It's time for Mac Geek Cab and listener Todd brings us our quick tip of the week. It's travel season. He says, I created a packing, like a trip reminder list a ways back so I don't forget to pack something or also do something before I go on a trip. And it hit me that a new thing I want to add, and maybe we all want to add to our list, This is to log my iPad and iPhones into my YouTube TV, Netflix, whatever, Hulu accounts from my home network before leaving.
He says, I rarely watch content on those devices at home because I use my Apple TV. However, some apps get picky when you try to log in to them from not your home, especially your streaming TV apps like Fubo and things like that. He says, so if you have not done it from your home location within the last few weeks, do it now or do it right before you leave for a trip.
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Anyway, we'll talk more about that in a little bit. For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. And here also in New Hampshire is Pilot Pete. Greetings, everybody. How are you, Pete? I'm doing fine. I'm recovering from the move. The move, yeah. We moved. Big move. New house. Don't move, folks. It's too much work. Too much hassle. Trust me on this. Somehow, Pete, we had volume level issues with Pete pre-show, and we goosed everything.
And then you said hello to us and I had to ungoose everything. Whatever your issue was, it is solved. And we created a second one. That's all right. So did I over-modulate? I'm sorry, folks, if I did. I don't think so, but it was time to shave a bunch of gain off of you real fast. There you go. I hope I didn't blow your speakers, everybody, while listening to my dulcet tones. You can blow our minds instead, Pete. There you go. Oh, I'm with you on the don't move thing.
I've moved entirely too many times in my life. We did a lot when we were up in the Pacific Northwest when we were younger and it got really bad. I moved a lot as a kid. And then even as an adult, Lisa and I were moving like every five years and like relocating, you know, and it was, it was fine.
I mean, it was always a pain in the neck. the one that we did 19 years ago when we moved here to new hampshire that hurt a lot like like just like physically it was just exhausting i was like oh is this what it's like when you're older because i wasn't as old as i am now it turns out uh but maybe it was moving with kids i don't know it was the first move we did with kids that were like active humans as opposed to like babies so i don't know yeah that doesn't make it easier for sure no so no.
Our move out here was a lot okay i was saying our move out here was probably our easiest because, we made the conscious choice that we were not bringing hardly anything like we sold and got rid of everything and just said we're starting new yeah so we brought very little stuff so that made it easy that's good yeah yeah yep so we went from an attic in a basement and a big garage to a half a basement and a smaller garage so things like my military uniforms which have been
hanging there for 25 years doing absolutely nothing they had to go gotta go but yeah it's amazing how much other stuff we managed to accumulate in all those years yeah that we just didn't need but got to hold on to it for be it sentimental reasons or just i don't know what but oh yeah no don't move it's It's a disease, for sure, of just collecting stuff. Carlin had a big routine about that. Yeah. Get a bigger house, get more stuff. Get more stuff. You got to have more stuff.
I joke that I want to pretend we're moving and pack everything and throw it away. And we did that. We had our, I think we talked about this, I don't think on the show, but we had a mold issue in our attic. And to get it cleaned out, we emptied our attic. And it was like, okay, we're definitely not putting all this stuff back up there. Like, we don't need three quarters of this crap. So anyway. Yep. You got a tech-related quick tip for us there, Adam?
Yeah, I think I do. This is from Patrick. He said, I had an interesting thing happen the other day. My wife sent me a business card via text. Later that day, the person that gave me the card sent me a text message. And in messages, it said, Siri found a contact. I haven't seen this before. I've seen info scraped out of email signatures, but not off a picture of a business card. I'm not too worried about privacy, but after I heard someone was selling a contact list called Wealth and Unhealthy.
So I moved my search from Google to DuckDuckGo because DuckDuckGo doesn't always provide the best results. He found a tip that if you start a search with bang G, so the, you know, exclamation mark G, DuckDuckGo will pass that off to Google in Safari. So you can, and this is apparently a DuckDuckGo feature. He took it one step further and put up a keyboard maestro, you know, set it up on keyboard maestro.
So it will automatically, when he hits a keyboard combination, go to the beginning of the line, add a pound G to his current search, and he can hit return and then make the search happen. So if it doesn't get what he wants in DuckDuckGo, he can get it on Google. And I thought that was a really, really cool trick.
And apparently there are yeah there are over 13,000 of these different bangs as DuckDuckGo calls them there's a link that we'll put in the show notes or is in the show notes and you can you can go use those so they have them for like, Making it go to Wikipedia, making it go to your favorite streaming service. So there's like one for Netflix. There's just a ton of these. And apparently this is a DuckDuckGo feature I had no idea existed. Yep.
That's crazy. Oh, I'm going to have to play with that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like you said, yeah. Reddit, Twitter, WolframAlpha. Will they search AltaVista for me? No, just kidding. Potentially. Yeah, but it might. Yeah. One other thing to add, the found in context thing, I'm pretty sure that's now powered by the new text and images processing that your iOS devices and your do now.
So, you know, where you can actually go into photos and if you have text in a photo, you can select that text because it's automatically processed. Right. And that's all on device. So really shouldn't be a security concern, but that's how it found it in the, you know, the image of the business card. Oh, interesting. Right. That makes sense. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wow. I need to teach my fingers some of these at least because there are times when I want to take what I've searched on DuckDuckGo and go search Google and I go and I like copy and paste and, you know, launch Google, the whole deal. So, huh. I like it. Yep. Well, I got another one from Martin. Go. All right, this is, he says, is a PSA for those of you who live life on the edge, because this is Spotlight on Mac OS 15 Dev Beta 1.
So he's running the beta, and he came across a thread he found on Twitter and read it about a bug that causes Spotlight to start writing a large amount of data in the order of 26 terabytes a night. What? what? That's what he says. There's a link. There's a link to the Twitter post and then Reddit thing. So we'll have those in the show notes. But he did some checks and found it was happening on his system as well.
So you're going to want to disable Spotlight if you're running Mac OS 15 dev beta one. This is a really good PSA for reminding people like do not do not run betas on critical systems or machines, because there's inevitably going to be little things like this. And this one's not really little, because it's going to consume all of your space really, really fast. 26 terabytes sounds like a rough night. Like that's, wow. But here's the upside. I mean, look how fast his disk is.
Yeah, what kind of disk did you get to write that in? Like, yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a lot of writing. You know, it'll mess up your SSD real fast. Real fast, yes. Oh, if you want to keep using it, well, you know. Yeah, but if you want to brag. If it's doing that every night, writing, writing. Yeah, if you want to brag about it writing 26 terabytes a night, then, you know, maybe that's its purpose. Yeah. Wow. Right. Huh. All right. Good. Good to know.
All right. Well, how about I take us to PC Unix with this quick tip. He says, this morning, I wrote a non-techie article about Apple's AI implementations. While writing it, I had an extensive conversation with ChatGPT. When I was done, there was a lot there that I may want to refer to later, but I'd need to copy each question and answer separately. Time consuming. So I asked ChatGPT to put everything into one copyable code block and it did it.
I then asked it to rearrange all of it into a coherent document, which it also did. I copied both of them off to notes for my further use. So yeah, HFGPT, just... Make that into usable data for me, won't you, please? That's pretty good. Yeah. That's a good reminder of ChatGPT's ability to, like, it is an interactive, I mean, that's the T part of it, right? It's transformative. And that means you get to tell it how you want it to transform things.
And that's, to me, that's the part of it that's most useful. I mean, I've taken data and given it to chat. You all know I'm petrified of regular expressions because I just, I don't know, my brain and them, the two, have yet to figure out how to meet. So if I need to write a regular expression to massage some text, I don't do that anymore. Assuming it's text that I'm comfortable pasting into ChatGPT, and that needs to kind of be, like, think about that.
Uh but assuming it is i put it in there and i say you know reordered this or or change the like whatever make it all initial caps of this with sorted by and you know find the lengths of this we had to find the lengths of like the longest podcast and it was like well we could just paste in the rss feed of the show and have it find the top 10 longest episodes i was like Like, yeah, no problem. It's like, yeah, here you go.
Yeah. So. Although it does have a limit of about, I thought about 2,000 words or something like that. Yeah, Claude will do more, whatever that is. Claude 2 from, is that Evolution Labs or Claude? I think we're actually up to Claude 3, Claude.ai. Whatever that is now would be the one to use for that kind of stuff. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Is that not familiar with Claude? Is that a, a free implementation or it is free. I've never paid for it and I've used it.
Anthropic is the company name that does Claude. Um, and it's now up to 3.5. So yeah, you can, uh, yeah, I've, I've, I've used it and I've never paid for it. So yeah, whatever, whatever that means. It might have, it might not still be free. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you'll find out folks when you go to use it. That's right. That's right.
That's right. So, uh, got another one, uh, from Bob who wrote in, uh, from last week's show, he had a quick addendum to our first, uh, to our quick tip in 1043. He writes in gentlemen, throwing that term around loosely. In addition to the long press working on the Mac, this tip also works on the iPhone and the iPad. And I thought we discussed that, but without the numbers. You simply long press, as you would do on a Mac, and a row of accented versions appears above.
Without lifting your fingers, simply swipe up and over to that desired version and then release. And I'm constantly amazed by the number of long press tricks. And I'll throw in here, folks, one of the things I use to make my password, my simple password, more complex is I use that in my password on my iOS devices. I use an accented letter. So now you can get into my phone when I'm not looking.
My father's family, Bob continues, is French-Canadian, and my last name includes an accent aigu, which is an E with a forward-leaning accent mark. Obviously, it makes a big difference in how the word is pronounced. And for those of us old enough to remember, Chrysler made a car in the late 70s, I love putting this in, called the Plymouth Volare with an accent on quality, not. The accent aigu has a long A sound.
Nicely played, Bob. But he says, here's the main point of this tip, a word of caution. My devices have learned how to spell my name automatically to include the accent Deku, which is great. The problem happens when you're filling out an online form. More often than not, the system on the other end doesn't recognize the accented letters and either puts in some incorrect character or admits it altogether. And this becomes troublesome with credit cards, which normally do not include
accented letters. and I've had to go back and change it to an unaccented letter in order to have the denied purchase fixed. So his tip is, if you're doing this, be aware that, you know, your online forums set yourself up to be able to quickly, I think, switch in between so you don't wind up.
Dealing with denied purchases among other things yeah huh but yeah long like long press tricks keep them going i love it what what i learned from that is i'm gonna um now make all my passwords just emojis there you go yeah i mean as long as the database in which your password is being stored yeah i don't know like maybe i wouldn't do it yeah i wouldn't do it accented characters should work yeah right and i do remember having some difficulty at one point when i was trying and
this is many many iphones ago when i was trying to i think restore it to factory settings and then get back in i was having an issue with the password because i i had the.
You know i had it in there and so i don't remember i don't remember but i remember that starting starting fresh was tough with that password yeah so um for some reason the keyboard wasn't playing nice good sites and databases should support fully support unicode at this point in in time but i wouldn't rely on it at all yeah yeah oh yeah if a database was built what 15 years ago or something and they just haven't updated it it might not have full unicode support yeah that's right right yeah and
i'm thinking about some databases that you and i have built over time well i'm sure it like you you build it and it works and you just keep you know updating the code base around it but you so rarely go and say hey look at the encoding on our database like when was the last time i like as you're saying it i'm like well every database i have. Uh, one last quick tip for us comes from Todd, who says, uh, I wanted to start recording my weight in the health app via my iPhone. Great idea.
Uh, he says, I looked for a shortcut so I wouldn't have to type it in like an animal. And I found one. And he said, uh, I renamed the shortcut log weight and used it for a week or so. So this morning I held down the side button on my iPhone to trigger Siri and accidentally said log my weight. And I got a pop up that said Siri needed access to my health data. This was my first clue that I wasn't using my shortcut.
I allowed it and got a very nice pop up that relayed the weight that had successfully entered into the health app. The second clue, I went to my wife's phone and tried the same thing. She does not have my shortcut. And I said, log my weight. Sure enough, tap through giving the appropriate access and was able to enter my weight. He says, don't worry. I didn't enter my weight on my wife's phone. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Good call. He says, my wife's iPhone does not have the shortcut,
of course. And this proved this. But but yeah, he says. And he adds a second part of that tip while saying, hey, S-Lady works. He says, I like holding the side button to get her attention. Kind of like, I like Wi-Fi, but I like Ethernet better. I'm not sure I would conflate those two, but you're welcome to. I'm like, sure, yeah. I'm forced inside my house, most places inside my house, because I have an original HomePod.
And that dang thing I will be so far away in the kitchen and I will say you know S lady very very very quietly at my phone and inevitably the HomePod which is like, rooms away will like pick it up, It's crazy that that's how that's interesting, because I have that with our a lady units. We don't have home pods in our house and that's OK. But with with the a lady, I'll be in one room that has one and I'll say the wake word and it will be the one two rooms away.
That's like, you know, the sound bounced to the right way. It decided this is where it should get picked up and all that stuff that I can only imagine.
Imagine what that would be like with home pods and the s lady yeah here's the thing it wouldn't be a freaking problem if apple would sync timers for god's sake oh because that's usually what i'm trying to do but it's usually like when i'm grilling and so i want it on my phone because i'm going in and out of the house with my phone i'm like moving around and that home pods way off in another room and i'm not going to hear it when i do not know why timers do not sync.
I mean it knows it's you right like it so it's not it's not like yeah that's interesting, huh why is it locked to the one device that you set the timer on if i have icloud and i have icloud syncing and like wait so if you if you even intentionally set a timer on one home pod and it starts going off and you're not near that HomePod, but you're near another one in your house, that one won't tell you, hey, you have a timer going off on the kitchen HomePod?
I don't think so. Oh, the A-Lady does that. I mean, it starts, the alarm first starts going off on the one that heard you first, right? Presumably the one you intended to use. And then from there, it will bounce around and sort of say on all of them, I think, Like, hey, timer's going off in the kitchen, FYI. So you would think that, like, the HomePod and Apple's whole ecosystem would alert you everywhere, including your phone and your watch. Yeah, why not?
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All right, it is, uh, you got, you got time for questions. You got to speak. I do. Yeah. Cause, uh, Jane, Jane wrote in and she wrote in hi, Dave, pilot, Pete, and Adam. I have a recurring issue with my iMac photos app version nine. My Mac is a 21, 2021 M one iMac desktop running Sonoma 14.5. I have my photos downloaded to my Mac and also use iCloud to sync them. My photos are all organized in folders with albums.
For example, one folder is birds and the albums are various types of birds within that folder. Some of these have sub folders with albums as well. For some unknown reason, out of the blue, I'll notice that many of my albums have moved out of their previous spots in their folders and placed randomly in the albums area. Sometimes the albums get placed into the wrong folders entirely. Even folders seem to move on me. I'm not sure if it could be a setting or the way I sorted the pictures.
When I select Library, View, Sort, I have sorted my oldest capture date. When I select Albums, View, Sort, I have sorted by name.
The other thing is by sorting the albums by name I find that smart albums mixed amongst the folders is there a way to sort them by kind to have them all at the bottom maybe not sure I use smart albums for videos unorganized unable to upload and reference otherwise I don't tend to use smart albums as a routine you guys are the best yeah and such a joy to listen to thank you Jean thanks a million for your help or any thoughts, Jane? So I have thoughts, but not real great answers, I don't think.
And so this is a little bit stump the geek, I think. The one clue that I see in there that I'm aware of is when you're using albums, right? Because I use albums in my photos and I do kind of some similar things and I have them specifically in an order that I like. So I I have certain albums that I want first. So I have gone into my photos and manually, you know, you can drag your albums around and you can put them in an order. Okay. And that works great and it syncs to all your devices.
But similarly, she mentioned, I go in and I change the sorting. Well, if you change the sorting, it will sort it by name, but now you've just undone any of your manual work that you've done. Like that's not maintained. I don't imagine that that would mess up the subfolders, though. If it does, that's really wonky and bad, in my opinion. Like if I've set up an album, and then I have sub albums in there, and then sub sub albums, it should keep that all together, I would imagine, and organized.
Maybe within that, you know, sub albums, maybe if you're doing by name, those albums would flip. But she even mentioned like albums showing up under the wrong album. And I don't, I don't understand how that could be happening without some manual intervention. So that's the part of this I'm a little bit puzzled by. But I do know that if you change your sorting, it will resort and then that will sync everywhere if you're using like iCloud photo syncing and all that stuff.
Yeah. And I validated that, you know, when she sent in this question with my with my photos. So I just, you know, I moved something around manually. It changed. I changed it to sort by name. And then when I went to my iPhone, everything was sorted by name for my albums. So So it undid all of my manual sorting. So I put everything back, but yeah. Huh?
Yeah, go. I had a thought in there, and I just was wondering if there was any other kind of database corruption in there, and I know that you can rebuild your repair. It's called Repair Your Photos Database, and you hold down the command and the option key when opening photos, and it'll allow you to repair it.
And you would definitely want to make sure you have your entire album backed up, lest you you really didn't repair it into oblivion right but i'm wondering if if there's some kind of corruption that's otherwise unknown in there but i i think adam's more on the right track frankly that you know you can you can sort it one way and as soon as you do it, as soon as you change one thing it's going to go back to doing its own thing.
Yeah yeah i i don't like i'm i'm but i'm kind of with you adam that it shouldn't start pulling things out of subfolders like to me something is doing that now it could be you on a different device it or a different device doing it thinking it's something you wanted it to do for whatever strange reason i don't know uh but i i'm i i don't know i i think i like the idea of repairing the library i my i had forgotten that you could do that in uh photos uh on the mac so thank you p yep
yep um but i so i was thinking of like power photos could that You know, slurp your photos from an existing library into a new library. And that, of course, rebuilds the indexing and all that stuff. And maybe that makes it better. Yeah, that seems weird to me.
But and i do want to mention we truncated it out of the email she sent but she spent some time on the phone with apple support over this and they they gave her the the old shrug shoulder shrug shoulder salute so yeah the um on the smart album thing those do get organized just like any other album so again if you sort by name it's going to just sort those by even the smart album name name. She asks, is there a way to keep them in a certain place?
And the only thing I could think of there is the old trick that we've used in the Finder and any other place where if you put a tilde at the front of it, it's always going to sort to the top. I forget there's ways to get things to always sort to the bottom if you're sorting by name. That's the only thing I can think of to do there. And I don't remember how to get them to sort.
Because I have albums that are year year numbers and those are always at the top obviously because numbers will come before letters when you're sorting by name i actually will use the trick just i'll use aaa for something i want at the top and zzz at the bottom but you know shouldn't zz be at the top though that's what the band told me yeah that's right i see what you did there you know i never thought about i never thought about the
i mean i've been a fan and aware of zz top for a long time i never Never researched where they got their name, but as you were saying that, it kind of crystallized for me that that might be exactly where they got their name. I don't know. Yeah. Huh. Huh. I, uh. You could ask Jeeves. I could ask Jeeves. Nice. Wow. Wow. There's a callback from 20 years ago, huh? Yeah. Wow. No longer. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, there you go.
So what are we doing next here? I have no idea. We got a question from DJ. Sweet. DJ says, my son is using chat GPT voice to work with chat GPT in conversation mode. Apparently to end that conversation, you must hit a physical, it sounds like icon or button on the phone, or a... Software button? SW button? Yeah, I think it's a software button, yeah. Oh, okay, so a physical button on the phone or a software button, you have to basically trigger it to stop.
Either way, what happens is when his wife comes to talk with him, ChatGPT remains running and gets involved. He'd like to be able to use a verbal SLADY voice command to turn off the ChatGPT session. He's made a shortcut to start a conversation with GPT voice. He can either run the shortcut by speaking to S-Lady or double tapping on the back of the phone using the accessibility feature. What he has not been able to do is use voice or tap to stop the GPT voice function.
I'm planning to play with this, but decided to check here first, because this question came in on the Discord, to see if anyone has done something like this yet. Thanks in advance.
I i the only well there's two things that come to mind the first is sure wait till the fall and make sure that the iphone is one that will support apple's ai features and then uh you know use that which is going to be in ios 18 that though brings up a question i do think i have an answer uh for dj mac here but the the question is we know that apple's ai is limited to phones that are fast enough to make the experience good in apple's estimation and that all makes perfect sense i
get it however when it offers to pass it off to chat gpt that doesn't use any significant amount of horsepower on the device so will people with lower speed devices be able to have the chat gpt s lady integration already like there's no technical limitation that would cause that so i'm curious if in fact that will happen um i know gruber asked john John Gruber asked, I can't remember the Apple engineer's name, the product manager's name, about
this, about why certain devices and not others. And she gave the answer. Yes. You know, it's, it's the, um, it's the speed of the device. It's not like we're trying to sell new iPhones. It's like, well, if we take the speed of the device out, uh, you know, I don't know. I don't know. I think the answer you're, you're laughing. Well, okay. Because that's rhetorical. It's rhetorical. It's Apple market. Yeah. Yeah, they know what they're doing. They're not dumb.
Apple's not dumb, right? No. Like, they know if they leave certain features out that people are going to buy new devices. And then, you know, once those sales kind of go down, we'll see, like, what typically happens. And then they'll be like, oh, look, now you can do it on these. I mean, we've seen them do stuff like this before. Many times. You mean, like, find my in your Siri remote on your TV? Don't get me started, Pete. We don't swear on this show.
We don't swear on this show. What do you mean? Duct taping an AirTag to the back of your Siri remote isn't the solution? Yeah, I actually bought a little remote, rubberized remote silicon holder that held both the remote and the AirTag. That actually makes sense. Because I got sick of having to look for it in the couch cushions. Oh, yeah, that thing is a cushion diver. more than any other remote. Like, if that thing goes between the cushions, I hear it hit the floor, like, instantly.
It goes straight through. It's gone. Yeah, exactly. Maybe if we'll go to the basement, it's going down. Yeah, oh, yeah. It's down there somewhere. It's way down. That's right. You want to take it about the living room or you just want to use your phone, which is a good workaround when you're on the couch and can't find your Apple TV remote. You can use the inbuilt remote on your phone with one exception, which, Pete, it is?
The volume. The volume. You can't turn the volume up and down with your phone. I use the volume buttons. I'm pretty sure I have. No? I, I don't think so. Like when the remote side, you're talking to volume buttons on your phone, the side remote, really? Maybe I don't be a quick tip. I haven't tried it. I can't say this for certain, but I've definitely never had the frustration of not being able to do that.
That never occurred to me to try the volume buttons on the side of the phone when using the phone as a remote.
Yeah. because you know i'm thick like that well no it's not it's obvious once you once you know it's not on the screen no i get that i'm pretty sure it worked but i i should say that we have sonos in our living room and i have an arc and a sub yeah essentially near the tv and then i have two play threes as my rear speakers and one of the play threes is within arm's reach behind me and the play threes have volume buttons on them. So I will often just reach back to control the volume that way.
And it controls the whole system. It's not just the, that one. It never occurred to me to do that either. So I've got Sonos ones for my rear speakers, which also have the volume. It never occurred to me to reach over and do that. Yeah, it works that I can absolutely confirm work. So it's possible the remote thing didn't work. And I was like, well, screw it. It just is the thing behind me. Yeah. So I will, uh, I will report back next week.
Cool it the chat and discord kind of has the answer which it's yes but. So it works depending upon how you have your audio hooked up to your apple tv and how you're routing it right so some people are saying oh i use home pods so that works um you know if you're probably just running it normal through your apple tv into your tv but if you've got something hooked up like i would doubt that mine that mine works with my sonos because i I have the old original Sonos bar,
and it's infrared. Right. Right. Right. Yes, if the remote's sending infrared, then that wouldn't do it. That would make sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. But if it's doing it through. I think mine's infrared. Well, it might be HDMI CEC, too. Yeah. And if it is that, then the Apple TV box can do it. Yeah. Oh, okay. Sure, I'll report back. but I'm using the, uh, Oh, what's it called? The, uh, the fiber cable from the TV to the Sonos or the audio.
That that's, that's, um, not HDMI CEC. That is fiber toss link or, you know, whatever. And that's why mine doesn't work. Cause I do the same thing. I use the, the fiber optic audio cable. And you can see when I use my remote to do the volume, the light on the Sonos on the front of the Sonos lights up, right. To indicate that it's getting a, yeah. It also lights up. For me, though, when I control the volume through HDMI CEC. And hey, Pete, just FYI, I found a Knowledge Base article.
There you are. I figured I'd summon my inner John F. Braun and find the right Apple Knowledge Base article. Yeah, absolutely. And it shows that the volume buttons on the side of the phone control that.
That it also shows calling back to earlier in the episode the search dictate button on that that we talked about as the siri button on the far side of the phone also works uh to trigger that for your tv so yeah another one that i would have never thought to use yep same that despite thinking to use the volume buttons i never would have used the button on the other side of the phone so yeah there you go i do have an answer however for michael's question i know we almost forgot we
were doing it uh and that is a thing that federico uh federico vatici over at max stories wrote last year which is called s-gpt which he describes as a shortcut to connect open OpenAI's ChatGPT with native features of Apple's operating systems. And it is, although, oh, now he says he's removed it. Oh, he doesn't like, oh, because he doesn't like ChatGPT. But maybe you can find an SGPT repository out there somewhere. I know that shortcut could still exist because if you had it on your phone.
But it was he doesn't like the fact that chat GPT and other LLMs like scrape the open web without publishers consent. And I can get why as someone who makes his living publishing a website would not like that. They also scrape podcasts. FYI, just, you know, like they once they once they chewed up the entire web, they started going to YouTube videos and podcasts. So. We're all in there. But that at least was built to do things very much like you are describing.
So if you can find SGPT out there in a shortcuts repo, which it might exist, then you can use. Or if you know somebody that has it, they could share it with you. I don't think I installed it on mine when it came out. I remember. I don't know. Maybe I did. I remember messing with it, but I, I don't know. I don't know that I installed it. Anyway, somebody might have it. Ask in our discord at macgeekup.com slash discord. Somebody there might have it and, uh, be willing to share it with you.
So there you go. Yeah. Yeah. Or you could probably send something to feedback at macgeekup.com. You could send it to feedback at macgeekup.com, but I don't think any of the three of us have it. So you might be better off in discord, but I don't know. Hey, I don't have it. But you could still try feedback at MacGeekApp.com. And we'll send the question to Discord to get an answer for you. And we'll say, yes, that's right. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jeremy has our next question. He says, I'm at my wit's end. ScreenFlow won't record my screen. I've done all the settings checks, even reinstalled the app.
It was working fine. a month or so ago but now all i get is a black video it records uh it appears to record the video and audio fine uh from my camera or whatever but just no screen there's no error message just a screen flow file with video audio but no screen capture um he says i am using an older version with mac os 14 he says i'm using version 8 not the latest 10 uh and it was working but now it's not i've used it for many years and the support has been fine when
i've needed it but now they don't even respond oh that's not good to hear that's the worst part about this any ideas including suggesting an alternative pete. Yeah. So I actually seem to recall some years back having a similar issue with ScreenFlow. And it was about to cost me both a laptop and a window in my home before I found a solution. And my solution was the alternative. And I just quit messing with ScreenFlow, which was too bad because I really enjoyed using it, as I recall.
But I use a program that I know you've never heard to this, folks, but there's this thing called Setapp where you can pay a little money and get all of these great programs. We may have mentioned it once before on the show, but in Setapp, there's a program called Capto, C-A-P-T-O. And that is my go-to screen recording. It'll do screenshots. But what I really like about it is it'll do screen recording. It will do an area recording.
So you can tell it, hey, I just want to record this area of the screen. So you You can do it like a little window, but you can choose which window you want to record from. It has its own built-in browser, so you can record from that if you'd like to. And when it's all said and done, it puts it in an organizer for you, and then you can take the video down to the bottom, and you can edit it. You can trim it. You can cut out of the middle. You can crop.
You can add graphics and text, and Capto is a super powerful screen recording, recording screen uh then video editing it's a wonderful little program to if you're going to do tutorials or or what have you i i love capstone i've been using it for years ever since uh screen flow left me high and dry huh for no apparent reason huh thoughts adam so i yeah i responded to jeremy on this as well um you know the first thing i would check i mean i doubt this is what But what it is, but it could be,
is go into your system settings, go into privacy and security, and check screen and system audio recording and make sure that that didn't get toggled off or removed. So if that app is not, because I'm sure it already had permissions at one point because it was working, but if it got toggled off or moved to audio only or something weird happened. Maybe that's why it's not working and it's not able to capture your screen because it doesn't have permissions anymore.
And I think if it originally asked and then it gets turned off, I don't think it prompts again, like when you launch the app. I don't think I've had that happen with apps. Like if I've given it permission and then taken it away and not reinstalled the app or something like that, I doubt it would ask again for that permission, but I'm not sure on that.
The other thing was, as far as alternative, you know, you have screen recording built into your Mac, you can use QuickTime or I like the shortcut Command Shift 5. Which will bring up a little menu and give you options for doing screen captures as well as video captures on your screen. That's what I use is Apple's built in. Now, it doesn't have all of the editing. I mean, it'll open in QuickTime and you can trim things.
In fact, QuickTime's video trimmer is the most efficient video trimmer I have ever found on the Mac in terms of speed.
I take our uh every week after we finish a show i take the video that uh that streamyard records the all-in-one video which has pre-show and post-show and to make sadie's life easier so that she can find segments that match the time stamps in the show i trim off the pre-show and post-show so that the time stamps of the video match the time stamps of the the thing and uh And, like, it takes, you know, I do the little trimming, and I hit save, and I don't know,
it's a couple gigabyte file, and it takes 20 seconds to save it or something. If I were to do that in, like, a video editing app, it wants to re-encode and do all that. I don't know what QuickTime's doing that's different from all those when it trims things, but it's great for it.
So but doesn't have it has some video editing but it's it's not a video editor so that would be the that would be where something like captoe might might be better off i my brain job the thing i do one of the things i do with captoe is like i'll blur out a password or a username or something like that if i'm sending an example to somebody how to how to log in and and do something on a given website or yeah and that's nice and you can blur out parts portions of the video and.
Okay yeah you can't do that with uh with to my knowledge you can't do that with quick time i my my brain on jeremy's question jumped to i know some websites like youtube netflix especially go to great lengths to make it so that things that think they're going to capture your screen won't be able to capture the video from you know a Netflix movie or something so you can't make a copy of a Netflix movie that way and.
I don't know what Jeremy's trying to, it sounds like this is not a specific issue for Jeremy that it's more widespread, but maybe there's a Netflix window open and that somehow blocks the system.
Them i don't know i don't know i mean it's a stretch but it's worth throwing out there that there are some things that try their darndest to not let the you know the the capture apis see what they have to sure so yeah yeah i don't think that's the problem here by the way well i and i was going to mention this earlier because i thought thought of this earlier and it left my mind but i was also wondering did he change his monitor connection to hdmi because
doesn't hdmi have that like hardware copy protection bs in it where it again thinks you're trying to like grab something copy protected and then it won't let you capture the screen sometimes yeah yes yeah yeah yeah sometimes i i don't think that would get in the way here something you own so So you can use it. Yeah, right. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. All right. Moving on to. Yeah. All right. Good. Should we go to Harvey? Let's do it. All right. So Harvey writes in. He says, hi, Dave, Pete, and Adam.
I'm attempting to copy text from my WordPress website and paste it into a document in pages. Every time I do it, it takes a while. and then everything pasted are in bold question marks like, and 24 question marks in a row in boxes instead of the words that were copied. When I look at the format sidebar, it is listed as a series of question marks in boxes as text. As text the font listed as .lastresort.
By highlighting the whole question mark text and choosing a real font from the font menu, everything I copied shows up as it's supposed to. I'm doing this for a lot of files as I'm trying to make a pages document from all of the posts I've made this year. How do I stop this from occurring? I cannot locate a .lastresort font anywhere on my computer to delete it from font mapping. And it's only in the body of my writing that won't copy properly.
So any thoughts causing this in a way to copy and paste without having to change every time would be helpful. Harvey. Yep. Harvey's not going to find the last resort font anywhere in his system, but it is there. And I learned this from his question because I was like, oh, what is this? This has got to be something special. So last resort is actually a special font in general. And I think it's on a lot of systems, but Apple has their own version and you're not going to see it in font book.
You're not going to see it anywhere because it's deep in the system. And I, I, the dot last resort was a clue to me because people may or may not know this on the Mac, right? If you have dot in a, in a file name at the beginning of a file name on Mac system, that means, you know, hide it. But there's a great article over at Vice from 2020 that goes like deep into this if you want to know all about the last resort font. So you can go read that. We'll link to that.
But my guess is what's happening for his specific issue is in WordPress, he's probably using a very specific font that's probably not part of his system. So when last resort kicks in is like, it's the last resort. I can't find a replacement font. I don't know what this font is. I'm going to use this last resort font. And for the characters, it's just putting in this box with a question mark because that's what it maps
to for whatever text he's pasting. So, What I would do is, rather than doing a regular paste into your pages document. Do a, and so instead of command V for paste, do the paste and match style command, which is command option shift and V, because that's going to force it to paste into pages with the currently selected font in your document.
So if your document has Helvetica as the default body font, when you paste it it will come in as helvetica not trying to use the font you know from wordpress because my guess is it's trying to use the font from word path wordpress which could be some weird web font and it's trying to match that styling right so you just need to tell it no use the styling from my document not from the original text in the clipboard so um there was a discussion in discord about this this week and Harvey tried your
idea and it didn't work that's where I would have started to I know yeah yeah it's like it should work but he says I tried doing that paste and match sound nothing pasted at all as of right now all I can do is highlight highlight the weirdly pasted text and he says I have a shortcut now that converts all highlighted text to the style with the font that I want and I'm going to. He he went on. Some people mentioned using other things.
Randy Walker in Discord suggested making a plain text document in like text edit or BB edit and using that as the interim doc. I use BBEdit for this often because BBEdit is basically Unicode only, right? And so it has no font formatting at all. So paste into BBEdit, highlight in BBEdit, copy again, and now whatever's on the clipboard, paste into your pages document. And that should just be text with no styling whatsoever. My favorite way to do these things, because it skips the BBEdit step.
Yeah, my favorite way might not be faster, but it feels more efficient is that Keyboard Maestro comes with a series of like built in macros that like pre-created macros. And they have one called Type Clipboard, which literally like at the point where your cursor is, it types the text. It does not paste text in. It acts like its own keyboard and types the text. It is slow compared to pasting where pasting everything is dumped in at once. This is you see it slowly sort of methodically typing out.
But I've had it work in scenarios like this where it's like, yep, we're just going to type the characters that are there. So that might might be another thing to try, you know, beyond that. I don't know. I have one more idea. Uh, I'm assuming he is maybe pasting directly from the web browser on the front end of the WordPress website. I wonder about going into the actual post on the backend, going into the, you know, text mode or whatever.
I mean, that might bring formatting, but I wonder if you copy like directly from the backend of WordPress instead of the front end. Yeah. That might make a difference. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I could see that working. I mean, it's worth trying. Like you said, you might inherit the same or different problematic formatting. What I'm curious about is this last resort font, right? Like, we know why we know why it's there. We know that it is there and we know what it does.
And thank you for finding that. That's awesome. them why does it not have like a b c d e f g h like why does it show everything has question marks like why would the last resort font not be something human readable. Ah that's a great question i think because it's specifically designed it's my understanding it's specifically designed for like unicode stuff so why it doesn't do regular letters i don't know No, again, you can read that.
I didn't read the full article from vice. I just found it. Sure. So I bet you the answer is in there, but unless you all read the whole article, I have not read it. I did not read the, no, no, no, no, no. I, I, I, I couldn't possibly have done that. No. Uh, yeah. Yeah. Interesting. I love little mysteries like this. Uh, we had speaking of mysteries we had back in episode 1040, Ralph wrote in. About varying write speeds on his SSD.
He would see like full speed writes during large copy operations and it would slow way down and then speed back up again and slow way down. Listener Bob wrote in and said, those symptoms sound very much like SSD or NVMe garbage collection. Transfers are going great. Then a sudden slowdown. After a bit, it all goes fast again. Digging a little deeper, Bob says an SSD can only write to a pre-cleaned sector, which is then remapped to have the disk sector address the write was addressed to.
The sector that was previously using that address is put on the garbage collection queue. Most SSD drives are over-provisioned with several gigabytes of spares, which is where the pre-cleaned sectors are allocated from. Depending on the vendor, there may be a few or a lot. He says OWC tends to use SSDs with generous over-provisioning to make their drives a faster experience. If you write a moderate amount of data to the SSD, there is generally more than enough pre-cleaned spares available.
All the replaced sectors end up on the garbage collection queue, and during idle time, the SSD will start cleaning those dirty square sectors to then be the pre-cleaned sectors to use the next time. However, if you write lots and lots of data to the SSD, then eventually the rights will exhaust all of the existing pre-clean sectors and force the drive to go through a garbage collection in the middle of the transfer and start cleaning sectors,
which basically pauses the transfer and during the garbage collection. So. Might be the he there's even more detail because bob that's what bob does uh but but that like that's the gist of it uh maybe that's actually even more than the gist but ah that that checks out i i think bob might be right here it sounds like this is something that ralph does often and so eventually those you know the drive needs to do garbage collection and and that's that whole
trim support thing that we obsessed about for a long time and all of that. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good call. Thanks, Bob. I appreciate the, uh, the note. I don't know. Yeah. Anything to add to that guys, or are we moving on? Nope. Great. Sweet. It's way beyond my, my, my head. Yep. Yep. I could barely read what Bob wrote us and, and I think I understand it, but thank you. Hang on to the tail. That's it. Hang on to the tail. Smarter people. That's it. Two things. Yep.
Well, I have a question from Michael. Okay. He says, hello, Dave, Pilot Pete, and Adam. I was a longtime listener of Adam's MacCast and followed him over to the MacGeekGab. I love the show and all of your advice. Well, great. While I have never been an IT guy, I have created and maintained Excel and Access macros in the the aughts and tens, I guess you would say. So I at least understand the basic capabilities of an automation. My question and angst are about Apple shortcuts and automations.
So far, I have created six automations that run almost every day. Three that change my watch face based on the time of day. One to play music when CarPlay connects. One to set my car parked location when CarPlay disconnects. One to display a photo of my gym's card barcode when I arrive at the gym. more than once in the last few months my gym card automation has stopped working. It.
Is not all that complicated. When I arrive at the gym, open the Photos app, display a photo, specific photo of the card. When I try to fix this simple automation, it is very difficult to find that commands I think I should use. The app is not intuitive at all. So he says, how did I accidentally corrupt the automation? Why is the automation app so counterintuitive. How can I back up an automation once it works like I want it to? And will iOS 18 and AI make my angst go away?
Hope all this makes sense. Thanks so much for all that you do for the Apple community. Yeah, great question.
I don't know. You know, we haven't, none of us, the people that even get to download beta software, have seen Apple's AI, you know, know apple intelligence implementation yet right it's not out part of the beta certainly there's people inside apple but they don't answer questions like these for all of us so i i don't know i do know that chat gpt has helped me write shortcuts in the past so at the very least it could interface with chat
gpt to do that and also you could use chat gpt today to do that and i've i've had it guide me it you know shortcuts is a weird app it's not like chat gpt when if i ask it to write apple script right like i can copy and paste the apple script into script editor and you know try it and test it you kind of have to follow the it can give you instructions and then you have to go and manually build the shortcut based on the instructions
because there's no copy paste in that sense from chat gpt at least not yet but uh but that's that's where i would start with it i wonder I wonder if you could paste in a screenshot of your shortcut, existing shortcut into chat GPT and ask it to troubleshoot it for you. That might work. I don't know. It's worth trying. These are and I love questions like this because it forces me to think about,
you know, things in ways that I haven't before. for, but it also hopefully spurs us all to start thinking. And then the feedback at MacGeeCab.com is where we all get to sort of, you know, we, we promise and we've done it for, you know, over 19 years, we're going to keep doing it to, to funnel that information out to all of us when, when it's valuable and helpful because that's what we love to do. But, or our discord, same kind of thing. So that would, that would be.
That that's where I would start with that right now as to why the app is counterintuitive. I think the argument from Apple on that would be, well, once you use it and understand it completely, it makes perfect sense. Right. Like I and I don't mean to be trite about that, but a lot of coding and automation and, you know, all of those things are like it's a it's a new paradigm. And so sometimes intuition is not your friend in learning that new thing.
You just have to sort of, and this would, this would of course be my advice to myself. If I really wanted to learn regular expressions, they are not intuitive to me at all. However, I know that if I did it, you know, for 30 minutes a day, by the end of two weeks, I'd probably be like, Oh, oh, why did I make this such a thing for so many years? You know, so I think that's where the intuition on that can change. And, you know, backing up automations, I mean, I'm pretty, can you back up?
I know you can back up shortcuts, but I don't think you can. You can't share an automation. That is true. Oh, an automation? Right. Because like in the shortcuts app, you have shortcuts and then you have automation. Right. Yeah, yeah. Shortcuts I can share. Like, I could share a link to a shortcut with you guys, right? Or with the public. It's totally fine. But automation, no. Like, I don't. Well, because it's got, like, I mean, he's got geofencing on it.
He's got personal photo. Yeah. In there like you wouldn't want to share it right well but even like even just backing it up for himself like right yeah that's a great question i screenshots would be the the one to use so yeah yeah well i don't know i don't know yeah any other thoughts on that before we move to cool stuff found no i mean on the gym card thing kiwi gram has a great point for something we mentioned on the last episode is you could instead of using photos
do the pass for wallet thing and actually turn it into an actual uh wallet pass and then you could geofence that and maybe that would be more reliable pass for well that's a new one uh we mentioned past to you i think in the in last week but that's fine no this is great similar name the more the merrier yeah yeah yeah yeah yep i i yep i like it that's good cool yeah cool yeah it makes life easier to display because then it's right there
on your watch although the automation of just bringing the image up, that's great unless some passes like when i go to a concert as i get close to the venue at the right time it my phone is like do you want to show this ticket you know and it's like right on Right on the front, yeah. It's right there. It'll do that at the airport at the gate. Right. So can, with like pass to wallet, can I create something that's, you know, geo-related for- Well, I think just passes, right?
Can't you do that with a pass? Yeah, and they have geo-location. Yeah. Oh, yeah, KiwiGram states the same. Passes have geo-location. Thank you. Okay, yeah, there you go. All right, great. Perfect. Great. So yes, maybe that's the answer is just do that. And then, you know, let your fingers do the walking. I don't know. What did I just do? What did you call it? The shoulder shrug salute? Oh yeah. There you go. The shoulder shrug salute. And a callback to the old yellow pages ads.
Well, that I did for sure. That's kids. You can ask your parents about the yellow pages. Well, it's a yellow page. It's a really old page. Yes, yes it is. Okay, now you're going to take us down a rabbit hole because I had to go deal with an issue with a pink slip. My, we were, my daughter, we're giving her basically the car she's been driving like forever. And there was an issue with the pink slip and I needed to go get a new one.
And so I went down to the office and I said, I need a new pink slip. And she's like, I don't know. What are you talking about? We don't, we don't have pink slips. Yes. Oh, I need a new title for the car. Yeah. And the older woman next to her, like was just laughing because this was a younger person. Yeah, of course. Yeah, that terminology, I don't think my kids would know. Racing for pink slips. Racing for pink slips. I don't think they've ever heard
that phrase unless it was in an 80s movie or something. Yeah. Right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And even then. Like, it's not pink. It probably went right over their head. Like, what are they talking about, pink slips? I don't know. Are the ladies wearing slips under their dresses? We don't have pink slips. No, we don't have pink slips. We don't have pink slips. Should we do a little bit of cool stuff found before I have to bug out? Please, before you have to bug out. Yep, absolutely.
So this is a great one. We were talking on the previous episode about using an iMac as a monitor and the challenges not being able to do that and stuff like that. We came back with a bunch of different things. Well, this cool stuff found came from Robert and I had no idea this thing exists.
It's actually, it looks like it's a Kickstarter, so it might not be an actual product yet, but there actually is a hardware solution if you're really technical and willing to do it for reusing an iMac as a 5k monitor. Now I think it only right now is supporting the 2011 27 inch iMac, but it is a logic board swap. So this company is developing a full logic board that you will be able to swap or trying to swap with your monitor.
And he linked me to a video of a guy who got to try this out apparently it works so you know and hopefully you know if this is popular enough and enough people want it uh they'll keep making this and they're going to make a couple of different versions including one i think where you can put a mac mini on an m1 mac mini inside the monitor and it's kind of a crazy project but very very cool wow that's brilliant called juicy crumb the juicy crumb board
and i think it's out of australia okay so yeah i don't know if it's going to be widely available or anything but hey at least there's a there's enough people thinking about this like hey we should be able to salvage these great you know machines and not let them go to the junkyard and you know repurpose them right because the monitors are fat, new lips. Fabulous. Yeah, they're nice.
Wow. Huh. Yeah. And then the other thing that I think is worth mentioning from Robert's feedback is he also talked about, we went on to talk about virtual and emulated displays and, you know, jump desktop and stuff like that.
And he brought up a little more details. He says, when you create a virtual or an emulated additional monitor on a Mac or primary display on a headless Mac Mini, it doesn't use Apple's built-in graphics accelerator processing and defaults to a lower resolution emulated screen. And so this would be the similar for, you know, anything like that. I think Luna Display is part of it. And we had mentioned of the OWC HDMI dongle.
Yeah. That's what that's for. that dongle creates a handshake like you actually have an hdmi monitor connected to the mac which makes the mac think that it has that and so then emulates at the kernel level all the video acceleration and graphics acceleration so that's why you use that is to get that boost from a remote monitor because if you're going headless yeah it won't it's. Oh, that's really smart. I had, I had forgot. I had forgotten about that, that that was a thing.
Like if it doesn't have a monitor connected, it won't use its acceleration and all that stuff. Yeah. Oh, cool. Cool. All right. Well, that's why it's cool stuff found.
Brian brings us our next one. He found an article at Mac rumors about, uh, something coming in iCloud, uh, an iCloud drive really in apple's new os's is that there is now a keep downloaded option where you can flag a folder or even presumably a file but certainly a folder on your iphone on your ipad or on your mac and tell it i know i'm doing the optimized storage on my device which means Everything is not necessarily downloaded locally, but this folder or file, keep it downloaded all the time.
So selective sync is what Dropbox and some others use as the term for this. And we are getting selective sync in our in our on our devices in the fall or whatever. So I think that's great. Yeah, that really brings iCloud Drive a step closer. I know we talked about also the fact that iCloud drive doesn't really have versioning. That would be yet another nice addition to iCloud drive. But, you know, one step at a time, I suppose, is what that's what we are going to.
We will take what we get and we will like it. Thank you, Apple. Yeah, I would prefer to go one step beyond. Same yeah yeah what do you what do you want to oh. All right uh thank you for that adam, Harvey has, I'm looking at the time because I know we have, Adam has a hard out, but we're at the end here. It's fine. Yep. Harvey, there's two more I want to mention, and I think we'll get there.
Harvey says, you mentioned in the WWDC recap about the math notebook and being able to write your equations in iOS. You can do that now. He says, I've been using the MyScript calculator app for years. I use it as my regular calculator. It allows you to handwrite on your iPhone or iPad any mathematical equation. And it will solve it for you. There are a lot of other features as well. I'm curious if Apple, as you say, Sherlocked their math notebook from my script calculator.
Calculator i this yeah i took a look at this this looks great lucas and i he put ios 18 beta or ipad os 18 beta on his ipad and we started messing around with math notes on that it's not as magical as apple's demo made it seem i mean we even went as so far as to try and recreate apple's demo and couldn't get it to like jump in it. I mean, it, because it's trying to intuit what you want it to do there.
It, it like once you it's again, it's going to be one of those things where you have to learn it as opposed to it learning you at least at this stage of the game. But, you know, we were able to get it to like set variables and things like that, but it, it took some time. I mean, it was midnight 30 or 1am or something on the couch after we'd both had a long day. So we weren't entirely patient with this, but we probably had had a beer before doing this, too. But that was OK.
He's he's he's of age for that now. So we can we can talk about that. But it's also beta one. It's beta one. Yeah, exactly. But it was like, yeah, this is like, OK. Like once it once it did the things we were like, oh, that's cool. Like we weren't in a time crunch to solve a problem. I feel like my script calculator still has quite a bit on, on apples. That's a great app, by the way, I've had that for years too. I mean, it was one of the early, early ones.
So, and I haven't tried it recently and I can only imagine it's gotten extremely better. Yeah. There you go. Well, I know you, I think we're going to call this here. I know there was one more I wanted to get to, but you know what? That just means we're going to have to do another episode guys. So again, I know, I know, I know it's going to be how it is. All right. Well, thanks for hanging out with us, everybody. Yeah.
I hope those of you in the USA enjoy your July 4th, whatever you're doing with your family, friends, or perhaps by yourself. Like that alone time can be fun time too. So no, no problems there, but yeah. Get some fireworks, go blow something up. Exactly. Drink, drinking beer and blowing stuff up. That's right. Please keep all your fingers attached to your hands. Please, please, please. Don't try this at home. That's right. Professional driver, close course.
Matt Geekab is not responsible for lost limbs, eyes, noses. Lawyer Jeff, just stop texting me as soon as you said that. So that was good.
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Code MacGitGab saves you 30 bucks. Adam, you got any advice for the people that are going to be shooting off fireworks and drinking and all that stuff? Yeah. Don't get blowed up, but also don't get caught. Made up. Later.