Hey, this is Brett, and this 2018 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Laramie Sport is stock number 13238Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Ram and heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2018 Ram 2500 has the 6.7 liter Cummins diesel. It's paired up with the 6-speed 68 RFE automatic transmission. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around inside, underneath, start it up, and take a look under the hood in this video. Brilliant black crystal pearl is the color, and I shoot all my videos in 4K, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality condition options and cleanliness of the vehicle before seeing it in person. Very clean down this side. I didn't see any major dents or dings. Paint is very reflective, and if you like the way I do things here at Summit Auto, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, which is youtube.com slash Summit Auto. Click that, and then click the bell notifications, and you'll get updates every time I do videos here at Summit Automotive. This one comes with the 20-inch painted alloy rims, and it has Firestone TransForce AT tires. These are LT28560R20s, and they are brand new in the front here. I can still see the little wear knobs, we'll put those on in our inspection. It does have the Bilstein shocks, which are part of that sport package, frame and underbody is in pretty nice condition, and the front fender is in fantastic shape. I didn't see any major dents or dings on there. You do get the projector lamp headlamps, LED running lights, part of that Laramie package. You get the painted bumpers, part of the sport package, and the front bumper is in fantastic condition. I didn't see any dents, I didn't see any dings, I didn't see any rock chips, looks really good. Front bumper parking sensors, you get the gloss black grille, part of that sport appearance group. The hood is in fantastic condition. No dents or dings on there, and it does come with the cab lights up top. Passengers side front fender is in really nice shape. Everything I saw is one tiny little dent there, but nothing too bad. Front fender or front passenger rim is in nice shape, little scuffs or scrapes, and that tire is brand new as well. As you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you are far away, or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the truck, you can see the truck here, the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at. Before you even get here, so when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Very clean down that side, back rim is in excellent shape as well, no scuffs or scrapes, and the back tires have right around 50% of the tread left on them. Frame and underbody back here looks good, and it does have all the remaining factory exhaust, so it hasn't been altered in any way, and very clean underneath here. Lower rockers and cab corners look good, and it does come with the painted black step bars, which was an option on this truck. Passener side box looks really good, and sine dense, so dings in there, coming around to the back. The rear bumper is in very nice shape, does have the back of parking sensors, full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch 4 pin and 7 pin wiring, and the tailgate is in very nice shape too. It comes with a Truxedo roll-up tonneau cover. I didn't see any rips or tears on there, Truxedo. It's a low pro, that's the same one I have on my truck. They're really nice. And you get a very nice spraying bed liner, 5th wheel and goose neck prep, as well as a goose neck hitch. You get 7 pin wiring back here and the LED bed lights, and they have a button that you can turn those on with back here, which is nice, and it really brightens it up, especially with that tonneau cover, helps a lot. And that spraying bed liner goes on to the tailgate, which is also a nice thing to have.  And for full disclosure, this back rim is in excellent shape as well. Doors and cab, once again, all look really good. It does have the heated fold-out mirrors. They have built-in directional signals. They fold up like so. They also fold in like that. Inside the Laramie Sport package gives you the black leather interior. There are no rips, there are no tears on the seats. Very nice condition. Every driver's seat, both of these front seats, I believe, are heated and cooled. We'll check that out in a second. Weather tech floor mats are out, auto headlamps and power pedals. Our windows power locks power mirrors, and these mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly. Back seats are in excellent shape as well. No rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. We're sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost. Seats are in really nice shape. They fold up like that. You notice you get a load floor back here, which is nice. If you've got muddy boots or tools, put them on there. You're not going to wreck your nice leather seats. Or if you've got cuts, put both sides down, and you've got a nice flat place to lay. Storage underneath there, factory subwoofer underneath there, and you get in-floor storage back here, one on each side. These bins come out for easy cleaning, and you can put ice and drinks in there. Looks like you have too many coolers wherever you go, or just extra storage space. Side curtain airbags, and you do get child safety locks on the back doors. Bottoms of the doors all look really good, and we'll hop inside. Check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. Get the Laramie animation there on the 7-inch LCD display, and you can see that this one has 55,260 miles. You do get digital spinometer compass and outside temperature display. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. You also get the heated leather wrap steering wheel, cruise controls on the right, Bluetooth, and information center controls on the left, audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. You also get the 6-speed, 68 RFE transmission with the optional tap shift. This one has the 8.44C radio. This one does have the factory nav, you can see highway 141 there, or 41 there. So you know that's working good. AM-FM and Sirius, you have your heated seats and cooled seat buttons. You also can check out your backup cam, or you can check out your cargo cam, and if the tonneau covers not opened up, then you can see what's going on in the bed. And then you have all your different apps, including a projection manager where you can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. We actually did a demo with Android Auto, if you want to check that out, it's in the upper right-hand part of the screen. Turned out four-wheel drive, more tactile climate, tune, and volume controls. Factory brake controller, stability control, tow haul, factory exhaust brake, front and rear parking sensors, and five auxiliary up-fit switches. This one does have 115V, 150W plug-in, and then you get your keyless entry with your remote start. Pass in your side floor mat and seat are in excellent condition, no rips or tears on there. You get the speakers in the ceiling, part of that alpine sound, power sunroof, map lights, power siding rear window button, home link buttons for your garage door security systems, lane systems, assistant SOS buttons in the mirror. We'll start it up and then take a quick look under the hood. Starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today, and hopefully from this HD video, you've been able to verify the quality condition and options on this truck, all the way around, inside and out. Under the hood we have the 6.7 liter Cummins diesel engine, very clean, runs very smooth. Once again, this truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. As a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been tracked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. There is your emissions sticker, and as always, I forgot to show you the VIN sticker with the gross vehicle weight rating and everything on there. So is that, and then there's your tire loading information. Alright, I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint, and I don't think you'll find too many nicer 2018 Laramie sports out there. Anyways, see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 550 new and used cars, trucks, SCVs, minivans, wranglers, halftones, three quarter tons, one tons. You name it, we got to go to that website right there, summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations, all at summitauto.com. 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Okay, welcome back everyone. theCUBE's live coverage here in Boston, Massachusetts for Red Hat Summit 2023. Also Ansible Fest folded in big news around automation, mainstreaming Ansible Big Store here. I'm John Furrier, host theCUBE with Rob Streche, breaking down the analysis. We have a famous CUBE alumni since 2012, original gangster on theCUBE, Steve Watt, Senior Director of Global Software Engineering and the head of the office of the CTO at Red Hat. Steve, great to see you. You've been on many times, but going back to 2012, that's some good pedigree right there. Glad to be back, glad to be back. Office of the CTO sets the direction, also works with the team and partners and customers to kind of frame the 20 mile stair, looking down at the industry and figuring out what's going to happen. You come back into the present, kind of make sure things are aligned. This shows pretty damn good. I mean, you guys did a good job, a lot of announcements bringing Ansible on the front and center with automation and Lightspeed, big news there.  Yep. Not bad. Yeah, yeah, and I was particularly pleased to see a number of our longer term investments that we've made over the years get profiled here and come to life. So, MicroShift Sixth Law was big news today, right? That was something we started two years ago. So, it's just really satisfying just to, it's quite a grind, eventually commercialized, eventually in the product now, so. You know, AI and trust, huge edge is big. Open Collaboration's been a topic we've been hearing about, open source is changing. Red Hat's commercialized rel that was a huge accomplishment back on the day. Matt Hicks yesterday said, he thinks AI will look a lot like from an adoption standpoint the same kind of hockey stick that Linux had, but faster. Yeah. How do you look at that? And as you're in the office of the CTO, you're kind of corraling and hurting the cats, if you will. But also, you've got a global ecosystem of commercial partners, AWS was here, Dell, others, as well as stakeholders in the open source. So, Balancing Act, how do you handle it? What's the strategy? Well, I think we have principles around anything we develop, right? We have a way of doing things, whatever it is. You know, and so we have our upstream model and we look at what's taken off in the upstream and we evaluate it on a number of different dimensions. I think one of the reasons people buy Red Hat software is they trust us to help them and navigate what's going on upstream and pick the right thing and then partner with them on using it. And so we have these principles, we're looking for projects, whether they're AI projects or software projects where they have transparency, agency, good governance principles. And then we work with them and if we have a good experience, we bring that to our customers. I think what's really interesting and I think having that longer vision, one of the things that John and I have been talking about over at KubeCon and at Open Source Summit a couple weeks ago is the fact that Open Source is one, right? I mean, I think the proprietary, I wouldn't say it's dead. It has its little places, but I think Open Source is one and the one place where I wonder how fast that will evolve and I'm looking kind of for your insight and your vision on this is that AI and the models and how people get to there. It, you know, you had some great announcements around the infrastructure pieces of it. Where do you see this going? Yeah, I think this is really interesting. I think right now you see in this sort of Cambrian explosion of just innovation in the AI space but a lot of it's proprietary. I would say almost most of it, right? You see other, there's a few outliers like hugging face, community full of open data sets, open models, but it's primarily proprietary and I think that's the next evolution, right? Is we've got to be able to sort of leverage the collective brain power of everyone else and make it accessible. And so I think to me that's actually an area where Red Hat's looking at getting more involved in the office of the CTO and in our emerging technologies group specifically trying to accelerate the open large language models as well as the smaller models. Yeah, and I think I'd like the way that it was put about how it's focused models. And I think that was the terminology. Yeah, domain specific models, yeah. And we actually had, what was it, Banko, am I going to butcher the name of it? He had a customer on. A customer on from Argentina, one of the banks using OpenShift data science and doing AI on top of it and using NLP and really starting to look at how they're taking that to the next level. Then we've had a couple on from Ansible looking at, okay, how do they adopt light speed? And I think one of the things was with the focus models and the actual community driven, I would almost call it a community driven model in that because if the playbooks are going back and people are getting smarter off the community. Yeah, exactly. In fact, this was brought up in an analyst session with Matt Hicks just earlier today. Where do you see that in that? Because I think transparency is key. How does that play in with these focused or smaller models that you guys are working with? So, you know, these models are created from data, right? You've got to start with access to data and make that data available. So, if you look at the Ansible Light Speed Announcements or Project Wisdom, that's an IBM large language model that's then being trained on Ansible Galaxy playbooks. So like the best practices of how to achieve X or Y, right? That's the domain specific training. That corpus of playbooks doesn't exist without a community contributing them back, right? And so, that's key to actually getting to something that's useful and then that's being produced out of a set of best practices from an open community, right? If it's proprietary, the amount of data you have to train your thing on is much smaller as opposed to a large open community. How do you see the interaction between proprietary foundation models like OpenAI, Cohere, A21 Labs, Anthropic, even Google AI? Because Open Source recently with the Google memo that was leaked a couple of weeks ago showed that once Meta leaked their code, there's been a massive adoption of Open Source, almost a surge, almost a leveling up and some people comparing it to the iPhone Android moment. Like you got a, now a whole nother set of stakeholders in Open Source. Right. How does, we're seeing interactions. So for example, we use our proprietary, or Open Source, or we use Open Source with our data, proprietary data to call and prompt the proprietary models. So the relationship between these models is a data interaction. How do you see that as a technologist because it seems to me an architectural thing. Yeah. Well, I think it's just a point in time. Like current state of the art right now, you have a lot of proprietary models. These things take a ginormous amount of infrastructure and power to train. That's in some sense, a bit of a control point right now, right? And so what we, and then also they're trained using data sets owned that are largely proprietary, right? And so I think what we've got to get, you know, advanced in the Open Source ecosystem is curating and gathering more data, right? And then also figuring out like where you get access to the infrastructure to be able to train these and produce our own open models, how we host them. So there's a number of problems that we're busy solving in Open Source, but I think it's more just a state of time. I think it will eventually flow like we saw with Open Source software, right? So, you know, Linux 25 years ago, 20 years ago wasn't at all what it looks like now, right? So it just needs a bit more time to develop. I think what's also interesting and you just briefly touched on it and it became very fascinating. We were having a conversation, somebody from your team a couple of weeks ago talking about Kepler and some of the projects that are going on in Open Source and particularly around sustainability. In these large language models, we heard some estimate that it was $700,000 a day to run chat GPT and, you know, just the unfathomable about of energy and carbon and all of that that's produced with that. You guys work on that in the Office of CTO. How did, how was that? At such a great point, you know, I saw a chart the other day about like as these large language models evolve, you know, and the amount of properties that they're able to calculate, eventually like I think after like two or three iterations exceeds like the power output of planet Earth. So we have to solve this problem to make these things better and better and better. And so Kepler, which is a project that we talked about on the main stage tonight is another project in the Office of CTO. And this is a project that's basically about correlating power usage and consumption down to various, like the application and just different components within the application. So you really sort of know what's consuming the most power and then you're able to take that information and make smart scheduling decisions to have things run more optimally and other plate. Maybe you schedule on an arm cluster. Might be a little slower, but a whole lot more power efficient and the math ends up in the correct place for the cost savings you want. But those two, like basically, you know, training and hosting the models are tied to basically being able to instrument and track from a sustainability standpoint. I will say though, like kind of another interesting space though is like we're solving and addressing all of these things right now with classical computing, right? Another thing that's often not talked about with quantum computing is it's also like exponentially more power efficient for a whole lot of these use cases. So I think that's another interesting space we could see in the future. How do you feel about quantum right now from the progress bar? It seems to be in the trough of disillusionment. Well, it's... I mean, people are backing up, it's not a lot of hype, but I think there's kind of a, definitely energy, but it seems like it's not going to get in the way. It's like, it's an interesting thing.  But they're, so they look at it in different ways of tracking it, but the amount of qubits, like their processing power they're adding is wild. Like how much progress they've made over time. So they're making progress. They're making a lot of progress on that. The biggest focus right now is like reducing error rates. So while they can compute more, like they're trying to get it to be more consistently accurate in the outcomes. But so I think that's interesting, but actually like where there's a whole lot more movements on the quantum spaces and post-quantum cryptography, which is, you know, I was actually in a meeting with Arvin, the IBM CEO and he made this great statement. He said, this is like Y2K all over again in the sense of that was a big like identify, discover and identify where the scope of the problem and then remediate it. And so post-quantum cryptography is the ability of one day a quantum computer be able to crack your current encryption. And there's, you might think, oh, that's La La Land, but people can harvest now decrypt later, right? And so it's a really interesting space and there's quite a lot of momentum going on there in quantum. So you talk about the office of the CTO, we have a few minutes left. I want to make sure people understand its role, what it does, what are the metrics, what do you guys work on? Yeah, sure, great question. So we're a path finding function for Red Hat and so we're there to help define the future. Red Hat's a very collaborative group, so I wouldn't say we own the strategy, but we're responsible for getting everyone together to find it. And so, and then we're also an engineering group that basically runs all the prototypes to sort of iterate up using the empirical method to like get to validate our hypotheses. And so some of this is emerging technologies where we're actually building the prototypes. Other parts of this is Red Hat research with university partnerships, like where they're figuring out how to get like risk five to like run on FPGA, you know, or our open source program office, which is identifying which communities or foundations we should form, like in the case of risk, you know, or in support of the projects, but we have this playbook. But you're not a strategy group only, it's not like you're doing strategy, hey, let's do it. Yeah, yeah, well that's an anti-pattern, like nobody likes the person wandering around with slides telling everyone else what to do, right?  Absolutely. You dig in, you collaborate, inside and outside of Red Hat. Correct, yep. And yeah, we have at any point in time, probably 15 different prototypes under development across a wide- Any good words now you can share? Well Kepler is what you saw today, right? That's an actor, it's not commercial yet, but that's, and then obviously SigStore, which is like the heart, to me, like if you look at Kubernetes as the nucleus of the cloud native ecosystem, SigStore is the nucleus of the secure software supply chain ecosystem. That's a big one. That was created and invented in our team at Red Hat. And so I think Kepler is our new hit. Sometimes I joke around like we're like a pop star, we have to have a hit every year to stay relevant. Some TikTok videos going. Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotta have a dance around it too. So Kepler is our sort of hit in the making right now, and it's getting a lot of interest and I think it's super relatable right now. Do people get involved? Do you outreach to them or is there a process for people to look under the covers or is it all public? Is it transparent? Yeah, so we have like emerging technologies as a website called next.redhat.com. So you can go there and see what they're working on. We blog about it. But ultimately we- There's no secret. There's no, it's all upstream, right? It's a standard Red Hat open source and we need that upstream validation because we don't want it to be pure blue sky. Yeah. We want to actually have this grounded in, oh, I found this useful too from other people and other companies and many hands make light work. So you're open for people to engage with you. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, that's our model. I think it's super interesting because I think some of the other things that you get involved with is kind of edge and far edge and I think people and how trust factors into that and I think to me, there's a lot of, as we become way more distributed, way more multi-cloud, hybrid, compute everywhere. I think that seems to be a place that to me is fascinating because from just the exit signs in here are IoT devices that are creating data. Where does the data land? How does it get processed? Where are you guys going with that stuff? You know, there's a lot of work we're doing down at the operating system level being able to light up these far edge devices inside RHEL and so that's the first step, right? We've got a far edge platform micro shift. That's another one of our recent hits that's being commercialized right now which is a really lightweight small version of OpenShift that runs on a far edge device and so we're doing a lot of work sort of in risk five, like making risk five real and then lighting it up inside RHEL. Can you quickly define what far edge device is? Yeah, sure.  That's like within, you know, the last hop, network hop to an end consumer. Has power and some compute but not a lot of heavy weight. Exactly, it's about a gig of RAM, one socket. It's probably an ARM processor or something even lower power and, you know, maybe a couple of different peripherals. It may or may not have an accelerator. That's often the differentiator, you know, on what kind of far edge device it is. If it's got a GPU, that's very common so you can do machine learning out on the far edge. Yeah, and you were talking about how you were working on some stuff with trust out at that far edge. Yeah, so this is an interesting one. Another recent project that we did with MIT is KeyLime. And so KeyLime does integrity measurement. So if you imagine you've got a far edge device that's screwed into the sheetrock 10 feet above ground in a train station but they're in train stations all over the states.  Like you can pull out the power, pop the SD card out, stick in an exploited one, put the power back in and it looks like the thing just went offline for a second but meanwhile now you have control of the device. And so integrity measurement takes basically uses TPM module in the device to do a hardware measurement and a software measurement. And then it stores that and every time it's got an agent and every time that thing comes online, we can check, is it the same? If not, fire an event, do what you want with the event. It's even the last question for you as we wrap up. Thanks for coming on, you're super busy wrapping up day two. What is on your mind here at Red Hat Summit in Boston 2023? Is there anything from the show that you're going to take away that's spawning some ideas that you're going to bring in to the office of the CTO that wasn't there before you came here today? I would say, you know, I was in our executive exchange yesterday and just the amount of help people need on automation, you know, and to me, I think there's just a lot of low hanging fruit for us I think Ansible Wisdom specifically is just like right in the sweet spot of what people are looking for right now where they either don't have the skills or they can't hire the skills or find the skills or they don't have the headcount to bring the skills in and just find it. So, short answer, artificial intelligence and us making that easier and easier to create models and deploy models is where we're going to be focusing. I was talking to Rob and the team when we run off camera, I was like, the Ansible expertise is so awesome and that community is so tight. They're like the SREs of configuration. They're so talented, so if you can get that replicated with AI, then that will scale because it seems to be like an art. Being an Ansible guru is like... It's a, I think what's so exciting about that like just real quick, like on this idea, right? You can use Ansible Wisdom to generate a playbook for a failure event. You can use Ansible Event-Riven architecture to basically when there's a failure event, take that playbook that was created for you by artificial intelligence and respond and autonomously self-heal from the event. Like, think about the cost savings. It's like magic, you know? It's like magic, yeah, it's like magic. I tell you, Ansible, exciting to see them in the mainstream, good call folding it in. We did a lot of content here on theCUBE because there's no event, but I think that's a sign that AI's next gen, it's legit, it's here. It's here and it's useful. It's not just vaporware or, you know, or a bad chatbot. Hey, can I help you? Customer support? Put your, it's not clipping. Yeah. Steve Watt, Senior Director of Global Software Engineering, but head of the Office of the CTO at Red Hat, CUBE alumni, thanks for sharing your insight. Let's keep in touch. I'm really interested in your projects and it makes for good CUBE, thank you. Yeah, yeah, my pleasure. I always have fun here. Yeah, all right, your CUBE coverage. Rob Stutcher, I'm John Furrier. We'll be right back with our next interview after this short break.


Hello my Nakamitachi, it's me again, and yes with another facecam. I've got to say that everyone's super nice and encouraging comments has made this transition into this style of video a much less terrifying experience. Although with that being said it's pretty obvious that I'm still going to have to practice and there's still some getting used to. For example, in the last video I realized that I say um, the word um, a terrifying number of times. Which is something that I'm going to have to fix. And sort of kind of like how I only realized that I apparently pronounced now, the word now, a little weirdly. Which I didn't actually realize until you guys started mentioning it in the comments of some of my other videos. Although you guys all seem to be mentioning that to me out of fun and out of good nature, or at least I hope. But that word um, that is something definitely I am going to have to fix. But in any case apart from all of that, it has just been a huge relief to know that I can still continue discussing One Piece with you guys even in times when I have a busier than usual schedule. And speaking of time schedule, I have one exam left. Which is actually on the same day that the official chapter is going to be released. So I don't know, I'm going to have to find a way to manage that. But so wish me luck. But anyways, in the meantime, to celebrate the fact that I am 75% through my mid-semester exams, I decided to reward myself. And I decided to watch the latest episodes of the 1.0 anime. So that's episodes 969 and 970, which I actually hadn't been watching because I'd been putting it off whilst I was studying for my exams to, you know, focus on my studies. And because I only have one left I decided, you know, I'll give myself a little treat. And apart from how awesome the anime is, seriously, if you guys haven't been watching the anime, I would really, really recommend that you do so for the current 1.0 episodes. But what I wanted to talk to you guys about today was actually how I noticed a few things in the anime that really got me thinking. Now, I believe that this video should be safe for anime-only fans so you guys can watch in peace. But what I wanted to discuss today was how the anime seems to be adding some, you know, filler material, which doesn't actually seem to be filler at all. And this is especially because of some comments which Oda made as part of his author comments, which came out with chapter 1006. Basically, he said that it looks like the Wanokuni arc has been animated with passion or has been- the episodes have been created with passion. And so for us all to please dedicate a portion of our time to watch it. And now, this is where the question lies. Do we take this comment at face value that Oda was just describing at how epic the episodes have been so far? Because they have, again, the animation has been brilliant. And is that just what Oda is simply referring to? Or is he meaning something else? You know, is there some sort of subtext? Is he possibly saying that there are some hidden details which the anime has been including which us, usually manga-only readers, would actually benefit from? You know, maybe the anime is actually filling in gaps that are left because of the quicker pacing in the manga. And before we get into my discussion of the most latest episodes and the specific examples, I should quickly mention what I mean by this, especially for, you know, anime-only fans.  And so many characters and plot lines, especially the fights, again, don't get the dedicated amount of time that it deserves. Whereas the anime seemed to have the opposite problem where producers needed to make the most out of every frame. And so a lot of scenes, a lot of expressions became elongated and just extended so that the producers wouldn't run out of manga material so that they could continue coming out with weekly episodes. Which actually did cause a lot of unrest in the fanbase and caused a lot of fans to stop watching the anime and just read the manga. But I would actually say that this seems to be resolved in the one-o-arc. Like I can say for me personally, I stopped watching the anime in, I think, the Fishman Island arc and I stuck to just reading the manga because I felt that I was binging the series and I was just really, really hungry and crazy to catch up. And so just all the extended, the elongated scenes in the anime was just too much for me and I just wanted to quickly catch up on the story. And so I would only watch snippets of my favourite scenes which I would like to see on screen and how they animated it but for the most part I was just sticking to the manga and so I'll just watch these short clips to just supplement the manga and that was only until the one-o-arc. And maybe this is just my opinion but I actually think that now the animation is doing a really good job of supplementing the manga. Especially when it comes to the fight scenes which were off-paneled in the manga but we get to actually watch it in full in the anime. So I think in this way the manga and the anime has been coexisting where the anime can pick up and supplement the manga with all that action goodness whereas Oda and his team can focus on the story as much as possible in the manga. But this is where it gets really interesting because as we watch things in the animation which wasn't all that present in the manga we're left with questions as to what should be treated as just purely filler material that isn't canon because it didn't exist in the manga or what should be taken or what should be given more thought and consideration as possibly hints for things that were left out in the manga to be fully developed in the anime because maybe the producers receive some notes or some details and information from Oda. So an example of this could be the Luffy and the Kaito fight back in Kuri. So in the manga, and you guys may have already heard about this or experienced this yourself but there was some sort of inconsistency there. So in that fight in the manga Luffy gets one-shotted by Kaito and is defeated by him pretty quickly and even though Luffy gets in some attacks himself, he does his Elephant Gatling and his Kong Orgen Gun these attacks don't have a huge impact on Kaito and although Kaito does fall to the ground he's seen getting up pretty quickly in the manga.  So it seems like Kaito isn't all that impacted. Whereas in the anime, because that fight was extended it seems like Luffy is faring a lot better than he did in the manga. You know, it seems like Kaito is a lot more impacted that he's struggling a lot more that it's taking him a while to get back up. And this difference is actually a pretty big one because it actually makes quite a big difference as to how the characters are being portrayed and as a result how we understand their relative strength. So in the manga I think the, you know, the quickness with which that fight was dealt was to sort of emphasise Kaito's strength. You know, how much comparatively stronger he was than Luffy. And I think so then having this changed in the anime sort of confuses that a bit and makes it seem a little less clear, a little more unclear as to how much stronger Kaito is than Luffy at that point. You know, another instance could be the fight scene between Sanji and Drake after Yasui's execution. So whilst I love the fact that we got to watch this extended that, you know, we get to see more of Sanji's action scenes which as we know has been lacking in the post timeskip era of One Piece but in saying that I also did wonder whether it was completely accurate because it seemed like Sanji wasn't having too much trouble dealing with Drake you know, without any extra needed help. You know, no haki, no nothing, just Sanji in his base form was going against Drake with not too much trouble and just that considering what we know of Drake's position, what we know of his strength just felt a little odd and a little off. But those are some older examples of anime episodes. Let's think about more recent episodes because the more recent episodes have gotten me thinking about this second part of the question whether Oda has provided the producers with some notes as to future developments and whether the producers have been keeping this in mind as they animate the series because there are a lot of details in the anime which seems to pick up what the manga sort of left vague and again, considering what Oda said that we should dedicate some of our time to watch the anime really has me thinking, you know, is there a hidden layer of meaning to this? So an example could be in episode 996 I believe it was the episode where the Roger Pirates and the Whitebeard Pirates are having their fight and again, so so awesome that we got to see this extended in all of its glory and goodness and there was one particular detail which really intrigued me and that was the little scene between Skoppa Gabon facing off against Oden which for me really raises a question as to Gabon's strength so we know from his portrayal already that he sort of followed Roger and Rayleigh that he might be sort of the next in line in terms of strength but having him go against Oden in the fight then gives us even a lot more detail you know, are we supposed to take this scene and suppose that that means that Gabon's strength is, you know, equal or rival to Oden's because if it is, then that gives actually a lot of information about Gabon's character or at least related to his strength because we know a lot about how strong Oden is and now let's get to the most recent episodes and the most recent examples which was what really got me thinking and what made me want to discuss this with you guys and actually this really concerns episode 969 and this is the scene of a conversation between Silver Rayleigh and Goldie Roger which wasn't present in the manga and you know, the fact that it wasn't there in the manga at all would first indicate that it's just filler material but the contents of that conversation just seems so heavily laden with meaning that I was just awestruck and my brain just went haywire thinking and wondering as to whether it means something more so the scene that I'm talking about this conversation is with Rayleigh asking Roger whether he remembers when they first met and Roger says yes, that he invited Rayleigh to turn the world upside down with him and Rayleigh's response to that is that he also asked, or he also told Rayleigh that their meeting was fate, was fated, that they were fated to meet each other and then Roger goes even further and says and asks Rayleigh did they fulfil the promise to which Rayleigh answers yes and this is just a really really interesting conversation because it seems to have so many hints as to some of the remaining mysteries in the series related to Joy Boy and the One Piece treasure actually to anime only fans I'm so sorry I made a mistake at the beginning of this video you will have to skip ahead to the time shown on the screen because I am now going to discuss some manga only related content sorry I forgot that I'd actually have to be discussing some of this so please skip ahead and then you can watch the rest of the video in peace now for everyone else, what I was thinking about this conversation could be related to so Roger's comment that he wants to turn the world upside down seems to be related to other comments that we've seen in the Wano arc to do with the idea that the world is going to be overturned that we're going to see a new dawn what we saw in Toki's flashback that when Odin asked her you've been waiting, you've been skipping ahead in time to see a day when the world is going to be overturned and that seems to be pretty similar to what Roger is saying in the anime that he's going to turn the world upside down it also seems to be a possible hint or possibly linked to that mystery of what Roger and Luffy's dreams are so you know we found out recently that becoming pirate king isn't sort of the end goal of Luffy's nor was it for Roger that they actually have some further dream you know is it possibly somehow linked to turning the world upside down and then Rayleigh's comment, you know, emphasizing, pointing out to Roger that you said we were fated to meet seems to be, you know, the anime emphasizing this element this theme of fate, this theme of destiny you know supposing that actually based on what they found out at Laugh Tale, based on what they found out in the treasure and all the sort of histories and sort of all the mysteries of the world that fate, that destiny actually plays a much bigger role than we realize which is really interesting because we do know that destiny is an important theme in One Piece and then the final question of Roger asking Rayleigh whether they fulfilled the promise, you know, what promise is this a promise that we were introduced to all the way back in Fishman Island when they said that Joy Boy made a promise to Fishman Island which he couldn't keep but it has been prophesied that it has been said, you know it has been said through legends that one day there will come someone who will fulfill Joy Boy's promise in his place you know, is this Luffy or like I said, is all of this just meaningless filler because I just, it just really seems to me that this conversation was just so laden it just has so much subtext to it you know, it has so much potentially meaningful details that I just find it hard to believe that it was just filler especially when I consider Oda's comments that we should take our time to watch these episodes and just how many connections it could possibly have to other mysteries and other questions that we still have in Wano but One Piece as a series I don't know, it just really got me thinking as to whether the anime was adding in more details and more possibly hinting information that we're missing out on in the manga but in saying that, I would be interested in hearing what you guys have to say and what you think, you know, whether you think that it's just a case of my brain going you know, completely crazy and nuts again or whether you know, you think that there is a possibility that there is more to this than what meets the eye so let me know by leaving a comment below and please don't forget to like and share this video and please subscribe, please do subscribe if you haven't already I hope you guys don't get sick of me saying this because I believe I might say it a few more times but I am hoping to reach 10,000 Nakamatachi by our channel's one year 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If you use Zoom, you may be interested to know that you can now add video into your Zoom meeting waiting rooms. And I'm gonna tell you all about it in this video. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. And Zoom released a new version of their meeting client this week. So if you are using Zoom, be sure to go and check for updates and make sure you are running the latest version. And there were quite a few new features in that release.  There is one in particular though that I want to just highlight because it's something I've been waiting for for a while. It's been in the beta version for a while and so I'm glad that it's made it into the actual software release. And that is the ability to add in a video into the waiting rooms for your Zoom meetings. Why is this interesting? Well, this means that basically when you set up a meeting and you have the option to toggle on the waiting room function, and I'll be showing you how to do that shortly, it means that when your guests arrive, then you are able to basically show them a video. And that can be obviously useful for a number of reasons. I'm sure your imagination can do the work there, but maybe you want to show your corporate video, something like that related to your company. Maybe you want to have a video showing the different services that you can offer. Maybe it is for a little reel of testimonials or things like that. Maybe you are using it for education and you want to talk about things that people need to do to prepare for the meeting that they're just about to attend or the class that they're just about to attend. Or maybe talk about your other course offerings. Whatever it is, as I say, I'm sure your imagination can do the work, but it enables you to give a much more sort of branded experience to people who are joining your meetings. So how do we do this? Well, the way you enable it is in the web settings. So if you are familiar with Zoom, you'll know that there are two different places where you can adjust settings in Zoom. The first being in the app itself, where you can click on the little cog wheel and then go and change all of your preferences in there related to the meetings themselves. But then there is also a whole load of other settings that you access through the Zoom website itself, logging into your account and changing things there. So that is where we're going to be looking today. So I'll come over to that section now. So I've logged into my account and normally it will take you into this profile section up at the top left. But what we want to do is come down to here to the settings and I would always recommend with any application or any service, just go through and have a look at all of the settings because you may discover some features that you didn't know were there just by going and having a look at those things. That's what I do when I sign up to any new service or any new application. I always do go and check. Check all of the options on the menus to see what's available. But here we don't actually have to look very far. So as I say, there are loads here that you can go and dig through. I'll leave you to do that in your own time. A little bit of homework. But where we're going to go is basically just to the very top here at the waiting room section. So it may be off by default and it's up to you whether you want to turn that on. So why indeed would you want to use a waiting room anyway? Well, the purpose of it is so that if other people have either your meeting ID or you've maybe shared the link publicly because you've got to share it with lots of people and you just want to make sure that everybody who is actually coming into the meeting is meant to be there. Well, enabling the waiting room means that you'll get a little notification when somebody actually tries to join the meeting. It will say the name of the person who is there, who is trying to access it and you can decide whether you want to allow them to come in or not. This, by the way, is a great reason to use co-hosts with Zoom as well. So if you are running large meetings, you as the meeting host won't want to necessarily be distracted by letting people into the meeting. But assigning people as a co-host is a great way to do that because that allows them to then manage the people who are coming in and out and all of those sorts of things. By the way, this is all the sort of stuff that I cover in my ultimate Zoom masterclass, which is still not quite launched, but any day now. And you can go over to zoommasterclass.com to register your interest there and you'll get a 50% off when the course does indeed launch. So head over to zoommasterclass.com if you want to take your Zoom mastery to the next level. But I digress. So that is why you would want to have the meeting room just to be able to control who is coming in and out. The waiting room, I should say. You can leave it off here and do it on an ad hoc basis. So I shall show you how to do that in a little while as well. But let's just assume we are gonna turn this on all of the time. Now, you do have some further control over it. So once I toggle it on, you do have some further control over how this will actually behave. And the way that we adjust that is if we come over here down to the, where it says edit options just down here. And you can see that the way it's set at the moment is everyone will go in the waiting room. It tells you there. Well, you can actually change that behavior. So if I come into edit options, it brings up these different options. So at the moment, who should go into the waiting room? And as you can see, it says everyone. Well, what you can also do is you've also got this one here. Users not in your account. Sorry, users not in your account yet, meaning that anybody who is on your account, if you've got a pro level or above Zoom account and you've got multiple different people actually in there, you may not want to have those people wait. So that is one option. Or the other option is users who are not in your account or are not part of your whitelisted domains. So there is a way to whitelist domains in Zoom. All of that's covered in the course. But that enables you to basically, if you're working with various different clients and different people within those organizations, you can just whitelist the whole of those domains so that then those people won't have to wait as well. So that they're sort of pre-approved. So those are three options there. So there is a case of either of these three options. And here you can just add in the domains there. So that is a case of choosing one of those three. But in addition to that, you can also check one of these two boxes. And this is users invited during the meeting by the host or co-host will bypass the waiting room. So that one I have checked on because it does make sense to me that if I've copied the invite during the meeting and I've just sent it out directly to somebody, I want those people to be able to come in. So that one I have checked on. And then the next one is allow participants in the waiting room to reply to co-host that enables two-way communication. But do just note that by enabling this, it says all participants using older versions of Zoom will be asked to upgrade their clients before joining the meeting. Now, this is a common thing with a number of different Zoom features is that it does require the guest to be on the latest version as well. So this is one of those instances. And so that would mean that as they were joining the meeting, it would prompt them to upgrade their Zoom. So it's up to you whether you want to have that. That might cause a little bit of disruption. So it might be best to leave that off in the first instance given that maybe most people might not have yet upgraded their Zoom package.  So that one you may want to just use at your discretion. The next one is if the host and co-hosts are not present or if they lose connection during a meeting, move the participants to a waiting room if the host drops unexpectedly. Well, if you want to be in full control of a meeting and chairing the meeting and what goes on in there, then if your connection inadvertently drops, you may just want to move everybody out to the waiting room so that then the meeting can resume properly when you are able to re-establish your connection. Again, that is just down to your personal use case and how you see that going. So once you have changed those, just be sure to click continue if you want to save those changes or cancel, if not. So all of that was a bit of an aside really to the main topic of this video, which is the video during the, in the waiting room itself. And to do that, we come over to this option down here, which it says customize waiting room. So once I click on that, this is basically the standard thing that people see in a waiting room. It says the host will let you in soon. And then just underneath, it has the name of the meeting. That's the behavior that everyone's probably familiar with if you've joined meetings. You do have the option to change this. So maybe instead of saying the host, maybe I want to actually be a bit more personal and say Alec will let you in soon. So you can do that. And as you can see, it's just updated that text over there. The other thing you can do is you can actually add a logo. So if you want to go one step further with a little bit of branding, then you do have the option to add in a logo and a description. So here you can upload your logo. And as you can see here, it needs to be up to one megabyte. And it can be either a JPEG, PNG or GIF. And the minimum width or height should be 60 pixels. And the maximum, no more than 400 in either the width or the height. And then you can also enter a description. So this is basically going to appear. He says trying to type and do two things at once. I've figured out that I can't actually type. And look at that, that's terrible, isn't it? A best description. So there we go. What have you typed in here? You've got up to, in fact, let's have a look. You've got up to 400 characters. So that will appear here and then your logo can appear above. So that is one way that you can customize the experience for your users. The other thing that you can do though is the one that I'm talking about today, you can actually add a video. And so that is by clicking on here. And then all you need to do is click on the upload, upload the video. And as you can see, it needs to be no more than 30 megabytes. And then it can be MP4 MOV or M4V format. And once you've uploaded that video, that will then appear on the waiting screen. And it will auto play, but then they'll also have the option to pause it, rewind it, and all of those sort of meeting controls as well or video controls, I should say as well. So as I say, this is a great way to add a sort of custom branding to your meeting waiting rooms. I should also say that once you've uploaded the video, you also have the option here to see what it's gonna look like in mobile, not forgetting that some people will be joining on their mobile phones. And all you do then is once you've made all the changes you want to do is you just click save. And that then will, when somebody joins the meeting, they'll be presented with your custom message, just for them. It is a global setting though. So if it is something that you're going to be running different meetings, then if you want to change this out, you would need to come in here to change it out on a meeting by meeting basis, because it is just one video. You don't have the ability to assign a specific video to a specific meeting just yet. However, speaking of custom meetings is if you don't want to have the waiting room on all the time, but you do just want to have it on for certain things. So maybe you don't want your video shown to absolutely every meeting. Then the other option is you can just toggle the waiting room off here and then actually just set it up on an ad hoc basis on a meeting by meeting basis.  So if you have it set as off in the global settings, then this would be unchecked. And so here you could just come and check this if you just wanted to have it on for that particular meeting. So I hope you found that useful. It's certainly something that I'll be using in my sort of business use of Zoom and it just adds that extra little bit of corporate brand identity to your meetings. And as I say, it can add some value and help the people who are just joining your meetings. Speaking of value, if you've found this useful, then don't forget to go and like and subscribe and tell your friends all about it as well. Why not? And if you've really found value in it, then you can always head over to my Buy Me a Coffee page to support me on a one-off basis or on an ongoing basis with a monthly subscription too. If you found this useful and you're interested to know more about Zoom, then I shall obviously leave a link to my Zoom masterclass down in the description as well. But for the time being, that is all for this video. But don't go anywhere. There are plenty more videos coming up next. So I'll leave a link to some of those over on the right-hand side. Have a wonderful day.


Welcome to breeder syndicate. I'm here with my buddy high and lonesome. All right, so let's start off high and lonesome Let's talk about some of your new lines that you have coming out We have of course have your Appalachia, which is pretty well known for many reasons. Can you talk about it a little bit? So that's a F3 I did I went back and I had actually worked the line to f5 and I wasn't really happy with With what I had selected so I went back to the f2s. I popped 50 of them. I Selected two males and three females and Kind of let them go at it. I wanted more of the Green crack side coming through on the turf You know one thing you hear a lot about Appalachia is about like the creamy milky stuff coming through and crosses Yeah, I Kind of I'm I'm more a fan of the tropical side of that of the green crack same