It's time for the Mac Geek Gab and once again, Pilot Pete here bringing you this quick tip of the week.
If you're on your phone and you want to take a screenshot of an entire webpage, not just
what's on your screen, but everything that's below and to the left and to the right, what
you do is take your normal screenshot and when you pull up that window, at the top there's two little tabs.
One says screen and one says full page. If you tap the full page tab, then you get a scrolling window to the right, which will
allow you to scroll left and right and up and down to get the entire web page captured.
More quick tips like this, plus your questions answered today on the Mac Geek Gab, number
10-0-4 for Monday, October 23rd. It's 10-0-5, Pete.
I knew that. For 10-0-5, for Monday, October 23rd, 2023.
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Greetings, folks, and indeed, welcome to MacGeekGab 10.05. This is the show where every week, not just episode 10.05, but most episodes, we share
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in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. And here in Lee, New Hampshire is pilot Pete.
And I was just trying to prove, Dave, that time is indeed not linear. I liked last week so much,
I was trying to go back and do it again, but you know There's nothing wrong with that except except the parts that are incorrect, but you know other other than that like sure sure.
Well, that's that takes you a lot longer to get to show 2000 if you keep doing that right
Yeah, much better to introduce this as show 1021 because then we'll just get our way to 2000. We'll be there by Christmas.
Abdul has our next quick tip Pete and says.
With the standby mode that came as part of iOS 17 when my morning alarm goes off
I get nice big buttons on a widget to snooze or turn off my alarm,
However, I have also discovered that if I simply rotate my phone from you know landscape mode
Which is the standby mode to portrait mode leaving it on the charger that also turns off the alarm
This saves me from having to fumble to find the off button. I like that
That's a good little tip.
My follow-on to that tip, so I don't have to fumble to find the off button, is to throw
it across the room as hard as I can.
That shuts it up too, but it gets expensive really fast. It's not cheap.
And you know, those iPhone 15 Pro Maxs are in short supply still, so you kind of, you
know, you have to go without for a little while. Exactly. Exactly.
Excuse the dog barking in the background, if you can hear it.
Sorry about that. No, we don't hear it. AI magic seems to have removed it.
At least for me. There you go. Yeah. or FedEx has shown up.
I'm not sure which flavor of the day it is she's going after. But oh goodness.
So yeah, so JP also wrote in with a, guess it was more of a question actually at first,
but he was talking about how come iOS 17 doesn't remember his alarm tone and you wrote him back about that.
But so I started playing with that and that's when I discovered,
and this is more of a public service announcement along with a quick tip.
I had my alarm set and I played it to see what tone I had and I could barely hear it.
Dave, I literally had to have the phone up next to my ear to hear the alarm and I'm going, what's going on?
Why is this, you know? So I went, all right.
Well, when I turned up the volume while the alarm was playing,
guess what it turned off?
The alarm. I went, all right. So I got to, so I turned it off. I set the volume.
Right, of course it does. Because that's another way to stop the alarm
is to hit one of the volume buttons.
So there's, you know, like a bonus little quick tip, right?
So bingo. Yeah. So the volume up on the alarm on the timer, turn, turn the volume up.
And I said another one. And by the way, you can send one for as little as, you know, two seconds, probably, I guess
that I didn't realize you could go less than a minute, but I was playing with it.
Wait, wait, wait, slow down.
Slow down. How do you set a time?
How do you set a timer for 10 seconds?
Really? Five seconds. I thought you had to do it at least. Oh, look at that.
You know what? I've seen that there before.
Never thought to use it. Carry on, please. Another quick tip in the middle of a quick tip. Yep. Which is turning into a longer tip. Yeah,
Here's the thing what it boiled down to is no matter how many times I turn the alarm volume up.
It would get it would go off and play and I'd have to hold the phone up to my ear and I go
There's no way on earth. I'm waking up to that.
I didn't know what to do. So, I finally figured it out. I went into settings.
Sounds and haptics, and moved the slider on ringtone alerts to the desired volume. In my case,
all the way up if I want to wake up. It finally remembered the volume of the alarms and timers.
So, for those of you out there that are going to use your brand new iPhone 15, 15 Pro, Max,
whichever one you got, make sure you have gone into sounds and haptics and turned up the volume
to an appropriate level, lest you get caught sleeping.
Nice.
Yeah. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would have burned me.
Yeah. Yeah. All right. This is why we do these, uh, these tips.
Uh, Tony Lawrence, uh, in our discord, uh, at, uh, mackiecap.com slash discord says, I just found out about this.
If you zoom a photo in photos, now crop appears in the upper right corner.
If you long press on crop there, you'll get even more options like full screen, original, wide screen, square, and you can, yeah, you can, right, yeah, that's pretty cool.
I, yeah, there's, Apple keeps doing these, these little things that they don't seem to document anywhere and, and then we wind up, you know, with material for the show. Speaking, okay.
I was gonna say, Dave, if they documented it, we wouldn't have anything to talk about.
Talk about it. Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry folks, show's over.
Getting new lips again.
All right.
Speaking of things that Apple doesn't document, I swear I didn't change what I'm about to talk about here and yet,
it burned me and I had to go change it again.
We were watching a movie on Saturday afternoon.
It was one of these days where we had like something in the morning and something in the evening and so it was like great.
Saturday afternoon, we're gonna have some chill time.
And it's October and so we were watching some, I think it was the new Pet Sematary movie or something.
It's okay. It's okay. It's fine, but it's really dark like like like like visually dark,
because a lot of it happens at night, but it was like and so we were watching during the day and,
Like we understand that things are gonna be a little like the contrast of sunlight coming in the windows isn't optimal when you're watching like
A dark spooky movie, but fine like we knew that going in Yeah, but it was like so dark that there were some scenes where it was like I can't even see what's going on and.
I'm like, you know, this seems too much and I knew we were watching An HDR version of the movie high dynamic range
yeah, and I also like in the back of my head like again, we were using this as like a.
An excuse to just chill on the couch a little bit and watch a movie that's okay, but not terrible not great
And so it wasn't like it took me a little bit to start thinking about it like wait a minute. Okay, I,
think there's something wrong because something about HDR,
If it's shown on a non HDR screen now our screen is HDR Our Apple TV is HDR compatible like all we have all of the things,
But something in my head said this might not be making it through as HDR if the TV doesn't know it's HDR,
then it's not going to decode this properly and we're going to get things that are too dark,
or not looking correct.
So I was like, all right, hang on. Is everybody okay with me taking five minutes
and like troubleshooting? And they were like, yeah, obviously.
See you in an hour, Dave. No, no. So I didn't even have to get off the couch,
but I went in to my Apple TV settings.
I went to video and audio, and I realized that I was basically set on Dolby Vision,
whatever they call it, Dolby Vision Pro or Dolby Vision thing, and that the.
Specifically the match content settings were turned off. What match content does
is it says yeah by default you're gonna be in Dolby Vision mode because your TV
supports that and the Apple TV prefers that, but with match content off it says
we're always gonna just send everything through and tell the output source aka
the TV that we're in Dolby Vision mode. Whereas you can tell it to match the content. You can
tell it to match dynamic range and also match frame rate and you can choose either or both of these.
As soon as I turned that on and we resumed the movie everything was so much better and I watched,
right as soon as I pressed play I watched my TV jump from Dolby Vision mode to HDR mode and when,
it did like we could see things like it was still dark because it was at night but we could at least
see characters on the screen as opposed to just like I hear the voices yeah yeah so I don't know
when this changed but my TV used to do this and I've never changed it so it's possible it changed
with iOS 17 or tvOS 17 but it's also possible it just changed it somewhere along the line. So again,
go into your Apple TV settings do it like you know before you notice a problem. Apple TV settings,
video and audio and when I say Apple TV settings I mean just the settings app on your Apple TV.
Video and audio, match content and then decide for your setup what you want. For me I want
match dynamic range to be on and match frame rate to be on. I want to let my TV do what my TV is going to be good at.
And so it does its thing.
Yeah. So what would happen if you didn't match your frame rate?
That seems kind of it would adapt it, right?
Like you, you, you, if you're super picky, you might notice some visual differences, but like some jumpy.
Yeah, maybe. I don't know.
Like, I'm sure there are people, I don't mean to be dismissive of this, it's not a thing I notice.
But there are things, say, about sound that I do notice that most people don't.
I was going to say, I bet you notice the audio issues. Correct, yeah, exactly. Yeah.
So, yeah, if you're tuned into that, you'd probably see it, but I figure why not?
Again, my TV is built to do this.
Really what it is, is I want to trust my TV, so let me give it all the information I can,
and let it decide what to do, as opposed to letting my Apple TV be a filter in the middle there.
So great. Okay.
Yeah. So, uh, that's, that's, uh, so I recommend that. And then of course, while I was messing around with the Apple TV, I was like, how do you get to the, the control center again?
And you get to the control center on your Apple TV by holding down the, uh, the TV button, like the button is right above the volume, but that's on the, on the current remote.
On the Apple TV remote. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But while you're there, you can navigate to the little picture of the home icon.
If you have home kit set up in your home.
And from there, I, that's why I couldn't do this. I don't have home kit set up. Got it. Yeah.
And, and then you can see your home view, which includes being able to see cameras and all of the things. And it's cool.
The, the camera view, I don't know how long it had been since I had messed with this on there.
I'm able to see, I have like eight cameras now. It's crazy.
And I'm able to see all of them in a grid view, or I can zoom in on them and you can set settings
for the cameras so that like, if you have a doorbell, that it automatically interrupts your TV and shows you
who's at the door and like those sorts of things. So, yeah.
Oh, that's awesome. I need to set up HomeKit, be able to do that then.
So I have a couple of HomeKit cameras that are actually HomeKit cameras.
Like I've got the Eufy cams, right? And those, some of them are HomeKit compatible, but not all.
And then for the ones that are not, I run HomeBridge. And HomeBridge is a piece of software
that you run on some computer in your house. You can run it on your Mac. I run it on my
disk station, my Synology, you know, and my NAS. It's, you could run it on a Raspberry Pi.
It's fairly low CPU usage for what it does.
And so it's not a resource hog and it, it's a translation engine that takes non home kit stuff and
advertises it as home kit stuff is really what it is.
It doesn't work with everything, but there are plugins for it,
for most of the stuff that we would have talked about on the show,
including like the Eufy cams that don't have home kit.
Yeah. Is it, is it running like a matter type thing or is that? Nope.
It's just a translation engine. It is software and it works over your Wi-Fi network.
Oh, very cool. All right. I'd like to be able to do that. Yeah, because as I mentioned pre-show,
you know, I've got a UV cam and we actually caught some nefarious crud going on at our
place in Florida this very week. And I'd love to be able to have that.
I have found that Homebridge,
is, or HomeKit in general, is just super convenient. I don't, for like viewing cameras and controlling things,
just because it's so integrated into my phone and all my Apple devices, that there's an app for everyone,
not just for me, but for everybody in the house to be able to see and manipulate all of these things.
And so it's for that reason that I like to run HomeBridge because I don't have to worry about like, oh, is this device I'm buying specifically
HomeKit compatible? Like, I just need to make sure there's a plugin for HomeBridge.
And then I'm good to go. And I can use whatever I want to control these things,
but my family can just use the Home app. And, you know, especially for the cameras,
I'm almost always using the Home app. Like for my Ring cameras, I don't, you know, I can run the Ring
app. I certainly have it, but it's way easier to just like, you know, go to control center and
and you're good to go.
Right. Right. Well, that's yeah, I need to set that up on the, uh, on the Mac mini then and go from
there because I'll tell you that the funny thing that I think I mentioned this once before,
you know, Hey, S lady, turn off the living room lamp off.
Off it goes.
Right. And Hey, S lady, turn on the living room lamp. Uh, unable to do that.
Google apps says you're missing it. You know, like what?
Okay. Hey, S lady, turn off, turn on the lamp. You just turned off.
Yeah. Oh, okay. And it comes back on and you're like, oh, how did he get there?
Now it's taken to asking me, do you mean the one at, you know, your address?
Yeah. I'm like, well, no, next door. Turn on that one for me.
And of course at that address. Yes.
But it's now asking me questions and I have to answer yes or no to get the light to go.
I'm hoping this home bridge will fix some of that. Give me the ability to. Probably not.
I mean, well, because you're using HomeKit, right? If you're using the S-Lady to control things, that is HomeKit.
Yeah. So the HomeBridge isn't going to change any of that. It's just going to let you add more devices to that.
Okay. It's the same interface. Confuse her even more. Yeah, correct.
In turn confuse myself.
I will say the more, the more smart home devices I get, like the other day, I
wanted to change the colors of my outdoor lights.
Uh, we saw some lights downtown and I was like, Oh, I like that.
Look, somebody had like green and purple lights.
Uh, like I'm one of the churches in downtown Durham. I'm like, that looks great.
Like, that's what I want for our Halloween lights for outside.
And so as I was driving home, I'm telling the S-lady, all right, change front door left to green,
change front door right to purple, change driveway to green,
change, you know, there's another light or whatever.
And then there's the one in front of my office.
And I know that it's called Office Light. However, since installing that years ago,
I have also put six lights inside my office that are also part of Office.
And so, there is this light called Office Light, but I can't address it with my voice
because when I say, turn, make Office Light purple, it's like, which, no!
Which one do you want office front left, office front right, office mid left,
office mid right, office back left, office back right, right?
Cause I got six lights in my office.
And it's like, I want none of those. I want just the one on the front of the office,
but it's not called office front or office driveway or anything.
It's not office outdoor.
And so I couldn't, I literally, there was, I could not figure out how to do it.
So now I need to think about, maybe I do need to change that
to be like office driveway or office something.
How to go in and rename. Delineates what it is and all of that.
And then yes, the next day when I came into my office and turned on the lights,
they were all purple by the way.
So. Of course they were. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Anyway, all right, one last quick tip in today's bucket of quick tips comes from listener Rob.
Who shares that Apple Diagnostics also exists for Apple Silicon.
And this was not something he knew, it was also not something I knew.
So on Intel Macs, to get into Apple Diagnostics, as soon as you turn on your Mac,
you hold the D key on your keyboard and then it will bring you to diagnostics.
And if D doesn't work, you can do option D to get there.
That's been there for a while, that at least I've known and we've shared on the show
a few times over the decades.
With Apple Silicon, it's there, but it's different. With Apple Silicon, you hold the power button down
when you start. This gets you into startup options mode for everything.
That like, this is your gateway to all the startup options.
However, once you get to the options mode to get to diagnostics, press and hold command D.
That's the part I didn't know about. I had no idea. So you hold down the power button until
you get to options and you release the power button. And then from there, command D, hold
that down. That will bring you in to the options on your, the diagnostic mode. I've got a link to
these instructions in the show notes. I also have a link to the error codes that are reference codes,
Apple calls them, that translate when you see something in the diagnostics report,
you can go to this website and see how Apple translates that to say, you know, human language.
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So, Dave, I think it's time we move into questions because I have one for you. Okay.
I don't it's John and Idlewild California who writes in hello, gentlemen.
Once again, I like being referred to as gentlemen, you know, they have no idea what you want. Yeah, that's right,
There we go All right I have a cabin rental in the mountains of Southern California and our county has just added a rule that a 24-hour
Contact must be posted on a sign on the property. That's nice advertise your phone number to the world. Yeah.
It's a cabin in the woods Pete like this is this is off the beaten path. There you go. Fair enough
Okay, he says I've added a second line to my iPhone 15 Pro and set it to the local area code
He says but I would like all calls
To this eSIM to go through no matter what the focus mode is on on the phone, which I believe is believe is device specific,
Not sure that it is Barring it doesn't have to be your correct doesn't have to be okay. Yeah, so barring adding call twice 11 p.m
To 7 a.m. On the sign is this possible? What do you think Dave?
Um
I think there's a there's always a way I mean come on it's what we do bullheaded persistence right so I don't think it's possible with an eSIM I don't think you can get that granular with focus modes right it's something that Apple certainly could do it's not difficult software wise I just don't think it's there and it's because both phones will ring in the phone app right
And so we don't get to like the app is the specific thing.
And of course you could say, well, let these specific contacts through,
but you don't know who's calling you. I don't know who it is.
Yeah, that's the whole point.
So let's, but let's tug on this thread a little bit.
If the phone app isn't the way to do it is perhaps another app the way,
because if you can have the call come in to one app that only is for that thing,
then you can add an app exception to your focus mode.
Or focus modes.
And so what I would do, and this will even save you some money,
is say thanks, but no thanks on that eSIM, or perhaps just transfer that eSIM number
so you don't even have to change your signage,
into Google Voice.
It'll cost you 20 bucks to transfer it, one-time fee to transfer a number into Google Voice.
And then you link, you log the Google Voice app into that Google Voice numbers account.
And maybe you wanna even create a separate Gmail account for just that Google Voice number, right?
Just so you can have it compartmentalized. If you ever need to give it to someone else
to manage for your property, you're not giving them access to your main Gmail account.
But either way, log the Google Voice app on your phone in there and then tell Google Voice to ring.
And I'm using air quotes here, ring the app and then give that app permission
to get past your focus modes.
And you should be good to go. And you're saving yourself a bunch of money
because you're not paying every month
for this phone number with the eSIM.
It's just there in Google Voice. And if you didn't already get the eSIM,
you could go to Google Voice and have them give you a number.
It might or might not be available in the specific area code that you're in.
My guess is that probably doesn't matter these days everybody can call every area code from their cell phones
And so that's how I would solve this problem. Yeah,
I yeah, I think that's I think that's gonna be the best way I think that's it
Yeah, yeah, you're determined to have it in that area code You could probably pay a small fee to Skype annually or something like that. Oh, that's true, right?
Well, if you're determined to have it in the area code Google Voice you like he already has the number so he could
Transfer it into Google Voice.
Probably.
Google Voice can port most numbers in. There are some that it cannot, but you're right.
Skype would be the other answer there to do the same kind of thing.
And you would pay them something.
But I think all you'd have to pay them is you'd have to buy some credits to burn for minutes for your incoming calls, maybe.
It's been so long since I've done it that I I don't know. I think it's free. Oh, I mean, yeah
Yeah, but to get an outside working number, I don't know that it is. Yeah, maybe not remember maybe not,
Yeah, and let me throw one more curveball in there. I don't know.
What's app app maybe a way, you know, cuz you could associate a phone number with whatsapp
So that's an app that you could know. No. Well, yes however, the people calling you would have
to call you with WhatsApp.
They couldn't just call you with a phone. Fair enough. Yeah.
And here, here in the U S it's not universal. It's not.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I'm looking to see about pricing on a Skype number here while we're doing it.
Um, I just got a number, uh, while we're, you know, just while I'm not, I'm not going
to use this number, but they gave me a number in Illinois, and if I say continue, now it's just going to ask me to log into Skype.
So yeah, I got there you go. Bingo, bingo, bongo.
Bingo, bingo, bongo. Right. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah. So I don't know that there's a cost for Skype, but if there is, it's pretty low.
And that's a great idea.
And that's another, you know, if you had to have, if you had to do this with two
different numbers, Google voice for one Skype for the other, it'd be good to go.
I don't know. I mean, it's just something. Yeah. Something. All right.
Uh, Bill has our next question, Pete, and Bill says, Bill asks a few times recently,
someone has used airdrop to send some PDFs from their Mac to my iPhone.
Unfortunately, the files get added to the iBooks app when I want them to be in the files app currently.
That means I then share the file with myself from the books app to the files
app, and then delete the PDF from the books app.
I want to make it more efficient. Is there any way to change the default destination slash application used by my iPhone when it receives a PDF via AirDrop?
Pete? No. Next question. Okay.
I guess we'll move on. All right, Bill. All right. Look, this is so frustrating.
IOS doesn't allow a user to change the default application that opens a specific file type
like a PDF directly from AirDrop.
So when you AirDrop a PDF to an iPhone, it should open in the preview section of the
files app by default, at least that's what's happening for me.
Then you can mainly choose where to save or open the file with a bit of an extra step.
So if you receive a PDF or any other file from AirDrop, you'll see the option to accept the file.
If it's from someone else.
Now, here's the weird thing. From my laptop or from like Debbie's phone,
that sort of thing, it doesn't seem to ask permission to receive anymore.
And I'm not sure why that is.
I haven't figured that one out yet, but I assume it's because it sees,
actually, not Debbie, but for my own, it sees I'm from the same Apple ID.
From yourself, that's correct. It presumes that you meant to send that to yourself. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah. So, okay. Then once accepted, the file typically will open in the default app, like files for app for PDF.
But if you want to open it with another app, navigate to where the file is saved, usually
in the downloads folder in your files, and then tap on that file and tap on the share
button, you know, the little square with the arrow pointing out.
And from the share sheet, you can usually choose which compatible app you want to open or save.
So you have, you have to do it the way he, the way he did it is essentially it. Yeah.
IOS does not allow you to change the default app too. Yeah. It's interesting.
I, I have sent PDFs from one iPad to another. I do this a lot with, um, like, like musical charts and things like that.
And I have a few apps on my iPad that will open PDFs. One of them of course is like the Books app.
One of them is an app called Fourscore that I, that is usually the one I want to use because
it lets me mark up scores.
And then I, you know, but I have others like Dropbox I think will take it, but if not Dropbox maybe OnSong.
My iPad asks me every time where I want that PDF to go. However, it does not ask me if I want to put it in the Files app.
So I wonder if there is some app out there that accepts PDFs,
but would simply be a conduit to the, uh, files.
And that makes me wonder, hey, is that, like, would a shortcut show up?
If a shortcut was built to accept a PDF, would it land?
You know, would it show me that shortcut? And if so, well then you could have a shortcut that automatically is going to save it to wherever you want.
So, that's worth some experimenting, because it might be doable.
Yeah, and I wonder, well, I was going to say it won't help much with iOS 17, but you know, ask Chad GPT.
Well, I, if you're, if you have the pro version of, if the paid version of chat GPT, it, it
links with Bing now, so you can, you can get current information, just tell it to, you
know, use Bing and it'll, it'll, it'll search.
Yeah. That's back. Cause it always yells at me and goes, Hey, I'm, I'm holding good through January 22.
Right. But yeah, if you use GPT for and point it at being, uh, it will, it will get, you know, current stuff.
Or just use Bing AI and then you don't even have to pay for chat GPT. Yeah.
And then I'm going to jump right in real quickly with a quick tip because we've been talking
about where to put PDF files, iOS, it's actually more of a cool stuff found, iOS, iPadOS, Android, you
Good reader worth every penny. It is a great pdf manipulator and it opens music
It opens videos all that kind of stuff But I love me some good reader because I can get in there and I can highlight things I can
Mark things up. I can write on them. I can do notes,
Uh, I I use it when flying I actually pull up our flight plan release,
And I write little notes on there and that sort of thing and in the event I need a paper copy at the end. I can just print out the pdf with all my notes and.
And it used to keep a fuel log on it.
Interesting. Yeah.
Huh. It was great. They've actually provided us with another app now to do that same sort of thing. Sure.
That where you just fill in the fields instead of having to write down the numbers
on the flight, on the old PDF document, it's just fill in the fields now.
How much fuel do you have? What time did you get here?
So I understand habits and momentum and you know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it or.
We can fix that. If it ain't broke. So yes, in the interest of following the show's mantra
of if it ain't broke, fix it till it is, have you compared Goodreader with PDF Expert on your phone.
For your iPad for doing all of those PDF things?
I know you didn't have PDF Expert when you headed down this path,
and so Goodreader was the path, but I'm just curious how it would compare,
you know, Apple's to Apple's kind of thing.
That's a good question. I have not used that in iOS. I need so to do and I will do that because you have a subscription like if you have the subscription on your Mac, it, it, it, it works. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. I'll do that. And by the way, maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. I don't consider it stealing. I'm using my daughter's version of it because she has an educational discount with a dot edu email. Let me tell you, that's a huge discount, uh, or PDF expert.
Oh, yeah, for sure. Well, you know, the thing is, though, like what does it cost you to earn that discount, Pete?
Yeah. Right. I mean, you know, only a few tens of thousands of dollars to pay for her
tuition to get that EDU email address. That's right. Yeah, exactly.
There you go. There you go. All right. Uh, Juergen next.
Yeah, yeah, let me pull that up. I had it well hidden from myself. Good.
So Juergen writes in, hi, guys. You've talked some about passkeys,
and I think I understand the theory behind it.
Good, Juergen, tell me. Since you can now use them with Amazon and Google,
I'm scratching my head about the practical side.
I guess a not-so-uncommon use case would be Amazon. I use it with my iPhone, iPad, iMac, or Mac.
And I don't, momentum, and I don't want to use a single device for login.
Then there's my wife who likes to use my account for her shopping. Gee, I wonder why.
So what it comes down to is the following. Can I use one passkey on all of my devices
and also give it to my wife to use on her devices for my Amazon or whatever account?
I hope the simple answer is yes, but maybe you can elaborate a little.
Thanks a lot for your great work in putting out a fantastic show every single time we try.
Every time we try. So this was a good one because I had, though I had dug into Passkeys when they first
were announced and like I think Best Buy was the first site that I could use a Passkey with.
I didn't do much with it past that.
However, after Juergen's question came in, I thought, you know what, why not?
Let me dig back in because as Juergen points out, Amazon and Google and many others now
are supporting Passkeys.
So, and one password, which is the password manager I still use is supporting pass keys.
So it's like, all right, well, now I can do all of this. So I launched, you know, I went to Amazon,
I went into my account settings and I went and looked and created a pass key.
They made it very easy.
One password popped up and said, do you wanna store this pass key in one password?
If not, I could have stored it in my iCloud keychain because either one will take it.
Now, it just so happens that, like Juergen, I already have my Amazon login shared with Lisa.
I don't think Juergen has his shared with Lisa. He has his shared with his wife.
I have mine shared with my wife, right. I just wanted to make that clear.
Maybe he has it shared with Lisa. If he does, I really want to wonder why she buys things on my account, not Juergen's
account. Right, and not Juergen's.
Yeah. I mean, Lisa, get this fixed. Let's get this fixed. That's right.
If you're listening, Lisa, please do. Yeah, please.
And really we share it because she shares Kindle books with me, right?
It's the easiest way. I know you can share Kindle books amongst accounts,
but it's way easier if you just log both Kindles into the thing and then you're fine.
We have the whole family on our Amazon. You know, kids buy stuff.
You just have to remember to, in my case, ship it here to my house and not to my daughter in Florida.
Oh, interesting. So change the shipping address to the right one.
And so I added the passkey and I saw it appear in one password and then I looked on Lisa's computer
and it appears in her one password.
And I've looked here just now in the studio and the passkey appears in my one password here.
And so, yes, it just works. Now, Amazon is interesting.
I also set up, I thought, maybe it was Google or maybe it was Amazon that told me this,
that said, if you have set up two-factor authentication, we will still ask for the second factor.
Even though you're using a passkey, which seems like, it seems counterintuitive to me,
but it is another layer of security.
And it seems not uncommon. Maybe it was Google that told me this
because I went and set up a passkey for my Google account
to my main Google account. So, because I clearly don't have 2FA on for my Amazon,
account, it's telling me that in one password right now.
But yeah, it just works. Now, I don't share.
A group of passwords with iCloud keychain with anyone so i cannot test that pass keys will sync
across that i will assume that they would but i haven't tested that part of it yet so if you're
using iCloud keychain test that before you go to rely on it but my guess is it would like why
wouldn't it you're sharing it it's a passkey like that's the whole point right so yeah yeah yeah.
But it's possible that you would need to have your wife set up her own passkey for your Amazon account that then is synced only to her devices if that's how Apple's decided to do it.
And that's the part I don't know. The weird part about passkeys and right now is that in order to create them you have a username and password that you log in as and then you create this passkey.
The passkey is convenient and secure for logging you in, but there still is the login vector,
and I call it a login vector, but it's also an attack vector of your username and password, right?
So just be aware of that. Like this doesn't make your username and password go away.
It just gives you a more secure way to log in such that you're not passing your username
and password around, but it still exists.
So you want to keep those passwords long, secure, out from prying eyes, all of those things.
You know, that, that's a great point because I have, I got to say, I'm going to set up
passkey on Amazon and realize they were already doing that. Yeah.
I have a pretty simple one so that, so that my daughter can remember it to log in.
And so I need to fix that. Even though I do have two FA, it seems to keep
her logged in that I only have to pass that to her occasionally.
Yeah. It, you know, but, but there, therein lies a problem because yeah, once she's in, she stays in and.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm glad you pointed that out. It can be an issue.
Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
All right. Shall we, shall we move to David? I think we shall.
David writes in, howdy gents. My daughter has a MacBook Pro that has had charging issues for a year.
Well, I've got a daughter that charges things too.
Oh, different kind of charging. It's a, yeah, we're on a different topic now, Pete. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Finally this year, AppleCare expired and we are faced with paying several hundred dollars to fix it.
Clearly, this MacBook Pro is a dud and I need to speak with someone at Apple
whom I can work, with whom I can work.
And so far they point in a myriad of directions. I remember years ago,
MGG described wrestling with AppleCare.
Can you let me know which one it was or provide me with suggestions in dealing with AppleCare.
Many thanks, David.
Yeah, so the department that you're thinking of, David, is what is called Apple's Customer
Relations Department.
And I think it still is their name for it.
My name for it is, you know, the Apple Customer Service ninjas that are skilled and empowered to solve problems.
And the way it used to work is if you had an issue where you tried to solve it through
normal means and just couldn't get resolution that felt satisfactory to you.
There was one more layer and you would call the main Apple phone number and whoever answered
you would ask, please put me in touch with customer relations.
They knew that name, they would put you in touch with them and then you know somebody
at customer relations would look at your case and make a decision as to whether you know you deserved.
I know I got at least one new Mac out of them once because there was just a problem
It was like, you know, we've had this thing in for service a couple times It's not there was a Thunderbolt issue on an old. I think it was even pre Intel iMac. In fact, it definitely was and.
They were like, okay I said I think you should replace it and and that was sort of the trick with customer relations is you had to often they
wouldn't offer that. But if you said, hey, look, I think the right solution is you
need to replace this. They'd say, yep, we agree. And like at that point in time,
that was how I got my first Intel iMac because they replaced the old one with
the current one. It was great, but you can't do that anymore. That path does not
exist. However, the customer relations.
Department, I think, still exists. Certainly that role exists. A lot of companies call it like the Office of the President or whatever.
It's the people that are the top people any of us are realistically going to get to to solve this problem.
The way to do it now is you start with an AppleCare case. And, like, you know, get a support...
It sounds from his letter like he did, too. Sounds like this is well-documented.
Yeah, exactly. And you needed to do this in the past, too. but start with a support ticket.
And I've found that using the iPhone app or the chat on the web interface is the best way.
Like certainly you can call somebody and talk to them if you like that part too,
but I like the chat interface. It lets me kind of, you know, do my thing.
And you get really good people with the chat interface.
And so document everything, make sure they know everything.
And after it goes to a few rounds, ask them, say, you know, be as polite as you can, but say, hey, look, we're going around and around on this here.
It's not getting anywhere. I'd like to be escalated to customer relations. And that has
worked for me. But I haven't done it. I haven't had a need to do it in probably two years. I'm
trying to think it was two or three years ago was the last time I did this. And I did get in touch
with someone that was in this other department. And they were like, yeah, we're look, we're so
sorry about this. You know, we're going to take care of this and they wound up giving me a bunch
of stuff and they, I think we wound up with a free iPhone out of it actually. Because,
like my son had sent his iPhone in for service and they lost it.
And it was just stuck and it was like, you know, you've had this for 10 days.
Where is it? And they're like, so we don't know.
And I was like, great, can we fix that? And and what they told us was, look, yeah, we're going to send you a new phone.
And for your troubles, we're going to send you a couple of sets of AirPods and stuff,
which we gave to the kids, which is great.
And then they said, look, that other iPhone is in our system being serviced somewhere.
In all likelihood, it will surface and it will be repaired and it will be shipped back to you under no circumstances.
Are you to call us or talk to us about the fact that this extra phone has arrived at your house?
You keep it, you use it, you sell it, you do whatever you want with it.
But part of the deal is we don't want to have to figure this out again. It's like, okay.
Yep. Got it. And sure enough, it did. Yeah.
So don't say nothing. Yeah, they're like that we want this headache to go away just like you do and so your part in the deal is
Promising that you're not gonna you know dig this headache back up
So yeah it but it was through the support ticket system that I finally, you know, it went enough rounds where I said.
Call, you know, let's I would like to speak to customer relations and you have to you have to plead your case
You have to say sure I want this now Now sometimes they will point you in that direction and say, you might want to ask to
talk to customer relations, but it really has to come from you.
So. Gotcha.
Yep. Yep. That's the. So hopefully that still exists. I don't, I, you know, I don't know, like, it's like I said, it's been a while.
And one other hint and everybody knows this, but you know what?
Be nice to when you ask, right?
Because it's not the person who's trying to help you. It's not their fault.
They didn't make the rules. They didn't break your phone. They didn't break your computer.
And I'm the first person to admit that sometimes I am so frustrated by the time I'm talking
to some of these people.
I'm going, won't you just listen to me? Can't do that.
Nope. Not if you want them to help. And they're happy to help if you're nice.
Well, that's the thing. Most people are happy to help each other.
Like, and I mean, look, we do the show every week. We're happy to like, the point is to help.
My dad, I know I've told this story in the show before, but I'll share it again because it was,
It was formative for me.
I was like 17, 16 maybe.
And we didn't have cell phones. We might've had a portable phone by that point,
like a radio portable in the house.
But we had a phone on the wall with a cable in the kitchen. And I was on the phone on hold waiting for,
someone had wronged me. I had bought something and they had shipped me the wrong thing.
And I called up and I said, I need to speak to customer service.
Okay, great. So I'm in the hold queue for 10 minutes or whatever.
I'm going to chew them a new one. And that's what I'm saying.
Like while I'm on hold, I'm standing in the kitchen because that's where the phone was.
And my dad was, I think he was like prepping dinner or whatever.
And he was like, and I was like, I can't wait to get this person on the phone.
I'm going to rip them a new one. They really screwed this up.
And my dad very calmly and sarcastically says, oh, that sounds great.
So the one person in the world who can help you, that's the person you're going to yell at.
Right. And I was super deflated because obviously he was right.
Yeah, exactly. It was a dang it. And I'm like, no, I guess not.
Yeah, you're right. He's like, they didn't, they aren't the one who screwed this up.
And he's like, even if they were, it's like, there's still the one person in the
world who can help you.
And I was like, crap. And I, I, I was really upset about it in the moment.
And I was bummed that he, he like took the wind out of my sails, but that was one of
the most important life lessons my dad ever taught me.
So yeah, let me know how that works out for you, Dave, when you call up and that was kind of it.
It was like, Oh, I'm curious to see how that works out for you.
And obviously as soon as he said it, it was clear to me that he was absolutely correct.
And that has served me well throughout my life. It's like, yeah, it costs nothing.
Please and thank you cost nothing. Saying I need help costs nothing.
And yet it buys you so much. So speaking of I need help, David has a question, in fact, we've got two questions about Eero
stuff, mesh networking.
Yeah.
So David writes and he says.
I want to discuss Eero Plus. As you may recall, several years ago, Eero Secure was available for
just $29.99 a year, offering a range of features that included advanced security, content filtering,
ad blocking, activity insights, a weekly activity report, and VPN. However, I was disappointed to
learn that this option has been discontinued, leaving the only thing as an Eero Plus subscription
for $99 a year, which incorporates additional things like 1Password, EncryptMe, and Malwarebytes.
The truth is, I no longer even find this Eero Plus subscription to be worth the price.
I transferred all my passwords to iCloud Keychain, so I don't need 1Password.
I don't feel the need for Malwarebytes to run automatically. I can run it manually.
It says EncryptMe has not lived up to the expectations that I wanted. And so he says,
is what is out there? Do I need anything? Do you have any guidance on similar products or services
that would give me the features as the discontinued features as Eurosecure? And so I dug into this
with David a little bit and he said really he's looking for DNS filtering and ad blocking.
And so, okay, fine. As someone, as a former website owner, I can tell you that, you know, ad blocking can, can, can pull revenues away from websites. However.
I said that as a website owner who was attempted at least to be very responsible with the types
of ads that we put on and try not to make them annoying because I know I want you to read my site
not just be all consumed with ads. So be that as it may, you know, OpenDNS, the home security
options that they offer are possibly what you're looking for here.
And, um, they have family shield, uh, is one of the things that open DNS offers.
And this will do things like, um, you can have it, you know, block adult content and all sorts of things like that.
Yeah. I haven't used them in years. I said, yeah, they'll stop gambling devices, adult content, all kinds of things.
Yeah. Yeah. And they use their own DNS servers.
Well, that's how it works is you point yourself at open, you point your router at OpenDNS's family shield name servers,
and then, then you're good to go.
So here's, here's, this is what's really strange.
208.67.222.222 or .220.220. That's that that's their servers.
Well, their DNS servers. That's the DNS, that's the DNS servers for OpenDNS Home.
Yes.
For FamilyShield, they're a little different and you just want to go to the website.
I'll put them, I'll put them in the, uh, in the, in the.
That's why it's just one of those numbers that stuck in my head.
You know, over there, I can't get rid of it's like, Oh, there's so many other things I want to remember yet.
I remember OpenDNSs. Yeah, exactly. But, but yeah, they, they have, and they've been, you know, OpenDNS
started as their, as their own company. Now they're owned by Cisco.
You know these these these things exist still and you can get you know if you want stats on all kinds of things you can pay 10 20 bucks a year and get open dns home vip so you can get it but the open dns home might even be better for you because it's gonna let you really customize what you're doing as opposed to family shield which is just kind of set it and forget it but but yeah i think i think that's gonna get you there.
I think at some point I moved away from it because Debbie runs her, her travel agency
stuff from here and was having difficulty getting to some of the sites.
And it's like, that's not an adult site and really that's all I'm filtering, but yeah, I did that.
I, Lisa had a problem getting to, uh, she likes to knit and there's a site called Ravelry
and that would show up in the adult site filters for open DNS.
And I'm sure there was a good reason. because it's just like knitting patterns,
user generated content, like people are putting them. So maybe there were knitting patterns that ran,
you know, one side or the other of OpenDNS or whoever created the filters.
But I was able to go in to OpenDNS home and configure an exception for Ravelry
and to get it, to let that get through. And that actually, and especially as the kids got older,
it was like, okay, well, wait a minute.
I don't need like to have as many of these filters in place.
And so it really was nice to be able to whitelist, you know, different things and create block lists
and allow lists and all of that stuff.
So yeah, yeah, that was, I liked open, I don't use it anymore.
I've been using CloudFlare's DNS from my home here.
And that seems to work well, but I don't have any filters in place for it. So, yeah.
One other Eero related question comes from listener Jerry, who asks, I'm having an issue with my Eero Wi-Fi system.
I added this Wi-Fi after cutting Cox cable and getting GoNetSpeed fiber.
It seems Eero won't allow access to various websites through some email links.
On my iPhone at home, if I turn off Wi-Fi and use cellular, then I can access this.
This has been going on since I installed Eero in March. I've contacted Eero and they suggest I add the site names and preferences,
but most times I don't know, uh, as I can't access them due to there being a link.
This, I, this doesn't sound, I've seen this issue and it's not just an Eero issue.
I think it's, I think it's an issue with your GoNetSpeed fiber.
I think their DNS servers are not doing the lookups properly. And so.
Where when I and this is why I just said I'm using cloud flares DNS.
It's because I'm choosing not to use fideum fibers DNS because fideum fibers DNS.
I don't know like how reliable that is it's you know I but I know that cloud flare runs half the internet and so I use cloud flares DNS and again I install it on my router cloud flares DNS is simple it's even easier to remember than open DNS because it's.
One dot one dot one dot one.
No, wait a minute. How am I supposed to remember that?
So I, you know, and, and again, I put cloud flares, DNS in my router, and then that means
everything at my home uses my router for DNS and therefore uses cloud for DNS.
And that, that has worked really, really well for me.
Um, so I should probably do that. I think I'm using the default. Fidium fiber DNS.
Yeah. Seems to be working okay, but, but yeah.
Yeah, I just, I figured why not use Cloudflare's DNS? It was kind of my thought.
Since it's what they do, I imagine there's zero downtime. Right.
That they've got backup servers and everything else. Right.
Yeah, it's, it's, you know, and I use Cloudflare DNS for all of our domains too,
like to host the, the DNS records.
So if I have to like create a thing, like, I don't know, live.macgeekgab.com,
I do that at CloudFlare's DNS and then I can point it and all that good stuff. So nice. Yep.
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it's always been that way. This is nothing new. Um, but it's like the ads cover part of it.
You cover part of it. It's we're, we're one big happy family here. It's great.
And with that, we have some, uh,
Some cool stuff found to share here, Pete. We do. We do. We do.
Oh, no, where I can't find it. All right.
I was looking for the agenda. It was on the wrong screen. Well, you know.
You got two screens. I've got to pick one. You got to pick one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sir Rob in Discord found this or told us about a website that he's used for a long time.
Somebody was asking in in discord. How?
How do you know what? Commands to use from the terminal those you know those defaults right?
Commands that you use to change some of those settings that don't appear anywhere else somebody was asking like how do you find?
What those commands are and sir Rob was like oh I use Mac OS dash defaults calm this website is,
Because, like, it's just got so many things and they are organized by category.
You've got ones for the Finder, ones for the desktop, the trackpad, mission control, like,
and then there's miscellaneous, of course, but just so many different things.
And you click on it and it'll tell you all these defaults write commands. It's amazing.
I, like, so, yeah, I, as soon as I found that, I was like, oh, wait a minute.
And then actually other listeners are like, Dave, Dave, did you see this?
You got to include this in the show. It's like, yeah, I agree.
Yeah.
Craziness. I don't, like, if you know of things like this, please tell us.
Cause this was one of those things that came out because someone asked a question.
And again, we all help each other in the discord. And so Saurabh was like, oh, I just use this.
It's like, aha, you know about this.
The rest of us, not necessarily. No clue. No clue. Yeah, exactly.
Or if we did, we forgot about it.
Andrew.
Has a cool stuff found sort of encased in a quick tip here. He says, I recently picked up a Samsung smart monitor
and have been using my M1 MacBook Pro in clamshell mode.
But I found that I couldn't adjust the volume using the keyboard controls on the Apple external keyboard.
Then I was poking around in Rogamiba's sound source and found an option called Super Volume Keys.
I turned it on, boom, that's all it took. Now my volume controls work. Yes, this is one of these
magic things and I had forgotten about talking about quick tips that we forgot about. I had
forgotten about this option in SoundSource, but I use it and as soon as he was talking about it,
I'm like, wait, why am I able to control my volume with my volume keys? And it was like,
Oh, right. SoundSource. Yes. I also use this. So yeah, SoundSource is great. It, in addition
to that one little option that is truly kind of buried, what SoundSource really lets you do,
is choose which, choose a different audio output device and volume level per app.
So you can say, Oh, I want alerts to go. Well, you can do that in system preferences,
But you could say I want my music, you know, Apple music to go through my big speakers, but I want.
You know safari sounds to go through my the speakers in my mac or whatever or,
You know, I always want this to go to my headphones Yeah, it's it's a great little app,
and uh it's just one of those things that,
It's so fundamentally necessary that I just can't even think about it and then you can.
Set effects on each output right so you can say well this app i wanna have some eq on it and this app no and so yeah it's it's one of those things that is i can't even i couldn't live without it.
Um, and that, and that one feature that, that, uh, Andrew, the, the, the, what's
it called smart volume keys that is huge.
Like that, if you're using a third party monitor, that's the way to go.
So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
You got one from, from Bob for us. Yeah. So Bob wrote in and, uh, let me find exactly where he wrote.
Long story, short story is he had one called.
I think it was fire, my shake or something like that.
I gotta find it.
Not seeing it, I'll find it here in a second. I found my answer to Bob, but I don't see what he wrote.
The long and short of it is there are disaster apps, you know, which you too can live in a disaster movie.
But in the USA, there's one like Cal Fire that puts out, hey, you know, there's fire near you,
you know, be on the alert.
Flood apps, there's Australia has fires near me. The United States has National Weather Service
tornado warnings, that sort of thing. And I think it's called My Shake.
I can't, I'm not seeing the- It is, that's what it's called, yep.
So that's the app that he wrote about, which is kind of like an early warning on earthquakes.
It allows him to, you know, it gives him a few seconds.
Hey, here it is. Now get to safety. Warn others around you. Get to a safer area of the building
or outside or what have you. So I did a little research and that they're all over the place.
The United States, like I said, has Cal Fire. Australia has fires near me. The National Weather
Service has tornado warnings. Tornado by the American Red Cross. Storm Shield notifies users
of severe weather alerts based on your location. Europe has Mediterranean Seismological Center,
offers one called Lastquake, providing real-time earthquake alerts, and Taiwan has Weather Bureau.
Earthquake alerts and apps like that. Japan, one of the most advanced earthquake early warning systems in the world. They have Yurekuru, Y-U-R-E-K-U-R-U,
which receives these alerts, Mexico has a
Sistema de Alerta Seismica Mexicana, or S-A-S-M-E-X,
which is a seismic alerting system.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the point is, I've gone through all of these,
you're not supposed to, you're supposed to memorize them and have it now.
No. Dave's put some in the show notes as we talk, but search for the disaster in your area.
Right. And look through the apps and see what's going on. through the apps and see what you might want
is an early alert, early warning system.
Interesting, yeah. Yeah, that there's some of those out there.
And I think that was kind of done in the wake, or came up to him, I think, in the wake
of about three weeks ago now.
Everybody got the. Yes.
No matter where you were, no matter whether your phone was on silent or what,
unless your phone was off, you got the alert And it scared the big Jesus out of you.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whoa, what's that? Oh, just a test. This is a test in the emergency broadcast system.
Yeah. Okay. Emergency alert system. Um.
I knew it was coming and it still surprised me, startled me and made me go, whoa, maybe,
that's why I had my alerts volume way down.
Yeah, we were, we happened to be at a local fair, we were at the Freiburg fair that day
and walking through like one of the, you know, exhibits of like the barns of cows or something.
Yeah. And what was interesting is there were three guys sitting there in front of their cows,
and their phones all went off and the guy I was, one of the guys was like, oh yeah, you
know, I told you this was going to happen.
And I looked at Lisa and I'm like, how come our phones didn't go off?
Like, this is the moment that this was supposed to happen and 10 seconds later, our phones
went off at the same time. So it was like, ah, okay, there you go.
Yep. Got it. Just network delay, you know? Yeah, that's right. Yep. Yep.
So, um, yeah, I'm putting, I'm putting links to these apps in the, in the show notes for
everybody, of course, the show notes are at macgeekgab.com and the show notes for this episode specifically are mgg.fm,
slash 1005 because that's what episode we are. We have time for...
I tried to change it.
You did, you did. Yeah. In fact, you did a great job with it. You were so confident with it that
I was like, wait, I don't think so. I'm pretty sure this is 1005, right? 1004 came out on Monday.
Even though it was on the screen right below me, you know what I did?
I actually read it off the green screen at the top of our agenda.
Oh, did I not update that?
Oh, that's on me. Neither did I, so self-inflicted.
All right. Well, I'm going to change it now because otherwise when I update it for 1006,
I'll actually update it to 1005, you know, because I'm not that smart.
And we'll do it all over again. Yeah, exactly.
Learn from our mistakes. Rod L is smart and in our discord,
he shared a new thing called Mac OS containers.
And this is the Mac OS containers project. And it refers to,
the containers part of it refers to Docker containers. Docker being these lightweight little containers
that you can run to do different things.
And, you know, we've talked about using them for a variety of things on the show.
One thing that Docker containers could not previously do that now the macOS containers project lets them do
is run macOS inside a container on macOS, right?
So you can get Docker containers or build Docker containers for macOS and run them on macOS.
So if you have some macOS app
that you wanna run inside a container and the nice part about a container is it's kind of a static environment,
doesn't change based on the things around it that change.
This is a way to go. And so I've got a link in the show notes to the containers project.
And then also a link to an OS 10 daily or an OS X daily. I'm pretty sure it's always 10 daily article that talks through using some of these and how to do it.
And so this is absolutely, you know, a thing for nerds, but it's all installable via homebrew and
you can really kind of, um, kind of get rolling with this.
So it's pretty exciting that, uh, that this, that this exists, but yeah, it's fun,
But I'm thinking it won't run on any other machine, but a Mac.
I would assume that to be true, but I don't know that to be true.
But yeah, I think that's correct. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that is...
You haven't heard about those in a long time. Remember the Hackintosh computers.
Yeah, there's still people out there using them. You know, the, yeah, it's, yeah.
I would think it would be harder now with Apple Silicon. I yeah, yeah, you're still at my guess is you're only doing it on Intel does anybody know feedback at Mackey cab.com is
Where we would love to hear that's where you should write it right to us about it feedback at Mackey cab calm
I think he said feedback at Mackey cab.com folks what I said it is I heard it. I heard it
I also heard you say it was Mackey cab 1004 so I don't know you know do we even trust this I don't know.
Time is linear. Time is fluid.
Yeah, I don't know. You know what else is fluid? The band. And they're playing.
I hear them. The band is playing. Yeah, time, what did Frank Zappa say that, um...
Music decorates time. He said it far more eloquently than I did.
Um, it's music. I see. I see the point.
Time. But yeah, it's like, what did he? Gosh, he said it without music to decorate it.
Time would is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
So, uh, yes. Oh, those fine folks that write to us every month and don't understand when we don't write back. That's right.
Uh, time is boring.
All right. Uh, we'll, I will put a link to that quote in the show notes too. So we all have it.
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Dave, you got any other shows? We have lots of other shows. They can find them somewhere, Pete.
All right. I don't know. What does your shirt say? Does your shirt say it today?
It do say it. All right. Let's see if I can get it from here.
I'll even put it down so everyone else can read it. Well, Pete's getting his shirt ready.
Go listen to his show. So there I was for aviation enthusiasts.
What's your shirt say?
Right there in big white letters on a black shirt. It says, don't get caught.
It's good advice. Really, really good advice.
See you later.