I don't know if I'm live right now. It's been so long since I've done this. It's been so long since I've done this. Excellent connection. Let's open up the private tab. YouTube forward slash metal x 1000. You can now put people in time out for different lengths of time. No, don't worry about that. Got it. Oh, hi Chris. Okay, someone is watching. Okay, I don't have anything planned for what I'm going to talk about. It's Tuesday morning. My wife and kids go to church on Tuesday mornings for a Bible study thing. And this is usually when I would record videos. And I'm just not in the mood to record videos. I have lots of topics to record about, but I'm just not in the mood to do it. So I thought, you know what? I've been wanting to do a live stream forever. And the only time I ever have time to do it is Tuesday mornings, which seems like a horrible time to stream. I would think that if I did it now, no one would watch, but there's already, you know, five people currently. It looks like in the room. And so I just thought I'd do a video to start talking. You guys have any questions you can ask me? Let's see. Let me send a link to this to some people in my chat room so that they know that I'm streaming because I might get some people from there in here. Da da da, live stream. Aaron here. That's me talking. In case that in here. It's funny. It looks like the thumbnail for this is from last time I did live stream or no, maybe that's my banner on my YouTube page. Let's see. Someone said something. I'd like to ask you about where do you work as a professional and what is your job? Okay. Yes. So I don't do tech work. I don't do anything computer related for work. I work for a fire department. In fact, by the end of this month, I'll reach 20 years with the fire department. And in the past, I tried to help them with computer stuff and I just got burnt lots of times back in 09. I know that was a long time ago. Back as a little bit after I started doing YouTube videos, I had torn my bicep. I was on light duty. I did a whole bunch of computer stuff for the department. The chief loved me. They hired a new IT guy. I disagreed with the IT guy and the chief went from loving me to wanting to fire me because I disagreed with this guy in the direction where we're going ever since then. So what 15 years now our computer systems have just gotten worse and worse and worse. And I've been asked by different chiefs as time goes on to help out. And my response has been no, because every time I do and there have been a number of times I have that basically I do a bunch of work and then they end up going a different route because that's what the IT guy wants. And by IT guy, I mean we have a couple of IT guys and all they ever do is basically buy software and hire outside companies to take care of stuff. I don't think they actually do anything themselves and the software we get is just worse and worse every time we get something new. So I again, don't work in IT and people ask why and the reason is because I like computers, I like programming, I like making scripts, I like writing video games, I like doing it because I like doing it and if I did it for work I would go crazy. And a little bit I've tried to do it at work it's just aggravating. So yeah, I think it's great that there's people who work in computers obviously. I think a lot of people who actually work in computers aren't very good with computers and they do it because for the money and there's just a small select group of people who actually do it because they love it. And I've known a lot of people very, very smart with computers then they start getting jobs in business and their minds go the opposite direction because they start getting fed this information that like this is how we do it and we have to do it. I actually watched the video the other day about this guy who was self-taught with computer stuff and he was talking about complaints that people who are self-taught with computers get from people who went to school for it. And I always look the other way around I think people who go to school for computer stuff I know it's bad I look down on them because for multiple reasons but they're fed this book stuff and they always over complicate stuff. You ever talk about to someone who's been formally trained in computers it's like I could do something and get it done. They're like well you can't do it that way because it's not going to scale. I'm not Facebook I don't have billions of users. Most companies are very small with maybe maybe 20 employees 100 employees 200 employees. You can have thousands of employees you don't have to worry about scaling. I had a friend who very knowledgeable on Linux in fact he's the one that got me using Debian years ago and he's still a very knowledgeable guy but as soon as he started working in computers with these companies all of a sudden he's using you know Microsoft Outlook and stuff like that he's like oh well you know other options don't scale like Microsoft's Outlook with scale it's email it's email it's not complicated it hits literally text files being passed to a server into a folder or file depending on how it's set up. Scaling how big is your company? Again you know if you're a huge multi-billion dollar company yeah maybe you have to worry about scaling most companies don't. Oh hello someone's from India. Hello so I got 11 viewers. So again for those of you who just joined us I wasn't planning on doing a live stream today Tuesday mornings my day to record videos and I'm just not in the mood to so I thought I'd hop on here and do a live stream and talk about stuff. What are your views on FOS as in free and open source software? I think all software should be free and open source. I try to limit any proprietary software I use. Now we don't live in a perfect world to truly go 100% free and open source software isn't possible because as we all know our desktops and laptops and our phones the chips on them have proprietary software embedded in them that there's really not much you can do but in general I try to keep my systems with at the very least open source software. In fact my laptop I don't think my laptop has any proprietary drivers on it. I know my desktop I need NVIDIA drivers. There is a program in the repositories for Debian that will check at least the applications you have installed on your system through the package manager. It's the virtual Richard Stallman so I think it's VRMS. You run that and it will tell you if you have any proprietary or non Richard Stallman improved software on your system but I think it only checks what's installed through your repositories. So if you're installing things outside of the default repositories for your system I'm not sure if it finds those but I try to only stay with the Debian repositories. Very rarely do I go outside of those because you're just asking for trouble but occasionally you have to but I still try to stay with again at least open source software and there is a difference between free and open source software and just open source software. Technically the GPL license would be free and open source because it's a license that protects and it says this has to stay open. If something's under a certain BSD license and there are different BSD licenses as I found out when I asked Richard Stallman a question and he yelled at me and never really answered my question but most BSD licenses are not technically free licenses they're only open source because they give the option for sub licensing meaning you can take it and make changes and not have to share those and it will become proprietary and I don't like that but I have no problem using something that's under a BSD license myself because technically I could take it make a change and then release it under a GPL license because it's a one-way compatibility. I can go from the BSD license to a GPL license but not the other way around. Well not too long ago maybe a year or two ago I saw a post I think it was talking about X screensavers so on Linux systems if you have a screensaver there's a good chance it's using the X screensaver package and I'm not sure what license that was under let's see software X screensaver wiki usually it will tell us the license on the Wikipedia page and it's an MIT license and if I did too long didn't read licenses and I click on this and I go MIT it's probably gonna allow sub licensing so here commercial use modification distribution sub licensing so to the best of my knowledge something like MIT license would and don't quote me out because I don't know a whole lot about the MIT license it would be a one-way compatibility with a GPL license you can go from the MIT license to the GPL license but you can't take something that's under a GPL license and go to the MIT license some people would say that would make the GPL more restrictive but the restriction is the fact that you can't restrict the software which I think is backwards thinking to me something under a GPL license is more free and less restrictive than a BSD or an MIT license anyway going back to the story of the X screensaver software oh by the way is my audio okay where's my live stream here yeah let me know if my audio is okay because I didn't really check it but it looks good on the screen here um anyway X screensavers uh it's under an MIT license I guess some people took it and repackaged it and released it on the GPL license and I saw a post where the creator of the X screensavers packages if I remember correctly was complaining about this you can't complain about it if you released under a license that specifically allows that now if you released under the GPL license and someone repackaged it and re-licensed it yeah you have every right to be upset but if you specifically pick a license that allows people to take it and re-license it under another license you can't complain when people do that so oh good the audio is fine so we're talking about uh so again for people because now I'm up to 14 viewers so I wasn't planning on doing live stream today just thought I'd do it though and so I'm just talking and if you have any questions go ahead and ask them in the chat someone's asking if I use a VPN no I've never actually used a VPN I really don't see the point in most cases because if I'm connecting I connect to my house through SSH I have two computers always open up through SSH that I can tunnel in and then access all my other computers I have two in case one goes down I can always access the other I also have an xCloud server but I use certificates security so it's already encrypted I really don't have a need for a VPN there has been times where I will SSH tunnel and go with my browser through a tunnel but the information I'm sending on almost all websites including my website and my next cloud server all use HTTPS so they're encrypted so yeah an ISP or someone on my network might know I'm going to a server but they can't see what I'm seeing so unless I'm trying to really hide what I'm doing like where I'm going which I'm not really concerned about I don't do that but I can see the use of VPN I hate all the VPN commercials on YouTube that it's like they're all misleading on what VPNs do and they all basically encourage breaking the law because they talk about accessing restricted media that's restricted in your country because you can go pretend like you're in another country that's technically breaking the law it's not criminal law but when you sign up for these services either through your internet service provider or Netflix or those you agree to a contract and it's just like a software contract it is legally binding are you going to get in trouble for it probably not do I care no I don't use those services and then the way I get my movies and videos lots of times isn't a legal way of doing it but I just find it funny that all these come all these YouTube people are advertising it and one of their their highlights on why to use a VPN is to to do something that's basically legal you're breaking a contract a legally binding contract but no I've never used a VPN if I ever need to I can SSH and tunnel through my network I've done videos on that before there's other videos out there basically you just you know you connect through SSH and you open up a port and then you just like reverse tunnel through your network and you tell your web browser hey use this port as a proxy and then everything will go through your SSH server and come out of my house so I'm not saying that VPNs are not a good thing they are if you need them I think lots of times people use them in ways that are unnecessary like at work there's a VPN setup so that all the different fire stations which someone asked earlier on the firefighter is my full-time job all the fire stations in my department are all connected through VPNs so they're all kind of there and for file sharing I guess I really don't see the point of that we should have a server setup that that we can access to a web browser we shouldn't be using regular file sharing there's not a point to it there has been security issues with it before in fact even now the our computer systems are just so messed up and it is keeping worse and it's just decisions our IT guys are making recently they changed from our desktop computers which had locally installed copies of windows 7 I think is what we were running for a while with a copy of freeze ice something that basically it's supposed to prevent you from making changes to the hard drive which it didn't really prevent anything trust me trust me I can make changes to those hard drives if I wanted to in multiple different ways but it was rather annoying system because most people you make changes to the system when you reboot it's like a fresh system and it would also reboot randomly and it will not randomly but every night for updates which you might think oh having the computer automatically reboot at three o'clock in the morning isn't a big deal except for when you're a firefighter and you go out and you run a call in the middle of the night you come back and you start a report and halfway through your report the system would reboot and we would lose our reports at least with the software we used to we did recently go to web based reporting system so I guess if the system reboots then at least something might be saved you can log back in but recently we switched from desktop computers running windows 7 to they got little like net boxes or whatever you want to call them little tiny computers on the back of the system that boot into windows but then connect to a server and run a virtual machine of windows 11 remotely and it's absolutely horrible because there is well first of all you got to log in twice and then there's a delay on everything and like if you need to watch a video for training because we do online courses weekly basically well they assign a few each month for us to go through and usually have to watch a video well the audio and the video never line up because the audio is always delayed by a bit or the video is delayed by a bit it's at a sink so you can't even watch a video on them and it's just ridiculous someone asked why do I use Debian well my first year or two of of using Linux I distro hop like most people do every month I was switching to a different one eventually I met my friend Darryl and I was talking about him earlier he he really really loved Debian and eventually I you know I got to the point where I was just like okay I like these distros they're based on Debian why would I use something that's based on Debian when I could just use Debian you know people I I really don't care what distributions people use in general but it's just a lot of these distros like Ubuntu or Linux Mint or my favorite out of the box distro is um MX Linux and so I keep that on the flash drive and these are good if you need a system up and running with you know a lot of stuff you already need but for my installs I want to install a minimal system and then install what I need as I go and all these systems are based on Debian I can do whatever they do with Debian I just have to set it up myself but I don't have to worry about stuff I don't want installed it's already installed so again I like to start off with a lightweight system and then just install what I need as I go uh why would I pick Debian over something like Arch and I'm not trying to start an argument here or a fight because again I think Arch is great as far as their documentation I'm sure it's a great distribution reasons I like Debian over Arch and I've said this before is one the main thing is packages right the default Debian repositories have way more packages than Arch people will argue that's not true well they're talking about using the AURs which is basically a community uh repos I don't trust that I don't trust that I might as well be going and downloading things from random websites because my question is if the these programs in the AUR are are secure and tested why are they not in the default repositories that's just my view I'm sure that they maybe all are safe but I just I just don't trust that to get something into the Debian repositories takes a long progress process I don't know what the process is to get stuff in the AUR but if you need to go through a process that checks to make sure compatibility stability and um and you can trust the the developers and the people creating the packages and the maintainers if you're going through all that why is it not in the default repositories that's just my view yes Arch probably has more software if you count the those community based repositories I'd rather just go to the default uh repositories for Debian I don't install a PPAs I don't even know how those work because once you install repositories outside of those repositories you're just asking for trouble in my opinion another thing I like about Debian is that it supports more architectures than most other distributions for example for a while I did run Arch on an ARM device every couple of months it would break and I think the reason for this was because Arch does not support ARM people will say oh it does and they'll link me to a page well that's not actually the Arch project that's a side project someone else has going on and I don't think it's as maintained as much and it and that's why there were issues constantly so although Arch will run on multiple architectures which is true of basically all Linux distros you can make them do it Debian actually supports and has repositories for more distributions than I think or more architectures than I think any other distro so that's just why I like Debian I like that it also has the three stages of repositories you got unstable testing and stable for servers I use stable but for my desktop systems I use SID which is unstable and I have for years because I do want to make sure I have somewhat up-to-date software but I understand Arch people are very very big on having the latest and greatest which is awesome if that's what you're into I don't see a need to upgrade unless there's going to be new features or security issues that I need someone once pointed out to me they're like oh this this is years years ago they're like here's an example Debian they're still using KT 10 and KT 12 has been out for over a year I'm like well there's standards on what is is considered stable and I said to them I said what's so new in KT 12 that you need it over 10 they're like I don't know but it's it's newer it's two versions newer what does that mean but if that's important for you you can go that route me the latest getting the absolute newest isn't necessarily important unless there's new features or a security update being pushed which I'm going to get those security updates with Debian um so yeah and I don't mean to compare like I'm not trying to put down Arch the reason I'm comparing Debian to Arch is because if I didn't use a Debian based distro Arch would probably be my next choice I hear lots of great things about Arch I just like the repositories for Debian over Arch let's see uh audio is good uh let's see audio is fine will you make tutorials on how to install Debian actually I've thought about that uh actually a lot recently one of the things is if I'm going to do the video I'm not going to do it in a virtual machine because I want to show doing it on real hardware and I it takes a little more setup to set up a camera and point it at the screen I hate to point the camera at the screen but I do want to do different videos on install and Debian different ways and what I mean by that is just like a standard install using a USB or CD drive um I don't want to do net installs but then also I like finding tricky ways to install operating systems like makeup scenarios where you don't have a flash drive all you have is a network connection because you can install Debian or really any like just throw different ways so like the bootstrap the bootstrap is an application that basically will pull down a Debian file system for you and I used to do my installs that way through uh I always said grill them but GRML which is a live distro that's Debian based uh and basically you form write your hard drive and then it's almost like a net install it pulls it down then you install bootloader and go um you can if you have a system already running with any Linux distro uh and you have swap space and let's say you have no physical hardware to put a new ISO on for installing Debian you can actually unmount your swap space do a uh Debootstrap install a minimal Debian uh distro to that new format that swap space as ext4 or whatever install Debian they're using a Debootstrap add it to your bootloader reboot into that delete your other partition and then resize that partition so you can actually install Debian that way another thing I've done in the past is uh let's say you have a Ubuntu or some other Linux live CD right a CD so it's it's not writable and you want to install Debian and you have a system that uh that doesn't have um an operating system on it or he does but you just want to wipe that out install Debian something I've done in the past is you boot a live distro right so and then you download a Debian net install ISO which is like 10 megabytes and you can flash that or flash it you can copy that using something like DD to your internal hard drive and when you reboot it will boot that as if you're booting it off an external disk and the thing is it boots to RAM so once you've booted into that you can now wipe your hard drive that you just booted off of and install Debian there so I like coming up with scenarios like that where it's kind of unrealistic but like let's say you're in a clinch and you don't have all the tools you have so I want to do some videos on that it's just I just haven't done it yet but uh I can do it oh another thing people I've heard complain about is that if you have uh if you're installing Debian because Debian by default doesn't have uh wireless uh the proprietary drivers on it you need to install the drivers or copy files over to a USB stick for the install I've never ever done that uh so a lot of times I've I've in the past I've had computers that have ethernet cables and you can pretty much always boot off that and then once you installed you can add the the the non-free repositories from Debian and install the wi-fi drivers that way so that's something I've done a lot um also you could boot with another distribution like I said I used to use the uh GRML or Ubuntu you can you can basically do a Deboot Strap install of Debian from any Linux distro and once you've uh downloaded the basic Debian uh file system you can chur route into that before you reboot and install the wires drivers while you're still in Debian or whatever or sorry Ubuntu or whatever distribution that has your wireless drivers uh so that's another way I've done it and then a third way I've done it without having a copy drivers to a USB drive is I have a USB hub here that uh that has ethernet on it so if I don't have ethernet plug on my machine I just plug that in install the drivers unplug it and now I have wi-fi um I think it's great the Debian has free and non-free uh repositories that is a big deal it may not be a big deal to you but it is a big deal to some people like me I want to make sure that I know if I'm wanting installing what I'm installing is proprietary or not or you know what licenses it has and that is a big issue um and you may not think but it could cost you millions of dollars and I know people who it has uh quick story guy I knew uh he's a admin a Linux admin for some company some oil company right and they dig for oil or something I don't know all the details they had one guy in their team install a bunch of I want to say CentOS or Red Hat one of those you know commercial Linux distributions and they thought they had the proper license because for some of those you need to buy certain licenses well it turns out they bought the wrong license for what they were doing and they had an audit and they had to audit all these servers and machines and supposedly the audit cost millions of dollars from what he told me from that point on they've been using Debian because because not even paying fines for having the wrong license they they just just the audit just the question of are you running something or not can cost the millions of dollars so they switch all their servers over to Debian they use the only the free repositories and they don't have to worry it and when they have office meetings if anyone brings up anything about possibly switching to and using some sort of proprietary software like like that or even you know something that's open source that requires a license of some sort open source um they go quiet because if there's even a hint that they're doing something like that they might have to do an audit that costs millions of dollars so the fact that Debian breaks the repositories into free and non-free and all you have to do is go into a text file and add non-dash free to align and then refresh your package manager and you'll be able to access things like proprietary um wi-fi drivers it it just gives you that peace of mind if you're someone who's concerned about that and yeah as an individual user it may not be a big deal to you but if it's not again you just go in you add that one line to the text file and refresh your package manager uh let's see how to install Debian so i might do a video on that any section who wants to cert uh to start home labbing what do you mean home labbing i don't know what that means like hardware stuff i'm not sure uh what you've used on bt rfs snapshotting with bt rfs versus okay i have never used bt rfs um so i really don't have an opinion on it uh when it comes down to stuff like that i use ext4 um i do occasional monthly backups of parts of my system i just tar certain directories up and then every couple of months i do have a hard drive where i'll just clone my whole hard drive just to be sure so i just you know boot into a live distro and copy it over um so yeah i i don't have an opinion on that uh my buddy darrell who i've mentioned a few times man i'm really out of focus and i this camera this webcam is horrible uh oh someone says home lab hosting stuff from your home okay i'll talk about that in a moment uh but yeah i don't know much about file systems i know that uh ext3 came out you know around the time i started using linux if you had a slower system to use ext4 uh two still and then ext4 came out and from my understanding it's like uh i i guess that's best of both worlds i don't even know you're getting into things i don't know about okay uh home labbing so running things from home okay ssh do everything through ssh uh it's the most secure way to do things if you can do gooey stuff you can run uh you know xorg and x applications through ssh it's kind of slow i don't recommend it unless you really need to truth is if you just know how to do everything from the shell you can do everything through ssh i mean there's very little you need to do uh through a gooey interface when it comes to management you can share files using uh sftp um or scopy you can mount directories through ssh uh and then you have full access to you to your system and you can forward audio through if you need to just use ssh uh that's my journal thing and i would use ssh for absolutely pretty much everything if i didn't have my wife which i love my wife but i don't expect her to ssh and stuff so that's why i have a next cloud server and uh a next cloud i'm a little more concerned about it because when you come to running something on a web browser okay so i have empachi installed uh and i keep that up to date i try to keep um next cloud up to date the thing is now you have all these server side scripts running and if any one of them has a flaw in it someone get into your system and that's a little scary to me where ssh i know ssh is secure there has been uh exploits in the past vulnerabilities found and i know that debian's gonna push though any fixes right away and everything's just through this tunnel it's just like nothing's getting in this pipe right where when you're running a web server and you're running uh next cloud again one file has a security flaw in it it can open up your whole system that being said i still use next cloud it is really good for for calendar stuff and sharing files with my wife uh i don't use next cloud talk i tried for a while the issue is it doesn't allow for notifications um if you don't have uh google services installed on your device which i do on my main phone unfortunately uh which again uh my desktop laptop computers i started saying earlier pretty much all free open source my phone i do have google services almost completely because of google maps um that's a whole other conversation though but if i didn't need google maps uh i could probably do without other google services on there uh so but uh yeah next cloud is great their talk application isn't very good i've actually just started using element which i don't host myself but i find is secure uh because it's encrypted and end you have to actually generate keys uh does cause issues every once in a while where a key will get lost uh you know uh because i just use the web browser i don't have the application installed on my desktop i do have element or i said element matrix server i use element application i use the open source element app from eftroid on my device on my my phone on my desktop i just have the tab open all the time and that's how i communicate with my wife kids and a few friends online um but next cloud next cloud is great i've been meaning to do a video on installing that because uh a lot of tutorials on how to install it use either docker files or snap files or flat packs which i am not a big fan of i think that's laziness programming mostly and it causes extra bulk i think there are times and places for it i hate when there is an application i want that isn't in the repositories i want to install it and the developer's only option for you to install it is to use one of those um installing next cloud without those is super easy uh and i've been meaning to do a video on that i have notes on it it literally is just install a patchy and a few other packages from your debbie and repositories download uncompressed file and then you know create passwords and stuff it's it's super simple but no one ever shows tutorials on how to do that at least most people don't so i want to do a video on that i can literally get a next cloud server up and running in five minutes and next cloud is pretty cool but besides that ssh um and i have all my machines run a patchy web server uh and most of them are behind my firewall here at home uh except for the next cloud one and uh i just i i i just secure it you know i just think uh uh ssh and a web server on all machines is useful obviously you don't want to put anything in a directory that people can access but uh basically anything i put in my web directory on my computers is stuff that i consider public years ago i was working at a fire station it was actually a weird it was a fire station worked out for like 10 years but we actually shared that fire station with another department because it was right on the edge of our districts and one day there was a guy there that wasn't normally there that that department that was there oh he's a hacker you gotta be careful they're all worried about him that he's he supposedly hacking all these systems they all turn off their phones when he's around every ridiculous stuff and um he came in to my room shows me a picture of my wife he goes is that your wife or is that is this your picture i go yeah he goes secure your machine and it was a picture from my web directory i i put it in there because i was sharing it with somebody it's super simple if someone's there with me and i go on to give them a file from my computer instead of sending it my phone and text it to them or whatever or uploading online let's go here just just go to this url on the same network and there's my file so yeah i left that picture in there but it was a picture that i probably have up on facebook or something anyway uh anyway uh use our secure your network well i i only put private or public things in those files it's basically mostly for me to test stuff man i am this camera is so horrible see if it focuses sorry i i don't have a good webcam i think that's a little bit better i'm glad this camera doesn't have autofocus i hate when people do videos and they have autofocus on the cameras constantly going in and out of i'd rather be out of focus all the time than be going in and out of focus um yeah i did have a set up once because i thought about doing live videos where i i even talked about it taking my my nice camera and hooking it up through a video capture thing and using that and i just didn't feel like doing that today so i just grabbed this cheap little webcam i have sitting here um uh someone's saying next cloud over vpn uh so i don't see the point of that because i mean okay i do see what they're saying because i use security certificates everything's encrypted that i do he's saying put it through a vpn so that you don't have to worry about uh you know the scripts that i'm talking about having flaws in them and that would be one case but the thing is it's just like i want to be able to access my next cloud server wherever i am i don't have to go through setting up a vpn if i go to another machine the point about next cloud is i just open up a web browser and go to it that is the benefit if i have to go and set up a vpn to connect to it i'm not saying that's a bad idea and you might don't want to go that route if you only want uh your next cloud to be connected another thing about next cloud is you can share files make up you know create a link just like you do with like google docs or google photos and share those with people so people can directly access stuff i don't do that because i figure the less people i know that know where my server is the better um but yeah a vpn that would be a case for a vpn um but then i'd have to set up vpns on my phone i just i just yeah that would be an option just not something i'm going to do uh let's see my braver consumes too much resources is there any reason for that yes because browsers nowadays take up a lot of resources yes same same with me i use brave it's actually one of the few things i've installed that isn't in the debbie in repositories and it actually did add a repository for that earlier i said i try not to do that that is the one thing i do do because i do like brave um as far as consumption it's just it's just the state of the web and web browsers uh i don't know if firefox would be any better there are lightweight web browser out there but they're going to miss some features that you have um a lot of people really uh are upset with the fact that basically every web browser these days is based on chromium not chrome uh and they're like oh it's giving google monopoly and i don't know a whole lot on this whole topic but the thing is chromium is an open source project notice i don't say free and open source i'm not sure exact license but i'm pretty sure it's just a open source license since there are proprietary um uh browsers based on it for example edge right so again that's the difference between free and open source and open source if you have a license that allows sub licensing companies can take it and they can create chrome or edge which are proprietary browsers based on the open source code where if it was true free software under a gpl license they would have to share their changes with you and not embed those proprietary bits into it although companies do find ways around that sometimes um so yeah there are lighter weight web browsers out there brave any any chromium based web browser is going to take up a lot of a lot of system resources uh firefox might be better i don't know how much better um but as far as people being upset that so many browsers are based on on chromium they're like it's giving google power well i don't know how much google's involved with the chromium project they make chrome all these other browsers aren't based on chrome they're based on chromium which is open source and i just find it funny because everyone's like oh every browser is going to be based on this it's it's it there should be variety and it's funny because people used to complain all the time they probably still do every browser renders css differently i was like what do you do you want everything to be working to the same or different complaining that there's all these different browsers that are based on chromium and that's not giving you a choice is like saying there's all these distributions of linux and that's not giving you a choice because it's all based on linux in my opinion again i wish chromium and its browsers that are based on it were under a better license the the firefox licenses might be better again i don't know i know about the gpl license anything else i go to the too long didn't read license website and it gives me the breakdown of it they have the mozilla license for firefox i don't know much about it since there's no proprietary browsers i know of based on that maybe it doesn't allow sub licensing but i don't know if enough about the license of it um but yeah web browsers just take a lot of resources the fact that there's all these browsers based on chromium i don't necessarily see that as a bad thing i can take that back years from now if i do see it becoming a problem uh but yeah the people are worried that that google's deciding the way the internet's going and maybe there's some truth to that uh because even though chromium is open source google might have a big hand on how that's controlled but you know what you have firefox the mozilla company isn't that great of a company you know look into again uh brian lunduk has done some videos on this recently and how much money they're spending on different things that have nothing to do with the web browser so you know if you're not using a chromium based browser or firefox based browser uh could the only other browser i know that was firefox based was debbie and used to have ice weasel which again came down to a licensing thing even though uh firefox was open source uh there were some licensing issues with their icons and other graphics so ice weasel was firefox with different graphics basically one or two other differences uh but they've been they changed it since then and now firefox is in the debbie and repositories there's other you know what's it dillo um what are some other like other lightweight browsers i'm trying to think um epiphany there used to be epiphany but they're gonna be missing a lot of features so um i don't uh need to absolutely let me scroll back make sure i want to read what everyone has to say i've been using things from uh the AUR for many years right now vile still won't play any videos and just crashes i've been trying to find out why off why off for and on for weeks i can't figure out what files are borked so yeah again i'm not even saying that the AURs necessarily have malicious software on this saying um that making something stable is more than just saying that something is stable so again going back to someone telling me that this is years ago again the debbie was two versions behind on kde when there's been stable version you know two versions newer well just because the developers of kde say that the software their software is stable that doesn't mean that it's going to be stable on debbie and system you have to make sure that one all the dependencies that program use are in a stable state that although that they interact with the current system so again let's say we have applications that use python 2 and then other applications have python 3 you'd be like well i need this to python 3 i'm just using the python as they go anyway let's say there's two libraries of anything this this program uh is stable and it requires this library but there's an older version of that library that all these programs depend on we need to figure out a way to have both of these installed and not conflict with each other so stability is not just the developer saying my program is stable you you also have to make sure it's stable with the system uh so yeah and i'm not saying that i've ever had issues again i use debbie and unstable on all my systems except for my servers and i've been doing that for over 10 years and there have been maybe two times where i've had issues where a program just crashes all time and i can't fix it i end up doing a reinstall and that's been spent a long long time since i've done that because i probably am better at fixing problems now than i was um so again i'm not putting down um arch i'm just saying arch is probably great and the repository is probably great i just don't trust um the trusted user i don't even know what the a store stands for there's some user resources arch user resources maybe i don't know uh uh i've seen some window managers in your tutorials which one oh i use i3 which is a tiling window manager back in the day for a long long time i liked xfce and i was really interested in tiling managers by just one of those i didn't feel like changing and that that's a big issue with a lot of people it's like you're used to something you don't want to change so for years i tried to make xfce like a tiling window manager um there are programs there's one called maxine or something like that that you can stall that on whatever desktop you're on on linux you can set it so every program opens up in full screen by default or maximized at least uh and then there were buttons i could hit that would kind of tile my windows left and right and eventually i just went to i3 now i forget the name of it that i've seen some videos on youtube of people who used to use i3 they're using another window man tiling window manager now and i'm like i wonder if that's good i wonder if i should switch but really i am very happy with i3 the only thing i wish i could figure out with i3 for the most part right here i've got three monitors so when i'm at home i have three monitors but even when i'm out and about my laptop with one monitor which usually this screen is closed i opened it up because i was going to use the webcam off my laptop but then decided to go with this external one uh oh uh oh i think when i just did that did i mess up my live stream can you guys still hear me open that back up i mean everything's still on on my screen open for right now uh but yeah the webcam on this laptop is actually worse than this this screen um what was i talking about uh oh window managers yeah i3 is what i use um i have keys that will you know tile the windows vertically or horizontally i wish there was an option that would tile and i know some tiling managers do this to where it would do a grid tile and the only reason that's come up with for me recently is i've started using cssh uh which allows you to ssh into multiple machines all at once and send the same command to all of them and so i can run one command connect to um the two computers that are hooked to my two tv's uh my wife's computer my daughter's computer my son's computer and two or three of the servers i have running uh so it's like six or seven machines all at once and do updates so once a week i can just run one simple command you know log in and do the update command and the thing is when i do that it's like it's either all the screens all the windows are vertically or horizontally squished together i wish i could say grid um and i've tried looking that up i think there might be a plugin for i3 or something but i wasn't gonna go messing with it that much it's not that big of a deal it's the only thing i don't like about i3 so far and i've been using it for a couple of years do you think it's a good idea to use debian testing as a desktop that's up to you again i use unstable uh and so testing stuff a lot of distributions like ubuntu uses or at least use you i don't know if it still does used to use debian testing repositories so you figure that most of them it's already made from unstable to testing which means we're pretty sure it's okay but we need to test it a little bit more um but yeah if for for servers 100% use stable for desktop it's up to you you know uh using you know unstable like i do you could have issues and the process to get stuff into the debian repositories is pretty pretty hard like i've looked oh by the way if anybody has any experience in that i have written some video games i would love to see them in the debian repositories i started the process in looking to that you need to get yourself uh i forget what they call it like a mentor or something and there's like there's a big process to getting stuff in the the the repositories and you need to go through someone who's already involved until you become a certain status and then you can start uh doing stuff yourself but if anyone has any experience to that i would love to hear from you because i would love to take some of the video games i made and get them packaged and put in the debian repositories because i make games all the time some more elaborate than others some are very simple but i just want people playing my games and i think getting them in the repositories would really really help and um and and getting games running on linux is not an issue i use a lot of emulators old arcade games and console games and then i try not to use wine and stuff like that because that means you're probably using proprietary software i mean i have in the past but i don't like doing that on my main system but a lot of the games when you search linux games like some of them there's like a handful that are pretty good and the rest are just like i would love to to contribute more by getting some of my games in the repositories because my games look halfway decent because i get graphics uh that are free to use but are decent anyway um yeah as far as using testing i use unstable so i can't say testing's not good it's probably better than using unstable uh i don't need the absolute latest but everything debian base distro i ever use actually there is some some software that i wanted which can't be properly installed using libraries can't be upgraded because some libraries can't be upgraded okay again um yeah i'm not saying that you should never go outside the repositories i'm saying you should say within the repositories default repositories as much as possible uh occasionally you have to go out and in cases like that uh i guess flat packs and snap packs and all that stuff because those are from understand basically just like a chur route right it's just it's the packaging uh all the application all its dependencies inside like basically like a zip file or a tar file or some sort of image file mounting it and running it um i think i just don't like about them is uh one of those few things but it's just sloppy it's bulk it's like if programming it's python it's going to package python in there i already have python on my system why why would i want a new copy of python for every application i install i do think it's good for um preservation i guess i should say like uh 20 years from now if you wanted to play play a game or use an old piece of software from a links distro now will you be able to install them because the repositories are going to be down people are better nowadays about archiving that stuff but a flat pack or snap pack or what's the other one docker files prior good way of packaging up a piece of software for future use um but uh i can't speak yet if there's a piece of software you want that isn't in the repositories which has happened to me occasionally um yeah you just have to figure it out i guess android or ios android of course um and why because android is open source it's not free and open source it's open source but if you get a uh a piece of hardware like i buy motor roll devices they allow you to unlock the bootloader once you unlock the bootloader you can do almost anything again there's still proprietary drivers on there and android the android system itself does weird things but if you unlock the bootloader you can root it you can change the file system you can do whatever you want to it and that's what's important to me so far the only thing that i can think of that i am able to figure out how to do on my phone which most of it is the same as you're doing it on my desktop just in a lot of cases you have to do it in root when you shouldn't have to be root uh the only thing is just like directly accessing the camera uh i think uh android has a server running from what i can gather from what i've tried because if i try to access the camera directly it's busy so i think they have a server running and you access it just like on a lot of most current desktop systems you have something like pulse audio right and then all your applications connect to that because if an application is using a piece of hardware other applications can't go way way back in the day way early in windows days or even when i first switched to linux in 2006 there were a lot of applications that if you used one application it would grab your audio device and no other program could use the audio device that's why you need an audio server i think android's using some sort of video server to access the camera so i can't just um use something like ffmpeg to pull video or pictures from the camera like i would on a desktop computer um there are if you have termux installed there are termux applications use the the android api that you can access the camera it's hitting miss on on devices on whether it works or not but yeah android is open source theoretically you can do almost anything you want to an android device unless the company who made the device locked it down but that's not an android thing that's a hardware thing with a locked bootloader you browse edit make scripts so on you think you would make your your like your linux life just with the terminal oh i would say 90 of what i do is either in the terminal or web browser uh literally it's just like i'm in the terminal all day long everything i do anything you do more than once you can write a script or alias for it and it shortcuts it for example the other day someone i knew needed to they sent me a picture and said i need to do this to a bunch of photos and it was basically take a picture and do an edge detection so they basically they would get like a tracing of this person's face it took me a little bit searching i found an image magic command to do it i could have done it in gimp but if i need to do a lot i need to do it through image magic uh it was a command this long image magic image magic commands usually are i put that into a script that requests a file and creates an output file it's literally like four lines long just checking basically checking for inputs and what you want the output to be and then and then generates that and now anytime i want i just type on my shell i just type i think i called it edge tracer edge tracer and i'm going to post that online but edge tracer and i do that and give it an image and it will trace the image for me it's like why would i open up gimp to do that if i need to do it once yeah going to gimp and do it but if i need to do it to 100 photos or if i need to do it once a day every day or i want to automate it the shell's way to go uh and most things most things out of computer or text word documents spreadsheets all these things are text-based um but we also have images and videos and um even on my phone pretty much everything on here i do through the shell or web browser i either create a web application and i package as an apk i've shown videos i'm doing that before i use just link to the website but there's issues when you update android sometimes it loses those links and you got to recreate them so i package them as apk's they're usually like a hundred kilobytes and it just links to my server and then i'll have an interface for the server and that's convenient because i don't have a you know a real keyboard on this so the touchscreen that's that's a big thing the drawback of using a little device like this i can hook a keyboard to in fact if i'm at home i hook this to my computer and i either ssh in adb in or i screen share to my computer and type stuff from my computer i don't type stuff on my phone when i'm at home i do it through my keyboard here um but yeah i have the terminal i have termux installed i have root access so i can write scripts pretty much for the most part 89 of it exactly like i do on the desktop and then i can create aliases shortcuts for example i listen to the daily audio bible dot com i listen to their audio they read a few verses every day um i have um uh a script i just go in i type in adb it shows me the last file i downloaded because i'm usually a few days behind that way i can keep track of where i am and then i have a little fzf menu where i can select two dates and it downloads all the audio files from the website between those two dates and then i have an icon on my desktop that just runs a shell script so you can create icons custom icons on your desktop that i click and it runs a shell script so i don't type someone goes oh use the shell on your phone all time no i write the stuff on my computer or through my computer to my phone and then i create a script or alias and i either have uh so it's like download again it's just it's adb get is my command but usually i hit ad or i'm sorry da dab get i type in da and i can hit tab or the right arrow it'll completely hit enter and it downloads the latest one and then to play it i just click the icon and click enter from a list so i don't i don't work on the shell on my phone like this all the time i could but you create aliases or icons and so android yes android um i should silence my phone my wife might be messaging me soon oh well if you hear it ringing it might be my wife let's see uh you browse yeah and and as far as like video editing there have been a number of times where i just have a script um i in the past i've had a script where i record a video i record a bunch of videos in one day put them all in a directory and then i had a command i ran that put a beginning in an intro and an outro on the video uh sometimes i wanted a little bit more than that i actually made a file a blank file with the intro and outro on it in for k uh kaden live which is where i do my video editing so i would type in tutorials uh something i forget what the command was i don't use much anymore it would open up that blank and then i would drag and drop in the videos and be done with it and something like kaden live actually if you edit a video and kaden live you can not just export the video you can actually export a shell script that will render that video out it's it's a full script with uh melt or mlt uh code in it so basically you could edit a video and then create the shell script and then you could drag and drop replacement videos and run that script and it'll render a video with that template using the videos you put in the into a folder anyway uh yeah someone's again asking about like home network stuff i kind of talked about next cloud earlier uh and yeah i need to do a video on really installing that cloud next cloud without using some sort of uh container um um check out ssh ssh fs for sharing folders over ssh uh yeah i've done that before and again you open up any of your modern file browsers thanar or pc man fs or uh pc man yeah anyway all your your modern um file browsers on linux if you type in ssh colon four slash four slash or sftp colon four slash four slash and give it a ssh server it will mount that directory for you right then and there and you just browse through it like any local directory uh any more work on the smart stuff uh home stuff any more items added any additional game consoles uh i mean the latest one was the icade console that someone gave me um so i recently did a little remod on my house added an extra room and stuff which was a great learning experience because i am not a handyman in that aspect a friend of mine offered to help me we did 90 of the work ourselves i just did what he told me he was only free like one or two days a month so it took me over a year but it's finally done and um uh so yeah so i i it was actually where my porch used to be so basically enclosed my porch there was already a roof and a ground and there were some fans out there i ran some outlets i ran a new a wires for ac i had an ac guy install the ac unit but i took out the old fans and put in some a bunch of led lights and i hate light switches i in this office in this office my bedroom and my daughter's room i wire knitted the light switches remove them and so where's i don't know if you can tell i'm turning the light off i have a cheap little two dollar my video froze again i hope you guys can hear me um a cheap little two dollar so control it's just 433 megahertz it sends out a string of numbers that controls that light so i can turn on with that a little key fob or again i have a little esp 8266 with a wireless transmitter on it so i can just do an http request uh to it so i can turn it turn the light on and off of my phone with that from my laptop my wife in her office which is where i just put some of the new lights because i made her a study out there uh there's lights there's a wireless light switch uh that we can press on the wall but when she goes in her room she's at her computer she just hits the windows key and l and it turns the lights either on or off depending on what they are uh when we're in that room because it's our main media room now where the arcade is and stuff i have a little mini keyboard and i have the the um email button you know has the media keys for email i have that to turn the lights on and off in that room so i could turn off with a button on the wall i can turn on off with that remote control while i'm sitting there because that's the remote control that controls the computer that looks to the tv or me and my wife can take out our phone and control so it's all very simple again just 433 megahertz wireless but i can control that through my wi-fi and i can ssh in from anywhere in the world and run a command on my laptop here and i can turn lights on and off and i actually have some cron jobs because the lights in the front of my house uh i want them going on and off i used to have a timer switch the timer switch went bad i just again uh wired that not that off put a little three dollar wireless box by the light and i have a cron job that turns those lights on and off at certain times of the day and then my office i said to automatically turn the lights off every night at 10 o'clock because i'm usually in bed by 10 o'clock so if i'm in here working and i get up and leave and i forget to turn off the light at 10 o'clock these lights are going to go off so it's very convenient and i do it in a very cheap way but i also do it myself there's no uh company that i'm going through the system it's all being done on my local network if i'm outside of my house i can always ssh in and control stuff but mainly lights are what i control um thank you for your open ssh video tutorial i turned my android phone into a mini server watching movies android tv via turnmux that's awesome uh and again i i've mentioned in the past an old android device is a great server you can set up a simple web server or even a patch on here ssh and it's it's a basically a server that has a built-in battery backup and i have so many android devices just laying around it's just it's just nice uh a little off topic i'm using parma miko to open sublime text editor on my vps but i need my display uh environment variable but how can i automate that so i don't have to hard code it i don't know what paramiko is i don't use the sublime text editor but he's saying he needs to his display variable environment so like display equals uh zero colon zero or colon zero for the first display um i mean you can automate it by putting it in your your bash rc file or z shell rc file the rz file for your shell but you're saying you don't want to hard code it so i guess you can alias it i know when i ssh into one of my kids computers sometimes i want to see their display and i have to set the display and it's just in my my my shell history so i usually just hit control r start typing export and then tab enter and it will set the display so i can see what they're seeing um so i'm not sure exactly what you're asking you can set your variables in your bash or your shells rc file but that would be hard coding it so i'm not sure really what you're asking have you tried viva dilla no i do not know what that is i would look it up right now but i'm really falling behind on reading people's questions debian make debian uh pack stall our good software sources too okay i guess is that way to to get debian packages for debian i don't know what make deb is i thought make deb was a command to package stuff for debian files is based on mozilla but lightweight and looks like opera or opera opera okay um oh okay that's the the question going back two comments ago viva dali uh or how do you say it so it's a web browser no i have not tried it um is their default browser uh really i used to go back and forth back in the day between uh when flash was around i was using chrome i hated flash but so many websites needed it i was just using chrome because it was the easiest way then i then when flash died off i was going back and forth between chrome and sorry chromium and firefox and i eventually i just like the developer tools in a chromium based browser better uh although i've seen things saying that firefox has come a long way with their develop developer tools brave i just really like the ad blockers are built in you can right click on an element and add it as a as an add and remove it from the site because some websites have little pop-ups that aren't ads but they're annoying and you can you know just really literally just right click it say hide this block this element and then it gives you a little slider to make sure you're erasing the right thing and then it will do it so i'm not opposed again i think firefox is a great browser i just got tired of going back and forth arc browser another reason bash is so wonderful it's cross time compatible i don't know what cross time compatible is bash also people think bash unix system it's default last i checked the default shell on max systems um most linux systems uh but you can also get a single binary bash uh executable natively for windows and you have since windows xp i know that there's a whole uh windows subsystem for linux i really don't get the point of that um but you could always install bash or what i prefer when i'm on a windows machine is busybox there's a single binary busybox which i've talked about busybox so much it's such a great tool because it's not just a shell but it has all those external tools that you commonly use there's a single binary for that that you can get four windows it's like under a megan a half and then you can use that shell it's technically not bash although it does link itself as bash i usually busybox is a shell or ash however you want to say it um yeah and so i can write a shell script and i know that it will run on if as long as i'm not using system specific things that the shell itself uh it will run on anything just on a windows machine you may have to install a one megabyte file uh nix os solves that dependency issue arch user repositories is what a u r stands for which i think is what i guessed oh i scrolled a little bit and jumped a whole lot i still love than are so yeah than are i'd like than are last i checked it didn't do split windows uh and when i'm copying dragging stuff from folder to folder uh i like that so maybe it does have it now it seems like a basic feature that than are should have and doesn't so for a long time i was using pc man fm so a pc man file manager uh because it had split screen but recently i i switched to um nimo and the main reason for that is its search functionality because all my stuff syncs with my next cloud server and my next cloud server gets backed up to other servers but i still have an amazon account and a google account actually more than one google account that i do backups to because i want backups because i backup everything three or four times everything's copied especially photos on three or four devices and files and drives that i put in a safe here at home but i want files that are not in my house that are also easy to share so i do still use uh google photos and amazon photos as another backup for my photos and what i do is i just and i don't automatically sync because i don't want to use their proprietary software there might be open source ways to do it but basically at the beginning of each month i do a full system backup of my system and i what i do is i go into nimo i go into my photos folder and i just search for all jpegs sorted by date and then drag and drop that into amazon photos and google photos as another backup and for some reason pc uh pc man fm its search feature it wasn't there was something about it like i couldn't filter by date or something like that but anyway that's why i started using nimo but yeah thunar is a a good file browser last i checked didn't have a split screen option though or tabs whatever you want to call it uh yeah someone's saying the video froze that was earlier we can hear you we have audio video is back front although i just switched from i3 to dwm plus flex i patch i think dwm i've heard of flex patch i have not um so march 7 radio interceptions why did you switch what what made you switch because i am curious i'm always up for trying something new although i've really gotten myself really comfortable with i3 um you should de-message right now live and see if you can figure out what exactly happened with the camera it could be educational or it's probably just a usb device uh resetting yeah actually the let's see let's see if this freezes the video um i have this on a six foot extension and then the cable and that's going into a usb hub not the best setup why do i have this setup because uh when i go on vacation i have a couple of cameras up around the house outside but as an extra uh thing i take this camera and put it to my window which points at my front door and i run um what's it called this is called webcam no motion motion which will record video anytime it detects motion and i have that pushed to a server so if i when i'm on vacation i set up extra cameras like that that push video when there's moving to a server so i had this set up from a vacation i went on last month across the room and when i started live streaming today i just didn't disconnect it so it's going from my computer to a usb hub to a six foot yeah probably a six foot extension and then into the camera so probably not the best setup uh so that could have been it because i was moving wires when i was closing that screen uh if someone wanted you uh wanted to if someone wanted to could they send a capture card or hard oh send me a capture card or hardware uh so like what you have hardware you want me to test or look at um possibly uh uh i i for a very short amount of time i did have a p o box just because i thought people might want to send me stuff it wasn't worth having um but uh maybe if you can somehow contact me uh privately hey good evening uh how you doing chris i'm doing good android used to use alsa not sure how true that is anymore uh yeah you know android might still use that with something on top of it well i i do know that i can directly use ffm peg or um socks and stuff to record audio on my android device uh so that's that's probably still true but again i think uh that's going back i think too when i said they had a video server running so on the phone wait your screen share wait you screen share your phone to your pc it is actually android gooey being shared or are you running separate x-linux okay so i've done videos on this i've talked about it uh it's it's how i usually record android stuff as well uh arthur reader look up him on youtube uh he's one that originally brought me to it in your repositories if you're on debbie and probably most of the next distributions there's a program called let's see see i have an alias to a command okay so sc r c p y i think it's short for screen copy sc r c p y that's a program you install it from your repositories you enable adb on your phone and draw a debugging and you hook up usb although theoretically you could do it through a network as well you run that command and without having to install anything on your device because i think it actually pushes something over adb it will start streaming your video to your computer and you have you can use your mouse and keyboard to control your phone and you're viewing it on your screen uh so yeah that if i need to do something gooey and i want to type on the keyboard or sometimes i just enable ssh uh on termux and i'll s h in or uh if i just want to do something through adb i'll just do it through the shell that way but yeah you can share your screen from your phone through usb uh using adb and that command and it just shows up there and again you use your mouse and keyboard just as if you you're typing on the screen there uh hey chris good day uh could you talk a little about how you find programs and or how you find utilities to use in your scripts from nubish perspectives say i know i want to do things but uh what to use okay so basically they're asking how do i how do i how do you learn what programs and what commands and all that when i first started using oh let's go weave back before i start using links when i was a little kid um i had this ibm dos computer and um it was it was it was a nice machine with two floppy drives but it actually had an internal hard drive which was unusual at the time that was fairly early on you know i'm talking mid-80s um i turned on it would actually go straight to a menu where i could you know click through different screens just the text menu and then go into a word processor or um print master where i could make like little pixelated art and print get uh cards greeting cards and stuff uh but uh whenever i was down my dad told me go to the exit option and that would bring you to a dos prompt and then you just type exit and then you can turn it off off the machine i don't know how important that was but that's what the process was well you know you see movies and stuff people type in stuff at the prompt so i would just start typing random words at the prompt and i'm sure that at some point i know there were a few times where instead of getting command out found it would give me some other error so i'm pretty sure i typed the word copy because you know as a kid that's a word i knew i didn't get very far on that but that that's that's what i did it's just experimentation when i first started using linux not only did i look up stuff online but i knew that if i started typing a command and i hit tab it would autocomplete that command right so what i would do is i would hit a and hit tab and see a list of commands and i would go through if i didn't know what it would do i would run that command and if it didn't give me any output or didn't give me anything i would type in that command dash dash help or forward slash help or sorry dash help whoa i went back to a windows machine there dash h or dash dash help and so i would just learn about these machine things and you know i kind of the same thing back in windows i would go into the windows directory and then into the system 32 directory and i would click on a bunch of these commands and just see what they did windows actually has a lot of commands that have when you click on them you can tell they've been around since the the early 90s at the very least um that are still there and like there's even one i don't know about most recent at least on windows 7 was last i checked because i don't have a windows machine and last i checked was at work when we still had windows 7 machines um but they actually had a built-in program that would turn a zip file into an executable file it was very limited but it's like whoa that's cool um where a lot of times you would get some sort of external tool but basically the man command so it just randomly this is just randomly learning different commands because some it's because part of programming has two different things i have something i want to do and i need to figure out how to do it but then sometimes you know how to do stuff and you go what can i do with this so learning what commands do that you may not be familiar with um is is super useful so just just running these commands you know most likely you're not going to just issue a command as a regular user on a linux system and and hurt anything right if you're running a pseudo possibly but usually you have to give some arguments to like like just running rm isn't going to hurt anything rm-fr forward slash is going to cause issues um but just running the command it's like it's either going to give you no output if there was no errors or it will ask you you know give you some suggestions or you can run the help file or you can run the man file learn what all these commands do but also most of what you you you do on a day-to-day basis can really be done with a lot of the core tools that are on all linux systems that you're that are used all the time and these are things like grep and awk you know cat and read and stuff like that to get a list of those i would suggest checking on your system type in busybox if it says it's not found if you're on debbie and base system pseudo app install busybox then run busybox and it will give you a list of commands learn what each one of those commands do most of what you're going to do is that besides that it's it's kind of just find you know how to do something i'll just type um doing this with bash right so i'd be like how to download a file with bash and it'll probably bring you to either wget curl or the old school way of doing it natively through bash which i recently did a video on but i don't think works with hgtps um and then and then you know oh i know the name of this tool then you can start looking at what that tool does um but yeah that's it again there's lots of different ways and again going back to you know are you developing something for yourself or for mass usage a lot of what i do is for myself sometimes it gets a little sloppy but i'll share it i try to clean up my code but i'll i'll share it because i think other people have found it useful it's okay to be a little sloppy when you're writing stuff for yourself obviously if you're mass producing something you want to clean up your code as much as possible but uh if what you do gets the job done that's that's all that really matters when you're making stuff for yourself so yeah just just figure it out and of course uh youtube is a great option for seeing how things are done but lots of times i'll i don't use youtube because sometimes you just want to see a command that you can copy and paste but always be careful if you don't know what a command does um look into it a little bit uh man set up a nice cam next time you live stream sorry again this wasn't planned i did a few months ago i even did a video on it where i i got a video input card and my nice camera set up i just didn't feel like setting up today is a lazy day i know you guys haven't all been around here since the beginning but this wasn't the plan for the day i was going to tuesday morning is my day for recording videos and i just wasn't in the mood so i thought i just i've been wanting to do a live stream forever so i figured just set this up so i'm sorry it's not great but uh close your eyes and listen to me you don't need to see me right um i bought a hosting service x my website and and tried to connect to it from the terminal using ssh open ssh edit the file but couldn't is it possible to do this i'd make it make life a lot easier hosting service x my website and try to connect to it from terminal to edit the file what file i'm not sure what you're saying it so you should just be able to ssh do you have a problem with sshing in because uh like if you use like i use vulture for my website i'm not saying that the best that's just who i use um when you create a new server they give you a root username and password that you should be able to ssh in with or they have a virtual console in their web browser and once you do that you create a user create username password and then you should just build ssh in as that user and then it'd be best if you create a security key and push it over but you should just be able to if ssh server is running ssh your username at that server and if it's on a different port tell it what port so i'm not sure but yeah once i mean once you ssh in you should just be able to open the file with vim or nano or um or you know file sharing user gooey application but lie hey chris speaking about windows did you see a recent hype about emulating windows on android devices there's a video about i saw a video yesterday i don't know if the same thing you're talking about but apparently there's a proprietary version of wine coming to android um and i was like huh so i looked up wines under an lgpl license um which is the lesser gpl license that stands for which is usually for libraries which doesn't make sense to me because although it uses libraries it's an application so i'm not sure how all that works out legally um but it is something coming um not really something i'm interested in although it could be useful if you need it uh i try not to run anything through wine on my main systems i just don't it's it's one of those wine is an amazing tool the fact that someone's able to recreate these libraries so that you can run windows software natively it's not emulating anything and wine is not an emulator it's is what they say because it's not emulating it's recreating the libraries that you need from windows so they're basically rewriting these libraries they're backwards engineering them it's not emulating um and that being said that means it's running natively on your system if you don't realize that i could write a batch file or a c file or any type of windows executable that could wipe out your your linux hard drive if you ran it in wine right because i don't use wine much it's been a long time but wine by default mounts your home directory as a z drive so i have to write a script that are an application a windows application that goes to the z drive and deletes everything if you run that in wine it's going to wipe out your heart your home drive theoretically i haven't tried this um most likely uh if if you're you know if you're downloading malicious software for windows and running it in wine it your your linux system is probably going to be okay unless they're expecting to run it in wine which is becoming more and more of a common thing so i just be careful using wine with these proprietary applications um i guess if you're getting the programs legit uh that's an issue if you're downloading from a website like a pirate website uh it's a little more concerning obviously i i just just uh be careful with it but uh no that's neat that they're they're doing that not surprised that it's happening um but uh yeah i don't know much about it what desktop environment do you use with debbie and do you mind showing your setup uh technically i don't use a uh well i guess it's i use a window manager i use there's a difference between a desktop environment and a window manager i use i i three wm i three window manager um and as far as my setup it's a tiling window manager um i'd have to look through my config file because a lot of that's like current stuff specifically for me i don't think there's anything personal on there but it points probably to a lot of scripts that i have that you don't have for shortcut keys because everything's done with shortcut keys um but as i said in the past i i earlier in the video i like looking at stuff full screen i don't get the idea of floating windows for most things it's like if i'm looking at the web browser i want a web browser if i'm looking at my terminal i want my terminal i can divide my terminal up if i'm doing multiple things uh but when you have floating windows like you have a window here and a window here well all this space is wasted so i want if i have more than one window set up i want them taking up the full screen either split this way or split this way if there's two of them i don't want empty space that's wasted space and that's why i went to a tiling window manager and i get tiling window managers might be confusing for people because people are used to clicking and dragging windows around where all this is done with the keyboard i like doing stuff with the keyboard anyway but you gotta remember that a floating window is just wasted space there are times where a floating window is nice you know for like a dialogue box but the system knows if a dialogue box is made properly that it's a dialogue box uh do-do-do-do uh pseudo come uh windows instrumented a pseudo command recently did it i didn't know that uh i know that like if you have a application or a script on a windows machine and you like have an icon for it on your desktop you can right click and say run as administrator and i did find some powershell code or or um visual basic code it's visual basic script code that would like um basically try to restart it as administrative administrator if you clicked it if i remember correctly because i had some application scripts i wrote for windows that require administrative uses so i would have it so basically i have i have shell scripts i write like this too i have shell scripts that the script needs to be root to run so what i'll do is the first line of the script says um you know check what user are you user zero or something like that so are you root if not the script will restart itself with sudo at the beginning so it's good that they're adding a pseudo command i guess because it's it's kind of annoying if if i'm at a shell on a windows machine whether it be the uh cmd or powershell and i needed to run something as administrator i'd have to basically open up another window as administrator from my knowledge uh at least in the past uh thank you for all your videos in which you share your knowledge and experience well i learned a lot from them you're welcome i don't game or anything i just find this mind blowing to be able to run a windows desktop and game program on the go with an android device yeah again uh i don't know if the project you're talking about is the wine project i heard about and again sadly from what i heard it's going to be proprietary uh but it's amazing technology wine whether i like what you know what people are using for or not um uh do you pirate movies i like richard stallman's answer this uh i was you know some talking once probably like 10 years ago um and someone asked him what he thought about piracy and he said i don't think boats should shoot cannons at other ships which is funny um first of all i don't like the term piracy because to me piracy means you're stealing something and watching a video is not stealing to steal you have to actually take something from someone else to where they don't have it that being said i'm not going to sit here and admit to illegal stuff but i will say that everybody does piracy whether they know it or not um i have friends who are very against piracy but they will go on google and do a search for coloring pages for their kids and then print up coloring pages they find it's like you know mickey mouse or or sleeping beauty and stuff it's like are you sure you have the right to that like was that from disney and disney give give that the you write to download it and copy it uh or did someone else draw it and did that person have the right to draw it and did they have the right to copy because because that would be illegal too that would be piracy you are downloading and printing but and their people's minds when they think of piracy it's always not what they're doing okay that being said watching movies for free it it it's like software i think you should pay developers software i don't think you should pay for software ever you can pay for a service if they're hosting something but never pay for software again pay developers it there is a difference and i feel the same i if i want to pay someone to make a movie uh for example okay um it's been too long now i am a huge punisher fan i have a box like this a comic book box full of like an a muff screen here um of nothing but punisher comics and that's just from the 80s and 90s which is when they were the best and then i have some more that just don't fit in that box i i like that i am a huge punisher fan of old school punisher new stuff is hit and miss most of it's not that great i really really liked uh the 80s punisher with the awful unjump it's just if you like i'm not saying it's the best movie ever but if you just like 80s action uh movies it's a great movie i really really like um the what is it when did it come out 2005 or so uh the punisher with um drawing a blank on his name i can't remember the actor's name anyway that was a good movie punisher warzone was a horrible movie i like to pretend it doesn't exist and then the new series that came out where they did the the two seasons i thought was pretty good too there are things i would have done differently but overall i thought it was good it was so good that you know it got they're not making it anymore but it was so good that if if they said hey we need to raise money so we can make another season i would i would donate money now i try to only donate to free open source or creative commons type media if they said hey we want to make another season we need to raise this much money i'd give them five dollars if they said we're going to make it free for everyone to watch and we're going to share the resource files we create with i give them 50 bucks i would love to see another season i'd love to see it open i'd love to see those file shares all the special effects files but to pay somebody because you've already made it now you're demanding i pay you that's just ridiculous i've used the example of someone came to my house and mowed my lawn and then said hey you owe me money or they came and painted my house and said hey you owe me money because i painted your house i didn't ask you to do that yeah but you're enjoying it now you're reaping the benefits for me it's the same when it comes to music and media it's like i either hire you to create software or a movie or a show or a song and i pay you or you make it and hope that i appreciate so much that i donate to you there's a difference between paying someone to do something and donating them because you appreciate their work and these movie companies are just corrupt in so many ways that's a whole another topic but uh but yeah i'm not going to sit here and go yeah i steal stuff again it's not stealing you got to take something that's from somebody for it to be stealing what's the old comparison if i saw your bike and i built myself a bike just like it i didn't steal your bike your bike is still there if you woke up in the morning your car still in your driveway i didn't steal your car unless i drove and took it back but if i made my own car just like it it's not stealing if i make a copy of a video i would have no problem like netflix or something they're providing a service they have servers they're using up space on their servers and bandwidth you're using the service they they they should get paid but um the drm it's not something i'm going to go in for and uh and just just the whole movie industry in general well here angelstudios.com there is a great cartoon that a viewer of mine from youtube recommend to call tuttle twins it is a great cartoon in fact i have found that a lot of the stuff on um angel studios is a great uh are great shows and movies um uh freelancers is a hilarious show and it's free on their website and then you have a choice to pay it for so i i've actually donated money to both those shows in hopes that they make future seasons tuttle twins i'm pretty sure is going to get a third season uh um freelancers has two seasons i haven't seen anything about third season studio uh jk studios who makes that show they put out some movies uh since then uh that look interesting but uh but yeah i like a show i will pay you to make more of those shows but i'm not going to pay you for the past one unless i really appreciate and appreciate what you're doing but if you're made it and you're charging people for it well i'm not i'm not going to pay you so you could charge people for it uh anyway that was a little bit of a rant but are you considering switching to wow oh you know there's a lot of talk about weyland people complain about x or x auger x 11 i have never had any issues with it really um i will say that on some systems if i'm watching a video and there's panning sometimes i get a little tear line in the screen i i i really like x org but it sounds like a lot of distributions are finally switching to a wayland i don't know anything about it it's supposed to be better it's supposed to be built from the ground up and modern since x is like older than i am um so i mean i guess it's good that we're coming out with something new i will say my mazda cars have little linux consoles in them and um and supposedly there's a copy of weyland on them from the videos i've watched online in fact there was one time where i i've shown videos just search mazda on my website uh where i i've gotten a shell and stuff but you can write a script and put it on a flash drive and plug it in and when you start the car or run that that shell script and um and i ran something that actually killed the display that was on and then started up a web browser i don't know remember what web browser but supposedly that web browser was using weyland so that would be pretty neat if i had a chance to mess with that to maybe make some things now you can write applications for these mazda devices there's a whole community behind it basically using html and css and java script or something like that and i've installed a couple extra applications on there i was saying to my wife the other day i would love to write more applications for my screen for example my family my wife my two kids we play duck spot when we see a jeep that has ducks on the dash if you call it out you get a point but if you call out a jeep and it doesn't have a point you lose a point it's hard my son has a marker and he would write the score on the window but whenever the window gets rolled down it gets erased so like it'd be great if i just had a little thing with four ducks here and i can click on the duck for each of us and add the points up that you know while we're going and that seems like a simple application to write my wife's like oh you should do that you love doing that stuff i go i go yeah but i would have to write the software in here then go out there install it on the on the car make sure it works if there's any trouble bring it back here and try again it's just i wish that um it was easier for me to develop for that anyway again going off on stuff i don't know much about wailing a lot of people love it i don't dislike x i'm happy with x but you know if everything switches over to wailing and all the applications are compatible um that i use great uh thanks for coming live no problem i do have a line in there for okay now i gotta go back oh i skip my desktop environment is i3 and a bunch of uh no startup id lines i have a bunch of application stuff you know um yeah yeah he's writing it uh dunced and uh febg for background and um and and uh and nm application applet for network stuff i used to use that i don't use that anymore i use uh ntu i which is in the shell and then you know uh the gnome key for for keys and stuff uh so on desktop when nothing is running and then pulse audio and system trade i have also audio sometimes pulse audio has a little trouble starting when i restart my system i don't restart my system often but lately when i've gone in it's like i don't know it's it's trying to start pulse wire which i think is a newer version or something to do with pulse audio but it doesn't work right so i have to kill that and start pulse audio uh and something i really should fix but i um so rarely reboot it's not that big of a deal you wouldn't download a car i would if it made a copy of the car if if there was a 3d printer that could print a full car yeah i'd download the plans and print a car that's not stealing that's creating my own car how do you guys manage and download software programs in windows uh do you guys install exe files uh from microsoft software center chocolate pack okay so again i don't have any windows systems um there i have a windows machine at work which is now almost completely useless because it's a vm running in the cloud and is streamed to our screen um but sometimes i would want to do stuff on the windows machine so i actually have my my keychain with a probably a 62 gig 64 i mean 64 gig flash drive on here which actually has um i forget the name of the application application install that that basically it searches the drive for iso so i could plug it in and boot and i have like five different linux distros and android on there that i can boot from but i have a directory that is called like windows bin and it's just a bunch of standalone applications for windows busybox being one of them and um for a while i was uh using chocolatey manager um there was an issue though since i don't have administrative rights on the machine at work and i do that it's because obviously it's a windows machine that i physically have access to really almost any machine that you have physically have access to you can be administrator or root but um i wasn't supposed to be running things as administrator and for a while i'm pretty sure chocolatey i could install things without there there's a reason that i stopped using chocolatey it like stopped working i think it was because i needed administrative rights but yeah chocolatey was a good option on a windows machine i don't necessarily trust the applications in there again there's a lot of options out there when it comes to packages package managers and i really don't know i'm not saying that some are good or some are bad uh like i trust debbie because debbie has been around for a long time i know the process of getting stuff in there is difficult and checked but it's like sometimes i go to install i go to look up how to install an application you know something usually it's like a a web application or something that i may want to run out of server and it's like oh use pip or no jds has its own it's like i don't know how well these applications are vetted who decides what gets into these repositories and don't i'm not saying that they're good or bad i'm just saying i don't know i don't know what they what their standards are and i have occasionally installed things using pip when i know okay this is a big project the project is saying it's this and i know i'm installing the package that they are saying but i still don't like doing it um but on windows i'm going to see really don't have a good option because i don't trust anything that microsoft puts out and uh there's no other real option that i know but chocolatey was a good option for a while favorite music genre i like lots of different stuff uh my favorite band uh since i've been a teenager is nine inch nails um i uh still listen to them a lot not as much as i used to so it's not appropriate because of my kids but i also just i i'm from the napster generation you know when i was young it's like you liked one type of music and that was it and the napster came out and all the sense like i can listen to other stuff without having to pay money for it and and there were techno remixes of everything back in the 90s you name it there was a techno remix of it um but uh uh bands i like like i said nine inch nails i really like old school prodigy um uh what other bands i like recently i came across a band online that i like uh the avalanches i came across their video frontier society or frontier psychiatrist which the video is just great um again i i was a teenager in the 90s things were night weird in the 90s and i loved that uh for example just look up liquid television you can find episodes on archive dot org liquid television or cartoon sushi it's like to me that's the 90s it's just like weird weird stuff liquid television is where uh aeon flux uh and beavis and butthead came from and it's just it was just like random little cartoons um and some of them were really bad but it's just just weird stuff and the frontier psychiatrist kind of just click that the the video is just weird um chemical brothers um i my playlist is so random i got a bunch of like beel songs and monkey songs on there um but i have like i have like almost 700 songs on my phone and it's just so all over the place um i i've been down a lot of like chill wave or synth wave um me and my family like when we go on long road trips just having that so there's just music in the background without words um but i guess genre since 90s i guess industrial would be the answer but electronic music but that's all over the place could be slow it could be fast you know hey man livestream after a long time for some reason youtube doesn't send notifications when you have a bell icon clicked yeah i don't know pipe wire is new sound system glace distro switched to it even meant pipe wire pulse is like a transitional layer for pulse applications that work for pipe wire yeah i know something along those lines so i'm still using just pulse audio because i think pipe wire when i have pipe wire installed things don't work and i just haven't had a chance to look into it and pulse audio has worked fine i know anytime i play anything with mpv which is my preferred media player for both music and video um it always gives me a complaint something about pipe wire not being there or something like that but everything plays fine just gives me a little warning message depending on your configuration pesky tray kind of works with pipe wire okay um i was i was sad because of two strikes i got but watching him reminds me my sole reason for starting the channel and it making me feel better because dash yt can delete but can't stop me from making video on youtube can't delete uh can delete but yeah i i've gotten some warnings on youtube and both times god be careful what i say here so don't pull this video and give me a strike i did a whole video on how i download media how i stream media um movies and videos and scripts i use and i was very careful to only use public domain stuff that i was streaming both audios and videos but just to show how i do it but i accidentally mentioned a program that allows you to do stuff like that with youtube and they don't like that uh i got a warning a couple years ago on a video like that and i pull it down and this one i got a strike and it said this point of the video so it wasn't even talking about i was in the video i talked about torrents and other stuff like that but it's when i specifically mentioned this one program that i use all the time when i when i watch youtube videos i don't watch them on youtube i'll go to my youtube um subscription list and i have vimium installed my browser which gives you vim like keys uh in your web browser so i see the icon and title for video i want i hit yf and then it puts letters by all the links and i hit the the two letters for that and it copies it to my clipboard and then i hit the windows key and why and it streams that video using mpv and this other application in the background um so yeah i i watch stuff i like mpv as a media player and i'm learning to stream using that from any website uh someone's still using pulse because i just don't want to do the work to switch to anything else yeah because i i also have scripts like i have my internal speakers my headphones and i have a sound bar and i just hit windows p and it cycles through those so it's like if i'm listening to audio i just do that until it goes to the output and gives me a little dunce notification up in the corner and i don't know if i switch the pipe wire i might have to rewrite that script do you use any bluetooth headsets with linux it's really hard to get uh the built-in microphone to work over bluetooth um i have bluetooth stuff is always kind of a pain in the butt um i actually have a script that i wrote that kind of helps it out but like i have two game controllers here they're ps4 game controllers but they're not really ps4 game controllers and um one connects better they both will eventually connect but one will connect right away and the other one has difficulty uh at least on my linux systems uh headphones i have a set of headphones uh mainly i use it for uh my phone but uh yeah uh bluetooth it's just a pain do you use online radio on terminal i have no online radio um but i'll stream music using mpv and again that application that i'm not allowed to say on this particular platform uh it will mpv will automatically use that if you give it a link that it recognizes um so yeah there is a play with mpv add-on firefox to right click play oh okay uh yeah i don't need to uh install an add-on in fact if i did i i'd write my own i do have uh you know my own little add-ons for or plugins or whatever they call them for for chrome-based browsers that automate stuff on websites uh but yeah that's good to know that there is a a plug-in or an add-on for firefox it lets you click on videos and open them in mpv uh i always wonder why you still choose to be a fire fire despite having a good software intern career level develop well i said at the beginning of this video i don't want to do computer stuff for work i like working with computers i don't want to do it as work that's the main reason um also uh the end of this month i'll have 20 years in which means i can retire in five years with a full pension uh so yeah i just got five more years and then i can just make youtube videos all the time um yeah so it's like i like creating software i write software i wouldn't want to work for company because one i would only write open-source software i've actually had offers to write software i'm like well i only write stuff under a gpl license well i'll know that well yeah but then you're a scumbag if you're writing proprietary software 100 my view you're a scumbag if you write proprietary software there's absolutely no reason not to at least under a bsd license you know but if a company writes something under a bsd license i don't necessarily trust them either because at any point they can just lock it up uh so that's why i stick with a gpl license uh as i said in the past closed sourcing your software means you're hiding something companies take such offense when you say that like i'm not saying necessarily that you're up to something bad i'm just saying you're hiding what you're doing that's what you're doing that's why you're not showing there's no reason not to show your your source code absolutely no reason you can show your source code and still have it be proprietary say this is our source code you're not allowed to to share it yeah i mean you could that'd be stupid though because the benefit of open source software is that other people can add to it so someone once said to me and i completely understand this feeling deep down side i like writing software i usually write it you know and share the source code and if an individual is using it that's great but if a company is using it they're making money i should get some of that money why why right um you already wrote the software why do you care if they're making money they they're the ones why weren't you making money off of it right if they're making money off of it using it somehow still under the uh confines of the license which is uh very doable um why didn't you they went through the extra steps to get that that thing you know to get that point anything is if you use something like a bsd license they could take your code make changes close source it make money off it and you get absolutely nothing if you release your code under a gp license legally and i'm saying that companies don't uh you know uh try to skirt around this they have to share any changes they make public okay so again uh i've talked about this in the past a a license such as a gpl license or a bsd license or an mit license or so forth and so on these are not end user license agreements like when you install proprietary software or you're installing windows you get a license that you have to agree to to use that software right with a gpl license and mit license all these open source license they are not end user license agreements they're for it to be open source there are no restrictions on how you use it these are licenses that say how you share it so i could take the next source code or anything under a gpl license modify it for my own personal use and i don't need to share those changes but if i share what i've changed in a binary format with anybody now i have to share those changes so if i make my binary changes public i also have to share the source code so you write a program and some company is making money off it if they didn't you know change it they're just using it it is so what but if they make any changes any improvements they have to share that with you and they just improved your program that is the benefit of it um yeah so it just but i get that like oh they're making money i should be making money yeah well you know what um someone once designed a hammer i doubt they're still making money off the hammers being sold today uh you know people think oh you have to lock things down you know it's like uh think about i like to think of tylenol right right tylenol that the patent on tylenol and patents are different than copyrights i know but this is the patent on tylenol was up a long long long time ago you know tylenol still making plenty of money even though there's all these other uh off brand tylenol substitutes right and you know lots of times when it comes to those third party you know or store brand generic brand stuff lots of times the main company's still making them and they're making money off they're just you're just they're charging us because they're not doing the don't have the name recognition when you buy something like tylenol you you're you're you're buying the name right just like ibuprofen ibuprofen and advil advil is ibuprofen ibuprofen is the drug advil is a brand name and you can buy just ibuprofen for like half of what you get advil for it's the same exact stuff and there might be a chance that the advil company's making that for example back in the 90s i worked at circuit city and we used to have web tv it was a box that allowed you to check your email and surf the web just on tv it was for old people right they were all made by the same company all looked identical but one would say sony one would say magnivox or whatever like that and certain weeks this one's on sale next week that one's on sale but people old people come to be like oh no i only buy sony brand stuff and and you'd be like it's the same exact thing it comes it's made in the same factory they're just they just slap their name on it and and get get their cut and so people buy it for the name when i worked at g and c general nutrition store um there were vitamins there was the g and c brand and then there was um trying to remember there was another like name brand right they have lot numbers on where these are produced you know you have to know a lot number in case there's a recall stuff some of them would have the same lot number of the different brands i have a friend who was a um ac guy when he got a new ac unit to install at someone's house he's he would joke he would pull out a bag it would come with a bag and train train is the big company there's is expensive well he would get this ac unit and would come with a train tag and another brand name and another brand name and depending on what you pay for they slap that name on there so you're paying all this big money for a train you know he would go to a friend he's he would install it he'd install it at the cheaper price and be like you want me to upgrade you to a train and you just slap it on there because that's just how it works um so like to say i control this isn't isn't necessarily about survival in company in in a company it's it's about control is what it comes down to i have something i want to talk about i don't know it's like a generic drug of all the video software yeah um do do do do oh well a lot of stuff was said while i was talking about that someone retracted the message how do you stop your kids from getting addicted to instagram and modern social media i mean everyone is snap chatting in school i home school my kids don't go to public school so they're here with me and my wife all the time um you know so i know what they're doing uh i let them borrow some of my extra phones when we go on vacation for taking pictures and videos but in general they don't have them at the house they each have their own laptop i got them both new laptop new laptops for christmas i got them thinkpads exactly this is a uh uh t490 thinkpad i got a couple years ago for myself i probably paid like 300 bucks for them think about these thinkpads and you've probably heard this before they are amazing and you can get them so cheap you go on ebay these this this laptop brand new is like over a thousand dollars um i got my kids the same exact model 16 gigs around you know 256 uh gig solid state hard drive um you know webcam all that they are great machines i got them for around 100 i got i got one for just over a hundred dollars and one for a hundred eight dollars and there's with the touchscreen model so they were upgrade from mine um and they're a couple years old but they are great anyway um i i lock their screens and they only get on when i let them on and uh they they do watch a lot of youtube videos and we try to cut them back on that um the stuff they watch is probably appropriate but i don't like how much they watch but then also nothing they they love mind test you know uh mind test and they'll buy minecraft toys since there's no mind test toys and um but they love mind test and they can just play it all day and uh i think that's great uh i wish they didn't play so much but you know i'm on the computer a lot too so i can't complain but it's just how do you keep them off but just don't let them on it don't let them use media i mean when they're teenagers i guess that'll be a different thing but uh at the same time um i don't know i'll have to let you know after my kids go through their teens what i did uh but i don't think they'll be making social media accounts i mean technically both my kids have google accounts and youtube accounts um that they don't really really really realize that uh just i created that just for an extra place to back up photos and videos like when we go on vacation stuff i want to be able to all the random pictures because they'll take thousands of pictures snap snap snap snap i want them to have that so i i do back that up to my servers but then i also back that up to their google accounts uh the only other reason they have that is um my daughter likes to make music playlists on youtube and to make playlists you have to be logged in um so they technically have google accounts but they don't really realize what that means my kids are are eight and eleven by the way my throat's getting sore i won't be able to talk too much longer seriously i think education information is the key have you ever tried to control your system using voice yes um it'd be cool to pretend to be so i do have if i hit windows v on my computer it actually starts running nerd dictation which is a something i learned about through arthur reader again check out arthur reader on youtube uh so i just hit windows v and it will start and that's one of those few applications that wasn't in the repositories i had to install it using snap packs or something like that and it was a pain in the butt um but uh but i do have that and i'll use that for typing uh but that's for typing uh a while back i played around with um it was through mozilla there was a program that ran in the background and and just basically pipe whatever you say you know in the shell so theoretically i could use that and pipe it and then look for keywords and and script and in fact uh yeah so you could do that i played around with a little bit uh i had for a while on my phone like i said i control my lights through ht http request so i made a web interface uh and then i just used the voice to text on the phone into a text box and it automatically as it changed would constantly some javascript read that and depending on what i said it would send an http request and i could be able to say living room lights on um you know living room lights off and it would just look for keywords like living room lights on or off uh and then i would say let there be light and it would turn on all the lights so it's it's not that hard of a thing to do if you don't mind something running in the background all the time but if you want to do it locally again i can't remember the name of it off the top of my head but um i said nerd dictation is good for typing um but if you want something to to run commands in the background it was through mozilla yeah i can't i can't remember i remember it was the pan the butt set up too uh the key to continuing to profit is what minecraft used to do they just continue involving the official release or improving the official lease may pirates eventually bought it the microsoft then microsoft bought it so that sucks uh might be silly but do you have any advice on how to get out of doing computer stuff for work um how to get out of doing computer support like like you don't want to do it as a career or that's not your career but people are constantly asking you to do stuff because um when i'm at work and people ask me i just tell them no as far as you if you're looking to change careers if i had advice again i'm 43 now yeah i'm 43 now just last month um if i had advice for younger people right when you're looking for a career don't just think about pay think about well health benefits is important but um time off that's one of the great things about being a firefighter i work 24 hour shifts and then i have 48 hours off so i work 56 to 72 hours every week right well i mean i'm sorry 48 72 it averages out to 56 hours a week uh and no i don't get overtime for that anything beyond that if i come in on on a off shift if they need help that'll be overtime but all that's straight pay um but but my my my schedule is very flexible and sometimes it sounds better than it is in certain ways and it's really not really everything balances out so like sometimes i like saying as a firefighter right so i work a day and then i have two days off which means i work a day and i have two days off on each side which means if i take one day off i have five days off anytime i take one day off i have five days off which sounds great but really we don't take days off we take hours off so when i take a day off i'm taking 24 hours off which is like you taking three days off if you work an eight hour shift well if you take three days off and you put it up against a weekend you got five days off so you can do you can do take uh you know wednesday thursday friday saturday sunday off you could take thursday friday saturday sunday monday off you know and you could stagger it like that me at least a little more flexible uh but the downside of that also is and and if i was to go start working days if i became an inspector or started working in the office or like when i hurt my bicep and i was on light duty and i go to a regular 40 hour a week i i start getting less hours off because i'm working less hours so it's all based on how many hours you work and how much time you get off uh but the the nice thing about my job is flexibility but it's also constraining into let's say i need time off now i can take um sick time or personal time in smaller chunks i never do that i there's a minimum there used to be like no minimum on personal time but then they made a minimum eight hours it might be 12 hours now so if i need to take time off to take my kids somewhere you you need to take a day off from work you burn eight hours if i need to take a time off and it's later in the evening or and i don't want to you know go to work leave come back it's like i end up burning 24 hours so that's a downside also if you want to take a class or you have something weekly well every third week let's say every wednesday you want to do something well every third week you're working wednesday which means you're going to miss a third of those things if you want to take a class or just be part of a group or something like that um so you either need to take time off you know every three weeks to do that or you're going to miss every third week like me my wife used to be in a small group every wednesday or was it wednesday we met yeah wednesday we met at church well i missed every third one you know not the end of the world but yeah you know one out of three i missed but my point is going back to the question is not really the question but when you're looking at a career look at personal time when you're young you should enjoy life as well as when you're older so a job with flexible hours is a hard thing to find um so a job that offers you good time off is good some sort of retirement besides a 401k is important if you do not have a job that gives you retirement you need to be putting 20 of your pay aside from when you're 20 to when you're 60 buy a house by the time you're 30 get it paid off by the time you're 60 and you should have enough money put aside to retire um that's my advice it some people might think that sounds hard to do you need to do it a very minimum 10 uh but if you really want to have a good retirement and your company's not offering that means they're probably paying you more put 20 aside that's that's that's advice as far as jobs oh i really need to uh stop talking my voice is killing me but let's see let's see let's see sounds like a complicated schedule my work schedule not really like i said it's every third day if you take a calendar you find a day that you're working so let's say i work friday this week that means i work tuesday friday the next week i work the two days before that so you can just take a calendar and draw a line diagonally and you'll know what hours you work and if you don't change shifts which i've been on for 20 years i've never changed shifts i can tell you to the rest of my career what days i'm scheduled to work and what time i'm not because and you're always on that schedule unless you take time off there's no like holidays like you might get off at other jobs for christmas if i want if if christmas falls on my shift i have to take a vacation day and there's only so many people can be off so uh yeah it's not complicated it's just it's flexible yet restricting but it's nice that i can you know in the middle of the week take to oh another oh another big thing about a career and this is huge and it's one of those things that's kind of hard to balance right you want a job where you're important but you're not the only one doing that so if you're if you're in a job where you're the only person that has that position and knows how to do it you are very valuable and you will probably get paid pretty good but i know people who do who have lots of people who have jobs like that my father-in-law owns his own company uh my sister-in-law is an accountant and anytime they take off if i go on vacation with them they take time off but when they get back all that work piles up and when they get back they have to do all of that stuff so then it's it's almost like they didn't have time off because now they're like doubling their work when they get back but also if you're easy to replaceable you're probably not gonna get paid as well and you can you know you're probably not gonna get paid as well balance there's good nice thing about a fire being a firefighter is i am skilled you know i had to go get certified and stuff like that not just anybody off the street can come and walk walk in but no work builds up when i'm gone if a house catches fire or a car rolls over they don't go oh wait chris isn't here let's wait till he gets back to put out this fire so yeah things to think about uh do you have digital comms or analog fm i'm not sure exactly what you're asking i've actually been studying for a ham radio license but i'm falling behind on the studies and i haven't taken the test i was doing really good about studying before christmas but i haven't looked at it in two two months or so you're a big inspiration to me thank you that means a lot to me i do this to to just share the knowledge that i have because you know with the internet things are a lot easier now but when i was younger computers were fun but a mr mysterious you know it's i wish i knew what i knew now you know 20 years ago um so i'm just trying to share that because if you have a better starting point uh you'll be able to surpass me at some point that'd be great okay i'm at the bottom of the list here listen i'm not going to take any more questions i do i'm going to end this in a minute but i want to talk about something um that uh that i want to talk about and i've been thinking about doing a video about this so i might as well do it right now advertising right uh brian lunduk recently did a video on this and i want to understand agree with him and i've been saying similar things for years i do not trust i'm not saying advertising overall is necessarily a bad thing you need to let people know about your products but most advertising is just mind control right and and and not just mind control but just control in general uh as brian lunduk talked about in his video lots of companies like especially big tech companies take out advertisements on on journalism websites tech journalism websites to make sure they don't say anything bad about them they whine and dine they take these reporters out and show them a good time so they won't report bad things about them but i just don't trust any company that takes money from another company for advertising uh this is true of news like you know there's news channels people like oh that news channel lies all the time i watch this news channel or this channel lies all the time and i watch this channel i'm indifferent to that they both are paid to tell you stuff i don't trust a thing they say okay i do not trust advertising uh companies that that take advertising and then try to tell you what to think um chris you might say you have advertising on your videos that's true uh i do not know what any of the advertisements are i just click a button i actually just check all the buttons uh in the youtube thing saying i want all this advertisement because i hope to make a little bit of money i make about a hundred dollars a month on my videos it's it's not life changing um but i i i don't know who's advertising and i also just assume that most people who watch my videos don't watch the advertising they they use ad blockers or stream it using some other player um so uh i also think that advertising for the most part is not needed nowadays i'm not saying it's completely unneeded or bad but nowadays with the internet like it's very easy to spread the word about your product by you know making a good product if you make a good product people will talk about it online now that being said uh i want to point out something where i live i live in collier county and one of the things about collier county i used to think was weird when i was younger but i so appreciate now that i'm older and and truly appreciate it and different places are are different so i'm not saying this is good for everywhere it's illegal to have billboards in my county it's true there actually are three billboards in town i think i would assume they've been there since i moved here over 30 years ago i'm assuming the grandfather didn't but on the interstate there's no billboards in town besides those three there are no billboards you can't have tall signs like when you go uh by these exits a lot of places there's gas stations there's huge towering time signs you're not allowed to have that they're very restrictive on what signs even if you have a shopping center how tall the sign can be and how it how it looks um and again that's not for everywhere you go to Orlando you go to uh pigeon forge by gatlinburg or you go out to um nevada to los vegas it's like you go to those places for big flashy lights i'm really glad that i don't have that where i live but when i travel and i go on road trips and i drive through towns it's like there are billboards everywhere and it just looks horrible and almost all of them are just for these scam lawyers you know and uh and it's really unnecessary because my point here in being that the businesses here in town still do well they still make lots of money it's a fairly you know good place to run a business there's a lot of money here and it's not like oh we don't have billboards people aren't buying stuff it doesn't work like that so really the billboards are really unnecessary and i bring that up just because in general advertising these days is really unnecessary as far as getting word out there for your product and the main reason to do is just to put it in your face