Tech Enthusiast Hour

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 teh_258 Video https://youtu.be/MwCkLv4RjLY

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 Transcript teh_257

Geeky Milestones: Mini PCs. Smart Glasses, and False Consensus in Tech

When AI Gets It Wrong: Schools, Cities, and the Rise of Digital Overreach

Navigating Windows 10 Armageddon... or maybe not. Dark motives and AI videos.

New iPhones. Is AI awesome or awful? Upgrading computers.

Minimizing travel tech. Connecting while traveling. Finding the Equator. 

Camping connectivity. Fiber isn't Fiber. Griping about Negativity. AI dating.

New Apple Stuff. Data Collection is maybe not so scary. Are Passkeys evil?

Can You Trust AI? Fact-Checking. AI Coding and Streaming Trends

Epic vs Apple. AI brings voices back from the dead. The mess of RealID. Tech tariffs.

Amazon showing tariffs? Tech sales tax. Is your therapist really a therapist?

AI Bots in Law Enforcement, Coding Assistants, Wilderness Connectivity, and Why Sherlock Holmes Won't Die

Podcasting with AI and YouTube. Genmojis, Quishing and more. 

Microphones, Security Blunders, VPNs, and that tariff thing. 

Tech travel, security bloops, getting the news, rewriting COBOL.

Shortest Episode Ever

TEH 241: Search problems, hosting videos, moving servers. And... Why? But don't ask Why. 

App Turmoil. A.I., Tiktok, App stores and censorship. Should we worry?

January's Surprises: TikTok Ban, Media Shifts, and Independent Journalism Trends

Facebook Fact Checking. New displays. AI in Housing.

Misinformation Madness: Debunking Viral Tech Myths from TikTok to iPhones

Is Google stealing content? New Social Media. Bomb Cyclone and connectivity. Is privacy a myth?

ChatGPT Searches, Digital License Plates, and Social Media Trends

Apple's New Macs and Minis. Perplexing conundrums with perplexity.ai, and Social Media Misinformation

Catching rockets out of the air. Wordpress feud. Archive.org disaster.

When tech shuts down. Fancy locks. Prime day. Name salad.

Podcast AI. Future of search. Passkey resistance.

Apple buttons. Are AirPods hearing aids now? Windows force-upgrade. 

Mediocre rumors. AI bubble. Amazing cameras and more.

Wordstar still exists, Google Pixel, AI movies? A little mini?

Friend, Azure and Google news. What's wrong with search?

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Crowdstrike. Can laptops change? Would you like a third thumb?

In This Episode: What is being forced on us? Can A.I. help education? Website ads.  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 1:18 LN: How much do we, or should we, let vendors “force” on us? MS: OneDrive MS: Microsoft Account MS: CoPilot MS: Recall generated enough backlash that they backed off 4:00 GR: In the Apple ecosystem. 7:00 iCloud drive iCloud data security overview: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651  20:00 Macs and pricing 31:00 LN: Cryptomator: The Most Secure Encryption for Your Cloud Storage! (And Boxcryptor Alternative) 32:00 LN: Education: AI: Exam submissions by AI found to earn higher grades than real-life students  Experts say universities should focus on working out how to embrace the ‘new normal' of AI in order to enhance education. Via: The AI Fix podcast. 46:00 GR: Finally got rid of ads from my game sites (Ezoic, AdSense) Still ads: My game apps, YouTube Ain't it Cool 1:00:00 LN: The Boys (NOT for everyone) 1:03:00 GR: The Big Door Prize (Apple TV+) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 1:07:00 LN: The Technology Behind Ask Leo! - https://askleo.com/15110  1:07:15 GR: https://macmost.com/10-ways-to-organize-your-notes.html

Apple Intelligence? New OS features. A smarter Siri? And of course... privacy. 

Can they see you? AI and screenshots. Search engine agendas.

Comparing PCs and Macs. AI in your OS? Or AI teachers?

In This Episode: Lots of AI. Software is art. iPad conundrum. 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 Aurora borealis. 3:00 Disruptions in tech... no tech apocalypse 4:00 GR: OpenAI announcements… rivalry  Google: https://www.youtube.com/@OpenAI 6:00 ChatGPT 40 9:00 GR: Google IO can see stuff. 10:00 Mac app... but no Windows app? 11:30 Apple mystery? 12:00 LN: Copilot? 14:00 LN: Star Trek Discovery 18:00 LN: Video resolution, and Android 24:00 GR: Singing 31:00 LN: What about Amazon? 33:00 LN: The “death” of programming (or coding) due to AI. 36:00 GR: It's more like documentation on steroid. 38:00 LN: Increased processing power 41:00 LN: Software can be art 45:00 GR: New iPad Pro with M4 SoC reignites “MacBook or iPad” conundrum 55:00 The future Ain't it Cool 56:00 LN: Hinterland on AmazonPrime/Acorn. Crime series set in Wales. 3 seasons (series). Muder du jour + a corruption arch. 57:20 GR: New Doctor Who episodes BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 00:59:00 LN: Why I've Stopped Using Google Search 1:04:00 GR: Third-Party Web App Installs

Travel tech, moon photos, reformating and an AI reading experiment.

Eclipse, Pay with palm, Discord chatting, Pins that are not quite Star Trek.

Saved by a Car app. Four hour work week? Apple Vision Pro still great!

AI everywhere. Sideways Moon Landing. Computer Screens that wrap, see through, and more.

Meeting photos. Is the future finally here? All the Tech that works. 

Apple Vision Pro. Apple Vision Pro and Apple Vision Pro.

Apple Protection and Vision Pro, AI is faking it. And yes, Taylor Swift.

Apple woes, Vision Pro, Netflix History. Sorting data with ChatGPT.

SSD life, Server issues, AI copyright, Finding People

Tech divide, new and old. Practical AI. Search engines. Future of programming.

AI poisoning, YouTube privacy consequences, Vigilante apps, The Beatles

Apple Computer models. Local AI vs. Cloud Servers. Creative ChatPT and surveillance.