Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Should the U.S. start bringing troops home from Europe? I worry a lot that this is where we were headed. Trump sort of signaled it a lot during his first term. And in my conversations with European friends, I have been telling them, be ready for this, because I do not think we get through four years without the United States reducing its European footprint. I'm Jake Sullivan.
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But how am I supposed to... But what if... But news.
What if the Fediverse needs me? What if the Fediverse needs me?
what is up people of the internet welcome back to another episode of the waveform podcast we're your hosts i'm marquez i'm david and i'm david adam wrote that into the script not me nice so yeah yeah so we're back with uh some apple news some google news and a game that adam wants to play with all of us so this will be a fun variety pack episode yes but first yes marquez you changed your whole desk setup i did we have to no we have to understand why
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Chapter 2: What desk setup changes did Marques make?
It's the second day of this experiment. Now, there's a couple of things I needed to make this setup work. So I have two Studio Display XDRs on my desk. They look fantastic. They are smaller than the Pro Displays, but they're 120 hertz. They're brighter. They look better. I'm willing to accept that. And I daisy chain them to each other. So it's great. I still have Thunderbolt ports to spare.
And I have this TS5 Plus dock. Who makes this dock? TS5 Plus dock. CalDigit. CalDigit, baby. Yeah, this CalDigit Thunderbolt 5 dock, which lets me plug all of my accessories on my desk into the MacBook Pro with one cable. That's nice. That's nice. So the dream is to have the one cable setup. I walk in with the laptop, put it down, plug in one cable, everything lights up.
The mouse, the mechanical keyboard, the studio monitors, the DAC, both displays, my storage, everything is connected to it. It's crazy, yeah. Unfortunately. Uh-oh.
universal audio dac is really stubborn and refuses to work with the dock even though it's plugged into thunderbolt in the dock i've tried it with the dock i've tried it also with the display plugging it straight into the display it doesn't like it it it just they've did they even test this it loves being plugged into the laptop directly damn so it's a two cable setup for now don't let the dock yeah don't like the dock
Damn. Marques, let me sit at your desk after we record and troubleshoot this for you.
Please. It took me four hours to figure out that it didn't like anything other than direct.
Yeah.
Yeah. It's really annoying. I have my own version of exactly what you're going through right now. And this is like round three of me wanting to talk about the iPhone Air.
Yeah.
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Chapter 3: What are the pros and cons of the MacBook Pro models?
But... You're probably, you know, a little more evened out because you're using a second Android phone all the time that's much thicker, so you're kind of used to it. Yeah. But I don't know what I was smoking when I was, like, okay with phones being as thick as they were, you know? It's not that bad. It's not that bad. Okay, I used to have the opposite take. Okay. This phone radicalized me.
So now you're fully thin phone pilled. Yeah, kind of. You can only use this for the S25 Edge. Everything else will be devastating. Well, I think there'll be more options later. And when the iPhone Fold comes out, I think that will, because it's still thin when you open it, I think it'll be an okay compromise. It'll be shorter. We'll see. But I don't know.
I tried to go back to the Pro because I'm going to Europe today for two weeks and it's so heavy and thick. I literally felt like I was using a Motorola track phone. That's what it felt like. I get it. Like I, especially when you use them back to back. Yeah. You go from this super thin, especially the lightweight too. That's the thing people don't realize.
When I see it on video, it looks, oh, it's just a little bit thicker or whatever, but holding it, it's so much lighter. And the two things that are frustrating about the Air are the camera and the battery. Yeah. As far as, I mean, everything else is perfectly fine as far as I can tell. Yeah. So I have had a couple moments where I wish I had an ultra wide and I literally had to back up. Totally.
Like I shot the desk photo the other day and I was just backing up away from my desk and that was annoying. but I can kind of make that work. Yeah. But the battery. Yeah. How are you dealing with the iPhone battery? It's not as bad as... I know how he's doing.
He grabbed a rich power bank for his trip today.
Well, I did. Yeah. I mean, it's not awful. I will say, like, I've been home for longer than I'm usually home for. Like, I've been home for, like, a month. And I am one of those people that just constantly has all of their gadgets plugged in at every moment that I'm not using them. You know, I have a lot of battery anxiety all of the time. That's okay with the air then.
Yeah, so it's okay with the air. So I'm not completely sure how it's going to fare, you know, on a travel. I'm sure. What? I know exactly how this is going to go. Oh, well, that's why I have battery banks, I guess. I don't know. I tried to switch back to the Pro and I'm just like, I can't do this. This is so annoying. Wow. It totally rattles. Even as your only phone. Yeah. However.
Okay, however, just like you, the main things that I miss are the camera, which, by the way, I was wrong. I thought I never used the wide-angle camera. The ultrawide? The ultrawide. I apparently do. Not for photography, but for, like, functionality. Yeah, like I remodeled my kitchen this weekend. Wow. Yeah, I know. It's crazy. I had to put a lot of work in.
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Chapter 4: How is Apple addressing issues with Siri and AI models?
How like you basically for the daily use, you just use it and it's thin and it's great. And then you basically switch it out for whatever parts you need, whether it's the battery bank or the camera attachment.
Motorola was a decade too early.
Yeah, of course. Yeah. The Z. Yeah, the Z was insane. But the thing is.
MagSafe is such a better attachment mechanism because like things like the Moto Z that had the dedicated modules yeah it's like they promised to support it for like two years and then they did and then all of those attachments were useless after that that was brutal or as long as Apple does not get rid of MagSafe which I saw some rumors that were like they're thinking of killing it and I was like that's the stupidest thing ever and they will never do that yeah
As long as MagSafe exists, all these attachments still work. Yeah. Sorry, iPhone 16E. So my point is I am totally radicalized. I didn't think this would ever happen to me.
I mean, this is kind of what we said when it came out. Like, this is the right form factor. It's just too many compromises.
Yeah, this phone would be great if it had a silicon carbon battery because it would probably be totally fine. I have a travel story for you in a second. And then, yeah, add an extra camera and it's right there. It's back to being very usable and justifiable. Okay, what's your story? I recently went to, how much can I say?
I went to a foreign country in Europe somewhere for a video shoot that you guys will learn about later. And I forgot to bring a power adapter. I totally forgot to bring a power adapter. Every time Adam and I were just talking about that. I brought everything else I need. I had the MacBook Pro. I had the backpack full of stuff.
I had my chargers all ready to go and I just forgot my adapter for their plugs. So it's a three-day trip. And I realized this as I land, and I'm like, you know what? I'm not going to buy an adapter. I'm going to survive with the batteries that I have. Crazy person. Which is a MacBook Pro, an Oppo Find X9 Ultra, a OnePlus 15, and an iPhone Air, and an iPad Pro.
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Chapter 5: How do you pronounce 'read receipts'?
Wait, what?
No, you're saying. How do you say it? How do you pronounce it? Read or read receipts? We've had this.
We have literally yelled at each other about this so many times.
I didn't know this was even a debate.
Yeah. We debate all the time the way it's supposed to be said. Read receipts or read receipts.
I don't even know what you're writing on your whiteboard.
It's going to be the same.
Wait, what do you mean? It's phonetic.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of 'read receipts' in messaging?
Oh, okay. You write phonetically. All right. What do we got? I am not as confident in this as I want to be. Oh my goodness. I know your answer. I'm not using it. But I think you say read receipts. David. Mark has what happened to you? What happened? It's red. I thought you said read receipts. No, I said read. Read receipts. Okay. Oh my. And you say read. That's why I didn't use the confidence.
That's why I didn't use it. We had to lock in, Mark. I forgot. It's okay. Damn, that's my fault. It's okay. Well, I'm correct, so it's fine.
Mariah, I think you should use your confidence boost here.
Do we each get one?
Yeah.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of AI in social media interactions?
Oh. I think you should.
I didn't know that. I thought it was one per team.
No, every player gets one. We gotta lock that. I mean, if you feel confident.
I mean, there's only one right answer. I think so. There is only one right answer. There's no debate.
And I think we're in agreement. I agree with you. So I think you should use it. And it's... There's a lot of talking. Wait, wait, wait. Are you using the confidence boost or not?
I'm gonna use the confidence boost on.
Oh, snap.
Read receipts. What the? There's only one.
No. Who says read receipts?
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Chapter 8: How does the conversation about a viral post unfold?
Ellis. A receipt, right? A receipt means the other person has seen it, correct? A receipt.
Yeah.
That means that they have read your message.
Yeah. A receipt is inherently a token generated by an action in the past.
I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. It's read.
It's read receipts. Give me your logic. Did you read it? No. There's a receipt. They read it because you got the receipt.
So is this team read and team read?
You are the one that got the receipt and they read your message. You would never say like, this is a receipt of something I buy. You would say this is a receipt of something I bought because you did it in the past.
This receipt, it's a receipt, which is something that happened before.
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