Dope Tech Episode 2

<<@robshimer says : That one about the Linux terminal kept me from using it.>> <<@charlesmangum2100 says : A year has past. Times and companies have changed.>> <<@alanr9496 says : 15:30 Always thought it was stripes, not strips>> <<@OmikronPsy says : Very important video!! Thanks for removing misconceptions and spreading knowledge in the time of self-declared armchair experts.>> <<@dogukancil5128 says : It's possible to use Ubuntu without a terminal to the same extent as Oscar Pistorius can run without his prosthetics. Just imagine that mf trying to run on all fours or taking a dump without a pistol. That's how easy it is to run a Linux distro without using the terminal.>> <<@krisspencer9769 says : My grandma, who needs help with printing a PDF from email, uses Mint on her computer. She was sick of W11 and I offered for her to try Linux. She absolutely loves it, despite not having a solid grasp on computing. She doesn't have to use the terminal to use her computer>> <<@SourojitBh says : Wonderfully explained! 👌🏻>> <<@TeaAndFloppyDisks says : Thank you for dispelling misinformation! There's sadly still too much going around, including in the computing area. I'm not entirely sure that Google aren't still reading the Gmail emails, since quite recently I got suggestions on Youtube of an exact video a friend mentioned in an email. Since it wasn't the first occurrence, I decided to switch away from Gmail. The trouble I see with people (especially newcomers to Linux) believing that they need to use the terminal in Linux is that, instead of doing a certain task that is available in the GUI, they copy a command from the internet that might not be exactly what they would need, without understanding what it does and without knowing how to deal with any errors if they occur.>> <<@CharlesHess says : He's kinda funny.>> <<@daffyduk77 says : This guy is a brilliant & clear communicator. His "retro" style is unusual but very refreshing & is one of my top tech info sources>> <<@B_Skelly says : In place of the DISKPART command, could you have used SDFORMATER? I’m not a regular windows user.>> <<@jozefserf says : Windows 7 just needed support and the odd update and almost everyone would have been happy. Instead Microsoft, totally devoid of ideas and innovation, decide to ape the worst aspects of Apple and Google.>> <<@MartinParnham says : Glad you like Google Docs. I used the enterprise version of Drive (G Suite) extensively in a previous job and really liked it. I've also had a personal account for many years too but only really began using it properly after I started that job. I love the functionality and no-nonsense "clean-ness" of Docs and Sheets. In fact, I think I like Sheets more because, as someone who is probably more IT literate than the average bear, but definitely not as techy as some (including most people in this comments section, I'd bet!) I find some of the more advance features and formatting/formulae etc in Excel daunting and not at all easy to navigate. Sheets is much more user friendly, whereas Excel seems to have disappeared up its own backside a little bit. If you're an advanced user then Excel probably works better for you, but Sheets can do a lot of the same things, but for the average person Sheets is much better, it's just not as widely known or adopted because of Windows/MS dominance. For the record, I prefer PowerPoint to Slides so I'm not wedded to one particular way. I also think Office/Windows is better for handling and viewing PDFs. I also have a One Drive account so I like to have my cake and eat it...>> <<@cigmorfil4101 says : Perhaps if he has said "the _latest_ version of Windwos" instead then it wouldn't have happened. Mind you, Microsoft isn't too good when to comes to words meaning what they should: they conflagurate "Populous" with "Popular" - the latter means actively chosen in preference to others, whilst the former means the most of. "My identical twins are the most popular children in their class" is true by Microsoft's definition of "popular" as they are the only twins, but they are infact the most "populous"; Susan, their friend on the class, however is the most popular child in the class by consensus of preference by all the children in the class.>> <<@FredFred-wy9jw says : I don’t what microsoft said .. but windows ten is the last windows os ... they replaced it with spyware masquerading as an operating system>> <<@pauld7827 says : When undertaking the Windows 10 upgrade for Barclays Bank, we were told by Microsoft, that it would the last version and it would evolve over the the years. The project was called Evergreen for that reason!>> <<@CalJ5572 says : The Googles saying that they don't use your Docs for advertising, in no way proves that they do not use your personal or proprietary information to train AI? AI is a massive risk to personal and proprietary information, just ask samsung!?. Have the Googles explicitly said that they do not use Docs for this purpose?>> <<@bjarnenilsson80 says : I think the main reason for the " no usb-c = rubbish" centimen is the recent push from the eu and others to standardise on usb-c for charging small devices (like tablet etc) so when a device shows up wihout a usb-c connector it means ( att least to a certain subset of people) that this device was designe far enugh back that it's not affected bt the newer regs, and in teck old design ( but not old enugthto be considered retro) = rubbish. another factor might be that they have migrated all tehir other devices to usb-c and don't want to carry actra cables for that one specific device>> <<@madfinntech says : I have heard all of these during my time and I have corrected people on few of them as well. Microsoft saying Win 10 is the last Windows being one of them, misconceptions of m.2 connector and the one with the Linux destroying USB drives was hilarious. I was doing this social marketing thing at one place couple of years ago and the guy from the IT department came to do some updates on some systems there and he started to talk about how he can only use small portion of his USB stick because the Linux installer "destroyed" it! I almost suffocated to my coffee and I had to educate him and "fixed" his "destroyed" USB stick. The guy thanked me of course and was cool about it and admitted his mistake or being ignorant about it. The woman in the room doing her job there said to me after the IT guy left: maybe you should work there instead of that guy. What comes to using Linux without going to terminal, yes, sure. IF, the only thing you are doing on your computer is surfing web, reading emails and that sort of thing and you are lucky enough that everything works right out of the box. But the thing is if you need to troubleshoot and fix something on Linux (and you will have to at some point), the first thing they tell you is to "open the terminal". So, I'd say the myth still has some truth to it, while you can, most likely even today you won't be able to.>> <<@N-Tity says : I don't think its the terminal that puts people off from switching to linux I think its because there are too many options.>> <<@splatt3d says : oh wow, I just realised i commented on an old video.>> <<@splatt3d says : 11:30 Not wanting to split hairs, but all Google have clarified is that they will stop reading your data for the purpose of directing advertisement, ... specifically... not that they will stop reading altogether. Your data is being used to train AI. Whether a product gets rolled out down the track is another story, but for now exposing AI to more real world data is the goal, and figuring out how to monetize this is tomorrow's problem.>> <<@dennis.blondell-decker says : RAID 1-10 gives operational safety: It makes sure that your movie player can keep going even though a disk breaks down. ;-) Backup gives data safety.>> <<@petercapon9878 says : Something I noticed recently is you cannot connect an inline power switch to the new Pi5 PSU it just doesn't work like it did on the Pi4 PSUs.>> <<@warhammertoken4022 says : wow>> <<@frehmingmanuel says : And once again we got proof that you just can't hate journalists enough.>> <<@nicktayloriv310 says : I finally got my second NAS setup, at my office with the other at my home. Of course I can access both from wherever I'm at. The money that I spent on cloud service in hindsight was ridiculous. I also have two copies archive drives (I know I know) of the very important stuff.>> <<@Lucifronz says : Companies shoot themselves in the foot out of greed constantly. I would not be surprised if, in the future, Google would invade your privacy even in the cloud computing sphere. Short-sightedness is a symptom of business majors taking over the tech industry. They don't understand long-term consequences well enough to think the way you have. So it's safe enough for now, but always be cautious of big companies driven purely by profit.>> <<@eegaugh says : 11/10 for this video which I have just chanced upon. Tiny query: aren't RAID drives striped rather than stripped? I confess I thought MS had said Win 10 would be the last (ever) version - but I never believed it!>> <<@BadThrusher says : About Windows 10 being the last version, I don't blame journalists. That Microsoft bum is the one who said it the way it was not supposed to be said and he never tried to make clarification>> <<@shauns7808 says : This is interesting because I believed that windows 10 was the last release of windows, due to an urban myth. A few years ago I purchased a Lenovo idea centre with an AMD A9-9425 processor with 2 cores and windows 10 that couldn't be upgraded to windows 11 according to Microsoft. But thanks to this channel I believe maybe it can or I can change it to Linux. I've also changed my Asus E210M laptop operating system from windows 11 to Linux mint and the speed has improved dramatically. And I have to say Linux mint is brilliant using 33% less memory than windows 11. Great channel thankyou>> <<@Michael_Lak says : You miss the point of Google docs. They do not read google doc but can read it any time they choose to do so. Lol They would not have a business. If no one knows they are reading them it does not affect their business. If you criticize any number of left wing conspiracy theories it will be flagged and read, nothing to do with advertising.>> <<@acid_flash says : 1:30 Было бы доходчиво выразиться так: Последняя система на данное время над которой мы работаем это Windows 10. А по поводу "Windows как услуга", то сейчас (на время этого комментария) уже есть облачное предложение.>> <<@abunk17 says : The M.2 slot & interface confusion could be due to the use of the terms "interface" and "slot" and their ambiguity, particularly with the interface side of things. A "slot" in computing tends to refer to something physical. But the term "interface" is pretty ambiguous and could be referring to multiple things like physical hardware interface (i.e. USB Type A, PCIe x16), software communication interface/protocol (i.e. SATA, NVME, USB 3.1 Gen 2), user interface, etc. Maybe using the term protocol or something else that's not the term "interface" could help lessen the confusion. A related example is with M.2 SATA SSDs and related adapters & enclosures. There's confusion and mislabeling of M.2 SSDs that use the SATA protocol as "M.2 NGFF" which makes me feel conflicted as its both wrong and kinda correct (if following a certain logic) at the same time. The NGFF (Next Generation Form Factor) part is the former working name of the M.2 standard and honestly shouldn't mean that it has a SATA interface as so many sellers mistakingly label their M.2 SATA SSDs and adapters as. But by the logic that M.2 is a successor to mSATA the argument could be right, but at the same time still wrong since M.2 also superseeded miniPCIe. In contrast to the messy M.2 SATA labeling the PCIe NVME M.2 SSDs tend to be just labeled as "M.2 NVME" or sometimes PCIe is also added to product listings. Though there's also having to keep in mind if its PCIe 3, 4, 5, etc. and if the slots are wired for 4x PCIe lanes or 2x only in some cases like B key slots. If only the terms in computing were less confusing haha. But the madness with USB (more so with Type C and the different protocols it can support) doesn't help.>> <<@abunk17 says : The Linux destroying USB flash drives myth might stem from how quite a lot of USB image writing tools handle the ISO "burning" process. Something like Etcher (or dd command if doing it via the terminal) makes a UDF file system (typically used for CDs/DVDs) as a partition on the flash drive as a 1:1 copy of a Linux distro ISO file and that results in a read-only partition, plus some hidden to the user unpartitioned space depending on the size of the drive and ISO involved. Its stuck as read-only unless the partition (or whole drive) is wiped and the drive is repartitioned. Another complication is that the read-only partition that resulted from the Linux ISO burning has an issue on Windows where it tends to not show the Format option on the right click menu for the partition necessitating using diskpart or other partitioning tools for the reparitioning process. Meanwhile Rufus by default (specifying as it can also do a mode similar to dd) creates a bootable FAT32 (or NTFS) then copies the contents of a bootable ISO file to that which results in a bootable partition that utilizes the whole capacity of a USB flash drive and is writable to users without needing to wipe and repartition the drive. And it doesn't cause Windows to get confused and hide the Format option making it easy for novice users to reformat their USB flash drive afterwards. But there's also another side to the myth which could be related to the issue of Windows not natively supporting Linux and Mac file systems unless additional tools are installed first making an Ext4 formatted drive not visible on My Computer/This PC and making a novice user think they broke their USB flash drive or something.>> <<@abunk17 says : Just checked back if my comments from earlier stuck and it seems youtube ate them again and I don't know what part got it flagged and removed but I'll try a super short version here. The M.2 as an interface is confusing due to the term 'interface' itself as it could mean many things in the world of computing (hardware connection, software protocol, user interface, etc.). Referring to the actual protocol used like SATA or NVME is probably less confusing. The Linux destroying USB drives could have something to do with popular tools like Etcher (or dd from terminal) making read-only UDF partitions from Linux ISO files on flash drives unless wiped and reformatted. And it could also have to do with Windows not recognizing Linux file systems. Which in contrast the tool Rufus makes a single bootable FAT32 or NTFS partition where the contents of a Linux ISO is copied to.>> <<@ltlk937 says : Per your last myth about Raid... Absolutely right. Raid does not safeguard your data. Only backups, and further, offsite backups safeguard your data.>> <<@ogrejd says : @11:25 - The problem is that online service/site privacy policies aren't worth the paper they're printed on, so relying on them to determine a company's behaviour is quite a silly thing to do.>> <<@disruptapps says : Google said they don't read your docs or emails for advertising but said NOTHING about using your content to train AI. Obfuscation by omission perhaps?>> <<@markhackney3305 says : Great video Chris, but while it IS possible to use mainstream Linux distros like 'Mint' without ever going near the terminal, I would feel very disadvantaged had I not gained at least some knowledge of basic 'bash' commands. The same goes for windows, as you clearly demonstrated teaching people about using disk part. Rather than assure people they don't need any knowledge of the terminal, would it not be better to assure them that the terminal is not scary and anyone can easily pick up the basics!>> <<@reuploadify says : Jerry Nixon should've said the latest version of windows. Maybe he's good at programming, but he's certainly not good at English.>> <<@Mike80528 says : The *original* RAID acronym was Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, and was later changed. If you are going to make the claim that" RAID doesn't keep your data safe, backups keep your data safe" you really need to go into more detail. What is a "backup"? It is literally a copy of your data. Period. If you use a NAS as a secondary copy, it IS A BACKUP. A backup protects your data from failure of the primary storage, whatever that is. If you consider your storage to be your home or business, then you need to copy to a location outside of your home or business. Context is everything. RAID provides protection against a specific type of hardware failure. Alternate location provide protection against another kind of hardware failure. In the example you gave for the NAS/RAID failure, it was not a backup. It was *primary* storage. RAID is not a backup, but it damned well can be used as one.>> <<@nobodyimportant7804 says : Rufus is far better for managing USB drives than the pathetic MS tools built into Windows. In regards to Windows 10, he wasn't wrong as 11 is hot garbage that no one should use, ever. Google is a giant data-sucking machine. There is no way you can extrapolate something from 2010 to today. Trust the word of Google at your own risk. Cloud computing is nothing special. It is simply someone else's computer—never forget that. The "cloud" is as real as AI; they are all meaningless marketing terms.>> <<@aramondehasashi3324 says : You don't have to use the terminal - THANK YOU! I've been using Linux Mint for over a year and have never had to use the terminal.>> <<@redrick7369 says : I've had the windows 10 install media kill thumb drives before, though that was error related.>> <<@Taurwathwylth says : I honestly thought that Windows 10 was going to be a continuously updated OS as a service model. Not because of semantic discussions on the meaning of the word 'last' or anything of the sort. Rather, I thought that they were indeed revising their product strategy and versioning strategy. Maybe this was wrong and originally stemmed from misattributions in the tech press scene, but I sure as heck believed that.>> <<@zankfrappa93 says : i used a raid setup when i got my first nas because it seemed like a good idea and kept using that setup for 10+ years but i recently scrapped the whole idea the last time i upgraded my server. i just realised it was a bit overkill for my use case, especially since im running anything where other people depend on it so downtime isnt an issue. if a disk dies now i couldnt care less if its down for weeks or months. it helps that the last few years ive been trying to use syncthing as much as possible for the things i use day to day, notes, calendar, password manager etc are all running locally now, and most of the things running on my server are just nice-to-haves that i only use a few times a week. for backups i have a raspberry pi with hdd attached and have restic backing things up to that every day. so compared to what i had before its a fairly casual enough setup with a small bit of i-dont-really-care-anymore mixed in>> <<@ferggill9461 says : Journalists spreading fake news? No way!>> <<@PeterEdin says : Windows 11 is great and stable with no update issues, now that's a myth 😂>> <<@HeavenSevenWorld says : The backup process takes time, and new data is at risk if you don't have RAID redundancy until it's done. So yes, RAID keeps data safe, and it has nothing to do with whether RAID alone is enough.>>