December 9, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hey, Ray, Hey Chakan.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Do you want to hear something that's weird in a
bad way? Sure? If I'm to be more precise, do
you want to hear a lot of things that are
weird in a bad way?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Do you just need to have a solid vent? Is
that what's happening right now?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I do, Ray, I've been thinking about this recently, and
then I was on the treadmill at the gym. It
was off the back of like a singular thing that
happened recently or has been happening that just got me
on a bit of a tear of just tech related
things that annoy me slightly. Okay, some of hiss mild inconveniences,
but I thought I would share with you to see
if you felt the same.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Absolutely hit me great?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
All right, So like literally, it's on my phone.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You've written it down, you've created a note.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, it's in the notes app, and just a list
of gripes if I may present them to.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, this is what therapists say to do if you're
having an issue. You write it down. You've gotten it
out of your head, you've gotten it down onto the page.
But now you're choosing to take it off the page
and record it for prosperity all of our listeners.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, I'm not letting anything go. I was resurrecting it
to make myself more stressed. So what this started with
is a very particular thing that's been happening for a
very very long time now. And maybe I'm just very stupid,
but I think this is a UX problem. The PlayStation
off button.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Where is it? Where is it?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Where is it? And I'm talking about the one that's
like on the UX. I'm in the controller. I want
to shut down my game. Why is it hidden?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
It's not in the menu that you think it will
be in, and it doesn't come up when you press
the button you think will make it come up. Every
single time I go to turn the PlayStation off, I
have to consider whether or not I am a big dummy.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yes, oh thank god. So maybe we're not, or maybe
we definitely both are, but together, but I hate it.
It is It is not intuitive, right, not intuitive?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's really not. And honestly, I say this as someone
who has been playing PlayStations since the day they were
released on market.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Absolutely, I mean probably the Australian date, not the Japanese one,
which has years ago. But that's the level of our
PlayStation nerdom. I Be Like a tomb Raider was the
game that made me fall deeply, deeply in love with games.
I'd played Seegars beforehand, but it was that Get Bridge PlayStation.
I love it my whole heart. But god damn it.
(02:37):
That's why this hurts all the more.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I have a childhood memory sitting on a giant PlayStation
memory card commemorating its thirtieth birthday in Australia, sitting right
on Sydney Harbor right now. That is the level of
commitment I have to PlayStation and I still don't know
how to turn it off.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And maybe it's because I switched through a lot of
different consoles. We are lucky enough, elso have an Xbox.
I just want to be able to press that button
baby and hold it down and be like you want
to turn me off? Yes, yes, I do, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I am literally googling right now how to turn off PlayStation. Yeah,
use the controller to navigate to the power menu, or
by pressing and holding the physical power button on the
console itself.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I'm not getting up. No, no, I'm sorry incorrect. So
that was my first thing, and I would love for
people to share some opinions. So if we are just
big idiots, honestly.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
There are Reddit threads about this, like everyone is asking
how to turn off a PS five or how to
turn off for PS four.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah. Correct, it's so silly. Good good. We are not alone, Ray,
we are not alone. Do you want to hear some
more of what's on my list my long lists of
our tech gripes. I think what this one's very valid?
Apple mouse charger is on the bottom of the Apple mouse.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Oh okay, this has been forever and I love right
when you look back in history at how unseeriously Apple
took itself back when it was Steve Jobs at all
of these announcements and all that sort of stuff. Like
when they bought out iPod socks, They're like, we've given
(04:12):
them socks, like they could they could poke fun at themselves.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
May I interject on my long list of weird episode ideas,
iPod socks is on that.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Excellent Well, there will be a future episode that goes
into iPod socks. But you know, Apple used to be
a company that could be silly. It could be silly
about its own products. It was relatable, it was kind
of fun in a way. You will not hear any
representative of Apple these days speak even remotely in a
way that could be misconstrued as negative about Apple in anyway.
(04:46):
So when like top execs at Apple are asked about
how ludicrous it is that the Apple mouse still has
a charging port on the bottom of it, they won't
speak poorly of it.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Is this a bit like or is this a humiliation ritual? Like? What? What?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
What is the purpose that?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Because they know, just bring out a new one like
people just want Okay, I understand the argument of just like, oh,
but they charge so fast, I don't care. I need
to put that in and keep going. At least like
all those other things about Apple in the past, they
were fun and they tied directly into what we said
so often on this show about how we want tech
to be fun. This is just the stupidest shit. What
(05:29):
how is that even sleek and sexy if they're going
towards that and just being convenient and useful for people.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It's not sleek and sexy to lay your mouse on
its side.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's just not.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And if the argument is it charges faster, then the
argument could be that having it be able to be
plugged in the frontier. You could use it while it's charging,
and the whole idea is that you want to use it.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
You do like literally, I feel like when you have
to turn it on its side and wait for it
to charge, like you're now the apple cock because you
can't use it, you can't do any think of your work, Like,
what is going on? I hate this?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Is this a mandated break from work? Is that what
they're trying to do. They're saying, go for a walk?
Is this like a life work balance screen technique?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Them an inch ray? Please? All right? Do you want
to hear some more?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I'm with you. I've got two out of two, teake,
and I agree with you both both to the point
where I don't even have an Apple mouse because there's
no way I'm doing that.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I chopped one in a drawer somewhere and even I'm
using a map right now, I'm using a plugged in
mouse at the front That's what I'm using.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Well, you know what I use instead? Taken the track pad?
You just use the track pad? Yes, I double press
with my fingeries instead of right clicking.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Good, all right. Another thing that I have a grite with, okay,
emails that have an unsubscribed button, but take you to
a nine question survey.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Oh my gosh, yes, I need to. I would like
to unsubscribe from your email because I don't want to
receive this email anymore. You know one, you know, one
of those options that has started to really grind my
gears lately as well. This is event that I have
as well. On some of these lists, there is the
option to say I never subscribe to this list. Oh yeah,
(07:16):
that is the most common option that I click because
my email address just gets added into these massive databases
and I get pr spam from all over the world
that is completely irrelevant to my work and what I do.
On some of these forms, that has now been changed
to I don't remember subscribing to this list. Oh calm on,
(07:39):
And I'm like, I'm sorry, No, this is not a
memory lapse that I have. This is I did not
sign up for this. This is unsolicited. Get out of
my inbox. Stop gaslighting me. Gaslighting forms.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Gaslighting forms, that's what we'll call it.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
No chuck them in the weird and a bad way
bin love it.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I think that's a good natural extension of that one.
This next one, I think because you spent a lot
of time in hotels, like traveling for work, like myself,
so hotel power outlets in the most inconvenient spot humanly possible.
And then I think I just must have been on
a tear when I went on to say I also
hate outlets too close to the floor, so you can't
fit a giant brick charger like an Apple Mac one.
(08:21):
But at least I get that because some hotels were
made before those existed.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
As soon as you said this, all I thought of
was trying to plug this in. You know where else
has powerpoints way too close to the floor, A lot
of a base, A regional studios. Oh so when I'm
broadcasting from across the state, if I've got into a
regional studio and I need to plug my MacBook in,
I cannot take this charger with me because it won't
(08:48):
plug into the floor. I'm frantically searching for an extension
lead so that I can plug my MacBook in. But yes,
get your act together, hotels, it is modern times.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Are you doing?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I tell you what? Though? I stayed in a hotel recently.
It was a service department. Actually it was the Meriton
in Melbourne, and they had wireless charging on top of.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Their alarm clocks. Yes, I've seen so.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I just laid my phone down next to me and
it was.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Some have the lamp kind of faces that do the
same thing. It's very nice. It's very Also bonus points
for hotels that have started putting in not just like USBA,
but USB c.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
See, I'm always a bit suss on those because there
is security risks. That's true with plugging your devices into
just a random USB port. So I'm always a bit
like so I'd rather go the power cable and then
I just plug everything into the ports that I have
on my on my MacBook anyway, So I'm usually okay
(09:47):
with that. I like that. Yeah, that's my thing.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Next one, which I know you absolutely will agree with
this one, and I did say when else right, I
love that. I'm just like looking back to what I
said at the time, going Jesus taken, I said, nature
is here a bit on this one, But when five
to seven years ago there were proprietary charges for everything,
A huge culprit of this was fit bit. And I'm
pretty sure from memory because I think we'll both at
(10:11):
Gizmodo at the time ray that sometimes even just year
to year or between fitbit products, they would have different
proprietary charges, and I hated it awful, straight to jail.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, and once again I'm going to call out Apple
for this again. Why do I have this?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Why do I have this? Can I not just have
a USBC?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I use my USBC on my MacBook instead of that,
and it works just fine.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
The paranoia that I have about losing that and needing
to replace it, yeah, it's just not worth it. Let's
just switch. Let's just switch everything, the EUS onto something.
It is.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
It absolutely is one or something. And look, here's the
thing again. Another natural extension of this which we have
blown up about before, but I have to mention it
is micro USB, which I know. I know it's mostly
dead now, but at the time it was like lightning
USBA kind of USBC with some things, and they're like,
(11:07):
this is not of the Lord, Like come on.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
No, USB is the worst cable that's ever existed, and
I'm glad that we are moving on as a species
from it. However, it still shows up in the most
unexpected places.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Also, I've found I've had to keep a few of
those cursed objects around because there are a few, like
of my older gadgets that I still love, like my
old Kindle Oasis where I still need it, and it's
very sad for me.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I think I have a Cobo in my draw. Yeah.
Actually I'm gonna yes, I've got my giant like draw
full of random Yeah, yes, gone on. Look it's not
charged less, it's not charge this charge your e reader.
Look at the age of this thing.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
It works, why not?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
It's waterproof and it doesn't work anymore because yeah, the
OS on it. I'm not even sure what it uses.
I used to just upload PDFs to it and it
won't let me do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
That sucks. Yeah, that's probably just a security nightmare at
this point, where not plug that into anything North Korea
has access or something like that. Here's something exciting and unplanned.
I just went to see what random tech that I
just had in my draw skit didn't find one, but
tee what I found. This was from the premiere of
(12:26):
The Fast and the Furious nine. It's like a little
car't smell a nice.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Of air fresher. Oh my gosh, Fast and Furious.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Nine and Furious nine.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I wonder, isn't that funny because didn't it come out
as Fast nine. Oh no, that was fast eight.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, you would know you're the expert. Here, come on.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
F F nine the fast Saga nine. It came out
as fast and furious nine because there was the fast
and the furious and then number four was fast and furious.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah. I think at this point I want to see
one that is literally just fast and or furious like
at this point as well, moving on, moving on, you've
got more.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Oh my gosh, you're just letting them all out.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Okay, I have five more. I will try and make
this week.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Okay, no, no, no go any gadget.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And kind of also not gadgets, but mostly gadgets that
needs its own app function but it's just for one thing.
I can't do it. And headphones for example, Sony I
kind of get because there's lots of tweaking and things
like that, but you also don't need to use it
because you can just use bluetoop and that's fine. And
my other example was there's one that I had to
download called the Card Network just to use a digital
(13:45):
MasterCard gift card.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Use it.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I wasn't giving up a hundoe.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Well, I wont a gift card in like one of
those work team building challenges like who was exercised for
the most minutes this week? And I'm like, jokes on you,
I go for like a three hour hike every morning.
I'm winning this.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I Live in the Mountains challenge me please sucked in?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Like it might not be the biggest workout, yeah, heart
rate wise, but I am walking all day.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Rows that do everything in twelve minutes.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I know, sucked in. My exercise is inefficient and it
helped me win this award. The award was a fifty
dollars gift card that I needed to sign up and
download an app for It'll be done, and I simply
chose to forego the fifty dollars. There is a time
in my life when I wouldn't have been able to
do that. I have chosen to sacrifice the fifty dollars
(14:45):
so that I didn't have to download that app and
hand them all of my personal information.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
It's sorry.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
No, absolutely, one of the ones that I had to
download an app for is literally to change the intensity
and temperature of the light globe in my lamp.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
No. Absolutely. Was this a Phillips thing, the Phillips Hugh
one where it's like all of them.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
No, So this is it's through Home, so it's connected
to Google Home. So I had to download the nano
Leaf app just to operate this light globe. But then
in order to actually get it to work, because the
nano Leaf app kept failing and disconnecting, it had to
go through Google Home. So now I'm using Google Home.
(15:33):
But every now and again it'll just disconnect. And I
am so close to just ripping this globe out and
putting in an old school something from the hardware stoor.
I don't even know where you get old school light
globes anymore, It's been that long since I've purchased a
light globe.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I'm pretty sure you can just get them at the supermarket.
I will go hit up my local IgA, and if
anyone wants a smart globe let me know, because I'm done.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You're over. It sounds like I've got two studio lights
in here that I just I don't you even use
enough to warrant the separate app. And it's because you
can do the different sliding scales lights like that makes
slightly more sense. But did I hate downloading it? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I uninstalled the app from the light that I have
in here, and I simply just have it on this
single setting. You what, just whatever it's on, it's on,
it's it's on, It's done. I'm so done with downloading
all of these extra apps.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I'm sorry. I'm going to make you even angrier on that.
I forgot that. I also put in a separate apps
for events so packed any tech conference, Like, I get
it when it comes to like there's maybe hundreds of
sessions in there. It means you can go find it
all in one place. I get that. I still hate it,
and I bonus bonus jail if there is some sort
(16:48):
of functionality on there. And I usually see this at
tech coference where people can get in touch with you
for networking for a meeting.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I knew you were going to say that because it's
the worst thing for networking, just for networking online.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Oh no. And some of it is the setting of
meetings too, both.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Right, like in person meetings right. So south By Southwest
was a big bug band for me as well, because
like I was hosting a panel, I wasn't there for networking.
I had a gazillion things to do, and like to
be able to pick up your batch, you needed to
have their app, and I'm like, I don't want to
download the app. And downloading the app, you are submitting
(17:26):
to their terms of service, which include handing over your
details for marketing purposes to all of the exhibitors inside
these events. And it's like, I reserve the right to
attend conferences, expos, events, summits without being contacted by everyone
who's there.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I don't need a crypto bro sliding into my inbox
because he's gotten my details from an event that I've
been working at. Hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
No, no app downloads for events.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
No, absolutely not, Canial cannimal.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Just put an easy to follow schedule on your website
and make it mobile friendly. Please.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I say this is someone who, like I love tech.
I'm a tech reporter, have been for many years. Give
me print me a math.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
But on that though, printer subscriptions, No, no.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
No, absolutely no.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
The day that they brought out printer subscriptions was the
day that I committed to never having a printer.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I think, like, literally, a hell mouse probably opened somewhere
in San Francisco and swallowed some cars the moment someone
shipped that product.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I recall the day that HP announced their printer subscriptions
and their pa was working so hard to try to
make this sound like a good thing. You never have
to worry about running out of ink, And it's like
no one's ever worried about running out of.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Ink, literally, no one.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Like we all get notifications when you're going to run
out of ink. You can go get more ink, you
can replace the ink. If you have an online shopping
platform subscription, you could probably get the ink delivered to
you within a couple of hours. It's no one's going
to die if you run out of ink. I should
not have to pay a monthly subscription that you cut
(19:14):
off if I've printed too many pages, Like what do
you mean on my own paper, with my own printer,
with my own ink that I already paid for, You're
going to tell me I have to stop printing now?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
How is that the play when that is a dying medium?
One hundred percent? You know what I mean? Like there
is trying everything like balls to the wall, trying to
make some sort of money, and then there's that because
that is not going to do it.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
It is textbook in shitification.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yes, absolutely it is.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
You know, getting customers in with a product that they need,
it's then modifying that product to make it better for
companies instead of individuals, and then it is just not
caring about either of them because all you care about
is the bottom line of the business, and they're locked
in and there's no way that they can get out.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
It's what they do. I was like, this is this
is what we do. Everything's digital, but this is what
we do. And to be fair, there are some occasions
where I need a printer. Not enough for a subscription,
like absolutely not, like we unfortunately have one in this house.
But usually I'd be like, go to the library.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
That's gonna be fine, library, library, library, or tell people
that I don't have a printer, so you need to
send the courier with a label.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
That was in the past one of the reasons we
still needed a printer. Luckily not so much anymore, which
is just blessed, but oh my.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
God, mainly because every time I get off at a
review of something, it's for two weeks and that's just
not long enough anymore to be able to work out
whether something will degrade over time.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Well, that's the thing that this is what we're trying
to do differently here. I know we haven't done a
ton of reviews, but I'm just simply not interested in
this first cab off the rank. Some poor journal has
been given it for about five minutes and we're like,
we'll update like this first look soon. Now I'll never
have time. And that is not a sledge on anyone.
I have been there, and it's just not what I
want anymore. I want to have like long term lived
(21:07):
I don't even just see me does that for me?
Like I'm happy to buy my products like it's from
someone that's been able to do that is so valuable.
I'm just sick of this shit.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
One hundred percent. You gotta allow the product time to
work out whether or not the company is going in
a direction that you're still comfortable with recommending people purchase
from them.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Or not, absolutely, especially as everything is getting more expensive. Like,
I just don't Yep, it's always been hard having that responsibility. Yes,
there's a lot of amazing perks with it, but I well,
I think we both always took that very seriously, super seriously,
and so yeah, I'm not doing it. I'm not doing
this couple of day one week time. Just I'm not
I'm not interesting.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
No, I even get the emails where it's like two
week review unit, and I'm like, incorrect, I don't that's
not going to work. Using something for two weeks isn't
long enough anymore, because I find more and more issues
popping up after, you know, a month or two of you.
If I'm going to put a review out, it's going
to be after I've been using it for a solid
(22:09):
amount of time. And I can say, here are all
the things that I love about it, and here are
the reasons why I think you might need to be wary,
and they don't reveal themselves in two weeks.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's one hundred percent right. And also I will also
just make this caveat that this is not me late
saying I just want more free stuff in my house.
If anything, I want less things in my house just
in general. So it's not a play like I simply
want to be sent things for long periods of time.
I don't care about that. Oh No, I care about
doing a good job and not having people waste their
money one hundred percent anyway, Two more quick things. Oh
(22:44):
my gosh, I've got two more.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
This is lovely. This is lovely. It's my turn next month.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yes, bring me here, bring me a list. I would
love that.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I'm going to bring you my list of weird and
a bad way next month.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I love it and we would do it. I think
we should do weird in a good way. Maybe things
that make us just be that we can just just
lost sometimes too. Okay, yes, Airpod's max bra case. Oh yeah,
I remember, like the over the weird bra case they
came with, Like what is that? Oh, you've got it,
You've got to go. I don't know where mine is.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I am about to reveal how often I use these,
because my god, it's in the box.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
It's in the box.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Okay, I think I use it for like international flights,
which I haven't done.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
For a while. I found them too heavy for my
little neck. Look at it. This is always saying Apple
is so one serious. At least I could. I don't
like it, but I could respect this.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
It looks like a handbag made of boobs.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
It does. It absolutely does anyway. My last one that
I just it's weird in a bad way. Mark Zuckerberg's
glow up, I don't like it. You should have stayed
looking like a weird little nerd on He's like whatever
it was when he was on the back of the
boat covered in white sunscreen. I don't like the necklace
(24:03):
and like the weird perm. I'm sure it's probably actually
his natural hair is growing up. I'm pulling it grown
out as I'm calling it a weird perm. I don't
like it.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Well, at least he hasn't just gone the route of
making meta AI say that he's hotter than he is,
like Alon's done with.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Groc so by the way, I said glow up. You
said hot, and I don't feel comfortable with that description.
But I don't like that. But yeah, it's the ten.
It's everything, not about it.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You just I just put blue tag nipples on the
on the bra handbag. Look, how can you avoid this?
It is straight up, it's so good.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
It's so left. Take it out in public.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
They knew what they were doing.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
The amount of designers in that place of Apple is anything.
It's design except for that goddamn mouse.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Except for the mouse.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Again, that has to be a bit or alternatively, not
a single woman was involved in the design of that
bra handbag thing.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Highly likely if it looks like a bra boobs and
a handbag.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah, like I'm thinking that it might even not be
a situation where everyone's like more like actually not realizing it,
whereas like a woman immediately were like, boys, what is this.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Because the Apple design team doesn't spend much time around
boobs is what I'm hearing.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Then, you satur not me.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I'm actually just realizing as I'm picking this up now
the mesh at the top of the headband is deteriorating.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Oh that's no good for what was it at the time,
a thousand dollars headphones? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yeah, and like and like weird little white bits of
dust coming off the elastic. You know, the elastic is perishing.
That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Oh yeah, okay, definitely not just a ton of danderff. No, yeah,
that's good because those were worth thousand dollars when those
came out originally, Like, come.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Up, you would want them to not be having the
elastic perish after a couple of years, right, absolutely, especially
since they don't have a second one.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
No, that was it, like one and done at least
for now. So anyway, thank you for listening to my
very long list of tech gripes that were weird in
a very bad way. I want to hear some of yours.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I love this, and I also love that this is
our longest episode.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
For me to pof and off about stuff that I
just don't like because they're a mild inconvenience to me.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Look, I cannot guarantee how often we will be able
to do this, because it does feel like you've been
saving up a lot of these for a long time.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
No, they just all came out. They flowed out of me. Ray,
But you're right, I don't know how much I've got left.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I will definitely come back to you with mine in
due course.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Please do. And look, if we end up running out
of things that we dislike, which I you know what,
I highly doubt that maybe we can talk to you
guys send in some of the stuff that you think
is weird in a bad way.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
We would one hundred percent. This is a listener question. Yeah,
tell us about tech that is weird in a bad way.
We usually focus on weird in a good way on
this show, but weird in a bad way. Hit us
with it. What's impacting your life.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Like Mark Zuckerberg getting a perm, all the important things.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
In petty, petty ways. We want to hear about it.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Please, and that's it for this episode of Weird Tech.
If you have any weird tech that you would like
us to cover, or if some of your tech.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
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and until next time, stay weird.
Hey, Ray, Hey Chakan.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Do you want to hear something that's weird in a
bad way? Sure? If I'm to be more precise, do
you want to hear a lot of things that are
weird in a bad way?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Do you just need to have a solid vent? Is
that what's happening right now?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I do, Ray, I've been thinking about this recently, and
then I was on the treadmill at the gym. It
was off the back of like a singular thing that
happened recently or has been happening that just got me
on a bit of a tear of just tech related
things that annoy me slightly. Okay, some of hiss mild inconveniences,
but I thought I would share with you to see
if you felt the same.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Absolutely hit me great?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
All right, So like literally, it's on my phone.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You've written it down, you've created a note.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, it's in the notes app, and just a list
of gripes if I may present them to.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, this is what therapists say to do if you're
having an issue. You write it down. You've gotten it
out of your head, you've gotten it down onto the page.
But now you're choosing to take it off the page
and record it for prosperity all of our listeners.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, I'm not letting anything go. I was resurrecting it
to make myself more stressed. So what this started with
is a very particular thing that's been happening for a
very very long time now. And maybe I'm just very stupid,
but I think this is a UX problem. The PlayStation
off button.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Where is it? Where is it?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Where is it? And I'm talking about the one that's
like on the UX. I'm in the controller. I want
to shut down my game. Why is it hidden?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
It's not in the menu that you think it will
be in, and it doesn't come up when you press
the button you think will make it come up. Every
single time I go to turn the PlayStation off, I
have to consider whether or not I am a big dummy.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yes, oh thank god. So maybe we're not, or maybe
we definitely both are, but together, but I hate it.
It is It is not intuitive, right, not intuitive?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's really not. And honestly, I say this as someone
who has been playing PlayStations since the day they were
released on market.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Absolutely, I mean probably the Australian date, not the Japanese one,
which has years ago. But that's the level of our
PlayStation nerdom. I Be Like a tomb Raider was the
game that made me fall deeply, deeply in love with games.
I'd played Seegars beforehand, but it was that Get Bridge PlayStation.
I love it my whole heart. But god damn it.
(02:37):
That's why this hurts all the more.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I have a childhood memory sitting on a giant PlayStation
memory card commemorating its thirtieth birthday in Australia, sitting right
on Sydney Harbor right now. That is the level of
commitment I have to PlayStation and I still don't know
how to turn it off.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And maybe it's because I switched through a lot of
different consoles. We are lucky enough, elso have an Xbox.
I just want to be able to press that button
baby and hold it down and be like you want
to turn me off? Yes, yes, I do, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I am literally googling right now how to turn off PlayStation. Yeah,
use the controller to navigate to the power menu, or
by pressing and holding the physical power button on the
console itself.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I'm not getting up. No, no, I'm sorry incorrect. So
that was my first thing, and I would love for
people to share some opinions. So if we are just
big idiots, honestly.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
There are Reddit threads about this, like everyone is asking
how to turn off a PS five or how to
turn off for PS four.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah. Correct, it's so silly. Good good. We are not alone, Ray,
we are not alone. Do you want to hear some
more of what's on my list my long lists of
our tech gripes. I think what this one's very valid?
Apple mouse charger is on the bottom of the Apple mouse.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Oh okay, this has been forever and I love right
when you look back in history at how unseeriously Apple
took itself back when it was Steve Jobs at all
of these announcements and all that sort of stuff. Like
when they bought out iPod socks, They're like, we've given
(04:12):
them socks, like they could they could poke fun at themselves.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
May I interject on my long list of weird episode ideas,
iPod socks is on that.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Excellent Well, there will be a future episode that goes
into iPod socks. But you know, Apple used to be
a company that could be silly. It could be silly
about its own products. It was relatable, it was kind
of fun in a way. You will not hear any
representative of Apple these days speak even remotely in a
way that could be misconstrued as negative about Apple in anyway.
(04:46):
So when like top execs at Apple are asked about
how ludicrous it is that the Apple mouse still has
a charging port on the bottom of it, they won't
speak poorly of it.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Is this a bit like or is this a humiliation ritual? Like? What? What?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
What is the purpose that?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Because they know, just bring out a new one like
people just want Okay, I understand the argument of just like, oh,
but they charge so fast, I don't care. I need
to put that in and keep going. At least like
all those other things about Apple in the past, they
were fun and they tied directly into what we said
so often on this show about how we want tech
to be fun. This is just the stupidest shit. What
(05:29):
how is that even sleek and sexy if they're going
towards that and just being convenient and useful for people.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It's not sleek and sexy to lay your mouse on
its side.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's just not.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And if the argument is it charges faster, then the
argument could be that having it be able to be
plugged in the frontier. You could use it while it's charging,
and the whole idea is that you want to use it.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
You do like literally, I feel like when you have
to turn it on its side and wait for it
to charge, like you're now the apple cock because you
can't use it, you can't do any think of your work, Like,
what is going on? I hate this?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Is this a mandated break from work? Is that what
they're trying to do. They're saying, go for a walk?
Is this like a life work balance screen technique?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Them an inch ray? Please? All right? Do you want
to hear some more?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I'm with you. I've got two out of two, teake,
and I agree with you both both to the point
where I don't even have an Apple mouse because there's
no way I'm doing that.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I chopped one in a drawer somewhere and even I'm
using a map right now, I'm using a plugged in
mouse at the front That's what I'm using.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Well, you know what I use instead? Taken the track pad?
You just use the track pad? Yes, I double press
with my fingeries instead of right clicking.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Good, all right. Another thing that I have a grite with, okay,
emails that have an unsubscribed button, but take you to
a nine question survey.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Oh my gosh, yes, I need to. I would like
to unsubscribe from your email because I don't want to
receive this email anymore. You know one, you know, one
of those options that has started to really grind my
gears lately as well. This is event that I have
as well. On some of these lists, there is the
option to say I never subscribe to this list. Oh yeah,
(07:16):
that is the most common option that I click because
my email address just gets added into these massive databases
and I get pr spam from all over the world
that is completely irrelevant to my work and what I do.
On some of these forms, that has now been changed
to I don't remember subscribing to this list. Oh calm on,
(07:39):
And I'm like, I'm sorry, No, this is not a
memory lapse that I have. This is I did not
sign up for this. This is unsolicited. Get out of
my inbox. Stop gaslighting me. Gaslighting forms.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Gaslighting forms, that's what we'll call it.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
No chuck them in the weird and a bad way
bin love it.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I think that's a good natural extension of that one.
This next one, I think because you spent a lot
of time in hotels, like traveling for work, like myself,
so hotel power outlets in the most inconvenient spot humanly possible.
And then I think I just must have been on
a tear when I went on to say I also
hate outlets too close to the floor, so you can't
fit a giant brick charger like an Apple Mac one.
(08:21):
But at least I get that because some hotels were
made before those existed.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
As soon as you said this, all I thought of
was trying to plug this in. You know where else
has powerpoints way too close to the floor, A lot
of a base, A regional studios. Oh so when I'm
broadcasting from across the state, if I've got into a
regional studio and I need to plug my MacBook in,
I cannot take this charger with me because it won't
(08:48):
plug into the floor. I'm frantically searching for an extension
lead so that I can plug my MacBook in. But yes,
get your act together, hotels, it is modern times.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Are you doing?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I tell you what? Though? I stayed in a hotel recently.
It was a service department. Actually it was the Meriton
in Melbourne, and they had wireless charging on top of.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Their alarm clocks. Yes, I've seen so.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I just laid my phone down next to me and
it was.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Some have the lamp kind of faces that do the
same thing. It's very nice. It's very Also bonus points
for hotels that have started putting in not just like USBA,
but USB c.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
See, I'm always a bit suss on those because there
is security risks. That's true with plugging your devices into
just a random USB port. So I'm always a bit
like so I'd rather go the power cable and then
I just plug everything into the ports that I have
on my on my MacBook anyway, So I'm usually okay
(09:47):
with that. I like that. Yeah, that's my thing.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Next one, which I know you absolutely will agree with
this one, and I did say when else right, I
love that. I'm just like looking back to what I
said at the time, going Jesus taken, I said, nature
is here a bit on this one, But when five
to seven years ago there were proprietary charges for everything,
A huge culprit of this was fit bit. And I'm
pretty sure from memory because I think we'll both at
(10:11):
Gizmodo at the time ray that sometimes even just year
to year or between fitbit products, they would have different
proprietary charges, and I hated it awful, straight to jail.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, and once again I'm going to call out Apple
for this again. Why do I have this?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Why do I have this? Can I not just have
a USBC?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I use my USBC on my MacBook instead of that,
and it works just fine.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
The paranoia that I have about losing that and needing
to replace it, yeah, it's just not worth it. Let's
just switch. Let's just switch everything, the EUS onto something.
It is.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
It absolutely is one or something. And look, here's the
thing again. Another natural extension of this which we have
blown up about before, but I have to mention it
is micro USB, which I know. I know it's mostly
dead now, but at the time it was like lightning
USBA kind of USBC with some things, and they're like,
(11:07):
this is not of the Lord, Like come on.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
No, USB is the worst cable that's ever existed, and
I'm glad that we are moving on as a species
from it. However, it still shows up in the most
unexpected places.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Also, I've found I've had to keep a few of
those cursed objects around because there are a few, like
of my older gadgets that I still love, like my
old Kindle Oasis where I still need it, and it's
very sad for me.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I think I have a Cobo in my draw. Yeah.
Actually I'm gonna yes, I've got my giant like draw
full of random Yeah, yes, gone on. Look it's not
charged less, it's not charge this charge your e reader.
Look at the age of this thing.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
It works, why not?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
It's waterproof and it doesn't work anymore because yeah, the
OS on it. I'm not even sure what it uses.
I used to just upload PDFs to it and it
won't let me do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
That sucks. Yeah, that's probably just a security nightmare at
this point, where not plug that into anything North Korea
has access or something like that. Here's something exciting and unplanned.
I just went to see what random tech that I
just had in my draw skit didn't find one, but
tee what I found. This was from the premiere of
(12:26):
The Fast and the Furious nine. It's like a little
car't smell a nice.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Of air fresher. Oh my gosh, Fast and Furious.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Nine and Furious nine.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I wonder, isn't that funny because didn't it come out
as Fast nine. Oh no, that was fast eight.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, you would know you're the expert. Here, come on.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
F F nine the fast Saga nine. It came out
as fast and furious nine because there was the fast
and the furious and then number four was fast and furious.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah. I think at this point I want to see
one that is literally just fast and or furious like
at this point as well, moving on, moving on, you've
got more.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Oh my gosh, you're just letting them all out.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Okay, I have five more. I will try and make
this week.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Okay, no, no, no go any gadget.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And kind of also not gadgets, but mostly gadgets that
needs its own app function but it's just for one thing.
I can't do it. And headphones for example, Sony I
kind of get because there's lots of tweaking and things
like that, but you also don't need to use it
because you can just use bluetoop and that's fine. And
my other example was there's one that I had to
download called the Card Network just to use a digital
(13:45):
MasterCard gift card.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Use it.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I wasn't giving up a hundoe.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Well, I wont a gift card in like one of
those work team building challenges like who was exercised for
the most minutes this week? And I'm like, jokes on you,
I go for like a three hour hike every morning.
I'm winning this.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I Live in the Mountains challenge me please sucked in?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Like it might not be the biggest workout, yeah, heart
rate wise, but I am walking all day.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Rows that do everything in twelve minutes.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I know, sucked in. My exercise is inefficient and it
helped me win this award. The award was a fifty
dollars gift card that I needed to sign up and
download an app for It'll be done, and I simply
chose to forego the fifty dollars. There is a time
in my life when I wouldn't have been able to
do that. I have chosen to sacrifice the fifty dollars
(14:45):
so that I didn't have to download that app and
hand them all of my personal information.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
It's sorry.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
No, absolutely, one of the ones that I had to
download an app for is literally to change the intensity
and temperature of the light globe in my lamp.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
No. Absolutely. Was this a Phillips thing, the Phillips Hugh
one where it's like all of them.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
No, So this is it's through Home, so it's connected
to Google Home. So I had to download the nano
Leaf app just to operate this light globe. But then
in order to actually get it to work, because the
nano Leaf app kept failing and disconnecting, it had to
go through Google Home. So now I'm using Google Home.
(15:33):
But every now and again it'll just disconnect. And I
am so close to just ripping this globe out and
putting in an old school something from the hardware stoor.
I don't even know where you get old school light
globes anymore, It's been that long since I've purchased a
light globe.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I'm pretty sure you can just get them at the supermarket.
I will go hit up my local IgA, and if
anyone wants a smart globe let me know, because I'm done.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You're over. It sounds like I've got two studio lights
in here that I just I don't you even use
enough to warrant the separate app. And it's because you
can do the different sliding scales lights like that makes
slightly more sense. But did I hate downloading it? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I uninstalled the app from the light that I have
in here, and I simply just have it on this
single setting. You what, just whatever it's on, it's on,
it's it's on, It's done. I'm so done with downloading
all of these extra apps.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I'm sorry. I'm going to make you even angrier on that.
I forgot that. I also put in a separate apps
for events so packed any tech conference, Like, I get
it when it comes to like there's maybe hundreds of
sessions in there. It means you can go find it
all in one place. I get that. I still hate it,
and I bonus bonus jail if there is some sort
(16:48):
of functionality on there. And I usually see this at
tech coference where people can get in touch with you
for networking for a meeting.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I knew you were going to say that because it's
the worst thing for networking, just for networking online.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Oh no. And some of it is the setting of
meetings too, both.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Right, like in person meetings right. So south By Southwest
was a big bug band for me as well, because
like I was hosting a panel, I wasn't there for networking.
I had a gazillion things to do, and like to
be able to pick up your batch, you needed to
have their app, and I'm like, I don't want to
download the app. And downloading the app, you are submitting
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to their terms of service, which include handing over your
details for marketing purposes to all of the exhibitors inside
these events. And it's like, I reserve the right to
attend conferences, expos, events, summits without being contacted by everyone
who's there.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I don't need a crypto bro sliding into my inbox
because he's gotten my details from an event that I've
been working at. Hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
No, no app downloads for events.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
No, absolutely not, Canial cannimal.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Just put an easy to follow schedule on your website
and make it mobile friendly. Please.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I say this is someone who, like I love tech.
I'm a tech reporter, have been for many years. Give
me print me a math.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
But on that though, printer subscriptions, No, no.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
No, absolutely no.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
The day that they brought out printer subscriptions was the
day that I committed to never having a printer.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I think, like, literally, a hell mouse probably opened somewhere
in San Francisco and swallowed some cars the moment someone
shipped that product.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I recall the day that HP announced their printer subscriptions
and their pa was working so hard to try to
make this sound like a good thing. You never have
to worry about running out of ink, And it's like
no one's ever worried about running out of.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Ink, literally, no one.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Like we all get notifications when you're going to run
out of ink. You can go get more ink, you
can replace the ink. If you have an online shopping
platform subscription, you could probably get the ink delivered to
you within a couple of hours. It's no one's going
to die if you run out of ink. I should
not have to pay a monthly subscription that you cut
(19:14):
off if I've printed too many pages, Like what do
you mean on my own paper, with my own printer,
with my own ink that I already paid for, You're
going to tell me I have to stop printing now?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
How is that the play when that is a dying medium?
One hundred percent? You know what I mean? Like there
is trying everything like balls to the wall, trying to
make some sort of money, and then there's that because
that is not going to do it.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
It is textbook in shitification.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yes, absolutely it is.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
You know, getting customers in with a product that they need,
it's then modifying that product to make it better for
companies instead of individuals, and then it is just not
caring about either of them because all you care about
is the bottom line of the business, and they're locked
in and there's no way that they can get out.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
It's what they do. I was like, this is this
is what we do. Everything's digital, but this is what
we do. And to be fair, there are some occasions
where I need a printer. Not enough for a subscription,
like absolutely not, like we unfortunately have one in this house.
But usually I'd be like, go to the library.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
That's gonna be fine, library, library, library, or tell people
that I don't have a printer, so you need to
send the courier with a label.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
That was in the past one of the reasons we
still needed a printer. Luckily not so much anymore, which
is just blessed, but oh my.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
God, mainly because every time I get off at a
review of something, it's for two weeks and that's just
not long enough anymore to be able to work out
whether something will degrade over time.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Well, that's the thing that this is what we're trying
to do differently here. I know we haven't done a
ton of reviews, but I'm just simply not interested in
this first cab off the rank. Some poor journal has
been given it for about five minutes and we're like,
we'll update like this first look soon. Now I'll never
have time. And that is not a sledge on anyone.
I have been there, and it's just not what I
want anymore. I want to have like long term lived
(21:07):
I don't even just see me does that for me?
Like I'm happy to buy my products like it's from
someone that's been able to do that is so valuable.
I'm just sick of this shit.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
One hundred percent. You gotta allow the product time to
work out whether or not the company is going in
a direction that you're still comfortable with recommending people purchase
from them.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Or not, absolutely, especially as everything is getting more expensive. Like,
I just don't Yep, it's always been hard having that responsibility. Yes,
there's a lot of amazing perks with it, but I well,
I think we both always took that very seriously, super seriously,
and so yeah, I'm not doing it. I'm not doing
this couple of day one week time. Just I'm not
I'm not interesting.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
No, I even get the emails where it's like two
week review unit, and I'm like, incorrect, I don't that's
not going to work. Using something for two weeks isn't
long enough anymore, because I find more and more issues
popping up after, you know, a month or two of you.
If I'm going to put a review out, it's going
to be after I've been using it for a solid
(22:09):
amount of time. And I can say, here are all
the things that I love about it, and here are
the reasons why I think you might need to be wary,
and they don't reveal themselves in two weeks.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's one hundred percent right. And also I will also
just make this caveat that this is not me late
saying I just want more free stuff in my house.
If anything, I want less things in my house just
in general. So it's not a play like I simply
want to be sent things for long periods of time.
I don't care about that. Oh No, I care about
doing a good job and not having people waste their
money one hundred percent anyway, Two more quick things. Oh
(22:44):
my gosh, I've got two more.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
This is lovely. This is lovely. It's my turn next month.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yes, bring me here, bring me a list. I would
love that.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I'm going to bring you my list of weird and
a bad way next month.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I love it and we would do it. I think
we should do weird in a good way. Maybe things
that make us just be that we can just just
lost sometimes too. Okay, yes, Airpod's max bra case. Oh yeah,
I remember, like the over the weird bra case they
came with, Like what is that? Oh, you've got it,
You've got to go. I don't know where mine is.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I am about to reveal how often I use these,
because my god, it's in the box.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
It's in the box.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Okay, I think I use it for like international flights,
which I haven't done.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
For a while. I found them too heavy for my
little neck. Look at it. This is always saying Apple
is so one serious. At least I could. I don't
like it, but I could respect this.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
It looks like a handbag made of boobs.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
It does. It absolutely does anyway. My last one that
I just it's weird in a bad way. Mark Zuckerberg's
glow up, I don't like it. You should have stayed
looking like a weird little nerd on He's like whatever
it was when he was on the back of the
boat covered in white sunscreen. I don't like the necklace
(24:03):
and like the weird perm. I'm sure it's probably actually
his natural hair is growing up. I'm pulling it grown
out as I'm calling it a weird perm. I don't
like it.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Well, at least he hasn't just gone the route of
making meta AI say that he's hotter than he is,
like Alon's done with.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Groc so by the way, I said glow up. You
said hot, and I don't feel comfortable with that description.
But I don't like that. But yeah, it's the ten.
It's everything, not about it.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You just I just put blue tag nipples on the
on the bra handbag. Look, how can you avoid this?
It is straight up, it's so good.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
It's so left. Take it out in public.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
They knew what they were doing.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
The amount of designers in that place of Apple is anything.
It's design except for that goddamn mouse.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Except for the mouse.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Again, that has to be a bit or alternatively, not
a single woman was involved in the design of that
bra handbag thing.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Highly likely if it looks like a bra boobs and
a handbag.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah, like I'm thinking that it might even not be
a situation where everyone's like more like actually not realizing it,
whereas like a woman immediately were like, boys, what is this.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Because the Apple design team doesn't spend much time around
boobs is what I'm hearing.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Then, you satur not me.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I'm actually just realizing as I'm picking this up now
the mesh at the top of the headband is deteriorating.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Oh that's no good for what was it at the time,
a thousand dollars headphones? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yeah, and like and like weird little white bits of
dust coming off the elastic. You know, the elastic is perishing.
That's what it is.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Oh yeah, okay, definitely not just a ton of danderff. No, yeah,
that's good because those were worth thousand dollars when those
came out originally, Like, come.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Up, you would want them to not be having the
elastic perish after a couple of years, right, absolutely, especially
since they don't have a second one.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
No, that was it, like one and done at least
for now. So anyway, thank you for listening to my
very long list of tech gripes that were weird in
a very bad way. I want to hear some of yours.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I love this, and I also love that this is
our longest episode.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
For me to pof and off about stuff that I
just don't like because they're a mild inconvenience to me.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Look, I cannot guarantee how often we will be able
to do this, because it does feel like you've been
saving up a lot of these for a long time.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
No, they just all came out. They flowed out of me. Ray,
But you're right, I don't know how much I've got left.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I will definitely come back to you with mine in
due course.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Please do. And look, if we end up running out
of things that we dislike, which I you know what,
I highly doubt that maybe we can talk to you
guys send in some of the stuff that you think
is weird in a bad way.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
We would one hundred percent. This is a listener question. Yeah,
tell us about tech that is weird in a bad way.
We usually focus on weird in a good way on
this show, but weird in a bad way. Hit us
with it. What's impacting your life.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Like Mark Zuckerberg getting a perm, all the important things.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
In petty, petty ways. We want to hear about it.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Please, and that's it for this episode of Weird Tech.
If you have any weird tech that you would like
us to cover, or if some of your tech.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Is being weird we want to hear about it. You
can hit us up on all social media platforms at
Weird Tech Media. We're a Weird Tech Media production and
a proud member of the iHeartRadio Network. This episode was
edited by the podcast Butler. Please remember to subscribe on
your favorite podcast platforms so you don't miss the next episode,
and until next time, stay weird.
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