OK,
hello,
welcome to office hours.
If you've got questions,
please drop them in the questions thread and we'll get,
we'll get them all answered in the order that they're here.
I'm a little bit distracted today because like I decided I had like 10 minutes before
um office hours and I decided I was going to do something
uh like data entry manualized,
uh,
in this case it's enabling managed identity on all of our servers
uh
and.
I just have to like go down the list and like click
like buttons and do the same thing on like 20 different things,
so it's making me scatterbrained because I have
to concentrate really hard or I'll forget one.
For anyone who's like,
how will you forget one,
I just will.
I've got like
2 more to do,
so I'm just gonna
just gonna do those and then I'll take a look at questions so to get them in.
I find it interesting that like so.
Our
main web API it's API.
resonate.com,
uh,
has a couple of slots.
Uh,
slots are like deployment targets.
I honestly don't really understand um
what they are,
how we use them,
etc.
but they have their own managed identity,
which is kind of strange because like underlying the same project,
not the same code,
but the same project.
So it's uh.
It's it's interesting that uh that is occurring.
Uh,
those are all done.
I can ignore that for the rest of the office sales and do better,
better stuff
for the future.
I have to use the same list I have to use every month every month our Patreon key
expires and I get a new one and then I have to update it on all of these,
which is one of the reasons why I'm
ablely managed moving to something where I'll be able to update.
The Patreon key once and it will automatically,
which is great.
Anyway,
uh,
we're gonna go ahead and,
and move on,
um,
let's see what we've got.
Alright,
so from,
um,
from Grand we've got Muppet,
which is like shit that's annoying me this week.
Uh,
I'm gonna like rant about apartments again.
Um,
I am so ready to move out of here.
I don't know where I'm going,
but I am so ready to move out of here.
Uh,
there are
two ways of exiting,
like actually getting out to,
I would call it the street,
but it's not really the street,
it's like a
like plaza deck veranda that is still owned by the apartment building,
and then you walk past that and you'll end up actually on the street.
It takes me a little bit to actually get to like,
you know,
actual,
um,
I would to say public land there,
but that's not the correct designation.
Uh,
city streets.
Anyway,
I can go out of the store and I can turn right,
and,
or I can turn left.
Now
90% of the time I turn left because
I don't know,
I just do.
But
I decided to turn right a couple of weeks ago once and the door that leads out there is
a security door that is usually locked and can
be entered via the keypo of the apartment building,
but any.
Residents have,
but I noticed that an apartment resident had been wedging that door open,
and I'm like,
I do not approve.
By wedging that door open and preventing it from locking,
they expose
everyone on my floor
to a security risk.
Um,
essentially there's one less security door I have to get
to before they can get to my actual apartment door.
And if anyone knows anything about American doors
and just American property and and buildings.
Uh,
security is kind of like a suggestion
because you guys use drywall everywhere
and you guys use single deadbolts everywhere.
So
I'm like,
cool,
let's let's not,
let's not wedge the door open.
I know why they're wedging the door open.
The reason is because the
um
the right door uh doesn't usually like sometimes it
breaks and it won't open with the key fob,
so I know why they're wedging it open,
I just don't care.
So now I'm in a cold war with my neighbours where um I turn right every single
time I go out and I remove whatever wedging device they've got and I don't care.
I've removed uh
flip flops,
uh a barbecue
um bristled cleaning brush,
uh bottles of water.
Uh,
toilet paper inner cores,
um,
all sorts just to sort of prevent that door from being wedged open.
Uh,
I don't care.
The laziness from
not using the other door,
which is like
almost identical in length and distance,
um,
will always work cos it always works cos that's the one
I usually use and you can go and use that one and
I will repeatedly
remove any obstacles to the security of my home.
So
that that'll be that'll do for the it there if you want
one I could rant about
many other things,
but we'll we'll move on to some other questions.
I call it a Cold War cos it's like we're not gonna speak to each other
ever because I go out like randomly,
but every time I randomly go out and I see it wedged,
I'm like,
oh,
it's not wedged anymore.
So that's fun.
I.
Just what's the dog doing?
The dog a little grumpy.
I think they want to go outside,
so I'll take them outside after this.
Um,
I'm a little grumpy at them.
They had um
a bit of a bad time at the dog park.
I usually don't let them off the leash.
I let the dog off the leash.
He was the dog park was fairly empty,
and
he ran around,
loved it,
but the dog park is huge and there was no way I can keep up after after him.
Uh,
Feder will come when cool,
but um not
in a,
in a dog park this this large.
There's too much distance between us sometimes.
So I spent all of my time running after him
and I heard some commotion because I'd like been,
I don't know,
slower in my running after than I would usually be,
and he was barking at the gate and some other dog owners were trying to go,
so I
caught up to Feder,
um,
grabbed him by his leash to just hold him whilst,
not his leash,
she's a collar,
hold them,
uh,
hold him whilst the other dog owners came,
and as the other dog owners came in with their dogs,
they were like,
oh is your dog friendly?
And I went.
Yeah,
absolutely,
just,
you know,
he gets excited when,
when people want to come in and out,
and it's like,
cool,
all right.
So in they come,
I wait for the gates to be shut,
and then I let my dog go.
I had it go.
The fella instantly runs over to one of the like
other dogs and starts trying to savagely attack them.
There was no like actual bites,
um,
the owners,
you know,
responded quite quickly,
as did I.
Um,
the owners just picked up their dog.
And
me,
I had to play a sort of game of um
I don't know if you try to catch a dog that doesn't want to be caught,
I tried,
I had to do that.
I got like completely covered in mud and all sorts.
uh,
but the moment I caught up with that,
I picked him up,
scooped him up into my arms,
and then
sheepishly walked out of the dog park.
I didn't even bother putting him back on the leash till we're out of the dog park,
put him on the leash in my arms and then put him down.
I was like,
you are embarrassing me,
dog.
You've never done that before,
but you decided to do that today.
So I guess he's not allowed in the off-leash dog park for a bit.
Um,
I don't usually let him in cos it's usually like full of
dogs that are equally as untrained in off-leashness as as Federer is,
but there we go.
On Fedder's on leash,
they're they're fine,
so they'll be on leash now for a long time.
There's this like beautiful off leash section at.
Um,
a park nearby
called Marrimore Park,
but
the off leash session is,
is fenced,
sort of,
but the exits don't have gates.
They're just like defined areas where there'll be like a sign,
it's like,
hey,
you're now leaving
the off-leash area,
put your dog on the leash,
but there's no like gate.
And that like I let him off leash there for like
2 minutes because I realised like I'm gonna lose this guy,
he doesn't stay close enough to me,
so there we go.
Um,
for dog trainers and people training dogs out there,
you have to do like
their on leash training has to be like perfect,
absolutely perfect
before you can really get an off-leash dog.
And even when you have an off leash dog,
I like highly recommend.
Some form of remote collar
that that can alert them to your to your desire for them to come,
there we go,
I'll take them out after this and they'll be fine.
They've also got a new shoe,
it's the like,
I don't know what they're called,
um,
Yak cheese dog chews,
yes.
It's not um this particular brand,
but I'll,
I'll put a picture into the the questions chat so you can
sort of get a visual idea of what's going on here.
Uh,
they had some.
Yeah a
dog store that I went into recently that was close by
and he keeps forgetting that he can eat it,
um,
and so when I remind him like,
hey,
you can eat that,
you know,
um,
he likes it.
I do need to check his teeth though because like I'm worried I don't,
I'm worried that like he might like these are really hard,
really hard chews and so
uh I'm worried he might break his teeth like almost sort of paranoidly.
So I've let him had a good chew and now I'm gonna like,
you know,
give him a nice pet and then do the sort of like
I'm petting you on your head,
I'm patting you on your ears,
I'm petting you on the side of your head,
I'm looking at your teeth and I'm petting you on your ears again.
You know,
you just like sneak up on him and go like,
alright,
now,
now time for this.
If anyone's er
tried to brush the teeth of a dog that doesn't want their teeth brush,
I know exactly what I mean.
You'll just kind of have to like trick them into doing it.
Hey,
come on lap.
Hey,
he's now on my lap.
Moving forwards,
let's see what else we've got here.
Alright,
so we're done with those questions onto
uh
Gody Runi,
who says,
how is.
The progress on native support for IPV6.
Honestly haven't touched it since I last talked about it,
which is like,
I don't know,
like December sometime.
I just,
I haven't had time.
It's annoying like that,
but like there's a bunch of just like,
I don't wanna like give it like too strong a
word cause it starts sounding like I don't like it.
I mean like it's not I
I like it needs to happen,
right,
it keeps the company afloat.
There's just a lot of grunt work going on right now and it's just like it's like,
it's a slog,
but,
but we'll get through it.
Uh,
Diaz has got any blessed information to share?
One of the corporate clients that we're dealing with,
again,
I won't share their name till I know I can,
and we haven't had that conversation,
so whatever.
It's not like they're secret,
but it's not like they're public either,
so it's like,
uh,
anyway,
um,
for me to access their corporate systems,
etc.
I need to sign in,
to sign in for them.
Uh,
it takes me about 15 minutes to sign in,
and I use,
currently I use an,
uh,
a Citrix workspace.
If anyone knows what a Citrix workspace is,
you're probably groaning already.
Uh,
but I have to like,
I log in
once
with like
one password and one username.
And then it asks for a second factor.
Now the second factor comes from a hardware token which I am holding.
It's one of those little ones that's got a button and then when you turn it on,
it gives you a,
you know,
like a 8 digit code or something.
So it's like,
it's 2FA but not phone-based 2FA.
And the reason it's not phone.
Based TFA is because their TFA provider doesn't understand that I don't live in
um in Europe.
So my telephone number is an international number
and it literally won't,
it won't allow me to set up TFA.
I cream,
basically,
because it takes forever anyway.
um,
so.
I log in to the Citrix thing and then the Citrix thing basically gives you a,
I don't even know how it works,
but like it's sort of like a
a VM but like VM in quotes,
right,
if anyone knows how it actually works,
let me know cause I have no idea.
Anyway,
then once I've logged into the like quote VM
I can then open up my
internal external emails.
I call them in the internal external emails because I actually have an account.
Um,
you know,
first name,
last name at this company do whatever their their web address is,
but,
uh,
it's got the words external at the end cos like I'm,
I'm not an employee of that company,
I'm like a,
like the way they've got it set up is I'm I'm like a
contractor,
quote,
um,
and I need to do that to communicate with them because
their day to day occurs in that system,
like in that infrastructure,
in that environment,
in that.
Um,
space
and so asking them to come out of that space and,
you know,
communicate somewhere else
is like difficult.
They will communicate on email,
but like,
you know,
documents,
uh,
meanings,
things like that.
I have,
I have to go through this,
this rigmarole.
I'm used to
stupid security like this,
but there we go.
Anyway,
I was speaking to one of the contacts I have there
um the other day
and they were telling me,
hey,
if you've got a spare laptop,
and I'm like.
You know where this is going,
right?
Um,
if you got a spare laptop,
you could register it with our company Intune.
If anyone knows how Intune is,
Hooray,
if you don't,
uh,
Intune is a corporate device management
thing.
Uh,
it's basically corporate spyware is is a good way to to do it,
but like if you have a work laptop,
it's probably got Intune on it if it's like,
you know,
in the Microsoft ecosystem.
And if it's your work laptop,
it's totally fine that it's on your work laptop,
right,
cos your work still owns that laptop,
they're just kind of leasing it to you
until you give it back when they inevitably lay you
off in 6 months looking at the job market currently.
But
I don't have one of their laptops and I can't
get one of their laptops because I'm not an employee,
but they're like,
if you've got a spare one,
and the reason why it's a spare one is cos I will absolutely
not in tune this machine that I'm talking to you guys on,
this is my personal machine.
And
like
there are some cases where it's like I kind of shouldn't
be using this personal machine for some yellow Dogma stuff.
It,
it's kind of like weird.
It's like a line that you get up to where it's like,
but like
we're small,
so it's fine.
But for them because they're big,
it's not fine.
They're like,
hey,
if you get a,
you know,
and I said oh I've got a spare laptop.
And they said,
yeah,
cool,
um,
on that spare laptop,
if you just install Windows 11,
then you'll be able to in-tune it and you know,
it's a spare laptop,
so what's it doing?
It's in a drawer or in a closet.
So I,
I pick one of my,
I,
I don't know how many I've got,
I keep counting and I get it wrong,
but
I pick up one of my spare laptops and I turn it on and it hasn't been turned on in a year
and
so the battery's dead and I can't find the charger.
I find the charger,
which
is labelled,
like it's got like a,
I've got a label printer now,
it's a Bluetooth one,
beautiful thermal printer,
get one,
but you kind of get like.
You get addicted to labelling things.
It's the point where it's like,
oh yeah,
maybe I'll put a label on my chair that says chair.
Anyway,
um,
and I look at the charger and the rear of the charger,
um,
is a figure 8 connector,
and there's no figure 8 connector uh to US power outlet
near it.
And the reason behind that is because.
When I received this laptop and put it into the spare laptop pile in my closet,
it was actually using a UK plug.
So then I needed a spare US
figure eight plug.
And I'm like,
hmm,
where's the spare US figure 8 plug?
Ah,
it's in one of the underbed,
um,
storage crates that I've got.
I have 4 underbed storage crates full of miscellaneous electronics.
I had to get them all out,
and
my bedroom is a mess right now.
My bedroom is such a mess
that Fetta cannot get into their crate
and they also cannot get to the stairs that allow them to climb onto my bed.
It's like that's how chaotic it is in there cos I had to dig up this,
this,
this cord.
The story is not nowhere near done completion by the way.
Uh,
so I eventually find my figure 8 power cord,
and I plug in the laptop and then the laptop's got
like a power indicator that ser that was just flashing red,
and then when it's flashing red,
that means like,
hey,
I don't even have enough power to to boot.
So I had to wait.
Until it flash,
it stopped flashing red and was just solid red,
which means,
hey,
I'm charging,
but I'm not charged.
And then I turn it on
and it's one of the laptops that I decided to put BIOS level security on.
So then I had to look up what the BIOS level password was and enter it,
and I realised,
oh,
I've also got BIOS level hard drive security on this machine.
Like this is,
it's my most secure machine,
basically.
I don't remember why I put that on.
Um,
because I made that decision years ago before it ended up in the
pile of unused laptops,
so there we go.
And then I boot it up and I get to the login screen.
I remember how crap the laptop is in terms of like daily use.
It's just a little bit smaller in terms of like screen than I would like,
um,
and it's quite old now.
I log in.
And it's like,
wow,
the laptop is just not happy cos it's not connected to
Wi Fi and it hasn't been used in a year,
it's just very slow.
I swear there's like a chip inside laptops that like
if you don't use them in a year or whatever,
like the chip just like gets agitated or grumpy and goes like,
you haven't used me in a year,
like minus 50% processor speed.
I it doesn't make any sense,
anyway.
So then I have to get it onto my Wi Fi.
I recently changed my Wi Fi password to be a little bit more secure.
Um,
it's good an idea to just,
like,
I don't know,
I do it like once every sort of couple of years,
I'll change the Wi Fi password.
It's when I can be bothered and I know that I've got like time to do it.
Uh,
but I did that like 6 months ago,
obviously because the laptop's been in the closet,
it didn't have the new Wi Fi password.
Uh,
so that was fun,
so I had to look that up,
put it in,
and then I'm like,
cool,
I have to,
I have to install Windows 11 on this laptop to
to get it in tuned into the company accounts.
Great.
So
I go to Windows Update
and I'm like,
alright,
oh actually I remember there's a downloadable Windows
11 like installer thing that I can just like
bypass all the Windows 10 updates it's waiting
for and just go straight to Windows 11,
so I download that one.
And that one says like,
oh hey,
we can't work till you've run the PC compatibility Health Checker app,
which is a separate app for some reason.
And so I download that app,
and then I open the next app.
By the way,
this is like 5 or 6 hours into this process,
um,
and I open up the PC
compatibility checker app thing,
and the PC compatibility app checker thing says,
hey,
we can't run.
Unless you're on Windows,
uh,
like the latest version of Windows 10,
and I'm like,
OK,
fine,
so.
I like
go to Windows Update on this Windows TED laptop and I just like I push the buttons,
like,
you know,
configure all the bells and whistles,
so it's just like updating as much as possible
and it says like,
hey,
I'm I'm updating.
I'm like,
great.
And so then I just leave it open
whilst I do some other work way into the evening.
So I think I was like drooling and watching
YouTube on the couch and it was still updating.
And uh you know the Windows Update dialogue says something in the lines of like
preparing to like download.
Like what what what do you mean?
Like just down.
I guess it's like allocating space or something.
It's like preparing to install,
like what does that mean?
It's probably like
unzipping the download or something,
I don't know.
Anyway,
and then it starts restarting and every time it restarts,
it goes like,
hi,
I need your biassed password.
I'm just like fuck.
And then it needs the hard drive bias password.
Fuck.
And I keep forgetting to turn them off because each restart,
like all I get is
the password prompt,
like the bio's password prompt,
it looks like it's from the 1980s.
And that's the opportunity where I could turn it off,
but I keep forgetting to turn it off.
So every time it restarts,
I just put in the buyer's password and deal with it,
right?
And then like,
at one point it just like,
it looks like it's not doing anything,
but like,
you know,
it's got the Windows 10 spinner,
so I just go to bed.
I woke up to the BIO's laptop screen and great.
Put that in.
A few more hours later,
I boot into Windows 10,
now update.
The first thing I see when I boot into the Windows 10 updated thing
is that they've reset half my settings because of course they're Windows.
Re-enabled the search bar,
which I always disable because it it like
it prioritises web searches over local searches,
so it's completely useless to me.
Um,
it's of course now a co-pilot logo on my Windows 10 laptop
and my wallpaper,
which I always set to the same thing,
uh,
has been changed to a randomly scrolling selection of pictures.
And they forced a desktop icon onto my
desktop which says learn more about this picture,
which will tell me more about the like scrolling,
you know,
popular image wallpaper thing that I didn't want.
I don't care about that though.
My first task is to go back to the PC compatibility checker thing
where it tells me that my computer is too old to run Windows 11.
So this laptop which I've just resurrected from the grave and
buried my apartment in in various cable boxes
that were under my bed,
cannot have Windows 11 on it.
And so therefore there's nonstarter.
So then I,
I go back to thinking and I'm like,
hm,
is there another machine
that could have Windows 11 on it?
And there is,
but
I'm going to take the opportunity to Google
if it is Windows 11 compatible
before I find its charger.
Before I go through all of that hell,
I do know that this one particular one does not have BIOS passwords on it,
but it's an old Windows Surface laptop,
which both increases and decreases the likelihood
that Windows 11 will be compatible with,
like increases its Windows,
decreases,
no.
Like it's,
it's,
it's old,
right?
But I realised like,
uh,
historically speaking,
it is newer than the one I just tried this process on.
So there is a chance,
I just don't know
what that chance is,
but I would rate it at about like
20 to 30% chance that it will support Windows 1.
If
neither of those laptops support Windows 11,
the only option I then have
is my personal laptop,
which I don't want it in tune anyway.
But it does need Windows 11 on it at some point because it's currently Windows 10.
I did want to go to Linux,
but I just,
I don't have time right now.
I'm trying to log on to my
corporate emails
in the corporate system of the clients that we work for,
so that I can log into the corporate emails so I
can click a link so that I can read information.
Uh,
yeah,
so,
so that's fun.
That ate basically my entire yesterday
and.
It's all because
corporate security based.
Uh,
another suggestion which is had by,
um,
another person that was on the call talking about all this stuff,
um,
bear in mind this is a,
a,
it's not a non-native speaking
English country.
They do have like English is like really,
really well spoken in this,
but there are some oddities that come up.
Um,
they will have,
uh,
they said,
hey,
if you've got a burner phone,
you could probably in tune that burner phone,
and I'm double taking on this call because I'm like.
Vodafone is a particular phrase over here in America
used for like phones used for illicit activities,
right?
But it turns out
there's a like a dedicated German word
for burner phone,
which
make
in German language sense means spare phone
and burner phone at the same time,
and they were just directly translating that into English to get Berner phone.
They meant spare phone,
so I'm like,
good.
I,
I did send them a note afterwards.
I was like,
hey,
you might want to use the word,
you know,
spare phone in the future,
burner phone has weird connotations in America.
And they're like,
oh yeah,
I understand.
They gave me all the information about the German phrasing,
etc.
uh,
so I do have some phones
that I,
uh,
I could in tune,
but they're kind of old.
I've got a,
uh,
OnePlus.
It's 1 + 2 or something like that.
I don't know.
I've got a Galaxy S4 somewhere if,
if people,
you know,
one of those might do that,
but
that will only get me the ability to do
like emails and Microsoft Teams with the corporate network,
which is kind of still worth it,
right?
I know I can,
like,
let's say I don't want to pull open the laptop,
I eventually get working.
I can just pull open the phone,
it'll be quicker.
But because that's the only thing that phone will be used for.
I know exactly what's going to happen,
which is I'm gonna plug in that phone and it's gonna sit
on my desk for years or however long this corporate contract lasts.
It's just gonna sit
on my desk plugged in,
cos if it's not plugged in,
it'll be dead in no time because I'll forget to charge it cos I won't use it ever.
So it's,
it's gonna just be like a permanently plugged in phone and that's
why I wanted to wanted to go for the laptop like thing,
but there we go.
I've got various people saying,
does it have to be real hardware,
Hyper-V will give you a virtual TPM.
I don't know,
but every single time I touch,
um,
I touch VMs on this desktop machine I'm currently using,
every single time I touch
those,
I have issues because
I also use Docker on this machine.
As you know,
Docker on Windows has like weird
hijinks that it does with the Hyper-V layer on Windows.
It's just like,
it's just one thing after another.
Now,
the ultimate backup that I Have,
oh no,
they,
those won't work.
I've got two
Linux servers
um that were donated to me
from uh Spem Australian people,
but those are even older than this laptops.
They probably also weren't to Windows 11.
Uh,
and then there's an old desktop computer in the
corner that I haven't touched since I moved here.
Um,
I know it must have been like a year or so after I moved here,
I got a new computer.
So that one will be even older,
but
I'll figure something out cause.
Anyone who uses like VMs or RDP regular,
you'll know this pain,
right?
You,
you look at
the screen
and you focus on,
let's say the email compose box
and you start typing
and every letter
takes like
triple or sometimes quadruple the length of time it should
to appear on the screen.
So you want to type like a really quick email like,
hi Bob,
thank you so much for those details,
Richard.
It takes quadruple the amount of time.
Because the,
the delay in typing means you make more typos,
if you do make a typo,
it takes quadruple to get rid of it cos you have to push backspace,
it's so
painful.
But I will,
I will figure out a solution,
the like.
It has occurred to me that like
a cheap Windows 11 laptop might be available
uh on like local listings like eBay or or Craigslist and like it it's
it's that much of a time sync then it might be worth it.
Like if there's just a cheap laptop,
I'll just,
I'll just grab.
There's anyone in in the sort of,
you know,
greater Seattle area that has a
spare laptop floating around that can run Windows 11 and is happy to donate it to me,
let me know.
That might also work.
But there we go.
So that's my worst knowledge and I guess a second kno it for you guys.
I do want to clarify at the end of this,
like the,
the corporate company they're working with,
they want the best for Rezino,
they want the best for Yellow Dot Studios,
they want to ensure that everyone is like healthy,
happy.
and productive,
they are doing like an amazing job.
They are just operating within the sort of bureaucratic apparatus,
which is the company that they work at for.
So it's not like anyone's fault and it's not like a negative thing,
it's just sort of like,
it just has to happen,
right?
There's no way around it.
But there we go.
By the way,
that's why the um.
Uh,
what you call it,
the,
the tech tree has the business obelisk in it.
That's why,
because everything is like slow and unexpected,
and that's why it's,
you know,
the looming business obelisk cos you just,
you don't know,
you don't know what's.
Like around the corner.
Like I didn't expect to have to pull apart my bedroom to find a figure 8 cord.
I didn't expect to like spend an entire day babysitting
a Windows laptop that won't update to Windows 11,
and it's now worse off because I updated Windows 10 and has co-pilot all over it.
I've just realised I can date the like last
time I used this laptop because Discord has not updated
and still has one of the old logos.
In fact,
I'm going to take a picture of the laptop screen with my phone camera.
You'll understand why because this laptops you'll be able to see the old logo.
Usually this sort of thing is like an like a
a really good indicator that someone is like quote boomer,
it's like oh they took a photo of their laptop screen,
but like I have excuses.
I have excuses.
Look at that
Discord,
it's ancient.
So it's so ancient
that the um
the Discord self data
won't even work.
Like it just like it fails and so like to get Discord working,
I would have to redownload
uh
redownload those things.
Yeah,
the Chrome logo is also uh
slightly less simplified.
It's got like a bit of um
crevice is like the word,
like it's got like a little bit of crevicing to it which like the old Chrome logo did,
but the new Chrome logo doesn't.
It's almost like everyone took like a like a sanding block or a sanding like machine
to all the corporate logos recently,
like in 2025,
etc.
I just like
sanded all the rough edges of all the logos,
that's why they all look.
I think even the edge logo's wrong.
This is also though,
the only laptop that can speak to my oscilloscope,
that's the Hanu Tech logo you'll see there.
I have a kind of cheap oscilloscope that I use sometimes.
I thought it was weird having a a laptop dedicated to an oscilloscope,
but if you contact your local repair shop,
um,
they've got like a spare laptop that is used for just one tool all the time,
guarantee it.
It's like,
this is the laptop I use specifically just for this one process.
And I'm like,
yeah,
I get it,
I get it.
I,
I just,
I hate computers.
Uh,
so Jin says Hyper-V is your best bet,
if you want a VM it won't conflict with Docker or anything.
All right,
I will,
I will stand up a Windows 11 VM and go for that.
They'll.
A little bit of,
I don't want to say trauma from that,
but like a little bit of reluctance on my fault from that because I used to have
um
exactly the same process to have a
Windows 10 VM that I used for my Microsoft Work,
and that happened because of the work from home order.
So at the starter from the work from home order,
I would,
I used a KVM with my Microsoft,
um,
issued laptop
to KVM
into that laptop so that I could use it as a desk.
Computer,
but that just got boring,
the laptop got out of stick,
etc.
so like the longer the work from home order for Microsoft lasted,
I just like stood up a Windows 10 VM and and did that.
But like it meant that like my day to day
job at Microsoft started with logging into a VM
and ended with closing the VM and uh yeah,
so I gotta
do that.
Let's move on to some,
some maybe some actual resonant questions now we've gone through
about 5 or 6 knots.
If anyone like in tech says like,
why is this taking so long,
that entire story I just gave you is why.
It's never simple,
and it's never straightforward,
it's always comp.
cos I'm now on like day two of trying to log into some emails.
I'm gonna bring up the tech tree cos it'll sort of help demonstrate what's going on.
Um,
now I need to.
Speaking of,
you know,
tools for just one thing,
I've swapped all my browser stuff to a Firefox b based browser called.
Firefox blabla based browser called a flop,
but Excalira,
where the tech tree is,
that's still on Chrome.
The reason behind that is I don't know
how to like
get,
because I don't use Excala draws like accounts because they want me to pay for it.
I just use like an Eca draw like blank canvas thing.
I don't know.
I need to,
I need to fix that or maybe migrate the canvas to a different drawing app.
I actually did some updates as well,
so you'll be able to see those when I share my screen.
Um,
let me move some things around,
those are,
uh,
yes,
that's fine.
Yeah,
I wanna like see if it's like in obsidian or maybe like,
I was looking to like tail,
there's a bunch of other like these.
I really like them because like I think very uh
spatially.
Like lots of my thoughts have spatial properties to them,
so like diagrams like this really help.
So while I made the tech tree to help communicate with you,
I also made the tech tree to help me.
Uh,
so
that's why the business obelisk is a big red looming thing.
But you'll see here like third party clouds run Resite your own infrastructure.
That's the reason why I need this laptop and this VM because
to run Resonate on,
on the corporate Azure offering.
I need to be within their like security universe,
so that's,
that's that's that's why.
Yeah,
I have about a million obsidian plug-ins and obsidian takes forever to sign up,
like to launch because of those plug-ins,
so I gotta like,
I gotta like,
I gotta,
I gotta fix that up.
But yeah,
I've,
I've moved stuff around a little bit,
so we've got business features and improvements over here,
um,
all sorts of stuff like that.
Yeah,
I can cut down on some plugins because
um those features were
enabled by
actual native stuff,
so
obsidian's like more recent updates,
this is probably like months ago,
I just haven't had time to look at it,
it added like a
database style like
stats and and and metrics and table thing.
That used to be served by a plug-in but now doesn't need to,
so I can remove that,
that plug.
Right,
uh,
oh,
we've also got over here,
we've got the Island of green,
which is where I move like stuff that we don't need to talk about as much,
right,
you know,
it's,
it's like done
like we don't need to talk about it as much,
so Gaines black rendering headed over there cos it was self-contained.
Uh,
lots of other stuff is gonna stay here until I can be bothered to move over there,
but,
but there we go.
Um,
this,
I have found out
is gonna be.
In terraform
because it's the only uh provisioning
uh language which the
corporate business partner provides or is allowed to use.
So uh
I'll use terraform for the corporate product uh and I will,
like some of the terraform knowledge and also the
terraform files will make its way back to.
Yellow Dot and studios to provision our own cloud
infrastructure if we need additional in the future.
Basically everything will be terraformed just because
like I'm was forced to use it,
might as well use it IDMS as well.
Hooray.
Uh,
and then let's go down to here.
So this,
uh,
community powered event system temporary is done now,
it's up and that's done.
Events.
resonate.com,
and this can go up here.
All right,
let's move on to other questions finally.
Grant says,
do you know how global refT for Protofluxes are meant to be used
in Protoflux nodes when making custom ones because I can't figure them out.
I have no idea.
I apologise.
Grant says you had time to look at the Protoflux
bindings gen issue on your project task is yet?
No,
unfortunately not.
You can tell why I spent 6 hours yesterday trying to find a laptop that would work,
um.
Javier says any random things in native code that need to be investigated,
I had to dig in wine source code to investigate
problems with the new icon stuff and I'm feeling inspired.
Uh,
yes,
absolutely.
So
sharp font.
Has an issue there,
and so the reason why.
This is another like,
why is like
computers.
Sharp font is having issues on some distributions of Linux,
um Fedora,
I think Fedora was one of the ones.
I don't know.
The guys in chat we usually do,
but um
definitely Red Hat,
and the reason behind that is because the sharp font native binaries are kind of like
really down rev.
And so I was like,
oh we can just update them to,
you know,
be the new version.
It's like,
no,
we can't.
Cause Sharp font uses compiled free type binaries that are 10 to 11 years old.
There's no source for them,
so I,
I literally cannot recompile them just to make that one fix for uh Red Hat Linux.
So our only real option
is to update Sharp font to use a more modern version of FreeType,
but that then turned like a 5 minute task of just sort of
changing up the linking.
Uh,
I,
I just lost sound.
That's,
I don't know why I lost sound,
but I lost sound.
I don't really need sound as long as you guys can still hear me.
Um,
yeah,
so if anyone wants to like help me get sharp font updated with a,
a local copy of
uh the Free-type libraries,
then there we go.
That's the like,
it's not like a,
a,
a big priority,
it's not like an important priority right now,
but,
but you did ask,
so you get it.
Cos the other thing I would want to do as well,
like Sharp font doesn't have any unit tests,
so I have no idea how it works.
And so if I wanted to fix Sharp font,
I would do the same process I did with Compressorator where
ourcompressorator.net now has a full unit test suite so we can validate
that it still works when we update the native compressorator library,
but we don't have.
That same thing,
right?
So if I updated FreeType to the latest binaries
and then tried to compile them into sharp font,
Sharp font's gonna throw a bunch of errors and
it'll never make its way to resonate in that state.
Moving forwards,
uh,
just making sure I missed anne before all the like Citric stuff.
OK,
so Jan's question's done,
forwards to
quality says,
are the,
are any of those terraform bits going to be open source
that might be need for headless deployment management at scale?
Probably not.
Um,
we'll see,
uh,
for headless is,
like I would,
I would rather people use like community offerings right now,
and I've just looked at the time I do have to head off.
I have a,
uh,
a conflict,
so,
uh,
I
unfortunately that'll be
the,
the last question
and um I have to like wrap up pretty quickly here.
I'll get an updated tech tree into the wiki
channel um cos I've made a bunch of changes.
I'll be excluding
the like
island of green.
Um,
the reason why the Island of Green has been created is because
if we don't
in like a year or so,
this will just be like a chaotic mess and we won't be able to deal with it.
So,
um,
we can keep an eye on that by looking at the sort of the
previous revisions of the images as they're upload,
but I will speak to you guys soon.
Bye bye.