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Episode 175 – Isle of Wight


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The script features a conversation between two people (Alan and Stephen) discussing various topics, primarily focusing on technology, entertainment, and human experiences. They discuss the function and utility of a script-editing tool and how it is used to organize and edit a podcast script. They dive into augmented intelligence topic, specifically the features of Chat GPT, an AI model developed by OpenAI that generates human-like text. They also share their interest in movies and discuss their thoughts on the film “Poor Thing”. Further, they discuss travel plans, especially trips to London and Isle of Wight, along with their love for food exploration. Finally, they delve into the discussion on intellectual property rights touching upon topics like copyrights, trademarks, and the concept of public domain.



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Relentless Geekery 175



Alan: [00:00:00] There we go. We got going. It looks like Machu Picchu.



Yeah, that’s on the list. Okay. All right. Such a long list of things we discussed. Tell me about it. Okay.



Stephen: And can you hear me? I can hear you. Can you hear me? No, I can hear you. Yes. I can’t hear you. Gosh, darn it.



Alan: I’m unmuted. I’m hold



Stephen: on. It’s my stupid. Now say something



Alan: about now. No.



Stephen: Yes. It’s every time I switch between all these streaming things, it wants to, it grabs my microphone as speakers.



I’m like, it’s not an output, or I have weird. Yeah. I use my Oculus last night. So now everything wants to use the Oculus for output and input. I’m like,



Alan: no. Yeah, we’ve talked about that, that so many places seem to assume that they’re the only one that [00:01:00] is making use of your ports and they’re going to have to learn really quickly that people do switch between.



Various different streaming sites, various different devices, like you said, the



Stephen: Oculus and stuff like that. Some things are smart and have an audio profile and you can have multiple. This is my studio audio profile. This is my whatever, so when Zoom starts up, pick the audio profile that I use, the microphone and the speakers.



When Oculus starts up, pick the audio profile that works. This is 2024. It’s not a new thing.



Alan: I actually, another one of those solve problems type things. I remember when we used to hook up printers and they had to know whether it was serially or parallel. And then printers started to be smart enough that they would declare themselves with appropriate drivers and stuff like that, so that it was not only where you were hooked up to, but make sure that you had the right driver for an HP or a brother or an Epson or whatever like that.



So that all was working and then something seemed to break it. And nowadays regularly we have, [00:02:00] maybe it’s what network gets attached to or what there started to be not only company specific drivers, but they started to have like cups or various things where someone tried to make a generic driver.



You know what I mean? That, that, that would work for everything probably. There was a very good shareware program that came with its own drivers so th...
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