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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to Geek Therapy Radio. You've got your mental curator,
Johnny Hamburger. I'm still alive. This is a new episode.
It's going like weeks now between uploads of podcasts here,
and I do apologize, and really the purpose of this
episode is just kind of catching me up, just kind
of letting you into my life a little bit. And wonder,
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you know, if you're wondering, why haven't you uploaded in
a while? While this is the answer. I am recording
on my sixteen inch MacBook Pro. As you know, the
main microphone is between the left speaker girl here that
I will scratch on my fingernail, so hopefully it sounds okay.
I'm also using, obviously the built in webcam of this
sixteen inch MacBook Pro. I think it's doing some sort
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of filter to my face. I can't quite tell. I
don't like it. I don't know how to disable it.
I'm certainly not adding any sort of filters in obs,
but there you go. So what what's been happening? The
past couple weeks have been a doozy and I think
one of the main reasons that I haven't uploaded is
it seems like every time I intend to record an
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episode of Geek Therapy Radio, something always comes up, and
that's why I've always well, recently, I've been kind of questioning,
halfway joking, should I change the name of Geek Therapy
Radio to like Dad Therapy Radio or something like that,
Because I love my kids. They are the reason, though,
Why why I don't have so much time to record
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these episodes. I've already I've already eliminated the possibility of
recording episodes in the car while I'm driving to work.
I did that two or three times. I just figure
it's not worth it. I would rather not release an
episode than put myself or anybody else in danger. So
that is why I no longer record in the car
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with the DGI. Mike just kind of on my lapel
or actually headed up on the sun visor. A couple
weeks ago, I got an awful stomach bug. There is
a stomach bug going around Houston, maybe other parts of
the country. I don't imagine it's just I don't imagine
it's specific to Houston. But yeah, this last time my
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whole family got a stomach bug. I was spared. It
was miraculous. Riker was puk and his guts out, Mommy
was pukin or guts out. Marshall, my one year old,
was pug and his guts out. It was actually very
sad and we were all waiting for when Daddy would
get it. But thankfully, thank god, I didn't get it
that time, so I was able to basically be on
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puke and poop patrol for my whole family. It's good,
it's it's always better. Obviously, if one parent isn't sick,
sometimes both parents go down, and that's what happened with
the last round of the stomach bug. We all went down.
Marshall got it first, then Mommy or might be either
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the way or around. Mommy got a first that Marshall
got him, then I got it, and then a few
hours after me, Riker got it. We were thinking maybe Riker,
my four year old, would be spared from this stomach bug,
but he was not. Literally within hours of me going
down with it, Riker went down with it, which is
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so heartbreaking. It's one of those things, you know, one
of the most heartbreaking things for me. Well, it turned
out to be heartbreaking. It wouldn't it wouldn't. This wouldn't
register if you haven't already been a parent. If you
haven't been a parent, this is something that it always
sounds like elitist and snobby. You just wouldn't understand as
a parent if you're not a parent. This is kind
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of one of those things. And I understand that because
I wasn't always a parent. This is something that I
didn't realize until I became a parent. I don't feel
bad for me when I go down sick. I feel
bad for my family because I can't be as supportive
when when Daddy needs to be taken care of. Also,
so that's one part you're already feeling kind of insecure.
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May not be that you're feeling kind of useless. I
was feeling really useless when I went down with the
stomach bug. But I remember that night feeling absolutely heartbroken
when I could hear in the living room Riker pukein
every hour, every thirty minutes, every hour or so overnight.
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That was a long night. Mommy was feeling the best
out of all of us. She was feeling bad, but
she was feeling the best out of all of us currently.
So she stayed out with Riker in the living room
where I'm sitting on this couch. Actually stayed up with
him all night with the bowl, you know, handing it
to him as he needed it. But I was so
heartbroken laying in the room just it didn't annoy me
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at all that Riker was thrown up. I didn't sleep
a wink that night, and that's because of Jack, the cat,
keeping me up. I cannot even express how much I
disliked that cat. I was sick, had the stomach buk
get any As soon as I would get close to sleep,
as soon as my eyes would get some sort of
relief enough to start falling asleep, Jack would start catterwalling,
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and me own and carrying on. Here the air conditioner
coming on, so I'm going to apply the AI. NOI
is canceling individually resolved later. But yeah, I wasn't sleeping,
not because I was sick, but because Jack would keep
me up and I would hear Riker puke and his
guts out, and I just felt so heartbroken because you don't.
I don't. The last thing you want in the world
as a parent is your child to suffer with anything.
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Riker was an absolute truper. He had had a stomach
bug before he knew the drill. He knows the drill
as far as making it to the bowl, keeping a
bowl nearby, and all the other parts of a stomach bug.
He's he knows the deal now, but it's still and
he's so tough about it, and he's so sweet about it.
It just makes my It made my heart break every
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time I heard him throwing up in the living room
because I couldn't just wash it away. Not realistic, Well yeah, figuratively,
and actually I couldn't wash away the stomach bug. But
I couldn't like instantly heal him. And that's all you
want to do as a parent, is just kind of
like put your hand on your child's head or whatever,
on their heart and just give them peace and comfort.
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And when they have a stomach bug, it's awful and
you can't give them that peace and comfort. You can
make it much comfortable as possible and as peaceful as possible.
But yeah, when he was throwing up, hearing him do
his puke sounds which is heart so heartbreaking because I
just wanted him to feel good. I don't care if
I felt bad. If I'm fine. If I feel bad,
that's fine. I don't all get through it. I'm an adult.
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I know how to deal with with with pain and suffering. Unfortunately,
at this point I can I feel like I can
weather it better than a child. I can weather it
better than my children. And then especially when my children
whether it's so well, when Riker is just going through
it like a trooper and he's not asking, he's not
doing so much complaint and he's just going through it,
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that's like extra heartbreak. Oh, you're being so tough. I
don't want you to have to feel like you have
to be so tough. I want to protect you. That's
my role as a dad. My role as a father
is protection, and I cannot protect you from this stomach book,
so extra heartbreaking. Just letting you know, I'm just giving
you a glimpse into my psychology. That's what I do,
it seems like, even most recently here on Geek Therapy Radio,
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just give you a glimpse into my geek psychology. Marshall,
let me tell you about him just for a second.
I want to get into Linux for a moment. Just
tell you where I'm dabbling with Linux. Am I becoming
one of those Linux bros? We'll see. But Marshall, this
is gonna be kind of gross. So if you don't
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want to I won't keep it extremely gross, but I'm
trying not to be as graphic as I could be.
But this is explained. Parents understand this completely. So I
had put mar I had put Riker to bed the
night before, and I left his room around nine thirty
or so, is when I usually do. And I smelled
a little whip of what I thought was rotten milk,
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and part of it was rotten milk coming out of
or near Marshall's door. And I just thought, Okay, maybe
some milk spilled somewhere. Drop of milk, you know, somewhere.
My office is up there the geek Cave. Watch all
other videos on my channel YouTube channel, you'll see exactly
where I sit. So I just thought, maybe I had
some old milk somewhere, Maybe I spilled some o milk,
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Maybe Riker spilled a little bit of milk somewhere behind something.
This was nine thirty at night. I just figured, I'll
just this is a little bit of milk. I'll find
it in the morning and I'll clean it up and
deal with it. Nine thirty PM. We come out of
our room the next morning, let's say, say eight am,
and that smell is very strong. We go upstairs and
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it's even stronger. And still I'm thinking, Okay, whatever spilled
milk from nine to thirty last night that I first
noticed is now really it's really rotten. Still not a
big deal. I'll find it, I'll clean it up. We
opened the door to Marshall's room and the smell just overpowering.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
WHOA.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I was like, that's not rotten rotten milk. That's that's
throw up, which for a baby includes a lot of milk. Marshall,
And this is one of another thing of parenting of
that you don't know until you are a parent. I
didn't know until I became a parent. That was so
devastatingly heartbreaking. When in the room, Marshall, you know, hops
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up on the side of his crib like he normally does,
but he is covered head to toe in puke. So
what that means is that he puked at nine thirty
pm the night before and it wasn't showing up on
our baby cameras. We have those baby monitors, black and white.
Whatever like it doesn't didn't show up. We could not
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see it. His entire bed was covered in throw up.
He was covered in throw up, which meant he slept
the whole night in his own throw up, and he
didn't cry about it. He was he he's one years old.
He's such a sweet baby that he didn't cry about it.
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I can hear Jack already crying about something in the
other room. Hopefully AI noise canceling handles that he can't
have nice things because of Jack. But anyways, so Marshall
slept the whole night in his puke. He probably puked
a few times. That's dangerous. Also, he could have choked
on his own vomit. That part of it was scary.
Most of it was that it was just truly heartbreaking
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that I told him. I was like, dude, he doesn't
understand this. He's one years old. Like, little baby.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Boy, you can cry. Why didn't you cry? Why didn't
you make a peep last night? If you would have cried,
I would have come in there and cleaned you up
and help. I would have slept in there with you, dude,
I would have been there with you all night long,
knowing that you were sick. But he's such a sweet
and a good sleeper, which is wonderful obviously, and that
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he's such a sorry I'm getting for clemped. He's such
a I had a hiccer.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
He's such a sweet baby, needs such an easy sleeper
that I'm finger crossing. If you're not watching this video,
you can't see that my fingers are crossing right now.
He is currently just such an awesome sleeper. He doesn't
need much. You just set him down in his crib,
give him a couple of little rubs on his back,
tell him night night, a couple kisses, close the door.
Done with Riker, I still need to stay in there
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for a while. Part of it is a need, part
of it is just want. I want to be with
Riiker when I put him to sleep, but I'm gonna
want to be with Marshall when he gets a little older.
Tell him bedtime stories. Jack, Just come over here. You
don't need to sit there and counterwall and complain. I'm
right here. Just come seem I'm gonna hold up the camera.
Look at him over there. What a dope? Hey, Jack,
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say Hi? Say something? Oh you're not gonna say anything
with the camera's on you. Anyways, Marshall is such a
good sleeper. One day I'll go in there and tell
him bedtime stories. Stay up with him a little bit.
But like Riker, You could not just set him in
the crib and lee. If he would cry for a
whole hour, he would lose his mind for thirty minutes
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to an hour, and really you just had to be
strong about it and just have to leave. But as
he got a little older, I'd stay in there, and
I guess he just got used to us being in
there with him. But babies need different things. Marshall may
never need Mommy and Daddy to stay in there and
tell him a bed time story. We're gonna read to him,
just to read to him, because that's part of child development.
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You read to your freaking kids.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
But he is a.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Different personality than Riker easy breeze. You can set him
down in a crib and close the door and he's good,
just goes to sleep. He's got his little grogu stuffy
in there. But yeah, so that was what I was
dealing with for the past couple of weeks. The stomach
bug for me lasted like I'd say, three days of
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noticing it really and then at least another week of
really eating light and being scared to eat foods really,
like I don't want to eat my Halopenio is my
normal diet because it's gonna throw me. I lost seven
pounds in about eighteen hours. It was all water weight, obviously,
but lost weight quickly, and I used that excuse. I
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was like, maybe I can use this excuse to just
stay on a diet and you know, keep losing weight.
Maybe I'll just eat for lunch. I'll have my little
turkey and cheese sandwich in a salad and just keep
it light and lose the weight that didn't last long.
I'm back on my bs. I'm trying to eat a
little bit healthier, but that's neither here nor there at
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the moment. Linux. I'll try to put a stamp here.
I can't see how long I've been recording here, thirteen minutes.
I'll look for the about the thirteen minute mark ish
as I want to edit this in da Vinci Linux.
I have been debating making a Linux pc, you know,
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installing Linux on at maybe an old PC that I have,
or maybe even a new one. Make an actual dedicated
kind of Linux workstation for da Vinci Resolves specifically and
have Steam on there and everything. So the version of
Linux that Da Vinci Resolve black Magic Design officially supports,
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and that officially supports is Rocky Linux, so I may
install Rocky Linux on my old It is old computer wise.
I have a thirty nine hundred X small form factor
machine that I have. The thirty nine hundred X is
a twelve core, twenty four thread processor from when it
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was twenty eighteen, twenty twenty something like that, and it
has the rtx A two thousand, seventy five watt bus
powered graphics cards six gigabyte version of the RTXA two thousand.
I got it for like two hundred bucks a few
years ago. I don't know how much it is now
three hundred bucks something like that. Maybe more expensive GPU
prices fluctuates greatly, But my rtx A two thousand, it's
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a workstation class graphics card. It's not the biggest bruiser
in existence, but six gigabytes how many kudacors, three thousand,
COUDA corps something like that up the top of my head,
one hundred twenty eight gig or two and eighty four
bit bus. It's a good little it's one of the
best bus power graphics cards still that you can that
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you can buy, especially small form factor half height graphics card.
So anyways, that's a little workstation thirty two gigs of
DDR four RAM. It's a good little workstation. Two solid
state drives, a one terabyte NVMe and then like a
one terabyte say to SSD, I think it's what's in
there mini it x board. But yeah, so that kind
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of sits around. Haven't done much with it. I've talked
about it on geek Therapy Radio a time or two
before it was giving me so many problems. It turned
out to be just Windows updates were awful. Oh surprise, surprise,
Windows is awful, which led me down the RAM whole
of well, what does what a what official distro of
Linux does? Black Magic Design eventually resolve officially support and
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it's and it's Rocky Linux. I think it used to
be Mint or no, it was sent Os, but I
think maybe they still do. Don't quote me on like
if they still officially support cent Os, but Rocky Linux
for sure. Uh So I was like, you know, let me,
I'm dabbling with it's selling that version of Linux on
that machine, that small form factor twelve core process or
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eight rt x, a two thousand and thirty two giga
RAM machine, just to dabble Linux, just to have Linux
on there and put steam ol, not Steam OS, but
put steam on there. I've been considering putting Steam os.
That's some breaking news in the Handtel gaming world is
that here's my original r O g ally with a
Z one processor and there Z one extreme processor. Steam
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os has released a Valve has A. Has A has
officially released Steam os or rog ally and the Legion
Go and the Legion Go s. I believe either way,
it's not just officially supported on Steam deck now it's
too far up my Steam decks in the other room.
But Steam Os is officially supported on rg ally. You
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may have seen videos around YouTube, wolfed In and Eta
Prime and the other usual suspects covering steam Os on
rg ally as I understand it now currently as recording
as of recording on June second, twenty twenty five, it's
pretty good on Steam os, and even you do get
some increased frame rates when you get Windows out of
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the way for the most part where there's there, but
there's still some bugs. There's still some development that needs
to be done on Steam Os for rog ally make
it compatible with changing TDPs and things like that, which
it can do a little bit with some hacks as
I understand it, but Mainly it's kind of streaming services,
game streaming services like Xbox Live and video g Force
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now whatever, there's some it's not fully fleshed out yet
on Steam Os for rog ally. That's what I'm gonna
wait for, because it's so stupid. This is such a
first world problem, such a first world idiotic thing of mine.
But I checked my bank statement and I got the
email saying Nvidia has charged you fifty dollars or whatever
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for six months of g Force. Now I'm like, I
forgot that I even had g Force. Now, I totally
forgot that I am paying for reoccurring payments for g
Force now. So on a Steam Os on rg alli,
apparently it's not working quite yet, or it's not available,
or there's something. The point is whether or not how
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accurate I am here telling you about different services that
are supported or not supported on Steam Os for rg Ali.
There are some services and functions that are currently not
supported on Steam Os for rog ally, So I'm kind
of waiting a little bit longer for that to get
fleshed out, and then I would have no problem putting
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steam Os. I'm actually looking forward to putting steam Os
on my rg ally I've talked about obviously my RG
ally in the path that I like that you can
hook up a hub. You do get display output. This
is not Thunderbolt, but you do get display output through
USB type C here, and it's a little mini workstation.
I wish for this is the og RG ally that
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not the twenty four gigabyte newer version of it are
ally x or whatever. This is still sixteen gigabytes of
DDR five and it works great. I wish I had
the twenty four gig version because I think that would
be a little bit better with editing on da Vinci Resolve.
Da Vinci Resolve works a treat on here, even with
sixteen gigabytes of not v rams, sixteen gigabytes of total
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system memory that shared with the APU works great. And
that's my One of my hesitations with putting steam Os
on there is like, I do I have used this
as a workstation. I like the idea of yeah, booting
into Windows and having it just be a regular PC
that you can do in old PC things with. But
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at the same time, I'm like, yeah, remember what I
just said. I used that function like once or twice?
Did I use it to do agny actual work. Ninety
nine percent of the time, I'm just playing PGA too
or two K one twenty twenty one or whatever, playing
Doom or playing some Steam game on it. So ninety
nine percent time I'm just gaming on it. So might
as well put steam os on there once a few
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of the more of the bugs are worked out, which
they will be very soon. I have nine and saw
Linux Rocky Linux on that small form factor workstation, yet
I have tried. Let me pick it up here, let
me go get it. Walk through my living room. Hope
you don't see anything too telling of my residence here.
But this is the GPD pocket, GBT pocket one, the
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very first gp pocket Windows. It's eight gigabytes and I
think it's one twenty eight gigabytes a RAM or sorry,
one twenty eight gigs of storage and eight gigabytes a RAM,
which in an atom processor, a quad core atom processor.
Windows is useless with it. It is absolutely useless on
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this machine. Now. It is so underpowered. Windows has become
so bloated that this is kind of a perfect use
case scenario. This thing came out in like twenty sixteen
or twenty seventeen, underpowered eight gigs a by eight gigabytes,
a ram on twenty eight gigabyte, a hard drive solid
say drive. I think it's e m MC. This is
a perfect candidate for Linux. This is this is the
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type of device that you put Linux on an underpowered machine.
You put a distro of Linux on there, that is
that is you know, stripped down. It doesn't need a
whole bunch of resources, and it makes machines like this
absolutely fly. The problem is I cannot find a dishrow
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of Linux that works on this. I can't even boot.
I can boot off the portable drive, I can boot
off the USB. I can even boot off of the
Samsung SSD that I plug into. Either the Type C
or the USB works great. I can't get to the desktop.
It just gets into like a boot loop. The kernel keeps,
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the D goes down, but it then it restarts, refreshes,
and I tell the bios just boot from the USB.
One of the cool things about Linux is that supposedly
usually you can just run it straight off of portable storage.
You don't have to install Linux to the built in
hard drive. You can run it straight off the USB.
Usually not the case with this device. It is becoming
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a bugaboo that has me questioning, well, how much do
I how much emotional and intellectual and physical investment am
I'm willing to get willing to put into getting Linux
working on this device. It's actually a lot. We're just
curious to get it working on this device, but thus
far doesn't let me. From what I've read a little
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bit is that the Atom processor, it's a it's a
sixty four bit operating system. Obviously, architecture is sixty four
bit for Windows, which it has to be to get
to see all eight gigabytes of RAM in there. But
the bootloader is thirty two bit apparently, which is odd,
and that's what's kind of throwing a loop For Linux distros.
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I might try to just get a thirty two bit
Linux distro and put it on here and just lose
half my RAM. I'm sure there's hacks around there. Linux
is all about hacks and tweaking and customizing to your
heart's content. But for now, at least sixty four bit distros,
everything I've tried does not work on here, and it
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probably boils down to that thirty two bit bootloader. I
may try a thirty two bit distro and just lose
the other four gigs of a RAM, which might not
matter in the end, because this thing isn't very very
powerful and to begin with. And you can find a
very lightweight distro of Linux that idol's at less than
a giga RAM. So I think I'll be fine on
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that front. Whenever I record the next episode of Geek
Therapy Radio, I'll let you know how that's going. I
use Linux all the time on my Raspberry pies, and
one's great. My favorite version of Linux, my favorite distro
or facade or whatever you call it desktop environment that
I use in my Raspberry four and five is twister OS.
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I have talked about Twister os ad nauseum in the
past on Geek Therapy Radio. It is the best skin
or whatever you could put on top of Linux on arm.
It's just great as retro pie built in there. It's fantastic.
You can make it look like whatever desktop environment you want.
You can make it look like Mac os, you can
make it look like Windows ninety eight, you can make
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it look like Windows seven, you can make it look
like Windows ten. At your heart's desire. You can just
do a hot key and just say bo you hit
function F two or something. Like that function shift F
two and be now you're using Windows ninety eight or
to look like Windows ninety eight. It's really cool, twister
os I you said I'm a Raspberry Pie all the time,
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but I'm looking into I guess you could boil it
down to. My interest in Linux currently is to get
it working on an x eighty six system. DA Vinci
resolve on Linux. Rocky Linux only officially supports in Nvidia
graphics cards. So that's one thing is I can put
Rocky Linux on an AMD powered graphics computer, but it
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won't officially support you run into bugs. I don't know.
Even getting the driver in Vidia drivers to work on
Rocky Linux isn't s straightforward. It's just going and downloading them,
which is a travesty, which is a travesty, you know what.
Let me see. I'm going to go over to real
quick here. Hopefully my thing is still recording. OBS is
still recording. I can't bring up the desktop. I haven't
set it up for that. I want to see if
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dad uh Linux and video drivers. I don't think you
could just go to the website and download Linux and
video drivers in video download official drivers. Let's see manual
driver's search. Okay, I agree, but let's see. Let's see.
I don't see anywhere operating system. Ooh you can okay,
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I take that back. Y'all are yelling at me as
I was complaining about this. Looks like you can download
Linux drivers sixty four bit at least Linux drivers from ooh.
You can download drivers even for Arch sixty four which
are like ARM processors. Interesting. I might have to dabble
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with that a little bit. Cool you're watching or hearing
me realize things live well pre recorded here in kikap
radio speaking to the devil. I gotta wrap this up
because I do have to go get Marshall. Let me
look in my phone here now with the time is
twenty minutes, it looks like to get there. So yeah,
I gotta start wrapping this up. My giek thing right
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now is dabbling with Linux, getting Linux installed on things.
I have dabbled with Rocky Linux running off of portable
USB on my normal laptop. I've got my oh gosh,
what is I'm blinking on it? It's my oh G sixteen.
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I'll show you it. It's my is it no? Not
G sixteen G fourteen rog G fourteen from twenty twenty
or twenty twenty one. It's got RTX thirty sixty eight core,
sixteen thread fifty nine hundred hs in there. I put
that flash driver. Actually, I was running it off of
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solid state, a portable solid state drive. I put that
in that machine and it worked just fine running off
the solid state drive. I could install Linux on there.
It'll probably be just fun. Maybe I might do that.
I might dual boot that SOB dual boot Linux, a
rocky Linux and Windows, just to just to dabble with it.
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That'd be pretty cool. I'm looking around my screen to
see if there's anything incriminating or dirty or ugly behind me. Here.
You're in my living room right now. I'm going to
wrap it up there. I've rambled on for a few minutes. Here.
Everyone's happy and healthy now in our house, healthy and happy.
There's no when nobody's currently puking. But yeah, it's getting
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to the start of summer here. It's June sixth or
June second as a recording. It's not officially summer yet.
Getting very hot here in Houston, Texas. But that's all.
Hope you enjoyed this addition to Geek Therapy Radio. You
are worthy of love, you're worthy of giving love, you're
worthy of receiving love, and you're worthy of your own
self respect. Thank you so much for listening, and I'll
talk to you next time. Peace,
Welcome to Geek Therapy Radio. You've got your mental curator,
Johnny Hamburger. I'm still alive. This is a new episode.
It's going like weeks now between uploads of podcasts here,
and I do apologize, and really the purpose of this
episode is just kind of catching me up, just kind
of letting you into my life a little bit. And wonder,
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you know, if you're wondering, why haven't you uploaded in
a while? While this is the answer. I am recording
on my sixteen inch MacBook Pro. As you know, the
main microphone is between the left speaker girl here that
I will scratch on my fingernail, so hopefully it sounds okay.
I'm also using, obviously the built in webcam of this
sixteen inch MacBook Pro. I think it's doing some sort
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of filter to my face. I can't quite tell. I
don't like it. I don't know how to disable it.
I'm certainly not adding any sort of filters in obs,
but there you go. So what what's been happening? The
past couple weeks have been a doozy and I think
one of the main reasons that I haven't uploaded is
it seems like every time I intend to record an
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episode of Geek Therapy Radio, something always comes up, and
that's why I've always well, recently, I've been kind of questioning,
halfway joking, should I change the name of Geek Therapy
Radio to like Dad Therapy Radio or something like that,
Because I love my kids. They are the reason, though,
Why why I don't have so much time to record
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these episodes. I've already I've already eliminated the possibility of
recording episodes in the car while I'm driving to work.
I did that two or three times. I just figure
it's not worth it. I would rather not release an
episode than put myself or anybody else in danger. So
that is why I no longer record in the car
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with the DGI. Mike just kind of on my lapel
or actually headed up on the sun visor. A couple
weeks ago, I got an awful stomach bug. There is
a stomach bug going around Houston, maybe other parts of
the country. I don't imagine it's just I don't imagine
it's specific to Houston. But yeah, this last time my
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whole family got a stomach bug. I was spared. It
was miraculous. Riker was puk and his guts out, Mommy
was pukin or guts out. Marshall, my one year old,
was pug and his guts out. It was actually very
sad and we were all waiting for when Daddy would
get it. But thankfully, thank god, I didn't get it
that time, so I was able to basically be on
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puke and poop patrol for my whole family. It's good,
it's it's always better. Obviously, if one parent isn't sick,
sometimes both parents go down, and that's what happened with
the last round of the stomach bug. We all went down.
Marshall got it first, then Mommy or might be either
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the way or around. Mommy got a first that Marshall
got him, then I got it, and then a few
hours after me, Riker got it. We were thinking maybe Riker,
my four year old, would be spared from this stomach bug,
but he was not. Literally within hours of me going
down with it, Riker went down with it, which is
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so heartbreaking. It's one of those things, you know, one
of the most heartbreaking things for me. Well, it turned
out to be heartbreaking. It wouldn't it wouldn't. This wouldn't
register if you haven't already been a parent. If you
haven't been a parent, this is something that it always
sounds like elitist and snobby. You just wouldn't understand as
a parent if you're not a parent. This is kind
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of one of those things. And I understand that because
I wasn't always a parent. This is something that I
didn't realize until I became a parent. I don't feel
bad for me when I go down sick. I feel
bad for my family because I can't be as supportive
when when Daddy needs to be taken care of. Also,
so that's one part you're already feeling kind of insecure.
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May not be that you're feeling kind of useless. I
was feeling really useless when I went down with the
stomach bug. But I remember that night feeling absolutely heartbroken
when I could hear in the living room Riker pukein
every hour, every thirty minutes, every hour or so overnight.
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That was a long night. Mommy was feeling the best
out of all of us. She was feeling bad, but
she was feeling the best out of all of us currently.
So she stayed out with Riker in the living room
where I'm sitting on this couch. Actually stayed up with
him all night with the bowl, you know, handing it
to him as he needed it. But I was so
heartbroken laying in the room just it didn't annoy me
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at all that Riker was thrown up. I didn't sleep
a wink that night, and that's because of Jack, the cat,
keeping me up. I cannot even express how much I
disliked that cat. I was sick, had the stomach buk
get any As soon as I would get close to sleep,
as soon as my eyes would get some sort of
relief enough to start falling asleep, Jack would start catterwalling,
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and me own and carrying on. Here the air conditioner
coming on, so I'm going to apply the AI. NOI
is canceling individually resolved later. But yeah, I wasn't sleeping,
not because I was sick, but because Jack would keep
me up and I would hear Riker puke and his
guts out, and I just felt so heartbroken because you don't.
I don't. The last thing you want in the world
as a parent is your child to suffer with anything.
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Riker was an absolute truper. He had had a stomach
bug before he knew the drill. He knows the drill
as far as making it to the bowl, keeping a
bowl nearby, and all the other parts of a stomach bug.
He's he knows the deal now, but it's still and
he's so tough about it, and he's so sweet about it.
It just makes my It made my heart break every
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time I heard him throwing up in the living room
because I couldn't just wash it away. Not realistic, Well yeah, figuratively,
and actually I couldn't wash away the stomach bug. But
I couldn't like instantly heal him. And that's all you
want to do as a parent, is just kind of
like put your hand on your child's head or whatever,
on their heart and just give them peace and comfort.
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And when they have a stomach bug, it's awful and
you can't give them that peace and comfort. You can
make it much comfortable as possible and as peaceful as possible.
But yeah, when he was throwing up, hearing him do
his puke sounds which is heart so heartbreaking because I
just wanted him to feel good. I don't care if
I felt bad. If I'm fine. If I feel bad,
that's fine. I don't all get through it. I'm an adult.
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I know how to deal with with with pain and suffering. Unfortunately,
at this point I can I feel like I can
weather it better than a child. I can weather it
better than my children. And then especially when my children
whether it's so well, when Riker is just going through
it like a trooper and he's not asking, he's not
doing so much complaint and he's just going through it,
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that's like extra heartbreak. Oh, you're being so tough. I
don't want you to have to feel like you have
to be so tough. I want to protect you. That's
my role as a dad. My role as a father
is protection, and I cannot protect you from this stomach book,
so extra heartbreaking. Just letting you know, I'm just giving
you a glimpse into my psychology. That's what I do,
it seems like, even most recently here on Geek Therapy Radio,
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just give you a glimpse into my geek psychology. Marshall,
let me tell you about him just for a second.
I want to get into Linux for a moment. Just
tell you where I'm dabbling with Linux. Am I becoming
one of those Linux bros? We'll see. But Marshall, this
is gonna be kind of gross. So if you don't
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want to I won't keep it extremely gross, but I'm
trying not to be as graphic as I could be.
But this is explained. Parents understand this completely. So I
had put mar I had put Riker to bed the
night before, and I left his room around nine thirty
or so, is when I usually do. And I smelled
a little whip of what I thought was rotten milk,
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and part of it was rotten milk coming out of
or near Marshall's door. And I just thought, Okay, maybe
some milk spilled somewhere. Drop of milk, you know, somewhere.
My office is up there the geek Cave. Watch all
other videos on my channel YouTube channel, you'll see exactly
where I sit. So I just thought, maybe I had
some old milk somewhere, Maybe I spilled some o milk,
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Maybe Riker spilled a little bit of milk somewhere behind something.
This was nine thirty at night. I just figured, I'll
just this is a little bit of milk. I'll find
it in the morning and I'll clean it up and
deal with it. Nine thirty PM. We come out of
our room the next morning, let's say, say eight am,
and that smell is very strong. We go upstairs and
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it's even stronger. And still I'm thinking, Okay, whatever spilled
milk from nine to thirty last night that I first
noticed is now really it's really rotten. Still not a
big deal. I'll find it, I'll clean it up. We
opened the door to Marshall's room and the smell just overpowering.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
WHOA.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I was like, that's not rotten rotten milk. That's that's
throw up, which for a baby includes a lot of milk. Marshall,
And this is one of another thing of parenting of
that you don't know until you are a parent. I
didn't know until I became a parent. That was so
devastatingly heartbreaking. When in the room, Marshall, you know, hops
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up on the side of his crib like he normally does,
but he is covered head to toe in puke. So
what that means is that he puked at nine thirty
pm the night before and it wasn't showing up on
our baby cameras. We have those baby monitors, black and white.
Whatever like it doesn't didn't show up. We could not
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see it. His entire bed was covered in throw up.
He was covered in throw up, which meant he slept
the whole night in his own throw up, and he
didn't cry about it. He was he he's one years old.
He's such a sweet baby that he didn't cry about it.
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I can hear Jack already crying about something in the
other room. Hopefully AI noise canceling handles that he can't
have nice things because of Jack. But anyways, so Marshall
slept the whole night in his puke. He probably puked
a few times. That's dangerous. Also, he could have choked
on his own vomit. That part of it was scary.
Most of it was that it was just truly heartbreaking
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that I told him. I was like, dude, he doesn't
understand this. He's one years old. Like, little baby.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Boy, you can cry. Why didn't you cry? Why didn't
you make a peep last night? If you would have cried,
I would have come in there and cleaned you up
and help. I would have slept in there with you, dude,
I would have been there with you all night long,
knowing that you were sick. But he's such a sweet
and a good sleeper, which is wonderful obviously, and that
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he's such a sorry I'm getting for clemped. He's such
a I had a hiccer.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
He's such a sweet baby, needs such an easy sleeper
that I'm finger crossing. If you're not watching this video,
you can't see that my fingers are crossing right now.
He is currently just such an awesome sleeper. He doesn't
need much. You just set him down in his crib,
give him a couple of little rubs on his back,
tell him night night, a couple kisses, close the door.
Done with Riker, I still need to stay in there
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for a while. Part of it is a need, part
of it is just want. I want to be with
Riiker when I put him to sleep, but I'm gonna
want to be with Marshall when he gets a little older.
Tell him bedtime stories. Jack, Just come over here. You
don't need to sit there and counterwall and complain. I'm
right here. Just come seem I'm gonna hold up the camera.
Look at him over there. What a dope? Hey, Jack,
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say Hi? Say something? Oh you're not gonna say anything
with the camera's on you. Anyways, Marshall is such a
good sleeper. One day I'll go in there and tell
him bedtime stories. Stay up with him a little bit.
But like Riker, You could not just set him in
the crib and lee. If he would cry for a
whole hour, he would lose his mind for thirty minutes
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to an hour, and really you just had to be
strong about it and just have to leave. But as
he got a little older, I'd stay in there, and
I guess he just got used to us being in
there with him. But babies need different things. Marshall may
never need Mommy and Daddy to stay in there and
tell him a bed time story. We're gonna read to him,
just to read to him, because that's part of child development.
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You read to your freaking kids.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
But he is a.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Different personality than Riker easy breeze. You can set him
down in a crib and close the door and he's good,
just goes to sleep. He's got his little grogu stuffy
in there. But yeah, so that was what I was
dealing with for the past couple of weeks. The stomach
bug for me lasted like I'd say, three days of
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noticing it really and then at least another week of
really eating light and being scared to eat foods really,
like I don't want to eat my Halopenio is my
normal diet because it's gonna throw me. I lost seven
pounds in about eighteen hours. It was all water weight, obviously,
but lost weight quickly, and I used that excuse. I
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was like, maybe I can use this excuse to just
stay on a diet and you know, keep losing weight.
Maybe I'll just eat for lunch. I'll have my little
turkey and cheese sandwich in a salad and just keep
it light and lose the weight that didn't last long.
I'm back on my bs. I'm trying to eat a
little bit healthier, but that's neither here nor there at
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the moment. Linux. I'll try to put a stamp here.
I can't see how long I've been recording here, thirteen minutes.
I'll look for the about the thirteen minute mark ish
as I want to edit this in da Vinci Linux.
I have been debating making a Linux pc, you know,
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installing Linux on at maybe an old PC that I have,
or maybe even a new one. Make an actual dedicated
kind of Linux workstation for da Vinci Resolves specifically and
have Steam on there and everything. So the version of
Linux that Da Vinci Resolve black Magic Design officially supports,
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and that officially supports is Rocky Linux, so I may
install Rocky Linux on my old It is old computer wise.
I have a thirty nine hundred X small form factor
machine that I have. The thirty nine hundred X is
a twelve core, twenty four thread processor from when it
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was twenty eighteen, twenty twenty something like that, and it
has the rtx A two thousand, seventy five watt bus
powered graphics cards six gigabyte version of the RTXA two thousand.
I got it for like two hundred bucks a few
years ago. I don't know how much it is now
three hundred bucks something like that. Maybe more expensive GPU
prices fluctuates greatly, But my rtx A two thousand, it's
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a workstation class graphics card. It's not the biggest bruiser
in existence, but six gigabytes how many kudacors, three thousand,
COUDA corps something like that up the top of my head,
one hundred twenty eight gig or two and eighty four
bit bus. It's a good little it's one of the
best bus power graphics cards still that you can that
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you can buy, especially small form factor half height graphics card.
So anyways, that's a little workstation thirty two gigs of
DDR four RAM. It's a good little workstation. Two solid
state drives, a one terabyte NVMe and then like a
one terabyte say to SSD, I think it's what's in
there mini it x board. But yeah, so that kind
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of sits around. Haven't done much with it. I've talked
about it on geek Therapy Radio a time or two
before it was giving me so many problems. It turned
out to be just Windows updates were awful. Oh surprise, surprise,
Windows is awful, which led me down the RAM whole
of well, what does what a what official distro of
Linux does? Black Magic Design eventually resolve officially support and
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it's and it's Rocky Linux. I think it used to
be Mint or no, it was sent Os, but I
think maybe they still do. Don't quote me on like
if they still officially support cent Os, but Rocky Linux
for sure. Uh So I was like, you know, let me,
I'm dabbling with it's selling that version of Linux on
that machine, that small form factor twelve core process or
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eight rt x, a two thousand and thirty two giga
RAM machine, just to dabble Linux, just to have Linux
on there and put steam ol, not Steam OS, but
put steam on there. I've been considering putting Steam os.
That's some breaking news in the Handtel gaming world is
that here's my original r O g ally with a
Z one processor and there Z one extreme processor. Steam
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os has released a Valve has A. Has A has
officially released Steam os or rog ally and the Legion
Go and the Legion Go s. I believe either way,
it's not just officially supported on Steam deck now it's
too far up my Steam decks in the other room.
But Steam Os is officially supported on rg ally. You
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may have seen videos around YouTube, wolfed In and Eta
Prime and the other usual suspects covering steam Os on
rg ally as I understand it now currently as recording
as of recording on June second, twenty twenty five, it's
pretty good on Steam os, and even you do get
some increased frame rates when you get Windows out of
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the way for the most part where there's there, but
there's still some bugs. There's still some development that needs
to be done on Steam Os for rog ally make
it compatible with changing TDPs and things like that, which
it can do a little bit with some hacks as
I understand it, but Mainly it's kind of streaming services,
game streaming services like Xbox Live and video g Force
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now whatever, there's some it's not fully fleshed out yet
on Steam Os for rog ally. That's what I'm gonna
wait for, because it's so stupid. This is such a
first world problem, such a first world idiotic thing of mine.
But I checked my bank statement and I got the
email saying Nvidia has charged you fifty dollars or whatever
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for six months of g Force. Now I'm like, I
forgot that I even had g Force. Now, I totally
forgot that I am paying for reoccurring payments for g
Force now. So on a Steam Os on rg alli,
apparently it's not working quite yet, or it's not available,
or there's something. The point is whether or not how
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accurate I am here telling you about different services that
are supported or not supported on Steam Os for rg Ali.
There are some services and functions that are currently not
supported on Steam Os for rog ally, So I'm kind
of waiting a little bit longer for that to get
fleshed out, and then I would have no problem putting
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steam Os. I'm actually looking forward to putting steam Os
on my rg ally I've talked about obviously my RG
ally in the path that I like that you can
hook up a hub. You do get display output. This
is not Thunderbolt, but you do get display output through
USB type C here, and it's a little mini workstation.
I wish for this is the og RG ally that
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not the twenty four gigabyte newer version of it are
ally x or whatever. This is still sixteen gigabytes of
DDR five and it works great. I wish I had
the twenty four gig version because I think that would
be a little bit better with editing on da Vinci Resolve.
Da Vinci Resolve works a treat on here, even with
sixteen gigabytes of not v rams, sixteen gigabytes of total
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system memory that shared with the APU works great. And
that's my One of my hesitations with putting steam Os
on there is like, I do I have used this
as a workstation. I like the idea of yeah, booting
into Windows and having it just be a regular PC
that you can do in old PC things with. But
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at the same time, I'm like, yeah, remember what I
just said. I used that function like once or twice?
Did I use it to do agny actual work. Ninety
nine percent of the time, I'm just playing PGA too
or two K one twenty twenty one or whatever, playing
Doom or playing some Steam game on it. So ninety
nine percent time I'm just gaming on it. So might
as well put steam os on there once a few
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of the more of the bugs are worked out, which
they will be very soon. I have nine and saw
Linux Rocky Linux on that small form factor workstation, yet
I have tried. Let me pick it up here, let
me go get it. Walk through my living room. Hope
you don't see anything too telling of my residence here.
But this is the GPD pocket, GBT pocket one, the
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very first gp pocket Windows. It's eight gigabytes and I
think it's one twenty eight gigabytes a RAM or sorry,
one twenty eight gigs of storage and eight gigabytes a RAM,
which in an atom processor, a quad core atom processor.
Windows is useless with it. It is absolutely useless on
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this machine. Now. It is so underpowered. Windows has become
so bloated that this is kind of a perfect use
case scenario. This thing came out in like twenty sixteen
or twenty seventeen, underpowered eight gigs a by eight gigabytes,
a ram on twenty eight gigabyte, a hard drive solid
say drive. I think it's e m MC. This is
a perfect candidate for Linux. This is this is the
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type of device that you put Linux on an underpowered machine.
You put a distro of Linux on there, that is
that is you know, stripped down. It doesn't need a
whole bunch of resources, and it makes machines like this
absolutely fly. The problem is I cannot find a dishrow
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of Linux that works on this. I can't even boot.
I can boot off the portable drive, I can boot
off the USB. I can even boot off of the
Samsung SSD that I plug into. Either the Type C
or the USB works great. I can't get to the desktop.
It just gets into like a boot loop. The kernel keeps,
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the D goes down, but it then it restarts, refreshes,
and I tell the bios just boot from the USB.
One of the cool things about Linux is that supposedly
usually you can just run it straight off of portable storage.
You don't have to install Linux to the built in
hard drive. You can run it straight off the USB.
Usually not the case with this device. It is becoming
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a bugaboo that has me questioning, well, how much do
I how much emotional and intellectual and physical investment am
I'm willing to get willing to put into getting Linux
working on this device. It's actually a lot. We're just
curious to get it working on this device, but thus
far doesn't let me. From what I've read a little
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bit is that the Atom processor, it's a it's a
sixty four bit operating system. Obviously, architecture is sixty four
bit for Windows, which it has to be to get
to see all eight gigabytes of RAM in there. But
the bootloader is thirty two bit apparently, which is odd,
and that's what's kind of throwing a loop For Linux distros.
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I might try to just get a thirty two bit
Linux distro and put it on here and just lose
half my RAM. I'm sure there's hacks around there. Linux
is all about hacks and tweaking and customizing to your
heart's content. But for now, at least sixty four bit distros,
everything I've tried does not work on here, and it
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probably boils down to that thirty two bit bootloader. I
may try a thirty two bit distro and just lose
the other four gigs of a RAM, which might not
matter in the end, because this thing isn't very very
powerful and to begin with. And you can find a
very lightweight distro of Linux that idol's at less than
a giga RAM. So I think I'll be fine on
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that front. Whenever I record the next episode of Geek
Therapy Radio, I'll let you know how that's going. I
use Linux all the time on my Raspberry pies, and
one's great. My favorite version of Linux, my favorite distro
or facade or whatever you call it desktop environment that
I use in my Raspberry four and five is twister OS.
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I have talked about Twister os ad nauseum in the
past on Geek Therapy Radio. It is the best skin
or whatever you could put on top of Linux on arm.
It's just great as retro pie built in there. It's fantastic.
You can make it look like whatever desktop environment you want.
You can make it look like Mac os, you can
make it look like Windows ninety eight, you can make
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it look like Windows seven, you can make it look
like Windows ten. At your heart's desire. You can just
do a hot key and just say bo you hit
function F two or something. Like that function shift F
two and be now you're using Windows ninety eight or
to look like Windows ninety eight. It's really cool, twister
os I you said I'm a Raspberry Pie all the time,
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but I'm looking into I guess you could boil it
down to. My interest in Linux currently is to get
it working on an x eighty six system. DA Vinci
resolve on Linux. Rocky Linux only officially supports in Nvidia
graphics cards. So that's one thing is I can put
Rocky Linux on an AMD powered graphics computer, but it
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won't officially support you run into bugs. I don't know.
Even getting the driver in Vidia drivers to work on
Rocky Linux isn't s straightforward. It's just going and downloading them,
which is a travesty, which is a travesty, you know what.
Let me see. I'm going to go over to real
quick here. Hopefully my thing is still recording. OBS is
still recording. I can't bring up the desktop. I haven't
set it up for that. I want to see if
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dad uh Linux and video drivers. I don't think you
could just go to the website and download Linux and
video drivers in video download official drivers. Let's see manual
driver's search. Okay, I agree, but let's see. Let's see.
I don't see anywhere operating system. Ooh you can okay,
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I take that back. Y'all are yelling at me as
I was complaining about this. Looks like you can download
Linux drivers sixty four bit at least Linux drivers from ooh.
You can download drivers even for Arch sixty four which
are like ARM processors. Interesting. I might have to dabble
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with that a little bit. Cool you're watching or hearing
me realize things live well pre recorded here in kikap
radio speaking to the devil. I gotta wrap this up
because I do have to go get Marshall. Let me
look in my phone here now with the time is
twenty minutes, it looks like to get there. So yeah,
I gotta start wrapping this up. My giek thing right
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now is dabbling with Linux, getting Linux installed on things.
I have dabbled with Rocky Linux running off of portable
USB on my normal laptop. I've got my oh gosh,
what is I'm blinking on it? It's my oh G sixteen.
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I'll show you it. It's my is it no? Not
G sixteen G fourteen rog G fourteen from twenty twenty
or twenty twenty one. It's got RTX thirty sixty eight core,
sixteen thread fifty nine hundred hs in there. I put
that flash driver. Actually, I was running it off of
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solid state, a portable solid state drive. I put that
in that machine and it worked just fine running off
the solid state drive. I could install Linux on there.
It'll probably be just fun. Maybe I might do that.
I might dual boot that SOB dual boot Linux, a
rocky Linux and Windows, just to just to dabble with it.
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That'd be pretty cool. I'm looking around my screen to
see if there's anything incriminating or dirty or ugly behind me. Here.
You're in my living room right now. I'm going to
wrap it up there. I've rambled on for a few minutes. Here.
Everyone's happy and healthy now in our house, healthy and happy.
There's no when nobody's currently puking. But yeah, it's getting
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to the start of summer here. It's June sixth or
June second as a recording. It's not officially summer yet.
Getting very hot here in Houston, Texas. But that's all.
Hope you enjoyed this addition to Geek Therapy Radio. You
are worthy of love, you're worthy of giving love, you're
worthy of receiving love, and you're worthy of your own
self respect. Thank you so much for listening, and I'll
talk to you next time. Peace,
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