Tech We'd Like to See Improved!

This week, Marques, Andrew, and David discuss a few quick news items including Instagram's "Made By AI" tag and a new app that makes the trash can on Mac a little more realistic. Then we bring back the "Wish List" segment by ranking the ones you all submitted to us! After that we wrap it all up with trivia. It's a fun one!

Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:34 Bananabin
04:53 Instagram Made by AI
15:09 Google AI
26:46 Trivia
29:36 Meta AI (Sponsored)
30:40 Marques Wish List
44:24 Listener Wish List
52:23 Trivia
53:24 Meta AI (Sponsored)
54:26 Wish List continued
01:19:57 Trivia Answers
01:28:42 Outro

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[Waveform]

So just wondering...how much is in your recycle bin right now? 🗑️👀

[firefox]

We don't want you to change either Andrew 🔥🦊

[RyanProfessional]

The dating a new girl, whilst living with my ex analogy wasn't given enough credit. Funny and incredibly accurate.

[braxjohnson]

"I'm dating this new girl but I'm still living with my ex" is a WILD analogy lmfao I laughed for like 5 minutes

[luistrejo]

22:35 Andrew’s analogy of Gemini and Assistant “is like dating a new girl but still living with your ex” is spot on! 😂

[michealkinney]

I'm glad someone tried to explain it @1:23:35, but the segment on "How many bytes are in a 1TB" is 1 Trillion, based on the way it's worded (if comparing well Apples to anything but Windows). On Microsoft Windows however, what is labeled as 1TB is a lie and is actually a 1TiB. So on Windows, the actual answer for how many Bytes is in 1TB (really 1TiB) would be 1, 099, 511, 627, 776 bytes (1024^4). Linux, Mac, BSD, and modern Unix OS's (and pretty much everything other than Windows) "fixed" this years ago. But even today many people still wrongly think manufacturers are misleading them, or that the remainder is overhead of the OS or file system (neither are remotely true). The correction to what was said is simply that ALL hard drives are manufactured in Terabytes, not TiB (reverse of what was said at the end, and again this is ONLY an issue for Microsoft).

[nikhileswar_r]

The fact that this episode is sponsored by Meta AI is crazy! But how? They were literally shitting on FB minutes ago for not using the AI tag for it's AI content 😅😅

[theweightofarms]

I love how much "what is a photo" comes up among this crew, brings me so much joy

[LuisRomero-sxkw]

"bruh there's so much trash" needs to be on the sound board

[personne_lambda]

Thank you so much for putting chapters really appreciate that.
keep up the good work guys

[SANGI]

The whole “Assistant” versus “Gemini” thing is a perfect example of Google having no idea how to market their products.

How hard was it to just present an updated “Google Assistant” with AI, and eventually just no longer need to mention AI when is mainstream and intuitive

[FernandoEtchepare]

DID YOU REALIZED THAT ALL OF YOU GUYS HAVE YOUR CLOTHES MATCHING WITH YOUR EYES COLOUR ???!! 🤯

[filipmarkovic]

Can you imagine paying a subscription for a single animation over your trash can

[Shadowstaarr]

Yoo, I've been playing Cookie Clicker for like 15 years.

[edwindiaz]

Out of all Waveform episodes, 22:31 "I think we're getting rid of Assistant eventually, and it's going to be Gemini. But this weird, awkward stage of, like, 'I'm dating a new girl but still living with my ex' of a Gemini assistant is very confusing." made laugh the most.

Keep rocking, Andrew AKA The Nature Boy!

[TheBismrk]

48:34 in case you didn't know, the galaxy watches can be used as a touchpad with the ppt controller app. Usability and compatibility varies

[majestyblur]

Wish list:
1. iOS with different audio controls for alarm, ringtone, phone tone and other sounds

2. Bring back cursor in the dialer (phone app) on iPhone. In simple terms, been Apple to edit entered phone numbers rather than deleting the whole number

3. 3D Touch

4. Black Apple Watch ultra

[mattjgraham]

It's the weekend, guys! In the UK and finally relax and watch the Waveform Podcast.

[felixabbott]

For the Apple problem, it’s cuz the trash is stored in the card under a hidden file that is not viewable unless you enable view hidden files (there’s a shortcut for it but I forget). So you can enable that and delete the .trash folder to properly delete it from the SD card, annoying but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[SimplyMattis]

I'm 20 years old and the idea that anyone who has this much to do with the internet / tech wouldn't know about cookie clicker is absolutely crazy to me