Welcome to the medium is the massage Just a few things by myself right now my balance score is a 9.0 Which is great and the reason why I say that is the organization. I'm with civic or actions Takes life work life balance pretty seriously, and I'm very grateful for that A little bit. I was trained as an artist Which led me to binding a book for Pope John Paul the second a while back started a non-profit art center That's helped revitalize my community in Baltimore. I created the first State online slide registry artist slide registry way back in the 90s I mean musician worked as a been a church organist and I'm currently a member of the Baltimore Mandolin Orchestra of Baltimore's other orchestra and I'm a Drupal engineer evangelists and a Drupal community organizer involved in my local community in Baltimore and and in Drupal for gov the nonprofit that Has oversight over Govcon coming up in July Animus, I'm in its aspiring internet cultural critic which today we're gonna read from the medium is the massage But he's on and there's probably a better way to do this Hi, so the book Which was the title was a mistake at the printer That Marsha McLuhan kind of went with in a very 1960s way It was supposed to be the medium is the message based on his essay understanding media the extensions of man published in 1964 the book was published in 1967 and Shockingly enough all these his essay a lot of interviews on YouTube. I would suggest Taking a look at them are still Still have a lot of resonance today So for instance, he said societies have always Been shaped more by the nature of media By which we communicate them by the content of the communication and this is really the thesis of both his essay and book and And we'll talk more about this as we go on. I think this thesis is still relevant As are many of the things he's Said for instance like easel painting the printed book at a much to the new cult of individualism the private fixed point of view became possible and Literacy conferred the public the power of detachment of non-involvement And we're kind of we're gonna go from the 1960s to the 1860s Then we're gonna go back to 2019 in this presentation and you'll see a little bit Some of these innovations in literature and how they kind of follow McLuhan's theory Electric technology fosters encourages unification involvement And he could be speaking there about the web and the internet But he's talking mostly about television electrical information devices For universal tyrannical tyrannical wound-to-tomb surveillance are causing a very serious dilemma between our claim to privacy and community communities needs need to know kind of Surprising that someone would say that in 1964 So we're gonna go back to the 1860s We've got four American Bohemians Walt women Most influential American poet got Artemis Ward Which was his stage name? His real name is Charles fur brown and he's the first stand-up comic Predating Andy Kaufman by about a hundred years and his act was very much like Andy Kaufman He got up on stage Kind of acted the buffoon People would start to throw vegetables at him and then he would let him in on the joke Right in a very Andy Kaufman Eskway got Mark Twain greatest American humorist Ada Isaacs Menken writer poet and the highest earning actress of her time and Frederick Douglass abolitionist order writer and statesman and why are we talking about these people because there were certain innovations that happened in the middle of the 19th century that Propelled these people from the literary world to the stage to celebrity Let's talk about them. The first is the steam powered printing press which the Baltimore Sun was the first newspaper to buy one of these in the United States back in 18 1846 and You know American newspapers started cranking out And more and more and more efficiently their new their product and Some other innovations There we go. This is what Marsha McLuhan Said about the printing press overnight printing created what we call nationalism one of the facts Was a public so and you can sort of see it the 19th century how You know, it's not it's not a coincidence that coincidence that most revolutionaries have been newsmen publisher publishers writers anyone from Mussolini to who You know calm, you know to Even currently a lot of a lot of people come out of publishing and And jostling things so information is power And then we had the postage stamp which in the middle 19th century Became cheaper and instead of charging by distance They started charging by weight and they brought the price down and on top of that they They syndicated newspapers and publications were able to syndicate so they could send their articles cross-country train pony express very cheaply and so that The talent Walt women there Frederick Douglass Ada Mankin They would have their articles published in publications on the west coast and You know whereas they might be on the east coast and so you had this this spread of ideas that the pony express telegraph Rotary cylinder printing press all these things came together for information distribution So what does that have to do with March McLuhan? So let's talk about March McLuhan He he goes on about cool and hot medium And when it's a little bit confusing Just like this color chart where you have cool reds and hot blues But what do you mean by cool in the sense of jazz instead of 60s culture cool culture kind of You know leaving space, you know quiet Inviting Inviting ideas hot What he means by that is is medium that is filled with information that doesn't leave room for participation in the audience so For instance, he would talk about TV how it creates a meditative state The audience is participating in any he's talking about broadcast television So that you know back then you had two threes broadcast stations that you could Watch and that was a shared experience watching the nightly news every night Like the whole the whole country was watching the same three stations. So it was a particip participatory exercise and As opposed to hot which would be like going to a movie theater like I did last night to see the new Terry Gillum film highly recommend it Where it's a really you're in a darkened room You're with other people, but it's a very private experience or like reading a book where there's a lot of information There's a lot of processing the information. There's not a lot of room to fill in gaps so Let's move on to 2019 and the web You know is the web a hot medium is it a cold medium cool medium and in the end and it's essence no matter what your delivery whether using Your front-ends JavaScript back ends Drupal whatever it is In the end the web is words wrapped by HTML markup which hasn't changed too much since its Invention Initially, we just had basic text some basic formatting hyperlinks later on images and later on video so there's some aspects of the web that we could use to Match it in with some of McLuhan's ideas about hot cold media So discontinuity so the act of reading a web page Is a discontinuous process You might skip over pages you might follow links you're combining Multiple sites multiple pages. You're getting snippets from each. It's a really disjointed process reading a web page The pieces are shared by others, but never in the same way It's not like broadcast television where you've got rock Walter Cronkite You know talking to millions of Americans Passing on the same information with the internet. We're all reading the internet looking at the internet consuming it and in very individualistic ways Now because of the disjoint in this you get something that's called closure Where the individual is Taking the parts in filling in the gaps and we'll talk about this a little bit more later on the presentation We also have segmentation internet technology like specialization and characterization Digital media superpower is categorization You know we all make websites and we're always what's the first thing we do we categorize Content we put things under menus. We organize things for categorizing things. It's something that Computers do well, and so the internet does it well as to But the web audience is also segmented so we're all having these individual experiences There's good and bad here On one hand niche audiences can find a home Niche audiences can find information important to them. They can go to Ravelry comm and share knitting patterns and And get advice from their community You can go learn about very niche cultural things Role-playing games whatever whatever inches you have music So, you know we can split up in the very specialized audiences, which is unlike television And we have a lot of participation in the medium of the internet Unlike television where viewers did not have much choice. We have a lot of choice choices on the web We're taking channel surfing to the extreme How many times do you find yourself staring at your phone? Clipping through Facebook and really nothing's happening. You're just you know a few minutes after that You realize you're just blowing a lot of time not consuming a lot of information But we're we're doing channel surfing on steroids all the time on the internet So the web is the medium At the same time Sometimes the medium can flip and and act Not cool, but in a hot way and and it can be filled with information and information fills all the gaps There's no closure So we can experience it in a very private informative way sometimes but most of the time the web is a cool medium So as people who make the web Are we using the medium to its fullest? Ability What do we mean by the web especially when the delivery is not only the browser anymore or a single type screen we have Multiple devices phones and a lot of you are Looking at them right now We're not completely engaged in what's happening around us Which is interesting. We also have the closed web and we have the And we have the open web and you know what what you know that experience can be a lot different if you're on Facebook a closed web site or even Google or some of the other Sites out there that kind of cordon off their own piece of the internet That experience can be quite a bit different than Two different people How does it affect the way we communicate you know go to a restaurant cafe? You got couples at the table and they're all looking at their phone, you know, and or you have you know Hopefully you're not you know sometimes you're supplementing your comfort your conversation with information So you can't remember a name can't remember a fact. It's supplementing the conversation and that can be a positive thing but it's definitely affect we the way we communicate individually and also as a collective and We're gonna look at a little bit at what changes are happening with the medium. So this is something I I Asked myself a lot of times about you know having you know creating websites working with people with content with design With the back end for you know building the whole thing, you know in the end you build this very sophisticated Internet publishing Thingy and in the end someone just takes a document of word and copies and pasted pastes in it and it's just like You know, it's just like you've you've spent a whole day making a beautiful cake and Someone just kind of like jumped in it, you know, it's just not you know, it's like wait a minute That's you know Or they post PDFs or something or some other offensive practice amongst web professionals, right? At the same time as web creators we do Silly things as well We create websites with photo editing software instead of the tools they're out there and You know, I think that's shifting a little bit There's still a lot of people using Photoshop to design websites, and it might be a part of the tool set But maybe it's not Maybe it should be it shouldn't be the primary design tool The web adopts a lot of Print conventions new often new technology and this is something McClune says new technology Adopts the strategies of the old technology So we lay out the web with newspaper columns Right. We we wrap text around images And images that how are those images really they're there You know a lot of times just for aesthetics You know, we're doing graphic. We're doing print graphic design in HTML and I think it's time to have an awareness of that so we can improve upon what we're doing But sometimes we actually Create for the web and we write for the web We might only now be starting to actually do this. I think The web is still young the smartphones are They're not quite a decade or just a decade old. We're still Getting used to those Wasn't too long ago that like our parents or grandparents Wouldn't have been on an electronic device now everybody is right our children are babies are We're still getting used to this this new Medium the tools are emerging which is good and publications have moved That have moved to the web Even though they were slow to adapt and there's it's been a messy process They're actually some of them are the sites of innovation So this is an article The screen we got an article in the Washington Post You may have may not have seen this it's called too many men it talks about The gaps in the number of men and women in some countries due to government policies or cultural Norms It does some very interesting things There we go. We start to get some Things happening there keep going. It's really beautifully done this article. We start scrolling horizontally Which we rarely think of doing we've got Some illustrations that that move and some illustrations that go So you get the idea really beautifully laid out I find that the The portfolio sites like the hands and stuff where you they're supposed to be inspiring. I don't find them very inspiring So it's kind of hard to find little gems like this so on Is out there we do have some innovations and it's happening some content heavy sites are Creating small innovations and trying to stand out For instance here, we have link previews in Wikipedia not a very You wouldn't think Wikipedia is a innovative site But they do they they have these innovations around the edges So we also have some Drupal modules that do this just to tie it back to Drupal we have external link preview and preview link If you're doing WordPress, there's some plugins that'll do this type of thing In media medium Which I think does a great job making text readable they have this thing called highlights Which can be a little confusing that there are ways of the readers to Interact with the author and interact with the text There so you'll be reading a medium article and you'll run across Like some highlighted text and if you scroll over it, you'll get some options there seeing somebody's comments or sharing That part of the article with social media Took me a while to figure out exactly what they were. I think I misunderstood them The first time I came across them. I thought the author was doing it. I didn't think I Just assumed that I couldn't do something in somebody's article, but it's a neat concept of Allowing the readers to interact with your writing. There's a WordPress plug-in called highlighter. They'll do this. I Wasn't able to find a Drupal Module, I'm sure there are job script libraries that allow you to do this too How are we doing there? And this is a chart of a percentage of text on web pages and You see that it rose keep rising rising to about 2006 where it starts to fall. That's YouTube coming into the picture. So we've got about You know, we you know, we've got Mostly text still but we've got images gaining ground. We have video game of ground article Let me check out. I'm gonna skip over that because we're running out of time. There's a quote from it. This article Is a New York Times piece about the internet. Internet was born in text because text was once the only format computers understood Then we give it eyes and ears smartphones appeared And here's McLuhan an information system dominated by pictures and sound prizes emotion over rationality Yeah, somebody saw it coming 1964-67 Look at the look at his interviews You know, there's some strange dated things like everyone smoking cigarettes on television, but But if you take it with those things away it's still pretty powerful stuff The whizzy wig the thing we all love to love and hate at the same time users love it I think web People build websites that are ambivalent But for content creators, you know, it sort of starts and stops with the whizzy wig I think that's changing, you know, here's Gutenberg but People resist the Gutenberg add-on they hate it or they're very divided We've got Gutenberg for Drupal It's pretty cool And we got a layout so it'll be interesting to see what layouts does for the aesthetics for the content creation process for the actual content and and that's What I'm looking for is like how, you know, the tools that we use to create the content are going to dictate, you know Certain attributes of the content And we need to be aware of that so when we stick a whizzy wig and a site, you know, we're inviting people to use the old paradigm another Paradigm that's hard for us to contend with even though we've been dealing with smartphones and and Tablets for quite a while now is the frame and You know, you know, we can swipe every way now And we still go up and down and that might be Necessary for a while, but that will change at some point. We've got innovation versus convention We have we do have to think about the users and and not jarring them Into innovations. So we do have to balance that thing.  So we always hear in the Drupal world Wordpress is easier to use but is it easier to use because it's ubiquitous or because it's really easier to use When I go in a WordPress site, I'm not as familiar to me It doesn't look like a usable interface or that more usable or you know, there's You know, it's familiar That's what's making it usable Microsoft Google big tech companies understand the power of familiarity So they use it to their advantage, you know, Microsoft sticks applications on people's deck desktops So it's only everybody loves outlook like way back when right and Everybody's using Internet Explorer even though we all knew it was horrible and now Internet Explorer is gonna be using a Chrome back end. So maybe there's hope But the big the big corporations understand that and that's how they That's how they try to influence the market is by creating familiarity by saturating the market Where are we going? I would suggest everyone read this book It is a book about creating comics Written as comics and it's absolutely brilliant and comics have a lot in common with the web paradigm Comics are sequential Web pages are read sequentially Comics use gutters and and frames to create rhythm to create meaning create Associations we do the same thing when we lay out a page Comics have a lot of viewer participation the viewer fills in the action in between the gutter What comics do better than what we do on the web is images images and text trade-off Priority that often things can be said just with images Text is the use of text is spare sparse or economic There are even web comics the comic there are comics that are laid out for mobile devices And so the layout changes for those particular comics and you can purchase apps to browse those Here's a layout. It's a Japanese comic so it's actually being read right to left, but you you can see with very minimal text There's quite a bit efficiency clarity and what the frames are saying The the frames the gutters images create attention. They create a lot of drama in there another thing I look at is, you know, what are my kids looking at and They would prefer to watch YouTube them Streamed programming right you know stream programming You know, it's kind of interesting a stream streaming services. They purchase the the old broadcast television content and and some ways There hasn't a lot of innovation behind streaming, you know, they they would much prefer the DIY content on YouTube quite often They're not biased by that history of broadcast television. They've skipped that They're my kids are the I generation. They've had high-speed internet since the day they were born So they don't have that bias They get YouTube You know, they understand what twitch is and And they prefer lo-fi DIY video over professional productions Another area. I think we need to look more at is games and this is a This is a gorgeous game Design Again by Asian designer. So I had a lot of innovations happen In you know comics a lot of innovations were were in eastern cultures Japan Korea and Same thing with games. There's some the aesthetics kind of reminiscent in a way how Impressionism was was influenced by Japanese art and Here this game called journey. It's just as gorgeous Experience it's just the color the light the graphics and I think we can We can learn a lot from things like that and It'll be interesting to see what those things where those things take us Here's some resources further reading And I would love to have discussion even if it looks like there's not a talk after this which is great We just want to mention a few things Baltimore Drupal camp on Baltimore September 27th. We have a really great camp so if you're in the area look us up and Please don't forget conference evaluations and Sprint's not tomorrow. It's great. I'll leave it at that Any thoughts it's nice to have a more participatory experience I have a half-baked thought so one of the things I One of the things I deal with I work for research organization one of the things I deal with quite a bit is actually presenting research so data scientists visualizations and One of the things that that I do experience is that a lot of our authors are not our authoring encode and I'd be interested to see how this kind of plays out where a lot of the where They're not using WYSIWYG. They're they're using code and they're they're they're including text and video but also experiences applications and and as a matter of fact I can Pretty sure I know least somebody who worked on that Washington post And that you know that wasn't necessary that was done probably outside of their WYSIWYG To accomplish so anyway, just interesting thought that I was just like the fifth into the medium is the message because the code is the Yeah, I mean the comic book. It's very specialized. There's a person who writes there's a person who Sketches there's an anchor someone who draws the black line. There's someone who does the color That can be good. It can be bad as well a lot of collaborative things as matter How you put those things together? YouTubers, you know, you'll see them develop, you know first they're doing the editing themselves And then they have somebody else editing and suddenly it becomes more polished over time It's always fun to go back and watch the first you video they posted and see how they progress because it is Definitely, you can't help but get better once you start doing stuff Anybody else comment before the next speaker gets here? No. Oh, yes Yes Yeah It's fascinating Alright, well, thank you very much and I'll get unplugged


Hey, this is Brett, this 2022 Ford F-350 crew cab, short box, single rear wheel, Lariat Ultimate FX4 is stock number 14457Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Your new and used heavy duty truck headquarters, this 2022 Ford F-250 has the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel engine. It puts out 475 horsepower, 1,050 foot pounds of torque. It is paired up with the 10 speed automatic transmission. This truck has been fully safetyed and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this truck is 100% ready to go, super clean all the way around. That's exactly what I'm gonna do in this video, go all the way around inside underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood, show you all the options and give you the most accurate representation that I can of the vehicle. Carbonized gray metallic is the color, I shoot all my videos in 4K. Now, if you like the video, subscribe to the YouTube channel, click the bell notifications and you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day. As well as having access to one of the largest catalogues of vehicle walk arounds on YouTube and stay current on our ever changing and vast heavy duty truck inventory here at Summit Automotive. This one comes with the 18 inch painted and polished aluminum wheels. And it has Goodyear Wrangler, all terrain adventure tires. These are LT 275 70 R 18s. They have right around half the tread left on them. Frame and underbody is exceptionally clean on this truck. This is a one owner clean title history, clean car facts out of South Carolina. Front fenders in excellent condition. You get the LED headlamps, the LED running lights and the LED fog lamps. Front bumper and lower valence are in fantastic condition as well, no dents or dings on there. We're gonna turn on all the lights at the end of the video so you can check those out. So stick around for that. The Ford logo is in nice shape. It does have the front camera on there. The hood is in excellent condition. I didn't see any major dents or dings on there. And the passenger side front fender, very nice shape as well. Passenger side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. And carbonized gray metallics got a lot of metal flake. It's really a fine metal flake. A little bit lighter than the magnetic. That was the old gray color. And as you go down this side of this 2022 Ford F350, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck and of confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesmen know that you saw the video that was helpful and that Brett sent you. And I can keep doing these videos for great customers all over the United States each and every day. Back wheels in excellent shape as well and the back tires have considerably more tread than the front tires. In fact, these are brand new tires on the back. We might have put those on in our safety inspection, which I think we did. Frame and underbody is like new, definitely advantageous to get a truck out of South Carolina. Has all the remaining factory exhaust and the underbody, like I said, is like new. Lower rockers and cab corners all look good and it does come with the nice wheel-to-wheel chrome factory step bars. Passenger side box, no dents or dings in there. You do get the FX4 off-road suspension package, LED tail lamps, rear bumper is in great shape, does have the backup parking sensors, the rear bumper step, full towing package, which includes the receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring. The tailgate is in excellent shape as well. Does have a gator rolling tonneau cover. So that rolls up. Is a power drop-down tailgate. Tailgate step assist comes with the spray-in bed liner. This is a tough-bed Ford factory spray-in bed liner. Fifth wheel and goose neck prep package. You get the LED bed lights back here, seven pin wiring, and then this is for your trailer backup assist system. And the bed's in great shape. That line goes on to the tailgate. That shuts nice and solidly as well. Going down the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger's side. No dents, no dings, looks really, really good. And for full disclosure, this back wheel just as nice as the rest. That tire is brand new as well. Down the rest of the side of the truck, cab and doors all look really good.  Driver's side door code entry, we do have the code for this truck. If you ever wanna figure out what your code is for your 17 to 22 super-duty in the upper right-hand power screen, got a video showing you how to find that. Back seats are in great shape.  These seats can lock into this position. So when you have this tray up, it is a locking storage area. And here is where that trailer back up assist system, side box tie downs, and this can go nice and flat. You get the all-weather floor mat back here as well, 12-volt power point, and then you have side current airbags on the front seats. Child safety locks on the back doors inside and bottoms of the doors all look fantastic. There is your VIN sticker, tire and loading information sticker. Up front, this one does have the 40-20-40 split bench seating. Seats are in great shape, no rips, no tears, smells very clean inside this truck. I don't think it's ever been smoked in. And both these front seats are heated, power and cooled. Factory all-weather floor mats up front, power drop-down tailgate, power pedals, auto headlamps, LED side lights on the mirrors, fog lights, power tilt and telescopic steering wheel. That's working nicely. Memory driver seat, power windows locks and mirrors there, power folding mirrors. I was like showing both sides, so you know that both sides are working properly, and then they do power telescope out and in, out and in. All working nicely and you get this kind of really neat looking, I guess you could say it's wood grain trim on there. Now I gotta grab the key, one second. All right. Take a look at the instrument cluster and radio and everything this one has to offer on the interior. You can see, and yes, we will be putting some fuel in this truck right after this video. Digital speedometer, 38,216 miles on this one instrument cluster is very nice and clean, comes with the heated leather wrapped steering wheel. You get Bluetooth and audio controls on the right, cruise controls and adaptive cruise controls on the left, information center controls right there. There's your shifter for the 10 speed automatic transmission. This one does have the B&O premium sound system, and it does have the sync 12 inch radio. You get AM, FM and Sirius and Bluetooth capabilities. There's your heated steering wheel controls. This one does have the factory navigation system. There is highway 41, so that is working properly. Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and then you get all these different apps on here as well. And you can check out the 360 cam right there, front camera right there, and then you get all your different cams right there. Does have the cargo cam, which is pretty cool. The wide view of the front, the narrow view of the front, you can look over your receiver hitch and then the normal back view of the vehicle. So a lot of great stuff you can do there. This is your lane departure warning, downhill assist control, hazard lights, stability control and your factory exhaust brake. Down here is your turned out four wheel drive factory brake controller, and your trailer backup assist system, which is part of that plug that I showed you in the bed of the truck. Down here, you're more tactile volume tuning and climate controls, including your heated and cooled seat buttons, dual climate controls, USB-C, USB 12 volt power point, another 12 volt power point, 110 volt, 400 watt max plug-in, dual glove boxes, keyless entry with remote start and power dropped on tailgate buttons, and the passenger side, floor mat and seat are in excellent condition, no rips or tears on there. This one does have the second row fixed glass, power sunroof in front, Vista Roof, really nice option to have. You get six auxiliary up-fit switches, power sign where window controls, and you do have a sun shade and sunroof controls and map lights up there. Let's start it up and take a look under the hood and as promised, check out all those LED lights in the front. Starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video, I've been able to verify the quality condition options and of course, cleanliness of this truck. There are those LED side lights and if you like the video, remember to subscribe to YouTube channel. All those lights are very bright and working nicely. Under the hood, we have the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel engine. Engine based, very clean, runs very smooth. 475 horsepower, 1,050 foot pounds of torque. Engine based, very clean. And this truck has been fully safety to and expected by a service shop has a brush, oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. You can see the shocks. I do a nice job holding that hood up. There is the emissions sticker. And this truck is 100% ready to go. I would highly recommend it from a quality and condition standpoint. I'd ship this one anywhere back to South Carolina, California, Texas, New York, Florida. Whoever's gonna get this truck is going to be very happy with it. And see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 550 new news cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, half tons, three quarter tons, one tons. You name it, we gotta go to the website right there, summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle all at summitauto.com. If you wanna check out more HD videos, you can go to youtube.com. Slash, summitauto. 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We are now only hours away until polls officially open and today both parties made a final push for every vote. Both Republican and DFL headquarter locations in Bemidji were bustling with activity as volunteers made last-minute efforts to secure every vote. At the Republican headquarters, local party leaders are cautiously optimistic about early results, but say everyone still needs to get out and vote.  That's all there is to it. If they don't vote, it's not going to be good. I don't know. We'll see how it goes out. One of the big things coming out I think is going to be the early voting turnout. That's been very high. Early reports that it is leaning very strong towards the Republican side. Wait and see. At the DFL downtown Bemidji headquarters, volunteers have been busy door-knocking and making phone calls. They've also been encouraging people through social media to get out the vote, which is a key, they said, to a DFL victory. You know, certainly, and we hear it said time and again, it's turnout. It's all about turnout. And that's, like I said, the work we're doing right now is making sure we get Democrats to the polls. And we're certainly seeing a lot of people excited about that. A lot of early voting, I think you've probably heard, is record numbers so far in the state. And we've been encouraging people to vote early and make sure they get to the polls tomorrow. Both political parties will host election night result watch parties that are open to the public. The Republicans will begin at 7.30 at the Hampton Inn in Bemidji and the DFL will host their party at the Holiday Inn Express beginning at 7. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


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So, I have been using OpenSUSA now for a little bit over two months, and while I can't believe that two months of my two-year Linux challenge has already gone by, I do want to take a moment to pause and talk a little bit about my experiences with OpenSUSA so far, because I think that it's going to be important as I go along through this experience of using a Linux distribution long-term to document my progress, because I know that a lot of people out there are thinking using a distro for two years isn't all that much of a challenge. These are the people who have been using Ubuntu since 2008. These are the people who have been using Debian since the 90s. They don't really get the whole distro hopper's mindset, but a lot of my audience are people who are like me. They like to switch between distros, and I think that for them, and definitely for me, using a distribution long-term and actually dedicating yourself to it is a challenge. So what I want to do today is talk about my first two months of the two-year Linux challenge, and I want to talk specifically about OpenSUSA, because I truly honestly believe that OpenSUSA is the most underrated Linux distribution out there. It is a fantastic distribution, and I want to talk about it. So that's what we're going to do today. Before I jump in, if you'd leave a thumbs up on this video, I'd really appreciate it. Also, when I do the thumbs up thing, for whatever reason, the camera just completely changes focus. Whatever. Leave a thumbs up, and it would really help the channel, so thank you very much for that. Wow. Okay. I don't understand that, because autofocus is definitely turned off. Anyways, so OpenSUSA, I want to talk about first my general experience with it, and then I'll go into a little bit more of a general sense of why I think people don't use it as much as I think that they probably should. So for the last two months, OpenSUSA has been spectacularly stable. I mean, I'm talking like one of the best experiences with Linux I've ever had stable. And I know that sounds like hyperbole, or that I'm overselling it a little bit, but it really has been a fantastic experience. I've experienced a few hiccups, mostly surrounding the fact that I don't know what I'm doing half the time, so I blame most of those things on me. But just from a pure usage standpoint, OpenSUSA has been very, very stable, and I've honestly been very surprised by it, because there have been some monumental updates to the system over the course of the last two months. In fact, about a week ago, maybe two weeks ago or so, I don't remember if it was before the power outage or after. I had an update that had over 3,000 package updates on it. Now I update my system every four days, so it's not like I've waited a whole month to do an update. So somewhere between one day and the next four days, 2,800 packages needed to be updated. It was a GCC update. I'm pretty sure the entire Python stack had to be updated as well, so there's a ton of packages. And when I see that number, or when I have seen numbers like that in the past, usually on Arch, where updating is a big deal, I always get quite scared, because when you have a lot of updates, the more updates you have, the more likely something is to go wrong, right? And especially on a rolling release distro like OpenSUSA, I've expected more things to go wrong with these gigantic updates that continue to happen. Now I haven't had any near as big as that one, but I've had several. It's not uncommon actually for me to see three or 400 packages every four days for me to update. And that's not the similar to Arch. That's usually the way rolling releases work. So it's not a flaw. What I'm saying is that I would expect with that amount of updating that goes on for things have broken somewhere along the line, but I have experienced none of that. Like it just reboots and comes back and while I expect things to go wrong, it just carries on and it's been amazing. Now that I've talked about it, I fully expect tomorrow to do an update and have my computer not boot just because I jinxed it. But that's probably been my biggest surprise is that it has been phenomenally stable. And the thing is, is that, like I said, I expect rolling releases to break from time to time. I expect packages to break sometimes for to not boot whatever. But the longer that I use OpenSUSA, the more comfortable I am with the knowledge that it's probably not going to break. Now, granted, it's only been two months.  But I think that I'm confident in saying that this is the most stable rolling release that I've ever used. Now, I used Arch for years. I used Fedora, which is a quasi rolling release. I suppose you could say it's not really. But, you know, whatever, you know, it definitely uses more up to date packages and say Debian. So there's that, like I've used many different Arch based distributions. All of them are rolling release. So I've used rolling releases in the past almost always. I've experienced some issues somewhere within the first couple of months. And with OpenSUSA, I can't say that it has been spectacularly stable. So just to get that part out of the way, another thing that I was really worried about when it came to OpenSUSA was package availability, because package availability on a distribution that I wasn't familiar with was kind of worrisome for me. Was it going to have the really weird packages that I tend to need? Things like Rofi scripts that I usually use, things like the terminal fonts and the icons and all the stuff that I really, really want to have on my system that aren't in traditional repositories. Debian oftentimes doesn't have them. Ubuntu doesn't have them. You get the idea, right? OpenSUSA, I haven't had any problems. Now, obviously, there have been some situations where I haven't been able to find the package that I needed. But in those situations, I've either been able to go to the OpenBuild service, which is basically copper. It's not exactly the same. So don't at me. Don't tell me the differences. I understand that there are differences. But in terms of front end usage for users, you're adding a repository and then you can install the package. It's similar to copper, kind of like a PPA only. It's hosted by OpenSUSA, right? So if I haven't been able to find it in the regular repositories, I can go to the OpenBuild service a lot of times that it's there. A few times I've had to build things from source, but it's no different than a lot of times having to do the same thing on Arch or on Debian or Ubuntu or whatever. So package availability has been very, very good and much better than I thought it was going to be. The OpenSUSA repositories are quite large and the experience of downloading the major stuff that you're going to need, all of it's there. And what I found better on OpenSUSA than I ever did on Fedora is that the packages on OpenSUSA, specifically the ones that are targeted towards Tumbleweed, are kept up to date much better than the stuff that is kept in the Fedora repository. So if you've ever used Fedora, you know that they have a lot of stuff in their repositories, but a lot of stuff gets abandoned over time, especially once you've started adding in things like from RPM Fusion and stuff. The repositories aren't well maintained and they're not well pruned. So a lot of times, like with Arch even, the AUR, while it does have a lot of really old packages, it does a good job of telling you when you're downloading an old package with Fedora, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. And a lot of, you see a lot of really old packages in the Fedora repositories that just don't get updated. And this is like major packages, right? And specifically I'm thinking of i3, the i3 package, at least when I was using it, and I remember I haven't used it in over a year, was really old at that point. And i3 had seen some major updates and those didn't come to Fedora for quite some time, even though Fedora is much further along on the newer package support than Debian is, right? So when it came to OpenSUSA, I was expecting it to be kind of like Fedora when it comes to the packages that are available in the repository, not necessarily in breadth but in the maintenance of it, right? But I haven't seen that at all. The repositories, while maybe they're not as updated as fast as Arch, which I appreciate because they do a lot of testing, you do get the most recent version within a couple of weeks, sometimes within two or three days, depending on what the package actually is. And I really appreciate the testing and the support that they've managed to put into the repositories for OpenSUSA. It's just done a really fantastic job and it's been a very, very good experience. And the few exceptions to all of that is a lot of times with proprietary software because I still do use some proprietary software, I know Buhis and all that stuff, right? Specifically, I'm talking about, in this case, Vivaldi. Vivaldi is a proprietary piece of software. It's not available in the OpenBuild service or in the OpenSUSA repositories. You can get an RPM package on the Vivaldi website which you can install, but it's been a piece of garbage every time that I've used it, every time it updates, it breaks, I don't know what's actually going on with that package, but what I did there and I've done a few times since, every time I can't truly find the version of the piece of software that I want, what I've been able to do is use Distrabox in order to get that piece of software. I just download it in ArchBase Distrabox, I export it using Distrabox Export and then I can just use Vivaldi or whatever on OpenSUSA but it's actually running on Arch. So I have some cheats, I'll freely admit that. But overall, it has been a fantastic experience in adding in the Distrabox experience where I can just kind of get to the things that I absolutely have to have that OpenSUSA can't provide has been a very, very good experience. And I honestly can't tell you how happy I am with the way things have been going in terms of stability and package management and package availability and all that stuff. Honestly, I can say I haven't had this good of experience on Linux, probably ever. My Fedora experience there for six months last year was really good, OpenSUSA has surpassed that in terms of how good this has been. Now, let me talk about a few negative things. I should talk, it's not all sunshine and rainbows, so we're definitely going to talk about some negative things. So first thing first, and probably the biggest problem that I have with OpenSUSA is the same problem I had when I reviewed it two years ago and that is that Zipper is the slowest package manager, period. Like it's not even really all that close, to be honest with you. And there are multiple reasons for that. So first off, a lot of people compare the slowness of it to DNF and that's a reasonable comparison because DNF is also a very slow package manager. The problem is that Zipper takes it further. So DNF and OpenSUSA both have the same problem initially in that their mirrors are slow. Now, even if you do some jiggering and getting yourself to using a closer mirror and all this stuff, which you can do on both distributions, you find that even then refreshing mirrors is very slow. Where DNF has an advantage is that it supports parallel downloads. So when you go to update or download or install whatever, you can set parallel downloads to true on DNF or on Fedora in this case. And that means that you can download five or 10 different packages all at the same time and it just speeds things up phenomenally. So it makes it seem like as you're installing stuff that DNF gets past the slowness of the mirrors and just kind of speeds up. Zipper on the other hand does not support parallel downloads and they have been working on parallel downloads since 2016. It is now 2023, you can do the math there. It's been quite a while. They've been working on it. I don't know if they're still working on it or if they've just given up. I don't know. I hope they're still working on it. I hope that we see it sometime within the next two years while I'm still using OpenSUSA, but I'm not holding my breath. If they've been working on it that long, it's not that much of a priority for them apparently. Or there's just a few people working on it. I don't know what the actual situation is there, but they've been working on it for a very long time. It still doesn't support parallel downloads. And that is a big problem because if you're going to send out a whole bunch of updates like that 23 or 2800 update that I saw earlier or a couple of weeks ago or whatever, if you're gonna send out updates like that, you have to have a package manager that can actually keep up and make that seem like it's a reasonable thing to do, right? That particular update, no, I don't know the exact time, but it took approximately two and a half hours to download and update or install, right? It took a long time. That is a long time to install updates on a system like mine. I don't wanna, I'm very fortunate. I have very fast internet. I have a very powerful computer. It's fairly modern. You know, it shouldn't take two and a half hours to update my system. It just shouldn't, no matter how many updates there are. On Arch, never had, oops. On Arch, I never had that problem. On Fedora never had that problem. On Debian, which also has mechanisms for parallel downloads, never had that problem. Debian and Ubuntu both do a really good job of providing a ton of mirrors, whereas OpenSusa just doesn't. Now they have a lot of mirrors, but none of them are particularly close to me. And also, I found the mechanism for changing the mirrors to be very tedious. It wasn't very easy to do. If you use Yast, apparently you can do it easier. I don't use Yast, so I'll talk about that here in a few minutes. So if you're using the command line like I am, it's not necessarily the easiest thing to do. It's not like switching sources or mirrors on Debian where you just go edit a file, or you do the same thing on Arch, actually. You go to one of the Pacman files and it's just you changing the mirrors. And even then, once I did get them changed, it didn't really improve the speeds of Zipper. So my biggest complaint, and one of the reasons where I've spent the last five minutes talking about it, is that Zipper is slow. Now I said all of that, and it was my biggest complaint, but honestly it hasn't been that big of a deal to be honest with you. I come across it, I see that it is slow every time I do an update every four days. I also see it every time I install something, but as I've moved on into the challenge, I've been installing stuff less, so I see it less often and it becomes less of a problem. So that initial experience that I had at the beginning always having to update, always having to install new stuff like constantly over the course of the days, I saw a lot more then than I do now because I'm not installing as much stuff. Most of the stuff that I need is already here. So that's by far my biggest problem. My other issue is really kind of nitpicky and that is that the support on OpenSUSA is not the greatest. Now some of it is just that the community isn't that large, right? It's not the most popular Linux distribution out there, so the community is necessarily small. It's kind of like using a niche arch-based distro or a niche fedora-based dist or something like that. You know, there are people using it, but there's not that many, right? And while OpenSUSA is probably more expansive than some of those niche distros, it still does feel like a very small community. And because it's a very small community, they're tightening it, you know? You can tell when you go under the forums of OpenSUSA that not only are there not a lot of people there because you can basically see all of the new topics in the English category, you know, within a few minutes. Like sometimes I'll go over there and there'll be like 10 or so new red messages over the course of the day. You know, there's not a lot of activity on the forums. Now they may have other sources of support. They may have a Discord or they may have an IRC or whatever, I don't know. I don't deal with any of the other channels for that kind of stuff. I just focus on the forums. You can tell the people on the forums that are very, they all know each other and they have a specific, like most forums, they have a particular way of doing things. And they also, like a lot of forum users, tend to not be as welcoming towards noobs, to be honest with you. Now, it doesn't go as far as the arch forums. Don't get me wrong there. But you can see some particular disdain for new users who are asking new user questions. You can tell. Now, for the most part, I got past that pretty easily. I'm pretty well adept at being able to look up stuff on my own and then when I can't find the stuff, I can say, hey, I did these steps and I took the, these are the steps that I've taken. These are the things that I've Googled. Can you help me? And usually when you say you've made some attempt at fixing it yourself, then you get a better response than just saying, hey, what does CD do? I mean, if you're asking that much of a new question and you never bothered to go look, you get a better response if you at least tried, right? So it hasn't been that big of a deal for me, but I've seen other responses to other new people that hasn't been as friendly as you'd want. And some of the administrators there are, they can be a little bit, I'm not going to say that they're mean. I'm more going to say that they are, what's the word that I'm looking for? They're very abrupt. They're abrupt, right? They're blunt is another word that I could use there. They're just, you can tell that they are not as patient with some questions as others. So let's just put it that way. Also, I think that actually the biggest, the bigger problem there isn't the attitude of the people in the forums. It's more that the forums are small. So you're not going to have a lot of people, they're rushing to help you when you have a question. Now, I haven't had a problem getting answers. You can see threads of 100 responses or whatever on the forums very easily. People are on there, they're participating, so it's good. But if you've ever gone to the Ubuntu forums or the Ubuntu discourse in this case, or you've gone to the Arch forums where you've asked a question and all of a sudden you have like, 10 people replying to that like within an hour, you're not going to have that in open Susan because it's just not as big of a community. That's just kind of the bottom line. And honestly, that's a bigger problem than the attitude of the people there. And when I say problem, it's not really something that they can fix because you can't just say, hey, more people, please use open SUSE, so we have more support people. You can't really do that. So it's just kind of the nature of the way open SUSE is. It's just not a very big distribution and therefore the community is not very big. Those are the two negatives that I really had to say about open SUSE. Everything else has been fantastic. I know I've been going on now for over 20 minutes before editing about how awesome open SUSE is. And I want to transition into the second part of the video finally, and that is to talk about why I think open SUSE is very underrated and why people just kind of don't give it as much credit as they need to. So first off, it doesn't feel, and I might be wrong about this, it doesn't feel like open SUSE is on the forefront of developing technology as say Fedora is. One of the reasons why Fedora is so popular is because when a new piece of technology comes out, usually Fedora is the first to get it. And that's because of the people who develop. Fedora are also the ones that are working on things like pipe ware, things like Whalen, things like System D and all this stuff. Most of the technology comes from the Red Hat side of things and Fedora is the first distro to benefit from all that stuff. And because that's true, more people use Fedora, more people test Fedora because they're testing that technology on Fedora. Also, and this is just Frank Fax, Red Hat, which is the closest distro that is kind of associated with Fedora. It's sponsors Fedora. It's a much bigger thing than open SUSE is or in this case SUSE is. Now SUSE is a big corporation. They make a lot of money, a lot of people, a lot of corporations use SUSE as their distro of choice, but they're not nearly as big as Red Hat is. Not even close, right? Their revenue is like in the hundreds of millions where the Red Hat sponsored by IBM, they make billions of dollars. So you can tell that there's a significant size difference between these two groups and SUSE sponsors open SUSE and it's kind of correlatingly small just as compared to Fedora is. So part of the reason why open SUSE is so small is because it's just sponsored by a company that is also small. Also, and this is just a theory on my part, it's very much more of a European distro. Here in the United States, not a lot of people use open SUSE. There's a few of us out there that are very vocal about using it, but for some reason, open SUSE just seems to be more of a European distro. Now I don't know why that is because it can't be anything about Americans not liking open SUSE because it's European because a lot of people here use Ubuntu and Ubuntu is not based in America. You know, a lot of people use ARCOLINIX or whatever, that's developed by people who are not primarily here. So it can't be anything like that. I just, for whatever reason, you get the sense that open SUSE is much more popular across the pond than it is here. And while that is a very American-centric way of looking things, so just, I know all of that. You don't need to get into my comments and say, Matt, well, you're an American, you probably should broaden your horizons and talk about other things, whatever. I understand that I'm an American, I tend to have a point of view of an American, it's really hard for me to have a point of view of somebody who lives in Germany. I've never been to Germany, so I have no clue what they're thinking. I can't do that. So that's just kind of the sense that I get that open SUSE is much more popular over there than it is here. Part of that, and I would, again, just kind of my opinion of this, just my thoughts, is that I think that it's because SUSE is bigger over there. And people know about SUSE in the EU, whereas over here, SUSE is not as big as Red Hat is. It's just not, people have heard of Red Hat, and it got even worse when Red Hat was bought by IBM because everybody here, I don't know what the situation is elsewhere, but everybody here knows who IBM is. They've been around for 100 years. They've invented computing, basically, is what most people would say. And not true, but people think that. So those are the couple of reasons why I think open SUSE just kind of isn't as popular. Another reason why I think that it is not as popular as, say, Arch or Ubuntu or whatever, is because the community is a little bit different. They're more, and this is just my feeling, again, I have no scientific data to back this up. It feels like they're more introverted to me. The open SUSE guys, and you see this a lot in the forums, they just kind of, they stick together. They're very introverted. They're focused on the product. They're focused on just going about creating the best thing that they can. They're now out there in other people's forums saying, hey, you should use Arch. You should use Gen2, whatever. People who are using open SUSE seem to be less likely to tell people that they're using open SUSE. Now, this is obviously not universal, but it just feels like that, you know, every once in a while, you'll see in like Unix porn, someone using open SUSE, but they're not trying to sell open SUSE to you. They're not trying to get you to come over to the club and, you know, use open SUSE as well. Now, here's the thing. They now have me. I don't know if you guys noticed this, and this is gonna sound bad in the audio, but I have a sticker, and that sticker's gonna stay there for a little while. I'm also posting a lot of open SUSE content, so we're gonna change that. More people should use open SUSE, and I will be their ambassador. I'll be the best damn ambassador that there possibly could be. Open SUSE is amazing, and everybody should use it. I don't actually believe that everybody should use it, but everybody should try it. I think that if you tried open SUSE, you'd be very, very impressed with it. Now, all of that said, I have heard stories from other people who I've talked to and people I'm friends with who haven't had as a good experience in terms of hardware support as I have. I have had no hardware issues whatsoever. My Wi-Fi works on my laptop. My controllers work for Steam here on my desktop. The Bluetooth works. Everything has just worked really, really well. But I talked to people I'm asked about who at the beginning of my challenge, decided that they were going to go with the open SUSE as well, and they couldn't get it installed. They couldn't get it to work on their hardware setup. So, as is usual with Linux, if you have a weird hardware setup or you have a particular piece of hardware, and maybe just for whatever reason doesn't go well with open SUSE, maybe you'll have a different experience, and all you can do to know that is actually to try it. So, there's that. One last thing that I wanna talk about, I know this video has been extraordinarily longer than I thought it was going to be, and I have no clue how I'm gonna edit it all tonight, but we'll see. The last thing that I wanna talk about is ButterFS, and I'm just gonna talk about this briefly because I'm gonna make a whole another video on ButterFS. I know I've been promising on a ButterFS video for a very long time. I will get there, I promise. It's gonna be completely different than everybody thinks it's going to be, but whatever, you know, whatever. But ButterFS on open SUSE is one of its best features. It is fantastic. It comes with snapper out of the box, which means every time you do an update, it creates a snapshot. It just automatically does it. You can create your own snapshots very, very easily. And if something were to go wrong, you can just boot into that snapshot, roll back to it so that it's writable again and carry on with your day. Now that's not necessarily an open SUSE feature. You can get that on any distribution, but it's set up for you out of the box in such a way that if you wanna use some other ButterFS tools like ButterFS Assistant, if you wanna use Time Shift, if you wanna do that, it's set up in such a way that it actually works very well. It's just really, really good. Whereas the ButterFS setup on Fedora, they use a different naming scheme when it comes to your sub volumes, which means that Time Shift doesn't work. They also don't, as far as I know, actually use snapper. They use their own thing. I might be wrong about that. I never actually got into the whole snapshot thing on Fedora, so I'm just kinda talking on the side of my face on this, but I'm pretty sure that they don't use snapper, which means that the setup there is completely different. Now they do automatic snapshots on Fedora, but it didn't seem as intuitive for me as snapper does on OpenSusa. It's been fantastic. I've only had to use it once, and that was on a different install before I started the challenge. So since then, I haven't had to use it, but knowing that it's there, like the other day, for example, the XFC install that I had, which is my primary desktop environment on this system, when I installed it, the XFC stopped working. Don't know why, didn't really care because I wasn't using it anyways. So I just decided that I wanna install it. Now if anybody's ever tried to uninstall a desktop environment, you'll know that things tend to go wrong, especially when it's the one that was installed with the distro. So I did a snapper backup or a snapper snapshot before I uninstalled XFC. Now it turns out I didn't need it because it worked out phenomenally. Well, it's just I just uninstalled everything XFC for. System booted right up. The session was gone. It worked the way it was supposed to, but knowing that that snapshot was there, it just made it much more, it made me actually willing to do that. If I wanted to uninstall Plasma, which is even more notorious for breaking things when you uninstall it, I would create a snapshot of that before I uninstalled and that way I could go backwards. And I think that that piece of mind has just kind of changed the way I use the distro. It just kind of has allowed me to experiment a little bit better than I would if I didn't have that set up out of the box. So I know this has been a phenomenally long video. I also know that it's been a very rambly video. I'll try to add timestamps somewhere along the line. I'm not sure how well I'll do that, but I'll try. So you can jump around if you need to. Granted, if you've made it this far in the video, you probably have either already seen the timestamps or you just watched all the way through. Anyways, if that's so, leave a thumbs up on this video. I'd really appreciate it. There goes the camera again. What are you doing? Really weird. Anyways, leave a thumbs up on this video. It really helped the channel. If you want to follow me and master down on Odyssey, those links will be in the video description. You can support me on Patreon at patreon.com slash the Linuxcast. I'm also on Kofi at ko-fi.com slash the Linuxcast. Thanks to everybody who does support me on Patreon and YouTube, you guys are all absolutely amazing. Without you, the challenges when I'm anywhere near where it is right now. So thanks so very much for that. Without you, I seriously just, it wouldn't continue to happen the way it has been happening. So thank you so very much for your support. Thanks everybody for watching. I'll see you next time.


Okie dokie we're here today on episode 2 welcome back everyone so today we are doing to start with the stronghold of player security just for bants where are we going I don't know okay I'm gonna climb up up the stairs again pull an old lever that might help that sounds useful distant unlocking sound that sounds good okay we did it I hope climb down the stairs yay rather antique lamp now we're gonna get engineering XP from both of them cuz fuck engineering am I right yes I am yeah level 9 engineering already which is perfect so yeah that is great we are going to go this way then I don't quite know where I'm going but wolf okay keep running keep running keep running this place is dangerous ah ah I'm gonna die here this ain't gonna be fun shit ah run run run this is dangerous ah into cave quick what level of these guys 43 no into cave into cave into cave phew okay I made it to the other side that was the scariest thing I've ever done not safe yet not safe yet not safe yet not safe yet not as safe yet quickly quickly quickly ah literally the scariest thing I've ever done activate kathabee loadstone so don't ever have to cross White Wolf Mountain again that was suicide in a half activate Sears Village loadstone continue continue open up the gate and open up the door and walk inside and talk to this lady hello I got a mask a web mask they get the quest I don't know I mean stay down there yeah it's just a church book case just to find a book oh my god so many bookcases really I should keep an eye on the path and follow the path down except I don't care so that's unfortunate fight arena let's oh I'm going the wrong way okay we're going this way I don't like mazes mazes are hard we're gonna go down the ladder into the dungeon is there a way to like hide nope nope there is not there is not way to hide okay I'm dead I'm dead no I died I died DD DD you find a large key sweet S喝 maki very number five magic make jagan make jagan look in the chicagin I made jagan DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA crazier the West chest wrap and get attacked from all sides go this side oh my getting slayed here getting slayed here yeah not jump down through search to eat another thing ah sweet bro maybe this one big food find a large cube run actually we're gonna stay here cool no right here there's so nothing can hurt us okay we're gonna regain a bit of HP ear room water room birth room ear room and then we use no we don't wear it don't um take that off and we use this oh we can okay use the urn on the chalice of eternity that is cool I did it I did it I did it that was easy peasy yay amazing all the attacks I am now level 22 that's great okay all the music's all the fireworks okay that's great so good okay so thank you for watching next episode we will be doing some more shizzle minizzle for sure probably be going to do another quest just for bands so yeah thank you for watching remember leave a like and subscribe if you want more and yeah bye


My name is Rashad and I'm currently studying physics at Queen Mary University of London. My hobbies are going to the gym three to four times a week and I've recently started Brazilian jiu-jitsu. I use a laptop for Facebook and social media. Netflix, watching shows, my emails, sometimes gaming. Me and my friends just sit in a core. We talk. The game is more of a background thing for us to socialise over. It's like meeting up with your friends and then watching a movie while you talk or something. The most important features of a laptop would be a lot of storage. My phone's connected to a OneDrive. I save a picture, it replicates it, copies it onto OneDrive. SSD compared to HDD. SSD is faster. It makes your life easier. When you turn your computer on, you'll definitely see a difference. Everything's just really smooth. Usability is very important. Being user-friendly and I'd like it to be lightweight so I can actually take it to uni. Some days we have quite a long lecture day. So it's usually lost maybe five or six hours. And if you have extra work and if you want to do your work with your friends, having a longer battery life definitely helps. Save space in my bag so I don't have to bring my charger. It just helps with not worrying about something while you have to worry about the massive amounts of work that you have to do.  And the processor speed just helps with that, cuts the frustration down. The programs and applications I use the most, I use Outlook. It's simple. It's just easy to use. At Microsoft Word I found out during my A-levels you can do the references as well. So that was very helpful, especially when dealing with the hassle of finding the references. You can just search them at the toolbar. When buying a laptop you want to look at all the options that you have and Argos has plenty of options from affordable to more powerful. It's helped a lot in deciding what I need. Good to keep in mind what you would need in the future years for your third year, especially when you have to present and type up your dissertation and you should be able to find a laptop that's good for you.