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2:10Hi, everybody. Good day, internet. Philly Code Hound, I got a notification that a package arrived at my P.O. box. I assume that's the stuff you sent, and I will get it probably today and go get it. So thank you for sending Rob Dunwood.

2:27Sarah Lane: You're in a different place. I am. I am. I'm up near Lynn today. I'm in, I'm in Akron. I'm in our, he's in Lynn's basement. Yeah. And then I will be much closer to Lynn right after we get done doing the show. Cause I'm actually going downtown Cleveland to go to a concert. Very cool. I see like there's a, there's a little bit of teal behind you in the room behind you. So I feel like it's still Rob, the Rob that we know and love. Yeah, it's almost like he's in the next room. You know, Teal goes wherever Rob goes. There's always going to be Teal. We have a contract. When do you go home? Tonight? No, I'm going to head back first thing tomorrow morning right before I do headlines.

3:14Dang. Who are you seeing? I know you told me about it. Snarky Puppy. So they are a jazz fusion band orchestra. You could almost call them because there's a bunch of them. Do not get them confused with skinny puppy. Entirely different. Yeah, right. No, not skinny puppy. Not the same. So where are they playing? I will be as specific as I possibly can. Somewhere in downtown Cleveland.

3:37Sarah Lane: Okay. I got you. You don't have an address yet. I have no clue. Glenn, just go down there. You'll find him. Yeah. I'm going to look it up. You have an address that you will put in your navigation map app later. And that's all you need to know. I just want to see what the venue is going to be. What is that silver thing over your left shoulder? Silver thing over my left. Oh, no, it's not silver. It's a flower. It's a little flower. Oh, yeah, just a flower sitting on a stand back there. There's a big old box next to that. I want to know more about that. Enough about jazz. Or something. No, where you're going is actually a pretty nice venue.

4:15It's going to be good. Len knows where you're going. No, I just looked him up. Yeah, it's a good venue. Do you have like a specific place you'll eat at or like just because you're up there? So I believe that we're going to stop by my father-in-law's before we head up and just like grab some pizza or something. Just, you know, go see him right fast because like I don't think the show starts until late. So I don't want – like here's the thing. If I were to leave right after the show or I leave an hour after the show, I get there at the same time because I don't, you know, I'll either be dealing with rush hour or I won't be dealing with rush hour.

4:52So I'm just going to, you know, we're going to go a little later and get there. And we did like the valet parking and stuff. So we'll just literally pull right up and then walk on it.

5:00Sarah Lane: This is a dumb question because I know lots of cities are associated with certain kinds of foods. What's the what's the Cleveland thing? Pierogies. Yeah. Oh, all right. That sounds good. pierogies. Roger and I were talking about pierogies yesterday. Yeah. So wait, what's the one with the skyline chili on top of the spaghetti? That's Columbus. Or Cincinnati maybe. Okay. So the Cleveland pierogi is like, that's what you get. But there's no hot dog thing. That's like a Chicago thing, right? Chicago or Philly. You know what? Ours is condiments. So stadium mustard. Yeah. Stadium mustard. what you get at Bertmans.

5:45Sarah Lane: And stadium mustard is not yellow mustard? It's something different? No, it's deliciousness. Like spicy brown type stuff? I'm a mustard fan, so this is good intel. If you go to a Guardians game, get a couple hot dogs, put Bertmans on there and some onions, no ketchup, and that's the taste of Salman. Seapots is now demanding a Rob and Len meetup. I assume he's in the area. I'll meet him at his father-in-law's house. Yeah, yeah. Are the hot dogs like standard stadium hot dogs, or are they like the Costco size? No, they're stadium hot dogs. Stadium hot dogs. What do you have against Costco hot dogs?

6:29Sarah Lane: They're good, too. I know what you mean, though. I thought you meant like the footlong ones that you get from Costco, but no, these are not. Yeah, like the really big ones. Are these like bratwurst type? No, just hot dogs. Hot dogs wrapped in foil, and it's just perfect. The bun is— You got the mustard. You got the wood to it out, the onions. Yeah. You're good to go. You got to get a couple when you go see a Guardians game, though. You know, I used to think hot dogs were very uncomplicated food things, but then I started looking online down a rabbit hole of different variations of hot dogs throughout the world.

7:05And so in Chile, they have what they call the completo, which is basically like a foot-long hot dog. But they cram mayo, guacamole. They cram a lot of stuff into it. It's like a hot dog burrito. It's like more condiment than meat, like if you saw it. That sounds like one of those street hot dogs you would get like in Seattle where there's literally every kind of condiment you can imagine on the hot dog. They're delicious, but you almost have to eat it with a fork and a knife. It's so messy. That's the Chicago style. It's like that. That's weird. The one thing I don't remember from my time in Seattle is the food.

7:50Not that it was bad, but it didn't leave an impression. There's very few locations I've been to. You just ate fog the entire time you were there. Did you go to the fish market? Yeah, I did all those things. The only food item I remember is the chocolate-covered cherries that they have. Rainier cherries. They sell as tourist thingies.

8:13Sarah Lane: Yeah. If anybody out there knows what to get in Seattle, I wouldn't know either. I've only been there once in my life. I had one of the best eggs Benedict in Seattle. It was actually a Dungeness Crab Eggs Benedict. Yeah, it was at a hotel. I couldn't tell you what the hotel was, but I ordered it and I was like, wow, this is really good. I had never had Eggs Benedict before, so anything after that was like a real letdown. Oh, wow. Oh, I love Eggs Benedict. And then you find out that's not Eggs Benedict. It's something else. I think of beer and coffee when I think of Seattle. They have really good craft breweries.

8:53Sarah Lane: And just back and forth all day. Beer, coffee. I will take back what I just said. The only thing I remember food-wise was Top Pot Donuts. And that's because they're like the really overly garnished. Jonathan Vargas wants to know. Seattle and Portland, I feel like, were sort of like, they were the start of the fancy donuts. Maybe it happened in other places, but at least on the West Coast, it was like, ooh, voodoo donuts. Is Scrapple as big in Ohio as it is in Pennsylvania? No. And Jonathan also wants to know, pop or soda? What do you say? I think most people here say pop. Pop, soda, eh. As long as you don't say Coke.

9:38That threw me off the first time I was in Little Rock.

9:40Sarah Lane: Oh, meaning like a blanket term for all soda? Yeah, like, oh, you want a Coke? What kind? No, no, I want like a root beer. It's like, okay. That's funny. Yeah. I definitely say soda, but I know what people mean when they say pop, where I'm like, oh, you're from the Midwest. Got it. So also in Seattle, a place called the Crumpet Shop, best fresh squeezed orange juice. Crumpet Shop. So I get cringed to Seattle a bunch, and I can't really remember the food. The only time I distinctly remember it. I'm not bragging on the food, but it wasn't like I was going to form a coffee. And beer. And rainier cherries.

10:21I was more mindful of the fact that I did one of those walking tours and the part of downtown Seattle was built on top of the burnt remains of the past Seattle. Yeah, you take the underground tour. It's really cool. Joe Janos wants to insist that Skyline Chili is Cincinnati and they say pop in Cleveland. Okay. White Castle might be Columbus. Oh, is White Castle in Ohio? It's all over the Midwest, yeah. No, I know Roger's doing... No, no, but I've got to get started in Columbus, though. Wendy's is definitely based in Columbus. I know Roger's doing a quiz later.

10:57Sarah Lane: But, Len, because you talked about Eggs Benedict, and I'm a Hollandaise sauce fan. Not everybody is. But what is that made of? Hollandaise. Does that make from yolks? Yeah, it's made of Dutch people. Okay. I always wondered. Whatever it is, it's good. It's probably not good for you, though. No, but honestly, I couldn't tell you what it is. I just know I like it. It's a creamy sauce. It's a creamy sauce. But egg yolks, clarified butter, and some kind of acid like lemon juice or white wine vinegar. To break it down, it's emulsifier. It was supposed to be a riddle. And a good show, everybody!

11:44Good day, Internet. This is the DTNS Live Thursday Hangout from Studio 7 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt.

11:50Sarah Lane: From Studio Animal House, I am Sarah Lane. From Akron, Ohio, I'm Rob Dunwood. Drawing the top tech stories in Cleveland, I'm Len Perrault. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Welcome to our weekly recap of the biggest tech news of the week. It's good to have everybody. Good to have you, Len. Good to have you, Rob, Sarah, Roger, Joe, Craig, Philly, Codhound, Clinton. Sure. I'm going to just read everybody's name. It's like Romper Room. We're happy to have you. Yeah, we see you, John. You sound very happy. We see you, Len. Hi, Len. How many people even remember Romper Room? Oh, I don't know.

12:34That's a good question. I do. I used to watch it before I tied my shoes to go to school. Romper Stomper. Bomper Boom. I don't remember watching it, but I do remember it being a thing. It came on before Mr. Rogers for us, and then Captain Kangaroo after that. It came on after The Great Space Coaster for me. It always struck me.

12:55Sarah Lane: Well, I guess it depends on, yeah, how it came on. But it was like Romper Room was for the really little kids. Then Mr. Rogers was like for like little kids. And then you get to Sesame Street where, you know, kids are like, we're in a pandemic pool. And then you got to Electric Company and you're like, no. And then you go to a hotel somewhere else. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. And then you watch Captain Kangaroo and say, Like, what is this? Uno, dos, tres, cuatro. Well, everybody, if you're watching us live, we're not crazy, we assure you. And you can also help us name this episode. Head to dtns.showbot.tv right now to submit titles and vote on them throughout the show because we're going to check back in on the votes at the end of the show with all of our patrons and crown a winner.

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13:58All right, we like to start the show looking at the top tech stories of the week. We're going to be talking about John Ternus being named the new or I guess next CEO of Apple. We're going to talk about the Framework Laptop 13 Pro, the modular laptop. Those are both big stories. But before we get to those, what else was big this week? Kind of everything got overshadowed by Apple announcing a successor to Tim Cook, right?

14:23Sarah Lane: I mean, the Google TPU chips was a pretty big story. Yeah, especially because they put one for inferencing and one for training out, which was, I think, unexpected for some. Yeah. Honestly, the Huawei, the new foldable that they have. Oh, the wide one, the Pura X-Max. That's like the first foldable, like, that's actually something I would use. You won't be able to get a Huawei one very easily in the United States, but you will get that style. Samsung is reported to be working on it. Apple is reported to be working on it, I'm sure. I think OnePlus is going to do one, too. That shape totally makes sense to me.

15:03I'm with you, Roger. I like the shape of that. I like the style of it because for me, if I'm going to have a phone that folds into something, I want it to be an ideal form factor when it opens up. So I think these are a bit more ideal to use to where, you know, you can watch movies on them and you don't have the big giant bands at the top of the bottom. And they just look more like a tablet when they're open as compared to a unfolded phone. So I'm not necessarily interested in this particular one because it's going to be very difficult to get here in the States. but I am interested in the form factor overall.

15:37Anybody going to miss Reed Hastings?

15:40Sarah Lane: You know, I don't know him all that well. He's not going away. He's just stepping down from the board of Netflix. The man is alive. That would have been the end of an era story for the week if it hadn't been for Apple, right? Exactly. Because, I mean, you figure it is a, you know, a Fang or a Magnificent Seven, however you want to look at it, a company. So, I mean, he's been there forever. So it would have been bigger if it were not for the Apple news that we're going to talk about. And I'll say this about Reid. I forgot that he moved on to the board when he stepped down from running the company, right?

16:14And so I just thought he left. So in my mind, he was already gone.

16:18Sarah Lane: Well, because he was a co-CEO for a while. Yeah, right. And then moved to the board, which doesn't mean that you're not hands-on, but you're stepping away on some aspects. And to kind of say like, yeah, you know, I'm out of here at this point. Because Netflix is – it's not like, oh, this is associated with Netflix going into the ditch. The company doesn't work anymore. It very much does. Netflix is doing great. So it might have a lot to do with just maybe he's tired. Maybe the company feels that they're better off without him. He just needs a nap. He'll be fine. He needs a nap. And people retire at some point.

17:02So, you know what? I've been working long enough. I want to go enjoy the rest of my time and just do the things I want to do. So he's 65.

17:08Sarah Lane: And I'm just going to guess that Reed Hastings probably has some good retirement money at this point. You think? You know, if you're just like, I'd like to go on a cruise. He's got the money. He says he's going to do philanthropy, which is just like boilerplate person leaving company. I'm going to go and, you know, dabble. I'm going to do the things for the people. Yeah. I mean, Netflix is at a saturation point. He is leaving it on a high note. There's a lot of concerns about where it's going to go. Like you said, it's doing great. But I don't think him leaving has anything to do with like, oh, it's about to go in the tank.

17:43Let me get out of here. I think it's just time. I'm sure he is at that point where he knows that the company seems to be running fine without him directly being involved. He hasn't been directly involved, right? And so also he's like, yeah, maybe I want to go pursue my passion of making Eggs Benedict or something. I don't know. Yeah. Hastings Hollandaise.

18:05Sarah Lane: He probably knows what Hollandaise sauce is made of. He does. He didn't have to look it up on Google like I did.

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22:14All right, the big news of the week. Apple's got a new CEO coming into the job September 1st. So Tim Cook still CEO for now. He will still be CEO during WWDC in June. But September 1st, just in time for new fall announcements. John Ternus, the current hardware chief, will take the reins. Tim Cook will stick around, Reed Hastings style, as executive chairman on the board of directors. So what do we think of the succession plan? There's been a lot written about, well, you know, is this the right move and what will the legacy be? But what do you think about the way they handed things over? Well, they've been talking about this.

22:57This is a secret that nobody really was holding. We knew that he was going to step down. Now, if I'm honest, I thought that he would have said that I want to see one more release of the iPhone and then I'll make my exit. But it's like, look, we want to do it, you know, at WWDC. That kind of makes sense as well. So here's where we are. I think he is kind of doing the Reed Hastings thing. It's like, I'm not leaving, leaving. I'm just not running the day to day anymore. I'll be the chairman of the board. You know my number. If you need to get to me, you can. If something crazy happens, I'm here. We've seen where people have moved to the board and then moved back.

23:34I'm not predicting that. I'm just saying we've seen that happen before. So he's around. But once again, it's not necessarily a spring chicken either. It's like someone that is getting up there in their later years and probably just wants to stop running one of the largest companies on the planet.

23:49Sarah Lane: for 15 years has, I mean, objectively, you know, put Apple in a really great financial plan. Yes. Name one thing besides the fact that on average, the company has made$67 billion a day since he took over that he has done for Apple. So here's actually my, and this is just sort of, you know inside baseball stuff okay so john turnus takes over uh you know officially on september 1st right so we we're gonna have wwdc maybe they'll talk about that i doubt it but you know that's it's known it's out there it's news apple has officially announced it yeah i feel like they'll acknowledge it but not not dwell on it not spend a lot of time yeah what happens in september because I can see Tim still kind of being like, I'm running this keynote and then handing the reins over.

24:49One more thing. Like they do their announcement on September 1st or something? They should do it that way.

24:53Sarah Lane: But I don't know. It feels like whatever they are announcing, and I'm hoping for that foldable. I'm hoping for it. And I think we're going to get it. Obviously, Tim Cook has had his hands on this for years, of course. So for him to not be part of that, I don't know. I'm very curious to see how they handle this. I have an idea. So September 1st, John Turnus takes over. Let's say, because they quite often have an Apple announcement that first week or second week in September, right? So let's say September 1st, John Turnus takes over. The first Apple announcement is, I don't know, September 8th. I don't know if that's a Tuesday, but whatever.

25:36they start the announcement with tim and john doing a skit because apple loves doing their pre-recorded skits and i i'll leave it to the imagination of y 'all to figure out what it is

25:49Sarah Lane: but it's like skit would it be though you know it's like hey john what are you doing here like john this is your first time doing a keynote as ceo you know i've got some tips for you i i don't No, no. Craig Federighi parkours in and hands him a baton. I could see them doing a George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Ocean's Eleven to where make sure you've got batteries in your clicker when you're doing your slides. Oh, thanks, Tim. Yeah. But, you know, here's what I'm thinking is going to happen. I think that they announced it. It's September 1st. He will step down on September 1st. He'll probably still be around in September.

26:27But I think that this will be the opportunity that when we have WWDC and he is on stage, he will get the thunderous applause. That'll be kind of like his farewell tour that Hall of Fame basketball players get when they get ready to retire. Yeah. Tim Cook will come back on stage at the end of the WWDC opening keynote and say, you know, I just have a few last words to say and thunderous applause, like you say. And that'll be the poignant goodbye moment. And Laminar Rainbow says Apple's humanoid robot will carry John Ternus on stage.

27:03Sarah Lane: And then maybe in September, yeah, maybe Tim Cook doesn't actually open it, but he's part of it in some – they do, like you said, Tom, some sort of a skit where it's like, hey, Tim, what are you doing? He's like, I'm just chilling. Yeah, I don't do that anymore. the new Apple Vision Pro that may or may not ever come out. Well, because as executive chairman, they said that he's going to continue to work on worldwide relations. I can't remember exactly how they phrased it, but it's pretty clear that he's going to still go to China and meet with Xi Jinping. He might still go to the White House to meet with the president.

27:45He is going to do that kind of stuff. He's going to be active for Apple, just not in the day-to-day.

27:52Sarah Lane: And we've seen this with a lot of other executive chairman situations before. That's the executive and chairman. Pretty hands on as far as the company goes, just handing off the reins to a lot of day to day stuff to somebody else. Now, here's a question for you guys. John Ternus has taken over. John Ternus is a hardware guy and we are in the era of A.I., maybe not Apple. So is there anything to read into the fact that the new person is a hardware guy and not necessarily an AI guy or software person or whatever you want to call it? And it's interesting because I see a lot of Tim Cook's fingerprints over the Apple Silicon and the design of the new MacBooks because it's very much of the supply chain and then making everything as cost-effective as possible, right?

28:48Because if you look at the way that the MacBooks are designed, one of the things you get rid of when you do – like you get away from a lot of the internal expansion is you get to slim down your kind of footprint on what you need to bring in to make a lot of this stuff. You don't have to suddenly keep on hand a huge amount of, say, like expansion boards or anything like that. You slim it down. If you actually take a MacBook apart, the board is really tiny. and so to me that just sort of like that played to Tim Cook's strength of navigating those parts of the supply chain that most effectively brings together the stuff that the consumers want but also you know doesn't leave Apple with a huge inventory that they're just paying rent on for stuff I think with Ternus you'll probably see more advances in both silicon but also Oh, I think maybe in software as well.

29:44But why? He's the hardware guy, right? Like all the stuff you said about that you were crediting Cook with, which I think you're right. A lot of that supply chain stuff, magic definitely comes from him. Ternus was overseeing that. And so was Johnny Surugi, who's now the head of hardware in Ternus's place. So it's going back to Rob's question. What will Ternus do with software?

30:08Sarah Lane: I think he leans on the people who do software well at Apple I think at some point I think this is where we see that sort of grand that grand overarching OS that covers both the iOS devices that's what they've been doing you'll see that actual but what about AI? that's what everybody wants to know The people who are most negative about Apple blame Tim Cook for letting Apple fall behind in AI. They don't buy it when Apple says, no, no, no, we ship products, not technologies. The reason we haven't done AI is because AI isn't ready yet. They think that's just an excuse for falling behind. And they look at John Ternus and they're like, this guy's kind of an AI skeptic.

30:59Maybe not skeptic, but he's not the most AI forward guy from what we've heard. And he's a hardware guy. Why are you putting him in charge? Yeah, that's what my thought was. It's, you know, we try to read these two leads. Is this one of them? Is this telling you that, hey, Apple is a marketing company that sells really, really good hardware. That's where we've been. That's where we're going to continue to be. I don't see that really changing with the leadership. It would have said something if they would have gone out and gotten someone who is like one of the foremost people in AI to do this. or they would have even got someone internally who was like hitting up all the AI stuff they're doing.

31:36But they didn't do that. They went with the hardware guy, you know, clearly the hardware guy. So is there a key for us to read based on that? I mean, I'll say this much. Apple lives and dies on its hardware, right? If you stripped away all the Apple hardware and you just left the Apple services or whatever, it's not that remarkable. But that has been the growing emphasis of Apple. They've been slow motion pivoting to services for 15 years. And services are bringing in more and more money. It is one of the fastest growing parts of the business. So bringing in a hardware guy tells me you don't see services as the future of Apple.

32:17You see services as a continuing way to sell hardware.

32:23um i see it as they're not going to be a big player in ai beyond what you can do inside the inside the iphone inside of a mac i just i just i just don't see ai i don't i don't see them being where microsoft is definitely not where google open ai anthropic are from an ai standpoint i think it's i don't want to say it's an afterthought but i do believe that apple missed the ai boat i I think that they missed it. They tried, but they fundamentally missed it. And I just think that they're so far behind, I don't know that they can catch up. And because of how good they are with the hardware and now starting to get with the services, maybe they don't have to be.

33:03Maybe they can just license this stuff out. I'm wondering if they even need to be in that same sort of tent, right? Like to be a Microsoft where you have an obvious hand in it. I mean, remember when everyone used to talk about Apple's going to do search. They're going to do a search engine and do all this. It's like, I mean, it's already done. They looked into it, too, and they were like, yeah, it's not worth it. We can just rent search, and it's fine. Exactly. Yeah. And we're still at the period where there isn't like a sure winner. Like, this is the company that's going to just override everyone else.

33:40It's still pretty churning. It's more of a horse race now than ever, right? Yeah, yeah. And so they could just be like, well, you know, why jump into it now when everything's still up in the air? And we'll just kind of figure out as the players get whittled down, so to speak. It's worth noting, too, that OpenAI hired Johnny Ive, the former Apple hardware designer, because they see one of the parts of the business they want to grow as hardware, as putting OpenAI in hardware. And it may make sense that Apple goes, well, if that's where OpenAI is going, we're already there. Let's just double down on that.

34:18That makes sense because unless there is some new Neuralink stuff that we don't know coming out to where you can put a chip in your head, you still need a physical piece of hardware to interface with artificial intelligence. Whether you wear it on your face, whether you have it behind your ear, whether it's in your pocket, something physical is required even for the AI play when it's on you. Right. I mean, you're right. It's the gateway. You cannot do anything else without it. And Apple just has that lily pad that everyone wants to be on. The mistake will be if this is like an operating system, which a lot of people think it is, where your AI platform is your operating system.

34:59And then Apple starts to depend too much on another company, right? That's why you have macOS because they want to control the stack. If it's more like an office suite, though, then this does feel more like the moment they put Bill Gates on stage and said, yeah, Microsoft Office is coming to the Mac, and it didn't end up being something that killed Apple, right? And so having Google do AI for you could kind of feel that way, like, oh, we lost to Google, but maybe it doesn't. It's just too early to know which way that's going to go. Yeah, I don't see no matter what OpenAI does with hardware, they're not catching Apple anytime soon.

35:39Google's not catching Apple anytime soon. Microsoft is different in the way their relationship with all the OEMs that they work with. And they're already in front of Apple from just how much stuff they get shipped that has Microsoft's software on it. But Apple is unique in the sense that their hardware is what they're known for, even though they're trying to do all these other things. So I'm just wondering, they're saying, let's put a hardware person in charge of the company and let's just keep doing hardware really, really, really well, better than what most other companies are able to do it.

36:13Yeah. Willie Scott pointing out, MPUs, the neural processing unit that executes your inferencing in a Mac are phenomenal. So maybe that ends up being more important. And it ties in with their security focus, which is have it on device. Yeah, yeah. Very much. So I could conceivably have sort of a split sort of AI where you have AI services like Gemini, like ChatGPT as a separate standalone thing outside of their integrated one just for their hardware devices. Last question before we move on. Do we think John Ternus is for good and all? Some people have interpreted the fact that Tim Cook is sticking around as sort of like you're on a trial basis.

36:57and we could Bob Iger this, you know, and bring Tim back, like Rob was mentioning earlier. Or we might even have somebody else in the wings that if John doesn't do well, we can swap in somebody else.

37:09Sarah Lane: I mean, that's very not Apple. Yeah, I know. To be like, let's just like make it crazy and see what happens. I think that the company, because these rumors have been going around for a while, Like Tim may not, you know, be, you know, here for the long haul. Not that he hasn't already been, but just, you know, there's probably been some whispers of him figuring out like, okay, who's my successor? I don't think Apple takes this lightly. I think that they think that Ternus is the right guy for the job. If he isn't, obviously, we'll hear about that. But no, I don't think this is meant to be some sort of soap opera type thing.

37:53Yeah, I don't think it's a FAFO situation where they're just like, no, no, no, give it to Tertus. If anything, they probably do have a backup plan. That is very Apple to be like, well, we think it's going to be fine, but if it isn't, you know. And that's one of the reasons why he's still there as chairman of the board. So I think part of this, too, is that you've got Tim Cook who calls his accountant and says, so how many dump trucks of gold bullion do I have out back? 13 13 whole drum tucks okay i think i'm good let's let's do something different yeah um let's i think that is a part of it so it's not like he messed up and apple is saying you got to go be the board and you know run everything at this point they're you know they're not saying that i think he's saying hey we need to figure out who's going to replace me i think this is the person and i'm going to slide over here i'll be here for a few years like he'll do the reed hastings i'll be here for a while in case crazy stuff happens.

38:43I'm the mentor. You need to get back to me for whatever reason. But yeah, I got 13 dump trucks of gold bullion out back. I'm good. And honestly, he's been the face. He's been the face of Apple for good or for ill. And he just could be taking one for the team because I'm sure running Apple through a very tumultuous period might just lead to a lot of criticism. he could just soak that up in kind of clearing the board for John to take over and just sort of have like, okay, that was his deal. I'm running it. I don't know. Part of me wants to say like he just wanted to leave. He also wanted to kind of clear the air around Apple because of certain things that have happened, whether you're talking about the Apple Vision Pro or whatever happened to the Apple car.

39:36You know what I mean? Like, you know, just sort of just those are his mistakes. There's a new guy. Keep the investors happy that, you know, Cook is still around just in case things start to fall off the rails. He's there to kind of push it back. But, you know, sort of like to have your cake and eat it, too, so to speak.

39:51Sarah Lane: The Apple car was also much more of a rumor than a reality ever. Yeah. It was a thing they spent a lot of money researching. But, yeah. Sure. Yeah. But I think John Ternus taking the reins is weird for certain people because they're not that familiar with him. But it doesn't mean that he isn't really, really capable for the job. You see a lot of other front-facing executives at Apple over the years. And so you go like, oh, why isn't it Federighi? It's like, well, some people are just better for this role than others. Yeah. I don't think Apple spun the Price is Right big wheel with names. It just landed on John Ternus.

40:36They said, okay, that's who we're going with. I don't think that was the decision. I don't think that was the decision matrix. When you're at that position, it's not just running the company. We call him JT. It's dealing with the relationships of the company, whether you're talking about relationships with other companies or with governments or politicians. You know what I mean? There's a lot of other skill sets other than, you know. Than parkouring in your video. Yeah. Not that there's anything wrong with parkouring in your video. No, there's nothing wrong. Hey, if you can do it at his age, if I could do it right now.

41:07Well, that was a stunt guy, so I don't even think Federighi could do it at his age. But yeah, no, I think, like Sarah was saying earlier, they've been hinting in the press. they've been leaking things to the press for years that this was coming this is a well considered long in the making plan uh so i don't think there's anything um kind of off the cuff about this or panicked or anything like that i wouldn't be shocked at all if they knew last year it i think they knew last year at wwca dude you're up next yep they probably knew they've been putting turn us out for these these in-depth interviews with like the wall street journal and stuff over the past year.

41:48So it's kind of pretty clear in hindsight. Or John could have been the one that turnist up at the meeting and they picked him. I don't know. It was a good effort. It was a good effort. I like the work you put into it. Yeah.

42:00Sarah Lane: Very salacious. Keep at it. Let's talk something not Apple. The opposite of Apple. Framework has made a more solid version of its modular laptop. In fact, they're billing it as the MacBook Pro for Linux users, has a bigger battery, has a touchscreen, starts at$1 ,199 for the DIY version, a little more expensive if you want the one that comes pre-done with Windows or Ubuntu. But people are raving about it. Certainly framework fans are raving about it. It's the most solid build that they've had yet. and a lot of people are saying this is something that people can just pick up and go if you don't get the diy version and start using linux or you could get it with windows but now you've got a modular laptop you don't have to replace it you just keep you know ship of theseus style uh pulling out parts and modules as you need them do we think this is what kicks modular computing and maybe even linux into the mainstream rob this was something i really wanted to uh get your take on because i I know you're a Windows guy, but would you go Windows or Linux if you're going Framework?

43:10I'd go Windows just because I like, you know, I know Linux well, have used it. I've have, you know, when I was back in corporate, we had software that it ran on Linux. So I'm very familiar with it. I just happen to like Windows more. The other part of your question, do I think this pushes Linux into the main sphere? No, it does not. not even close. And I think we have to think about how this is going to be used. I can't imagine that you're going to have a Oracle that's saying, hey, go buy 30 ,000 of these. Or you're going to have an IBM says, go buy 240 ,000 of these. Or you're going to have, you know, Amazon say, you know what, we need 77 ,000 of these.

43:56I don't think that that's where this play is. This is for the enthusiasts who are small in number, but very loud in voice who are saying this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. They don't amount to the millions. They don't even amount to the hundreds of thousands. It is the tens of thousands of them that are screaming at the top of their lungs that this is the greatest thing we've seen in some time. Yeah, I think that is a really good point to keep in mind, that you are not going to see them compete with Dell or Lenovo or HP in sales because there might be some enterprises that go framework.

44:36I look forward to that story. That would be great news for framework, but it's not going to be a lot. I think you're right. We're not going to see massive sales. And so that means this is a consumer-oriented laptop. And consumer may be the wrong word because it is for developers and professionals and people, but it's an individual, right? You're not buying them for a whole enterprise. That doesn't mean framework can't make a good business out of it, though. They definitely can make a business out of it. I mean, they are. And it is definitely a tinkers product. It's for those people who bought the Linksys routers, the WRG or the WRTs.

45:18WRTs. or WRTs that allowed you to put your own custom firmware on them, right? And they sold it to a very niche market of people who really wanted that. I think that the biggest market share this will take away from is like the kind of gray market, white box laptops resellers who sell basically bare bones laptops. And then when you order it, you say, I want this CPU. I want this screen. I want a 4K screen. I want this GPU. I want this sort of expandability. You can pick and choose. You don't really screw it together yourself. You just build to order like you would a normal laptop.

45:57Sarah Lane: But you can do that with lots of laptops already. Well, the difference is that they sell basically what are considered to be workstation laptops, so there's more space. So you can do like, I want four NVMe slots in this machine. I want this size battery in it. I want this keyboard. And especially the screen. Most notebooks don't allow you to replace a screen without moving to the next one. You can pick and choose what kind of screen you want. And the guy at the other end will look at it, and then he'll just screw it together and then send it off to you. This sort of cuts that part out because then you can just essentially buy all those pieces from Framework when they make it available to you.

46:35And that way you don't necessarily have to sit with an orphan machine that no one else has because you just bought the weird aardvark that has a 4K OLED screen with the three NVMe slots. But instead of going for a high-end AMD, you wouldn't go for a high-end Intel and then a specific GPU combo with it. That takes a lot of time and a lot of research on a user's part. This simplifies that whole process and cuts that out. That's why I don't know if I agree with you that this is for tinkerers anymore. This gets the benefit of being a tinkerer without having to be a tinkerer because this modularity is so easy.

47:19Oh, yeah. No, definitely. But for most people who use laptops, is that really what you do? Or you just do your office emails, you do your accounting software or whatever, and you call it a day and you close a lid? Yeah, there's some name for the people between like, I don't want to have to tinker. That's too much time. But I do want to customize, right? Because you're right. The person who just wants a laptop for doing their work and their emails isn't going to care about swapping out main boards and that. But there's also people are like, yeah, I would like to be able to upgrade that. I would like to add more RAM more easily or a new hard drive or customize.

48:02Yeah, good luck with the RAM. But I don't want to do it. I don't want to have to go to the trouble to do it iFixit style, right? And that's what framework is targeting is like, hey, a couple of screws for a couple of things, but a lot of stuff, you just pop it in and out. It's super easy.

48:19Sarah Lane: I know a couple of people. I'm sorry, Rob. Go ahead. I was just going to say, I think that the big hardware manufacturers are fine to let this company do this. They're like, you go ahead and take that. And if you get any traction, just understand that we'll start doing it if we think that there's a market there for it. So how do I think this could play? It'll be that you can now get a Dell XPS that you can replace the RAM in it. You can replace the hard drive in it. That's probably about the extent of it. It's not going to be much more than that. But they'll make that easier. You could already do that.

48:51All those companies already sell laptops that do that, but they sell them to institutions. Again, these are workstation laptops. They sell them to corporate customers who have labs, who have – But you still have to unscrew, right? I think we're undervaluing how easy framework has made. Oh, no, no, no. That's what I'm saying. It's like I have a workstation laptop. I can pop the bottom off. I can take out the CPU, the GPU. Once I spend four hours taking the cooler and the fans off, the whole thing. And it's a very complicated, but I can also change the screen and the key bar. I can do all that. It's designed for that.

49:26It's just a very time consuming. You're supposed to let the department IT take care of that. Not the, not the guy who gets it.

49:32Sarah Lane: Well, and I don't think that this is, this is marketed for people who are like, I don't know how to use a screwdriver. It's people who say, I don't want to do that. Yeah. I know how to do it. I know the components that I need. I know what I would want to upgrade in the future. And I guess my question is, is the promise of upgradable stuff in the future a good investment? It will be a good investment on a certain segment of the market in the same way that there are people who will buy a camera with interchangeable lenses. And there are other people who are like, hey, my phone has a great camera.

50:06I'm going to stick with that. One big advantage is the framework is saying they secured their RAM supply because they're big enough now that they were able to go and say, like, all right, we think we need this much RAM. So it might be worth doing a framework laptop just for that reason. I mean, that was very fascinating because it was also timing. They said if we had waited just a little bit longer, we would have been able to get our foot in. Now, here's the question. How much RAM did they secure? they secured enough for them enough RAM for them is like that's how much Dell needs Thursday don't get too popular framework right

50:48Sarah Lane: framework is like we are good on RAM buy our products we don't want too many people to take advantage of that we're still niche we're still niche well depending on whether or not you're thinking of getting a modular laptop or you're like, nah, not for me, you might be an 8-bit computer fan. Many people out there are, ourselves included, and wondering if that Commodore 64 Ultimate is the right machine for you. Or maybe you're saying, what is that even? Well, Tom and Brian Dunaway joined me on our latest episode of Live With It to share their experiences with this very nostalgic machine on this week's episode.

51:29Sarah Lane: It was really fun to do. So Brian Dunaway, thank you so much for being with us. He made it all that much sweeter because he was very excited about it. Find it at youtube.com slash Daily Tech News Show.

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53:44All right, let's finish our weekly roundtable with a little game time. Roger, what you got? Well, riddles. I was watching, no, I wasn't watching old Adam West Batman where he was fighting the Riddler. Riddles are great, though. They trigger a feel-good dopamine hit and satisfy our urge to solve problems and give us bragging rights the next time we're down at the local watering hole for trivia night. So in that vein, here's some riddles that I found. I didn't come up with them, but I found that would even leave the Sphinx perplexed. And I wanted to make sure they weren't too easy, but also not too hard.

54:21I was going to say, do you think of riddles? Does everybody else think of riddles as a dopamine hit? Because I think of them as incredibly frustrating sometimes. When you figure it out, it's great. I guess if you're the kind of person who regularly figures them out. I just go, I don't know what that meant. All right, all right. Maybe I'm just...

54:38Sarah Lane: Okay, so... That's a dopamine hit right there. Laminar Rainbow just gave us a$5 super sticker. That is a dopamine hit. Because Laminar Rainbow is awesome. Yeah. So did we just shout out if we know the answer? Yeah, just raise your hand and say, my answer is this. Okay. All right. A riddle one. You're in a race and you pass the person in second place. What place are you in? I know. Okay. Roger if you're going to ask people to raise their hand You have to call on somebody Oh Sarah I was waiting for Sarah I'm in second place Rob Second place Tom Because we're in a race You passed the person in second place But you didn't pass the person in first place So you're in second place That's good I think Rob and I We both get points for that We did hands.

55:36Sarah Lane: We did hands. As requested. Yes. Thank you. Riddle 2, a woman gives birth to two sons on the same day, same year, same parents, but they are not twins. How?

55:52Sarah Lane: Two sons. I know. When you say same parents. S-O-N, right? Not S-U-N? When you say same parents, it's her and her. The same spouse. I know the answer. Okay, Rob knows. They did in vitro.

56:12Really? No. A woman gives birth to two sons on the same day, the same year, same parents, but they are not twins. I mean, in vitro would be a way to do that. You just put in two different embryos. Two eggs, they would be twins.

56:29Sarah Lane: These are riddles, after all, so they're supposed to throw us off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't get it. Remember, a lot of riddles are the wording. They are not twins. A woman gives birth to two sons, same day, same year. But they are not twins. So they were both Monday on two different months? They are not twins. That wasn't what I was asking. A woman gives birth to two sons on the same day. Same day, same year, same parents. The same parents thing sounds weird to me. because is the woman and the father are they the father and the mother are the same for both kids same day same year same day same year is it like a leap day thing I got it it's the doctor oh she didn't give birth she just birthed wrong?

57:28really? oh are you going to tell us is that right or wrong okay okay so the answer is based they're they're triplets because they're not oh come on oh come on you know what

57:41Sarah Lane: i was waiting for you to say whether i give this one to rob or not not not give us the final answer it was the doctor and roger just looked at him i'm like is that correct is that actually is a very good guess. So, so, so, okay. So the third was a, was a daughter. There were triplets that could have been quadruplets and it would have been the same. Quadruplets. I would have quadruplets. Right. Not twins. Cause it could be, but they were not twins. All right. That brings up a semantic question though. If there are triplets and they're, you're looking at two of them, do you call those two twins?

58:16So, cause if you call them triplets, you're only looking at two of them. So here's the, here's the real thing. My father-in-law who I'm visiting today is a triplet. One of his brothers is an identical trend. And the other one is a fraternal twin. This would have met the criteria for this riddle.

58:31Sarah Lane: I didn't know triplets could ever be anything but fraternal. So there are twins in that triplet, but only two of them are twins. Oh, that's so interesting. That's crazy. They're all triplets, but only two of them are identical twins. That's crazy. And the third is a man or a woman. Fraternal, yeah. Yeah, there's three boys. Two are identical. One isn't. It would have been even weirder if it was—yeah, because you can be fraternal and be male and female. Well, you have to be. You can't be identical with male and female. Riddle three, you're in a room with two doors, and this is a very popular one.

59:11One leads to freedom, one leads to death. Two guards stand there. One always lies. One always tells the truth. You may ask only one question. What do you ask? Len? I know. You ask the person who lies, I want to go through the room to death. He can't. He'll lie and say this is the room. So you know that the other one is freedom.

59:35Sarah Lane: Oh, see, I was thinking the opposite. I was thinking you ask the one that always tells the truth. But you don't know which one is which. But you don't know which one tells the lie and which one tells the truth. Oh, I thought you did. There are two guards. You know one of them always lies and you know one of them always tells the truth. You don't know which guard is which. So I would ask the guard that tells the truth. But you don't know. You don't know which guard is the one that tells the truth. And you can only ask one question. What question are you going to ask to either of the guards? Yes.

1:00:09And you're getting an answer from both guards, right? But you only get to ask one question. You get one question that you can ask to either one. What's the one question you would ask to give you the answer? Am I on the right track where you're asking the question, which door is the door to death? Yes. Yes. You're on the right track. That is the answer. That is the right track. That's the question you ask.

1:00:31Sarah Lane: Rob, do you already know the answer to this? Yes. But I'm going to give it to Lynn because Lynn said it first. Okay. Okay. So you ask the question, which door leads to death? And then the one... But you don't know who's lying. If you say which door leads to death, the person lying will point to the other door and the person telling the truth will point to the other door. So they'll both point to different doors and you don't know which one of them is telling the truth. So you ask, you go to one of the people because you can only ask one question. Does this door lead to death? If the answer is true and the person that you ask tells you the truth, then they'll tell you, yes, it does.

1:01:15If the answer is no, it does not, the person who is lying to you will tell you that no, it does not. So either way, if you ask what door leads to death, you'll get the right answer. Close. Very close. You're very close, Rob. How do you get the right answer with the liar, though? So, okay, Tom, Sarah, you have nothing. You don't want to put in an answer.

1:01:41Sarah Lane: I mean, I'm trying to add something. We'll give you an answer if we have one, yeah. Okay. All right. I feel like maybe there's a twist here where you have to have— Rob and Len are very close. You ask one question to one of the guards, what would you ask them if you wanted to answer it and kind of basically get both their answers from one question? What if you ask the liar, like, are you going to go through this door? You don't know who one is a liar. So I literally go to whichever one I feel like asking and say, does your door lead to death? I'll either get, yes, it does, or no, it doesn't. But both of those tell me information that I now know which door I want to go through.

1:02:28How do you know, though? Because if I ask the liar, does your door lead to death? But you don't know whether it's the liar or not. Yeah.

1:02:35Sarah Lane: It's like Princess Bride stuff. Yeah. But if I ask the guy that's telling the truth, does your door lead to death? He'll say yes because he's telling the truth. If I ask the liar, does your door lead to death? He'll say no because he's lying. But you don't know which one's the liar and which one's telling the truth. But it doesn't matter. I still know the answer. There's two doors, just remember. No, but this is the thing. You're very close. You're very close. What if both of the guards are identical twins? What if you try to hire the guards away? I don't know who the liar is. This is like one of the old ones that they used to give out in those weird...

1:03:14I don't know. You know what? This is like a twist-out. The answer is this. You asked the guard, if you were the other guard, which door would you pick to go... Which door would you pick that would lead to freedom, right? And you would pick the opposite door. So if it was the honest guard that you ask, he would tell you which door the lying guard would give you to pick, and you would choose the opposite door. If you go to the lying guard, he's going to lie and give you the answer that's opposite of what the honest guard would give you, so you pick the opposite of his answer, so you'd always get out.

1:03:56You've added additional steps that are necessary there. If I go to the guard, it doesn't matter which guard I go to. if I ask a guard does your door lead to death if it does and the person is truthful they will say

1:04:08Sarah Lane: yes it does but you don't know but you don't know if he's truthful or not they might be the liar you have to know whether the guard you're talking to is the truth teller or not Roger what is the question you're asking again you're in a room you're in a room I'm gonna move on to riddle four no no no what's the question you're asking to You go up to either of the guards and you say, if you were the other guard, which door would you say goes to freedom? And then you will go through the opposite of whatever that guard says. And the reason that works is the liar is going to lie and say, oh, that guard would point to the death door, which he would not.

1:04:57If it's the truth, then the truth teller will go, oh, well, that guard would point to the death door because he's a liar. And so whatever one they point to is the death door, meaning you need to go through the other door. I'd be dead. I'd be dead. I remember our question. Give us another super sticker. Thanks to all that. I love it. All right. All right. Riddle number four. This one will be fun. You see a boat full of people, yet when you reach it, you find there's not a single person on board. How? They all got off. It's a mirage. Wait, what did Sarah say?

1:05:31Sarah Lane: How are you reaching the boat? That's not important. You see a boat full of people? It's a mirage. You see a boat full of people? Everybody got off. You see a boat full of people, yet when you reach it, there's not a single person on board. Oh, it's still full of people. They're all married. There's not just a person. They're all married. They're all married. Ah.

1:05:58that skates close to the line

1:05:59Sarah Lane: so who do I ask how far away am I from the boat let's think Titanic which one of these guys on the boat is lions you know that last question the question about the doors was actually in a book about Star Trek and Kirk was asking a lying alien I don't know I should have remembered that one Oh, yeah. No, I've heard that one before, too, and I could not remember the answer. I would die. So everybody's married on the boat. Great. Great for you. All right. Riddle number five. Wow. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, yet I come alive when called. What am I? The wind. Very close, Tom.

1:06:47Very close. This is a sphinx riddle. I speak without a mouth. I hear without ears.

1:06:55Sarah Lane: I have no body, and I come alive when called. I'm AI. Ooh, someone called. Someone came alive when called. It's alive. It's a phone. It's Roger's phone. It's Roger's phone is the answer. It's got to be. Actually. Is he taking a call? It does speak without a mouth. This is not a terrible idea. Oh, you know what? It's a phone. It's a smartphone. No, this is a Sphinx riddle. This is really old, old-fashioned. Well, it does. It comes alive when called. Well, I feel like AI is, I think I should get a point. It hears. The smartphone hears without ears. Tom was on the right track. Wind. It's something like that.

1:07:35No, very close. With wind? Flatulence. It's something you, it had to deal with canyons. Canyons. I speak without a mouth and I hear. Yes, Tom. Echo. Oh, nice. Nice.

1:07:51Sarah Lane: Oh, an echo. I said smartphone. Oh, wow. All right. Riddle number six. The more of me you take away, the larger I become. What am I? A hole. Tom got it. Wow. Nice. You're going to get us out of this escape room, Tom. I'm going to get us out of this thing that becomes larger the more we take away from. All right. Riddle number seven. Okay. Okay. I have towns, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I? AI. That's your answer for everything. Well, I mean, it kind of works. Smartphone. Len's like, it's a smartphone. I have towns but no houses. Mountains but no trees.

1:08:37Sarah Lane: I have mountains but no trees. Is it a map? Water but no fish. Tom got it. It's a map. It's a map. You know what? You know what? Lots of maps have houses on them. Depends on the map. Depends on the map. It's a good point. And trees. Yeah. Riddles. I'm vetoing question seven. Have you seen the map to Mordor? Riddle number eight. I am heavy forward, but backward I am not. What am I? Me. I am heavy forward, but backward I am not. I got a tummy, but no butt. Rob, I think you're muted. That was what people told about. That's how people described me in high school. Heavy forward, but backward you're not.

1:09:19No. I am heavy forward, but backward. No, I'm not. I don't think so. I was just mouthing the question out. I am heavy forward, but backward. I am not. What am I? I don't know. A fish? I am heavy forward, but backward. I am not.

1:09:45Sarah Lane: Clearly AI. A push. Hydronium? I don't know. I am not. Backward. I am heavy forward, but backward I am not. A ton. Yes, Rob got it. What is it? It's a ton. Backward it's not. See, those are the kind of riddles I'm like, that's just a pun. I don't know if that's a riddle. That is a riddle. No, it is a riddle. The solution is a little sus. Riddle number nine. A man built a house with all four sides facing south, and a bear walks by. What color is the bear most likely to be? White. You can't have four sides facing south. Yes, you can. It's a polar bear. Polar bear built on the south pole. Rob and Len got it.

1:10:35If you're directly on the north pole, everything is south of you, no matter what side you want to get. No one's going to ask you what color the bear is anyway. It'd be like, oh, a black bear. Roger just did. A brown bear. Grey bear. I have a grizzly in the North Pole. I was like, wait, you can't have all four sides facing south.

1:10:54Sarah Lane: Yeah, but that was the solution. Sorry, I guess everyone's been to the North Pole. One place in the world where it's possible. That's right. Okay, the last, riddle number 10. This is the one that came out of a Bazooka Joe comic. I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end and the end of every place. When am I? The letter E. See? You read the same Bazooka Joe? I'm excited. I spent a lot of time with Bazooka Joe. Yes. I actually had that one. I think they only had like 100 different ones, so you were bound to get all of them. If you ate a lot of Bazooka Joe, you were bound to get all of them.

1:11:31Thank you, Bazooka Joe. Thank you. And like no one knows under the age of 45 what a Bazooka Joe is. And people were telling you you were wasting your time.

1:11:38Sarah Lane: I knew what that was, but I didn't eat these riddles. Oh, yeah. These kids these days, they just don't know how good we had. The letter E. Bubble gum with the whole comic in the bubble gum. It was awesome. Zuka Joe taught you something. That's back when you could buy actual cap guns, and they made trucks out of metal that rusted if you left it out in the rain. Yes, yes. Those were the days. Those were the days.

1:12:05Sarah Lane: I'm annoyed, but this was fun. I could have went for the more gruesome ones. I had a whole set of murder ones, but I thought that might be a little too intense. Yeah, let's do that one. Let's do murder riddles next week. Yeah. What's not to like? It's fun. That's a fun one. This was actually really fun. Roger, I think we all learned a little something today about ourselves. Thank you very much. All right. Moving on to people who travel. Chris Christensen is obviously a very big traveler. And if you find yourself staying at places with convenient power outlets, he might have just the gadget for you.

1:12:45This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler with another Tech in Travel Minute. One thing that I always pack in my carry-on bag when I travel is the Anker Nano Charging Station. And this is a travel surge protector, which lets you plug in just into one plug, which might be hidden behind the bed in a hotel room or wherever they want to hide the plugs. And if you're traveling internationally, it works with all the different voltages around the world. So you just have to have one plug adapter. And then into that, you can plug two normal U.S. plugs, but also you can plug in two USB-A and two USB-C plugs.

1:13:22And so I find that I can have all my devices plugged in and only have to carry one plug adapter. This is the Anker Nano Charging Station, and I'm Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler. Look at that. Solving problems. Thank you, Chris Christensen.

1:13:39Sarah Lane: Well, Len Peralta, even though you were very good on our Roger Riddle this week, what have you been drawing throughout the show? Well, you know, the top story, I am Len Peralta from Cleveland, Ohio, drawing the top tech stories. And you can't say that it was the top tech story, of course, was Tim Cook stepping down as the CEO of Apple. So thank you, Tim Apple. he was from 2011 to 2026 that's a little nickname and he's got Apple for a head he's Tim Apple even where war got bitten out from one side so his glasses would fit a lot of people don't realize that both Tim Cook and Tim Apple will be stepping down in September I'll miss Tim Apple he's a pretty nice guy if you want to honor Tim Cook or Tim Apple you can go to my online store LenBeraltaStore.com where you can purchase this immediately or you can go to my Patreon Patreon.com forward slash Len back me at the DTNist Lover level and you'll get this immediately it should be there in a few minutes Fantastic Thank you Len and thank you C-Spawn just gave us a super sticker right before we started talking about that stuff Thank you again Lemon or Rainbow for two super chats earlier in the show super chat and a super sticker uh big thanks to everyone oh oh look at that look at that more people piling in with the super stickers uh and thank you to everyone who supports us on twitch uh looking back over the last week we had a resubscribe from razin tom says go chiefs pc milesy at 62 months brian m64 at 53 months what's that roger i just said get out of here oh it was lynn uh theater monkey uh for 78 months I know, get out of here everybody this is great what did we have today?

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1:16:16This week's episode of DTNS Live was created by the following people. Host Rob Dunwood. Host Sarah Lane. Host Tom Merritt. Producer Roger Chang. Video producer Joe Kuntz, producer at large and brand new grandpa Anthony Lemos Yay! Social media producer and moderator Zoe Detterding Our mods, Beatmaster, WScatus1 BioCow, Captain Kipper, Steve Glorama Paul Reese, Matthew J. Stephens and J.D. Galloway. Mod and video hosting by Dan Christensen. Music provided by Martin Bell and Dan Luters. Art by Len Peralta Acast ad support from Tatiana Matias. Patreon support from Bobby Wagner. Our guest this week was Chris Christensen and thanks to all our patrons who make the show possible.

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