Episode 86 – Whatever, Software
Scott: Friends with Brews.
Scott: Did that not come through?
Peter: I heard it.
Scott: Weird, it didn’t register on my, oh, I’m looking at the wrong one because now it swapped our order.
Scott: Now I’m a, oh my god, okay, whatever software.
Scott: Whatever software, that’s my new motto, Peter, whatever software, whatever software, comma, whatever software, comma, whatever comma software.
Peter: It’s all garbage, all software is garbage.
Scott: It really is.
Scott: We should talk about brews right now because that’s what people have come here for, and then they’re gonna immediately delete this episode off their device after they hear the brews.
Scott: So let’s get to it.
Scott: I am doing a repeat today.
Scott: I’m drinking a Back Porch Coffee Roasters Back Porch Blend.
Scott: And what I said way back in 2005 was very nice and smooth.
Scott: I said it in the opposite order.
Scott: I’m tired.
Scott: Easy to brew, easy to drink.
Scott: And the official words from them were, this is a favored staple here at Back Porch, syrupy and sweet with hints of dark chocolate, cherries, cane sugar and caramel.
Scott: And to that, I’ll just say, sure, I guess so.
Scott: And have you have you been listening to John Chidji’s Whiskey Whiskey Podcast?
Scott: Because it’s so good.
Scott: Because he because they say the notes that you’re supposed to get from both on the nose and the tasting.
Scott: And he’s like, OK, sure, whatever.
Scott: Because sometimes they’re so elaborate and they’re so detailed and they list so many different things.
Scott: And it’s like, no, that’s never going to pencil lead.
Scott: Right.
Peter: Pencil lead.
Scott: Yeah.
Scott: And maple tree and hints of birds fluttering by.
Scott: And it’s just insane and dumb.
Scott: And it’s like, whatever, dudes.
Peter: So no, I have not.
Peter: I have not watched that.
Peter: But I but I recommend it.
Peter: I’m sure I would like it.
Peter: I just didn’t have the bandwidth to add another subscription podcast.
Scott: But it’s A, it’s very short and B, you can also listen.
Scott: Just listen to it in the audio format if you need to.
Scott: And Peter Scott.
Peter: The microphone needs a shot of Viagra or something.
Scott: I was about to say you need something that will hold that mic up to four hours.
Peter: I’m good.
Peter: Thanks.
Peter: I get plenty of cholesterol.
Scott: I don’t.
Peter: I don’t.
Peter: I don’t.
Peter: I don’t.
Scott: Please do not talk to me about your love life right now.
Peter: You started it.
Scott: Or your appendage angles or any other.
Scott: I don’t want to know.
Scott: No, please don’t.
Scott: Oh, my God.
Peter: So I’m drinking.
Peter: And I could have sworn.
Scott: I’m drinking beer.
Peter: Yeah, I’m drinking.
Peter: I could have sworn that we had covered this already on the podcast, but I searched friends with brews.com.
Peter: I could not find any references to Market Basket French Roast Whole Bean Coffee.
Scott: I would remember the words Market Basket.
Scott: I definitely would remember the words Market Basket.
Peter: Yes.
Peter: So here’s the thing.
Peter: I can’t really find it on the Market Basket website.
Peter: So Market Basket is, for those of you do not know, it is a local regional grocery store similar to Wegmans.
Peter: You’ve heard of Wegmans.
Peter: We’ve talked about Wegmans because Casey Liss always goes to a Wegmans.
Scott: And so does Peter.
Scott: Don’t downplay yourself.
Scott: You’re the, I think Casey is an imposter.
Scott: You’re the original Wegmaner.
Peter: Well, I will, in my defense, I did go to Wegmans back in 2017, I believe, when it opened here.
Peter: So and I think that was before I was listening to ATP.
Peter: So I’m not sure.
Scott: It was before you’re listening to ATP.
Peter: I did not go to Wegmans based on Casey Liss.
Peter: I will say that.
Scott: So anyway, What’s Casey Liss?
Peter: Market Basket, you know, they generally have decent stuff.
Peter: They tend not to have like a large selection of organic products.
Peter: So I don’t buy a lot of my stuff there.
Peter: But things that I don’t normally buy organic, I will often buy at Market Basket because it tends to be cheaper.
Peter: One of those things I tried a few months ago was their coffee.
Peter: And it’s their French Roast Whole Bean Coffee, which I cannot find on their website because their website doesn’t actually do like e-commerce.
Peter: But I can find it on Instacart.
Peter: And I will read to you what it says on Instacart.
Peter: Market Basket, French Roast Whole Bean Coffee, $6.99, 20 ounces, rate product, one count, minus plus, add to cart.
Scott: Okay, do you agree with the add to cart feature?
Peter: I do agree because I did add it to my cart and it did show up.
Peter: I agree with the plus sign one count because I did click on it and buy two of them.
Scott: Okay, sounds like they’ve accurately described their product.
Peter: The receipt did say Market Basket and the coffee on the bag also did say Market Basket French Roast Whole Bean Coffee.
Scott: Truth in advertising.
Peter: It’s a coffee.
Scott: It’s a coffee.
Peter: It’s drinkable.
Peter: When I first had it, I was hot off of, you know, I had just run out of Wegmans store brand Dark Roast Whole Bean Coffee, which is my go-to most days.
Peter: And it wasn’t, I didn’t like it quite as much.
Peter: I was like, eh, it’s all right.
Peter: And after that, much like a fungus, not to be confused with mushroom coffee, which we’ll need to talk with friend of the show Adam Bell about, it grew on me.
Scott: Peter, does your mind have a fungus?
Peter: No, I don’t generally spit on it and keep it hot and dark enough to grow fungi.
Peter: So I will say overall, I have gotten to like this coffee.
Peter: It’s quite drinkable and I buy it and drink it.
Peter: So basically market basket fashion, $6.99 for 20 ounces.
Peter: Now, I compare that to, say, Vermont Coffee Company whole bean dark roast.
Peter: That’s $13.99 for 16 ounces.
Peter: So almost twice the price, twice the price for 75 percent less.
Scott: Basically, just swap the numbers, swap the price with the grams.
Peter: Pretty much.
Peter: And it’s also cheaper than Wegmans as well.
Peter: So it’s like given a choice between those two, I would take the Vermont Coffee Company extra dark over Wegmans, over market basket.
Peter: So if you’re looking to save a buck, here you go.
Peter: This is the way to do it.
Scott: I think Peter just did a coffee tier list right here, right on food.
Scott: But a bang, but a bang, many coffee tier list.
Scott: So it sounds to me like what you’re saying is that if you drink Mediokur, Mediokur, Mediokur coffee long enough, you will grow to accept it and tolerate it.
Peter: Your taste buds will adapt and you’ll say, you know what, I used to think this was terrible, but it’s okay.
Scott: You just explained 99 percent of American taste in anything is, if you just live with mediocrity long enough, you think it’s great pretty soon.
Peter: Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
Peter: And more so, we go way below mediocrity.
Peter: Just look at Washington.
Scott: Yeah, just, yeah, anyway.
Peter: All right, so that’s what we’re drinking these days.
Scott: Right, right, but this day.
Scott: I don’t know about these days, but this day.
Peter: This day we’re drinking this.
Scott: Yes, exactly.
Peter: Keeping it coffee adjacent.
Peter: I did want to give an update.
Scott: The adjacency.
Peter: Yes, so we both have the Fellow Opus Coffee Burgrinder.
Scott: Hey, Fellow, where’s your Opus?
Peter: And you may recall I bought a second one for my place up in Vermont.
Scott: I do recall.
Peter: And you also got a replacement because yours died.
Scott: Right, and thanks to you I got a replacement.
Scott: You should remind me of that every time you say that.
Scott: You should just end all your sentences in damn it and make sure that everyone knows that the reason that I successfully got a replacement is because of you.
Scott: Not because of me, because of you.
Peter: Right, so because of me you got a replacement and you have a working burr grinder, and that’s a quite good one.
Scott: Damn it.
Peter: What I did notice is the new one now, it was moving, it was grinding much more quickly than the old one, and I have concluded based on that, and also the sound, it has a different motor in it.
Peter: No question.
Scott: I thought you were going to say based on the sound and the speed, you determined that they actually sent you a wood chipper instead of a coffee grinder.
Peter: I think the new one could chip wood.
Peter: Yep, I could try that.
Peter: I’m not going to.
Peter: That might void the warranty.
Peter: I’m not sure.
Peter: But I do have that, and I took the new one, and last time I was up in Vermont, I swapped them out, because down here in Massachusetts, faster pace of life, I need the coffee right now.
Peter: Up in Vermont.
Scott: I was about to say, in time, when you’re doing most of your time in meetings, you need that coffee to be prepared in 3.2 seconds.
Peter: But really what happens is, like if I take the same amount, like 20 some odd grams of coffee, and I put it in the new one, and I hit the button once for 30 second grind, it will grind through that whole thing in less than 30 seconds.
Peter: For my old one, I need to hit the button twice and have it go through and it takes 60 seconds.
Scott: There’s something wrong with yours.
Scott: There’s something wrong with yours.
Scott: Mine will go through 20 grams of coffee in way faster than 30 seconds.
Scott: It’s still, you can tell that it’s done way before the 30 seconds is up.
Peter: I don’t think there’s anything wrong.
Peter: This is the way that one always was.
Peter: I think it’s just, but it’s the oldest out of yours, mine and the two that you’ve had actually.
Scott: Yeah, right.
Peter: It’s the oldest one.
Peter: I think that they, since I bought that one and you got yours and I got my replacement or my second one and you got your replacement, they updated the motor.
Scott: Somebody fellow was like, damn it, this coffee tastes too long.
Peter: Exactly.
Peter: So that’s my coffee and coffee adjacent update.
Scott: By the way, I do want to say one thing that I just realized, because I was going to say a different swear word instead of the one that I chose.
Scott: Because of the way that we’re recording this now, I can’t, it’s not possible.
Scott: I can’t slide the sound effects around like I used to be able to.
Scott: So if I’m going to bleep out a swear, I have to do it real time when the swear happens.
Scott: Just so you know, if whatever words you say are probably actually going to be in the podcast now because of the way that we’re recording.
Peter: No editing.
Scott: Got it.
Scott: It’s impossible for me to slide those over.
Scott: I could, I could put the words out in-
Peter: In the immortal words of Bill O’Reilly, we’ll do it live.
Scott: And oh God, why, why Bill O’Reilly here?
Peter: We’ll do it live.
Peter: I’ll write it and we’ll do it live.
Scott: Now last time I did clip out a couple of swear words just because of that fact.
Scott: So that’s fine.
Scott: I can do that.
Scott: But sliding around the sound effect for comedic hilarity, which I’m sure all the listeners only listen because they want to hear the clinking sound.
Scott: I can’t really do that as well anymore.
Scott: All right.
Scott: Let’s get to your topics, Peter, because you have topics I’ve noticed.
Scott: I’ve been getting tapped on the wrist incessantly about Peter topics.
Peter: So moving on, on Amazon Prime Day, you and I both purchased a, sorry, I was going to say refurbished, but no, a renewed Mac Mini M1.
Scott: We each purchased our own, yes.
Peter: We each purchased our own for a good price of $260.
Scott: Yeah.
Peter: And this is a, what is it, eight gigs of RAM?
Scott: Yeah, eight gigs of RAM, 256 SSD.
Peter: 256 SSD, yep.
Peter: Gigabytes, not terabytes.
Peter: Right.
Peter: My intention was just to swap out my little old Intel Nook and use it as a replacement for my Foundry server, my Foundry virtual tabletop, as well as LScale.
Peter: I hit a little bit of a snag on that just because the Foundry virtual tabletop seems to run slower on this thing than it does on my like five or seven year old Intel Nook with a little AMD processor.
Peter: Not really sure why that is.
Scott: My guess is there’s something different about the way it runs on Windows versus Mac OS.
Peter: There’s some difference in Linux versus Mac, but yeah.
Peter: But yeah, it is cross-platform compatible.
Peter: There are a number of different versions too.
Peter: It’s like you can download Foundry if you want to run it as a Node.js app, you can do that on Linux or you can run it as a more traditional.
Peter: There’s lots of different options.
Peter: I get the feeling that the Mac version was just a port.
Peter: Now that said, I have run it natively on my MacBook and it ran okay.
Peter: So I’m not exactly sure what’s going on.
Peter: I don’t think it was the current MacBook too.
Peter: I think it was my old MacBook Air that I was running it on.
Peter: So I’m not 100% sure what’s going on.
Peter: I will investigate further and report back.
Scott: My memory tells me, and I could be making this up, but my memory tells me that you took it off your MacBook Air for reasons.
Scott: There was a reason you put it on a separate machine.
Peter: Yes, no, I did, because like my friends wanted to update their characters, and one of my friends wanted to run his game on my Foundry server.
Scott: Okay.
Peter: Meaning he could only do that when my Mac was running.
Scott: Wait, why don’t you just give your friend…
Scott: Why don’t you just leave your Mac on and give your friends full access to your Mac 24 by 7, Peter?
Scott: I don’t see anything wrong.
Peter: Because it’s a laptop, and I put it in a backpack, and I get into a car.
Scott: Really?
Scott: You don’t have public transit there in Boston?
Peter: I do that too.
Scott: Boy, you’re defensive, okay?
Peter: It’s called the laptop dumbass.
Peter: No punctuation.
Peter: All right.
Peter: Now, do you get it?
Scott: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Scott: I get it.
Peter: But here’s the funny thing.
Peter: So it was $260 on Amazon Prime Day, and then you and I discussed it afterwards, and it was $199.
Peter: So I bought the second one as well.
Scott: Oh, okay.
Scott: Gotcha.
Peter: So I’m going to replace my home servers, because right now my little home servers, again, I’ve got this little Intel Nook, which is running just fine.
Peter: I also have two Intel Core i7 processors to the tune of like, I think they’re seven or eight years old at this point.
Peter: They’re old HP workstation laptops, and they run just fine.
Peter: The only problem is, regardless of what I have, it’s set for settings on power and sleep and screensaver.
Peter: When you close the lid, they just turn off or they go into standby mode.
Peter: And in general, in my house here in Boston, not likely that’s going to happen.
Peter: It’s going to sit downstairs in the basement where it’s pretty much undisturbed.
Peter: Up in Vermont, though, when I have my contractor running around or maybe I have cleaners come in, they may clean around it, touch a key, close the lid, and hey, my server is offline and it’s 150 miles away from me and I can’t easily restart it there.
Peter: So I forget it was time enough for an upgrade.
Peter: And even though these aren’t brand new state of the arts, an M1 Mac Mini should be leaps and bounds more powerful than a 2017 Core i7 processor.
Peter: You would know better given that you used to work at model with 3000.
Scott: But the problem is, the problem is, as you know, that means nothing unless you know what generation it is, unless you know what CP, you know, it just doesn’t mean anything.
Peter: Yeah.
Peter: But still, seven years versus when did the M1 Mac Mini, when did the M1 come out?
Scott: I don’t know.
Scott: Let’s see.
Scott: I had a M1 Pro from 2020 or 2021.
Scott: Yeah.
Scott: So anyway, it was either 2020 or 2021.
Peter: I think it’s about one year, isn’t it?
Peter: We’re at the M4s now, given or take.
Peter: So it’s a few years ahead and we had this leaps and bounds advancement in technology.
Scott: 2020.
Scott: Oh, sorry.
Peter: Yeah.
Peter: So not regretting my purchases.
Peter: So yeah, that’s our Mac Mini update.
Scott: Yeah.
Peter: Over to you.
Scott: I’ve got mine mounted under my desk and it’s also etherneted into my router and it is a tail scale exit node for me.
Scott: And so far I haven’t actually used it that way because I did that after I got back from Japan.
Scott: Otherwise, yeah, exactly.
Scott: But anyway, yeah, so I thought that was pretty cool because I needed.
Scott: And I also have been, let me, 192.168.1 dot, what was it?
Scott: 250 something?
Scott: Anyway, I have it also running a open source monitoring piece of software.
Peter: Something like Uptime Robot, but open sourced and free, right?
Scott: Yeah, and it works pretty good.
Scott: The difference, the problem that I’m having with it right now, and I need to figure out what I’m going to do about it is, it really gets excitable in thinking there’s downtime sometimes when there’s not.
Scott: And so basically what it’ll do is, you know how sometimes Uptime Robot will say, oh, something’s down.
Scott: Oh, no, it’s up again.
Scott: But, you know, Uptime Robot does it way less often where it’s like confused for a minute, and then it’ll say, oh, it’s down.
Scott: And then immediately it’ll turn around and go, oh, don’t worry, it’s up again.
Scott: Well, this does that far more frequently.
Peter: Is that, can you just toggle the clipping levels, the threshold and just make it like, don’t alert immediately, but wait like 30 seconds or wait a minute or something?
Scott: I don’t know.
Scott: I haven’t found a way.
Scott: So I have that for my Foundry server, for instance.
Peter: My tail scale exit node slash Foundry server.
Peter: Well, I just threw this into note because I was looking for something on YouTube I wanted to share and you notice that YouTube has been doing a lot of classic movie collections, like for free, just streaming.
Peter: You can just go watch them.
Peter: I pointed the Godzilla ones out to you a while ago.
Peter: Apparently right now, live Superman Christopher Reeve collection compilation is on.
Peter: So you can see that on YouTube right now.
Peter: We’ll put it in the show notes.
Peter: I just saw the James Gunn Superman movie and it was great.
Peter: And then last night I just saw the Fantastic Four movie and I think it was maybe even a little greater.
Scott: So there you go.
Scott: Did you watch any of the Godzilla or whatever or whatever it was?
Peter: A little bit.
Peter: I didn’t have a lot of time and I really couldn’t get into it.
Peter: I scrolled to a couple of fight scenes, one where he was getting squirted by a giant lobster.
Scott: Okay.
Scott: Does that happen?
Peter: I mean, I saw it.
Scott: Okay.
Scott: I finally got it.
Scott: Sorry.
Scott: The open source monitoring software that I’m using is called Uptime Kuma.
Peter: Kuma.
Peter: Panda, right?
Scott: Kuma just means bear.
Scott: I’ll put a link to the GitHub repo in the show notes for this.
Peter: Kuma does just mean bear, but in the old Tekken video game, you had two choices you could play.
Peter: One was Panda and the other was Kuma.
Peter: That’s where I first heard the word Kuma.
Scott: I don’t think I ever played that game.
Peter: That was fun.
Peter: So yeah, Uptime Kuma.
Peter: That looks kind of cool.
Scott: Yeah.
Scott: So anyway, I’m running that on there, and I’ll have to look and see if I can change what I did not see when I set up the notification.
Scott: So let me go here.
Scott: Let me go to settings, go to notifications and see.
Scott: And it doesn’t look like set up notification.
Scott: Client ID, token, stand silently, protect forwarding, if enabled, no.
Scott: Default enabled, apply on all existing monitors.
Scott: Now, there’s no way to set a time on it.
Scott: You can set the things that it notifies for, but there’s no real way to say, hey, you might want to filter yourself out a little bit.
Scott: Make sure it’s really down before you panic.
Scott: There’s nothing like that.
Scott: I’ll have to get on their GitHub repo and look under issues and see if other people have complained about this, or if I’m the only one.
Peter: Should we keep it tech-adjacent and talk about AppleCare One?
Scott: Yeah, talk about AppleCare One.
Scott: You apparently did the math, and I did the math too, but what I don’t know is if I try to switch to AppleCare One, what I don’t know is if my wife and daughter’s devices will show up, it’s eligible for me to add.
Peter: I don’t believe that if they’re tied to separate Apple accounts, I don’t believe that is going to work based on what I heard them talking about on ATP.
Peter: What I do know is I am paying for AppleCare on a monthly basis, I believe, on two phones and an iPad.
Scott: And two Mac Mini.
Scott: No, you’re not.
Peter: Didn’t put any on Mac Mini, but my HomePod, my watch and my MacBook Pro, I believe, oh, and my AirPods are all annual or biannual subscriptions.
Peter: I think the MacBook might have been a three-year, so those I’ll probably not touch, but even if I just roll up the three ones that I’m paying monthly right now for, you know, I’ll pay 20 bucks a month instead of like the 25 that I’m doing right now.
Peter: And then it may make sense because I think you can do two more, so then I could like potentially roll in the MacBook or something like that and get a refund on those as well.
Scott: That would be…
Peter: AppleCare One, for those, I think if I remember correctly, it says you can enroll up to five devices.
Peter: But what I’m going to do is, after I get off of this call, I’m going to just call Apple Support and have them confirm and walk me through it because that’s what they’re there for.
Scott: You don’t want to add them to this call?
Peter: We could try that if you think we could conference them in.
Scott: Probably would be kind of boring.
Scott: Plus, we would have to ask their permission.
Scott: Hey, so remind me, is it $20 a month for?
Peter: I think it was up to five devices, if I recall correctly.
Scott: But it’s $20 a month?
Peter: $20, 1999 plus taxes.
Peter: But again, I’m already paying $10 a month for each for two phones.
Peter: So right there, that’s my AppleCare.
Peter: So yeah, I’m looking forward to that.
Scott: Yeah, I’ll have to look into it because right now for my own devices, I would not save any money.
Scott: I think it would be exactly the same.
Scott: So what I’m paying right now.
Peter: Exactly the same?
Scott: Exactly the same, yeah.
Peter: Yeah.
Peter: So for work, I use Outlook and I’m looking at my work, Outlook, and I very clearly do not have anything scheduled for 1130 a.m.
Peter: my time, which is three minutes from now.
Peter: However, in the calendar app on my work laptop and on my home laptop, because I sank my work calendar into my personal.
Peter: I do have a meeting in three minutes.
Peter: I can be a few minutes late, but is it OK if we accelerate this a little bit?
Peter: Yeah.
Peter: OK.
Peter: So I do want to talk.
Scott: Go ahead.
Peter: Go ahead.
Scott: OK, I was just going to say, I was just going to say before you do, I was just going to say, as related to meetings, I’ll put link in the show notes so you don’t have to figure out how to spell this.
Scott: But Sinra Sorjas, if that guy ever dies, the Mac community is going to suffer because he makes all kinds of great apps.
Scott: And I use many of these apps.
Scott: But one of the apps that I use is a Mac app called Dato.
Scott: It puts a Menu Bar calendar and world clocks in your Menu Bar, because as I said, it’s a Menu Bar calendar.
Scott: But the nice thing about this is it does meeting notifications.
Scott: So when it’s time for a meeting, if it has a video component, like if it has a Teams call or a Zoom call scheduled, there’s an option, you don’t have to do this.
Scott: But you can do a full screen notification where it pops right up and it says, hey, it’s time for that meeting.
Scott: And all you do is click join video call and it opens Zoom, or it opens Teams, or it opens whatever app.
Scott: It’s great.
Scott: I love it so much.
Peter: Yeah, so that reminds me, and I have that use case because at work, we standardize on Teams.
Peter: Big surprise, a lot of places do, because hey, it’s free quote unquote, right?
Peter: Yeah.
Peter: But I often get invites to Zoom meetings.
Peter: And when I click join meeting in Outlook, it’s like, nope, cannot join the meeting.
Peter: So I have to double click the meeting, open it up, scroll down, find the correct link, which when they’re all obscured with mail.protection.outlook.com, blah, blah, blah, I often find out, this is how you join a meeting.
Peter: Oh, thank you, Zoom.
Peter: That’s wonderful.
Peter: Then I have to go back, close the browser, go back to Outlook, find it and go.
Peter: So that sounds really cool.
Peter: Just give me, as my work colleague would say, just give me the juice.
Scott: Yeah.
Scott: The other thing is, when you click on the menu bar thing, there’s a little slider there.
Scott: So if you add locations, like I’ve got Tokyo, London, UTC, and Boston, I can slide around so that I could set the time.
Scott: They want a meeting at such-and-such time in Boston time.
Scott: Okay.
Scott: Then it shows me what time that would be my time, and that makes it super easy to just schedule things right there.
Scott: So it’s great.
Peter: So I have not used this, but I know on the ATP, one of the guys, it might be Marco, I think, is using the app called DoDUE, and as an alternative to Reminders.
Peter: You were mentioning early about wanting to get selective with your notifications.
Scott: Yeah.
Scott: The problem is-
Peter: I don’t know if this has that capability.
Peter: I just wanted to throw that out there.
Scott: It’s not selective about your notifications.
Scott: The benefit that it has is unlike Apple Reminders, when you blow past a notification, it will keep pestering you until the end of eternity.
Scott: I have used it in the past because Apple Reminders does stop reminding me.
Scott: And I do let things slip accidentally because of that.
Scott: And then I go back and go, that was due three days ago.
Scott: But due is somehow too annoying.
Scott: And what it does is it winds up pestering me incessantly at times that I have no ability to do whatever it was that it’s reminding me of.
Scott: And so I still never get them done and I’m pissed off.
Peter: You can’t snooze?
Scott: You can, but it’s just, I don’t know.
Scott: I tried it.
Scott: When I worked at Monolith 3000, I thought this will be perfect.
Scott: I will try this.
Scott: I tried it and it drove me insane.
Scott: And I said, get this bleeping thing or whatever off my device because I’m going to throw something.
Scott: So it didn’t work for me.
Scott: That doesn’t mean it’s not a good idea.
Scott: And it does address the need that Apple Reminders will just go, hey, over here.
Scott: It’s like somebody waving weekly in a crowd and you’re supposed to, they’re the most important person in the world.
Scott: You’re supposed to pick them up, but they’re just kind of like, oh, I’m over here.
Peter: The thing I don’t like about reminders these days is like I, on any given day, I will generally have close to two dozen reminders do.
Peter: Like right now I have 28 things that I’m supposed to do by, do today or have done by today.
Peter: These include meditation, journaling, studying German.
Scott: Okay, so some of those are your own fault.
Peter: But they’re all my own fault.
Peter: I made all of these reminders.
Scott: Right, but some of them are undoubtedly work related.
Scott: Those are nothing you can do about.
Peter: Check on with a prospect about a pen test scoping call and yada, yada, yada.
Peter: So a few different things to do.
Peter: And some of them I just haven’t done, right?
Peter: So it’s like, well, I don’t want to mark them as completed.
Peter: And I suppose I could just kick them forward until next week or next week or something.
Peter: But anyway, I’ve got, like right now I have 28 things I need to do.
Peter: Okay, I need to check the laundry.
Peter: Already did that.
Peter: Look up AppleCare One.
Peter: Already did that.
Peter: I eat creatine.
Peter: Okay, already did that.
Peter: Do my primal squat exercises.
Peter: Did that, you know.
Peter: So there’s like tons of different things that’s going on.
Peter: So yeah, I don’t know.
Peter: I don’t know if I should look at do or not.
Peter: But the thing I don’t like about it, which is annoying, is I will log in to or in the morning, I pick up my phone and I get all my reminders summarized and it’s like, oh, do today, and it will have things that are do like this evening.
Scott: Or sometimes it’ll give you things that were do three or four days ago.
Scott: That’s the other thing that drives me insane.
Peter: Because they’re still on the list.
Scott: I guess.
Scott: I don’t know.
Scott: But it’s the same with notifications though.
Scott: I get the same thing with notifications in general.
Scott: Sometimes I’ll get a notification for something.
Scott: It’ll say, oh, here’s your notification summary.
Scott: It’ll pop up something that happened forever ago, but it didn’t notify me at the time and now it’s notifying me, and it wasn’t that I was in any mode or anything.
Scott: I don’t know.
Scott: I just don’t trust Apple to…
Scott: There’s no way I trust Apple.
Scott: If my life depended on getting things in a timely fashion, I would not say, Apple, thank God you’re here because otherwise I would be dead right now.
Scott: No, I would be dead.
Scott: I wouldn’t be able to say that because I would be dead.
Scott: All right.
Peter: Just because I should jump on to this meeting a few minutes late, but we’ve got some good updates to talk about, about a new potential media subscription for you and a new subscription for me.
Peter: I did buy, as I mentioned, I subscribed, formally paid, to Adam Mockler, Mockler Media today.
Peter: We can talk about more about that next week.
Peter: But one thing I did notice is that it includes five free one month trials.
Peter: So if you want to see what his behind the scenes stuff is like, I can extend you and maybe a listener one.
Peter: So we’ll talk about that next week, though, or next episode.
Scott: Sounds good.
Scott: Yeah.
Scott: And by the way, yeah, thanks for I never heard of that guy.
Scott: I’m not one of the 1.4 billion people that had heard of him already.
Scott: But yeah, he does.
Scott: He does good videos.
Scott: And again, like you said, the titles are clickbait, but that’s YouTube.
Peter: He’s even talked about it.
Peter: He’s like, I hate having to do this, but that’s what it takes to get people’s attention.
Peter: I’m like, okay.
Peter: But I myself have said that the left and Democrats and progressive, genuine progressives have to play the games that the right and the Republican have been doing.
Peter: We have to beat them at their own game.
Peter: So we have to yell.
Peter: We just have to yell as loud as they do.
Scott: Yeah, I guess so.
Scott: What I don’t want us to do, and what he does not do is, I don’t want to go down the Rush Limbaugh angry.
Scott: I’m always angry.
Scott: I’m always angry.
Scott: Gosh, damn it.
Scott: Blah, blah, blah.
Scott: I don’t want to foment rage as a way of beating the other side.
Scott: But anyway, yeah.
Scott: OK, sounds good.
Peter: Fine line.
Scott: Peter, can you tell people how they found us?
Peter: They found us on friendswithbrews.com.
Peter: They might have found you on app.net.lol.social.thing.
Scott: No, no.
Peter: They found us on friendswithbrews.com.
Peter: Let’s just leave it at that.
Scott: That is correct.
Peter: And now, with that, one of us, probably you, should push the big red button.
Scott: Tell your friends.
Peter: I just did.