And welcome to another edition of DT Live. I hope everybody's doing well today. Give me just a second guys. I'm trying to get some stuff set up here. For those of you that are hanging out in the YouTube chat already. Let me know how the audio levels are. Give me a yay or nay on the audio. Alright. What a few of you guys are already in the YouTube chat. Lots of interesting discussions going on already in the YouTube chat. Today I'll probably just do a standard Q&A session with you guys in the YouTube chat. If you have questions or comments, I'll try to get to what I can. Audio is great. Alright. Everybody gave me a yay. Alright. Thank you guys for hanging out. I actually tried to give you guys a heads up a little bit today on the live streams. I don't do too many of these live streams, but I felt like I should do one today. When I got up this morning, I checked my analytics in YouTube. And of course I had just passed the 100K mark as I was checking the analytics in YouTube. Actually, I'd hit even 100,000. Not 100,000 in one, 99,999, but exactly 100,000. I was like, awesome. We should do a live stream today. So I created a quick five minute thumbnail and scheduled the stream this morning for later this afternoon. And that thumbnail I created was one of the most glorious thumbnails I think I've ever created. Unfortunately, somebody I guess decided to report the thumbnail and YouTube took down my thumbnail. Actually, I got a very nice email from YouTube basically saying, we are taking down your thumbnail because it may violate our policies. We really don't have any human beings here checking stuff like this. You can appeal, but the appeal may take forever to get to. And of course I was scheduling this live stream for this afternoon. So there's no sense in appealing something like that. Basically, they said that they weren't going to strike the channel or anything because they're not sure I violated any rules. I think the email, I guess the summary of the email from YouTube was due to COVID, they just don't have real human beings checking this stuff. So somebody reported it. They're going to take it down, but since they can't actually check it, they're not actually going to strike anybody either. So I may or may not have done something wrong with my thumbnail. I don't know. I don't think they know. But a lot of you guys thought that thumbnail was hilarious. I got to admit when I created that first thumbnail, I laughed for five minutes straight after I made it. It was the greatest thing ever. A lot of you guys were asking, you know, I had to take it down obviously from YouTube because it'll probably just get flagged again. They'll take it down, you know, they'll take the stream down. So what I'm going to do is typically I'm going to stream for about an hour today. We're going to do a one hour stream. That's a good length, but not too long where chances are this stream will also be synced to library later. So later this evening, this live stream will also appear on library. And when it does, I will go into library and manually change the library thumbnail to the one that I originally had this morning for this stream. So because library won't care. Yeah, post the thumbnail on Mastodon. I missed it. I will definitely I will probably when the library link is up, I will just link to the library video, which will of course show that thumbnail as well over on Mastodon. We get to some of the chat here. Now, some of you guys have been here for hours and I can't go back and check what some of you guys said passed a certain point here. I can only see back for the last few minutes that I've been here. And of course, a lot of congratulations on the 100k. Thank you guys. Congrats from Bogdan. Thank you, Bogdan. Let's see. Congrats from Skeleton. Appreciate that. Peter also 100k congrats. Thank you, Peter. Appreciate that, buddy. Peter is watching this in Epiphany browser in Genome. That's how bloated he is. Okay. I've never I've never really gave Epiphany a shot just because it's a meme browser, right? I don't run meme programs, right? My programs have to be real programs. So I can't run stuff like Epiphany or Conqueror or any of that kind of garbage. No, I need a real web browser. So right now, LibreWolf here. That's what I've been running mainly. I've got Brave installed too on the system. I sometimes play in Brave. It looks like Joshua, his current window manager is EXWM inside Emacs. A good choice. Lots of distro talk. See a lot of you guys love OpenSusa, some Debian plus Fluxbox. Of course, a lot of Arch talk as well. It's hard for me to get away from the Arch base because of the AUR because I hold the software. I would have a hard time getting away from Arch just because I don't like having to go build things from source and compiling things from source. There's no other distro that comes close as far as software availability like Arch. There just isn't. Debian comes kind of close. But problem with Debian, I guess I could run Debian Unstable, Debian SID, which is their rolling release branch. But most people, if you're going to run Debian, you're going to run Debian stable. And eventually, that thing starts getting kind of old. You'll want fresher packages that aren't in the repos. You're going to have to start compiling stuff from source for that. And I just don't like doing that. That's why I don't run source-based distros. If I wanted to compile stuff from source, I'd be running Gen2. But I don't like compiling stuff from source. It was a waste of my time. Just give me pre-built binaries for everything. Of course, these days with snaps and flat packs and app images, a lot of this stuff is getting to the point where it's not that often now. You have to go and find something and build it from source, because a lot of devs these days, if they're developing a piece of software for Linux, they probably are going to package it. And at least one of those distroagnostic formats, App Image, Flat Pack, Snap. Kropotkin says, DT promised to run Rat Poison for a year if he hit 100K. I don't think I ever promised to run Rat Poison, ever. Even if I hit a million, I wouldn't run Rat Poison. Bob Grimes, I learned Xmonad from watching DT's tutorials. Congratulations, Bob, on learning Xmonad. The best window manager ever. Of course, that's what I'm in today, too. This is Xmonad. And so went up a terminal. And one of the things I spent some time today was working on my Gemini site, my Gemini capsule over at gemini colon slash slash distro dot tube. And this is my Gemini site inside the M4 terminal Gemini client. And one of the things that took me forever, I wanted to have all of my videos listed on my Gemini capsule. And you see these links down here. Links 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 of my videos from specific years because I organized it by year. So if I go to number 12 here, so let me hit spacebar and type 12 and hit enter. You know, this is a list of all the videos that I have done so far in 2021. Now, this was a very hard list to get to actually work right because I mean most years I'm making a couple hundred videos. So like in 2018, you know, this list is, well, nearly 300 videos in 2018. I was a busy boy in 2018, but I had to go and grab all of these library links. And this thing took forever because what I had to go do is go to my library page at library dot TV and scroll down. And it's one of those pages where you can just scroll down and it keeps, you know, populating it with more and more search results. So I kept scrolling down until I got all 874 videos or whatever it is I've made and published to library on a single HTML page. And I saved the source code for that. That one HTML page with all those videos and all the whiz bang stuff that goes on on the library dot TV page, you know, my channel page was over one megabyte in size, more than a million characters for that HTML file.  I had to get down to, I don't know, a few thousand characters, right? Because I had to get really, really creative with some Vim Macros. And let me tell you, when you run a complicated Vim Macro on a text document that is more than one megabyte in size, those Macros take forever. I ran a Macro and it started working on this very large page and I could tell Vim was struggling.  I was kind of afraid it was going to lock up my computer trying to do too much. Anyway, I went grab some dinner, came back like an hour later. That Macro is still working and finally it finished and it got everything into a format that I could work with and eventually publish, of course, to the Gemini capsule here at distro.tube. I know a lot of you guys were interested in Gemini after the video I made the other day. I know a lot of you guys are making Gemini capsules because some of you guys have messaged me about yours. So very cool. All right. Now thanks for the super chat. I got a super chat from Arch5530. This congrats DT. Let me buy you a beer. So today we're just going with a standard new castle. I hadn't had a new castle in a while. Normally I don't like drinking before about 9 o'clock in the evening but since we were streaming early and it wouldn't be one of these streams without a beer. You know, I made an exception just for today. I really need to cut back. Actually I have to cut back a lot on the beer. Really I was supposed to be on a diet. You know, everybody does a New Year's resolution. And I was trying to watch the diet a little bit here for 2021. All right. Tried HTTP alternatives and still don't think it's useful unless they evolve to the UX level of HTTP. Well, that's your opinion, right? What you find useful. I don't find useful at all. That's one of the things I got a lot of people on that thing is like, man, how would you build a YouTube site like YouTube as a Gemini capsule? You wouldn't. That's the point. That's the point of Gemini is to prevent people from building something like YouTube, right? I mean, you could build a site that has videos, right? But those videos, when you clicked on the video link, you would have to open up in a video player. You couldn't have embedded video, right? That's not what Gemini does. That's not what Gopher does. That's not what a lot of those smaller web protocols do. Are you streaming on Gemini? I don't think Gemini would handle streaming. Let's see. I tried DWM, but I can't seem to find a more efficient way to have patches and custom tweaks. There's really nothing you can do about the patching. I mean, you have to patch it and patching it. You can either do the automatic patching in the terminal, or you can manually go in there and patch the things, you know, find the lines you need to add, find the lines you need to delete. You can also patch it using different get branches and merging them. But that's not any better, really, than just doing the standard patch command in the terminal, because sometimes you're going to find conflicts merging different get branches. It's just tedious, right? The suckless patching in general for all the suckless software, it's tedious. There's nothing you can do to get around it, unfortunately. If it's bothering you, the only thing I would suggest is maybe check out some other window managers. That frustrates you to that level. There's plenty of other window managers out there. Window managers that are as good or better than DWM anyway. It's not like DWM is something special. That's just another tiling window manager. I've got 15 of them installed on my system right now. DWM is just another tiling window manager. All right, DT is not bold. I can be bold, but I'm definitely not bald. That was from Zed Leviticus, beer diet for the win. The liquid diet, huh? No wall says, no need to diet. You look cut. No, I could stand to lose a few pounds. Although the thumbnail that I did earlier today, where I was showing off my six pack abs, my abs were looking good in that photo with the five girls and the bikinis before YouTube decided that was an inappropriate photo. Yeah, most people want more than just text in their internet. Well, that's because most people think that's the way the web has always been and that's what they want. People want what they know. But Gemini is never going to become a replacement for the web because you're always going to. Yeah, it's like people are never going to leave Facebook.  That's not what alternatives like, you know, things like library, for example, trying to get people to move from YouTube to library. Some people will go to library, but will it ever be YouTube? Probably not. Will mastodon ever be Twitter? Probably not. Will Gemini ever be the web? Probably not. But I mean, don't discount that there's those of us that will use those services and be fine being the small little niche we are, right? We're just that small group of nonconformists out there that will always try to be different, I guess, right? And that's good. You need somebody out there where everybody else is going left, you want to be going right, right? That's what you need to do. If everybody's all going in the same direction, you know, that's never a good thing. Yeah, MJDXP says I kind of wish Gemini had image support. Now, because anybody can make a Gemini client, I guess if you had an inline link to an image file, you know, because you know what the link extensions are, JPEG, PING or whatever, I'm assuming somebody could make like a graphical client that could display an inline image for Gemini, even though that's not what the protocol necessarily supports, that's not stopping somebody from actually putting that in place. Because people did that for Gopher. I mean, you could create a Gopher client to display an image if you really wanted to, but that's not really, not something that the protocol necessarily supports. Video would be a little trickier, but that's the same thing. You know, if somebody linked to an MPEG or an MKV or whatever the file format, and you know it's a video file, I guess they could find a way to embed that, you know, with some kind of video player inside their Gemini client. I'm sure people would do that, but at the same time, kind of detracts away from what Gemini is. Yeah, can I use Suclis and I3WM? I'm sure. What Suclis programs are you wanting to use? You can use all of them in I3, right? Install Dmenu and ST and the surf browser and all that stuff. Draw them out, play with them. I imagine most people, most people that run a Tiling window manager, for sure, probably use Dmenu. Most of them probably have Dmenu installed. So most of you guys that are running a standalone window manager probably already have at least one Suclis program, Dmenu installed on your system. You may not have known it was a Suclis program. You probably never patched it. You just use it out of the box as it was given to you from your package manager, you know, installing it from Pac-Man and Arch, for example. And Dmenu is interesting because it's probably the only Suclis program that actually works without patching. Like, I can just use plain Dmenu without patching it, but I like patching it because I like adding color and stuff to it. Yeah, Google is trying to kill Chromium. I mean, Chromium's always been kind of dead to me anyway. I've never been a Chrome user. You guys know I've always been a Firefox person, so never really played with any of the Chrome slash Chromium browsers other than Brave and Cube Browser. When I first started trying to play with Cube Browser a little bit though, they were still using, I think, WebKit. But a couple of two, three years ago, they switched over to the Chromium engine. Although, I think with Cube Browser, you still wanted to use WebKit. I think you can compile Cube Browser yourself to still use WebKit if you didn't want to use the Chromium engine, but I don't know why you would want to, honestly. WebKit browsers typically aren't very good. Surf, not very good. I've tried to make surf work, and it's a chore. DT, what brand of beer do you drink? I drink something different every time I go to the store. I never drink, you know, the same brand. I like trying new things. DT, why do you choose DMenu over something like Rofi? If they're similar, but are there any difference that's important? No, but most of these tiling window managers, because DMenu's kind of the most popular run launcher out there, many of them have DMenu hard-coded in their example configs, so it just helps to already have DMenu on the system. Even if you wanted to use Rofi, I'd suggest keeping DMenu installed, just in case. But if you like Rofi, yeah, I mean Rofi's similar. Yeah, MGDXP. I've used KubeBrowser a bit and absolutely loved it, but I rely on too many extensions to really switch to it. Yeah, that's the one downside to KubeBrowser is the extension system. DT, try German beers sometime. I've had a million German beers. I've had beers from all over the world. I'm a beer connoisseur, so don't worry about that. I've had plenty of German beer. ADT, would you advise running Polybar over X-Mobar and X-Monad? Not necessarily, no. You could, but it's honestly probably easier to set up X-Mobar than Polybar with X-Monad. Polybar really wasn't designed to work with X-Monad, and it's kind of hard to get it to display all the information that X-Mobar displays. Because X-Mobar, especially if you don't have a multi-monitor system, you may not realize what all X-Mobar does. It displays all of your workspaces and also displays all your workspaces depending on, I have three monitors. Everything that is highlighted in green is currently a workspace that is being displayed on one of my three monitors. The workspace that is green and has the brackets around it is the workspace I'm currently on, which is this workspace right here that you guys are viewing with me. All the workspaces in purple are the workspaces that are not displayed on one of my three monitors right now. But if I go to one of those, let's go to workspace three. I'm going to open up a couple of terminals. Now I'm going to go back to workspace two. Now, instead of being purple, it is blue with a asterisk beside it letting me know that, hey, that workspace is not on one of my monitors being displayed right now, but it does have something on it. That's what the asterisk, well, what I set the asterisk to designate. It's like, hey, there's a program over on that workspace that you're not actually viewing.  Polybar doesn't really do all that with the workspaces because it's, I don't know, it's tough to get Polybar to show all that. Also the layouts, you know, the current layouts you're on and Xmonad. Xmonad is a bit of a different kind of window manager and Polybar was probably, I mean, whoever designed it was, even though it's supposed to be window manager agnostic, you could use it with any window manager. But what do most Polybar users use Polybar with? I3 of course, right? Most popular tiling window manager probably still. And it's kind of built to be used with I3 and BSBWM. You know, every BSBWM user I know uses Polybar. So you got to do some hacking on Polybar to make it work with Xmonad. It's probably not worth it for you because at the end of the day it's just a panel displaying some information anyway. And if you're going to have to fight with it to get it to display all the stuff that Xmonad displays, why not just use Xmonad? You already got Haskell installed anyway if you're using Xmonad. It's not like installing XMobor installs any dependencies or anything. Wait, you use fish? Yikes, this isn't a good look. The shell, of course I use fish. Why wouldn't I use fish? It's the best shell. Like you can't deny it, right? Fish is the best shell. Actually, if I did an echo. Shell, my default shell is bash. The default user shell. How I'm getting fish, though, here is my keybinding to launch my terminals with superenter here in Xmonad is actually this command here, alacrity, space, dash, e, fish. That is what that keybinding does. So superenter just launches fish inside the alacrity terminal. And the reason I do that is because I still want my user's default shell to be bash just because I have less problems on the system if the default shell stays as bash, which... There's no reason to switch from bash for your default shell because there are some badly written scripts out there where they don't specifically specify bash in the shebang. They just specify sh, right? Meaning, hey, run this with the default shell on the system. And if I have the default shell set to fish and then they're using all these bashisms in this sh file, the shell's not going to work, or the script is not going to work. So you're going to have scripts that break on you. Leave your default shell as bash, but just have a keybinding or however it is you open your terminal or just those of you that have terminals that allow you to set certain preferences in your terminals. Make sure you always have it set to run fish as soon as you open your terminal.  That's kind of hacky, though. I don't suggest that. What I do is what I suggest, just having a keybinding where anytime you hit your keybinding to open a terminal it actually opens the fish shell inside your terminal. Having fish in your bash RC like it is given in the ArchWiki is cool. It starts up fish. Yep. Again, you can do that.  And somebody's given the change shell command to switch your system shell over to slash bin slash fish. You can do that, but don't be surprised if it gives you some problems. Again, I strongly suggest just leaving your default shell as bash. That's what most Linux distributions have said, as the default shell on the system is bash. Just leave it as bash. Ubuntu is a little different. Ubuntu's default shell is dash with a D. And if you're on Ubuntu, I suggest leaving that as the default shell. Even if you plan on using fish. Yeah, are you still learning Haskell? I mean, it's not something that I'm just diving really deep into or anything. I'm not a programmer, right? It's not like I don't have a job programming or anything. So, yeah, I wouldn't say. I mean, every now and then I play around a little bit more with Haskell than usually in my X-monad configs and things like that. Yeah, Garuda uses the fish shell. Yeah, I don't think they have it said as their system shell either. I could be wrong about that, but I might have checked that when I can't remember on that video I did about Garuda. If you're running Garuda, though, just in the shell, do an echo and then dollar symbol and then all caps shell. And that should spit out what the default shell for that user is your home user if you happen to be logged in as your home user. Yeah, all the shells are pretty decent, honestly, but Bash, CSH and Fish are the most loved from what I've seen. Yeah, that's from Chaos Fang. Yeah, I don't know.  There's other things out there. There's the KSH, the corn shell. There's the C-shell, CSH. There's Conch, which is X-O-N-S-H. It's not really... It's kind of like beta software. It's a Python-like shell. There's the new shell, which is kind of like a Linux power shell. It's not really a power shell, but it does some power shell-like stuff. I mean, so there's some other shells out there, but the ones that people are actually going to spend time in all the time, like this is my shell, Bash, CSH or Fish. Samuel says the Fish plus the Starship Prompt just works for me. Don't think I'll be switching anytime soon. Yeah, I'm happy with the Starship Prompt too. It saves me from having to do anything with Oh My Fish plugins or Oh My CSH plugins if I was using CSH because the Starship Prompt works in CSH too, works in Bash. That's another thing because it's cross-shell compatible. I can have the same prompt in all three shells. You know, if I have all three shells on my system and I do. So this is Fish, and that's the Starship Prompt. Let me zoom in. Let me CD into a directory that's going to give me some good information so we get a get status there on my wallpapers directory. So this is Fish. Let me CD over or let me change over to CSH. And, you know, the prompt is exactly the same. Let me switch over to Bash, and the prompt is exactly the same. There's no way really for me to tell what shell I'm in. I like they look at exactly the same. I kind of like that. Of course, the downside for some people would be you want to know when you're in CSH. You want to know when you're in Bash. But for me, I always know which one I'm in. I'm always in Fish unless I specifically switch over to Bash for something, which does happen. Sometimes I want to do, like, just some quick one-line scripting, you know, with the shell scripting. And I still know all the Bash syntax, right? I make mistakes trying to do things with the Fish syntax because I'm still trying to put dollar symbols and some of the statements and things like that that Fish just doesn't like. Have you ever used the Power Level 10 prompt? That's a CSH prompt I have, actually. I made a video, I think, about Power Level 10 early on in the channel's history. Hero says, congrats for the 100k. Appreciate that, Hero. Thank you, buddy. Mitchell. Mitchell Valentino, how you doing, sir? He sends us a super chat, and he also congrats on the 100k. Thank you, buddy. We have the Power Level 10k that somebody was asking about. Let me see. I think I made a video about it. Changing your default shell. No, I don't think I did anything with Power Level 10k for that. I know I've discussed it on video, but I may not have made a video specifically about Power Level 10k. But I have shown it in some of my older videos because I did use it on some distros that had CSH as their default shell. I think Manjaro. Didn't Manjaro have CSH as the default shell? I just left CSH as the default. And I used the Power Level 10k font for that. And looking back here, you know what? Since we're marking a milestone here. 100k subscribers. Let's sort by oldest videos. My very first video. Manjaro Linux KDE. First impression. That was a horrible video. Crappy webcam, horrible microphone. That was just me making a video just to make a video, right? At the time, I had no plans of really having a YouTube channel.  But it was mainly just a experiment, right? It's a proof of concept. Thanks for the super chat there, Josh. Let me show this on screen so you guys can see this. Josh writes, We'll pay you $495 more if you grow your hair out. Half up front. I mean, my hair is already kind of long. I didn't shave, at least not in the last couple of days. By the way, obviously I'm not bald. There's no bald spots anywhere on that head. Just saying. I just don't think I could grow hair. I mean, I could grow hair out, but you guys are going to want to see like flowing locks of hair. I'm not going to grow anything past, you know, a couple of inches long.  We're not having anything that can be put in a ponytail. We're not doing dreadlocks. We're not doing any of that. Yeah, Mohammed, congratulations on the 100k. Thank you, sir. Appreciate that. You look much cooler now than within your YouTube front page, but we are not here for your looks. So don't get the wrong intentions. Okay. Yeah, that's interesting. Looking back on some videos here, mostly some of the more interesting videos. Actually, to see some of the more interesting videos, we should search by the most popular videos. That's typically those are the ones that generated the most interest. Not surprisingly, a lot of the videos that have some of the most interest revolve around things like Arch Linux. You know, my Arch Linux install videos, a lot of them stuff is pretty popular, the tiling window manager stuff is pretty popular. But every now and then, you know, something pops out like switching to I3 day one. That was my first time ever using I3. I switched to I3 for 30 days and it was a okay window manager, but it wasn't something I liked. And, you know, these are not particularly great videos. You know, my very first impressions of I3. It's not like I really liked I3. And a lot of people probably were wanting me to like I3 and I kind of trashed it a little bit. But for some reason, that's a popular video. I don't know why. Because, you know, of all the tiling window managers I've tried, I3 might be one of my least favorite.  But it ain't... There's nothing special with it. Dreaming Wolf. Thanks for the super chat, sir. Appreciate that. You didn't leave a question or a comment. If you leave something, I'll try to... Oh, it looks like you left it right after the super chat. Thanks for all you do, DT. Thank you. Thank you. And Josh at Keep It Techie. You doing Josh? Congrats. Salute. Thank you, sir. Of course, for those of you not checking out Keep It Techie, make sure you check out Josh at Keep It Techie on YouTube. He's got a great channel. DT, how do I correct? Do a correct installation of .files. Well, if you got your .files saved somewhere, how do you do a correct installation of them? You just put them in the right directories. That's it. There's... Hopefully, when you put them like in a GitHub or a GitLab repository, keep the same directory structure. That's what I do. Let me demonstrate this here. I'm going to go to my GitLab. My GitLab. I have a .files repository. Imagine this is my home directory. You're going to see all of these directories in my home directory. All these files are in my home directory. My .config file in my home directory. Let me go inside it. There's all the folders that should be in my .config file in my home directory. Just put them all in the same place. Really, when I clone this entire .files repository, I just go in and just throw all the files where they should be because the way I saved them, I saved them in the correct path. I just need to make sure when I do a copy and paste or drag them from one file manager window to another file manager window that I just put them in the right directories. That's all you need to do. Really easy. I could clone this .files repository and put everything back in the right place in a couple of minutes. It's not time consuming. There's really nothing tricky about it. Mstafa says, R, just the best ever. Hands down. Unless you just can't RTFD. RTFD? I think you mean RTFM. Why don't you RTFM? Uh... The... Supolchi. Thanks for the super chat. He says, thanks for the great content. I appreciate that. Appreciate that, buddy. Thank you. Joel, I've been watching since nearly the beginning. And it's been awesome watching your channel grow. Congrats on the 100k, man. Oh, yeah. A lot of you guys have mentioned that, too. Some of you guys have been around since the absolute very beginning. Which, yeah. Obviously, things have changed, right? Over the... It's been three years and four months, three years, five months, something like that. I started at the very end of 2017. So really the channel, you know, 2018, 2019, 2020. It's been three years and then, you know, one month in 2020. And we did, I think, November, December 2017. So three years and three months. But we did a lot of videos in that time. Nearly 900 videos now. And learned a lot. You know, it's one of those things. So many things in life are like that, though. You've got to... You can't just learn something. You can't read a book on something and learn everything about it. You just got to do it. Sometimes you got to do it a lot before you really know it. Making videos is kind of like that. A lot of trial and error. It's one of the things that, you know, I'm not afraid to try different things. Sometimes that's one of the things, you know, I like to experiment with different kinds of titles and thumbnails and... You know, I don't do a lot of testing. But every now and then I like to change things up just to see how it works. See how I like it. Content of the channel.  Make a lot of videos about Vim and get tired of Vim. Move on to Emacs, right? Make a lot of videos about tiling window managers, but at some point I run out of tiling window managers to talk about. Let's talk about alternative internet protocols like Gemini. Of course, in the early days of the channel we did a lot more taking a look at different Linux distributions, you know, distro review kind of videos. I don't particularly like doing those kinds of videos, but a lot of the people that watch my content like me doing those kinds of videos, typically, you know, and to this day I still try to do a couple of those kinds of videos every month. I try to make myself do them. And some of you guys look forward to those videos. And honestly, some of them are interesting to me. These days, though, I try to avoid the popular stuff. Do I really need to take a look at Ubuntu and Mint and Fedora? Now, I'll take a look at big releases, of course, because that's a big deal. But you're never just going to see me randomly make a video about Ubuntu, unless it's, you know, Ubuntu release day. You guys know what Ubuntu looks like, right? I'm going to do videos about Garuda and Geeks, NixOS, you know, stuff that maybe not everybody has heard of, but maybe more people need to know about. Mr. GFY. Congrats, DT. Thank you, sir. Long time no see, Mr. GFY. Glad you made it, though. Yeah, Brandon was talking about Stowe for your dot files. Yeah, you can use. Is it a GNU program? GNU Stowe?   You deserve more than that. Your channel's been my go-to since I switched to Linux. Your videos are helpful. Cheers. Oh, cheers. I forgot about my new castle. It's starting to get warm. Any good sites on Gemini. So Gemini is a rather newish protocol. There's probably not a ton of Gemini sites out there. It probably numbers in the thousands as far as the total Gemini space. But, you know, we're at the beginning of it. The more people promote it, people like me, for example, the more stuff will be on Gemini. I imagine it would be so easy just to convert people's gopher holes over to Gemini. Eventually you're going to see a lot of the people that have just been waiting for gopher to finally catch on again. But gopher is old, crusty, it's really dead. You know, if you have a gopher site, really just move to Gemini because that's where you need to be these days. It's just better. For one thing, gopher, because I had my own gopher server until I made the Gemini server a couple of days ago. I deleted, I wiped out my gopher server.  That program had not had a commit in 20 years. Right? That's how long gopher has been dead. They haven't had a commit in 20 years. It was probably dead even 20 years. It's actually been dead gopher has been dead for about 25 years. That was 1995-96 when the web caught on. I got a super chat here from Tiago. He says, Man, how do you feel being one of the most important Linux distro channel nowadays? Hi from Brazil. People from here love you. I love all my Brazilian viewers as well. Thank you, Tiago. How do I feel about being one of the most important Linux distro channel nowadays? I don't know. We're not that important.  That's a nice milestone, but 100k and the grand scheme of things on YouTube. I'm insignificant. It's an insignificant channel. It's a tiny channel compared to those that have millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions in some cases. Of course, part of the problem is Linux may not be the sexiest of topics, but we're changing that. We're changing that. Linux is slowly catching on. Open source is slowly catching on free software. Having me and others and all the other people that do Linux related content, video content especially. It's starting to penetrate people's minds. It's starting to penetrate the zeitgeist out there. People are talking about Linux. People are talking about free and open source software and that makes me happy. You're asking how I feel. I feel proud about that. There's a lot of things I do feel proud about as far as the content I've made. I feel really proud that there are thousands and thousands of people out there that have found Qtile for example because of some of the videos I've done. Nobody would have heard of that particular tiling window manager. Here lately I've turned a lot more people back on to things like XmoneEd, which is kind of waned in popularity but still a lot of people know XmoneEd because it's a Haskell program the Haskell communities rather fervent. Here lately we've been getting a lot more people giving things like Emacs a shot. People, just regular desktop Linux users that thought Emacs was something way beyond their capabilities, they're giving it a shot just because they see me, you know this swamp Billy from Louisiana that doesn't work in IT, right? If I can do all this, you guys can do all of this. It's not that hard. If it was hard I couldn't do it. Josh gave us another super chat here is removing Yast and Zipper or DNF and OpenSUSA me being silly or me making my distro my own. I don't know OpenSUSA specifically because I've never run OpenSUSA but I can tell you that other distros that I have run they specifically tell you never swap out the package manager that ships with it by default with another. I don't know how OpenSUSA handles that with Zipper and DNF for example, I know in Arch you can swap out Pac-Man for apt or for Xbps the void package manager but if you read the ArchWiki pages for apt and Xbps it actually tells you there's a warning hey, you can install this don't do it, it's going to break your system but here's the page, we'll tell you how to do it so yeah, I don't know if I would do that not on a production machine if you've got something you're just playing around with a VM or test equipment, yeah, why not but if it's like a real workstation yeah, I wouldn't trust something like that yeah, OTB, old tech bloke ADT, congrats, this bald guys got to stick together well Steve, I don't know if you may have just arrived but earlier I demonstrated you know, I haven't shaved in a couple of days there's no bald spots on this head yes, it's cut short but it's not bald DT is not bald for those of you that are not subscribed to the old tech bloke channel make sure you guys check out Steve over at OTB he also has a great Linuxy YouTube channel Paul was asking when can we see the next scariest movie so my movie trailers those are always fun but let's wait for Halloween I don't know if something else comes up every now and then I like to do those goofy kind of videos they're just something different they break the monotony of all of this kind of like my public service announcement videos sometimes I do where it's just me narrating and maybe a slideshow with some music stuff like that's always fun to do every now and then another super chat here from Pedro congrats on the 100k DT I'm from Paraguay and your videos are helping me a lot enjoy the beer mister you deserve it thank you thank you Pedro, appreciate that unscientific dork love the username I fell in love with Qtile because of DT if it was not for DT I would still be in I3 well I'm glad I rescued you from I3 I3 isn't that bad but yeah Qtile Qtile's fantastic yeah Tray says new year accent sounded familiar LOL from Louisiana as well congrats on the 100k, thank you there needs to be a DT it's not bald T-shirt I've actually thought about it other people have suggested that too they want some DT DT is not bald gear maybe one day we'll give it to them looking at some of the popular videos once we get past some of the Tiling Window Manager Vim Emax stuff, arch installations the Alacrity Terminal now that's another one I'm very proud of that so many people actually like everywhere I go now anytime I see other Linux YouTubers open up a terminal they're all running Alacrity with the fish shill all of them and that's great because I love Alacrity my enthusiasm about Alacrity in that video I did a little over a year ago was genuine I thought that thing was the best terminal emulator because so many others they're okay but you always find something lacking something that just bugs the hell out of you with X-Term and URX-VT and Termite and ST all great terminal emulators that I've used in the past but as soon as I switched to Alacrity I was like yeah, I'm never switching to anything else it's perfect it's everything I want, nothing I don't want and it's blazing fast so one of the videos I was really really happy about yeah there's the fish shill video so a couple of popular videos there the Alacrity terminal Fish as a Better Shill getting into some older stuff Manjaro i3, yeah the i3 videos again even though I don't like i3 a lot of people are interested in my videos about i3 and I've never really looked really deeply into i3 because it's not something I enjoy playing around with too much but I guess I need to spend more time playing around with i3 since some of you guys are interested in it I mean I've only ever used i3 like full time as my main window manager for like 30 days that's all I've ever used it for was one month looking at some of the other stuff, yeah people really like that Arch Linux as the ideal beginners distro video especially with the old couples at the laptop with the Arch logo and smiling that was a great thumbnail that was a fun video to make too because I really think Arch can be a good beginner distro for the right person not for everybody not for somebody that doesn't care about their computer how it works or anything but a lot of people do actually care about some of what's going on underneath the hood and for those people yeah Arch isn't that hard to get installed all they gotta do is watch a DT Arch installation video and they'll get it done there's my gopher video of course we're now of course already on the Gemini protocol so no more gopher starting with this video or the last video I've now replaced my gopher links you know in the show descriptions to actually be addressed for my Gemini capsule now see Charles do you use the Ubuntu mono font sometimes some of the tiling window manager configs that I have on my GitLab some of them use Ubuntu mono I like that font some of them use mononoke nerd font some of them use source code pro which is an open source version of source code probe it's a proprietary font see Harrison says congrats thank you Z-Robot I use ST ST is a fine terminal Kawan says cheers from Brazil thank you sir or ma'am I don't know it could be a man or a woman Kenny you sir are solely responsible for my swap to full-time Linux thank you and congrats thank you Kenny Arno says I actually learned some of awesome window manager capabilities by watching your ex moned videos that's another thing I've tried to tell people is you know some of my window manager videos like especially in the early days not so much now I think some of you guys have started to catch on to it but used to when I make a video you know I'm like a couple of years ago I decided I was going to make a whole bunch of videos really detailing the Qtile window manager you know getting the bar set up the layouts your workspaces you know I made all these Qtile videos and people were like hey man these videos they're cool and all but I use awesome I use I3 I use BSPWM and in these videos in several of these videos I tell you guys it doesn't matter it doesn't matter what window manager you're using you can find useful information in a video about Qtile if you use ex moned or you can watch some of my ex moned videos and find something you can use in BSPWM even though you know it's different config files and different things I'm playing around with watching me hack on one of these will probably help you hack on the window manager that you're actually using in many ways they all act kind of the same Darsh says DT would you consider doing another colab stream with Luke Smith again sure I don't mind colabbing with anybody I've appeared on plenty of other people's shows I'm not a hard guy to find pretty easy to catch up with see Zoltar congrats greetings from Poland thank you appreciate the super chat Robo Nuggy another super chat here see I'll show you guys here on screen okay 100k about time nicely done thank you sir those of you that are not subscribed to Robo Nuggy make sure you check out his channel he's got some great BSD content there's so many of you guys I mean I've done one or two videos about various BSDs I've done a few BSD videos but it's not something I live in it's not I don't want to run BSD on my main production machine or anything like that but you guys are looking for more detailed stuff about free BSD for example go check out Robo Nuggy that is the BSD channel you guys need to be subscribed to even if you run Linux go subscribe to Robo Nuggy it's kind of like the tiling window managers you know just because you watch a window manager video about Xmonad and you use i3 you're probably going to learn something anyway same thing with watching a video about BSD probably going to learn some stuff that you can use in your Linux distribution as well see DT any rust window managers there's a couple out there people have asked me about them and there was one people bugged me about I think it was left WM I tried to install it two three months back and I couldn't get it to compile correctly on my arch system so with these things if I fight with them and I can't get them to work correctly there's no reason for me to make a video about them or if I kind of get it to half ass work I don't want to make a video about it because it's not going to be a good video I'm just going to trash the project anyway so typically I'm going to wait for these things to get to the point where I can install them they actually work right before I actually show them on camera because occasionally you guys will bug the crap out of me about something forever and get to the point where man I finally need to make a video about this piece of software I didn't want to take a look at anyway and then I'll finally take a look at it and then I just trash it because I already don't want to take a look at it and then sometimes there's stuff wrong with it anyway and yeah I don't like doing videos about pieces of software that are not ready for prime time I don't want to be one of those people that trashes somebody's work on free and open source software even if it doesn't work correctly I want to have more respect for the people that work on free and open source software than doing something like that back to the chat here give me just a second to find my spot in the chat here they'll have about 240 folks here in the chat sorry if I missed some of the questions and comments obviously we got a lot of chat here today DT ever thought of traveling for videos like going on locations somewhere yeah I've thought about that no current plans to do anything but yes I've thought about that I've thought about doing every different kind of video format there is you know they've all run through my head at some point I'll actually get around to doing them or if it's something I want to do again I'm not averse to occasionally doing something completely different you know different kind of format that I've never done before you know I don't mind doing that I don't mind taking chances DT what did you study sysadmin engineering nope nothing like that music all of my degrees are in music trombone is my main instrument but it's put up in a case somewhere I'd have to spend a couple minutes to put it together we'll just deal with the recorder today recorder right it's what I went to school for for like 9-10 years worked on a PhD for a little while never finished it should we grab the trombone I wish I had like a keyboard or you know electric piano for these things if I had a music channel right maybe I should start a second music related channel which some of you guys have asked me about that every time I do one of these streams and we start talking about music or I start playing about playing some of these instruments man you should start a second channel where you discuss things like classical music and you know things like that because sometimes we'll get into some deep discussions about music on these live streams and I've thought about it but it's like uh I really have time for a second channel I barely have time for this one when am I going to find time to we'll work on a second channel too that's too much every now and then if I want to talk about music we'll just start a live stream on my Linux channel and damn it I'm going to talk about music and people are several of you well that music you don't seem like that type of guy you are kind of new to the channel haven't seen some of these live streams yet I've got a bachelor's and a master's degree in music performance worked a little bit on a doctorate didn't finish it don't think of course I know I'm not going to finish it now I'm in my mid 40s and I'm not interested in spending money on my finishing that the PhD I wouldn't do anything with it anyway I would just be trying to finish it just to finish it I don't plan on ever doing anything with my music degree I mean I've done some teaching years ago occasionally I'll do some private teaching I don't mind taking a private student on trombone for example because I've got some pretty serious trombone skills obviously that being my main instrument and doing some private lessons occasionally does help me keep in shape yeah maybe a music channel for 500k people are asking Ravel often Bach or Debussy Debussy all the way I can get down with some Debussy as far as just listening to the music I love Debussy's music does DT play the guitar no he does not always wanted to but no do not know the guitar or any string instrument I have mentioned this because I always get these questions I don't know any of the string instruments so no violin or cello or guitar I've always been interested in them just never got around to learning them mainly the wind instruments anything all the brass instruments for sure some of the woodwind instruments harmonica anything that just requires me blowing and moving some fingers or a slide we can handle that once you've played one picking up the next one and learning yet it's kind of easy it's kind of like that way with the string instruments though you know you learn how to play guitar and learning how to play the banjo it's not that different if you learn how to play the violin learning the viola or the cello it's not that different let's see we got some more DT questions here I've been going for a little over an hour I was going to go for an hour I didn't want the string to run too long because I do want the string to auto sync to library so we're going to go we'll make an hour and 15 minutes we'll go another 10 minutes we'll stop at 15 after the hour here the alternative is asking DT are you able to stream on library.tv also I have not tried streaming on library I've heard that they were either working on it or now they've actually got it I haven't tried it out though that was one of the things that was really preventing library from being YouTube is you couldn't live stream on it yeah Josh I can see it now Distrotunes the music channel I like that name I'm going to write that down Distrotunes yeah maybe I don't know it's kind of weird Distrotunes but Linux tunes I guess we can just play the free software song all day long DT react to the Pockelbill rant by Rob Peravonian I don't know what the Pockelbill rant is or who Rob Peravonian is I'll have to check that out after the stream DT can you play the Blue Bells of Scotland on the trombone of course I've played several Arthur prior pieces on the trombone they're great little show off pieces that are really fast and virtuosic great for ending recitals with because they're crowd pleasers they're fun little pieces I don't have my trombone out I hadn't played the Blue Bells in a while I'm not in shape anyway it take me a couple weeks of serious playing to get back into shape but let's see I can play you another Arthur prior piece similar to the Blue Bells let's see give me just a second here here is an Arthur prior piece called The Patriot give me just a second here and I have to pull up pulse audio just to work and it's not working well I was going to give you a quick clip of me playing but we may not be able to get that there we go I'll use MPV to play it this is DT on the trombone this was my master's recital this was the last piece this is The Patriot by Arthur prior I've played the Blue Bells thoughts of love Annie Laurie there's a ton of good Arthur prior pieces of course there was some clapping and some stuff at the end I could have it was a live performance in front of an audience of course it was live that's why there were some mistakes in it right those of you that were concerned about the music obviously I really play the trombone I wish I would have been able to hit that really high F at the very end a little stronger of course that was the end of an hour long recital that was the last piece and then trying to play some of those notes you got to be in some pretty serious shape to still be able to do that after an hour I couldn't do that now well it's been an hour and 15 minutes that's a good way to end the stream alright a lot more congratulations on the 100k I appreciate you guys a lot of you guys like the trombone of course many of you guys if you guys have been around for a while you've heard some of my recordings before of course we got a lot of new subscribers to the channel I probably haven't played any of those live performances in several months and I mean we've probably at least half of this 100k subscribers we have are probably people that subbed in the last calendar year you know most people have not been around since the early early days when I did a lot more of the goofy musical live streams where we'd sing the free software song and all of that stuff which for those wondering what I played on the recorder and the harmonica earlier that was the free software song matter of fact those of you who want something funny to go listen to search for free software song on my youtube channel and you'll see me sing the free software song as a duet with Richard Stallman it's pretty hilarious other musical stuff you want to check out on my channel make sure you guys check out my rap video freestyle rap in the blue yeti mic earliest videos I did and it's hilarious me just rapping about linux and tiling window managers and recently somebody found that video I don't know how they found that old video and they decided they wanted to do a remix of it this guy banned it banned the doge I don't know but he did distro tube as a baller he took my freestyle rap and added like a beat to it this is a pretty fantastic video you can find that on my community tab or my youtube page another milestone that I'm really happy about is over at library.tv I mean we're happy we got to the 100k mark but really what I'm mostly happy about 26k followers over on library those of you that are not currently following me on library if you haven't checked out library in a while it's gotten so much better the platform now you can leave comments as a creator they're adding more stuff to it all the time like it's a real platform now where when I joined a little more than a year ago there was a lot of pain points to library there was stuff you expected to be there features you expected to be there that weren't and every month it seems like they're adding new features and you're seeing an explosion of growth on library many more creators are on library so many people are viewing content on library so again if you're not following me on library check out distro2bit library that's lbry.tv or if you prefer a different user interface you can check it out on odyssey.com that is O-D-Y-S-E-E they're the same site basically it's just you know different skin they both use the library protocol so check me out over there and before I go I want to think a few special people here of course I need to think the patrons of the channel because without the patrons you know none of what I've been doing here in the last three years most of it wouldn't have been possible I mean you guys helped me out with so much as far as equipment purchases and helping me be able to dedicate the amount of time it's taken to make so much content I mean really without the patrons I couldn't have done all of this so I sincere thank you to each and every one of my patrons I want to thank these guys here Absi, Dallas, Devin, Fran, Gabe, Luke, or Benion, Mitchell, Akami, Arch-5530 Chris, Chuck, David, the second David Nani, Dylan, Gregory, Lewis, Paul, Pic, BM, Scott, Wes, and Willie so I want to thank each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen as well I'm not going to read out this list of names because I'd never make it but thank you each and every one of you guys I appreciate it and I want to thank each and every one of you guys still hanging out in the YouTube chat because your questions and comments today they were really good, right? and I enjoyed doing these live events with you guys these Q&As so I appreciate you guys, now let me get out of here Peace Join us now and share the software


Welcome back to another reading vlog, so a couple months ago I did a video where I had book recommendation app picks what I read and you guys really loved that video, you had a lot of fun with me being in no control over what I was reading. Anyway, so I'm in control but I'm out of control and I'm also controlled, so in a way I'm everything. So we're gonna do it again, I'm gonna work with Novelik again which is a book recommendation app and I think it's so much fun to be had, so many fun things to do and explore but I thought I wanted something different this month, this time. I realized it's Pride Month so we're gonna be picking books or Novelik is gonna be picking books through like an LGBTQ queer lens essentially and I'm just so excited. I've never really done like a specific Pride Month vlog so I'm really excited to be reading queer books this week and having no control over what I read and giving all of the control to Novelik. So we're gonna read two books in this vlog, one of them is gonna be the book club, I'm gonna rerun my book club on there but I'm not gonna, you know, we're gonna pick that in a fun way and then the other one I think I'll use the ask the community section again because I love that section so much last time and so many of you have loved it when you've gone and tried it out. So I think we'll do that. Novelik are very kindly sponsoring this video once again which is so so kind of them, I love working with them, these vlogs are so much fun. So let's go use, I think we're gonna use the collections part of the app where you get book recommendations from collections of genres. I think we're gonna use that to pick what our book club book is gonna be this time. So it is time to figure out what our options for a book club poll are gonna be. So for this we're gonna have the book club again. I'm going to the books section, browse your personal bookstores, this is like a recommendation section where you get recommended 12 books and there's lots of different categories. There's kind of the main genres and then there's kind of like more thematic options and they have an LGBTQ option. So we're gonna go on this and I'm gonna pick three I think of the books on there and I'm gonna put it to a vote. Basically the way that this section of the app works is I will only give you 12 recommendations at a time but because for this poll I want to post an Instagram picture, we can see the book options that we've got and I kind of want to try at the moment to read the books I have. I have about 220 unread owned books. What we're gonna do is we're gonna keep clicking on the tab until we have three books that have come up that are on my physical TBR essentially. So you might have to click a few times, it might happen once.  We're just gonna keep loading it until we add up to three. Okay now this isn't on my physical TBR but my mum has it next door and I've never really been intrigued about reading it but I guess I should put that as an option because it literally is on my mum's bookshelf and I see it like every day next door. So I don't know what it's about. I feel like it's like a literary fiction. Interesting, it does sound interesting. Okay we'll have that as our first one. That will be one of one in the poll. Oh wild and wicked things. I own that as behind me. That would be good because it would mean reading a new release. It's literally right here and I need to read more new releases. That's two. That's two that are on my physical TBR. Let's see if we get one more. I do want to read the girls I've been but we're trying to read the books I own physically. God there's so many good book recommendations like the mercies I want to read, wilder girls I loved but I'm again trying to read the books I own physically. Animals at Lockwood Manor sounds very interesting. Library of the Unwritten. Oh that's a five star prediction. That's one of my five star predictions I haven't gotten around to yet. Okay so it's gonna be is it love after love, the wild and wicked things and Library of the Unwritten are gonna be our three options that I'm gonna give for the book club. Fun! Okay I'm gonna go take an Instagram picture of those together and get the poll up and we shall see what wins. Okay so I posted the poll with the three books and I was kind of hoping between the Library of the Unwritten and Wild and Wicked Things and you guys ended up voting for Library of the Unwritten for the book to read for the book club. Success! I am so happy that this came up on the LGBTQ selection page. I actually don't know how this is queer yet. I need to like I suppose I'll find it out throughout the book. I am actually a hundred pages into this. I should be halfway already through our schedule for the book club but I'm a little bit behind. I'm a hundred pages in and I'm enjoying it so far so I'm on my squeaky chair apologies but we are following the library of the Unwritten books and the Librarian of that and basically it's really important that books stay contained and books don't escape the library and heroes don't escape their books so at the start of this there is a hero who is kind of like speaking to his author which is a really really bad thing and the Librarian and her assistant go to track down the hero and put him back in his book essentially and there's also this like nervous demon called Leto who's really really fun who's kind of gone to give them this message.  Yeah that's kind of what we've read so far and that's almost an opposite really says and I'm just really enjoying it. It's read as like cozy fantasy it's like funny cozy fantasy reminds me a lot of TJ Klune I think if you've liked any of his books I think you would enjoy this. It's getting me engrossed in reading again which that's what we've been waiting for. It's what we wanted all along. Which is a really great thing I'm really this is one of my five star predictions. I made my last five star prediction video over a year ago but there's still books from that video I haven't read and this is one of them and I've been waiting until I've read them to make another one because I want to like react to that and see how I've done. I've kind of like ticked them off once I've done it but I don't really remember what was on it or how well I've done in terms of predicting five stars. I really like the character of Claire who's the librarian, I really like the character of Leto who's the demon. I feel like the first 100 pages has gone really fast and there's been a lot of worldbuilding as to how the world works and the rules of the world and like heaven versus hell and what that really means. I'm pretty sure God is a woman so we love to see it. It's giving, it's giving share. So yeah I'm really enjoying it. I'm excited to see the story goes. I feel like we've been given a good basis a good foundation of the story and now I'm excited to see where it goes from here. Listen I'm gonna be a reading gal. I'm about to be a reading gal. I'm doing reading sprints with Kayla and her channel members and my patrons so that's helping me get a lot of reading done. So yeah I'm hoping I'll get close to the halfway point tonight but I mean it will also get distracted in reading sprints and just end up talking. So we're gonna try and control that. I just woke up. I'm gonna do my skincare as I talk to you. My skincare I just ran out of everything so I've got like nothing and it's all on its way so I'm doing a very also what I'm looking for like reduced skincare routine. So I am now on page 280 of Library of Unwritten and I'm still really enjoying it. I would say, hang on, I would say it's a fourth star for me at the moment. It's not a five star it is obviously a five star prediction. The one thing, before we get into the good things, the one thing that's keeping it from being a five star is that the book can be kind of slow at times. There's moments where I find myself not having grasped something happening like I'll have found out that maybe a certain character left the room that the rest of the characters were in and I didn't realize that had happened. So I find myself not quite, A it's a bit slow and B sometimes I find myself not quite understanding everything that's happened but I am really really enjoying it. I'm having a lot of fun reading it. Something that's really fun is at the start of every chapter there's like diary sections from past librarians of the Library of Unwritten and I just I love when books do that. It just adds a little bit of spice, you know, like sorry this is incredible. It just adds to the world building the complexity and do you know what? I never annotate. I'm not an annotating galley. I know sometimes I wish I was because I feel like you know it does really well and everyone loves the annotating galleys. I'm not that but this book is the first book in a long time to make me wish that I annotate because there's been some paragraphs that just so plain and beautiful and they're like writing is like lyrical and I'm just like oh I'm into it. I'm like absorbed into this world so yeah I'm I'd say the writing the kind of lyricism and the beauty of the writing is one of my favorite things and I love the characters they're on this quest oh they're like LGBT representation has arrived.  I would say actually as I read the book the whole book is gay. You know those books where like every character has a queer outlook on life I would say it's like one of them but they're more like specific this is the queer rep that you're getting but I would say there's gonna be more actually but what did I just show you as if I'm like a guru. Yeah the queer rep has arrived and I feel like actually I really shipped who the characters. Do I say who? Should I say who? Yeah I ship hero and Leto so Leto's the young I need my mirror for this. Okay Leto's the young demon that arrived to like tell the librarian what was happening and hero is the hero from the unwritten book that got out and I ship them and I want them to be together and I just feel like it's gonna happen and there's such interesting discussions to be had about it's like representation of heaven and hell and the kind of dimensions of heaven and hell like heaven isn't a very good place for the people that work there like the angels and I just think someone brought that up in the book club chat and I just thought that was so interesting it's such an interesting dimension so yeah the books got a lot of interesting stuff to it sometimes there are moments where I'm like I don't know I'm not like I'm not vibing I'm I'm kind of losing interest but that's just the nature of books like sometimes I just lose interest it's not like you know a fast-paced thriller where my mouth my finger just went in my mouth where you're not gonna be able to put the book down regardless of what you think of it so yeah I do want to show you quickly a new feature of the app is that now you can not only like mark books is currently reading but it more clearly shows on the app so I thought I would show you here so go to search for a book library and have a fucking spell of the unwritten click on that there she is and then I click here and I can mark it as current read and then if we go back here the main page it's like on the main page so it more clearly you can more clearly see what you're currently reading and then like when you go on a book you can there's links to go buy it here we are links to bookshop £8.36 right now so yeah there's a lot of cool features you can also mark books as TBR red favourite owned DNF and when you go on it you get the synopsis and you also get like a list of the genres fairy tales and people reading the book it's cool oh my god you get clubs reading a book it's my book club how cute okay I didn't know that so yeah that's just like another feature I wanted to show you guys but anyway I'm gonna go put my makeup on and watch some YouTube I do so and then I'm I will finish the book today my guess is I will finish the book so yes oh I am going to go I'm going to get my hair done so I'll try and film some b-roll of that for you right I'm here to get my hair done and I'm just feeling so nervous I used to dye my hair a lot I used to get it pink and stuff like that but I haven't done anything to my hair in a long time and we're changing multiple things up in terms of cut and color so yeah I'm gonna go to my appointment but I feel so nervous you guys I don't know how much I'm gonna film in there because this is a new hairdresser for me so I don't feel like awkward whipping out whipping out the camera but if I can film anything of the process to you I will are we ready are we ready it's the next day so it hasn't quite got it's like fresh haircut vibes but I think I like it I really like the color I feel like the color and like it's really cool I really like the color there you go you can like see it properly if I stand on my tiptoes the one thing I'm not sure about is the middle part I decided to try a middle part for like the first time in my entire life and we're not sure we're all under all of my family we're all of it because the thing is side parts aren't in so I feel like I need to have a middle part but I don't know if I suit it a very round face so I'm gonna give it a week and I'm gonna see how I feel I can always switch it back but anyway the hair I'm feeling my own let me feel my own I didn't film in the salad I was too scared I don't know these people maybe next time I would but I was I was too scared but I'm very happy with it I really like the color for summer I mean it's summer vibes I mean I really like it anyways I finished library then written finally it took me quite a while I'm gonna give it four stars maybe verging on like a 3.75 for me this last section I just wasn't as engaged in it I feel like the characters began to lose a bit of their like development and sides to them I feel like you expect a character to kind of grow in development as a book goes on I feel like they kind of went backwards I also feel like for a book with the library of the unwritten there's not enough library in this I mean I know the whole book is them kind of going on this quest to save this kind of like devil book that's got unleashed so the whole point is them going to all these places but I I would have like more library I like the library vibes I'm reading a book about the library but I did really enjoy it and I feel like now that we've had this first book the series could grow in my estimations I really really liked the first the first like section up until when I last spoke she was probably like a four to four point five the last bit was pretty good three three point five so like a four perhaps three points and five but I don't do that so it's a four feels correct again I loved the writing the LGBTQ rep in this is wonderful I recommend this to a lot of people and yeah I'm gonna try and like get through the series as quickly as I can because not only am I trying to finish a lot of series this year but I'm trying to like once I start a series get through it quicker because otherwise series can just like the last on my TBR for years so the second book we're gonna read in this video we're gonna pick using the ask the community tab so we did this last time and I got one of my favorite books of the year so far from it so I have high hopes this time I asked for something different let's go on the app and I will show you you go on the homepage to the ask the community section here and this is where you can ask for requests there's loads different requests as you can see my requests this time sorry I just put up a picture of my my new hair so we might get a few notifications I don't actually love myself this much I just act like I do this time I asked for I would love a recommendation for an LGBT murder mystery one with the LGBT representation is a major part of the book so I feel like my mission to my favorite genres but I don't often read queer books in that genre so I wanted to try and do that more so let's have a look I'm gonna scroll to the bottom first and work our way up okay oh the dead in the dark I don't know that some okay my my two I should before we get into this I should give my two rules I haven't seen what's on here but a book is prioritized if someone's read it because I there'll be some people here who are recommending books they haven't read I want it to be like a book they've loved so it's prioritized I don't really want to pick a book that the person hasn't read and it's definitely prioritized if I own the book because again we're trying to get through my TVR so the dead in the dark wonder hasn't read it so I don't think I'm gonna read that Brianna hasn't read this one so I don't think I'm gonna read that Chloe now this is a great pick dead to dead girls does have a sapphic main character relationship in it but I've read it it's right here I'm not gonna get it in case it makes the whole book shuffle I'm sorry for the notifications but that is a great recommendation I would probably if I was doing this video a week later I probably use this as an excuse to read the sequel to this to like make series progress the rules don't apply but the sequel comes out like next week so I can't read it yet 1920s trying to solve a murder filled with queer characters it's amazing the boy in the red dress 1929 so that's a murder mystery it's definitely queer it looks like we might have a drag queen kind of performer oh that one's exciting cemeteries and dead ends okay that's a real contender and Renz Renz read it another historical one who is possessed by the something of his murdered best friend and thrust into a deadly hunt for a serial killer that's a good that's a good possibility to Chicago 1893 this does stand up my vibe as well oh far from you by test sharp okay that's a murder mystery YA even though it is YA test sharp is not afraid to get explore more mature content and the mystery is really intriguing Allison not so much a mystery well definitely murdery with ominous mysterious vibe female female relationship hmm okay I think it's between far from you the city beautiful and the boy in the red dress are our contenders which one do I feel like I want to read most I'm feeling like the boy in the red dress you know I feel like I want to read the boy in the red dress that one intrigues me I've never read it seems like we have a drag queen main character and like or like at least like a kind of drag performer main character and murder and I like I love 1920s set a speakeasy like I feel like in the French Quarter I feel like this is the one we're gonna read so I'm gonna go get this one and we're gonna read it this is what I love about this section you can you can discover books that you never knew existed I find it so hard to find queer murder mysteries and like you guys have said them up to me in a platter so we're gonna read the boy in the red dress next blue dude blue moon and a mysterious shaded with someone I'm not really into do you need to fix it talking bullshit so I am halfway through the boy in the red dress I will say this reads so fast library and written took me a little while to read it but this one reads really fast so I have some thoughts so the basic premise of this it's set in 1929 1930s New York no not New York I can't remember where New Orleans yes New Orleans and our main character her aunt runs a speakeasy and she's put her in charge sorry let me like change the angle a bit she's put her in charge of running it for New Year's Eve and unfortunately a girl gets murdered unfortunately sadly a girl gets murdered and the prime suspect is the boy in the red dress who's our main character's best friend and he's kind of like the drag performer at the bar and she basically decides to investigate the murder in order to absolve him of any guilt is essentially the plot and the group that the girl was in is kind of like the rich debutant kind of group in society now the biggest pros of this to me is that this is exactly what I asked for this is exactly the recommendation is spot-on I like you literally couldn't have got it any better it is a classic murder mystery in a sense perhaps a bit more character focused and I feel like a lot of other murder mysteries are particularly because this is YA I feel like adult books aren't usually as character focused and interrelationship focused whereas this is but you know it's a murder mystery and the rep in it is great the main character is bisexual and I as someone who is bisexual I very rarely read any representation for that let alone good representation and I think the representation is great you know she speaks about being attracted there's like particularly a boy character a girl character she's really attracted to and she's never like well I'm bisexual she's just like without thought talks about without kind of ceremony talks about her attraction to both of them and there's so much rep in this obviously we've got I would say trans rep in a way Marion is the boy in the red dress he uses he him pronouns in the book but obviously it's set at a time when you know I don't know how easy it would have been to use she her pronouns obviously he's adopted the name Marion instead of his previous dead name so yeah like it's I think it's like gender representation in some sense I guess we could say I think it's a good beginner's murder mystery for like a YA audience so like the representation is great it's a good simple murder mystery but like the writing is just like fun like it it's not doing much for me like it's a quick read but I'm not feeling much I'm kind of just like ready to read it fast and then I've read another book it's probably like a 3.5 at the moment not because it's bad there's nothing really bad about it it's just not doing much for me the main character is kind of like she keeps going and like following one of this kind of the group of friends of the girl who was murdered like around to their like place of work or a place they're known to frequent and kind of like semi blackmailing them or threatening them to do what she wants she's like acts really tough she's like if you don't give me information who knows I could scream or whatever like it's very strange it's like strange tactics but yeah I think the representation is great and it is a LGBT murder mystery particularly where identities form a big part of it so it's exactly why I asked for so the community asked me section was spot on but just in terms of enjoyment I don't think it's going to be a brand new favourite I think if you enjoy the Diviners I think because it's set in the 1920s we go to bars a lot in the Diviners and he's got a very good group of friends in this I think it's kind of like that without the fantasy in a way that's kind of what it reminds me of so yeah I'm just gonna go finish the other half I don't think I think I'll take like an hour or two hours maybe and I will let you know later what my thoughts are but yeah it's just like fine it's good but it's not like blowing my socks off you know I finished the boy in the red dress last night and I'm gonna give it a 3.5 overall I've been very very harsh nice to meet you Kelly I think it's like fine I actually found out this is a debut this is the only book I think this author has and I think it's a really good YA murder mystery debut and I think it's like I said a great introduction to murder mystery if you're someone I think for like a younger audience who typically only reads YA is used to having really good like groups of friends and like you know hijinks but like through a murder mystery lens I think it's a great introduction because it's like introducing you to red herrings and like kind of detective skills and stuff so I think in in that regard it's it's a good book I just didn't it didn't like do anything for me like I had a fun quick read I read it in a day do you know what I mean it helped me try and catch up on my goodreads goal which is a mess I'm allergic to thinking about my goodreads goal what I think is great and what is great for the recommendation request is the whole book is queer the whole book is gay you know your bisexual main character you have a drag performer you have lesbians you have like listen it's like you know the whole cast is full of representation the recommendation request you guys found exactly what I wanted if you haven't downloaded novelic go download it and try put a request in the community section last time I did this loads of you did it and everyone was answering each other and it was just so much fun so I think it's a great place to go and find recommendations for kind of niche stuff that you can't google this is what I said last time right like even if I google like lgbt murder mystery I wouldn't find stuff that like our audience our group our friends you know the kind of community that we have on here we all know that each other would like you know what I mean so I think it's really useful to view through that lens and there's things like I want to book like this I want to book like that that you can't google and you kind of need someone to recommend to you so I just think it's such a wonderful place for that it's like my favorite part of the app I think it's genius I think you should all download it and go give that part a go the link is always in my bio in these videos to go download the the app I also just wanted to say that obviously I've been running the book club for library of their own written and it's coming to an end and I've just had so much fun doing that as well we've had some really good discussions it's been different because obviously last time we reread or I reread one of my favorite books but this has been new for me and when we were having discussions particularly at the halfway point people were saying things like thematic ideas or realizing things that I hadn't realized and hadn't thought of and I think it's so much fun so you can go start your own book club on there if you want you can make one with friends you can make private or public ones you can like make one with a small group of friends and make it private maybe if you have like a community on bookstagram or book twitter whatever you could create a little book club together or you can make a public one and try and build it up I think it's really really great and we've had some great discussions on there novelic is such a fun app I think there's so much fun to explore there's so many fun ways to pick your tbr from there if you kind of want to like build your tbr in a fun way like booktubers do I think there's so many different avenues to do that they have even this pride month section the banner on the app at the moment where there's like even more pride month recommendations I was gonna pick if I were to reach three books in this video I was gonna pick one from there but I think the video would have been too long but there's like 12 recommendations on there and there's something for everyone like a you know nonfiction YA fantasy like there's literally something for everyone on there so I just think there's so much to go and explore on novelic so I would 100% recommend you go check out link in my bio go check out the app make sure you use the link in my bio because then they know I sent you don't just search on the app store but yeah I would really recommend it I hope you enjoyed this vlog we read two pretty good books do you know what I mean it might be other than written was a five star prediction for me so a little bit disappointed but I feel like I know that the second and third books could be five stars still it still has that possibility so it wasn't a failure we still had pretty good luck if you got into the end of the video comment there's a rainbow flag emoji right I'm not making it up comment the rainbow flag emoji if you got into the end so thank you so much for watching this video I really really hope you enjoyed it and I will see you very soon in the video bye