HOT 189: What Are Passkeys? - Google Maps, Roku vs Fire TV, Pixel 9
Hands-On Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On Hands-On Mac, Mikah answers questions about adjusting a setting within the Google Maps app, whether there's a difference in audio and video quality between a Roku TV and an Amazon Fire stick, what music players will work for Android to play all the songs of an individual artist, getting legacy hardware to connect to an iPhone hotspot, and what passkeys are!
- Martin-Guy is a retired cyclist who uses Google Maps while cycling. However, the cycling times reference speed within the app is too fast for him. He's looking for a way to adjust that setting if possible or if there's an alternative app he can use that would allow him to make such an adjustment.
- Michael owns a 4K TCL Roku TV and the most recent Amazon Fire TV Stick. Is there a difference in audio or video quality between the Roku TV and the Amazon Fire TV Stick?
- Lane just got a Pixel 9 Pro and stores his music in a folder on the device. He uses an app called Musicolet as his player and wants to know if there's a way to play all the songs of a selected artist in shuffle mode or if there's another app that can do this.
- Jon is trying to connect older "legacy" hardware to his iPhone hotspot but is having trouble doing this and wonders if Mikah knows of any tricks to get this older hardware to connect to the hotspot.
- Todd has heard Mikah talk about Passkeys on the TWiT network many times in the past. However, he doesn't understand what a passkey is and asks Mikah for any insight he can share about passkeys.
Host: Mikah Sargent
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Hands on Tech, I've got some questions that I can't wait to answer. |
| 0:05.0 | First, we talk about Google Maps and what you can do when it comes to using it for bike routes. |
| 0:11.9 | We have some questions about home theater, and I get an opportunity to explain pass keys. |
| 0:19.5 | It's all of that, plus so much more coming up on Hands on Tech. |
| 0:22.9 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome, welcome, welcome to Hands on Tech for the first time, or if you are a returning listener, well, thank you for being |
| 0:39.9 | here. This, of course, is the show where I, Micah Sargent, take tech questions from around |
| 0:46.0 | the world and try to help you figure out what the heck is going on, what you need to do to get |
| 0:52.5 | this problem solved. We mostly get questions in via |
| 0:57.5 | HOT at twit.tv. That's the email. HOT at twit.tv. You can send us an email and we would love, |
| 1:04.0 | love, love to hear from you. But as is always the way, we have some great questions today and occasionally do reviews of products, |
| 1:14.8 | unboxing, that kind of thing. |
| 1:16.4 | But this is once again an episode full of great questions. |
| 1:20.5 | Our first question this week comes in from Marta Ghi, who writes, Hello, Micah, I have a Google Maps question. |
| 1:32.0 | I am a retired cyclist. The cycling times proposed by Google Maps are much too fast. |
| 1:38.4 | Is there a way to adjust the reference speed on the website or the iOS app? |
| 1:42.9 | I much prefer the website to the app because it allows me to |
| 1:46.3 | modify the route to the one used in reality. Is there a good alternative to Google? Thank you. |
| 1:52.6 | Marta, thank you for writing in. I did some research on this because I wanted to make sure |
| 1:57.9 | that I wasn't missing anything because my initial look into |
| 2:01.7 | Google Maps itself was not giving me any way to change the speed at which I would most likely |
| 2:09.5 | ride a bike. In doing that research, I discovered that Google Maps reportedly assumes 10 miles per hour on average for bikers. And that is |
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