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Emma, we're in a cube today.
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Yes, it's blue and black in here and
some off-blue, which is a little weird.
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It's a little greenish.
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I don't think it's
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I feel like that used to be blue.
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So what happened?
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Well, I think some dust built up in here.
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We're in the Rubik's Cube at the factory.
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We built it initially for acoustics
testing on the Palio desktops, and now
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it's being used as a recording studio.
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It feels like a really long time
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Yeah, we missed you all in December.
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We were celebrating some holidays.
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Some people were
on vacation, having a blast.
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And now we're back in 2025,
right back to work where we started.
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I guess that means we'll have double
the news to share today.
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Yeah, and I hear sales
is back from CES, too.
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Well, let's jump into it.
I'm Emma.
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I'm Alex.
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This is Transmission Log.
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Welcome to the T-Log, folks.
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Three, two, one, zero.
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Welcome aboard the System
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76 transmission Log.
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Our broadcast is about to begin.
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This is the latest on System 76
computers, manufacturing, and pop OS.
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Now for your in-orbit crew.
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We have a fair bit of updates
from our busy January, and sales just
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got back from CES and Covesa.
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Yeah, we had Delio ASTRA at the Ampere
booths, putting 128 CPU cores to the test
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with a Blender render demo, and it
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showing off driving simulations.
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Yes, so the Blender test, we put a script
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with different scenes taken from
Blender and Foronix's websites.
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You could watch the activity
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of the CPU through BTOP while each render
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was going, and then it would
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You could see the power of the CPU
with just a light GPU to keep it going.
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I heard Mega was hanging
out at the gigabyte booth,
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showing off some text to video renders.
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We did a little write-up
about all the demos on our blog at blog.
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Com, if you want to check that out.
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On the topic of desktops,
we have a new Thalia Mira out now.
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Yes.
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Thalia Mira is now AMD across the line,
and it's available in a custom
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premium or elite configuration.
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Custom configurations start at 1299.
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I believe that goes up
to the AMD Ryzen 9950X.
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16 cores, some pretty powerful stuff.
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I look forward to seeing
what people make with it.
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Yeah.
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That won't be the last you see of System
76 machines at conferences this year.
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We have scale coming up in March as well.
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We released a laptop, too, huh?
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Yes.
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Pretty Little pangolin was updated
with a new case design and 2K display.
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I've been showing it to everyone
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the first reaction, which is really good.
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Youtuber Emily Young was here,
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so I wanted to share that with you guys.
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Let's listen.
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Solid.
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There is no flex.
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Ees.
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They are very well-stabilized,
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This is the layout that I can...
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I really like this shape
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When I picked up my 2011 MacBook Pro,
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15-inch, I wanted this because it got me
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a big view, got me a nice big area
for me to rest my wrists on, and
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it had a really nice keyboard, like this.
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Top row is thinner,
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Helps with homies on them.
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We have dedicated delete It's
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Very comfortable.
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People seem to be really
loving this pangolin.
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I got to hold it myself
in the marketing office.
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It is such a light
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I like the color.
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The screen looks really nice.
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It feels so good in your hands.
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Yeah, it definitely feels premium,
and it's under 4 pounds,
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so it's pretty light.
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I have a lot of weight
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All right, Alex, what's happening
in the cosmic universe?
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Well, well, well.
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In Cosmic Alpha 5, I just released
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in January, we updated Alt tab, so now
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it matches the behavior you're used to.
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It's ordered based
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listed alphabetically, but it took
a little more work to get there.
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So that's why you're seeing
this update a little later on.
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We also had an update to the
variable refresh rate and how that works.
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It takes into account the minimum refresh
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would result in smoother cursor movement,
especially for apps that aren't games
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when they're being used in full screen.
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That's where that fix is most noticeable.
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the default media player in Cosmic.
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It supports video and audio.
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It uses Vulcan for rendering,
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I don't know if that's a common thing
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to replace the session installer.
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It makes it a little more updated
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It's not really all that much work.
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The ICE toolkit already
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We're just adapting it for Cosmic.
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Even though a lot of people do have
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apps to use, it is essential for an OS
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so you're not left in the dust
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You'll see more about
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System76.
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This time around, we did
have a bug on the website.
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On the main blog page, the release
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If you weren't aware that
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you can see it up on there.
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We fixed the bug.
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Now, you didn't hear this from me,
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There might be a couple more alphas
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but it's getting very close.
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All right.
Well, we have an interview to get to.
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The robots are taking over.
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Yes.
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We have Andrew from 241e Robotics,
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pop OS to power their project.
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Let's get Thanks
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Thanks for inviting me.
My name is Andrew.
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I'm from New Hampshire.
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I'm the captain and lead programmer
of Vex Robotics team 241E.
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I've used pop OS as my daily driver
for a little over a year
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on both my laptop and desktop.
That's awesome.
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How did you get into working with Robots?
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I mainly got in through my brother, who
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at my school, and it caught my attention.
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When I became a freshman, I
joined the club and learned the basics,
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became the captain the year
after, and went from there.
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That's cool.
What exactly do you do with the robots?
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Vex Robotics, every year,
we are given a unique challenge
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to build a robot to solve.
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Every game has unique ways of scoring.
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This could be like this year, for example,
we are collecting rings and putting them
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onto mobile goals and wall stakes
that are placed around the field.
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That's cool.
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The courses are all different
for everybody, or does everyone
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have to do the same course?
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There's probably
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that all get this same challenge.
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It's all about competing at your local
level and then a regional competition,
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which is your opportunity to qualify for
the World Competition held in Dallas.
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I feel like I've seen you guys
have made it pretty far
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with your competitions, right?
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My first year, we actually
made it to the World Competition.
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Then since then, we've made it
to regionals twice in We've actually
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qualified for regionals this year
at our last competition.
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That was two weeks ago.
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That's so exciting.
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You mentioned you were using POPOS
to help power your project.
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Can you tell us about
your journey to discover Linux?
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Have you been using Linux
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I was playing around with various distros
just in virtual machines,
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and POPOS just worked the best for me.
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When I got a new hard drive
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might as well set it up in a dual
boot, and it It just went from there.
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How has it differed from
the other distros that you've tried?
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It's just been by far the most consistent.
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I've just not had really
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of that could have been just
shocked up to the VM being buggy.
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What specific software
programs do you use?
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For Vex Robotics,
there's three main aspects
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to help along with that process.
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We use on shape, free add
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So produce a slicing and
any 3D print and slices.
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Then for programming, we use VS Code
because it's the only thing
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that supports the Vex code extension,
which is how we program the robot.
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There's pros which is developed by Purdue
University, which uses C++ like Vex Code,
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but it's more bare bones
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of control, but it's a lot more difficult
to use it effectively.
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Then there's Vexide, which is
a Rust-based alternative with
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similar benefits to pros, but a lot newer
and supposedly more efficient.
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I've played around with it
a little bit, but I've not
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noticed any major difference.
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Do you have any advice for people
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how you would get started with that?
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Just look around your region.
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If your school has one or if
they don't have one, then you
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could try and convince them to get one.
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Vex Robotics can be done
essentially all over the world.
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Even on a remote island,
you could essentially have
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of your own virtual competition,
which is what happened during COVID.
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If you could make a robot do anything
in the world, what would you make it do?
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Ideally, we'd win the world's competition.
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But in terms of an actual physical
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tall ladder in the middle of the field.
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I think climbing that would
just be really cool.
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What materials the robots
are they built out?
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Is it aluminum or do you
use steel or plastic?
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It's a variety of materials.
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We have So the majority of the robot
is going to be built out of aluminum C
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channel, which is essentially
a grade-based thing where we can just
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screw it into any point.
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We can just screw a ton
of C channels together,
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and that is what makes up our robot.
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We can also use steel, which is just
the aluminum, but it's stronger.
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Then we also get a lexan limit.
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We can use a polycarbonate for various
things, whether it be deflectors
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or just random parts on the robot
that may or may not need to
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be just plastic for whatever reason.
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I'm looking forward
in the robot community.
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What are you most excited about?
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Specifically in our region,
our region is still majorly growing.
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Covid hit our region pretty hard
and sent a lot of teams away from Vex.
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Having nearly 50, 60 teams showing up
every single competition is just cool.
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It's just cool to have happen again
because I've been following Vex
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for a little bit beforehand
because obviously my brother was in it.
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How can people get in touch with you if
they want to see your robots in action?
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We have an Instagram account.
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It's 241_eclipse.
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There we post our competition results
and what we're doing
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if we're going to a middle school
to demonstrate next robotics, then
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they can also see us there.
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Let's play a game.
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Ready?
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It's called Two Truths
and a Lie, Tech Edition.
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I've never heard of this game.
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I'm going to tell you three things.
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Two are true, one is false,
and you have to tell me what my lie is.
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Okay, shoot.
Okay.
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Number one, I didn't have a smartphone
when I started at System 76.
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Two, my favorite System
76 laptop is the lemur.
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Number three, my first Ubuntu version
I installed was 1104 Nady Narwell.
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I think if I had to guess,
knowing that your start date
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was X number of years ago.
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I do know the number.
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I don't need to reveal it here.
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I want to say that your favorite laptop is
actually the pangolin and not the lemur.
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Oh, my God.
What?
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How did you How do you know that?
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How do you always know
the answers to the game?
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Sometimes I just guess it to it.
What?
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How you guess that?
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I mean, I don't know.
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We were a very young
company when you started.
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It is true.
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I didn't have a smartphone, and
I didn't even really what the term was.
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Then they said, Do you have a smartphone?
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I was like, I think I have a dumb phone?
I don't know.
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All the phone could do was make
calls, and it could take pictures,
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but it could only access a web browser.
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I don't even know what that protocol was,
but it only could do the web browser.
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It was terrible.
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You couldn't even go on a site
because they weren't optimized
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for mobile at the time anyway.
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Got to say, though, after maybe over a
decade now of having a smartphone, That's
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probably all you need a phone to do.
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I'm just going to say that.
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Personal opinion.
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I'm going to agree to disagree there.
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All right, well, you're super smart
and you did great at the game.
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So let's say goodbye for now.
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Goodbye for now.
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3, 2, 1.
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This has This has been
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the System 76 transmission log.
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For more inspiration, check out the
website and follow us on social media.
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On your descent back to Earth,
please keep your hands and feet
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inside the transport beam at all times.
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Captain, sign off in transmission.
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Emma, we're in a cube today.
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Yes, it's blue and black in here and
some off-blue, which is a little weird.
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It's a little greenish.
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I don't think it's
supposed to be greenish.
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I feel like that used to be blue.
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So what happened?
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Well, I think some dust built up in here.
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We're in the Rubik's Cube at the factory.
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We built it initially for acoustics
testing on the Palio desktops, and now
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it's being used as a recording studio.
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It feels like a really long time
since we've recorded.
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Yeah, we missed you all in December.
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We were celebrating some holidays.
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Some people were
on vacation, having a blast.
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And now we're back in 2025,
right back to work where we started.
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I guess that means we'll have double
the news to share today.
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Yeah, and I hear sales
is back from CES, too.
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Well, let's jump into it.
I'm Emma.
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I'm Alex.
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This is Transmission Log.
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Welcome to the T-Log, folks.
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Three, two, one, zero.
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Welcome aboard the System
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76 transmission Log.
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Our broadcast is about to begin.
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This is the latest on System 76
computers, manufacturing, and pop OS.
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Now for your in-orbit crew.
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We have a fair bit of updates
from our busy January, and sales just
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got back from CES and Covesa.
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Yeah, we had Delio ASTRA at the Ampere
booths, putting 128 CPU cores to the test
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with a Blender render demo, and it
was also at the tier 4 booth at Covesa,
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showing off driving simulations.
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Yes, so the Blender test, we put a script
together to automate Blender renders
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with different scenes taken from
Blender and Foronix's websites.
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You could watch the activity
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of the CPU through BTOP while each render
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was going, and then it would
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You could see the power of the CPU
with just a light GPU to keep it going.
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I heard Mega was hanging
out at the gigabyte booth,
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showing off some text to video renders.
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We did a little write-up
about all the demos on our blog at blog.
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System76.
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Com, if you want to check that out.
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On the topic of desktops,
we have a new Thalia Mira out now.
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Yes.
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Thalia Mira is now AMD across the line,
and it's available in a custom
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premium or elite configuration.
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Custom configurations start at 1299.
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I believe that goes up
to the AMD Ryzen 9950X.
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16 cores, some pretty powerful stuff.
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I look forward to seeing
what people make with it.
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Yeah.
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That won't be the last you see of System
76 machines at conferences this year.
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We have scale coming up in March as well.
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We released a laptop, too, huh?
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Yes.
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Pretty Little pangolin was updated
with a new case design and 2K display.
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I've been showing it to everyone
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the first reaction, which is really good.
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Youtuber Emily Young was here,
and I recorded her initial thought,
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so I wanted to share that with you guys.
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Let's listen.
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Solid.
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There is no flex.
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Ees.
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They are very well-stabilized,
and they are very nice.
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This is the layout that I can...
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I really like this shape
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When I picked up my 2011 MacBook Pro,
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15-inch, I wanted this because it got me
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a big view, got me a nice big area
for me to rest my wrists on, and
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it had a really nice keyboard, like this.
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Top row is thinner,
which I do like for laptops.
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Helps with homies on them.
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We have dedicated delete It's
very nice layout, actually.
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Very comfortable.
Awesome.
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People seem to be really
loving this pangolin.
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I got to hold it myself
in the marketing office.
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It is such a light
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I like the color.
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The screen looks really nice.
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It feels so good in your hands.
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Yeah, it definitely feels premium,
and it's under 4 pounds,
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so it's pretty light.
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I have a lot of weight
to lose to match that.
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All right, Alex, what's happening
in the cosmic universe?
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Well, well, well.
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In Cosmic Alpha 5, I just released
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in January, we updated Alt tab, so now
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it matches the behavior you're used to.
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It's ordered based
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listed alphabetically, but it took
a little more work to get there.
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So that's why you're seeing
this update a little later on.
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We also had an update to the
variable refresh rate and how that works.
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It takes into account the minimum refresh
rate that your display puts out, which
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would result in smoother cursor movement,
especially for apps that aren't games
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when they're being used in full screen.
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That's where that fix is most noticeable.
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We've also officially
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the default media player in Cosmic.
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It supports video and audio.
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It uses Vulcan for rendering,
VAPI for decoding.
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Sometimes I call it VAPI.
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I don't know if that's a common thing
to do, so I just spelled it out.
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We're also developing
a native codec installer
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to replace the session installer.
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It makes it a little more updated
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we like for Cosmic.
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You may be wondering
why we're making a video player.
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It's not really all that much work.
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The ICE toolkit already
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We're just adapting it for Cosmic.
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Even though a lot of people do have
their For your preferred media player
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apps to use, it is essential for an OS
to at least ship with one as an option,
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so you're not left in the dust
when you need to play a video.
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You'll see more about
Alpha5 on our blog, blog.
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System76.
Com.
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This time around, we did
have a bug on the website.
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On the main blog page, the release
might have been hidden.
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If you weren't aware that
Alpha 5 released, well, now
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you can see it up on there.
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We fixed the bug.
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Now, you didn't hear this from me,
but we're almost feature complete.
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There might be a couple more alphas
to come out before the beta,
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but it's getting very close.
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All right.
Well, we have an interview to get to.
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The robots are taking over.
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Yes.
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We have Andrew from 241e Robotics,
and we're going to learn how they use
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pop OS to power their project.
Awesome.
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Let's get Thanks
for joining us today, Andrew.
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Thanks for inviting me.
My name is Andrew.
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I'm from New Hampshire.
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I'm the captain and lead programmer
of Vex Robotics team 241E.
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I've used pop OS as my daily driver
for a little over a year
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on both my laptop and desktop.
That's awesome.
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How did you get into working with Robots?
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I mainly got in through my brother, who
was a part of the Vex Robotics program
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at my school, and it caught my attention.
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When I became a freshman, I
joined the club and learned the basics,
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became the captain the year
after, and went from there.
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That's cool.
What exactly do you do with the robots?
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Vex Robotics, every year,
we are given a unique challenge
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to build a robot to solve.
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Every game has unique ways of scoring.
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This could be like this year, for example,
we are collecting rings and putting them
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onto mobile goals and wall stakes
that are placed around the field.
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That's cool.
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The courses are all different
for everybody, or does everyone
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have to do the same course?
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There's probably
about 200,000 teams all over the world
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that all get this same challenge.
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It's all about competing at your local
level and then a regional competition,
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which is your opportunity to qualify for
the World Competition held in Dallas.
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I feel like I've seen you guys
have made it pretty far
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with your competitions, right?
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My first year, we actually
made it to the World Competition.
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Then since then, we've made it
to regionals twice in We've actually
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qualified for regionals this year
at our last competition.
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That was two weeks ago.
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That's so exciting.
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You mentioned you were using POPOS
to help power your project.
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Can you tell us about
your journey to discover Linux?
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Have you been using Linux
or is POP your first distro?
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I was playing around with various distros
just in virtual machines,
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and POPOS just worked the best for me.
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When I got a new hard drive
or an SSD for my laptop, I figured,
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might as well set it up in a dual
boot, and it It just went from there.
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How has it differed from
the other distros that you've tried?
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It's just been by far the most consistent.
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I've just not had really
any issues with it, although a lot
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of that could have been just
shocked up to the VM being buggy.
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What specific software
programs do you use?
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For Vex Robotics,
there's three main aspects
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being design, programming, and building.
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The building is obviously
done all physical, although we do use CAD
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to help along with that process.
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We use on shape, free add
and then be 3D print stuff.
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So produce a slicing and
any 3D print and slices.
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Then for programming, we use VS Code
because it's the only thing
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that supports the Vex code extension,
which is how we program the robot.
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There's pros which is developed by Purdue
University, which uses C++ like Vex Code,
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but it's more bare bones
and it allows for a greater level
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of control, but it's a lot more difficult
to use it effectively.
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Then there's Vexide, which is
a Rust-based alternative with
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similar benefits to pros, but a lot newer
and supposedly more efficient.
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I've played around with it
a little bit, but I've not
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noticed any major difference.
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Do you have any advice for people
that want to get into robotics,
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how you would get started with that?
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Just look around your region.
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If your school has one or if
they don't have one, then you
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could try and convince them to get one.
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Vex Robotics can be done
essentially all over the world.
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Even on a remote island,
you could essentially have
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of your own virtual competition,
which is what happened during COVID.
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If you could make a robot do anything
in the world, what would you make it do?
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Ideally, we'd win the world's competition.
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But in terms of an actual physical
thing, this year, we have a five-foot
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tall ladder in the middle of the field.
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I think climbing that would
just be really cool.
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What materials the robots
are they built out?
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Is it aluminum or do you
use steel or plastic?
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It's a variety of materials.
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We have So the majority of the robot
is going to be built out of aluminum C
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channel, which is essentially
a grade-based thing where we can just
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screw it into any point.
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We can just screw a ton
of C channels together,
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and that is what makes up our robot.
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We can also use steel, which is just
the aluminum, but it's stronger.
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Then we also get a lexan limit.
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We can use a polycarbonate for various
things, whether it be deflectors
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or just random parts on the robot
that may or may not need to
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be just plastic for whatever reason.
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I'm looking forward
in the robot community.
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What are you most excited about?
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Specifically in our region,
our region is still majorly growing.
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Covid hit our region pretty hard
and sent a lot of teams away from Vex.
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Having nearly 50, 60 teams showing up
every single competition is just cool.
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It's just cool to have happen again
because I've been following Vex
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for a little bit beforehand
because obviously my brother was in it.
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How can people get in touch with you if
they want to see your robots in action?
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We have an Instagram account.
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It's 241_eclipse.
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There we post our competition results
and what we're doing
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if we're going to a middle school
to demonstrate next robotics, then
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they can also see us there.
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Let's play a game.
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Ready?
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It's called Two Truths
and a Lie, Tech Edition.
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I've never heard of this game.
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I'm going to tell you three things.
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Two are true, one is false,
and you have to tell me what my lie is.
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Okay, shoot.
Okay.
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Number one, I didn't have a smartphone
when I started at System 76.
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Two, my favorite System
76 laptop is the lemur.
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Number three, my first Ubuntu version
I installed was 1104 Nady Narwell.
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I think if I had to guess,
knowing that your start date
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was X number of years ago.
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I do know the number.
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I don't need to reveal it here.
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I want to say that your favorite laptop is
actually the pangolin and not the lemur.
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Oh, my God.
What?
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How did you How do you know that?
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How do you always know
the answers to the game?
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Sometimes I just guess it to it.
What?
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How you guess that?
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I mean, I don't know.
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We were a very young
company when you started.
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It is true.
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I didn't have a smartphone, and
I didn't even really what the term was.
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Then they said, Do you have a smartphone?
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I was like, I think I have a dumb phone?
I don't know.
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All the phone could do was make
calls, and it could take pictures,
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but it could only access a web browser.
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I don't even know what that protocol was,
but it only could do the web browser.
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It was terrible.
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You couldn't even go on a site
because they weren't optimized
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for mobile at the time anyway.
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Got to say, though, after maybe over a
decade now of having a smartphone, That's
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probably all you need a phone to do.
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I'm just going to say that.
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Personal opinion.
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I'm going to agree to disagree there.
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All right, well, you're super smart
and you did great at the game.
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So let's say goodbye for now.
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Goodbye for now.
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3, 2, 1.
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This has This has been
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the System 76 transmission log.
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For more inspiration, check out the
website and follow us on social media.
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On your descent back to Earth,
please keep your hands and feet
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inside the transport beam at all times.
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Captain, sign off in transmission.
