680: A Lot of Holes in That Cheese
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
I just got a notification that my Mac Mini's offline in the garage. That might be because I might have sprayed some snow on it today.
The snowblower, thrower, whatever? Yes.
We've been complaining that the laptop should be waterproof, but I don't think anyone has really thought about the Mac Mini being waterproof, right?
So, I mean, you know, so me using the snow thrower, snowblower, I know snowblowing is a dirty thing somewhere, but that's what they call them here, so I'm going to keep calling it that.
Do they not call them that somewhere else? I understand snow thrower being the more technically common term, but I thought it was nationwide. Snowblower is the common term.
Some population is giggling, and I just don't know which one. Look, I know about it. I just don't care. Anyway, I bought this thing five years ago at least. I've only used it a handful of times. I'm not good at it because it doesn't snow that crazily that often.
I thought you meant the Mac Mini for a second. I was like, what are you talking about?
I don't know.
no that one i use a lot actually which i'll get to another time but um but yeah so and it's it has snowed so much in the last few days like me trying to use this thing has been comical everything is a mess and i'm you know trying to clear the driveway and like i get about five minutes in and i'm and it just stops now this is a two-stage snowblower it's hundreds of pounds and it normally two cycle you mean two cycle engine It's a four-cycle engine with two stages of stuff it does to throw snow around. Got it. So anyway, it just stops. And I'm like, oh, my God. And I'm trying to pull up. I'm like, what am I going to do? I'm in the middle of the driveway. This thing is huge and heavy. And then I realize, I'm like, wait a minute.
It might just be out of gas.
Yeah.
i'm so bad at operating this is my last gas powered thing besides tips cars range extender and so i'm like i'm like i don't know how i don't know how to deal with this like i've never even bought like regular gas for it i just use true fuel like the stabilized gas you're supposed to keep in it all winter i use so little of it i've i've paid like 50 bucks total of gas the thing is it has ever used So like, I'm just, I literally like have never even bought real gas for it. So I'm so disconnected from that process, but yeah, it turns out it just was out of gas. I just poured more true fuel in and it was fine again.
On that topic, by the way, like I remember this came up maybe on this show or in some other, no, it was probably like when we were, when, uh, we the cultural we were watching like the first season of the last of us or something and debating how long gasoline oh yes would last or whatever um and i think i might have mentioned this then but like i continue to think about it like we've had really mild winters for past several years here now this one's Not mild, but it's not the worst. But anyway, we had mild winters, and so I hadn't used my snowblower in literal years. It had been in the garage, and I also have, you know, there's no gas in it, but there was a, you know, a red plastic, I don't know how big it is, four-gallon thing with gas in it that I filled at the gas station.
And I was just sitting in my garage for years. For literal years, just in the plastic, sitting there waiting. And then, you know, we finally get a snow after several years that I think I'm going to use the snowblower on. Because honestly, I think doing it by hand is easier most of the time because our snowblower is so old and so terrible and so tiny. But anyway, we pulled that out again. And every year I pull it out, I'm like, this is it. This is the year it's not going to work. This is a 20-something-year-old snowblower, by the way. It's had zero maintenance. And I'm putting into it gas that had been in my garage for four years. I'm like, well, the last of us debate tells me that this gas should be dead after six months.
So surely this won't work. It always freaking works. It works. Put it in the thing. Mine is actually two cycle.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00β3:37
2
What are the challenges of using a snowblower?
3:37β11:32
3
How does the new macOS document model work?
11:32β27:24
4
What are the implications of Apple's US manufacturing plans?
27:24β1:19:22
5
What are the features of Apple's new server technology?
1:19:22β1:21:46
6
How does the design of Apple's server compare to traditional servers?
1:21:46β2:16:32
7
What are the pros and cons of the latest electric car models discussed?
2:16:32β2:34:30