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`1:44:33`

So here's the machine I use-... which is-... well, the same one I use, but it's now yours. It's a-... Dell XPS 14-... already set up with Omarchy 4-... ready to be configured for you. And once you realize that all your... By the way, we should almost time this. You can be up…

`1:45:04`

Yeah, fill it out while I talk. So-... exactly what you realized, that pain on the Mac was the exposure I got for about a weekend, and I tried really hard, and I found some decent workarounds, the main one being that Homebrew now has tabs for GUI apps. Because it's hilarious to think upon the…

`1:46:11`

Oh, it's gonna be done in about 40 seconds. And then you're gonna be inside of Omarchy.

`1:46:21`

Yep, that's the Windows key. Oh, actually, no, no, you have a special edition. There are only about six of these computers in the world.

`1:46:29`

It says Super, and look at where the Copilot key is on the other end of the keyboard. That's the Omarchy logo.

`1:46:36`

This was Spencer Bull at Dell, who I've been working with on a lot of this stuff. They've been incredible.

`1:46:51`

It was not just dumb that it got rid of the XPS branding. They also got rid of the Escape key and put in capacitive touch buttons at the top. The mistake that Apple realized like three years ago was terrible, and everyone hated them for them. But now they have an incredible team, and this was…

`1:48:05`

... which means it's actually better tech than what you'll get in a freaking MacBook. It's lighter than a MacBook, and the chip is finally competitive because Intel spent a good five years developing the 18A process node. It took a long time, but now it's here, and it's freaking incredible. We finally…

`1:48:39`

Actually, you can just push the Omarchy key. It opens up the menu. So now you control everything from there.

`1:48:45`

Same thing as Super Space. So this has been a huge change for me, that we finally have Linux machines that you don't have to make excuses for. Because I don't mind…

`1:49:41`

... it is absolutely mind-bogglingly awesome.

`1:49:51`

It's like running a bulletin board system in-... the '90s, which is exactly what I did when I was 14 years old. So for me, it's a complete throwback and an awesome aesthetic, combining this sense of modern rising culture in Unix with-... this throwback of…

`1:50:13`

Which again, pairs... This was why I was so excited that-... all these agent harnesses arrived as TUI's, arrived as CLIs-... has arrived as a terminal because suddenly, a whole new generation of both programmers and regular users discovered the glory of the terminal. The terminal was actually one of the most, impressive and productive user…

`1:51:00`

100%. Now, it's not gonna be the only thing. Of course it's not, because these labs now have trillion-dollar valuations, so they need to be able to reach billions of people. And I don't think we're gonna teach billions of people the intricacies of the TUI. So we're gonna have other…

`1:51:23`

Literally within two hours of that announcement dropping, I had it wrapped up and ready to go in Omakub. Already now, if you go to... You can actually hit the Omakub key-... and then just write ChatGPT. It should pop up as, like, install. And then just hit return.

`1:51:42`

Yeah, whatever you put in. And then it's just gonna install it, and it's gonna pop it up, and you have ChatGPT.

`1:51:48`

And that's how a lot of the apps are, and all the agentic harnesses are built in that way. Um, Tailscale, as I talked about, if you wanna hop…

`1:52:27`

First, let me quote Mitchell Hashimoto, who created Ghostty terminal that's awesome and also available on Omakub and was also the founder of HashiCorp, who had this great post on X not too long ago that had the killer line, "The pursuit of excellence deserves no explanation." Wanting to make something as good and as fast…

That's absurd. That's an insult to everyone who likes computers, that you get a new computer and before you can use it, you have to spend 42 minutes doing updates on something that was already installed on it out of the box from the factory. That is just preposterous, and it's crazy that that's not even…

`1:54:35`

And they have Windows pre-installed. So I got one. This was just three weeks ago. Brand-new machine, Intel Panther Lake, the whole shebang. An hour and 35 minutes from unwrapping the thing until it's ready to use. How long did you take before you think you were in Omakub?

`1:54:55`

A minute. We can build computers like this. We have the technology. We've had the technology since like 1981 when the Commodore 64 first came out. The fact that we now have a computer that's a trillion times faster and you have to spend 42 minutes or an hour and a half setting it up…

`1:55:45`

That obsession is what gives me this great satisfaction with using computers, that we do not accept things the way they are. And this is why this agent-accelerated reality that I now inhabit is so invigorating. Because I can look at these kinds of constraints and go, do you know what? Um, I could have stopped…

`1:56:37`

Disk speed. Do do that one, and then run it. So this is testing the performance of the built-in NVMe drive, and what are you getting?

`1:56:47`

So seven gigabytes a second. That's how fast that drive is. Why can we not install a Linux distribution in one second? The Omarchy distribution is…

`1:57:35`

The macOS we have today is scarcely different from the macOS we had 10 years ago. In fact, it's worse in many ways because Apple continues to chokehold the control on users. They don't want them to install software that they haven't already said good-... to go for. They don't want users to…

`1:59:12`

Well, I'll say that it didn't start quite as grandiose. When I got going with my Linux journey, I actually just started with Ubuntu, and I just built on top of it. Here's a system that already does a lot of the things I wanted to do, and at least it's Linux. So…