00:00SPEAKER- All right, it's day three
00:01SPEAKERand I've still managed to successfully not buy a guitar.
00:05SPEAKER- Oh wow, so I looked at the guitars
00:07SPEAKERand I talked to my loving partner
00:10SPEAKERand I was like, hey, what do you think about a second guitar?
00:16SPEAKER- Hang on, how old is the first guitar?
00:19SPEAKER- Two years, I bought it at the start of the pandemic.
00:20SPEAKER- Oh, okay, all right, that's a decent spread, you could.
00:23SPEAKER- I feel like it's a reasonable period of time.
00:25SPEAKER- Yeah, let me ask a different question.
00:28SPEAKERHow long have you been playing that guitar?
00:30SPEAKER- So let's see, I started learning chords
00:33SPEAKERback when I got it originally
00:35SPEAKERand I've been off and on practicing.
00:37SPEAKERLike I stopped practicing for long enough
00:38SPEAKERfor my calluses to go away.
00:40SPEAKER- That'll happen.
00:41SPEAKER- And then I started, I picked it back up like three times
00:43SPEAKERand now I'm at the point that I can almost play a song.
00:45SPEAKERSo it's like the new Rocksmith has helped.
00:48SPEAKER- That's the real question, when did the Rocksmith start?
00:50SPEAKER- So the recent, I tried the Rocksmith 2014,
00:53SPEAKERwhich is mostly an electric guitar learning tool
00:56SPEAKERa while ago, like right when I first got it.
00:58SPEAKER'Cause I had had some, a friend of mine used to work there,
01:01SPEAKERmutual friend of ours used to work there
01:02SPEAKERand he had sent me a code to check it out.
01:05SPEAKERAnd then it didn't work great for acoustic back then.
01:10SPEAKERSo I switched to like some app-based stuff that was fine.
01:13SPEAKERAnd like, I got to the point that I could play like a C
01:15SPEAKERand a G and an F and a D chord pretty reliably
01:18SPEAKERand A's and E's and all that.
01:19SPEAKER- Those are all bangers, major bangers.
01:22SPEAKER- Yeah, classics, all the classics.
01:24SPEAKERAnd then I stopped 'cause I got busy doing other stuff.
01:27SPEAKER- I think you need to show her that you can stick with it
01:28SPEAKERfor at least six months before you can have another guitar.
01:31SPEAKER- I think that's a probably a pretty reasonable choice there.
01:34SPEAKER- There has been a firestorm of guitar discussion
01:37SPEAKERon the Discord since we talked about Rocksmith last week.
01:41SPEAKER- This is the power, with great power
01:43SPEAKERcomes great responsibility, Brad.
01:44SPEAKER- There's the power of suggestion is what's at work here
01:47SPEAKERbecause oh boy, the enablers is what we have on that server.
01:52SPEAKER- We should have just called this podcast Brilliant.
01:54SPEAKERBrad and Will made an enablement pod.
01:56SPEAKER- Maybe I should have bought one.
01:58SPEAKERThose deals might still be up.
01:59SPEAKERThere were deals on some Squier,
02:03SPEAKERI hate to use the word knockoff, I don't think that's fair.
02:05SPEAKERSquier is like the budget Fender version
02:07SPEAKERand Epiphone makes a bunch of budget Gibsons.
02:10SPEAKERAnd there were some insane deals on some Squier telecasters
02:15SPEAKERand Epiphone SGs and Les Pauls, like 170 bucks.
02:20SPEAKER- Yeah, they're like cheap starter guitars,
02:22SPEAKERwhich is a fine place to learn, I think.
02:24SPEAKER- Like when I was into this stuff 20, 25 years ago,
02:26SPEAKERlike the Squier was kind of looked down on as not very good,
02:30SPEAKERbut apparently the manufacturing on those
02:32SPEAKERhas gotten way, way better
02:33SPEAKERand they're actually like totally legit guitars now.
02:35SPEAKERWe should maybe, no, no, we have to move on.
02:38SPEAKER- Should we do a guitar episode?
02:39SPEAKER- No. - Is that what you're saying?
02:40SPEAKER- We should not.
02:41SPEAKERI don't need another musical instrument
02:43SPEAKERthat I'm probably not gonna play enough.
02:44SPEAKER- Okay, so I think once you do six months of piano,
02:46SPEAKERyou're allowed to buy a guitar, Brad, that's the thing.
02:52SPEAKER- I bought something stupid the other day.
02:54SPEAKER- Oh.
02:55SPEAKER- Well, so I've been playing that Atari 50th thing
02:58SPEAKERa fair amount. - Yes, yes, so good.
03:00SPEAKER- Like playing is maybe not the right word
03:02SPEAKER'cause it's kind of more of like a,
03:03SPEAKERhey, here's me learning about some games
03:06SPEAKERthat I didn't have a lot of exposure to.
03:08SPEAKER- Totally, I was probably, I'd spent like two hours
03:10SPEAKERin that thing before I ever booted up one of the games.
03:12SPEAKER- Yeah, exactly.
03:14SPEAKERBut then I got to the point where I'm like,
03:15SPEAKERoh, here's some bangers I wanna play.
03:17SPEAKERAnd I had talked to some friends
03:19SPEAKERwho work at Digital Extreme Eclipse,
03:23SPEAKERDigital Eclipse, sorry, a few weeks ago
03:26SPEAKERabout this exact thing.
03:28SPEAKERAnd I was like, ah, I'm not gonna buy an Atari,
03:30SPEAKERit's stupid to buy Atari.
03:31SPEAKERAnd then I started playing "Templates"
03:33SPEAKERand I was like, oh man, I wanna have something that spins.
03:35SPEAKERAnd I started playing "Combat" and I was like,
03:36SPEAKERI want a stick.
03:37SPEAKERAnd I was like, like caverns of Mars.
03:40SPEAKERI was like, it's not the same with a game pad.
03:42SPEAKER- I see where this was going.
03:43SPEAKER- So I went to Amazon and I bought one of those
03:46SPEAKERAtari VCS wireless joysticks,
03:49SPEAKERthe ones with the spinner handle.
03:50SPEAKER- Oh, what?
03:51SPEAKER- Yeah.
03:52SPEAKER- Were those made for those recent,
03:54SPEAKERthe recent quote unquote Atari, that x86 box?
03:56SPEAKER- Yes, they were made for that x86 box.
04:00SPEAKERIt is a shape like the classic Atari joystick.
04:02SPEAKERIt's a square with round, it has rounded edges,
04:05SPEAKERso you don't get the weird callus in the palm of your hand.
04:07SPEAKER- I am looking this up as we speak.
04:09SPEAKER- It is a vertical stick with a button
04:12SPEAKERand the handle is also a spinner.
04:15SPEAKERAnd my friend, our mutual, our friend Jeremy Williams,
04:19SPEAKERwho wrote "Vector Sector" over on the Atari 50th thing,
04:24SPEAKERhad given it high marks,
04:26SPEAKEReven though it was kind of expensive.
04:27SPEAKERSo I originally, I looked at like,
04:29SPEAKER'cause people make USB paddle controllers,
04:31SPEAKERpeople make USB Atari joysticks.
04:33SPEAKERAnd I was like, I'm gonna get one of each of those.
04:34SPEAKERAnd then I was like, wait,
04:36SPEAKERfor the same price as buying one of each of those,
04:38SPEAKERI can just buy this thing that does both things
04:40SPEAKERand is the only one thing that I have to store
04:43SPEAKERinstead of two.
04:44SPEAKERSo I'll let you know how it goes, it comes today.
04:46SPEAKER- That looks pretty cool.
04:47SPEAKERMan, I still want one of those things.
04:49SPEAKERWhat do they call the actual console?
04:50SPEAKERIs it the VCS?
04:52SPEAKER- The VCS. - The VCS name?
04:53SPEAKER- Yeah. - Again, let me see.
04:55SPEAKER- Was it good?
04:56SPEAKERI'm always a little skeptical of those things now.
04:58SPEAKER- Not for 400 bucks.
04:59SPEAKERI'm still just sore from a year ago
05:02SPEAKERwhen GameStop was liquidating theirs for $99.
05:05SPEAKERLike it was not worth 400 bucks,
05:07SPEAKERbut it was like a decent AMD APU with like okay graphics.
05:10SPEAKERLike it would have been a decent little like set top
05:12SPEAKERand you can install whatever OS you want on it.
05:14SPEAKERSo like for a hundred bucks and it looks cool
05:16SPEAKER'cause it's got wood paneling.
05:17SPEAKER- Yeah, they're 300 bucks now, that seems like a lot.
05:19SPEAKER- Yeah, I wouldn't pay more than a hundred for one,
05:21SPEAKERbut if they go back on sale, speaking of paying a hundred,
05:25SPEAKERI bought a hundred dollars worth of Christmas lights
05:27SPEAKERthe other day.
05:27SPEAKER- Ooh, what'd you get?
05:28SPEAKER- Professional Christmas lights.
05:31SPEAKER- Oh, professional, eh?
05:33SPEAKERI had a similar adventure last week.
05:39SPEAKERBest Buy was selling the fancy twinkly lights,
05:41SPEAKERthe ones that you can upload patterns to
05:43SPEAKERthat are RGB individually lit.
05:46SPEAKER- You mean capital T twinkly like the brand.
05:49SPEAKER- Capital T the brand twinkly from Finland or whatever.
05:52SPEAKERAnd I went out and screwed hooks
05:56SPEAKERinto the underside of the eaves of the house.
05:58SPEAKERAnd now I have a permanent light installation on the house.
06:02SPEAKERSo far I've gotten a lot of positive feedback
06:04SPEAKERfrom the neighbors.
06:05SPEAKER- That's awesome.
06:05SPEAKERWait, they're never coming down?
06:06SPEAKER- I don't think I'm ever gonna,
06:07SPEAKERI think they're all season lights now.
06:09SPEAKER- What have you displayed on them?
06:11SPEAKER- So let's see, the first choice was made by my daughter.
06:14SPEAKERWe picked a rainbow that goes from one side to the other.
06:17SPEAKERThat was pretty cool.
06:19SPEAKERWe do a, we have a candy cane, red and white
06:21SPEAKERthat just alternates red and white
06:22SPEAKERand moves slowly back and forth across the house.
06:26SPEAKERWe have some classic Christmas multicolor lights,
06:31SPEAKERthe blue and the purple and the orange and the red.
06:34SPEAKERAnd we have an Italian flag speckle pattern
06:39SPEAKERthat kind of twinkles red, green and white all the time.
06:42SPEAKERSo that seems festive too.
06:44SPEAKER- What would you say is the resolution
06:45SPEAKERof your Christmas light screen?
06:48SPEAKER- Well, let's see, it's 600 lights
06:50SPEAKERand it's across about 75 feet.
06:54SPEAKER- Is it a net or a line?
06:56SPEAKER- It's a line, but I doubled up.
06:58SPEAKER- Oh, okay.
06:59SPEAKER- I bought the 600 light strand, which is 150 feet,
07:03SPEAKERbut the front, the amount of coverage I needed
07:05SPEAKERwas almost exactly, it was like 76 feet.
07:07SPEAKERSo there's one foot of space that's not doubled up,
07:10SPEAKERbut everywhere else is doubled up.
07:12SPEAKER- Now these are the ones you scan with the phone app
07:15SPEAKERthat models their spatial arrangement.
07:17SPEAKER- Yeah, you 3D map them.
07:18SPEAKERI got to do a better job with it
07:19SPEAKER'cause it's a little tricky.
07:20SPEAKER- I don't know why, for some reason I was thinking
07:22SPEAKERlike you should put Nyan Cat on there.
07:25SPEAKER- So I don't know if I could get a Nyan Cat
07:27SPEAKER'cause it's only one line.
07:28SPEAKERSo it's like-
07:29SPEAKER- That's the thing, you're gonna need way more lines.
07:32SPEAKER- I mean, so look, they were kind of expensive,
07:37SPEAKERbut let's see, it's 600 dots divided by 75 feet
07:42SPEAKERdivided by 12 inches in a feet.
07:47SPEAKERSo it's 0.6667 lines, dots per inch.
07:51SPEAKERIt's a little low res compared to what we're used to
07:54SPEAKERon a phone.
07:56SPEAKER- I think I can do the Knight Rider thing though.
07:58SPEAKER- And where it goes womp womp and the red goes,
08:00SPEAKERjust goes across the front of the house.
08:01SPEAKER- Okay, do it.
08:02SPEAKERSo you need to set up speaker outside.
08:05SPEAKER- Yeah, that's the next, that's for,
08:07SPEAKERonce we get out of the holiday season,
08:08SPEAKERonce we get out of the festive time,
08:10SPEAKERthe house is just gonna be kit.
08:11SPEAKER- Hey.
08:12SPEAKER(laughing)
08:15SPEAKERNothing says holidays like Michael Knight, okay?
08:17SPEAKER(upbeat music)
08:35SPEAKER(upbeat music continues)
08:46SPEAKER- Welcome to Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod, I'm Will.
08:49SPEAKER- I'm Brad, hello.
08:50SPEAKER- Hello, you sound good today.
08:52SPEAKERYou sound like you're feeling back,
08:53SPEAKERyou're out of the weather, you're above the weather.
08:56SPEAKER- Getting there?
08:57SPEAKER- Getting there, it's been a long haul, man.
08:59SPEAKER- It sucks, it's not a good time.
09:02SPEAKER- No, it's not.
09:05SPEAKER- Brad, it is, we've reached the end of the month,
09:07SPEAKERwhich as we all know means,
09:09SPEAKERit's time to turn the Q's into the A's.
09:11SPEAKER- That's right.
09:12SPEAKERI'm thankful for the copious bounty of questions
09:14SPEAKERthat our illustrious Discord dwellers sent us this month.
09:18SPEAKERDid you check the inbox?
09:20SPEAKER- Yeah, I did, but before we get to that,
09:22SPEAKERbefore we get to that, hey, shout out to your mom,
09:25SPEAKER'cause we made her Buckley cast roll again.
09:26SPEAKER- Oh no.
09:27SPEAKER(laughing)
09:28SPEAKEREvery time you talk about this-
09:30SPEAKER- Say hello to your mother for me, Brad.
09:31SPEAKER- Every time you talk about this,
09:32SPEAKERI feel more and more guilty
09:33SPEAKERthat I have not dug up that recipe.
09:35SPEAKER- Oh, I have the recipe.
09:36SPEAKERI didn't know if it was okay to share.
09:37SPEAKER- Oh, can you send it to me?
09:39SPEAKER- Yeah, I'll send it to you.
09:40SPEAKER- I am 99% sure we had literally
09:43SPEAKERthis exact conversation last year.
09:45SPEAKER- We've done this, this is two years running.
09:46SPEAKERWe've had this conversation now.
09:47SPEAKER- Either you send it to me and I didn't do anything with it
09:50SPEAKERor you didn't send it to me, I don't know which.
09:52SPEAKERSomebody dropped the ball somewhere.
09:54SPEAKER- Look, it's possible that the ball was dropped.
09:57SPEAKERThe point is the broccoli casserole
09:58SPEAKERis the number one item on our table at Thanksgiving.
10:03SPEAKER- Really? - These days.
10:04SPEAKER- Yeah, it's got the cream of mushroom soup, right?
10:08SPEAKER- I mean, look, all good casseroles start
10:10SPEAKERwith cream of mushroom soup.
10:11SPEAKER- Well, yeah, fair.
10:12SPEAKER- It's got cream of mushroom soup,
10:12SPEAKERbut the secret ingredient is stuffing.
10:15SPEAKER- Yes. - Yeah, it's good stuff.
10:17SPEAKER- Did you ever just, oh yes, thank you to my mom.
10:21SPEAKER- Thank you to your mom for a great broccoli casserole.
10:23SPEAKERDid you ever just eat
10:24SPEAKERthe Campbell's cream of mushroom soup as soup?
10:27SPEAKER- My mom would try to make that happen
10:30SPEAKERmultiple times in my youth.
10:31SPEAKERShe was like, "You'd really like this if you tried it."
10:34SPEAKERI was like, "Fuck off,
10:35SPEAKER"I'm not eating cream of mushroom soup."
10:36SPEAKER- Oh man, I love that stuff.
10:39SPEAKER- I mean, look, there's an appeal.
10:41SPEAKERWhen you squeeze it out of the can
10:42SPEAKERand it's like the solid piece of mushroom jelly,
10:45SPEAKERit's like gelatinous soup tube.
10:48SPEAKERYeah, I feel like that would schmear
10:50SPEAKERon a cracker pretty good.
10:51SPEAKER- Oh yeah, hmm, hmm, hmm.
10:53SPEAKER- Also shorten your life dramatically, so.
10:55SPEAKER- Yes, I mean, that was my standard.
10:57SPEAKERMy SOP was to crumble a bunch of saltine crackers
11:01SPEAKERon top of it.
11:02SPEAKER- Okay, so our normal,
11:04SPEAKERlike our nightmare bad canned food when I was a kid
11:07SPEAKERwas we always had some of those smoked oysters around
11:09SPEAKERin the can, like the fake artificial smoked oysters.
11:13SPEAKERAnd you put those on a saltine,
11:14SPEAKERlike a couple of those on a saltine.
11:17SPEAKER- I'm sure we've talked about all this before.
11:19SPEAKERVienna sausages.
11:21SPEAKER- Oh yeah, put them in the mustard.
11:23SPEAKERWe didn't do potted meat.
11:24SPEAKERThat was a bridge too far for my mom.
11:26SPEAKER- Potted meat was around in my house a lot.
11:30SPEAKERLet's say.
11:31SPEAKER- Yeah, Vienna sausages were like a,
11:34SPEAKERoh, you're hungry?
11:34SPEAKERJust go get a can of Vienna sausages and a snack for us.
11:38SPEAKER- Yep, yep, all right.
11:39SPEAKER- It's weird that my whole family
11:40SPEAKERhas heart blood pressure problems.
11:42SPEAKERWhat a weird coincidence.
11:43SPEAKER- It is a common affliction in that part of the country,
11:47SPEAKERlet's say.
11:50SPEAKER- So this is the Q's into A's episode of the podcast,
11:54SPEAKERas we alluded to previously.
11:55SPEAKERIf you have a question, you can send them
11:56SPEAKERto techpod@content.town.
12:02SPEAKER- You're scrunching up your.
12:03SPEAKER- I couldn't remember.
12:04SPEAKERI was like, shit, I'm blanking.
12:07SPEAKERWe've done this a hundred times.
12:08SPEAKERNo, it's techpod@content.town.
12:11SPEAKEROr if you're in the Discord,
12:12SPEAKERyou can post a question in the Q's Seeking A's channel
12:16SPEAKERwhere it will probably disappear pretty shortly.
12:18SPEAKERI already posted.
12:20SPEAKEROur first question.
12:22SPEAKER- Yes, as is tradition now,
12:23SPEAKERI guess we start with the email questions.
12:25SPEAKER- Yeah, Brad, we gotta check that email inbox more
12:28SPEAKER'cause there were some people
12:29SPEAKERthat wanted to advertise on the podcast.
12:30SPEAKERAnd while we don't take advertisement,
12:32SPEAKERit's nice to talk to the advertisers just in case.
12:35SPEAKER- Well, you know, it's probably worth hearing them out.
12:38SPEAKER- Yeah.
12:40SPEAKERYou wanna hit this first one?
12:41SPEAKERWe have two email questions this time.
12:43SPEAKER- All right, let's do it.
12:47SPEAKER- This is from Marcus.
12:49SPEAKERHe says, "I do love all the streams both of you do,
12:51SPEAKERbut since I live in another time zone,
12:53SPEAKERI have a really hard time catching your streams live.
12:55SPEAKERI usually put your stream archive in a tab
12:56SPEAKERon a separate browser to watch everything chronologically.
12:59SPEAKERAs you both stream quite a lot on Twitch,
13:00SPEAKERdo you as a streamer make anything
13:02SPEAKERwhen someone watches one of your previous live streams
13:03SPEAKERor is it all about view numbers
13:05SPEAKERand subscribers during live streams?"
13:07SPEAKERWell, I mean, obviously...
13:09SPEAKEROh, go ahead.
13:10SPEAKER- Well, did he specify where he's watching the archives?
13:12SPEAKER'Cause I think that probably determines the answer, right?
13:16SPEAKER- On Twitch, I would assume.
13:18SPEAKER- Okay, yeah.
13:18SPEAKERWell, you would know better than me.
13:20SPEAKERMy understanding is Twitch archives
13:22SPEAKERdon't really monetize much at all, if at all.
13:24SPEAKER- They count for ad revenue.
13:26SPEAKER- They do, okay.
13:27SPEAKER- And if, obviously, people subscribe or put bits in
13:29SPEAKERwhile they're watching the archive, you get that money.
13:32SPEAKER- Oh, I didn't know you could do that with archives.
13:33SPEAKERI didn't know you could do bits with archives.
13:35SPEAKER- So even if you're not in the same time zone,
13:37SPEAKERyou can still subscribe
13:38SPEAKERand then you don't get ads during the videos.
13:40SPEAKER- Okay, my info might be outdated.
13:43SPEAKERAt one point, I thought I had heard
13:44SPEAKERthat they don't monetize archives on Twitch,
13:46SPEAKERbut I guess that's wrong.
13:47SPEAKER- So you can always put...
13:50SPEAKERTwitch will always let you give money to a streamer,
13:52SPEAKERwhether they're online or off, for subs or for bits.
13:56SPEAKER'Cause I often get like...
13:58SPEAKERI'll often like log into my channel
14:00SPEAKERand there will be two notifications from times
14:02SPEAKERwhen I was not online for people who have subscribed
14:05SPEAKERor whatever in an off time zone.
14:08SPEAKERBut they do monetize ads as of like two years ago, I think.
14:13SPEAKER- Okay.
14:14SPEAKER- When they change the way the ad system works.
14:20SPEAKERSo anyway.
14:21SPEAKER- Yes.
14:23SPEAKER- That's it.
14:25SPEAKERYou wanna do the next one?
14:25SPEAKERYou want me to read this next one?
14:26SPEAKER- Do you have one more email?
14:27SPEAKER- I have one more email.
14:28SPEAKER- Let's flush the emails.
14:30SPEAKER- Okay, it's a question from Will in Pacifica.
14:33SPEAKERSays Brad, as a long time iPad user,
14:36SPEAKERwhat's your strategy for managing the iPad and your phone?
14:39SPEAKERDo you have certain apps that are phone or iPad only?
14:41SPEAKERDo you keep everything on your phone
14:43SPEAKERand a subset on your iPad?
14:44SPEAKERAre the same apps in your tray on each device?
14:48SPEAKERWhat is your overall strat?
14:50SPEAKER- Well, Will from Pacifica. (laughs)
14:53SPEAKER- It's really weird.
14:54SPEAKERThere must be another Will in Pacifica, who knew?
14:54SPEAKER- Yeah, who would have thought?
14:56SPEAKERMy iPad is mostly a consumption device.
14:59SPEAKERSo, my feeling is--
15:00SPEAKER- Like use it as a plate and put food on it?
15:02SPEAKER- Yes, exactly, yeah.
15:04SPEAKER- Okay.
15:05SPEAKER- You really have to keep that thing clean.
15:07SPEAKERMy feeling is anything with like actual life utility
15:10SPEAKERshould go on the phone 'cause that's the thing
15:11SPEAKERyou are guaranteed to have with you at all times.
15:14SPEAKER- Okay.
15:15SPEAKER- Of course, there's also the ongoing issue
15:17SPEAKERthat Apple remains strongly opinionated
15:21SPEAKERabout what should and should not be an iPad app.
15:24SPEAKER- Right, how is that a thing still?
15:26SPEAKER- There's still no weather app on the iPad.
15:28SPEAKERThere's still no calculator on the iPad.
15:31SPEAKER- Like, I don't know what's gonna happen when dark,
15:33SPEAKERI mean, Will in Pacifica says. (laughs)
15:37SPEAKERI don't know what's gonna happen
15:38SPEAKERwhen dark skies stops working at the end of the year
15:41SPEAKER'cause then I won't have a weather app on my iPad
15:42SPEAKERfor some reason.
15:43SPEAKER- Is dark skies just a weather app or is that,
15:46SPEAKERthat sounds like, is that astronomy related as well?
15:49SPEAKERI think we've talked about it before.
15:50SPEAKER- Dark skies is great.
15:51SPEAKERDark skies is the app that looked at like the direction
15:53SPEAKERthe rain radar was moving on the map
15:56SPEAKERand looked at your location of your device
15:58SPEAKERand then was like, hey, it looks like there's rain
16:01SPEAKERmoving toward where you are and it's moving at this rate
16:04SPEAKERso you're gonna get rain in like 15 minutes.
16:06SPEAKER- Oh, that's awesome.
16:06SPEAKERLike relative real-time weather updates
16:08SPEAKERas opposed to just long-term forecast.
16:10SPEAKERLike that's.
16:11SPEAKER- Hyper local.
16:12SPEAKER- That's amazing, that sounds.
16:14SPEAKER- It's great.
16:15SPEAKER- I'm gonna stop working.
16:16SPEAKER- Apple bought them and integrated it in the weather app,
16:19SPEAKERwhich doesn't exist on the iPad apparently.
16:21SPEAKER- So, oh, did I, did I pet?
16:24SPEAKERFirst of all, I hate saying iPad OS.
16:26SPEAKERI hate saying watch OS.
16:27SPEAKERI wish it was still.
16:28SPEAKERAnyway.
16:29SPEAKER- You can just say iPad.
16:30SPEAKERUn-delay, un-delay, iPad, iPad.
16:31SPEAKER- Do iPad lists 16 come out?
16:33SPEAKER- 16.2 is out.
16:35SPEAKER- Oh my gosh.
16:36SPEAKER- 16.1 is out.
16:37SPEAKER- My iPad has not notified me.
16:38SPEAKERI will say, I think I saw that, okay, yes,
16:42SPEAKERthe weather app comes to iPad.
16:43SPEAKERIt's one of the, oh, thank God our long national nightmare
16:47SPEAKERis over.
16:48SPEAKERAnyway, sorry, I don't mean to ramble here,
16:49SPEAKERbut anything that I'm ever gonna actually need
16:53SPEAKERgoes on my phone.
16:55SPEAKER- Okay.
16:56SPEAKER- Like, you know, there's stuff like Dropbox
16:57SPEAKERand Google Drive and some stuff that is functional
17:00SPEAKERthat I put on the iPad as well.
17:01SPEAKER'Cause obviously it's easier to like read docs
17:03SPEAKERon an iPad than a phone.
17:04SPEAKERBut the iPad is mainly, the iPad is primarily my,
17:09SPEAKERI want to read forums or Twitter or whatever.
17:13SPEAKER- Like Discord or?
17:14SPEAKER- Whatever replaces Twitter or Discord, yeah.
17:16SPEAKERLike I just want to keep up with news or like whatever
17:19SPEAKERand don't want to hold a laptop.
17:20SPEAKERLike it's, you know, it's comfy and compact
17:24SPEAKERand that's what I use it for primarily.
17:27SPEAKER- I picked one up recently and I'm learning like it's,
17:31SPEAKERthe last time I used an iPad, iOS wasn't separate.
17:35SPEAKERLike they hadn't bifurcated the OSs yet.
17:38SPEAKER- Sure.
17:39SPEAKER- So it's been, or at least the UI, the OSs,
17:43SPEAKERI think maybe were bifurcated, but it was basically like,
17:45SPEAKERthey hadn't added all the screen, the screen over
17:48SPEAKERand split screen, split view and all that stuff, yeah, so.
17:50SPEAKER- Which one, would you go one of the fancy new pros?
17:53SPEAKER- I got one of the M2 Pro, I got the small M2 Pro.
17:56SPEAKER- The new, what is that, 11 inch now?
17:58SPEAKER- It's 11 inches.
17:59SPEAKERI basically, I needed a lap.
18:01SPEAKERLike I was either that or buying a laptop and I was like,
18:03SPEAKERI kind of want, like, it would be nice to have something
18:05SPEAKERthat I can just hold in my hand and read with.
18:08SPEAKER- If you don't have any kind of heavy compute needs
18:10SPEAKERin a portable, I would say the iPad is definitely
18:12SPEAKERthe better choice.
18:13SPEAKER- Yeah, and like with US, like I can, if I'm traveling
18:17SPEAKERand I want to record with it, I can record with it
18:19SPEAKERtheoretically with the USB-C just by bringing my audio
18:22SPEAKERinterface and a pair of headphones, so.
18:24SPEAKER- I thought about, I'm on a, it's the first 10.5 inch
18:29SPEAKERPro iPad, which is like five years old now.
18:33SPEAKERI thought about getting one of those new ones
18:35SPEAKER'cause they did just refresh that M2 iPad just came out
18:37SPEAKERlike less than a month ago.
18:39SPEAKER- Yeah.
18:39SPEAKER- I think I'm gonna try to get it, squeeze another year
18:41SPEAKERout of this thing though.
18:42SPEAKER- I mean, I think, look, I didn't, if I had had one
18:47SPEAKERof the early pros, I probably would have been,
18:49SPEAKERlike if I was where you are, like I feel like iPads
18:52SPEAKERshould be five plus years, right?
18:53SPEAKER- Yes, for sure.
18:55SPEAKER- Like it's in the same category as a laptop.
18:57SPEAKER- Yeah, and it's not slow, I mean, we'll see once I upgrade
19:00SPEAKERto iPad OS 16, if it starts bogging down, but as of now,
19:03SPEAKERit's still fast enough, like it's really,
19:06SPEAKERhere's another thing they don't let you do on the iPad
19:08SPEAKERis view the battery health.
19:10SPEAKER- Really?
19:11SPEAKER- Yes, that's the kind of stuff I mean, like they are still
19:13SPEAKERextremely stodgy about stuff that they don't expose
19:17SPEAKERon the iPad.
19:18SPEAKERSo like, I'm pretty sure the battery is starting to falter,
19:21SPEAKERbut I can't prove it 'cause you can't get
19:23SPEAKERto any good statistics like you can on the phone.
19:25SPEAKER- I, so I turned, it's funny, I turned, yeah, like I hadn't,
19:31SPEAKERso I haven't used an iPad with a pencil before,
19:34SPEAKERI bought the pencil, I hadn't used anything
19:38SPEAKERsince they had the touch button on the front really.
19:41SPEAKERThe last, I think the last iPad I had was an iPad Air 2
19:43SPEAKERor 3, so it's been a minute and it's a little bit
19:47SPEAKERdisorienting 'cause it's like your normal keyboard,
19:51SPEAKERyour swipe shortcuts and all that are different
19:53SPEAKERfrom the phone now, which is surprising.
19:56SPEAKERBut yeah, I'll report back as I spend more time with it.
19:59SPEAKER- Yeah, I'd like to hear about it.
20:02SPEAKERAll right, it's time for Discord questions.
20:05SPEAKEROoh, here is the first one from console command,
20:09SPEAKERto which I have no answer, but here we go.
20:11SPEAKERWhy is it so common to see people talking on their cell phone
20:14SPEAKERlike they're going to take a bite of toast?
20:15SPEAKERI cannot, for the life of me, understand this behavior.
20:18SPEAKER- Oh my God, I have no idea, it makes me crazy.
20:21SPEAKER- Like just to clarify, basically talking about
20:23SPEAKERholding the phone sort of horizontal with the,
20:26SPEAKERyes, with the speaker toward the mouth,
20:30SPEAKERor not the, I'm sorry, the microphone rather.
20:31SPEAKER- I assume it's like a result of the older phones
20:38SPEAKERthat only had the microphone on the base,
20:41SPEAKERwhere you hold it up to your ear.
20:43SPEAKERBut like, it's so weird.
20:47SPEAKERSomebody was doing it at Thanksgiving the other day,
20:48SPEAKERand I was like, oh, why are you doing, you don't have to,
20:52SPEAKER'cause like, if you're FaceTiming with somebody,
20:54SPEAKERif you're doing a video call or whatever,
20:56SPEAKERyou just have it five feet away from you
20:58SPEAKERon a table or something, resting up and facing you.
21:00SPEAKERIt's not like you feel like you have to
21:02SPEAKERtalk into the microphone part, I don't know, man.
21:05SPEAKERMaybe people feel like you have to talk into the microphone.
21:07SPEAKERIt's the same instinct that makes people yell
21:10SPEAKERwhen they're talking to somebody
21:11SPEAKERwho has poor comprehension of English, right?
21:13SPEAKER- Or on speakerphone for that matter.
21:14SPEAKER- Yeah.
21:15SPEAKER- I've certainly had people put themselves on speaker
21:18SPEAKERand then start shouting into the phone,
21:19SPEAKERlike, hey, the microphone's pretty sensitive,
21:21SPEAKERyou can just talk.
21:22SPEAKER- Yeah, they're pretty good now, it turns out.
21:23SPEAKER- So wait, where are microphones on a modern phone
21:26SPEAKERat this point?
21:27SPEAKER- They're all over.
21:28SPEAKER- Are they really?
21:29SPEAKER- Yeah, it's lousy with them.
21:30SPEAKER- Oh, huh.
21:31SPEAKER- So there's one in the top, in the front,
21:33SPEAKERthere's usually multiples 'cause they do cancel,
21:35SPEAKERthat's how they do cancellation,
21:36SPEAKERthey have to do time of flight to get,
21:38SPEAKERto be able to cancel out waterfalls and stuff.
21:40SPEAKER- Sure.
21:41SPEAKER- It's a trip because like, you know that big fountain
21:44SPEAKERbehind Yerba Buena in San Francisco by Moscone?
21:48SPEAKER- Yes.
21:49SPEAKER- I was standing out there talking to somebody on the phone
21:50SPEAKERat GDC and trying to meet up with somebody,
21:55SPEAKERlast year or the last time before that that I went to GDC,
21:59SPEAKERand I was like, well, obviously you can tell
22:00SPEAKERthat I'm standing next to the fountain.
22:01SPEAKERThey're like, wait, what?
22:02SPEAKERYou're standing next to the fountain,
22:03SPEAKERI can't hear it at all.
22:04SPEAKERAnd it's because even just holding the phone up to my ear,
22:06SPEAKERit was canceling, it was just ignoring
22:08SPEAKERall of the background noise of the water hitting.
22:11SPEAKER- That's impressive.
22:12SPEAKER- It was very cool.
22:13SPEAKER- That's impressive.
22:15SPEAKER- The technology, it is good.
22:16SPEAKER- It's silly, I have to agree, it's silly.
22:23SPEAKEROkay.
22:24SPEAKER- Let's see what else we got.
22:25SPEAKER- How about a question from C. Bird Song.
22:29SPEAKERIn a s'more, the marshmallow is obviously
22:32SPEAKERalways warm and toasty, but the chocolate is usually cold
22:34SPEAKERsince you're outside on a night,
22:36SPEAKERcold enough to build a fire.
22:38SPEAKERThis leads to a bite mixing wonderful gooey marshmallow
22:40SPEAKERalongside disappointingly cold and not melty chocolate.
22:43SPEAKERHow can this be avoided?
22:44SPEAKERDo you have any other s'more making tips?
22:47SPEAKER- I--
22:48SPEAKER- You're a s'more family, right?
22:50SPEAKER- We make s'mores, I never made s'mores as a kid.
22:52SPEAKER- Yeah, I didn't either.
22:53SPEAKER- We were always a toasted marshmallow family as kids.
22:56SPEAKERAnd my first exposure to s'mores was when we went camping
23:00SPEAKERon an island with another couple of families
23:04SPEAKERand they busted out chocolate and graham crackers
23:06SPEAKERwith their toasted marshmallows.
23:07SPEAKER- Oh, man.
23:08SPEAKER- And I was like, wait, what?
23:09SPEAKER- You went island camping?
23:11SPEAKER- So we were like, we had a boat and a boathouse.
23:14SPEAKER- Oh, okay.
23:15SPEAKER- And we would often like--
23:16SPEAKER- Like a lake island.
23:18SPEAKER- Yeah, on a lake island.
23:19SPEAKERSo like on Thursday afternoon, somebody would go out
23:21SPEAKERand set up a bunch of tents on the good island.
23:24SPEAKERAnd then the rest of us would roll out Friday after school
23:26SPEAKERor whatever and we'd set up and stay all weekend
23:29SPEAKERfor like Memorial Day or Labor Day or whatever.
23:31SPEAKER- Yes, maybe I've got like the Outer Banks on the,
23:34SPEAKERI thought you were talking like ocean islands.
23:36SPEAKER- No.
23:37SPEAKER- For some reason I got,
23:38SPEAKERI went down a slight row and oak rabbit hole recently.
23:41SPEAKER- Oh yeah, that's an interesting story, huh?
23:43SPEAKER- It was because somebody on Twitter
23:46SPEAKERis like probably my favorite thing I've seen
23:48SPEAKERabout the god awful Twitter situation
23:50SPEAKERis that somebody basically said like, okay,
23:53SPEAKERwhoever is the last one out just needs to tweet Croatoan
23:56SPEAKERas their final tweet and then vanish.
24:01SPEAKER- So anyway, yeah, I usually set the graham crackers
24:08SPEAKERwith a piece of chocolate on them close to the fire.
24:12SPEAKERSo like if you have like a firebox around
24:16SPEAKERor you may put some stones there or whatever,
24:18SPEAKERyou just kind of put a piece of foil down
24:19SPEAKERwith the graham crackers on it
24:20SPEAKERso they can kind of toast up a little bit.
24:22SPEAKERAnd also you need the marshmallows to be nuclear hot.
24:26SPEAKER- Really?
24:27SPEAKER- Yeah, like you need to slow roast that marshmallow
24:29SPEAKERso the inside is like,
24:31SPEAKERso the outside is like a hard crunchy shell
24:33SPEAKERand the inside is just molten fire in there.
24:36SPEAKERAnd then when you mash it into the chocolate,
24:38SPEAKERit melts the chocolate.
24:39SPEAKER- I wonder if, so you probably wouldn't want to hold
24:40SPEAKERthe graham cracker right over the fire
24:41SPEAKER'cause you might scorch it, right?
24:42SPEAKERBut could you maybe just like wave the chocolate
24:45SPEAKERaround over the fire just a tad?
24:46SPEAKERLike, I mean, I'm talking like 10 seconds or something.
24:49SPEAKER- Okay, first off, everybody uses Hershey's for s'mores.
24:53SPEAKERMost people use Hershey's for s'mores,
24:54SPEAKERwhich is kind to call it chocolate.
24:57SPEAKER- Whoa, damn, strong chocolate opinions.
25:00SPEAKER- Look, I went, we got to say,
25:02SPEAKERwe went camping with some friends in May
25:04SPEAKERand they busted out some lint bars.
25:09SPEAKERAnd I was like, holy shit, this is a fancy camping trip.
25:12SPEAKERThis is an upscale.
25:15SPEAKERIf you use better chocolate, it melts better.
25:18SPEAKERThe Hershey's gets gooey,
25:19SPEAKERbut it's just all the high fructose corn syrup
25:21SPEAKERor the oil or whatever they use.
25:23SPEAKERI don't know what they use.
25:26SPEAKERAgain, I think you could wave it over the,
25:28SPEAKERI feel like if you had one of those little toasting boxes,
25:30SPEAKERyou could put the s'more,
25:32SPEAKERthe graham cracker and the chocolate in that
25:34SPEAKERand kind of hold it over the flame directly.
25:36SPEAKERBut I don't know if I want a toasted graham,
25:38SPEAKERI like the graham cracker to be cool
25:39SPEAKERso that I don't burn my hands.
25:40SPEAKER- Sure.
25:41SPEAKER- I also want to burn the roof of my mouth really bad.
25:43SPEAKERThat's the goal.
25:44SPEAKER- I haven't eaten yet today.
25:45SPEAKERWe have to, we should move on.
25:48SPEAKER- I also have to say as a beard person,
25:52SPEAKERyou got to be real careful with s'mores.
25:54SPEAKER'Cause you don't want marshmallow in there
25:58SPEAKER'cause it's never coming out.
25:59SPEAKER- Could you, is there a substance so tacky
26:02SPEAKERor so difficult to remove that it would force you
26:04SPEAKERto cut your beard off?
26:07SPEAKER- Like I feel like bubble gum is off limits.
26:09SPEAKER- Okay.
26:10SPEAKER- Yeah.
26:11SPEAKER- Superglue.
26:12SPEAKER- Man, if you get superglue in your face, you made mistakes.
26:15SPEAKER- Yes, fair.
26:16SPEAKER- The, I mean, the marshmallow is close.
26:18SPEAKERIt's dangerous.
26:19SPEAKERYou can get in real, like you can get really fused in there.
26:22SPEAKER- Seems like that would be water soluble.
26:24SPEAKER- Yeah, but if you're camping, how, how hard,
26:26SPEAKERit's pretty hard to wash a beard if you're camping.
26:28SPEAKER- You're just going to walk around
26:29SPEAKERwith a marshmallow in your beard all weekend.
26:31SPEAKERIt's not.
26:32SPEAKER- Yeah, well, and a bunch of yellow jackets and shit
26:34SPEAKERif you have a marshmallow in your beard.
26:35SPEAKER- Yeah.
26:36SPEAKER- All right, good.
26:37SPEAKER- Yeah, all right.
26:39SPEAKERNext question from Retro Snow.
26:42SPEAKERWe talked about this recently.
26:43SPEAKERI'm sure you've got some info here.
26:44SPEAKERI've got some other info.
26:48SPEAKERLet's see what we got.
26:49SPEAKEROn the previous episode, Brad talked about longing
26:51SPEAKERfor the old internet full of blogs.
26:53SPEAKERAnd I assume other ancient stuff like GeoCities websites
26:56SPEAKERafter experiencing the social media exhaustion.
26:59SPEAKERI am a 23 year old electrical engineer
27:01SPEAKERwho has that same longing.
27:04SPEAKERI grew up with older siblings and have fond memories
27:06SPEAKERof the early 2000s internet.
27:08SPEAKERFor a couple of years, I've wanted to make a blog
27:10SPEAKERor website, but I've been overwhelmed by the options.
27:13SPEAKERWhat service do I use for buying domains?
27:15SPEAKERGoogle, GoDaddy.
27:17SPEAKERWhat service can I use for making good webpage templates?
27:19SPEAKERSquare, WordPress.
27:21SPEAKERHow should I acquire a non-Gmail email address?
27:24SPEAKERAnd should my webpages be static or dynamic?
27:27SPEAKERJust looking for info to get started and contribute
27:30SPEAKERto an internet full of personal blogs again.
27:33SPEAKER- So as the new proprietor of shitty.blog.
27:36SPEAKER- Yeah, well, actually, why don't we start,
27:37SPEAKERwhy don't we just walk through what you did
27:39SPEAKERand then if I have anything to add.
27:41SPEAKER- So I think at some point I got an email from WordPress.
27:43SPEAKERIt was like, hey, if you come back
27:44SPEAKERand sign up for WordPress, you can get a free domain.
27:46SPEAKERAnd at that point I was like, oh, they own
27:47SPEAKERthe top level .blog, so I'm gonna see what they have.
27:49SPEAKER- And WordPress owns .blog?
27:51SPEAKER- I believe so, yes.
27:51SPEAKER- I didn't know that.
27:52SPEAKERAlso, I didn't know they did their own domain.
27:55SPEAKERI didn't know they were a registrar.
27:56SPEAKER- WordPress is pretty big.
27:58SPEAKER- Yeah.
27:59SPEAKER- I'm gonna check that, right?
28:01SPEAKER- Aren't they like not a for profit situation?
28:05SPEAKERI forget, what's their structure?
28:06SPEAKERThey're like a weird structure, right?
28:09SPEAKEROr did they get bought
28:10SPEAKERand they're just straight up corporation now?
28:12SPEAKER- No, WordPress is owned by,
28:15SPEAKERWordPress was started by Matt Mullenweg,
28:17SPEAKERwho has, he seemed okay.
28:21SPEAKER- Aren't they owned by Automattic with two Ts?
28:23SPEAKER- Automattic is Matt Mullenweg's company, yeah.
28:25SPEAKER- Oh, whoa, maybe they didn't sell then.
28:27SPEAKER- Yeah, the Matt has two Ts, which is, it's Matt.
28:31SPEAKERLike the story about Matt Mullenweg,
28:33SPEAKERand I assume this, it may be apocryphal,
28:37SPEAKERbut the story is that he started WordPress
28:39SPEAKERbecause he wanted to be the number one Matt on the internet,
28:41SPEAKERwhich is why all the footers on WordPress blogs
28:46SPEAKERused to link to his domain.
28:47SPEAKER- That's pretty good, wow.
28:50SPEAKERTheir stats, huh, 20 billion page views a month
28:53SPEAKERthrough WordPress? - They're big, they're big.
28:55SPEAKER- Jeez.
28:56SPEAKER- So WordPress is a good place to start, I think,
29:01SPEAKERif you wanna do a blog at this point.
29:03SPEAKERLike Tumblr is also interesting,
29:04SPEAKERbut Tumblr is kind of like a weird blog,
29:06SPEAKERsocial network hybrid, and you get network effects.
29:10SPEAKERBut the nice thing about WordPress is I can export a file
29:13SPEAKERfrom my WordPress instance that will let me move it
29:16SPEAKERto any other WordPress instance,
29:17SPEAKERwhether I wanna host it myself
29:18SPEAKERor move it to a different host or whatever.
29:20SPEAKER- Oh, that's convenient.
29:21SPEAKER- That's straightforward.
29:22SPEAKERI mean, I think you have to do some template work,
29:24SPEAKERbut the posts will actually transfer.
29:28SPEAKER- So is that your recommendation?
29:29SPEAKERJust go to wordpress.com and kind of follow the plan?
29:32SPEAKER- So, okay, I will say I wouldn't use GoDaddy.
29:36SPEAKER- Yes.
29:37SPEAKER- 'Cause they suck, they have problems.
29:39SPEAKERI usually do my domain registration at Hover.
29:41SPEAKERI find them to be pretty good.
29:42SPEAKERThey support two-factor.
29:44SPEAKERThey let you lock domains.
29:45SPEAKERAnd for the TLDs that allowed domain privacy,
29:48SPEAKERyou can make your contact info private,
29:51SPEAKERwhich is important if you're hosting domains.
29:52SPEAKER- Yes, I'll jump in here.
29:54SPEAKERI use Porkbun.
29:56SPEAKER- Oh.
29:57SPEAKER- Porkbun.com is my domain registrar.
29:59SPEAKERThey also, they anonymize by default.
30:01SPEAKER- Yeah.
30:03SPEAKER- They're quite low cost.
30:04SPEAKERThey're boutiques.
30:04SPEAKERThey're kind of a neat company.
30:06SPEAKERThey're like a bunch of like old school network engineers
30:09SPEAKERfrom ISPs and stuff that kind of got together
30:11SPEAKERto start like a little boutique registrar in Portland.
30:14SPEAKER- Oh, that's fun.
30:15SPEAKERDo they all have mustaches?
30:17SPEAKER- Probably.
30:18SPEAKER- Yeah.
30:19SPEAKER- Probably.
30:20SPEAKER- The, some TLDs don't allow private domains.
30:25SPEAKERSo like I think .pro is one that you can't get a .pro
30:29SPEAKERif you don't, if you privatize your information.
30:32SPEAKERSo pay attention to that when you're registering weird TLDs.
30:35SPEAKER- That happened to me.
30:36SPEAKERI bought a .us.
30:38SPEAKER- Yeah.
30:38SPEAKER- And kind of ignored those warnings
30:40SPEAKERand then looked at the who is didn't like, oh.
30:44SPEAKER- Yeah.
30:44SPEAKER- And then I actually just got rid of it.
30:46SPEAKER- Yeah, that was my experience with the .pro.
30:50SPEAKERSo WordPress is easy.
30:51SPEAKERYou can point your domain at WordPress.
30:55SPEAKERThat's pretty straightforward.
30:56SPEAKERIf you want to do like the Squarespace,
31:00SPEAKERSquarespace is more for like landing pages
31:01SPEAKERand business pages.
31:03SPEAKERThen like you can do a blog on Squarespace,
31:05SPEAKERbut it's priced for businesses.
31:06SPEAKERSo like I think they start at like 20 bucks a month,
31:09SPEAKERwhich is kind of a lot.
31:10SPEAKERI think WordPress, you can do free
31:12SPEAKERif you don't mind having ads.
31:13SPEAKERI think I pay $4 a month and get no ads.
31:16SPEAKER- Okay.
31:17SPEAKER- So that means nobody sees ads
31:18SPEAKERon my wordpress.com hosted blog.
31:21SPEAKERYou can also do commercial WordPress hosts
31:26SPEAKERfor about that same price,
31:28SPEAKERwhich means that they, instead of hosting,
31:31SPEAKERinstead of WordPress hosting their thing
31:32SPEAKERon their service, wordpress.com,
31:35SPEAKERwhich is basically running a version
31:37SPEAKERof the open source WordPress client
31:38SPEAKERand gates things like plugins for commercial users,
31:44SPEAKERyou can pay a host that will do it,
31:47SPEAKERmanage an instance of WordPress for you.
31:50SPEAKERThat's as if you're hosting it yourself.
31:51SPEAKERLike a dream host does that.
31:53SPEAKERThere's a thing called blue host.
31:54SPEAKERThere's a couple of others
31:56SPEAKERand they let you do more traditional like plugins and stuff,
31:59SPEAKERbut they also don't manage comment spam
32:01SPEAKERand that sort of thing maybe quite as well.
32:03SPEAKERLike that's up to you as a user.
32:05SPEAKER- Okay, I totally forgot there's also a wordpress.org,
32:08SPEAKERwhich is the non-commercial.
32:12SPEAKER- Yeah, like WordPress is the open source
32:16SPEAKERcommercial dichotomy.
32:17SPEAKERIt's a good, we should actually,
32:19SPEAKERwe should get Matt Mullenweg on the tech pod.
32:22SPEAKER- Okay.
32:22SPEAKER- On the FOS pod.
32:23SPEAKER- The FOS pod, yeah.
32:24SPEAKER- They do, so the open source project is on .org.
32:29SPEAKERAnybody can download it.
32:30SPEAKERYou can install it on your web server, whatever.
32:33SPEAKERIt's super easy to do.
32:36SPEAKERLike if you can run it on a line node for five bucks a month
32:38SPEAKERand have your own hosted,
32:39SPEAKERI don't want to have to fool with managing the server.
32:41SPEAKER'Cause there's overhead to that.
32:43SPEAKERAnd there's time security patches,
32:46SPEAKERall sorts of stuff I don't want to have to fool with.
32:49SPEAKERSo I'll happily pay someone else five bucks a month
32:51SPEAKERto deal with them.
32:52SPEAKER- Yeah, I thought at one point years,
32:54SPEAKERlike two years ago about like,
32:55SPEAKERoh, I could just run a little blog off of my NAS here.
32:58SPEAKER- Don't do that.
32:58SPEAKER- I've got a domain.
32:59SPEAKER- That's a terrible idea.
33:00SPEAKER- Nope, that's a terrible idea.
33:01SPEAKER- Yeah.
33:02SPEAKER- I ran an Nginx instance in a container for like two weeks.
33:07SPEAKERAnd then I looked at the access logs and realized
33:09SPEAKERhow much you're getting.
33:11SPEAKERIf you have a domain that is public pointing to a web server,
33:13SPEAKERhow much you are getting crawled constantly
33:16SPEAKERfrom all over the world.
33:18SPEAKER- Yeah, and it's like,
33:21SPEAKERif you're doing that,
33:21SPEAKERyou have to pay really close attention to like zero days
33:25SPEAKERand stuff like that.
33:26SPEAKER- Yes, I have no desire to try to keep up
33:29SPEAKERwith security stuff and expose myself in that way.
33:32SPEAKER- Yeah, so the other thing I would say
33:34SPEAKERis setting up the WordPress blog,
33:36SPEAKERI turned off all of the engagement stuff.
33:38SPEAKERSo I have all the comments off.
33:40SPEAKERI tried to turn off all of their share your social links.
33:43SPEAKERI think I haven't been successful with that yet.
33:45SPEAKERI got to figure out what I need to remove
33:47SPEAKERfrom the template for that to work.
33:49SPEAKERBut for me, it's just a,
33:51SPEAKERhey, here's a place to share stuff
33:53SPEAKERthat I think is interesting.
33:54SPEAKERIf anybody reads it, great.
33:55SPEAKERIf they don't, also fine.
33:57SPEAKERThat blogs are best that way.
33:59SPEAKERI posted my oatmeal recipe there the other day.
34:02SPEAKER- Wait, hang on.
34:05SPEAKEROkay, I'm sure I just misheard you.
34:06SPEAKERI'd swear you just said I posted my opium recipe.
34:10SPEAKER- Oatmeal, oatmeal.
34:12SPEAKER- Well, shit, that's way less fun.
34:15SPEAKER- The oatmeal is really good, dude.
34:17SPEAKERIt's not opium good, but it's pretty good.
34:19SPEAKER- Could you make opium oatmeal?
34:21SPEAKER- I mean, look, if you try hard enough,
34:23SPEAKERyou can make opium in anything.
34:25SPEAKERBut I am not a opium scientist.
34:28SPEAKER- That's a good point.
34:31SPEAKEROkay, all right, shall we move on?
34:33SPEAKER- Yeah, sure.
34:34SPEAKER- Here's a question from Matt Bott.
34:36SPEAKERA lot of new faces in the questions this month.
34:38SPEAKER- I love that.
34:41SPEAKER- Question for Matt Bott is,
34:43SPEAKERare you a mouse pad person, a desk mat person,
34:46SPEAKERor do you just raw dog it on the desk?
34:48SPEAKER- Who raw dogs it on the desk now?
34:50SPEAKER- Oh, that's disgusting.
34:51SPEAKERThat's just, ugh.
34:53SPEAKER- I have a mouse pad.
34:55SPEAKER- How do you define a mouse pad?
34:56SPEAKERLike, okay, we're talking,
34:58SPEAKERokay, like the '90s style of like cloth,
35:00SPEAKERit's not cloth exactly,
35:01SPEAKERbut it's like a fabric-y top on like a rubberized flimsy.
35:05SPEAKERLike those are basically dead, right?
35:08SPEAKER- I have, so the ones that you're talking about
35:10SPEAKERare the neoprene ones, I think,
35:11SPEAKERwhere it's like a nylon cloth top on top of a neoprene,
35:15SPEAKERa quarter inch or eighth of an inch of neoprene.
35:17SPEAKER- Sure, that sounds right.
35:18SPEAKER- I do not have one.
35:20SPEAKERSo I have a wireless Logitech mouse.
35:23SPEAKERI use a Logitech Pro Superlight.
35:27SPEAKERI bought it, they don't send me stuff.
35:30SPEAKERThe mouse pad, I got the self-charging,
35:35SPEAKERlike the charging mat,
35:36SPEAKERso that I don't ever have to plug it in
35:38SPEAKERand it never has wires.
35:40SPEAKERAnd I quite like that.
35:41SPEAKERThe problem with that thing is it limits me
35:43SPEAKERto the size mouse pad that that base supports,
35:48SPEAKERbecause if you have a bigger mouse pad,
35:50SPEAKERthere's like weird overhangs.
35:54SPEAKERBut yeah, that's my solution.
35:57SPEAKERI think if I didn't have the self-charge,
35:59SPEAKERthe automatic charging, the wireless charging thing,
36:02SPEAKERI would probably do a big mat
36:06SPEAKERthat my keyboard sits on as well, yeah.
36:09SPEAKER- So I've never seen one of those in person.
36:10SPEAKERLike are those, like when I look at them,
36:12SPEAKERI think of that old 90s neoprene nylon kind of thing,
36:16SPEAKERbut they can't, surely they're not like that.
36:18SPEAKERLike what is your typical desk mat?
36:20SPEAKER- So usually the difference is that the weave
36:23SPEAKERon the top surface is more uniform now.
36:25SPEAKER- Okay.
36:26SPEAKER- So you don't want,
36:28SPEAKERlike the difference between a good mouse pad
36:30SPEAKERand a bad mouse pad is that the surface is predictable
36:33SPEAKERso that the sensor has more accuracy.
36:35SPEAKERLike it's the difference between going over something
36:37SPEAKERthat's like a scribble that you do a scribble
36:40SPEAKERand having a plotter do a scribble that's precise, right?
36:43SPEAKERIf you have a precise pattern,
36:45SPEAKERthen it's able to track more efficiently.
36:47SPEAKERBut the sensors are high enough resolution now
36:48SPEAKERthat I don't think it matters as much as you used to.
36:50SPEAKER- Yeah.
36:53SPEAKERWhat is the use case for those things?
36:54SPEAKERI mean, the mouse part is clear, but like,
36:56SPEAKERis it just a tactile,
36:58SPEAKERlike it's nice to rest your hands on kind of thing for like,
37:00SPEAKERit's not like a keyboard needs a pad under it.
37:02SPEAKERI'm kind of curious, like, I know they look nice,
37:05SPEAKERbut I'm just curious, like what,
37:06SPEAKERwhat the use case is for like the other 80% of the pad.
37:10SPEAKER- Well, the keyboard under the pad helps reduce sound
37:12SPEAKERif you have loud mechanical switches.
37:15SPEAKER- Yeah.
37:16SPEAKER- That's the, it makes your desk not a resonator
37:19SPEAKERfor the keyboard sound, if that's your.
37:22SPEAKER- I can kind of see the appeal there.
37:24SPEAKER- Yeah.
37:25SPEAKERIt also is nice 'cause you can take that thing off
37:27SPEAKERand clean it off.
37:28SPEAKERSo if you have crumbs or dust or hair or skin or whatever,
37:31SPEAKERit's easier to clean than the desktop, I think.
37:35SPEAKERYou just take it off and hose it off.
37:37SPEAKER- I am using a funk pad.
37:39SPEAKERRemember those?
37:40SPEAKER- Oh, you're still a funk pad guy?
37:41SPEAKER- Dude.
37:43SPEAKER- I like my funk pad.
37:44SPEAKER- Would it shock you to know that this funk pad
37:46SPEAKERis from when I worked at GameSpot?
37:48SPEAKER- How funky is the funk?
37:50SPEAKERLike I find those hard pads get kind of crusty after a while.
37:54SPEAKER- I clean it regularly with ice purple
37:57SPEAKERand kind of like scrub it.
37:59SPEAKER- Okay.
38:00SPEAKERGet the skin off.
38:01SPEAKER- I should probably just clean it in the sink
38:04SPEAKERlike it's a dish.
38:05SPEAKER- That's why I use Dawn on my hard pads.
38:07SPEAKER- And you think like a dish sponge is probably fine.
38:11SPEAKER- Probably, I mean, look, I don't know.
38:12SPEAKER- You're not gonna braid the,
38:14SPEAKERI use the rough side, by the way,
38:15SPEAKERfor people who remember the funk pad.
38:17SPEAKER- Yeah, it's smooth and rough, right?
38:18SPEAKERThe rough, yes, is glide, the mouse glides better
38:21SPEAKERthan on the smooth side.
38:23SPEAKERThis mouse pad says, "Plays best on Alienware."
38:26SPEAKER- Oh.
38:27SPEAKER- Because GameSpot did a big deal with Alienware
38:29SPEAKERin I think 2005 and we all got big fat,
38:33SPEAKERridiculous looking alien looking 2005 PCs.
38:37SPEAKER- Oh, did you get the plastic shell one?
38:38SPEAKER- Yes, if you Google, it was either the '05,
38:40SPEAKERI was just looking at this the other day,
38:41SPEAKERif you Google the '05 or the '06 Alienware,
38:43SPEAKERI think it was the '05.
38:45SPEAKER- I remember when they came out with those,
38:46SPEAKERit was when everybody else was doing
38:47SPEAKERlike high-end aluminum cases and Alienware
38:49SPEAKERcouldn't figure out how to manufacture them at scale,
38:51SPEAKERso they just did a giant plastic shell around a steel case.
38:54SPEAKER- Yes, it's absurd, it was huge.
38:57SPEAKER- Yeah, it was very big.
38:59SPEAKER- Last thing I'll say about a mouse,
39:00SPEAKERI also am thinking about getting a wireless mouse,
39:02SPEAKERso if anybody listening has recommendations,
39:05SPEAKERI like Logitech and I like the right-handed
39:09SPEAKERwith the thumb groove grip, if anybody has wireless,
39:13SPEAKERI'm not so big on ambidextrous mouse.
39:16SPEAKER- Wow, wouldn't have thought that,
39:18SPEAKERwouldn't have thought intolerance was your thing, Brad,
39:20SPEAKERbut here we are.
39:20SPEAKER- Look, the MX518 broke me forever,
39:23SPEAKERI have to have that thumb groove now.
39:25SPEAKER- I will tell you, I was a thumb groove guy
39:27SPEAKERuntil I tried a light mouse,
39:29SPEAKERand then I was like, oh, right, light mouse,
39:31SPEAKERI understand why people like these.
39:33SPEAKER- Yeah, I get it, I mean, I'm open to other suggestions,
39:35SPEAKERit doesn't have to be Logitech,
39:37SPEAKERI would, that's kind of my, to what I know.
39:40SPEAKERActually, I have one of their reissue MX518s,
39:43SPEAKERremember, when they did that?
39:44SPEAKER- Yeah.
39:44SPEAKER- It's got, well, we talked about this offline,
39:46SPEAKERit's got this weird thing
39:47SPEAKERwhere it'll take phantom input upwards vertically.
39:52SPEAKER- That's bad.
39:52SPEAKER- It only does it in, well, no,
39:54SPEAKERit'll do it on the desktop, actually,
39:55SPEAKERI notice it most in games,
39:56SPEAKERbecause if I'm playing a first person game,
39:58SPEAKERmy view will just flick all the way to the top,
40:00SPEAKERout of nowhere.
40:01SPEAKER- Does it not have like a hair or something
40:02SPEAKERstuck in the sensor?
40:03SPEAKER- I looked at the sensor, it looks clean,
40:04SPEAKERit's done it pretty much since I got it,
40:06SPEAKERI've had it for a couple of years.
40:08SPEAKER- I would call them, they'll fix that.
40:10SPEAKER- I got it for 20 bucks on sale, I kind of don't care,
40:12SPEAKERI kind of would just rather buy a wireless,
40:15SPEAKERanyway, anybody has any recommendations for wireless mice?
40:19SPEAKERHit me up in the Discord.
40:20SPEAKER- The thing I'll say is that the big pads,
40:22SPEAKERthe big mats that people like now,
40:24SPEAKERis almost universally tied to people
40:26SPEAKERwho use very low DPI sensors,
40:29SPEAKERso they set their sensitivity really, really low,
40:31SPEAKERso that you need to do a large movement
40:34SPEAKERto do any kind of,
40:38SPEAKERyou're just using a very large area to do tracking.
40:42SPEAKER- It gives you better precision for headshots
40:44SPEAKERand stuff like that.
40:45SPEAKER- Yes, all right.
40:49SPEAKERThis might be our last question,
40:50SPEAKERbecause it's actually like a bajillion questions.
40:55SPEAKERI feel like Saffid cheated here,
40:57SPEAKERbut it's so clever that I have to respect the hustle.
41:03SPEAKERI almost scrolled right past this,
41:04SPEAKERbecause it was two huge paragraphs,
41:06SPEAKERand I was like, well, that's too long to read on the show,
41:07SPEAKERand then I actually looked again,
41:08SPEAKERthis is from user Saffid on the Discord.
41:11SPEAKERIt's actually just two huge paragraphs
41:13SPEAKERof question after question after question.
41:15SPEAKER- Oh, you broke 'em out in the doc.
41:16SPEAKER- This is sneaky.
41:18SPEAKERI bolded the ones that I personally would want to read.
41:21SPEAKER- I'm good with that.
41:23SPEAKERI thought you made good choices.
41:24SPEAKER- Like I said, I feel like this is cheating,
41:25SPEAKERand we almost should not allow it,
41:27SPEAKERbut again, it's just, it's too deviously effective.
41:31SPEAKERSo here we go, several of Saffid's questions.
41:37SPEAKERAs a kid, did you build tree houses or blanket forts
41:40SPEAKERas an adult, which do you prefer?
41:43SPEAKERI'm gonna go tree house on both.
41:45SPEAKER- We did both when I was a kid.
41:47SPEAKER- Yeah, blanket fort is fine,
41:49SPEAKERbut I don't feel like you can, I don't know.
41:52SPEAKERThe woods is a cool place, let me put it that way.
41:55SPEAKERAs a child, I feel like the woods is a place
41:59SPEAKERthat really fires the imagination.
42:01SPEAKER- A lot of our trees here,
42:03SPEAKERwe have a bunch of eucalyptuses and stuff around us,
42:05SPEAKERwhich are not good for tree houses.
42:07SPEAKERWe had, when we moved here, really bummed
42:10SPEAKERthat we had to cut it down before my daughter was born,
42:13SPEAKERbut we had a Monterey Cypress
42:15SPEAKERthat would have been awesome for a tree house.
42:18SPEAKERAnd then it split and famously cost me
42:21SPEAKERa truckload of money to have removed.
42:23SPEAKER- Right, as a child in the woods behind our house,
42:27SPEAKERmy dad put up a tree stand,
42:29SPEAKERlike a straight up deer hunting tree stand.
42:32SPEAKERSo that was my tree house.
42:34SPEAKERAnd he also built a little log cabin.
42:37SPEAKER- Ooh.
42:38SPEAKER- Like a very basic, I mean like a foot long
42:40SPEAKERor foot wide gaps between the beams or whatever.
42:44SPEAKER- Oh, that's fun.
42:44SPEAKER- Just logs stacked on each other with a little tin roof.
42:47SPEAKERIt was a good time.
42:49SPEAKER- So we, my uncle brought a oil rig, a drill rig rope,
42:55SPEAKERwhich was like a two inch diameter piece of hemp rope
42:59SPEAKERthat was extra from his business down
43:02SPEAKERwhen he came to visit one time.
43:03SPEAKERAnd we took that and we strung it up in this tree
43:06SPEAKERthat hung over the river.
43:08SPEAKERAnd he made like a big mesh web up about 15 feet in the tree
43:12SPEAKERso he had to climb up to the tree
43:12SPEAKERand then he could sit up there
43:13SPEAKERand just kind of hang out and read or whatever.
43:15SPEAKERThat was awesome 'cause when it was 100 degrees
43:17SPEAKERout in the summertime, the river was always like 50 degrees
43:20SPEAKER'cause it came out of the bottom of the dam.
43:22SPEAKERAnd it was fantastic 'cause it was really,
43:26SPEAKERreally it was a nice, it was like natural air conditioning
43:28SPEAKERto go down and read a book or whatever.
43:29SPEAKER- Yeah.
43:31SPEAKER- But we've been doing with my daughter,
43:34SPEAKERwe've gotten these construction kits
43:36SPEAKERthat are like two foot long plastic sticks
43:39SPEAKERwith hubs that have a bazillion holes in them.
43:42SPEAKERAnd I'll make, she and I will make a dome with those
43:48SPEAKERand then just put blankets over the dome.
43:49SPEAKERAnd that's been, that's super.
43:51SPEAKERLike the toys, the toys are better now, Brad.
43:54SPEAKER- Yeah, it seems that way.
43:57SPEAKERYeah, the toys are better
43:59SPEAKERbut the social conditions are way worse.
44:01SPEAKER- Look, there's pros and cons.
44:04SPEAKER- Okay, let's see, oh man, this one is a nightmare.
44:09SPEAKEREgg or cheese, you no longer eat one of them,
44:12SPEAKERincluding recipes, which one and why?
44:16SPEAKER- I don't wanna live in this world.
44:18SPEAKER- I, man, like recipes. - I eat a lot of eggs.
44:20SPEAKER- Oh yeah, we didn't guess.
44:23SPEAKERGod, it pains me to do it
44:25SPEAKERbut I think I would have to cut out cheese
44:26SPEAKERbecause I don't know, man, like you,
44:31SPEAKERI eat eggs numerous times a week, if not every day.
44:35SPEAKERAnd think about all the things
44:36SPEAKERthat you would no longer be able to eat
44:37SPEAKERif you couldn't have eggs in things.
44:39SPEAKER- No cakes, no cookies.
44:41SPEAKER- No. - Nope.
44:43SPEAKERWell, I can eat pies still
44:44SPEAKER'cause there's hardly any egg in pies.
44:46SPEAKER- Yeah.
44:47SPEAKER- I would have to, it would have to be cheese for me
44:49SPEAKERbut it would be, that's a horrible choice.
44:51SPEAKER- Yeah, that's terrible.
44:53SPEAKER- I mean, I can't think of much worse than,
44:55SPEAKERdoes he think you need like vegan cheese at that point
44:57SPEAKERif it's not non-dairy cheeses
44:58SPEAKERor you think those are out too?
45:00SPEAKER- Maybe, we randomly- - There's some nut cheeses
45:03SPEAKERthat are pretty good now.
45:04SPEAKER- Yeah, yeah, we randomly picked up some vegan goat cheese.
45:10SPEAKER- Yeah.
45:11SPEAKER- That's made out of sunflower seeds.
45:13SPEAKER- Yeah.
45:14SPEAKER- And I had some last night and I was like, you know what?
45:16SPEAKERI don't think I would quite mistake this
45:18SPEAKERif you put them side by side
45:19SPEAKERbut the flavor is pretty damn close
45:21SPEAKERand like, it's pretty healthy and it's just like,
45:24SPEAKERI just look at it as a spread
45:26SPEAKERthat tastes kind of like goat cheese, it's not bad.
45:29SPEAKER- We got a feta, you know, a fake feta at some point
45:33SPEAKERthat was like pretty indistinguishable.
45:36SPEAKERI was pleasantly surprised.
45:38SPEAKER- Yeah.
45:40SPEAKERGod, yeah, this question sucks
45:42SPEAKERbut I think it's gotta be eggs.
45:43SPEAKERLike you couldn't have mayonnaise anymore.
45:46SPEAKER- Mayonnaise is not the thing,
45:47SPEAKERlike just the number of eggs I eat a week.
45:50SPEAKERLike my default, hey, it's late
45:53SPEAKERand we need to make food for dinner,
45:55SPEAKERwhat are we gonna make is like, I'll fry some eggs
45:57SPEAKERand make toast and some free salad or something.
46:02SPEAKER- That is 100%, it is like, I need to eat,
46:06SPEAKERI don't know what else to make or there's no food here,
46:08SPEAKERI'm going to make eggs and combine it
46:10SPEAKERwith carb of some kind.
46:11SPEAKER- Well, yeah, that and like the number,
46:13SPEAKERlike I often will do like the sous vide,
46:16SPEAKERa batch of sous vide hard boiled eggs, stuff like that
46:19SPEAKERand I just, I can't even imagine.
46:21SPEAKER- Yeah, this is still a terrible question, let's move on.
46:25SPEAKER- Yeah, there's one more terrible question
46:27SPEAKERin that pile that's bolded.
46:29SPEAKER- Oh, I don't know which one, well, there's two
46:31SPEAKERand I think you could be talking about either one of them,
46:32SPEAKERbut okay, yeah, that's the one I was thinking, I mean.
46:36SPEAKERIf you had to pick a different billionaire to run Twitter,
46:38SPEAKERwho would it be and why?
46:39SPEAKER- Every billionaire is a policy failure.
46:41SPEAKER- George Lucas.
46:44SPEAKER- Oh, fuck.
46:44SPEAKER- It is the only thing.
46:47SPEAKER- Oh, man, you might be right.
46:48SPEAKER- George Lucas is the only billionaire approaching good.
46:52SPEAKER- I don't know.
46:57SPEAKER- Like, can we talk about the post-Lucas,
46:59SPEAKERthe post-Disney acquisition Renaissance
47:02SPEAKERthat George Lucas has faced?
47:03SPEAKER- No, because I haven't finished Andor yet and we can't,
47:06SPEAKERall I wanted, literally all I wanna do right now
47:08SPEAKERis finish Andor and we can't talk about it.
47:10SPEAKER- Hey, shout out to our friends over at A More Civilized Age,
47:15SPEAKERAustin and Rob and Natalie and Allie,
47:19SPEAKERwho I have been really enjoying their recaps of Andor.
47:22SPEAKER- Yeah, I'm gonna have to go listen to that after I'm done.
47:25SPEAKEROnce I finished Andor, I was like, "Oh, I want more Andor."
47:28SPEAKERAnd I was like, "Oh, right.
47:28SPEAKER"There's dozens of hours of podcasts about this."
47:30SPEAKERSo I went and listened and it's been very good.
47:33SPEAKER- Due to, we got, I mean, I was an early adopter
47:36SPEAKERand we were super on board and it turned out
47:41SPEAKERthat after the heist episode,
47:42SPEAKERwhich was halfway through the season,
47:43SPEAKERwhich was like a great stopping place,
47:45SPEAKERI traveled and then I got sick and other stuff happened.
47:49SPEAKERAnd by then, I was like, "You know what?
47:50SPEAKER"If we just wait an extra two weeks,
47:52SPEAKER"we'll have the whole second half of the season
47:54SPEAKER"to watch."
47:55SPEAKER- So I watched in three episode chunks.
47:57SPEAKERI watched the first three in like two nights
48:00SPEAKERand then I watched the next three in two nights
48:02SPEAKERor the next four in two nights.
48:04SPEAKER- That's the way to go.
48:05SPEAKER- And that was like, it was nice to,
48:08SPEAKERlike it was good to, the, what is it?
48:11SPEAKERIt's season, it's episodes one, two and three
48:13SPEAKERand then four is standalone and then five, six and seven.
48:16SPEAKER- Four, five, six are an arc.
48:19SPEAKERFour, five, six are the high star.
48:20SPEAKER- Oh, four and six and then seven is standalone.
48:21SPEAKER- Seven is the standalone one and then eight, nine, 10
48:23SPEAKERis an arc and then the last two.
48:25SPEAKER- Yeah, so like I got to episode nine
48:28SPEAKERand was like, "Oh, I gotta go to bed.
48:30SPEAKER"Crap, this is an unbelievable cliffhanger."
48:32SPEAKERBut I got to think about it all the next day
48:33SPEAKERand then watch it the next night
48:34SPEAKERand it was a really satisfying experience.
48:36SPEAKER- Yeah, they put out the first three wisely together
48:39SPEAKERso you could watch all those together.
48:40SPEAKERWe watched the heist as it aired,
48:43SPEAKERwhich was agonizing.
48:44SPEAKER- Yeah, that's a lot of waiting.
48:46SPEAKER- It was painful, so I'm glad we waited.
48:49SPEAKERIf my partner were not working
48:50SPEAKERthis entire Thanksgiving weekend,
48:52SPEAKERso we have to watch it kind of piecemeal at night.
48:54SPEAKERWe, I promised you we would have sat down
48:57SPEAKERand watched all six episodes back to back.
48:58SPEAKERLike it is, we got through seven right before last
49:02SPEAKERand then eight last night and I'm like dying right now.
49:05SPEAKER- I started watching "Rogue One" the other day
49:07SPEAKERand I was like, "Oh man, I forgot how hard this just starts.
49:10SPEAKER"This just goes from the beginning."
49:11SPEAKER- Yeah, I've never seen it all the way through
49:14SPEAKERand at this point, I'm gonna wait until all of "Andor"
49:17SPEAKERis done, meaning whenever season two finishes
49:20SPEAKERand then watch "Rogue One" as basically the finale.
49:23SPEAKER- Wow.
49:25SPEAKER- But dude, we don't, we can move on,
49:27SPEAKERbut like it's, I think it has gone beyond
49:29SPEAKERlike this is one of the best "Star Wars" things ever made
49:32SPEAKERto this is one of the best TV shows I've ever seen.
49:34SPEAKER- It's really good.
49:36SPEAKERI don't think that a billionaire should be allowed
49:39SPEAKERto run anything that's in public use.
49:41SPEAKER- I was being somewhat facetious,
49:42SPEAKERbut I do think that George Lucas is a very comical figure.
49:47SPEAKERI don't have to see it anyway.
49:50SPEAKER- Like, I mean, honestly,
49:52SPEAKERso I've been spending a lot of time on Mastodon.
49:54SPEAKERI've been spending a little bit of time on post.news
49:58SPEAKERand a little bit of time on cohost,
49:59SPEAKERmostly lurking on cohost and then I signed up for Hive,
50:03SPEAKERwhich it seems like a mess.
50:04SPEAKER- Hive, yeah, Hive looks the most like Twitter,
50:07SPEAKERwhich I think is what got so much buzz.
50:09SPEAKER- It helps.
50:10SPEAKER- But did you see they had a server issue
50:12SPEAKERwhere for some period of time,
50:14SPEAKERpeople were allowed to sign up with duplicate usernames?
50:17SPEAKER- Great, I wish I had known that.
50:18SPEAKERI'm gonna sign up for,
50:20SPEAKERalso I didn't get Will Smith on Hive,
50:21SPEAKERso it kind of impacts my ability to,
50:24SPEAKERand they only allow 14 character usernames,
50:26SPEAKERso not that Will Smith doesn't work either.
50:28SPEAKER- I don't think it's gonna be Hive.
50:30SPEAKERI don't think any of the current options necessarily,
50:32SPEAKERwe'll see, I don't know, still.
50:35SPEAKER- Well, the thing that I'm finding is that
50:37SPEAKERdifferent groups are going to different places.
50:39SPEAKERSo Mastodon is a bunch of technologists
50:41SPEAKERand people are having interesting conversations
50:43SPEAKERabout content moderation there and stuff like that.
50:45SPEAKERAnd the problems with all of this,
50:50SPEAKERthe thing that Twitter did that was really good
50:52SPEAKERwas monetize content moderation.
50:54SPEAKERWe talked about this last week or the week before.
50:57SPEAKER- Yes.
51:00SPEAKER- I don't know that the open source thing
51:02SPEAKERis going to be able to monetize content,
51:04SPEAKERis going to be able to support
51:05SPEAKERthe kind of content moderation that's required.
51:08SPEAKER'Cause we're gonna end up in the same situation
51:10SPEAKERwe ended up with email and blogs in six months or a year
51:13SPEAKERwhere there's people there and it's just a spam haven
51:16SPEAKERand it's a disaster for admins.
51:18SPEAKERBut anyway.
51:19SPEAKER- And let's face it, like a lot of open source projects,
51:21SPEAKERit's got UX shortcomings that like, I mean,
51:26SPEAKERlike the social media platform that's going to catch on
51:28SPEAKERneeds to be able to onboard people
51:30SPEAKERwho don't wanna figure out all that shit.
51:33SPEAKER- Does it?
51:34SPEAKERI mean, maybe being able to onboard all the people
51:36SPEAKERthat don't wanna figure out all that shit is part of that.
51:38SPEAKERLook, yes, it needs to be inclusive.
51:41SPEAKER- I mean, yeah, that's just gonna lead
51:42SPEAKERto a very self-selecting crowd of techie type people,
51:45SPEAKERwhich is like fine.
51:45SPEAKERBut what I mean is like the one that becomes the new,
51:48SPEAKERlike if such a thing is even possible or desirable.
51:52SPEAKER- I think that's the takeaway is that it's not desirable
51:55SPEAKERto have monolithic network with everybody on it.
51:59SPEAKERThat's the problem.
52:00SPEAKER- Yes, yes, I agree.
52:01SPEAKERAll right.
52:04SPEAKERAnother, let's just keep going with the Saffat list here.
52:07SPEAKERWhat investment myths do you most regret?
52:09SPEAKERI almost bought 85 Bitcoin for $1 each
52:11SPEAKERand almost bought Apple for 20 cents a share.
52:15SPEAKER- In 2010, when we had just moved
52:16SPEAKERinto the whiskey media basement on Front Street,
52:19SPEAKERAndy, the engineer, Andy came to me and was like,
52:21SPEAKER"Hey, have you heard about this Bitcoin thing?
52:23SPEAKERYou have a bunch of GPUs, right?"
52:26SPEAKERAnd this is when you could trade 60 Bitcoins
52:29SPEAKERfor a pizza basically.
52:31SPEAKERSo, you know, whoops.
52:32SPEAKER- We've talked about this before.
52:34SPEAKERI also think back to that time
52:36SPEAKERwhen you and Norm started talking about Bitcoin
52:39SPEAKERand they were like less than a dollar a piece.
52:41SPEAKER- Yeah.
52:42SPEAKER- And I just think like if I had spent like three
52:43SPEAKERor 400 bucks, I wouldn't be here right now.
52:46SPEAKER- Even when we went to Austin for South by
52:50SPEAKERand bought the Bitcoin at the ATM for 500 bucks.
52:55SPEAKER- That would still be a profound investment today.
52:57SPEAKER- Would have been a pretty good investment, it turns out.
52:59SPEAKER- Well, at this point,
53:00SPEAKERlike I don't know if you keep up with value,
53:01SPEAKERit is cratered.
53:03SPEAKER- It's like 10K, right?
53:04SPEAKERLast time I looked, I think.
53:05SPEAKER- Yes, and it peaked at like 50, right?
53:06SPEAKER- 60 something, yeah.
53:07SPEAKER- 60?
53:08SPEAKER- Yeah.
53:09SPEAKER- Although I also think about like,
53:12SPEAKERif you were in that situation,
53:14SPEAKERif you had like say 500 Bitcoin
53:16SPEAKERthat you had bought back in the day,
53:17SPEAKERlike cashing those out is not a trivial process, right?
53:20SPEAKERLike that seems like that would be extremely dodgy,
53:22SPEAKERboth from like income reporting standpoint
53:26SPEAKERand also like dealing with some brokerage to actually do it.
53:29SPEAKER- There's tools to do it now.
53:30SPEAKERIt's not as much of a problem.
53:31SPEAKERLike it's just pretty straightforward.
53:34SPEAKERThe big thing for me is I probably would have sold
53:38SPEAKERwhen it hit 5K.
53:40SPEAKERLike if I had a bunch of Bitcoins I paid a dollar for,
53:43SPEAKERI would have made $150,000 instead of $15 million.
53:46SPEAKER- Yeah.
53:47SPEAKER- Right?
53:48SPEAKEROr, I mean, I guess the smart thing to just sell half
53:49SPEAKERand then keep the others and anyway, it doesn't matter.
53:53SPEAKER- My bigger question is when was Apple 20 cents a share
53:57SPEAKERor is that some employee situation?
53:59SPEAKER- Apple was probably 20 cents a share in like 1998.
54:02SPEAKER- Yeah, I guess like right around the time
54:04SPEAKERthey were almost, they were on the verge of collapse.
54:08SPEAKER- Yeah, my guess is when they were...
54:10SPEAKER- Oh, I can look that up actually.
54:11SPEAKERHere is some good historical, wow, July, let's see.
54:14SPEAKERIt was 20 cents a share in 1983.
54:16SPEAKER- From all through the '90s.
54:17SPEAKERIt was 30 cents a share in 1998.
54:19SPEAKER- 16, yeah, wow.
54:20SPEAKER- 20 cents a share in 1996.
54:21SPEAKER- Yeah, look at that, man.
54:23SPEAKERI didn't know it was that cheap.
54:24SPEAKERHoly crap, that's insane.
54:26SPEAKER- Look, when you bought Apple at 20 cents a share in 1996,
54:29SPEAKERyou were betting that they survived another six months.
54:33SPEAKER- Yeah.
54:33SPEAKER- Right?
54:34SPEAKERIt was, it does a long haul.
54:37SPEAKER- I bought GE at that point
54:39SPEAKERand that's worked out great for me.
54:41SPEAKER- Wait.
54:42SPEAKER- It hasn't worked out great, Brad.
54:44SPEAKER- I wasn't quite sure if that was sarcasm or not, but.
54:46SPEAKER- No, I like, look, I'm gonna go and tell you
54:48SPEAKERwhen 30 Rock was on and Alec Baldwin was talking
54:51SPEAKERabout the Sheinhardt Whid company owning GE,
54:53SPEAKERthose jokes hurt.
54:57SPEAKER- I'm sure.
54:58SPEAKER- Yeah.
54:59SPEAKER- All right, should we move on?
55:01SPEAKER- Sure.
55:02SPEAKER- From, I'm looking through this.
55:04SPEAKERLooking through this, you know what?
55:07SPEAKERI'll, one more.
55:09SPEAKEROh, well, a couple.
55:10SPEAKERAnd what household fix are you most proud of?
55:12SPEAKERWell, I broke some battery powered fairy lights last night.
55:17SPEAKER- Oh no.
55:18SPEAKER- You know what I'm talking about?
55:19SPEAKERThe little LED, they're like the wire.
55:20SPEAKER- Yeah, they're like real thin wires, right?
55:22SPEAKER- Yeah, that are flexible,
55:23SPEAKERso you can kind of mold them into shape.
55:25SPEAKERI broke one of the wires off last night
55:27SPEAKERand soldered it back together.
55:28SPEAKER- Nice.
55:29SPEAKER- Instead of spending 10 bucks.
55:31SPEAKERSo that's a fun one.
55:34SPEAKER- I laser cut a rigidity plate for my faucet
55:41SPEAKERto keep it from wobbling
55:42SPEAKER'cause it was not designed to go on a stainless steel sink.
55:46SPEAKER- Nice.
55:47SPEAKER- So that was pretty good.
55:48SPEAKERI literally took the picture.
55:49SPEAKERI took a picture of it from a website,
55:51SPEAKERtraced it and measured the holes
55:53SPEAKERto make sure they're the right size
55:54SPEAKERand then stacked it three deep
55:56SPEAKERand acrylic cemented it together and yeah.
56:00SPEAKER- Fabricating your own home owner fix type stuff
56:05SPEAKERis still among the most futuristic things
56:08SPEAKERthat I can think of.
56:09SPEAKER- It's pretty, that's pretty cool.
56:10SPEAKER- It feels like something out of Minority Report or AI
56:13SPEAKERor some of those near future science fiction type films.
56:16SPEAKER- Yeah, I built a bench for the laser cutter
56:18SPEAKERwhen we got that, a work bench that was the right height
56:21SPEAKERto be comfortable to work at and stuff like that.
56:26SPEAKERI don't know.
56:28SPEAKEREventually you just kind of start doing stuff
56:29SPEAKERand don't really remember doing,
56:31SPEAKERlike it just fades into the background of life.
56:35SPEAKER- Yes, indeed.
56:36SPEAKERAll right, last question I'm gonna say.
56:40SPEAKER- Okay.
56:41SPEAKER- It's from Cake Batter.
56:43SPEAKER- I'm not surprised.
56:44SPEAKER- It has to be from Cake Batter.
56:47SPEAKERAs you grow older, does the call of setting up
56:49SPEAKERa model railroad in your home increase?
56:52SPEAKER- Oh God, yes.
56:53SPEAKER- Wait, really?
56:54SPEAKERAre you actually a model railroad guy?
56:55SPEAKER- Look, I had a model railroad when I was a kid.
56:58SPEAKER- Oh. - It was in the unfinished
57:00SPEAKERbasement, it was my favorite thing to play with.
57:03SPEAKER- Really? - And we didn't even,
57:04SPEAKERI didn't even build, it didn't even occur to me
57:08SPEAKERthat you could build scenery and stuff
57:10SPEAKERfor the model railroad. - Oh, I was gonna ask
57:12SPEAKERif you were the full on model terrain,
57:15SPEAKERlike kind of building the valley
57:16SPEAKERthat you live in type stuff.
57:18SPEAKER- I conceptually had no idea that that was a thing
57:21SPEAKERthat you could do, it never occurred to me.
57:23SPEAKERI just liked having the trains ride around in the circles
57:26SPEAKERand making the tracks do different things and all that,
57:29SPEAKERlike that part of it was fun enough.
57:31SPEAKERAt the Living Desert Museum in Palm Desert, California,
57:38SPEAKERwhich we've been to a couple times now,
57:41SPEAKERthey have a huge outdoor train set that's like,
57:44SPEAKERI don't know, it's maybe like half an acre,
57:46SPEAKERit's really, really big with like five different tracks,
57:48SPEAKERall sorts of different scales trains,
57:51SPEAKERlike recreations of old buildings from the town
57:55SPEAKERand like people have donated their own buildings,
57:57SPEAKERbusinesses have donated their own buildings
57:59SPEAKERand all sorts of stuff,
57:59SPEAKERso it's like this huge sprawling train set.
58:02SPEAKER- Oh, that's cool.
58:03SPEAKER- And you can hit the button and make it go
58:04SPEAKERand it's very satisfying.
58:05SPEAKER- That's cool, I bet, I bet model railroad is a place
58:08SPEAKERwhere the kind of end user fabrication tech
58:11SPEAKERis super useful these days,
58:13SPEAKERI bet there's some cool shit going on in model railroading.
58:15SPEAKER- I have everything I need to be able to make
58:17SPEAKERa lot of model railroad business.
58:19SPEAKER- That's, that absolutely sounds like the project
58:21SPEAKERof the rest of your life.
58:23SPEAKERIf you were to get into that,
58:24SPEAKERthat seems like the kind of thing that you tinker with
58:26SPEAKERright up until the end.
58:27SPEAKER- I mean, look, if Reverend Lovejoy is wrong,
58:33SPEAKERI don't wanna be right, Brad.
58:34SPEAKER- That's fair, that's fair.
58:35SPEAKERFor my part, I'm gonna say that my land
58:38SPEAKERis my model railroad, I like.
58:40SPEAKER- Oh, that's your, that's it, that's the thing you like?
58:43SPEAKER- I like making the packets go around
58:46SPEAKERthe invisible railroad.
58:48SPEAKER(laughing)
58:51SPEAKERHome network, home network is like an invisible railroad
58:53SPEAKERfrom the data. - It kind of is.
58:54SPEAKERYeah, you're not wrong.
58:55SPEAKERLike you hook the data up in the train and then let it rip.
58:58SPEAKER- I mean, like the way that I've got,
59:00SPEAKERthe way that I've got ethernet mounted around the baseboard
59:04SPEAKERand door jams in this apartment,
59:05SPEAKERaround the perimeter of the house,
59:07SPEAKERit kind of is like a physical railroad.
59:09SPEAKER- It's not, you're not wrong.
59:11SPEAKERThe thing that's keeping me from doing is just space.
59:13SPEAKERWe don't have a, like I would need a room
59:15SPEAKERto dedicate to it and we don't have that here.
59:17SPEAKER- We should move somewhere with more space.
59:21SPEAKERIt's not a bad idea, not a bad idea.
59:24SPEAKER- Anyway, we should move to the end of the episode.
59:27SPEAKER- Yeah, I think that's a good idea.
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59:40SPEAKER- Yeah. - Despite your best efforts.
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1:01:24SPEAKER- That's true.
1:01:25SPEAKERI've been Linuxing a lot on this break.
1:01:27SPEAKERDude, it happened.
1:01:30SPEAKER- Yeah.
1:01:30SPEAKER- I said it successfully without looking anything up.
1:01:34SPEAKER- Wow.
1:01:34SPEAKER- Said?
1:01:36SPEAKERFamiliar with it?
1:01:37SPEAKER- You said what?
1:01:37SPEAKER- S-E-D, Stream Editor, I believe is what it...
1:01:40SPEAKER- Is that what it stands for?
1:01:41SPEAKERI've only used it in the context of,
1:01:43SPEAKER"Here's some shit you should type in
1:01:44SPEAKERthat you don't necessarily need to understand what it does."
1:01:46SPEAKER- I believe that's where the name came from.
1:01:49SPEAKERI needed to take a string, a numeric string,
1:01:53SPEAKERand replace the first digit with something else.
1:01:55SPEAKERAnd I just did it without having to look up
1:01:57SPEAKERthe regular expressions or the said formatting last night.
1:02:03SPEAKERAnd I was like, "Oh man, I finally arrived."
1:02:05SPEAKER- Well, wait, you can regex without...
1:02:09SPEAKERYou can regex blind now, too?
1:02:10SPEAKER- Regex, regex.
1:02:11SPEAKER- Regex, right, regex.
1:02:13SPEAKER- Regular, reg...
1:02:15SPEAKER- I would assume that's regex.
1:02:16SPEAKER- That's why I said regular expressions out loud
1:02:18SPEAKERbecause I wasn't sure how people say that.
1:02:19SPEAKER- Oh, is this another GIF situation?
1:02:21SPEAKER- Probably.
1:02:23SPEAKER- Oh, let us know how you feel.
1:02:24SPEAKERDo you think it's a soft J or a soft G or hard G?
1:02:28SPEAKERLet us know.
1:02:30SPEAKERThat's awesome, that's really cool.
1:02:31SPEAKER- I was very excited, very proud.
1:02:33SPEAKER- I made the best apple pie I've ever made this year.
1:02:37SPEAKER- Ooh, wait, you can't tell me that, I wasn't there.
1:02:39SPEAKER- I'm sorry, I precooked the apples so there was no gap
1:02:42SPEAKERbetween the top of the apples and the bottom of the crust.
1:02:45SPEAKERIt was amazing.
1:02:45SPEAKER- You're supposed to tell me how terrible all the food was.
1:02:47SPEAKER- Everything else was shit except for your mom's
1:02:50SPEAKERbroccoli casserole.
1:02:51SPEAKER- Well, that goes without saying.
1:02:52SPEAKER- Yeah, no, we wouldn't disrespect your mom.
1:02:55SPEAKERBye everybody, see you next week.
1:02:56SPEAKER(upbeat music)