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Grumpy Old Geeks

295: Vitamin Melanoma

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

We take the red pill; scooters killed Kenny; WeWork while WeDrink; scanning actors; AI stories; the sun giveth, taketh away; Wyden's smart privacy plan; Siri on Helium; smart thermometers; truth machines at the border; turn off autocorrect; instascams; adulting classes. Show Notes at http://gog.show/295 This episode is brought to you by Hover. For 10% off your first order head over to https://hover.com/gog and get your domain on! 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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0:10.4

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

0:14.4

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

0:24.1

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister. Brian,

0:28.9

I hate computers. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. I've had three beautiful Macintosh

0:35.6

computers until this week where I now have one. Two of my laptops have died on me.

0:43.4

How does this happen? What happened? The batteries have gone. You can get those replaced, right?

0:49.5

I did. I took it one of them to the genius bar and it apparently there are some other problems

0:55.6

with it too. The first one I took in was a 2013 MacBook Pro, one of my favorite laptops ever.

1:02.4

$900 to fix it. Ouch. Yep, that's a door stop now. So that one's dead and the same problem started

1:12.0

come up on my other one, which was a 2015 MacBook Pro. I fear taking it to the genius bar because,

1:21.3

I don't I can't afford it. Rip off that bandage man find out the damage. Yeah, I gotta do it. I

1:26.3

gotta do it or do I maybe I'll just wait and work on my little 5k iMac. You know, I paid a

1:33.2

fortune for I'm still paying this thing off. So maybe I'll just use that and not work in my bedroom

1:37.2

anymore. How about that? How about that? You've got iPads for your bedroom. Yeah, it's a little

1:42.2

separation of church and state. All you do is talk about how easy it is to do everything on these

1:46.3

big iPads these days. So how about you kick the laptop, have it man? Yeah, but I can't edit.

1:51.8

You know, it's nice to be in the house and be able to chill with the poochies and all that.

1:55.5

Separate work and state, man. I know. You spend a lot of time setting up your studio.

2:01.3

Yeah, I gotta use it. Poor puppies are gonna miss me, but yeah, man, it's just a bummer that these

2:08.1

things died within like a week of each other. And I think it's because I've been using them in

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