Casey Liss

Anyway, so collectively, ATP has donated, according to my little calculator here, $21,796.20. Of course, that exact amount is...

what we would do but that's what we ended up at and by the way i have to say that we're i mean this is obviously it's a relay pledge drive and we have relay podcasts and we are really adjacent we are friends with them but i've always been proud of how much of the relay pledge drive is from listeners to a non-relay podcast atp listeners donate tons of money like we already talked about like the leaderboard thing we have for casey stickers or whatever

what we would do but that's what we ended up at and by the way i have to say that we're i mean this is obviously it's a relay pledge drive and we have relay podcasts and we are really adjacent we are friends with them but i've always been proud of how much of the relay pledge drive is from listeners to a non-relay podcast atp listeners donate tons of money like we already talked about like the leaderboard thing we have for casey stickers or whatever

where, you know, ATP listeners with large means put huge donations in for the chance of getting those stickers, right? Sometimes people put ATP in their comments or whatever. We've been amazed by how much money and how generous ATP listeners are for this pledge drive. So that makes us proud of our listeners, and I think we're really helping out the pledge drive for St. Jude.

where, you know, ATP listeners with large means put huge donations in for the chance of getting those stickers, right? Sometimes people put ATP in their comments or whatever. We've been amazed by how much money and how generous ATP listeners are for this pledge drive. So that makes us proud of our listeners, and I think we're really helping out the pledge drive for St. Jude.

So please. The majority of the money is not the people donating thousands of dollars. It's small donations. Give 10 bucks, give 20 bucks, give five bucks, anything you can.

So please. The majority of the money is not the people donating thousands of dollars. It's small donations. Give 10 bucks, give 20 bucks, give five bucks, anything you can.

Do you know if the Logitech, like the little RF dongle things for their wireless mice because Bluetooth sucks, if they're USB-C now?

Do you know if the Logitech, like the little RF dongle things for their wireless mice because Bluetooth sucks, if they're USB-C now?

It's so much worse than the little RF dongles in pretty much all possible ways.

It's so much worse than the little RF dongles in pretty much all possible ways.

It's not even that. That's all true. Like the advantages for it. And they actually have like gaming mice that are wireless now with some super wireless protocol, whatever. It's mostly the fact that the Bluetooth range and reliability is often at the limit for desktop computers, even for a laptop to keep it far away of working well.

It's not even that. That's all true. Like the advantages for it. And they actually have like gaming mice that are wireless now with some super wireless protocol, whatever. It's mostly the fact that the Bluetooth range and reliability is often at the limit for desktop computers, even for a laptop to keep it far away of working well.

like i mean my computer is my tower computer i can touch it with my hand it's not that far away but no bluetooth mouse can reliably communicate with this computer it's not that far away rf dongle i could be in the other room smooth as glass right and that's that's the advantage it's just so much better range and reliability at the cost of filling one of your ports with a little thing and the reason i ask about the little dongles is because yeah this is the mac mini you know

like i mean my computer is my tower computer i can touch it with my hand it's not that far away but no bluetooth mouse can reliably communicate with this computer it's not that far away rf dongle i could be in the other room smooth as glass right and that's that's the advantage it's just so much better range and reliability at the cost of filling one of your ports with a little thing and the reason i ask about the little dongles is because yeah this is the mac mini you know

If you're going to get rid of a big port, get rid of it on the computer that has many in the name. It's supposed to be small. They're making it smaller. I get it. It's fine. Drop it. But the alternative is to have a dongle, like a little stupid white dongle or some other thing hanging off the back of it that you then attach your little RF dingus to if you have a mouse like that.

If you're going to get rid of a big port, get rid of it on the computer that has many in the name. It's supposed to be small. They're making it smaller. I get it. It's fine. Drop it. But the alternative is to have a dongle, like a little stupid white dongle or some other thing hanging off the back of it that you then attach your little RF dingus to if you have a mouse like that.

And that's more cumbersome than having a bigger computer with no dongle in some situations. So there is a balance here. Obviously, we should just be blaming Logitech. and say, why are you still shipping USB-A dongles?

And that's more cumbersome than having a bigger computer with no dongle in some situations. So there is a balance here. Obviously, we should just be blaming Logitech. and say, why are you still shipping USB-A dongles?

Make a USB-C one. The actual thing that's in there is so tiny, I'm sure it could fit. But anyway, that's the only downside I can see. It's like, why would you still have USB-A ports? You've got those YubiKey things and DRM stuff for expensive applications and RF adapters for mice.