Hi, my name is Bruce Ashfield. I am a principal engineer at AMD. I'm going to be talking today about embedded containers as a deployment component and in particular how they interact and can work with the Yachto project. Unfortunately, if you're watching this, you're watching the recorded session as part of the virtual summit because I could not be there this time around. Hopefully I can give this in person at a future conference. I will be around for questions at the end, so hopefully we can make up for any extra details at that time. So the agenda and what I want to talk about is a quick overview of embedded containers, what they are, how you might want to use them, you know, where they come from and, you know, similarities to just containers. So we're going into a little bit more detail about the five W's as I described this presentation, which is the who, what, where, when and why about containers and answering those questions and how you might not think they lead you to the Yachto project or map to the requirements of your typical embedded platform. So it'll be sort of some questions and some answers that will show you that it can lead to, in fact, the Yachto project and an embedded device. I'll summarize some of the Yachto project capabilities around containers, and then I'll do a quick sample deployment and update of a container, and then we'll have some questions. So one of the things that, you know, I've been working with embedded containers for probably almost 10 years now. And one of the biggest things that has changed is in fact the increased compute power and resources available for devices that were traditionally called embedded. In this case, we're talking about, it's not necessarily a really tiny device, but something that runs on the edge of the network, or something that is part of a larger solution. So we're talking about things that are more powerful than they used to be, but we're not necessarily talking about servers in the cloud, for example. But that the power has of the devices has increased over time, maybe not to the point where you're running multiple virtual machines, for example, but you do have plenty of resources to run containers and you'd like to leverage some of the benefits of running containers. Also, what we're seeing on embedded devices is the need or the desire or the requirements to leverage modern or deeper software stacks. And by that I'm talking about some of the different frameworks like Kubernetes, K3S, even some of the Podman based frameworks and those sort of things. Also that, you know, you might want, if you're talking about embedded containers, the ability to do orchestration, to do control and to do updates of devices at scale without needing some sort of custom solution, because if you take my first two comments with deeper software stacks, and the frameworks that you get some of the ability to do the monitoring the orchestration and control at scale without needing to write anything custom. You also might have application developers running on these working and developing for these more powerful edge devices, and they might be more familiar with containers or the workflow of updating modern application stacks. And but don't want to interact with a low level embedded build system so their usability can come into play while you might want embedded containers and why you might want them on an embedded device. And also, we found that you know there's this building up of the really slimmed down small footprint embedded distributions they've been adding more func we've been adding more functionality they've been building up. At the same time, there's the efforts to maybe slim down or remove components from a larger enterprise distro. So there's sort of a meeting point size device where you might run a built up embedded distribution, or you might want to run sort of a cut down enterprise distribution. And the comment that we had that at least I always make is that of course it's better to or easier to build up than to tear down in particular if you want to do it in a controlled manner. The other advantage if you run with containers on your embedded device is that you do have the flexibility to address the requirements of different verticals so what you want for networking and automotive is different from a security application for example but you do have the flexibility to change the framework to change the configuration to use the sandboxing to use different networking namespaces in order to meet the requirements of the verticals. Also, the footprint of a container runtime, it can be tailored to the device. So we have, I'll go into a little bit of detail in the Octo project in the meta virtualization layer. We have everything from RunC, which is the standard Golang based runtime for many of the container frameworks. We have CRUN, which is a C based one. We have Kubernetes, we have K3S, we have all these different frameworks that have different resource requirements, different security surfaces, and that you can tailor the footprint and the surface area of your runtime for your needs. So it's not one size fits all. And that if you're running your application already on top of a in a container based environment that your applications, they can either be streamlined to take advantage of that lower footprint, or they can be largely unchanged. So you can run the same application in a container on these embedded devices as you could anywhere else because there is no modifications to the platform. We're talking about standards based unmodified container run times just like you would find on your Linux box running at your house. So I briefly mentioned some of the things in meta virtualization on the previous slide. And, you know, we've been at doing virtualization, which is actually virtualization in the sense of hypervisors and system virtualization in the sense of containers. We've been working on this since 2012, starting with over time adding more complex type applications and frameworks, as well as adding more of them. So in, you know, in 2012 it was basically LXC, Libvert and Zen. And there was that type of containerization, as well as the virtual machine options but as as we march through time you can see that we added Docker showed up run C container D all of a sudden you're now getting into some of the components that you would have heard about as you know in all of the the current container based platforms and stacks. And then there was sort of the breakup of Docker in the sense of the different components run C and the container D in the way that they would talk to the deeper frameworks like Kubernetes and then cryo appears different back end then we became the standards started to happen so OCI tools showed up in 2017. And then, you know, as we march forward we now have pod man scopio C run, we have K3S, NERC control, and different types of utilities from Nipoli and containers so there's a pretty broad set of options that you can map to what what you need and I've done demos at different points and different conferences of different parts of these. And today we'll be using pod man and and and curses a curses based interface to pod man as part of the demo today so looking at something that we haven't demoed before and just showing how it can be used to as part of the deployment and update mechanism. So now I wanted to go into a little bit more detail, as I mentioned in the description of this presentation which is the W's. So this is the the Q&A about the questions that you might ask in and my description of how they could lead you towards the demo project, as well as embedded containers. So the W's of course the questions and the answers that you would ask. They do, depending, they do vary based on the device your target, your platform, what are your requirements but the flexibility as I was reading through that set of technologies, flexibility is critical and that you can chart a path through the questions and the answers and the options that we have in the audio project and you can pick what meets those requirements. But the goal overall is to avoid either ad hoc or one off solutions with a magic set of cut and paste instructions that one guy knows or one developer knows and also and then not being locked in. You want to be able to potentially change your container runtime or change different parts of the system in the future and not have to follow one technology line until the end of time or at least the end of your product. So and we do want things like determinism in the build. Can everybody build it? Is there is, can it go into a CI CD pipeline? We want reproducibility. We want everybody to be able to build it. We want it to be the same thing every time. And the ability to upgrade the system, upgrade the platform and in fact upgrade and change the different underlying technologies that are part of the platform and actually running the containers. So for who? Some of the questions that come to mind when I was doing this presentation was who needs containers? Who creates these containers? Who is consuming them? Who is using them? And then other questions that follow from that that you might be aware of with some recent developments of supply chain and software supply chain is, you know, can we tell who created a container? Can we tell what's in a container? I'll cover that later. So the answers to some of those questions in the context of this talk and the goals is, you know, who needs a container? Well, it could actually be an application or a system developer, meaning we can deliver high level application functionality in a container. Or you can actually have containers delivering low level parts of your system in bit streams to FPGAs, device drivers, firmware updates, things like this can also be developed and delivered through containers. But the big thing is, whether it's the application or system developer, they have, they want a different visibility into the container and the system and how it's built. So with the Yocto project, you know, that is backed by the build system and or an SDK, meaning you can go back to the build system to regenerate update containers, or maybe you just have an SDK or binary artifacts or a container registry somewhere that you're using. The other question we had was who created the container? So part of what you get with the Yocto project is, you know, it provides traceability as part of the licensing, the S-bomb, the source archiving. There's a bunch of pillars of the Yocto project that, you know, it provides traceability into the software that you're running in the container that you can provide along with the container. So we can figure out how it was built when it was built and do analysis based on that. How they created the container that, of course, also depends on the use case. Is it just a test system that we're doing the container work in? Is it meant for debugging? Are we talking about DevOps? Is it a deployment? Is it a pipeline? So at that case, the, you know, who created it, it could be an integration developer engineer, could be the application developer doing local testing or deploying to test platforms. Or it could be, again, that system integration and developer and engineer. They may be providing these containers. But as for who consumes it, of course, it's pretty much, it can be anybody that uses the platform. So it's developers can absolutely consume the containers as part of their work. And users can absolutely, meaning somebody that buys your device or your platform could be consuming the containers. They might have nothing to do with the development or the creation of the platform. They might just be a user. Or it could be somebody in the middle who's a third party integrator, which is integrating their own software onto the device and then going to end users. But we should point out is depending on where you are in those, in that spectrum, that there is no open embedded or the yakuya project build system knowledge is required. You don't, in this case, I've done talks in the past about binary outputs and artifacts on the yakuya project, the fact that you can consume and use these containers without ever touching or knowing that it was built from open embedded and bit bake. The build system in the SDK is there backing it when you get to the point that you do need it. So the next of our five W's is what I've covered a bit of this in the lead up to this slide, but you know some of the things that come to mind around the what theme are what containers, you know, what are containers used for on an embedded device. What are the contents of the container, which is similar to who created it that I was talking about what container runtime is being used, what cloud native framework is being used so they these are more in and following the theme these are the more that the technical questions about how and you know what is used. The answer is, you know, is that containers, again, depending on those requirements as talking about they can be used for deployment, they could be, you know, that in that sense of software delivery, they could be used for security and isolation of the application. They could be used as an update mechanism for the device once it's been up and running and it's in the field. It could be maintenance. They could be application or system. Container so that they can be what can they be used for they can be used for many different parts of the system. What are the contents, and this is again goes back to the who created your container and what is in it so the Octo project I mentioned as artifacts detailing the contents of the container outputs from the build system and they can be delivered along with the container signed and and provided in the technology timeline that I provided for meta virtualization of the Octo project, you know, the answers the question about what runtime or what should I use so of course we don't and we won't and haven't developed our own container runtime so standards based solutions are supported in particular. C and CF projects and OCI the open container initiative technologies are available and are supported and but it's not a prescriptive sort of layer as part of the ecosystem if you will you have the flexibility to choose what works for you and there's different configurations in the system will work but there will be a bit of configuration on your own after you've chosen the technologies that you want. And again, do you want a framework what what C and CF what what cloud native framework should I run do you want to run k3s do you have enough horsepower to run full Kubernetes you want podman do you want none do you want system to eat a launch your containers on start up you can absolutely do that so the the flexibility of the watts are more technical and the the answer is we provide a whole set of different technologies and you can choose the one that makes sense for your device. So you know where in this case is where you know our typical devices that can leverage containers where where is this running. You know and also where can a Yachto project created container run were to where questions that I came up with to and the theme of this presentation. So the big thing is is that platform because we I get I've keep mentioning about this platform flexibility and standards based approach that these containers can run anywhere from the edge to the core to a small embedded device. And you don't actually have to change your application, you can run it on any one of these different devices, it can be air gapped you can be installed you can have a local container registry can do whatever you need to do. So the answer is where can they run. The answer is anywhere. Almost anywhere. Somebody will catch me on claiming anywhere. The Yachto project in particular yard again the Yachto project create create create created containers can also run anywhere because they're built. They're they're cross built just like everything else in the Yachto project and open embedded but. Whether or not the platform was built using the Yachto project that you're running on you can run these containers because of the underlying core technologies of containers the isolation and everything that you need. In fact that you know with the Yachto project of course because it is multi architecture, multi C library, multi everything that you can build for any number everything from arm 64 actually 664 to. To power PC and you can tailor your build and then deliver them to run on almost any kind of device whether it was or wasn't built with the Yachto project itself. So our next one is you know when when can containers be used in particular when in the life cycle of device or the not other question that we get when looking through requirements is you know when should packages full images or containers be used. So the answers that I came up with some of these questions that are are leading us towards the the answer of the Yachto project is that you know containers they can actually be part of almost any part any phase of development which is sort of what I was hinting at when I was talking about the who question as well. They can be used during development. They can be used during production they can be part of your debug your tests, whatever you need to be so when can they be used. They can be used at almost any part of your development cycle. They can be baked into the image and used for update. You know which can be locally provided which I mentioned about a local registry, or maybe they're fetched remotely. So they can be used at any of these points in the life cycle meaning you had to do it when you were producing the device or it's in the field and you're updating it later so that again the when depends on how you built it but both ends of the spectrum can be supported. And what I would answer for the question about when to use containers packages images is that it's not a exclusive sort of question that the containers they can coexist with the doctor project image creation. The package feeds that the doctor project can create and other binary artifacts which it could include as I mentioned bit streams or boot loaders or. First stage boot, you know there's no need to choose one of the other. In fact, you know you can use these containers to feed to pull in the packages you can use the packages to create containers on the target. You don't have to choose so and you can of course migrate from one to the other. The last W is the why and how. So the who what where when why and how you know why use containers you know why can't we just use container build service and distro X. How can a embedded device use containers, which we've mostly answered already and how can embedded embedded developers leverage containers which we've also pretty much also answered already. So, in particular, for the answer of why use container I would say, why not. But no, they're not actually appropriate for every scenario because there is some extra configuration, there is some if minimal overhead, whether it be disk or memory footprint or that sort of thing. But and so you need to look at your requirements and decide if you need to do any sort of containerization. And of course, to answer the question of, you know, can why can't I just use any distro or build what build technique for creating my containers, whether it be a Docker file or some other build service, and that absolutely any distribution, or any way. So for building the containers themselves can totally be appropriate, can be part of your your your product in a commercial situation. The only thing we say is of course just be aware of all the requirements around delivering container based platforms and applications. And that, you know, the the Octa project has many supporting capabilities around that it provides as part of the base project that can be leveraged by the containers and that was again the licensing the software build materials and those sort of things that I was talking about earlier. And that of course, many are all of the benefits of containers that you'll read about anywhere, you know why use containers what are containers, they can absolutely be applied to an embedded platform and embedded developers. So the summary of the Octa project and container capabilities is that, you know, it isn't if it isn't it all about the the application, why would you care from building from source. And the thing is, yes, it is actually a lot of times about the application, but again the supporting issues around delivering your platform. That is, you know, that's why you care about knowing where the source is where it came from because that's how it is easier to generate potentially easier to generate those artifacts. You know, the the Octa project it those underlying capabilities are solving problems that you may not know you even have yet that we are standards compliant and compatible, and that it's about building block technology so it's choice. We're not looking to pick winners for Canadian container run times and lock you in its flexibility elements of the solution are spread all through the ecosystem whether it be the meta virtualization layer we core meta open embedded meta security different layers that are part of the ecosystem different parts of the solution live in different places. And that it's all about configurability and tune ability containers are again what I've been saying are one of many different doctor project outputs whether it be the, you know, the SDK packages s bomb images, you know, it's only one thing, and you have the ability to use any or are none of them. And again, as I've been talking about different parts of the value proposition, if you will, come from different parts of the system. So that is the talking part of the presentation I'm going to quickly show a demo that shows the system in action to use pod man in this case to do a sort of small footprint really basic service deployment. Using pod man and this pod man to you know this end curses interface from meta virtualization. We're going to deploy a third party container and a doctor project container together and then do a quick update and extension of the of the container. Let me switch my share. I'm going to do a different part of my, I will now share I think I found it finally. I will share my console. All right, so here we go. This is a running I built just a few days ago. I built a QMU x86 6464 bit. It's a really minimal system. It's using the 5.19 kernel that will be part of the upcoming doctor project release. And, you know, so that's our base platform it's got pod man and the supporting technologies underneath. I'm also I also have on this target in a different terminal. We have pod man so we can run this and this is a little bit of a monitoring solution if you will, for to see what's going on with pod man and right now the system you can see our run C versions there. There's some con mon build anyway there's different parts of system that are here. And there's no pods there's no containers there's no volumes there's no images there's there's just the pod man network bridge that's available at the moment. So there's nothing actually on the system. We have a simple. There's there's two parts of the system. Pull and run a banner is sort of a standard if you will banner application that is used quite often to show how pod man works, and then I'm going to deliver curl. As a minimal container built by the doctor project so we can interact with that banner and there's two different forms of this curl container. And that's what I'll be. That's what I'll be showing. So if we come over to the main console and I do you know I do to a pod man images. We don't have any images so in this case we're going to pull a third party container one that I didn't build. So we now have an image on the system if we jump over to here we can see. Yes, we now have this live pod banner image created two months ago, 12.1 megabytes, but still no running containers. We're actually going to. Before we start pulling our own container, we'll use pod man when we could absolutely launch it through K3S or something else or the two able we're doing this by hand. We're going to run. Give it a name web server and we're going to run it so we're actually starting so we now have a running container if we jump back over to the interface here. Oh, we now have a container. It's eight seconds old it's running. That's running a banner. And in this demo. The way that we will interact with. That is through this curl application container image that basically just delivers the. The doctor project. Curl built put in a container an OCI container, which will be put on to. A Docker. Hi repository and then we'll pull it onto the container so. Over here. You can see I can I can do a quick bit bake. On this application container. We build and I had the system prime so it doesn't take very long. It's wonderfully built and we will now run. Skopio to copy it to my Docker hub under something called metavert. Curl using. The latest tag. So we now have that container. Available on my my Docker hub.  And we will now. If we can just find the right command, I think I found it. We will pull in. This container. So we're doing a poll. The container has arrived. We go over it's still not running this where I should say it's an image. So we now have my meta virtualization curl based. Container. Anyway, if we want, of course, we can do something like this. We can bring this up and we can we can inspect the details of it and that will tell you again. When it was built. The entry point, which is the curl binary. The different details of. The container. And quite simply, I should show in the application. The OCI image entry point is sent to curl. And that it's it's got busy box back in. That's all it does. So when you run the container curl is going to run as the entry point. So when we actually run. The container, which is right here. We run it with no arguments whatsoever. The entry point will be executed. So when we run this, the entry point will be executed. Of course, curl says, well, you didn't tell me to do anything. So of course we can run it. We can add that on the end. Local host. 80. And it's now talked to the banner application, and it's printed out pod man. And okay, so that's that that's the first iteration. So congratulations. You wrote a simple container that knows how to run curl and it's interacting with different system, but you know, we don't like, for example, say we don't like passing options. We don't want to type in local host port 80 every time. So I wrote a slight tweak in the single image right now just so we can show us a demo. I gave it a different tag called easy easy to use, and that I'm going to actually provide some arguments to the entry point, which is that the that HTTP local host 80 are the entry point arguments. These are all parts of the meta virtualization framework around building containers. So if we now bit make the container again. It builds it finds something to do because I changed the configuration we rebuilt the OCI image. Congratulations. We now have that. And we are going to change our tag as we push it up to easy up to Docker Hub it goes. Of course this would be part of a pipeline or application develop. A workflow that we normally be doing this but you know, for our purposes. This is what we have. So now we need to pull this. We need to do now, of course. Pull the new tag. On to the target. So if we run. Pull again, but in this case using the easy tag. We have an update if we didn't provide that it would have told us. Everything's up to date. Congratulations. We jump over to here and we now see we have two tags for that container we have latest and easy. If we run it like we did before. Well, in this case we want to make sure we run the the right version of the right tag because we're because I did it with a tag versus. Reusing latest. We actually can have them both coexisting on the target, which is of course useful for many things as you can imagine. So when we run. This easy version of the container. If the demo works. It automatically prints podman because the HTTP local host was changed as part of the container definition on the build side which built the container which we uploaded to Docker Hub which we pulled down and it always asks to do. It always has that HTTP. Local host. And yeah, it's on the system. It ran. Those are both and of course we can always go back to by default, which will be the latest. It doesn't know how to do it. And we can run local host. And there you go. That is the tour of. The pod man. The different interface that we have to talk to it. You can see now that we have multiple running different containers that have exited. You can re execute any one of these containers at any time even through this interface. Or you can delete them, remove them, print them, whatever you want. And that you know it's a system like you would find or inspect any sort of system. So that is. That is the demo. And now we have it looks like just a few minutes left for questions so I can either we can either take some now or that can be something that is done offline later and you can find me in the usual locations. Thank you very much for listening. I appreciate the chance to present this and again hopefully I can do this in person at some point in the future.


The best remote jobs tier list. That's what this video is all about. We are gonna be ranking the best remote careers from S tier, which is the best, all the way down to F tier, which is the worst. Now, remote jobs have always been somewhat popular, but they haven't really been offered all that much until global health emergency. 2020 happened, right? So the pandemic happened and just about every job went remote. And people started realizing that a lot of these jobs that before companies thought you had to be at the office in order to get done could be done remotely or at least 80 to 90% of the job could be done from the comfort of your own home or while you're traveling. And so there has never been a better time to get a remote job. And it doesn't matter whether you're somebody who wants to travel all the time that's very common or you're somebody who just wants to stay home so that you can save money on gas and food. There are certain types of jobs out there that are really easy to do remotely. And there's other types of jobs that you hear are easy to do remotely but they actually aren't. And so I'm kind of gonna be breaking down all of these on this list. Now I'm gonna keep this video short and sweet not really gonna go too much in depth on these. So if you appreciate that, go ahead, gently tap the like button. Let's aim for 1,000 likes on this video and let's go ahead and jump right into it. So first one we're gonna talk about is accountant. And this is something like as simple as bookkeeping all the way up to more complicated accounting. And in my opinion, a lot of different types of accounting absolutely can be done remotely but at the same time not everybody can become an accountant. So with that being said, if you are an accountant, it is a job that can be done remotely. This one is gonna go into A tier. Next on the list is customer service representative. And I know what you're thinking, you're probably thinking this is a terrible job. You know, you don't wanna have to be like a telemarketer or somebody who deals with Karens all day long if they're calling in for technical support. And I get it. This can be kind of a pain in the butt job but with that being said, this one is incredibly easy to get a remote job with. Like if you put your mind to it, like right now you started applying today, you could probably get a job as a customer service representative with zero experience, you know, zero degree, like no qualifications whatsoever in less than a month. And you have an especially big advantage if you have a Western accent.  English mother, do you speak it? Yes. Now there are other positions that are kind of the same thing but you're more dealing with other companies or high value clients that you can move into from this position and those do pay better. But with that being said, this is a really good, you know, get your foot in the door, entry level job that's gonna allow you to do the whole remote thing, travel or stay from home if you want to. So I'm gonna put customer service representative in B tier. Next on the list is going to be cyber security. So this is a phenomenal career. Takes a little bit longer to get into than some of the other like entry level jobs that I talk about a lot on this channel. But if you can get into it, there is a ton of opportunity. This one goes into S tier. Next one on the list is going to be data analyst. Now there are a lot of great job opportunities for data analysts that you can do remotely. Not all of them, but there are a good amount. And data analyst has a ton of opportunity both vertical growth as well as horizontal growth. It's also relatively easy to get into just because of the fact that there is so much demand for the skill set. So this one goes into S tier. Next one on the list is going to be data entry. Now this one is a little controversial. I really don't like data entry. Like to me, doing data entry is almost like hell, right? I would hate to just have to do the same thing over and over again, just putting something from one sheet onto another all day long. It would be terrible for me. But with that being said, this is a really entry level remote job that you can get just about right away. It's super easy to get into it. You don't really need any experience or any skills or anything like that. You're also not really going to get any experience or any skills if you do this job. But if you really need to get a job super fast, that's a remote job, this is an option. But with that being said, I'm going to go ahead and put it into D tier. I can see an argument for maybe C tier here, but I just really don't like data entry. I'm putting it into D tier. Next one on the list is going to be digital marketer. This is one of my favorite careers because it is a really good entry level career you can get into without a college degree and without any experience. There is a massive amount of demand for digital marketers and you've probably seen a few of the videos on my channel where I actually interview digital marketers that have gone through my friend Seth's course. And there is a reason why he has thousands of reviews on his Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. It's undeniable that this guy knows how to get people into digital marketing at the entry level. All these people you can just look up on LinkedIn and they'd be more than happy to talk to you because he did such an amazing job helping them out. And if you are interested in digital marketing, I will put a link to a free masterclass that he does that basically tells you what it's like to be a digital marketer, the different verticals and whether or not it's a good career for you. You can check that out down in the description as well as the pinned comment. But yeah, digital marketer, phenomenal career, definitely going into S tier. Next one on the list is going to be engineer. Now this is a great career. I love engineering as a career. I also love it as a college degree. But with that being said, as a remote job, little bit difficult, right? It kind of depends on what type of engineer you are of course, but typically engineers do kind of have to be in person in order to get most of their work done. So engineer is gonna go into C tier. Next one on the list is going to be graphic designer. So this is basically somebody who designs different artwork or marketing material. Now this one can be pretty decent if you do it as a freelancer, but in terms of a remote job, not amazing. Like it's pretty tough to find good, steady work in a remote job as a graphic designer. So if you can find it, that's great, but it's gonna be pretty tough. This one is gonna go into D tier. Next one on the list is going to be health careers. Now this one is probably gonna be pretty obvious, but health careers are relatively difficult to do remotely. You can do them remotely. There are options for doing it. I have done it myself, but typically health careers are something where you kind of have to be there in person. Of course, there are exceptions to this. There's a lot of telehealth stuff that's happening in the medical industry, but overall I'm gonna put this one into F tier. Next one on the list is going to be instructional design. And this is a really cool new type of design that has gotten especially popular in the last few years since the pandemic. So instructional design is essentially where you design different online educational resources. So if somebody's trying to answer a question, for instance, and they get the wrong answer, you would program into the instructional design interface to have the right answer pop up and maybe a link to a video or something like that that explains how they can get to that answer. And so not only do you have to have a little bit of artistic side because you would be designing the whole interface, but on top of that, you have to have a little bit of programming knowledge as well because the program needs to know what to do in case the person gets the problem right or wrong, et cetera. So instructional design is a really good one, super, super hot since the pandemic. I might bring somebody on the channel who does instructional design, a good friend of mine. He's making incredible money doing instructional design. But I will say my friend that's making really good money doing it is doing it as a freelancer and not in a nine to five job. But with that being said, still a lot of demand for this one, definitely something you can do remotely. This one is going into a tier. Next one on the list is going to be information technology. Now, there are some IT jobs where you absolutely do have to be there in person in order to do the job, but there are so many types of IT jobs where you don't. And so for that reason, this one is phenomenal for this type of thing. A lot of the time IT jobs are, I don't wanna say, I don't wanna say this the wrong way, but a lot of the time IT jobs, you're kind of waiting for something wrong to happen. And so you're almost like on call and they're relatively chill. So some of the people I know who work in IT tell me they work maybe two hours a day and an eight hour day. So yeah, definitely something you can do remotely. IT goes into S tier. Next one on the list is going to be a medical coder. This is basically somebody who takes the notes that doctors take when they are seeing a patient and they translate those into medical codes, put them into systems to make it more easy to kind of like share information with other healthcare providers, build a patient, share information with other companies, like if they have insurance or anything like that. So this is definitely something you can do remotely. It also requires a little bit of skill. I mean, it's not like a whole lot of skill, but it does require a little bit of know-how. It doesn't pay all that well, but overall I'll put this one into C tier. Next one on the list is going to be a project manager. And depending on the type of company that you work at, especially if you're in something like software, project manager can be done remotely. Not always, but it can be done. And to be honest, I wanna put this one into S tier, but just because of the fact that there are a lot of different types of jobs out there that aren't done remotely, I'm gonna go ahead and put this one into A tier. Next one on the list is real estate agent. Now, real estate is awesome. I'm a big fan of it. I think it's a great investment. Becoming a real estate agent can also be a really good choice for the right type of person. But with that being said, doing real estate remotely is a little bit tough, right? You really wanna have that face time with people because they are entrusting you to either buy or sell their house. That is a massive decision in their life. And it's very difficult for them to make that decision with somebody that they're not sitting down next to or standing next to face to face. So overall, I'm gonna go ahead and put real estate agent into C tier. Next one on the list is going to be a recruiter. And this is somebody who works for companies and they go out and they find people to fill specific positions. So a company might need a software developer, for instance, you'd have a recruiter that goes and finds software developers, make sure they find a really good one to fill a certain position. Then if the software developer ends up getting the job, the recruiter ends up getting a commission for that. This is a job that in many cases can absolutely be done remotely. It's also a job where you can make a good amount of money. It's not a crazy amount, but a really good solid amount. So I'm gonna go ahead and put recruiter into A tier. Next one on the list is going to be service industry. So I think this one's pretty obvious. You know, you can't really serve people remotely. And even if you could do it, it's just kind of a thankless job in general. So this one is gonna go into F tier. Next one on the list is software developer, phenomenal career, phenomenal job. You can absolutely do it remotely. It's getting a little bit harder to break into software development. It used to be much easier. It's getting harder and harder to do it, but it's still not impossible to do it. Many people even break into it without getting a degree. They do it by going to boot camps, self-teaching, making their own projects, et cetera. So software developer goes into S tier. Next one on the list is going to be teacher. Now, believe it or not, depending on the type of teacher, you can do teaching remotely in many cases. But with that being said, now that everybody went back to school, it is becoming more and more rare. But I remember when I went to Puerto Rico, for instance, I actually ran into a few teachers who were staying at the same hostel as me. So yeah, teacher is definitely one that can be done remotely in certain cases. But overall, I'm gonna put this one into B tier. Next one on the list is going to be tech sales. Another one that's phenomenal. You can get into it without any experience or any college degree, phenomenal career choice. There are people who are like five years in, making well over 200,000 a year. People who are like 10 years into their career, making over 500,000 a year. I'm gonna be interviewing both of these people on the channel and they should be posting here pretty soon if they haven't posted already. But yeah, tech sales, you can absolutely do it remotely, phenomenal career. This one goes into S tier. Next on the list is the job you already have. Believe it or not, many jobs out there, even if you're really skeptical about them being able to be done remotely, many of them actually can be done remotely or at least 80% of the job can be done. I've seen some really surprising examples of this where jobs where you'd never even expected to be done remotely can be done just because of the fact that they just focus on the part that can be done remotely and they just do that more. So yeah, this one is gonna go into C tier. Always something you should consider. Next one on the list is going to be trade careers. I think this one's pretty obvious.  This one goes into F tier. Next one on the list is going to be transcriptionists. This is very similar to the medical coder, but typically doctors will talk into a recorder and they'll talk really fast, especially if they're surgeons, if you're in the medical field, you know what I'm talking about. And then somebody else will actually take that down and they'll translate it into plain English because surgeons don't speak real English. So yeah, this is another one, very low barrier to entry. You know, it's a job you can get very easily. It's also a job that, you know, you aren't gonna learn too much from probably, but you can do it remotely in many cases. So I'm gonna put this one into C tier. Next one on the list is going to be tutor and tutoring is surprisingly good. Like I did tutoring during college and I made incredibly good money doing it. Now it's something you can't really scale very easily, unfortunately, but tutoring is becoming more and more common to be done remotely. And it's especially effective if you find something very niche and valuable to tutor for. So for instance, what I tutored for was the pharmacy school entrance exam also known as the PCAT. And I studied really hard on the PCAT. I did a lot of research on it and I found some really good resources to study with and I was able to get a super good score on it. And then I wanted to teach other people how they can do the same. And people were paying me $80 an hour, sometimes even over $100 an hour for me to tutor them. So yeah, tutor can be phenomenal. You can also do it remotely in many cases. This one is gonna go into B tier. Next one on the list is going to be video editor. Now this is one that's kinda saturated.  You really have to, if you're living in the West, be a phenomenal video editor in order to get steady work. Because the truth is anybody can just hire somebody from the rest of the world relatively easily to edit their videos. But if you can find a specific niche that you're very good at video editing in, you can make good money here. So this is more of a freelance one in my opinion, but video editor, I'm gonna go ahead and put it into C tier. Next one on the list is going to be a virtual administrative assistant. So this is somebody who basically just helps somebody else, usually somebody who's kinda high ranking within a company, maybe a CEO or a manager or something like that with all of their day to day administrative virtual tasks. So overall, I'm gonna put this one into C tier. Next one on the list is web designer. And this could be either UX or UI or a combination of both. This is a really good one. And in some cases you can do it remotely. A lot of the time they will want you to come into the office cause it's kind of a creative thing and it's nice to like have that collaboration. But in many cases you actually can do a lot of the work remotely. So this one is gonna go into A tier. Next one on the list is web developer. This one, in my opinion, is the much easier version of software development. You can break into it much more easily than a lot of the other verticals within software development. And you can definitely do this one remotely without a doubt. So web developer is gonna go into S tier. And now we have writer. This is one where again, it's kind of saturated because you can easily just hire people from foreign countries to do this. And it is becoming more of kind of a freelance thing. It's very difficult to get a full-time steady employment like a full-time steady job as a writer. If you do want to get paid really well as a writer, it's more of like a freelance type of thing. And you have to get really good at a specific niche. So writer is gonna go into D tier when it comes to remote jobs. If you enjoyed this video, check out my other video right here. I made it just for you. Go ahead, gently tap that like button, hit the subscribe button, ring the notification bell and comment down below any thoughts, comments, criticisms, et cetera. Jab on the video and I'll see you next time.


We are pleased to have with us today the WSIS Prize winner 2016 in the category E-Environment coming from Green Data Center from Malaysia and their winning project Asia Pacific Green Data Center Farm. What are the objectives of your project? Well, Vladimir, there are 8 million commercial, private and government data centers worldwide and collectively last year they were responsible for 3.3% of the global greenhouse gases. You see, data centers are huge guzzlers of energy, hence that equally enormous carbon footprint as well. And sadly, more than half of the energy that they consume goes towards cooling the data center instead of to the ICT equipment itself. So we set out to prove that you could reduce the carbon footprint of a data center by 50% and the conversing energy consumption by 50%. And we do this 70% cheaper than a conventional data center. Would you please share with us how does your project contribute to the sustainable development goals? Sure. Well, we directly contribute to SDGs 7, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 17. Well, to be accurate, it would be enhancing energy security, mitigating climate change and tackling the problems of urbanization. What are you committed to this process and how do you value this price contest? You know, it's a very clear validation that winners and champions are going towards the right direction. It gives us unbiased and unpretentious feedback on ways that we could improve ourselves as well. Thank you very much.


You know, there's always plenty of New York City nonsense going on at all times. After all, it's the expected stage for the New World Order. If New York City does it, of course everyone else can follow, starting with congestion pricing. The MTA offered its first look into how much drivers could pay to enter Manhattan's south of 61st Street under the agency's congestion pricing plan under development. The cost? $9 to $23 for drivers with EasyPass and $14 to $35 without EasyPass. Now back when I was bartending five or six years ago, I remember I was worried about this because I commuted to the city by car. And since I don't work in the city anymore and even so I go down a few days a month, this price wouldn't be that big of a deal to me. However, after realizing that, I understood this is solely meant to hurt low to median wage workers. You know, $10 to $20 is peanuts for the rich sociopaths that create these laws so they don't care. The only people that are going to have an issue paying that congestion price are the working class, which they simply don't want driving in the city, especially on like the weekends. The thousands of Uber vehicles and taxis aren't penalized because the rich people use those services. I mean, what options do you have if you are now paying an additional 5-10% of your daily wage to get to work? You could take public transit, which might be cheaper, but it takes me two hours to get to the city by train as opposed to 45 minutes by car. And that's the case with most of these people. You could relocate to the city, which they definitely can't afford to do if they have a family as you need a larger space, or you could exit the highway before the toll. And that was my main concern. The congestion pricing applies to people who enter Manhattan south of 61st Street. So if I wasn't too well off, why wouldn't I get off and then take the bike or subway to save a few dollars? That might be precisely what they want, but it's going to cause unbearable amounts of traffic entering and leaving the city. It might reduce congestion in the city itself, forcing people to take public transit, but you might as well be landlocked during rush hour if everyone is parking from 60th to 80th Street and trying to avoid these congestion tolls.  They might want that amount of traffic. I mean, I honestly can't imagine this going through and that not happening. Like it's going to be horrible. So that happened on Friday and what was crazy to me were the shill comments online of people defending the throwing out of that food, libtard cucks licking the government's feet so they can get their stimulus check hand out to pay for their estrogen tablets. The real people have some common sense. A missing license doesn't mean the food is bad. It's a business thing, not a sanitation issue. To throw all this food away in a city with people going hungry should be a punishable offense. People aren't hungry because the US lacks food. They're hungry because of the economic and political system that allows it. You know, this is probably them, the powers that be, telling us if we allow them to control our food system, this is what they will do with it. Is this like a predictive programming, a warning that we're going to start throwing out food because it's not fit for consumption? I mean I could do a video on food waste itself and how much gets thrown out, but it's like an obedience ritual to anyone witnessing the event. And these evil scumbags in charge are very serious about their money. This is the government telling you if you don't pay off, if you don't get your license or permits needed, if you don't listen to us, we're going to find you, set an example of you. If you're in the club and you set up a business, they will run you out. There's no such thing as friendly competition with these scumbags. They will steal your business ideas, censor your social media, even try slanderous campaigns against you, all of which I've personally experienced.  So that's going to be it for today, hopefully you guys enjoy this. You can drop a like on the video, leave a comment if you have any questions or input. Subscribe so that YouTube can unsubscribe you next week and check that notification bill so they don't notify you of my videos. Therefore, you can go to frank-tofano.com to support me through all of my businesses. Thanks again for joining me guys and I'll see you for tomorrow.


So here we are again. No, we're back. It's a it's a we haven't done a Marvel show on you've had TV before, right? I hope it's the first one. I don't know how many of these I can stand. So we just finished Ahsoka. And I'm actually curious once we see this to compare it directly, like just one episode. I wonder if there's going to be more soul in this, even though it'll probably be terrible. Like if there'd be less prizes in between talking, like all the will probably have acting. Because the last thing we watched was Ahsoka. And there was no acting in that. Everyone was just boring and dull and. Yeah, Marvel tends to have acting. Yeah, but yeah, we'll get acting. Yeah, that is some expression. It's not like Loki season one's problem was there was no story. You could say that the problem was there was lots of story. Bit too much. So, yeah, it looks like we'll be upgrading slightly. But who knows what kind of damage they'll do, because that's the thing. No, I mean, short rounds going to be in it, right? So that's a plus. That's a plus. You can act, too. They might even let him like do some stuff. Maybe. But I mean, it's worth remembering that Loki season one is like one of the worst stories. Shrash from the very beginning.  Well, and it's crazy, because since like from Loki season one to two, that is probably the biggest stretch of insane damage to the MCU stunt. Yeah, just Loki season one came out for Black Widow. So it was for any of the films. And there was already damage. And then all the movies came out in that two year gap. Now we're here.  The most quantimane year. I guess we're setting up Kang again. Now, I'm pretty cynical about a lot of Marvel projects, but I'm hyper cynical about this one. I feel like it exists because TV shows typically get more than one season and they wanted a TV show to have more than one season. Oh, yeah, we're lucky. We can do more than one season of that. They left it off on a cliffhanger. They had loads of story to tell. They're making it because it was popular for some reason, but I refuse to believe that they actually have a story. Yeah, Loki was the most popular one. Yeah, I think it had the most viewers. Why do you think that is? I actually find it fascinating like watching it recently. Because it was one of the first ones. People like Tom Hiddleston was Loki. And yeah, it was one of the earlier ones. As you should, because he does amazing as him, except when they don't make him play Loki and have him play Loki and Jokey. Yeah, just weird skin walker, man, yeah. Because we go from the evil Loki at the time to, ah, I'm funny, Loki. I'm good now. I was like, no, you're not.  I know you. Same compliment I gave.  And same with Loki.  It's not one of the MCU's problems. The MCU has a lot of great actors, and they try really hard, but the script lets them down. Did Waldron write this as well? No, no. Someone else. I think it's mostly different people, like not the same showrunner either. The question is, is it possible for this to be good? I think it's possible for it to be better than season one, but like I really don't, I don't know. I don't know how you recover from the fact that like Matt was said, this is 2012 Loki, and he's a totally different person because he watched a video of his life. Yeah. He's got to write in credit, but I don't know if that's just because he wrote the first season or not. He did not write any of the episodes this season, like none of the episodes specifically. All right, so maybe there's hope? Just cause Waldron's not involved. I am not here. There might be hope, yeah. Some guy, like literally if it's blank, that'll give me more hope than Waldron. Maybe we'll get to a one and a half out of 10 this time. Where's the passion? I just don't get it. How could it be this passionless? Like you've gone, if this was funny, you've had this much time, makes something worth watching. When's the last time, like the last thing Marvel made that I loved was Infinity War, and that was 1,000 years ago at this point. And like Marvel years? Yeah, that was another lifetime. Yeah. They probably don't even remember it. They might not even have copyright on it. It was so long ago. This was one of the things we were asked, I think, on Open Bar, like what's the one sequel you would have loved to have seen that was really good? And people came up with like creative ideas and I was just like, how about a sequel to Infinity War? That'd have been cool.  My experience with Endgame, I'll never forget being like on the edge of my seat during the Hawkeye thing, and then like slowly sinking back into my seat, like seeing Thanos get like cucked and like it's a chopped off. And then the five year skip, I was just like, no way. What am I watching then? This isn't a sequel to the movie.  They never used those five years to see what's going on in the world. For reference, the five years prior was 2013 to 2018, which was what, 10 movies worth of stories? Nothing. I'm still baffled. We didn't get a Hawke movie. Yeah, that was right. Nobody remembers, but... I mean, yeah, except the one. I mean, like specifically for this Hawke, we know now because he just goes like, I can control him now. I was like, what? How?  Hawke's character development was skipped like three, four different times in between movies. They just keep skipping it over. And then the next time we... It's just the cherry on top of after all the years of wasting him and skipping the important moments. Him turning into SmartHawk was stupid, but I want to know how he did it.   These little things could have been interesting to see the transition of him actually learning to control the Hulk. Because now if you ever go back to...  I thought we were cool. And now you just suppressed me with your little device. I don't think they even recognize that. If they brought back the brute Hulk persona, it would just be something that's like a pie trick. What do you guys think is gonna happen in this show? Like this season? What do you think?  And maybe ultimately there's some overarching spooky villain who shows up intermittently.   Is Kang in this? Yeah. I guess Sylvie's just gonna chill out in that weird room now. I don't know. I think it's gonna happen in this because they'll deal with Kang in the Avengers movie. So this is just gonna have to be- Right. Kang still wins. But it's unlimited Kang's and it can do all the Kang's. With all of the multiverse stuff, what exactly does it mean to develop it when it exists and people can move between multiverses? You know, like what is developing at mean in terms of leading up to those two Avengers movies? And what does it mean to develop Kang when if they're different Kang's, they're different people. So like it's not all building up the same villain. Yeah, what do you think about it? What exactly can they achieve this season? Loki can find himself. Why, is he gonna watch another recording? Yeah, he watches the first season. He sees someone puts the first season of Loki on a TV screen and he watches it and then cries and then becomes a new person again. You know, they'll do time travel, but for the most part, in fact, almost exclusively, it'll probably take place on Earth. It won't be like, oh, wouldn't it be interesting if we went to like Nova Prime? But you know, a thousand years ago, it'll all be Earth because Earth is the most important place in the Marvel Universe. Well, Loki was probably the TV show with the most interesting visuals, except maybe one of the visuals. I really like the visuals of the TVA. I like the like 60s, 70s, 80s again, even though why is everybody a human in this place beyond time and space and everything. Oh, well, yeah, that's right. Yeah, if you ignore the context, she's a worthwhile- Remembering, the TVA as a whole, there's nothing that makes sense about it. Nothing at all. Remember, Loki was a one out of 10 season one. It was like one of the most- It's funny because the technology and the style, like all of it's insane. And I think it's just like, that's what they're hoping people will say. It's just like, yeah, it's just not, it's hyper high tech, but it also isn't.  So I guess they just go there and build a civilization or something? I don't know. At that point of the show, I stopped caring. I was just like, what are we even doing here? Just end. That's all just nonsense.   Maybe Sylvie will go on an arc this season. No, she won't. Don't pretend it doesn't arc though. Find the way she is. Why was she screaming at Kang instead of asking him important questions? Like, I don't even care about this scene and I have like 15 questions. I was like trolling, but I would have so many things to ask. Stab him over and over and over and over again. It's like maybe ask him some questions. Is this what they think strength is?  Like this might screw everything up and she just popped out. I just remembered Loki and Sylvie kissed. That was weird. That was very weird. Oh, fuck, you're right. That happened. You guys think this is going to be worse than Secret Invasion? No, I don't even know. I don't even, I don't know. I don't think so. I think Secret Invasion was particularly bad in terms of things not happening or like world breaking kinds of stuff and retroactively ruining characters. I think this will be a mostly, if it had a plot that was as bad, but it had some like neat moments, it would be better. I think that retroactively, Secret Invasion does a lot of damage in a way that I don't think that Season 2 of Loki will do. I think they've kind of already done their damage with the first season. Then again, I'm sure they'll think of something.  I mean that Season 2 was second for the damage of one of the worst things in the MCU, which is Loki Season 1. I don't know. I just don't think it'll be as bad as Secret Invasion. Because Secret Invasion ruined Rody, Nick Fury, our levels. Yeah, power levels. Skrulls, collecting crawlers, Ed Gabe, that was weird. He just sent the teams like, go grab those blood cells and put them all in one cocktail and put it in this gravestone.  Woohoo! There's a million of them. Anyway, hey, should we watch Loki?  It's all over the place, it's everywhere. This is Season 2 to a season of TV that was also all over the place and everywhere and ruined everything. So maybe we'll just take it as it comes and see what they do, see what they're up to. Can't even recap. Hopefully, like I said, we'll get some acting and we might even get some events that connect together in some vague way. That could be something. Oh, don't remind us which one this is. It's hard to, like, looking back on the death of 2012 Loki and they just punched him and he's done. Yeah. They put him on trial and it didn't even matter.  It could be exists. The horrible, horrible system. Avengers thought tooth and nail to stop Loki and this chick's like, I'm gonna hit you with this stick. I heard some theories about that guy that got melted, like which Loki he was and what he'll mean going forward. Some guy that got melted, that's all. The variant we're hunting is you. If I had the circlet that had the two horns and one of the horns broke off, I just wouldn't wear it anymore. By the way, I'm pretty sure the only reason this got a season two isn't because it had exceptional numbers, it's just the numbers that they're hoping for. Like, it probably didn't get as much as they even wanted but it's the only one that they can bet would actually be successful beyond season one. But I don't think it, like I can't see season two doing the same numbers as season one. I don't think so. Me either. This reminds me, King sucked so much. Yeah, he sucked in every iteration. It just sucked. Yeah, well, he went to like clown college or something. I don't know. We'll see a different one of him in this show, I guess. Maybe even more than one. It's RBA wears very human clothes. Are we at least getting a different version? Cause I'm sick of the first two. Well, we got Victor Timely is the thing that they said in Quantamania, we're getting that. Look at all of these characters. Ruin. Ruin. Yeah, stop it there, stop. I'm surprised they're on those. Banger those off the table. Got like classics.    Oh, well, that was pretty up to it. Marvel's is on the way as well. Woohoo. Marvel. Remember when you got excited for this? You remember when this mattered? Long time ago. Oh, dramatic. We killed Kang, but then he ended up in a different dimension where Kang had taken over and was like, wait, what's going on? How does that work? Cause now there's infinite Kang Rooney. Don't ask how this works ever. Just don't ever ask how does it work. Oh, I guess he escaped almost. How's it work, man? Oh, I guess he started running from straight away. You're low key, just stop him. Wait, is he going to use magic in this place or something, right? You don't let him use magic here. What is going on? That's a great question. Mobius, it's me. Why would they even listen to him? Wouldn't they just zap him? Where is he going? How did it, where did he go? Oh, he was coming there. Oh, you did it? Oh my God. All right, there we go. We're seconds in, man. I was about to say. Why would you be using a steering wheel? Oh, good. I hope that doesn't... Oh, it's this guy. Oh, great. Wow. Oh, wow. That was really lucky that that didn't... We're keeping in mind that poor lady. She had nothing to do with any of this. Okay, after a pretty bad start. Morning. Oh, rip that lady. Bye-bye. Yeah, okay. Oh, is she going to die? She's dead. Vehicles funds.  She'll be fine. They don't care. She won't be. Oh, look, she's in the background. I guess she is okay. Oh, nice. All right, I guess she's okay. She's doing this and that. She's given one point somehow. Oh, that's not the TVA logo. That's a different logo. They clearly had vehicle funds and he said, like, sarcastically, she'll be fine. I think they added in post that she flew away. Someone was like, so lucky just basically got to kill them. Yeah, you can't do that. You can't do that. Well, if somebody I just happen to know... Don't you remember me? I feel like Loki should have figured out by now that they don't recognize him. This doesn't make sense.   Oh, oh God. Is he just dimension hopping now? Oh, he's trapped across time. Is he or something? Is that not like that? That's directly taken from the Spider-Verse movies. Spider-Verse. Yeah, that looked very similar. Because that didn't happen at all in season. Well, in any of the novels so far. No, that's definitely no. Casey. Something terrible is happening. The chances of him popping into a dimension where he knows who Casey is is... Loki was never meant to be like... protagonist, man, solving problems.  Where's Mobius? Chrono Bay 3? Loki? It would have been so much cooler if we saw this from the reverse angle of him following Casey and then it happens and then Casey turns around. But I guess this way was cheaper. I like the intro, but it's kind of... I like the music. Yeah, the music is good. I like all the music for Loki. It's really neat. It's unfair. Now what? Well, you better get those... Now what? ...multi-grenades ready. Pruning boys. We tell the people of the TVA the truth about this place. Wait, so these guys are in the future? I'm pretty sure this is where, in season one, when they were looking at all the incursions. Sorry, I guess it meant to be real Mobius. This chick is security.   Loki's here? He disappeared right in front of me. We're not behind you. Behind you, because they didn't show it. They showed you not doing the thing you said happened. This one, here. Is this on the sacred timeline? Fuck, I forget. Was that like his little magazine about ski in order? Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of these, calling your name, Mobius? I don't know about calling. Maybe gently whispering. When you guys have a bigger thing happening right now? Like, the end of the world?  Well, he looks antagonistic. The funny thing about jet skis, everyone thinks that it's a personal watercraft and it's actually a brand. Same way, Kleenex is. It's really interesting that people beyond time and space, all of their references to, like, products are very contemporary. Yeah, they dress like earth people. 20 to 21st entry. Even though they didn't know what a fish was. They didn't know what a fish was, season one. Oh, right.  It's all over there. That's for the best. Oh, wow, that's lucky. Mobius, where is he? He's in the war room. You're gonna be touching people. Are you gonna rip them with you?  There's no, isn't it lucky he's here? Oh, of course. It's gonna be very lucky for him. Yeah, rather than any of the other places he could be. Yeah, unless they tell us that, like, he could only be here or something. If I heard the rumors. Let's just ease them into it. We're just gonna tell them the truth. Why is security, your security, why are you involved in this process in any way? Mobius, I was just doing my job. What do you mean, pruning me? Are they not baffled by the fact that they pruned someone on their back? See how, like, this feels like it's shot better than Ahsoka. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Already, like, things are going.  I was about to say the exact same thing. Nobody's pausing for half an hour or so. It's already a plus. Oh, no, it's a gangster.   One guy has a sleep down there.  OK, so he's like, he's in an alternate dimension slash timeline. Yeah, it's that chick. What's her name? She's in everything. Is that his official, like, Lysa Aaron attention stance as he holds his collar? Yeah, that's dumb. So before this, you had a past.  Man, I am a little lost in terms of, like, so we're trying to reveal to the world about the whole, like, you guys actually had lives and they stole them from you. We just need a moment to explain. Into the microphone, Hunter, we are doing this by the book and on the record. I know she's in the war room, right? And you know, from space Scotland. Did she ever just play a sweet character?   It's because she has sharp features. They always hire her as, like, aggressive lady. Is he just going to go, he's going to go blah, blah, blah, and end up in the exact right place in time. Yeah, just to remind me, what are the stakes? Revealing to the TVA that they've been manipulated, I guess. But then also on top of it, that they believe that if the timeline sort of run rampant, it will lead to a multi-versal war. Oh, okay. Bring it on. I will be proud to lead with you. You made a difference in this war. You'd be talking to Renslayer and this, but they get together in the comics, that's what I know. I'm confused, though. When is this recorded from? Like, what is this? I don't even know what it means. You might be in the past right now. For Renslayer, you are quite a lawyer. And under whose authority did you make the call to stop Pluning Branches? We're all variants. You had a life on the timeline. So did I. Yeah, they should all know what variant being a variant means. I swear that she has to, like, stress it to them. The timeline is branching. The sky hasn't fallen. Are you seeing this robot head on the table? Well, okay. Well, confused. So their law in the first season was that multiple timelines leads to multi-versal war. So obviously, you haven't gotten there yet, but why is he? Why would it happen in, like, 10 minutes? Yeah. But then again, what is time even being in this place? We haven't been protecting. We've been destroying. Oh, you just figured it out. But you've literally been destroying the whole time. Yeah, that's never been a confusion. You've done it for the... Have they forgotten why they did this? The whole idea was that the whole multi-verse doesn't kill each other constantly. It feels like they don't remember the first season. Yeah, they completely forgotten their first justification for this. They're not talking about it. We know we're destroying and killing. It's so that we can save at least one timeline. The sacred timeline, that's the whole point.  Like, what is it? Yeah, also, that doesn't locate porting around randomly. Just basically destroy every one of these places because it causes an incursion. Wasn't that a thing too? That should be happening, too. But did you catch how she said I've always delivered guilty her entire career? Only now that they start to think about it? I've always handed down the same verdict. Guilty.  Tell the TVA to stop pruning effective amygdala. How is that not incredibly lucky? Help me. Hey, what just happened? No, did that retard not hear anything? He's here for a comedy, I assume.  I really hope that's just my point. I assume he's here to get in the way. He's going to die at some point by doing something. Oh, why would that be the way it was? Why would that be the case? Wait, what? You pruned the wall, so... Yeah, why would that work that way? It stops too, see that? That's your story of lies! That's who's coming back! Why would they not get rid of it? They've already... By the way, with that one line, they've got more acting in this than all of us. Yeah, exactly. Also, he likes... I can't believe I'm saying this. He like sells the fear of a character that's just not scary at all. Like...  It's like, good job, but I mean... He's such a goobah, uh, kag.   The time keepers are fake, but the warnings were real. Oh, I've had the villains. They're going to be... Oh, no. Fine Sophie. She's a reason what in this mess. Oh, no, Sylvie's the key to everything. That's why we're not. That's going to be one of my predictions. I mean, it's true. She is the reason why all of this has happened. As long as we get an excuse to have classic Loki back, Richard E. Grant, okay? So, like, Airbnb. But he's dead, dawg. The alligator, I want to see the alligator. The multiverse. I just want time to think it was an impossible choice, but she seems so certain. How could she be given the possible consequences?  Slow down, Loki. You want a time to think, so let's think. When's he gonna floop again? I keep disappearing in and out of multiverses. We need to have some sort of device that can track me. Quick, before I disappear again. We got to the man at the end of time, and he made sense. He did not make sense. He makes sense at all. We thought it was about freeing the timeline, but that brings only more. 11, it's more violence, more war. Yeah, why didn't this come up in the meeting? Just focus on what we know. That is what we know, war, and it's on its way. They're so lucky they're even able to comprehend everything. I'm surprised everything isn't tearing apart. It feels like things should be a lot more chaotic in this place, even without the revelation of the, you know, our world variants, the entire timeline is unraveling. And look, they're just walking around with the fact that they can't just walk in. That lady's on her phone. They've just done a whole system command to stop pruning. That's insane. Yeah, that's a big deal. How did you just appear? I mean, did you come straight from the end of time? Yeah, because Sylvie sent him apparently to the past then. What do you mean in the past? Where in the past? Here, here, the past TVA. No, there is no past TVA time. Yeah, I was about to say, does the TVA even work that way? Yeah, but there has to be like a past TVA. There has to be, right? Because we're seeing height, exactly. Oh, that was quick. I guess. We gotta get you some help. Let me call Miss Minutes. What? You can't trust that. What is Miss Minutes again? What exactly is that? I'm not the clock. It's just like an AI. Oh, the little, the sort of sort of, what is she? Is she an actual person? That's what they were asking at the end. Is she AI or is she real? They didn't even answer that. Mobius, I know you're trying to help me, but we should be dealing with a bigger problem here. He who remains. I understand, it won't get to that. Oh, what happens if he flooms in here? Does he just flume back when the elevator is gone? They turn it on when they need it. And they turn it off. I guess we're about to find out. Wow, it's a good thing that he flumps back. It's good that the universe recognizes elevators to make sure that you stay in them. Yeah, it's nice. He didn't just, like, in the middle of the gear get crushed. It's okay, it's okay, look. It's not that bad. I can handle it. How does it look? Oh, yeah, it's really weird. It's mildly amusing. That's kind of funny. Minimize chit-chats in Zikaphteria, please. So it's not possible to visit the past, but she was the first person to do it. Leave your lunch break to never-teen minutes, so they do have time here. Oh, you're right. Yeah, they could measure time in minutes. They literally...  Yeah, they have all their own rooms. Yeah, what was Mobius' point then? That you can't travel back to it? I guess. Or that it's exempt from certain things? Why would that be the case? It's been a while since I've been down here. What is this place? What is it? It's a tube room. Oh, hey. Oh, look! Hey, it's you. Do a backflip. Oh, yes! Wow! Wow, you didn't see me at all in season one. I'll mention it. I'm Ouroboros.  Ouroboros. What do you call me, Obi? Yeah. Obi. Oh, okay. Wow! How long has it been? How long has it been? I don't know. We don't have time here, apparently. Could it be three or four? 400 years. Oh, okay. That sounds like a lot of time. If they're like variants, why don't they age then if hundreds of years is playing out, you know? There's no idea. Time's the thing in the TVA. You don't age here. It's fine. Believe it or not, he was my last visitor. No one's been here for 400 years. Really? Then why do you like the lunch break in the cafeteria? I like how messy this room is. I like how... Yeah, I like that too. I like it. Sad dressing is pretty good on this. I love the size of the room. It's awesome. What do you do exactly here? I'm still don't know. He moves things around. He's like Hermes putting the things in the pipes. And he sings songs as well. I noticed as well how he posts it. He's, look at how many there are. Doesn't seem like a lot for 400 years. Well, I'm sure he empties it in the yard. Why are people's reactions to that?  I'd be like, what the fuck? Time slipping. You know that? Yeah. Can you fix that? No. It's impossible to time slip in the TVA. You can't do it in the TVA, but he just... Yeah, so he should be shocked then. Oh, back in time. So now you should know he exists and remember, right? Well, whatever.  OB? How does this change the past? How does it... You know what I mean? They're going to do the goofy version where he's like... He just called him OB and he's like, oh, I like that. So he named him OB, which doesn't make sense. Paradox. No, it collides loopy. Yes, whatever. I've never seen anything close to that happen before. Except that one time you did. Wait. I've just read it right now. There was one time.  That makes perfect sense. There's no flaw in that logic. Um, okay. All right, definitely. You know what? You said it. But I was just with you in the future. I think I will remember that. No, you wouldn't remember the future. I would remember the future. Yes, but it hasn't happened to yet. Do you see? Good point.  What's really explained in the future? I don't remember that thing that didn't happen yet. Well, at least now we know what he's researching. You should know how this works. If it were possible to time-zip at the TVA, how might one remedy that? Someone in the time you want to end up in would need a temporal or extractor. Is it not strange that there's a way to solve it when it's a thing that can't happen? One temporal or extractor. Oh, he just built one. Okay, there you go. Can you hold on to that until my friend Mobius drops by? No. Wait. No, I haven't. I, I, I... I mean, it's like they're playing. This is kind of like the joke from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure with the key. Yeah, but it's a drama show. But it's played as a joke in that. Yeah, but yeah. You need to get to the temporal loom so the extractor can pull Loki directly out of the time stream. What is that? What does that mean? Temporal loom. And so, by the way, this, this problem Loki needs to solve, that's just been thrown on him and it'll, it'll eat up like two episodes. Violently rip myself from every thread of time and space. What's that, man? How do you even know that? You just built that thing. It was funny to see you prune yourself as if that wasn't the case season one anyway. No, when you prune, you're not released from time. You're sent to the end of time. That's true. Everything's sent to the goblins. And isn't it fine now that that thing's not there? Or like, what happened? Or was it even real? Hey, Loki's back. Well, I guess you two are ready to go. Wow, that was a quick, we know what to do now. So, yeah. Well, you'd rather be atomically disassembled than never reassemble again.  At least you get a lip. What's the quality of life with no skin? That was, that was like half funny. So the timeline is branching out. I bet that's what's causing the power surges and maybe your time's slipping. Really? Look at this camera work. It's so much better than Ahsoka. Look, security lady's back.  Yeah, Ahsoka was like asleep. Yeah, I would like to thank Ahsoka for making this show a little bit more bearable. Yeah, like, this is a- It kind of has made it more bearable, because relatively, even though it's full of content- There's acting and directing, I appreciate it. Yeah, and like, I think there's blocking. They care about where people are at what times. Look at that. The way it's shot, you can see everything. Yeah. It's kind of interesting how Loki benefits dramatically from having practical sets that, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. This looks like a real place that I could actually walk around in and be in. It has bricks, unfortunately. But it does look like it could be, you know, there's tile and floor and notepads and things, and it looks like a lift in workspace. I think everything we just described is why people like season one. That's pretty much it. Oh my God, X-Men. Oh no. Oh yeah, you're right. That's just- You're so right. Oh my God. That must be like close enough to an overt reference as you can get. That is- That matches the door from X-Men movies like entirely, right? Even the sound and everything. I like the camera decision to flip the sides of the door as it opens. I'd like that. There are some good creative decisions in here. Look at this room. It's great. It looks like the Chernobyl reactor room. Oh yes, the temporal loom. Of course. The story stuff, though. Yeah, it's the temporal loom. It's the temporal loom. I'm just like, oh, good camera work. Ooh, and it's set. Temporal loom is the heart of the TVA. It's where raw time is refined into physical timeline. Oh no, it's breaking. It's not constructed to weave together so many new branches. So it's overloading. It sows together branches. Why do we never hear about this season one? Why do we never hear about this season one? Yeah, that sounds like one of the most important devices of the whole TVA. Yeah.  This is- Should you be calling someone? They would never. I'm confused. The sacred timeline was one line. It wasn't loads of lines. Yeah, and the ones that got deleted were like stops. They weren't funneled into the new one.  We need to pull those extra branches. That means the death of countless people. We can't do that. I- You were doing that for your whole life. Now we need to close the blast doors to protect the TVA while we figure out how to retrofit it to handle all those branches. What about the time-sipping? Man, we've got two big problems to solve now that weren't problems before. Once those doors close, we won't be able to rethink you. So it's now or never. Look at him acting. I feel bad. Yeah, I feel bad. We still got to get Mobius into position. Skin? Skin. That's funny. If you're too late, you will be lost to time forever. And Mobius will lose all of his skin. This is a mildly amusing joke. The skin beam is all right.  Nothing makes sense, and I don't know what the fuck's happening. Docs and her crew are raiding the armory. What are you doing? What are you doing, silly? Docs. No! There you go. Priorities. So he wasn't even listening. Yeah. Is he seriously simping that hard still? Yep. When I use this thing, I might not make it out. Oh, does he not keep that in his hand? His clothes travel with him. Yeah, that's true. And also, we're just constantly incredibly lucky in the way that he's doing that. He shatters the continuity already. What's this place going to be now that he's in the past, right? Right. So this will be before all of the timelines are all. Is Miss Minutes going to be here? Wait. Oh, he's in the future. What if it would have dusted over? It would be that long, then. Yeah, we're thinking maybe even days. Well, it's the future. Then it means, what? Did they solve the problem then? What's it looking like out there? Once these doors open, the temporal radiation will start aging away your suit. This was one of my favorite suits in Dead Space, too. Yeah, that was a good one. They just, you know they made this. They were like, make it as silly as possible, which is fine with me. Make it fat. Is this cracked? Oh, I'm thinking of underwater. God, yeah. Yeah, that's why I saw it, too. Yeah, underwater, yeah. Yep. Why didn't they just get one of the other helmets? There's one right over there. Like this absurd tube that's on the piano. He has an air conditioning strap.  Man, look at that thing. What are we?  So that's the device age away, too. I mean, it should start rusting, maybe. Yeah. So he doesn't see the device in his hand. Isn't that going to time away? And it's really new. Wow.  Rags, come on. What? What? That's what it just said. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And that's a good point. That's a good point, Metal. It was like, we finished a sentences. They were like, oh, should we also go away? Part of me is trying to focus on what you're saying. And the other is focusing on the subtitles. I'm trying to do a bit. Now that I'm here, I can see how it happens, Rags. There's so many things to do back up. Because I have to have the sound on, and then y'all are talking and I'm focusing on the subtitles. It's kind of terrifying, by the way. The subtitles are saving me. Something's just happening. Like, you're melting in time. That was a USB compatible there. The visuals aren't bad here. Yeah, the visuals are pretty decent. There's a lot of things they've done right so far.  I want this to work, the poor guy. It's still time. Whatever that means. I'm going to be honest with you. I don't really know how it's going good or bad. And I just know that it'll work out by the end, that's all. Because I don't even know if it's going to make a difference between himself in this time or in this time he is in right now.  Like, I don't know what any of this means. Something bad's happening, I guess. I clearly know what's going on, hoping someone can break it down at the end. Oh, wow, look at that. Oh, it's a little floopy bilatch. It's a little cheese nozzle. What's going to happen? Where's he going? What does he need to do? Oh, now he should prune himself, right? Don't know what that is. Yeah. Where he's going? He needs to prune himself now. I mean, he's had access to the whole place.  I need to close the blast doors now. Give him more time. He can still make it. Just leave and let it there, right? I should not rely on Loki when he's flimping around. Oh, God, Matrix. Run, Loki. Oh, I was just thinking of Matrix. Loki. What are you? You need to run. I don't understand why he's doing this. Hey, what's with all the references? Why couldn't he get a time stick from all the other areas of the TVA? Is that who's this going to be? I hope it's Captain America. Four, three. Those aren't seconds. No, you're right. Those aren't seconds. Bro, get going. I'd rather your skin didn't melt off. There is nothing you can do for him. He's lost two times. I don't even know if that means anything at all. I don't even know what that means. So is he so he's OK? I don't like, or he is, I guess. Is this good? Wow, that's a long way to go. That is a long way to go. He said, hoof it. Come on, hoof it. He's got that giant Xenomorph.  It should be sure to get back, right? I thought maybe it would droid back in. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Yeah, they should.  What did he see from the elevators? It is Sylvie, isn't it? No. I was hoping we'd get away with one episode without her. But never mind. Damn it. Fuck's sakes. From behind. From behind. He just dropped a tear. I'm behind. He did, yeah. But it's Sylvie. He's going to. Wow. I mean, he's moving forward. There's no way he's making it. It's just a lie if he does. I guess now he knows it. Wait, that's him.   OK, get out of here. I have no clue what any of that meant. We're in the realm of madness, whatever. Was that part of the plan this whole time? Yeah, sure. Who zapped him then? Was it him or was it something else? There's something from behind. Maybe that's the big mystery for later in the season. This guy, it was that guy.  Easy to pull that guy. We don't like that guy. Oh, we don't like her either. She's also evil. The Fresh Prince? No, I'm cool with her. No, the lady from Game of Thrones, she's definitely evil. All this for Sylvie? I don't buy it. They're doing some crazy things. Something evil's going on.  I got no clue what any of it meant. No idea what happened. Yeah, I'm all right. I enjoyed some of the humor. Imagine watching this with a little kid and trying to explain it. You know what I mean?  What do you even say? I think it's gross that Michael Waldron gets the created credit.  It's too nonsense. I enjoyed it more than I could. I was about to say it's significantly better than a soak. Yeah, in terms of entertainment value, I'm not bored to death. There's nice visuals. There's good directing. There's good performances. There's a couple good jokes. It's a great location set. So in terms of like time and space, it's completely insane stuff that they get to decide what the payoff is. We can't predict any of it because how would we? So now it's an issue with being flimbed around time as solve, right? Maybe, yes. I don't even know what it was. Do you know what that was? So it seems like the logic was the loom or whatever it binds everything together and you need to like synchronize on this thing to resync up with time. Otherwise, you get lost to time, whatever that means. Why do you have to prune himself, though? That seems counterintuitive. Pruning, I guess, makes it so that he floops through the, because it's meant to send you out of time. To the end of time, right? To that place where he gets booped back out and then he's OK. It's like a paradox solver thing through paradox. Sure. That's good enough. I'll go with that. If you say so, Fringy. If you say so. I mean, I don't even know if I say so. I don't know. I'm rolling with you. I have I've got nothing. Also, this temporal loom thing, like all these branches go in there and do one thing on the other side.  Where in that thing is the end of time or was the end of time? I guess. This is after she killed Kanglin. I guess so. In 1992. Oklahoma, why isn't it some place again? I'm like another planet. Why is that? This is the only planet in the universe and all the cosmos, the 20th century of Earth is the only one that is good. God is the next step. So going to be like her side, her POV. Yep. Yep. Oh, you know what? Half the season is going to be about Sylvie. I think we got most of the low key parts. Oh, my God, we're getting McDonald's. Well, you can try our new chicken McNuggets and we have a big Mac road. Yeah.  He's doing that. So it's probably yes.  I want to try everything. He's going to be huge. She's going to exist. This is the most. This is the most human moment she's ever had. That's not what she had to hide all the time and time and everything for now. And now she's crazy. Now she's looking out to McDonald's. I mean, they could. I mean, they'll be in her nugget with that. Well, they won't. They won't. The thing is there is genuine reason to be like we might actually get something because this isn't written by Michael Waldron. This is written by someone new. That's true. It is written by someone else, which means that there's a chance. You might be right, because there are some elements that that work, like we said in this first episode. But then we're talking about Sylvie here. Sylvie. I'll take like a bad attempt at doing something good as opposed to rather than nothing at all. It was really painful watching nothing happen. It really was. Isn't it crazy to think about like, oh, this is already better just because these people talk without five second pauses in between each other and yet and yet. If you're like, yeah, but how does it actually score really? It's like, oh, it's completely makes no sense. Nothing, nothing, nothing. This is so upset. It wasn't just the pauses. It was the fact that you wait 10 years for the pauses.   And there's like nothing, it's never worth it in the end. Like it's always these one-liners. It's just, I feel like I have no idea why Ahsoka likes Sabine. I have no idea why Sabine likes Ahsoka. Like no accountability for this chick and just lets her get away with everything. We're at least in this show, we're getting a little, like I feel like I get more out of Loki and Mobius in like just a few scenes that I got in the entire season. They have a lot of good chemistry and they're charismatic. Well, you have three guys who are good actors. They have good timing. They're just, they're talented at what they do and they clearly care. They feel committed. And it's nice to watch them.  It could be anything. We're purely in the plot madness realm. I would rather listen to the three of them argue whether or not losing all of your skin or being pulled out of time hurts more. Absolutely. Follow that conversation. And like that's such a good point that Rex brings up. There's like two humans kind of talking and they're kind of like quirky, but not in an annoying way. That's the sign of a great performer where we don't even know what the fuck's going on.  So it's enjoyable to watch, you know? Like until we saw Sylvie, I didn't hate it. We'll see what they do with it. I was confused and like, but yeah. Yeah, I'm not happy to see her at all either. She was a miserable element of the first season. And the first season was just a mess anyway. But we'll see if they can give us something interesting. They can make some jokes in the McDonald's. That could be fun. So I mean, I mean, in terms of a speculation, why do you think it is the IGN would have given the first four episodes of the show five given that they gave what the finale of Ahsoka and eight? Oh, God, maybe there's only one action scene and they don't want to see people talk to each other or references to the future of the MCU. Maybe it was different reviewers. And one of them has a super big Star Wars bias. Maybe it's actually good. Maybe it's actually good then. Maybe it's like a three, four area. And it's like, that actually makes me like, if you tell me they gave us one, you know, in terms of this first season, is it not the lie? The fact that my eyes were like, hmm, like looking around here, you know, interesting to keep an eye on this one because, you know, this fashion for Marvel shows on Disney, anything shows is that they get worse as they go along. So I was going to say that's the pattern. It's the wasted potential and like Kenobi, one of my favorite parts of the Kenobi breakdown that you guys did was like everyone rewriting the show in the first episode of like all the different potential things we could do. And we know they're not going to do that. They're just going to piss it away and do the, the, the read the story. This season, I got no way that I'm necessarily looking for them to take it. So I'm just like, whatever, guys, see whatever you want to do. It's not like low key, Mobius or, or a boros or anything to me.  I just feel like you have so much potential with the things that we complimented. If you just kind of tone it down and just calm down, make a plot that we can actually follow and try to redeem some of the things that worked. And like, I don't know. I think you could make something on this.   And I'm totally checked out.   All right. Well, he's in print. Marky, he's in the episode one. Yeah. We did it. We're not as angry and sad as we could be. Woo. Yeah. Yeah. I guess, I guess. But yeah. Take care of your skin folks. We're fine. Yeah. Take care of your skin. Bye. Goodbye everyone. Bye bye. What'd you bring me?