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Episode: 1431
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Title: HPR1431: Talking Twenty Fourteen
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1431/hpr1431.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 02:15:46
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Hello, HPR listeners. This is Jezra coming to you live from Studio Oomlot in beautiful
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Petaloma, California. And this is then my bill and I still haven't
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named my studio. So I'm over here. Well, maybe you should name it. I should name it.
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We can have an HPR account. Oh, no, I don't want to. I can imagine the submissions.
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So this is our, it seems like we talk what? Once a year? Yeah, about once a year.
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Our predictions for the year, which usually don't come true. Well, you're close on one.
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It's funny though, because you and I talk online, probably 340 days out of the year, and
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we only talk with our voices once. Yeah, you know, I just listen to you every now and
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then on HPR. So it's, it's fine. Yeah, I caught your recent one too. I didn't forget your voice.
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I should make a new one. I've got something in the, in the pipeline. So you're not using
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your Yoda stand with the Red Rider BB gun? No, the Red Rider is not here right now.
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So I used a little bit of tape and a broom and made a nice sweet hanging microphone stand,
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which works. You know, I'm still using a, it's like 13 or 14 dollars for a USB mic that
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I spent a couple of years back. And it still works just fine. So I'm not going to change
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the setup. A hanging mic. You're hanging it somehow. Well, okay. It's a leaning mic because
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I'm just leaning the broom on the futon, which has got the mic hanging from it. So it's
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all good. We spare no expense. Top of the line. I'm talking into a little, what do you call
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these? Lavalier mics, little tie clip mics. Oh, what kind of mic? Those little ones, like
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somebody's at a conference and they clip it on their lapel or their tie. Oh, sometimes newscasters.
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I forgot my microphone in Britain, in England. This is why we didn't do this before Christmas
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because I was waiting for that microphone to get back. Oh, got it. Yeah. So you have a lapel mic,
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is it still USB? Nope, it's just a quarter. Well, here's what happened. Oh, I should record
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this too. Oh, I did. Always record. No, I hit record on the Zoom. Yeah. So like last year
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for Northeast Linux Fest, I ordered a Zoom H1. And I think I've mentioned this before.
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It arrived at my door like while I was pulling into Boston. So I couldn't use it.
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And then Ogcamp was coming up and I knew we were going to try and get some interviews.
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And the Zoom H1 is awesome. If you can turn it on, hit record and put it down. And
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because as soon as you touch it, it gets all kinds of handling noise and acoustic. So I didn't know
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going to Ogcamp, how I was going to hand hold this thing. So I brought my big microphone.
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And then at the last minute, I go, well, what if I get one of these little tie clip microphones,
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at least I could hold that or clip it onto the Zoom. So I got one of those and it came the day
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before we left. So I didn't have time to do any testing. So I tested it. I don't know if you heard
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when we were ironing shirts that that bonus clip one. Not that I can recall. All right. Well,
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that was just me using the H1 with this tie clip mic just to see how it worked. I didn't plan on
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putting it up as an HPR, but the guys wanted to hear it anyways. But so it turns out that this
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laverlier mic or this tie clip mic works really well. So we didn't use the big microphone.
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So the first day, I took the stickers off the table. Tim Timmy took all the tech, all the phones,
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all the microphones. And then the next day, I don't think we put the microphone back out. And I
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never even thought about it. And Tim Timmy didn't. And we all got home and he had my microphone. And
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that's why I'm talking into this little tiny, tiny microphone. Well, is it doing a decent job
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with your recording? I hope so. We'll see. I got the Zoom H1-2 going as a backup. But it seems
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the wave is okay in audacity. It just looks a little silly. I have this little tiny mic on an
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actual mic stamp. Well, sometimes that's all you need. So are once you talk a chat with Bill and
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Jess? Yes, predictions for the great new year. What's going to happen in the world of
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FOS? We're FOS, however you want to say it. We should say one of last year's predictions that you
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had was a Unix on a tablet or Linux on a tablet. Oh, yeah, but it kind of happened.
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Kind of. Did you see the ping pod? Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's so you squeaked by. I think that
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counts. That prediction did slightly happen. It wasn't worldwide. Well, you're not going to count that.
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No, not at all. I want proper Linux. And when I say proper Linux, I'm talking
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GNU Linux. I want that on a tablet. Well, this was proper Linux. And it was a tablet. It's just
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it's a one-man operation, I think. Oh, was was ping pod the company shipping a device
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that is a tablet with GNU Linux on it? Not dual boot, not Android. You can flash it later.
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GNU Linux on the device as it ships from the manufacturer. A guy in our log bought one,
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and I did play with it, but I don't know if like there's a Android and the Linux is shoehorned
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on the side. So now I don't know that part. Well, dang. Okay, good. So I'm still zero for zero
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hours as far as everything goes. So that's nice. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So what about what about the
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year? What do you think is going to happen, Bill? I have no idea. I hope Flash dies in a fire.
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I've been fighting with Flash for two days. Oh, I guess,
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Adobe is no longer going to support Flash for Linux. Well, so nothing's really changed.
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Yeah, exactly. Well, this this is the like kind of end of life. So this last one and my wife
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did an update on her mint laptop and Flash halfway broke like some Flash works and some
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movies won't load. And I've just been fighting with it for two days trying to get that going. So
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that's my prediction. Flash will go even further down the tubes. I guess now they're trying to
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like team up with Google and just do Flash on the Google devices or the Chrome devices. So
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which it's still GNU Linux with Flash on it. Well, yeah, but yeah. Well, I'm not going to get into that.
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But there's not much I can do, though, because my wife watches like Korean content and they didn't
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change any of that to what's that new codec that like YouTube's using.
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Uh, W something WebM WebM WebM WebM is empty Vp8,
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Vp9 or something. Oh, there are H264 on your tubes now. I don't know. Yeah, it seems like neither of us know. So
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we'll stop guessing. Okay, go get the app like the little command line utility YouTube DL.
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Well, these are YouTube. It's it's Korean. Oh, we got it. Got it. Yeah, actual Korean websites.
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So until they switch which they want. Yeah, she's going to want to use Flash. So yeah, and I am her IT
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department. Oh, boy. How about this for a prediction? At some point in 2014, one of the contemporary
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Linux based mobile devices will come out with a version that has a working file uploader in HTML.
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Are we leading towards phones with this conversation? Oh, you know, phones, tablets,
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other such mobile devices one might have in the pocket that have web browsers on them. Someone
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might open up a web browser, go to a website that has a file upload form, like has an input,
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and it will work and they will be able to select a local file and upload it. You mean like a
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something like a Dropbox or something? No, well, well, I don't know. Is that how Dropbox works? Like
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select file on your local device and upload it or say my media goblin, you know, you select the
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photos you want to upload and click push. So that's that's not working on which of your devices.
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Did I say that it's not working on one of my devices? Oh, I thought
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well, because it's sure as shit not working on one of my devices and that would be the shitty Firefox OS
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device that I have. Yeah, you said last time that you did not own a phone. Do you still not
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own a phone? Or is that considered a phone? Does that make phone? Oh, that is that's definitely makes
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phone calls. It's good at making phone calls. I'll give it that. Yep, it's a phone that makes phone
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calls. But it doesn't do much. And it has these. Well, it's got a substandard web browser and
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I guess people make applications for it. It's hard as hell to update the software that's on it and
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without compiling it yourself. I mean, isn't this early days for that? Isn't that like a developer
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device? Well, it would be a developer device if you like to punch developers in the game.
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Okay, now we have our rating. Yep. Well, I'm sure you know, through a couple of fucking swear words
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in there anyhow. Yeah. No, I just, geez, every eighth dent that you put out was complaining about
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that thing. You haven't been having a good time. Oh, no, no. Well, I haven't been having a good time
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with it because I've been using it. You're trying to like it. No, no, no, I'm trying to use it.
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If I put it down and don't, if I don't use it for anything other than phone calls,
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I probably won't make a complaint about it. But as soon as I try to do anything else,
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I will have complaints about it. Oh, actually, that's not true. The other decent thing that
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this can do. So I have a ZTE open. It is a piece of crap. But it is good for making phone calls.
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It is a telephone. And it is good for going into the settings and turning on, I better go find out
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what the setting is called just to make sure I see it right. Internet sharing. And then once I have
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internet sharing turned on, I can connect with a laptop or my wonderful N900 and then access the
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Internet. So it's tethering. Yeah. So where are the roadblocks for? You've been like trying to
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develop stuff for this or it's just oh, absolutely not. It's not enough. I've it's it's too hot. Okay.
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Wow. Jack, come on. This is not getting unloaded. This is not getting into predictions for
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the new year. But the first issue I had was I thought I would be a good citizen. And hey,
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I got this device. It's running Firefox. I'm going to submit a bug. First thing like the first day
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I had it found a bug, submitted the bug a few weeks went by and then I found out that the most recent
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version of Firefox OS, the one that all the developers of Firefox OS are developing. This bug
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had been fixed weeks ago, months ago. It's just that my version of Firefox OS on my device was so
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old and outdated that there's no point in me submitting a bug because either someone else may
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have already submitted it or it just doesn't exist in newer versions of the OS. Unfortunately,
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it's almost impossible to get newer versions of the OS onto this device unless I compile the entire
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OS myself. So it's like they have a bug tracker and when a new version comes out, they just abandon
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the old tracker and it's not that they abandon the old tracker. It's that when I got my device,
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it was running version 1.0. All of the developers of Firefox OS were either on version 1.2 or 1.3.
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Gotcha. And so if I find a bug, I won't bother submitting it because I've already submitted a bug.
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If I were to submit a bug, I would be needing to be running the latest software for the
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for Firefox OS, the latest Firefox OS version. If I were running that and I found a bug,
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I would submit it. Now you mentioned that you submitted a bug and it was already fixed ages ago
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and they didn't go back and close it out in like the one oh, I don't know what you would call it,
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but the no, the bug still exists in 1.0 version, but nobody's going to use it except for you.
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Well, oh yeah, no, there are plenty of other idiots who have bought the ZTE Open Firefox OS device.
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I'm not the only idiot who bought it and it's compiling a bear or oh yeah, it's not compile a small
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piece of the OS or compile one app and then push it up onto the device as you compile the entire OS.
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And I don't think I have the time to go into what a hassle the setup of the build environment is
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or compiling this. It's, it's, it's obscene, it's obscenely intricate.
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This is only one device, right? So why, why couldn't they compile it and then have a version
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somewhere for everybody to pull in? It's, it's not like it's on 14 different devices or
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because then someone would be sharing a proprietary binary. Oh,
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because it's an ARM device. That doesn't sound open. Of course, it's not open.
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Oh, prediction for 2014, an ARM at someone who makes ARM devices will consider
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open sourcing a graphics driver. They'll consider it. I'm not sure how this
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someone using ARM, I think ARM is just an architecture that hardware manufacturers license.
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Yep, I don't think ARM builds anything. Oh, no, they don't. But those hardware manufacturers also
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have to pick a video graphics chip for their devices. Okay, so they have to pair something up with it.
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All right. And so there are no ARM based devices with graphics that are open source drivers.
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Are there open graphics devices that could be used? I have no idea. Based on what, probably not,
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but I don't know. Prediction. I will not build one. Maybe anyone's just a prick.
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Prediction. Jesser is going to complain about a lot more hardware in 2014.
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No, I'm probably not going to buy any ARM things in 2014. I will probably stick with Intel.
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I talked, I talked last time about being stuck with my Motorola droid in the Android
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and I did upgrade to a Samsung and I am still in the Android. Yeah, you can't get away from it.
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No, yeah. It's like a soft monopoly. What are the chances of putting Ubuntu touch on that
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they're Samsung? For myself, personally zero zero. What about on your old Android? Oh, yeah,
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the Motorola did run Android Motorola droid. No, no, I meant installing Ubuntu touch on that,
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but it's Motorola. So it's probably locked down too. I don't have much desire to try Ubuntu touch,
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but I suppose I would if I could. Yeah, it's just sitting in a drawer doing nothing.
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Then I said, yes, you get the desire, not the device, the desire, but the the desire to
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you're really selling it. Yeah, I have to say it that way. Try Ubuntu touch on it.
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If it's if it's possible, I've realized I am not a phone guy. As much I do, I really do like
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this Samsung in the screen size is nice, but I use mustard and I text my wife once in a while and
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maybe eight times a month. I make a phone call and seven of them are for work. So I really don't
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once I come home, I put it on, I put it on the yeah, yeah, I'll cut that out. I put it on the end
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table and I don't touch it again all night. Yeah, see, all the more reason to put Ubuntu touch on it,
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so you can make it useful. How about I send it to you and you put Ubuntu touch on it?
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How about I look and do some research to see if it's possible to put Ubuntu on it and then I say,
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hey, why don't you send it to me and I'll send you some money for shipping. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, we can do that. Yeah, if you have a desire to look into it at all, it's really doing nothing.
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A desire. He got me doing it. I'm not going to say it like that.
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Prediction for 2014. Yeah. And why Bill sends me some of his old crap. That's right. It's a big box.
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I told you I was clean in the basement. I have a whole pile.
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Awesome. Maybe just a small box with a small device and it would be awesome.
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Yeah, I'm joking. I'm not going to unload on you. We have someone in our lug that will take
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anything that poor kid. Zapper, if you're out there, I don't know how you can walk through your house.
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Horting old tech, huh? Uh, he's a young kid and I mean, he's probably just like we all were at 18
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and when he got into the lug, his eyes just went wide and everybody goes, hey, you want this?
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You want this? And now he's taking so much stuff. I really don't know where he's putting it all.
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He probably takes it all apart. Awesome. Zapper, take it apart. Oh, I'm sure he does. Yeah.
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Very cool. Uh, last time we mentioned, we'll hey, buddy, work with pump.io. And I think the answer
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is no. Oh, the answer is definitely no. Yeah, we figured that one out. Yeah. I should probably go
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ahead and change the description of that because it no longer works with ideneca because ideneca is
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now running on pump.io. Yeah, we did update the the read me to say that it runs on status net and
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now this GNU social things coming along. Yeah. I haven't even actually been following the progress
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of that and I probably should because I just moved my status instance from the triple EPC in my
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living room to a $9 a month VPS somewhere in Texas. Oh, you're in the cloudy clouds now.
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Oh, I'm on a $9 per year VPS per year. How's the uptime on that?
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Uh, you know, it's probably pretty decent. Okay. I'll let you know. So far, I haven't had any
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problems. I've had my status instance on there for about three or four days. Yeah, I haven't been
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following the GNU social either. I'm going to have to look into it as well. I saw an update that
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they're going to get moving on it and then they're going to start building a servers and then the
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next comment I saw it was Matt Lee. He said, uh, and then we will allow people to join those servers,
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which doesn't sound like the status that I know. Like we like to run our own instances, but he could
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have just could have just been lost in translation with 140 characters. Uh, it certainly could be. I
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could definitely see FSF doing SFS social or whatever. Yeah, big. Big instance. Yeah. Here's the big
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instance and then everyone else has their home installs or whatever sort of installation that they've
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got. Yep. Okay. Yeah, because I continue to I don't know if status net will just one day turn
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into this or we are going to have to make an effort to change because you know how every time
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you touch status net, it falls over like house of cards. Oh, kind of. Yeah. I'm a bit leery to
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even look at the database. Oh, don't even look. Yeah, you know, I should probably go and clear out my
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data. Well, um, do something to streamline the database in my VPS? Hmm. Well, I suppose I can do a
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custom snapshot backup of my linoid. Try the install. If it doesn't work, I can just pull the
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pull the snapshot backup. All right. I should be all right. There's options. There's always options.
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So predictions 2014. What have you got common, Bill? I said mine already. Oh, come on. Think up
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something. I think even though I'm not a gamer, I'm liking all this steam OS stuff I'm hearing and
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I think this will, if they can pull it off, it seems like they are. I think it's going to be popular.
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But I'm just wondering what it's going to be like again to have, I'm sure 90% of the steam gamers
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are like not Linux people. So it's going to be strange having a whole flood of non-Linux users come
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into forums and things. But yeah, that's fun to watch. It's like, will they come into forums, though?
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Actually, yeah, now that you say that, I'm sure steam's going to have their own forums.
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All right, it's just, it's interesting to watch. There was always the, uh, this is the year of Linux
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desktop, which is never going to happen. Linux will be on your desktop, but it's just running that
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piece of hardware. You don't even know it's there. I'm sure steam's going to be all locked down.
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So that's more, not really a prediction, but that's, I'm enjoying watching that.
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Or will it be locked down? There are, I think, 13 or 15 manufacturers of steam boxes or steam Linux
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devices. Well, I mean, locked down by like, when you turn it on, it boots right to, it's like
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myth TV would just boot right to steam. You don't go to a desktop and then start an app and
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where somebody doesn't know what they're doing because they're clicking around and suddenly you
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got hundreds of people calling steam support thing. Uh, you know, I screwed up my Linux.
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It is a Linux based game appliance. Yes. You turn it on. It does its thing and it does it very well.
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I guess what I'm interested, once interesting about it to me is that
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games were always a Windows thing and even being a Windows thing, they were a pain in the
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butt to use. You always constantly had to upgrade. So it's going to be interesting if it runs much
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smoother on Linux and you know, starts getting some momentum to it. How much of the game community
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is going to be pulled away from Windows? Is that a prediction? It's not a prediction at all. I'm
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making an observation. Then I say you, you convert it into some sort of prediction by saying,
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team will be successful by the end of 2014. And how are you going to judge that successfulness?
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The same way I'm doing right now watching it from afar. I don't know. I suppose if you start seeing
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commercials for the device, next Christmas or yeah, actually, I didn't really walk into this
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with many predictions. So let's hear yours. That's oh, I think I already said mine too.
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Mostly I just want to take a jab at some manufacturers of hardware. The next thing we talked about
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last time was projects, which projects, we did projects and what are you looking forward to in the
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new year? If we're going to follow the same format of I think we probably should. I think we probably
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should. So what are you working on? Projects. I'm going to take a few of my software projects
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that I've been working on for the last year and a half, two years or so and start putting them into
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a box with a touch screen of some sort as a semi-home automation sort of system.
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Not quite a L-carsish, if you will, but something that has maybe a seven-inch touch screen
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and runs the UIs for a Mutton Chop instance, which is a music player, Glimmer, which is the
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LED light controller and the Ruby WebAlarm project, at least those three. So that somewhere in my place,
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there will be a seven-inch touch panel and I can just walk up to the panel and touch it and
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settle arms in the house, change the lights and change the music slash video type side.
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Remind of me, last time we had a whole big start check discussion and you're going more towards
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an enterprise. You're going to have a touch screen on your wall. Yeah, awesome. And of course
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some voice controlled stuff too. You already got some of that going on, right? Yeah, I need more.
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Need more things playing Iron Maiden. Not necessarily that I need more things playing
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Iron Maiden, but I need more ways to play Iron Maiden. Nice.
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Me, sadly, I find that I'm not using the RPI as much as I thought I would.
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However, I have some nephews that just turn eight and I can tell they're
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getting into computers. So my project is going to be getting this thing all set up for a
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young user and I'm going to gift it, gift it over that way. So keyboard, mouse,
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set up a kid-friendly distro on it and get a new generation of hackers going. What about
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kid-friendly programming environments like scratch? Yes, that looks into that.
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That's exactly. I was talking with his, the kids while he's my brother-in-law,
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mentioning that I was planning on doing this. I run these things by him first because I don't
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know if he's going to be the one that's sitting there watching him and I did mention scratch to him
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or showing him screenshots and he was he was all for it. Awesome. And if I miss it, I can just buy
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another one for 30 bucks or actually there's quite a few boards coming out now. Guys are
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every time we go to the lug seems like somebody has a new type of RPI device. And when you say an RPI
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type device, you mean a small fairly inexpensive crappy ARM-based device with a proprietary
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video card? No, I mean a wonderful device. No, yeah, it's a small device that has GPIO pins.
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Oh, okay. With all those other restrictions, you just laid on it. Yeah.
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And then the, do you have more? No, I just I just want to damn X86 device with GPIO pins.
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Didn't Intel just make one of those? I think they did. They did like their Mino board thing and
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it was like 200 bucks. Oh, AMD's got one too and it's like 200 bucks. I'm sure they would send
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you a review unit if you send them a nice postcard. You know, I've sent plenty of postcards and I
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haven't received shit. Well, except from other postcards from other awesome people who send postcards.
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Yeah, postcard. The postcard club. Still get one every once in a while. It's the mailbox is where
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you go to get junk mail or people wanting money from you. And it just gives me a nice smile
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when every once in a while there's something fun in there. Yeah, typically, typically I refer to
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going to the mailbox as bringing in the recycling. Yeah, actually I roll our recycling bin out where
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they're going to pick it up on Monday nights and I open the mailbox then and I just dump dump dump and
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I pull in the bills. That's bringing the bills into the house and pay people money. Aren't you normally
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in the house? No, I'm saying I roll the recycling bin. It was a bill joke bill bill. That was a bill joke.
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How is that a bill joke? Your name is Bill. Oh, wow. Okay, you bring the bills into the house. He'll
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be here all week, folks. We need a rim shot. Then the last thing we talked about last time are
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super duper. Let's talk about us format is what are you looking forward to in 2014? Aside from the
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predictions of tech that's going to come out. Oh, hold on a second. Back the truck up. Did you see
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that Belkin is making a Linux powered networked crockpot? Crockpot. A crockpot. It's just what
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the guys in my air see. The lug air see we're talking about. They were joking about a smartphone
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crockpot. So maybe that's what they meant. They weren't joking. No, I didn't see that. But what I
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did see recently, which looks interesting was a link. This is coming out with kind of a WRT 54G
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replacement, which is open hardware, open APIs, running Linux. That might be interesting. Very high
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price point. Oh, yeah, it was like 300 bucks. Oh, and again, that is also Belkin. Belkin now
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owns Linksys. I did not know that. Oh, really? I thought it was still a shitty Cisco owned them.
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For 2014, for me is Northeaf Linux Fast is coming up. That should be fun. And this year there's a
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hope in New York City. So two events I'm looking forward to. Well, I will be going to
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I have no idea. This must be something going on and on the left coast. Well, there's the Northern
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California beard and mustache competition in April and Sacramento, California. I'll probably be
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going to that. But that's not exactly that's not really floss right there. That's a you just got
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to wear a Linux t-shirt and everything's fine. Oh, okay. And yeah, I should probably look to see
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what's going on with scale. I'll see you find out when that's going to happen. Is that a yearly?
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Yes, it is. But it is down in smell A. So that's a problem. Oh, yeah, that's
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you don't have a train that runs that way. No, you're thinking of other countries that care
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about their infrastructure and people around efficiently. What if they made a locked down arm-based
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train away from Petaluma? He's throwing his microphone. No, it would it would run Windows RT
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and I would not get on it. Oh, predictions for 2014. The death of Windows RT.
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Official death, not just oh, yeah, no one's buying it. I mean, official like, oh, sorry, we
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fucked up. You're you're getting really, are you touching your microphone or something?
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No, why what's that? You're getting really loud like it's almost like you're
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oh, maybe I'm getting heated and aggravated. Is the sideburn touching the microphone?
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Oh, you know, it definitely is. Come on, those things back now. But that's that's the red phone.
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That's not the phone or that's not the mic that I'm actually recording with.
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Oh, I see. Yeah, you're talking to me on the red phone and a mic is recording with to audacity.
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Yes. Okay, nobody nobody will hear this. Well, they will have the sounds of
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gestures side-side burns. If it gets into, well, we'll hear the conversation. So my current setup
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for recording this conversation, by the way, I have my laptop, which is a za reason alto.
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I am running audacity to record through a USB microphone. And I am using mumble for communication
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and the red phone. Yeah, I'm just using the e for audacity and mumble. And
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since the h1 is right here, I just do a backup with that. The thing gets amazing.
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Two two gig SD card on that thing lasts like 60 hours. Wow.
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I wonder what format does it record to? That is the lowest. That might be MP3.
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And then you don't want to hear about the switch that goes to WMA. That cuts it down to like two hours.
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No, I don't want to hear about the switch. But I know, I know some other HPR people did
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buy this device. So if you are having handling noises, problems with it, try the
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tie clip mic, like I mentioned, plug it in, wrap it around and clip it right to the
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cage around the h1 and it works good. Well, if the problem has to do with actually handling and
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touching the device, I would suggest making a hat with a boom on it and then suspending the
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recording device from the boom so that when you are interviewing someone, you have this
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hitting them in the eyeball. Well, you don't have to violate their personal bubble.
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I even went to the extent of taking the whole thing apart on screwing the mics from the plastic
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and then doing some test recordings while they weren't touching any of the body and then thinking
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I could wrap them in foam or something. But that just looked like it would break and transit
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or something. So I put it all back together with the external mic. That sounds like the best option.
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Although I really like the idea of a hat with a boom and a suspended recording device,
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I think that would be great. So at scale, when you want to do an interview, look for the guy with
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the hat and the boom and the suspended device. I am at the end of my bullet points.
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I did not make any notes whatsoever because I'm a slacker. Yeah, well, I have to make these bullet
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points where I'll just go, uh, uh, hmm. So we're wrapping it up. I think we can wrap it up.
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Okay. So we're going to do a contact info, I guess. Uh, sure. Um, you can go first.
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Okay. Yeah. So, uh, that's another, uh, conversation with us.
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And if anybody wants to contact me, I am NY Bill at gunmonkeynet.net. And oh, oh, yeah.
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Well, you can find me on status net, but I've said it so many times. I think all the people that
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are interested coming in there are in there already. So yeah, over to you.
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And I'm Jezra. I can be reached, uh, send an email to Jezra at Jezra.net. Yeah, because I'm that guy.
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And I also have a personal status instance. It is status dot Jezra.net. And I like coffee. And you
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can go see all about that at coffee dot Jezra.net. And on that note, play the music.
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Till next time, guys.
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