And we're alive. Hi. Hey, hey, how are you doing? So this is the Embedded World 2021 happening right now. And so everything is digital, right? And you have a whole bunch of new launches. Exactly. So this year, unfortunately, due to the pandemic situation, we could not meet face-to-face, which is a shame. But we invested a lot of effort and time to commit on our free targets we always have for embedded work. And right here is some presentation. This is what you have in your virtual exhibit, right? Exactly. So like every year at Embedded World, from ST's site, we do have three key targets. And one of them is indeed to present some new products and new solutions, new technologies allowing our customers to design their applications as best they can. And there is no change on this year. In the same time, we always bring our experts on the stage to be able to discuss with our customers or their issues or ideas and support their developments. So this is the same also this year. We do have, as you can see on the page, more than 100 ST experts, which are really focused on different products and different solutions. And they are available online at any point to discuss with our customers. And the last thing is, like every year, we support our developers with a couple of thousands of free development boards. And this is the same this year, despite the pandemic situation. So and then maybe you can introduce, you have a. So there's some like STM32 new parts that you launch, right? And also maybe you can introduce a colleague who can talk about something. Yeah, exactly. So we do have a couple of major new products coming along the embedded world or shortly before. So the main one is the STM32 U5, which is a brand new line and platform within the STM32 family. And another interesting one indeed is the STM32 WL. And if you have Benjamin with us, I'm sure he will say a few words about it directly from his side. So hello, Benjamin. Hi, Charbox. Thank you very much for having ST today. So indeed, I'm in charge of the STM32 WL. You can actually see it on the booth number three, on the ST booth during digital embedded world show. Of course, which is good with the STM32 WL is the fact that all the internal structure, I mean the CPUs, the peripherals, the memory, and the radio transceivers are all embedded on the same silicon die, which is a world first, actually, in the world of Lora enablement. And so I would say that the key points that you need to have in mind when talking about STM32 WL are the following one. First of all, you have a multi-modulation capability with Lora modulation, but also GFSK, GMSK, BPSK that can be used to actually push on the device whatever protocol that you want, such as Lora1 protocol, but also SIGFox, for example, or WLSMBs, or Zeta protocol. So this is a second very important aspect of the product, the fact that the architecture is actually fully open. So it's always very flexible for users because they're able to implement whatever protocol that they have in mind. And of course, another great benefit of such product is the massive integration coming from the fact that it's a system and chip. Then obviously, it's a ultra low power device. And it actually comes with dual core architecture. So ARM Cortex-M4 and ARM Cortex-M0 plus, and such dual core architecture brings advanced security features. And last but not least, the range of, I mean, the portfolio and the range of packages that are covered is very wide because we have VGA, QFN, RQFN. And last but not least, in the same way as what we do with all the other products in our portfolio, such as the U5 that Roman just mentioned, there is a very strong ecosystem that comes with it. For example, with Cubemix for configuration, a Cube IDE for development, Cube Monitor to perform RF Advanced Testing, for example.  So I hope you guys will be able to join STbooth during Embedded World and STM32WL and actually all the other products that have been presented by Roman. So what's the kind of like a target market for this? Is it enabling millions of new kind of like IoT kind of devices? Yeah, exactly. We really target low power wide area network here. And so in such framework, we are actually, I mean, the STM32WL is compatible with the Loroan market and all the vertical markets coming with this. For example, the utility market with smart meters, but also asset tracking, smart industry, smart logistics, I would say, or also smart home and smart agriculture, for example. All right. So Roman, that's kind of like a blockbuster kind of product, right? There's a lot of interest in these new parts. Well, yeah, I think the STM32WL, first of all, it's really a unique part. So the combination of the dual core architecture plus the integrated RF front end enabling, like Benjamin said, connectivity on different networks, Lora, ZikFox, and the proprietary sub gigahertz, it's really unique. You won't find a similar part on the market today. And the interest is huge. For information, we have launched a couple of workshop series in Europe and they have been full within a couple of minutes. So the interest is there. Then a few words about the U5. So the U5 is really a brand new line which has been launched just before Embedded Ward last week. And also this one, we strongly believe in it that it brings a new level of innovation for our customers in terms of combination, high performance, low power capabilities. And you also have a colleague who might be able to connect or maybe potentially we could do videos later about these different parts, right? Is it? Yes, I think let's try to bring our colleagues later on to talk about those in details and describe all the specificities and the nice things of those products. All right. I think it's very exciting. But it's a very strange and special embedded world this year, right? And trying to get all the information out there through virtual means. Exactly. So, you know, you've seen already from the way we approach it. So all our SD stuff has a kind of branded photos and then we try to visualize ourselves in front of customers. And as I said, if anyone would like to get an answer to any question on SD product, please use the opportunity this week. All our experts are there till Friday. So connect to us, speak to us, ask your questions. We'll get your answers, I'm sure. And moreover, we have couple of thousand free development boards around SDM32 available for all interested people. So don't use this opportunity. The U5 is Cortex-M33, right? So it's using also the new hardware security and stuff like that. Exactly. It's based on Cortex-M33. So benefiting from the trust zone support from the core point of view, allowing the isolation between secure and non-secure work. But moreover, we do not rely only on the core itself. We add the extra security elements on it to improve the robustness for the final application. All right. And the board's already ready with all these new chips. So is it something that you announce that comes out later? Okay, so for the U5, it's basically the sampling announcement that we have right now. So we are able to support, let's say, interested customers, but the real mass market lunch will appear during summertime. So this is when we will go full speed with all the boards, the nuclear discovery kits on the market. It's also new optimized anonymity potentially like maybe it's low power and long-term support. Well, in terms of long-term support, this is valid for the complete family, right? So in terms of longevity, we keep our commitment of 10 years longevity program, which we do prolong every year. So there is no change on this. The main breaking thing on this U5 is the new technology that we use. So it's a 40 millimeter ultra low power technology. All right. So thanks a lot. Thanks for this short look into what you're doing here, the embedded world 2021. And I hope we can do some more deeper videos a little bit later, hopefully. So we can learn more about these products. Perfect. Thanks a lot. Thanks for your attention. And hopefully we'll be able to connect later on to bring you some more new.


Chief, what happened here this morning? About 4.30 this morning, Denver police officers were called to the 2,800 block of South equipment on a man who was in crisis. He was telling people that he was suicidal. Officers came and were able to speak with the man who was outside of his home. They learned that he was armed. Some of their officers attempted to use less lethal means to get him into custody, but they were ineffective. The suspect then shot one of our officers. Officers returned fire. The officer was hit in the leg. He's been transported to Denver Health Medical Center where he's in stable condition, should be undergoing surgery this morning. The suspect was taken to Swedish Medical Center. He's still alive and they're attempting to save his life by surgery as well. No other people were hit in this instance and we have an ongoing investigation to determine what happened from here. Were less lethal means attempted? Yes, we did attempt to use less lethal means, but they were ineffective. Thank you.


Defeated by gravity already it would seem and the hand up to the face, it feels like it may well be a barrier. In that situation where you maybe want to express yourself, want to get your story across, why are you being defeated by gravity already and why set up this barrier? There are some good descriptors there. There are some good gesticulation telling us about the roads and how it all went. Why get exercised at that particular point? This is something that has been experienced somewhere just like many intersections have really happened in people's lives and it's maybe been transplanted or sublimated or transferred in some way. And then at the end of it, hand retreats back to the leg and back to the barrier. So in this context where you'd want to express yourself and get your point across because you want to tell the truth and you want to go, look, let's just get this out the way so I can get out of here. Why the depressed kind of state there and why the barrier? Let's see, I'll find out as we go along.


How to get a Shiny Aplin in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet First thing you want to do is fly over to East Provence Area 3 on this part of the map. Then head over to Navi's Team Style Base and what you're looking for is these two trees right here just outside the entrance to the base. For this method to work you'll need the second Ryder Pokemon that can be caught in the post game or a Pokemon of similar height to trigger the Aplin to fall down from the tree. Before we go any further make sure all to save is turned off and save your game in case you don't get a Shiny Aplin on your first Next, set up a picnic on the park and make a sandwich using avocado, one salty herb amistakar and any of the other herb amistakar, it doesn't matter which one. This should give you counter power level 3, sparkling power level 3 and dragon level 3. Head back over to the spot near the trees and wait for an Aplin to spawn. When it does, charge into the tree using your Ryder Pokemon to knock it down, then set out your second Ryder Pokemon to knock it out. After that all you have to do is position yourself near the tree and wait for the Shiny Aplin to spawn.


Mae erioedd yn gyflin eich masaf yw'r bwysigfodd ynglyn Llywgrifanc... ..yna y flwn i'n gwybod wedi rhoi sefydlu hyn yn y bwysig er mwyn arser. Fy modd y wneud ymdill ymlaen er mwyn yn y plwyad yr un maen iawn, er mwyn drwy swyddfa'r sain yn eu cydweithio... ..yna i'r cwrwm yn serio i'r bwysigfodd ymlaen. Mae maen i'n rhoi fwy oherwydd bod y私wn eu gwneud yn cael ei fawr. Felly we need to be aware of that, and we need to take account of that within our lessons. Secondly, if the students come to us from a particular department, which is very often used, the whole department comes across for their English lesson at once, then it's very unlikely that all the students within that department are going to be at the same level. So we need to be prepared for mixed ability classes. Obviously, we cannot present the same information in exactly the same way to all of those students if it's a mixed ability class. So we have to make considerations such as differentiated activities that have varying levels within them. Another thing you need to be aware of is that students will not always be able to attend your lessons. So it could be that they have another meeting somewhere else within the company, or they're off visiting clients somewhere else, and so their attendance could well be erratic. Finally, for your business English classes, do be aware that they're going to have different motivations for being there. If the company has decided that all of their employees will have to learn English up to a certain level, there may well be students in that class who don't really want to be learning English, so you have to be aware that they are going to have different motivations. It is very important in that situation, therefore, to find out what these people are interested in, what they're going to be using their English for, find out something about the jobs that they actually do, and try to tailor your teaching to make it as specific as possible.


The initial intention with the UAV program was to investigate crash scenes primarily on the interstate. So whenever you have interstate crash occur, it causes a closure. That closure, every four minutes you get a mile backlog of traffic. When we have queued traffic on the interstate, we increase the rate of crashes by approximately a factor of 24. So we're using drones or UASs to reduce the time spent documenting a crash scene. So with a drone we can quickly fly a crash scene, typically in the order of three to five minutes. The decrease in the exposure of emergency responders at the crash scene and on the roadway makes it much safer for our officers, the fire department and EMS to be out there on these scenes because we can quickly capture and clear those scenes and get the road back to normal conditions.  You put it in a software and then within a couple of hours you have a digital 3D model of the scene you have. You can use it for visualization, you can use it to print a 3D model similar like that for evidence or you can do your own measurements and analysis. So the Sheriff's Office they take this model and then they do the measurements from this one and then based on the analysis they can recreate the dynamics of the cars during the accident. It's been a collaborative partnership between Purdue University and the Sheriff's Department and so we've both been able to grow and do research and shorten that learning curve that both of us would have experienced had we been doing it individually. The next step on this is scaling this. We need to now move beyond two to three agencies in the area using this routinely to a more scalable statewide deployment that's used by all first responders and the state police.


Mum do I really have to go to school today? It's only a swimming carnival. I won't miss much Can I just do assignments? I've got heaps to you. Caleb you can't miss school just because there's something on you don't feel like doing Besides you have to go and support your team. Isn't Jack in the freestyle final? Even if it's not your thing, it's important to go and support him. Yeah, I know you never let us just have a day off I know because it's true missing a day here and there all adds up You won't think it matters what it does little things count not I can gonna be a limbic swimmer one day though It doesn't matter whether you're gonna be a swimmer the carnivals for everyone not just the kids We're gonna end up representing their country. It's about being part of the school and part of a team and Supporting your friends and cheering them on that's just as important as swimming. Yeah, I know I know you know We've had this conversation before remember And everyone was doing their assessment pieces and you didn't want to go because you'd already had your turn Matters that you turn up Okay Just wish I could come and see you swim, but I can't take a day off work I'll be thinking of you and I'll send you some good vibes. Okay, and I'll call you later to see how it all went. Okay Bye bye Yeah, brilliant. Hey Jack's always been a good swimmer, but I was stoked when he got a champion Oh, that's great Caleb and imagine if you hadn't gone today You would have missed out on seeing your friend get age champion and how did you go? Yeah, okay? Actually, Mr. McKena asked me to help with some photos for the yearbook So I was pretty busy with that today, and I got some great pictures of Jack and his trophy That's great. Does that mean you'll be helping out with the yearbook for the rest of the year? Maybe should be pretty cool having my photos in there though Oh, I'm really proud of you Caleb You didn't want to go today, but you did anyway and look what happened You had a good day and you were asked to help out with photos, which you've always loved doing Yeah, yeah, I know and who knows where the photos in the yearbook could take you Yeah, better start saving for your ticket mum. I'm going to the next Olympic game See you in about an hour superstar Bye mum


It is a land of transitions, yet one defined as much by borders and boundaries as by continuity. Here the great green and teaconic mountains flatten and separate into the vast Champlain Valley, site of ancient seas and strange creatures of free history. The story is told in the rocks. Immediately to the north, Canada, as the land broadens still farther into the valley of the St. Lawrence. To the south, the lush, enveloping folds of Vermont's emerald landscape. It is a crossroads of cultures and historical pageantry, shaped first by the native peoples and touched in turn by French, British, Canadian and American migrants, each of whom left their mark. It has been the site of mighty deeds and exceptional bravery, great cruelty and avarice, the domain of priests and smugglers, prophets and profiteers. In short, there has been much history in this place. In the midst of all, a slow, languid stream, the Abnaki people call Missisgoi, the land of the Flint. Tucked into the Green Mountain State's far northwestern corner, it is a crossroads of life for the animals and plants that make this place their home. It is Vermont's Haven for Wildlife. Missisgoi National Wildlife Refuge protrudes into Lake Champlain and its smaller offshoot to the north, Missisgoi Bay. Its meandering creeks and slews, marshes and bogs, islands and channels form a complex and productive water-saturated network of lands. Water, geology and topography have shaped Missisgoi and the life that finds Haven here. As great continental ice sheets retreated northward, high elevation lakes ebbed and flowed in their wake. What remained were river deltas and sand gravel margins that produced a distinctive mosaic of plants found nowhere else in Vermont and in few other places in Northern New England. The Missisgoi River now winds through beds of wild rice and lush stands of arrowhead, bullrush and wild celery. Such morsels provide a tempting forage buffet for ducks, geese and other marsh dwellers. In 1943, while in the midst of war, the federal government and the people of Vermont recognized the uniqueness of this region by creating Missisgoi National Wildlife Refuge. Managed for the people by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, this 6,600-acre refuge exists as a haven for Lake Champlain's migratory birds as they move up and down North America's Atlantic Flyway. And what a story there is to tell. Here at Missisgoi, you'll find one of Vermont's largest great blue heron rookeries located on Shad Island where as many as 600 nests erupt every summer with the cacophony of squawks and screeches that signify new life. Most of Vermont's black terns nest on the refuge as do a large share of our state's ospreys which are encouraged to come here by osprey nesting platforms. Every fall, 20,000 ring-neck ducks, golden eyes, mallards and black ducks converge at Missisgoi for feeding and resting while on their southward migration. Other birds you'll spot in seasonal abundance include bittern, bobble-links, kill-deer, red-tailed hawks and a profusion of noisy and demonstrative woodpeckers and songbirds. In their rarity, you might even spy a peregrine falcon, sedgeren or bald eagle. But Missisgoi isn't just for the birds. Our lands are managed to preserve the natural diversity of animals and plants that intersect at this biological crossroads. Missisgoi's 900-acre woodland macquam bog shelters the Green Mountain State's only community of pitch pine, rodora and chain fern, a state-threatened species. In summer, you'll spot white-tailed deer and a variety of resident songbirds in this swampy lowland. Spiny, soft-shelled turtles bask in the sun's rays on the nearby Missisgoi River. Here, we actively manage the land to perpetuate this diversity. At Missisgoi, as at all national wildlife refuges, the hand of man is an active one. Water levels are manipulated to encourage wild rice and button bush for our black ducks and teal. Nesting structures have been employed throughout the Delta to boost numbers of common golden eyes and black ducks too. Because haying, mowing and prescribed burns discourage open fields from returning to forest, we use these techniques to produce cover for grassland birds like bobble links, savanna sparrows and eastern meadowlarks, and to yield the small mammals that hawks and American kestrels require as prey. It's all part of a carefully crafted plan to maintain balance among the many species you'll encounter at Missisgoi. We control non-native or exotic plants like common reed grass and purple loose strife. If left unchecked, they would quickly overwhelm native plants. We allow limited trapping of raccoon, muskrat and beaver to control predation on ground-nesting birds and to protect our impoundment dikes and water control structures. Your first stop for a successful visit to Missisgoi National Wildlife Refuge should be our new 7200-square-foot visitor center and headquarters, near Route 78's intersection with Tabor Road in West Swanton. Here you'll discover exhibits and practical information about the refuge, its wildlife and its natural history. You'll meet our helpful and knowledgeable staff and our partners, the Friends of Missisgoi National Wildlife Refuge. Our center is open every weekday, while the refuge itself is yours 7 days a week dawn to dusk. Nature walks, boat tours, public lectures and special events like our popular owl prowls and woodcock walks occur throughout the year. While you're at our visitor center, we invite you to join in supporting the mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System by buying a duck stamp. It's the duck stamp that created Missisgoi Refuge with the funds of hunters and other conservationists and from millions of people just like you. Our staff and volunteers from our Friends Group will be glad to tell you more about conservation's remarkable little stamp. We recommend you begin your Missisgoi experience on foot, either early or late in the day when animals are most active, starting on our nearby one-mile loop trail. It leaves our visitor center and winds through grass and shrublands, land forests, a button bush swamp, and mixed hardwoods of oak, birch and sugar maple. Our Black Creek and Macquam Creek Interpretive Trails will take you through one and a half miles of maple, gray birch, swamp white oak and ash lowlands. If you're quiet and observant, you're sure to spot red fox, white-tailed deer, and colorful patches of native wildflowers along these trails. Deeper into the refuge, the one-mile Max Bend Road and our Stephen J. Young Marsh and Old Railroad Passage Trail provide good wildlife windows for birds and marsh mammals. If you stay on the trails and move quietly, you'll be treated to so much more. And when areas are closed, know that we're often protecting sensitive habitats and bird nesting areas. The newest sand kayakers can launch on the Missisgoy River at Louise Landing off of Vermont Route 78 for an all-day paddle around Gander and Goose Bay and back along Dead Creek to your put-in point. This circuit gives a unique waterside view of Shad Island and its great blue heron colony. Remember that open water demands even greater adherence to safe boating than our sheltered creeks and rivers. Anglers and hunters are welcome at Missisgoy too. Walleye, Northern Pike, Large Mouth Bass, and a dozen other game fish species abound in the refuge's waters. Bank fishing's best along Charcoal Creek, where it passes beneath Route 78, and on the Missisgoy River from the refuge boundary to Max Bend. Every June, our refuge fishing derby introduces youngsters to the fun of fishing too. Each year, we open parts of the refuge to managed hunting for ducks and geese, deer, and small game. Missisgoy is famed for being one of the region's best waterfowling spots. We team with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and Ducks Unlimited every August for our Junior Waterfowl Hunter Training Program where young outdoor enthusiasts are taught safe and ethical hunting. Whether you enjoy Missisgoy National Wildlife Refuge by land or water, in winter's chill or at summer's abundance, know that this land, this land of the flint of the Abnaki, remains a place of transition from mountains to the Great Lake Champlain. Touched by many cultures, ours to sustain for posterity, this haven for wildlife remains a special place for all who continue to pass this way. Welcome to Missisgoy National Wildlife Refuge.


What a mess this thing is. Dude, I like the fact that you already named the bus. What? See, it's right there. It's named all over the place. Oh, yes. Extreme. It's the rattle trap. Hey, good morning from Jamie's van built. Today, me and Steve are going to do some things inside here, and I'm not really sure what they're going to be. I know we're not going to play with that air horn. It's broken, but a little hint, Steve is carrying electrical stuff and a brand new crimper. Three things to build, really, three things, three important things, and of course, some electrical. I don't know if we're going to get to that today, but one is this, two would be the closet, three is the back bed area. Both this and the back bed area, pretty simple. Steve had the idea of coming over here and helping out with electrical. So I think that's what we're going to do. Also, thank you, Steve. Check out his channel, Steampunk Steve on YouTube. Yeah, please. Now, since Steve wasn't with me for the past few weeks or so when I was over at Reeds, I got lots of wood. So he probably can put two and two together and figure out that the cedar is going to be up on the sides and then the other stuff in the package is for the walls. And then obviously we just talked about that. That goes outside the bus. So that being said. First order of business is making a spot for us to work. Yeah, we're going to have to dig out some of this stuff here. Cut the Romex, because that's easy. I mean, at this end, to get this board banded, painted, and in place, this is where two of the switches are going. Here, the wire channel is behind the scenes. This is actually what we do most of the time. See what you guys did back here. Because those white wires, the overhead lights, all should go that way and the red should come this way. Something like that. So anyways, we're going to get to work. The current state of everything. We're trying to figure out what we're doing with this wall. Since we didn't have a plan to begin, we are trying to create a plan. The plan has changed several times. Feel free to throw in your disapproval in the comments. Now, since we changed this all up, this took a dramatic turn. And that's why we didn't really have a solid plan of what exactly this was going to be. So right now, we're trying to figure out a way to hide the wires, have a little wire channel, chase, or hide them.  We're not going to have a cedar piece across this way with LEDs on the top side, just like the last bus. We're just trying to figure out the best way to make it disappear and look pretty. Have a drone? I do, but I need to update the firmware. I do, but I don't. I know, real convenient. All right. I forgot to update the firmware. Neal Teardrop Travels came by. Teardrop RV Travels. Teardroparvetravels.com. Nothing like a shameless self-plug, but he's coming to interrupt our work. So we're going to go play some hooky with him. We're going to go check out some intoglios. Steampunk Steve's going to come. I'm just going to close up the bus here, and we're going to hit the road. All right, so we are out at the Snake Intoglio. Now there is an issue. There is a fence around this whole thing, and I don't know if the only way we could be able to see this is if I have my drone, which needs to be updated before it can fly. Okay, protected site, archeological site. Oh, hey, there's a... Wait, is this... There's a passageway here. Oh, no kidding. Yeah, I don't know if this is supposed to be a walkway, but it's open and there is a trail, so it doesn't say keep out. So I say, let's go on inside and check them out. This is it. It might not look like much, but this is the Snake Intoglio. I can't even... Yeah, it's so strange. I can't even say this is the start, this is the stop. It almost looks like a meandering stream, and the fact that we're out so close to it is a little strange, because there is a fence around the area, and then there's an opening in the fence, and it doesn't say do not enter, but a little mice are kind of messing up the Intoglio, but this is it. So if anybody thinks you shouldn't be in here, well, just keep your distance. And again, there was a... There's no signs posted for this, so I'm guessing this is okay. But yeah, this is it. So it would probably be a lot more significant from the air, but definitely don't walk over it if you come out here. Well, surprise, surprise. Me and Steve went to town looking for supplies, and killed the rest of our day, but we did get a burrito. Today me and Wanderboom were inside playing with some of the designs and suggested a slight deviation. We'll update you if we do go with that. But we're just trying to get this thing done. Things like the never-ending bus project, I know. I know, that's the way it seems to me as well, but thankfully, guys like Wanderboom helped out, and I would not be this far along with this pretty of a bus if it weren't for him and Steve and MojaBus and everybody else who stopped by. So thanks again for that. Yeah. Anyways, Jason's in the back. You guys don't know Jason. If you guys need printing work, he does printing work. Hit me up, I'll be a middleman. Here's the update. We're scrapping Mike's idea. We thought of another idea to kind of fold out, but realistically, it's gonna be comfy. We're not gonna have an angled back part. Some people do, some people don't. But here, there's pros and cons of doing that. Anytime you have a back sliding part, an angle, you're taken away from the amount of space that you could use to sit on it and to sleep on it. So we're just gonna do a 90 degree thing. And at some point in the future, if I wanna redo these things, guess what? I can unscrew it and throw away about, I don't know, $100 in wood. So it's not a huge deal. I do wanna get this thing done. I am feeling some time constraints.  Well, it's ain't done yet. Feeling, I'm quite over building, even though I'm not doing most of the building, I'm helping to do the building. But this is not what I expected when I first started. It was taking much longer than anticipated. Just like I said before, twice as much, twice as long as you think it's gonna take you. And this sure is even more so for this project. So yeah, so we're just gonna finish these things up and call it a day. Slightly feeling still frustrated with this to the point where if I could burn this thing down and start over, I might consider it. Thankfully I have good friends like Steampunk Steve to come and help me out with things I don't know. Steve is working on some 12-volt electricity today. And it shouldn't be a problem at all. We also have a gigantic mess of things here, which need to go around, but I don't wanna take this off and put it back and take it off and put it back and take it off and put it back. Anyways, so we have a little mess here. I'm gonna go outside and I'm gonna play with edge banding if you guys know what that is. If you don't, I'm just gonna be ironing on wood to wood. All right, now, feeling better. I found what I was looking for. So I'm gonna get to ironing outside. Steve is in here. Thanks, Steve, playing with Romax. If it weren't for great guys like Steve, Mojo Bus, Eric, Wanderboom, Jamie of The Coachwork, who else am I forgetting? Obviously Mike, too, for initially helping me out, but he had to go. So that's why I'm saying if it wasn't for those guys showing up to help me out with this thing, I don't know if this thing would ever get done, so. So it's very thankful. It would be in a nice rest home someplace. Yeah, yeah. I don't really get too frustrated in life.  I like this. Oh, so you found this missing wire. Do you find your marbles though? No. All right guys, I am out of here. Kind of woke up this morning. Still a little on the frustrated side and just decided that 10 days with no shower, that's right folks, 10 days. I made greasy MF for 10 days too many for me. I don't have propane, no electricity, no water, no place to sleep.  And I'm not, that's not what I'm saying here. Definitely not trying to complain. Just letting you guys know how difficult it is having a half-completed bus. So, I'm flying the coupe, shooting the breeze, saying Sayonara, the van bill, 2018. Thanks for all the help. I'll see you in a month.


Hello, everybody, and welcome back to some more C++ SDL programming. I'm going to go ahead and save this script, not the script, but this source code, this program as a new file. I'm going to call mine 09a underscore more images with underscores. OK. And let's actually get to the point of this tutorial. In the last tutorial, we were learning how we can actually go ahead and use images in our code and in our SDL program. Now, we have a few classes. And this is how we've been able to manipulate images and actually see them on the screen and that sort of thing, using SDL Surface and SDL Rect with our Sprite class. We have Sprite Gloops to manage multiple of them, Sprite Groups, sorry. And the block, which is actually the object or the class that actually is going to display a Sprite, which is really the base class. So we have the set image function. And you may have remembered, or you may remember anyway, when I said that SDL supports images, I said that SDL only supports bitmaps. And you can see this line right here, loaded image equals SDL underscore load BMP or load bitmap. The only thing that it can really load is a bitmap file. And that's kind of a shame. Let's check it out in the documentation. I've got this up in my internet browser over here. Now, this is online at wiki.libsdl.org. You can, of course, find that online at just libsdl.org. And the function we were using was SDL load bitmap. And OK, looks like we've got a few over here. Use this function to load a surface from a bitmap file. It doesn't explain anything more about loading images. I wonder if it shows that by API by category. I was hoping it would show us some images. Simple drawing, load bitmap. Now, notice it doesn't have any other functions to load any other kinds of images. So we've got to know a little bit more with this, because bitmaps are really not the most common kind of image file that we see. Now, I want to tell you about a special library or a special module that will allow you to use other images and other file types other than just plain old bitmap in SDL. And this is called sdl underscore image. I'm going to Google that. I'll show you all just heading over to Google. And it's sdl underscore image. And sdl image, this right here, it'll link you to other projects for sdl image. And you'll see, OK, sdl image 2.0 has been released, because we have sdl 2.0. There is the older version, sdl image 1.2. And we can use that just as well as if we would like. But this is available online. And you can download the Windows binaries if you need to, if you're running on Windows. If you're on Linux, obviously, contact your distribution maintainer for updates. I'm on Linux. And that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to go ahead and just install this by my package manager in Ubuntu. Now, I'm going to get my terminal open. And I'm in my cwork sdl folder that I've been in. And the command for this is just sudo. Obviously, to run this command as the super user, super user do, apt-get install. apt-get is the package manager for Ubuntu. And other, I think, Debian-based systems install. And the package name is lib sdl, just like we've seen before. 2, of course, because we're using the version number. And hyphen image, because we know that's the module in the library we want. And, of course, dash dev, because we want the development libraries. Go ahead and hit Enter. It'll ask you to put in your password. And I've already installed this, but if it does ask you, please enter the yes key or the y key to confirm. You can go ahead and install, and that will work just fine for you. Cool. So now that it's installed, we can go back into our source code. And the only thing that we really have to do, thankfully, this sdl image doesn't really have to be imported. I'm sorry. No, it doesn't have to be initialized. It does, however, obviously have to be imported and included. So over here in our preprocessor definitions to include some header files, we want to include sdl and then a new line underscore image. We can save that. And now that we can go back into our code, we notice that in the block class, that's where we're actually loading this image. And the function we used was before sdl load bitmap, or load BMP. Now we're going to use a different function here. This one is called img underscore. Now you notice it has a pretty similar kind of syntax other than the sdl proceeding underscore. This is just going to be img to note that we're using the image library and the image module. Img underscore load with capital L. And that's how we can load that file name. I believe this should still work with the bitmap file. We'll go ahead and keep that. And let's see what happens when we try to run this code. I'll clear the screen here. And my program is called g++. That's what we're going to use to compile. 09a, more images. And we do need to use package config with our back ticks. C flags and libs to get all the information for sdl2. And outside of the back ticks, what we can do as to link the new sdl2 image library, we have to use a hyphen and then the letter L and then without any spaces, we're just going to link with the g++ command that this is an argument for g++, the program itself. We want to use sdl, capital letters, to, because that's the version number, underscore image. And that's all lowercase. Now when we run this, no errors. Awesome, that works well for us. If I run the code, sweet. Our bitmap image loads perfectly fine. But like I've told you, we can use PNG files and other things with that. I want to say, sorry. The description here says sdl image is an image file loading library. It loads images, sdl services, and textures and supports the following formats, bitmap, GIF, however you want to say, JPEG, PNG, and other very common ones. OK, so let's actually go find a PNG file we can just use. PNG, Sprite, I just googled images. Holy crap, that's a lot of stuff. I want something small. Sprite. I'm going to get a Sprite can. That's small enough. And OK, that's a PNG file. Awesome. Hope I don't have any copyright issues with this. All right, and this was in my CWORK sdl nutrition bottle.png. Good. NutritionBottles.png is the file name.  And we can use nutritionBottles.png. Now when we run this code, we'll go ahead and compile it. No errors. We can run this. And there's our Sprite bottles with our Sprites that are properly using a PNG image. Awesome. We could do this with other things like JPEGs and that sort of thing. I'm not going to demonstrate that for you. Hopefully you can take my word for it. If not, you can try it out for yourself and see what works for you. But all it is in this case with the sdlImage library, we don't have to initialize the library or do anything with it. We're just essentially using more services that sdl typically works with, but we're loading them in a different way with the IMG load function. Now you can check out more or see what else this library can do by checking it out online at that sdlImage 2.0 kind of web page that we Googled. And the documentation is available. They give you a nice link to it here. And it shows what more it can do, that sort of thing. I would recommend you check this out, but it's entirely up to you. Okay, thanks for watching the video guys. Thanks for, I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. And well, thanks for keeping with me. Hopefully I'll see you in the next tutorial.


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You're watching the Daily Decrypt. Welcome to Currency Competition, friend. I'm your host, Amanda, and today's episode is brought to you by Node 40. Hello. Hi, Keith. Wow. How have you been? Very, very good. I've not seen a patient yet that wants to pay with Bitcoin, though, since you guys. Really? OK. Well, maybe this is. We got a lot of press, but I've not had anybody offer me Bitcoins since you all were here. All right. Well, maybe this interview can change that, because I'm not sure how many people are aware of it. But even if they are, I still wanted to talk to you, because even though the theme of the Daily Decrypt is currency competition, I believe that your operation is unique in that it believes in medical competition. Go figure, right? And so I just really think that these things are interrelated. So if you will allow me, I would like to start by telling everybody how I came into contact with you, Keith. Absolutely.  And we were staying up in New Hampshire. And so we called all around these various clinics and hospitals or whatever, telling them what kind of surgery we needed. It was a bicep repair. And asking for a price quote. And not only did we not get a price quote, but we got mostly silences. And even we were laughed at once. We were laughed at by a hospital receptionist for asking for a price for a service. And so we started feeling kind of like down and hopeless about this. And so we contacted the Surgery Center of Oklahoma on a whim, on a weekend, actually. It was a Sunday afternoon. And we sent them an email. And we thought, OK, we'll throw this out there. Two hours later, Keith Smith himself, an anesthesiologist at the Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Am I correct you're an anesthesiologist, correct Keith? That's right. Yes, you yourself responded to us via email on a weekend within two hours with an exact dollar price quote for us. And so already we were thinking, OK, this is a horse of a different color, isn't it? And then we decided to really push the envelope. And we emailed him back and said, you wouldn't, by chance, accept payment in Bitcoin and gold, would you? And what did you say, Keith? I'll tell you what you said, in case you don't remember. You responded back, we will accept whatever form of payment is most convenient for you. That's still true. So with that lead in, tell us about your operation, Keith. Well, we've been open, you know, Oklahoma City now for 19 years in May. It doesn't seem possible. 19 years?  We opened in May of 1997. And from the very beginning, decided that we would be very open and transparent with our pricing and that we would never accept a dime of money from the government. And that has not changed. Seven years ago in April, we put our prices online with the idea that we could generate some price competition and that we might actually start a price war. We also wanted to make ourselves more known to the people who actually had the sticker shock of paying their own medical bills. And we also knew something, and everybody knows, there's something terribly, terribly wrong with health care in the United States. It operates very much like a cartel. And we didn't understand all of the nuances. And I don't pretend to understand all of the nuances now. But we know a lot more about what's wrong and how the people behind the curtain line their pockets, hidden from view, the people who make a lot of money in the health care industry who do not render really any care whatsoever to patients. So our putting prices online has accomplished all three of these goals. We are now much more of a known quantity in the United States and even in Canada. People come see us from all 50 states except Hawaii and foreign countries because they find our pricing. And we've also uncovered and helped discover some of the scams that are operational in the United States health care system. And we've also got people that are printing out our price list and demanding that their local hospital step up and match our pricing where they're going to fly to Oklahoma City or drive to Oklahoma City just like you guys did. And so it's become a bit of a deflationary force as well. And all three of those were really dreams, things that we hoped for, and they've all been achieved. Well, I'm interested in hearing more about all of those things in particular who it is, the actors you have uncovered, who are making most of the money in the industry that people call health care, but not providing any of the value. And I'm not sure if this relates to it or not, but I neglected to mention to you that before we decided to come to the Surgery Center of Oklahoma for surgery, not only were there like the laughing and the silent moments on the phone when we asked for prices, but we actually did go in. And even without a price, we thought, you know, let's go see a doctor and see what he says if he thinks we should get surgery and how maybe we can start to get a feel of what we would be looking at if we go pay to get an MRI and talk to a doctor. And so we did. And this surgeon, after examining my partner, he comes in and basically tells us, I'm not interested in doing surgery on you all. And the lack of prices was so shocking to me at that point when I realized that there was no price. There was no amount of money I could offer him that I mean, short of maybe like, I guess, $100,000 cash right then and there in the office as a big secret or something. But he didn't even want our money. Why didn't he want our money? Tell us about what's going on in what people call health care. Well, the best way I think to understand the scam of the United States health care system is to start out envisioning that you're in the hospital and you've been charged $100 for an aspirin. An aspirin? Yeah, so the $100 aspirin is kind of the story that I tell that I think helps explain a lot of what's going on. The hospital charges $100 for the aspirin knowing that they're only going to be paid by the average insurance company $5 for that aspirin. And perfectly happy with that for several reasons. One is they probably paid less than a penny for that aspirin. Two, after they collect $5, they'll claim that they lost the $95 that they did not collect. And so that creates red ink, which helps maintain the fiction of their not-for-profit status. The third reason they are fine with collecting $5 on $100 aspirin charge is that that $95, they claim that they've lost, goes into a bucket called uncompensated care. This bucket is then shipped off to Washington, DC, and then they receive a kickback or a rebate from the taxpayers to the extent that they claim these losses. So I call it a reverse in-ron, where in-ron overstated their gains to their advantage. The hospitals are actually incentivized to overstate their losses. And they make more money doing so. That's why, on the one hand, the hospitals complain that all the uninsured in their emergency rooms are bankrupting them. But every time you drive by one, there's a building crane out in front, making it larger. So those two things are not consistent. They don't compute, and that's why. If you're in the insurance company shoes, this one is more counterintuitive. The insurance company is happy to receive a $100 bill from a hospital for an aspirin that they know they paid a penny for. The insurance company pays the hospital $5, and then they typically will ride into an employer group that has bought this insurance policy. And they'll ride in on their white horse and say, we beat that hospital half to death. And we discounted that $100 aspirin down to $5. We saved you $95. Typically, in these contracts, the insurance company then shares in the savings that they've achieved. And this is referred to in the industry as selling discounts or as claims repricing. So what the poor employer doesn't know is that this $5 payment was prearranged. What they also don't know is that the hospital has probably been asked by that insurance company to charge $200 for that aspirin because they achieve an even greater discount and share in a greater amount of savings with the employer who is fleeced and has no idea about any of these shenanigans that are going on. So when you think through it, you realize, well, why is someone charged $100,000 for a total knee replacement when really the hospital knows all they're going to get is $30,000? Well, that $70,000 of red ink generates a kickback, helps maintain the fiction of their not-for-profit status in the insurance company is going to charge someone to the extent that they discount these bills. The other scam. There's more? Oh, yeah. And it's easy for people to take their eye off the ball. I've been talking about this a lot lately because as disgusted as any listener right now would be with what I just said about the hospitals and insurance companies, the real culprit in this entire mess is the federal government. And that is very important to remember because everything that we hate about health care, whether it's lack of price transparency, whether it's bad access, whether it's poor quality, high price, all of those things are the responsibility of federal interventions into the health care economy. And the idea that we would want to turn the whole thing over to the folks who caused these problems in the first place is illogical. So I'm trying very hard to make sure that as all of these scams that these cronies are involved in, these are simply favors that have been purchased or auctioned off actually in Washington DC to these companies. And the real culprit is the state, an entity that has no business being involved in health care at all, I don't believe. So the other scam I talk about are the brokers, the insurance brokers. The insurance brokers many times will recommend that an insured by a policy that is not necessarily the best device and vehicle for that person or for that group, but rather the policy they wanna sell that generates the most giant undisclosed commissions to the broker or the brokerage house where he works. This is a huge problem in health care. And the brokers, the insurance brokers and the big brokerage houses are really the biggest problem in resistance to the free market movement in health care. Because as prices become more transparent than the big insurance carriers and the PPO's, they really don't have any role in the game. Yet they are the source of these undisclosed commissions to the brokers. So the sales force with boots on the ground from whom most employers derive all of their knowledge about health care is actually just a propaganda machine that's really designed and geared toward maintaining the commissions that are paid to these brokerage houses that are never revealed to the employers who are the ostensible clients of these brokerages. So those are some of the things that we've learned with the very simple, very simple goal of putting our prices online. The action of putting prices online has made all of these things very clear and the insurance companies want nothing to do with us. And we have very high quality, as you know, extremely high value. You would think an insurance company would be very compelled to send everybody here. They could not want anything more opposite because with our prices being completely transparent, they have no opportunity to sell discounts or reprice the claims. So it all kind of comes together if you think a little bit through the $100 aspirin story that that's the best way to explain the dysfunction of the health care system that I can come up with. So I see Surgery Center of Oklahoma as a competitor with these scams, as you call them. And I also see cryptocurrencies as a competitor to what I see as the scam of the non-transparent fiat money where all of this inflation is happening behind closed doors and there's no open ledger for anyone to examine to see what the real money creation has been. So I see these as parallel competing options. And I do believe if I'm not mistaken that you are part of a network of clinics or hospitals which are all seeking to compete in the same way, namely by posting prices. Tell me more about what you and your network are doing to compete with the scams. Yeah, this is an organization that I helped start with a friend named Jay Kempton called the Free Market Medical Association at www.marketmedicine.org and there's a link again for me Keith. It's www.marketmedicine.org and the idea is for this association to bring the buyers and the sellers of healthcare together without intermediaries that foul the exchange. There are intermediaries involved in the exchange but only ones who facilitate that exchange. So I think about it as like a match.com of healthcare where the buyer and the seller can find each other and prices are transparent. And the association has served as a resource to many people that are drawn to the free markets applicability and healthcare. And I have tried to help and have helped other facilities embrace the discipline of the market and walk down this path. So we don't wanna franchise. We're not trying to get rich. We want everybody to copy us so that there will truly be a free market revolution in healthcare and there will actually be price and quality competition. And anywhere that competition is allowed the same thing always happens. There's always a trend of falling prices and a trend of increasing in quality. And that's exactly what is happening in healthcare. And I think I'm very optimistic. I think that we're actually going to see a lot more of this. And it's a great thing for the people who ultimately end up being patients which is really all of us. That is so true. So Keith, is it safe to say that if someone were to return to your clinic and ask to pay in a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin that you would once again accept the payment most convenient for them? Absolutely. Pigs or chickens or crypto. And isn't it after all, the duty of the vendor to provide and accommodate the person who's paying with whatever, as long as the exchange is mutually beneficial, it's incumbent I believe on the seller to convenience the buyer, particularly if there's any competition involved. I going through that process of accepting the cryptocurrency from you and Pete, it was awesome. I mean, I learned a lot and I think I went home and told my wife I felt younger than I did the day before because it was such a cool experience. Wow. Sponsored shout out from Limoplay which is an online casino for bosses that want to use Bitcoin to play games like roulette, blackjack, slots and hundreds of other casino games. Limoplay offers a generous welcome package just for signing up and they pride themselves on their fast payouts. You can use Bitcoin to play any of their games whether you're on desktop or mobile by visiting limoplay.com. Good luck. Well Keith, please tell us if someone is more interested to learn about your surgery center or if someone is just wondering, hey, what clinics can I go to? Maybe someone's looking to get a procedure or needs some medical care of some kind that is better than perhaps what they have available where they live. How would someone embark upon this knowledge mission? Well, a patient, a prospective patient could certainly start and a good starting spot would be our website surgerycenterok.com and from there, they might look at the free market medical association whether it's their website or on Facebook. We have a pretty good presence on Facebook and that will give somebody a pretty good idea about what pricing should be, whether or not they are gonna have to travel and how far in order to get the care that they need but I foresee the free market medical association website of like-minded individuals really exploding. There's so much momentum for these ideas. It's actually, what I lie awake at night and worry about is how to accommodate the great number of people that are rushing to embrace the discipline of the free market. Wow, well, allow me to say thank you for open sourcing your model to put it in those terms. That is how cryptocurrency and open source software in general works. It's people doing something and it proves successful and their model is published open source online.   So thank you very much.  We actually got a nasty letter from a company that decided to launch a website with the idea that they would sell bundled pricing for surgeries and they sent us a letter telling us that we had to cease and desist or they'd be happy to sell us a license to continue what we've been doing for six years before they ever did this. Also been copied by University of California, Los Angeles and a big hospital system in Pennsylvania. They have websites that are basically plagiarized versions of what I have online. And I think it's wonderful. I think imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and I think it's wonderful. It's an indication of how much pressure that these big bad sort of Leviathan hospital systems are feeling from this market approach to price transparency. Right on Keith. Well, Pete wanted me to tell you hi. So I am telling you hi now from him and his bicep is plenty strong back in action. So thanks so much for your time. Thank you. Hello, thanks for having me on. I will. Thank you. Bye-bye. Today's episode is brought to you by Node 40, a hosting service for Dash's second tier of infrastructure. For a once monthly payment or a discounted payment for longer commitments, Node 40 will take care of the hardware, configuration and bandwidth required to run a Dashmaster Node. Reach out to their support staff to learn more at any time by visiting node40.com. I just wanna say thanks to y'all for watching The Daily Decrypt. Hope you enjoyed yourself and have a good day. Da-da-da-da.


When I think of the things that the Linux world needs more of the last thing on my mind is we need more Arch Linux based Distributions, right? There's a million of them when we have a lot of good ones out there with Manjaro and Arco and Endeavor So we've kind of got that arch Linux based distribution problem solved, right? We don't need more of these there's hundreds of these arch based distributions out there right now But people have asked me to take a look at a new distribution called pay X OS. I'm assuming it's pay X OS I was looking around for information on the pronunciation of this unfortunate Branding here because the name is pretty terrible. I mean people would think it's possibly pew like pew pew pew Like the first person shooter pew pew pew Maybe you're supposed to pronounce pew with the X. Maybe it's pukes OS, right? That would be an unfortunate name if that's the actual pronunciation I'm gonna go with pay X OS though And we're gonna find out if this is another amazing arch based distribution or if it's just yeah yet another arch spin So I'm gonna briefly take a look at the pay X OS website Which they I guess because they know people really don't know how to pronounce the operating system They have shortened it to just POS. I guess they want you to refer to Their Linux distribution as POS now that as bad as pukes is POS, of course is English a standard English acronym for piece of you know, what Don't don't call your Linux distribution POS, please. It's just that's bad branding But you know what it we have bad branding everywhere with free and open source software very few projects Unfortunately that are free and open source software have appropriate names It looks like their default edition is the XFC edition It is butter FS by default is the file system. It uses poly bar with X FCE That is a little strange to use a third-party panel when X FCE is a desktop environment that has its own built-in panel So why swap it out? I don't know why you would do that But hey, I'm interested to check that out So I'm gonna download the X FCE edition since they say it's kind of their flagship edition They have a KDE editions as well GNOME editions LXQ'd editions So, you know the standard big desktop environments. There's also telling window manager editions If I click on this tab here and people have wanted me to really take a look at pay XOS because Apparently one of their tiling window manager editions is X Monad. So I'm gonna download the X FCE edition I'm also gonna download the X Monad edition as well Although I can say just looking at the screenshot for X Monad What bar is that? That is not XMO bar, and I don't think it's poly bar either Why we have big buttons for launchers? Nobody uses a mouse and a tiling window manager? I know I'm already critiquing the distro and just looking at the screenshot, but that's weird I also have to critique the screenshot as well because is that VS code in the screenshot? Anyway, let me download the ISOs and let's go ahead and fire up the X FCE edition I'm gonna run through a quick installation of it inside vert manager So let me switch over to my desktop here. Let's go ahead and boot into the live environment of pay XOS I'm still waiting for the live environment to pop up right now. I've got a black screen. There it goes Taking a second now. Obviously. This is inside of virtual machine So there may be some performance issues here.  I mean, it's attractive It's just strange to to swap out the panel that ships with X FCE So you can install an extra package, you know for a panel, but hey Different strokes for different folks. I like the is that a cocky on the desktop? I'm assuming that's cocky if I click on it I see cocky up here in the taskbar. So first things first let's go ahead and get this thing installed So looks like it's going to use the Calamari's installer. So let me click on launch anyway here The live environment is complaining about packages being available for update in the package manager I'm assuming that would be Pamac. Let's close that All right, so the Calamari's installer if you've ever seen the Calamari's installer. It's a very simple intuitive Linux installer. So by default, it's selected American English for the language You could change that of course, but for me, that's correct. So I'm going to click next Office software and I do I want LibreOffice or only office or WPS office, etc Typically, I do install LibreOffice on all my installations, but in this VM I'm not going to take a look at LibreOffice. So let's just click next Location Chicago the central time zone in the US has been selected for me. That's correct English US has been selected for the keyboard layout. That's correct as well What do I want to do as far as the partitioning? Do I want to do manual partitioning or do I want to erase the disk and give the whole disk to pay XOS? I'm going to give it the whole disk. Do we want no swap a swap with hibernate or swap to file for this VM? I'm going to do no swap typically though on a real machine. I probably would do swap to file and Let's click next here and now let's create our username and password My username is going to be DT His password is going to be a strong and complicated password But pay X at least that their version of the calamaris installer says I can't use my strong and complicated password My password is too short. Well, let me make it longer then and It accepts that password now I don't want to log in automatically without asking for a password I want to actually have to enter a password for privacy reasons on my computers use the same password for the administrator account I do want to tick that on that way the Sudu password and the user password or the same password. I don't have to you know Remember two different passwords and when I say the Sudu password, of course, I'm talking about the root password The root user password. I know people sometimes get confused. They're like the Sudu password is it's just your password. I Get that you guys know what I mean when I say these things But some of you guys want to be pedantic in the YouTube comments and finally in the calamaris installer We get a summary screen locations good keyboards good partition scheme looks good. I'm gonna click install and This portion of the installation typically takes about 10 minutes on my machine So I'm gonna pause the recording I'll be back once this portion of the installer has completed and the installer has completed in the calamaris Installer what you need to do is make sure the tick box here that says restart now is ticked on and then after that click done and Your machine should automatically reboot and that's what I'm gonna do right now And we have successfully rebooted our freshly installed pay XOS and We have a login screen here. I've got my username DT if I click on it Then it asks for a password. Let's give it my super strong and complicated password since I had to Double it up this time. All right, and once again, it takes a minute to actually get into the XFCE desktop and The XFCE desktop has loaded here now. I wonder if we have any kind of application menu. I don't know what this is Obviously, they are using a poly bar, which doesn't have any kind of menu system So this is a third-party menu system run launcher Probably Rofi is what I'm assuming I Do super would it bring up that menu? No, we don't have any normal kind of functionality Because we replaced the proper panel with an inferior panel I mean poly bar is really it's good for tiling window managers certain tiling window managers I mean poly bar is mainly used by i3 users and BSPWM users But let me search for a terminal here in what I'm assuming is Rofi here I'll open up the XFCE terminal and it looks like we are using the fish shell welcome to fish the friendly interactive shell First thing I'm gonna do before we do anything else is let's get a proper screen resolution So I'm gonna do the X render dash s 1920 by 1080 So now we've got a better screen resolution. Can I zoom in here in the terminal? Yes, I can the next thing I want to do is I'm gonna do a where is Rofi Because if Rofi is installed it's gonna tell us where the binary and the man page and everything is so we get output So Rofi is installed. So that is Rofi This this menu here this kind of grid menu, which isn't horrible But again, is it is that as good as the standard XFCE menu? Probably not, you know something like D menu or Rofi They're really designed for keyboard driven workflows, you know, window manager workflows tiling window manager workflows Especially where you hit a key binding to launch Rofi and you start typing something and hit enter You know for a fuzzy search on your applications, which you know, people might use it that way But a lot of people are gonna install this and think it's a normal XFCE kind of distribution And they're they're gonna be a little put off by this. I think I think they probably should have stuck with a Traditional panel and menu system the real problem with using something like this is discoverability Because in a proper menu you could navigate through the subcategories of your applications like office and accessories And system applications and things like that. I can't get a list of all the applications installed here I think this one screen that I'm looking at is all we can get. I mean, I can't really I if I hit the arrow key down will it yeah, okay, it will keep going Okay, I wonder if page up and page down would work page up and page down do work as well So I can actually see what is installed looks like Biddle fault Discord is installed so that's proprietary software. That's kind of strange that they go ahead and install that for people out of the box But hey, you know, not everybody cares about free software versus proprietary software I get that so I won't hold that against the the creator of pay XOS Firefox is our default browser Looks like we have a electron installed on the system discord is an electron out cocky is installed cocky was the well That's not what I wanted to do. I wanted to switch to a second workspace Control alt to maybe with it. No control alt and then like the left arrow key. Yeah, that would work or the right arrow key Excuse me. So this is cocky this little widget that tells us time and date It can also display other like system information like your top processes of RAM usage and memory and things like that Let me go back to the first workspace here and let me get back into the application menu and let's see what else is installed H top is installed out of the box termite Yeah, I guess is really the default terminal emulators at least I'm assuming since they Xfce terminal comes with the Xfce desktop they install termite Specifically so I'm assuming that's the the real default terminal. Let me open it and let's see how it looks Come on, let me open it. Yeah, I'm not crazy about that menu system termite. Wow the font size Incredibly small in that it is themed a little bit. It's got an interesting little color scheme And also uses the fish shill as well going back into This launcher here, which again, I'm assuming is Roefe. I'm not a hundred percent sure I'm assuming our file manager is probably going to be Thunar Thunar is here But we also have files, which is the GNOME file manager We also have something called file manager three different file managers at least to we know Thunar's here and files I'm assuming that is the GNOME. Yeah, that's the Nautilus, right? Yeah files 3.38 so that is GNOME's Nautilus file manager with a really strange kind of theme to it Why is it themed like this? The other thing I noticed is why do I have a I just noticed it I'd never actually looked at the bottom of the screen because I'm assuming poly bar is handling everything But we have a taskbar like another transparent panel down here That's a taskbar as well. Let me open something. Let me open up another terminal and Yeah, what are the second terminal go? Let me open up You open up Thunar again. That's the Thunar settings. Yeah, sometimes Applications like Roefe when you start searching for Thunar or PC man FM or you know other programs Sometimes though they also have a separate program for setting preferences and I opened up the Thunar preferences But what I wanted was actually the file manager itself. Okay. Now. I've got two different things down here in the taskbar So you can switch to it's a normal kind of panel and taskbar like you would get in windows for example Why why is that not? Why is all of this not one panel? Well, I've tell you why all of this is not one panel poly bar does not come with a taskbar because poly bar is meant for a tiling window manager where you you can't you don't use a taskbar, right? Because you know you never have to switch between your windows like this with a taskbar because with a tiling window manager All your applications are always shown on the screen for the most part And even if they're not you just navigate through them with key bindings keyboard shortcuts. So Again, I poly bar poly bar doesn't make any sense at all being used with a floating window manager And especially in a full desktop environment that already had a proper panel and a menu system and everything a taskbar And you know all of this would have been just squared away out of the box with the XFCE panel I know people want to do things a little differently than everybody else But I don't mind switching out the XFCE panel But you've got to use something more Appropriate because this is not working and this panel at the bottom of the screen I used to be an open box user. I still have open box installed. I sometimes log into it. Is that the tent 2 panel? Let me kill all tent 2 Yeah, that was the tent 2 panel if I relaunch it will actually relaunch it Of course, I'll have to kill it unless I launch it and keep it as a background process I'll just keep that terminal open. I'll just minimize it to the tent 2 Panel's taskbar there. Yeah, this is really Yeah, this is strange I gotta say first impressions are not great with this Um, and I don't want to be overly critical. I hate being overly critical free and open source projects but I think This was trying to be different for the sake of being different and it totally misses the mark Uh The people that use XFC XFCE, you know use that kind of traditional windows kind of workflow that traditional windows kind of paradigm They're they're not going to like this. They're probably not going to like this at all What i'm going to do is i'm going to go ahead and quit out of the XFCE edition Which was their flagship edition people wanted me to check out the x-mone ad edition So what i'm going to do is i'm going to quickly install that off-camera and let's log in to the x-mone ad edition of pay x os And i'm booting into my freshly installed pay x os the x-mone ad edition I get a different login screen with this one Uh, I think I like this setup better than the one with xfce But let me go ahead and enter my super strong and complicated password and we'll log into their x-mone ad edition and i'm getting a ac only no battery notification here And I get a window open And it's just a black window So this may be a little buggy. I had this problem in the live environment too. It was a little flaky I think what i'm going to have to do Uh, it's a vm problem probably a graphics driver problem, but i've tried every graphics driver Available invert manager. None of them seem to work correctly. So what i'm going to do is i'm actually going to log in To a tty prompt and i'm going to kill all pi com I'm assuming they're using the pi com uh compositor That's typically the compositor everybody uses with standalone window managers and then i'm going to do control alt f7 here invert manager to get back to the desktop and now It actually looks like it's working correctly Yeah, so it's a compositor problem. The compositor was really uh, boogering up some of the windows Although the compositor still didn't fix like i'm assuming these Slide away buttons are actually supposed to have text Probably a vm problem. I won't uh, really be critical of this here If i installed this on physical hardware, this would probably look good I do like the uh, the look of this quick guide here. It's just unfortunately in the vm. You can't read it So let's talk about default key bindings in xmonad now typically if you don't modify xmonad in any way Alt shift enter opens a terminal. So if i do alt shift enter That does nothing they probably changed the mod key from alt To super actually it says note in key bindings mod is the windows key the super key So super shift enter should get us a terminal and that gets us, uh, the fish prompt again What terminal is this? This is alacrity in this edition. So I do like the alacrity terminal They probably should replace termite in the xfce edition with alacrity as well because now termite, of course Is uh, no longer actively developed So the default key binding to close a window with focus is alt shift c or in this case It's going to be super shift c. I'm assuming so we close that quick guide now This is well, let me do the xrander command one more time because honestly We need a better screen resolution here Uh, this is strange. So this panel here This is not poly bar and it's definitely not xmo bar, which is the panel that almost all xmonad users use I don't know why They're using such weird panels that don't make any sense in these editions So in xfce, which was a floating window manager slash desktop environment They were using poly bar which poly bar was really designed for tiling window managers That's what it's designed for now. We installed a tiling window manager edition of payux And instead of using something like poly bar or xmo bar I believe this is the tent tube panel, which is really for traditional kind of floating window managers It's going to have a task bar and everything if I open a second terminal, you know, you'll see we have two task bars We can switch between them with the mouse This is but nobody does this on a tiling window manager because there's nothing to switch to you see both Yeah, it it's pointless Also tent tube is not going to display multi monitor stuff at all as far as you know xmo nad Traditionally you'll have nine workspaces nine or ten workspaces zero through nine on the keyboard You would see those zero through nine displayed and you would also see coloring information depending on Was the workspace visible on one of your monitors? Is there something open on that workspace? Is there something open on that workspace but that monitor or that workspace is currently not visible? You know it xmo bar handles all of that stuff and poly bar doesn't really handle all that stuff But if you wanted to hack it and script it it's a lot of work You can kind of make poly bar work with xmo nad But this is the tent tube panel is completely inappropriate if I switch to the second workspace You know, it tells me I'm on the second workspace But it doesn't tell me About the other workspaces available. It doesn't tell me what if there's windows or programs open on those workspaces So yeah, this is nobody's going to like this this I would say this is going to give especially new users to xmo nad because the people that are going to install A distribution preconfigured with a tiling window manager or people that are not comfortable configuring it themselves And those kinds of people are going to have a bad experience If you present this to them with a panel that really is Kind of it's not going to work right. It's a half-assed approach really do it to This kind of situation you need You really need somebody that knows about xmo nad to actually come up with a proper config What I'm going to say is I bet the person behind the pay x project The flagship edition he claims is xfce. I bet that's probably the desktop environment He uses probably doesn't use tiling window managers And he's probably the one that came up with you know the design and and the suite of applications to create this particular desktop environment But it's really just all wrong and that's not just me, you know Having personal preferences. I nobody uses the tint 2 panel with a tiling window manager It's just it's just not the right thing. You have these quick launchers You know these big buttons with icons that you'd have to go to the mouse and click Nobody uses a mouse and a tiling window manager to launch anything. You know, it's it's again It's just the wrong panel for this now Let me do super shift c to close these windows again. And if I click on the haskell logo Uh, we get another menu, which I'm assuming is another Rofi menu here. And if I just quickly look at what's installed on the xmo nad edition Similarly, we've got firefox as our browser electron is here. So I'm assuming discord is also here It is pc man fm. It's the file manager on this edition. So pc man fm And we've got two different pc man fms We got pc man fm dash cute and pc man fm Which is actually a gtk based and you probably want to do the gtk based by default the cute one Mainly it's it's around for the lx cute desktop environment Uh, well, it's not been themed in any way. It's using like those plain brown icons that are just hideous Let me do a super shift enter one more time to get a terminal I'm assuming nitrogen is probably setting the wallpaper. Uh, let me see if I do nitrogen. No nitrogen is not here So what is setting the wallpaper? Because the fish shield, you know, the word was read as I typed it That means the command is not found. So I know nitrogen's not installed. So let me do wall paper And the rophy no Probably just setting it with feh There's probably in the xmone ad config itself Feh is setting the wallpaper I just wanted to refresh the screen to fix this This weird bug when I did the xrander command to resize the screen the wall papers a little wonky But we'll just have to deal with it for now Back in the menu system Firefox was the browser blue mill is our email client. I don't know blue mill the strange, uh But I mean nobody really uses desktop mail And our editor is code. So we're we're going to do vs code, right? Code os s Let's do the about Version 1 dot 55 dot 2. All right. Um, is that the only text editor on the system Is vm here vm is not of course vi'll always be around no vi is actually I've never found a unix based operating system that didn't have vi I'm assuming emacs is not going to be here. I just start typing text Yeah, code is yet editor Oh, yeah vs code is the only thing installed that we can edit a text file with one more thing I should try is nano.  That's interesting and note-taking application. It's also an electron app h top again If I click on h top, would it actually launch it inside a terminal? Let's check out system resource usage 361 megs of the 4 gigs of ram. I gave this vm That's pretty standard for you know any standalone window manager Typically three to 400 megs is what you're going to use If you have stuff running if you really wanted to strip it down way down you could get it under 200 megs Looking at the quick launchers here. That's obviously the terminal quick launcher there. Yeah That's weird clicking on something to open it with the mouse and then I got to go to the keyboard to close it Yeah, these don't make any sense I wonder how configured this thing is what I'm going to do is I wish vm was installed I could install it really quick, but what I'll do is will nano dot xmonad xmonad dot hs This is the xmonad config file and if I page down I'm just want to see what the config file looks like Doesn't look like it's a very lengthy config file. It looks very vanilla as far as Not much to it. How do I exit out of nano? I don't use nano. I find it very confusing Anytime I find myself trapped in nano. It's weird. It's like the people that complain about they can't exit You know, I seriously can't exit nano Luckily, it tells you how to at the bottom of the screen But yeah, it looked like it was a very vanilla xmonad config So if I open a few more terminals here, you know, we got the master and stack layout here And I believe the default key binding in xmonad to change the layouts is super tab No, it's not super tab tab actually changes focus of the window super space Is the default key binding to change the layout? So we have the master and stack layout Then we have a horizontal master and stack layout And then I guess we have just the uh, monocle layout where all four windows are actually stacked on top of each other If I launch htop, you can see Super j you know moves through the stack until I finally, you know get back All right, and then super space would get us back into the master and stack layout I think that's all I wanted to to do with this here Just a very brief look at pay xos their xfce edition and their xmonad edition Now I don't like being critical of these distros that you guys have me take a look at But I do wonder about you guys that asked me to take a look at pay x and especially those of you that were asking me to Take a look at the xmonad edition because I'm assuming you guys have actually used it and if you had used it I mean, you know that it's kind of it's kind of weird, right? It's kind of not put together well at all And what I would suggest is I'm not going to be overly critical here because it's early days for this linux distribution But I think the developer needs some help with this stuff And you guys if you use tiling window managers like i3 bspwm xmonad he's got additions for all of those Maybe go contribute to the project those of you that were enthusiastic about this project go help out Go contribute some of your configs and you know if You know you have problems like he shouldn't be using the tent 2 panel and a tiling window manager Go go let him know about that maybe also tell him poly bar is not appropriate for xfce You know try to steer the guy in in the right direction and help out a little bit for me You know, this was an interesting distribution. I'm glad I took a look at it. Hey, obviously it's different And that's one of the things I'm probably why you guys were excited about it It's definitely doing things differently than most other linux distributions. I'm going to keep Taking a look at pay x in the future if they have, you know, some big releases six months from now a year from now You know, I'll give it another shot right now for me though I think if you guys are looking for a really good arch linux based distribution Especially an arch linux based distribution that uses xfce Manjaro is kind of like the gold standard of xfce arch based linux distributions If you guys are looking for a good arch based distro that uses tiling window managers like xmone Arco linux is kind of the gold standard for those kinds of Tiling window manager edition So I would take a look at manjaro or arco endeavor os also makes really good Stuff they they have a really nice xfce edition as well Now before I go, I need to thank a few special people I need to thank the producers of this episode absy delis gave lou michel sand or ellen economy arch Featured 30 joke david the other david dylan greg rellis orion paul polytech scott steven smith and wesson willy these guys they're the producers of this episode They're my highest tiered patrons over on patreon I also need to thank each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen as well I can't read this very lengthy list of names I would run out of breath But I do want to thank each and every one of these people because I don't have any corporate sponsors I am sponsored by you guys the community and I ask for your support look for distro tube over on patreon. All right, guys peace Never thought I'd see a distro with vs code as the default


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Yeah, it's not Joel world of Warcraft while your sister's out getting banged. Hey, well Remember we have a test tomorrow. I hope you studied. I have multiple tests now. I have to after this party All right, see you guys. I can't believe I just fapped to Aswin. That's awesome. Wait, Mitch What up, dude? Yo, we're about to go get chili dogs Really sick. Yeah, I always love your setup. It's like the crazy you have like a podcast set up for your regular setup Yeah, so they can hear from both, right? Yeah, I'm excited for the new expansion It's gonna be good.  I don't know. I just the cycle, you know, it is what it is I'm coming back to streaming though. Probably with the new wild expansions. We missed the 42 and 0 streams, bro I did those streams like 20 times in a row Shit they were fun though.  I miss you guys too, man And I'm sorry.  I never wear pants like this But I had to see wake so I was like we're gonna work out dude I wonder if there's ever been a streamer that accidentally slipped out of nut No, I think it didn't happen like it happened to a bunch of chicks, but never a guy. I don't think right Yeah, the soda they think Missing the video having a miss in a video when Mrs. Balls came out Do you think they would ban you if you like let's say you were working out and you were going hard and your pants Just ripped including your underpants and your entire nutseck just came out Would you get banned for that? I actually you know what? That's a good question I think that there's like okay, we're all the contingency plans in place like their pants and underwear, you know And it's somehow everything went wrong. I feel as if they give credence to like I don't think they would it's twitch We're talking about bro. Tell me you're saving my life right now because I Just I want to be around friends.  Oh Shit What's up? What y'all doing? We're vibing. What are you doing? We're just talking. We're literally just talking about We've literally just been talking about Yeah, I have like kind of like a haste or repent hybrid suit. What's your gloves use the crafted I use these ones So I have the crafted ones And they're like a side grid this is like a side grid to the crafted ones, but I went with this cuz Little bit more intellect and then pee-pee's like I use Wait, dude, is that scooter thing still down there? Do you saw that that scooter that Jinx left here? Just a minx Minx my man Yeah, I did Would you recommend wowers are too common to get into for new players? I think it's fine It's like it seems like a lot at once, but they made me put on makeup today.  Hey, did I take your chair? Oh, yeah Thank you for getting food. I'm so hungry this crazy.  I already ate a chili dog and I forgot that she ordered food You just put it down there so we forgot. I made this whatever You eat like maybe I turn it over so it looks like it's like it's different than what it looked like whenever she brought it to you, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, like mix it up Oh, yeah, I like that smart Yeah, exactly, that's gladiator awareness. That was actually smart. What's your favorite type of potato product? mashed potatoes probably Like is just any potatoes like usually like I only know how to cook one meal. It's a steak and potato And I just cook steak potato every day. Have you worked out Nate saying potatoes every day you'd be jacked Is that right? Yeah, would actually work actually wouldn't oh my god. Maybe I should do that Yeah, I'm just coming here and work out. Yeah coming up I actually haven't been up here in like probably three or four months.  We have we have meetings. I've been taking every day off Streams where you play the worst games that have been ever made. Yeah, don't we do that every day? Yeah. Oh, yeah true. 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