so today's video is going to be more of
a channel housekeeping kind of video
where I'm going to answer some questions
I've been getting on the channel
recently as well as addressing a few
changes on the channel so one of the
questions that's been coming up a lot in
the last couple of months especially is
about my job situation so a lot of you
guys know that my main profession since
starting this channel has been that I
work in retail I am a supervisor at a
large retailer probably one of the most
common questions I get actually is what
do you work in retail weren't you
working in a computer related field I
just got into retail many years ago I'm
good at it I'm good at managing people
teaching people I'm good at dealing with
problematic people which is often the
case in the customer service industry
but in many ways I do have a second job
that is computer related I mean I do
have this YouTube channel and in a lot
of ways that's kind of a computer
related job right I am out there
spreading the word about free and open
source software and about good news /
Linux and I I think do a pretty good job
at at least teaching some basics as far
as free and open source software and
Linux now some of you guys have noticed
that I have really put out a lot more
videos in the last three or four months
than what I was doing previously
typically I was averaging no four videos
a week sometimes five videos a week and
really since the start of December I
have tried to put out a video every
single day missed a few days but for the
most part I am averaging about a video a
day so why the sudden increase starting
in December well the large retailer that
I work at and they are one of the major
retailers that is struggling right now
the retail industry as a whole is
struggling and when we had our Black
Friday so the Black Friday here in the
US the Friday right after Thanksgiving
the biggest shopping event of the year
it was not a great black
Friday and already knew our company was
struggling in a big way and after that I
I knew they're not gonna make it they're
gonna be out of business soon so already
I was planning for the future so I
really ramped things up on the YouTube
channel starting in December you guys
probably noticed especially some of the
videos I put out in December it looked a
bit tired because that was still the
busiest part of the season as far as
working in retail very long hours you
know still the Christmas season and then
I'm putting out a video every single day
on YouTube during the month of December
it was a I was a bit overworked but I
enjoyed it of course once we got past
the Christmas holiday you know then
things really slacked off at work
because you know then the busy shopping
season is over it's very slow after the
new year
other than returns of course people
bring back a lot of the merchandise that
they received as gifts after Christmas
but other than that you really don't do
anything for the first couple of months
of the year and once we get to the end
of the year the end of the fiscal year
and started reviewing the numbers this
department store that I work at which
used to do thirty million dollars a year
at the location that I met had trouble
making it to eight million in sales for
the year it was just a horrible horrible
year not just for the store I was
working yet it's just company-wide this
in this particular company is not doing
very good I won't mention the large
retailer I work at of course but there's
several out there you know that are
struggling and many of them are on the
verge of bankruptcy and then of course
the virus hits what I should back up a
little bit a couple of weeks before the
virus hits the company that I was
working at started cutting positions
they started laying people off and my
position wasn't one of them but I knew
it was a matter of time so I already
started planning my exit
Korona yes now they have been closed for
several weeks now it's gonna be at least
a couple of more weeks here in my state
before they're able to go back to work
and unless you're filing for
unemployment you're not getting paid
actually left them right before all of
that I timed it almost perfectly because
I had had I still been with the company
then unless I had a bunch of vacation
time saved up and could use that
vacation time I wouldn't be getting paid
right now anyway and from what was going
on for the previous year I don't think
even if the store opens back up in a
couple of weeks it's probably gonna be
one of those things where the company
really starts closing the doors on most
of its stores this company this is just
not gonna survive as big as it is
currently it's one of those deals where
you probably have to close like 90
percent of your locations and if you're
going to make it as a company you're
probably going to have to make it as a
much much much smaller company than what
they're currently are so as far as you
know my current job situation my current
job situation is this here I make videos
and that's what I've been focused on
really again since the end of Black
Friday last year's of for about four
months I've really been pushing hard
here on the YouTube channel and of
course here in the last couple of months
it's really been my primary source of
income really my only source of income
because again of the coronavirus in fact
in many ways I was very lucky regarding
this pandemic because a lot of people
don't have other sources of income and
because of what I do here making videos
it wasn't just catastrophic you know not
having a paycheck coming in because of
course I get money of course from a
YouTube from the Adsense revenue
regarding YouTube from my patreon
supporters from you guys donating to me
over on library' and I really appreciate
all of you guys that support what I do
and some of you guys that are new to the
channel have been asking me here
recently hey just found your channel
it's great hey man I want you to make a
little money what is the best way to
support you well the best way and then
for me is patreon because patreon makes
things easy you can set up a recurring
donation a monthly donation if that's
what you want to do and it's better for
the Creator because
he has a much better idea of exactly
what income is coming in on a monthly
basis some much more regular kind of
income than for example Adsense revenue
on YouTube because you have no control
over what YouTube does as far as what
kind of ads they run on your videos if
they run ads on your videos at all maybe
you monetize for some videos you really
have no control over what those ads pay
you
I have months where my viewership
numbers are very high but the ad revenue
is actually lower and then I have other
months where I don't get that many views
at all but the Adsense revenue does
quite well again it fluctuates and it's
kind of out of your control but with
patreon with a with a recurring
subscription through patreon from you
guys the community it's a much more
regular source of income it's something
that you're you can kind of depend on a
little more than what YouTube pays
course many of you probably don't want
to make a recurring monthly donation
that's fine you can always just sign up
to patreon and pay for a month or two
months or when you know you can always
cancel your membership but if you really
just want to do a one-time donation
PayPal is an option PayPal's a good
option if you donate through PayPal
though and actually if you sign up
through patreon what I would ask is that
you're gonna give some money don't do
the minimum donation which is $1.00 on
both PayPal and patreon because those
services do take out a fee so if you pay
me a dollar on PayPal Ferg for instance
PayPal takes something like thirty five
cents or 37 cents or something out of
that dollar which is okay for me because
you still donated of 65 cents or
whatever to me and yet every little bit
helps
but for you guys that are actually
making the donations I want you to get
the most bang for your buck so if you
could bump that up to two or three
dollars then whatever PayPal takes out
as far as a fee or patreon takes out as
as a fee doesn't just eat up so much of
your money that you're trying to give
other ways to donate include things like
super chats which you can do when I do a
live stream here on YouTube I don't live
streaming that all
but the super chats are something to
consider and of course you can always
donate lbc to me over on library that's
my least favorite form of donations if
you're already on library and you're
collecting lbc and you want to donate
lbc to me by all means I'm very
appreciative that you guys we're willing
to donate that to me but if you are
pondering because I had this question
the other day hey how would you like for
me to donate to you through something
like PayPal or patreon or would you
prefer me just give you some lbc on
library and that is the worst option the
LBC through library because then I
actually have to do a currency exchange
I have to actually trade those lBCC's in
to u.s. dollars actually I have to do
two currency exchanges because I can't
find a platform that will exchange lbc
directly to u.s. dollars what I have to
do is I have to convert my LBC into
Bitcoin and then into US dollars so the
next question I want to address involves
the location of my camera the camera
that records may not typically I am NOT
sitting directly in front of a camera in
this position typically I'm turned
around doing work on my computer and
this room I'm in is very very small and
I get this question on almost every
video it seems here lately probably from
new subscribers because I've gotten many
new subscribers here in the last couple
months my room situation here is so
small and this desk is so big and I've
got three monitors and then I get the
gigantic tower behind me that is my
computer and then the sound server
equipment and the lighting I cannot put
a camera and a tripod in front of me
that there's just no room this room is
only about 8 feet wide it's a like an 8
by 8 room and with everything I've got
in this room I have to put my camera off
to the side of me and high enough that
it actually clears the monitors too
because I've got three monitors in front
of it's a weird situation that's why the
cameras there if I could put it in a
better location I would but I'm also a
little concerned that so many of you are
like hey why don't you
the camera in front of you so you can
actually look into my eyes are you guys
like strange perverts or why do I need
to make eye contact with you anyway
another question I get all the time here
lately is hey man why are you always
changing window managers terminal
emulators shills you're always hopping
to something different
why don't you just stick with something
for months or even years and really
learn it well that would be great yes I
should just stick to arch linux and the
i3 window manager and use nothing but
the best show and the x-term as my
terminal emulator and really know those
programs because I spent years and years
and I've never tried anything else and
that would make some just fantastic
YouTube content come on you guys
of course I try out new programs because
you guys want to see it a Glee at least
I think most of you guys want to see it
it's very odd because I do see other
youtubers out there tech related
youtubers and especially Linux related
youtubers that know nothing other than
the distribution they're on they have
never tried any other distribution other
than the one they're on and that is a
very limited world that they live in
because they really don't know what
exists if all they ever used was Debian
or a bun - and they don't know anything
about arch or jinn - or fedora you know
they don't know some of the really cool
aspects to those other distributions
they are stuck and this their own little
world and I refuse to be stuck in such a
world also I really think it has made me
a better Linux user it's made me more
knowledgeable even though yes I could
just stick with one window manager for
example the fact that I've used so many
different window managers you know every
window manager is a little different
they all have different configurations
and they all can do slightly different
things and every window manager I've
ever tried you know I take a little
piece of it with me you know you know I
like the way that BS PWM like does that
and I like the way that the awesome
window manager does that not like the
way QTL did
and it really gives me ideas about how I
really want to configure my desktop to
my workflow and I wouldn't have this
kind of perspective had I just stuck
with one window manager my entire life
another question I'm getting from some
of the new users is hey man I've been
watching some of your videos especially
some of my past videos and DT why are
you such a free and open source software
extremists or zealot or whatever
terminology they want to use and I'm
okay with that terminology I'll admit I
am an extremist or a zealot when it
comes to advocating free and open source
software versus proprietary software but
so the people that asked me this kind of
question the only thing I would ask you
in return is why do you care about my
opinions on free and open source
software versus proprietary software
they don't really concern you right my
choices for what kind of software I want
to use and for what the kind of software
I want to advocate the use of that's my
decision you may have a different
decision and that's fine but I'm not
really sure that there's an argument to
be had here I know it's it's weird
because some people think that because I
advocate the use of free software that
I'm somehow degrading you guys that use
proprietary software because you know
I'm advocating free software so I must
hate proprietary software and I do so
therefore I must hate you in the
proprietary software user well no we all
have to use proprietary software
sometimes everyone has to use
proprietary software sometimes that
still doesn't mean that I like
proprietary software it's still garbage
in my opinion it's still immoral but
that doesn't make you guys or me that
has to use proprietary software
sometimes bad or immoral but you're
never gonna change my opinion that
that's software that proprietary
software is garbage and it's unethical
as far as the people that develop the
software I really think that software
developers should open source everything
and I'm I'm not sure what you guys
or arguing anyway when we in some of the
comments like hey man you're just your
thoughts on free and open source
software just so sick and disgusting to
me and are you advocating the use of
proprietary software are you Pro
proprietary software I've never met
anyone that advocated the use of
proprietary software in lieu of free and
open source software if there was free
and open source software alternatives
out there I don't know of any of those
people that exists typically it's us the
people that care about free and open
source software and then the other group
of people is the people that don't care
at all
or they're completely ignorant of the
topic to begin with and this other group
that doesn't care or they're just
completely ignorant of the topic they're
not Pro proprietary software they just
don't know any better or they just
simply don't care it's not it's a
non-issue to them and that is okay and I
am NOT attacking those people when I
advocate for free and open source
software and I've never seen anybody
else that advocates the use of free and
open source software a tech people that
use proprietary software or don't even
know about free software don't care
about it nor they know about it they're
just not interested in the politics and
the ideology around it I've never seen
like a free and open source software
zealot attack those people that's not
who they're going after they're going
after the evil proprietary corporations
that are putting out their proprietary
garbage software that's who we're going
after not you guys that have to use
proprietary software and not myself
included since I also have to use
proprietary software sometimes another
question I've been getting here recently
is hey DT why don't you hang out on your
discord channel on your IRC Channel or
why don't you join telegram and hang out
with us on telegram first of all I never
use telegram never signed up never used
it it's not exactly free and open-source
software well that's why I'm not on
telegram I do have a discord channel I
know discord is also proprietary
software but the only reason I have
discord installed on my system is
occasionally I will need to do a voice
chat on a live stream on YouTube for
example if I'm doing a gaming stream and
most gamers what did they have installed
on their system discord
there's free and open source
alternatives I could use I could use
something like mumble but then I'd have
to set up a mumble server and then hope
that the people that wanted to game with
me live on a stream had mumble installed
and knew how to use it that's asking a
lot right
when gamers typically every single gamer
this a serious gamer is gonna have
discord already on their system so if
I'm gonna do a gaming stream with the
community I'm just gonna use what you
guys are using which is discord but no I
don't ever hang out on my discord
channel i log into discord half a dozen
times a year I don't just sit around in
the chat I never go to it I can get once
at a time without going to my discord
channel because I've got too much other
stuff to do same thing with IRC I wish I
could hang out in the our IRC channel
and chat with you guys but that would be
time that I would be wasting as far as
producing content on the channel if I'm
in front of my computer typically I'm
trying to work as far as putting out
content on the channel so I never open
up discord or IRC because it would just
be a real distraction and I can't handle
that I'm too OCD to have distractions on
my screen typically if I'm focused on a
task I'm laser focused on it because
I've got to be dialed in on exactly what
I'm working on so I do apologize if
you're hanging out in my discord and
think I'm ever going to be there I'm not
same thing with the IRC channel it's in
months actually since I've logged into
the distro Tube channel over on their
freenode network maybe I'll log in this
evening at least say hi to the guys that
are hanging out over there and the last
thing I want to discuss just briefly
some housekeeping stuff regarding distro
tube comm my website so recently I've
had somebody ask about guest Oracle's
posting guest blog post on my site and I
have allowed that and all he does is he
goes to my git lab where I host the
source code for distro tube comm because
everything on distro tube comp is free
and open source software and he just
does a pull request for the blog post
that he's submitting and I just prove it
and push it to my web server and it's
published so if you guys go to distro
tube comm and click on the blog tab you
will
see that there are a couple of blog
posts that were not authored by me so if
you haven't checked it out please go
read that guy's work and for those of
you that would like me to post a guest
blog post of yours on my site I have no
problems with that as long as the
article is at least reasonably
well-written you know proper grammar and
spelling and of course it needs to cover
Linux or free and open-source software
another thing you guys have been doing
is pull requests as far as some of them
I get lab repositories as far as my dot
files my builds of DWM and st and
especially my shell color scripts repo
I've gotten some really good commits
from some of you guys that are helping
me out with some of those projects and I
sincerely thank you guys for helping me
with those and again if any of you guys
watching want to help out with anything
over on my get lab repos if you see
something you're like hey man you know
ICD T's config for this but this really
could be better and most of what I do
actually could be better again I'm not a
programmer or a developer by trade hope
you see something that's just completely
off the wall feel free to do a merge
request because chances are I'm going to
accept it now before I go I do need to
thank the producers of this episode I'm
talking about Michael Mitchell Chris DJ
Donnie Dylan George hello Nate Lee
request armory Rob Sean and Willie these
guys they're the producers of the show
without these guys this episode this
very length of your grant where I
babbled on way too long this episode
wouldn't have been possible without
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peace