Author: todd

For this podcast I’m joined by guest co-hosts Paul Lawler and Ryan Ozawa for Hawaii Techies Edition #2. We discuss topics ranging from crypto-currency, to the pros and cons of the Apple AirPods Max to the Unisteller Smart Telescope and more.

1. Ryan Ozawa Hawaii Bulletin
2. Ryan Ozawa Decrypt.co
3. Nikon Coolpix P1000
4. eV Scope2 Unistellar Smart Telescope

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This is the first of a planned series of MobileViews podcast focusing on technologists with Hawaii ties. This first in the series welcomes old friend Robert Lee who recently left a giant technology firm to join a start-up working on smart heat pumps. He has been in California for over a decade now but grew up in Hawaii and was a summer intern at a company I worked for years ago. He is currently the Lead Software Engineer at Stow Energy

1. Robert’s current favorite gadgets
   Pinecil USB-C soldering iron
   – Pinecil USB-C soldering iron
   Solder anywhere – plugs into a macbook charger, I have been using this for field repairs and to keep my workbench compact
   Mechanical keyboard enthusiasts might like this since it’s much less expensive and bulky than a traditional soldering iron
   Ninja Creami ice cream machine
   – Ninja Creami ice cream machine
   Instead of slowly churning ice cream, this thing uses a 800 watt motor – like a shave ice machine at 10x speed
   My partner and I have been making fruit and non dairy desserts as a stay at home hobby
2. Stow Energy Lead Software Engineer
   One heat pump for your home heating, cooling and hot water – hydronic technology used in big commercial buildings on residential scale
   Thermal storage – use excess solar energy or cheap time of use rates to time shift your heating and cooling energy usage
   Simplify home HVAC – people only replace critical things like furnaces in an emergency, how can we help people learn more about their home’s health and make maintenance / dealing with contractors easier?
   Embedded software, and also EE PCB design, and also cloud engineering, and also PEX plumbing, …
3. Energy.gov Heat Pump Systems
4. Google Project Sunroof

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For this podcast, Jon Westfall and I discuss:

1. I say farewell to my Mother
2. Recording with Audio Hijack (they dropped the “Pro”) 4 for the first time
3. No Android tablet with Samsung S Pen for me.
   Considered buying a Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite with bundled non-Bluetooth S Pen for $280 from Costco.for my Daily Doodle project
   Although this seems like a reasonably good deal, the problem is that the S6 Lite was released in 2020 with only 3 years of Android OS updates. So, its last update would be Android OS 13 in 2023.
   Will wait to see what Google’s 2023 Pixel Tablet looks like — and how expensive it will be!
4. About iOS 15.5 Updates
   Wallet now enables Apple Cash customers to send and request money from their Apple Cash card
   Apple Podcasts includes a new setting to limit episodes stored on your iPhone and automatically delete older ones
   Fixes an issue where home automations, triggered by people arriving or leaving, may fail
   Fixes an issue that may cause iPhone SE (3rd gen) to unexpectedly shutdown
5. Ugh news from The Verge:
   Apple will let your subscription apps charge you more money without asking
6. Apple has updated its App Store rules to make it so subscriptions can auto-renew without your explicit permission, even if the developer has raised the monthly or annual price
   They do send a reminder though, I believe about a week in advance, with the price.
7. A fishy Disney story of a lost apple watch that somehow charged $40,000 of fraudulent charges.

Audio quality note: I used the microphone in my AirPods Pro instead of the Blue USB microphone I usually use. So, I found a bit “distant” in this podcast.

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