 Mackie Keb episode nine oh nine for Monday, January 10th, twenty twenty two to Mackie Keb, the show where you send in your tips, your questions, your cool stuff found. We answer your questions. We share your tips. We share your cool stuff found. We mash it all together and try to string it together carefully into an agenda that we mostly follow in order to achieve our weekly mission of learning at least five new things each and every time we get together. We don't all have to learn the same five new things. That's the beauty of it. We just each are aiming to learn five new things. Sponsors for this episode include headspace.com slash MGG, where you can get one month for free and trade where you can go to drink trade.com slash MGG at twenty bucks off your first three bags of coffee from them. We'll talk more in depth about each of those shortly here for now here in Durham, New Hampshire, where at the moment while we're recording, it's a winter wonderland. I'm Dave Hamilton. And here in snowy Fairfield, Connecticut, this is John F. Brun. How's the snow treating you today, John F. Brun? Yeah. I woke up and before the show, I shoveled the walk, which you were supposed to do and dug my car out. All right. Well, there you go. I did neither of those things. A, we don't have a walk. There's no sidewalks in our neighborhood and B, our cars are in the garage. So we will just wait for the plow to come. And then we'll clean up the mess afterwards. So yeah, good stuff. Hey, new year, new us. We, you know that we're working, if you listen last week, you know that we're extracting Mackie Keb from the Mac Observer and putting the show on its own domain. That's that's in process. It'll probably be another, let's safely say six weeks. Hopefully it's less than that, but it's a lot to get right. So that'll be at Mackie.com. We will be doing lots of different things now that once we have our own website. But what I can tell you is merch is coming. And and when I say that, I actually mean it very specifically. Merch is coming to my house. I've ordered a test t-shirt as has Sadie. And once they arrive and we confirm that they are up to our quality standards, then we will share with you all how you can order merch. And there'll be a special little something in there for a long time premium subscribers. And yeah, it'll be it'll be good. I'm excited. I'm really excited. In fact, so we'll hopefully within the next week, we'll have more to share. I they tell me my shirt has shipped, but I don't have an ETA yet. But hopefully well before we record the next episode, I will have that. And then we can start to share this stuff with you. So exciting, good times. And then we're going to revamp, not revamp, enhance, I should say, the premium program, because I've got some ideas, most of which came from you folks over the years to to add some things to it. I don't want to promise anything that we haven't figured out the technical way of making happen. So I'm not going to promise anything, but there are things coming. Exciting, fun. Fun, fun, fun till daddy takes the website away. I don't know what the word is. You have anything to to share before we get into some of these quick tips and and such, my friend? No. All right. We are we are still not at CES or weren't at CES last week, given that the show is coming out on the 10th. But we did. I've been able to there's there's been lots of stuff to cover and we have things to share today. So we'll we'll share some of that later in the episode, too. Warren in the chat room at live.matkeakab.com is asking, John, if you will model the T-shirt for them and I think I think we can arrange for that, Warren. Yeah, right. OK, your official spokesmodel for Mackey, Keb, Garb, I think so. You've always got good shirts. If people are watching the video today, you've got this like it's got like animals all over it or something. I got it at Disney. Oh, OK. Yeah, I know someone that well, she's actually retired. Yeah, and another friend haven't seen them in a while. But they have a store called Property Control, which is where they sell all sorts of. Stuff that used to be in the hotel rooms, you can get plates, you can get glasses, you can get a toaster, an alarm clock. They also have shirts and I can tell that this was probably for people that work in Animal Kingdom because there's a little strip right here where I think you put your name tag in. Just just on the fabric here on the upper upper left chest. Yeah, yeah, interesting. Yeah, well, you'll have to watch the video folks that that. Well, it's at Mackey Keb.com. We put it in the episodes right there and it's also on YouTube and Facebook and everywhere else. But you'll have to watch it to see John's crazy shirt. So yeah, me, I'm just wearing a read sweatshirt today as my son goes there and it was cold this morning and I put it on its cozy. So there you go. All right. So there's no way people can buy this shirt that you have. John, yours is is fairly limited run, it sounds like. All right. Well, the Mackey Keb shirts will be. Well, they'll also be a limited run, but there'll be enough for you. So there you go. Donna tells us about her Apple card. Oh, I had it all up and now it went away. There it is. She says she was in the Apple Store app and saw that the Apple card is now through January 31st, giving you five percent cash back when you pay in full at the Apple Store with your Apple card. And and then you get three percent cash back if you pay, you know, the payment plan like the Apple card monthly installments or whatever during checkout. But if you if you pay in full with your Apple card, you get five percent right now through through the end of this month. So that's a pretty good little tip. Thanks, Donna. Good stuff. I know a lot of us have those. I always get that I have mine to be perfectly honest. I don't know why I always forget. And and I have a note here. So I have a note that I store in notes that lists the benefit of each of my cards because I collect credit cards like a madman. Interesting. But I have a note here. I don't know if it's still in effect, you know, go to the Apple card site. But I have a note here that you can also get three percent on Panera Bread, Nike, Uber, Walgreens, T-Mobile and ExxonMobile. Well, update that for us and then tell us about it next week to get all the things so that we have the, you know, the up to date list. Right. Yeah. Yes. That's great. Cool. That's awesome. I didn't even think to track that. So that's that's good. Yeah. All right. So that'll be maybe once a month or once a quarter. However, often they update it, you can you can be our John on the spot. I don't call you Johnny, so I don't want didn't want to use that. I've never called you Johnny, so, you know, yeah. Cool. Very cool. Oh, thanks. And thanks for that, Donna. Very good. In last week's show, we were talking about AirPods and some connection issues. And I conflate, I think one of our whichever listener it was. And my my apologies, I forget, but had said that it was the H1 chip in their AirPods. And I said, I think it's actually W1, but it doesn't matter. Well, Allison pointed us to an Imore article that indicates that, in fact, it is both or it depends on which version of AirPods you have. The initial AirPods had the W1 chip. And then the newer AirPods have the H1 chip. And there are some very specific differences in them. They have the H1 chip has Bluetooth five, whereas the previous one had four point two, got which gives it a little more talk time. But it gives you the H1 gives us the ability to do voice activated Siri as opposed to just double tap series, it can be listening if we want it to be all the time and a few other things. But it's really it's a it's a more powerful chip and therefore you can use less battery and that sort of thing. So so yeah, yeah, there you go. Let's thank you for that, Allison. And the link to that is in our show notes, of course, at MacGeekGab.com, which if you go to MacGeekGab.com, you can get those show notes delivered to your email box every week automatically so you don't have to think to remember to go look. So go check those out. MacGeekGab.com, go sign up. We promise that we don't spam you. We never have. We've been doing this for years. We've never spammed anyone, at least not with what we would consider spam. And I don't think we've ever been reported as spam. So that's actually that's a huge feather in our cap because every mailing list gets reported as spam. But I think we have an actual zero there, which is amazing. Any thoughts on that before we move on, John? No. OK. Tony, AKA PC Unix says he found something very cool. He says that he found a workaround the three address limit for iCloud custom domains. And the workaround is that what we've commonly come to call plus addressing works with your iCloud custom domain email addresses. So for example, if you have, you know, if I had Dave at my special domain dot com and I assigned that as one of my three addresses in my custom domain at iCloud, right? So I could do Dave, I could do me at and I could do whatever Dave the nerd at, let's see, whatever. And that would be it. Like I can't add any more after that. But let's say I want to do something where my mail gets filtered in a different way. Good news. I can use plus addressing, which means I can do Dave plus receipts at my custom domain dot com and that email address will work and it will go to the same place that the Dave at goes to. But it will have a different two line or a different delivered to header. If you want to look deeper into your headers because delivered dash two is one that Apple Mail can filter by. And and you can. And then you then you get, you know, the world is your oyster at that point. So this is something that's plus addressing where it's essentially, you know, email plus something at domain dot com or domain dot whatever, it doesn't have to be dot com. But that whole idea of, you know, Dave plus special characters or word here at custom domain dot com is something that I know of as starting at Gmail. Now, maybe it started somewhere else, but that Gmail is the first place I heard about doing it and we've been using it that way for years. And it turns out whoever was in charge of implementing this at Apple also added it there. What I don't know as I'm saying this out loud is whether this works with our standard iCloud addresses. So your iCloud dot com or me dot com or Mac dot com address, depending on how long you've had the account. Does it work there? And I'll have to test that. Or maybe one of the people listening live will test it at live dot Mac. You can come and we'll tell us before the episode ends. Have you used any custom or any of this plus addressing or custom domains or anything like that, John? No, I want to give it a try. Yeah, yeah. I'm now moving away from. Yeah, I hardly have anything that uses my opt online email anymore. I switched switch that all over to Mac dot com. OK, all right, so you're you're banking on always having an iCloud email address. Yes. OK, all right. I mean, I got others. I got a Yahoo one. Sure. And I'll store stuff there. Sometimes are redirected there. Got it. Got it. Yeah, I mean, that's not a terrible bet, right? You know, using Gmail or Mac dot com or like you said, even Yahoo, you know, you're banking on these big companies maintaining a mail presence that suits you for a long time to come. But, you know, there is safety in numbers there. Still, I kind of like the idea of just having my own domain that I can take with me wherever I want or forward wherever I want, you know. So. All right. And, yeah, let's see. One more from the same Tony, a.k.a. PC Unix, who found something very interesting. He says, while using my phone to find my keys, which have an air tag on them this morning, I got a more light required message says I couldn't imagine why find my needed more light. So I Googled it and it turns out that the iPhone uses the camera in addition to its various other sensors to find things in real space is essentially, you know, where it where it goes. It's it's not all that surprising, right? Apple and other vendors, too. But certainly Apple has a long history of leveraging multiple sensors or radios simultaneously and tying them together for to make like what we'll call the advanced to software magic to make all that happen. And it seems like they're at it again here where they're using every sensor they have, you know, the the Bluetooth. And if your phone has it, LiDAR and also the, you know, the just the camera in general. So it's pretty cool. I think it's actually when you engage the I think it's ultra wideband is what it's using. Well, ultra wideband isn't you talking ultra ultra fine, like whatever that is, the more granular. Yeah. But I think it's in AR mode and it actually shows, you know, like a blurred fuzzy version of what the camera sees. And I think that's why it comes up with that message. Interesting. It's something interesting. Yeah, that makes sense. Right. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like it. I think it's that's great. It's great. And Tony PC Unix is in the chat room and points out that this plus addressing is not something new from Google. It goes back to 2008 when it was added as an RFC to the the Internet working group or whatever it is that manages all of those things. So we'll put a link to that RFC because, you know, that stuff's geeky and interesting. But yeah, it wasn't it wasn't Google. Although could it have come from Google? I mean, like Gmail has definitely been in existence since prior to 2008. So it is possible that Google started this and then it became a standard. Well, they probably, yeah. So RFC is requests for comment and then there's a number and typically multiple vendors will, you know, be on the working group, I guess. Makes sense. That makes sense. Google may have submitted it like, you know, here's a proposal and then, you know, everybody votes on it. It's a good idea. Yeah, right, right. I think it's a good idea. I'm glad to see it. I'm glad to see it being used elsewhere. I don't think I'd ever heard of it. No, I guess fastmail does it now that I'm thinking about it. So, yeah, yeah, interesting. Yeah, it would be interesting to know where it started. But but I'm glad it's there. So the author's address is at Carnegie Mellon University. So not surprising. You know, very, very little known fact because most people don't bother to research it, not that it's difficult. But. Carnegie Mellon was also the birthplace of multi touch, believe it or not, John. And I know this because I know the person who birthed it. In fact, he has been in this very room with me, not during the show. It's Dean Rubine. I know him as a keyboard player, but he was a grad student at Carnegie Mellon and wanted to come up with a way of triggering things really for music. But he was a grad student in computer science and math, I think, although it might have just been CS, I don't know exactly. But but yeah, Dean Dean had this idea of being a keyboard player that you know, you could use multiple fingers to do simultaneous things to interact with the computer. And there's a video of Dean. I'll try and find it and put it in the show notes because it's just fun. The video Dean displaying this. Now, neither Dean nor Carnegie Mellon patented this technology. And we found out about it. I didn't realize that Dean was my neighbor at the time or not neighbor, but, you know, lived close enough by that we'd wind up jamming together and playing some music. We actually played a bunch of gigs together. But we were researching it at the Mac Observer when Samsung pulled Dean's work as prior art when Apple was suing Samsung saying that Samsung copied the multi-touch on their interface. And Samsung was like, well, it wasn't yours to begin with. And and Dean actually got roped into all of that. I think he probably had to retain an attorney to deal with some of it, even though he never made any money from it. But but yeah, interesting, I don't know, interesting little anecdotes. So let me put this here, Dean Rubine showing off multi-touch. And I will find that YouTube video to put in the show notes link. It's a fascinating, fascinating little little thing. So I don't know, a little piece of Apple history. Oh, one more little tip, John, shall we? OK, why? Why not? Right? More and more on that or should we? OK. Joe has an interesting little. This isn't really a quick tip, although I guess maybe it is. I don't know where we are today. He uses that IQ Unix F 90 keyboard that I talked about. The mechanical one that actually Lisa has at her desk and loves. It's a Bluetooth keyboard or a USB keyboard, it will do both. He says my M1 MacBook Pro does not recognize the keyboard when I boot up either via restart or after a shutdown. After googling the issue, it is apparently related to file vault. And other than turning off file vault, the only solution is to log in using the built in keyboard on the MacBook Pro or connecting the keyboard via a USB cable, neither of which, of course, is optimal, especially if I want to use the MacBook Pro in clamshell mode. And indeed, this is a known issue. It doesn't happen with all Bluetooth keyboards specifically. It doesn't seem to happen with apples, but it does happen with this particular one. And the answer is turning off file vault. Now, we've there have been some other conversations that we've had on the show and also just direct via email. When you folks email us at feedback at Mackie Keb.com, it not everything makes it to the show, but we do try and engage on all of it because it's a great learning experience for all of us. And we like to help to really mean this shows about you, right? So anything we can do to help you folks helps the whole thing move forward. So there have been some other discussions about file vault and its issues, its limitations on Macs and specifically on, you know, M1 Macs, certainly and T2 based Macs. And I've always been one to enable file vault on my portables, John. I don't I've never really gone out of my way to enable it on my laptops. I mean, on my desktops rather, but on my laptops. Yes, because, you know, there there's far more of a chance of it. You know, it leaves the house with me. So there's more of a chance of it winding up in somebody else's hands. But I'm wondering if that's worth rethinking, John, hear me out on this, right? Because file vaults encrypts the drive and I want my drive encrypted in case it falls into, you know, enemy hands. Not that I have many enemies that I know of, but you get what I'm saying. However, with a Mac with a T2 chip or certainly Macs with M1 Apple Silicon, they automatically encrypt the drive, whether you enable file vault or not, file vault just changes who's in charge of the keys to that drive and really based on the way most of us would set up our file vault Macs, certainly the way I have set up my file vault Macs. I have it so that when I log in with my regular user account, it decrypts the drive like my file vault key is baked into my key chain. So I'm not having to type my login credentials and then or actually first it would be file vault credentials and then logging credentials. I do it as one and it unlocks it all, which is exactly how that decryption process works with the T2 chip or the or Apple Silicon, which effectively has a T2 style thing built into it. And so why do I need file vault again? And why do I want to deal with its limitations and idiosyncrasies? Is the question that keeps coming to mind for me. What do you think? I just roll with it. When you roll with it, what does that mean, though? Like, are you or do you know, I enable it, even though I know I shouldn't. But I guess the benefit of that is that you, yeah, you get. To specify the key right for the right. Well, or you get the key given to you. I don't know that you get to specify. Maybe you do. It's been a while since I've turned on file vault. But yeah, the key becomes yours. But again, then, where do you store that key? Like, are you telling your computer to store that key? Right. I mean, are you right? So and and do you enter a file vault password when you turn on your Mac or do you just log in and let your Mac store that password? Yeah. So I don't know that it's all that different, right? Like, I'm I hadn't I hadn't really thought about it with my more recent Max and and now, you know, with all these conversations we've been having. It's like, I don't do we really need file vault? I don't know. Let us know what you think. I said feedback at Mac.com earlier. I think I heard you right. You said feedback at Mac.com. That's that's where it's going to be. You have feedback at Mac.com. Just one more time for good measure. Uh, yeah, let us know. Speaking of security, you may want to check your. You may want to check your synologies, Dave. OK, because I think I found a bug. Oh, so I got a notification. It's like you're encrypt me certificate is going to expire. And I'm like, oh, OK, OK. So, you know, went to the interface, looked on the certificate. It's like, do you want to renew it? And I'm like, yep. And it sits there for a while and it's like, I can't resolve your name. Hmm. I use Synology's DDNS. And it's like, well, it doesn't resolve to an IP address. So I can't give you a certificate. And it's like, sure, it does. And, you know, I went to the command line and typed in my, you know, name that's Synology dot me and it resolved. So I don't know. Interesting. I OK, I will check mine. And this is a good PSA for everybody to check yours just to make sure. And you go in if it's a if it's a disk station, you go in to DSM, Synology Disk Station Manager. And I'm trying to pull this up as we do it. But I have another way of getting it. If I can't see it here, you go into control panel. I believe it's security. Yes. Yes. And then certificate. And that will tell you when it's going to expire. So mine, I use a custom domain for mine as well as Synology. So I have Synology certificate and and one for myself and they both are expiring in the future, which is a good thing. But I wind up, I have a I check this every quarter. And the reason I check this every quarter is because Synology or a let's encrypt certificates. It's not encrypt me, right? It's let's encrypt or they the same, right? Yeah, OK. Let's encrypt certificates expire every 90 days. And I have two Synology devices that I use on my router or on my network. One is my disk station and the other, as I said, is my router. And so they both need to share a certificate. And I don't bother having them both renew one because I don't want the certs to get confused. Maybe I shouldn't care about this, but I do. And so I export. I think it's my router that updates my certificate every three months. And then I export to have a calendar thing to remind me to go in and export it to to then import onto my disk station. So theoretically, that would also let me catch any problems like this. But mine has not tried to renew. So I don't know that I have a problem, John. But you know what? I can try it now. I'll try and renew my Synology dot me certificate. I don't know if it's going to work or not. But yeah, that's interesting. Right. Well, we'll we'll let that roll. Hey, while that's doing its thing, John, I would love to next talk about our two sponsors, if that works for you, my friend. OK. All right. You folks know me. 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And our thanks to Headspace for sponsoring this episode. All right, John. Hey, while we were telling you all about the sponsors, my Synology was busy in the background and my Synology.me certificate updated, renewed just fine. So do you know, was yours just a temporary problem? Like has yours been able to renew since that problem? Really? No. OK. So I think I have something for you to check. Synology, well, let's encrypt needs to be able to connect to the web server on the device that it is that is being used to renew so that it can confirm that everything is like copacetic and then, you know, that the certificate works. So that either means it's going to try on both Port 80 and Port 443 with 80 is your normal web port, HTTPS port. Port 443 is your secure HTTPS port by default. So it's going to try both of those. And what this is telling me is maybe your disk station is not accessible via Port 80 or 443. So it could be does this does this ring a bell because it could be something you saw that says the error is like we can't verify your, you know, we can't resolve your domain to an IP address. Well, is it saying it can't resolve it to an IP address or is it saying it can't connect to it? Both. Interesting. OK. I would try it again because the DNS issue would be what would be happening for, you know, for the not being able to resolve to an IP. But like mine just resolved and it mines also a Synology dot me. So it would be coming through the same DNS channels. But also if that fails again, I would try like from an outside address connecting to, you know, your name dot Synology dot me Port 80 and then Port 443 and see if it connects because and I can do it from here for you if you want because it's tough sometimes to test like from somewhere else when you're not somewhere else. But try try that or or tell me what yours isn't after the show. And I'll I'll happily test it for you because that that is the most common issue I've seen is that for whatever reason, the web server isn't available. And sometimes it's that your ISP has decided we don't want to let our users run web servers like, you know, that's a security hole. Now, I mean, that's a sort of random thing for your ISP to just have done recently. But, you know, ISPs do random things all the time. But it could just be like maybe there's a setting on your router that's not forwarding or whatever. So, yeah, yeah, we shall test it. Send me your thing in in in like our Slack channel or whatever. And I'll I'll happily test it for you and let you know if it's if it's accessible and answering from the outside world. The other thing that happened was I had sent an email to myself, my Apple ID plus testing at Mac.com. And sure enough, it made it. So plus addressing is not just for iCloud custom domains, plus addressing is for anything you have hosted at Mac.com. And probably most other mail servers worth their snuff these days, as we discussed. So so take advantage of that, would you? It's a good thing. I like it. It just it's very nice on the fly. You know, like you're you're at some like we went the other day to race cars or whatever, like this indoor racetrack, my wife T-boned me. Terrible. I mean, my car spun out and that's why she hit me, but, you know, it's fine. Oh, I told her I forgave her. She was mad at me. The because it wasn't her fault at all. But, you know, you had to sign up on like a little machine that, you know, computer terminal, whatever that they had. And you'd sign up for the thing and sign the waivers that say if your wife T-boned you, you can't sue them and probably shouldn't sue her either and all that stuff. And they ask you for your email. And so you could put in, you know, I could put in like, you know, Dave plus racetrack T-boned at my domain dot com. And, you know, and then I know if they sell off my address. Well, I know who sold it off, but I can also then just route that to, you know, to trash with a mail filter. And so that's a handy thing. And those kinds of mail filters, if you are an iCloud user for your mail or really most mail clients now or most sorry, most mail hosts now allow you to log in via the web. Gmail certainly lets you do this and set rules on the server as opposed to rules on your Mac. And the nice part about rules that don't exist on your Mac is that they apply whether or not your Mac is connected, which is really nice for a world that we have today where you're checking mail on your iPhone and all that. So using those those rules that happen on the, you know, the web interfaces of your mail server can be super handy. I take advantage. I have very few inbound rules on my Mac anymore. They most of them are all on the web interface of my mail server. I've been using fast mail, so that's still where I do it. But it doesn't matter. You can do it on iCloud in the preferences section. You can do it on Gmail or Google for domains in the settings section. So. Yes. Nice. All right. What else do we have, John? Anything more on that before it's time to move on? Moving on, moving on, moving on up. I've got some cool stuff found because CES was this week and I didn't get to go. But I did get to check out some things. And the first thing is one of my favorite things. It is the JBL Pulse version five now. So the pulse came out a number of years ago. I was immediately enamored with it. It is a pill shaped speaker. So, you know, kind of the size and shape of a large water bottle, if you will. And the pulse, it was built to bring the vibe of a lava lamp. To a Bluetooth speaker, and it's gone through many iterations over the years. And for me, the sound on it had in prior in a few of the middle generations had been sacrificed to make the look of it really better. Like at first, it had this like cage around it because the speaker was like meshed in with the the, you know, the screen or the LEDs or whatever it is. And then they just made it LEDs and the speaker was only on the top and the bottom. And that's still the vibe now, but they've added a tweeter to this thing so that it actually, I mean, I haven't heard it yet because I wasn't at Vegas, so I don't have one in my hands yet. It's due out, I believe, you know, by summer ish. And but I'm stoked that they they've been addressing the sound portion of this. The new one, Pulse five also has downward facing lights so that it illuminates the surface that it sits on, as well as just having this. And you get all kinds of like color patterns and, you know, cool effects and things like that. And of course, you can control it all with your phone and really tweak it out. So, yeah, it's good. Moving on up to the east side, I like it. Thoughts on that, John, before we move on to the next one. No, I yeah, I've seen. I like light show. Yeah, I you've seen mine. I it is often the Bluetooth speaker that I will choose to travel with, especially if I know that I'm going to be holed up in a hotel room. I have, you know, I become a I'm spoiled. Let's just put it that way. But when I travel, I much prefer to stay in Airbnbs than hotels because it's just in someone's home. You're in a home and and you have like a living room in a kitchen, as opposed to just like, here's your room that, you know, feels like a cell sometimes. So when I need to be in a hotel room, I like to light it better than most hotel rooms are lit. And bringing this pulse speaker is an excellent way to do that, because I can like, you know, maybe turn on one of the bedside lamps and then turn on this. And it's just a nice little vibe to have going in the in the room. And so that's probably where you've seen the pulse at work, John, yeah, when I bring them, bring them when I travel. And they do sound good. I mean, the sound has always been fine. Hair is fine. But it's, you know, like I like that they're working on because it was a little muffled in the last one, if I'm not being if I'm being honest. So, yeah, speaking of sound, there's a company that I'd always wanted to check out. John, they used to be called aftershocks. S H O K Z they have changed their name. Now they are just shocks. S H O K Z dot com and they they have what they call bone conduction headphones where they don't go into your ears. They don't even go on your ears. They just push against your head and move the sound into you that way. And they've come out with a new one this week called the Open Run Pro, which are sport headphones. And to me now, this becomes a really interesting thing. They come in a tidy little case. You can hear the zipper of the case shaking around if you're just on the audio stream, but it's a it's a it's a flat little case. And the shape of the case, of course, is built to hold these these earphones and or headphones. I don't even know what they should be called. They call them headphones, but it's got this around the back of the head kind of thing and they fit right over the ears. In fact, I can have these things on with my ear monitors that I use while we podcast. And the nice part is that I can hear everything around me and the sound out of these things when I'm wearing them. So I'm really stoked to test these out on my bike once the weather is not, you know, blizzarding outside because I like I've always shied. You've heard me talk about this on the show. We've had this conversation, John, where like I like I know that the transparency mode and this that and the other thing, but I don't know. I've never been comfortable putting something in my ear and then getting out on a bike and riding. I know lots of people do it, but this I'm comfortable trying out. And so I'm stoked to be able to check it out. They're like 180 bucks and super comfortable. In fact, I still have them on here. I got to probably take them off. But yeah, lightweight. They they have like 10 hours of of battery life. They do have a microphone so you can use them for calls too. I've not tested the calls. The sound quality is fine. It's it's interesting. People around you will hear a little bit of it, but it really sounds like the sound is coming from away from you because it's not being shoved into your ear. It's it's an interesting it's a different experience. I'm I'm pretty stoked about these. So I wanted to share cool stuff found. Thoughts about that before we before we move on. Oh, did you say it's bone induction is what it's doing? Yeah, I think that's what they say. It's a bone conduction. OK, yeah, yeah. So it's vibrating against your bones. Yeah, this this little part on the end of each, you know, we'll call it earpiece pushes against, you know, your your temple and or really, it's I guess further back than your temple. But but yeah, it's just a little thing. And and for those of you that can't see it goes, they've got a little piece that goes around the back of your head and then a loop that goes over the top of your ear just to hold things in place. So they got like, I don't think they'll move at all. And and then and then that's that they do have a little speaker on them, too. Like I said, people around you can hear what's coming out of them a little bit, but it's not very much. Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. Captain Mark 57 in the chat room at live.mackicub.com says says they have them and. And I assume they like them. So it's good. Yeah, it's super comfortable. So I'm looking forward to it. Fun, you know, I like this stuff. The the POSIO folks, POSIO were at this pepcom. We also got to see them at a and when we say we get to see them at this pepcom, they were the folks at pepcom did sort of a not sort of a live broadcast from pepcom where they talked to different vendors and and showed off some products. And we also got to see them at a previous remote pepcom. I don't like to use the term virtual because like there was actually things. Oh, I remember. I remember this one. Yeah. So their whole idea is that we have all these microphones around us listening all the time, right? And the first product that I saw from them a couple of months ago was one that protects your smart speaker from hearing you all the time. They call it the POSIO shield and you put your, you know, Echo Dot or your Google, whatever, you know, Google Assistant speaker inside this thing. And it essentially puts a soundproof, you know, bubble over it, if you will. And then it this device, the POSIO shield has its own watchword. So you say its word and then for 30 seconds or whatever, it turns off its blockers and then you can say, you know, hey, lady, you know, turn on my lights. But the nice part is the only thing that's listening all the time is the POSIO shield and the POSIO shield is not connected to the Internet. It's not streaming that anywhere. It doesn't have anything to record inside it. It is just a device that listens for its watchword to turn itself off temporarily, then it turns itself back on. So it's this very cool. You've got to say two things. You've got to say, like, I think the demo I saw, they said Karen and then like the light changed on the thing. And then they said a lady and then the lady answered. But if they it's like Simon says, right? If you don't say the first, if you didn't say Karen first, then you don't get the you can't say the lady thing. So very cool. And then at PEPCOM this week, they last week, they were showing one for your phone that also has a gcharger in it. So you pop your phone in the gcharger and now your phone is no longer listening to you or it is listening. But it can't hear because it's inside this bubble, if you will. So it's a pretty cool little thing. I don't know. I, you know, cool stuff found. I was joking with the guy. It's like a cone of silence for your smart speaker or phone. You crystallized my thought. That's it. That's exactly it. Yeah, right. That's right, man. I like it. Right. It is. It's the Maxwell Smart Cone of Silence. It's exactly right. I like it. All right. Moving on. Lawyer Jeff has a cool stuff found for us. He says, I wanted to let you know about a service I've been using for over a year now. I wanted to be able to access my home Mac remotely from work, but my home connection wasn't stable or fast enough. So I decided to look for a professional solution. I found it at MacMiniVault.com. They are, among other things, a Mac Mini and Mac Pro co-location data center. In that regard, they will host your Mac Mini that you ship to them with a core plan for 30 bucks a month, which includes 500 gigs of data transfer or they have an enterprise plan, which includes unlimited data transfer and the use of an emergency loan or Mac Mini if needed, an additional monitoring software. He says I tried both plans as an experiment and the core plan is more than sufficient for the average user. More interesting, though, is their rent to own program, he says, which he decided to take advantage of. Instead of sending my own computer, I rented a 2020 3.2 gigahertz eight core M one Mac Mini with 16 gigs of RAM and a one terabyte SSD for 108 25 a month. What that means is that they essentially sold me a new Mac Mini at cost for 12 equal monthly payments with no interest. After making those 12 payments, I now own that Mac Mini and I can have them ship it to me at any time. They have other configurations of the M one, as well as the older Intel based Mac Minis, etc. I plan to leave my Mac Mini there, though, at least until the new ones are released because they have a great internet connection speed and he did some testing. Now, well, we'll get into some of the testing, but this is a pretty cool service and a cool. I mean, there's certainly not the only co-location service on the planet, co-location goes back decades, right? But this idea of using it as not a server for the world to see, but a server for you to use. And even just for the general user that just wants to be able to access their own data from somewhere else, if you don't have a great internet connection for 30 bucks a month, now you have this thing. That's I mean, I like the I like the fact that the service exists. I love their rent to own thing with, you know, essentially no interest, but I really like Jeff's approach to this, like how he thought to use this, because I think that's the most creative thing here. And I love it. It's really interesting. I don't know. I never I've never thought about it that way. I've always been blessed with a relatively fast internet connection, too, at the very least. So I've never needed that. And I also don't leave my house for work. So lots of reasons that I don't need this, but they totally make sense to me. I don't know. Any thoughts as we were talking through this, John? Well, I did this once. I actually a group that I worked for. We actually had a rack mount machines in our own computer room, because we were a big company where we're a big company. They got kind of small lately. So that's that's it. Yeah, like how did you connect to it? From my desk. OK, so like your desk at home, your desk at the office, like, what did you do at the office? OK, all right. And what in the use case was, I mean, what was it doing? The I mean, I'm just trying to, like, take your use case as a case study and show people like how one might want to take advantage of this. So what could those computers do that the computer you were connecting from couldn't or did they have data on them that you were doing? Yeah, they were servers. We use them for development and rapid prototyping and stuff like that. Got it. OK. Oh, that makes sense. All right. So they they were beefier. They could compile faster or at least offload your compiling while you do other things. Oh, OK. Yeah. And we had different. We had HP UX machines. Remember that? Yeah. Yeah. I think we had some AIX machines, some Dell's and some Sun's. Cool to do different stuff. Oh, that makes sense. OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. And you were able to connect to them just from your desk at work, or could you connect from home to if you like VPN did? Yeah, we had a VPN also. Yeah. Is it Juniper? I think it was Juniper. OK. That's cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Cisco's been in that game for a long time. Yep. Cool. Yeah, they were cool about. One having to work from from home, which, of course, almost everybody's doing now. Yeah, a lot. Yeah. Yeah, you're totally right about that. Yeah. Yeah. The only thing I didn't enjoy is we did an experiment with an open office. Be glad that you don't have to do that. A lot of people do that now. That's that's like a very common thing. An open problem is I'm easily distracted both visually and audio. Yep. And you would have some people who basically wouldn't shut up. Got it. Got it. I don't want to hear you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For for open, I've never, well, I actually have. We managed an open office sort of at computer nerds for a while. And but it was different because most of our work was done out in the field. So it was it wasn't quite the same. But but we had some people who worked, you know, full time there. And and you have to that's one of those definitely like learning how to live with yourself kind of things. You need to learn what you need to do to keep from being distracted. And most people wound up wearing headphones at their desk. And and, you know, either listening to music or sometimes listening to nothing, but just having the headphones, you know, sort of blocking out. I even find when I'm alone in my office, you know, and I'm people who listen to the show know I'm fairly easily distracted as well. But I find that if I need to do focused work, I turn on music and immediately like I am ten times more capable of focusing than I am if I don't like I'm I stop like dicking around and checking my email and like, you know, looking at Slack or looking at Twitter, Facebook or whatever. If I put up once I put on music and start a task, I just like dive in. I've been known to miss meetings because of that. But music is, you know, again, it's just learning how to live with yourself. Everybody has their own different ways of doing it. But but experimenting with those types of things, especially if you're in an open office. But, you know, I'm I'm I'm in an open office of one. So yeah, yeah. Finding those things that let you do that can can be super helpful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I can I can see where the challenge at first to adapt to one would be a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. The zone, Brian Monroe in the chat room says, absolutely. All right. So the an interesting thing happened. Lawyer Jeff was saying I love using this because their connection. One of the things I love is their connections fast and it is fast. Like I don't want to take that away from them. But what he said to me was I I tested with speedtest.net and it reported a zero. And I hope it's OK that I share this part of this, Jeff, because it really is an important thing for folks to understand. He says speedtest.net regularly reports zero millisecond pings, nine hundred forty megabit per second download speeds and nine hundred twenty upload speeds. And when I saw that, I thought, boy, that sure reminds me of the tests that I do locally on my network here, John. And so it, you know, the first of all, essentially what he's seeing is, you know, just ethernet speeds, right? That nine nine twenty nine forty. That range is right about where ethernet tops out when you're doing speed tests, you know, gigabit ethernet, rather. And then combining that with zero millisecond pings tells me I wonder if speedtest.net partners with this Mac mini vault company to host a speedtest.net endpoint on their network. And then that might. Skiw things if you were testing effectively on your land instead of the wind. So speedtest.net has a little thing in the kind of the bottom right of where the results come up, where you can change the testing server. And so we had Jeff change the testing server. And he's like, oh, wow, super different. It came in at like, you know, eight milliseconds or something. And it was still nine hundred something down, but maybe only three hundred up to that test server. And so it's, you know, every test server is different. I can't I'm on a gigabit connection here. Most test servers that I use, I do not get gigabit speeds, especially not my upstream test. I have to I've learned which ones will like are not the weak link in the chain kind of thing. So it's entirely possible that as Jeff goes through and finds different test servers to use, that he might find one that's not a zero millisecond ping, so a.k.a. not local, but also does see higher than, you know, 300 megabits up or whatever it works out to be. But certainly 300 megabits up for what he's doing is way more than fast enough. So yeah. Yeah, that's interesting. Zero, because technically that's impossible. Well, it's not. It has to take some time. Yeah, but if it's literally on the on the computer, you know, next to you on the switch, it's going to be as close to zero like it's going to be, you know, point zero point something and round down and it's zero, right? So but yeah, you're right. Like zero is impossible. But I think like from up here, if I ping my disk station, which is downstairs, I get why isn't this working? What? OK, so I have a DNS problem on my network. So my disk station, I'm pinging it and it comes in at 0.276 milliseconds. And that's going through at least two switches because I have a switch behind me here in the office. It's a TP link switch. Don't ask me why I have it here. It's just something to test. It has literally two things plugged into it. And then and then there's one down in the in the office. So but it's it's all, you know, if you were to round this, it would round down to zero because it's all below 0.5. So yeah. Yeah, I'm a I wonder. Yeah, I'm pinging my disk station, which is right next to me and I'm getting 0.191 milliseconds. So about the same that. Yeah. Yeah. So that would round down to zero if you if you weren't showing decimal places. So yeah, which is what it should be. I mean, it's right there. You know, it seems like for me, I'm on two switches. So I'm, you know, getting point two and change, which is fine. No problem. Yes, I do that probably. OK, fun stuff keeps it interesting. Speed test logistics, I like it. More cool stuff found. Let's yeah, we will do two more of these and then we'll do two more next week. The pluggable folks were showing off or announced. I don't think this was a PEPCOM, but it might have been. I didn't see it there. I just saw it because I've been talking with them. They have their own USBC. They call it their triple 4K HDMI and display port display horizontal docking station. And so what this is is a it's built to give you lots of options to collect, connect displays to your Mac where it gets really interesting is that it has display link built into it so that connecting to your M1 Macs, it allows you to get another monitor that you couldn't otherwise have. So M1 Macs are limited to two displays, the laptops, one internal, one external, the Mac minis, one HDMI, one USBC display port. The this pluggable USBC hub hub has display link in it, which gives you another one, essentially using USB to display link as the separate video card, if you will. So I thought that that was pretty cool. And I like seeing people solve that problem in an easy way for users. So I'm going to check this out because I have another monitor. I think I want to set up downstairs. I need to be surrounded. That's another way, right? If you're at your if you're visually distracted, set up, you know, either a curved monitor right in your open office plan or, you know, two or three monitors to just keep your your field of view consumed by your stuff and not somebody else's antics. And it charges. What's that? And it charges. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I'm burying lots of features here just to highlight the one that jumped out at me. But yeah, it's got it's got four. Four USB ports on it. Yeah, it's got lots. So we'll put a link in the show notes for it. And then because we're recording this on the day that Neil Peart passed away and releasing it on the day that we all found out that Neil Peart had passed away two years ago, I wanted to share what wasn't at CES, but should have been. And I'm not just talking about you and me, John, but we are part of this is that the Stern pinball folks announced rush themed pinball machines. There's three of them. There's like, you know, bronze, silver, gold. They run from like seven grand up to like 11 grand. And they're really cool. They have they worked with Rush. They had Getty Lee and Alex Lifeson record some, you know, part of the audio for it, spoken audio. And then also they have, you know, I think there's like 12 different rush songs to get played during the game. But they like the games look really cool. There's a video on the site. I'll link to it so that you can see it. If you're a rush fan or just a music fan in general, they did it or a pinball fan. They did a great job. These folks know their market. Like they've got a Beatles themed one. They've got the Zeppelin themed ones. They've got they've got them in all different kinds of themes because they know, you know, people are going to as they people, people want to take the things from their youth and put them in their offices or their, you know, their homes. And so they know they know who their market is. They've got a Stranger Things one, a Jurassic Park one, Batman, Star Wars, Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah, it's good. Stranger Things. Yeah. When's that coming back? I don't know. It's hopefully soon, right? Hopefully soon. All right, before we got time for a couple of questions, I wanted to say it's not really new or cool stuff found, but I just wanted to throw it into the mix that I now we added an Apple TV 4K to the house here. And so and it's it it definitely makes a difference with the faster CPU in there for some apps that we run like that channels app. It performs a whole lot differently on the 4K than it does on the you know, on the prior six year old one or whatever it was. So I just wanted to throw that out there. It's not, you know, we all know it exists. And it's but it really did make a difference upgrading from the you know, the whatever it was, the third, the fourth gen to the 4K. So yeah, highly recommend the only thing I don't like. Yes, sir. So one, it's cool that you can put apps on it. Yeah, well, that's been the case for several years, right? Yeah. Yeah, several generations, I should say. Yeah, but this is my first one. Do you have a 4K? Is that the one you have? Yes. OK, got it. Got it. Got it. Yeah. So you have the old 4K. I have the new 4K, I think with the silver remote. Mm, right. Yeah, yeah. OK, so different remote. Yeah. And different processor in there, too, I think. The only thing I don't like is that the Netflix app on the Apple TV will play animated animated version of what you ever hover over in the background. And that just bugs me. I'm like, I think you can turn that off. Yeah, I'll dig around somewhere. Yeah, because I remember tweaking that on on ours a while back. And I I'm not sure if it's a setting. I can't remember because a lot of apps do that. And I went through all of them. And I can't remember if that's a setting in the app or on Netflix.com, where you tell it like, don't do these things like like for like Plex, for example, it, you know, it will show you movie trailers if you want. Like when you go play a movie, it'll play trailers from other movies you have in your library. Some people are annoyed by that, like my children. So I turned it on to annoy them. And then I had to turn it off. But like, I think that was done on the server side. I can't remember it. So yeah. But check check the check the app first, because it's easy. And then if not, go like log into Netflix.com and see if you can tweak it. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. We'll answer a couple of questions. We got a little bit of time, I think, Mr. Braun. Matthew has, I'm curious to ask everybody's thoughts on on Matthews here. This is an interesting one. Matthew says, my AirPod Pros connect to my M1 MacBook Pro while they are in the charging case. Also, he says his MacBook Pros Bluetooth was turned off and something triggered it to turn it back on. He said, this happens regularly. So I wanted to, he says, I even have auto pairing turned off. I wanted to talk about the AirPods and it doesn't matter AirPods Pro or Mac or anything. But if your AirPods are connecting while they're in the case, that would tell me, as someone not touching them, to look for two things. The first I'd look for is is the case closing fully? Is there something in the way, something on the hinge, something that you have like another case around the case that maybe is keeping it, you know, a jar to borrow a term, right? And instead of closed. And so something because they won't try to connect if they think they're in the case. And so clearly something is causing your AirPods to wake up. And A, that's bad because they start to connect. But B, it's also bad if, you know, for your battery. So check to make sure that that case is actually closing. And one way that I mean, you can look at it physically and that's I would visually inspect it for sure. But then also if you take your AirPods and this is true of any version of them, wake up your phone and take your AirPods case closed and hover it near your phone and then open the case. It should just magically show a little thing sliding up from the bottom of the screen that gives you the status of your AirPods battery wise. The case is battery, the individual AirPods battery. And and then whether the case is open or closed is indicated on that screen. So see if you can like that would confirm that it thinks it's closed. So that would be one thing. And we'll also tell you if the AirPods think they are charging inside there. Again, a visual inspection, the charging port or charging connector for the AirPods is way deep down in the bottom of the case. And it's you can see there's just a little metal connector there and then a little ring around the the stem of your AirPods. It's down in the bottom of the case, visually inspect all of that. You might have like a piece of tissue in there. In fact, a little piece of anything would cause both of these problems. A, it would keep it from charging because the connector wouldn't connect. And B, it might be enough to like push the lid open and keep the lid from closing. So check the bottom of those wells and see what you've got in there. So that would that would be my that would be what I would do. And that's how kind of we answer questions is what would we do if we were there? So that would be step one. I don't know. Any any thoughts about that, John? No, I got the. Plantronics and the dance that they do is is pretty good. So when I've never had them connect when they're in the case, yeah, charging or not. And their protocol is you put one in one of your ears and it says power on battery high or battery low. Sure. And then you put the other one in your other ear and then it says a computer connector or phone connected. Got it. Got it. Yeah. Yeah. And I, you know, with with other ones, I've got some I mean, I've got all kinds of different ones, but I know I have a pair of sound cores on my desk, the Liberty Elite Pros or whatever they are. And the case is awesome because it looks like an AirPods case, but it instead of flipping the top open like the side of it slides open and it is the perfect little fidget toy at my desk. The problem is when I slide the case open, it it tries to connect like it wakes up the the earbuds and tries to get them to connect to my phone. So I have to be really careful not to use it as a fidget toy when I'm on the phone because they will take over my Bluetooth connection because they think, oh, new device better connect. You know, so I have to be really careful not to do that, even though it's really, really tempting. So yeah. Yeah. So try that, Matthew. As far as the Bluetooth thing, turning it on. That sounds like, man, like there's a million things. Bluetooth is so. Instrumental to making lots of Apple's technology work, things like, you know, coherence mode and all that other stuff. So I wonder if there's something turning it on when you, you know, somehow, I mean, you could have a shortcut running, but you probably know about that since that would be a relatively new thing on your Mac. And you could have some automation running with something else. But I don't know. Like I would I would I guess the question is, why is Bluetooth off on your Mac? Your Mac probably wants it on pretty badly to do all the things. So I don't know. Yeah. If you have thoughts, send it feedback at MacGecab.com. We all like to help each other here. Feedback at MacGecab.com. That's correct. Let's see. Listener Jason might be a good one to wrap with here. Jason is having an issue with his SSD, John. Jason writes in and says. I have a late 2014 27 inch iMac and 32 gigs of RAM that clearly overheard me talking about replacing it with a new M1 Macs this coming year and decided to slow down to a crawl in the past few weeks. About one year ago, my one terabyte SSD was getting full. So I moved my boot disk over to a Samsung T5 portable two terabyte SSD, which I have hooked up via a USB three cable. OK, great. At the time of installation, I noted the internal drive had read right speeds of about 900 megabytes per second compared to the about 500 on the Samsung drive. But that was perfectly fast for my purposes. Totally makes sense. Since I ran the Blackmagic disk speed test and found recently and found that my right speed had slowed down to five to 12 megabytes per second with read speeds of only one hundred and fifty. I moved the drive from a USB hub to a USB port directly on the Mac with no change. I tried recovery mode, disk first aid, found no errors. I found I ran onyx and flushed all the caches that I could find. And the speed increased temporarily to 240 writes, 380 reads. OK, we're getting somewhere. Since I installed the 1162 update, which took about 12 hours with the slow drive, but the speeds afterwards were nearly as awful as before. I tried running Blackmagic from my MacBook Pro and got similar numbers. So I don't think this is an OS issue. OK, smart try trying the drive with different Macs. That's really that's smart, booting from a different drive. So he's like, I don't know what to do. Should I try wiping the drive and starting again? What what do you think is going on? I think free space is the issue. And Jason started to head down this path to he said he'd been pruning unneeded files and got back about 60 gigs of free space and read write speeds bumped back up to that three to four hundred megabyte per second range. Yeah. And and so it like. So SSDs are interesting beasts when it comes to this stuff. When you write to an SSD, it cannot write to a a consumed, a used spell. A cell, I don't want to say consumed a cell that has data in it. So the first thing that needs to happen is the cell needs to be erased. And then I think there has to be a wait cycle and then a write cycle. So you you you write to it to erase it, you wait, and then you write to it to put your new data in. And obviously that's way slower than just writing to put your data in. So SSDs have implemented some type. Each SSD does it a little differently. Some type of what's called garbage collection, where when it knows that a cell is marked to be deleted, it goes and does that write and wait cycle when the drive is idle. The problem is when it doesn't know that a cell is marked to be deleted in time. And this is where that whole trim TRIM technology came from. It lets the operating system tell the SSD when things are ready to go so that the SSD can do its garbage collection and all that stuff. And it's sound. But but even with that, if the drive is close to full, there's no garbage collection to be done in the background because there's no space that is freed up to be cleaned. And so it sounds like you were hitting against that wall. And by clearing out some space, the drive was then able to do some of its garbage collection and now you're in good shape. So you got to keep some amount of space free. He said it was a two terabyte drive. He when he got it back to 60 gigs free, his read write speeds bumped back up to, you know, somewhere near expected performance levels. I think that's probably a good number. You know, regardless of the the capacity of the drive, I think having, you know, plenty of free space and plenty would be tens of gigabytes at least so that when you're putting stuff out there, you know, assuming that some isn't going to be cleaned up, right? It's it's going to, you know what I'm saying, John? Like there's always going to be some amount of this that's not that's free, but that hasn't yet been cleaned. You know what I'm saying? So I think that's the that's the that's going to be the key there. So what do you think? Um, you look like you were doing all sorts of research while I was talking, so I'm curious what you came up with. Well, I just pasted something in here. Um, Trin may be off. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sure. So here's the command. I don't know why it's colored. How do I don't worry about the color, John? Nobody will see the color. Pretend the color is not there. So John mentioned he was visually distracted. He's proving it to us. Thank you. So what's the command? Pseudo trim a force enable. Got it. Got it. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, cool. And I think if where is it? System info. Hardware. There's some where you can see if trims enabled or not. I don't think this utility shows you that. No, this utility doesn't. But if you go into system and I think you're right. And I'm looking for. Yeah, no, I don't see it. I don't see it in NVM Express on this machine. So it may not be there anymore. Storage. Maybe it's in storage. No, no, no, I don't see it there anymore. It used to be in. I think it used to be in system information hardware storage, but I'm not seeing it there. So but yeah, pseudo trim force enable. That would be one way to do it for sure. For sure. Cool. Cool, cool. Yeah. Well, here we are. Like that's I think that's where we where we bring the band back in from the snowstorm. They got cold. But, you know, they've been with us for 17 years and they know how this goes. They they know to bundle up when when we dive into a show. So. But, you know, we do like to let them back in sometimes. Thanks for playing, guys. It's good. Any more thoughts on any of this, John? Anything to share with people as we are ending 9 0 9. That means the next episode is the one after 9 0 9. So that's important. Thoughts on this, John? Anything? Now you're right. It's nothing is right. Yeah, it used to be. Oh, it used to be somewhere used. I think it was system information was where it used to be. All right. Well, thanks for hanging out with us, folks. As always, please, please go sign up for that. That newsletter, go to MacGeekUp.com, sign up there. That's our that's our request of you this week. Poor favor. We would love for you to be on that list. So you get all the stuff that, you know, just it's it's really the show notes. I suppose I should say we reserve the right to send you something else value, like really, we're not going to spam you with like we're not going to sell your name or certainly not do anything like that. But, you know, as we like I said, we're rolling out this new website. There's things coming. We might send you a note about the merch so that you know that you have like it's there and all that stuff. But but it'll always be something about the show. 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