Mr. Dave Aaron we welcome you to the briefing on IT, winning IT strategies by Gartner and ISD Qatar and we really want to thank you for your time and first thing we'd like to ask you about how do you do you view ICT? Is it a source of competitive advantages for businesses or is it just an enabler or facilitator? That's a great question. I think that the problem is in the past everyone's looked at all of IT together but in fact in every business some parts of IT are commodities just an enabler and some can be true sources of competitive advantage. For example a lot of companies are using collaboration techniques now to gain some advantage in their management style and management culture. So how do you view organization and investment on IT? How should it be? Well I think the main thing is just like any other investment IT intensive projects and programs should be viewed in terms of business value. It should be managed in terms of business value from cradle to grave all the way from planning through to implementation and benefits realization. It should use the same model of value including financial, strategic and risk mitigation value. So there in one of a very famous and argumentative articles about IT ICT Nicholas Carr mentioned in his article ICT doesn't matter that sometimes ICT can be viewed as a infrastructural technology as opposed to a proprietary technology that can lend itself into some exclusive advantages for business. So what do you think ICT fits into? Is it a proprietary or an infrastructure technology for most cases for most businesses? In all businesses some aspects of IT are infrastructural. There are very few companies who would claim that their email system really is a competitive advantage for them but in all businesses some aspects of ICT can be used to drive their competitive success. The problem is it depends on a deep understanding of their business model and how they will win as a business. So for example if they win through a deeper more intimate relationship with their customers often types of business intelligence can be used to really drive their advantage in their knowledge and understanding of the business. If their advantage is through a low cost high availability B2C product for example then often there is advantage in their supply chain technologies. But the issue is it's not the same for every company. So IT has a competitive advantage not so much as IT embedded in a business system. So mentioning value chains what role can ICT play in value chain? Is it just operating the value chain or is it adding real value to it? Well a couple of things I think it can make the whole value chain or parts of the value chain internal and external more efficient. It can also change the way companies interact with others in the value chain or maybe people might say the value ecosystem. So IT can also change how and where you partner in the ecosystem what you outsource, what you insource, both business processes and IT, how you connect, how easily you can change connections with different partners. So I think IT works both in the value chain and works on the value chain changing the value chain. How can an organization evaluate its IT investment or IT expenditure? So let's say they spent a certain sum of money on IT. Is IT success measurable or not? And how can an organization measure the success? Well in terms of success one should measure business value generated whatever the vernacular is for that in the company whether it's free cash flow, economic value add, net present value. So first of all I think you should measure IT's success like any other investment in terms of value added. In terms of evaluating how much is spent on IT, the cost of IT, I think it's very important not to look at IT as a whole but to separate IT into run the business IT, grow the business IT and transform the business IT because they are managed differently. Run the business IT should be managed for cost and quality but grow and transform the business IT is a strategic business decision. So looking at IT cost as a whole I think can be a mistake but splitting out run, grow and transform the business IT can be very helpful. You spoke of three value disciplines today which is customer intimacy, operation excellence and product leadership. So can you highlight each of the three and explain how do they add value? Well it was the observation of some some research as a number of years ago Tracy and Weasmer that companies that win choose to focus on one of those three areas either continuously creating innovative products and services. You know we might think of the iPhone or some some early Nokia phones etc as an example of product and service innovation. So winning business by having exciting compelling products and services. Second is operational excellence, managing by having very low costs, very high availability, very little inventory in the supply chain, allowing you more flexibility in lower pricing than your competitors and higher availability. The third customer intimacy, managing the whole customer experience so that the customer is more intimately connected to you as an organization and those in turn are great ways of thinking of the question why will our customer buy from us and then how can IT help that position? Okay so some argue that instead of building a strategy for a business and then trying to find the ICT resources that would fit or to would lead to achieving the strategy some argue that it should be backward it should be finding the ICT resources that are available to you or you can acquire them and then build a strategy that can fit with the capabilities of the resources you have. So what do you think should the strategy come first or the ICT investment come first? Well in an ideal world we would talk about an outside in IT strategy. You start with the demand what business are we in? Where do we play as a business and how will we win and then translate that through to what IT resources and other resources do we need to apply to support that position? In reality sometimes some resources are scarce, some kinds of talent, some kinds of skill, some kinds of money is scarce so I think it's a combination of this outside in picture how do we win and how should IT be used to support that position and also a recognition of the reality of maybe the legacy systems and processes we have the talent available to us. So mainly outside in but with some practical supply side considerations. Okay so finally how do you think ICT can be helpful for SMEs as opposed to larger organizations that may have more resources and more even human resources and capital so how do you think ICT can be helpful for SMEs? Well first of all I think SMEs as you say have limited resources to compete against larger organizations number one that means they need to be more strategic not less. Quite often SMEs are less disciplined about strategy and more tactical running around but actually the imperative is for SMEs to do less better stuff not more stuff so that's the first thing discipline on strategy which is not common in SMEs. The second specifically is agility we think SMEs their advantage often comes from being more agile than larger competitors that could be financial agility, operational agility, technical agility, scalability in the infrastructure but if possible SMEs should try to work out what it means for them to be agile for example agility means being very flexible where you need to be but where you don't need to be driving out the flexibility being very standardized centralised simple


Welcome to another edition of Unfettered Freedom, your weekly Gadoo-slash-Linux-News-video podcast. Packing so much freedom into each episode, it ought to be illegal. We put out more freedom in each episode than the Proprietary Garbage Podcast put out in an entire year. On this episode of Unfettered Freedom, Facebook has now joined the Linux Foundation as a platinum member, which means Facebook has a seat on the board of directors at the Linux Foundation. Also, trial by Proprietary Software. More and more court systems are turning to proprietary video conferencing software like Zoom to have people attend court. Whatever my thoughts on that, we're going to discuss that. Also, why are more and more software projects choosing App Image to package their software? We're going to discuss that. Caden Live recently saw a huge release. Version 20.08 was released and it is gigantic. A ton of new features. We're going to discuss that. Also, are we doing new users to Linux, a disservice by the way we talk, by the way we write, as far as our Linux tutorials, our how-to information, our documentation, the way people that do video content such as myself, the way we present Linux to the new user. We're going to discuss that and more on this edition of Unfettered Freedom. So the first story is the gigantic news that Facebook has now become a platinum member of the Linux Foundation. Now, Facebook has been a member of the Linux Foundation for a number of years, but until now, they really haven't bothered taking that next step of becoming a platinum member.  I think it's half a million dollars. I could be wrong about that particular number, but by paying that, you become a platinum member and it also guarantees you a seat on the board of directors. So by upping their membership, now Facebook has a chair sitting on the board of directors and Facebook has what they call a head of open source. It's a lady named Cathy Cam. She is Facebook's head of open source and she will occupy that spot now on the board of directors. And Ms. Cam is recently quoted as saying, quote, the Linux Foundation has played and continues to play a crucial role in the successes, not only of the Linux system, but also of the broader open source ecosystem. So she's talking about, you know, how important a role the Linux Foundation plays, not just in Linux development, but also just the broader open source ecosystem. And I completely agree the Linux Foundation does play a vital role.  For the most part, I mean, all the platinum members for the Linux Foundation, they have seats on the board of directors and who are the platinum members of the Linux Foundation? Well, corporations like Google, not exactly what we think of as a nice company, especially those that value freedom, right? Google Oracle has a seat VMware. VMware was actually sued one time for violating the GPL. That's what kind of corporation VMware is. Samsung, of course, Samsung has a lot of skin in the game because of course they make all those phones that run the Android operating system, which runs Linux. So it makes sense for Samsung to be a platinum member. IBM is a platinum member. Intel is also a platinum member. And of course, Microsoft is a platinum member. And that's right, Microsoft, the company that tried for years to kill off Linux and pretty much any other technology that it deemed as a threat to its operating system monopoly. Microsoft has actually been a platinum member on the board for four years now, which brings up this point. When I first saw this story about Facebook becoming a platinum member, I actually thought, wait, wait a second, Facebook wasn't already a platinum member of the Linux Foundation because the Linux Foundation has all these other big corporate players that are platinum members. And Facebook is a gigantic company that heavily relies on Linux and Linux related technology for its business, its billion dollar business. I was actually kind of surprised that Facebook wasn't already there at that platinum level. So considering their prominence in the tech industry and the fact that they built most of their infrastructure around Linux, that their decision to become a platinum member really, I think, is long overdue. Now, Facebook, when we talk about freedom, when we talk about things like the free software movement, you know, Facebook is not championing that cause, right? They are very much an anti-freedom kind of company, right? They spy on everybody when it comes to privacy, especially. Facebook is really a horrible company and, you know, they're data mining all their users and just doing really immoral and unethical things to the people that use their products. But you do have to give Facebook some credit because they do help promote open source software and they do have some open source projects of their own. They have a number of major open source projects, including things like their deep fake detection challenge, which is an attempt to spot fake videos. The data for good program, which looks to use data sharing to solve humanitarian issues such as the spread of COVID-19. They also have an open source project called the telecom infra project. And that looks to spread reliable internet to previously underserved populations. So Facebook does do some good work out there. They really do, but obviously they still have a rather low score in the overall freedom aspect of their company and what they do. And our next story is trial by proprietary software. And because of the COVID-19 pandemic, you know, so many businesses and government institutions and various organizations and, you know, you really can't have in person interactions anymore. And that's the same with our court systems, our court rooms. Now they want you to appear in court through a video conferencing. And what is the video conferencing software these courts are using? Well, they're using proprietary solutions almost always. And the number one proprietary solution that they typically choose is zoom. So the story comes to me from the free software foundation website, fsf.org. And this particular article is called trial by software. It was written by John Sullivan. And it's a really interesting read. I'll link, of course, to the article in the show description for those of you watching the video version of this podcast on things like YouTube and library. But basically what John Sullivan is getting to in this is the point that proprietary software versus free software. There are some serious threats posed by using proprietary software. We all know this, but especially when you're forced to use proprietary software and something like a courtroom. So the primary responsibility of the free software foundation is to monitor the impact, whether it's positive impact or negative impact that software has on society and on our basic human freedoms. Obviously the main goal of the free software foundation is to spread awareness about the free software movement and to warn people about the potential threats of using that proprietary software. Well, the problem is proprietary software such as zoom, they don't open source the code, right? And by not having the source code open where people can look at it and audit it and see what it's doing to them, that is a serious threat. Potentially that is a very serious threat because anything that doesn't have open source code is a threat. It just is. I mean, there's the potential there where immediately when you open source something, so many of the threats go away because you can't really do something scandalous to your users if they can just open up the source code and take a look at it. So that has always been the case in zoom. They take things even further because of the licensing agreements with it. I mean, they actually make their users promise not to ever reverse engineer the zoom software, which is something that the free software movement completely stands against. I mean, reverse engineering is actually an ethical thing. You know, when it's done right, when it's done cleanly. So these courts are now conducting some of their proceedings over zoom and, you know, zoom. Technically it's software, but it's also a service. It also requires those using it to run non free software on their local devices, of course. And, you know, if you're using web clients who are using things like non free JavaScript when you're connecting via the web browser. Now, before I go any further, I do want to do this disclosure full disclosure. I use zoom. I have used zoom a lot in the past on my YouTube channel, especially sometimes I live stream video conferences that I hold with the community and typically we use zoom. And so I have zoom installed on some of my machines, but it's different for somebody like me because I understand the potential security implications of using zoom. I know that some of those connections are not secure. It's not encrypted. You know, people could potentially listen in on your conversations. You know, there's that potential from a privacy standpoint. Zoom is horrible, but I don't use zoom for private conversations. The matter of fact, I wouldn't even use zoom if I didn't do video content on things like YouTube and library, but I don't do zoom privately, right? I do it live on the internet when I do zoom, like I'm recording it. But most people that use zoom are actually using it to have private conversations for family members. You know, you're having a private conversation with friends and family or you're doing it for business or for school or in this case for their courtroom. I mean, your privacy is paramount when we're talking about your testifying in court using a proprietary software program like zoom. And zoom, they don't care. I mean, they don't care about your freedoms, right? The zoom is just all about making money, right? It's proprietary software made by a company. They are just in it to make money.  Zoom is making bucketloads of money because of this. Why are our governments not promoting free and open source software? That's what I don't understand. It just seems like completely outrageous. It's so objectionable that our government would stand behind a private company like this as far as this video conferencing stuff. It puts zoom in a position where they're actually the gatekeeper for our rights under the law, right? The fact that they can change their terms of agreement for their software at any time really is scary when you think about this situation. Also, when you have an endorsement for a proprietary software project like zoom by the government, immediately it just validates everything that zoom is doing, whether it's good or bad, right? Well, the court says we have to use zoom. We have to use zoom and the more court systems and more schools that say we have to use zoom, then you have this perception where, hey, everybody's using zoom. I have to use zoom, right? That's typically the way these things go with proprietary software, especially internet services. Everybody is on that particular platform. I have to be on that platform. So those of you, especially in your localities, if your court systems are forcing people to use zoom, speak out against it, right? Tell those guys about free software, because that's what they should be promoting. They shouldn't be lining the pockets of a proprietary software company. They should be promoting free solutions, things like Jitsie, things like the big blue button and other free software video conferencing tools. Now, the reason the free software foundation is drawing attention to this is, of course, they want you guys to speak out against it, and I'm asking you guys to speak out against it, but understand this. You know, let's be real here.  So don't refuse to appear for your court date because you object to them using the zoom video conferencing software, right? As you can't say, I'm not appearing in court because I support the free software movement and you guys use zoom, so I'm not going. Well, if you do that, you're probably going to go to jail. So I advise against that. But just because I advise against that, if for some reason you have the brass gonads to actually take on the court system over this, I'd love to hear about it. And so with the free software foundation, when this bulletin they put out, they actually say, hey, you guys, if you guys make a serious stand against a court system, you know, and fight against this, they want to know about it. They want to hear about that story and they want to amplify your message and your story. And so would I. And our third story is why are more and more software projects choosing to package their software using the app image format? So a couple of weeks ago, I came across this blog over on the OnlyOffice.com website. OnlyOffice is an open source office suite. And they have a blog on their website and they posted this article, quote, need portable version of OnlyOffice desktop app use app image. And then they wrote this very nice post where they explain exactly what app image is and why they choose app image over other formats that they could choose to package their software. The number one reason that they mentioned as far as packaging for app image is the fact that it's a portable distribution format, right? It doesn't matter what your distribution is. You could be running some really obscure GNU slash Linux distribution that there's no chance that they're going to have only office package in their very small repository of software. But it doesn't matter because the app image, it works on every distribution. You don't have to worry about it. And again, it's portable. You can take it with you. You can take it from one machine to another machine. You can put it on a USB stick and just carry it around and you can plug it in and use it on any machine. It doesn't matter what it's running. And app image is a compressed image. It's got all the dependencies, all the libraries are already installed with the app image. So you never have to worry about missing dependencies. You never have to worry about when you have to compile programs from source. Sometimes you get dependency hill where you get dependencies. You can't even resolve. You don't have to worry about any of that with something like an app image. OnlyOffice talks about, you know, they used to do a tar GZ. It seems to be the standard format for a long time. Actually, for Linux packages, if you were unsure about what to package it as, you just stuck it in a tar GZ and called it a day. And that's what onlyOffice did for a long time. But they switched over to app image. Why? Because it excludes the problems that you have with the dependencies. Tar GZ, you still have to worry about the dependencies. You don't have to worry about that with app image. Also, you don't have to indicate any kind of sim links. You know, you just download the app image, you make it executable and you're done. You don't have to decompress it. You know, sometimes you got to decompress those tar balls, right? You don't have to decompress anything with the app image. It actually runs in the compressed state. Now, this onlyOffice blog post does mention that many Linux users do have very serious concerns as far as app image and security. And they mentioned that with app images, it is best to not run app images that haven't been verified by others, right? So if you're going to use an app image, go grab an app image from the developer of that software itself. So if you know you want to run onlyOffice as an app image, go grab the app image from the onlyOffice guys. And of course, there's download links on their website. Just don't go grab an app image of any random piece of software from anywhere on the web and then make that app image executable on your system and then start running it. You know, obviously bad things potentially could happen in that situation. The other thing the onlyOffice guys recommend is, hey, if you want to run app image in a safe environment, sandbox your app images. Run something like FireJill. That way you're running this app image in a sandboxed environment. And if there is something malicious or something funny with it, well, you've solved that problem a little bit because now you've basically got it in the sandbox that that's all it can play with is whatever is inside the sandbox. It shouldn't affect the rest of your system. And I'm seeing a lot more third party applications to revolving around app image.  Overall, I think app image is just a fantastic packaging format. And I love the fact that it is a community project and that it's not dominated by a corporation backing it the way snaps and flatbacks seem to be. Now our fourth story is the big news of Kaden Live. They just had a huge release. This release is version 2008. And it comes with a ton of exciting new features, including some that I have been waiting on for a long, long time. So Kaden Live 2008. What's the big deal with it? Well, for those of you not familiar with Kaden Live, it is a free and open source video editor. It's probably the best free software video editor on the planet. There are other free video editors, but most of them are seriously lacking in features where Kaden Live is actually rather feature rich. The one downside with Kaden Live and most of the other open source video editors, unfortunately, sometimes can be stability issues. Kaden Live, of course, is developed by the KDE guys. So it's a cute based piece of software as well. It uses a cute toolkit. It actually upgraded to 2008 a few days ago and the last couple of videos that I did, I actually edited them in the new Kaden Live 2008. And it's immediate as soon as you open Kaden Live that some things have changed. For one thing, you have new layouts. So now at the top right corner of the Kaden Live window, you have five buttons and they are labeled logging, editing, audio, effects and color. And when you hit one of those buttons, the layout of Kaden Live changes. And the layouts have a particular set of tools included with them, depending on the layout you chose. So if you choose the editing layout, it changes to a layout for video editing. Basically, if you choose the audio layout, it chooses a lot of the audio tools like the audio mixer tool and things like that. If you choose the color tool, of course, you get a lot of the color grading stuff in that particular layout. So you can quickly select these five different layouts within Kaden Live. And of course, you can also create your own layouts as well. And you can edit these particular layouts. But probably the biggest thing for me was I record my audio as separate tracks in OBS. I use OBS to make my videos. And when I record an OBS, I always write it to three tracks. I have the mic as a track. I have the desktop audio, such as the music that intro this podcast. That's on a separate track. And then I have another track that is a combination of those two tracks. So when I first launched Kaden Live 2008 the other day to edit my first video since doing that upgrade, and I imported a video, it imported the video and it imported three audio tracks. And the audio tracks can be separate as far as I can add effects to each audio track separately. It's really neat and it's something I've been waiting on in Kaden Live for a long time. And the reason the Kaden Live guys are doing this is because it takes Kaden Live really to that next level. Because once you can separate out tracks, audio tracks, so you record your video using multiple audio streams and now you can separate those tracks inside Kaden Live. You can edit those individual tracks inside Kaden Live. And Kaden Live becomes more than just a video editor. I mean Kaden Live at that point is almost as powerful as most audio editors, right? I don't need to go into something like Audacity for example to edit and clip and put together various tracks of audio, right? I can just do everything in Kaden Live. Kaden Live becomes like a one-stop solution for all your audio and video needs. Some of the other new features in Kaden Live 2008 include things like zoom bars are on the effects panel and the clip monitor. You also have the new cache management interface. You have some new keyboard shortcuts and that's one of the things you really want to learn when you get into video editing, especially you want to start learning all the keyboard shortcuts in your video editor of choice because it really speeds up the editing process. And we also have LUMO transitions, proxy icon added to clips in timeline, and they have changed colors for audio thumbnails. For those of you on rolling release, GNU slash Linux distributions, Kaden Live 2008 should already be in the repository for you. For those of you on static release, GNU slash Linux distributions, what you can do if you need the very latest Kaden Live 20.08, what you can do is you can go grab the app image. So we were talking about app images. App image is actually probably the best format to go get Kaden Live in. That typically seems to be the one that works the best for people. They do package as a snap and a flat pack as well, but from people that I talk to that do video editing that use Kaden Live, most seem to prefer the app image. For those of you that run Ubuntu or Ubuntu based distributions, you can also add a PPA to get that latest Kaden Live. Now our fifth and final story is not really a story, but something I just wanted to talk about today. I thought this was an important topic. Do we do new Linux users a disservice? By the way, we present help information, support request, video content, like the stuff I put on YouTube and on library of people that write about Linux. But anytime you present Linux as far as support stuff or how-to's, tutorials, are we making that stuff new user-friendly? And I mean it in this sense. Does your tutorial or your video tutorials, stuff like I do on YouTube, or the stuff you write in print, maybe you're adding stuff to a wiki, does it begin with something like, hey, the first thing you need to do is open a terminal? Because if I'm brand new to Linux, I just came from Windows or Mac, and you're telling me, hey, you've got this problem, it's very easy to solve, open a terminal, I've already lost that new user, right? They're already running back to Windows or Mac the minute you mention a terminal, the command prompt, and then, hey, we need to edit these files. Well, first of all, let's open Vim. Wait, what's Vim? And then once I open Vim, what the hell do I do with Vim? So this is something that I catch myself thinking about sometimes when I do my videos, when I do any kind of tutorials, is who is that tutorial for? Now, if it's something I know that no Linux noob is ever going to tackle, then fine. Open up Vim and Emacs, do everything at the command line, drop to a TTY and do everything at the command prompt, whatever, it doesn't matter. But most of the tutorial content we're putting out there is not for people that have been running Linux since 1993, right? It's people that usually just come to Linux in the last few weeks or few months. Can you open up graphical file managers instead of just opening a terminal and seeding around and doing all the bash commands for your file management? Can't you just open up Thunar or Dolphin or whatever file manager that you happen to have installed on the system? Do you have to edit those config files in Vim or Emacs? Can you use Nano if you have to do it in a terminal or a TTY, especially you have no other choice if XOR isn't running? Could you at least use Nano? But here's the thing, if you're in a graphical environment, can you open up a graphical text editor like gEdit or Kate or something like that? I think even though it makes no difference what editor you do this stuff in for a new user watching that video of its video content or reading that article or that blog post, immediately they feel much more comfortable with that sort of thing. I don't think enough of us really think about this, how off-putting it is the way we present some of this kind of content. Here in the last couple of weeks, I have been getting people contact me about their distribution choices as far as they just installed X, Y, Z distribution and they don't know how to do anything in it. They don't know how to do anything. They don't know how to add or remove software. They don't even know what the package manager on these distributions sometimes are. They install it and they're like, OK, now what's the package manager? They haven't even thought this through. They just installed something and I know why they didn't. They installed these distributions because somebody told them to. A video content creator said, hey, go install this. It's great. It's my favorite Linux distribution. You're going to love it. They don't think that it may not work for everybody. It's like when I run my main production machine distribution of choices, Arco Linux. You guys know I love Arco Linux. Before that, I ran Manjaro on my main production machine. I love Manjaro, but I have never told you guys ever, hey, everybody, go install Arco Linux. I would never say that because it's not for everybody. There is no one size fits all and video content creators, especially, but also sometimes people on support forms when, you know, a new user shows up. Hey, I'm new to Linux. I'm thinking about switching to Linux. What should I install? And sometimes you guys are not giving them the proper recommendation. Everybody wants to tell everybody about the distribution they're running. Many of us are not running distributions that are appropriate for the brand new Linux user. We're just not.  If you know that person has no business running that distribution, but many of us just want to tell everybody about it, right? All the Arch guys, hey, by the way, I use Arch. Well, Arch Linux should not be your first Linux distribution unless you have some technical knowledge, you know, coming in unless you've done some homework and you got to be of the right mindset to see Linux. The community is a bit different than the Windows community or the Mac OS community, assuming they even have communities around those particular operating systems. But, you know, the people that come to Linux are a different crowd. They're the do it yourself crowd. They are. Hey, if it's broke, I'm going to fix it or they're the, hey, I'm going to figure it out no matter what kind of crowd. The problem is sometimes we do get those Windows users that come over that still have the Windows mindset of I don't know how to do anything with my computer. I don't want to know anything about how my computer works. I just want to sit down at my computer and I want it to magically all work. If you're that kind of person, Linux can be tough. And if you pick the wrong distribution, then Linux is going to be an impossible experience for you. I just think we need to do a better job in the community and the broader Linux community of how we present stuff to the new user and how sometimes our recommendations and even our tutorials and our guides sometimes are actually harmful to the new user. That's enough of me rambling on about that. So this was episode three of Unfettered Freedom. My name is Derek Taylor, also known as DistroTube on YouTube and on Library. Those of you that want to watch the video version of Unfettered Freedom, check out DistroTube on YouTube and Library. Those of you that want to support my work also consider supporting DistroTube over on Patreon. Those of you that want the audio only podcast of Unfettered Freedom, I try to release Unfettered Freedom every Thursday. It should appear in the iTunes store, Google podcast and over on Spotify. Now before I go, I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank the producers of this episode. I need to thank Michael, Gabe, Nate, Corbinian, Mitchell, entropy, UK, John, Devin, Fran, Arch 55 30, Chris Chuck, DJ Donnie, Dylan, George Lewis, Omri, Paul, Robert Sean to buy us and Willie, they are the producers of this episode. They are my highest tiered patrons over on Patreon. Without these guys, episode three of Unfettered Freedom wouldn't have been possible. The show is also brought to you by each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen. Those of you watching the video version are saying a very lengthy list of names. These are all my supporters over on Patreon because I have no corporate sponsors here. DistroTube has no corporate sponsors. It's just me and you guys, the community. Alright guys, peace.


Jungle Warfare Exercise Logistics Boat Team Commander, for the first time Third MLG has leveraged small watercraft to rehearse providing logistical support to the ground combat element in a distributed environment and in doing so has integrated with the United States Air Force in area of delivery. We've integrated with First Special Operations Squadron to bring material into the area of operation, retrieve it via crick and bring it to the infantry. Alongside with working with the Air Force, we have leveraged naval assets to experiment with the retrieval of air-dropped material in a maritime environment. GWX has provided a fantastic opportunity for 3MF, Third MLG specifically, the 7th Fleet and the 18th Wing, a fantastic opportunity to practice integrated operations in a forward deployed environment. I am Lance Corporal Aguilar Covarrubias, my MOS is 1171, Water Support Technician. What train? Today, I train with purifying water. I set up the system that we have, the P-WiPS, and right now we're purifying water. Yes, P-WiPS is, well, P-WiPS stands for Portable Water Purification System. Basically, it can purify any kind of water, like fresh water like we're doing right now. We can do brackish water or sea water. Well, this can help us aid to the fight because on a long standing fight, we can, instead of having the troops coming with their own water or carrying big cases of water, they can deploy us with them and we can make the water for them in the spot so they don't have to carry excessive weights. So that's how can we help fight.


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Hey guys, it's Lim here from tonight's treatment and I apologize for the poor lighting, but I really wanted to kick off a video for you about tinnitus and veganism, okay? It's very interesting because there's so many videos about how meat is bad and now there's to whole meat only and now there's, I watched a movie a while ago, veganism is good, you've got to cut out the bread though, how to get the protein, how to get all the carbohydrates. The fact is, you can do either. It's been proven, people have done tests, you can do the meat eating or the all meat situation, I've never done it personally, that he was people of the ailments, you can do the vegan thing, that'll heal you of your ailments as well. But here's the thing, the best diet for tinnitus is one that rotates, okay? Why? Because everybody's different. Let me give you a story, okay?  I was shitting my pants basically all through high school, not a lot of fun, okay? Went to the gastroenterologist, which is what they call somebody who works with someone with that condition, they just give you salafalca and all this sort of stuff and they gave the same thing to my dad who had a similar sort of thing and it basically ruined his kidneys. Go figure, drugs ruined the kidneys, who were the guests?  And I did a bit of research online, I found a guy on YouTube who was saying that, you know, if you want to be really healthy, just go raw vegan. That's where I first learned about eating raw vegetables and I thought, I'll just do it or whatever, I'll give it a go. I went so healthy, no fasting, just healthy veganism, okay? And when I say vegan, I mean raw vegetables and fruit and that's it. No powders, no pills, no anything, no fish, no pescetaria and I'm talking about fruit and vegetables, that's it. For a month, my ulcerative colitis was gone, like that.  Because they didn't tell you to do it, they knew it worked, they knew what they told you to do it, right? But here's the thing, okay? When it comes to tinnitus, you're going to need the meat, okay? I'm not saying that vegans can never get over tinnitus. I've had tons of people who never ate meat and got over tinnitus. It just takes a little bit longer, because here's the thing. When you eat meat, okay, you don't look at the model side of it, killing animals and whatever, that's irrelevant to you. You should be worried about yourself first, okay? Life feeds off life, it's the way it works. But here's the thing when it comes to meat, you have to look at our history, okay? And our biology and what our bodies are designed to do. Our bodies need certain things, right? The funny thing is when certain species digest certain things, their bodies have the ability to break it down and either eat it, or it's poisonous to some people, or they can get certain proteins from it, or they can get certain minerals from it, but other animals can't. And so that's why some animals can live entirely off just one species of leaf. I think the lemur, or I forget, one animal in David Adams, Africa, lives just off one leaf. And koalas that predominantly live off eucalyptus leaves, okay? It's just one thing. They evolved to basically live off that. And whether you believe in evolution or not, that's absolutely fine. But the fact is that the science is there, not for evolution, but for evolution, yeah. But what I'm talking about here without trying to raise that in this conversation is that when animals and species and homo sapiens eat certain things, our body reacts in different ways and meat is a vital part of well-being. You just have to cycle it and find what works for you, okay? So as long as it's, okay, let's figure out a barrier for entry.  You're going to be fine. In fact, go to my Instagram, tinnitus underscore treatment underscore Liam and go look at my story. I posted two more testimonials today of people who are getting rid of their tinnitus bit by bit, day by day, and I don't even know if they're meat eaters or vegetarians. In fact, it doesn't matter. The fact is they're following the guide and it's working. And the main thing you can do is to cut out coffee. It's just a drug. It's just a drug. It does as much harm, not as much harm, but it's bad alongside medication and antibiotics and antidepressants, okay?  It's inside meat, okay? And you can say it's inflammatory.  You should be eating the glands and things like pancreas, liver, thyroid, kidney, glands and organs that are parts you want to be eating. And nowhere even sells that. And here's a funny thing as well.  They eat protein powder because you can get protein from vegetables and fruits and nuts, but it's harder to get. You have to eat more of it. And I know that because I did it. But here's the thing.   There's waste products in protein powder, okay? And I know a lot of vegans. I used to date a vegan girl and she always looked sick and she always had bags under her eyes. And then you just eat a bit of meat and she said, no, no, no, and there's so many videos now. There's even that guy on YouTube. I forget his name. If you know his name, please let me know. But he was a vegan for a vegetarian for eight years or something. And now we started eating meat.   Does that even make sense? How does that even make sense? Like there's no logic behind that. Meat is healthy. It's fine. But for going the moral aspect of it, but the thing with protein powder is there's a waste product. When you burn protein for energy, which is what it is basically, there's a waste product.   I didn't care if it's hemp or anything like that. You can't have it, okay? And the other thing is, if you see my videos on Evian Water and Fiji Water and you can't get in your local town, just get the next best thing, okay? But if you can get in your local town and it's expensive, get it anyway. Faster 24 hours to save money and buy it, okay? It's as simple as that, okay? One more thing I want to say as well about people who ask me for advice for tonight is, okay? It's that they see the process they have to go to and it's not easy. It's not a walk in the park, but it's easier than spending thousands of dollars in dealing with a situation and having people tell you it's a life and you go to deal with it and going through depression and going on forums and basically killing yourself.   But here's the thing, don't try and make it easier, okay? Because I get a lot of questions all the time and I can see what you guys are doing. You're asking these questions and you're saying, oh, can I do this? Can I do that? And you're trying to justify the path of least resistance. Let me ask you this. If getting rid of tinnitus was, it's pretty simple, but if it was really easy, like if it was really easy, do you think that millions of people in the world would have tinnitus right now? If weight loss was easy, okay? Do you think that millions of people in the world would be obese right now? Do you think if making money online was incident easy? Do you think that there'd be, you know, millions and millions of people who are millionaires online, okay? Do you think if finding and dating the person of your dreams was easy, that you could just, there'd be more people doing that? So think about it because there's always people who want to take the easier route and maybe, you know, they don't want to go through the pain of doing it, risk of failure and they create these bullshit reasons as to why they can't do it or to why they shouldn't even want to do it. And most people will ask me like, you know, I get this all the time and I check by Instagram, what are your credentials? What are your credentials?  If you just follow my Instagram, I'm popping testimonials up in there. Last four days in a row, my Instagram story. Testimonial, testimonial, testimonial, testimonial. It's never ending now. It's just steam rolling. It's never going to stop. It's never going to stop now. But anyway, that's about veganism and tinnitus. If you're a vegan, you can get over tinnitus, it's going to take longer.  This is Liam and this is about tinnitus and veganism. Talk soon.