Hello, hello, Merlin. How are you? I'm very well, Dan. How are you? Good. Good. Hold on. There's some as usual problem. Yes. With my audio here a little bit.

Hmm. Yeah, as usual as usual. How's that? That's better. That's better. No. I think you're on your computer, Mike. I know I'm for you. I might be.

Well, not I can fix that for you. I do all that for you.

That's it. Hmm. Hang on. Yeah, it's picking it up on that. Instead of on the one that it should. There you go. Is that better? Yeah.

Is the thing is it's a sign of what? I just said it's just dumb. It's just really dumb. What's dumb?

Skyping and you know, I'm on a different microphone. I'm not on my regular rig. I'm on a little portable microphone and

it's a great mic. But if you disconnect it, I'll forget all the settings. Forget all the settings. You're just going to forget all the settings. You're going to forget

it. Forget all the settings. Forget all the settings. You set the input levels and everything within applications. And if it's changed in Skype, then it's just a it's a nightmare. And I don't want to talk about it.

I'll let it all this. It sounds. No, no, no, it sounds like you want to talk about it. I don't really do. You do you want to talk about it? I don't.

You do? I want it to go away. The Skype saga over the last week has been has been a fun one. Yeah. I mean, I hope. Well, I don't wish ill upon others. But I hope I'm not the only one who had this problem. Otherwise, it's localized to me. What was the problem? You didn't get it. No.

Yeah. For me and lots of other people Skype did an update. And when that update updated, first of all, crazy keychain stuff. It wanted my express VP of permission from my express VPN certificate, which I don't have expressed VPN turned on on this computer. And then I was like, that's really weird. So of course, I start frantically googling, thinking, am I hacked? And I know lots of other people were getting it.

But the thus just begins the carnival of errors because in addition to that, Colt Accorda disappeared. Colt Accorda didn't work.

And there's no Colt Accorda. You can't leave that little familiar window that I have to move every

Ding dang time. I open Skype was missing.

Okay. All right. Cool. Ecam says, you can't announce as guidance that, oh, oh, just get this three, the three point zero point eight update to run that again. You should be good. I was not good.

So I did not have that for a couple of days. And the thing is I went and went into time machine and I rolled back to an old version.

Now, the problem is there's no way to turn off updating in Skype anymore.

So just automatically going to pull the latest update in whether you want it or not.

I think that's accurate. And I I went so far as to find a horrible a clever novel slightly insane thing. A guy had done to make sure it was always running off an old DMG.

Like so you could so in other words, you were running your running Skype off of a DMG instead of on your own hard drive. And if it updates it, you just throw it away and pull it back off again. Something like that.

Yeah, you're doing a regular. What's the guy's name? Snowden. You got to get your Skype airgapped. Yeah, put some puts some call right into the USB part.

Right. So anyways, that that happened. And that was kind of frustrating.

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