I spent far too much time on this one. Hopefully people appreciate all the effort. You could have been anywhere in the world and you're here, and I appreciate that.

Beelink MiniPC
www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-eqi13-pro

Synology DS Series
www.synology.com/en-us/products

Hotline Navigator - new HL client (Mac / Windows / Debian Linux)
github.com/fuzzywalrus/hotline/

Hotline
github.com/mierau/hotline

Mobius (hotline server)
github.com/jhalter/mobius

Obession (Hotline client for WIndows / Mac / Arch Linux)
github.com/tjohnman/Obsession

Hosting a Hotline server with a VPS and WireGuard to a Raspberry Pi
blog.greggant.com/posts/2025/12/11/mobius-hotline-…

0:00 The damn truth
1:37 Hotline
2:18 Keep It Real
4:37 D'evils
6:19 Money changes everything
8:21 Once upon a time in Australia
11:00 Waxing Philosophical
12:56 The context is everything
14:58 Hotline today
16:24 Beelink MiniPC
17:09 Hotline Navigator
18:19 Setting up my own server
21:05 YouTube is a good hobby to lose money

Full disclaimer: Yes, AI was used to generate the pictures of Adam as no pictures exist (or rather none that he personally posted).

It felt entirely weird for me to use someone else's photo and turn the internet into a casting couch. So the pictures you see of Adam (and those 2 brief video clips) are AI as are his father and business guys. I figured that of the 800+ images having only about 100 was fine and it allowed me to narrative create a visually ADHD exhausting style to create the feeling of burnout to lead into the faux-Western outro and Adam's retreat. Everyone has a line with AI, and the problem is I know where I used it but for many people this creates distrust. If an image is AI how do I trust anything else that's being presented?

The reality is most people don't care but the ones who do REALLY care. AI is never going to be a mainstay of my channel as it just doesn't even make sense for most use cases. It's not better than me at expressing my own voice and thoughts, nor can it generate video that's remotely in the ballpark of what I do or even visually create something as trivial as thumbnails in the style I want of 90s-esq Photoshop like my pirate flag.

So the critics have spoken and I have listened. AI generated images aren't what people want to see even when buttressed by lots of real photos and video clips.

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Hotline's civil war
www.salon.com/1999/02/25/feature_224/
web.archive.org/web/19990901171737/http://salonmag…

hotline to the underground:
web.archive.org/web/19991002010708/http://salonmag…

Adam's legal nightmare:
web.archive.org/web/19990427171756/http://www.it.f…

Haxial dev news
web.archive.org/web/20071031081149/http://news.hax…

Street Cred: Hot Connection - Wired Mag
web.archive.org/web/20160304053700/http://archive.…

Hotline revisited
www.macworld.com/article/220650/hotline-revisited.…

Battle for Hotline hits the courts
web.archive.org/web/20000519222408/https://www.it.…

Netscrawl
wiki.preterhuman.net/NetScrawl

Hotline reinvents the Net
mg.co.za/article/1998-11-20-hotline-reinvents-the-…

HInk's blog
web.archive.org/web/20030424183005/http://hinks.hy…

Hotspring's Hotline
web.archive.org/web/20021128192512/http://hotsprin…


www.afr.com/politics/employer-owner-of-copyright-2…

cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/computing/hotline_info/A…

wiki.preterhuman.net/Hotline_Communications