 Go in life. Oh, yeah. How is everyone this fine Friday and or Saturday, depending on where in the world you are. I just found out that Antarctica, or at least the place my friend Craig is stationed in Antarctica, goes on New Zealand time. Not Australia time. Not Argentina time. New Zealand time. I have to ask him why. I did not ask him that yet, but it will. Good day, Clinton. Magandangumaga Oremand. Hi, Zoe. So I'm doing a couple of things right now. One is prepping the special Gotham Heights. What's up? Press prepping the special fiction book. I'm going to have to start saying fiction post for Hungry Earth on the substack, freetomnewsletter.com. And then, Clinton, I really hope it turns out you're you, but we just can't know until you get a letter. Yeah. So Hungry Earth is fiction. It's a novel that I'm serializing at freetomnewsletter.com. And so I need to figure, I need to schedule the post for tomorrow, which is what I'm doing right now. Chapter six. Ralph Lean back in his chair and grunted. Wait, that's chapter seven. Chapter seven. Ralph Lean back in his chair and grunted again. Actually, that's not. Hey, look, Chuckie. You drove from Illinois. Robert said aghast. I drove from Texas. Arturo interrupted annoyed. Why is it so hard to believe you drove from Illinois? Man, I might put three chapters in this one. Let's just see. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. I'm going to put chapters six, seven and eight in this post. Can I change my clock at the end of March? Yeah. I mean, I can do whatever I want. That doesn't mean everyone else will. I know it's so annoying. Annoying that we don't that we change our clocks at all is annoying, but that we don't all change them at the same time. Extra annoying. Extra annoying. I'd like to view this post. I've already I edit the actual chapters earlier in the week. So today I'll have to do a schedule it, but then I have to put like all the links to the chapters at the top and head go ahead at the previous one and say. Next chapter coming soon. All right. I think that's everything though. This is for paid subscribers only hungry earth send to paid subscribers publish without preview. Goodbye. Your post is public. Oh crap. I published it. I wasn't supposed to publish it. It was supposed to be scheduled for tomorrow. Oh, well, it's not the end of the world. Oops. I forgot what I was doing. Oh, good. Don't and then I need to go edit the previous post and put chapters six, seven and eight. Hello. Wabbit magic. Hello. Zoe brings bacon. Hello. Adam 12. The books will not be published until later this year because it's not. I'm not this is nonfiction, which is different than fiction, meaning that it is not done. It is not done actually being written. I haven't written it all yet. I've written large parts of it. So don't worry. It will happen. But yeah, I would I would assume shipping comes later this year when I did hitchhiker's guide through unbound. It was it was quite a while between funding and and receipt of the book. Hey, Howard. What's up? And thank you for doing that. I appreciate that. I think it's worth pointing out how many of you know that I have the tech newsletter that goes out every every day. So I'll do a little preview of that case. Some of you don't know that it's there. Let me present that share of the screen is. So here's today's the idea with this is if you want to get my takes unfiltered, not just the takes on the on the show where I'm playing more of a moderator and it's not like I don't give my takes on the show. But if you want my takes unfiltered, you look at this for example, we've got the reaction to Apple backflipping in Europe and saying, well, hold on. If you're going to investigate us, maybe we will let Epic have their developer account. My take on that in the newsletter is. Keep an eye on this because as soon as Epic doesn't properly dot an I across a T, they're going to get revoked as long as Apple thinks they have a legally justifiable reason. I think they realized they were on shaky ground when they just revoked it with on the idea of like, well, you need to give us more reassurance and Europe rightly said, I don't care what the court decision was in America. This isn't America. And so I think that it will, it'll be interesting to watch what Apple does to revoke Epic's developer account, which I think there's like an 87% chance of happening. Got good coverage of Huawei and SMIC and how you should not have counted Huawei out. That company is impressive. It's amazing that any company could bounce back when they were targeted as directly as they were by the United States. ZTE caved ZTE survives because ZTE caved in while we did not cave in and they have doubled down on the domestic market and they are killing it in the domestic market. China's China's economy is not great right now and smartphone shipments in general are declining, but Huawei's winning by leaps and bounds played a little bit on on patriotism, but but also just making very good machines. They were always good at making machines. That hasn't changed. And I think they're they're doing a good job of finding other markets. I would keep an eye on particularly African markets. I don't know how successful they can be in India, but I'd keep an eye on that. Certainly Southeast Asia. So take a look at that. Also, I'll be doing this one on DTNS today. The fact that the total eclipse in the US will be a problem for the power grids in a way it never has before because we have so much solar power involved in the power grids and also why an eclipse affects wind power. And then it just goes on from there. You know, the my take on the Trump claim against tic-tac, the Microsoft attack, the attack on Microsoft, VisionOS update, Reddit, Launch and Pro, etc, etc. Anyway, if you like that, you know what you can do? You can get it in your inbox every day. Actually, you can get it free once a week on Thursdays or every day if you want to pay a little for a subscription. Oh, right. This is what I'm working on mostly. Hey, Bill Meeks. What's going on? This is what I'm working on mostly today. Sinked, understand technology and make it work for you. So I mean, obviously I'm doing DTS in 20 minutes. We'll be doing our production meeting, but this is this is taking up a lot of my my focus. Because the idea with this is that we fund it, then I finish writing it, then we publish it. So anything you can do and I know a lot of you have preordered it. Thank you so much for doing that. That's the biggest thing you can you can do to help. I guess I guess it's one of the biggest things you can do to help. Obviously, if you could, if you didn't preorder it, but you could convince four other people to preorder it, I guess that would be bigger. But yeah, I'm really excited about this. I've never done anything like it. I've done some tech history books, but never anything that was like, here, let me explain open AI here. Let me explain PGP. Let me let me help break through the foot so that that people can actually understand their technology. It's going to be good. It's going to be fun and there's some perks. So you get to send a question that would be featured on DTNS. There'll be a virtual meetup. There's some signed options, stuff like that. We might even roll in some other things down the line just to kind of get it over the get it over the 50 yard line. But yeah, I don't know. Apparently they say in the first 48 hours, having 8% funded is pretty good. They don't they don't follow the kicks. Unbound doesn't seem to follow the Kickstarter bell curve of like lots of people at the beginning and then low people and they they say they follow a more even pace throughout so that this is this is definitely on pace. But it makes me nervous not to see it closer to a hundred, you know, but that's just the way it's going to be at this time anyway. Yeah. Tom's new book.com. If you need the URL. This is this is me as in full shill mode as I get because man, I want this to succeed. I want this to work. So bad. All right. Let's get ready for. And any questions about the book or anything else? Let me know. Smata baby Smata Smata baby Smata. Uh, let's see management options. Enter prizes have wanted including support enterprise support for email context counter by you set it up and also the avatars should look better. Dan Dan Dan Dan Dan Dan. The book has been powered by mostly coffee, some bacon. Thank you, Zoe. That's an excellent question. Yes. Firelighter 70, 24 pounds UK, not a 24 pound book. It is not that heavy, but it costs 24 pounds because unbound is a UK publisher. So that's why the price is in pounds sterling. Yeah, it would have been a very heavy. It would have been a very heavy book. If if that was not the case, there's a link missing in my newsletter and just noticed that to mitigate the attacks, mitigate, try not to hate. Don't suffocate. No, their book plate signings Howard. Good question. I don't have to go to the UK to sign the books. They will send me book plates. I will sign the book plates and then I send the book plates back. Then they put the book plates in the book Ernesto. Good luck on your homework. I hope it hope it all turns out A's or Outstandings or however they grade your homework. Happy Friday. Comedy is having a renaissance, but not necessarily just because people are funny. Variety reports that Netflix specials, COVID streaming numbers and social media in general have all been boons to modern comedians who formerly relied on comedy clubs, sitcom gigs or occasional specials on HBO if they were lucky to build their names. Today, comedians have other options to get the jokes out, so to speak. I'm sure Sarah will not read it like that. It'll be an ink signed copy. Firelighter. I mean, I'm probably misunderstanding what you're saying. I will sign the book plate with ink. It won't be stamped. It's just that the book plate will then go in the book if that makes sense. So I will hand sign. I will make each signature distinct and unique from the others. Um, but yeah, if you're like, what you mean is like, can you get one where I signed the actual page of the book instead of the book plate? There's not anything set up for that at this point. There might be, but there's not not yet. Thank you, Howard. I do appreciate you. I'm not going to lie. I tried to lobby for like, well, if you want to fly me out for an in person thing, I'd be willing. Yeah, they're like, yeah, that's a great idea. They were very nice about it. I very much enjoyed working with them so far and I didn't push it too much. Adam 12. The book is at Tom's new book dot com. Tom's new book dot com. Firelight or 70. I figured that's probably what you meant. Uh, so yeah, no, I mean, it's personally, again, it's personally signed. I will personally sign the book plate, but if I know what you mean, like having me sign your copy of the book directly, um, not an option for that yet. There's, it's really kind of a distinction without a difference. Cause I'm sent when I signed the book plate, it's the same exact thing as if I signed the page. It's just that it's not the book isn't in my hands at that point. And apparently this is Derigur for signed copies these days in the publishing world. Los mundos de publicados. Del publicados. Anyway, Delos publicados. I don't know. I'll say. I think let's see. Oh, I didn't do a, uh, on this episode of DTNS. The solar eclipse reveals solar power is prominence. That's a, that's a solar pun for those who get it. Why the solar eclipse reveals solar power is prominence. Ooh sang. That's a great idea. I'll try to remember to do that. Yeah. I'll, I'll live stream while I sign the book plates. That'd be great. I love that. Um, and Patrick Norton is here. Tell us how to avoid wasting money on GPUs in multiple ways. All right. Uh, okay. So there we go. That's that. That's yeah. Okay. I'm going to do the Thomas top five. I'm going to do get rid of four consideration. Oh yeah. Let me look at Patrick's notes. He's putting in notes right now. It looks like, uh, GPUs are flowing as in gosh darn. I remember when the island microcenter had two boxes. Now there's ton of, ton of inventory. Uh, MSRP is no longer a fantasy, but it's getting more rare. Um, most folks still game at 1080p. Using it good 1080p, build a relatively cheap 1080p machine. All right. Yep. The mail bag. Uh, what might we put in the mail bag? Who, who emailed? Raise your hand if you emailed. You know what? I think I might put Eric's email in here about getting a, a cast plus because I think a lot of people don't know that we have a cast plus. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. All right. Yep. I think that's good. That's going to be the mail bag. Did the template get out of whack for the mail bag? I feel like maybe yeah, it did. And definitely did. It's so weird. All right. And Kay, thanks to Lynn Peralta. Thanks to Patrick Norton. It's Friday quiz time. Get ready movie buffs. We see if you can recall the movies debuted these ground breaking computer generation animation technologies. This Tom Hanks movie was the first feature link film to you CGI to digitally composite Tom Hanks into a real person. Previously, Tom Hanks was merely an imaginary person. I'm gonna come out as a Tom Hanks and Denier on DTNS today. All right. I think that does it for me. I got to go to our production meeting. Any last questions? You got 30 seconds. Shoot PC Milesy. You just made it right at the end. Five. Is Joey Votto back? The former MVP is reportedly agreed to a non roster deal with the Toronto Blue Jays. More coming from Apple news. What if I do the entire show in that voice? Yay or nay? I'll wait. Korea and October C spawn September is hot. I've been there twice in September. Why did we go back in September? Cause it was Jungkook's birthday boat. Hot. Very hot. And the Yays have it. I will do the entire show in that voice. Maybe. Maybe I won't. We'll see. All right. Thanks everybody. I will talk to you in just about an hour. I leave you with this. Oh yeah. I could do the forties. Coming up on daily tech news show. Bye.