Episode 34 – What is a Computer?
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Just for me, Peter says, just for me.
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Peter is Peter and I am Scott.
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And this is?
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Friends. Friends.
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With Brews. With Bruce?
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With Bruce.
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Hi, Peter.
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Who’s Bruce?
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Hi, Peter.
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Hi, Scott.
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Hi, Peter.
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How are you?
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Hi, Peter.
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All right.
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This is gonna be a long podcast.
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Oh my God.
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Yeah, we don’t, we know, we’re gonna focus.
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We’re gonna stay on point
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and we’re gonna get right into the I’m Peter, you’re Scott.
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Yes.
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We knew that.
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You know how to find us.
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We don’t have to tell you that.
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And you know that we’re drinking beers and I will kick us off tonight. I am trying a new one.
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This is brand new. I’ve never had anything from this company as far as I’m aware. This is a
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Rodenbach Classic Refreshing Belgian Sour Ale, Oak Aged,
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Crafted and Brewed in Belgium. Now, here’s the thing. It’s oak barrel aged, which
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usually indicates
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high alcohol, but this is only 5% and as I in
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And as I said, it’s a Belgian sour ale.
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I’m gonna kick us off.
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I’ve done the pour.
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What about you?
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Okay, so I have, this is interesting.
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First of all, where are these guys?
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Oh, these guys are not local.
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These guys are in OK.
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McAllister, OK.
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Lahoma?
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Yeah, I guess so.
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Anyway, this is weird.
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I’ve never seen this on my shelves before.
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Blueberry boyfriend.
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Yeah, Prairie artisan ale,
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Blueberry boyfriend. It is a sour ale with blueberries and lemon zest. I have never had this as you
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Probably know I didn’t know I needed a blueberry boyfriend, but I guess I have one
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I’m gonna have to talk to Anna and say I guess this is happening. I had no idea about you guys like that
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Oh, that was a nice nice a nice pop. I heard that nice pecan pop. So that’s good. Good sound good signal
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All right, so you’ve got that and I’ve got this Cheers my friends very red. Yeah Cheers think Oh bottle sounds
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(glasses clinking)
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So those bottle sounds are our new swear word things.
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This is good.
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This is yummy.
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Oh my God.
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This is sour and I love every minute of it.
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This is good.
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There’s not too much lemon.
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I was afraid when they said lemon zest,
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but it is definitely more blueberry than lemon zest.
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But I feel like the lemon zest probably gives,
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probably takes just enough of that excessive sweetness
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that blueberries can have out of it.
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Okay. It’s perfect.
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Beautiful.
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Well, this is not excessively sour
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and it is quite drinkable.
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So we’re good.
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Are you excessively sour?
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I am excessively sour.
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So let’s dive right in.
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I want this to be mostly a Scott episode.
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So I just want to really, really, really quickly
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touch on two things.
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Are you feeling personally insecure?
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Nope. I just want to get right to the meat of the matter.
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But there are two things that I am looking at
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but have not yet tried.
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and that is Agent GPT as an alternative to Auto GPT.
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And-
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I’ve heard of Agent GPT.
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Notion as an alternative to Evernote.
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So I’m putting those out there.
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I will circle back at a later date
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with updates on possibly all of those.
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Okay.
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I have thoughts about Notion,
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but I’m going to keep them to myself
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because they are my thoughts.
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They’re not yours.
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You should not feel like I am invested
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in which way you go.
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I know you don’t care one way or another.
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No, I do.
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It’s just that I don’t want you to think
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that I’m gonna be sitting over here
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pre-judging your decision.
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You will.
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It’s okay.
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You’ll post-judge it.
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You’ll judge it one way or another.
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Whether you’re judging ahead of before or back
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or at the end, it doesn’t matter.
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I wish I could show you how hard it’s rating here.
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It is bucketing down.
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It almost looks like hail.
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It’s raining so hard, but it’s drops of water.
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Yeah. Wow.
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Earlier there was thunder.
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So anyway, what I’m trying to say is if for some reason we go away, I go away, you go
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away, someone goes away.
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Okay.
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The listener goes away.
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If a listener goes away, it’s just because they’re tired of us, but…
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Carry on, my friend, carry on.
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Let’s get to it.
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Oh, the other thing I wanted to talk about real quick, very briefly, is I also have a
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coffee here.
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It’s a Tony’s Coffee, TonysCoffee.com.
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It is a medium roast.
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It is a cafe caramelita.
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It is cocoa and caramel notes.
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It is a full buttery body.
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Who doesn’t love a buttery body, Peter?
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Who doesn’t love a full cocoa buttery body?
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I know I do.
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This is a pretty good coffee.
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Now, when I first made it, it was a little bitter.
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It says low acidity, but I don’t know.
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But then, here’s the thing.
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Now, I’ll admit, I’m not a coffee brewing genius,
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even though I have a very persnickety process.
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I had gotten to the point where I was brewing my coffees
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at a little bit lower temperature,
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typically 185, somewhere in there.
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Mm-hmm.
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I brewed my first cup of Tony’s at that, the coffee caramelita, and it was a little bitter
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and then I read the bag and it declared a degree.
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It said 200 degrees.
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Okay.
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Do it at 200 degrees, dammit.
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Yep.
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So I did it at 200 degrees, dammit, and it tasted better.
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200 degrees, dammit.
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Yeah.
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When I brewed it at 200 degrees, the coffee came out better.
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Okay.
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So it’s a pretty good coffee.
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I will buy this again.
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It’s not at the top of my list of coffees that I’ve had, but it’s very good.
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So the AeroPress instructions recommend 200 degrees.
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So I don’t know.
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I don’t think it matters, Peter.
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I think what they’re trying to get is regardless of your process, they want the water at a
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certain temperature when it goes through the grinds.
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It’s when it hits the grinds that they’re concerned with.
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Yes, I agree.
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I think that through an AeroPress, this coffee would probably be super good.
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Because AeroPress has a tendency to be a little bit too weak for me.
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I need more grams of coffee per cup.
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But boy does it take the acidity and the bitterness right out of it.
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You can create a beautiful cup of coffee with an AeroPress.
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See I do that though.
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I use more coffee than the AeroPress instructions say for mine.
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So I feel the same way, but I address that by just using more coffee.
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Using more.
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I put that special ingredient.
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Secret ingredient.
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More coffee.
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Chock full of coffee.
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Chock full of coffee.
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All right, so one thing real quick,
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we’ve talked about window management before.
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We have.
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And I believe right now you are currently using…
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Rectangle Pro.
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Yes, Rectangle Pro.
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I was also using Rectangle Pro,
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but I also stumbled across Lasso, which I kind of liked,
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which lets you do a keyboard shortcut
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and it pops up a screen.
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And if you’re connected to your external monitor
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and your laptop monitor’s open,
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it’ll show both screens. And then you can draw, depending on how many sections you set
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up on each of those screens, you can draw a little rectangle real fast that fills up
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X number of boxes on your screen and the window will go right there. So it takes longer than
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just hitting a keyboard shortcut, but it’s more precise. Let’s say you don’t have a preset
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for a window and you just want it in a certain place, it’s great for that. Now, that alone
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would be too persnickety. I want to be able to hit a keyboard shortcut and just have it
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go there. So Lasso on their website has a link that you can download the rectangle pro presets
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and keyboard shortcuts. So I downloaded that. There are a couple keyboard shortcuts that are
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missing, but I don’t miss them. So now in general, what I have is the best of both worlds.
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So they’re missing, but you’re not.
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They’re missing, but I’m not. And therefore I will never ban a milk carton, I hope.
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Peter, have you seen me lately?
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Yeah, Peter, have you seen me lately? Help me, Peter. Stop drinking your milk and come save me.
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So anyway, now I’m just running the one menu manager lasso and pretty happy with that.
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So I will probably switch over. So something, you are much quicker to try out new things
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and, you know, like jump to something, whereas I am more like, okay, I’m good here. I don’t want to,
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not right now, you know, like and normally like look I am I’m all for change but not just for the
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sake of change. No no it has to be for a reason. Right so you I belI don’t remember did I tell
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you about rectangle or did you tell me I think I don’t remember if I stumbled across rectangle
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but you paid for rectangle pro before I did. Correct. And then I was like you know what I’m
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getting enough value out of it I will follow Scott’s lead and I bought rectangle pro and I
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swear it was the next day, you’re like,
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”Yeah, I’m gonna do Lasso instead.”
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And I was like, “Damn it!“
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Yeah, but then I quickly came to the conclusion
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that I didn’t wanna do just Lasso,
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and so I was running both.
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For a while.
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And I didn’t talk about that on the podcast, yes.
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That’s right.
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But now you’re there, so yes.
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So I may follow in your footsteps, but for right now,
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here’s the thing, with Rectangle, I love it,
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but I only know a few of the keyboard shortcuts.
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Same, same.
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And I don’t have like the exact level of granularity, like, you know, like sixths and, you know, those.
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I don’t remember those, but I remember like control option left and right and command left and right and command up and down.
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And that’s about all I remember, which, you know, gets stuff.
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Oh, it looks like control option up and down is actually kind of cool.
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Huh?
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Interesting.
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Now I’ve moved you around to my secondary display
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and you’re totally lost.
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So I am lost, get out that milk carton.
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Yeah, so anyway, so yeah, that’s an update.
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So I will also probably be looking at Lasso.
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So yeah, Lasso, Notion and Agent GPT.
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So there you go.
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The other thing I stumbled across recently was
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it actually has been discussed
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in a few different Apple related sites or podcasts,
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I don’t remember.
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And I hadn’t tried it and I actually read a review of it on Mac stories that said it was just a little bit too lacking in features for them.
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But I decided to give it a try and I really like it and it is bike outliner for Mac.
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And that’s literally all it is is an outliner.
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Okay.
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It’s only for outlining.
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Okay.
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And it’s Hog Bay software.
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Hog Bay software.
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Okay.
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And outlining.
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So like making like bullet points and indent.
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Yes.
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That kind of outliner, okay.
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Yep, and it’s got tons of keyboard shortcuts.
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That’s what I really love about it.
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I like apps like that when I’m writing
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and I don’t have to take my hands off the keyboard.
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That is a huge plus and it has tons of keyboard support.
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So it is just an outliner and it is kind of simple,
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but it does let you do things like focus
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on just a certain selection or perform actions
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on just a certain selection or just a certain row
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or all kinds of things like that.
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It’s just very, it’s simple in terms
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of what the output is, but it has a lot of features underneath that you can use to quickly
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optimize your outline, edit your outline, refine your outline.
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And I really like it.
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And the reason I started doing this is because most of the blog posts that I write on my
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site don’t really require an outline.
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But I thought I would write about why I personally went from using an iPad Pro as my portable
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intensive work device to going back to only using a Mac to do all my workflows on.
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I want to hear this because we definitely disagreed at some for, you know, for a while
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about the the sensor, the validity or the possibility of switching to a Mac, sorry,
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to an iPad for like everything. And I was always in the I need a full on real file system,
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operating system, command prompt, terminal, etc, etc stuff. And you’re like, “No, no,
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I can do everything you don’t.” And I was like, “Yeah, but I can’t.” So I’m curious,
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though, where are you at right now?
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I was always using a Mac. I’ve never not been loving the Mac and using the Mac. It’s just
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that I had an iMac and I didn’t always want to be at my computer desk. And when I wasn’t
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at my computer desk, my iPad Pro was what I was using. And the thing about the iPad
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operating system, iPad OS is, it’s so nice to use
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that it kind of sucks you in.
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And pretty soon you realize,
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I want to use this for everything.
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And you’re willing to put up with a lot of paper cuts
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because what you see is that the things
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that most people consider to be limits of the iPad,
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I can’t do this, I can’t do that.
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Yes, you absolutely can.
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So those people are correct in that,
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yeah, there are limits that are gonna keep you
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from getting your work done if you do certain types of work,
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but they’re not the limits you think they are.
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They’re elsewhere.
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They’re other pain points.
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But there are pain points.
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There are problems.
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And once I started doing a lot of web development,
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I started rapidly realizing that the iPad Pro
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was making it painful and difficult.
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We talked about text editors and IDEs last time.
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Yes.
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The iPad Pro cannot and will not,
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unless iPadOS changes dramatically.
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It cannot and will not ever match the Mac or any computer
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in terms of proper IDE support with language server support
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with all the plugins that you need
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in order to quickly do your work.
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Yes, there are good text editors,
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but they will be slow because they won’t auto-complete,
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they won’t show you errors that happen before you compile,
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they won’t show you a lot of those things.
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And not only that,
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but you’ll be SSHing into some other computer
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to actually run this stuff.
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Absolutely.
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And so, and I know Federico Viticiu
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has talked about this and people are gonna think,
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oh, everyone’s copying Federico.
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No, I had already come to this conclusion
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before Federico openly started talking about
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how he is mainly using the Mac as his work device now
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instead of the iPad Pro.
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It’s just, I had to, once I made the decision,
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I was like, that’s great, I can’t afford a Mac right now.
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I waited a few months after I was already
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heavily leaning that way
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before I was able to get my MacBook Pro.
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But there is a reason why so many people
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are coming to this conclusion at once.
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And I think the nail in the coffin is,
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when we saw stage manager,
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initially the reaction was, “Oh, amazing.
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”Apple’s gonna give us windowing on the iPad.
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”This is gonna be great.”
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It’s not great.
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Is it?
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(laughs)
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It’s great if you’re not a power user.
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Yeah.
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And I say that, that sounds jerky because I’m sure there are some power users who like
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Stage Manager.
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But it arbitrarily rearranges things.
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You can only have so many window groups.
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They tend to disappear once you create it.
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You know, it’s just a mess.
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It’s just a freaking mess.
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And on the Mac it’s even worse because like, let’s say you have a group of apps that you’re
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working with in Stage Manager.
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You want to open a Finder window.
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Why would you open a Finder window when you’re working on another app?
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to do something that requires both of those together.
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You’re dragging a file, you’re doing something.
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So what does it do?
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It always opens Finder in its own new little stage
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and all those other apps are elsewhere.
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And then you got to clump them to get, it’s just,
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it’s ridiculous, right?
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So realizing that Apple is never going to put the Pro
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in iPad Pro or feeling like they’re never going to,
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I think, I think stage manager was a big nail
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in the coffin for a lot of people.
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Okay.
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Finally, the biggest point that I want to make is the thing that I, the reason the iPad
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Pro was my portable device for so long is that the thing that I have always hated about
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laptops is the noise, the heat, the incredible compromise that they are.
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And he says that as I look down at my M2 MacBook Air, which is silent and at about room temperature.
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And I say that as I look down at my M1 Pro MacBook Pro, which is silent.
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Ambient almost.
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Ambient.
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Mmm.
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Running so many applications at once and not caring.
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Right.
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That’s the thing, Apple Silicon changed the game.
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Now you can have a laptop that is as quiet as a tablet most of the time.
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It is way more performant, it can run way more things, it can multitask, and when you
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open the lid, you don’t have to, like on my work laptop, if it’s been a while I open the
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I have to wait. I have to wait. Oh, there’s the Lenovo thing. Okay. Now I have to wait. Oh, Windows is popping up
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Oh good. Oh, but oh no, I’m plugged into my external monitor
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so now I actually can’t do anything because now it has to go through the process of realizing it’s connected to things and
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It really won’t take my key input until finally it’s done switching all the screens on and off three times
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And now you don’t have that with the Mac. You don’t have that with Apple silicon you open the lid and it’s on BAM
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You are in your apps and you’re using them right away. Just like clicking the on button on a tablet
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Apple silicon really changed the game. Yep in terms of taking. What are the pain points out of a portable Mac and
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Getting rid of them. It’s still not a tablet. It still has a hinge
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It still has a keyboard in the way
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So it’s not as nice for video. Although this screen is way better than the iPad that I currently have
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It’s not as good for certain things
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You can’t take an Apple pencil and draw art on it like my daughter does with her iPad Pro
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The iPad Pro is amazing for that. Yes
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My iPad Pro, now hers, had cellular. You can’t beat that! Loved it.
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But those are the areas where the iPad excels and it’s just not enough for what I do.
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Right. So I love my iPad Mini.
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So not as much when I work here at my main desk, where I’ve got a full, you know, key—
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Well, I use the laptop keyboard.
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I use a little tiny little Bluetooth mouse that I’ve talked about on the Blurring the Lines podcast with Adam.
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Just, you know, perfectly accessible.
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You’ve talked about your small mouse before.
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Yeah, my small mouse. But when I work downstairs at the breakfast bar, I have my iPad mini and I’ll
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use it as a secondary display, or I use whatever they call the option to control the iPad with the
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keyboard and mouse from the laptop. But what I love is the ability to quickly annotate a document.
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Like if I take a screenshot on the Mac, grabbing the Apple pencil, circling like, “Click here,
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stupid,” and sending it, you know, like that is just amazing. And signing documents,
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as opposed to like clicking, you know, going into the preview, going to the menu, drop down,
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picking a signature, dragging and dropping, you know, being able to just grab the pencil and
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write that. I love that. And so I think a lot sometimes like, okay, maybe I should consider
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getting a bigger iPad next time. And with the intention that 90% of the time I’d be using it,
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it would be as a secondary display for my laptop. Which is kind of funny because they make perfectly
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cheap 15-inch retina displays that you can just grab and tack on to these laptops. And I’ve
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thought about those. I guess I’ve seen some of their touchscreen, but they’re not iPads.
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But you have an external display on your computer right now, right?
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Absolutely. I’m looking at you on it right now.
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Right. So this would be a third monitor sitting on the other side.
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Like if I do it upstairs, yes. But when I sit downstairs in the kitchen,
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that’s when I just have that.
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Oh, gotcha. Yeah, yeah. Right. Okay.
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And also sometimes when I just sit on the couch.
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Put your iPad on the stand and…
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Yeah, exactly. But sometimes I just sit on the couch and I’ll grab my iPad. But more and more,
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I’m finding when I’m going to be sitting on the couch, I’m taking notes on something,
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which again, I really like the small iPad mini form factor.
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Yeah.
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But sometimes like, okay, I could probably cope with something a little larger, maybe, you know,
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but I like not having to carry and hold something larger. Like holding an iPad with one hand while
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writing on it, that gets old. Now I haven’t tried that with an iPad Air, so I really don’t know what
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that’s like, but I like the small iPad mini form factor. I like it for reading books, I like it for
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reading comics, I like it for watching YouTube, I like it for taking notes.
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Would I like a bigger iPad better? It’s hard to say, I’m not sure.
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So take everything I’m about to say with a grain of salt because for a long time
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I was Mr. I can do everything I need to on my iPad.
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The iPad that I currently have is an iPad Air. It’s not the latest iPad Air, it’s like a model
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before that or maybe a couple models. Anyway, it doesn’t have the best screen, it doesn’t have some
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some of the current features of the current iPad Air,
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but it’s about the same size.
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So it’s not as heavy as an iPad Pro by any means,
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and it’s not as big as the 12.9-inch iPad Pro
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that I was using that I gave to my daughter.
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Okay.
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Now what my iPad mostly is for me is
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fitness plus workouts,
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reading books, watching YouTube, watching movies,
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and reading other stuff like stuff that I put in good links
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from the web, stuff like that.
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It’s a great reading device.
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However, if I could pick one iPad,
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and I am going to always be in a one iPad person at most,
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I would get an iPad mini because primarily I’m reading,
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and holding an iPad mini for reading
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is so much more comfortable than holding an iPad Air,
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even the iPad Air that I have,
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which is not as heavy as even the 11-inch iPad Pro.
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So I don’t know.
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I would say go to an Apple store
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and see if you can spend time using an iPad.
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Yeah, and that’s the thing is I do, I can do that.
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And even if I do though, it’s, I can’t like, I don’t know,
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maybe they would let me pick one up
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and sit down on like one of their chairs or something,
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but it’s not like the same as sitting on my couch,
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you know, the same use cases and stuff.
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But I should probably just try that again, you know.
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iPad mini is a pretty amazing size.
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Right, yeah, I really like it.
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And when they didn’t make it for,
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Well, it was a couple of years or so around COVID
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or so they stopped doing it.
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I had an old one for a while and then I got rid of it
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because it was getting slow and there was no iPad mini.
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There was a dry spell for a while
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and then they finally got it.
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And as soon as it came back, I was like, boom, next day,
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ship it to me.
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And I like having, I do like having a little iPad in my life
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it’s, I think I get value out of that.
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I’m not gonna say, so what I’m not gonna say,
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because it looks like an about face for me
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go from proclaiming the iPad Pro can do way more than people say and why would you need
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a Mac laptop to having a Mac laptop.
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I’m not going to say that it’s not an about face and I’m not going to try to pretend that,
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well, at the time I was right, now I’m right for this time.
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Not necessarily, I don’t know.
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It’s just an experimentation, right?
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Like it is me changing my mind about how I want to work, about what can meet my working
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needs.
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I heard that.
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And it’s just me changing my mind, and that’s perfectly fine.
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I’m certainly not going to pretend like I was right when I was defending iPad Pro to
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you as it could do your work cases.
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In hindsight, no, you were correct for your work cases.
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You said, earlier you were categorizing it as, “maybe iPad Pro could do this, couldn’t
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do that.”
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Let me phrase it this way.
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your workflows, the way you continue to do it using a full desktop OS quote in a laptop
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or whatever. That was the most efficient and optimal use case for you. And I do agree with
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that. Maybe I didn’t agree with it at the time, but I was wrong on that point, I think.
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Well, it’s very big of you.
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No, it’s just true.
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Yeah. And you can also change your mind over time too.
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That’s the thing. It’s just a change of mind. That’s the other thing too, is when you…
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Like I became very good with shortcuts.
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I created a lot of very complex workflows for publishing podcasts, publishing blog posts,
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doing all these things.
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But oh my God, it doesn’t matter how great you are at shortcuts, automation on the Mac
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is always going to be so much better.
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And once you give up and you start putting all your automations on the Mac, you just
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have that feeling of, oh my God, that’s where I do feel like I wasted my time.
00:24:13.820 —> 00:24:15.700
Man, I could have been doing this the whole time.
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And you know, so like I have been working on shortcuts, right?
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And I never got anywhere near your level of that.
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To me, I’m like, “Give me a prompt, give me some curly braces or some indents and some
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Python or some Perl or something, and I can just be so much more productive.”
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I tried.
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I made a couple of cute little shortcuts that I use almost every day.
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I’ve replaced my meditation apps with one that’s pretty much just a simple timer.
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I just say, “Hey, Dingus, start a meditation.”
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It asks me for how long, I say a number and it sets a meditation for that many minutes.
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It turns on “Do Not Disturb”, it starts a timer, it adds an entry into my calendar,
00:24:59.580 —> 00:25:04.360
and then it waits that many minutes and when that much time has elapsed, it logs in the
00:25:04.360 —> 00:25:08.960
Apple Health app the mindfulness minutes.
00:25:08.960 —> 00:25:15.420
And then it displays a message that says “Meditation logged”, except it doesn’t do it in that order.
00:25:15.420 —> 00:25:20.400
It gets started, runs through the drop of the shortcut, and says, “Meditation logged!“
00:25:20.400 —> 00:25:21.960
But everything else works fine.
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And I’m like, “But wait, why did you just do it?
00:25:24.320 —> 00:25:27.280
You’re clearly the last action in the whole shortcut.
00:25:27.280 —> 00:25:31.880
You haven’t actually logged the meditation, but you said that you did.”
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And I’m like, “How do I troubleshoot this?“
00:25:35.120 —> 00:25:37.440
Are you running this from your phone or your watch?
00:25:37.440 —> 00:25:41.640
The phone, because the watch doesn’t have the access to the health app.
00:25:41.640 —> 00:25:43.760
Okay, right.
00:25:43.760 —> 00:25:46.420
Share that shortcut with me and I’ll take a look at it on my phone.
00:25:46.420 —> 00:25:48.580
But the chances are, Peter, it’s just a bug.
00:25:48.580 —> 00:25:51.340
It’s just some shortcuts timing bug.
00:25:51.340 —> 00:25:54.420
Because there’s so many bugs with shortcuts.
00:25:54.420 —> 00:25:58.660
Mostly more on the Mac, but there’s shortcut bugs everywhere.
00:25:58.660 —> 00:26:00.580
But anyway, I like shortcuts.
00:26:00.580 —> 00:26:02.380
Shortcuts have cool…
00:26:02.380 —> 00:26:03.380
There are lots of cool things.
00:26:03.380 —> 00:26:08.940
And I only found out through you, for instance, that you can use personal automations to run
00:26:08.940 —> 00:26:11.220
shortcuts.
00:26:11.220 —> 00:26:15.540
And when I found that out, I was like, “Holy cow, that’s awesome.
00:26:15.540 —> 00:26:16.540
That’s really cool.
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When I arrive home, do this,” or something like that.
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So that’s pretty cool.
00:26:20.260 —> 00:26:22.260
So there’s a lot of power there.
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I like it.
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Yeah, it’s funny, though.
00:26:24.980 —> 00:26:28.660
The coolest one that I made, not the most complex by far.
00:26:28.660 —> 00:26:34.260
The most complex ones were my blog and podcast episode publishing ones, which also updated
00:26:34.260 —> 00:26:39.760
my Git repos, pushed stuff to the web, did all these tweaking of files and changing of
00:26:39.760 —> 00:26:42.680
of formats to match things that my server needed
00:26:42.680 —> 00:26:43.960
for compilation time.
00:26:43.960 —> 00:26:48.560
But the one that I liked the most was a drafts.
00:26:48.560 —> 00:26:51.280
So I had a drafts JavaScript action
00:26:51.280 —> 00:26:55.000
and the JavaScript action in drafts would call a shortcut
00:26:55.000 —> 00:26:57.860
and the shortcut would open a photos picker.
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Let me choose a photo.
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Then based on some parameters I gave it
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like what size do I want it to be?
00:27:04.400 —> 00:27:05.620
What do I want the alt text to be?
00:27:05.620 —> 00:27:07.160
What do I want the title to be
00:27:07.160 —> 00:27:09.400
if I caption it like a figure?
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And then it would insert it into drafts.
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It would copy the images that were modified appropriately to both my repo and to the drafts
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preview folder.
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And that to me was cool because right from drafts I could get a photo and I wouldn’t
00:27:23.800 —> 00:27:26.760
have to drag and drop it to a location in the drafts thing.
00:27:26.760 —> 00:27:29.520
I wouldn’t have to name things.
00:27:29.520 —> 00:27:31.800
I just chose a photo and it was all done for me.
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And to me that was one of the most fun shortcuts I made.
00:27:35.720 —> 00:27:37.320
Shortcuts is good on the Mac too.
00:27:37.320 —> 00:27:43.840
It can actually do, of course, it can do some things that it can’t do on iPadOS and iOS,
00:27:43.840 —> 00:27:45.640
but it’s also buggy as hell.
00:27:45.640 —> 00:27:51.400
Anyway, that’s just a long way of saying I’m working on this blog post because I want to
00:27:51.400 —> 00:27:58.080
make the case for why I’m not the only one changing my mind and why I don’t think it’s
00:27:58.080 —> 00:27:59.360
just a bandwagon thing.
00:27:59.360 —> 00:28:03.640
I think it’s just a time when people have been beating their heads against the limits
00:28:03.640 —> 00:28:09.800
for so long now have the best Macs that have ever been made. And they’re saying, why am
00:28:09.800 —> 00:28:12.660
I still beating my head when I have this other thing?
00:28:12.660 —> 00:28:17.800
And so I’m curious, besides Federico, like who else are these people when you say all
00:28:17.800 —> 00:28:21.720
these people are, you know, are dropping it and changing and stuff? Cause I’m not clued
00:28:21.720 —> 00:28:23.080
in like,
00:28:23.080 —> 00:28:27.980
Well, it’s not a gigantic list, but there’s a guy named Chris Lawley who does a lot of
00:28:27.980 —> 00:28:34.000
iPad videos on YouTube. He makes his living just doing his YouTube channel now. And Chris
00:28:34.000 —> 00:28:39.620
Lawley is kind of known in the Apple community for his productivity videos. And I also like
00:28:39.620 —> 00:28:44.820
him because he doesn’t have to do YouTube-based to trigger the algorithms. He still has some
00:28:44.820 —> 00:28:51.180
self-respect. Now he’s lately been shifting a lot back towards the Mac, and he’s got a
00:28:51.180 —> 00:28:55.980
lot of Mac videos now too. He still does use the iPad, but he does a lot of his work on
00:28:55.980 —> 00:29:02.000
his Mac and it kind of all started when he was using, what is the name of the Mac app
00:29:02.000 —> 00:29:04.680
that does the video, I can’t even remember, LumaFusion.
00:29:04.680 —> 00:29:10.260
He used to use LumaFusion on the iPad Pro to edit his videos and at some point it became
00:29:10.260 —> 00:29:14.080
buggy enough that it trashed a couple of different videos of his and he said that’s it.
00:29:14.080 —> 00:29:18.800
I’m going back to the Mac and I’m going to use Final Cut.
00:29:18.800 —> 00:29:25.140
And that was the start of it and then Apple Silicon continued that trend for him.
00:29:25.140 —> 00:29:30.120
And I will say one of the things that I didn’t mention about the iPad is the iPad Pro with
00:29:30.120 —> 00:29:33.580
a Magic Keyboard is a very pro price.
00:29:33.580 —> 00:29:35.640
It probably costs more than your MacBook Pro.
00:29:35.640 —> 00:29:36.640
I think it does.
00:29:36.640 —> 00:29:37.640
Or at least about the same as.
00:29:37.640 —> 00:29:38.640
Yeah.
00:29:38.640 —> 00:29:39.640
Well, I don’t know.
00:29:39.640 —> 00:29:40.640
I popped it up.
00:29:40.640 —> 00:29:43.920
You know, I bumped up the hard drive and RAM and stuff like that.
00:29:43.920 —> 00:29:48.440
But the entry level price of the MacBook Pro is like $1299, isn’t it?
00:29:48.440 —> 00:29:49.440
Right.
00:29:49.440 —> 00:29:50.580
And the Air and the…
00:29:50.580 —> 00:29:51.760
And I have a MacBook Air though.
00:29:51.760 —> 00:29:54.400
I don’t have a MacBook Pro, but still.
00:29:54.400 —> 00:29:56.480
So it’s a very pro-price.
00:29:56.480 —> 00:29:58.440
If you’re doing power user workflows,
00:29:58.440 —> 00:29:59.920
let’s say you’re editing podcasts,
00:29:59.920 —> 00:30:01.100
let’s say you’re editing video,
00:30:01.100 —> 00:30:03.080
let’s say you’re doing programming
00:30:03.080 —> 00:30:05.120
and get repos and stuff like that,
00:30:05.120 —> 00:30:10.120
you are dependent on like one or at most two apps
00:30:10.120 —> 00:30:13.000
in each of those categories.
00:30:13.000 —> 00:30:16.920
And if any of those guys goes away, you’re screwed.
00:30:16.920 —> 00:30:19.720
There are no alternatives.
00:30:19.720 —> 00:30:21.620
You can never say that on the Mac.
00:30:21.620 —> 00:30:22.960
You always have alternatives.
00:30:22.960 —> 00:30:27.200
You may not like them as much, but you always have tons of apps to choose from to get the
00:30:27.200 —> 00:30:28.360
job, whatever the job is.
00:30:28.360 —> 00:30:33.600
He’s got Homebrew and Fink and all these other open source repositories too, you know, to
00:30:33.600 —> 00:30:38.400
all these, you know, GNU and related utilities.
00:30:38.400 —> 00:30:46.720
But on the iPad Pro, not only are you subject to this poor developer who’s fighting the
00:30:46.720 —> 00:30:52.000
economy of the App Store, which is race to the bottom prices, so that it’s very hard
00:30:52.000 —> 00:30:57.280
to make a living on iOS and iPadOS apps anyway, or to justify the amount of time you’re putting
00:30:57.280 —> 00:31:00.060
in if it’s not your main job.
00:31:00.060 —> 00:31:04.680
But you’re also at the mercy of Apple’s capriciousness when it comes to their app store reviews.
00:31:04.680 —> 00:31:07.960
You can have an app in the store for three years and all of a sudden it gets rejected
00:31:07.960 —> 00:31:08.960
for something stupid.
00:31:08.960 —> 00:31:13.360
Yeah, and you know what I think what’s going on too, it just came to me, maybe it was your
00:31:13.360 —> 00:31:16.520
description, maybe it’s the amount of time I’ve been thinking this over, maybe it’s this
00:31:16.520 —> 00:31:17.520
beer.
00:31:17.520 —> 00:31:18.520
It’s the beer.
00:31:18.520 —> 00:31:19.520
It is probably the beer.
00:31:19.520 —> 00:31:25.680
thought about though was it seems like to get the iPad to work the way I want it to,
00:31:25.680 —> 00:31:33.120
essentially I was always trying to make it act like a Mac, right?
00:31:33.120 —> 00:31:35.040
Right, which you can’t do.
00:31:35.040 —> 00:31:40.480
Which you can’t do, but the other thing is it always felt like it was a hack, right? You know,
00:31:40.480 —> 00:31:45.600
getting an SSH prompt, getting a text editor, getting, you know, all these things that I was
00:31:45.600 —> 00:31:50.560
used to. What I remember is you would tell me things like, “Yeah, but you don’t need to do it.
00:31:50.560 —> 00:31:55.760
It’s a different way of doing it and stuff.” And I was like, “Okay, I get it. I don’t want to learn
00:31:55.760 —> 00:32:02.240
a new way of doing things. I’ve got a perfectly valid way to do things, which in the normal
00:32:02.240 —> 00:32:09.840
desktop operating system paradigm works just fine.” So it always felt to me though, things like
00:32:09.840 —> 00:32:15.120
shortcuts and all these third-party apps that I had to keep on buying to make it like, “Oh,
00:32:15.120 —> 00:32:17.980
oh, you can do this, but you just need to buy this text editor.
00:32:17.980 —> 00:32:19.320
Oh, you want to SSH files?
00:32:19.320 —> 00:32:21.340
Well, you don’t need to SSH to this server.
00:32:21.340 —> 00:32:23.120
You can just buy this text editor
00:32:23.120 —> 00:32:25.800
that includes built-in SFTP.
00:32:25.800 —> 00:32:27.960
And I was like, okay, right, I get it.
00:32:27.960 —> 00:32:29.780
But for me, it just was like,
00:32:29.780 —> 00:32:34.260
it always seemed like a huge hill to climb without,
00:32:34.260 —> 00:32:36.320
I couldn’t see the benefit at the end of it.
00:32:36.320 —> 00:32:38.320
That was my take.
00:32:38.320 —> 00:32:39.400
You know what the funny thing is?
00:32:39.400 —> 00:32:42.880
The app that I was using for SSH on iPadOS,
00:32:42.880 —> 00:32:43.960
Secure Shellfish?
00:32:43.960 —> 00:32:45.340
Yeah, which I still have.
00:32:45.340 —> 00:32:47.060
I’m actually using the Mac version of that
00:32:47.060 —> 00:32:48.720
as my default Mac terminal.
00:32:48.720 —> 00:32:49.560
Oh, no kidding.
00:32:49.560 —> 00:32:52.080
And it logs into local host to do my Mac stuff.
00:32:52.080 —> 00:32:54.480
And it logs into other servers to do my server stuff.
00:32:54.480 —> 00:32:56.280
And I love it and I use it.
00:32:56.280 —> 00:32:58.220
So they make a separate app or are you running,
00:32:58.220 —> 00:33:00.140
you’re not running the iOS version on your Mac,
00:33:00.140 —> 00:33:00.980
I’m assuming.
00:33:00.980 —> 00:33:01.820
This is a separate version?
00:33:01.820 —> 00:33:03.000
No, it’s a Mac version.
00:33:03.000 —> 00:33:03.840
Got it.
00:33:03.840 —> 00:33:04.660
I don’t use, I never,
00:33:04.660 —> 00:33:06.460
I wasn’t already using the default terminal.
00:33:06.460 —> 00:33:08.460
I tried things like iTerm2,
00:33:08.460 —> 00:33:09.960
and I tried another one that was pretty good,
00:33:09.960 —> 00:33:11.560
but it was too slow.
00:33:11.560 —> 00:33:15.400
And then I said, “Hey, I didn’t realize secure shellfish runs on the Mac.”
00:33:15.400 —> 00:33:18.800
Because I saw something he posted and I was like, “Hey, I always liked that guy.
00:33:18.800 —> 00:33:20.400
I love his app, so I’m going to give it a try.”
00:33:20.400 —> 00:33:21.800
And for me, it works.
00:33:21.800 —> 00:33:23.940
It may not work for you and that’s fine.
00:33:23.940 —> 00:33:28.400
So I’m searching for shellfish in the app store and I’m not seeing it.
00:33:28.400 —> 00:33:30.200
All right, let me give you a link.
00:33:30.200 —> 00:33:33.400
I found SSH files and SSH client.
00:33:33.400 —> 00:33:36.600
I searched for just shellfish.
00:33:36.600 —> 00:33:43.000
And I found four SSH utilities and an HTML editor.
00:33:43.000 —> 00:33:46.440
It came right up for me, but it’s probably because I’ve gone to that page and downloaded
00:33:46.440 —> 00:33:47.720
it before.
00:33:47.720 —> 00:33:48.960
Here’s the link for it.
00:33:48.960 —> 00:33:52.000
It says Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch apps available.
00:33:52.000 —> 00:33:55.800
So even if you went to it on your iPad, it’s the same link, basically.
00:33:55.800 —> 00:33:56.800
Okay.
00:33:56.800 —> 00:33:57.800
There it is.
00:33:57.800 —> 00:34:00.520
Well, it’s telling me to just download it on my Mac.
00:34:00.520 —> 00:34:01.520
Right.
00:34:01.520 —> 00:34:03.000
Yeah, you don’t have to pay more.
00:34:03.000 —> 00:34:04.000
Oh, cool.
00:34:04.000 —> 00:34:06.360
And you can restore purchases to get your premium purchases or whatever.
00:34:06.360 —> 00:34:11.720
Cool. I mean, I like it on the thing. And that’s the thing. I used to use one called,
00:34:11.720 —> 00:34:16.880
I think it was ISSH. I think that’s what I was using as my main thing for a long time.
00:34:16.880 —> 00:34:22.200
And it was great. And then they moved to a subscription model, which just, I was just
00:34:22.200 —> 00:34:31.520
like, “Ugh.” It just turned me off. And in hindsight, they wanted you to subscribe to
00:34:31.520 —> 00:34:34.280
like save your files and stuff, I think.
00:34:34.280 —> 00:34:36.980
Right. Yeah, yeah, that’s ridiculous.
00:34:36.980 —> 00:34:39.720
So the way I set it up, Peter, was for the Mac.
00:34:39.720 —> 00:34:42.920
I just, when I set up the server configuration,
00:34:42.920 —> 00:34:44.120
you know how in Secure Shelfish,
00:34:44.120 —> 00:34:45.440
you add a bunch of different servers?
00:34:45.440 —> 00:34:48.640
I just set up one that said localhost is the address.
00:34:48.640 —> 00:34:50.160
That gives it the local terminal.
00:34:50.160 —> 00:34:51.000
That’s funny.
00:34:51.000 —> 00:34:52.800
Isn’t that great?
00:34:52.800 —> 00:34:54.800
I mean, I’ve been pretty happy with the whole,
00:34:54.800 —> 00:34:56.020
just the Mac terminal,
00:34:56.020 —> 00:34:58.680
but I know a lot of people use a different one.
00:34:58.680 —> 00:34:59.800
And you may still prefer it.
00:34:59.800 —> 00:35:01.720
You may still, there’s no problem.
00:35:01.720 —> 00:35:02.560
I’m just telling you what I’m doing.
00:35:02.560 —> 00:35:04.080
So this is, I find this,
00:35:04.080 —> 00:35:05.080
This is kind of funny.
00:35:05.080 —> 00:35:07.800
So it, I just installed Secure Shellfish
00:35:07.800 —> 00:35:12.200
and it has all of my PCs, all of my Linux hosts and servers,
00:35:12.200 —> 00:35:13.520
everything is right there.
00:35:13.520 —> 00:35:19.440
But I have to click Pro Unlock and restore my purchases.
00:35:19.440 —> 00:35:20.520
I just think it’s,
00:35:20.520 —> 00:35:21.520
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:35:21.520 —> 00:35:25.000
I think it’s funny that I have to restore the purchases,
00:35:25.000 —> 00:35:26.920
but it knows all of my stuff.
00:35:26.920 —> 00:35:27.760
So that’s-
00:35:27.760 —> 00:35:29.800
Yeah, that’s an Apple thing.
00:35:29.800 —> 00:35:31.640
That’s just how it works.
00:35:31.640 —> 00:35:33.320
That’s not due to the developer.
00:35:33.320 —> 00:35:36.720
Yeah, I get that. Things make me chuckle.
00:35:36.720 —> 00:35:39.920
Anyway, the one part of the detour
00:35:39.920 —> 00:35:42.540
down the iPad Pro route that I don’t regret is
00:35:42.540 —> 00:35:47.020
I never regret making myself say,
00:35:47.020 —> 00:35:49.300
”This thing does not work the same as the other thing,
00:35:49.300 —> 00:35:52.100
and I have to figure out how to do the equivalent
00:35:52.100 —> 00:35:53.400
the way this thing wants me to.”
00:35:53.400 —> 00:35:54.940
I never regret that,
00:35:54.940 —> 00:35:57.540
because I have to do that in my job all the time.
00:35:57.540 —> 00:35:59.320
And it just helps to have
00:35:59.320 —> 00:36:01.700
a mentally flexible attitude that way.
00:36:01.700 —> 00:36:04.100
It was like way back when, last episode we talked about it,
00:36:04.100 —> 00:36:06.400
I switched my wife from Windows to Mac.
00:36:06.400 —> 00:36:08.900
She kept trying to do certain things the Windows way.
00:36:08.900 —> 00:36:11.780
It’s just human nature, right?
00:36:11.780 —> 00:36:12.620
Yeah, I get that.
00:36:12.620 —> 00:36:13.860
And those things were never gonna work.
00:36:13.860 —> 00:36:16.120
Once she got adapted to the Mac way,
00:36:16.120 —> 00:36:19.940
she did not miss Windows one tiny little bit,
00:36:19.940 —> 00:36:22.020
but it took a little bit of adjustment for her.
00:36:22.020 —> 00:36:22.860
Right.
00:36:22.860 —> 00:36:26.180
So the thing that I don’t regret about the iPad
00:36:26.180 —> 00:36:28.440
is it taught me a lot of flexibility in terms of,
00:36:28.440 —> 00:36:30.400
well, okay, I can’t do,
00:36:30.400 —> 00:36:34.060
This isn’t a normal computer, how can I do this thing?
00:36:34.060 —> 00:36:37.640
And learning the shortcuts thing taught me a lot
00:36:37.640 —> 00:36:41.240
about automating in general, even though on the Mac,
00:36:41.240 —> 00:36:44.200
most of the automations I do on the Mac are not in shortcuts.
00:36:44.200 —> 00:36:47.560
So I don’t regret that, it’s just,
00:36:47.560 —> 00:36:49.140
could I have gone back to the Mac sooner?
00:36:49.140 —> 00:36:52.540
Yeah, kind of, but I never would have enjoyed it that much
00:36:52.540 —> 00:36:54.880
before the Apple Silicon transition anyway.
00:36:54.880 —> 00:36:57.460
So at most, I would say I was six months
00:36:57.460 —> 00:37:02.140
to maybe a year later than I could have gone back,
00:37:02.140 —> 00:37:03.900
but I couldn’t afford to,
00:37:03.900 —> 00:37:06.900
like I just can’t afford to switch devices that often.
00:37:06.900 —> 00:37:07.980
Well, there you go.
00:37:07.980 —> 00:37:09.080
But I’m certainly glad,
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I’m definitely glad I’m back where I’m at now.
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Welcome back.
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Yeah, and the iPad is great for text input,
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for drawing, and for media consumption.
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I totally agree with that.
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It is great for drawing, by the way.
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My daughter does some really nice artwork on hers
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using Procreate.
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and the Apple Pencil.
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Yep. I don’t do great.
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I just, I mark up a few things and annotate some things.
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But while you’ve been saying that,
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I have reconfigured and I added a local host configuration.
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And now I have a secure shellfish terminal on my Mac.
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Yeah. And the cool thing is,
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is if you like adding different themes and stuff,
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like with, oh my ZHS,
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Oh my ZHS.
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which is like a ZHS terminal theme.
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Like you can add different teams
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it’ll customize your prompt and do all kinds of stuff like that.
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If you like that kind of stuff, all that stuff just works in this,
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just like it should, you know,
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some of these theme names are pretty funny. Tomorrow, tomorrow night, light,
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Dracula. Oh brother.
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That’s pretty funny. Yeah. I wonder which one I’m using.
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I am using hyper CSH. Hyper CSH.
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Okay. I’ll keep that in mind. Yeah.
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And it does things like when you’re in a Git repo
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in your file system,
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it’ll show you the status of the Git repo,
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you know, in terms of what kind of prompt it shows you.
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It’ll show you if there’s changes,
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it’ll show you if you’re up to date with the commit,
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it’ll show you if you’re up to date with the remote repo,
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stuff like that.
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And it’s just in little symbols and colors
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that it shows you these things.
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It’s pretty cool.
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Got it. All right, cool.
00:38:47.680 —> 00:38:51.220
So anyway, I babbled on a long time, I apologize.
00:38:51.220 —> 00:38:57.020
And even though this was a 6% 12 ounce beer, it actually did hit me pretty hard
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because I haven’t eaten a lot of calories today, Peter.
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I have eaten enough calories and I ran for about three or so miles.
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My girlfriend decided recently that she wants to get into running.
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I did not drop her at all.
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And I went out of my way not to push her in any way towards this.
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Sure.
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But she decided that she wanted to do it and for we started about two weeks ago, and we’ve been running
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almost every day and
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So today we’ve got her on a walk run
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Build-up type of thing. So we’ll run for like a minute. What was that?
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I just paused because the echo is telling me to to do my laundry. I
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Forgot to tell it to not disturb me
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But I told you know like all of the s word and the Sonos stuff to not disturb me
00:39:54.760 —> 00:39:59.980
It’s like Peter I can smell your underwear from over here. It’s about time to do your pretty much pretty much
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So on that note dear listener, I need to go do my laundry
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So if you want to find us you already know how we’re at friendswithbrews.com. He’s Scott
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I am Peter he is
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She laughs every time.
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Oh, you’re appdot.net.net.
00:40:19.040 —> 00:40:22.960
Scott, where can people find you on Mastodon?
00:40:22.960 —> 00:40:26.800
It’s not appdot.net.net, it’s appdot.net@scottaw.com.
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There’s a link at Friends with Brews.
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There’s a link at Friends with Brews.
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App.net.net.
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And I am just…
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Just go to pn72.com.
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links to find me. I was gonna say just go to scottwillsey.com or just go to scottwillsey.com
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but how do you spell how do you say is that scott w-i-l-l space s-e-e like you know nope
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is it scott w-e apostrophe l-l-s-e-e just go to friendswithbrews.com and click on the
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just go to friendswithbrews.com that’s way easier yes on that note i think one of us
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maybe both of us should push the big red button i drink my big red beer tell your friends