These do not fit my head. They really said, make your head smaller. Sorry, sorry, sorry, I can't. I can't do it. I've tried it, and I failed. What is happening? What it, what is happening? Back to this vlog. So this is the first of quite a few Christmasy themed vlogs. Well, today is going to be the best day ever. I can't do my hands like out of my control. Christmasy themed vlogs that we're going to be doing throughout December. And I'm just so excited, there's so many. You guys, you don't understand all the exciting stuff that we have got coming in December.  What? Basically, my family went to the shops and they found these Cluedo crackers. They found these Cluedo Christmas crackers and I just knew I had to make a video out of it. I just knew, like as soon as these were in my possession, I didn't have a choice, excuse me, excuse me. As many of you know, I have TBR Cluedo, which is my TBR game, and so listen. We've got the galleys, we've got Reverend Green, Colonel Masses, Miss Scarlett, Miss Peacock, Professor Bum, Mrs. White. It's all the drama, Mick, I just love it. These are going to be picking what I read in this vlog. Now, this vlog and next week's one involve me picking books off of tenuous prompts. So I don't know how I'm going to do this. I messaged my patrons and I was like, should I cut little holes in these and put like 2021 end of year reading prompts in them? Or should I just open the crackers and have to link what's in the cracker to a book somehow? And they voted for that. So that's what we're going to do. On the back, it says that they can each contain a character, a hat, we're like a Christmas hat, snap, what the hell is that, and motto. So what are those? I don't know, I don't know. We're going to have to just open them and see what happens. But before we get into that, I want to take a moment to thank the sponsor for today's video, which is Literal. 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And it communicates an element of the book to the people who follow you that you wouldn't have necessarily thought to communicate otherwise. For example, someone I follow, Elizabeth, has just rated on a sunbeam 4.5 stars and described it as delightful and sweet. So I just love the descriptions on there. I just really love the interface. I think it's so aesthetically gorgeous. Another one of my favorite features on there is the book club. So you can join the book club or make your own with your friends. It can be like a small group of five people with your friends, or you can join a massive one that hundreds of people are in. I'm really enjoying one at the moment that's actually about writing. So giving writing tips to one another. I really like that aspect of it. You can have shelves to kind of organize your TBI. You can make as many different shelves as you want and like organize your books into them. Another feature I really love is the highlights on there. 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So come join me over on literal. I absolutely love it so, so much. And yeah, I would really recommend it. I absolutely love the app. It's something I'm using all the time myself. So I'd love to see you over there and don't forget to go onto their Instagram at Literal Club and enter the giveaway. Okay, back to the video. So this time, we're gonna do this either two or three times bending on how long the books I choose are and like how long the vlog is. Are you excited cause I am?  She's an icon. She's a legend. And she is the moment. Now come on now. Let's open this box. I feel like I'm not ready for this. Who am I feeling first? I feel like I'm either drawn to Colonel Mustard or Miss Scarlet first. I think I'm actually gonna go with Miss Scarlet. Here she is, Miss Scarlet. The queen herself. Look at that. Look at the hair.  I am croffed. I am ready. I probably should have opened one of these crackers to like get a general idea of what's in them. But we're just, we're just going ahead and, okay. That wasn't the best snap, but it wasn't a terrible one. I've had, I truly love the smell. Chris, that is Christmas and a smell. It's getting weird. Let's see what's in it. Okay. First thing is, excuse me. Oh, we've got, we've got two things. Hold up. We've got the hat, orange. We could do something with this. A cover that's orange. May hats. Let's put it on. Let's get into the Christmas spirit. That'll do. Oh, Pluto trivia. Oh, I love a bit of trivia. Anthony Pratt, a solicitous clerk from Birmingham, England invented the game in 1943. Hmm. Okay. So maybe historical set in World War two, perhaps could be an option. Could be an option. I am freaking out. This is a lot. Excuse me. Oh, okay. It's literally just Miss Scarlet. She can stand up if she wants, basically. That's it. What's the snap? The snap? What's that? It's the same. A potential risk because they're overweight. It's claimed that they're more prone to heart attacks. Is that? So we're going either orange or 1943 or a solicitous clerk or Birmingham, England or game, something with a game like invented the game. When is this set? This is big. I don't really want to read this right now. Oh, 1957. No. Oh my God. I mean, an option that I would be very happy with is like just matching Felix ever after to my hat. Hold up. I'm going to go consult my shelves to see what historical fiction I have because I'll be able to see it all there in one place. A few moments later. Okay, besties. I have served high and low. Right. I looked for books set in World War two. The hat is a look.  I don't have a single book on my TBR set in World War two. It's on set in Birmingham. Don't think I have any. Something written by a man called Anthony. Don't have any. Something with a game element. Like what? I should have a book with a game element. But I don't. So we're just going to go with the orange hat for this first book. And I actually looked. I have a few books with like orange spines, but not many with orange front covers. So we're going to read Felix ever after by case in the calendar, which I'm actually so excited to read. This book is very orange.  It's like the most orange a book can get. So like, listen, we match perfectly. It's what we're going for. All I know about this is that it's about this guy named Felix who is trans. And another student begins like sending him transphobic messages and like threatening or actually posting images of Felix before he transitioned. And I think it's just about him kind of navigating that situation and navigating high school. This was a really big book when it came out. And I've heard some people say like, Felix can annoy you in the way that he acts. Like the decisions that he makes are a bit like, but I've also heard a lot of people say that it's just beautiful, vibrant story. So I'm actually super excited to be reading this. I haven't read a lot of YA lately and I haven't read a lot of contemporaries lately. So I feel like this is actually a really good choice. So yeah, I'm just going to go ahead and start reading it. Happy December 1st, besties. How are we all? Merry Christmas. Oh my God, I cannot believe it. You cannot believe how excited I am. Hang on, we need to... I've got my advent calendar. This is important. This is like the most important thing when it comes to Christmas. Chocolate. Okay, now we can begin. Happy December 1st. Are we all so excited? I'm very, very excited. I'm so excited not only to make all the Christmas content but to watch all of the Christmas content as well. This is just the best time of year for Booktube. Does anyone else feel like that? This is the elite time of year. It's when everyone pulls out all the stops. You know what I mean? So I'm very, very excited. Today, this whole month is going to be trying to balance all the reading I need to do for the vlogs I'm putting out. That's also balancing all the work I need to do for the other videos I'm putting out. It's a hard balancing act. See you later. Bye. You've been a great out today. That's all right. Thank you. Bye.  I'm 113 pages into Felix ever after. I'm on chapter nine. Okay. I feel a lot of pressure around this book, right? Because I feel like everyone has given it four to five stars. Like everyone's given it four to five stars. And like right now it's feeling like a 3.5 for me. A lot of people said the problem was like getting annoyed with Felix as a character and like he is annoying me a bit. And like I know that's the point. Here's the thing. I don't have to read about likable characters. I don't, right? But like if a character, if a character isn't likable, not saying Felix isn't likable, but like there's elements of his character that irritate me. I feel like there has to be like recognition of that. Like with consequences. I don't feel like that's happening. However, there is an argument to be made that like as a trans person who faces so much hostility throughout their lives in different ways from their family to their friends to the schoolmates, you know. He has a right to act in a certain kind of way. I think it's a very complex situation. But like I just don't know if I'm loving it. I will say the representation in this is amazing. There's so much representation for different genders and sexualities. Anyway, I just, I'm not in love with it. But I feel like I could get really emotionally invested as we go along and I could love it. Like I'm barely, I barely scratched the surface of this book. Today I need to edit the start of this video and I need to finish sending out all of my personalised videos to my team rawers on my Patreon. I've got about five left to do and they take a little while. And then I need to do some like admin-y prep stuff for some other videos that are coming out later in the month. But then other than that I am gonna try and finish this today. It's not very long. I think times two speed on the audiobook I've got like two and a half hours left. Whoa, why is the sun our nemesis today? It really said you will not succeed. If you can't be my friend, just please don't be my enemy because my life is tough enough as it is. But anyway, I'm gonna go do that work, get all that work out of the way and then hopefully I will have time this afternoon and evening to finish this up. Here's the situation. I am about 230 pages into Felix of Rafter. And like, it's starting to pick up for me. It's starting to pick up for me. But I am just a bit worried that Kasein Callender's writing is just not for me. And like that's sad. This is totally unacceptable. I'm on my way. Like I don't really understand what's happening. I read King and the Dragonflies by Kasein Callender early this year. And I think it was like a 2.53. I could not put my finger on it. Like it's strange. Very rarely can I not put my finger on what I don't like about an author's writing personally. Everyone in the reviews, all of my friends who are usually, I have very similar reading tastes to are like in the reviews of both these books going, oh my God, Kasein Callender has the best writing ever. And I'm like, me too.  Same, yeah, defo, defo. What is happening? What is happening? What is happening? Genuinely, because there's something about this writing I don't click with. It just feels so, I'm not, it's not giving me anything. If I speak, I am in big trouble. In big trouble. I don't want to say it in this because everyone loves it. Like am I crazy? Do I need to delete my channel? Should I click deactivate right now? Because I don't, okay. I say that as if I'm not enjoying it. I am now enjoying it, but let's just discuss this point first, right? I feel like it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, perhaps. I feel like everyone calls it beautiful, but I feel like it's the opposite. I feel like it's very succinct and to the point and matter of fact. It's not giving me beautifulness, but everyone says it's, oh my God, it's beautiful. But that's always giving me. There's moments where Felix's thoughts and decisions just in certain moments, not all the time, don't make sense to me. Don't make sense to me. I'm like, you wouldn't, you wouldn't think like that. You wouldn't react like that, but sure, let's just pretend. Let's just pretend. However, there are moments I'm starting to enjoy. I'm starting to enjoy the relationships between these characters more. I'm just increasingly appreciating the representation that this book has to offer. Like, oh my God, how amazing is it that this book is published and so widely loved and received and it means it can get into the hands of so many trans and non-binary kids who need to read this stuff. So that element of it, I completely love and I think the representation in it is amazing and there's so much varied representation and also I feel like there's a lot of varied looks at the different beasts that transphobia can manifest itself in and how it can be overt or perhaps more insidious and discreet, I guess. So there's a lot of aspects I'm loving of it. Also, I don't feel like this is a spoiler because it's kind of the cover and I've seen people mention it in reviews but the kind of self-portrait element, we've already had a hint. We've actually had like two pages on that so far, like Felix doing self-portraits and I already want more. Like I'm already like, okay, give me more. So like, here's the thing. I'm enjoying it a lot more than I was when I first picked it up tonight. Like I've grown into the story but like, there is just something about the writing that we're not friends and that's okay. Like you can't be expected to like every author's writing, right? Like that's just never gonna happen but like, why me? Why me is what I wanna know but I'm assigned to enjoy it more and I feel like, I wouldn't be surprised if I cry. I feel like this book is gonna make me cry at some point. So yeah, I'm gonna take my make-up off and go to bed and I'll check in with you in the morning. Morning! I have finished Felix ever after and I'm gonna give this a 3.5 in the end. I really loved the discussions around self-love and like, oh, I got a bit emotional at one point. Like, I don't wanna get upset. Don't get upset, don't worry. Recognizing yourself as being worthy of love, I think that is a topic that so many young people need to hear and it's so helpful to hear and be reminded of, you know, knowing that like, you deserve love, you know, and not shutting yourself off to the possibility of love from whatever avenue because you feel like you don't deserve it and I thought that was so beautiful. It is probably one of my favorite books I've ever read in terms of trans representation.  Like it's cat fur. There's literally just cat hair in the air in my house all the time. Like, literally, there's a bit. Like, I just feel like Miko just walks into a room and suddenly there's just like, fur balls in the air, anyway.  I feel very attacked. Relax. It's not going well. But here's the thing, there is just something about Casing Calendars writing that I don't vibe with and I don't know what it is and I don't know if it would be fair of me to pick up Casing Calendars books in the future because I think Casing Calendars books are amazing, right? I feel like looking at both Phoenix Ever After and King and the Dragonflies, they're objectively great books. There's just something about them that I don't love in terms of the writing style, but everyone else seems to and so I just don't know if it would be fair for me, you know, towards the books and the author to keep on reading these and not giving them amazing ratings. You know what I mean? I don't know if that's like morally correct, you know? Sometimes I think you just have to accept an author's writing style is not for you but it's for so many other people and I feel like that is perhaps the situation here. So I enjoyed a lot of aspects of it. I grew so much more warmth towards a lot of the relationships and friendships in this book towards the end and I'm glad I finally read it, but it wasn't 100% for me. Also, I feel like I've seen some critique. It seems like when other people are talking about Felix annoying them in his actions, it was more about him like smoking weed or like missing school or missing deadlines. That never annoyed me, right? I was never upset with that. I don't really understand how anyone can have a problem with that in the book. For me, it was more like it wasn't written in a way that convinced me of Felix's thoughts and behaviors, like what he chose to do in reaction to certain things. Like that I wouldn't have a problem with those things happening if I had been convinced. Writing is a lie. I always say this, like a book's a lie is. What? Right? You have to convince me that that's the truth and I was just very aware at moments I was reading a book if that makes sense. So I'm only gonna read one more book in this vlog. A, because I feel like it's already quite long. I feel like looking at the fish lengths, I've spoken a lot and also make you know I have like a thousand vlogs to complete and I really want to get started on the first episode of Wrapped Up, like tomorrow. So I just want to read something today and that's okay. And also I'm really in the mood, right? For a short book. I want to read a book that's only like 200 pages. I remember in my Reacting to your Controversial Opinions video, someone said how they love books already 200 pages and like how and all that has to write to fit a story, like that detailed into that, you know, that small amount of pages and what a great experience is to read that. And I've just been hankering for a short book ever since. So if we can, you know, apply whatever it is to a short book, we're gonna do it. Also we have to pick it based off the trivia this time. We're not doing it off the hat. Who am I feeling? Hmm, I'm just gonna go on my first instinct. We're going with Colonel Mustard. Are you ready? Oh, that was a very disappointing snap. Can I like, did it even snap? Nope, there we go. I am very uncomfortable with the energy that we've created in the studio today. Okay, let's see what we've got. We have a purple hat. These do not fit my head. They really said make your head smaller. We're just gonna look like that. All right, everyone. Trivia, moment of truth, I feel sick. Cluedo, known as Clue in Canada and the US, is a crime fiction board game originally published by Waddington Games. That gives me nothing other than to read a crime book. Because all I'm gonna do is disappoint me. Like what? What am I supposed to do with that information? Oh, okay, hang on. Let me just go consult my computer to see if the book I'm thinking of fits. But there's a short book I've wanted to read for years and years and years and I would love to read it now. Hold up. So, I am going to read Moon of the Crusted Snow by Will Beachick Rice. It's nice and short. It's only just over 200 pages. All I know about this is that this indigenous community is cut off from power and communication with no foreseeable resolution. Unexpected visits to arrive, escaping the crumbling society to the south, tensions rise and allegiances are divided. The harsh winter months pass slowly and the food supply dwindles as the death toll and panic rise. But the greatest threat to survival of the reserve might come from within the community itself. So, there's gonna be crime. Sure, Jan. Although I think this is more like a blend of thriller, horror, sci-fi from what I've heard. I don't really know how it's gonna be sci-fi, but okay. And we're just gonna go for it. I'm pretty sure this has been on five-star predictions. If I put this on a five-star prediction list, maybe. I've always been so excited to read this book. So I'm just so hyped to just sit down and read this book. I'm very, very excited. I feel like this is gonna be a great way to spend my afternoon.  I don't care if anyone disagrees with my reasoning. I am so happy I'm finally reading this book. Like, I've been wanting to read it for years and years. I've put on so many TBRs. I just feel like I'm gonna love it and no one can disagree with me. So I'm gonna go start it now. Actually, I need to have my advent calendar for the day. That's like the most important thing every day. Have I not done it yet? You know, the crusted snow and besties? I'm loving it. I'm loving it. Like... Sorry, I've just gotta take a moment. This is just amazing. I am absolutely loving this book. It is so good. I have just been drawn in. I'm reading it so fast. I'm barely like checking my phone or anything. Like, I love, I haven't had this recently.  And I love when I'm just so, like, drawn in and captivated by a book. We're following these characters on this reservation. Basically, all of the power things start going out. So satellite goes. They can't use their phones. Internet goes. TVs, power goes. Heating goes. Everything is going, right? And they managed to get user generators to, like, they have power stores that they can use that aren't connected to, like, I guess, the mains. I don't know, power, electric words. They are not getting any communication from down south in the cities. They are not hearing anything about what is happening. Something that's so interesting is that as soon as the community are told, like, we don't really know what's going on. We need to sit tight, conserve energy. They all rush to the store and buy all the food, which is so funny because this is written in 2018. So before the pandemic, and I'm like, well, big chagrass, you know how humans react. I guess that sums it up. It feels like a very human story about what I guess is gonna be like this apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic situation where the world is ending and our character's on the reservation, like, basically need to survive. The atmosphere and the tension in this is incredible. The way that, like, this feeling of dread and unease and foreboding is building up throughout the book, I don't actually have the words to convey to you how good it is, how good it is at doing what it's doing. If any of you own this book, it's so short. Pick it up in December, maybe January, February when it's cold outside because it's all to do with, you know, the snow being cut off from everyone else. Isolation, we all know, isolation is a top-tier trope. You're thinking the best. Isolation I live for. And I really love the characters. The characters are being so, is it deathly woven? Oh my God, is she a professional reviewer? Who knows? The characters, like, through so many just little, I love it when authors do this. I actually can't get a sense of that, they're here, come on. Let me just start eight different sentences and maybe then you'll understand what I'm saying. They say so little, so little is said about these characters but, like, you know who they are and I can already feel myself becoming so attached with so many of the characters with mainly following a character called Evan and his family, he has a wife and two young children and the way that it's interweaving these kind of tender, heartfelt family moments amongst all the kind of harshness of the landscape and of the situation is beautiful and I already know I'm gonna hate this book for doing that because I don't want anything bad to happen to any of these people because I think that's what you want from a post-apocalyptic book is you want there to be an emphasis on family and love and connections. There's this community who is so connected with each other and then for that to be put under pressure and in danger and it's gonna, in many ways, like, suffer is heartbreaking, you know, the warmth of their little, their home feels so warm and full of love and the fact that that is, you know, in danger is like so scary. I'm like, listen, it says in the snub says, death tolls on the ride and I'm very scared about that. So I am absolutely, just, I'm absolutely just loving it. It's amazingly written. I just, I'm having the best time reading it and I hang on one more point before I go. I know I've been speaking for ages. Sometimes I just can't stop myself and I'm like, what do you want from me? Do you want quick two minute check-ins like some people do? I can't. If you want me to deliver that, I can't. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, I can't. I can't do it. I've tried it, and I failed. This is what I was talking about with wanting to read a small book, right? Because it is so intimate and tightly woven and like close that it's exactly what I wanted. I knew what I wanted when I said I wanted a short book and it's delivering in every sense of the word. So yeah, I'm absolutely loving it. I finished Moon of the Crusted Snow today and I'm giving it five stars. I loved this. I absolutely loved it. I love good news, love good news. I just love good news. Now, it's hard for me to say much more than I already did because it's literally 200 pages and I didn't speak about it quite a lot but I just absolutely loved this book. I just think it's like one of the best like post-apocalyptic books I have ever read. I really loved again the community in this. I think it's one of the first books I've read in recent times where like the community, the sense of community and the obligation and the interconnection that they have with one another is like a completely other character in itself. Like, I feel like there's a lot of names. There's a lot of characters in this book. For some of them, you kind of remember vaguely who they are but in a essence, a lot of them are just part of this wider thriving community that have to come together in this really hard time to kind of look after one another. The just sense again of foreboding. Oh, oh, in the way it rose out of the book was just absolutely incredible. Also, I feel like I, I know this isn't for everyone but I loved like the practicalities and the mundanity, if that's a word, like the mundaneness of the book. It's very much about the day-to-day things that our main character and the wider community have to do in order to survive and I really like that. I like a book that goes into the day-to-days and the mundane and I just absolutely love it. Also, the villain in this, I wasn't expecting there to be a villain. I was expecting maybe for like arguments to happen within the community but I wasn't expecting there to be a villain. I just kind of thought nature and the situation would be the antagonist but the villain is a very interesting one and a very kind of like slowly building and then all suddenly it's like, oh, okay, they're really a villain. I can't say anything because it was a spoiler but like I feel like it said, I had a lot of commentary about it that I really enjoyed and I just like this is such a kind of book. I mainly need to go and look up, you know, has or be should rise or anything else because I absolutely loved this. Again, the snow, the isolation, the survival instinct of this book is what absolutely made it for me. I just love isolation. I think anything with an isolation trope in it, you're gonna like at least get four stars from me. Like I think it's a bit of a struggle to get less than that. If you've got an isolation trope, I just love it. And the Cole, Evan's wife, I love an icon, the kids, I love, I love the family unit. And it was just so good, you guys. I feel like everyone needs to pick this book up. It was absolutely amazing. A great quick read and I just had, I just had so much fun reading it. So that is it for this reading vlog. I hope you enjoyed it. It was interesting actually. It was a stupid idea, but like I feel like it began the Christmas spirit, like getting us into the Christmas mood, using the Christmas crackers to pick what I read. Let me know if you thought of either these books if you've read them, I'd really love to hear your opinions. And if you can think of any, because I feel like I didn't pick very well. So if there's any of them that you thought, Megan, you could have read that book for that cracker. Let me know that as well. Make sure you check out literal again. I'll leave my link down below where you can join the app and you can follow me on now. I'm having the best time using it. I absolutely love it. I actually need to put both of these books through it. I've been so busy. I haven't had a chance to like review or rate any of my books. So I'm going to go do that now. And if you've gotten to the end of the video, comment. It has to be a snowflake emoji. I know we've done that recently, but like Moon of the Cry, or Moon. Moon of Snowflake. Moon of Snowflake emoji if you've gotten to the end. Thank you so much for watching this vlog. I know it has been a long one. I didn't expect it to be. I've only read two books. I don't really know how that happened. And I will see you very soon in another video. Bye.


Okay, I'm about to go do something today, and I'm a little nervous, but I'm excited. So let me walk you through my thought process, okay? I feel like I am at the point where I am ready to become a pet owner, and I am thinking of getting a cat, a little kitty.   So getting a dog is not an option for me, but I can get a cat. The problem is I am allergic to some cats, not all. So I've been doing so much research the past couple of weeks to just make a proper informed decision. I'm learning all about the Feldi1 protein that cats carry, some carry more than others. I'm learning about hair types, you know, one coat of fur versus three coats of fur, you know, the maintenance, the grooming, the all that. So I am trying to make the best informed decision so that I could find the right cat type for me. So right now the two breeds that I am looking for specifically are Russian blues or Persians, two very different types of hair, but Persians I know I'm okay with and Russian blues I'm curious because I've read so many, you know, Reddit threads and so many articles written by people with allergies that have Russian blues and that they are fine. But you know, it depends, it's a person by person sort of thing. Of course things can change so I'm not saying I'm going to get one of those two, but for right now those are in the forefront of my mind. I have been on Pet Finder every day pretty much for the past couple of weeks looking at cats that are in need of finding a home that are ready to be adopted. And shelters around me. But I want to go to an actual like puppy kitten shop in my area today just because they'll allow me to go in and like sit in a room with that specific breed. And I want to just see how my allergies function, do they flare up? Do I feel nothing? That kind of thing. So that's what I want to do today. So I'm not getting a cat today, I'm not getting a cat next week. This is going to be a long process. I'm thinking more like early 2024, like in January. But I kind of want to get the ball rolling because I don't want to keep researching Russian blues if I get there and my allergies are going to flare up. So I want to go meet some kitties today and I'm so excited. I'm also nervous because it's like becoming real.  Cats are pretty self-sufficient but they still need a lot of love and a lot of attention and a lot of care. So it's a big deal. That's why I'm doing it very slowly and I'm just informing myself and teaching myself little by little. But I am so excited. So I thought I would document this whole process. I don't know how long this video is going to be. I don't know, only God knows really how this journey is going to go. Let's do it. Okay. So I just got back in the car. I was just sitting two seconds ago with the kittens. I got to sit with two blue Russians and two Persians, two sets of siblings. And first of all, they're so cute, both of them, but I don't know if you can tell. I am Sniffle City right now. I got only one sneeze but I was talking to the woman and the woman that worked there and she was saying, and I agree with her, it's hard to tell because you walk in there and all the animals, all the breeds are all in one room.  So it's hard to tell and so I told her, you know, I'd like to come back a couple of times because that's the only way I'm really going to know. She said, absolutely, but how am I going to tell if that's the room that you're always in, you know, it's all in one room. So I definitely, like I was only in there for maybe 25 minutes and my nose and my throat are super itchy. So it was a good starting point for sure. I'm glad that I went a little discouraging just because I feel like I didn't get to learn as much as I wanted to about, you know, my allergies and stuff. It was a good first step but now I just got to keep doing, you know, more research and asking around and this isn't the one and only place, you know, near me that has animals. There are plenty of shelters and stuff. So you know, this was a good first step in our journey. So I will see you guys next time. Hello. Okay. So it is a couple of weeks later and I am actually going to get my first ever allergy test today. I'm doing it for two reasons. One, I'm doing it for my nut allergy and for EpiPen purposes. But while I'm there, I'm also going to ask for a workup regarding, you know, animals and dander and all that. Just, again, to make an informed decision, I've still been doing so much research, still doing, you know, pet finder searches almost every day. But I feel like until I know exactly kind of what my allergy is, the research is kind of not pointless but, you know, it's just not as concrete. So I really don't want to make it like a guessing game when adoption time comes. So I am getting a skin scratch test today, I believe. I've never had one of these before. I don't know if they're doing it on my arm, on my back. I have no idea. I'm a little nervous, but I'm not really looking forward to it. But I'm excited to see what my results are. So I will keep you guys updated as we do it. Okay. So two hours later and I am done. I was there way longer than I thought I was going to be. But it went well. I'm glad I did it.  Some things were surprising. First of all, my nut allergy came back negative, which doesn't make sense. But he believes me. So that's why I got the blood test just to be a little more specific about that. I still got my EpiPen, all the good things. As far as the other stuff, the thing that I was the most allergic to, and by the way, it was so itchy, so irritable. I didn't take videos in there, but I'll try to like post videos or like little snapchats I took here so that you can see my arm.  Kind of cool, very irritating, very itchy and you can't touch it, but it was kind of cool. So the biggest thing I was allergic to actually was dust and like dust mites, which most people are kind of allergic to, but I guess I had a really bad reaction to it. Which I don't notice in my everyday life, which I told him. Cats and dogs, yes, but not nearly as much, which is, that actually gives me hope. I'm still going to aim for a cat that is low in allergens, low in the FLD1 protein. But it just gives me hope and it also tells me that no matter what cat I get, I'm just going to have to, he told me what air purifier to get and just things to do around the house to be able to cope and live with the cat. So it gave me, it gave me hope. I'm also allergic to trees and grass, which again, I don't have seasonal allergies.  He's the professional. I'm not going to say he's wrong. I know that regardless of what cat I get, it's going to be work. It's going to change my lifestyle, but I think it's going to be worth it. So we're one step closer, guys. Hi guys. So it is December 21st. I just had a appointment with my allergist this morning and I'm sitting here with my test results. It was one of those meetings where, you know, it could have been an email, but it's okay. So I'm looking at my blood test results. And so your blood to be normal should be around 0.10, 0.30, okay? The nuts we won't even talk about because that's not what this video is about. But the cat part, I'm supposed to be between 0.10 and 0.30. I am 3.6 when it comes to cats. So that's a class three. I'm allergic. But look, we knew this. This is not new news. And it's specifically because they break it down. It's the Feldy one that I'm allergic to. That's 3.2 alone. 3.2 is 0.2 and the Feldy four is 0.6. So not horrible. So it's the Feldy one. So I, yeah, I'm, it's not really new information, but I'm going to have to be more careful. So right now the breed that I am focused on, and again, I've been doing a lot of research is the Siberian breed, which is wild because they have a lot of hair. They have three layers of fur, but that actually helps people with allergies because three layers of fur keeps the Feldy one proteins kind of trapped. So they're not as airborne and also Siberians just produce less Feldy one than pretty much any other cat breed from what I am noticing. And every video I have watched, every article I have read from people with allergies say that they have absolutely no problems with their Siberians. And of course it's, it's a case to case basis, but that is the breed that I am focusing on right now and I want to go, you know, I don't know where, but I want to go sit with some and just see how my allergies do. And of course my allergies said probably what some of you are thinking, well, if you're allergic to cats, just don't get a cat. But I have, I know for a fact that people with allergies have cats. You just have to find the right breed for you and for your allergies. My dad's allergic to cats. He has a cat. My sister has a cat whom I have used as a pillow and I'm fine with him. So it just depends on the breed. That being said, now I'm struggling a little bit with the idea of I probably won't be able to adopt from a shelter as much as I want to. I have filled out applications for shelters. I looked at the shelters every day for months because I wanted to give one of them a home. But unfortunately, because of my allergies, I am seeing that I may not be able to give those cats homes because I don't want to bring them home and that I can't love up on them and I can't, you know, enjoy them either because I literally can't live with them. It's my health that I have to think about. So with that being said, if you want to go the alternate route, I think it becomes your responsibility, my responsibility to make sure that you are being responsible and doing your research about where you're getting your cat. So that's kind of where I'm in the process now. It's the week of Christmas. So again, I'm just kind of looking just to look. I'm not trying to make any moves yet, but that's the update. That's kind of where we are. So yes, I am allergic to cats as we knew and from my blood, you know, pretty allergic. So the research continues, but that's where we are right now. Well guys, I think I might have found my cat today. I don't have her with me anymore, but my mom was with me and this morning I went to sit with some Siberians. My allergies were fine. I was literally like a freak. I would like scratch them and then I was literally putting my fingers to my nose just to see if there was any kind of reaction, not one sneeze. I feel really good about it. I got to meet some kittens. There's not much you can do with them because they are very young, so you don't want to mess with them too much. But I met the adult kittens, I met the grandma kittens, I met the whole family and like I told you guys, I've been doing so much research, reading so many testimonials, searching what questions to ask when I go visit cats and so far everything is looking really good. They are growing up in a loving, loving home. My mom even who does not like cats was hanging out with the cats and I don't think she hated it. And so I feel really good about it. They're so cute, obviously they're so young and I'm going to try to insert some pictures and videos here just so you can kind of see. They're not going to be ready to go home for a little bit, which is fine because I am not in a rush. I need time to prepare, buy things little by little, but the next clip you see might very well be pick up day. Holy crud, that's crazy. I'm so excited. I'm so excited for you guys to meet him or her. So I'll see you guys hopefully soon. Okay, I know I said that the next video clip was going to be from pick up day, but I just have to share these pictures with you because look at this little girl. Are we kidding with that face? Hold on, hold on, hold on. Look I'm obsessed with her so I get videos and pictures of her every week and she's just getting so big and she's so beautiful. Look at that face. She's got beautiful, beautiful blue eyes. They say she's growing perfectly. She is learning, this is a video. She is potty training this week and is starting on solid foods and she's growing so well.  I can't wait to have her here. Okay, so the next clip that you see, I promise, is going to be from pick up day and she's going to be coming home. This is going to be her new home. So crazy. Okay mom, you're about to be grandma. How do you feel? I'm very excited. I'm very excited and I'm very happy for you. I'm nervous. I hope she likes me and I hope she likes our apartment. I think she will. I didn't tell you Marissa texted me yesterday and she said, congratulations on the last day of your pregnancy. Wow, that's cute. She's been calling me an expecting mother. Stepdad is hope that she can withstand his yelling because he made us freak her out. It might be a lot for her but it's okay. Yeah, you guys have to be a little bit more tame today but it's going to be great. Her first concert is going to be Usher. Game starts at like six so that's going to be her first night at home. So next time I think you see a recording we're going to be with her with child. We say bye-bye. What do you think?  Her first ride. It won't be the last time she'll be in Sammy's car. She's so quiet. Nuna, hi mama. You're so pretty. Look at those eyes. Hi. Hello. We're going to go home, okay? Hopefully. What is it? There you go. Not a girl. There you go. You got it. There you go. She made her own way. Wow, she's pretty. Bigger. I take you up. Ready? She's awesome. Let's see where she goes. She's so tiny. What's on you? There you go. She's all hair. She's so tiny. Hello. Size reference with my feet. She seems just fine, right, Sam? She's getting there. Hey. What is this? What is this? She's breaking my heart right now. So her mom and her siblings went into the carrier before we left. And so I think she's looking for them and climbing my furniture. She misses her mama, I think. Do you love them ourselves? Here you, Mia. Here you, Mia. Aww. I heard you, Mia. I heard you. I got you. One potato, two potato, two potato, four. Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. People. She loves you. I say you're not allowed to move for the next three hours. It's half time. It's almost half time. They're making nachos in the kitchen. Luna had her first meal. She had her first meal and now she is a sleepy little woman. She has literally not moved for the last 40 minutes. And she's just chilling. She's so sleepy. Thank God, she's calming down. Are you talking? Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. And she don't even know it. Oh my goodness. Luna, you won the Super Bowl. Can we pay your rent now? High five? You might as well say it right now. They got it. They did the dynasty, babes. Alright guys, thank you for watching this video. I have no idea what it's going to be honestly until I edit it because I've been filming for it for so long. But, uh, I think we are getting acclimated to our surroundings. We had our first successful meal. We had our first successful poop. I feel like a real mom. I'm like, wow, she pooped in the potty. She did it. And I barely had to really teach her how to do it. Um, and she goes in and out of sleep. She's been sleeping a lot. But I feel like she's getting a burst of energy now.  Part of me thinks that I'm really not going to get any sleep tonight. So, we'll see. Um, but to get used to seeing this girl she's going to grow. She's going to get a lot bigger. A lot bigger. Siberians get pretty big. I don't even know if I fully said her name. What's going on up here? I don't know if I said her name. Her name is Luna. She is a Siberian. You guys are going to be seeing a lot more of her. She's going to be like the mascot of both of my channels. Um, just like Maya was if you were there for the Maya days. My dog Maya. I actually called her Maya today by accident. Um, so that's going to take some getting used to. But um, it's Luna and I against the world now. And she for whatever reason absolutely loves this pillow. Loves this pillow more than the bed that I bought her. But it's okay. So we're going to call it a night. I even know she's really just playing. Let me show you. Hey, what are we doing? What are we doing? You love this thing, don't you? We're over it now. Are we over it? Well, you just want my finger. Okay. That's fine. So yes, there's going to be a lot more Luna content. I'm going to make an Amazon storefront for you guys in case any of you have any kitty friends and you want ideas of what to get them. I'm going to make a kitty like essentials video at some point. Um, and she's going to be around for a while. So you guys will see her very, very soon. But thank you for watching this video. Thank you for being here. And I'll see you guys. We'll see you guys in the next video. Bye guys. Luna, can you say goodbye? Say bye.


If you haven't been up to date, I've been recovering from liver damage caused by the carnivore diet. As you can imagine, almost eight years on a diet is not going to fix itself overnight in a few weeks, even in a few months. I was talking about my liver damage to a Honduran contractor that was fixing something at my warehouse several months ago, and he gave me a home remedy from Honduras, where he was from Honduras. They would take a very starchy white vegetable, blend it up with water, drink one half in the morning, one half at night. What scared me was the length of time he suggested lined up with what I had been assuming. He said, do this for six months, every single day, twice per day. Now most people try to fix their livers with supplements, tootka, milk, thistle. And in reality, they just need a clean slate, plain carbohydrates for the liver to expel all of those toxins. You need a sponge to absorb it and take it out of the body. Now that particular vegetable he mentioned isn't exactly accessible in the United States, but I have some potential substitutes. And there are two sides to this idea, one natural and one supplement. On the natural end, we have Granny Smith apples and lemon juice. You don't really need the lemons. I figured it would be nice to add some flavor, some vitamin C. And I would say this is the safest way to start off, just one blended apple with some lemon juice. But we'll go into specifics in a few minutes. On the supplement end, which you may use due to a lack of access to fresh produce or for more effectiveness, perhaps added flavor, we have Flexstrose, fiber, vitamin C, sodium ascorbate, and ascorbic acid. And the salt would go in both just to add some more complexity to it and some electrolytes. By using the combination of glucose and fiber, I'm kind of replicating the carbohydrate profile of Granny Smith apples or that starchy vegetable. And ascorbic acid will help with metabolism of carbohydrates as vitamin C is one of the vitamins that are greatly stressed when you eat a lot of sugar or starch. And to be clear, glucose, and this Flexstrose is 99% glucose powder supplement, the only one that exists on the market in organic form, something you can actually eat without destroying your body. Because if you're taking corn, maltodextrin, there's so many toxins in that it's not exactly a liver detox. Glucose being the best molecule for detox as so many cells in the body use it. The problem is it has a low gut motility. So it's going to pull the toxin out but then they're just going to sit there by adding fiber to it using a combination of this with whole fruits, higher volume foods. We have something that can both detox our system and keep everything moving out. We don't want those toxins sitting in our body.  But then another meal has to be frequently eaten so that they can pass through the body and detox in the bowel movement. So many people are trying to add things, supplements, foods to their diet and lifestyle to get healthy to detox yet they've overlooked the simple mechanism that most of it happens when you're going to the bathroom and you really need a clean slate, plain starch basically. You don't want any compounds in it, plant or animal. You want to keep it really minimal. So I'm going to peel these apples and I'll show you guys how I would combine everything here in a smoothie. And let me add to this, if you're just starting off fixing your liver damage, you're removing dairy eggs and different things from your diet to try to see what works, do not do this.  So you want to feel at least somewhat good okay before you can try to accelerate the detox with things like this. Just a real quick overview of these ingredients. We have the FlexStroze, the 99% organic glucose available on Frankie's FreeRangeFoods.com. I'm not going to use these vitamin C sodium and squirby today, maybe a little bit, but we have the lemon juice. So these are kind of interchangeable. This is clear acacia powder. I prefer Jerusalem artichoke, but they didn't have it and I couldn't get it in time. This should be okay, might not be the best one. Salt, Frankie's arrangement, you can use any high quality land salt and Granny Smith apples have a higher starch profile than regular apples and we need some starch, some very plain stuff in the diet that can be blended and there weren't really any vegetables that fit the bill that I could find in the supermarket compared to the one the Honduran guy was talking about. So first I'm adding 8 ounces of bottled mineral water and you don't want to use something like Geralsteiner that has very high calcium because that's going to actually reduce the gut motility. I sliced up two of the Granny Smith apples because they are kind of small. And again, I'm not really sure Granny Smith are the exact best choice here. Maybe some other apple is just as good, but this is what we're trying. So I'm going to squeeze the juice of the lemon in here. Now this is where you could stop if you're really natural, if you're just starting out, if you don't want something that's going to irritate your body too much. The one big apple or two medium apples and a bit of lemon juice in the water, you blend this up, maybe just add a little bit of salt to it and then you can drink this. I'm going to add some of the Acacia powder, just a white powder, that's an actual sweet smell to it, about a tablespoon. The Flex Trose I'm going to put maybe two tablespoons and just a quarter teaspoon of sodium ascorbate. Okay, now I'll blend this up. And that's about perfect because what we want is 16 ounces of this whole liquid. You know you don't want to drink like three, four, five cups of stuff in the morning, you know it's just too much volume for your stomach. So here we go guys and it's not really a liquid, there's a lot of you know whole apple in there and that's the key thing. Now you guys have seen me strain smoothies before to get a nice texture. You want to keep all that fiber, all that volume of the apple in here. So the first few sips, I'm almost like chewing the apple mash and then the liquid is at the bottom. This isn't sweet at all, it's very plain, very mild flavor. I'm really happy with how this turned out and the one thing I will say is I don't think I'm going to be using Granny Smith apples, I think I'm going to get a honey crisp or Fuji apples, I think those are going to be a little bit better for this application based on the ripeness and the starch content and the anti-nutrient content of those apples. But thank you guys for joining me today.  Liver detox, hydrating, giving your body volume in there. So what's going to happen over the next hour or two, I'm going to go down to work. This is going to be pulling stuff out of my liver for maybe an hour or two and then hopefully I can have another meal to push that through. Then another meal a couple hours later and then at night, same thing. You want to keep constant volume going through your digestive system. Fasting is one of the worst things for your liver because if you're actually detoxing, what's going to happen in that five, six, seven, eight hour fast is those toxins are going to start getting reabsorbed into the blood and you're not going to feel well. But I think that wraps everything up for today. You guys can go to frank-to-found.com to check out all of my businesses. Oh, almost forgot. You might want to take kefir grains with this to help with the absorption of the starch and sugar. Now you don't want to drink water kefir with this because sometimes it has a little alcohol that's not the best for the liver. This might be okay, might be fine, not 100% sure. And maybe some masticum too. But again, the idea of this is minimal clean slate to detox the liver, adding masticum and kefir grains maybe can be messed around with in the near future. Again, guys, frank-to-found.com. If you could please drop a like on the video. Subscribe so that YouTube can unsubscribe you next week. Be sure to check that notification bell so they don't notify you of my videos. Thanks again, guys, and I'll see you for tomorrow.


Okay. Then let's welcome Johan for the next presentation. Johan is going to tell us about Linux in cars. Yeah. So, hi everyone. Thanks for having me. I'm actually joining from a car. So, I just want to double check. Is the audio okay, Volker? Yeah. Your audio is perfect. Sounds great. Yeah. So, last weekend in the summer house, a slight change of location really late before. So, praying to the LTE gods. But yeah, it will be fine. So, hi. I'm Johan. I actually work for Ambition, one of our sponsors. I also run a company on the site called CodeRise. I run a conference called FOS North in Sweden that some people might recognize free from. I've been doing lots of cute embedded Linux and with the focus on automotive in the past decade. I also think you're with licensing and so on. So, yeah. I just want to say before starting here that all opinions are my own. I agreed to talking here before my employer decided to sponsor. So, these are my own personal views. Before we dive into the whole problem space, let's have a look at how does an infotainment system look today. And this is a blurred picture of the architecture from Geneva, which is a standardization organization that works with open source solutions around this. And I can just overlay it with these boxes where we see that we are at the very top. We have apps. And these are, of course, vendor specific to a large extent to sort of make it car specific and get that brand feeling. And then you have a huge number of services. This might be anything from workshop production, telephony, media playback, whatnot. Everything that goes into a car, all the services that you need. And then you have a base platform at the very base bottom, which is a classical embedded Linux system. And if we look at this and see where do we have open source, we do have open source in the base platform, we do have Linux. Some of these services are largely based around open source to various degrees. And some at the very top, the brighter colored ones. There is actually no intention to make them open source because that's where sort of the brand differentiation comes in. So then it's more up to the auto maker to to make that open source rather than to to the community. I actually like to color this picture this way. So what is not open source, we have lots and lots of red boxes in here that would be good to address. And why is this? So my takeaway from this is that you have requirements that are only piled on project from project, you copy the last requirement setting, you add some more, you copy the last project again and add some more. And sometimes you can really tell that this requirement is actually a functional requirement. And this one is a supplier that cocked up. So they need to clarify something because last time they had a fight over it. And when you start like this from a very strict requirement sets, of course, open source components doesn't fit one to one, you need someone who steps in between and make adaptations or let's call it integration work that leverages the open source components into building something that fulfills the requirements. And that's one of the parts that is really hard, because then somebody needs to pick up the open source component and then really drive it in that direction and sort of invest in it and do that together with the community. So even when you do that, you don't just take the component and put something proprietary on top of it. So we really need to invert the direction here. You need to start from what's out there that could help an car maker to get the experience they want. And then to specify what has to go on top of the open source components of the shared platform rather than the other way around. That's the industrial problem, I'd say. Let's see. And I mean, why is this a problem? It could be one way to... One thing is to say that we want open source and it's a good thing and there are ethical aspects with it. But even if you look at it from the business side of an automotive maker, it's not invented here, driven development where you start from your own requirements set and sort of everything has to be custom made to your needs is a very expensive way of building anything. You also end up in very strong vendor lock-ins historically. I've been to numerous OEMs in Asia, US and Europe, and it's a situation throughout the industry. The maintenance costs are huge because you maintain your own software stack rather than using what's upstream. That's also one of the risk of falling behind. So it's quite common to sort of adjust an open source component and not follow along, which means that at the end of the day, you're maintaining your old fork by yourself anyway. And really, the biggest one is that you can get access to smart people outside of the automotive industry, which is a huge boost because software in automotive is not where all software people work. It's a rather small niche. But what are the open source actors here? So this is just a very quick recap from what I've seen. So 2009, Genevieve was started, formed expert groups, had industry meetings, discussed on how to do this. And Genevieve to me is a big driver in making sure that we actually have a Linux foundation for these systems these days, even though the services on top aren't open source. They build components that they then will create a development platform to demonstrate how the components can be integrated. But components are generally reusable outside of Genevieve. Since a few years back, Genevieve sort of focused on the coexisting with other systems on how to integrate the Linux-based system into a hypervised system with other systems in parallel and so on. So the component development has, in my opinion, slowed down a bit. There is also another organization joining the market. So 2016, the Automotive Great Linux project was started. This is run within the Linux foundation. It has a similar structure, so expert groups, so the various topics, meeting, writing requirements, trying to find someone to implement it and build things. But I'd say that AGL in general builds their development platform first and the components are built for that platform, which in my experience means that some of the components are harder to use if you don't buy it all. They are more tightly integrated. Both these organizations come from this classical direction that we have an expert group. We write the requirements, and then the intention is to fix an open source component to suit those requirements, but they still come from that perspective. The top down, this is what the car needs, and then we build it. So it's kind of interesting when we had this third one entering. It was announced in 2017. The Polestar cars are starting to reach market now. So I'd say 2020 is the year when they're active. The same goes for the other organizations. I mean, Geneva was formed in 2009. There weren't Geneva-based infotainment systems back in 2009. This is basically Google and the OEMs. They have a very strong infotainment focus. They have a fixed offering. This is what it is, and then it's up to the OEM to integrate it. They've been able to turn this requirements situation around, which is good. But at the same time, I'd argue strongly that this is not an open source solution per se. I mean, the Google Automotive services are definitely not open source. It's something that creates a bit of movement in the market, but I'd say it's not a big open source platform. I wouldn't be satisfied as an open source proponent if Google dominated the market. That wouldn't have solved my problem. So why is this? I mean, we have a set of OEMs. They act with suppliers that are usually called Tier 1s, Tier 2s, Tier 3s, depending on how close they are to the OEM. So as you have an infotainment device manufacturer that produces a silver box, so the actual electronic device that you put in the cart to go with the software, but of course they source a lot of the software from outside like speech engines, navigation systems and all of that, and they do a lot of the software integration. There are quite complex relationships in here, and the Tier 1s supply different OEMs in different organizations, and sometimes a Tier 2 to one OEM could be a Tier 1 to another, and so on. The interesting thing is really what's holding us back, and my conclusion after more than a decade in this is this. You need to scratch your own itch. Who are the members? Who are the ones contributing and driving the software development in these open source organizations? And to a large extent, it's not the OEMs who solve their own problems. It's the OEMs paying someone to maintain a component, and as soon as that stream of money goes away, the maintenance goes away as well. So you need to really bring the software closer to the OEM, and then we clearly see this in many cases. I mean Ambition is one case where that happens, but it happens with other OEMs as well, but this I think is one of the real factors that needs to go into change the industry. Unless you scratch your own itch, you're not driven to fix the complex problems behind which are really more of a business structure or managerial than a technical issue. So what can be done? What challenges do we have? There are tons and tons of challenges. One of the things that I try to tell people when doing interviews or trying to get them to work within infotainment is that this today is primarily not an algorithm or doing cool maths kind of problem area. Then you can go to autonomous driving or do voice recognition engines and smart navigation algorithms. But for infotainment it's more about the integration of lots and lots of features. And this is where you basically have to pick and choose good infrastructure for various problems and put them together into a complete system. And I want to relate this then to what happens in the open source space and primarily what happens within KDE. So I mean where are we close together? Where can we touch base and actually help each other? So I picked out some areas. There are many, many more. I've worked for more than two years in the same project and we've solved more than six projects. It's basically weekly project. So if you want to hit problems or challenges, just reach out and I can give you one. But the very first one I'd like to bring up is screen dimensions and orientation. You have extremely wide screens in some cars where it fits into the dash on the width. But you also have setups like the Volvo and the recent release new S-class where you have a standing screen. You also want a single user interface to work in the front where you might have an extremely wide or A4 sized portrait screen with the rear seat where you generally have a smaller screen integrated into the headrest of the front screen. And a good framework for that is needed. So Kirikami and really emphasizing the ability to move between screens and to provide patterns to do that is a really good starting point to get closer here and to get contribution. Another thing is collaboration between screens and users. And I mean this is where everyone's going now. So I mean if you buy a high-end car this is probably where you are to some extent. But you want to share information. You want to be able to view the same media contents on various screens. You want to be able to pass let's call it video streams or links to video or whatever. However you do it technically between the different screens. And this is where technologies like KDE Connect comes into the picture. I love KDE Connect. The game changer to me is the simple use case of audio docking one of my phone rings. But to take that further to allow to sort of share, cast and move things in between screens and devices. That's exactly where we want to go. And then that's exactly what the whole industry is looking for a solution. And then KDE Connect could be part of that. That would be awesome. And I mean having plasma big screen in there as well excites me because that's very close to rear seating for the system. Is it possible to connect that to KDE Connect? How can we make that generic? Can we allow KDE Connect to sort of be the base for a wider casting, sharing, moving framework? There are big opportunities here. And even more when it comes to this casting and routing and on the audio and media routing is one of the things that makes car systems very complex because in a high-end car you have many many cameras for surround views. You have cameras they can create a projection of the car from the from above. Multiple cameras inside multiple microphones so that you can actually do video calls and and text recognitions from the various seats and then locate where the sound comes from. So really building these advanced media routing and audio frameworks is important to validate Linux but also to Linux with the community services on top of it like PipeWire and Pulse Audio and so on on top of it. And if this thing can be connected to the whole collaboration between screen story that makes it even stronger. We have another one that I'd like to bring up. I'd like KDE boot quickly. I run a pine book and I'm impressed over how fast it runs on actual low-end hardware. Let me call it that and then Pine 64 can say what I'd like. But one of the big engineering challenges that I face is really that we have a legal time limit for two seconds to have the rear view camera up and running and generally you want to have warning sounds before that and traditionally you have a requirement to have a full let's call it desktop experience but the full infotainment experience and an interactive system up by four, five, six seconds depending on the brand. Me being sweet and it's still summer but I would hate to have to wait for 15-20 seconds to be able to turn on the heat in the seat and then start defrosting the window. You need these things quickly. So keep it light, keep additional features optional, make it possible to load things afterwards to load things on demand so to speak. These are important things to make the components reusable to be able to actually integrate them in this type of system and then I have decided to add two more challenges that are good to be aware of but are hard to solve in a generic enough way and also in an open-source way because they involve non-open-source technology. So one of the trends is that you have a hypervised system in these setups and to some extent you have another system be it for instance QNX or integrity to drive functional safety subsystems or even full Android systems sitting next to you and again here the sharing of video and audio and compositing of graphics and resource sharing is important factors to take into account but also sharing state how do you share your contacts? Do you have a centralized service for contacts and so on and that then leads us over to the functional safety area where you have things like the telltales in the instrument cluster it might be if you have an augmented reality system that you actually drive according to all these things that are sort of puts you in the risk of hurting something damaging equipment or even killing people if they fail and here you generally don't build the systems on Linux but you need to be able to coordinate the graphics between the different systems. The QtSafe renderer is out there as one example of how to do it. It's basically a glorified BitBlitz but it's written according to all the process rules that needed to get a TIF approval and to be a part of a functional safe system. So it's it you need to have these flexibilities in and now Folker is counting down quickly. I'm talking too slowly so yeah there are many many more challenges and I love to speak about more challenges than the ones I've talked about but why am I even here? I want to tell you all keep on being awesome and keep on building infrastructure. I mean many years ago in a rainy summer I did this MetaKf5 let's call it embryo that were later picked up by the community in Folker which is great because I did not have time to maintain it but building KDE frameworks providing Kirigami, providing great documentation and being helpful that I mean these are great things that that makes KDE technology attractive and even though you probably will not see a plasma interface in an actual car produced by an OEM the technology the underlying technology is so close by so you probably already share more than you think between your desktop between what you actually work on between what you actually improve with the car industry and having the car industry use it would mean more use cases more resources to to fix issues to to hand off the rough corners and to contribute back so I really hope for this to to move closer and that means I made it on time I think it says one minute left on the on the private chat from Folker so thank you very much for listening I hope I made some sense even though I had to run parts and through parts of the slides and I think it's time for Q&A and thank you for sticking perfectly to the to the schedule we indeed have a few questions the one most on people's mind seems to be what kind of car are you in there I'm I actually tweeted about this so as I made some fun of it a few years ago I saw an ad for a BMW 7 series and they call the backseat the executive lounge I'm in the backseat of a 12 year old BMW 5 series where my 8 year old son usually sits so I had to move over like old food stuff and to to actually be able to sit here so it's very far from the from the executive lounge but it's it's an old BMW okay next question is what form form factor Katie is used to our cars most most similar to desktop tablet phone and start changing it depends on the brand the lots I mean the the the difference between a cheap car and an expensive car isn't much bigger than you think hardware wise so it's a high end car basically has a high power laptop integrated into it or multiple laptops while a low end car has something like a cheap Android tablet in there and then I mean that's where you've seen Android early on where where the OEMs or their suppliers actually did the porting but there's there's a really big difference in in how much money you're willing to throw on the hardware depending on the car but I'd say in in general it's it's ARM systems with some sort of OpenGL capable GPU at least and and then it's just a matter of do you have half a gig of RAM or do you have 16 32 gigs of RAM and then how many cores and so on okay and the next question is will cars allow side loading of apps this was actually a discussion in in an architectural WhatsApp group that I I'm a part of at work they will be app oriented I think where we're basically because you can't have these big projects where you build a single release for each line you need to go towards an a rolling release model and you need to let different parts of the software develop at different cadences if it would be presented as happy to the end user is one question the other one is is the end user even allowed to stall something or do you get like an options package that that simply defines your applications and side loading is even one step further I don't know it's a it's a management question I would love to be able to I would even like to be able to even though it would void my warranty because you have a slight loader car that would mean that you can really bring it forward and and warranty for for the infotainment system might not even be be something that you worry too much about because it's already void right um then the next question we have is how much do you usually upstream when developing at an OEM um is there a tendency or effort to upstream more I would say that historically it's been very low I've been in projects where you actually pick the version of all the components at the start of a three four five year project in order to be able to stabilize them as you put it and that basically means that even though you you upstream something you're you're probably three or two five years too late in doing so so nobody's interested in it and there's also the the the issue that the suppliers are paid to to deliver the function and not to work well with upstream this is one of the reasons for me joining ambition because this is an OEM stepping in and taking the integration responsibility and I mean I brought up some of the advantages of moving closer to open source and maintainability is one and there we're actually fighting very very hard to find a good way to upstream and I I do know that we we have open sourced part of our solution and and we're working on I mean it's it's almost a political work to to enable it within the company how do we do this how can we allow people to do it but I know that we are moving in this direction and I would assume that other engineers are moving in this direction but I don't know where other OEMs stand on this okay I think you have already mentioned the already answered the next question on how closely you are following upstream that leaves the last question on how complicated is all this with the conservative software lifecycle in the automotive industry and that's that's the whole complication that the problem is that you're building a piece of software for a specific car specific hardware device that you upgrade maybe every three years and the whole industry needs to move to a rolling release model somehow or to decouple the software development from from the from the car but of course that that clashes a bit in how you traditionally sell and and run these companies because if you get the newest software even in the in the cheapest model and the high-end one at the same time it might confuse the customer base so it's I think it's necessary the alternative is that googles eats the whole industry as they ate the mobile industry and and they do a rolling software release so and and the the OEMs there simply have to live with it and I think that's where it will land


The national broadcasting company and its facilitated stations presents the Pacific story. It is the story of the Pacific, the drama of the millions of people who live around this greatest seed, where the United States is now committed to a long-term policy of keeping the peace. This is a documentary account of the situation in the Pacific, of the men and events which are today influencing world affairs for generations to come. B.G. Island. I say is your name Kermalys? Yes. Blake is my name. This is Dr. Cowdery. Are you a doctor? A real doctor? Yes. You have just come to B.G.? Oh, it's been a few weeks now. Good, good. You at the medical school in Suber? Yes. Dr. Cowdery was good enough to come up here to Laotoka with me to help me find a guide. Guide? Yes. You know that gold has been discovered up near the North? Yes. Well, I'd like to hire you to guide me up into the gold field. Me? Yes. The people here in Laotoka say you know that country around the world. Well, yes. Well, a great deal of gold has been taken out up there. And it would mean some money to you. No, no, no. I don't think so. You're not interested in the gold? Gold is good, maybe. Well, about all we'll have to do if we get up into the gold country is take out a claim. Can't be so very far from here. No, no, no. I have plenty of bananas and coconut. Plenty of maize and rice and sugarcane. Cowdery, does he mean it? Well, I think he does.  If you go up to the floor with me, you'll get much gold. No, no, no. I stay here. Since Jesus came into my heart. I can't believe it, Cowdery. He might as well try to get somebody else. Yes, thank you, sir. Well, come on, let's go. Yes. Are you going back to the medical school in Suva, Dr. Cowdery? As soon as I get Mr. Blake to your fix, sir. Yes. Good. Since Jesus came into my heart. A couple of days later, we found a guide for Blake and they went up into the gold country. I returned to Suva. I thought about Kamini, tall, muscular, a superior physical type. And I talked about him as Dr. Weldon. They are remarkable people, the Fijians. You know, I've never seen such a happy people. Well, they've got everything. And if they had their way, they'd laugh and live and sing songs. I had come to the Fiji Islands to help train Fijians to be what we called NMPs, Native Medical Practitioners. There were few white doctors in the island and there was need for medical help to treat the half million people of the island. The Fijians are a healthy people country. Yes, I've noticed. They're a mixture of the black male amnesian and the lighter polynesian. That's why they have high intelligence along with their superstitions and their savagery. You know, you hardly realize that they can be savvy. Well, actually, Cowdery, some of the grandparents or great-grandparents of the people they're working with here at school were cannibals. Well, they've made enormous strides in the state of a few generations. Yes, they have. A lot of credit for that must go to the missionaries. Well, yes. Nearly every native is a Christian. That's why many of them are always seeing him. Oh, that explains it. But, as you know, when the white man brought in Christianity, he also brought in disease. Hysteria, tuberculosis, mesm, even neprosy. Yes, I know that, Dr. Wilder. They had, of course, their own diseases. Blackwater fever and other things. So, although the people here are fairly healthy, at the same time, they're plagued not only with their own diseases, but also with ours. That's why our work here training NMPs is so important. The Phoegeans who came to the medical school were alert, quick, eager. Everything they did showed their intelligence. For admission, all they had to have was the equivalent of a good high school education. The NMP course was four years of anatomy and surgery. There is a letter for you, Dr. Caldera. Letter? Thank you. Oh, it's Blake. Dear hell, I've been up here around Tabua now for six months, and the amount of gold being taken out up here is fabulous. I'd make a horseback guess that something like five million dollars worth of gold will be taken out this year. Of course, my part of that is going to be comparatively small. But I'm getting squared around now for a bigger operation. Things are going along fairly smoothly. There's a little trouble here, as you would expect.  Wherever you are. I used to go down to the beach there in Suva and look out over the Pacific to Zealand, more than a thousand miles to the south. Australia, more than 1,500 miles to the southeast. Samoa, 500 miles to the northeast. I used to look out over the Pine Harbor in Suva, big enough to hold a battle fleet. Between the barrier reef, corals, and the shore, many ships riding at anchor. Lita Levo here is the largest of all the Fiji islands, Dr. Cowdery. I used to talk with one of the NMP students. I was born up in Sigatoka. He was as proud of his hometown as any youth in the United States is of his. But I always wanted to come down here to the capital of Suva. Do you like it here, Dr. Cowdery? Well, yes, I like it here. It's a different world for me, though. A different world, yes. In the months to come, I travel to most of the 80 Fiji islands that are inhabited, to the newer level, and to Kandavo, and to all the others. On my way back, I stopped off in the Tovua Gold Country to see Blake. Mr. Blake is gone. How long has he been gone? Long time now. Where did he go? Nobody knows. Nobody knows? No. Why did he leave? Trouble, maybe. Oh. But what have you explained? Is it shutdown? No. Still working. That's about all I ever found out about Blake. This was my first personal brush with the dark side of the Fijians. It was my first index of the side of the Fijians, about which I knew so little. And I was to learn so much.  Too loud, Toca. I heard a familiar voice and a familiar song. It was Kamali. I went up to him. I remember you. You are the doctor. That's right. When I finished my work in school, I want to come to Suva. Suva is an important city. Biggest city in the island. Oh, it's not for that. I want to go to your school and become a native medical practitioner. You do? Yes, it's what I want to do. My mother died from a fever. My brother is sick with a yawn. He's very bad now. How much longer must you go to school? Two years. Then I'm coming to Suva. Well, keep in touch with me, Kamali. Thank you. Yes, I will. I looked him over from head to foot as he talked. A magnificent specimen. Tall. Powerful. Dark skin. Crisp hair. Deep-set eyes. A modern man. Only a few generations removed from savagery. Yet interested in the humanitarian. He goes to devote his life to helping others. Back at the medical school, I plunge into the work with renewed vigor. We are going to add a pathological laboratory and a bacteriological laboratory, Kamali. That's excellent. It's a really great deal out here. And the Fijians are ready for this kind of work. Excuse me, please. But this word has just come. Yes. Mmm. Listen to this, Kamali. The situation in Europe has been complicated by the intervention of foreign nations in the Spanish Civil War. Germany and Italy are aiding the phalanges. And Russia is aiding the loyalists. So far, Britain has not become embroiled. If Britain becomes involved, then we are involved. Yeah. Yes. Are we going to get into war? Probably not now. But it's coming. From this time on, when I stood on the beach and looked out over the seas, I knew that the sea could never keep war from affecting us. From this time on, we watched closely the trend of events in Europe and the growing tension in the Pacific. I came to understand more clearly how the Fijians were tied to the outside world. You see, until now, we've exported just about all our sugar to New Zealand. Now, we're exporting, we're shipping more and more of it to Canada. But rising should at times hard work, and the Fijians have no necessity to work hard. It was the same old story. So we've got to bring in Indian coley labour. But the Fijians are good agriculturalists aren't they? Yes. Excellent, but they don't care about working on the sugar plantations. That is as hard as the Indians do. Then the Indians are stiff competitors for the Fijians. Yes, the Indians are hard working and they're thrifty. And after they worked a while on the sugar plantations and saved up enough money, they leave the plantations and rise right and caught even goats for themselves. But what worry the authorities is that the Indians are beginning to have political ambitions. You know, there are almost as many Indians here in the Fijies as they are Fijians. But difficult as this situation was within the Fijies. It was overshadowed by the momentous events outside the islands. The Japanese had attacked the Chinese outside the Fijians. They had, yes. It started in the Pacific. Well, it's still a good many thousand miles from us here. May as well be on our doorstep. It's only a matter of time until it's here. So, Kamali, so you did come to Suva? Yes, I've come to go to school. Your city is about becoming a practitioner? Yes, I'm here ready to start. Here are my papers. Fine. Well, come along. Let's see what we can do about it. Kamali showed an extraordinary aptitude for medicine. Sometimes as I watched him vaccinating or giving hypodermics, I marveled. Fingers as death as those of a violinist. Gentle, sensitive. A jolly sense of humor, music brimming and bubbling out like water. And yet with a tide that was tied to a thousand and ten thousand years of darkness. Dr. Calvary, which doctors cannot be right, Kamali? Of course not, Kamali. Of course they cannot.  Quinine will do more for a person with malaria than any witch doctor. I know. They have a strong influence though, Dr. Calvary. We could teach him and the other P.G.ans how to treat the sick, but this part of them we could never touch. We train them how to fight infection, the importance of plenitude, how to reduce factors, how to deliver babies. One dark night when we ran duty together, one of the boys brought a message. Britain has declared war on Germany. It has come. The Germans are marching into Poland, in France, and Britain's supposed to declare war on Germany. We will have to go to war now, Dr. Calvary. Yes, if Britain's in the war, then we're in the war. Will we have to fight? Yes, I think we will. We kept tabs on the progress of the war in Europe. We shuddered with England through the terrible month of 1940, through Dunkirk and the Blitz, and the desperate days had followed. A contingent of New Zealand troops is going to land here tomorrow, Calvary. All seven seas in our battlefield between us and the enemy. Yes. Let us hope we do not also have to fight Japan. Yes. The next day, Camelie went with me down to the waterfront. A fine-looking group, some of New Zealand's best. They're wonderful. Yes, wonderful. I knew from the way Camelie regarded those New Zealand troops that he would volunteer the first chance they got. Immediately when PG volunteers were asked for her, he came to me. I want to join, Dr. Calvary. Or your only halfway through your NMP Corps. I want to join. You mean in the medical corps? No, I just want to be a soldier. I can finish my work in medicine later. PG and the team came from every one of the 80 inhabited islands. Strong, intelligent men. I watched them train through the month of 1940 at 41. They became the officers of the PG and the Ducati. They and the PG and in battle dress was something to see. It's here, Calvary. It's here. I've been hoping all along that it would not come. But all the time I knew it would. The PG's have now assumed new importance. Strategic importance. We are the outpost for the defense of New Zealand and Australia. Do you think the Japanese will get as far as this? Well, Britain is crippled in the Pacific. The US is crippled. The Japanese are already driving down Minaya into the Indies and Eastwood toward us. If they take our islands here, they'll be able to cut off supplies from reaching Australia and New Zealand from the US without a long roundabout tour. If the PG's held, the American base 500 miles to the northeast in Samoa would be in danger. It might be cut off from reinforcements and supplies. We worked like mad. Reinforcements were coming, but we knew it was a race with the Japanese. Then, early one morning, I was awakened. In the harbor were American ships, transports and men of war. Silver was farmed with American troops. New Zealand troops, PG and troops. In no time, the Americans were picking up PG and words. Hiya, boy! Hula! Hula! Is it hula? It's a fast family. Hula means hello. Hula, boy! Hula! Hula! Hula! Some hula vanaca. And what was that, man? Some hula vanaca.  Oh! Hey, some hula vanaca, kid. Some hula vanaca. What does that word say? Here? What does that mean? Here? Kamali was trained for commando operations. And when his outfit moved out, I went with him. The Americans had taken Guadalcanal. We landed there, and then moved across the channel to Cape Torokino, Empress Augusta Bay and Bougainville. There are something like 50,000 Japanese deployed on this island. They're short of rations. Our mission is to find out first how long their rations will last, and second what the Japanese commander is up to. The honor to carry out this dangerous mission has fallen to us. The first battalion of the PG Infantry Regiment. You've been trained for jungle combat, and with your own natural skill, you should be more than a match for the Japanese. We will move out into the enemy country and establish an outpost at Ibu on the other side of the island, 10 miles from the strong Japanese position at Numa Numa. Any questions? The transformation in the PG troops as they moved out into the enemy held country was amazing. Covered with ferns and brush, they became part of the jungle. But more than that, they slipped into the jungle with an eagerness, a sense of sureness, with a certain restrained delight that told me there were, indeed, only a few generations removed from their cannibal ancestors. Their skill and their deadliness in jungle operations did not fully impress me until later, when we received word by radio that they had penetrated the Japanese lines and had established their stronghold in the jungle, in the Japanese rear at Ibu. Dr. Cowdery, I want you to go with me by air to Ibu. There were just three of us. Almost the instant we took off at Cape Todokino, we were over enemy territory. It's jungle below, is there, doctor? Yes. And it's filled with Japanese. We'll be over Ibu in about 15 minutes. Have you seen the new landings of their pilots? Yes, sir. They're very small. They huge it out in remarkably short time. Yes, sir. My first glimpse of the landing ship frightened me. It looked like little more than a path. Hold on. We're going into the landing. The strip was not much more than 300 feet long. The end of it fell off into a canyon. The jungle, stood like a wall at the edge of the landing ship, tangled vines, palm, ferns, and a profusion of underbrush that was stifling. As soon as I heard that, I knew Kamali was near. Will the doctor got it? Kamali. I hardly knew you. Because of this colored silk? Yes. It's from parachute. Kamali and the other Fijian troops decked themselves in a colored silk. And as I stood there, looking at them, I had a fleeting feeling of satisfaction that these men were on our side. I went with them to raid Pipipaia. Should be within time if no one knew when now. A young New Zealander was in command. Okay. Walk as we come over the top of this ridge. Move up. I looked back at Kamali, creeping through the jungle as if he were part of it. He smiled at me and tapped the pocket on his chest. In that pocket was his testament. He had complete faith and no fear that the Fijians had remarkable eyesight and an incredible jungle scent. There is Numanuma. It took me a minute to spot it, almost hidden in the jungle. That's it. All right. Easy. We're getting close to the sentries. Move up. Kamali and the other Fijians moved through the jungle almost without making a sound. I crept as quietly as I could. There was a Japanese. It's a sentry. All right. Move up. My heart pounded as we slipped by him. That's Pipipaia. All right. Ready now. Suddenly the signal was given. Kamali was upon the sentry like a tiger and suddenly the entire jungle was alive. Formed into the clearing. Out one Fijian was hit. Pipipaia clearing was strewn with Japanese death. We caught them, Dr. Count. Yes, Kamali. I hope we shall be as lucky every time. We will. After this, the Fijians infiltrated the Japanese lines almost at will. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. No Japanese. after thinking every Japanese ship that comes near. And if they're that short on rations, we have been activated their entire force on Bougainville. Then came a report and an order from our headquarters at Cape Torokino. The Japanese are massing powerful forces here around Everest, Augusta Bay. Also, they are moving down the east coast to Numa Numa with a view to taking Ibu. Therefore, destroy and evacuate Ibu at once. Our mission at Ibu was completed. We must leave here. But we cannot return to Cape Torokino. We are cut off there. Your work here has been magnificent. And on the basis of your reconnaissance, we know now that we can leave the Japanese here to die on the vine. The remaining question is whether we can get out alive. Set fire to everything. We will evacuate at once. Except for the old mission house, we left nothing to the Japanese but ruins. Dr. Cowley? Yes, family. I am one of five to be left behind here as rear guard to cover the retreat of the company. Kamalee, the five of you? Yes, the Japanese are expected before dark. I think I will stay with you, Kamalee. No, Dr. Cowley. Maybe I can help. No, you are needed. Back in Suva. I got permission to stay. We took off positions in the ruins of some huts. Kamalee and another T.T. and I were in one hut. The three others were in another hut, situated so that we could catch the incoming enemy in our crossfire. We waited. Just before dark, the Japanese began to sift into the ruins of Ibu. Those were the other huts of open fire on them. Yes, they are advancing on the other hut. Yes, wait. Do not shoot yet. Wait. We stopped them. Now we must watch out. We're ready for them. She is hip, Dr. Cowley. I'll take care of him. Yes, I will hold them off. Kamalee was shot through the neck. I gave him first aid in the gathering darkness. He smiled and tapped his breast pocket with a testimony. I took it out and placed it in his hand. I kept my fingers on his pulse and felt his life ebbing away. And there in the darkness, in that burned-out hut in the jungle, Kamalee died. The other young T.G. and I slipped out in the night and at last joined the rest of the T.G. company. And now I'm back again in Suva, back in the Central Medical School. A new class of T.G. is in training to become NMPs. 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