Coming up on DTNS Google AI can call your stylist for you. Microsoft wants better AI data for accessibility uses and there's something else molecular computing. All right, new iPhones. This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, October 13th, 2020 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. And from the increasingly darker forests of Finland, I'm Patrick Beja. I'm the show's producer, Roger Shane. And joining us, the folks from Snob OS are here today, Nika Monford. Welcome back. Hello. And Terrence Gaines. How's it going? Hey, how's it going, everybody? We've got some good Apple news to dig into. We were actually talking about clubbing on the day internet, though. So if you want that end of the conversation, become a member of patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. One plus co-founder Carl Pei has left the company. Pei co-founded One Plus with CEO Pete Lau in December of 2013. Emily Dai, who runs One Plus's India operations, will take over for Pei, leading the One Plus Nord team. Tech crunch sources say that Pei will start his own venture. TBD on that one, but One Plus will launch the One Plus AT later this week. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation has rejected Foxconn's application for tax subsidies on the grounds that it has not built the large LCD fabrication facility described in its contract. It built a factory. It was a smaller factory that does different things. The Verge obtained documents that show Wisconsin and Foxconn attempted to renegotiate that contract in July, but the settlement period expired without a new agreement. Facebook Messenger is adding a slew of new features that announced in September, including support for chat themes, custom reactions, selfie stickers, and vanish mode. Messenger users will also get cross-app communication with Instagram automatically rolling out soon to users across North America with other regions to follow. A new Messenger logo includes shades of purple and pink from the Instagram logo along with Facebook blue. Gartner estimates that PC shipments in the US rose 11.4% in Q3, which is the strongest growth in a decade, 10 years. IDC estimated PC shipments rose 14.6. So, you know, similar. It's good news either way for PC shipments. Gartner has HP at number one with 30.8% market share. Dell was in second place at 25%, followed by Lenovo, Apple, and Acer. IDC shows Lenovo in the top spot, however. Now Gartner doesn't include Chromebooks or iPads in its research, at least for this particular report, but Chromebook shipments grew by 90%. Thanks, pandemic. Google shut down its Google Play Music Store on Tuesday. Google Play Music users will have until December to transfer to YouTube Music. Ah, the march of the decline of Google Play Music. eBay will launch a sneaker authentication service October 25th that lets you verify that the shoes you're buying on the platform are what the listings claim they are. The service will start with popular styles and brands, but eventually expand to cover all sneakers sold on eBay that cost more than $100. That should happen by early 2021. When you buy a shoe in the program, you have to have it shipped to a partner called SneakerCon, which is not a convention. It's a company that authenticates the sneakers. They do an inspection and if it passes, it's tagged as authentic and then shipped on to you, the buyer. Same process covers returns as well. Scientists at Yale University, Russell Lair, Polly, and the universities of Nanjing, Renmin, and Jiao Min have demonstrated a single molecule switch made of an atom of gadolinium inside a carbon buckyball. It's the first step in being able to build a molecular computer. Pretty cool. If it ever becomes practical, it could replace lithography in building chips and make five nanometers seem pretty darn big. Yeah, that A14 biomic. It's huge compared to this. The city of San Diego deactivated all sensor services on its 3,200 smart street lights. That includes the cameras. The program was launched in 2017 with GE Current in order to save energy, improve mobility, parking, and public safety. However, people got upset about privacy and surveillance concerns, including use of the video by police for solving crime, which led to calls for the system to be turned off. The sensors will now stay off until new ordinances that clearly govern how the data can be used for what reason and by whom are passed by the city council. All right, let's talk about getting a haircut. Let's do it. Google launched haircut appointment booking for Google Duplex. That's its AI chat agent. You might recall that this is something that Google had said was going to happen at Google I.O. back in 2018. Google told VentureBeat that users with supported devices in the U.S. can have duplexes AI called barber shops, hair stylists, and salons to reserve appointments for them. Duplex works on any device with the Google Assistant app or access to Google search and maps.  You can choose from men, women, general haircuts, and worse, other hair services, and select a person. I think it's just those three. That's the problem. Well, but, okay.  Can't get your color? Oh, geez. Really. Did not realize that. That's it. I'll cut my own hair, but I can't color it. You've always got to color it. Anyway, so, all right, so we're talking haircuts only. And then you select a preferred appointment date, time range, again, go from there. You also indicate whether you've been to that business before, and then you can have the option of entering the name of a preferred stylist if you have one. Duplex then calls for you, makes the appointment, and you're off and running. A call can be handed to a human operator if the business indicates they don't want to be recorded. Yeah, the fact that it's only men's, I'm looking at it again just to double check, men's haircut, women's haircut, general haircut, for other services, please contact directly at phone number. You know, and I read the same thing, and I was like, well, when they say haircut, they mean hair services, because there's so many other things that you get besides a haircut. I don't know, for some of us anyway, but. Sometimes you just call for a haircut.  I just go for a haircut, and it's not like you can't go to the stylist. Like you don't have to use Google Duplex, it's just one additional thing. You don't have to use Google Duplex to get a haircut either, it's just an option. I just thought, I was under the impression that it was like, I would like the service at this particular place that I know offers the service, and Duplex would be able to help me if I have the appropriate mechanism. Well, it can if the service you want is a simple haircut. I'm just gonna cut my own bangs forever, that's what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna say, I know that this would work for me, because all I do is get a haircut, but this would never work for my life. There's always something else that she needs done, and she's not gonna be able to use this. I don't know if anyone else wants to weigh in on that, but. I couldn't use it. No, I don't think I could use it either, because in our culture, in our barbershops, there's a whole language that goes behind just a haircut. I could not, if again, Google Duplex could help, if I, like you said it mentioned, I've been there before, and I could request a, of my regular stylist, for lack of a better, if I could do that, yes. But if I was just using it and said, hey, this place is close to me, book me a haircut. They've gotta know the whole lingo, the whole culture, in order to know exactly what I want, how it line up, so on and so forth. So, yeah, it would need to be a little bit more expanded before I could actually use it, as simple as my hair looks. There's a little bit of a net. Okay, forget about Google Duplex. I want to know more about all of that. Yeah, you're right. Right, I know the lingo. Yeah, there is a whole lingo behind it. And we were also talking before the show started, because I, where I am, hair salons are not open. Not legally, they're not open. You can do something outside. Nail salons are doing the same, but just not every facility has the, they don't have the room, they're not set up for that. But in other parts of least the US, it is open, even California. So, to me, I was like, this is a strange time to launch this feature, because who's getting the haircuts? But I guess it depends on where you live. In Georgia, it's open, you know? Nail salons, hair salons, everything is wide open. Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's normal, except for, you know, depending on the location, they require, I know like at my nail salon, they require face masks, they take your temperature. And then once you come in, you get this piece of paper, you're the person who's ever doing your services, and they track pretty much whomever you see and what you get done. So if I go and get a pedicure, it's one person that does that, they kind of do their name. Then when I go to get my nails done, my paper goes with me to whoever my nail person is. So they have count like their own rudimentary, like contact tracing program within the nail salon and my hair salon, it's pretty much a boutique salon. So it's usually only pre-COVID, it was only usually one to two people in there at a time. So it's just now just one person in there at a time. And it's sanitizing between each person, you have to wear your mask and that type of thing. So other than that, you know, some places don't have those types of stringent rules.  But we're in a different part of the country and it's a different mindset where we are, as opposed to where you guys are. So hair and nail salons are open in Los Angeles too. So I think it's really just the Bay Area that's shut down with that. Yeah, maybe so. Microsoft is working with nonprofit partners to source data from people with disabilities to improve AI that could be used for accessibility. Most data has been collected by people without disabilities, which introduces bias into the algorithm, right? The first collaboration will be with Team Gleason. That's a team that works to improve awareness of ALS. So for instance, in their case, systems trained to recognize when you're paying attention to a screen, trained on abled people like me, probably aren't going to have the right data to work with users who are using a puff and blow controller or a head strap or a ventilator, which has a different appearance for whether the person is looking or not. Project Insight will collect face imagery of volunteers who have ALS to improve Microsoft's existing algorithms and be released free for others to develop as well. Other examples include systems trained by standing people. Those don't work so well for users in wheelchairs. And in fact, a project with City University London called Object Recognition for Blind Image Training will collect data for image recognition algorithms entirely from blind people who position the phone differently than sighted people do. Microsoft hopes to have its first release from this partnership, not only for its own products, but for other people to use sometime in late 2021. Man, this is cool. Yeah. It's, there are so many, just from what you read, Tom, there's so many examples where I'm like, of course, of course, and use machine learning for goods in the sense for people who are like, hey, this doesn't really work for me. It works for a lot of other people, but it doesn't really work for me. And here's specifically why I need very different data points. It's awesome. And kudos to Microsoft and other companies who put research money into this. Hey, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, be sure to subscribe to DailyTechHeadlines.com. So Apple had an announcement today. I don't know if you heard, all the iPhones that were announced today, and there were four of them, have an iPhone 4 like flat edge to them and include 5G. Well, a big deal was made about 5G. All the bands on all the models. So sub six gigahertz and millimeter wave alike. There's a feature that will switch. Sorry. What's that? I have a feature up there. Only in the U.S. In other countries, we won't get millimeter. Is that right? They didn't say that in the announcement. Where did you hear that? No, but it's been confirmed at least in France, but it's, I'm 100%, 99%. That would have been nice to know before the show, but thank you. That's a good clarification. There's a feature that will switch from LTE to 5G when the 5G would make a difference saving battery life. They all have the Corning ceramic shield glass, which claims four times better drop performance. And they're all IP68 waterproof. They all run on a five nanometer A14 bionic chip with a six core CPU, four core GPU, 16 core neural engine that does 11 trillion operations per second. A second gen machine language accelerator and an image signal processor. Apple is using 100% recycled rare earth elements. We've talked about that on the show before. Mining of rare earth elements is problematic. They're going to say 100% recycled rare earth elements in all the magnets in their iPhones. They also will no longer ship wall chargers or headphones in the box, just the lightning cable. And it will be lightning to USB-C. So that's for all the iPhones. Sarah, let's start by talking about the iPhone 12s. Let's do it. Okay, so the iPhone 12 has a 2532 by 1170 OLED screen with 460 PPI, 1200 nits, can do HDR10 Dolby Vision and HLG, which is good for live video. There's a dual camera with smart HDR3, plus a night mode on all the iPhone 12 cameras, even the selfie camera and a night mode time lapse feature, video feature, and a 4K at 60 frames per second resolution, starting at $799 pre-orders October 16th. That is this Friday shipping October 23rd. Now the iPhone 12 mini, pretty much exactly the same phone, just smaller for people who want that smaller form factor with a 5.4 inch display, same screen resolution and brightness starting at $699. That one goes on pre-order at November 6th, shipping November 13th. So anybody who wants either of these? I know Terrence and I are on the pro side. Is anybody on the iPhone 12 side? I mean, I'm a pro. Maybe not. I currently have an iPhone 10. I don't know that I would want one of those if I had a more recent phone than an iPhone 10, but I certainly want one and my 10 is broken. I thought it was interesting that they spent essentially 90% of the time of the pros talking about the camera, both photo and video. That seems to be the main improvement over the previous model. Well, I mean, it's pretty, I don't know. It's kind of impressive specs. What surprised you about that? That's kind of Apple's thing. Yeah, it is, but it also means they didn't have a lot of anything else to talk about. Meaning if you're not interested in the camera, I mean, yeah, if you're not interested in the camera, I don't know that you want this phone, but maybe Terrence are gonna tell me I'm completely wrong. Well, I think the design, I think people like that old, if not a flashback to the iPhone 5 design. I think all of the 12s pick up that similar look and aesthetic. I think people like that. I can't remember this the, and we'll probably get into a little bit later, but the MagSafe, is that included in the regular 12 and the 12 mini or is that the pro? Yeah, I think that's in all of them. It's in all of them, I think. Yeah, so all the different accessories that come with it. I think that could be enough to get somebody who has a 10 or maybe not an 11, but I know at the very least a 10, which I have the 10S Max. Definitely something good enough to get us over the scales. Like you mentioned the camera, like Angela mentioned earlier, Sarah, wow, jeez. Sarah. It's okay, you can call it Angela. Sarah before said, that's their thing, the camera. So of course they're gonna spend all the time talking about it. But yeah, I think all those features combined, I think it'd be enough for people to jump. Yeah, and I think they're gonna be pretty hard pressed to get someone who has an 11 to jump to the 12 unless it's just a diehard Apple snob who always likes the newest and the latest because I think they're really going for the folks who are in the 10s to get them to hop on over to the 12. Since like for me, when the 11 came out, I was like, no, I'm gonna wait for the 12 because it wasn't enough of a leap for me to go ahead and get the 11 I was waiting for. Personally, the 5G, that was the biggest for me. A lot of the benefits of the 12 are things that are hard to sell you on, right? 5G, they go fast, it's faster, it's faster. And honestly, it really won't be that much faster than LTE but capacity is better, which means you're less likely not to get a signal. Latency is better, which means a lot of operations that happen on the phone are going to work better. Your video is gonna be more up to date. It's gonna buffer less, that kind of stuff. And the A14 Bionic is just gonna make a lot of things work smoother and work better that you won't notice because they won't be a problem. And that's, it's always hard to sell that to somebody, like, hey, you'll notice fewer problems. Like, it's just- That's not as sexy as something so drastic. Yeah, so let's talk about those cameras. The iPhone 12 Pro, 6.1 inch, 2778 by 1284 screen, 458 PPI, 1200 nits OLED screen. And the triple camera, 12 megapixel ultra-wide, 52 millimeter telephoto, 4x optical zoom. And for photo nerds, Apple Pro Raw is going to be very interesting. Coming later this year, you'll be able to shoot multi-frame HDR straight into raw format. You can shoot Dolby Vision HDR live through the image signal processor at 4K, 60 frames per second. And they say you'll be able to edit it in the Apple app. There's also a LiDAR sensor on the Pro. It doesn't seem to be good for a whole lot yet, but that's gonna be better and better as augmented reality comes along. It also is gonna help with autofocus and low light depth. The iPhone 12 Pro starts at $999, come in Friday, October 16th, shipping October 23rd. So when I say coming up, ordering October 16th, shipping October 23rd. And the Pro Max is just the bigger version, 6.7 inch display, but its camera has a few extra features, 65 millimeter focal length telephoto, 5x optical zoom, and sensor shift optical image stabilization that stabilizes the sensor, not the lens, and promises to give you two second stabilized exposures. That's starting at $1099, but like the Mini, the Max pre-orders November 6th, shipping November 13th. And this was confusing. Thankfully, Sarah caught this before the show because I had some dates in here wrong, but the way to remember it is the Mini and the Max are in November and the not Mini and the Max are in October. I guess if you want a non-standard size, you gotta wait. I'm with Terrence. I've got the 10S Max. I skipped last year. I just couldn't really justify it, but it's time. And I already said, before we get our announcements, I'm getting one of these phones. I'm gonna get the Max because I like big screens, but I have seen quite a bit of kerfuffle online just in the last couple of hours after the announcement was over from people saying, why would the Max just have something better because Apple has obviously committed to giving people lots of different form factors and lots of different price points, but the pro and the pro Max should be the same phone. So why are you penalized slightly by having the smaller phone? I mean, maybe it has to do with size and they can fit more things in the model or maybe they just want you to buy the bigger phone. I have to say, I was very impressed by the idea that you can edit Dolby vision footage, shoot and edit on the phone. I mean, editing 4K HDR content on the phone, it feels, well, I guess it feels like Apple's Mac on Apple Silicon are gonna be able to run a lot of programs. Obviously it's a different environment, but I'm surprised at the power of these chips. Yeah, and I think, I don't think they could have anticipated what's going on with COVID, but it seems since we are, well, since some of us are still, indoors a lot of photo work and video work for magazines and people pushing out content, it needs that type of professionalism, that type of professional spin to it. So I don't think they could have predicted that, but I think a lot of people who are still following the stay at home type of things, but still need to get workout, they'll be able to get more benefit from it. I mean, starting at 10.99, I mean, that's, if you're in that industry, if you're in media, if you're in TV, if you're any type of content editor, I mean, it's a really good investment to be able to generate high quality content for really not that much when you think about it in those terms. It's interesting you say that, because it really feels like they've geared this towards content creators, people who are not just out and about, but I'm doing a cooking video in my kitchen, check it out. And, you know, I mean, you don't really need things like HDR or Dolby Vision, but it does make it nicer. It does add a little polish to what or would be an ordinary cooking video in your kitchen. And I could definitely see it where people are like, well, I don't need to invest in all of this other stuff. If I can just do most of it here and then upload it to whatever platform I need it on. Especially if you're doing a lot of content, you know, a lot of the content creators that I follow, I mean, day after day after day, multiple times a day, they're shooting, editing, uploading content. I mean, I guess it could be convenient if all that was done on one device. Yeah, I was watching the Pro Max demonstrations and them showing those films and thinking like, well, shoot, maybe I should just replace my camera with that, right? And I probably won't, but just the fact that that was sort of an involuntary consideration that came up, like that's what they're trying to say is like, this is not a, oh, well, it's a mobile device. This is a powerful computer that can do all kinds of stuff. And it's all in one package for you. Also, I know that there's that new blue color, but boy, that gold looks nice. Oh, you're getting the gold. I'm already determined, I'm going, the gold is already mine. I just need for Friday to get here. Right, all the other colors are fine. You're all very nice, but no, it's all gold. Nika, carried spirits. All have, as we mentioned earlier, MagSafe 4, the new iPhone models that use G wireless, but can snap to specially made accessories. Apple's making a series of cases, as well as a charger, a wallet attachment, and the MagSafe Duo for iPhone and Watch. Belkin is making a car mount and multi-charger dock and says there are more accessories to come. This was nifty. Did anybody else like this? I mean, it might be kind of gimmicky, but I was taken in by it with like, oh, that seems like a better way to do wireless charging. I kind of like that wallet thing. Cases that snap on sound like a good idea. I think they had to come out with something because of the failure of the AirPower mat. So they had to come out with something related to wireless charging after that big kerfunkle has been a few years. And I was a big proponent waiting for the AirPower mat. So I think they realized they had to come out with something Apple branded for wireless charging. Patrick, what were you gonna say? Just that MagSafe was one of the most interesting hardware design innovations by Apple. I understand why they had to let it go when they went to USB-C on the Mac, but it is extremely handy. And I think a lot of customers, it's the kind of thing that differentiates Apple from other manufacturers. And I'm sure there's one out there that does something similar, but it makes using your device all that much more convenient. So I don't think it's a side feature. I think it's a relatively important feature. All right, and finally, a new spherical home pod mini with volume buttons on top, an S5 chip, and intercom across multiple home pods along with the existing sync where you can play your songs across multiple home pods. You can also intercom, not just to the home pods, but also do an iPad, an Apple Watch, an iPhone. It's a fabric mesh covering on that spherical form factor in black or white, $99, November 6th for pre-orders, shipping November 16th.  It may have turned my head a little bit, definitely because like you mentioned, the intercom feature and something we didn't mention or we didn't talk about earlier, the fact that you can do the intercom to the multiple devices. I've got two daughters who never seem to hear our messages when it's time for dinner. So the fact that you can actually do the intercom to the devices, to their iPhone, to their Apple Watch has definitely a benefit. Like I mentioned, I kind of see now why they last week announced that they were removing like the Sonos and the Logitech and the Bose audio equipment from their online store. This is a, I would almost say comparable to those. Now there are some benefits that Sonos and Bose and Logitech have, but the fact that it integrates so seamlessly to some of the devices that I already have, that our Apple, I mean, I definitely can see this being a benefit and the fact is only $99. You were that guy in the demo video who was trying to get his kids to pay attention. Absolutely. I get it, yeah. Also, Apple built a house to show this off. Yeah, I saw that. No, it was always there, Tom. It was always there, you know, in that big old abandoned sphere that they live in. Speaking of spheres, I know you weren't super excited about the Amazon Echo form factor when they'd announced, I don't know, two weeks ago now, one week ago. I mean, apparently everybody's got the same idea. I'm just gonna abandon my objections. Spheres are the new thing. Everybody wants spheres, it's fine. Yeah, it reminds me of those old 70s round radios. I don't know if you've ever seen those, but they got the round dials that look like eyes. So I guess that's just cool again. That's fine. I mean, I'm with you Terrence. I'm a Sonos person. I've invested enough into the Sonos ecosystem that the company upsets me sometimes, but I'm like, I'm already here. And it works for me. There are things about when Apple first introduced the HomePod where I was like, it's just serious? Like it just didn't, it seemed really limiting and really high price. However, like you mentioned, the price is better and it for folks who are trying to get some smart speaker stuff going across the house, especially with a family, it starts to make a lot more sense. Yeah, absolutely. Well, thanks everybody who participates in our sub Reddit. 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Hey everyone, welcome back to another Illumilani video. Today I'm gonna be talking about a Fall 2022 anime that I actually just got the chance to watch just recently and absolutely adored from start to finish, Bochi the Rock. Here's a brief synopsis for those who haven't seen it. Bochi is a girl who is very socially anxious. She begins learning to play guitar so that she can become a part of a famous band and be well loved without having to directly interact with people. The only problem being, she's too socially anxious to form a band on her own. She spent all of her middle school years honing her guitar skills, posting videos online and gaining a following, but is too nervous to talk to anyone in person to actually form a band. Now that she's started high school, she vows to take this fresh start and attempt to form one. However, she is still too scared to talk to people and instead donts her guitar in attempt to get people to talk to her about playing guitar instead. She goes the whole school day with no one saying anything and is saddened and ready to give up when a girl appears asking her to play in her band as a stand-in. Bochi does not directly accept because she's nervous but this girl drags her along anyways. Eventually she gains the nickname Bochi from her bandmate and well, chaos ensues. First and foremost, I love a good old trope of a socially anxious nerd being accepted by a resident extrovert to do things they wanna do but can't fully bring themselves to. Princess Jellyfish, another favorite of mine being a perfect example of this but that's a video for another time. There's a lot to love about Bochi the Rock from its comedy and humor. It's off the wall animation sequences and all its moment that have you going, damn, she's so me for real. Also her dog, Jimmy Henness, Jimmy Hendricks, bro. What? Are you fucking, I love him. Today I'm gonna be going into how all the aspects of the show make a realistic portrayal of anxiety, the nature of relationships formed with it and just generally the reasons that Bochi is so well loved and relatable. I wanna preface this with that I am in no way a therapist or medical professional and will only be speaking on this as someone who has dealt with and currently deals with social anxiety. As usual, spoiler warning for the show and hope you guys enjoy. Something I see get talked about a lot is how realistic Bochi portrays social anxiety. From specific moments where Bochi says yes to something that stresses her out because she's too much of a people pleaser to say no or the beautifully creative and hilarious animation sequences that have you going, yeah, that's how that feels. I might not actively disintegrate into Ash when I'm doing something stressful but I sure wish I could. The thing about Bochi that it gets especially right is just how much Bochi wants to be social but she can't. She desperately wants to form a band but is paralyzed from doing so all throughout middle school. She wants to perform at her school festival but can't bring herself to turn in the application. However, the thing I love most in the show is the moment Bochi stepped up to play her guitar solo to encourage the rest of the band. Her band is playing to a small crowd but is starting to get discouraged as they notice people aren't enjoying the show.  This part gave me straight chills and perfectly encapsulated something I don't see talked about as much but is something I relate to so hard and that's the fact that Bochi is a socially anxious mess until she knows her friends are in need or in a worse position than she is. I have friends with just as much if not worse social anxiety than me and something I find about myself is that I'm stressed about doing something until I know my friends are more scared than I am. By God, I will make the phone call to the pizza delivery place if I must. When Bochi started playing her banger may I add guitar solo to the rest of her band to continue off of her?  What a lot of those scenes say to me is that whoever wrote it has either been through this or know someone who has because goddamn is it so well written. Throughout Bochi's journey in the show she gradually learns more social skills and becomes slightly less anxious over things she does often which brings me to the way the show handles healing and growing. There's actually two aspects of it that I wanna talk about here. One is something that's used in therapy for anxiety and that's exposure therapy. What Bochi essentially goes through the story and what helps her grow through her anxiety is just doing what makes her terrified. Granted, it doesn't cure her but I also don't think it should because anxiety's not really something that you can cure. But it does exactly that for her. It helps her learn to manage it. When she first performs on stage she stays in a little box so that she doesn't have to face the crowd but now that she's done that she's passed the hurdle of just performing in front of people. The very next performance she doesn't need to hide and is able to perform on stage as long as she doesn't look people in the eye. She begins to learn how to interact with people when she works her customer service job a mortifying ordeal that she never thought she'd be able to handle. Girl, same. However, even that is something she ends up getting better at and while she isn't perfect she's clearly showing signs of growth from the last time we see her at her job.  I've definitely tried to quit a job only to check it out at the last moment and I think the youth of ours every single time I want to quit a job that automates quitting. A really important exposure therapy moment for Bochi was the street concert scene. Particularly, when Kikuri helped her see that the audience was not her enemy and they only came to see them play. This is a message that Bochi carries onto her future performances where you start to see her become a little more comfortable and connected with her band so that playing isn't quite as hard as it used to be for her. Speaking of Kikuri, she embodies the second aspect of dealing with anxiety that I wanna talk about and that's alcoholism or self-medication. This girl is drunk like the entire show. Like, I don't think we ever see her sober. While I don't think people with anxiety are always predisposed to forming serious alcoholism issues a lot of people with social anxiety, myself included will say that alcohol acts as a coping mechanism for socialization. It allows you to open up to people and not fear repercussions of your words as much. Something people with social anxiety fear quite a lot. Kikuri tells Bochi that she was once a lot like her. She was scared to go on stage or talk to other people and she tells Bochi that's why she started drinking actually to curb that fear. And let me be clear through all of this that I don't think alcohol or any other drugs is a good way of coping with social anxiety. However, I think it does show an important side of coping with anxiety and it also serves to show Bochi what could happen if she isn't careful. She's just like Kikuri before Kikuri started drinking and is befraid, is befraid?  And is afraid of becoming like her. One last thing about the portrayal of healing from anxiety that I want to point out is how Bochi shows just how non-linear it can be. She'll somewhat overcome her fear of performing but will still be terrified to perform at her school festival. She'll feel like she's finally ready to do something crazy but totally overshoot how much she can do and end up progressing from the embarrassment thinking it would be easier to just never put herself out there again. She, like the people in real life, will experience a triumphant moment where you think you've defeated the anxiety only to be taken down a peg and feel like you're starting from square one again. It's perfect. And I think this is why so many people relate to Bochi. It's all of these little one-off details that make her feel like a very real person with real social anxiety that a lot of us have felt in real life. Another one of my favorite aspects of Bochi is how Bochi's friends interact with her and her anxiety. They're aware of them but never demonize her for them while always pushing her to be better. Nijika pushing Bochi to join the band and take a customer service job. Ryo pushing Bochi to write lyrics that she actually likes. Keita submitting the band's entry sheet for the school festival. All of these instances make Bochi grow in some ways and make her do things she would have never thought she could do on her own. Nijika also acts as that resident extrovert trope that people experience in real life wherein an extroverted person will drag an introvert into their friend group. This hasn't happened to me specifically but it's a joke I see made online all the time in circles with shy people. And also, all of this isn't even to say that they only serve to be there for Bochi. My favorite part of their friendship is how give and take it really is. Bochi also helps the band down in critical moments like the guitar solo scene where she played to encourage the rest of her band. She brings Keita back to the band to be their singer slash guitar player and then teaches her how to play the guitar. They also aren't completely unlike Bochi either. Ryo and Bochi get along because they're both socially awkward although Ryo doesn't feel bad about this and prefers the solitude of doing things on her own. She's a foil to Bochi in that she's comfortable in her weirdness whereas Bochi struggles with her weirdness and wants to be different. Keita, while being relatively extroverted, bubbly, and bright, still struggles with some social anxiety and feelings of embarrassment. Like for example, when Bochi had considered just ghosting everyone instead of quitting, Keita had already done exactly that. She preferred never speaking to any of them again over facing the embarrassment of telling them that she couldn't actually play guitar. Ryo and Keita also act as somewhat of a bridge between Bochi and Nijika. Nijika is likely one of the friends least like Bochi. However, their friendship feels plausible because they have traits in common with the other two bandmates. I also really, really like how much the band grows together over the course of the show from playing their individual instruments and not having much coordination between them to actively giving each other cues and improvising to pick up the slack for each other when needed. The animation also does a fantastic job at portraying all of this growing chemistry between the bandmates. The looks to give each other to cue them into oncoming parts of the song are rad. And while they're seemingly a small detail, they can take a ton of time to animate just for a little bit of extra characterization. This makes the band feel like real connected friends making real music rather than just an anime band dubbing music over the screen. Anime itself has never been known for writing the best sibling dynamics in media. I'm severely understating that here. I know you all know what I mean. So when I saw the sibling dynamics in the show, I adored them. I mean, I guess it doesn't take a rocket scientist to not write siblings who are in love with each other and act normally with each other and yet. But this is what stands out so much to me with Bochi aside from the whole social anxiety aspect of it. Bochi and her sister are hilarious to watch on screen. The way her younger sister talks about how her sister is socially awkward is if it's nothing because she has no idea it's even a bad thing and sends Bochi into a spiral. And the way her sister instantly becomes friends with Bochi's friends and Bochi has to offer her a popsicle to go away. These moments are absolutely charming. Off topic, but the adorable way that her sister hangs off of her friends and her dad, it's so cute. I think that part specifically goes back to how the little details of animation make a big difference. Hoverworks didn't have to animate the sister sitting on her dad's shoulders or giving hugs to Bochi's friends, but they chose to. And I think it makes a difference. It makes Bochi's little sister feel like a real five-year-old with all kinds of energy and no social filter. One other sibling relationship that I loved was Nijika and her older sister, Seika. Seika somewhat stands in a role of parentification wherein she has taken the role of a parent provider and role model for Nijika. Seika used to be in a band, but when her mom died and her dad stopped taking care of her younger sister, she felt responsible for becoming a guidance for this child. She opened the starry as a space for Nijika to get into music. Adults with siblings that aren't super close in age can feel a sense of responsibility over this teenager or child who is growing and forming thoughts and interests. Something important to note about Nijika as well is that she's the most mature in the friend group, so she recognizes the sacrifice Seika made and wants to do good on Seika's behalf by making the starry a place that people know and come to. These siblings have a lot of respect for each other, but even then, as siblings do, they still squabble. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like people who have parentified siblings or are the parentified sibling will tell you that arguments between these siblings can take on a sort of dynamic where it's like, I'm responsible for this kid and have authority, but they're still my sibling and we act like it. Nijika would probably never end a fight insulting her parents, but she would with the sister that acts as her caretaker. All of these pieces of their relationship make it not only fun to watch, but also make the touching moments about Nijika's backstory with her sister all the more emotionally impactful. Aside from all the stuff I definitely over-analyzed in the show, there's a bunch of other things I love about it as well. The music in the show is among the best of the anime original music I've ever heard. While I loved watching K-On, their band HTT just did not produce music that I actually liked and I kind of found the lead singer to be honestly a little bit annoying. Girls Dead Monster, the band from Angel Beats was one of my favorite anime bands at the time.  But with all that being said, I think Bochi's band still comes out on top for me just off of personal preference. It's the kind of music that if I heard normally I'd listen to it regardless of whether it's tied to a show or not, though admittedly it does help. Also Spotify released a version of that band with Bochi's banger guitar solo challenge. There's also some pretty damn good voice work in the show, especially in the episode where Bochi's voice actress does a couple of other voices that kind of stray from the normal cute anime girl sound like this clip right here. And then of course, as many people have also mentioned, the show is just funny as fuck.  I think this is also what makes the show so enjoyable too because while it has some great touching moments and some pretty realistic feeling characters, it never takes itself too seriously and at the end of the day, it knows it's a slice of life comedy anime. It never gets boring and is definitely worth the watch. Anyways, thank you guys for coming to this video and I hope you guys enjoyed. Let me know what you guys thought about Bochi in the comments below. Did you like it? Did you hate it? This one's a little bit messier than my last since my thoughts are a little bit more everywhere on this anime. 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Really not going too much into the fear of death, as much as it's saying, it means that there's a fear of death. Like when you were watching the movie and something seems to happen to a body or this and that, but it's really the fear of life, or the fear of God. It's the same title of the fourth obstacle, the fear of God. That goes way down under that, because it seems like the mind is identified with the body, and afraid of dying. Really, it's talking about the third sentence. Terpega says this is the darkest veil upheld by the belief in death and protected by its attraction. So that the seed mind is attracted to death. It doesn't seem like I'm attracted to death, you know, on the surface. It doesn't seem like there's an attraction to death. It seems like there's a fear of dying. But there's really an attraction to it, and a fear of God. As you go back, this is titled The Attraction of Death. Is it talking about death with the body? No. It's not the death of the belief in God. Right, so that's what we have to go into this very quickly. So there's the attraction of death, and then if you go back a little bit earlier, two pages earlier, there's the attraction of pain, of guilt. You would say that this is not talking about the attraction of death of the body? Right. When it's using the word death, it's not talking about death of the body. What death is that talking about? Well, that's where we take it down, in the sense that the ego is death. It seems attractive to the seed mind. In other words, the ego seems to offer something of value to it. It's taking it out of the physical realm. In other words, death of the body, which is the way I've always grown up and conceived this death. And now, the Course is saying that if you're wrong, mind it. You're attracted to the presence of ego. Right, because the ego is not who I am, so it's like the death of who I am if I identify with the ego. That's like death. Oh, wait a minute. Now that's different again, Matt. What is the death actually referring to? Is it the presence of the ego, or is it the death of the self, the real self, or the refusal to see the real self? It's the attraction of the ego, in the sense that it gets played out on the surface, in the sense that the mind ends up seeking a lot of things to make its life better and its kingdom better, and really it's falling right into the hands of the ego. Which actually is one of the same. Yeah, so that's the thing about the attraction of guilt.  The whole thing, you keep the ego. That feels the attraction to pain. On the surface, it doesn't seem like that's what it is. It's like that movie last night that we watched where, you know what I'm saying? That making money was just the beginning part of it, like you gotta know how to spend it. And then, what is it? It wasn't for, right? You have to have money for excitement. Yeah, so that's really when we go, when you start to trace it in, that's where it's the attraction of guilt and pain and death, but it's certainly not seen that way on the surface. That's what's so great about the court is Jesus just unveiled the easiest possible to seek for pleasure without finding pain. It's helpful. Metaphysically, if I don't see the connectors about maximizing one, you gotta take a vote. I would rather choose. I'm changing my decision here. I'm going for the mirror. It's a whole new menu in terms for the, I'm thinking of it. He said, she said movie where, that's such a classic movie. But I think, James, one of the things, and you know, I know we're going deeper here, but just at a very beginner level, take the attraction to death away or the fear of death of the body, because that's what we think we are. And it changes everything right away to want to look deeper. If that in fact isn't real, then we really need to look at what it's because, if you ask people, I'm not sure where we can go with this, but it's just a thought, but if you ask people, would you want to live forever, they'll say no. So there's no attraction to eternity in this type of living.  How much, you know what I'm saying? Some people have said that, but they see it as immortality of the body. They're seeing it as immortality of the body, right? They do want this. And they want just the positive aspects, and they want it. Right. And they want the body not to age. Well, yeah, that's true. I mean, saying otherwise would be the point. So, there's something to that. It could get the pleasure of being 2 billion years old, but maybe not. But there's something to that in where our minds are. Yes, that's defining life. Life is defined in physical terms. Right. Then you have boredom and you have excitement, you know? Well, there are people, I know Deepak Chopra in number, when we're talking about life extension, and there's some good physical ideas in a lot of those teachings. However, when you... Ageless body time with the mind. Right. When you get down to thinking life is of the body and wanting to extend it to 100, 110, 120 years, again, the course goes level above, and it says, oh, you want peace of mind. You want to wake up and remember your father. That's life. Yeah, that's life. Have it for as long as you want, but just have that. And life after death. A lot of people will kind of take what my father and I used to say. People think they're going to go have lunch with their friends after death. They got another thing coming, you know, because he doesn't believe in anything. Well, there's something much greater than that, but that's the concept of life after death. The light and then my grandmother seeing my grandmother and seeing my kids. And again, we're back to, in the life after death, we're back into the same attraction and substitutions as we had here. But isn't that a lot of what the new thing is about? I mean, Dave, it's like the perfect world on the other side where there are your loved ones in everything that's harmonious but it's only the positive. That's all that's there. It's a real, it's a real draw. That's their, their, their attraction. Yeah. Again, that would be the word paradise on earth. Jehovah Witnesses talk about, you know, 144,000 and paradise like the Garden of Eden, which is, again, seem to be informed. And the Course just says, no, that the world was made as an attempt against God. It's like the world is kind of saying, you can't enter here, God. And so that, those, this really goes beyond those kind of concepts. What the Course does talk about is the real world, which you could, you could think of it symbolically as once you come to the place of clarity where you just have one box, so to speak, that we talk about, then, in a sense, everyone is there with you. Because the differences, okay, including the differences of time, I mean, it's, it's tempting to the ego lens to say, well, I'm advancing spiritually, but so-and-so, and it seems to be a time lag, and it seems to be like the Consciousness 2150 in the book. It seems very linear and spread out before your rancher. Very spread out. And the Course is just going, time lapse, if you come to the state of right-mindedness, then you see that, oh, that was just my misperception that evolution was going this way. Again, time and space have to be questioned. So you see that in right-mindedness that everyone is there. And that's a very deep concept. So Jesus gives a lot of metaphors to step up to that. One of them he talked about in the Course is charity, in terms of the Bible. And he says charity is like perceiving your brother as if he was much farther along in his evolution than he really appears to be in the world. And Jesus says, again, you can tell that this is a time concept. Perceiving your brother as if he was much farther along than he seems to be, that's still, you can see there's an aspect of time in the concept of charity. But he says it's very beneficent. Because again, you can relate to him in a very loving way. You know, you aren't so tied into the behaviors and the tributing like, well, this one's got a long ways to go or something. You see past that. So that's what's so neat about the Course is it gives you a concept even that can be really helpful. If the top rung just seems to... I don't know if it's my thought or if it's going to... I've got a lot of concepts. Even if you can transition in a mind, you know, to go to this place. And the strength of being in that space, it's not about... it wasn't about individuals. But it's real. We're all part of that. Death is of the body. And that's the first, that's because it seems so much that the body seems to be sanctified, it seems to be well, it seems to be born, it seems to die. To loosen it to more of like, oh, death is wrong, mind is in it. Death is that ego purpose. Then that's pulling it off the screen for this people. Seeing death in the mind instead of on the screen. You know, people have asked questions a lot of times recently in Adrian, even a woman was saying, my husband was recently died. Where is he? I don't want to know. And he started to work a little bit towards the idea that where, when you ask the question, there's the question, where is his mind? Where concept is the concept that the assumption underneath is his place? Is that the mind has a location? You know, we talked about private mind to the end, we have private mind, get under it. Under the question, where is the mind, is the assumption of place? Space and time and place is just the concept that we're not in the mind of Christ. You see, it's like a total... Well, there goes that question. See how that question just dissolves what's the need about coming together and just examining assumptions and concepts. You get to the point where the question will see there will be an experience in which question to see. When you were in that real powerful experience of Jesus there wasn't a question, it was a total joy in receiving. We talked to them, they had some of them revelatory experiences that we're not in the mind of Christ.


OK, so my name is Patrick Corrolli. I'm the director of alliances and embedded technology at SUSE. Actually joining me today is Tui. Tui is the program manager for our embedded program. And I'm going to talk to you a little bit today about what we do in the embedded space, what we do in open source in general. And feel free to ask any questions at any point in time, and I'll try and get them answered for you. OK, so within SUSE, we kind of set some guidelines how we want to be perceived in the market. And what we focus in on is controlling our infrastructure, optimizing operations, and improving or innovating faster. And we do this in a number of different ways. And as we go through the conversation today, we're going to harken back to some of these topics about how do you maintain control over your infrastructure. In this case, it could either be your infrastructure or the infrastructure that you're providing to your customers through your solutions. How do you optimize operations? How do you really take advantage of not only your support organization, your development organization, so that you can build solutions that focus on the industry that you're interested in and not focus in on something like the operating system? And innovate faster, and we'll talk a little bit about how we approach innovation at SUSE and what we do that makes us feel that we are highly innovative. So people have been coming up and say, hey, I didn't realize SUSE had an embedded product, or I didn't realize that embedded SUSE was a thing. We don't actually have a project, and we don't have a product. What we have is a program. If you were in the keynote session earlier this week when Linus was asked the question about, will there be an edge kernel, a small kernel that is just for edge infrastructure devices, Linus's response was pretty on par with the way we approach things, which is, no, Linux is a general purpose operating system. And the more you focus that operating system, the more you focus on the solution that you want to provide, the more planning you put into how you want to present yourself out into the market, that's what creates the opportunity, that's what creates the innovation and the value. So it's our objective to focus on the operating system so that you can focus in on what you want to focus in on. Now at the same time, we don't go and put out a different kernel for embedded space. Our Linux kernel is the same Linux kernel that we run on the Raspberry Pi as we run on IBM System Z mainframes, as well as Intel and Power and everything in between. So it's a common code base that we use and that we maintain and we support. But we do provide you opportunities to scale and shrink that code base in a supportable fashion so that you can take that solution to market and you know that we still run that through our same QA process, our validation process. And if you ever call for support, that will provide it. At the same time, we've got a program in place because we recognize that the price that you buy for or the price you pay for an enterprise Linux distribution is going to be very different for something that you may want to embed in a very small solution that's going to scale to millions of units versus tens of thousands of units. So we've actually been in the embedded space for quite a long time, probably maybe 15 years or so. And actually our first foray into the embedded space started in the retail space. So we worked in the retail market working on cash registers and point of sale solutions. We expanded into kiosks and little by little people come to us and say, hey, could I include Linux or SUSE in this solution? Maybe it's a data warehouse. Can I include SUSE Linux in this key server for encryption? Can I include SUSE Linux in this firewall option for a rack mount server? Can I use it as a virtual appliance inside of Amazon? Can I use it inside of this medical device, imaging devices? Can I use it for metering mail solutions? So we've expanded into all of those different areas through relationships and partnerships, and not one size fits all. But one kernel has worked in all these spaces for a number of years. And now we're getting down to the point where you say embedded to somebody and everybody immediately goes to a Beagle board or Raspberry Pi from a thought perspective. Well, we support ARM and we support x86. But the important thing is that we're going to support you based on what your solution is. And you don't have to be hesitant to think, well, is that an embedded solution or not? Well, it depends. From our perspective, if this is a fixed function system and not a general purpose system, we typically consider that an embedded solution. So at that point, we encourage you to reach out to us and send us an email at embedded.susa.com. And we'll work with you to make sure that our platform can meet your needs. So we've got a number of solutions in this space to really partner with you. We don't want to approach the embedded space as a customer space. We want to approach this as a partnership. And we have support solutions. We've got feature capability solutions, beta programs, resale solutions, all different types of solutions in the market that we can tailor to fit your needs. And again, there's very few of our embedded partners that we work with that work on the same model. And that's one of the most important things you guys can realize. So with that, what I want to do is actually talk a little bit about how we can offer a secure, a flexible, and most importantly, a supported environment for your embedded solution. So building an embedded solution is hard. We're actually building any solution is hard. And most of the work actually has to start early on in the planning process. Again, if we harken back to the keynotes, one of the key takeaways is the fact that security cannot be an afterthought. You have to start with your surface or your attack surface in mind. You have to understand what controls you're going to need, whether they're through networking or access control list for users, access for different devices. You need to start thinking about security as the first step. And one of the major points about planning and security is actually one of the last steps that people or the actual end user customer touches, which is patch management and upgrades. So many times we see solutions hit the market. They get updated once or twice as the interest and the innovation is high on that particular product or solution, and then we don't see that product updated or innovated after 12 months. Well, that's a vulnerability. It's a huge vulnerability. And that's why we see, even though out in the security industry, as we see the number of denial service attacks increasing moderately, the effects of those denial service attacks are becoming greater and greater. And we're talking hundreds of thousands of gigabytes of denial service attacks, but typically from the same attack area. So one of the things that we have to talk about is why security is so important and why, actually, sometimes it's a thankless job to go and build a Linux distribution and manage that. And that's what we want to talk about. So during the planning process and the coding process and the building process and the development process, you're working in a closed system. You have an idea of where your target platform is. You have an idea of where your target operating system is. And obviously, we're all here at the Embed at Linux conference. Everyone knows that the target platform of choice right now is Linux. And you have choices to make.  Do you go and take a community distribution? Do you partner with an enterprise Linux distribution in order to provide that support and service? And what we're going to talk about a little bit today is if you do partner with an enterprise Linux distribution, the fact that we do have tools to support you during your development process. During your build process, during your deployment process, and more importantly, from a security perspective and from a patch management perspective, we also have tools and solutions that support you in that environment as well. So this gives you the opportunity to build a custom Linux kernel that's supportable, flexible, and secure. So what we're going to talk about are a few different products and solutions that we offer. And of course, the foundation from our perspective is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. And again, this is the same operating system that we deploy to all of our customers. And this is the same OS that we support for all of our customers. And I think that's the most important thing. We have a support organization worldwide. We have engineers and a security team that are focused on watching critical vulnerabilities, providing those patches back upstream into the kernel and back into our code stream. We also provide a solution that we'll talk about in the next slide called Just Enough Operating System. And this is typically where people kind of perk their ears up, much like in the robotic videos earlier this morning. They perk their ears up. They want to learn a little bit more about what we mean by Just Enough Operating System or JUICE as we refer to it. We're going to talk about package building. We're going to talk about image building, how we can support multiple platforms. And in some cases, multiple distributions. We are an open source company. And we recognize that community and collaboration are extremely important in an open source environment. And we'll go back and cover some of these topics as well. So I highlighted a few of the platforms that we support here. I mentioned them earlier. ARM x86 power. We've recently announced support for Raspberry Pi. So we're getting broader and broader in our support. And the reason why we can offer so many products and solutions is because we've been doing this a long time. We started initially in the x86. We quickly moved to the mainframe. And as new technologies were introduced, like Itanium and ARM, we've invested in those solutions as well. But the important part is that you guys are building critical systems in most cases. And we can't stress this enough that reliability and availability is extremely important in this space. And that's one of the reasons why you've chosen to use Linux in your environment is because of its reliability. We put a lot of additional effort into making sure that our solution is highly reliable and highly efficient. And we focus really on making sure that you can take advantage of innovations that are out there as quickly as possible in the Linux kernel so that you can support the latest innovations that you want to bring to market within your solutions. The other thing we hear in the embedded space is a term that we hear over and over again is with long life. We need a supportable Linux for five years, 10 years, eight years, whatever the case may be. So we have what we refer to as a 10 plus three year support lifecycle. So when we start a code stream, we will support that code stream in a generally supported manner for 10 years. Within each one of those service pack releases, we offer the ability to have long term service pack support. So even though we provide a brief overlap period that you would upgrade from service pack one to service pack two, if you need to stay on a particular service pack, whether it's for development reasons, whether it's for compliance reasons, we offer capabilities for you to have long term service pack support. And when we end general support at the end of the 10 years of our release cycle, we still offer an additional three years of long term service pack support for that final code stream. So in essence, if you wanted to run on a common code stream, this is one of the best models you're going to find out there. But more importantly, if you really want to get down to a very stable and static code stream, typically you want to look for the last service pack release within any given cycle, because that's the one where the code gets locked down. You do fewer and fewer feature enhancements, but you also have fewer and fewer bug fixes and fewer and fewer security vulnerabilities, because as they talked about in the keynote, when you release a product, there are no known vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities only come after that. So obviously, after three or four years, the vulnerabilities tend to lessen within any given code stream. Now, this is a sample. We may do four service pack releases in a code stream. We may do three. We've varied between five and four in the most recent code streams, but we always support two code streams in our distribution. If anybody's keeping score, that's currently Sless11 service pack four and Sless12 service pack two. But the most important thing when you start to think about the code stream is, well, what does it provide me and what's the supportability of that code stream? So we talked a little bit about rapid innovation at SUSE. So it was actually about five or six years ago that we decided that maintaining a common kernel within a code stream just wasn't worth the effort anymore. We were getting requests from our hardware partners, requests from our customers to support new hardware and new enhancements in the Linux kernel. Could have been virtualization. Could have been containers. It could have been new chipsets. And we basically had made a determination at one point that it's not effective to go and backport tens of thousands, 20,000 lines of codes in some cases. I'm exaggerating. Into an old level kernel just to maintain that kernel level, because the number of changes that you make after a few thousand changes, it's really not part of that kernel tree anymore. It's changed so dramatically. So one of the things that we do in order to provide you innovation is we focus on the API and the ABI compatibility. So we want to make sure that the applications that sit on top of the kernel are highly compatible. Because ultimately what we are doing is we are supporting the kernel and the packages. What you put on top of that is your responsibility. So what I did here is just got a little bit of a sampling of how SUSE, in comparative releases between some of our competitors, how we have constantly been innovating taking code from the upstream kernel, basing on current kernels, making sure that customers have access to the most recent technologies and whether that is, again, networking technologies, memory protection technologies, or other enhancements on the processor side, we're trying to always stay as close to the mainline kernel as possible and do fewer backports. So the minimizing of backporting in patches, this provides better peer review. Because as code is going upstream into the kernel and more people are looking at that code, we've got more eyes on it. If we were to start backporting all this upstream code into our specific code tree, then it's just us looking at it. And that's not the way we want to work. We are always upstream first, and that's going to be our focus. And I think yesterday Ryan Ware from Intel, yeah, so he was talking about critical vulnerabilities in the CVEs. And again, this is one of the reasons why you want to try and focus on a modern current kernel is because as you backport critical vulnerabilities, there's lots of other things inside of the Linux kernel. Those could be touching, and you're just modifying as you go along. And tramping out bugs as you go backwards and backwards. So we always try and keep moving forward. That's one of the ways we try to innovate. So a recent study had found, and I think we actually have a blog post on SUSE.com about this, a recent study had found that about 85% of developers admit that they've rushed their applications to market. Now I'm not going to say they've done this maliciously, right? But the moment you consider rushing your application to market, you're not looking at the whole picture. And this is where we think security plays a huge spot. So we recognize that within our distribution itself, we have about 3,000 packages that make up our enterprise distribution. Well, that's obviously not something you want to put into an embedded system. If you go and install everything that SUSE has to offer, you have an extremely large, essentially, attack surface. Every one of those applications potentially has one or more vulnerabilities, including the Linux kernel. So what we've started to do is we've started to provide this concept of just enough operating system. It's an ISO image. There's a few templates associated with it. You can build a template for container service. You can build a very small application server. You can build a very small web server, whatever the case may be. But we started with these templates that if you want to, you can deploy this just enough operating system in any of the virtualized environments that are listed there. Now this is not a physical distribution. But what we do when we provide just enough operating system in these virtual environments, we also provide something along with it and we call it a Kiwi package. And I'll talk a little bit about Kiwi as we get further on in the presentation. But right now, our just enough operating system is a very lean function-specific operating system where you start with about a 300 megabyte kernel. And then you add on to that what you need. It gives you a starting point. So instead of starting from ground zero, we start you from what we consider our base level of support. This is the kernel that if you strip away everything else, we'll run on ARM, Intel, Power, x86. This is the kernel that we support. This is the kernel that we watch for critical vulnerabilities we apply patches and updates to. And we'll talk again how you can take advantage of this with Kiwi in a build process a little bit later on. OK. So packages, platforms, and repositories, oh my. So how many folks have heard of the open build service? And it's not a trick question. OK, some hands. Good. So the open build service is a generic system to build and distribute binary packages from sources. And here's the last three. In an automatic, consistent, and reproducible, or repeatable way. And this is key for us. Now we have a lot of partners and a lot of customers that use this. And they use it with SUSE, and they use it sometimes with other distributions. But our open build service is a tool that we've actually been using for close to two decades now. Internally, it started out with a different name. We called it auto build. When we started to recognize that people wanted Linux on more than one platform, we realized that we needed to create an automatic, consistent, and reproducible way to build multiple packages for multiple platforms. So when we release a product, we release it on all of our supported platforms day one. And that's because of the service. This is a toolkit that we use in-house. It's a toolkit that probably about a decade ago, maybe 15 years ago, we actually open sourced. If you wanted to go build your own build service, you can go out to Git, and you can get the code, and you can build one of your own. Mileage may vary, but it's something we use. And we constantly update because it's part of our infrastructure. This is what we use for all of our products. The build service can build packages for multiple distributions. We support RPM and Debian packages. We support all of the architectures that are listed there from a build perspective. And if it's not listed there, you can use QEMU to emulate some of those non-existent hardware. And in the back end of that build service is another tool that we're going to talk about in detail, and I'm going to separate the conversations called Kiwi. So we'll get into the Kiwi conversation in a few minutes. But most importantly, one of the things that the build service offers is a repository server.  You can lock that repository, and you can branch that repository. You can then use that repository to do patches and updates, and there's collaborative functions in there for the developers as well. So let's talk a little bit about how the build server works. There's lots of material out online, and you'll learn a lot more from that than you will from me. But I want to just give you a couple of highlights. So we build from source, and we also build from binaries, if that's the case. We do support not just SUSE, but about nine or 16 different versions of distribution. So if you think there's about eight or nine main distributions out there, we typically will support two or three versions of that distribution if you want to build a package. So if you want to use the build service to build a SUSE package and an Ubuntu package and a Red Hat package or a CentOS or a scientific Linux package or a Debian package, you can do that. So you can have multiple targets built with and through the build service. Now the package sources in the individual package are put into projects, and you can obviously link multiple projects together to make larger and larger builds. You can also take those projects and branch them. So say you've got a stable 1.0 release that is considered your GA release. You can take that project, branch that project, and start working on your packages. And then you can submit those packages back through the build service to, let's say, your release engineering team or your QA team, because they'll have access to your repositories. Now you can maintain these repositories onsite. We support multiple repositories that are out there, SUSE's, YAST, RPMs, APT, ARCH. Multiple repository types are supported in this function. But we also allow you to pull from public repositories. So if the source forage or Git or other version control systems can also be pulled into this. The nice thing about this is that we have this service that runs in the background that monitors those repositories. So if something changes on Git, new code was submitted, in your nightly builds, if you choose to do so, if you're doing nightly builds, for example, you can actually force or rebuild if one of those dependencies were there. So what we do is we basically use virtual machines or cheer routes in order to build out the infrastructure. It happens in four phases. We've got the pre-install phase, the install phase, the build phase, and then the post-build phase. So the pre-install phase is where everything is defined for, let's say, your build environment. So you go and define your file system. You go and define your tool change. You go and define your bootloaders and the packages that you want to include. And then you've got the install phase. That's where the VM kicks in, where the cheer route takes place and actually builds out the machine that's going to do your package build. At that point, it takes your packages and does the actual build. You can define what the compiler switches are. They can be predefined if you choose to. There's some recipes out there that you can choose and say, well, if I want to build this on power, it's going to use this version of the tool chain and these switches or I want to build it on arm. It's going to do this. And that means that as you go and make code modifications to your repositories and resubmit those, whereas those repositories change upstream, the builds are going to happen automatically. If a build fails, it's going to give you an alert, it's going to back everything out and you're going to have to go in and fix it. Sorry, we don't do that for you, right? But if the build succeeds, you get to choose what happens with that repository. You can go and take that successful build and move it to a repository. And that then becomes what your QA team and your maintenance team test against or what your maintenance team will then try and use to recreate problems or issues that may happen. And that's called download on demand updater, that repository checking on the backend.  Remember, we're not talking about building an OS. We're talking about you guys using these tools to build your solutions, right? The OS is not a question. Now, if you're not that interested in doing that, we have another solution. I'm only going to spend a minute on this. So we introduced this concept called package hub. Not every organization has developers and a lot of organizations, despite the fact that we provide over 3,000 packages in our distribution, somebody wants 3,001. And sometimes it's an open source package and all they really need to do is have someone do the effort and compile it for them. So if you need community packages and you want to run them in a way that's not going to break SUSE's kernel and it's actually built with the same backend build service, we actually use the community packages through package hub. So if there's a particular open source package that we don't provide, it's likely already been built by the community and it's already up here on package hub. You can just download it included as part of your offering. Shortcut.  And this is where Kiwi comes in. So we've built the packages, now we actually have to build an image. Now sorry to say we don't build images for competing distributions, if you're going to build an image, you're going to build it on SUSE. We kind of think of Kiwi as a soda vending machine, put the quarter in, you're going to get the soda out that you want and we think this is the best one. So what Kiwi is, it's a command line tool that was written in Perl for building Linux images and it supports a variety of image formats. Everything that SUSE builds also goes through Kiwi. So you can build, and my eyes are going, you can build ISO images, live CDs, you could build pixie boot images, hard disk images, if you just want to go into a DD over to it, USB keys, we support virtual machines, appliances based on OVF, VMDKs, QCAL or all, and we've added support for containers. You can use Kiwi to build cloud images either for OpenStack Cloud or cloud images for Azure, cloud images for Amazon. All these things can be done with Kiwi and the nice part about it is you don't really need a whole lot of infrastructure. You can actually run it on a laptop, right? Just be careful with it because it does run as root. But again, another open source project that we provide, it is available in GitHub and there's multiple documentation sources out there. If one of the things we do do is we provide Kiwi with every version of SUSE Linux Enterprise. So it's not installed by default, but the packages are there. I think in version 11 it was part of the SDK and in version 12 it's just part of the regular distribution so you can choose to install Kiwi as the package. Well, now this is where we go back to just enough operating system. So we provide you this concept of just enough operating system. We kind of limit it to virtual machine use because that's the easiest way for us to get it out there. But when we provide you these five or six different templates that you can choose from for this juice image, we also provide you the Kiwi template for that. So it gives you a starting point and you can start with a minimum build for Kiwi and you can include your packages that you built with the open build service which also does dependency resolution and builds the dependent packages as well. So your repository actually has everything that you should need inside of it to build your solution and you can then run this through Kiwi. Now, if you're running on the SUSE open build server that's available online, Kiwi is actually one of the targets in the build. So I talked about the open build service being able to build to multiple distributions but also multiple platforms. Well, if you choose not to build to a platform, you can actually build it to a Kiwi image and then you'll get those choices that we just talked about, the virtual machines, the physical machines, the ISOs, whichever type of image that you need to deploy out to your customers. So you can pull from your repositories to the private repositories and the Kiwi happen, the Kiwi build actually happens in two steps. Much like the build service when it prepares the build environment, it uses CheRoot. So it's going to go and build, based on your configuration and your repositories, it's gonna go and build an unpackaged root file system that has everything that you need to create your image. At that point, it takes the image description and the image description can have lots of different things. It can tell you that there are particular additional files you wanna pull in. It can go and do cleanup, it can go and do some scripting changes. But the image description then takes that unpackaged image and packages it up as the final destination. So if that's an ISO or a live USB key, whatever it is that you're providing to your customers as the end solution, that unpackaged image then gets packaged up and the CheRoot is destroyed. So this leaves nothing behind in the build process. You can't go back and look in and see what you wanna tweak. If you do need to tweak something, you're gonna find out about that during the installation process when you go through your QA.  So what happens after you've built your image? QA, this is the thankless job, the job everyone hates. So we use a open source tool called OpenQA and actually this is actually used by a few different projects out in the world today. SUSE uses it, Fedora uses it, a number of our partners use it, but this is a product called OpenQA and the focus of it is to test applications and operating systems. It is primarily done via a GUI console. You do have the ability to check various code paths and various installation options and it basically comes down to two basic concepts, running a job and this thing called needles, which is comparing expected outputs to actual outputs inside of the distribution or the image I should say. So the way OpenQA works is obviously there's RESTful APIs that you can use that you can automate the entire backend system or make calls into it as you need to, but there is a web interface. Now the web interface is responsible for coordinating all the workers and all the questions that come out, but ultimately the worker schedules and the pool of resources that you have there are all targeted at managing that OS auto inst that's listed there on the side there and basically what this does is it uses QEMU to build an installation framework for the packages or the image that you've just built. It uses at that point, this concept called needles to go and compare screenshots. So you go and set specific needles for specific screenshots and you compare it for certain information. If that information is there, it has the decision to, if that information is there, it's gonna continue on the process. If that information is not there, maybe the needle will sit and wait for a while, maybe it'll ask for user interaction, maybe you've got to snap another needle, update your expectations and then put that JSON file back into the auto inst in order for the quality control to continue. Now it doesn't just do needles, this can be an automated QA process. So it'll basically take whatever images that you wanna push into the virtual machine or the QEMU and start that up and run it through a scripted install.  So when we're talking about controlling your infrastructure, optimizing your infrastructure, these are some of the tools that we use. These are the tools that you can use, these are all open source, these are all freely available tools. The only thing that we are actually selling as a product is the operating system. Okay, so patches and updates. So when you buy the operating system or when you work with us to include it as part of your solution, we have a free technology called the subscription management tool, very rudimentary tool. The goal of this is to provide you a way to get the patches from SUSE into your organization and determine what you wanna build with it. So it answers the questions about how are you going to do maintenance and security patches? How are you going to push those maintenance and security patches out to your customers? How are you gonna report on the compliance or the vulnerabilities that exist in your solution that you've created? And the subscription management tools are really simple system. It basically acts as a proxy server inside of your organization. So it reaches out to SUSE customer care, it gets access to the patches and update channels that we are constantly updating and providing new features or capabilities for and allows you to put it into one of three areas. You can take those packages and you can put it in basically a staging area to test and validate. So you've got your replica, you've got your staging area and then you can determine which packages you wanna put out there. Once you put it out there, all your customers are gonna get access to this as long as they can reach your backend system. If your customers are disconnected, maybe they're operating in an air gap fashion. If you wanna put it out there via USB key, you wanna put it out there as an OS image. If you wanna go package up a repository and send them a disk of some sort, you can do that as well. So there is a sneaker net component to this at the last mile if that's something that you do need. If you need greater control and capabilities beyond that, if you actually needed to do some additional post-scripting where you actually want to break customers out into specific groups, then we've got a much more robust and higher level product called SUSE Manager that we'll talk about. Okay. So I wanna stop here. That was a ton of information. It actually went by pretty quick for me. Hopefully you guys weren't tortured. Any questions? Comments? Snarky comments are welcome? Guy in the back's laughing. Okay, so the rest of this is basically commercial self-service. We like build. So we are an open source company. Some other companies may have tried to spread FUD. We are an open source company. Everything we do is out in the open. We don't do a whole lot of acquisitions. We've done a few recently, but those were actually open source projects and resources that are still working in the open source community. Everything we do is open source first and foremost. We work very closely in the community. We try not to put things on rails. We are very collaborative as much as we can be. And that's not just in the open source community, but it's also with our partners. I can't tell you how many times we go to conferences and people say, God, we love you. And hopefully we're not stretching ourselves too thin. So B, love that much, but we do appreciate the customers and the partners that we have. These are some of the projects that we work in. These are not all of the projects, but some of these are actually our own projects. Some of them are shared projects. Obviously, the Linux Foundation. CEF is an area of high interest for us nowadays with distributed storage as well as OpenStack. So we are sitting on the board in a number of these projects. We are participating with our partners and sometimes with our competition in all of these projects as well. This is a little bit about us if you're not familiar with us. And we were the first Enterprise Linux distribution 24 years of experience, thousands of certified systems, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And that's really all I have. So if you guys have any other questions, I'm here. We will be at the booth tonight. I think there is a happy hour tonight, so we're looking forward to that. But I do appreciate your time and your attention. And again, if you have any questions, feel free to ask now, or I'll hang up here for a little while longer. I think we have some time before the next session starts up. Thank you.