TEH Podcast

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January 28, 2026TEH 259: AI is still dumb. Who’s in charge of TikTok? The death of Gmail Import.
In This Episode: AI is still dumb. Who’s in charge of TikTok? The death of Gmail Import.

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
0:30 LN: Been playing with Jan https://www.jan.ai/
2:15 So MANY online AIs: ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, & others
3:35 Privacy-focused: Proton’s Lumo
Self-hosted: Jan (ultimate privacy?) – biggest complication is figuring out what LLM model to use
9:00 GR: Claud bot
10:00 Don’t let AI decide things for you
14:40 GR: Who owns TikTok now?
15:50 TikTok is now owned (80%) by an investor group
Oracle houses data (Larry Ellison)
Was owned by Chinese ByteDance before (still 20%)
Should you keep watching? (honestly can’t decide)
21:00 Alternatives: YouTube Shorts is getting better, Instagram
26:00 GR: mobile journalism tips
30:00 Practice “quick draw” filming with your mobile phone
Familiarize yourself with your camera resolution and upload settings
LN: auto-backup to cloud
37:00 Remember if a friend is filming, you film too. Heck, film them filming things.
44:00 LN: The death of “Check mail from other accounts:” took me down a path
FastMail
48:00 Proton mail for security
53:00 Google Workspace for Nonprofits
Ain’t it Cool
55:10 GR: Sinners (HBO Max)
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
1:00:06 LN: Why Am I Seeing So Many CAPTCHAs? – askleo.com/187517
1:01:10 GR: https://macmost.com/10-secrets-of-the-mac-dock.html
Transcript
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January 21, 2026TEH 258: Gravity Wins: Leo’s Fall. So many subscriptions. Faking AI Fakes.
In This Episode: Brief episode description

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: Gravity always wins
6:00 LN: My new machine (you know, a “present” for getting sick?)
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X 24-Cores, 4200 Mhz
128GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (and how I backed into this)
12:00 Davinci Resolve “speed editor”
13:00 GR: Apple Creator Studio https://www.apple.com/apple-creator-studio/
Is it “freemium?”
24:00 LN: Afinity and Canva
25:00 So many subscriptions!
Good and bad
28:00 GR: Strudel.cc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M
33:00 GR: AI fakes aren’t always going to be someone talking and saying something they didn’t.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/renee-good-car-ice-image
35:00 Believe what you want to believe
37:00 GR: Subscribe to Snopes
Snopes Newsletters: https://www.snopes.com/newsletters/
41:00 Studying media bias
42:00 GR: Connections in the wilderness
Satellite text messages, not just for emergrncies
45:00 LN: Recent outage when everyone’s phone only said SOS?
Ain’t it Cool
46:00 LN: Google Recorder (Pixel) – a tool I relied on
49:00 GR: Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (Audible)
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
53:00 LN: An Unexpected Way Videos Can Expose Your Location – askleo.com/167448
56:00 GR: https://macmost.com/why-ai-cant-replace-tech-help-yet.html Why AI Can’t Replace Tech Help (Yet)
Transcript
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November 20, 2025TEH 257: When the Internet Was Not Down: Cloudflare, Outages, and Automatic Buying.
In This Episode: When the Internet Was Not Down: Cloudflare, Outages, and Automatic Buying.
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: Cloudflare, and reliance on large providers
Is it inevitable?
5:00 How good are services at fixing and acknowledging
6:30 Go to the internet to announce the internet is down
7:00 GR: Finding Cloudflare down
Bot detection
11:00 VPNs
13:30 False consensus… what’s really wrong?
17:10 LN: Amazon versus Perplexity and agents
Shopping agents
I don’t yet trust AI agents. At all. Certainly not with my credit card.
26:00 GR: Cosmetic changes
27:40 OCD?
31:00 Windows desktop
34:00 Spam!
35:00 LN: Over-reliance on vibe coding?
Is there a HUGE data breach or other security issue in our future due to someone’s over-reliance on vibe coding?
Ain’t it Cool
39:50 GR: Flybot by Dennis E Taylor – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/232957226-flybot
42:35 LN: Pluribus – Apple TV – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22202452/ – New take on “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
45:00 LN: What Happens If I Don’t Update to Windows 11? – https://askleo.com/186512
45:50 GR: Using Apple Intelligence and Shortcuts To Rename Files https://macmost.com/using-apple-intelligence-and-shortcuts-to-rename-files.html
Video
https://youtu.be/_fG_giYg4AE
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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?)
Transcript
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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
Transcript
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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
https://youtu.be/-LIPO55dB28
Transcript
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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
Transcript
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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
Transcript
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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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FAQs about TEH Podcast:

How many episodes does TEH Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 260 episodes available.