Hey. Is this thing on? I don’t even know. Let’s see. Oh, yeah. Can’t really see me, can you? Ah, this live stream is brought to you by Chipotle. Shit, let’s move this to the other side. Look at this great production quality. Actually, that looks a little barren, but who cares?
All right. What’s up, everyone? Got to make sure not to unplug my Ethernet. Okay, what’s going on? So, I had a pretty miserable week. Um, you’ve probably noticed my websites were down. All of them were down. Like, oh, actually, you know what? I feel a little naked without putting my sunglasses on the top of my head. You might have noticed that all my websites have been down. Uh, I just got my main domain back up. Yeah, that was a pain.
So, I went through this extremely long process of trying to get things to work at a VPS at, I think, Digital Ocean. Then I tried some new stuff at HostGator, and it’s just such a pain to move domains and deal with the SSL certificates and stuff like that. So basically, everything’s been down. Um, so yeah, I’m not using HostGator anymore. I’m using NameCheap, um, just ’cause I already had the domain with NameCheap. Um, but, uh, yeah, so that’s happening. And I might just be lazy and integrate everything into my own domain, but we’ll find out.
Explain why HostGator sucks.
Well, for millions of reasons. Um, one of the reasons - the sort of straw that broke the camel’s back for me - was just the fact that, um, basically, so, um, well, this is actually true of a lot of hosts: to get SSL certificates, you know, to get HTTPS, which everyone wants nowadays, especially for like, I need it for larbs to make sure the connection’s secure. Um, you basically, a lot of domain hosts make it so you have to do - I mean, it should be free, but they make it so you have to do all this crap where, um, well, we’ll just say I would end up paying for every single domain like every couple of months. Uh, and I would pay like $100 or so a year just to have - I mean, which is way more than I pay for hosting - just to have HTTPS. So, it’s not even worth it.
Can’t you steal hosting from the university?
Yeah, I could, but that’s, uh, it’s not really - I don’t know. It doesn’t count, I guess. I don’t really want to bother with Arizona servers. I think I do have the ability to do that, though. Um, yeah. So, I’m on NameCheap, uh, actually with a VPS, which is good. Uh, originally I was just on a basic hosting thing with cPanel and all this crap, which is a pain. Um, cPanel was a serious mistake. It’s terrible. Um, like just because, like, you can’t do anything to your own server. Like, you basically have to ask them. Like, I could never install basic programs and stuff like that. Uh, they make it so you have to install - yeah. Well, really, you don’t have root access to your own server, which is ridiculous. It’s ridiculous that that’s how hosting was forever.
Um, so now I’m on a VPS and I don’t have to worry about it.
Have you heard of semen demons?
Uh, I guess in Britain they say semen demons. Is that true? I don’t even know. Um, let’s see. NameCheap. Yeah, friendship is over with HostGator. I never really liked them. And actually, their prices are totally way more than they need to be. Uh, just because of - oh, you know what? The stream has already started. I should move this thing. Yeah, that’s better.
Okay, so the stream started ’cause I’m here. Um, and I’m a little fried just because, like, literally the past week I’ve been doing nothing but moving around to different servers and doing just different garbage related to that. Like literally, ’cause what happens is - I don’t know if you guys have ever run a website, but the tricky thing is like when you update DNS, that is the domain name service. So like, so it knows what website to actually look at. Like when you type in luke.xyz, what IP is that looking at or whatever. And the thing is like because documentation, particularly in NameCheap, is so bad, basically I’d make changes to the DNS and have to wait like 24 hours for it to update. So that’s one of the reasons it’s taken forever to do like all this basic stuff.
cPanel on a VPS is great.
Well, I’m not against that. I’m really talking about cPanel, you know, when it’s used as an equivalent of having, you know, actual root access, which is a pain. I don’t know why you would even do that, but oh, yeah, and the other thing, even worse. Oh, hold on. I got like stringy celery in my mouth. Even worse, so I fruitlessly tried to start my own mail server. All the memes about that are totally true. Never start your own mail server. It’s a huge waste of time. It took forever to even begin to configure, and like basically nothing - like for days and days I was trying to work out this and that so it would actually work.
It’s just way too many moving pieces. Like as difficult as - I mean, well, having a website itself isn’t that difficult. Like if you give it difficulty points, I’ll say 20 difficulty points for having a website. Not that bad once you get it set up; you don’t have to worry about it, and it’s easy to keep it stable or whatever. But email - Jesus, that’s like 200 difficulty points. It’s way - it’s - I thought it was just going to be a little, you know, I had installed this program and whatever, but it’s a pain. And of course, no host - the thing about hosting companies is none of them actually want to give you - sorry, I’m just ranting about this stupid shit I’ve been putting up with for the last week.
Do I eat raw onions?
No, I usually cook them. I’ll talk about that later. Let me finish this on email. The thing about like most hosts is like all of them - I mean, back to the SSL certificate - like getting your own SSL certificate is not that difficult, but a lot of domains just make it hard to actually set up, and then they dangle like, “Oh, here’s 10 bucks if you just want us to do it for you.” You know, for you. Um, it’s just such a pain. Like they’re such a waste of time, and you know, I know - I mean, my website gets - I mean, it’s not like I have the most popular website in the world, but I get thousands of hits like every day, and that’s, you know, that means something.
Like, there are thousands of people who are going to be like, “Oh shit, well, you know, going to follow through - they’re not going to follow through because, you know, my website was out for a couple days.” But anyway, doesn’t really matter.
The cock.li guy got raided by the cops twice and lives in Romania now.
Yeah, that’s why you don’t run an email server. Uh, it’s such a pain. I think I forget who my actual email server is served by or who’s actually my email provider now. I forget. But whoever NameCheap does email with. Um, yeah, it’s a total meme.
Like people give shit you know, to like Hillary Clinton for not managing an email server correctly. I can’t blame her. Uh, I mean, dumb idea. She shouldn’t have done it, but you know, it’s - I mean, I’m sure she didn’t actually do it. Do you think Hillary Clinton knows basic Unix compliant commands and stuff like that? I don’t think so.
Do I eat raw onions?
No. But I actually do eat like basically a huge onion a day. Um, I usually - that is sort of a meme. Um, because actually today, like basically when I’m lazy, I’ll just take some chicken breasts, throw them in a, like a, um, you know, dish or whatever with a, you know, raised sides or whatever. Um, I throw some olive oil on there, a bunch of spices, and then I chop up onions - a full onion, a big, a full, a good enormous onion that’s like this big - and potatoes, and of course, a whole clove of garlic, and throw it all in there. Throw it in for about an hour at 400, and that’s pretty much good.
Did you hear about HTC accidentally adding ads to their key?
Uh, who is HTC? Am I stupid for not knowing that?
What’s in the mug?
It’s just green tea with, uh, honey that I put in it.
Postfix and Dovecot is how Vince runs it.
Oh. Um, yeah, that’s what I tried. It’s just too much effort to get everything working. Especially when you have - I mean, especially in my case where I have like all these different moving parts. Like I have to play with the DNS and all this other stuff, and there were 5,000 other things that weren’t really going right. And like, um, I, you know, I tried to get everything done just checking like all the logs for what was going wrong, but like they’re just not descriptive enough. I mean, I’d have to know a whole lot more about it to like actually get into it.
HTC is a phone manufacturer, you brainlet.
Well, I wouldn’t know. I don’t really use a phone. Um, I do have one, but um…
You can just put your chicken breasts outside in Arizona heat.
Yeah, that’s not necessarily untrue. Um, at least eggs.
Why did my message not show up on his chat?
Well, maybe that’s - did you say torx or something? If you say a banned word or something, I think you’ll be blocked on chat. Uh, and I think torx is actually my only banned word. Uh, there might be another - I might have put another one. I probably would have said if I did.
Change it from top chat at the top to live chat.
I don’t even know what that is supposed to mean.
What’s your opinion on the X200S?
I don’t really have an opinion. I’ve never used it.
Why don’t I set up a Bitcoin address for a donation?
Um, I’ve never used Bitcoin. I don’t really know how to use it. Maybe it’s easy. I just, you know, um, haven’t really played around with it. So, like, I wouldn’t really know what to do, to be honest. Um, so, I’m not the kind of person - I mean, you know, I might look into it, but, uh, I don’t know how much money I’d actually get from Bitcoin. I mean, possibly. But um, um, I got a - you know what is it? A Liberapay or whatever now for people who don’t want to use Patreon. But um, yeah, it’s just another thing. Like I have so much stuff going on now, as I said, like I’ve spent the last week trying to figure out, uh, oh, I got to learn how to run an Apache web server, which isn’t actually that difficult, and you know, try to do the email and stuff. But you know, maybe Bitcoin - figure that out and put one up. I don’t know.
Um, oh, and seriously, don’t say torx. Like the thing is whenever you’re marked as spam, uh, like on a channel, you’re going to get - like the algorithm is going to detect you as being like a spammer generally, and it’s going to put you out. Uh, you’re going to get blocked on other channels. That’s what happens.
Dash is optimal.
Oh, good meme.
Can you get tab complete on Dash?
Maybe I’d use it. Or are you talking about some other kind of dash? That’s the first dash I thought of - the shell. I don’t even know.
All right. Well, anyway, since you guys aren’t saying anything interesting, um, more reflection. So, I finally finished, um, like my last day of class - not just for this semester, but like literally my life in the sense that I’ve totally finished my PhD coursework, which means like there’s no - like I’ve literally done all the classes a human can do. Um, so what is - okay, what is top chat? I totally missed this. I don’t even know what this is. Um, if it’s something important, you know, explain it. But I - I have no clue how to use this. Click to reveal live chat option. What is that? Oh, you mean like without delay? I - I don’t even know.
Have you gotten into Emacs yet since Dave’s videos.
Um, I at least want - I don’t have a - oh, sorry.
I have the pop-out chat block. All right. What’s the difference? Are you happy now? Oh, I was just - I had scrolled up. Was that it? I don’t even - who cares? Um, live chat is in real time. There’s still a delay, I’m pretty sure. Oh, there was something interesting - oh, yeah.
So, the Emacs thing. Yeah, I mean, I saw some videos. I didn’t actually - I did see, what’s his name? Uncle Dave’s videos, which were too long for my taste. I mean, they were good, but you know, um, I might direct people to those if they’re interested.
But um, yeah, the thing about Emacs, I really thought about it, is like I just don’t have the kind of workflow that works with Emacs in the sense that like when you’re in Emacs, you’re just in it all the time. Um, and like I’m the kind of person who likes being able to, I don’t know, have a clear desktop and just bring stuff up and not have to worry about - I don’t know. Like it’s hard. Like I - it’s hard to explain. Like I don’t really have the psychology for Emacs. Uh, I’ve tried a whole lot of times. It’s just not like - and the thing is like I mean a lot of people think of Emacs as being like the equivalent of, you know, Vim. Like they’re both text editors, so they’re the same thing. They’re actually not.
Um, I mean, Emacs would be like more of an equivalent of like i3 gaps. Um, so that said, like there’s not really a reason for me to, uh, like switch. I mean, like I have such a setup with that and I’m so used to it, it just doesn’t really matter that much.
It’s like a 5-second delay for me on Wi-Fi.
Yeah, that’s like built into YouTube. I can have like actually live chat, but I think that takes a whole lot longer. Uh, or like the bandwidth is way worse.
Do you have any interest in going to open source conferences?
Um, not particularly. I mean, I am going to LinuxFest again in Charlotte. Um, LinuxFest Southeast, which if you’re in the Southeast or somewhere around there, you should contemplate going ’cause I am going there. I’m presenting. I might tweet out the schedule to it, but I think I’m slated to speak late. I think I’m like the last slot on Saturday, which is a pretty good position. Uh, but yeah, I have an hour-long talk on like sort of - I forget what the title is, but it’s sort of on software minimalism and stuff.
Um, so yeah, I’ll be there. But I - I’m not like really - I don’t really give a shit about this like being part of community thing. I mean, I do my own thing on YouTube, but like the idea of going to different conferences - I mean, the same is actually true in academia. Like in the past like 3 years or something, I haven’t been to any linguistics conferences either. Even though it’s sort of - I don’t want to say it’s expected. It’s not even the most important thing or like top five most important things, but like a lot of people go because it’s supposed to help you with the social aspect. I don’t give a shit.
Uh, but to be honest, like a lot of graduate students my age anyway know who I am just because of YouTube. Like they know I’m out there. Um, which is honestly weird. Like it’s getting to the point in my life where like I meet people and they already know who I am, which is, you know, something strange.
Is DWM ever going to happen or is it i3 for life?
Probably i3 for life. Um, yeah, probably i3 for life. I mean, I don’t really see much of an advantage in switching to DWM over other - for, you know, like the memes or something like that.
Um, I mean, i3 is a perfectly fine minimal window manager. Um, and it’s just, again, like I’ve gotten so deep into it and like having my own configuration that like it’s not really worth it for me to switch to another thing. Uh, I’ve tried the DWM. I just, um, the default configuration isn’t, you know, very appealing to me, I guess. Um, so it’s just not my thing.
DWM is dynamic and its binaries - very much.
I don’t care about the size of the binaries. Uh, does anyone really - I mean, after a point, there’s seriously like diminishing returns to like - I mean, there’s a good reason to use minimal software with like few lines of code and small binaries and stuff like that.
But the thing is like after a point, it’s totally like you can’t even recognize it. It doesn’t really matter. Um, like I guess perspective - like I guess for me the reason I prefer using minimal software is because it’s like easier to troubleshoot. It’s easier to know what’s actually going on. Like that’s one of the reasons to use it. Like, yeah, there’s some sense in which it’s going to be faster or, you know, take up less space, but like, um, that’s like after a certain point, it doesn’t matter. Like there’s - it’s the same reason I use bash rather than some, you know, dash or something like that.
Um, and I don’t really need floating windows either. I mean, I do use them occasionally here. I mean, I have a float this. Well, I guess you can’t see my desktop, but um, yeah, I do use floating windows, but they work fine in i3 for my purposes. Um, all right. What’s going on? Oh, yeah.
What’s with - I hear, yeah, I heard that voice lead developer is MIA. The guy just like disappeared. Like I think it was like by far the most important person, and he just like - there’s been no connection to him whatsoever.
Um, yeah, so I don’t know about that. And they’re trying - I think they’re trying to get like a hold of like his GitHub and stuff like that because they need access. Um, uh, what am I looking at? Okay, hold on.
Yeah, Richard Stallman is Jewish. He’s archetypically so.
What is a floating window?
The opposite of a tiling window.
Are you an incel sympathizer?
Not really. Uh, I don’t have much sympathy for them. I - I don’t know. I know not in a bad way, but you know, why is the incel revolution happening? Nothing against them. I do actively dislike, um, what are they called? MGTOWs. Can’t stand those guys, but you know, whatever. Uh, it’s like totally - it’s like totally the most - it’s like a fox and grapes thing. You know what I mean? Like it’s sort of like, “Oh look, I - I don’t have like any connection to women, so I’m just going to pretend that like it was my choice.” Um, that’s what most MGTOW guys are.
Am I familiar with version control systems other than Git?
No, I’ve never used any. I’m not really familiar with Git just ’cause I use it all the time, Dell.
Why is torx banned?
Just search for it. Um, I have a video on it. It’s a meme. Don’t worry.
So is ZSH overrated?
I think it is. Like every, like, soy boy dev has ZSH and everyone talks about how great the tab completion is, but I’m just not a big fan. Mainly because like - well, actually, I don’t know if there were a way of getting like sort of Vim-like bindings for when you like have the different - you know, you press tab and you have the different selections or something like that. I might contemplate using that, but it’s like whenever I have to touch the arrow keys, it’s like no, it might as well not be there.
Um, and like the reason I - I theoretically I could just switch to ZSH, but I have a couple things that use Bash or like imply that Bash is the shell that I use, so I haven’t really switched over.
You’ll burn at the stake when incels run the country.
You - well, again, nothing against incels.
Libertarian gamers rise against the incel oppression by Chads and Stacys - gang weed up.
What?
Do you ever use Vim keys in Bash?
Well, the tab completion in Bash doesn’t have a tab completion to complain about or like - you know, you have the tabs where you like press tab and it like gives you each option one at a time, whereas you know ZSH gives you like a picture of like all those different choices. Uh, and I’d like to be able to use Vim keys in that. Uh, otherwise, like ZSH doesn’t really have any big benefits as far as I’m concerned.
Have you tried replacing systemd with OpenRC?
Uh, I guess you’re talking about on Arch. Uh, yeah, I have. And it’s always been a disaster. Um, yeah. As important as the, like, you know, systemd thing is, like, yeah, it’s not really worth it to try, especially in Arch running some other kind of a system. Like, they’re all so poorly supported. Even the people who pretend that, “Oh, just do this,” and it’s - well, no, it’s not. It’s a pain in the ass.
Um, just use systemd if you’re using Arch. I mean, I - I mean, well, it’s not to give an endorsement in systemd, but like just use whatever your distribution uses. I mean, on my Parabola machine, I use OpenRC, but that’s just because it’s officially supported, so I don’t have to worry about it. Um, it still is a pain. I will say systemd does make things easier. Um, some people are going to complain about that, but, uh, setting up like user permissions on a minimal install in like OpenRC - that’s a huge pain. Um, and it seems like different for every single distribution.
Which display manager do I use?
I don’t use one. I just log in, um, in the TTY.
T-O-R-X. Yeah, that’s the word that’s banned. Man, there’s so many new friends here. Or like when people - like one of the most common questions I get is like what file manager I use, which I mean, that was one of my first and most popular videos is on Ranger. Um, but, uh, yeah, like it’s funny or like the weird thing is when I get like some kind of question like I get a personal email about something that should be obvious to anyone who has my personal email.
Like I don’t know, like it’s just funny. Like how - I’ll just put it this way. A lot of people emailed me in the last week about like, “Hey, your website’s down, man.” And it’s like, how do you - so, you found my web - you found my email, but you couldn’t find my Twitter or all the other places or my RSS feed where I was saying, “Yeah, everything’s down.” I don’t know. It’s just - it’s sort of strange.
Did you see Stallman’s interview with that pajeet?
No, I didn’t see that. What’s that about?
Have I ever used conki?
Nah, conky is a little too much. It’s a little bloated and it’s too customizable. Like, there’s too much you can do with it. I prefer just having a status bar. Uh, I think when I first used Linux, I briefly used conky, but I’m not a big fan of it.
Do I avoid anything from poettering?
No, I’m not really against the anti-poettering. I’m not really for the anti-pottering stuff. Uh, I will say that I think Linux is totally unusable without PulseAudio. Um, I would never recommend - it’s just a waste. Like, like trying to get things to work. I mean, maybe for like a normal user, it’s okay to use also alone, but like PulseAudio, it’d be impossible to basically do what I’m doing now. Not impossible, but hard to do on um, not using PulseAudio. So, that’s one pottering thing that I’m not getting rid of anytime soon.
Would you make some linguistics videos?
Yeah, I will. I’ve been planning on it for a long time, but I’ve, you know, um, it’s just like things have come up. You know, like the past semester, it’s been way busier than I expected. Uh, but now I have like nothing on my - I mean, besides writing a dissertation, but I have basically nothing on my plate after the next two weeks or so after I finish up my, you know, final papers and stuff like this.
Are there updates to larbs yet, Luke?
There are updates to LRBs like every day. Uh, nearly. I mean, you can check out the GitHub. There’s always new stuff. I mean, people keep asking when LARBS 2.0 is coming out. Really? Like, it’s basically going to look how it is right now. Um, I mean, it’s basically a rolling release. I’m just going to say, okay, now I’m officially rebranding it as 2.0. Uh, but like the amount of changes I’ve made since the first time I put something up has been enormous, and I’m still making huge changes to it all the time.
Um, so yeah, I mean there’s no - like it’s a constant evolution, I guess. So, um, you can always check it out. Um, although I should note that like I have changed the links to it since my website is a little messed up. So now it’s like lukesmith.xyz/larbs.sh is the download thing. Um, but I think I put that on Twitter.
At least BSD got the audio right.
Yeah. Well, I’ve never used it, but you know, I’ve heard good things.
Are you straight edge or just straight and edgy?
Um, am I straight edge? I don’t really do drugs. I every once in a while will drink alcohol. Probably not in the past, I don’t know, maybe a couple weeks. Um, yeah, it’s not something I really do. I’m not into it.
I got my hands on a netbook with 2 gigs of RAM and runs on an Intel Atom.
Uh, depends on if it can run 64-bit or just 32-bit. But, I mean, I always install the same thing. I just give it Arch or Parabola with a, um, i3 window manager. But I mean, if you’re a Linux newbie, you might just want to do, you know, some - any distro with like, uh, XFCE or LXDE or whatever it is or one of those minimalist desktop environments. But honestly, it’s not going to be that different from, uh, you know, distro to distro.
I don’t know how to use Git. Can you explain how I can get your vimrc?
Uh, um, you don’t need Git. You can just go to my GitHub and then like go to the void rice repository and just like - well, it should be in the home directory. So you can literally just click on the vimrc and like click on the raw file and download it.
Can you explain how ZSH tab completes?
Just try it out. Just play around with it yourself. I’m not going to pull it up right now. Maybe I should - I should go back to like doing an actual stream, excuse me, screencast while I’m doing this, but I wanted to use OBS because it looks professional, blah blah blah.
Uh, how do I update LARBS without installing everything over again?
So you can pull - you can force - I need to add that to the - you can use Git basically. So, uh, you can tell Git you can fetch whatever updates have been made. Oh, I’ll put that up in the documentation. I need to do that.
Do you know Andrew Carney, a linguist?
Yeah. Oh, yeah, I know him. Oh, he hates my guts. Um, uh, that’s a good meme. There’ll be some good Andrew Carney memes when I’m, uh, you know, I’m out of the University of Arizona, but I can’t do that now. But, uh, but yeah, I’m assuming you know him from his syntax book, uh, which is how everyone does.
My dad’s small and has a small peepee.
Okay. How do you know how big your dad’s peeppe is? That sort of, uh, really makes you think, doesn’t it?
Um, oh, as for my favorite ThinkPad, either the X200 or X220. Depends on what you want. Uh, I say the same thing all the time. You know, if you want the - if you want Libreboot, X200. If you want just the computer, get X220. I mean, as far as I’m concerned, laptops should always be portable. So, I always go with the smaller ones. Uh, and the X series is smaller.
Um, can you explain how “blank” works, please?
Yeah. Yeah, that’s how the stream sometimes is, man. I’m getting to the point. Well, so one of the things about this - a lot of people when you get to a certain level in popularity, you have to be a little bit more, uh, terse with people. Like, I mean, if you - anyone who’s ever sent me an email, usually I respond extremely tersely. Uh, like very directly, like just explaining the facts, and I don’t like having conversation.
Um, and part of that is just like, man, I can’t do everyone’s tech support. I don’t know why people at this point email me just like when I had 100 subscribers. Okay, that’s fine. Like I can do that. Even when I had 1,000 subscribers. Okay, I can’t do it at this point. Um, that’s why I made the forum, which of course is broken right now.
How do I roll my Rs?
You mean like, uh, it’s easy. You just - I mean, the thing about trilled Rs is people always get confused. They think you’re like actually moving the muscles in your tongue really fast. That’s not what you’re doing.
You’re really just like putting the tongue sort of at the top of your mouth, like sort of touching the roof of your mouth very loosely, and you’re just blowing it down like with a bunch of air, you know, and you know the muscles are contracting back. So, I don’t know, it’s an easy sound, but there are actually people who can’t produce it even who speak languages natively with that sound.
Military or college?
Why would you do either? Just like, it’s better, honestly, I’m of the perspective it’s better for you to just sit around and do nothing for four years than do either of those. I mean, if you have to do one, I would do military. Um, ’cause college was a mistake. Um, but, uh, yeah, colleges are getting more and more ridiculous every year.
Um, I don’t know. Even like I was in college like 8 years ago. Like that’s when I first started, and like it was insane then, but nowadays, man, the things undergraduates have to do - like the humiliating stuff is just ridiculous.
What did I do to the tea bag?
I’m just sucking out all of the, like, uh, I don’t know, all the tea essence or something like that. I don’t know why I do that.
Talk your think about communism.
Uh, does that mean say what I think about communism?
When am I going to be at LinuxFest?
I’m going to be - I’m actually getting there early and leaving late ’cause I’m not the kind of person who just goes somewhere like, you know, for part of the conference or something like that just ’cause I’ll probably end up doing something else in Charlotte if the conference is boring. But I got a, um, Airbnb or whatever.
Um, and I’m not going to be like - I’m not going to be like, uh, um, Brian Lunduke, who’s like, “Oh, I’m going to LinuxFest.” So, you got to get me thousands of dollars supported by you. No, I already bought everything, and I bought it on the cheap. I’m not even taking a plane in. I’m taking a bus in just ’cause it’s going to be cheaper.
What humiliating stuff did you have to do in undergraduate?
I mean, you know, back then it wasn’t that difficult. I mean, at the time it was just like, “Oh, here’s 30 articles to read about how great Barack Obama is.” This was back, you know, I went to college when Barack Obama was running for president for the first time. Uh, so like it’s nice. It’s sort of fun seeing like the contrast between the culture back then and then the culture - like back then there was like this air of excitement in all professors. They’re like, “Oh my god, this is so exciting.” Like the world is complete.
And then like in 2016, man, it’s hilarious. It’s like all of them have this mentality that they’re about to die or something.
Do your best Brian Lunduke impersonation.
Uh, I don’t know. Well: hello, Linuxy people.
Um, that’s pretty much how he is. Uh, it’s - it takes him forever to say anything. I mean, the thing is, so Brian plays everything so perfectly. Like, he knows first off, he puts up videos all the time, regardless of - I’m not going to say his videos have no content. I’m sure they do have content. I never watch them, but, um, like they’re just really long and he drags every single sentence out.
And the reason that is is like in YouTube, you’re not really - you don’t really get points for like hits. You get points for time. So if he can like talk about how you should subscribe to his Patreon like for 5 minutes in the beginning of every video, that’s actually good for him because the people watching either they skip, you know, later or at least they like watch through that, you know. So, uh, he’s got a, uh, um, I don’t know. He’s got it all figured out. Got the market figured out.
Bus from Arizona?
No, I’m going to be moving to, uh, Georgia again. Georgia or Florida within the next month. Uh, and I’m going to be taking a bus from Atlanta.
Fix your forum.
Oh, that - that might be a while. Uh, I’m just going to say just because I really have to do two things. One is I have to - well, I have to move everything around. And keep in mind I’ve never used MySQL before. So I have to figure out how to use databases there and transfer the files. And of course, HostGator doesn’t let me do everything. Um, so I have to do that. And then I actually want to upgrade it to 1.8, which is way better, and that takes forever.
What font do I use in the terminal?
Inconsolata. Um, but every once in a while that change - and actually Inconsolata has consistently been my font for a while in the terminal just ’cause it has a whole lot of Unicode characters. Um, and it looks okay.
Do I conceal carry?
No, I - I don’t. I don’t. Tucson is not the kind of place you need to conceal carry.
Lunduke couldn’t even install Gentoo.
I mean, I’m not going to shit on him for not installing Gentoo. I don’t know if I could do it under pressure. Like, I mean, I could install Arch like asleep, but you know, Arch is like super easy.
Gentoo - I mean, it can be different from machine to machine, so I’m not going to shit on him for that. I will sort of - I’m not going to lie - the idea that like he - I don’t know why he got it in his head that he could just do that. Um, ’cause I don’t really think his skills in Linux are such - I mean, again, not to shit on him, but you know, there’s no shame in not being able to install Gentoo in front of people, but it’s sort of funny that he thought he would just be able to do that.
Want to impersonate Lunduke? Just give some bullshit reasons on why you should overpay for a mid-range build from System76.
Yeah. Just ’cause it runs Linuuuux.
Yeah, I’m from the Southeast too. What’s your impression of it? Any thoughts on the different regions of America you’ve lived in?
Um, there are certain people in the South I want to avoid, and it’s been nice avoiding them in Arizona. I’ll say that. I’ll let you guess what kind of people those are. Um, but, uh, yeah, I’d rather live - Arizona in general, I think, is better, except for the weather, of course. But Tucson is a terrible place. You should never live here.
Um, yeah, the people here are just so annoying. Um, I’m not all of them, but I - I don’t want to, you know, well, whatever.
What are my plans after I graduate?
I don’t really make plans. I’m the kind of person who like year by year decides everything I want to do. Um, like my life would be really boring if I could tell you what I’m going to do in 5 years.
I mean, my short-term priorities are I’m moving back to the Southeast. I’m hoping to stay at one of my uncles. My uncle has a place in the middle of nowhere. Um, a house. And I was sort of hoping to - I might ask him to stay out there and write my dissertation. And I’d like to practice my woodwork and stuff like that. And after that, uh, I sort of want to go be able to mill some lumber and make my own place.
Um, I have some money left over from, uh, life insurance and different things like money I’ve saved even from YouTube. Not actually that much from YouTube. Uh, but, um, I might - I might have a little bit over $1,000 from YouTube at this point. So, I’m actually making money on this. Originally, I was just pouring money into it, like getting mics and stuff like this, but, you know…
I love the rugged individualism of the South.
I think pretty much any place has rugged individualism. Uh, it depends on like how rural or urban they are. Um, like the thing is like people in the United States think there are regional differences. There really aren’t. It’s really just a like urban-rural divide. Um, no comment on any of that.
Certain people I want to avoid = mestizos.
No, not necessarily. I don’t mind them.
Um, well, I mean, I don’t mind them compared to other things. Like, um, they’re actually not that many in Tucson, which I was expecting. You’d think since it’s like literally right on the Mexican border, there’d be like a whole bunch of Hispanics. Uh, but compared to like where I lived in Atlanta, like they’re way more. Like, keep in mind, I went to a middle school that was something like 5% white. Um, that’s like how I grew up. So you can guess whatever you want about that.
But yeah, like, um, anyway, like if you go to the place I live now, which is like, it’s nearly all Hispanic and there are Koreans. Like that’s where I grew up. The Koreans are new. Like it used to be like when I was a kid, it was like whites and blacks. Um, but yeah, uh, they all moved out over time.
Life insurance.
I don’t know. I got life insurance from someone who died, of course. Um, someone in my family.
Avoid Macfags.
Now, there are probably more Mac users in Tucson.
So, are Hispanics allowed on your channel or are they banned from using Linux?
I’m not discriminating. I don’t care. Why did everyone think I’m talking about Hispanics? Uh, there are a lot in Atlanta nowadays, but at least in suburban Atlanta.
Just to be clear, it wasn’t you that died?
No.
Are we going to do a meet at Linuxfest?
Well, if people are at Linuxfest, I will meet them.
Um, people saying I hate blacks. That’s not what I was saying, you guys. All right, don’t get my stream taken down. See, I’m a good boy. I’m not going to say anything bad.
Latinx: what do you think of graduate scholarship programs made for underrepresented groups?
I think it’s, even if that’s like your priority, it’s like shifting deck chairs on the Titanic.
Why are you a skinhead?
Because I’m balding, so I shaved it off.
Will you do a collab with Samuel al Hayiid?
When’s the forum coming back?
I don’t know. Who knows?
I remember weev made a website for promoting Linux for blacks.
Oh yeah, that’s a good one. What was that even called? It was something I remember it was something I probably can’t say on YouTube, but yeah, it was something funny.
Thinking of dropping out of college because of you, TBH.
Great. I actually feel good about that.
How do you make a career without a degree though?
The same way you make one with a degree. You just have to prove that you’re p..shit without or prove that you’re the shit not shit without a degree. I mean, it’s the same anywhere else. Like, I mean, if you’re into technology, have a good GitHub, you know, have a bunch of stuff out there.
Uh, it’s worth it to like know, um, it’s worth it to like, you know, have connections in possibly even in your university. But, yeah, having a degree itself doesn’t really matter. I mean, as long as you, you know, I mean, at this point, and keep in mind, obviously what I’m saying is cheap talk in the sense that of course I have degrees, but um, yeah, I think like it’s getting to the point where like especially people with higher level degrees, that’s thought of as being like sort of a liability.
I mean, especially in like computer fields, like if you have a PhD in computer science, people look at that and they’re like, “What the hell is wrong with this guy?” You know what I mean.
Was your PhD at ASU?
No, it’s at University of Arizona in Tucson. Um, which ASU is in Phoenix. Everyone gets those confused. People will say, “Oh, you’re at the same place that Terry Davis was at.” And that’s not true. He went to ASU. I’m at University of Arizona.
Have you considered using a Digital Ocean droplet?
Yeah, I tried one out over the weekend. The reason I didn’t use Digital Ocean is because, um, there are probably lots of reasons. One of them was like setting up the email was too difficult in the sense that I don’t think Digital Ocean has their own email service and I wanted it all. I wanted like one company out to do the whole thing. So, I um, I use Namecheap because they offer that. Um, but Namecheap has a VPS just the same, I will say.
So, one term I actually totally hate is the term “dev.” I actually really despise this term. Maybe I’ll do a video on it. And this is a recent thing. This is something I’ve noticed since I’ve had my own YouTube channel, but I can’t help but notice that all the people who describe themselves as devs are very, I don’t know, vacuous in a lot of ways. Um, and so I’m very, whenever someone describes themselves as that, I don’t totally write them off, but I’m very suspicious whenever they do.
Would you do a Linux from scratch install video?
I’ve never done it, so I um, I don’t know how to do it.
Why are you still with HostGator?
I’m not.
Did your father ever make stupid Star Wars jokes like “Luke, I’m your father?”
No, he didn’t. But people all through my life have given me stuff like that.
Use SMTP. You can use a Gmail account.
Yeah, why would I want to use a Gmail account? That’s like deliberately why you’d want to have your own email so you don’t have to deal with Gmail.
Legit question. Did you pick your scripting skills from man pages and Stack Overflow, etc.? Are there any good books you’d recommend?
I think I did a video on this. I don’t recommend books for learning anything ever.
What I do recommend is, I mean, how I learned everything I know about Linux, within the past couple years is literally just I have a computer and I want to do something on it. I’m going to figure out how to do that or if I’m not doing it efficiently enough, I’m going to figure out how to make that efficient. And that’s literally that algorithm has gotten me everything I know. Um, and that’s it.
That’s really the only thing I can recommend. Like there’s this idea that like we have to have this structured learning and stuff like that where you, uh, you know, you’re taught something in a textbook or something like that, but it’s really just like learn by experience like what’s necessary.
What about coders and coding?
That’s a suspicious term too. Um, I don’t like any term; like the thing is - programmer, that’s fine and I like programmer because it excludes people who are just like people like me who just like write scripts because, um, you know, like someone a programmer is someone who should get six figures for what they do. Someone who writes scripts? Eh, I don’t know about that.
Trev the Dev: I was planning on changing my YouTube name to Trev the Dev.
Sorry about that. Sorry if I ruined it. I just know like there are a whole bunch of soy boys who call themselves by that. So, I’m just really suspicious of it. So, how do you do your language learning if books are dumb? Um, well, it depends on how you use books. Um, like the idea of like you reading like I’m going to read this and then I’ll learn it. That’s a bullshit idea. But the idea of like using a book as a supplement to mental exercise, that’s a good thing. Um, and like when a book is your only research or resource, that’s what you do. I mean, in the same way, if you want to learn something about a computer, you’re not just going to look everything ad hoc up on the internet and then like copy and paste from Stack Overflow. That’s not going to work. Uh, but you can use that as a place to jump off to something else. Uh, I don’t know, live in this society, grow up in clown world. I’ll say I probably wasn’t. I don’t consider myself truly, I mean, the thing is about people who consider themselves redpilled is like there’s never a point where you’re really like, “Oh, well, you’re always like, ‘Oh, I’ve finally figured it out. Ah, yes. I’ve finally rebuffed the programming.’” And then, um, you sort of realize that, oh shit, like there’s actually something that you know, like you always look back at that and you’re like, “Oh no, I didn’t know anything about that then.” I think one of the points of no return for me, there was a blog. I mean, I read Moldbug stuff and Moldbug, I don’t like his writing style, to be honest. I mean, it’s enjoyable, but it’s not very communicative. Um, I did like Radish Mag. Radish Mag is good because it’s just like a big troll. Um, but it’s a troll that like you read and you’re like, “Oh, wow. This is like, I mean when you stop thinking of it as a troll and like actually consider it, it’s something, uh, I don’t know, pretty deep.” Uh, Radish Mag, he doesn’t update anymore, uh, since a couple years. But that’s one of the things that was the moment I realized like, oh, it’s not just like a policy question like everything is wrong, like the past 400 years is wrong. Um, or depending on who you ask, if you take the VAR pill, everyone since agriculture is wrong. Um, or if you take my pill, it’s really language is the problem. The fact that humans developed a language, that’s when things really went wrong. See, the thing is like people fail to realize that like language is just like a veil over actual human social relations. And you know, it just deceives people. If you take away language and you look at like social relationships, your relationships with people or, uh, you know, your relationships with your family or women or something like that, it all becomes clear if you just ignore everything that people say and like look at everything else. Trevor the Devor: Uh, what’s the final red pill?
I don’t think there is one. I’ve never really read his stuff. Is your goatee popular with ladies? Uh, so there are a lot of aspects, especially facial hair generally, which I think women like. The thing about women is you can’t trust what they say or they don’t say. Um, in the sense that like I think most women will enjoy facial hair, but they don’t like the feel of it. You know what I mean? Like girls will actually complain about it sometimes when it’s like touching their face. Um, but yeah, most of them like it. As for goatees though, that’s sort of my thing. I do it for me. I don’t know if some women don’t like it, some women do. I don’t really care. Final red pill. My rights are not up for discussion, let alone a vote. Well, that’s one red pill. It’s not the final one. Is psychology a pseudoscience or does it have some value? Uh, it can be both. I mean, all science is basically, you know, all science is basically pseudoscience at this point. I mean really I have a view of science generally where I don’t think there’s a really hard divide between hard science and soft science and pseudoscience. All of it is just narrative. It’s just an issue of like how real you take it and how much you’re going to bet on it. You know, if you want to know more, that’s a really bad description of what I actually think. But if you want to know more, read my dissertation which is going to come out and I’m going to exclude as little, um, linguistics in as possible. It’s going to be mostly philosophy of science. Do you like any manga? Nah, never read manga. No, I think we talked about that before. I’m very against MGTOW. I think it’s like it’s guys who are like who can’t get women and therefore like pretend that it’s their choice that they can’t get women. It’s sort of silly. And the thing, the whole thing about MGTOW that pisses me off is like when you’re looking for a pair bonding relationship where you’re going to like marry a woman and have children, you don’t have economics as a science. You don’t have to find, um, you know, you don’t have to marry the average woman. You don’t have to marry every roasty. All you have to do is find one decent one. The whole like pretext of like MGTOW is boycotting women is so silly because it’s like you don’t have to have opinions or like the state of modern women doesn’t have to be good for you to find one decent wife, you know. What do you think about the Basque language or Aoscada? It’s the Basque language. What channel do you browse? None anymore. I actually put 4chan on my block list recently. Um, I just because I don’t know I’ve wanted to reduce my use of it. So I actually do, this is a little weird. Uh, I actually do get updates whenever I am posted about on 4chan. Um, I get an update on it or at least on /g/. If someone posts a thread on me or like says my name on /g/, I like have a system that gives me a notification. So I’m like, “Oh, now I can see that someone’s talking about me.” Um, that’s totally arrogant, but you know, I’m just curious. How can you watch Varg without blue eyes and blonde hair? Your family will have a vitamin D deficiency. Yeah, Varg is like a huge counter signaler on everything. I mean, uh, he is very much a Nordicist. I mean, you know, it’s his opinion that like you’re not really white if you like don’t have blonde hair and blue eyes, which is, I mean, even historically, that’s not, I mean, even like in the genetic history of Europe in the past 20,000 years, that’s not true, but uh whatever. Do you follow Michael Malice? I keep up with some of his stuff every once in a while. I have, I’ve actually met Michael Malice. I don’t know if he remembers, but I met him at a conference that I think it was like a libertarian conference years and years ago. Um, yeah, he definitely left an impression. Like he’s a really gregarious guy. Like he was definitely like one of the most popular guys there. He was like, you know, always making a fuss. Uh, I don’t know if it’s obvious, but Michael Malice is an extreme turbo manlet, though. He’s got to be like, I don’t know how short he is. I don’t know, 5’4. Maybe not that short, but he’s extremely small. Um, that’s why he has to be funny, of course. I stopped visiting /g/ thanks to your forum. Great. Well, now you can’t go to my form because it’s offline, but hopefully that’ll instill a good, uh, instill a good, you know, some kind of habits. Have you discussed how blackpilled Blade Runner 2049 is? I thought it was just a bad movie. I mean, not really bad, but it was just like meh. I really got to pee right now. I’m going to be back. And don’t say too much because I’m going to have to scroll through this, but I just got to pee. No one has anything contentful to say, I guess. What kind of music do you like? I’m not really into, uh, I could autistically screech about the very concept of someone liking a particular genre of music. I think it’s like really weird to be like that. Um, so I don’t really have a particular type. Good music, I guess. I don’t know. Uh, different stuff. Is not washing your hands a high test? Yeah, it actually is. You shouldn’t wash your hands neurotically. That’s stupid. And besides, I didn’t even touch my wiener. So, if you are a man and you’re over like 12 and you don’t know how to pee without like not touching your wiener, what the hell is wrong with you? Seriously. Um, but yeah, it is a waste to like wash your hands, you know? Thoughts on brown-haired girls and why do they always cuck people? I don’t know this meme. I’ve never gotten that. Do your communist/far-left fans realize how right-wing you are? I think all of my communist far-left fans are sort of like they’re of the type where they like someone like me. Um, I think, I mean, there are no liberals who watch my channel. Like there are like hardcore communists who like totally hate liberals and like the kind of people who would rather vote for Trump than Hillary. That’s the kind of like communists who watch my channel. Um, so I don’t think they mind. Um, and it’s like honestly like some of the same community. A lot of the kids are just like 4chan. Do you sit when you pee? No. I don’t even sit when I poop. You got to squat when you poop. That actually is not a meme. Or it is a meme. It’s a good meme. You should do it. Look up squatting while pooping. That’s how you do it. Save your, um, your, uh, what’s it called? Your prostate, you know, some pain. That’s how humans were built to poop. So, am I a bad person for using Mint? No. No, it’s fine. All distros are fine. I’m a liberal. Depends on what that means. I mean, by liberal, I mean it in like the sense, the insulting sense where it’s like, um, like, uh, someone who you, who, let’s, by liberal I mean someone who could state their political opinions on Twitter and not be banned. That’s what a liberal is. Uh, and I don’t think there’s anyone like that who watches my channel. If they are, I’m like whatever. I’m a liberal but I hate 99% of liberals. Well, yeah, that’s sensible. You put your feet on the lid or whatever. I think the two-party system and categorizing as either one is a shitty, a big steamy meme. Well, well, well, I like the word liberal just because it is ambiguous and it has like a very hurtful connotation with it at this point. Like everyone knows who you really mean even though I mean someone’s going to be like autistically screeching about, “well, there’s actually classical liberal people and they’re different” and it’s like, yeah, autismo people know that, but yeah, it’s a way of shitting on people, you know what I mean? I think the two-party system is quite, uh, is actually quite natural and makes sense. Don’t beat me up. I mean, the thing is like, okay, I’ll go ahead and say one of the most basic bitch complaints, like if you’re 12 and you think you’re edgy, you’re going to say something like “the two-party system is flawed.” That’s not a real complaint. I mean, the thing about any kind of legislature, it is, it’s going to have, there’s always going to be aggression to the medium. So, you could have two parties, you could have 30 parties, you still have to get to like a median consensus of all of them. Like the whole complaint is ridiculous. Like people complain like they take their political complaints and think it’s because of the technicalities of districting or some party or something like that, but it’s silly. Um, it doesn’t mean anything. Aside from Deus Ex, what are some of your favorite games? Deus Ex, uh, yeah, it’s probably my favorite game as an artistic work. I think anyone who hasn’t played it should think about playing through it or something like that. It’s a good, it’s a very deep game in a non-pretentious way. It actually, it borderlines pretentious at sometimes, but it’s actually really, uh, interesting gameplay that’s nowadays sort of obsolete, but it’s just an interesting game. Um, games I play and don’t like, every once in a while I’ll play Civilization. Um, it’s just a time waster. Um, but I don’t really enjoy playing it. What are your reasons for doing a PhD in linguistics? Uh, why not? Doesn’t really matter. At the time I did an MA in linguistics. Uh, the economy was really bad, so I was like, ah, maybe I’ll go to grad school and procrastinate stuff for a while. And I contemplated economics and linguistics because economics was my undergrad and I had some linguistic focus in that. I didn’t do economics just because I ended up trying to write my statement of purpose and I was like, I think this whole field is fraudulent and I can’t do anything like I can’t take it seriously enough. And if you’re like a white male, you have to get basically perfect GRE scores which I didn’t get. Um, I’m like a fucking 98 percentile brainlet. Um, so that wasn’t really an option. I couldn’t get any like high rolling places. So, I just did linguistics and I ended up doing the PhD after because I was like, ah, I could actually be a professor. But now I’m like, fuck that. Your video about abstaining from internet access at home to improve productivity was my favorite. Have you changed your views on that? No, I think it’s true. And since I’ve had internet, I think I still have some of the good habits that I, uh, inculcated, but I recently I’ve been using the internet too much just because I’ve had silly things to do. As I said at the beginning of this, like the whole server transfer and stuff. Um, but I think it’s definitely good to, uh, minimize your use of the internet. Most developed countries have at least a few extra parties depending on the voting system. I’m not sure it helps. No, it doesn’t help. It absolutely doesn’t help. Um, I mean, even compare something, compare the United States to like Australia, which has a voting system that like a lot of people in America are like, “Oh, wow. We need one of those instant runoff systems. It’s more fair. It gives us more positions.” But the thing is like even if like hardcore ancaps and communists and all those kind of people get representation in Congress, it doesn’t really mean shit because they still have to converge on like public policy. They still have to like, you know, form coalitions with other parties and work with that. Um, and besides like the policy portion isn’t the part of it. Like people think about government as being the problem. Uh, it is a problem but the real problem is the permanent bureaucracy. Uh, it’s the fact that like we literally have, uh, you know, a class of people who work in universities and who work as journalists who have really totalitarian control of like every facet of media. Every textbook you was written, every textbook you’ve ever read was written by these people. Uh, they’re extremely homogeneous and extremely ideologically oblivious and they’re the real problem. That’s where real policy comes from. Uh, all the NGOs and you know, think tanks that are all funded by them or really by the state indirectly. The government itself isn’t the problem. That’s one of the, I mean, I’ve said before I don’t necessarily find myself disagreeing with someone like an ancap very often. Um, but it’s really just they, a lot of them are focused on the fact that oh well we need to implement good policies. That’s not really the problem. The problem is like the real government in the United States is not, you know, the three branches government. That part doesn’t really matter. Why don’t you want to be a professor? Because it’s like torture living with the kind of people who work in a university. It’s just not a good place. I mean, it’s a good theoretically it’s a good job and like it’s sort of a shame that like the, you know, the position of professorship has been important for hundreds of years and it’s like a cultural aspect of western society but it’s totally broken and like the people who are in it like it’s basically just been a way to like keep people employed, you know, keep people who will like shill for the state, shill for the system, even, you know, keep them employed even if they’re not competent in anything else. There aren’t enough memes on the screen. Yeah, I wanted to get this thing started. I didn’t have much time to prepare, but maybe next time I’ll put some memes up. Do you think over-socialization is actually a thing? Oh, yeah, of course. Um, I mean, most people in our society are like incredibly oversocialized. They have to look for other people for what to believe. And you know, there are some people again, the kind of people who go on Twitter and if they actually said their political opinions they wouldn’t be banned. Those kind of people have never really thought that much about, um, you know, anything for them like the social aspect of belief like the fact that you get social feedback for certain political opinions that is truth to them. They don’t understand anything else. That’s what oversocialization causes. It causes people who have opinions that are very strong but don’t really, um, you know, they haven’t really thought of it, you know, or really thought of anything other than they don’t think of politics as being anything other than like shilling for a social hive mind. When will you fix your site? My main site should be fixed. You might want to clean your cache, your Firefox cache if it has a DNS cache. Um, but my main site is fixed. LARBS, I think, has a bad SSL certificate. Um, and the forums, uh, the forum will come eventually. Have you ever thought about using FFmpeg for live streaming? Uh, it sounds suicidal, but it seems sort of interesting. Yeah, I’ve thought about that. I don’t actually know how. Like, I looked up for a guide on how to do it, but it, I don’t know. It seems like a, I don’t even know where to start. Uh, but yeah, when I originally was going to start using doing live streams, that’s what I was going to do because it makes sense. But OBS isn’t that bad. I mean, I have this nice little setup here. What is over-socialization? Um, well, you can read Uncle Ted’s manifesto for that, but really the idea is, you know, in any normally people are socialized to have particular beliefs. It’s part of being in society, but there are some people who are sort of become hall monitors and they’re only like everything is social to them. They don’t, um, they sort of cling to collective opinion. They cling to like the approval of others. They don’t really have independent thought and that’s how a lot of people are nowadays. A lot of the people who are journalists, for example, that’s how they are. That’s what the term means. About the professor things, what about the fields that aren’t soft? Would you think of being a professor in a field less ideologically charged like mathematics or comps? There’s still like the, even in fields that are less paused, there’s still that problem that you’re being run by those people. Like the bureaucracy in universities is way worse than anything you could imagine. And even departments like that have to deal with, um, that kind of stuff. And you might be like the people you see on a daily basis might not be totally insane, but I’m not optimistic. Uh, like I’m not very optimistic that even if it’s okay right now to be a computer science professor in 10 years, man, like even looking at how bad it’s gotten in the past 10 years if you just like take that to its next, uh, the next situation or the next logical conclusion like just, uh, extrapolate that, um, yeah, it’s not pretty. Have you read Rothbard’s Libertarian Manifesto? Yeah, I think so. Uh, I mean I’ve read his Man, Economy and State. Uh, I’ve probably listened to Libertarian Manifesto on audiobook. There was a period where I just like downloaded a bunch of the Mises.org stuff and just listened to it while I played video games. Uh, which I think is worthwhile. I mean, again, I don’t agree with Rothbard about everything, but, and of course, if you can’t stand his like New York Jew accent, it might be a little difficult to do that, but I do recommend listening to his audio lectures or something like that. Is Uncle Ted aka Ted Kazinski aka the Unabomber? Yes. Um, yeah, you should definitely check out his manifesto. I’m not going to say he didn’t do nothing wrong. He was a, I don’t want to be an optics cucked but maybe I think that like mailing bombs to people wasn’t a good idea, but I am very glad that he wrote that manifesto. Am I a fan of NN Taleb? Yeah. Um, yeah, I, uh, recommend his stuff all the time. I think I have him in my like, uh, recommended channels thing, his like YouTube channel, which every once in a while he’ll post something on. But yeah, I definitely recommend reading Nasim Taleb if anyone hasn’t. You definitely have. He’s the guy who’s alive and not in jail, who’s definitely worth, uh, reading. Uh, like Antifragile is my favorite. He had a recent book called Skin in the Game, which is also good. Have you read Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life? No, I’m not really. Jordan Peterson’s stuff is sort of below my level. Uh, that’s sort of a condescending thing to say, but, um, when I was like less woke, when I was like 16, maybe reading his stuff would be worthwhile, but like yeah, it’s sort of basic, from my perspective, I guess. I mean, it might be worth reading for some of you guys. Not to call you basic or something like that, but, um, yeah, he’s not as woke as I am, so it wouldn’t be really worthwhile. That’s not to say that reading less woke people isn’t always not worth it. Yeah. Sign up for Michael Malice’s YouTube channel. Yeah, I don’t know how Michael Malice got his in on Fox News. There’s a really, speaking about professors, look up Michael Malice. I forget what exactly it is, but there’s this really good video on Michael Malice talking about like professors. Look that up on YouTube. Just watch that. I actually thought about making a YouTube video on that, but it’s like basically Michael Malice is like shitting on like, uh, people in universities as like parasites and this guy gets fucking triggered because he’s like, “My dad was a professor.” And he just shits on him. It’s funny. I think Trump is a good president. Do you? I think he’s better than like, well, I mean, yeah, we talked about that last time. I don’t know if I want to, um, like the thing about Trump is like I don’t, my expectations are like so low for him at this point. I won’t say that I’ve been disappointed in the sense I was expecting him to, you know, do all this great stuff but, uh, yeah, it’s definitely, I mean of course him being president is great. I’m very happy that he’s president. Um, as opposed to Hillary or really anyone else, but, um, I mean I’m not very, like I look at him and I’m not gonna be like, “Oh, I’m wow this is totally great. He’s doing all this great stuff.” I mean really he’s just paused some of the stupider stuff, but, um, it’s just biting time. I mean I view the Trump presidency right now as biting time. Um, and obviously it’s been socially good for, I guess, dissident movements. I’m not optimistic, but I mean the wall is just symbolic. Um, you know, the real import is actually having or not even like passing immigration laws, but beginning to actually enforce the immigration laws that exist in the United States right now. You know, that would be, I mean it’s hilarious that like it’s so obscene to even say something like that in American politics like just say “I don’t know maybe we should start like enforcing our immigration policy”. Don’t you don’t even have to change anything but that’s like so viewed as being such a bizarre opinion like just apply to the standards of immigrants coming to the United States the same standards that a country like Japan or Mexico or any other like non-western country has. All you have to. I’m moving servers. Uh, that’s what happened. And the form, I don’t know how long it’s going to take till I get that fixed, but it’s going to take a while. >expecting anything from our president Yeah, that’s fair. I mean, again, like the important thing, as I said before, isn’t like it’s not the government itself. It’s the like permanent bureaucracy. Um, and Trump is good because he’s putting more pressure where it’s actually due and that is the judicial system, the, you know, journalists, stuff like that. Uh, and people are becoming a little bit more woke as to what the problem is here. Um, so yeah, I’m very happy about, even if Trump hadn’t been elected, I think that most of the good had come regard like the cat’s out of the bag in that respect. Uh, let’s see. Oh man, I am getting so hungry. How long have we been going here? Oh, more than an hour. Canada is doomed. Yep. Uh, well, Canada has it a lot better than a lot of other western countries regardless of its, you know, politics. Canada’s just in a better position for, I mean demographic position. Um, yeah, you do have Justin Trudeau, but you know, as listen, as long as you can like live independently, which you can do in Canada, that’s what matters. I mean, change isn’t going to come by like passing policy. It’s going to come by creating alternate institutions, creating societies that live apart from the government and popular culture and corporate culture and everything. That’s where it actually matters. Would you ever consider living in Europe? Probably. There’s no European country that really sticks out to me. I mean, I definitely wouldn’t live in Western Europe at this point. Um, I don’t think any of those countries are really, um, and well, and I’ll also say I’m sort of objected to the idea of me uprooting and moving somewhere else. Like I’m an American. I live here. Uh, even other white countries in Europe, they’re not similar enough to me. Um, it would be sort of arbitrary for me to move to somewhere like Poland or Lithuania or somewhere like that. Um, it’s just not a culture I’m familiar with. Um, I think that again like the thing to do is just move to, you know, start have your own institutions, have your own culture, uh, surround yourself with like-minded people who want to be independent. USA number one unironically. Yeah, there’s a lot of hope in the United States. Why are you in the back of a van? It’s pitch black. Yeah, I guess I haven’t. It’s gotten dark since I started. I’m just in my room. Um, I don’t have any lights on. I would turn it on. Oh, all right. Someone say something interesting or I might, uh, I might call it quits in a couple minutes. Um, just because we’ve been going over an hour. Uh, I’ll probably do one or two more live streams while I’m in Arizona and then I’ll be moving back. Uh, I’ll probably, I don’t know where I’ll be living in Georgia. Actually might possibly with my dad, possibly with my brother for a month or so. And then I want to be moving, as I said, to, uh, this remote place in the woods, which probably won’t have internet, but I’ll probably arrange something to do live streams every once in a while. And of course, they’ll upload videos. I don’t need to be connected to the internet at all times. Uh, let’s see. Any key points of disagreement with Rothbard? Uh, here’s one. Autism. Um, I’m not really into praxeology. I’m not into like applying some kind of, you know, ethical ideal to like insane conclusions. So, that’s one disagreement. Another disagreement, I think I mentioned this last time, but like his stance on like fractional reserve banking, which is a part of this because he basically has to like since he, since the Austrian business cycle theory requires him to say that like, um, fractional reserve banking causes depressions, he has to think up some silly, um, ethical reason for it to be bad where, you know, it’s not. How do you feel about modern China? If you’re talking about that in the context of me moving there, I wouldn’t just because I’m not Chinese. Uh, and Chinese, it’s hard to actually, I mean, the thing is, regardless of even if it were easy to legally move there, I’m not Chinese. I’m not going to become Chinese. Um, and so my, I’ve lived there for a period like as a transitory worker and student and, um, it’s a lot freer socially than in the United States. I mean, in terms of like free speech stuff, I mean, you can’t like lobby against the government, like plot to overthrow it, but, um, Americans definitely would be surprised how many things you can say. I have a friend, for example, who’s Iranian, and actually a couple Iranian people have told me this. Um, but like, you know, in Iran, for example, it’s against the law to blaspheme stuff like that, say things against the, uh, against religion or something like that. So you can’t like make fun of the prophet Muhammad, that’s illegal. Um, but like my, you know, one of my friends told me like he’d be much more worried about making fun of Muhammad in the United States or Europe than he ever would in Iran because in Iran like, yeah, it’s illegal but you know, it’s, it’s people view it proportionately. It’s not something that like, you know, they’re going to, you’re not going to lose your job for it. But in the United States or Western Europe, if you like criticize Islam, you can lose your job. If you criticize feminism, you can lose your job. Um, if you say, “Oh, maybe the US should actually, you know, enforce its immigration law,” you can lose your job. That’s something like that level of speech control, uh, is not something that exists in like China or Iran or any of these places. I mean it’s like what I said like, you know, the government is the government policy isn’t the problem. It’s the nonstate government. It’s the opinion molding class. Um, so that’s how it is in Iran. Maybe on the books. Exactly as old as I am. Do I exercise? Not recently. Would you have a weeb girlfriend? I have had a weeb girlfriend. If you move to the woods, you will have a vitamin D deficiency. Not if I’m naked all the time. Do you listen to Tom Woods or do I watch Reason TV? No, not really. I don’t watch or listen to his stuff. I’ve probably seen some of his podcast things, but he’s not really on my radar. I mean, I don’t really actively keep in touch with ancaps and libertarians and stuff. I mean, um, historically, I’ve had relationships with them, but not so much anymore. I mean, it’s not that I separated myself. I just have, I do other stuff now. That’s not entirely true. The media plays a role in opinion shaping. Yeah, that’s what I mean. Like I mean, you know, I mean what reactionaries call the cathedral, you know, the opinion molding class of journalists and professors and bureaucrats and all that stuff. They’re the problem. That’s what actually matters. How do you get a cutie weeb girlfriend? I’m jealous. Uh, I don’t know. Um, make fun of her. That’s usually how you get girls. You just like neg them all the time. Unironically works. Life in China is simple. You just need to say you hate Japanese and you’ll blend in. USA or Europe, you, uh, you can say you hate, anyone except for yourself, or people as white as you or you’ll lose your job. Yeah, that’s right. Weeb. Yeah, I don’t trust weebs. I mean, weebs are like symbolically like people idolizing a culture that despite its weirdness is less weird than ours. Um, I actually have a whole spiel on that, but it’s about at the end of the live stream, so I’m not going to go into that. Maybe we’ll talk about weebs and weeb girlfriends later. So, what you’re saying is to bully them. Uh, bully who? Uh, weebs. Oh, girls. Oh. Uh, bully is the wrong word. Just neg them. I mean, just girls respond to that. I mean, that’s like unironically a joke. I mean, this is where the word neg comes from. Like, it used to be some like pickup artist stuff, but it’s actually like that’s what gets girls’ juices flowing. You know, if a girl describes you as a nice guy, that means like it’s over. Like you’re not, uh, she’s not interested. You know what I mean? Would you recommend Arizona for grad school? No. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Don’t do it. Not don’t do it anywhere, but especially not here. I have a lot to say about the University of Arizona, which I won’t say until I finish my PhD, but then I will do a whole video, um, detailing my experience here semester by semester, which has been awful. Um, absolutely awful. Um, not with Ryan. He doesn’t want to because he’s lazy and, you know, wants to tow the party line I guess. Um, but he, uh, but yeah, I’m open to doing podcasting and stuff. I just don’t really know anyone to do it with. I could do like a like a individual person podcast but I don’t know if I could actually just talk straight non-stop for all that time. Um, but yeah, I mean the thing is I just don’t know anyone right now who, you know, in my personal life who I could do a podcast with, like talk about stuff and like a lot of stuff my subscribers might be interested like tech. I don’t know if I’d be interested in doing it. I don’t want to say I wouldn’t be interested in doing a podcast on it, but it’d have to be like very focused on my kind of stuff. I feel like I’d run out of that kind of shit. No, no, no, no. My roommate Ryan, uh, who is at the linguistics program with me. Yeah, a lot of people. So, here’s a, um, Luke Smith fanfic, is that a couple people have gotten it in their head that like one that I’m gay, two, that I’m gay with Ryan Faulk. And the reason they think that, first off, I don’t think Ryan Faulk even knows who I am. Obviously, I know who he is and I think I have his channel recommended in my, uh, recommended channel thing, but, um, yeah, I don’t, unless he uses Linux, he probably doesn’t know about my channel. But, um, yeah, a lot of people since I talked about my roommate, um, and that we live together like and that his name’s Ryan, a lot of people thought that was Ryan Faulk and that like me and him are gay because he’s gay or whatever. Uh, people might not know that, but um, so that’s, uh, yeah, I don’t think he knows who I am, but shit I could definitely talk about him. There are some things he’s not woke on yet. Uh, I’ll just say that I actually contemplated he asked for articles for his website, and I contemplated sending something in, but it wouldn’t necessarily be exactly, um, it’d be a little different. It was really like less an article for the website, more an article for him. Um, he has some views on like, so he’s like very anti-Nazi, that’s sort of the wrong, I mean he’s the, you know, he’s a white nationalist but he’s very anti-national socialism or like German national socialism, um, for I think misunderstood reasons. I mean not to say that I endorse, uh, German national socialism but there are a lot of misunderstandings that actually I’m familiar with due to my readings in linguistics and historical of, uh, the history of linguistic thought and linguistic thought and stuff like that. Um, so I wanted to send him an article sort of an act of revisionism on that. Um, but, um, yeah, I never wrote that up.How did I become NRX?
Thoughts on Nick Land?
Are you MGTOW, Luke?
How do you squat over a North American toilet?
Mailing bombs is always a bad idea if you get caught.
Do you think he’ll build the wall?
Late to the party. What happened to the forum?
They may kill you for it, LMAO
How old is your dick?
Any plans to do more no relation casts?
Yeah, I saw that video. I was sort of surprised about that. I didn’t, I thought he was a cuck on the JQ, but, uh, is that up? Is that still up? I sort of assumed that that would be taken down, but you know, he’s a good optics cucked. He knows not how to not get banned.
Video series on bash scripting for noobs would be great.
Yeah, there’s a lot of content like that on YouTube already. Um, I, the thing is I, I’m not, um, I don’t know how much I could add to that other than like the best I can do. I mean my perspective is just like the scripts that I use for whatever and I’ll put them up and you know people can learn from that but I’m not big on to, I don’t, I don’t know how much I could add to what already is out there.
I mean there are people like, you know, Chris Alapenti and stuff who like still put up bash script stuff but, um, I just think it’s sort of saturated. Like if you want to learn something about bash, it’s pretty much up there.
It’s still up. He got away with it because it’s baked in sarcasm and irony.
Well, that isn’t necessarily going to immunize you about getting taken down, especially when you have things that are talking about the JQ.
Um, it’s very easy to be taken down for, um, so I, it probably will be taken down eventually. Uh, I don’t mean to like be pessimistic, but, um, again, I was like really surprised. I mean, a lot of his subscribers were because like, um, you know, of things he said in the past. I was surprised at the video, but, um, uh, good stuff.
Asuka or Ray?
Jesus Christ. Weebs. The thing about neon whatever the fuck Evangelion, man, that fucking anime sucks. Uh, and it has no good waifus. All the girls there are garbage. Like I don’t know why like people glom onto that anime, especially like the girls in that anime because they’re all garbage. They’re all shitty.
What was the trigger for getting you woke?I think we talked about that earlier.
Unsubed. Fuck you, Luke.I know he doesn’t mean that. All right, thank you note. I think that’s one of the TRS guys.
What was I going to say? Oh, what was my trigger for getting woke? I don’t know. As I said before, I grew up in a, uh, I went to a middle school that was 5% white, so that that’s a starter. There are some things you just can’t be bluepilled on.
Misato is garbage, too. I can’t believe, oh, I can’t believe I just said that. We’re not talking about anime girls. Um, Evangelion is fucking garbage. Like, honestly, that’s a really shitty, I mean, I’m not a big fan of anime, but that man, that’s a really bad anime.
You’re going to get banned from school for the stream.What? Okay. I’m not responsible for what people in here, uh, post. I’ve never seen Serial Experiments, Lane. Uh, I tried watching and it was like too boring. Sorry. The only anime I’ve actually watched through is Jojo. Um, that’s why I put some Jojo’s in it, uh, in my videos and stuff.
I think I have a, see, I’m the kind of person who like, uh, (you can’t even see) bites my nails just for fun. But every once in a while get an infection because of that. Like a nail will get a little stuck.
Do I watch Netflix?
Of course I don’t watch Netflix.
Cory the House is best anime.
Uh, let’s see.
The more I sit on these streams, the more respect I lose for Luke.
Oh jeez, another butthurt anime fan.
Favorite Jojo part?
I don’t know. Maybe, maybe, uh, with Joseph. I don’t know that I think it’s under, I think, uh, part two is underrated.
Part seven is the best.
Is part seven even out? I haven’t read the manga.
So, Ambulance is best Jojo protagonist.It’s the saddest thing you could have ever said about your department.Oh jeez. Jojo is actually the official anime of our linguistics department. It became a meme. A lot of people, uh, ended up watching it.
Why do you still go on 4gag?I don’t go on 4gag. I think I said earlier I put 4chan on my block list. I haven’t been there in forever.
You go on 8chan at all?No. I actually really hate 8chan.
Have you ever seen Everyone Loves Eric Raymond?No, I haven’t seen that.
Oh, the jo. Whatever you say. All right, I’m probably going to stop us, uh, in a couple minutes. I know I said that like 20 minutes ago, but, uh, yeah, I got to go. Oh jeez, we’re at like 140 minutes or a thousand or 140 minutes. Uh, an hour 40 minutes. Oh man.
All right.
Yeah, you should do other things.Um, yeah. So, as I said, I’ll probably have at least two other live streams. Maybe they’ll actually have, I should start doing topics in my live streams. That’ll be actually interesting. Maybe I should do that.
Um, but yeah, so I, I’ll have two more live streams in Arizona and then after that, I’ll probably have, uh, some stuff in Georgia when I get back. Uh, but we’ll see. Um, so anyway, yep. So, the site’s back up. Email’s back up. Forum is still down. LARBS is still around. Uh, the SSL certificate isn’t, uh, working, but you can use my own URL. I’ll be putting up videos at some point. I just am finishing up semester stuff.
Um, so that’s about it. Is there anything else I need to say? Oh, I think that’s been it. Um, so, yeah, I think I’m going to end the stream. So, all right. Actually, let me hold on. All right. So, I’ll see you guys next time. Uh, how do I end this?