Password Hygiene, Custom GPT Hacks, and Your Best Travel Battery
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
From the wisdom of when to buy a Mac (hint: when you need one) to the best practices for Migration Assistant and password hygiene, this episode is packed with practical advice. Thinking about travel gear? The crew compares their go-to backup batteries—from Pete’s 20k mAh beast to Dave’s slick INIU Qi2 charger. And if you’re mourning Mint, the budgeting app, the guys explore strong replacements like Quicken and Banktivity. It’s a full ride of tips to keep your tech life optimized and your wallet sane.
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1085 for Monday, April 14th, 2025
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Quick Tips
00:00:01 QT-In new Subarus, play/pause is done by holding the Source button
00:04:28 QT-Put all your user manuals into a custom GPT.
00:05:39 Mark-QT-Use ChatGPT to write Photoshop scripts
00:08:35 Shopify (and other companies) mandating the use of GPTs
00:13:17 Workshopping the MGG-GPT
00:15:21 Russ-CSF-More on Perplexity and other LLMs
00:16:57 The more input you give AI, the better the output
00:17:59 David-1083-Thanks for the motivation to back up my stuff!
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Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:21:47 Larry-With the potential for price-increases due to tariffs, should I buy a new Mac now?
MGG Advice: Buy a new machine when you need a new machine, and get the most Mac you can afford
00:33:29 The price of computers over the years
00:35:23 Barry-What’s the best source when using Migration Assistant?
00:42:28 GW-Is it good practice to Regularly Change Passwords?
Changing Passwords for the Sake of Change
How big is your haystack?
00:48:00 Changing passwords in a corporate environment
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MOAR Questions Answered
00:55:34 DLH-What size battery do you travel with, and why?
Adam, the Anker Nano, 10,000mAh with USB-C and 30W
Pete, a 20,000mAh battery with USB-A and USB-C
Dave, now from MGG 1084: I...
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mackey, Kevin. I will bring us our quick tip of the week. I recently got a new Subaru Outback and upgraded from one that was a 2018. And in my 2018, when I pushed the volume button in during a car play session, it would pause or resume whatever was playing. |
| 0:23.7 | It didn't take me long to realize that that button is now a mute button and things keep |
| 0:30.0 | playing in the background no matter what. So I was losing my place in podcasts and it was |
| 0:35.9 | driving me a little crazy. I found that on the steering |
| 0:39.2 | wheel, if you hold the source button, the one that if you just press it, would change between, |
| 0:46.4 | you know, AM, FM, whatever other options you might have in the car, simply holding that down, |
| 0:53.0 | now acts as a play and pause button. |
| 0:56.0 | So if you have a Subaru, and I believe that happened in the last three or four years, that's how you do it. |
| 1:03.4 | And other cars may be the same. |
| 1:06.1 | So experiment. |
| 1:07.4 | Don't be afraid to hold a button down a little bit longer and see what happens. |
| 1:11.8 | More tips like this, plus your questions answered today. |
| 1:17.2 | I'm MacGeep 1085 for Monday, April 14th National Dolphin Day, 2025. |
| 1:24.2 | Thank you. 2025. |
| 1:45.7 | Greetings, folks, and welcome to Mac geek out the show where we share quick tips like that. |
| 1:46.8 | We share cool stuff found. |
| 1:54.8 | We share questions, hopefully with answers or at least a path to get you on a successful troubleshooting journey. |
| 2:04.7 | We assemble it all together into an agenda so that each of us gets to learn at least five new things every time we get together each week. |
| 2:09.5 | Pete, your bell sounds sick today, but I think I know why. |
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