Hi, and welcome to this DJI S2 demo on call chain monitoring. Like this project possible, and to capture temperature data, the blue maestro sensor is used. These small sensors advertise temperature data that application captures and then sends to DJI S2. The capture tool is an Android Studio application which is integrated with the DJI S2 Android SDK to make it possible to upload temperature data from the sensors. The application search for Bluetooth low energy devices and when you select the device it makes a temporary pairing to collect temperature data. By pressing upload the current reading will get stored in a local database and as a tracked entity instance event. The application automatically reconnects to the device and listen to changes. One feature in the application is setting an alarm with a minimum and maximum threshold. If it's over or under the threshold an alarm notification pops up. You can also export the local database as a CSV file to your phone's local storage as a backup. You can also clear the database for instance after an export. Last but not least, by pushing upload your readings will be sent to the tracker capture interface in DJI S2. When inside the browser the readings will appear on the tracked entity instance.


Hi, I'm Marianne Sasaki. You're watching Life in the Law at Think Tech Hawaii. We're on from 1 to 130 on Wednesdays. And we are very lucky today to have a guest who has not only a colleague but a dear friend. She's a family lawyer and she's been practicing, for how long have you been practicing now? 12 years? For six years. Six years. Okay. Her name is Robin Gregory. Welcome, Robin, to the show. Robin and I share something, we were just talking about it earlier, we share something in common and that is the fact that we both went to law school at a later age, right? Yes. We didn't go straight from college to law school. And I wouldn't encourage anybody whose dream that is to pursue that dream because I think law school is a great place to discover yourself and discover how you fit into the environment, right?  Right. My first year of law school, I thought everyone should be required to take the first year of law school classes because they teach you about your rights with criminal contracts, criminal law, contracts, right? Right. Everything that you need to know in life, you learn in your first year of law school. It's contracts, property, it's criminal law. It's constitutional law? Yeah. Sometimes it's first year. But there's one more, oh, torts, which is harms.  So how did you find it? I was a little bit, well I was the only, I was one of two older people in my class and everybody was a lot younger. Was that the same case for you? That was the case for me. I graduated from law school in 2010. I was 46 years old and a lot of people were coming straight from their undergraduate. So they were early 20s. I think we had one person who was as young as 21 years old in our class. So people were a lot younger than me, which means that they had a lot more stamina and energy than me. Well, that's true. It requires a lot of focus and dedication, I would say. Much more than an undergraduate degree, law school takes a lot of focus. There's a lot of reading, a lot of heavy reading. Now, people told me that it would be the hardest thing that I've ever done and I'm like, I've done a lot of hard things, it's not going to be that bad.  Right, how can it be harder than parenting? It was hard, it was so hard. Really? Yes. Really? Yeah. It's interesting. Yeah. Because I thought it was just me. It is a truly incredibly hard thing. It's really a test of your endurance, a test of your focus. With younger people, at least, it was a test of my composure because you have to do a lot of rational arguing and you can't lose your composure while you're discussing an issue with somebody, I think. Right. And I have a tendency to do that, but you don't, right? Oh, no. I can lose my composure at times. So during your first year of law school, was there one section that you really took to, did you just love criminal law? I didn't think I would love criminal law, but I did. I really liked contracts. Contracts was really difficult, but I like contracts. Because people don't understand what a contract is and how enforceable it really is. If you agree to something, and particularly if you agree to something in writing that it's enforceable, I'll tell you, I have a family law case going on right now, and one of the parties agreed that they would give a portion of their retirement income to their ex-spouse. Now this was 35 years ago. So this guy hasn't seen this woman's 35 years. He's remarried and he's like, well, why do I have to do that? I'm like, listen, you signed this agreement. You're bound by this. There's really nothing. I don't think the court will modify this. Once you sign on the dotted line, it's an agreement and you cannot get out of it unless the other party signs something that says that you can get out of it. And we're making contracts every day. Every day we make oral contracts. We agree with someone to do something, well, if you do this, I'll do this. That's an oral contract and it can be enforceable. Can be enforceable. Absolutely. So, well, let's back up a little, how did you decide to go for your BA? I mean, what, because you had a teenager, at least one teenager or two? I had one teenager and one child out of the house and I just always wanted to finish my education. I had started a couple of years of college early on and then I quit because I had kids and I had other things I needed to do. I think that's a common scenario. People have kids and then they think, well, it's too late for me, but it's never too late, right? Right. It's never too late. It's never too late. Look, I graduated from law school when I was 46 years old and now I'm practicing a lot. Anyone could do it at any time. Yeah, the great thing about law though is also it's kind of age impervious. You can practice law until you're like, I've seen people practice law until they're like 80 years old or even older, 85 years old. So it really doesn't matter when you get your start. You can always practice. There's always an opportunity for you. It might not be the glamorous kinds of opportunities that younger people have, but you definitely will be able to develop a practice even if you're in your 40s, 50s, absolutely, absolutely. One of my fears was that I was too old. No one would hire me because I was too old. I was getting too close to retirement age. And I talked to another attorney and he said that he thought I would probably be more hireable than some of the younger people right out of law school. For one reason and he said this is totally off the record, but if a law firm is looking to hire a young woman, it's quite possible she's going to have one or two kids. Right. It's a risk. You assume that risk. Yeah, absolutely. And so that attorney is going to be out for a certain amount of time to have those babies and get them settled. And so that's something since I was beyond that, that I could be more hireable. And also because I have some life experiences and those can help me relate to clients and what's going on in a situation. I think so. And it gives you certain amounts of gravitas in court. I mean, I know a lot of people have problems going to court and I've never felt disrespected by the judges or afraid of the judges. And I know like a lot of the younger attorneys are, they're just terrified to talk, to speak in court.  So you know, you know, what you can say and what you can't say, you know, in a public context, I think, better. Yes. I think that's true. And also, I think having more experience, we're able to compartmentalize better so that we can say, okay, this happened in the courtroom. It's not personal and, you know, not go home and cry, oh, the judge didn't like what I said. Yeah. Right. Yeah.  I never, I never thought I'd be able to distance myself from the client or the problem or winning or losing. And it's really amazing the way you learn. You don't learn that in law school. You learn that through practice.  And you learn, you learn that, that dispassionate, because it's, you don't serve your client well if you're not dispassionate and rational about what you're doing. Right. If you take it personally. Yes. Absolutely. And it's difficult, especially in family law, not to get personally involved and be filling the emotions, you know, your clients are going through so many emotions in their divorce. And I oftentimes have to tell clients to go see a counselor, because I am trained to take care of their legal needs. I'm not trained to take care of their counseling needs. Right. You know. And particularly, you know, clients don't realize how expensive they think they're just, you know, I'm just talking to you like you're my friend.  So we really have to portion our time fairly so that we can, you know, make a decent living. And, and, you know, we're entitled to that, too, the clients are entitled to be zealously represented, but we're also entitled to, you know, payment for our services. And whenever you counsel a client, you're counseling from a legal perspective. Yes. Whether it's a phone call or an email. And I recently had to start telling clients that I had a couple of clients say, well, I just talked to you on the phone. I don't know why you're billing me for this. I said, I could be doing services for another client, you know, rather than talking to you on the phone. So talking to you on the phone, answering your questions, that is a legal service. Right. That's part of the practice of what I think is educating your clients. And I think that something else more mature people are actually better at that, because we've dealt with confrontation before, I mean, the actual, and I don't mean violent confirmation, I'm just saying, facing that, and having to tell people hard news, like, there's not an avoidance there, we're better able to, you know, speak to somebody and, you know, in a way that you can be heard, but not get into, you know, heated discussion about it. Yes. I think that being a parent has really helped me with that as well, trying to present something to someone without having them become offended. Right. Okay. I don't like what you're doing. Right. Right. If you did it this way, you know, you might have better results. So what kinds of things did you do when you were in law school? Did you do moot court or we want a journal or anything, something like that? I did moot court. I did the environmental moot court and I got to go to a competition in White Plains, New York. Wow. And I was with two other members of my team. Robin's a terrific lawyer. I have to say this. I know this. Oh, thank you.  You are. Thank you. Yeah. And that was quite an experience. That was the first time I'd been to New York. And it was being around all of these other mostly young attorneys who had, I was probably the oldest in the old moot court panel. But it didn't really matter. Everyone just treated me as a colleague. And we all had the same cases, the same case that we were working on. And it was so much fun to be competing against these other attorneys. It was very exciting. You know, I've been doing a little bit of litigation lately and it is really fun.  You know, it's like a game. It's like a chess game. So I could see the allure. I mean, I definitely could see the allure of it.  I wonder how that piece is going to, you know, turn out or whatever. So you must have won a competition while you were in law school to get there. Is that right? I had to go through a vetting process of not actually win a competition. But the three of us were chosen to be on this team and to represent the University of Montana School of Law. You know, I earned people that are returning to school who think, who have kids or who have other responsibilities who think that too busy to participate in extracurricular activities. But extracurricular activities in law school are so important because that's more like the practice of law than school is, right? Yes. Right. Going to move court and engaging in move court, it bears much more resemblance to what you do day to day or writing for a journal, it bears much more resemblance than sitting in a classroom taking notes or answering socratic questions or two things. I absolutely agree. I learned so much being on the move court team. I learned about brief writing. I learned about oral presentation, which are things that are touched on briefly in law school, but mostly we're looking at the books in law school and being able to have that hands-on experience and the nervousness of getting up in front of a panel of three judges. Real judges. Yes. They were actually real judges who were volunteering for the move court competition. And that was, that was scary. It is scary. And it's something, yeah, if it's something you've never done before, it's scary. And so that was a really good experience to have under my belt. I think it sounds like it was great. You know, I have to say, for anybody that's thinking about returning to school, this is what I always say. I always say, this day we say, you're not afraid of anything. I said, I'm afraid too, but I jump anyway. It's scary, but you have to do it anyway. It continues to be scary, and even my practice things continue to be scary. And you just have to forge right in.  We're going to take a quick break, and then we're going to come back and talk to Robin a little more about her family law practice. And so maybe some of her interesting matters that she might be able to tell us about. You're watching Think Tech Hawaii, 25 talk shows by 25 dedicated hosts every week, helping us to explore and understand the issues and events in and affecting our state. Great content for Hawaii from Think Tech. Aloha. I'm Richard Emory. I'm with co-host Jane Sugimura of Kondo Insider, Hawaii's weekly show about association living. The purpose of these videos is to educate board members and Kondo residents about issues relating to association living. We hope they're helpful and that they assist in resolving problems that affect the relationship between boards and their residents. Each week, Thursday at 3 p.m., we bring you exciting guests, industry experts who for free will share their advice about how to make your association a better place to live and answer a lot of very interesting questions. Aloha. We hope you'll tune in. Hi. You're watching Life in the Law. I'm Mary Ann Sasaki. Of course, you can catch us live on the Internet and any time of the day or night on YouTube, just Google up Life in the Law and you'll be able to see all our shows, including this one with Robin Gregory. Thanks for joining me, Robin, today. Robin's a family lawyer and I was a family lawyer in New York and I always have an interest in it because the dynamics are so interesting. It's like psychology. It's the psychology of people. So tell me, what kinds of cases do you do, like a lot of child custody cases or those I found always to be very hard? Yes. A lot of my cases involve child custody, whether it's a divorce or a paternity. Now paternity doesn't necessarily mean that they don't know who the father is. It just means that there's not a marriage involved. And we see that a lot these days, probably a lot more than in the past where there's a child and the parents have never been married. And so most of my cases do involve custody, which means that emotions are high. When I go into the courtroom, what I do can mean whether my client gets to have custody of the children or not and that makes things very intense. It is. It is very intense. I had a couple of cases like that and you really don't want to lose for your client because it's your client's child. So what there's really nothing more at stake, maybe criminal law, there's something more at stake, but there's really nothing more at stake than that. So how did you develop an interest in family law? Well, when I went to law school, I did not plan to be a family law attorney. In fact, I did not take any family law classes. I concentrated more on business and a few criminal classes and contracts. But when I got out into private practice, I found that that's what people needed was family law. They really do. I mean, people ask me constantly about it. I go to the bank and I do some business at the bank or people, it really, it's a really significant area of practice, I think. In my view, it's not taken seriously enough, but a lot of business law, real estate law, all this law is taken very seriously among businessmen and family law is like, well, that's not just squabbling, it's not like real law, but it really isn't. It's a delight to engage with a real lawyer on the other side and really be able to think about the difficult issues that are facing, it's a cultural, legal cultural issues, like parental alienation or something like this. I agree, Mary, on that a lot of people think of family law as, oh, something they'll do on the side. Yeah, it's not well regarded, well respected, I guess. Yes, yes. And I'm not quite sure why that is because it definitely, I think, is one of the hardest areas of law. There are definitely certain statutes that you have to follow, certain rules have been sent down by the Supreme Court, case law that you have to follow in order to get your clients the spousal support that they need or the custody that they should have. One of the things that I see often that I find really difficult is parents using the children. And I just... It's really common, isn't it? It is really common. They don't do it intentionally, even necessarily, but it's very common. Right, right. And so the courts often tell the parties, you know, don't send messages through the children, don't involve the children in the litigation, don't talk to the children about the divorce except, you know, certain parameters. Kids don't need to be involved in that. They have enough going on, you know, their parents are getting divorced, they don't need to be part of the litigation as well. Do they ever appoint guardians at Lightham or law guardians for children in any cases? They can. Yeah, they can if things are bad enough. I have never had a case so far where a guardian at Lightham has had to be appointed. What I try to do rather is try to do some mediation or maybe do a custody evaluator, something like that, that gets us out of the courtroom setting. How do you do that? Like, how would you go about getting a mediator or a custody evaluator? Does the court appoint those people? I mean, can you ask the court to appoint them? Are they there at the court or you have to get an independent person or how does that work? Well, it's best to get an agreement between the parties, especially if you're going to do mediation. You really have to have an agreement between the parties that they're going to participate in this mediation. Then they have a third party who is not involved at all, who basically doesn't care about either side except that they want both sides to resolve the issues. And so basically then what you do is you go to the court and you say the parties have agreed to mediate. Maybe we can't agree on a mediator. Will the court appoint a mediator or we will give, each side will give a couple of suggestions of who they want. Is that an independent cost from the cost of legal services? I mean, does that cost the client's money? I mean, because the thing is, you know, a very touchy issue in family was so many times our clients don't have a lot of money and, you know, there's not a lot of money to be made.  Everybody expects to get rich or whatever. Yes. So is it an extra burden on if you decide to mediate that it costs more? Yes. Yes, it does cost more. You have to pay the fees for the mediator. The mediator is someone who is making their living, helping people resolve their issues. So yes, the mediator does charge and it's, there are different places that you can go though. For low income families, they can go to the Mediation Center of the Pacific and they have a sliding fee scale, but something that you said, we were talking earlier about family law not being as well respected. And I think one of the reasons is that there is not a lot of money involved.   Yes. When you win in family law, you win typically, well, I guess you can win, you know, child support and spousal support, but really you win the organization of the relationship going forward is what usually happens. Yes, that's a good way to put it. Yes. So it's so funny, we're talking about first year classes. Family law should be a first year class because it's really just as fundamental as contract law and people really ought to know when they have children, what their responsibilities will be. I mean, I've had so many parents, dads, not understand the concept of child support, they think it's basically spousal support and they don't understand it's their responsibility till the child is 18 or however old they've decided. So that would be a really, I mean, I think everyone should have to take family law. And you know, oddly enough, it's not a requirement in law school. Right, it's not. Yeah. And those are good points that the father or mother sometimes is paying the child support and they'll say, well, I don't want to pay my spouse any money, they shouldn't be benefiting from money. Right. They confuse the distinction for spousal and child support. Right. Right. And you know, their ex-spouse or ex-partner may have a slightly higher standard of living because they're receiving the child support, but if it's just in consequence with the child having a higher standard of living, then who cares? Right. Don't we, I always find it shocking, I mean, I've had a number of clients try to hire me to reduce their child support or for not, you know, you can modify a child support payment if this change circumstances, obviously, but I mean, I've had encounters with people just who had plenty of assets and plenty of income and just out of, you know, sheer spite didn't want to pay, that's something we should say in family law, there's a lot of, especially if you get the wrong lawyer, there's a lot of spiteful behavior that can ensue. Yes. And I try to, I always try to put a damper on that if I can, but there are some lawyers who encourage the fight, you know, they encourage, they stoke the flames. That's true. I do not stoke the flames. And even with a good lawyer, there can still be spite, there can be hurt feelings, there can be a lot of anger, and that's another reason why people need to see a counselor. So there's the divorce is getting more and more expensive.  So divorce can be very, very expensive. But I would say one thing about mediation, mediation can save you money, actually. I think every penny that one invests in mediation, you really often get it back, particularly in these personal family circumstances, that mediation is ideal because it gives everybody the opportunity to be heard, every person's needs to be addressed, different solutions can be, can be arrived at. So mediation can really abbreviate litigation, I think. Yes, I agree. It can help you to avoid trial and trial is very spendy, you know, a trial you're looking at depending on the case, but probably around $10,000 for a trial, you know, and that's getting together witnesses and evidence and actually going to the courtroom, which is probably the least amount of cost in the entire trial scenario. But yes, I agree with you that the mediation does save a lot of money. And also not only money, but it saves hurt feelings. Relationships. Yes. It saves relationships, absolutely. Yes.  That's true. That's true. Yes, we agree on this.  Absolutely. So we're running out of time, so I wanted to thank you for coming. I so appreciate it. I'm so fast. And so I always, it's such a feminist thing to go back to law school, to go back to school, I always think.  But women, it's almost the reverse. You don't question yourself as much and you go with, you know, you've got more and you get more powerful. It's kind of, it's a little bit of a strange conundrum, but, and I think returning to school is part of that. And finding yourself as part of that, you know, maturing process can be very valuable. Yes. And I would like to encourage anyone who's thinking of going back to law school, just remember, think you can or think you can't, either way you're right. Right. Do it. And don't worry about the money. The money comes one way or another. We find a way. Right? Yes. Right. Well, thank you for tuning in to Life in the Law. I'm Marianne Sasaki. You can see us every week on Wednesdays from 1 to 1.30. We'll see you next week.


The next thing on the agenda would be the Pledge of Allegiance. So if you can stand in your place and we'll do the Pledge of Allegiance. All right, here we go. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the United States of America, the Republic for which it stands, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you so much. Thank you, everyone, for doing this. I need a motion to approve the minutes from February 27. So moved. I welcome and I so move. I second it. Roger. If there are any further discussion, all those in favor of approving the minutes, say aye. Aye. Actually, Marilyn, we need to do a roll call. OK, I'll wait for you to do that. So Marilyn Montemire? Aye. Kyle Weldon? Aye. Roger Lam? Aye. Alderperson Feldy? Aye. And Eric Larson, you're not on, are you? No, so we have four ayes and no nays, so the motion passes. So we can move on to items for discussion, Chair. OK, thank you. And Chair, that is you. Agenda item number three. OK. So the discussion and possible action on the reaffirmation agreements for the property at 2520, cell 17, and the information that Janet sent out, the city holds two mortgages on this property. And we, Thomas, could you mute your line for just a minute? Yeah, you're breaking in and out quite a bit. Am I the only one that's having trouble hearing you? No, no, I can't hear them. I think it's the background noise. Somebody needs to mute their phone. Thomas, if you could mute your phone for a minute. Thank you. So the city holds two mortgages on this property. The people that the mortgagee has filed for Chapter 7, bankruptcy, and they have requested that the city loans be kept out of the bankruptcy and therefore, going forward, there are two deferred loans, one in the amount of 7,000 something, and I think the other one is 4,000, is part of the process for bankruptcy court. The city would have to consent to these reaffirmation agreements to basically pull these two notes out of the bankruptcy filing to allow us to ultimately get paid in the future. So Thomas Cameron, the assistant city attorney, is on the line with us. He has negotiated these agreements on behalf of the city, and I don't know, Thomas, if you have anything further to add to what I said, but in a nutshell, that's basically what we're looking at here. Yeah, this is Thomas. I think Chad did an excellent job of explaining it. Basically, this would allow the loan to just continue. They're currently deferred loans. They'd say deferred loans. They would still be paid on sale of the property, and none of the material terms are changing on the loans. But I'm happy to answer any questions that there might be. Well, Thomas Cameron, it sounds like you did a really good job for the city of Chicago. This is Montemay or Maryland. Thank you. So if the group- Drive a motion to approve. Yes, Chad? Yes, so I was going to say, if the committee consents, we would need a motion to approve the two reaffirmation agreements and allow city staff to sign off on the agreements. Do I hear a motion to that? I'll make a motion. And the second? I second. Kyle? Roger Lam. Either one. OK, Mr. Selicak, you're on deck. OK, Marilyn Montemayer? Aye. Kyle Welton? Aye. Roger Lam? Aye. Olderperson Feldy? Aye. We have four ayes, the motion passes. I now need a motion to adjourn. I'll make a motion to adjourn. I'll make a motion to approve. Okay, Chad, you're on deck again. Who seconded? Can you repeat who seconded? I have no idea. I think Kyle did. OK. Or two or three already seconded. OK, so Marilyn Montemayer? Aye. Kyle Welton? Aye. Roger Lam? Aye. Olderperson Feldy? motion passes. We are adjourned. Thank you. That's all we needed. Thank you for calling in remotely and that takes care of these actions. So thanks. Thank you very much. Thank you everybody for calling in. That was six minutes wonderful meeting. Okay, everybody as they say on the theater, keep on wash your hands. Keep washing your hands. Okay, thank you. Goodbye. Thank you.


On paper at least, KD Plasma is the best desktop environment out there. It has the most flexibility when it comes to look, feel, and functionality. It has a ton of options and most people would probably argue that it has too many options, but it really does allow a lot of flexibility when it comes to how it looks. But if you look across the distro landscape, what you're going to find is that most distributions don't use Plasma as their primary desktop environment. Now sure, most of them do offer an option with Plasma, but most of them have GNOME as their primary desktop environment. So the question I have to ask today is why is in Plasma, when it is so theoretically superior to everything else, not used more often when it comes to primary default use on distros? Before we jump in, if you'd leave a thumbs up on this video, I'd really appreciate it. It really does help the channel. So why is Plasma not used more often? Well, that question can be answered and that's what we're going to talk about today. So this right here is my Plasma desktop. I've been using Plasma off and on now ever since I started using OpenSUSE almost a month ago. And I keep coming back to it because I want Plasma to be good. So I've talked about Plasma and my experiences with it several times on the channel before. But most of my experiences, I've kind of boiled down to me just having bad luck when it comes to Plasma. There are certain things that just always happen on Plasma for me. Usually it has to do with monitors not going to sleep. And I've talked about that ad nauseam on YouTube and on Macedon and even on Twitter back when it was still a thing. So usually my poor reaction to Plasma can be boiled down to the fact that I have bad luck with Plasma. I don't ever think that Plasma itself is actually bad. So to answer the question, why isn't it more popular? We have to dig a little bit deeper, a little bit beyond my experiences with it. So let's first talk about why I think it should be more popular. And that all lies in this little baby right here. This is the Plasma system settings panel. Now inside of this gem, you're going to find a ton of flexibility over basically every corner of your desktop environment. You can change how it looks, how it feels, how it functions. Basically anything you can dream up, you can find inside of this Plasma settings panel and you can change it and tweak it. And even if you can't find it inside of this application, there's a good chance you can go to something like get new global themes and find yourself a new theme or find yourself a new K-Win script or whatever. You know, there are a ton of these extraneous panels littered throughout the settings panel where you can add things to your system from the KD store. And there are hundreds upon hundreds of options that you can add to it and that is even beyond the hundreds and hundreds of options that are already built in. So the reason why I think Plasma should be more popular is because it offers distro maintainers a ton of flexibility. If you want to change your theme, it's much easier to do it in Plasma than it is to do so in GNOME. In GNOME you have to literally hack the system in order to theme it. It's not meant to be themed at all. Plasma is on the other end of the spectrum. It's way easier to theme. You can theme everything here, whether you want to do a overall global theme or you want to change your Plasma style or just individual colors or you want to change the window decorations or the fonts or the icons or the cursors or whatever. You can change everything down to the most minute detail. So when I say Plasma should be more popular, the reason why I say so is because it gives distro maintainers a ton of options when it comes to setting it up their default look and feel. We know that distros want this power. We know that they do. All you have to do is look at Ubuntu. Ubuntu does not use the standard GNOME layout. They have done a lot of work in order to make GNOME look and feel like Ubuntu. And it would be much easier to get that look and feel on KDE Plasma than it is on GNOME. Because on GNOME, you have to install a ton of extensions. You have to build in the ability to theme in some fashion, whether that's using GNOME tweaks or some other hack in order to actually get your theme to work. You have to do all of these things, whereas all of that functionality is built into Plasma. So that functionality is something that distro maintainers definitely want. So why don't they use it? Well, the answer to that question and the answer to the question of the day is that there are actually many reasons why KDE Plasma isn't more popular, but there are two or three main ones. So the first one, and this is one I've talked about before, is that KDE is definitely not the most stable of desktop environments. It's sad to say, but it's not as stable as GNOME. It just is not. Because of all the features and stuff that they have built in, that has brought in more bugs than what you see on GNOME. It doesn't mean that GNOME is perfect. Okay, we're not going to toot their own horn too much, but it is more stable than Plasma. Right out the gate. That's one of the reasons why. But I don't think that it's the biggest reason why, because distros could maintain a older version of Plasma. They just could use the LTS version or whatever, and that'd be very stable. And honestly, to tell you the truth, I have been using Plasma on this machine since I started using OpenSUSA off and on. I've been using Kinoi over on my standing desk for months. Ever since George Castro pointed me towards the Ublue stuff, I've been using Kinoi over there. It's a rebased version of Silverblue. And that KDE over there has been phenomenally stable. It's been so stable. It's been the best KDE experience I have ever had. It's been so good. So stability, while is a reason why, it's not the reason why. The thing about desktop environments and distros in general is that when you have a distro, you want it to be as approachable as possible. You want a brand new Linux user to be able to come in and use your desktop environment slash distro and not have a ton of support questions. You don't wanna have them look at something and think, oh my goodness, I'm so lost. How am I supposed to do this, this, this and this? Everyone wants to be able to turn their computer on for the first time, even if you're just learning a new operating system and you wanna be able to use it. You wanna be able to, in general, know exactly how to do everything you need to do. Now, obviously, I don't think that this is the right way of going about things. I think that if you're going to learn to use Linux, you should learn to use Linux and you should expect to learn new things. But most new users, when they want to switch to Linux, they want to have a very simple experience. It doesn't mean that they don't wanna learn new things. It's just that they don't wanna be overwhelmed with a ton of options. Now, that is the biggest problem when it comes to KDE. They have too many options. Now, for the KDE lovers out there, all the options make KDE, KDE, it makes it the lovable desktop environment that we wanna use. But for new users who take a look at this and they open up the settings panel and all they wanna do is change the font, this is going to be very overwhelming for them. All of these functions and features and little doodads and stuff that you can change just adds on to their confusion and their inability to see past the idea that this is a desktop environment just like everything else. It just offers you all the power. For most people who are just coming into Linux, they don't want to have to go spelunking into a settings panel to make one little change. They don't wanna have to scroll all the way down to change their display resolution when it should probably be towards the top. Now, I understand as someone who loves to tweak and theme and all that stuff, the appearance is awesome to be at the top, but I don't think it's the most important setting that they should have, right? It's not the most important setting. It's just not, okay? The most important settings are going to be for your network. It's going to be for your input devices and your display. Those three things are the things that most people are going to wanna see when they first open up a settings panel, but they're at the bottom. For whatever reason, they've decided to put those three most important settings down here at the bottom. Now, it doesn't mean that if you, I mean really all you have to do is scroll down, of course, so it's not that hard and they've properly labeled them and you can search if you wanted to search, so you can find them. It's not that hard, but it still feels like they've buried the lead. When you come to this page here, they do a fairly good job of having stuff on the quick settings page here, so they do have display configuration, but network configuration is not there. Also, the display configuration is just one little button. Again, they've prioritized the look and feel over things that you probably want to actually see if you're coming here. Most people, I know it sounds weird if you're someone like me who likes to theme. You can tell I like to theme my desktop environment. This is Grovebox. I've spent quite some time making it look really nice, but most people aren't like me, you're right. Most people aren't interested in how their desktop environment really looks. Now, sure, they wanna choose between light and dark, fine making that top and center, but they don't care about anything else right away. Eventually they'll get there maybe, but really when they open up a settings panel, they wanna see the display options. They wanna see input or they wanna see the network connectivity settings. They don't need all the other frivolous stuff until they've decided that they need them. So the biggest hurdle KDE Plasma has when it comes to adoption is the amount of features that they actually have. The thing that makes KDE Plasma special is also the thing that holds it back the most. Distramaintainers don't wanna have to support this many features. And while I know what you're saying, Matt, they don't have to support them. They can always point people towards the upstream support. They can go to the KDE forums or whatever. But when you have a problem with Ubuntu, you don't go to the GNOME guys for support. You go to Ubuntu, okay? You go to the Ask Ubuntu or the Ubuntu discourse or whatever it's called these days. You go there and you ask for help and you probably will get it. But when you have a system here that has so many potential failure points, so many potential confusion points, you're going to discover that your users end up needing support more often. The more support they need, the more supports you have to give or at least the more support that is expected that you have to give. And district maintainers don't want to have to take on that burden because it would be a burden. It would cause them to spend time and effort on explaining how things are supposed to work. Now, I don't think that it would be as bad as this argument often makes it seem. So this argument has been around for a very long time. And it's one of the reasons why KDE has basically never been a primary desktop environment for many distros. Back in the day, like I'm talking about back in the early 2000s, it used to be pretty normal to get a distribution that had both GNOME and KDE installed on it out of the box. That's the way SUSE was back in 2003 when I first tried it. It had both GNOME and KDE on it for you to try. These days, you don't see that anymore because first of all, having both of them installed side by side, not that creative an idea. You're going to have a lot of duplicates and stuff like that. But beyond that fact, most distros have chosen to go with a simpler option simply because it means less work for them in terms of support and maintenance and all of this stuff, it just, KDE has become too featureful.  It's one of the reasons why people like KDE so much. It's one of the reasons why I like KDE so much.  It's what makes it so good. But it also prevents it from being user-friendly and user-friendliness is one of the things that distro maintainers really look for when it comes to a default desktop environment. It's just the plain facts. Now, if we're going to look at all of this cynically, there is another reason why Plasma hasn't become more popular when it comes to being the default on distributions. Now, I say cynically because GNOME is more locked down than Plasma is. I don't think that anybody can argue that. GNOME is not as customizable. It has one, basically one way of using it without extending it to high heaven. And it's just either you like it or you don't, right? Now, Ubuntu has done a lot of work to make it as customizable as possible, but even their version of GNOME still is locked down. You can't go install your own theme without doing some extra work. You can't change the icons without doing some extra work. And when I say extra work, basically what I mean is hacking it because the options to change those things are hacks and not meant to be officially supported even by a distro maintainer. So if we're looking at it cynically, the lack of options and the lack of customizability when it comes to GNOME is a benefit for distro maintainers because it allows them to have more control over the look and feel. And it means that users can't make changes which they would then expect the distro maintainer to support. So if you, for example, decided to go into Ubuntu, you're using the GNOME version, which is the main version and you decided to install GNOME tweaks and you install a theme from some random GitHub repository and it breaks your system, chances are you're not gonna go to that random GitHub repository for support, you're probably going to hike it on over to the Ubuntu forums and ask for support there. By having it as locked down as possible, it means that those tweaks probably aren't something that most people, especially new users are going to actually go out and do. And that means that that support is not going to be something that they have to focus on very much on their forums, which is going to save them time and effort. So if we're gonna look at it cynically, the more closed nature of GNOME is a benefit for many distro maintainers simply because it allows them to have the control instead of the user. When the user has all the control like they do in plasma, it causes more confusion, I would say, also more support opportunities, I would say. So you can look at it cynically like that as well, as the reason why KD Plasma hasn't become more popular when it comes to Linux distros. So overall, the argument here is that when distro maintainers are choosing their desktop environments, they're probably choosing it for the most user-friendly, most widely user-friendly opportunities as they can. So they want something that most new users are going to be comfortable with. And for whatever reason, they've chosen GNOME. Now, see, I am an anti-GNOME guy. I don't like GNOME at all, despite what other people might say about me. I'm not a GNOME guy. Now, I understand GNOME much more than I used to. I understand the workflow a little bit better because I have actually used it for a little while and I can understand the workflow, but I don't care for the workflow. And because I'm an anti-GNOME guy, I would argue that GNOME is actually less user-friendly than KD Plasma is out of the box. Now, Ubuntu is actually an example against this argument simply because they've made changes to GNOME to make it more user-friendly. But if you go use the Fedora version of GNOME, which is basically stock vanilla GNOME, I don't think that that's very user-friendly at all. Where are the icons? How are you supposed to know how to get to the icons? Where's the app launcher? How are you supposed to do any of this stuff?  It's really bad. Now, you'd have to know you're supposed to go up there and click the activities button, or you're supposed to hit the meta key. You're actually supposed to know what the meta key is. So I don't think, I don't particularly think that vanilla GNOME is actually all that user-friendly, but that's just my opinion. And I will freely admit that I'm highly biased against GNOME because I don't like it. So just take that opinion with a grain of salt. So that's it for this video. If you have thoughts on Katie Plasma and why it's not the most popular, you can leave those in the comment section below. I'd love to hear from you. You can follow me on Mastodon or Odyssey. 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What's up everyone, Takedown here. Welcome back to another video. Today I am really excited because we're going to be doing an unboxing for something that I've wanted for the channel for a really long time. Now in my opinion throughout 2020 my video quality has definitely improved except some videos have really poor lighting and I've wanted to get this for a while. Luckily I was able to use my YouTube money to purchase it and that is a ring light to test out. This is Neewer. I think I bought you the name but regardless this here is regular on Amazon for $75. It was on sale for $50 when I purchased it. This here includes a tripod which I'm not expecting anything much from the tripod but it also includes a bunch of attachments so let's open it up and I'll give you guys a closer look. So here we are and there is the light. That looks really cool. It looks like a nice quality. I'm going to take everything out of the box first and show you guys but this one does have some weight to it. We have the books, the manual, nothing in this. Here is the tripod. I take it out of the bag in a minute. Looks like just cardboard. Oh there's something in it. A little attachment for the tripod, the attachment for I believe the lights and then your phone attachments. So now before I show the lights I just want to mention that I'm likely going to use my existing tripod and just put the light configuration on it mainly because my tripod is pretty much a professional grade. It's a really great tripod and it just can't see me using the tripod that they gave me and that is this cheap little tripod. It's less than a pound in weight. Super, super light weight, extremely small when it's compact like this but I think based on the description it's supposed to be taller than my tripod. I just don't know. Right now just looking at it I don't like the quality. I do like the color scheme. The red and black looks cool but the quality wise doesn't look the greatest. So starting off with where you would screw on your camera or your adapter for a phone. It's really small as you guys can see. It's only two or three rungs. So definitely not something I would want to put a camera on. I don't think it would hold or hold for long and the base is really small in my opinion. Way smaller than my professional one which I'm currently using to record this video. Now it does like I said supposed to be longer than mine so I'm just going to extend it here and show you guys. Now this is it fully extended and it does not look like it would hold much weight. The website says that it should hold four and a half pounds. I'm really curious if it would. I can't test that today but it doesn't look like it would. It's really low quality. Now it does extend higher than this and this is what I do not like on the tripod. So right here it looks like it's all a support system for the legs. However when you fully extend it you take away this middle piece here and that to me I don't like that. Mine has the support where it can extend further except the buyer is still down here to support the legs and the whole tripod assembly. So this here I really do not like so much. Definitely not a fan of the quality and I don't think this would hold or if it does it wouldn't last for long but I think this would be great for taking photos with a cell phone when me and my girlfriend are out. And now for the moment of truth the lights. So we're going to take it out here. Now it I'm assuming is not charged whatsoever which is fine but like I said this here does have a little bit of weight to it and it seems like the best thing so far as far as quality. It does look like it's sturdy. It does look like it's durable. Let's attach this here and see how it looks. Now again I'm not going to be using this tripod when it comes to my videos I'm going to be using my own tripod but we're just going to be testing this out here. The cable is really long at least that's really cool. Now to attach your camera or a phone to this you do need this adapter here. So now you would take a camera or a phone adapter and you would attach it to the top here. I'm just going to use the one that they gave me just to show you guys. So right now this is the light setup of how it would be on the tripod. Again I'm going to be using my own phone adapter whenever I use it and my own tripod because I do not like the quality of this tripod whatsoever. So I do have my power bank here. We're just going to plug it in. So now when it's charging the red light should be on like it is. I'm just going to press the power button and make sure that it works and it does. This here is the yellow light setting. There's three settings with this lights. There is a white light, a yellow light and then there's one color in the middle and there's five brightness settings for each color. Now this one here I'm just going to go through the colors first. So this is the orange light or the yellow light sorry. It goes a little bit lighter. White. Oh there's actually there's actually five settings in total. So this is the pure white light. There is one lower, one lower, one lower and then it is a pure yellow light. So that's really cool. It said there was three light settings. There's actually five and we're just going to take it to white here and just see how bright we can get it. Now this is the lowest white light setting and I'm just going to turn it so you guys can see how it looks on me from a side angle at least. I'm going to turn the brightness up here. So one, two, three, four and this one is the brightest setting for it. This is the fifth setting, the brightest setting. It's kind of blinding so I'm not looking directly at it. I'm going to actually turn it down here. I think honestly for most of my videos this brightness might be enough for what you guys think. It does light me up so if it was on my existing tripod that I'm recording this video with I think that would be bright enough that you guys can see all of my face even if it was low quality lighting in the room that I'm recording in. So this is honestly really really cool and I'm really really excited to start using this product. Now for $50, do I think it was worth it? Absolutely I do. Now again the reason why I purchased this is for the lights and the light alone. So $50 for a light that I'm going to be using is absolutely phenomenal. This product is amazing. It's super bright and I'm really excited to start using it for my video and like I said everything else that I came with was kind of lower quality stuff. The tripod in my opinion was terrible but I'm going to be using my existing tripod for my videos. I'm just going to attach the light to it and this phone adapter is really small and will not work with my phone so I'm going to use my own for that as well. So everything that it came with some of things might have been lower quality but I mainly purchased it for the light itself. It does feel like a professional light. Definitely bigger than I thought it was going to be. All in all I think this is a great light. I am definitely going to be leaving this linked in the description below. Now for whatever reason if I forget to leave that link down there just comment down below and remind me and I will put it in but definitely something that I can't wait to start using. So here we go I actually have the light set up on my tripod using my phone adapter and I must say I absolutely love this quality. Now this is not the brightest setting for the light. I can change it but right now it does make my face brighter and it does seem to work and I actually like this a lot better than not using a light. So I'm really excited with videos moving forward to use this light and I think this is a great product. Now like I said some of the products and some of the things that came with it the accessories. I'm not going to be using like this tripod here. Definitely not the greatest tripod. Extremely cheap but like I said I'm still going to get some use out of it. So instead of carting around my tripod which does have a little weight to it this one here would be great for going out with my girlfriend if we want to go somewhere and take photos we can bring this. It's easy to set up lightweight but definitely something that's if it breaks oh well it came included with this light. So I'm likely only going to use it for that reason but moving forward I honestly can't wait. I think the quality of the videos and the videos in general are going to be a lot better because of the lighting and the lighting is something that I want to take into account for years because there's times for my videos especially in December I know of three videos that the lighting in my opinion was not the greatest. I just I needed to record those videos otherwise those videos were not going to come out and now I can say if I had this light I think those videos would have been a lot better because you guys would have been able to see my face a lot more. So now that it is actually in front of me and the light is on I'm just going to go through the settings really quick kind of up the brightness here this is the brightest setting for the white lights comment down below what you guys think do you like this one I know it darkens the rest of the room which in my opinion is fine because in my videos most of the time I'm the focus anyways I'm just going to change the colors of the light here this is the yellow light this here I don't really like as much I do like more of a yellow lights or more of a white light this one here looks in my opinion more natural but comment down below which one you guys think I should use for my videos more I'm leaning towards this one or just the pure white light which is this one so either the one in the middle or this one at kind of a middle level for the brightness I think are perfect so I'm going to leave this video here I hope you guys really enjoyed this unboxing comment down below what you guys think of this ring lights I think it's absolutely perfect and I can't wait to start using it more now if you guys are youtubers as well or even small youtubers do you guys use a ring lights or if not how is your lighting situation I'm going to leave this video here comment down below what you guys think and I'll see you guys in the next one please take care peace


Welcome to an introduction to drip irrigation. This key farm element can be part of a sustainable farm system that considers conservation of natural resources, farm economic sustainability, and produce safety. In the next few minutes, you will hear and see an overview of drip irrigation implementation for farm enhancement from a whole farm planning perspective. Installing a drip irrigation system may lower your costs and your food safety risk. There is also no doubt that installing an irrigation system also protects the farm income from the financial effects of drought. Drip irrigation, also called micro irrigation or trickle irrigation, provides a slow and steady source of water right on or below the soil surface. Drops of tiny streams move through emitters. Each emitter delivers a metered amount of water. Some drip systems are in line and some have detached emitters that can be placed along the drip lines. The water is distributed by these emitters and provide a consistent source of water across the bed. By keeping the foliage free of excess water, you can reduce the spread of plant disease. This system is not the best choice for crops that require frost or freeze protection or cooling, which involves overhead delivery for maximum effectiveness. Applying the water directly to the root zone also reduces the potential of water to serve as a vehicle for human pathogen and contamination to the edible portion of your crop. Since it is possible for soil insets or rodents to enter the irrigation system through broken lines, carefully inspect the system to keep the water supply safe. This system reduces your water uses so it can also save you money on your electric or water bill. Another advantage is the ability to apply chemicals through your irrigation line. This helps keeps them from spreading on a windy day and potentially contaminating a public water source or a crop you don't intend to treat. Carefully managing fertilizers applications through drip irrigation and flushing the soil with water when necessary are important in a high tunnel since the building up of salts is possible with this system. Tools like flow meters to automate the delivery of precise amounts of water, timers and soil moisture sensors can help you monitor the use of your water safely and efficiently. The USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service can provide financial assistance for the implementation of conservation practices through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program. NRCS and Extension can also provide technical expertise to help, implementing drip irrigation on your farm. Drip irrigation is a common way to conserve water, reduce plant disease, reduce food safety risks and reduce costs.