Overview

We conclude our tech talk of the last couple weeks – at least for now. This time, it’s still a bit about remote work, but how things synch up and you can keep settings across platforms.

Then we talk about life on earth – how did it start? Based on a recent science article, it could have been from asteroids that crashed into our planet.

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Transcript

[00:00:00] Stephen: I hear a noise.

[00:00:02] Alan: Try this again.

[00:00:05] Stephen: Ooh, comic background.

You disappeared. I heard you.

[00:00:10] Alan: Let’s try it again. Okay. It’s funny. I didn’t do anything to change the desktop setup. I was doing everything on the laptop while I was out of town. Yet I come back and zoom must have some idea that it’s always me from place to place and it leaves little remnants of settings behind.

So

[00:00:31] Stephen: we were talking that in the last couple of weeks, we’ve been talking tech and remote tech and doing all that. And that is something a lot of them do. If I look something up on my phone, on Chrome, I can send it to my Chrome desktop and it’ll be there when I get back. And if you save a bookmark, it goes everywhere.

I now even click the thing and I went, oh crap. Now my safari on my Mac is getting all my Chrome bookmarks. I don’t care for that, but okay. Whatever,

[00:00:58] Alan: I don’t mind the [00:01:00] synchronization, but it’s this kind of thing where if it’s smart enough to say, Hey, I know that you’re on your desktop instead of your laptop system, then it should also be smart enough to say, but your screen real estate on your desktop is different than on your laptop.

And so it should adjust. And only those so much,

[00:01:18] Stephen: the scary ones that I think everybody’s seen is you stop at a shopping mall and you just walk into a mattress store because you’re looking at mattresses and then you get on Facebook and suddenly you’re seeing ads for mattresses. I didn’t do anything.

He said, if walk into the store, that’s where it’s starting to get a little.

[00:01:36] Alan: Yeah. It’s I, when I first so I had a Mac set up and I, now I have everything on parallels and I run windows still on my Mac before I actually had a windows box over to my right.