Welcome to the Virgecast, the flagship podcast of Configuration Changes.

I'm your friend David Pierce and I am in my basement, as always, doing a shipping day.

So I'm going on vacation at the end of this week. I'm going to spend two weeks in the outdoors just like staring at trees and not screens. It's going to be amazing. Can't wait. But what I always try to do before I go on vacation is just like kind of get stuff together.

There's nothing worse than coming home to like mess.

So trying to get everything cleaned off, and mostly what that means in my particular line of work is just shipping things.

One of the great things about this job is you accumulate a lot of gadgets and one of the

annoying things about this job is you have to ship them all back.

So right now I have like I have a bunch of tablets on my desk.

I have a case for a thing.

I don't even know what the thing is.

I have a bunch of watch boxes that I have to go back. I see one, two, three, four, five phones that I have to do something with.

I have some AR glasses. I have these Amazon Echo frames. I have a camera and I have a Vision Pro and I have oh that's another

phones that's six phones I have the humane AI pin that I keep meaning to send back I have two

rabbits they sent me two for some reason I don some reason. I don't want either one of them.

So basically what is going to happen here is I have a very carefully organized thing of

packing tape in the utility room over there and I'm going to spend all day

shoving things into boxes and then I'm going to load my car and as I do four or five times a

year I'm going to dump thousands of things into the UPS office all in once

and then it's going to feel like a gigantic weight has lifted off my shoulders.

I both hate this and kind of love how it feels at the very end. Anyway, lots to do on the

verge cast today. We are going to talk about the crazy thing that happened on

Friday when thanks to something happening with CrowdStrike and Windows, computers all over the world

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