Tuesday's Daily Fantasy Baseball Slade has a lot of good pitchers on it. There are a lot of guys We have used throughout this year who've been very good to us and we can feel good about in general even when you account for stuff like matchup and park factor, but a lot of them have one sort of Semi fatal flock me workload for Brandon Woodruff. It could be matchup for Kevin Gosman It could be repeat matchup for Alcma Noah match of Marcus Strowman match for for Joe Musgrove Location for Julio Arias like all these guys have some sort of major flaw That does make them tough to to get super confident in for DFS for tonight Our job is to decide how big those red flags are and whether or not we can still use these players Despite those drawbacks. That's what I'm trying to do for today. So let's dive on in to get you set for Tuesday night welcome on into the solo shop That's right here. I'm the fan dual podcast network in number fired calm My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for number fired calm here to break down Tuesday's 11 game main slate With lock set for 705 for tonight There is only one weather note for today and it is a bummer is that in Chicago at Wigley field For the Cubs and Twins winds are blowing in from left at 15 miles per hour, which means We get a massive downgrade here for both offenses I was super into the Cubs before I saw this forecast had to scratch them out of the stacking section because It ain't great when winds are in at 15 miles per hour at Wigley field. So I still think we can consider them. We'll talk about them and things to watch But it is a massive downgrade for that Cubs offense Still we do say I have some good stacks available for today, including one that I think will fly under the radar But I do like quite a bit. 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So brandon woodruff will be at the top of my list For today, and i'm doing this knowing woodruff is not going to go longer than six I can say that with almost certainty. He will not go longer than six. It is a big red flag I just don't feel good enough about any alternatives on this slate To replace him at the top of this list It will lower my exposure to woodruff for sure knowing that he's not going to go longer than six, but I still think that he's worth being the top option for today The pitch count for woodruff is muted because the brewers don't have a lot to play for they've already made the playoffs They have been trying to save pitchers for like two months now because they've been so far ahead And they've been doing that with woodruff specifically freddy parolta obviously But like woodruff has been in there too and his pitch counts has some kind sometimes been high He went 104 pitches two starts ago four starts ago Went 101 two starts going actually did start the seventh inning in that game But we've still seen woodruff go exactly six innings in forestry games no more no less No matter what his pitch count was And i'm guessing this is intentional Which is fine. They they should do that the brewers should be doing this in their position But woodruff is so good that while he's out there We can still use him for dfs woodruff had 10 strikeouts in the first start of this sixth sitting stretch He had eight in the other or the next one and that's largely while facing good offenses St. Louis is not that in my eyes. They have a 93 w rc plus against righties with a 154 iso Woodruff has been adding more change ups over his past day. It starts and the strikeout rate in that time is 28% So it is a bummer that woodruff is not on a full leash Like if we had him on a full leash, he'd be a no brainer throughout my list for today But I think the effectiveness I expect him to have while he is out there is enough for me to still feel good about him His fandal point totals in this four start stretch with six innings have been 58 49 24 34 and those some of those were against tougher offenses So I do think that woodruff deserves to be at the top of our list Despite the fact I can't expect him to go longer than six innings six is fine if he gets that quality start bonus sick. Let's go but I think that I I still think he's number one For today gosman. I don't like the matchup on the road facing a low strikeout team Minoa facing the rays for second consecutive start stroman facing the red socks Musgrove facing the giants a re-asset course field I think that means that our second and third pitchers will be guys Who are more flawed as pitchers but are in better situations? The number two pitcher for me as a result of everything is at water rodriguez I always tend to be higher on rodriguez than others and that that's fine And especially fine because it's been getting better reason He's had some good starts recently that it made me feel better about being high on him personally Rodriguez has started to increase his forcing fastball usage over his past nine starts This solid pitch if you look at baseball savante that pitch has a whiff rate of 32 percent Which is I believe the highest of all of his pitches his ex woba against that is 302 so No objections here if you want to sell that pitch go for it I think that's a a good alteration And it should be no surprise that rodriguez is doing well with that pitch in those nine starts He has a 3.92 skill interactive era with a 26 strikeout rate And those peripherals aren't a surprise because he's had good peripherals all year Which is why I've been on him the results are kind of at times following suit now It's not consistent, but you know, there's some good starts in there across those nine starts He's let up zero or one earned runs four times He let up two and another so that's more than half his starts and which is encouraging His overall era in the stretch is 4.5 though because the bluffs have still been there The floor is not good. He is not consistent, but he has a ceiling He had 10 strikeouts in one of those games. He had eight strikeouts and two others He's facing the Mets tonight. They have a 101 WRC plus against lefties and do add a DH tonight because it's in boston But their ISO is 150 36 fly ball rate. Their strikeout rate is 24 So I know rodriguez can be frustrating I have been frustrated with him too potentially more so than others because he's lost me money at times But the underlying numbers are there and he has a ceiling the results have shown not just peripherals The results have shown he has a ceiling and I will take that on a slate with I would say a decent amount of uncertainty at pitcher. So woodruff is number one Rodriguez number two And I think that that that we can feel good about that despite the fact that he is an imperfect pitcher for sure The third pitcher is I would say pretty similar to rodriguez. That's jordan montgomery another guy in the 8 000 range The reason they're similar is because neither guy is super efficient with their pitches Which means they don't typically go deep in games despite having decent pitch counts And it's super annoying when you're watching them like I don't want to watch these guys pitch because they bother me if I'm using them But the path to a good game for montgomery here is pretty clear. He's facing the rangers They're just not a good team against lefties. They have a 78 w RC plus a 121 iso I know nester court this last night didn't finish well, but he didn't start off pretty hot And faulted later on and that's the concern with montgomery too. That's not something that's just like we should just gloss over That is a concern with him as well Because he was similar last week against the orioles came out of the gate Smoking hot racked up 12 strikeouts But he didn't finish six innings despite throwing 99 pitches could be because of the strikeouts You know strikeouts do drive a pitch count, but what helps here is that the matchup is much better from montgomery than what he had last week I respect the orioles. They're kind of feisty against lefties The rangers not as much so montgomery Could get the strikeouts like he did last week and he's less likely to stumble late as he did in that other game I think that's enough to make him the number three option of the night behind woodruff and rodriguez I am willing to use kevin gosman again. I'm just worried about a repeat matchup on the road against a low strikeout team That's not a great formula for gfs. So I'm okay putting behind these guys Does it worry me? Yes, because gosman's a good pitcher, but just tell spot on the road repeat matchup Low strikeout team. Those are factors that do Scare me away a little bit when it comes to gosman. So for me, it is woodruff one rodriguez to montgomery Number three. I'll talk about alexman. Noah in thanks to watch.  I think that is very clear I like them more here than I did in any of those games last week The vision chris ellis ellis Has made four starts and he got fully stretched out and the peripherals in that time Are really rough He ranks lowest on the slate in skill interactive era strikeout rates walk rate hard hit rate and fly ball Right and those are the only five numbers that I log on my sheet for each guy. That's not a great sign His era is 2.39 But his expected era baseball savon is 5.43 and that includes the time before he was fully stretched out We expected this initially because when you look at ellison numbers in triple a they were not elites He had a 6.32 era in the minors wasn't a big round ball guy Didn't get that many whiffs So I think ellison deserves kudos for the results like it takes some skill to navigate your way around Some rough peripherals when you're facing the yankees and the blue jays in this four star sample He got around that kudos to him for getting his way out of trouble But peripherals just they just don't give me a much cause to think that will continue I think we're going to see some pretty massive regression here And I think that we should stack the fillies and see if their regression comes in a bunch for tonight We talked about the fillies a bunch recently with time of harper harrera Gregorius and miller I think those guys are still the staples for tonight especially because the The non-harper lefties do save you a lot of salary and can let you go nuts with your second stack for tonight We haven't talked as much about gene seguro or jt riamuto riamuto Hasn't been hitting the ball as hard recently as he was earlier on this season seguro The power seems to have been on the rise a bit He had a double dong back on saturday no steals recently So I think if we're looking at these two righties, I would rank riamuto higher by a bit over seguro But he can sweat some bags the long-term power is better for riamuto If I need to fill one of seguro's eight positions that he's eligible for basically i'm fine plugging him in But I think I would say riamuto is slightly above seguro among the non-lefties But I think if we're ranking out the stacking options for today, I think before lefties deserve to be above them freddy galvis also in play if he plays once again I don't like guys batting eighth in the national league park But I'm still willing to go there if I really need to save some salary So the fillies to me number one buy a wide margin in terms of stacking for today That's the obvious one the less obvious one and one that I think may go a bit overlooked And potentially for good reason is the blue jays I think we have leeway to use them from a sour perspective for today And I don't think anyone's going to use them from a a roster a perspective Maybe maybe they shouldn't but like I think it's worth a shot for today They're facing drew rasmussen rasmussen rasmussen has had awesome results all year long I've just seen some things under the hood that could lead to some issues here And I kind of want to stack the jays in the spot where they're unlikely to be popular Rasmussen has made six longer outings for the rays his errae in those is 1.33 That does include a start against toronto last week where he allowed no runs on just two hits Over five innings his errae is 3.00 for the full season two. So good results in the sample is not a surprise It's not new he's pitching well, but there are two issues with the peripherals for Rasmussen in his more recent sample when he's been stretched out The first one is that he's letting up a lot of balls and play his strikeout rate is 18% with a 5 walk rate Which means he's letting up a ball and play 77 percent of the time And 51 percent of those balls and play happened hard hit that is his second highest mark on the site behind just ellis He is getting some ground balls rasmussen is but the blue jays did lofted a bit last week the ground ball right there was 39 The hard hit rate for them was 62 They just didn't turn it into hits. They actually had as many barrels in that game as it did base hits I'm kind of wondering how long this will last for rasmussen It might stick because some guys just are better than the peripherals say and rasmussen could be that guy But i'm not sure if that would be the case So if you go to the number fire heat map pull up the implied totals for each team You'll see the jays are under four today This is not a spot where you want to stack the jays if you're going based on what bookmakers are saying But I am down to give them a swipe and and see what happens I think the jays are going to be overlooked here on a an 11 game slate And I think that they could be interesting So it might fail if you're a A risk averse person the jay the ray the jays the ray jays the jays may not be your flavor for today, but I'm there. I will be stacking in for tournaments to see what happens not a cash gameplay But I do like them for tournaments that does mean um We should we have to kind of dig into rasmussen's platoon splits and see what he does versus righties and lefties Because most of the guys we want on the jays are righties. They're about even though righties and lefties are The only guy not as into today is jorge springer He's not been hitting the ball super hard since he had those couple days off for his knee injury So I will still use springer like because I'm going to stack this team enough I will just put springer a bit lower on the priority list within the stack in terms of grading him relative to semian bachette taos car all those guys The secondary option behind vlad I think that I'll put springer a bit lower on the list still using him putting a bit lower on the list to account for the fact that Things haven't been as hot recently The third stack for me is the dodgers. They're a course field. So I potentially should like them more But I think that Antonio since the tail is a good pitcher and I want to give him that respect Since the tail is a vet too. So he knows that a pitch course field his e r a there is 3.89 Which is actually better than it is on the road In the five home starts that since the tail has made since he increases forcing fastball usage He's led up 2 4 2 and 3 or runs So he's pitching well. That's why the dodgers are not higher on this list The reason we can still stack them is that since the tail isn't fully a guy we need to avoid He does let up a bunch of balls in play. He in those 11 starts having it has an 18% strikeout rate With a 4 walk rate 44 of those balls in play have been hard hit He just tends to keep them on the ground for the most parts He didn't do that as much against the dodgers though back on august 29th When they last faced about a month ago In that game the Dodgers had a 35 fly ball rate. That is one of the higher marks since the tail has allowed in this stretch They didn't score in seven innings. So obviously since the tail had their number But they weren't totally off there. They were getting some loft there. They weren't terrible I think that's still interesting and now they get in that course field I am not saying the Dodgers will crush him here because he's a good pitcher I just think that there are enough signs pointing to a Dodger stack where we can do it and still feel fine Despite the fact we regard since the tail is being good pitchers. So I do think that the Dodgers are A team that I'm willing to stack for today despite the fact that I do respect since the tail Maybe ranking them third means I'll be lower on them the consensus, but that's fine I'm okay with that because I do respect him a lot I will put them there see where I rank out rather than others But I think that's where they belong Honestly like this it also does help that you know with the pitching sourced today We should be able to get to them pretty often if cody velger can't go again We could get Gavin Lux back out there at $3,100 not the world's best hitter But he's good enough for Coors chris taylor sourced $3,500 That's low enough for me to like him as well. I don't typically get there against right. He's for taylor But more power recently He's at Coors $3,500. I think that the Dodgers overall are a quality stacked Even if they don't check every single box for tonight Let's move now to things to watch talk about manoa. I I don't think I'll get there personally Despite the fact he was outstanding against his very team the same team last week He had 10 strikeouts and that could be hypocritical because I was down to use robby ray last night in a repeat matchup But manoa not as big of a strikeout guy as ray is He wasn't as elite in that first matchup as ray was and we saw the downsides of that with robby ray last night So not a one-to-one comp between ray and manoa But I think that given everything combined we had the wiggle room to pass over manoa here And see how he handles repeat matchup and buy back into him later on I do like what he's been doing recently Would just rather have it against a team not as powerful as the rays are As mentioned before I was going to stack the cubs tonight, but the wind scared me off They're facing griffon jacks. He is a big fly ball guy. I want to use the top five batters in this order They just get downgraded a lot because of the wind if we get the all clear on the wind like if it winds up being a Hallucination where the wind actually wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be Then I'd put the cubs probably number two above the jays and above the Dodgers as well behind the fillies, but for now they're more of another to consider You could still potentially squeeze something out here, but they do get a pretty big downgrade Given the wind for today Finally, if you do need more value and we don't get the all clear on the cubs I think the brewers are in play once against night. They're facing jake woodford for real this time I wanted to stack against them in this spot last night, but I wanted to be in john lester instead So they're back on the menu for value. We can go to willy adamez. It just came out the il last night Omar navayez dan voglebach. They're all good values here Luis or eos may not play with adamez being back, but if he does play I'd be there for sure I think that a reos is a really solid option. So I think overall The brewers very in play for for value But I prefer the fillies over them if you're looking strictly for some salary savers for tonight speaking to the fillies Let's go to our dinger calls for this Tuesday slate Both them are on that very same team because again Ellis lets up a lot of fly ball is a lot of hard contact So the boring call given it's a fillies you could probably guess Shocker, it's price harper price harper my first home run pick for today Number two is brad miller, you know, I don't I don't want to over complicate things I think that they are in the best spot for hitting them runs for tonight Both those guys have some power basin guy lets up a lot of fly balls in hard contact So home run calls for today are brice harper and brad miller That is all that we have here for today on the solo shop back once again Later on today to talk more base spot for 30 on the fan dual youtube twitch facebook and twitter pages first though We have our waiver wire q&a with myself and jj zack arison breaking down the top waiver ads for your season long leagues heading into week number three Check that out by subscribing to the vandal youtube twitch facebook and twitter pages swing by 4 p.m For that and stick around for mlb at 4 30 brad and gaduah is going to talk about pga today for the heat check fantasy podcast I'll be back on that once baseball season is done Brandon will have that. 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Hi, my name is Janice Mortypton, and I live in the Applegate Valley, closest to the little town of Applegate, and I've been here now since 1975. I came here from Northern Oregon, where I grew up, and I actually grew up on a century farm in the Twalton Valley, and I'm going to tell you about my family. My family came from Burns, Switzerland, Rosalie, and Alfred. They met here in the Twalton Valley and then had a farm, and that's where I grew up was on a farm. The family came from Burns, Switzerland, they came via ship, steamer, and then finally ended up coming up the Columbia River to Portland area in the 1800s, when Portland was just becoming a bigger place, and then they found their farm land that they wanted to be on out in the Helvetia area, west about 25 miles of Portland. It reminded them of home, and that's where they settled. They actually came individuals and lived on the same farm for a little while, because Rosalie came with her family, and Alfred was with his family, and they both ended up being on the same farm, working and helping and building buildings for other people, and then the two of them decided to get married and have their own farm. They were then given the family farm, which is the Gerber farm, spelled G-U-E-R-B-E-R. They lived there, they had dairy cows. My grandfather and grandmother then met, she was a Gerber, held a Gerber, and he was a Connell, and they met, and he was also had grown up on a dairy farm. He went to, before they were married, he went to OAC, which is Oregon Agricultural College, which was in Falomath at that time, and then now is what is, excuse me, getting emotional, is now Oregon State at Corvallis. So he graduated in 1911 as an engineer, but he had a love of dairy cows. So he and some other fellows at the college took a procured Dutch cows from the Netherlands that were Holstein and, I'm missing the other one for a second, anyway they crossbred those and developed the American Holstein, which we know today in America. He then moved home to the Helvetia area and then had his own dairy and had dairy cows for many years. I never got to meet my grandpa. He died when my mother was 16 from an injury on the farm because I couldn't get him to Portland fast enough to get help. So then my mother and my grandmother ran the dairy farm for several more years. Some of the things that we have celebrated has been our family century farm, and we celebrated that in 1976, excuse me, with all of our family there. I don't know why I'm emotional. That's just great talking about this. A couple of things I brought today to show you were a couple of items they brought with them from Burns, Switzerland. I inherited a zither that came across with them, and I inherited the family, after I set this all up, I'll move it, I inherited the family music box, which also came with them, and it was their form of music in the evenings. They were a very gregarious family that got together and did things together. My grandmother actually grew up with 16 other siblings. There were 17 in the family, 14 of them survived, and when she was young on the dairy farm, her responsibility was to raise carrots for the dairy cows. So she took care of three acres of carrots every year. Other sisters and brothers also did other kinds of growing. They raised onions and other crops that were for the dairy cows because this was prior to having the mixes we have today. My family grew up, I and my sister and brother and my mom and dad grew up on a farm that was right near the Century Farm, a few miles down the road from, three miles down the road from the farm, and a mile from my grandmother's house, and this is my family right here. I am still alive, and my brother is still alive, the rest of my family has deceased at this point. I moved then to, after my college, I'm going to go back a little bit here to college again, to Oregon State. My grandfather had graduated from there, as I said. My mother went to Oregon State but did not get to graduate because World War II happened and she came home to help on the farm and to help out with the Red Cross and became very involved with that. I then went to Oregon State and graduated in 1975 and then my, excuse me, my youngest daughter went to Oregon State and she graduated, so four generations went to Oregon State. So in 1975, when I graduated, I had gotten a job with the U.S. Forest Service because I love forestry and came down to Southern Oregon and stayed here since 1975. So I worked for the Forest Service for several years and then I decided to stay home so we could have our family and my husband had other work at that time too and so we've been here ever since. Through the time that I've been here, I said I came in 1975, I have seen quite a few bit of change in the country here in this part of Oregon. It has grown quite a bit. When I first moved here, there were scattered farms in the Upper Applegate and ranches. I met some of the early people here and worked with them. One was Buford Wells with the U.S. Forest Service and he showed me a lot of the back country, a lot of the old cabins, a lot of the things that were here and I got to see what a lot of the country was like where people weren't living anymore and where some of the old homesteads were and they weren't there anymore, it was just the land. So there was quite a bit of change from the old homesteads and people living fairly far apart to more of the urbanization of some of the rural area out around the Rouge area. I loved this area and decided to stay here because of the law-growing season and I am a gardener and an outside person so I really love this country and I have learned a lot about the native plants here and I am very involved now in a lot of different environmental things that are for restoring the land where things have changed and right now I have been working on a monarch butterfly project to bring more native plants back that butterflies and other pollinators would use and I am very strongly attached to this beautiful country because of the mountains and I took one trip home to visit my family years ago and was in tears when I came back over the mountains and I said I am going to stay here, this is my home because actually I was offered to take over part of the farm early on in the Wallamette Valley or Tualton Valley actually, small part of the Wallamette Valley and this I had no, I really love the mountains so I came back to here and this has been my home ever since, thank you.


It's time for MackieGab and listener Graham brings us our quick tip of the week. Within Control Center on the iPhone, you can have the flashlight icon available. Tapping on the icon turns the flashlight on and off, but if you tap and hold, you get presented with an icon that lets you choose between four levels of brightness, whichever level you choose is remembered for subsequent flashlight activations. More tips like this plus your questions answered today on MackieGab 960 for Monday, December 19th, 2022. Welcome to MackieGab, the show where you send in tips like that one, cool stuff found. You send in your questions. We share everything that we can. We try to answer your questions. We loosely string together an agenda of all of these things in some semblance of an order with the goal being that each of us, me, John, P, you, every single one of us that gets together, we learn at least five new things every single week. Sponsors for this episode include PIA, Private Internet Access VPN. We can go to piavpn.com slash mgg.  It's like two bucks a month. We'll talk about that in a little bit and masterclass. We're at masterclass.com slash mgg. You can go sign up. They've got a deal where you buy one, get one, and it's great. So go to masterclass.com slash mgg. We'll talk more about that too in a little bit for now here in Durham, New Hampshire. I'm Dave Hamilton. And here in Fairfield, Connecticut, this is John O'Brun. And here in Snowy, New Hampshire, it's Pilot Pete. What a surprise. I woke up this morning. It's supposed to be in the 30s and rain and I got four inches of snow, but at least it's wet and heavy. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I've got the same here too. Yeah. I don't know what's going to happen. We recorded this on Friday the 16th and so, yeah, we'll see what transpires. But I do know what's going to happen because we have all kinds of great stuff. We're still way behind on getting all of these fantastic cool stuff found entries out to you. So Ben will help us get going here with cool stuff found called Meter. Now this is the second product called Meter that we've talked about on the show. The first is M-E-A-T-E-R. That was years ago, but it's a great thing. It's a thermometer like an oven thermometer. I wouldn't call it a grill thermometer because it doesn't do well above about 500 degrees. But that's an oven thermometer. Today's Meter is M-E-E-T-E-R. And that is for all of those crazy scenarios where you have links to various meetings in your calendar and it's a pain in the neck to like dig into the calendar event and find the meeting, click the link, all of that. Meter parses your calendar and surfaces the meeting links from any of the calendars that you want it to check. Then it provides notifications from which you can join a meeting and it also points URLs directly to the apps of choice. So this is like taking our whole thing of the like the URL choosers that we've been talking about because there's lots of those out there that we've discussed over the recent weeks and really targeting it for the calendar because one of my favorite uses of a URL chooser is when I click on a Zoom link in my calendar, I don't want to go to Safari first. I just bring me to Zoom. It's going to be fine. Zoom knows what to do with the link. This thing does that too. So thanks for that, Ben. Great. I love these little cool stuff found things. And I think Meter is free. I could be wrong about this. Try Meter and get Meter. So I'm guessing it is free and offers in-app purchases. So maybe free me. So yeah. There you go. Cool. Yep. I like it. I couldn't have been more excited. You know, I don't do you guys have automatic updates on on your iPhones and iPads like software updates? I do not because a Mac geek once told me, don't get caught. Well that's true. The last thing you need is something to update, especially in my case when I'm on the road and now my phone is a paperweight. Interesting. I mean, I don't mean like firmware iOS updates. I'm talking about app updates. Do you have those automatically update? I don't do that either. I should. I probably should. Maybe. What about how about you, John? Do you do you have apps automatically update? No. OK. And I have to download them, but not install them unless I tell it to do so. Wait, what? On your iPhone? There's no difference. No, no, no. That's incorrect. So so but I do not have automatic updates. And why is that? I'd like to know what's on the update. Bingo. Same. Release notes, which usually and I got a fish shake about release notes, please say something other than both fixes and performance improvements. I'm with you on that. It's just like a placeholder's like, tell me what you actually fixed or added. Yeah. So I do the same thing for exactly the same reason as you, John. I want to see the update notes. I want to know what's in this new app or new version of the app. I looked at Synology Drive's update notes. The second thing there, not the first, the second thing in the update. The first was like, you know, drug fixes and performance updates. I don't know. It was something else. It was something specific, but very vanilla, you know, it was like, OK, yeah, you did a thing. That sounds great. The second thing was adds the ability to edit Synology Drive documents and sheets to the iOS app. It's like, this is huge. Previously, you couldn't edit Synology. So Synology Drive documents and sheets are very much an analog to Google Drive documents and sheets, right? These are web based, you know, hosted on your Synology server, so not on Google, but it's otherwise the same kind of thing. You get a spreadsheet. Multiple people can edit at the same time, all that stuff, but you own it private cloud. It's amazing. The one huge frustration we've had for a very long time is that the only place you could edit those was in a web browser, definitely not on the iPhone easily, maybe on the iPad if you were really like patient and certainly no problem on your Mac or, you know, Windows machine or whatever. And now they've added the ability to edit these and create new ones in the iOS app. And this was the second line on the release notes, like, why aren't they shouting this from the rooftops? We will shout it for you, Synology. We'll help. We'll help. There are some guidance over there, but it's a great thing. I've used it. I made some edits to a spreadsheet on my iPhone the other day while I was out and about. Like, it wasn't just a test case. It was like, oh, I need to do this. And I did it. And it's like, oh, I'm going to start using this far more now that I can, you know, I don't have to use Google Sheets for the ones that I know I'm going to want to edit on the road. So I don't know. Please. Yeah. So that's Pete. You were asking pre-show that if there was something special. Yeah, I could remember what it was again, you know, elderly. And then I guess I could have gone to the agenda for those, you know, I saw it and I went by it and it was like, okay, maybe that's what gave me in. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to go with that. That's my story and I'm stuck with it. I like it. All right, John. How about Ed found a thing? Yes, he did. So Ed says I was looking for a CLI command line interface tool to batch resize my images from my website. I use EXIF tool to get all of the data from the images, but it doesn't resize them, which is hard. And I want thumbnails for faster loading on my web pages. I discovered that the Mac has a built-in command line tool called Sips scriptable image processing system, which is pretty cool. But I found something even better. A guy named Tony Smith created some wrapper tools using Swift that makes Sips work a lot easier. It is called image prepping can be installed using homebrew. He also has written a lot of other cool tools, which he has on his site at smitty, smitty tone.net. Yeah, smitty tone. Yeah, you're right about that. I thought it was smitty one when I first saw it, but yeah, smitty tone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I checked it out. Actually, if we do a man page on Sips, the date on the man page is 2005. So this has been in macOS forever, and we never knew it. Yeah. I'd never heard of it before. I love the terminal command TLDR, which is you install with brew, but it keeps a database of the most commonly used, the most common ways that people might use a given terminal command. So I TLDR this and it'll tell you, yeah, re-sample an image at a specified size, image aspect ratio maybe altered. You can just like boom. Yeah. It's pretty cool. Oh, okay. That's where that came from. Yeah. TLDR is awesome. If you are in the terminal at all, and I would even say the less comfortable you are with the terminal, the more helpful TLDR is, do a brew install TLDR, and then just type TLDR space and a command name. So in this case, I did TLDR Sips, and it showed me like five or six different examples of how I might use Sips. Nice. So Dave, help the Neophytes out. What is a brew install? Right. Good question. So in Homebrew is ... I'm a Neophyte. Homebrew is a package manager for the terminal, and package manager sounds like a crazy term that only nerds use, and it's true. App Store is a package manager for macOS, or App Store is a package manager for iOS. It is a way of managing applications, sometimes called packages, because they technically are packages, but that's just nitpicking, isn't it? So packages of software, correct. So brew lets you easily install and uninstall terminal commands just like the Mac App Store lets you easily install and uninstall Mac apps. You could do them a different way, but that manages it for you. So brew, you go to brew.sh, there's a little terminal command you run, it's right on the web page, that installs the package manager, and then from there you just go to the terminal and type brew install space, and in this case TLDR, and now it'll do all the crazy things, you'll see it do them, all the crazy things it takes to install something, a package on a Unix machine, and it'll do it, and then you've got it. But John, I think you've got an even better way. I like, there's a program called CakeBrew. What is CakeBrew? CakeBrew is basically a GUI for a package manager GUI. So if you don't want to go into the terminal, this is a slightly, at least for me, a nicer way to get to all those packages. It's interchangeable because it's just a graphical interface for homebrew. So if you are already using homebrew and you want to install CakeBrew, it will just show you everything that you've already installed with homebrew, it's just got a graphical interface for it. So it's not a separate package manager, it is just, like John said, a graphical way of looking at it, perhaps a nicer way of interacting with it. Yeah, you don't have to remember what to take. I've got to follow up question to that then, Dave, because we'll get more into it in a little bit about, you know, after the hangout last week, I decided, oh, this channel thing sounds pretty good. And I went in there and I was trying to find out how to get Pluto to work with channels. And all the research said, hey, use Docker. So is Docker similar to homebrew? It seems like a package manager of some sort. Is that a fair analogy?  So what, and this is definitely a rattle here, but that's fine. No, no, don't apologize. This is a good one. So I'm thinking Docker, the thing that is, this is interesting that you asked that question. Because if someone, if you had simply asked me what is Docker, I would say it's like installing very minimal bare bones virtual machines to do one specific thing. And that is true, right? Like you could, if you wanted to set up, you know, a virtual machine manager, like parallels or VMware or any of those free ones out there, right? You know, you want to set up one of those, you could, you put a UNIX operating system inside of it, then finally install whatever you want to have it run, right? Fine. Okay. Like, like, let's say you wanted to set up an iPerf server, right? iPerf being the speed test thing you can do on your local network. So find you install, and this is way overkill what I'm describing here, but bear with me.  This is overkill, but it is a way of doing it. People were doing this so that they could compartmentalize stuff, and that's how Docker was born. It was like, hey, wait, I need a very specifically configured UNIX environment to run this one little server app, but I don't want anything else to talk to it. So I want it in a virtual machine. You're sandboxing it. You're sandboxing it. Where is that environment? They are very compartmentalized bare bones, usually, I think always, I could be wrong on that, but certainly any time I've done it, UNIX environments that are standalone and sandboxed but not full-featured, they are, you know, very clearly built to do a specific thing. So it's interesting to me, and that's why I always relate them to virtual machines, because that's sort of the evolution of them. But it was interesting to me that you saw a jump from Homebrew to Docker, and that is perhaps the other side of what Docker is, because it's like, well, I need something that's more sandbox than using Homebrew to just install an app, but I don't want to have to like manage a virtual machine, and Docker sits in the middle of that. So really, you could come either way at it, and I thought I knew the origins of Docker, but it's entirely possible. Somebody came from the look, I've been using Red Hat Package Manager, RPM, but I need more, what if we just scale up one level and create a thing? Like, that could also have been Docker's evolution. Oh, interesting, I just knew that I needed to run a command, and I could, it was a Docker command in order to create the container that I needed, but okay. Yeah, no, it's fascinating that you asked it that way, and I don't know the origins of Docker, I thought I did, and now you've made me question everything I know about my life. No, but that's what we love about this show. Yeah, yeah, so that's interesting. Like, yeah, Docker sits between virtual, full on virtual machines and like just commands that you're installing on your Mac or on your device. Yeah. So to pull us back out of that rat hole and go back to what got us into it was the ability to resize images using SIPs, and I just thought I would bring up that what I've been doing for many years is I created a little app. I don't know if people know you can do more than a workflow, you can create an app with Automator, which is what I did, and it was three simple parts of it, get selected, find our items, scale images, and then you can go in and set what size you want and copy to a folder. Those are the three things right there, and I put a copy to a folder so I can easily find it once I've scaled the image. I made it an app and then I take that app and I drag it. I keep all my Automator apps in a folder in applications called Automator apps, but then I take it and I drag it to the top of my finder. So it's up there on the toolbar. Then when I have a picture or of an image that I want to rescale, I drag it onto that little icon and it rescales it and drops it in the folder where I want it. Oh, dude, I always forget. This is brilliant because as you were explaining, I'm like, yeah, that's a lot of work or whatever. But as soon as you talked about putting it in the finder toolbar, sorry, not header, man, it's header, but they call it toolbar, that's the genius part here. And I always forget that that is not infinitely, but very customizable. Yes, yeah, and so I could do it there. And then the other cool thing, and so I don't have a little Automator dude standing up on my toolbar, is I went and I took a picture of a hand squeezing a sponge and I did a screen capture of it. And then if you go to your Automator app and you hit Command-I, it brings up all the information about it. And at the top of the screen, there's that tiny little icon. If you select it and then hit Command-V, it takes the screen capture you've just taken and you've created your own app icon. Amazing. Dude, dude, I need to have a pause. Yeah, that's right. Like we learned a thing right there. Ding, ding, ding. Yeah, man, that's great. Wow. And to wrap it up, when I'd like to resize images, this program has been around forever. Graphic Converter is worth a look. It does. Yeah, it'll resize them, but you can do it. Long has supported batch resizing of images. So you can point a folder at it and have it not only resize them but rename them according to various metadata. Yeah, so that sounds far more granular. Yes. You've got a lot to do. I just do it. When I have to take a five megapixel picture and send it over the email, you know, just send someone a 360K picture, that's what I use it for. Yeah, right. But I finally remember, Dave, you and I, before we had WordPress, we're writing scripts to do image processing before we posted stuff on the web. On a Mac observer. Graphic Converter, not only would it resize the images and make thumbnails, it would make a web gallery, like an HTML gallery of those images. And we would, yeah, you're right. It, like, MacroDexpo or whatever, we would take the images for the day that you had shot, run them through Graphic Converter, and then literally upload that folder to the website and point an article at it and we were done. I mean, I'd say done. It's a lot of friggin' work compared to what you have to do today. You're right. Yeah, WordPress changed that, John. Yeah, fair. There is, speaking of, like, well, in this realm, there's another app I use called ImageOptim, OPTIM, like short for optimizer. And it is built to compress an image losslessly, lossless, not losslessly, compress an image and maintain the same or very, very similar visual quality, but also strip out, like, the thumbnails and, like, an image, especially on the Mac, but probably true of other platforms, doesn't just have the image in it. It's got, like, the icon for it and all other stuff. And when you upload that to the web for, you know, like, for your website, that goes with it because, of course, it does. It's in the file. Well, that also means that when a user comes to your website to download it, they get all that stuff that they will never use, they don't need. So this compresses the image in a better way, strips out all of that stuff and leaves you with a file that you can upload to the web. But this might also help you for your email thing, Pete.  This doesn't change the dimensions of an image, but it often will reduce it by a massive amount of space. So, yeah, just an interesting little tool. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. It's all kinds of stuff, man. Speaking of all kinds of stuff, we just did our hangout, our cord cutting hangout for everybody that came. That was awesome. We had a great time. We're gonna be doing a, I think a mesh Wi-Fi one is coming up next. We'll schedule that and put it out. But we did it last Saturday and it worked out really well. What didn't work out was we sent out an email ahead of time, of course, telling everybody that we were doing this and telling you you could join the Discord and get the Zoom link there or just subscribe to the Mackie Keb calendar. And then lots of you, as has happened over the years, told us that the Mackie Keb calendar gave you an error. What we used to do with the calendar up until a couple of days ago was if you went to Mackie Keb.com slash calendar, it would redirect to a shared iCloud calendar. Apple's like the URL that Apple tells you to use when you wanna share a calendar publicly with people. Totally not doing anything that you're not supposed to do, work in the way it's supposed to work. Except it didn't. So I was frustrated about this. Some people could get the calendar, other people would just get like an error. It wouldn't like the server would just decline the request. It's like, what the heck's going on? She and I thought it was me. Right, no, it's not you. So what we have done is I thought, okay, this is untenable. This is insanity. We need to control this widget, but I don't wanna stop using iCloud calendar because we like the way it works internally for us. We just wanna be able to share it, which Apple says we can do anyway. So I put Lucas on the job. In the midst of doing this job, Lucas took the Mackie Keb website offline for a little bit on Monday accidentally, but you know, these things happen, move fast, break things. But what he did is wrote a script to that now pulls Apple's calendar URL once every 15 minutes. And when it gets success, it saves it to our website. So we are caching Apple's calendar and I feel like our server, this is a weird phrase that I'm about to utter, our server is more reliable than Apple's. That doesn't make any sense to me that I'm saying those words, but empirically I have proven it. As have you, you've all experienced it. So if you have been subscribed to the calendar before, let's say, actually it was about a week ago. So it's worth unsubscribing and resubscribing because it does redirect to a different URL. Now, if you subscribe previously, what would have happened is you would go tell it on Mackie Keb.com slash calendar. It then redirected you to Apple's server and your calendar app would remember the Apple server address. That is still the correct address. It just doesn't answer all the time. You can still use it if you want. It's not gonna be wrong. It just might not be fun to use. So resubscribe, just visit Mackie Keb.com slash calendar. That'll redirect you to our cache of it, which is what your calendar software will remember and then you're good to go. Here's the fascinating thing, guys. Now that we have a script running, to do this, we decided to have it spit out a log every time it successfully gets the calendar because I wanted to know, like, how often is it error, like, how much, what do we need to do here to get this to work? The calendar starts answering at 6.55 p.m. Eastern time every day. It stops answering somewhere between eight and nine a.m. Eastern time every day. Between those hours, it answers flawlessly. I don't know what to say about that. Yeah, right, okay, yeah, exactly. Yup, yup. And I've never seen it fail in the evening hours and I've never seen it succeed in the daytime hours. So it's not like there's some overload that you might get through or whatever. It never gets through during the daylight hours and it always gets through during the nightlight hours. So this is like... But Mackie Keb.com slash calendar folks, that's where you're gonna go, subscribe, and then you'll know when we're doing the live shows and you will know when our live hangouts are and all of that good stuff. Oh man, so the other night, I was at the hockey game over at the university and I joined their Wi-Fi network like I always do. And I realized I couldn't get my email to download. Like some of my email, one of my accounts would download but the other one wouldn't. And I turned off the Wi-Fi and they both came in fine. And I'm like, but I wanna use the Wi-Fi because I don't wanna burn my data. And also that's super creepy that they're like filtering by the provider of an email account. I think that, and I don't use sketchy providers for anything. I'm like, you know what, this is creepy. I don't like this. I'm turning on my VPN. And then I was able to check everything. And this is why having a VPN is an absolute must have every time you go online. 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They actually branded as Verizon. Most other MVNOs don't necessarily advertise who they're using behind the scenes, right? Actually, most of them will tell you but this is, I believe it's like owned by Verizon. I mean, it's called visible by Verizon. So I think, yeah, yeah, yeah.  A lot of the MVNOs. MVNO, mobile virtual network operator, I believe is what that stands for. What it means is these companies like Mint Mobile is an MVNO of T-Mobile, visible obviously of Verizon. What it means is they don't have their own network of towers. They use someone else's network of towers and then they handle the billing and however the service is gonna work, they get to decide all of that. So you just bulk using the towers and then however the service and minutes and data and all that stuff is up to the MVNO. And most, not all, most MVNOs are prepaid plans. They don't market it that way. Like Mint certainly doesn't, visible doesn't lead out that way. Prepaid plans had a, there was a stigma associated with prepaid plans that they were only used by people who had no, didn't have good credit or whatever. But really a prepaid plan, the nice part about it is like they don't have to have an accounts receivable department.  And so there's a huge cost savings for them right out of the gate by being prepaid. But Mint really was the one that pioneered marketing a prepaid plan without using the words prepaid because they wanted people that felt that stigma about prepaid plans to want to use there. And visible appears to be a prepaid plan as well. They, did you look up the pricing on this, John? I think it's pretty interesting what they're doing. I thought I saw the number 30 somewhere, though. Yeah, it is, they've got two plans. It's, they've got visible and visible plus. It's 30 bucks a month for visible. And that gets you unlimited talk text and 5G and 4G LTE data and unlimited mobile hotspot usage. And you get unlimited talk in text to Mexico and Canada. So that's, I mean, that's expensive, but you're getting a lot with that for an extra 15 bucks for visible plus for 45 a month. And these are numbers that include taxes and fees. So you're not paying taxes and fees on top of that. You get all of that, of course, plus you get 5G ultra wideband if that's available in your area. And then there's some other savings that you can get. You get roaming in Mexico and Canada. So if you're traveling across the U.S. borders, the land borders a lot, that might be valuable too. So it's, I mean, it's expensive for, certainly for an MVNO, you know, it's like double the price of cost of entry for most MVNOs, but you're getting what they call unlimited. I don't know if they, if they dig into what actually- If they throw out a left or 15 gigs or something again. Yeah, they don't say anything about that on the page there, but that's certainly a question to answer before you sign up. But yeah, that's not, that's interesting. It's not terrible. If you really want unlimited and I still maintain that no one needs, no one uses unlimited, people use an amount.   Well, I just made a switch. So no, not yet. All right, what are you, you're with, cause you're with Verizon. So this would mean you keep the same network. What, what, what are you- Verizon has a deal where if you're 55 plus, you can get a discount on unlimited data. So that's what I did. Got it. Got it. Do you know off the top of your head what you're paying per month? It's about 60, I think. Oh, okay. So you could save a ton of money. But it's less than what I paid before. Of course. All right, so I will say switching cell providers in today's world is almost a trivial process. Certainly there are people that have had, you know, headache processes where you need to get on the phone for an hour and sort something out. But by and large, it's, you know, go in, make sure you get the unlock code and you're done. Yeah. So after, after three months, it's funny that, you know, today the day we're recording, the 16th of December, coming out on the 19th is my anniversary to renew Mint Mobile. There you go. Yeah. And yeah, for, it was surprisingly easy to switch from AT&T to Mint Mobile. And I am paying less than half of what I paid at the big day. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I mean, especially when I looked, you said, look at the data you use and, you know, what they are, three of the people in my family use less than four gigs. So I have them, I'm paying, I think 10 bucks a month for each of their phones, unlimited talking text and their four gigs, which they never use. And then the other two of us use more. I went unlimited because when I did max out in July when I was on the road, it was like, yeah, this is untenable. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, sure. Yeah. But yeah, for five people, essentially unlimited, it's I think 1200 bucks a month. Right. So it works out to $20 per person. Yep. Per phone. Yep. Yeah. No, it's these MVNOs, you know, this is the. It's amazing. It's the way. Yeah. I'm shocked that that hasn't forced down the prices of the big carriers more. T-Mobile's the best of the worst in that regard. I don't mean to say T-Mobile's bad, but like of the big ones, like, you know, they're, yeah, they're the least worst in terms of pricing. Sorry, I didn't mean to get you all choked up about this, Pete. But yeah, it's shocking to me. I guess the numbers must prove to them that they don't have to, that there's enough people that want to be affiliated with a brand name and are willing to pay double or almost triple to have that affiliation, I guess, you know. And that's where Mint, I think, has really done an interesting job because they, you know, they've made Mint a brand name, right? They've worked really hard. I mean, they, you know, they've brought in, I mean, I know Ryan Reynolds owns part of it now, but like he's part of the marketing of it for that very reason. And he's like, no, I'll show you this, but they've paid the way for all these MVNOs. Like, yeah. So I've got an interesting story. Instead of Sam's Club here, we have BJs in the Northeast. So I was in a BJs six or eight weeks ago.   He comes up to me and he goes, may I ask if you have cell phone service? Of course I do. Everybody does now, right? Yeah. And may I ask who you have? I said, I'm with Mint Mobile. He goes, okay, have a nice day. So this is really funny, Pete, because I was in BJs, maybe if the timing is right, maybe three or four weeks before you. And it was the AT&T guy with the clipboard. It's the same thing. And he came up to me and he's like, you know, do you have, I said, yes, I said, Mint Mobile. And he's like, oh, I'm sorry. And I'm like, okay, like you should pick the wrong guy, but okay, like let's go. And I said, you're with AT&T, right? Cause there's signs of AT&T all over him. He's like, yeah. I'm like, look, man, we left AT&T two years ago to go to Mint and I've saved about 3,500 bucks since then. And he's like, yeah, but the service never works. I'm like, this is not true. Like, here's the thing. And I just started spouting like experiential data, but also empirical data at him. Like, no man, like this is how it is. You do this, you do this, you do this. They do this, they do this, they do this. I'm like, it's not, like this is the wrong, you are not, you do not have any arrows in your quiver that will make what you're offering more attractive than what I already have. Like just trust me on this. So clearly he learned. This is good, yeah. He's like, oh, okay, never mind. Have a nice day. Yeah. Yes, have a nice day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He knew he couldn't beat. He knew, right, right. Yeah, that's great. I like that, that's good. Hey, on the cool stuff found Bandwagon, which I think we're still on here. I don't really know. Listener Jim tells us, he found something. He says, a great inexpensive holiday gift idea. He says, I use my Apple TV a lot and I don't care for Apple's remote. I found an Apple TV button remote from a company called Function101 at Function101.com. That works great. And he sent us a link to it. He says, I really like this remote and it makes using the Apple TV so much better. It's only $29.99 and worth every penny. So when he says it is a button remote, what he means, I mean the Apple TV remotes are button remotes now too with one exception and that is the directional pad at the top of it. Has buttons on the edges of it and the center of it certainly is a button but the pad itself is used for, it's like a touchpad that you can use for scrubbing. This remote does not have that touchpad. And so I asked him, I said, okay, it doesn't look like this, it doesn't seem like this adds anything. In fact, it takes away that one thing. So correct me, please correct me if I'm wrong and B, what's scrubbing like in this new world that you're in with this remote? And he said, he never liked the scrubbing thing. It was always too touchy for him and I might be putting words in his mouth so I apologize if I did, but he didn't like it for whatever reason. And he says scrubbing with this, it's just you get different speeds of fast forward.  And he says he likes that a lot better. So if you are frustrated with the scrubber on the Apple remote, this one's for you. Thanks, Jim. Speaking of Apple TV. Yes, John. Quick tip, I think, even the wonderful stuff bound. But I just ran into this and I couldn't figure it out. So I use the Apple TV for the most part because it does the best job of reproducing surround and other sound fields. So I prefer to use the Apple TV. Well, I was binging something on Netflix and what would happen is I would run the Netflix app. The picture would come up at full brightness and then after like a half a second, excuse me, it would go to like half brightness. And I'm like, what the hmm? So went through the normal troubleshooting. I tried a different HDMI port. I did a restore on the Apple TV, which is real easy because you can set it up with your phone again. And it still wouldn't, it's still lowered the brightness whenever I ran Netflix. And I'm like, what's going on here? Okay. Here's what solved the problem, which was the last resort. I'm like, you know what? Let me reset the TV and see if that helps. And it did. What? That's what fixed it. I thought it was going to do it on the Apple TV, but apparently the TV got confused. So, you know, restarting the TV or doing a factory reset put it back in a state where it understood what Apple TV was telling interest. So. I wonder if this, because I know with like HDR TVs, you can have, you can tell the TV to, I forget what the thing is called, but essentially display it like the director intended, right? And certainly that can mean changing the color balance and changing the brightness and all of that stuff. And I wonder if you gave, I mean, it seems weird that all of Netflix would operate that way, but I wonder if you in the setup of your TV, you gave that permission and then by resetting your TV, you took that permission away. That would be the only, yeah. Because I, because I. Simplink or Simlink, Simplink, something. No. That's different in it. That's different. Yeah. Turn your TV on and off with the Apple TV. Correct. No, this is an HDR like thing where you basically say, yeah, let the director take control of my TV for this one movie. You know, would the problem go away when you left Netflix, John? Like with the brightness would come back. You didn't have to like, okay, so it was you going, and it was the entire Netflix app for only when you actually played a movie or a show. Actually, you know, I think it was any app on the Apple TV. So I have a few different apps. I have, you know, Disney Plus. Yeah, so I think it was all of them, but I started noticing it in Netflix. So I'm like, maybe it's just the Netflix app, but no, it was like every app. Yeah. So I don't know what was happening there, but it was something in the TV. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. Fascinating. Yeah. Nice catch. I mean, there you go. I've noted that I've had to... Go ahead, Pete. Yeah, sorry. I was gonna say, I've noted that I've had to restart my Apple TV 4K a few times. We said, you know, it'll just go funky. And, you know, it just starts this bit. It looks like a 1960s TV. You know, I just get snow and rolling and that kind of stuff.  But if I unplug it and plug it back in, now it's a three year old 4K. So it may be... It shouldn't be... It happens after several hours of not being touched. Like if I put on the TV in the morning and just let it run in the background and then come up to it, it'll be rather...  I wonder if somebody could make an app for the Apple TV that would, you know, slowly get the TV to just shrink down to just the dot in the middle. Like when your tube would fritz out on your old TV. I haven't... Until you started saying this, I hadn't even thought about that in, you know, certainly since I became an adult. Thank goodness. Right, the old CRTs. Just sitting there and watching. I remember the frustration, you know, in the family room or whatever, of like you'd be watching the TV and then it would just slowly start to like the image would shrink from the top and the bottom. And you'd be like, no, no. Like, you know, my dad would go over and like bang the TV on the side and maybe that would like get it back. But every now and then it just went down to a little dot in the middle and it was like, all right, got to turn it off and let it cool down. I'll just... Remember the day you see old vertical hold, horizontal hold, and you end up just those.  You've got something more slightly more. I know we've talked about it before, but slightly more recent and more technologically relevant that you've started using, Pete. You want to talk about it? I did. And again, I might have even heard it here, but I don't know. It's under cool stuff found. I've got a SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive, a Lux USB-A slash USB-C thumb drive. I was looking for a thumb drive in order to talk about it a little bit, but I needed to be able to have a big enough thumb drive to put Mac OS bootable system on so I could boot a Mac Mini and get it back up and running. And so I looked around and said, eh, you know, I only needed, I think 14 gig or something. But when I started looking at the prices of a one terabyte thumb drive, I went, ooh, you know, I could use one of those. Well, I didn't even notice, Dave, when I ordered it, that it was USB-A and USB-C. So one, that's cool because boy, does everybody need that these days, right? Because USB is no longer standard. It's anything but it seems. So that was really sharp when I got it. It's one and a half inches long. A half inch wide and a quarter inch deep. It is stinking small. So you're gonna need to put a lanyard or something on it so you don't lose it, trust me. And so it's read speed on a five gig file is 156 megabytes per second. It's read speed on a five gig is 36 megabytes per second. And on one gig size file. And this is what, what device is this on that you're? This is a, on my Mac Book Pro 2021 with the M1 in, in right there in the USB-C slot. And then on a one gig file, it'll, it'll rate 70 megabytes per second. That's real world. So what the other thing I'm actually thinking about doing with these now, cause we'll talk about it more in a little bit, but I got a new Mac mini to run as a server. I, I don't know. I haven't done the speed test across it yet, but I suspect I only bought the base model with 256 gigabytes of internal hard drive. And on those Mac minis, you can't change them out. You can't buy one with a 256 and put your own one terabyte or two terabyte hard drive in it. It's not doable. Used to be configurable. So that costs a lot of money, but what I'm thinking now is I could stick one of these in the USB drive and throw my Plex data there and throw it the channel status there. Right now it's on my Synology drive. I'm wondering which would be faster, the USB attached to the Mac mini or leave it on the Synology drive? Oh, I mean, I would assume reading over gigabit ethernet from, I mean, it's going to come down to the speed of the drive, right? Cause you've got gigabit ethernet, so that's already, well. So it's the speed of the drive in the Synology NAS. Yeah, but I mean, you're getting, how fast were you getting? Like hundreds of megabytes or hundred? 156 read. Yeah, I mean. You don't need to be any, you know, probably the max I need to read is probably six or eight megabytes a second, right? You're right, right, right. Yeah, so it's not going to matter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yep. Yeah, fascinating. Yeah, and I'll talk about why I would consider that. When we get down to that portion of the show, I'll talk about the USB vice the NAS. Yeah, yeah, I want to share that story. In fact, we've got some questions and I don't know that Bruce has a question, John, but Bruce certainly identifies something that leads to potential fish shakes. Yes, so Bruce says, I don't remember you mentioning this in any recent episode, but did you know that Apple has removed the ability to prioritize which WiFi base station your Mac connects to? You're used to be able to drag the order of verified base stations with the preferred ones at the top, but no more in Ventura. Maybe a gig challenge. Yes, I think it is. And yeah, I verified this on my system. So if you go to system settings, WiFi advanced, you'll see a whole list of authorized networks, but they don't have a way to add or delete or reorder anymore. Why Apple? Right. Why did they? I know there's an answer to this one. Unless I'm missing something. I mean, there's a little dot, dot, dot to the right of each one, but I think the only option you get there is auto join, copy, remove. Okay, so you can remove them. Sure. So the GUI gives you a way to remove them, but I don't see a way to add them. No, well, you can, oh, you can add here for sure. I mean, you add just by joining a new network, right? But can you, you used to be able to add beforehand, like when I would go to an Airbnb, they would often give me the WiFi credentials ahead of time, you know, like the day before or whatever, and I would plug it in, that way it syncs to all my devices and I would have it. So that's, I haven't tried that with Ventura, so that's interesting. But you found an article, John, about how, describing how Apple, a knowledge-based article from Apple, describing how auto joining works on macOS, Ventura, and presumably everything else, because you've never been able to set these on iOS. But it says it evaluates set identifiers and scores them, and it tries to connect to networks in the following order. Number one, your most preferred network in quotes. No networks are scored based on your actions. If you manually switch to a network, it's score increases. If you manually disconnect from a network, decreases. The quote unquote most preferred network is the network with the highest score. Oh, sure, that sounds great, Apple. I mean, I get it, like this is a great default, but if we know that something is best, let us tell you that. Private networks are those set up in homes and offices and can include your personal hotspots. So that's number two. So you get most preferred first, then a private network second, and then public networks third. If macOS, Ventura, et cetera, finds multiple private or public networks, it prioritizes each by security level and chooses one in the following order. So EAP is at the top, WPA three, then WPA two, then WEP, and then unsecured. Unsecured and open networks will not be auto joined unless the network was connected to within the past two weeks. This seems like important information. I'm glad we're sharing this. I don't think I'm happy about this, but I'm glad to know all of it. I didn't know until just now, I knew part of what he's talking about. I didn't realize you couldn't even reorder. What's- Yeah, same, right, right, same. I hadn't tried that. What up, Apple? Come on.  You know, that kind of stuff. I get it. So put it in there. Hey, you're about to make a change. Are you sure you wanna do this type? Yes, okay. No, I don't think- I don't think that's the reason, Keith. No, okay. I like your logic, but I think there's something else that happened with Ventura that forced this change, and it's the new system settings app. We don't have system preferences anymore. So they took iPad OS's system settings and ham-fistedly shoved it onto our Macs. It got better throughout the beta period. It sucked at first. It got better, but it's, there's the functionality that was only on the Mac in the past has gone away. It still needs to get better. It needs, so it might come back. I don't think, based on this article, which is from October 25th, I don't think so, but like it could, like things can change, like, you know, it's fine. I don't think it's coming back. I think they like this better, but I think, I don't think they would have taken it out of Mac OS. Right, right. I think it was just removed as a byproduct of system settings being shoved in there. All right, well, thanks for bringing that up, John. I mean, I'm upset. Thanks, John. No, we did have, actually, I think Brian found this article. There is an article that says using terminal to order SSID preferences and system preferences, but it's seven years old. So I don't know if this price would work. I think those commands still exist. We will, it was an ass-different article. We talked about this not that long ago, like maybe Monterey days, and I think this was the command to do it. So yeah, it'd be worth testing this out to reorder Wi-Fi networks. All right, well, it's in the show notes at macgeekub.com or mgg.fm-960. So you can find it there. If you so choose networks. All right, yep, sorry. While we're on the home network in that realm, Elliot has a question. He says, I have gigabit down cable internet from Xfinity. Says I'm currently using the Motorola M8600 modem, but Xfinity recently told me that it is incompatible with the download speed of my internet plan because of quote unquote filters. He says it supposedly maxes out at 944 megabits per second. The Xfinity message offers different equipment. Some of them he's ruled out, but one of the things is the model up from this or the model number up from this, the Motorola M8611. He says based on the specs, it all looks the same save one thing. Does it matter what's Xfinity saying? And the one thing that's different is the number of ethernet ports on there. The MB8600 has a gigabit ethernet port. The 8611 has two and a half gig ethernet ports. So I get why Comcast is saying this. They're right that you will max out at that 944 number because that's where gigabit ethernet maxes out once you take the overhead out of it and all that. That's what you're gonna get. The gigabit service from Comcast is technically 1.21 gigawatts. No, 1.21 gigabits. Sorry, it is 1.21 though, I will point out. So you couldn't get, like you couldn't pass that amount of data through a single gigabit ethernet port. And so that's why they're telling you it's not compatible. I assume.  The real question is, okay, great, you've got a two and a half gig ethernet port on your cable modem. And I would say if you're buying a new cable modem these days, get it with at least a two and a half gig ethernet port. If you're buying a new router these days, get it with at least a two and a half gig ethernet port on the WAN side so that you can get that data through for future-proofing. But unless you have other devices that are either using more than a gigabit ethernet port on themselves or you're gonna have multiple devices that are going through that one router and you wanna be able to get the, squeak out the extra little bit, I wouldn't go crazy replacing that now. But it is a good reminder that, yes, 2.5 gig ethernet exists. There's also five gig ethernet and then of course 10 gig E, the nice part about two and a half gig is it's much cheaper for the chips and you just use the same cables and so it's all good. I would definitely get routers and cable modems with two and a half gig ethernet now, but I wouldn't throw everything away, if that makes sense. I don't know, if you guys have thoughts on this. I'm still on the crawling service. There you go. But I've had, I've had the Phidium folks with a coiled up cable at the end of my street for 10 months now. They showed up in February and said, when are we gonna get Phidium in our neighborhood? Gigabit ethernet. Yeah, it should be March, April. They didn't say which year, Dave. Right. 2023's your year, Pete, I can feel it. No, it's interesting, like the Synology router, it's weird because I'm using the RT-6600-AX which has one 2.5 gig ethernet port. Here's the odd part. It is not the main WAN port. The main WAN port is a gigabit ethernet, one gig. There is a four port switch on it. Ports two, three and four are also single gig E. Port one is the two and a half gig ethernet port. And the reason they did this was you get to decide whether you want port one to be part of your WAN or part of the LAN. And there's a little switch inside, you know, in the software that you can say, oh yeah, and I'll put my router on that. So you get to decide which way this is gonna go. If you wanted to use it for, you know, your NAS or something on your internal network, if you didn't care about it on the external, great, fine. So it gives you that flexibility, but it's not obvious. Like I had to ask them and they finally were like, oh yeah, no, it's just that one port. My God, your marketing is kind of misleading on this, but that's fine. So I do have my consolidated, it's like AKA Phidium fiber connected to the two and a half gig ethernet port on my router. I mean, I don't have any other devices that can use two and a half gig ethernet. So I don't know that it matters. Like it would be better to have two ports like that. But sure, like fine. And I think it, I think, well, I think that you can pay now for Phidium to get two gig up and down symmetrical. I know there's no reason. I think you're right. I'm not doing that. Oh man. Pete, we promised that we were gonna talk about your trials and tribulations here. You did something that I think a lot of people are gonna do and are gonna find themselves in. You decided that, and you alluded to this earlier, I think, that your NAS was not the right device to run your media server. You wanted to do some things that your specific NAS couldn't do, but you had an extra Mac mini lying around or you procured one. It doesn't really matter. You have one. So you, well, there you go. We're nerds. It's how it works. But you started telling me about, and we actually went back and forth on a couple of elements of this, but you started telling me about this process of setting up what is now and what will be for the next phase of its functional life, a headless Mac mini as a media server. And I think this is an attractive thing to a lot of people because when you start looking at the price of a NAS and the CPU that you get in a NAS and you want just a media server, a Mac mini, especially a used Mac mini, is gonna have way more horsepower and potentially the same or lower price tag. So talk about the headaches and how you solve some of the headaches of getting a headless Mac mini up and running on your network. So briefly, the main reason was I was trying to run channels after the Google hang or Zoom hangout last week that we did with cord cutting. I came into the channel 20 minutes late and said, what's channels again? And everybody did the forehead slap and we just covered that day and go back. So I went and looked at channels and I went, oh, this is really cool. It's essentially a replacement for Devo. I want to run this. I put it on the NAS drive, my Synology NAS drive and it would not grab my TV everywhere stream. So it didn't have the horsepower to run it. I'm like, okay, so some don't. And I forget, I think you need, I forget what it is. You need like a one gig Celeron processor minimum. And my NAS couldn't quite cut that mustard. So I went, all right, I've got an old Mac mini that's laying in the basement, it's been there for several years, but it's not booting right. And a long process I went through and I don't think it's gonna work. So I've prepared a new base model, 256 gigabyte hard drive, SSD, eight gigs of RAM, just minimal. The base one you can get with the 21, 19, 2021 M1 processor. And well, how do you get it up and running though is a server headless. So I needed a keyboard, I needed a mouse and I needed a monitor. Didn't want to buy those. Unfortunately, my son has a Windows gaming rig that he uses. So I got his USB keyboard, mouse and monitor, booted up the Mac mini and went, oh, we're in business. I turned on sharing on all, you know, file sharing, media sharing, all that kind of stuff. That's the first thing I had to do. Then I installed, we're gonna beat this horse to death rate, tail scale. Oh yeah, man. So yeah, put tail scale on it. And boy, this, no matter how geeky you think you aren't, trust me, tail scale is as easy as it gets. You put it on, set it and forget it. And then I installed the channels DVR and Plex and then pointed it all towards my NAS drive, which is where my Plex that is and where I decided to keep my channels data for now. But that's why I was saying, hey, maybe I'll put, I'll just put those on USB drives attached to the rig because I've only got 256 gig. I've probably got two terabytes of media. So that isn't gonna work, you know, on that can't keep it internal. And then the advantage, once that was done, all set up, I was able to unplug all of that stuff, take the Mac mini downstairs, plug it into the router via cat five cable and turn it on. And then I was just able to use the screen sharing app to go right into it. Well, that works for local, but tail scale allows me to get it from anywhere in the world. Yeah. So. Okay, so you needed, I'm curious. And I don't think any of the three of us know of a way of doing this. If we do, please say the word. But if one of you knows the way of doing it, you know, feedback at mackeycub.com, we'd love to hear. It, like, is it possible to set up a headless Mac mini while remaining headless?  You had to do something to get it up and running. Mac mini, but, but do you have to? Like, that's, that's my question is, what would the alts, there's got to be another way. I think my other option may have been to turn off my wife's iMac and then used her Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, but I still would have needed the, fortunately my son has a separate monitor with an HDMI cable. So I plug in the HDMI cable and I still, I probably could have gotten it to recognize the mouse and keyboard Bluetooth for setup. Because that's what it comes.  So, you know, but you do have the external keyboard and mouse. Okay, great. Screen sharing. Well, no, I mean, you got to, well, I don't think you can use screen sharing as part of the setup process, but I could be wrong about that. Maybe it's there, but most of us have a TV in the house that via HDMI is also a monitor, right? So non-optimal, but if, you know, if all you got to do is spend 20, 30 minutes getting it up and rolling to the point where you can control it headless, well, then it doesn't matter, you're good to go. Yeah, then I use my laptop to set it. The only difficulty I've had with it is when I do system preferences, system settings, and I go into displays on it, I'm having a difficult time. It doesn't give me a drop-down list of the various resolutions, and so I have to squint with my old eyes. So, getting it to readjust, give me a better resolution for, make it look more like my laptop as opposed to a great big monitor all squeezed down small, that's not optimum, but I'm so little time on that that it kind of doesn't matter. I can squint for a few minutes. I wonder if like Switch Res 10 would help there because that will essentially force your Mac to adopt resolutions that the monitor connected or the lack of monitor connected communicates. So I think there's a software solution for you there and it might be Switch Res X or Switch Res 10. I'll put a link to that in the show notes too. Yeah. Yeah, so to answer, I have a thought, I don't know if it's the right answer, about whether or not you should use the thumb drive versus your Synology for your channel's library.  What the hell's going wrong here, right? It didn't auto-mount my NAS. Right. And it took me 15, 20 minutes to figure it out and I think if I have USB drives, they're gonna auto-mount. It could be wrong. It would. Yeah, you would need to run right and then run an automator action or an Apple script that mounts your drives or use like, what is that? What's that app? Is it Mountee, John? M-O-U-N-T-I-E, I think. Mac, OS, what's it called?  We'll find it. We'll put it in the show notes. Someone hopefully will remember. Auto-mounted. That's it. It was at Mark in the chat room. So thank you, thank you, thank you. So, and there's others too, but auto-mounted is certainly one of them. That would solve that part of the problem and you're definitely gonna want to do that, for obvious reasons. But I would and I would advise doing that because channels is going to be writing and deleting a lot of data because you watch a show, you delete the show, you watch the show, you delete the show, you watch the show, it's or you tell it, only keep five episodes of a show, expire them out. So there's a lot of churn happening. Churn on SSDs is not the greatest. Oh yeah, yeah, good point. You know, I mean, I know we do it with our Macs, but it's not the best. So I would go with putting it on your NAS. Yeah, the spindle drive will handle it a lot better. Yeah. Plus there's failure protection there. Fault tolerance. It will be on a USB, yeah. Exactly, exactly. So yeah, that would be my reason for just- Yeah, usually lose the USB drive in theory could lose all of my media. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, which may or may not matter to you. I mean, it depends, right? But yep, yep. Most people who are using channels are using TV everywhere to get, like their signal over the internet, their content over the internet. But if you were using it with an antenna, then you have no other way of getting that data. Like you could, if you're using YouTube TV or Fubo, you could tell YouTube TV or Fubo to record all the same shows that channels is recording. You just prefer to watch them with channels, but that's a backup. If you're using an antenna, there's no backup. So that may matter. And at the danger of making this another channel's hangout, is there a good method? What I am is overwhelmed with the number of channels. Let's not go there right now. We don't have time for that right now. I'll find it, yeah. I'll find it. That will be another hangout. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ask in Discord, mackeygov.com slash discord. Because that, because I, you know, John and I are not, John doesn't even use channels. I don't use extra channels. So ask people that do. Yeah, ask in our Discord. That's the place to get those kinds of answers for sure. Yeah. John, you got anything else you wanna do, Rick here? We've got a couple of minutes left, my friend. Yeah, we can do Rick. Though I think he answered his home question. Amazing, we'll share it. I like it. One of my friends has an iPhone, but he does not have a Mac. He has a lot of duplicates in his contacts. I know how to easily fix that on the Mac, but I'm struggling with how to fix it on his iPhone. Do you have any suggestions? I tried my Google foo, but what I got from the Apple site didn't seem to apply. I don't see an option to merge them. And yes, Apple does have an article called Get Rid, that he found called Get Rid of Duplicate Contacts on the iPhone. That sounds correct. Though only part of the article worked for me. And I think, so they have two suggestions. They're like, okay, well, to reserve duplicate contacts below my card, tap duplicates found. And I tried that and I didn't see anything titled duplicates found. However, they have another entry, but it's kind of weird. So if two entries for the same person aren't linked automatically, you can unify them manually. Tap one of the contacts, tap edit and tap link contacts. Then choose the other contact entry to link to, then tap link. What this did for me is it kind of hid the one that I linked to. So it didn't appear in the main contacts list, but it appears on the card that you linked from. So, but it doesn't really remove duplicates.  Yeah. Well, does iCloud.com have duplicate detection on contacts? Okay, yeah, I don't know the answer to that. I'll pull it up while we're talking about it here. Yeah, the link contacts thing, certainly you can link two contacts that are both in your iCloud library, for example, where that may be more of a scenario where you would want to merge them because they're in the same library. But if you are logged into multiple contact libraries, you've got your iCloud library, your Google library, your Exchange library, the LDAP library at your work or whatever, you might have the same person in two or more of those. And that's where the linking contact thing really has a lot of power because you have these separate contact records that will always be separate. But for your sanity, you can say, yeah, on my devices, treat these all as one person because they're one person is the... Man, iCloud looks different. I haven't been here in a little while. Let's go to contacts. And I'm loading iCloud contacts here. Can I find duplicates? And I don't think refresh contacts, preference doesn't look like there's duplicate functionality here. I wonder if there's just a third-party app for the iPhone. Oh, there you go. Duplicate detection, right? Like, I mean, you can give third-party apps the ability to do that. So why... I'd look, but I'm using the iPhone as my camera so I can't tell. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I'm not seeing any apps come up when I'm searching for this, but that seems weird. But what's interesting is, I feel like we're missing something obvious here because I think that I've gone into contacts on my iPhone. In fact, I know that I have. And it said, I just found eight duplicates. Do you wanna view them and merge them? So just like photos, it will offer this if it finds them. Now you're relying on Apple's definition of how it finds duplicates to surface them for you. You can't do it manually. But I wonder if I have any duplicates on my phone. Let me look here, because I swear that the phone just sort of does this. So if I go to iCloud, I think I have to scroll, I don't know. Yeah, right at the top. One duplicate found, view duplicates. Can I share this on the thing? Like it says it, one duplicate found and there it is. So again, this is Apple's detection and you don't get to participate in choosing what it calls duplicates. But yeah, found two cards for my friend, Alan. And I bet they are correct. It'll show me everything and it let me merge them. So this is truly a duplicate detection merge. Good to go. Yeah, I found it, I'll put the link in the show notes. There's an Apple support article says get rid of duplicates on the phone. Resolve duplicate contacts or link them manually. So. Yeah, the linking is the one thing. But yeah, if you have more than one contact card with the same first and last name, you can merge the duplicates. Below my card, tap duplicates found and you're good to go. So yeah, yeah. Okay, and doing a bit of Google Foo, I found an article called best apps to delete duplicate iPhone contacts in 2022 and it's dated on the eighth of this year. So I haven't tried any of these nor heard of any of these. Yeah, yeah, I mean, but there should be a third party app that does this. I mean, there is on the Mac, right? Like, you know, so there's gotta be something. Yeah. I wonder if Gemini has that option. Hey, you know, again, this guy doesn't have a Mac, so that's his problem, right? That's the problem. I bet Gemini, which is in set app will, I bet it has a contact. Duplicate contacts remover. Yeah, so there's easy cleaner with 24,000 reviews, five star average cleanup duplicate contacts, 7,000 reviews. So search the iPhone store for duplicate contacts remover. I haven't used any of these, so I can't recommend one, but I can recommend looking for one. There's tons of them. Average five stars is probably pretty good.  So yeah, yeah, fascinating. All right, this is good stuff. I like it. Yeah, fun. The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things, but not these things. It is time. So if you have, next week we've got some, I think we got through the backlog of cool stuff found. Finally, maybe. I don't know, I've got some boxes in my, yeah, same. But we do have a bunch of, now we have a backlog of quick tips. So we'll start with quick tips next week. We'll, you know, we're getting there. We're making it all happen. It's all happening at the zoo. Yeah. Join us live. You can listen later on Monday, which is the day after Christmas, but we're gonna record on Festivus, Dave. That's what I hear. That's right, yeah. Mackeygov.com slash calendar. You go there in your web browser, it'll redirect you to your calendar and you'll do your thing. You'll see that we're, that we're getting there. It works for me, Pete. I think, yep. I'm a little late, Dave. I know. I can screw up any of that. But go there and, or join our Discord, mackeygov.com slash discord. But yeah, come join us and we'll do quick tips out of the gate next time. Make sure we get through our backlog of those. 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