It's time for MacGeekGab and listener McKay brings us our quick tip of the week with on the Mac to save a screenshot to the clipboard and not to the disk as is the default add the control T so for example if you're taking a screenshot of the entire screen then it's saved to disk you do it with command shift and three but if you want to take a screenshot of the desktop and save it to To the clipboard, add the Control key. So you go Control, Command, Shift, and 3.
More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGeekGab number 1051 for Monday, August 19th, 2024. Music. Greetings, folks, and welcome to MacGeekGab, the show where we take your quick tips like that. We take you and share them. We take your cool stuff out and we share them. We take your questions, questions, easy for me to say, and share them and hopefully answer them.
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We'll talk more about that in a minute here on this National Aviation Day here in Durham, New Hampshire. Hey, hey, I'm Dave Hamilton. And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. And here back in New Hampshire, it's Pilot Pete. Good to be back with you guys this week. I missed you last week. Good to have you back. Yeah. With every shot you took. You came back on the right week, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. National Aviation Day. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Or day, even.
All right. Well, with that in mind, I think we should take off, Dave. I wanted to add to thank you. I got the reference and nicely done. The quick tip that you shared you. I love that. I love the reminder that adding the control key to those key combinations is what decides whether or not to send it to the clipboard or not. I love the way you and McKay phrased that.
Um you mentioned control command shift three taking the entire desktop that takes all your screens if you have multiple screens just as a as a reminder command shift four lets you do either or command control shift four again to send it to the clipboard command shift four lets you it pulls up the crosshairs you can draw on the screen and whatever you draw with the crosshairs will be captured or you can hit the space bar when the crosshair is up and that will change you to a camera icon
which should be self explanatory as you float it over different windows it highlights those windows a single click will then take a screenshot with a drop shadow of that particular window so that you can either include it or paste it somewhere all of this goes out the window with command shift 5. Which is Apple's new and it's really not that new screen capture functionality which lets you see all of these options as opposed to having to remember them all.
Any more to add to that, Adam? I saw you nodding along. No, I mean, the camera one is interesting, too, depending upon what element you hover over, because I think it will also capture just the dock or just the menu bar if you go to the menu bar, I'm pretty sure. And I would assume if you have an expanded menu, it would capture the top menu bar and the drop-down menu, but I'm not positive on that one.
I've never tried it. yeah the um it's so i had no idea that it would capture the menu bar or the dock so thank you i learned two things there um with drop down menus thank you pete uh with drop down menus if you hover over the drop down menu it will only capture the drop down menu it doesn't capture the entire menu bar so that's okay something does it at least capture what menu you're in or is it only Only the expanded little. Let me see what I'm about to copy.
Squircle, squircle, right? That's the right term for. Yeah. Let me, let me see what it puts in there. No, it is only the, uh, the, the part that has dropped down. Yeah. So that, that, that's, I feel like that's missing something because. You know, you might not know what all the elements in that, if you're sending that to somebody. Drop down R, like, is that the edit menu or is that the file?
I mean, i have to i have to use yeah when i i often use that for replying to uh listener emails and in those cases i use the crosshairs to i drop down the menu then do command control shift four and use the crosshairs on the dropped down menu to like get the context of which menu it is exactly to your point yeah yeah yeah and the only other thing that you know i like about out like the new system where when you take a screenshot without sending it
to the clipboard and you get that little preview i like the ability to click on that preview and then use markup to put arrows and draw you know draw around things and put text and yes yes so yes based on that i have to add that i don't use the apple standard personally i for a couple years now i've been using Shotter, S-H-O-T-T-R, and that brings up a little window whereupon you can mark up your image.
And then you have two icons there. One is a copy icon, which means send it to the clipboard, or a diskette icon, which means send it to a file. And, um, and I, and I actually, it saves it to a sub folder in your downloads folder where then you can go back and grab them or delete them as needed. But, but I find Shodder incredibly powerful. You can, you can blur out portions, you can edit text, you can highlight, you can do all kinds of neat stuff with it.
In fact, I think Allison on her podcast has, or her website has a whole thing on, on using Shodder and it's really expensive now. Now it's eight bucks for an incredibly powerful. I, I, um, I, I have shot her. We've mentioned it on the show before, and that's why I have it. I've never, I haven't integrated it into my workflow.
In fact, I haven't really, I haven't even integrated the command shift five into my workflow other than one specific thing, um, which I'll explain in a minute, but I'm, I'm so ingrained in the, the, the command shift for really, I rarely use three even it's four and I get my thing and I do what I want. I know other people that I know that there are, there are people that like shotter. I know that there are people that like clean shot X, the ladder is included in set app.
If that's a thing I haven't integrated either. And, and, and there are folks that say, well, the command shift five functionality does enough of that for me that I am I'm happy to just use Apple's and it's great that there are all these options. One piece of advice that or one additional tip that I will share while we're here is. And I've done this with Apple's functionality using the Onyx app, because with the Onyx app, you can define where screenshots are saved.
Actually, you can also do that with the Command Shift 5 functionality, right? You can choose a folder. But with Onyx, you could choose a folder for the ones with the old interface. And for years, I have saved my screenshots to a folder that is synced to all of my Macs. So it doesn't matter where I have taken a screenshot. I have it everywhere. And that is has been if I'm saving it to disk, most of my screenshots go to the clipboard and and are transient.
You know they come and they go but uh but the ones that i want to save i save to a synced folder i put it on my synology drive it used to be on my dropbox and uh and that that's one of those kind of game changer things in my opinion so wanted to share is brilliant to do it to a synced folder across all machines yeah i never thought of doing that but that's that's going in my workflow right now yeah it was it was one of those things where i was like on my laptop and did
a screenshot and then was in the office and of course my laptop now is closed and asleep so i cannot even remote into it like i have to go and it was like i need that screenshot this sucks this has to be everywhere i need to know and i was like wait i can solve this problem so like i said it goes back to when i was using dropbox before sonology drive ever existed or whatever so yeah it yep i i have the same yep a folder in my documents that syncs to everything oh yeah
you just put it in icloud drive too that's right yeah that's where i have mine yeah smart and then that way they're easily accessible from your phone too yeah you know i have this vague memory.
Because i know that that's not there's tricks for setting that up i think there's a terminal command you can use but obviously like you said you know you can just do it in onyx or whatever yeah it's just a general command you're totally right yeah but i have this vague memory that i thought there used to be and i just looked it's not there so maybe this is one of those false memories but i thought there used to be a way to set that in the image capture app oh i think that's where
that setting was i that's my vague memory but and i thought that's where i had set it up originally, but I could be wrong. I don't know. You might be right. It could be a mis-memory. I, I, I do recall there being like long, long ago that there being an Apple way of doing it that didn't involve the terminal. But I, I, when you said it, I was like, Oh, I remember that being in like system preferences or something. And, and then you said image capture and it was like, Oh, maybe it was there.
I don't remember, but yeah, it was somewhere. Yeah. Feedback at MacGeekGab.com, folks. If you remember these important tidbits of now useless information, please let us know. You heard that. Feedback at MacGeekGab. Easy for you to say. Feedback at MacGeekGab.com. I'll help you with that, Pete. It's feedback at MacGeekGab.com.
Finally got there. all right are we uh raymond raymond raymond has a tip uh let me let me take us there he says i have a m1 mac mini that is working fine on friday i did the upgrade to 14 uh 14.6.1 as the system was telling me to upgrade so i went to bed and the next morning when i look at the computer when i look at the computer i noticed that i no longer had any audio coming out of the headphone jack on the mac mini i tested my speakers
and they were working fine so i rebooted the computer and no luck. Still no audio. So then I shut it down and wait a little bit, rebooted. Still no luck. Still no audio. The audio worked fine before I did the upgrade. So something with the 14.6.1 was the problem. Since I have extended AppleCare on the computer, I called Apple and all they had me do was reinstall the OS on the Mac mini, which took a long time. But after the reinstall, the audio then worked.
Strange that the software update would kill audio. And I wonder if others have this issue too. The way to do this, he says, is the path. I just shut down and restarted my Mac holding the power key so I could get to the reinstall the OS page from Apple and then it all worked.
So what was interesting to me about this one is I didn't know that that had changed because I don't, I'm still on Intel Mac and I've never had to reinstall the OS on my office Apple Silicon silicon Mac and actually I couldn't probably um but uh I didn't know the new method was press and hold the power keep the power button held down to get to the recovery screen on a silicon Mac so I learned that from this but then also
I was like curious about the change and so I looked up the support article on Apple's uh website and apparently if you're on a not on a silicon Mac Mac, you're on an old Intel Mac, I always knew you, you know, rebooted the machine and then pressed and held down Command R to get to the recovery screen. Apparently, there's some other options. If you do Command Option R, it says it will offer the latest Mac OS that is compatible with your Mac as the recovery install.
And if you hold Shift Option Command command R, then it will try to install the version that came originally with your Mac or the closest version that's still available. Oh, and I had no idea that that was a no, that was a thing. Well, there's there's my at least number two. Yeah, this what interested me about this was, you know, when when Raymond wrote in explained and explained the solution, it was like, OK, like that's it's good for us to remember what I think for years on this show anyway.
Anyway, I don't know if this is an official term, but we've called the maintenance reinstall, right, where you're reinstalling the operating system over the top of itself, essentially on your Mac, hopefully replacing some damaged, corrupt, missing files. One bite that's off that should be on. Right. But like that's a quick way of doing it that usually doesn't have any destructive effects. It's always good to have a backup.
But, you know, the idea is you're just putting the operating system back on all your data, your apps, your settings basically remain as they were. And as I was reading, it was like, well, this is interesting. Apple guided Raymond to do this. How did Apple guide you to do this? Because my brain that is stuck in the world of important tidbits of no longer relevant information was like, oh, yeah, you just go online, you download the installer, and then you run the installer from your thing.
I was like, but does Apple advise that? I know you can still do that. And that's the path I would have taken. But it was interesting to hear Apple's path is, oh, no, no, no, no. Don't you can skip. You can do it all at once by with Apple Silicon, as you mentioned, the power button and then the other ways with with Intel. It's good stuff. So I have one other thing to add, and we'll make sure this link goes in the show notes.
Yeah. Because this comes up every time I've ever had somebody talk about reinstalling macOS. And that is, how do I download or get a copy of any version of macOS? And there's a few different ways, but there is a support article on Apple's website that lets you know how to do it. So use software update, use Mac OS recovery. A lot of people know that. But this article has the links to all of the versions because they don't just
come up. If you open the App Store, a lot of people know you can go to the App Store. You can only usually find the latest version of the operating system, but they're still all in there. You just need the links. So this article has the links going all the way back to high Sierra for the app store. And then in addition, they have the downloads for Sierra all the way back to lion on this page. So nice. Huh? Yeah.
Love that. You can get old versions of Mac OS. They're just hard to find for a lot of people. Yeah. I, yeah, I didn't realize Apple had, had links to them. I, I mean, I knew like, Like I knew there were third-party resources with links to them. I didn't realize Apple was like, yeah, just come. You know, there you go. Come get them from us. Come get them from us. Well, you're always getting them from Apple, even with the third-party links. It just was. Yeah. Yeah.
They just had hidden these links for a long long time i don't know when they added this article but i found i found it it was published april 2nd 2024. So yeah i think prior to that i got a sick answer very hard to find yes yeah yeah huh cool loving this this
is great yeah um where you can get them from downloads rs.northkorea you know well that's the thing is you don't want that And I always made sure when I found the, you know, the third party Web page like this, that listed things that they were pointing to, you know, something dot Apple dot com or, you know, whatever. So that you were like, yeah, yeah. The next one sort of blew me away and I think will be very handy for people.
Grumpy. There was a whole thread on this. So I'm sort of synthesizing a bunch of data from our MacGeekUp.com slash Discord chat, which if you're not there, I can't recommend it enough. It's such a great community and everybody helps each other. And somebody was venting actually in the fist shakes category about how people not using one of the big three carriers here in the U.S. Were not able to buy an iPhone from Apple using their Apple card financing terms.
It used to be that you could buy just a regular unlocked phone, carrier-less unlocked phone, and using Apple's financing, and then apply whatever carrier, like a Mint Mobile or a Visible or whatever you want to it. That changed last year. The only way you could buy a phone was to use T-Mobile, AT&T, or Verizon with payment terms from Apple. Obviously, you can buy phones from other people.
However, there is a solution if you want to use Visible or Mint or any other non-Big 3 carrier and still finance your phone from Apple. And this is relevant because I think we're coming up to a new iPhone season. Grumpy Mike says, When I purchased my iPhone 15 Pro Max for my wife last September, I was surprised to see that I was unable to finance a carrier-free phone. During the reservation process, I started a chat with Apple support.
And here are some things that I learned. Number one, all phones purchased from Apple are unlocked. Ah, this is a good, this is, this is an important tidbit of information. Number two, yes. As indicated on Apple's financing website, you can change providers at any time after you receive the phone. So he says, for me as a Mint Mobile user, I just selected T-Mobile as my carrier. I bypassed the cell setup when I got the phone.
He says, actually, I tried the eSIM transfer, which failed, which was sort of a normal process for those of us with Mint. You just need to set up a new eSIM on the phone. He says, then when the phone was up and running, I installed the Mint app, the carrierless, or it was a T-Mobile phone that he had not activated with T-Mobile, got the phone up and running, installed the Mint app on it, and set up the eSIM.
It has been working fine ever since. So 11 months in paying each month on the Apple card and the phone shows as no restrictions under settings about carrier lock. I didn't even know that setting was there. He says, I went back to my order to confirm. And sure enough, it shows that it's, you know, the T-Mobile no commitment is written right on the order.
And and so this is the path. If you want to finance a new iPhone 16, I assume that's what they'll call it, in a month or less, then you still can put whatever carrier you were on or whatever carrier you want on it. Might be the 15S. I think they're done with that. Let's hope, man. No. But you're right. It could be. Let's not go back there. Yeah. You're not. Yeah. So that was fun. John, I got to miss almost all of that because my audio interface decided to just die.
Oh, fun. So hopefully that doesn't happen again. We recorded it for you, Adam. You can listen back after the show. I'll go back and watch. MGG.FM. MGG.FM. That'll get you there. Slash 1051. That'll get you right to this episode. That's right. Oh, let's keep on trucking here. This is fun. So, yeah. You want to take us to Scott, Pete? Yeah, let's talk to Scott writes in and he's very generous. He starts off with gents. Thank you, Scott.
In episode 1049, Brian asked about how to selectively unlock my Mac with Apple Watch. And it was a geek challenge. He says, I solved this problem not long ago by using BLE Unlock, an applet that lives in my menu bar. BLE Unlock allows you to both lock and unlock your Mac based on the time you're away from your Mac, the proximity of the device you choose. I use my watch, but you can use your phone if you wish, and the time you're away.
For example, I have mine to set to lock my Mac when I am further away than about 20 feet, as calculated by the relative signal strength, RSSI strength, for more than 30 seconds. You can set your device to unlock using the same parameters. I choose, as does Pilot Peak, to use fingerprint ID on my Apple keyboard instead, but I've experimented with unlocking via BLE unlock, and it works perfectly. I highly recommend it, and the price is right. It's free.
Thank you, Scott. got huh well i know we've talked about this on the show before obviously i forgot about it because it didn't come up when we talked about it two weeks ago but uh yeah that would be the i think that's a the easiest answer to this sure the only thing i'm looking at the feature set and i didn't download it or mess with it but um the only thing that would be interesting would be a location based um trigger so or
a location-based filter so if i am at home unlock my mac if my watch comes near it but if i'm at starbucks make me unlock it a different way right and i realize your mac doesn't always get great location data but you could do it potentially based on ip address. Because you know the IP range of your home network and you could say, if we're on this IP range, do it this way. And now I'm wondering, is there a keyboard maestro? Because keyboard maestro
can do scripts based on, or triggers based on that. I wonder, is there a... I don't know. I don't think so because it's got to be unlocked for keyboard maestro to do its magic. Maybe? Maybe not. No, it doesn't.
Huh. Yeah. Yeah i don't know i'm thinking so the the the i'll just add just in case i mean i know we're all nerds here but uh for those who are not ble stands for bluetooth low energy thank you for that that that doesn't necessarily just just just because we're here doesn't mean we know the answer to that thank you yeah yeah uh huh i knew it i simply choose not to remember it right right Right. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Ben had another answer to this, which might also solve the problem.
And that was he says, I recommend after pressing the shortcut, which by default is control command Q in the Apple menu.
He then press escape twice. twice doing so first backs out of the specific user login to the list of users and the second turns off the display i believe from the dark screen the nearby apple watch will not automatically unlock however upon pressing a key to wake the screen apple watch will then unlock it so this yet another creative solution to this which doesn't require any software free or otherwise it's all built in but yeah I think that's right
I think escaping to the you need to pick a list of users screen and then escaping again and putting it to sleep I didn't even know about those two screens I like that huh. I got to remember this because sometimes like I'll leave my laptop on the couch to do an update. And of course, I have to leave it open and running, but it doesn't need to be unlocked.
And and this is a good way of doing that. And mainly it's the cats walking across the keyboard would be the reason I would want to keep it locked. Before they go and order lots of cat toys on Amazon. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Puck's bad at that. Yeah. Definitely likes his catnip. So we got it. We got a ration. Before we move to the next one, because those worked in well, and this is kind of in the geek challenge range. I want to ask a quick geek challenge. Yeah.
And maybe you guys know. I don't know. So I've got the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Yep. And the camera on that thing, as those who have one know, is phenomenal. But what I found difficult on my recent trip was doing it in HDR. There's no HDR mode on it anymore that I'm able to find. If someone knows how to do HDR, I would love to hear it because I had difficulty.
I could either get the background to be in perfect lighting or the foreground, but I would have a dark foreground and a bright background or a bright foreground and an overly washed out background, and I could not figure it out anyway. Anyway, so if someone has some HDR, even an HDR app for taking photos. Yeah, I wonder if like halide camera would be the thing. I know it does video with HDR. Will it do...
Um i was not able to find an hdr mode for stills i can't look at my camera app but um i think they, didn't they move a bunch of things under like a there's a little little drop down yeah it's not under there it's not that i found so you know you can change the aspect ratio and all that kind of stuff but if it's there i just didn't find it so a quick geek challenge to If they have a favorite way of taking HDR photos with the 15 Pro Max, I would be thrilled to hear what it is. Let's see.
Apple's web page adjust HDR camera settings on iPhone says, I don't know why I can't add my thing to the screen. Something's wrong with my setup here. But it says high dynamic range in the camera app helps you get great shots, blah, blah, blah. By default, iPhone takes photos in HDR for both the rear and the front camera when it chooses its most effective. IPhone 12, 13, 14, and 15 models also record video in HDR.
Turning off automatic HDR is something that you can do. Two, you go to settings, and of course I'm on iOS 18.1 beta, so I may not have this. But if you go to settings, camera, this is what Apple's saying, there is a smart HDR option in there. And I'm not seeing that in iOS 18.1. But is it there for you or you don't have your phone up? My phone is my camera for the show, so I don't know. But I will definitely go back and look at that.
Yeah. I found it was not good in the still mode no matter what I was doing. So I either turned it off inadvertently sometime back or the setting has changed and it's not as good as it used to be. Yep. Yep. It is interesting that that setting is not there on 18.1, but I have put this link in the show notes. I would assume it's relevant for iOS 17, because why would they have it on a knowledge base if it wasn't? Yeah.
I'm looking to see, is there like a new, do they call it something different? Not that I see. Interesting. Cool. It's supposed to just work and doesn't. It's supposed to just work. That's right. Raph has a follow-up while we're in the follow-up section here. Adam Raph has a question for you. He says, in 1047, you stated that you encoded your DVD collection and never wanted to do it again.
What software did you use? He says, I did the same thing four to five years ago using Mac X DVD Pro on my 2012 Air.
Air and uh he said needless to say it took time and i was feeling kind of mad by the result when i compared the video quality streaming with plex from my sonology i recently tried to re-encode using make mkv on my m2 pro and ended up with a similar result no matter the format the software the mac the video quality especially when it's a dark scene isn't as good as playing the dvd itself self from the drive, what did you do that might have helped?
I didn't really do anything that would help. I can tell you the software that I use again, which is Mac DVD Ripper Pro, which I think is excellent. The issue with resolution on a DVD, ripping a DVD is first of all, when you're doing it, you're applying compression. And in dark scenes, in scenes with heavy water, it's just, the encoders just have a hard time with that, right?
Right. And you're already starting from a lower resolution place with a DVD these days, you know, it's then you've got to upscale the 4k and all this other stuff. So I've just generally found like, you're going to suffer from that a little bit when you're ripping and compressing. Now, I think he mentioned, you know, should I just archive every DVD using the ISO format? And I believe that Plex will handle those. I didn't do ISOs. So basically you're just making a direct copy of the source DVD.
I think that would help because you're not going to have the compression. You're going to have a much larger file. The other nice thing about that too, is I think that preserves like the DVD menus and the extra features and all that. Like it's like you just put a DVD into a drive. You're just don't have it in a drive. So I think that that would be an option.
The other thing that I noticed was I have Mac DVD Ripper Pro and it says on their website they have a new ai powered super resolution upscaling feature so i haven't, you know because i did this a long time ago and like i said i never wanted to redo it again but i haven't tried checking out that feature so i don't know if that would help with some of the resolution compression issues um or not but. Yeah, this is interesting. I'm wondering, I thought Make MKV didn't compress it.
It would transcode it or turn it into the MKV file, but that was it.
I thought that was an uncompressed version. version but if the dvd was encoded with hdr and the rip or the blu-ray was encoded with hdr and the rip doesn't grab that hdr metadata then you would wind up with exactly what he's talking about here so yeah i i i feel like yeah that mac dvd ripper pro is probably the way to go i see that excuse me walter in the chat says that's that's what he uses too so maybe it does solve some of that yeah it's a great app it's just really easy to
use and it just does it and i've never had issues with any dvds like sometimes certain apps have issues with specific studio dvds and stuff like that yes um just not ripping and uh this one's i've just gone back to over and over again three years so and um will it rip blu-rays as well if you have a blu-ray reader obviously you need a hard i that i do not know because i never got into the whole blu-ray thing i went straight from dvd to just buying my movies from apple yep huh interesting
because that that's always been the trick um hockey brian says it does not work on blu-ray so i didn't think it did you need to go back to make mkv and then also make mkv on blu-rays because that that's kind of the trick and yeah, that's where things get interesting. So. All right. Well, I will put links to all of that, including the Make MKV Blu-ray instructions, because there's like a whole thing you got to do. But anyway, we talked in episode 1049 about mounting drives and unmounting drives.
We did. I think listener Peter is going to help get us back into that topic. He did, and since it's my namesake, Peter writes in, Hey guys, there was indeed an app called Mountain. It stopped working properly a few upgrades ago. I still had a copy in my applications folder, but when I just tried to run it, I got the app is damaged message. So it's goodbye to that. I had a similar problem as the one you talked about on today's episode.
The drive I used for Carbon Copy Cloner never seemed to eject cleanly, especially when I was in a hurry to pick up my MacBook and get it off the desk and go. Mountain was the fix when it worked. My solution after Mountain stopped being useful involves a smart plug, home assistant, a smart plug, comma, home assistant, and Keyboard Maestro. I have an automation set up in Keyboard Maestro that sees the OWC Thunderbolt hub that I have on my desk and asks me if I want to turn on the backup drive.
If I say yes, it tells Home Assistant to turn on the smart plug. Carbon Copy Cloner then sees the drive mount and runs a backup. When it's done, CCC tells me the drive to eject, which in turn triggers another keyboard maestro automation to turn off the smart plug. The drive can't be remounted unless that plug is turned back on, which only happens when I want it. That is elegant. I smart plugs, man. There are so many things that can be done with smart plugs.
I mean, I know we can use them to turn on like our favorite lamp or something. Right. Like, great. All good. And that's the use case that seems to be pushed out by the vendors of smart plugs. But the best thing for smart plugs is like dealing with those annoying things where something needs to be powered off or powered on in an automated way.
Like my garage door opener that if it, for whatever reason, the smart home garage door opener, the old Chamberlain home kit thing that I have that everybody wants but nobody can buy anymore. If that's on for more than like two or three days, it gets wonky and needs to be power cycled. So I just have a smart home automation that with a smart plug that it plugs into and the smart plug turns off for 30 seconds at 532 a.m. Every day. And that solves the problem.
I had put a powered but not smart bidet attachment on one of our toilets years ago, and I couldn't figure out how to get it to stop beeping when you sat down on it. Finally, we did figure out that there was a like you hold your mouth just right and not near the bidet and and, you know, push the right drinking fountain. No, hold your mouth. No, no. And, you know, there was a path to do it, but it wasn't in the instruction manual.
So the solution was great. I put a smart plug in front of the bidet and I have it triggered with my sleep focus. Focus so when i tell my iphone that i am going to sleep it turns off the smart plug and when i come out of sleep focus it turns on the smart plug i used a morass plug for that because they're great for um with home kit and they work great like it solved the problem and so like yeah yep smart plugs love it. I wish I had invented one. Well, you know, there's still time.
A lot of people have smart plugs, Pete. Listener Michael, also to solve the ejecting your drives properly and when you want problem, says, I have been using an app that I found through a YouTube video from the St. Clair software folks who make default folder. And the app is called Jettison. And he says Jettison works great for ejecting SSDs from a docking station, studio display or whatever. He says, I'm in a similar situation as listener Terry from episode 1049.
I have a studio display at home that I bought mainly for my M2 Air as I have a four terabyte time machine drive for my family's Macs and a two terabyte external drive used for backplays and other files. When I connect my work M3 Air, I would prefer to not connect my personal drives and instead plug in my work's time machine drive. There's a 15-day trial for Jettison from St. Clair. In my opinion, it's completely worth the $4.95 price for one license, and additional licenses
are available for a dollar less than that. He says it lives as a menu bar icon. That is one of the few that I choose to keep visible while using Bartender 5.
It's super handy. older versions of mac os would have issues in the past with the every once in a while seeing a use the finder to force eject but i will say ever since mac os 14 aka sonoma was released i don't think i've seen that uh message more than once so thank you michael great stuff great stuff love love love that and thanks to everybody for writing in with all your tips and your follow-ups and all that good stuff.
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How can you organize or sort photos in an album on iCloud Photos? Coming back off a two-week trip to Europe. Oh, that sounds nice. Spent time in exported photos from non-Apple Mac photo app. And all and got all in order and numbered and added screenshots of maps ahead of each group of photos for We Were Here purposes. The photos show up in iCloud Photos in order, which is timestamp order, but the map screenshots are all lumped at the end. I can't seem to manually rearrange.
I tried get info to change the timestamp by one second or something. You can't and iCloud Photos does not seem to, uh, at all sort any, or photos does not seem to all any sort of probably allow what he's trying to say. Oh, does not allow a, there you go. Not allow any sort of arranging or sorting. It's simply fixed thoughts. Joe from Raleigh. Yeah, Joe, I think, uh, you, You're right that this is not something you can do on iCloud Photos.
However, you can do this in Apple Photos and like in the Photos app, either on your iPhone or on your Mac and highlight the photo. Go to the image menu on your Mac and choose adjust date and time. A little screen will come up. You can adjust the date and the time and even the time zone and all of that stuff. And it will do it for one photo or multiple photos.
Sounds like for your purposes, you'd want to do it for one photo at a time so that you can properly, you know, get things where where they need to be in, you know, those map screenshots. If you want to do this on your iPhone, you have to tap to bring up the single picture.
You can't do it from the carousel display. play bring up the single picture and then tap the three little dot dot dots at the top or the eye at the bottom and you can do the same thing you can adjust the time stamp right there and then that will sync to your devices and all is well so hopefully that helps.
But wait there's more so in a program you may or may not have heard of it's called set app, uh you can get an app called meta image and man does this thing let you get granular you can do almost anything with the metadata in your images um but obviously change the file name, change the date and time that it was created but you can add in there all kinds of things, Comments, copyrights, headlines, caption abstracts, object names, latitude, longitude. Oh, wow.
Yeah. Or take it out of there. You know, obviously, if you want to post something on social media, you probably want to pull your location data out, particularly if it's your home and you don't want people showing up on your front door asking for your autograph or trying to shoot you or both. It's just it is amazing how granular that can get. And that's included. It's made an image it's in set app and that allows you to do all kinds of fun stuff with the details behind your, behind your photos.
And I think I could be wrong. My recollection is that I've been able to adjust other made a data on other files. Oh, interesting. Not just image files. I see that there is yeah. Photos extension included too, which is super helpful.
That yeah said oh i forgot to mention that yeah it allows you to pull from a folder or directly from photos yeah uh to to adjust it that's key that is key cool great stuff yeah fun yeah uh nicole has a question for us nicole says i got into the original airpods in 2020 and then the pros a year later. I record videos for my side hustle, and for some time I was able to do that with the audio coming from my AirPods. I take long gaps between making these videos, so I don't know when things changed.
Audio is no longer captured by my AirPods when using the native camera app to record my videos. What the heck is this? Whose idea was that? Or is there some evil hidden setting I don't know about? This has significantly compromised my productivity in video recording and related income. I'm frustrated. I can't find any mention of this feature slash flaw in Apple support. Thank you, Nicole. Adam, do you have thoughts about this? Okay, good.
Well, I heard this and I was like immediately like, no, this is not a thing, right? This can't be, this can't be a thing. And then I bid poking around, probably like Nicole did, and searched and searched and looked at Reddit and looked at, you know, Stack Overflow and Apple support things. And it came to the conclusion, like a lot of people that, no, this just doesn't work. You cannot do it with the native camera app.
So you're going to have to find some other tool uh and a bunch of people recommended one of my favorite like super video recording apps which is called filmic pro which apparently does this i've never personally uh tried it so uh i'm going off of you know reports from others but yeah filmic pro which is a great uh video recording app where you can do all kinds of real things And so if you are doing videos, um, you know, for a side hustle, it has a lot of nice advanced features.
And I don't remember it being particularly expensive. I don't think it's cheap, but I don't think it's, I don't remember the price on it. I just bought it right away because it was a great app. I want to say it was like 12, 15 bucks, might be 20 bucks. Um, I'm looking to see it's on the app store. So I have to wait for the app store app to load. And I had to wait for Safari to relaunch because I have that problem today where Safari just goes belly up.
To play doesn't want to show me things great filmic pro is not compatible with this device so I can't even see the price because I'm on my I'll look it up yeah you guys have any other thoughts on this and you know I did the same thing I $14.99 there thank you there you go great I did the same thing I was like no that's got to work and I even tried it with my airpods sitting at my desk I was like and I you know I made little like.
You know, sounds near the microphone on my phone and near the microphone on my AirPods to confirm, like, where is it coming from? And oh, for sure. It was coming from my, my phone's microphone, no matter what. And, uh, yeah, I saw the advice. I don't think I've ever used filmic pro, but that sure looks like the right app to use for, for this. Okay. All right. And I'm, I'm sorry. I, I read the headline.
Line i i went to buy filmic pro in the app store expecting it to be 14.99 but it was free well free to download but to open the app it's four dollars 99 cents a week ouch that used to call cost 14.99 it's now 250 a year with additional fees for syndicate remote are you sure this is i this well i'm reading this is off of uh reddit so oh reddit's wrong i i have oh good good thank I think Reddit is wrong because I have Apple's
app store preview website up on my Mac and it lists the in-app purchases. And I would trust that what's published here is actually what's going to happen on the app because Apple's probably in sync with itself. Not always, but they say that a yearly you get a free trial, but a filmic yearly license is thirty nine ninety nine thirty nine dollars and ninety nine cents. So they're right. I see it. OK, yeah. Yeah, but those were all those other extras
that are added in. Yeah, maybe. Creator Weekly, Director Weekly. Yeah, right. Yeah, you can do a week trial for $1.99. Actually, you can do a free trial plus the weekly thing for $1.99. So there's a free trial, clearly. Try that out, Nicole. Hopefully it does it. And if so, maybe the $40 for the year with your side hustle will make that a tax-deductible expense. Yeah, exactly. Oh, that's a bummer. Yeah. Like I, I got it for 15 bucks.
I, I might have an old version then because they do that thing often when they move to subscription where they, they have a new version. I think my old version still works. I haven't, again, I haven't used it in a while, but yeah. Yeah. Yep. Bummer. Well, you know, Adam, um, you mentioned something cryptic. What happened? Yeah. I almost got caught this week. It was, it was bad. We were having a really nice dinner this past weekend.
Uh, I had a friend over and I did smoked, uh, barbecue spare ribs and smoked them for like six hours and they were delicious and we were having a great time and we kind of we're wrapping up dinner and, and just having conversation. And my wife said to me, Oh, remember that video of my daughter when she was, I think about seven or eight years old, maybe a little younger. And she told a story that was about her teacher going to Mexico.
And there was a macaw and this whole series of events happened. And she's like, can you, can you show, you know, can you show that video? And I went, sure, I'm going to pop into my, you know, iPhone and find, find the video. Couldn't find it. Could not find it. It wasn't in photos. It wasn't in, uh, the TV app. And what I had done is I had all of those videos. I have a, had a ton of videos of my kids growing up, all these videos I had done.
There was like a 4th of July speech one, my daughter gave, and this whole interaction I had with my other their daughter we were playing hungry hungry hippos that was hilarious like all these precious videos right all gone like where are these videos and i went well they used to live in, uh i think it was what we have before uh the apple tv app it was like just videos or movies it was in movies was it yeah i was in the movies was it i know what you're talking about it was like the
movie app and you had you had your purchase movies and there was a section called home videos yes and they all lived in home videos and they were synced to iCloud and all of that stuff so I believe what happened was when they moved to the tv app I don't know where those were supposed to go if they were supposed to go someplace but they were just gone like literally really gone. And I kind of had a freak out right there at dinner. And my wife's like,
no, it's really okay. And I'm like, no, it's not okay. He's like, I have backups for this. I am like fanatic about that. There's no way I've lost these videos. Couldn't find them anywhere. I was like, you know, I would have thought they would have moved to the photos app that I sync iCloud photos. They weren't there. So I'm kind of panicking. And so I grabbed my laptop and I run out to the the office because this is where my archive drives are.
Plug in the drives. First one wasn't mounting and it's like, you know, but I'm in panic mode. So I'm like, okay, take a deep breath. You know, you have these somewhere, but they weren't in backblaze. They weren't. And I'm like, I know I have archives. They're either on the Drobo or they're on one of these old drives. And sure enough, I went back and I found an old, uh.
Archive of my media library, which is where all the movies like in the home videos, things lived and they were all in there so i grabbed them i immediately put them in a place where they're going to be backed up to backblaze and i immediately also put them into icloud photos now so they all live in photos and then i let my laptop for a day or two just open and sync, all the videos to i created an album called home videos put them in there so now they're synced and there it's fine but whoo it
was scary for a moment wait a minute though that like that makes me wonder i it's it's you i'm using every bit of self-control i can muster to not stop what we're doing and go see you guys later yeah later i got stuff to look for i got stuff to look for here like whoa yeah yeah i need to go back and do my research to find out if they were if they did move them somewhere and then i did something to sure take them out of that place you know inadvertently i i don't know
literally what happened because i seem to remember i thought they were supposed to go into the tv app but they're definitely not there or mine aren't and i don't think you can put home videos into the tv app anymore so the only other logical place for them to have been moved in my opinion would have been into videos and photos yes yes wow.
Yeah, this is why I like to like not just have a local copy of my photos library in Apple's format, but take the the master photos and data in it and copy that over to my disk station because then it's in my format, right? It's just a folder of files, and it's not going to be manipulated, although I think I'd probably let it delete things from that, too, when I do my sync. So maybe I need to rethink that and do what you do, Adam, and make it a one-way sync.
I also copy these to the Synology as well, just for the record. Yeah, obviously. We assume that. That's right. Huh. Wow. So I'll offer my solution on these is, of course, I have my own server that I lease for my personal domain. And for years I did a blog on it and all that. And one of the things they frown upon, although I haven't been griped at for doing it, is storing it, using it as an external drive, so to speak, or a cloud drive.
But I took all my video, those videos of the kids, those precious ones, and I put them up there. and then I just created a little page with a link to each of those videos. But the other thing that I've done is I use Plex. If you haven't bought yourself a lifetime Plex Pass, I'm telling you people it's some of the best money you'll ever spend. Create a Plex Pass, and in there I've got a home videos folder. And so that folder actually lives on my Synology drive, but Plex points to it
and serves it, And that's where I'm able to easily find and access my, my home videos. Yep. So, yeah, I had that folder. These videos were not in, I had not put them on Plex, but yeah, yeah, I will now, but yeah, I had other video. I had other videos. I had the three, uh, theater performances. My daughter did in, in, uh, elementary school. Um. Yep. Yep. Yeah, I definitely do that.
Now I need to go back and make sure that all the things that I think are in my home videos library on Plex are there. I will note and I will agree first that the Plex Pass is fantastic and and allows a lot of great features. But adding your own videos to your Plex library is not one of them. That's something you can do with the free version of Plex. Oh, right. Okay. So don't feel like you can start and do a lot of things with Plex absolutely for free.
The big one that comes with a Plex Pass is the ability to download from your library to your devices so that you can watch offline from like your iPhone or your iPad when say on an airplane or in a hotel room or whatever.
You get some other controls. You get the ability to stream to the um plex amp app which is the music app that you can use like in your car and things like that so there are things that you get with the plex pass uh paid license but putting your own movies in plex is something everybody can do for free and it's a core feature that's great news yeah i just assumed you couldn't do that but yeah no that's kind of what plex is for is is your media library so yeah yeah yeah and i'll
tell you what i think you and i did it about the same time it was like 75 bucks for a lifetime pass i think it's about 129 or something it's 119 right now yeah okay yeah so but here's the thing about that it's been probably eight to ten years since i bought it and it gets cheaper by the year obviously i didn't think you know it's one of those As soon as when you do it, you go, well, if they go, if they go belly up next year, I'm out 75 bucks.
And if Plex isn't going anywhere, it doesn't appear. It looks like they're here for the longterm. Right. So yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. They've, they've, they've diversified their business enough that I feel like it's, it's fairly stable. So yeah. Yep. Uh, we, there was a question asked and answered in our discord community that I, I thought was a helpful thing. Crazy Ninja Papa asked, how do people who use their synologies update their Docker containers?
And so what he's asking is when you create a Docker container on anything, which could be your Synology, could be on your Mac, could be on your Raspberry Pi, you download the Docker image.
Image and that is sort of its own little sandboxed operating system that has uh you know sort of the the bits and pieces of linux that it needs and of course the binaries to run your app well apps like plex you could be running let's say you're running plex in a docker container you don't have to you can there's many ways to do it but that's one of them plex gets updates fairly regularly When you download the Docker image, it runs Plex.
You point it at your data store, which also has all your preferences and everything. That's great. But if Plex gets updated, you don't have the update because you have the Docker container that existed when you downloaded it. What's cool is if you do update the Docker container, all your data and your settings remain consistent. So you can kind of update it separate from your data, which is awesome. Okay.
But that upgrade process is never easy or hasn't been easy or fun, or at least isn't on the surface. So Crazy Ninja Papa asks, do I need to rebuild my whole Docker containers? Do I need to stop and restart? How do I make sure that my Docker containers remain up to date? And Crazy Ninja Papa answered with the solution that I use, which is, he says, I, or sorry, Sorry, RNDoug answered CrazyNinjaPapa saying, I use Watchtower and it has been great in my experience.
This might even qualify as a cool stuff found. It certainly qualifies as something worthy of talking about in the show. I love Watchtower for doing this. It checks once a day all of my Docker containers and I even configured it to send me an email when they're updated so I know when things get updated.
Synology's container station which is their what they call their docker manager now also has the ability to update the docker container from within it but i find that it doesn't see the updates as quickly like by days or weeks as watchtower does and watchtower it's one of these meta things that you run as a docker container and it updates your docker containers so you know you go figure that out but um there's an article on marius hosting which uh
is a great little how-to of installing watchtower on your sonology and they walk you through it marius's how-tos for doing things on your sonology and getting set up with things are so perfect and in fact i linked to the wrong one or i pulled up the wrong one doing the show i will uh put a better one in place but uh before before you ever get to see it folks so yeah that i love his stuff it is so well written and point illustrated and you know do this do this next.
He treats you like a dummy in the best way possible. Thank you. Yes. Please. Yep. Treat me like a dummy. If I think I'm smart enough to skip a step, I will. Sometimes I get caught. Your own. Right. It's my own fault. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, he makes it so simple and he assumes that you don't want to use the terminal to do things. So he uses the task scheduler to have you run terminal commands that you could just launch the terminal and do.
I often will just go to the terminal on my disk station and do it because I'm comfortable with that. And I've already set all that up. But he walks you through it in a way that just makes it easy for anyone with a default config of their disk station. And there's so many how to's out there. So, yeah. Yeah. And one of my favorites, and I know we've talked about this on the show before, is that he runs a honeypot.
To get who, you know, who to ban from trying to access your Synology drive that's exposed to the cloud. So he, uh, he has those blacklists that, uh, you, I think it's eight, $8 to get, uh, to get that blacklist. And, and last I checked, it was over 90,000, uh, IP addresses that, that he bans. And we've talked about it. I, I ban mine permanently. There's once once there's three login if someone hasn't hit his but they hit my son ology if they do more
than three login attempts Badly in an hour. They're banned permanently. I. So, and I've, I did manage to ban myself. I was just going to say, I, I banned, I banned things for 24 hours, um, for that reason. So that if I'm traveling and I've locked myself out, I can get back in the next day. Well, what I did is to then just use, I did manage to do it while I was on the road. So I just used my, uh, PIA VPN, changed my IP address and went in. Yeah, of course.
I did it right that way. So, um, but yeah. Yep. But it's bad when you ban your own home address. That's kind of why. Yeah, I use the block list. He has made this year, Marius has made a significant change to the way he keeps the block list updated and removes things from it. So there used to be 70, 80, like you said, 90,000 addresses in the list. It's down to about 50,000 now. And he removes things that have not been problematic for X number of months or something.
What I do when I add his block list is you import it into your disk station and you can tell it when you're importing it when to expire these. I import it once per month and i tell it to expire after 60 days so if i get lazy and don't do it next month i still have the block list for a little while but this way i'm not just keeping, marius's block lists uh that he's expiring out i'm i'm letting them expire from mine as well so i have a stupid question yeah why. Because it's possible.
Well, do you remember my issues with Ticketmaster, Pete, where they would not let the range that my ISP had bought from a nefarious VPN provider, they would not let me buy tickets because their system had that range in their block list. And they weren't expiring it out on a schedule and they were blocking something that had changed its purpose over time. So that's why I don't just keep things blocked permanently. Yeah. Okay. Well, my argument would be if you were Ticketmaster, sure,
you want customers to be able to access your site, but you're not. You're Dave. Yeah, but I want you to be able to access my server. And if you were to have moved to BreezeLine, which was the ISP that acquired these addresses, you would not be able to get into my server if I had kept these addresses blocked in perpetuity. IP address, there are a fixed number of IPv4 addresses out there and they've all been assigned.
That was true as of about a decade ago, right? So they do keep changing purpose and they are valuable.
So these nefarious companies that initially grabbed ip so that they could run like free vpns and capture all your data and do bad things they're finding that their asset that they have on their balance sheet of these ip addresses is worth more to sell for good purposes than it is to use for nefarious purposes so these ip addresses do change purpose all the time and that's why i expire them out okay and that's my story and i'm sticking with
it yeah yeah well i'm I'm keeping mine blocked. You ain't getting in. Only you and me need to get in. If you ain't getting in, then you can tell me and I'll unblock you. You'll unblock me. Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. Oh, you had something to add to that, Adam, or no, no, no, I'm just, I'm in agreement with you on the expiring because I, you know, again, even if you don't change ISPs, your ISP could buy that block.
Like Dave's ISP could buy that block and dynamically assign it to him at some point. And yeah, now I'm blocking myself and yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. You don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So fair enough. 60 days. That's what, yeah. You got to wait 60 days to get yourself back in then, but automatically. That's right. Hopefully it all works out in the wash. Yeah. Plus I have like, you know, my daughter lives in Italy and her connection is on like many people in Europe.
Her home connection is a 5G connection, right? They've got a little box that grabs 5G over the air and routes it to Wi-Fi. And so her IP changes all the time, and who knows what people are buying and selling over there. It's probably way more common there than here. So it's all kind of part of the system. Yeah, good point. Yeah, yeah. All right. Well, how about I take us to Bob's question? Let's do it.
So he writes in, for the past several months, my 16-gigabyte Mac Mini M1 running Sonoma 14.4 and 14.5 often slows to a crawl on wake up. Every process seems to be stuck in molasses.
Today i woke up my mini at about 13 45 and it ran really slowly looking at the cpu activity a process named wallpaper video extension was running at about 80 to 90 percent cpu cores 5 through 8 were running over 50 and the cpu temperature was at 147 degrees 40 degrees higher than normal i let it run that way for an hour and then force quit the wallpaper video extension using the Activity Monitor app.
The only way I've found to resolve this problem is to launch Activity Monitor app and force quit the process. Normal quit did nothing. I've seen a number of others who have this problem. AppSupport has not responded to explain or fix this issue, nor after searching online have there been any alternatives to the force quit method. I have no use for a video screensaver or wallpaper and have never used it.
Any ideas on how to fix Fix this permanently stopping any video screen saver or wallpaper would be just fine. So as I heard about, as I read this, I was reminded of an issue that I have. And it's when I go to remote into my studio Mac here, and I often will remote into it to do something. Either from my laptop or from my Mac mini down in the office. And I have three screens on this when I remote in. The first thing that happens is it wakes everything up.
I have dynamic wallpaper on two of my screens and I have the logo of whatever podcast I'm recording on the third one. And when a Mac wakes up that has dynamic wallpaper, it goes through this like I'll call it a fly in. It's different depending on what the wallpaper is. But it animates until it kind of settles in on what today's view is going to be. And that's all fine and good when I'm sitting here at the Mac.
But when you're remoting in and there's this motion happening, it really slows down the process. And so as I was reading his question and thinking about this, I wondered if that what it with the wallpaper video extension is is what's responsible for that. And maybe on his machine, it's not stopping or it maybe visually stops, but still runs in the background.
So my thought was to turn the wallpaper on your computers away from the default of the dynamic wallpaper and to a static image or simply a single color or something much, much more simple and easy for our Macs to to to do. And I changed that immediately on the studio Mac as soon as I had this thought and remoting in has been a so much smoother process.
I'm able to like it saves me 10 seconds because I'm not waiting for this thing to it's like, no, I just want to type my password and, you know, let's do the thing and then get out. And so that I wonder if changing the wallpaper to something not dynamic would be. And I'm not talking about the the one where it changes from wallpaper to wallpaper, although that might also cause this.
I'm talking about the ones that that the actual wallpaper is dynamic over time where it changes the either the view or the time. You know, you can see what's what's Europe like during the day or at night or whatever. And like, it's cool. But if you don't care about that, then turn it off.
Thoughts adam um well i immediately went to check what my setup was and i am using i can confirm i'm using the change from day middle of day early morning night one the big sir dynamic one and my activity monitor for that process shows zero great nothing nothing is happening happening. Uh, maybe it's only gonna fire up when it actually is transitioning. I don't, I don't know. Um, but, uh, I think you're, you're probably spot on.
The interesting thing was he said he doesn't have any use for those types of wallpapers and doesn't use them. So that's the only thing that I'm confused about is if, if he is just using a static image, why would that process even be running at all?
Like, cause I said online, I have dynamic wallpaper and that video extension is zero cpu it's been running for three hours three plus hours at this point now so yeah mine let's see i have i have the wallpaper image extension the wallpaper video extension and they're both currently using zero i am using static images it's it it like there's two types of wallpaper i guess one is the aerial wallpaper right which is like what you see on the apple tv and it's the the moving one and then
there's the dynamic wallpapers which are like the the you know the ones that are the weird color schemes that like you said change day and night and all that stuff so yeah yeah but i just changed now to video static images yeah just the video ones i would think would cause that extension to run like if the aerial ones yeah the aerial ones yeah exactly yep i'll have to check i am using one of those on my um on my uh work machine so i'll have to check there but yeah yeah i
mean it sounds like something's running amok and maybe it's change away from whatever wallpaper you're using to something else and see if that just solves the problem it might be a damaged file of whatever it is and it's constantly trying to you know like that's kind of how those things can go i who knows yeah yeah i mean even just switching away from it and then switching back. Yes. If you do prefer that, you know, that one, maybe it just needs a reset.
Like a equivalent of turn it off and back on again. Yeah. Yes, exactly. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Yep. Well... All good things, my friends. All good things. All good things. I hear music. There's a lot left over, though, and so that means we have to do this again next week. No. You know what that means? We get to do this again next week. There you go. Looking forward to that. Thanks to all those people. Yes. Out there. All of you out there, whether you can see us pointing at you or not.
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And I have two other shows, Business Brain and Gig Gab. We've been sharing lots of advice. I heard a piece of advice this week. That I had never heard before, but Pete, you might have heard. It's do not add to the population. Do not subtract from the population. Do not wind up in the headlines, the hospital, or jail. If you do wind up in jail, establish dominance quickly. Music. Pete, do you have anything to add to that? Oh, well, you know, I was in the headlines a couple weeks ago.
I didn't, and you shouldn't either. Don't get caught. Made on a Mac.