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November 05, 2025TEH 256: Geeky Milestones: Mini PCs. Smart Glasses, and False Consensus in Tech
In This Episode: Geeky Milestones: Mini PCs and Smart Glasses, and False Consensus in Tech

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
0:00 LN: Milestone episode! (Episode 100000000!)
1:30 LN: Mini PCs (https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/ of course, but also now assorted like: https://go.askleo.com/ama/B0F2MCQ8XQ of which I now own two)
09:40 GR: Apple’s A vs. M Processors
16:33 Apple’s Shared Code
17:30 Standardized Apps Across Apple Device
20:42 GR: Privacy Concerns with Recording Glasses
Ugly!
21:04 Privacy concerns
22:00 Bad cameras
30:00 GR: False consensus effect.
Seems to suddenly be happening a lot in terms of tech support questions. “Looks like iOS 26 broke such-and-such!” but no it didn’t for most people.
35:00 LN: Recall
37:00 LN: When updates break something (for real), my most common advice is … (Had one just a few moments ago)
Ain’t it Cool
42:00 LN: “Ain’t it lukewarm” -> Witcher season 4. But not for the reasons everyone seems to pile on about.
GR: Nothing
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
47:00 GR: Quickly Check a Web Site Without Using Your Browser
https://macmost.com/quickly-check-a-web-site-without-using-your-browser.html
48:00 LN: Still Another Way to Install Windows 11 With Only a Local Account – https://askleo.com/185914 (A risky post?)
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November 02, 2025TEH 255: When AI Gets It Wrong: Schools, Cities, and the Rise of Digital Overreach
In This Episode:
When AI Gets It Wrong: Schools, Cities, and the Rise of Digital Overreach
This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
GR: No middle ground with AI OPINIONS
2:40 Apple Intelligence
4:30 GR: Security cameras with AI making things worse and worse
Chips and guns
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/us/baltimore-student-chips-ai-gun-detection-hnk
9:26 Colorado surveillance systems
https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/flock-camera-police-colorado-columbine-valley/
https://coloradosun.com/2025/05/27/opinion-denver-flock-cameras-city-council/
My take: Law enforcement and tech don’t mix well and lead to abuses
17:30 Border patrol and ICE in Washington
22:00 GR: Atlas and Max
https://lifehacker.com/tech/chatgpt-atlas-clipboard-injection-vulnerability
27:00 LN: Auto-hotkey Atlas is still Mac only.
28:00 Malicious uses. Hackers
LN: https://brave.com/blog/unseeable-prompt-injections/ (though they have a dog in the fight)
37:00 LN: The browser/app line is blurry.
39:00 LN: Learned how to turn off Gemini in Google Docs, for example. (Can’t in MS Office online, though.)
40:00 LN: Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI
Ain’t it Cool
43:00 GR: Flow TV (https://labs.google/flow/tv/channel/extreme-sports/1lpjPeHeirvraIGpAFaG?random=true)
46:00 LN: And/or Season 2. (Season 1 mentioned in TEH 174)
Bonus: follow it with Rogue One.
Honorable mention: Gen V
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
48:40 GR: https://macmost.com/live-using-apple-intelligence-with-mac-apps.html
49:40 LN: What Are the Internet’s Rules About Free Speech? – askleo.com/10916
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October 15, 2025TEH 254: Navigating Windows 10 Armageddon… or maybe not. Dark motives and AI videos.
In This Episode:
Navigating Windows 10 Armageddon… or maybe not. Dark motives and AI videos.

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
00:00 LN: “Windows 10 Is Still Fine”
02:00 Armageddon
04:20 Windows Updates: Risks and Workarounds
5:10 ESU security extension, pay or free
6:20 GR: Apple forces updates yearly
7:20 Issues with Yahoo Mail
8:10 Quickbooks forces updates
11:20 LN: Can Mac’s be setup without an Apple account?
The lengths people go to to setup Windows 11 without a Microsoft account. (I “found” a new one.)
13:06 GR: Using Mac Without Apple ID
16:49 Microsoft Account Frustration Explained, missing features
22:02 Microsoft’s Cloud Push: Motives Discussed
It might be helping with backups
27:46 GR: “AI Video Generator Evolution”
GR: AI video generators as Sora 2 – creative animation
37:00 Learning that all video is not real
39:56 LN: “AI vs Human Authorship Concerns”
Ain’t it Cool
46:00 LN: I’m concerned you may worry about me when I share. We’ll start here: YouTube Music: Top 100 Songs, Netherlands, and then take a turn…
48:00 GR: iOS 26 Music app Automix
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
50:30 LN: Should I Update to Windows 11? (October 2025 update) – https://askleo.com/135037
50:55 GR: https://macmost.com/10-text-scams-to-watch-out-for.html
Video
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October 01, 2025TEH 253: New iPhones. Is AI awesome or awful? Upgrading computers.
In This Episode: New iPhones. Is AI awesome or awful? Upgrading computers.

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
GR: New Apple Stuff
01:00 New iPhone
07:30 New iPhone Air?
20:00 Battery life
13:00 Air pods
15:20 GR/LN: Why do we suddenly need AI?
We don’t. But benefits outweigh the downsides
17:00 Coding (old code book image below)
25:00 Writing
32:00 Copilot & Apple Intelligence forced on people
38:00 Talk to the computer like Star Trek
40:00 LN: When popular operating systems end
Windows 10. What “end of support” really means
Apple upgrades as well 45:00
Hardware implications
54:00 Windows backup
47:00 GR: should software shed old features over time? (Launchpad)
Get Off My Lawn!
55:00 LN: You don’t trust OneDrive, but you trust Microsoft? You realize who controls the OS you use every day, right?
Ain’t it Cool
103:00 LN: Less of a thing, more of a concept: technology in motion
Rivian+connectivity+AI
104:00 LN: Episodes
Wednesday, Season 2
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3
Superman Movie
1:06:00 GR: A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62005.A_Night_in_the_Lonesome_October
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
107:30:00 LN: How to Keep Using Windows 10 Safely after Support Ends –
108:10:00 GR: How To Launch Apps Now That Launchpad Is Gone
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August 20, 2025TEH 252: Minimizing travel tech. Connecting while traveling. Finding the Equator.
In This Episode: Minimizing travel tech. Connecting while traveling. Finding the Equator.

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
GR: Adventure Travel With Tech
1:30 iPhone-only! Challenging. Practiced ahead of time. Never needed VNC.
3:30 What I couldn’t do
5:30 Connecting
7:10 eSIM
13:00 Google voice
14:10 WhatsApp
17:20 Charging and batteries: Rapid charging
21:40 Backing up photos
26:00 Vertical photos,
3:35 Dirty camera sensors
33:40 GR: The equator is not where you think it is
38:00 LN: Boring summer, tech wise
39:00 AI / GPT 5 (yawn)
40:00 MS surprised with ESU (Extended Service Updates)
Get off my lawn! (an occasional, as-needed, segment)
45:25 LN: Just because I talk about a paid service doesn’t mean they’re paying me!
Ain’t it Cool
51:00 LN: So many. Backlog 🙂
Redux: Hail Mary. So good, esp audio performance. You don’t end up where you think you’re going to end up.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Audio: Steven Fry)
Severance: started weird but oddly compelling.
Resident Alien
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, 1929-1964
GR: I love all of these things, so I nod in agreement. I’m actually re-reading Hail Mary right now.
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
57:00 GR: https://macmost.com/10-pro-features-of-the-mac-finder.html
59:00 LN: Why Do We Suddenly Need AI? – https://askleo.com/183047
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July 02, 2025TEH 251: Camping connectivity. Fiber isn’t Fiber. Griping about Negativity. AI dating.
In This Episode: Camping connectivity. Fiber isn’t Fiber. Griping about Negativity. AI dating.

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
00:00 Connectivity Challenges While Camping
I know some would say “disconnect!”, but connectivity also enables some to get away at all. (Work, family, etc.)
07:31 Starlink’s Impressive Speedtest Results
Starlink mini.
Speed test: https://flic.kr/p/2reaojP
Setup tested: https://flic.kr/p/2rdwANd
Price and limits?
12:16 Fiber isn’t fiber.
Microwave Dish on Building Roof
17:00 Competitor to Starlink
19:55 How Does Starlink Communicate?
23:59 Digital Photo Storage
27:21 “People like things you don’t”
35:44 Original files are saved
36:45 Unreliable Microsoft Software Track Record
41:40 RAW and JPEG Photo Workflow
44:18 “AI Dating: New Romantic Frontier”
AI Companions: Friends and Lovers
https://www.wired.com/story/couples-retreat-with-3-ai-chatbots-and-humans-who-love-them-replika-nomi-chatgpt/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/27/tech/snapchat-my-ai-concerns-wellness
50:23 ChatGPT as Romantic Confidant
54:21 Future of AI in Writing and Editing
59:57 Removing OneDrive from Windows
Ain’t it Cool
59:57 LN: Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir – https://a.co/d/2Ux9i3u – audio (& a movie next year)
GR: The Studio: Apple TV+
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
LN: My OneDrive-free Experiment – https://askleo.com/181477
GR: https://macmost.com/why-you-should-stop-storing-photos-as-files-and-use-mac-photos-instead.html
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June 11, 2025TEH 250: New Apple Stuff. Data Collection is maybe not so scary. Are Passkeys evil?
In This Episode: New Apple Stuff. Data Collection is maybe not so scary. Are Passkeys evil?

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
250 Episodes!
1:00 GR: New Apple stuff – Mac OS Tahoe Launch
3:30 Liquid Glass (People like change / people hate change)
4:20 Windowing on the iPad
9:30 macOS Automations
11:00 Clipboard history (Mac and Windows)
12:00 Lots of “Screening” features
13:00 Unknown number screening (good and bad?)
18:00 LN: Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
Data collection in general. Many (many) people are paranoid, avoiding things like OneDrive/iCloud. Is the paranoia legit, or just misplaced?
21:00 The greater risk
24:00 Cloud storage can be encrypted
24:30 Location worries
27:00 It’s been going on a long time
Get off my lawn! (an occasional, as-needed, segment)
29:30 LN: “I don’t understand it, therefore it’s wrong/evil/I don’t like it/no one should be using it/it’s a conspiracy/etc…” (aka Passkeys)
31:30 If it’s not perfect it’s crap. Sigh.
32:00 GR: “If something is not working for me, it must be broken for everyone”
Ain’t it Cool!
35:00 GR: Stickies… 2023 movie “Missing” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10855768/
40:40 LN: Department Q on Netflix https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27995114/
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
42:00 GR: https://macmost.com/wwdc-2025-new-features-coming-to-ios-26-ipados-26-and-macos-26-tahoe.html
43:00 LN: Passkeys and Hardware Keys
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May 28, 2025TEH 249: Can You Trust AI? Fact-Checking. AI Coding and Streaming Trends
In This Episode: Can You Trust Your AI? Fact-Checking, Streaming Trends, and Tech Tools of the Week

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
00:00 AI Misunderstandings and Media Missteps
GR: AI Craziness Round-Up
2:00 Newspaper book list https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/chicago-sun-times-ai-book-list-1.7539016
7:28 AI of a deceased person in court: https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-in-courtrooms/ (not really AI, just Ai to create animation/recreation)
11:00 Someone tried it for real: https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-courts-nyc-5c97cba3f3757d9ab3c2e5840127f765
15:54 Musk Manipulates AI for Political Bias
21:01 Effective Review Techniques
28:56 LN AI Enhances Code Understanding
LN What is “Vibe coding”? (And how AI taught me new PHP.)
31:53 GR Stack Overflow Challenges: Delays & Rudeness
34:00 Learn how to formulate questions
36:00 Ideal Phone Size Balance
LN Thin and light, or thick(er) and rugged? Choose only one. (My screen cracked …again.)
44:00 LN shutdowns
Arc browser https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-2025
Pocket, bookmarking service
48:00 YouTube Dominates TV Streaming
GR The number one streaming TV platform? Just YouTube.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/27/youtube-tops-disney-and-netflix-in-tv-viewing-nielsen-finds/
54:04 Viral Videos vs. TV Shows
01:00:56 Clever Cameo Strategy in Series
01:03:48 “Back in Action”
Ain’t it Cool
59:00 LN Murderbot (TEH 139 & 191)
1:01:00 GR Love and Robots season 4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love,_Death_%26_Robots
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
1:02:00 LN Can You Really Know Your PC Is Clean and Malware-Free? – https://askleo.com/180648
1:02:40 GR Screenshot tips https://macmost.com/17-iphone-screenshot-tips-and-tricks.html
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May 07, 2025TEH 248: Epic vs Apple. AI brings voices back from the dead. The mess of RealID. Tech tariffs.
In This Episode: Epic vs Apple. AI brings voices back from the dead. The mess of RealID. Tech tariffs.

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
0:45 GR: Fee for the privilege of using the app store
2:30 It’s in the news this week:
Fortnite: Epic didn’t like paying Apple 30%, so they broke the rules, Apple kicked them out
Judge ruled 9-out-of-10 items in favor of Apple, but not the link-to-external-site rules
New ruling pushes Apple to allow links, and stop taking cuts from those external links
8:30 This is US-only.
10:30 MacMost cannot link to Patreon.
12:15 Fortnite has been banned. US users can’t get it on their phones.
Supporting Articles:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/30/epic-games-just-scored-a-major-win-against-apple/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/05/apple-appeals-court-decision-that-forced-it-to-allow-links-to-external-payments-in-apps/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/06/amazon-kindles-ios-app-adds-new-get-book-button-following-apple-payments-ruling/
15:00 What happens if it is all free?
22:00 LN: AI voice clones in the wild
Jim Fagen comes back
https://www.theverge.com/news/661911/nbc-nba-jim-fagan-ai-generated-voice-narration
(James Earl Jones has a similar contract – already used as well prior to his death)
25:00 GR: Cloning my own voice
27:40 LN: Doing it in real time… changing accents.
32:15 LN: RealID is really here.
And confusing. https://www.theverge.com/privacy/661475/real-id-act-deadline-may-7-tsa-dmv
GR: CO no problem at all really…
41:00 GR: PA (and other states) problems
43:30 GR: The tariffs on tech are here … 145%!
Moving factories means you have to move all the parts, and raw materials
46:00 Tariff on movies?
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/just-got-our-first-tariff-bill-seattle-area-hardware-startup-wyze-sheds-light-on-trade-policy-impact/
47:00 GR: More satellite internet options, but also goodbye night sky
https://www.theverge.com/space/657113/starlink-amazon-satellites
Plug for Jay’s podcast “Deep Sage Nine” https://www.skylapser.com/podcasts/deep-sage-nine-starcast/
Ain’t it Cool
53:00 LN: So long Righteous Gemstones
53:50 GR: When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Moon_Hits_Your_Eye
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
55:40 LN: The Enduring Myth of Annual Subscriptions to Windows – https://askleo.com/180253
56:30 GR: https://macmost.com/clean-up-your-contacts-app.html
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April 30, 2025TEH 247: Amazon showing tariffs? Tech sales tax. Is your therapist really a therapist?
In This Episode: Amazon showing tariffs? Tech sales tax. Is your therapist really a therapist?

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
2:00 GR: Amazon to display tariffs on sales pages
https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/amazon-display-tariff-costs/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-amazon-tariffs-prices.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU8.YBfn.59P1C3tTA7zr&smid=url-share
Made in the USA A/B test: https://afina.com/blogs/news/made-in-usa
12:00 Americans have so many things to tack onto a price: sales tax, tips, service charges, shipping/delivery, more fees, now tariffs
22:03 Patron-Only Course Benefits
23:00 GR: Reddit users ‘psychologically manipulated’ by unauthorized AI experiment
https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/meta_unauthorized_experiment_on_cmv_involving/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/openai-used-this-subreddit-to-test-ai-persuasion/
27:00 Is “Change My View” the best place to test? Seems people are obviously open to having their views questioned there. So it just tests whether AI is good at it in that situation.
33:00 Can AI change your view?
34:00 GR: What if AI is lying about credentials?
35:00 Chatting with a cow
36:00 Instagram’s AI Chatbots Lie About Being Licensed Therapists
https://www.404media.co/instagram-ai-studio-therapy-chatbots-lie-about-being-licensed-therapists/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
40:00 Is “lying” a human thing? AI is told “you are a licensed therapist” and then why are we surprised at the answer when we ask it “are you licensed therapist?”
42:00 LN: (maybe) what is AI anyway?
44:00 Can AI block spam?
Ain’t it Cool
45:00 LN: Last of Us (coolish), Ludwig (brit)
47:00 GR: Ludwig on Britbox
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
53:40 LN: How Does Security Software Protect Me After Windows 10 End of Support? https://askleo.com/179899
54:40 GR: How To Use the Ports On Your Mac Correctly https://macmost.com/how-to-use-the-ports-on-your-mac-correctly.html
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