It's time for episode 583 of the Clockwise Podcast from Relay, recorded Wednesday, December 4th, 2024.

Clockwise, four people, where we're talking in a winter wonderland.

My name is Dan Moran, and I'm joined across the internet by my good friend, my pal, the one, the only, Micah, Sergeant.

How are you doing today, Micah?

I'm doing well, Dan. I, uh...

You ever hear the sound of someone vamping?

Yeah. Are you drunk? I'm slower because I'm walking through a winter wonderland,

and it's cold. We just thawed Micah out for the show. Yeah. I'm actually

physically chilly and shaking right now. So the basement is very cold here. So that's why I just

sound a little different. All right. Understandable. This is of course the show where we talk about

four tech topics with two fantastic guests to my left this week. It's the CEO and lackey rogue amoeba paul khafassas welcome back paul thanks for having me dan

always a pleasure and to my left developer and host of ios today it is the wonderful rosemary

orchard welcome back to the show rose thank you very much for having me it's a pleasure to be here

in this snowy wonderland.

Yeah, we really need to buy a roof. All right. I'm freezing. Let's kick things off this week.

It is, of course, the holiday season, and many of us are at some point visiting family and thus getting asked to be tech support.

I'm kind of curious to know what's the thing that your family mostly asks

you to deal with and how do you try to make things easier on them and more importantly on

yourself when you have to do this tech troubleshooting. Paul, let's start with you.

The question that I get the most that is unanswerable, at least by me, is why did they change

that? And that is not one that I have

an answer to about 95% of the time. So I usually answer, you know, just to annoy you. But for for a

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