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Grumpy Old Geeks

248: Side Hustle

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

Vibe Coding, Elon, Bitcoin, Nfts, Tesla, Meta, Cyber, Google, Palantir, Entertainment, Tech, Music, Lifestyle, Code, Technology, Crypto, Social, Facebook, Ai, News, Internet, Elon Musk, Web, Apple, Tech News, Security, Kanye, News Commentary, Movies, Engineering, Spacex, Scams, Business

4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Uber & the gig economy; Airbnb cheats & Spotify swindles; FCC order; death of the web; Snapchat user revolt; the great Twitter purge; Facebook peaks; grim AI future; Youtube trending; Maps, quantified; reboots; GDPR; game malware; biohack; the Grump Boat. Show notes at http://gog.show/248 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason

0:06.8

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

0:16.4

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister.

0:20.3

I have some good news today, Brian. Do you? Yes, I've actually got great news. I can see again.

0:26.0

Oh, I thought we had gotten some massive donation or something and I could quit my side hustle.

0:30.4

Oh, no, no, no. You have to keep your side hustle for now. I have to keep mine as well. But

0:34.6

I told you I broke my glasses a while ago and I'm like, oh, no, it's out of warranty.

0:38.4

Yes. Well, turns out everybody needs to check their paperwork because turns out I beat it by

0:43.6

three days and got a new, basically, $600 pair of glasses for just the cost of labor.

0:50.5

Right. Look, everybody should do themselves a favor. We have all this technology now. We have

0:55.3

Google calendars. You can create different calendars that lay over things and turn them on or off.

1:00.2

What I do is anytime we get anything, I put end of warranty dates into with Google calendar and

1:04.8

I have one just called warranties. That's a good idea. Isn't it though? It's actually a very good idea.

1:09.4

Yeah. It's very smart and you keep track of things. You just check on it every now and then

1:13.6

you see when something's coming up, like, you know, my car warranty and I make an appointment before

1:18.2

it goes out. Brian, bring in the life hack. That's right. There's a good life hack for you.

1:23.4

We have a little bit of follow up. Somebody wrote us, but didn't give us their name.

1:28.3

But you were having a trouble trying to print PDF in Windows. Remember? So that great hack that I had.

1:33.8

Well, getting the whole screen, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that cool hack that works great on Mac wasn't

1:37.6

doing it for you in Windows. But apparently you just make sure you have Microsoft Print to PDF

1:42.3

listed under printers and scanners and Bob's your uncle. Okay. I will check that out because I think

1:47.6

I just did the built-in PDF printing from the browser. Yeah. Yeah. So I guess this will solve

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