Good morning, John. A couple of months ago, I embarked on a project. I decided to start keeping track of every time that I believed something outright and then later discovered that the thing that I believed was either not quite right or, like, really totally wrong. And today, because it's not embarrassing, but because I feel like it's useful, I'm going to go through four of those things. Let's start with the one that I believed that was most incorrect. It's this graph showing the cost of rent and household income. I saw it on TikTok in an animation with, like, a fun song showing how rent and income had dramatically diverged since the 1990s. This aligns with my understanding of how things have gone, and though I was shocked to see how much they had diverged, I did not question it. Turns out, however, that this sentence at the bottom here is incorrect. In this graph, income was adjusted for inflation, but rent was not. And that is, like, the majority of the reason that they diverged. Now, I can really only speculate on how this graph got created. My guess is that it was a mistake, like, they made the graph. It was a mistake, and it went super viral because it showed a really dramatic thing. The more outrageous thing is going to go more viral if there was a similar graph, which would show a divergence, but not one as dramatic. It would not go as viral or viral at all. So my guess is that this was just a mistake that went viral once, and then it went viral over and over and over again because people saw that if they post this graph, it would go viral. Another useful thing to look at is just rent as a percentage of income, which, since the year 2000 anyway, has increased quite a lot, and then it skyrocketed in 2022 and 2023. So it's not like there's nothing here. And this also, of course, varies a lot depending on what part of the country you're in. And it is useful to note that the places where it has gone up the most are the places with the largest homeless population. We hear a lot about how homelessness is a problem of this or that or this or that. It is a problem of a lack of homes. When there are more people than there are homes, the cost of housing goes up a lot and the people who have the least end up without a home. Homelessness is a problem of a lack of homes. Please advocate for the construction of new homes in your community. Thing number two. There was a fairly large Twitter storm one day because Jane Goodall advocated for reducing the global population to 500 million people. I accept this because I know a lot of old school environmentalist types who advocate loudly for population reduction. And I did not like it. And I agree that the earth cannot handle an infinite number of humans. But we see that population growth goes down when people are in more equitable societies that have more resources for them. So we should focus on that. Whereas the active tense of reducing populations is for me a red flag. People should be granted their own destinies, not paternalistically controlled by well meaning outsiders. I actually looked up the tweet that I saw and it said that she said, We can solve all of the world's problems if we reduce the world population to where it was 500 years ago. Thing is, she never said this. I actually ended up googling this a couple of months afterward because someone said something nice about Jane Goodall and I was like, yeah, except for that thing that she said. But it turns out I was fine with having the information put in my head. But when I put it in someone else's head, I felt a little weird about it. So I went to check just in case. And here is a clip of what she actually said. We cannot hide away from human population growth because, you know, it underlies so many of the other problems. All these things we talk about wouldn't be a problem if there was a size of population that there was 500 years ago. And here's a clip of what she had just said before that. If we can't do something to improve the lives of these people, we have no hope of even trying to save the chimpanzees. It just wouldn't work. And so it was in 1994 that the Jane Goodall Institute began its program, Take Care or Takari, as it's known, in the 12 villages around the small Gombe National Park.  And like, these are just true things that a person heard and took an implication from and then attributed the implication to Jane Goodall when she did not say it. Whether she meant to imply it is entirely subjective. From my read, she did not. Number three, John Stuart is a guy who I trust a lot. And here is a clip of John Stuart talking about taxes in America. We gotta be the most taxed people in the world. What do we got there? Really? 8% is the average tax burden? And I watched this and I was like, wow, that is much lower than I thought it would be. But I'm watching the thing that aligns with my perspectives from my guy who I trust and I just moved on. And then I came across a TikTok from a guy who was like, this is not right. And I watched it and indeed it is not. And I should have known this because like I know that the average tax burden in the U.S. is 25%. I've read that a bunch of times. But it turns out there's some fine print on this. This is the average tax burden for a one earner married couple with two children. And if that sounds really specific to you, that's because that's really specific. He also would just talk about sales taxes and property taxes and gas taxes, but those numbers are not included in this 8%. This is just the federal income tax for the average married couple with one earner and two children, which is not most families in America. But also specifically, this was that household during the pandemic when the government was giving many families money. And that counted as their tax money coming back to them so their effective rate was lower. Which is a little weird because like an 8% tax rate is so low that anyone above the U.S. poverty line knows that they pay way more than 8% in taxes. They see it come out of their paychecks every month. So it seems weird to try to get that status look out of the radar. Especially because as a percentage of DDP, our tax burden globally is low. Now you don't have to make anything up about it. All right, last one. And it's a doozy. I'd only include it to show how messy it could be. I am a huge fan of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. It's a great use of my tax dollars and they provide data on the number of natural disasters that do more than a billion dollars in damage per year. This is a graph created by the good people at Scientific American of those data. And when I looked at this, my brain said, look at all the damage that climate change is doing. Now, this is not what Noah said. And it's not what the article said. It's what my brain said. And it's also what people on Twitter were saying. And I had no reason to question that interpretation or even notice that the article was not about how climate change was causing more billion-dollar disasters. It was about how we need to be more prepared for handling natural disasters. But the conversation on Twitter was about how climate change was increasing the number of billion-dollar disasters. And then other people on Twitter started saying, no, Noah and Scientific American are lying to you. And when I read their arguments, I was like, oh my gosh, they're right. Since 1980, the number of people living in America has increased from 230 million to 340 million.  And all of that requires buildings. Noah's numbers adjust for inflation, but they do not adjust for the fact that more than half of the buildings in the US were built after 1980. This graph is a better reflection of the total value of buildings in America than it is of climate disasters. And it's so bad and annoying that Noah and Scientific American, two extremely reputable institutions, would misrepresent these data. But they didn't do that. People on Twitter misrepresented the data as showing something it didn't say. And then people attributed that misrepresentation to Noah and Scientific American. And John, I'm going to be honest with you, I didn't realize that until I was making this video. I had to come back and reshoot this part, and I had gotten a haircut in the meantime. So first, I believed a lie that my brain told me by looking at a graph that didn't say what I thought it said. That the sole reason the graph was increasing was climate change. That's part of the reason why it's not all of the reason why. And then I believed a lie that Twitter users told me, that it was not told to me by my own brain or by other people on Twitter. The lie was told to me no by that government and by Scientific American. And then I was like, maybe disasters aren't even increasing, but they are, especially heavy rainfall events and heat waves. John, I don't love this! Quick note, all four of these things are examples of misinformation from the more progressive side. This is a sampling bias because this video is about wrong things that I believed, and I'm going to be less skeptical of stuff that aligns with my worldview. I'm a little bit uncomfortable doing this because I think people could misconstrue it, but I'm dealing with that because I think that very few people watching this video think that misinformation is a bigger problem on the left than on the right. Not least because data clearly show it is a bigger problem on the right. Quick final note, I'm really kind of happy with how this came together because these are examples of varying fakeness of varying kinds. There's a wrong graph, there's cherry-picked data, there's a misattributed quote, and a fact that doesn't say exactly what it sounds like it said. I've heard the internet refer to as a challenging information landscape. And like, yeah, yeah, I mean, I feel like I'm pretty good at this and I fail at it all the time. I will run to go fact-check something that I disagree with and I will not do that with stuff that aligns with my previous conception of the world. That's just going to be a bias that we all have to deal with and live within work through. And yeah, sometimes I feel like, what does it matter if, like, somebody's saying a graph is saying something that it isn't actually saying? Or that this graph is making people sort of active and excited and enthusiastic about making the kinds of change I want to see in my country. Even if it's not right, what does it matter? And I think a lot of people think that way. And I think a lot of people who disagree with me on a lot of topics definitely think that way. But for who I am and where I sit and what I do, I have to attempt to have a very strong alliance to the truth. And the incentives of, like, the social internet's content recommendation systems make that hard for all of us. And I don't know what to do about that, except to try very hard to have an alliance to the truth. And also to, in a year, that is going to be bad to touch as much grass as I possibly can. John, I'll see you on Tuesday.


Because that's the thing I can't understand when people do certain things. And I'm like, it's his car. So police is already tracking that. Why wouldn't you think that? Cause I thought he was dead. My fall partner, uh, I told him, Hey, where's the keys? And, uh, my fall partner sitting there with him. Well, he's still alive. I said, well, cut his throat. Wow. And my fall partner had found a lock timer, old timers lock blade. And that thing was duller than his pen is on the side. Thank God. Didn't register to me. If it had, I probably would have told him to get a butcher knife. Yeah. Okay. Get him some tissue. Mm hmm. They take a break for a second. Just get him, get him some. It's all right, bro. But that, you know, when you go back to those places where, where you, where, where all these incidents happen, it's a cleansing point really to be honest with you, so you have to, you have to go down those roads just to, you know, just to, um, really, really, really do some, you know, some soul searching, right? But, but at 15 years old, that had to be pretty tough, you know, to, to have to try to fit in for yourself early on like that. So as you was, um, we're going to get back into it. Did you ever, you ended up going to prison?  They give you aggravated life sentence. What was that for? Well, they took their cases. They did what? Took, taken a death case and made them out of aggravated. Wow. Do you think this was something that was over, over the top? Yes. I think it was. You see what I'm saying? What county was it? Where was Dallas? Was it a judge or something that had a thing to where they was trying to make an example? A lot of you? Well, not so close to judge that used to the Mike, to judge that used to be in that courtroom. He went and went for it. So they waited and put a visit judge in there. Okay. And that's how it ended up. You get an aggravated life sentence when they knew it was a theft case. Wow. Did you try to appeal it? Meeting a cigarette at that. Really? The Safeway Stokes back then. Meeting a cigarette? Yes. Made an aggravated robbery then, you know, and I didn't understand that. And you had a pistol? Did you? I should have. Yeah, because if it's aggravated, it costs me out like that in a, I never robbed anybody. But I ended up with a robbery case. Wow. They just slid it in there and, you know, just crossed me out. So the court system was corrupt? Yeah, it really was, you understand me? It still is. I just, I wouldn't say that I was guilty for no aggravated robbery. If anything, theft, like it was. Wow. Nothing, no evidence. Just for somebody to say he's the one. And that was the butchering, you know, they had no meat, no cigarette, no knife, no nothing. How old was you at this time? About 20 something? I was a, how old I was. Because you was 19 at first. At the first one, right. I got a life sentence at the age of 27. OK. And so that was his third time. Yeah. So I was asking because I wanted to know how much aggravated life carried at that time, what you had to do before you could come up for parole.  So I've done twenty one calories a year. Wow. So you did twenty one years. Come on, that time. Yeah, I don't come on at the age of 42. Wow. I'm sixty seven now. Mr. A lot of your life still having to deal with parole.  And I've seen a fireplace poker.  It's by the grace of God. Thirty two times. And I don't believe it was for him. It was for me that he lived. That's that anger you were letting out. He was a Shriners. Wow. And Shriners are making supporters. Correct. He was a Shriners. And to top it off, they are also the ones that support some of the Bishop Boys Club camp. So I was taking out a lot of anger that I had on some of the abuse that I received there. Did you you knew he was a Shriners when this was happening? When we opened the door, you saw the. Yeah, I seen the the fizz, you know what the fizz is, right? The hat and his little trophies and stuff. And it's just like. Everything came flashing back. I went completely white calm. It's it's like there was no. The whole thing. Was everything I did was methodical. And it scares me to think, you know, because when I get into a situation, I don't matter if it's I'm driving in a diesel, then it runs me over. It's like this white calm comes over me and I just. I go, you know, I'm saying and somehow I make it through it. And. I don't know, man. It just I want to channel that to a better way. And that's what I've been trying to do since I've been out. Yeah. How long you been on? Almost six years, six years. So when you when you look at what you guys done, I know clearly to remorseful for it. That old man, he didn't deserve that and I don't. I'm not to judge whether he did or didn't. But I wish to God, it had to be me.  Honest to God, not going to what I'm going to tell you, I needed that time. Well, let me ask you this. When how did you guys get caught? We drove ran in the man's car for over a week. Wow. Went all the way up to Louisiana, hocking jewelry and stuff and just over the border, come back and drinkin. And I mean, you weren't going to get caught because that's the thing I can't understand when people do certain things. And I'm like, it's his car. So police is already tracking that. Why wouldn't you think that? Because I thought he was dead. My fall partner, I told him, hey, where's the keys? And my fall partner is sitting there with him. Well, he's still alive.  Wow. And my fall partner had found a lock timer, old timers lock blade. And that thing was duller than his pen is on the side. Thank God, didn't register to me. If it had, I probably would have told him to get a butcher knife. So I go out the car, try to start the car. And I'm shaking so bad because my drun is pumping.  And fall partner says, man, he's still alive.  And I think about that. And it's just it's like, man, I had so much anger.  You know, because all the things that had happened to me in my life. No need to be on somebody else. So yeah, well, let me ask you this. So don't mean to cut you off, but after you've done that. This guy, y'all drove around in his car. You end up getting caught. When you get caught, you go to court. Now, does he show up? That's exactly what I was thinking. So you know that he had. So he showed up to court. Mm hmm. I was you had to face him. Yeah. But you weren't remorseful at that time. No, no, how are you feeling at that time? I was more scared. I was just the only thing I was, it was about me. And it's all it ever was when I was younger after the stuff that happened to me at five.


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Malawi has run out of COVID-19 vaccine doses amid a sharp rise in confirmed cases of the pandemic. In a statement released, the Ministry of Health and Population Services said the consignment of 900,000 doses the country was expecting at the end of May through the COVID-19 vaccine sharing facility is yet to arrive. In the initial vaccination phase supported by COVID-19, the Malawi government plans to cover 3.8 million people or 20% of the country's population including front-line health workers, social workers, the elderly and those with underline health conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure and heart problems. Malawi received its forced consignment of 360,000 doses from the COVAX facility in March followed by 102,000 doses from the African Union and 50,000 doses from the Indian government.


This video will talk you through the CBA 14 programme structure as well as showing you how you can get involved in shaping the programme and how you can register for CBA 14. There are many different elements to the CBA 14 programme and different ways that you can get involved. Firstly there are thematic sessions. These are designed to delve deeper into the themes of CBA 14 which are climate finance, adaptation technology, responsive policy, nature-based solutions and youth inclusion. They will be hosted by individuals and organisations closely linked to these themes and will encourage dialogue around key issues relating to these themes in an interactive and engaging workshop setting. The marketplace enables participants to share their own ideas, tools and experiences relating to community-based adaptation. There will be multiple virtual stall holders chosen and as an attendee you will be able to view these stalls within the conference platform and ask the stall holders your questions relating to their work. There will also be a scheduled live virtual meeting for you to meet the stall holder and delve deeper into their experiences. Skill shares are sessions offered by participants. Given the expertise present at the conference, those with skills to offer are matched with those seeking to acquire or strengthen their skills and knowledge base. Sessions are crowdsourced and as long as someone signs up for a session it is delivered and featured in the programme. The roundtables are entirely participant-led and are a space to explore particular questions and issues in more depth. Participants can suggest potential topics in the conference discussion forums. If there are other participants interested in your proposed session then you can develop a roundtable in the format of a virtual meeting to discuss your topic and ideas. Roundtables with enough interest will be featured in the main programme. The Dragon's Den builds the capacity of participants to develop pitches for investment in business ideas. The Dragon's Den will feature four sessions that lead participants in groups from idea through to a live proposal pitch where they will receive feedback from a panel of five experts with investment experience. CBA 14 will also be screening short films relating to community-based adaptation issues and projects. We are asking attendees to submit their films for selection by our film screening committee. The chosen films will be shown during CBA 14 with a chance for a live Q&A with the film's producer. The CBA 14 platform also includes dedicated networking features. Participants are able to instant message each other, schedule one-on-one or small group calls and create discussion forums about particular topics or interests. These features will encourage attendees to keep the conversation around community-based adaptation going outside of scheduled sessions and truly get the most out of their time at CBA 14. In advance of the conference, CBA 14 will also feature a series of meeting greets where climate adaptation practitioners and experts will host online discussions with a limited group of participants to begin sharing ideas and creating connections. As you can see, there are lots of different elements to CBA 14 and it is not just a series of webinars. To find out more information about the programme structure for CBA 14 and how you can get involved in shaping the programme, then please visit the How You Can Help Design the programme page on the IED website. You'll be able to find submission forms here for the workshop sessions, marketplace and skill shares. The submission form for the film screenings will also be here nearer to the conference. To find out more about CBA 14 in general, please visit the event page for the conference on the IED website. Here you can also find an overview of the current conference programme and a link to the registration page for the conference. Here you can find more information about ticket pricing for CBA 14, payment methods and registration terms and conditions, as well as being able to purchase tickets. Links to these different pages can be found in the description box below. We hope this overview has helped you understand CBA 14 in more detail. We look forward to seeing you in September for the conference.


A while ago, I mentioned in passing that the icons on your desktop are actually really files and directories. For instance, here on my desktop, I have a directory named projects, I have another directory named pictures, and then I have this file called business receipts. What's going on here is that the desktop itself is really just a special directory. Microsoft decided that for convenience sake, users would want one special directory where the contents are always displayed behind all of their windows because that, in theory, would be a convenient place to go to place frequently used files. Still, it is really just a directory, and in fact, if we go and find its actual folder, you'll find it at the path here d colon slash users slash Brian slash desktop. It says Brian because currently I'm logged in as the user account named Brian. And notice the content you see here in this directory is the same as what you see on the desktop. And in fact, if we're to come here and if we're to delete the file, notice that it's now gone on the desktop as well as in the folder. What you're seeing here in the folder is really the same as what you're seeing here on the desktop. I'm sure you're wondering, how on Windows do you actually go about browsing through your files and folders? Well, the answer is that you need a program called a file browser, but Windows simply has one built in, and that's what most people usually use. To get to this file browser, you simply need to open any folder, like say here on the desktop if I were to double click this folder and open it, or you can go to the start menu and you can open one of these locations here on the right, such as computer, or down here on the taskbar you should by default have this little icon here, and so I click that and it pops up with the file browser. Now, the basic concept here in the file browser is that we have this pane on the left called the navigation pane, which contains a hierarchy of all of the locations on our system. Now, there are a number of really odd things going on with the location hierarchy here. First off, for some strange reason, Microsoft decided that the desktop should go at the top of the hierarchy, and as we just discussed, the desktop is actually a directory, and inside that directory I have on my system here two other folders called pictures and projects, but this other stuff listed, like say, recycled bin or control panel, none of that is actually inside my desktop directory. You're only seeing them here as constituents of the desktop because Microsoft has magically placed them there in the hierarchy. And in fact, with the exception of Brian, which is my user directory, these things aren't actually really directories. The control panel, for example, is not a folder or file, it's actually a configuration screen where I can configure various stuff about windows in my system. The item above it, network, is just a screen which shows you all of the other systems connected on your local network. Computer is the list of all the storage drives on your system, and again, Brian here is my user directory. Above it, the home group also has to do with networking, and in all likelihood, as a home user, your system isn't networked with any other, so you'll probably just entirely ignore this home group. The thing at the top here called libraries, well, that's really just a special selection of folders within your user directory. If I click on it here, it lists documents, music, pictures, and video. But documents here, for example, is really just the my documents folder inside my user directory, and music is just the my music folder inside my user directory and so forth. So this is really just a shortcut to get to these particular folders. Finally, at the bottom, the recycle bin is a temporary storage location for deleted files. What happens by default when you delete a file is the file doesn't actually really get deleted. It just gets moved to this recycle bin location. And if you want to actually then delete the file, you go to the recycle bin and you hit the button that says empty the recycle bin, and then it will actually delete everything for good. The recycle bin feature was added simply because people tend to accidentally delete things, and so this gives them a second chance to go back and recover things which they previously deleted but didn't mean to delete. Notice in the hierarchy here that many items have these little arrows on the left. When you click that little arrow, it will toggle the expansion and contraction of that node in the hierarchy. So here, for example, if I click the arrow next to computer, it will expand out the list of all the drives in the computer. If I click that arrow once more, then all of the drives in the computer will be hidden again. So as I mentioned, the libraries here is really just a shortcut to certain directories that are also in your user directory. So that means in the location hierarchy on the left, you actually have two different ways to get to these directories. You can click on libraries and then click say on documents, or you can click on your user directory and then click on my documents. And the same can be said about the desktop directory. If I want to see the desktop directory, I can simply click on desktop at the top of the hierarchy in the navigation pane, or I can go into my user directory here and click on the desktop directory. And I'm looking at the same thing basically. And in fact, there's even a third way to get to the same directory. If I go into computer and then go into the drive on which I have Windows installed, which on my system here is drive D. And then I go into the user's directory where my user directory is actually located here, Brian. I go in there and look, here's the desktop directory, and also here say is the my documents directory. So again, the confusing things about this locations hierarchy is that some of the things in this hierarchy at the top aren't actually directories. And then the other confusing thing is that some directories show up at multiple places in the location hierarchy. And perhaps strangest and most confusingly of all, Microsoft seems to be telling you that your computer is something which exists inside your desktop, but then your desktop is something which exists inside one of the drives on your computer. So as it's presented here in this location hierarchy, the desktop is something which is inside of itself. Frankly, I think this all was a very stupid design decision, and they couldn't have made it more confusing if they had tried. Last thing to note here, you may be wondering about this star labeled favorites. If I expand this, you'll see it's a list of locations. The idea is that there are certain locations that a user may wish to go to frequently, and so for convenience, the user can add that location to their list of favorites, so they don't have to navigate through the whole location hierarchy to get there. They can simply look in their list of favorites.


Your Crow and County Master Gardener has held their annual Garden Expo as we get ready for spring weather. A.J. Feldman takes you there in this week's Northwood's adventure. Outside of Central Lakes College, it looks like the dead of winter. Cold, snowy and miserable.  An event like this today is perfect because the weather is terrible outside, so in here is a great event. They can come and learn and visit, network, whatever, find new vendors, find new places to buy plants, that kind of thing. It makes you want to go out there and start digging in the garden right now, but obviously that isn't going to happen right now. But until that day comes, class is in session. The Expo hosts 20 different sessions where speakers educate the crowd on topics such as beekeeping, vegetables and vertical gardening. First of all, we want to inspire them to and take the knowledge that they've gotten today and apply it to their own gardens and hopefully try some new things they haven't done before. It gives me a lot of fresh new ideas for things that I never thought of that I could do and it also helps me answer those questions that I've come up with during the growing season and which I had some source. The Expo hosts a silent auction where proceeds fund scholarships and community projects throughout the year. It also hosts dozens of vendors who love meeting the enthusiastic crowd. We've been here for probably 70 years I would say, having a booth and being speakers and things, but this group is really dedicated to plants and knowledge and they do a wonderful job. Year after year, the community comes back to meet new people and exchange ideas to improve their gardens once the ground thaws. We exchanged email addresses and we said, yeah, I'd like to know more about what you're doing with this and that, so yeah, it's a really good fertile ground for making connections. We hope to continue to educate the public and inspire them to be better gardeners. Reporting in Brainerd for this week's Northwoods Adventure, A.J. Feldman, Lakeland News. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


All right, welcome to October 23rd, DevSync for Minecraft and here we are, halfway through our official sprint. But the idea here is that hopefully we're wrapping up tail-in-to-work from last sprint and we've got the new SJ201 boards that we're in the process of bringing up, so hopefully we have better news about that today than a couple days ago, but let's go ahead and find out. So I'll start with Ken. How is it going, Ken? Going good, got the new hardware working and just finishing up the integration. I have a bug with the volume I'm chasing down, but other than that, everything's good. And then I'll try to accomplish the animations for the various actions that Derek was kind enough to share with us about an hour ago. I warn you, these LEDs are not...  I'm going to talk to Kevin about adding a different command to get around that so we can handle some of these animations better. I'll code them up with what I have now and we'll see how they are. And I can also put a monkey patch together whenever somebody gets one of these devices and they get microp installed and paired. I can send them a file they could run that would apply these changes and get all this stuff working rather than having to change the build or the repository or whatever. So we can go either way, but yeah, it's coming along. Okay, that sounds great. That's much improved from a couple days ago. I think the reason that the LEDs are sluggish is that we haven't really designed any firmware for that LED controller. It's just kind of bit-banging them, right? You're just controlling them one at a time and we could definitely put the animation stuff in that little microcontroller. Yeah, I don't know if we could do that. It might be taxing it a bit, but we can at least have it be able to accept the LEDs without showing them immediately and then do a show and show them all and hopefully that would be quicker than going over the USB bus over ITC, but we'll see, so that's where we're at. Okay, well that sounds great. In the interest of getting things up and working, I haven't seen the spec that Derek has shared with you on the lighting feedback, but I'm in favor of just doing something quick and dirty and then we'll work towards the fancy version. Well, that's what I have now, so right now the volume up and volume down buttons will advance the circle, you know, from one to ten. The top two are reserved. The last one is currently reflecting the status of the mute mic switch, so if it's on it's green and if it's off it's red and then there's a blank one and then there's ten LEDs that I'm using right now and so the volume up and down control all those fine, all that works. Okay, great. And you're able to get the barge in and audio in and out and all that kind of stuff going. Well, so yeah, that's, you just said a mouthful, I haven't looked at barge in yet. I don't think some refactoring, but there's other issues I want to resolve. The first is with this board, this version of the Kivi build is complaining and now that I see what it's trying to do, it's trying to enumerate all the devices and run also on and failing and pulling exceptions. And then there's two skills, there's the Skill Micruff AI and Micruff Skill Mark II, whatever. And the one, the older one, I guess that was done by Bluestuff Things is trying to hit the volume itself over the I2C bus and throwing exceptions since I don't have I2C enabled on this device. So I may clean that up too. But yeah, and then barge and I'll get into, barge in is going to be a little more of a higher level issue because right now high level code is doing everything it can kind of work that. So I'm going to have to unravel that. So yeah, that'll come. Okay. But you're having to get audio in and audio out. Audio in, audio out, volume up and down, leds working, switches working, yeah, all of that. Okay. I just wanted to check, when you said does barge and work, do you just mean, can you speak over music? No. As opposed to refactoring, like, because I know we have different definitions of what barge means. That's a very good question. I want to make sure we're not doing what we're not intending to yet. I think if you are using the XMOS just in the default configuration, it will automatically subtract the output from the input on that side of things. Yeah, I understand that we still have some issues with barge in terms of if the core itself is outputting, you know, speech, it doesn't like to interrupt itself to stop talking. But that's a different issue. Yeah, so I'll test that I can play music and tell it to stop and that works. And it's not clear to me if that's using pocket spanks or what it's using to do that, but the assumption is I haven't changed anything there. So, you know, that should work. I was getting at barge in over our dialogues, but yeah, exactly. Yeah. Okay, great. Thanks for the update. That's really good news. I just got an update from Kevin that he can get us probably up to 20 by Monday. He just shipped out the ones to the fab house that needs to rework them. But the ones that he, the one-sided ones that he has to populate the second side for, he can do as many of those as we need by Monday or Tuesday next week. So I'm going to ask him to do that. So we should have stuff for Derek to assemble. And hopefully that will give us enough to send out to roll over on, you know, maybe by Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. Hold on. So there's my guess, so let's be careful there. Let's be careful there because there's, I don't know, you know, what code-based rollover has, but they're not going to be able to handle the hardware that I have, right? The hardware I have is jumped specifically so that everything goes through the USB port now. And there's no GPIO usage whatsoever on the side of things, on the Pi. Kevin also sent me two other SJ201 boards, and they're not wired that way. They are wired to still use the switches going through the GPIO. So make sure you get the right boards to the customer regarding the software support that they have because unless they have the code that I'm still working on, this new board style isn't going to work, right? Yeah, so just to be clear, I'm anticipating you getting this code working in the next few days. And Derek is going to have to, you know, completely rebuild either new ones or rebuild the old ones, you know, with these new boards. So they're not going to get just SJ201s. They'll get whole new units. And they'll get the latest version of the code. Is that the assumption? I mean, yeah, they'll have to, right? So they'll get the new style boards where everything goes over USB. And then my changes to the code that I'm making now, this pull request will have to get pulled into the new image before he builds from there, okay? Right. So there's a little coordination that will have to go on there. I'll try to get this pull request ready to be reviewed by Monday so that we have a half a chance of getting it done rapidly. Okay, great. Yeah, I still haven't done any kind of test of, you know, one of these things is simple outside of the laser cut closure. So we'll want to have a day or two to see if, you know, the things going to overheat or, you know, all that stuff. Yeah, and then this board that I have, there's no micro USB connector. So it's like a jumper kind of socket thing and, you know, in a little cable with a board you made and, you know, part of the problem is that pushing the buttons and stuff. It comes kind of loose and so sometimes it gets intermittent and then I have to reseed everything. So it would be better if we had boards for them that had the actual real micro USB connectors and whatever we're planning on doing along those lines. Okay, that's a good feedback. The SJ202 board is not going to show up until Tuesday, which we'll do that. The SJ202 will give us that secure connection and make it more solid. But they are coming from jail, PCB or whatever to be delivered Tuesday to Kevin. Okay, so that's going to be a limitation and getting things out. I think realistically. Yeah, just coordinate with me when you're, when you've got hardware in your hands, and you're ready to start maybe putting it together and burning an image and testing. Just coordinate with me at that point to make sure that we're on the same page. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I wouldn't be able to send anything out. And so a few days after I received boards, just because I need to test and I need time to assemble them. All right. Who's got all the pies for the assembly process? Do you have them or does Kevin have those? No, I've got all the parts in the Lawrence office. All right. So it might be best for him to just plan on shipping them all to you together, the 202s and the 201s together. And then you can just get to assembling them. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if there's any work you can do ahead of time, ahead of getting those boards, I mean, that's that's stuff that we should start working on. Right. I don't know if there's a speaker enclosures and speakers and jumper wires for the for the speaker connectors and junk like that. You know, yeah, I've started some of that. Yeah. Okay, great. Okay. Derek, you have anything else? As far as updates for us. Well, so yeah, Ken mentioned, I did, I've been working a bit on the LED animations.  So if there's limitations we want to work around by all means, but at least let you get started on that. And I do have some things I need to wrap up on it doesn't there's a few missing ones mute isn't in there, for example, although that's reasonable. And then I was working on a slide deck. Josh requested of me most of this morning. I got some edits to still do on that. I want to chime in here with I get that that rendering of the mark two on the slide deck. Right. The rendering is not bad, but the Yeah, it's very different from the kind of pill shaped curve super modern design that we originally had. That's all I have to say. Yeah. Well, you know this is partially to work to work with the limitations of, of, you know, how we're doing. It's, it's just lends itself to a very rectilinear form with the way the pie docs to it. So things where you know I looked at okay we can add make try to make it more curvilinear what that adds kind of adds unnecessary volume, which, you know, adds cost. So it's kind of driven by the form of the pie. Okay, when you're here, can we play with your sketchbook a little bit and see if we can maybe tweak some of the shapes without tweaking any of the internals or anything. Yeah. Yeah. And to be honest, where it's at right now to is driven by easy to prototype. And, you know, as we move to the extra molding we do have some opportunities to revisit some of those things. Yeah, I don't want to get back into a full on discussion of it, but it hurts my eyes a little bit I think we can do better. Okay. So yeah, basically just been in that world and then also printing some parts and getting ready for simply for next week. The one thing outstanding really is, and I hope to have it done by Monday is the requirements doc. Okay. Question about the dev kits that we're talking about shipping. Do you have an idea how much it costs for us to laser cut an enclosure versus how much it costs to 3d print one. I don't but I could find out. I had actually quoted printing through some of these like through 3d hubs specifically, which actually most of the 3d printing services like shapeways and stuff they use, you know, pretty high end SLS or SLI printers, they're pretty expensive to be like close to $200 really print a whole enclosure. But 3d hubs uses like Prusa's and ultimakers and stuff like that. And you can get it done. Maybe about 40 or 50 bucks. For for a set parts. I would imagine through. Josh has a laser cutter. There's a laser kind of Lawrence office. We could cut some ourselves, depending on quantity, but using an outside service, I would imagine that be cheaper than 3d printed for one set, but I don't know I quoted it. Okay, it's going to be the laser is going to be way cheaper, like way way way cheaper than 3d printed. There's, there's assembly labor associated with it. It's kind of arduous. So, yeah, but even with assembled themselves perhaps. Yeah, but even with, even with the 3d printing like there's a bunch of post processing that takes a lot of elbow grease as well. So, our 3d, our SLI printer here and hello is not behaving nicely but I'm working to get it all squared away before you guys get here. Yeah, I owe you a response on that. I'll send you some links. I got with form lab support and they're working with me to get it squared away. All right. Okay, let's go over to Chris there. Talk about week words. Yeah, so good progress. I will share my screen to show a couple things. Okay, this isn't my this is on my machine. I goofed something up about the audio but what I wanted to show off was that when you, you pick something, it fades out and back in to get the next one so that's kind of the transition at the animation done. So you can tell that you're going to a whole new thing to tag. So that's done. And I've been deploying stuff. So if you go to size, my car. That's gotten that again first of course. So, you see the card means nothing on it and that's because I don't have any data set up yet so the everything's deployed. All the codes deployed everything's out there and test. All the databases are done all that good stuff. Well, I haven't done is is figured out a way to put a bunch of data out there so you guys use it. You can do a bunch of tagging and bunch of testing and not around stuff to do. But the thing this does bring up though and this is the question for Derek is, what do we show on this screen, when we don't have data to tag. There's never a problem, but if it is a blank screen with a skip button is probably not the best solution for that. An image of a dog that has caught its owner and a flat and a little thing that says all caught up. You could use the you could use the dog pulling the diaper down from the old. Like Johnson's baby oil logo, something like that but something that just says all caught up. You can use a picture of your own dog if you want. I like the one that says you've reached the end of the internet. So yeah, my goal for the week was to get this so you guys can start using it by the end of my work today will be I'm close I'm just, I need to. I need to populate some data, like a test directory on the precise server with some wake words samples that we can copy over and I need to. Hopefully that's it once that happens then they'll start showing up on the screen here and you can start tagging them. But so that's just the one task I have left. Unless of course, you know, things are showing up and bad things happen, because I just put it to test for the first time, but so far deployment has gone smoothly. It took me a little little extra times I haven't deployed so any UI stuff in a while, but this is all working off of my branch, instead of off of the test branch because I'm still waiting on some code reviews but yeah. I'm very close to having this done today. Awesome. Okay. That is great. I look forward to testing it and breaking it. Speaking of which, I know that Ken was working on some some vk tests for this. Have you are those up and running now. Do they, do they work. Do they match up at all. No, I have no vk test for the tag or just for the upload wake word. Okay. Yeah, he's been busy with the hardware stuff so. Okay. Yeah, I mean, and if I get this up and test and he's still busy with hardware stuff I could write I can write the tests. Right. We were hoping you and I could work together and get it done faster but he's been preoccupied so I can always have the test itself. Okay. That's great. That's good progress. Thanks. Let's switch over to guess, get an update on what's going on in the community. Okay. Yeah, we've, we've got lingua franca version 0.2.3 released. So that's the final version of the point two series before the before the refactor gets merged in. We're just going to skip a couple of tests on the Python version 3.5 because that version of Python is the old like end of life, you know, but we technically still support it and until 2102. And the things are working. It's just in the test environment. They're failing. So rather than spend any time beating a head against a wall for something that's deprecated anyway. I just skipped them specifically for the, for Python 3.5. Anyway, so hopefully the point three version comes out pretty soon. We also did an update to PAI, which is an event emitter library that we use. We ran into some issues basically race conditions in multi-threaded environments. And thanks to okay reported that upstream got a fix and now there's a new version so that's gone into adapt and micro core. We also use it in another repo that's less important, but I'll update it there as well. But yeah, it's feeling like we've got a lot of big changes in dev at the moment. So I think once lingua franca 0.3 comes out, then we should probably do a major, not a major release just a release of micro core. After a, you know, a small period of testing and stuff. I did some work, some more work, just mapping out the enclosure spec a bit more slowly building that out. I had a really good meeting with a local team who are looking at a lot of NLP stuff for low resource languages. So there's nothing that's immediately going to come out of that. But, you know, just good to keep in touch and they're really interested in what we're doing. One of the most interesting things that came out of it, I think was that some Australian Aboriginal languages. They don't have spaces between their words, so to say, like a single word can contain a whole series of more themes or meanings within that. And so there's a few other languages around the world that do this sort of thing. And that's one of the limitations of some of our technologies is that we can't accommodate that.  And that seems to be working fine. But, you know, some of these, some of these languages that have specific grammar differences, we don't, we don't support. And one of the things that they've built is a way to extract out all those more themes. So, yeah, so something that might down the road be useful for us when we want to support those languages. We've found some more bugs, picks and bugs have been having a chat with El Ticino more around the the TTS, George and stuff. And we want to tweak the mimic recording studio before we get any more recordings done because we think that one of the problems is that it's cutting off the a bit too much at the end of the audio. And there's a very simple tweak we could do to it, which will probably do enough for now, but we also want to look at some, a bigger change at some point. And I did, I did a fair bit of looking at the resource usage on on the different mark two images as well. And just trying to profile that and really dig into what's what's using the memory and and CPU usage and that sort of stuff. And I now have both of my, both of my martyrs running side by side. Yeah, which is good. Anyway, that's, that's many I think. Yeah, the resource utilization. You know, we've been talking about that, especially in terms of the cute versus kibby GUI systems. But you know, we really need to nail down what those resources are for everything for, you know, for the wake word processor for, you know, for mimic and, you know, probably for pedacious as well. Although I suspect that's pretty lightweight. You know, yeah, that's one of those things that I really, I really want to get to maybe it's something we can tackle at the summit. Maybe it's maybe it's not something we really need to but but yeah, we need to have a good, a good high level picture of those resources so that we can start to spec the next gen of hardware that will hopefully be, you know, a lot more affordable. Yeah. And the biggest, the biggest eater at the moment is still precise like, but yeah, from what I've heard that the TF light version is running much lighter. So, yeah. Yeah, and we can port, you know, there's a $4 successor chip to the one that we're currently using for the audio echo cancellation that we can almost certainly port the wake word into, you know, and it'll just, that'll run entirely off chip then at that point, but it has to, it does have to be TF light. And, you know, but that still leaves the other the other bits of it right you know if we if we have a we require 700 gigabytes of or megabytes of memory to run the GUI system for example, then you know that might require a different processor then then is, you know, strictly necessary I think so something it's one of those things we have to keep an eye on start digging into when we get the time. All right, so Josh, you have any updates for us on the updating system. As a panticore built it for us. So, and their price right so that needs to be evaluated. I think it's something that we evaluate closely during that the sprint that we're doing here in about two weeks. We could probably do some of it ahead of that being as they already packed it down for us and it's already available. And then divide develop a workflow and assuming that it works and meets our needs. I think that that's a good solution. Yeah. So, I wish I was more technical and built a decision matrix and everything else but I'm mostly focused on things that work at a reasonable price. Panticore hypervisor will allow us to do a tonic updates at that and then we should be able to containerize the skills. In a way that allows this each skill to run and it's on container communicate with all the other skills over the message bus and isolate processor and ram from each skill to each other skill. It may require a packing process by us so we've been having some conversations about how, how we manage skills in the future, and how we share our future success with the broader community, and kind of as a hypothesis and this isn't established on a written in blood and signed by leadership as a hypothesis the concept is that we will peel off a chunk of the recurring revenue that we're generating from people who've chosen to be my craft supporters that we will dish that out to skills developers based on the utility of their skill so skills that are being used widely and are being engaged with by our community will get more than skills that do one thing and are never used or have limited utility. And that, you know, because we have to package this stuff up because we have to sign it because we have to take all these additional steps to make it safe that that skills will skill developers will have a choice of either running, you know, basically in dev mode and provide it for free or being part of the paid skills abstraction. And then finally, we would move everybody over to the paid skills abstraction day one who's already part of our community, so that folks who've already contributed get a year or something worth of time and in that paid tier at no cost so that there's a lot of things going on with that but a lot of it relates back to the update process because you know there is going to there are going to be steps and signatures and other things required for us to push these skills out. And, you know, as we're seeing with the mark to development cycle, you know, we, our stuff is really complicated, and we need to simplify simplify simplify so that my, my mom can use it near grandma can use it so that's going to that's going to take some work on our side to. Anyway, that is a long drawn out explanation and then I am printing things. Many things. Okay. So the progress on the update system I look forward to being able to bang on that. And yeah, definitely by the time the end of our sprint or in person sprint we should have that up and running. That would be really great. And yeah, and thanks for the sneak preview on our the future of the skill system as well. I don't have much of an update I've been working, you know, behind the scenes on on the hardware and getting ready for the next rev if we need to do one. And, you know, working fundraising all that good stuff. So, so, yeah, that's it for me. I think that we haven't gone through the jury tickets. But let's take a look at those on your own time and we'll we'll do a quick sprint review on Monday and decide if we should, you know, close out the sprint and start a new one. And then that'll give us a full two weeks before the, before the in person summit, rather than having two more one week periods. So, other than that, I think that's, I think that's it any any questions or follow up. Okay. Great. Well, we got a little bit of time after this meeting. Josh, do you want to hang out and review this FDM print real quick. Sure. Anyone else that is interested as well. Well, I'm interested in everything but I'll leave it to Josh. Okay. Okay, great. Well, everybody have a good weekend. Everybody. I think it's actually really good progress this week. It was a little bumpy, but things are coming together. So, yeah, looking forward to testing out Chris's wakeward tiger and getting some hardware into everybody's hands next week. So it's a pretty good week. So have a good weekend and talk to you all on Monday.


Hello and welcome to the session.  If die is rolled once, determine first probability of the event 2, second probability of 103, third probability of not 3. Let's now start with the solution. Now as we know a die has 6 faces. Well, two faces has number 1 on it, faces has number 2 on it and one face has number 3 on it. Now the die is rolled once, then possible number of total outcomes are 6. Since a die has 6 faces, first let us denote the event E by the face with 2 appears on it. So here the number of favorable outcomes are since 3 faces has number 2 on it. So if a die is rolled once, then the possible number of outcomes are 3. So the probability of event E, that is probability of getting a number 2 when a die is rolled once is the number of favorable outcomes upon the total number of outcomes. Now let us substitute the values. Number of favorable outcomes are 3 and total possible outcomes are 6. So in simplifying we get 1 upon 2. So the answer to the first part is half. Now let us proceed on to the second part where we have to find probability of 1 or 3. Here let us first denote E as the event of face with 1 appears on it and F face with 3 appears on it. So number of favorable outcomes, the event E is equal to 2. Since when a die is rolled, then the possible number of outcomes of getting a 2 is, sorry, getting a 1 is 2. And the number of favorable outcomes of the event E, that is when a die is rolled then the possible number of favorable outcomes for the event F is 1. Since one face has number 3 on it. Therefore probability of E is 2 upon 6, that is number of favorable outcomes upon the total possible number of outcomes and probability of F is 1 upon 6. Now we have to find probability of E or F. So this is equal to probability of E plus probability of F. Since our mutually exclusive events, that is no face on the die has the number 1 and 3 both. So the two events are mutually exclusive, that is if 3 appears then 1 will not appear and if 1 appears then 3 will not appear. Now let us substitute the values of probability of E and probability of F, that is 2 upon 6 plus 1 upon 6 which is equal to 3 upon 6. Now on simplifying we get half. So the answer to the second part, that is probability of 1 or 3 is equal to 1 by 2. So this completes the second part. And now proceeding on to the third part, here we have to find probability of not 3. So first let us denote the event E by the face with 3 appears on it and here the number of favorable outcomes as we have done in the previous part also is equal to 1. The total possible outcomes are 6 since the die has 6 faces. Therefore probability of event E is equal to number of favorable outcomes that is 1 upon the total number of possible outcomes which are 6. So the probability of not 3 we have to find, that is probability of not the event E. And this is equal to 1 minus probability of the event E which is equal to 1 minus 1 upon 6 which is equal to 5 upon 6. Hence the answer to the third part that is probability of not occurring at 3 when a dice is thrown is 5 upon 6. So this is the answer to the last part. Hope you have understood it well. Take care and have a good day.


Inequality is the hot issue of the moment. President Obama mentioned in his 2014 State of the Union address that income inequality was going to be one of his top priorities for this year. And just in the last few weeks, a book by the French economist Thomas Piketty on wealth inequality has surged to the top of the Amazon bestseller list. What is inequality? Why is inequality important? What's the right way to think about inequality? Well, let me make a few general points from the perspective of basic Austrian economics. As Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises pointed out, inequality, meaning differences of talent, of taste, of temperament, is sort of fundamental to the human condition. Right? All of us are different. All of us have different interests and different abilities. Because in a free market, the returns to our abilities, the money that we generate, the wealth that we accumulate, is tied to our individual characteristics, we wouldn't expect income or wealth to be distributed evenly across all people at all times. Labor income wages are determined by the marginal productivity of labor on the free market. Profits are determined by the skill with which entrepreneurs can deploy and combine and recombine resources under conditions of uncertainty. Interest returns are determined by prior savings and wealth accumulation, and so on. So diversity, in that sense, is not something to be avoided, but rather something to be celebrated. If all of us were identical, if we had identical talents, there would be no reason to come together in the form of a society. There would be no division of labor. There would be no gains from trade. And we could all live as individuals isolated from each other rather than participating in a global market economy. This very interesting book by Piketty on the long-run distribution of wealth is gaining a lot of attention. Professor Piketty claims that inequality of wealth has a systematic tendency to increase. It decreased slightly in the 20th century, but it had been increasing before and will continue to increase. And he recommends very steep progressive taxation on wealth to remedy this inequality. Moreover, Piketty focuses on long-run trends in the returns to capital, the income that accrues to capital holders or wealth holders, and the long-run rate of economic growth. And he claims that the return to capital is growing faster over time than general economic growth. And this will tend to exacerbate inequality going forward. The fundamental flaw in the way that Piketty's work approaches this problem is that it thinks of wealth or capital in the wrong sense. Right to Austrian economists, capital is not a homogeneous pool of funds that magically and automatically reproduces itself. Rather, capital is a stock of heterogeneous assets, machines, land, technical know-how and so forth. And these heterogeneous resources must be invested by entrepreneurs under conditions of uncertainty. So entrepreneurs are always seeking profit. They're seeking to deploy productive assets in a way that generates profit for them and avoids losses. But there's no such thing as a rate of return on capital. Certainly not a rate of return on capital that is automatic, that is generated simply by the fact of capital's existence. Capital is not a homogeneous blob. It's a heterogeneous collection of resources that are always under the control of entrepreneurs. And income that is earned by capital holders is the result of superior entrepreneurial foresight and entrepreneurial skill, and in some cases, luck. Attempts by the state to change levels of wealth and income, to take wealth from some people and give wealth to other people, diminishes the incentives of entrepreneurs to engage in those activities that create wealth in the first place. So in short, if people are concerned about income that accrues to certain people unjustly for reasons of government privilege, for example, the salaries earned by the top executives at Lockheed Martin or Goldman Sachs, or the speaking fees earned by Hillary Clinton, right, or the incomes of U.S. sugar farmers protected by a very steep tariff, yes, then I would be concerned about those too. And I think we need to attack those inequalities by removing special government privilege that gives wealth unjustly to some people at the expense of others. But inequality of income or wealth per se, that's not really a very useful construct, and it's certainly not a good way to think about designing government policy.


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Okay, your-kick first, of course, of course. Stay a bit away, Tony, stay a bit away. That's me. I didn't die-tap, I didn't die-tap. He's getting sheep. Your-zd, your-zd. Yes, yes, yes. Maybe melt. Moded mark. All good, all good. We're completely fine. Next go. Stun mage. Okay, boys. I have stun, trap in 5, second. Like 7, okay? MC Monk. And we can delete this mage, okay, boys? You can instantly delete him. Nice. I'm ready right now. Tony, are you ready? Tell me. MC Monk. Yes, yes. He's gonna be- One more MC Monk. I'm gonna use it, okay? I think I'm gonna save it for something, okay? Maybe not. I'm gonna save it until we have the next one, okay? Okay, sure, fine. I'm gonna save it for one minute. It's my bait because he's mine. I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine. Okay, okay. Our healer is relevant. Oh, my god. I wasted my roots. I didn't get it, I didn't get it. I didn't get it. Saptifus. Vitaly. My wall?  I keep ship? Really good. I wasted my van wall. Okay, okay. I'll try and use pretty CD next. Sure. I have 100 in here right now. No keys. I'm shipped. Nice. Go, go, go. I'm pushing for trap, okay? When you have braze, just tell me. How long? Very, very, very, very- Nothing next?  Yeah, my key, my key, my key. I trap now, okay? Sure. You're key? Yes, Vitaly. I'm to throw. Yes, I can- I'm MC, isolate, isolate. How's the Rascal going inside? Careful, Tony, careful. Stay a bit away, okay? DB, DB, DB. It's gonna ship. Your CD, your CD. Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble. Trinket, Trinket, Trinket. Okay, good, good. It's fine, it's fine. Oh, fuck, I keep it, sorry, sorry, sorry. Raptor? It's fine, it's fine. All fine. I'm done, I'm done. I'm done. I'm done, I'm done. Okay, okay, cool, cool, cool. I can MC next, great. Trinket, don't have human Trinket. Do you have a Dresden? No, no, no, we don't. I don't have. I have him one minute. My close? He's Trinket, I used to spot. Nice, I'm gonna use some trap right now, okay?  Pull trap now. Maybe he's blocked, maybe he's blocked. Holy moly. Box jump. Nice, nice. Box jump. This Trinket tank Trinket was really good. Remember, play two's, okay? Maybe they wanna spy me again. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, of course, spy a million percent. Don't be sucked. Strat. Yeah, he changed him. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Stop, stop, stop, stop. I still have Rook. Nice. I still have Rook. Pull trap. Yes, double spy. I'm Rook, I'm Rook. Yes, yes, yes, go, go, go, go, go. I'm shipped. C.S.M. He's BM, he's BM. Nice, yes, yes, yes. I can't despite, I can't despite. It's fine, don't do it, don't do it. I can't despite. Does he have two spies, yeah? He's going to kill me, I don't know.  I'm gonna raptorite. I see a vitality, yeah.   How to spell you? I can't spell actually. Okay. He's BM falling right now. I have trapped him for a second. I'm pushing for the trap, okay? He's pushing for the trap. I'm pushing for the trap. Like this here?  Fiend is up, Fiend is up. Healing. Nice, nice. Careful, I'm gonna get blinded off maybe. I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine. Okay. It's fine, do damage, do damage. We see. Oh, he fell, he fell. I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine. Take ship. I have stun trapped in 20 seconds, okay boys? Let me see Fiend. We have dress in 30 seconds. Careful Tony, you're kind of close. We're gonna wait or we're gonna do... I think we have dress, I don't know. Dead blind, dead blind. Nice, nice, cool, cool, cool. Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot. You have troubles, Tony. No, no, I'm fine. I stun please, okay? Tony, you still have troubles. Stand up, stand up. Last ship. I have double? I have dress in 10, let's wait dress, okay? I shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot. You just wait until dress have, okay? I tell him. He's buried, he's buried. After buried.  Ship me. I'll get the ship now. Okay. You ready? It's raptor. Db, db, db, getting shipped. We need to survive right now. Ship, ship, ship. You'll see, you'll see. Trick, trick, trick, trick. Yeah, yeah, good, good. I hit him, Tony. I'm trying to... Nice, nice, cool, cool, cool. I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready. Okay, we need to... I'm trying to... I'm pushing, I'm pushing, I'm pushing. He's vitality, I'm trying to... Okay? I'm ready right now. You ready? Bo, Bo, Bo, full truck. He's gonna take the vision. Vision, vision, vision.  Can we kill? We have the vision, we can kill. Yeah, sure. Here? Nice, cool here. 3 seconds, we need to end. He's gonna... You ready? MC Priest? Sheep me, sheep me, sheep me. Trouble, Trouble, Trouble. Big damage, maybe. Maybe, maybe. Nice, nice. Getting fed after, getting fed after. Ship, ship, ship, ship. Ship, ship, ship. I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine. Fid, gonna vitality after, okay? Next is healing, game is... Stun trap in 5 seconds. You ready? Go? There is a Terran? Let's go, let's go, go full sun. Kill, kill, kill. He's human. I tap now. No damage, no damage, no damage. I'm trying, I'm trying. I have Dress for him after fucking... Sure, sure, sure. Next go, we have big troubles, boys. Next go, UPS. I still have Dress, I still have Dress. I think he's gonna... DB, DB, DB. Maybe I can kick, I kick. Nice, nice, nice. I'm gonna farm, I'm gonna farm. No kicks, no kicks, no kicks. You're dumb, Hydra, okay? My trap in 10 seconds, boys. I still have Dress. Tony, you have Dress. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. I don't have deterrence. He's shipping. I can't stun him. Nice, nice, nice. Kick ship. Trap on 5, trap on. I need to use Garpoon, okay? I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready. But he's sliding. I'm gonna use Garpoon trap right now. You ready? Let's go. Go, go, go, go, go, go. He's very... He's fine. Anyway, use it, anyway, use it. He's BM. He's BM, he's BM. Sheep, one sheep, one sheep. Not a bad guy. Too close, too close. Second sheep. He wants to blind, he wants to blind. He wants to blind. Get away. Kick ship. Can I make a throw on you? No kicks. Can I make a throw on you? I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine. He wants to blind. He's BM, falling in 7 seconds. He can blind me now, he can blind me now. Yes, yes, yes. Grab shot. I have stun trap. He has no human trinket. Tony, can I have some rock? Yes. Tell me. Go, go, no. Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill. Dispel, dispel, dispel, dispel. The blind was alive, actually. I had DVD on my bed. Isn't it matte? If it's matte, they're gonna spy it, probably. Oh, I think it's matte. It's good. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine. Spy it, go, spy it, go. I'm gonna stun him right now. Watch me, watch me. It's for me, it's for me. I see, I see, I see. Blind me, pilot blind, pilot blind. I think he kicked, I think he kicked. Okay, okay, I'm fine. I'm gonna stun him, okay? Full trap now. My talent. I don't have trinket right now. I don't have trinket right now. But it's fine, it's okay. Okay. I'm doing damage on full target, it's okay.  He's faint, after faint, yes. My rap's my trap. You can use double dress if you want. I see, I see, I see. Go mate, mate. Yeah, yeah, big damage. You need damage. Mate, full rock. Nice, nice, full down, full down, really cool. I can kick ship. My kick first.  Should we blind you? Come to blind. Yeah, I trap now, okay? Trap now. Stun rock, stun rock. Nice, nice, nice. Trinket, Trinket. Trinket, Trinket. He, he probably shouldn't run there. I don't know. Mate, here.  You see it, what?  He's so smart, I don't know. I don't know, we can open mesh if you want. Mate, no. Just if you want. No, no, we wait, no. Okay, he bait you, he bait you for sub, yes. He bait you for sub, 100%.  I'm gonna take combat range now, okay? Hadry, can you take it for me? Yeah, I'm with you, I'm with you. Maybe it's for me. I'm in combat. I can exchange with you, okay? Nice.  Cheap for me. PSG. It's dress for me, nice, nice, cool. Stamash, Stamash, Stamash, Stamash. I'm fine. Nice, really good. I'm gonna stun Trap right now. After Shadowfiend, okay? Can you stun Rok? Bash on him? Yes, of course. Can you now? No.  I stun Priest, I stun Priest. I trap now. Stun, stun, stun, stun. He's with Alt, he's with Alt. We can use dress if you want. Yes, yes, may I? You want? One, let's go. Oh, I'm lagging.  Yes, yes, yes, yes. Rok, go man.  Maybe you can stop Rift. If you stop Rift, it's so good.   Trinketed, trinketed. It's the turnstone. It's really low HP. He's blinding right now, he's blinding right now. 100%. Yes. Good? Let me have Trinket. Yeah, I have Nas, but I have Nas absolutely.  I have only... Yeah, don't stop, please. If you want, I can use group and trap. If you want, go. I can use group and trap now. Okay, full trap, let's kill. Don't kill, kill, kill. Nice, kill. Assist, assist. Kill, kill, kill. It's a vision. I see. Guys, one percent. Oh, my God. Trouble now, trouble now. Blinds up, blinds up. Really big troubles. Insane double column dead. 100%. Can we have Trouble? Of course we can. I got Vitaly, he didn't get sap. Nice, nice, nice, nice. Death sheep, death... No, I didn't. Nice. Vitaly's up, Vitaly's up. I didn't death sheep. Try and stop Rift, try and stop Rift. I keep it, I keep it, I keep it. Really good, really good, really good. Raptor. I will fear mage, I will fear mage. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. 22 seconds. What do you think? 22 seconds. We can, we can. Yes, yes, yes, yes. 15 seconds. But we need to survive next. Press half human, press half human. Okay, okay. Yes, yes, yes. Trouble, trouble, trouble. Nice, cool. You need to kick next, you need to kick next. Okay, I'm trying to kick and push for trap, okay? After DB. I keep it, I push for trap. I push for trap right now, okay? Show me. Human death, human death. I human death it, human death it. Yes, yes, do it dude. I stop Rift, I stop Rift. Second sheep. I stop Rift. One shot, one shot, one shot. Just body, just body. It's fine. I still have dress. My bad telling, my bad telling. It's insane, insane, insane. Fuck, I have insane big troubles, boys. You're fine, you're fine, you're fine. If I dress, maybe he dies. You don't use him? Yes, I don't use him because I'm stunned. Cap on fire. She me now, she me now. I have big troubles. I sacrifice. Okay, nice. I have BM and Soty. Rishi, Rishi.  I have insane big troubles, boys. Gonna voodoo soon as I can. Paro, paro, paro, paro, paro. Voodoo's up, voodoo's up, MC half. Kick match. Nice, nice, nice. Can you send me some help? Yes, yes, yes. Go, go, go. I'm pushing, I can fear off. I'm pushing, I'm pushing, I'm pushing. Dress, dress, dress. Well, start up. Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill. I'm trying, I'm trying. He gonna chase, he gonna chase. Yes, yes, yes.  I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Nice, he'll kill, he'll kill, kill, kill. Nice. I know he want to chase, but if you don't jump together, he's not gonna shadow step. Maybe, maybe.


There are a literal ton of art space distros out there and many of them are good many of them are bad really it all depends on why they were created and what they're trying to do and Honestly, I don't particularly care whether or not your distribution has a purpose for existing because a lot of art space Distros and Debian based distros weren't created with the idea that they're going to be the next big thing They were simply created for the developer's use and they're just being shared publicly every once in a while However, there is a distribution that comes along that tries to do something new even if it is based on a Larger brand distro. So today, we're gonna be taking a look at a distribution called crystal Linux And this is an art space distro So when I heard about it, I was like, oh man another art space distro I'm probably not gonna look at it because I've taken a look at it so many but Then I saw what they were trying to do and the fact that they're trying to do something in a different way So today we're gonna take a look at it and see just what it is.  Why do we need another installer? We really don't need another one Calamari's is really good Why do you need to spend all the effort to create something new? There's a part of me that thinks that and and would probably argue that in any other situation However, this is a very good installer and the fact that it's still in beta doesn't bother me at all because it's actually Really well done. So let's go ahead and go through this and let me show you why I like it so much So the step-by-step nature of it is similar to pretty much all other installers So there's nothing truly unique here when it comes to the progression of your installation at least not really But the overall package of how it looks how it feels is a very Nice departure away from the traditional Calamari's installer, which is the installer that the vast majority of ArchBase distros actually use So let's go ahead and hit the start button here And as you can see there are some animations now the animations are not smooth And that's because I'm in a VM here But I'm assuming that if you were to do this on hardware the animations would be nice nice and smooth So you can search for your time zone here, and then I'll select that and do next now Interestingly, you can't search for your keyboard layout. You actually have to do the scrolling for that so we'll scroll all the way down to the United States of America and then you can select the drop down here and choose between several different versions of US keyboard, so I'm just gonna hit normal and hit next and then we're going to create our user so Matt as a good username a very strong and Secure password and then we'll leave these two checkboxes on here So we have root access and a pseudo access for this user What next and then here's where it's something that is kind of broken at least it was for me I've already installed this once and I had no clue what onyx was But I assumed that it was this highly customized version of GNOME because what we're using right now in the live environment is GNOME Even though it looks a little bit like budgie in some places, but it's definitely GNOME with a whole bunch of extensions So I'm assuming that's what they call onyx So I selected onyx and then proceeded with the installation, but I ended up with just vanilla GNOME So I was very confused by that and I will see if it happens again. It's possible that this is a VM issue It's also possible. It's just because this is definitely in beta They've warned you on their GitHub page that this is a very early version of this distro So you're to expect bugs. It's not meant to be stable whatsoever. So I'm not blaming anybody here It's just possible that something has gone wrong But they do offer several other desktop environments and window managers So they have GNOME, Plasma, Budgie, Mate, Cinnamon, LXQT, Sway, i3 gaps, Herp's Love WM, Awesome WM, and BSPWM The fact that they offer window managers is just I mean, seriously, this is a brand new Brands making new distribution. Like it's only been around for just a little while and They're doing a lot of stuff here from scratch specifically with the installer and the fact that they offer The ability to install a whole bunch of different window managers and desktop environments out of the box is very nice It's very ambitious too, but it's also very nice. So I'm happy to see that I'm going to go ahead and leave the Onyx selection here Just because I want to see at the end of the day if I get this highly customized version of GNOME The thing is when I installed it earlier, all the extensions for the stuff was there in the extensions manager But none of them were enabled. So I'm not sure again what was going on there So we're gonna go ahead next now we can enter a host name. So right crystal VM here It gives you the opportunity to enable IPv6 loop back the time shift and ZRAMD are both selected by default That means that this is going to be using butterfs as far as I'm aware. I'm assuming that's the reason why they use time shift It's possible. They could just be downloading that and then using the R6 version of time shifts So we'll have to check that later. We'll go ahead next And it's going to allow you to select from automatic partitioning or manual partitioning and they do have built-in manual partitioning so you can create your Partitions right here within this awesome installer, which again is fully custom This is not something that I've ever seen before and it does give you options to open g-parted or open a terminal So you could use something like fdisk or cfdisk if you wanted to do that But there's also a graphical way of manually partitioning So if you wanted to create your own home partition or a separate home partition or your own swap or whatever you wanted to do You could do that I'm gonna go ahead back and then forward again and then go back to actually I could just hit Automatic partitioning there and I'll hit next and it's going to confirm all this stuff now Here's the best part of this installer Bar none for me every single installer that I've ever used for Linux has this summary page, right? And I think everyone's seen this and usually people just skip over this They don't even bother going through and I mean they might look and make sure you're writing to the right hard drive But they don't check any of the other stuff But if you do do that Which you should because you want to make sure that you've chosen the right language and all that stuff if you've made a mistake You have to back back back to that step and then do the editing in this here You can edit it right from here So it will take you back to that particular step by hitting that little pen button and then you can select whatever You need to and then you can go back through the installer Unfortunately, it does take you all the way back through the installer You have to do one right after another but it's not that big of a deal You just hit next until you're done It would be cool if there was a way once you've gone back to edit that one thing if you could go right directly back to the Summary, I'm not sure if you could do one of these buttons like these aren't actually buttons So no that doesn't work, but that would be cool if that was possible So maybe that's something that they could add later on but other than that I love the fact that it gives you these basically shortcuts back to these settings so you could edit them if you want to Alternatively, what would be neat is if they just when you hit this button if it just kind of expanded down Left you on this page let you do the editing and then you could hit done or something that take a lot of extra effort Obviously, but it would be in addition to this feature that make it even more awesome So I'm gonna go ahead hit next and then it's going to Install crystal now the thing is this took me Probably about ten minutes last time when I was installing this in when I installed this in the VM last time so It definitely is not the fastest install ever again. It's on the VM So that's possible the reason why that's happening Also, they give you all this information on what it's doing, but it doesn't keep scrolled to the bottom So it just kind of stays up here at the top And if you want to see what it's actually doing right this second you have to scroll down and then it will stay at The bottom personally I could take this information part here take it to leave it really it's not anything that I really need to see but I understand as a Situation where this is a brand new type of thing Maybe being able to see where an error might pop up might be beneficial for not only the user But for the developer as well, so I'm gonna cut the video here. We'll come back and look at crystal when it's all done Okay now that that's done that didn't take nearly as long as the first time install it so perhaps I just was Having problems beforehand or it's also possible. I didn't give it as much memory as I did this time So that's a possibility so I'm gonna go ahead and hit reboot here hit restart and then we'll wait for it to reboot It won't take very long It does have its own custom grub screen there as you saw Which is nice one of the things that they've done a really good job of is that you're not going to see any arch Linux logos Here so a lot of art space distros forget some things when they like for neofetch They'll have it just say arch Linux or something like that Which is fine if they're just aiming to have you install arch Linux But a lot of distributions claim to be custom and then forget to change the logo sometimes So it's nice that crystal has done a good job of not forgetting to change those logos everywhere, so Let's see here. Yeah, as you see this is just vanilla. No, I'm not exactly sure What that onyx thing is then either it's supposed to be vanilla gnome And this is what it's supposed to look like or something has gone wrong I'm not actually sure because if you we type in extensions here the extensions Manager is here. It's now. It's not the extensions manager. It allows you to install things Which is a little bit disappointing, but it does show that there are a ton of Extensions here already installed, but none of them are enabled So I'm assuming that they're supposed to be enabled. They're just not yet for some reason So that is definitely something that is Hopefully be fixed in the future Other than that, there's not a lot to take a look at here because this is again a very brand-new distro But I will show you some things so first let me show you the terminal and we'll look take a look at the Neofetch so if we type in Neofetch again, this is based on art So none of these version numbers should be for all that surprising you're gonna get the latest version of the kernel It has bash 5.1 16. This is running GNOME 42.4. It has at a weight as the default theme This is gonna terminal. There's not much that's surprising here again They've done a good job of making sure that this says this is crystal Linux not arch Linux and it does have a Custom ASCII art there, which is also very nice, right in terms of install applications. There's not much here So you get the extensions manager. There's some QT stuff here for development. There's the settings panel There's Vim installed by default, which is just I mean seriously guys. That's the best part about this whole distro It's amazing you install them by default You have my heart because for whatever reason the vast majority distributions do not install them by default and I don't understand Why I mean they installed nano nano comes with most Linux distributions And I suppose that's fine if you use nano, but I like them I want them to stop Matt stop. You don't need to go on this rant again Okay, but anyways other than that they have g-edit calculator a few GNOME apps So things like weather clocks things like that now. I don't see like GNOME maps here So they haven't included every single GNOME application unless I'm missing something which I don't think I am That's literally all there is in terms of actually installed software. So you're not getting a very Blow there's actually more extent GNOME extensions installed and there are actual applications Which is highly unusual. So this is definitely a work in progress distro But also if this is the way they're kind of going to aim for when they're More fully released. I would say that this is a very minimal distribution, which is actually quite nice So you're going to find you install this thing and then you kind of build it up yourself Which is kind of the arch ethos, but obviously easier to install than arch So other than that, there's not much here to take a look at this is crystal Linux You can kind of tell that this is still a brand new Work in progress distribution. So there are some things that they're obviously still working on things like getting the desktop set up Like you'd probably want things like that. But other than that, it's a nice start. I love that installer I think it is fantastic. Now. Maybe that's just because I like new shiny things It's possible that's the reason why I like it so much But the thing is is that despite the fact that like I said at the beginning I don't really think we need another brand new installer I like the fact that developers are putting effort into something that Enthuses them, right? You can tell from the polish of that installer that they have put a lot of effort into making it really good And I like that about it It makes me very Enthused for the future of the district when they put that level of effort into making something like that good at this point Development if they can put that effort into creating some other tools that perhaps you install extra software or Allow you to tweak the system in certain ways. That'd be really cool So if they've like I said if they put that amount of effort into the installer It'll be interesting to see what they do in the future to make the rest of the distribution kind of stand out So that is a very brief look at crystal Linux if you have thoughts on this distribution You can leave those in the comment section below You can follow me on Twitter at the Linuxcast You can follow me on massive honor odyssey those links will be in the video description along with all my other social media stuff You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash Linuxcast just like all these fine people Thanks to everybody who does support me on patreon and YouTube you guys are all just Amazing amazing people. So thank you so very much for your support I can't even begin to say how grateful I am without you the channel just would not be where it is right now So thank you so very much. Thanks everybody for watching. I'll see you next time


Shout out to the Don't Flop team, Don't Flop show off, shout out UGM production, NY, NY, my little Don M.I.D.M. Look, I lived a mad life, but I don't hate it, but sometimes I think about the past when I play spliffs My mum she used to hustle for us to get the latest, new arms, computers or trainers Gotta pay her back though, before she gets grey hairs, she lived a painful life and it ain't fair If you knew about the things that she had to do, in fact that's the tune I might have for you Me and my bro, she done a lot for us, surrounded by money and a lot of drugs That's why these fake rappers, yeah they make me laugh, they ain't seein' money feelin' free Sayin' these facts, I got older and I knew what was me, cause I wanted the money and them shopping sprees So I started shoppin' green, when I was just a teen bigger man shoppin' What I say was hatein' on me, why I'm sittin' in my kitchen, I write about my life Let me take you to my hood and I'ma show you what it's like when I was young I got my very first line, when you make a better peat, guys hate it when you shine Cause I had my own car, I had my own yard, every week I went shoppin' just to buy new arms But it's changed now, cause I ain't living my life through that game now Because I got a lot of fun, I gotta make proud In the hood, sellin' drugs is how we make pounds I'm a model, me I had a safe house, but someone sold me out Cause that's what happens when you keep a fake round They tried to come to my yard and tried to take me down, 20 grand in my yard But they got a bounce, couple phones and laptops, these guys are clowns That's when I fucked Kate, why you movin' up? I used to move a lot, that's why I salute the block I got love from my hood, cause that's what made me But then I had my little girl, my little baby, my little princess Our birthdays in the same week, to me, that's the best present I could get So I told myself, fix up and never slip Got myself out the hood and got a better crib Stayed away from my haters and my enemies I'm gonna get myself closer to celebrities I got a lot to say, I know I'm meant for this From the underground, straight to the mainstream Take me out the hood, but you could never change me Put me in Hollywood, I treat it like the same street I'm from Midlands, a city called Leicester For guys like me, sellin' drugs is my best shop Cause I can't give work, they won't give me a job And I won't work in MacDee's or a pizza shop Cause if I did have a boss, I'd probably beat him up Cause I can't take goals, and the wages ain't enough I'm ungrateful, I want enough B So that I'm able to buy anything from my little angel I found my path and I'ma treat it like a race course And never stop, I hit the top and that's a guarantee I'm trying to build the branches for my family tree So we don't have to live our life grinding on the street And doing crimes all the time running from the police I'm not looking back, I'm looking forward I can't stop to breathe L.C. Money is the model Body back now, look who's got the cam It's nothing but love