Happy October, everyone. It's a time for scares, a time for frights, a time for tricks, and a time for treats. Welcome back to Comic-Ed and TV. We're all horror culture collides for the month of October. Today, we'll be taking a look at the Rare Halloween Special Edition 1978-1998 20th Anniversary Bloody Snow Globe. This little treasure belongs to my brother, so I wasn't able to do a traditional review on it. Instead, I got plenty of photos and a little bit of video footage, so stay tuned if you dare.  As you can see, all I have for this review, though, is the actual snow globe and not the actual VHS Special Edition box. However, I will go ahead with the review through just photos. We have the John Carpenter's Halloween logo with Jamie Lee Curtis' name in the same stylized lettering just underneath. Designed over top, clear plastic window box. Printed in blood red, shake me. 20th Anniversary numbered snow globe and in blood spattered just below that, snow's glitter blood. We have a nice image of Michael Myers peering over the banister stalking Laurie Strode. At the bottom, wrapping all the way around the box, 20th Anniversary Snow Globe set includes widescreen VHS with theatrical trailer and limited edition commemorative snow globe. On the side, we see the same Halloween logo with Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode on the bottom crouching next to the couch with the crochet needle ready to stab Michael if he shows. On the other side, we have again the same Halloween logo with Michael Myers at the closet doors are ready to crash just so Laurie can stab him with a coat hanger. On the back, the most successful independent motion picture of all time, Halloween. On a black and unholy Halloween night years ago, little Michael Myers brutally slaughtered his sister in cold blood. But for the last 15 years, town residents have rested easy knowing that he was safely locked away in a mental hospital until tonight. Tonight, Michael returns to the same quiet neighborhood to relive his grisly murder again and again and again. For this is a night of evil. Tonight is Halloween. Special features include digitally mastered for optimum picture and sound, widescreen presentation shown in its cinematic entirety includes original theatrical trailer, four and a half stars, video movie guide. On the top, you have the Halloween logo and an image of Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode ready to strike Michael with his own butcher knife if he attacks again. The VHS case itself is a black plastic anniversary edition, John Carpenter's Halloween Jamie Lee Curtis. The original diabolical jack-o'-lantern with hand holding butcher knife as the image on the front. And then a four star review from Roger Ebert. Halloween is an absolutely merciless thriller. I would compare it to Psycho. So now let's move on to something I've actually had a chance to look at for myself and hold in my own two hands, the bloody snow globe. Let me just say, the snow globe I got the chance to look at was my brother's. And the sticker was taken off the bottom, so I honestly don't know what number collectible this was, but I can tell you. It's a pretty cool little snow globe nonetheless. While it's not super detailed, it's still pretty awesome nonetheless. As you can see, it's a nice depiction of the epic scene between Michael and Laurie in the Doyle's living room. Very nice depiction of Michael rising up from behind the couch to stab at Laurie with his butcher knife. The characters look as if they were sculpted out of clay rather than being made of plastic. Michael's eyes are pitch black and his mask seems to reach all the way down under his jumpsuit. It also appears like Michael's wearing black gloves. The jumpsuit isn't quite the right color, as with most Halloween collectibles, Michael here is wearing a gray blue jumpsuit. But in the film the scene is from, Michael actually wears a forest green jumpsuit. They did, however, get Laurie's outfit correct. And the couch is correct, but two small details that got wrong were the pillows and the bag with the yarn. In the film, the pillows are the same size and the red pillow is actually closer to the arm of the couch with the tan pillow being closer to Laurie. The bag of knitting yarn actually isn't present at all here. As you can see though, there is red glitter all over the bottom of the globe and if you shake it up, you get a major bloodbath. I keep trying to get my brother to give me this since I'm such a huge Halloween fan, but sadly no go. If you want to purchase one of these guys, the Snow Globe alone sells for a pretty pity on eBay. The cheapest I was able to find was $36 with an $8.95 shipping for a leaky snow globe. And for a decent non-leaky snow globe only, I found one for $140 with free shipping. I managed to find the actual complete collector set inbox with VHS for $149.99 plus $11.70 shipping. And that's for the least expensive one. I hope everyone enjoyed this review and has a happy Halloween. I'm Shannon for Comic Gettin' TV. Take care.


Sup you guys what is going on and welcome back to another video today's video is extremely exciting. I don't have any major key physics on Which is pretty dumb But we do have an announcement a Big announcement. This is an announcement that's been six months in the making if you were following us on Instagram You've probably seen a couple of Yeah, a couple of posts talking about this But I thought I'd better put it in video form and bring it to my YouTube channel because that is where the majority of My customers come from let's be honest major key physics was was created back in April of 2018 but officially the business launched in March of 2019 So it is over a year old at this point although I had to close the business in late December 2019 because I Didn't have a place to run the business from and I was also about to travel back to New Zealand And I didn't even have a place to live anymore. So I had to put everything into storage And you know the story goes on so anyways guys, I'm happy to say that in March I had all of that stuff picked up from Australia and brought back to New Zealand and it arrived about a week ago So for the last week, I've sort of been thinking right. Well, what am I gonna do here? Am I gonna am I gonna start the business now or am I gonna, you know, try and make everything perfect before Restarting it and it's like, you know what? No, no, that's that's not right. We're jumping in the deep end. We're going back into business You know, it's it's it's similar to Well, it's called paralysis by analysis. That's what it's called. It's it's procrastination mixed with anxiety mixed with perfectionism and You know in business in some businesses that is perfect in some businesses that is disastrous I am not about being paralyzed by Analyzing things any longer. So major key physics. I am so so excited and so happy to say is back We are relaunching in less than five days time guys If you're seeing this video There will be a post on the Instagram page the major key physics Instagram page with a giveaway I'd like you to go to that post follow the instructions and Enter the giveaway and I just want to say a huge. Thank you to everyone for you know for the support Throughout this time even on that video that that I put on my channel talking about closing the business I've got a huge amount of support and I want to say thank you so much.  So guys at the end of the day major key physics is back I want to make this New Zealand's premiere Like I said bodybuilding and fitness brand. I want to make this New Zealand's number one bodybuilding and fitness brand Currently we have three sponsored athletes and they're all legends. Well, actually I'm one of them. So let's say to two sponsored athletes. I've had them on the team for over a year They're True friends, you know true true New Zealanders true Kiwis.  Let's get this back on the road. This brand is gonna be pumping once again I'm always open to new sponsored athletes. So if you've got anyone in mind or you Yourself think that you may want to join the team, then please send me a message on Instagram But apart from that guys, you know your support the likes on the posts hit us up with a comment Likes on YouTube videos, you know all this shit Really helps it helps the algorithm and unfortunately, you know social media with the the more people that jump on and the more people That are born into this world, which is more every day, of course social media and every aspect of it is going to become more and more saturated and so That is what it is. You can only do what you can do But for those who are here for those who've been following major kiwis eggs so far Just know that you really are the true oj's the true true oj's And so with that being said guys, there will be one giveaway like I said apart from that The prices are all Going to be changed I'm bringing the prices down, but I am including a shipping fee Okay That's business and with that being said I'll see you on the website. Peace out guys. Have a great day Probably why I never see ya probably why I never have time for the fake friends


Throughout history, especially Chinese medical history, some of the greatest physicians that are the most famous for their skill, still to this day, came out of eras where there were pandemics. Now, you look at the physician Zhang Zhongjing, who lived a couple hundred years after Christ, and wrote one of the most famous herbal books still to this day. He lived through a pandemic that killed almost two-thirds of his family. And other physicians, who clearly were not young people at the time, managed to survive these pandemics, treating these patients all day long. So in this video, I want to bring up a couple thinking questions. A couple just philosophical or theoretical questions to ponder about how these ancient physicians survived while treating these pandemics. Hey, it's Alex Hine, author of the Health Best Seller, Master of the Day. Now, I've included the first link below as for a free PDF, five daily rituals that can possibly help you add 10 years to your life with traditional Chinese medicine. So you can check it out right there, the first link in the description. So I'm going to read the preface to one of the most famous books in Chinese medicine called the Shanghan Lun, because this preface kind of sets the stage for what this ancient physician had lived through and what had inspired him to dedicate his life to medicine in an era of serious difficulty. So in the preface to his herbal text, here's what it says. My ancestral clan has always been numerous, with more than 200 members in the past. But since the first year of Jian'an, in less than 10 years, the proportion of those who have perished has been 2 out of 3, with cold damage claiming 7 out of 10 of these. Deeply affected by this ruinous loss in my past and by the failure to rescue them from damage and premature death, I have diligently sought out the ancient instructions and collected a great number of methods far and wide. I have chosen the Su Wen, the Ling Shu, the Nanjing, the Yin Yang Dalun, the Tai Lv Yaolu, and the Ping Mai Bian Zheng to compose the Shanghan Zabing Lun in 16 scrolls. Even though you will not yet be able to exhaustively cure all the various diseases, you may be able to look at a disease and know its origin. If you can unravel what I have collected here, you will have thought through more than half of all these problems you may face. So one thing I find so incredibly interesting that my mentor brought up is that on some level, the fact that these ancient physicians treated these patients with pandemics and they survived, on some level may be testimony enough to the efficacy of these formulas. This physician treated a unknown number of people and managed to live and to write about it and to transmit this text to us. Now we know in ancient times there were some practices like putting sesame oil in your nose and even one of the text mentions you should sneeze it out, try to blow it out after you leave the treatment area or seeing the patients. But it makes me wonder more about the Chinese medical philosophy because it's very different from conventional care and how people today think about illness and what causes illness. So my first thing I want you to think about is that these ancient physicians somehow survived these pandemics while treating these patients with a lot less protection than you see today in the news. The second thing is that traditional Chinese medicine, the view of health and illness is very different from conventional care. One of my mentors brings up the fact that it seems like a lot of what's, what conventional medicine orients around is blame, right? Oh, it's your genetics. Oh yeah, it's viruses and germs and all these things infecting you in parasites.  It's all of these things outside of you are always the reason why you're supposedly getting sick. And yet we know that at any given time the room you're in could be filled with influenza virus and yet you don't get it and most people are not sick by it. So is it really about the host, the person, or is it about the environment? And we know ultimately it's a combination of both. But the Chinese medical view is almost always that you strengthen the terrain, you strengthen the person and then that person can walk into a room full of people with colds, for example, and not catch the cold. But it's this idea of the person Yuan Qi, the base vitality or the Zheng Qi, think of it as the good fighters to battle what's been invading when you get a cold or a flu. And so your greatest protection is not washing your hands or wearing a mask, even though of course you should do those things. Your greatest protection is always your own vitality.   Of course not. But it means to really focus on always what is most essential. And the Chinese medical view is that typically it's your own vitality because that more than anything will predict whether or not you catch something. So I hope this brings up maybe two big questions about what these ancient physicians were doing or what it is about Chinese medical theory that has allowed them to survive and even treat these. In ancient times these people the Chinese were doing vaccinations too in the 1500s where they were crushing up smallpox scabs and blowing them into people's noses or putting them into their skin into like a little scar or a little cut. So vaccination was well known far beyond when it was established in the western world. And even things like surgery have been practiced in ancient China for, I mean the president was said maybe thousands of years before Western Europe and I know Egyptians had been doing it even longer than that. But coming back to these two questions, how did these great physicians survive pandemics in Chinese medicine history? And two, thinking about what really causes illness. Is it something out there or is it something within? A weakness or deficiency within or is it a combination of the above? Just some thinking points for today, some little philosophy. Now if you want to stay in touch, grab the free guide below. If you download that and enter your email for the five daily rituals that can possibly help you add 10 years to your life, you'll also get an email every couple days on how to use Chinese medicine to heal yourself. Check it out down there below and then before you go, check out this related video right here.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards and I am ripping one box of 2021-22 Panini Obsidian Soccer for Nick M. So good luck Nick. See what we got in here for you man. See a color blast. There we got a pack. Got a pack inside. That's step one. 115. Oh my god, Vaughn. Can you imagine that coming right back at you? I can't even see that. Still though even even that hard is like craziness. We've got Gavi for Barcelona. That's got a messed up corner. So I'll send you the empty box with this. That's 17 of 30. See if Panini will replace that for you. Sorry about that Nick. Not the first like messed up corner we've seen out of Obsidian this year. So we'll grab you that empty box and pack. Like I said, definitely hit Panini up. See if they'll replace that. We've got Equinox of Jules Condi for France. That is $2.99.  Hate when that happens man. That happened. I pulled a Christian Polisic auto out of 25 and the corner was like destroyed. We've got Rookie of Abdi Ezzalizoli. Yeah some of them look pretty. Let's see. We'll see as we keep going here. Yeah that bottom card looks real. Yeah. Oh my god. Dude me and Obsidian Soccer have just not been friends this year. This is like the third time I've had some sort of issue with Obsidian Soccer. So I really apologize Nick. This looks brutal. We've got Nacer Chadley. That is for Bell Jump to 25. Geez man. Got Nacer Chadley there. I hope so too bearded. We've got points here. 400 Panini points. At least it's a points card that's got a messed up corner. Not as bad as having an actual card being destroyed but that's brutal. Oh my god. I'm so so upset. Marcos Lorente. That is $2.149. Nick I am so sorry man. I'm at like a loss for words on this. This is like heartbreaking. This is number to four. Look at that. Neymar Jr. Patch Autograph. Completely destroyed. Two of four. Nick man I am so sorry. I am so sorry. This is such a sick card and it literally breaks my heart to have to look at what this looks like right here. This is a shame. This is genuinely a shame. I'm going to send you 100% this empty box. I'm so sorry Nick. Please please please let us know if they fix this card and if they replace everything in that box that's destroyed. I am so sorry that that happened. I'm so sorry man. But I appreciate you ordering with us and really I hope to God Pinini replaces that for you. Hope to God. But yeah I mean like I said everything's on video. I'm going to send you the empty box, the wrapper and the pack wrapper and hopefully we can get that fixed. So I appreciate it again Nick. Sorry again that that had to happen. But yeah we'll get that sent out to you. Thanks man.


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Yeah, it's a robot friend very, very cute, very nice, very interesting robot that you can only see in person in some events. But also you can tune in show and tell and see what she's up to and then Scott showed off some of the latest with circuit Python nine. Yes. And you can watch deep dive this week if you want to see more of that and then JP showed some cool time lapse that you can do with the momentum camera camera hacking. Yeah, so it's a hackable camera Aaron showed off some very cool W LED projects that she's been working on. And then we saw some sun and moon couture fashion show incredible real time updating of clothing that were LEDs. Absolutely amazing. And then we saw an electron and ions an ion microscope electrons can yeah an ion microscope if you want to see a whole punched into a FPGA really close. They can etch graphics on the design and open source board for controlling. These absolutely incredible scopes and yeah and it looked great it was super cool and all written in Python. Yeah, so I'm psyched to see and you know I haven't seen these devices and quite a bit so I'm glad they came back and they're like no I got them all working. Yeah, so show and tell every week some 30pm Eastern time and you never know it's gonna be on the show until this is what it's amazing it's like a mini maker fair it's it's a science fair it's some weeks we get retro stuff sometimes there's books that have been working on things for over a decade there's also kind of the latest if you want to see a preview of what's going to be in your fashion week yeah all those things are in the show and tell so if you have stuff come on by you can watch 10 plus years of show and tell on any places we post videos and give you an idea what's there everybody's welcome come on by yeah on Sunday as we do from the desk of lady it it's in two parts and first part is from lady ages desk what did you show off. Okay, I shot up a bunch of upcoming designs, which you know or that's been cranking through. So I couldn't make for the last couple years because of the part shortages and so all designs are getting you know kind of a fresh scrub and getting back into a look at into the shop maybe so first one was a board based on the LT 4316 is a really interesting chip that does on the fly I squirt see address translation. So you plug like I squirt see in and out and the device will magically appear under a different I squirt see address so make a little breakout for that. And then they made two breakouts for analog switches that are I squirt see controlled one is quad SPST and one is octal SPST I think and then I also did one that's a analog controlled like a digital signal controlled analog switch but can do 12 volts that was by request. All right, and then we do the research. That's what ladies who are powers of engineering to help you find things on did you keep calm leading of what was research this week. Okay, so this week. Because we were talking about analog switches and you know, like I said, we had a request for an analog switch that could be digitally controlled with a pen just like high and low to switch as PDT like between a common and. Normally open normally close, but it had to support 12 volt analog level signals so not five which is what the common. And long switches do like the ice for T ones they showed off but higher voltages and so I showed how to find that on did you key. And we found one and then I showed off the design and also showed some design some chips that wouldn't work because they were TTL sorry they were CMOS level not TTL level. And so I wanted something that could be controlled from a 3.3 volt microcontroller. 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We got some out at the end of 2023 which is just feels like a couple weeks ago because kind of was and then we got out our batches in January so we are shipping keep an eye on a box.com. We can't tell you your place in it yet just know that we're shipping all these as fast as we can we'll ship them all but be sure to update your address and your credit card payment make sure it's valid. Otherwise, there's going to be delayed a couple more days as you get the notification and didn't go through and update better just do it now if you want to make sure that you get it. So it's happening it's happening it's happening it's happening and thanks for your patience and you know we totally understand some folks are going to say like I don't ever I don't want to wait. I want this great we have so many sign ups that we can't accept any more eight box subscribers until some some people go so we don't want to it's totally okay it's not your things totally okay. Totally fun. No no hard feelings one day we'll be able to expand how many subscribers we have that we are still recovering from you know a couple years of having to redesign everything how many redesigns are up to 637. Yeah, thanks for asking. So yeah, PCB thesis. Should be a thesis. I've redesigned every single board so I don't even know this is not really the same data for you. Yeah word this is a different one. Yeah, so there's some boards for instance we have different suppliers for almost every part. Eight of boxes we have the next few lined up so we should be able to ship on you know our quarterly basis but thank you everyone who's stuck around. You know these are the folks that kind of are into the world of electronics of the understand we don't want to quit doing it. We wanted to keep doing it so that's the latest with a box. Yes. Speaking of if you log into your account by the way. You'll start to notice we have more security features so when you log into your account you will get an email that says hey you've signed into your account. If anything sounds weird about this like you didn't please let us know and here's a bunch of instructions y'all probably use lots of online sites this is a pretty common security feature. You're going to hear about this more and more and more every single week there's another you know five billion login and passwords leaked out malware all that stuff. There's no security issues on it if it's just people use their login and password on multiple sites and then those login and passwords go into the dark web and giant the latest one was called the mother of all breaches nine billion login and passwords and so there's More than a number of people on earth. 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Okay, Python on hardware this week if you go to a different daily, you can check out our latest. This is the circuit Python themed newsletter and Python on hardware theme newsletter. Little bit of reminder. Today, this is the last day that you can get your requests in if you want to get things like I want this feature in circuit Python will probably do it. You can go to adafruit.com slash circuit Python 2024 you can email circuit Python 2024 at adafruit.com. There's lots of stuff you can do all the posts we collected here. You can see some of the things that you want to have included IP over USB support. There's a lot of different projects that people have and you can see what's interesting to them. So take a look at them send it in and we'll probably end up doing it for. Do you want to send it to you? We're going to talk about something else this week. What do you want to talk about this week? First off, UBC video is super cool. I think Jepler is going on a small break but we'll be back. But Scott is going to help try to get this merged in. So on the RP2040 right now we're going to work on other boards but the RP2040 you can now have your device look like a webcam and you can draw to it. This is cool because now you can capture images from an RP2040 chip. So you can have a little di webcam but also you could have sensor data that comes in as a graphical display and then you merge that in with something else and you can pipe that video data or grab it or reuse or whatever. I think we can have with Tini USB we've had mouse and keyboard. That's the first thing but then we added MIDI and then we added disk drive and then we added generic HID and other things I can't remember off the top of my head. But other USB devices you can act like but UBC is a standard. We initially thought that you couldn't do this because you needed to have high speed USB. Turns out you don't. You can do it with full speed. It's fast but like circuit Python doesn't have gigantic display context anyway so it's like you know 240 by 320 and it sends it over and you can see at the bottom that image was drawn by circuit Python and piped in. So cool stuff also really good for documentation because now we can screen grab what circuit Python is drawing through the USB interface. Okay, you can check out all the stuff on the newsletter. We had our floppy drive preview Tom's hardware cover to take a look there. Making good drone using Raspberry Pi and Python. Ultimate list of Python YouTube channels. All the things that have something to do with Python and running on hardware. This is that was cool. So I am seeing more and more people use chat GPT for in particular to code in Python. I do it all the time. I'm just like oh man I just need. I'm trying to think like what was that coding. Oh, like you know I'll have like some code from JavaScript. Like there was some internet connectivity code that I found that I had to adapt and it was in JavaScript. I'll be honest. I haven't written JavaScript in like 10 years. So I used chat GPT for and I said hey can you port this to Python for me or Python for me. And it actually did a really really good job and I just had to do a couple tweaks here and there but you know I think people know that these LLMs hallucinate. They're not 100% trustworthy but they can definitely shave a lot of time off of porting work or coding work if you want to like merge things together. So I you know I think it's cool to see people using it and then explain to others like hey here's how to get good results out of these tools so they're not your eternal savior for any coding issue and they're not the worst thing you've ever seen. It's just another tool that you know how if you know how to use it can help you get your projects off the ground faster. All right. And that is Python on hardware this week.  All different ways. Let's do some open source hardware news which includes our guides. So we need a let's pop over to learn dot eight of her dot com. Yes. And we have some new guides what's on the big board. Okay. So they're actually you know you're going to see a bunch of the pie TFT stuff and updated. So we'll mention this and you see the little update they go up updated with their. So Melissa has done an amazing job going through and getting all of our displays for the Raspberry Pi working with Bookworm and the Raspberry Pi five which was not a trivial task she spent like weeks on this. Because all the drivers change and then like the display manager change like you know getting it just kind of working with one thing but getting it all working was like non trivial. So you guys have been updated if you're using Bookworm or the Raspberry Pi five believe us we're going through and we're trying to get every piece of hardware working with it. Not everything like a neopixels is still in progress because of the underlying GPIO change, but TFT is definitely remember. Okay, next up can you click on the memento camera board and then scroll down to circuit Python memento and then scroll scroll scroll scroll. So we've got time lapse. This is unlike we talked about this is from JP he did a guide on using the new time lapse mode in for the memento camera to make like you saw this this cool time lapse. And then also he wrote a page frames to give on how to take the JPEG images and use easy gift to combine it and turn it into an animated gift for easy viewing because it creates JPEG you have to merge them together. And then we also had a guide from Liz I'm using the can bff board. And that's it next week's gonna be a big guy some weeks you see there's a lot of guys and so many so then the can bff guide and the new email the email on new login guides. And then we also have playground so you can just click playground up there and you can see all the ones from the community where folks have the space for thing is super cool by the way I really dug this. So this is a port of like the like the first video game to the mag tag. So check it out the code is is there I think it's in circuit Python but I'll be honest I didn't actually read the code. But I just love the idea of taking this old old display and pouring it over. And then yeah we've got this like koozie. So I guess this person has a lot of koozie. So check it out this is you know your free place online where we don't have ads and we don't do any tracking. It's just free to post your projects and you don't have to have anyone log in to see all the steps. They can just look at your projects. No ads and do not track is as you say we also respect do not track track. Yeah so when we were showing these here if you did if you notice what was the circuit Python and then you go down to the gif. I think sorry the time lapse time lapse. Yeah if you notice by the way look that's what it looks like you probably don't see this on any website so we we support do not track so you have to actually acknowledge like oh yeah YouTube is probably not gonna you know probably gonna want to know more about me so our site respects do not track that's why there's all those warnings it says hey there's there's something else there but you have to click through. So anyways that is our it's our hardware of the week this week over 27,000 guys I think I think we're up to 3,000. Let's do some factory footage and that's factory footage let's go right to some 3D printing right away. This week we're going to do a speed up and then we're going to roll right into ion and PI so let's print it. Okay, don't forget the code is power BFF. All free stuff. All that stuff can get both mix and match it's totally okay. Let's do. This week is from NPS. What is the new product introduction of the week this week. Glad you asked this is NPS which we've not done yet so I'm psyched I always love it when we have a new company to feature NPS makes the MPM 363510 chip DC DC module, which we'll talk about NPS is that stand for monolithic power systems which is might be wondering like wow like like a monolith. And the answer is yes they actually make things that are kind of like rectangular and black and when you touch them. Your designs get much much better. When you evolve, I guess. Okay, so yeah. So NPS they make a lot of stuff with one of the things that I love them for is their step down converter modules and these are all in one kind of they look like chip they're actually inside there's an inductor and a chip. In a couple passives, and they make it really really easy for you to do a power supply that's very compact. So the 3510 when I saw this show up on digikey.com slash me who I got excited because actually I was just a couple days ago I was looking for a chip like this. So this is a module that can take 4.5 to 3.36 volts so like a fairly high voltage input and then bucket down to as little as 0.8 volts to you know 36 volts. At 1.2 amp continuous load current and because DC DC there's no heat sink required. It's very compact and the inductor as I said is built in which makes it so tiny and small and easy to use because all you need is a couple passive components. So like normally on a buck converter you would like me you know there'd be like maybe a diode or maybe you'll be driving a transistor or you know this and that or you need like a feed forward capacitor all that stuff is in care for you all you need is capacitive input capacitor on the output and then a resistor divider that tells it what voltage you want the output. I originally saw this series of chips on the nano every from Arduino I was like what is that power supply that they've got there so you know this board needs to be very compact. Very efficient and they want a lot of current from their DC DC supply so they use the npm 3610 which is like the earlier version of the 3510 but they're very similar. And we also made a breakout for the 3610 like you said give it V in up to this one does 21 volts the 3510 does up to 36 volts.  You can check our design files they're up on GitHub if you want to use them. But I also noticed that Digikey has a really nice new EDA footprint and 3d model page for almost every product so on the product page scroll down look for it says EDA models click on it. And you know this provided through ultra librarian and a couple other companies you can export for whatever your CAD software is so I use Eagle CAD but they also CAD CAD or CAD Altium etc etc. The footprint the symbol and a 3d model is pretty cool because then you can use it if you're especially if you're making something really small, you're probably going to have to, you know, make sure that the height and size of your module doesn't interfere with any other component. Like I said, the layout is super simple. You can do it on a two layer design, fairly easy and a circuit board. I would go with a two ounce copper if you can. I think I do for the little breakouts just because you know it's a fair amount of current. You just want to provide power in and then ground there's sometimes a couple other extra pins. Like PG for power good if you want to have external LED or I think there's also maybe a pin you can change the the mode for the buck converter if you want to go from like a high current load to a low current mode for low quiescent usage. And one of the things that you know because this is a you know it's all integrated it's really tiny and I'll show in the overhead how small it is it's it's fairly small and very thin. So the way they do that is of course they they have a very small inductor usually the inductors like the biggest part of your buck or boost converter not the chip the chip is is trivial. The inside it's the inductor that has to be big to make it big they have to have a very high frequency for the PWM runway which is I think like one ish megahertz maybe up to one and a half megahertz maybe two megahertz. So the higher the frequency the smaller the inductor the smaller the inductance you need for the rated current. However, that also does affect efficiency so you'll know that it's not bad efficiency you can get fairly good over 90% efficiency but you're not going to get like the absolute highest you can get. If you're willing to go down to like 400 kilohertz or 500 kilohertz or 750 on some chips I've seen and have a really big inductor that's the trade off personally you know I've had no issue with this trade off and you're not running off a battery or if your battery is big enough that the efficiency isn't going to affect you highly. So for that use case I don't have an issue but just be aware like it is a higher frequency chip so the efficiency will be as high. There's a wide family available of up to like 60 amp modules from different voltage input ranges. The higher the voltage input range the higher the current output the larger the module but you can get as small as that you know the MPM 3811 is 2 by 2 by 1.6 millimeters. So the family we're talking about here is that I've used is the 3610 and 3620 so it's 3 by 5 by 1.6 millimeters so let's look at the overhead real fast and we'll show it in stock so this is actually the power of the effect which is actually the product of the week. So you'll see I wanted to make a board where it was a DC DC converter from this you know 12 volt DC jack or terminal block and 5 volt output at one you know 1.2 amps and to do that I had to make it this small like the board size was fixed because I had to fit. Like so. It had to fit in this like 0.7 by you know one inch size. And so turned out that actually I didn't even have the size to put an inductor and a DC converter and the only way I could make this all work out is to use one of the MPM 3610s or I'll probably make another version now the 3510.  So you know I use this series of modules of time I'm really psyched that they have the 3510 because the only downside of the 3610 is it had that 20 volt max I really wanted to have people be able to use it with up to 24 volts. So I'm gonna probably revise this design to use the 3510 and the good news is that it's in stock so I can do that. Pick them up at did you key for a couple bucks 3510 but then check out the entire family. If you want something very small and very fast kind of can't beat this series of modules from MPM video. The electronics industry is evolving and these changes will have a big effect on the power design market design solutions can now be integrated into one package pre optimized by MPS engineers MPS power modules integrate the maximum number of components including the power IC and inductor while still providing comprehensive flexibility for the designer to tailor to the needs of the application. This provides an even more distinct leap in cost effectiveness and the highest performance over both discrete designs and other modules on the market. MPS modules create incredible space savings in industry standard packaging full integration allows for easy board design and layout which translates into faster time to market. The MPS power module family offers wide input voltage operation ranges between 2.3 volts and 75 volts with 0.6 amps to 800 amps of output current composing the most extensive portfolio of modules on the market. Simplify and accelerate the power design process with MPS power modules. Alright we're going to roll into new products in just a second if we get the code is power VFF. Veneta it's time. Okay first up. Okay we've got a revision to our very popular NAU 7802 this is a strain gauge and all digital converter chip. And it was WQT compatible and it's wonderful for sensing you know strain gauges but also anything with a wheatstone bridge. The one thing that I didn't have was pre soldered in terminal blocks which it now does. So now it's truly plug and play you don't do any soldering whatsoever because it comes with those lonely terminal blocks pre attached you just use a screwdriver open them up and wire in whatever wheatstone bridge you want and you're ready to rock. So a nice little improvement I think people will like it because WQT is meant to be plug and play. Speaking of making stuff more plug and play another thing that is now fully pre assembled is we've got the Stemma rotary encoder. You want to use a rotary encoder or multiple rotary encoders and you don't want to deal with the frustration of timers and checking interrupts and like multiple pins and then you ran out of pins and whatever. These are chainable I squared C rotary encoder backpacks that allow you to read the switch and the rotary value like you know if it's rotating freely can increment or document the value and you can chain them you have multiple encoders built in. The one thing about this was you had to solder in the encoder but no longer we do not live in a world like that. We now live in a world where the encoder comes soldered in already for you. It's the multiverse. Yeah this is the multiverse of rotary encoders. No because it's like the whole point starting QT was to make it so people plug and play stuff. So people have been asking us when are you going to have a version with the encoder plugged in. So the only trade off is you don't get to pick the encoder. We pick it it's a PEC 11 compatible with a switch. I would tell people you know if you have a special rotary encoder you want with more or less detents or whatever it is I think 24 detents per rotation and there's a detent field but if you want non detent field you want 12. Just grab the version that doesn't have the encoder soldered in. Another thing is it doesn't come with a knob. We sell a knob for like a couple cents. Pick one up or a human hand or you can just you can actually rotate it without. Yeah it doesn't come with the old. We have to show these things as a demo. But sometimes the things in the video like human hands aren't included in your package because if we started sending out human hands in the mail we'd probably get a visit. And get you a tow by like Friday. And get a tow by 10 p.m. tonight if I wanted to. Oh yeah. Okay next up. Next up we got a 12 pack of black linear kale switches. We got these for a special kit we made with the macro pad with a bunch left over. If you have a macro pad which has 12 buttons because it's a three by four grid. And you're like I don't want the red the red linears. I want the black linears. Congratulations you cannot pick up a pack of these black linears. We have them in a 10 pack as well if you're you don't want 12 but like always so bad people are like I have a macro pad at 12. But you only sell them packs of 10. Six hot dog buns eight hot dogs. I don't know. Now we have a 12 pack. Okay. Next up. Today we got from Pimaroni their new NVMe base very exciting. I know that there's been a lot of people making these PCIe to M2 adapters. I have not designed one yet maybe I will one day. But for now pick up this one from Pimaroni did a beautiful job. It goes under your Raspberry Pi five does not work with any other only works the Pi five because as that PCIe port and then with a little noodley cable you connect it up and then you can plug in an SSD drive which is apparently like eight times faster than the micro SD card like there. It's an SSD it's really fast. It goes over the differential PCIe port so really great if you want to make a you know network storage streaming something something data logging video playback and you want faster speed than even you know an Evo pro micro SD card. The NVMe base is your way at SSD. Okay. Start of the show tonight. So as you laid out our team our community our customers everyone who helps make the world a better place for you showing and sharing all their smarts open source world at least parts of it. Is this. Yes it's the power BFF is coming soon we didn't quite get all the demos in but I thought we would at least highlight if people could sign up to chat about this on API. But this is a board that lets you have 5 to 12 volts DC input and it will let you plug in your shower QDPI board on top. You also have a terminal block which you can use to get that power out or you can have power come in from the terminal block if you have a battery pack. And a feature of the MPM 3610 so it's a DC DC buck converter so it's very efficient and it'll give you a nice clean 5 volt 1.2 amps. I'll be honest actually got 1.5 amps out when I did my load testing but it's waited for 1.2. And then there's a little mounting tabs because we're going to plug it into a DC jack you know you want to have some mechanical strength to the version you'll get in the shop.  And they'll show just a prototype real fast and next week we'll have like a bigger better demo. But this is my prototype before I added the legs. You can just plug into the DC power here maybe I can plug in here see if this will work and then boom now it's running circuit Python it's blinking focus. Yeah. And you can do like this is I think a nine volt but you know we want to do some projects where we wanted to power the cutie pie from like a car or from a DC or battery pack where you wouldn't necessarily get 5 volt clean. So this will convert it down to 5 volts for you. So it's coming soon. You can sign up and we'll have in the shop maybe later in this week. Now. All right. And thanks for the folks who are lining up your questions in discord. We're going to get to those just in a few moments. We're going to do some top secret and Lady is going to talk about that. So let's do top secret and then we'll start doing some questions and we're out of here. Okay. This week's top secret video I'm going to zoom in and zoom out at it but maybe you can talk about what's going on. This is from the memento camera. Yeah. Okay. So this is Brent and he does a lot of IOT stuff. And one thing he's really interested in is the ESP 32 S3 apparently has the ability to do like facial recognition built in using you know like the core and the risk 5 keep you know risk 5 coprocessor or something or maybe like the second core on the S3. And so unfortunately it's Arduino only it's not circuit Python but Brent was able to compile this code. The demo worked on like a web browser but he got it working so that it works live on the memento. So as it's previewing through the camera can detect if you see a face and it can detect a particular face as well. So you can like say hey recognize my face in the future and it does like a fair job of saying like oh yeah I detected Brent again. So we're going to have this. I think you just got working like this morning. I'm going to write up a guide for it and it's coming soon. All right. And that's our top secret for the week but I wanted to show this one off now. Lady is talking about because I was like this is really cool. I made a video. I'm like we're going to show this off. Yeah. Okay we're going to roll right into questions. We're going to line up. Okay. Put some in there. ESP voltage regulation to 3.3 volt etc using DevKit schematic as a reference but curious if there is anything more comprehensive. Yeah the DevKit schematics are very good. I'll see there's one thing about ESP boards that you know because I follow the application guides or the data sheets is you just have to watch out that there's a lot of pins that are special and you don't know what pins are special because they don't really call them out that well. So some pins are not actually available because they're used as like the PSRAM chip select or if you're using octal PSRAM like those pins are used or some have internal pull ups and you can't have them pulled low or pulled high during boot. So I think you know honestly that the modules themselves are going to provide them fairly good power like they kind of went on their own. That's not the tough part. So far as making sure that you don't accidentally use pins for capabilities that they should not be used for. Also like some pins are inputs only and they're not outputs and some you can't use the ADC when the Wi-Fi is on. So there's a lot of these like edge cases and I don't know the place where they're all documented. You kind of have to figure it out on your own. They're in the data sheet but they're just not always when the schematic is at. It's like in a separate section. Good advice. For our two factor authentication. Someone says we use if you use off these did some thank you. I love off the good. Thank you for letting everyone know it is super easy and you should get it better than SMS. Next up is our timeline for the aid from a mental camera enclosure kit. I'm so nervous that since the TFT isn't you know on there super secure. I'd like to make a cover but I'm not that good with a router. That's on me. I was actually going to work on it this week and I did not get to it but I'll try to get it in. The other thing you can do is look at the learn guide that Noah and Pedro did and they have a 3D printed case and you can. The 3D models. You can send it online or you can go to a local maker hacker space. Lots of different choices but if you're interested in doing that. Often with these 3D printing services unless you have something very specific that you know that works you probably are locked into it but this does. This could be one you could try. Okay what's the point of the orange stickers on the standoffs so. Through the manufacturing footage that we did. Oh yeah those little orange stickers. That's a great question. Those are the pick in place pickup stickers so when you have something like a standoff that's hollow and you have to pick it up with a vacuum. Think about it hollow stuff and vacuums don't usually like go together very well because the vacuum pickup goes and tries to pick it up and the air just sucks right through. So you have to have something that is flat and clean but moveable easily that the vacuum head can grab on to it and pick it up. But then later can be easily removed and so you'll often see little cap down stickers also on USB ports. You'll see them on the top because there's a little slots and holes or HDMI connectors. You'll see the little cap on pickup tape. Okay. Some connectors you'll see a little plastic cap. Here's a request a NVME hat that also allows you to add stem and nice by. It's not a bad idea. So I'll be honest like I didn't design an NVME or you know SSD add on because like kind of like everyone was doing it.  You know I think that the Pima winning one is really good. I mean like absolutely grab it. It goes on the bottom and also know that while as we pie themselves are making NVME hat but yeah if it makes sense I mean it's honestly the circuitry is not terribly complicated. It's like mostly a pass through and I think you need a power supply and some protection circuitry. Not that it's trivial it's it's just not like a you know you're not designing PCA from scratch. I might design a hat later. I don't have any plans right now though. There's a lot of coverage. Next. If you were put in charge of the next expressive chip and a team of pros at your fingertips what would you want to have. I think lower power Bluetooth is pretty is pretty key. That's one of the things that makes like sad but it's like I would really love if they had the low power that Nordic has for Bluetooth which is hard to compete with because they're pros. Versus the ESP which has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth but the Bluetooth traditionally has not been very low power. Wi-Fi low the low power in general on the ESP32 is really really good. It's excellent but once you turn on Bluetooth it's like the power skyrockets a little bit. Tell me if all these things are in one chip or different ones. HDMI USB BLE Wi-Fi. There's nothing that has BLE and Wi-Fi built in as well as HDMI and USB. There's a few things that can. Yeah you can do a couple. Well I'll say that I think the P4 has might have DSI out. I don't know that the P4 has Wi-Fi. So they're kind of like let's do this extremely like high GPIO chip but it doesn't have Wi-Fi built in and I'm assuming later that they'll add it. I mean they added native USB that was a big request and they did it. And here's another request. This is outside my my pay grade though is would it be possible one day for expressive or any chip maker to have either silicon or some type of emulation to do like x86 so you could get like all of the stuff from the past. Like running natively on inside or one of these things. Yeah it's kind of interesting. I think you know there are some chips that I've seen that have like you know FPGA you have an FPGA and a microcontroller built in and that's where you would have that you'd have the FPGA one your x86 emulator. I think more more likely though is you know I've seen like you know almost to to to form Commodore 64 emulators or Apple 2 emulators just because they're slow enough that even a microcontroller can emulate them. I feel like it's time right like and you get the entire library of software. Sorry there isn't that we did get an x86 emulator going on the ESP 32 but it was just very slow. We actually have to be Windows 3 1 but.  Yeah it's I mean it's it's it's coming. I think like you know the IMPI from last week we talked about the STM series of chips that was you know it's a pretty good processor and it has a DSI output and a lot of the secret is you have to need a lot of RAM. So this one has like three megabytes of RAM. So now you're actually talking about like a true you know computer. Okay next up I think this is a request featherwing proto with semi QT port for use with radio module feathers or is there another easy way to add a stomach QT port. We do have Spark actually makes a quick featherwing that we stock and they did a good job so I just stock it and it gives you for stomach QT quick connectors. Okay as shown in the top secret with the mental being able to take the face thought on I5 being used with Adafruit IO for user level notifications maybe learning guide as well. Thanks for all the things in Adafruit IO. There'll definitely be a guide I you know I'll let Brent know that you want it to integrate with Adafruit IO. I don't know if that was going to be he's doing a guide with Adafruit IO and the camera but I don't know if it's going to be this one. I don't know Brent. It's a mystery but he does this great. Is there such thing as wireless HDMI DVI. There is but what it does is you have a cable going into like basically a little links computer that then grabs the HDMI and then converts it to like Wi-Fi and then streams the signal or Wi-Fi to another device and then it pumps it. So you can get wireless HDMI kits but they do compression between so you're not going to it's not a pure signal right because there's no way to get that bandwidth over Wi-Fi so instead it's compressed video streaming and there is some lag as well. Okay and then some folks are talking about the USB 32S3 could do some of the HDMI Pmods from one bit squared. Yes you could do you can do TTL to HDMI but it's like just yeah use all your pain that kind of sucks like it would be great if it had a better built-in peripheral and you know I think the S3 like it can do video as the RP2040 cam but it's like you really need it. You need a lot of RAM and if you don't have a lot of RAM and I'm not talking about PS RAM I mean like ideally even like separately banked RAM that's like you can use just as your frame buffer doing it over octal PS RAM. We found you can it's very hard to get good update rates. Mem zisters become a additional solid state component. I don't know. Do you use Mem zisters? I don't know I use Mem zisters.  I think I saw one product that had a Mem zister in it but I'm trying to remember it was. I don't remember. What's the difference between that and like space RAM? Space RAM is just like F RAM. So it's it's. Yeah it's basically it's just not affected by the radiation in space. Whereas Mem zisters are like it's you know it's a it's a device that can change its resistance. It's a can save its resistance. You can set and change it with voltage and current. But because we got capacitors and ductors and resistors this would be like. So they combine the words memory and resistor. Oh yeah. I mean it's concept I think conceptually got like a working like a decade ago but I don't know that's actually been used. I'll admit I'm not a hundred percent like a Mem zister pro. I could have gotten that wrong. Someone in chat might know. I can't wait for like that. That resistor fail. Lady Aida does not understand that zisters. With that is our questions. All right that is our show for tonight everyone. Thank you so much a little bit of housekeeping here. Power BFF is the code. Don't forget there is all these free things you can get added to your car. We'll do one more question that just came in at the last second. Since we have like one more minute. We got a hug report from making the analog switch into a little boost for the work at 18 makers. Thanks Bill. And then where do you normally get your symbols of footprints for PCV designs or do you tend to make them myself. Although like I mentioned it's key now has this EDA download. I'll admit I take those and I tweak them because the footprints are usually fairly good. The symbols I don't don't look the way I like symbols to be ordered a certain way and you know they there's no way they're going to get those perfect. They usually do I think in a logical order and I like it not logical but like a numeric order in order. And I prefer to do it in a pretty group like all the grounds together and have one pain instead of having like ground one ground to ground three. And also I like to have like you know the ports and the enables and settings and different little chunky groups. Okay. Well that's everything for tonight. Thank you so much for spending some time with us whether it be live or watching it somewhere else later. We very much appreciate it. Once again the code is Power BFF. Thank you for your support everybody. It's a source hardware company. We're not IPOing. Not anytime soon. So we could use the help. This has been native reproduction. 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I don't know if you know babyvogway the youtuber but he made a video explaining what does he think a community company is and why he thinks that kitty isn't one and when I first read the comments like kitty isn't a community company written by him I was like what I mean what is that and he did a video explaining so I wanted to go through the video give my impressions of what I agree with what I don't agree with and then explain why yes kitty is fully a company project so let's get to it and for being a true community you need to be organized and be a legal entity by the way if you didn't know kitty is a legal entity but not exactly kitty there is a separate organization which is called kitty ev which is what represents the kitty community from a legal point of view so in this case we're very much talking about the relationship between kitty and the kitty ev which is the legal company to be in control and of course to develop and create so this is a movie giving some context about what a community company should look like to be qualified as a true community company which apparently kitty is not let's get to in this version 0.1 of the manifest so expect changes and after reading you the manifest I'm gonna share some thoughts that you're not gonna like true all right let's do this maybe we're starting with what a community company is and I haven't published yet some form note please that the subtitle is towards mostly to linux foundation like kitty and gnome so this is actually for kitty so I think it's very reasonable for kitty people to reply to this normal statute but in simple terms is a profit non ownership company controlled by its members which kitty by the way totally complies with that definition kitty is a non profit yeah it says profit kitty is a non profit it's not meant to make money and we do have limitations but also tax benefits for being a non profit and so we have the manifest which is the basic requirements a company should fulfill to be qualified as a community company and the very first requirement is that the board of directors should be consistent and elected by community members now how does this work in kitty so kitty as the evi as I've said and in order to be an evi member you ask to become a part of the evi and then there is an election inside of the evi voting for whether to include you or not in the evi 99% of the times you get included without any problem if you have contributed to kitty when you're inside the kitty evi every um thought number of years there is an election for actually the board which is the few people like five or six which actually control the evi and those are elections within kitty evi members so yes in this case it's totally elected by community members but the members of board of directors cannot work or be paid by a non community company with competitive in this case kitty I think doesn't have any explicit rule against that but usually when somebody asks to be elected to the kitty evi they get asked if they work for competitive projects and usually if they do they are not elected but as far as I know there's no explicit rule about it I don't think it's strictly necessary I think that common sense in the voters should be enough projects in this regard gnome foundation is a non community company because it is basically led by employees of uh I think that this basically leads to a much more complex discussion however I'm totally not an expert of what the gnome foundation board of director is so I'll just leave it to gnome people I'm just going to talk about kitty companies with competitive products a community company has an a traditional board of directors the bot is extended both in size and duties and should also involve the lead developers and engineers of companies projects in here I think that there is either I'm I could call it a misunderstanding or at least that's not how kitty works and I don't think this is any better than how kitty works so the board of directors of kitty is only worried for legal stuff because that's the evi evi is legally representing kitty community but it's only legal stuff or you know managing relations with other companies when it comes to technical technical things technical things are discussed in the open in like kitty in the git lab instances and they're discussed with whoever wants to come there and discuss the board of director is not like should not have the power of seeing how the technology should be implemented because that's up to the developers and the developers should discuss it in the open regardless of who is in the board of director so in this case kitty evi board of director is only about legal the legal entity and the development is brought forward from the from the developers regardless of the board of directors and honestly I don't think that's bad that means that in a community company it is very essential that the bot members to get paid by the company kitty this doesn't happen the board of director is not paid by the kitty foundation it would to some extent be conflict of interest because such thing would probably be needed to be implemented by the board of director themselves so they would be like okay now we get paid and that's it and since they are only represented the legal side of it I think it's more important to pay for developer firsts community members shouldn't only be active but also regular contributors an important objective of a community company isn't to grow its community constantly reforming it this totally happens in kitty the members of the evi but in general of kitty are contributors by definition basically and they also only get really voted inside of kitty evi if they're contributors but I mean all of those people who ask to be in the kitty evi are contributors so yeah this totally applies also membership cannot gain by donations because money shouldn't generate money yeah in kitty in order in order to be part of the kitty evi you ask to be part of it or your contribute to kitty and it's not about donations at all money a community company should release on an open model both for software and hardware kitty totally fulfills this one everything that's made by kitty is open source and the hardware we work with like pine 64 to make sure that it's as open as we can make it to be so yeah because that's the only way to attract new contributors and grow bigger a community company should release community projects and for doing so very often is appropriate to use software or hardware by other companies but it is very essential to develop control and leave the crucial parts of their stack in this regard kde foundation isn't a community company because due to the extended okay so this is controversial as a best and wrong at war so uh first of all it says that qt is a proprietary toolkit which is false qt is an open source toolkit it is open source there's no like doubt about it all of the code from qt is open source there are open source open source licenses to use it so it's not proprietary that's just wrong also the idea that it should control and develop their main parts of the stack is uh it doesn't make any sense because if you're doing like at desktops all of the applications there's only a certain amount of things that you can control downstream which is under the hood so the toolkit maybe you can try to control it but that's hard already and then there's also even lower stuff like the compiler like all of kitty projects rely heavily on the fact that they have to be compiled but it's not like we can control the c++ compiler that's just not going to happen and that's just an example there are hundreds of very big projects that kitty rely on to exist like qt but also see a g plus gcc gcc how it's pronounced the c++ compiler or cmake as an another example obviously that that's not an issue because it's normal to rely on projects especially open source kitty mostly i think only relies on open source projects really then i think the only issue that baby evogua is trying to bring up that is that a community's software project should only rely on projects that are fully open source uh qt is fully open source there's also a qt releases for like companies but we use the open source ones so no and maybe qt technically speaking is not a community software you can't join qt just because you want to but i mean you cannot rely only on software made by community software so i really don't see the point here so it's normal to rely on other software and as far as as long as the software is open source it's fine qt is not a threat to qt to kitty baby evogua is like super worried about this even wrote me private privately i try to explain him that qt is not going to kill kitty in any means qt is not like an avial company that's trying to destroy us we actually have a relationship with qt we have like a board um a working group that manages the relationship between kitty and qt qt is releasing uh open source cuties is being released sorry as open source so everything is fine it just made this up qt use plasmas in a community project even if qt went crazy and decided to make everything close source from now on kitty will still survive without any issue because what we have currently of qt is already open source you can't close down what you've already open sourced so we'll would just fork it and continue on backfixing kitty developers right now already contribute to kitty with sorry too qt with backfixes so even if we had to fork it we would and we would do fine a community company is eligible for taking loans from banks are buying buildings for their activities but they can't hold assets that aren't related to their business like shares of other companies yeah i mean kitty doesn't have any shares of other companies or such things so no issue there a community company is only in fully owned by yourself makes sense although there is a virtual sharing system that each member owns exactly one share and profits are distributed equally yeah this one doesn't work that's not how it works because if the the profit that's made by a company is never like distributed equally to all members as far as open source goes all of the money is managed to as an example funding group which decides together how to use the money we all decide together how to use the money we don't just give part of it to each member that would be like that wouldn't make sense like you use the money you get to hire developers you don't just give 100 euros to all of the members and say okay now can we give it back so we can hire somebody member the biggest challenge of a community company is to give motivation and encouraging personal initiatives for her members salaries aside the community company should provide a fair mechanism to award the contributors that accomplish yeah kitty kind of has these things as an example we do have rewards for people inside of kitty that contributes to certain aspects of it every year in academy there is this giving the rewards and that's actually encouraging for people of course it's not like money prizes because that would mean that you would people would try to convince people to make them give the money to them that's not how you deal with money but we do have a reward system the most I distributing a large percentage of their annual profits to a small percentage of their no that's not how you manage money that wouldn't work that that would be a mess and that would create so many political tensions because I can assure you 100% that people would complain about people would say that those people those small percentage sorry of people that would get a larger percentage of profits they would say that they are like convincing the board to give the money to them without actually doing enough and there will be a lot of discussion about it and it just wouldn't work that's not how you deal with the money in a community project you make all of the money go to a working group that manages it and then they make proposals on how to spend it and then they all get voted together but you don't just give money a lot of money to certain developers because you think they have done enough because that would generate years of discussions that just wouldn't work let's keep in mind that baby boy never actually was never actually a part an active part of any community projects and I think that in moments like this it shows because he never actively contributed to like kt plasma or gnome for a good period of time is from the outside criticizing these companies but being from the inside you realize that things are not as easy as they seem furthermore the community company can also buy innovation and expand by acquiring non-community companies as long as they return them to community another thing is that a community company can be split yeah these are details but they all make sense obviously two community companies can be merged to one for example gnome could be merged with mozilla foundation this just doesn't make i'm sorry this just doesn't it's so unrealistic it's so unrealistic that it just doesn't make any sense it's not an example it's a fan fiction it it just won't happen gnome and mozilla are completely different projects doing completely different stuff with completely different ways of working inside of them mozilla is not a community company we know that like mozilla is a company it's a profit company who tries to make profit who work in a certain way it's not like you can join mozilla development like it has developers gnome is not like that it's a community project a community company sorry they completely different things they can't just merge and this thing that gnome needs a browser and a cloud no it doesn't and firefox needs an operating system desktop or it will die no that's just not how it works like this is so crazy so gnome could gain a web browser and cloud infrastructure and firefox could gain an operating it's not like if you join with firefox then whoa cloud infrastructure out of the no and gnome i mean you could you can already use firefox in gnome that's being system that is crucial for their existence and by the way i'm planning another movie on that yeah it's a dream it's a fan fiction that's just not going to happen and finally a community company should never be too big to fail in a healthy ecosystem existing community companies could die but new community companies would be born and continue where others left because weird but okay because eventually community will prevail very weird but okay unless if ai prevails first a community of robots then many robots but a single a okay this is where the video completely gets like out of topic i think i've already said enough i think that baby vogue really shows that he doesn't know what he's talking about most of the time when he talks about being part of a community company and when he says that mozilla like needs our desktop or it will die and then it's because of that it should like join with gnome that that's just a crazy