NOTS Network Update - Fall 2023 - video Dailymotion

Nerd on the Street

Join me for some Red Hat merchandise unboxing and a general update on Nerd on the Street!  Tune into the web server upgrade livestream this Sunday, 26 November 2023 at 4pm MST: https://live.nots.co or https://youtube.com/live/oT6NGuJEuEQ   Timestamps: - College update: 00:21 - Web server upgrade stream announcement: 01:20 - Extra Life 2022 recap: 02:16 - Red Hat merch unboxing: 03:28 - Physical space update: 16:37 - Upcoming tech videos: 22:30 - Nerd Club info & wrap-up: 26:34 --- Join the Nerd Club: http://nerdclub.nots.co Official website: https://nerdonthestreet.com Discord server: https://discord.nots.co Subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/nerdonthestreet Facebook page: https://facebook.com/NerdOnTheStreet Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/NOTS_Network E-Mail: jacob@nerdonthestreet.com

Transcript

00:00 Hello everyone, I'm Jacob Kauf and I'm the Nerd on the Street and this is your network

00:02 update for Fall 2023.

00:04 Okay everyone, it's been too long since the last network update.

00:15 It's been well over a year, so even though I haven't made a ton of videos this year,

00:19 it was time for me to do another one of these.

00:21 First of all, in my last network update in the middle of 2022, I announced that I was

00:25 taking a six month break from the channel in order to focus on my graduate studies.

00:29 And this announcement is super delayed for the YouTube channel, everyone who knows me

00:33 in person already knows this, but for the record, I did graduate last year, December

00:37 2022, with a Master of Science in Information Systems and a 4.0 GPA.

00:42 So I did get that degree done.

00:44 I think it was a good idea to take a break from videos because I would have been able

00:47 to graduate either way, but I'm not sure I would have been able to pull the 4.0 GPA

00:50 off if I wasn't fully focused on doing that.

00:53 So that is out of the way, I am still a bit busy, I've still been studying for a language

00:57 certification this year.

00:58 My IT certifications are starting to come up for renewal again, so it's about to be

01:02 cert season for me there, so I've still got studying to do.

01:04 And in an unexpected but not unwelcome development, I actually kind of got a life this year.

01:10 So I've honestly not been super focused on making YouTube videos, it's just not where

01:14 my priority has been this year.

01:15 That's why the videos have been so sparse, even though I did finish that schooling last

01:20 year.

01:21 Now I'm obviously still here, and I do want to announce that in a little under a week,

01:24 I'm going to be doing a livestream here on the Tech YouTube channel and at live.knots.co.

01:28 I'm going to be doing a web server upgrade stream.

01:31 The Nern of the Street web server is currently running Debian 11, Debian 12 was released

01:35 this past summer.

01:36 I've upgraded a lot of my other boxes, most of my single purpose servers are already upgraded,

01:41 but the main Nern of the Street web server, it's running like 8 or 10 different websites.

01:46 Some of those websites care when you switch the PHP version out, and the Debian upgrade

01:50 is also a PHP upgrade.

01:52 I think it's going from PHP 7 to 8.

01:54 So some manual intervention is likely to be required, and I decided to save that one until

01:58 I could do it on video.

01:59 You guys can watch me do that.

02:00 And if you guys want to show up to that livestream next week, you're welcome to chat and just

02:04 ask other tech questions while I'm working on that.

02:07 The Knots web server upgrade stream is going to be Sunday, November 26th, 2023 at 4pm Mountain

02:13 Time, and it'll probably go for a couple of hours.

02:16 Next up, just some other things to announce.

02:18 At the end of last year, after I finished that master's degree, I did take a couple

02:23 of hours one day and did a very short Extra Life Lite livestream for charity, raising

02:28 money for the St. Louis Children's Hospital.

02:30 Extra Life is an event I try to participate in every year.

02:33 This year's another year, I'm not sure if I'm going to be doing that or not.

02:35 I don't know if I want to do a Lite stream two years in a row.

02:38 If it does happen, it's going to be probably towards the end of December again.

02:42 But last year I did do that.

02:43 I'm not wearing the shirt today because it seems like in half the channel updates I do,

02:48 I'm wearing Extra Life merchandise.

02:50 Normally I used to wear these in the first video I did after those livestreams, but here's

02:54 one of the two t-shirts I got.

02:55 This one was actually specific to the St. Louis Extra Life effort.

02:59 I did also get the standard National Extra Life t-shirt.

03:03 That one I think is still back in St. Louis.

03:05 They sent it to me in January, like a couple days after I came back here to Denver.

03:09 And I was back home earlier this year, but I think I completely slipped my mind to grab

03:13 that National one.

03:14 But yeah, I did want to show that.

03:16 So thanks to the few of you who showed up there.

03:18 Like I said, it was a very short stream and it was not heavily publicized.

03:20 So if you missed it, you missed it.

03:22 It should be on the livestream DVR for Nerd Club members at nerdonthestreet.com.

03:26 But yeah, there is that.

03:28 Another quick thing I wanted to do.

03:30 Earlier this year, Red Hat actually contacted me.

03:32 And it's funny, this was right about when Red Hat announced their licensing changes.

03:36 So people on Reddit and Hacker News and other websites were very upset with Red Hat because

03:41 they basically announced the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.

03:45 It's under a free software license.

03:47 So if you're using that operating system, you are legally entitled to get a copy of

03:50 the source code.

03:51 However, Red Hat published a new change to their contract for support that said, first

03:57 of all, they don't provide that source code unless you're paying for a support contract.

04:01 And that's legal and that's part of the license.

04:04 So that's fair.

04:05 But they also announced that if you actually share that source code elsewhere under the

04:09 open source license, they can't actually prevent you from sharing the source code elsewhere.

04:14 But if you do, they will terminate your support contract, which means you'll no longer get

04:18 updates from Red Hat.

04:20 And you also won't be able to get future versions of the source code anymore, since you won't

04:23 have that contract in place.

04:25 So it was kind of a loophole around some provisions of the GPL and other free software licenses.

04:29 Personally, I wasn't a huge fan of that.

04:32 I understand why they did it.

04:33 Because some large enterprises were apparently paying for a small number of Red Hat support

04:38 contracts and then using free Red Hat clones like SyntOS or more third party ones like

04:44 Rocky or AlmaLinux, which led to Red Hat being billed for a disproportionate amount of effort

04:50 compared to what they are actually being paid to support.

04:52 I understand why they did it, like I said.

04:54 Still not a huge fan, but right around that time, I don't know if Red Hat decided to do

04:58 some kind of social media PR thing or if this was just completely unrelated.

05:03 But a social media specialist at Red Hat named Katie reached out to me around August and

05:08 offered to send me some Red Hat merch.

05:10 This FedEx tag, the shipper name is Kali, so it's a different person.

05:14 So at least two people at Red Hat were involved in this.

05:17 So yeah, I received this in September.

05:19 I feel a little bad that it's taken me this long to open it.

05:22 But they did not even ask me to open this up on video or anything.

05:25 It was literally just "no strings attached, we want to send you some stuff."

05:28 I assume they thought that I might wear some of this in a video or something.

05:32 But I thought I would go ahead and open this up here on camera while I'm doing a network

05:37 update.

05:38 So I'm going to zoom the camera out a little bit and we'll go ahead and do that.

05:41 See what Red Hat sent us here.

05:42 I just got some of the whiteout that I used to cover up my address onto my hands while

05:46 I was moving the box around.

05:47 So this is already more trouble than it's worth, which is why I don't make a lot of

05:50 videos anymore.

05:51 But whatever, let's cut this thing open.

05:55 Okay.

05:57 And to refresh your guys' memory, I am a Red Hat certified engineer, which is their second

06:02 level of certification.

06:03 I've also got my RHCSA, which is the first level.

06:06 And I made videos a couple years ago about Ansible.

06:09 If this effort was entirely unrelated to the licensing thing going on this year, then I

06:13 would assume they found me through my Ansible videos, since Ansible is a Red Hat product.

06:17 I don't really cover Red Hat too much anymore.

06:20 I've covered Fedora a little bit.

06:22 And Red Hat's dropped some of their financial support to Fedora this year around the same

06:26 time as that licensing stuff was happening.

06:28 But okay, this is quite a bit that they've sent.

06:31 So let's see here.

06:32 I've got a card, I'll try not to get the white out from my hand onto this stuff.

06:36 I think it's dried already though.

06:38 So this is a tweet or an X post from Red Hat.

06:43 It says, "Your social media content rocks.

06:45 Keep up the great work contributing quality technology content to the community."

06:49 And it's hard for me to tell also how personalized this stuff actually is, but that's what I

06:54 try to do.

06:55 I try to contribute quality technology content.

06:58 It's got some of Red Hat's social stuff written on the bottom there, nothing on the back of

07:02 that card.

07:03 So I'll set that down here.

07:04 We've got a mouse pad with a wrist rest at the bottom there.

07:10 I don't have any...

07:11 Actually I think I've got one mouse pad with me here in Denver.

07:13 I obviously don't use one normally.

07:15 I just use my Logitech Laser Mouse on my wood desk.

07:19 And even when I'm doing things like gaming, which I hardly ever do, that's still enough

07:23 accuracy for me.

07:24 But I don't have any mouse pads with the actual little bump there.

07:28 I don't know.

07:29 Can you see it?

07:30 If I hold it over the white door on this side of the frame, you might be able to tell there's

07:34 a pad that your wrist is supposed to go on.

07:37 I don't know if that's actually good for your wrist or not.

07:40 I don't know.

07:41 I feel like I've heard mixed things about those over the years.

07:44 But yeah, there's that and some plastic covering on the back.

07:48 I guess the bottom of this is gonna be some kind of rubber that will keep it from slipping

07:51 around on your desk when you take that plastic off.

07:54 I'm gonna toss that down.

07:56 My physical setup right now is not great for having extra things around.

08:00 And I'll talk about that, I guess, after this part of the video.

08:02 All right, next up, what am I gonna pull out here?

08:04 I've got...

08:05 This is some kind of...

08:06 This feels like a sandbag.

08:08 It's long.

08:09 It says "Red Hat" on it, which is cool.

08:12 I was kind of hoping they'd send me a red hat, but I think those are only for employees

08:16 or something, if they even do that anymore at all.

08:19 So this...

08:20 What is this?

08:21 So you've got the logo on the top, and then on the bottom, it's sort of a felt material.

08:25 And I'm actually not sure what this is supposed to be or supposed to be used for.

08:31 I don't think it's anything you'd wear.

08:33 It's not long enough.

08:35 It's not quite long enough to be like a door...

08:37 It might be a door stop, 'cause it's not long enough to actually cover the entire bottom

08:41 of a door, like to stop drafts.

08:43 There's a logo on that tag on the side of it.

08:46 "Totty Gear."

08:47 I don't need to even read that logo, since it's in some weird, weird cursive font there.

08:51 But yeah, I might have to actually look up what this is supposed to do later.

08:56 So there's that.

08:57 It might be...

08:58 If it's supposed to go with the mouse pad, then maybe you set this in front of your keyboard.

09:04 'Cause it's about...

09:05 It's a little less than the entire length of my Apple aluminum keyboard here, my wired

09:10 keyboard with numpad.

09:11 But it might be just a wrist rest for your...

09:14 When you're typing on the keyboard.

09:15 Once again, I'm not sure if that's actually a good thing to have.

09:18 Don't know if that's good for the body or not, to rest your wrists on things while you're

09:21 using them.

09:22 Okay, but we'll toss that down and keep going here.

09:25 What's this white box at the top?

09:26 Curious about the white box.

09:28 Stay Cool Corksicle.

09:31 That's a brand.

09:32 Alright, we're gonna open this up.

09:33 This is absolutely gonna be the longest part of the channel update, just unboxing random

09:38 Red Hat stuff.

09:39 So take that out and...

09:41 Okay, okay, it does say Red Hat on it.

09:43 See I was expecting it to be red or something, or black with a red logo.

09:47 But it's got the Red Hat logo and wordmark there.

09:51 So we've got a mug.

09:52 That's cool.

09:53 I've been using a closed top water bottle since I've been in this smaller space.

09:58 I really miss my apartment when I used a mug similar to this more often.

10:02 But this one has a top, so I don't know.

10:05 I could try to start using this.

10:06 It's got a lid that sort of slides open.

10:09 You can put hot drinks in there, cold drinks.

10:11 I normally just drink water, so if it keeps water cold, that's cool.

10:15 Yeah, that looks like a nice mug.

10:18 It's got a rubber base with a sticker on it right now.

10:21 I don't think that my previous mug even had a rubber base.

10:25 It was a very cheap one from like Target or Walmart that I'd previously been using.

10:29 And yeah, the rubber base is nice if you're gonna set it directly on a desk.

10:33 I usually use a coaster.

10:34 So there's a mug.

10:35 Next up we've got...

10:36 Oh, this is funny.

10:37 This is actually really funny.

10:38 So this is a Red Hat water bottle.

10:40 And if you notice, this is almost the same size and shape as my current water bottle.

10:45 It is a little bit cheaper.

10:46 My current one has one of those UV decontaminators that I hardly ever use.

10:52 I almost never turn that thing on intentionally.

10:54 It's been turning on unintentionally more and more often lately.

10:58 But my current water bottle does have a rubber base.

11:00 This water bottle does not.

11:01 This new one, it's just got a metal base and yeah, mere brand there.

11:06 But this does say Red Hat on it, so that's cool.

11:09 And the top of it, it's got one of those handles you can hold it by, but you also use that

11:14 to unscrew it.

11:16 And then it's just kind of a thermos thing.

11:18 So yeah, I've got a couple of these at this point.

11:21 One of the other ones I have that's almost the same design, it says Colorado on it, which

11:25 I'm not gonna use that 'cause I hate Colorado.

11:28 But yeah, Red Hat one, I might actually, I might wanna rep that.

11:31 So that's cool.

11:32 All right, next up, this is kind of a large item.

11:36 I don't know.

11:37 This is probably super cheap headphones.

11:38 I'd have to look up what model they are.

11:40 Lifetune XR, wireless.

11:43 So I don't normally use wireless, anything that goes on my body, but wireless noise canceling

11:48 headphones.

11:49 I don't have any noise canceling headphones right now.

11:51 This might be useful for me to use at work because it can get quite loud there in the

11:55 office when I do go in.

11:57 But it says multi-mode, active noise canceling.

12:00 I've actually been thinking about trying to pick up a noise canceling pair, so that's

12:03 cool.

12:04 It says Soundcore by Anker.

12:06 Yeah, I'd have to look up, like I said, how high-end or low-end these actually are, but

12:11 we got some stuff on the other side of it.

12:14 I'm curious if these say Red Hat anywhere in them.

12:19 So I wanna take these out of the box just to check if they've got logos on the ears

12:24 or anything.

12:25 It looks like we've got a carrying case for them in there.

12:28 Take that out.

12:29 So here is, we've got the part of the box that's supposed to hang on a shelf is stuck

12:33 to the plastic here, but we've got a manual for these headphones.

12:38 And then inside of our carrying case here, it's a little bit more compact than my current

12:43 headphone carrying case.

12:45 Okay, so this is what it looks like in the box or in the case.

12:51 A little bit of probably foam that you're not supposed to reuse, but I probably will.

12:56 And then some cables and things and a small drawstring bag.

12:59 Okay, and yeah, these say active noise canceling.

13:02 Okay, so I'm noticing like on the ears, there's no Red Hat logo there.

13:07 That's just random other logos, but on the top, it does say Red Hat.

13:11 So if you're wearing these, you know, oh, and that is quite a seal.

13:14 My current headphones have gotten pretty old, so the seal is not great on them anymore,

13:17 especially 'cause my beard really doesn't number on the material.

13:20 But yeah, if you're just wearing these normally, nobody can tell that it's Red Hat, but if

13:24 you look down, then somebody can see that it's Red Hat.

13:27 So yeah, that's probably the most bizarre one.

13:30 Okay, and like the memory foam was already very deformed after just wearing that for

13:35 just a couple of seconds there.

13:36 I didn't notice it being that deformed before I put them on.

13:39 I did have them on backwards.

13:41 It's supposed to be this way.

13:44 So yeah, that is the most bizarre item that they've included in this box so far.

13:48 But that's cool.

13:50 Set this on the desk.

13:53 And there's one more thing in the box here.

13:56 Rocketbook Fusion All-in-One Planner, Calendar, and Notebook.

14:01 It says Red Hat right there.

14:03 And this box is sort of smashed in from all the other merch that was on top of it.

14:09 But if it's just paper, it should be okay.

14:12 And it comes with an app.

14:14 Scan and save.

14:15 Reuse endlessly.

14:16 So maybe I wonder if this is some kind of dry erase thing.

14:20 Take that notebook out there.

14:23 Made in USA.

14:25 Okay.

14:27 And something in here.

14:29 We have a manual for our notebook.

14:31 Red Hat's great at documentation.

14:33 I'm joking, of course.

14:34 Red Hat didn't have anything to do with the notebook production here, I wouldn't imagine.

14:39 But yeah, this looks like some kind of...

14:41 I've got an eraser here.

14:42 Oh, so even though the notebook was made in USA, the eraser was made in China.

14:46 But yeah, this is just a large...

14:47 It looks like a...

14:48 Well, it says 90% polyester, 10% polyamide.

14:52 It looks kind of microfiber-ish.

14:54 I don't know if it actually is.

14:55 And yeah, this is like a planner.

14:57 It feels like paper, honestly.

14:59 It doesn't feel like anything dry erase.

15:02 And it didn't come with a marker or anything.

15:04 So I don't know how reusable this actually is.

15:07 Or if you write on it with a pen and then clean it off with liquid.

15:10 I guess the manual here.

15:12 It says, "Endlessly reusable.

15:14 Dampen part of the included microfiber towel."

15:16 I was right about that.

15:17 "And wipe the page.

15:19 Then wipe it down with the dry portion of the towel.

15:21 Make sure the page is dry before writing on it again.

15:23 For easier erasing, use a fine mist spray bottle."

15:27 That it doesn't come with.

15:28 "Wipe it off if you're not going to use it for a month or more."

15:31 And okay, so there's a pen included.

15:33 Or there's a pen that's supposed to be included.

15:35 Maybe it was in that microfiber thing.

15:37 Because it says, "Write with the fancy proprietary pen.

15:43 And then allow 15 seconds for it to dry after you write."

15:47 Where is the pen?

15:48 I'm curious if that's included in this.

15:51 There's no pen in this microfiber bag.

15:53 Oh, okay, okay.

15:55 So in the box here, there's a compartment in there that you have to hold the side flap

16:01 of that box open.

16:03 So here is our erasable pen that we can write in that planner with.

16:08 Because nobody who's into Linux is going to be using anything like an electronic planner

16:13 because we have to reinstall so much that we lose all the data every time.

16:17 So of course we're going to use paper, right?

16:19 Maybe that's the story there.

16:20 I don't know.

16:21 Okay, so that's everything that's in this box.

16:22 So hey, thanks Red Hat.

16:24 Like I said, Red Hat did not pay me to do that.

16:27 And Red Hat did not even request that I open that up on video.

16:29 I just thought it'd be fun.

16:31 More fun than doing it on my own time.

16:33 See, I'll have to find places for all of this later.

16:36 All right, so moving on in the update.

16:38 Like I said, I'm currently in a very enclosed, very small, cramped living space.

16:43 And that includes the office here.

16:45 That's part of why I haven't made videos as much over this past year.

16:49 You know, when I had an actual space, when I had an actual office, even though the office

16:53 was not exclusively for Nerd on the Street, I also used it for like school and everything

16:56 else I'm doing.

16:58 You know, I could have my tripod out just all the time.

17:00 And then if I had a few minutes over a weekend to record a video, I could turn the camera

17:04 on, you know, not have to take the tripod out of the bag and set it all up and everything.

17:08 I could just turn the camera on and start recording.

17:10 The living space that I'm in now, it's probably the second smallest space I've had to deal

17:15 with for Nerd on the Street.

17:16 It is larger, I think, pretty sure it's larger functionally than the bedroom that I was in

17:22 in college when I was, I was there for like six months, right after I transferred away

17:27 from university.

17:28 But before I moved into a different larger space, it was a place that was so cramped,

17:33 I had to have a green screen draped behind me most of the time because there was so much

17:36 crap behind me that it would have just looked terrible if I didn't have that green screen

17:40 there.

17:41 This space is better than that, but it is much smaller than all the other spaces that

17:45 I've worked with.

17:46 And critically, my bedroom is the same room as my office again.

17:50 This is a setup I didn't ever want to go back to after I graduated from college the first

17:55 time.

17:56 When I moved out into my first apartment back in St. Louis, that first one was a two bedroom

18:00 apartment and one of them I was using as a bedroom and the other bedroom was my office.

18:04 I finally had a dedicated office again after losing the Nerd on the Street studio that

18:09 was in my parents' house that got sold.

18:11 You know, and it's such a mental thing being able to walk away from Nerd on the Street

18:16 stuff and like go to sleep and not have computers in the room.

18:19 A lot of times I didn't even bring my phone into my bedroom with me.

18:23 Like when I go to sleep, I like to disconnect from everything on the computer.

18:28 I just had a tablet with like a different set of apps, but very few that I'm signed

18:31 into.

18:32 You know, no messaging stuff, no social media stuff, and just be able to separate out personal

18:37 just life from office stuff.

18:40 And yeah, when I moved to Denver, since Denver is so overpriced, I had to downsize from two

18:45 bedroom apartment to a more expensive one bedroom apartment in the Denver metro area.

18:51 And both the apartments that I've had here in Colorado have been one bedroom.

18:54 But even with those, the first apartment I actually used the bedroom as an office and

18:58 then I put my bed out in the living room, which tells you where my priorities were at

19:02 the time.

19:03 Really caring about Nerd on the Street, really wanted to have an office.

19:06 When I moved into that last apartment, I just used the living room space as an office, which

19:11 had worse acoustics because there was no carpet in there.

19:14 But it was slightly better for space and it was just much better mentally, like I said.

19:18 And yeah, now I'm back to the same old story.

19:21 I've got a bed directly behind the camera that you can't see.

19:24 I'm down to one desk that I'm using day to day.

19:27 My other desk is in this room also, because I don't have anywhere else to put it.

19:30 But it is, it's basically a shelf.

19:33 Just being used as a shelf because I can't, there's not enough space around it to actually

19:37 use it as a desk.

19:39 And I made the decision to move in here after last year, my apartment complex tried to raise

19:44 my rent by like $350 or $400 per month.

19:48 And it was already kind of expensive rent in the first place.

19:51 But they were also, I had issues with noise with them.

19:54 Neighbors would go out and use the common area with a pool and everything late at night

19:58 after it was supposed to be closed and the apartment management never did anything about

20:02 it.

20:03 And I was at for like two years, they wanted me to start paying $400 a month more to keep

20:07 dealing with it.

20:08 And I said, no, you know, but then I looked around at other apartments in the Denver area

20:12 and the new amount that they were asking, the insanely high amount was actually the

20:16 going market rate for a one bedroom apartment, because people in Denver and Colorado just

20:21 don't have standards for their lives.

20:23 So fortunately, I had a friend from my board gaming group, he actually has a house, he

20:27 had a half story of the house that was unoccupied.

20:29 So he offered me to start renting there.

20:32 And that's where I am right now.

20:34 But it's only a half story.

20:35 I've got one bedroom, I've got a tiny loft that I mean, it's not big enough to fit a

20:39 single desk.

20:40 So it's really not usable for anything but storage once again.

20:44 And then I've got my own bathroom here.

20:45 I'm sharing a kitchen and I've been cooking and eating healthy way less this year because

20:50 of that.

20:51 And yeah, Nern of the Street, Nern of the Street has suffered because of it.

20:54 Financially, it's been great.

20:55 You know, I've been the deal that he's given me on rent is so drastically cheaper than

21:01 an actual apartment that just financially, it would have been a mistake to do anything

21:05 else.

21:06 But yeah, it's been a sacrifice because in exchange for having a lot more money in the

21:09 bank, I I'm in this setup that feels like I'm in high school again, it feels like, you

21:14 know, I don't have my own space.

21:15 It's super cramped.

21:16 And yeah, I'm actually having to break down my tripod and put it back in the bag when

21:19 I'm not working on videos, because I don't have room to walk around in this room when

21:24 the tripod is up.

21:25 I don't know when that's going to change.

21:27 I don't know.

21:28 I don't know if it's going to change anytime soon.

21:29 I don't think it is.

21:30 Just with where my life is at right now, you can tell I'm kind of having a crisis in life

21:34 because I've got Gnome running on my computer.

21:36 If you can see the top bar there, that's connected to the fact that there's an Nvidia graphics

21:40 card in my computer back here and I recorded an unboxing for that.

21:43 Haven't published it yet because I haven't been able to do anything productive with the

21:46 graphics card that I wouldn't have been able to do with the previous one yet.

21:49 But I did get that graphics card partially to try and finish up Displaced Season 3 because

21:54 I'm tired of that show being an open end here at NERD on the Street.

21:58 But yeah, I'm not sure what the point of this whole direction of speech was.

22:03 I guess just so you guys know, I'm in a very cramped space and yeah, videos, like I said,

22:08 they haven't been my priority this year.

22:10 I've been going out, doing things with other people.

22:13 And the space that I'm in has actually negatively affected some of my personal relationships

22:16 as well.

22:17 But like I said, I'm kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place wanting to be here

22:20 in Denver for the specific job that I'm currently still at.

22:23 And yeah, not really sure what direction I would want to go even if I was going to move

22:29 somewhere else today.

22:30 So I do still want to keep making some videos.

22:32 I've got some that are sort of lined up just so you guys have an idea of what's coming

22:36 up here on the tech channel.

22:37 I am running ownCloud Infinite Scale as one of the web services on my NAS right now.

22:42 And I want to make a video about setting up ownCloud Infinite Scale.

22:45 That was what I was working on during that Extra Life Lite stream last year was going

22:49 through the steps to get ownCloud Infinite Scale set up.

22:53 It's a lot more complicated than classic ownCloud or NextCloud because it's not just a PHP web

22:58 application anymore.

22:59 It's a bunch of microservices.

23:01 So you basically need to use something like Docker or like a really complicated system

23:05 D setup to manage all those services.

23:07 I went the Docker route for now.

23:09 But ownCloud Infinite Scale is a very nice piece of software when you're not running

23:13 into any of its paper cuts and non-finished features.

23:18 When you are, then it's frustrating because they're not focusing on the front end of that

23:21 software at all.

23:22 Especially ownCloud developers, they just care about this complicated, super scalable

23:26 back end.

23:27 And they're very basic front end stuff like having previews of images that aren't cropped.

23:33 They just haven't, they've taken a very long time to implement them.

23:36 That one in particular, there was an image cropping bug.

23:38 I was waiting for them to cut a new release because they fixed the bug, but they haven't

23:42 released the bug fix in a standard release yet.

23:45 So I was trying to hold out for them to cut a release with that before I made my video

23:49 about ownCloud Infinite Scale.

23:50 But it is a great alternative to something like NextCloud if you don't need all the extra

23:54 features, if you don't need document editing or the app ecosystem, if you're not using

23:59 it for calendar and contacts and other stuff.

24:01 If you just want file storage, you want something like Dropbox or Google Drive basic features,

24:09 or something like File Run that I reviewed years ago.

24:12 OwnCloud Infinite Scale, it's open source and it's a great alternative to any of those

24:15 things.

24:16 So I do want to make a video about that sometime soon.

24:18 I'm not sure if that one's going to be this year or not.

24:20 At this point, we're almost into December and I do have an important exam coming up

24:24 in a couple of weeks.

24:25 So I don't know if there's going to be a tech video in December or not.

24:28 The other video I would like to do is a part three to my NAS series.

24:33 Every time I do a build series on this channel, like a computer building series, I never finish

24:38 it.

24:39 There's always one last part that I never get around to making.

24:41 It happened with this AMD desktop.

24:42 I think it's happened with some other builds.

24:44 But my NAS, I made two videos about it a couple of years ago, about setting that NAS up or

24:50 building it physically, picking the parts out, architecting my ZFS RAID setup.

24:54 I've been using the NAS for the last couple of years and it's been working so great.

24:59 I never have to worry about it.

25:00 You know, I go in and I install updates every now and then for security purposes.

25:04 But I'm running a lot of web services on it and I'm relying on it day to day and it's

25:08 just been working awesome.

25:09 So the third part of that video, what I want to do is show all the software that I have

25:13 set up and kind of talk about how it's been going, how using that NAS has gone, things

25:19 that I may change if I was doing it again from the ground up, or things that I would

25:22 highly recommend you copy if you're building your own NAS system at home.

25:25 And the nice thing about a NAS, and I knew this going into the series, is that it doesn't

25:29 really get outdated like a computer does.

25:32 You know, this computer that's sitting right behind me, I was going to make a benchmarking

25:36 video as the last part of that series.

25:38 I never got around to it.

25:39 And after a couple of years, there is no point in making a benchmarking video for a two-year-old

25:43 computer.

25:44 Nobody cares about that anymore.

25:45 You know, even with an RTX 4090 in there, it's still got a super old motherboard, a

25:49 kind of old processor.

25:51 Benchmarks would be irrelevant on that thing.

25:53 But with a NAS, the things that I'm talking about, you know, software stuff, RAID architecture,

25:58 that's stuff that you still care about even if you're building a brand new NAS with newer

26:01 parts today.

26:03 The services that you're running on it are still going to be very similar and you can

26:06 still learn from the things that are running on my NAS when it comes to making your NAS.

26:10 So that's still going to be a useful video, even though I've waited so long to finally

26:13 finish that series.

26:15 So I'm excited to do that one just because that has been such a cool thing to have, such

26:19 a useful computer in my setup to have.

26:22 So the NAS Part 3 video is definitely one I want to get around to finally making.

26:26 And yeah, of course, I've got other smaller or more complicated ideas that aren't quite

26:31 as well thought out yet.

26:32 You might get some of that next year.

26:34 As of right now, I really don't know where Nerd on the Street's going.

26:38 I did want to be very upfront about that, and I think I have been.

26:41 You know, this past summer I made a text post to our Patreon page explaining what's going

26:45 on, why I haven't been making as many videos, and just acknowledging that.

26:49 Because I know we do still have some Nerd Club members who are funding Nerd on the Street.

26:53 You know, part of me thinks about pausing the Patreon or like shutting that down because

26:57 I kind of feel bad every month when I get that notification that money is coming in

27:02 and I haven't made a video in the last month.

27:04 The main reason I'm not going to do that right now is because my bills for Nerd on the Street

27:08 are also not paused.

27:10 You know, Nerd on the Street really needs three core pieces of infrastructure to run.

27:14 We've got the domain names, the web hosting, and then the video CDN account.

27:20 And those are the three things that keep Nerd on the Street.com running.

27:23 I think it's valuable to have all of my content available on my own platform where if YouTube

27:28 goes under tomorrow, all of my videos will still be available on there.

27:32 Most of my videos are mirrored over on Dailymotion, but they're all on a single channel.

27:36 You know, Nerdonthestreet.com, I've got them all organized, just as good or better than

27:40 they are on YouTube.

27:41 And I see from my analytics that I am getting page hits on there, people are finding that

27:45 useful.

27:46 Of course I've also got the text components to some of my tutorials and stuff that are

27:50 hosted on that website.

27:51 And yeah, I am getting really good money's worth out of my web hosting.

27:54 Like I said, I'm hosting like ten websites on one fairly small Linode server.

27:58 It's not like I'm spending money just to spend money, but I, uh, yeah, I'm frugally running

28:03 a lot of web stuff right now.

28:06 And I have to keep all that online.

28:07 I want to keep all that online.

28:09 So for that reason, the Nerd on the Street Patreon is still running, which is, you know,

28:12 that's the Nerd Club thing.

28:14 If you are a Nerd Club member, like I said in that post over the summer, I completely

28:17 understand if you want to cancel for now and then you can think about rejoining the Nerd

28:20 Club if and when I ever start getting into making videos every single month again in

28:25 the future.

28:26 I won't be offended by that or hurt by that.

28:28 I completely understand.

28:30 If you do want to keep helping keep Nerd on the Street online, even during this period

28:34 of time when I'm not fully focused on making videos, it's still greatly appreciated.

28:38 And yeah, all that money is in one way or another going back towards Nerd on the Street

28:42 and me and everything I do to make this stuff happen.

28:45 So this is a pretty long channel update that Red Hat unboxing probably took longer than

28:49 it was supposed to, but that's just about everything I wanted to talk about today.

28:52 Like I said, Sunday, November 26th at 4pm Mountain Standard Time.

28:57 Come tune into that live stream if you want to chat.

28:58 But aside from that, I'm Jacob Kaufman, I'm the Nerd on the Street, and I'll see you guys

29:01 in the next one.

29:02 Bye.

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