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Video: Before Sonus, there was... Dell??? (Patreon)

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2023-07-13 01:21:32
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2026-06
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Oh boy! A video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNEulcJrJ2I

It is amazing how quickly plans fall apart on contact with reality. I know I don't need to explain myself, but I'm kind of astonished at how much has gone wrong the last few weeks and I figured I'd just let you all know What's Up.

How It's Going

Protip for anyone thinking of quitting their job the way I did: Taking two weeks off and then going back for a week to "mop up" is not the right call. The money made sense, but it did immense psychic damage. The two weeks I was off were everything I hoped - I felt free, I felt like I was moving forward. I figured the last week would just be a brief pause before going back to that. Instead, it killed all my momentum.

It felt like I'd gotten out of prison, then got picked up on parole violation three days later. Instantly, I felt more stressed than I had even before I left in the first place. That entire week was mental hell and I'm not even sure why. It stressed me out so badly that I couldn't even get myself to think about eating on schedule, so on a couple days I decided to go to the grocery store and get deli chicken.

As a result, on my last day of work I developed food poisoning. For the next five days, I was so sick all the time that I couldn't even think. Then I got better, finally worked on some scripts... and then household stuff got in the way and prevented me from going to the studio.

How This Video Went

So, finally, two and a half weeks after my last video comes out, I go in and do a shoot - but only the A-roll. I planned this video with a brief cold-open bit (I've been really liking those on the Quick Start videos and would like to keep doing them for everything) so I needed to go back and shoot that. Turned out, there were events going on that locked down the entire part of town where my studio is for days.

While waiting for the studio to become available again, I try to edit the A-roll - only to find myself hating it. It felt fine when I was shooting it, but then during editing I'm watching and going "oh my god I look so sad and lifeless."

Fortunately, before I can commit to a reshoot, Daria convinces me to sleep on it; I do, and the next day I feel better about the footage (I ended up using it, so, everything worked out there.) But I really, really want that B-roll, and I'm not willing to wait until Wednesday (today!) for the Events to end, so I go to RePC, buy about 100 pounds of enormous props, load them up on a cart, and push it all, multiple city blocks through a pedestrian-only zone, to reach the studio. I only dumped the stuff on the pavement once!!

It then takes TWO DAYS to shoot B-roll. It turns out that what was a single paragraph in the script turned out to require a completely new set, essentially, to be built in the corner of my studio. The existing set had to be dismantled, a new one assembled, lights moved, etc. and then i had to wipe down and detail all this ancient 70s-90s stereo gear, which was profoundly filthy, then constantly move furniture and set pieces to find the right angles. Daria's back was injured, so I did this all by myself, in a dead hot studio with no AC, soaked in sweat the entire time.

It's Almost Like Filmmaking Is Hard And Normally Involves A Big Crew And Tons Of Space. Who Could Have Predicted This Would Be Difficult. Lessons learned, I guess. Some things just might be easier said than done! Who knew!

Wow

Like I've said before, it's not that I think anyone will be mad at me if I don't produce a video for a while, but I personally find it frustrating to not be able to do what I want to do, and I'm impressed at how much of a disaster My First Week Of Freedom ended up being, compared to the smooth sailing I expected. I'm sure it'll get better the further away Job is in the rearview, but still, wow.

As far as the disastrous production process: Was two days (three, arguably) of labor worth 30 seconds of footage for an intro? You Be The Judge, but I think it was.

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Before Sonus, there was... Dell???

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Comments

Perrin Anderson

Patreon notifications work way better than YouTube ones! Thanks for the upload and sorry about all of the momentum-killing stuff that happened to ya!

George

Sorry to hear, sounds rough. But hopefully this is a time to reset and you'll have fun with the next video!

Chris Jeter

Great video! Glad you’re feeling better and are getting the old job further in the rearview.

Tenshi's half-eaten corndog

The only way I have been able to play my lossless audio files on my speakers has been through an original xbox or a PSP, so this might be very convenient for me!

Porch

Great video. If you want any details on the AudioTron, I was big into them and the TurtleBeach community form back in the early 2000s and know the history well. The AudioTron was the only one of the market, that did not require software. It could stream right from an SMB share, or direct from Shoutcast. This made it the killer feature for people who didn't want to keep their PC on all the time and just wanted to stream from a NAS. I believe TurtleBeach stopped production in 2004, and PC Magazine named it the best network audio player a month later. I still have my 3 AudioTrons, one (recapped) is still streaming internet radio from my local AzuraCast server 24/7.

Juaane

Oh boy, that sounds rough, but in Germany we have a saying, roughly translated: an horrible end than an endless horror! So I Hope, when everything is settled in, you can carry the positive feeling from your new freedom in your creative process, maybe then you feel better about your ideas and footage from the start. I wish you only the best and want to thank you again for all the entertaining and informative content you are creating. It really helps me to get distracted from the miseries in my life.

Barak

The four big cylinders next to the audio amplifier are the inductors for the filters (marked L*)

boringcactus

I think the intro definitely turned out really slick, and aside from the fact that I'll never hear that song the same way again, I agree with your assessment that it was worth it.

Albert Lee

Congrats on making it through this challenging situation, wishing you smooth sailing from here on! I can't believe you've been filming without AC this whole time. Hope that's something that can be addressed.

Peter Chomczynski

Check out the hilarious spec sheet for the phone line networking chip they used (BCM4210). It includes some early-2000s gems like “The Home Castle with Information Moat”

Bulk Bogan

I did the "go back for a week" thing before as well, and definitely agree with your statement of it sucking. I think of it being like a kid with training wheels, where once the company knows you're going away, you have to just let them coast and fall on their own, so they don't get the idea that you'll be there to pick them back up again. I always feel a bit bad for my fellow employees, especially at a job where you've been duped into doing the work of 2 people for 1 wage, but in my experience things work out in the long term, despite some additional short term stress, so there's no need to get myself involved past the final day.

Rupert Hair

My guess at the use of NFS would be that it saves RAM that would be needed if the Linux root filesystem was sent via TFTP, as Gravis mentioned for the folder name. Does anyone have a link to the Windows app, so I could grab the root FS TAR file, please? It should be easy to read the init scripts for a Linux instance from this time period and we can see if it's copying anything locally, or running the full OS & software from the NFS share.

doink

If you had an old Mac running Leopard or something laying around, which I'm sure you do, you might actually get those custom firmware apps to run. Mac OS X has a built-in Java runtime and I'd bet that a G4 PowerBook running 10.4 or 10.5 would be old enough to "just work" with minimum effort.

Eric Lounsberry

As always, we appreciate all of the hard work you do for our entertainment. It truly makes my day every time I see a video from you.

Mat Fordon

The B-roll was good, but sounds like a hell of an effort to make happen.

George F Rozansky

In different circles where presentation of some kind of creative material was involved, it was advised that an hour of prep was involve for every minute.

Alex Yancey

Your ability to peel back the interesting aspects of completely innocuous tech is unmatched

Antti N

Holy crap, Mint Jams by Casiopea in that NAD B-Roll! The version of Midnight Rendezvous on that album is awesome. At least here in Finland HomePNA was a moderately common thing for sharing a single outbound Internet connection in apartment buildings. I think most commonly an SDSL or ADSL connection was shared, but in university student housing (who at least used to run their own internal ISP's with Internet connectivity provided by the universities) the outbound connection could be fibre, or I guess copper Ethernet for very short distances. I never had to deal with this myself - always got assigned student apartments with straight copper Ethernet wired into them. While sharing e.g. a single 8Mbps ADSL line between tens of apartmens sounds pretty abysmal now, it probably still wasn't too bad 20ish years ago, especially considering that you'd get unlimited time online with a monthly flat fee (unlike with analog dial-up or ISDN, for example). BTW besides phone lines, you can also run HomePNA over TV antenna coax - also a cabling that already existed in all apartments and came into a single convenient "star point" somewhere in the building. So besides modems, there are "Central Office" devices for both phoneline and coax HPNA that can serve tens of CPE's simultaneously, and connect to a shared (typically Fast Ethernet) uplink.

Martin bélanger

That was a fun intro/b-roll/video. While it was way harder for you to make than what was planned, I think it was worth it. As for going back to a job I justed left, I did it a few time. Sometime it sucked, some time it was great. Depends on the relation that you have with the team and the kind of work that need to be done. As a rule of thumb, don't do it. If you want to see the old team, just invite them to you house for a night of retro-gaming or something...

bjarke

For what it's worth, I absolutely couldn't tell that you felt sad/lifeless in the A-roll. I had the opposite impression, to be honest. It seems like you have much more energy to give now that you're doing this full time. This is probably the best video you've done IMO. I find that I'm much too self-critical of my own work as well, it's a gift and a curse.