Connected

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00:00:08 ◼   ► >> From Relay FM, this is Connected, episode 438.

00:00:12 ◼   ► Today's show is brought to you by Nom Nom, Fitbot, and Hover.

00:00:15 ◼   ► I'm Federico Vittucci, and

00:00:16 ◼   ► it's my pleasure to be joined, as always, by Mr. Stephen Hackett.

00:00:20 ◼   ► Hello, Stephen.

00:00:21 ◼   ► >> Hello, Federico, how are you?

00:00:22 ◼   ► >> I am doing great.

00:00:24 ◼   ► Although my voice is still not fully recovered,

00:00:27 ◼   ► The flu came for me too eventually.

00:00:30 ◼   ► Everybody else around me has had it for the past two weeks

00:00:33 ◼   ► and I thought I was able to dodge it, but I wasn't.

00:00:36 ◼   ► So, but yeah, it's at least I'm able to talk,

00:00:39 ◼   ► which is good because we have a big show ahead of us today.

00:00:43 ◼   ► - It's a Federico show today too.

00:00:45 ◼   ► It's very Federico focused.

00:00:46 ◼   ► - You haven't been introduced, you did it again.

00:00:48 ◼   ► - So, too slow.

00:00:49 ◼   ► - You did it again. - You know what I mean?

00:00:50 ◼   ► - Steven, please, Steven, please.

00:00:51 ◼   ► - How am I supposed to sit here?

00:00:52 ◼   ► Talking about your flu.

00:00:53 ◼   ► I'm just sitting here, you know?

00:00:55 ◼   ► - I was gonna move right into follow up

00:00:56 ◼   ► introduce you later to be honest. Well okay you do because I thought I was

00:01:00 ◼   ► gonna be leading follow-up today. Yeah you should I don't want to talk about

00:01:04 ◼   ► anything in follow-up. You see? We are also joined by everyone's favorite British

00:01:13 ◼   ► gentleman Mr. Myke Hurley. Well hello there my name is Myke Hurley and I am

00:01:17 ◼   ► here to take you on a tour through follow-up. I have one serious piece of

00:01:21 ◼   ► follow-up and then it gets weird for a little bit. The serious piece of

00:01:25 ◼   ► follow up is Lex wrote in to recommend an app called Lyd. Lyd? Lyd? Lyd. Lyd. Lyd. It's

00:01:32 ◼   ► an app for the Apple Watch to control Sonos speakers. Open the Lyd. I guess this is the

00:01:37 ◼   ► thing we were talking about. The link you put in the show notes is not English. What

00:01:41 ◼   ► is it? What do these words mean? Netherlands. Maybe it means something. I mean it came from

00:01:47 ◼   ► Lex. Lex sent me the link and I just put the link in. What does Lyd mean? It's the name

00:01:54 ◼   ► of that app. And also what is "Shermafbildingen"? I guess it means screenshots? I think it's

00:02:00 ◼   ► the name of my new couch from IKEA. You ask people from the Netherlands to help you, you

00:02:06 ◼   ► know, I can't help you. "Bestoor oef Sonnus luidspeakers van a fauve Applewatch". So you

00:02:11 ◼   ► can't work that out? That was like the control Sonnus speakers from your Applewatch. I could

00:02:15 ◼   ► work that out. Yeah. Yeah. See? So it's in the show notes, maybe it'll open in the Netherlands

00:02:22 ◼   ► app store for you maybe it won't. But the second screenshot it says "Krug tog". Are you just making fun of

00:02:29 ◼   ► Dutch now? I'm sorry but just the word is really fun "Togang". Togang. They're people that wear

00:02:38 ◼   ► Birkenstocks all year round. The Togang. Big, big nib nib gang. This was supposed to be the serious part

00:02:45 ◼   ► of Togang. Okay so what is this Apple Watch app do you? Control Sonos speakers from the Apple Watch.

00:02:52 ◼   ► Okay. I don't know how many more times I have to say this. Did you say they had a price hike?

00:02:57 ◼   ► How does that make you feel? I don't feel anything about it because I already bought it.

00:03:01 ◼   ► Mmm, I was thinking about a sub but now I'm thinking about it $50 less.

00:03:06 ◼   ► Have you tried Lid? No, no, I haven't tried it. Wow, that is journalistic

00:03:15 ◼   ► There's no ethics in

00:03:18 ◼   ► malpractice. What's the opposite of integrity?

00:03:20 ◼   ► I'm no journalist. Disintegrity? What's the opposite? I don't think it's misintegrity.

00:03:27 ◼   ► Hi, I'm misintegrity.

00:03:30 ◼   ► What else is in follow-up, Myke? Myke writes in, not me, "At the risk of causing

00:03:38 ◼   ► Myke, me, to buy another URL, I present the idea Thialafeedback.com." Oh no. Thialafeedback? You

00:03:48 ◼   ► You know, I've got ThylaFeedback.com, goes to, you know, submitting feedback for the show.

00:03:53 ◼   ► And I have LongThi.social.

00:03:55 ◼   ► Because we're so thigh focused. Thi, T-H-I-G-H-L-A-Thyla-Feedback.com.

00:04:03 ◼   ► ThylaFeedback.

00:04:05 ◼   ► Thi, I have not bought this once.

00:04:06 ◼   ► When I saw the link, I thought it was Thi-L-A-Feedback, like it was some reference to Los Angeles for some reason.

00:04:14 ◼   ► That's that long L.A. thigh.

00:04:17 ◼   ► It's LA thigh.

00:04:18 ◼   ► Thigh, thigh, oh my god, this is horrible.

00:04:24 ◼   ► So you may remember in last week's episode, we crowned the first royal thinus.

00:04:30 ◼   ► What are we doing?

00:04:31 ◼   ► Why does this podcast come to this?

00:04:34 ◼   ► Dylan wrote in to say that they had long thighs, 48 centimeters, that made their thighs very

00:04:41 ◼   ► long.

00:04:42 ◼   ► And so Dylan has become the thigh to beat.

00:04:48 ◼   ► I have some contenders for the crown of royal thinus.

00:04:53 ◼   ► Now before we get into these contenders, I had an anonymous person write in with this

00:04:58 ◼   ► suggestion.

00:04:59 ◼   ► I don't know why I did that.

00:05:02 ◼   ► Dear feedback giver, we have the anonymous thing there if you want to tell us something

00:05:06 ◼   ► about a company or something you're working on.

00:05:09 ◼   ► If you want to be named the Royal Thynus, you can't be anonymous.

00:05:13 ◼   ► No, but this is more of a contention. So I have a question. Okay, here's what Anonymous

00:05:19 ◼   ► wrote in to say. "Dylan's thigh is 23.75% of his total height, which is 6 feet 8 inches.

00:05:27 ◼   ► At 19 inches, it is absolutely a long thigh. My thighs are 18.5 inches long, and I'm only

00:05:34 ◼   ► foot two. So 25% of my height. So my thigh, and I'm sure others might be longer relative

00:05:42 ◼   ► to their heights. Should Dylan be dethroned with these facts?

00:05:47 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:05:48 ◼   ► - I say it's not percentage. It's just who has the longest thigh.

00:05:53 ◼   ► - It's the thigh to height ratio.

00:05:55 ◼   ► - No, I think it's just absolute length is what we're looking for here. We're looking

00:06:00 ◼   ► for the longest thigh, not just like you have long thighs for your height. That's not good,

00:06:06 ◼   ► right? So now I have five contenders for their royal finest. The first is JD.

00:06:15 ◼   ► Okay, JD.

00:06:16 ◼   ► JD at around, see now here we have a problem, around 49.5 centimeters.

00:06:26 ◼   ► Now remember the thigh to beat is Dylan at 48 centimeters.

00:06:30 ◼   ► Can you please stop saying the thigh to beat? Just don't say that again.

00:06:33 ◼   ► No, I like it. It wasn't something that I realized sounded so fun until I read it out loud. It wasn't

00:06:39 ◼   ► my intention when I wrote it down, but nevertheless, here we are. So, these images,

00:06:45 ◼   ► by the way, I will just tell you, listeners, don't open these images around other people.

00:06:49 ◼   ► Don't click.

00:06:50 ◼   ► No, because there's a bunch of people with rulers in their laps.

00:06:53 ◼   ► Yes. So, don't, like, I'd, these images will all be in the show notes, but like,

00:06:58 ◼   ► You should open them in private, you know? You know when people install those fancy screen

00:07:04 ◼   ► protectors that like if you're looking at somebody else's phone from like an angle,

00:07:09 ◼   ► they're like... You need one of those. You need one of those. I always think like when I see people,

00:07:14 ◼   ► I mean, I always think like, what are you opening on your phone? And maybe you're opening such

00:07:18 ◼   ► pictures like people with rulers on their thighs. Now that kind of screen protector makes more sense

00:07:23 ◼   ► to me now. So I was currently attempting to add the first image to the show notes.

00:07:29 ◼   ► Did the CMS reject it because it's terrible? No, I added it accidentally to

00:07:35 ◼   ► Cortex. So for a moment the most recent episode of Cortex had an entry called

00:07:44 ◼   ► JD's thigh. Oh I've done that I've done that before I've put I put links. Oh I do

00:07:49 ◼   ► - I do it all the time, man.

00:07:50 ◼   ► I do it all the time.

00:07:52 ◼   ► - You know what the CMS needs?

00:07:53 ◼   ► You know that feature in iMessage?

00:07:56 ◼   ► - Oh, I just did it again.

00:07:56 ◼   ► - Where if you have a kid and it's like,

00:07:58 ◼   ► hey, you're sending a bad picture to someone,

00:08:02 ◼   ► we need that detection in the CMS.

00:08:03 ◼   ► I'm gonna work on that.

00:08:05 ◼   ► - Oh my God.

00:08:06 ◼   ► Look at these pictures.

00:08:08 ◼   ► - Okay, so you ready?

00:08:10 ◼   ► - Yeah. - Yeah.

00:08:11 ◼   ► - So first is JD.

00:08:13 ◼   ► So if you open JD's image,

00:08:15 ◼   ► boys, you should definitely do this right now.

00:08:17 ◼   ► you will see what I am starting to call the about problem.

00:08:22 ◼   ► With the way in which these images are taken,

00:08:25 ◼   ► it is very hard to accurately identify

00:08:29 ◼   ► the exact length of the thigh based on the tape measure.

00:08:32 ◼   ► Right?

00:08:33 ◼   ► So like, because people take these images like at an angle,

00:08:37 ◼   ► so I am having to estimate to what I see here.

00:08:43 ◼   ► And if any of the contenders disagree with me,

00:08:47 ◼   ► I need a better image than the one you've provided.

00:08:51 ◼   ► - Yes.

00:08:51 ◼   ► - So I am saying JD is around 49.5 centimeters,

00:08:56 ◼   ► which currently makes JD the Royal Finest.

00:09:01 ◼   ► - JD has no problem with the base model iPad

00:09:04 ◼   ► and the kick send.

00:09:05 ◼   ► - No problem, you can put an iPad Pro on those sides.

00:09:08 ◼   ► You know what I'm saying?

00:09:09 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:09:10 ◼   ► - I now have an anonymous New Zealander.

00:09:13 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:09:14 ◼   ► - Again, to Steven's point,

00:09:15 ◼   ► I don't know why you would do this.

00:09:17 ◼   ► This person was very particular about,

00:09:20 ◼   ► I must be anonymous.

00:09:21 ◼   ► I'm not sure why.

00:09:22 ◼   ► Their image also came from a OneDrive link,

00:09:24 ◼   ► which is like a whole different thing.

00:09:26 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:09:27 ◼   ► - Their image is good.

00:09:29 ◼   ► Like you can see on that image.

00:09:30 ◼   ► - It's a good image.

00:09:31 ◼   ► - Right, like they are. - Starting from the hip.

00:09:33 ◼   ► Yeah, yeah.

00:09:34 ◼   ► - This person, I think is a clear 49.5 centimeters.

00:09:38 ◼   ► Maybe even a little bit more.

00:09:40 ◼   ► - This is the kind of person

00:09:41 ◼   ► measured their thigh before clearly. Look at the methodology here. It's very well done.

00:09:45 ◼   ► Big tape measure, you know? Yeah. That bag had this tape measure for this. Well, I will say

00:09:51 ◼   ► this anonymous New Zealander looks like they're in an office environment here, which is interesting

00:09:56 ◼   ► as to where they chose to take their measurement, their thioness measurement. So now JD and

00:10:02 ◼   ► anonymous New Zealander, they are tied. We potentially, we may give the title to anonymous

00:10:09 ◼   ► New Zealand are because I think they may have a millimeter or two over JD. I now move on to Nate.

00:10:13 ◼   ► Nate is saying that they are confidently 49 centimeters and I would agree. I would actually

00:10:23 ◼   ► say that they are also in around 49.5 centimeters but none of this matters boys because in comes Ken.

00:10:31 ◼   ► This is now, this now feels like the, what did you say earlier? Miss what?

00:10:37 ◼   ► Miss integrity.

00:10:38 ◼   ► This now feels like

00:10:40 ◼   ► like a like one of those

00:10:42 ◼   ► kinds of competitions.

00:10:43 ◼   ► Now, Ken sent in an image.

00:10:46 ◼   ► Now, Ken, I think you can quite

00:10:47 ◼   ► clearly see, has beat the forty

00:10:49 ◼   ► nine because Ken sent

00:10:51 ◼   ► his his his rule is only in inches.

00:10:53 ◼   ► So I had to do some calculations,

00:10:55 ◼   ► but it's definitely over 20 inches.

00:10:57 ◼   ► I think about twenty point three.

00:10:59 ◼   ► But Ken's image, low

00:11:01 ◼   ► quality. So it was hard for me to

00:11:03 ◼   ► get the exact.

00:11:04 ◼   ► So I went with fifty one

00:11:06 ◼   ► centimeters. Okay. But none of this matters. Wow. Because in comes Will. Wow. Now, again,

00:11:14 ◼   ► Will's image suffers from some of these issues here. It's a low quality image,

00:11:18 ◼   ► and it's taken from an angle. But using some, like, almost like CSI-like enhancing, I am putting

00:11:29 ◼   ► Will's thigh at 56 centimeters. Wow. Will. Which is eight centimeters longer thigh than Dylan.

00:11:40 ◼   ► So I am currently crowning at 56 centimeters Will as the royal finest. Congratulations Will.

00:11:49 ◼   ► Apple make an iPad studio just for you. You can put it on that thigh.

00:11:55 ◼   ► You know what I'm saying?

00:11:57 ◼   ► So that's the follow-up for today's episode.

00:12:00 ◼   ► Can we

00:12:03 ◼   ► just make a pact that this is over now?

00:12:05 ◼   ► No, because you do this every now and again like Green Gate.

00:12:10 ◼   ► Mmm, you know, but Green Gate was a real deal affecting real people. This is a real deal. This is a real deal.

00:12:16 ◼   ► This is a real deal. These people have big thighs.

00:12:18 ◼   ► So would you, you know what? We're just gonna see what happens. Maybe it's the end of it, but I can't say.

00:12:24 ◼   ► This is gonna end with a thigh measuring contest on stage somewhere. I agree with this. Yes. I agree

00:12:31 ◼   ► We need to get like a laser thigh measuring tool

00:12:33 ◼   ► You can get like real precise about it

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00:14:15 ◼   ► the show and relay FM. The next thing in the document just says "T.G. Surprise" and

00:14:21 ◼   ► there's no bullet under it. So we're asked to clear time in today's show for this.

00:14:25 ◼   ► I should take about 10 to 15 minutes, I guess. Well, depending on if you guys have questions

00:14:31 ◼   ► or not. We'll find out. We'll find out. So I said many times that I would like to see

00:14:36 ◼   ► Apple get weird, right? It's a recurring expression here on the show and it's a wish that I really

00:14:44 ◼   ► believe in. I would like to see Apple get weird and do things that normally I wouldn't

00:14:48 ◼   ► expect from Apple. And I think that's unfair. Like I've been thinking about it, like, why

00:14:53 ◼   ► should I just want Apple to get weird? I should also get weird. Like I should lead by example

00:15:00 ◼   ► in terms of doing weird things that people would not expect from me. Right?

00:15:04 ◼   ► You want to put your best thigh forward in this conversation.

00:15:07 ◼   ► Exactly. So out of that desire to get weird and because of peer pressure from Steven Hackett,

00:15:15 ◼   ► I now have an Apple Watch Ultra.

00:15:16 ◼   ► Hey!

00:15:17 ◼   ► Oh!

00:15:18 ◼   ► Dude!

00:15:19 ◼   ► Yeah, I've had it for the past few days and I have thoughts.

00:15:27 ◼   ► This is not what I was expecting at all. I had some like theories of today's episode.

00:15:33 ◼   ► This was not one of them.

00:15:35 ◼   ► Uh-huh. I'm glad I was able to surprise you.

00:15:38 ◼   ► What did you go for?

00:15:39 ◼   ► Uh, so I was taking a look at the, uh, the three configurations that you can get,

00:15:47 ◼   ► and the only band that made sense to me, I think it's the one that Steven got, the Ocean one.

00:15:54 ◼   ► Steven has all of them, Federico, so you have to narrow it down.

00:15:57 ◼   ► I'm wearing the Ocean band today, though, in white.

00:15:59 ◼   ► Okay.

00:16:00 ◼   ► I got the white Ocean band.

00:16:03 ◼   ► Yes, Watch Twins.

00:16:05 ◼   ► Yeah. So, um, and I mean, so, okay, a bunch of thoughts that I saved privately, uh, in

00:16:13 ◼   ► my, in my notes app so that I could...

00:16:15 ◼   ► Which is what? What notes app today?

00:16:17 ◼   ► So this is a whole thing that I will...

00:16:20 ◼   ► Okay, nevermind. We can't go into it today.

00:16:23 ◼   ► No, no, no. You made fun of, you make fun of me for like, which is what, what's the

00:16:28 ◼   ► the Notes app today. Actually, I've been using this for like four months and I haven't talked

00:16:36 ◼   ► about it anywhere because it's part of a thing that I'm planning for Mac Stories and the

00:16:40 ◼   ► club. I've been using Notion for the past four months and I haven't changed at all.

00:16:47 ◼   ► I've been just refining this setup over and over and it was a huge learning curve for

00:16:54 ◼   ► me in December, but I haven't switched since. So I've been using the same thing for four

00:16:59 ◼   ► months and I'm still learning my way through. Anyway, we'll talk about this story for another

00:17:03 ◼   ► time. Sorry for another time. So yeah, I've been saving thoughts in Ocean and I'm looking

00:17:07 ◼   ► at these thoughts right now. So I love the look I thought and I was concerned that it

00:17:13 ◼   ► was going to look weird on my wrist. Turns out that it actually looks very nice. Yes,

00:17:20 ◼   ► I wouldn't call myself as a small person.

00:17:25 ◼   ► So I think, you know,

00:17:26 ◼   ► given the relative size of my wrist and my hands.

00:17:28 ◼   ► - Measure your wrists.

00:17:29 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:17:32 ◼   ► - I don't have the equipment.

00:17:34 ◼   ► It looks nice.

00:17:35 ◼   ► It looks really nice on my wrist.

00:17:37 ◼   ► I was concerned that the increased width of the watch

00:17:42 ◼   ► was gonna cause problems with my tattoo

00:17:44 ◼   ► that almost extends to the wrist area,

00:17:48 ◼   ► but no, that's fine.

00:17:49 ◼   ► the tattoo doesn't go there. So it doesn't cover the sensors. I love the...

00:17:56 ◼   ► That's unbelievable to me that like that is... I understand why that doesn't... why that's

00:18:03 ◼   ► an issue, right? That the light can't pass through and it can't use the sensors. But

00:18:08 ◼   ► it is still just surprising to me that after all these years there is not a way around

00:18:12 ◼   ► that.

00:18:13 ◼   ► I mean I think it's just the way light works.

00:18:15 ◼   ► Yeah, no, no, I get it. But like, they, you know,

00:18:18 ◼   ► what I'm just saying is so many smart things are done,

00:18:20 ◼   ► so many advancements in technology and how stuff works, etc, etc. Right?

00:18:24 ◼   ► And it's just surprising to me that this is one that has not been able to be solved.

00:18:29 ◼   ► Love the titanium. Just love the general look.

00:18:33 ◼   ► The flat display that is bigger, you know, chef's kiss. I totally love it.

00:18:38 ◼   ► And the fact that it's raised above the body of the watch,

00:18:43 ◼   ► I really like the look, I gotta say. I really like the look and the orange detail on the action

00:18:48 ◼   ► button and on the digital crown. That's, I think it's really nice. The crown guard takes some time

00:18:56 ◼   ► to sort of adjust to, I think. It felt kind of weird after seven years of Apple Watch.

00:19:03 ◼   ► It almost felt like I couldn't reach the side button or the digital crown because of the crown

00:19:10 ◼   ► Now I'm used to it, but it took some adjustment, especially in the first couple of days.

00:19:17 ◼   ► I still kind of struggled to find the position of the side button, but again, it's seven

00:19:22 ◼   ► years of muscle memory versus like five days, four days of Apple Watch Ultra.

00:19:28 ◼   ► So it'll be fine.

00:19:30 ◼   ► Other thing that I love, the battery life.

00:19:32 ◼   ► That was probably the main reason why I was, and I mentioned this on the shows, like I

00:19:38 ◼   ► getting tired with my Series 7 Apple Watch anyway. Basically this thing I can just top

00:19:44 ◼   ► it up every couple of days and it's fine. Like you can use it for two days and then

00:19:49 ◼   ► you top it up for like 30 minutes. I have a fast charger on my nightstand and it goes

00:19:54 ◼   ► on for another two days. It's perfect. This is exactly what I wanted and I've been really

00:19:59 ◼   ► happy with that aspect. I have tried to go all in once again on the sort of lifestyle

00:20:06 ◼   ► of what if I just want to go out with an Apple watch with cellular mode? Will I like it compared

00:20:14 ◼   ► to when I last tried it three, four years ago with the Series 5 or something? And the

00:20:24 ◼   ► answer is I like it better, but it's still not perfect. And the still not perfect is

00:20:30 ◼   ► mostly, well, two things. There are still some apps that do not have support for standalone

00:20:37 ◼   ► mode on the Apple watch. So apps that do not work if you just run them on the Apple watch

00:20:45 ◼   ► without an iPhone nearby. So many apps still do not have that support. In fact, if you

00:20:52 ◼   ► have suggestions for me for standalone watch apps, please send them my way. And the second

00:20:58 ◼   ► problem, which is a very specific problem I think for especially I would guess European users,

00:21:04 ◼   ► WhatsApp. So WhatsApp, you will get notifications if you're away from home without the iPhone,

00:21:14 ◼   ► with just the Apple Watch with you, you will get notifications. Supposedly you can reply to them,

00:21:20 ◼   ► because I haven't tried this, but I saw the reply button. However, there's no WhatsApp app for Apple

00:21:27 ◼   ► Watch. I tried to install one of those like third-party WhatsApp clients from the Apple

00:21:35 ◼   ► Watch app store. It didn't work. They basically faked their way into being like web clients

00:21:43 ◼   ► and the one that I got called WhatsApp, I believe. It doesn't work in standalone mode.

00:21:52 ◼   ► Otherwise, the apps that I tried, I had a pretty good experience. Love Pocket Casts.

00:22:00 ◼   ► Pocket Casts, I already mentioned how I really like it on the iPhone. It's got a design that

00:22:05 ◼   ► makes sense for me. The Trim Silence option, the sound effect with the Med Max setting,

00:22:15 ◼   ► it works really well. And I love Pocket Cast even more on the Apple Watch,

00:22:20 ◼   ► because it just worked.

00:22:22 ◼   ► So it automatically picked up my episodes

00:22:25 ◼   ► in the up next queue.

00:22:27 ◼   ► No need to do any weird dance of like,

00:22:30 ◼   ► make these episodes,

00:22:31 ◼   ► specifically send them to the Apple watch.

00:22:33 ◼   ► No, it just picked the episodes from the up next queue,

00:22:37 ◼   ► synced my position.

00:22:38 ◼   ► So when I walked out of the house in the morning

00:22:40 ◼   ► to walk the dogs,

00:22:41 ◼   ► I connected my AirPods and picked up where I was listening.

00:22:44 ◼   ► When I was back home,

00:22:45 ◼   ► I closed Pocket Casts on the watch,

00:22:48 ◼   ► brought it up on the iPhone,

00:22:50 ◼   ► waited like three seconds.

00:22:52 ◼   ► It synced my position from the watch

00:22:54 ◼   ► and I continued listening on the iPhone.

00:22:56 ◼   ► It was perfect.

00:22:57 ◼   ► I love it. - That's cool.

00:22:58 ◼   ► - Another app that, now, here you are allowed

00:23:02 ◼   ► to make fun of me because I still haven't made

00:23:04 ◼   ► a decision about task managers.

00:23:08 ◼   ► I was looking for, like, I've been looking for a task--

00:23:10 ◼   ► - Even though there was a decision to be made.

00:23:13 ◼   ► - This will make more sense once I will finally finish

00:23:18 ◼   ► this bigger story that I've been working on.

00:23:20 ◼   ► I needed to find a task manager

00:23:23 ◼   ► that is truly cross-platform,

00:23:25 ◼   ► that works on iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, Windows, the web,

00:23:29 ◼   ► like something that is everywhere.

00:23:32 ◼   ► And of course, Apple Watch.

00:23:33 ◼   ► And now you may be surprised by how short the list

00:23:38 ◼   ► of task managers that run natively everywhere

00:23:42 ◼   ► and sync fast, like with good performance,

00:23:46 ◼   ► and have a native watch client, like that list is really short.

00:23:52 ◼   ► There's one choice.

00:23:53 ◼   ► There's one, well, what do you think the choice is?

00:23:55 ◼   ► Todoist.

00:23:57 ◼   ► Or TicTic.

00:23:58 ◼   ► It's the only one, right?

00:23:59 ◼   ► Or remember the milk.

00:24:00 ◼   ► TicTic.

00:24:01 ◼   ► Thank you, Steven.

00:24:02 ◼   ► OK, so there is more than, but Todoist does all that, right?

00:24:05 ◼   ► No, it won't work in standalone mode.

00:24:09 ◼   ► And broadly speaking, it was much, much slower.

00:24:14 ◼   ► Even when the iPhone was nearby,

00:24:17 ◼   ► it wasn't as fast as TicTic.

00:24:19 ◼   ► I've been really impressed by TicTic.

00:24:22 ◼   ► Works everywhere.

00:24:23 ◼   ► It's got desktop clients, iPhone, iPad app.

00:24:27 ◼   ► It's been featured by Apple a bunch of times.

00:24:29 ◼   ► I believe MKBHD uses it.

00:24:31 ◼   ► - That's the only place I know it from, honestly.

00:24:33 ◼   ► - Yes, yes. - It's like,

00:24:34 ◼   ► yeah, I know it's what MKBHD uses.

00:24:35 ◼   ► - On the Apple Watch, it's incredible.

00:24:36 ◼   ► It runs in standalone mode and you open it,

00:24:39 ◼   ► it syncs over cellular, your latest changes.

00:24:43 ◼   ► You can create tasks and they will show up basically immediately on another device.

00:24:49 ◼   ► So I've been using that.

00:24:50 ◼   ► Whoa, it has an Eisenhower matrix.

00:24:53 ◼   ► Yes.

00:24:54 ◼   ► What does that mean?

00:24:55 ◼   ► It's got all those features that honestly I don't use.

00:24:57 ◼   ► Habit tracking, focus timer.

00:24:59 ◼   ► It does too much.

00:25:00 ◼   ► What is an Eisenhower matrix?

00:25:02 ◼   ► It's like to divide your day into like low to highest priority items.

00:25:08 ◼   ► Damn.

00:25:09 ◼   ► I think.

00:25:10 ◼   ► No idea.

00:25:11 ◼   ► And shortcuts.

00:25:12 ◼   ► Obviously, one of the reasons why I approached Notion in the first place is the same thing

00:25:18 ◼   ► I just mentioned about a task manager. I wanted to have something that would allow me to capture

00:25:23 ◼   ► information and have it be available everywhere, no matter the device I was using. Now, I still

00:25:32 ◼   ► use Obsidian as my text editor. I will probably never stop using Obsidian as my text editor.

00:25:38 ◼   ► I just love the thing so much for markdown writing. It's perfect for me. But for note-taking,

00:25:43 ◼   ► one of the big downsides of Obsidian, and maybe this will be fixed in the future, I

00:25:47 ◼   ► don't know, but Obsidian doesn't have a web API. Obsidian is just, it's an app, and if

00:25:55 ◼   ► you want to capture information, and this is especially problematic on Apple platforms,

00:26:00 ◼   ► the app needs to be running in the in the foreground, basically. And so when I was thinking

00:26:06 ◼   ► about like, well, how can I put together a system to capture information on my watch?

00:26:14 ◼   ► Let's say that I'm walking the dogs and I have an idea and I want to save that idea.

00:26:18 ◼   ► Well, most people would say, well, you can use drafts and that works, but drafts is only

00:26:23 ◼   ► on Apple platforms and I've been using Notion instead. So I have been putting together,

00:26:31 ◼   ► and this will actually be an automation academy class in the future.

00:26:35 ◼   ► I've been putting together a series of shortcuts for Notion, and this is why this is incredible

00:26:41 ◼   ► for me.

00:26:42 ◼   ► I created a simple shortcut that uses the Notion API.

00:26:46 ◼   ► It lets me, if I'm using the iPhone or iPad, it lets me type something.

00:26:51 ◼   ► If I'm using the Apple Watch, it also lets me type something, which is one of my complaints

00:26:56 ◼   ► about watchOS.

00:26:57 ◼   ► When did Apple switch from dictation being the default mode of text input to the keyboard being the default mode?

00:27:06 ◼   ► They have it exactly backwards, in my opinion.

00:27:09 ◼   ► I like the keyboard, but I understand.

00:27:12 ◼   ► No, on the iPhone you have the keyboard and dictation is an option.

00:27:17 ◼   ► On the watch, they should do the dictation as a default and the keyboard is an option.

00:27:21 ◼   ► Well, remember for me right now, my microphone is broken, so maybe I'm biased.

00:27:25 ◼   ► - I can't do it.

00:27:29 ◼   ► - In any case, I created a shortcut

00:27:31 ◼   ► that lets me dictate something.

00:27:33 ◼   ► I just need to press the microphone button.

00:27:35 ◼   ► And the thing I didn't know is that shortcuts now

00:27:38 ◼   ► on the Apple Watch, it runs in standalone mode,

00:27:41 ◼   ► even and especially shortcuts that make a web request.

00:27:46 ◼   ► So my shortcut to save something to my note in Notion

00:27:50 ◼   ► where I drop ideas and thoughts,

00:27:53 ◼   ► It totally works in standalone mode.

00:27:56 ◼   ► I was walking the dogs, saved a couple of things,

00:27:59 ◼   ► came back home, opened the Notion web app,

00:28:01 ◼   ► and those notes were there.

00:28:03 ◼   ► No iPhone involved.

00:28:05 ◼   ► So that was pretty good.

00:28:06 ◼   ► Like, yeah, I have a complication on my watch face

00:28:09 ◼   ► and I tap it and I dictate something,

00:28:11 ◼   ► and that line of text,

00:28:14 ◼   ► I can access it immediately from any platform.

00:28:17 ◼   ► That was pretty good.

00:28:19 ◼   ► What is bad is that running shortcuts on the watch

00:28:22 ◼   ► could still be a lot better.

00:28:24 ◼   ► You can add a specific shortcut as a complication

00:28:28 ◼   ► to your watch face, but every time you tap it,

00:28:31 ◼   ► it says run shortcut,

00:28:33 ◼   ► and you need to confirm by tapping a run button.

00:28:37 ◼   ► - Boo.

00:28:39 ◼   ► - Remove that confirmation step,

00:28:40 ◼   ► or at least let me remove it.

00:28:42 ◼   ► Like maybe enable it by default,

00:28:45 ◼   ► but let me go into the settings and say,

00:28:47 ◼   ► when I run this on the watch,

00:28:49 ◼   ► I don't want that extra step.

00:28:51 ◼   ► I agree with having the step, in case you accidentally knock it, but let me make that decision as to whether I want that as a thing. I agree with that.

00:29:03 ◼   ► Capturing tasks and notes, really fun with tick-ticks and shortcuts while in cellular standalone mode.

00:29:11 ◼   ► Managing notifications on the watch, still silly, still bad.

00:29:16 ◼   ► Why is the clear all button at the top of your list of notifications?

00:29:22 ◼   ► I do not understand.

00:29:24 ◼   ► Why do I need to scroll all the way up to clear my notifications?

00:29:28 ◼   ► I don't get it.

00:29:30 ◼   ► And the action button.

00:29:31 ◼   ► I like it.

00:29:32 ◼   ► I've been using it like Steven as a way to toggle the flashlight quickly.

00:29:37 ◼   ► It works really well.

00:29:40 ◼   ► It's actually been very useful, like I was walking around the house at night and I needed

00:29:44 ◼   ► to find something and just click the action button and the flashlight comes on and it

00:29:48 ◼   ► removes that tiny bit of friction from swiping up to C control center and finding the flashlight

00:29:55 ◼   ► toggle.

00:29:56 ◼   ► It's nice, but I wish I could, and Underscore was actually mentioning this on the latest

00:30:04 ◼   ► really good episode of Upgrade with you, Myke.

00:30:08 ◼   ► And I agree with underscore suggestion of like, I wish the action button could be more

00:30:15 ◼   ► sort of programmable in the sense of like, let me choose different behaviors in different

00:30:20 ◼   ► contexts. Like maybe if I'm on the watch face, I want the action button to do this. But if

00:30:25 ◼   ► I'm using a workout app or if I'm using, I don't know, a weather app, I want the action

00:30:32 ◼   ► button to do something else. Like more sort of conditions maybe to sort of tweak the behaviors

00:30:39 ◼   ► of the action button depending on what you're doing on the watch. That would be cool.

00:30:42 ◼   ► I think it's cool that you both have found like a use that you like from the button,

00:30:48 ◼   ► which is to turn the flashlight on. I will say as a non-Apple Watch ultra wearer,

00:30:54 ◼   ► that is a ton of real estate for a not massively helpful action, like from my perspective.

00:31:01 ◼   ► Yeah, but the button is flush on the side.

00:31:05 ◼   ► But still.

00:31:06 ◼   ► If you just look at it, it's like an orange lozenge.

00:31:08 ◼   ► It's not...

00:31:09 ◼   ► My point is I'm just not convinced that if that's the most useful thing that you two

00:31:14 ◼   ► can find to do with it, that it's been really well thought out.

00:31:18 ◼   ► Oh.

00:31:19 ◼   ► Just kind of going on what Federico's saying.

00:31:22 ◼   ► There are three buttons on the thing, and one of them turns on the flashlight.

00:31:26 ◼   ► I'm not sure that that is that useful.

00:31:31 ◼   ► I don't really think of the Apple Watch as a flashlight device, you know?

00:31:35 ◼   ► Like sure it can do it, but it would be more useful to me if it did something which is

00:31:40 ◼   ► inherent to like what watchOS is.

00:31:44 ◼   ► I don't know what that is, but it just seems like a strange thing to me.

00:31:49 ◼   ► It's like, oh I have this button, this button, it turns on the flashlight.

00:31:53 ◼   ► I'm like, what flashlight?

00:31:54 ◼   ► Well it just illuminates the screen.

00:31:56 ◼   ► Okay.

00:31:57 ◼   ► You know?

00:31:58 ◼   ► That's fair.

00:31:59 ◼   ► you both have found a use for it. Federico, how do you feel that the Apple Watch Ultra fits in with

00:32:05 ◼   ► your general fashion aesthetic? I think it's pretty, it's pretty all right. The color goes

00:32:12 ◼   ► with pretty much anything and it comes down to the... Including the orange? Yeah, I mean I got,

00:32:18 ◼   ► I got orange on my arms. True, you're a very colorful boy. Yeah, I'm very colorful. So yeah,

00:32:24 ◼   ► the orange works and it mostly comes down to band choice. So I may have to check out some other

00:32:33 ◼   ► new options now that I have this watch. But yeah, I think it works pretty well for me. I think it

00:32:40 ◼   ► works all right, especially with the orange and the colors of the tattoos around it. Yeah.

00:32:45 ◼   ► This is not what I expected at all from today's episode.

00:32:48 ◼   ► Well, I'm glad. I'm glad.

00:32:51 ◼   ► Yeah, I'm glad you're enjoying it.

00:32:52 ◼   ► It's the best Apple Watch ever made.

00:32:55 ◼   ► Once again, Federico and I have done something awesome and Myke won't join us.

00:32:59 ◼   ► Here's my thinking.

00:33:01 ◼   ► I had this thought. I was considering it again recently.

00:33:03 ◼   ► I'm just going to wait until the next one now.

00:33:06 ◼   ► I'm like six months away.

00:33:08 ◼   ► Right? Like I'm six months away.

00:33:10 ◼   ► I will want to upgrade my Apple Watch for sure this year.

00:33:13 ◼   ► And so I want to I want to see what they got to offer,

00:33:16 ◼   ► because if Apple does what I want them to do, which is to redesign

00:33:19 ◼   ► the standard one that might be more enticing to me than the ultra so I don't

00:33:27 ◼   ► want to make any decisions right now on it I'm the boring one I guess okay every

00:33:32 ◼   ► group needs a boring one I'll be the boring one people in the discord are

00:33:36 ◼   ► wondering will they update the ultra this year I think they will I think that

00:33:40 ◼   ► having like one Apple watch fall out of step update wise it's not the low-end

00:33:47 ◼   ► one doesn't make any sense. I think it's like saying are they gonna update the iPhone Pro

00:33:50 ◼   ► this year? Like yes, there will be a new Ultra this year and it will just get whatever new

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00:36:27 ◼   ► (horn honking)

00:36:31 ◼   ► We don't have time for that.

00:36:33 ◼   ► - No, no. - Yes we do.

00:36:34 ◼   ► No, we have the Jeremy's to play.

00:36:36 ◼   ► Oh, we do have the Jeremy's to play, don't we?

00:36:40 ◼   ► Oh my God.

00:36:41 ◼   ► Welcome back to the quizzies.

00:36:43 ◼   ► Oh my God.

00:36:43 ◼   ► Where now we are taking the Jeremy's

00:36:47 ◼   ► inside of the quiz-y umbrella.

00:36:49 ◼   ► What?

00:36:50 ◼   ► Pointing points on the line.

00:36:53 ◼   ► Wait.

00:36:54 ◼   ► Every year when Apple introduces its new emoji,

00:36:59 ◼   ► they, Federico stays hidden

00:37:01 ◼   ► from what these emoji will look like.

00:37:04 ◼   ► because once the emoji are released to the world on this show,

00:37:07 ◼   ► we play a little game where Federico has to try and guess the names of said

00:37:12 ◼   ► emoji. We've been doing this for many years.

00:37:14 ◼   ► The twist this year is for every emoji that Federico gets is correct.

00:37:19 ◼   ► He will score five points in the Jarett in the quizzes

00:37:24 ◼   ► for every, well, we remember we're small now, right?

00:37:28 ◼   ► We're not going big anymore. It's small points.

00:37:30 ◼   ► For every Emojida, Federico guesses incorrectly.

00:37:34 ◼   ► He will, Steven will score 10 points.

00:37:37 ◼   ► - Ooh. - Oh no.

00:37:38 ◼   ► - Now Federico, I am basing this on your previous,

00:37:43 ◼   ► there are two reasons for this.

00:37:45 ◼   ► One, it is based on your previous experience,

00:37:48 ◼   ► you're good at this.

00:37:49 ◼   ► Two, Steven has zero agency in this game.

00:37:52 ◼   ► So I feel like this is how we're gonna play this

00:37:55 ◼   ► and we'll see how it goes for the future.

00:37:57 ◼   ► - Wow.

00:37:58 ◼   ► We currently stand at Federico on 360 points in the 2023 quizzes,

00:38:03 ◼   ► and Steven at 400 points.

00:38:06 ◼   ► We have the image as provided by Emojipedia.

00:38:10 ◼   ► These are Apple's official images for the new,

00:38:14 ◼   ► smaller set of emoji that are finding their way into

00:38:19 ◼   ► iOS. This is in iOS 15 point, wait,

00:38:23 ◼   ► what are we on now? 16.4.

00:38:25 ◼   ► Hang on, hang on. We have something to deal with here.

00:38:28 ◼   ► A bunch of people are saying that Federico cheated,

00:38:30 ◼   ► that he had a post on Macedon about this.

00:38:32 ◼   ► Did you cheat?

00:38:34 ◼   ► - No, I haven't looked as always.

00:38:35 ◼   ► I haven't looked at the names.

00:38:36 ◼   ► - What could he have cheated about?

00:38:37 ◼   ► - He could have looked at the blog post.

00:38:39 ◼   ► - I posted the article that John wrote on Mac stories.

00:38:43 ◼   ► - This happens every year.

00:38:45 ◼   ► He doesn't read them.

00:38:46 ◼   ► We go through this every year.

00:38:47 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:38:48 ◼   ► Do you normally read what John posts on your website?

00:38:49 ◼   ► Just out of curiosity.

00:38:51 ◼   ► - Yes, I normally do.

00:38:52 ◼   ► I normally edit everything, but not this one.

00:38:55 ◼   ► - This is very normal.

00:38:56 ◼   ► Like every year we'll say,

00:38:57 ◼   ► are but there was this post and Federico say I didn't read that part like okay I

00:39:01 ◼   ► just wanted to I just wanted to address it because the discord was getting spicy

00:39:04 ◼   ► well they do they like to get upset you know but this time we're not gonna pay

00:39:09 ◼   ► any attention to them so here's what we're gonna do we got the nut we've got

00:39:12 ◼   ► the image here I think it should be in your podcast app of choice if you want

00:39:15 ◼   ► to follow along but it'll also be links in the show notes to these images so you

00:39:19 ◼   ► can get them for yourself Federico you have the image here in our show notes

00:39:23 ◼   ► We're gonna start from-- - And I'm making,

00:39:25 ◼   ► I am making a bold claim.

00:39:28 ◼   ► - All right.

00:39:29 ◼   ► - I will, a bold, really bold claim.

00:39:32 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:39:32 ◼   ► - I will get more than 80% of these correct.

00:39:37 ◼   ► - Ooh, I would like to maybe,

00:39:40 ◼   ► like I'm gonna suggest something here

00:39:42 ◼   ► that we've not done in the quizzes before,

00:39:44 ◼   ► but rules are fluid.

00:39:46 ◼   ► Are you willing to wager some points on that prediction?

00:39:50 ◼   ► So 80% out of 21 should be more than 16, correct?

00:39:55 ◼   ► 16 out of 21.

00:39:58 ◼   ► - Here's what I said, so you've got to get 16 out of 21.

00:40:00 ◼   ► Steven, how many do you think he's gonna get?

00:40:02 ◼   ► Do you think he'll get more or less than 80%?

00:40:06 ◼   ► - Less.

00:40:07 ◼   ► - Okay, so we are gonna wager this then.

00:40:08 ◼   ► We're gonna wager this.

00:40:09 ◼   ► So there are double points available.

00:40:12 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:40:13 ◼   ► (laughs)

00:40:14 ◼   ► - Whoever's correct.

00:40:15 ◼   ► - I love the chaos of this.

00:40:17 ◼   ► - All right, so I'm gonna rephrase this

00:40:19 ◼   ► this is getting complicated. So for every emoji that Federico guesses correctly, he will score

00:40:32 ◼   ► five points in the quizzes. For every emoji he guesses incorrectly, he will... Steven will score

00:40:41 ◼   ► 10 points. If Federico scores more than 80% of the, like, correctly guesses 80% of the names,

00:40:49 ◼   ► he will get double his points. If it is less, Steven will get double his points.

00:40:54 ◼   ► That's how we're doing this. I love it. Okay. I love it. Okay. Okay. So. Alright. And by the way,

00:41:01 ◼   ► the post that people are referring to in the Discord is, and this is so silly,

00:41:08 ◼   ► Cable Sasser was asking if the iOS keyboard put in an emoji if you typed "honk" and I typed "honk"

00:41:17 ◼   ► and I'm pretty confident that "honk" is not the name of this emoji. I mean, come on, it doesn't

00:41:22 ◼   ► take a genius to understand what this emoji is. And it doesn't matter anyway because the name,

00:41:27 ◼   ► the official name might as well be different and I would wager money that it's not gonna be "honk".

00:41:33 ◼   ► Here's the thing, here's the thing, and I want to restate what we're doing here.

00:41:36 ◼   ► Federico has to guess the official names as given by the Emoji Consortium of the... what is it called?

00:41:47 ◼   ► The Unique Code Consortium? The Emoji Illuminati. Oh and we forgot, by the way, this is called

00:41:56 ◼   ► the Jeremy's in honor of our fallen friend Jeremy Burge. We forgot to do the honorific at the

00:42:02 ◼   ► the beginning, this is in honor of fallen creator of emoji Jeremy Burge, we named the

00:42:09 ◼   ► Jeremy's after him. I got too excited with the quiz part and we did not do the correct

00:42:13 ◼   ► honoring of Jeremy at the beginning of this segment.

00:42:17 ◼   ► Okay, so to go back to the addendum to the rules, if I get more than 80% of these correct,

00:42:26 ◼   ► I double my points.

00:42:27 ◼   ► Correct, but if you get less than...

00:42:29 ◼   ► If I don't...

00:42:30 ◼   ► Stephen's points get doubled.

00:42:32 ◼   ► Okay. I love this and I love that you've embraced this, the two of you.

00:42:37 ◼   ► So we're starting with the first emoji, Federico, what is its name?

00:42:42 ◼   ► Okay. Okay, so we're looking at...

00:42:46 ◼   ► These are not my official guesses. I'm just telling what I see.

00:42:52 ◼   ► This is a so we know that they call this face. This is this is a face that is sort of

00:42:58 ◼   ► Rolling or shaking I guess it's meant to describe when you're like

00:43:04 ◼   ► Agitated or nervous or something? I can't work out what this is meant

00:43:09 ◼   ► Like what is this one will be used for like, well, I don't know where I'll use this one yet

00:43:14 ◼   ► Yeah, I think it's one that will find its own meaning over time

00:43:19 ◼   ► Yeah. Once the teens get it, we'll know what it means. Oh, you know what? Yeah, you're probably right. I am going with

00:43:25 ◼   ► shaking face

00:43:28 ◼   ► We can we can harmonize for this how great if you don't know why we just did that

00:43:35 ◼   ► Forget it

00:43:39 ◼   ► Explaining at this point that is five points to Federico shaking face is the correct name

00:43:46 ◼   ► Next up we have three hearts. Now we already... so the second one, the first one in this list of hearts

00:43:53 ◼   ► There is already a blue heart in the iOS keyboard

00:43:58 ◼   ► So I'm gonna go with the obvious light blue heart

00:44:03 ◼   ► That's a correct answer, another five points. And on that note, I'm gonna guess grey heart

00:44:16 ◼   ► This is too many hums. This is too many hums. We're humming too much. You can just...

00:44:20 ◼   ► Steven, you can just tell if this is correct or not.

00:44:22 ◼   ► That was correct. Great hearts is another five points. 15 points. You're flying through them.

00:44:28 ◼   ► Okay, and the next one should be pink heart.

00:44:32 ◼   ► Correct.

00:44:34 ◼   ► Okay.

00:44:36 ◼   ► Now...

00:44:37 ◼   ► These two hands...

00:44:42 ◼   ► Okay, so just like with the face, we know that they're gonna use "hand" in the official name.

00:44:48 ◼   ► Maybe. Is it a hand?

00:44:51 ◼   ► So this is a... so, well, yeah, I think it's a hand.

00:44:56 ◼   ► So the... and they do... because I have been tricked by this emoji before.

00:45:01 ◼   ► I believe it was like with something... last year, there was something like facing left and facing right.

00:45:10 ◼   ► There was something along those lines.

00:45:12 ◼   ► But this is a hand.

00:45:15 ◼   ► And a hand doesn't face.

00:45:18 ◼   ► [Laughter]

00:45:21 ◼   ► I mean, I don't know.

00:45:23 ◼   ► Doesn't hand face?

00:45:24 ◼   ► You know, while we're taking this moment of deliberation,

00:45:27 ◼   ► I was just preparing for inevitabilities in our document later on, okay?

00:45:31 ◼   ► So we're doing about an 80%, right?

00:45:34 ◼   ► 80% of 21 is 16.8.

00:45:38 ◼   ► Are we rounding up or down?

00:45:41 ◼   ► Well, I don't know.

00:45:43 ◼   ► Okay, so we're rounding to 17.

00:45:45 ◼   ► Federico, you need to get 17 of these correct.

00:45:47 ◼   ► I just wanted to double check that first before we get to later on,

00:45:50 ◼   ► and then there's a court case, you know what I mean?

00:45:53 ◼   ► Okay.

00:45:54 ◼   ► So there are two hands, they're doing something in opposite directions.

00:45:59 ◼   ► So what is the meaning of this hand?

00:46:03 ◼   ► What's the meaning of this?

00:46:04 ◼   ► Like the gesture could be like to to stop

00:46:08 ◼   ► to push to

00:46:11 ◼   ► Touch yeah hand touching could be weird. I am gonna go with

00:46:19 ◼   ► number five

00:46:22 ◼   ► hand

00:46:24 ◼   ► pushing

00:46:26 ◼   ► Right

00:46:28 ◼   ► Myke that's up to you to decide because I actually can't judge these. Yeah. No, you've got skin in the game

00:46:34 ◼   ► You got skin in the game. So you're saying hand pushing right?

00:46:36 ◼   ► No, no, I'm not asking for you to change it. That's that's the answer. I'm gonna give you that answer. Yeah. Yeah

00:46:44 ◼   ► The answer is right woods pushing hand, huh?

00:46:48 ◼   ► I think that that the pushing for me was the part that clinched it when he said pushing

00:46:53 ◼   ► Cuz I wouldn't call that pushing there's no push. There's no push action. It was there's no push Jerry

00:47:00 ◼   ► Yeah, that just looks to be like rightwards like, I don't know.

00:47:03 ◼   ► No, but you are, see, it's the extended palm, it's the end of the wrist, like, that's like...

00:47:11 ◼   ► No, I get it, I get it, but what I'm saying, I'm giving you it, you're getting this.

00:47:16 ◼   ► Rightwards pushing hand is the name of this emoji.

00:47:19 ◼   ► Okay, can you do the opposite for the other one, leftwards pushing hand?

00:47:23 ◼   ► Yes, there you go, that's another five points.

00:47:26 ◼   ► Okay.

00:47:26 ◼   ► So cleaning up so far, six out of six correct.

00:47:29 ◼   ► look, this may go contentious, but like, no one would get Wrightwoods. Who would say that?

00:47:36 ◼   ► Wrightwoods? No.

00:47:37 ◼   ► Come on. It's the same problem we had last time with these. It really seems like that name is

00:47:45 ◼   ► not the best. And I think these will be used for high fives. That's like a high five.

00:47:49 ◼   ► Oh yeah, like I pull up one and then you go, "Oh, this is how you get a high five rejected, man."

00:47:55 ◼   ► You know, send the emoji and just never get it back?

00:47:59 ◼   ► You left hanging?

00:48:00 ◼   ► Or the other person does the fist bump emoji then it's awkward.

00:48:03 ◼   ► And that's sweet and that's awkward.

00:48:05 ◼   ► Yeah, that's so good!

00:48:06 ◼   ► You do the high five so one person sends a fist bump,

00:48:11 ◼   ► the other person sends a handshake like, ugh!

00:48:14 ◼   ► It'd be terrible.

00:48:16 ◼   ► We're on to emoji number seven.

00:48:17 ◼   ► Federico's got six out of six so far.

00:48:20 ◼   ► 30 points.

00:48:23 ◼   ► Okay, now we're doing animals, it seems. So number seven. Well, you tell me.

00:48:31 ◼   ► Seems like it. Number seven, this is a moose.

00:48:34 ◼   ► Yeah, that's correct. It is in fact a moose.

00:48:38 ◼   ► Okay, number eight. This is a...

00:48:42 ◼   ► Oh, good boy. This is a donkey.

00:48:46 ◼   ► What did you say? Good boy.

00:48:48 ◼   ► Yeah, I like it. I like the guy.

00:48:51 ◼   ► That's another one. Donkey is correct. Federico, you're doing very well.

00:48:54 ◼   ► Stephen, how are you feeling so far in the game?

00:48:57 ◼   ► Not great. Not great, Jerry.

00:48:59 ◼   ► He's blowing through these.

00:48:59 ◼   ► Not great, Jerry.

00:49:00 ◼   ► Number nine. Now, this is tricky because to my eye, these are...

00:49:12 ◼   ► And this is not my answer, but these are sort of look like angel wings,

00:49:17 ◼   ► but that has religious connotations, and I don't know if they would call the emoji

00:49:24 ◼   ► "angel wings", but these are also like "feathered wings", and we are in the animal category.

00:49:31 ◼   ► Would they call them angel wings? These are wings, they could just... so I am torn between angel wings,

00:49:39 ◼   ► feathered wings and just wings. Oh boy. I don't think they would call them angel wings.

00:49:49 ◼   ► Well, whatever. I'm going with...

00:49:55 ◼   ► I'm going with feathered wings is my answer. The most tense that I've been so far.

00:50:05 ◼   ► I'm giving the points to Stephen.

00:50:08 ◼   ► Awwww.

00:50:08 ◼   ► This emoji is called "wing".

00:50:11 ◼   ► No!

00:50:12 ◼   ► Wing?

00:50:13 ◼   ► Now the reason I'm giving it to him is you gave it as one of your three possible answers.

00:50:18 ◼   ► So you knew it was out there.

00:50:20 ◼   ► Right? You said angel wings,

00:50:22 ◼   ► feathered wings,

00:50:24 ◼   ► wings.

00:50:24 ◼   ► It was possible for you, you know?

00:50:27 ◼   ► This is just wing.

00:50:29 ◼   ► I will say, angel wings, I see where you went there.

00:50:32 ◼   ► There are multiple angel emojis.

00:50:34 ◼   ► So like, you know, they could have done it, but that is a wing.

00:50:38 ◼   ► Okay. So that is 10 points for Steven.

00:50:40 ◼   ► This is one of those things where the scale of emoji is hilarious because that

00:50:45 ◼   ► wing is the size of a donkey, but also the size of a hand.

00:50:48 ◼   ► Why is the moose just a head? The donkey is a full animal.

00:50:52 ◼   ► So, okay. I thought about that when I saw these and I think because from the front,

00:50:57 ◼   ► front of moose is very noticeably a moose because it has its antlers and a donkey

00:51:02 ◼   ► you need to see from the side because a lot about what a donkey is and people's mind is the coloration why and from the

00:51:07 ◼   ► Front it was like it looks like a dumb horse

00:51:09 ◼   ► So you could show me you could show me a moose in the same profile as a donkey and I could work that maybe

00:51:15 ◼   ► But I think it's about like making it the most clear as possible

00:51:19 ◼   ► But yeah, I get what you're saying like it is

00:51:20 ◼   ► I mean there is maybe a great question as to why do we need moose and donkey emojis?

00:51:24 ◼   ► Like why I mean Canada's very excited. I have no doubt about the donkey. They love donkeys in Canada

00:51:31 ◼   ► Congratulations to Canada, you've got the donkey. No, I said donkey, you know.

00:51:35 ◼   ► Maybe they're excited about donkeys, too.

00:51:37 ◼   ► Could be. Emoji number 10. Okay, so we are looking at... this is not my answer. This is a black bird.

00:51:46 ◼   ► Now, is it a raven? I don't think it's a raven. I don't think ravens look like that. I mean, they're black,

00:51:54 ◼   ► but they also have black

00:51:56 ◼   ► beaks, whatever. What's it called? Nose beak?

00:52:00 ◼   ► - Beak. - Is it called a beak?

00:52:01 ◼   ► - Yeah. - Beak, yeah.

00:52:03 ◼   ► They have dark gray or black beaks, I think.

00:52:07 ◼   ► Ah, boy.

00:52:09 ◼   ► What is this creature?

00:52:12 ◼   ► I'm gonna say black bird.

00:52:14 ◼   ► - You are correct.

00:52:15 ◼   ► It is in fact a black bird, which is a type of bird.

00:52:20 ◼   ► - Number 11.

00:52:20 ◼   ► So I was second-guessing myself.

00:52:24 ◼   ► Like, again, not my final answer.

00:52:27 ◼   ► To me, this is obviously a goose.

00:52:29 ◼   ► I was second guessing myself like could it be a duck? No, it's not duck. Could it be a swan? No, it's not a swan

00:52:35 ◼   ► So I'm gonna go with goose

00:52:37 ◼   ► Correct. It isn't goose. It is a goose

00:52:40 ◼   ► Geez, he's for geez. Killing me

00:52:42 ◼   ► It's only 10 to 50

00:52:46 ◼   ► everything is still to play for

00:52:48 ◼   ► Because I think every for me at least we're like 11 out of 21

00:52:53 ◼   ► That was the easy part. It's getting ready to get harder

00:52:57 ◼   ► Yes, as it tends to be. The people, hearts and animals, that part we can, we got that

00:53:03 ◼   ► on lock. It's then the second half where it's, who could tell?

00:53:08 ◼   ► This is a, this is a weird one. First I thought it was like a fancy hat, like one of those

00:53:14 ◼   ► hippie hats. But then I realized like, it looks like, it sort of looks like, I think,

00:53:20 ◼   ► I think it's a fish given the animal category, but why does he have like the command icon

00:53:25 ◼   ► symbol on its head? Is it like command fish? That's what we need, another fish. Weird

00:53:31 ◼   ► fish, command fish. It's Weird Fish's cousin. This is... I mean, I don't know if... See,

00:53:37 ◼   ► the thing is, I don't know if this already exists. I guess not. I'm gonna go with the

00:53:41 ◼   ► boring answer. I'm gonna go with jellyfish. It's not just the boring answer, it's the

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00:55:25 ◼   ► Alright, at this point in the game, I'll give a reminder of where we are.

00:55:30 ◼   ► So Federico scored 55 points.

00:55:34 ◼   ► Steven has 10 points.

00:55:37 ◼   ► There are 21 total answers.

00:55:39 ◼   ► We have done 12.

00:55:41 ◼   ► So Federico has one of the four incorrect that he can, like if he gets to four incorrect,

00:55:49 ◼   ► that's when all the point doubling begins.

00:55:51 ◼   ► We're up to number 13.

00:55:53 ◼   ► So number 13, this is, this is, I think this is what my mom used to have in her garden

00:56:00 ◼   ► when I was little.

00:56:03 ◼   ► I'm not sure about the shape of the flower, but the color, I mean it reminds me of that.

00:56:09 ◼   ► Oh boy, they do have specific flowers in the emoji already. I'm gonna go with lavender.

00:56:19 ◼   ► I see why you won't move it.

00:56:21 ◼   ► It's not lavender?

00:56:22 ◼   ► It's not lavender. That my friend is a hyacinth.

00:56:25 ◼   ► Now, you may ask yourself why hyacinth? And Myke will say "I don't know".

00:56:30 ◼   ► I don't know! Why? We added one flower this year, it's the hyacinth.

00:56:35 ◼   ► Next move on! Like, I don't get it. I don't understand.

00:56:38 ◼   ► understand okay all right well that makes this very it's gonna come down I

00:56:45 ◼   ► think it is my friend I think it's gonna come down to the wire you're on to

00:56:49 ◼   ► number 14 all right so initially when I first saw this so when I saw it as a

00:56:55 ◼   ► tiny image on Mastodon I thought it looked I was very creeped out by it

00:57:00 ◼   ► because I thought it looked like a little withered baby but turns out this

00:57:05 ◼   ► This is actually ginger.

00:57:08 ◼   ► You'd be surprised.

00:57:10 ◼   ► It's actually wizard baby.

00:57:12 ◼   ► Can you imagine?

00:57:15 ◼   ► Very specific.

00:57:16 ◼   ► No, we got ginger.

00:57:17 ◼   ► Well, they chose hyacinth.

00:57:20 ◼   ► You got as a point correct.

00:57:22 ◼   ► That's another five points for Federico.

00:57:23 ◼   ► We got a number 15.

00:57:27 ◼   ► These are peas.

00:57:28 ◼   ► Okay, I know I have skin in the game, but peas would be like loose on a plate.

00:57:36 ◼   ► These are inside a pea pod.

00:57:40 ◼   ► And that's the name.

00:57:41 ◼   ► Pea pod?

00:57:42 ◼   ► This is a pea pod.

00:57:44 ◼   ► That's what this is?

00:57:46 ◼   ► Yes.

00:57:48 ◼   ► I'm sorry Federico.

00:57:50 ◼   ► It's not peas.

00:57:51 ◼   ► Peas are loose.

00:57:52 ◼   ► This is a pea pod.

00:57:53 ◼   ► I'm sorry Federico.

00:57:54 ◼   ► Okay.

00:57:55 ◼   ► another 10 points for Steven, bringing Steven to 30 points, you to 60 points.

00:57:59 ◼   ► You have three incorrect.

00:58:01 ◼   ► Oh, I have three incorrect.

00:58:03 ◼   ► All right.

00:58:05 ◼   ► So the next one.

00:58:07 ◼   ► So I think there's a, so this is in Italy.

00:58:11 ◼   ► This is what we call, this is not my answer.

00:58:13 ◼   ► This is what we call a hand fan.

00:58:16 ◼   ► And I think the hand modifier is necessary because I think that's already a,

00:58:20 ◼   ► an emoji for like a regular fan, like an, an electric one.

00:58:24 ◼   ► I should... are they gonna call it hand fan?

00:58:31 ◼   ► So the thing about the hand fan,

00:58:37 ◼   ► that is my main problem with this.

00:58:40 ◼   ► So I'm pretty confident that it's a hand fan.

00:58:42 ◼   ► But, and they show this in the image,

00:58:47 ◼   ► the hand fan, it's like this object that you can

00:58:52 ◼   ► like, fold? Like open and close? So they could probably, like, if they were extra evil, they

00:59:04 ◼   ► could probably go for like open hand fan or hand fan unfolded or just maybe like a folding

00:59:15 ◼   ► hand fan? It's open. Would you call it as an object a folding hand fan?

00:59:21 ◼   ► It's up to you, really.

00:59:22 ◼   ► Yeah, we can't answer any of these questions.

00:59:24 ◼   ► I'm enjoying the questions.

00:59:26 ◼   ► I'm gonna go with...

00:59:27 ◼   ► Uhhh...

00:59:28 ◼   ► Whatever.

00:59:29 ◼   ► Uhhh...

00:59:30 ◼   ► Can I get another one wrong?

00:59:31 ◼   ► I don't know how the math works exactly.

00:59:33 ◼   ► Like, if this is the fourth,

00:59:36 ◼   ► is that butt pursuit at 80%, right?

00:59:39 ◼   ► So I feel like...

00:59:42 ◼   ► What would it be then?

00:59:44 ◼   ► If it's a...

00:59:45 ◼   ► Folding hand fan.

00:59:47 ◼   ► If I could give bonus points,

00:59:50 ◼   ► I would.

00:59:51 ◼   ► Because I cannot believe you got that one right.

00:59:53 ◼   ► That is correct. Folding Hand Fan.

00:59:55 ◼   ► Nice.

00:59:56 ◼   ► That is...

00:59:57 ◼   ► That is incredible.

01:00:02 ◼   ► Yeah. So Kate's saying, and I'm going to go with Kate's ruling here,

01:00:05 ◼   ► you can get one wrong, but no more.

01:00:07 ◼   ► So you can get four, but that's...

01:00:10 ◼   ► Then you're at your limit.

01:00:12 ◼   ► I'm pretty confident that I can

01:00:15 ◼   ► that I can guess the other ones because I know these ones.

01:00:19 ◼   ► Okay, so the 17. I know this because I see Sylvia using it all the time.

01:00:24 ◼   ► She's been watching tutorials and videos like this is a hair pic.

01:00:29 ◼   ► Oh, nice. Yep, correct.

01:00:31 ◼   ► I was wondering about that one. Like, would you call it a comb?

01:00:35 ◼   ► No, it's not that. This is a hair pic.

01:00:37 ◼   ► Number 18.

01:00:39 ◼   ► I would be so ashamed to get this wrong.

01:00:42 ◼   ► As a long time Samba de Amigo fan,

01:00:46 ◼   ► These are Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Maraqas, baby.

01:00:49 ◼   ► Uh-oh.

01:00:50 ◼   ► No, you got it right.

01:00:50 ◼   ► I wanted to put some doubt into here

01:00:53 ◼   ► because you were so confident coming into that one.

01:00:55 ◼   ► [LAUGHS]

01:00:57 ◼   ► Number 19.

01:00:59 ◼   ► This is what I used to play as a kid in middle school

01:01:03 ◼   ► with questionable result.

01:01:06 ◼   ► This is a flute.

01:01:07 ◼   ► Correct.

01:01:09 ◼   ► Now, number 20.

01:01:10 ◼   ► What am I looking at?

01:01:12 ◼   ► Is this like a symbol for like a guild, like an RPG guild or something?

01:01:21 ◼   ► This must be some religious thing that, or like a country specific thing that I have no idea what it is.

01:01:32 ◼   ► It's, I don't know.

01:01:36 ◼   ► There's no point, right? I'm just going to give Steven the point. You won't get this, right?

01:01:40 ◼   ► So Stephen just gets the points. I am gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, uh, three swords and

01:01:46 ◼   ► a circle. This is called the Kanda. It is the symbol of the Sikh faith, which attained its

01:01:52 ◼   ► current form around the 1930s during the Ghadar movement. I am so sorry for getting this wrong.

01:01:59 ◼   ► It's the first time in my life that I'm seeing this. I didn't know this by looking at it visually

01:02:03 ◼   ► too, so I will, I will, we will all go down with you on that ship if necessary. Okay. This is not

01:02:09 ◼   ► where I wanted to be. You're at 80 points now Federico. Steven you're at 40 points.

01:02:17 ◼   ► This is the final one. You have got your four incorrects. You have to get this

01:02:22 ◼   ► correct. Now I'm gonna tell you right now, alright? Now I'm just gonna say this. I

01:02:27 ◼   ► want the exact word. Yeah. Yeah. Alright I'm just saying this up front so

01:02:34 ◼   ► everyone knows, you've got to give me the exact wording for this to be correct.

01:02:39 ◼   ► Yeah, so this is problematic because then again, this is not my answer. It comes down

01:02:43 ◼   ► to two things. I think it could be Wi-Fi or it could be wireless. The problem is that

01:02:51 ◼   ► my instinct would go for Wi-Fi because it's what most people call it when they see this symbol.

01:03:00 ◼   ► this symbol they go like oh that's wi-fi the issue is that i believe wi-fi is like the name of

01:03:10 ◼   ► another consortium or alliance or organization whatever so like i am i have concerns

01:03:20 ◼   ► about using the name wi-fi as like what they call it with the proprietary i mean most people

01:03:28 ◼   ► would call it wi-fi. This is another like, like, this is like the peapod. Nobody's gonna call it

01:03:35 ◼   ► a peapod. What say? Can you pass me the peapod, please? I mean, the, also the fact that it's blue

01:03:45 ◼   ► shouldn't, I don't think blue is in the name with these symbols. They just have the name.

01:03:51 ◼   ► Wi-Fi or... is there other options? Wi-Fi, wireless, wireless symbol? But they don't

01:03:59 ◼   ► use the word symbol in these emoji names. Like they didn't call it "canda symbol".

01:04:06 ◼   ► Yeah, I'm pretty sure the Wi-Fi is like a thing, like a product name or whatever.

01:04:14 ◼   ► And wireless, I mean, it's not like...

01:04:16 ◼   ► Uhhhhh...

01:04:18 ◼   ► If I get this wrong...

01:04:19 ◼   ► I gotta say, I had the idea to make this part of the quizzes during the ad break leading up to this.

01:04:26 ◼   ► Wow.

01:04:27 ◼   ► And I'm very happy I did it.

01:04:29 ◼   ► I had to very quickly create a new entry in my spreadsheet and get the button ready.

01:04:34 ◼   ► And I will say I'm proud of myself today. I've done good work today, I think.

01:04:38 ◼   ► My answer is wireless.

01:04:40 ◼   ► Damn it!

01:04:42 ◼   ► What?!

01:04:44 ◼   ► Federico, I thought you were gonna say wi-fi.

01:04:47 ◼   ► So at the end of the Jeremy's AK included in the quizzies, Federico takes 170 points.

01:04:56 ◼   ► Steven takes 40 points. If we now go to the total scoring, that puts Federico in the lead.

01:05:03 ◼   ► 530 points to Steven's 440 points. Gentlemen, thank you for playing the quizzies Jeremy's version.

01:05:12 ◼   ► There you go, I found it. I found the name.

01:05:14 ◼   ► There it is. Quizzies, Jeremy's version. We did it.

01:05:17 ◼   ► - Well done, Federico.

01:05:18 ◼   ► I think this is the best that you've done.

01:05:20 ◼   ► There is a website for this, thejeremys.herokuapp.com.

01:05:25 ◼   ► There'll be a link to that in the show notes.

01:05:27 ◼   ► People can see how you've done in the past as well.

01:05:30 ◼   ► - Yeah, last year, 50%.

01:05:33 ◼   ► - About how many emoji?

01:05:34 ◼   ► - 38.

01:05:35 ◼   ► - Yeah, last year there were a lot.

01:05:37 ◼   ► This is definitely a smaller set, it feels like.

01:05:39 ◼   ► - Yeah, this was, do you remember the small set

01:05:41 ◼   ► because of COVID, I think this is it.

01:05:43 ◼   ► - Okay. - Mm.

01:05:44 ◼   ► Supply chain is using emoji.

01:05:46 ◼   ► - Oh no, that was the spring 2021 one, yeah.

01:05:49 ◼   ► But I hope for more emoji in the future,

01:05:52 ◼   ► but that was a darn good game today.

01:05:54 ◼   ► - Great idea, Myke.

01:05:56 ◼   ► - Do you wanna wrap up a couple of little things

01:05:58 ◼   ► that are in 16.4 real quick?

01:05:59 ◼   ► Because that's where this was from,

01:06:01 ◼   ► and there were a few things I want to get your two opinion

01:06:04 ◼   ► on these, 'cause there's some interesting stuff

01:06:06 ◼   ► going on in 16.4, which I can't believe

01:06:09 ◼   ► we're getting new features this close now to WWDC, right?

01:06:12 ◼   ► Like it's kind of wild that we're doing,

01:06:14 ◼   ► that that's happening.

01:06:16 ◼   ► But we got web push notifications.

01:06:18 ◼   ► So now apps that you add to your home screen,

01:06:23 ◼   ► web apps that you add to your home screen

01:06:24 ◼   ► can now send you push notifications.

01:06:26 ◼   ► Can websites send you push notifications in the same way

01:06:29 ◼   ► or does it have to be added to the app, like as an app?

01:06:33 ◼   ► Do you know, either of you?

01:06:34 ◼   ► - I think it needs to be added as an app

01:06:37 ◼   ► then you can control it via focus modes as well. Yeah, it gets focus mode control. If you have those

01:06:43 ◼   ► like sweet solution apps on your home screen, they can badge with notifications and third-party

01:06:49 ◼   ► browsers can now add these web apps to home now as well. Which is kind of silly because a third-party

01:06:56 ◼   ► browser adding PWA to the home screen, it's still going to be running off a web kit right now. Oh,

01:07:04 ◼   ► Maybe. I mean, maybe they'll fix that.

01:07:07 ◼   ► Exactly. Like maybe that's in preparation for, you know,

01:07:10 ◼   ► it's a good point. Edge and Chrome and Firefox, they ship their own engines in June.

01:07:15 ◼   ► Like this might be part of getting ready for that, right? Yeah. That makes sense.

01:07:18 ◼   ► I've also seen speculation that this is Apple kind of hedging like, "Oh,

01:07:24 ◼   ► if you don't want to be in the App Store, the web is just as good." You know,

01:07:28 ◼   ► you can get notifications on the web now.

01:07:30 ◼   ► It's funny. We're going back to that conversation.

01:07:33 ◼   ► Yeah, it's what they said when the iPhone first came out.

01:07:38 ◼   ► Oh yeah, that is kind of fun. I hadn't thought of it that way.

01:07:43 ◼   ► How would you call it? A sweet approach? Sweet strategy?

01:07:47 ◼   ► Sweet monopoly?

01:07:49 ◼   ► Sweet setup?

01:07:50 ◼   ► There was a...

01:07:51 ◼   ► Sweet congressional avoidance. I think might be what we're looking for here.

01:07:59 ◼   ► Sweet Europe.

01:08:00 ◼   ► Apple podcasts is getting a bunch of features. So the channels is the thing that got introduced

01:08:06 ◼   ► kind of as part of the Apple podcast subscriptions thing. Like it's a way that you would have

01:08:12 ◼   ► the subscriptions you could pay for like a channel so you get like a bunch of shows in

01:08:15 ◼   ► one subscription. But you can also have channels created in Apple podcasts without subscriptions.

01:08:20 ◼   ► Relay FM has a channel. It's basically all the Relay FM shows. Channels will now appear

01:08:25 ◼   ► in the library section as like a top level part of the navigation. So you can more easily

01:08:29 ◼   ► find content from publishers you already enjoy, which I think is a nice addition.

01:08:32 ◼   ► Good idea.

01:08:33 ◼   ► Up next is adding the ability to resume episodes, start saved episodes, remove episodes you

01:08:39 ◼   ► want to skip, and also includes episodes of shows you're not following in Apple Podcasts.

01:08:45 ◼   ► Oh finally, yeah.

01:08:46 ◼   ► This is good, this is good.

01:08:47 ◼   ► Yeah, because so many times you find something, you start listening, but later it just disappears

01:08:51 ◼   ► from up next.

01:08:52 ◼   ► This is one of those things that when I read I was like, "Oh, it didn't already do that?

01:08:55 ◼   ► Like, it feels like it should have been doing that."

01:08:58 ◼   ► All Mastodon previews now appear in Messages. They work fast on that. Bravo to the Messages

01:09:04 ◼   ► team on that one. Focus modes can control the always-on display.

01:09:09 ◼   ► I was right about this months ago. This was a pick before your time, I think.

01:09:16 ◼   ► Yeah, another of those. So this is now a focus filter, right? So you

01:09:19 ◼   ► can, as part of when you're setting up a focus mode, either turn on or off the always-on

01:09:23 ◼   ► on display.

01:09:24 ◼   ► - Yep, yep.

01:09:25 ◼   ► - Shortcuts gains the ability to do this as well.

01:09:28 ◼   ► So you have always on display triggers and shortcuts

01:09:30 ◼   ► along with the ability to enable or disable Stage Manager.

01:09:33 ◼   ► - Yeah, but just that for Stage Manager.

01:09:37 ◼   ► Yeah, it seems--

01:09:38 ◼   ► - There's some more stuff, right, in Shortcuts Federico?

01:09:40 ◼   ► - Yeah, it seems that Shortcuts,

01:09:42 ◼   ► like the Shortcuts team is mostly focusing,

01:09:44 ◼   ► and I mean, that was also true in 16 to an extent,

01:09:47 ◼   ► but they are focusing on bringing settings.

01:09:50 ◼   ► Just any setting that you can enable and disable

01:09:52 ◼   ► from the settings app should also have

01:09:55 ◼   ► related shortcuts action.

01:09:56 ◼   ► There's more for setting the VPN.

01:09:59 ◼   ► There's another for, what else did they add?

01:10:02 ◼   ► There's another two, I mean, they added actions

01:10:05 ◼   ► for like locking the screen, shutting down your device.

01:10:09 ◼   ► In general, they've added a bug.

01:10:10 ◼   ► - I can't believe they're letting you shut down

01:10:12 ◼   ► your device for shortcuts.

01:10:12 ◼   ► - There are some fun ideas there for automations

01:10:15 ◼   ► for like iPads that run like in the home.

01:10:18 ◼   ► - Also just for griefing your friends.

01:10:20 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:10:21 ◼   ► Oh yeah, or there, or there.

01:10:23 ◼   ► You know, you create a shortcut

01:10:26 ◼   ► that looks like the Facebook icon.

01:10:28 ◼   ► Every time someone taps it,

01:10:30 ◼   ► they turn off their phone.

01:10:32 ◼   ► Or you put it, you tie it to like the tap back thing.

01:10:38 ◼   ► So you tap the back of your phone the wrong way

01:10:40 ◼   ► and then your phone shuts down.

01:10:41 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:10:43 ◼   ► My phone keeps turning off.

01:10:46 ◼   ► Interesting.

01:10:47 ◼   ► You could also do something like one of those shortcuts

01:10:49 ◼   ► that you run when the police pulls you over,

01:10:52 ◼   ► and you do a bunch of things and then shut down the phone.

01:10:56 ◼   ► I could imagine some shortcuts that do that.

01:10:58 ◼   ► There are still no actions on the iPad for managing Windows,

01:11:02 ◼   ► so you can only just enable and disable Stage Manager.

01:11:05 ◼   ► But the Find Windows action,

01:11:07 ◼   ► that when I saw the Stage Manager action,

01:11:09 ◼   ► I was like, oh yeah, I'm sure now they also brought over

01:11:11 ◼   ► the Find Windows action from macOS,

01:11:13 ◼   ► but no, still nowhere to be found.

01:11:17 ◼   ► On iPad, I saw some new options for choosing the icon of a shortcut.

01:11:22 ◼   ► So now when you go into the choose icon screen,

01:11:26 ◼   ► you can now switch between different versions of the shortcut's icon

01:11:32 ◼   ► and a custom icon.

01:11:35 ◼   ► It's like you have a control to switch between two versions of an icon.

01:11:39 ◼   ► I think it's pretty well done.

01:11:40 ◼   ► - I'm sorry, I don't know what that, I don't follow what that means.

01:11:43 ◼   ► Yeah, so for example, open a shortcut that you have on your phone.

01:11:47 ◼   ► Yep.

01:11:48 ◼   ► Are you on 16.4?

01:11:49 ◼   ► No, I am.

01:11:51 ◼   ► Okay, so open a shortcut and a shortcut that has at least a bunch of actions in it and

01:11:58 ◼   ► go to the choose icon screen.

01:12:02 ◼   ► On mine, but this is weird because it seems like it's only possible for some.

01:12:07 ◼   ► Oh, I see what they have done.

01:12:09 ◼   ► So for shortcuts that have one action only, you can now switch between a custom icon with

01:12:17 ◼   ► a custom glyph or the shortcuts icon with the default shortcuts logo in different colors.

01:12:26 ◼   ► When you say the default shortcuts icon, like the actual shortcut...

01:12:30 ◼   ► The two squares.

01:12:31 ◼   ► Yeah, it starts with that.

01:12:34 ◼   ► Oh, okay.

01:12:35 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:12:36 ◼   ► Huh.

01:12:37 ◼   ► This is kind of weird.

01:12:38 ◼   ► I don't know.

01:12:39 ◼   ► Why? I thought you were going to say maybe it included the icon of the app that's involved.

01:12:46 ◼   ► Yeah, in this other shortcut, which is a single open URL action, it's a Safari action. When

01:12:53 ◼   ► I go into the Choose icon screen, now it lets me choose between the Safari action or a custom

01:13:00 ◼   ► icon.

01:13:01 ◼   ► Oh, so you could...

01:13:02 ◼   ► The Safari icon, sorry.

01:13:03 ◼   ► It's just Safari?

01:13:04 ◼   ► Or a custom icon. Just Safari.

01:13:06 ◼   ► So I've got a shortcut that gives me a menu and it opens whatever Google Doc I choose.

01:13:11 ◼   ► So I have one for each of my show notes and the URLs are Google Docs URL.

01:13:16 ◼   ► So the iPhone opens them in Google and the Google Docs app, but it still gives me the

01:13:19 ◼   ► Safari icon because it's a, that's fun.

01:13:22 ◼   ► A URL URL.

01:13:23 ◼   ► Uh, I've seen, I've seen other shark, other shortcuts in my library that, uh, they just

01:13:29 ◼   ► start with the default shortcuts app icon.

01:13:33 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:13:34 ◼   ► Like this.

01:13:35 ◼   ► and I'm sending you another image.

01:13:37 ◼   ► Like, they start with this,

01:13:39 ◼   ► and then you can actually change it.

01:13:41 ◼   ► - Okay, so it's just, it is actually the shortcuts icon,

01:13:44 ◼   ► but you can change the colors of it.

01:13:45 ◼   ► It's letting you change the colors of it.

01:13:47 ◼   ► - This is so weird.

01:13:48 ◼   ► - That's cool, at least.

01:13:50 ◼   ► So wait, is that a dynamically changing icon?

01:13:54 ◼   ► They've, that's interesting. - No.

01:13:57 ◼   ► No. - No?

01:13:58 ◼   ► - But, and it's inconsistent,

01:13:59 ◼   ► because this option appears sometimes,

01:14:03 ◼   ► and sometimes it doesn't.

01:14:04 ◼   ► I don't know.

01:14:05 ◼   ► you're able to change the colors of the shortcuts icon like the app icon no oh

01:14:10 ◼   ► it shows you the color picker but you can't do anything with it okay okay no

01:14:15 ◼   ► okay no the homekit architecture upgrade is returned with 16.4 so get that one

01:14:23 ◼   ► another go there it seems like it's time to phase out developer profile so when

01:14:29 ◼   ► you want to if you're if you're in the developer program and you want to

01:14:32 ◼   ► install iOS 17, let's say 16.4.17 or whatever.

01:14:37 ◼   ► You have to go to the website, you download a profile,

01:14:41 ◼   ► it's like a whole thing.

01:14:41 ◼   ► Now they're just tying it to your Apple ID.

01:14:43 ◼   ► If your Apple ID is opted in, you can just go into settings

01:14:47 ◼   ► and be like, give me the beta, right?

01:14:49 ◼   ► - Yeah, there's some interesting things here.

01:14:52 ◼   ► A lot of developers will have an Apple ID

01:14:54 ◼   ► specifically for development that they don't stay logged

01:14:58 ◼   ► into on their devices.

01:15:00 ◼   ► So I don't know if there's gonna be an option

01:15:02 ◼   ► to add your developer ID like separately,

01:15:05 ◼   ► like you can have a separate purchase Apple ID still,

01:15:08 ◼   ► or how that'll work.

01:15:10 ◼   ► I mean, what they're trying to do is keep people

01:15:12 ◼   ► who aren't developers out of the developer beta.

01:15:14 ◼   ► - Considering the public beta is like a week behind,

01:15:16 ◼   ► like how much of a problem is it?

01:15:17 ◼   ► Like if it's gonna cause problems really, is this worth it?

01:15:19 ◼   ► Like the profile system is fine, but we'll see.

01:15:22 ◼   ► It doesn't bother me, right?

01:15:24 ◼   ► Like you guys are probably the same.

01:15:25 ◼   ► My Apple ID is what I use for the developer betas.

01:15:30 ◼   ► but you're right, I can imagine it being an issue

01:15:33 ◼   ► if you're like your developer Apple ID

01:15:36 ◼   ► is tied to your testing devices.

01:15:38 ◼   ► But then maybe you don't need it.

01:15:41 ◼   ► I don't know, we'll find out.

01:15:42 ◼   ► - Yeah, I'm curious to follow this

01:15:44 ◼   ► as we get into the next big beta cycle this summer.

01:15:48 ◼   ► If you wanna find links to the stories we spoke about,

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01:15:51 ◼   ► and the podcast player you're listening in,

01:15:55 ◼   ► or you can go to the website, relay.fm/connected/438.

01:16:00 ◼   ► In both places there are a couple of links I would draw your attention to.

01:16:04 ◼   ► One is to join.

01:16:05 ◼   ► You'll get Connected Pro, which is a longer ad-free version of the show each and every

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01:16:11 ◼   ► The last couple of weeks we've been talking about Myke's newfound hobby of golf.

01:16:15 ◼   ► So that's the thing he's doing.

01:16:16 ◼   ► We've been talking about it in the pro show for a couple of weeks now.

01:16:20 ◼   ► Those episodes, like I said, are also ad-free, which is cool.

01:16:24 ◼   ► You can also submit feedback on the web.

01:16:26 ◼   ► submit feedback link and button on the website. Please don't send us any more

01:16:31 ◼   ► thigh measurements. Please don't. Unless you really want to. Unless you can beat...

01:16:35 ◼   ► Well that's it, you've got to beat the thigh to beat, which is 56 centimeters. If you can't

01:16:39 ◼   ► beat 56 centimeters, I don't want to see your thighs. But if you can, I want to see

01:16:44 ◼   ► them. Someone clip that out and put it on the web. What he said.

01:16:49 ◼   ► I'll stand by it. Want to see those thighs? Take it out of context, I don't care, I'll

01:16:54 ◼   ► stand by it if your thighs are bigger than 56 centimetres I want to see them

01:16:58 ◼   ► you're gonna see mail those directly to Myke don't put those go for it I'll still

01:17:02 ◼   ► put them in the show don't you worry about it you can find us all online

01:17:07 ◼   ► Federico is the editor-in-chief of max stories dot net and he is on Mastodon at

01:17:12 ◼   ► Vitici at max stories dot net you can find Myke online he hosts a bunch of

01:17:17 ◼   ► other shows here on relay FM he is the co-founder of cortex brand and he is on

01:17:24 ◼   ► the Don at i-mic at mike.social.

01:17:28 ◼   ► I get that right?

01:17:29 ◼   ► I can't remember which way the i goes,

01:17:31 ◼   ► if it's like in the handle or in the URL.

01:17:33 ◼   ► - In the URL?

01:17:35 ◼   ► No, it's mike.social and then i-mic.social.

01:17:37 ◼   ► - So you can find Myke there.

01:17:39 ◼   ► Myke also keyboard streams on a lot of Fridays.

01:17:42 ◼   ► So check that out too, if that's your thing.

01:17:43 ◼   ► You can find me on Mac Power Users here on Relay FM.

01:17:46 ◼   ► We publish every Sunday.

01:17:48 ◼   ► I write over at 512pixels.net

01:17:50 ◼   ► and I am ismh@eworld.social on Mastodon.

01:17:55 ◼   ► I'd like to thank our sponsors this week,

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01:17:58 ◼   ► I'd like to thank you for listening.

01:18:00 ◼   ► And until next week, guys, say goodbye.

01:18:03 ◼   ► - Bye to get there to you.

01:18:04 ◼   ► - Cheerio. - Bye, y'all.