The Mac Geek Cab episode 731 for Monday, October 15, 2018. Oh, Thanks, folks,

and welcome to the Mac Observers, Matt Geekum,

the show where we take your questions,

your tips, your cool stuff found we mix it all together and the

goal is that each and every one of us learns five new things.

Topics on the list today include some APFS troubles,

explanations about Wi-Fi and what matters with the new version numbers and how to translate

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Here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

And here, and boy, it's starting to get chilly.

Fearfield, Connecticut, this is John I've wrong.

Yeah, it's fall, I love it.

It's, the air is crisp, it gets cool at night,

it's good sleeping weather,

it's time to have fires and like, you know, enjoy the smell of smoke and oh yeah yeah I love it. It's good. It's good.

Well for me it's a chance to get new technology. I saw a tweet the so I follow Z-wave, as you probably know, Z-wave is a protocol for things to talk to each other and become part of your smart home.

And I saw a tweet and they're like, hey, maybe you should get a Z-wave thermostat.

So I dug around and found one and it's on the way and we'll see how that works out.

Yeah, I'm curious about that. I've used the EkoB thermostat. I've used the nest thermostat, but those are both Wi-Fi thermostats. And so I'm curious how Z-wave works.

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