The gserle1's Podcast

Apple spins its way (oh so quietly) onto someone else’s remote. Apple’s own remote is updated with the AppleTV that’ll cost you around a lot. Windows 11 may be coming virtually to your M1 Monterrey Mac…eventually. iOS and iPadOS Public Betas are out! Should you dive headfirst or let others take that chance?

Lots of talk from Capital Hill in regards to those naughty big tech companies. Congress wants them to play by the same rules as the average person as if the average person could create a big tech company…or that they could either. Oddly enough, Apple is probably in less of a fix as the other four, by these bills definition.

A little bit more about Peter's move, Beatles are raining, DaVinci isn't always a smart move, and just more stuff!

My son Peter is moving and I help! That's what dads do!

Helping my son move to a new place which means...Rental Truck shenanigans!

There are several standards in regards to home automation. Reaching back into the Jurassic age there was X-10 which made it possible to connect several devices to a home security monitored (by someone else) system. However it wasn’t very interactive once set up. Coming into the modern age besides Apple’s Homekit there’s Belkin’s Wemo (now discontinued), SmartThings, Ankuoo, D-Link, and TP-Link amongst others. 

Dub-dub is now fading away but all the great stuff they revealed is open for review! Like…that thing…where they…did, stuff?

Only crooks have iMacs…I mean there’s a chance your iMac is crooked and there’s no way to put a positive spin on that. It shouldn’t be a great surprise that Tim Cook doesn’t want side loading apps for iOS and iPadOS and it has nothing to do with how much money Apple makes from the App Store. A Democrat from Rhode Island wants to force Apple and others to divest themselves of their App Development teams.

Power weirdness and an article about an under $100 setup lead to a purchase of a tin can microphone. Yes, a tin can microphone.

Talking about football...American Style!