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

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

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

And I'm Brian Schultmeister. I've got a bit of follow-up.

Kajmir Hill finished her series about cutting out the big five of tech giants.

We fell a little bit behind, so she did her one with Apple, which was interesting because like

any techie person, they tend to use Apple products. So iPhones, iPads, Macintoshes, all that sort of

stuff, Macintoshes. Doesn't make me sound old, if I say Macintosh. Macs. Macs. Yes.

Yeah. And as she says, like Apple is my gateway to almost all things digital. I'm physically

touching an Apple device for the majority of any given day. Being asked to remove Apple for

my life was like being asked to remove a part of my body that was incredibly useful, but that I

could live without like a finger or an eyeball. And she went through it and basically discovered that

of all the tech giants, because she did this one last, Apple is the only one that she could actually

get by without. Now, she did it a little bit. She knew that the next week she was going to cut out

all five. So instead of going from Apple to say an Android or to a Mac to a PC using Microsoft

Windows, she tried to find alternatives to those systems to use. Now, I personally would have

liked to hear a Mac user's experience with Android, living on Android and Windows for a week.

So I didn't get that. I was a bit bummed out by that, but I understand why she did it because

if you read the week, the next one, I cut the big five tech giants for my life. It was hell.

You understand why she did it because she needed to basically have a lot of prep time to be

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