First, Biden and his media blamed COVID, then they blamed supply line. And now, while the Democrat state media has the new talking point that Putin's to blame for high gas prices. Not Biden, not any Democrat, ever. Don't get me wrong, Putin's not helping, but Biden has put us at a disadvantage with his anti-oil, anti-drilling policies. Leaving us dependent on Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela to get oil was not inevitable. But it's quite literally Joe Biden's policy, betting that we can switch over to renewables any day now. It's completely f***ing insane. I did you guys decide to rebrand the rising gas prices as the hashtag Putin price hike? I mean, if you want to use that on Fox, I welcome that, but... I think it'll get a lot of air time because we have heard the president warn for months the gas prices were rising because of the supply chain and because of post-pandemic demand. If you guys knew for months that this was going to be the hashtag Putin price hike, why aren't we just hearing that now? Good question, Aguada.


Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. Today we're gonna do, it's a weekend, so we're gonna do a different video than our standard Prime 5, so no five stories here. It's kind of one story that's gonna keep building up because Nintendo might be stockpiling years worth of games. And that to me is absolutely insane. Now it's incredibly great news for Nintendo because that means game droughts? What are game droughts? At least for the next couple of years. But also it does mean that, you know what? If this is true, it's sort of a convenient thing for Nintendo insiders and leakers, isn't it? Because they could just say anything is happening and it's just sitting in a stockpile and Nintendo will announce it whenever and then you just are stuck not knowing what to believe for the next few years when we wait for some supposed game that's supposedly done and it never gets announced and never comes out. That's a lot. Let's actually dive into this. I enjoy some old Nintendo Direct footage because hey, we're probably getting one next week and let's actually go over all of my notes on this. So Nintendo apparently is just sitting on a ton of practically finished projects and frankly nobody has much of a clue when Nintendo will drop them. Now remember, this is all rumors. Coming from semi-reliable Nintendo insiders but it's still a rumor nonetheless. So Jeff Grubb actually admitted that he recently found out that Nintendo is sitting on a bunch of these games, a huge stockpile of them and it's not really getting a lot of attention. So I wanted to talk about it. Now, example of projects that are being rumored right now and not announced, obviously we have Donkey Kong that was kind of a late rumor last year. Emily Rogers also reminded us today of Fire Emblem, how there's a brand new Fire Emblem game supposedly done and ready to go, Metroid Prime remaster slash HD is supposedly done and ready to go and she actually said somebody recently played it at Nintendo of America and actually was really, really impressed and had a bunch of the changes in it supposedly from the Metroid Prime trilogy. She also noted that the Game Boy stuff that factually leaked earlier this year, we had the emulator from Nintendo leaked for this has apparently been done for two years and Nintendo has just been sitting on it, not dropping that for an SO.  Please Star Fox Adventures, I really hope you're one of those. Now, Jeff Grubb has come out and said that Nintendo is sitting on the Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD and they've been actually sitting on those games being done now for at least a year and just a little bit of personal speculation here. I actually speculated the Breath of the Wild 2's delay. Had nothing to do with the game not being done. Again, this is my speculation, no one else is saying this but I actually think Breath of the Wild 2 was done and Nintendo just has so many damn games coming out. They're like, man, it just, we don't need to drop this right now. Let's wait a little bit. Anyways, Advance Wars 1 plus 2, obviously we know about that reboot camp that was supposed to come out last April. It's in infinite delay at the moment, indefinite delay I suppose. Comes out whenever Nintendo feels like it and we know that game obviously exists not just because Nintendo announced it or because somebody actually played a digital copy of it cause it never got deactivated for some reason until Nintendo caught wind. Now, nobody seems to really know why Nintendo is sitting on so many games and appears that they're sort of backed up other than assuming that COVID delayed games and I guess I could explain the lackluster release slate in 2020 and then games getting completed started running into other games finishing and now Nintendo basically has too much content to get out. In general, this is actually an excellent issue for Nintendo to have. As it means they should have plenty of content next year and beyond. Also remember that it felt like Band-Aid 3 was actually done last year and Platinum kept wanting to talk about it or at least that's what Kimia was saying online but he just kept saying hey, Nintendo decides when we can talk about this and that could just be because Nintendo had a really full slate and they weren't sure when to drop the game until this year. I mean, think about all the games that have come out this year. Man, Nintendo just might not have known when do we talk about this damn thing cause we have so many games coming. Another rumored finished game by the way is Everybody's One-Two Switch. That one's from Nate Drake and supposedly Nintendo's just sitting on that as well. Of course, rumor has it that the play test group for that. Yeah, they really thought it was a pretty bad game. So that one might never come out or might be a digital only release like Kirby's Dream Buffet but whatever the case is that's supposedly one of those rumor games as well. And what I find interesting in all of this is just Nintendo sitting on all of these games. A very convenient thing for Nintendo insiders is they could basically say anything they want. And well, that could be three years off. That could be four years off because look how many games Nintendo has ready to go. Heck, is there a 3D Mario just sitting there? Does Nintendo have a Mario Kart 9, 10, whatever they're calling it already done and they're sitting their arms too? Is that done as well? And just sitting there? How many games does Nintendo have just sitting there? We sat there and we go, Nintendo hasn't actually had their first party studios releasing a ton of games lately but they've had all these contracts with third party companies that maybe have a bit more of a timeliness to them. Like Sparks of Hope, it has to come out this year because it also affects Ubisoft, right? The Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes had to come out this year because it also affects Koei Tecmo. Live Alive had to come out because yeah, it also affects Square Enix. Platinum Games and Bayonetta 3 had to come out because it also affects Platinum Games. So there's kind of this thing where we're getting all of Nintendo's contracted games and Nintendo might just be sitting on all their first party stuff, being like, hey, yeah, we gave you Splatoon 3 and Zero Blade, is that good enough? Because yeah, you won't get anything till Breath of the Wild 2. Oh man. So I don't know what's gonna happen at this direct. Obviously this leads to so much speculation for next week's direct.  We're not gonna get Fire Emblem and Metroid Prime and the Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HG and Breath of the Wild 2 and F-Zero. You know, people want that to come back, F-Zero GX, that rumored game out there. Oh, don't forget about Star Fox Adventures. Oh, we're not gonna get GameCube on NSO or Game Boy on NSO as well. We're not also gonna get, I don't know, a brand new Mario game and Donkey Kong and everything in between. Like we're not gonna get, this isn't about to be a two hour direct that gives us all of our wet dreams. That's just not gonna happen. So we gotta temper our expectations a little bit. But it's also interesting to wonder that what if these rumors are true? What if Nintendo is sitting on all these games? You know, I would say that's probably good news for all of us. Anyways, you guys let me know if you think Nintendo is truly sitting on a stockpile of finished games and let me know what you would do if you were in Nintendo's shoes. Should this be the case? Thank you guys so much for tuning in. I am Nathaniel Ruffleschance and I'll catch you guys in the next video.


Over the last few days there has been a lot of talk on the internet about how GNOME is going to be spying on everyone who uses their desktop environment. And I wanted to take a few minutes here today to talk about what is actually happening, what they're actually collecting, and the entire program that GNOME has instituted here. Because there's a lot of misinformation out there, and I think it's imperative when we come across these situations to know the truth. And a lot of times when this kind of stuff happens in the open source and Linux community, there is this idea that any telemetry is bad. Like seriously bad, it's the root of all evil. And I can see where that comes from because a lot of us are former Windows users and the telemetry that Windows collects is unknown to us. We don't know what they're actually taking from our computers because it's not open source, it's about as proprietary as you can get. Even if you turn off all the telemetry, there's still no clue whether or not Microsoft has actually turned that stuff off and is just taking it in the background without you really knowing it, or if there's not other stuff that just can't be turned off at all. So there's this whole unknown aspect to telemetry that gives it a really seriously bad name. And also, a lot of times telemetry is opt out, meaning that it's turned on by default. And that also leaves a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths, it's just not something that people are all that interested in because they don't want that stuff on by default. Luckily, most of the time when open source projects ask for telemetry, it is opt in, meaning that it's off by default and you have to volunteer to give that information. That's usually the way it's done. Now, there obviously have been exceptions, we're looking at Uodacity. And those projects have been suitably chastised for turning that stuff on by default. Whether or not they actually did anything about it or not is another question entirely. So let's talk about the meat and potatoes of what GNOME has done. Basically what they've done is created a CLI tool that you can install on your computer. Again, note that this is important, that you have to install it yourself that will send anonymized information from your system back to GNOME servers. That's all it is. So the most important thing to notice here, as I said, is that you have to install it and you have to volunteer to give the information. So to answer the overarching question, is GNOME going to be spying on you? No. Of course not. You are going to have to download this application, volunteer the information that will be sent back to GNOME servers. It's all something that you would have to do. So the next question then becomes is if you do opt in, what are they going to be sending? So if we take a look at the GitHub page for the CLI tool, this is the stuff that they're going to be sending. Distribution version and variant, hardware, so this is going to probably include things like CPU and GPU and stuff. Whether or not Flatpak is going to be installed, whether or not FlatHub is enabled, what applications you have installed, favorite applications. Those are the icons you have in the dashboard, the type of online accounts you have set up, whether or not you have sharing enabled, how many workspaces you use, whether or not you use dynamic or static workspaces, the number of users on the system, what your default browser is, what GNOME extensions you have, and then they're going to have a salted hash of the machine ID and username. Out of all that stuff, this part is the one that worried me, would worry me the most because it does actually have something that is personally identifiable to you, but it is hashed, so it should be fine. Basically if anybody were to get access to that information they wouldn't be able to do anything with it anyways.  So it's not that big of a deal. The blog posts and the Twitter rantings that I've seen over the last couple days have not been very full of factful information, let's just put it that way. They saw that GNOME has created a telemetry tool and have taken that to mean that they're going to be spying on you and that is just absolutely not the case. In fact, I would go so far as to say that this is even further away than something like KDE. KDE includes the tool for telemetry out of the box. It's not on obviously, you have to enable it, but it is installed by default. I know that Ubuntu itself has a telemetry tool built in. You have to bypass that question when you install Ubuntu. So GNOME is not anywhere near the first project to do this and they've done it in such a way where you have to explicitly install the tool that collects the information. And that means that you're volunteering to send information that they do collect. Now, the real question is, will this tool eventually be included in versions of GNOME? And I don't think so. The reason why I say that is because GNOME is not a desktop distribution. It is a desktop environment, which means that the distributions are very much in control over what is included when GNOME ships. So for example, when you download Ubuntu, which uses GNOME, you're going to get a different set of applications than you will if you install Fedora, which also uses GNOME. There are going to be different versions, different applications are going to be included and not included things like that. So I don't think that Ubuntu would ever include this tool out of the box. I just don't think that they ever would. Now, Fedora maybe because they're much more tightly knit with GNOME than Ubuntu is, it's possible this tool will eventually be included in Fedora. But again, I would never see it being turned on by default. It would be something that you'd have to enable. And I'm guessing even then more likely than not, this is going to stay a tool that you have to download and then enable on your own. So that leads me to the final point of this video. And I want to talk a little bit about telemetry itself, because like I said at the beginning, there is this idea that all telemetry is bad, that if they're collecting information on you, even if it's anonymized, it's not good for anybody. It's just not a good thing to have. And I don't think that I agree with that. And the reason why is because we want good software, right? I think that we can all agree that we want excellent software that meets as many people's needs as possible. And that's especially true when you're talking about these huge projects, things like GNOME and KDE and every Linux distribution. We want those things to be really good and to be as all-encompassing towards our needs as possible. It's really hard for a developer to meet that desire when they don't know anything about what their users want. And there are obviously other ways to get that kind of information. They can do surveys and stuff like that. But people very rarely will take a survey. And unless there's some kind of reward attached to the end of it. So surveys don't really work. So the telemetry data allows them to see what is getting used the most and whether or not they should put development resources into those things. So, for example, let's just say they put in a new feature into Ubuntu and nobody used it. They would then be able to have that information that nobody's using this thing. They can stop developing it and then move on to something different. At least theoretically, right? So I don't think that you can say that telemetry is almost always bad because I don't think that that's true. I think that if it's perfectly anonymized or it's anonymized as you can get and it's well stored so it's not easily accessible by someone who could do malicious damage with that information. I don't think that it is a bad thing all the time. Now, obviously, that entire argument is predicated on it being opt-in. As long as it's voluntary, I have absolutely no problem with telemetry whatsoever. I just really, really don't. In fact, I'm in favor of it oftentimes because it does lead eventually to better software for me and for everybody else. It's just kind of the way it works. Now, if they were to take that data and do absolutely nothing with it, then why bother? Just don't take any of my information. But as long as they're putting it to good use, I don't have a problem contributing that again, but it has to be me contributing it. It has to be voluntary. It's when it's opt-out or there's no way to turn it off that it becomes a big problem, right? And for the most part, we don't see that situation in open source projects. It does happen from time to time, but for the most part, it's always opt-in. And I think that that is the way it should be. So those are my thoughts on the GNOME situation and on telemetry in general. If you have thoughts on telemetry or the GNOME situation, you can leave those in the comment section below. You can follow me on Twitter at the Linuxcast. You can follow me on Mastodon or Odyssey. Those links will be in the video description. You can support me on Patreon at patreon.com slash the Linuxcast, just like all these fine people. If you wanna support me a year in advance, you can save 10% over on Patreon. So that'd be awesome. Thanks to everybody who does support me on Patreon and YouTube. You guys are all amazing people. I cannot begin to say how grateful I am that you guys support me. The channel would not be where it is without you. So thank you so very much for your support. 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