00:00SPEAKER- How are you just updating to iOS 15 now?
00:02SPEAKERIt came out like six months ago, dude.
00:03SPEAKERAre you my mom?
00:04SPEAKER- Not six months.
00:05SPEAKERNot six months, come on.
00:07SPEAKER- It comes out in September with the new phones.
00:08SPEAKER- Did it?
00:09SPEAKERWait, that was six months ago almost.
00:12SPEAKER- September, October, November, December, January,
00:15SPEAKERit's almost February.
00:16SPEAKER- I haven't updated because my phone is old
00:18SPEAKERand I just hadn't thought about it.
00:19SPEAKERAnd who cares?
00:21SPEAKERIt was working fine.
00:22SPEAKER- I mean, okay, fair.
00:24SPEAKERLook, now you can FaceTime and share your screen with people.
00:26SPEAKERIt's very exciting.
00:27SPEAKER- Oh, well, I can think of all kinds of uses
00:30SPEAKERfor such a feature.
00:31SPEAKER- Look, my daughter loves the thing
00:33SPEAKERwhere you can watch a movie and it synchronizes
00:35SPEAKERwith the person you're on FaceTime with.
00:38SPEAKER- If I had a social circle of eight year olds here.
00:39SPEAKER- Wow, look.
00:41SPEAKERFirst you gotta aim the camera up at the ceiling
00:43SPEAKERand then you will just sit there on video.
00:47SPEAKERCan you imagine, like when I was eight years old,
00:49SPEAKERif I had a way to video call people from Star Trek,
00:53SPEAKERit would have blown my mind.
00:54SPEAKERAnd these insolent children just aim their iPads
00:57SPEAKERup at the ceiling.
00:58SPEAKERAnd all they see is like the ceiling light
01:00SPEAKERand a white ceiling.
01:01SPEAKER- They don't know how good they have it.
01:02SPEAKER- Yeah, they don't appreciate this stuff.
01:05SPEAKER- Okay, enough of all that, I have a bigger Apple News.
01:07SPEAKER- Oh yeah?
01:08SPEAKERHold on, AirPods Pro 2 coming now.
01:12SPEAKERYou got rumors, you got hot leaks.
01:13SPEAKER- Why are you stealing my thunder?
01:15SPEAKERMacBook has landed.
01:17SPEAKER- Ooh, you got it?
01:18SPEAKER- In Memphis, Tennessee.
01:23SPEAKER- Wait, hold on, so it came from China.
01:25SPEAKER- And what I presume is a customs situation,
01:27SPEAKERalthough the FedEx tracking
01:28SPEAKERdoes not explicitly say customs.
01:31SPEAKEROkay, yeah, so first of all.
01:33SPEAKER- Yeah.
01:33SPEAKER- I have not bought my own MacBook since 2008.
01:36SPEAKER- Yeah, I've only ever bought one, huh?
01:39SPEAKER- They've all been work provided since then.
01:41SPEAKER- Yeah, I don't think I've ever bought a MacBook.
01:42SPEAKERI think they've all been work provided.
01:43SPEAKER- And even at that time,
01:44SPEAKERI think I walked into an Apple store and bought it.
01:46SPEAKERBut so this is the first one I think I've mail ordered,
01:48SPEAKERbut is it customary for them to ship straight
01:51SPEAKERfrom what I assume is the factory?
01:52SPEAKERIt shipped straight out of Shanghai.
01:53SPEAKERAnd I don't know if that's like supply chain
01:55SPEAKERand logistics are jammed up
01:56SPEAKERand we are shipping orders straight from the factory
01:58SPEAKERto keep up with demand
02:00SPEAKERor is that just their standard operating procedure?
02:02SPEAKER- So most of the time when I bought a MacBook,
02:05SPEAKERI bought one that was like an off the shelf,
02:07SPEAKERone of the off the shelf models,
02:08SPEAKERnot something that required any kind of customization.
02:11SPEAKERAnd I would just go into the store and like I'd order it
02:14SPEAKERand then go pick it up at the store.
02:15SPEAKER- So you can't say, that's what you're saying.
02:17SPEAKER- Phones almost always drop ship straight from China.
02:20SPEAKER- Oh, okay, so that is just a thing.
02:21SPEAKERIt's not a pandemic thing, it's just a thing.
02:23SPEAKER- Yeah, and they do the pallet thing now
02:25SPEAKERwhere they send a,
02:28SPEAKERthat you know, they send the,
02:30SPEAKERlike they bundle up a whole big stack of iPhones
02:34SPEAKERin one pallet and then that clears customs all at once.
02:36SPEAKERAnd then it lands in Memphis or Long Beach or something
02:41SPEAKERand gets blasted out from there via UPS, so.
02:46SPEAKER- So yes, my MacBook hit Memphis, Tennessee.
02:49SPEAKER- Ooh, a full week ago by the time people hear this.
02:52SPEAKER- Oh no.
02:53SPEAKER- And let's see, arrived at FedEx hub,
02:57SPEAKERin transit package available for clearance,
03:00SPEAKERclearance in progress, clearance in progress,
03:02SPEAKERclearance in progress, clearance in progress,
03:03SPEAKERclearance in progress, clearance delay.
03:07SPEAKER- Uh oh.
03:08SPEAKER- Over the course of four days,
03:10SPEAKERthree, four days of clearance in progress.
03:12SPEAKERAnd then as of last Wednesday, clearance delay import.
03:16SPEAKER- Brad, what if your MacBook is made of drugs?
03:18SPEAKER- Oh, I don't, what did they stuff
03:19SPEAKERin the battery compartment?
03:20SPEAKERThat's not.
03:21SPEAKER- Got a fentanyl MacBook over there.
03:23SPEAKER- The brick in there is not lithium ion.
03:26SPEAKER- Oh no.
03:27SPEAKER- It's cocaine.
03:28SPEAKERNo, no, but it does just now say scheduled delivery pending.
03:33SPEAKERNo scheduled delivery date available at this time.
03:36SPEAKERNo action required at this time.
03:40SPEAKERI don't know when I'm gonna see this laptop.
03:42SPEAKER- I try not to be obsessive when there's packages
03:44SPEAKERthat I'm excited about coming.
03:46SPEAKERLike I've intentionally never signed up
03:48SPEAKERfor any of those sites that will give you notifications
03:50SPEAKERwhen you get a UPS shipment
03:52SPEAKERcoming to your address or whatever.
03:54SPEAKER- You like being pleasantly surprised?
03:56SPEAKER- No, it's just that if I'm excited about something,
04:00SPEAKERI'll just hammer the refresh button
04:02SPEAKERuntil it wears out the UPS website
04:04SPEAKERor FedEx website or whatever.
04:07SPEAKERBut I had a really pleasant support interaction
04:12SPEAKERwith Apple the other day.
04:14SPEAKERI got a watch for Christmas, an Apple watch for Christmas,
04:17SPEAKERwhich is, at some point I wanna talk about it
04:19SPEAKER'cause it's like ultimately an incredibly useless thing
04:23SPEAKERthat makes me feel really good about using it
04:25SPEAKERin a way that is both disturbing and very pleasant.
04:29SPEAKER- Sounds like a lot of things in our modern world, sure.
04:31SPEAKER- Kind of is, yeah, it's maybe one of those
04:36SPEAKERlike good but maybe not good categories.
04:39SPEAKER- Hey man, I think we'll call 911 for you.
04:42SPEAKER- I'm sure it will.
04:43SPEAKER- That sounds not entirely useless.
04:46SPEAKER- Look, it's very much marketed to be a,
04:49SPEAKERhey, here's a thing you can't afford not to have, right?
04:53SPEAKERIt's really, really useful
04:54SPEAKERin some really limited situations.
04:56SPEAKERLike it's nice to have a way to get notifications
04:57SPEAKERand manage notifications
04:58SPEAKERwithout having to take my phone out of my pocket.
05:00SPEAKERAnd it encouraged me strongly to prune out
05:03SPEAKERall of the annoying notifications that I don't need
05:06SPEAKERand only get the ones that are actually important
05:08SPEAKERand valuable to me.
05:09SPEAKER- Dude, that sounds nice.
05:10SPEAKERDo you think, does notification creep a problem
05:13SPEAKERother people have experienced in the pandemic?
05:15SPEAKERBecause I am so inundated with phone notifications these days
05:18SPEAKERthat they are all that useless.
05:20SPEAKERLike I miss important messages all the time
05:22SPEAKERbecause they are like 28 notifications down
05:25SPEAKERby the time I wake up.
05:26SPEAKER- Well, so I actually had this conversation
05:28SPEAKERwith Chet the other day.
05:28SPEAKERI was like, I was late for a meeting one day
05:31SPEAKERbecause my Outlook was binging so often
05:35SPEAKERthat I just didn't pay attention to it.
05:37SPEAKERSo I finally loaded up Outlook on Windows
05:40SPEAKERand figured out how to turn off all the notifications
05:43SPEAKERexcept for the meeting one
05:44SPEAKERand like the emails from two things
05:47SPEAKERthat are actually urgent that I get.
05:49SPEAKERAnd it made a huge difference.
05:51SPEAKERSo yeah, like 100, my wife who I love dearly
05:55SPEAKERdoes not prune her notifications and it makes me crazy.
05:58SPEAKER'Cause if she leaves her phone facing up at nighttime,
06:01SPEAKERit just keeps illuminating the ceiling all night long.
06:04SPEAKER- No, do not disturb.
06:05SPEAKER- She doesn't, look, she doesn't do do not disturb
06:08SPEAKER'cause she's worried that if we have like an earthquake
06:10SPEAKERor some sort of emergency, she won't get the,
06:13SPEAKERhey, here's the alert notification thing.
06:15SPEAKER- Don't the Amber Alerts punch through?
06:17SPEAKER- Look, man, do you trust,
06:20SPEAKERhow much do you trust the technology, Brad?
06:23SPEAKER- This is a question this podcast is not qualified to answer.
06:27SPEAKER(upbeat music)
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06:55SPEAKER- Welcome to Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod, I'm Will.
06:57SPEAKER- I am Brad, hello.
06:59SPEAKER- Hi, so to wrap close the loop on my Apple support story,
07:03SPEAKERI got the wrong size wristband for my watch.
07:06SPEAKERAnd when I called them via,
07:08SPEAKERthey said I had a chat interaction entirely
07:10SPEAKERin tech iMessage, which is weird,
07:13SPEAKERbut like there's verified iMessage tags for Apple support.
07:16SPEAKERAnd you get a little thing that's like,
07:17SPEAKERit has a little seal on next to it.
07:20SPEAKERAnd like at first they were gonna make me come into a store,
07:23SPEAKERI was like, I can't come to a store right now.
07:24SPEAKERThey're like, okay, and then they figured it out for me.
07:26SPEAKERIt was very nice and they sent me a new wristband
07:28SPEAKERand I sent it back the next day.
07:29SPEAKERAnd it was like the most seamless thing.
07:32SPEAKERSo shout out to Apple.
07:33SPEAKER- At any time, did you thumbs up one of their iMessages?
07:36SPEAKER- I ha ha'd one, but it was,
07:39SPEAKERI'm gonna go ahead and like basically they said something,
07:45SPEAKERI thought they were joking and they were like,
07:46SPEAKERoh no, I wasn't joking.
07:47SPEAKERAnd at the end of like,
07:49SPEAKERI didn't get the response I wanted at first.
07:51SPEAKERAnd I literally said, hey,
07:53SPEAKERlike I understand you can't do anything else about this,
07:55SPEAKERbut I want you to know I'm like,
07:57SPEAKERthis is not a positive outcome for me.
07:59SPEAKERLike, that's exactly what I said.
08:01SPEAKERLike I was like, this is not a positive outcome.
08:04SPEAKERAnd they came back like three minutes earlier.
08:06SPEAKEROkay, let me, we escalated you.
08:08SPEAKERThank you so much for not yelling and being rude.
08:12SPEAKER- I think you have discovered the magic incantation
08:14SPEAKERthat gets 100% results.
08:18SPEAKERIt has a 100% success rate in support interactions.
08:21SPEAKER- Well, I mean, it kind of felt like that, right?
08:23SPEAKER'Cause it was very much like, hey, is this the magic?
08:27SPEAKERLike, is this the magic word?
08:29SPEAKERIs not a positive outcome what they're looking for?
08:31SPEAKER- That's what it is.
08:32SPEAKERIt's not, to be clear,
08:33SPEAKERI'm not talking about being nice to support people
08:35SPEAKERbecause you should always be nice to support people
08:37SPEAKERor anybody in a service role.
08:39SPEAKERNot only because it's the right moral thing to do,
08:42SPEAKERbut also it gets better results.
08:44SPEAKERLike, being nice to people gets better results
08:46SPEAKERthan treating them like a shit.
08:47SPEAKERLike, if you can't do it for the right reasons,
08:49SPEAKERdo it for selfish reasons, but.
08:50SPEAKER- It kind of bummed me out though that like,
08:52SPEAKERlike they thanked, they were so shocked that I was polite
08:56SPEAKERthat they thanked me for being polite.
08:57SPEAKER- Right, like that, I've had similar experiences.
09:00SPEAKERLike that in itself is depressing,
09:01SPEAKERbut the part I was talking about is not a positive outcome.
09:05SPEAKER- It sounds like something right out of the support training
09:07SPEAKERhandbook.
09:09SPEAKER- Yeah, so anyway, try the not a positive outcome technique
09:12SPEAKERand let us know how it goes for you.
09:13SPEAKER- You may very well have been putting the fear of God
09:15SPEAKERinto that support person by uttering that phrase.
09:17SPEAKER- I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt them.
09:20SPEAKERBrad, it's my favorite time of month.
09:21SPEAKER- Oh?
09:22SPEAKER- We're turning Qs into As today, baby.
09:24SPEAKER- Oh, I thought you meant you made more eggnog.
09:26SPEAKER- I haven't, look, my relationship with eggnog
09:30SPEAKERis a little fraught since it's already in the hospital.
09:32SPEAKER- I'm sorry, I keep forgetting.
09:34SPEAKER- I shouldn't bring that up.
09:36SPEAKER- Hey, the gallbladder comes out on Friday though,
09:37SPEAKERso I got that going for me.
09:38SPEAKERIt'll be less than six days left.
09:40SPEAKER- Are you excited?
09:41SPEAKER- I could not be more excited.
09:43SPEAKER- Are you excited about that laparoscopy?
09:46SPEAKER- Look, I--
09:47SPEAKER- Laparoscopy?
09:48SPEAKER- Laparoscopy, I don't know.
09:51SPEAKERI'm not the one to come to for pronunciations, it turns out.
09:54SPEAKERBut I did ask the surgeon if we could like double up
09:59SPEAKERand like I have some shoulder stuff
10:00SPEAKERthat's gonna need some work at some point.
10:02SPEAKERI was like, well, I'm out.
10:02SPEAKERYou just, you know, jam out the shoulder thing.
10:04SPEAKERHe looked at me like I asked him if I would
10:06SPEAKERlike amputate a toe for him or something.
10:10SPEAKERAnyway, you're returning Q's and A's.
10:12SPEAKERIf you have questions, you can go to send them via email,
10:16SPEAKERelectronic mails to techpod@content.town.
10:19SPEAKEROr if you're in the Discord, if you're a tech pod patron,
10:22SPEAKERone of the fabulous 3,000 people who support the show,
10:25SPEAKERyou can go to the Q's questions into answers channel
10:29SPEAKERand post your question there.
10:31SPEAKER- I'm glad you pivoted straight into questions
10:33SPEAKER'cause I was going to say that the jumbo economy bundle
10:36SPEAKERof surgical procedures sounds like exactly
10:38SPEAKERthe kind of dystopia we're headed for.
10:40SPEAKER- Look, I have to have an endoscopy
10:42SPEAKERto get a stent of the bile duct stent out,
10:44SPEAKERwhich is funny because also I've blocked enough people
10:47SPEAKERon Twitter that I've been getting stent ads
10:50SPEAKERfor the last few months.
10:51SPEAKER- God.
10:52SPEAKER- So like when he asked, when he was like,
10:55SPEAKERhey, we had to put a stent, I was like,
10:56SPEAKERoh, what brand did you use?
10:57SPEAKERYou use a Novotek brand stent
10:59SPEAKERor did you get one of those stentopolis ones?
11:01SPEAKER- I, dude, we have to start the questions
11:04SPEAKERbut if for no other reason than I already have
11:05SPEAKERlike five potential titles for this episode,
11:08SPEAKERjumbo and all.
11:10SPEAKER- Well, I asked if we could just do the colonoscopy
11:11SPEAKERat the same time, he's like, no, you don't want that.
11:13SPEAKERSo anyway, here we go.
11:15SPEAKERAll right, questions, answers.
11:17SPEAKER- Yes, thank you to everybody who wrote in.
11:19SPEAKERI will start with this question from gauge 006.
11:23SPEAKER- Hmm.
11:24SPEAKER- Is tech boring now?
11:26SPEAKERWhat was the most exciting release of 2021?
11:28SPEAKER- Wait, do you think gauge 006 is a reference
11:30SPEAKERto James Bond or a wire gauge?
11:32SPEAKER- It is gauge 00, well, that's not spelled like gauge.
11:36SPEAKERThere's no U.
11:37SPEAKERThere's G-A-G-E, which I think is a relatively common name.
11:40SPEAKER- Yeah, G-A-G-E is a common name.
11:42SPEAKERG-A-U-G-E is like the size of a pipe.
11:46SPEAKER- I think I heard there like a demon child
11:48SPEAKERin a Stephen King novel was named Gage.
11:49SPEAKERI forget, was that Pet Sematary?
11:52SPEAKER- I'll say yes.
11:53SPEAKER- Hang on, now I have to know before we.
11:55SPEAKER- Okay, I'm gonna, so.
11:59SPEAKER- I'm sorry, I got it.
12:00SPEAKERG-A-G-E is the child who comes back
12:02SPEAKERfrom the dead in Pet Sematary, moving on.
12:04SPEAKER- There you go.
12:06SPEAKERI don't, like the weird thing about 2021
12:08SPEAKERis like the stuff that I was the most excited about
12:10SPEAKERgot delayed.
12:11SPEAKER- Yeah, I guess real quick, just to refine this question,
12:13SPEAKERI mean, they did say, what was the most exciting release?
12:16SPEAKERSo I guess they are specifically asking about products
12:18SPEAKERthat hit the market and not just like headlines
12:20SPEAKERin a general sense.
12:21SPEAKER- I think so, like I kind of expected 2021 to be the year
12:24SPEAKERthat like new consoles got readily available,
12:28SPEAKERbut that wasn't, that didn't really happen.
12:29SPEAKER- No.
12:31SPEAKER- I mean, you can get a Series S pretty easily
12:33SPEAKERif you want one these days,
12:35SPEAKERbut a Series X or a PS5 are both still pretty hard to find,
12:38SPEAKERalthough better now after the holidays
12:39SPEAKERthan they were before, it seems like.
12:41SPEAKER- I kind of, I needed a Series S in late November
12:43SPEAKERand I kind of just went and bought one.
12:45SPEAKER- Yeah, when I was in Palm Desert in September,
12:48SPEAKERI was sitting there and I got a notification
12:50SPEAKERthat Target had them in stock like three miles from me
12:52SPEAKERand I just went and picked one up.
12:54SPEAKERIt's a nice little console.
12:56SPEAKERI, for the TVs that I have, it's fine.
13:00SPEAKERSo yeah, like stream, I was excited about Stream Deck.
13:02SPEAKERI was excited about Play Date.
13:03SPEAKERBoth of those got pushed into 2022.
13:07SPEAKERThe phones last year were kind of incremental, I think.
13:10SPEAKER- Yeah, like I'm sure I've said this
13:13SPEAKERat some point somewhere before,
13:14SPEAKERbut like phones are so not an event to me at this point.
13:17SPEAKERLike the phone, the phone has fully just become
13:20SPEAKERa necessary appliance that I don't think about anymore.
13:22SPEAKERLike that's, the role of the phone
13:24SPEAKERis just to be there and do what it does.
13:25SPEAKERAnd like a new one's gonna come out every year
13:27SPEAKERand I'm not going to care until I feel like the old one
13:30SPEAKERis slow and clunky enough, you know, like phones.
13:34SPEAKERI just don't know what else phones could do
13:35SPEAKERto be exciting again.
13:37SPEAKER- For me, the phone, for me,
13:39SPEAKERthere's two things that happen with the phone.
13:40SPEAKEROne is that I always, like Gina's phone
13:43SPEAKERis an instant upgrade for us,
13:45SPEAKERjust because she takes most of the pictures in the house.
13:47SPEAKERAnd like that is the one place
13:49SPEAKERwhere there are non-incremental upgrades every year.
13:51SPEAKER- That's fair, if you do take a lot of pictures,
13:53SPEAKERthat makes a lot more sense.
13:55SPEAKER- Yeah, and like the addition of the stuff that,
13:56SPEAKERlike the night mode one was the last big one,
13:59SPEAKERbut that's gotten substantially better every year.
14:01SPEAKERAnd we take enough pictures in low light
14:02SPEAKERthat it turns out to be really useful.
14:05SPEAKERLike you can, like I have taken pictures
14:07SPEAKERin what seems like almost pitch black to my eyes now
14:10SPEAKERwith the last year's iPhone.
14:12SPEAKER- That is very cool.
14:14SPEAKER- The, but yeah, like for me,
14:18SPEAKERfor me, the phone is my main work computer a lot of times.
14:21SPEAKERAnd it's basically like, oh, it's a thousand dollars a year
14:24SPEAKERfor my main work computer to be the nice one.
14:27SPEAKERThat seems like a good view.
14:29SPEAKERI mean, in reality, it's like $500 a year
14:31SPEAKER'cause of the way the annual thing works.
14:33SPEAKERBut anyway, yeah, I don't know.
14:35SPEAKERIt was a weird year.
14:37SPEAKERLike for me, the PS5 was the most exciting thing
14:39SPEAKERI bought last year, tech-wise.
14:42SPEAKERLike it was such a nice upgrade
14:44SPEAKERover the previous generation in literally every way.
14:48SPEAKERLike it's quieter, everything,
14:49SPEAKERthe frame rates are just unbelievable
14:52SPEAKERon the games that I've played.
14:54SPEAKERLike everything about it's good.
14:55SPEAKER- I can't say too, I'm playing unreleased video games
14:59SPEAKERthat are embargoed, I can't say too much,
15:00SPEAKERbut I've been spending a lot more time on the PS5 recently.
15:03SPEAKERAnd I'm pretty excited about how games run on there and such
15:07SPEAKERand the load times and et cetera, et cetera.
15:11SPEAKERI may be biased because I hopefully will have one
15:15SPEAKERin my hands in the coming days,
15:16SPEAKERbut the refresh on the new M1 MacBooks I think is my answer.
15:23SPEAKERSpecifically because that chip sounds so ridiculous.
15:26SPEAKERLike everything about it.
15:27SPEAKERI mean, if you go out there and look at like
15:30SPEAKERthe convergence of like compute power and thermals
15:33SPEAKERand battery usage and stuff sounds like magic.
15:35SPEAKERLike it just doesn't sound like it should be possible.
15:37SPEAKERIt's like you go out there and see these benchmarks
15:38SPEAKERwhere they're like, hey, we ran like a, I don't know,
15:41SPEAKERlike an Adobe Premiere in code
15:42SPEAKERthat put every core at 100%
15:45SPEAKERand it didn't even tilt the fans up
15:47SPEAKERand it still ran for another eight hours
15:49SPEAKERor something, you know what I mean?
15:49SPEAKERIt's like things that should not be possible
15:51SPEAKERout of a computer, especially a laptop.
15:53SPEAKERLike it just sounds like it goes forever.
15:55SPEAKERIt's faster than anything out there.
15:56SPEAKERIt's just, it's wild.
15:58SPEAKER- Literally better in every way is the story.
16:01SPEAKER- Also, like I was, when I was specing that thing out,
16:03SPEAKERI mean, Apple upgrade prices are exorbitant of course.
16:07SPEAKER- Yeah.
16:08SPEAKER- So it was like, I think it was 400 bucks
16:09SPEAKERto go from 16 to 32 gigs of memory.
16:12SPEAKER- Did it come with anything else?
16:13SPEAKERDid you get like a bigger SSD at the same time?
16:15SPEAKER- For that 400?
16:16SPEAKERNo, no, a bigger SSD is a separate surcharge.
16:19SPEAKERThey're all, anyway, like I didn't really have a need
16:21SPEAKERfor 32 gig anyway, but I was still kind of staring at it.
16:23SPEAKERBut then I was reading like the way that thing,
16:25SPEAKERthe memory interface on that thing,
16:27SPEAKERI don't know a lot of the technical details,
16:28SPEAKERbut it's like the memory interface is such
16:31SPEAKERand the SSD in it is fast enough
16:33SPEAKERthat it's able to cache to the SSD
16:35SPEAKERthat is like some pretty good significant percentage
16:38SPEAKERof the memory speed already.
16:39SPEAKER- Oh, that's interesting.
16:40SPEAKER- And so like, apparently it's swapping
16:41SPEAKERto this super fast SSD so much
16:43SPEAKERthat like the amount of memory you have
16:45SPEAKERis actually not quite as consequential.
16:47SPEAKERThat was my understanding.
16:48SPEAKER- The thing I was gonna say is that at least on OS 10
16:52SPEAKERfor x86, the OS 10 handled low, smaller amounts of memory
16:58SPEAKERbetter than Windows does typically.
17:00SPEAKERSo like an eight gig, my eight gig MacBook Pro
17:04SPEAKERfrom like 2013 or 2014, whatever year I bought that,
17:07SPEAKERis always felt faster than a 16 gig,
17:12SPEAKERmy 16 gig two year newer Razer laptop.
17:16SPEAKER- So all the anecdotal info I could find says
17:18SPEAKERthat this M1 paradigm has only increased
17:22SPEAKERthat kind of memory efficiency?
17:24SPEAKER- Yeah.
17:24SPEAKER- So that's very exciting.
17:26SPEAKER- The niche stuff was really good last year too.
17:29SPEAKERLike I bought one of those Elgato face cams.
17:32SPEAKERLike I'd been looking at getting a real,
17:33SPEAKERlike a mirrorless camera to use as a stream camera
17:38SPEAKERand a video call camera all year.
17:40SPEAKERAnd then those things came out for 200 bucks
17:42SPEAKERand are fucking awesome.
17:44SPEAKERLike really, really good.
17:45SPEAKERYou don't need an extra capture thing to make them work.
17:47SPEAKER- Is it USB?
17:48SPEAKER- It's a USB-C, yeah.
17:50SPEAKER- Okay.
17:51SPEAKER- And it uses their cam link.
17:52SPEAKERIt uses basically the same hardware as their cam link.
17:54SPEAKERSo it's basically, and it's a Sony sensor
17:57SPEAKERwith a fixed focus lens.
17:59SPEAKERSo it's, and it's a lot of glass for that thing.
18:03SPEAKERAnd I use them for streams and for video.
18:06SPEAKERI'm on one right now.
18:07SPEAKER- Are you saying that it comes with a cam link
18:09SPEAKERor it uses cam link light hardware that's built in?
18:11SPEAKER- The cam link hardware is integrated on the camera.
18:14SPEAKER- I see, I see.
18:15SPEAKEROkay, I didn't know that thing was mirrorless.
18:16SPEAKERThat's cool.
18:17SPEAKER- Well, I mean, it's not, it's a, it is a,
18:20SPEAKERit is a not webcam sensor.
18:21SPEAKERIt's a real camera sensor with pretty good optics
18:25SPEAKERon a fixed focus lens.
18:27SPEAKERSo it's like, it's like a cheap mirrorless basically.
18:31SPEAKER- Okay, that makes sense.
18:32SPEAKERI mean, that's what, you know,
18:34SPEAKERa lot of the like Sony and Canon level mirrorless cameras
18:38SPEAKERthat are actually technically like a nice point and shoot,
18:40SPEAKERlike actual photography cameras
18:41SPEAKERthat people are using for camera load.
18:43SPEAKERThose are mirrorless, you know,
18:44SPEAKERso that's like kind of in the same ballpark.
18:46SPEAKER- Yeah.
18:48SPEAKER- Okay, what else you got?
18:50SPEAKERThat's some stuff.
18:52SPEAKERLet's see here.
18:52SPEAKERHow about say something?
18:57SPEAKERI have to find a, oh, here we go.
19:00SPEAKERI found a question, Joshington.
19:01SPEAKERThis one's more for Will,
19:02SPEAKERbut how do you maintain such a great big beard?
19:05SPEAKERDo you use anything to keep things in check?
19:08SPEAKER- I mean, it has to be pruned regularly and watered.
19:12SPEAKER- What, are you putting some Miracle Grow on there?
19:14SPEAKERWhat's your beard food of choice?
19:16SPEAKER- What are you talking about Miracle Grow?
19:18SPEAKERI get the, I get the phosphates
19:20SPEAKERand the bone meal straight on there.
19:22SPEAKERNo, I, so I have beard soap that is,
19:27SPEAKERthat I use like every, usually like twice a week.
19:30SPEAKERLike you can kind of tell when it needs to be washed.
19:33SPEAKERIt's like, it's like somewhere between a shampoo
19:35SPEAKERand a face soap, it has a little bit of oil
19:36SPEAKERso your skin doesn't dry out underneath.
19:38SPEAKERIf you use like normal shampoo on the beard,
19:39SPEAKERyou're gonna have face problems in my experience.
19:44SPEAKERSo yeah, getting a beard soap,
19:46SPEAKERit's like a, it's like a cube of like hardcore,
19:50SPEAKERit smells like, I don't know, it smells like dude smells.
19:52SPEAKERIt's like sandalwood and eucalyptus oil and stuff, I think.
19:57SPEAKERAnd then I do alternately oil and a little bit of wax.
20:02SPEAKERAnd then I have a brush, like it gets combed.
20:05SPEAKERSometimes if I want to like buff it out,
20:07SPEAKERI'll put a little stuff on it
20:09SPEAKERand brush it in with like a boar bristle brush.
20:12SPEAKER- How do you, how do you trim and shape a beard
20:14SPEAKERwhen it's as voluminous as yours?
20:16SPEAKERAre you using like some kind of upside down flow be
20:18SPEAKERsituation to maintain the shape?
20:20SPEAKERLike what are we talking?
20:21SPEAKER- I mean, that would be nice.
20:22SPEAKERIn the before times I would go usually like once a month
20:25SPEAKERto the barber and get them to do a beard trim,
20:30SPEAKERwhich is like, I don't know,
20:31SPEAKEReven in San Francisco it's like 15 bucks plus tip.
20:33SPEAKERSo it's like a good 20 or 30 minutes
20:35SPEAKERand they just shape it up and kind of even out any places.
20:40SPEAKERThese days I wash it, I comb it out.
20:43SPEAKERAnd then once it dries, I get in with a pair of clippers
20:45SPEAKERand I just freehand it.
20:46SPEAKERAnd I'm real careful not to get in too far.
20:50SPEAKERThe trick is the chin part doesn't require
20:55SPEAKERas often trimming as the sides.
20:56SPEAKERLike the sides get real bushy if you let them just grow.
20:59SPEAKERAnd I don't like that, so.
21:02SPEAKERBut yeah, the oil keeps it from getting all frizzy
21:04SPEAKERand super duper bushy.
21:07SPEAKERIt's kind of like conditioner that just doesn't mess
21:09SPEAKERup your skin underneath your face.
21:10SPEAKER- Would you say everything you just said also applies
21:12SPEAKERto somebody like me with a much closer cropped beard?
21:17SPEAKEROr are there variations there?
21:19SPEAKER- I mean, you could do the shampoo if you want.
21:21SPEAKERI don't, when my beard was the length of yours,
21:25SPEAKERI didn't find it necessary to do a lot of,
21:28SPEAKERlike I just use face wash 'cause it didn't last long enough
21:31SPEAKERto get dry and crunchy like it does
21:34SPEAKERon the ends of the long one.
21:36SPEAKERI think you could do a little oil or a wax or something
21:39SPEAKERto put a little shine on it if you want.
21:41SPEAKERI like a shiny beard.
21:43SPEAKER- I still think of, much like my long hair,
21:44SPEAKERI still think of this beard as temporary.
21:47SPEAKER- Well, I mean, me too, but mine's been around
21:49SPEAKERsince like 2009 at this point, so.
21:52SPEAKERI don't remember what my face looks like anymore, Brad.
21:54SPEAKER- It's kind of weird.
21:55SPEAKERYour beard is a permanent resident now.
21:57SPEAKERLike my daughter's never seen me without a beard.
21:59SPEAKERShe's nine years old. - Ooh, okay.
22:00SPEAKERWell, now you can never go back.
22:02SPEAKER- Yeah, I know, when I threatened to cut it,
22:04SPEAKERshe gets real nervous, so.
22:06SPEAKER- Yikes.
22:08SPEAKERLet's see, question from Little Jackal.
22:11SPEAKER"It's often fun to hear folks recount
22:13SPEAKERtheir old war stories in hindsight.
22:15SPEAKERThe recent vlog 4G of vulnerabilities
22:16SPEAKERruined a lot of folks' holidays this year, for example.
22:19SPEAKERWithout breaking any NDAs, have either of you
22:21SPEAKERever had an all-hands-on-deck multi-day work emergency
22:24SPEAKERin your careers you can talk about
22:25SPEAKERwithout bringing up old trauma?"
22:28SPEAKER- Huh.
22:29SPEAKER- Like, I wish I had a better answer for this,
22:34SPEAKERlike working in publishing and media.
22:37SPEAKER- Well. - We don't have a lot of,
22:38SPEAKERwe didn't have a lot of like technical moving parts
22:40SPEAKERthat we were responsible for,
22:42SPEAKERso it was not necessarily something
22:43SPEAKERwhere we could break something we had to fix.
22:46SPEAKER- I had, we had a couple of max,
22:47SPEAKERlike every once in a while,
22:48SPEAKERwe'd lose like a big multi-page ad at Maximum PC
22:51SPEAKERat the last minute, and then we'd have to scramble
22:53SPEAKERand come up with a feature or something
22:54SPEAKERthat would fill those four pages
22:55SPEAKERin the middle of the magazine.
22:57SPEAKER- Sure.
22:58SPEAKER- Those weren't like all-hands-on-deck,
22:59SPEAKERthat was basically like one person would go and make up a,
23:02SPEAKERlike usually we'd steal a feature from the next month
23:04SPEAKERor something like that, and you know,
23:07SPEAKERsomebody would write it up and then somebody'd have to edit
23:09SPEAKERand lay it out and all that.
23:11SPEAKER- Yeah.
23:12SPEAKER- I did one time fuck up the mail servers
23:14SPEAKERat, when I was doing IT for the University of Tennessee,
23:18SPEAKERlike I did a notes or domino upgrade that went bad
23:22SPEAKERand had to restore from backup, and like I inherited all that
23:26SPEAKERfrom the person who came before me,
23:28SPEAKERand I don't think that they had ever actually tested
23:29SPEAKERthat the backup system worked,
23:31SPEAKERthey'd never actually done a restore,
23:33SPEAKERand had to, like the first restore failed
23:35SPEAKERand the second restore failed,
23:37SPEAKERand I ended up staying from 6 p.m. until I got it back
23:41SPEAKERworking again at about 6 a.m.,
23:42SPEAKERand I ended up leaving work that day,
23:44SPEAKERabout the time people showed up for the next day.
23:47SPEAKER- And then missed a day, or were you expected back?
23:50SPEAKER- I told them I wasn't gonna be there 'cause there was
23:53SPEAKERnothing, like I wasn't, if they had told me to sit there,
23:57SPEAKERthen I would have been able to just go take a nap
23:59SPEAKERin my office, but like, I was like,
24:01SPEAKERI'm not gonna be in any shape to do work today, so.
24:04SPEAKER- Sure, that's fair.
24:05SPEAKER- I think I've alluded to this before, it's probably fine.
24:11SPEAKERThis is maybe how oppressive the environment was
24:13SPEAKERthat I'm still afraid to talk about this.
24:16SPEAKERI think there is a pretty decent chance that one year
24:19SPEAKERat GameSpot, I r-synced all of the embargoed assets
24:21SPEAKERfor all of E3 to the live website.
24:24SPEAKER- Oh, boy.
24:25SPEAKER- Like a day or two before E3 started.
24:27SPEAKER- Oh, boy.
24:29SPEAKER- It was fine because there was nothing pointing
24:31SPEAKERto any of it, it was just files.
24:32SPEAKER- Yeah, it was just on FTP, it was just your end
24:35SPEAKERand a bunch of--
24:36SPEAKER- Screenshots of embargoed games sitting there
24:38SPEAKERthat if people had the direct links with the full file names
24:40SPEAKERthey could have pulled up, but because the file names
24:43SPEAKERwere enough of a mess, nobody ever found anything,
24:46SPEAKERbut it's because being in the previews department there,
24:50SPEAKERlike speed was the ultimate mandate, right?
24:54SPEAKER- Yes.
24:54SPEAKER- That was full on in the days of GameSpot versus IGN,
24:57SPEAKERlike everybody's gotta be first, and because of that,
25:01SPEAKERI ended up learning a lot of website backend stuff
25:04SPEAKERwere enough to be dangerous to get things done faster
25:06SPEAKERbecause we had like a, I don't know about,
25:08SPEAKERwell I guess you were in print and then you went to test it,
25:11SPEAKERso you probably skipped this, the phase of web publishing
25:15SPEAKERwhere you had a human production department
25:17SPEAKERthat put everything together for you
25:18SPEAKERand posted it to the website.
25:19SPEAKER- Yeah, we never had that, like we went straight
25:21SPEAKERfrom no website to movable type.
25:23SPEAKERWell okay, that's not true, in 2000, 2001,
25:25SPEAKERwe had a production department with like a designer
25:28SPEAKERwho you handed off copy to and she would do the layout,
25:32SPEAKERlike she would do a little bit of HTML on it
25:33SPEAKERand then put it in what was a, I'm sure,
25:36SPEAKERa phenomenally expensive like atoms type backend CMS thing
25:40SPEAKERthat was like a closed source proprietary thing
25:43SPEAKERwe paid for, I'm sure.
25:44SPEAKER- That was exactly the situation at GameSpot
25:46SPEAKERand we literally had a production department,
25:48SPEAKERit was only two or three people,
25:49SPEAKERbut you literally like, you know, you wrote up your stories,
25:51SPEAKERyou like put the screenshots in the folder and stuff,
25:53SPEAKERbut then you send it off to them and they built the pages
25:56SPEAKERand then you'd like QA them and make sure they were good
25:58SPEAKERand then tell them, okay, press publish or whatever.
26:00SPEAKERSo like, I learned enough of how to do that stuff
26:03SPEAKERto circumvent that process
26:04SPEAKERso we could preview stuff up faster and like,
26:09SPEAKERanyway, like late at night, like in a hotel room
26:11SPEAKERa couple of days before E3, like trying to push
26:15SPEAKERone thing live, I think I pushed everything live
26:17SPEAKERthat we had loaded in and like, I probably,
26:19SPEAKERif that had been fully cracked open
26:22SPEAKERand all those screenshots had leaked,
26:23SPEAKERI probably would have lost my job, I don't know.
26:26SPEAKER- We had a handful, like when we started doing the website
26:30SPEAKERat max PC, a lot of PR people didn't really realize
26:34SPEAKERthat we were doing a website yet
26:36SPEAKERand so we would have like print embargo,
26:38SPEAKERlike we would always have print embargoes,
26:41SPEAKERbut we never signed NDAs and like, we just,
26:44SPEAKERas a publication didn't do NDAs 'cause we were like,
26:48SPEAKERlook, we haven't broken it,
26:49SPEAKERwe've literally had never broken an embargo
26:53SPEAKERand because like once upon a time we hadn't signed an NDA,
26:58SPEAKERsomebody changed their dates at the last minute
27:00SPEAKERand we had to scramble to fill a cover
27:03SPEAKERbecause it like our go, our print date was gonna be
27:07SPEAKERbefore their new NDA and they wouldn't let us,
27:09SPEAKERthey wouldn't let us slide,
27:11SPEAKERso we just stopped signing embargoes after that point,
27:13SPEAKERlike we were like, we're not gonna fucking do it,
27:14SPEAKERif you wanna be in the magazine you have to,
27:16SPEAKERthis is the deal and we had a couple of situations
27:21SPEAKERwhere somebody would give us a print embargo
27:24SPEAKERbut their web embargo would be different
27:26SPEAKERbecause they knew like, and they didn't communicate that
27:29SPEAKERto us 'cause they didn't realize we had a website
27:31SPEAKERand like we had a couple of those that were kind of bad,
27:33SPEAKERbut that was just like, hey, unpublish it or apologize
27:36SPEAKERand forgiveness, not permission.
27:38SPEAKER- I can't imagine how much shit you would have been in
27:40SPEAKERif you had leaked all the pre-assets for E3,
27:44SPEAKERthat would have been--
27:45SPEAKER- Again, I think I probably would have gotten fired,
27:47SPEAKERlike I would have done enormous damage to our relationship
27:51SPEAKERwith every publisher that, whose stuff we leaked.
27:54SPEAKER- Yeah, they would have fired you into the sun probably.
27:56SPEAKER- I still, again, I still am not 100% sure that I did it,
27:59SPEAKERI'm 90% sure that it was the whole directory
28:03SPEAKERand not just the subset of files I meant to do.
28:05SPEAKER- Whoopsie.
28:06SPEAKER- Yeah, well, the weird thing is once you've got stuff
28:09SPEAKERinto those folders, it was hard to get them out
28:11SPEAKERin our CMS at least, like once you uploaded,
28:13SPEAKERlike you could upload whatever you wanted,
28:14SPEAKERbut if you wanted to delete something from the backend,
28:16SPEAKERyou had to get CLI access.
28:18SPEAKER- Absolutely, this absolutely would have required
28:20SPEAKERlike heavy Unix lifting at that time for sure.
28:22SPEAKER- Yeah.
28:23SPEAKER- Anyway, enough about possible old stirrups,
28:26SPEAKERthey can't hurt me anymore, let's just move on.
28:31SPEAKERNext question about from Times Hero.
28:34SPEAKER- Okay.
28:35SPEAKER- I need a good post plus username here on this one.
28:40SPEAKERI'm looking for some advice on getting this
28:41SPEAKERPanasonic RC 6485 flip clock functioning again.
28:46SPEAKERI might make this image the show art, but.
28:49SPEAKER- It's such a good picture.
28:50SPEAKER- It's so good, but also if like,
28:51SPEAKERif you ever saw an alarm clock in the 80s,
28:53SPEAKERyou know exactly what this flip clock is.
28:56SPEAKERIt was working fine before Christmas,
28:57SPEAKERbut now it doesn't seem to change time anymore.
28:59SPEAKERWhen it's plugged in, the motor still turns,
29:01SPEAKERbut the numbers don't flip.
29:03SPEAKERThey do all still function when turning the set time dial.
29:06SPEAKERAny advice?
29:07SPEAKERService manuals are hard to come by in a timely manner.
29:10SPEAKERYouTube tutorials are available for similar,
29:12SPEAKERbut different clocks where in they clean the motor.
29:14SPEAKERThat may be above my abilities however.
29:17SPEAKERFor podcast purposes,
29:19SPEAKERany advice on restoring cool old tech like this,
29:23SPEAKERsomething other than don't.
29:25SPEAKER- Okay, so this is, if you don't know what a flip clock is,
29:28SPEAKERthey were basically, it was a spinny thing with two,
29:32SPEAKERwith hinged pieces of plastic or cellulose or wood
29:35SPEAKERthat would have half of a letter printed on the top
29:38SPEAKERor a number of print on the top
29:39SPEAKERand half of the numbers print on the bottom.
29:41SPEAKERAnd like the hour side was one dial.
29:43SPEAKERThe minute side was another dial.
29:45SPEAKERThis one is super cool though,
29:47SPEAKERbecause in addition to those two dials,
29:49SPEAKERit also has a day of week and date.
29:54SPEAKER- Oh, you're right, I hadn't seen one like this before.
29:56SPEAKER- Yeah, and it also has, I think a seconds dial
29:59SPEAKERover on the left as well,
30:01SPEAKERbut I'm not sure if that's what that is.
30:02SPEAKERAnd so, okay, so you gave a really good clue here.
30:08SPEAKERA, you should absolutely fix these things
30:09SPEAKER'cause like the price of messing it up.
30:12SPEAKERWell, first off, go to eBay
30:14SPEAKERand find out if you can get another one
30:15SPEAKERif you mess the first one up.
30:16SPEAKER'Cause a lot of times on this stuff,
30:17SPEAKERyou'll see like 20 of these for like $10 each
30:20SPEAKER'cause nobody gives a shit about them anymore.
30:23SPEAKERAnd if that's the case, absolutely take it apart,
30:25SPEAKERfigure out how it works
30:26SPEAKERand then use that knowledge on the second one
30:28SPEAKERthat you order from eBay to replace the guts
30:30SPEAKERof the one that you broke.
30:34SPEAKERThe dial turning, the time setting working,
30:37SPEAKERbut the motor not turning when the motor still turns
30:41SPEAKERwhen it's plugged in, to me says,
30:43SPEAKERhey, there's something wrong on the gearing
30:45SPEAKERbetween the motor, the mechanism that turns the dials
30:48SPEAKERbetween the motor and the mechanism itself,
30:52SPEAKERbut not from the time dial side.
30:54SPEAKERSo you can look at how the time setting side is working
30:57SPEAKERand then go back in and extrapolate from there
30:59SPEAKERto figure out what's going on.
31:01SPEAKERMy question is, does any part of it work?
31:03SPEAKERLike is the day turning over?
31:06SPEAKERIs the seconds dial working?
31:09SPEAKERLike is it that the motor isn't providing enough torque
31:13SPEAKERto actually flip the doozits anymore, the dials?
31:19SPEAKERLike this is such a cool one too
31:22SPEAKER'cause it has so many different bits and pieces.
31:26SPEAKER- Did you see they posted a picture of the fully assembled?
31:29SPEAKER- Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a top and bottom one.
31:32SPEAKER- That's a big one, that is a sizable alarm clock.
31:35SPEAKERThat looks like a pretty big clock radio actually.
31:38SPEAKER- My guess is like if the motor was burned out,
31:40SPEAKERthat would be pretty easy to fix.
31:41SPEAKERMy guess is that either a gear has slipped
31:44SPEAKERinside the thing that turns the mechanism
31:46SPEAKERor like the transmission for the mechanism
31:49SPEAKERor there's a stripped gears somewhere.
31:53SPEAKER- Yeah, my advice, I mean, they asked for advice
31:55SPEAKERon restoring tech, like my advice was just going to be like,
31:58SPEAKERhey, sir, just take stuff apart and tinker with it
32:00SPEAKERand see how it works.
32:01SPEAKERBut then yes, as you said, like you can't just go out
32:03SPEAKERand buy another one of these at the store.
32:04SPEAKERSo when it's this old, maybe take some precautions
32:07SPEAKERor have some backups.
32:08SPEAKER- I mean, this is a perfect example of a thing
32:11SPEAKERthat I bet there's not so such, like it's,
32:14SPEAKERthis happens with consoles, like where when I was 25,
32:19SPEAKERyou could go to every flea market in the country
32:21SPEAKERand buy NES cartridges for a dollar each
32:24SPEAKERat every flea market or antique store
32:26SPEAKERor whatever in the country and now they're collectible
32:28SPEAKERso they're much more expensive.
32:31SPEAKERI bet that this kind of clock is in that same kind
32:35SPEAKERof category where it's still cheap.
32:37SPEAKERThe other option if you're not comfortable with that
32:39SPEAKERis almost every small town has a clock repair place
32:44SPEAKERand I would call them and see if they fool
32:46SPEAKERwith this kind of clock.
32:47SPEAKERThey may just do older, like more mechanical mechanisms
32:50SPEAKERthan non-electric, but if they don't,
32:53SPEAKERI bet they'll know someone who can fix it for you
32:55SPEAKERif you're afraid to take it apart.
32:57SPEAKER- Yeah, it's got a cool retro, I mean,
32:59SPEAKERobviously it literally is retro, but like it looks cool.
33:02SPEAKERIt's got a nice aesthetic to it.
33:04SPEAKER- Oh yeah.
33:05SPEAKER- This clock is, it's chunky and wood paneled.
33:09SPEAKER- They make such a good hum too.
33:11SPEAKER- Yeah.
33:12SPEAKER- Like it's the little hum of the motors is just a
33:14SPEAKER(hums)
33:16SPEAKERall the time.
33:19SPEAKER- Let's see, next question.
33:22SPEAKERHere's a quick one from Simply Bagel.
33:24SPEAKER27 inch or 32 inch monitor?
33:27SPEAKER- What do you have?
33:28SPEAKER- So these are, I have two 27 inch,
33:30SPEAKERso I think I have decided that for now in my life,
33:34SPEAKER1440p 27 inch is like the sweet spot for monitors for me.
33:38SPEAKER- So I have--
33:39SPEAKER- I think it's pretty much the perfect combo.
33:41SPEAKER- You split the difference of what I have
33:42SPEAKER'cause I have two stacked vertically
33:44SPEAKERand I have a 1080p 24 that's a really high refresh rate one
33:47SPEAKERdown bottom that I play games on.
33:49SPEAKERAnd then I have a 4K 27 up top.
33:53SPEAKER- Okay.
33:54SPEAKERSo early in the pandemic in the interim I had,
33:57SPEAKERI grabbed a very cheap 1080p 24 inch.
34:00SPEAKER- Yeah.
34:00SPEAKER- And thought like, oh, this is fine.
34:01SPEAKER1080p is a good standard resolution, whatever.
34:04SPEAKERAnd started to get a second one of those
34:06SPEAKERand then circumstances aligned
34:07SPEAKERthat I could get bigger ones.
34:08SPEAKER- Yeah.
34:10SPEAKER- 1080p 24 is not enough, it's not enough.
34:13SPEAKER- The combo works pretty well for me
34:15SPEAKER'cause I can put four 1080p windows up on the top monitor
34:18SPEAKERand use it for like stuff I need to keep open all the time,
34:22SPEAKERlike teams or discord or whatever I'm working on.
34:25SPEAKERBut then the bottom monitor
34:27SPEAKERbecomes essentially a full screen.
34:29SPEAKERLike I hardly ever, like right now I have our call
34:32SPEAKERand our show notes open on half have Z windows
34:35SPEAKERon the bottom monitor.
34:37SPEAKERBut most of the time it's full screen apps
34:39SPEAKERonly on the downstairs.
34:41SPEAKER- Sure.
34:42SPEAKERI assume we're probably just gonna get to a point
34:44SPEAKERwhere 4K is the default in monitors.
34:46SPEAKERI mean, it's not close.
34:47SPEAKERSo I guess that's probably another five years plus away.
34:50SPEAKER- I mean, maybe, but like.
34:51SPEAKERLike, aren't we eventually, you know,
34:53SPEAKERlike how the default monitor was 1080p for so long.
34:56SPEAKERLike, aren't we just gonna get to the point
34:57SPEAKERwhere like economies of scale on 4K panels
35:00SPEAKERand et cetera, et cetera.
35:01SPEAKERLike that's just gonna be the thing that's out there.
35:03SPEAKER- I mean, that pixel density is the thing.
35:05SPEAKERThe nice thing about 4K is that 1080p scales up really easily
35:09SPEAKERto 4K for games.
35:10SPEAKER- Yeah, 1440, I mean, if people haven't done the math,
35:12SPEAKERlike that's true of 720p to 1440p.
35:15SPEAKERLike that relationship is true there too.
35:17SPEAKERNot that there's a lot of 720 stuff out there at this point.
35:20SPEAKER- Did you see the thing, like I was a little skeptical
35:23SPEAKERabout 1080p games, but I think I've come to the point
35:26SPEAKERwhere I'd prefer to have frame rate than resolution.
35:30SPEAKER- Yeah, do you mean on consoles?
35:32SPEAKERWhat do you, what context are you talking about?
35:32SPEAKER- Well, I mean, I'm talking about on PC even like,
35:35SPEAKERI'd rather have 144 frames a second than,
35:39SPEAKERbut there was a thing on Digital Foundry
35:41SPEAKERwhen around the time Forza Horizon came out
35:44SPEAKERwhere they were talking about 30 frames of,
35:46SPEAKERlike they were preferring 30 frames a second
35:48SPEAKERwith motion blur, with like the good motion blur turned on.
35:51SPEAKER- To 60? - To 60.
35:53SPEAKER- I cannot endorse that, I'm sorry.
35:55SPEAKER- I thought it was crazy and then I tried,
35:57SPEAKERI was like, you know, this is okay.
35:59SPEAKER- Maybe for some games, sure, but not a driving game.
36:01SPEAKER- I mean, I'm bad at that driving game, so I don't know.
36:04SPEAKERAnyway, like I tend to go
36:09SPEAKERwith speed frame rate over resolution.
36:11SPEAKER- Yes, absolutely. - Is the only argument
36:14SPEAKERagainst 4K for me, I guess.
36:15SPEAKER- I absolutely am in the same boat
36:16SPEAKERand it actually makes me wonder,
36:18SPEAKERI mean, I'm still on a 1080p TV,
36:19SPEAKERbut I definitely know people personally
36:23SPEAKERwho have 4K, nice 4K TVs, but love frame rate.
36:27SPEAKER- I would rather have high frame rate
36:29SPEAKERon my console games, I think.
36:31SPEAKER- Right, so like what is going on in those people's minds
36:33SPEAKERevery time like, 'cause this is happening over and over
36:35SPEAKERthat you get a Series X or a PS5 game
36:38SPEAKERand your choices are 4K 30 or 1080p 60,
36:41SPEAKERlike are people just biting the bullet
36:42SPEAKERand doing quarter resolution on their nice fancy TV
36:46SPEAKERto get the frame rate?
36:47SPEAKER- Well, probably what I would do.
36:48SPEAKER- The scalers are pretty good,
36:50SPEAKERlike going from 1080p to 4K, just even on a standard,
36:53SPEAKERupscaler is pretty good these days.
36:54SPEAKER- Sure. - So probably okay.
36:57SPEAKER- Yeah, and I don't know what,
36:57SPEAKERI wonder what scaling solution those consoles use actually,
37:00SPEAKERlike Nvidia only added integer scaling for 1080p to 4K
37:04SPEAKERlast year to their drivers or maybe late 2020,
37:07SPEAKERlike it hasn't been around that long.
37:08SPEAKER- Anyway, I mean, and just to be an integer scaling,
37:11SPEAKERthis one means that you're basically turning every pixel
37:12SPEAKERinto four pixels and there's no fuzziness.
37:16SPEAKER- No fuzzy blending going on there.
37:18SPEAKER- Yeah. - Just a linear upscale.
37:20SPEAKERAnyway, it's pretty far afield,
37:23SPEAKERthe basic question of 27 or 32, I'm sticking to 27 for,
37:27SPEAKERlike put it another way,
37:28SPEAKERI don't think I would want a 4K monitor
37:30SPEAKERuntil I could get it in a 27-ish inch range,
37:33SPEAKERlike I wouldn't want to go bigger than that
37:34SPEAKERif I could help it.
37:35SPEAKER- 27, the 27 inch 4K is pretty good
37:37SPEAKERand like I use it at the 1.5X scaling in Windows.
37:42SPEAKER- That's probably the bigger thing actually,
37:44SPEAKERI know macOS handles this well,
37:45SPEAKERthat like Windows and Linux desktop environments,
37:49SPEAKERlike UIs need to get better at scaling to 4K.
37:51SPEAKER- Windows handles it very poorly still, even in Windows 11.
37:55SPEAKERLike moving Windows between the bottom monitor
37:57SPEAKERand the top monitor, sometimes stuff is way small
38:00SPEAKERand the big top monitor,
38:01SPEAKERsometimes it's really huge on the bottom monitor
38:03SPEAKERand there's no rhyme or reason to it.
38:05SPEAKER- No.
38:06SPEAKER- It is, after using macOS,
38:10SPEAKER'cause when I was writing more for tested,
38:13SPEAKERI would just use my laptop,
38:14SPEAKERmy Mac laptop plugged into a 1X DPI monitor
38:20SPEAKERand it handled it so much better than this does, so.
38:23SPEAKER- All right, question for me before we move on.
38:25SPEAKER- Okay.
38:26SPEAKER- Is it crazy if, okay, I have two identical monitors.
38:31SPEAKER- Yes.
38:32SPEAKER- If you had two monitors that like,
38:33SPEAKERyou like the size and resolution,
38:35SPEAKERbut there were like three different things
38:38SPEAKERabout their feature set
38:39SPEAKERthat was so much of a pain in the ass to deal with,
38:42SPEAKERis it crazy to get rid of those monitors
38:44SPEAKERand buy other monitors
38:45SPEAKERat the same exact size and resolution?
38:48SPEAKERDo not have to deal with those.
38:48SPEAKER- So when you say get rid of,
38:50SPEAKERdo you mean put them in the closet
38:52SPEAKERand forget that they're there
38:53SPEAKERor do you mean actually sell them
38:54SPEAKERand make them leave your house?
38:56SPEAKER- Yeah, probably, yes, the latter.
38:58SPEAKER- Okay, if you sell them and make them leave your house,
38:59SPEAKERI think it's okay.
39:00SPEAKER- Okay.
39:01SPEAKER- 'Cause I assume you're talking about like what,
39:03SPEAKERyou end up paying 100 bucks more or something.
39:05SPEAKER- Yeah, yeah, yes.
39:07SPEAKER- This is a thing that annoys me just generally,
39:10SPEAKERlike nobody reviews stuff in a way
39:14SPEAKERthat they like explore the UI.
39:16SPEAKEREven like kitchen appliances,
39:18SPEAKERwe were talking about this,
39:19SPEAKERlike we would have to buy a new microwave oven
39:20SPEAKERthat goes above our stove
39:22SPEAKERand nobody is telling us
39:23SPEAKERwhether the controls for that are sane.
39:27SPEAKER- Right.
39:28SPEAKER- 'Cause nobody does good UX on kitchen appliances.
39:30SPEAKER- It's crazy, like how do you pronounce
39:33SPEAKERthe everybody's favorite monitor and TV review site?
39:35SPEAKERIs it RTings, RTings, you know what I'm talking about?
39:37SPEAKER- RTings is how I always said it.
39:39SPEAKER- Is that what that's supposed to be?
39:40SPEAKER- I assumed.
39:41SPEAKER- Okay.
39:42SPEAKER- I thought they were just bad at picking the vowel
39:44SPEAKERto remove from the early 2000s nomenclature.
39:47SPEAKER- If that was supposed to be a cheesy,
39:50SPEAKERlike Silicon Valley, let's remove the vowel
39:53SPEAKERkind of situation,
39:54SPEAKERI don't think it quite comes across personally, but.
39:56SPEAKER- No.
39:57SPEAKER- Anyway.
39:58SPEAKER- That was the domain that was available though.
39:59SPEAKER- Yeah, anyway, like you were,
40:00SPEAKERI hadn't actually thought about that
40:02SPEAKERuntil you just put it that way.
40:02SPEAKERLike you were so right that like on sites like that
40:05SPEAKERfor displays, for example,
40:07SPEAKERthey are so exhaustive about like using industry standard,
40:11SPEAKERlike color and luminance measuring tools
40:13SPEAKERto tell you everything you could possibly want to know
40:17SPEAKERabout the quality of the color and light
40:19SPEAKERcoming out of the screen
40:21SPEAKERand completely gloss over the fact that for example,
40:24SPEAKERthese monitors have auto input switching
40:26SPEAKERthat can't be disabled and like that ruins my workflow
40:29SPEAKERwhen I'm trying to use multiple devices on these things.
40:31SPEAKEROr for example, that these ASUS monitors for whatever reason
40:35SPEAKERdon't work with MacBooks well or at all.
40:39SPEAKERI don't know why that is,
40:39SPEAKERbut like there's so many people out there
40:41SPEAKERafter I got these things
40:42SPEAKERand couldn't get rid of them that I found like,
40:44SPEAKERyeah, my MacBook just doesn't output to these things
40:46SPEAKERand I have no idea why.
40:47SPEAKERI'm like, nobody's been able to figure that.
40:48SPEAKERIt's like, if I had known these things,
40:50SPEAKERI would have looked for something else.
40:51SPEAKER- Well, and like,
40:54SPEAKERso sometimes you can get a special firmware
40:56SPEAKERfrom the manufacturer that fixes these specific problems
40:58SPEAKERif you call them and complain.
40:59SPEAKER- Wait, what?
41:00SPEAKER- If it's a common enough complaint,
41:01SPEAKERthey'll have a one-off firmware
41:03SPEAKERthat you can put on the device occasionally.
41:07SPEAKEROr they'll have like a admin,
41:11SPEAKERlike they'll have a higher level menu
41:13SPEAKERthat you can go to to flip stuff off.
41:14SPEAKER- Should I call ASUS?
41:15SPEAKERDo you know anybody at ASUS?
41:17SPEAKER- You should just call their support.
41:18SPEAKERLike I was going to say,
41:20SPEAKERnormally I would say call the people with ASUS.
41:22SPEAKERGood luck, man.
41:24SPEAKERIt's like, it's a lot of customer service
41:26SPEAKERand they're going to tell you to pound sand
41:27SPEAKERfor like three tries probably.
41:29SPEAKER- Right.
41:30SPEAKER- The thing I would say is,
41:33SPEAKERlike microwave ovens is a perfect example of this, right?
41:36SPEAKER'Cause like all I want out of the microwave oven is a,
41:38SPEAKERI want like a plus 30 seconds button
41:41SPEAKERthat I can add 30 seconds to the timer, right?
41:43SPEAKERI want to be able to set power and time independently
41:47SPEAKERwith like four button presses, not 50.
41:51SPEAKERI don't give a shit about potato buttons
41:52SPEAKERor pizza buttons or any of that nonsense.
41:55SPEAKERAnd I want the timer to be usable
41:57SPEAKERat the same time the microwave oven works.
41:59SPEAKERAnd the only reason I care about this stuff
42:01SPEAKERis because I've had them in the past, this stuff didn't work.
42:04SPEAKERAnd it's maddening.
42:05SPEAKERYeah.
42:06SPEAKER- I mean, to be fair,
42:07SPEAKERI guess like that was the concept behind the wire cutter,
42:09SPEAKERright?
42:10SPEAKERProduct reviews that are written from the standpoint
42:12SPEAKERof just a person using these things
42:13SPEAKERand not overly technical or like.
42:15SPEAKER- Well, no, the point was to do both.
42:17SPEAKERLike it was supposed to be usability and technical stuff.
42:20SPEAKERAnd they do a pretty good job on most stuff,
42:22SPEAKERbut like nobody reviews microwave ovens really,
42:24SPEAKERexcept for maybe consumer reports.
42:26SPEAKER- Yeah.
42:27SPEAKER- And also because like Whirlpool will rebrand
42:30SPEAKERthe same exact hardware with a different trim on,
42:36SPEAKERfor Lowe's and Home Depot and Amazon
42:40SPEAKERand all the different places you buy this stuff.
42:41SPEAKERSo they all have slightly different model numbers
42:44SPEAKERand which software gets loaded on the same hardware
42:47SPEAKERis entirely dependent on which stuff
42:49SPEAKERis screen printed on the UI, it seems like.
42:52SPEAKERI don't know.
42:54SPEAKERIt's just, I feel like anytime I buy an appliance,
42:59SPEAKERI buy the extended warranty so that when I don't like it,
43:02SPEAKERlike we sent a stove back.
43:03SPEAKER- Wow.
43:04SPEAKER- Because we didn't like the stove.
43:05SPEAKER- So I was just about to say,
43:06SPEAKERI didn't know you could do this for like household appliances
43:09SPEAKERbut for something like a monitor generally,
43:10SPEAKERnow this wasn't the case with these monitors,
43:12SPEAKERbut my policy is just to buy from a place like Amazon
43:15SPEAKERthat has a very liberal return policy at this point.
43:18SPEAKER'Cause that's kind of the only way you can truly guarantee
43:21SPEAKERyou're not gonna hate the thing, right?
43:22SPEAKERLike you have to get it in front of you and use it yourself.
43:25SPEAKER- Well, but like.
43:26SPEAKER- Things like modern devices are too complex
43:29SPEAKERfor anybody to review every single possible use case.
43:32SPEAKERYou just have to put it through your own paces.
43:34SPEAKER- Yeah, and like the cost of returning, say a dryer,
43:39SPEAKERwe had to send a dryer back once was substantial.
43:44SPEAKERLike it wasn't like, we were able to return it immediately
43:48SPEAKER'cause Best Buy, if you buy the extended warranty
43:50SPEAKERfrom Best Buy, they'll take anything back basically.
43:53SPEAKERBut like prior to that, if you had something
43:56SPEAKERthat we had to return, then like you ended up paying
43:58SPEAKERa hundred bucks to get them to come pick it up
44:00SPEAKERand bring the new one again.
44:01SPEAKERSo anyway.
44:03SPEAKER- Yeah, yes.
44:05SPEAKERI buy from retailers you trust with generous
44:09SPEAKERcustomer service on return policies, I guess.
44:11SPEAKER- And also like if you definitively wanted to interoperate
44:14SPEAKERwith something or like for microwave ovens,
44:16SPEAKERI know exactly how I want the control stuff to work.
44:19SPEAKERLike there are videos on YouTube of people
44:22SPEAKERusing their microwave control panels and that helped a ton.
44:26SPEAKER- That does help, yeah.
44:27SPEAKERShout out to B&H, I have to say.
44:30SPEAKER- B&H?
44:31SPEAKER- Yeah.
44:32SPEAKER- B&H.
44:33SPEAKER- Wait, is that, do they have a jingle?
44:34SPEAKER- From Wally?
44:34SPEAKEROh no, it's B&L by and large.
44:36SPEAKERSorry.
44:37SPEAKER- I don't know if, does B&H even stand for anything?
44:39SPEAKER- I have no idea.
44:40SPEAKER- I didn't even know who they were until I started working
44:42SPEAKERwith people who had done production
44:44SPEAKERin the greater New York, New Jersey area.
44:46SPEAKER- Yeah.
44:46SPEAKER- You know who we're talking about?
44:47SPEAKER- Yeah, we bought a bunch of stuff from them at Tested
44:49SPEAKERbecause they were, like if you want production cameras
44:53SPEAKERor stuff mail order with a good return policy,
44:55SPEAKERthey're pretty good.
44:56SPEAKER- Yeah, so I mean that extends to kind of everything.
44:58SPEAKERLike I bought a pair of hard drives from them.
45:01SPEAKER- Oh.
45:02SPEAKER- About a month ago and then like two days
45:03SPEAKERbefore the end of the return window,
45:04SPEAKERI noticed that they had better hard drives
45:06SPEAKERfor the exact same price.
45:08SPEAKER- And they took them back?
45:09SPEAKER- For the cost of return shipping,
45:10SPEAKERthey allowed me to return them in exchange.
45:13SPEAKERSo they are pretty cool.
45:15SPEAKERAll right, how about a couple more here?
45:18SPEAKERChip, Shirley.
45:20SPEAKER- Shirley, Chip.
45:22SPEAKER- The recent Activision Blizzard acquisition
45:24SPEAKERbrings up an old issue I've had.
45:26SPEAKERWhy do you think Netflix is included in Fang
45:29SPEAKERand Microsoft excluded?
45:31SPEAKERIt has to be more than just Fang sounds cooler
45:34SPEAKERthan any variation of Gamfa, right?
45:37SPEAKERI mean, first of all, Netflix is a gigantic company
45:41SPEAKERby market cap and like my understanding is I think they
45:47SPEAKERlike pursue talent and pay
45:49SPEAKERjust like these other companies, right?
45:50SPEAKER- Well, and for a long time,
45:51SPEAKERthey were a high double digit percentage
45:54SPEAKERof all traffic on the internet.
45:56SPEAKER- Right, that's what I'm saying is like Netflix
45:57SPEAKERis actually in the same league as these other companies
46:00SPEAKERin terms of general metrics.
46:01SPEAKER- Well, I think the argument originally was that Microsoft
46:04SPEAKERis mostly on the edges, like they build the clients,
46:08SPEAKERbut they weren't super, they weren't super dominant
46:10SPEAKERin like cloud servers and stuff like that.
46:14SPEAKER- So hang on, is the concept behind Fang
46:16SPEAKERnot just like kind of size and value of these companies,
46:19SPEAKERbut more that they deal
46:20SPEAKERin foundational internet technology,
46:22SPEAKERlike they are the backbone of the internet?
46:24SPEAKER- I think it's, I think, A, I think Fang is more
46:26SPEAKERof a construct that is not particularly well thought out
46:29SPEAKERor like there's no like, there's no IEEE spec
46:34SPEAKERfor what it takes to be a Fang company.
46:36SPEAKER- Well, maybe there should be.
46:38SPEAKER- But like Apple's kind of the same way, right?
46:40SPEAKER'Cause Apple's a client.
46:42SPEAKER- Yeah, that's true. - For the most part, right?
46:43SPEAKER- Sure, I mean, you know, the iCloud,
46:45SPEAKERbut that's still like a layer on top of it's not like,
46:47SPEAKERwell, they do run their own data centers, but.
46:49SPEAKER- But not at the scale of Google or Facebook or.
46:52SPEAKERI mean, now maybe, but when the Fang stuff started,
46:54SPEAKERit wasn't, they weren't.
46:55SPEAKER- Apple runs data centers to serve its own needs,
46:57SPEAKERnot the needs of everybody else, right?
46:58SPEAKER- That's exactly it.
47:00SPEAKERI don't know, I always thought it was weird.
47:02SPEAKERIt's like going back and watching Old Simpsons
47:04SPEAKERwith the kiddo, it's really funny
47:06SPEAKERhow many shots they take at Microsoft
47:07SPEAKERin those late 90s episodes.
47:09SPEAKER- Yeah, I understand.
47:10SPEAKER- Like Bill Gates shows up on one
47:11SPEAKERand helps restructure Homer's internet company.
47:14SPEAKERLike whenever they need a throwaway evil company,
47:18SPEAKERit's either like, you know, Bob Dole or Microsoft.
47:23SPEAKERIt's a weird, it's a weird,
47:27SPEAKERit's weird that all of a sudden Microsoft,
47:29SPEAKERit's like Microsoft went through the,
47:30SPEAKERhey, maybe tech companies are bad fire
47:33SPEAKER20 years before everybody else has.
47:36SPEAKERAnd.
47:37SPEAKER- Came out the other side.
47:37SPEAKER- Yeah, now they're out the other side.
47:39SPEAKERI don't know.
47:39SPEAKER- Is it weird?
47:40SPEAKER- That sounds weird though.
47:41SPEAKER- Yeah, it does.
47:42SPEAKERIs it weird that I, it's not to digress about the Simpsons,
47:44SPEAKERbut is it weird that I think of the Simpsons
47:46SPEAKERas a period piece, as a period show
47:50SPEAKERand that anything, like basically
47:53SPEAKERanything in the Simpsons that deals with technology
47:56SPEAKERthat is newer than like, say 1993,
47:58SPEAKERjust feels like horribly out of place to me.
48:00SPEAKERLike the internet should not exist in the Simpsons.
48:02SPEAKER- It's been really funny watching.
48:04SPEAKER- Cell phones should not exist in the Simpsons.
48:06SPEAKER- It's really weird watching the internet
48:09SPEAKERbecome a thing that is like,
48:10SPEAKERit started out as, here's some weird shit nerds are into.
48:15SPEAKERAnd then there were a bunch of jokes about nerds
48:17SPEAKERto Homer looking stuff up on the internet
48:20SPEAKERbeing a weird thing to just like the internet
48:23SPEAKERbeing part of the conversation in the last,
48:25SPEAKERlike in seasons like eight through 18 or 17
48:29SPEAKERor something like that.
48:31SPEAKER- It's kind of like, I don't know,
48:32SPEAKERit feels like it would be the same thing
48:33SPEAKERas like Norm from Cheers,
48:34SPEAKERjust like pulling out his iPhone 13 at the bar.
48:37SPEAKER- Yeah.
48:38SPEAKER- You know, like it's just feels out of place.
48:39SPEAKERSomething about it is wrong, but maybe that's me.
48:42SPEAKER- That would be, we watched an episode yesterday
48:46SPEAKERthat was, it was like, I remember these.
48:50SPEAKERI don't know if I was primed enough
48:52SPEAKERfor the absurdism of like a season 12,
48:55SPEAKERlike the season 12 and season 13 high points.
48:58SPEAKER'Cause it was just like the episode
49:00SPEAKERwhere Flanders and Homer's wives
49:04SPEAKERthat they accidentally married in Vegas
49:09SPEAKERcan't come back to Springfield and find them.
49:12SPEAKERAnd it's just, the whole thing is just super, super absurd
49:16SPEAKERand really, really like shockingly dark
49:19SPEAKERfor like late 90s, early 2000s Sunday night TV.
49:25SPEAKER- I was gonna say, I think I had tapped out
49:26SPEAKERa good bit before that.
49:28SPEAKER- We're definitely, as we get into like season 12 and 13,
49:31SPEAKERwe're into the ones that I have seen once
49:33SPEAKERversus the ones that I recorded on VHS in college
49:35SPEAKERand watched obsessively.
49:36SPEAKER- Okay, I think I actually,
49:38SPEAKERI loved The Simpsons when it was new.
49:40SPEAKERAnd I think I stopped actually around like season six, seven,
49:43SPEAKEReight, somewhere around there.
49:43SPEAKER- Oh, you missed a bunch of, like the,
49:46SPEAKERso the big takeaway from going back
49:47SPEAKERand rewatching all of these is the ones
49:49SPEAKERthat I thought were garbage then.
49:50SPEAKERI was just an asshole and didn't appreciate
49:53SPEAKERfor the most part.
49:54SPEAKERThere's definitely some bad episodes in there,
49:55SPEAKERbut like, but like it's, it is the,
49:58SPEAKERthe quality level of everything that we've seen so far
50:01SPEAKERgoing through like season 13 is astounding.
50:07SPEAKER- Real quick before we move on.
50:09SPEAKERI've seen, I've seen magma floated recently
50:12SPEAKERas a replacement for Fang.
50:14SPEAKERI mean, yeah, first of all, I think that's awful
50:16SPEAKER'cause you're just giving into Facebook's desperate attempts
50:19SPEAKERto rebrand and deflect controversy.
50:22SPEAKER- Yeah.
50:23SPEAKER- I mean, I guess just to be clear,
50:25SPEAKERI assume that's Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta, Apple.
50:29SPEAKER- I'm sure, yes.
50:31SPEAKER- Which, what does that say about Netflix?
50:35SPEAKERWhy can't it be Mag Man?
50:37SPEAKER(laughing)
50:41SPEAKER- Brad, it can't be Mag Man.
50:42SPEAKER- What? - No, I say no.
50:44SPEAKER- Why not?
50:45SPEAKER- As the arbiter of what is okay on the internet
50:47SPEAKERand in terms of, I say no, sir.
50:49SPEAKER- Mag Man sounds like a long forgotten,
50:51SPEAKERlike 50s DC superhero made out of lava.
50:55SPEAKER- Mag Man is a Mega Man 6 character.
50:58SPEAKER- Okay, that works for a villain, yeah.
50:59SPEAKER- Yes, anyway.
51:00SPEAKER- Is he magnets or is he lava or is he both?
51:03SPEAKER- Ooh, I don't know.
51:08SPEAKER- Let's see, I need one more question here.
51:14SPEAKERI need one more question here.
51:15SPEAKERWhat am I gonna do?
51:16SPEAKER- Can we ask that Scaladon one?
51:18SPEAKER- Yeah, I was saving that for last.
51:19SPEAKEROkay, I'm gonna do one more before that.
51:21SPEAKER- Okay, perfect.
51:22SPEAKER- From Warbird, can't believe I'm giving in again.
51:25SPEAKERAt least it's not about college football.
51:27SPEAKER- That's something.
51:28SPEAKER- Brad, post your NeoFetch config.
51:30SPEAKER- I don't even know what NeoFetch is.
51:31SPEAKER- Oh, dude, it's the best.
51:33SPEAKERIs it fetch but new?
51:34SPEAKER- No.
51:35SPEAKER- NeoFetch is the thing.
51:36SPEAKERHave you ever seen screenshots
51:37SPEAKERof somebody's Linux desktop
51:38SPEAKERand they have a terminal window up?
51:41SPEAKERThat they've just logged into?
51:42SPEAKER- You've just described every screenshot
51:43SPEAKERof a Linux desktop ever.
51:44SPEAKER- Yes, so see, now I'm filling in a crucial hole
51:47SPEAKERin your Linux knowledge.
51:49SPEAKERAnd their terminal has got a big ASCII art version
51:52SPEAKERof the logo of their distro
51:54SPEAKERwith a bunch of stats listed
51:55SPEAKERabout the type of terminal they're using
51:57SPEAKERand their CPU and memory and like.
51:59SPEAKER- Okay.
52:00SPEAKER- Do you know what I'm talking about?
52:01SPEAKER- Vaguely.
52:02SPEAKER- You've seen this.
52:03SPEAKER- It is a thing that is what is familiar to me, yes.
52:05SPEAKERAnd there will be a little bar of RGB colors at the bottom
52:08SPEAKERthat are basically all the colors
52:10SPEAKERthat terminal is capable of.
52:12SPEAKER- Okay.
52:13SPEAKER- You'll know exactly.
52:13SPEAKERGo Google NeoFetch.
52:14SPEAKERYou'll see what I'm talking about.
52:15SPEAKER- Okay.
52:16SPEAKER- As soon as you see it,
52:17SPEAKERyou'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
52:19SPEAKER- Right, you're not gonna make NeoFetch happen.
52:21SPEAKER- All it is is a thing that people set up
52:25SPEAKERto show when they log into a terminal
52:27SPEAKERor a remote SSH connection on their Unix machine.
52:32SPEAKER- This is exhausting.
52:32SPEAKER- It looks cool in screenshots.
52:34SPEAKER- This is exhausting.
52:35SPEAKER- It is literally in the mission statement of NeoFetch.
52:38SPEAKERThis thing is here to look cool in screenshots.
52:40SPEAKER- I can install this in Windows now,
52:41SPEAKERwhich seems to be antithetical to the entire idea
52:44SPEAKERof what NeoFetch is.
52:45SPEAKER- Okay, hang on, hang on.
52:46SPEAKERIs it available in shot?
52:47SPEAKER- It supports almost 150 different operating systems
52:49SPEAKERfrom Linux to Windows all the way
52:50SPEAKERto more obscure operating systems like Minix, AIX and Haiku.
52:54SPEAKER- I don't think, here I'm just gonna check 'cause he asked.
52:58SPEAKERI don't think I actually,
52:59SPEAKERI don't have NeoFetch set up to go on any of the like
53:03SPEAKEReight things I SSH into at any given time.
53:06SPEAKER- That seems like actually like a primary machine thing,
53:08SPEAKERnot a remote machine thing.
53:11SPEAKER- Yes, although is it,
53:12SPEAKERif they really have it for Windows, hang on.
53:13SPEAKERIs it available in Chocolaty?
53:16SPEAKERI'm just gonna install it right now.
53:18SPEAKERLet's find out.
53:18SPEAKER- It is, WinFetch, wait, what is WinFetch?
53:22SPEAKER- WinFetch, definitely not making WinFetch happen.
53:25SPEAKER- I searched for NeoFetch and WinFetch came up
53:28SPEAKERand I don't know if I trust this.
53:29SPEAKERI'm gonna install it anyway.
53:30SPEAKER- I'm scared of Chocolaty these days.
53:32SPEAKER- Why?
53:33SPEAKER- Chocolaty's fine, I'm scared of WinGet.
53:35SPEAKEREvery time I search for something in WinGet,
53:36SPEAKERI get weird things that feel like they're not appropriate.
53:39SPEAKER- Yeah, the package vetting in WinGet,
53:41SPEAKERI think is kind of questionable so far.
53:43SPEAKERI'm installing WinFetch though.
53:44SPEAKERLet's see what happens here.
53:47SPEAKERYep, that's NeoFetch, all right.
53:50SPEAKER- There you go.
53:52SPEAKER- That's cool.
53:53SPEAKERI'm never gonna use that again.
53:55SPEAKER- Yeah.
53:57SPEAKER- There's your answer, I don't.
53:58SPEAKER- I'm proud of you, Brad.
53:59SPEAKER- I don't actively use NeoFetch,
54:00SPEAKERalthough I think it's kind of cool.
54:02SPEAKERYou know what's fun?
54:03SPEAKERYou know what's fun though is to go through it
54:04SPEAKERand just like, oh, you know what?
54:06SPEAKERYou could actually just script this
54:07SPEAKERnow that I think about it.
54:08SPEAKERI went on GitHub at one point and looked up,
54:10SPEAKERI looked in the source to see what distros
54:12SPEAKERthey have ASCII art for.
54:14SPEAKER- Oh.
54:15SPEAKER- And you can tell it at the command line
54:16SPEAKERto show you whatever distros ASCII art logo you want.
54:19SPEAKERSo if you want to see Ubuntu or Arch or.
54:21SPEAKER- So it's a software of lies is what you're telling me.
54:25SPEAKER- Yeah, you can make it look like any OS you want.
54:27SPEAKER- Boo.
54:28SPEAKERCan we do this hologram question?
54:30SPEAKERBring back, hang on, I'm sorry.
54:32SPEAKERBring back operating system fetishism.
54:35SPEAKER- That comes with tribalism and people
54:36SPEAKERyelling at each other about Slackware
54:37SPEAKERbeing better than Gentoo and I don't need that in my life.
54:40SPEAKER- That's fetishism is positive, tribalism is negative.
54:43SPEAKER- Is it, Brad?
54:44SPEAKERIs it really?
54:45SPEAKER- Being fascinated with the mundane details of things
54:48SPEAKERis a fun way to be.
54:49SPEAKER- Okay, okay.
54:50SPEAKERLook, the question, like being curious is always good.
54:54SPEAKER- That's what I'm talking about.
54:55SPEAKER- I'll give you that one.
54:55SPEAKER- That's what I'm talking about.
54:56SPEAKER- Yeah.
54:57SPEAKER- Just tinker with things, play with things,
54:58SPEAKERlike dig into stuff, it's fun.
55:00SPEAKER- All right, holograms?
55:03SPEAKER- Holograms.
55:04SPEAKER- From hell and sea?
55:05SPEAKER- Yeah.
55:06SPEAKER- I remember 15 to 20 years ago reading
55:07SPEAKERthat making holograms was some secret unfakable process.
55:12SPEAKERIs that still true or can anybody dial one up
55:14SPEAKERfrom Shenzhen or 3D print a hologram printer now?
55:17SPEAKER- Okay, so there's some, I did some research on this one
55:19SPEAKER'cause I was curious.
55:20SPEAKER- Oh boy, oh boy.
55:21SPEAKER- In the old days to make a hologram,
55:23SPEAKERyou needed like a concrete floor and a sand table
55:27SPEAKERbecause you needed to isolate the laser and the film
55:30SPEAKERand the thing you were shooting on the hologram
55:32SPEAKERfrom any kind of vibration at all.
55:34SPEAKERLike the slightest, like a truck driving by two blocks away
55:37SPEAKERwould jack it up and make it fuzzy and not look good.
55:40SPEAKERAnd you'd make those holograms by separating out a laser.
55:43SPEAKERLike you basically, you take off the filter
55:45SPEAKERthat focuses like a laser, you'd separate out into two beams
55:49SPEAKERand then you'd combine those beams on the 3D object
55:52SPEAKERwith the film in between them
55:54SPEAKERand it would make a thing in there.
55:56SPEAKERThe neat thing about holograms was for a really long time,
55:58SPEAKERyou couldn't scan them with like 2D scanners
56:02SPEAKERbecause there's depth information there
56:05SPEAKERand you couldn't print them with normal printers
56:07SPEAKERfor the same reason.
56:09SPEAKERSome people a couple of years ago figured out
56:11SPEAKERhow to use some nano particle nonsense
56:12SPEAKERto print like holograph, like things that look like holograms
56:16SPEAKERbut maybe not, aren't exactly.
56:19SPEAKERSo they're a little bit less useful as an unfakable thing.
56:22SPEAKERLike people would put them on,
56:23SPEAKERlike credit card manufacturers put on credit cards.
56:26SPEAKERThey're on Austrian currency.
56:28SPEAKERSeveral currencies have holograms on them now.
56:32SPEAKERThe TLDR is it's a lot easier to make them now
56:35SPEAKER'cause you don't have to do the long exposures.
56:37SPEAKERIt used to be in like the eighties,
56:39SPEAKERthe lasers were so low power
56:41SPEAKERthat it had to be like a 12 hour exposure for stuff.
56:43SPEAKERNow it's like seconds
56:45SPEAKER'cause we can get higher power lasers.
56:47SPEAKERSo they're easier to make now.
56:49SPEAKERYou can buy for like 150 bucks,
56:51SPEAKERmake a hologram kit that you can do at home.
56:53SPEAKERBut you do need a really dark room
56:55SPEAKERand pretty stable floors in order for it all to work.
56:59SPEAKER- Does this get us,
57:00SPEAKERI'm sure this has absolutely no bearing on this,
57:01SPEAKERbut does this get us any closer
57:02SPEAKERto the fabled holographic storage
57:04SPEAKERthat we used to hear about so much?
57:06SPEAKER- No, that's a different thing sadly.
57:07SPEAKER- I figured, I figured.
57:09SPEAKER- There's a good acronym here though.
57:11SPEAKERDovids, diffractive optical variable image devices.
57:16SPEAKERAnd the reason these work is that they reflect,
57:18SPEAKERrefract light instead of reflect it,
57:20SPEAKERwhich is why scanners and printers and stuff
57:21SPEAKERdon't work with them.
57:22SPEAKER- I see.
57:23SPEAKER- Okay, it's good to know.
57:26SPEAKER- But also you can,
57:28SPEAKERif you have a hologram,
57:29SPEAKERyou can send it off someplace
57:30SPEAKERand get it replicated on to like spools of stickers
57:35SPEAKERand get the stickers made in quantities of I think 10,000.
57:39SPEAKERSo, you know, it's a $1,500 set up to get one made.
57:44SPEAKER- Yikes, yikes.
57:45SPEAKER- So it's not hard.
57:46SPEAKER- Not hard, but not an impulse.
57:48SPEAKER- Yeah, it's not something you do on a whim,
57:49SPEAKERbut if you wanted to put a hologram
57:50SPEAKERon a product that you were selling for money,
57:52SPEAKERit's not out of the question.
57:53SPEAKER- Like that is business investment territory.
57:55SPEAKERThat's not like goof on your friends
57:58SPEAKERwith an embarrassing hologram territory quite yet.
58:00SPEAKER- I would say 10,000 slash $1,500 startup cost
58:04SPEAKERis firmly in the realm of Kickstarter goofs.
58:07SPEAKER- Yeah, so I was gonna say you could like crowdsource
58:09SPEAKERamong quite as like several of your friends might,
58:11SPEAKERthat might be good to get it down.
58:13SPEAKER- Yeah, if you wanted to get like something really funny,
58:15SPEAKERput on a hologram and you had 500 friends,
58:17SPEAKERyou could make that happen probably.
58:18SPEAKER- Oh yeah, definitely, at that point, sure.
58:20SPEAKER- All right, last question from Kaladin.
58:23SPEAKERThis is such a good idea.
58:24SPEAKERWhy did we not think of this?
58:25SPEAKER- That's a brilliant idea.
58:26SPEAKER- Can we get a podcast topic suggestion channel
58:29SPEAKERfor folks to upvote?
58:29SPEAKERThink of all the time savings for thinking of new topics.
58:32SPEAKERThis is, dude.
58:34SPEAKER- Yeah, galaxy brain business here.
58:37SPEAKER- How did this channel or should it be a thread
58:41SPEAKERon the this week's episode channel?
58:42SPEAKER- I was gonna say there's things that there are products
58:45SPEAKERthat people use for this service,
58:47SPEAKERincluding like lots of game development early access game
58:50SPEAKERtitles, which I've been paying a lot of attention to lately
58:52SPEAKERuse Trello often for this.
58:55SPEAKERThe other one is there's a couple of startups
59:00SPEAKERthat do like this as a service that's not like Trello
59:03SPEAKERis kind of like a development, like a workflow.
59:08SPEAKER- Roadmap kind of thing.
59:09SPEAKER- Yeah, like organizing sprints and stuff like that.
59:13SPEAKERThere's some that are outside of that kind of realm now
59:16SPEAKERand I'm looking at them for day job stuff.
59:19SPEAKERSo maybe we'll set one up for us too.
59:21SPEAKERAnd we can double whammy because I like this idea a lot.
59:26SPEAKER- Yes, for sure.
59:27SPEAKERI think we should just put it right there in the discord.
59:29SPEAKER- Yeah, but I don't know how we would do the votes
59:31SPEAKERin the discord.
59:33SPEAKERHow would we limit the number of posts in moats?
59:36SPEAKERHow would we--
59:37SPEAKER- Like reactions?
59:38SPEAKER- I mean, we could do reactions.
59:41SPEAKERYeah, I don't know.
59:42SPEAKERI like maybe we need like a two phase process
59:44SPEAKERwhere people nominate stuff and then we move
59:46SPEAKERthe nominations into a relatively locked channel
59:48SPEAKERand give a thread per nomination or something like that.
59:51SPEAKERI mean, 'cause I want people to be able to talk through it.
59:54SPEAKER'Cause I feel like if they can talk through it,
59:55SPEAKERit's gonna give, that'll, we'll quickly realize
1:00:00SPEAKERwhether there's enough meat there or not.
1:00:01SPEAKER- That's fair, yeah.
1:00:02SPEAKER- I don't know.
1:00:03SPEAKER- Much to think about.
1:00:04SPEAKERThis is a fantastic, some version of this will manifest.
1:00:07SPEAKER- To be continued.
1:00:09SPEAKERI kind of put this question in because I want people
1:00:11SPEAKERto talk about it on the discord.
1:00:15SPEAKER- Yeah, even ideas for how to implement this idea
1:00:18SPEAKERwould be great.
1:00:19SPEAKER- If people have things that they've used internally
1:00:21SPEAKERat like companies and stuff for this, love to hear that.
1:00:24SPEAKER- Yeah.
1:00:25SPEAKER- We would love to hear that.
1:00:26SPEAKER- Yes, for sure.
1:00:27SPEAKERAll right, that's it.
1:00:28SPEAKERNo more questions.
1:00:28SPEAKERI mean, there are more questions, but--
1:00:30SPEAKER- We've reached the end.
1:00:31SPEAKER- We're gonna save for rest.
1:00:32SPEAKER- Yeah.
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1:01:49SPEAKERI've been so busy post-game launch
1:01:51SPEAKERthat I don't spend as much time in the Patreon
1:01:53SPEAKERas I, the Discord as I used to.
1:01:55SPEAKERBut when I do pop in, I learn something every single time,
1:01:58SPEAKERand it is still, it's one of my absolute favorite places
1:02:02SPEAKERon the internet, so.
1:02:03SPEAKER- I had an interesting experience.
1:02:05SPEAKER- Oh, what happened?
1:02:06SPEAKER- I bought more Mr. Ram.
1:02:07SPEAKER- Oh.
1:02:08SPEAKER- Because that PlayStation Core is going to work fine on one
1:02:12SPEAKERbut it'll be better.
1:02:13SPEAKER- But it's gonna work ever so slightly better on two.
1:02:16SPEAKER- Yeah.
1:02:17SPEAKER- Anyway, I bought it from a very,
1:02:19SPEAKERI mentioned, I alluded to this before,
1:02:21SPEAKERI bought it from a very boutique Mr. Part Maker.
1:02:24SPEAKER- Okay.
1:02:25SPEAKER- Who has a website that looks like it's from the late '90s
1:02:26SPEAKERand he takes orders directly to an email address.
1:02:29SPEAKER- And then PayPal the money or Venmo the money or something?
1:02:31SPEAKER- Anyway, I talked about it in the Mr. Channel on there,
1:02:33SPEAKERand then apparently somebody else went
1:02:36SPEAKERand put in the exact same order I did.
1:02:37SPEAKERIt's for an older model of RAM, I should clarify.
1:02:40SPEAKER- Okay.
1:02:41SPEAKER- It's for a model of RAM that you really wouldn't buy
1:02:42SPEAKERfor a standard Mr. Setup these days.
1:02:44SPEAKER- Is this just to match the RAM you had?
1:02:46SPEAKER- Oh, it's a 32, the RAM you need for the PlayStation Core,
1:02:50SPEAKERit doesn't need to be big, it just needs to be there.
1:02:52SPEAKER- Oh, oh, so I accidentally ordered 228 meg sticks,
1:02:56SPEAKERso I just put my second 128 meg stick in.
1:02:58SPEAKER- Right, so you're fine there,
1:02:59SPEAKERbut all you need is the smallest possible RAM.
1:03:00SPEAKERI think it only, I'm,
1:03:02SPEAKERit might only use like a few hundred kilobytes
1:03:04SPEAKERof that memory, I think.
1:03:05SPEAKERI'm not 100% sure, but.
1:03:06SPEAKER- Wow.
1:03:07SPEAKER- It's for latency and timings, it's not for capacity.
1:03:09SPEAKERSo anyway, I guess this guy,
1:03:13SPEAKERwhen this other person on our Discord put in an order,
1:03:15SPEAKERsaid like, "Hey, why is there all this interest
1:03:17SPEAKERin this old RAM model again all of a sudden?"
1:03:21SPEAKER- Oh boy.
1:03:21SPEAKER- Apparently I had directed a number of orders
1:03:25SPEAKERfor this old part that he doesn't even make any more to him.
1:03:28SPEAKER- I love it, I love it.
1:03:29SPEAKER- It was a fun little, it was a fun little,
1:03:30SPEAKERand then I talked to him about it.
1:03:32SPEAKER- Oh, that's cool.
1:03:33SPEAKER- He thought it was amusing.
1:03:36SPEAKER- It's just, it's really nice to have a place
1:03:39SPEAKERto talk about weird stuff and to have people
1:03:42SPEAKERthat know about it and are interested.
1:03:43SPEAKER- Bunch of, every channel is its own boutique
1:03:46SPEAKERlittle niche community about a thing.
1:03:49SPEAKER- Yeah, exactly.
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1:03:58SPEAKERAnd I guess we'll be back next week.
1:04:00SPEAKERWe have a Patreon episode coming up too, so.
1:04:02SPEAKER- We do.
1:04:03SPEAKER- Yeah.
1:04:04SPEAKER- Probably more questions, I'm hoping.
1:04:06SPEAKER- Maybe, I think it might be time for a project check-in.
1:04:08SPEAKERI've been so busy, I've got stuff piling up around me
1:04:10SPEAKERthat I haven't had time to work on in my spare time.
1:04:13SPEAKER- Yeah, I don't have a, hmm, we'll have to think about that.
1:04:16SPEAKER- Doing, I'm doing an ass rebuild.
1:04:19SPEAKER- Yeah, I gotta do that, I gotta,
1:04:21SPEAKERI'm gonna re-architect the whole thing, I think.
1:04:23SPEAKER- Yes, that's exactly what I'm, dude.
1:04:26SPEAKER- Maybe this is for the Patreon.
1:04:28SPEAKER- Okay, yeah, well, to be conducted.
1:04:29SPEAKER- I started to say, I don't know if this will go up in time
1:04:32SPEAKERfor people to tell us if we should
1:04:33SPEAKERabsolutely not talk about this.
1:04:35SPEAKERI downloaded a 15-page PDF about the relative merits
1:04:39SPEAKERof different ZFS topologies.
1:04:41SPEAKER- Oh boy.
1:04:43SPEAKER- And spent last Sunday afternoon reading it.
1:04:45SPEAKER- Oh boy.
1:04:45SPEAKER- The results were eye-opening.
1:04:47SPEAKER- Huh.
1:04:48SPEAKER- Boy, have I been screwing myself over
1:04:50SPEAKERon the performance of my storage pool.
1:04:53SPEAKER- Really?
1:04:54SPEAKER- Yes, oh my God, you have no idea.
1:04:56SPEAKER- Okay, okay, okay, to be continued.
1:04:58SPEAKER- Let me tell you the good word about striped mirror Vdefs.
1:05:03SPEAKER- Oh, really?
1:05:04SPEAKER- Uh-huh.
1:05:05SPEAKER- Oh man, I've been doing with parody this whole time.
1:05:08SPEAKER- Yes, so there are profound limits to a RAID-Z setup
1:05:11SPEAKERto a parody model in terms of IOPS in particular,
1:05:14SPEAKERlike read and write streaming.
1:05:17SPEAKERStreaming read speeds and write speeds are not as bad,
1:05:19SPEAKERbut the IOPS are severely bottlenecked
1:05:23SPEAKERcompared to a mirror setup, like bad.
1:05:24SPEAKER- You probably do, I see mine as much more of a place
1:05:27SPEAKERto dump stuff and much less of a place
1:05:29SPEAKERthat I actually do like large file transfers.
1:05:33SPEAKERBut since you're doing video work on yours,
1:05:34SPEAKERit probably matters a lot more for you.
1:05:36SPEAKER- And audio, yeah, and I've got this
1:05:38SPEAKERlike crazy fast network connections, my NAS,
1:05:39SPEAKERlike it is literally all the storage in my PC.
1:05:41SPEAKERI don't keep like big storage in my PC anymore, so it...
1:05:44SPEAKER- Wow.
1:05:45SPEAKER- But...
1:05:46SPEAKER- Well, we'll talk about that
1:05:47SPEAKERon this month's Patreon episode, I guess then.
1:05:49SPEAKER- The numbers may surprise you
1:05:51SPEAKERunless people don't want to hear about it.
1:05:52SPEAKER- Wow, okay, well there you go.
1:05:54SPEAKERWe will be back next week with another episode
1:05:56SPEAKERof Brad and Will Made a TechPod,
1:05:57SPEAKERmaybe something new and exciting next week.
1:05:59SPEAKERWe'll have to see.
1:06:00SPEAKER- Maybe, I think, definitely.
1:06:02SPEAKER- I'm feeling pretty confident this time.
1:06:04SPEAKER- We'll say definitely.
1:06:05SPEAKER- Okay, 100%, barring anything weird happening.
1:06:10SPEAKERSo yeah, we'll see you all then.
1:06:12SPEAKERHave a good weekend everybody.
1:06:14SPEAKERI just waved at the camera for no reason.
1:06:16SPEAKER(upbeat music)