UNIX Philosophy and EDC

[@douglaselkins952]

EDC, UNIX, and VIM?!! You’ve made my Monday. Thanks, Nick, and may you do something even nerdier this week!

[@mountainhobo]

Anybody who still remembers and applies UNIX philosophy gets thumbs up.

[@bhart2408]

Unix is used everywhere. Android and iOS, to name a couple, are Unix based operating systems.

[@sanarboy4282]

do a video on you unix setup, that would be really interesting for all the tech and knife nerds like myself

[@TheSC20k]

YES PLEASE

[@RamGlez]

That'd be awesome!

[@Thisguydoesstuff]

That fake sponsor message got me good, you sneaky bastard XD

[@Dan-xh4fv]

If you think small knife vs. large knife or manual vs. assisted is a heated argument, you haven't seen anything until you've seen two people arguing between vim and emacs.

[@knutube]

**starts screaming** _M-x tri-ad-lock_

[@koga8100]

Assisted=hot shit

[@geoff650r]

*eats glue in nano*

[@ldobehardcore]

Joke's on you, I just pipe /dev/random into a s/e/d regex that matches on the typed output I wanted.

[@NickShabazz]

That's amazing. I'm going to start using that.

[@buckaroobunnyslippers]

I legit had an Invasion of the Body Snatchers moment when you did the VPN ad copy. Damn happy, I wasn't drinking coffee at the time.

[@GOZES]

As a fellow Linux user, most Arch this days, I would love a Nick Shabazz Unix/Linux channel

[@NMiller_]

I am fairly new to the channel so this was my first time hearing you speak about computers. I am an IT Guy/System Admin and a "Knife Guy" and absolutely love that you even know what that VIM and EMACS exist. Also, "do a thing, do it well" is a sacred motto.

[@NickShabazz]

Oh yes. :D

[@zyctc000]

But the true question is Vim or Emacs, :)

[@NMiller_]

@@zyctc000 From a terminal I am all in on Vim. But most days I am using MS VS Code with the SSH Remotes plugin.

[@NickShabazz]

VSCode is nice. Lately I've been using VimR on the Mac to bring a bit more mousiness into neovim than doing the in-terminal thing.

[@NMiller_]

@@NickShabazz Trying to convince my buddy that Code + SSH Remote is > PuTTy + Vim. The battle wages on.

[@tamashorvath7954]

As an EDC gear nut programmer this is truly peak KZbin content

[@systrex]

I stopped carrying my multi tool when I realized that any time I needed a tool, I went and got my little tool bag out of my car and used a normal tool.

[@cloudcleaver23]

I wish Leatherman would make a Charge (or at least a Wave) that saved some weight and bulk by eliminating the two blades. It would make it airline-legal and also not be redundant for those of us who carry a real knife all the time anyway.

[@mbednarek360]

Wow, never thought I'd see UNIX / Linux on an EDC channel. Vim squad. All my hobbies colliding :)

[@thomasbaleno5822]

"speaking of security. everyone should have a good vpn" My finger literally went to the mouse to forward ahead but you got the joke out before I did.

[@clrkwllms]

As a 30 year UNIX Veteran (20 of them working for Red Hat on Linux), I approve this message!

[@The_Great_Whodini]

For this very reason, I have taken my CRKT Razel, deleted the secondary lock, and sharpened both edges to 13°. I am now tactically unstoppable. Thanks Nick!

[@sja2249]

I'm beginning to think that we're related or something. I, too, am a huge Unix fan and long time user. My EDC setup looks very similar, but with a somewhat lower budget. I also, sorta, kinda, work in acoustics... I pretty much never comment on anyone's videos, but this video was one that I could not let pass without commenting on. I *TOTALLY* agree with the Unix philosophy and integrate that into my life. Thank you for all of your thought provoking videos.

[@alexanderbertallo1995]

Thanks for the advices. Much love from Switzerland

[@neganick]

I would love to see your home computer setup. You mentioned before that your computer was customized and unusual. Cool philosophy vid!

[@NickShabazz]

I wish! No, at the moment I'm using a Macbook Pro, but I'm planning to build a Ryzen tower soonish.

[@neganick]

@@NickShabazz Sweet! Hope we get to see that someday!

[@jacobradden]

A multitool is the best backup piece that you can carry. Or as a capability extender for tasks that you don't generally face day-to-day.

[@The4cp]

I agreed I bought a victorinox tinker because most days I or someone else needs to use my knife. Then in one day my crew and I needed a bottle opener, hole punch, phillips head, and can opener.

[@noahhalls]

The funny thing is, lately in Linux I feel like the do one and do it well is going out the window, IMO

[@NickShabazz]

Agreed. Things like SystemD, although they have some merits, are apples that have fallen far from that tree.

[@MichaelWerneburg]

@@NickShabazz Thank you! "Do twenty things and make everything an overdesigned nightmare."

[@mountainhobo]

I thought I have seen all of your watch reviews, but I do not recall this one. Is it coming up, or have I missed it?

[@NickShabazz]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4TJZoqfrrV1fZI

[@profesorEDC]

Always enjoy these type of videos. 😊👍

[@ScottieG59]

I agree with the overall approach expressed here and what may be implied by the layout. I go by the "two is one and one is none" philosophy.

[@notsimar]

I was excited at the idea of hearing you talk about the cathedral and the bazaar philosophy, perhaps in the next unix philosophy video :)

[@tommyglisten6501]

Awesome! This is an awesome video!

[@jameshealy4594]

When I was at uni they had a server which had been up and online continuously for 26 years. Good luck doing that with a multitool OS.

[@barrybogart5436]

I don't know - my Leatherman PST is 37 years old and never needed an update,

[@jameshealy4594]

@@barrybogart5436 lol nice one ;)

[@rustyknifelover4463]

I am a Linux guy myself. I used to handle the Installfests for LUGOD DOT ORG So TRM Atom | Rovivon A1 | Victorinox Pioneer X

[@draftierinfern0831]

I was really waiting for NordVPN 😂😂

[@dorkknight413]

Or surfshark

[@adamjohnson1594]

Beautiful comment

[@bfrazer4126]

I said to myself, "Here we go.. next it will be Raid Shadow Legends, Simplisafe and Raycon.." Nick can you give an honest review of any one of these products? Haha I'm kidding. I just fast-forward through 10 of these live reads a week. How many parents bank accounts have been systematically Raided (eh..? ehh...?) by 10 year olds armed with tablets for this app to advertise so much... But I digress.

[@alexanderkurdyukov3703]

Waiting for a size comparison between Ubuntu, TinyCore and Spyderco Delica 4.

[@arthurdijks7429]

Hey Nick how about a tipsy Tip SE review? The golden stiletto and cricket Wrinkle2 are still my favorites. Great philosophy video as always.

[@duclicsic]

Nick you can do ZZ (Shift + zz) instead of :wq and save literal milliseconds!

[@FidelCashflow_YT]

That's a cool prybar, I wish a company like Tops would make a few. Use some micarta, they'd be pricey but great I am sure...

[@Triple.Stripe.Knives]

I can make one.

[@jolness1]

Unix has stood the test of time due to it's design philosophy, same with C. I tend to use Rust more when I have the choice (seems to remove some of the foot guns...) but C is incredible, it's 50yrs old and still relevant 100%. I loved your channel before but this... as a software engineer... makes me smile. Glad I am not the only nerd with an EDC problem haha.

[@jolness1]

The unix philosophy of each tool doing one thing and being modular is... a beautiful thing (to steal a phrase) I

[@charmaine.s_EDC]

Hi Nick, what's the yellow pry tool called?

[@RipleyNichols]

You are on dude! Love it!

[@matfrenchy]

From the channels I follow, this was definitely not the one I expected to hear about UNIX and Gentoo on!!

[@Thexaios]

Eunuchs Philospophy: avoid the knives.

[@TopSecretVid]

Had to hit the like button right after the UNIX comment!

[@AsianNinjaGod]

WHAT? My worlds just collided. I wish I GNU this about you sooner. Which Linux distro or version of MacOS is your favorite?

[@NickShabazz]

For MacOS, I'm on Big Sur, which is better than Catalina. But Snow Leopard felt like an apex. But I use Yabai to get the i3 experience with Mac. And in terms of Linux, I'd probably go something debian based. Maybe Ubuntu, but with i3.

[@davidcodesidolopez1040]

@@NickShabazz and I just learned of Yabai after referencing xmonad in the channel of the guy that reviews knives. Internet can not get any better for me today 🤓

[@AsianNinjaGod]

​@@NickShabazz Excellent taste. Now post your rice on r/UnixPorn for us to criticize

[@reasonablenamehere]

Heck yeah, another UNIX guy. I'd be willing to pay toward you doing a video where you dive into some more computer stuff.

[@mrfluffytailthethird]

you got me with the fakeout ad

[@adamjohnson1594]

Always to live the philosophy videos

[@danlee944]

News flash! MacOS is a direct descendant of BSD and comes with a terminal app, vim, bash, zsh, and it's trivially easy to install all the compilers and developer tools. After which, homebrew, you can install pretty much any unix-thing you could ever need.

[@swat37]

It just so happens to be 3:36 PM, the same exact time on the watch in the video at 9:15 xD

[@swat37]

It appears I have made an analog mistake. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about ;-;

[@VolleKanneHoschi666]

Nice one, you really got me with the ads break XD

[@kubodrdul]

Please can anybody tell me what watch is that ? 😁 thanks

[@runrin_]

what window manager do you use nick?

[@NickShabazz]

On a Mac, Yabai. On Linux, usually i3, or historically, xMonad or fluxbox.

[@runrin_]

@@NickShabazz figured it'd be tiling :P

[@MethodOverRide]

Hot Take: a box cutter is the best tool to cut boxes/cardboard. You don't need a 400 knife if all you do is cut boxes.

[@NickShabazz]

Absolutely, if you do a TON of it, do a lot of cutting against hard surfaces, and don't mind the waste of throwing away blades, it's a great tool for the job.

[@douglaspatterson127]

Nick: Resharpen them until the shape gets too annoying. Super easy to do...

[@koga8100]

Spyderco swayback will be the knife that everyone wish they got 4 years from now when it’s discontinued

[@WalterReade]

Which is why I got 2. (Although 1 is a user. 🙂)

[@koga8100]

@@WalterReade do you like it? I’m thinking of getting one

[@WalterReade]

@@koga8100 Yeah. It's surprisingly slicey. 🙂

[@alexeski4109]

Unix based operating systems are still used worldwide, in large numbers. Especially in software development and administration. People not in tech may think of it as something antiquated, but it has a life of its own and it still extremely powerful as an operating system/toolset.

[@barrybogart5436]

I thought everyone knew about Linux (at least). Most back-end systems are Unix based for a good reason. And what's Android? based on Unix too.

[@swat37]

Oh my god, you had me at the VPN sponsorship gag. I was going to skip a minute in the video after hearing the name of the VPN, until I found out it was a joke. What a prankster!

[@iburley_]

cat ~/Documents/comment.txt Really appreciate this one, I never even considered how much UNIX philosophy could apply to EDC.

[@kirkveesaert9595]

Of course you"re right ! ☺

[@smuckerst8355]

The scales on the Nick Shabazz multi tool look like it incorporates paper clips in the design. I cant un-see it

[@TeddyRoooosevelt]

You magnificent nerd, I love you

[@macedotavares]

Well, after going though the comments section, it seems clear to me that there's a very happy place in the intersection of Unix and EDC. It makes you wonder, doesn't it?

[@ultradude5410]

As someone who is finally making the switch to Linux, this was an unexpected but great video! Gentoo though? Madlad What’s your daily OS nowadays though?

[@NickShabazz]

Fedora and MacOS.

[@kchapdaily]

Nick, i love this video as an EDC nerd and UNIX nerd, although i am an emacs user :). thank you for making it!

[@FYLbingbong]

so true sir. 💯

[@collectorknives3375]

Ahh, the good old days. Stringing together an awk | grep > made life complete back in the past life. Unicos (Cray Research's Unix variant) made me the nerd I am today....

[@NickShabazz]

More respect then ever!

[@zyctc000]

I'm sad that Nick is using Emacs instead of Vim :( But plz do a great-bad-and-ugly to Vim someday! Or a Vim Emacs comparison video :))

[@barrybogart5436]

Real Unix users type text strings and append them to a file line by line....

[@MeltheNut]

Great vid sir. I may have a few :wq! in the bottom of my Word docs :)

[@synthgal1090]

running Ubuntu + IceWM myself lately. I can bash my way through things if I want, but if my brain is really fucked up at the moment I can just click the "thing go" button and get what I want.

[@mountman5386]

Love that "OK Boomer" reference towards the end. Chloe Swarbrick's quip from the NZ parliament sure has travelled far & wide!

[@jameshealy4594]

Aussie who appreciates NZ politics, it was an all-time great. IMO Julia Gillard to Tony Abbot, while not as easily applicable in my life haha, was almost as good. "I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. I will not." I cheered.

[@reidalsworth1468]

Nice to hear Nick is a vim user. Where I work I'm the vim guy in the sense that I'm pretty much the only one that knows how to do more than i[write some crap][esc]wq.

[@mnemonic5819]

this video is right up my alley. Linux as a whole might not adhere strictly to the UNIX philosophy (it is built into the name, after all: Linux Is Not UNix), but as someone who switched to Linux after using Windows my entire short life, Linux does one thing for me well that Windows could never: WORK, GOD DAMNIT!!!! as for EDC, idk if I agree 100% w/ the parallel here, Nick. Having a portable "core" and adapting situational "layers" around it (kinda like Linux) is the wave, IMO. outside of cut/slice, shine light, set things on fire, write, pick locks, tell time, and feel good to carry, every EDC 'core' will be limited to other things it does well. by the time you adapt those "layers" to operate well for other functions, portability becomes an issue. After considering what you were saying, I've found that my EDC completely bucks the UNIX philosophy, and for the better. My Victorinox Compact has come in clutch too many times to count, but I've felt no need (apart from the blade) to carry a better purpose-built redundancy for its functions on my person, like a separate bit driver or clippers or even a pen (used to EDC a Parker, but haven't for a long time).

Vim is the best tool in my EDC bag :D

[@YanDoroshenko]

Name's PAnchenko (Pun-chenko, first syllable accented). Looking at my last name one might suspect I know a thing or two about that kind of thing.

[@robbarnhill3677]

ClarisWorks lol. Ye Olde Skool. Love it!

[@scoob42]

ClarisWorks? Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. - Obi Wan Dogcow-nobi

[@mulatokudzava7797]

Using a knife blade of a multitool is like checking time on a cell phone...

[@zleggitt1989]

What?very useful and getting the most out of your purchase? What a terrible thing

[@mulatokudzava7797]

@@zleggitt1989 Useful, yes, but not very convenient. A decent watch on my left wrist and a light yet robust folding knife in my right pocket, that´s what I want for EDC :-) The rest can stay in my bag...

[@chefboiarby304]

When you buy a Ferrari for the cup holders.

[@zleggitt1989]

@@mulatokudzava7797 phones in my left pocket,takes the same motion and is literally only 1 second longer to find out the time. I carry a multi tool on me and a bench made griptilian at work at work, if I need to cut a hose off and its attached with a metal fitting, I'd rather use the blade on my multi tool because it's softer steel and there's no risk of chipping. It just depends on the task. Saying one thing is better than another if both things are quality is your opinion and I canrespect that but being an elitist implying checking the time on your phone and using a multi tool blade are bad is just ignorant.

[@mulatokudzava7797]

@@zleggitt1989 Remember that I just said "time on phone and blade on MT" are the same, not that they´re bad :-) And I just got my new watch today (olive green Timex Marathon), so I´m a bit enthusiastic about it, you know. Always wanted a Leatherman Wave with a pocket clip to carry it in my right pocket, but haven´t bought it yet. Could be a nice "one tool" option, maybe just a bit too heavy... I carry a Cold Steel SR1 Lite, a chunk of (a bit cheap) steel and it´s almost too heavy as well. But its robust and I like the feeling to have sort of a sharpened pry bar on me...

[@DevanGoodwin]

Had no idea you were a fellow Unix nerd. Nice correlation with this vid!

[@The4cp]

My friend is a Apple guy and I don't know how many times I've heard him yell USB C you idiots! I think some companies just want you buying their parts for their financial benefit. I know 0 about computers but this philosophy makes perfect sense.

[@ninemimesleft]

So you mean its a bad idea to tape a flashlight to a cold steel and call it done?

[@YanDoroshenko]

Again, I fully support your take on it, but there's one more thing to consider around standards - we won't be getting any new and better standards if no one was stepping out of the line and introducing something that at the moment would look strange, rare and stupid.

[@mendel6101]

saw unix, instantly clicked :D show us your setup someday, I bet you don't use gnome btw I use arch (w/ swaywm and vim) xD

[@adamjohnson1594]

Other patrons, is it just me or do y'all enjoy the all around shoutouts

[@Nullrogue]

I use arch btw

[@NickShabazz]

I flexed Gentoo, which is the old-school version of 'I use Arch'

[@Nullrogue]

@@NickShabazz ahh you’re a masochist I see

[@NickShabazz]

I remember my girlfriend at the time looking at me like I was insane when I'd say things like "I updated my Kernel and now I have to make my mouse work again"

[@levih7052]

Not Linux From Scratch? Danged casuals.

[@davidolds4617]

My neighbor in arvada CO works for UNIX

[@thekanthalkid4273]

Linus would be proud

[@trulsdirio]

'Don't carry a watch that is inaccurate' said the dude having a mechanical watch on the table. ;)

[@NickShabazz]

The one on the table runs +2 spd. The one on my wrist is closer to +1. Although quartz always wins, there's an acceptable margin :D

[@shaunpearson7905]

My Longines gains no more the 5 seconds a month. If you need more accuracy than that...please don't hurt me Mr. Wick.

[@barrybogart5436]

You can go GPS-disciplined but that requires a lot of infrastructure!

[@kubodrdul]

@@NickShabazz What watch is that ?

[@rsv-code7004]

Haha, I was certain UNIX was a reference to part of a knife that I hadn't learned about yet. So happy to hear it's actually *nix. Happy hacking.

[@billkempthorne3767]

Bash? Nick haven't you moved to ZSH, I hear that is where all the cool kids are now.

[@NickShabazz]

I have!

[@harman5288]

VIM >>>>

[@jacknemo8021]

I am root...

[@nightwng1207]

Vim is the best text editor, fight me

[@NickShabazz]

neovim wins, really.

[@prasand]

I was a die-hard “Bourne Again Shell” user, besides being familiar the name just spoke to me. Heard many arguments of zsh over bash, but I just didn’t care. Then a couple of versions ago, Apple switched the default to zsh, and I was annoyed. I almost switched it back but Apple said it would eventually remove bash entirely (for a more modern shell, as they were stuck on an old version of Bash due to the later versions being more restrictive on company licensing), so I looked deeper. Once I found out that Zsh is more faithful to the original Bourne shell (sh) that inspired them, the purist in me was pleased. And Zsh is almost the same as Bash on the things that matter to me, so I ended up switching the default of my CentOS servers to zsh, just to keep everything consistent. 🤷🏽‍♂️😩 #apple Irrelevant, but for purity’s sake: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_history-simple.svg p.s. 👍🏽 @ co-axial. I have a co-axial moon watch numbered limited edition: #7

[@kailambert4693]

5:43. damnit nick you nearly gave me a heart attack. I will now be selling everything you made me buy in order to sue you

[@shotgunbowen]

You had me when you mentioned VPN.

[@miggle_tsx]

post your .vimrc pls

[@Ondal1]

If you think about it, UNIX is standard in anything but Windows machines.

[@taddy_mason205]

The VPN sponsor was hilarious

[@marko11kram]

I 'cut' my teeth (pun intended), on SCO Unix , Shell scripting, and Informix. I use Linux on my laptop, Linux Lite now, but has been Red Hat, Fedora, and Ubuntu in the past years. I rarely boot to windows today, but recognize thate it has its place. I instinctively drop to the command line to use grep sed cut --(or more often the man page for awk or on some other less used commands!) I didn't write this in vi though, lol. I even did some xenix stuff for one job, which still has me wake up screaming in a cold sweat some nights. For us Unix folks-- Daemons are a good thing! A PERL, is lovely; and 'man' is not sexist. It's always good though to cross paths with a fellow unix enthusiast!

[@amthy15]

This video made me wildly happy. The Unix philosophy is incredible and forms the basis for why I am part of the every day carry community. I agree with everything that was said, and yet again am reminded why I follow this nerd. vim>emacs,

[@NickShabazz]

I'm not alone in seeing the link! Hooray!

[@everydaycarry1328]

Now you just need a Reactor Neutron

[@bani_niba]

Emacs! Not just a word editor but more a programming environment.

[@ShortcutReviews]

Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. Long live VI 🤣 :wq

[@NickShabazz]

Emacs is a great operating system, just lacking a solid editor. 🤣

[@barrybogart5436]

Isn't Visual Studio available on Linux now? (Had to say it).

[@literaltrance]

You're an HP-UX guy aren't you? I'm not really but somehow I still get asked to install java8 on HP-UX every couple of years. Trust me guys, this is hilarious.

[@davidcodesidolopez1040]

If you liked Gentoo you should try Arch! Vim forever.

[@NickShabazz]

"Liked" is a strong word. I learned a LOT from using it, and it made me a better geek. But now, I think I'd rather not die on some of those hills, so I'll probably do something debian based, or maybe Fedora next.

[@davidcodesidolopez1040]

@@NickShabazz Ah, the good old days of gentoo and xmonad just for being the coolest geek in tha house. Arch is similar to gentoo in many ways but with proper packaging system and a better community behind. And I say this comfortably typing in my Ubuntu 😜 We were young and free back then 😅

[@fmc6338]

Unix, Linux rocks open source rocks

[@q1fiend623]

Nick ran Gentoo? You'll need those watches for sure.

[@NickShabazz]

Hours and hours of kernel compiling