00:00SPEAKER- Hey Brad, it's Saturday, it's time to record
00:02SPEAKERyour 80th hour of Starfield content for the week.
00:05SPEAKER- Starfield coverage continues with, I can't.
00:09SPEAKER- Hey man, what's the best video card to run Starfield?
00:11SPEAKERWhy doesn't it support DLSS?
00:12SPEAKERWhere's the HDR on Windows?
00:14SPEAKERI've got a lot of questions about Starfield that can--
00:16SPEAKER- I bet you do, I bet a lot of people do.
00:20SPEAKER- I do have one real question though,
00:21SPEAKER'cause I've been playing non HDR
00:23SPEAKERand I bet you're playing HDR.
00:25SPEAKER- Well, I was for that blissful week and a half
00:29SPEAKERI had access to an OLED before I was back here.
00:32SPEAKER- When you're playing at HDR,
00:33SPEAKERdoes it have that weird filter-y look when you go outside?
00:36SPEAKERLike there's a weird,
00:37SPEAKERit's like they're tone mapping or something.
00:38SPEAKER- Yes, oh, is that an HDR thing?
00:42SPEAKERI assumed it was just a stylistic thing.
00:43SPEAKERI know exactly what you're talking about.
00:44SPEAKERLike you go into, it's mostly interiors,
00:46SPEAKERlike you go inside a building
00:47SPEAKERand the entire color palette shifts like very profoundly
00:50SPEAKERand then back when you go back outside.
00:52SPEAKER- Yeah, I wasn't sure if it was a style choice
00:55SPEAKERor an after effect of them using HDR
00:58SPEAKERto make the outside seem more vibrant.
01:00SPEAKER- That's a good question.
01:01SPEAKERDo I dare load Starfield while on this PC
01:04SPEAKERthat is also recording this podcast?
01:05SPEAKER- No, that's a bad idea.
01:07SPEAKER- I like stress testing things, but you're probably right.
01:09SPEAKER- Yeah, no.
01:11SPEAKER- I do not have HDR on here or my TV, so I could check.
01:15SPEAKERI guess now that I think about it,
01:16SPEAKERI haven't noticed that in SDR.
01:18SPEAKERSo maybe that is an HDR only thing, I don't know.
01:20SPEAKER- It's, I'm not sure that the Steam version has HDR.
01:24SPEAKER- I don't think, well, even the Windows store version,
01:27SPEAKERI don't think it does either.
01:28SPEAKERHDR in Windows is a weird subject in general, right?
01:31SPEAKER- I went back and decided I wanted to play Doom Eternal
01:36SPEAKERa couple of weeks ago when I was waiting
01:38SPEAKERfor new shooters to come out and I turned on HDR.
01:42SPEAKERI'm gonna go and tell you, it looks pretty good.
01:44SPEAKER- Yes, I've, even the ray tracing,
01:47SPEAKERDoom Eternal isn't like, it's a unicorn, I think,
01:50SPEAKERamong PC games, like how good that thing looks
01:53SPEAKERand how fast it runs is kind of insane.
01:55SPEAKER- Yeah, I was getting like 300 frames a second
01:57SPEAKERwith everything turned all the way up
01:59SPEAKERand it just feels good.
02:00SPEAKEROkay, so you're playing the Starfields.
02:03SPEAKER- Yes, yes.
02:04SPEAKER- You're on a standard dynamic range monitor
02:05SPEAKERthat runs at only a mere 1,000 ADPs.
02:09SPEAKER- Uh-huh.
02:09SPEAKER- Are you feeling it?
02:10SPEAKERAre you feeling it? - Oh, yes.
02:11SPEAKER- Unless you should go, you feel like--
02:12SPEAKER- 100%.
02:13SPEAKER- You know, 'cause it's Labor Day weekend, Brad,
02:14SPEAKERthere's big sales happening right now, like around you.
02:17SPEAKER- There is a specific sale, there is a very explicit,
02:21SPEAKERalmost too good to pass up Labor Day sale
02:23SPEAKERthat I'm staring at very hard right now.
02:25SPEAKER- Local monitors near you, local TVs.
02:28SPEAKER- Yeah, well, we would have to like,
02:29SPEAKERgetting it here would be a thing, we would have to like--
02:32SPEAKER- Look, you can hask rabbit that, right?
02:34SPEAKER- I don't know if I wanna like entrust
02:36SPEAKERa brand new fragile TV to somebody besides me.
02:39SPEAKER- Just get an Uber, get that Uber black,
02:41SPEAKERyou know, roll the suburban backseat down.
02:44SPEAKER- Yes, we'd have to make sure it was big enough.
02:46SPEAKERThey have to stand up, you can't lay those TVs flat.
02:49SPEAKER- Even to like carrying your car home?
02:51SPEAKER- No, no, they are quite explicit.
02:53SPEAKER- Wow.
02:54SPEAKER- In fact, I could, if you give me two seconds
02:56SPEAKERto open the Discord, I can, we had an engineer
02:59SPEAKERexplain exactly why that is.
03:00SPEAKER- I saw that, I saw that this morning.
03:02SPEAKERYeah, yeah, yeah, I thought that was interesting.
03:04SPEAKERSo you're thinking about an OLED?
03:06SPEAKERAre you going to go a cheaper model
03:08SPEAKER'cause you think you might move?
03:09SPEAKER- I'm kind of, I'm definitely looking hard
03:11SPEAKERat that mid range high sense
03:13SPEAKERthat I almost got from my parents.
03:15SPEAKER- Yeah.
03:16SPEAKER- 'Cause that one is below a thousand dollars
03:17SPEAKERand it would be a lot easier to just use it
03:19SPEAKERfor some months or a year or two and then sell it.
03:22SPEAKER- Well, and also we're closer than ever before
03:24SPEAKERto like a new resolution standard.
03:27SPEAKER- So, you know, actually, hold on.
03:29SPEAKERSorry, I am all over the place.
03:31SPEAKERI do have this quote in front of me,
03:32SPEAKERbut I'll address what you just said first, hang on.
03:34SPEAKERThe thing I was gonna say is I need to correct myself
03:36SPEAKERfrom the TV episode a couple of weeks ago.
03:37SPEAKERThere are 8K TVs available.
03:39SPEAKER- What?
03:40SPEAKER- I totally had that wrong.
03:42SPEAKER- What the what?
03:43SPEAKERBut there's no 8K sources really, are there?
03:45SPEAKER- I don't know, I don't know what you, yeah.
03:47SPEAKERWell, where would you get content for that?
03:48SPEAKER- I have no idea. - Video games.
03:49SPEAKERYou took up a 40/90 and I remember Nvidia tried
03:53SPEAKERto get me to come down during the start of the pandemic
03:55SPEAKERwhen we didn't know how COVID spread.
03:56SPEAKERThey were like, hey, why don't you come down here
03:58SPEAKERand look at this 8K TV playing?
04:00SPEAKERI don't remember what game it was.
04:01SPEAKER- That's right.
04:02SPEAKER- And I was like, I think I'm probably good, thanks though.
04:04SPEAKER- That's right, I remember that now.
04:06SPEAKERAnd I remember thinking at the time
04:07SPEAKERthat that must be some special set
04:09SPEAKERfor industrial applications or something
04:11SPEAKERthat you can't just buy as a consumer.
04:12SPEAKERBut in fact, there are.
04:14SPEAKER- I think it was two 30/90s is what they were running
04:16SPEAKERto make that work but I can't remember.
04:19SPEAKER- The LG Z3, if you're familiar with LG's OLED line,
04:22SPEAKERI mean, I know all this stuff
04:23SPEAKER'cause I've just been researching TVs for three weeks.
04:26SPEAKER- Is Z the professional line,
04:28SPEAKERlike the corporate conference room line?
04:30SPEAKER- LG's OLED model from bottom to top,
04:33SPEAKERtheir range goes A, B, C, G.
04:36SPEAKERSo G is kind of the best regular consumer model you can get.
04:40SPEAKER- G is for good, yeah.
04:41SPEAKER- Yeah, supposedly it's for gallery, but yes.
04:45SPEAKER- But the Z3 is a commercially available 88 inch 8K TV.
04:50SPEAKER- Holy cow.
04:52SPEAKER- Would you like to know how much it costs?
04:54SPEAKER- 88 inch, I bet it's $160,000.
04:57SPEAKER- I don't know that I can actually find a place to buy it.
04:59SPEAKER- Yeah, if you have to ask where to buy it,
05:02SPEAKERyou gotta call somebody for that.
05:05SPEAKERI mean, you heard the story
05:06SPEAKERof Kevin Smith's Panasonic Plasma, right?
05:09SPEAKER- No.
05:09SPEAKER- He had a hundred inch plasma like ours
05:12SPEAKERthat Panasonic made.
05:14SPEAKERThe same one that they had hanging
05:16SPEAKERin the Nordstrom's Westfield downtown for a long time.
05:20SPEAKERAnd he had that mounted on his bedroom wall
05:22SPEAKERand it required, I wanna say 240 volt outlets to run.
05:27SPEAKER- As a long time owner of a plasma, I would believe.
05:30SPEAKER- Yeah, and I'm betting that he probably had
05:32SPEAKERto get special air conditioning in the bedroom as a result,
05:34SPEAKERlest it not get too swampy in there.
05:37SPEAKER- It's a good TV to have if you live in Alaska, maybe.
05:39SPEAKER- Yeah. - Or in Antarctica.
05:41SPEAKER- Okay, the 88-inch Z3 is a mere $24,999.
05:45SPEAKER- Well, that's a bargain.
05:46SPEAKERI was expecting, I was seriously expecting six figures.
05:48SPEAKERSo, you know.
05:50SPEAKER- Yeah, and anyway, the only reason I know about AK TVs
05:52SPEAKERis because I came across an article saying,
05:54SPEAKERyeah, all the major manufacturers
05:56SPEAKERare not going to make AK TVs anymore.
05:58SPEAKERLike everybody is dropping their AK line.
06:01SPEAKER- Well, it seems like having spent time with 4K TVs,
06:04SPEAKERI don't see a real upside
06:07SPEAKERand it's just gonna make your data needs four times
06:11SPEAKERas high as they are currently, so.
06:13SPEAKER- Yeah, yeah, it's not necessary.
06:15SPEAKERBut anyway, by this time next week,
06:19SPEAKERwill I have a new television to discuss?
06:20SPEAKERMaybe, I don't know.
06:22SPEAKER- Just don't carry it horizontally
06:24SPEAKER'cause Nazzy in the Discord says,
06:27SPEAKERif you transport it while horizontal,
06:28SPEAKERthe vibration is in the up and down axis.
06:31SPEAKERIf it's flat, not too much of the panel will flex
06:33SPEAKERgiven that it's twisting in many different directions.
06:36SPEAKERBut when you have dynamic motion,
06:38SPEAKERthe stresses magnify significantly.
06:41SPEAKERSo manipulate it carefully while flat.
06:43SPEAKERI wish they would make the TVs slightly thicker.
06:44SPEAKERThat's my takeaway.
06:46SPEAKER- You know, sure, I wouldn't mind it.
06:48SPEAKERYou know, once you get it where it's going,
06:49SPEAKERlike the weight doesn't really matter, you know?
06:51SPEAKER- Nope.
06:52SPEAKER- I would rather a little bit more structural integrity
06:54SPEAKERthan any kind of like flex and lightness.
06:57SPEAKER- Maybe this is the argument in favor of a curve
06:59SPEAKER'cause then the curve will help support it a little bit.
07:01SPEAKER- Never, give me rectangle or give me depth.
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07:33SPEAKERWelcome to Brad and Will Made at TechPod. I'm Will. I'm Brad. Hello. Hello. Hi. Hello. Hi. Hi.
07:41SPEAKERIt is that time again, Brad. Yes. What time is that? Well, okay. So look, when we were talking
07:48SPEAKERabout holding control in Task Manager to freeze all of the movement up and down of apps that are
07:55SPEAKERsorted by CPU utilization or memory utilization so they don't wiggle anymore, I realized in a
08:02SPEAKERbit a minute since we've talked about tips. It's true. Shortcuts, apps. I started to say
08:10SPEAKERlife hacks for your computer, but I guess those are just hacks. Those are just computer hacks,
08:13SPEAKERBrad. I guess. But yeah, when you brought the Chrome Task Manager tab killer to my attention,
08:20SPEAKERI was like, I would have said, and I was even a little skeptical about doing this episode,
08:24SPEAKERI would have said, "Surely there are no more tips left to dispense." We know all the tips,
08:29SPEAKERright? But then you hit me with that Chrome thing and I was like, "Oh, maybe there's always
08:33SPEAKERsomething new to learn and ease your life." I worked on a computer magazine for 10 years.
08:39SPEAKERWe did a tips issue every year. The thing we learned really quickly is that as long as there's
08:46SPEAKERnew stuff that is good and people who are aware of the old tips get some new tips to add to their
08:53SPEAKERrepertoire of tips and tricks and shortcuts and all of the things that we put in this kind of bit,
08:59SPEAKEReverybody's happy. You only need one. You only need one for it to be good.
09:02SPEAKERDidn't you say as long as the reader, or in this case listener,
09:05SPEAKERwalks away with one new thing that they like, they feel it was valuable?
09:09SPEAKERThat was the bar. That was the bar I was led to believe by some fairly extensive focus testing
09:15SPEAKERwhile at Maximum PC. Now, whether this transmogrifies into the podcast form where
09:19SPEAKERyou're sitting in the car screaming, "I've already heard that one. I've already heard that one. Shut
09:23SPEAKERup, you assholes." We'll see. Let us know what you think in the comments.
09:27SPEAKERWe'll see. We'll see. Well, I hope to learn some things and maybe
09:31SPEAKERbase some future life decisions on this episode.
09:34SPEAKERYeah.
09:35SPEAKERI've been pondering something.
09:38SPEAKERGoing to go full-time Linux?
09:41SPEAKERI've been pondering something.
09:43SPEAKERFull BSD on the desktop.
09:46SPEAKEREven I am not that crazy. I might make the Windows 11 move at some point.
09:52SPEAKERWhat?
09:55SPEAKERNot immediately, but at some point.
09:56SPEAKERSo, okay. I'm going to go ahead and tell you.
09:58SPEAKERWho am I? Actually, I've been thinking about this recently. I don't recognize myself. I'm
10:03SPEAKERthinking about getting a new TV. I'm thinking about moving to Windows 11.
10:05SPEAKERYep. Yep. Next time you're going to grow a huge beard, you're already on the way, it looks like.
10:12SPEAKERWhat is happening here? I am upgrading things and replacing things. It's so unlike me.
10:18SPEAKERWhat's prompting this thought of Windows 11-ness?
10:23SPEAKERHonestly, I think it was really just becoming OLED-pilled over the last couple of weeks.
10:27SPEAKERThe auto HDR in Windows 11 is one of the big ones right now.
10:30SPEAKERIt's pretty good. Yeah.
10:32SPEAKERLike we talked about in the cold open, I don't think Starfield has built-in HDR.
10:36SPEAKERI can't find it anywhere.
10:37SPEAKERI'm afraid to launch it while we're doing the podcast, but I don't believe so.
10:41SPEAKERYes. And so having an OS level HDR, I've heard it's quite good. I've heard quite a... Well,
10:47SPEAKERa lot of people have said... I mean, I'm sure it's not as good as real authored engineered HDR,
10:52SPEAKERbut people have said it's surprisingly effective.
10:54SPEAKERSo I don't turn it on because it's hard. I thought it was hard to turn off while streaming,
11:01SPEAKERand streaming HDR has weird results. People end up with weird, partially tone-mapped,
11:08SPEAKERjanky-looking video, basically. I believe it's just a keyboard shortcut now,
11:12SPEAKERthough, to turn it off. It's funny you say that,
11:14SPEAKERbecause it's in the list of topics down below. I didn't see that. Okay. Well, I guess we'll get
11:19SPEAKERto that. That'll... Yes. Good. Yeah. Good. It's stuff like that. It's the auto HDR. Direct storage
11:27SPEAKERworks in 10, but it's better in 11. They're just holding... They're putting core technologies into
11:33SPEAKER11 now that I want, that I don't have. Didn't something ship with direct storage a few weeks
11:37SPEAKERago? Diablo 4 is supposed to get it, but I don't think it has yet, which the load times in that
11:44SPEAKERgame are already extremely fast. So I don't know how much that's going to matter. I'm probably
11:48SPEAKERfine. I don't... If you're thinking of Forespoken, I mean, that was like beginning of the year,
11:53SPEAKERbut that's the... Is that still the only direct storage game on the market? I don't actually know.
11:58SPEAKERI mean, the download speeds are fast enough that it's... I mean, the transfer speeds are
12:05SPEAKERfast enough that my saves... I don't see load screens very often. Yeah. Like going back and
12:10SPEAKERforth, I don't see a lot of difference between Starfield on my PC and on the Series X in terms
12:14SPEAKERof load times. Yeah. The one exception is Armored Core, which has some pretty substantial loads for
12:20SPEAKERsome reason. I don't see a good list of games that support direct storage on the internet,
12:24SPEAKERbut anyway... Diablo 4 is supposed to get it at some point. I'm not a hundred percent sure.
12:29SPEAKEROh yeah. Diablo 4 might be the second major PC game to support direct storage. Yes. Anyway,
12:35SPEAKERwhatever. The list of Windows 11 features that I don't have in 10 that I kind of want is growing
12:41SPEAKERslowly and steadily, like Tabbed File Explorer, for example. Like there's just enough now.
12:46SPEAKERWait, you don't have Tabbed File Explorer? Oh, they never... Oh.
12:49SPEAKERSo you can just drag files up into the tab and it dumps into the folder that is represented by that.
12:54SPEAKERLook, there's a lot of good stuff in here. Yeah. I've been using it for what? Two,
13:00SPEAKERthree years at this point probably it seems like. Well, what was it you said right before we
13:03SPEAKERstarted that like it's finally there. It took them two years, but it's finally where you kind
13:08SPEAKERof want it to be. I think it's for, for what it's worth. I think it's been there. Like I built my
13:12SPEAKERnew PC in December and there was no hesitation about putting Windows 11 on it at that point.
13:19SPEAKERYeah. But the, but the stuff that came out last, the 2022 updates were both really good is what I
13:24SPEAKERwould say. That's the kind of thing, like I see people occasionally going like, I don't,
13:26SPEAKERI don't understand why he's still on 10. The reason is because I have no complaints about 10
13:29SPEAKERand I, there are enough complaints out there about 11 that I'm like, like the condensed right click
13:33SPEAKERmenu that everybody despises, for example, like, and I'm too busy to disrupt my workflow that much
13:39SPEAKERwith a bunch of stuff changing like that. So I was just, I was just holding off because I didn't want
13:45SPEAKERto, you know, things were working fine and I just didn't want to have to deal with a bunch of stuff
13:50SPEAKERlike that, but it's getting to the point, it's getting to the point where it sounds like there's
13:54SPEAKERenough stuff there for me that I kind of want. It may be a Stockholm syndrome, but I like the
14:00SPEAKERcondensed menu. Cause it's the stuff that I use like 90% of the time is in the top level one.
14:06SPEAKERAnd then if I need the one, the one weird thing, I just click through to it and I don't mind the
14:11SPEAKERsecond layer of clicks. But anyway, yeah. So, well, I can't wait to hear about your
14:16SPEAKERwindows 11 update. Are you going to clean wipe that or are you going to do an upgrade in place?
14:20SPEAKERLike I thought about maybe trying the upgrade in place first, just as a quick way to see if
14:24SPEAKERI like it a little bit. I assume there's no downgraded. You can downgrade, I believe.
14:29SPEAKERCan you? Until you take a major update from windows. That's typically how it works.
14:34SPEAKERYeah. I might, I might just do the, I might do the quick upgrade first to see
14:38SPEAKERwhat I think the last thing I'll say, just, just being on a new platform, you know, new hardware,
14:43SPEAKERlike you kind of want to be on the modern windows because who knows what's going on under the hood
14:47SPEAKERwith the scheduler and stuff like that. Well, and there's stuff like my resume from
14:52SPEAKERsleep is fast enough that like, I, it, it just happens like is stupid fast on the, on the new
14:59SPEAKERmachine. So with 11, I never ran 10 on it, so I don't know what it was like in 10, but anyway,
15:04SPEAKERso this week speaking of things that are changing and things that are new, we're going to do some
15:08SPEAKERtips. It's been a minute tips, tricks, shortcuts, tiny apps that we liked that we wouldn't devote a
15:14SPEAKERwhole episode to the things that we do to our computers and phones and things like that,
15:19SPEAKERthat make them better for us and make us like them better and make us feel good about our choices,
15:24SPEAKERI guess. I don't know. I need my look. I need whatever I can get.
15:32SPEAKERIt's been, it's been a weird year, man. The first one is a phone tip and this one is when I lead
15:39SPEAKERwith this one usually, cause it's, this is my mental health is so much better after I turned
15:44SPEAKERoff notifications for literally everything. I have notifications on for text messages.
15:51SPEAKERI have notifications on or a discord DMS. I used to have notifications on for Twitter DMS,
15:58SPEAKERbut I turned that off because fuck that guy. I think that's, I think that's it. Like I don't,
16:04SPEAKERI get, Oh, I have priority emails in outlook and and Gmail or Hey, the email client I use
16:14SPEAKERare set to turn on for people that like it knows that I like and that I respond to usually. And
16:20SPEAKERthen I get teams messages during the workday, but, but I manage all of this stuff with focus
16:24SPEAKERmodes on iOS. So I have different notification rules for different times of the day. Like during
16:30SPEAKERit's work hours, I get teams, it's teams notifications, but outside of work hours, I don't
16:34SPEAKERat all. And that focus mode stuff lets you do all of that. So you can set up work and personal and
16:41SPEAKERjust normal and driving and gave another one for podcasting and sleep. So I need this. I'm sitting
16:47SPEAKERhere looking at my notification center. I mean, I'm straight up missing messages from people
16:50SPEAKERlately because I've got so many goddamn notifications that, and I don't, I'm not looking
16:54SPEAKERat my phone all the time and they just get buried. And I assume it, I assume it's valid to just make
17:00SPEAKERone focus mode that you leave on 24 seven. You can absolutely do that. Like I like having the
17:05SPEAKERdriving one because it lets me say, Hey, I want, I want text messages for my wife and daughter
17:09SPEAKERbecause they often text me while I'm in the car. That makes sense. I mean, you're, you're more
17:12SPEAKERmobile and probably you're, you're living in more context than I am, which has maybe true. I'm
17:17SPEAKERmostly just at this desk all the time. I guess my question there is, is there a benefit to setting
17:23SPEAKERall that up through a focus mode versus just individually going in and telling apps, Hey,
17:26SPEAKERI don't want to hear from you anymore. Well, so you should absolutely do it for the apps.
17:30SPEAKERLike you should do it at the system level for the apps that you don't want to ever see again. So like
17:35SPEAKERlike for example, you know, every, every loyalty, like your Safeway app, which you use to do your
17:44SPEAKERloyalty card or, or like when I was in, when I was in the down South, I was using, I was shopping at
17:49SPEAKERAlbertsons a lot and they have a nice thing where you go through and you scan the item and it's
17:52SPEAKERlike, Oh yeah, here's a coupon for this. You get 20 cents off. Those should never be able to give
17:57SPEAKERme notifications, right? Like all of that stuff, turn it all off. I leave, I leave delivery like,
18:05SPEAKERlike at food apps that we deliver, we ordered delivery from, I wish that you could say, Hey,
18:09SPEAKERI only want to get notifications after I've used this app for an hour. Yes. That's, that's the,
18:14SPEAKERlike I'm sitting here looking like I love too good to go. We talked about it a few weeks ago.
18:18SPEAKERDo I need it to randomly be like, Hey, some restaurants around you, you might like,
18:22SPEAKERlike, absolutely not. No, I don't ever want, I never want those and you can never turn them off.
18:27SPEAKERI just want a notification an hour before I have to go pick something up. And that's it. Like,
18:30SPEAKERlike Uber, I try not to use Uber in general these days if I can help it, but
18:35SPEAKERUber is the absolute worst about that stuff because you need Uber notifications on for,
18:42SPEAKERif you need it, you know, but like they're constantly hitting you with all kinds of just
18:46SPEAKERlike upsell marketing garbage. Hey man, did you know that you can get a pizza delivered
18:51SPEAKERfrom Uber eats in the next 15 minutes. Yeah. So it's stuff that I have on, I have like air visual
18:57SPEAKERon that one's actually useful because it sends me an air quality notification in the morning.
19:03SPEAKERI have like my Adobe account access app. I have notifications on because when I log in,
19:08SPEAKERit prompts a notification for that. And that that's important to come through, but like my
19:12SPEAKERflight app and all trails and the, you know, like there's a bazillion apps in here that I just
19:19SPEAKERabsolutely turn notifications off on. And then I use the focus stuff to prune down that
19:24SPEAKERlist of allowed sometimes lists further. So like, you know, I, during work, I try to
19:29SPEAKERleave out all the, like discord is obviously part of my work because of what I do, but like,
19:34SPEAKERI turn off, like, I, I'm, I'm, my personal email doesn't pop up during,
19:40SPEAKERduring, during work hours usually, right. Stuff like that. And the neat thing about that is you
19:46SPEAKERcan set, you can set different backgrounds for the wallpapers. You can set different lock screens.
19:54SPEAKERSo you can put like different widgets on the lock screens during the day. So I have like my
19:57SPEAKERwork calendar during the day when I'm at work and I have my not work calendar the rest of the time.
20:01SPEAKERYeah. That's absolutely, that's actually huge. Like I'm, I am increasingly really big on visual
20:06SPEAKERcues for being in different modes, like fairly kind of stuff that like subconsciously suggests
20:11SPEAKERto you that you're in a different context without you actually having to look at something or read
20:14SPEAKERsomething. Yeah. And like the, so the wallpapers I choose, I use like a picture of my kid for the
20:19SPEAKERpersonal time one to remind me that I'm not supposed to be looking at my phone. I should
20:21SPEAKERbe looking at my kid. I use the weather, like the, the dynamic, Hey, what's the weather outside
20:27SPEAKERwhere you are thing that iOS provides for work so that when I'm stuck in my hole, I know what
20:32SPEAKERthe outside looks like. That's pretty good too. And then you also can set different home screens.
20:39SPEAKERSo you can have like a work home screen with your work apps. You can have a personal home screen
20:44SPEAKERwith like Wordle and stuff like that. It's super duper useful. I find it to be just a, it's been
20:54SPEAKERa big quality of life improvement. The last part of it is in addition to notifications for apps,
20:58SPEAKERyou can also choose which contacts in your dress book can notify you. They have to be in your iOS
21:03SPEAKERaddress book. They can't be in like a synced Google address book or something like that,
21:07SPEAKERbut you can, but like I haven't said so that anybody that's on my favorites list can send
21:11SPEAKERme a text anytime except for when I'm asleep. And when I'm asleep, it's only my parents and sister
21:16SPEAKERand sister-in-law basically. That's cool. Or, and, and kid and wife, I guess.
21:22SPEAKERYeah. Can I, can I ask what is the configuration overhead of all of this? Cause it sounds like a
21:27SPEAKERlot of work to manage all of that. So I set them up one at a time. I had done a lot of this with
21:31SPEAKERshortcuts before they added the focus feature in the last version of iOS. It's it was, it was more
21:39SPEAKERwork then it's a little bit less work now. I find it to be like it's, I spent an afternoon on it,
21:48SPEAKERprobably all told it was spread out over a period of time, just tweaking the different ones. And I'd
21:53SPEAKERset up one at a time, go through the things that I thought I needed. And then as I realized,
21:57SPEAKERI needed something that wasn't popping up because you can, you can still access the stuff that
22:00SPEAKERyou're blocking off. It's just down in a, Hey, we're saving this for you till later. The one
22:04SPEAKERthing I will say, and the knock against using the focus mode all the time is that when you come out
22:10SPEAKERof a focus mode, you get a notification with all the shit that you missed. And if you keep it in
22:14SPEAKERfocus all the time, you'll lose that. You also can set it like if you work in an office and then come
22:20SPEAKERhome, you can set it to automatically change that stuff based on stuff that Siri notices. Like you
22:26SPEAKERalways use work mode when you're at work and you're always use home mode when you're at home,
22:31SPEAKERyou do personal mode between like seven and 10 PM at night when your kids are going to bed, stuff
22:34SPEAKERlike that. And it'll eventually, it'll learn and automatically change over. I find that to be kind
22:39SPEAKERof unreliable. And I just said it, I just time box stuff. I have one other, well, a couple other
22:44SPEAKERquestions here. First of all, I'm always a little self-conscious about how hard we go on iOS stuff
22:50SPEAKERhere because neither of us uses Android on the regular, but do you know if as Android introduced
22:55SPEAKERlike somewhat similar, I don't like there's usually, there's usually like broad feature parity.
23:01SPEAKERI feel like between different mobile ecosystems these days, I assume something similar exists
23:04SPEAKERthere. Yeah. I know that they have a focus mode. You can pause apps that are distracting
23:09SPEAKERthe same thing. I don't know that. I don't know how granular their control gets. But it's been
23:14SPEAKERaround for the last year or so. I think it came out in last year's updates. It looks like an
23:18SPEAKERAndroid 12 or two years ago, rather the yeah, it's, it's worth taking the time to set up though.
23:26SPEAKERIt seems like a lot of overhead. I realize what I'm talking about it this way, but it's,
23:29SPEAKERit's not that bad. And it's a, it's a pretty good, it's good. The less notifications you're getting
23:34SPEAKERbombarded with the better your brain is usually at least for me. Yeah. But yeah, this, it sounds
23:38SPEAKERlike the kind of effort that is maybe a little painful, but once you do it, you're like, how did
23:42SPEAKERI not, you know, how did I live before I did this? Yeah. Like, like my bedtime one, my sleep one has
23:48SPEAKERlike my Kindle app and wordle. Cause those are the two things I usually do. Sometimes I put music on
23:52SPEAKERor a podcast. So you read Kindle on your iPad? Yeah. Fairly regularly. Yeah. Interesting.
23:59SPEAKERI turned the brightness way down and have a black background though.
24:02SPEAKERI'm curious, are there, I mean, boy, this is getting really far afield of the episode topic,
24:06SPEAKERbut like, are there sort of cognitive different? I was under the impression there were like
24:11SPEAKERcognitive differences between looking at a, like an LCD, like a traditional backlit screen and
24:16SPEAKERsomething like an ink display in terms of like sleep health and stuff like that. I thought it
24:20SPEAKERwas all about the amount of light that's admitted. Is it, is it just light and color temperature?
24:24SPEAKERThat was my, that was my, the, I, the blue light is a little, the science on that's a little fishy.
24:29SPEAKERIt seems like to interesting, interesting, but the optometrist is always willing to sell you a
24:33SPEAKERblue light filter for your glasses for 10 bucks. Yes, certainly. Well, anecdotally, I mean,
24:38SPEAKERfor what it's worth, I've been reading a Kindle paper white before bed for the last three weeks
24:43SPEAKERinstead of an iPad. And man, do I zonk out quickly. Oh, really? I'll have to, I, I, I sometimes
24:50SPEAKERhave a hard time with the ink screen. Yeah. It's my stigmatism doesn't always like the font that I
24:54SPEAKERhave set up there, but I can probably change the font. Sure. Last, last question before we move on.
24:58SPEAKERYeah. I'm guessing you don't have experience with this. Cause I think it's only for Mac
25:03SPEAKERand you don't use a Mac currently. Right. For not for a while. I don't have a modern Mac. No.
25:07SPEAKERAre you familiar with the Apple configurator app at all? Have you heard of that? Maybe
25:12SPEAKERthat was around you used to deploy your iOS, uh, like some businesses and stuff like that.
25:17SPEAKERThat's how they describe it, but I've, but I've read, you can, it's also kind of useful for an
25:20SPEAKERend user. Cause you can do things like reorganize your apps on a Mac, like in a, in a GUI with a
25:25SPEAKERmouse and everything, instead of having to do it on the phone. Yeah. I, I tested, I used that in
25:31SPEAKERprobably 2014 or 2015 for a tested video, I think. Okay. But, um, it was, it was a bit of a pain in
25:37SPEAKERthe ass. I think you had to use 99 bucks to get access to pay 99 bucks to get access to it as a
25:41SPEAKERbusiness customer. But I can't remember business account. Yeah. I downloaded it. You can just get
25:46SPEAKERit on the Mac app store now for free. Do you have to dump an image to the phone though? That's where
25:51SPEAKERI stopped was I got into it and realized you need to set up some kind of profile to provision,
25:56SPEAKERor I assume you can like kind of consume your existing iPhone as a, as a profile or whatever.
26:01SPEAKERMaybe, maybe not. I mostly throw it out there just to see if you or anyone listening has experience
26:07SPEAKERwith that. Cause like, if, if you could configure a lot of iOS stuff on a laptop instead, that would
26:12SPEAKERbe mighty nice. But I don't know if that's actually realistic to do or not. My experience is that
26:17SPEAKERthose kinds of apps usually lag a couple of years behind the actual OS in terms of the new features
26:24SPEAKERthey support. Yeah. That, that would be very believable. Um, okay. Next up, uh, here's,
26:30SPEAKERhere's one. This is a weird one. I realized a few months ago that, uh, they're not all
26:37SPEAKERvoice assistants are created equal when it comes to home assistant. So I have Google,
26:42SPEAKERuh, speakers and then, uh, Apple devices in my house and the Google speakers connects through
26:49SPEAKERNabu Casa to the, to the Google, uh, uh, to the home assistant, but Google has to go to the cloud
26:56SPEAKERto do the voice parsing and to convert it. So there's like a 300 millisecond lag between when
27:01SPEAKERyou say something and the light turns on and off. Doesn't like a huge deal, but if I talk into my
27:07SPEAKERwatch, the light turns off instantly. Cause it's all local. Wait, that's it. That's the tip.
27:12SPEAKERIs Siri, Siri is not a hundred percent local. Oh really? Wow. I did not. Did they advertise
27:18SPEAKERthat or is that something that just quietly happened? It was part of the iOS, the iPhone
27:24SPEAKER13, 12. I don't know. Oh, a couple of years ago. It's when they started putting the neural engine
27:29SPEAKERstuff in the dye. Sure. That makes sense. Yeah. So they do, they do voice, they do basic voice
27:36SPEAKERparsing. If it gets complicated, I think it still throws up. But, but the, the point is the Nabu Casa
27:41SPEAKERstuff with the Google integration, like there's no local Google integration for the voice, uh,
27:47SPEAKERfor the, for the speakers. So even if it does parse locally, you still have to go to the,
27:53SPEAKERgo to the cloud for the voice parts. And then you go back to the cloud for the,
27:56SPEAKERfor the signal to come back into the thing. And there's a, there's a fair amount of latency there.
28:00SPEAKERInteresting. Um, I've noticed something, especially helping my parents set up their
28:04SPEAKERApple TV on that new TV. Um, there's kind of a fuzzy zone and user experience with voice
28:11SPEAKERassistance now of like how deeply does this voice assistant hook into app X or operating system Y or
28:17SPEAKERwhatever, you know what I mean? It's like, cause they, they have a Siri remote now for their Apple
28:21SPEAKERTV and which you can just talk into. Right. But then like, my dad has a hard time finding,
28:27SPEAKERthey have YouTube TV and my dad has a very hard time finding like the channel he wants
28:32SPEAKERcause the interface and that thing I'm not sure is amazing or it's, it's very programmatic. It's,
28:36SPEAKERit's a, it's your typical, it's your typical modern content front end where it's all dynamic
28:41SPEAKERsuggestions based on activity and stuff. And like, yeah, he just, he just wants to flip channels or
28:45SPEAKERlook through a channel guide and that's not as easy to do anyway. So at some point I was sitting
28:50SPEAKERat the Apple TV home screen after we set everything up and I was just like, I wonder if I can just
28:53SPEAKERask Siri to open YouTube TV and to go to PBS. That did not work. Oh really? Hulu will do that.
29:01SPEAKERWhich one? Hulu will do that. Interesting. So maybe you have to phrase it the right way. It's
29:05SPEAKERlike watch PBS on Hulu TV. Interesting. Okay. So I think I said something like, like just, uh,
29:13SPEAKERopen, open YouTube TV and go to PBS or something like that. And it did open the YouTube TV app,
29:17SPEAKERbut it did not pull up the channel. So like some, I don't know how you even communicate this,
29:22SPEAKERbut it's like, it's such a different UI surface than, than clicking buttons or even a touchpad
29:27SPEAKERor a touch screen, you know, of like, it's literally just language, you know, like I don't
29:31SPEAKERknow, I don't know what parameters I'm supposed to conform to and what I say here to make things work.
29:35SPEAKERAnd even if like whatever API they're using can hook into the app at a deep enough level to like
29:40SPEAKERselect a specific channel, you know what I mean? It's like, it's a tough thing to quantify or like
29:44SPEAKERdocument for people. So the deep linking into the apps with Siri is a thing that they've been
29:49SPEAKERadding to gradually over the last like 10, 12 years at this point. Um, you can also do things
29:54SPEAKERthat are completely like you're never taught by the, by the, by the device. You can say, Hey,
30:02SPEAKERwhat do you think I want to watch now? And it'll take you to the Apple TV app and give you,
30:08SPEAKERgive you a list of things that it thinks you're going to like based on what you've watched in
30:11SPEAKERthe past, uh, at least inside the apps that hook into the Apple TV app, which is, I think,
30:17SPEAKERI want to say like Paramount and Amazon and everybody, but Netflix maybe hooks into that.
30:22SPEAKERI can't remember. Um, it's it's, but, but in order to actually use that, you have to have a pretty
30:28SPEAKERgood understanding. Like you have to know that these apps do connect into that API and these
30:34SPEAKERothers don't. And like that implies that you also probably have to know what an API is. And, and
30:39SPEAKERit's not a, it's not a fantastic experience. Um, the, the other side of it is that when people,
30:46SPEAKERwhen the app says, Hey, if you, if you did this instead of that, you'd probably have a better time
30:50SPEAKERof it. That's all universally annoying. So like, I don't, I don't know that there's a great solution
30:55SPEAKERfor that, but Hulu, you can deep link in for what it's worth. You can say, I want to go to the
31:00SPEAKERchannel guide on Hulu and it'll take you right there. I believe I might, I might encourage them
31:03SPEAKERto keep trying Siri on that thing then and just see, but I mean, no, it's like for people who are
31:08SPEAKERnot like very tech savvy, like when things don't work the first time, they're not necessarily
31:11SPEAKERinclined to keep trying different ways. It's more, they just get intimidated and kind of give up.
31:16SPEAKERSo I was going to say the other thing is we tend to, we tend to go for the more specific approach.
31:22SPEAKERSometimes you can just say, watch PBS. And if you have the YouTube TV hooked into the Apple TV app,
31:28SPEAKERit'll just be like, Oh, okay. PBS is available on YouTube TV. So we can just go to that and it'll
31:33SPEAKERjust take you there. But then it's equally likely it'll try to download the PBS app and then you
31:38SPEAKERhave a whole other, like it's like, it's, it's all over the place and it's still stupid in
31:44SPEAKERfrustrating ways. Yes. Let me, well, you don't use Siri, do you? Off and on. I more so definitely
31:51SPEAKERmore so now that I have the watch, but I use it all the time for like timers and alarms and stuff
31:54SPEAKERlike that. Which voice do you use, Brad? And reminders. I believe I use female Australian.
32:01SPEAKEROi. Yes. I I'm a male British. Okay. All right. More of a Jeeves kind of situation.
32:08SPEAKERYeah. If I'm going to have a digital Butler, I want a digital Butler. Fair. But how do you
32:13SPEAKERfeel about secret modes and apps? I love them. I love secret, anything secret secret menus,
32:19SPEAKERlike in and out is famous for its secret menu, where you can order the burgers,
32:23SPEAKERall kinds of different ways. I always feel a little bad ordering stuff off of secret menus.
32:26SPEAKERCause then it's like, it seems like it's more work for the people that work there.
32:30SPEAKERGet a tip. Well, when you do that, I mean, at least it in and out, it's like built in. I mean,
32:34SPEAKERthat's part of the experience. I know I've talked about it before. I wonder if there's still an
32:37SPEAKERoperation. I mean, this is like 15 years ago now at game spot there. I had a lead on a secret barbecue
32:44SPEAKERplace, which actually in San Francisco, they just shut down three years ago. They were in Oakland.
32:52SPEAKERAnd by barbecue place, I mean, somebody had a smoker in their backyard,
32:57SPEAKERwhich I'm guessing this was not maybe health regulations compliance, but it was literally
33:03SPEAKERlike a mailing list, friends of friends style that you would get on because I knew somebody,
33:07SPEAKERI worked with somebody who was friends with people doing the smoking and they were just like,
33:11SPEAKERHey, let's just send an email to this address and they'll start sending you. They'll let you know
33:16SPEAKERwhen there's barbecue. And so like, it wasn't even every week, but every week or two, you'd
33:20SPEAKERget an email saying like, Hey, here's what we're smoking this week. If you want some, let us know.
33:24SPEAKERMan. That's a good idea. Cause like when I, I always hesitate to fire up the smoker because
33:28SPEAKERyou got to, like, if I want to do like a brisket, then I've got, you know, I've got a 12 by 24 space,
33:36SPEAKER12 by 36 space, and I've got a 16th of it used for the brisket. And then the rest of it's just
33:41SPEAKERsitting there wasting. What's that's smart. That's the thing that used to happen in Knoxville a lot,
33:46SPEAKERlike our neighborhood, there was a guy at the end that would run the smoker and, and be like,
33:51SPEAKERyou'd see the smoke and you just go like, yeah, he would, he would. Okay. Realistically,
33:57SPEAKERhe'd come over with a couple of Keystone lights and be like, Hey, I'm going to smoke on Saturday.
34:01SPEAKERYou want me to, you want me to Chuck something on for you, but yeah, that's awesome.
34:05SPEAKEROh, they just, I just, they just closed. It was called Sneaky's barbecue. Anybody in the
34:09SPEAKERBay area might be familiar with it. I think it probably got pretty popular after a while,
34:13SPEAKERbut this was, this was early on. It was, it felt very clandestine. You know, it was like,
34:18SPEAKERthis is not a restaurant. This is not even a food truck. This is somebody just selling food.
34:23SPEAKERDo you ever go to cat's head over by? I'm sorry. I just have to,
34:27SPEAKERI have to say it was Carolina style also when it was, it was mustard. Oh, it was so good.
34:32SPEAKEROh, the ribs were so good. Anyway, go on. Do you ever go to cat's head over on division?
34:36SPEAKERNo, it was over by Costco in the city. It was, it was the best, the best, probably
34:43SPEAKERconsistently the best barbecue I had in San Francisco. Yeah. Which is not, not that easy
34:47SPEAKERto come by. No, it was like, but the thing is when you live in Northern California, everybody's like,
34:52SPEAKEROh yeah, man, I love Memphis minis or some bullshit. And you go there and like, Oh God,
34:55SPEAKERthis is inedible. Yes. Oh wow. The cat's head barbecue website is still up, but it talks about
35:01SPEAKERitself in the past tense. Cat's head barbecue was the combined dream of Richard Parker and Pamela
35:07SPEAKERShafer. The goal was to bring delicious off at mom, man. When you, when you went into the place,
35:11SPEAKERyou couldn't eat in there. Cause if you went in, you'd smell like you were inside a smoker.
35:16SPEAKERBasically go in, grab your food and get out as fast as you could, but it was real good.
35:20SPEAKERI'm not sure that's the worst thing, but anyway. Yeah. I don't know about indoor smokers,
35:23SPEAKERbut anyway, I don't get to eat for another four hours. So we have to stop talking about this.
35:28SPEAKEROkay. So secret modes, you like secret barbecue. You like secret modes and open the iOS
35:34SPEAKERdiscord app for me and then go to your settings, not like the server settings,
35:38SPEAKERbut the settings for your user account. And then scroll down into the third section where it says
35:43SPEAKERapp settings and tap on appearance. Okay. And then tap on dark, like just hammer it, just tap it a
35:49SPEAKERlot. Okay. I was already set to it, but you mean hit it over and over. We're going to take you
35:53SPEAKERdarker red. This is how you unlock the secret AMOLED mode, which changes the background from
35:59SPEAKERlike dark gray to pure black. Oh yeah. Look at that. I don't know. I didn't count how many
36:03SPEAKERpresses that was like 10, but just basically you just hammer it for a minute. This was a tip that
36:07SPEAKERcame just from folks in the discord and it is fabulous. I mean, this just hit me. I'm sure this
36:13SPEAKERis pretty cliche, but this is just straight up like childhood Konami code memories coming back.
36:18SPEAKERRight. Is that what, that's why I love this so much. Here's some secret shit. Yeah. It's
36:23SPEAKERliterally just, I put in a secret code and made something unusual happen. Look, man, if you put
36:27SPEAKERJustin Bailey into your Metroid cartridge, some weird shit's going to happen. You're not going
36:31SPEAKERto believe it. No, I think this is a one and done. You can't, you cannot like get rid of that and do
36:35SPEAKERit again. Cause I just want to do this. I want to activate the secret again. Just delete discord
36:41SPEAKERand then log back in and all that. Yeah. I think I probably hit it somewhere between six and 10
36:46SPEAKERtimes before the experimental setting popped up. Yeah. That's awesome. And that works on iOS and
36:52SPEAKERAndroid. And the point is to make the, to stop creating gray pixels when you could have black
36:58SPEAKERpixels so that your, your OLED based screens will eat less battery. But you know, you can, you can do
37:06SPEAKERyou can do it just for aesthetics. If you don't have an OLED by screen. Sure. I got another,
37:11SPEAKERanother hot tip for windows users out there. Okay. I'm a windows user. You know what I hate
37:17SPEAKERin my windows? What's that? Bing. Sure. Yes. And you know why I hate that? Well, I can think of a
37:25SPEAKERlot of reasons, but go on. Well, the main reason is when I press the windows key and type the name
37:29SPEAKERof an app, I want to launch about four times out of five. It instead takes me to a website about
37:34SPEAKERthe app that's installed on my computer that I wanted to launch. Yes. Yes. Yes. Windows 10 is
37:38SPEAKERalso, it sucks. Yeah. So there's a, unfortunately the, the registry keys you have to change are
37:44SPEAKERdifferent in windows 10 and windows 11. So there's not, this isn't, you're gonna have to do some
37:48SPEAKERfollow up on this one. But if you go to bit dot L Y slash D hyphen, Bing hyphen windows, that's,
37:57SPEAKERthat's bitly slash D being windows, basically at least slash D being windows with hyphens,
38:01SPEAKERnot underscores. That'll give you the registry keys. You need to get Bing out of your windows
38:07SPEAKERonce and for all, at least until the next time you reinstall windows. And it means that the app
38:12SPEAKERsearch is crazy fast again, which is a delight. Yes. It doesn't search files. It doesn't search
38:18SPEAKERanything else on the computer. Wait, those are files. Hold on. Let's see. I was about,
38:23SPEAKERI was literally, the next thing I was about to say was, man, I wish there was a way to do that
38:26SPEAKERfor file search because I have other, I have other ways of searching files on my machine. I want the
38:31SPEAKERstart menu to search nothing, but the apps in the start menu. I take it back. It does still search
38:35SPEAKERfiles. I left the file search on because without the Bing search, it's fast enough that I didn't
38:40SPEAKERcare. It is definitely faster. You're not wrong, but occasionally if you, if you miss type or
38:45SPEAKERwhatever, you know, it'll, it'll, it'll jam file results in there that you don't want occasionally.
38:49SPEAKERThat's true. That just kind of get in the way. And I really wish I could strip it to just the,
38:53SPEAKERI believe that you can still turn off the file search, but I'm not a hundred percent on that.
38:59SPEAKERI'll look, maybe I haven't spent a ton of time looking, but that might be possible.
39:04SPEAKERThere's also power toys run, which I think we'll get to in a minute. Yeah. Power toys run is the,
39:08SPEAKERis the business you can show. Nope, Nope. Yeah. Nope. Nope. I don't think you can turn it off
39:17SPEAKERwithout the registry. I don't know how to turn that one off. I didn't know that was a thing
39:20SPEAKERpeople wanted, I guess. We'll do that. We'll, we'll put that in. If there's a way to do that,
39:24SPEAKERwe'll put it in the next Q and a episode, I guess. Here's another, another hot, hot one.
39:30SPEAKERI told some people this at work the other day and they were, their minds were blown,
39:33SPEAKERbut your password manager probably also handles two factor now. So as Google continues to make
39:38SPEAKERGoogle authenticator worse, which is what I think most people, including like Microsoft recommended
39:43SPEAKERas your way to do two factor for a really long time. Yes. You can just stop doing that. And if
39:48SPEAKERyou use Bitwarden or 1Password or one of the larger password managers, most of them support it now.
39:54SPEAKERSome of them gate it behind a paid, paid tier. Yeah. I think it's, I think it's,
40:01SPEAKERit's the first Bitwarden feature I've seen that is not on the free tier that I might actually want.
40:06SPEAKERBut also I'll, I'll, I'll say real quick, Microsoft has their own authenticator app now as well.
40:10SPEAKERYeah. Yeah. But the benefit of, of doing this on, especially on a password manager that's synced
40:17SPEAKERbetween devices, then you have the authenticator on like my authenticator is on windows. It's on
40:23SPEAKERiPad. It's on my phone, slightly less secure as a result of that, I suppose.
40:29SPEAKERBut assuming you do the right things, setting up your, your password manager, you should be fine.
40:34SPEAKERAlso, I'm trying to, I'm trying to think, think through in my head right now, like if somebody
40:37SPEAKERgot into your password manager, then they have both your passwords and your two factor codes.
40:41SPEAKERBut I'm, I'm sitting here thinking like, does using a discreet authenticator code or app get
40:46SPEAKERaround that problem? But it kind of doesn't because if somebody got into my phone, it's not like,
40:51SPEAKERit's not like Authy is like highly protected once you get into the phone anyway. Right.
40:55SPEAKERSo once you get into the phone in order to unlock my password manager,
40:59SPEAKERyou have to have either face ID or know the, the, the 10 digit phone password.
41:05SPEAKERAnd then logging into one password on my device, on my, on my PCs,
41:10SPEAKERyou have to know the full passphrase every time you reboot the computer. So assuming no one gets,
41:15SPEAKERif someone comes in and sits down in front of my computer while I'm sitting here at the house,
41:20SPEAKERI'm open to more open. If you're worried about that, well, well, a, you usually need two factor
41:27SPEAKERto set up the password manager on a new device. So like, you know, you're okay there. If you're
41:33SPEAKERworried about having the passwords and the two factor in the same place, you can do something
41:36SPEAKERlike Authy, which will sync your, which will also sync your, your two factor between devices.
41:42SPEAKERYes. Authy is what I switched to a few years ago when Google authenticators started getting bad.
41:48SPEAKERAnd it's good. Does Authy have a paid tier? I don't, I don't know. That's the only thing
41:52SPEAKERthat worries me about Authy. I don't know. I assume so. I've never needed one. It integrates
41:59SPEAKERwith the Apple watch very nicely. That is why I like it. I assume though the password managers
42:04SPEAKERwith two factor codes built in, it'll just fill the codes in for actually how reliable is that
42:09SPEAKERactually is the question. So I don't use Bitwarden very often, but for one password, it just,
42:16SPEAKERonce you fill the password, if you have two factor associated with that account, then it, it pays,
42:21SPEAKERit copies the two factor code into your clipboard. So when you get on the two factor screen,
42:25SPEAKERit just fills it in on the phone. It often does it automatically. Okay. That's good to know. I don't,
42:31SPEAKERI don't know if Authy does have a paid tier. I certainly don't see one on their website.
42:35SPEAKERI don't, I don't, I'm not a super fan of apps that don't have paid tiers, to be honest.
42:43SPEAKERYeah. It's because you're concerned about what, what it is they're getting from you then.
42:47SPEAKERI don't like, I like being the customer. Fair. Not being a product. Who's Twilio makes Authy?
42:56SPEAKERWhy do they sound familiar? They do a lot of security backend stuff.
43:01SPEAKERThey sound familiar because they're a defense contractor.
43:07SPEAKERYeah. They, they do, they do like business workflow stuff. It looks like.
43:12SPEAKEROkay. I wonder if Authy is something they bought maybe.
43:15SPEAKERProbably. Anyway. I mean, like I've never heard anybody say anything bad about Authy.
43:20SPEAKERNo, it's, it's worked quite nicely for me.
43:22SPEAKERYeah. It's it does a simple thing relatively well.
43:25SPEAKERBut, but having it in your, in your password manager does seem awfully convenient.
43:29SPEAKERIt is. It is. It makes it easier to like, my feeling is that anything that makes it easier
43:32SPEAKERfor me to use two factor is a good thing. And as a result of it being in the password manager,
43:37SPEAKERI had turned like when, when one password pops up and says, Hey, this site has two,
43:41SPEAKERhas two factor authentication. I usually turn it on cause it takes no time. And you know, it's,
43:46SPEAKERit's worth the, worth the effort. Yes.
43:50SPEAKEROkay. We're going to speed run some windows key shortcuts. A lot of these are old,
43:53SPEAKERbut they're worth doing because people don't know about them. Windows plus period. This
43:57SPEAKERone's an all time banger. Yes. I don't know if we talked about it before or not, but it's
44:01SPEAKERcritical, but this is the emoji picker. It's kind of a general pop-up. You can
44:07SPEAKERsearch for GIFs in there now. Wait, what? Yeah. Hang on.
44:12SPEAKERIf you look, there's tabs at the top of the screen, the emojis are on the first, on the first
44:15SPEAKERtab. Oh, well, okay. The first one is stuff you use a lot. Most recently used. The second one is
44:21SPEAKERemoji. The third one is GIFs. Then there's like emoticons or K emoji, I guess. Yes. That's the
44:28SPEAKERthing I've flipped out about before we started this. I don't know how long this has been in
44:31SPEAKERthere, but they have cow emoji now, which I didn't even know that was a word until now,
44:35SPEAKERbut it's like, it's stuff like the flipping the table one. It's like the, the, the, the valve,
44:41SPEAKERgive Diretide little Kirby reaching guy. They don't have the shrug.
44:46SPEAKERNo, it's, it's in there. It's at the very bottom. That's my all time favorite. I literally have that
44:50SPEAKERshrug aliased in my bash RC. Like, so I can, so I can deploy it at any moment, but now I can just
44:57SPEAKERcheck it out. Hey, you see this school doc we're in. Yeah. If I, here's, you want to know what I
45:02SPEAKERthink about your windows plus period, you're going to shrug my windows plus period. I'm sad.
45:07SPEAKERI just, with one click, I have shrugged that keyboard short. I have a, I have a,
45:13SPEAKERif I type asterisks shrug asterisk in my phone, it changes to that because it is also my favorite.
45:19SPEAKERThis is why we're friends. Brand. That's a good one. Then you can also do symbols.
45:25SPEAKERAnd another banger is the clipboard history, which you can access by hitting control plus V.
45:31SPEAKERI think on windows 10, you have to turn that on on windows 11. It's on by default, I believe.
45:35SPEAKERWindow key V is the shortcut. What did I say? You said control V, which is just paste.
45:41SPEAKERYeah. It's windows key V. Sorry. Yeah. You do have to turn that one on in privacy somewhere.
45:46SPEAKERThe, the, the, the win key period of the emoji picker is also useful for just a bunch of like
45:53SPEAKERASCII or Unicode symbols as well. Like you can no longer do you have to go to Google and Google
45:59SPEAKERthe word trademark to get the little superscript TM to paste into a document. You can just hit this
46:04SPEAKERand click it. And there it is. Do you want to tell somebody that you took money in fancy euros
46:08SPEAKERor fancy pounds or yen? I just trademarked the shrug as you see. Here's a control. Here's a,
46:17SPEAKERhere's a dollar sign, a Celsius symbol just right, right on top. I didn't know that this was even
46:23SPEAKERits own code, but there you go. I'm going to, okay. This might be a little too meta.
46:29SPEAKERYeah. I'm going to paste this line into the episode title field and see what happens.
46:35SPEAKEROh boy. That's going to, that's going to jack up every podcast reader on our.
46:41SPEAKEROh, wow. Yeah. It's going to do bad things. It actually,
46:46SPEAKERsimplecast auto generates the URL for you when you put the title in and it stopped after win.
46:51SPEAKERYeah. That seems right. Maybe I should not do this.
46:54SPEAKERNo, you should not. We should not make that. I'm going to beg you, please.
46:57SPEAKERHey guys. I saw that there's a new episode, but it's not my podcast reader.
47:02SPEAKERYeah. Fair. Fair.
47:03SPEAKERYeah. I mean, of course this is also how podcast history is made. Cause maybe we'll
47:07SPEAKERbreak somebody's, the, the, the head unit in somebody's car by sending a lot of non,
47:12SPEAKERnon ASCII Unicode stuff. I had to, I had to, I had to dig into some of that stuff not too long ago
47:18SPEAKERwhen I wrote that little, that small Python utility for crunching podcasts and started
47:25SPEAKERgetting into some very interesting esoterica about like which podcast metadata does and
47:30SPEAKERdoesn't work on different platforms. Hey, iOS 17 is bringing podcast images
47:36SPEAKERto the podcast official Apple podcast. Interesting. Like what was it? What was it?
47:41SPEAKERIf you're using ID three, V one, ID three, no V two point three, sorry, four. If, if you're using
47:50SPEAKERID three, V two point four and your chapters are longer than I think like 52 or 51 Unicode
47:57SPEAKERcharacters, they break on Apple podcasts. But if you use, but if you use two point three,
48:01SPEAKERyou're fine. It's like, that's, that's what it's like dealing with podcast metadata for anybody
48:06SPEAKERwho's wondering, like it's a fucking nightmare. You know, what's not a nightmare is your
48:10SPEAKERclipboard history. If you hit the windows key plus V, you can see the last few things you,
48:14SPEAKERyou, you clipped and copied and pasted. If you don't see that you can go into the settings app
48:19SPEAKERand search for clipboard. And there's a setting at the top that says enable clipboard history
48:23SPEAKERon windows 11. And I think windows 10 now too. Yes. Windows shift plus S yes. I think we,
48:30SPEAKERI think we did talk about this one a few months ago, but it's worth reiterating like,
48:32SPEAKERlike windows plus period and windows plus shift S are like the two that no one should live without.
48:38SPEAKERI use these every day. Yes. Windows shift S pauses the frame buffer on the screen.
48:45SPEAKERAnd then you can grab either the whole desktop, both desktops. If you have multiple monitors,
48:50SPEAKERyou can make a lasso, like a arbitrary shape lasso around whatever you want to grab,
48:55SPEAKERor you can grab just one window. It's fabulous. It's really, really good.
48:59SPEAKERIt's never install a screenshot utility again. Yeah. Well, I actually, well, yes,
49:05SPEAKERthe last time this came up, there were people on the discord with opinions that about,
49:09SPEAKERthere are some better ones out there that have more features, but
49:13SPEAKERI have a tool that grabs a screenshot every 10th of a second and just saves it in a folder.
49:19SPEAKERI could, I could see the use there. Yeah. It's then going through those as an all day affair.
49:24SPEAKERAnyway. Windows plus R is run. Nope. It's the run, the run menu, but I actually like better than that
49:32SPEAKERto install power toys and use the launcher. What's it called? What do they call it? Power toys run
49:38SPEAKERpower toys run. It's basically the, basically the windows equivalent of spotlight from MacOS.
49:43SPEAKERYeah. It just pops up a big thing in the middle of your window. That's like you type in what you
49:46SPEAKERwant to launch and it launches there. Yes. Win plus L is how it locks your computer,
49:51SPEAKERlike without waiting for the screensaver to activate. Here's a banger for people who play
49:57SPEAKERgames. A couple of good game ones. Win plus alt plus B enables or disables HDR at the OS level.
50:04SPEAKERThat's a good one. That is a really good one. Especially for streamers. Like you said,
50:09SPEAKERyeah. You need to turn off HDR rapidly when you realize you're sending awful video to your viewers.
50:14SPEAKERYep. That reminded me of another one that I've shoved in here. Ooh,
50:18SPEAKERnow this is a deep one. This is, I believe this one's been around for a long time and is very
50:22SPEAKERlittle known. Win control shift B. What does this do, Brad? It resets your video driver.
50:30SPEAKERReally? Like it restarts the video subsystem of windows. If you're having like display issues,
50:34SPEAKERif something is fucked, I'm going to say, I'm going to say maybe don't try it while we're
50:40SPEAKERrecording. Yeah, no, but that's one that, uh, yeah. Wow. That's amazing. So it's windows plus
50:46SPEAKERcontrol plus shift plus B. Yes. When, when control shift B recess, the graphics,
50:51SPEAKERgraphics driver B is clearly the shortcut for video B is video. It's for, it's for,
50:57SPEAKERif you're having like weird graphical issues or like freezing or, you know, whatever flickers,
51:03SPEAKERall kinds of stuff. I can see that. Um, yeah, it's, it's, uh, that's a weird low level. And
51:09SPEAKERI would like to, I would like to have more windows shortcuts that interface with hardware, frankly.
51:13SPEAKERActually, actually another one real quick that I don't think we have on here. Win P
51:17SPEAKERwindows P P. Yeah. That's the change, which displays primary. Yes. Let's you select between
51:23SPEAKERwhich displays you're outputting to very quickly. Yeah. That one's a good one, especially for
51:27SPEAKERlaptops. I think it's built for laptops, but it's nice. Um, it's nice if you have multiple
51:31SPEAKERdisplays hooked up. Yes. Yeah. Or, and I used it a lot when I used to hook my PC up to the TV
51:38SPEAKERand I wanted to quickly make the TV, the primary display. So the games would go there.
51:41SPEAKERSo it's less important with windows 11, because you can just kind of move windows around and put
51:45SPEAKERthem on the right window generally now. Um, uh, but there's a couple of game bar tips that are
51:51SPEAKERpretty good. Game bar started out as one of those things that you like you immediately uninstall.
51:54SPEAKERAnd now I actually use it on the daily game bar is pretty good, honestly. Yeah. Like their,
51:59SPEAKERtheir little performance thing is as good as the Nvidia one. Uh, and you can pin it so it stays on
52:04SPEAKERtop and kind of move it wherever you want instead of being stuck in a corner. Um, but when alt plus
52:10SPEAKERR or when alt R is record, start recording, whatever game window you have open, you do have
52:18SPEAKERto have game bar installed for that to work. The real good one, uh, is when alt G and if you turn
52:24SPEAKERon the buffer, you have to turn it on before you use it the first time. I think if you type,
52:27SPEAKERif you hit when alt G it prompts you to turn it on as well, though, uh, that'll record the last
52:32SPEAKER30 seconds. So it works like Nvidia's shadow play thing, but it's basically always running.
52:37SPEAKERAnd, uh, it it's, I use it to capture bugs. Yeah. Well now the one, the one bummer about that to me
52:43SPEAKERis the game bar still discriminates, uh, between games and non-games. Like it won't, it won't let
52:49SPEAKERyou take screenshots and videos of things that doesn't consider a game. Oh yeah. It works the
52:55SPEAKERsame way unless there's an option to flip that off, but I'm a little worried. I always, I mean,
53:00SPEAKERI like to limit that to games. That's maybe, maybe, yes. Maybe that's fair now that I think
53:05SPEAKERabout it. Um, and that's, that's the windows keyboard shortcut speed run. Um, let's see,
53:11SPEAKERI got a couple more, we got a couple more small things. Uh, there's a, there's an iOS widget,
53:17SPEAKERuh, on newer versions of iOS. If you're having a relatively modern phone, you should have access
53:24SPEAKERto this, uh, that lets you get a block of, uh, widgets. It's called serious suggestions
53:32SPEAKERand you can set it to just show apps. And what it does is it pulls the apps that you
53:36SPEAKERuse in that location at that time of day. It there's patterns based on, I think it detects
53:42SPEAKERpatterns based on like, if you always, um, if you always say launch Wordle and then switch to
53:49SPEAKERKindle, it'll show you the Kindle, the Wordle app first, and then show you the Kindle app.
53:53SPEAKERUm, and you can also say, Hey, don't put, don't put these apps in this block because they're
54:00SPEAKERalready on this page as a static app. Uh, it's, I have basically one of these on every single
54:05SPEAKERhome screen that I have, uh, on iOS. It's a, it's a, it's like a, it's like a magic,
54:12SPEAKERwhat's the, the, the bag of holding, I guess, the D and D thing. It's like an infinite bag of apps.
54:18SPEAKERUm, it means that I only have two home screens basically on any given, on any given, uh, focus
54:24SPEAKERmode. That's pretty good. Um, and then, uh, power toys. We talked about power toys a lot here. We
54:32SPEAKERlike power toys. They've added, I just got a power toys update yesterday. I think, uh, they added
54:38SPEAKERmouse without borders to it since the last time I looked, which is cool. Uh, mouse without borders
54:43SPEAKERis the Microsoft. It's windows only is the only negative, but it's the tool that lets you share
54:48SPEAKERthe same mouse and keyboard between multiple computers over the network. It's very performant.
54:52SPEAKERYou can encrypt the traffic back and forth. I think it even has copy, uh, copy and paste between,
54:58SPEAKERuh, PCs now. Uh, and, uh, it's built into power twice.
55:03SPEAKERNow there's, there is a, I assume this goes without saying there is no video component
55:07SPEAKERto this. You still need a physical display for both machines.
55:10SPEAKERYeah. You need a physical display for both machines. It's literally for,
55:13SPEAKERHey, I have two monitors on my desk and there's two computers and I want to use the keyboard and
55:18SPEAKERmouse. Let's hooked up to computer one also on computer two without having to have two keyboards
55:21SPEAKERin mice. So is it, is it a hundred percent a replacement for a physical KVM to you at this
55:26SPEAKERpoint? It depends on how much access you have to the other computer. So I, um, I still have a
55:34SPEAKERphysical switch that switches USB, the keyboard and mouse to between the two computers for like
55:41SPEAKERgetting into the bios on the second computer. But for the most part, I don't use a physical KVM.
55:46SPEAKERI like, I hit that button maybe three times a year at this point because the other machines
55:50SPEAKERrelatively stable and, uh, it works pretty well. You can turn it so you can share files. You can
55:55SPEAKERcopy and paste files between the two computers using it. It's up to like a hundred megabytes.
55:58SPEAKERI think, uh, share the clipboard. The one thing that it has a problem with is it needs a, um,
56:08SPEAKEROh, no, no, it actually has it now. So you can, you can set it to not, not do a edge transfer
56:16SPEAKERand require a keyboard shortcut. So if you don't want to have that
56:20SPEAKERlose focus during games, you can do that. Yeah. Cause it used to be a mouse without borders used
56:25SPEAKERto have problems with games was the, was the knock against it. Um, so yeah, uh, pretty good.
56:31SPEAKERYes. Here's what, here's one that I just thought of that they, they just added this one recently
56:35SPEAKERsince the last time we talked about power. So is, which I think was back in may peak. Have you tried
56:40SPEAKERto peak is really neat peak at peak is preview for MacOS. Like that. I can't believe it took this
56:44SPEAKERlong for windows to get that, um, P preview. If people don't know if you haven't used MacOS and
56:50SPEAKERever just highlight a file in a finder and hit space. And if it's a file type that MacOS knows
56:56SPEAKERhow to deal with, it'll, you don't have to launch an app to see what's in the file. It'll just pop
57:00SPEAKERup a little preview window. If it's text file, video music, you know, stuff like that. Uh, it'll,
57:06SPEAKERit's just a very quick way to see what is in the file without having to launch a full app.
57:12SPEAKERAnd peak is basically that I use peak, uh, almost every day.
57:18SPEAKEROkay. So I actually used it a lot. I didn't realize it was new. Actually. I use it so much,
57:22SPEAKERI guess I could be wrong. I'd swear that just got added in the last
57:28SPEAKERit's entirely possible. Um, it has, um, it's, it's really good. The other one that's
57:33SPEAKERrelatively well, there's two others that are pretty new video conference mute, um,
57:39SPEAKERwhich is now being, it's being moved to legacy maintenance mode, I guess at this point,
57:43SPEAKERmaybe the person who worked on it no longer works at Microsoft, but it gives you keyboard shortcuts
57:47SPEAKERto mute the camera and microphone. Okay. A system level rather than in the app, which is nice.
57:52SPEAKERThat is nice. Um, I thought you would probably like that one. And then the other one that I
57:56SPEAKERhadn't seen before is text extractor, which uses OCR to pull text from images, just like the iOS
58:02SPEAKERcamera app does now. Uh, and it works. It's not as good as the iOS camera app in my experience,
58:07SPEAKERbut it's pretty good. So, uh, generally a fan power reading. There's like the other classics.
58:12SPEAKERThere's a lot of bangers in here. Power rename lets you edit a list of file names. Like it's
58:17SPEAKERa text file, which is fricking awesome. If you have like a bunch of files that you want to,
58:21SPEAKERyou can just, you can change the names without having to click a bazillion times,
58:25SPEAKERa color picker lets you get anything, pull the color from any element on the screen,
58:31SPEAKERno matter what. Uh, there's another new one that I haven't used a lot, but it's really weird
58:36SPEAKERcalled crop and lock that lets you make a window small and only show the part of the window that
58:41SPEAKERyou want to show, which seems high risk to me, but I'm going to try it and see what I think about it.
58:47SPEAKERPowertoys is good. And then, uh, the last one is, uh, file locksmith, which if you ever have a file
58:53SPEAKERthat you're trying to save on top of and you're like, shit, I don't think I have this open
58:56SPEAKERanywhere. And you can't figure out where you can right. Click on it and say, Hey,
58:59SPEAKERwhere is this open in the context menu? And it'll tell you what, what a process has the file locked.
59:04SPEAKERAre you serious? Oh my God. It's basically like touch on, uh, on Linux. Huh? Wow. That's quite
59:11SPEAKERuseful. Actually. I will have to, I need to look at power toys more. They just keep adding stuff
59:16SPEAKERto it. And at some point it's easy to get kind of lost in the giant list of little widgets,
59:20SPEAKERbut man, they are useful. Yeah. The side, the side thing is called what's using it. It's in your
59:25SPEAKERextended context menu as what's using this file. So, huh. Wow. Okay. That's a good one to know.
59:31SPEAKERIt is very good. I've just been looking at the video conference mute. I think I'm amused at the,
59:37SPEAKERat the mute camera, uh, terminology. I get what they're saying. I just find it funny.
59:44SPEAKERUm, so it's funny. Power choice was one of the things like windows 95, windows 98 was essential.
59:50SPEAKERAnd then it kind of languished from like 90 to eight or 2000 until like five years ago,
59:56SPEAKERit seems like we started doing this podcast. Yeah. So it was great back then, but it's like,
1:00:00SPEAKERthis stuff is absolutely indispensable now. Yeah. It's, it's, it's, it's a consistent,
1:00:05SPEAKERit's a, it's one of the first things I install on a new computer. I think we said that earlier.
1:00:09SPEAKERYes. Um, okay. All right. Uh, I've got, uh, I've got a couple more to throw on here, um,
1:00:16SPEAKERthat are both kind of video related cause I had to work with a lot of video, but hopefully they'll
1:00:20SPEAKERbe useful for other people too. Um, I've been using something called lossless cut for a couple,
1:00:25SPEAKERthree years now, which is an admittedly somewhat janky UI GUI front end for FFmpeg. Although you
1:00:32SPEAKERdon't have to care that FFmpeg is in there. That's just what they use. But as the name implies,
1:00:37SPEAKERthe main thing it's useful for is trimming videos without having to re-encode them.
1:00:41SPEAKEROh, hell yeah. Uh, so that does, uh, that does depend on, on the key frame rates in videos. I
1:00:49SPEAKERknow this is a little technical, but, um, without having to re-encode a video, and this is not
1:00:53SPEAKERlimited to this, this is just how videos work, digital videos, um, without having to re-encode
1:00:58SPEAKERthe video, you can only cut on key frames and, and the rate of key frames can be variable in a video.
1:01:03SPEAKERSo depending on where you're getting it from, you're going to have more or less flexibility
1:01:07SPEAKERin where you can cut it. Yeah. So, so for people who don't know this, uh, most modern loss lossy
1:01:13SPEAKERvideo specs, they have every once in a while, you get a frame that's the whole frame and then
1:01:17SPEAKERthe next few frames will be just diffs of that frame. So it's like, here's the pixels that
1:01:21SPEAKERchanged, right? That's, that's, that's the, that's the short version of how video compression works.
1:01:25SPEAKERI'm sure there's infinite nuance in there. And John is screaming while he's listening
1:01:30SPEAKERto his radio right now. Yes. But anyway, the point is it can only cut on those key frames,
1:01:35SPEAKERwhich are full frames. Um, and so like, like for example, I've pulled a video from Twitter before
1:01:41SPEAKERand a, the key frames weren't even like consistent. They were like all over the place.
1:01:45SPEAKERLike the, I don't know why it's doing them dynamically. It's probably just to
1:01:49SPEAKERhelps explain why Twitter videos look like such shit. Well, it's, it's,
1:01:53SPEAKERit saves space cause that's what it is. Yeah. Um, but, but generally like with OBS or something
1:01:59SPEAKERlike the videos I record, you just set a constant, a key frame rate, right? Like by either by frames
1:02:05SPEAKERor by seconds. So like, as an example, like I'm, I, if, if I'm, if I'm recording a video locally
1:02:12SPEAKERthat we're going to put up somewhere, I set the key frame rates super fast. Like I want a key frame
1:02:16SPEAKERevery half second or whatever. Yeah. Because then at the end of that, I come out with a video that
1:02:21SPEAKERI can throw into lossless cut and I've got a basically half second increments where I can
1:02:25SPEAKERtrim the video of at the beginning and end and it'll just, and it saves as fast as it can write
1:02:30SPEAKERthe file back out to disc. Like there's no compression, no, no encoding going on. Um, it's
1:02:34SPEAKERall it, all it is doing is, is re rewriting the file out with those new time codes. Uh, it's super
1:02:40SPEAKERuseful. Like I said, the UI is, is a little bit, it's, it's fine. It takes a little getting used
1:02:45SPEAKERto it. You can see a preview of the image while you're cutting it, right? It's not like you're
1:02:48SPEAKERsaying cut it at this time code or this number. Yeah. Yeah. You get a full, full frame, uh,
1:02:53SPEAKERpreview of the video in real time that you can play. You can also like there are keyboard
1:02:56SPEAKERshortcuts for stepping between key frames. And I assume it puts the right header and
1:03:01SPEAKERtrailer on the video container so that the video plays and everything easily. Yeah. Yeah. And it's
1:03:05SPEAKERgot all kinds of output options for, uh, you know, format. Um, like you can tell, you know,
1:03:10SPEAKERI want to output MKV or MP4. I want to output just the audio or just the video or both, you know,
1:03:16SPEAKERput them in different tracks, like all kinds of stuff like that. That sounds great. I mean,
1:03:20SPEAKERgranted, it's more useful if you're in video production. There are other ways to do this as
1:03:23SPEAKERwell. It's just a very fast way to, you can just literally drag the video in, just set the in and
1:03:27SPEAKERout, click a button and you're done in 30 seconds. Um, very nice. The other video related thing is
1:03:33SPEAKERthat I have kind of mostly moved to MPV from VLC. Ooh, drama, scene drama. Uh, I don't know. I mean,
1:03:42SPEAKERwell, I'll say this. I just, audio files are still associated with VLC. I'll put it that way.
1:03:46SPEAKERI think for a variety of reasons, it's still better to play audio and VLC for me for now,
1:03:52SPEAKERbut it's just based on FFmpeg instead of the VLC kind of it's it's in there. Uh,
1:03:58SPEAKERFFmpeg is in there. I, this is a digression. I think the, I think all of the VLC, like if
1:04:03SPEAKERlib VLC is actually built on top of the underlying FFmpeg libraries, or at least uses them stuff
1:04:09SPEAKERlike lib av format and lib av codec, which are from the FFmpeg project. Anyway, we don't need
1:04:15SPEAKERto get into my weird novus or stuff here. Yeah. But, uh, MPV I'm looking at up real quick. It was
1:04:21SPEAKERforked from M player and player two. Oh yeah. I remember that that was the windows media player.
1:04:28SPEAKERRight. Is that what that was? The clone of windows media player or was Microsoft abandoned it?
1:04:33SPEAKERVideo player, like the, the lineage of video players on the internet is so weird,
1:04:37SPEAKERyou know, because all of them are descended from some other 15 year old thing, you know?
1:04:42SPEAKERYeah, there's a lot. Anyway, MPV was forked from M player two, apparently at some point,
1:04:48SPEAKERuh, it's fast as hell. That's the reason I use it. Um, and again, again, this is partially a
1:04:53SPEAKERme thing because we do the next lander watch cast now, and I need to have a movie in front of me
1:04:57SPEAKERthat I can scrub back and forth through very quickly to find things. Yeah. Um, it is extremely
1:05:04SPEAKERfast and also very reliable. Like VLC is not bad at that stuff, but there are still lots of
1:05:09SPEAKERsituations where like, if you're trying to step through frame by frame, or if you're trying to
1:05:13SPEAKERback up, like go, go in reverse and stuff like VLC sometimes we'll choke on different types of
1:05:18SPEAKERvideos. Yeah, I can see that. I have never thrown anything at MPV that it couldn't just like arrow
1:05:22SPEAKERkey back and forth through as fast as you can hit the keys. Um, it does frame by frame super well.
1:05:28SPEAKERSo there's been like cases, like I remember doing Johnny Mnemonic on that podcast. Like there's this
1:05:33SPEAKERcrazy, like VR dream sequence, fast vision kind of thing going on, but I was super easily able to
1:05:40SPEAKERjust seek to that and then frame by frame through it, like while we were talking about it. So I
1:05:44SPEAKERcould, um, so I could like look at what some of those individual frames were. Uh, that was fun.
1:05:50SPEAKERThat sounds pretty good. It is very Unix-y I should say. Uh, okay. Back out. It has,
1:05:59SPEAKERit only has a, it only has what they refer to as a pseudo GUI, which is it'll, it'll launch a window
1:06:04SPEAKERand you can drag files into it. You can like, but you're, there are very limited onscreen controls.
1:06:09SPEAKERIt's mostly keyboard driven and you're straight up. That's the other thing I love about it. It's
1:06:14SPEAKERan infinitely customizable, but that does take work. Like there is a straight up input.conf
1:06:19SPEAKERthat you're editing. Um, but I was able to go in and set up like custom shortcuts for
1:06:25SPEAKERlike skip ahead one second, skip ahead five seconds, skip ahead a minute, five minutes.
1:06:30SPEAKERYou know what I mean? Like I can, I can open a video and get from the beginning of the movie
1:06:35SPEAKERto like the last 10 minutes in about five seconds. That's okay. That's pretty good.
1:06:41SPEAKERIt's only granted. Not everybody needs to like seek around in videos and stuff like that fast.
1:06:46SPEAKERIs it not loading the whole video before it? Um, I do not know. I could not tell you.
1:06:50SPEAKERYeah. That's interesting. Cause VLC seems like sometimes it has to hit the front,
1:06:53SPEAKERat least the front and the back of the video. Yes. Um, I'll, I'll, I'll install this. I don't,
1:06:59SPEAKERI'm skeptical of the pseudo Unix interface. That doesn't sound great to me, but the rest of it
1:07:03SPEAKERsounds okay. When you open a file, it's fine. Like it is just a window on screen with the video in
1:07:08SPEAKERit, just like anything else. But there aren't a lot of clickable player controls is what I'm trying
1:07:12SPEAKERto say. There are very few. So I have to use like VI commands to play and pause and rewind and stuff
1:07:16SPEAKERlike that. Uh, well, no, no, I'll allow a video player with them bindings is not something I knew
1:07:24SPEAKERI wanted, but maybe if I can RW, yes. If I can hear you, which is the third to third tier speed,
1:07:31SPEAKERthree X, I can just hit GG to go back to the beginning of the video. That would be pretty
1:07:34SPEAKERcool. I, I apologize for the thing that I've done. Let me, let me, um, let me modify what I said a
1:07:43SPEAKERminute ago. It does have like a mouseover, like onscreen, gooey that you can click to like seek
1:07:47SPEAKERaround or drag through the video or click mute or change subtitles. Like you don't have to know
1:07:53SPEAKERthe keyboard shortcuts, but it's, that's where the extensibility, well, actually you can bind
1:07:58SPEAKERmouse buttons too. Like you can bind anything to anything. And that's what I love about it.
1:08:01SPEAKEROkay. I want to bind it to my game pad so I can trigger left to go back into your right to go
1:08:06SPEAKERforward. You could probably do that. Well, I don't know if it may not, but it's very useful. And it's
1:08:12SPEAKERalso just very good at any video format I throw at it. So those two are lossless cut in MPV.
1:08:18SPEAKERMPV. Yes. Like monkey Palestine, Valentine. That's yes. Sure. Is that, is that the title
1:08:25SPEAKERof this episode? I'm not sure. I don't know. I feel like, yeah. It was also really good for
1:08:31SPEAKERanime, I should say, as we've been doing anime recently, like being able to flip through
1:08:35SPEAKERsubtitles and language tracks quickly and stuff. Like it's just a really flexible, responsive
1:08:41SPEAKERvideo player. Can you search the subtitles? I don't think so. That's the thing I want
1:08:48SPEAKERsometimes is to search the subtitle, find a specific scene. That's possible. I don't know.
1:08:53SPEAKERI think that'd be possible, but nobody, I haven't found a tool that does it yet. So
1:08:57SPEAKERnot for anime necessarily though, you know? Yeah. Okay. Brad, we've reached the end of our list.
1:09:04SPEAKERYeah. I, you know, I feel, I feel better about this having done it. I feel like we've mostly
1:09:07SPEAKERcovered new ground here. I would, I would. So the real secret reason I like to do these episodes is
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1:11:49SPEAKERI guess we'll do it for us this month. You guess. I mean, I don't have anything else to you.
1:11:53SPEAKERWe could just keep going for another like six hours. I don't know. You want to talk
1:11:56SPEAKERabout Starfield some more? What would, what would people do if we just posted like a seven
1:11:59SPEAKERhour podcast one week? I mean, I, that simple cast would send us a note, but other than that,
1:12:03SPEAKERprobably nothing like, I don't know. I mean, we can keep going. I got, I got it all day.
1:12:08SPEAKERI got to clean off my desk today. I got to re I haven't redone my wire since we got back from the
1:12:12SPEAKERdesert. It's really, it's grim. I know. I don't want to know what it looks like under this desk.
1:12:18SPEAKERI've been wanting to rewire my audio setup for about a year and a half now. Well, so I came back
1:12:24SPEAKERand I had a meeting at like 11 o'clock in the morning after we got back. So I had to come in
1:12:28SPEAKERand plug everything in the day that I got back. Yes. And I didn't run the wires through the cable
1:12:33SPEAKERchannels. I said, they're just dangling back there. When I stretch my feet out, I catch them,
1:12:37SPEAKERwhich is scary. It's a little bit on the edge. Sounds familiar. I didn't plug my monitor during
1:12:41SPEAKERa Fortnite game the other day. Yikes. That was bad. We still pwned though. So it ended up working
1:12:47SPEAKERout. Okay. I guess that'll do it for us this month. Unless you want to just keep recording
1:12:51SPEAKERwhile I clean my desk off. Well, you know, maybe not great for an audio podcast. See you all next
1:12:57SPEAKERmonth. Bye everybody.