Software Failure, meet Hardware Failure

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Welcome back to Linux Prepper, a self-hosted show on using free and open source technology
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to DIY everything myself while still enjoying life.
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With that said, let's get on with the show.
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I know it's been two months, but time flies.
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And here we go with another episode.
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In this episode, we'll be touching base on software failure, hardware failure, all kinds
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of problems.
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I'll try not to get too negative, but what happens happens and just rolling with it.
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In this episode, we'll be looking at some self hosted tool recommendations, specifically Rust desk. I'll also be chatting
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about and asking the audience about trueness and the matrix
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protocol. We'll be talking about Reaper FM for audio use, as
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well as problems with software and hardware failure that have
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been plaguing
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me the last couple months. We'll chat about games, both computer games and
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physical games and print-and-play games. Well, if you're curious about my
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performances in physical theater and mine, you can check those out potentially.
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Coming up, I have a series of performances I'm planning to do and
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present as part of upcoming events at the Seagull Conference and other places
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as well since I build my shows using free and open tooling for a long time.
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I want to think the sponsor of this show which is Ameradroid, Ameradroid.com.
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normal people, I've met them. They're nice. They answer the phone.
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And if you order with them, they'll just throw the thing in the mail, get it to you right
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away.
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with excellent customer service.
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I asked Ameradroid to be a sponsor for this show.
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I'm so happy that they are.
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You can go to Ameradroid.com, use Linux Prepper at checkout.
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I'll also include some links to some of their products
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that I personally use and greatly enjoy.
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And thank you again to Ameradroid.com
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for sponsoring Linux Prepper podcast.
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I did put in my hat to present as part of the upcoming
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Seagull, that's the Seattle
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Ganyu Linux Conference, November 7th and 8th. What I plan to present on actually
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is my performing style, my physical theater performing style, because it's
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all been developed using free and open-source tooling over the last 10 years.
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So I thought that it would be fun to present about at Seattle Ganyu Linux
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Conference since they specifically say on their site that they're interested in performance art and these kinds
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of things in addition to technical. So I thought it would be fun to present some of the tools
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that I've developed, built, and tried over the years as part of making my performance.
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And I'll present those to a live audience. Seattle Ganyu Linux does do a live streaming component.
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I may opt out of that as part of my presentation to be confirmed, but that'll be taking place
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November 7th and 8th at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. And I'm planning on
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attending there and then should hopefully also be tabling. All the details on that should be confirmed here in the coming weeks,
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but at least I got my info in and I'm excited about it. It's a free
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attend to attend conference all about GNU/Linux and it's the perfect place I think for us to meet
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if you want to meet there. I plan to be there. So that's something to look forward to.
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As part of that, I've been looking
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back through my scripts, which I began writing many years ago when Cell2X was a free and
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open source tool. Those days are long gone. But I do use a discontinued script writing
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tool that's excellent called Kit Cenerist. And Kit Cenerist. I love the layout of kit scenery. It is available as an app image is
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the easiest way to install it. But I highly recommend kit scenery for writing scripts,
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putting like layouts for comic books, things of this nature, like storyboarding. It has a very
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useful feature that like post it notes where you can look at ideas and drag and drop them visually.
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useful feature that like post it notes where you can look at ideas and drag and drop them visually. I just think it's a great script writing tool, especially for free. It's been
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continued as this AI assisted tool called stark STARC, which I'll leave a link to that
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as well. But I'm just sticking with kits, Sainerist. It works totally fine for my needs.
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And I'm very happy about it.
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Even though it's discontinued, it still works great. I'm very happy about it. I am
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curious what discontinued tools people continue using in their daily lives. So
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if you have one, let me know. I also asked about this online and I got a lot
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of responses. But do reach out if you're still using a piece of,
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you know, dead technology because you have to
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or because you want to, always curious about that.
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So that would be great.
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All right, moving on.
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Let's talk music.
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On the music side of things,
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I've been experimenting with looping and audio recording.
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This is something I've been doing for a lot of years. But lately on the software side, I've been
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writing the Giaata. It's called the hardcore loop machine. And I found that it's very easy
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to plug into any existing music hardware. If you're a music MIDI type person, otherwise
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Giaata works really well. It's really simple and it's very functional.
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So I've been pretty happy with G Yada in general using MIDI hardware, introduces a little
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bit of latency and I'm a drummer so that part bothers me.
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It just has a slight delay non-responsiveness which I don't like.
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So that's true I think of just computers in general.
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So I'm still getting comfortable with Giata.
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But I recommend it if you're curious about looping
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and taking short snippets or long snippets of audio
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and playing around with them
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on kind of an audio recording sample basis.
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You can check out Giata.
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You can also see famous hardware machines like the MPC,
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the SP series like the 404, 303, 202 on YouTube if you're curious.
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And I would just want to take a moment to recommend an album that I really like that
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is all built around this principle.
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It's a local band that now lives in LA, but that is OCs and the album is called Sorks
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80.
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And Sorks 80 is an album that was all made around
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samples, samples of horns and different things played back on little drum pads
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and turned into songs and a great album from a really cool band that puts out
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tons of material like album two albums plus a year and keeps cranking so good
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on the OCs they were an awesome band. I was shocked how great they were.
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It just like was really impressed. And um, Sork's 80s, a cool album. They have another
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album coming out in the coming weeks. But yeah, I'll drop a link for that. You can check it out
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in the show notes. Another band I really liked that I saw recently is Deerhoof. I've been listening
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to them for decades, but it was great to finally see them in concert. And I'm always impressed by them because they're always kind of like changing things up,
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doing things their own way.
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And I think that their newest album is very fun and wild and bizarre, experimental.
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I'll drop a link to that as well.
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You can check out Deer Hoof and let me know if there's music that you like.
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I mean basically
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these are bands that are from or originated around the Bay Area where I'm
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at but I would be curious if you have music that you appreciate or you want to
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share please do drop it into the show. I just think it's fun to talk about things
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besides any specific topic because it just gets tedious you know the point is
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to enjoy life. So if you have music things you enjoy, music tools you enjoy, bands you enjoy or albums, feel free to share them here and I would
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appreciate that. All right, you can also connect on our matrix on matrix.org for the Linux Pepper
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podcast chat room. And you can also email podcast@james.net work if you want to reach out to me with any information or whatever.
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Feel free to hit me up and let's keep the show going.
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Let's talk a little bit about software failure.
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On my latest purchase, a Lenovo laptop which I purchased as part of making this show, I
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encountered a software and a hardware failure in the last two months, which have
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been more than a little annoying.
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Let's talk about the software failure first.
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On the software front, my updates are managed through usual apt update process in Ubuntu
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on the command line. And for doing firmware updates, I use FlupD manager firmware update manager, FWUPDMGR.
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Right, what is that?
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So FlupD as I'm gonna call it is a system daemon
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to allow session software to update firmware.
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And it just means that I can update all the things safely and reliably on Linux,
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even though I'm not on Mac and Windows. And I should be up to date on my firmware and my underlying
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firmware that runs on my laptop. Okay, normally that would be managed on a Windows machine historically or a Mac.
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So I'm running into problems with this. I don't know what happened, but at some point
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I'm not sure what moment this happened, but in the last month, two months, in the last two months, I suddenly no longer saw my boot screen
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when I turned on the computer.
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That's awkward.
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So yeah, nothing displayed there, it just blank.
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But if I typed in my Luke's encryption key
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that I'd set up previously,
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then I would get my normal login screen
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for Ubuntu. Okay, so that's weird, but the computer still quote-unquote worked.
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So trying to figure out that in the process of figuring that out, my screen
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gave out. So my screen stopped working.
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Thankfully, the laptop has just an HDMI connection.
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I plugged it in and I got the additional screen
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to work without issue.
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So then the computer was working
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despite the fact that, I don't know, man,
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despite the fact that the boot screen, when you turn it on is not working
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the for the BIOS but then you know you type in the luke key and and then the external
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monitor starts picking up at that point. Yeah, so that was going. I knew that it was bad
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mama jamas at this point. So I use the tool deja dupe, which I will talk about separately on the show.
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I used deja dupe and I made copies of all of the data that I was worried about on my laptop to an external disk.
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And I'm glad I did because then I thought, well, I need to, you know, basically, I need to do other things with this machine, but this will, you know,
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just any data I'm concerned about, I'll pop it in a day, should I do? And yeah, for whatever reason,
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the next time I did a system update, of course, the machine just completely stopped working.
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So it's going to get sent in to the video factory to get sorted out with the hex going on with the screen with the not booting stuff. But it's just messed up. And I'm curious, have people had issues
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with firmware updates on this what the damage? Or I'm not saying that that is at fault, but
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something happened. I don't know what happened. I've never had this experience before. It
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was very confusing to me having run previously thinkpad since 2013. And I've never had this experience before. It was very confusing to me having run previously ThinkPad
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since 2013 and I never had a problem with it.
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But maybe that's how much better ThinkPad's are
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than idea pads, I don't know.
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Otherwise I was decently happy with the computer,
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but yeah, this wasn't working, sending it in
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to get manufacturer to look at it,
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to find out what's going on, but something crazy happened, and I don't know what that is, to be continued.
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Let me know if you've had laptop issues.
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On the positive side, I was able to get access to my laptop while I was traveling using Rust
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Desk, which I'll also talk about separately in the episode. And that tool worked out well.
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But overall, it's been a nightmare with the new laptop,
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which is now being sent back.
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Thankfully, everything's backed up, and so life goes on.
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On another hardware front, I actually had my server's motherboard die.
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It just... just died. I was like, "Ah, so part of that is I
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changed the power supply, but the existing power supply is fine. I wasn't sure, so
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I got a variation, the same thing to test, but the power supply is working fine."
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And I picked up some thermal paste for resetting the CPU and the motherboard
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because sometimes that can be related but it seems I do need to replace the motherboard.
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So kind of connecting into the truna situation, I'm planning to just sub out I think the existing
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motherboard with the exact same motherboard. And keep going that way.
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So that's the plan.
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I just get overwhelmed like anyone
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with having to fix a bunch of stuff.
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It is annoying and I don't like it.
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But yeah, so busted laptop, dead motherboard
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in the server, life goes on, but it is humorous.
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So those are some of my software hardware failures of recent.
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Have you had your own hardware software failures?
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Let me know.
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I would be curious to hear more.
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All right, let's not talk about that anymore.
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Another software spotlight for today is Deja-Doop.
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Deja-Doop is a software backup tool that is available for Linux users everywhere.
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It is maintained by the GNOME Foundation. It can be installed on Flat Pack or with the usual
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package managers. Deja-Doop is a simple backup tool. It hides the complexity of backing up the
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right way using encrypted offsite regular backups and uses rustic behind the scenes. I was able to use Deja-Dup to backup my local
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laptop machine as well as restore the data from that machine without any
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trouble. It was roughly a few hundred gigabytes of files and once I plugged in
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my external disk that I had backed up in DejaDup into a new computer,
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it took seem like 10 minutes to sort of read back through the data that was there
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before displaying it in the application. So it did take a minute. Keep in mind,
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this was looking at that data on a 2014 laptop, pretty old, but it worked. So I'm happy to say that Deja-Dup works fine and I would recommend it.
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Deja-Dup, if you've used something else that's not Deja-Dup that you would recommend people try for basic simple backups,
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do let the show know. I have also recommended time shift in the,
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which is based on our sync or butterFS in the past.
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If you have a different tool you'd recommend, please write into the show, podcast@james.network,
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join our matrix, or otherwise send me some kind of hate mail, letting me know.
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That would be great, but that's a deja dupe, and it is a solid tool.
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I wanted to take a moment to answer some audience feedback. I had a question come in for me
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which was asking how much I actually used AI and large language models personally outside of
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the show because I of course have talked previously about using tools like whisper to create transcriptions
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text transcriptions from speech for the podcast, which is important
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to do. So I have done that. But in terms of personally, do I use AI or large language
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models at all in my own life? The answer is no. I do not. And I would be curious to hear
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from others who do. But for me personally, no, I don't find them useful.
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I did try using a large language model to craft a story idea. Like I asked, I asked
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you know, for like, use the prompt and craft me a story. And the answer was horrible. It
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was not good. I was basically given, I don't know, two pages of
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drivel which ended with one sentence of information, which was not impressive.
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And so it's fine. I mean, I'm happy to continue creating material myself. But
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right now, I'm not using any large language models. I also find because it's
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so resource intensive to run these kinds of tools.
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It's not something I want to pay the electricity fee to run. I'd rather just run a useful tool
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than run something that is kind of an answer in search of a problem. You know what I mean?
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This is for me personally in my day-to-day life. So no, not something I use, not something I rely on
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and not something I access at all. But maybe I'm not the right person to ask as far as I don't use things like chat GPT at all.
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And I don't mean to poo poo on anyone who does. I'm just not using them.
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Nor am I using any kind of voice assistant or any of that kind of stuff.
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But I would be curious to hear from others who do. Let me know.
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And yeah, I just wanted to answer that user's question,
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because why not?
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I was thinking of not even mentioning this,
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but whatever, I'll share it with you guys.
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And gals, whoever's listening.
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So something that frustrated me that I discovered somewhat
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recently was like services-- so many services. This isn't unique maybe, but
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SoundCloud, which is a way that musicians have created audio recordings publicly and privately
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and shared them with other people, just decided to basically sell out all of their users' data
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into AI, right? They just changed their terms of service and did it or whatever.
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This was in 2024, it's my understanding.
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know that have recorded music in the last decade,
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have done so through SoundCloud.
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And it makes me not want to release material online, honestly.
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And I'm trying not to be too negative, but I'm just telling you how I feel about it.
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I really don't like the thought, for example, of my likeness being used by someone else
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just because I released this podcast, just because I made a recording on a site at all and now my likeness is going to be stolen for
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use by someone else just because I'm so not into that and I have that's that's
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one that I have feel very strongly about So I'm releasing this podcast and my material, but
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with the understanding that it's, this is my material. And if there's, if it's not possible
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for me to maintain ownership over my own material, I'm not sure of what to do, y'all.
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And this is a, obviously there's a lot more to explore here to understand, but it's something
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that gives me a lot of pause, especially with all these platforms and then them claiming whatever
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ownership on whatever material it's bizarre.
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And to give a little additional context, I've actually been copyright claimed apparently
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against myself twice on YouTube. I've actually had a count closed twice. Just literally it's gone. It's
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scary and you just get an email that's like this account is made some kind of copyright
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infringement or something. Both times I literally sent an email just saying everything in my
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account is literally material that I personally made like or it was a band that I played the music in.
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I'm singing the song. I own everything that I'm putting out there.
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And both times it was automatically dismissed and it's like, "Oh, it's fine and all your data's back."
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But have that just taken away? Is really, really disconcerting.
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And now it has happened twice in the last 18 months
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or something.
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And it's pretty scary.
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on platforms.
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So there's kind of like multiple things going on there.
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I feel like related to the ownership of data,
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data sovereignty and publishing yourself
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and making yourself available on platforms.
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And it's something I don't have an answer on, but I'm just aware of as someone releasing content.
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But I want to be respected, you know what I mean?
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Like, at base minimum, to me, respect is people respecting the ownership of, like, my voice person.
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respecting the ownership of like my voice person just because I'm putting material online doesn't mean I want to be ripped off or taken advantage of in any way.
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I hope that makes sense and that that's not too much to ask.
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So to be continued, feel free to send in your thoughts on it. Y'all.
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All right.
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Enough on that.
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Feel free to send in your thoughts on it, y'all. All right, enough on that.
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I'd like to give a quick shout out
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to some interesting websites I've found recently.
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One is ArtFight.net.
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ArtFight.net is a funny little community
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where if you are someone who makes your own artwork,
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you can draw or create something, share it,
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and then others will respond.
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The fight part is other artists will respond by making their own drawings directly inspired
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by your drawing.
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So if you're someone that's into literally drawing art with pens and paper and traditional
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methods, check out artfight.net.
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Another interesting website which has been in various iterations over the years is atub2.org.
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atub2.org is maintained by Andy Morin.
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He's a producer and musician from a band called Death Grips.
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It's local and Sacramento.
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You can check out atub2.org for a pretty art focused and crap posting site that he's
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maintained these days as more of like a social network.
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that's being developed by an artist,
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you can check out atub2.org.
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I wanna discuss another piece of audience feedback I got.
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And I just think it's interesting.
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Let me just say what the person said in their comment.
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They said, "I don't mean to put down your efforts,
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but I'm so confused about what this is. I listened, it seems to. Let me just say what the person said in their comment. They said, "I don't mean to put down your efforts, but I'm so confused about what this
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is. I listened. It seems to be just you musing about your experience with certain things.
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I think people show up to listen to podcasts for an objective viewpoint about X topic and
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not just somebody moving from topic to topic, talking about their wants and needs about
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certain thing. I'm very confused." So I wrote back, good to know. I've actually been using
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the tools I discuss on the show as
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opposed to only naming off whatever is the newest thing without having actually used it. But it's good
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to know if that isn't clear. So Linux preppers related to doing everything myself with fully open
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source tooling as much as possible. I've never seen another show do this. So I thought it would be
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fun to try, you know, self I've seen everything using fast tooling
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for everything all the time.
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It might not be practical.
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It was more of a fun challenge,
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but that's the intention.
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if you feel like feel,
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if you are confused by the show,
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and that's okay.
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I'm still figuring this out.
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Sorry to be some meta,
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but I'm not sure if I'll have this at the beginning
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or the ending of the show.
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What do you think?
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You know, I wanna talk about tools having actually
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use them, having actually tried them.
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If you wanna just get something thrown at you, like for example, Rust Desk is a remote tool.
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TrueNAS is a multi-disc array tool for managing data backups and creating file shares.
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If you want something like that, I don't feel like I can compete with whatever Linux show that already exists that does that really well.
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I want to kind of dig into things more in a different way.
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But if that's not working for you as an audience member, I'm curious to hear from you. Let me know.
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I am open to thoughts.
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And we'll keep moving forward, but do send me your suggestions, and I appreciate it.
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Especially, you know, as someone working on my own a lot, working in a vacuum, trying to do the best I can,
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and trying to decide what's worth sharing versus what's not worth sharing.
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Structurally, this episode,
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each section will start with a 30-second maximum recap of the thing.
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To appease the audience feedback of, "I want something more objective, fine."
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Each section will start 30-second recap, and from there,
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I will go into talking about the thing in my experiences. We'll see how it goes. Let me know.
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Rust Desk in 30 Seconds. Rust Desk is a remote access and remote control software written in Rust that enables
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remote maintenance of computers and devices. Rust Desk runs on all major operating systems,
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and it is also available on mobile devices. It has the aspiration to be an open source alternative
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to remote desktop services such as TeamView or any desk. As a result, it can function without
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additional tooling, as well as through VPNs or without
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port forwarding behind firewalls and NATs.
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The relay servers may be self-hosted by yourself at home.
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I was able to do this in a Raspberry Pi 4 and it worked very well.
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As I discuss elsewhere in the episode, I actually ran into a problem with my new laptop screen
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completely giving out, just totally
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failing. Thankfully with an external monitor, I was able to install Rust desk and still
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access the laptop while I was traveling abroad. Please do keep in mind this was all done through
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a VPN. So the reason you'd use a tool like this is because it gives you direct access to a computer as if you were
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sitting at a mouse and keyboard, but you do this over the internet. So it's weird. It has a little
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bit of a matrix inception thing going on. But if you click on the rust desk app and you've enabled
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access to say, JoJo's computer, suddenly it's as if you're sitting at JoeJoe's computer.
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because say JoeJoe's got this massive 4K screen
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and you're just on this crappy old laptop,
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well, there's different ways to address that,
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but I have to say overall, the process ran well.
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What I ended up doing was I just took the actual screen resolution down to the size of the laptop.
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That way everything worked seamlessly.
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There might be a better way to do it.
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Feel free to send me thoughts.
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But I was able to access stuff remotely.
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And normally I would just access everything remotely over SSH, which is fine.
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But I do have to say when you have things set up a certain way that you're used to, even on a remote machine,
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it's pretty sweet to be able to just click around.
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The one caveat of doing this is I only set up this software to be run through a VPN on a machine I was self hosting at home. I
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wouldn't do it any other way. I would be very careful if you
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want to do something like this. I just want to be clear that
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anyone wanting to use remote desktop software should be very,
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very careful. Remote access to a computer obviously is the
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number one way somebody rips you off
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They remotely access your computer
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So you want to be very careful with something like rust desk that you're installing
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The actual correct piece of software from the correct website and that you're running it in a manner
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That you understand and feel comfortable with so those are my caveats
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I don't want anyone to set something up haphazardly and hurt themselves.
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So this is a great tool. It can also be a little bit of a weapon. That said, I highly recommend
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Rust Desk. I found it to be a great tool. I think it's a really useful tool for helping yourself
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or helping someone else remotely as long as you understand how to set it up. I'll leave a link
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to it in the show notes,
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but I can strongly recommend it.
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It works great behind VPNs and firewalls and gnats
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and all that kind of stuff.
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So give a shout out to Rust desk.
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The only issue I run into with it is,
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say you're watching a YouTube video
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on a remote machine through Rust desk,
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there will be a slight delay between the spoken and the, you know,
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like lips moving and the audio.
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Super minor, but that's literally how well it performed.
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It kind of felt like I can do anything.
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There's other tools that work better
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for remote access to a machine if the goal
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is to run everything in sync, if that's important,
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like through multimedia.
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If you have suggestions for those tools,
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feel free to write into the show about them.
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But for the moment, for just basic access,
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this tool works great as an alternative
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to terminal applications.
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So yeah, a shout out to a great tool, Rust desk.
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Reaper in 30 seconds.
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Reaper is a complete digital audio production application
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for computers offering multi-track audio
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and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing,
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and mastering.
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It supports a wide vast range of hardware.
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Digital formats, plugins, can be extended, scripted,
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modified.
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It is available for all operating systems.
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It is available for x86 and ARM.
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And the company is amazing at allowing
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anyone to use Reaper even without paying for it. All you see is a tiny neg screen and then you can
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continue using it as is forever. If you want, Reaper is designed to compete against amazing
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expensive proprietary applications like Pro Tools. Reaper itself is also proprietary, but the company is so lenient in allowing others to
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use Reaper, however they see fit that you can't help but feel like they deserve some
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serious kudos as an amazing proprietary company.
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So yeah, Reaper, Reaper.FM is what we are talking about.
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Okay.
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I've personally been using Reaper for over a decade.
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It was great then.
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It's great now.
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And I'm coming back to it because of an issue that I've been having with Audacity, which
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is what I use for audio recording.
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Anyone who's used Audacity, it's a solid tool, but I'm running into a new problem I've never
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had before from constantly using it for a year now, which is I'm starting to see notifications
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that audacity is not compatible version-wise
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with an audio recording I made less than a year ago.
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That's not good.
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Apparently this is something that happens
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between versions like going from two dot two to two dot three,
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and that's just crazy.
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That's not working for me. So I've come back to Reaper which still works 10 years later as you'd expect and maybe I just done
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a lot of auto recording but for me that's a real problem. So I've come to Reaper and
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I absolutely love Reaper. I've also found myself using the SWS extensions.
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That's an open source extension suite for Reaper,
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just like Reaper itself.
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It's available for x86 as well as ARM 32 and 64-bit platforms.
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You can donate for it or you can buy,
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you can donate for it or you can just download it.
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And then Reaper itself, anyone can run it.
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It has just a neg screen and that's it after so many days.
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And then you can donate to the project,
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but it's very reasonable to purchase a license for Reaper.
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And it goes up directly against something like Pro Tools.
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And it can be used in a professional context
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in a way that Audacity cannot.
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So it's just an amazing tool and the ability to customize things like tracks is, I guess,
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beyond the show maybe, but it is incredibly useful the way it organizes projects.
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And I strongly recommend reaper.fm for anyone doing audio recording.
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And for the time being, I'm going to play around with it because I don't want to deal
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with incompatibility issues.
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If anyone has any suggestions on that in terms of Audacity, send it in because obviously
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I still want to keep using those Audacity project files if possible.
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It's like TV continued.
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But this is my shout out for people to check out reaper.fm for multi-track audio recording.
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TrueNAS in 30 seconds.
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TrueNAS, open enterprise storage,
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are a company based in the Bay Area who provide TrueNAS
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scale, also known as TrueNAS Community Edition.
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It is an operating system built on Linux,
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which is a port previously from BSD and a system famously
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known as FreeNAS,
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which allows users to manage a number of disks using famously ZFS and now the Open ZFS implementation,
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also supporting virtualization technologies and all kinds of other goodies that you can have
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while managing your data across a potentially vast disk array and hosting data in any number of ways for any number of users,
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Trunas, Community Edition.
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Questions for the audience.
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I am really curious to hear your thoughts on Trunas.
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Trunas being the company dedicated
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to open enterprise storage.
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They're located in the Bay Area. They design
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what is now called Trunas Community Edition, formerly known as Trunas Scale. They have also
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been connected to Trunas Core, which is based on free BSD and used to be called Free NAS
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over the decades. So as of April, TrueNAS, the company,
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has put out the final release,
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that's 13.3 of TrueNAS Core,
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which was the original product.
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If you wanna call it that, they made.
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And now they've spun away from BSD base
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for their ZFS file system to focus on Trueuness scale, also known as Truness
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Community Edition, which is based on Linux, if you're still with me, and this new
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version of Truness is using Open ZFS, which is a implementation of ZFS for the
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Linux file system, because there's different licensing and things like this. I'm curious what people think of
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Trunas and specifically the Trunas Community Edition and this transition away from BSD.
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I am including a form with the show. Feel free to fill it out. I would love to hear your thoughts.
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I would like to know things you like, things you don't like about the Trunas scale community
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edition.
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I am curious if you use Trunas for virtualization,
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which is one of the big reasons for moving into Linux base
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is to have virtualization support within Trunas.
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But it doesn't mean I've heard a lot of positive things
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in regard to virtualization in Trinesse itself.
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I'm curious what people think about that.
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When we get into virtualization, of course, now we're competing against other things such
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as proxmox, which is another Linux-based virtualization tool, which also uses ZFS.
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So it gets a little confusing. Also, we have Linux itself, things such as Ubuntu,
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which support open ZFS in addition. So you could just run a Linux machine with ZFS.
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Do you do that? Let us know. We also have tools like open media volt, which also have
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ZFS support. Are you using that? I'm really curious to hear what people think about TrueNAS
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and what their experiences are like using it as a UI focused approach to what would normally be
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like much more of a command line driven experience. And if it still is that, I would love to hear
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more about that from you. ZFS itself, the ZFS file system has been around for so long and developed for so long
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as a way to manage data across the number of disks.
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And it is a very, very strong system.
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And I think porting it into Linux is very exciting.
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You are welcome to disagree.
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And I want to hear your thoughts.
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So what do you think about Trunas?
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Are you using it? I
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personally have been using Trunas for about two years at home. But I want to hear from you,
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from the audience, and I want to hear your thoughts. And my intention is to talk about it in a future
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episode. But I want to talk about it based on the experiences that have been shared with me.
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I want to thank the people who've sent in their thoughts so far.
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Thank you.
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Those of you who have really appreciate it.
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And I look forward to getting more thoughts and putting together a segment
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that just delves a little bit more into the actual usage of True
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Nest Community Edition.
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If you were using, say, Free Nest, True Nest Core,
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and maybe you transitioned over or don't want to transition over.
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I want to hear from you.
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So yeah, feel free to reach out.
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It's also podcast@james.network
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and tell me what you think about True Nast,
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the open enterprise storage platform,
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which has become bigger and bigger.
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And how you feel about it?
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Let me know.
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Ways to support Linux Prepper.
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This show is created, maintained,
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and kept alive, solely by myself. I appreciate when I get some support on it from other people.
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People joining me as guests and stuff, and I'm still figuring that process out. And I
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just want to share my thank you to everyone who listens to this show. You're a very small
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audience. So the best way you could support me is by spreading the word about this show.
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Send it to somebody you like, somebody you don't like.
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And yeah, we'll see if we can continue
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to grow the listener base for this show.
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That would be awesome.
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You can also donate to me.
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I have a PayPal link if you wanna donate to support the show.
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I appreciate all of that.
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There's also podcasting 2.0 support.
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If you know what that is, you're welcome to use it.
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Otherwise, yeah, please do share the word about the show.
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And thank you again for listening
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and supporting me in the Linux Prepper
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and Living Cartoon Company.
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All right.
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Matrix in 30 seconds.
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Matrix is an open standard in communication protocol for real-time communication.
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It aims to make real-time communication work seamlessly between different service providers.
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In a way that standard SMTP, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol email currently does for store and
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ford email services.
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It wants to allow users with accounts at a communication service provider to communicate
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with users of different providers for online chat,
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voice over IP calls and video calls.
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It is an expansive protocol which is meant to,
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oh God, it's a technical thing
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that lets you chat with other people.
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All right.
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Matrix.
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Do you use it?
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Okay.
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Matrix being the chat platform.
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I happen to use it in regards to this show.
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Matrix.org hosts a large number of chats, including Linux Prepper.
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There are of course many clients for Matrix and server implementations.
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Things like Element, Cine, Go Mux.
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The list goes on.
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Too many fluffy chat.
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I'm curious what you actually think of Matrix
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as of right now in 2025.
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Do you use it?
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If you do use it, how's that going for you?
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And I would be curious how it compares
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to other chat platforms that you find yourself using,
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things like Discord, Slack, Signal, recently deceased Skype, you know,
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like what are you using? Are you using matrix? If so, how's it going? It's a larger topic
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and it's something I've been meaning to discuss on the show for a long time, similar to true
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ness. So I'd love to get thoughts of what you think right now in terms of matrix. I will
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also have a link to our matrix chat
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for this podcast, which you are welcome to join
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and chat there.
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Otherwise, I'll include a form you can fill out
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with your thoughts on matrix.
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Thank you so much for listening.
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Gaming in 30 seconds.
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I've been looking for fun games to play
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for the free and open crowd and I've found a
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few options which I'm going to talk about.
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So one is going to be a focus on the developer publisher Powerhoof and their awesome catalog
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of pixel games which are great.
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In addition to Doom and the recent variations of it which have come out which are also totally
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amazing.
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I'd also like to focus on a dice game that anyone can play without the need of any computer at all,
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as well as print and play games that you can play at home with cards.
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All coming up.
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On the software games side of things, I would like to give a shout out to an excellent two-person indie dev team,
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which is called Power Huff. Yes, Power Huff, they've been going for many years.
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Two people making fantastic little games that are available for everyone to play,
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totally making indie DRM-free games for years now.
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They have fantastic pixel art. It's so beautiful.
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And they make really addictive fun games. And most of
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their games are available at no cost on HIO. They just cranked out all these
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little ones while they develop their nicer titles for sale. My favorite game
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of theirs of all time is Crawl. Crawl is a one-to-four player party game where
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each person fights each other in local co-op
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for who will become the hero.
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So the story is one character is the hero who is defeating the monsters to save the
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day.
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But every other player is the monsters and anyone who defeats the hero becomes the new
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hero and is then fighting everyone else.
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It's a super simple game. It's really fun.
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And I think the narration in the game is my favorite of all time.
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Man named Adrian Vaughn.
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I'll have a link to his voice reel.
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He has such a beautiful voice.
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He also is voicing their newest game which came out last week which is called The Drifter.
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It's a point and click adventure game.
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Also has amazing pixel art.
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There's a free demo you can play.
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It's excellent.
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It's super exciting.
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The sky's just got the most incredible voice.
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Seriously.
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Adrian Vaughn, the drifter crawl.
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You can also see a kind of a simpler variation of crawl in a game called super kaiju dating tech, which is
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where you build a mechanical date for Godzilla. Yeah, it's also a local co-op game like crawl.
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So one that you play with people in the same room, like you went on a console super silly and
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funny and just an enjoyable game.
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So if I'll leave a link for that too, you can run it for free super kaiju dating tech.
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But yeah, Power Huff is a great team.
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I'll try to do an impersonation of Adrian, Vaughn and Kral because it's my show I can
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do it over at once. Welcome as we listen to Powerloaf, a two-person team making the most insidious games in the world.
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In yet more gaming spotlights, we're going to be talking about doom. Yes, the doom from the 90s. And the open sourcing of it, which has
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kept it alive to this day. So I have been curious about, you
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know, looking at projects, open source projects and ways to
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continue keeping alive dead tools. And I was curious about,
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you know, what's out there. So one of the things
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you get drawn to if you're looking into free and open source games is you might hear about Doom,
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which I remember from growing up. So the thing about Doom, the thing about these projects is that
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they're way more alive than you even imagine at a glance like, oh yeah,
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there's probably a lot happening there. Well, turns out there's way more happening here than I could have possibly imagined and
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yeah, it's totally amazing. I'm gonna link a really wonderful recap video that explains the progression of doom in the 90s and the
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eventual open sourcing of the code to the greater community because it's really
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interesting. And so basically, Doom, Doom 2, and Doom 3 source code are available for non-commercial
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usage. Well, what does that mean? It means that people have been not only keeping Doom
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itself alive, but making changes to it for a very, very, very long time.
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And if you were curious about Doom and say you wanted to play it, you would do that on
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modern hardware using software application, most likely called ZDoom or GZDoom, which
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are easy tools that allow you to install, right, doom or whatever version of it on your normal computer, but also to install mods as they're called or other changes to it.
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So you got ZDoom, GZDoom, and a multiplayer focused version called Zandronum. And of course, there's works of that as well. But Zandronum is a
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modern and fun way to play classic Doom games online with up to 64 people. It supports many modes,
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many mods, features, Doom engine based games, as opposed to the time period when Doom was made,
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it has never been easier to play. It is mind blowing how many people are playing Doom in 2025.
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This is a very, very active community of players.
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It almost feels like you're on Steam or something.
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There's just people everywhere.
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You're like, "Whoa, it's crazy for such an old game."
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And there's so many takes on Doom to check out,
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but I just wanna give a shout out to
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one that I found that I was totally blown away by.
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What is Ashes 2063?
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Ashes 2063 is a total conversion mod for the Doom engine, Doom 2 specifically set in a
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post-apocalyptic world where players control a scavenger navigating through dangerous environments
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filled with mutants and gangs. It features new gameplay mechanics, new kinds of
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enemies, an expansive storyline, has received constant updates and expansions
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since its initial release in 2018.
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Ashes 2063 takes the corridor shooter idea of Doom 2 and then blows it up to be one of outdoor environments and survival,
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where especially if you play it on the hardest difficulty, which I would absolutely recommend,
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it's not a game so much about constant action as it is a game of exploration. So making maps
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that are larger and larger and larger where resources are
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meager and you're having to journey through to find parts. Like for example,
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you might find a door but no way to open it and later you'll find a key that will
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open that door. And it's adding a level of expansion and appreciation for its
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audience that simply has not existed in any other
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Doom-styled game that I have ever seen. And nor for that matter in build engine
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games either. And I think it really is a landmark of how far this engine has
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come in decades. So an incredible round of applause to the team of Ashes 2063 for making
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this game, making it available for free to anyone. If you do want to play it, there are
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standalone versions of it. It's slightly confusing, maybe, because there's so many options. I'll
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leave links to check it out. You can always play it on top of DOOM itself.
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If you want to buy a copy of DOOM, I'll include links to purchase it through GOG.
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You can get access to the WOD files as they're called.
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Or you can always search the internet and they're readily available.
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So there's a lot of ways to play these games, but I highly recommend Ashes 2063.
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And I'm not kidding when I say it is one of the most fun games that I have ever played.
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It is amazing.
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And if you can hear the excitement in my voice, it really is one of the best games I've ever
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played.
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And I did play Fallout 4, and this game is better, man. This is so
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cool. But someone took this old game and they added the ability to take motorcycles and
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ride around the world and meet people and trade items and like so far beyond the run
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and gun corridor thing of the original doom. It's like unbelievable.
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There's so many improvements to be made.
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The worlds are so huge and it feels like a open world.
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It feels almost like a modern game,
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but it also isn't, but it feels like it.
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And I just think that someone could push something so far
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and they don't sell it.
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It's available for free at no cost.
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They stick to the non-commercial.
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I wish they did sell it.
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I think this is easily worth $30 to $40.
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And I am not kidding.
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Ash's 2063 is available at no cost.
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And it really is one of the best games I've ever played.
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Also mentioned, Sepulae's one of my other favorite games,
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"Crawl" for different reasons as a party game.
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But yeah, "Ash" is 2063, and "Hard Reset" and "Afterglow"
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are all amazing.
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I feel like they're works of art and love,
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and I hope more people are aware of them
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and definitely check out the original "Mitty" soundtracks.
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I'll also leave a link to the artists directly. You can check out the albums, but such fun games and that's people have taken all
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these decades to continue working on something like the Doom engine just blows my mind because
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this is a really old engine. If you've played modern games, they're not normally built on a Doom
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engine because it's sold. There's more recent engines, there's one called the Build Engine,
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that sees a lot of love, but I can't be less than totally impressed at how well made Ashes 2063 is
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and how well made GZ Doomoom and Zendronomar.
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They're very good.
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If you want a useful launcher for those tools even,
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you can check out Lutris.
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Lutris, which has been mentioned previously on the show,
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is a tool that allows you to launch all your different
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like games, be them on Steam, IT,
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Chio, GOG, Epic Launcher, local, whatever.
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And this includes all the Doom stuff and found it super duper useful. So actually,
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I found Lutris more useful as a Doom Launcher than for anything else that I've tried it for.
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And I'm not totally game obsessed. Obviously, I've just found a lot of cool games recently,
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but this was just part of an exploration
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in finding cool games on Linux in 2025.
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Like what's coming out now?
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Who are teams who are developing stuff
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that's actually awesome?
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And I'm happy to say I found a number of recommendations,
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which I'm including in this episode.
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And they're just great.
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So I hope you check them out.
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And what is old is new again and all that.
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So yeah, Doom forever.
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Another amazing total conversion of Doom 2 that's worth checking out is called Total Chaos.
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Total Chaos released in 2018. Total
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Conversion for Doom 2. The mod is a survival horror game set on a remote island known as
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Fort Oasis. The island was once run by a community of coal miners who one day suddenly disappeared,
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leaving behind abandoned concrete jungles that are wasting away. Something is clearly very wrong with this place. You have received
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a strange radio transmission. Someone wants to be found. And I want to mention this game because
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it has the best graphics of anything I have seen related to Doom. The effects in this are mind blowing how well made this game is. It looks insane.
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Like insanely good. You're wandering around this island. It's creepy. It's bizarre. And
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it's amazing. And the team is in process right now of making their own original version of this not based on Doom 2. I think that it with the intention of
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selling it. But wow, what a cool project. Total chaos looks amazing. So I also want to give
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a shout out to this as another Doom total conversion that's amazing.
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Lastly on the Doom, if you just want to use the actual doom assets, say you wanted to, you
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know, pay for the doom, doom two on GOG and play a mod of doom to itself, or similar,
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I have another recommendation, which is a mod called put the fries in the bag is a McDonald's simulator based in doom where you literally
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run a register out of McDonald's and monsters come in not to fight you but to order burgers
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and fries and they're spouting off orders at you or just making your day horrible. It's your job to
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take their buddy and give them their food as they ask for and you lose the game if you fail to
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keep up with the orders that are coming in and going out. And that's the basic idea. It's a minimum wage employment simulator
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that becomes increasingly more difficult
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as people change their minds and ask for more food.
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And I'll add a link to a YouTube video of it
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because even just watching it online gives the idea,
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but absolutely hilarious.
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That's not what took the time to make this.
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Put the fries in the bag, doom mod. Alright, that's enough about doom. Also in the physical
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games category, I've played another excellent game which is available print and play or
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for regular purchase. And it's a game/system called Doom Pilgrim.
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Doom Pilgrim, now being created again in space,
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as Elder Space is a game of hopelessness and wandering.
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In a medieval setting, you're basically this pilgrim
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who's traveling, having adventures.
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So it's basically a guided card game.
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It's a tarot card game.
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You draw three cards at a time.
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They have crazy artwork on them. And based on the artwork alone, you choose your path.
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You choose a card to read. You choose a card to get rid of and you choose a card to put at the bottom of the deck.
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And this is a very fun game and it's also incredibly hard. Some of the cards can lead to you losing the game
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immediately.
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Others can put you down a really negative path.
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Some are helpful, but it's super fun.
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I really like it.
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I really like Doom Pilgrim.
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I think it's really cool that you can print
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and make it at home.
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And I also love the fact that the creator of the game
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not only creates a card game,
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but they also create musical soundtracks to go with it. So how cool is that? And I'll
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put links to Doom Pilgrim where you can purchase it, print it, or listen to the soundtrack.
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I can definitely recommend it. I had a blast playing it. And it's just a cool game. All
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right. Yeah. Doom Pilgrim.
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Link in the show notes.
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In the world of physical games
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and just enjoying your life,
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in general when you're hanging out with somebody,
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I have a strong recommendation,
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which is for a dice game called Farkel,
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F-A-R-K-L-E, Farkel.
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Farkel just requires six, six-sided dice,
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which you can probably pull out of any other game.
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If you got dice laying around, super fun game. I believe it's called Push Your Luck, which is
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you roll your dice. And if you score at least a one or a five, that counts for 50 or 100 points
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respectively, your goal is to reach 10,000. So you can either accept the score that you've
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gotten or you can continue rolling dice. And you can try to get different combinations like
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runs, pairs, these kinds of things. So you'll have to look up the rules to see how exactly it works
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scoring wise. But if you fail to score in any role, you just lose that round.
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You don't accumulate any points.
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The points are all gone and it's now the other person's turn.
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So it's a really fun game that has that question of,
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should you try to roll again and get more points?
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Or should you be satisfied with what you have?
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And invariably someone's going to score huge.
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And now you're
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in this race to catch up with them. It's a really fun game. I think it's a great thing to learn as
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far as when it is appropriate to push for more and when it is appropriate to just accept the
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points that are literally in front of your face that you can have right now if you just be a little less ambitious
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or greedy. Farkel, I'll leave a link to the rules. I don't know if there's mobile versions of this
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game that people like. If there are, feel free to shout out to the show. Otherwise, get six
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six-sided dice. Check out the links for the rules and play yourself a game of Farkel anytime with
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anyone. And man, is it a fun game.
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Anyway thank you so much for listening to this episode of Linux Prepper. I will attempt to throw
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my interview with Sean Tilly here. It is a long interview it's 90 minutes so maybe I'll give it a
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few days before I drop that as well but uh yeah you can look forward to that coming out
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I drop that as well. But yeah, you can look forward to that coming out.
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And I hope you enjoyed this episode of Linux Prepper.
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Feel free to reach out to me, podcast@James.network.
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It's all good either way.
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And I just want to say thank you so much for listening.
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Thank you so much for communicating with me, contacting me.
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It really does make a difference as I continue to navigate
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coming into the end of my first year
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What I want to do with this show, you know, but I'm happy to be doing it
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And I'm happy to be connecting with people and I look forward to
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Figuring things out more in the future. All right. Take care (dramatic music) you you you