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Beep boop - this is a robot. A new show has been posted to TWiT…
What are your thoughts about today’s show? We’d love to hear from you!
Not sure if this is still the case, but back when I ran Windows on my primary rig, I was gung-ho to get my data disk formatted with ReFS. Got everything setup, only to discover that Microsoft Store apps couldn’t be written to ReFS! As an Xbox gamer that was a non-starter. Come on Microsoft…
A note about the SMS MFA vs modern MFA - I prefer TOTP etc not for any enhanced security measures, but because these companies can’t help themselves but sell your phone number for marketing purposes. Twitter got smacked by the FTC for doing it years ago. I’m sure they’re not the only ones to do this. Additionally, SMS/email MFA is not a passive system like TOTP. Can’t count how many times have I been left at a login screen waiting for an email code.
Watching Dave’s Garage. That guy needs to be a guest on the show. Absolutely excellent summary of DeepSeek R1 and how it’s disrupted things. This guy definitely knows his stuff.
I have fond memories of “burner phones” because as a kid I went to Florida with my parents for 1-2 months at a time and my dad would always get a new burner phone because roaming plans costed a fortune back in the day.
It was nerve wracking hearing Paul’s run-in with Google’s lack of support. He might’ve needed to contact Rene Ritchie otherwise (it’s shitty that you have to tweet for youtube support)
Imagine if Cj is a huge TWiT fan and he sees this story on the show
At least he got support, we were DOSed from Google (probably a misconfigured server, it was pumping 10gbps down our 50mbps line).
They didn’t answer the phone, just a recorded message to look at the relevant page of their website (I didn’t find a page about what to do, when Google is attacking your network), email got an automatic response that emails were automatically deleted and not read by a human. They also didn’t respond to tweets.
In the end, we switched providers and got a new IP address. 6 months later, a day before the old line was to be turned off by our previous provider, I plugged it back in and the Google server was still pumping 10gbps down the line.
That’s bananas. It’s crazy how tech companies operate without a real customer support line. Hopefully AI can help there (although I’m not as confident)