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This week I'm joined by long-time friend Sterling Yee who, as a member of the American Lung Association national board, had a meeting at and a tour of the Tesla factory in Fremont, CA. Sterling describes his impressions and experiences from that visit in this podcast.

In this podcast Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss

• 295 Macs and PCs certified to run Google's ChromeOS Flex
• Nobody wants to be in the office on Fridays (shocking! :-)

• Amazon Recycling Program Recycle small consumer electronics for free

• The subscription-izaton of iPhone/iPad apps

In this podcast Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss

- The new Netflix immersive audio feature. This is different from Apple's Spatial Audio

- The dumbing of UI/UX design

In remembrance of Jon's Mom.

Todd Ogasawara is joined by guest co-host Dr. Kent "Kim" Bridges for Hawaii Techies Edition #3. We reflect on our long time (40+ years) intertwining of friendship and technology starting with the original IBM PC and continuing to the present. On the way to the present, Kim relates using an early GPS device to avoid being lost at sea in a storm in between atolls in the Marshall Islands, the convergence of word processors, scanning his entire academic library (books and papers), and the overall journey from analog to digital.

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss Jon's "Great Duplication Hunt" project that he worked on for the past two years. They discussed backup and deduplication in the the modern era. Jon also raised the question: When do you upgrade displays? Especially since displays tend to be one of the more stable and dependable accessories that last many many years.

Todd Ogasawara is 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.

Todd got a Blue Yeti Nano to replace the full-size Blue Yeti he has been using for years to record podcasts.

Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss Apple WWDC announcements that interested them the most (and ignore the rest :-).

The most interesting new iPadOS 16 features require and M1 powered iPad.

Jon is looking forward to the new lock screen customizations.

This is the first of special podcasts focusing on techies from or in Hawaii.

In this podcast Todd Ogasawara is joined by old friend Robert Lee who recently left a giant tech firm to work for a start-up: Stow Energy. It aims to provide smart heat pump systems. Robert also discusses a pair of gadgets that he has found very useful: Pinecil USB soldering iron & Nijan Creami ice cream machine.

• Some white noise podcasts are making thousands of $ per month from Spotify
• Bluetooth keyboard with touch pad weirdness
• Pre-Apple WWDC
• Jon's multifunction luggage ordering/delivery adventure

In this podcast Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:

• Chrome OS 102's subpar USB-C cable detection
• Google Docs & pasting text quirks
• Apple Music now integrated with Google Waze
• Google Cursive pen-centric note taking app more widely available
• Todd is finally trying to make peace with Microsoft OneNote
• Jon solves a Siri annoyance with a Shortcut