What's going on everybody it's Stas here and in today's video I'm going to be breaking down swing trading versus day trading these two heavily talked about trading strategies in the stock market my personal experiences with them what I personally like better and giving some pros and cons of both of these strategies so you the viewers out there can hopefully find out what may better suit you with your particular life circumstances and your day to day tasks so if you enjoyed this video feel free to go down below hit that like button consider subscribing if you want to see further content for me and join our StrifeSmart discord group chat there's over 800 people in there active investors and traders that is linked down below in the description box and let's get right into the video guys so to give a brief definition of what swing trading is and what day trading is so we can get a better understanding of what these are right swing trading is when you buy a stock one day and you hold it overnight hold it two weeks hold it two months right it's pretty much you buy and you don't sell that same day you hold it for a specified period of time whatever that time period may be and day trading on the other side is you buy a stock one day and you sell it that same day right let's say a stock is running up during earnings or something like that and you want to hop in very quickly get some intraday action in that stock that's considered a day trade right but let's say you're swinging a stock for a week let's say a dip you want to buy into that dip and ride the reversal upwards that's considered a swing trade if you hold it for a week or more right so that's just a brief breakdown of what swing trading is and what day trading is so me personally i consider myself more of a swing trader and that's honestly because that's what i started with believe it or not when i first got into trading in the stock market i wasn't one of these guys that you know i did dabble into penny stocks here and there but i wasn't one of these guys that jumped in headfirst and day traded every single day starting off the bat right i actually came into it looking at swing trading and during the time period that i actually started trading i was a full-time student and i also had a job at this time so for me it seemed more sustainable to swing trade because with day trading you have to be on your computer looking at charts keeping up with things in real time for an extended period of time you know it could be an hour two hours three hours and i didn't really have that time during the day right because i was at my day job i was a student full time as well i had a lot of things going on but i resorted to swing trading which you can actually look at charts for 10 15 20 minutes keep up with news that takes about 20 30 minutes and you can actually enter into positions profit mitigate risk and of course you have to know what you're doing at this point in time but you can actually pull it off with only 30 45 minutes an hour per day of doing research and studying charts so i figured that was more sustainable for me but then as the years went obviously i scaled up my swing trading strategy and then i started to dabble more into day trading especially as i went in full-time with what i'm doing right now which again is e-commerce trading right swing trading and day trading and this whole youtube channel and brand that i'm trying to build here so as i got deeper and deeper into day trading i realized how different it was from swing trading so for example you know sometimes when i was day trading i'd make a certain amount of money in one day that took me a week two weeks maybe even three weeks to make on a position swing trading right so you can make a lot more money day trading right that's what i've noticed but the thing is you can also lose a lot more money because when you're hopping into these volatile stocks during earnings periods you know these penny stocks and just volatile low cap stocks in general you can catch up swings that give you 10 15 20 percent but you can also be caught in a 5 10 whole if you're not mitigating your risk correctly so through my experiences of day trading and swing trading in the stock market i've been able to compile a list of pros and cons of each that i want to share with you guys right now so let's get right into it so the swing trading pro one of the biggest pros is that you don't have to be locked at your computer for multiple hours you can literally buy a position set a stop loss and then go on with your day another interesting thing you can do is you can actually set an oco bracket order which stands for one cancels the other and i know some brokerages don't have this i don't think robin hood um m1 finance some of the discount brokerages they don't have this setting but if you use fidelity td ameritrade and i'm sure some of the other ones you'll be able to set these types of orders and what they are is again a one cancels the others so you can set a limit sell order and a stop loss so pretty much that means let's say you hop into a position at thirty two dollars and let's say that stock you want to sell it at thirty five dollars so you can set a limit sell at thirty five dollars so if that stock were to hit that you'd get the profit right and let's say you set a stop loss at thirty one dollars so let's say it's sold off from 32 to 31 that's where you want to cut your loss that's how you mitigate your risk once it hits that it'll sell all your shares so you won't lose a lot of money right and once one order hits the other one cancels and this is very good for those people that want to be passive that work a day job they can't get to a computer they can buy a stock set an oco order and if the stop hits it cancels the limit sell if you sell your shares the limit sell hits it cancels the stop so that's a very awesome thing about swing trading and also you can do this literally around the world if you're from the united states i've literally done this myself if you have a united states brokerage account you can go to other countries i was just in mexico a couple of weeks ago i was trading there while you're watching this video i'm in greece so you can be in different countries swing trading in the stock market so another pro about swing trading is that you can treat this as a side hustle you can do this alongside of your day job your sales career your business whatever it may be and let's say you're young and you're saving up money from birthdays from christmas from holidays whatever it may be and you start swing trading you could just keep doing it guys and build up from there and have a side source of income so that's another pro that i really like about swing trading and let's get into the cons guys so one of the main cons about swing trading is that sometimes positions might take longer to play out than you initially intended and by that i mean when you're hopping into a trade initially you kind of have a time target of when you want to exit that position based off of previous patterns so let's say for example i wanted to hop into johnson and johnson at 130 dollars and based off previous patterns last time it dipped it took two weeks to recover to 140 dollars so i figured okay in two weeks i want to exit at 140 dollars well sometimes it won't take that same amount of time period to get to that 140 sell target or whatever sell target you have sometimes instead of two weeks that you intended to that you wanted to that your goal is to get to that you know target sometimes it might take four weeks five weeks a month you know two months and that leads to your capital being tied up in this trade longer than you want it to and this might lead to you missing opportunities on some other stocks and this has really led to some problems with me some you know issues with me over the past couple of years throughout my trading career but as you accumulate more cash the idea is you know as you save more money through your job your business whatever from day trading you'll have more cash to play with and if you're tied into a swing trade that's taking a bit longer than expected you could take some of that extra cash you're saving right and you could put that into some other opportunities that you're seeing forming so you don't miss out on those opportunities right so another con about swing trading is as you're following these trends to hop in sometimes they can end up faking you out so you can end up hopping into this trend at a point where you think it's a good time to hop in and then all of a sudden it reverses so this is a point in time where you need to be mitigating your risk you cannot swing trade without having an OCO bracket set up without having a stop loss set up at least because you know if that trend does reverse on you which happens sometimes guys trust me i have experience in this you know you need to be able to cut your losses and preserve your capital because if you're losing more than two three four five percent this can really have a damper on your account affect your returns and really discourage you from continuing trading in the stock market especially swing trading in the stock market so now that we talked about swing trading let's talk about some pros and cons about day trading so i'd say the biggest pro about day trading is how much return you can actually make the potential returns are very very high like we said before you know when you're hopping into some of these penny stocks these low cap you know low float stocks maybe some leveraged ETFs whatever it may be you know you have the potential to make five ten fifteen percent fifty percent i've seen stocks and leveraged ETFs guys some velocity volatility ETFs go up 40 50 percent in a single day their returns are absolutely ridiculous they're stupid right you can make a ton of money day trading in the stock market another pro to day trading is you can have a lot of time in the rest of your day if you day trade in the morning you trade for an hour an hour and a half two hours you know there's been a lot of times in my life where i've day traded i've made whether it's a couple percentage points you know a couple of hundred dollars in the morning it took me an hour two hours and i'm like okay what am i going to do for the rest of the day right that is literally what can happen some days and a lot of people like that time you know the time freedom of day trading that you can work an hour two hours make your trades make your money and then have the rest of the day to yourself pretty much to work on other businesses work on side hustles you know read educate yourself you know exercise whatever it may be so those are two pros through my experience of day trading in the stock market so some of the cons about day trading are you have to be on your computer for a couple of hours throughout the day whether it's an hour two hours three hours however long you're trading you pretty much have to be glued to this screen because most of the time if you're day trading a lot of what you're day trading it's going to be moving up and down you need to catch the moves you need to lock in profits and you need to cut your losses and mitigate risk this involves a lot of attention to the computer screen and a lot of people consider that stressful emotional and a con right and while you're looking at the screen guys a lot of emotions are running through your head right you're like should i sell now should i buy more should i you know take the profits you know these emotions they play with you which is why when you're trading especially day trading you need to handle your emotions and control those emotions because they can negatively dictate your decisions they can lead you to panic sell they can lead you to hopping into a trade when it's overbought you can have fear of missing out also known as FOMO there are a lot of different emotions that could come from day trading in the stock market a lot of beginners out there they think you could just come in buy a stock and then profit over the day you can profit over the next hour it's a piece of cake right but once they see their money you know if you have a $5,000 position once you start to see that money dip into the red i swear it's like you're in a different mindset because before you came in you didn't even understand and realize what it's like to have your money the hard earned money that you've worked for moving down and then once you're in that position it's like you're very stressful you're emotional and your mind starts racing your heart starts thumping and some people you know love the thrill of actually day trading and i'm one of those people that i am a thrill seeker i'll be honest with you all which is why i'm in this crazy crazy crazy field of trading in the stock market right i do like thrill seeking events and this is one of them in my opinion but for those that can't handle it it can really crush them and they can lose a lot of money and another con about day trading is that the losses could be huge right we talked about the profits can be big in the pros section but the losses can actually be massive i've actually lost a lot of money day trading in my day you know and a lot of the times when you're day trading and you experience a loss it leads to you bag holding that position at least people that are more beginners in the markets they don't cut their losses if they're down five ten percent on a day trade they're like i might as well just hold this now i might as well just wait for the recovery and that ends up losing them a lot of money right they bag hold the stock never comes back the etf never comes back and then they have to cut their losses at a way lower price than if they would have just cut their losses right away at five ten percent where it initially was and i've experienced this in the past i actually have a video dedicated to this but just to sum it up very quickly i was in a leverage gtf a couple of years ago i got him i bag held it i lost 40 percent of my money in the next couple of weeks like that so i have experienced guys and trust me i'm speaking from real experience so i'm going to wrap up the video here guys if you enjoyed it if you found value in this video feel free to go down below and hit that like button consider subscribing if you want to see further content from me and go down below join our discord group chat and our facebook group i promise you all will find a ton of value in there i'll catch you all in the next video thanks again for watching i really do appreciate it peace out


So my name is Matt Rabel. I'm here at DevOps with the founder of Java, James Gosling. We had a few questions for you, James. So what's your favorite feature in Java 21? The pattern matching stuff, particularly in combination with the stuff that's been done to it, switch statements. What is your biggest gripe about Java? You know, on the one hand, I love the fact that there are such a wealth of APIs out there. The downside of them is there's a surprising amount of duplication. How many times have you been to DevOps? I don't know the number, but I've been here often enough to have a favorite hotel and a favorite pub. What's your favorite pub? Elf de Gabade. And then the last one, what's your favorite IDE? Lip beans.


Thank you very much to Sarah for helping to fund the project. I'm going to be talking about today and for inviting me to speak here today I'm going to tell you a little bit about our farm. We're an unusual farm So I'm going to unpack that a little bit for you about what SoulGrad is about And then the second half of my presentation will be about our outreach and education program and how Working with you through day camps and a community garden and a few other programs Really helps to build community in a couple of unique ways so And if you have any questions Feel free, you know while I'm talking to just go to raise your hand. Yes Let's see So our farm Was started five years ago by st. Matthew Lutheran Church They had four acres of row crop agriculture, and they were using the land to raise money to support World hunger relief so one of the ministries of the church is to help those that are in need and There was an individual named Brian Souter from an organization called faith in place faith in place is a nonprofit organization in Illinois That works with congregations to become better environmental stewards and he had his office there and would look out on this You know corn and beans and said, you know, there's a lot of hungry people in our own community That could be benefiting from your outreach and what you know, what do you think about a community farm? Which at first I think the idea was well received, but it was like, you know, it seemed onerous and like a lot of work But plans came together over a year's time and they decided to turn four acres of Corn and beans into vegetables that could feed those that are hungry in our community So champagne County has a 17.6 food insecurity rates, which is actually higher than Chicago So unfortunately, we have a lot of people that don't have their needs met in our community so our farm was Turned into something that could give a significant amount of produce fresh nutritious local produce to those in need in our community So we still are hosted and supported by St. Matthew Lutheran Church. We work in partnership with faith in place We run a 120 member community supported agriculture program We sell our produce at two farmers markets our local food cooperative several restaurants and All this is done by two full-time staff two part-time staff and a whole team of volunteers so our vision and Mission Are by grace alone? May we share our gifts with the hungry may we be good stewards of the earth and we may we build a community of cooperation and care So everything we do is really guided by these principles So the community hunger assistance Piece of that is we are committed to donate at least 10% of everything we grow to The food bank in our community food pantries the local men's homeless shelter women's shelter and the public health district Over five years. We've averaged 30% of everything we've we've grown we've given through those outlets And that's amounted to I think I'm getting ahead of myself, but 35,000 pounds of produce So that our growing season has been now. We have a new hoop house, but it has been Largely June through November So on the left you can see that's the food bank with one of our final distributions to them They come with their a truck every Friday used to be every Monday now It's every Friday and We just send everything that we have to them that is going to hold because the food bank has to distribute And there's a certain amount of time that's needed there anything that is ripe and needs to get out quickly We'll take directly to public health district to the men's homeless shelter the women's shelter And we really kind of judge what's going where based on the desire I mean, there's a lot of storage crops are needed by the food bank if something needs to be used quickly That's going to soup kitchen because they'll use it right away and it'll be taking so it's a little bit of a puzzle Each week, but we make sure that as much as we can is going where it's needed So this is a picture of Chuck. He's the truck driver for the food bank. Oh There we go and so this last year we were awarded a community partner of the year by the Eastern Illinois food bank So that was quite an honor It's been fantastic working with them. Really the logistics are so key I mean it anyone who's growing food knows that you have to be really smart and timely and efficient about what you're doing So they've been a fantastic partner to work with and so each year we talk with them and say how's it going? What kind of crops you need more or less of the quality? Okay? Do we need to change logistics and they've been fantastic Our CSA program we run six months. So 24 weeks we grow 150 varieties of 50 different vegetables Weekly pickups on the farm. We have half shares and full shares available largely We get about 20% of our shares that are purchased specifically for donation So that allows us to increase the amount of produce is actually going out and being donated So people a lot of people buy a share for themselves or share for donation or half share for themselves Have to have share for donation. Some people are donation only some people are pick up only It doesn't matter to us except for I am always kind of edging towards more for donation Because that's the point of our farm, but Largely this CSA program is what makes all of this possible we believe in sustainable farming practices and Follow organic practices that we are not certified We work on enhancing soil structure and biology by using cover crops crop rotation on site composting Minimal cultivation we harvest as close as we can To dead-on ripe and making sure that we're getting things so that they go to market when they're fresh and co-op when they're fresh into our CSA customers when they're fresh which takes a lot, you know a lot of logistics, especially since we're working with so many volunteers, but That's the whole point of local We are low-budget farm. So some of our tools are handmade and take some creativity. So on the left is Our dibbler made out of a bike frame by one of our previous farm managers This is one of our seeded seeders named pudding still has the basket in the tassels This is our flame burner and this year is going to be improved by our new farm manager hunter With an external frame backpack because that is extremely heavy to carry through the field But that's an important weeding technique that we use. This is another one of our seeders This is the north ways which we actually all can't stand because Well, if anyone's ever used it there, they don't actually But so this is our wish list of getting a better seeder and then these are our wheel hose which are Old bicycle frames. So we have some unique things going on our farm Keep us in budget We have a greenhouse which is about 850 square feet growing space So we started all of our own plants for the field and for our plant sale Which is a big farm fundraiser for us and we also donate a lot of transplants to community gardens in the area We have a cold frame here that we used to harden off all of our transplants before they go in the field and then this last year With the support of the lumpkin foundation We're able to purchase a used hoop house, which gives us 3200 more feet of squaring so 3200 Square feet of growing space which will allow us to grow earlier in the season and later in the season So we've already we planted last year before we even constructed the frame We had boy turnips radishes Spinach arugula all sorts of bunching greens in there And this will I think will be a really important place for us to one takes some pressure off the field So we can do more cover crops of the soil rest and build as well as enhance some of our more Quality crops like tomatoes or we can have them in control conditions. So this is Hunter our farm manager Myself these are two of our part-time staff that have been with us two and three years And this is our farm coordinator treasure and board member Todd so we're fortunate to have people stay with us There's a lot a lot of turnover would be hard on our farm Because there's so many people and partnerships and and relationships involved, but got a good crew and Community building this is a part that when I came on I Believe strongly this is a point that we can do so much more to enhance and we'll only keep giving back to the farm and make Us stronger in the long run We live in a great community. We have a food co-op. We have a number of community gardens We have a lot of people are working on local egg. There's a lot of actual, you know, really good farms in the area that are You know good partners in terms of like sharing information and equipment and and being supportive Volunteers or something that's pretty unique to our our farm I think because the mission people are really drawn to our farm We also have a really kind of easy way to fold people in we train folks We you know played to their strengths. We have lots of different jobs that they can do and it's really become a family Where people celebrate their anniversaries there for example or have birthday parties there Are really like we have to have happy hours and dinners throughout the off-season because we actually we really miss each other So this is you know, it's a really special thing. It's hard work a lot of our volunteers or retirees But it really enriches the experience and brings more people into the fold of what we're trying to accomplish We have a number of events. I mentioned our spring plant sale, which is a big fundraiser for us We also have a fall plant sale. We do farm-to-table dinners We do on-farm tours. They own our organic growers Association Has had for the last two years a crop cycle, which is a bicycle tour that visits different farms in the area So we've been the lunch sites for the last two years We have summer feed-and-weed potlucks, which is a way to bring people together On mass you know in a group to help weed when things get out of control in June and July as they Always seem to do and then we have a good harvest party in the fall to celebrate the season And I'm always looking for more things to do This is a lot of text But I really felt like it was important to list all the different partnerships We have in the community because that's what one sets us apart makes us special and makes it so rewarding To do what we do so we've strong and that's a lot of what I do in the winter time is I'm meeting with people making sure We're still on track. What can we do to you know better these partnerships and be more efficient in what we're trying to accomplish So we work with the hunger assistance programs We have great relationships with both of our market managers all the retail wholesale outlets We have three community gardens in town that we try as much as we can to Support them with seeds with transplants with tools you know, there are pure farms that really give us help with advice and equipment and Just general support and then another number of not-for-profit organizations and service organizations that we're grateful for so Our region education is something that I've never feel like I have enough time for But it's extremely rewarding and enriching And has been building over the last three years. So We started Really, I think aside from a few special events our big Entrance into building our outreach education program was with the Champaign County Farm Bureau Who in partnership with the Champaign Park District was going to be offering day camps? So they wanted to have a day camp that was a beginning farmer camp and They had kids through the Champaign Park District largely subsidized Kids that were subsidized and coming from low-income families go to a large grain operation Go to a lot livestock farm, and then they wanted one to be a small-scale fruit of vegetable farm So we felt really honored that Champaign County Farm Bureau asked us to be their vegetable farm the small-scale vegetable farm So I said yes kind of not even asking how many kids are we talking about probably should ask that question We ended up with 70 kids on our little farm the first year Which kind of terrified the farm manager at the time? And it was of course day camp happens when kids are out of school Which is June July and August which is also the crazy time of you know, you're planting you're weeding you're harvesting There's so much going on then But it was extremely rewarding The night before the camp started that week there was a an event at Douglas Park, which you'll hear more about that was for the families of the kids that were going to be part of that camp So it was a lot the Farm Bureau was out and they had a number of different tents on different agricultural products I was there talking about vegetables and brought some clay for kids to make their favorite fruit and vegetables out of and it was really Touching to see how many kids and their parents and their grandparents came up and started Tasting vegetables that I had out asking questions about the funky vegetables. They'd never seen before like Paddy Pan squash like is this is this real you look at it looks like it's a play-doh product And they would talk about the gardens You know the grandparents would talk about the gardens that they used to have and the kids would say like How do you grow this and it was clear to me that when there was interest in fresh fresh food to there was a an intergenerational opportunity there and These kids at least that were there that evening didn't have a lot of access to seeing how a garden grew or like how vegetables grow Or how to pick their own so I started talking to the Champaign Park District staff that were there that night Instead of you guys ever thought about community garden because this is a huge park. They have a baseball diamond They have a splash pad a playground There's a library there a senior center and a community center There's a lot of things going on there, and there's also a lot of open grass So my eyes are always looking at like, you know, what can you grow there and Heard from them that nights that they tried for two years and successfully to get a garden started And they just didn't have the resources. So what if I you know, what if I helped? What if we donated the transplants? What if we you know planted it for you and got it started could we work together on this and So that was you know an immediate yes like yes, let's do it. So we started talking we applied for a grant I think that might have been our Sarah grants that we first applied for I think we decided we would do it at some level whether we had funding or not because there was Will there and will and wants The grants helped tremendously with buying supplies That were needed for the garden and for you know everything that comes along with it, which you'll see But we we got started right away. I think once everybody was on board we we kicked it off. So These are pictures of the of the camp that we started with so we had a Cooking class was one module Field work, you know field identification walking out and see on vegetable grows is another this is Maggie Wachter Who Rachel was just talking about so she came and talked about bees and pollination with the kids Because we have four hives on our sites and that's an important piece of our pharmacology and then I ran a Nutrition module where we were talking about food groups and superfoods and so I was challenging the kids to come up with like superfood supercharacters So you'll see some pictures of like, you know carrots lifting cars and Broccoli beating up an ice cream cone or you know, there's all these fun ways and Arthur there They show that they understand superfood nutrition concepts. So this is the camp that kicked off the whole idea We started talking right away and of course this was we had the camp in the summer And we decided in the fall is when we could start on the community garden So there wasn't a whole lot we could do in the fall a lot of the programming was actually inside which You know, it's it's hard with the aged kids. I was working with were five to twelve So given that most of them didn't have gardening experience. It was hard to say let's imagine You know imagine a garter imagine the plant likes looks like this So it was a really a challenge for me to start with them in a way that you know We'd get them excited and at least in year one I had all of the kids in the after-school program So Douglas community so the Douglas Park has a community center that hosts an after-school program With kids from six different elementary schools. So all these kids coming in there were 30 25 30 kids there And so I was working with all of them Which if any of you have worked with 25 to 30 5 to 12 year olds It's challenge to keep everyone on the same page, but we started with the concept of Pioneers, what is a pioneer and a pioneer is someone who hasn't done something You know you're doing something for the first time you're going someplace for the first time And so we walked the site which was just a grassy patch at first and started imagining You know take taking note and drawing sketches and making a map of what's there And then we started talking about you know, what if we started growing food here? Nobody's done it before what if you want do you want to be a pioneer and try this for the first time? and it was really interesting having that conversation with them because They would look around and they could imagine yeah, we could grow some food here And what would it take can we talk about we'd need water? We need sun and we need good soil and we need the seed or the plants and you know all of that Came with the program we did in the winter time But I'll tell you one of the fears of the kids I was working with with that initial planting They were really afraid of what would happen with all this work in such a public space And they really like there were some hard conversations about like what if someone comes and destroys your garden? Or what if you have a tomato plant full of tomatoes and someone takes all of them So that was and we just kind of left it at the I wonder stage I wonder what will happen who you know and it wasn't it was partly people some rabbits some Squirrels maybe you know just all the all the things that come with gardening or farming that you'd have to worry about And we just kind of left it there for a while went inside started doing experiments like Here we were cutting sweet potatoes and Trying to grow some roots and Leaves on the windowsill we did an experiment of you know if you cut a potato And you have the eyes is it better to have the eyes up or the eyes down? And so we kind of watched in the windowsill to see where the roots are gonna be coming from We did a big Voting exercise of what you know what do you want to grow and I told them you know first year like let's take it easy You know let's pick 10 to 12 different fruits and vegetables and we ended up with like 30 because pretty much everything I presented to them They said yes. Yes. Yes, let's grow so we made plants markers in anticipation of what we'd be planting We used a felt board to kind of keep track of things so the felt board was where we made the map So we kind of visualized what was going where We divided things into food groups so they understood Sorry, not food groups different types of plants So it helped them understand you know in this plan this you eat the leaves in this plant you eat the flowers in this plant You eat the fruit so they could understand different growing techniques and so we separated them out here into the roots fruits and shoots Here we are experimenting with just grass seed trying to grow grass seed in there They wrote with glue and then sprinkled grass seed on and so they could grow grass and see what that looks like and under different conditions So inside was a lot of like laboratory experiments. I'm just biting our time waiting for the spring Then we broke ground and the Park Districts deal with me was we'll cut the sod But you have to remove it which if ever but anybody ever says Don't do it. I thought it was a great deal because we didn't have to rent a sod cutter But my husband and I hauled all of this under a tight deadline and I don't know how many truckloads and I Will never do that again. So don't make that that mistake But this is the ground it was all grass is all sod beforehand removed it and we immediately put our sign out there of Douglas Park Community garden coming soon so that that was a signal that this is something we're doing to the neighborhood And we were hoping to attract other people as well to be interested in it We invited them out to the farm so that they could see kind of what who their you know, their parent farm People were this is farmer clay Here and so they helped us we have a tumbler soil mixer They helped us mix soil for planting their seeds We went into the greenhouse and they planted some of their own seeds but I mean we do went through the exercise of planting seeds, but we also planted our own because If you've ever seeded with kids You need a backup plan And we showed them you know kind of how what we were growing we got out the tractor started our Walk behind tractor because you know big engines are always fun with kids So it was fun for them to come out and see what we're doing and have a you know context for where I was coming from Then we cut up our potatoes and the first things we planted were potatoes Onions, let's see potatoes here some onions here Lettuce a couple kinds of lettuce and then a bunch of brass goes so cabbage cauliflower or broccoli a couple kinds of kale and You know, I have to say coming from the production farm and spacing everything perfectly and in a straight row to working with the kids garden.  We talked about you know spacing you're kind of some of the considerations But they made it their own so there was a potato area roughly There was a potato an onion area But in order to get them engaged and have fun and feel like they were contributing something I you know, they I wanted them to take ownership and and You know the leaders stepped forward and there were some kids I mean a lot of kids didn't even want to get dirty to begin with because they were gonna get in trouble by their Parents for coming home with dirty shoes or dirty pants So there's you know, there's a we really had to kind of inch our way into it Then we had a grand opening so Douglas Park was getting a whole makeover From the city of Champaign a number of things were coming in and our garden was one of them So we had a really fun time with the ribbing. Oops, sorry Ribbon cutting here and by then we'd planted everything so all of our cucumbers were in our tomatoes and peppers You know the whole garden was planted at that point and Unfortunately, it was on a weekend and I couldn't get the kids that were there during the week to come For the weekend So I just hung some pictures took pictures of some more times together than planting and the activities that we did so at least The people were visiting on the weekend could see this is a kid's project And then these are some of our board members from solar grotty farm that were there in attendance And then our first summer was awesome. It was great so many things grew So fast the soil quality actually didn't look great to begin with and But that being an urban site that honestly there's like a lot of broken grass and litter and it's just dry broken down soil But it performed very well. I was I was impressed. So we had a lot. We had sweet potatoes that year. We had Corn that year tomatoes eggplants a lot of different crops. I learned really quickly Watering is a really dangerous thing with kids and you have to be firm and have a plan this whole like waiting in line for the water ones didn't work well and resulted in many water fights and you know some upset parents and so there's just things you learn along the way of like You know how much leeway to give and I have my own kids But boy working with up, you know up to 20 25 in the garden one time I I Had to pair down the next year Then one thing that's hard about gardening with kids especially through school program is the academic year doesn't really line up that nicely with Growing season. So, you know my kids in the garden club We were working in the winter the first winter to do what make all the plans and then we planted everything But those poor kids like they work so hard and they didn't really get to reap the benefit of their work So I said goodbye to them at the end of the year and just said, you know imagine or please come bring your family back You're welcome back into the garden. You know come see what you've started the kids that Got to take over next we're part of a day camp program as a girls science day camp program was an eight-week program through a champagne park district and Here they are and these girls I mean I had to I work with the day camp or the garden club every two weeks in The off-season, but once once the growing season comes I'm there about once a month So I really have to step back and it's a little bit of a leap of faith like you know Every time I come back is there ain't gonna be anything left But the day camp program in these girls every single day went out every single day went out and weeded every single day I went out and watered Harvested they're harvesting for themselves and for the local men's homeless shelter and I every time I showed up It was just Beautiful they did a great job.  We did team-building exercises like building treat bean teepees Not as easy as it looks especially with kids. So we had a competition with the counselors and with the kids How to tie it together how to get it to stay how to train the beans First fall, you know these kids also had some some of the same kids a lot of new kids They showed up and to them they've got instant garden and they just have a garden that now is rich So they're thrilled and you can tell in these pictures They're super happy about filling their bushel baskets with the kale and tomatoes and egg plants and pulling carrots out of the ground So that first year is a little hard and asking people to imagine but the second year has been a lot easier We also create journals together. So each week we journal about, you know, what they've learned drop some some kids Can't write yet and can't read so some of them are just drawing pictures or You know doing what they can to kind of account for what we've what we've been working on Then we had the pleasure of spreading straw and putting the garden to bed And we started then we took to the classroom again and did art projects And we harvest our sweet potatoes made sweet potato pie. We harvested our carrots and made carrot muffins The next year and actually that fall is when we won an award from the so the Champaign Park District Nominated us for a statewide award and we won the Illinois Association of Park Districts Best of the best award. So that was awesome because it was really nobody knew How this is going to go is a lot of moving parts and everyone has their has jobs otherwise So this was kind of a you know, I see on the cake as we have time sort of project but everyone fell in love with it and Really the partnership worked fantastic between the Park District and Stila Grady So we got that award We were super proud of it and what the Champaign Park District came back and said was you're welcome to double the size of the garden You're welcome to tear up more sod, which this time They tore it up and they took it away. I showed up and it was a blank slate, which is beautiful so we came and told up the next section had the kids out to the garden again and planted seeds and this year I really wanted to We did a lot of great things the first year, but I wanted to add more a third dimension I wanted to learn more about building up and I also wanted to incorporate art because the first year It was great. It was a straight garden, but the kids really I mean anytime you put color into something or made Made it fancy in some way They were you know some of the some of the kids aren't so interesting getting dirty or they are so interested in plans And they really are interested in the the arts of it So I partnered with one of our volunteers who is an artist and asked her to come on and bring some projects with her So we did things like We made God's eyes That was fun. We made p-trolls is with funky string Excuse me strings. We made bean teepees, which if they were up to me We would just use twine and bamboo stakes and you know No, they brought out every single color of yarn that we had and put glitter on it and So that was fun and I could see and actually I paired down the group So it was an optional program So I wasn't working with all of the after-school kids now it was garden club and it was a choice So that brought it down to about 12 kids, which was a lot better because then that you didn't have the behavior issues You only had kids that really really wanted to be there and we could focus and get further on the on the work So this is the second year of the girls science day camp program Again harvesting and just taking excellent care of the garden. I also really wanted to you know, we'd baked with the vegetables and we'd eaten them raw I Don't remember that first year cooking any of them, but we introduced them to juicing So we had a day that was a rainy day and we pulled out Cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes There's one other thing Anyway, and that was awesome like if you haven't juiced with a kid before it's it's really fun for them to see that That's another way to consume your vegetables for them to see the colors mixing in the juicer They made recipes, you know They were say like one cucumber and four tomatoes and three carrots Let's try that and we had these little Dixie cups and so we'd have these little taste tests and that was fun We're always just trying to help them think about other ways to Experience vegetables or growing or tasting something new They were big fans of eggplants I don't know if they ever actually took them home and cook them and ate them But all the different shapes and colors They thought was great. So there was always a little Tessel over the clippers and who gets to go get the eggplant But I thought I'd honor them with these pictures because those are what they're so proud of And then you know we in the last couple weeks, this is just a couple weeks ago Well, I guess in October we were Decorating pumpkins here we made pumpkin muffins here We had this huge beat that we couldn't get out of the ground and has anyone ever heard the story of gigantic turnip So this is it like this is my rainy day activity right here always because you can incorporate in about 20 kids Into that story and they act it out if you just tell the story and they act it out It's great fun And so we had one turnip which literally we could knock it out of the ground and it took us like kicking it's kind of munted up a little bit Because it took us you know pulling and pulling just like the story and then Literally kicking it together the ground. So they were super proud of their big their big beat that they had grown and then we Um We made vegetable soup a couple weeks ago So we had turnips from the garden potatoes carrots sweet potato. I brought eggs. We didn't grow sweet potatoes this year a Chinese cabbage I brought these onions and garlic in because we didn't grow onions and garlic at least to that stage this year and Boy, I mean these kids like you give them a few scrub brushes. They're scrubbing away. We didn't peel anything They were chopping you get them some kid-friendly knives Chopping they loved mixing Making the soup and here kids at the beginning of the year were not gonna eat vegetables Or no way was I gonna eat a turnip and they were it was like a connoisseur conversation of you know How good it was and I really like mine with pepper or it was really fun So they We made a huge batch and they all insisted they take some home So it ran around trying to find little cups for them to take vegetable soup home But these are the things that I mean really are rewarding about working with the kids is there They could start out with worrying who's gonna steal their vegetables getting dirty not wanting to try something new and at the end They're so proud of giving everything to time center they're so proud of being able to make a vegetable soup that they want to share with their parents and They are not thinking at all about how dirty they're getting or you know The cut that they have on their hand from the straw that we're spreading So one thing that developed this last year Which was really cool is Common ground food crop, which is a local food crop They would do a kind of a healthy eating program with the same after school kids and they started using the garden They they started planting in the places that weren't planted Some flowers for example and some herbs and they asked if they could use the garden for teaching techniques So they started using it on a regular basis You know when we weren't there Champaign Park district has their day camps through their their after school programs, and they've had special events in the garden The time center is a men's homeless shelter. It's receiving some of the produce the Farm Bureau is Using our farm in this project as an example of how to get kids engaged in growing food Prosperity gardens they would come over they have a mobile food market which takes produce that they grow and some from us To neighborhoods where people you know low income it's a pays you pays you can market But they're taking it to the neighborhood itself So you don't you're not asking people to you know come to the market will help you with some lower price food they're taking it to the people and We offered that they could come and harvest out of the Douglas Park Community Garden whenever they wanted on Wednesdays to help You know when they were short on produce to then put it in the mobile market So they ended up having their own kids and then the Boys and Girls Club Youth that they were working with come and work in the garden and same thing You know reap the benefits of the garden and share it with the with the community in need So that's what I want to do more of if we can keep either maintain or even expand the garden And use it in the way that I have with the after-school program I'd love to keep that up but more than that for all the investments have been made I'd love to see more for it to be seen as a community resource and for more groups to use it because really That gardens there 24 hours a day seven days a week and it's an opportunity for wonder and food source and Trying something new do you have a question? So I'm looking in this next year To see how other what other ways of this garden can be used because it's in a very Prominent spot. We'd love to see the neighbors take some ownership and get interested get involved if they're interested And I had one thing that I wanted to share Which is really why I do this So we came out on April 1st this last year and we left some you know We'd left some things in the ground like everybody does like you miss some potatoes you miss some carrots, so we were kind of making the map of where we were going to be plant things and we were starting to scratch the surface and You know get some soil ready for direct seeding and the kids found this this little bit of green Which is so hopeful in the springtime and they then all of a sudden you know all went and got their little trowels and huddled around here and unearthed the carrot and You know kind of wouldn't let go of the carrot and Marlowe, this is Marlowe ran inside and washed the carrot I mean this is all just like boom boom moves like so much excitement for the kids because they'd found something there from the previous year and really like they were so proud they were so excited to see that This is we all go by vegetable names. So my name is Tracy and I'm turn up Tracy. This is melon Marlowe melon. This is hot pepper hazel and this is jalapeno John And they you know really you see some these kids tussle and argue over different things But really when they find something like that they're they're thrilled and you see these partnerships come together and them helping each other and In ways that you know when they first come fresh from school and they have all this energy Like you're not really seeing that cooperation, but in the garden The kind of the wonder and the excitement pulls pulls them together in an awesome way You also see faces like this like Caleb carrot who we kept telling him You know we look for the carrot that's like this big on top and I don't know if you can see it The carrot is like that one But because he chose Caleb carrot he kind of felt like it was his duty to Pull every carrot out of the ground. This is one of the water fights that was started. This is Brooklyn beats who? You know loves her carrot. So anyway, I it's been a pleasure to work with these kids It's been a pleasure to see you know what their ideas are what they're willing to do And we have lots of fresh ideas for this next coming growing season Thank you to Sarah for your support and believing in this project And helping us reach more people in the community with good food. Thank you I'm just curious who manages the scheduling that then if there's multiple programs that aren't really related using the same garden Who is ultimately in charge of making sure you know? There's something there for kids multiple days a week. So the Douglas Park Community Center staff is They are connected with us and we are there on Fridays unless something special is needed They're in touch with prosperity gardens. They're in touch with common ground food co-op So if somebody wants a schedule program in the garden, they're calling the people on site and really I mean aside from my work with the After-school program the park district because it's it's their site they always have You know kind of first choice if they're gonna have a day camp in there that would you know, that's a taken spot but Largely and it's just a courtesy also so you don't have People just wandering in and taking food, which I know has happened Which I don't actually know one's really concerned about because I think for the most part if someone comes in and takes food They need it and that's part of a community garden also I'm curious about the garden club or even the after-school program Did you have those kids five days a week all the time and for how many hours a day? Did you meet with them? So the after-school program does run every single day of the week five days a week throughout the academic school year I am there once every two weeks So I'm director of the psilograty farm. Most of my work is on the is on the farm. This is a special project aside I wish I had more time Because it's it it goes so fast I have about two hours each time I'm with them and really I was mentioning someone earlier that you know We started I had these big plans and multiple activities and really what it comes down to is having you know Few ideas and some flexibility in following following their lead. I'm much more kind of shooting from the hip and Being flexible with them because it didn't work for me to come You know with my structure plans of here's what we're going to do Generally, we'd have an ideas of this is gonna be a harvest day. It's gonna be a planting day We talked about blocking and root shoots and fruits and you know, they have their own ideas and they have their own, you know excitement and and Curiosities and things that they want to try out. So in the second year, it's been a little more a loosey-goosey and kind of Working working with their leads


Consider the surface z equals f of x, y at some point. If you go parallel to the x-axis, z changes at a rate equal to the partial of f with respect to x. If you go parallel to the y-axis, z changes at a rate equal to the partial of f with respect to y. But what if you go in some other direction? Then z changes at a rate equal to the directional derivative. So how do we find that directional derivative? Remember that slope is the ratio between the rise and the run. In three dimensions, the run is going to be measured on the x-y plane, and so we can treat it as a two-dimensional vector. Since the slope is a ratio, it's convenient to treat the run as having length one. So we'll want our vector to have magnitude one. Now suppose we have a vector with magnitude one. If we run in the direction parallel to the x-axis, then z will increase by a times the partial of z with respect to x. And that's because a is the amount by which x is changing, and that's going to be scaled by the rate of change of z with respect to x. And similarly, if we go in the direction parallel to the y-axis, then z will increase by b times the partial with respect to y, because y is increased by amount b, and the partial gives us the rate of increase. And so that means if we go in the direction ab, then z will increase by the sum of these two increases. And this is the directional derivative, which we indicate using the notation dvf. So for example, let z equals x squared minus y squared, how rapidly is z increasing at the point where x equals 5, y equals 3 if you go in the direction one, negative one. So we'll need to find the unit vector in the same direction, and so we'll scale our vector. First we'll find our magnitude, and so our unit vector will be. Now our directional derivative will need the partial of z with respect to x and the partial of z with respect to y, so we'll find those partial derivatives and substitute, which gives us our directional derivative. Since the directional derivative gives us the rate of change of z in different directions, we can ask in what direction should we go to increase z the most? Unfortunately, answering a question like that requires calculus. Oh, wait, you've already had two calculus courses before this one, so we should be able to do this. So I suppose you're at the point where x equals 3, y equals 2 on the graph of z equals x squared plus y squared in what direction is z increasing the most rapidly? Now it's helpful to note that the unit vector in the direction A, B can be expressed as cosine theta, sine theta. And so we can find our directional derivative, differentiating, and notice that our directional derivative is a function of theta. So if I want to find the maximum value, we can use calculus. So to find its maximum value, we'll differentiate. Now, ordinarily, our next step would be finding the critical value. Now, rather than trying to solve this, we might note that our direction vector itself is cosine theta, sine theta, but any scalar multiple of this will also go in the same direction. Now, since the equation for finding the critical value has 4 cosine theta, let's multiply our direction vector by 4 and get, but equals means replaceable. Since 4 cosine theta is equal to 6 sine theta, we can replace. And since both components have this factor of sine theta, we'll remove that factor. And again, a scalar multiple does not change the actual direction of the vector. So this means that the vector that will give us the greatest value of the directional derivative is going to be going in the direction 6, 4. To recap the logic, if we are going in the direction of greatest increase, then 6 sine of theta must be equal to 4 cosine theta. And since the direction we're going in is cosine theta sine theta, then this equality, 6 sine theta equals 4 cosine theta, means that we're going in some scalar multiple of the direction 6, 4. We can generalize this process. So again, suppose our directional derivative is given by... To find the maximum value, we'll differentiate with respect to theta. Our critical value we'll solve. And again, while our direction is expressed as cosine theta sine theta, any scalar multiple will go in the same direction. So if we multiply by our partial with respect to y, equals means replaceable. So this partial of f with respect to y cosine theta is really the same as the partial of f with respect to x of sine theta. We can remove this common factor of sine theta, and that scalar multiple doesn't affect the direction. So the direction is going to actually be partial of f with respect to x, partial of f with respect to y. And we know that this is the maximum value because our derivative is equal to 0. Well, we know we're at a critical value, but we might be at a minimum. So how do we know we're at a maximum and not a minimum? Well, let's consider, if we're moving in some direction, the unit vector will be some scalar multiple of that vector, where k is greater than 0. And so if we move in that direction, the directional derivative will be... But that's the sum of squares, so it must be positive. But what if we move in the exact opposite direction? If we move in the direction negative whatever k partial of f with respect to x, negative whenever k partial of f with respect to y, the directional derivative will be... which must be negative. Now, we know this unit vector corresponds to an extreme value, and we know there are other direction angles that give a lesser value of the directional derivative. And so this vector must correspond to a maximum. So if I want to find the direction of greatest increase of z on the graph of z equals x cubed minus y cubed where x equals negative 1, y equals 4, I'll find those partial derivatives. And x equals negative 1, 4. These partial derivatives have value. And the direction of greatest increase will occur in the direction of those partial derivatives. 3, negative 4 to 8.


Now we shall look at a very important aspect of service provisioning, that is, if a certain user is using a service at a point in time, a user has to have a gratifying experience from the network which is providing a service. So it means a service has to start and a service has to continue and a service has to terminate as per the user requirements. In all this is known as the service continuity. We look at how NGN looks at service continuity, what are the options which it has in order to make sure that the service continues and what are different features which are available at the transport and service stratum. So service continuity actually means that a service should not be disrupted whether it is the movement of a certain user within a certain network that is the access network remains unchanged and the only wireless connectivity is being switched from one wireless access point to the other. Then inter access network that is moving from one access network to the other. Complete movement of a user such that the IP address also requires to be changed and a user can switch from one terminal to another and the service should not be disrupted. So it means that service continuity can be termed as the inability to maintain an ongoing service or a session of a certain service. It involves some deep insight into what is the current state of variables, parameters, memory utilization, etc. The network environment for the user should remain fairly consistent. That is a user should not feel a certain drop in service because from the user's perspective the network certainly has changed. Then the sessions which have already been established should not be revoked and there should be no requirement to reestablish a certain session so that the service continuity is realized in full spirit. NGN actually considers the service continuity from the network perspective. That is the networks could be all wired, could be wired and wireless. So under the umbrella of the fixed mobile convergence, using the IP multimedia subsystem, IMS, complete architecture, the service continuity is realized. Service continuity also implies that there could be interaction between circuit switched and packet switched networks. For instance, a call is being initiated from the IP domain and it is terminating into the legacy network, such as a PSTN or PLMN. Likewise, TV service, once it is being broadcast from traditional broadcasting station and if it is going to be streamed live on the PCs or the tablets of end users, then the circuit switching and packet switching or the broadcasting stations have to collaborate with each other in real time. This is not easy, but this is exactly what NGN realizes through the immaculate system of IMS. At the transport stratum, the basic support is provisioned through the mobile IP that is IP version 4, mobile IP as such, that uses the concept of registration and tunneling and the handover, the care of addresses, the home network, the foreign network, etc. In service stratum, this is a little more tricky because providing transport or the physical access is the first step, but the features which are associated with the service are so many that it needs separate discussion that we shall shortly do. One effort by TF has actually been the initiation and experimentation with the host identity protocol. Basically, it is a mechanism to decouple or disassociate the IP address which plays a pivotal role in identifying a certain service from the socket point of view because we know that a socket actually is identified through source IP, destination port, destination IP. So IP address becomes so important that once a certain network interface with a certain IP address is involved in a certain service at the initiation and if there's a requirement to change it, it becomes quite complicated and difficult to change the IP address. So this host identity protocol, aka hip, introduces something new. It is basically a 128 bit host ID tag which is above the network layer. So it means now the transport layer does not interact with the IP address to open the socket rather this 128 bit host ID tag is used. It's a very interesting concept because now the namespace of socket is going to be extended, but the overall impact on the global internet remains to be seen. At the network layer, if you look at the options we have above, we've already covered, but below IP there are certain initiatives. For instance, the 802.21, the media-independent handover. It is a mechanism through which the local identifiers of different networks are exchanged with each other to allow seamless handover. Now this particular handover is IP agnostic. It means the IP address is not changing, but the physical data link layer identifiers are changing. So certain protocols like Wi-Fi, WiMax, Ethernet, UMTS, etc. use their own identifiers against the same end-to-end socket to make sure that the service stays continuously available. As we had briefly earlier said, that service stratum needs more time. So here we are going to now look at how the service stratum considers service continuity as a very important aspect. So first of all, we need to understand that the services need to adapt dynamically to the changing environment, changing network conditions, the dynamism of the network. For instance, the traffic load could change in no time. The QS capabilities could vary from one network which was earlier adopted to the network to which the user is switching. Then the capacity of the egress network and coming down to the ingress network could be a time-wearing phenomenon with regards to the active number of users. The user preferences could change in the middle once the service is being provisioned. Then there could be a certain service level agreement between the operators and inter-operator handover is required so that the service should continue. For this complicated wish list, there are two options. The first one is again focusing on multimedia traffic as such. So the multimedia service continuity actually considers all these services which are required to be there uninterrupted and the overall coordination, synchronization and their availability for providing the multimedia traffic. Now all the particular multimedia traffic types such as voice, video, data, interactive games, etc. need to be provided through the always on connectivity and synchronization of services which would offer this multimedia traffic. Then there's a specific case for voice because the voice is something which is relatively straightforward as compared to the enormity of the multimedia traffic. So seamless voice services also need to be synchronized. These have to be available. Let's look at certain interesting service continuity scenarios. We have three scenarios here. On the left hand side in A we have service continuity on the same terminal once the access changes from for instance mobile access to Wi-Fi access or the other way around. So it means here the connectivity is the inter access network connectivity as an issue. In B we have the service continuity between different multimedia terminals for instance for the same service on the same network. Now the traffic needs to be provided from the mobile terminal which could be on UMTS, which could be on 3G, Wi-Fi, etc. or Wi-Max. And then it needs to be switched to for instance laptop. In that case the service is going to be continuing only if proper set of services, functionality and resource availability is ensured by the network. And then lastly we have the service continuity once the telephone terminals change. This is a typical example of how the circuit switched and packet switched networks interact with each other. We see here that we have a mobile access on the left hand side and we have a plain old telephone system that is a circuit switched network. So it means now a whole new set of services would be required to make sure that signaling which is different in both these networks takes place. The services which are required on both the ends are uniform and they are synchronized with each other.


In the previous video, I spoke about how electrons carry charge through a circuit. It so happens that electrons are negatively charged. So it's the negative charges that move through a circuit. But before this was known, everyone assumed it was the positive charges that moved. And we call this movement of positive charges, conventional current. Because this system of positive charges moving was used for such a long time, most electricians and engineers still use it today. Here's a diagram to help explain the difference between conventional current and electron flow. So in future, when we talk about electrical current, we're going to assume that the positive charges move from the positive terminal of the battery towards the negative terminal of the battery. So in reality, it's electrons which move. In this diagram, they're moving towards the right side. However, for most practical applications, there is no real difference between conventional current and electron current. So it's very difficult to determine the difference between electron current and conventional current. The only measurable difference between these two is a phenomenon called the Hall Effect. The Hall Effect's a little bit complicated for us to have a look at at this stage because we haven't had a look at magnetic fields yet. But if you want to, feel free to give it a Google and have a look.


Hello and welcome to today's episode, which is setting up KD staff, namely Dolphin, Consol, KD and Kmail, but we talk about other things as well, to work with web hosting, specifically Ultahost web hosting. Now, quite obviously this episode is sponsored by Ultahost, which I think is a very nice thing because they are actually helping me contribute to KD via this video. So let's actually talk how to integrate their services into KD Plasma. Starting off with the obvious, what if I have web hosting at Ultahost and I do actually want to see my files in Dolphin when I open up Dolphin. And that can be done in a couple of ways. We're going to talk about FTP, mainly what you do after actually, you know, subscribe, subscribe into Ultahost is that you have a page for your service. And then you're able to log in into a C-Panel that has tons of options. And one of these options, if you search really hard, is FTP accounts. In that page, you have an UI to create users who will access via FTP your files. And you can actually specify like how much data each user should be able to add to the web hosting and also which directory should be available to each user. So I just created an example one that is able to access everything and has unlimited storage. And when I do that, I actually get the info that is required for Dolphin to do its magic. So I open up Dolphin, and I go into the network section and I add a new network folder. It's going to ask me what kind of network folder I want. There's FTP. There's also a section we'll get to that. But first, click on FTP, you get a dialogue with all the info that you should fill out. And that is literally copy pasting from the FTP page and in general the C-Panel page. That was actually really easy, which is super important because I kid you not, about this kind of web hosting stuff, I'm so dumb. So it was super nice that there's actually a new UI to just copy paste stuff. And that actually worked out of the box. Right away, you do get all of your files and you can just as an example, right click, create a new file, and it's going to automatically update on the web hosting, obviously. And you can also see that it actually worked from the C-Panel page. You do have a page that shows all of your files and you can interact with them directly from the web browser if you want to. But I mean, it's, there's Dolphin. Dolphin is cooler. SSH. You can also go with SSH. In this case, I didn't actually use the FTP account, but I use the general account that manages everything. And again, same info to copy paste. It just works out of the box. And in this case, I actually get access to everything and not just the home directory, which is pretty useful. So I set up both. And if you do want to access this very often, you can just drag and drop the folder into the bookmarks on the left. And that's gonna bookmark it.  Now, it's super likely that you know how SSH works better than me. Again, I'm dumb, but luckily enough for me, there's a console tool that makes SSH easier. So what I did firstly is to go into again, this panel, there's a section regarding SSH, which has the ability to manage case. So I generated a public private K pair. And I downloaded the private K and I also changed its permissions. Otherwise, this whole thing won't work. At this point, you do open console. And here's what you do. You'd go to the plugin section, and you enable SSH settings. You will get a panel on the left. And in that panel, you will be able to create new settings for the SSH stuff, which is super nice because yes, at the end, it's just a command line that you're supposed to write, but I'm dumb. So actually having a UI where you just copy paste information that you have to is beautiful. So again, you have C panel of old house from one side, you have console with SSH stuff on the other side, and you just copy paste the info, you will have this entry, and then you just double click it, and you get the, you know, you just log in via SSH. I wish I knew this before, would have made my life easier. But now you know, there's also another plugin in console that you can activate just just under the SSH one, but I'll leave you to actually discover what it does. Pretty neat. Let's switch to Kate. So if you're doing any development or that sort of stuff, which I do, you're probably going to need Git. So another very nice feature that I found in C panel, I was literally clicking random buttons to discover cool stuff. And one feature is that you're actually able to clone repositories from the web interface directly. So you just open the Git stuff, you copy paste the link of the remote GitHub repository, or you can just create a new one from scratch. And you know, you select the folder to copy it to. And that was it literally. And that's actually important because, okay, yes, you could do that via SSH and console, but again, I'm dumb. It's nice to just click a button. And the cool stuff is that Kate actually has very strong Git support inside of it, which means that now you can control the files that you have in your web hosting via Kate Git UI, which is super nice. So how does this work? You open up Kate and on the left, you get a Git button. You just click on Git and then you're able to see what branch you're in. You're able to commit, pull and push, obviously, but you also get some nice features such as you can compare branches. When you do that, you just select the other branch branches, you can compare branches, you select the other branch, and then you're able to see all the files that are changed. And for each file, you get the div, so with all the plus and minuses, and I'm using an outdated version of Kate, but in the latest one, it's even prettier, you get all the green and red UI. So that nice, nice. Next one is setting up an email. And again, from all the hosts, it's incredibly simple, actually, from the service webpage itself, you get a button that literally says create a new email quickly, and you just have to insert what the email address would be and the password, click a button, that's it, which is super important because I'm dumb. Then on the left, instead of going to see panel as before, you go into web mail and you just log in with the credential that you just created. And that's it, it works. Now, however, we do need to connect it to Kmail, because obviously, we're going to use Kmail. You could use round cube, which is the web email open source thingy that Ultaust directly offers. So you don't have to use Kmail, but I mean, it's KDA stuff. So we have to. And it's actually pretty easy. From Ultaust website, you just say automatically configure my device, which is not going to work, obviously, with Linux and Kmail. But by doing that, you actually get all the manual setting up information that we need. You've got POP three, you've got I am AP stuff. Again, you know, these things better than I do, actually. But I just know enough that I can just copy paste this information. When in Kmail, you just click create a new account. And then you just, you know, copy paste the info. I'm such a professional. Okay, so these are the things that I want, I wanted to talk about. There is a couple of things that I did notice whilst recording the video. And the first one, which is super nice is that you have a series of plugins that you can just install with one click. So I thought, what if we could create a master non instance with just one click? And I went through the list and unlikely, no, there's no master don't. However, firstly, somebody could, you know, add it, it looks like it's a store where you can add things. And you do have GNU social, which should be part of the Fediverse, if I'm not incorrect. So I tried to do my own GNU social instance, just with one click. And surprisingly enough, it worked. I just have to click install. And that was it. If I had to do it manually, years would have taken, it would have taken years. So that was pretty nice as well. And it immediately told me that what the address was, and that I could like copy paste the new address to Sharon Twitter, literally said, you know, copy past this, so you can share it on your social networks, fair enough. And I do think that it would be very cool to see like, more social networks, open source, social networks appear on the list. I also found a dating app. If you want to self host your own dating app, there's an option to do that. Why wouldn't I do that? Why wouldn't I ask my own dating app? Okay, so anyway, another thing whilst I was recording the video, I actually had an issue because whilst setting up the accounts, I messed up passwords and I couldn't log into some of the accounts I created anymore, because I'm dumb. So what I did was to try to contact support of Altos to actually see if it was any good, you know, that's the kind of things you want to know before you talk about the service. And there is a chat thingy that you can immediately send a message to. Since it was a technical question, they referred me to a ticket page, which is a page where you can create tickets and so I made one. And they immediately answered with the correct password, which was super nice. And, you know, it literally took them one minute, which means that they have good support. And also my question was particularly stupid, I guess. So to end this video, I actually paid for the service. I know I'm sponsoring it, but I actually paid for it to see how it worked. And it's 3.06 euros a month if you pay monthly. It gets cheaper if you per like yearly and such. It's 286 euros if you pay yearly and 2.6 if you pay three years in advance. And if you pay from a year and on, you also get, it also says free domain, which I guess means you get a free domain, which is nice. But to be fair, I didn't try that button. So I'm gonna trust it. In the starter, you do get like one domain, 30 gigabytes of SSD, you get 10k roughly, visit monthly. And then it's like unmetered bandwidth, free backups, free SSL certificate. I had no clue if this was any good. So I went around and tried to compare it to other services. I checked out Hostinger. I was like, is it any good? And the base plan of Hostinger does not give you daily backup, daily backups. You don't get multiple email accounts and you also don't get unlimited bandwidth. And it's 50 cents more expensive, ideal breaker. There's also Contabo, which looks a few cents cheaper, but you actually have to add that, like the AT to it. And then it's like 75 cents more expensive. So it looks like what Old Host is offering with its base model is actually super cheap compared to pretty much everything else. I couldn't find cheaper stuff. So I think that if you're like somebody that's starting out and learning these things like me, because I can't just understand them at first go, this is actually extremely appealing. Drinking game, one shot for every time I said, I'm dumb.