Hi, good afternoon everybody Tom Stewart here and with Liz Trotter. Hey Liz What's today today's Thursday doesn't feel like Thursday, I guess that was caused Monday was kind of the whole Memorial Day thing and Some of us actually tried to observe that and you guys I know work We worked a little bit but not not a normal schedule any who almost to the weekend. Hey Bridget. How are you? a lot's happening in the federal government as it pertains to PPP and you know how some representatives was busy today and they've Created some work that the Senate's gonna have to to deal with next week. We'll jump in and talk about that a little bit once We give everybody a chance to to hop on but it's all good news and Just when you thought it couldn't get any better. It's getting better What's going on Kind of depends on your perspective though too Tom, right? some of the stuff is like I mean, I I do like a lot of the stuff, but I Guess that nothing that they're doing changing talking about is actually bad it's just frustrating because I was operating under a different set of rules and so I I Then having them change it's kind of like all of a sudden I think we use this one before you're playing monopoly and then halfway through the game They say oh, you know what? Huh? It's now gonna cost $12 on top of whatever your choice your crisis or a hotel That's not the rule It's worse than that. It's like playing baseball not knowing if you're supposed to run the first base or third base I'm not sure Actually in that case it might be better right because if you ran the first base and they change the rule Wow, there you are on third base Although I guess if you ran all the way around and you're on third base and they change it now You're on first again, and I would be good. They call you out, but You know the glass is still I mean It's all free money Then We've kind of got in the habit of whenever those recent news comes out. It's kind of like okay. Well, that's it At some point we got to come to the realization that this is an ongoing Story, it's not evergreen.  I mean possibly I mean Here's this here's the skinny on that. I think this is real our herd The the CEO of Bank of America being interviewed this morning Monahan forget his first name doesn't really matter though he said for every one of his depositors and One out of every two Americans has a bank account at Bank of America So I mean they're like the biggest bank in the country For every one of his depositors with $5,000 or less in the bank their average bank balance is 40 percent higher now than it was three months ago before the whole COVID thing hit Which means that the stimulus money has made its way out there in terms of you know the You know economic stimulus checks and all that they haven't spent it yet So so that's and plus it also means that There's the least belief is there's a number of people who are drawing unemployment They're getting the extra 600 bucks a week and they're making more money now than they did before they had a real job a lot of the you know the The unemployment supposed to dry up towards the end of of July at least a federal portion of that that Things are going to start getting getting a lot more crazy and those bank accounts They believe we're gonna start start you know going down at that point and you know, what's next for the government? You know the whole the whole thing is the government's invested I forget like maybe three trillion dollars and all this stimulus so far and If that's only 80% of the solution or 70% of the solution are they just gonna stop and let it crash at that point? No, they're gonna go for another trillion bucks, right? Yeah Governments state governments local governments Their fiscal year runs up September or October it varies a little bit But a lot of them are just way upside down and they're not gonna have the money to Continue to keep everybody on board the way they are now the thinking is they're gonna be a ton of layoffs there Things like the airlines have got you know, they were bailed out and basically contractually They have to keep all their employees until September But they've all said when September comes they're gonna be having deep cuts and there's other industries are kind of in the same boat that There's more money coming folks. I can't tell you exactly how and I can't you know Tell you what that's gonna mean to us exactly, but you know, this story is is still being written so More news good news is coming from from Congress this week and and it should be whatever they're working on now Should be law next week. We'll jump into this in more detail, but that's not the end of anything. That's just More yet to come after that I'm sure Well, and and like you said Tom, they're they're improving on everything that they're doing at least in their minds They're they're trying to make it better. They're trying to fix fix the problem At no point in time has anybody said, you know what? Nah You've given them too much money. Let's let them crash and burn after all. I think that would be the better So so bottom line is It's kind of better for us We're just gonna have to wrap our brains around it again Just like we've had to do every single time, right? We got a little bit of a reprieve there without getting a bunch of new information Over the course of a few weeks anything that was substantial that really made any kind of big change So I think we're just gonna have to I think we're all gonna get really good at accepting change We have the opportunity red if practice makes perfect. We should at least be getting good, right? Yeah, no kidding at least better Can't can't be getting worse. Hey Denny. I don't have you you're not showing up on my Window for some reason. Oh, actually there you are. I lied So there's a new thing that's happening on Facebook live when I'm on my phone Tell them because I usually come on here because I can't comment on the thread and everything is transcribed Now did you know that? transcribed Like can you see it? It's tight Like as you talk, you see how it's okay. Yeah. Yeah, I did I noticed that the other night. Yeah So Heather likes your shirt She likes my hair in your shirt I wear this shirt like five days a week Only five times. Well, maybe maybe say you never know I've been there a few times when I've seen you wearing it six days a week, so Maybe you try to try to hit five that I would believe Well, let's let's get into it Tom. I'm excited to talk about the PPP and how it's working And oh, I did want to say something that today. I was One of this is the idol and we're gonna get into PPP So I heard two really interesting piece of them pieces of information today Your terms on your idol loan may not be the same as mine. All of the terms are not the same Isn't that mind-blowing? I did not know that So some people have different terms than other people do that was kind of crazy for me So that's first thing and the second thing is that the new information is that your Interest does begin accruing One of no, yes, it does begin accruing when your account is funded. Okay, so that's brand new information so that's 3.75% interest is spinning right now Right now So I know some people that are like well, that's a whole different story. That's gonna cost me $5,500 at the end of the year and nope. I'm returning it now I have money and I don't need this so it's just another thing to consider y'all I thought we had articles and that we've looked at previously though that suggested that They didn't start accruing until 11 months Yeah, we we did we saw that in multiple places But the newest piece of information gotten from the congressional site says That it is accruing beginning the That it's also looking up right now. I want that information Yes, so so that's a big change there Another piece of information around that Was How did that work I Can't remember. Let me let me think of how it worked you guys I'm mixing it up in my head with PPP information and I don't want to do that So Yep, I don't money interest. Okay. It had to do with the Okay, so with the new PPP rules, this is why it's mixed up in my head the new PPP Guidance not rules the new PPP guidance says that You're the $10,000 grant that they were talking about rolling $10,000 idol grant or whatever your amount was based on your employee number. They were talking about Rolling that into the PPP Money so that you wouldn't be like double dipping, but it sounds like that is They changed the wording just enough that there might be Some opportunities where you're going to get both of those so don't don't have an answer yet But that's what I heard. All right, what you got there come Payments are deferred for your however interest accrues during the deferment. So that implies what you just said But we're paying interest on Happier that I didn't get the 500,000. Yeah, but that's all that's almost six grand, right? Well, it's almost six grand for the 150 I think yeah, I don't need a calculator for that Yeah, wow, okay, what was the last thought you I was Looking I was looking in this The other thought was that they changed the language around the idol and dance again and Now they are up. No with with in the new heroes act they changed it so that there is Opportunity possibly for us to have the full PPP monies and the $10,000 or whatever your grant number was on top of that money. It's not that yet, but it looks like that is a Potential thing that's happening. So that was that's another 10 grand of for for a grant money Right If you got both if you got the PPP and you got the idol Potentially you could have another 10 to you could have $10,000 or whatever your idol monies were whatever your advance was You could have that much more money today than you had a week yeah All right, so here's the latest and greatest the house today past almost unanimously they had one representative from the state of Kentucky, I think who voted against this but Every other Representative was for it And basically this bill takes the forgiveness period and extends it from eight weeks to 24 weeks Or till to the end of of this year till to December 31st whichever everyone comes first it also Reduces the amount of those monies that have to go towards payroll from 75% to 60% meaning more can go to Other other things And exactly And I've seen this is one where there was some confusion earlier on a call I was on So I just want to clarify this real quick That doesn't mean that if you spent more money than you had originally planned that less will be forgiven That's not what it means. What it means is But the amount will still be forgiven all of the amount will be forgiven as long as you Spend it in the world as long as you follow all of the rules, etc But you don't have to spend the whole 75% You could you could spend 60% and still have all of the monies forgiven Of course, you got to have your FTE numbers and all that stuff But it's good news for the people that are like, oh, no, no, it's good. No Yeah, you can spend 100% on payroll if you want to but rather than then then having to to go no lower than 75% you can go all the way down to 60 Yeah, Leslie good news for her. Yeah. Yeah This article here actually this is Bloomberg And this does even a little better job of explaining what's going on 24 weeks we just said that Or into the year whichever comes first businesses would also have up to five years instead of two to repay the monies owed on the log It could use a greater percentage on rent another approved on payroll expenses That's goes up to 60% or you know as we just just said This has to go to the Senate the Senate's Not in session now. They won't be back until next week They're fully expected to take it up next week the house majority leader Steny Horrier Said that he thinks that the house of the Senate can can reach consensus quickly The expectation is that by the end of next week This will be law because it's at that point that that initial eight-week period since the first loans hit Like that first week of April. They need to they want to get this in place before Anybody's eight with eight week period expires So why though Tom? I mean there are such a long period of time before Anybody actually needs to make a decision Well, I don't understand what the big hurry is Evidently if your eight-week period expires the way the law is written then basically you're Off the clock and nothing more can be forgiven, but if they can extend it before anybody falls out of that window Then they should be able to get all of it forgiven. No problem, right? Shouldn't be anybody worried about having it all forgiven at this point Marco Rubio is a senator from Florida and he's Like leading the charge on this or one at one of the people leading the charge on these changes on the Senate side There's a couple things need to be changed Where is this Perhaps language creates a problem for companies that use less than 60% of the loan on payroll The current program allows for partial forgiveness for 75% But the new wording says if you don't hit 60 you get nothing forgiven Oh, that's a big change then not just a penalty But it went from a penalty to zero. We I mean with that extension I can't imagine why you wouldn't be able to spend that 60% Yeah, especially for house cleaning companies. I don't It would be I'm not sure Any company could spend more than 40% on it and non payroll things and stay within the guidelines Which brings me to a question that we have here Tom Robin wants to know do the other things stay the same? Like in the past business insurance was included. Is that still the same? Did you read anything about that? I think all that's still being hashed out. We saw an article earlier in the week That suggested that they wanted to broaden up what that 25% or maybe now 40% can be used for and one center even suggested allow businesses to make Investments so they can in their business so they can you know ensure their their their long term, you know viability Nice We didn't explain what that was but that's like gee I'm gonna invest in and and I'm you know company car That could be for it so I Have a hard time imagining that that that they would go to that far But did they answer Robin's question? I think they're you know Right now they're hashing around a lot of things But at the end of the day it looks like it's it's gonna be a lot more good than it is them bad So chances are good. Yes Robin, but remember so everybody that Is wondering if this is gonna be forgiven or if that's not gonna be forgiven? Keep in mind that even if some of those other expenses are not forgiven that You will still have money in your your bank account for the monies from the monies That were forgiven because you didn't have to pay those out So they'll be sitting in your account waiting for the things that are not forgiven So just just a reminder because it's such a weird. It's like a mobius strip, you know when you start thinking about it everything Turns right around back. I don't know if everybody knows. I hope everybody knows what a mobius strip is It's one of those things that you Take these paper you twist it and put it together and you can draw a line without ever listing your pencil You can draw a line on both sides of the strip. So it's kind of like that when we are going through this stuff We do have a I don't know if you want to hit this yet, Tom, but Andrew has a question about on FTEs. Is this a good time to? Explain how the how the FTE numbers are gonna work now Yeah, we can jump into that in just a second the one other thing here that Rubio is taking exception to and they Don't explain it well here, but I read this somewhere else he says that The new certification for inability to rehire is too broad and we give businesses less incentive to rehire the house version of this Basically dumbed down the requirements to say that we offered somebody a job and they didn't come back But so I get to count them as part of my FTE anyway Part of the argument was that This is going to be hard for businesses to keep all of this straight and they wanted to make it easier for businesses to Basically, you know meet the number to get it forgiven and Rubio on the Senate side is like, yeah, but if you're just basically making it easier for companies not to hire people Then maybe that's going too far. So this is some of the stuff that they're going to be wrangling with next week All right, so not not completely set yet But we may have a little bit more information, Andrea What uh What what's that what's our FTE question? all right, so A lot of her people are like 25 to 35 hours and I might have the numbers wrong But she just needs some guidance on how are we counting FTE's now and yes, Andrea FTE does stand for a full-time equivalent So, um, she just wants some guidance on that real quick Well, it's pretty it's pretty easy what they have right now It just gets confusing when you start thinking about the past and you know Yeah, if you want to do some crazy math you can still do it the traditional way, but basically they're saying if Somebody works 40 hours a week. You can count them as one FTE if they work less than 40 hours a week you count them as 0.5 FTE and you're you're applying that same standard pre ppp and during ppp so Net net I think that new simple formula for the most part gives us Better outcomes If somebody typically worked 32 hours a week prior to ppp Maybe we're not quite as as busy as we were but now they're working 28 hours They can't get below 75 of where they were before Because then that kind of messes up that other You know calculation of making sure they're pays at 75 percent, but Yeah, you're still like equal 0.5 0.5 And and that number is even if it's 39 hours It's 0.5. Yeah, still 0.5 anything below 40. So one of the new things that I saw Was that we now are going to be having to track it weekly though so Having to do that math on a weekly basis And so that that's different Initially they had that June 30th date and I don't know if this weekly thing is because They're looking at getting rid of that June 30th date. I don't I don't know about that. Do you have any insight into that tom? It's news to me Okay, so So I'm not I'm not exactly sure what that is. Um when when we're filling out our paperwork We're gonna see all of these things, right? Um, I'm not exactly sure how it plays out. Oh, there was one other concern on The call I had today and you know, we had that three hour mma call today tom and now one of the things that the hr expert was saying in that group is um Totally lost my train of thought. What was I even talking about? Changes to The the form for forgiveness for for ppp Yeah about the the tracking on uh, on uh, oh, I know what it was. Sorry one of the people on that call Was stressed out because she was thinking but I already turned in my numbers when I apply That's not what they're looking at y'all. So Other people were like, yeah me too me too You haven't yet when you are Filling in your paperwork and you're recording everything That's when you're going to be giving the number from the different time periods So, you know and you have to choose the different time periods But that's when you'll give your fte count from the past and the fte count from the future So don't have to worry about that. We had a lot of people worried about that but This is the form that You know, this is a link here off of the cleaning business day resource page It stands to figure this is going to change again with this You know new bill that that's being passed Yeah, I don't see how it cannot there's too many too many changes that affect it So I don't I don't see how it's not going to pass I mean not going to change I learned something today from a banker friend kind of kind of tangent but but yet related it's uh related to to ppp funds Um It's kind of funny He said that uh in this We we've got a few different banks that that that we work with but this is this is uh One that we get a couple of ppp loans through and Said that they've kind of just dug out of of the whole initial process And now they're trying to reach back to companies seeing if there's anything that they can do to help them You know manage the ppp funds wanting to know if we wanted to set up a separate bank account for that and It's like well, you know I could see how that would be helpful and he's like I just want to you know The idea is just to make sure that you don't spend the money on on on things that you're not supposed to and then Wondering to pay it back and not have it back Being concerned that really you've only got 18 months to pay it back Is is is kind of the the thinking it's like well, you know, that's getting ready to change to uh five years And he didn't know that So I'll take him to cleaning business today and start walking him through all of this It's like next time we need to know something about you know Ppp we're gonna reach out and let's go to cleaning business today and figure that out But one of the things I learned from him was that If a loan is completely forgiven They get 5% of that loan amount back is kind of Oh Yes That's some of the best news. I've heard in a long time As opposed they're they're being incentivized to approve all of our loans So as long as we're not doing something Illegal They are absolutely incentivized to say yep that passes. That's a good deal Yeah, and I won't I won't say the name of the bank or disclose or anything else, but Yeah, it was that was the whole tone of the discussion. It's like all the guidance he's given is unless It's just blatant fraud We need to try to give these loans because we have an economic incentive to do so Yeah well and on top of that They had already said the thing about the you know companies that were receiving less than a million dollars Were they're going to be maybe not rubber stamped, but they're not being audited. They're just resources Yeah because What was it six or seven years worth? I forget the exact number of sba loans just from a dollar amount Historically, they did like seven years worth of loans and I may be wrong And maybe six might be eight, but it's just a number of years over just What an eight week period Yeah They'll never never catch up Yes crazy. Yeah And remember megan was telling us that the banks are currently hiring people And that's going to be their job. They they have no banking experience at all. They're just No loan experience. They're just like going to be taught what to look for and they'll be looking for that. Yep. There it goes So that was encouraging as well I'm linda says tom so if I had 10 employees, but they all work less than 40 hours Then I technically have five fte's, but no worries because I haven't reported yet In the presumption would have been that you would have had five fte's prior to the ppp funds So five and five you're at 100 employment That that that's the tricky piece is just making sure that you Have the same number. So this extension from eight weeks to 24 weeks That how how does that play in with the fte's tom? Do you know the fte count and no, they haven't changed that june 30th date But it sounds like there's really not a lot of option there that they're going to have to Yeah And that's an interesting question. I guess the devil's in the details on some of that if you've hired people Just to make the full employment number And you really didn't have productive work for them Then You know, it's like The thinking before was well, I'll just eat it between now and you know the end of june just to make the number But if I have to go another Eight time, you know another another 16 weeks to do. Yeah, that's like three months. It's like three and a half almost four months I don't know We need we don't know where that money's coming from yeah and it might Just just thinking out loud it might make sense to adjust your head count today knowing that You know, you got a much longer runway to get up to the number that you want to go and and kind of keep some some dry powder in terms of what ppp monies Are are left And really it's not even pp at that point. It's just money. You had a bucket of money that was given to you by ppp and you're Spending that along with other money within your business and at the end of the 24 week period You can point to you know the dollars that make the most sense to say this is what I spent my ppp money on I think after 24 weeks the chances of anybody not in our industry Um, is there anybody that's just still not open though? And I mean, I know there are like here in washington. We're we're not technically open yet Cleaning companies aren't residential cleaning. So I guess if they're You know Closed a lot longer. They could sort of be dealing with the same problem just further on down the line But I don't know I think I think the bigger issue is just meeting the the head count numbers, but you've got a longer runway to do it so You know, we really really we need to wait until the new version of this mess comes out to know For sure, you know, what the What the new formula is going to be to qualify But it sounds like that the house version of this is making it easier to qualify for full forgiveness That's that's part of of of what's in there And you know, once you once you once you got your arms wrapped around that You know, I wouldn't spend more money than I needed to today Knowing that you know, I've got another 16 weeks to spend the maximum Yeah So two more pieces of information that I thought were great kind of along the same lines is First is maybe maybe don't be making a lot of changes, right Try as much as you can to continue doing business the way you've been doing it because the When they're when they're building new things like this, they don't build the law for the people that are trying to Take advantage. I mean, that's just a very small consideration it's built to Help as many possible people Or as many people as possible So if you were running your company in a legitimate way And you continue doing that That's probably where you're going to get not guaranteed but probably where you're going to get your best advantage And I'm going to give an example so when this PVP money first came out and initially you guys might remember That how how they paid out was either or what was going to be forgiven Was money that was either accrued Or paid it wasn't both, right? Do you guys remember that? so I changed my pay I changed my pay period from bi-weekly to weekly And I kind of shot myself in the foot, right? Do you guys see how I shot myself in the foot because if I if my money was deposited into my account on june 1st just an example And my pay period ended Maybe on on may 20th But my first pay period or payday was june 2nd that entire two weeks money would have been forgiven additionally on the back end if I We have all of our monies through the end of july july 30th But my payday isn't until August 15th all of that money is also forgiven So I could have gotten minus the gap, right? Whatever your your overlap gap is, you know a week or like for us it was a week We can get like four weeks two weeks as much as two weeks on the front end two weeks on the back But now because I changed my pay That I can only be forgiven for a week on the front and a week on the back so Sometimes, you know, we don't know all of the things that are going to happen We don't know the changes, which is what we keep talking about so Some of the things you might end up kind of shoot yourself in the foot around without even meaning to the one one of the We just did and we try or was You know, if you didn't think that you had a practical way of spending all your ppp funds You know hire that person to do your your build your marketing material or your website or you know Not silly stuff stuff it You're beneficial, but you wouldn't just do under normal circumstances now With another six potentially 16 weeks to spend the money then that could have been Homes that you could have been cleaning with no cost to good soul Yeah So we should all we should all get rid of our website designer tomorrow Yeah I take that back strike that from the record. I don't know if that's true or not But it's something to think about because really now we want to jump on it and make more changes fast, right? It's got through saying don't you know do silly right But sometimes it we're we're We're acting with the information that we have right now But I I do I do agree with what tom said. We've got to keep Keep reminding ourselves That this is not over even when the final rules come out. So when the final Information came out for the cares act. I bet it was like, okay, good. We're done Right now. We're gonna have the heroes act. We're done. So y'all It's not over not over till it's over. So we we've got a me. I know this is this is me all of all of you High eyes out there, right Heather and Well, y'all know who we are All of you don't just jump on every little thing and move so fast, right? Think it out a little bit more. Maybe give it just a little bit of time Uh, thanks, Sarah. Yeah, I heard today from somebody in mma group that this was my diva hair I was like, you know, I feel like this is the same hair. I always wear but It's the straight bangs. Yeah, you're the third person now to comment on my hair. So I guess it's different All right, so leslie wants to know how many self-employed gig workers are willing to be employees though Maybe right now I think that It's going to be harder for companies to hire people as gig workers as 1099 You know subcontractors Because there's a lot of gig workers out there who are drawing unemployment insurance right now who never Paid into it there the company they work for never paid into it And I don't think congress is going to allow that to happen again So I think I've seen that several different places. I've heard congressman You know on the record say that we're gonna we're gonna be changing that we're not gonna allow that to happen again So Again a matter of you know, do I want to if I'm a gig worker? Do I want to be an employee? I think The other part of that is If I'm a company am I even going to be allowed to hire gig workers? What's that going to look like? And if I do it's gonna there's going to be more strings attached It's not just a gig worker. I've got more of a commitment to them than just giving them a paycheck and saying they're on their own regarding You know all benefits and all taxes and all whatever. I don't think it We're going to be allowed to play that game moving Sure seems like it's going to be a whole huddle a lot harder. That's for darn sure Sarah just jumped on did they officially extend the ppp? No, andra. You are correct Pass the house, but still needs to get past the senate So we're still waiting, but that's what it that's what it's written as right now, sarah 24 weeks again But the people on both sides of of you know the house and the senate it seems like everybody is is kind of an agreement that Uh, the senate will come back in session next monday and the thinking is that they'll get this thing worked out I mean they can always go sideways, but everybody's talking like by the end of next week. It'll be law Like it should be easy So if they're thinking it's going to be easy The assumption is you know what they say about assumptions But the assumption is that they're not going to come back with a whole other set of Of numbers and criteria and guidance information, right? They're going to have to be somewhat close if they think they're going to be able to make it happen fast well Steny lawyer the Majority leader in the house said that they should be able to work out any differences really quick That it shouldn't be a big deal yeah Amelia I have a new hire to upgrade my website and put him on payroll. So that should work Yeah, absolutely. You you can do that. The only reason we were talking about this is because with the extension We we might not have put those people on payroll And we might have you know changed how we're going to pay them and all that kind of stuff Like i'm paying my um My web guy Much more money than I may have paid him to do the work over time, but on the flip side If you guys don't know who riley is riley put touch nick you need to look him up and the reason i'm saying that is He's working like a dog for top money I mean, I think that a lot of people would be like, oh, okay. It's ppp money. Yay It's just a big bonus for me not him. He's like every day shooting me information Hey, Liz is what I did today. This is it check this out. Go look here. What do you think of this? So, uh, hopefully Amelia whoever you hired is as amazing as riley is anybody that knows his dad can probably Speak to why he's such an amazing guy too. Uh, okay, this is as usual marsha. Yeah good for you, right My hair is shiny. Thanks My hair is getting a lot of kudos today time.  It's a whole thing You know web guy though or the marketing guy or whatever you're you know filling the blank person Is you know several weeks ago we said, well, gee i've got these ppp funds But maybe i'm only at 50 percent of of capacity. I'm not going to be back at full employment I'm going to have monies that i'm not going to be able to use within an eight week period Why don't I get my website though while i'm at it? They perfect sense right go from eight weeks to 24 weeks I can easily You know just just by cleaning homes, you know put that money to good use and So, okay. Well, maybe I don't need that nice old website Yeah, I don't know And I didn't need to bonus out my people to the extent that I bonus them out, right? There I was I'm doing two things. I was spending ppp money and I was combating the unemployment Right the unemployment money. So it's not the The money that i'm paying out.  So yeah, the initial thing was yeah kind of sucks for us early ppp people But it actually doesn't it doesn't doesn't really hurt us at all except for that one thing that tom just said about like If you overpaid like your website died Then you didn't really need to do because you have more time It was like if you knew if you knew you had 24 weeks as opposed to eight you would have probably been more frugal A lot more cute. So we're going a lot more. Yeah Andre is asking a question says are 56 days is up next week wants to know, you know, what do we need to change? I can't don't think that we can responsibly prescribe anything. It's not 100 that this is going to become law. It looks likely, but It's not long. We don't know the details. You know, we're just you know, they're still hashing it out, you know the Like senate and the house don't know the details yet because They haven't negotiated a final bill yet. So I guess the best thing to do is just kind of see how much ppp money you think that you've actually Spent so far how much is left and be thinking well, gee if I have another 16 weeks to put whatever's left to work. What's the most? Logical and the way I can do that to get it get a maximum return off of it Which typically is cleaning homes with it and you know with with a zero or almost zero cost a good song so, um Uh I love your plan the plan that you have right now, andra. I think that's a great plan Meet with your accountant on monday. Yes, that's smart. That's that's that's a really really good plan Uh, linda, have you guys heard of? Oh, have you heard of this town? Have you guys heard of possible legislation ending the weekly 600 dollars for unemployment and giving $450 to those who have returned to work I have not but boy, I would love to see whatever Yeah looking at or Source that that that you have that speaks to that I would I would love to see it because that's that's a new one And that that's another mindbender right there, right? That that's a whole different twist on things. I I don't even want to put any time thinking about that Because that's to me of a mindbender for me unless you send me some kind of legislation or send me something I would love to see something so that I don't waste a whole bunch of time going down a rabbit hole Um, Liz. No, you didn't have to but hopefully they will be thankful. Yeah, they are beautiful Still, you know strategically You know Andrew true. Thank you. Just need to hear that. Yeah, uh, marcia. Yeah prove that they're important to you. Yep That's true, but they already knew they were important to me. So Yeah, just Okay, so I'll tell you another thing that I did Right around the same time Which is going to work in my favor so that you guys don't all have to feel sorry for me right now Um, another thing that I did right at the same time Just a little bit before maybe Maybe three weeks to a month maybe a month before We started having our teams track their own payroll percentage revenue So while they have been earning this extra bonus money, they have also been Reducing their payroll percentage revenue at the same time and creating new habits of Lowering that payroll percentage revenue. So that actually is going to really work in my favor Because when the money's gone, they're still going to be earning me a lot more money. So yay, yay little a little bit of a not win and then a a good one a preview of Future win Um, I thought last night, but I can't remember where I will have to research it. Yeah, wherever you saw it I'm on that my dad What whole payroll thing is something that Yeah, I don't know if everybody fully appreciates what you're what you're talking about there But we we talk about some of the most important KPIs and running your business and Time and time again whenever we're we're working with cleaning business owners looking at their numbers Figuring out opportunities for for for them to be more profitable and more successful That is that that's if that's not at the top of the list. It's certainly in the top three of Absolutely, that are important Maybe on Go ahead. I'm sorry. Maybe on a subsequent call. We can actually get into Some of some of those metrics a little bit more. It's a little little off the beaten path But you know, if we're trying to you know, talk about smart business moves That's really kind of at the heart of it is is is managing some of the some of the more basic metrics in our business So the mastermind accountability groups we have a workbook and that that we use and um, and we we track five things And when people are like, oh my gosh, it's so hard. I don't know how it's just so difficult I'm like, okay start with one Let's just start with your ppr. Let's just start with your payroll percent to revenue And you know three weeks in they're like, what's the heck? I know I can't see why I don't have any money Yeah, I could see why you didn't have any money on day two. So I'm glad you can see it now too So, uh, you know, I I love that concept too. That's uh, something that we do Teaching foundations and it's always such a hard hard class. I'm forever Grateful to tom for teaching that class or multiple classes because so awful Um, but I think it's like one of the best takeaways Everybody's excited and crying and it's like, you know, my life Yeah, I did love that class where we had like the whole class was crying Because everybody was so happy to have this information. I love that Uh, okay, let's see. I have my alice but not having the footage. That sounds a little cleaner I'm getting pandemic unemployment right now. Let's still accept all the cleaning I have I can just reject all of them and live on unemployment. I decided to work So as much as I earn as less Unemployment money I get but I feel like business owner and can't disappoint my local customers who really need my help All right. So I I think you're just saying a katerina that You're you're sticking on unemployment right now because that's where you're making more money But you also are torn because you've got these really good customers That you don't want to disappoint and yeah, that that would be my thinking If I was trying to grow my company and trying to get my company up and running I would definitely want to be cleaning as many of those customers as I possibly could More would be better in my mind and if I could even hire a person to help me with that I would I would do that And then now is the the best opportunity in my mind To for everybody out there to you know a grow grow your company because Just there's so Many what do they call them golden Golden what do they call Tom? Not not trampolines Not golden trampolines Hey barb We're kind of down to crunch time here. I'm gonna just jump in real quick already a little bit Are you that I'm sorry. I'm gonna look at what Linda has to say Okay, oh it looked a very long shot Linda. She looked it up. She found the information. No kidding really Where is it? She's got a link she put a link in there. It's in the um corpse How do you copy those links? I don't know if you're can you within the app that I'm using I can't do anything with it I click on it and it goes it here, but I can't It won't let me go to I If I'm in facebook, can I just click on it? I I I have to you know copy and paste But yeah, if you can copy that out and I got it. I'm sending it to you. Awesome um Cleaning business today. We've got you know our two classes people are still taking the COVID-19 class um Which is is here We've talked about this before not gonna go into details, but Haven't done it. You got people out. They're her cleaning homes right now. It's an awesome class The uh, I have one thing about real quick times you mind. I'm sorry I had um, I had two people today and uh Growth group they get they get the class for free and they said that the the code wasn't working Did anybody reach out to you? No, could you check into that for me? Okay, well, um Diana. I mean Derek Hart I asked him to reach out to you. So if you could just I told him he could he was trying to buy five five of them too. Sorry guys Sorry to but I got to get off the call quick today. So I can't talk to Tom when this is over Okay, well, well, we'll get it. Um, thank you Appreciate it Those have expiration dates and I don't I guess maybe it expired. We need to fire it up We're moving everything over to the new platform too. We uh Do I'm gonna tell him to wait? Yeah, I think it waits till next week. That would be be better If it's We're kind of at a quiet time now because we're Trying to keep things in sync and it's not going to be A lot of moving parts Anywho He's got ppp money extended. So no hurry any more time Class four for phc is coming out tomorrow We just kind of wrapped that up today So we got a couple of things to clean up But that'll be available tomorrow for for those of you who are looking forward to that Um And the rest are coming Really quickly after that Yeah Um This is an awesome class. I know that we're kind of tight on time. So we'll we'll kind of give you the skinny version but It's written for house cleaning professionals for people who are cleaning homes every day. It's an eight-hour course There's an exam at the end. You get a certificate of completion once you complete all seven classes and pass the exam The new platform that we're moving to And you know, we're hoping to have that up and fully functional next week We'll give cleaning business owners the opportunity to enroll their own people track their progress basically manage the The training, you know within your own company and and that's going to be A big big improvement Cleaning business today if you haven't signed up or subscribed don't be here on the right. Please do that Our super secret pass code to get to all of our download goodies is here And I am going to take that link Liz that you're going to send me that that linda dropped And We'll research that and we'll be able to speak to that tomorrow Yeah, thank you for that. That was super helpful. Andrew. This is awesome Yeah What's it? No, it was linda wasn't it linda? Yeah Thanks linda. Yeah Um, do you have classes for business owners? Yep, tom just went over the classes that we have currently that are Easily accessible have to do with some basic cleaning and so for those of you also What I want to say this but those of you that are looking into the hct classes when you are checking out the Materials and the contents of the class might want to check this class out as well the The phc class and and check out the content there I'm just keeping in mind that the phc class is dedicated to the The professional house cleaner that that's who it's written for Amelia's No, you're good. I mean, okay In some regards they're apples and oranges, you know The hct class is is basically a live class It's two full days that you're going to be sitting in front of a computer and like a webinar type setting We've got you know, just put together in a learning management system where you can do it on your own pace at your own time There's seven different classes. There's modules within the classes So you can you know over a period of time just complete a class when it's convenient And you know your your your cleaning professionals can do that as well More most importantly, this is accessible to to the people that clean for you Because you can buy a number of seats and you'll be able to next week You'll be able to enroll those people yourself your your people yourself and coach them and manage their progress through this whole thing and You know the it's hard For a two-day class just for somebody to not clean homes for two days to do You know act training And I help put the act program together. I help write the book I'm all about it and if you're a cleaning business owner and you've got two days to invest in it It's an awesome class. I'm just being practical because you know, I run a cleaning business too that's why I wear this groovy shirt that I've been getting compliments on and I can afford to take cleaning techs out of the field for two days and sit in front of a screen and take that class Plus it costs about you know, three times as much plus you have to pay them for two full days So really you run the math it costs over four times. Maybe five times as much So I could go on and on and on. It's just an option that you'd want to look at um, I dropped the link to where um The the phc class is and where you can can enroll That question came up. All right. Me it was asking we're we're running like Sorry guys. We're hopefully you got that. Yeah I I have a um a facebook thread going with her. So Amelia if you can't find it. Let me know and I'll hook you up Thanks guys. Appreciate you being here. We'll be back tomorrow five o'clock eastern time Be safe. We'll see you tomorrow. Bye. Bye


So, last time we had introduced the definition of mod k where k is a differential complex. So, today we will study the topology on mod k. Before that let me just recall what was the definition and a few notations. So, we took mod k as subset of the power set, the product set I cross I cross I taken V number of times, number of vertices in V whatever that many copies of I is taken which same thing as taking functions from V to I, additional condition that is that the support of alpha many points wherein alpha is not 0, they must be the numbers of S and the sum total is equal to 1. After that we introduced two notations for each simplex, closed simplex F bracket close the bracket this is all V for which its support is contained inside F, the same thing as for every V it should k inside k minus F it is 0. The second one on this open simplex is all alpha in case as that alpha V is 0 if and only if V is in k minus F that means if it is in F it is not 0. So, it is same thing as support of alpha is equal to F, then boundary of F was defined as closed simplex minus open simplex. So, let us come to the topology now. I will first treat the finite case because it is simple that is all and it gives you motivation, k is finite is same thing as V is finite. Then mod k is a subset of I cross I cross V number of times as many as elements of V, so it is a finite Q I cross I cross V the finite Q. So, we can just simply take the subspace topology from this I power V which is I power n where n is the cardinality of V. It is a familiar object for us. It is inside R power n. So, take the induced topology namely a subspace topology then you call it as geometric realization of k. The geometric realization of k and denoted by mod k is not just a set it has a topology. What is this topology? At least in the case of case finite it is the subspace of I power V defined in a particular way. It is a subset of I power V already it takes a subspace topology. You already notice that this given by a closed condition. So, mod k is a closed subset of this one in particular it is compact. Closed subset of a compact that is compact. And each closed f is again a closed subset of mod k that is also given by closed condition. Its conditions are all given on the coordinate functions equal to something intersection several of them. So, it is it becomes a closed set. Note that its closed simplex f as a natural convex structure coming from that of I raise to V. I raise to V is a cube right I cross I cross Y that is a convex set. So, that convex set the same structure is there inside mod f the closure of closed simplex f and closed simplex f itself is a convex subset for if alpha and beta are inside this closed simplex and t is between 0 and 1 and t times alpha plus 1 minus t times beta is again is an element of f. What is the meaning of this? Take this one say this is a gamma. Gamma of V is not 0 implies that V must be inside f. If gamma of V is not 0 if gamma of V is 0 for alpha it will be 0 outside but beta also it will be 0. So, the combination also it will be 0 right. If V is a point outside f then this will be 0 that is why it is inside. So, moment gamma of V is 0 for every V outside k minus f or inside k minus f outside f then it is an element of closed simplex. We may identify mod f with a convex subset of I raise to f you see I raise to f is a subset of I raise to is actually a quotient of I raise to V because f is subset of V you can take only those those things but this I raise to f is another copy of I cross I cross I and so on. So, there is an identification of this one also and of course, inside that we have to again take the condition 2 that subtotal is equal to 1. So, what is the thing I have I have just excluded all those coordinates for which this point is 0 anyway. So, that is why I have taken only this part that is all. Now comes the more interesting topology the relative interior of closed f, a relative interior of a set inside a topology topological space is not exactly the interior of f as a subspace of the topological space x. The relative interior has to be defined inside the space it is a tricky thing. So, this can be done for geometric things. So, that is what we are going to do. For example, suppose you have open interval your closed interval contained in R2 as subspace of R2, but it is inside R. In R the closed interval has its interior which is open interval, but as a subspace of R2 it has no interior. So, this open interval is the relative interior of this mod the simplest irrespective of where it is contained in. So, we are defining it irrespective of where. So, this is what interior of f is precisely those alpha for which alpha v is not very final. This is the another notation now which is we have already defined it as open simplex f. Now, you know why it is called open simplex f it is interior of mod f. So, inside this bracket f, round bracket f, open f is an open subset. The boundary of f by the very definition will be a closed subset and that will be the union of property at least one of them one of the vertices is 0. So, it is inside that proper subset union of subsets.  Given a simplex you take all its subsets that is a simplicial complex. Then what is the geometric realization of this? You have to take all functions defined on f the f is a vertex right now. 2 i that is why I have defined mod f as can be identified with i raised to f with condition summation of equal to 1. And the first condition is automatic because every subset of f is already inside the simplex complex.  But its geometric realization you know is it can be identified with geometric realization of the simplex the simplex complex f. Each map f from f to i can be identified with the map f with the alpha from v to i which is 0 outside f and you are doing the same condition.   I can talk about mod f 1 and mod f 2 they will be subspaces of mod k right. I want to say that it is precisely equal to the mod of f 1 intersection f 2. f 1 intersection f 2 if it is empty it should be empty.  There cannot be any such element right. They will be totally distinct thing. Therefore, if this is f 1 intersection empty this is empty. But suppose this is non-empty then this is a simplex. This is a phase of both of them. This is contained in the f 1 and f 2 contained both of them. And I want to say this is equal and this is very straightforward. Namely this is point set topology. You see just you look at what is the meaning of an element here. The support of that element is inside f 1 intersection f 2.  So, the two subspace topologies on the intersection coming from f 1 or coming from f 2 they coincide ok. So, this is very important thing we have to observe.   So, the family of closed subsets mod f or you can write it as now bracket f closed bracket f what mod f they are the same ok. So, whatever tentatively I have put at bracket f is now the same thing as mod f. So, f is a phase of k as soon as it is a phase of k it is a closed subset. Look at all these that is a family of closed subsets ok. Everything in k must belong to one of them that is by definition. Every element of mod k has support one of the phases. So, this is a cover for mod k, but it is not an open cover it is a closed covering, but it is a finite because k itself is finite I have taken ok. Clearly g contained inside mod k take any set it will be closed if we find only g intersection mod f is closed in mod f for every f in a k ok. This is the property of any finite closed covering for a topological space. It is an elementary property how you define a continuous function on two closed sets continuous on each of them and on the intersection they agree automatically it is continuous on the whole space. So, this is true for finite covers which are closed on each of them if you verify continuity and on the intersections the functions agree that is function is defined on the whole of it then it will be automatically continuous right. So, it is same thing as saying that g intersection mod f is closed for every f if and only if g is closed. So, this has the standard wording here namely it is a weak topology with respect to the above covering if you have not if you have forgotten your concept topology. This property gives us an idea how to get a good topology on mod k when k is infinite. This property is going to be our guiding principle for defining a topology when k is infinite ok. So, that is not finite. So, let me complete this one. Let V be an infinite set and k is always a subset of i raised to v it is a closed subset of i raised to v ok by definition. You can put the following metric now first I will put a metric on on this mod k of course it will be from i raised to v for i raised to v v is too big. So, I do not want to put a metric on that all right.  We have seen that it is a i th coordinate v i th coordinate function that is the meaning of this one and that is not 0 only finitely many similarly beta is a finite combination like this ok. So, this is just a tentative notation if you identify v i with an element of mod k how do you do that? It is v i operating upon v i is identity is 1 and v i operating upon v j is 0 right. So, that is the element these are the standard basis elements for i raised to v ok. So, in that sense this summation makes sense ok summation beta v i belonging to mod k we know that alpha i and beta i are 0 except for finitely many i which is same thing as that these two are finite sums ok. Then I can define distance between alpha and beta to be just the square root of the sum of the squares of the differences just like in the Euclidean squares. Take the coordinate functions take the differences take the square of that take the sum and then take the square root this makes sense because only for finitely many i these are non-zero no i raised to v I cannot do that because this is too few then infinitely many coordinates may be non-zero here ok. So, for mod k I can do that because mod k is contained inside i raised to v for which so this makes sense direct verification just like in a direct sum of vector spaces this will become a metric ok and we have a metric topology now if its k is finite this is just the Euclidean metric in r raised to n because all those things I have to involve now ok. So, whatever topology we have done we have analyzed for k finite that is metric topology only from Euclidean space alright, but we are using a different property of that space and then we will have to do this one this metric topology on infinite thing is not a good thing for us so we will modify it ok. Let us denote this mod k with the metric topology kd suffix d because we are not finally interested in this one which is only a intermediate step clearly it coincides with the Euclidean topology when v is finite. Therefore, topology induced on each mod f from mod kd is the same as the intermediate topology that we have been taking namely of the simple existence on that is what we have done so far ok. For each mod k for each mod f the topology that we have defined using an isomorphism using a homomorphism of this one with a standard simple act that topology is the same as the subspace topology from kd. Now I want to redefine the topology and the whole of k by declaring a subset of a subset a of k is closed different only a intersection f is closed for every f is closed. So, this property which we have verified for when k is finite this becomes the definite defining property for the topology. A subset is closed we find only intersection with each f is closed. So, this is the weak topology with respect to the family of closed subsets. Clearly then this topology is finer than kd if a is already closed inside kd then a intersection f will be closed inside kd as well as mod f because mod f has the same subspace topology from kd. So, all closed subsets of kd are inside this topology weak topology. This is a funny name this is called weak topology for some different reason, but with respect to this kd it is stronger than the topology of kd because everything closed subset inside kd is also closed here it is a finer topology than kd. The metric topology has certain properties the mod k is even better it has more open sets. So, one good reason for taking this weak topology I have put it in a bracket because this is not weaker than mod kd, but it is actually finer. Instead of the metric topology is that constructing continuous functions on k becomes simpler and is coherent with our theme that the simplices are the building blocks of simplicitial complex. So, this is the motivation I will restate it as a theorem take any topological space x okay or a again this x should be y they take any topological space y a function from mod k to y is continuous if and only restriction map of f to mod f to y is continuous for every f. What is f? f is a simplex in k. We write this one all the time instead of writing k is equal to a comma s it is actually for every f inside s the simplex okay. Likewise a function from mod k cross i to y is continuous if and only h restricted to each mod f cross i is continuous for every phase f in k okay the first one is actually same as definition of the topology and mod k right. Take a subset here which is closed its inverse image is closed here is what I want to show the inverse image here is nothing but f inverse of f restricted to f inverse of that set okay by definition if this is closed but if this is closed for every f then that is closed because this is the victor power and gone earthly okay this is fine but now same thing is claimed for the product for this careful proof of this one has to be written down and that uses functions spaced topology okay to prove the second part for first part I have done we note that i is locally compact in fact i is compact right whenever locally compact host of space I can use exponential correspondence theorem right. So I am just recalling the exponential correspondence theorem if x is locally compact y and z are any topological spaces exponential map e from y power x cross x to y even by e of fx is continuous and any function from any topological space z to y power x is continuous if and only if e composite g cross i g cross identity is continuous so these two theorem this was part a part b and so on of that exponential correspondence theorem. So I use now x to be the closed interval 0 1 because there is a locally compact right to put x si and z dash k then you can define g from this k mod k to this y raise to i y is arbitrary space by the formula g z must be a function from i to y to the h of z t remember h is given from mod k cross i to y so first coordinate is in mod k and second coordinate is in i then to take e composite g cross identity that will precisely h that is the definition. Hence h is continuous if and only if g is continuous by the exponential correspondence. Now g is continuous from the first part applied to y power g if and only if g restricted to each mod f is continuous for every mod f inside k right which is same thing as now go back to exponential correspondence this g restricted to f is continuous if and only if e composite g cross i restricted this one which is same thing as h of f restricted to i h restricted to mod f cross i is continuous. So exponential correspondence is used first go to the power here and then come back both both sides you have to restrain on this part has to be used we will stop here next time we will study maps between temperature complexes what kind of maps we have to study there okay thank you.


Hello, how are you doing today? This is your host Sopil Bhatia and we are back with some hardware review today We are going to review BenQ screen bar ear reading lamp. This was sent by BenQ. I did not buy it, but As a writer I used to To use typewriter actually initially the initial days and I always loved lamp over my work area And I have that little tiny lamp as you can see here. I really love and I have a little light lamp up there I never even considered this because I was actually not aware of any such thing. I never even googled it So it's really interesting to see what they have in this box It may be something that I always wanted, but I never bothered to get So let's open it up and see That's another box Let's open the box We have some papers Unfortunately, all of it is in Chinese Mandarin, so I can't read it Once again all the instruction of this Catalog is also in Mandarin then we have This seems to be the stand. This is Actual lamp as you can see there's all lady here and I don't know what they are. Okay, so then this one I don't know if you can see it, but I'll be showing it to you later on This one is power that I have no idea what it is and that one seems to be temperature color temperature for the light and this one is the brightness and Then there is a poor for USB as you can see here and then you have USB cable So that's all it is and it's a USB Micro USB cable So let's see how it actually works. What I'm assuming is that it should typically work as Which you can plug in your laptop system. The good news is that my Dell Monitor it has a USB port, so I can plug it the USB port in there and then this seems to Cool like this I'm assuming and then Technically this should be behind so I cannot see it Once again, I should I wish There were instructions clear, so there are no instructions as such So I'll have to do all the guess work myself, but it looks like This oh, okay. So now I got it. So there is a cut So as you can see there's a cut It should go I'm assuming like So you put it there so that the USB is against the hole and that's how it goes and then You put it on top of the monitor and make sure that this clip is in front so it latches onto the monitor and then you take the USB and Connect it from the behind so you leave it like that and And That's it is let me turn the main light off Okay, so this is what it looks like I still have one spot light on for my face so that you can at least see my face, but What is really incredible is that from the lamp I don't see any light on my face So what is happening is that all the light is on my table Without any glare in my eyes so that I don't have to struggle to look at the screen Because there is sharp light in front of me, but at the same time my whole work area is very well lit This is I I cannot even say that why I never thought about that. It's incredible. So let's just quickly check about the So you can increase or decrease the brightness as you can see when you just hold the button the brightness goes up and down So you can increase or decreases. So let's increase the brightness a bit And then this one is color temperature as you can see it's a It's now very very cold blueish white is and now it is Blue and if I keep tapping on this button, it will become warm So you can choose whatever color temperature you like and you know what I Think even when I'm recording these videos in future all the interviews I'll keep this light there and because it gives a very good fill light on my desktop Let me just turn that light off just to just check Okay, so here we are I Don't really know if you can see my face and this is I'm recording with penasonic GH5S Panasonic's are not known for low light condition, but I think if you look at it It really looks good because the work area So you can if you want to read you can read very well and the the The light is very kind of diffused light. So you don't get any sharp light in your eyes And I can just change the color temperature just for the sake of it. Oh, this is dimming And make it brightest and not change the temperature Okay, so this is like Cold cool light and blue. This is incredible. This is I don't know what is this for I think this is a very neat light That you need for your desktop if you spend a lot of time in front of your computer But you also want to be able to read books or look at the keyboard because most of these keyboards are not blacklit But at the same time You don't want a super bright light in your room because sometimes like for example, I'm a fiction writer, too I just want a very quiet and you know Secluded place where everything else disappears and only thing I see is my keyboard My screen or if I'm reading I just want to see the book not the whole room. So then thank you lamp. I can achieve it So here here's my thoughts about it If you're somebody who is either a writer who spends a lot of time in your desktop in your room Where you are like me who doesn't like a lot of bright lights around you You just want to focus on your keyboard your screen Or your book so and actually to be honest with you If you really want to focus you want everything else to disappear all you want to see is words or keys where you can press So I think it's a very neat Lamp that I would have later meant the reason I would recommend is first of all, thank you man Thank you for sending it But the actual reason I recommend is that I will be using it myself So what are your thoughts about this lamp? Do you think you'd need this lamp? Do you think it's a neat name? I? Love it. I really love it Thank you. No, let's go and do some work Oops, I need to turn that off. Sorry


I have made many different videos on immeatable distributions in the past. I've talked about what they are. I've talked about a few of the specific distributions. And overall, I've come to the conclusion in the past that they're not really for me, right? I really don't want to have the constraints that I feel immeatable distributions put on me as a Linux user. And I think part of that is that even though I understood what an immeatable distribution was, I didn't really get it, right? I didn't understand the actual benefits to using an immeatable distribution. And while I would say that I'm closer to understanding now than I was before, that may be a little bit of a fib given that I'm still learning and trying to understand exactly what these things are and what the benefits are for real usage when it comes to like normal Linux users, right? I understand the benefits of them when it comes to like enterprise and vast deployments of computers. But when it comes to actual desktop usage of regular people, I have only started to begin to understand what the benefits are for us Normies. I mean, Normies when it comes to Linux users at least. Today though, what I want to do is show you one of the benefits that I have discovered. And that is the ability to switch between different versions of an immeatable system very, very easily. So the process of doing this comes to us from a project called Ublue. And it is a very cool projects that I don't really understand all of the workings behind. I'm still kind of learning. So the technological aspect of what's actually happening here, I'm not going to be able to explain but I'm gonna be able to show you the outcome of it. And that's what we're gonna do today. So before I jump in, if you would be so kind just to leave a thumbs up on this video, I'd really appreciate it. It really does help the channel. So today, what I'm gonna show you is I'm gonna take a stock brand new version of Silverblue which is a GNOME based immeatable distribution from Fedora. And I'm going to turn it into several different things. We're gonna take a little bit of a journey through several different desktop environments. And I'm going to do it very, very quickly. So let's go ahead and jump in. So the mechanism of doing this and you're probably still a little bit confused over exactly what we're doing comes to us from a project, as I said, called Universalblue. And that's available from a URL called ublue.it or universal-blue.org. And I'll leave links to this in the video description. Basically what this does is it allows you to take a existing version of Fedora and turn it into a different version of Fedora. And when I say version of Fedora, what I'm really talking about is Silverblue, Kenowite, things like that, things that are already immeatable can be transitioned from one version to another very, very easily.  So if you wanted to create an image with all of your own packages, your select programs that you use for programming or development or whatever you wanted to do, you could do that. If you wanted to create one with your own window manager or your preferred window manager, I should say you could do that. Now, in the future, I would like to make a video over how to do that. I just haven't gotten around to learning it yet. So today we're gonna focus on the easier part, which is transitioning between different versions of immeatable Fedora. So first, we're on GNOME right now. As you can see, this is GNOME version 44, maybe 45. I don't actually know. I'm not a GNOME user, you guys know this. But this is Fedora 38, it is actually Silverblue 38. And I'm gonna first transition us to Kinoite, which is the KDE version of Silverblue. In order to do that, you go to the images of Ublue, which you can find from their homepage, which is this list here.  Now, when I first heard the term images, I thought these were gonna be ISOs, right? I thought you could download the ISO and actually install it. But they're not actually that. These are just things that you run inside of an existing version of Fedora that will rebase your version of Fedora into something different. So we're gonna scroll down here to Kinoite and we're gonna grab this one liner here. Now, there are two different versions of this. So if you're on a system that uses an AMD card or an Intel GPU, you would select this one here. If you wanted to use one that has the Nvidia drivers attached to it, you can use this one here. Because this is not a Fedora project, it's developed outside of Fedora by the community, they're able to include packages that wouldn't necessarily be able to be included with Fedora like proprietary Nvidia drivers. So if you need the Nvidia drivers inside of your image, you can get that very easily just by selecting the proper image. I don't need the Nvidia drivers. So I'm going to select this one here. I just need to copy this line here, copy. And I'm gonna open up a terminal. I'm going to paste that line. I'm gonna enter and then I'm gonna wait. It doesn't take very long. Okay, that actually took about three minutes or so, but it wasn't too long at all. So once it's done its thing, all you have to do is reboot. So I'm going to go ahead and close Firefox here. I'm gonna do a system CTL reboot if I can spell, which everybody knows that I cannot. And that's going to reboot. And then when we come back, if everything worked properly, we'll no longer be in GNOME, we'll actually be in KDE. Now if you've used Linux for any amount of time, you know that you can theoretically move from GNOME to KDE on any distribution. That's possible, but it's always a mess because there are a ton of packages and dependencies and stuff that you have to remove from one, you know, install with the other. And it can get very messy and it doesn't always work out the way you expect it to. This was one line, it did its thing. And as you can see, this is SDDM. I'm gonna enter my password here. And when it boots into KDE, you'll see that it is actually KDE. Now, there are some questions that you probably have. The first one, and this is the one that I had, was what happens to my personal files, right? If I have things in the home directory, do those things get erased when I all of a sudden switch to a brand new system, which is what this feels like you're doing? The answer is no, all of your personal files stay there. And that's kind of the beauty of an immutable system. You're only changing the underlying layers. All of your user layers stay exactly where they were, they're never touched. So that's the cool part about an immutable system. We just switched from GNOME to KDE in the matter of like three or four minutes without literally any effort on my part. I didn't have to uninstall any of GNOME. I didn't have to install KDE. It all just rebased to this. So now that we've moved from GNOME to KDE, I wanna try a second image and see if that will work. So I'm gonna copy this link here. We're gonna try LXCute. I haven't used LXCute in literal years. So I'm gonna copy that. I wanna make sure I'm using the right version. I'm gonna go to here and open up a terminal. I'm gonna copy that one line there and hit Enter. In about three minutes from now, this should be done. So that one actually installed a little bit quicker. So I should be able to close all the stuff here and do a reboot and see if we actually enter into LXCute. And here we are inside of a very interesting desktop environment that I haven't tried. Actually, I'm not actually sure if I've ever tried LXCute now that I think about it. I think the last time I tried LX anything, it was LXDE, which is before LXCute was a thing. So I have no clue what this actually is. It would be fun to explore. But as you can see, we've actually moved from GNOME to KDE to LXCute, all with two lines of terminal commands. That's it. It took overall approximately seven minutes to do, though there was some editing magic that are between actual takes because I mess things up as I usually do. But as you can see, it was very, very easy to do. And we're just there.  That just gives you to the terminal. I don't know where the rest of the things is. I don't know how to use this desktop environment. So sue me. Anyway, but you can see that that's very, very easy to do.  Okay, so here we are on the grub of the virtual machine that I've been using. So as you can see, there are different entries here that are available to us. So this top one here is the last one that we used, which was LXCute. The one before that was Kino White. And then below that should be GNOME. I'm not actually sure if that's the GNOME one. We're gonna actually boot into it and find out. So basically what you can do is once you've rebased to something, you can go back. So that's actually LXCute. I'm not sure where the GNOME one is. So this is just LXCute again. So, but theoretically at least you should be able to go back to different versions that you've based on before. So we can if we can get grub to actually step for longer than a few seconds, I'm gonna go ahead and reboot here. So I can can select the Kino White one and that will take us from LXCute back to KDE. And we'll see if that works. It should and it does. See, here we are right back into KDE. Like I said, theoretically you should be able to do the GNOME one as well. I'm not sure why that wasn't an option there. It should be there. But as you can see, that's awesome, right? And the fact that there are so many different images that you can do this with. So I'm gonna actually show you all those images again. There are probably two dozen different images here for you to select from. Now a lot of them are just variations on a theme. So a lot of them are just basically silver blue but with different options. So like this Bazzite one, I'm not sure how you pronounce that. That's going to be a GNOME but with gaming stuff, right? There are four different ones of those. There's one here that's basically a clone of GNOME OS and it appears that there are more than there are simply because there's usually at least two for each one because a lot of them have NVIDIA versions. And then there's one here for development work, one here that's based on, one that's basically silver blue and it's kind of for people who have left Ubuntu. There is a Budgie one. There's one for Cinnamon. There's one for Deepin. There's one for Kino White, which we tried. There's Alex Cute, which we tried. There's Mate. There's Sarah Sia, if that's how you pronounce it. That's actually Sway Windo Manager, if I'm correct. There's, you can actually rebase right back to silver blue if you wanted to. So as you can see, there are a lot of different images that you can choose from. And as you've seen, it's really easy to move back and forth between them. Now, I don't know how well it would work as you stack more and more layers on top of each other. So it's possible that you'd have to remove some of those layers over time to kind of get things to work. I'm not sure about that yet. I haven't tested that out yet, but being able to move from one desktop environment to another, especially ones that aren't necessarily related in terms of technology. So we've installed, we had GNOME, which is a GTK-based DE to KDE, which is a QT-based DE, which, and then we went to Alex Cute, which is also QT, right? So we could then go back to GNOME if we wanted to, just as easily. All we'd have to do is select the silver blue one here and go back to GNOME, which I'm actually going to try here real quick just to see if I can actually do it. Now, like I said, theoretically, the GNOME one should still be on the system. I'm not sure why that's not there, but we're going to go ahead and give this a try. Worst that could happen is I would just have to boot back into KDE. Okay, so that's done. Let's go ahead and see if we can reboot and see if we're right back into GNOME. Ha ha, look at that. It actually worked. And is it gonna, yep, there we go. And it even remembered my wallpaper and everything. Now it still has my extensions exactly the way it was. So that's pretty cool, right? That has to be the neatest feature of an immutable that I can think of right now. Now, I know there are many other ones like built-in containerization support from like Toolbox or Distrobox or whatever. I know like VanillaOS has the ability to install packages from every single distribution or something like that. Those all sound really cool, but this here for someone who switches between things a lot is a very promising thing to think of. Now, for me personally, I would like there to be more window managers. Now, like I said at the beginning, there is a way to make your own image. And I'm going to learn how to do that so that I can make a video on how to do it. I haven't got there yet. It's not supposedly all that complicated, but we'll see how it goes. I tend to make things more complicated than they need to be. So like I said, we'll see how it goes. So that is Ublue and that is switching between different versions of immutable Fedora very, very quickly, very, very easily. And I think it's really, really neat. So if you have thoughts on this, you can leave those in the comment section below. If you haven't already, would you please leave a thumbs up on this video? I'd really appreciate it. It really does help the channel. You can follow me on Mastodon or Odyssey. Those links will be in the video description. You can support me on Patreon at patreon.com slash Linuxcast. Links for YouTube and PayPal will be in the video description as well. If you'd like to support me there. Thanks to everybody who does support me on Patreon and YouTube, you guys are all absolutely amazing. Without you, the channel just would not be anywhere near where it is right now. So thank you so very, very much for your support. Again, thank you. Thanks to everybody for watching. I'll see you next time.


Yeah, it was great. You think about all the things that have been thrown at us, how difficult this year was for everybody, just with the condensed schedule and all the protocols, you know, really proud of our team. You know, getting the two-seed is an accomplishment for everything that we face this year and I feel like everybody in that locker room contributed in a meaningful way, which makes it special. So, lots to be proud of, lots to be thankful for, but, you know, this is what we came for, so now we get to work and really go at it. I know you've often said you're not surprised with the plays that your star players make and the things that they're able to do out there on the court, but even though you made it look easy, being a part of the 50-40-90 club, you know the type of work that goes in to being a part of that club. How special is what Kyle with Kyrie was able to do this season?  So to be able to make those shots, to create the space, to take those shots, to convert at such an efficient rate is incredible, so a remarkable player, a remarkable accomplishment and really proud that I could see it firsthand. Greg Logan with Newsday. Steve, two things. First of all, Kevin really asserted himself in the third quarter and just kind of took over the game then, so what would you say about that? And then my second question is, how good does it feel to get to the playoffs with him and Kyrie and Harden and Griffin apparently pretty healthy? Yeah, I know that was a major priority. I mean, first with Kevin, yeah, he was great tonight, obviously they doubled him a lot and he had 13 assists, two turnovers, you know, his shot making was kind of his normal incredible self and so, you know, very well done, balanced game in short minutes, so he was huge for us. You know, it's great, you know, big goal for us this year was to try to be as healthy as possible by the end of the year and to keep everyone on the same page and excited about what we're doing. So, you know, mission accomplished there. We have a week to prepare and the level is going to go up and we've got to rise to the occasion and be ready to go.


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