00:00SPEAKER- Okay, Audacity 3.2 is out, very excited.
00:02SPEAKERIt's the first time they have shipped an arm build for Mac.
00:05SPEAKER- Arm baby arm.
00:06SPEAKER- So actually between Audacity and OBS,
00:08SPEAKERboth shipping proper official arm builds
00:12SPEAKERin the last couple of weeks,
00:13SPEAKERI have officially threaded the needle
00:15SPEAKERand never installed Rosetta 2 on that MacBook.
00:18SPEAKERThat's not what I'm here to talk about.
00:19SPEAKER- But like you, like that's a big deal.
00:22SPEAKERThat means you have a fully functional laptop again.
00:24SPEAKER- Yeah. - This is exciting.
00:25SPEAKER- Well, it was 90% functional already.
00:28SPEAKER- Yeah, but like for somebody who records podcasts
00:30SPEAKERwith Audacity, not having Audacity running,
00:32SPEAKERa little bit of a hassle.
00:33SPEAKER- Hey, audio hijack.
00:34SPEAKERLook, the rogue Amoeba folks have fixed me up just fine.
00:37SPEAKERBut the thing I was here to discuss,
00:42SPEAKERoh no, is download pages for software.
00:45SPEAKER- Yeah.
00:46SPEAKER- You know what I don't like?
00:48SPEAKER- I wouldn't dare to guess.
00:50SPEAKER- Well, look, let me rephrase this.
00:52SPEAKER90% of the time, it's fine.
00:54SPEAKER- Okay.
00:55SPEAKER- But the default posture of most software download pages
00:58SPEAKERthese days, which is to auto select your OS
01:00SPEAKERand then just start downloading the install file
01:03SPEAKERthey think you want.
01:04SPEAKER- Yeah.
01:05SPEAKER- Like once in a while, that's kind of annoying.
01:06SPEAKERLike for example, when I use this Windows machine
01:08SPEAKERto go to Audacity and see if that arm build is available
01:11SPEAKERand they just start downloading an installer
01:13SPEAKERfor the Windows version that I don't like.
01:15SPEAKER- Okay, but wait, did you, okay,
01:17SPEAKERso did you type audacity.org or whatever the URL at .net
01:21SPEAKERinto the address bar or did you search for it
01:24SPEAKERand then you clicked on the download page link?
01:26SPEAKER- No, I went to audacityteam.org and clicked download
01:29SPEAKERto go to the downloads page.
01:31SPEAKER- Oh, 'cause you wanted to see
01:32SPEAKERif there was an arm OS 10 binary.
01:35SPEAKER- Just send me to like a raw ass Apache file
01:39SPEAKERdirectory listing, that's what I want.
01:41SPEAKER- You see, I've never, this doesn't bother me
01:42SPEAKER'cause I just nuke my downloads folder about every month.
01:46SPEAKER- Okay, so that's the, so the main reason
01:48SPEAKERthis is really annoying is just having to go find
01:49SPEAKERthe installer that you didn't want and delete it?
01:51SPEAKER- Yep, nope, not a problem.
01:53SPEAKERControl A, delete.
01:54SPEAKER- So, huh, okay, this leads to a pretty pronounced difference
01:58SPEAKERin our download folder strategies.
02:00SPEAKER- Look, the download folder is an ephemeral place
02:02SPEAKERwhere you should keep nothing of value
02:04SPEAKERand everything in there should be subject
02:05SPEAKERto automatic deletion at any moment.
02:07SPEAKERI should honestly script this.
02:08SPEAKER- Let's say theoretically I agree with you.
02:11SPEAKER- Uh-huh, how big is your download folder, Brad?
02:14SPEAKER- Like size-wise?
02:15SPEAKER- Yeah, how many things are in there?
02:17SPEAKER- The number of items.
02:20SPEAKER- Is it still counting?
02:21SPEAKER- I don't wanna discuss this.
02:22SPEAKER- Is it still counting?
02:23SPEAKERIs it still going up?
02:24SPEAKER- Hang on, I could use Space Sniffer
02:26SPEAKERand actually see a visual representation
02:28SPEAKERof what's taking up.
02:28SPEAKER- Wait, what's Space Sniffer?
02:29SPEAKER- It's like Winderstat or Wiztree.
02:32SPEAKER- But modern?
02:33SPEAKER- I don't know that I'd say it's necessarily
02:35SPEAKERthat much better than those others.
02:37SPEAKER- Well, I feel like Winderstat hasn't been updated
02:39SPEAKERin a long time and it handles symlinks poorly.
02:42SPEAKER- Okay, that might be the reason I changed.
02:44SPEAKERI can't remember why I switched,
02:45SPEAKERbut Space Sniffer is pretty good, it's similar.
02:48SPEAKER- That's pretty good, it has a dog as an icon
02:50SPEAKERwith a little Sherlock Holmes hat too, that's cool.
02:52SPEAKER- Yeah, look, sniffing out those files, all right.
02:55SPEAKER- How many files, Brad?
02:57SPEAKERQuit trying to distract me with the cute dog.
02:59SPEAKER- I don't wanna say.
03:01SPEAKER- Is it more or less than 10,000?
03:05SPEAKER- 19,469 files.
03:09SPEAKER- Wow, I thought 10,000 was the ultimate high, holy shit.
03:13SPEAKER- There's like a couple of open source projects
03:15SPEAKERwith their source directories unzipped in there for reference.
03:19SPEAKER- No, you never unzip into the downloads folder, oh God.
03:23SPEAKER- Again though, these are all things that theoretically
03:25SPEAKERare going to be deleted soon.
03:27SPEAKER- What's the oldest file in that folder?
03:30SPEAKER- Let's see.
03:31SPEAKER- I mean, this may not be fair
03:33SPEAKER'cause it's gonna be the file creation date,
03:34SPEAKERprobably not the time it was downloaded.
03:37SPEAKERWhen did you install Windows on this machine,
03:38SPEAKERlike 2015, 2016?
03:40SPEAKER- Two years ago.
03:41SPEAKER- Okay.
03:42SPEAKER- Probably about three, actually.
03:43SPEAKERI think that three years might be my longest
03:46SPEAKERWindows install record to date.
03:47SPEAKER- Have you re-installed Windows since the pandemic started?
03:50SPEAKER- I think it was right before.
03:52SPEAKER- Okay, yeah, I did a re-install last fall
03:54SPEAKERwhen Windows 11 came out.
03:55SPEAKER- Okay, the oldest file on here is from 2018.
03:58SPEAKER- That's not too bad.
03:59SPEAKER19,000 files, too many files.
04:00SPEAKERGood, it's time for the control A delete.
04:02SPEAKERJust send them away, Brad.
04:04SPEAKER- I can tell you, let's see,
04:05SPEAKERthe oldest file on here is a receipt.
04:08SPEAKERThen after that is a zip of the event sounds
04:12SPEAKERfrom Windows NT4.
04:14SPEAKER- Oh, okay.
04:16SPEAKERGood startup sound on NT4, if I remember right.
04:19SPEAKERIt's fast, it's faster than the Brian Eno one.
04:21SPEAKER- Yeah.
04:22SPEAKERLet's see, here is the original,
04:24SPEAKERthe very first Cyberpunk 2077 trailer
04:26SPEAKERthat I pulled from YouTube.
04:27SPEAKER- Is this the one that they fucked up the trailer on
04:32SPEAKERand didn't have one of the audio channels or something?
04:35SPEAKER- No, I think I just wanted to download it.
04:36SPEAKER- Okay.
04:38SPEAKEROne of the oldest video files that I have on my desktop
04:40SPEAKERis that Mummy trailer where they didn't
04:42SPEAKERput the right chroma or something on it
04:44SPEAKERand it's all jacked up.
04:45SPEAKER- Oh.
04:46SPEAKER- It's very good.
04:47SPEAKER- That's pretty good.
04:48SPEAKER- It's a bad movie, it's a good trailer though.
04:51SPEAKER- Here is a PDF, which is a reference guide
04:54SPEAKERfor the Texas Instruments 486 SXLC and SXL.
04:58SPEAKER- Naturally.
04:59SPEAKERYeah, let's put something perfect.
05:01SPEAKERControl A delete.
05:03SPEAKER- Dude, that was--
05:04SPEAKER- Control A delete.
05:05SPEAKER- That was research.
05:05SPEAKER- Control A delete.
05:07SPEAKER- That was research.
05:08SPEAKER- Control A delete.
05:09SPEAKER- For a potential episode of this podcast.
05:11SPEAKER- Control A delete.
05:13SPEAKER- All right, fine.
05:14SPEAKER- Control A delete.
05:15SPEAKERLet's just record the show.
05:17SPEAKER(upbeat music)
05:45SPEAKERWelcome to Brad and Will Made a Tech Bot, I'm Will.
05:48SPEAKER- I am Brad, hello.
05:50SPEAKER- I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you feel bad
05:52SPEAKERabout your oversized downloads folder.
05:55SPEAKER- Again, that's not that big.
05:56SPEAKERAgain, this is all stuff that theoretically
05:58SPEAKEReither should have been deleted or sorted somewhere.
06:01SPEAKERI just never got around to.
06:03SPEAKER- This is why the control A delete method is flawless.
06:07SPEAKER- Sure.
06:09SPEAKER- 'Cause you know what?
06:10SPEAKERI can download it all again.
06:12SPEAKERIt'll all be there.
06:13SPEAKER- Yes.
06:14SPEAKER- And I mean, let's see.
06:16SPEAKERMy oldest file is from May.
06:21SPEAKERI haven't done it in a while.
06:22SPEAKER- Yeah, that's okay.
06:23SPEAKER- Oh, no, no, no.
06:24SPEAKERNope, nope.
06:25SPEAKERThat's a zip file that I unzipped the other day.
06:27SPEAKERSo yeah, that was unzipped on Tuesday.
06:30SPEAKERYou just gotta get rid of it, man.
06:31SPEAKER- Well, good for you.
06:32SPEAKER- You just gotta be able to let it go.
06:34SPEAKER- To be clear, I do prune plenty of stuff out of here.
06:38SPEAKERI delete stuff from the download folder all the time.
06:40SPEAKERIt's just the stuff that is like,
06:41SPEAKERoh, I should probably keep that and sort that somewhere
06:43SPEAKERthat tends to pile up.
06:45SPEAKER- Yeah, the problem I have is that I don't have a good,
06:49SPEAKERmy documents folder is not the repository
06:51SPEAKERfor documents anymore.
06:52SPEAKERI usually tend to put that stuff on the NAS
06:54SPEAKERand then I don't...
06:58SPEAKERBasically, I store everything.
06:59SPEAKERSince I'm really the only one that uses the NAS,
07:01SPEAKERI store everything in the public folder on the NAS.
07:03SPEAKERAnd then there's, I have to reorganize.
07:08SPEAKERMy public folder is your documents folder.
07:09SPEAKERIt's your downloads folder.
07:10SPEAKERThat's what I'm saying.
07:11SPEAKER- I see.
07:13SPEAKERHey, I need to keep this.
07:14SPEAKERWhere should I put it?
07:15SPEAKERI don't know, chuck it in the public folder.
07:16SPEAKERIt'll work itself out.
07:17SPEAKER- The truth is revealed, yes.
07:18SPEAKER- Problem solved.
07:19SPEAKER- That's exactly the problem.
07:20SPEAKERIt's just like, hey, I've got...
07:22SPEAKERWell, I won't go through it.
07:24SPEAKERThere's a lot of, let's say there's like a lot
07:25SPEAKERof old video game stuff in here.
07:27SPEAKERMusic and problems and stuff.
07:31SPEAKER- What?
07:32SPEAKER- Stuff like that.
07:32SPEAKER- Devilry.
07:34SPEAKERBrad, do you know what time it is?
07:35SPEAKER- It is time for questions.
07:39SPEAKER- Well, and answers.
07:40SPEAKERAnd a time for answers, a time for questions and answers.
07:43SPEAKER- And there's a time for questions and a time for answers.
07:46SPEAKER- My favorite John Grisham legal thriller,
07:48SPEAKERa time for questions and answers.
07:50SPEAKER- Well, the time for answers is actually the sequel
07:52SPEAKERto a time for questions.
07:53SPEAKER- Yes, of course.
07:55SPEAKER- Yeah, I found that it was a little bit underwhelming.
07:58SPEAKERI think those late stage posthumous John Grisham followups,
08:03SPEAKERnot maybe as good as the original novels, it turns out.
08:07SPEAKERI'm pretty sure he's actually dead.
08:09SPEAKERI'm not sure.
08:10SPEAKER- He's alive, actually.
08:11SPEAKER- Well, hey, congratulations.
08:12SPEAKER- Believe it or not.
08:13SPEAKER- I feel like most of the '90s summer novel superstars,
08:20SPEAKERyour Tom Clancy's, your Michael Crichton's,
08:22SPEAKERhe's the only one left, right?
08:24SPEAKER- Maybe.
08:27SPEAKER- Sue Grafton, I think, is still around.
08:28SPEAKERPatricia Cornwell, still working.
08:31SPEAKER- Okay, sure.
08:32SPEAKEROh gosh, there's another one.
08:34SPEAKER- But Tom Clancy left The Mortal Coil
08:36SPEAKERsometime around the Iraq War, if I remember right.
08:39SPEAKER- Does Stephen King not count in that category?
08:41SPEAKER- He's '80s, I think, in my head.
08:42SPEAKERLike he was selling books in the '90s for sure.
08:45SPEAKER- Yes, high '70s even.
08:46SPEAKER- Yeah, but like early '80s, early to mid '80s
08:50SPEAKERwere his like king of the world moment.
08:53SPEAKER- Yes, Grisham put out a book last year.
08:56SPEAKER- Huh, good for him.
08:57SPEAKER- As a matter of fact.
08:58SPEAKER- I really liked The Firm.
09:00SPEAKERThe Firm and A Time to Kill, both were very good.
09:03SPEAKERI don't think I read any.
09:04SPEAKERMaybe I read The Pelican Brief, I can't remember.
09:06SPEAKERBut yeah, we're gonna turn some questions into answers.
09:08SPEAKERYou can send your questions via electronic mail
09:12SPEAKERto techpod@content.town.
09:14SPEAKEROr if you are a member of the TechPod Patreon,
09:17SPEAKERwhich you can find out about
09:18SPEAKERby going to patreon.com/techpod.
09:20SPEAKERRare early plug there.
09:22SPEAKERYou can post your questions
09:24SPEAKERin the questions seeking answers, Q's seeking A's channel.
09:28SPEAKERSee, we're referencing dating sites there,
09:30SPEAKERwhich is something that I don't think
09:31SPEAKEReither of us have any real experience with.
09:32SPEAKER- Oh, never.
09:34SPEAKERI have never, not once.
09:36SPEAKERThey didn't exist when I met my wife.
09:39SPEAKER- Yeah, never dabbled with online dating in any capacity.
09:44SPEAKER- So yeah, I mean, I guess I could say
09:47SPEAKERI was referencing the 90s all weeklies
09:50SPEAKERwhere they had missed connections sections
09:53SPEAKERall on Craigslist.
09:54SPEAKER- You know what is kind of an interesting slice of life,
09:58SPEAKERlike digital culture question to me these days?
10:01SPEAKERIs there anyone in the dating pool
10:03SPEAKERwho does not do online dating stuff?
10:05SPEAKERAre there any purists out there at this point
10:07SPEAKERwho insist on only meeting people in person?
10:09SPEAKER- So the Discord, my Twitch Discord,
10:12SPEAKERwe have a fairly active group of younger people there
10:15SPEAKERand there's a lot of talk about the horrors
10:17SPEAKERof online dating.
10:19SPEAKERAnd I remain profoundly grateful
10:20SPEAKERthat my wife tolerates my bullshit long enough
10:22SPEAKERto not leave me alone.
10:24SPEAKER- Sure.
10:24SPEAKER- So.
10:25SPEAKER- Is it just something that quite literally
10:27SPEAKEReverybody does these days?
10:29SPEAKER- My impression, and I am sure people will correct us
10:32SPEAKERif we're wrong, is that it is an unavoidable,
10:37SPEAKERunavoidable horror of modern life.
10:40SPEAKER- Okay, glowing endorsement.
10:42SPEAKER- Yeah.
10:43SPEAKER- All right, I'm gonna read an email here.
10:45SPEAKER- Please do.
10:46SPEAKER- Have we dispensed with the preamble?
10:48SPEAKER- I mean, I feel like we can talk about the beard trimmers,
10:50SPEAKERbut I think that's gonna come up later, so.
10:52SPEAKER- Okay, yes, probably.
10:53SPEAKEROkay, all right, I'm gonna read this email from Xander first.
10:56SPEAKER- Hi, Xander.
10:57SPEAKER- Friend of the show.
11:00SPEAKERWhy is HDMI CEC such a nightmare?
11:04SPEAKERI have two Apple TVs with two different setups
11:06SPEAKERand they both have different problems.
11:08SPEAKERAsking to solve the problems seems more like torture,
11:11SPEAKERso instead I'm going to ask this.
11:13SPEAKERThere has to be a way to do testing
11:15SPEAKERand diagnostics with CEC, right?
11:17SPEAKERRight?
11:18SPEAKERHow does one actually verify where the signals are failing?
11:22SPEAKER- I'm sure that there is some expensive tool
11:24SPEAKERthat you can plug into an HDMI connection
11:27SPEAKERthat will tell you what your CEC,
11:28SPEAKERso CEC for people who don't know,
11:30SPEAKERis the thing that lets you control other devices
11:32SPEAKERon the HDMI chain with one device.
11:35SPEAKERSo.
11:36SPEAKER- What does this stand for?
11:36SPEAKERConsumer Electronics Control.
11:38SPEAKER- Yeah.
11:39SPEAKER- Yeah.
11:40SPEAKERSo I'm looking, so I have a similar,
11:44SPEAKERlike I have a situation in,
11:46SPEAKERApple TVs are weird, at least the first,
11:49SPEAKERlet's see, it's the third gen, I think.
11:51SPEAKERIt's not the white one.
11:52SPEAKERIt's not the first black small one.
11:56SPEAKERIt's the second black small one that uses an A4,
11:58SPEAKERlike an iPhone, it's basically an iPhone 4 without a screen
12:01SPEAKERthat you plug into your TV.
12:03SPEAKERAnd it runs all the modern apps.
12:05SPEAKERIt's like the first of the modern ones, does 1080p.
12:08SPEAKERThat one, if you plug it into a TV
12:12SPEAKERwith a receiver plugged into it,
12:13SPEAKERit will adjust the volume on the receiver.
12:15SPEAKERIf you just plug it into a TV,
12:17SPEAKERit will not adjust the volume of the TV with HDMI CEC.
12:20SPEAKERIt only does the TV volume with infrared
12:24SPEAKERthat comes out of the front of the remote.
12:26SPEAKERIt's profoundly annoying.
12:27SPEAKER- Well, great.
12:28SPEAKER- Well, 'cause that means that you can't use the app
12:30SPEAKERon your phone to adjust the volume on the TV,
12:33SPEAKERwhich is like, I don't know about you, I use an Apple TV.
12:37SPEAKERI almost exclusively use the remote app
12:40SPEAKERon the phone to control it.
12:43SPEAKERI don't know, it may be that you're not,
12:47SPEAKERlike CEC didn't support some stuff,
12:50SPEAKERdepending on what era of CEC you're talking about.
12:53SPEAKERLike it is a bad standard, we should probably do an episode.
12:55SPEAKERI think there's maybe an episode in this
12:56SPEAKERwhen I think about it.
12:57SPEAKER- You're probably not wrong,
12:58SPEAKERbut I also feel like it would be very hard
13:00SPEAKERto find documentation for like,
13:01SPEAKERthis seems like the kind of standard that was designed
13:03SPEAKERby like entertainment and television and EV companies
13:06SPEAKERthat don't necessarily have a lot of good workable experience
13:11SPEAKERdesigning standards.
13:12SPEAKERI don't know, you tell me.
13:13SPEAKER- Okay, so here's the thing.
13:15SPEAKEROne of the problems is that often,
13:17SPEAKERand I'm sure Xander figured this out,
13:18SPEAKERbut most, especially in the early days of CEC and ARC,
13:22SPEAKERARC is the audio return channel,
13:23SPEAKERwhich lets you get audio from a device plugged into your TV
13:29SPEAKERback into a receiver or a soundbar or something.
13:31SPEAKER- Like eARC is the more modern variant.
13:33SPEAKER- Yeah, like the CEC especially used to be called
13:36SPEAKERdifferent things, different manufacturers
13:38SPEAKERcalled it different things.
13:39SPEAKERLike Panasonic used to call it VieraLink.
13:41SPEAKERSamsung had a different name for it.
13:43SPEAKERThere's a bunch of them.
13:45SPEAKERAnd like even as recently as launch Xbox ones,
13:48SPEAKERthere were devices that just didn't support it.
13:50SPEAKER- Not devices that don't support it,
13:51SPEAKERbut devices that are very problematic with it.
13:53SPEAKERI mean, that persists to this day.
13:54SPEAKERI mean, the PlayStation 5, I can't say for sure,
13:56SPEAKERbut I had the problem where the PlayStation 5
13:59SPEAKERwas crashing every time it went into rest mode
14:01SPEAKERto the point that it had to be hard powered back on
14:03SPEAKERand had to like recover and check
14:05SPEAKERintegrity of storage every time and blah, blah, blah.
14:07SPEAKERAnd I finally solved it and I don't know exactly how,
14:09SPEAKERbut a lot of people think it's related to the PS5
14:12SPEAKERhandling CEC very poorly.
14:15SPEAKERThe MiSTer is famously awful with CEC.
14:19SPEAKERThe MiSTer is bad enough at CEC that I bought a thing
14:22SPEAKERthat basically doesn't connect to the CEC pins
14:25SPEAKERon either side of an HDMI adapter.
14:27SPEAKER- Did you get the Lindy one?
14:28SPEAKER- Yeah, yeah, I sent you the link to it.
14:30SPEAKERIt's the same one.
14:31SPEAKER- I should have gotten that one.
14:31SPEAKERI got a different one that's like a little six
14:34SPEAKERor eight inch HDMI cable that's supposedly,
14:36SPEAKERbut it has the exact same problems
14:38SPEAKERwhether I have that thing plugged in or not.
14:39SPEAKERAnd I'm 90% sure they didn't actually disconnect though.
14:43SPEAKERI need to continuity test it and see.
14:45SPEAKERI don't think they actually got the pin they said they did.
14:49SPEAKER- Yeah, I think it's different for everybody,
14:51SPEAKERbut my specific setup when I plugged the MiSTer
14:54SPEAKERinto my receiver over HDMI, leave it plugged in,
14:57SPEAKERturn the MiSTer off, turn the receiver off,
15:01SPEAKERthe receiver will not power back on again
15:03SPEAKERwhile the MiSTer is still connected.
15:04SPEAKERLike you hit the power button, use the remote.
15:06SPEAKERIt just like I, first time it happened,
15:08SPEAKERI literally spent about two hours assuming
15:12SPEAKERthat my receiver had died until I just thought
15:15SPEAKERto unplug the MiSTer from the HDMI.
15:16SPEAKERAnd like, not only did it work again,
15:19SPEAKERbut the second I pulled the MiSTer out of the HDMI,
15:22SPEAKERthe receiver came on on its own without any intervention.
15:25SPEAKERLike it was like, it was like it had queued
15:28SPEAKERand on command and like, it's weird, I don't know.
15:32SPEAKER- So mine, I have the same receiver and the same era TV
15:36SPEAKERfrom the same manufacturer as you.
15:38SPEAKERThe problem I had was that it crashed the CEC chain
15:40SPEAKERon everything that was plugged into HDMI.
15:43SPEAKERAnd I had to completely power down everything
15:45SPEAKERin the entertainment center to make it work again.
15:48SPEAKER- It seems like a bad technology.
15:50SPEAKERI, it's unpredictable and unreliable enough
15:54SPEAKERthat I would rather just turn it off on everything and suffer-
15:57SPEAKER- It's so convenient when it works though.
15:59SPEAKER- I'd rather just suffer through using
16:00SPEAKERall the different remotes and doing everything manually
16:03SPEAKERbecause having it behave in ways you don't want it to
16:06SPEAKERis so infuriating.
16:07SPEAKER- See, so the thing I will say is that I love having
16:10SPEAKERthe remote app on like the control center of my phone
16:14SPEAKERso much that I will tolerate a bunch of nonsense.
16:17SPEAKER- Also, I don't really have a whole lot of consoles
16:19SPEAKERhooked up to the TV in the, like it's just like,
16:21SPEAKERthe console is hooked up to the TV in the living room
16:22SPEAKERor a Switch and an Xbox Series S,
16:24SPEAKERboth of which seem to work fine.
16:26SPEAKERSo it's, I don't know, HCC sucks.
16:30SPEAKERThat's the TLDR.
16:31SPEAKER- So does HDMI for that matter.
16:32SPEAKER- HDMI is bad.
16:34SPEAKER- I was having, you know what?
16:35SPEAKERI was having all kinds of problems with the HDMI capture
16:39SPEAKERwith that Pi KVM.
16:40SPEAKERAnd you know what I did?
16:43SPEAKERI went and bought a display port to HDMI cable.
16:45SPEAKERAnd so I'm actually going out of the display port
16:47SPEAKERon the motherboard into the Pi KVM's HDMI.
16:50SPEAKERAnd sure enough, all those problems went away.
16:52SPEAKERNow it works perfectly.
16:54SPEAKERLike display port implements HDMI better than HDMI does.
16:59SPEAKER- I will say stuff like capturing live feed
17:02SPEAKERfrom a GoPro and stuff like that,
17:05SPEAKERhugely, hugely pain in the ass because of HDMI issues.
17:07SPEAKER- HDMI handshaking is a fucking awful boondoggle.
17:12SPEAKER- Okay, anyway, hey, we have a correction.
17:14SPEAKER- Yes.
17:15SPEAKER- We have corrections, actually.
17:16SPEAKER- You put these in here.
17:17SPEAKER- Yeah.
17:18SPEAKER- So I don't feel bad about reading these.
17:20SPEAKER- Yeah, no, no.
17:21SPEAKERSo, well, I was gonna say, so the,
17:22SPEAKERwell, go ahead and read them, I guess.
17:24SPEAKER- Okay, the first one comes from Collie.
17:27SPEAKERCouldn't help myself.
17:28SPEAKERHad to send in this correction for episode 151.
17:30SPEAKERWill very confidently corrected Brad,
17:32SPEAKERsaying the iPhone returned to its flat design
17:34SPEAKERlike the iPhone 4, starting with the iPhone 10.
17:37SPEAKERThis is super wrong.
17:38SPEAKERThey started that design aesthetic again
17:40SPEAKERfor the iPhone with the 12 in 2020.
17:42SPEAKERHe's probably thinking of the iPad Pro,
17:45SPEAKERwhich was like 2017 to 2018
17:47SPEAKERwhen they gave it that flat edge look.
17:49SPEAKERSo I actually have the iPad Pro 10.5 from 2017.
17:54SPEAKERThat one is not flat.
17:55SPEAKERMy girlfriend has the 11 inch Pro.
17:58SPEAKER- That's the one that's flat, right?
17:59SPEAKER- That was the first one that became flat.
18:01SPEAKERWe actually have those two models
18:02SPEAKERwhere that transition happens, so.
18:04SPEAKER- Yeah, and the thing I was thinking about
18:06SPEAKERwas the front glass,
18:07SPEAKERwhich it doesn't have the bulbous curve on it.
18:10SPEAKER- Yeah.
18:11SPEAKER- Not the bezel, I think, not the frame,
18:13SPEAKERwhich like the iPhone 10 frame is a little bit roundy,
18:17SPEAKERbut the glass is flat.
18:18SPEAKERSo there's no like bulging place
18:20SPEAKERthat the glass can explode on the 10.
18:22SPEAKER- I think we may have also gotten a little bit
18:24SPEAKERof the four and five design language talk wrong.
18:28SPEAKERRemember the five was the one with the chamfered edges?
18:30SPEAKERRemember chamfering?
18:30SPEAKER- The five had the chamfered edges,
18:32SPEAKERbut the four had flat edges that were kind of recessed.
18:34SPEAKER- So yeah, I think the four,
18:35SPEAKERI liked the five quite a bit.
18:37SPEAKERI have the five and I enjoy it.
18:38SPEAKERYou know why I liked the five is because-
18:40SPEAKER- You could monolith it.
18:41SPEAKER- Yes, the sides were still flat enough
18:43SPEAKERthat for some reason in meetings,
18:44SPEAKERI always like to stamp my phone up on the desk
18:47SPEAKERbecause I needed something to fiddle with
18:49SPEAKERin boring meetings.
18:50SPEAKER- I'm monolithing my 14 Pro right now.
18:52SPEAKER- Man, oh, that's great.
18:53SPEAKERShit, it feels pretty good.
18:55SPEAKER- I might eat.
18:56SPEAKER- Okay, feels good, man.
18:58SPEAKERThere's also another iPhone story correction.
19:01SPEAKERThe 14 is the first time that the second tier phone
19:04SPEAKERhad an old SOC.
19:05SPEAKER- Okay, interesting, all right.
19:06SPEAKER- I don't think it matters is the takeaway.
19:08SPEAKER- Probably not.
19:10SPEAKER- Having gone from a 13 Pro to a 14 Pro,
19:14SPEAKERI'm not feeling a whole lot of speed difference.
19:16SPEAKER- Oh, I mean, those, I mean,
19:18SPEAKERtheir chips are like industry leading, right?
19:21SPEAKERIn performance, like by a lot.
19:23SPEAKER- Stupid fast.
19:24SPEAKER- So yeah, I mean, it's more just the psychological,
19:27SPEAKERlike I don't want to pay for a new phone
19:30SPEAKERthat has the same guts as the old phone.
19:31SPEAKERThat feels bad.
19:32SPEAKER- The camera is a big enough improvement on the 14
19:35SPEAKERthat I feel okay about it.
19:36SPEAKERHonestly, the thing we didn't talk about
19:37SPEAKERin that iPhone episode is that if the 14
19:40SPEAKERhad the two right cameras on it,
19:42SPEAKERI would buy that instead of the Pro
19:44SPEAKERbecause the Pro's stainless body
19:46SPEAKERmakes the phone too damn heavy.
19:47SPEAKER- Oh.
19:48SPEAKER- Like the 14, so the 14 has the wide camera
19:52SPEAKERand the normal camera.
19:54SPEAKERThe cameras that I use are the normal camera
19:56SPEAKERand the telephoto camera, the wide camera I use
19:58SPEAKERfor like stupid shots and novelties and stuff.
20:02SPEAKERSo yeah, if I could get the telephoto
20:05SPEAKERand the normal lens on the 14,
20:06SPEAKERI would just buy that 'cause it's a little bit lighter.
20:08SPEAKER- Huh.
20:09SPEAKER- Yeah, or like, man, maybe make it a,
20:12SPEAKERlike I honestly, I wish the stainless frame was aluminum
20:15SPEAKERor titanium or something that wasn't quite so chunky.
20:19SPEAKER- I didn't expect it to make that big a difference.
20:21SPEAKER- It's heavy.
20:24SPEAKER- Okay, here's a question from The Cat's Meow.
20:28SPEAKERIf you could automate one household chore out of existence,
20:30SPEAKERwhat would it be?
20:31SPEAKERMan, that is tough.
20:32SPEAKER- Folding laundry.
20:33SPEAKER- Really?
20:34SPEAKER- I hate folding laundry.
20:36SPEAKER- I'm with you, so hmm.
20:39SPEAKER- We have so much laundry 'cause we have a kid.
20:41SPEAKER- Okay, fair.
20:42SPEAKER- She's a constant generator of dirty clothes.
20:44SPEAKER- I don't know if you're like me.
20:46SPEAKERI tend to, in situations like that
20:48SPEAKERor dishwashing or whatever,
20:49SPEAKERI like the front end of the process better than the back end
20:52SPEAKERlike I don't mind doing laundry.
20:54SPEAKERI hate folding it.
20:55SPEAKERI don't mind like loading a dishwasher.
20:57SPEAKERI don't like unloading it.
20:58SPEAKER- Yeah, the rule in our house,
20:59SPEAKERand Gina has called me out on this many times,
21:01SPEAKERlike I'm happy to load the dishes,
21:03SPEAKERload the washing machine and change it into the dryer
21:06SPEAKERand then take it and dump the clothes onto the bed
21:08SPEAKERto await folding.
21:10SPEAKERI don't like folding.
21:12SPEAKERI actually like unloading the dishwasher
21:14SPEAKER'cause it's like a game to see how fast I can do it.
21:16SPEAKER- Oh, so you know what I was about to say?
21:17SPEAKERI think I just made the synaptic connections
21:20SPEAKERabout why I like loading the dishwasher.
21:22SPEAKERIt's because it's like an efficiency-based puzzle game.
21:24SPEAKERIt's like how efficiently can I load this thing
21:27SPEAKERand get the most in there without overloading it?
21:29SPEAKERLike it's a thing you can look at.
21:32SPEAKER- Yeah, totally.
21:33SPEAKERIt's like a thing you can look at
21:34SPEAKERand logic your way through,
21:35SPEAKERwhereas unloading the dishwasher requires a lot of knowledge
21:39SPEAKERof where my partner thinks all the dishes should go.
21:42SPEAKERShe's way better. - You've been in that house
21:43SPEAKERfor like 10 years, how do you not know?
21:45SPEAKER- Let's say the paradigm changes on a somewhat regular basis.
21:49SPEAKER- Oh yeah, we're pretty static over here.
21:51SPEAKER- Anyway, I like a thing I can just look at
21:53SPEAKERand intuit solutions to and not a thing
21:55SPEAKERwhere I need to know where everything goes.
21:57SPEAKER- Let me ask you this.
21:58SPEAKERWhen you're loading silverware into the silverware buckets,
22:03SPEAKERdo you sort them?
22:04SPEAKERDo you like, I assume for years in the dishwasher,
22:08SPEAKERyou know, the little thing where you put the silverware
22:10SPEAKERhas like tubs, right?
22:12SPEAKERThere's like one. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
22:13SPEAKERYou know, I absolutely not.
22:13SPEAKER- Do you put all the same things in the tubs?
22:15SPEAKER- Hell no.
22:16SPEAKER- See, I put all the same things in the tub.
22:17SPEAKERSo then when you're unloading,
22:18SPEAKERyou just reach in and grab it
22:20SPEAKERand they all just go straight in the tray.
22:21SPEAKER- That would make some sense, yes.
22:23SPEAKER- Also, I learned this, this is a wire cutter tip.
22:27SPEAKERYou do forks and spoons up, knives down
22:32SPEAKERfor maximum cleanliness and fewest spots.
22:35SPEAKER- Interesting, interesting.
22:36SPEAKERI want to remember that.
22:37SPEAKER- Yeah.
22:39SPEAKER- Of course, this is all purely academic for me
22:41SPEAKERas our dishwasher is still broken.
22:43SPEAKER- What?
22:44SPEAKERDude, you should just go buy a dishwasher
22:46SPEAKERand then take it off of your rent.
22:47SPEAKERThat is, you are legally entitled to do that.
22:50SPEAKER- I know you've said that,
22:51SPEAKERbut then he is also legally entitled
22:52SPEAKERto raise the rent subsequently.
22:54SPEAKERHe cannot retaliate against you for replacing anything,
23:00SPEAKERthe service that your apartment is supposed to provide.
23:02SPEAKER- I'm sure that he would argue all day long
23:06SPEAKERthat those two events are completely unrelated.
23:08SPEAKER- Uh-huh.
23:09SPEAKER- He hasn't raised the rent in two or three years, I think.
23:11SPEAKERAnd kind of also extremely contrary to popular perception,
23:18SPEAKERwe are not rent controlled here.
23:20SPEAKER- Yeah, no, I know.
23:21SPEAKER- Our rent has gone up a lot.
23:23SPEAKER- Yeah, it's doubled since I've known you, I think.
23:25SPEAKER- Yes.
23:28SPEAKERI don't know.
23:28SPEAKERIt is a constant struggle.
23:30SPEAKERYou know what?
23:31SPEAKERI don't, this is really-
23:32SPEAKER- He pays for your water though, right?
23:34SPEAKER- Yes.
23:34SPEAKER- You're using so much more water
23:36SPEAKERbecause the dishwasher doesn't work?
23:38SPEAKER- Given his predilection for not spending money
23:42SPEAKERon fixing up this apartment or spending money generally,
23:44SPEAKERI should maybe make that argument to him.
23:46SPEAKERLike, "Hey, we're wasting a lot of water.
23:47SPEAKERIt's probably really coming out of the water bill."
23:49SPEAKER- Water and hot water too.
23:51SPEAKER- I bet that might move him to action.
23:53SPEAKER- I mean, shit man, a dishwasher is like $400.
23:56SPEAKER- Here's the problem is that he put it on us
24:01SPEAKERto instead of arranging a replacement or repair himself,
24:04SPEAKERhe was like, "Okay, get somebody in to fix it
24:06SPEAKERand then I'll pay for it."
24:07SPEAKERAnd I started calling appliance repair places
24:10SPEAKERand that's a long story, but the dishwasher is so old
24:15SPEAKERthat most of them don't even want to come look at it.
24:17SPEAKER- I'm gonna go and tell you
24:17SPEAKERif you have a six month old dishwasher,
24:20SPEAKERappliance repair prices don't want to fuck with dishwashers
24:22SPEAKERbecause they are an enormous pain in the ass to fix.
24:24SPEAKER- So this one, I look at the model number,
24:25SPEAKERI believe this one's from 2001.
24:27SPEAKER- Yeah, like it will cost you less to buy a $500 dishwasher
24:32SPEAKERthan it will to repair that dishwasher probably,
24:34SPEAKERassuming you can even get the part.
24:35SPEAKER- Yeah, I think I need to just pitch him on,
24:37SPEAKERhey, a modern dishwasher would probably be not much more
24:42SPEAKERthan the repair process and it would probably save you
24:44SPEAKERa bunch on the water bill.
24:45SPEAKER- If you get like a high efficiency Bosch
24:47SPEAKERthat'll cost like seven or $800,
24:50SPEAKERyou'll use a lot less water and a lot less electricity.
24:53SPEAKER- Man, you know what?
24:54SPEAKERI might contact the landlord this weekend.
24:56SPEAKER- Send him a note, send him a nice note.
24:58SPEAKERMaybe take him a bagel or something.
25:00SPEAKER- The reason this has stretched so long
25:01SPEAKERis that dealing with all this stuff
25:04SPEAKERis a huge, protracted headache.
25:07SPEAKERDoing the dishes every day is like 20 or 30 minutes,
25:09SPEAKERyou know what I mean?
25:10SPEAKERIt's like we can summon the time and energy
25:13SPEAKERto do the dishes by hand in a way that we can't seem
25:16SPEAKERto go through this Byzantine process
25:18SPEAKERof dealing with all these parties.
25:21SPEAKER- Look, when our dishwasher broke, Gina and I did,
25:24SPEAKERIvan Denisovich rules, which meant one spoon
25:26SPEAKERand one set of utensils a day.
25:28SPEAKER- Okay.
25:30SPEAKER- It made things a lot easier.
25:31SPEAKER- Interesting.
25:32SPEAKER- Yeah.
25:33SPEAKER- Good to know.
25:33SPEAKER- Yeah, you just chop your bread to make your tooth marks
25:36SPEAKERso you know that that one's yours.
25:38SPEAKER- I would actually answer this question real quick
25:40SPEAKERbefore we move on with dusting.
25:43SPEAKER- I like dusting.
25:44SPEAKER- I hate dusting.
25:45SPEAKERI don't mind the process of dusting.
25:48SPEAKER- Yeah.
25:49SPEAKER- What I mind is like two minutes after I dusted,
25:50SPEAKERlooking at the surface and noticing,
25:52SPEAKERoh, there's dust on it again.
25:53SPEAKERLike it's not, if I could dust like once,
25:57SPEAKEReven a week I'd say, if I could dust once a week
25:59SPEAKERand see no dust until a week later, I'd be fine.
26:02SPEAKERBut the problem is dust is always lurking.
26:04SPEAKERWhat I really would like to do here
26:06SPEAKERis eliminate the concept of dust.
26:07SPEAKER- Well, what you need to do is put yourself
26:09SPEAKERin a giant baggie 'cause you're the dust maker.
26:11SPEAKER- I know, that's the worst part.
26:13SPEAKER- Yeah.
26:14SPEAKER- It's disgusting.
26:15SPEAKER- Do you, I turn on the air filters super high when I dust.
26:20SPEAKERI don't know if it makes a difference,
26:21SPEAKERbut it makes me feel better.
26:22SPEAKER- Yeah, we do have plenty of air filters
26:24SPEAKERfrom room to room here.
26:25SPEAKERI mean, the biggest problem
26:26SPEAKERis we have to open the windows a lot.
26:28SPEAKER- Yeah.
26:29SPEAKER- For ventilation purposes.
26:30SPEAKER- Yeah, same, same.
26:31SPEAKER- And you know how that goes.
26:33SPEAKER- Yeah, especially in the city, this situation is grim.
26:36SPEAKER- It's bad.
26:37SPEAKER- Yeah, anyways.
26:38SPEAKER- Okay.
26:41SPEAKER- How about a question from Warbird?
26:48SPEAKERWho's your dream guest for the tech pod and/or FOSS pod?
26:52SPEAKER- Oh, I don't know how I say that out loud.
26:53SPEAKER- Really?
26:54SPEAKERWell, okay, my actual dream being the operative word here,
26:59SPEAKERmy actual answer that I don't mind saying
27:01SPEAKER'cause it's impossible is Carl Sagan.
27:03SPEAKERLike literal dream, like anything is possible guest.
27:07SPEAKER- Yeah.
27:08SPEAKER- I think if I could literally get anybody on, well,
27:12SPEAKERactually if we're literally saying anyone
27:14SPEAKERfrom all of human history, maybe he would not be number one.
27:18SPEAKER- It's like Galileo number one.
27:20SPEAKER- Right.
27:21SPEAKER- I don't speak Italian though.
27:25SPEAKER- I mean, I think at that point,
27:26SPEAKERyou would probably want to talk to someone
27:28SPEAKERfrom a period of history that is poorly documented.
27:31SPEAKER- Isaac, let's be cool.
27:32SPEAKER- Let's get the curator of the library of Alexandra on.
27:36SPEAKER- Ooh, that's an interesting idea.
27:38SPEAKERI think, I don't know.
27:41SPEAKER- Alexandria, I'm sorry.
27:43SPEAKER- I think the library of Alexandra is a different thing.
27:46SPEAKER- Yes.
27:47SPEAKER- I think the, I mean, maybe Turing would be interesting.
27:53SPEAKERI mean, he's another dream guest.
27:55SPEAKERLet's see, people who are still alive though,
27:58SPEAKERwho's the dream guest?
28:00SPEAKERWho is the like, I don't know,
28:02SPEAKERmaybe somebody who's at Xerox PARC in like the early days.
28:05SPEAKERSomebody like that.
28:08SPEAKERThis has been discussed both, I think on the discord
28:11SPEAKERand like privately among us.
28:13SPEAKERI would love to talk to some original Unix folks,
28:17SPEAKERlike Ken Thompson or Brian Kernighan.
28:22SPEAKERSome of those guys, they're still kind of around in academia.
28:25SPEAKER- Yeah, they're like, they're the people who were like,
28:28SPEAKERthey kicked off the whole thing.
28:29SPEAKER- Yeah, I mean, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
28:31SPEAKERlike literally wrote Unix, like the first Unix.
28:34SPEAKERKen Thompson, I think wrote the kernel
28:36SPEAKERof Unix, original Unix.
28:38SPEAKER- Yeah, that would be cool.
28:40SPEAKER- Yes.
28:42SPEAKER- Yeah, I think, yeah, like I don't,
28:46SPEAKERI never had the opportunity to interview Bill Gates
28:48SPEAKERwhen he was still at Microsoft,
28:49SPEAKERbut like we were close to it a couple of times
28:52SPEAKERand it's kind of like, I don't know what I would ask.
28:55SPEAKERPeople like that have been interviewed so much,
28:57SPEAKERit's hard to like, you want to find new questions
28:59SPEAKERand new things to talk to them about,
29:01SPEAKERthings that they haven't answered in interviews
29:03SPEAKERa thousand times before, right?
29:05SPEAKERSo like, I don't know, but like once upon a time,
29:08SPEAKERI might've said Johnny Ive, but I don't,
29:10SPEAKERI in, given what we know now,
29:12SPEAKERI feel like he's maybe the least interesting part
29:14SPEAKERof that whole thing.
29:15SPEAKER- Sure.
29:17SPEAKER- I feel like he was just standing in the corner saying,
29:19SPEAKERmake it thinner, thinner, thinner.
29:23SPEAKER- He's responsible for the great rounding.
29:25SPEAKER- Yeah, exactly.
29:28SPEAKER- Okay, shipmate Clive.
29:31SPEAKERI've recently moved into an old house,
29:32SPEAKERwhich comes with features including walls impenetrable
29:35SPEAKERto wifi and old wiring.
29:36SPEAKERThis means I get to live out Brad stream of wiring,
29:40SPEAKERthe whole place with ethernet.
29:42SPEAKERAnother interesting feature of the house is a fire safe
29:44SPEAKERwe found in the garage.
29:46SPEAKERIt dates from around the 1880s is the size of a refrigerator
29:51SPEAKERand weighs 300 kilograms or 660 pounds or 47 stone.
29:57SPEAKER- Wow.
29:57SPEAKER- It's not really worth much and difficult to move.
29:59SPEAKERSo I thought I might make use of it.
30:01SPEAKERMy questions are, have there been any big advancements
30:05SPEAKERin fire safe tech in the last 140 years
30:08SPEAKERI'd be missing out on?
30:10SPEAKERAnd what would you keep in a fire safe?
30:12SPEAKER- Okay, I don't know anything about fire safe tech
30:15SPEAKERover the, over history.
30:17SPEAKER- Over the long period, he included pictures here,
30:20SPEAKERwhich we might maybe try to put those in the show notes
30:22SPEAKERor something. - It's pretty big.
30:23SPEAKER- It's a big and very old looking safe.
30:25SPEAKERIt's got a very cool looking metal seal on the front.
30:28SPEAKER- There's a subreddit for this.
30:29SPEAKERDo you follow the what's in me or what?
30:31SPEAKER- The what with, let me guess is that people finding things
30:35SPEAKERthat are locked that they're trying to get open
30:36SPEAKERand see what's in there.
30:37SPEAKER- Yep, as explicitly what it is.
30:40SPEAKERLet me get the, I think it's what is in it.
30:43SPEAKERI think, I can't remember.
30:45SPEAKERYou gotta be careful searching for inside things on Reddit
30:48SPEAKER'cause sometimes you get things that you're not
30:49SPEAKERmaybe looking for.
30:53SPEAKERBut yeah, like I, so I'm not comfortable speaking
30:58SPEAKERto the usefulness in terms of protecting your fires.
31:01SPEAKERIt's probably lined with asbestos or something
31:03SPEAKERthat's really toxic now.
31:05SPEAKERThat's fine as long as you don't disturb it.
31:07SPEAKERSo it's what's in this thing is the subreddit.
31:12SPEAKERThere's, I follow three what something,
31:14SPEAKERsomething, something subreddits.
31:16SPEAKERWhat is this thing, which is like mystery objects
31:18SPEAKERthat people don't know what they are.
31:19SPEAKERThat one's really good.
31:20SPEAKERWhat's in this thing, which is opening shit
31:22SPEAKERthat people can't figure out how to open.
31:24SPEAKERAnd then what's wrong with your dog,
31:26SPEAKERwhich is just poopy pictures of dogs.
31:28SPEAKER- Yeah, that's kind of harsh.
31:31SPEAKER- It's a pretty good subreddit.
31:34SPEAKERAnyway. - What is wrong
31:35SPEAKERwith your dog?
31:36SPEAKER- So I keep documents, I keep a hard drive
31:40SPEAKERthat is like a deep, long term backup of the NAS.
31:46SPEAKERSometimes it's two hard drives,
31:47SPEAKERdepending on how big the hard drives are
31:49SPEAKERand how big the NAS has gotten.
31:52SPEAKERI keep a spare hardware key, a spare YubiKey
31:55SPEAKERwith all the two factor stuff on it.
31:58SPEAKERIt's like a, it's basically a second hardware key
32:02SPEAKERto get back into my main email accounts
32:04SPEAKERand stuff like that Dropbox and all that.
32:05SPEAKER- That's smart.
32:07SPEAKER- That's pretty, oh, and paper copies of the recovery keys
32:12SPEAKERfor the key, for the key things
32:14SPEAKERin case all the computers are fucked up
32:16SPEAKERand my phone is lost.
32:17SPEAKER- Do you think things like passport are fire safe material
32:20SPEAKERor is that a little too like grab and go?
32:21SPEAKERLike you kind of want that a little more accessible.
32:23SPEAKER- My passport is expired, I think now.
32:27SPEAKER'Cause it expired during the pandemic
32:28SPEAKERand I haven't bothered to get it redone yet.
32:31SPEAKERI don't put stuff like that.
32:32SPEAKERI put like house documents, like mortgage,
32:35SPEAKERlike our house paper stuff, car titles are in there.
32:43SPEAKERI can't think of what else.
32:45SPEAKERIt's not, it's not like, I don't know,
32:47SPEAKERnot a lot of real exciting stuff in there.
32:50SPEAKERI don't know that I would trust a 140 year old.
32:52SPEAKERLike, I don't know, what do you think?
32:54SPEAKERI'm like, I'm A, maybe the 140 year old,
33:00SPEAKERlike the 140 year old fire safe
33:01SPEAKERis probably better than the $100 fire safe
33:03SPEAKERyou'd buy at Office Depot.
33:05SPEAKER- You think so?
33:05SPEAKERI don't know, like there's a picture here of the door open
33:08SPEAKERand it kind of just looks like metal on metal.
33:10SPEAKER- Yeah, but there's probably stuff inside there.
33:13SPEAKERProbably insulation in there, it's like I said, lousy.
33:16SPEAKER- It's a big kind of seal on the front,
33:17SPEAKERsays Milner's patent fire resisting.
33:21SPEAKER- Yeah, fire resisting and fire proof
33:22SPEAKERare two different things.
33:23SPEAKERLike if I have water resisting and waterproof,
33:25SPEAKERI treat those differently.
33:26SPEAKER- What is the locking mechanism?
33:28SPEAKERI can't.
33:28SPEAKER- It has like big chunky things.
33:30SPEAKERIt might just be a door.
33:31SPEAKERIt might not be like a, it might not actually lock lock.
33:35SPEAKER- Yeah, that might be true.
33:36SPEAKERI might trust this as a safe,
33:38SPEAKERbut perhaps not as a fire resistant safe.
33:41SPEAKER- I don't know.
33:42SPEAKER- Let's hope that you never have to find out.
33:44SPEAKER- Yeah.
33:45SPEAKER- Is what I would say.
33:46SPEAKER- Yeah.
33:47SPEAKER- Here's one more thing.
33:48SPEAKERI don't know why I just thought of this.
33:50SPEAKERI've been like cleaning and purging the house,
33:52SPEAKERgetting rid of old clutter and stuff.
33:54SPEAKER- Yeah.
33:55SPEAKER- I found, I don't know, I don't know how this happened.
33:59SPEAKERI don't know how it ended up with me.
34:01SPEAKERI'm not gonna say who.
34:03SPEAKER- Wow.
34:04SPEAKER- Somehow mixed into a bunch of old papers from the office.
34:06SPEAKERI have the birth certificate of someone
34:08SPEAKERthat we used to work with.
34:11SPEAKER- Wait, what?
34:12SPEAKER- I think it must've been floating around an office
34:14SPEAKERat some point.
34:15SPEAKER- Like a notarized one?
34:16SPEAKER- I'd have to go grab it.
34:18SPEAKER- Or is it just a copy?
34:20SPEAKER- You should give that to them.
34:21SPEAKER- I probably should.
34:22SPEAKER- Like the embossed one?
34:24SPEAKER- I don't know if it was embossed,
34:25SPEAKERbut it definitely looked like officially printed and stuff.
34:27SPEAKERI have no idea why that was around the office
34:29SPEAKERin the first place, let alone how it.
34:31SPEAKER- You have to show that if you don't have a passport
34:35SPEAKERto prove that you're an American.
34:37SPEAKER- I bet anything that's what it was.
34:39SPEAKERLike somebody brought it, the person in question
34:41SPEAKERlike needed to get national travel arranged
34:44SPEAKERand like left it in the office
34:45SPEAKERand it just got mixed into stuff.
34:46SPEAKERYou're right, I should probably track them down.
34:48SPEAKER- Yeah, you should give that to them.
34:50SPEAKER- Or just shred it, I don't know.
34:52SPEAKER- Yeah, yeah.
34:53SPEAKERI mean, maybe there's an address you could send it back to.
34:59SPEAKERI know that we had a family fire in my parents' youth,
35:02SPEAKERmy dad's youth, and their fire safe protected the paper,
35:07SPEAKERbut all the family silver was in there,
35:08SPEAKERgot melted down into a puddle.
35:11SPEAKERAnd then they had the silver recast
35:14SPEAKERinto different silverware after that point.
35:16SPEAKER- That's kind of neat.
35:17SPEAKERThat's kind of cool to take the raw materials
35:19SPEAKERand make something else useful out of it.
35:20SPEAKER- Yeah, they took a big old block of puddled silver
35:22SPEAKERand yeah, it also ruined a lot of the paper
35:25SPEAKERthat was underneath the silver, it turns out.
35:27SPEAKERSo put anything that might melt at the bottom of the safe,
35:29SPEAKERnot at the top of the safe.
35:30SPEAKER- I can imagine that might be the case.
35:32SPEAKERDo you think, I wonder if,
35:33SPEAKERdo you think any other metals mixed into the silver?
35:36SPEAKERDo you think any other metals mixed into that silver?
35:40SPEAKER- Look, I'm not a metallurgist, metallurgist.
35:46SPEAKER- All right.
35:47SPEAKER- Yeah, what do we got?
35:49SPEAKER- The requisite cake batter question.
35:51SPEAKER- Oh, always.
35:53SPEAKER- What's your opinion on Kermit replacing Spider-Man?
35:55SPEAKERHe has linked to the,
35:57SPEAKERhe's linked to the somebody took Marvel Spider-Man,
35:59SPEAKERthe insomniac one, since it launched on PC
36:02SPEAKERand just replaced the Spider-Man model with Kermit the Frog.
36:05SPEAKER- This is fantastic, this is the best thing I've ever seen.
36:08SPEAKER- So, trying to think how to say this.
36:12SPEAKERI think PC mods, PC game mods,
36:16SPEAKERwhere you just replace a character model
36:18SPEAKERwith another character model
36:19SPEAKERare both the lowest hanging fruit as far as mods go,
36:24SPEAKERbut also consistently hilarious.
36:26SPEAKER- It's technically pretty hard for what it's worth.
36:29SPEAKER- Yeah, I'm sure there are tons of ins and outs
36:30SPEAKERabout getting animation to line up
36:32SPEAKERand not just freak out or everywhere.
36:34SPEAKER- Making your rig compatible and all that is hard.
36:36SPEAKER- Yeah, yeah, I'm sure there is actually quite a bit of,
36:39SPEAKERbut I guess I mean more like creatively.
36:43SPEAKERBut it just continues to be hilarious.
36:47SPEAKERLike it never doesn't work.
36:50SPEAKER- Yeah, and it's one of those things that like,
36:51SPEAKERit's like getting the perfect character
36:57SPEAKERto swap out to is the key.
37:00SPEAKER'Cause like, if this had been Fozzie Bear, not funny,
37:02SPEAKERbut the picture of Kermit with his weird spindly legs
37:05SPEAKERflailing out in the traditional Spider-Man pose,
37:08SPEAKERit's hilarious, it's really good, I love it.
37:11SPEAKER- Favorite all-time character swap mod.
37:13SPEAKER- Shrek for the tank in Left 4 Dead.
37:16SPEAKER- Oh, I've never seen that, that's not bad.
37:18SPEAKER- That one's a pretty good one.
37:19SPEAKER- Nothing will ever come close for me
37:21SPEAKERto the macho man Randy Savage dragon
37:25SPEAKERin the intro of Skyrim, have you seen that?
37:28SPEAKER- No, that's really funny.
37:30SPEAKER- Are you kidding me, are you kidding?
37:33SPEAKERLook, it's the same dragon, they just replaced the head.
37:36SPEAKER- Yeah.
37:37SPEAKER- It's really, it's more of the voice work.
37:38SPEAKERIt's that they replaced, they literally just went in
37:41SPEAKERand replaced the shouts of the dragon with macho man quotes
37:44SPEAKERand then they, so they get the reverb on 'em
37:46SPEAKERwhen the game engine plays them back,
37:48SPEAKERlike when he goes yeah, like it sounds like it is echoing.
37:52SPEAKER- It's like I'm a queen with a crop.
37:53SPEAKER- It sounds like it is echoing across the mountain range.
37:56SPEAKER- Oh, that's fucking incredible.
37:56SPEAKER- It's really funny, this is really funny.
38:00SPEAKER- It's good stuff, all right, how about a question
38:06SPEAKERfrom Cooper, gosh, Cooper Cooper Co.
38:14SPEAKERWhat do you do with your digital photos?
38:16SPEAKERI recently had a data loss scare
38:17SPEAKERand thought I was able to recover everything, I'm sorry,
38:20SPEAKERand though I was able to recover everything,
38:21SPEAKERit led me down a rabbit hole of how many photos I have
38:24SPEAKERthat just hide on hard drives largely forgotten.
38:27SPEAKERThis led me to look into digital frames,
38:29SPEAKERwhich seems like a market now filled
38:30SPEAKERwith overpriced relatively low res screens
38:32SPEAKERthat require a proprietary cloud system to add photos.
38:36SPEAKERHave either of you figured out a way
38:37SPEAKERto more regularly surface your old digital photos
38:39SPEAKERor do they just largely sit
38:41SPEAKERin hopefully well-organized folders
38:43SPEAKERwaiting for you to come across them?
38:44SPEAKERVery much the latter for me.
38:46SPEAKER- Oh, I upload them all to Google Photos
38:48SPEAKERand then I have those Google Nest hubs around the house
38:51SPEAKERthat show the photos all the time.
38:53SPEAKER- That's cool, and are they categorized
38:55SPEAKERby timeframe, year, or whatever?
38:57SPEAKERDo you keep the metadata?
38:58SPEAKER- So the metadata stays, they use the metadata.
39:01SPEAKERI found out the other day that one of our family members
39:04SPEAKERhas been taking photos for upwards of five years
39:06SPEAKERwith the location data stripped
39:08SPEAKERbecause they never put allow on location data for the camera.
39:12SPEAKER- That stinks.
39:13SPEAKER- Yeah, I was sad about that.
39:14SPEAKER- That's unfortunate.
39:16SPEAKER- But so the way the Google thing works
39:19SPEAKERis you can say, okay, show everything in the library,
39:21SPEAKERor you can say, just show these people
39:22SPEAKERand animals and places.
39:24SPEAKERAnd so I made a dynamic folder
39:27SPEAKERthat adds new people constantly, new places constantly,
39:30SPEAKERand the only bummer is on sad anniversaries
39:36SPEAKERor anniversaries of somebody's passing
39:38SPEAKERor something like that, you often see bummer photos.
39:40SPEAKER- I have had that experience too
39:42SPEAKERwith dynamic photo serving, and it really sucks.
39:45SPEAKER- Yeah.
39:46SPEAKER- Is Google Photos good about exposing
39:49SPEAKERthe original files to you?
39:50SPEAKERCan you make sure you're getting the exact same?
39:52SPEAKER'Cause the thing that has stopped me
39:54SPEAKERfrom using stuff like Flickr for a long time
39:56SPEAKERis maybe this is more of a problem with stuff like Imgur.
39:59SPEAKER- Yeah. - Generally they'll run it
40:00SPEAKERthrough some less than ideal compression
40:02SPEAKERand make it hard to, or in some cases impossible
40:05SPEAKERto get to the original file.
40:07SPEAKER- So Google Photos will let you store the originals
40:10SPEAKERat the full size, they'll also recompress them
40:13SPEAKERto their proprietary, better compression standard.
40:18SPEAKERAnd you basically get like a count,
40:21SPEAKERthey don't count, the ones that you let them recompress,
40:24SPEAKERthey don't count towards your data total.
40:26SPEAKER- Oh, that's cool.
40:27SPEAKER- I just store the originals.
40:28SPEAKER- Okay.
40:29SPEAKER- 'Cause it's like, I don't know,
40:30SPEAKERit's like 100 bucks a year to store all the photos,
40:33SPEAKERlike as many photos as I've ever taken.
40:35SPEAKER- Yeah.
40:36SPEAKER- And it just comes out of my OneDrive storage.
40:38SPEAKERSo it's not like I have a separate service,
40:39SPEAKERI just pay for OneDrive.
40:41SPEAKER- That's cool.
40:41SPEAKER- And Gmail storage and photos storage and other stuff.
40:45SPEAKER- Yeah, to be clear, like recompressed files
40:46SPEAKERto serve on your Nest screens or whatever, totally fine.
40:50SPEAKER- Yeah, but I'm using this as like my deep backup too,
40:53SPEAKER'cause I store them on photos
40:55SPEAKERand then I also pull the photos thing down
40:56SPEAKERfrom to the input on the NAS every once in a while.
40:59SPEAKER- That's what I mean is like, you know,
41:00SPEAKERjust in the event that say you wanna switch
41:02SPEAKERto a different photo service,
41:03SPEAKERyou wanna be able to get the original files
41:05SPEAKERand upload those to the new service
41:06SPEAKERand not like go through a game of telephone compression.
41:10SPEAKER- Yeah, well, the nice thing is with the Google takeout thing
41:12SPEAKERyou can just say, hey, I want all the photos
41:14SPEAKERand it'll grab them.
41:15SPEAKER- Google takeout's kind of wild
41:16SPEAKERbecause that's also the tool you use
41:17SPEAKERto get like your entire YouTube history, right?
41:19SPEAKER- YouTube history, Gmail, everything.
41:22SPEAKER- You can pull all these source video files
41:24SPEAKERthat you have uploaded to YouTube
41:25SPEAKERfrom the beginning of the account down,
41:27SPEAKERwhich is kind of wild.
41:28SPEAKER- Yeah.
41:31SPEAKER- Okay, you highlighted this.
41:33SPEAKERI assume you have something to say about it from Jordan L.
41:36SPEAKER"Gentlemen, I need to build a watermelon slicer.
41:40SPEAKERThink a mandolin, but four to six times bigger.
41:44SPEAKERHow do I attempt to safely?
41:46SPEAKERHave you ever thought of building something
41:47SPEAKERand then you question whether you want to proceed
41:49SPEAKERbased on the danger, did you proceed?"
41:52SPEAKER- So the first question is I'm gonna say
41:54SPEAKERrather than a mandolin for a watermelon,
41:56SPEAKERwhat you want is like a band saw.
42:01SPEAKER- A band slaw?
42:02SPEAKER- A band slaw.
42:03SPEAKERA band saw like bread slicer type machine
42:06SPEAKERwhere it's like multiple ribbon saws
42:10SPEAKERthat are the distance apart you want.
42:14SPEAKEROr alternately, you could do it like a deli slicer
42:18SPEAKERwhere it's a band saw with a slide on it
42:21SPEAKERthat lets you just band saw the watermelon down.
42:24SPEAKERLike a cold cut slicer.
42:27SPEAKERAnd yeah, my job, it turns out,
42:30SPEAKERat Tested in the MythBusters years was often saying,
42:33SPEAKER"No, I don't think that's safe and we shouldn't do that."
42:37SPEAKEROne of the MythBusters was very responsible with safety
42:40SPEAKERand the other one was also responsible with safety,
42:42SPEAKERbut with a little bit of a chaos agent.
42:46SPEAKER- A bit of a devil-may-care attitude.
42:48SPEAKER- A bit of a, like he knew it was safe
42:51SPEAKERand was confident it was safe,
42:53SPEAKERbut part of my role was to make sure
42:57SPEAKERthat we exercised the conversation
42:59SPEAKERso that we all were convinced that it was safe
43:00SPEAKERand it wasn't just like living safe in his head.
43:03SPEAKER- Gee, I wonder which one was which.
43:05SPEAKER- So the project I'm thinking of is when Jamie said,
43:09SPEAKER"The trees next to my house are blocking my view.
43:12SPEAKERThey're on my property and I want to trim the tops of them,
43:14SPEAKERbut I don't want to have to get a helicopter
43:16SPEAKERor a cherry picker to do that.
43:17SPEAKERWhy don't we just put some buzzsaw blades
43:19SPEAKERon the front of this drone
43:20SPEAKERand cut off the tops of these trees?"
43:23SPEAKERAnd I was like, "You live in downtown San Francisco
43:25SPEAKERin a place where if the drone goes out of control
43:27SPEAKERlike it did on a shoot last week
43:29SPEAKERwith the buzzing saw blades,
43:31SPEAKERyou could do some serious damage and/or murder someone."
43:34SPEAKERSo we went to a quarry in Santa Cruz to test it.
43:39SPEAKER- And?
43:40SPEAKER- It worked okay.
43:41SPEAKERIt wasn't great.
43:42SPEAKERIt turns out you need to be able to push against something
43:44SPEAKERto get the saws to work.
43:45SPEAKERIt took us a couple of iterations on it.
43:46SPEAKEREventually it worked.
43:47SPEAKERIt was fucking terrifying every single time we fired up
43:50SPEAKER'cause basically it was like two little,
43:53SPEAKERhe put two high-speed circular saw blades
44:00SPEAKERthat counter-rotated so they didn't make the drone rotate
44:04SPEAKERand then put them on snappers
44:06SPEAKERthat kind of crab clawed the two blades together
44:11SPEAKERand he would fly them into a tree
44:14SPEAKERand try to hit the tree with the blades
44:19SPEAKERin such a way that the drone didn't...
44:20SPEAKERIt was, like I said, we did it from far away.
44:26SPEAKER- Okay.
44:26SPEAKER- It was exciting.
44:27SPEAKER- So this video did in fact get made?
44:29SPEAKER- We posted a video.
44:30SPEAKERI don't think it's on the YouTube channel.
44:31SPEAKER- I don't think any amount of testing beforehand
44:33SPEAKERcould ever make me feel confident
44:35SPEAKERthat that was a good idea.
44:35SPEAKERLike you just can't account for something going wrong
44:38SPEAKEReven if it passed whatever test run you gave it.
44:42SPEAKER- Yeah, we went to a quarry,
44:44SPEAKERan unused quarry down near Santa Cruz
44:47SPEAKERthat people used to test dangerous things
44:51SPEAKERand had walls on three sides
44:52SPEAKERand the other side faced the ocean.
44:54SPEAKERSo even if the drone lost signal
44:55SPEAKERand started driving in any random direction,
44:59SPEAKERit would at worst fly out over the ocean
45:01SPEAKERand then the battery would die and we would lose it
45:03SPEAKERor it would smash into a wall and crash.
45:05SPEAKERSo we were fine either way.
45:06SPEAKER- Yeah, just like for example,
45:08SPEAKERthere might be some kind of EM interference
45:11SPEAKERin a city environment
45:12SPEAKERthat you didn't have in a remote quarry.
45:14SPEAKER- Well, as far as I know,
45:17SPEAKERhe never used it to actually trim the trees at the house.
45:20SPEAKER- Oh, okay.
45:24SPEAKER- I think we all agreed that it was terrifying
45:26SPEAKERafter we actually fired it up
45:27SPEAKERbecause it was on these little high speed motors
45:30SPEAKERthat basically would run at like 5,000 RPMs
45:33SPEAKERor something ridiculous.
45:34SPEAKERAnd it sounded like a dentist drill
45:38SPEAKERbut with a saw blade attached to it.
45:40SPEAKERAnd also around that same time,
45:42SPEAKERwe had another one of those drones take off uncontrolled
45:47SPEAKERwhen it's GPS got jacked up
45:50SPEAKERand it thought we should return to sender at Hunter's Point.
45:52SPEAKERYeah, that was an exciting day too.
45:54SPEAKER- That's something I will just say in closing,
45:58SPEAKERI had the exact wrong,
46:00SPEAKERthe opposite impression of the truth apparently
46:02SPEAKERabout which Mythbuster is the responsible one.
46:05SPEAKER- Just to be clear, both responsible.
46:07SPEAKER- Yes, I know.
46:08SPEAKERBut like Jamie has a little bit of a mad scientist vibe
46:12SPEAKERthat doesn't come through on the show a lot.
46:15SPEAKER- Okay, that's again,
46:17SPEAKERI would have thought Adam was the excitable,
46:18SPEAKERwell, let's just give this a trot.
46:21SPEAKER- Adam is the excitable one,
46:22SPEAKERbut he is like, look, neither of them,
46:27SPEAKERwhen we started doing videos on YouTube,
46:28SPEAKERwe had to change shop safety processes for both of them
46:31SPEAKER'cause we kept getting comments from people that were,
46:33SPEAKERlike YouTube has the fucking safety police
46:36SPEAKERon shop stuff anyway.
46:37SPEAKERSo if you're sanding something
46:40SPEAKERand you don't wear a breath mask
46:41SPEAKERand you're sanding it for two seconds
46:44SPEAKERand you do it once a month,
46:45SPEAKERprobably fine not wearing a filtered mask
46:48SPEAKERwith that little sanding.
46:49SPEAKERIf you sand all day, if you sand multiple,
46:51SPEAKERif you sand regularly every day, whatever,
46:54SPEAKERyou should always wear protection.
46:55SPEAKERThe amount that they were doing stuff, it was probably okay.
46:59SPEAKERBut you always get comments on YouTube
47:01SPEAKERanytime you do something that some person
47:03SPEAKERwho doesn't ever work in an actual shop feels
47:05SPEAKERmight be unsafe.
47:06SPEAKERAnyway, busy bodies.
47:08SPEAKER- Fair, yes.
47:10SPEAKEROkay, question.
47:11SPEAKER- We got one more maybe?
47:12SPEAKER- Yeah, one or two more.
47:15SPEAKERHow about #BunnyIsOpenToNewWork?
47:19SPEAKER(laughing)
47:21SPEAKERAs we enter.
47:22SPEAKER- Bunny crimes update, I believe.
47:24SPEAKER- Perhaps.
47:25SPEAKERIn fact, I think you might get more of an update
47:28SPEAKERin this question.
47:29SPEAKER- Oh.
47:30SPEAKER- As we enter Q4, it's time for year-end reviews.
47:34SPEAKERWhat were some projects, changes, Acti-Con?
47:36SPEAKERIs it really?
47:37SPEAKER- Yeah.
47:38SPEAKER- God, it is Q4, oh, man.
47:39SPEAKER- Well, it depends on whether you're fiscal or calendar,
47:42SPEAKERso, you know.
47:44SPEAKER- Okay.
47:44SPEAKERWhat are some projects, changes, or activities
47:46SPEAKERthat you overachieved on this year?
47:49SPEAKERIt's also time to start seeding ideas for 2023,
47:51SPEAKERso what are some things you need to replace
47:53SPEAKERor upgrade or improve in the next year
47:55SPEAKERthat you can start allocating resources toward now
47:57SPEAKERto get a head start?
47:58SPEAKERPersonally, is it time for me to finally update my resume
48:01SPEAKERand find a new job or get rid of that last remaining VP
48:04SPEAKERthat's holding my team back, or maybe both?
48:07SPEAKER- I don't think, I think Bunny Fiend
48:10SPEAKERmostly talks about this on the other Discord,
48:11SPEAKERbut they've been advocating for their team
48:16SPEAKERin a way that makes me wish that I worked for Bunny Fiend
48:18SPEAKERat different times in my life.
48:20SPEAKER- That sounds awesome.
48:21SPEAKERThe language, get rid of that VP, though.
48:24SPEAKERI don't know.
48:25SPEAKER- There's been a bloodletting
48:27SPEAKERat the Bunny Fiend industrial complex.
48:30SPEAKER- A figurative one, I hope.
48:32SPEAKER- Well, I mean, the people are no longer employed there.
48:34SPEAKERI don't know what happened to them.
48:35SPEAKER- Maybe they do different things differently
48:37SPEAKERaround that office.
48:38SPEAKER- I don't think it's a Justin, a Jason Bateman situation.
48:41SPEAKER- Jason Bateman?
48:42SPEAKER- Jason, no, Patrick Bateman.
48:43SPEAKER- Patrick Bateman, yes, yeah.
48:48SPEAKER- Honestly, this year has been a like,
48:50SPEAKERkeep heads afloat for me year.
48:54SPEAKER- That's perpetual, that's perpetual status
48:56SPEAKERaround here as well.
48:58SPEAKER- I feel like, I don't know,
49:01SPEAKERlike I'm really pleased with where the FOSPOD is.
49:03SPEAKERLike I feel like it took us a little bit to get there,
49:05SPEAKERbut it's kind of, it's finding its legs
49:08SPEAKERand it's doing something that is different than this show
49:11SPEAKERand is fun and interesting and informative
49:14SPEAKERand people seem to really like it, so that's exciting.
49:17SPEAKER- New episode up now with Jeremy Allison from Google
49:20SPEAKERwho is a maintainer of Samba.
49:22SPEAKER- Yeah, and he tells, he's been doing this,
49:24SPEAKERit's an interesting, I say this in the intro,
49:26SPEAKERbut it's an interesting conversation with Jeremy
49:29SPEAKERbecause like he is aware that he is past,
49:33SPEAKERthat that project is past,
49:35SPEAKERlike that project has transformed from something
49:38SPEAKERthat was really important to Linux in the early days
49:40SPEAKERto a thing that is just expected to be part of the service
49:43SPEAKERand is available on a bazillion different platforms
49:46SPEAKERand I think he described it as plumbing, so.
49:48SPEAKER- He likes the plumbing and he basically says,
49:50SPEAKERyou know how people act or how they react
49:53SPEAKERwhen the plumbing breaks.
49:54SPEAKER- Yeah.
49:55SPEAKER- You can't have plumbing that doesn't work.
49:58SPEAKER- No, but it's a good,
49:59SPEAKERit's like that's the thing that I look at this year
50:02SPEAKERand I'm most stoked about, I think.
50:03SPEAKERI think Matt and Sabrina have been awesome
50:05SPEAKERand have helped us a ton with that show
50:07SPEAKERand I'm excited to keep doing more of them, so.
50:13SPEAKER- My ongoing project, as we've talked about
50:16SPEAKERon Nextlander recently,
50:17SPEAKERis to reach clutter zero around here.
50:19SPEAKERLike there's just a,
50:22SPEAKERthere's an unfinished quality to this domicile
50:25SPEAKERthat I just can't stand
50:26SPEAKERand yet I can never seem to quite get on top of it
50:28SPEAKERand I mean that both like in terms of clutter
50:30SPEAKERand in terms of like the network infrastructure around here,
50:33SPEAKERlike for example, none of the services I used
50:36SPEAKERfor things like Plex or Music are functioning still,
50:39SPEAKERlike I'm slowly rebuilding all that stuff
50:41SPEAKERas I get deeper into Linux.
50:43SPEAKER- Yeah.
50:44SPEAKER- And so like between physical clutter
50:46SPEAKERand like things like that to do,
50:48SPEAKERlike this is probably a peculiarity of me,
50:51SPEAKERbut like I can't relax or just do fun stuff
50:55SPEAKERwhen there are things to be done.
50:58SPEAKERDo you know what I mean?
50:59SPEAKER- Yeah.
51:00SPEAKER- Are you familiar to anyone, like?
51:01SPEAKER- I get that when like things are broken.
51:04SPEAKER- Yeah.
51:04SPEAKER- Like if something that I like and rely on is not working,
51:06SPEAKERthen I feel like I have to address it
51:08SPEAKERbefore I can kind of like sleep sometimes even.
51:12SPEAKER- Yes, yes.
51:13SPEAKER- I've gotten better.
51:14SPEAKER- I have a hard time just like going and watching a movie
51:16SPEAKERor playing a video game when I feel like there's like stuff
51:18SPEAKERthat's not settled around here
51:19SPEAKERand yet there's always stuff unsettled.
51:21SPEAKERI never have the time to fix it all, so.
51:24SPEAKER- Yeah.
51:26SPEAKER- But things, that's kind of like the dust thing though,
51:28SPEAKERright?
51:28SPEAKERLike things can never be perfect and I guess sometimes
51:30SPEAKERyou just have to wallow in the chaos around you
51:33SPEAKERand just do something fun.
51:35SPEAKER- I was going to say the addition of a nine-year-old
51:38SPEAKERinto our house over the last nine years
51:39SPEAKERhas led me to just,
51:42SPEAKERsometimes you have to just embrace your crepulence.
51:44SPEAKER- Yeah, yeah.
51:46SPEAKER- The, my project, I got to figure out board game storage
51:49SPEAKER'cause we've kept getting new board games
51:52SPEAKERand I don't have room for any more board games.
51:56SPEAKERI'm looking at a pile of them on my table over there.
52:00SPEAKERSo yeah, that's my winter project, I think,
52:03SPEAKERis to get rid of the old desk.
52:04SPEAKERLike I'm committed to the standing desk.
52:06SPEAKERI like the standing desk.
52:07SPEAKERI've decided I've had it for almost a year now
52:09SPEAKERand the next phase is going to be getting rid
52:12SPEAKERof the old desk so I can put some shelves up over there,
52:15SPEAKERI think.
52:16SPEAKER- Okay.
52:17SPEAKER- Storage.
52:18SPEAKER- Yeah.
52:20SPEAKERSpeaking of getting rid of things.
52:22SPEAKER- Yeah.
52:23SPEAKER- One more cake batter question before we go.
52:25SPEAKER- Okay, what you got?
52:26SPEAKER- Actually two, are you a butter or a margarine household
52:29SPEAKERthat's not a getting rid of thing?
52:31SPEAKERI think we talked about that on our show recently
52:33SPEAKERor was that off air that we talked about?
52:37SPEAKER- Margarine's bad for you.
52:38SPEAKER- I was talking about the kind of like earth butters,
52:39SPEAKERplant butters of the world and you were like,
52:41SPEAKERyeah, those are just margarines, those are bad.
52:43SPEAKER- Yeah, those are margarines.
52:45SPEAKER- Dammit.
52:46SPEAKER- Oil plus thickener.
52:47SPEAKER- Dammit.
52:48SPEAKER- Sorry.
52:49SPEAKER- Butter is actually preferable to that
52:51SPEAKERfrom a health perspective?
52:52SPEAKER- I don't know, I don't have cholesterol problems
52:54SPEAKERand I eat a lot of butter.
52:56SPEAKERThat could just be me though.
52:58SPEAKERI'm not a doctor, this is not a medical advice show,
53:00SPEAKERdon't listen to us.
53:01SPEAKERBut a lot of the margarine stuff had trans saturated fats
53:07SPEAKERfor a long time, we stopped eating those
53:10SPEAKER'cause there's a pretty strong connection between them
53:13SPEAKERand different kinds of heart disease and stuff.
53:15SPEAKER- Thanks, okay, I should do a butter audit around here.
53:19SPEAKER- Yeah, when you look, anyway,
53:21SPEAKERwe have no medical professionals, we should ask them.
53:23SPEAKER- Yes, all right.
53:26SPEAKERLast cake batter question,
53:27SPEAKERdoes Brad still have that old chair
53:28SPEAKERtaking up space in his apartment?
53:30SPEAKER- Did you get rid of it?
53:31SPEAKER- Chair's been going for ages.
53:32SPEAKER- Okay, I thought we talked about it, maybe not.
53:35SPEAKERI still think you should have done the thing where you were,
53:37SPEAKERI was walking through my kid's school the other day with her
53:39SPEAKERand they had a couple of office chairs
53:41SPEAKERand there's a ramp, pretty good, like 30 foot long,
53:44SPEAKERnot a huge grade, but I was looking at it,
53:46SPEAKERI was like, "Hey, you wanna get in this chair
53:47SPEAKERand ride this down the ramp?"
53:48SPEAKERShe's like, "No, we'll get in big trouble for that."
53:50SPEAKER- It's a shame.
53:51SPEAKER- Dammit.
53:52SPEAKER- I think that chair really just needed a new gas cylinder
53:55SPEAKERand it would be probably just about good as new.
53:58SPEAKER- Send it away.
53:59SPEAKER- It found, I think we talked about this,
54:01SPEAKERI put a, taped a free sign to it
54:03SPEAKERand put it out on the sidewalk
54:04SPEAKERand it was gone within an hour.
54:06SPEAKER- Perfect.
54:06SPEAKER- It was still, for 18 years old,
54:08SPEAKERit was in pretty good shape.
54:09SPEAKERThose old monitors though, got e-wasted.
54:11SPEAKERDid we talk about that?
54:11SPEAKER- Yeah.
54:12SPEAKER- Did I ever disclose the ultimate fate of the Dell monitors?
54:16SPEAKER- Did you send them to the e-waste?
54:17SPEAKER- Yes, I e-wasted them.
54:18SPEAKERLike I thought for ages about like,
54:22SPEAKERthat actually was like part of the indecision
54:23SPEAKERthat kept them sitting around here,
54:24SPEAKERwas like, I could take them to Goodwill,
54:27SPEAKERbut I don't think someone should actually use these.
54:29SPEAKERYou know, like they're so old,
54:30SPEAKERthey could die at any moment.
54:32SPEAKEREven if they keep working,
54:33SPEAKERthey use so much electricity
54:34SPEAKERbecause they have like,
54:36SPEAKER- Cold cathode.
54:36SPEAKER- Cold cathode, backlights.
54:38SPEAKERLike, they shouldn't actually really still be in use,
54:41SPEAKEReven though they technically work just fine.
54:43SPEAKERAnd I finally, I finally just came around to,
54:45SPEAKERyou know what, these are so old,
54:46SPEAKERI should just e-waste them.
54:47SPEAKER- You know what you should have done was taken them apart
54:49SPEAKERand taken the lights apart from the screen
54:51SPEAKERand then put the screen up over your windows.
54:53SPEAKER- Oh, that would have been-
54:54SPEAKER- So that you have like an outdoor e-waste.
54:58SPEAKERGet rid of them.
54:59SPEAKER- That could have been cool.
55:00SPEAKER- Send it away.
55:01SPEAKER- I should have taken one of those things apart.
55:03SPEAKERAnyway, they're gone.
55:05SPEAKER- So that's it for us on questions.
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55:21SPEAKERwhich I think is probably gonna,
55:22SPEAKERI know we've said this before,
55:23SPEAKERbut I think it's time.
55:24SPEAKERI think we need to make some,
55:25SPEAKERwe need to mix it up on the Discord,
55:27SPEAKERon the Patreon a little bit.
55:29SPEAKER- I think so.
55:30SPEAKER- Soon, soonish.
55:31SPEAKER- We haven't discussed this.
55:33SPEAKER- We talked about it the other day.
55:35SPEAKER- No, we didn't.
55:36SPEAKER- Didn't we?
55:37SPEAKER- No, we did not.
55:38SPEAKER- Fuck, I've been having really intense dreams
55:40SPEAKERabout like work related things.
55:43SPEAKERSo maybe I just dreamed that we talked.
55:44SPEAKERAnyway, nevermind.
55:46SPEAKER- Boy, what wild, what radical modifications
55:49SPEAKERto our business model has Will dreamed up this time?
55:50SPEAKER- Look, I dreamed the other night
55:52SPEAKERthat we used the assets for the Anacrusis,
55:56SPEAKERlike the ship, the Isoload,
55:57SPEAKERto make like an Event Horizon style survival horror game.
56:02SPEAKERSo shit's weird right now in my brain.
56:05SPEAKERAnyway.
56:06SPEAKER- Godspeed to everyone.
56:07SPEAKER- Yeah.
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56:23SPEAKERI, Bunny Crimes, attest that the documents
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56:27SPEAKERI think Bunny Crimes had to do some depositions this week.
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56:50SPEAKERThank you all so, so much.
56:51SPEAKER- Yes, thank you.
56:52SPEAKERWe appreciate you very much.
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56:56SPEAKERpatreon.com/techpod to find out more.
56:59SPEAKERThe community of folks on the Discord is a delight.
57:01SPEAKERI enjoy jumping in there and chatting,
57:02SPEAKERand they are kind and answer my stupid questions
57:06SPEAKERabout things that they know more about than me.
57:07SPEAKERAnd we talk about bears also.
57:10SPEAKER- Bears.
57:11SPEAKER- Bears.
57:12SPEAKER- Might kind of just say it, bears.
57:13SPEAKER- Bears.
57:14SPEAKER- Bears.
57:15SPEAKER- Bears.
57:16SPEAKER- Shout out to the folks in the Linux channel
57:17SPEAKERalso for tolerating my nonstop torrent
57:21SPEAKERof questions about everything.
57:25SPEAKER- Look, it's a big change, man.
57:27SPEAKER- It is.
57:28SPEAKER- Yeah, like I didn't really appreciate how good jails are.
57:32SPEAKER- Jails are, dude, I have been so far down,
57:35SPEAKERor I've been reading like, not exactly white papers,
57:38SPEAKERbut like kind of like summaries of talks
57:40SPEAKERfrom straight ups like security professionals in that world
57:43SPEAKERabout like how safe are Linux containers?
57:46SPEAKERLike the breakdown I read from a talk
57:48SPEAKERwas like this person described DSD jails
57:50SPEAKERas a first class concept.
57:52SPEAKER- Yes.
57:53SPEAKER- They were architected from scratch
57:54SPEAKERto do exactly the thing they do,
57:55SPEAKERand they do it very well.
57:56SPEAKERAnd that most of the Linux container solutions
57:58SPEAKERare built from first class objects in the Linux kernel,
58:01SPEAKERbut are not first class themselves.
58:02SPEAKERDoes that make sense?
58:03SPEAKER- Yeah, that makes sense.
58:04SPEAKER- Like the namespace and C group features
58:06SPEAKERthat they use to establish containers in Linux
58:08SPEAKERare all thought out and stuff,
58:10SPEAKERbut like the containers themselves are,
58:12SPEAKERsorry, I'm rambling here.
58:14SPEAKER- This is a topic, we should talk about this.
58:15SPEAKER- It's a lot.
58:17SPEAKER- But I think that'll do it for us this week.
58:18SPEAKER- Yes.
58:19SPEAKER- Brad, you can go back to your containers.
58:21SPEAKERI'm gonna go work on a video game,
58:22SPEAKERand we will see you all next time.
58:26SPEAKERBye everybody.
58:27SPEAKER(upbeat music)