Rhyw bach yn ymwneud y gallu ymwneud a fewn yn 15,000 volt yn cael bod yn eu cymdeithasitor Rwy'n mynd i ddweud ni'n ddweud yn llyfr Rwy'n mynd i ddweud yn cyrraedd ffordd, ac wedi'u cymryd yn cymryd Rydyn ni'n gwybod i ei wneud yn y flybaid ac yn ymwneud yw'r cymryd ac yn ymwyneud yn gweithio'r cymryd I've seen how to do this on youtube, a few videos out there that I've watched a few times over and I think I've got approximately the right things to be doing it. And so I'm going to give this a good flash. I've got myself four pieces of plastic from the inside of my old college folder. Yn y gondol. Rwy'n credu eich teimlo i'r teimlo fyddion. Cymru eich fod yn dweud, rydych chi'n gwneud y bydd i'r teimlo i'ch teimlo i'r teimlo. Rwy'n credu cofnwys o'r teimlo i'ch teimlo. Rwy'n credu dail o'r teimlo plasdig. I hyr y gall ar gael. Rwy'n credu'r tîr llai. Rwy'n credu'r teimlo y peth er mwyn i'r teimlo i'ch teimlo. Ac gallwn dod o'ch cyfrifio, gallwch dda i'n meddwl gwahanol o'r unedol o'ch eich amgylutio osod dystiolaidd allan hon, a'r ddurwch dda i'r oedol o'ch meddwl eich amser pan i'r dim yn siaradau. ondi. That's the plan, and I'm hoping not to actually hurt myself particularly when I charred it up. SO. Let's see how we get on. Ok so there's my capacitor. So far, I've not tried it yet. See what the capacitance is. I'm hoping that was such a simple thing that I couldn't have got it wrong. When it comes to the actual sizes. I've perhaps I did what I got, I did what I could what I got, so we'll just have to see how that pans out. OK, so that's what we got, 2.1 nanofarans. Oh, I hope that'll do the job. I'm about to find out. Well, sorry I said I'm about to find out I've got some bits and pieces I've got to do, but I'm going to come back and I'm going to give this a go. OK, so what I've done now is I've filled the ends, laid upon layer upon layer of a hot glue until the ends, and all of the sheets are insulated, and that's on both sides. And then I've put tape over that, and then I've taped the whole length again and made it a little bit extra on at the ends, so I could cut the tape and then fold it across the end again, just to make sure that it's well insulated. And now I'm going to wrap it in brown parcel paper to give it that authentic look. OK, so I've wrapped it in parcel tape, parcel wrapping paper. I've written on there the expected rating. It's breakdown voltage. 2.1 nanofarans there, and on the other side, look, they're dangerous. And I'm not perfect, and I don't like rehearse or anything. Everything's just as it is. I may do a few little breaks in the videos as I'm doing bits and pieces. Hey, look what I did, I put some heat shrink on my wires, because the last thing I actually want to do if I've got a whole bunch of wires out in a circuit is get these particular ones mixed up with any other ones. So I've tried to make them pretty noticeable without putting LEDs, flashing lights, whatever on there to make them light up. So, all apart from putting it in a circuit now, I'm pretty confident that's going to be OK. And I shall come back again when I've connected in the circuit with my fly back in. Oh, God, let's see what happens. OK, right, hold on. OK, so I'm just going to use the bought driver. This, even though it's supposed to have as much power as the driver I've built, it doesn't actually seem to have as much power, but just because it's simple, it was right next to me pretty much and I could just trick it on here. I'm going to use this with this fly back that I've already got connected up to it to make it nice and simple. I've taken off the high voltage from Jacob's ladder and I've also taken off the earth and I've connected both of the high voltage and here to the capacitor. As you can see, I've just used the real, I wouldn't suggest buying these LEDs. I'd get slightly heavier gauge and slightly better crocodile clips because these fail very, very quickly. I wouldn't suggest using them for any type of current, but this isn't really going to pull them in. So what I've done there is I've connected the lead there and that's now connected to my Jacob's ladder. I'm nearly the same on the negative, I've got a black lead there and I've just brought it back around to the side of the Jacob's ladder. So what I've taken to see now is a lot better external light up, a lot better spark for the book. 19 volts, 1.7 amps, let's switch on. I think we can definitely say that that has a lot more bang than what it did before. I should discharge the capacitor and just give you a quick show on what it was like before. But I think anybody that's seen these, you can see that it's actually got a lot more bang. And that's great, that's absolutely fantastic, that's sort of a result I wanted. And of course, I'm still alive. I've yet to discharge the capacitor and so on, so let's just fingers cross there. I feel actually that I've discharged it here because these are connected here and that's connected over here. I can just touch these together and that should do it. I've just pulled the lead out of my power supply, I don't know why I'm doing that. I don't know if I've heard anybody say that's an essential thing. But I'm just going to discharge here and let's just see what happens. That will be making a short circuit connection so that should be discharged. If I don't know I'll be shocked. Ha ha ha, did you get that? If I don't know I'll be shocked. Of course I will, it kills me. So that should be discharged, I should be happy with that. That's discharged. And yeah. OK, so this is just now, I've taken the capacitor out of circuit. And a little tiny bit because I normally have to put 22 volts on just to get this thing. Just to get it motivated on 19 volts. If I just adjust that, let's say 25 volts and let's see what happens. OK, so if I just take the current up a little bit. And thank you. You know that's, well just told him. So there you go.  And that's where you get, that is pretty much a full power. I would just turn that off now. You can see look, 31 volts, 3.1 amps out of that power supply. Unfortunately this particular driver circuit doesn't want to work with this power supply. My driver circuit does work with this power supply. So this is 10 amps. About 10.2 it gives me and this one gives me 3.1. So you can actually see what you get without this in the circuit. I need to make some adjustments to this stuff. You can give up with that. Just from here. That's full power from this. It does need a proper setting up. Unfortunately when that's actually going I can switch this off by the soft switch. Rather than the main conchi one. But when I put the capacitor in line for some reason my power supply didn't want to switch off. I think it was just going to do laddy in itself. So that's great. That's great. A little reminder again. So okay then the caps back in circuit. I'm just going to tell that I'm going to try it really quickly with the 31 volts, 3 amps. Wow. Wow.  Awesome. Wow. Okay that's cool. I like that. I like that. And I do like that. Okay. Right. Oh yeah. Yeah I don't know about you but that was good for me. Bye yw. Okay so it just made a bit of a bigger spark up there. So I'm going to give it a go now with the bigger spark up and see what happens. I would turn down the volume. I should have said that before. I would put annotations up but I would turn down the volume round about now. Three, two, one. Ready? Okay as you can tell that's quite loud. Quite powerful. I'm not sure of the stability but I'm sure that that would have, yeah I'm quite chuffed with that. That's pretty good. Please give me a thumbs up if you like this sort of thing. Comment, subscribe. I'm going to be doing a lot more of this sort of thing. A lot more of this sort of thing. And hopefully you know if you want to step by step just ask and I'll start doing step by step. But I am getting pretty much all my information from books and other people on YouTube, on the internet. There's lots of information out there. It's fantastic. What you can do with just some basic household things. Yeah and I'm chuffed the pieces with this. Chuffed the pieces and so everybody in my list that I subscribe to, each and every one of you, you know part how for me to do this. Thank you everybody. Thank you very very much. Especially the guys that I talk to and give me replies on the comments and on the posts that I put on there. On their videos asking for help and suggestions to you guys especially. Thank you very much.


Hello, and welcome to an exciting episode of Android faithful your weekly source of news hardware apps and more For all the people who love the wonderful world of Android. I am Ron Richards and with me as always We're into it now and of course it wouldn't be a show without Michelle Raman And we are very very excited to welcome a guest who some of you are probably familiar with You know him you love him. Mr. Jason howl I Was that was that confetti you just threw yeah, because it was so I'm I promise I'm not fishing for happy birthdays But it was my birthday a week ago and so my dad's Littered with confetti and a party hatch these little like clapper things And I wondered why and now I know why so that I throw them at the camera. Hi. It's so good to see you Welcome to the show Jason for those who you DT and s Listeners or watchers that you guys know Jason too But if you don't know we used to do all about Android with Jason and here we are in the new frontier of Android faithful We've been dying to get him on the show And finally the schedules aligned and he was able to come on board so thank you and like without fail We had a staff meeting here at twit that ran long So, you know, we're starting the show it like the normal all about Android time Which was almost always at least a half an hour late. Exactly. I'm just waiting for Burke to text me to yell at me about something So for and again for those of our listeners might not know Jason Jason What should everyone know where you where do you work? What do you do my friend? How are you? I work at a podcast network that you may have heard of called this week in tech or twit And you know, I produce some shows. I host some shows right now. I'm hosting Tech news weekly with Micah Sargent twit.tv slash TNW and then I'm also working on an AI show That's called AI inside and that's been a lot of fun as well. We have a AI story later in today's show They picked just for you Jason. Oh, nice. Yeah Drinking card Composed Yes, we haven't talked about RCS as much. Yeah, it's been a little quieter. Yeah, so All right Well, we'll quick before we dive into the show just want to remind and thank everybody that goes to patreon.com Slash Android faithful for you are the folks that are helping make the show happen We really appreciate everybody who signs up on our patreon and as part of signing up for the patreon every week You get to pick a story that we talked about on the show and it's always fun to see you guys vote some more on that a little later on But with that out of the way, let's get into the show. What do you guys say we Jason? We don't have fancy twit bumpers here. No, so I just say So out of here. I just I just like to say we're gonna just we're just gonna talk about the news and so first up Michelle is gonna tell us what's the look so Android 14 has been a hot topic around here.  I don't have the beta installed right now For whatever that's worth, but I did check for an update today, and I got one I just don't think it's the one that we're are you familiar with the fact that it hasn't launched yet Android 14 at least or Thank you, Ron Speaking of the update you you got today. I'm guessing it was probably this the September 2023 security update that rolled out for pixel phones this week Many people were expecting the Android 14 update to have rolled out already But instead we got a new Android 13 based update for pixel phones And this is actually a little bit late because the September patches were announced back on September 5th But now it's September 18th or actually this was yesterday when it rolled out But that's when we got the update and so now many are wondering when is Android 14 coming out? Well, we don't know the exact date, but some people are expecting maybe next month or maybe later this month We don't know for sure But another thing we do know is coming this week is the Android 14 QPR beta the quarterly platform release beta, which Google has said they did say it's coming out the week of September 18th so sometime this week maybe tomorrow it should be on the way and For those of you who are keeping track As to what devices will be getting the Android 14 QPR update the pixel 3 I sorry the pixel 5 and Pixel 5a 5g and later should be getting the update assuming that device is no longer Is not being dropped from the roster Speaking of devices being dropped from the roster though the pixel 4a Is no longer being supported with the monthly security update because Google announced that Way back when it was launched that that device would stop receiving updates with August on August 2023 and later So the September update was not released for the pixel 4a and so so sorry Michelle I had a I had a question for you though so I saw I saw a bunch of chatter about the QPR beta and Everybody basically throwing. I saw a bunch of articles saying Now's your chance to back out of the beta to avoid getting the QPR. Oh Yeah, so it's kind of a mess there so assuming that the Android 14 update was supposed to be released on September 5th That's the assumption that I'm going with The idea was that Android 14 would have been released on that date on September 5th And then the QPR update would be released this week so that anyone who was still on the beta program would have been able to opt out and Receive a stable update and not be forced onto this new beta But because this QPR beta is launching this week and because stable update hasn't released yet People who are still on the Android 14 beta program Will be forced on to the Android 14 QPR beta program Unless you do a complicated process, which is opting out right now Refusing the downgrade Update that's sent to their devices until the stable release comes out because if you take that downgrade package That's sent to your device. It will wipe your device. It will wipe your data and you start all over So you got to opt out and don't do that and wait for the stable release to be pushed out So it's safe to say this point at this at this point Are we are we marking Android 14 as a total disaster before it's even out or what what? I Know like a Like a like the average triple a show, you know a little delayed.  It probably isn't very easy It's not easy for us to throw tomatoes from the sidelines, but sure I'm sure that I'm sure that behind the scenes There's some sort of panic going on All right, well Michelle anything else on on the September release before we move on or That's pretty much it the fact that the update happened in this kind of weird timeline shenanigans going on and nobody knows Where exactly Android 14 stable is and that's what we're all really here for yep So we're waiting for where in the world is Android 14 stable. That's the question I mean at a certain point. Why don't they just kind of hold on to it and then tag it on to the pixel event Like that's what I think is happening that that's my once they missed the September window My gut was like hey We have a hardware event coming in the early octin in in a couple weeks October 4th in New York City and Jason sure enough I can't even go they booked in on a time when I'm unavailable so but I'm just gonna blame them for that as if they care But my guess is that there'll be there has to be an update there or it happens that day. That's my guess Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right cool. All right. Well Jason.  Oh, yeah So yeah, I mean if anything you can see the premium segment Which is basically any smartphone costing a thousand dollars or more is still remaining strong And it's kind of like a linchpin for a lot of manufacturers to kind of ride out the instability But kind of not surprising with what we've talked about since you know this whole pandemic thing and just the current economic, you know environment inflation that Things are tough and people are just you know that manufacturer basically having to realign their strategies to both kind of Try to continue to drive, you know premium upgrades and premium purchases But also trying to figure out what the head to do with mess in the mass market and folks that aren't looking to buy You know premium phones The canal says say that smartphone shipments They do expect them to recover slightly in 2020 24 by about 3% But I mean don't really look to you know the numbers getting anywhere near You know like pre 2021 numbers anytime soon. So and this is industry-wide. This isn't just Android This is because Apple's taking a hit too. I mean, you know, so we just came off of an Apple event Jason What is your what's what's your take on the state of smartphones right now? Well, what well, I mean smartphones. I feel like I feel the kind of slowed down I feel like you know in the past couple of years we've had these these foldables to be the kind of the distraction of or the example of like what is innovation and I think the The market is mixed on whether people really truly believe that foldables are the innovation that people are looking for I think at the end of the day really smartphones are a thing that we all have had for long enough to for them to Kind of for for the excitement about them to kind of slow down a little bit Having said that when I look at this report There is a kind of a glimmer of hope for Google that Google's market share grew from 2% To 4% so doubled their market share in a year. That's that's not bad I mean 4% isn't a giant, you know market share Yeah, it's going from 2 you're going 2% growth, but still and that we haven't had their hardware event like Google and you'll be a 8% There's a really cool dichotomy here and I liked what so one of the analysts from Canalis Lindsay Upton called it the Premiumization game, you know and a lot of the premium market is being driven by of course iPhone and Samsung and first You know any iPhone and Samsung foldables and that yeah There she's you know kind of noting that the kind of catch up in other OEMs trying to kind of get into the premium market and be like Contenders in that premium space, but on the flip side, you know, we talked a lot about like flip side Oh, I didn't mean to do darn it Why don't they on the on the other side on the other end of the spectrum? You know because of like market volatility and kind of change in user spending habits, you know consumption and this kind of like Lindsay Upton mentions along get a refresh dials stock cycles and decline declining carrier subsidies There's like and the like business to have to focus on quote a more sustainable like business model model for kind of like the non premium market And yeah, just like it kind of also driven by you know, as we've noted like a lot of like regulations And just like customer intent. So like right to repair You know replaceable batteries all the kind of stuff So there's like a really kind of interesting tug and pull between like hey Like the rest like people that not aren't in the premium market want to keep their phones longer How do businesses deal with that while still driving, you know, all of their crazy premium devices? So interesting time Also, this is great. So I'm also kind of curious how the reentry of Potentially the reentry of Huawei into the smartphone ecosystem will actually upend things because as we talked about last week Like they kind of shocked the world with their new devices that are powered by a Seemingly unlabeled 5g capable chipset, and you know, what would happen if Huawei was just unleashed on the world again Like they were a force to be reckoned with And that is not sketchy at all But yeah, do you think do you think they can retain do you think they can get back what they once were if they lifted that I I suppose so right they can climb up. They have the capability.  Yeah We'll see. All right Well, next story is a middle-aged nostalgia pick because Jason over the decade-plus that we podcasted together talk about Android I feel like every three years we talked about Nokia in some way shape or form. Yeah, right? It's like it's like a bad thing and then at a certain point it was still recurring. It's like It's like a bad penny that coming back, right? Well, here we are. It's back sort of kind of this is like a reverse Nokia The people who make the current Nokia phones HMD, they're gonna launch their own smartphone phone brand They've decided to move on from the not not necessarily move on but Part you know kind of do something different than the Nokia branded HMD global Which is based out of Finland and they produced the Nokia branded smartphones and they've said, you know They said it's been a great journey as HMD the home on the key of phones an exclusive position We've held for the past six years an exclusive position everyone mind you like was the last time in six years You saw a Nokia phone that mattered But they're taking they're taking their next step of their journey and they're gonna enter the market independently and no information as to whether What those products will be what HMD will look like if they're gonna call it HMD or HMD global or some other brand or something like that But sure enough they're gonna try to they're gonna try to be on their own outside of the Nokia shadow. So What are the Nokia phones right now? Are they are they the mid-rangers like our Nokia devices right now kind of decidedly mid-range or budget to mid budget to mid-tier According to this article in the verge, you know the Nokia C32 in that budget to mid-tier I don't know how much exactly they they they cost but they definitely are affordable and I got to imagine They are more, you know, it's being a Finland based like this is another one where it's like It's more of a global brand than what we see domestically, right? Yeah Yeah, we certainly don't see a whole lot of Nokia energy these days I mean we get like you said we keep seeing that HMD is like really leaning into the fact that it's got the Nokia namesake and it's producing phones that have it on there is purely nostalgia For a certain group of people, but then there's a lot of people that like don't even understand the nostalgia around Nokia because it was so long ago So I don't know it's a really interesting brand in this day and age to to know whether that actually works well for them Or not and I will give cousin of jaw in the chat props for HMD hold my droid That's a good one. So all right. Well, there you go. There's a little Nokia for you, Jason. So thank you. I was waiting. Yes was thirsting Well, it is now time for the patron pick so every Monday we post three new stories And our lovely lovely patrons who we adore and thank you very much for their support Get to vote and pick on which one we discuss And I mean would you call that a landslide? I mean like that's a very hefty win So what did we have sorry? Well, so we had so google file users get get easier google one access got 24% of the vote Oh rip surface duo support window 22% of the vote but with you know a decent simple majority We got 54 picking pixel tablets hair down Emptier than you think Uh, so when I first suggested this I did not know that this I didn't notice or kind of miss that This actually started as a ron a mario write up. So of course, there's a lot of wonderful ron takes about What's going on inside the pixel tablet? And basically so So this kind of started as a good thing right because google and iFix it have been partnering to kind of create, you know, like This kind of going back again to like the right to repair a more repairable, you know ecosystem by providing, you know guides and and just official support Well a side effect of that is Now you can see inside of a pixel tablet and hold on I had to I have to read you some ron a mario quotes ron notes that quote It's a little odd because the inside of this tablet looks like it was made in someone's garage with a 3d printer. Um, so So for uh audio stream listener only folks kind of like the thing some of the main things that are being pointed out that might be a little bit strange or Maybe less what is it? What how we say less premium or just surprising about the inside of the pixel tablet is that there's a lot of Empty space if you once you take this the display or once you take the cover And the display off you can see a lot of the kind of white backing plastic that is in fact Just the back of the pixel tablet. Um, there are a lot of foam blocks that seem to be adding stability And actually, you know plays holders in side of the tablet and kind of I guess very easy to see is There are a lot of wires like connecting wires where normally they would kind of be you know grouped together Maybe laid over components kind of in a neat way. Um, it kind of looks like your typical Custom pc bill where you're seeing red white and blue wires just kind of braided together It does look a little radio shack home like make your own tablet kit a little bit a little bit Um, and there's a lot of space. Um, and so You know, I don't know. I've never made personally made a pixel tablet So I I'm not going to judge but it is there is some wondering about what case of why is there so much space like Um, are these components that were for a smaller or less like rugged device put into a larger case like larger, you know, um housing Yeah, why or is it or or is it a testament to the state of hardware manufacturing that the components have gotten so smaller That when making a 10 or 11 inch tablet that you're going to end up with with empty space Yeah, that that's kind of what I was thinking like When I think of I mean, I've never made a tablet before but when I'm thinking of you know, the design of a tablet I'm not thinking I'm going to make this tablet so that the stuff inside fits it perfectly I'm thinking I want the tablet to be this size And then I need it to do these things which means these components. How do we fit these components in there? Maybe they were just really efficient with the components that they put in there I don't know like or is that a strange take? I mean, I don't own a pixel tablet But I do remember being at IO and and having one in my hands. It did not feel as hollow as like an on on on on a tablet Feels very empty and hollow right like it felt significant enough And I think at the end of the day the the vast majority of people aren't going to crack these things open So it probably doesn't matter if that's okay Well, so I and I think it's worth sharing because when when you did your research here And we got the iFixit guide to replacing a battery on the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 Which which is too, which is that's the earliest latest version I could get but sure. Yeah, definitely less space It's just interesting to see the comparison and like we've got folks in the chat popping in like someone named Burke Maybe I don't know This random gentleman named Burke saying that electrons are usually not a bunch of separate boards So that's maybe worth noting and and kind of some of the criticisms that people have laid at the feet of the pixel tablet are kind of The the counter that are seen here like again the wires being laid kind of laid over components and As killbot 404 and other folks have noted But if there's so much space could that not mean bigger battery bigger storage more? Give me a headphone. Give me a headphone jack. Come on. Oh courage for it. So that's pushing it Ron I mean right there. I can I so I can I tell you Jason.   No just at iO. So I I did get one and I have it in fact I traveled I went to Chicago this past weekend and actually traveled with it and I gotta tell you like I like it but intuitively Stuff feels wrong And basically what I mean is that like in looking at this photo of the pixel tablet, right pretend the screen is here And when you're holding it landscape position not portrait, right? The charging port the usb-c port is on the left side Okay, and instinctively I want it to be on the right side because when I rotate it 90 degrees to hold a portrait I want to plug in at the bottom and I find myself plugging in at the top now sure I could rotate it the opposite direction 90 degrees and then that's fine But for but the way my case is here. I have it right here Like the way the way the the I have a spec case And the way it's set up is the camera is on the upper right side And so if I tilt it It just all feels backwards. It feels like somebody left-handed made this no offense anyone left-handed But you know what I mean like it or like or like the Somebody designed it in a mirror, you know what I mean like it just feels like everything feels like it's in the wrong spot Like the volume rocker and the power buttons on the upper right hand corner when I want it to be on the upper left Like it just it's it's very kind of strange. So Yeah, um, yeah, audience listeners just just take a look at some of the maybe go to iFix and check it out But yeah, I mean it is noticeable just kind of the difference in what the samsung Seven looks like and even if you look at an ipad breakdown how things are a little more kind of cohesive again Not hardware designers here, but you look like a lot of disparate parts I just wanted to actually note that kind of ron did some speculation that he wonders whether The pixel tablet really did start off as a proper smart display And you know, we've talked about this on this show and other shows about kind of like the the weird Migration from smart display slash, you know, google assistant, you know emphasis to Other things and then so ron speculations that maybe the google The pixel tablet start off as a proper smart display and because of like business changes or even like other product changes last minute or Not so well planned out that that's why the inside looks different than other tablets. So I don't know Yeah, could be you know that that person named burq Whoever he was, you know, that was a pretty smart comment I mean when I was After he said that comment and I was kind of looking at the picture I was like, okay, it really does kind of look like these things were just like tacked into place like I don't know right There yeah, sure It lines up right here. Look at fix it with some glue I mean, it it does look like like I said it looks like in radio shack You can get a build your own radio kit, right and it tells you where to put everything. That's what it does look like It's very odd It does have like foam blocks in it like which again Don't want to like just rag on someone for making a good, you know solution to a hard problem But does it feel like a five hundred dollar tablet? I think that's kind of my point is like at the end of the day if it's sealed up And it works and it does the trick like how much does it matter? I mean, maybe there's a reason for this to matter and and i'm missing it Pay no attention to the wires behind the curtain or the lack thereof All right, and just real quickly just for parody's sake We found a tear down of an ipad and so you can see the inside of an ipad is much more I mean Audio stream listeners, but it's funny because there there is a big sign that says this is weird It's more just commenting on very specific parts of like the ipad 10 versus the ipad air design But it's pretty full. I mean, it's pretty dense and I don't know in there. I don't know Not a hardware designer If you are a hardware designer write in and let us know is this weird Are we being mean or is this is make a lot of sense? It's just yeah, if you've opened up other devices You're like, yeah, that's normal.  Yeah, do you want to come on the show and talk about it? We'd love to hear That's right. We're just we're just a bunch of jerks over here opining and giving hot takes also. How does it pay? No All right So that was the patron pick and reminder you go to patreon.com slash android faithful sign up there at any level And you get to participate every week. We love everybody who votes on that. It's so much fun Um So with that, uh, there would be a bumper here where we would talk about hardware But instead I'm just going to throw it to mr. Michelle All right, so first up on the hardware is the news that dropped from, um, camilla I'm always mispronounced her last word jacalska, but uh, camilla won't just houseka We'll go with that For android authority that talks about the roadmap for the tensor chipsets that are coming in the future You know, I know you all know that by now. Hopefully that the pixel 8 is launching on october 4th next month But this article is not talking about the chip that's going in the pixel 8 This article is talking about the chip that's going in the pixel 9, which is coming out next year And it basically the gist of it is that um, if you are looking forward for You know, it's significant performance improvement in the pixel 9's chip Um, unfortunately, it looks like that won't be happening If you're looking for google's custom chip to actually result in something super fast and super performant having all custom cpu and everything It looks like that might be coming in the year after In order in other words the pixel 10 or 2025 tensor g5 series So, uh, this article is a is a great read. It's very technical. It goes over like how google partnered with samsung to co-design the tensor chipset the various components went through the pixels tensor chip And you know the ip blocks, you know the gpu the the npu the dsp the all these other things You know if you're really interested in the silgon the necruity hardware aspects It's a great read But uh, yeah the gist of it is next year No super custom The next year after is super custom stuff My main takeaway from this was that I like the fact that google like we got away from dessert code names for android version But we've got beach code names for tensor chips We've got redondo and laguna and zuma like we've got some good beach names here So they gotta have like some theme to wrap all their products around apparently Exactly This is a thing like engineers love to just find like really intricate esoteric or just very specialized naming scheme for things And we stick with it forever. It's just our thing. Don't take it away from us. Make us happy Yeah, but the the thing about and to get to get less serious from the from the naming I'm not surprised. I mean michelle. I don't know if you're surprised, but I'm not surprised by this because like I believe jason or when I think we I don't know We we this is a more recent all about androidism But we said hardware is hard right like making system making a system on a check has got to be It's a generational thing and especially like and this great article goes in depth with it But the relationship with samsung and what they learn from samsung and what can they do on their own? Like it is it's not something that iterates very quickly It is like within years right because they got a they got to design it They got to make it they got to use all the chips they make before they make another one, right? I mean, I don't know like am I am I wrong to be not surprised by this and or patient in this process or I mean supply chain problems and murphy's law only goes but go ahead. Sorry michelle probably No, I mean, yeah, absolutely This these things take years to develop like they're working on this stuff The chips that they're working on now won't come out until like 2025 2026 like These are years in advance. They're making especially custom cpu design There's a reason that's so very rare and the reason like samsung gave up Was just because it was very very hard like they had their custom Mongoose cpu they had a whole center and r&d center in austin that was developing all this stuff But then they gave up and now they're using largely qualcomm chips throughout their devices I think they still do make some x-nose chips in their samsung flagship sold in a couple of markets like korea But even those are using arms, you know off the shelf cpu designs. They're no longer using samsung's custom designs I have a question then about along that that line is if they're If google's trying to create its own first like first top to bottom head to toe chip and release it Years down the line And this this might be a question that none of us even have any clue the answer to I know I don't I'm baffled on this How do they know that that chip years down the line is going to be competitive with anybody else's chip years down the line How do you even know that it's a good question? That's a good question It's actually like really relevant. They don't know like right now They're just comparing the chip that they have and they're comparing it against the current generator the current market Like the qualcomm there was a report from this semi conductor Research firm semi analysis that talked about the qualcomm's custom chip that's coming in their laptops like their orion cpus And they said they were comparing it with the m1 slash m2 chip But apple is already on the m3 which is significantly more powerful So like by the time qualcomm's chipset comes out, which is we don't know. I think maybe next year. We'll see it in products It's already going to be competitive with the m2 But like apple will already be well underway close to releasing their maybe m4 by that time Yeah, that's wild This is not quite the same thing But it kind of reminds me also about you know, especially like in the last few years You've heard about like whiskey or like bourbon kind of like long like things with a Products with like a long tail where you have no idea what the demand is going to be when you start making something And then the actual the liquid the liquid sorry No, these are google products You know whiskey I I did say engineers like to theme their names But it's such an interesting thing where you make a product and you will have no idea what the demand or the success or You know what the turnaround is going to be be for that product years years from now It's just interesting. Um, I never thought about it from a tech perspective before just usually like, oh Yeah, yeah, making bourbon's heart. That's always chips Now I want now I want bourbon. Oh, yeah Good right now All right. Um, well, cool. Well, thank you. Michelle. That's a great flag is great article. Everyone should go check it out Um, really really great job. If you want to get deep into it. It's over on android authority.com. Check that out Um, but we were talking uh, nokia. We were talking about how they're in uh, those phones were in the mid range to budgetier Over the years I've been a big fan of what motorola has been doing for the mid range and here they are their back Um, you know, we're in that time of year where it's the you know It's the fall and everyone's announcing their new phones and whatnot And motorola offered up some new mid-range phones in the form of the motorola edge 40 neo The moto g 84 5g and the moto g 54 5g And these all all these phones come in and I can go through and read all the specs You can check my effort for the mid-range for me. It's the price they come in somewhere between, you know High 200 to high 300 like the motor all edge 40 neo is $375 which is just for you know, as we're talking about, you know $1,000 plus flagship phones or $1,800 foldable phones. It's nice to know that there are You know motorola and other manufacturers are making phones that are affordable to the folks that can't afford the big You know kind of flagship one and the specs and all this stuff like that are pretty they're not they're not bad They're they're decent phones as far as I'm concerned So good job on motorola for continuing the g-line I think it's an important spot in the android marketplace for sure So it's nice to see that they they are still out there Sexy colorways too I gotta say motorola tends to be pretty pretty good with like the aesthetics of it And there are some just really nice colorways out and I just they just look nice. Yeah, they look good They they definitely I feel like the the the motor the moto g line has has matured nicely All right, it's got look it looks like got a nice little mock-a-dial Yeah, the tail probably would love this. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so Vegan leather finishing and lifelike entertainment features in the moto g 54 5g And then you've got this wonderful. Oh my gosh deep red with the moto g 84 Irresistible design ultra pixel camera and 256 giga storage And yeah, once again, you won't find I mean, are there any phones out there that are closer to a osp You know stock android than motorola motorola keeps a lot of the bloat off of there. So that's pretty good Cool All right, so that's a little bit on the moto mid-range, right Yeah, and we'll finish up hardware with a watch roundup So we talked a little bit about google kind of given a sneak peek of the pixel watch 2 Last week and we've got a few more rumors about other things that might be packing Maybe packed inside the pixel watch 2. Um, we already talked about the electro dermal activity eda sensor for Managing your stress and tracking at how stressed you might be And not only that, but there also be a skin temperature sensor according to Sources that will allow for kind of beyond what the fit bet does now Which is kind of skin temperature overnight tracking as part of like general health friends You should be able to now check your skin temperature on the man and still have that history Now that might seem a little bit much But what I absolutely love is that the speculation is that this kind of more rigorous temperature tracking could be used for menstrual tracking Which is, you know, um, I think is an awesome kind of increasingly Increasingly kind of covered like area of health with all these like, you know, new like health devices. Um, samsung talked about it a little bit Um, so, uh, health aside.  I don't know something about it will be more engaging Um, but not just exercise, but also personal safety the current pistol chip already a pixel watch rather Already has a couple of personal safety features like hard fall detection An emergency sos feature where you hit the crown five times real quick succession and it um, uh, does emergency dialing So the pixel watch two will kind of add on top of that And not just that but we will try to make these features as standalone as possible So a lot of these features if you have lte and if you have an active data plan They should work without the phone. So these will include things like um car crash detection, which we already have on the pixel phone Um, and I'll also have um, I didn't write down with the name of the feature called But basically when it detects a crash your core medical information will just be displayed on your watch In the case that emergency medical That's pretty cool. Uh, uh, Technicians need to kind of see it at a glance which is amazing. Um, this also will include emergency sharing where your location can be shared With trusted emergency contacts And then safety check which is another feature that pairs with you know, pixel phone where you can basically set a countdown And once that count then expires You the the feature will actually ask you hey, are you all right? And if you have not responded your emergency contacts will be notified and again Well, this is a pixel phone feature it will be added to The pixel watch 2 as a standalone um Feature if you have an lte plan and an active data plan or if you have the lte device and an active data plan So, um, that's all great. Um translation is coming back to the pixel watch 2 Um, it's been away for a while once, you know, where os stopped having the google translate app But it looks like with other things that are being re-emphasized or re-enter through google assistant Translation will be part of the google assistant um, and yeah, it does look like it will be independent of having the phone with you So again, just the continuing thread of and theme of hey stuff you can do without your phone on your watch Uh, and yeah watch unlock is is hopefully coming soon. We talked about this when we covered ces 2023 on all about android um, the code is there and it was built on a 13 android 13 api, but Uh, it might be held hostage by the release of android 14, but it's common and nine to five google Uh, gun ended by google's apk insight team unlocked it. Uh, yeah unlocked watch unlock Uh, to show you what it's like. Uh, you can go to the article to see kind of a Some snap of some snap screenshots of the actual setup process But kind of what we've already talked about where you know, it's meant to kind of fill gaps in authentication Like if you have wet hands or if of course you're masked, uh, why would you I'm not going to make that joke? It's been a long pandemic But you know kind of like kind of trying to make it for odd situations where you know, the usual and authentication methods don't work Um, your wearable must be unlocked on your wrist and within four inches And of course it might be slightly less secure google warns and traditional face fingerprint and strong pattern recognition um, and it might affect the battery slightly but um Within four inches four inches So how is it doing that? Is that you wb? I think just bluetooth received signal strength. So just uh, uh, oh the signal strength. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Um And yeah, oh and finally, um So that's oh, sorry. Go ahead. Yeah. Well, see before we move on to the next watch thing Jason, are you tracking the pixel event coming up in october? Are you are you? Yeah, are you excited for the new watch? What are you what are you? Well, i'm excited for anything that they have going on at the new event and i'll be getting whatever the new phone is Apparently google really loves their temperature sensors because they've got it in the watch and they're going to have it in the date pro What are they all about? They've got a they've got a watch that the watch makes sense. They've got a box of them in the Off in the office at mountain view. They're like listen. We got all these temperature sensors put it in something 2023 is all about temperature What I was shocked and what I was shocked is that one of those spots in the tablet was supposed to be a temperature sensor And they didn't put it in and so tablet He was joking I was cool because I would have believed it I mean, I do like the theme though of and I Ron didn't you mentioned this like especially for like pocket Like for podcasts and stuff like being able to do a lot more with with just the watch And it seems like they're really coming for that kind of uh category of user with the pixel watch too For sure. Yeah jason the pocket cast wearos app is finally out. So maybe I'll give Maybe I'll give that a shot. Yeah, we'll see.  I like that trolling trolling your stress. It's not a bad idea. It's not a bad idea So, um, all right. Well, that's not the only watch news that's out there, right? No, we've got a real quick peek at a show me entry into the arena with a show me watch 2 pro Not much information just yet, but they made an x tweet next x post September 18th, but yeah, um the show me launch event in September 22 We will have information on the show me watch 2 pro So if you are able to get a show me watch 2 pro keep your eyes out for that and and the big news on this is that it's I mean, it's running wearos, right? It is. Yes. Yeah, so There you go. Very interesting to see jammy yet in the in the wearable game Yeah, wonders amounts of watch news the wearables. All right x. All right. Cool. Well, that's gonna wrap it up for hardware Um, and so we we like to talk about apps on the show jason. I don't know I know the old show didn't really talk about apps as much, but uh, we made a concerted effort to talk about apps here So five your show you can do whatever you want with it But um, I saw this pop up last week after we finished last week's show and I was like, oh We got to talk about that especially jason since you're coming on and you're working on the AI show um The fine folks at swifki on the swifki beta Now let you generate AI images from swifki directly And I thought this was really interesting because last week we talked about Google's AI implementations in gboard where they're enabling AI driven, you know, kind of rewrite, you know, kind of Grammar checks and kind of, you know, that sort of thing like AI getting more integrated to the keyboard But here microsoft who now own swifki And is very big on AI is Enabling the big AI image creator, which is powered by dolly to generate images right from swifki Which is kind of crazy now jason, you know a lot about this AI stuff. Oh, I know everything I'm an AI expert at this point. I have to do a podcast sort of for like two months. I know Is dolly a good option is being being doing a good job on the AI or is this like would this be something you would use Or what do you I mean, I think I think this makes sense You know microsoft owns swifki microsoft owns bing AI is a really big deal right now And I think I think all of the major companies that have any sort of foot in the AI space Which is basically all of them because it's the hot thing right now Is looking for any way to integrate and and make it so that you don't have to go to a destination to do that AI thing The AI thing is already baked into the thing you're using already So I think I think it makes perfect sense for you know swifki to do this google Like you said doing it with their messages Thing and not to mention like when it comes to messaging so often we're presented with with these things that we want to say or or a feeling we want to present and Thus far our solution has been emoji or it's been an animated gif It's already been created or it's you know been a screenshot that somebody's already made or you come up with it You know and you have to like go into a separate app and create it I mean this actually makes a ton of sense to me It's like well the feeling I have is a magician jump jumping into a swimming pool and poof you get it You know or whatever create your own illustration somewhat. Yeah. Yeah created on the fly. I think it makes perfect sense Yeah, what I want to know is Is a how many gallons of water? Uh, it does microsoft data center use every time I send my friend a meme. Yeah, that's true That's a really good point. I mean Yeah, as as these things get baked into everything like the amount of water That it takes to you know to drive it in the back. Yeah the back end Sorry, I miss that joke completely Yeah, it was kind of just the harsh reality of like every time one of these ai models are running in like their data center And it requires a lot of water to cool. Yeah all these servers. So like oh, okay How much water am I wasting literally by making a meme with this keyboard? It's it's generally yeah, generally the the the the the drain much like nfts But the drain that ai has on on servers and data centers is a real, you know economic not economic Ecological impact right over time, right? Yeah. Oh, it's an interesting framing I always thought of it as like the actual just general just energy consumption, but yeah Oh, well, so there was even a study about chat gpt and the amount of water that it generates and just training it alone A chat gpt3 Consumed 185,000 gallons of water Equivalent to the amount of water needed to cool a nuclear reactor. What? That's news to me Yeah, the environmental impact of all this ai stuff These are the things you learn on android faithful. So Well, I feel like we got a rant coming up So I was not happy to see this so um Y'all might have uh, remember that I we did have a pixel tablet Actually, uh, if you were all about android fans and watched the last episode You know that I have a pixel tablet in my house, which um, kind of probably flew off the dock My legacy at twit. Um, and that I generally speaking my husband and I are We're our huge fans of smart displays and we love our google nest hub max Um, and kind of basically expected the pixel tablet to be that which it is not Um, so to my further chagrin I found I read this article from the verges week saying that uh, Basically people have been getting messages that google is going to act support for google meet and zoom on its nest hub max smart displays. So Um, there's a little bit of nuance here basically for google meet. You can't join meetings From the nests max display anymore. You can make do one to one to one calls But you cannot join meetings with a call a join meeting google like kind of join google meets With a code anymore starting september 28th And if you happen to be using zoom on your google nest hub max that support will end very soon september 30th 2023 Um, and I mean, I know there's not a big deal I don't know how many people are taking zoom calls from the nest hub max But it's just yet another like nail in the coffin for me because you know, they already stopped affring games You know, they've definitely been you know distancing themselves from kind of like these like smart hub displays and really emphasizing You know the more kind of on phone on tablet stuff. Um, And of course my disappointment is the tablet. I mean my my first question here is why And I always got to go back to these decisions don't get made lightly No, or maybe they do I know it's google. What do we know? I should know better, but but um, but you know like I wonder if people just aren't using it Yeah, michelle. I mean we are sorry I mean the nest hub max and all the other nest hub devices are running a completely different operating system Like they're not running android So right it requires some level of support and active development on zoom and you know google's end to continue supporting these apps I mean, they're not going to do it indefinitely, but on a platform like android You know, you can't imagine zoom is dropping support for android anytime soon So that's why I kind of see like the pixel tablet as a successor platform Is something that will have much longer longevity even though google says when they launch a pixel tablet We're not replacing the nest hub. Well, you look at this news and you're like Well, is does this thing have much more future if they're just dropping apps and features left and right? Yeah, that's kind of what I'm I'm pissed about basically like I totally get what you're saying and I get And especially as like someone working at a software company I get it at some point if some people are not using your product It makes no sense to invest money on it and you have to migrate people to other things I totally get it I'm just disappointed because I think that these that the experience that we're getting through things like the pixel tablet Just don't compare to The kind of like many years of really cool features like and really like smart Like I think the smart display experience on the nest hub max is is awesome Like things like even just saying Stop to stop your damn dang alarm and even like the way that certain things work on the nest hub max are We're really geared towards it living on your device. Yeah home device And I totally get it. I just wish they had put more efforts or I at least or maybe I hope that they put more effort into transferring some of that more seamless home Experience into the tablet than they currently have And also just to put a final point. This is a little bit different But now if you are the kind of person who like to kind of create speaker groups with your google home devices We do you are now actually only limited to one group. So before Any nest device any any nest device in your home could be added to multiple speaker groups So you could have one for every single speaker in your house or have one for just kitchen bathroom, whatever Now you are limited to one although this is a little bit different This has a lot to do with the uh legal issues with sonos Sonos steel Which which kind of took away like using the physical rocker to change, you know, the volume of groups So it's a little different, but you can kind of see like well again kind of maybe justifying it for google There's a lot of negatives to keeping nest around. So I am it just seems like an albatross I mean jason i'm watching you shake your head at this one.  I don't know sour grapes I don't actually have You know nest. Well, no, I have google home speakers Yeah, never mind. I'm pissed No, we do and I I think I I mean sonos has all rights to their art to their ip as they do But I will give it to you that I am very much less invested in we have a sono We have a we have a sono setup a little bit for some parts of the house I am very much less invested in it than I ever was in my nest hub max I mean, I love that thing and I was hoping to just like play with it until Came to come but oh well Bye. Bye. Bye smart display. All right experience. Um, cool. Well, uh Michelle you got the next story as I as I try to tee it up for you There we go Yeah, so for those of you who don't know, um in the gboard app You've been able to use the emoji kitchen feature to basically create a mashup of whatever emojis you want Like whatever comes to imagination Um now google is bringing that to the web So if you just type in like emoji kitchen into search you can mash up emojis to your heart's content the available options aren't as Numerous as they are in the gboard app or android But if you're an iphone user or you just you know on a pc now you can do the same now you can create an emoji kitchen Um creation or abomination or whatever you want to call it and copy paste it send it to your friends over Whatever messaging app you want to use and there's one thing I saw on twitter like I have to show if you're on video Here we go. This is amazing. Like I love the things you can create with emoji kitchen He had like this mean looking face the adorable turtle emoji and then you create this The really the meanest looking adorable turtle. I've ever seen so I so just to give me again our audio listeners Everyone knows the purple devil emoji, right?  There's some really smart ones. Um, if if y'all know what monkey bread is It's like this kind of like uh, kind of loaf you make where you can like pull it pull it apart If you do monkey plus bread, it actually shows you monkey like the actual monkey bread the actual kind of yeah So anyway, it's awesome. It's a kitchen. Yeah, all right, and a little more for monkey bread I'm hungry. I haven't Michelle we got a little more productive last app note for everyone, right? Yeah, so a couple of months ago google, um, announced the rollout of the playstores app archiving feature Which would basically let you um Uninstall the app but keep its data in case you want to reinstall it later and when you have more space But that feature was only opt-in at the time of whenever you were running out of storage And you tried to install an app google would offer to archive some apps so that you could free of space to install that app Now what they're rolling out is a new toggle in playstores settings that lets you opt-in to the app archiving feature Um without having to go through that without having to Have low storage and then going to install an app. So that's basically all they did Unfortunately right now you can't manually archive an app So you can't just like go to your app list and then say I want to archive this archive this app and use it for later, um But yeah, if you want to opt in now, you can do that in settings and uh jason this is just to Catch you up to the android faithful world. This is a new part of the drinking game is when an article references michael's tweets I mean Michelle you're prolific I I swear half the articles that I do read I see you mentioned somewhere in there. I'm continually impressed Yeah, I'm a little I'm a little leery, but not just in the drinking game because I think we're all going to get poisoning soon If we had bourbon whiskey then it'd be it'd be fine. So yeah, we just sip then yes All right When you run across michelle's name in an article and he mentioned it on the show Do you refer to michelle's if he's not on the show with you? like oh michelle ramon of android faithful reports Anyways, there was there was one week when he wasn't on the show and where we had like four stories that all References tweets so it was almost like that. Yeah, it's just like much else here Yeah All right, cool Well, let's go wrap it up for apps and now we're gonna get in some of your emails As always we like to hear from everybody you can write into us at contact at android faithful.com We love to hear from you And before I get into the first email which is a reaction to last week's episode Jason have you did you use beeper? Have you been on the beeper bandwagon or did you play with it? Yeah, I'm on the beeper bandwagon. I actually installed it. Um Probably like a week and a half ago, but I still can't get it to like sync up with my iMessage or my my messages on my mac Yeah, so I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I want it I want it to work. You got some beeper problems. I tried. Yeah Yeah, well, so last week we had a uh, someone write in So a couple of weeks ago. We had someone on the show brendan bigly talking about beeper Um Sharing his experience with it. We had someone write in last week Who wanted to get on beeper so we can kind of close the book on this story because he wrote back in Brandon wrote in and said thank you guys for your help on getting to use beeper I found their twitter as you recommended and upon searching found this link, uh, which is a link to There to reddit where people are sharing invite and referral codes Um, and he says it's not so close now. He hopes everyone gets to use it I just set it up today. We'll be putting it through his paces. Thanks for the awesome recommendation Brandon And I love when this happens when like someone writes in we give some feedback And then they they get what they want they got the app they want But that this story doesn't end here because we also got an email from adam j who wrote and said I'm a long time beeper user and they gave us invite codes to share with others I'd be happy happy to give brandon one of them and these emails came in back to back And so like brandon wrote in and then I immediately got adam's email right after it So I was able to tell adam no brandon's all set. He's good, but um, uh, it was just great to see so if you're looking for beeper Go to reddit, uh, and there's a sub reddit for beeper It's reddit.com slash r slash beeper and there's people sharing invite referral codes And that's a real easy good fun way to get uh to get directly into beeper, which is awesome So yeah, I love when that that happens. It's like the the best way the stories can go so Um, all right, cool. And then we got one more email Yes, and this email is from Derek in illinois. Hello af crew if I can call you that The past few weeks you guys have covered the phone that is designed to be carried as a purse It looks like case mate already has an offering for the iphone with a similar style of carrying It takes a very brave soul to hang their iphone by its charge port and a plastic case Love the new show and the android faithful name Derek Jason have you seen the honor? I'm sorry to talk about this for like the third week in a row, but I love it. I love it I know too. Jason. Have you seen the honor v purse? No, the honor v purse Well, I'll pull it up right now. Hang on. So first off. This is the honor v purse jason. Oh my god It is a wraparound foldable That has two hooks for chains And it has a it has a display That um shows the pattern of a purse and also it can move with the phone moves or like as if you're touching it Yeah, you can have little charms hanging off of it and presumably they have physics as well Uh, and it originally was announced as a concept phone and then two weeks later It's in production. It'll be like a launch september Wait real soon. Actually, it's a real soon real soon. Wow, I think might might have been released today Fast-tracking that thing. It's such a great idea. They're fast-tracking it. Yeah so here So for our video viewers and our audio viewers the the e-mailer wrote in uh with this case from casemate which uh attaches to an iphone and uh, it gives you a stylish Chain for you to hang your phone by uh, not so much a purse more as a necklace or whatever Invited you to reimagine how you carry your phone Yeah, and you have to plug it into the charge port in the case Which is great because you know when someone starts really yanking on that, you know a chain that's exactly the kind of Place on the phone that you want to apply a lot of force to anyway Yeah, well i'm like I don't know why it matters to me to figure this out But i'm like seriously like it only plugs into the charge port. It does look like it has A little bit of a further attachment kind of designed to it. So Thankfully, I don't think you're just like plugging it in hoping There's a little bit of a fastening to it. Um, it's more than meets the eye Yeah, it's like a transformer. Yeah kind of yeah like a really pretty over-the-shoulder transformer I I really hope we can get our hands on one because I I just want to carry it around for a week and to see how messed up that phone gets in my hands Do like a 20 minute review on just that case. We got to find someone's in a contact and honor to make that happen It's a wrap around foldable from uh someone in twitch chat. Oh killbot 404 Who says so now you'll be really mad when someone is yanking your chain My chain no seriously All right, so thank you everyone emailed into us you can email us at contact at android faithful. We love to hear from you So much fun and you can get that link of course on our website at android faithful.com with all of our subscribe links and fun Stuff like that. I love your website. I love your graphics. I love your music You guys have done some really amazing stuff. We pulled out the stops. We really pulled out the stops. I'm glad you liked it Well, jason thank you so much for coming on the show You you I don't know it not to not to get too sappy or emotional or whatever But like your dna is in everything we do here on android faithful We wouldn't be here without you so We're so honored to have you join us. I love you.  This is a lot of fun. Thank you Well, that said, you know at the end of the show our guests get the plug. Oh, oh wow. I'm on the other side Yeah, uh twit.tv go there. I do tech news weekly if um if you happen to be a subscriber of uh club twit Then you can check out my ai show called ai inside I'm doing that with jeff jarvis and we're having a lot of fun Just kind of playing around with ai tools interviewing people about different topics in the world of artificial intelligence And all that stuff and then as far as socials at jason howl on x until they start charging Then I will probably leave for good. Um, and just just search my name and a social media platform You'll find me probably All right, excellent. Well, jason seriously, man, this is this is a dream come true for us Me too. We can't appreciate you guys. We appreciate so much. So All right, uh, michelle, where can the people find you? Yeah, so i'm on all social media platforms at at michelle ramon If you want to find out what's coming soon in android 14 qpr Definitely give me a follow because i'll be posting a whole lot about that os update once it launches And if you want to support me i'm also on patreon at patreon.com slash michelle ramon Excellent Go support michelle.  So Um, well, thank you all. All right, cool. All right, when? Yeah, I am an developer. That's my day job Yes, it is my day job And uh, you can find any talks like the one I did just last week in droid con new york on my website railing typing.com Including video Code and whatever when the video is out. 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Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. Hello, look at Tesla, Tesla, Tesla, Tesla. So call this option this morning. A beautiful, beautiful, beautiful call. Ran through the strike today. And how many times has that happened? I mean, this was really, really nice. Let's just see what this is. I called the 360s today, and I gave it out a month. But the target really today was 360, which I felt they were confident we'd get to. Not only did it get to it, it went through it, running up here, two more hours left until we closed too. Let me just look at this here right now. 360s have had a very nice move. Very, very nice. So where does this go? Well, this is what we were discussing in the trading room this morning.  So that's that. Second of all, if you wanted to hold it, then it's got to get over the next level, which is about 370-ish. However, it really needs to get through that pretty darn quick because it couldn't get through it the last time. So if this is really going to get up and make Brandy-Waltem-Heiser retest this area in around 385-386, get all the way up above this, which would be huge. I mean, this potentially could go 25, 30 points through the strike in the time I gave this out to, which was October 13. But it's got to get over here. It's got to get over this area here. This is really something, though. Look at this, 363. It's just running up right now. Everything is so strong that is normally strong because of the run-up in everything today. Spy got over 249. So the things that are strong are proving their strength. And that's very important. So very nice move in the Tesla. Really good call again today. Gapped up, read the gap, following through. Got to see where it goes. That 370 is the next spot to watch. And it's really got to get through that. If you can get through that, I mean, this has a very, very large dream target in the time out I called this option call. However, you could get out of this today with profit.  You got to move like this. There's nothing wrong with just booking the money.  It's a good relief, though. Anyways, have a great day, everyone. If you're interested in signing up for the options letter, email me at melissathestockswish.com. Beautiful, beautiful chart here in Tesla, proving its strength today. And this is also on its own. The market did help us go today to a bigger number, but this really is back turning around itself again. And stock is still in uptrend. It really never broke the uptrend, despite some of the fall-off it had there. And it really is still a very strong stock and very strong in the sector as well. If you'd like to sign up for the Golden Gap Class 2, email me at melissathestockswish.com. My next class is coming weekend, the 16th, 17th, and a repeat of day one on the 18th, which I never do, which is special for this weekend's class. Have a great day, everyone, and I'll talk to y'all soon.


Good morning my friends welcome to my very first official day back to school. It is 6 18 in the morning I'm sitting in my car, and I'm ordering Starbucks because one of my lovely followers on Instagram sent me Five bucks on Ben Mo and was like enjoy your Starbucks on me. So thank you so much Anna I appreciate that you like made my whole day So for those of you that are new here My name is Charlotte, and I am a fourth grade science and social studies teacher in central, Arizona I am departmental eyes, and I teach at a year-round school so we get out may 24th ish around and We have a few longer breaks in our school year We have two two week breaks and one three week break And so we are more of a year-round school. We get out in May We go back late July, and I really enjoy that it's kind of My favorite so far. I would much rather have longer breaks throughout the year than have a longer summer That's just how I prefer it. It's hot here in Arizona. It's already 90 degrees this morning It's humid and I would just prefer to spend two weeks in the fall two weeks in the spring and two weeks Three weeks in the winter Traveling rather than during the summer because it is so hot. So That's a little bit of a background I am departmentalized and so normally I would see three different blocks of students every day But today is the first day of school And so we are keeping our own home rooms today and just doing some community building School procedures basic classroom procedures, and then tomorrow will be our first day of rotations So technically I'm saving a lot of what I usually would do on the first day of school for tomorrow technically not saving all of it but like my classroom procedures and Supplies and stuff like that because I'm gonna have to repeat it Again tomorrow, and I don't want my home room to be a step ahead of the rest of the classes So that's the plan so when I get to school you guys I'm gonna share with you all of the things that I plan to do today. That's why I'm leaving a little bit early and I'm gonna try to make this more of like a First week of school vlog rather than the first day because I can guarantee you once I put this camera down After this morning, I will probably not pick it up again. Just because it's going to be a very busy day All right, you guys I got my Starbucks So I just got a Trenta iced coffee with vanilla and cream and this has sugar in it Which I have not really been consuming in the last few months. So but it's the first day of school I'm gonna treat myself. It's gonna be real good. You watch. Oh my gosh. It's like heaven Yeah, I've been on a sugar-free kick since like The end of March, so I've been doing really good and then I also ordered myself some bacon greer egg bites They're my all-time favorite. So I'm gonna get to school I should probably be there in about five minutes and then I'll update you guys on the plan for today Well, you want to see what that is you interested in the camera You saying hello We should change this channel to be called apples and the rats I'm just killing all the vibes right here. Oh geez. There goes the marker. Oh my gosh, you guys.  This is temple Tina any of you who are new here Her sister peach is somewhere in this cage. I Love you, but I have to close this and we can hang out when I'm done getting everything ready. Okay Where's peachy There you are. Hi sweet girl. She's a little more shy than teeny.  Yeah, you just shy. Oh look at Oh he says he's Okay, I'll see you guys in a minute Okay, enough with the rats So I am here in my fourth grade science social studies classroom It is done and set up. It looks like my disco ball fell last night though So that's depressing. It's like the second time it's fallen. So it's probably toast Disaster has striked stricken stroke We'll see if it can be repaired Fix that later Okay So let's talk about the first day of school our students will be coming on campus at 740 and At that time all teachers are to report to a duty. So at 740 I will be going downstairs to the gate where students who are walking enter and We are to direct them out to the playground because this year is Normal as our district would call it so our students will be going out to the Playground at 755 the bell rings and at 8 o'clock. We bring them upstairs So once they get up here, there will be a message on the TV which I need to turn that on and just Start getting things rolling here Let's turn on the TV Okay Also gonna turn all my lights on so this little contraption I got from Amazon I think it's in my Amazon storefront if it isn't I will add it But essentially what it is is it's a bunch of plugs around the room that can be turned on by one remote and It's lovely because I don't have to run around the room and plug things in which is a total pain in the butt So I love it Amazon look for like remote control Plugs or something and it will definitely pop up the only one that I have to turn on manually is the one behind my TV But I can also turn that on from my phone So I'm technically choosing to walk over here and then my disco ball. I got a fix Okay, so what are the kids doing the second they walk through the door as soon as they come in? I'm going to instruct them to have a seat Anywhere that they would like and I like to do this on the first day of school because I like for kids to tell me Who their friends are without them telling me who their friends are? So That would have been a funny thing to put on my slide Tell me who your friends are without telling me who your friends are because it's like tick-tock get it Anyway, once they sit down, they're going to start drawing themselves on this little selfie Cell phone. This is a tpt product All you got to do is look up back to school selfie or all about me selfie So they're going to start drawing a picture of their face or their body in the middle of the cell phone And that's what they're going to be working on while I get my morning chores done My morning chores include taking attendance doing lunch count and doing a warm body count to send down to the principal and then There will be some morning announcements Once morning announcements are over I will probably give the kids a few minutes to keep working on this I'm sure there's going to be kids that have questions There's going to be kids that come in that I haven't met yet So I have some paperwork that I need to give those students who are not here at meet the teacher night Make sure that that information gets in their backpack and gets on its way home so that there's no issues Then I'm going to go open up my Google slides so that you guys can see exactly what the kids are going to see Okay, so this is the slide that the kids are going to see when they walk in Says please sit anywhere you would like today and follow these steps Be seated quietly place your backpack on the floor next to your stool Please try to keep it out of the walking space begin drawing a picture of yourself on the phone handout If you finish just sit quietly, we will begin shortly so then the next thing that they're gonna see is my Agenda slide that I always always have in Google classroom and it always begins with this page because on this page I link a few things for them like my virtual classroom and dojo store are linked on the laptop Near pod is linked here. We've got a virtual dictionary and the source up here at the top and encyclopedia And so this is kind of like the front page that they always see on my agenda slides, and I'll just explain That today is Wednesday Okay, so the first day is of school Here's our to-do list for the entire day So we will begin with kind of like a welcome and meet the teacher slides So I'll just explain a little bit about myself today And then I will give them a room tour So I will literally walk around the classroom and show the kids where everything in this room is What they're allowed to touch what they're not allowed to touch where to find things Etc. Then we will do introductions. I will have all of the students Go to The back of the room and we will circle up and I will teach them the how to get to the circle Procedures, which are very simple stand up push in your chairs And go to the back circle. I don't know yet if I'm gonna have them bring their stools I might have them bring their stools just because there's no carpet and they might complain about sitting on the hard floor Maybe I'll let them decide I'll let them choose would you guys rather sit on the stools or would you rather sit on the floor sitting on the floor is so much more like Intimate I guess like it's just kind of more like cozy and then we will do the get to know you web Which if you don't know what the get to know you web is oh by the way once we get over there We're doing a name circle activity, which is the old as heck Activity where you sit in a circle you start with one person you say all the names and that person has to say The names that came before them try to go all the way around the circle and then I have to try to remember everyone's name and Then we're gonna do the get to know you web, which is really fun. You start with a Bit of yarn you start by holding it and telling a fact about yourself It could be anything like I have two dogs at home then Everybody who has two dogs raises their hand and then we throw the yarn across to them They give a fact about themselves like my favorite food is pizza whoever's food favorite food is pizza raises their hand You pick someone you throw it across and it continues until there's a giant messy web in The whole classroom so at this point for this activity all have the kids actually sit on top of the tables and We'll do the get to know you web that way. This is a favorite It's so simple, but last year at the end of the year a bunch of my students said that this was their favorite thing to do so We're gonna do the get to know you web then We'll be doing procedure walk-throughs throughout the day So like in between each of these activities there are procedures that I'm teaching so like even before the meet the teacher slides I'm explaining what to do if they want my attention What I do when I want theirs how to go to the bathroom things like that Which I will show you guys in my procedures video that I'm planning on filming Probably sometime this week just while it's fresh in my mind And then we're gonna do a sort of like a center's mock center situation Moment where we will do the first day task cards. Those are by miss fifth and you can see that they're kind of spread Around the room. There's they're just on white paper. I thought I had colored but I didn't and at this point I don't really care about the color So they have little white Task cards around the room. What I'll do is I'll dismiss two tables at a time I'll say okay table one and table two you guys are going to begin working on your task cards Please take your binder your pencil and your first day of school task cards thing with you I'll explain the procedures for task cards and then those two tables will begin The rest of you are gonna continue working on your selfie activity, which this isn't just a picture of them on the back. There's Some writing activities if I can get the thing open It talks about how was your summer so they give a brief description of what they did over summer break and then a little bit about them So like how old they are their favorite food their birthday and what makes them special so they can continue working on this While they're doing that I'm gonna be going from table to table with my supply bucket and I'll be collecting things like crayons markers colored pencils flashcards sticky notes all of the things that are going to become community supplies and this was communicated with families on the Supply list so they do know that when they get here Their box of crayons is going to be collected and it will be used in the community tubs and to refresh the tubs throughout the year So each of our home rooms we are all collecting all of these items so like The glue sticks the glue bottles the crayons the highlighters unless it's something that's like really special to them I won't collect that they'll keep their notebooks their binder their folders all of that kind of stuff But I'll just kind of collect the bulk items that way I can continue to replenish The bins throughout the year and same thing with Mandy She'll be collecting all of hers so she can replenish her bins and same with Rob He'll collect his so that he can have Everything he needs for all of his three classes And then at the end of the day which this should take us to the end of the day Hopefully we're gonna be making these cootie catchers, which I also found on teachers pay teachers And it's really cute. So it comes with a couple different versions of the cootie catcher They're going to fold these and make them they can color them if they would like Once I collect all the crayons and stuff I can distribute them And then they can start coloring and then what I will do is I will get them back to the circle And we will do our first musical chair formation basically if you know Kagan strategies It's an inside outside circle, but I call it musical chairs So I do an inner circle with their stools and then an outer circle with their stools It honestly just helps them to track who their partners are So then I play music the inside circle goes left the outside circle goes right when I hit the stop button Whoever they're sitting across from is their partner They will do the cootie catcher and then they will record what their friends said so they'll actually use their stools as their desks for this so they'll put like Joe Schmoe Something knew you learned about them Maybe it was this question if your favorite toy could talk what would it say so they would write that there and then I have Two grades for this week already done So hopefully this will take us to the end of the day if it does not and we run out of things to do I always always grab these from the dark dollar spot And I've had this for like four years and I still haven't used it So I've never ever run out of things to do on the first day of school I find that it takes way longer than we think it does just because we you know Kids like to share and if they're gonna share their whole summer story It may take you know 20 minutes for that story to be done So this is a leftover activity just in case and then I also have Some read-alouds that I pulled over there that I can totally read if we also run out of things to do So anyway, that is our day. Sorry. I know I just talked like a thousand miles an hour I already have some supplies building up here. This is from meet the teacher night also I have this sign out and ready. I'll push it back, but I'm not going to allow any students to deal with the rats today They're gonna be very overwhelmed having 27 bodies in here that I really just don't want to expose them to That much in one day. So I'll probably leave them completely in their cage for the day I might take teeny out and keep her with me And just talk about them Possibly during circle time, but I really just don't want to overwhelm them So I will be putting this sign in front of the cage. It just says please do not come up to the cage yet We don't want to like put the rats in shock. So But teeny looks like she is like ready to party look at her. She's like Let me out Hi, baby So, okay, so that is everything that we're going to be doing today Obviously, there's a lot of procedures that are going to be taught throughout the middle of all those activities And I try to create my slideshow in order and I put procedures in between each one so like I have the slide for What to do if you need to go to the bathroom Right before meet the teacher so that Before I even start talking they know how to deal with that And so procedures are really super important. Um, in fact, our principal has asked us do not even start doing content until Like we have these three days and we have next week and then that next week Like the technically the third week of school is when we're supposed to start content We're supposed to be doing SEL, um community building, procedure practice, all of that for these first One and a half weeks. Um, I will start doing a little bit of content I will be doing the scientific method next week probably Wednesday, thursday, friday and dip into that other week It's not a standard, but I think that it's an important practice for them to understand and plus learn vocabulary things like observe hypothesis questioning things like that even though it's not Some people don't think that it's important But I really like it and it also gives me a chance to do some really fun like hands-on labs in the first week That aren't standards related and can help teach procedures So that's the plan I'm going to stop talking now because it's like 20 minutes in and I'm sure you guys are sleeping So this will probably not be a first week of school vlog That will probably be the first day and I'll have to vlog again tomorrow Um, but I'm gonna eat my breakfast and do my little to-do list this morning which I need to change my voicemail And copy my glee club forms Because I am the glee club coach this year And I'm founding the club. So I have to do a lot of paperwork And so I'm gonna work on that and then at 740 which is in 35 minutes I will head outside to start greeting students. So wish me luck guys. I will check in Later if I get a moment and yeah, so hopefully I'll see you guys in a minute Hey, you guys so it is now four o'clock end of the school day You guys today was so amazing. We made so much magic had so much fun It was pure chaos, but it was great Um, my home room is going to be such an amazing group of kids I can't wait to meet the kids tomorrow tomorrow's our first day of rotation So I'll get to meet everybody tomorrow. I have so much supplies to sort through I need to go through these buckets And just make sure the things the things that are in them are actually needed in them And that they're clean and organized papers everywhere supplies everywhere But overall it was a great day. We had a lot of fun and we stayed busy the whole time I didn't have to like add anything in last minute. It all went great. So overall A great first day of school I'm exhausted though. I haven't eaten much today And I'm not leaving school until five because tonight is caches meet the teacher night. So It's four right now. I'm just going to stay and make sure that I have everything prepared for tomorrow Including getting my plans done. I only have the kids for an hour and a half each tomorrow 90 minutes And so I don't have to plan for as much like I just do the same thing three times Which is lovely. So I think what I'm going to do is end the vlog here so that I can really get to work I pretty much have everything ready for tomorrow. I just need to go through it and Double check everything. I did realize though for inside outside circle. We need a little bit more space back here So I think what I might do is just move the tables up a little bit more Than they were today just move them up a smidge like even just a few inches would give us more space And then I am going to move my library seats back from over here I think I'm going to put them over here up against this But for right now until they're being used Honestly, I'm just going to store them Because kids know they can use them at this point But they were severely in the way for inside outside circle or I guess musical chairs today So I'm going to move them so that they're out of the way. And then like I said, I would just going to move Um The tables up a little bit and then Tomorrow when we practice inside outside circle, we just need to spread out in which the kids realize today like oh, we can't be that Circular like we need to be more like oval or a rectangle. So it's all a learning curve. They did so amazing though. Seriously, I have The best group of kids already I can tell so Anyway, I'm going to end this vlog here. Thank you guys for keeping up with me Hopefully today's video was helpful if you're struggling to figure out what to do Most of the stuff I used today was on teachers pay teachers. So just search up what it was you're looking for I will try to link as much as possible in the description If you're not already, don't forget to subscribe so you can see more from me in the next few weeks And follow me on instagram and I will see you all in the next video. Bye


Hi, I'm Heidi Joy Trethaway with the OpenStack Foundation. Hi, thank you so much for coming on SuperUserTV today. So what's new in this survey? This user survey is streamlined, but it's actually vastly expanded in terms of the pool of people who are answering it. We had more than 1,300 people answer this user survey in the span of just two weeks, which is more than double what we saw in the last cycle. So it's really exciting to see how many more people contributed and their thoughts. What were some of the big findings in this user survey cycle? I think the number one thing that we're seeing is that the number of deployments in production has more than doubled in the last 18 months. That's an exciting number that speaks to OpenStack's maturity. And you can even see additional details on project adoption and use in our new project navigator that's going to show up how these projects are being used. When you looked at the NPS score, what type of people tended to score OpenStack most highly? Well, net promoter scores are a great way to take a barometer of the community. And we not only asked people how likely they are to recommend OpenStack to a colleague or friend, but we also asked them what the primary basis for their score was, which is a lovely neutral question to really get to the heart of things that are either bugging them or really highlights for them. So we heard a lot of really positive things about the community and the technology. What we learned from the NPS scores was that it didn't matter if somebody was an app developer or an operator or an upstream contributor, it didn't matter if they were from a small company or a large company. Those NPS scores didn't change. What did change was we saw higher NPS scores whenever somebody had a production in deployment, which suggests to me that when OpenStack is deployed successfully, people are really excited about the results and really satisfied with them. How is this data used in the community? The data is used in the community in a variety of ways. We're using that in the product navigator. We're using it to learn more about ways that we can serve the community. We're feeding it back to the PTLs, the project technical leaders. And this is possibly the most beneficial for them. About a week before this Mitaka Design Summit, we actually sent the raw comments from every single user specific to their project so that they'd be able to review them, maybe digest them, pick out themes and share them with their teams while they're here at the Design Summit. So it really impacts the future of what our next release will be. Speaking of future, what are some of the emerging technologies? We asked that question, and we got so many wonderful results. More than three quarters of the users are really interested in container technology. So that had a great link to the containers white paper that the foundation just released in August. We also saw a tremendous amount of interest in network functions virtualization. And we have an upcoming white paper on that too. We saw a lot of interest, more than half of users expressing interest in platform as a service. And then also about a third of users are interested in the internet of things. So we have a lot of good emerging technologies to explore in future content and kind of future discussions. Where can I find the summary of the most recent survey? The user survey is located at openstack.org forward slash surveys forward slash landing. And you can not only find the entire 42 page user survey there, but you can also find digests of the user surveys from the last couple of cycles. Thanks again for joining us on Super User TV today. Thanks for having me.