"Hey, DT! You Talk Too Slow." (Plus Other Viewer Comments)

welcome to another edition of HDT hadt is a series of videos I do where I respond to viewer questions and comments these viewer questions and comments they typically come from the comments on the videos posted on YouTube and odyssey sometimes these questions and comments come through social media such as Reddit or Mastadon sometimes these questions and comments come through email and the very first question I want to respond to is a question I get all the time I've responded to it before but I wanted to address it in a little bit of a deeper sort of way today and that question is hey DT why don't you use vanilla Arch so first let me directly answer the question and then I'm going to dive a little deeper about why I think some of the people asking this question have some character flaws let's just say that but first why don't I use vanilla Arch and the reason I don't use vanilla Arch is because I installed Arco Linux and Arch based distribution and it's running on my machine and it works right I don't typically drro hop when things are working you know I don't just go and create a lot of headache for myself several hours of work to hop to another Linux drro or another operating system of any kind if what I'm using is working there's no reason for me to do that right uh time is precious to me and I don't want to waste it I don't you know this is not something especially these days used to I would hop sometimes just for fun but these days I've used practically every Linux distribution known to man drro hopping is no longer new exciting fun right it's actually work to me now so typically when things are working and things are working with my workstation here at the office this workstation runs Arco Linux my home computer also runs Arco Linux both of them have had Arco Linux installed on them for a number of years now the same installation up and running for a number of years and if it's working why mess with it now let me address why I think a lot of people ask me this question a lot of people really care about what other people think about them for example a lot of people want to run vanilla Arch because the community in some circles you know sometimes the community thinks vanilla Arch is a hard Linux distribution it's hard to install right and it's kind of like hey if you're running vanilla Arch you must be like an a Elite Linux user right if you're using something like mangaro or Arco or zero Linux or some you know Endeavor OS you're not a real Arch user you didn't install it the archway maybe you don't even have the skills to install it the archway because you're a peasant right you're a noob and while I think the people that are out there you know spreading all of that misinformation all those lies I think those people have issues I also think the people that are asking this question why don't you use vanilla Arch I think they've bought into the too and you know they have some issues because they somehow hear this message of hey if you run a arch base drro like mangaro or Arco or whatever it happens to be you know you're somehow a Linux Noob right you're you're not Elite right and why do you care and I'm being honest and this is with all things in life whatever it is you're doing whatever activities you partake in whatever things you buy whatever products or Services you find useful and use why do you care what other people say to you or how they judge you on any of that stuff why does it matter to you what other people think for me personally I am way past the point of caring about other people's opinion about me right and this is with all aspects of life but in particular the the software I run or the Linux distribution that I use I don't care right I care about what I think about it anybody else's opinion is completely irrelevant like it has absolutely no bearing on anything I I would have to have some serious mental issues if I heard what other people's opinion about my software was and I changed my software because they think that's what I need to run right I would have I I I would need to go get some like psychiatric help and this is not something that's new to me now you know as somebody that's you know in my late 40s or whatever I kind of understood this when I was a teenager even I remember in high school you know I was that high school kid that really didn't care about fitting in with any crowd I just did my own thing if people thought it was cool fine if they didn't think it was cool that was fine too I didn't care and I always viewed the kids that did care as a little weird and it's different when you're a teen teager most teenagers do buy into this BS where you know they have to follow the latest fashion trends or you know whatever the latest cool thing to do is they all have to be doing it I had this friend of mine that I remember he changed all the time to fit with whatever the latest Trend was I remember his fashion you know one month he would be dressing in a grunge style because that was the cool thing to do it was that Grunge look the next thing you know he's looking like a prepper right he had that prep look you know sometimes he would try to fit in with like The Outsiders like the pothead sometimes he tried to fit in with the Nerds you know whatever it was that he thought he needed to do at the time and you know and and I never really knew what this guy like his essential self I didn't know the real person behind that because it was all fake every time I saw him it was fake but it was a different fakeness cuz he was constantly changing he always had to have the latest shoes you know for example I remember in high school you know some of the hot fashions as far as shoes you know there for a while everybody had to have Doc Martins and as soon as you know you weren't cool unless you had a pair of Doc Marts he had to go buy one or you had to have a jbo jeans he go buy some right and I was like I always thought man that's stupid you go and buy you know some clothes that you may or may not even like you know the looks of it but you feel like you have to have that name brand because somebody told you you're not cool unless you go get that and even again as a teenager most teenagers you know bought into this and I just I I immediately rejected all of that even back then I was a non-conformist kind of like I am now with free and open source software right those of us that love free and open source software we're a bit of non-conformist yet when you get into the community there is some Conformity trying to be pushed on to people right for example if you run a art based distribution you know you're not cool unless you actually run vanilla Arch no I reject that message just like I rejected the message that I had to wear certain clothes when I was a kid moving on to the next question hey DT is there a place where I can see a list of all your videos okay so I'm going to make an assumption here because he wants a list of all my videos I'm assuming he wants a list of all the URLs of my videos and typically somebody wanting a a complete list of all 2,000 videos I've made what are they likely trying to do well I suspect he wants possibly a local copy of them and we'll just leave it at that so I don't know of a way to go get a complete list of my videos as far as like from my YouTube dashboard I don't even think I have a way to get that there may be a way but it's probably hidden away in some weird settings or something so uh you know off the top of my head I don't know how I would go about getting that but I will say this if you're trying to get that list of videos for what I think you're trying to get it for there is a certain command line Linux program that is useful in getting that video and storing it locally on your machine and that particular program does have the ability I believe to just go grab every video from a certain Channel we're just going to leave it at that and the next question I think is in response to on a video recently I mentioned uh something about you know being interviewed occasionally on other channels or in online Publications and things and he asks hey DT were you recently interviewed where can I watch it okay so uh the most recent interview I did I actually posted in my like Community tab on YouTube recently that I did a a little bit of a collaborative video with Gavin Freeborn and that interview is actually posted over on his channel go check that out but I've appeared on a lot of other people's you know YouTube channels or audio podcast usually when people reach out to me I always say yes I'm always up for chatting about Linux free open source software so you over the years I've appeared I don't know and some things I've appeared on recently I think I was on a Josh over at keep it Ticky you know he invited me over to his channel uh recently I've been on zany Tyler's podcast before I've also been on the no tux allowed podcast recently that particular podcast no tuck allowed is the one that big pod and Josh Lee do some other things that you know off the top of my head I remember I've done a couple of guest appearances on the destination Linux podcast I appeared on a a Rocco from Big Daddy Linux he had a podcast called the Linux Spotlight I appeared on that a number of years ago and that's actually a really good interview go check that out if you haven't seen that moving on to the next question hey DT how has sln thing been treating you do you still use it so that's a great question sync thing this is a great way to sync files from multiple machines multiple devices your desktop computers laptops mobile devices do I still use sync thing no and it's not because sync think wasn't great it was actually working wonderfully for me while I was testing it out I tested it out for a few weeks but I didn't really need sync thing and the reason I did need it is because I was already using nexcloud I already had a nexcloud server my own server set up and I was already syncing files to all of my devices using nexcloud and it works so and I like nexcloud I was going to keep the nextcloud instance regardless so I just uh you know quit using sync thing but I wanted to do that video about syn thing because it is a easier solution much easier solution for most people to get up and running than creating your own nexcloud server right that's a little bit for nerds you know having your own nexcloud server but sync thing is something pretty much anybody can do it's not difficult at all so I do think for you know 95% of people that are trying to sync files across multiple devices sync thing is probably the better way to go if you have a little bit more exotic needs and especially if you're just a bit of a nerd the next Cloud Server that's probably what you want to do and the next question is hey DT I know you're still using xmonad primarily and it seems like you're quite a pillar of that Community meanwhile I know that your xmonad config could use a little polish you're still using Dynamic log for xmobar for example and he goes on yada yada yada I'm doing this doing that this needs to be updated uh okay so couple of things he says I know you're still using xmonad primarily no you don't because I haven't used xmonad in probably a year and a half you know I've been primarily using qtile as my window manager for at least a year maybe a year and a half maybe two years it's been a long time so I haven't touched my X mon config in a long time it's out of date so you're right it could use some work but I'm not going to work on it because I'm not using xmonad right now if there's any problems in that config you fix it if you're looking at that config and because you wanted a jump start on how to configure xmonad then hopefully it is a good jump start for you it gets you you know pretty far into that config if there's some things that need to be tweaked or changed or maybe some things you know some syntax that's broken now with the latest update of xmonad I don't know if there's anything broken in that config but if there is you're going to have to put in that work yourself to figure that out because I I've got a million configs on my DOT files on my gitlab and you know 90% of those configs are for pieces of software I don't actually use or don't use regularly you know they were configurations I did for purposes of a video and for purposes of helping the community like my xmonad config has helped probably thousands of people try out xmonad that otherwise wouldn't because of the difficulty of learning high school and working out how to add all the extensions and everything you know it's a pretty steep learning curve but you know I put that stuff out there to help people get started but you know I can't be like a 247 support channel for everything I've ever put on my DOT files uh I just don't have the time for that so just know that most of my DOT files yeah they're going to be out of date other than the things I use all the time on a daily basis right now I use qle my qile config is up to date I use emac every day I use my shell configs every day you know my bash config my fish config those things should be up to date but anything that's a window manager that's not qall I can tell you right now may be out of date so be aware moving on to the next comment hey DT when you start talking I always know you're going to take a long time to make a point you talk too slow you really like taking your time don't you yeah I do like taking my time actually ask your wife next hey DT I was looking for ways of securing app Images running on my Arts system with permission management kind of like flat packs could you point out any solution to achieve this uh no I actually can't because I don't think you know for one thing app Images they are not as secure as things like flat packs and snaps so even though we have these three Dro agnostic containerized uh package formats right app images flat packs snaps app Images are kind of the Oddball in the bunch because they don't inherently run in any kind of sandboxed environment thus by default app Images are never going to necessarily be as secure from if you're talking purely security right they're never going to be as secure as a flat pack or a snap because again that's just the way they're built so always verify the source of your app image as long as you're getting your app Images directly from a reliable source like when I go grab I have app images on my system I have app image for Caden live that I use on a regular basis and a few other apps and I but I go get the app image directly from the folks that make Kaden live they actually create the app image themselves just make sure you're going to get the packages from a respectable a reputable Source you should be okay but as far as trying to make your app image as secure as flat packs or snaps I don't know any methods to do that but again we're putting it out there here on camera maybe somebody in the YouTube comments under this video will have suggestions for you moving on hey DT where are your videos on Odyssey this video isn't there at the moment please see message and upload to Odyssey thank you so he was right there for a few weeks uh my videos were not appearing on Odyssey and it wasn't just me everybody that was doing a automatic sync from YouTube to Odyssey that feature was broken uh YouTube did some changes and and you know Odyssey just couldn't do the automatic sync anymore so there for a few weeks you didn't get any of my videos on Odyssey because I wasn't manually uploading them and I can just tell you I will probably never manually upload videos to Odyssey or any other platform that's not YouTube I already upload to Youtube and it's convenient for them to just automatically sync from YouTube uh I know people are going to say well that's lazy you should just do it yourself well you know I I do a lot of videos a lot of video content and you know even things that take just a few minutes you know minutes count you know especially when you're talking about things you do every single day so just know that you know while the sink was broken yeah you didn't get any videos on Odyssey I apologize for that but it is what it is but they fixed it now my videos at least for the dro tube channel are back being synced on Odyssey for those of you that watch my other channel DT options they're not being synced because I guess the channel is too small they just stopped the automatic sync I messaged them about it a few weeks ago they restarted the automatic sync and then when they had their problems recent problems with YouTube they stop they stopped the automatic sync again I'm probably just going to completely delete the DT options Odyssey Channel because again I'm not going to manually upload and the few videos that are there confuse people they're like hey are you posting the Odyssey or aren't you so that channel I'm probably just going to pull down but the dro tube channel should be there and working as expected and the final question or comment this one is in regard to a lot of the weird political drama that goes on in the community and I I always tell you guys I really don't get into this I don't care I'm I'm not interested in fighting about politics or arguing about politics never done that I don't do that in life I'm not going to do that on the internet but some people just don't understand why that's the case with me this person writes hey DT you say you don't care about all the drama in the false Community but I think you should start speaking out on it this seems to be a growing problem and you know what I completely reject both his premises here I reject the fact that I should start speaking out on it obviously but I also reject that this seems to be a growing problem it's not a growing problem this drama in the community it it's growing louder with certain influencers in the Linux and fr open source software space a lot of this drama has always existed it just gets more attention by certain people there are certain stirrers out there that like you know stirring the pot right they like stirring div Vision amongst us I don't play that game right I'm not interested in playing that game if you want to know I mean I've stated this plenty of times do I think that these open source projects should they be injecting politics into their communities and especially into their software no I think anybody with any sense at all would say no to that question but some of these people hey they have their their mental issues or whatever they're trying to you know push whatever social agenda activist agenda they're doing hey I do I think those people are wrong yes now do I think some of the reaction to what those people are doing by the people that disagree do I think some of that reaction is overreaction and in some cases more harmful than what the people that they they're trying to protest you know yes yeah I think some people on the other side of that argument are equally if not worse than the people you like it's one of those things a lot of these software projects I do think are mistaken when they start doing some of their little social activism or whatever but guess what they're going to realize the mistake eventually it will all sort itself out right because free and open source software is a Marketplace you know it's like a the capitalist marketplace right and it's one of those things that the good ideas will rise to the top the bad ideas will fall to the way side there's it's a Marketplace of ideas right and some people will buy some people will sell so if what these software projects are doing is truly bad and harmful trust me they're going to realize that soon enough I don't need to go out there and be a cheerleader you know watching a particular software project burned to the ground and cheering and saying hey this is a great thing all of us you know join me and making fun of this software project that's clearly doing the wrong thing I don't need to do that I would be a complete and total to do something like that I'm just not going to do it I know other people are out there doing that hey let them do their thing again kind of like I'm not going to speak out on the open source projects that are you know I possibly doing the wrong thing I'm not going to go and just completely you know take a on other content creators that I also think are doing the the community a disservice by trying to protest a lot of this stuff in the end I just let people do their own thing and again it's a Marketplace of ideas if what they're doing is working you know they'll be around in the future if what they're doing is not working they may not be around in the future and what you or me or anyone else has to say on any of this at the end of the day really doesn't matter now before I go I need to thank a few special people I need to thank the patrons of this Channel and of course I want to thank Matt Steve armor Dragon cap 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