TEH 252: Minimizing travel tech. Connecting while traveling. Finding the Equator.

In This Episode: Minimizing travel tech. Connecting while traveling. Finding the Equator.

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Top Stories

• GR: Adventure Travel With Tech
  • 1:30 iPhone-only! Challenging. Practiced ahead of time. Never needed VNC.
  • 3:30 What I couldn’t do
  • 5:30 Connecting
  • 7:10 eSIM
  • 13:00 Google voice
  • 14:10 WhatsApp
  • 17:20 Charging and batteries: Rapid charging
  • 21:40 Backing up photos
  • 26:00 Vertical photos,
  • 3:35 Dirty camera sensors
• 33:40 GR: The equator is not where you think it is
• 38:00 LN: Boring summer, tech wise
  • 39:00 AI / GPT 5 (yawn)
  • 40:00 MS surprised with ESU (Extended Service Updates)

Get off my lawn! (an occasional, as-needed, segment)

• 45:25 LN: Just because I talk about a paid service doesn’t mean they’re paying me!

Ain’t it Cool

• 51:00 LN: So many. Backlog 🙂
  • Redux: Hail Mary. So good, esp audio performance. You don’t end up where you think you’re going to end up.
  • Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Audio: Steven Fry)
  • Severance: started weird but oddly compelling.
  • Resident Alien
  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, 1929-1964
• GR: I love all of these things, so I nod in agreement. I’m actually re-reading Hail Mary right now.

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

• 57:00 GR: https://macmost.com/10-pro-features-of-the-mac-finder.html
• 59:00 LN: Why Do We Suddenly Need AI? – https://askleo.com/183047

Transcript

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