Episode 28 – It’s Egg Freckles All Over Again
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Now I have to find my soundbar.
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Friends with Brews!
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Sounds like you found it.
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Yep, I found it, Peter. I also found a head and chest cold that is just kicking my ass.
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Do I have to do this right?
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Does ass deserve a beverage opening?
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Here’s an ass covering beverage opening.
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Now you gotta do it again.
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See, now I’m covering my ass.
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We’re gonna get drunk real fast.
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With beer!
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Covering your ass.
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Oh my god.
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And there’s the show title.
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All right, well, I’m not going to waste any time.
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I’m going to open up one of my beers right now.
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Okay, talk to me about your, this is even by Costa Rica standards, this is lame.
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What is this you got here?
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This is actually one of my favorite beers.
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It is a Schöfferhofer grapefruit shandy.
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And what you’re talking about is the alcohol by volume, the ABV, which is a
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super strong 2.5%.
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Well, how do you get a 2.5% beer you might ask?
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Well, it’s easy.
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You start with a 5% wheat beer
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and then water it down 50% with grapefruit juice actually.
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So this is a, this is a radler
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or what we would call in the US a shandy.
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Can I just characterize this as you drinking
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out of the punch bowl?
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Actually, most punch bowls at school parties
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probably have more alcohol than that.
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More than 2.5%, yes, absolutely.
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Anyway, it’s normally a summer beer
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And here I am in New England on the brink of a nor’easter where we’re supposed to get 2 to 18 inches.
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So of course I’m going to have a nice refreshing summer beer.
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Mm-hmm. Of course.
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What about you?
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Okay, I have, as you know, and I, oh, you know what? Let me go to our website and do a quick search.
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Because I hear, Peter, that friendswithbrews.com, I hear that it has a search term, and it does.
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Gluten-free Olallie Ale. Okay, so before I had the Olallie Ale, which was gluten-free,
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Now I’m having a gluten-free Bierly brewers, which is B-I-E-R-L-Y, Blackbird Stout.
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Here’s the can, in case you care about cans.
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Bierly Blackbird Stout.
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Okay, excellent.
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Well, shall we take the first sip?
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Oh, pop, pop, pop, pop.
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Sounds like Scott might have spilled a little bit.
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Think he missed the target.
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Ooh.
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None was spilled, but it sure got on my hand.
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Okay.
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Look how dark that is. I even poured it sideways and I still look at that foam. Cheers, my friend.
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Cheers. Ahh. This is delicious.
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This is, um, well so far all I’ve had is foam so who the absolute bleep knows.
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It’s foamy. So it’s foamy.
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It’s foamy.
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So, what are we talking about today?
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Peter, I am so I haven’t even started editing the last one because I have been sick and
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I have had a lot of software testing to do.
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So I was working on an, I was sick.
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So I slept a lot of Saturday, but I worked part of Saturday.
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I slept a lot of Sunday. I worked a lot of Sunday.
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If I haven’t been working for Monolith 3000,
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I’ve been sleeping.
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I’ve been working too, but not quite that much.
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Part of the reason why, well, we have a software release.
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We need to get stuff tested for, but not just that,
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but I’m trying to take some time off at the end of March.
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And so I’m rushing to get stuff done by then.
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Thank you. I see you’re typing things.
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I see you put in zero instead ofn O. I’m putting in my beer.
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Well, I was trying to put inn O with the umlaut, but I couldn’t figure out how to do
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that real quick, so I just grabbed that, but I have one now.
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Peter hasn umlaut, everyone.
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Don’t look directlyt the umlaut.
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I’m covering my umlaut with beer.
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Beer.
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Okay, I get the point there, Peter, with your gigantic umlaut.
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Oh my God, Peter has gone all show notesy on me.
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You deserve it.
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So anyway, yes, I’m putting that in. Hey, I have a coffee as well. Well, I don’t and the reason I don’t is I
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was a little tired yesterday afternoon and I had a coffee and
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Bedtime came around and I was awake until almost midnight and I couldn’t get to sleep
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So I’m I might go back downstairs for a decaf or I might just have a second one of these Schöfferhofers
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If, Peter, if my iPhone had synced the photo of the coffee, oh there it did, finally, thank
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you mother flipper.
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Back porch, oh my god.
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So here, I have a question for you, because I took a picture of a coffee bag so that I
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would have it, this is back porch, I’ve had this before, back porch, and this is the single
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track blend of coffee.
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My iPhone never gets below 40% in everyday use, it just doesn’t, okay?
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And yet when my iPhone is anywhere between 100% to whatever it is at the end of the day,
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anywhere between there, AKA always, when I take a photo, it never uploads it to the cloud
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and it always says, “Pausing syncing to save battery.”
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Don’t save my battery.
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My battery is 100%.
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The last thing I want is for you to save my battery.
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Get the photo into the cloud so that when I get on my Mac, I have the photo there.
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Can you?
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Why?
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thought maybe the reason your battery never goes below 40 is because it’s so healthy because it’s
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always saving itself for you. You’re either speechless or you just lost audio. Friends,
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I think we’ve just lost Scott. But I still have my beer. We’re gonna pause for a second just to sip my
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really yummy beer. What’s funny, it’s so low alcohol and I had my glass in the freezer that
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But actually part of it has started to freeze.
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It’s got little bits of ice in the beer, which normally I would complain about.
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I would say, “Wow, this beer is so lame that it can actually freeze.”
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But again, the intention of this is to be a crisp, refreshing, shandy, stylish, radler
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thing.
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And we’re back.
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Oh my god.
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It’s not like we had tons of…
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I don’t even know what to say.
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I think that Apple’s Bluetooth problems are the most egregious on the Mac, but they have
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Bluetooth problems everywhere.
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Well, I think as you have illustrated though, as I have also witnessed, they have problems
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on the iPhone and the Mac, and it only gets worse when you try to use the iPhone and the
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Mac together.
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The combination, yeah.
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Whenever I try to transfer a call from my phone to use my Mac as the speaker and the
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mic, the call drops immediately.
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I’ve heard of other people having that.
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And here, this is another weird one.
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I think I talked about how I’m sick and I don’t feel good and I have the head cold, right?
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Here’s literally what I did today Peter. I took my iPhone
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I put it on the mount that I put on my Apple studio display so that I could use it as the camera for this call
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That we’re in right now
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Okay, cuz it’s so much better than the studio display camera
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Anyway, it’s up on top of my monitor. Just picture it being on a magnetic
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What did they call magsafe stand on top of the studio monitor? It’s there I can see it now
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I wander off I forget where my phone is. I can’t find my phone. I’m running all over the house trying to find my phone
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I’m not kidding
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So I use my Mac
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Anyway, I use my I use find my on my Mac to play a sound to my phone
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It never goes it never went my wife used her phone to play a sound to it. It never went
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I had to go find my iPad and play a sound from there and then it played a sound and then I walked in and
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saw oh it was right there the whole time but that’s how bad it is it said it was playing
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a sound but it never played the sound from those other devices not once never yep apple can’t even
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apple actually apple i think in some ways is worse than microsoft because i’m positive that microsoft
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knows their software is utter s--- i’m just gonna say because microsoft knows that they suck
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Oh, my day continues. I gotta go get a towel.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Scott will be right back. He has to go get a towel.
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So now I will stay here and continue to record again while I see Scott walk down the hallway.
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So I’ll talk a little bit about my beer. As I mentioned earlier, it’s a Schöfferhofer
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Hefeweizen beer grapefruit. On the label it says German quality, and yes, it is. So as I mentioned,
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It is a unique combination of sparkling, smooth, unfiltered hefeweizen beer with natural grapefruit
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flavoring.
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And the label says it’s a refreshing, well-balanced taste with tangy character and hints of sweetness.
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It’s pleasing to the palate, best served ice cold and right from the bottle.
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And it’s true, it is.
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So this is a good beer.
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It’s a definite thumbs up.
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It is one of my repeats.
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I buy it a lot.
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good good good so yeah that’s that’s my beer Schöfferhofer I like it it’s a
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little bit out of season right now but I don’t care I’m gonna keep drinking it in
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fact I’m about to polish off my first bottle hmm it’s nice so yeah that’s
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definitely a thumbs up would buy again no desperation needed give me a minute I
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got a I got a lot of carpet to clean here I’m still telling everybody about
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my brew and I think I think that pretty much sums it up and like I said it
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It goes down real easy, so I’ve just polished off that beer and it’s gone.
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And I barely feel anything, because again, 2.5%.
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So it’s like I’ve drunk half a beer right now.
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In other news, let’s see, I refuse to talk about that thing that Scott thinks that I
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always talk about, so I’m not going to mention that.
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And I will give a, hmm, I don’t know, this is a technology update of sorts.
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I bought a couple of Black Fridays ago, I switched from my Nest thermostat to an Ecobee,
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and I bought the Ecobee 3 Lite.
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And overall I liked it.
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I was able to integrate it with my Amazon assistant.
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I’m not really sure that the savings, the plan, I’m not sure how it works.
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Like when I had a Nest, what would happen is if I left home when it was working, it
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It would lower the temperature way down.
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It would just lower it way down, because that’s what I wanted.
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Because there’s no need to have the heat.
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As long as the pipes don’t freeze while I’m gone, don’t run the heat.
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The problem is that Nest would routinely lose the geofence.
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It would just not recognize that I was home.
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And their support was useless.
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And I just got sick of it.
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One day, I spent three days in the winter up in Vermont, and I came back home to find
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that the heat had been blasting the whole time during this cold snap.
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I was pissed. So I bought an ecobee on Black Friday instead. It’s weird though because
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you know what ecobee realizes that I’m away, it doesn’t significantly lower the heat, which
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I don’t understand unless I set it to a vacation. But what I did is I enabled an automation
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with IFTTT or I think it might have been Alexa, that when it detects that I leave home, it
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asked me, “Hey, do you want to lower the temperature?” And then it just does. Well, only recently,
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to Scott I got on the HomeKit bandwagon and I’ve been converting all of my
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things over to HomeKit including like all the new Lutron Caseta light
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switches that I had installed. I’ve got a smart lock on it, my Sonos gear is on it,
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obviously my Apple TV is on it, my Phillips Hue bulbs are on it. Could not
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get ecobee to pair with it though and I tried all the usual things. The first
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thing they do is like reboot your router, reset your ecobee, reset all of your
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wireless extenders. Yep, did all that. Reset the ecobee to factory defaults. Yep, did that.
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Try connecting with your hotspot. So I tried connecting with my hotspot. I tried connecting
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bypassing my Eero mesh routers, went straight through to the, you know, the, the, the Fios
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router. Tried all these things. It simply would not pair. Months of troubleshooting
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on and off, go by, and then like two nights ago,
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I get an email back from Ecobee saying,
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”Oh, we’re really sorry.
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”We’ve changed,” literally what they say,
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”We changed something on the back end.
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”Can you try it again?”
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I try it again, and lo and behold, it connects.
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It pairs with HomeKit for the first time ever.
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Now, one of the things that was so infuriating
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about this support experience was they support WhatsApp,
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but every time you connect,
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It’s like you start a new chat and it opens a new ticket.
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There’s no continuity.
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There’s no handoff.
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Oh, weird.
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So it’s like you’re talking with a new person who
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has no clue every single time.
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Doesn’t WhatsApp have a history?
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Oh, yeah.
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I’ve got the whole history.
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I’m like, scroll up, moron.
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But they can’t scroll up on their side.
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So their integration is a little off, if you ask me.
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And then right before I went on vacation to Costa Rica,
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I worked for an hour on the phone troubleshooting
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with a guy who actually was cool and had
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good idea of what was going on. I’m like, dude, I’m heading out of the country, you
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know, in a couple of days, so I’m going to review it. He said, that’s fine. You can,
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you know, continue by email and sure enough, the emails start going unanswered. So I get
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no answer there. So that I gave up on that one. So then I came back and just last week,
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I’m like, all right, you know, reopening this case folks, I want to know what’s going on
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here and I start over again all the same. Have you tried rebooting? Have you tried this?
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I go through and I finally just had my entire history summary in a single document so I
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can just paste it into the chat every time.
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They change something on the backend and it connects, it pairs with HomeKit.
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Yay!
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Except, except it shows as “accessory is not available.”
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So it will pair, but then it doesn’t work.
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See here’s the weird thing is that my Echo B3 has been on it this whole time and it’s
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never not been on it.
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So whatever they’re doing on the back end, it has nothing to do with either older Ecobees
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or Ecobees that are already on HomeKit.
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But I don’t understand because the HomeKit pairing thing should happen from the HomeKit
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side, I thought.
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Yeah.
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And they gave me lots of…
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So they said, “Well, there’s a lot of questions around the Eero routers.
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They could be causing problems.
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Make sure it’s up to the latest version.
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Make sure your iPhone is up to the latest version.
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Make sure your router is up to…”
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I’m like, “Look, everything’s up to date.”
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And I even had to remind them with five different technicians,
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look, I bypassed the Eero router this time.
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I’m on the wireless on the Verizon.
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Well, it still could be causing problems.
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I’m like, look, I unplugged all the Eero devices.
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Is it still the problem?
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So finally, after months of troubleshooting last night,
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they’re like, we’re just going to send you a new thermostat.
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I was like, OK.
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Now here’s the thing.
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I’m happy about this, especially since they’re upgrading me
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like the latest and greatest version, but I’m skeptical. I still think this is a configuration
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issue somewhere. So, you know, I don’t know. I tend not to think that it’s my Verizon router,
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because I would think that if the Verizon firewall was stopping it, it would just plain out stop it.
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Right, and other people would be having this problem. There has to be more people that use
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both Verizon. What are you on, Fios? Yeah, yeah. There have to be other Verizon Fios users with
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Ecobee? You’d think, but again, I don’t have like any security offerings going on. Now it’s possible
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that, you know, something else is out there that I’m not aware of. But anyway, so supposedly they’re
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going to be sending, they said they have, they’re having stock issues, but they will soon be sending
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me the latest version, which I think is like the top of the line. So I got an upgrade from the
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lite version to the top one with the voice assistant built in. And they did say that if I
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have a home hub, I can use Siri with it. But I think he said “home pod.” But I don’t have
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a home pod. I have an Apple TV, which is my home hub.
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Yeah, I don’t think. Oh, maybe they said “home pod.” I hear something in the background
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on your end going, “Is there something I can help with?”
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Yeah, you heard Siri. Siri is trying to be helpful.
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Oh, I saw this cartoon today that said, I don’t remember what it was, but it was some
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joke about how something, some drug that this guy took a wear off in 10 hours and he said,
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he says, “Hey, sir, he said a reminder for nine hours and 50 minutes and it says, ‘Now playing the Beatles.’”
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Of course it did. Yeah, it’s egg freckles all over again, Peter.
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I tell you, it’s, it’s, it’s insane. Well, that’ll be interesting. I’ll be interested to see what happens.
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I will say this, your tale of thermostat woe has led me to greatly appreciate the fact that
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I’ve never had to use Ecobee support for anything. Yeah, it was bad. And you know, the phone support
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was okay, but I’m like, I don’t want to pick up the phone, stay on hold for half an hour just to
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tell you, “All right, I’ve rebooted my router and oh, now I have to go get groceries, so
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bye.” You know, so that’s why email was better. I will give him credit for one thing. I have heard,
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I have heard of other people trying to use HomeKit with Eero routers and having problems.
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And Eero routers doing weird things in general.
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Which I think when Eero first came out, I don’t think that was the case, but at some point
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along the line, Eero developed a problematic nature.
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You tell me, because I don’t have any Eero, but they’re a little bit more of a black box
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than a lot of routers, right?
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Like you don’t get a lot of insight into problems that are happening.
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There’s not a lot to configure.
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Frankly, the Eero router is really well suited for a Mac user.
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Right.
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Well, I think it’s Apple people that started Eero.
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Well, that makes sense.
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I would call it a very black box, but it’s very white box.
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You say that about Mac users, but a Mac is a Unix system and all I do all day long is
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play in the terminal.
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I have utilities, I have scripts that I’ve customized.
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My menu bar only shows certain things when I’m plugged into my monitor.
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A Mac is a power user tool, my friend.
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It can be, and that is not at all what brought them to popularity.
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It was because they were supposed to be…
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Actually I would argue that it’s the combination of the fact that they are that way, plus they
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can also be the…
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When I say Mac user, I’m talking like your stereotypical Mac user from the 80s who believes
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that Macs can never get viruses, and they’re so superior to other computers, even though
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they’ve never even seen another computer, they just know that they’re perfect.
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That kind of Mac user.
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There’s an overlap between the people who actually know how to use their Macs for power
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uses and people that don’t and that attitude.
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I’m one of those Mac users now.
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I have my terminal open and lots of my windows and I’m multitasking, etc.
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No, I’m just saying that attitude, that incorrect attitude that you described, it’s not just
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the people that don’t know how to use their Macs that have it.
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Some of the people that do still have that same attitude.
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But in a non-derogatory way, Eero is perfect for a Mac user in the sense of like, I just
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want this stupid thing to work and I really don’t care.
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I just want to plug it in.
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I want to click as few options as possible.
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Bingo.
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I want to issue a command and have it do something else entirely or just not respond and then
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hang up on me.
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And when it works, it works.
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So there you go.
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And when it doesn’t work, good luck.
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Good luck.
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What else we got?
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I don’t know. Um, I don’t know.
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You said I have no topics. I’m sick and I feel like sh*t.
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Yeah. So I have a question. Does anybody understand why when you’re sick, you’re…
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Okay, let’s… like with this cold, your head is a little bit heavy. Well, my head is a
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little bit heavy, yours isn’t. And you just feel like you’re fighting against the universe.
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Like I just knocked over my beer earlier. I couldn’t find my phone that was on my monitor.
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I mean, what is it about the biological nature of being sick that makes the brain just utterly
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cease to function?
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Well, are you… you have a head cold?
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Yeah.
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Well, one of the things could be fluid in your ears is affecting your balance, and that
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way, you know, knocking things over is because you’re like your spatial awareness is affected.
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That I can believe, but certainly the inability to do things like look up and see my phone
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on my monitor where I put it, it’s just everything.
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Like this whole week, part of the reason I had to work hours on both Saturday and Sunday
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is I was in my fighting the universe mode because I had a cold and I didn’t feel good,
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So everything I was doing took 10 times longer than it should have for tasks that only involve
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the mind and aren’t physical in nature.
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Why should that be a problem?
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It’s weird.
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It’s like, could be pressure on your brain.
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I wish I hold on.
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Don’t move.
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That’s beautiful.
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Peter’s just looking off into the middle distance, shrugging.
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Can I move now?
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That is a beautiful picture.
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I’m saving that.
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Okay.
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I’m glad you liked it.
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Yeah.
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That’s Peter.
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If anyone, okay, I’m not advocating…
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This would be that I would say this regardless like okay
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I just want people to understand what I think would be hilarious is
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If somebody that you’re in a relationship with comes to you with a serious serious problem, you just make that face
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There are ample opportunities for that to happen
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All right, how about a win?
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Do we have any sort of wins, whether it’s physical, emotional work, technology?
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What do we got?
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Well, you know that I’ve been upgrading the website in ways that are impossible for the
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user to notice.
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I’ve made the search way better.
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I made it easier for me to update the search without breaking it.
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And it’s more of an integration now than just a bolted-on component.
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I also have the transcript functionality in there, and I just need to start scanning,
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or generating transcripts, which I haven’t done for the same reason I didn’t edit last week’s podcast yet.
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Okay.
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And then on my own personal site, I…
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This is a long story.
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I’ve written a lot of blog posts about image optimization,
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and Astro has ways to do image optimization,
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but they don’t have a way to look in straight markdown files,
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look at a markdown image link.
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You know what a Markdown image link looks. It’s very simple.
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That was the sound of me nodding, by the way, dear listener.
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And then grab that image, create several responsive, optimized images for it,
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and then create the responsive HTML for it.
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So what I was doing was, instead of using Markdown, I was using something called MDX,
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which is basically Markdown that allows you to use JSX-like components in it.
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And what that would allow me to do is use the Astro image component inside,
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which sounds great, but it also broke the ability for me to include full body content
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for each post in my RSS feed, for reasons I don’t want to get into here. Just MDX makes that hard.
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And that meant that I was doing a wacky, crazy kludge to generate an RSS feed that had full body
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content in it, and it would only get generated at dev time, not at build time. So it would generate
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it with URLs like “http://localhost:3000”.
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And so I had to remember every time I did a build, I had to not only copy that file
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over, I had to substitute “http colon slash slash localhost colon 3000 with https colon
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forward slash forward slash scottwillsey.com”.
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And it was just a pain in the ass.
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And besides, using a component in MDX means you have to, it’s basically like when you’re
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writing a web page. You have to remember the specifics of the component. What parameters
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does it need? What widths do I like to give these images? What do I, you know, what’s
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the CSS media query that I like to plug in every time when I’m writing and I’m doing
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a blog post, I don’t want to know about implementation details. I feel like if your system requires
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you to know about implementation details in order to put an image in a blog post, you
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or someone else has failed miserably.
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I would argue that maybe the person using that standard might have failed too.
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Maybe you got to pick better. Just saying.
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So what I did was, so Astro is working on a component,
00:24:15.620 —> 00:24:18.940
an integration right now called Astro assets, which basically allows,
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it goes through the markdown and it does all that for you.
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And then you just specify what widths of images you want generated,
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how you want it displayed with the sizes parameter.
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People who’ve generated responsive images using responsive image
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HTML will know what I’m talking about.
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But anyway, they’re working on that, and it works great in dev mode, but it won’t build.
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So right now I’m using a third-party component plugin that has an integration.
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It does it for me.
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It’s exactly opposite.
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It doesn’t work in dev mode, but it works in build.
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I don’t care.
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It builds great.
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My images are optimized.
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They look exactly how I want them to.
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But it was just… that’s the kind of thing I enjoy.
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I like going through…
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Those are some things that I don’t mind fighting, because I learn a lot when I’m fighting those.
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I learn how that stuff works a lot better when I have to sit down and bang my head against
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it and come to conclusions on my own than I would if it was all super easy and everything
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just worked and, you know, I enjoy that kind of thing.
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So that’s what I’ve been up to.
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I’ve been battling against that.
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So now my personal blog is in a spot that I really enjoy.
00:25:21.400 —> 00:25:25.660
It makes it easier for me to write to and put images in my posts and have an automatically
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generated RSS feed with full post body in it.
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Who can imagine in 2023 that such a thing would be possible?
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No one.
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No one could have ever thought that would happen.
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I consider it a win because I got the result I wanted and I got to spend hours just focused
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on one computer thing.
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Congrats.
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Well, it might be a little premature for me to declare this a win, but a little while
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ago and about a month ago I had installed and about two months ago I bought my EufyCam 2
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outdoor security cameras. And I bought them thinking that my…
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Those are expensive, aren’t they? Well, they’re not that bad, actually. They
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weren’t… This is the two, so it’s a slightly… It’s like last year’s model.
00:26:10.580 —> 00:26:15.060
Oh, these are not the 4K ones, right? No, but they’re still plenty high-res.
00:26:15.060 —> 00:26:19.460
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I’m not denigrating them. For a security
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camera for outdoors, I don’t think you need to spend for the 4K.
00:26:22.140 —> 00:26:27.260
Yeah, exactly. So these guys are pretty good. One of the things I bought them to, and I
00:26:27.260 —> 00:26:34.860
I was a little skeptical, but they claim to have 180 day battery life.
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Well, mine were installed about a month ago when I got back from Costa Rica, and the front
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door camera now is down to about 44% battery life.
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So I think that 180 day means not streaming or recording all that often.
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And since I have mine set to trip on activity, like whenever a car drives by or someone walks
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by the front door, it’s recording a lot more often.
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Whenever a goose flies across the distant river.
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Well, that’s the backyard, but yes.
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So I deliberately bought these so that my electrician, even though I did have my electrician
00:27:10.760 —> 00:27:16.760
install them because he has a drill that can drill into brick, I bought these so that I
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wouldn’t have to have him run wires to the things, right?
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Yes.
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My solution is I’m going to cave and buy solar panels to charge them.
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And these little solar panels have shown up.
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When I was asking you where you got punched and you were supposed to stay in the solar plexus
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on the street in the parking garage or street in the street.
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So that looks really clunky.
00:27:40.480 —> 00:27:42.480
Like you’re going to have these gigantic panel.
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First of all, where, how long is that cable?
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How long of a run can you give between the panel and the camera?
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Plenty of a lot.
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And is it hard? I assume it’s a hardwired connection to the camera.
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Well, it’s a USB. It uses the USB-C port.
00:27:55.120 —> 00:27:59.680
Right. So you’re going to have a long-ass USB cable.
00:27:59.680 —> 00:28:02.960
So I assume that you’re going to want to point these things generally upwards.
00:28:02.960 —> 00:28:06.000
Generally towards the sun. It tends to be up.
00:28:06.000 —> 00:28:11.440
Right. So you’re going to put them on the roof, I would guess.
00:28:11.440 —> 00:28:14.480
No, they’re going to be on a wall by the window.
00:28:15.280 —> 00:28:21.680
So basically what you’ll have is you’ll have these things that because they’re tilted up they stick out about eight inches from the wall
00:28:21.680 —> 00:28:25.200
Well, they’re the size of an ipad mini
00:28:25.200 —> 00:28:27.280
Yeah
00:28:27.280 —> 00:28:28.960
so
00:28:28.960 —> 00:28:32.880
They’ll be up a little bit six inches wide eight inches wide. I don’t whatever it is
00:28:32.880 —> 00:28:38.560
So are these reachable by human hand from whoever’s standing in the street?
00:28:38.560 —> 00:28:44.960
Probably gonna mount them. So that is not the case. The reason i’m asking is I also
00:28:44.960 —> 00:28:50.860
have a blind spot with respect to my outdoor cameras. I need to get some cameras right
00:28:50.860 —> 00:28:56.720
in front of my garage so that I can see my driveway. The problem is, you’ve seen my house,
00:28:56.720 —> 00:29:03.160
I have a two-story house where it’s got a garage and from the garage there’s some roof
00:29:03.160 —> 00:29:11.200
that goes upwards and then the master bedroom is not a straight vertical reach up to the
00:29:11.200 —> 00:29:16.960
master bedroom. The master bedroom is back a little bit. So for me to put cameras outside,
00:29:16.960 —> 00:29:21.160
they’re going to be reachable. They’re going to be under that garage door eave above the
00:29:21.160 —> 00:29:25.040
garage door and people can reach up and snag them. And I’m trying to figure out what to
00:29:25.040 —> 00:29:26.520
do about that.
00:29:26.520 —> 00:29:31.500
Well obviously you need two cameras and each camera has to be able to see the other camera
00:29:31.500 —> 00:29:36.480
so you can see people coming and snagging them. So they need coverage. That’s what you
00:29:36.480 —> 00:29:37.620
need, you need coverage.
00:29:37.620 —> 00:29:41.620
So these are $300 for a two-pack at the moment, if you buy them on Eufy’s website.
00:29:41.620 —> 00:29:42.620
Mm-hmm.
00:29:42.620 —> 00:29:44.620
That, see, to me, that’s what I call expensive.
00:29:44.620 —> 00:29:50.240
Yeah, I just saw them, they were like 30% off on Amazon and they’re like 80 or 90 bucks
00:29:50.240 —> 00:29:51.240
or something like that.
00:29:51.240 —> 00:29:52.240
Yeah, that’s pretty good.
00:29:52.240 —> 00:29:53.240
That’s not too bad.
00:29:53.240 —> 00:29:54.240
They were cheaper.
00:29:54.240 —> 00:29:55.900
Yeah, which is less than I paid for them, by the way.
00:29:55.900 —> 00:29:56.900
Great.
00:29:56.900 —> 00:29:57.900
Sorry.
00:29:57.900 —> 00:29:58.980
Sorry, Mr. Bitter.
00:29:58.980 —> 00:30:01.840
Speaking of Bitter, I want to review my beer now.
00:30:01.840 —> 00:30:02.840
Let’s hear it.
00:30:02.840 —> 00:30:06.840
So what’s left of this that’s not in absorbent towels?
00:30:06.840 —> 00:30:10.960
Does it taste better that way or something?
00:30:10.960 —> 00:30:15.120
This is not as good a gluten-free beer as the Olallie.
00:30:15.120 —> 00:30:17.720
It’s a little, it’s pretty bitter.
00:30:17.720 —> 00:30:19.780
It tastes a little thin.
00:30:19.780 —> 00:30:22.380
Like whatever flavors you expect from a stout beer.
00:30:22.380 —> 00:30:25.520
I’m not getting a whole lot of that.
00:30:25.520 —> 00:30:29.000
This is supposed to be bold, earthy, roasty smooth.
00:30:29.000 —> 00:30:30.280
So what makes a stout?
00:30:30.280 —> 00:30:34.280
Because usually all the stouts that I have also have all these other flavors in them.
00:30:34.280 —> 00:30:36.240
This doesn’t talk about a lot of other flavors.
00:30:36.240 —> 00:30:41.560
It just talks about, you know, water, malted millet, malted rice, malted buckwheat, hops,
00:30:41.560 —> 00:30:42.560
and yeast.
00:30:42.560 —> 00:30:45.400
It doesn’t talk about a lot of additional flavors, so my guess is…
00:30:45.400 —> 00:30:48.140
I don’t think it has to have extra stuff to be a stout.
00:30:48.140 —> 00:30:50.200
It’s just got to be… it’s a dark ale.
00:30:50.200 —> 00:30:51.200
Yeah.
00:30:51.200 —> 00:30:52.760
And I think you use malted barley.
00:30:52.760 —> 00:30:55.080
I think that’s what gives you the dark color.
00:30:55.080 —> 00:31:00.920
But they often do, you know, have a chocolatey coffee flavor and they will often actually
00:31:00.920 —> 00:31:07.800
put chocolate or coffee or milk or lactose, you know, sugar into it.
00:31:07.800 —> 00:31:10.280
So that’s, you know, that may be why.
00:31:10.280 —> 00:31:13.040
This is a 6.2% ABV by the way, but…
00:31:13.040 —> 00:31:15.320
It’s almost three times what I had.
00:31:15.320 —> 00:31:20.680
Not only is it bitter, it also tastes thin, if that makes any sense.
00:31:20.680 —> 00:31:21.680
Yeah.
00:31:21.680 —> 00:31:23.240
Stouts can be like that.
00:31:23.240 —> 00:31:25.800
a little watery even though they’re dark.
00:31:25.800 —> 00:31:29.880
Yeah, which is a little weird because most of the stouts that I drink from the brewers
00:31:29.880 —> 00:31:33.000
around here are definitely the opposite of that, but a lot of them also tend to have-
00:31:33.000 —> 00:31:35.160
Are you sure they’re stouts and not porters?
00:31:35.160 —> 00:31:36.120
Yes.
00:31:36.120 —> 00:31:37.240
Okay.
00:31:37.240 —> 00:31:39.480
They say stout right on them. I drink very few porters.
00:31:39.480 —> 00:31:41.560
Okay, okay.
00:31:41.560 —> 00:31:45.800
Like you can go toif you gothere’s a website I have, Peter, I don’t know if you’ve heard of
00:31:45.800 —> 00:31:47.880
it, but it’s called friendswithbrews.com.
00:31:47.880 —> 00:31:50.680
Is that B-R-U-I-S-E?
00:31:51.320 —> 00:31:55.880
No, it’s B-R-E-W-S. That’s weird.
00:31:55.880 —> 00:31:59.160
You can see all the different stouts I’ve had. I’ve had third bird oatmeal stout,
00:31:59.160 —> 00:32:03.080
I’ve had Otis oatmeal stout, I’ve had milk stout nitro, I’ve had peanut butter milk stout.
00:32:03.080 —> 00:32:03.880
Ooh, those are good ones.
00:32:03.880 —> 00:32:09.880
I’ve had… Oh, the mochaccino was you. I still want that! Oh my god! Lights out stout, was that you?
00:32:09.880 —> 00:32:13.160
That is… That might have been me.
00:32:13.160 —> 00:32:15.320
Yeah, lights out stout was you. I’ve had…
00:32:15.320 —> 00:32:19.240
You gotta see about mochaccino. Supposedly they were going to be making mochaccino again this
00:32:19.240 —> 00:32:26.120
year in March, and guess what? It’s March. And you were concerned about that because you were like,
00:32:26.120 —> 00:32:28.120
”As soon as that comes out, I’m sending some to Scott.”
00:32:28.120 —> 00:32:35.640
Yeah, exactly. Well, I even made a special trip to Vermont around the end of the year and the
00:32:35.640 —> 00:32:40.280
beginning of the year, because those two coincide, and they didn’t have any. And they’re like, “Oh,
00:32:40.280 —> 00:32:45.880
yeah, it’s a winter thing. We make it. Oh, we might make it in March.” I was like, “Your website
00:32:45.880 —> 00:32:48.860
It says September to March.
00:32:48.860 —> 00:32:52.720
That’s a bit of a span, a little bit of a discrepancy, you might say.
00:32:52.720 —> 00:32:53.720
That is a span.
00:32:53.720 —> 00:32:54.720
Yeah.
00:32:54.720 —> 00:32:55.720
EufyCam 2.
00:32:55.720 —> 00:32:57.720
Oops, why did I do that?
00:32:57.720 —> 00:33:00.120
Why did I do that, Peter?
00:33:00.120 —> 00:33:01.240
I don’t know.
00:33:01.240 —> 00:33:05.360
Anyway, my thought is, if I had to, I could mount these myself, and I was thinking I could
00:33:05.360 —> 00:33:08.840
mount them on my second floor windowsills if I wanted to.
00:33:08.840 —> 00:33:10.500
Right, that’d be a good place.
00:33:10.500 —> 00:33:15.620
That way I can do it myself, and I don’t need special drills that drill into brick and stuff,
00:33:15.620 —> 00:33:20.380
And that way I’m just running the camera, the cable down to the cameras.
00:33:20.380 —> 00:33:24.420
You realize I’ve just made an excuse for yourself not to buy a tool.
00:33:24.420 —> 00:33:27.860
I don’t need more things.
00:33:27.860 —> 00:33:28.860
But anytime…
00:33:28.860 —> 00:33:33.460
Especially things when I could screw up.
00:33:33.460 —> 00:33:37.940
You could just run around the neighborhood drilling into your friend’s brick and concrete.
00:33:37.940 —> 00:33:39.500
I could.
00:33:39.500 —> 00:33:43.820
I could also probably affect the same thing with my shotgun if I really want to just put
00:33:43.820 —> 00:33:44.820
holes in walls.
00:33:44.820 —> 00:33:48.980
I mean, come on. But these are precise deep holes. Have you thought about the fact that
00:33:48.980 —> 00:33:50.700
If you ever get tired of your job
00:33:50.700 —> 00:33:54.260
You could just have this wonderful living where all you do is run around the neighborhood drilling into concrete
00:33:54.260 —> 00:34:01.460
People might pay you for that. I’m sure that some people could pay me for that if I did it in a targeted
00:34:01.460 —> 00:34:05.400
Deliberate fashion. Yeah. Yeah, I don’t think I wanted and if they complain
00:34:05.400 —> 00:34:08.900
What are they gonna if they’re mad about your quality of your work? What are they gonna do?
00:34:08.900 —> 00:34:11.180
You’ve got a drill that can go through concrete in your hands there. I
00:34:13.020 —> 00:34:15.460
I say the same thing again about having a shotgun.
00:34:15.460 —> 00:34:18.540
I mean, the same, the net result is the same.
00:34:18.540 —> 00:34:20.920
People are gonna run away.
00:34:20.920 —> 00:34:25.060
Yeah, so I’m gonna give this one a thumbs down, I’m afraid.
00:34:25.060 —> 00:34:26.680
That’s the first time I’ve had to do that in a long time.
00:34:26.680 —> 00:34:27.820
My coffee gets a thumbs up.
00:34:27.820 —> 00:34:29.620
I’ve had that before on this podcast though, but—
00:34:29.620 —> 00:34:31.220
What if you were desperate?
00:34:31.220 —> 00:34:32.980
No, no, it’s not worth it
00:34:32.980 —> 00:34:37.980
because it’s got the sappy taste, it’s got the sticky—
00:34:37.980 —> 00:34:39.220
That’s pretty bad.
00:34:39.220 —> 00:34:40.620
Even if you were desperate,
00:34:40.620 —> 00:34:42.260
you wouldn’t drink this beer again.
00:34:42.260 —> 00:34:47.940
Right, because it’s got the downsides of drinking alcohol, which is you feel a little, uh…
00:34:47.940 —> 00:34:49.780
Yeah, yeah.
00:34:49.780 —> 00:34:52.140
But it doesn’t have any of the upsides of the flavor so amazing.
00:34:52.140 —> 00:34:53.140
Who cares?
00:34:53.140 —> 00:34:55.220
Makes you feel like crap and it tastes bad.
00:34:55.220 —> 00:34:56.220
Yeah.
00:34:56.220 —> 00:34:57.220
Is that your review?
00:34:57.220 —> 00:34:58.220
Yeah.
00:34:58.220 —> 00:35:00.100
”Makes you feel like crap and it tastes bad.”
00:35:00.100 —> 00:35:04.460
That is my review given to me by PeterGPT.
00:35:04.460 —> 00:35:06.100
I didn’t say those letters.
00:35:06.100 —> 00:35:07.100
[Laughter]
00:35:07.100 —> 00:35:08.340
Oh, that’s great.
00:35:08.340 —> 00:35:10.820
I did not say those letters.
00:35:10.820 —> 00:35:12.320
I gotta see how long this lasts.
00:35:12.320 —> 00:35:17.920
I have to see how long it is that you utterly refuse to mention it for fear of being shamed.
00:35:17.920 —> 00:35:19.000
I have no fear.
00:35:19.000 —> 00:35:21.260
I’m just trying to be nice and respect your wishes.
00:35:21.260 —> 00:35:24.080
I’m talking about it plenty outside of this forum.
00:35:24.080 —> 00:35:27.160
I was gonna say, you have to admit you got a little obsessed.
00:35:27.160 —> 00:35:29.200
Yeah, I’m having fun with it.
00:35:29.200 —> 00:35:31.840
I think it’s got, it has practical applications.
00:35:31.840 —> 00:35:32.840
I’m using it.
00:35:32.840 —> 00:35:36.700
But see, that’s like saying Facebook is fun to post stuff on.
00:35:36.700 —> 00:35:38.080
It’s a tool of the devil.
00:35:38.080 —> 00:35:42.500
The way chatgpt is right now, it’s being rolled out as though it’s something that is ready
00:35:42.500 —> 00:35:45.280
to do all these things that it absolutely is not.
00:35:45.280 —> 00:35:47.360
And people are just soaking it up.
00:35:47.360 —> 00:35:49.160
You don’t think that’s a problem?
00:35:49.160 —> 00:35:52.380
That does… yes, that is a problem.
00:35:52.380 —> 00:35:58.600
And in no way does that take away from the utilization that I give it and the effectiveness
00:35:58.600 —> 00:36:00.240
that I get out of it.
00:36:00.240 —> 00:36:03.920
Well, I mean, Nazis were good at getting s--- done.
00:36:03.920 —> 00:36:05.920
Does that mean that…
00:36:05.920 —> 00:36:10.760
Wait, are you blurring out Nazis or?
00:36:10.760 —> 00:36:12.120
You’re right.
00:36:12.120 —> 00:36:14.120
I need a second one.
00:36:14.120 —> 00:36:18.240
No, I told you.
00:36:18.240 —> 00:36:20.240
You caught that.
00:36:20.240 —> 00:36:26.200
No, I like, I’ve noticed, for instance, I think I sent you a link the other day.
00:36:26.200 —> 00:36:32.240
There are startups that are going out there now saying that they’re using it for like
00:36:32.240 —> 00:36:33.760
business risk assessments.
00:36:33.760 —> 00:36:39.680
So don’t sit here failing out questionnaires. You just tell us, we’ll answer these things
00:36:39.680 —> 00:36:45.160
for you. And I know it makes tons of mistakes. I get that.
00:36:45.160 —> 00:36:48.280
Well, not just mistakes. It just makes stuff up.
00:36:48.280 —> 00:36:50.560
Yeah. Well, okay. So, right.
00:36:50.560 —> 00:36:55.000
Well, you know how when you were giving us that story about the story that you were writing
00:36:55.000 —> 00:36:58.160
and it would say, some people say this and some people say that. It does that all the
00:36:58.160 —> 00:37:02.440
time and it doesn’t know that, first of all, did people really say that? Is that an accurate
00:37:02.440 —> 00:37:05.880
summary of what it found on the internet. And secondly, it doesn’t know the difference
00:37:05.880 —> 00:37:12.080
between credible theory and speculation and incredible theory and speculation. It gives
00:37:12.080 —> 00:37:17.160
equal weight to all opinions, which is a very American thing to do, by the way, but absolutely
00:37:17.160 —> 00:37:23.020
is it? Not lately. Not lately. It’s not. No, but that’s why we got to this point. We gave
00:37:23.020 —> 00:37:27.340
credit. We gave equal opportunity for the anti-vaxxers to spout their mouths. We gave
00:37:27.340 —> 00:37:31.000
equal opportunity for the Trumpers and all those people to blah, blah, blah, and say,
00:37:31.000 —> 00:37:35.800
know yes this is how we got into this mess yep anyway I get value from the
00:37:35.800 —> 00:37:40.060
tool and yes and I actually I also get a lot of entertainment out of people who
00:37:40.060 —> 00:37:44.960
are doing it wrong but I guess what I’m saying is Peter we haven’t learned I
00:37:44.960 —> 00:37:50.140
believe in very selective Ludditeism mm-hmm and the reason I say that is
00:37:50.140 —> 00:37:53.880
because I absolutely think we have to push back against just every time
00:37:53.880 —> 00:37:58.080
something pops up whether it be crypto whether it be NFTs whether it be chat
00:37:58.080 —> 00:38:02.080
GPT, whatever, I’ll just this wholesale rush to embrace it and make as much money off it
00:38:02.080 —> 00:38:06.260
as possible before everyone realizes that it’s a total fraud and a sham.
00:38:06.260 —> 00:38:08.160
And it’s, it’s very unhealthy.
00:38:08.160 —> 00:38:09.980
Do we have to do that every time now?
00:38:09.980 —> 00:38:13.520
Is that just how things are from now until the heat death of the universe?
00:38:13.520 —> 00:38:14.520
Right.
00:38:14.520 —> 00:38:16.520
But again, my use case is different, right?
00:38:16.520 —> 00:38:18.000
I’m not, I’m not telling everybody.
00:38:18.000 —> 00:38:19.000
I’m not talking about you.
00:38:19.000 —> 00:38:24.080
I’m talking about, I’m talking about how society acts with respect to technology now.
00:38:24.080 —> 00:38:25.080
No, they, they do.
00:38:25.080 —> 00:38:26.080
They do have to do that.
00:38:26.080 —> 00:38:27.380
This isn’t how it started.
00:38:27.380 —> 00:38:30.600
When computers first started coming around and I was getting to computers, this was not
00:38:30.600 —> 00:38:31.600
the scene.
00:38:31.600 —> 00:38:32.600
This was not the experience.
00:38:32.600 —> 00:38:37.980
No, people resisted these newfangled things, but you know, there you go.
00:38:37.980 —> 00:38:39.180
Well we better wrap up.
00:38:39.180 —> 00:38:43.620
If you want to find us, you can find us at friendswithbrews.com.
00:38:43.620 —> 00:38:44.620
That’s B-R-E-W-S.
00:38:44.620 —> 00:38:48.500
Right, and you can go there and search for stout.
00:38:48.500 —> 00:38:53.460
Yeah, you can also find, you know, you can find us on Mastodon, on a couple of different
00:38:53.460 —> 00:38:54.460
places.
00:38:54.460 —> 00:39:10.460
us at infosec.exchange u i’m at scottaw at a p p d o t period n e t appdot.net appdot.net yeah how do you
00:39:10.460 —> 00:39:16.780
know it’s it’s not app app dot dot net net it would be app app dot dot dot net net it could be
00:39:16.780 —> 00:39:21.900
app app dot dot dot net net or no no or if we’re doubling then it would be quadruple wouldn’t it so
00:39:21.900 —> 00:39:25.960
So it’d be app app dot dot dot dot net net.
00:39:25.960 —> 00:39:28.440
That’s really weird.
00:39:28.440 —> 00:39:29.580
It is weird.
00:39:29.580 —> 00:39:31.620
Peter, Mastodon is weird.
00:39:31.620 —> 00:39:33.300
Mastodon is weird.
00:39:33.300 —> 00:39:36.580
Anyway, I’ve got a big snow storm coming in, so I’m going to run out to the
00:39:36.580 —> 00:39:38.220
store and buy some bread and milk.
00:39:38.220 —> 00:39:39.240
Okay.
00:39:39.240 —> 00:39:39.900
That’s a good idea.
00:39:39.900 —> 00:39:42.260
I can’t wait to see you out shoveling the driveway with bread and milk.
00:39:42.260 —> 00:39:43.700
It’s going to be fun.
00:39:43.700 —> 00:39:44.460
Can’t wait.
00:39:44.460 —> 00:39:45.380
Can’t wait.
00:39:45.380 —> 00:39:47.780
Why don’t you push your big red loaf?
00:39:47.780 —> 00:39:50.620
Big red button.
00:39:50.660 —> 00:39:52.300
You need to bleep that out too.
00:39:52.300 —> 00:39:54.300
Bread! I was talking about bread!