Hi everybody, welcome to Linuxcast, I'm your host Matt. I'm Tyler. I am Steve. I am Josh and I'm totally not a syslo like Steve is. You're watching the video podcast today, Steve looks a little different. Um, not sure what's going on there. Anyways, I think he's been kidnapped and replaced. I'm pretty sure. Anyways, this is the Linuxcast. We talk about Linuxy things. Today we have a fantastic topic for you because it's gonna be awesome. And I promise you that it's just gonna be really, really good. So absolutely no tangents, all that stuff. It's gonna be fantastic. But like we usually do on these things, we're gonna start off with our week in open source, Linux, all that stuff. And Tyler, you get to go first this week. Ooh, cool. So I've been up to a lot. Actually, I've started posting on my YouTube channel. I know. I remembered the password, Wild Stuff. I was able to get in. I had to sneak around a bit on YouTube, you know, post a little bit just here and there. So yeah, I posted a hyperland video. And today I posted a video talking about a nice little new thing that happens with pipe wire when you're using echo cancellation. Me and Steve talked about before the podcast started. But the other thing I've been doing is working a lot on my website. So I no longer have a Gemini capsule. I also don't really use Element or Matrix anymore. Mainly just cause, you know, Element doesn't work as it should anymore for some reason. I looked down that stuff and actually been working on a really nice website. At least I think so. I think I can actually show it off. If I go over here to my website. Everybody go to zany.org right now. Is it really zany.org? Yeah. Yeah. You own zany.org. You own zany.org? That's impressive. Yeah. Cause there's like a lot of Zany's out there. So you can go to zany.org. I've got. I'm surprised he doesn't own all of them. I'm trying to do like kind of a portfolio kind of style website. But I've got a blog where I'll obviously be doing Linux-y stuff. I've got a links page that I actually have not pushed up yet in a gaming page. That's not there. But I've put in a custom 404. I've got a nice sidebar. I've done it all custom myself. I'm not using Qgo or anything to generate it. Not because like I can't use those or it wouldn't make things much simpler. It's just because it is sort of supposed to be a actual portfolio website. So I wanted to show off what I can do with CSS and HTML. So I've been working on this for the past couple of days. And yeah, I like it. I'm almost done. I'm using chat GPT to generate some of my articles.  But it's nice to be able to just use it to generate out most of it, go back through, edit it up, and add parts that make sense, and take out parts that don't. Because chat GPT is not that intelligent. But that's going to help me speed up and actually get content up on the website. But it's been nice. It's been a lot of fun. It's all I've been up to. Divo, what you've been up to this week? What have I been up to this week? Shall I start? It was cleaning up the Jedi filth, the KDE, the Arch Jedi filth wrap. Recently, Arch, the Jedi filth over at Arch, decided to rename the KDE packages, adding a five to the name. Not thinking of the consequences this will cause. All the people who have AUR packages installed that have the old package names as dependencies. So we had to clean their mess. I had to recompile and rebuild. Recompile is for the French server. I'll keep that for the French server. Rebuild over 40 packages because of that. That's one thing I was doing. I was cleaning their mess. Another thing I was doing, working on Zero Linux, the KDE spin, because the GNOME spin is done, updated all the extensions. Everything is working on GNOME 45. Everything is Pichi over there. And XFCE didn't do anything there. And they should be marked in history. I have been a distro maintainer for three years. I still had windows on one of my drives. Out of your view. Travesty. Why?  Because I'm kidding. Because I was worried that I might need it for something at some point. I haven't booted it in almost a year now. But it's clear that I don't need it for anything. So today, the day that I went 100% Linux with no Windows machines or drives anywhere to be seen across my house. So out with the filth of the Jedi in with the power of the dark side. So that's what I've been doing on Linux. And other than that, I'm working with someone on a new version of our tool. And this time, 100% Python. Here's that. Yeah, comment. Was that done? That's all I did so far. All right, man. Josh, what you been up to? I've been doing way too much yet again. Because let's see here, I blew up Gen 2 intentionally this time because I'm going to get the OBS video working at all. And I moved to the dark side. I am now an Arch Linux user, by the way. So by the way, I use Arch. And I'm going to be making that joke throughout the entire course of the episode today. Because I use Arch, by the way. Anyways, besides that, I did the Arch installation right. I followed the wiki. I followed the install guide. It didn't work. So I reinstalled Arch. And I installed Arch using the Gen 2 handbook. Because it turns out that a lot of the commands are the same, and it worked. And then I installed a Hyperlion. I installed Sway. I installed River. I basically installed every single way that I could without installing Nome. And then I enabled Steve's repository. I don't think I have anything installed out of Steve's repository because I don't like compiling. I installed the chaotic AUR and immediately removed the chaotic AUR because I realized that half the packages in there are broken to begin with. And then I have already found 16 bug reports in Arch Linux proper because I can't issue bug reports against packages. And I have decided I'm going to spin up my own Arch Linux repository where every single package is recompilation of everything that's already shipping in Arch Linux. But I'm going to have Dash fixed at the end because I'm fixing their goddamn packages again. Josh is going to get banned from somewhere. Just write it down. That's definitely going to happen. All right. So thanks to Darth Vader in the chat and on my Discord. I've been messing around with Xmonad. Again, for the sixth time, every time I tried Xmonad, I'd run away from it screaming and crying. And eventually I'll end up in a corner just with my head between my knees just like, no, why do I do this? But I'm trying it again because I've been prodded.  Yeah, I said minute, Matt, you're getting bored of style. No, I'm really not. Qtile was like the best thing ever, like the best window manager ever created. Also, Python, you like undercover as are you like undercover as Darth Vader on like socials? No, Darth Vader is his own person. I'm pretty sure I just want to make sure because he's been he's been pimping out Qtile big time lately, especially on my hyperland video. So I just and he's also, you know, complaining about scratch pads, that kind of stuff. So I just got a little suspicious for a second. I actually started started off with his Xmonad config because I was just completely done trying to do my own. And he only uses like nine workspaces. So definitely we're not the same person. True, I didn't even see that. He posted his Xmonad rice on my discord, which it is a beautiful rice. It is a really good, really good rice. He has been posting rice is for all kinds of different things in my discord. He does switch around. Lord Darth Vader is everywhere. It is because he's the most powerful in the dark side. Oh, by the way, I have I have apparently disappointed Darth Vader. By the way, I will I will, of course, remove Arch Linux, which I have installed, by the way, and reinstalled Gentoo when I can figure out how to get things working again on Gentoo. But in the meantime, I'm still using Gentoo on every single other machine, but this one and Darius. Yes, I did try void. It turned out to be a very buggy experience. It has the worst installer ever. Any installer that requires you to choose your own groups is still the dumbest thing. Anyways, that's beside the point. That's what I've been doing is messing around with Xmonad. I don't like it. I'm actually using it right this minute, which is honestly surprising that it's even working. Be honest with you, because my configuration is a mess, because I've been I took most of Darth's config combined it with some Arco Linux is some some of DT stuff is in there. It's it's not good. Also, I've been looking at their their documentation, the Haskell documentation.  It's just like, come on, I like, OK, so with Python, you can do many things in many different ways. But Haskell takes it like 10 times further away from that, where you can do things in many different ways, but they don't combine well and they don't explain it well, why they don't work together well. It's just it's and if you don't understand what you're doing, it's definitely not and it wasn't. It's not even a problem that the language itself is like that. The problem is that X Monad uses it and because it uses it, you can do scratch pads in four different ways. You can do your key bindings in like five different ways. And if you import like easy config, you can't use easy configs with some ways of doing the key bindings because the you know, it's just you can't do it that way.  That's why you need a friend to help you. Or in my case, do literally everything for me. Anyways, that's what I've been doing. I will anybody wants to put bets on whether or not I'm not on X Monad next week. That's not going to be a very good bet. Anyways, that's another video about X Monad. I'm probably not. I said the last one was going to be my last one. The only way I post another one is if I actually understand what I'm doing and figure out that I like it, which I don't I don't see happening like even even a bit.  Whatever. But do you get it? Can you get your monitors to sleep? Yes. Yeah, it works. That works fine. Won't work in hyperland, though. Hyperland will not let the monitors go to sleep for more than a split second. They pop right back on. No, cool. Yeah, that happens with anything that uses D.P.M.S. or whatever it's called. Whenever it uses that, that's not going to work. I don't know why, but I've gotten this point now where hyperland has actually been the only setup that has, I don't know, made me use my computer in a way where, like, when I get up, if I want it, like if I'm not coming back in, like, 15 or 20 minutes at the most, I turn off the computer. And, like, I never used to do that. Like, now I do.  Is that a is that a car remote for your computer? Yes. For his computer. That's the funniest thing ever. OK, OK, my computer is in that room over there. I'm not going to get up every single day, walk into there, just turn my computer on just so I can make it over here. So, yes, I have a remote for my computer. Yes, but it's a fob. It's a fob. And it's made by StarTech. It's only twenty four dollars.  I'm just going to put that out there.  It only works like 30 percent of the time, though. It works 30 percent of the time. Yeah, I think the battery might be a little low. Guys, it would only have been better if he was using the clapper. Let's just. Well, you see, I did get wake up and working on the computer. So, technically, and because I have home assistant here with microphones because you're not messing around with the home assistant wasting, I could set up the clapper so that when I clap, I could, you know, have have home assistant turn my computer on for me. So I could do that. Hey, Siri, turn my computer on. Please, please do that. I used to when I when I was in Ireland, I used to I used to have the Google Home thing, the speaker thing. I got for free with my with my ISP. I used whenever I used to come back from work, I used to say yell, honey, I'm home and my computer would turn on. That's actually kind of cool. If you watch some of the YouTube videos where people have really done up their setups and they can go like they walk in the room like Alexa, turn everything on, like all of a sudden you have like the RGP Wonderland going around in your room. Some people. And when my phone checks my Wi-Fi, it turns my porch light on. Let's see, like in my head when you first said that my first thought was like, well, not my first thought.  And she's like, what, like immediately. She's like, what's that? He's got a wife.  So yeah, exactly, exactly. OK, that's why I that's why I have been messing around with the Home Assistant voice. It can do that. Yeah. And I chose and I chose that specific command, honey, I'm home to feel like I had someone waiting for me at home because you pair that with the girlfriend that's going to be going around and you're all set. That's dangerous.  They'll just refer to their computer as honey when they walk in the door. This the setup it's required just to get it to work. You had to reroute this, does that and set up a if this if this than that, whatever it was very backwards, but it did work. I really loved it because I didn't want to keep my computer on and pay electricity because in Europe electricity is so damn expensive. I came back from work, honey, I'm home. My computer would turn on. I would I would go to the stove, start cooking something while my computer is loading up and loading all my programs because I told my computer to load all my sessions sessions. So I go immediately to my computer and continue where I left off. It was an awesome experience. It didn't last long because if this then that just decided to disable that functionality. OK, let's go ahead and move on to the main event. So today we're going to have a fight. And we have chosen teams. Josh and I are on the same team, which I know what you're thinking. Definitely not the traditional teams, but that's OK. Josh and I can get along for this here. What we're going to do, guys, knew what what Matt and Josh will be defending. Yes. Anyways, Tyler and Steve are on the other team. So we're going to be having a defend. It's not really defend the indefensible because it really when you're the the indefensible part has to be indefensible for it, but it's in that structure. So we're going to be doing KDE versus Gnome. And first off, before we jump in, do not get into my comment sections telling me how to pronounce Gnome, I will ban you. It's Gnome. Yes.  It started as an acronym. First word is GNU. So that's what we call it. Anyways, beside the point, Gnome versus Katie and Steve and Tyler are going to be defending KDE. Josh and I will be taking the Gnome thing. It's going to be a fun ride. Yeah. Anyway, so I have questions that it's going that are is going to try to guide us through this, whether or not we actually use the questions or not. It doesn't really matter. I just wanted to make sure I had something to kind of guide the the conversation. But we'll start off not focusing on which is more popular, which desktop environment between these two is the best for brand new users. That's the first question I'm going to start off with. So you have to take your position on the one that you're on the side of the team on. So we're going to start off with the KDE boat. Katie, boys, defend your choice. Why is KDE better for new users? Go. I don't care who goes first. It doesn't matter.  So this is not like a free form like back and forth. This is going to be like it'll turn into that. I'm just trying to get us started. OK, we've never followed an outline and to save our lives. Tyler, you know this, you've been around long enough to know we've never managed to follow the amount of my outlines. Come on. Just want to make sure. OK, so the question was, why is KDE better for new users? Correct? Yes. OK, well, one, most new users to Linux are probably coming from an ecosystem like Windows. And, you know, the layout of KDE, obviously, is going to be more similar to something they're used to. It's not some like new wave BES, you know?  Like, you know, you're getting exactly what you expect. There's a there's a bar at the bottom. It does, you know, bar things that you expect. There's like a start menu that you kind of like are used to. Also, not to mention, I mean, most people probably will enjoy the visual effects that KDE provides you and assuming that an individual has the time and the capability to open up a settings menu and go through it. They can change quite literally anything about KDE and get some very nice visual effects in no time without having to install, you know, six hundred and forty three extensions that forty three of them break the other sixty six. And those sixty six break two other ones. So, yeah, you know, it's kind of a much more ease, easy experience for those who are coming into it. Also, I don't know about about this, Steve. Steve may have to correct me here, but also, like, if you're trying to get a woman, you're probably going to have more chances shown or something like KDE with, you know, some sick, nice lo-fi wallpaper, perhaps even animated, you know, you could do this and she's going to know exactly what you're about, how cool you are, so much drip you got.  Second of all, your argument for KDE is that it's going to get you laid. And that's what it basically boils down to. No, no, no, that's just one point. See, this is the problem. This is the problem. You know, the people who want to defend the genome aren't willing to just listen to a simple list of things. I've already given you multiple things. The last one on the list was that your chances of getting laid increased dramatically by using KDE. And it's just a known scientific. I mean, there's been studies on this, man. Like, we can't debate it. See, I can pull up Harvard studies on this. We gave Steve so much time for the things he said last time. And it turns out Steve wasn't the problem. It was Tyler all along. Steve, you're the KDE guy, really, aren't you? Why do you think KDE is the best for new users? KDE is the best for new users because it doesn't hold you back. Customization gives you the freedom, gives you the power.  No, you shouldn't do that. No, this is not the way you do this. No, it's no. KDE people welcome their input. The KDE people welcome you with an open arm. That's why KDE is way better for new users because if they and it doesn't hold their hand, it just just allows you to customize it to your heart's content. You can mix GTK with QT, can mix and match to whatever you want. This is the freedom, freedom. And as Wallace said, freedom is KDE is why it's wonderful for new new users. It's a good learning curve. It's a good learning. It's a good place to start learning. Gosh, do you want to take the rebuttal or do you want me to? I am definitely going to take the rebuttal because I'm on team gnome here, first of all, just for clarification for everybody. I'm on team gnome, which out of the box, my desktop environment looks prettier than yours. Out of the box, it functions more cleanly than yours on both X and Wayland. It works even better on Wayland than KDE does, by the way. And, you know, the app ecosystem is more tightly integrated and every single gnome specific, every single gnome application looks better and known than every single KDE application looks in KDE. And I can dynamically switch between a light theme and a dark theme without having to reload my entire user session. And I can reload as many times and as quickly and as repetitively as I want because when you're flipping KDE between that breeze theme and that breeze dark theme, you can actually crash K1. Now, when we're talking about freedom, if we want to talk about freedom, I didn't know how hard this was going to be for me. And if we want to talk freedom, we have to remember that only one of the two desktop environments is actually a free software foundation endorsed. And that is gnome because gnome uses GTK, which is free and open source, unlike QT. Can I, like, am I not supposed to say anything? Like, does he get this full time? No, you can argue back, but yeah, actually, you go first before I say my thing. Go ahead. OK, so, so let me get, let me do the math thing. OK, so your point is that, you know, you can dynamically and instantly switch between the two themes you're allowed to use. Oh, that's nice. That's a great argument. You can, you can, but you're not supposed to. You just literally tell him not to. Yeah, yeah, like, look, like, look, again, this goes back to Katie Eve and Chilldog. All right, like, sure. Sure, you've got to reload some stuff, but the themes are better. They give you access to more of them. And also they don't have developers that are like, you know, please, please don't make your system look exactly how you like it where we know better. Come on. Well, actually, if you go to stop theming my app or stop theming my app or whatever that website is, that says that's just for distribution maintainers on Nome, the user, the user experience on Nome is actually much more flexible than it actually is on Katie Eve, believe it or not, because you have access to extensions and these extensions can dynamically load and completely change your entire user experience on your desktop environment with just a single click of a button and wait, hold on. And you don't have to toggle like 30 plus different different settings and an obscure settings manager. Correct me if I'm wrong, but does not good. No, tell you to please not use extensions. Yes, they actually don't say that. OK, look, just because they imply it. They heavily imply it. But they actually let you post extensions. In fact, extensions.nome.org is an official Nome project. If they didn't want you using extensions, why would they not host it? That's probably one dude at Genome that everyone else there hates. No, actually, there's like 17 different people maintaining it. That's good. Like one guy in the closet just doing the code for the extensions. I can just imagine now. I'm sorry. All right. So my argument for why Genome is better for new users boils down to some of what Josh said. But really, it also why you're having a fiery hot passion with it. Continue. Yes.  Genome is better for new users. Just to put it simply is that it's simple. It is way simpler than KDE. If you open up the settings settings application in any version of Genome, whether it's Ubuntu or Fedora or whatever, you're going to have the same experience and it's all reasonably laid out. You don't have to worry about searching for every single little possible change that you can make because there's nothing it doesn't need to be that complicated. Do you want to change your wallpaper? You can go find and change your wallpaper from right there. And you don't have to go hunting for it. You don't have to deal with and you don't have to figure out what the difference between a global theme is, what a color is, where those things are actually applied. What's a plasma theme versus a global theme? You don't have to mess around with the fact that plasmas built in theme store in their settings panel almost constantly has network issues and has for 10 years. I don't know if a single plasma user who has never seen the well, we can't load the themes right now because we're having a network issue of some kind that happens all the damn time. Well, you want to know, it doesn't have themes. OK, not really. And the two that it does have, they're there. You just use them. You want light, you got light. You want dark, you got dark. What else do you need? It's definitely the best thing.  Black and white is definitely the only two possibly could ever need. And you can change the wallpaper. You you can do more than just black and white on them, too. The gradient application, which you may or may not have heard of before, actually is no longer a hack. They're actually they're actually they actually have official API hooks that they can use on them now to to set whatever color you want your desktop to be. You know what? I love this because you boys are going to be surprised by this. But I actually completely agree with all of this. But let me just reframe it for you. OK. GNOME is simple. It's made for simple people, man. OK. If you don't want to have to deal with a whole bunch of options and, you know, the freedom to change things and, you know, think independently, then GNOME is definitely for you. OK. Because in Katie, sure, yes, it's it's more complex. Things can potentially break. You might have to learn what the definitions of two different words or phrases are. I understand it's a lot. But if you're seeking freedom and independence, Katie is where you'll go.   I think how dare you? Well, I mean, the title for this podcast is second year. Did have you not said the past few weeks that I'm apparently an insight and encyclopedia? Do you not realize that I've never used Katie, the Katie desktop environment until last year prior to that and messing on window managers? I've been exclusively on GNOME for over 12 years because GNOME actually works. Every single release, every single button on GNOME works. You cannot say that about Katie. Well, when you're trying new things, you add buttons. And sometimes the buttons don't function properly. Did when you're pushing the envelope, things break, dog. It happens. Steve, what are you going to say? OK, thank you. I just wanted to say 80 is for the sith. GNOME is for the peasant Jedi, who are prisoners of their own rules and their own artificial weaknesses and political stuff. No, you need freedom and freedom sometimes brings chaos, but chaos is good. Chaos is for the strong. Peace and rules are for the weak. That's why GNOME exists. It's for the weak who want to follow rules, who want to follow everything by the book. OK, and it's it. Let me finish. No, no, no, I'm stopping you right here because GNOME has gesture support and it actually works. So does it. It actually works. It's more. It's much more mature than Katie's. No, it works on blacks and Wayland.  There's also code. There's also code for HDR support and future versions of GNOME that Katie doesn't even have. So when you're telling me that Katie gets wonderful new features and GNOME doesn't, that's wrong. Everybody gets new features, as you call them, my young pitiful Padawan. All I'm saying is that Katie gets the features first, but GNOME copies. GNOME copy because ADE comes with them first. ADE gives you much better things than GNOME. GNOME is locked down, is it puts you in a jail kind of a jail, whereas you have it's going to be always going around talking about freedom. With freedom comes chaos, but chaos is good. And I will stand by that. Don't make me use this on you. Now, look, look, boys, I didn't want to have to do this, but now that we're in the kind of like free freeform section, I just I just want to go ahead and show you this. OK, bring this to people's attention and give me one second because my desktop is not being updated. And I just got to select it again. There we go. So come on. This right here is the woman who runs GNOME. OK, so I just I just want y'all to know she's, you know, a shaman, apparently. She's in a tarot card, it's a whole bunch of other stuff. She's real interesting lady.  OK, I will I actually didn't want to touch on the topic of Holly million because, you know, I have been I have been raised up by several GNOME members for being a plebian when I questioned her credibility. But you see, Holly million is actually actually has quite an excessive background in running nonprofits and the position that she's being hired hired into or selected for has nothing to do with software. You said, wait, hold on, hold on, or not, you said, but I thought she was like the executive director. Yeah, the executive director does nothing with software. Well, what is the role? What her job is to sell GNOME. How can she sell GNOME if she doesn't know what it's made? No, nothing about it and it doesn't know coding, doesn't know software. It doesn't. It's like asking it's like asking a car salesman or a car salesman, a doctor sell something.  So no, I get her being able to sell it. That's that's fine. But my question would did be why in the hell are we calling sales positions executive directors? I mean, that means you're not an executive and you definitely don't direct nothing. So what the heck is that title? First of all, when you're filing tax status by the US government, only cares who the stakeholder is.  So your job title is effectively meaningless, believe it or not. So that means you could be a Martian for all they care. So yeah, you my official job title is lead director of Bullshit Opinions. That is my official job title at my company that I run. So the job means brilliant, nothing title. But see, let's see that job title is actually accurate, though. See, like, like that's the problem. Like I need a job like you shouldn't have a job title that that matches the description of your job, not at all. Like she's she's directing, she's directing the business of Gnome. That's what she's directing. Yeah, that that. So yeah, that's literally. I think what some people forget is just because it's a nonprofit, doesn't mean that there aren't, you know, the things that go into running a business.  You got to talk to people. That's why she's an executive director. I think they probably thought it was. I don't know.  Let's be honest.  Is is is that like, I mean, you're in America, where have been presidents that have been TV stars?  We're not going to this. It's not absolutely not as much as I'm going to get to.  OK, moving on to the next question, we because first off, I'm with Nick at the Linux experiment. Who cares if she's a shaman? I don't particularly care. I don't like I don't care.  Like, I'm totally fine with it. Maybe just say it's weird because everything goes on. No, Tyler, Tyler, Tyler, I'm going to say one thing. She's a shaman. She's directing the business of, you know, she's taking mushrooms. She's going to take, you know, down with her. So let's wait, baby. Let's wait and see her do that. By your guys's argument, by your guys's argument, that situation would just make him better because it would bring in a whole bunch of new crazy features. Well, she probably is doing some black magic, too. So, you know, you never know.  Probably not. Sure. Somewhere on the line, we were just incredibly racist. So we apologize for that. Anyways, let's go ahead and move on to my next question, because I think we burned through the last one. OK, so is let me see if I can can phrase this the correct way because the way I have it written is dumb. Defend this statement. When it comes to customization, more is either better or worse. OK, so depending on which team you're on, you know which side you're supposed to take. So why is customization the best if you're on the KD side? Why is customization a little bit locked away when it comes on the genome side? So because the KD fellows got to go first last time, we get to go first this time, Josh. So, Josh, why is customization the way it is on GNOME? OK, I'll be right back, guys. So go ahead. If we're going to be talking about customization and GNOME, I'm going to argue that customization is a good thing. However, metered customization is better because GNOME adds more and more features very steadily because they want everything to actually work. And everything that gets added into GNOME has to go through the GNOME human interface guidelines, which is a document that they have that you can actually go and read that details everything that they want GNOME to be able to do. And they they appeal, they abide by that. And simplicity is key. So when they introduce a new feature, yes, us GNOME guys aren't going to make a big deal about it because it's a brand new feature for our desktop environment. We like new, new shiny things, but it's very intentionally done. Very, very intentionally done because they want to do it right the first time. How many times has the clock app lit been rewritten for plasma? How many times do you know, Tyler? I know to get it right. It's perfect, dude. And also, I'm sorry I was paying attention, but I was also kind of distracted because people over on your side of GNOME, we got one undercover, you know, on on your side, some spy in chat saying, as someone who uses both KDE and GNOME, they're both good.  I'm sorry, we're doing a show about it. I cannot believe this. For one, someone someone thinking for a second that there might actually be no sarcasm in what we're doing, and two, also, I cannot believe you're sending spies over to our side. I think they missed the beginning where it says defend the indefensible. First of all, every single person that works for GNOME project is a volunteer. So he volunteered and he's spying for us. We didn't even have to tell him to do it. That's worse, dude, see. Which has a foundation that hires and contracts people. OK, we'll see. We pay people. We provide jobs and opportunities. And also, again, we're chill.   It's all good. Obviously, why a vibe with them? You know, you guys just don't get it. It's OK. It's fine. But it's just it kind of ridiculous that we're even having to have this argument when it comes to customization. This is me getting us back on track again. Customization isn't bad when it comes in small packages. Like just like Josh said, when you want to customize something, you want to be able to customize it in such a way that ensures that it doesn't automatically conflict with some other random setting that somewhere in the settings panel that nobody's ever used before and hasn't been maintained in the last 15 years. So if I turn on something in the settings and it just breaks Kaywin for no reason because we all know Kaywin always crashes. Whenever you change a setting, it always does. We all know that.  Can I say something? Yeah, your turn, Steve. Go ahead. OK. It's having a lot of freedom of customization allows you to express your own pressing yourself. We want you to be our drone to do as we do. You follow what what we tell you to do. And that's it.  Do whatever you want. And like GNOME, it's our system. You do with it. What we tell you to do with it. It came from Mac OS, so they're copying. Sorry, not came. I think they're copying Mac OS. So we let our minions roam free to whatever you want, shape it or however you wish, make it look sexy, make it look artistic, create art, create wonder, not walk like a robot following whatever is written and nothing else. It's an it's a tool of expression. That's why it's good to have customization. You don't have customization. How are you going to express yourself with visual? No way to do that. Whenever I hear the KDE guys talk about freedom and customize whatever you want, all I think of is anarchy.  Anarchy without as they as they as it's said without without good, there's no evil without evil, there's no good. We need both.  I'm going to say this takes two to tango. We need GNOME. We need KDE to exist, but not co exist. Just exist evil and the good evil being known, good being KDE. We need both to to exist for stability to for, I mean, for for everything to be good peace. With that, I leave the floor to you. Crazy, you call this crazy, rude. Well, I do feel like I do crazy because Tyler's one defending KDE, which there is no defending KDE. And if you want to talk about like the freedom, freedoms that KDE offers, did you what does it take to remove KDE from a system? Like, because he would ever do that, right? You know, I know one reason to remove KDE. Let's just say that you decide that you're going to switch to window manager thing.  So let's just start removing packages. Let's remove KDE. I don't need that anymore.  I'm sorry. I want to do that. I I it's like I'm being pulled into a dimension I don't understand what would you remove. OK, Nome gives you the freedom to to completely remove Nome. You can even do it from Nome software, where you just remove Nome and GDM. Yeah, and Linux allows you to delete your entire root directory. But you don't do that, do you? I mean, that's the. I've done it before. If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you follow? I mean, that's the same thing. OK, next next next question. My desktop environment has the better applications to a false. Yes, it does. So because the guys went first last time, Steve, why does KDE have the best applications? Does not. I cannot defend that.  All right. All right. Well, that was the football guy catching the pass and running the opposite direction. My minion, my my fellow minion is it is indefensible. I'm sorry, y'all. This happens to him sometimes. Sometimes he gets a little broken. Let me just let me just repair what he's what he's saying here. I got to do this again. So this right here is Kate and live, you know, it looks beautiful. You know, this is a custom Dracula theme. It looks he doesn't really think weight. What the? You can tell. They haven't even been using can and live right now, because I see nothing going on in can and live, which means I spending more time writing his desktop than he is actually doing anything productive. Wait, I'm sorry. So am I supposed to open up an actual project? You know what, boys? I've been I've been meaning to add a video. I'll do it live right now if you put me to the test. OK, I don't know why I accidentally created a folder. He doesn't even know how to use it. There's too many buttons. I'm telling you. Oh, dude. Oh, I'll have to go get my my song to import for my outro. I'll do it. Hold on. Where's the videos? And the people watching video are like, this is really small. If I know that they're going to be props, I would have made, you know, individual. Like, please, please, my forgive, forgive my my overzealous minion here. You forget that there's something called a that gnome has over us. It's us at is the ecosystem. We don't have an ecosystem. We are working on it. It will be better than GNOME. No, our ecosystem that we have now is better than. I'll know what you're talking about. All right. Argue why, Tyler, where's where's GNOME's video editor, dog? That's what I want to know. Wait, what? It's called to say, Titty. No, Titty. Damn it.  We got trouble last time.  I know it's not even Steve. You were right. It's not you, man. It's Tyler. Well, I mean, I don't even think I'm saying anything. Well, it's called you said it. It's called PTIV. P-I-T-I-V-I. Yeah. OK. Never heard of it. Who uses it? I think he's making our argument for us, Josh, because you want to know what? GNOME has so many applications. You could use. Oregon, look at them all. There is a lot more there than what's on Katie's page. They have like a there are. There are four video editors for GNOME. We we have we have better apps coming. They are in training. They are still young. Are already exist. When they have no one knows about them.  And they'll be forgotten as instantly as as hours. They'll be forgotten. They'll be forgotten just like they are now. I mean, the GNOME apps also have sensible names because, you know, our music player is called music. Our video. Excuse me. Our manager is called Files. It's got it's got apps. So you don't have to learn what you don't have to learn what when you does. You don't have to learn what console is.  We had the GNOME project is very focused. They don't need a video editor because they don't have to have one. So what you mean to say is you just don't don't have one. No, so it's so it's it's community maintained. And you know what, it it works. It works more reliably than can live. I can tell you that much. I doubt it. I doubt it. Why do I have to be the voice of reason? Because you're the old man. Steve, have you used P not that word? Tivvy, what P? Tivvy, Tivvy, Pivvy. Sure. Yeah, we'll call it Pivvy, Pivvy, whatever you want to call it. You still have a lot to learn, my young one. It's not a great video editor. It's a basic video editor. Not not advanced as Kate in life. We have the higher ground there and everywhere else. So they have a better ecosystem. Beat them up, Steve. There are four of us that have edited videos before. And I'll be honest with you, most of my video edits are really just basic cuts. Yeah, that's all you can do. No, Tivvy. Again, all right. Look, I'm sorry. I can replicate the last tiny video with the Tivvy. I'll send you the raw file, dude. OK, we target we target professionals.   That's that's not going to know.   No, no, I am call. I'm calling there with this video editor. They're targeting the people who just do cuts. We're targeting everyone. That's yeah. Well, I mean, see, like, that's that's the point. Like, again, this is not to be degrading or anything, but GNOME is for simple people. Like, you know, like maybe not simple people, but some, you know, people with simple needs, I guess, is the better way of putting it. You know, that's your target audience, KDE. It's fair.  You know, it's there if you just kind of want to get into a browser real quick. OK, well, I'm that that was a fact. Maybe Lotto's from Office 365. You know, I don't know what the difference is, but let me hit my super key and type in web and then because I know that web is like at a gateway to like the worldwide web, which will lead me to the internet. Yeah. And in contrast, my browser was Harvard before any other browser in existence. You just compare that to KDE where you have to type E type in web.  And how do you spell it? You know, what is conquer? What is angel fish? What is the other one that they got nowadays? I can't remember it. That was a fucking. Yeah, yeah, you guys just continually prove my point. Like, I know learning names is difficult. Get it. See, the thing is, I'm having way too much fun with this. That was the whole point of everyone. Steve, guys, I hope everyone in chat understands I'm joking. Guys, I'm just going to say this about the name when it comes to naming our application. We name our applications in such a way that it's decorative because we are a decorative desktop environment. We decorate our names, not with the boring web, photos, video, music. Now, Amarok, Alphen, Gwenview, wonderful name, creative name. We are a creative desktop environment for the creative out there, for everyone, creatives and other, not for not for grandma, grandpa, great, great, great, great grandma.  I'm not being a just I do apologize. I don't need to sound ages. I'm just saying trying to describe it the best I can. Everyone knows that I'm the ageist one on here. Anyway, Steve, I need to counter you. Hold on, Tyler. I need to counter Steve here because developers use no. Noam has the best support for development because noam has this wonderful thing called dynamic workspaces. They're dynamically generated when you need them. KDE doesn't even have workspaces enabled by default. Instead, you brought it up because they also don't even have workspaces enabled for like multiple monitors by default, but continue. Yeah. No, because you don't need you don't need multiple workspaces on your secondary monitors. You don't because I'm sorry, I'm going to have to break character here for a second. And say, yeah, you do. I couldn't let that one pass.  You got like 30 workspaces on each screen. True. And you got one and you got like seven windows open on every single one of them. So that's how many scratch pads. More than one. All right. So just let me put this out there. The reason why GNOME's ecosystem is better isn't because of the breadth of software that has available because we all know that it's not always quantity that rules its quality. The quality of GNOME applications with a few exceptions. We can look at Kate in live and say, yeah, you know, that's a better video editor. Fine. Congratulations, Katie. You've won one, but almost across the board. When it comes to UI simplicity, are we talking in Star Trek? No, when it comes when it comes to simplicity and user friendliness, looking at the GNOME breadth of applications, almost all of them win. If you look at, you know, let's just say, for example, I don't even know if it's a GNOME application or not. Rhythm Box has been around for a very long time. It's, you know, it's a GTK application, works and looks wonderfully in GNOME. It's by far the best music player on Linux. Like it's not even close. And what do you use on your system? Again, is that Kate? Do you? Do you? We're not talking about me. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, excuse me. I'm sorry, man.  Yeah, but I'm using Kate live. Like, come on now. Like, I don't know yet. That's why.  And I would use it if I was more into GTK stuff. I'm just put that out there. The only reason I chose Kate is because I already had all the plasma stuff installed on my system and didn't want to install a whole bunch of dependencies for GNOME. It's true, whatever. It's completely broke characters. Anyway, we're just like this personal.  Since you're raising Kate, I'm going to raise you builder, which, you know, GNOME builder is not just for making GNOME applications, believe it or not, it can do everything, literally everything, because it is a true dynamic dynamic text editor that you can turn that is already out of the box and IDE for C for C development. But there are plugins available for everything else across the board. And well, I mean, that is it has built in. It has built in error processing on like Kate, which means that when you compile, no, will not only give you the compiler output, but it will highlight all of the all of the warnings and bugs and also link to documentation as to what the cause of those errors were. That is true. That is true. But can we also like maybe point out to people that they're also going to have to spend the first 10 minutes of their life with it to make it look like not yet? But should we tell them that or are we going to leave that out? Or do I have to raise the fact that when you install KDE, you have to spend like the first day and a half customizing KDE so that it actually looks decent before you even start doing anything. Also, it requires so not true. It also requires more dependencies than Haskell and Python combined. I mean, look, sure, if you have dyslexia, it might take you a full day to get through the whole settings panel. Assuming you don't, you'll be fine. I am going to be the voice of reason one more time. This battle, the application and the ecosystem, you know, wins that one, but we win the rest of the we win the war. We win the war. They will win the war. You just wait. We don't even lose battles, dog. Even when we come close, we still win. I mean, we weren't even going to talk about this, but distros predominantly use GNOME, so you fuckers have lost. I mean, what is the default desktop environment on Fedora? It's known. What is the default desktop environment on Ubuntu? It's known. What is the default desktop environment on OpenSUSA? Jokes on you, it doesn't have one. So wait, hold on. Your your point there being that people choose it a lot. I'm telling you, GNOME has already won. It is too late. Oh, but see, it hasn't won just because it's actually, like, you know, a default for a lot of distros that are put out there for new Linux users. Sure, you win there, but in the whole game. No, because those new users after they use it for six months and they're like, I don't know. I want to I want to make stuff look purple here. They're going to go, oh, yeah, that's right. I got to go to something like KDE. Oh, they just they're going to go to KDE. How to turn known purple and then they discover gradients and then they they install gradients and they they they've looked through the drop-down menus and go like, oh, they already have a built-in purple theme. Click. Maybe. Why? Their horses is not purple. Well, maybe, maybe, if that's the first thing they do, it's fine. But what happens when they install their first extension and literally the sun explodes inside of their computer? That doesn't happen. What happens? Oh, it does happen. It does. I'm sorry. There's a guy in the in the chat named Leroy Jenkins. I'm they can't just one you just won the chat. I'm sorry. All right. All right. All right. Just go ahead, Steve. One last one last one last word. I'm going to answer Morphe in the chat. I'm not a mousepad user. I'm a natural born Kate user, as it should be on Katie. That also had that also paid for sublime text. True. Well, I mean, it was interesting. Like, even I was interesting for the it was interesting for the month that I used it, but my license expired. Well, I mean, at least his parents raised him right. And he ended up using Kate. I mean, you can't blame them there. I mean, y'all, y'all two were clearly raised.  But, you know, we're all secretly vimeers users. That is true. That is true. So I don't really use this stuff. I use I use nano only to edit the off my podcast. Look, I was going to say this. I'm sorry, but there are many things that I can put up with. Emacs users, GNOME users, Katie users. You're all fine in my books. But if you use nano, get off my podcast. I don't even have nano install on my system. You actually do you have Pico installed? No. Are you sure? Wait, what is the Pico? I'm almost 100 percent positive that get that arch installs that by default. Yeah, but I read you removed it. Which punishment? What happens if you need it? Anyways, one last question on this. And then we can move on to the thing is I'm going to give everybody just two minutes. You and you can free form your argument over why people should use your desktop environment. The one that you're representing. And we don't need two minutes. And I go first because I have a very good point for my I'm just giving you two minutes because I don't want you to go over the two minutes. Same thing with me, right? Everybody gets the same. So Josh, yes, you can go first. OK, so let's just say that you're installing Linux for the first time. You already know that your operating system is going to be different. You install KDE. What's it look like by default? How does it act like default? It acts very similar to Microsoft Windows. So, no, you should not be installing KDE. First, instead, you should be installing Nome because Nome looks sexier out of the box because, you know, it's awesome. And it is so smooth. It is so great unless you're using a video card. But that's besides the point. Now, Nome also functions differently because you're using a different operating system. You need that additional reminder that, hey, this is a very unique experience. So I want everything to be about this unique because I don't want to fall into my Windows loving paradigms. OK, Steve, you can go next. OK, you need to use out of the box. You need to use KDE because who wants to be in a prison? You want to be in a prison or you want to you want to have freedom? You don't over prison. OK. That's why you use KDE. Tyler, your final thoughts.   You should probably go with KDE. Now, if you struggle with that, yes, Gnome will definitely tailor to you. But if not, you should be able to change things. You should probably have a system that you're used to and you can convert over to Linux with, you know, the least amount of issues possible.  And that's just something you cannot do on Gnome. If you rice Gnome and share it, maybe you'll have two people say, cool, KDE, completely different. So if you need an ego boost, come on over to KDE, definitely for you. And I'll go ahead and finish this off with just this simple statement. I have been over the top this entire time prepping and, you know, pimping out KDE. I do want to end this by saying I don't use KDE at all. I don't have the highest opinions of it personally. But this has been the most fun. I've had a long time to absolutely defend it. Super hardcore. So, yeah, you're not supposed to tell them that you're not using what you're defending, man. You ruin it. All right. This is the end, but still at the same time. I think I've done a dang good job. All right. So let's see here. Let's see here on my pine fun. I'm using Gnome on my laptop. I'm using Gnome on my other laptop. I'm using Gnome on my desktop system. I'm actually using Gnome right now. I have Gnome on my desktop back there and Gnome on my laptop. Don't use it, but. All right. So. But but my so defend for my reasons why you should use Gnome is quite simple. If you want to get work done, you use Gnome. If you want to spend your time tweaking and ricing and messing around with settings and spending all of your time in the settings panel trying to get the thing to look just right, then you can use KDE. You'll waste all of your time. You'll never get anything done. But if you want to be a productive member of society and get use your computer as a tool to be productive and boring. If you want to be a productive member of society and actually use your computer as the tool, it was meant to be. Gnome is the best desktop environment for you. It's also simple and easy to use. And contrary to popular belief, as we've talked about in this podcast a lot today, it's very customizable if you choose to do so. But it's not shoved in your face like on plasma. So, yeah, that is the end of the fight. Who won in the in the comment section below in the chat. If you're watching live winner, shut up, Steve. There's always winners. Don't tell them this. Anyways, in the comment section below, who do you think won the argument? Not necessarily who you think is best. We just wanted to hear from you. Did Steve and Tyler win the argument? Or was it Josh and I won the argument? We would like to know in the comment section below or in the chat. Let us know. So moving on to the thingies of the week. Tyler, you again get to go first. Oh, awesome. So my thingie of the week is actually quite simple. It's my VMRC. OK, my custom VMRC. You can find it in my files. OK, I've got a website. The link site will be up later on today. But I mean, any of my videos on my channel will have a link to my files. You can go there and I got distracted by chat. I literally have no idea what I was saying. I literally saw something and it wiped my memory. You were talking about your VMRC. Yeah, but yeah, so you can go to my dot files, find my VMRC there. And my VMRC, it's I've been doing a lot with HTML and CSS and the code completion. And I don't know the Dracula theming that I've got in it. It's very easy on the eyes. And I've been doing a lot with my website. So all in there. So definitely go check it out if you like don't already have a custom VMRC or want to like maybe see if you could add something for mine or just see what what I'm doing differently. Very good. All right. Oh, also, by the way, in the comments, vote for me. I clearly won me and Steve brought home the dub. Don't forget, you know, mention your favorite thing that me and Steve said and why you voted for us. Because, you know, the real brothers will say it. Just saying just to let you know, Tyler, so far I've seen more KDE one than, you know, one. The chat. Yeah, it's it's a travesty. It's saying how this is my podcast. You should all be voting for me. All right. No, no, I mean, you did good, brother. But Steve, you're thinking of the week, please. I also stopped pimping for votes, not you, Tyler. Good. Well, I think you have the week is. Sorry, my thing of the week is this a service, a web service called distroC. It's a wonderful service because they reply to you right back. The guy who runs it. So it's a service that that has a ton of distributions that you can test online in your browser before you download. And they have zero Linux on there. Yes, they do. And soon they will have the GNOME and XSE spins. I sent it to them waiting for a reply from them because Josh requested it, though. But they have up to four hundred so far and not so four hundred different ones. It's all distros with all their spins. A lot of distros with all their spins. That makes it. They also have to also have to. And the performance on because there was a website before that they replace by their the performance on their site.  If you don't log in, you can access the live environment but without an internet connection. Not that you can do much on on a live environment because it's limited on space. And there's no partitions to install to or even if you launch the installer, it's not going to detect any partitions. It's just for testing purposes only if you want to test before you download. So test before you buy kind of thing. It's wonderful. It's very quick. If there's a lot of traffic on it, it tends to slow down a little bit. It's natural. But if there's not a lot of traffic, it's super quick, super fast. And you can play around with it. Zero Linux is on there. There's four hundred. So go test out. Have fun. If for distribution, see which one suits your needs best. That's the point of a live environment anyway. But that's the there. If you like it, download it. The only thing I noticed that I don't like is there's no links to each distro's website. It's just a distro tested. And that's it. No links. There's no socials. There's nothing. Oh, I need to talk to the guy over there to see if he can add links. But I'm adding I added on my website a link to test zero on my website. But anyway, it's a wonderful service. Go test. Enjoy. All right, Josh, you're thinking of the week, please. My thinking of the week is actually called NGNX. So if you go to NGNX.com, that is my web server of choice. And I've been delving into the documentation of it quite a bit lately. As you know, I decided I'm going to attempt to learn some NGNX because I want to do some NGNX magic of, you know, sending traffic wherever the heck I wanted because I'm wanting to have a VPS that people can use in access. But I don't want to. But, you know, storage on VPS is pretty expensive. So what I'm looking to do is to actually have the storage located back here at my house. In order to do that, I had to redirect traffic coming into the service through through NGNX and relay it back to my house, which if you go to or if you go to, I think it's a live.tuxpace.com, that own cast instance is now actually running in my closet. But the web service that you're interacting with is in Atlanta, Georgia. Magic. Yeah. And, you know, when I live stream, I'm multicasting across different services as well via that same NGNX instance. And I can also set up like dynamic links and, you know, spin up repositories as I need them and so on, all with just NGNX configuration. Get started on those repositories, Josh. Get your arch running. I'm working. I'm working on it. I just need to determine if this arch Linux installation is going to last long enough to justify it. It's not. All right. All right. So my thing of the week is Vorda. It is a front end for doing Borg backups, whether or not you use Borg base or just, you know, an external hard drive for your own service or whatever. Basically, what it allows you to do is back up your system to wherever you want to do it using Borg. And while I wouldn't say that it's as good as it was a Pika backup, is that what you use, Josh, is Pika? I use them both. OK. A lot of people use Pika. It's I think Pika is probably a little bit simpler. But I like the Vorda because not only does it allow you to do all your backup stuff and I'm not sure if Pika does this or not. But the UI on Vorda to actually mount your previous backup systems like you can mount it right inside of a of directory on your computer and you can browse all the files and stuff inside of that previous backup. It's just so good. It's like having it's kind of like having mountable snapshots, but actual backups of your whatever you want to back up. It's really, really good. And if you don't want to use Vorda, Pika is a good second choice or you can use Borgmatic if you're more of a terminal kind of person.  It is so good.  So it's really, really good. Wait a minute. One moment we're talking Linux stuff, the next Pikachu and the Borg from Star Trek. What what what universe? When you talk about Borg, we talked about the Borg backup project, which is a back. I know what he's talking about. I'm just being funny. I know, I know. But essentially, like the one the one thing about Vorda is that Vorda is is directly created by Borg base, which if you pay for Borg base, they directly contribute towards the Borg backup project, whereas Pika is completely independent from Borg, but they just happen to use Borg because Borg is actually a real relatively robust backup protocol. It's really good. Anyways, all right. So that is it for this podcast, by the way, guys. I think this may be the best podcast we've ever done. I'm just going to put that out there. 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This is something that happened on June 4th, 1974. There was an event, the Cleveland Indians game, called Tencent Beer Nights. Now it was 1974. Tencent was a lot more money than it is now. But not that much money. It's still Tencent. That's like, whoa, right? Imagine if it was Tencent Beer Magfest. Can any of you imagine a situation that might occur at such a night that might prevent a game of baseball from... Oh, well, look what happened. The audience attacked the players. Like, the players had to form this ring with baseball bats, like both teams defending each other, trying to get the hell out of that. Right, it's like, you go to a baseball game nowadays, and there'll be two drunk guys way up in the top level, and they'll have a fight, and security will take them out, right? But imagine if half the stadium was that guy.


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Phones have only gotten bigger, I'm afraid, in that time. Like, I can't even see it in his head. There is a street race starting by the old school hall.  I can't go near schools. Get a fast car and go to the starting grid. I can't think of a faster car in the taxi. Why else would they use it for taxis? It's because it's the fastest car. Oh my God, this is all coming back to me. The map and everything. I remember trying to play this game when I used to work retail and random people would open fire on me for no reason. Why are you doing that? Okay, he's forgotten about me. It was like when Homer strangled Bart. It's a fleeting moment of anger and it's gone. But I remember when I used to work retail. I think I'm getting a head start here. I'm way ahead of them. That didn't last long. Okay, all right, maybe it will. What was that? Okay, finally, I will finish my thought. I remember when I was working retail and this game came out on mobile and I was trying to play it. It gets so difficult because this game is just really difficult in general. Okay, I know this isn't proving my point. I'm in a race and they're just hitting into walls for no reason. This actually might be a real life example of slow and steady wins the race. I'm not even in the race. I'm just looking for a fair. Come on, folks. Someone has to go somewhere, right? No, my first crash and that wasn't even my fault. No, they're catching me. They're catching me. Oh, you fucking... Okay, that worked. I like how I was going to call him a feconegid when I am a self-labelled feconegid. Okay, it takes one to no one. I don't think you're supposed to use that against yourself. That's supposed to be a comeback. Yes, this one's red. That means finish. I wanted a taxi. Oh, that's great. An incredible time and said I was just driving along my taxi and they were smashing into each other. All right, here I am, Salvatore. Just checking on my taxi, making sure it's okay. I mean, I don't think it's okay, but no one's stolen it. So just who? That's a prize-winning car. I don't want to lose that thing. Me and the fellas need to talk business, so you're going to look after my girl for the evening. What? Okay, that was an abrupt start. What? He wasn't even in frame. It's like me and my older videos. God, his chair looks uncomfortable. It's all jagged. Hey, final, let's go visit Chigo and get some party treats. It really sounds like you're talking about dogs. No, I don't want to take the limo. I got a taxi. He was probably so happy when he got to Salvatore and he's like, oh, can you take this person to here? He must have been like, finally, a fare. Why the hell am I taking her here? What is going on? That's Chigo over there. Pull up next to him. Very inconspicuous. What did she get? I wonder. God, she's eager to get back in the car. That run. Chigo can die now. I feel like he's given you a bad habit here. Everyone is shooting at me and she doesn't seem to care. She's just silent in the backseat. Whatever she got off Chigo, she's in another universe. That's the party up ahead. Drop her out front. It's like three cars here. It can't be that pumping. I gotta just wait while she shakes her butt. Why can't I shake my butt? I always have to wait. Always the waiter and never the shaker. Am I legit just waiting? Can I go inside? Is this okay? Oh no, the police are coming as soon as I showed up. Oh, they're gonna think I knocked on everyone and it was me that got them caught. Uh-oh.  Oh, God, the camera's going nuts. Is that a cop? I don't know. I'm bringing them all back to Salvatore's house. I'm just hoping this is out of their jurisdiction. Kind of like a Gibraltar situation. This peninsula is owned by Salvatore. Are you gonna follow me in? No, it's just gonna wait out there. All right, we're done. We're off the hook.  You're not treating me really good. I'm I treat you with respect and everything.  What's going on down here? What are you doing? Oh, sweet, but Jesus, what is going on here? You know what? I'm just gonna let you do that. I'm afraid that if I get in the car, they'll try and arrest me. Maybe if I just wait them out, they'll just tire themselves out or blow themselves up. One or the other. Let me get back to a safe distance where I won't be hit by shrapnel. I love gaming. I thought he was free for a second, but no. Okay, there he goes. Bye. All right, bye for real. Oh, wait, he got out. And I kept money for that for some reason. All right, Salvatore, I dealt with the cops in your front garden. What do you got next? Cutting the grass. Okay, I'm up for whatever. He usually gets a taxi home after work. Oh, can I be the taxi driver? I just want to drive taxis. I'm here involved with the mob and I'm like, all right, but if I do this one, will you let me be a taxi driver? I just don't understand. That's not how it works. I'm not working my way up the ladder to be a taxi driver. A game FM. Yes. What would be on this? Just royalty free Kevin MacLeod? Uh-oh. I'm supposed to tell you, hold on. Let me be like suspicious. Just smash into like three people and then go around like ours ruined. Hey, boss, you think this guy behind us is a little suspicious? You mean the one that hit eight stoplights, three cars, two pedestrians and then drove on the sidewalk for five blocks? Yeah, that one. Nah, he's over 40 feet back. He's fine. Okay, I just murdered someone now as well. Oh, wait, that's my target. Okay, but back up. I'm a bit too close. Now for everyone's favorite mission, a tailing mission with a spooko meter. Ignore me. I'm at a comfortable distance. Why are you getting spooks? Oh, Jesus Christ, your spook almost went full. Why? I'm miles away. I don't even know where he's gone now.   I've lost him. I've lost him. Oh, God. Why are you still spooked when I legit can't even find you? Get out of the way. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Where are you going? I failed. I'm just going to accept that I failed and I'm going home. God, that wasn't a great attempt, was it? Yep. She ain't much, but she's mine. I live in a storage unit. Who is paging me? I forgot paged your sort of thing. Okay. I don't want to have too much fun, so I'm not going to do the tailing mission. I'm going to go for a different mission. All right. This is, uh, this is Tony, isn't it? Yeah. Hey, Tony. Hey, I'm, I'm with the mob, but whoa, hey. Just pack up on the wall. Tony, I'm here. But he's like one of his sugary, lovely- Who was saying that? Okay. I'm going with my team. Let's go, everyone. They're like, can we not take the car that's not like about to explode? No. This is tried and true. Okay. I've already done a mission in this car. Oh yeah. How did that go? I don't want to talk about it. I got to kill that. Oh my God. What is going on? Wait, where are they going? They're opening fire. I'm some random dude. What is going on? Wait, who is opening fire on me? I've got myself involved in the gang war. I just gnoping out of here. I forgot about the chalk lines on the bodies. That's so great. All right. Let's go, folks. Okay. This is too much, dude. What, what has happened here? No, someone stop him. Jesus Christ almighty. What was that? My car? No. There's a family carrier. Come on, men. We can all fit in it. Everyone into the mini bus. All right. How about the actual bus? What is going on? All right. I'm just leaving. This was probably a bad idea. I left my backup for a bus. But look, I'm just happy to be a part of public transport again. Why is it on fire? What? Whoa. You were in here? I did not realize that. Oh, well, he's dead. I didn't know that could even happen in this game that their head could come off like that. All right. Well, I got it where I wanted to be. I wanted to try and jump over the wall with this thing. Oh my God. I'm getting zealot vibes here. The rain is making it slippy. Okay, there we go. How am I supposed to, you know what? I'll just jump over and take one of their cars and knock them down. That's the plan.  Oh no, they're on a slight incline. How am I supposed to get them now? Ow! All right. Well, that's two gone. You're locked in here with me, folks. There we go. Got him. Oh, carries on fire. Hold on. I'll just take another one out of here. Why is every vehicle I drive absolutely useless? I went from taxis to buses to fish trucks. Oh, I guess it's true. You always return to the scene of the crime if you're a criminal because I just drove by all those bodies again. There we go. Mission passed. Hail to the fish truck. Oh my God, another vehicle on fire. How many times is this going to happen to me?   All right, I have to do what everyone did when they played this game. I got to go to that car showroom and get the banshee. Yes, it's there. I'll swap you. Fish truck for your banshee. That's a good trade, honestly. I take it. Hey, Tony. I'm pretty cool now. I drive a banshee.  Fish trucks, where's that? It's like I heard of them outside.  We're going to finish the triads in liberty once and for all. Thank God, there's a serious gang war going on. They keep opening fire on me. Why is there circus music playing? Why does he look so weird and oddly proportioned? All right, folks, watch out. I'm backing up. Sorry. One of Tony's best men dead.   I've gotten my car stuck. All right, you know what? It's fine. I'm going to trade it for this truck with a bomb on it anyway. That's an upgrade. Wait, why am I timed? All right. It's truck with bomb on it. They warned me not to get it hurt, and then I just take a ramp immediately. I just smashed my own car. Guys, could you stop shooting at me? I've got a bomb on the vehicle, but please, have some sense. Have you crashed into a traffic light? How the hell am I supposed to get out of here? Activate the car bomb. How? I did it. Run. Am I out of there? I didn't seem out of there. I'm there. I can see myself in the explosion. I was just standing there. Mission passed. Okay, if you say so. This guy's tired. Sorry, dude. I got to get out of here, and you were kind of in the way. My god, it's jumping backwards. It's really impressive. I forgot about this entirely. I didn't know you could do that. I'm lucky they're giving me a lot of driving missions, because this game is very difficult on foot. Even the little parts, they had to be on foot already.  Hey, Joey. Oh, to come back between six and two. Okay, I forgot about these things. What is it with the framing in this game?  Okay. Wait, you're just ringing pay phones to chat? Is it? I don't know who you are. You don't even know if I can drive. I might be a child. I said nothing. Hey, dude, get in, I guess. Like, I don't even talk, so I didn't even say anything. I just pulled up. Mr. Chunks.  I hope so. I'm gonna give him a big old hug. Okay, there you go. Go in and say hello to Mr. Chunks. He likes his belly scratched. What? What was that? Okay. I don't understand what just happened, but I am going to leave. Maybe I should stop answering random pay phones.   It seems like a very unnecessary risk. All right, take him away, toys. There we go. It's gone. All that for a thousand dollars. Seemed very unnecessary. Like, I just want a street race where I casually raced around the place. Didn't even race, honestly. It was just a Sunday drive, and I got ten grand for it. And I have two hundred thousand dollars. I'm not exactly strapped for cash. All right, you know what? I am in the mood for an absolutely excellent time. I'm gonna do the following mission. Cutting the grass. It was so misleading. Like, I thought I was gonna have a fantastic time just mowing his lawn. That would be great. One thing about this game is the pedestrians are far less suicidal. Okay, that person just got murdered.  Jesus, give him some space. A man just died. Look at them. They're all just, like, looking down at the body. Mission failed. You got too close. I'm like three cars behind. I'm in a taxi, and he just came out.  What I was saying earlier, just in case you were interested, I think they try to make it more realistic with, like, vice-citing and stuff, where the pedestrians would react to you going close, but they ended up just jumping into you all the time. Whereas these pedestrians can't hear you because they got their AirPods in. Look at that. They hardly react at all. All right, this is gonna be inconspicuous. I arrive with gunshots on the side of my car. Now we wait. God, that meme is just too real now at this point. Like, I'm gonna be blocking traffic and everything. The car's bullet holes. It's all banged up, and this is gonna be fine. But a while ago, I was in a taxi at a slightly too close distance, acting completely normal, and that was too suspicious. Let's go. Stay far behind. Easy does it now. He stopped over there. Okay, I'll just stop in the middle of the road here. Everything is fine. Yep, let's go. Ah, they went up left. The one area I didn't search last time. Just taking wide-angle turns in the wrong lane just to keep my distance. Honestly, it's gonna be hard to follow them when I clearly can't even see out my windshield. Like, that bonnet is blocking me. There they go. Again, not suspicious at all. Just creeping after them. Okay, they're out. What are they even doing here? Why am I following? Oh, you're the lady, the torture CJ. Why is he so small? And why is that guy's eyes freaking out? He's scanning him to make sure he's telling the truth. All right, whack Curly Bob. Sounds like a cartoon character. Like, how did I- What? Okay, first of all, how did I see that conversation? I was around the warehouse, and I couldn't see it or hear it. Second of all, why was he waiting with a shotgun to murder anyone that shows up? Listen. Again, the framing. Like, I understand he's coming out from under the car, but it's just so funny. God, the pedestrians might not be as suicidal, but they're very murderous. Oh, God, I have to sound the horn out. I don't know how. Wait, are we doing a bank robbery? Jesus Christ, a heist, everyone. Better activate the chaos mode. Wait a second, this bank is just painted on. Okay, I somehow remember that there's a bribe in this alley. Jesus Christ, if I can make it there, could you stop?  Don't do that. Go back. You lost all of the robbers. No, I didn't. They're right here, and here, and here, and there's a bit here. Hello? They don't know what to do. I'm not running, man. Okay, they're just gonna open fire. All right, well, I had a good life. All right, folks, I'm gonna end it there on that high note. I hope you enjoyed. Thank you so much for watching. Subscribe if you're new, and I hope to see you next time. Bye for now.


CHAPTER XV A severe attack of her suppressed enemy and a nervous headache, the result of the shock of the previous evening, had driven Mrs. Ray Jefferson to the Turkish bath as early as ten o'clock, the morning after that strange exhibition of clairvoyance. She had the rooms all to herself, and as she lent back in her comfortable chair, and dabbled her pretty bare feet in warm water, she reflected in a troubled and disjointed fashion over all that had occurred since that eventful morning when the beautiful mystery had appeared before her, standing in that curtained archway, which indeed looked prosaic enough portal, and not by any means the sort of threshold for the development of occult science or psychical marvels. She's completely unsettled me, she murmured plaintively, how I wish I had never gone to her rooms last night, and that poor Colonel Estquart, I wonder if he'll ever recover. They say he's never moved nor spoken since they took him away last night.  I don't think it's possible. I expect she only willed it, and that's not murder. Oog! And she shuddered, even in the warmth of the hot room where she had selected to go first. If the story leaks out, though I hope to goodness it won't, how delighted that horrid Mrs. Masterman will be. She never liked her. Well, I'm—if that isn't the Princess herself coming in. Her trance doesn't seem to have hurt her. Slowly and languidly through the open doorway, the beautiful figure swept in, and up to the smaller chamber, where sat the little American. As Mrs. Ray Jefferson looked at her, she became conscious of some subtle, intangible change that had shadowed, as it were, the marvellous beauty of her face and form. Her large, deep eyes had lost their luster. Her clear, creamy skin looked dull and opaque. Even the magnificent hair seemed to have been robbed of its sheen, and here and there amidst its masses gleamed a silvery thread. Up to this moment her age had been a matter of much speculation, varying from 18 to 26. Now one would have said unhesitatingly that she was a woman of at least thirty years, and a woman who did not carry those years lightly. She sat down by Mrs. Jefferson and spoke in a low, nervous voice. I knew I should find you here. She said, I want your help. I think you have always been my friend here. Do me one service. Tell me what occurred in my room last night. Do you mean to say, asked Mrs. Jefferson amazed, that you don't know? Should I ask if I did? She said mournfully, a great weight and terror are on my soul, yet I cannot explain them. In some of my trances I keep the memory of all I see. In some I lose it.  It was your voice that came between us. You have great psychic power, but it is undeveloped. Good gracious! cried Mrs. Jefferson. Then if I'm responsible for what happened last night, I'll have nothing more to do with occultism as long as I live. I can't tell why it was, resumed the Princess mournfully. The chain of communication broke, and I got away, and my great dread was that Julian should suffer. Well, your dread is realized, said Mrs. Jefferson. Don't you know he's very ill? She started, and grew deadly white. Ill! Julian! No, I did not know. What is it? Serious do they say? Very, some shock to the brain. You know he was far from strong. She was only home from India on sick leave. The Princess was silent for a moment. Her face looked inexpressibly mournful. Involuntarily her hand went to her heart, and she looked at Mrs. Jefferson with sad, appealing eyes. I have suffered a great deal, she said slowly. I only bore it for his sake, for the hope they gave me that one day we should meet, and love, and taste the happiness of life together. Tell me, was it anything I said or revealed that shocked him? Well, I guess so, said the little American uneasily. Of course, to us it was all mysterious, but he seemed to make it out, and at last when you rose up and stretched out your arm and cried out, Die! In your crimes, die! The Colonel just gave a sort of gasp, and crash went his chair, and he lay there on the floor like a dead creature. We were all finally scared, I can tell you. The odd part was that you went to sleep again like a child, just as simply and quietly as possible. And my husband, and the poet, and poor old Diogenes, they got the Colonel to his room and laid him on the bed, and we sent for a doctor, and he's not conscious yet. That's all I can tell you. The Princess Zeroff lent back on her chair white and silent. She asked no more questions. Presently an attendant appeared with obsequious inquiries. The Princess suddenly shivered. Ask them, she said abruptly, to bring up the temperature to three hundred degrees. I am cold. Cold! Mrs. Jefferson stared. I guess it's as well I came here first, she said, for certainly I can't stand it fifty degrees hotter than it is at present. I'll go into the second room. You see, I'm reversing the usual order this morning. Three, two, one, instead of one, two, three. I'll just sit here by the door so that we can still talk if you wish. I look like a boiled lobster, I'm sure." Princess Zeroff said nothing. But when the American had withdrawn she threw herself down on a couch near the wall. By choosing it she was out of sight of any one in the adjoining room, though able to converse if she wished. That she did not wish was very evident. No sooner was she alone than an expression of intense anguish came over her face. Her hands locked themselves together, and agony far beyond the weakness of tears was in her beautiful eyes. I have lost him, she cried in a stifled whisper. Lost him for ever! And it was for this we were brought together. For this I was commanded to learn the secret of my failure. Yes, I, who thought myself so wise, have failed. Failed at the crucial test, because my passions governed me, because my heart was weak for sake of love. Oh, my lost strength, my lost self-restraint! Just I again tread the weary road, and only overcome to fail again.  I am so human still, she moaned. So human that woman-like I deceived myself, and dreamt of love perfected here, when I might have known. I might have known. But oh, to lose him thus! To stand before his eyes shamed, sin-stricken, criminal! I cannot bear that. It is beyond my strength. A new, fierce passion seemed suddenly to take possession of her soul. She raised herself once more, and the old, lovely light and splendor glowed in her eyes. There is but one way to win his forgiveness, she cried breathlessly. He will pity me then, his heart will soften. He will remember what I said on that strange, happy night, when once again we met. I am but a woman who loves. Earth holds no weaker thing.  Men live for love, a woman can but die. For the life I took, I give my own. It is just. But, if but once, oh, beloved, I could see your pitying eyes and hear your tender voice, and know that you forgave. The light faded from her face once more. Only a hunted, despairing creature leaned back on that solitary couch. A voice came shrilly from the outer room. Are you all right, Princess? Can you really bear that heat? Monotonously, vaguely, her own voice replied, I am all right. I do not even feel the heat. Then all again grew still, and her eyes closed, and her heart beat in a dull, laboured way. Once more the shrill voice reached her, but it sounded far off and indistinct.  You frightened me terribly. The effort to reply was harder to make, yet once again the slow, sweet voice vibrated through the hushed and stifling heat. I shall not sleep. Do not be alarmed." Five minutes later, when Mrs. Ray Jefferson lifted her eyes from an examination of her suffering foot, she was surprised to see the Princess standing in the archway of the further room, exactly as she had done on the first occasion of her visiting the baths. Are you going? she called out. How is it I never saw you pass through the room? There was no answer. Only the deep, wonderful eyes looked mournfully back at her. And even as she met the gaze, the form seemed to fade away. The archway was vacant. With a faint cry Mrs. Jefferson sprang to her feet and rushed into the inner room. The intense heat stifled and drove her back, but not before she saw the Princess lying on the couch where she had left her, lying with closed eyes and folded hands. While on her pale, sad lips a faint smile seemed still to shed its lingering life. The frantic calls of the terrified woman summoned the attendants. In a moment that motionless figure was lifted and carried into the adjoining chamber. But human science and human aid were powerless before a greater mystery than the Princess Zerov had embodied. The Mystery of Death. End of Chapter 15. End of THE MYSTERY OF A TURKISH BATH by Rita.


In Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5, Ophelia notes that rosemary is for remembrance. An idea that goes back at least a few thousand years to the ancient Greeks who claimed that rosemary comforts the brain, sharpens understanding, restores lost memory, and awakens the mind. After all, plants can be considered little chemical factories that manufacture all sorts of compounds that could have neuroprotective benefits. So let's cut down on processed foods, eat lots of phytonutrient-rich whole plant foods, including perhaps a variety of herbs. Even the smell of certain herbs may affect how our brain works. Unfortunately, I've found much of the aromatherapy literature scientifically unsatisfying, like there'll be studies like this offering subjective impressions, and so fine, you are sniffing an herbal sachet is indeed easy, inexpensive, and safe, but is it effective? They didn't compare test scores or anything. Even when there is a control group where researchers had people do a battery of tests in a room that smelled like rosemary, lavender, or nothing, and even when they did compare test results, the lavender appeared to slow them down, compare their performance, whereas the rosemary group seemed to do better. But maybe that's just because of the mood effects. Maybe the rosemary group did better just because their aroma kind of pepped them up, and not necessarily in a good way, maybe kind of overstimulating in some circumstances. Now there have been studies that measured people's brain waves and were able to correlate the EEG findings with the changes in mood and performance, along with objective changes in stress hormone levels. But is this all just because pleasant smells improve people's moods? Like if you created some synthetic rosemary fragrance with a bunch of chemicals that had nothing to do with the rosemary plant, would it still have the same effect? We didn't know until now. Aromatic herbs do have volatile compounds that theoretically could enter the bloodstream by way of the lining of the nose or lungs, and then potentially cross into the brain and have direct effects. But this was the first study to put it to the test. They had people do math in a cubicle infused with rosemary aroma, and so yes, they got that same boost in performance, but for the first time showed that how much better they did correlated with the amount of a rosemary compound that made it into their bloodstream just from being in the room. And so not only did this show that it gets absorbed, but that such natural aromatic plant compounds may be playing a direct effect on changes in brain function. If that's just what smelling it can do, what about eating rosemary? We have the studies on alertness and cognition and reduced stress hormone levels inhaling rosemary. However, there were no clinical studies on cognitive performance following ingestion of rosemary until now. Older adults, average age 75, were given two cups of tomato juice with either nothing or a half teaspoon of powdered rosemary, which is what one might use in a typical recipe, or a full teaspoon, two teaspoons, or over a tablespoon of rosemary powder. And they even gave them some placebo pills to go with it to even further eliminate any placebo effects. Speed of memory is a potentially useful predictor of cognitive function during aging, and what they found is that the lowest dose had a beneficial effect accelerating their processing speed, but the highest dose impaired their processing speed. Maybe because the half teaspoon dose improved alertness, while the four teaspoon dose decreased alertness. So rosemary powder at the dose nearest to normal culinary consumption demonstrated positive effects on speed of memory. The implicit take-home message being more isn't necessarily better. Don't take high-dose herbal supplements, extracts, tinctures. Just cooking with spices is sufficient. A conclusion no doubt pleasing to the spice company that sponsored the study. No side effects were reported, but that doesn't mean you can eat the whole bush. This poor guy swallowed a rosemary twig which punctured through the stomach into his liver, causing an abscess from which two cups of pus and a two-inch twig was removed. So explore herbs and spices in your cooking branch out. Just leave the branches out.


Welcome to an accessibility tour of Libby, version 1.81 on iOS. This video was created with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program, Disability Component. The opinions and interpretations in this video are those of the creator, and do not necessarily reflect those of the Government of Canada. It was produced with sighted assistance. The Libby app strives to provide access to audio books and e-books from local libraries, but lacks accessibility in crucial areas. Before we dive into some suggested improvements, let's take a quick look at why they're important. To get the most out of a smartphone, those who are blind turn on voice feedback. Then they can swipe quickly to different controls on the screen, and hear any text that appears. Press reader, Libby. Libby, welcome to open the active title, button. In order to navigate a screen effectively, it is important that all buttons be labeled. Controls need to be swipeable, and screens must be clear of hidden text. We will now explore four accessibility challenges with Libby, version 1.8.1 on iOS. We will explore focus issues with pop-up menus, show a number of unlabeled buttons and the difficulties this results in, demonstrate voice-over speaking invisible text, and highlight the challenges faced when attempting to actually read books. When a menu or feature is activated, the previous screen is slid over to form an inactive background. This is a common practice throughout the app, but presents a major challenge for voice-over users. Instead of being positioned on the new controls, the user is left stranded on the previous screen. A prime example of this is the menu button. When activated, it expands with options such as add a library and learn Libby. However, instead of being able to swipe to these options, we can only navigate the original screen. The only way to access the menu field is to tap on the top right of the screen. Then swipe through its controls. This is problematic because blind users will not know where the menu is or even that they have to tap it. Furthermore, when swiping through a screen when a pop-up is displayed, its options mingle with the existing content. This makes it almost impossible to tell which controls are part of the pop-up. Unfortunately, back-field interference is another serious concern. Occasionally, voice-over will mistakenly read text and controls that are no longer visible. We refer to this phenomenon as back-field interference. It occurs when new controls are painted over existing ones without first clearing the screen of its old content. Here, we'll demonstrate one area where back-field interference is prevalent. It's important to note, though, that this issue does crop up randomly and persistently throughout the entire app. When we no longer need the menu, we click hide. However, the menu controls are still exposed to voice-over. Being prompted to interact with controls that do not exist represents a level of frustration rarely experienced elsewhere. Please ensure that each screen of your user interface is free and clear of old controls and text. The audio player is not usable due to many compounding accessibility issues. When we press the open button from the bookshelf, the screen that comes up is littered with countless controls. Their labels make no sense to a voice-over user, and most controls don't seem to correspond to actual functions. In addition to being unlabeled, many important controls, such as the play button, are skipped when using voice-over swipe gesture. These issues represent an insurmountable barrier to access for non-visual readers. Unless important buttons are labeled, meaningless controls are removed, the screen can be logically navigated with the swipe gesture, and icons are enlarged so they can be easily found by touch. Blind readers will be unable to listen to audiobooks with Libby. Sadly, reading is not an option. Blind readers will be unable to listen to audiobooks with Libby. Sadly, reading e-books is equally difficult. No buttons are labeled, and continued use of the feature introduces serious backfield interference. The multi-step process of accessing the list of chapters is far too complex, and unlabeled buttons combine with focus challenges to render it unusable. If a user does manage to select a new chapter, a voice-over usually reads the wrong page. Finally, it is not possible to scroll the book using voice-over's three finger gesture. Voice-over doesn't even recognize the button at the far right of the screen, so voice-over users will have no idea how to turn pages. It takes a lot of time and hard work to produce an app of this caliber, and we appreciate your willingness to explore increasing its accessibility. The modifications requested here can be made without impacting the visual look and feel of the interface, but will be greatly appreciated by those reading your content with speech.