Homeless Guy failed to meet goal. Focus is expensive, options to buy more. Forum upgrades.

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Description

Spent 6 hours at Starbucks on Easter and worked on the Forum. Showing it off a little bit. Thinking about what I need to edit a video, and it's the same thing I need to study / interview for Software Engineering jobs (high paying).

Video



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WhtT4pAeLg

Transcript

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Yo, and welcome to the Ice Boog Daily Channel.

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Today is the last day of the month and unfortunately,

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I have not produced a video.

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So I posted, which I counted and already forgot.

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Something like 18 or so videos this month,

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and the goal was 10, and one was an essay reading

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and the rest were the daily videos,

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and one was a reflection of a tree and water.

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So, you know,

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can't win them all.

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How could I have done better?

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That's the top one.

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Because focus is the problem.

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And I'm not just an excuse maker.

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I'm a accomplished software engineer.

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I know how to find focus when I can afford it.

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I'm resourceful.

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I also grew up without a lot.

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And still made it.

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Not saying I had no help.

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My parents gave me a bathroom.

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And I lived there until I bought a house when I was like 22.

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So, that was with programming money.

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And yeah, then in my adulthood,

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I started needing to ask people for things again.

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But that's just to say that focus is extremely expensive,

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ability to focus.

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So, can I focus at Starbucks in the morning?

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If I'm there for two to three hours today,

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I was there for six hours.

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I did get a decent amount of stuff done today.

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But usually I'm there for like two to three hours.

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And I don't get a lot done.

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I don't think I would have been able to edit a video there.

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I misspoke when I said four minutes per one minute of produced video.

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That's four hours per minute of produced video.

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So, in a eight hour day, you could produce a two minute video, basically.

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That might be a little off from whatever I read actually said.

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It might have been like two or three hours per minute.

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So, that would mean four hours for a two minute video.

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Ten hours for a five minute video.

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I believe that definitely.

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I might even believe the four minute, the four hour number.

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It just seems big on small videos, but maybe there's a lot of overhead.

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So, yeah, today I did a little work with the forum.

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So, I just switched the screen share.

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And we had this.

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So, now I just added the logo to the sub forum, the Ice Boog Daily one.

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So, normal.

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And then Ice Boog Daily.

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And then I went and posted the popular videos.

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And I went back and updated their descriptions to have

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links to this forum.

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And on the older ones I put the data in.

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So, then I also set it up so that the embedded video works.

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So, now there's the transcripts and the embedded video.

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And still the link in.

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This is just copied from the YouTube description.

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And here now, if we want to talk about specific things that I say,

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we can quote the,

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basically,

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analogous to verse or the sentence.

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So, 2024, 310.3.

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And you guys are liking this new microphone.

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The audio quality is a lot better.

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Big problem now is the positioning with the gain.

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So, yeah, I set up the forum.

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And I added a couple videos to it.

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And then on the server side, I installed.

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And I also set up the web and press rack and whisper the tools for extracting

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text from images and audio.

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So, yeah, forums open.

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And the idea that I wanted to talk about today was just like.

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So, when I started this channel, I was in an apartment.

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And you could see me posting every single day.

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And at that time,

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I didn't know what narcissism or narcissistic abuse was.

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And so, people insinuated that I was putting on a show

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that I was selling people on something.

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No, I was legit.

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Being productive every single day.

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Just like I do now, but not on video.

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And I've gotten far more support from strangers.

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Dollar for dollar.

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My old friends have maybe.

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It's probably about 50, 50 right now.

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On what my old friends helped me out with.

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In big chunks and strangers helped me out.

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Many strangers and smaller chunks.

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And a couple bigger contributions from strangers as well.

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So, thanks so much for all that.

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So, going to Starbucks.

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I can get some focus.

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Why can't I just sit in the backseat and focus?

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It's because I like chrome from Van City Van Life's definition

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of stealth camping.

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It's not that people can't tell that the vehicle is a camper.

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It's that they can't tell that you're inside.

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So, with these non-tinted windows, people can obviously just see me sitting in the car.

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And the windows are so low to the ground that.

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For many kind of distance, people are going to see at least the top of my head, even if I'm sitting all the way down on the floor.

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And if they walk right by the car and see me sitting down on the floor trying to hide,

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it's going to be super weird and creepy.

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So, that's worse than just sitting in plain sight, I think.

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So, the next option of tinting windows, I've talked about already.

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And I might still end up doing it, but the big thing with tinting windows is, if you see the outside of the car, it's pretty just weather warm, it's weathered.

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So, I could repaint the wheels.

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Maybe replace some of the trim.

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Definitely wash it at least.

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Detail it.

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Maybe degrease some parts.

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There's spots where other people's cars have hit me with, have hit my car with the door.

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Just a little dense.

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You know, it could just use a refreshing, because you don't have brand new tint on a dusty old looking car.

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It's not like super dusty, but if I were to put brand new tint on, it would highlight how dusty it is.

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So, being just dusty and stock, it doesn't look too dusty, but if you were to put tint on it, it would look pretty dusty, if that makes sense.

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So, that's why I don't just sit in the back seat.

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And number two, and it's kind of a catch 22, circular dependency.

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Why don't I have mobile internet?

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It's because I can't really sit anywhere and use mobile internet.

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I can't really sit in the back of the car and use it anywhere, like.

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I'm just too easy to have a target, like if I go park at a grocery store.

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It'd be exactly like my feeling at the library where, you know, other homeless people come up to the car.

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I just feel like security will be like, oh, that's an easy thing I can accomplish today.

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I'll just go talk to that guy who I see sitting in the car as opposed to.

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I'll approach that car that I can't tell if anybody's in, which, you know, isn't a problem otherwise,

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but if you're just like sitting out in the middle of a parking lot,

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and they can see you in there day after day after day that are going to come over.

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But if you move around to a bunch of different spots,

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I don't know if you'd be better off with or without tint.

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Probably with, because it just leaves the illegibility factor intact.

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So, mobile service plus tint could be a step before a van,

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but on the other hand, a van, you know, it's like four grand.

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And a room in the city with four roommates close to downtown is about 500 a month.

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So, it really feels more worth it to just get a van.

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And an intermediary step of her intermediate step in the middle would be tinting the car windows

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and getting mobile service there.

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And finding places I can sit like that, because, yeah, sitting in Starbucks,

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I think it was okay today, because it was Easter a holiday.

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Also, I went in later, I started at the library,

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and then I waited until I had to go to the bathroom to go to Starbucks.

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So, it was like 10 or 11 by the time I got there, and like 530 when I left,

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a little over six hours.

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So, definitely talking waste lower than yesterday, huh?

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So, another thing, so just, you know, given the fact that it's so hard for me to get privacy, what does that mean?

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It also means that I've been heard this in a long time,

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but it feels like, takes some accountability, is a common theme that, you know, sort of guru is used, personal trainer type people uses,

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you need some accountability in your life.

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As though people probably don't try hard, like I know that one of the big reasons I'm doing all this IT stuff is actually to give myself some accountability.

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Like the reason I started using Twitter as a journal was to give myself some timestamps accountability,

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because otherwise it's so hard to preserve any kind of like digital paper trail that has like chain of custody level.

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You can't just serve the time that a text document was saved because you can change the clock on your computer.

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So you don't have any accountability without some external timestamping service.

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So, something you can do is take a hash of the content and then post that to Twitter.

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So now you have a timestamped hash and it's pretty unlikely that you can regenerate that hash with any other content.

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So you run the hash function on the text file and you say, okay, that hash tweeted out at that time.

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So that's like a 99.

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You know, how many nines, 59s, I don't know.

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It might be more like 10 or 12 nines, I don't know, depending how many bits are in the timestamp.

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But, and the probability of a hash collision.

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But it's going to be a super high likelihood that that text file was saved prior to.

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Now you can't get an exact time stamp for it unless you embed it within the text itself.

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That's still just to claim that's within the hash content though.

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The real accountability comes from the fact that by this time, this text file existed.

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So you type something, you hash it, you tweet it out, tweet out the hash.

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And then two years later, you know, the message comes up in a paper document.

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You construct the text, you run it through the hash function, the same hash that was tweeted two years ago comes out.

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Boom, there's some low cost accountability through your IT stack.

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So homeless system of record is part of my homeless data project.

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Those are things that would be working on if I had more time that I could focus in.

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So, you know, the time that I'm at Starbucks is my only, or outside the library is my only internet access since I don't have a mobile phone.

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So those two spots are the only places I can actually use IT.

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So yeah, I could record these videos somewhere else and then upload it to YouTube when I get that connection.

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But to me, it's easier to just record it here and upload it right away.

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So that's a part of my process that could change.

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Part of the reason it's like this is because the laptop battery toasted a few months ago for unknown reasons.

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And so I have to use it with the jackery, which is a big thing to log around and I just don't.

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Like when I go hiking, I don't even bring a backpack with me.

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So if I were to start bringing a backpack hiking that I could put the laptop in jackery and everything in it and then record.

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When I did the early videos last year, homeless guy in a bush just wants to work.

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My laptop's battery still worked and my lapel mic still worked.

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So all I had to bring in my backpack, which was really light at the time, was just the laptop, the camera, the lapel mic.

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Now the lapel mic doesn't work, the laptop battery doesn't work.

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So I've got to bring a big clunky jackery, a big clunky microphone.

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And then like deal with all the chords.

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So the power adapter for the laptop, the USB cable for the microphone.

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I mean this is a big clunker. It's a good one, but it's a big.

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It's not really meant to go on hikes, you know, at risk damaging it.

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If not just from vibration and shock and whatnot, like if I were to slip in, you know, which isn't a common thing.

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If it rains and it's not like bagged up, you know what I mean, just want to deal with that.

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So I end up just recording here and while we're already at 18 minutes.

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So yeah, privacy, a place to get focus is the main thing I want.

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It's what the different options think about going towards.

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My own place, a place with roommates, a coworking space,

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tint on my car, a van, Starbucks, the library.

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I would on a hike, you know, these various options each have pros and cons and costs

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and benefits, et cetera. So yeah, failed the goal of producing and editing a video this month.

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I just kind of punted on it today, focused on getting the forum up to snuff and looking good, ready to go.

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And we'll see about producing a video.

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How to build that into the routine and things are only going to get easier as I'm no longer homeless once a couple more paychecks come in.

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Thanks, everybody who's helped out the channel.

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Definitely appreciate y'all.

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You know, whether you're a Patreon supporter or a Venmo supporter, et cetera,

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you know, definitely all appreciated.

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So thanks a lot. Take care.

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Look forward to seeing you next time.

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Goodbye.

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