Would you rather fight one? You're asking him this one? I am one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses. Birds are mean. Birds are mean. Birds are mean. Geese and ducks are the worst. Yeah, a normal-sized goose with an uh-uh-uh-uh-uh. I don't want anything to do with it, let alone a horse-sized duck. I think the other thing would get me fast. No, that's scary. You should talk to Cal Pitts about his disdain for ducks. He's scared to death of them. Yeah, when you meet him, when you're out on the field, you're running around during... Quack-quack. Yeah, just like quack-quack. Yeah, I'm putting a faint right now.  I'm even one-on-ones. Quack-quack. This is Raw TV.


What is the story of Pai versus new question? Pai is this, right? Let me give you a quick intro to Pai. Let me read the speed of God's ask. Disney, suing Stan Lee's family for contract control of Marvel characters. I hope they fail and burn to death, as she says, and Joe. The area of a circle was one of the first derivations I saw in math. It blew me away. You basically split the circle into an infinite amount of triangles and then rearrange those into a rectangle. Then you simply use the area of the rectangle. Really? Very cool. Very cool. Here, deep flake. Check this out. Here's Pai. Here's a circle. Right? Here's the center of the circle. The most important thing about a circle or the only thing that defines a circle is the radius. Here's a radius. Okay. Now, the radius is the most important thing about a circle because everything's based on the radius. If I give you the radius of a circle, you can make the exact same circle as I did here or there, wherever you are. Keep that in mind.  If you're going to move this way, right? Then I could tell you in one way that you know that almost everyone knows where I want you to go. I can put a grid on this circle. Here's an X. Here's a Y, right? Because we make the center of the circle 0, 0. This is 0.00. What I can do is say, okay, from angle theta, go to 120 degrees on the circle and you would go here. From there, you would go here. Thank you very much. From here to here, that would be 120 degrees, right? That's one way I can tell you where I want you to go from a circle, right? Over here, maybe it was 30 degrees. I would tell you go to 30 degrees on the circle and you know where you are, right? Now, there's another way I could tell you where to go on a circle. I could tell you where to go on a circle using geometry, using coordinate system, X and Y coordinates, because if we draw a triangle here, right angle triangle, right? Then this point here is your X and Y, where this is your X, right? Or X1 and Y1, Y1, and this here would be your Y1. So instead of telling you, I want you to go 30 degrees along the circle, I could just say go to coordinate X1, Y1 and you end up there. Or go to coordinate X2 and Y2. I could tell you to go here, right? Here's X2, here's Y2 and you end up there, right? That's one way of doing it, right?  So there's two variables that you got taken care of. Or I could also put a coordinate system on there and give you two variables and you end up at the same place. So I could tell you where to go on a circle on the surface of a circle or in the circumference of a circle by giving you either the angle, theta, okay? Or the radius, R. Or I could give you a coordinate system, right? Now, one thing that's a fact, universal fact, universal fact, mathematicians are the laziest human beings on this planet, right? Tap it, fast. Thank you very much for the follow.  And what they did, they went two variables. I don't want two variables. I want to deal with one variable. I don't want two variables.  You got one less variable to deal with. Awesome, right? As long as you can do the same thing. So what mathematicians did, they said, okay, what is the most important thing about a circle?  You just need the radius. The radius is really the only thing that defines a circle, right? So mathematicians said this, you know what? This is what we're going to do. We're not going to measure the angle in degrees, right? Because degrees is a new variable, right? Theta in degrees and radius in distance measurements, feet, centimeters, whatever you want, right? Length. So forget about the degrees here, okay? Angle in degrees, okay? What we're going to do is define this, okay? We're going to come up with a new measurement of an angle and we're going to call it radians. Radians, radians. And what is radians? We're going to define radians or one radian. So one radian to be the equivalent distance you would travel along a circle, okay, that was equivalent to the distance of the radius, right? So if this is R, right? If this is R and this is your radius, then we're going to say that one radian, one radian is you taking this distance and putting it along the circle. So if we take this, one radian would be this, basically. Take a look. To there. This distance here would be the equivalent of R, right? So if this was 10 meters, then this would be 10 meters. You follow? Right? I hope that makes sense. Pretty straightforward. And what we're going to do, we're going to call this one radian. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to erase this. I'm going to do this. So if the radius of a circle is 10, right? And if you travel along the arc of a circle, 10 units, then we're going to call this one radian. One rad. And rad is just short for like degrees is degrees and one radian is right, right? This is the angle. So when I say I've traveled one radian along the circle, that means I've traveled the equivalent of the radius. So if I draw your circle here, right? And I put you here, right? And here's the radius R. And I say travel five radians along the circle, right? Then what you would do, you would go, here's a radius. So five of these. So here's one, let's say, here's two, here's three, here's four, here's five. So you would go, this is where you end up, right? I didn't have to give you degrees. I didn't have to give you degrees. I got a rate of theta in degrees. I created a new variable, which is radians, which is dependent on the radius. So it's really the radius, right? Cool, cool. What's pi? Pi is universal for every circle, no matter what size it is. Because if you travel from one end of a circle, if you go exactly half the circle to that side, you have traveled pi radians. Because from there to here would have been five radians. And from there to there is pi radians, and pi is 3.1415, I believe, if I'm not mistaken. So if you're standing here, I tell you to travel pi radians along the circle, you would go, oh, I know where that is. That's where I'm going to go. That's where you are. So pi is on a unit circle, a unit circle would be 1 if we're going to call it, but that's what it is. Pi radians, pi radius is half a circle. That's why the circumference of a circle, circumference of a circle is 2 pi r. r is your radius, how long your radius is, and 2 pi is you traveling 2 pi radians. So if I tell you you're standing here to go 2 pi radians along the arc length of a circle, you would go, and if I ask you how long, what's the distance there, you would go, oh, the distance is 2 pi because that's how many radians have traveled, the angle of travel in the circle, times the radius 2 pi r. If I tell you to travel 5 radians, oh, sorry, not 5, 5 pi radians, it means you're going to go 1 pi, 2 pi, 3 pi, 4 pi, 5 pi radians. You just traveled 5 pi radians. Right? That means you traveled 5 pi times 10. That's the distance you traveled. That's what pi is. That's what pi is. I hope that made sense.


This paper proposes a new data-driven approach to rainfall runoff modeling by using a long short-term memory, LSTM, network, a type of recurrent neural network. This approach was tested on 241 catchments of the freely available camels data set and compared to the Sacramento soil moisture accounting model, SACSMA, coupled with the SNO-17 SNO routine. The results showed that the LSTM outperformed the SACSMA model in terms of accuracy and precision. Additionally, the LSTM was able to transfer knowledge gained from regional scale to individual catchments, resulting in improved model performance. These findings suggest that the LSTM can be used as a powerful tool for rainfall runoff modeling. This article was authored by F. Krotzert, F. Krotzert, D. Klotz, and others.


Welcome to Matt geek up episode 937 for Monday, July 18th, 2022 To Matt geek up the show where we are here to make sure you learn at least five new things In fact, we're here to make sure we each learn at least five new things. We do that by answering your questions sharing your quick tips Sharing your cool stuff found sharing some quick tips and cool stuff found of our own even sometimes some questions of our Own so that we can do all of that we take all your questions that you send a feedback at Matt geek up calm We put them all together into the agenda, and then we get together and we learn those five new things sponsors for this episode include Coda we're at coda.io slash mg g you can sign up for free Collide we're at collide kolide Dot com dot co. 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Oh, this is it's great to have us all together We're actually recording on the same day. We'll be releasing the episode which is rare for us. Yeah, but it's how it goes. Let's uh, Let's stop me andering let's get to Jeremy here Jeremy shares a nice little quick tip When in the app switcher So command tab on your Mac if you have an app highlighted that has multiple windows open You can use the arrow keys to drill into the app and then select the specific window You want to bring forward Very cool So you command tab you're holding down the command key You know once you get to the app you want you hit the down arrow and boom now you've got All the windows will just show up. You can pick the one you want and boom. That's the one that comes forward I have no idea. That's awesome. I know he also points out that you can Use the back tick key, which is generally the thing below the tilde in the upper left of the keyboard aka Right below sorry right above the tab key That will let you go backwards in the app switcher without having to add shift as a third Key down so you can do it command tab and go forward and command back tick to go backwards I think I knew that second one, but I had forgotten it My certainly my fingers do not know it and so I will I will add I'm gonna add both of these to my repertoire and hope that it sticks so and Control tab will switch tabs within a given like if you have multiple tabs open on your browser Control tab will switch tabs. Oh, so not the app switcher just oh, what what? Yeah, right Oh, and we'll control shift tab go backwards. It will we'll control back tick go backwards. It will not okay So control tab. Oh to shift in safari Yeah, I love it only so far and I don't know. Oh, I was doing it in chrome. I was okay. All right great Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. So in in your braids, it seems to have been standardized by our favorite browser makers Amazing I like it Yeah, the thing I found interesting was that he mentioned that sometimes he's battling with his mouse between the mouse So that's a whole right that was a completely separate part of his email Which is a question, but since you brought it up, let's let's bring it up And now we have to do it right I was gonna skip that So what what he points out is that command tab obviously brings up the app switcher And and and as he points out the tab key will you know tapping the tab key will jump from app to app Tapping the the back tick will go backwards from app to app However, if once the app switcher is open You move the mouse intentionally or otherwise and float it over The app switcher bar that sort of appears in the middle of your screen Now the mouse will take over and wherever you float the mouse. That's where it will land Uh, and that's the app that will come forward And so his his complaint or his issue is that this seems to be happening to him Unintentionally and my guess is that he is on a a laptop which has the trackpad right below the keyboard Uh, I've run into this on my macbook air occasionally where I'll hit command tab And then either my hand or something will touch the trackpad and and start to mess with The focus of the app switcher and and he was asking if there's a way to avoid that and there's not Uh, it's just how it it's just how you know, the the mac works it you can't There used to be and I think actually may it may still be there. There's some protections that apple builds in When you are typing so that the the Trackpad becomes slightly less responsive, but when you're in app switcher, it actually leaves it on So I I don't think there's an answer to that part of it Which is which is why I didn't include it in the show, but uh, right didn't I wasn't going to include it in the show And yet here we are Palm rejection, that's it bryman row if bryman row in the chat room at live.macikinup.com calls it palm rejection Yeah, but uh, but I don't think that functions when we're in the app switcher Okay I just thought I'd bring it up because I've never personally run into it because my cursor is probably never in the same area so Well, you're probably never no, that's not why it's that you're never touching your mouse at the same time that you're touching The app switcher. It's that's that's more likely the reason you know some of those people Right. Yeah, exactly. Because yeah, because you don't you well, I mean, I guess I mean you use a laptop so Yeah, just the way your hands orient on your keyboard is different from the way jeremy's orient on his keyboard. That's all Yeah, okay.  I know it really is so but it sort of is except it has a good ending Well, it's better. Yeah better than could have been better than it could have been ending. Let's go with that So let me about a year ago My mother-in-law was we were taking our daughter to college and we were out of state and my mother-in-law fell And she spent the night on the floor And when we couldn't get a hold of her by telephone we sent the police over to her house We're upon they found her on the floor and transported her to the hospital and my wife said well You know, if you're not going to have your phone in your pocket or one of those little buttons I've fallen and I can't get up um Going to get you an apple watch mom. So we gave her an apple watch and she Pretty quickly took to it answering the telephone on it all kinds of different things and I was uh surprised to see that my wife had done this the other night We uh, we had just settled into bed And my wife got a note on her telephone that said your mother has fallen in emergency services have been called So my wife called her mother and she didn't answer So she hung up and called back and this time she did answer on her watch And she said yeah, I've I'm in the garage. I've fallen on the floor and And I can't get up and she's like well the ambulance has already been called. She goes. I don't need an ambulance. I just You know need need you to come help me up So, uh, well the ambulance is on the way mom They're gonna help you up and she's well, they can't get in because the door is locked upon hearing this Before anything else. I'm already dressed and out the door headed over there to get the door open because we have keys We can get in I called 911 and said I'm on my way told emt's to you know, she's alert. She's conscious And we're on the way and I'll open the door. I'll be there in eight to ten minutes at the most And so they were standing around when I got there and opened the garage door She had indeed fallen and was uh able to break her fall with her nose and her forehead So it it's bad. She's still in the hospital But she's she's gonna recover Had she not had that watch on she would have spent another and we had no reason to call her because we had talked to her earlier that day it would have been a long time and Possibly hypothermia would have set in on a concrete garage floor In her in her late 70s. It would have not ended well at all. So this this saved her life and having it notify somebody else made it even more Expand Expeditious that emt's were able to get to her Well, and they didn't have to break down her door to do so like that having that conversation with her Allowed you to set Their expectations that she's or she's not, you know, she's not completely unconscious, you know, you don't have to bust in you know, we'll be right there and uh But well, how do you do that though, right? So it turns out that my wife had set it up properly and I I didn't even realize this had to be done But you go into the watch app on your iphone. Yep And under emergency sos You designate emergency contacts. So not only does it call 911 It sends a text to your emergency context Contacts that says so-and-so has fallen emergency services has amazing So that got us involved Right away and allowed us to help expedite the yeah, you didn't have to get a call from the emt's after they had broken her door down Or going we can't get in or you know, yeah, sure so So yeah, so if if you have an apple watch and an iphone um Go into watch emergency sos and and designate some contacts I have my daughter and my wife both because you know, I've got separate people in separate areas As emergency contacts in the event. I fall and need help then. Yeah, you know, they can Right black. Yeah, that's really okay. I got to do that on mine I had no idea that that was even a thing So I am I am glad To be able to take a positive lesson from this and share it and I I hope Everything works out with her too.  It was oh man, but um, I'm sorry Pete.  That's okay. Yeah But I mean when we got there I don't want to go to the hospital just to help me up and get me in the house It's like, uh Yeah, let me let me tell you what I'm seeing right. Yeah, that's not an option Yeah And we're all kind of like that with many of us are like that. It's like, oh, I don't need to go to the hospital Yeah, sometimes you do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah And of course it was a full moon on a friday night when I got to the emergency room a little bit later They were wall people Well coming in on an ambulance Gives you a different Front of the line privileges you got it. Yeah. Yeah, I was super happy when I When my my when it was my gallbladder, of course, I didn't know that that's what it was But you know when I when I finally went to the hospital and realized I can't like sit in Lisa's car You know, I need to lay down and so the ambulance took me and yeah, we went right to the front of the line Which helped I think I think it's probably the difference between me having surgery that day and and you know Weeks later even perhaps because I was not smart enough to do that when my gallbladder went a few months ago. Yeah I had rude in the car That's not fun. All right. Um Thank you for sharing that p. I really hope she does she she recovers quickly. Yeah Any luck that'll help save somebody else some heartache headache in the future. Absolutely. Yeah, we're all gonna do this now, man. Yep. Yep Thank you. So again, it is apple watch app You go into sos emergency sos emergency sos and then down you have to scroll down a good bit And there's emergency contacts near the bottom and designate your emergency contacts and it will only obviously can't send it to a landline It sends a text message. Okay. Got it. Got it. Okay. That's great. Thank you for sharing that I don't even know how to transition from that.  I'm with a down down beat song or an upbeat song and I got nothing I can't do that. So I am just gonna say That we are doing another Uh, it will be a like I said a ham-fisted transition We're doing another hangout In and we'll do it in our discord room most likely Uh, that's certainly what we'll start if zoom winds up being better. We'll just move to zoom But it will be on sunday july 31st at 9 p.m. Eastern daylight time We are always looking for the best time for these things But for the next one, this is when we'll do it Uh, so it'll be sunday july 31st at 9 p.m. Eastern daylight time and we will be talking about all things Synology bring your questions. We will this is this is an interactive hangout. This is a conversation It's not a presentation So bring your questions Everybody can have their their camera and their mic live if you want to or you can be a fly on the wall And just absorb that there's nothing wrong with that but but feel free to communicate and and have some fun with us And uh, yeah, we'll be talking about all things. Synology disc stations will be the Let's say disc stations and routers We generally go an hour on these hangouts and I say generally having only done one of them But but we've carved out an hour for it So, uh, so, you know, we'll have some things to talk about if nobody brings any questions in but I have a feeling we won't need to to use our lists because I have a feeling everybody's questions will will be uh, It'll be good. Yeah, so, uh, you find that at mackeycup.com slash discord Is is how you can join our discord chat and I encourage you to join that Um, we've got I think over 500 people in there now and it's like the conversations are fantastic So I have a question. Yes. I was so bummed that I missed the plex Hangout. Yes Is it recorded is it anywhere or is it I did I did not either Yeah, it's off to the ether I did not record the plex hangout for two reasons number one Discord does not have an inbuilt functionality to do so zoom does and so I could have recorded it if we if we had used zoom I also Well, you and me and john We're all used to having our stuff recorded for posterity forever on the internet I know that not everyone is And so I didn't want anyone I didn't want to add to anyone's discomfort and discourage anyone from participating because they didn't want to be part Of some, you know, permanent thing on the internet. So we did not record it now You know, somebody could have somebody somebody could have recorded it It is it is, you know a thing that happened. I don't but we're family here. I don't think anyone did So I I think I'm going to keep it that way for the next one on sonology And we can have that conversation conversation during it too And you know, I these are meant to be hangouts not Publications if that makes sense. Yeah, no, it's a good question I was bummed that I missed the plex. I know I know I and and so yes, I know Yep, we can do another plex one like there's nothing stopping us from doing that It's so come to discord request it, you know, join the conversation there and let's have some fun Doing it now Great. Yeah, there you go. That's it. That's it Anything on any that any quick tips from you john before we move on to maybe some cool stuff found here for a little bit Yep All right, perfect. I'm going to take a sip of my tea anyway, though Even though I didn't really have time to Yeah, well, you know, we're just going to hamfist this thing all the way through Uh So we will move on to greg who has a great little tip from uh from last show He said greg warned us about the youtube subscription and where and to buy it directly on the web and not in the app Via apples in app purchase to save some money He says he says uh, but speaking of youtube and not having to watch commercials There's another extension called vinegar tube cleaner, which is awesome If you watch youtube in safari Because it's a safari extension that replaces the youtube player with a minimal html video tag It removes ads restores pictures in picture and keeps videos playing in the background Uh, so we will put that on the cool stuff found list and you can find that in the uh In the show notes at mackeykeb.com. So thank you for that greg good stuff You have to play with that I know. Yeah, that's one of those that you know, we talk about a lot of these things, but that was one It was like, oh, yeah, i'm gonna go i'm gonna go put this in right now. So Doug told us about another thing called raycast where raycast.com It is an enhanced spotlight Replacement if you will and and he says almost a command line replacement. He says he has Raycast installed and has it mapped to command space He says uh, you can set aliases for specific files It uh, it's a it's a launcher. It lets you share common links I'm I'm really not it's a productivity enhancement. It's how they How they advertise this Um I'm I'm still not so I I think Doug's Comment that it starts as a spotlight replacement is probably how most of us Would start to use it and then We you can start to use things like the quick links in there floating notes in there You can link shortcuts to it So it's one of these things that that it's got a calculator in it Clip it does have a clipboard history in it. So there you go. You've got little text snippets in it So it's one of these it's a productivity utility that that does lots of different things But I think the entrance point of treating it as And a spotlight enhancement or an enhanced spotlight replacement Might be the way to start and it is available obviously Um for mac I saw you can install it with homebrew if you want but uh, but it's it's there at raycast.com So this is one of those things I have a feeling Six months from now One of the three of us one or more of the three of us is going to be like wait, holy cow Do you know how what this thing can do? They they aren't doing a great job of selling us on it because I think it does so many things The developers of it know how they use it And so they're not saying use it for this one thing and then Let the the halo effect sort of bring you everywhere But I'm I'm curious about this one So if anybody's using raycast out there, let us know feedback at macgeekub.com I'd love to hear about it because I I have a feeling this is going to be one of those things that You know kind of like keyboard maestro Uh, you just you know once you start in with it. It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa You can't take this away from me. So I don't know hazel's been that way for me Hazel's another yes, exactly. Exactly. You find it's doing all kinds of stuff right right What do you think about this john? Um Yeah, I'm with you at first when I looked at it. I'm like well spotlight already does this but then as you look further They have things like window management clipboard history snippets Um Which is stuff that spotlight does not do right as I checked right so um, so it's like spotlight plus like this Yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm curious to see Which of the three of us winds which of our community not just three of us which of any of us Uh, you know winds up coming back in a couple of weeks or a couple of months and says, okay So raycast has changed my life and here's how you know, so thank thank you for the heads up on this dug I know it has changed your life. He says uh It uh, you can set aliases for specific files and folders as well as apps It also does things like text expansion runs user defined scripts There are commands that let you move and resize your windows quickly from the keyboard as well Oh, okay Uh, he says for instance command space left half will move the active window to the left half of the screen Since I'm new to it and I like it so far. I was kind of hoping that one of your team Knew it and I'd learned some tips. Yeah, okay. So here we are Yep, Doug sees the power. I like it cool Thanks for that. I had never heard of that before it's clearly been around for a while. So Very cool Um More on that or am I moving to to mesh net from nord vpn. Yeah Nord vpn adds this uh thing called mesh net gym shares with us and uh he says uh It's interesting It looks like what they've done is added tail scale Type functionality to this and my guess is they're using wire guard at the core just like tail scale is The idea behind mesh net The way nord describes it is that you can think of your mesh net as a decentralized or do it yourself Virtual private network that you create using nord vpn and then private devices of nord vpm users you trust So instead of connecting to a server managed and configured by nord You can form encrypted peer-to-peer connections essentially with devices that you or your friend's own Um, I if i'm under I didn't use nord vpn this weekend But I was I mentioned I was away this weekend and I have tail scale Installed on all of my On the devices that matter. I have it installed on The max that I use and my disk stations And what's amazing about tail scale is I didn't have to connect to any kind of vpn or anything I just make sure tail scale is running on my laptop and from the terminal I wanted to log into My uh synology disk station to check something and so I just typed ssh disk station And boom I was connected to my synology disk station Which is the same command I would run when I was at home except I wasn't at home I was in a hotel room down in uh, you know, westfield mass or something And it just works It's it's like you're on it's a distributed Land if you will and it's amazing how simple and smooth it is and and it's wire guard at the core that that does this And then tail scale Sort of built their implementation on top of it the They they have a free version, which is all I was using for tail scale Um And and it you know, it just it works with your own devices if you want to use Other people's devices like if john you and I wanted to have a you know If I wanted to invite you into this then then we would pay tail scale or it sounds like we would pay Nord vpn And use their implementation that they're calling mesh net. So yeah, it's pretty cool Is it is it a web interface or is it is working like within your finder now? You've got your synology in the left bar your finder like you're at home I I could do it that way. Yes. I I don't So it is it is not a web interface. It is a network level interface um, I would not recommend trying to mount a Network volume remotely because it's just going to be super slow and super frustrating So I wouldn't do that, but you could you know, I I've I've tried it before and it's just like oh, yeah Man, it's like super slow because when I need files that are only on my synology from the road Yes, log in to my synology Yeah, and do the web interface for and that's going to be the most efficient way to do that Especially on you know crappy hotel wi-fi or whatever right, but but yes, you could it is a network Layer interface so it just made it so that I was on this this sort of virtual land if you will And I know that we have V lands and that's different But but it's it's essentially a distributed land if you will right where where yeah, it just it just works So yeah, that's that that's I mean it's we're talking about or this started because Nord VPN added it But I'll also put tail scale in there since we've talked so much about tail scale too But yeah, tail scale. It's amazing. It just it just works and I can leave it running all the time it doesn't Negatively impact anything it just it's just there Yeah, yeah, and then For example, I if you want to Tunnel out of from via your home network. I can choose. I you know, I I while I was away I said, okay use my distation as my exit node and now all my traffic Ran through my distation so it was as though I was connecting to you know other places from home But but you don't have to do that You can just be on whatever network you're on and then also have this access to your to your devices Just it's it's kind of like magic, which I really like. I know. Yeah, it's cool. It's cool Fun stuff. I go ahead John No, that was me. Oh, there's you Pete. Okay. Yeah, I was gonna say it looks like I was I was trying to Speaking of awkward transitions I was going to say with tail scale yet John No, okay. Hey, I I think you would like it. I think it would be yeah Like it's it's pretty cool how how things just work. In fact, I would set it up Before you go away to max talk this coming weekend And then that way you've got tail scale and you can just access your Yeah, I would put it on on your distation and I would put it on your mac mini So that you've got it on two devices that are just on your network And if you need to connect to either one of them for ssh or for remote access, it's just it's right there Easy easy easy peasy. It doesn't matter where you are. I got a few days before I'm leaving But I typically when I do need to access My network remotely I either use open VPN Um or Synologies, um Uh, what's it called? They're their VPN server. Yeah Or their dds, um Let's me get into my network So if I have a need to get into my network like I mean the typical use I think for most people, especially traveling is Hey, I want to watch my movies and they're on my Synology. So how do I do that? Well, you wouldn't need a VPN for that, right? You can just use Plex or Yes, uh or video station and that will just connect without a VPN But that's what I'm saying The nice part about tail scale is it keeps you from having to to connect to a VPN and change your network config Just to access a device with tail scale You just access the device as though you were at home. It doesn't matter. That's the beauty It's just it's always there and it it stays out of the way Until you just go to access the device and it's like, oh, yeah, that's it's right here But just like it always is it doesn't matter where you are. It's always right there It's cool. It's it's really a cool thing. Yeah All right, one last cool stuff found that I found this week is This new speaking of travel. It's called the it's from scosh and it is the power volt traveler 30 it is a 30 watt usb c power delivery outlet Either able to plug into a ac outlet like a us two prong ac outlet or you flip open The other side of it and you can plug it in to a 12 volt Uh dc car outlet, which we used to call cigarette lighter outlets But I don't know if anybody calls them that anymore kids. You can ask your parents about about those things Um, but only if you're over 18 Right, I know 21 here in new Hampshire. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Do do cars even offer that anymore? Is it all usb? Um, every now and then I I shop for a new car and oh, yeah, yeah, there's one thing I look for outlets and cars For sure usb. So so I don't think So newer cars don't have this Listen to what I'm saying a hundred percent of cars have this Yes, yeah, and the nice part is because it's 12 volt dc You can get 30 watts of usb c power delivery out of it as opposed to the usb ports in a car Which will only give you five watts In most cases. So yeah, no that that yeah, it works great Yeah, yeah Cars all cars have them. They don't have the cigarette lighters that used to go into them. They're just power outlets. Yes Yeah, yep I go I was digging around my junk drawer and found my One, but yeah, you know, you have a I guess you could still buy a cigarette lighter Like insert for your 12 12 volt outlet. Like I don't see why it would be different. Yeah. Well, yeah, I don't do that in the car so right most of the most of the us made trucks and And actually some of the Japanese ones too in the truck level also have the inverters on there too So you can do your 120 volt ac Yes, more and more you're seeing i'm seeing 120 volt ac options in in automobiles in automobiles for sure. Yeah Yep, I yeah, I don't disagree. I've seen it in several rental cars recently I don't have a car with this is your truck have it Pete. It does. Yeah, I think in fact I've got two I've got one under the back seat and one right in the dashboard Amazing the yeah 120 volt ac outlet. That's great. Yeah. Yeah makes a difference. Yep It's nice All right, we've got a bunch of questions and a tip actually many tips to talk about and We have three sponsors to talk about next if that's okay with you mr. Braun sounds great You know, it's great being able to work from anywhere. 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That's kolide.com Slash mg g and our thanks to collide for sponsoring this episode all right kenny Kenny kind of beat me to the punch on this actually I was going to cue something like this up kenny says My son andrew is getting married in august in italy. My wife and I will be over there for a week We have apple air tags on our home and car keys and they work great like you i'm a convert from tile Tile worked fine apple air tags works way better. So i'm thinking of ordering another four pack For our luggage Would you suggest sticking the air tags inside the luggage somewhere? Or putting them on a loop and hanging it off the handle the two issues are security Are we better off having a nefarious scumbag knowing there is an air tag or not? Second if we opt to put it inside the luggage with that impede the ability of the air tags to connect to local iPhones Etc thanks for your thoughts. Yeah, like I said, I was going to put this in The show anyway because I've recently been through an experience with air tags I have always put a tile in my luggage and I switched that to an air tag just like kenny We have found that putting them inside luggage literally in the middle of the bag. I I wind up using When I check a bag I have now started using these hardshell bags that are kind of like the away style bag And the easiest place to put an air tag in the middle Or in in the bag is in like the zipper compartment Which happens to now sit right literally in the middle of the bag and it has not been a problem at all for scanning When we went to Greece recently we all put them in our checked bags And it's such a it's so there's so much peace of mind That comes from when the plane lands you turn on your phone Use look find my and boom now you can see that your bag has landed with you or that it has not Right. Yeah. Yeah, well and then Most recently my daughter went to canada for a couple of weeks and on her way back. She connected through montreal now This is a weird thing that I don't quite understand and it's somewhat tangential in fact It's 100 tangential but evidently coming back to the us. She she flew from calgary to montreal to boston She went through us immigration and customs in montreal Which just seems weird to me because you know, you're not on us soil yet, but that's that's how it does it.  So she gets on the plane. She flies to boston Uh, she goes up to as soon as she gets to boston.  It might have made it So go wait until the baggage carousel has finished doing all of its stuff And then come back and get in line and and we can fill it out And she started to walk away and I said wait wait wait check find my and she looked and in find my it showed that 20 minutes prior Her bag, uh, was found, you know was located in montreal And so I said show them that and she they she did and they were like, oh, okay We can process your thing right now by the time we finished processing that thing the line was 30 minutes long And there was no way her bag was going to magically appear on that luggage rack if she had waited So knowing where it was and they even told her they said great You'll get text messages as your bag sort of makes its journey from montreal to boston to your house But your air tag is going to tell you a lot more than our system will And so they said really what you should do is just keep checking that And and sure enough. Yeah, it was great. It's it's I mean It's never great to lose luggage or be forced to leave it behind in in her case But knowing where it is is huge a friend of mine Speaking of italy. I think it was venice where She knew that her luggage was still in the you know, the baggage warehouses at the airport Only because of her air tag and the airline was not going to look for her bag anymore They were just going to declare it lost.  She never would have seen it if it weren't for the air tag So absolutely the best 29 bucks you can spend is to put an air tag in your luggage And I know It's easy to just take the air tag that you use for your keys or whatever And say that you're going to go put that in your luggage But I can tell you when you're packing for a trip and you know that the mayhem of all of that Especially if you're not traveling regularly You will often forget to to put that thing in your luggage. It has happened to me It's happened to people in my family and we are geeks So now we just have air tags that live in our suitcases and it's a fantastic investment So yeah, I've got one on my keys my air pod keys my backpack for work Here's one. Yeah, here's one I have glued one to my drone Oh That's super smart Pete. Yeah, so if it ever goes down You've got a better chance of finding it better shot of finding it I'll know roughly where it went down and I can go find it with my phone.  It's only fair Right on but the thing that I've seen and actually we had an article come up in our local patch Which is a local news service um the incidents of people finding air tags put on Something of theirs like their car Or I think that's the the most common one here, but we've had a couple of reports in the area where Somebody all of a sudden gets an air tag piggybacking on their car or whatever Uh, the the iphone for the most part. I think Or find my ecosystem will warn you of this. It's like hey, I see an air tag and it's not yours. So, uh, are you okay with that? Yeah, um, but but I think apple is doing the best that they can to prevent this Yeah Yeah, we we discussed it briefly in pre-show But last night my daughter went to work and borrowed my truck because her kid brother Yeah, it's a whole mother kid brother took her her car and boy was that an issue Anyway, she went to work She came home last night and goes dead. Do you have an air tag on your keys? Yes, I do She goes, oh good because it didn't warn me on the way to work that I had an air tag following me But it it warned me as I pulled in the driveway and I thought oh, that's nice nothing. I'm at home I get the warning. So but at least it does warn you. Yeah. Hey, there's an air tag here That's not yours and it's transmitting. So yeah Yeah, yeah, yes, it's it I'm glad apple added that functionality pretty quickly after air tags became a thing. Yeah, yeah Yeah, I did want to address kenny's question about where to put them like I said You know in the middle of luggage has not been an issue Uh, I I have you know, uh, I think it was spec that sent me a bunch of air tag Capable luggage tags like like an external luggage tag that you could put an air tag into I've I'm hesitant to do that only because I I use, you know dangling luggage tags on on some of my suitcases and a few times I've seen them get stuck and caught in the Uh, you know baggage claim machines if you'll call it that and and rip it off or whatever And I don't care when that happens. In fact, I've watched it rip them off before I just don't want my air tag to get ripped off either intentionally or unintentionally And and so yeah, I just leave it inside the the bag and it hasn't been an issue.  No, I'm with you in in that Uh, I don't want to tempt people to steal it because yeah, I I have Those enclosures as well and it's like should I put it on the handle of my suitcase? Well, then people will see it there and they're like, hey, let me steal it Well, I've been stealing an air tag wouldn't make any sense It would more because because you would know where it was like you can't they couldn't assign the air tag to themselves It would be more that if they were going to steal your bag They could cut it off of there But I'm not even worried about that as much as I am just it getting pulled off because you know luggage is tossed around Oh, yeah You know, it's yeah, I'm amazed at some of the damage My bags have gone through and or you know, same. It's like how did that handle get ripped off? It was tucked away, but okay. Yeah, it's funny You know, I have um cases for my my drums and my symbols And people always often if they're gonna offer to help me like move my my drums from like the stage to the car Or the car to the stage They're like, is it okay if these like bang against each other and all I tell them is yeah I've checked these as luggage before or I've I've shipped them as ups before so yeah, I trust these cases Because you have to yeah, so do either of you know I don't think you can if an air tag's been assigned I don't think you can disable it steal it and disable it with by pulling the battery and trying to put it back together I was thinking the same thing my friend No, no because it's it's tied to the serial number of the of the air tag It'll it'll check in with apple system and that's the end of that. Yeah. Yeah until you release it. You can't reset it No, no, it's the whole point Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean I thought there was a You could pull the battery each thought I thought there was a way to reset it Yeah, like by removing the battery or well if you remove the battery then it's not going to function anymore Right, right, but okay, but it will still be associated with your account. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's the whole point. Yeah Yeah, yeah Fun stuff. I yeah, I highly recommend it go, you know that I know there were there were some deals on it for amazon prime day Which has now passed but um, but you know 99 bucks for a four pack of air tags And then that's what I did for the family and it was just like all right Here's everyone for your suitcase and I think one of one of the family members here was like, oh I'm thinking actually I'm putting in my backpack. I'm like that goes in your suitcase Buy you another one for your backpack Didn't you find your bag in the middle of the airplane in the luggage hold one stay? You know, I I have someone who may have no, no Bluetooth is legal to use on airplanes. Pete. Yes, I can I can admit to this I did um, I don't think I've ever found it With an air tag though. I've found it many times with tile Um, but yeah, what I would do is if I was bored on the flight could which often happens because you know They don't let me fly. So what else am I gonna do?  I know it's on the plane with me I I've tried it a couple of times with my air tags And I I don't think I've successfully found it Pete, but okay And maybe maybe I don't I don't know I don't sweat it anymore You know, I have to we all have to learn how to live with ourselves, right? and uh and and and I am someone who can Very easily get myself very anxious about, uh Lots of different things once that plane has taken off It does not matter where my bag is Right. It only like there's nothing I'm gonna do about it Even if I have Wi-Fi on the plane like what am I gonna do? I thought you were just doing it to see, you know, hey, no, no Yeah, yeah, I like I said, I do it sometimes just like I said if I'm bored, but it that is not helpful information for me in those moments For what it's worth even when you're driving sometimes you get bored Yeah, I'm sure that does happen. There's that's what they say aviation is anyway 99 boredom 1% sheer terror That's right. Yeah.  So I don't need I don't need to give you this That's true. If you're flying passengers, there's an issue.  Oh really? Oh interesting My people asked me what it's why I've flown two really interesting animals. One was chimpanzee Okay, the droid zoo and the other was a samochin tiger Wow samson the samochin tiger. He was a beautiful cat, too But uh, he was much more calm and relaxed than the chimpanzee was interesting Huh fascinating fascinating. Yeah, that's amazing stuff like that if you want to learn if you want to hear more stories about pete and his air adventures The uh the podcast so there I was At dot us so there I was dot us is uh is Pete's new show. So yeah, go check it out We're having fun with it next show is going to be 10. We try to release them on thursdays Uh, now that i'm going back to work after some medical time off It's getting tighter and more difficult to record, but sure. Yeah, yeah Last show was episode nine.  Yeehaw pester's dead So this guy jumped out of an f-14 his call sign was pester and uh You got to hear hear why um, they they thought he didn't make it and when they found out he had Wow, the joke in the squadron was yeehaw pester's dead Yikes Yikes, well see this is what happens with 99 boredom the 1% sheer terror right you get interesting stories It's a macabre sense of humor. So I Sort of has to go with the yeah. Yeah, that's how it is. Yeah, it's what we do But we're having fun with it. We really are so we hope to join us So there I was dot us You want to take us to brian mr. Braun? um The last thing I want to do is just mention because I've had experience with this is um A nice alternative to the air tag is the chipolo um They offer tags um location tags like a lot of other companies, but they are compatible with find my Kind of they don't support the ultra wideband location thing But they will support the location thing My my issue with the chipolo stuff because I have one of these is that it it was Expend more expensive than an air tag and less functional So yes, I I agree. It's less functional. Um Yeah, I don't know I for for certain you may want to look at it. Um, what what's the benefit? I think I I would love to love these people, but I don't understand What the why would buy this instead of an air tag? When I bought mine, and I think I got like apple they offer a four pack I got a four pack, but the thing is I got a deal Through whatever coupon code or something like that. So it actually cost me less But no, I agree with you it offers less functionality. Yeah, but it is Part of the find my network. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and they offer different form factors Which is kind of nice and pretty colors where apples you don't get pretty colors. Sure. Yeah fair Yeah, that's true. Okay, so you can buy a Oh, they have like a little card thing Okay, but even still it's three two cards and and one little like round one And it's $83. Yeah, I mean sure the benefit. Okay, the benefit here and I'm looking at their page right now Here's the benefit When it beeps it's 120 decibels. You will not be not able to find it. So it's louder There you go. Okay. So if you want one that screams at you Sure, maybe this is a better choice, but just not to mention it because I like it. Um, I still use Air tag is my primary. Yeah Locator, but I you know, I figured I check it out and you know, sure does what it says So that's my feature request for apple is the credit card size Yep, your tag. So it looks like chipolo does that chipolo fills that need. Yeah, there you go. I'll does that chipolo Um, yes, man, that's that's that's a nice feature to have. Yeah Yep Yep, ah, but then okay now Moving along on to brian. So we got some good feedback here. So brian says On mechicab 936 you talked about replacing your intel machine with an m1 I've been using an m1 air From february 2021 our chorus has been meeting on zoom and I have been using my barringer XR 18 mixer to serve my audio and our learning tracks into zoom I also have been multitrack recording with our x32 Usually 19 or 20 tracks. Wow. It sounds like he's a pro here As well as mastering them after I've had no problem with it throttling down or overheating And it's definitely a go with the m1 for your production Nice, that's good to hear So it's good to hear the the thing is In my mind Because not that it's all about me dave, but it is no but but the air has I remember Especially years back when you would come down and we go to the show and stuff like that You had an air And the fans on that thing would spin up and it was just like and I think it also had a relatively wimpy processor But the m1 And the m2 changes all that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, there is no fan in it anymore, which is great. Yeah Yeah, yeah, so that's uh, so excellent feedback. Thank you. Yeah, yeah good stuff I know. Yeah, I I just need to decide what I want for the studio here and listener craig shares An interpretation that might Put the pause button on for me a little bit. He says, uh, I was carefully Listening to a recent podcast with ross young who is a notable display analyst ross has a very good track record And is not a professional leaker While stitching together several of the things that he said Especially when talking about larger screens being developed for apple and a comment about being perfect for an all in one And almost a throwaway comment he made about current branding now embracing studio naming I believe we will see a large screen iMac with mx You know m whatever pro or m whatever maxed configurations Sometime sometime on a timeline of one to three years that will be called the iMac studio Pensacola craig asked that we remember him fondly and that we heard it here first So he might be right about that that like the idea of an iMac studio I like that's interesting Huh, right? Yeah, when they uh, when they beefed up the iMac a few years ago Uh, the iMac pro. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that was the uh, that was a screaming machine and and was very close to the mac pro Yes Huh interesting Interesting. Yeah, I don't think I think he's right on the timeline If it's gonna come out, it's not gonna be, you know, the fall september No, I don't well they they want to let they want to let the max studio sort of Settle into the market before they put something right next to it in terms of competition like you want the max studio and the display Do you want an all-in-one? Because I I would go for the all-in-one here in the studio because I need I would need them if I bought a max studio I'd need to buy a display and I need to buy an expensive one because I'm really used to apples 5k screens. So yeah Fun stuff. Thank you, Pensacola craig. I like this idea the iMac studio Huh. Yeah. Yeah, when can we order? We are. Yeah. Yeah, right. Yeah, that's right. Sign me up. Take my money Reorder now. Yeah, when will it be on refurb? Anyway, you want to take us to stefan john? We'll do Time and time again I encounter the following issue I get a notification that an update for an app from the mac app store is available But when I open its page and press the update button installation gets stuck the update button is disabled and a rotating Cogwheel displays, but that's it in this situation. I turn to clean my mac In its updater section it displays a list of apps where an update is available I select the app in question and press update Um clean my mac will ask for my apple id then install the update without failure I have no idea what clean my mac does better than apple's own update mechanism, but so far it has worked every time Um, and I think I know what they're doing. Dave, especially with this bread crumb of asking for your apple id um When I've run into this issue, um, and I've run into it both on my mac and on my ios device um Sometimes what works? Uh, and at least on the mac side is go to app store account purchases And then there's going to be all the apps that you have and then there's a little dot dot dot In a circle, uh, choose the delete option and then reinstalling the app Will work so I guess that's what they're doing and why they asked for your apple id um on my iphone when something doesn't update I just Delete the app and redownload it and that usually does it but um, I don't know a few guys have run into this But every now and then I do Yeah, I have I for sure I've run into this. Yeah, this is I've been looking at clean my mac site here And it talks about uh how it can reset applications when an app misbehaves You can easily reset it right in the uninstaller. It's a proven method to fix freeze ups and synchronization issues Resetting an app brings it back to its initial state and most importantly never affects your user created data Huh, I didn't even know this was a feature in there. Wow Nice fine, mr. Braun Yeah, that's an amazing app, huh?  No doubt. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah for sure. Yeah Fun stuff Cool. All right more on that or is it time to uh talk to listener john Sure. All right listener john good stuff john. Yeah, thanks man. Wow Like that now I I want to go and mess with clean my mac. Uh listener john Says We were talking in episode 9 36 About how Another listener wanted to sync their Many of their folders amongst their max including the downloads And listener john says if you go on ios and enable downloads to iCloud Then you will have a download folder in iCloud and you can point your mac to download to that folder too And that will sync all of your downloads via iCloud and not have to use any third party apps Interesting so you'd have to enable this first in On your phone And set it to download to iCloud drive and then from there you're good to go That's interesting. Huh? Never uh never thought of it that way. I love this stuff. It's great Interesting interesting Cool thanks for that listener john good stuff All right now dave riddle me this i'll riddle i'm riddling I think I have It may be a geek challenge waiting black all over or something But I wasn't able to get an answer to this question. So The other day I was Entering or I wanted to enter a note in notes, which as most of you know is The app that you can run Both on your mac and your ios devices And it syncs to the cloud and it lets you Share notes and it's like that's nice. I typically use it. I mean I used to use stickies. You guys remember that? But oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I use notes to kind of Store reminders or maybe sometimes temporary passwords Because it crosses all my devices So that's useful. So the other day on my mac Uh, I had a need to store some data and so I opened notes And the new note icon was gray. I'm like, huh? What? Yeah, it was gray. It wouldn't let me create a new note And I'm like, well, that's rude Right. So how many notes do you have? Um, well, here's the thing. So number one, how do you find out how many notes you have and I haven't found an easy way to do that. So I have one So I counted my notes, Dave, and I have any I have an easy way to do that for you go to yeah, go to the uh View menu And choose for you probably show note count There you go. Open up notes to show note count and Show in note show note Okay, uh, no, I'd no count. Oh, okay. Oh no, there it is Okay. Oh, thank you. All right. Welcome. So I had to get more than me. I had to disabled on on my Sure macbook, but it's enabled on My on this machine. Sure on this machine. Yeah, uh 296 That could be the problem But the thing is I couldn't get a clear answer and I searched far and wide as to what criteria is used To limit your notes Some people suggest that oh, maybe has to do with how much iCloud you spend space you have or how much free space You have on your machine, but I couldn't get a clear answer So because I don't think anybody knows I don't think 296 is the in fact I'm certain that 296 is not the number. I I I have more notes than that. So Um But are you out of iCloud storage? No Okay And Both on my mac my mac has several gigabytes free not as much as I'd want. I still gotta figure that out, but um No, my iCloud I'm on the uh, I think the 200 plan. Okay. Yeah, okay looking right now. I think I got Yeah, I got 63 gigabytes free. Okay So and was this the case when you couldn't create a new note on one mac Was the other mac acting the same way? I did did not research that Okay, so that would be the thing to check is check another mac or another another device of any kind, right? Your iphone another mac because that would help you narrow down where that problem is because yeah If there is a maximum number of notes It's not 296 Right. Yeah, I would think 4032 or some number like that, but yeah, but even then like that's a lot That's that's not a lot. I guess it's not a lot. Yeah Yeah, yeah, I'm looking at discussions.apple.com nothing. No Yeah, I knows it's a mystery It like can you create a new one now like did the problem magically go away? Well, I deleted one and then I could add a new one So and then after you after you added a new one. Could you add a second new one? Um, I'll get back to you on that Okay, because that would be like the way to test to see like are you somehow limited to 296 notes? Yeah Interesting That the engineers at apple decided that john f brawn. Yeah, no more than 296 They saw how you were using notes and decided. Yeah. No, no, no, this isn't gonna work I mean the are I did find articles talking about restrictions on like number of attachments and and stuff like that, but No, it just surprised me because it's like Why is this icon broken? Why can't I create a new note? So Yeah, I don't know. I don't think you're at Yeah, there you go at mackeycap.com I get mackeycap.com feedback geek gap.com say that three times easy for you to say You know, I've been saying it for 17 years Pete and Like it rolls off the tongue now Unless I stopped to think about how to enunciate those words and then it like it's like I hit a brick wall Well, that's how I started with feedback. So right right. Yeah. Thanks for that We still have people sending to that Glad to do it. Yeah, it's awesome. Really like to have to create that address Yeah, all right, let's go to James. Shall we let's do it. We shall we shall Yeah, this is a bit of a head scratcher at least for me, but maybe not for you Um, I have an n1 mac mini with several external usb disks attached to an owc dock Several times a week. I will get a disk disconnected message So far the disks have automatically reconnected I frequently run disks first aid and so far no problems have been detected if I have everything connected to a ups And there have been no errors logged by it. Can you give me some guidance? Um I'll try Or we'll try um First off, uh, the first question I would have is the drive that just connects consistent or random So that that would be step one um It could still be a power issue Um, I I don't think so with a ups, but maybe it still is Um, but try a different power cord or adapter. I'm not sure what type of drive that you have Um, but that's another thing it could it could be a power issue, but I I think not um Another thing is look at system preferences battery oddly enough power adapter and make sure put hard disks to sleep when possible is off And on his on his mac mini that would that would be system preferences energy saver Uh power adapter because you you you were I'm assuming you were on your laptop when you looked at this Yeah, yeah, because it's with the with the desktop mac. It's called energy saver energy saver. Yeah Okay, so yeah power. So put hard does the sleep and on all my machines. It's off. Um Depending on the drive, maybe it's Maybe the drive is designed to do this so check with the vendor and see if they have a firmware update Oh, yeah Also, some drives offer an auxiliary utility that can allow you to set things Like when the drive sleeps so See if that's it Yeah, um, oh go ahead lastly it could be a flaky cable. So I don't know where you got your usb cable, but try a different usb cable Uh, sometimes they break Or they get worn out. Yep, or they're just not that great Oh, oh see see Yeah, I have I was john that's I think I think you're spot on with that last one there. I have this little adapter I'm holding up now for the for the youtube audience and it it's a usb c plugs in and it gives me my usb and my Usb c my sd card even hdmi on the end that sort of thing What's the brand name of the adapter there? Vava va va. Okay. Well sure. Yeah, it's a little dongle. Yeah. Yeah, it's a little dongle usb c plugs in and um Uh, I had another one that was similar except instead of a cord off of it It had two usb prongs that plugged into the side of my Uh macbook pro. Oh, yeah. Yeah those scare me those At that one was terrible and I was constantly having drives disconnected that were connected through that and it just you just a little jiggle on that thing and And it was a bad connection. So I think it's a bad connection or a flaky cable or something This thing has been rock solid. So uh, I've gone to that I john, I also think your instinct about it being power Is is I wouldn't I wouldn't dismiss that as as quickly Yes, he's on a ups But like you said if his power supply for the for the drive is bad, then it doesn't matter If that power supply has consistent power, right? If the if the supply is not providing consistent power from there to the drive doesn't matter that it's on a ups, right? Like so right and I much prefer Devices that use I'm trying to remember the name, but it's a direct connection So it plugs into the wall and then the other end. Is it a type a power cord? I I don't remember the proper designations, but it's basically A power cord that plug one end plugs in the wall and the other plugs into the thing and it's not uh as we fondly Call them a wall wart. Those are prone to failure as well I mean, it's the same though a drive is a drive And so whether the power supply is internal to the case that also contains the drive or external to the case that contains the drive it's I mean, you're still gonna have a um, I mean it's it's gonna have some sort of Something that that transforms 120 volt ac down to you know, the five volts that are that a drive requires So I mean honestly, I kind of like the external power supply because if something goes wrong with the power supply You can replace it And Whereas if it's a direct connect. Yeah, no, I say if it's a direct connect the power supply is still there It's just baked inside and maybe more difficult to replace. So um Yeah, I but yes cable or I mean just the drive I I also my first instinct and it's because I deal with these problems So, you know, we all see things through our own lenses But my first instinct was is this a sleep issue like it because there's so many issues With monterey and drives and just devices not coming back the right way when a when A mac wakes from sleep that I have turned off sleep on my desktop max I let the display sleep But um, but I don't I don't let the the max sleep anymore and kind of a bummer because I pay for electricity and A electricity prices are going up here in new hampshire and and b because they're in my office I have to pay commercial rates Because we don't have a bathroom in this building That's that's what we deal with here in new hampshire folks. He's weird. Yep If it was if there was a bathroom here, I could call it residential. So that's fun. Yep Yep Ah, but anyway, that's where we're at um Yeah, good stuff. Where are we at on time? About an hour 15. Yeah, I think it's actually I think it's time. It turns out it's time It's one of those times the time has come my The walrus said to talk of many things I weep for you That's what's the first line of something in ceiling wax of cabbages and kings. What what am I? What's the line I'm missing? The time has come the walrus said to speak of many things of yeah, I had ceiling wax of cabbages and kings I had some cherry stones Yeah, delicious cherry stones are delicious. That's that's one of the benefits of living in new England for sure Yeah Yeah, and I learned that cherry stones are actually steamers just bigger Uh, yeah Yeah I mean, yeah, there's lots of species because I was like because a friend of mine was like Are you sure those are cherry stones are not steamers? I'm like, yeah, hold on The bag said cherry stone. Yeah Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax is the line I'm missing The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax of cabbages and kings And why the sea is boiling hot and weather pigs have wings I don't believe he's scarfed all those Oysters or whatever they were the little guy did.  That's a different one. That's different You can tell a man who drinks by the by the company You can tell a man who drinks by the company he gets and the pig got up and slowly walked away Something locked down. That's why yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Yes. Yes similar similar rhythm to those things That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah fun Well, this is where you get folks when we do this on a monday morning instead of a Friday morning Evidently evidently now I have to go like usually on Friday I publish the show, but if I'm hungry or whatever I can I can wait and like go eat lunch and then come back and publish a show Today, like it's got to get out. So it's got to do it. It's gonna do this Sorry boozes. You can tell a man who boozes by the company.  Thanks for everything. Make sure to subscribe Go to mackeykev.com. That's the place to do it or in your favorite app for podcasts and uh Yeah, we'll um We'll we'll we'll we'll see you again next week. We'll uh, yeah um, yeah, yeah make sure to uh Make sure to sign up for our calendar there mackeykev.com slash calendar That'll tell you not only when we're recording these shows live, but also when we're doing our Uh discord hangouts those are gonna be fun. I I I see lots more of those in our future here It's good to get the community together and that's what discord is. We're all there hanging out john Might you be able to share some advice with the listening audience that they wouldn't otherwise get? um I don't know. I I kind of forget what the advice is, but but I think Pete's on the ball here Well, if you're on youtube, you can see my shirt front and center Folks, it's simple.