00:00:00 ◼ ► I have to ask a favor. You aren't allowed to make me laugh tonight because this is one of those days where like it was ab day for the workout.
00:00:08 ◼ ► You know a little while ago, I'm like, "Man, what did I eat? My stomach hurts." Like, "Oh, that's right."
00:00:18 ◼ ► Casey you aren't allowed to talk about food. John you aren't allowed to talk about anything.
00:00:26 ◼ ► I can't. I'm not supposed to laugh. Is there anything depressing that we could talk about to keep you from being happy and laughing?
00:00:33 ◼ ► I don't know how to handle this, right? Because I don't think that any of the three of us want to ignore it
00:00:51 ◼ ► But I don't know what the right answer is and what to say that's not going to upset somebody. Not saying things is upsetting people.
00:00:58 ◼ ► I can understand that. Saying things is probably going to upset potentially even more people and I don't want to upset people.
00:01:33 ◼ ► terribly religiously Jewish and we recognize some holidays and we're probably terrible Jews.
00:01:39 ◼ ► My immediate family is in, well both my parents and my brothers and myself, but also, you know, Aaron and me and the kids.
00:01:47 ◼ ► We recognize some of the bigger holidays, but I don't feel terribly religiously Jewish and I, and I, one could make an argument.
00:02:00 ◼ ► ethnically Jewish and I hope that's not offensive because I don't mean it that way at all.
00:02:15 ◼ ► It hurts. Like even as someone who is pretty well removed from it by any definition, it hurts.
00:02:21 ◼ ► It doesn't feel good. And to know that more Jews were killed on a single day than any day since the Holocaust, like that's
00:02:28 ◼ ► that's not cool. I don't care what your particular opinions are about Israel, about Palestine, about Palestinians, about Israelis.
00:02:39 ◼ ► that ain't okay. It's just not okay. We can have, well, I don't know if I'm capable of it,
00:02:45 ◼ ► but one could have a nuanced conversation about the politics in the Middle East, about how we got to where we are today.
00:02:51 ◼ ► But I think it's important to note that anti-Semitism from everything I've seen, not personally thankfully,
00:03:04 ◼ ► Murdering and kidnapping and doing terrible things to civilians, particularly children, is
00:03:13 ◼ ► unequivocally not okay. There is no justification for that in my mind. There's just none.
00:03:17 ◼ ► There's just none. And I wanted to say that, and I think we to a degree wanted to say that, and I don't know if either
00:03:25 ◼ ► of you guys have, maybe Marco you might have something to add too, but I just want to make it plain that
00:03:28 ◼ ► this is uncomfortable for me and for us because we know that there's so much that we don't know.
00:03:38 ◼ ► there's a lot more messed up things that will be happening that are also not right. It stinks. It just really stinks that here in
00:03:44 ◼ ► the year 2023, this is still going on with anyone. Like I feel like humans should be better than this,
00:03:50 ◼ ► but we're just not and it sucks. And I don't know what else to say other than I feel so bad for everyone involved and it sucks.
00:03:57 ◼ ► That's honestly, I think you put it really well and you've actually said a lot of what I wanted to say.
00:04:02 ◼ ► So I'll be short. You know, I don't have a lot of, I don't have any personal connections.
00:04:06 ◼ ► I am not, I don't have any heritage in the region. I am no longer religious, but I was brought up Catholic and
00:04:13 ◼ ► besides having a ton of Jewish friends, because I've always grown up in, I grew up mostly in Jewish neighborhoods,
00:04:39 ◼ ► And so I don't think it's a good idea for me to comment on the politics side, because I don't have any idea
00:04:45 ◼ ► what I'm talking about in that area. At first, like right after this happened, you know,
00:04:51 ◼ ► but I kind of viewed it as like, I didn't want to do more harm than good by talking about Middle Eastern politics.
00:04:56 ◼ ► I don't know anything about it, but you don't have to talk about the politics of the region to talk about
00:05:06 ◼ ► I was afraid to talk about the politics, but I'm not afraid to talk about that. You know, in the past, the
00:05:11 ◼ ► positions we've advocated for on the show at various, whenever various issues came up, black rights, trans rights, women's rights,
00:05:40 ◼ ► From that point of view, the Hamas attacks in Israel were definitely terrorist acts that intentionally murdered civilians, and
00:05:49 ◼ ► And I think it's perfectly valid to consider that separately from your opinion on Israel or its actions in this area.
00:06:02 ◼ ► And so the politics are very complicated, but the human rights angle, I think, is not complicated.
00:06:07 ◼ ► Murdering civilians is always wrong. That's my hot take. Murdering civilians is always wrong. Like, I don't, that to me is,
00:06:14 ◼ ► is pretty, is not that arguable, to be honest. I don't consider that complicated of a thought.
00:06:22 ◼ ► very good reasons for a lot of people around the world to be angry or scared or very deeply saddened by all of this. And so
00:06:29 ◼ ► my heart goes out to anyone affected by this, and I will always condemn the murdering of civilians,
00:06:36 ◼ ► no matter who's doing it. Whether it's us, whether it's our fringe terrorist groups that we have in the US, like white Christian nationalists, or whether it's
00:06:50 ◼ ► Very briefly, Casey Neistat, who is a very popular YouTuber that you may or may not enjoy or may or may not be familiar with.
00:06:57 ◼ ► almost nine minute video on this, which was a few days ago as we record, I thought was, was just perfect and worth watching.
00:07:07 ◼ ► who grew up religiously Jewish and also ethnically Jewish in the same way I was describing. And so it hits home
00:07:17 ◼ ► But I think it's a really good video and a really good encapsulation of kind of how I feel, too,
00:07:21 ◼ ► if I'm allowed to glob on to what he had said. We're trying, we're learning, we're doing our best. And
00:07:41 ◼ ► hopefully will turn that frown upside down and tell you, well, if you're American, if you're frowning in British,
00:07:46 ◼ ► I don't know what to tell you. But if you're American, we're gonna turn that frown upside down. And
00:07:49 ◼ ► we have a new member special that we released a few hours ago. We are recording this, this that you're listening to now.
00:07:57 ◼ ► Tuesday or Wednesday or what have you, then our bad. It's just we had a little bit of a scheduling change for this week. So
00:08:04 ◼ ► when Nintendo inevitably gets bought by Apple tomorrow, our apologies. But nevertheless,
00:08:14 ◼ ► which Jon brought to Marco and I and told us basically nothing about what we were about to discuss before we recorded.
00:08:41 ◼ ► Google for Ted Lasso Diamond Dogs and you will find an explanation. Maybe we'll put a link in the show if you remember.
00:08:46 ◼ ► Colon because that's the way that the specials work. It's some phrase colon and then a title.
00:08:59 ◼ ► that I was wanted Marco and Casey to talk me out of doing. I think the the post on Mastodon said it was a project.
00:09:14 ◼ ► But really what I wanted to do was like let's weigh the pros and cons of this approach or of this project.
00:09:25 ◼ ► I because I'll spoil that the product is somewhat relevant to the show. All right, so it's not just like a house painting project.
00:09:36 ◼ ► have people with some experience in the area that I'm considering diving into to talk about the pros and cons just to sort of
00:09:42 ◼ ► see how we think about making decisions and sort of map out the space. So there you have it ATP Diamond Dogs.
00:09:48 ◼ ► Will this be the one and only episode of Diamond Dogs or will we have other instances where one of us wants advice from the others?
00:09:54 ◼ ► We'll see. It's really good. I would look our member specials. There's a lot of winners among them.
00:10:11 ◼ ► I didn't know where we were going with it obviously, but I did have a lot of fun with it.
00:10:14 ◼ ► All right, let's do some follow-up and we actually got some interesting follow-up from Will Keefer
00:10:26 ◼ ► And Will wrote in to say I'm the CTO at Rewind AI and more importantly an avid listener to ATP and the expanded ATP universe for
00:10:39 ◼ ► It is a terrifying yet likely future for technology and you can count me in as a skeptic.
00:10:45 ◼ ► However, I'm hoping that we can develop it in a way to establish proper privacy baselines and expectations for the entire class of product.
00:10:52 ◼ ► The same goes for Mac, iOS and Windows apps forever private. For example, when we launch backup or sync
00:10:59 ◼ ► No employers or governments should ever have access and this is even more important as what we capture extends beyond your personal Mac or iPhone.
00:11:11 ◼ ► somebody responsible for one of the products that we talked about and criticized wrote in in a way that was
00:11:17 ◼ ► very constructive and not like making us feel terrible for having said anything bad about it.
00:11:31 ◼ ► you know important people like Will at Rewind have their heads in the right place and for terms of privacy and everything.
00:11:50 ◼ ► we we try to generalize it because it's not quite really just about what if this particular company does a product that does these things.
00:11:58 ◼ ► But it there's a larger issue of like well now that it's possible to make this kind of technology
00:12:04 ◼ ► reasonably practically and reasonably easily and reasonably affordably if there's some line that Rewind AI chooses not to cross,
00:12:13 ◼ ► someone else will cross it. Some product will come out that does this thing that you know,
00:12:18 ◼ ► even if they choose not to. The specific actions of this one particular company I think are less relevant than
00:12:25 ◼ ► the ideas in general like wow now that you know that consumer tech is so capable and so cheap and we have these new AI
00:12:37 ◼ ► What's going to be possible in the world? What products will exist not just if Rewind makes it
00:12:47 ◼ ► $35 like that, you know, if they don't do it someone else will basically and what does the world look like
00:12:57 ◼ ► I just thought it was real nice that because they sent this email and I replied and said I just I assumed that you don't want
00:13:02 ◼ ► me to say any of the stuff that you wrote in this email on the show and he said no you can say anything on the
00:13:14 ◼ ► I think you might have misunderstood this battery setting. The intention is not to simply stop charging at 80% and leaving you with a less charged
00:13:20 ◼ ► phone. The intention is to stop charging at 80% till an hour or so before you take the phone off the charger then top it
00:13:25 ◼ ► off to 100%. As setting text says the quote iPhone learns from your daily charging routine quote
00:13:36 ◼ ► so I don't think I did a particularly good job explaining what I was talking about if this is
00:13:41 ◼ ► one of the emails that we got in because that is the that is one of the three options that is on the iPhone's 15 and
00:13:49 ◼ ► That is what do they call that? It's like optimized battery charging. Yeah, that's been around for a few years
00:13:54 ◼ ► And please everyone stop writing in just give us a second to finish this thought. Yep. Now with the iPhone's 15
00:14:04 ◼ ► there's none which is you know, always charged to 100% anytime you're on the charger and
00:14:11 ◼ ► Which is which is referred to in the settings as 80% limits and so reading from an Apple support document
00:14:17 ◼ ► With iPhone 15 models you can choose between optimized battery charging 80% limit and none when you choose 80% limit
00:14:24 ◼ ► If the battery charge level gets down to 75% charging will resume until your battery charge level reaches about 80% again
00:14:31 ◼ ► With the 80% limit enabled your iPhone will occasionally charge to 100% to maintain accurate battery state of charge estimates
00:14:51 ◼ ► Now what I've fallen back to and what my phone is currently on is is what we've had for a few years now this optimized
00:14:58 ◼ ► Until just before it things you're gonna wake up and start messing with your phone again
00:15:04 ◼ ► However, Scott Martin Scott Martindale wrote in with a very very justified complaint, which I share Scott writes
00:15:31 ◼ ► One of the nice things about on the Mac is when you have the battery dingus and the menu bar
00:15:36 ◼ ► It says, you know charging on hold rarely used on battery and my battery is currently sitting at 80%
00:15:53 ◼ ► Somewhere I guess would have to be buried in the battery settings, but I want that for my phone maybe control center
00:16:15 ◼ ► I've heard isn't like the iPhone 15 have so much more battery life than the 14s that the only they can handle this feature
00:16:28 ◼ ► I don't quite get that one. I hope they fix that in an update. Yeah, I don't get it either
00:16:42 ◼ ► Optimized charge limit learns from your daily usage to determine when to charge to an optimized limit and when to allow full charge
00:16:47 ◼ ► Optimized charge limit is on by default when you set up your Apple watch and then Mark Wichens wrote in this feature builds on the existing
00:16:57 ◼ ► Now though if the watch notices that you typically only use say 30% of the battery capacity on the daily basis
00:17:02 ◼ ► But still charged every night instead of charging to 100% it might stop short at say 70% instead
00:17:27 ◼ ► it could be totally wrong and of course not everyone has an Apple watch, but I think the the
00:17:31 ◼ ► Lifecycle of an Apple watch for most people tends to be I'm going to keep this thing until either
00:17:42 ◼ ► That seems to be what kills Apple watches for people is like the battery no longer holds you because like most people are not
00:17:47 ◼ ► Super jumping on the idea of like I need to I need an Apple watch with a faster processor like or you know
00:17:54 ◼ ► Whatever, you know, there's no camera there. There's a lot fewer upgrade drivers for the Apple watch
00:18:07 ◼ ► Long-term Apple watch battery health and help the Apple watch have a longer useful life for a lot of its customers
00:18:17 ◼ ► It's a very unselfish by them in the sense that it's kind of the opposite of planned obsolescence
00:18:26 ◼ ► This is a pretty cool thing if if that's gonna be the outcome of Apple watches lasting longer out in the field
00:18:45 ◼ ► They can then just turn the setting off and charge to 100% from that point forward and get a bit more time out of it
00:18:56 ◼ ► For the you know, the handful of power users who actually need a larger part of the battery
00:19:03 ◼ ► It might be inconvenient to limit it to 80% for that use depending on how and when you charge it
00:19:08 ◼ ► But for most people who are not using it for sleep tracking and just wearing it during the day
00:19:12 ◼ ► This is a cool feature on the phone side of it. I I think it's far less likely to be used
00:19:19 ◼ ► I think a lot more people and that's probably why the phone version is not on by default
00:19:27 ◼ ► Again, they run the risk of causing a scandal if they oh your phone only has 80% of battery life by default
00:19:32 ◼ ► You could go into secret setting Apple doesn't want you to know about to get the girl your whole battery like, you know
00:19:38 ◼ ► But also I think people are less likely to give up the day-to-day capacity on their phones
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00:20:42 ◼ ► They have a whole bunch of like cool presets like desert sunrise or you know, jungle mountain or whatever and they're all really cool
00:20:48 ◼ ► I kind of like switching between them and there's so many more features with the hatch restore - they have mindfulness exercises
00:20:55 ◼ ► Meditations they have sound machines if you want to sleep with sound or if you want to kind of like chill out for a while
00:21:03 ◼ ► It has all these modern features this amazing light feature these wonderful sounds that are much more graceful and much nicer than what I've heard
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00:21:42 ◼ ► This is so much nicer than waking up with your phone and there's so many more features beyond that
00:21:59 ◼ ► We have a fair bit of follow-up. That was very interesting useful with regard to I think was an ask ATP from last week
00:22:10 ◼ ► Smattering of different pieces of follow-up about that Jonathan Freese writes a paid flicker account
00:22:15 ◼ ► They still exist a paid flicker account can be used to back up all the photos from an iPad or iPhone using the flicker app
00:22:22 ◼ ► Dan Lithio writes photo sync and actually a lot of people wrote about photo sync photo sync
00:22:28 ◼ ► Even if you only have space up the space optimized version on the iPad photo sync will download the full quality original and then back
00:22:36 ◼ ► It will back up both the photo in the video which can be read and combined by Mac photo app
00:22:40 ◼ ► Should you need to restore and it works with many different storage backends both local and cloud Samba Dropbox Samba Samba?
00:22:47 ◼ ► I don't know network chairs Dropbox s3 back please be - and I think even USB drives etc
00:22:55 ◼ ► Even if you only have the space optimized version on the iPad Google Photos will force the original download and then upload that to Google
00:23:00 ◼ ► I'm guessing the reason that you guys shot down Google Photos and wouldn't be thrilled about photo sync either is that they don't back up your
00:23:09 ◼ ► I would say that some people wouldn't mind a backup of the raw pics without meta metadata or edits if that's all they could get
00:23:18 ◼ ► Anyway, Renee writes Synology photos has an iOS app that automatically backs up photo and video originals in the background
00:23:26 ◼ ► But that's only every few weeks or so and it reminds you with the local notification. It works very reliably for me
00:23:35 ◼ ► But I feel like my photo solution as convoluted and ridiculous as it is is working for me
00:23:49 ◼ ► I'm using iCloud OneDrive photo backup in Google Photos to back up all my photos from the iPhone and iPads to the different services simultaneously
00:23:56 ◼ ► And Pete Spree, excuse me, Pete's speech himes in the OneDrive family plan allows up to six users to have one terabyte each
00:24:07 ◼ ► You can create six accounts linked them together via shared folders that allow users to read and write to the additional account space
00:24:15 ◼ ► you can use the Synology cloud sync package to back up your NAS to all of these accounts and
00:24:23 ◼ ► Synology shares you have to take advantage of all the storage. The six terabytes of iCloud
00:24:28 ◼ ► Excuse me, of cloud storage is $100 per year from Costco and you get Office 365 for all the users as part of the package
00:24:34 ◼ ► I think it's the best deal going when compared to Amazon Google or iCloud Drive space and then finally Chris Kiyafi
00:24:39 ◼ ► I think that's how it's pronounced writes Amazon Prime comes with photo backup. It's included with Prime
00:24:49 ◼ ► First the initial upload is painful even for moderate photo libraries since it needs to first download the full-size image from iCloud
00:24:57 ◼ ► So I had to create a one action shortcut to launch the Amazon photo app every few days and then finally might be cheaper or easier
00:25:11 ◼ ► Yeah, these are all backup solutions that are trying to work within the constraints of iPad iOS devices to
00:25:24 ◼ ► So a lot of these services like you're just gonna take the photos and chuck them into this bucket and it's not connected to your
00:25:31 ◼ ► So it is an additional backup, but it's also an additional cloud backup and all these little
00:25:38 ◼ ► You launch every once in a while to make sure it's running and of course if it's downloading photos in the background and then pushing
00:25:52 ◼ ► like we're talking about last show where we were saying that we thought Macs should have
00:25:54 ◼ ► iCloud backup like the phones do and we thought phones should have time machine like the Mac does and
00:25:59 ◼ ► Time machine is kind of a different more of an old-school kind of thing where it's like
00:26:03 ◼ ► You know, obviously you wouldn't connect the hard drive to your phone or maybe you would in the USB C days. But anyway
00:26:14 ◼ ► Over some fast connection either a local network or a wire to something that is in my house right now
00:26:20 ◼ ► And there's a place for all of these in your own personal backup vortex. You should have cloud backups
00:26:25 ◼ ► You should have local backups. You should have backups that happen transparently in the background that you don't have to think about
00:26:30 ◼ ► You should have backups that run periodically in or more heavyweight and I think in this discussion
00:26:47 ◼ ► You can use the Mac to help backup stuff obviously because once you get your iCloud photo library onto your Mac
00:27:07 ◼ ► What if I just have the phone and if you just have one of these platforms, so not the other
00:27:12 ◼ ► So I'm glad there are parties that are fighting the good fight and trying to find a solution to this
00:27:21 ◼ ► There'll be more of this but if like most of the the the path of the resistance on the phone and the iPad is
00:27:29 ◼ ► Make sure that you're running somehow and force download the full quality one because you probably don't have the originals being downloaded onto your phone
00:27:36 ◼ ► all the time and then force upload them and then get rid of the cloud one and it's just I
00:27:40 ◼ ► Feel for the people writing these apps, but they're out there if you want to give them a try
00:27:45 ◼ ► And then continuing in the photos section of the world an anonymous person wrote in with regard to photos
00:27:56 ◼ ► This anonymous person writes photos will only remember whether you selected freeform or original last
00:28:01 ◼ ► All other aspect ratios are ignored since photos never wants to change the crop aspect ratio when you enter the cropped tool on
00:28:07 ◼ ► Unadjusted photos also photos does store the specific apps aspect ratio applied to each photo
00:28:13 ◼ ► For every adjusted photo photo stores a crop rectangle and a crop aspect ratio when selecting freeform
00:28:21 ◼ ► Additionally photos now stores a user default indicating whether the user prefers a locked aspect ratio original or not
00:28:26 ◼ ► That value is only changed when the user either clicks on original or freeform and nothing else
00:28:36 ◼ ► I thought oh that means it's just every time I crop something to something else like now the next photo
00:28:40 ◼ ► I view is going to be viewed like crop to square because the last photo I did was square
00:28:48 ◼ ► it's also nice to hear that they're already storing the selected aspect ratio for photos with the
00:28:58 ◼ ► What a still a probably a more thorough implementation of this would be to have an actual preference
00:29:04 ◼ ► In preferences that says hey when you come upon a photo that you've never selected an aspect ratio for what do you want me to?
00:29:12 ◼ ► In fact, there are no editing specific preferences in photos so I can understand what them maybe not wanting to
00:29:17 ◼ ► Go through all the trouble of saying we're gonna have a new breed of preference in photos
00:29:21 ◼ ► Have you ever looked at by the way the Mac photos? I keep saying preferences the settings in the Mac photos app
00:29:26 ◼ ► There's not a lot there for an application. That's so big and so important very sparse preferences
00:29:31 ◼ ► It is not one of those applications like mine that has a million preferences for every possible setting it is not a
00:29:44 ◼ ► Doing it this way, which is essentially like having that setting but having it be invisible and having that setting get set
00:29:49 ◼ ► Every time you hit freeform original. I think this will work out just fine for me, and I probably won't have any more complaints
00:29:58 ◼ ► All right John. Tell me about your issues with Chrome other than the fact that it's Chrome
00:30:03 ◼ ► This was last week was talking about getting Docker image up and running to do dev work on the ATP CMS
00:30:16 ◼ ► and I couldn't figure what it was until I realized it was only there when I was running Docker and
00:30:30 ◼ ► I like to do the over in Chrome because I like the chrome dev tools a little bit better
00:30:35 ◼ ► But anyway, that's was my go-to is to use the chrome dev tools to have them open while I'm doing stuff
00:30:40 ◼ ► But it became untenable because it was like 50% of the HTTP requests sent from the browser would
00:30:48 ◼ ► So I started googling and googling was one of those depressing you know search sequences
00:30:55 ◼ ► I'm not the only one who has this problem and it's super old and I was finding the bug reports bug reports against chromium or whatever
00:31:02 ◼ ► Like the whatever the open source project is that underlies the engine where this error is taking place
00:31:13 ◼ ► So the first one was open in June 17th, and it was closed as a won't fixed in July of 2019
00:31:19 ◼ ► And then November 15th one was filed and that was closed as won't fix on December 1st, 2021
00:31:24 ◼ ► Speaking of 2021 more different. These are all new reports March 29th of 2021 that was closed as won't fix on September 28th
00:31:33 ◼ ► September 29th another one was filed that one is still open, but this is a depressing series
00:31:42 ◼ ► Still don't have a good answer to that like the browser the people who do the browser engine is saying
00:31:47 ◼ ► Well the network did change and so this is legitimate error and the people who are filing the bug saying
00:31:56 ◼ ► And it becomes useless like you can't use the web browser to browse the web like if you if you are
00:32:03 ◼ ► But if you open up the network pan the dev tools and just do literally anything in Chrome
00:32:15 ◼ ► Because with like 50% of the requests failing Gmail is just like battling its way through you get that little yellow banner at the top
00:32:23 ◼ ► I just made it you know very slow and terrible, but many other applications. Just totally break because if they
00:32:37 ◼ ► Right if you were on Safari when Docker is running you'd never get these errors is a chrome specific thing and the theory
00:32:44 ◼ ► I don't know about the internals here, but the theory that is put forward and a lot of these bug reports is
00:32:51 ◼ ► Something relating to the network for this computer has changed and the argument of the people in the bug reports is yeah
00:32:57 ◼ ► But if the thing that changed is totally irrelevant to Chrome like it's some networking thing that Docker is using that has no relation to any
00:33:05 ◼ ► Connections that Chrome has why does it care? Why doesn't it just keep using its connections? They're fine all its connections
00:33:11 ◼ ► They're fine. Dockers not messing with Chrome's connections. You can make HTTP requests on any port that you are there
00:33:22 ◼ ► And for years they've been since 2019. They've just been closing these bugs as won't fix
00:33:31 ◼ ► I don't know the details, but I feel like the strongest argument is this doesn't happen with other web browsers
00:33:37 ◼ ► So that was disappointing I had to switch my web dev to Safari and their dev tools have gotten better over the year so
00:33:46 ◼ ► Switched a Safari and then Gavin Harris would and to say that he swapped away from Docker desktop on the Mac to use orb stack
00:33:57 ◼ ► And it has the added benefit of be able to run a Linux VM and their motto on their website is "Orbstack is the
00:34:08 ◼ ► It's not what I want, but it basically it kind of a drop-in replacement for Docker desktop on the Mac
00:34:16 ◼ ► It is another thing that runs Docker and I had high hopes that this would solve my problems
00:34:21 ◼ ► It's a native Mac app instead of like Electron app like Docker is and you know, there's nothing to install
00:34:28 ◼ ► First of all, it asks you if you want to import all your images and containers and stuff from Docker
00:34:39 ◼ ► installs a new like socket for the Docker networking thing installs that wants to install a new privilege helper and
00:34:44 ◼ ► Anyway, I tried it. It didn't solve the problem Chrome still flips out over there network change to things when you're running orb stack
00:34:51 ◼ ► So I uninstalled it. I think it's also you can get to pay for a prescription at some point
00:34:54 ◼ ► Anyway, if you're looking for some fun way to run Linux VMs and Docker orb stack is very cool
00:35:03 ◼ ► But I just went back to Docker desktop just because you know, it didn't solve my problem and I'm used to Docker desktop. So
00:35:09 ◼ ► I don't know. I mean, I don't this is not a bug that I care about that much because you know
00:35:14 ◼ ► Whatever I've just used Safari, but the bad thing is when I'm running Docker not only cannot do development work in Chrome
00:35:21 ◼ ► I can't do anything in Chrome like Chrome is basically just dead right and the only way to
00:35:38 ◼ ► I still marked as available and open please someone find that and don't close it as won't fix like all the other ones but
00:35:45 ◼ ► This just seems like again if every other web browser works in Chrome doesn't I think this is a Chrome problem?
00:36:00 ◼ ► Especially after heavy network use and that's when somebody a listener had suggested Colima
00:36:08 ◼ ► Something about like containers for Linux on the Mac Co Li ma or something like that. This is all command line stuff
00:36:17 ◼ ► There's no fancy, you know, gooey thing like orb stack has but it might be worth trying
00:36:22 ◼ ► I suspect that you will run into the exact same problem as you were with orb stack and with regular docker desktop
00:36:33 ◼ ► It's these issues that a trial the suggestions there was all sorts of suggestions how you can change the configuration of the the docker engine
00:36:39 ◼ ► Some people are saying oh it's ero ero is advertising this ipv6 thing and doing it over and over again and screwing everything up
00:36:46 ◼ ► And some people said you should disable ipv6 entirely. I tried all these things first of all
00:37:24 ◼ ► I don't know what docker is doing to change the network, but nothing I have tried has stopped it
00:37:29 ◼ ► So yeah, and I don't I don't have much faith that kolima would help considering orb stack didn't but agreed
00:37:34 ◼ ► But you know if you wanted to try yet another thing you could yeah, no, just use Safari
00:37:40 ◼ ► All right, we had a bunch of feedback with regard to air pods Pro as hearing protection including I've only started
00:37:52 ◼ ► Idea and went to a concert recently and had a lot of the same experiences that Marco did
00:38:01 ◼ ► But anyways Wes wrote in I was also curious and tried my air pods pro to monster truck rally at the beginning of the year
00:38:08 ◼ ► Noise cancelling could not handle it. It just filled my ears with static. I switched quickly over to earplugs. That was kind of funny
00:38:15 ◼ ► Then somebody sent us a link to noisy world org which has all sorts of reviews about noise cancelling
00:38:24 ◼ ► There's a whole post about air pods pro for hearing protection there. And then finally Samuel Levine writes. I'm a doctor. I am a
00:38:34 ◼ ► Neurologist neurotologist. Yeah, I think I there a neurotologist who has some expertise in concerts and hearing loss
00:38:43 ◼ ► We found that the start and the end of the concert is the loudest and most damaging to hearing
00:38:48 ◼ ► We tried a couple of different concerts the position in the hall made no difference active noise
00:38:52 ◼ ► Cancellation really does what it says it really reduces the noise before it hits the eardrum
00:38:58 ◼ ► Eliminate really loud sounds your lack of ringing is a sign of how well it worked ringing is a sign of hearing loss
00:39:04 ◼ ► Immediately after the concert you're seeing seeing temporary threshold changes attending more concerts
00:39:08 ◼ ► We'll convert it to permanent a quick rule of thumb is that you're hearing at 8 kilohertz is roughly your age
00:39:14 ◼ ► If you get old enough you lose appreciation of music, which sounds friggin terrible. But yeah, that's the reality
00:39:25 ◼ ► Used air pods pro as earplugs at a concert and it seemed to work and it seemed to not hurt my ears and everything else
00:39:35 ◼ ► I don't know for sure and so it was good to hear from actual doctors and actual people who know what they're talking about that
00:39:44 ◼ ► When it cancels out that noise from reaching your ear that does physically prevent it from harming the ear now
00:39:54 ◼ ► You know if you're like operating a jackhammer or working like next to a giant machine all day like it's some kind of like
00:39:59 ◼ ► You know industrial or professional setting where you are constantly needing real hearing protection all the time
00:40:05 ◼ ► Or maybe if you go to a concert every weekend or you run concerts for a living or you are a musician for a living
00:40:11 ◼ ► And you're always on stage like in in situations like that where you are always in very loud environments
00:40:20 ◼ ► You should not be using your air pods pro for your only hearing protection in that kind of situation
00:40:23 ◼ ► But so far the feedback seems to indicate that if you are an occasional concert goer like me and you want
00:40:36 ◼ ► Seemed to work really well and there seems to be no major downsides except that you know as mentioned last time
00:40:41 ◼ ► It is a little bit weird and how it processes the sound sometimes and it's a little bit non-ideal
00:40:50 ◼ ► So pretty cool to hear that the the protection it offers while it is not massive protection. It is real protection
00:40:59 ◼ ► we also got a really long email from someone who worked in a symphony orchestra who plays in a symphony orchestra and
00:41:04 ◼ ► Apparently wearing earplugs in a symphony orchestra is a thing for all the musicians because it is very loud there at various points
00:41:16 ◼ ► Suggestion one of his big suggestions in a very long email then unfortunately we couldn't find a way to summarize here
00:41:36 ◼ ► Don't use the default things you can both get the better foam ones and also those ones where they make a mold of your ear canal
00:41:43 ◼ ► So they're custom fit just for you. That's the road. You should be traveling down if you are chronically going to be in a very loud environment
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00:43:51 ◼ ► So let me remind you like I said earlier that we are recording this on the evening of Monday October 16
00:43:59 ◼ ► Everything in the world is going to change in the next couple of days. So or nothing at all. Who knows nothing at all
00:44:07 ◼ ► Yeah, who really knows but one of us I think it was John had a pretty good idea. I think that
00:44:17 ◼ ► What if we talked about instead what do we think should happen and I think John it was you who wrote
00:44:34 ◼ ► October very often there's an October event and you get stuff that's not the phone or the watch because those happen in September
00:44:46 ◼ ► but this year just the rumors are just so either they're inconsistent where they're flopping back and forth or
00:44:52 ◼ ► They're sad where they're saying. Hey all the stuff that you were looking forward to. Yeah, none of that stuff is happening
00:44:57 ◼ ► So it's all pushed off into 2024 and you know, if we look back at the timelines for these things
00:45:08 ◼ ► So it seems like I mean again, you can't sell the schedule slipped. We don't know the schedule
00:45:15 ◼ ► There was rumors that the m3 would be out by now in something and it's not and so, you know
00:45:21 ◼ ► We all want to see the m3 and we figured the plain old unadorned non pro non max non ultra one would be the first one
00:45:30 ◼ ► But you know the rumors all the rumors have been like yeah, no just that's gonna be like spring next year or whatever
00:45:36 ◼ ► So anyway, whether or not there is an October event whether or not new iPads and a new Apple pencil are announced tomorrow as we record
00:45:49 ◼ ► That really needs to be updated whether or not it gets the m3 or not or any hardware phones
00:45:53 ◼ ► Obviously phones don't need to be updated iPads or whatever like what what should be up there. Why like why have an October event at?
00:45:59 ◼ ► All is there anything that Apple should update before the holiday season so that they have let's say less embarrassing products on the shelves
00:46:08 ◼ ► You know, there are certain things in the Mac that we can point to like the iMac is weirdly old right now
00:46:19 ◼ ► Of course the the iMac is one of those things but one of the more glaring things to me is basically
00:46:32 ◼ ► And that's weird because iPads are very often given as holiday gifts or at least asked for as holiday gifts. And so
00:46:40 ◼ ► It's a little bit unusual and and non-ideal to be heading into the holiday season with an iPad lineup. That is
00:47:01 ◼ ► It got the at the Mac of the Mac Pro new label from the beginning of this show new iPad Pro
00:47:12 ◼ ► You know, they've they've upgraded the guts. I made a couple of little tweaks here and there but for the most part
00:47:20 ◼ ► So the iPad Pro is a little bit boring in its design and basic physical characteristics because those haven't changed in a while
00:47:48 ◼ ► I mean the m1 and m2 really aren't that different from each other but it is weird that it's that's only the m1 still and that's
00:47:54 ◼ ► You know, it's gonna it's gonna slowly get outdated, you know, I wouldn't feel great buying a brand new
00:48:00 ◼ ► M1 powered iPad today, you know in in late 2023 when I know that the m3s are on the horizon
00:48:06 ◼ ► I don't know. I think I think I would like for the iPads. I know the m1 is older but like I feel like
00:48:15 ◼ ► It has the advantage of being less power-hungry than the m2 and I think it has plenty of power
00:48:28 ◼ ► It's because they updated the lower end iPad to have like we move the where the FaceTime another FaceTime camera move where the uh,
00:48:38 ◼ ► Well, the base model iPad that it was updated to basically have the modern shape like before this latest update to the base model
00:48:49 ◼ ► It supports the magnetic pencil. I think right. I was got the camera on the landscape side, right? Uh, yeah
00:48:59 ◼ ► revision in where the guts are where the external features are on the iPad to basically make it seem like more of a landscape device and
00:49:11 ◼ ► But everything is moved around so it's the iPad line is in this uncomfortable situation where there's clearly new thinking about how to arrange stuff
00:49:18 ◼ ► Externally and internally on an iPad but that new thinking has not spread to the entire line
00:49:23 ◼ ► And so I don't think it's the m1 that is holding back the iPad line and making it seems like it needs to be updated
00:49:34 ◼ ► You know the pros like I don't think they desperately need to be updated because the m2 is fine
00:49:43 ◼ ► This is Apple really needs to update this because it's embarrassing. They're selling an m2 iPad Pro. We're just anticipating it
00:49:51 ◼ ► So that's a next year type product and for any iPad that still has an m1. I think that's fine
00:49:56 ◼ ► It's the ones that have like I don't have like an a14. I think the mini has the a14 or something
00:50:00 ◼ ► It's the ones that have an a something chip that is a low number they could go up by one or two
00:50:05 ◼ ► Those are the rumors by the way that like maybe by the time you're hearing this they've already announced new
00:50:17 ◼ ► Rejiggering of the internals and to allow for the Apple pencil in a different way and all that, you know
00:50:22 ◼ ► they if they if they find a way to deal with the magnetically attached Apple pencil and the camera in the new position if
00:50:45 ◼ ► No, I think you're right that it's more about the the inconsistencies within the iPad lineup
00:50:50 ◼ ► That you know because they've been updated because I've had your updated fairly infrequently each individual model
00:50:57 ◼ ► I'm saying that they did real somewhat infrequently and they've had these different ideas of you know
00:51:02 ◼ ► first of all, of course different pencil shapes and charging methods and then you know USB C or not and you know
00:51:08 ◼ ► Whether it's touch ID where whether there's a home button or the touch ID side button whether there's face ID
00:51:12 ◼ ► And now as you mentioned like whether the front camera is on the the long side or the short side
00:51:38 ◼ ► So I what I'm looking forward to is it seems like the hardware that has been updated most recently has
00:51:44 ◼ ► Generally like had its head in the right place. So I'd like to see that, you know go across the line more but
00:51:51 ◼ ► Again, that might take a little while and I think it forms a very confusing lineup for people, you know
00:51:56 ◼ ► when when you look at you know, first of all, it's hard to compare the iPads performance wise because
00:52:04 ◼ ► A14 the iPad mini which is smaller but more expensive uses the a15 then the iPad air uses the m1 and the iPad produces the
00:52:12 ◼ ► M2 like they they cross chip entire chip families with different naming conventions and different like
00:52:18 ◼ ► They've crossed that whole thing within what is ostensibly one product lineup the iPad lineup
00:52:24 ◼ ► And then the capabilities are so weirdly different between them all and and there's all these little asterisks on you know
00:52:30 ◼ ► Which one you buy then? Well that will that will mean X Y & Z and it seems fairly confusing. I'm even as a person who
00:52:40 ◼ ► If I wasn't looking at the Apple compare page and you ask me like what ship does the iPad mini have?
00:52:46 ◼ ► Like I would I would have no idea and I owned one and I would have no like it was it's a it's a very
00:52:52 ◼ ► Strange lineup and there's all these all these weird little inconsistencies. And so I hope
00:53:00 ◼ ► But all that is to say heading into the holiday season unless the iPad lineup changes, which is rumored to either
00:53:11 ◼ ► Hopefully heading into the holiday season. I hope there is some kind of fresh new change to the iPad lineup
00:53:16 ◼ ► So far the rumor is that it's going to at least have a new pencil maybe if that pans out that sounds good, baby
00:53:26 ◼ ► You know not knowing what chip your iPads having it is more towards my argument that it doesn't actually matter
00:53:37 ◼ ► Like I think most iPad games are tuned to be able to run on the inexpensive iPads because so many more of them sell
00:53:43 ◼ ► I don't think that's the where these things need to be pulled up there. There's still like there's still that one
00:53:52 ◼ ► Related to the same thing with the thing with the home button is lighting versus USB C, right?
00:53:57 ◼ ► Obviously everything in Apple's line we all presume is going to shed lightning and go to USB C
00:54:04 ◼ ► So if there is a new Apple pencil, you know that the the new iPad with the new arrangement of stuff still has the lightning
00:54:13 ◼ ► Is there a USB C equivalent of that kind of pencil or do they never ship one like that?
00:54:19 ◼ ► Do they finally get rid of the last iPad for the home button or does it just keep going with the home button and lightning?
00:54:28 ◼ ► It is iPad ish season and we all want the updated iPad pro with the OLED screen is that's the fanciest most expensive one
00:54:36 ◼ ► But yeah, the whole rest of the line is still kind of you know, so I I don't think I think iPads can get away with
00:54:52 ◼ ► I mean the reason we're talking about it all is because every other thing that we're gonna get to in a little bit all the rumors
00:54:57 ◼ ► Are saying yeah, you're not getting any of that. So if we're just looking well, I guess they could fix some iPad stuff
00:55:11 ◼ ► I think it's the RAM compliments right because again, I think I think the M1 I talked about this on one of our recent member specials
00:55:21 ◼ ► It just needs to be adequately supported by everything else and the M1 iMac has a really nice screen beautiful industrial design
00:55:29 ◼ ► It's a fun computer. I think everything about it's great except for SSD size and RAM, right?
00:55:37 ◼ ► You know move up as time marches on to our satisfaction. We're not demanding the highest end of everything
00:55:47 ◼ ► But it does need to keep up with the times and so as the M1 iMac ages the things that age about it
00:55:53 ◼ ► The worst are the costs of the SSD options and the costs of the RAM sizes and how much RAM it comes with by default
00:56:01 ◼ ► If someone could get an M1 iMac and feel like I need more performance now they're just gonna use it to
00:56:07 ◼ ► Like I was gonna say you use the browse the web and read email. No, you can use Photoshop in the M1
00:56:15 ◼ ► It's still I think my favorite M chip just because the M2 is better but also hotter and I feel like lots of for lots of
00:56:23 ◼ ► Computers, that's the wrong trade-off and for this iMac not that I wouldn't love to see an M3 version
00:56:33 ◼ ► The M1 iMac is the one that most needs to be updated but not in the way that Apple is probably gonna update it if
00:56:48 ◼ ► No one's saying no one's saying I can't I need the M2 in this thing. Just give you know
00:57:00 ◼ ► It's not like I gotta wait an extra 25 seconds for some batch job to finish because I have an M1 instead of an M2
00:57:11 ◼ ► It was it's a huge success design wise but market wise. I think this is this still remains a
00:57:29 ◼ ► And this has been true for a while Apple sells a decent number of low-end iMacs, but to fairly
00:57:35 ◼ ► Undemanding customers typically like they're usually buying it for the form factor and the look
00:57:53 ◼ ► Like that's you don't need to be that one doesn't need to be updated every single year and people like but just when you do
00:57:58 ◼ ► Update it. I mean again, I don't like obviously they're gonna make an M3 version of that eventually, right?
00:58:16 ◼ ► I because it every two years is every three years whatever it is when they do that update
00:58:20 ◼ ► Don't just keep the RAM and SSD space the same because that really that that's the thing that hurts
00:58:25 ◼ ► People who want to buy inexpensive computers the most they shouldn't be so terribly punished
00:58:29 ◼ ► For buying the low-end model to be constantly running out of space to constantly pressing up
00:58:36 ◼ ► like isn't this a fault like 8 gigs of RAM or something on that and I know everyone have all has all these fantasy notions about
00:58:41 ◼ ► How the the you know, the ARM CPUs Lee need less RAM or whatever. It's just that's not really a thing
00:58:54 ◼ ► Change in the industry every few years like I'm not saying every year like two three four years past
00:59:07 ◼ ► Can you imagine a consumer product with a one terabyte SSD like a five hundred dollar PlayStation 5? Come on people
00:59:13 ◼ ► Apple really needs to get on the ball. This is one of the things that hurts their line though, so
00:59:25 ◼ ► But just doubled the RAM and SSD for the same price. I would say that's a perfectly good update for the holiday season
00:59:33 ◼ ► All right, I'm trying to say like seven sentences all at the same time. So I agree with you that in actuality
00:59:53 ◼ ► Willingly buy a machine that has a you know, one and a half to two year old CPU like you know
01:00:01 ◼ ► That that means something new is imminent and I'm not I'm just not gonna want to do that
01:00:08 ◼ ► Spending the kind of money that a computer costs the longer the older these these main processors are
01:00:16 ◼ ► The less likely I am to want to buy one and I think that's true for regular people, too
01:00:21 ◼ ► If they spend even a modicum of time researching I think that they would say the same thing
01:00:29 ◼ ► They don't care like I feel like the m1 iMac is at that point. They like the colors. They don't really care what I
01:00:43 ◼ ► Is it a reasonable cycle for that machine or something? But I don't know like that's a good question
01:00:47 ◼ ► But certainly people don't shop for iPads that way you see people buying iPads if you even try to tell them what's inside it
01:01:01 ◼ ► That people start even asking what the processor is now Macs are different than iPads and I agree with that and maybe people can
01:01:10 ◼ ► But I think the big convincer would be if you're an Apple store sit down in front of a computer and use it like there's nothing
01:01:17 ◼ ► That's gonna make someone who wants to buy that computer make it seem like it seems slow
01:01:20 ◼ ► And again, it should upgrade to an M for your may hell if you want to go m1 to m4 skip 4
01:01:25 ◼ ► I don't care what your cadence is pick a cadence that is justified by the things that you sell
01:01:45 ◼ ► Imagine that that's so unheard of for Apple, but I think the place where they should do that is the low end
01:01:58 ◼ ► but the low end is where it hurts the most we see it for everybody used to get phones with too little storage right or
01:02:06 ◼ ► And it's like in the answer of these things are like well buy a new computer or learn how to boot from an external drive
01:02:11 ◼ ► Or like it's just it's so complicated. So I really feel like this is the weakest part of the Mac line
01:02:16 ◼ ► My and I'm gonna look at the other parts of the Mac line. Things are looking great the laptops
01:02:22 ◼ ► Do any of us have any complaints about the laptops going into the holiday season? I don't know. No, the laptop line is great
01:02:34 ◼ ► But we don't like it's there. We're not really like overdue for them yet. Like it's still fine
01:02:39 ◼ ► Yeah, like like if someone you knew got one of the existing ones, would you be like, oh no, you made a mistake
01:02:43 ◼ ► Don't buy that their new ones are coming out. No way. We would say they're great. You got a great computer
01:02:57 ◼ ► Mmm, that's true. I forgot that those exist. They're gonna be updated right alongside the big home pod. Yeah
01:03:05 ◼ ► First of all, even though there's a lot of problems with that product. I think their owners seem to like them a lot
01:03:14 ◼ ► Also, they I would guess they have probably sold way more air pods maxes than they ever sold first-gen home pods
01:03:28 ◼ ► Like so they the air pods max have the h1 chip like the old like the original air pods the air pods pro
01:03:36 ◼ ► Different advantages like some of the more advanced processing modes and things like that that that the the air pods max don't have
01:03:49 ◼ ► We all make fun of how terrible that weird case is for them the the whole like, you know
01:03:55 ◼ ► The case and charging situation is really bad. They're also still lightning ports to charge and and do anything else with so
01:04:08 ◼ ► Hopefully an update to the h2 chip, but maybe some of the other design issues that that they had
01:04:16 ◼ ► They use way too much metal that's itself contributing to them being way too heavy and the the case is terrible
01:04:27 ◼ ► Like there's there's just so many reasons why that product it had a lot of own goals and they were unnecessary
01:04:43 ◼ ► I mentioned the home big home pod because that also was like a first product of its kind had a lot of problems and Apple
01:04:54 ◼ ► And I hope that doesn't happen to the max because you know, it's like hey good first try
01:05:01 ◼ ► Maybe we'll just sell this thing for a few more years than discontinuity. They come up with a new one
01:05:07 ◼ ► It seems like they should have already had a second revision by now, but I would put that on the list of
01:05:11 ◼ ► Things that have a lightning port that shouldn't anymore. All right, it's a big long line of those
01:05:16 ◼ ► It's not a reason to update them and it's not saying oh you shouldn't buy one now or in a transition period I get it
01:05:28 ◼ ► It was that was a member that was also released shortly before the holiday season and it was very difficult to get them
01:05:33 ◼ ► Because they sold out very quickly that because it's a great holiday gift if if it's a good product
01:05:39 ◼ ► Yeah, and but that that is a product where if somebody bought air pods max today, I might be like, oh no
01:05:45 ◼ ► You should have waited because they are they're getting outdated. Well, I mean that's kind of like buying an Apple monitor now
01:05:50 ◼ ► It's like well, yeah, it is outdated, but we really have no idea when they're ever gonna make another one
01:05:59 ◼ ► but like I mean we have something in the notes about a competitor that we probably won't get to today, but
01:06:03 ◼ ► The studio display like whenever you buy an Apple monitor, it's like this is not cost-competitive
01:06:08 ◼ ► but it but in the case of retina resolution large monitors a it may be your only reasonable game in town and be
01:06:14 ◼ ► Don't worry about them replacing it because yeah, they will eventually but chances are good
01:06:19 ◼ ► It's not gonna be this year or the next year. So just buy it right and someone's gonna be unlucky
01:06:23 ◼ ► Someone's gonna lose the lottery. They're gonna be like I they said just buy it. So I bought it and then new one came out
01:06:27 ◼ ► But like look at the cadence between Apple revising its monitors over many many many years the gaps are long
01:06:35 ◼ ► They maybe they shouldn't be but again, like there's some cost to develop these products
01:06:46 ◼ ► They don't like seem to like to do the thing that so many other technology companies do
01:06:50 ◼ ► Even in more, you know cutthroat lower margin businesses or maybe because they're cutthroat large businesses
01:06:55 ◼ ► Revising it like oh, there's a new better panel available for our televisions. Of course next year
01:07:04 ◼ ► They'd be like, yeah, we're gonna sell this TV for four more years and then we'll put it in a much better panel
01:07:08 ◼ ► But during those four years, we won't drop the price and it'll be a four-year-old panel and every other TV will be better than us
01:07:16 ◼ ► It is it boggles my mind that they'll just sell the same monitor for the same price for so long
01:07:36 ◼ ► Like that feels like the higher end of the things are the the longer it is between updates
01:07:48 ◼ ► Assume that it ever gets an update it might I hope it does but it wouldn't surprise me if it never did
01:07:55 ◼ ► They just thought they just stopped selling a monitor or they sell like a bigger one or something
01:08:09 ◼ ► I think it's margins are typical Apple margins the volumes are low, but the margins are oh, they're they're very healthy
01:08:15 ◼ ► The margins are very healthy. I know and so it's low volume, but the margins I feel like justify
01:08:26 ◼ ► He can Apple get out of the bed in the morning for something that sells less than a hodgillion
01:08:37 ◼ ► So, I don't know, you know, we're not even talking about when when nothing's gonna be revised for the m3 ultra
01:08:50 ◼ ► We'll be getting the plane m3 and then in spring we get the m3 prone and 3 max and then you know after that we get
01:08:59 ◼ ► But with the m3 by all accounts, you know again, maybe you're listening to this it already happened and we're you know, we're wrong
01:09:06 ◼ ► But anyway by all accounts that people don't expect any m3 stuff this year by the rumors, right?
01:09:20 ◼ ► It's they're selling it on the phone or whatever. But is there is there some problem with the m3?
01:09:27 ◼ ► Does that mean that the you know shit this way are they gonna ship something with m3 pro and m3 max before?
01:09:34 ◼ ► Our plane old m3 that seems like ridiculous to me, but I'm just wondering what their schedules are
01:09:38 ◼ ► My guess is that you know, the the m3 almost certainly needs three nanometer production
01:09:46 ◼ ► it's a bigger chip than the phone versions and then the m3 pro and max and ultra are even bigger versions of that and
01:09:55 ◼ ► Next year not this fall so that they could get so they could reserve all that three nanometer
01:10:12 ◼ ► What we were just talking about in terms of like, you know excitement holidayness things that the you know
01:10:17 ◼ ► Vision Pro is they keep saying it's still on track to be launched quote early next year and that's five nanometer m2
01:10:35 ◼ ► Like I think we're we're what's going to happen is they're going to launch the vision Pro with its m2 chip
01:10:42 ◼ ► Before any m3 products are released and I don't think they're holding back the m3 products to make the vision Pro look good
01:10:50 ◼ ► I don't think they care about the comparison across those lines. And also I think the vision Pro has so many
01:10:56 ◼ ► difficulties and getting to market that it's just gonna slip and end up going past them anyway, like I
01:11:04 ◼ ► Pro and you know, like the pro and max laptops are gonna come, you know early next year
01:11:11 ◼ ► Basically the time that we expected them to come and those are sort of the important products
01:11:16 ◼ ► I don't know the details this but I think by that point TSMC would be on to like the new
01:11:21 ◼ ► Three nanometer revision like m3 B or something instead of m3e. I can't keep track of these things
01:11:27 ◼ ► Yeah, the better one and that would make sense if you're gonna make a bigger chip you want the bet the one that has better
01:11:34 ◼ ► I still I still have trouble figuring out when they're the plain old m3 products are going to arrive
01:11:43 ◼ ► Are they gonna come at the same time as the m3 pro max ones or are they going to come in the spring and the m3?
01:11:50 ◼ ► Like, you know, we're getting off track of like Apple October event one needs to be updated
01:11:54 ◼ ► It's clear that a lot of times don't need to be updated again. They're all they're they're great
01:11:58 ◼ ► They're the CPUs that are in them their features their prices the compliments of RAM SSD space everything about them is fine
01:12:21 ◼ ► Not that I don't care about revised iPads, but especially if it's a rise that as we discussed that they're revised in a way
01:12:27 ◼ ► That doesn't clarify and unify the line which we don't expect it to they're just gonna be
01:12:36 ◼ ► It's good that they're not as old as they used to be prices are probably about the same. That's fine
01:12:42 ◼ ► Satisfying and the only the only rumor of anything new that I've heard is the Apple pencil 3 and honestly, I'm not
01:12:49 ◼ ► Excited about that. I'm not excited about magnetic tips. I'm not excited about if it was lightning versus USB C
01:13:00 ◼ ► It's hard to talk about this because again, we're recording on Monday and by the time you hear this
01:13:04 ◼ ► Maybe the event already happened, you know what it was but going into it. I'm not very excited. I
01:13:15 ◼ ► In the sense no, it wouldn't be something that I'm going to use every day because I hardly ever use the one I have because I
01:13:20 ◼ ► Can't draw but it's the kind of product that I look at and I see a lot of uses for other people including in my own
01:13:35 ◼ ► Large iPhones, you know, who knows maybe have maybe they change the way it charges to be more compatible
01:13:42 ◼ ► Maybe they change some of the other physical aspects of it. Maybe they add like an eraser, you know, who knows like there's so many different
01:13:49 ◼ ► Maybe they put a button on the side finally for the love of God instead of having this weird tap gestures that you always accidentally click
01:13:54 ◼ ► Like it's there. There are lots of ways that product could be improved. That's actually interesting
01:14:00 ◼ ► Yeah, so you're you're casting about for an Apple pencil, which is at least slightly likely to happen
01:14:05 ◼ ► Meanwhile, I'm looking at the displays page on Apple's website and I just keep thinking to myself, you know
01:14:12 ◼ ► What would be really cool is a high refresh rate studio display. I would love that. It's not gonna happen
01:14:20 ◼ ► Why would the studio display get higher fresh rate before the XDR because it's got fewer pixels to refresh quicker
01:14:30 ◼ ► Why are you so grumpy? What don't tell me why I'm wrong. No, I mean some first of all, like
01:14:40 ◼ ► But if you look at what Apple's done and make some sense, they called it promotion and I know it's not pro with the space
01:14:48 ◼ ► Yeah, right, but it does have pro in the name and that's kind of like it's it's being withheld from the non pro phones
01:14:58 ◼ ► Eventually, look if they keep calling it pro like are they gonna say a non pro iPhone is never gonna have a 120 Hertz screen
01:15:06 ◼ ► It will have to just eventually it will have to so they will have to break this rule and this quote unquote unwritten rule
01:15:21 ◼ ► You need a powerful GPU that is capable of displaying something that you'd want to see besides the UI
01:15:31 ◼ ► The studio doesn't even have real HDR yet for crying out loud and you think it's gonna go promotion
01:15:36 ◼ ► I mean, you're right technically that they could put promotion on it easier than they can put HDR like as in for less money
01:15:48 ◼ ► Essentially like that the pro things have these features the non pro things don't and that's the way it works
01:15:54 ◼ ► studio display that remains 60 Hertz press HDR because as far as I'm concerned for the people who buy that monitor and
01:16:01 ◼ ► HDR is gonna be more beneficial because they can see all the pictures they take on their iPhones on their big Mac screen the way
01:16:11 ◼ ► and who needs 120 Hertz like Oh scrolling is smoother in a way that only a few nerds can tell or
01:16:19 ◼ ► Render it more than 60 frames a second that you care about that runs on your Mac. Did you have a studio display attached to?
01:16:25 ◼ ► So yeah, but anyway, it's all moot point because the studio display is not gonna be updated for another starter clocks four years
01:16:32 ◼ ► Remember the rumors when it was like as soon as Casey bought it. They were gonna update it for
01:16:35 ◼ ► HDR with the mini LED that didn't happen. I was so excited because hey, it's a new world Apple's releasing monitors
01:17:00 ◼ ► Give me HDR in fast refresh rate. Why not baby? I'll take both. It's not gonna happen and there at least not anytime soon
01:17:11 ◼ ► Are we good now because watch is new phones are new. We talked about iPad Mac vision Pro ain't out yet
01:17:20 ◼ ► I don't know what they would do to the Apple TV other than it wasn't it actually updated fairly recently
01:17:26 ◼ ► Yeah, it was a few months ago. Yeah, I know you can just keep putting a bigger and faster SOC in it
01:17:42 ◼ ► And then they're not gonna update it to anything. They actually that anything people actually want. Yeah, I'm kind of down on that
01:17:49 ◼ ► I'm kind of living the sonos lifestyle now. I'm kind of down on my home pod. So when are we talking about that?
01:18:07 ◼ ► Title, this is Apple ready system to load up latest software onto an open iPhones here. It is according from Gurman
01:18:14 ◼ ► Apple is planning a new system for its retail stores that will update the software on iPhones prior to sale
01:18:20 ◼ ► The company has developed a proprietary pad like device that the store can place boxes of iPhones on top of the system can then wirelessly
01:18:28 ◼ ► Turn on the phone update its software and then power it back down all without the phone's packaging ever being opened
01:18:42 ◼ ► Like we all know we all know the problem that you get a phone you take it out of the box
01:18:46 ◼ ► And the first thing you need to do is run a software at that because it was manufactured two weeks ago or whatever
01:18:51 ◼ ► In fact, we've had situations where a new iPhone comes out and everyone's like before you even try to transfer
01:19:06 ◼ ► You have to put back has to put an operating system on all these phones put them in boxes seal them up and you know
01:19:22 ◼ ► The thing I immediately thought of before considering the silliness of this whole thing is like Apple's
01:19:28 ◼ ► Move from air to sea instead of shipping things by plane which puts a lot of more carbon in the atmosphere
01:19:35 ◼ ► They want to ship things by boat which is much more efficient in terms of carbon per phone shipped boats are way slower
01:19:46 ◼ ► So instead of making them in a week before I'm putting whatever the OS is a week before now
01:20:16 ◼ ► The OS update doesn't want to run on phones if your battery is too low. It'll be like, sorry
01:20:21 ◼ ► I can't run this OS update. You better plug in your phone. What is it 50% charge that it demands?
01:20:26 ◼ ► There's things so yeah when you get a phone out of a box, it doesn't have a hundred percent charge
01:20:30 ◼ ► It usually has more than 50 and presumably they'll be do the smart thing and say hey if you put this box this phone on
01:20:40 ◼ ► It wakes up the phone and determines that it has, you know, 49% charge it were refused to update it
01:20:49 ◼ ► You're either gonna make sure all the phones are updated or you're only gonna make sure the lucky phones are updated
01:20:54 ◼ ► The ones that happen to retain enough charge on their journey across the sea they can be updated
01:21:05 ◼ ► If something goes wrong with the process or it goes into like a boot loop inside the box or whatever and you open up this
01:21:10 ◼ ► Box and you get a weird software DOA bricked phone because they hosed it by putting on top of a little magic pad at the Apple
01:21:20 ◼ ► I had the same thought of like the the power question like are they going to somehow power the phones?
01:21:29 ◼ ► Yeah, I mean the key charging is the thing and I know it's not supposed to be the range that we're talking about here
01:21:40 ◼ ► Maybe this is the it's the air power thing or whatever. What was called the plate thing? Yeah coming back around
01:21:45 ◼ ► I mean if remember it wasn't there there was that that startup for like I forget what it was called p-cell wasn't it?
01:21:52 ◼ ► Yeah power power over air. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, like I don't think that ever went anywhere
01:22:02 ◼ ► You know John what you were saying was basically assuming that they probably wouldn't be able to power it
01:22:18 ◼ ► Right and like just do the stores have the time and the and like to handle the volume of phones
01:22:30 ◼ ► I mean the smaller ones take less. Yeah, it's not super fast and what like are they just going to
01:22:37 ◼ ► Like image some of the or you know stick some of the phones for this process and maybe have to bypass it for others
01:22:41 ◼ ► Like I don't know and then how do you keep I guess you keep track of which ones because you'd put them on it
01:22:45 ◼ ► Like you can do to be clear you can't there are ways to deliver power to a phone even when it's in the middle of
01:22:52 ◼ ► Like it's again, you're like do you really want to be messing with a phone that's in a box at all?
01:22:57 ◼ ► I could just I almost feel like the hole in the box that you can plug them in is actually the better
01:23:27 ◼ ► We're getting a new version of the US versus the ones that shipped in the original thing
01:23:43 ◼ ► I think you would have to have power delivery and that could be achieved if you redesign the packaging
01:23:54 ◼ ► But that's kind of a strange packaging design then I mean like there's other things like you'd have to like
01:24:01 ◼ ► I mean you could have a thing plugged into it. You could have like a little thing plugged into it
01:24:10 ◼ ► Like you could have a thing plugged into the USB C port like a little ribbon thing. That's just for packaging
01:24:16 ◼ ► That goes down to the bottom of the box and has like an inductive coil in the cardboard or something
01:24:23 ◼ ► put put the phone upside down in the box so that you open it up you see the Apple logo inside of the screen and
01:24:31 ◼ ► I mean you don't want to close the lid though for breakability reasons, right? Like you do want it?
01:24:48 ◼ ► Really convoluted solution that and I don't know how the retail staff is gonna deal with this
01:24:54 ◼ ► Like it just seems like a very cumbersome process even if the pad is fully automated to have to put every single phone
01:25:00 ◼ ► That's gonna be sold to customers through this process. I don't know that sounds like that sounds difficult
01:25:05 ◼ ► I don't know. I agree with everything you guys are saying but to play the role of contrarian
01:25:13 ◼ ► I don't remember if I just told you guys privately but when I went to return the fine woven case on like
01:25:20 ◼ ► Or no, no, I was at the Apple store for some other reason. I came over was it the Odo's to pick up the case
01:25:28 ◼ ► The film was coming out two days later and I was making conversation with the with the salesperson and I asked oh, you know
01:25:34 ◼ ► When do you get all the phones in today arrived like, you know Thursday night or whatever and he was like no
01:25:38 ◼ ► They're here now on Wednesday. And so if that's a normal thing that gives you two additional days, you know
01:25:47 ◼ ► They could spend all afternoon and all evening Wednesday and all day Thursday and all you know overnight Friday
01:25:53 ◼ ► Getting all these phones ready to hand to customers again. I'm not trying to say that you guys are wrong. I'm saying it is possible
01:26:01 ◼ ► Like is the is everything flash during manufacturing or do they have something like this?
01:26:08 ◼ ► Does it happen after it's in the box because I got to imagine they've got they've got to have already conquered this
01:26:16 ◼ ► I just I just checked an unboxing video modern iPhones already shipped face down in the box
01:26:20 ◼ ► So they actually are the back of the iPhone where the charging cable is is actually already close to the top edge of the box
01:26:29 ◼ ► I mean obviously they'll get it close just for the for the data transfer and the waking up like it has
01:26:42 ◼ ► And so you're doing many of them in parallel and you just have people rotating the boxes every time something beeps
01:26:50 ◼ ► I had to think it had to be in service of the the boat shipment thing because why would you go through all this trouble?
01:27:13 ◼ ► They're like, I don't know what they would ship with but I don't think they've sold it for the phone
01:27:16 ◼ ► That's your question or for the watch. That's your question Casey. I think it's the same deal
01:27:29 ◼ ► But like in some future they could ship them with essentially nothing and they would all just like boot and do internet recovery the first
01:27:37 ◼ ► But I think people would find that tremendously frustrating given how long it takes would take to do that, you know
01:27:43 ◼ ► But at this point it's almost like that it's like yeah, it comes out of the box with an OS but
01:27:52 ◼ ► I suppose if it's not like a problem like it was for the 15th where I wouldn't do it could fail during data transfer
01:28:11 ◼ ► Don't if they really if these if they really want to give themselves more breathing room when shipping the phones
01:28:20 ◼ ► Just you know just to have more breathing room so they can you know work on the software up until the very last minute. I
01:28:29 ◼ ► Yeah, we're gonna update them all like don't sell it unless you can put it on this little pad and it confirms
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01:29:52 ◼ ► And we're gonna start with Luke ask with who writes if you could choose any three fixed focal lengths in your phone
01:29:59 ◼ ► Which would you choose would you go for maximum range at the expense of doing a lot of digital zooming in between steps or a?
01:30:04 ◼ ► closer trio for maximum quality with the photos you take the most often and a follow-up question if Apple introduced a fourth lens to the
01:30:11 ◼ ► Ultra pro max phone next year. What do you think they would choose for me? This is really tough to choose just three
01:30:22 ◼ ► But there are definitely occasions where I want something more than one and something less than five
01:30:33 ◼ ► But I'm not at all confident about my answer here and I bet you after listening to you, too
01:30:38 ◼ ► I'll probably change my mind. Wait one one three and five. Yeah, why not? Because I want to get no wide point
01:30:48 ◼ ► But I don't use the ultra wide the head often. I don't think and but maybe I'm maybe I'm lying to myself
01:30:55 ◼ ► I don't know. Tell me what what is the right answer Marco? I had a really hard time with this honestly
01:31:14 ◼ ► Has pretty decent quality given that's what it's doing and it has better quality than the real 2x lens has ever had
01:31:20 ◼ ► So I think they're satisfying that okay for now. So I think I'm gonna go with the boring answer and say I
01:31:27 ◼ ► Would probably choose the three focal lengths that your phone already has not mine. My phone has you know, the the 0.5 1 & 3
01:31:48 ◼ ► But not zoomed in enough for for long reach, you know, at least the 5x lens that you have
01:32:03 ◼ ► and and I I you know a lot of people like there was there's a great episode of Mac power users Tyler Stallman was on it and
01:32:10 ◼ ► He's a really great photographer and he was talking all about the lenses and one point that he brought up
01:32:30 ◼ ► Which is a much more commonly used focal length by photographers for things like portraits. Whereas 120
01:32:42 ◼ ► It's a bit that that becomes, you know, much more like telephoto use, you know long reach stuff
01:32:46 ◼ ► I I mentioned that I personally love shooting on 135 millimeter primes, but that's fairly unusual
01:32:52 ◼ ► most photographers they go to 85 for that and for the same things I was using 135 for I think a lot of
01:33:04 ◼ ► The 85 would be like, you know a 3.5 or whatever and then maybe something longer if you want
01:33:25 ◼ ► So I'm weird in the sense that I actually want the lenses that Apple just delivered for your phone
01:33:30 ◼ ► But I want them in a phone the size of mine now the follow-up question if they added a fourth lens
01:33:48 ◼ ► What they can fit but it wouldn't surprise me if instead of having like on the big phone
01:34:11 ◼ ► I don't think they're in before but if they did they they're gonna do point five one one and three Oh
01:34:32 ◼ ► Right now I think that is the most obvious choice for two because they're really cutting it fine to say like oh well
01:34:38 ◼ ► You know, I wanted a different folk like people already I feel like are overwhelmed with I mean, you don't see it
01:34:45 ◼ ► There's more than enough camera lenses to give people the range that they want especially with the advent of the 5x and the fact that people
01:34:50 ◼ ► Don't care about the fact that it's a digital zoom a lot of the time if you pinch way too much
01:34:54 ◼ ► I see my kids do it all the time. They don't know what digital zoom is. They don't care
01:34:58 ◼ ► They just pinch until the picture shows what they want. Oh, yeah, it's like no one gets just it's an oil painting
01:35:03 ◼ ► Like it's just I don't know what sensor is using but I know none of the cameras can zoom at this range
01:35:18 ◼ ► They always just pinch to zoom wherever they want and that's it and that's fine until you're pinching way past the limit of any of the
01:35:24 ◼ ► Lenses on even like on Casey's thing. Oh, they don't care. It's 20x. It's fine. I want it to be 20x
01:35:29 ◼ ► I can see my kid on stage. Like is that your kid or is that like five blobs of color? No, no one cares except us
01:35:45 ◼ ► But I want the 3x to be like a huge number of megapixels so I can crop it down to like 6x
01:35:50 ◼ ► And it doesn't look like garbage because that is didn't specify within given sensor technology or within the current sensor sizes
01:35:55 ◼ ► Just give me a huge number a number of pixels on a sensor in a 3x because I don't the thing about the 5x is
01:36:05 ◼ ► It's the same thing you were talking about Casey were like that's a big jump from the 1 from the 1/2 to the 5
01:36:15 ◼ ► if that's not possible, I would just still do 0.5 1 & 3 and the reason I keep pushing for the 0.5 is
01:36:25 ◼ ► To that like in particular like if you're trying to take a picture of an interior space
01:36:29 ◼ ► Not that you're a realtor or whatever, but like even just like I was moving my son into his dorm room
01:36:33 ◼ ► It's a little dorm room and you want to show like here's what Alex's dorm room looks like
01:36:38 ◼ ► 0.5, you know you're back into a corner you put it on 0.5. You can see all the stuff, right?
01:36:43 ◼ ► Yeah, any kind of interior thing or any kind of like fun landscape thing? It's the same like I don't love the 0.5 camera
01:36:55 ◼ ► There's nothing you can do to get that 3 or the 0.5. So I want to span the range like yeah
01:37:00 ◼ ► But I got the 0.5 I can get that shot now even though it's not great and the 3 lets me get that shot without
01:37:06 ◼ ► You know having to like zoom in on the 1x before I can jump to the 5 so that's a boring answer
01:37:14 ◼ ► I just want the 3x one to have so many more megapixels that I can crop it down to get the equivalent of a 5x
01:37:19 ◼ ► Or 6x. I know talking in these X's is silly because you know Marco was talking in millimeters like actual camera things
01:37:28 ◼ ► 0.5 1 2 3 or whatever because that's the language that Apple uses with its things and because honestly the focal lengths
01:37:43 ◼ ► What is the full frame equivalent of the light gathering ability at various focal lengths and it's it's like off the charts like I think
01:37:51 ◼ ► F21 equivalent or something. It's just like these numbers don't make any sense in real camera parlance
01:37:58 ◼ ► So I'm sticking with the the 0.5 1x 3x. Yeah, I think it's I always think back to the distinction
01:38:10 ◼ ► Versus I'm using my iPhone camera for some kind of function like, you know, like a functional need like, you know
01:38:18 ◼ ► So let me get snap a picture of the sign and the lot that says or I'm gonna picture of a receipt or something up
01:38:23 ◼ ► Close. Yeah, like there's so many there's so many times that I'm using the iPhone camera
01:38:51 ◼ ► But what's important is trying to capture some kind of information or or see some kind of information
01:38:56 ◼ ► And so isn't the point isn't the point five the only macro one as well. There's no switches to for macro
01:39:00 ◼ ► Yes, it can focus the closest. Yeah, I mean and macro people use I use of that all the time all the time
01:39:05 ◼ ► I reach my phone around the back of an appliance take a picture with the flash so I can see what the stupid serial number
01:39:10 ◼ ► Is 0.5 because I'm gonna be a centimeter from it like that is a functional need. Yeah, exactly like that
01:39:17 ◼ ► Extremely useful on a phone camera. So that's why like as much as like, you know, try trying to capture
01:39:44 ◼ ► But the one X is you know, where where I'm taking most my pictures and it looks pretty good most of the time etc
01:39:51 ◼ ► etc, so I looked I mean honestly I would rather have it like if I had to if they gave me like a certain number of
01:40:12 ◼ ► Make the 1x sensor bigger and better that I'd rather have that than almost anything else
01:40:19 ◼ ► Is there any way to add music to the music app on iOS without a Mac or PC or buying it via iTunes?
01:40:24 ◼ ► For example with new computer access at all. I don't listen enough to justify monthly fees for Spotify or Apple music
01:40:40 ◼ ► I do wonder we talk about this all the time that the iPhone or the iPad is like the primary only computer for so many
01:40:45 ◼ ► People it's just you know people I know this is a show for people who are quote unquote into computers and we think of that
01:40:53 ◼ ► But I do wonder you know, just I think most people just get by with their phone and it's it's true if they're you know
01:40:59 ◼ ► someone writing this in knows that it used to be possible like if they had or Mac or PC there are ways to do it
01:41:08 ◼ ► mp3 files onto your phone and listen to them for like but what if I don't have our Mac a PC?
01:41:14 ◼ ► It's probably this question that says I want to add music to the music app as in the Apple music app
01:41:23 ◼ ► like maybe they even use the camera connection kit where you just plug in a thing and like put an SD card and read your
01:41:31 ◼ ► But the music app Apple's music app like essentially how do you get the things into your quote unquote?
01:41:44 ◼ ► Going to try like I started walking through the process was using garage band believe it or not because apparently you can put something
01:41:50 ◼ ► You can put something at iCloud Drive and then garage band can pull it from iCloud Drive
01:42:09 ◼ ► Like but it just it seems so weird that there would be no way at all to this and the reason I put this
01:42:14 ◼ ► You know think this is relevant to what we're talking about is we just got done talking about
01:42:31 ◼ ► The question and I know people are gonna say just use this third-party app that has nothing to do with Apple's music app
01:42:36 ◼ ► But that's not what the question asks. And if the answer to this is like garage band or nothing. That's not a great answer
01:42:43 ◼ ► So what Nick says in this question is I don't listen enough to justify monthly fees for Spotify or Apple music
01:42:54 ◼ ► Apple music includes iTunes match and I choose match was that feature a million years ago where you could basically sync your Apple
01:43:02 ◼ ► Sync your iTunes music library with files that you uploaded between different devices that you owned at that point max
01:43:09 ◼ ► This is before iPhones even existed. I think or at least it was around that time. No, I think it was during iPhone time
01:43:19 ◼ ► I would or that or the equivalent functionality in Apple music because you're what you're asking is somehow add files
01:43:28 ◼ ► Do you want it to be available in the music app on your phone? So maybe it wouldn't count as a different device
01:43:35 ◼ ► Yeah, I mean there's always the garage band approach and you can google for it. It's it's Byzantine though
01:43:42 ◼ ► You know large volumes of music you basically have to make a new garage band track and pull a thing into it as like an
01:43:47 ◼ ► Instrument or a loop or something is the one and only track and then it's it's ridiculous
01:43:55 ◼ ► iTunes match over some discussion about this recently. I recently unsubscribed from iTunes match which I had been subscribed to out of fear for ages
01:44:02 ◼ ► I'm also an app subscriber and I unsubscribe to it and they're like everything went fine. Nothing bad happened
01:44:15 ◼ ► If you had iTunes match and that song was something you like ripped from a CD and put into your library
01:44:20 ◼ ► If you subscribe to iTunes match when you read download that on another device like saying I don't have it on this device
01:44:30 ◼ ► So here I am on this other computer or this other device. I should be able to download that that particular file
01:44:35 ◼ ► If you subscribe to iTunes match you get a DRM free if you don't subscribe to iTunes match when you download that file you get
01:44:41 ◼ ► a DRM copy and the whole thing with iTunes match is what they're saying is we will match your songs like
01:44:47 ◼ ► What you just want is like, how about I just put a bunch of mp3s in a folder and you sync them everywhere Apple
01:44:55 ◼ ► You ripped a bunch of mp3s from CDs back in the 90s, right and you put them in your iTunes library
01:45:03 ◼ ► Figure out what song we think it is and then put a little bit in your database entry that says
01:45:09 ◼ ► Okay, this person has this song by this artist because we saw they had an mp3 over here
01:45:13 ◼ ► And so when they're on another machine and they ask us hey, can I get that song that I wrote for my CD?
01:45:18 ◼ ► We're not gonna take the file from their Mac and upload it to the cloud and download it. No, no
01:45:26 ◼ ► We saw your mp3 and we think it's this song by this artist if you're an iTunes match subscriber
01:45:32 ◼ ► If you're not here's an Apple music DRM and covered copy of it and you're like, but I've got a DRM free mp3 over there
01:45:42 ◼ ► Yes, you give me that file and Apple again says no. So I think this is like a weird system. That's a
01:45:48 ◼ ► You know has weird historical baggage behind it the fact that it's called a match the whole idea is they are matching your mp3s
01:45:58 ◼ ► I don't regret unsubscribing around doing this match, but I just match of all the Apple services. It was a bargain
01:46:03 ◼ ► It was $25 for an entire year and what essentially gave you was the illusion of you know
01:46:08 ◼ ► A folder that syncs filled with your music again. There's got to be third-party music apps
01:46:16 ◼ ► You just give me a bunch of mp3s and I'll sync them everywhere and you could you could do that yourself with Dropbox or whatever
01:46:24 ◼ ► You can fashion yourself your own third-party music playing application out of one of these many cloud sync services, but Apple music is
01:46:36 ◼ ► Part of the result of that is the answer to next question is at least we don't know a good way to do it. Yeah
01:46:43 ◼ ► I just got a Synology and was working on making the Synology available when away from home for you know, basically via the internet
01:46:51 ◼ ► It seems as though you get the fastest connection if you log into the Synology through either a VPN report
01:46:55 ◼ ► Forwarding the internet seems to prefer the VPN especially open VPN for security reasons
01:47:00 ◼ ► Can someone explain why this is so it's it looks like many Synology services only require HTTPS on port 5001
01:47:09 ◼ ► So it seems conservatively I could get access to many services by making one or only a few ports available and by using an encrypted
01:47:19 ◼ ► So I would want to be more secure than the other is that the nature of the encryption the fact that practically many ports need
01:47:55 ◼ ► Don't personally think that's necessary, but I think that is probably the rightest answer for me
01:48:09 ◼ ► Oh, I'm gonna try 17,000 logins and hope that it doesn't you lock me out or whatever the case may be
01:48:21 ◼ ► What is your recommendation or how would you like to explain it? Yeah, I don't have a strong feeling about it
01:48:29 ◼ ► Maybe it's just all those years in corporate America getting me used to the idea of signing into a VPN
01:48:40 ◼ ► But I personally choose to do is not expose my Synology to the internet. So that solves that problem sort of
01:48:52 ◼ ► Probably not as good as it should be just because doing that type of stuff is a pain and if you're not even if you
01:48:57 ◼ ► Are a network administrator by trade, but even if you're not it's just like you just want it
01:49:03 ◼ ► You just want to buy reasonably secure stuff and my strategy is like just don't expose anything to the internet if you can possibly help
01:50:31 ◼ ► Have a very small mini thing. That's not even really a topic. It's more of a sentence. I have noticed
01:50:47 ◼ ► Times during a workout with previous Apple watches where I looked down and check my heart rate and it would just be dimmed out because it
01:51:00 ◼ ► One of the features they they very briefly breezed past in their direction is they both with with their new neural engine capabilities
01:51:10 ◼ ► They've upgraded the heart monitoring sensor as well the heart rate monitoring sensor to use some kind of ml
01:51:17 ◼ ► To figure out your heart rate better and I have noticed for whatever it's worth so far in my workouts using the series 9
01:51:24 ◼ ► Every single time I glanced out the watch to see my heart rate. It's there and it's updating pretty frequently. That's nice
01:51:31 ◼ ► so I think that actually is I mean, I think they kind of underplayed the the importance of that if I'm if I'm right about this, but
01:51:38 ◼ ► That's it seems like a pretty big upgrade that it seems like it is tracking my heart rate very
01:51:45 ◼ ► Significantly better than the old ones did and this is the same size watch with the same strap at the same hole
01:51:59 ◼ ► This is what I owe I've used this for a long time now. I've had the same the same results
01:52:09 ◼ ► But a lot of times you look down and you'd see that great out heart rate. The new one seems
01:52:17 ◼ ► While I do very much miss my titanium. That is a pretty cool upgrade that I think no one really is talking about
01:52:30 ◼ ► Fire on all cylinders. Yeah. Yeah, but not not you though, cuz you know how many cylinders no. Oh my god
01:52:39 ◼ ► My my one thing I've been doing recently in the Rivian is so part of the beach is closed because of
01:52:46 ◼ ► Various erosion problems that have happened and it's like it's too narrow to drive on so I have to drive on the the like interior
01:52:53 ◼ ► Sand road for more of the trip now. It's basically a driving through a nature preserve but with occasional houses and
01:53:00 ◼ ► One thing I have discovered and I absolutely love it is because it's electric and therefore it's basically silent
01:53:10 ◼ ► What I've been doing when I've been driving through that kind of like sandy nature preserve area is just rolling the windows down
01:53:22 ◼ ► Quietly like silently gliding through and because I'm on soft sand. There's only not any tire noise
01:53:33 ◼ ► Wooshing noise that the car has to make to comply with like pedestrian safety standards. I was gonna say like that
01:53:48 ◼ ► Tasteful and I mean I would say difficult to notice which I know might be going against its purpose
01:53:53 ◼ ► But you know it is a very tastefully done. It's like I've heard. Yeah everything the Rivian is nature sounds right?
01:53:59 ◼ ► It's like birds chirping and stuff like that is it making those because I was gonna say I enjoy listening to the birds
01:54:11 ◼ ► Um I don't think there's a lot. It doesn't make a lot of sounds at all which is good frankly
01:54:19 ◼ ► I've loved just like hearing the birds and the crickets and the sand and like the waves like oh my god
01:54:40 ◼ ► You know with this change to electric cars, but it just it happened just so happens like
01:54:45 ◼ ► What a cool thing. I'm really enjoying this. I just told Tiff today like I'm I'm so happy with this vehicle
01:54:56 ◼ ► What are you gonna ruin by software updates you worried about that or you worry about stuff breaking?
01:55:05 ◼ ► They're actually they they literally just did a software update like I I told my car to do it right before the show it popped
01:55:18 ◼ ► Have found their UI to be pretty good. It's not perfect. I still want carplay for navigation and music
01:55:32 ◼ ► They have they have earned my trust that they won't screw it up too badly simply because of the design. They've shown so far
01:55:39 ◼ ► We'll see over time. I mean look I originally said I enjoyed Tesla's UI for a while, too
01:55:49 ◼ ► So we'll see you know hopefully that that same thing won't happen to Rivian, but so far. I'm
01:55:58 ◼ ► Is one of the sounds as you silently glide through the in road trail the sounds of bushes?
01:56:04 ◼ ► Scraping their branches against the side of your paint job a little bit. Yeah sometimes
01:56:07 ◼ ► So wide you know sound or splashing myself through a giant deep puddle because you know it's very very bumpy
01:56:15 ◼ ► Yeah, do you get to like I mean I was gonna say maybe you get to sneak up on animals more
01:56:22 ◼ ► Oh, no the only animals that that are nearby that that are irrelevant or dear. They're on Friday
01:56:27 ◼ ► Oh, yes, like I literally I drove right past a giant buck today like it was maybe eight feet away from the cars
01:56:37 ◼ ► It's gonna screw more things to screw up your paint job and bring those antlers over. Yeah, I
01:56:41 ◼ ► Just hear the the electronic speaking of whooshing sounds so there's the external whooshing sound to protect
01:56:48 ◼ ► pedestrians and stuff, but there's also of course the internal sounds that every car plays on the speaker - or not every car
01:56:54 ◼ ► But the sportier cars play to make you feel like you're doing something sporty obviously the internal combustion noise that we talked about for ages
01:57:00 ◼ ► But like the some electric cars do it as well and some there are some cars that choose to try to make an internal combustion
01:57:08 ◼ ► But a lot of them also they come up with some sort of electronic sci-fi noise that they decide is
01:57:13 ◼ ► exciting sounding for when you're accelerating and the the most interesting one I heard recently was the
01:57:18 ◼ ► The Corvette E-Ray, which is c8 Corvette with the this regular v8, but then on the front axle
01:57:25 ◼ ► It's got an electric motor that is completely independent and totally not attached to the rear of the car in any way whatsoever
01:57:30 ◼ ► Except for through computers, which is fun and that's got a skinny little tiny battery in the center tunnel
01:57:35 ◼ ► Anyway, when you accelerate in that thing, obviously, it's got the actual v8 noise big loud engine
01:57:41 ◼ ► Then I think it also has artificial v8 noise because why wouldn't it and then it has the sci-fi noise
01:57:50 ◼ ► By the time you're going fast, it's the sci-fi noise like dominates the actual v8 noise. It's so weird. It's very Star Trek II
01:57:58 ◼ ► It definitely looks fun in YouTube videos, but as the some of the reviews said like it's fun the first few days
01:58:07 ◼ ► I'm not looking forward to the day when I have to worry about the sounds that my cars artificially making
01:58:15 ◼ ► Not look forward to that at all. That's right for you and me if we decide to stick with burning dead dinosaurs
01:58:22 ◼ ► apparently the only people will be able to get a car from him is Porsche because they're saying
01:58:34 ◼ ► Get fired or leave and the new people come and that's the problem remember when I was uh, the the CEO Ferrari said
01:58:39 ◼ ► We'll make an SUV over my dead body. Ah, then they fired him. They got a new CEO and I made an SUV
01:58:47 ◼ ► Yeah, Porsche will do that until they won't yeah, it's not a stick shift like honestly, it's this like at this point
01:58:53 ◼ ► I don't even think it's safe for me to buy internal combustion combustion engine because
01:59:03 ◼ ► But then they re-enable it every time you start the car kind of like the I think they have to timeline and threads
01:59:07 ◼ ► Probably but like some of them have like an easy way to defeat it of like putting a jumper on a fuse or doing some
01:59:12 ◼ ► secret code or whatever but like I don't want to have to look to see is it possible to have this car with the start-stop thing
01:59:32 ◼ ► All of them have soft limiters on them that say hey when you're sitting idle and the car is like not moving
01:59:43 ◼ ► Do something that makes the car worse so we can fake like the car is better than it is within these tests. The car is
01:59:54 ◼ ► Then the idle emissions will never be above it's just so dumb. So depressing. I just want a straightforward machine
02:00:00 ◼ ► There's there's an easy solution here. I mean the electronic ones make a weird electronic noise
02:00:06 ◼ ► I would want an electric car. Obviously I understand the pedestrian safety. That's got to be you know, make the noise on the outside
02:00:10 ◼ ► I get that and hopefully would be pleasing noise not annoying one, but inside the car. I don't want to hear anything
02:00:19 ◼ ► Particularly pleasing so you kind of got to try to block it all out like the actual sound of like electric engine wine
02:00:33 ◼ ► A gas gas engine sounds are not pleasing at first when it looked the very first time you ever hear a gas engine sound
02:00:44 ◼ ► but the reason why you find it pleasing to have like a big engine sound after a while is because you associate that sound with
02:00:56 ◼ ► There is there are pleasing engine internal combustion sounds mostly probably because they sound like animal noises and then animal noises
02:01:06 ◼ ► But I'm saying like you associate you come to associate those sounds with the the speed and the performance that you like
02:01:12 ◼ ► Well, what once you drive electric you come to associate the electric motor sounds with speed and performance
02:01:27 ◼ ► I just find them because mostly because the higher pitch I think it's what it comes down to right
02:01:33 ◼ ► Unlike internal combustion engines where there's so much work done to especially back in the olden days before
02:01:40 ◼ ► catalytic converters and emissions testing or whatever to try to tune the noise that you hear when you're sitting inside the car to be the
02:01:56 ◼ ► So that it sounds better inside the car because you're right lots of there are lots of noises that don't sound good in internal combustion
02:02:01 ◼ ► engines, but they would tune them to say let's let in the good sounds at the right point in the you know
02:02:07 ◼ ► the the whole emissions and think like so they come into the cabin to sound good or even just
02:02:17 ◼ ► But I'm not sure there are a lot of good sounds to funnel into the cabin from electric motors. There are just
02:02:23 ◼ ► the sort of high-pitched wind of electric motors that there's not a lot of nuance and there are there is a lot of like
02:02:30 ◼ ► There are bad sounds that you want to funnel out, but I'm not sure how much you can make it good
02:02:48 ◼ ► Spaceship noise and we want you to hear that and to the degree that we can totally damp the actual sound our car is making
02:03:02 ◼ ► I I would love I don't know how realistic or legal this would be or even if it's a good idea
02:03:13 ◼ ► Think that's kind of reasonable, but I don't know. That's just that's just a random thought. Oh, you're run over people in the woods, too