Relentless Geekery

Relentless Geekery


Episode 72 – Scary Story Time

October 14, 2021

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Episode Overview

It is October, and that means horror movies! And to make it geeky – a company just ran a big study to find out what the scariest movies are.

https://financebuzz.com/get-paid-to-watch-scary-movies

http://Based on the study, these were the scariest movies: https://besttoppers.com/sinister-scientifically-scariest-movie-ever/

Do you like horror movies? Tell us below. Have you watched the Twilight Zone Season 4 Episode 4 “He’s Alive”?

Interested in finding out about some horror movies you may not have heard about? Check out Stephen’s other podcast Horror Lasagna.

There is some tech talk, especially about Google Drive and whether Microsoft is slowing down processing power to push people to buy Windows 11. Google drive seems to spike the CPU even if it doesn’t seem to be uploading files.

We do share some of our secrets to being expert geeky IT.

Finally, we talk about Marvel’s “What If”. If you haven’t watched it, you should. There is some setup for upcoming MCU, but how much of it is really tied to the movies?

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Transcript

I know Zen caster has been updating a lot. They’ve added. The video earlier this year, and you can choose record video record only audio watch video, multiple options, but now they’ve added transcriptions, which I think is really cool. Okay.

[00:00:49] Alan: Automatic transmission, but yeah, regression tests when you push new features, you gotta make sure your old features don’t.

[00:00:57] Stephen: Oh that’s true. And I used Zencaster [00:01:00] yesterday and it was fine. And I didn’t use zoom. I’d have found if I use zoom, I have to reboot or Zencaster, doesn’t pick up my audio, but I haven’t used zoom for weeks. Okay. So I’m going to ramp from a, we talk a lot tech, I don’t want to talk tech all day. I want to talk horror movies, but a while back, I said, Hey, I wonder if Google drive would be a better choice for cloud than one drive from Microsoft.

So I looked and compared, and for a few dollars less a year, I get more storage on. Okay, that makes sense. It doesn’t, I don’t care what I’m using. I can use either. So I started switching everything over that was almost a month ago and not everything has sinked up and uploaded to the cloud. It is so freaking slow.

Literally. I won’t see it move and I have to stop, shut the service down and restart it to get anything done blowed. And a day later it’s like 0.1 gig has uploaded. That’s it? [00:02:00] Wow.

[00:02:00] Alan: So on a much smaller scale, I’ve noticed that because what I’ve been trying to do, I develop on my desktop because that’s where I have my multi-monitor setup and so forth.

It’s just for my presentations that I’m doing for the comic book course at Baldwin Wallace. When I do that, put something into the cloud and in this case it...