Okay, I think we're going, hopefully the stream will be more consistent than the ones from my house. Alright, so, I'll go ahead and, well I'm actually at LinuxFest right now. So that's where I am, I'm in Charlotte, North Carolina. I don't know if any of you guys are here, I kind of assume there are some people, some people said they'd probably go, but I'm giving a talk on Saturday and it's going to touch on digital currencies and using, I don't know, you'll watch it eventually. So I don't need to tell you what it is. Okay, so what is the title and the thumbnail about? What's that hilarious clickbait about? I have to tell you a story. Of course it's about mental outlaw. I have unearthed the true identity of mental outlaw. It's definitely not me, that's all I have to say. So just yesterday, actually, when I was driving through Atlanta, actually let me see if the stream is actually going through, yeah okay, it is. So just yesterday, when I was going through Atlanta, we had a little get-together, me and a couple guys, Monero Mateo, he was there, he actually kind of organized the thing if you guys know about him, he actually said he just quit YouTube, we'll see if that happens. Either way, so there's probably six or seven guys there and as people left, I want to say this is later, this is like maybe 10, 1030, I think the only ones left were me and Mateo. So we played some pool and I should give this as a preface. A lot of times when I'm in public, this happened at Monero Topia or other places, people will ask me about mental outlaw because people have this idea that we're like BFFs, right? I don't know, I've never talked to the guy, I don't know his email, I have no contact with him, that's fine, that's the way he does things. Either way, people always ask me, so brah, you have mental outlaws, what are you guys doing or whatever, I don't know, we're not collabing, that's not our style, right?  I was like, whatever. Either way, when me and Mateo were there, we were playing billiards, which he's much better at than me, I look over, there's a bar and I look over and I see for the first time in my life, he didn't know that I saw him, but mental outlaw was there, first time I ever saw him off of the internet, okay? I don't think he noticed me. Now I'm gonna show you a picture, I'm gonna show you a picture that I have. This is mental outlaw, okay? He wasn't IRL, he wasn't in real life, but I saw his picture. Let's compare with a YouTube photo, okay? This is mental outlaw, the YouTube edition, exactly the same as this guy, exactly the same, I can't even tell the difference. Here's another one, here's another one, look at that, exactly the same guy. So I looked over very surprised at the television and I was like, oh my goodness, there he is. This is his real life identity, here's, let me pull up another one, okay, there's another one, right? Exactly the same. And I was very surprised. So now I actually know, so his real name is, shoot, what was it, it was like Jason Tatum, that is mental, that's the real mental outlaw, okay? Now you know. So people always ask me who he is, now we know, absolutely uncanny, he looks exactly like him. All right? See, look at that.  This is who he actually is. So now that we got that established, so I finally figured out the mystery, I was curious myself who this guy was, but he's, daylighting is a normie who plays basketball, which I'm actually very surprised at, but like, I mean, look at these faces, they're identical, okay? So that's what the thumbnail is in reference to, okay? So yeah, I totally doxed him here. Let's go look at these again. Exactly the same, actually I think I have another one, let me pull it up.  How uncharacteristic of me, anyway, I think that's all I have. All right, so there he is.  So I found out, and I was very surprised to see it. It was very funny because we had mentioned him like 30 minutes before, and I look over on the TV and I saw him, and the funny thing is today, when I got into the hotel, again, I'm in Charlotte, and I got into the hotel and I was getting something to eat at the bar because I was too lazy to go somewhere else, even though, I mean, I would say food is expensive in the hotel, but it's expensive everywhere nowadays, but either way, I look up and the same guy is playing, this guy from the Celtics, or I guess in basketball, the team is called the Celtics, not the Celtics, I don't know why. That's what Normie's pronounce it as. I'm pretty sure it's the Celtics, let me see, oh, now I'm messing up my OBS thing. Either way, that's who it is. Now you know, now that mystery is solved, you don't have to worry about it anymore. That's who it really is. All right, so that's actually all I had to say in this stream.  I feel like I should turn up the bit rate of this thing since, yeah, I should turn up the bit rate of my live stream, I feel like, because I have better band, well, actually it looks not that bad, whatever. All right, that's all I have to say about that. If you were hoping for real East celebrity gossip stuff, you're not going to get it from me, I'm sorry guys. So that's all I have to say. Yeah, and I bet you guys liked my stream earlier today, that was even better. So, all right.  I want to see, do I have notifications and stuff on OBS? I don't even know. I like the aesthetics of this picture, so I'm going to answer random questions, talk about random things. So I'm at Linux Fest, if you're at Linux Fest, you can tell me or whatever in the comments. I'll try and watch the normal comments. Let's see. Why are there so many spam comments in the chat? I'm going to have to, hold on, I'm going to turn on slow mode, so people can't do that. Okay, there we go. All right. No, I haven't done my presentation. There haven't been any presentations yet. They start tomorrow morning. I actually just got in a little bit earlier. The talk that I'm giving is actually, so one thing that I think I complained about when I did that video on Bitcoin and Monero that I presented at Monero Talk is it kind of annoys me that free software and cryptocurrency are two worlds that don't overlap that much. I think it's mostly social. So I think the goal of my talk here, it's not really to sell cryptocurrency. It's not really what I'm getting at, but really I want to talk more about the general problem of digital scarcity, like how can you do it? How can you solve it? Cryptocurrency is one solution to it, but I kind of want to give a background in how people develop software to do this kind of stuff, like talking into, I mean, not just Bitcoin, but the things that went into Bitcoin, like B-Money and Hash Cash and things like that. So I'm going to talk about some of that stuff as well. Maybe this is just the first time I've actually looked at the chat in a while, but I just, man, there's so much nonsense in it. I'm going to go back to the comfort of donations. All right, so let's see. So five dollars from Mounted Scopes. He says, any opinion on Camus and absurdism, actually very little, like I'm not, like I'm not really interested in philosophy that's written in the past 150 years. I mean, that's not to say it's like devoid, I mean, Camus in particular, or like modern philosophy in general is like totally useless, but I think like a lot of what people call postmodern philosophy, like a lot of the things they say are maybe true, but trivial. Like I think a lot of it is just kind of putting in floaty words. What I think a lot of people just kind of naturally, you know, the natural mindset that people have nowadays, you know, people just kind of formalize it in different ways, which actually makes it kind of weird that people hate the term postmodernism so much. You know, you have these like Jordan Peterson people always complaining about postmodernism, whereas that's not really what the term means. You know what I mean? Like I think most people like I'm kind of postmodern like everyone listening to this is like philosophically postmodern in a lot of ways. And if anything, postmodernism, what it actually means is actually a lot more critical of like kind of enlightenment, liberalism and stuff like that as this, you know, because it is ironically enough, it takes the like self, it takes the criticism in on the system itself, right? But I haven't read Camus in particular, so I don't have any big opinions about him, but like just in general, I don't I don't really read that much classical or modern philosophy or stuff like that. Marcio says, don't have an era. So I have some Brazilian fake money. Oh yeah, if you don't have fake fake internet money, that's fine. When am I coming to Europe? Probably not no, not for a while. There's a possibility. I think I always say there's a possibility I might go to Eastern Europe. I think I floated the idea of going this summer, but I'm not going to. Luke, what was the private BTC to XMR swapper you mentioned before? I don't know if I mentioned a particular private one.  Well, I mean, they do have atomic swaps where you can do that. You can look up what is it unsuppable swap net where you can you can transfer BTC to XMR. I don't think you can go from XMR to BTC right now. But even aside from that, there are semi custodial. I mean, they're not like custodial in the sense that you have an account and you you give money to them, but they have some kind of third party intermediary. And those are like in general OK to use.  It lists a bunch of swaps for BTC and XMR. So I'm postmodernist against science, essentialist in everything else.  Like, I mean, that's a good like if you've listened to my podcasts and videos on like epistemology and science and stuff like that, like I'm really giving a very postmodern view of it. So like postmodern like a lot of boomer cons, they think postmodern means like leftist, which is just not the case. Like if anything, like the the postmodern philosophers, like they are politically leftist in their orientation. But it's like they're this they're the ones that are so leftist, like they want to undermine their own people, you know, it's like they're so subversive, they're going to subvert the subverters, basically. That's how a lot of them are. So like putting it in like a political.  And a lot of these people like have a lot of contempt for Peterson because of that. But and it's not just him. Peterson gets up from some there was some book that was written that used the word that was kind of popular in conservative circles, boomer cons circles that like use the word postmodernist like that. But like the author, his name is not coming to my head. Either way, like, you know, you don't need to read modern philosophy anyway. OK. I do I actually kind of like this lighting here. Pedro says, I would send XMR, but I'm trying to be a good boy and increase my social credit score in the eyes of our Google overlords. Well, I don't think your comment helped increase your social credit score. Explaining postmodernism by Stephen Hicks. Maybe that's it. I'm not quite sure. Have you ever listened to anything from Thaddeus Russell? I don't know if he has a podcast. I know that he exists and I know that if he's the person I'm thinking of might be another Thaddeus. But I think he's the guy who did the renegades history of the United States, which is actually another good example of. I mean, I think he's I don't really know what his orientation is, like politically Thaddeus Russell. But like that's if he is like some kind of countercultural liberal, like that's another good example of one of those books that's like so subversive, it subverts the subverters. Like there are a couple of notable chapters, like one of them is like the one on slavery in America, which is, you know, stuff you can't say on YouTube, basically. But like, you know, but aside from that, that's the only thing of his that I've ever read. I know there's an audio book of that. I think I had that at some point. I actually I think I mentioned a second ago that I reformatted in my computer and actually cleaned out like gigabytes and gigabytes of stuff. I actually have now where is it? Oh, shoot. Oh, yeah. So I decided to like have like kind of a so I have this flash drive here, the USB drive that's 30 gigabytes. OK, now this thing, of course, is encrypted. And what I want to do more of is like in case let's say I lose everything, like I use all lose all my computer, lose all, you know, everything. Just everything. OK, I want to be able to take some little tiny USB drive and start over, like have everything I need. So on this, of course, it's encrypted. So if I lose it, it's not a big deal. Like no one's going to be be able to get in it. But just for Opsec, I wanted to do this. So I have everything from, you know, GPG and SSH key and stuff like that and some, you know, sensitive files, but also, you know, old family videos and stuff like that. So that's something I really wanted to do. So now, you know, if I get robbed or something like that. Well, firstly, actually in the past week, I've been encrypting all my drives just for, you know, I had some time and I really wanted to do that just for safety's sake. So like I've just been encrypting a lot of stuff. And I think it's maybe I should do some videos on like how to set up like Luxe encryption on Linux because that's something I haven't talked about on my channel, but, you know, I might do something like that. Anonymous says thoughts on third position, being economically left wing, culturally right wing. I mean, that's just called being a normal, like pre-liberal human, if in effect. I mean, there's nothing fancy about that. Like it's not it's not even third position. I don't even like that term. It's more like zero with position. Keith says digital scarcity sounds great for money, but I feel we may find ourselves with corporations using tech to make digital products. They produce artificially scarce. We must shepherd the normie to safety. Well, I mean, the nice thing about that is, well, digital scarcity, like, yeah, it works for money right now, but it's like a very limited use case. It's a lot harder to do digital scarcity. I mean, there is a thing called digital scarcity and like DRM, right? But DRM is like DRM for those people who don't know. Maybe I should explain. I don't know. There are normies watching, right? So that's like when a company tries to make tries to make it difficult to like copy a DVD or copy, like, you know, YouTube makes it hard to download a YouTube video, right? In fact, they don't want you to. For example, if I if I even mentioned the command line application that 100 percent of Linux users use to download YouTube videos, like YouTube will give you strikes on your channel. You know what I mean? They hate it. But the thing about that, like that kind of digital scarcity, is it basically impossible? Because if you're trying to like in order to watch a movie, you have to be streaming the video and audio. And if you're streaming the video out of an audio from even from an encrypted disc, it can be extracted somehow, right? Even if you're like using a capture card or something like that, it can be done. So like digital scarcity in that sense is basically impossible. Like you basically cannot do it unless you just have if you have like. I mean, you would have to have like hardware that's like closed source and basically is a standalone computer that does that kind of stuff, right? That you can't have other kind of software in and it doesn't have plugs that you could plug anything else in so you can capture stuff. So that's basically impossible. And like corporations have been trying for decades and decades to do this effectively. And DRM is like I would just hate to be working in that field. Firstly, because it's I view it as unethical. I think there is a sense in which digital data like to produce scarcity in it for no reason is like just bad. You know what I mean? Whereas Bitcoin and things like that, like you're not you're not making like things like useful things scarce. You're making you're only using scarcity so you can have this arbitrary, you know, ledger that assigns you can basically do money in it, right? So it's very different as far as I'm concerned. But I have heard people say, oh, well, you know, we shouldn't even have digital scarcity and money because blah, blah, blah. But, you know, I mean, if everything in the world were not scarce, there would be no need for money, right? The reason for like Bitcoin and and, you know, Monero and cryptocurrencies is because we need some kind of digital ledger of scarce things in the real world. And, you know, the convoluted proof of work system kind of does that. But there has been no maybe there's some kind of cryptographic way of doing DRM, but corporations have proven themselves not smart enough to develop such a thing they can just make things a little more difficult. But like you can still figure out pretty easily how to get things, right? I mean, even though they've come for places like Pirate Bay that host Torrance and stuff like that, Torrance are still I mean, you can there's still lots of people who use them to get digital media and stuff like that without a problem. So I mean, so I agree. I agree with that. Like, but I really think like digital scarcity when it comes to like media and digital scarcity when it comes to money are kind of two different things and we can do it with money. It's hard to figure it out for money. But I don't know if it can ever be possible because again, because again, like in order to even be able to read something, you have you are also going to be able to copy it, right? So Copeland says thoughts on cigar smoking an enjoyable pastime for those of a discerning pallet or a cope for the nicotine addicted with too much spare money, Chris from the Midwest. I'm not really against it. I've never smoked this cigar. I'm not really interested in it. But, you know, I don't really have negative feelings about it. OK, someone in the chat says, hey, guys, tomorrow, tomorrow, I'm going to ask a girl out from my school. Any tips? Yeah. Well, you shouldn't know. I don't know if they bring it to a technology channel or whatever.  That's even I am literally a Linux vessel right now. But when you really look at my videos and say, which, how many of them, what percentage are about Linux so few? Very, very few. I mean, like, I mean, there are a lot of things, a lot of programs that run on Linux, but those are not about Linux. The ones about Linux, I don't know. I haven't done the specifically Linux video in a long, long time. Owen says, thanks for answering my question in the plug chat. Here's some XMR. I'm trying to remember which one he was, which question he was. I'm going to look at the plug chat again.  Where's that photo that like, hold on, I'm going to find that photo. Since I added all of these other pictures, the OBS, I might as well do it. Let's see. Oh, but I moved all my memes when I, I actually thought about deleting my meme folder. And the only reason I didn't is because, shoot, where's my technology folder? The only reason I didn't is because like I literally, like it's basically a work, something I need for work because I use them for like thumbnails and stuff. Let's see. I want to find an arch meme. One particular, you guys know the one I'm thinking about. The guy on the park bench with the girl.  Where is it? Dang it. Oh, I don't think I had it named. Hold on. I'm going to have to look through. I'm going to please pause briefly as I search through all of the files on my computer. Let's see. Ah, dang it. I don't think it's here. Oh, no, wait. I have another, oh, there it is. There it is. All right. There it is. Hold on. I'm going to add it. I'm going to add it in. Oh, yeah. Look at that. Look how I like the aesthetic of this, like, um, the stream window. I just pulled it up. It looks not, oh, it's very crepuscular right now. Okay. Create new image. There it is. All right. That's what you should be like to ask the girl out. Just be like, hey, hey there, did you know I use Arch Linux just like that? That's how you do it. Look, look how freaking tan that girl is. That's actually pretty crazy. And he's like super pale. That's what you, well, actually you shouldn't say Arch Linux. You should say Artex Linux because that's what we use on this channel or Gen 2. That's fine. I've never actually used Gen 2 as a daily driver. I'm going to get rid of the, oh, oh, shoot. I forgot. I actually even put this pit, this image in here as well. So lindypress.net right here. Bam. Right. I can't really click on it. You can't see my mouse. But today I actually put up a new book. It's called The Consolation of Philosophy. This is what the cover looks like. So this is a book written by Boethius around the year 500 something. Very interesting book. It was actually written, he was an advisor to Theodoric, the great, you know, the Gothic Lord of Italy. You know, this is a little, you know, it's around the time of the fall of Rome. And Boethius was in a really kind of sucky position. You know, he was an advocate of the Christian Church and stuff like that and had wrote a bunch of theological stuff.  Aryans are like a kind of heresy. Either way, he was eventually at some point for political reasons, tried and sentenced to death. And so he's basically sitting on death row, and he wrote this very interesting book on death row that they didn't call it death row called The Consolation of Philosophy.  And it's kind of him, no, I don't want to say coping because when people say cope, usually it's like a bad thing, but coping in a good way.  Like, how is this going to work for the best? Like, do I really understand everything that's going on here? You know, can I really trust fortune? You know, how can I be content and fortune earlier in my life when I'm not content with it now? Right? So it's a very interesting book. And it's kind of given as a, like, how it's written is that philosophy appears to him personified in a woman. And she kind of reasons with him and stuff. Actually, the cover here is based on, you know, the term wheel of fortune that actually originates from this book or me, you know, maybe it was a turn of phrase before then in Rome. I'm not, I'm not actually exactly sure, but they do talk about the wheel of fortune. So this is a fortune here and she's kind of spinning the wheel and you can see the guy. He's, he's up at the top. He's having a great time. Then things get sucky. He's down, down at the bottom. And that's how it is, right? So consolation of philosophy now available on Lindy Press. This actually is another example of a book that. Yeah, well, this one is in English, right? I should say. And I kind of wanted to do this one in English because it has more of a mass appeal. So that's out there now. I know I said the Alchemy reader was going to be the next book I did, but I wanted to get this out first because I think it's kind of a better book. All right. So I'll keep this down here because I kind of like the way this cover looks. So I'm just going to keep it. I'll keep it over here now over here. All right. Let me look at the chat. Oh, so I had a twist of fate the other day. Okay.  So I'm going to tell you guys about it. Oh, my computer is kind of lagging here. Okay. It was just for a second. I think maybe it's not. Let me close out of all this stuff. Okay. So I had this twist of fate, like something really good happened and something really bad happened immediately after that annulled the good thing. So the good thing was, so for the longest, I used to have a ThinkPad X 200 and I still had it. Okay. It's just been in my closet for years and years. It's Libra booted too, right? And, you know, it just hadn't worked. It hadn't booted or whatever, but I eventually, for whatever reason last week, I ended up deciding, oh, okay. I'm just going to try and get this thing working. And somehow I did. Like, I don't know that much about Libra booting stuff, like at least with hardware, but I got it working, right? But the thing is I wanted to update the firmware Libra boot itself and I actually ended up screwing things up and I bricked it. So like within 24 hours, I was extremely happy about it. And then, you know, I'm extremely disappointed. I feel like the stream is lagging. It's not because of bandwidth.  I'll be right back. I just, I'm going to change some settings here. Okay. All right. I'm back. Yeah. I'm since I reformatted things, I had to fix, I had to fix some stuff. Hopefully that that's better. Um, all right. Okay. I'm going to turn that thing off because it's taken up a little too much. Yeah. Okay. Sorry about that technical difficulty. So Joshua says, um, hey, Luke, I thought it was atypical of your black deepfake to be live streaming. Stream looks very comfy today. T. Europe or who needs to go to bed. Yeah, you should go to bed. I should actually go to bed pretty soon. It's nine here. Um, and, you know, I'm an old boomer, but yeah, it does, it does the lighting.  But I actually do think a lot about lighting now. And the reason I have to think a lot about lighting is because I don't have hair here. So being overexposed is actually really bad. But I feel like that. Yeah, this is just a good location or like, I just got lucky with how this looks. Right. Um, so, uh, if, so I've been trying to be able to stream off of my phone, if I do, I will, I might stream something from the conference like Linux Fest, uh, either way. I don't know if they're actually streaming it. They might be streaming everything live. I know that they put out recordings of stuff. And I was actually talking to them about it because last year when I presented or like four years ago, whenever it was, it was like 2018. Was it 2018? It seems like forever ago.  That's like the one bad thing instead of HDMI. Um, like they didn't have a hookup for that. And like, it was annoying. Uh, but I talked to the guy about it and we should be all set on that. But, uh, let me pull back the, back up the blood chat. Yeah. I've actually been encrypting. So I think I mentioned I was encrypting drives. Uh, but oops, that's not the right thing to do. Um, so yeah, at this point, like if, if everyone stole all of my hardware, it wouldn't be a big deal. So, you know, for the longest time, I was living with like unencrypted drives and how I have it on this computer now is I actually have one drive unencrypted, which is like the bare system, but like everything that's important is linked to another drive where you have to put in the password to get onto it. So you have to put in a couple passwords, basically.  Uh, well, I think I said I met yesterday. I met Monero Mateo or Mateo Monero Monero Mateo, um, but he's not Linux. I don't think I Linux people. I don't think I've ever met. Um, I've probably talked to a couple on email.  Um, I think me and this door tube, like four years ago, did a stream together. Um, I haven't even talked to him yet. I, I, I think he lives somewhere. I want to, does he live in like Alabama? I'm not even sure. Uh, he has a really southern accent because he says volume instead of them. Um, and then who else? I know Chris Acapinti lives in Florida. And I think when I was moving close to there, I emailed him, Hey, like maybe we can do something eventually, but I never followed up on that. Um, Kenny is so good with Upset. He doesn't even have email. I mean, it wouldn't hurt to have like a burner email, but, uh, why are people practically addicted to giving their information to companies? If a software, if software doesn't collect advertising data on you, people won't use it. Yeah. I mean, the thing is, like what really happens is like, if you tell someone to use some equivalent that respects your privacy or something like that, or it's free software, like they will make up reasons about, you know, why they need to use. I mean, it's really like, it's not that they want to use bad software. It's just like the bad software that's harming them is the stuff that's shield and they, they feel comfortable due to familiarity. So they're going to use it and, you know, they don't want to use other stuff. So like, you know, people want to use telegram because they're familiar with it, you know, because people have been using telegram for what, like two years. So now it's an established thing. Um, and they can't use matrix or XMPP because that's alien, even though especially matrix can do everything telegram does, you know, video on your Firefox setup. I mean, there's nothing, there's nothing about my Firefox setup that's notable. I mean, I have just an ad blocker, like a VIM bindings thingy, decentralized and some other, like stylus, if I want to put custom themes on it, but really, like, I don't have anything special. Well, I do, maybe, maybe one thing that's worth talking about is the Archon Fox JS. I mean, honestly, nowadays, like, for a lot of things like that, mental law has done a video on it so you can watch his stuff, whatever, that that's what I keep him around for, right? The funny thing, you know, I think I've said before on live streams, the other funny thing about mental outlaw is now that now his channel is like, his channel is like twice as big as mine.  Oh, you're just trying to do thumbnails like him. And I'm like, I will say I've been extremely lazy with thumbnails recently. I don't know if you've noticed, like, I won't even like edit them. I'll just find one meme and just use it. Like, I won't even like do editing and like, especially, I don't know, I used to put a lot of effort into them, especially when I had text in them, and I'd have like a meme and I do like highlighting and shadow and all this kind of stuff in GIMP. And I just got freaking lazy. Mental outlaw still like put some work into his meme thumbnail still. If Mac, if Mac books weren't made by Apple and they were repairable, would you buy them? I mean, that's a silly question because them being not repairable is basically what defines a Mac book. Like, I don't I don't know how I can't imagine a Mac book. I mean, that's what's bad about them. If there were a computer that looked like a Mac book and was like, extremely extensible, sure. I mean, great, it sounds like a fantastic computer. But like, who cares? It's not like that. Stewart says, donates someone says, any chance of non Western works on Lindy Press, such as the nine chapters on the mathematical art, I actually don't know that work nine chapters on the mathematical art. Who is that by? Time for me to search. Google search it. And when I say Google search, I obviously mean, sirks in jeeing it. OK, I've never even heard of this. This is a Chinese work. Yeah. So I mean, like, I don't feel as comfortable publishing things that I'm less familiar with. I'll just say that. But I'm not against it. But I will also say, you know, I've written before about how Chinese stuff should just be like Chinese as a language is so different that it really just should not be translated. Like, if you want to read that stuff, you have to read Chinese. And it's kind of the same way with Sanskrit, to be honest. Like you look at the example that I give to people. I think I was talking about this in a blog post a million years ago, but like, take take a Chinese work like the Dao De Jing. OK.  But take the Dao De Jing and look up five different English translations and you will realize that the five different English translations are like five different entirely different books, right? Because, you know, Chinese, especially classical Chinese has so much polysomy like every phrase is like has multiple meanings and like they're syntactically ambiguous and they can mean different things. Like is this a noun or a verb or is this an adjective and a noun and like they have both interpretations and it's like Chinese poetry, especially classical Chinese stuff. It's like so untranslatable that it's almost like forget about it. Now maybe you know, maybe if we're talking about math, it's different. I don't know this work again, but I definitely feel like they're like, especially Chinese stuff should not be translated. You've got to learn Chinese if you want to learn about it. And yeah, it's it's it's crazy interesting stuff, but, you know, it kind of feels like mutilating it. And that's like less true of Latin. Like Latin is very different. I mean, when it comes to European languages, like modern European languages, they're all kind of on the same page. So like what you say in English or German or French or Spanish, you can kind of translate from one language to the other. And there are a couple expressions that are weird, like different ways of saying things. Latin is kind of separate from all of those, including languages, you know, including languages that descend from it, like Spanish and French, but also German as well, like modern German is closer to modern French. And like in terms of how they express things, then any of them are to like Latin. Like just the way that people express things 2000 years ago is just freaking different. And unless you like are really familiar with the way that they construct sentences, like you're not going to know what I'm talking about. Like it's just it's hard to put your finger on. I don't know. I can't give an example off the top of my head. But with Chinese, it's like even different. It's like great. Or like Sanskrit writing, like I have to admit I'm a Sanskrit brainlet. I probably even studied Sanskrit more than I study Chinese. But Chinese is way easier. Like Sanskrit's a freaking brutal language to like read it and understand and stuff like that. Yeah, people should definitely learn Chinese. I mean, Chinese like people have this idea, especially in the English speaking world, that it's like a really hard language, but it isn't like a total like the writing system is difficult, but that's not the language itself.  I have an article on learning Chinese. You just read that, even if you're not interested just to get an idea of how it works. But it's an easy language, like compare it like grammatically speaking, it's one of the easiest languages that there is to learn. The holdups for people are the writing system, which is a different beast. Like when you learn Chinese, you got to learn the language on one side and the writing system is totally different. And the language is easy. The writing system is like, I mean, if you come to it with the from the right angle, understanding it for what it is, it's not too hard. But it is like more difficult than like learning the language itself. And the other thing that is a holdup for people is like just how like the different phonology. And if you if you're familiar with phonetics and like how you articulate things in your mouth and stuff like that. If you if you've read like the Wikipedia entry for the international phonetic alphabet, and you understand places and manners of articulation, you can make such a sense of Chinese really pretty quickly, like the phonetics of it. So that's not an issue. It's just like, it's just like, I remember when I took Chinese classes, all the kids who were just taking it for a credit, like they were all just whining, oh, the tones are hard. Oh, this sound is hard. Like, you know, it's just like they want to learn it in the classroom, like they don't want to they don't want to set down and think about it for like 30 seconds or actually look into like what these sounds are and stuff, and then be set for life. No, they're just going to like struggle on the same things over and over again, because like, oh, it's hard to like think about things. That's actually how normies are with learning in general. But that's life. That's life. Anonymous says favorite movies and directors. I don't want to give like, if you ask, if you ask me about a movie, I'll tell you about it, what I think about it. But I don't want to say favorites. Like I don't, firstly, I've probably said this before, I don't really do favorites of anything. But definitely in movies, like movies, it's more like which movies are least bad. There are so few movies that are like positive and like not that terrible. That I can't even take.  And here's an example. So, you know, people know the movie, it's a wonderful life. Okay. It's a good kind of wholesome, family oriented. I mean, it's also an entertaining movie, right? It's kind of hokey at sometimes. But you know, it's one of those Christmas movies that people watch. You know, it's a good, like it has a positive message. It's about like there's nothing sorted. There's nothing like anything. They're not scenes in there to shock you, just to like psychologically put you off kilter. But that's exactly what like movies nowadays do. Like they're not really about entertaining you. They're about throwing a couple things in your face to entertain you.  And like, basically, I mean, it's psychological suppressant, you know. Anyway, it's a wonderful life is a good example.  And that's what people want to see. Like they want to say that's why it's like a good example of a movie that's like classic and people enjoy like people actually watch it and enjoy it. Okay. Grown men can cry at a movie like that. You know what I mean? Whereas you just will never see something like that made nowadays. Like a movie studio and all these producers would have to say, how are we going to screw this up? Oh, we got to make his we got to make sure his wife is like cheating on him. Okay. One of his kids has to be like transgender, you know.  You know, that's kind of things that they would do, right? Because you can't just have a normal movie that tells like a normal story. It has everything has to be like devoted to the to the end of the to the goals of the movie making establishment. So if you ask me about a specific movie, I'll talk about it. But like I'm not I'm definitely not going to say favorite. Samuel says any place we can find books on learning languages that fits your general philosophies. I'm starting with Latin and I saw your blog posts on the romance languages. However, eventually, I would like to learn a language like check I have direct family living there. The thing with languages is that each one is a different beast. And I don't feel comfortable giving specific recommendations about a language that I don't know. Check would be an example. I don't know any Slavic languages. So I mean, apart from the things that I've written, like I've not learned these other languages. So I can't really I don't like giving advice to people. So on does really like different every language is a different animal, as I said, right? So I think what you have to do, this is like the meta theory I would give you. Look up on Wikipedia, how the grammar works. Does it have nominative accusative? What kind of verbs does it have? What kind of blah, blah, blah? And you kind of have to build your own curriculum based on that, right? Now you you probably if you read my thing on Latin, I think at the bottom of the page, I link to this thing like Latin by the Dowling method. And that method that he gives for learning Latin and you can generalize this in a way. But the method that he gives is first, when you start out learning Latin, don't learn Latin, just learn the paradigms, learn all the different endings, like the conjugation endings, like learn them by rote, force yourself to do them right down tables a million, million times, learn them as if they're just like something you have to learn and make them reflex. Then you can start learning language because the thing that's mentally difficult for people to do is that initial or it's not initial for most people. Sometimes they just jump into learning words and stuff like that. And then they get tripped up on all this stuff that doesn't come naturally to them. So what you have to do when you're learning a language is you have to think what things are not going to come naturally to me. These are the things that I have to overtly teach myself. Okay, I'm going to have to take time out and say, what's the difference between these two auxiliary verbs? What's the difference between these two sounds? Let me sit down and seriously get conclusive answers on them with examples like this is where you use that. This is where you use this, right? So you have to look at a language. You have to have a bird's eye view of it at the beginning and say, I need to prioritize this to teach myself by rote and all the other stuff like learning words, stuff like that, like who cares? Like that is that's going to come like as you have a structural use of the language that will come later. That's that's something that you can do more naturalistically. So that's what I would say to that. Keith says, is there a language living or dead that can be said to be as purposefully put together as something like Esperanto is something that is consistent in its rules. Well, Esperanto itself, even Esperanto, of course, invented in a hermetically sealed room is very, I don't know, purposefully put together. But anyone who looks into Esperanto and how it's used realize realizes very quickly the spoken Esperanto within a generation or two changed significantly. Like it was more it was more like co-opted for individual use. OK, you can't plan a language because like your bird, like if you're planning with a bird's eye view, if you're trying to design a language, you're going to fit it to rational principles that don't apply to how languages actually work. You're going to you're going to make words too long for words so common and you're going to make less common words too short, which languages naturally get rid of, right? Or you're going to have weird endings or, you know, you might have more regularity in one place and less irregularity in another where, you know, humans might want the opposite, right?  Like that's not how it works. That's not how language works. Like it's more of an organic system that you can look back at statistically, you know, you can do things like Ziff's Law and you can find all of these like patterns in language. But those patterns like they they you can step back and see them because language as it's used often is kind of irrational, right? I mean, that that's my way of putting it. So no, of course, that that's not or Esperanto is not a real language. Like it's fake.  And I mean, it's not serious. Like, you know what I mean? It's like, it's not worth looking at. If you want a language with consistent rules or if it while really, let's be real. If you're afraid of a language that has inconsistent morphology and stuff like that irregular verbs and stuff like that. If you want to soothe your autism, if you want a language that's going to soothe your autism, learn Chinese, which doesn't have any morphology whatsoever, right? If you don't have morphology, you can't have morphological irregularities, you're not going to have irregular verbs, irregular plurals in a language like Chinese that doesn't have verb tenses or plurality or anything like that. So that's the real answer. So Don says, look, I'm training to become a bespoke tailor in a Lovedon London tailoring house. So that's interesting. We make suits, overcoats, trousers, pretty much any garment with a sewing pattern. A three piece suit can take 60 hours to be made. A lot of my relatives are telling me that it would be much better if I went back to college and that mass manufacturing in my industry is essentially not important, quote unquote, just wanted to ask, do you think I'll be wasting my time? No, there's always going to be, first off, what you're doing is infinitely better than like, I'm sure you've gotten into it enough to realize like, like mass produced clothing is not in the same category as what you're doing, you know, if the place you're working at is doing things well, right?  But no, I I think that's a great position to be in, to be honest. I mean, if they're paying you well, if they're good opportunities, if you think you can make something out of it, that sounds like a great profession to have a great skill to have in general. Yeah, tailoring how I mean that that sounds like a really good thing. I mean, that's a classic trade and it's also something that's still useful. And of course, your market's going to be different. It's going to be, it's going to be like either rich people or people who just like care about quality stuff, you know, and that's, that's probably better, frankly. Yeah, that's a good I've, I give my endorsement to that. But again, it depends on your particulars, there might be reasons for you to do other things, but that that sounds really cool. Wicked jargon says, I saw your discussion with a Monero guy. Have you ever considered asking like minded individuals on your channel for discussions? RMS and Jesse Lee Peterson come to mind. Those are very interesting recommendations. RMS is he's, he's, he's on his own wavelength. You might think that you're 99% just like RMS, but that 1% to him is going to make all the difference. So that saying, oh, just do and do something with RMS, that would be like a big, I mean, let's be realistic. He's very particular. Right. And I think I think I tell people, if you want to know what he's like, see his Monero talk interview, which should be, it should have been a great thing. But he just made, I don't want to say made a fool out of himself. He really made a Richard Stallman out of himself. That's what he was doing. But it was so awkward. And that's how I imagine any conversation with him being like, because if again, if you you might agree 99% with him, but that 1% is just like he's going to make a fuss out of it. And Jesse Lee Peterson, I don't really I know that he exists, but I kind of view that as a satirical. I'm not saying I just like the guy or anything. I just don't really. It's kind of a funny thing. Okay, I'm going to look at the normal chat for a second. RMS is is nuts. If he isn't talking about software. I mean, I'm sure there are other things he's good at.  Someone says, who's RMS? Yeah, we really aren't a Linux channel at this time. Yeah, it's a GNU Linux channel. No, Richard Stallman, Richard M. I don't know what the M stands for. Yeah, he's like basically the guy who created the concept of free software and the free software movement. And basically Linux exists because of him, or at least the GNU project of which Linux, you know, is kind of a part. I mean, I don't, well, I don't think Linux is technically part of the GNU project at all. But you know, we use the GNU project with Linux thoughts on fishing, fishing. I don't fish, but you know, it's a good idea. I it's a, it's a skill that I should probably have more experience with. I live pretty close to many places where I could fish. Don't talk about XMR around normies. I mean, I don't, I, there's some people out there, there's some Menero people who are like really skittish about talking about Menero, which I find really kind of weird. Like as if like, firstly, it's not like it's illegal or anything, or it's not like there's any reason for it to be illegal. I mean, it's the same functionally, it works the same way as cash, it's just digital cash. So I think people fall into this kind of paranoia of, oh, well, you know, some like newspaper said that like it's used by criminals. So what? Like I mean, it's the best cryptocurrency. Like that that's why it's important. Like who care? Yeah, sure. Like bet I like it whenever people like kind of taint the well with that kind of stuff. Or whenever you see a study, here's a good one. If the news media doesn't like something, like you used to see this, especially back in the coronavirus thing, they would say, oh, people with psychopathic tendencies are more likely to question, you know, the narrative on coronavirus. And firstly, that's trivially true.  Like that's how psychopaths are. And that's, I mean, that's a bad case when it's pathological, obviously. But, you know, anyone who's going to challenge an accepted norm by definition is going to have more psychopathic tendencies. I don't say that in a good sense, but a sense in which some of those tendencies could be individualist thought, right? Being a psychopath is not good. However, there are some things that, you know, impressionable people are not going to share with them. And being impressionable is even worse for people. You know what I mean? But this is the way that people kind of taint the well, which I think is poison the well. That's the term. Anonymous says, sadly, I haven't read a book in several years, but I want to change that. Do you, if you had to recommend one book to someone, what would you choose? See, I got this.  I don't I don't really like you have to pull teeth to give me specific. I mean, for me to just give general read a book things, because I'm not. I am of the I want to say like Schopenhauer and Nietzsche are kind of noted. I think they said they were kind of against reading. And I'm kind of the same way, like the or just like reading for reading's sake.  That's not the case. If anything, I mean, it's it's kind of like how Internet was or TV was like before that before comic books before any of that, there was just reading for reading's sake. That was thought of as being like NPC behavior, right? Because reading, I mean, in in the like pre technological pre digital world, reading is basically the equivalent of like listening to podcasts all day. So you you don't you're not left alone with your own thoughts. That's the way I can I guess I can describe it. So there's a sense in which some people like it. Now, if you're asking you know, to read as opposed to like browsing the Internet I did all day, that's probably an improvement. I mean, you could read Consolation of Philosophy right here, the book that I have here just because I flipped over and saw it. I think the books that I recommended for like Normie's like Red Pill 1.0 or maybe like really point point one or something. I think I recommended Blank Slate and Antifragile. And those are with big caveats because I don't necessarily endorse the authors, but they're good for Normie's. There are more like political and ramifications.  I mean, you you can check out my book site if you want. Lindy press dot net if anything peaks your interest. But you if anyone wants like recommendations about reading, you have to tell me what what's your mindset? Where you are in life? Like what you're thinking about? Then I can give you recommendations. But as it comes to oh, should I read just to read? No, that's not good in itself. Although again, it might be better than like browsing the Internet all day. But you know, I can't give you a recommend and the name recommendation for that. Dawn says, look what European countries were your ancestors from before they settled in the state. I mean, just Britain.  There was. I do have. Let's see, I want to say maybe an eighth of my ancestry, maybe a sixteenth. I forget which generation is German, aside from that entirely British. And that includes some. I want to say a lot of that is English, but I might have some like northern, maybe Scottish or Irish ancestors. But I do know that I have that German ancestry. Those were really late immigrants to the United States who came like maybe late 1800s to the United States. Everyone else in my family was in the United States before the revolution. So far as I know. But yeah, like the. So I do have some like newer immigrants that are like late 1800s. Well, even that, that's like super old now. That's like original Americans. Now we've, you know, we got we got more stuff to deal with nowadays. But now my dad actually did have his DNA sequenced, which I don't I don't necessarily like that he sends his DNA to a company, but whatever he did it. SMF, the bunch of random letters, says weird question. Do you have any tips on pursuing real happiness? Yes, join the Orthodox Church. Next question. I don't need to elaborate because that's literally that's all you need to know. Stuart says, I do research on NLP, natural language processing, and find it absurdly arrogant that people try to use computers to understand language when they themselves only know one. Did you encounter something similar in linguistics? Yes, this is like the primary issue with modern linguistics. Like the entire the entire generative program is, I mean, this is almost, this is like, I feel bad saying this because it is something that like post-colonial people say, but it's true. Like generative linguistics is really just a super English approach to languages that I mean, like it is so, I don't even know how to describe how oblivious it is. Like generative linguists, they are so English only, usually your average generative linguist, I'm not talking about the higher tier ones, I'm talking about your average one. We'll know English and maybe smatterings of one other language, usually a European, usually like French or German, Spanish, and you'll have people who know random languages like maybe Japanese, maybe Mayan, that's rarer. But of course, none of them are operating primarily in English and when they analyze other languages, even if they know like Japanese fluently, they will always analyze it from an English setting. And the generative program, like they build models that basically kind of make sense. Well, I mean, you have to be real, this is what actually happened. Like when Chomsky and all these guys started modeling language, they started with a model of English and they would tack things on to, oh, let's solve for this construction in French. So let's add this extra formal architecture on top of it. Or here's this thing that exists in German. So we have to add this other architecture on top of that. So it's not like a principled understanding of language, it's like English with a bunch of stuff tacked on to it.  So when I first started learning about generative linguistics, I was like, how the hell can this ever work with like Latin or Greek? This, which is not a very alien language, you're still in Europe, right? You're just like older, more and more phylogical languages. There are all, you have to assume this really unencumbering, I mean, or encumbering like grammatical theory that stipulates all this kind of silly stuff. And like it's doing things backwards. And it's like, formally it's just a freaking mess. And forget about it when you wanna do like Japanese or Chinese or serial verb constructions or even SOV. It's just, yes. So yes, that is a massive problem. Generative linguistics is very much, again, this is something that post-colonial people say, but it's true, it's just people thinking that every language is like English. And like this whole universal grammar stuff, well, I do believe in a universal grammar in a very abstract sense. And of course, Chomsky will endorse the same thing, but that's really to escape falsifiability. But like, yeah, it's just, the whole field is just a freaking mess. And it's like, if people with similar assumptions had started from Japanese, modern linguistics would just have a totally different form. Like it wouldn't look anything like it does now. It's a great example of everything I talked about in the Fire Band episode and not related and all those stuff I do on Philosophy of Science because you get yourself, like the field gets itself in this kind of theoretical whole, this theoretical bubble, right? This positivistic bubble where you're just fine-tuning this one theoretical program, like this one framework that if you had just approached things from a different angle, you would have another framework that you would also be in the bubble of. And you have this, I don't know, it's difficult to explain. It's like, you can never escape from them because you're kind of, you're path dependent. That's kind of the way it is. You're like dependent on these, not like things that have anything to do with reality or have to do with truth, but they have to do with like your path dependence. Like this is how the field happened to develop. And we could do things very differently, but we don't even think about that. We just think about this is science, everything else is pseudo-science, you know? That's kind of how they, that's the thing that's most annoying. So yes, that is absolutely a problem. Sorry, that was a very boring conversation for 90% of people. Would you write a book? People are interested. Why would I write a book about? You have to write a book about something. And the thing is nowadays, you know, I have, thankfully I have live streams, okay?   And it's not very conducive. Like it's not, like humans thrive through discussion and understanding issues. I mean, this is why when people first started writing in Greek, I mean, you know, Plato wrote dialogues, right? They're basically conversations, okay? Like written speech is not intuitive, okay? It's not something that people understand. And so it's not like writing books is not like, it's not a real thing, you know? It's suboptimal. We now have technology that allows us to talk to people directly. So if someone wants to compile my thoughts and try and put it into, you know, some kind of writing, I don't even know how that would be interesting enough for a book, to be honest. Like having someone's random hot takes that they record when they're bored in their hotel room at Lenox Fest, I don't think that's worth a book, to be honest. I feel like in order for it to be in a book, it should be important. I've been watching this channel for like three years and I still don't know what linguistics is. Yeah, that's cause I never talk about it. I only, like the only things I say about linguistics is like things in passing about like how, like the thing, the field itself, like generative linguistics is so screwed. I mean, it's a great example. Like you literally cannot explain it to, like understanding generative linguistics is like, is being inducted into a cult. And it's just like, this is how we do things. This is how we talk about things. There's not like, it's hard to explain. Like it's not like, if there will be canned responses to what generative linguistics is supposed to be, but they don't like, there's no content behind it. Like they'll say, oh, it's about like, the innate language faculty. No, it's not. That's not what it, like generative linguistics is very, a very specific formalism. And like everyone thinks that there's like a genetic or innate aspect of language. They might not say, they might kind of counter signal generative linguistics because they say that they are for that and they feel like they have to be against it. But like the contentfulness of modern linguistic theory is so little as to, unless you have been inducted into it, into this cult, it's not gonna make sense to you because there is nothing like, they're literally talking about nothing. It's hard to explain. Oh, look, it moves the spec TP. Oh, it checks this feature. It may, like there is nothing, it is a formalism for describing things that happen in a magical tree that has no basis in psychology. It has no, I mean, it's like a formal accident where people tried to use post systems to describe language and they forgot that they were doing formal analysis and started to think that they're actually describing something that exists in the brain. It's people who do not have, like who didn't sit down and think philosophically about things for five seconds. It's people being, again, it's domain, it's path dependence where, oh, we made these minor errors or these, maybe not even errors. Let's say we made these theoretical assumptions in the 50s and we just followed them to their drastic conclusions and we've misunderstood, like we don't, there's no institutional memory for people to remember, like, oh, what is a post system? What is a formal model of language actually supposed to be?  Generative linguistics is like schizophrenic on all these, anyway, this is a boring conversation for everyone. So who cares? I'm not gonna talk about this.  You know, if I were, if I was in a company of a bunch of graduate students who were interested in this, I would talk to them about it with specific examples. No one cares about this. I don't care about this. I want this part of my life to be over.  But generative linguistics, I will say, is a fantastic example. I'm glad I had to go through that. No, I'm not glad about that. But I'm glad I at least learned. I was given a great example of everything wrong with positivistic science. Why it's so bad? It is like, if it were worth explaining to you how annoying this field is, it would make perfect sense. It is like, anyway, screw it. Yeah, I'm done talking about that. Let's see. So this hotel, now this hotel is actually, okay, one regret last time. I wouldn't say it was a regret. It was a learning experience. Last time I came to Linux Fest, back in 2008, it was 2018. Man, that seems like so long ago, because, yeah, because I had to miss 2019 for a personal reason. And then because of the lockdown hoax, we didn't have any in-person things the past couple of years. Anyway, my one regret then is I didn't stay at the hotel they actually do this thing at. And I'm very glad I did now, but it's very, I don't want to say it's very expensive. I mean, it's kind of an average hotel. Usually I'm the guy staying at Red Roof Inn or some crappy thing that costs $70 or whatever. But since it costs more than usual, I am making sure that I use absolutely all the amenities. That actually the book here says that I'm entitled to a free bathrobe. So I'm probably gonna take them up on that. Let's see. See what else I'm entitled to. Body wash conditioner, lotion, shampoo, shaving gel, bath mat, bath robes, bathroom scale. Oh, maybe I should weigh myself. Bed rails, booster seat, crib, high chair, comb, cotton swabs, cotton balls, disposable razor. I might actually want one of those because I brought this razor that I have one of those replaceable razors, like a permanent razor that you can replace the blades on. But the blades I brought now, they're kind of dull. Fan, sorry, this is a friend simulator like every live stream. So I'm just talking about my life right now. So yeah, I've been trying to use all their amenities including their tea, which I've never, I've never actually used the coffee maker before, but I use it to heat water up. I'm gonna read donations. All right. So Dawn says, do you think it's futile to think we can red pill people through conversational law alone or is it genuine social concern for friends, the true guide to red-pilling? I mean, it's both. You just have to really be, I will say there are a lot of people who like misgage others I've seen. Like weirdly enough, obviously I have a technology channel and so you would think I'm kind of autistic. Well, that is true. But I will say that I like to think that I have a better feel on people than most. And that's possible. When I was a teenager, I became very interested as like I became interested in humans almost as if like it's an autistic obsession. So I like to think that I have a better feel for people. Like getting, I really enjoy, and I have to say I enjoy getting to know people, understanding what makes them tick, understanding what's important to them. And I like very poetically convincing people of things. Okay, that sounds weird to say, but I feel there's a kind of appeal to that. I will just say it's enjoyable. It's enjoyable to see the lights go on for people. Now, if you don't have a skill for that to convince people, a sense of persuasion or not really persuasion, I'm not like selling people, I'll use cars. But I mean, you really have to know someone to be able to convince them of something like earth shattering or whatever. Like you can't ever force anything on anyone ever. Like it always has to be, they're looking for something, you give them that. Maybe you tease something else, right? But yeah, I mean, conversation is part of that, but it's really, and social concern as well, but it's really about forming a relationships with people. And then you can kind of have an influence on them, right? And again, that sounds bad. It sounds like Machiavelli, ooh, have an influence on people. But no, I mean, to be a positive influence on people, right? People who, in most cases, like the thing about normies is like it is comforting to believe that the world's all okay the way it is. But people also kind of know that something's up. And they are very willing, like they are looking, they're looking for explanations, okay? Keith says, Aristotle or Plato?  But I don't know, if you put a gun to my head, I would have to say, I don't know. Now I'm actually kind of divided. I was about to say Aristotle just because there's a lot of interesting medieval works that come influenced from Aristotle. And I find them more enjoyable to read than Platonic stuff, but you know, Orthodox would prefer saying Plato. Aristotle, like the Western church is more Aristotelian and the Orthodox church is more Platonic. Sometimes people say that. But yeah, I don't have like a preference really for either one. Like I think those specific classical philosophers, it's where I just said that modern philosophy is not worth reading, but I also think that people, they put on too high of a standard a lot of very classical stuff like Aristotle and Plato. I mean, you guys, if you know me, I like kind of medieval stuff is where it's at. I mean, in a lot of cases, like Christian theology and medieval theology, which is exactly what modern culture like demeans. But that is where the hardcore stuff is. Like the systems thinkers, like Aristotle's nice, but Aquinas is better than Aristotle. Like, or at least more enjoyable and more instructive to read. It's not to say I agree with Aquinas on a bunch of things. But medieval stuff is just better. Like, reading Aquinas' Summa, even if you're an atheist, reading his like moral theory and all this kind of stuff, it's just more interesting than reading Aristotle, you know? That's just my take. Oof Yeet McGee sends in some XMR. How did you originally get into Linux? I'm sorry if that had been asked before. Actually, that's actually not something that people ask me that much about. I did do a video years ago about maybe talking about how I got into Linux. I forget what the thumbnail was. It might be titled, How Did You Originally Get Into Linux? The first time I used it, the first time I used it on my own computer, I had a roommate in college that, you know, we installed Ubuntu on my machine and I played around on it or whatever, but I didn't get into it seriously. It wasn't until, weirdly enough, I learned LaTeX, okay? I learned LaTeX on, and I was using a Windows machine, but after I did my master's thesis, I learned how to use tech. And I'm not even sure how I ran across LaTeX, but like, I learned how to use it. And I was like, oh my goodness, I'm gonna rewrite my thesis in LaTeX. And I was like, oh, this is great. Then I looked into, weirdly enough, what are minimalistic ways to edit LaTeX? Cause I was using like a kind of Google drive, like share LaTeX, which is kind of like a Google drive-y kind of thing. And I was still using all proprietary software. Like, well, I mean, if I had the choice, I would use free software, but I was still using Windows. You know, I would go for the, like more privacy centered things, but I was still on Windows, right? And then, when I was looking for like more minimalistic kind of, actually kind of command line based stuff, that's when I discovered Vim. And I actually started using Vim on Windows. Like I'd never really used Linux. And then there came a time where, I mean, I guess now I look back at it and it was one of the best disasters ever, but I had this like Windows tablet thing that had a keyboard. And one day, I remember like, going to like some meetup with some other grad students to like quote unquote study, hang out. That's what it really was. And I brought my laptop or my tablet and it cracked. And I was like, oh my goodness, now I can't use it anymore. And that was the best thing that ever happened to me because then I was like, well, I should get, you know, I'm gonna install Linux again. Cause I know this Vim thing runs on Linux. So I'm gonna compile things from that. Cause a lot of, you know, a lot of like how to optimize Vim and compile LaTeX within it, all the answers of course were for Linux. So then I got into Linux from that. So that's a weird way. Cause normally, you know, I actually got into Linux, through the more hardcore stuff, right? Cause a lot of times people will get into Linux and use it as a desktop operating system. Then, oh, I'm scared of Vim. I was kind of the opposite. I was like compiling documents and then using Vim, then using Linux. And then, you know, once, once I got set up on that, I think I was using Manjaro for a period. And I was very, I was kind of hopping distros, figuring things out. I mean, the only one I seriously use was Manjaro. But then I installed Arch Linux and, you know, just building your system from the bottom up is just way, that is the experience that, you know, once you have that, okay, now I understand how to use Linux. And now I'm gonna customize this and that and do things how I want. And, you know, that's when I started Larbs because basically I was reinstalling my system over and over again. Do I, I don't have an ad for that. Larbs.xyz, you can go to that website. It's not, it's not listed over there. Where basically you can install my own system, you know, my own .files and stuff and pulls all the software I use automatically. You know, I've thought about, I probably need to do this because there's so many people who watch my channel who I guess are new or like don't know the stuff that I've done over the years. I should just take a week where every day I would do a video on this is this project that I have. I should talk about, let me talk about where it came from, why I do it, what you can get from it, blah, blah, blah. I've thought about doing that. I think that'd probably be a good idea because really I'm always talking as if everyone watching knows everything that I've ever been through in my life. Like I kind of, weirdly enough, I talk to people as if they're equals. I mean, not as if people, you guys are lower than me but like when I'm talking about something I know, there's a good chance that, you know, you're not familiar with what I'm talking about. And I think people, I think people actually like that. I think they don't like being condescended to. Like I'm not constantly explaining basic things but yeah, I should probably take some time off to say this is the kind of stuff that I've done. Anyway. So Morgan says, surprised you went Orthodox knowing that you're such a Latin enthusiast was very happy to pick up your anti-modern papal encyclicals, for example. I was confirmed Catholic this year and attended traditional Latin Mass when I can. I'm sure you considered Catholicism. So I would love to hear your theological considerations that went into your decision to become Orthodox. I'm learning Latin through the Dowling Method, thanks to you, great. Very thankful, very grateful for all you've shared with us, Luke, take care. Yeah, I mean, I considered Catholicism for a while and I will say that I've answered this question in every other live stream. So I kind of don't want to answer it here. What I really need to do is I need to either do one video on why I did not go with Catholicism and I think that the Orthodox faith is the true church or I might write a blog post on that, but I kind of don't want to answer this question again. Like I get tired of saying the same things. I feel like I repeat myself a lot and I feel like it kind of, I don't know. I'm sure other people would be familiar or would be willing to hear, but yeah, I need to write that down. Oh, I will use that as an excuse to write that kind of stuff down. You know, I should have been working on my Linux Fest presentation today, but haven't really thought about it that much. Okay, I appreciate your takes on monetary theory, hard currency, et cetera. What are some good sources I should consult to learn about finance, money, the history of banking, et cetera? I don't know. I mean, it's hard to say. I kind of assume that everyone in cryptocurrency at least has a good background in like Austrian economics. I mean, that's not like to give my endorsement to like libertarianism or Austrians or anything in particular, but the nice thing about them is that they spell out a lot of this stuff and a lot of the way that crypto people think is a function of like Austro-libertarianism. So I don't know, maybe if you're asking this, you've already read like Rothbard and Hayek and Mises or whatever, but I mean, you should have, you haven't. And this isn't me trying to sell libertarianism to you because I'm not a libertarian, but you know, you should have a background in that. One book that I wanna read that's not written by a libertarian or maybe by a left libertarian if we wanna use that term. I kinda wanna, the guy who made BS Jobs, David Graber, he also wrote a book called Debt, the first 5,000 years or something like that. I kinda wanna read that. I don't know what his takes on everything is gonna be, but I assume they'll be of the same caliber of BS Jobs. That is, he might say some cringe things. I actually did start reading his, what is it? The other book of his that I got, it's orange, it's about prehistory, the dawn of everything that actually came out posthumously. And so far, it's been good. Like, I mean, with a lot of those guys, there's a bunch of like leftist, like social points, but the content is good. It's just like, you have to put up with, every once in a while you cringe at a page and it's kinda like, okay, yeah, of course he's gonna say this, but yeah, a lot of these guys, like they don't know what kind of base stuff they're dealing with. They reach a lot of these really funky conclusions from, I don't know. Oh, so I don't know if people who follow my GitHub noticed, but I forked a repository for setting up a webbering. It's actually written in Go. I've actually been playing with Go a lot recently. I kinda wanted to be my language now because most of what I do is shell scripting because I've never needed to do anything else, but I've kinda decided, I wanna rewrite Lindy Press. As you know, like a subscriber actually helped, right? I mean, he basically wrote Lindy Press. I just made a couple changes. We did a couple back and forth there, but basically I had a subscriber write Lindy Press, which is really great. So thank you again. I don't know if he wants to be anonymous, but I wanna rewrite it myself because it'd be better for me to know the whole thing much more intimate. I mean, I figure out how the, I know how the back end works if something breaks on Lindy Press, but I kinda wanna write it myself and I kinda wanna build some other things on top of it. I wanna build compatibility with BTC Pay. And I wanna run it in Go. Go is very fast, very good language. And the nice thing about it is it is very fast, but it's also very intuitive. Like it's about as easy as Python, to be honest.  It's not as esoteric as some other languages. I mean, even C, if you've been around programming enough, even if you're like me and you don't really write C, you just maintain a couple crappy, suckless forks, right? You're familiar with C, but it's still kinda esoteric looking in a way that Go isn't. You look at it and it makes sense. And so I've kinda started to enjoy using Go. Either way, so I might actually do a video about establishing a web ring with you guys who have your own website. So, have you seen Hugo Framework? I actually use Hugo for my own personal website now and I use it for base.cooking. The base.cooking is the original thing I used it for because Hugo can do tagging a whole lot better. Here comes the Framework Soydez, yeah.  It's a static site generator. Hugo is a static site. If you're using anything that has to be called a Framework, like you're screwed, that is a Soydev term. Or people will call IngenX a Framework or like, oh, you have IngenX, just look at a directory on your computer, that's a Framework. That just doesn't seem right. It doesn't seem right to use that term. Bro, why would you need speed for a site like that? See, that mindset is everything wrong. Why would you write something efficiently? Why don't you just write it in a slow language? That mindset is the problem. Like imagine being someone who works in computers and doesn't care about efficiency. I can't even sympathize with that. Hugo is a Framework. I mean, call it what you want. I'm just saying, as that guy implicitly noted, Framework is one of those words that they use.  I'm calling yourself a dev by itself innocuous, but we all know the kind of people who call themselves devs. It's just suspect. That's all I'm saying. Don says, Luke, would you ever make a vid explaining what some lines of larbs SH do? I loved your previous shell scripting vids and want to know if it's something you'd be interested in doing. I think there was a time where there was at least something I wanted to showcase as an example of shell in the larb script. I might do that. I might do that. Because again, as I said, if I'm reviewing things that I've done, I think that'd be a good idea. Anonymous says, book question follow-up, good point. That was horribly worded question with way too much, well, I wouldn't say it's horribly worded, don't be hard on yourself though.  Anyway, you say, as far as where I am in life, still living with my parents wanting to be independent, but not financially ready to go, working a job, wanting to do something different, no higher education. Well, I'm also kind of looking at like, what do you think politically, like what are you looking for in a book?  I mean, I don't do life advice books in themselves are not good, like by definition, like self-help books, quote unquote, help yourself. Here's a book written by someone else. But let's see, obviously if you say all that, you're probably thinking about being financially independent and stuff like, I don't know, like to be honest, like for things like that, if you're mentioning, oh, living with my parents wanting to be independent, stuff like that, I cannot, if that's the kind of stuff on your mind that came to mind when I asked you where you are, I wouldn't worry about like reading a book, I would worry about, and I don't mean that in a bad sense, I mean like, what you need is not a book right now, like you have other options, like in terms of, I mean, unless you would like wanna read a book to like get a skill, wanna get a book on woodworking or wanna get a book on learning go, you know, it's great language. I mean, that's an option, but I wouldn't, if you're looking like for like direction in life, aside from joining the Orthodox church, you don't need a book for that kind of stuff. So I wouldn't sweat, I wouldn't sweat reading a book. There, but yeah, like if you're looking, if you're looking for like advice in a book, I would not, like I wouldn't trust advice books, that's kind of what I'm getting at, like if you're looking, oh, I want like a book about financial independence, don't spend money and make money, it's easy, you know? Wicked Jargon says, isn't your father a Gen two user? For some reason I remember that, not a joke, no, that's not a joke, my dad did say, now it's weird, you know, my dad has used Linux since basically it came out. And I think I've used, I think I use Linux like at his work, he had a computer running Linux and I remember as a kid playing like some kind of GNOME games, I'm not quite sure, I remember it was like really old and all the games started with G because it's like GNOME or whatever, but this is like GNOME 1.0 or something, this is like way back in the day, but we definitely didn't have a Linux computer at home and I was just disappointed that it didn't have the games I was familiar with, but what was I gonna say? So yeah, anyway, all that said, even though he's been using Linux, I never really acquired Linux from him, I mean, it was kind of a separate development, kind of convergent, but yes, once I started using Linux and I started to talk to him about it, I was a little, not really surprised, but he was like, oh yeah, my favorite distribution is Gintu. And he also said he likes Arch too and has used it. So yeah, Arch and Gintu, that's what he uses. And I think he said something like if he had his choice, he would use that and nothing else, but for work, he has to use Windows and stuff. Mateo sends in 10,000 Colombian pesos. Don't get impressed with the amount. Colombian pesos are worth nothing. I'm learning Go and it's great. Sadly, it has zero positions as a first job. Yeah, well, I mean, the thing about technology is if you have the skill, you make the job.  True, but you shouldn't be looking for a job. Like you have this magical skill to do things on your own that no one else in history has had, you know. I'll put this in a separate video, but like the thing, like carpenters, like if you wanna start your own carpentry shop, you gotta spend thousands, maybe $10,000, getting equipment, you gotta take risks. Every piece of lumber you get costs money, okay? Everything costs money. Not the same way with technology, right? You don't have to buy all this stuff. You can start with zero, you know. If you have the technical knowledge, you don't need extra stuff. It's free, the digital realm doesn't have that scarcity, right? So you should be more focused on being independent in technology rather than dependent on some employment. Employment should always be your side hustle in technology. That's kind of what I'm getting at. Joe sends in $5, no comment, thank you though. Keith says, a theological question, is life and or the universe proprietary software and or hardware? Anyway, well, you know, it's kind of like what Soyance is, is we're trying to reverse engineer. I mean, it's open software and hardware, but the source code and schematics, they're just really hard to read. So that's what Soyance is. Secondarily, I donated several times, not paying attention to the once or monthly selection until now. Am I going to be charged monthly now? Okay, I'll fix it, if that's what you did. You can log in and get rid of old donations if that's what you were doing. I probably should change that thing to be once by default because that does happen to some people because I'll get donations from people in a live stream and they accidentally do monthly and then they realize it and cancel it. But no, you should be able to log in and cancel that yourself, but I'll check that. I've noted your name, I will check that later. Half the time I forget to do the monthly charge anyway. Joe says, hey, I have Asperger's syndrome. I think I would like coding if I got into it, but every time I try it, I can't. Any tips on getting excited about learning code? I'm 20, by the way, I don't know. Motivation has to come, I can't give you motivation. I don't know, I can't. I mean, I would just, whenever it comes to anything technology, you just gotta be goal oriented. You can't be like, oh, I have to learn this thing. You have to be like, this is what I wanna accomplish. In order to do it, I have to do this, right? In the process, I'm gonna learn all this stuff as well. You just have to be like, oh, what is something I'd really like to be able to do on a computer that I can't right now? What kind of software can I do? Oh, I can do this, be goal oriented. That's what I would recommend. I don't know, the people with Asperger's work the same way, I don't know. I assume so. You just gotta be obsessive about things, right? You can do that. John McMeem says, have you ever done mushrooms? No, of course not. I've never communed with demons. Demonic machine elves. Yeah, well Terrence McKenna's right. The machine elves are real and they're literal demons.   Okay, so the reason, you know how normally my streams grew up and I'm buffering and all this kind of stuff? I think when I reformatted my hard drive, it fixed the problem, because I think it uninstalled some stuff. And now, let's see, what am I outputting?  I'm using Vapy now, or Voppy. I don't know how, VA, API. I don't know how that's actually pronounced. I don't think it was working on my last machine. I think there was some kind of error. Demon machine, yeah, it's a real thing. Maybe I should explain that for people who don't know, but so people who take mushrooms, or maybe it's DMT, maybe both, right? They all report having these hallucinations with machine elves, or I think it's DMT. I think it's DMT. It might be mushrooms as well. But they report these very similar hallucinations where they have, imagine these like elves that are made of machines and stuff like that, and like very specific things that are similar across people. And sometimes there are people who say they're even like, people have like group hallucinations, right? And so this is like very, oh my goodness, wow, amazing. Maybe there's actually something too, the psychedelic experience. So that's something popular among these people. And yeah, it's demonic. That's all I gotta say. Yeah, Terence McKinnon is another example. Terence McKinnon also possible fed, I'm just gonna say that. But he did say, he's another one of those guys who's like kind of poison, but he also says some kind of good stuff sometimes. But like the whole McKinnon thing is really screwed up because on paper he criticized modernity really strongly.  Because like the goal of the universe is like informational complexity and singularity and all this kind of stuff. Same kind of stuff like the Klaus Schwab people are doing. This same guy who says that he's interested in shamanism and like this kind of orgiastic traditionalism kind of stuff. Yeah, he's basically selling the same stuff as all they all of them do. Yeah, I've heard people say that McKinnon works for the CIA or worked for the CIA, but I think the evidence is kind of like, you know, some of it's taken out of context. Like people have quoted from him saying like he was like recruited by the CIA. It's like if you see it in context and you listen to the audios, it's like him talking about him being recruited by the demonic entities, not by the CIA. Actually, what's the difference? Let's be real. Yeah, but I have heard people say that.  I don't know, probably never. When he was a smaller channel, like smaller than mine, I did try to find his email and I was like, hey, do you wanna do something? But now I feel like he's bigger than me. So it would be me sniping a bigger YouTuber. I feel like that's not, I don't know. I feel like if he were a smaller channel, I would like to do him the favor, but now he's on the bigger and better things. So it'd be like me trying to get some of his audience. And that would be cheap. And I'm also like, I don't know if you guys can tell, I'm not big on like caring that much about YouTube. I don't know, maybe I should care more about like like, comment and subscribe. But you know, I mean, I'm glad to have more subscribers. That'd be nice, but you know, I don't know. If I did contact him, it wouldn't be about that. But I don't know, it feels like he's not interested. I think it's better. Maybe it's better us just kind of being at a distance. My lamp database says, can you say, I use Artix by the way in Latin. How would you say by the way? By, I don't know, by the way. Trying to think of an expression that would be similar to by the way in its, I don't know, kind of, what's the word I'm looking for in English? Dismissiveness? I don't know why I said Artike. I mean, it would make sense because it'd be ablative, obviously. But that, yeah, if Artik's a nominative, it would be Artike, an ablative, Artike utur. I use Artix. DVD Franco says, hey Luke, it's pretty clear the economy's about to collapse. Well, it's basically collapsing. You know, collapse doesn't happen all at once. It's a gradual thing and it is collapsing. What career field? Already, like that, those words, career field, that's, you gotta broaden from that. Would you recommend for a man starting over, R0? Also, are you still investigating orthodoxy? Yes, I'm investigating inquiring, as they say. Career field, well, I don't know. I don't like those, career seems very wagey. Trade, those are good. Skills, those are good. Digital, anything digital is fantastic. If you're watching this channel, learn programming, learn playing around, learn scripting, learn whatever. That is like bare minimum. And I assume you have some of that if you're watching. Maybe don't, but you should have some of those. And real life skills are, okay, oh yeah, okay. I have a really cool idea for a website. Okay, we got based out cooking. We got landchad.net, but I can do better than landchad.net. Imagine landchad.net, but in real life.  That's not, that's a cool idea too, for a website. I haven't decided what to call it. I might do a video on this as well. Maybe like digital, I was trying to think of a word. Maybe like digital handyman or something like that. Here's the idea of the site. It's a site with different articles and they all list out, like for someone who is technologically competent, like someone who watches this channel, uses Linux, knows basic stuff. How can you leverage your skills to make money instantly? As just a handyman, okay? So, you know, what are some ways you can fix normies, Windows, computers? What are, one thing that I realized was very lucrative. I haven't made money off of this because I haven't tried to, but there's a massive demand for it, okay? The other year, I digitized a bunch of tapes, okay? Old VHS tapes of my dads, because I wanted them, okay? I wanted to preserve them. And in the process of doing that, a bunch of people just randomly in conversation heard that I was doing that. So all these boomers, you know, indirectly that I knew in my life, and we go, ooh, could Luke do that for me? Ba, ba, ba. Because the people who digitized tapes, it's an easy process. I mean, you could do it with a, if you have a VHS or a VCR with a HDMI cord, it's super easy to do. I did it with just like an adapter that plugs into those like red, white, and yellow AV cords. And like, you know, I used FFMPEG and stuff, but like you could use OBS. Like it's easy to do, but like normie businesses will charge thousands of dollars for that. And that is something that you could do really easy. Just say, hey, I'm digitizing tapes. Oh, a couple, oh, look at all these tapes. Oh, a couple hundred bucks, I'll do them. Maybe a thousand dollars. I don't know, I don't know what you can get. But like, there's so many things like that. And I wanted to have a site listing out all the different kind of things. Just like, you don't need to be super genius at tech, but just like basic things that anyone, any of you guys could do, right? So that's kind of my next thing that I wanna do. And really, I didn't like solicit people either.  Like that'd be nice. Now I didn't actually take people up on it because it was kind of a commit, like it's a time commitment. And well, it's actually not that hard. You basically just have to watch all the tapes, just have them playing in the background. Like they can be recording, you can be doing something else. Like you just kind of sit them, you know, set and forget, but love this idea. Yeah, so that's something I wanna do. So if anyone has any, actually, now that I bring this up, if you already have some suggestions for that, like easy ways to make money if you're a technologically competent person, email them to me just as ideas to start the website out. Now I'll have it like a collaborative site, like based out cooking or lanshed.net. Yeah, now it's becoming a thing. Now we have these collaboratively created sites, right? I don't know, is there a name for that? But yeah, it'd be really nice to have like, I don't know what to call it, like Digital Handyman, something. I don't know what to call it, but I'd really like to do that. And that would be something that can make a big difference in people's lives. And when people ask me a million times on live streams, how do I make money? How do I be independent of the system? Blah, blah, blah.  Okay, it's 10.30, I'm gonna have to go. I'm getting tired. Ooh, one last donation here. Or unless there's another one that comes up while I answer this or whatever. A DDS, something or another. See, sometimes people just type in random letters in the email and I don't know if they intend that to be a word, a real name or not. He says, you're really channeling your inner Davis Orini with your look. Let me look, yeah, I see that. I do see that. Is he like still around? I never like watched his stuff because I don't wanna say I thought he was cringe, but like, I was like, mm-hmm. But yeah, because didn't he do stuff in like hotel rooms all the time? I really like the lighting here. I need to imitate this kind of lighting in my house. That's what, that's really what I need to do. So, all right, so if there's a donation that comes up in the next minute, I'll read it, but just to close out. So yeah, mental outlaw, this is who we... Check out the new book, Consolation of Philosophy at lindypress.net right here. And consume all the other books too. But either way, if you have recommendations for the digital handyman site, which I don't know what to call, but shoot them in, shoot them to me, and I will, I don't know, I might do a video on that. We might be able to start something. I think we can come up with a couple dozen articles and stuff just to get people options. But I want people to make money. I want people to be more independent. Easy way to help people out. Easy way for me to avoid these kind of questions on live streams every freaking day. So, all right. So, oh my goodness, I just got a bajillion donations. Oh, I shouldn't be...  There's just one more, okay. I've been trained in Cisco Switches ESXIR440 servers, RAID and some basic Linux commands through military. But I think my IQ is too low to learn programming. Oh no, no, no, you can do it. Like, you need a kind of patience in that, like the thing, it's kind of what I said earlier about like learning languages.  Like think about like, okay, if I did this, how would that change? If I did this, how would that? Like you really slow, you just do the hard part very slowly. And once you internalize that, it's easy. That's learning everything. It's prioritizing what's actually important because if you fret about it and you just keep reading it over and over, you're just wasting your time. So yeah, don't sweat that. Okay, so thanks everyone for showing out. If you're at Linux Fest, I will see you. I don't know if maybe someone in the chat said they're in Linux Fest, I'm not quite sure. But I am here. You will probably see my talk because it will be recorded. That will be up at some point. All right, I'm closing it out. Be sure to say your evening prayers. I have to do that.


I was thinking about the RGB matrix displays, and realized that while I know that the Protomatter code CircuitPython uses to draw them works by scanning the LEDs row by row, I didn't know what that looks like. Normally the matrix is scanned so quickly that our eyes can't see it. I think the target rate is 250 Hertz. So if I wanted to see it in action, I need a high-speed camera. Or would I? I realized that I could just change the source code so that the scan was much slower. So far, we've been looking at the regular image, but with the press of a key, I can switch it to an ultra-low scan rate. Notice how the lines are drawn in pairs, and since the display has 16 lines on it, this makes the scan rate 1 eighth. Each line gets drawn several times with different values. This relates to the binary representation of the RGB pixel values. I think I prefer how it looks normally. Don't you?