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Episode: 3352
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Title: HPR3352: 2020-2021 New Years Eve Show Episode 4
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3352/hpr3352.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 21:30:38
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3352 for Tuesday, 8th of June 2021.
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Today's show is entitled, HPR 2020-2021 New Year's Eve Show Episode 4.
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It is hosted by Hunkie Magoo and is about 67 minutes long and carries an explicit flag.
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The summary is, the HPR community stops by for a chat.
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This episode of HPR is brought to you by archive.org.
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Support universal access to all knowledge by heading over to archive.org forward slash donate.
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I'm so waiting for America to follow the lead of Britain abandon the Imperial system and go to the metric.
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Yeah, eventually I think we'll probably just fade. I don't think it'll be a drastic change,
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but we'll fade into using a much of system here in America.
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Yeah, we already worked a weird hop pod here because you buy gas and gallons, but you buy soda and two
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liter bottles. Yeah, in one liter, two, we have those. They have one liter of siltzer here.
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I just drank it and it's flat, so that's signed.
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How do you edit text, BIM, Nano, or Emacs?
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Nano. BIM. Can never get the hang of them. I really should twist to his name or which.
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You left out the option of said. You're right. Actually, I prefer G at it for most of my text editing.
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Some of the plugins and coding extensions on there actually becomes quite useful.
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I don't mind Nano when I'm first to start installing an operating system on a pie,
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but then I usually go to them. It makes it easier to edit the config files for me,
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but then I'm getting them used to it. And for a lot of the machines that I deal with,
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BIM is the only thing that's available to me going into it remotely.
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Yeah, it's one of the reasons I should really learn it.
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Or not to hide out of it first. I do not know that much. I had to learn that one.
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Yeah, CullenQ. CullenQ Exclamation Mark became a very, very popular command.
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Yeah, I think the first thing when you type in BIM on Google is just BIM,
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how to exit or something like that. How to exit BIM.
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CullenQ question, Mark. Deletes all the changes though.
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Don't keep you. If you don't know how to exit BIM, I think you probably need to just
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unsafe the changes. Yeah, I tried to stick with built-in tools and not
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go to any, well, not built-in, but default install tools.
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Because I can't go to, I jumped to so many different machines. I can't install applications all the time.
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Yeah, I use the same operating system for this time. Although I've been wanting to switch to Manjaro.
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I don't switch machines either. Well, I'm dealing with machines literally all over the place.
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And normally my only connection to them is an SSX session.
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Yeah, and that's probably why learning BIM is a good idea because if you ever have to do that sort
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of thing, you don't really have many other chances. Yeah, well, that's what I like to
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said is said makes it really easy, especially if you're going to have to do the same thing at
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multiple places. Once you've learned the commands on there, it becomes easy. And it works great in
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scripting. Yeah, that's you. There's a lot of things I need to win. I'm still fairly uneducated,
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I should say. Not uneducated. You just haven't experienced enough problems yet.
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There you go. That's what I was looking for. I was looking for something not to rob this
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or not. Yeah, trying not to make fun of myself. Just about every commander,
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language or something I've learned is because I was having to solve a problem.
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Yeah, that is probably the best way to learn because I have definitely learned a lot from trying
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to solve issues. Yeah, my first time having to deal with administering a Solaris system was when
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I inherited a data center from another from a company that we had acquired and the two admins
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who were running it left the company. No. Got told I was getting about a dozen machines from them,
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ended up flying on site and inventorying and turned out it was like 190 something machines.
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How do you mess up the Empress like that? Why do you think they are there anymore?
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Yeah, that's really like 16 times more. I just had to do the math on that to see how ridiculous it was.
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Yeah, it was over 190 machines. They had a production, a dev, a test environment and a QA
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environment. None of them were documented. Nobody knew who was what and I couldn't break production
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while trying to fix things. Make it more interesting. I got on site. I was checking things out
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and the UPS had a key to keep you from accidentally turning it off for anything.
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The UPS had a lock keeping you from turning it off and I asked him where the keys were. Nobody
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knew where any of the keys were. I'm looking at making my own Firefox start page but I don't
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really know how to make it work because I can make the web page the start page but I don't know
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how to make it automatically launch on the tab. Under Firefox, you just set your default home page.
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Oh, I didn't know that worked for you just hitting the new tab button.
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There's an option for what to display when you switch to a new tab.
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Well, move it silly. It makes no sense.
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A quick way to get to it is about colon preferences and there's a search box right there.
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Yeah, if you go to about preferences on the left side, the second one down is home and it says
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new tab and new windows. Yeah, thank you. Perfect. It just says blank page actually.
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There's no option to set it as my for the new tabs. Dude, just a mirror out.
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I mean for new tabs, so the only work for home page and new windows. A little further down,
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there's a drop-down box. Put tabs in the search. It highlights yellow where you can change your tab
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options. Oh, thank you. So what is Solaris? Solaris is a one of the Unix family members.
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Anywhere closely related to BSD? Cousins, I'd say. I fortunately haven't had to work with it in
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several years. All right, that's good. They really don't know any BSD. Claudio does.
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Moscow happened. Why does that sound like a calamity?
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I guess it's either Firefox Home or nothing for a new tab.
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Yeah, it's haven't had to mess with that in a while. I'm surprised about that.
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Yeah, and looking at something from their support help page, whatever.
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I use a plugin called VimVixen and now let's do a start typing T and then the D for a duck.
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And then I get my new page.
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Yeah, I've been using AutoKey a lot on Linux, but the problem is it doesn't currently support
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Wayland. I was looking for some sort of equivalent AutoKey that works under Wayland.
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Has anybody seen something like that?
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What OS uses Wayland? I'm running Fedora and you can either go with Xorg or Wayland for your
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display manager. All right, I'm on Fedora too and I just never tried out Wayland.
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By default, if you do a clean install on Fedora, now it goes to Wayland unless you've
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configured it otherwise. I don't know where would I find that information.
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Let me check there was a command line option for doing that.
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Of course, top search is a stack exchange link.
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It's not that great. That's what I got.
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So you're running Wayland?
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Not sure, I have to look check still.
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I must be missing how to find out.
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All I know is I'm using i3 as a desktop manager.
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I just posted the command line for it.
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If you run that, it should either say X11 or Wayland.
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It says X11.
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Okay.
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Is there an advantage to Wayland?
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Just they're trying to change performance in all with Wayland.
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Unless you have a reason for it, I'd stick with whatever you currently are running.
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The big thing is they're trying to build up increase the performance of the display drivers.
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Right, and I don't use anything display intensive.
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I don't really game.
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I've been using that auto key because you can set up all sorts of
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macros in there.
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When I connect it to these different machines since I can't install tools,
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I need to run a bunch of predefined scripts and I can just quickly run them from there.
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Okay. Added the notes on the X11 check into the right place into the notepad.
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Yeah, I had to be finding the right place to add stuff too.
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And you know, I think I still put it in the wrong place.
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I think it's past 21 now.
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Yeah, I must let it get again.
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What do I do wrong?
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The next time it's on.
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Oh, we're already down the grease?
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Two times a charm.
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No, I think it's I-I-Mac.
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Thought it was Russia.
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Russia?
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No, that's-that's 20.
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Can't you see the UTC is 2111?
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So I get in the right spot then.
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I'm not going to say yes because honestly, I can be wrong.
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Where are Americans? We're never wrong.
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The world just needs to adjust.
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That's true.
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You know, I think if aliens invaded half of America would just say no they're not.
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If aliens ever invaded America, we would just say you got to fill out all this paperwork.
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They would look at us like we were crazy and head back home.
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Fair enough. I mean, it's one way to get rid of them.
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But don't they want to vote?
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They would have to wait about 15 years.
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No, we'll descend them to Georgia.
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Pretty sure Georgians would probably kill them all.
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Are you saying rednecks could take out aliens?
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They wouldn't want to.
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That was my favorite line in the movie zombie land when the guy goes thank god for rednecks.
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That's pretty good.
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I found the new tab override extension.
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It's in the show now. It's in the chat.
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Thank you, thank you.
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I was looking at something you do without extension.
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I think I might finally found it.
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You have to like edit the gun fake or something weird.
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I really just add the extension and put the URL you want to open to.
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Yeah, I'm going to go with that. That's a lot simpler.
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You can't make things simple.
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Would get confused.
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Just use arch and make everything complicated.
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Step on arch user toes.
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I used to use arch one time.
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I mean, it's awesome. I just think it's kind of complicated.
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Oh, it is.
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The install actually is not too bad.
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You want complicated. We're going to make you use Linux from scratch.
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Never an extra pie for that.
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That's not my thing.
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If I did do that, I'd buy another Raspberry Pi.
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So I can at least now that's tapped my machine.
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I know the Firefox extension I need.
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I need something that'll track it.
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Tabs that have been open.
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And if it's been sitting there for more than a half hour without having been touched, close it down.
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I just went through and I had over 20 different tabs that were open.
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I have let me count.
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Ah, like 27.
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I have at least 10 pin tabs.
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Yeah, I'm not the best with tabs, but my computer can handle it.
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I'm still looking for the distributed search engine, but I can't find much.
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Except for an article on Wikipedia.
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It's a good idea though.
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Yeah.
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There's one I had saw.
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YACY that looked like you could do that.
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YACY.net.
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Just added the link to the show note.
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It looks like it applies to your local area network.
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Well, when I was looking at it before, I haven't messed with it in a while.
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When I was looking at it before, you can give it sites that you want to index.
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And then you can do some sort of peer,
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peering between it, but I was just trying it on one machine,
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so I didn't mess with the peering or anything on it.
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You ever try start page?
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It uses Google servers, but it doesn't track you.
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That's my default search engine.
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All right.
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I use a search, I quite like it.
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Yeah, I've convinced a couple other people to start using that one.
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After I showed them direct evidence of the Google bubble,
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and I was trying to explain that to my wife one time,
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and she didn't quite understand it.
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We had a trip we were getting ready to go on,
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where we were going to be working at a place in Florida,
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and she kept searching for it and couldn't find it in Google.
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Well, I went ahead and searched for it and looked it up and found the stuff,
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and I sent her a link to it.
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She pulled up the page.
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Well, then afterwards, she went to show me how she couldn't find it in Google,
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and she put in the same search that she did earlier,
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and it's now on top of her results.
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Just by having visited once, somehow,
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Google made the association with her,
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and now change her results to show that it's a top priority.
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I'm going to use a tractor IP.
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Yeah.
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But it's sort of defeats the whole purpose of a search engine.
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If it's only going to show you the stuff that you already know,
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or lean to the stuff that you already know.
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So you get tunnel vision.
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Dang it.
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I didn't have the push-to-talk press when I said that.
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With the talk about getting rid of Google services,
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with the next cloud, you can actually set it up
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so you've got document editing straight in there.
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And so I'm not even using Google Docs or any of that.
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Archer 72, are you around?
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I am.
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How are you?
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Good.
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You know there's a question coming, don't you?
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Which so?
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Very much.
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That is a fantastic size that you pointed out for the Master Dombot.
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I just, they approved the account for HDR.
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It's perfect.
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Thank you very much.
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You're welcome.
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Great.
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Now, one final thing, mind your trivia.
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I have an XML feed that I'd like to pump into it.
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Any ideas?
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I don't know, XML.
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What are you trying to accomplish?
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Right, we've got a brand new Master Dombot.
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And I have an XML feed, the post, the post to social media.
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So I want to take that feed and post it out.
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So back in the day, you could use if this, then that.
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But not anymore, I don't think.
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Don't think it has a Master Domb plugin in here.
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What, what server is it's running on a Linux server?
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Or what kind of server that you've, you've got your feed on?
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The feeds on a Linux server.
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I wonder if you could do that with a Perl module.
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Oh, I'm sure you could.
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Say that three times and do more of this will appear.
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Oh, Dave does a lot of Perl?
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Did we see the Zandal?
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Perl Lloyd.
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I've had to get into a lot more Perl lately.
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Dave's your man.
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And there is a Macedon client for Perl under CPAN.
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Yep.
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How often is the XML updated?
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Every weekday.
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So just the daily feed.
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Yep.
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Fixed time?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Just one second.
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Let me have an option here.
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So you're only going to post the latest update from the XML?
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Yeah, I think I figured out how to do it.
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Cool.
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All right.
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There's a next one to Cairo.
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It's actually a pretty big place.
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And certainly it's like tiny little Russian cities that we keep getting.
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Have there any like utilities that you all use that are like pretty not well known?
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Do you know what I'm just kind of curious about that?
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Auto key is the primary one I've been used.
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Is that auto key?
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Is that like some sort of way to...
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Auto key.
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Auto key.
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Yeah.
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Basically.
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And for, um,
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Fedore, it's in the repos.
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I'm not sure about on Ubuntu.
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Let me see here.
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Where it comes in handy is saving a lot of different phrases and commands because,
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like I said, I go to machines where it's often the first time that I'm visiting them.
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I can't have install...
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I can't install a lot of utilities and I need to run a whole bunch of standard commands.
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Yeah, that sounds pretty useful, actually.
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I was like finding like, you know, obscure utilities that are really helpful.
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And not so, you know, useless or, you know, stuff that you find.
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Next stuff that you can really use.
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Now, another one I use a lot.
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And it's...
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It's somewhat well known.
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I use some key pass XC along with next cloud for syncing.
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And there's key pass for next cloud that you can integrate in there.
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And then I've got a couple apps on the phone.
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So I've got the...
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My password vault sync between multiple devices.
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But they're under...
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Devices under my control.
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Yeah, I do need...
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That's another reason I mean, it's that I'm Xcloud.
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So I can sync my password database between different devices.
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Now, I didn't use next cloud's password vault.
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I used, um,
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key pass XC.
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Yeah, that's what I would be using.
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But there is an add-in for next cloud that allows you to open key pass databases inside your browser.
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So if I am at a place where I don't even want to sync my database,
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I can still go to my next cloud server and pull up my password database.
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That's pretty cool.
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Yeah, but now I have to look...
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I really have to look into setting up next cloud.
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And if I do do it, that will be a show.
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If you're setting it up, need help.
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God, pick me and I'll be glad to help you out.
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Where would I do that?
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I don't really know much about the community or your own interact.
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If you search for, um, guest on, or host on next, on Hacker Public Radio,
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I'm Toujet on there and my address is in that.
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Ah, perfect.
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Thank you.
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What about on mastodon?
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I have not set up a mastodon server yet and I was looking,
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hoping to find somebody that might be able to help me integrate that into, um,
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the next cloud server because I saw it was in there.
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I just have no idea how to do it.
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I don't have a server.
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I just, um, I have somebody else's server.
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Let me check to see if I had set up a mastodon a while ago.
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Um, one of the other servers.
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I have mastodon.stf.org.
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There's always a mastodon on that social.
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Yeah, I don't have one set up there.
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Where am I looking for this?
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I can't find out exactly where, because then he said, like,
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hosts or something, but I can't find Toujet.
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Because I'm going to lose it and never be able to find you again.
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Yeah, if you do the search on there and search Toujet one word, um,
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I've got a couple of different ones that are looking.
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You did one on the USB security.
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Yeah, episode three, two, three, one, the USB key.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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What's the number three two three one?
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Actually, I think I listened to that one.
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I did.
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Yeah, that's what happened when I got bored for a few minutes.
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I thought I had my, um, there, um, sorry.
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Well, I thought I had my email address in there.
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Uh, it has an email for me.
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It's a hacker public radio.
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Is there like a, um,
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like an IRC or something?
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Or anything like that that is actually used, I guess,
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not like something that's just there.
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Pound out, podcast planet.
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Mailing list is most common way.
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I see things coming out.
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Parked, sorry.
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I heard the mailing list.
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It was the other one podcast planet.
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It was really echoey.
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Oggcast planet.
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Thank you.
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Man, I'm looking at my episode history.
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I don't want to do what I did this last time.
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It was almost a two year gap.
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And before that, it was over three year, almost three year gap.
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So where were you suggesting setting up a mastodon account?
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Mastodon.sdf.
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That's my handle there.
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Helps if I can tie it.
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I put that in the show notes too.
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So you're going to do a show on auto key, right?
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Uh, I'll consider it.
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I'm going through the, uh, mastodon signup right now.
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Oh, cool.
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Hope to see you soon.
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I should do that too, yes.
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If I can do one on modding a dog coat,
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you, anybody can do one.
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That's not even tech related.
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That's some more, uh, I got it from a thrift store.
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And she needed a coat for the winter.
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You didn't tell me I was going to have to be reviewed and judged by people to join.
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Oh, just plan around.
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And which NSA watch list did this put me on?
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I don't know if you use Linux at all.
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You're on their watch list, I believe.
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At least that's what they said last year.
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I've been on their watch list probably for years with several of the things I've done.
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Yeah.
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You know, when you sit down and watch the six o'clock news,
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and find that you're involved in a few of the top, uh, articles, uh, it's not a good day.
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Uh, that's a story.
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You peaked my interests, they must say.
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Those are not for a public forum.
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Oh, no.
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Hi, guys.
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Thought I'd poke my nose in here, um, put it in the usual plugs for Mintcast and
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District Hopper's Digest.
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Familiar with Mintcast, but not District Hopper's Digest.
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No, we're neither.
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Well, we're there.
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It's, uh, our website's DistrictHopper's Digest.blogspot.com.
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And you should be able to find us on your pod catchers.
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We've been doing this since April of a year ago.
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And we just released our 18th episode or monthly on this one.
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Or supposedly monthly, you only got 10 shows out in 2020, but then that was 2020.
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We expanded our team from two to three.
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So we're probably going to be doing at least three distros per episode.
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And everybody is being so quiet.
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Yeah, it seems to be a bit of a common thing because it's hard to keep up conversations
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for, you know, 25 hours, but I'm sure we'll go on through quite a while.
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Well, I promised Tony Hughes I'd get in here, but apparently not soon enough.
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Well, he was in here for a little bit.
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Yeah, I'm going to chew on some stuff for a while and listen and maybe poke my nose
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if one had done chewing.
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Do you assume?
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What are your favorite fireworks extensions?
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My top one is Dark Reader.
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Well, I think you block has to have that title.
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Or what?
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I think you block origin has to have that title.
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That block is essential for everyone.
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Yeah, probably my favorite one is open with.
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It allows you to detect all the other browsers on your system and open your current page
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in one of the other browsers.
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It was open with on mobile.
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Well, considering I don't use any other browsers, that wouldn't help me any.
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Yeah, same thing.
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I've got certain ones at my company that will not work in Firefox.
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One of them be in the payroll system, and I definitely want access to that.
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True, and at least you still have a job.
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A lot of us don't.
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Yeah, I've been fortunate.
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I've been working from home since everything's been going on.
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Switch to a new job right before the lockdown started,
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and my new job was working from home four days a week,
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and so then with the lockdown started, it was working from home all days a week.
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Yeah, I've got two jobs, but one of them is working for a school district which is closed.
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And the other one is a company that's just barely getting started and doesn't have any money yet.
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They decided to work the way in from the ground up instead of coming with funding first.
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But if it takes off, I should be doing her rather well, but I won't know when.
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Good luck.
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Thank you. I appreciate that.
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I got enough help from my family and community to actually set up a audio studio for myself.
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Sorry if I'm listening a bit.
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I had all my teeth pulled a couple months ago, and it's easier to not even have the
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temperies in. So there's no teeth here.
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Old man, you know.
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Thank you for posting my website, Archer.
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You're welcome.
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You don't have to be old.
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They have your teeth removed.
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My wife has dentures from 35 on.
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I just turned 68 and I got my teeth pulled just before I turned 68,
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but the temporary dentures don't fit that well.
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I actually bought a Dremel tool so I could whittle them into shape,
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but I'm taking it a little bit at a time because I don't want to overdo it.
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But it'll probably be another seven or eight months before I get the permanent ones.
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I love the idea of just using the Dremel on your teeth.
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Not using the Dremel on my teeth, using the Dremel on my temporary dentures.
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Yeah, I know it just sounds funny to say.
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Just whittling down the rough edges, so it doesn't hurt your gums.
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Well, not so much that, but the lowers especially they had sort of a flat spot in the back
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inside and my tongue would catch them and flip teeth off and I'm trying to whittle that down
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to where it doesn't do that because it makes it hard to swallow when when your tongue
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is being impeded by your dentures and you now know more about it than you ever wanted to.
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Yeah, I'm one of those filthy multi-booters. My laptop has 10 distros on it.
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My desktop only has three because I just had to whittle it down.
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I had a difficulty and had to start over on it and no windows.
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I have not done windows since 2015 and I was also off windows from about 2008 to 2012
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and it's the time I was only using Ubuntu and in 12.04 they forced unity on us and it wouldn't
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run on my system. I think I quit windows in 2004.
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I was playing with Linux one way or another since about 2002.
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That's about when it started.
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I had all of this for Slackware and Red Hat but I didn't have all the information I needed
|
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to install them so I was too chicken to do that. I finally got Mandrake installed.
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Mandrake was one of my first. I never was brave enough for Slackware until a couple,
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three years ago maybe.
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Well, I will point out very happily that OpenMandriva has finally achieved the level of perfection
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that Mandrake had in the old days. 4.1 is really nice. 4.0 is really nice. 3.5 was promising.
|
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They're in beta on 4.2 right now but I still use Mint when I have to get everything done.
|
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I used Fedora on my laptop and Debian's on my a couple of pies I have.
|
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Well, if Fedora was my preferred distribution I would load that on my system and then load
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everything else. But Fedora installer is not friendly to current multi-boot systems.
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I can't get through the installer without fearing that you're going to wipe out the whole system
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doing it. So I have yet to actually run Fedora. Well, Ryan's made windows. It wiped out the
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dual boot at my work. I'm using a Ubuntu and then the next update wiped it out.
|
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There were a few versions of Ubuntu that didn't pay attention to the fact that you told it to
|
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only use a part of the disc and use the whole damn thing. Or you told it to stop the installation
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because you weren't comfortable with it and when I hadn't did it anyhow. They have gotten over that.
|
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I've tried a little bit of everything except Fedora. The closest I've gotten to Red Hat is
|
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Mandrava. Yeah, I've never missed with Fedora. I was sad to see Sade on shutdown. That was a really fun
|
|
project. It is getting reborn as Mochicino OS. And Mochicino will have two versions, one of which
|
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is based on Jentu and one of which is LFS. And that's still an alpha or beta or something like that.
|
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All right, I have to head out. My head turns to hurting because of my glasses. So see you later.
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See you. Be good. Hope you can fix the glasses. See you. Yeah, my healthcare provider just
|
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gave me a credit card with a hundred bucks on it and said, go spend something on healthcare. And
|
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so I got new glasses. I finally got to the point where I needed Bifocal's last year.
|
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Yeah, this is fun. They gave me $100 and said, knew it. And stand an optical would give me two pair
|
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transitional Bifocal's. You know, the no line ones for that for 99 bucks with no tax. So I came out
|
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like a bandit there. Oh, we don't have anything like that here. Where are you? Midway is an hour
|
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north of Chicago. Hmm, I thought standing optical was nationwide. Oh, they do have a two pair,
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but I can't remember American something. Yeah, America's best I wear or something like that.
|
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We got that here too. That's right. But they're 10 or 20 bucks more expensive than Stanton.
|
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You can get two pair of single vision lenses for 59 and two pair of progressive Bifocal's for 99
|
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at Stanton. It's the lenses that get you though. Oh, that's included. Yes, I have two new
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pair of glasses. Well, of course, you have to get a certain level of frames or less. If you want to
|
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get more premium frames, you have to pay extra for that. If you want the photo gray or sun sensor
|
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or whatever they call them transitional lenses, you have to pay extra for that. I never got transition.
|
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I think that might drive me crazy. It's bad enough walking in and to the building with
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a mask and clogging up my glasses there. They had just very quickly. I've had them and been
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happy with them. But it's got on the point that if I'm sitting back in my car, the sun is not
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actually on the lenses. So I have to wear sunglasses anyhow. So I didn't get that this time.
|
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BHPI universe, how's it going? This is case here. Checking in from the great white noise.
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Great white north. How's everyone doing tonight? How white and how north is it? I'm fine.
|
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And north, north Toronto by several hundred kilometers.
|
|
That's good. And you were right. There is no standard optical in Chicago. But there are someone
|
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with constant in Indiana. Why is that that far away from me then? There's Madison and Milwaukee
|
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and Brookfield Wisconsin and Pleasant Prairie Wisconsin and Oak Creek Wisconsin and
|
|
Michelle Walker and Indiana. Milwaukee is almost two hours for me. And Peoria, Illinois. That's
|
|
weird. You think if they had that much covered, they go to Chicago. You would think so. Oh,
|
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isn't it? Yeah, they include the eye exam with that. So that's 59.95 for single with 99.95
|
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for progressive bike vocals. That includes the eye exam. So that's really a pretty good price.
|
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Sometimes I get the glasses wrong. The last time I went there, I had to try three or four times
|
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to get some of my glasses right. But nonetheless, then you have to spend the gas if it's only if it's
|
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two hour trip to get there. Well, this time they got it right. So maybe they're getting better.
|
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It's been like six years since first time. Fortunately, our place is only 15 minutes from us.
|
|
So anyhow, I usually use mint for work. I use bodie for fun. And I've got everything else just
|
|
to keep my finger in the pool. I think I'm reviewing Blue Bundy this time and I was surprised at
|
|
how far Alex QT has come. It actually looks like a good desktop now. It always looked like it was
|
|
unfinished. I still like XFCE. Well, right now I use I3. Well, my favorite is Mocha,
|
|
which is a fork of enlightenment. And I use Matei whenever I can. Isn't Matei closer to what
|
|
windows would look like for somebody coming from there? Well, it can be thought of that,
|
|
but you could say the same thing for cinnamon. Basically, Matei was a fork of GNOME 2 and has been
|
|
upgraded to GGK 3 Plus. And cinnamon was a fork of GNOME 3. Both of them to achieve the look of
|
|
the old GNOME 2 or a more or less Windows 7 look. I think Matei is the more stable of the two.
|
|
And Martin Wimpress did a whole lot of work on that to make it that. For that matter,
|
|
Ike Dority worked on the brisk menu for it, which makes it faster. The menu doesn't use as much
|
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memory as it used to. Hey, Mocha. Hey, sounds like Joe. Yep, looking a little lap. How's your
|
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day been? I'm pretty quiet. I wanted to thank you about talking about X to go. Yeah,
|
|
it really is quite, and he's a software. Yeah, well, in case anybody doesn't know X to go is a
|
|
remote desktop software. But like this last year, you know, when I was looking into expanding
|
|
it to usage myself, I found out that it's also a really good screen mirroring software.
|
|
Sorry about that. I thought I muted my mic to call. Anyhow, I'll be right back.
|
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Or a screen sharing software. I'm not about that function. I'll check into it. Let me see if I can
|
|
find what it's called on X to go. When you pick your desktop type connection to local desktop.
|
|
Yeah, I still use X to go all the time. I pair that with M, make MkV. I didn't have a laptop I
|
|
slated to do by ripping my DVDs and my Blu-rays. Cool. Basically making a thing quiet.
|
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Right. It just stays that way. I just keep it under my, under my couch. Just keep it plugged in.
|
|
Actually, I don't, I don't need X to go so often, but once, so while I get a stubborn disc and I
|
|
have to do the graphical interface to get it to work right.
|
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Sala, what are you watching? Right now. No, Tala. Dream team,
|
|
Animaniacs, Animatics. Oh, it sounds chirile. Name it for me one more time. Dream team,
|
|
Animatic. Okay. Thank you. My daughter is weird. What genre is that? What genre is that?
|
|
That's a movie. Basically, they're making, they're coming here and explaining it again because
|
|
it seems a little silly. We're going to talk into the microphone. Streamers, minecraft streamers who
|
|
do stupid stuff on their stream and animated by people online who found what they were streaming about
|
|
funny. Okay, you're dismissed. Thank you, little girl. Okay, thank you.
|
|
Kind of like how they do with the Roblox, too. My daughter likes to watch stuff like that.
|
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You're doing nothing. What? Well, I'm talking to my daughter again. Now, my daughter is 16.
|
|
And yours is a protein? 13. Going on 20, she thinks. Yeah. She thinks she wants to go to art school.
|
|
I think Tala still wants to do law school. No, it's changed. What is it? I owe. Okay.
|
|
Get a headset and log in to mumble. You don't want to join us? Okay. There's no camera. How can
|
|
you be camera shy if there's no camera? You talk to people all the time. Who says they're my friends?
|
|
Hey, wisher, are you my friend? Moss, my account is my friend. Okay. I'm your friend, Joe. Moss is my friend.
|
|
Yes. Okay. I didn't know what about me. Well, what about you? Honky, you're usually there,
|
|
but not there. So yeah, you're my friend, too. So yeah, it is friends at this point.
|
|
Well, my wife has some crazy old-fashioned idea and supposed to be spending New Year's Eve with her.
|
|
So I probably won't be here that much longer. No, well, I went to a New Year's party yesterday,
|
|
virtually, of course, with the wife. So that had to be natural. It was fun. It was also drunken.
|
|
Yeah, I hope to get some cons so I can play some music this new year. I usually go to a convention
|
|
the first or second weekend of January in Atlanta. That's not happening this year,
|
|
but they may have it online. I am not a horrible musician, but the style I play is not that
|
|
popular these days. Is it bluegrass? No, I am not, I am not from the Appalachians. I live in the
|
|
Appalachians. I grew up in Southern California and my dad was a union man, so I'm an old
|
|
folky and you better spell that with a K. Okay, so it's folk music. Yeah, it's actually more recently
|
|
silk music. The music of the science fiction fantasy community. As opposed to metal, you should play
|
|
metal all the time. I can't play metal. Why not? I am not capable of playing metal. I do not think in
|
|
metal. I do not feel in metal. Okay. What you're going to do is just take that song that you're
|
|
playing and then just make it a little bit faster. Well, it's not just sassy. You got to bang harder
|
|
and I don't want to do that to my instruments. I bang them hard enough now and I can't play
|
|
lead. You're tired of saving my soul and don't know anyone that does. Fortunately, my salvation is
|
|
not predicated on my playing lead or but we miss Greece. The country or the musical? The country
|
|
and the New Year. Because I should own this genre. No. I've been watching this sitcom on Netflix called
|
|
Mr. Iglesias, which is Gabrielle Fluffy Iglesias, being a school teacher in Long Beach, California.
|
|
It's basically welcome back cutter only put in Long Beach with minority kids and Iglesias as the
|
|
teacher is. Funny you're in hell, but I've seen as Sitka or his stand-ups. It's pretty funny.
|
|
Well, the sitcom is just as funny and the kids are all really brilliant. They've got good comic timing.
|
|
The script is pretty well written. I've just been rewatching all the Marvel TV shows.
|
|
Well, Netflix shows. I think we watched all those. This year we did finish doing our re-hazitation
|
|
of Babylon 5, although we couldn't get feeds for Legend of the Rangers. I've been watching
|
|
Resident Files to show. Yeah, that was horrible. It was horrible. We watched it this year thanks to Joe.
|
|
Yeah, there was only one one show actually took some things from the from the books other than
|
|
the character's names and basic type. There's only one episode that really was based on one of the
|
|
books and it wasn't that good. I told you you were going to be disappointed with the Dresden
|
|
Files before you started it. Yes, you did. I was happy they did it and I like the actors they picked
|
|
and the tone was good, but it just wasn't resident. Yeah, they did, but Storm watch they did most
|
|
of that episode, which was somewhat close to the actual book. They did the one with the werewolves,
|
|
but they did it kind of like only part of the whole story with the werewolves. Yeah, they just
|
|
rewrote the whole story like they can write better than Jim Butcher apparently.
|
|
All right, thanks. Well, we've got this award-winning author that is sold all these millions of
|
|
books and we want to take his books and totally butcher them and turn them into a series that
|
|
kind of looks maybe like it was influenced by the book. Yeah, we can write better than him anyhow.
|
|
Yeah, I took the show as because there's they kind of referenced there being lots of you know,
|
|
he does takes lots of fires lots of cases and does lots of things in between the big times that
|
|
he does in the books, you know, all the big stories in the books. I've watched it so far. I've been I
|
|
was extremely disappointed at first. The more I've watched it, the more I've kind of liked it
|
|
a little bit more, but you know, it's still I just kind of take it as, you know, it's the kind of
|
|
thing where I think I'd like the TV show better if I had never read the books. Yeah, right. Well,
|
|
I'm the kind of guy that likes to read aloud to people when I've been reading them slowly to my
|
|
wife. I think we're in white night now. I think we're like chapter five or six of white night,
|
|
so we're getting through it. I tried to read her that the Garrett books and she didn't like them
|
|
and I don't know why. Maybe she will now. It's been a few years. Yeah, well the Garrett PI
|
|
of the early books are good. And then later on, well, pretty much wraps up with book 11 and there's
|
|
one or two stinkers in before that. But still, yeah, the first six or eight books are more than
|
|
worth reading. I read them to several other people in the past. Let's see. I started reading some
|
|
more Darcy to her. There's not enough of that damage because Randall Garrett came down with a
|
|
brain virus that turned him into a vegetable. Michael Curlin wrote some in the
|
|
world with permission and then wrote a tourist read or Darcy books later that didn't sell.
|
|
Well, Terry Goodkind died this last year, right? He's a guy that was writing the sort of truth
|
|
novels, but that series should have been done a long time ago. Well, you know, when you're making
|
|
money, it's like, I love Roger Salasney's early work. But when he started writing Amber,
|
|
it was so far downhill. It's like, I have three Hugo's and two Nebula's and I don't have a
|
|
penny to my name. I'm going to write something that will sell. Let's see, I got up to, I think,
|
|
book 9 or 10 of the Vlad Talto series. I don't know if you know that one. Don't know that one, Joe.
|
|
Okay. See, this is the thing we should sometimes Joe and I turn Mintcast into a book review show.
|
|
Yeah, well, I'm usually reviewing the audio book though. Yeah, I am reading it aloud to somebody
|
|
currently my wife. Yeah, and I'm redoing Wheel of Time right now. Taking a bit more time with it.
|
|
You know, I'm not playing the book slower. I'm just taking more time between playthroughs.
|
|
I'm sorry to hear from you that Dresden lost some continuity in the last two books.
|
|
Yeah, especially just little things in battle. Well, you'll start noticing little things in
|
|
ghost story. And then after what, what is it?
|
|
Skin game, skin game comes right heart. No, cold days, cold days is after ghost story.
|
|
I want to ask about one spoiler, Joe. Go ahead. At the current state in the books,
|
|
has he kicked Lashiel to the curb yet? He doesn't kick Lashiel to the curb, but Lashiel does leave.
|
|
Oh, okay. That's good. That's an influence that was really hard to
|
|
resist for a long period of time. And it does it for years.
|
|
Well, as a wizard, he has a lot of years. Yeah.
|
|
I can't imagine her leaving, but I'm glad to hear it. I'm sure most of the people listening
|
|
have no clue what we're talking about. But they're busy looking up Dresden files right now.
|
|
I'm okay with that. Yeah, I'd probably like to hear the audio books because you said that
|
|
Marsden did a great job on them. Yeah, James Marsters. Marsters, yeah.
|
|
He does a really good job. Although people did complain about
|
|
Marsters in battlegrounds because he changed some of the accents a little bit.
|
|
Or forgot that certain people had specific accents. That's a problem of being a live reader
|
|
over a period of time because if a character doesn't show up for three or four books,
|
|
you forget what they sounded like to you. You know, it was a fairly common character,
|
|
but the problem was is that there wasn't an audio book for like seven years.
|
|
Have you read any Joel Rosenberg?
|
|
A name of the books. I can't remember the names of the books right now. It was basically
|
|
some of the best written D&D campaign in publishing effort. And let me, let me open it. I got
|
|
a browser open. Good. I'll move to that window. Are you sure you're not talking about Margaret
|
|
Weiss and Tracy Higman? They basically wrote their campaigns down and turned them into
|
|
what the Dragon Lance was on. Joel Rosenberg, the Canadian American science fiction and fantasy author
|
|
best known for his long-running Guardians of the Flame series. There you go.
|
|
Nope. Never wrote it. You should read that one. You'll love it.
|
|
He didn't want to write it because at the time he started writing Guardians of the Flame,
|
|
the big thing was the Carl West's name, the Gore books.
|
|
And he did not want to be lumped into the same category as the Gore books.
|
|
Oh, it says, as a younger sister, it works for the Miami Herald.
|
|
Stormlight Archive recently had a new book come out for it, or the fourth book. And it was
|
|
really good. Okay, the first novel is Sleeping Dragon. A series placed a group of college students
|
|
into a fantasy setting similar to a role-playing world through the series of 10 novels Rosenberg
|
|
trace these characters, their descendants, and the changes they made to society. He showed no
|
|
compunction about killing off popular characters. He also has a trilogy Keepers of the Hidden Ways,
|
|
which is similar, but makes have a use of Norse mythology. And he has a third series consisting
|
|
of the novels Dishai and Hour of the Octopus, both lightly humorous mysteries, set in an Asian
|
|
influenced fantasy world with very strict cultural standards and etiquette. Joel Rosenberg.
|
|
Okay. Yes. There's another author named Joel Rosenberg. I was looking through and trying to
|
|
see where you were getting the dead information. And Joel C Rosenberg evidently wrote some
|
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Bible prophecy. Well, this is Wikipedia. Joel, Underline Rosenberg, Underline Perin, Science,
|
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Underline Fiction, Underline Ops, they're both great. Yeah, I just got that.
|
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Died in 2011. Guardians of the Flame series. Yeah, I have read most of the books in that as
|
|
I feel right. Honky Magoo got a cook dinner. I should hopefully be back on later. I'll talk to you
|
|
guys later. Yeah. See, yeah, I probably won't be here much longer. My wife is advocating for my
|
|
returning to her. Oh, honky. Yep. Are we doing a show tomorrow? Yeah. Okay. It is the first. Yep.
|
|
All right. Send me a message on discord if nothing else. All right, guys. Well, it's been a horrible
|
|
year. May 2021 be better. It's a low bar to me that, you know, right?
|
|
Yeah. I actually, financially, this has been probably my best year ever, but that's because of
|
|
all the COVID money I got after getting laid off for my job after getting in a car wreck.
|
|
So the car wreck didn't feel good, but the money did. It was a real NASCAR moment for me,
|
|
and I still am not fully recovered from it, but we survived the year, and I don't know how.
|
|
Well, the $600 stimulus checks are out. They're talking about another 1,400 beyond
|
|
that. And I think part of the stimulus package was for $300 by weekly. Only if you're on
|
|
employment. Okay. And I'm not unemployed. I have two jobs, none of them, which are giving me
|
|
hours or money. That they're not giving you hours or money that still counts as no, because
|
|
to get the COVID money, I have to say I'm unemployed and be applying for jobs on a regular basis.
|
|
You can collect while under employed, right? Nope. And since I ran through my first 26 weeks
|
|
after the accident, which I should have been on workers' comp, although if I were on workers'
|
|
comp, I wouldn't have got the COVID money. Right. So it says it's a big catch 22 for me.
|
|
But we got through the year. If one of my new jobs comes through, I could be making Bukku
|
|
bucks by the end of the next year, but getting there is going to be painful, and I worked with
|
|
this guy before and I didn't get there before. Right. What's the two jobs? Well, one of the
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substitute teachers. Oh, yeah. And they did raise our money from 55 a day to 65 a day.
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Oh, and so your little office space that you built is specifically for substitute teaching?
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No, the little office space that I built is specifically for MintCast and Distrooper Digest.
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Okay. It also helps me do my other job, which is they have now changed my title to Founder
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of AWH216. There is a .com on that if you want to see it. I'm not getting paid for being founder,
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just yet that if the products take off, I will. AWH216.com. It's an extension of the fact that I actually
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started and held for six years a nonprofit organization dealing directly with homeless people as a
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membership organization instead of throwing money at them or throwing services at them,
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we actually were them. And so because of that, I am a good front facing person for the media,
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so he named me Founder. I started out just being a regional coordinator. I think on whatever
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the heck that is, LinkedIn, I'm still listed as, well, I'll open my LinkedIn, VP of Business
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Development, but apparently he changed my title to Founder now. It's not a raise and pay.
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I'm still getting zero. Actually, I put in four hours work this week at 20 bucks an hour,
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so I'll get something. Yeah, when I have work to do, he's paying me 20 bucks an hour, which is nice.
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It'd be nice to be working 20 or 30 hours a week at 20 bucks an hour. Yeah.
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Okay, well, Happy New Year, everybody. I'm going to take off for now. Happy New Year, Moose.
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I'll see you in a, well, Saturday. Well, yeah, on Saturday. Yeah.
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The rest of you don't know. I got a pissed off K-wisher about 10 months ago or so.
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I do have a question about your substitute teaching. Yes. Now, are all your classes virtual?
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I do not teach virtually. We have to have school in session and a teacher not showing up for me to
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have work. You won't do virtual at all. They haven't trained me for virtual. They have to train you
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for virtual before you can do it. Yeah. Is that their requirement or your requirement?
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Well, actually, I'm lucky they let me in. Most of the school districts make me go through a training
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course and testing, and I have to pay for myself. The county I'm in, however, just said, well,
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we need warm bodies. I was a substitute teacher for a while. I hated it, but no, all I had to do
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was have X amount of college under my belt. Well, I have just barely X amount of college. I do not,
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if I had teaching credentials, I'd be getting paid 115 a day, but I don't. I didn't even finish
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college. I should probably go back and do that, but you should apply. You should apply with another
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district that allows you to do the whole remote learning substitute, substituting, and then, you
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know, basically, basically, when you're a substitute teacher, all they tell you to do is, you know,
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keep an eye on the kids, make sure they don't kill each other. Well, most of my subbing job has
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actually been for an educational assistant. If I sub for a teacher, I'm basically just a babysitter
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recent there, and they're working on their Chromebooks, and I just take my laptop in and play
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online. But when I get filled in as an educational assistant, I so far only worked in kindergarten
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classes, and we have two great kindergarten teachers at the washroom school, and I love working
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with both of them, and I basically do the stuff that they're too damn busy to do, and that's fine,
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because I understand what it is. They get me a task to do. I do the task. I'm not required to
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actually work with the kids. The kids seem to have attached to me rather quickly. In fact,
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the one kindergarten teacher I've worked with the most, her daughter is in the other kindergarten
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class, and every day I have gone into work at that school, her daughter has come up and given me a
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big hug, not knowing me from Adam. Just, you know, when you get that much fresh from a little kid,
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you feel good, you know? That's what I want to do. I want to be filling in for those educational
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assistants, so I'm not really responsible for the class when I'm helping out. Anyhow, I'm going to
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take off, like I said. Everyone have a good year. I hope nothing happens that changes the election
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results. I hope we do not turn into a third-world burden of our public, because if you get the course
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or Congress or somebody to go along with making them a dictator, but there shouldn't be anything
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more you can do. Well, there's still stuff going on. They are going to object to the
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Electoral College. Theoretically, all they can do is object and have a recount, but there is
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already a court document where they're trying to give Pence more power to actually overturn the result.
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Well, even if you ignored the Electoral College, he's still lost. Yeah, I know. Seven million votes
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isn't up. Yeah. Anyhow, he still, he doesn't want to go down as a loser, and I think he just
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needs to get over that shit because he already lost. I figured with the whole bumping the stimulus
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package from $600 to $2000, that was his bid to come back in four years and try again. Yeah, well,
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I really, really, really hope that doesn't happen, but it probably won't be running against Biden if he
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does. Okay, people. I'm sure there are some people that don't agree with my politics that are
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listening in right now. I'm sure there's plenty of people that don't agree with my politics, but
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I'm still trying to get Owen to take that one bit of my what I said on the last show out before it
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goes out. Almost half of America would disagree with us. Almost. About seven million short of half
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of America. Seven million short of half of the voting populists of America. That's true.
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But, you know, that's more than double the normal turnout for a presidential election. Yeah, I know.
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It's a bitch that Trump got that many votes, but it's great. You don't come in here. No, I'm sorry.
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I have a cat this not violating my boundaries. Yeah. Okay. Anyhow, I better go. Yeah.
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I'll quit dragging you back into the conversation.
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I did I did further flesh out my ideas in the in our discord group, but only for the team.
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Okay. Okay. I did read some of that. Yeah. All right, guys. Have fun. Thank you. Bye.
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Later. Hey, how's it going to be doing? All right. Hey, got an HFR question. How the heck do you
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edit your correspondent page? That beats me. I found the page, but I can't find any way to edit it.
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I think I was bumped out there for a minute. The correspondent page looks generated. Yeah, remember
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many, many years ago putting information in for, but it's like, hmm, is there any way to update it?
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Am I on offers? Everybody got in quiet. Everybody's gotten quiet. Okay. Hey, Joe, I wanted to say
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hello. I've spoken to just about everybody else on the tilts team there. You're the only one I
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haven't actually met in person, I believe. Oh, I'm sorry. I was getting a weird echo. It's because
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I had a different webpage open. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. So did you want to ask me something? Oh, no,
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I was just going to say, you know, I've met everybody else on the tilts team. You're the only one I
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haven't actually met in person either at a conference or at the long, lamented Lehigh Valley Linux
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users group year ago. Okay. No, I mean, the only thing I did was not this year's, of course, but
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last year's Texas Linux Fest. Gotcha. Yeah, I've been to that one. I've gotten to, you know,
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I go to Ohio and I usually go to Lieber Planet. I've actually been to scale once and Kansas
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Linux Fest, but never been down to Texas yet. So yeah, why a mordancy came out there and I got
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to hang out with him for a while. Oh, I've talked to him plenty of times at Ohio. So yeah, um,
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and 51 15. Yes, I actually passed away right before he passed away. Yeah, I had, you know,
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met him at some of the other ones either Southeast Linux Fest or Ohio. And I actually, you know,
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we hung out a bit at Kansas Linux Fest because I was more in his neighborhood. And yeah, I was
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sad to hear that he passed. He was a who's a nice guy. Oh, yeah, super nice. Yeah. So I don't think
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I'm going to stay on long. Actually, my I couldn't get the mumble client on Linux to work. I'm
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actually on my phone, which is less convenient. Yeah, I wanted to, uh, certificate issue. Yeah,
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yeah, yeah, wouldn't use the certificates on their desktop client. Um, I wanted to blow my own
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horn a little bit. I actually, uh, took the R H C E test this afternoon and squeaked out a pass. So
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R H T C Red Hat Enterprise R H C E Red Hat Certified Engineer. Oh, awesome. Of course, that's
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abuse of the engineer term, but I'll take it for this one. So cool. Congratulations on that.
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That's tough. I've been studying for a while. And it's brutally hard. And I thought for sure,
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I failed it because I ran out of time to do stuff. So, but apparently I did just enough.
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Right. Well, it was good to say hi, Joe. And, uh, I think I'm going to get off because this phone
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client seems a little suboptimal here. And I have, uh, oh, um, if you want the desktop version of
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working, uh, the easy way to install the flat pack. Oh, really? Okay. Um, I may play with that in
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the future. I don't know if I'm going to do that tonight. I've been studying for weeks and my,
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fiance would like to see me for some of this time. So I think I'm going to get off of this and, uh,
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take a break for the rest of the year. Yeah, take, yes, for the rest of the year, I'm taking off.
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That's what I'm planning on doing. So, uh, but, uh, I'll be listening to you guys and, uh,
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listening to the podcast at least at some degree. So, uh, and I'll just say to the whole audience,
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happy new year. Thanks. Happy new year. Hi, Kai. You were on this show last year, too. You were on the
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show. I think it was a year before and Kai was on last year. He, he's been on most of,
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George was been on most of my shows and something like that. Then Kai, last year, you admitted how
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short you were. I, I'm, I could play it back for the show. I have the equipment for it here.
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Make a soundboard real quick. Here, Kai, I thought you wanted to come on again and deny being short.
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Hi, come here, come here, come here. You got to come closer to the mic and say it again.
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I am not short. I am so going to cut that into little pieces and make it say the right thing.
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That's like, seriously, five minutes worth of audio work. They're not short. Both their feet reach
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the ground. Yeah. But what species? Guys, if you are going to have that argument, you should really get
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on the podcast. Why not? Yeah. But get your nose out of my ass and then get on the podcast and say that.
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So did anybody see the announcement that solar wood hackers viewed Microsoft's source code
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just posted the link in the chat. Link in the chat for, oh yeah. I read about the solar
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wind's hack. Just not the viewing Microsoft code. Yeah, apparently I just saw it and
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several of my news feeds that came out in the last half hour or so. Somebody ought to add a note
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they read Microsoft's source code and decided to give them computers. Right.
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And a curiosity. Anybody know how long mess it on verification takes usually?
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It's just about a minute to Berlin's new year. Five, four, three, two, one. Happy new year, Berlin.
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Who was that? I didn't see who's light went on. So England is next, huh?
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I think so. I have to step off. I would need to find somebody who's open to for dinner.
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We don't have anything for dinner. God, laughter was in the fridge, but by the time you get here,
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it'd be too late. Right. And half the places are closed due to COVID because they don't even
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do our dining. For Christmas Eve, we wanted to pick up dinner for the family, went out to an
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RV's nearby. Now, what is an RV's known for? But meats. And I went to RV's and they had no meat.
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It's like, why are they even open if they have no meat? Curly fries.
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Yeah, you got to have curly fries, mokashake, and a rubes thief together. Now I want to mokashake.
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Back in a bit. What is on it still open? Joe, quick question. Do you want to do it over here then?
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They can hear you. Yes.
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Oh, we got to put it on the stream all up. Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3. So, happy new year!
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Happy new year. It's like half an hour too late for us.
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It's 2021. It's fucking awesome.
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The echo is terrible. Happy new year, everybody.
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Yeah, listen to my Halloween special. It's not Halloween, but it wasn't Halloween when it went out.
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So listen to it. It's interesting. Bob Pyrr is versus Lich.
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If you listen to the episode, there is only one conclusion you control, and that is Lich's or better.
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Some people disagree. Some people say that. Some people are morons.
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But some people... What sort of beasts do you have that ask to ask permission in order to kill you?
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So how can they could rebound this? I don't know if it's just if you stay inside.
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I had an argument with him about this before he did the show.
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She did not have a clue. I was not informed on all the information.
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I did inform everyone. Everyone who listened to the show would be informed about the information.
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Because that's the entire premise of it.
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That's why I definitely lost that argument.
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Yeah, but it makes sense. Vampires make no sense.
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They have to ask permission. Vampires are even less powerful if you look at the challenge rating.
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It's like 15 in the best case, 13 in the worst case.
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When you contest with 21 and 22, that's higher than any mortal human can be at its pinnacle.
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Okay, so wish everybody a happy new year.
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Happy new year. Happy half an hour, the late new year for the people in the rooms.
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We had to go out and look at all the fireworks that were awesome because it was banned.
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It was banned, but there's still fireworks.
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Yes, and some of the fireworks are even bigger than normal because they have to buy them illegally for all of them.
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There's less fireworks, but there's more, it's more concentrated.
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It's the same amount.
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No, there was definitely the day's leading up to new year.
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There was definitely less.
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There wasn't anything.
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Which was actually good.
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Which was fine by me.
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I still got the sensation of being able to die any moment when you're stepping outside of your own.
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So you liked that?
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I liked that.
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I'm weird in that way.
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You have really different things.
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Well, the apparently, you know, the delivery bike guys.
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Yeah.
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They're the delivery bike guys working on new years because,
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apparently, the fire works at them as they go past.
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I know that would make sense.
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That does not surprise me.
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No, it would make sense.
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Anyway, like they're shooting cannonballs instead of fireworks.
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People have tried.
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They have failed, but they have tried.
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So 2021 so far, nobody's got COVID, nobody's sick, nobody's died.
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We're all doing awesome.
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So come join us.
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It's brilliant.
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Yeah, mm-hmm.
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I've got the bed of dropping letters.
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That's no, it's not a 2020.
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Do you want to say hello?
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That's a good one.
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Oh, god, don't apologize to it.
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Hello!
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There's nobody on anyway.
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It's completely silent.
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Like a podcast.
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You'll be listening to your songs.
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Put them on the headphones.
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Yeah.
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And I didn't hear anything.
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And then suddenly one got just when it took up the evidence.
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I heard someone.
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And then I didn't hear anyone for like a minute.
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So no one else heard him.
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I didn't hear what he asked.
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So, okay.
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I'm going to restart the streams
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and then stream recordings even.
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I'll go to bed and come back tomorrow.
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I'm sleeping.
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I'm not sleeping.
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Well, you can come out here
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and play music after listening.
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Yeah, I can talk to you.
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I can chat this.
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Can chat about D&D and D&D.
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The whole night.
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Hi, hi.
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Case.
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Happy Happy New Year, everyone.
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Across the pond from Canada over here.
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This case.
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Happy New Year.
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Happy New Year.
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Happy New Year.
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And Happy New Year from 2021.
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Happy New Year.
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