the property was not well-fenced either.
So if anyone could get around our security or our
leg security.
But then again, this side had a two foot high fence around
its pool.
Just high enough to slow any rescue attempts.
And not high enough to keep anybody out.
Hey, Morton.
How are you doing?
I was never going.
I'm still here.
Can't so he hasn't killed you yet.
No.
Yep.
Well, that my energy J was just playing.
I'm still standing in the back of my mind.
I'm damn glad of it.
My cable motor arrived last night.
So I will be able to switch to a higher uploads on my cable.
Just higher upload speed.
Uh, upload and download for plaques.
So if we do any sharing or what that called box together for movies or shows,
it should work better.
Actually, I haven't been able to access your plaques days.
The other night, I was running a lot of updates.
And it was a second down all the CPU and memory on the, uh,
little mini.
I thought it was currently unavailable.
Probably reconnection, still showing is unavailable.
It's the command line magic hero Delta Ray really on the line.
Yes, I'm here.
Awesome.
I want to say, I want to say Steve.
Last name, Susa.
No, my name is Mark.
Mark.
Okay.
I don't remember me.
I took all the notes during your, uh,
entered of the command line.
It, ILF.
I still have them in my, uh,
a little hacker public radio, uh,
book I carry around with, uh, computer notes.
That's awesome.
Thanks.
Did you happen to see the Matrix command I posted recently?
I know I have not.
I don't think I have a Twitter running anywhere,
and never got connected the, uh,
a mastodon after, uh,
identical switched over to decentralized.
Yeah.
I, I finally eventually switched away.
Made a mastodon account to after some request for one.
And, uh, I've been posting to both,
but I, who's about a week ago or so.
I posted right before the movie came out.
I, uh, figured out how to make,
make the Matrix, um,
effect in the terminal happen, um,
and fit the whole command into a tweet.
And so, if you,
and ended up becoming the most popular,
well, most favorited, um,
command I've ever posted more,
or proof that we're in the simulation.
Something like that.
That's awesome.
I have to look for it.
Of course, I hope a bunch of people thought,
I ain't run that after the log for show of vulnerability.
That's probably the case with half the commands I post.
I, I try to post like a, uh,
a screenshot or an animation along with it,
so that people get a sense of what it,
what it is.
Otherwise everybody thinks I'm just trying to hack their system.
Do you live in, do you live in the Midwest in place?
Uh, Glumbethyl.
Cool.
I'm in Bloomington, Indiana.
So you probably went to Ohio Linux Fest a bunch then?
Yes.
Uh, you were actually worried, uh,
doing the talk at OLF after ILF,
and said you weren't sure if anybody got anything out of it,
and I pulled out my, uh,
little, uh, Barnes and Noble, um,
journal refail book that had all the,
the, there's the first thing I used to,
for was to take notes on your talk.
Awesome.
Great.
Great.
Almost every, every person I meet,
doesn't know CD will take you back to your home directory.
Uh, uh, oh, do they not know that?
I didn't know that.
I didn't know that.
I didn't know anything.
It takes you back to home.
I apparently had never done it by accident before,
and it always done CD space tilde.
Half the stuff I post is just,
if you go back and read the man page and still learn about it,
but, you know,
people who are a long time veterans of command liner are often shocked.
They're like, I didn't know about control R to search.
Yeah.
I need to up my command line for,
uh, I'm still still somewhat crippled by my, uh,
windows upbringing.
Not sure if I have a here seen it,
but there's a new,
it's, it's an upgrade to the curses library.
It's actually a whole rewrite of it.
It's called not curses three.
I think is what's called,
um,
this guy,
he wrote a new version that takes advantage of,
uh,
what are called sixels.
It's something that digital made back in the 80s or 90s,
um,
that lets you basically create graphics inside the terminal window.
And so he wrote a curses library that lets you take full advantage of it,
and he was like,
you're able to play videos in the terminal and stuff like that.
And he made this really great demo,
but I think when you watch the demo,
you're not,
you're like,
is that happening in the terminal or is it just the video editing,
and he's trying to like hype it up or something,
but from what he said that it all happens in the terminal,
which is pretty amazing.
And I'm looking forward to catching on more.
Okay, control R is pretty cool,
and I did not know about that one.
I always use history and grip.
And you can press control R repeatedly to keep going backwards.
The opposite of it is control S,
but of course,
usually on a terminal when you press control S,
it stops the,
the terminal flow.
So it looks like your terminal froze up.
You have to press control Q to resume it.
So I guess you could reassign it to something else,
but by default, it's control S.
The wonders of software flow control.
Joe,
read the library again.
I connected.
Yeah, yeah.
I did.
Okay.
Welcome up.
Thank you.
I see that you have the first episode of,
the book effect.
I did.
And under the helmet.
Oh, I've got the first episode of the book of Boba Fett as well.
I don't have the automation for yet,
but yeah,
I'm looking forward to watching it.
I enjoyed the steps.
And the special was interesting about how Boba Fett was created
back in the original series.
If you all checked that out on your server.
But Mark's YouTube and Twitter and Masadon channel,
or command line magic is great.
Everybody can get something out of it.
Sometimes it's serious, sometimes it's funny,
but they're always great little tweet-sized command line commands.
That was command line magic.
Yep.
On Twitter, it is CLI magic.
Well, it's beyond us after, after doing this for 13 years,
I've started to run out of ideas or just, you know,
when I think of something,
I've already done that,
or people have heard about it or something like that.
After doing it for 13 years,
you just start to list over again, and you automate it.
Yeah, I can do that too.
I've always been surprised when I repost something.
I don't get a whole bunch of people saying,
oh, you posted that before.
That's a repost.
Seems like just the nature of Twitter and Masadon
is that people just don't see half the stuff that I post.
You'll be a good CLI, man.
I'm sorry, what was that?
You're the one behind CLI, man.
Yep.
Oh, follow you forward.
Yeah, it's probably doing it.
HDR episode on it.
A long time ago, Clat 2 interviewed me at ILF.
It was like 10 years ago.
No, you won't.
I also get a lot out of commandline food.com
and explain shell.com.
Explain shell.
You can paste a snippet of code,
and it'll break it down for you.
What are you doing?
Well, we are welcoming Bangladesh and Yucada
and several other places that I just can't really pronounce.
Happy New Year folks.
And we'll be racing towards the Nutspull
time zone, Kathmandu, and a bunch of similar exotic locations.
It was just looking through my bookmarks,
and I see all the magic folder.
And I forgot about this website called
RagxCrossword.com.
Where you solve a crossword puzzle
by typing in RagxExpressions.
It's kind of funny.
Quite a bit there, too.
I have that bookmark now.
And then there's also VIM-Adventures.com
where you can learn to use VIM by doing a adventure game.
Hello.
Hello.
Testing one, too.
You can hear the whole lot going on
or just minutes.
Oh, Mad Zweeney.
Hello.
I think you can hear me quite good now.
I had some problems with my audio earlier.
I had to mess around with mumble a little bit.
I've been using that all year,
and have still have problems.
Yeah.
After a year of using zoom and stuff like that,
it's a little bit jarring to look over to at the mumble window
and not see like a muted microphone next to your name.
And you're like, oh my gosh,
did you just hear everything I was saying?
But you've been your room, remember?
Oh yeah, push to the front.
Yeah, I saw there's an option.
You can set the time between when you double tap.
I presume that's milliseconds.
I'm, I wish that somebody would teach the mumble guys
that not everybody who's got perfect eyesight.
Yeah, it would be nice if it made a little pop.
I'll hit a high pitch pop when you go on when you're on mute
and a low pitch pop when you're off so you know where you are.
Well, I'd like to be able to adjust the front size
a little bit.
Swingy, your audio is leaking.
Hello.
Can you hear me?
Yes, I can, but you're also bleeding audio
even when you're not talking.
Goodness.
Goodness.
Sounds like water or sounds like water
in the background, maybe air.
Okay.
I find it thing.
It isn't bad.
It just, we try to limit that kind of thing.
It's not any better.
That seems near quiet.
I still a little, but it seems a little quiet.
And now we welcome Nepal, Kathmandu, Pokhara, Daran, etc.
2, 2022.
Yes, we know you're still leaking audio,
but nobody, I can't hear it.
The only way I can tell is by seeing the icon.
There's just that particular thing that was coming to you
is from Portland.
He's got an echo.
We're now arriving in India.
Sarah Lanky, New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Meghalu,
Happy New Year folks.
Yes, my audio is still noisy.
I don't hear anything currently.
I think I fixed it with some nice mix, cancel thing.
None of the icons are flickering out of turn.
Well, there may be a little leakage here and there,
but we've got much, much better.
But I think it's the mixed echo cancellation setting
in the audio input panel in Mumbai.
Well, I guess Mumbai was got a Mumbai somewhere.
And that's free software.
It gives you all the knobs to turn all of them.
So I have to go do some chores now,
so maybe I'll be back later.
Well, you're always welcome.
God, we should do this once a week and I remind once a year.
I am not hearing anything and don't know why.
Perhaps because nobody is saying anything.
That would do it.
Thank you.
Why is nobody saying anything?
No moment. Perhaps we've got nothing to say. I've been trying to carry my end.
Well, happy new year, everybody anyhow.
Happy new year.
Well, it looks like I got my signal.
The noise level, a little low.
Hello, Swiss.
Hello, can you hear me?
Because I just tried to hit this push to talk.
I can hear you.
Very good.
And that's a lovely accent.
Typical Swiss, I guess.
Actually, milder than some.
There's a guy on YouTube who's, well, he may be playing it up.
You mean Andreas Spies?
A bit, yeah. He's got a little thick.
He does,
IOT stuff.
And he says, here's the guy with the Swiss accent,
and he puts it on pretty heavy.
Yeah, but well, basically what you hear in the back
around is really his accent from this region.
And yeah, more in the mountains, like,
if you look a little bit around, sometimes in his videos.
I know the guy too, I follow him as well.
And yes, some people, not from the bigger cities or such,
tend to speak with reduced wrong accent,
so I guess it's quite true.
Yeah, you sound more like my friend in Sweden.
But it's also a same sort of thing around here.
The more country people have, tend to have a local accent.
There was a time when I was listening to podcasts,
where I had the feeling that I started that I was able to tell
whether somebody is from Texas or more in New York area or such.
How is this for you? Do you can easily distinguish that?
Yes, this is a big mixture over in the US.
Sometimes you can also some of the Canadian dialects,
some like Texas or they don't sound,
you know, they're hard to detect.
Yeah, they sound a bit like Texans, eh?
But they're hard to localize.
Well, when I went to Vancouver for a couple months,
I mean, in the beginning, they always expected,
well, I wasn't Vancouver,
so they always expected me.
I come from Montreal or such because of the of the accent,
so when you're in Canada and you don't speak there,
properly, they expect you from the French part.
Well, you don't sound French to me, but I'm very the Montrealer.
Well, and I would say that your English is better than many,
much that I hear from native speakers.
Thank you. I try hard, at least.
So what time is it in the US?
I'm in the East, and it's 145 p.m.
Or 1345, if you prefer.
Yeah, it's more the way we win Europe.
And this is the beautiful weather,
like we had today in Switzerland,
which is no clouds, or does it look over there?
Well, here in Western, Eastern, Tennessee,
we've got, it's a little overcast,
but it's bright.
And does it snowy there?
Oh, no.
To snow.
Well, we do get snow.
We don't get a lot of it.
We get maybe five or six snow falls a year.
And no more than an inch, usually,
and it's gone in a day or two.
Yeah, I'm up in New England.
We know it's up here.
We get more snow.
I'm near the coast, so less snow.
Not much to speak of this year,
but my brother is always threatening
that we'll get four feet in April.
Well, it's interesting,
because I don't know if you also listen to the podcast
from the guy who fixed his generator.
And, yeah, to keep the power up and running.
And so, yeah, I guess you really have to leave a little bit
on the counter side or what is your feeling
when you need the generator when you look for it
in your area?
Yeah, generators are less common down here,
although I'm in the fringes of the Boston area.
But yeah.
Yeah, we don't have any out here that I know of.
I mean, like I said, Eastern, Tennessee,
I'm about 22 miles north east of Knoxville.
And we get most of our power from the various,
excuse me, the various dams in the Tennessee Valley Authority project
that was a FDR project.
So, the electricity is pretty close to us,
and they have a big business of keeping it running.
So, you have water power over there?
We have some water, some of the KVA is cold,
which is really negative.
I do not understand what do you mean?
Cool.
Okay.
Do you still have coal?
We still have coal.
Are you kidding?
West Virginia would not let us let go of coal if we tried?
Oh, yeah.
I just did, you have a lot of nuclear power plants.
We have very, very few nuclear power plants.
I thought it was in the number of the 50s or the 60s.
Well, it's an awfully big country too.
Okay, I agree.
Yes.
Again, coal.
You burned coal over there?
A lot of coal.
A lot of nuclear plants had meltdowns and breakdowns,
and it got to be really unpopular,
so we didn't keep going unlike France.
We didn't keep building them.
Yep.
And the last one I remember being built,
they were just about to test it to see if it was quite proof the way it was designed,
and they found out it was built upside down.
And since then, it's nothing happened.
No, we haven't had very many nuclear power plants come online.
I don't remember the last time a nuclear plant came online.
There's one down in climate, I think.
It's still running.
Well, yeah, still running, but I mean,
in terms of new ones coming online, I don't remember.
For your information, my grandfather was a coal miner,
and a mineowner.
You wouldn't net miner.
It's just the reason why you have to add dead.
Yeah, that was it mostly.
Yeah, more or less.
So net miner is basically half over your land.
Right.
My mother was from Maine,
and down in West Virginia,
I still between Maine and West Virginia,
and I still think of those in my heart.
Net miner, you're usually also on the lock cast, right?
Yes, I'm one of the,
I'm probably the old man of the group.
Just out of curiosity,
I think Hong Kimagoo does one on one side on the lock cast,
and I think he does as well sometimes podcast on the,
on the HPR.
Does he have different,
does he have different nicknames?
Well, I've got a couple podcasts myself.
I got on mint cast three and a half years ago
and stayed on it for two and a half years.
I've got,
I got district hoppers digest.
And I also have just this year,
or like April, started doing full circle weekly news.
The district for digest, I heard you mentioned it now
and then in the mint cast, of course.
But if I'm not wrong,
did you, did you fill up almost your whole SSD,
with like 100 different distributions?
Oh, no, I didn't do that.
There were jokes that I was going to,
but the most I've had on a single drive was 10.
And I literally had,
we partitioned my hard drive or my SSD to go to 12
and while I was doing that,
I changed my mind and dropped to eight and it's currently down to four.
But people keep joking,
I've got 100 on one machine and never happened.
Okay, this is a running gag.
Yes, I just looked up nuclear power in the US
according to Wikipedia who is never wrong.
There are 90s B commercial reactors with a net capacity of 95.5 gigawatts.
93, yeah, but you can have less, less flons, right?
Less what?
So you have a reactor, you said 93 reactors,
but sometimes a plant has like two or three reactors,
so you could have less in quantity around the state.
I do not know, apparently there are two new reactors under construction
in September 2017.
Okay, I'm 39 reactors have been permanently shut down.
Okay, I have the age, I guess.
There's 84 operating commercial nuclear reactors at 56 power plants in 28.
There you go.
I hadn't gotten that far down with the PDR,
yet.
This is from the US nuclear industry.
So it's 56.
Okay, I say it's not that popular here.
Can you open the document?
Which is mentioned on the HPR side?
Do they call it?
They call it for the notes.
Please fill in the show notes, he said,
is it a piece of a pad? Could you open it?
Or is it just me where it doesn't work?
What document?
When you go on the HPR, on the HackerPublicRadio.org,
on the same page,
then here's in the limb bit after the half,
it says add to the show notes,
please help fill out the show notes,
and I was curious what it looks like and it doesn't open.
Add to the show notes.
HGV, show notes.uk,
etherpad loading.
Am I an open?
Okay, then I'm going to throw that mine.
Then my maltrix blocks too much.
Okay, thanks.
See, I do not have my VPN on.
I'm going to fix that.
Now I've got my VPN on.
I mean, close it and see if it opens again.
I close the whole page.
Yay.
I have to try another browser.
What browser are you using?
You should be Firefox.
Well, I'm in Firefox,
and I just open it even with a VPN on.
Yeah, but are you familiar with micro matrix?
No, I don't know my grammatics.
You really need to spend some time together
for familiar with it is very complicated.
But once you get familiar with it,
it is really nice.
It blocks really everything.
Not just cookies.
It blocks a lot.
And sometimes when it doesn't work,
and I'm tired of trying out,
then I go into Vivaldi,
and there I have everything opened.
Okay.
Well, I finally going to start getting brave enough to put together a
Python using an old Raspberry Pi I was given that I never used.
I'll not never use.
I plugged it in to make sure it worked.
What do you, you never used it or it never worked?
No, I plugged it in to make sure it worked.
And then I never used it again,
because it was really too slow.
A Pi 2 is not fast enough to really use much.
Considering I was looking to use it as a desktop computer.
And the Pi 4 is just barely adequate for that.
I just think both my, both my Pi, Pi holes are Pi 2.
Cool.
Everything I read says you use a Pi 0 3 or 4,
and I'm going okay.
And everything I read says I have to use
Baleena etcher to burn it to the SD card.
Now you can use whatever you want to burn it.
Please, please, please, please.
If using Baleena etcher.
I have never used Baleena etcher the one time I tried to install it.
I had an app image and it didn't work.
Okay.
I know what I put into the show notes.
And guys, I know now why I couldn't reach the show notes on easy pad.
Because my web browser tried to do HTTPS everywhere
and this HTTP.
Okay.
I had a Pi 0 before the Pi 0 W.
And I had it connected via micro USB
and ran Pi hole on it and used the shared internet
that in to bridge it and was able to run Pi hole
with it just plugged into the USB on my laptop.
Well, I'm old and I tend to move very slowly.
I was still using Windows 3.11
when everyone else was on 98 SE.
98 SE was good.
But when you say you run it on a Pi 2,
how much bandwidth do you have in your home?
I've got Fair Band with I'm on Xfinity Comcast.
What is the best of four? How much is it?
Well, that's a good question.
I guess you have done a test and I wouldn't have known.
I have done now and then, but not lately.
And memory is not one of my best features.
Let me see what I got here.
Okay, speed of me have to accept their cookie.
Start the test.
I have 103 megabits down and 10 megabits up over Wi-Fi
on my phone through my cable internet.
So right now I'm not doing as well as that.
But frequently I am.
I'm usually over 100 right now.
I'm at 66.39 and upload is just short of 13.
Can I have a pause here, gentlemen?
We have we have to welcome package them.
That's Kent and Islamabad.
And others to be happy New Year.
Thank you for your patience.
I have patience.
Well, more than some unless then others go ahead.
We have a whole 30 minutes to the next time.
Now I see I was wondering why the ease of pad is so occupied.
And this is because there is all these times in it.
Yes, this show follows New Year's entering different times
from Christmas Island and then it will end up
down back in a while or something.
We're taking a long way around.
All right, was that bad company or what?
Sorry?
I'm sorry.
Take the long way home.
I don't remember who did that.
Yeah, I have that.
There's a part of me that I call my inner DJ that will always grab different song lyrics.
Like my brother, whose bounces are most of the continental U.S.
I always think of him with the Johnny Cashers.
I've been everywhere.
And the answer is super-trap.
I had to go look it up.
Where do I see that some of the guys have the microphone deactivated?
And I have, while doing the installation, I did this push to talk.
But where do I now see where do I use that?
Or not?
Do you are familiar with mumble?
Can I see that?
Or is this?
Once you have done it in the configuration, it is just there?
Well, you should have a push to talk a little square window.
I did.
I've changed mine to voice activated
and then opened my volume control box.
And I'm using it manually.
Of course, I'm in BODY, which is not the easiest thing to use.
Sometimes it's a sheer pleasure.
But it doesn't show with to you then later on while you're using it.
It is not obvious that I push now the button to speak.
Unless I see now my guy gets blue.
Is it that? Because my name is now in both letters and I'm blue.
That I see that you hear me.
Different clients may have different things.
But we usually have a little icon.
And when you're talking, there's some kind of the icon changes.
I'm going to let go of my push to talk.
You should see a change in the icon.
Yeah.
Now I see it.
Now I find it out very least.
Sorry guys for this rock thing.
My little icon in front of my name gets a turns blue when it gets this thing when I push the button.
Okay. So I just didn't want to interrupt them if it is.
Yeah.
I didn't understand how that works.
I tried to snap install work flawlessly.
I'm on the flat back because it works better on some systems.
But it not only turns blue notice there are sound waves on both sides of your head.
Sound waves?
You'll see. You'll see on the side of your head that there are these little parentheses.
parentheses type things that appear when you're talking.
Yes. Yes. I got them too. Yes.
This was managed with the sound wave.
Okay.
Good.
Also the kind of questions that you're asking are exactly the kind of questions that need to be asked.
But to help the others that are going to be listening to this down the road.
So you're actually doing a great service to our community by asking the questions that you're asking.
You weren't into it at all.
I had rather a bad conscience because on this page on the entry page at the moment.
They also wrote that as a preparation to use mumble, you can listen to HPR's 35-03.
Well, as I said earlier, this podcast especially is interrupted.
Between the impulses we have to salute the new year.
Everybody is welcome to jump in.
Tell us where you're calling from and all sorts of interesting information.
I am making.
I have the intent of rejoining Mintcast with the next episode.
I have fallen to number 10 on the frequency of guest co-host list.
And I want to at least move back up to nine.
Well, I'm sure you're going to be welcome.
Yes, our Swiss friend reminds me of a big event in my life 1997.
I went to Mass General and I had a Swiss fellow helped me with this thyroid problem that I was having at the time.
Well, she was a Mass General fellow, but she definitely wasn't a fellow.
Very, very lovely young lady.
And where is the relation to Switzerland or I didn't get it?
She was a Swiss. She was doing postgraduate or post-doctorate studies at Mass General on endocrine systems.
I raised my hands over my head and my face turned all kinds of pretty colors.
And within a month or two, my thyroid had been removed by a cancer surgeon.
Well, yeah, that says something that's staging memory.
Well, my thyroid had been reduced ten years earlier, but it was causing a kick in my neck.
Literally, it was crowding my windpipe and blood vessels and such.
Yes, I've had my throat cut professionally twice.
Wow, okay. Does this, does this still hurt?
Oh, no, it heals up pretty quick, but I'm just saying, although the first time they were using basically staples to hold the,
in order to get out the thyroid, they have to basically have a circular cut around sort of around your collarbone.
And when I woke up from that surgery, I had this railroad track of staples around my, you know, the front of my neck.
The front of mine helped me get up, so I could go to use the restroom.
And one of an artists came in and was not very happy with me.
Too much pressure.
Well, she said, she said, you're supposed to stay in bed.
And I said, leave me if there'd been anything wrong.
You would have seen scorch marks on the sheets as I went back to bed.
So it went fine, Indian.
And the second time they instead of staples, they were using these little tape things.
And my surgeon got a little upset when I took off the outer layer of bandaging and he said, you took off too much.
Well, unfortunately, he may have known which was the outer layer and which was the inner layer, but I did.
And it's not like I was going to pose for GQ any time.
It's incredible how much improvement you've seen in the hospitals.
I mean, the right times when you broke your leg, then you got this, this white thing.
I don't know the name in English around it.
And nowadays they do this thing with plastic and you shall move it very early and then things like that.
It really has changed a lot, I think.
Yes, you're talking about the old days of heavy plaster cast versus fiberglass or whatever they're using today.
Yeah, when I broke my leg, I got this white, this white cast around it.
And you had it for six weeks and there wasn't a way around it.
And after six weeks, they took it away from you.
And now they have this thing they can, you can open and close so you can take a bath or whatever.
Not like it wasn't the old days.
And then they say to you, you put some weight on it much earlier than you did in, well, you shouldn't have done it in the past and so on.
I think it is really, we did quite some improvement in the last 20 years if you see it here and there.
Yeah, friend of mine had a series of cataracts some years ago.
And every time you went in for surgery for the cataracts, it was a smoother and faster procedure and faster recovery.
There's a lot of stuff that's changed since I can the day.
Yeah, truly agree.
Of course, back in the day, when I was a baby, I was in Boston floating hospital, I'm told,
which was actually a hospital on a ship.
And that's where I was treated.
Now it's now all the hospitals are modern super fancy buildings.
Have you been your whole life only in the U.S. or did you leave the country at some moment?
Well, yes, I've spent most of the time in the Boston area, but with occasional quarries and civilisation in Maine and West Virginia.
The levels around here, well, I find myself to be a rep refugee from the country.
From the country side or from the U.S.
From the country side, my folks were small town.
I was raised as a 50s kid in the 60s, very small town.
Leave it to be very, very, very much out of a step with anyone around here.
This part of New England is very, very liberal.
Just as an FYI, the O in country is silent in American English, at least,
if you're talking county, which is a smaller portion of political unit, then you use it.
But when they are, is there its country?
Great, thank you.
Wasn't the where it was bad?
It makes no sense, English is tough.
My pronunciation may not be the best.
Also done in West Virginia, the counties handled the countryside between the towns.
Here in New England, the county is more or less a extra layer of government,
but the towns, a buddy, each other.
So the county system is less really functional.
While in West Virginia, there was a small town near my dad's farm,
but he was not in the town, so he didn't pay town taxes.
He only paid county taxes.
Right, down here in Tennessee, we even have county mayors.
I never heard of that before moving to Tennessee.
But it's really interesting because there is a nox county mayor and a noxville mayor
and lots of fun.
You get down to Louisiana, they don't have counties, they have perishes.
It's really fun because some people say,
well, some people never leave the US in their whole life.
But they say they live in different states or in different areas.
And they say, just like moving into a different county, because
county, because things can be totally different from one to the other.
Yeah, well, you see the places where are uncomfortable.
There are armors or common and legal and things are pretty conservative.
Church going type stuff.
Well, here in Boston, there are very much against firearms ownership,
even legal firearms ownership.
And a lot of the people who are making the rules are making them pretty arbitrarily.
And anyway, it's all the unitarians and Irish.
Let's go for stereotype, shall we?
This is the end of the way to go.
Another question.
The audio at the beginning and at the end of the HPR podcast.
Now, do you like it better than it was before?
Or what is your take?
I don't do enough HPR to know.
The other folks here probably make no.
Not me, I hardly ever listen to HPR, but they have been very useful in our podcast,
because they've allowed us to use their mumble room from time to time.
Okay, so you're not the typical HPR-licinary in that case.
Well, my partner in distra-hopper's IHS is a regular HPR guy,
but he's not here right now.
I would think Hockey McGo would be the person as that question,
and he's only chiming in every half hour apparently.
Yeah, I think he has to be in because he does the recording,
recording as well as can, can,
an expected can would be also recording it,
I'm not sure, but lost.
Okay, Ken has had connection problems,
and Hockey is somehow tapping the audio
from mumble, without using the mumble's internal recording system.
It's above my beg rate.
Yeah, there is a link on the page, where he says,
if somebody does that, the record is well,
but I just scrolled it through it on the HPR side,
and it wasn't sure what it meant to be if it is kind of a bash script,
or something like that,
that there is a long line about the middle or end of the page.
Well, anyway, he's using a new method this time,
that supposedly, as long as he's got a connection here,
is back in the stuff will keep creating files
and rotating them every, every so often.
I'm pretty much an experienced novice with Linux.
I stayed with DOS for a very long time,
and then I jumped to Windows 7, especially,
but when they started playing around,
on forcing you to go to Windows 10, I jumped to Linux.
Yeah, I played around with Linux a lot from about 2002,
but I tried from time to time to go 100% Linux,
and I think between 1004 and 1204, I did,
that's Ubuntu numbers,
and then in the 1204, Unity wouldn't run on my hardware,
and I wasn't experienced enough to know how to get a different desktop
on this way, went back to Windows for a while,
and likewise, when they tried to force me to Windows 10,
I saw the security holes open,
closed down all the ones I could,
and still had too many open,
and reverted to Windows 7,
and it left all those holes open that weren't open before,
and so I said screw this,
and I went to Linux mid 17 at that time,
and I've been on Linux ever since.
Well, I'm running Mint right at the moment.
It's okay, I find not being able to do updates
through synaptic to be a bit of a thing.
I run all my updates in terminal,
so that's not an issue.
Okay, there is a program that you need to look for,
it's called Eucharist System Core.
If you're using a deviant-based distro,
it will, it's a great terminal update system,
and it also trims your kernels.
Okay, I've never needed a particularly trim kernel,
but that's all look into that.
What's the name again?
You care a system core.
Okay, most of what I run is deviant or Ubuntu-based.
I prefer Ubuntu-based is straight deviant-based.
deviant always feels like a straight track, it to me.
Well, the, what I mean by trimming your kernels
is every so often you'll get a kernel update
and after a while you can have six or eight different kernels
in your boot, in your grub boot menu or what have you.
It will allow you to have two or three automatically
and it cleans up the other.
So you don't get a lot of dead kernels.
Well, I use auto-remove fairly regularly and with mint
and most Ubuntu-based has pretty safe
because it usually leaves the current kernel,
the previous kernel and the original kernel.
Well, you're going to remember that this is a,
you care is probably a strip,
so it's probably using auto-remove in the background.
But for those of us who don't have the command line food
to do that or who want to be able to do updates over SSH,
this is a, this is a very handy little updateer
and maintenance tool.
Next minor, what did you call,
is the name of the tool?
It's called Ucare System Core.
Is that spelled with a wire a U?
It's spelled with a U,
C-A-A-R, and system core.
Is the dash in between or only in one word?
I believe it's all one word.
Try to type that in the user pad.
U-Car.
So it's U-Car system basically.
Never heard of that one.
I found after a while some,
bash command.
I can show you in the user pad because it is quite large.
And this does analyze how much kernels you have installed
and then it writes you the pseudo command
that you then can enter by yourself
and it will clean out all the old kernels
and then at the end you do a small set
the pseudo, the auto remove.
But there I also have a,
click a bit longer one.
Okay, I put a discussion on the tool
in the channel.
The tool itself is hosted on GitHub.
It's U-Car system dash core.
Thank you.
I put that same link in the show notes.
Do we have a link to the GitHub page?
I can get that half a second.
There you go.
Thank you, sir.
You're quite welcome.
Yeah, I don't use it as much as I should
but it has been my favorite tool on a lot of
a Ubuntu base system.
Well, as I said, I play with everything
but I seem to settle on Ubuntu base
because it's a freer than Debbie and base
and I am quite controlled and apt.
I just don't get this minus cat-s-y used
on Pac-Man.
I am currently also using an arch derivative
called Arco Linux.
And it seems to be very comfortable for me,
which is interesting.
I have used several arch distros.
And this is a first one
that actually uses Grab and will share
with a Debbie and slash Ubuntu base system
with Menjaro and either controlled the Grab entirely
or if an Ubuntu base system held the Grab
it would not boot.
It would boot the black screen and I'd have to actually
use BIOS booting to it.
And Arco Linux has not doing that to me.
Well, what is Arco Linux?
Arco Linux is an arch project
that they basically want to get beginners
into arch.
And the more you progress,
the closer you get to real arch they claim.
I haven't gotten to that point yet, of course.
Has several desktop just like any arch system.
I'm using the Tay.
I also installed UK UI.
I installed Plasma
and LXQT.
I could not get them.
I do not know right now.
I could not get the plasma stuff to update.
I don't know why I think maybe their plasma repo
was messed up or something.
But Matay works like I'm using Linux Mint
Matay for all intents and purposes.
Yeah, I'm an XFCE guy.
Well, they definitely have that.
I was burned out on XFCE.
It might be good now.
But it's only been a few few versions now
that they actually improved the graphics on XFCE.
And it was pretty ugly for quite a while.
Everyone's going use the next Linux.
I use the next Linux.
I just blew my eyeballs out.
So we are on the next.
Are we all running in the next time?
Yeah, 1433 should be if there is a half hour time zone.
No, I'll be just a half hour time zone yet.
Oh, maybe it is.
230.
2030.
Yep, 1433.
Like I said.
Oh, you're right.
I'm sorry.
You're in Europe.
Who are we welcoming this half hour?
We're welcoming Afghanistan.
Kabul.
Candahar.
Missouri.
Sherry.
That's out.
And it's a Taliban list.
Those people have any modems.
Welcome.
Welcome.
Well, happy New Year, everybody.
Hey, net miner.
Hey, honey.
Hey, there we are.
Well, that's why I think of him as Mr. Biden.
Because, like, a real president would know screw the boot, like.
Looks like I came just in time.
Look, I was missing his warranty.
Oh, yeah, I see Joseph here too.
Is he been on?
No, it was earlier.
Haha.
That since I've been on any out.
Oh, now net miners have been holding the 4 times since the beginning.
the beginning. All right, that's great. Martin C was here. He seems to be doing all right,
although I guess this is the combo for his next storm. Yeah, been pretty rough. Oh, I've got the
Jitzy server up too. Well, that'll be fun. Yeah. I'm not going to connect to it right now because
I'm kind of back and forth. I'm worth decreasing the house. So it's taking all the
Christmas stuff down, cleaning. I just kind of keep popping and popping it back and forth. When
they time to go downstairs, I kind of put the headset on, listen to what's going on. My
blah, say a few things and then pop off. Yeah, I'm kind of doing the same. Just doing some housework.
I'm just wearing my boxers. So I'm not going to be on video anyway. It'd be super popular though.
It would be that or the exact opposite. That's a bit of KMI, I think. Yeah, most definitely.
Although since I'm the king of no camera, I couldn't throw any stone. I drove off for a while.
Talk to you later, guys. Yeah. Nice talking to you. Yeah, we had talked it in the matrix room. We
had talked about Francois. I've been using that lately and it's really, it's really well done for
how early in the project it is. I'm enjoying it. Well, I have bad news. Betty White just died and this
is real. Wow, that's crazy. When did that happen? Just earlier today. Oh, wow.
Because I'm always, well, I'm just talking about her last night and how she's just turned 100.
She's still 99. Well, she was turning 100 soon. Yeah, is January 17, 1922 to December 31, 2021.
So she was only 18 days from her 100th birthday. Wow, dang. With a television career spending
over nine decades, White has worked longer in that medium than anyone else in the television industry,
earning her a Guinness World record in 2018. I remember when she was playing an older woman in
Golden Girls and that was like 30, about 30 years ago. Maybe not about 30 years ago.
All right. Guys, my wife is complaining that I'm not spending enough time with her. So I'm going to
probably just mute my mic and go away. Don't expect to hear from me for a while. All right.
Yeah, well, the lady interrupts her. Hey, Joe. Joe has opened his mouth.
How's it going, Brad? Sure one on this apple. Yeah. Yeah. It's going good. It's going good.
It's really talking about more than she got him in here. Sorry, Joe.
Hello, I was disconnected earlier. Well, like I said, I'm muting and going away for a while,
then I should be back. I really love my new think center. Yeah, I've got a think center. It's maybe
not a new one, but well, this is a refurb. So it's probably five years old anyhow, but yeah, I've got
an extra refurb. It's pretty good. The only thing is that I need a DVD mount for four
ratings and it's all proprietary. Okay. See you guys later. See you, Moss. Yeah, we summoned
Mortency out of ten air. Hey, Danny. Happy new year, buddy. I mean, the next, sorry. It's fine.
Everybody knows the gig is up. The secrets out now. That's my secret identity. We have, um, yeah,
we were, we were having a great time including a gentleman from Switzerland. So if you all
watched them, we yet. The space marine movie. I watched it. Yes, it wasn't as good as I
remember to be in the first time I watched it. The funny thing is, I think it's actually better than
what I really thought. I originally started watching it and I had the little expectation at first and
then the more I watched them, I'm like, all right, this is actually pretty good. Well, I got
so next week Friday to watch it, right? Yeah, yeah, yesterday. I didn't expect much just because I
didn't really know the law and stuff. I thought it'd be kind of confused, but it explained enough
in the movie to let you know what's, you know, what's going on. Maybe not the whole warhammer
law, but at least enough to what to see what's going on in the movie. Yeah, if we want to put a
business together, making miniatures or live, uh, uh, uh, costume stuff for people, like, uh, components
that are actual size, there's tons of money in that. Oh, in, uh, in the warhammer universe?
In a universe? Yes, they are, like, beyond, uh, cosplayers. So haven't seen the cosplay stuff.
I've done the miniatures. I've never seen any of the cosplay stuff. It's really big over in Europe.
You should, uh, so I've heard you should, uh, check out a couple YouTube videos on it. Cool.
Also, uh, yeah, well, there was somebody who was going through the Warhammer 40K, the 40K
lore, lore. Like a podcast or YouTube or what? YouTube channel. And I guess it, some of that is,
is pretty deep waiting. Oh, yeah, there is a lot of, uh, lore, uh, a lot of books and, uh, each,
each group has their own lore and all, um, like, just layers upon layers upon layers of
story and, yeah, there's a lot. Also, it is deliberately disjointed.
I mean, the lore has built in voids, inconsistencies and just sort of black areas.
It is not designed to be a seamless history of, like, we would consider from normal history.
Well, yeah, I'm sure that's still on purpose because the whole idea of the game is useful
to be kind of, uh, doing those battles yourself. Well, what I'm saying is it's not, um, like other,
I briefly did some tabletop, uh, marine games. It, it's not one, one coherent thing.
You're, there's a lot of room for improvisation and for, it continued,
correction and expansion. There was an old, uh, a thrash metal band,
bolt-prower. They did a whole album that was, uh, drums of chaos. It was all, uh,
Warhammer stories. It was great. Yeah. If you can't find it, I'll throw it on the plex.
All right. I think world eater is my favorite song on that album,
drums of chaos. That's a little bit. Oh, as anyone got in the chance to get out and see
either Spider-Man or Matrix. See, Matrix. Yeah. That's all Matrix. Uh, one of the guys that
did it, uh, available digitally, right? Right. That's on HBO Max. I've been seeing it advertised.
It just hadn't, my coworker said it sucks. Yeah. So I don't know if it does or not. It's what he says.
What he says? Matrix. Yeah. Uh, one of the guys that did a talk at a OLF is from Columbus
and his company, I think was called, uh, our member or what it was called. Uh, but they rented out
a gateway film center down near the convention center and uh, had a free tickets for, uh, uh,
the Matrix of the night. It came out in Columbus. What did you want? It was a little worried at the
beginning with all the references back to Hollywood, redoing things and making money on stuff and
metadata and all that, um, uh, but it didn't, uh, seem like the, uh, it seemed more like a, uh,
comments back to people who hadn't seen the original trilogy, you know, to say that we're redoing this,
um, uh, kind of to set a standard. So it's a standalone movie, but there was enough stuff in it.
The reference back to the other movies that was, uh, entertaining and funny if you'd seen the first three.
Yeah, yeah, and funny if you, uh, didn't like the first three, uh, kind of sad if you did.
I have no opinions by the way. Yeah, it was, it wasn't, it wasn't great. I didn't like necessarily
dislike it, but it, it just, it wasn't great. And you're like you said that that whole beginning
where it kind of makes fun of it. Well, I mean, it almost like makes fun of itself.
Yeah. That was a little bit weird. But again, I also forgot that apparently they, uh,
they both, uh, him and Trinity both died at the end of the old. Yeah.
And let's go back and rewatch out. It's funny. I thought I rewatched it somewhat recently.
Well, they did make reference in the movie to that that they had died, but that someone's
so had kept them, uh, had, uh, had re-redirected them. Yeah, do we house her? Yeah, really,
do we house her the main house? I did enjoy that. Yeah. Yeah. That's the first thing I said when I saw
your mother. Yes, he was a lot nasty. You're at how I met your mother that probably said him
up for this role better. Did anybody see, uh, what was his Christmas? What Christmas?
Eight big Christmas. It was about, uh, him trying to get a, uh, uh, uh, an attendee as a kid.
No. No. Fox Dr. Horrible singer-long. Well, I cannot to watch any Christmas movies.
They had no relatives for me. Anybody see Black Friday? The Bruce Campbell movie? No.
What was that about? Uh, the Friday sale and like, uh, uh, the, uh, store that he's running.
It looks like it's invaded by dead lights. It looks like just a, uh, evil dead side project or something.
It looks funny. Is it esmart? I don't remember. I don't have to find that. I thought,
tell my collect. I don't have to watch that. Whatever happened to Bruce Campbell anyhow, he was such
an action figure when he was younger and then the next time you see him, he's moved. It's actually all
marked. It's an esmart. It's all marked instead of esmart. And it's not dead. I like to
men, um, um, burn notice. Burn notice was broken. Oh, yeah. Love burn notice. And the five
movie, but I had no idea that was Bruce Campbell for the longest time because he looks so different
from when he was, say, Brisco County, Jr. That was Richard too. I still have not watched
Brisco County, Jr. But I watched burn notice specifically because Bruce Campbell was in it.
Did you see there was a side movie? Yeah, Sam. Yeah. There's a Sam. I believe I saw that. Okay.
And like Bruce Campbell lost all that weight. And basically didn't look anything like he looked
like during the series, but he was supposed to be 20 years younger or whatever. Anybody watch
AF Steve or dead? HBO series? I don't watch. I don't watch episode. But I wasn't a big evil dead
fan in the first place so I didn't keep watching. I loved it. Was so mad. They canceled it after
three seasons. I watched the first two. I was still going to watch the third. Watch the first season.
I started the second season. I'll have a. I still have all the episodes of Brisco County
Jr. saved on my hard drive. So that was a good show. They never should have canceled that one.
Yep. With Christian Clements and almost playing a normal person for a change.
Which one was he? Did not hear what you said there. Oh, I was asking which one was Christian Clementsum.
Christian Clementson is the, it is a little bit on the round side. He's tall. He's got extremely
white blonde hair. He was on Boston legal for a long time playing aspergers. Really severely asperger
type person. He's been on a number of other shows playing different levels of ASP. He was actually
on, um, oh, what's that show with with the autistic doctor, a surgeon? No, not house. The kid,
Freddie Hightower is the actor's name based on a Korean medical show, but I watched it all the time
and I just blanked any how he was on that as a guy who was in denial about being an ASP.
So he usually gets ASP roles and on brisco county junior. He was more or less normal. He was just playing
a regular lawyer. Well, an 1800's lawyer. Right. I'm probably talking about still Julius Randall
is who really made that show. Yes, definitely. Well, hey, I guess you're not going to have to worry
about doing any editing this year, honky. Why is that for this show? Do you know your show?
If I wouldn't have to edit it. I'm recording it. I'm recording it. Oh, are you? I don't know.
Yeah, I'm recording it. Um, we're recording this stream. Oh, I'm doing it. So I'm providing this
stream because, um, I am, and streaming too, um, a nice castover, but, um, it's the same
URL that we have for the show notes, except for it's, um, at port 8,000 slash, um, good Lord. That's a good one.
Thank you, Lord. I have it somewhere. Oh, my. It should be on the, it's purest type. Hold on.
Yeah, Joe was just seeing that there wasn't a mobile recording going on.
Well, there was a lot of issues earlier when, uh, Ken was trying to record directly on here.
Wasn't working. It was just causing dropped or the audio to be extremely,
file-on-ish. So yeah, um, I thought he was recording this stream as well. And I know I've since
I have the, um, I'm running the ice cast server. I'm using a, um, a client for ice cast called Butt
and it has a built-in thing that I can, uh, record. So I have it every, it's, uh, doing a
starting a new recording every three hours. So hopefully, hopefully that's working. And wow,
do we have a lot of people listening to the stream? Trust the system. Well, let's see,
do they give me a told number at the top? No. So I'm going to have to, see, one, like 20.
Okay. Where is it being streamed to YouTube? No. No, uh, ice cast. Oh, uh, like I said,
I was just wondering where people were listening to it. Are they actually tuning into the ice
cast server? Uh, yeah. The ice cast server pumps out of your URL. And, um, honestly, normally,
if I had HTTPS set up to it, uh, you probably just log into it straight through a browser. If not,
it's better to pump it through like a BLC. Okay. I tried to get my wife involved and she doesn't
seem to be interested. So, so who was, uh, that also had a think center? I have, uh, a couple of
them. What models? What model? M58 desktop. And, uh, what is it? 83 tower? I recently got one
referred for free and I'm having problems with it. I don't know what model it is. Okay, I got a
referred M700 through eBay and it's, it's a joy. Little bit of saying it's supposedly a desktop,
I guess. I usually show people buying brackets and hanging them on the back of their TVs. Well,
I need to try to get something grabbed out of the post office before the weekend. So, I'm going to
have to break off here and clean up and I'll get you later. Have a good one. See no matter,
I may just leave the channel open. Be safe. Yeah, I got this little bit of things,
center. It's about the size of the external DVD drive and it's replacing a Z800 workstation. So,
that's a huge difference. So, if anyone wants to buy a Z800 workstation, I've got one,
but the shipping is going to be enormous. Morton, see, what's wrong with your, uh, what's your
Lenovo? There's a whole thanks center. Um, well, it wasn't doing anything when I booted it up.
Oh, the powerlight would come on. No beat from Zelda. Two of the installing, uh,
you're really low, you're really low right here. Yeah, very muffled. How about now?
Be careful in there. Uh, two of the three memory sticks were bad and now I'm having problems
booting after installing to a hard drive and I can't get back into the bios. I'm assuming
I need to switch EFI on or off for legacy mode or something. Well, the first thing I did since
it came with Windows 10 was to install Linux to it and it was a bearer to do that because they have
a different, uh, bios than they have on their, uh, laptops. And I had to get with get together with
Leo and, uh, a couple of other people and figures that there's an interesting combination of things
I had to do to get it to start booting, uh, from my USB stick. And I published it to itsmos.com.
If anyone's interested. But look at the show notes. So Hockey, have you tried out that fun
quail yet? Not yet. Uh, this week has been surprisingly hard to get, uh, down here to work on
anything. It's, it's pretty neat. And it's like, uh, it's fairly professional. Like, we can compare it
to the desktop interfaces for, um, how Google play music was or, or, um, Spotify. It's very similar.
You're, which is my command, Joe. It pulls in all the album artwork. You know, that stuff.
Oh, oh, who's my wish? Your magic words were put a link in the show notes.
Oh, that wasn't my word. That was mine. But thank you all the same. Oh, I'm sorry. It's on a
like Joe, Hockey. Well, actually, I put a link on the mumble page. So it'll have to be transferred to
the show notes. The hardest part about fun quail, or the most time consuming is just tagging your
library correctly. And uh, so I didn't realize how disjointed mine was until I brought it through
tagging program and realized, oh my god, it's just a big mess. Because a fun quail needs that
metadata to show your library, uh, correctly. Right. But I installed it through Docker, the multi container
set up and uh, everything went smooth except for the proxy settings, just because my proxy
situations a little bit different. Once I got that working, everything rolled in just nice. And
once I get everything packed correctly and uploaded, I've uploaded, uh, I'm going by letters. I've
uploaded A through E so far. And then just kind of doing a letter at a time. Once I get everything
done, I'll make it public. Nice. Then you can see how terrible my music cases. Oh, and I haven't,
I haven't died into the Federation part, either yet. You can see other, uh, pods, I guess they call
them fun quail pods, follow them and stuff like that. They can follow you and, um, depending on how
they have their library configured, you can either listen to it if they haven't made public for
other pods for other servers, I guess, or if they make it, um, um, oh, they only make it public,
if you're registered on that particular server. So it just depends on how they configure there's.
How terrible is your taste in music? Got a house fan, are you?
Uh, there's not, I don't, there may be some house music on there. Uh,
when I stopped collecting music was maybe 10 or 11, maybe 15 years ago. So that's kind of where
my taste-hand. That's kind of where I'm at. Yeah, and from then I just switched to YouTube and I didn't
do, um, what's the, I don't, what's the big music streaming service, um, Spotify? Yeah, I didn't
do Spotify, but I did, I had a Google Play music account and that eventually morphed into YouTube
music and it also, uh, gives me access to YouTube premium, I guess. I just went ahead and kept it.
Google Play music going. Yeah, just like all other Google projects, they don't really care about,
but it has got me diving back into my old libraries and listening to music again, which is cool,
and there's a lot of stuff that I forgot how much I liked and saw this have been, and the
Android app is great for phone to Funk well app. It's, it's really well done. Uh, so I'll use that
a lot, and uh, you can use it to subscribe to podcasts and stuff like that too. So it's, it's
a lot of features. If anybody didn't know what I'm talking about, it's, uh, Funk well is a kind of
a decentralized music hosting service that you host yourself, kind of like Spotify, but it's
federated. So you could communicate with other servers, kind of like Masadon, used the activity
pub, uh, protocol, and it's just for music though. So you upload all your music or you can make
an account on somebody else's server if you don't want to host your own, and uh, they have
quotas on how much you can upload and stuff. But if you host your own, you know, you give
yourself as much basis you want. I think I have, I have all my music hosted on a separate, uh,
drive, which is, uh, 256 gigabytes SSD, I think. So I've got plenty of space.
Honky said he'll be back later. Oh, but this weekend is, uh, dedicated to peer tubes. So I want to
get that up and run and, and that's kind of the same way. It's a federated hosting service, but for video,
and it also, uh, if, if your network needs it, you can, it gives you, uh, peer to peer, uh,
streaming capabilities to, to release some of the stress on your network. So I'm currently
installing that. I have to get that configured. But yeah, if you want to decentralized,
kind of your media life, Funk well, and peer tube, but both good ways to do it.
peer tube is cool. I could, uh, what I plan on doing is just hosting videos of my different
electronics projects and build projects and stuff like that and post posting those to my peer
tubes server. And, uh, it has live streaming stuff like that, kind of like OBS and, uh, other
services, but it's mainly meant as like a YouTube alternative. But, you know, it's decentralized.
So it's just dependent on the users. There's no central authority. So you get to take the kind of
good with the bad, you know, there's going to be some pretty nefarious stuff on the peer tube
network, but that's just the way it goes. Are you guys saying earlier that Betty White died?
Yeah, that's what Moss was saying. I believe in the Bible. That's one of the signs of the
coming of the apocalypse. Right? She's older than twice bread. Yeah, uh, that's kind of, I mean,
even as old as she is, still like, it's one of those kind of running jokes is to chill out last
everybody weeks before her hundredth birthday. Twenty twenty one claimed another one. Oh, yeah,
she she get away. It's one more day. You know, she made it to twenty twenty two.
This is not how it works. I, uh, I got on fleets, uh, blog with the last post that I found on
there was him describing, you know, getting ready for his trip is road trip. It gets to be living
on the road for a while. So fleets, if you're listening to this, you need to update your blog. So
we know how your adventure is going. So anything you've been working on? I mean, Haitian really,
any 3D printing? I need to get up the 3D printer up and running. I was able to pick up some
filament on a given take, one of the given take sites. So I have a bunch more filament that I got
for free, all ABS. So I'm going to need an enclosure for that. Then I have a huge amount of pet G sitting
there waiting to be used. And I think, um, two and a half spools of PLA still got plenty of printing
that I can do. But I don't know what I want to 3D print next. I've been watching a videos that
those, uh, those build it yourself, those Core X Y printers, like the Voron and, and those,
and those things are pretty impressive. Yeah, it looks like a lot of work. A lot of work,
but I think if I were to get another 3D printer, it would be something similar to that,
just because the trade-off for the work is quite pretty good. I mean, considering the speed and
stuff like that, uh, I like how they, uh, uh, uh, can handle really fast prints. And I imagine I
would learn a lot during the building process, too. I have a volcano, uh, and, uh, the hot end,
or heater block in, uh, B6 hot end, right on my desk right now, waiting to be installed. So, uh,
the volcano is pretty cool. The heater block, it comes with a bunch of, uh, different nozzles,
the biggest one is 1.2 millimeters. That's pretty big. Yeah, you really put, put up. There's
one. Yeah, I might have some one. I think, also the large ones that I have are like 0.8,
but I haven't even switched away from, what is it, 0.4? Yeah, 0.4 is usually default.
Uh, I'll probably end up putting on the 0.8 nozzle. I won't be going too crazy. And, uh,
but even that is, you know, when you, when you go up double the size like that, that's actually a quadruple
of the surface area coming out of the nozzle. So, throw out a lot of extra heat. Yeah, bring your
speed down just a little bit. But that's, that's why I got that, that new heater block that volcano
here blocked the handle, the bigger nozzle. Because now with the default, uh, just to end or
three set up, I have, uh, just pushing pet G through theirs, you know, I'll get some skipping
sometimes, even when I've got it, it like, you know, 245 for the, for the nozzle temperature.
So, I imagine this will help. Is anybody excited for CES this year?
Not as much as I used to be. Uh, yeah. I'm not saying to kind of coverage from, um, like,
you know, podcasters and tech podcasters at CES, like I used to. Maybe I'm not looking for it as
much, but I'm not seeing like really good coverage of it by people that I like.
That maybe you're just not as dulled in as used to be. Yeah, you know, it'd be maybe I'm
getting old. Yeah, uh, my interest has kind of shifted from like consumer gadgets to like, uh,
more like components that you can use in your own builds and stuff like that, like at, like some
of the single-bork computers, I'm really interested in there coming out, uh, soon and stuff like
that, but they're not going to really be a big CES table. Same thing with like gaming consoles,
and I'm kind of stuck in the past where it comes to that. To pee even computer games, you know,
I tend to play stuff that's already pretty, you know, out for a long time. Like, I didn't even,
I didn't even look at the steam, uh, the winter sale holiday. So, yeah, I haven't either.
I have a couple of games that I think I have, uh, marked the send me an email if they go on sale.
And I know that I'm waiting on page 1 is Wonderland, but that'll be a couple of months from now,
I think, where that comes out. Yeah, I haven't even been playing borderlands all that much lately.
Oh, I, since we're talking about games, what I have been playing now is that a
new Android PS2, I mean, later, uh, athletics too, uh, I have a really impressed with the
performance from that thing. Yeah, yeah, I'm playing on it. Right now, right now, I'm playing
that X-Files game, uh, the game on PS2 just because I'm a big X-Files fan. It's actually pretty decent,
you know, it's got a lot of the, you know, it has the decabony and, uh, a Jillian Anderson or the voice
actors on there and, and in a lot of references to the shows and you're figuring out mysteries and
you've got a kill zombies and things like that, but it's actually compared to most games,
licensed officially licensed games, it's, it's actually really good, especially if you're into X-Files.
I've been playing that and I've got some, uh, some RPGs on there too. I might delve into later,
but just for, you know, if you ever played the, uh, the desktop PS2 emulator, PCSX2, it's, it's
spaced out of that code, so you have a lot of the same options and stuff that you would have in
that emulator. Oh, yeah, probably looks very similar to retroarchs. Yeah, so, uh, I recommend it.
Now, it's the only, the only bad thing is he's only distributing it on the place door. He doesn't,
doesn't have like, uh, somewhere, you know, he has a GitHub, but it doesn't have the code on there,
just like your docs and stuff, but, um, so it, and you can only get it from the place door if you have,
if he, I guess if he's decided your processor is beefy enough to handle it, so, but I've been impressed,
so, and, uh, I use a little Bluetooth controller with it, and it works great with a controller.
And you're doing that from your phone, so which phone are you using?
I'm using the Galaxy S20. But yeah, that should be beefy enough.
Yeah, I tried to push up the, um, what is that called when you, when you double or triple the
resolution? I tried to push that up, you know, past three or four, and it's, it did some big times
slow down, so I keep it on one or two. Okay. But you have, you have the note 10, right?
Yeah, the note 10 plus. Yeah, yeah, that should be good enough, too.
Could be. Hopefully. If not, I'll have to, you know, an emulator on my pie.
Are you, uh, like, pie? You're piecing? You're piecing, I'm too. You can just install it natively,
native emulator. Yeah, maybe not sure what the performance was playing. Probably pretty bad,
but, um, no, I think most of the games that that I like playing are even older than PS2, so I think
what, um, GTA Vice City came out on the PS1 and then, um, armored core masters of arena came out on
the PS1, so I definitely shouldn't have any problems emulating those. Yeah, the PS2, I think, was the
last console I actually bought, or it might have been a game cube. It was around that same era,
but that was the last time I was in the consoles. Besides, like various handhelds and stuff.
Yeah, the emulation is still great on the PSP, so. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah, I have a lot of
a nostalgia for that era. Plus everything before it, too. I have a bunch of PSP still that I
repaired. Yeah, so have you been putting those on eBay or what? Well, I had them on Facebook Market
Place and I kind of got tired of dealing with people on Facebook Market Place. I need to put them up again,
but I, I tell you, you know, bring me a load of wood by and I'll hand one to you,
bought it and ready to go. Like, 16,000 games. For people wondering about that, he means firewood.
Yeah, you pervert. How did that? I haven't been working on much. You know, I got those girl lights built.
Right, to go. I ordered some more of those cop chips and then besides working on Funkwell and
PairTube and I had that new computer that I got from MasterDawn that somebody gave away
not far from me. I picked that up. I three computer. How did you get what to do with that yet?
I do have a couple of projects in the pipe. I'm, I have a PS3 in front of me that needs the
EDDD drive, the disk drive, taken apart and fixed so that it actually pulls disks in and back out.
And then I need to check the model number and see if it's, if it's modelable. So it can work as an
emulation station, but a lot of them are, so probably not, but I'll definitely get that fixed.
And then I have Xbox 360 that I need to order a disk drive for and replace and then I'll have a whole
bunch of working Xbox 360s just sitting around. And yeah, I have one pair of Hesh3s that needs
a new battery and then two pairs of Hesh3s that need probably a full cable replacement across the band.
Yeah, I just fixed some LG tones, the true wireless earbuds, fixed a pair of those,
and nothing exciting on that. Basically the glue came apart on them and so I glued them back together.
I know I was going to ask you about that, that open razor software. Have you used it? Have you tried that yet?
Did, I did set up the open razor software, but it did not work for the razor and our ultimate.
Yeah, it's working, I just don't have any other razor devices that it would work for.
Yeah, I don't, the only razor device I have is that razor kishi, the phone controller,
but it's so I can't really test it on anything. I think if I dig through my stuff, I have one of those,
one of the USB sound cards that's supposed to provide what 7.1 audio for certain other
razor Kraken headsets. I'll check that out and see if it is in the list, but I have to find it first.
Oh, one thing I found out recently is that clone Zella, the cloning software, has built an SSH support,
which was really cool because you can just boot to a clone Zella USB and then you can clone your
drive via SSH so you don't need a monitor or anything like that and clone it over the network.
So I did that a couple of times on the rock 64s I think they are because those are in cases
that you have to actually disassemble the case to get the SD card out and I didn't want to do that.
So I tried booting into clone Zella and it worked and I could SSH and then LSB okay and
found the drive and just clone it via SSH over the network. It's pretty cool. I've been doing some
server backup maintenance lately. Radio Shack is rebranding as a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
No way. Yeah, really? Yeah. Why? Just die already. Because it's a hundred and
however many years old and they want to keep it going. They should transform into like
a parts warehouse like a deal extreme or something like that but they have local shipping instead
of shipping from China. That would be what I would like. Yeah. Well, I always liked Radio Shack
but there aren't enough tankers out there I guess to keep them in business. I mean that's a niche
that they could fail though. Yeah, yeah. I agree. I don't I don't agree with Joe. I think that
that is a niche that needs filled and could be if they would push at that direction. I mean,
even considering, I mean, I get what Joe saying about not a lot of tankers out there but there are
enough to at least sustain a business. That's an online business. So I would agree with that.
But not the- They could do everything I always liked. Radio Shack in the past. It was a place
that I could physically walk into and, you know, buy the things that I needed. If I needed a
resistor, you know, right now, I could walk in there and pick up any resistor that I needed.
See, I think that maker movement is big enough to where they- they could come back and do that,
you know, and it'd be sustainable. Now, what would- what would be attractive to like
investors, you know, public investors maybe not. But I mean, they could sustain
their business like that. Look at- I mean, whenever time I go to micro center, they're- they're
kind of DIY hobbyists, you know, section is- is get full of people, you know, looking for components
and stuff like that. Yeah, I haven't been a radio Shack fan ever since they got into cell phones
and all that stuff way back in the day. Well, most of your electronic stores, once they start
getting into that whole chain selling of, you know, cell phones and have a wide selection of DVDs
then it's time to start looking for another store because they're about to go out of business.
Yeah, I mean, there are already so many stores that do that, you know, from your best
buys and stuff like that, but you don't need any more of those. And people are more than likely
you're going to go to a bigger store like that to get a mobile phone or to the carrier store
rather than radio Shack in the first place. Yeah, it's just stupid decisions all the way around.
Um, well, once they start doing that type of thing, it's because they're trying to make deals
with big businesses in order to keep their business alive. Well, they're not alive anymore.
Right. Right, it's barely. Look what happened to like comp USA.
What's the price? Yeah, or, or, well, okay, I didn't see what happened to fries.
Fries just closed one day, like they had empty shelves and then they were closed.
But fries was never into the heavily into the DIY sector anyway. They had a lot of components.
Right. It wasn't like, I mean, I worked there when they first opened up and they had one
little wall with like electronic components, like resistors and stuff. And then the rest was like
modems and, uh, you know, graphics cards and things like that. But they didn't, they weren't really
that kind of niche either. But they, I think they mainly suffered from just poor management and poor
inventory management and like, towards the 80 years when I would go in there, they're just be
crap thrown everywhere and there's shelves would be a lot of, wow. Yeah. And then the staff was
worse than useless. Yeah. When I first got to Texas in, um, it was a 2016. It was, it
fries was nice and then it just slid downhill and it was better for me to go to my cross
center. But no, like with, uh, was it comp USA and what was that other one? Tiger Directed stores
for, well, yeah, it wasn't good. Well, Tiger Direct kind of bought up comp USA and then comp USA
did the whole cell phones DVDs. I'm out of business. You got some good deals towards the end there,
though, didn't you? Oh, yeah, I did. I did. I got like, it was eight different power supplies,
like high-end power supplies from their bargain bin for a dollar piece and they all worked. They were
just poor returns and like somebody kept a bracket out of it or something. A bunch of 1,000 watt
and 850 watt power supplies. I started power supply tester somewhere around here. That was a
make good bench power supplies. Yeah, I went through them. I sold a bunch of them either separately
or in systems that I had built for people. Don't think I have any left other than the one that's
currently in my machine. I've always looked at those build, those build guides for building a bench
power supply with the, with the PSU's and they look interesting. The only thing is that I've always
wanted, I have a good power supply. It's an old one in old HP power supply, but it's heavy and it's bulky
and it's paying the butt to use, but it works good, but I've always wanted one with a scope and
a cell scope and those are pretty pricey. Yeah, you know, I've seen people use the cell scope
on, you know, YouTube and all that, but I really don't have any idea. Yeah, I would like to have one
that they had the power supplies with the scope built in and those are really cool. They're also
pricey though. Yeah, Ben Heck uses one all the time. All right, I'm going to eat some lunch and
chop off for a while, make them back eating. I got some leftover, uh, uh, not ravioli, but like
tortilini. It's really good. It's good. It's good. Good stuff. And it got us like a Greek salad.
So we're going out to eat the other night. That's why I'll be eating. So anyway, happy New Year's
guys, but I don't talk to you again. I'll see you next year. Ha ha ha. On Friday. Yep. All right, Dr.
later. Anybody else still on? I'm still on. Hey, more than see. I'm here, uh, evidently the
town is going to have the house inspected. Chuck. All right. Well, I know what their goal is.
And, uh, I don't just have to quite the best rear guard action I can't. I believe their goal
is to see me on the street so that they're developer can pick up that property.
We're very low price. Yeah, low low price of one net minor. Well, if it gives them a gold start
to take back the money, they don't critically care. I'm going to have my lawyer handle context to the town,
but uh, I may have to bail out and see what I can do to handle some stuff.
Though coming back to this is probably going to be as healthy as anything that I'm going to be able
to do. Hope to talk to you guys later.
So more than see what's going on in your neck of the woods. You got any projects going on?
I stepped away for a minute. Um, I heard you. Um, I'm working on trying to get that think center
or think station or whatever it is. The desktop working, um, I need to back up, back up stuff and
migrate my podcast to my new phone before the old one dies again. Well, what's happening to the old
phone? It's five years, six years old, the USB charging board has been replaced twice. So is the battery?
Oh, nothing. You're a figure. The SD card in it is, is just as old and as 256 gigs of podcasts.
And it's the only, there's no backup. There's no nothing I need to, I need a new podcast solution,
workflow. Yeah. Hey, y'all. Hello. As my, uh, audio. All right. Yeah. It's actually really good.
I am hailing from snow covered Seattle, although I'm actually about to take off for just
second. I'll be right back. Uh, I'm also working part time on the two proxmox servers. I have
ones in the cloud, which are not supposed to do. And, uh, the other one is, uh, on that low,
mini AMD A6 1450, one of the, uh, little minis that I have. I'm trying to get the doctor up and
running and, uh, the certificates, um, to start doing all the projects like a minics with the, uh,
whale tail and peer tube and jettzy and matrix and see how much stuff I can run on a minimal amount
of, uh, virtualization. Uh, then for my, uh, website, I'm, uh, trying to get my get flow working,
using dip bucket. I'm trying to push. I'm doing something wrong. Uh, but I'm pushing stuff up to my
dip bucket source. And then my virtual hosting has a feature that links into the get and we'll pull
pull updates. Uh, but then I'm, I'm having problems setting up the hooks correctly. So it
deploys it. So, uh, so it's one of those situations where I'm not getting at myself. And, uh,
it's either going to take me six months or two hours of mentorship with somebody who knows what they're
doing. Sounds like you got a lot of fun playing. Well, the, the whole, uh, uh, with the website,
I tried that with RobertNail.com for my resume site, uh, to get a, uh, continuous deployment, uh,
I need to throw in a test somewhere, um, to test and use the results of the test to merge
merge to the master and then redeploy. But that was always something I wanted to do and could never
get it working. Uh, I don't know, maybe eight years now that it's just been one of those.
Don't have time to work through all the, what am I doing wrong? What's the right way to do it?
My, uh, uh, FX Tech Pro, the Linux phone with the keyboard should be here sometime this month.
Cool. Uh, can't wait. Have you been watching cryptocurrency lately?
I haven't been watching it. Uh, um, what do you call that? Um, jump rope. Yeah. Well, it's December. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. The, the, the crashing always happens in December. I'm really hoping for a lovely
bounce come, well, not like first thing tomorrow or anything, but first quarter. Yeah. And to
anticipate it, I'd, I'd, I'd, I'd discussions with the people at work over the last five years, uh,
telling them, you know, uh, it's true values, not been, not been met. Uh, once it's, um, has a, I don't know,
about a 15% saturation use globally. A Bitcoin will probably be worth one, one, to a hundred
million dollars in my, in my opinion, in my uneducated opinion. Yeah. Some were between one dollar
and a hundred million dollars. Yes. That makes perfect. Well, extra, extra sense. Oh, no,
I'm at one million versus a hundred million. Uh, uh, the more value I was going to value as I was
trying to have a conversation with my stepmother about cryptocurrency. And she just could not
understand the concept of something have, our, a currency that didn't have some kind of backing
to it in the way that, you know, fiat currency is supposed to. And it's like, even fiat currency
is given value based on people's perception of what golden silver is worth, even though there's
probably no actual backing of it now anyway. Yeah, now I, GDB, usually. But, uh, the whole thing
started with the Silk Road and Genghis Khan and Genghis Khan replacing golden silver with paper,
paper notes, the money is just a perception of value. I would argue that cryptocurrency has more
value because it's, especially if it's decentralized, because it just shows where, who, who has
the, the value, the value rests here. Right. And, you know, I tried to explain to where the fact that
it's us that gives value to everything and how much we're willing to pay for it. And as long as
there's somebody willing to pay for it, it has value. And then she's like, let's check by anything.
So it can't have any value. And it's like, you really think that your dollar is actually back.
And most of the US dollar these days is digital anyway. So how is it any different?
But yeah, and what was the value behind C shells and salt? Back, the value that people were
willing to give it. To give it. Yeah, yeah, that I'm nothing beyond that. But yeah, it was a
futile conversation for probably an hour of me trying to make a difference analogies so that she
could wrap her head around cryptocurrency. It just wasn't working. There was a video,
remember correctly, about explaining cryptocurrency, uh, it, like a kindergarten and, uh,
made a perfect sense to everybody I showed it to. You know what? I think it's funny.
It's all the reactions to the IRS saying, oh, everyone's saying it's a real money. So we're
going to tax it now. I mean, it's, it's very much like people want their cake and eat it, too.
Like, no, it's like, yeah, I agree. I agree. Completely, it should be taxed. My major problem with it
is how they're going about it. And, and treating it like trying to treat it like capital gains.
But, you know, you have this group of day traders out there that are moving this around date.
How are they really supposed to keep track of the multitude of transactions that they make in the
way that the government wants in order to provide them with the tax numbers? It's absolutely
insane to try and do it that way. I mean, people do that with stocks literally all the time.
You just have to build your systems to properly log things. Yeah, maybe. I mean, if you want to
treat it like money, then treat it like money. You know, don't do this half-assed thing or it's like,
oh, we want it to be treated like money. But then we don't actually want to like have the consequences
of it being treated like money. Well, they don't want it to be tracked. It's the whole thing.
And so if it's not being tracked, then they don't have to pay tax on it, which is stupid.
It's trackable. I mean, Bitcoin is trackable by design. You can see the entire history of
every Bitcoin, you see every transaction. Like, if you don't want to be tracked, use cash.
Well, there are other ways with cryptocurrency, not necessarily Bitcoin, but with cryptocurrency
itself to not be tracked. Don't have to attach your identity to the money that you're playing with,
unless you're on specific exchanges. Yeah. Well, if you think the feds can't track that down,
I got a bridge to sell you. Well, that was the whole point of the Silk Road and the scandal
that was going on around that. They were using cryptocurrency in order to do less traceable transactions.
Are there still ways to eventually track it down? Yeah, but you can still do
transactions that aren't attached to yourself. I mean, my very eyes. My biggest interest in
blockchain is keeping it clear of what's the word I'm looking for. Keeping track of, you know,
the origins of an item or what the story of an item, like it a museum, people want to know the,
oh, fuck, what's that word? Unforable token? Now, that is, you have your ledger and let me, let me
go Google word. I'm I'm brain farting. We're right back in the shot. Hey, Joe. Happy New Year.
Yeah, same to you man. Happy New Year from Indian Times. Oh, everyone.
New Year started in US as well. Oh, no. It's like 3 p.m. here. I'm still at work. Okay, Joe,
you know what happened? A flight from Taipei to Vancouver when bank it times.
A flight from Taipei, which token took off on Jan 1st, 2022. Will arrive at Vancouver on December 31st.
This came in the news because it crosses the international date. Right. Right. So it goes back
inside. Yeah. Yeah. So basically, you're back to the future reference kind of thing. It was made out
of it. Oh. So this will be all till what time today? Uh, like what 5 a.m. tomorrow. So another
14 hours or so. Okay, Mike. Okay, Mike. So how was your year at Joe in Linux? I was fun. Yes,
finally I also moved completely away from window and settled on something. Well, next week.
What did you settle on? Fedora 35. Uh, I do like Fedora. Since I'm like planning to contribute
for them. So maybe that's when bear metal machine is all with the best. I guess for testing.
Where are you? New Daddy, the capital. Whatever to you, Mardis.
Uh, I'm in aisle in the Midwest in the US. We my dream country to come and settle and once I get
the handle to hand over tech, like certified in something. Yeah, I don't know if you want to come here.
I want to. I want to move to the US. Well, get your degree or whatever. Or if you don't have it already.
I don't know if you do or not. And I'm a graduate. Okay, then. Back in 17.
I'll apply at Bank of America. And eventually you can just put in through them to come anywhere
that we have places in the US, which is New York, Texas, California. Heck, if you really want to,
you can go to Canada. Well, I know that Bank of America does have a bunch of people in India
and working as Linux assignments. So that actually would be a good foot in the door.
But even it's a port. I've similar to what you're doing now in a shot. You could get on as
support for any of the batches that we do. And then yeah, we have support to be in Texas in a
couple of years. Yeah, I look into that. Eventually, once I complete the LPIC one certificate,
April 2022, maybe after April. I need to work on my level two. Which LPIC level two?
Yeah. I have been using Linux for nine years now. I thought for sure I was going to fail when I
took the LPIC 101 and 102 together. I think the Southeast Linux Fest years ago. And
one person completed a single test before me. And I immediately completed my second one.
And I was positive I failed. I was like, there's no way I passed it. But I did pass both of them.
But what I'm looking at, it seems to be this simple command, which means to remember and
different iterations. Do you have your I last certification? Sorry. Your I tell certification
ITL. Yes, I have I till before. Good. Good. You have a degree and I tell certification in a
little bit of job history. You should be able to and I'll just support that you want.
Also, I have ISO 9000-1200 and it's auditors certification. It's patents.
Well, Joe, you're working on a new year, please. Well, like I said, it's only 3 p.m.
But yeah, technically the holiday is one day. Okay. But for my client, it's today like it was
Friday. So they were no one and declined on site. Yeah, there's not a lot of people actually
working today. There's about enough people to keep the batches limping along and that's it.
Okay. Um, one of those people, it's not working today. I don't work for Boofo. But yeah,
right now, I'm trying to get my comp text and to great with my laptop. Because then,
I could have a nice actual push to talk for doing this. Okay. So which piece do I need any
credit? Oh, uh, contact. So I have an active shooting head or headset for like, you know,
going to the green range. It's active hearing protection. But it also integrates with, uh,
it's up to integrate with your columns. And I want to hook that up to my laptop. Because it's
actually a really nice headset with push to talk and all that stuff. And then they would make doing
this easier. Is it Bluetooth? No, it's a hard wired NATO. Oh, is it a army thing?
They're one with the way. Well, not. Uh, it's literally the same thing that's what wears.
Because usually I see them using those in your, um, what you call a microphone. So
earphones, those like army people, these days to reduce the rate and everything. Oh,
I'm sorry. How does it hook up? Uh, it's hard wired. It's analog. There's no, uh,
3.5 millimeter or USP. Uh, none of those. It's NATO. NATO? Yeah. For it's literally military
comms gear. I'm trying to hook it up to my laptop. So I can use it for doing podcasting and such
like, or for conference calls. We, NATO has a standard for the equipment. That's pretty cool.
Now I got to know. Sweet. Trying to look up a picture for the connector. Oh, pirate, what
laptop hardware are you running in so cool? Oh, it's not, it's not the laptop side. It's the, uh, headset.
Um, feel like if you want to look it up, it's piled 3M pills or commtaps, commtack six,
COM TAC. Oh, it's a nice looking headset. Yeah, I'm piled for a comm.
Um, oh, it looks like the headset, which you wear at a gun range. If I'm not mistaken, what
I can see. Yes, you, uh, I, you can, in fact, wear them to the gun range. Um, but they also
it's great with, you know, your gear when you're out in the field. Sweet. Are you, um, are
me guys? My image. I am not. Okay. Well, the trip team shows what looks to be a 3.5 millimeter
jack or pole. Um, it's more like, uh, quarter inch, uh, four pole, but it's not quite, um, it's,
it's a, it's a military standard. It's not a civilian standard. Okay. It's a TP 120 socket. Yeah.
And then they do make $42 adapter's 3.5 millimeter. Yeah. I actually tried one and I didn't work.
So I'm having to, I'm trying to figure out how to be wired. So it does work. That could be fun.
Are you taking it all the way apart? And then using a, um, multi meter with, uh, in continuity mode,
uh, check and see where the leads go. Got my fluke right here. Awesome. Say, uh, fluke
107, not the ultra high dollar one, but it does the job. So I always figured I could buy the cheap, uh,
cheap multi meters, but like when I'm under a need to house or something, I just wanted to work.
I don't want to have to crawl back out on the house to get it replaced me just because I bought a cheap one.
You know, not that I wire houses anymore, but you know, I still buy the cheap ones because I'm a cheap
bastard. No, I like using my, um, razor, nori ultimate on here. So that way, I could just have a
a mute button right on the headset, reach up and click it. I have a keyboard pushed out now,
but I get this headset working. Like, I've got, you know, little solder melted just clips onto your,
uh, shirt or whatever, and at your shoulder, and I just clip that. You know, that could work for you.
So Joe, what has been you? Okay, good to see you this past year. The whole Linux Nick guy.
I haven't done a whole lot of testing of other operating systems recently, but, um, you know,
Guru to is definitely on the list. And I know our next episode of, um, Nick cast is going to be our
alternate district as if our main district goes away. And what we're supposed to come up with, like,
five, and they're not supposed to be derivative, but, uh, that's kind of get difficult for me to pick
five that are non-derivative. So I know. For me, first choice is Fedora. Right. Second. And if it
disappears, then I'll go back to the Ubuntu. Oh, mine's going to be meant. Oh, this is really difficult.
Yeah, how do you pick five? It's going to be meant. And then Fedora and then Garuda and then,
Joe, I can vouch for Garuda. It has Garuda on battery life as well. Like, it gives me up to six hours
on a single charge that I heard of in art. Yeah, and then it probably, um, MX is a poor fourth place.
It's difficult because if we list Ubuntu and Debian, then if Ubuntu disappears, then Debian,
you can't choose that. I would assume that's what they're saying, but it makes sense that if I
have meant disappear, if I wanted to go to Ubuntu, then I could, and if Ubuntu disappeared,
and I want to go to Debian, I could. But I think we should have Norbert about this kind of
vacation. It's still going forward. Well, we can ask him tomorrow. Oh, actually, I'm traveling.
It's today for me, and I'm traveling. So I tried to join him. Yeah, I'm, uh,
Well, Fedora is my daily driver, but when I used to use a Centos 8 for like,
servering things, like, if I needed, you know, like my database or shit like that. But that
went away here recently, or it's going away. And yeah, I've switched over to FreeBSD for my server
OS. Are you liking FreeBSD? Uh, it does the job. It doesn't complain about shit. It just goes.
Yeah, I mean, even, uh, kicking around, I've even put it on a desktop and been playing around with it on the
desktop. Okay, I did. You're just using the, you know, ancestor of Linux, and it's really good
to hear somebody using Unix, even though Unix is outdated, almost, these years. Well, you can't really
call BSD outdated because they're still ongoing development for BSD. It just forked at a different
point than the next did. And there are adapters that are built to make it so that Linux applications
run on BSD. I'm just not sure how well they work. I didn't know this. I mean, I thought Unix
was like relegating to the bottom after Linux. Well, a lot of times, um, with BSD, like it will run the same
desktop environments as Linux. Okay, so the major difference will be package manager and all that stuff.
I'm not really the one to ask on that. Okay, so pirate, how's the FreeBSD experience so far?
Sorry, I, uh, tangled up in wars. What was the question? How is the FreeBSD experience so far?
Uh, I mean, like I said, it's nice and stable. Like everything I want in this server or OS for
database host or something like that, you know, just install a post-grads and go.
Um, what desktop environment are you using? I use Q-tile, which is a, uh,
telling window manager written in Python. Oh, so Q-tile is that one Linux also. I believe. Okay.
Lincoln running on a FreeBSD too. Uh, when I was playing around with the FreeBSD desktop,
I was running DWM. Yes, so Joe was right. Uh, Unix can run all the Linux desktop on
what like DWM. For example, we were just discussing it today. I mean, right now. Yeah. I got to stick
with my obscure, telling window managers. No, timing windows managers are fun. I use I-CWM,
and I would like this, it's supposed to suit my workflow rather than norm or X-F-E, for example.
But I'm too scared to make even small changes to it in the config because I may break something.
Um, as far as BSD's running Linux, I know at least some of them, uh, I think no mad BSD may be
one that uses, um, Linux versions of Chrome and Firefox to provide the DRM, uh, to give,
to give the BSD access to DRM stuff that they don't support natively, like your Netflix or what
have you. I believe it was no mad BSD, which is a, um, external drive BSD. It's designed to be run as a
live system on some kind of media, uh, not as a traditional install. So that can become my
backup voice. I think we are no mad BSD. Yeah. So you'll have to look into it and, but it certainly
will be able to, or should reasonably be able to, uh, access your other BSD, uh, systems depending
on what file system and whatnot. I'm not very experienced in the BSD world, but I wanted to provide
what help I could. Uh, so netminer, uh, what is your basic system set up, right now? My systems are
set up under Linux Mint and, or, or a similar Ubuntu system, XFCE, multiple screens, and at least
one SSD for boot, couple of my machines are dual SSDs so that I have a boot and a fast, uh, drive
for virtual systems. Um, that's about all. I don't really have anything traditional, um, at the moment.
Okay. I am on Fedora running on AMD Ryzen 55500 new laptop. Uh, 8 gigabytes of RAM and 500
32 GB. All right. Um, so I have reached a conclusion that I'm going to need to do some
analog circuitry to make this work. Yeah. That would be my guess. I mean, like, you put in
smashing and things like that. Oh, okay. Yeah. But that's no problem for me, because I like that
shit. Well, you're, um, something, uh, I don't know anything about Fedora or the IBM
distro's. I've been strictly on a dev-based environment since I jump from Windows 7.
Oh, that's fine. That's fine. Uh, since I'm, like, going to start to contribute to Fedora's
who, so I'm running Fedora, nothing else, like on bare metal testing is always good.
On bare metal machines rather than using VMs. Um, if you want to get into testing Fedora,
Adam Williamson, uh, the Thoracuate team is pretty cool. Oh, yeah. I'll talk to the QA team once
I come back from a trip. It's a long trip. So safe travels madame and, uh, you'd be welcome in
our podcast, uh, the Linux Logcast, uh, let's get originates on the same server on a different, uh, channel.
Oh, okay. Yes. I'm already on a podcast, but I would take this opportunity to join. Thank you
for being right next to mine. Holy shit. Some, uh, bringing news and Seattle, uh, the local, uh,
police assistant, police chief for Kent Washington was just fired because he was, uh, putting
Nazi, uh, Nazi symbols all over the place. All right. We can't fire it then. No comments on this.
We, the police chief got fired because of that. Uh, assistant, police chief for, uh, Kent Washington.
Oh, I never knew they'd took such things. So, uh, I mean, I did understand why. Sorry. I would
not comment on this. Uh, also that's the kind of thing that he'll be lucky to get a job
back in grocery somewhere. Pretty much. So, there's plenty of police
programs to come up. Yo, is that the Germans are more still illegal in the US or something like that
from what they are. No, it's not, but there's a very, there's a very strong cancel culture,
type of thing in the US. Now, when it comes to Nazis and communism or anything like that,
that's still very, um, what's the words I'm looking for? Round on. Round on. Round on. Round on. Round on.
All right. It's triggering. Yeah. So, if you have someone like a police chief that, um,
is putting up Nazi propaganda, it's automatically associated with that said police chief, also being
a bigot and a racist and you don't want bigots and racist in positions of power. I mean,
to be fair that you often go in power and together, you know, I mean, people who are putting up
Nazi symbols are probably actually bigoted and racist too. Yes. To be clear, it's just a two-week
assumption. These just suspended for two weeks. Well, that's, that's so that they can build
the canon that they're going to shoot him out of. Yeah. Even if he wasn't fired, he would be
because of public opinion. But honestly, he shouldn't hold that position if he's a bigot or a racist.
There's too much inequality when it comes to law enforcement as it is. The problem is there,
I mean, you know, the saying isn't a few bad apples are fine. If the saying is a few bad
apples spoil the bunch, you know, if the assistant chief thinks he can get away with that,
then that means the entire fucking system's run. Same. Same happens in India,
but it can't deny that everywhere. Yeah, I think the only place you're not going to find
it is on the backside of the moon until we land there. So, Joe for Mintcast,
we do guys be gathering at one time. Same time, one M. Well, tomorrow it'll be
2 PM for me. Oh, it's one tiny for me. Approximately 1231. I'll be middle of nowhere at that time.
Yeah, I was trying to do podcasting from the middle of nowhere all last week. Yes.
Madam, it will be a much prettier piece of nowhere to shop there. When you're there,
to shop there. I'm a dude, pardon me. Yeah, no problem. Everyone thinks that including my clients,
I'd love. Thank you, Joe. Well, you're a gentle person, clearly, and well spoken,
regardless of gender. All right, thank you very much, Edminer. It's truly been my pleasure now, sir.
Same. So, how many of you are your Mintcast except Joe and Moss and Mason? I used to be
pretty active in the podcast community, but just got busy doing other things. I am hosting it.
I am also now a host on Mintcast with Joe, many of you. That minor is an emergency and honky,
and myself are on the Linux lugcast. Okay. What time is it? What time is it? What time is it?
What time is it? It's on this server Fridays. First and third Friday of every month. That's
what 830 PM Central Standard Time. Okay, I would have to check because I hope it doesn't clash with my
work. I'll check in and leave you. If you're working, um, US time, then it shouldn't interfere.
Because I have night shift, like 830 PM ISD, 930 PM GMP 5.5, 2 630 AM. Too much conversion.
Let me check. What should I keep at the base time zone for this? I'm sure talking to me
Central Standard Time. No, I'm talking about luckcast. Yeah, Central Standard Time 830 PM.
Hawke is usually running it and he is in Eastern. So, for him it would be 930. 11 AM, E T 2 6 PM,
E T 2 PM, E T. Hey, Jay Rula, how's it going? Hey, I got it working. Oh, did you? What did you have to do?
I had to run the signal through some op-amps. Sounds like fun. So, right now it's tied to a breadboard,
but you know, now that I've got it figured out. And then the other next part is I got to get the
mic working, which is also going to require some analog circuitry. But once I get all that sorted,
then I can might make up a little PC board or have a PC board made. I don't make them myself
and solder it up. So, it's put a little enclosure. So, it looks nice and neat and professional and
shit. Well, breadboard 3D printer made boards and PC boards come fun. I actually do not own a 3D
printer somehow. Actually, they're not excessively cheap or anything. So, I can understand not owning one.
Well, until July, I was in a 200 square foot apartment. I basically had my bed and a server rack.
And I had no more space. Well, at least you're a warm bearer rack. I'll keep you warm.
Yeah, now it warms up. In my place. Oh, I replaced all the fans. So, that part wasn't so much a thing.
Actually, a lot of my gear is fanless. It's not that it's arm. It's, it's, uh,
these little HP thin clients. If you watch on eBay, they show up for like 35 bucks every once in a while.
You buy one and you can put like 32 gigs of RAM in it and have her big and hard drive you want.
So, it's, it's about the same price in performances of Raspberry Pi. But it's already in a case.
And you can actually upgrade the RAM in the hard drive. Yeah, absolutely. It's going to be a lot harder
to continue getting Raspberry Pi's and the prices are going to start going up because of the chip shortage.
Yeah, that's the other nice thing about old hardware is, uh, it's already there. It's
the chip shortage doesn't affect it. Yeah, but it doesn't increase the value of it as, you know,
the new stuff gets harder to find a more expensive and more people want the older stuff.
Like with the car market right now. Did any of y'all ever do any kind of data science?
I did little bit like I coded Python to display the graph using data.
Little bit, not much. Just to learn how it works, which amiga jrulu. Oh, that's old.
Okay, everyone. I think I'll go and sleep. I have to travel in nine hours now.
Oh, uh, good travel. I said, uh, happy new year.
Happy new year. And, and it happens to be my birthday today as well.
I'm happy birthday. Oh, I'm happy birthday. Yeah. Thank you. Okay, Joe, I think I'll see you later. Maybe.
Yeah, either tomorrow or next week.
Pepper. Okay. Boxing on discord. See you catch. See you guys on blackcast if possible.
Okay. Have a nice new year. See you, everyone. How do I disconnect this again?
Hit the action recorder. Wait, are you on your phone?
I'm on my Linux box, the Linux laptop. It just closed one book. Okay.
Yeah, I've been doing a lot of like analog electronics lately.
No. Oh, I love working on headsets. I don't know if you listen to any of my shows.
But yeah, I know people I talk about working on different headphones so much.
Well, what I really like to do is uh, see if I, I wish I could replace the sound profile.
They have for these things because it's kind of meant for, um, you know, on a role environment.
And I'm in an urban environment. And sometimes it affects with the algorithm of it on the onboard
a signal processors a little bit. Yeah, it's a little deeper into the software than I want to go.
Oh, I'm also kind of hesitant to uh, crack these things open because they're expensive and
be. I don't want to, uh, if I crack them open and then I get hearing damage, uh, yeah, yeah, that's
yep. Yeah, um, I tend to buy a lot of broken headphones and fix them. So I think the most expensive
ones were probably two pairs of DT770s, baby. For, um, the audio listening just at home,
I'd generally just use a pair of audio techniques, which sounds like an AT, uh, the M50 Xs,
the Xs, 40 Xs. I think they're in 50s. Let me look.
ATHM50 X. Yeah, they're, they're, they're good heads at video monitors. Yeah, that's M50s.
They do have a problem with the, um, the hinge breaking. Uh, I mean, I've had them for,
I don't know, four or five years now and they're just as fine as why I bought them new.
Yeah, well, I, I get them broken. So I see where they break a lot and it's always at the hinge.
It's the, that little triangle piece inside the hinge that keeps it from pushing too far outward.
And it's a really simple, like 3D print, uh, either fix that or prevent it from happening.
Oh, but they do sound pretty good. And a lot of people like the, um, the, just the sound from the M30s
are, and the M40s better than the M50s, even though the M50s are better for like studio listening.
You get better, um, mid range out of the other two.
Hey, most, what I got them, it was for sitting in, you know, offices in such light for listening to music.
So that work. Good close back head for them. Yeah. And they seem to be reasonably durable.
Like obviously, if you're fixing them, you know where they break. So you know, like the
wig point is, but like, I said, I've had them for like five years, no problems.
Well, you can get a low cost Bluetooth adapters for them, which I enjoy.
And anything with like a removable cable like it has, it, you know, that's an increased value for me, too,
because a lot of times I've gotten ones that were in perfect condition that people said didn't
work. And it was because the removable cable had broken. And so $2 for a new cable,
perfectly working headset. Yeah. I like the removable cable. I actually pull it just,
what I'm doing the headset into my bag. Just absolutely, there's less things sticking out.
Let's things to break less leverage points. Uh, I'm not exactly gentle on my gear either.
So like, when I say those in my bag, I mean, literally, they just throw them in my bag, you know.
Yeah. But, oh gosh. Let me see, I see one, two, three of the M50s, two of the M40s. And I think
I only have one of the M30s hanging up right now.
All right. This device you were talking about adding the memory and hard drive, too, instead of a pie?
Oh, um, so HP makes the, at least, the thing they still do, but made these little thin
client type things. The T6XX line. Um, I have a bunch of T610s and C6, T, uh, which is kind of the, like,
2014 era of them. And then there's a few new ones. Um, but yeah, there's just the models
I'm throwing out there. But yeah, that like T620, T610, things like that. You just, just scroll
for the eBay and watch out for them. They show up all the time. And actually, I see one on eBay
right now for $80 with the AMD GT T56N. Yeah. That's, that sounds about right. Um, like I said,
just watch eBay. They, they show up for way cheaper than that all the time. Yeah. Here's one on eBay,
T610, for $45. Um, the ones I have started getting, there's a version that, uh, you can
actually, they're kind of rare, but they show up every once in a while. You can, uh, it has a PCI
card, or a PCI card, it slots. And so I've been putting 10 gigabit network and them so that
they, uh, connects to my nice little fiber network. I've got my apartments 3395. See, there you go, cheaper than
a pie comes with a case. And it's upgradable. This one's missing the power supply. Oh yeah, they
often are, but power supply, that's not there like 10 bucks. Just got it. The only thing is, uh, with the
power supply, they're slightly finicky. And they won't, uh, exactly the, uh, 19.5 old 65 watt power supply.
Like, if they're, uh, an HP also made an 18.5 old power supply that, uh, it'll plug in, but it doesn't
work. I, uh, I actually just went and got tired of all the wallwards. So I put a 19.5 volts, uh, bus in my
server rack. And then I just clipped off the, uh, cable from all the wallwards and then wired them into
the bus and makes cable organizations so much easier. Yeah. So since the, uh, last time I've been on a podcast,
I upgraded my network to 10 gigabit. That's cool. dumpster diving and eBay. Yeah, I think I need the, uh,
network cable. That's when that's my garage upgraded. Because the most I can get is like,
what, um, 100 Mbps. Yeah. In my mind, that would definitely be a candidate for, uh, fiber, just,
if nothing else, so you don't have an electrical connection. And that's actually kind of where
it started out was, I wanted to put the oscilloscope on the network for data logging. If I didn't
want to have it hardwired to, like, all my expensive gear. In case I had an accident, they involve
high voltages, you know? Yeah, I wouldn't mind having slightly faster speeds just in the house,
but, um, it's going to be a while before fiber reaches my neighborhood. Oh, I, I don't have a fiber
internet connection. So my, uh, network packets get to the wall very quickly and then they slow down.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, that, that internal networking can be extremely helpful for a lot of the things
that I do. The, uh, nice thing about coming from a very small apartment was I had basically no furniture.
So it was, uh, pretty simple to just run a, you know, fiber everywhere in the apartment, just
under the rugs and shit. And so now I have, take a bit fiber run, even if I'm not necessarily
using the link yet. I, uh, kind of have this vision of running home assistant, you know, controlling
lights and things like that, but also like being able to walk on the house and, you know,
well, around my apartment and have my music follow me. Yeah, that that's been a goal for a long time.
It's easier to do if you live by yourself, but, um, yeah, if you make a motion based,
do you make a Bluetooth based on where your phone is? How do you set it up?
Um, I am thinking either motion based or maybe, like an RFID reader at the doorway or something.
I don't know. I kind of avoid Bluetooth. It's be honest. I'm trying to avoid,
well, no, I'm not trying to use signals. Oh, okay. I was just saying, you know, if you have
Bluetooth turned on on your phone and it gets sensed in a specific room. Yeah, I, I don't, uh,
I don't turn on Bluetooth on my phone. Uh, but you could also do it using Wi-Fi. Um,
I could. I don't know if, uh, I can do it easily with just one access point.
Yeah, you'd have to have a bunch of access. You'd have to have one access point per room.
And then you'd have to work on your power settings to make it so that
only the access point for the room that you're in is being used while you're in that room.
And that would be difficult. I mean, I can make that work with a lot easier with my laptop.
I think that I carry my laptop around with me everywhere, which is another thing.
I'm actually trying to eliminate this. Well, there is, I want to have a network so fast
as if I can do X-forwarding and it'd be usable. Yeah. Well, X-forwarding with right with a proper
amount of compression can be useful on a daily basis. It's just difficult to set up and annoying
in most instances. But like, um, X-to-go makes that very bundle together and ready to go for you.
The, uh, I haven't actually looked into X-to-go too much, but it, it would be nice to, uh,
be able to just leave the laptop in one place. And he's like, I have multiple seats, you know,
multiple cases where places where I would be sitting and be nice to leave the laptop sitting in
one place and then be able to use it from all the places I sit without having to drag it around.
Well, X-to-go is perfect for that if you're, if you're planning on using a lot of pen clients.
I mean, I was using my whole computer, my, my server at home, like I was sitting in front of it
from floor from 800 miles away. They just don't get a dog, J. Rulo.
Well, for a cat. Yeah, the cat would ruin that.
Get a parrot. Well, right now I, uh, live in a place that doesn't all peds. So that's
the most point. Yeah. If I were to set something up like that, I, I'd want to be able to just,
you know, have my Bluetooth headset and not have to worry about where my phone is in relation
to me and be able to walk anywhere in the house and use it. Yeah, something like that would also
be nice. Um, uh, uh, have a, figure out some way to have an automated, uh, how get, because like,
I walk out of this room into the next room and I lose Bluetooth connection. Yeah. But,
or my 2.4 gigahertz, the Razer Nari ultimate that I use for podcasting sometimes that I'm using right now.
I'd like to be able to use that anywhere, too, but that would be a whole different set of.
I mean, you can do the Bluetooth one with Bluetooth repeaters, but Bluetooth repeaters are not cheap.
All right. You said that, uh, it was 2.3 gigahertz that, uh, a 2.4. Yeah. Okay. That's also a very
crowded spectrum around here. Yeah. Well, most of your, you know, USB devices that are wireless
are in the 2.4 gigahertz range. Yeah. That would be a lot of interference. That's one of the
main reasons why I'm hardware. Everything is just because, like, there's so much radio waves going
through here right now. I'm probably a cancer zone or something. And it interferes with your Wi-Fi.
Yes. Um, have you done a Wi-Fi analyzer? I assume you have. Yeah. I haven't done any kind of Wi-Fi
analysis. Also, but like, like, I just hardware everything now. Right. Okay. And it's fast or
anyway. Well, I was just thinking of ways to annoy your neighbors. If you can't get a proper Wi-Fi
signal, then, you know, just up the power on your antennas. Yeah. I also had a reason to try that
here recently. And it did not penetrate the floor of the building. I mean, like, it didn't,
it, I couldn't receive it where I wanted to. Uh, I might have to get a highlight directional antenna
and just pointed the spot next time. It's just a cone of Wi-Fi. Yeah, J. Rula, I'm not seeing any,
you know, commercial Bluetooth repeaters. I'm hoping that there's a write-up somewhere to be
able to build one of yourself. Yeah. I don't want to over saturate the 2.4 gigahertz range
that all my keyboards will quit working. You know, sometimes my phone chime will just go off.
And there's like, no, there's no notifications or anything there. It's just chiming at me.
My new model of the likes. It's kind of annoying. My last phone was a Windows phone.
Sure. I mean, I finally, if Windows is, I finally found it and actually used for Windows,
it was on a phone. That's about all it's useful for. Before that, I had a Wi-Fi phone.
I liked Windows Mobile when it was Windows Mobile. Like 6.5 in below. But yeah, once it got, uh, I think it
was 7.5. It turned into that tiling thing and then it got worse. Well, before that, I had a
Firefox phone. I kind of miss that thing. Didn't know the Zilla made phones. It's interesting.
So, they had the Firefox OS. It was mostly designed for, um, like, what was it?
Emerging markets? Yeah. I don't, I don't remember what they were wanting to do with it.
But they wanted a low-cost phone for, um, basically lower income places.
It turns out that it turns out that just cheap Android does the same job.
Pretty much, was it was the Firefox OS? Was that Linux-based?
There was, it was Linux-based, uh, like I liked the user interface of it. And I, I kind of like
the idea of everything is just a web page. And it just made, you know, it just worked really
nice that you're the way I was using it. I'm gonna have to drop from a while. I'm gonna have to
try and work phone call. Like, do you guys in a bit? Hello, hello, can you hear me? Nope.
Hi there. Hey, how's everything?
Emerble! Hey, hey, sorry. I got a lot inside of it. I was just, um, setting up my, you know,
push to talk because I had, uh, use a mumble in a while and, and the interface was different. So,
I finally figured out how to set up the, uh, push to talk. Yeah, it's been a while since I've, uh,
seen you around. Of course, it's been a while. I think the last time I was, uh, on a podcast,
you were also around. So, hey, yeah, it's been a, uh, a long while. Yeah, I missed the last year.
Yeah, me too. So, you can talk about your game verbal?
You know, I actually got everything working. And, um, I, um, I showed it to my granddaughter. And
she liked it, especially because I had, like, uh, some custom, um, photos in there. Um,
but then, as we, you know, we went through the alphabet from A to, to, I think, maybe around,
W, then W, she kind of lost interest, you know, because, you know, kids attention span is, you know,
kind of short. I'm sorry. What was that? Just kidding. Yeah, all right. You know,
what's that? It's actually, uh, pretty interesting, um, using, uh, I wrote this, like,
learning game for, um, my granddaughter, who's five. And I was, I was writing it in this, like,
game, game engine called, um, low or low to D. And the, um, the programming language, uh,
that love uses is, uh, Lua. So, what's it interesting? Because I, I, I've never used, uh,
Lua before. When you were talking about it, and so it showed me the video of it, it looked really,
really slick. Yeah, it's actually pretty simple, you know, hey, it's for five-year-olds. So,
you know, and, and I don't, I don't know, uh, you remember, but she likes to play things, like,
Roblox and Minecraft, and that. So, uh, at one point, uh, Chris was saying, hey, um, how many, how, how many
points do you have? And she says, I don't know, I don't know how to read. So, we figured, oh, we
have to change that. So, that's why I actually wrote the learning game for her. I hate more than
it's the, what, what was that, um, like bare bones, the Linux, and this drill, you said you were using, uh, recently.
Geruda Geruda? I, I thought it was, I thought it was something that I've been using several.
Geruda is the one I put on the mini AMD computer. It works with the drawing tablet.
Uh, it's a, um, similar to, uh, Ubuntu Dement. It's a arch to Geruda. It's a real flashy, easy,
already installed, and set up pretty arch system. More so than Minjaro.
Oh, okay. Because I, I was looking at, uh, alpine Linux, and it's, it's like, it's really bare bones.
I guess it's, uh, built on busy box and lip-c, and so I've, uh, kind of been trying to, uh, resist the urge
to, um, try that out, but I don't know, it might get the best. It might get the best human.
The other one is proxmox, so for virtualization, I have it on a bare bones.
Hey, somebody wants to say hello to you. Hey, Robert. Hello.
I got my card. You don't have to say more. Yeah. Good. How are you right now?
This week has been really rough. Don't feel that great.
Okay. Your, your numbers were really good last week, right?
Great. Yes. It is, uh, I'm hoping that drops even more, um, because that was a three week drop
and not the full month. So I'm very happy with that, that, that drop at number.
What, what, what kind of pain are you in now? What's, what's, what's causing it?
Um, and not pain. I'm, uh, I'm really nauseous. Hence the card, um, the cold sensitivity is
way worse right now than it was the first time. Um, and I'm, I'm shaky. My, uh, uh, you know, like,
if I try to hold my hand still at shakes, um, and my muscle mass in my arms in the last three
weeks is just gone. I had, I had big, big muscles and now they're gone. People actually said stuff about
it. Well, it's noticeable. Yeah. Yeah. It's very noticeable. But I'm still keeping the weight on. So
I'm not dropping anymore. Have, um, are you, are you getting enough protein? Absolutely not.
So have you, have you been to the dispensary yet? Yeah. I went last night. I got some stuff for,
uh, appetite and, um, RSO is Rick Simpson oil. It's supposed to be a combination of stuff that
has anecdotally and in some new studies have proven that it kills cancer cells. So, um,
uh, need to figure out how I actually have to take it. It's kind of confusing, but uh,
supposed to be really, really strong, too. Was that something at the dispensary as well?
Yes. That was at the dispensary. Well, all right. What is it called again?
Rick Simpson oil or RSO? All right. I'm going to look it up. I'll give you verbal back.
All right. So, um, yeah. I think I'm, I think I'm going to try out this, um, alpine mix.
Yeah. I keep hearing great things about alpine. I don't think I've, uh, used it,
or maybe I tried to use it and had problems. One thing I heard about it is that it's, um,
used a lot with, um, a doctor because it's so lightweight. That might have been where I was trying
to use it. I still haven't gotten a doctor flow up and running. I mean, I've tested
doctor singly on a machine and gotten small things to work, but not a full-blown workflow
running off a dedicated machine. Yeah. I'm just upset because originally I thought that, um,
I could use Docker to, um, say, run a Linux instance. Well, a Docker basically I thought it was going
to be like, um, virtual box, but it basically has to be Linux. You can't run like, um, windows
from Linux or macOS from Linux. Yeah. I think I, I think that it only runs on a pair of Linux
kernel if I remember correctly. Yeah. We're, we're looking at that Bart Simpson oil right now. Rick.
Kawabanga. I can't believe the Simpson is still on TV after someone he is.
Are people tired of that by now? I haven't been actively watching the last two seasons,
I'm behind, um, but now I still watch it. No, all the Simpson's fans should jump
ship and start watching, uh, Rick and Morty. I can't stop watching Rick and Morty. The
pandemic, the first calendar year. I, that's all I played all day. Why was a working was the
stream on the adult swim channel, uh, just Rick and Morty over and over again. I've probably
seen that each episode, 100 times now. Uh, you know, Morty, you got to stop watching those shows
because he's got to write a break. It's so funny. Every time it is, it's funny. My son and
law introduced me to that. He says, hey, you want to watch some Rick and Morty and my Rick and
who? Doc Brown and Marty McFly until the season to sister. There you go. Yeah, one of my co-workers
just showed me the Doc Brown and Marty McFly cartoons. It was, those were horrible.
They were playing around just trying to come up with something when a gravity falls was canceled
because they couldn't figure out how to map monetize it. It had, uh, nobody was getting paid and
then I had this huge market rating and no products for sale. So there was no monetization and, uh,
that kind of kills animated shows very quickly. Yeah, actually the shows are connected. There's
hidden things between the shows. There's a character that they were going to put in all the
animated series they did. Uh, there's a guy with a red curly hair. Um, uh, he's in multiple
cartoons that they worked on. Um, there's a portal where stuff gets sucked through on gravity
falls. The grandfather or whatever, a coffee cup and a pin and it pops out of the, uh, portals
when, uh, the ricks from the Citadel are chasing Rick the the first evil Marty episode.
Uh, okay. Yeah, the, I will just blank an episode or two of, um, gravity falls. So I'll have to
have to look watch it a little more. I'm a watch Danny of them. I watch some, uh, you know,
hidden connections in Easter egg videos on YouTube. And there was another show called, uh, final space
which only got three seasons. It was, uh, wasn't renewed for four seasons. Uh, it, um, kind of like
in the same vein as Rick and Morty, a little bit different humor and characters, but in that same
vein of entertainment, I think. You like slowly faded out and got quieter and quieter.
Oh, there's another show called a final space, which I think Rick and Morty fans would love.
Um, it, it only got three seasons. It was planned out further. Um, hopefully somebody will pick it up
and let him finish it. Uh, it was great. One of the villains was a David Tennant, one of the doctors.
Right. Is that, uh, oh, the actor who played one of the doctors?
One doctor who is out here for him too?
Yes. When, when it, uh, restarted in, I think 2005 was Chris Chris Ackelson and then David Tennant
and then Matt Smith and Garipaldi and Whitaker. So the second one for Mr. Tyler is catching on.
Catch one of the super popular stuff like later on and then, uh, Molly is still far behind.
It's hard to catch up. I haven't won the doctor who's yet. I tried to start at the beginning.
I might just have to do like the new episodes. You mean the beginning 1963?
No, the ones I was watching were, it looked like they were probably from like the 90s or something.
Hey, we used to love the, um, the doctor who, um, movies that had, uh, Peter Cushing in there
and, um, yeah, they, they were always, uh, really great.
Well, I don't know how popular those are right now.
It's definitely a cold thing. Doctor who in general, but there are a lot of people who enjoy it.
Yes, it's probably more popular in England.
There's one of the few things I got to watch on television as a good one on PBS.
That makes sense. It's a BBC show as an incident, so isn't that, uh,
or it was at least who's was the public broadcast, you can even go ahead and don't pick it
in anymore. I think they're privatized in England. It's BBC. Yeah, PBS here in the U.S.
is public broadcasting system. They used to play a lot of, uh, BBC, uh, stuff because they could
get it cheap or free. Right. Well, lunch is now in the oven. Do you know where I can
stream that, uh, final space show in the U.S.?
Do you have Plex? I, I don't have a Plex server set up yet, but, yeah, but I will not
a server just in the count. I do have an account. Um, uh, my emails, HBR at moredonc.com.
If you want to send me your email for Plex, I'll add you to my library to my Plex server.
Oh, that'd be awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I think I'm going to create a new account
with my new email. Um, I find it easier with a, with a, with a Gmail account. I actually use a dedicated
Gmail account for a lot of my media signups. Um, but, um, um, uh, it might buffer and be slow. Um,
I'm switching over from slow cable and internet to, uh, dedicated, uh, access to
cable modem and internet only. Um, my cable modem arrived yesterday, so I just need to
figure out what I need to do to self install this with over. Before I, yeah, so yeah,
I got sorry. Well, uh, until I switch the cable modem, uh, the media gateway to the cable modem,
uh, the upload speed might be bad. My buffer and stuff. 18 megabytes download here and like two
megabytes upload. Um, that's pretty horrible. I don't think I've ever seen the Peter Kushing
Dr. Humovies. I'm looking at that right now, verbal. Yeah, they, they were pretty good, but you,
you have to remember, um, this was coming from, uh, me watching them as a kid, so I don't know
how well they, uh, held up over time, but yeah, I, I think they were pretty good. I'm a doctor who
fan like I'm a, um, a cosmic horror and lovecraft fan. It really doesn't matter how bad it is.
I'll watch it. Wait, what show are you talking about? Um, verbal was talked about the Peter Kushing
Dr. Humovies. Movies. I was talking about, along with Dr. Humovies. I was talking about
along with Dr. Who anything HP Lovecraft cosmic horror related. Um, I will invest time and money
into, regardless of how good it is. Um, so if you're into Dr. Who, my type suggests Blake's
seven. Hell shit, Betty White passed away. Yep, go into a specific of a New Year's Eve
in tonight. Yeah, I'm not sure how I feel about this actually. Right, Betty's White, Betty White's
continuing existence was kind of a bedrock of my soul. How did Betty White's life affect you?
I mean, it didn't really, it's just, I don't know, she's just always been there.
Yeah, I agree. It felt really strange today. Also, it's kind of cool that she went out on
New Year's Eve. I mean, she was always doing cool stuff. Final space is free to stream on Apple
TV. Um, it's available on Hulu with a subscription, HBO Max with a subscription and sling TV with
subscription. Did you say Hulu? Hulu. When you said the final space? Correct. That's the name of
the show. So what is a final space about? Um, uh, here I'll read the description. In the midst of
working off of prison sentence, an astronaut named Gary meets a mysterious planet destroying
alien mooncake with whom he immediately bonds. But Gary doesn't realize that this new sidekick
is actually in demand by the citizen lord commander who will do anything he can do to secure
mooncakes, untapped evil power that animated intergalactic comedy follows Gary and mooncakes adventures
to unlock the mystery of final space where the universe ends. Thank you. Looks like you have to have
a live TV subscription on Hulu to stream it. Do they visit the restaurant at the end of the
universe when they get to that point? I know the end of the universe is final space that's
another dimension. Uh, so they're the timeout space, not time. Yes. But there is some, um, time loops,
time travel stuff, uh, it repeats over and over again. Hey, I just pulled it up on Apple TV. The animation
reminds me of, do you remember the videos, uh, the gorillas did, uh, like Clint Eastwood? You, it looks
like this. Yeah, uh, yield, waiting for food to cook, but you're hungry now. Is it
more than see, uh, you pronounce your screen name? Yes, more than see. One who is more than
I posted, uh, I posted my email in the chat section. Did anybody else using the Android client?
The, um, totally cold cold. I'm using the lemon. I am, um, when I, uh, I, they call it, uh,
deafening. When I shut the sound off and then I turn it back on, it also unmutes me. Is there any way to
stop that? Um, I'm figuring out, humble. Okay, for sure. I'll take a live around. I don't think
that's, uh, something I'm using. You have been invited. I think I just enabled downloads. So you
should be able to download them off my server, I think. I'm not to figure out how to do this. Um,
it's been on, I've never actually used books before. I haven't on my phone. Oh, if you got,
you have to, like, ins, uh, pay for a subscription. If you're in your phone, if you're in your
phone, but I think see, no, no, nobody I know that uses it, pay for it. I paid for it for the, um,
server streaming stuff, but just playing it is an app on a TV or phone, um, or through the web page,
plex.tv doesn't require anything. No pain. Okay, cool. Thank you. You may have to go to more on the
left hand side to see the, my server is called Python to see the library. Yeah, I'm not to play around with
this a little bit. I never actually opened up the app and looked at anything. I'll download it on my
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