What discontinued fast food items do you miss? Also, Georgie continues to get sucked into the Apple ecosystem, while Geoff reps mechanical keyboards.
What discontinued fast food items do you miss? Also, Georgie continues to get sucked into the Apple ecosystem, while Geoff reps mechanical keyboards.
Geoff 0:08
And welcome back to another episode of toast and roast. I'm your co host, Geoff, and as always, I'm here with Georgie. How you doing?
Georgie 0:17
Are you always here with me, or do you mean you are here with
Geoff 0:21
in spirit. Because if people didn't know we don't do this in a studio together, face to face, I thought you found I thought you had some conversations, and they were like, Oh, you don't do it remotely. Yeah,
Georgie 0:41
it's funny because it, I don't know how they imagine it.
Geoff 0:47
Yeah, I guess. How do you imagine any podcasts? Oh, the videos are definitely in the studios, right? Yeah.
Georgie 0:56
So when, when people say podcast these days, I think that it's very different to if you said podcast like 1215, years ago,
Geoff 1:05
yeah, dungeon, yeah. And
Georgie 1:09
I actually heard a discussion about what podcasts are on a podcast, and about how these days, people think that podcast is news. Basically. They're like, when the fuck did podcast turn into like a news source? And it's like, oh, you know, so and so, actor, President, well, political candidate has appeared on a podcast, and suddenly that is, like, a thing of news. And it's funny because on this podcast, they were saying, yeah, like, I'm just here to, like, just talk about, like, shit and like, fuck around. Like, I'm not. Please do not think of me as a news source. Yeah,
Geoff 1:53
we definitely don't want to be a news source. We are not qualified, nor do we do any research. If you ever thought we did research for these podcasts that's on you made it very clear that we're probably, we're probably not politically correct. Half the time we try
Georgie 2:15
to be, but try to be,
Geoff 2:18
but you know what else is not, not exactly politically correct, the keyboard you just bought.
Georgie 2:24
Well, I Okay, so let's start this story by me asking you, How do you clean your keyboard?
Geoff 2:33
Ah, well, for one, I don't do very often, but for two, cool
Georgie 2:40
we're honest on this podcast, you don't clean your Yeah,
Geoff 2:44
yeah. I mean, since I, since I changed to mechanical keyboards, they do offer an easier way to clean, like, thoroughly clean, like, I can take the key caps off and clean it inside, because they've got gaps between the keys. So how often do you actually probably, like once every six months or something that's bad. You can shake it, I guess.
Georgie 3:15
You can shake it. I guess 2025,
Geoff 3:19
yeah, yeah. It's like, shaker fries. Oh, we tried the Vegemite shaker fries from Maccas the other day. Wait, are they? Is that actually a thing? Yeah, shake. It's like, Vegemite seasoning. No, it's Vegemite seasoning. Okay,
Georgie 3:33
and how do you how do you rate because I like Vegemite, so I think
Geoff 3:38
if you like veg you might, I would rate it highly, like it's a very distinct Vegemite flavor on a fried chip potato.
Georgie 3:48
How do you know, though, that it's not just a whole bunch of excess salt, because it's basically what
Geoff 3:53
I mean, if you're going to Mac is for health. I have no idea what you're you're smoking, because you got to expect a certain level of price processed. Bs, yeah,
Georgie 4:11
I think, is it a promotion, or is it around like, Oh,
Geoff 4:13
I think is a promotion, but I'm not. I'm not entirely sure for how long. It's kind of like my southwest BLT, rip,
Georgie 4:22
Wait, was that? Was that a Mac as thing? Yeah,
Geoff 4:24
yeah. Where was that around? Well, I don't know, actually, probably, like, 10 years ago,
Georgie 4:31
yeah, I had the same thing with, like, the lean beef burger, the elusive fucking lean beef burger. Because around the time, I don't know I was, I only started taking high cholesterol medication, which, for anyone who doesn't know on this pod I have technically the medical term is familial hypercholesterolemia, which is just basically hereditary high cholesterol. Please. One, yeah, not the play one, where you you ate like a can. I mean, no offense, not the lifestyle one, because
Geoff 5:07
I had fancy leukemia, I didn't get the rudimentary leukemia. I got a plus severe aplastic anemia. That's not even cancerous. But yeah,
Georgie 5:20
I heard some, I heard a comedian say, like, there was someone who's who had cancer in the in the audience, and she was like, she was like, is it terminal or like, cute, yeah. Like, is
Geoff 5:36
it benign or malignant?
Georgie 5:42
Yeah. So anyway, the mean beef burger I was kind of health conscious about, yeah, I would say 15 years ago, it probably was. And then I thought that was my item. That was my McDonald's item, and then it was gone.
Geoff 5:55
Yeah, they said the Southwest BLT, for people who don't know, is a crispy or grilled, apparently, piece of chicken, you get the bacon, get tortilla chips, and you get the cheese, tomato and lettuce. And what it made. What made it was the southwest, like spicy Chipotle kind of sauce. It looks good, yeah. And they did change the bun, and I wasn't a fan of this, because they changed it from this. I don't know what you would how you describe this, but it's a soft bun. And then they changed it to the regular. I think they changed it to a regular, like the big Max, more like the big Max sesame seed bun, which wasn't, I wasn't a big fan of, but it was an amazing burger, and they, they got rid of it, and there's now a petition to bring, oh, really, it back? Well, it 2020. Petition five years, five years ago. Yeah, I haven't signed it, but there's also a Facebook group for it. Yeah, people really liked it. But what's this lean beef burger? I hadn't seen it.
Georgie 7:13
It was pretty like, it was boring, like it had a lean beef patty, which just didn't, it was, it was not like, didn't feel like it was covered in oil and shit, like, like all the other Macas patties, and then it had tomatoes,
Geoff 7:28
damn.
Georgie 7:31
It looks, it looks fucking mid I know it was.
Geoff 7:34
The comment, tastier than you might expect is
Georgie 7:37
to, I swear it's like, it was actually like it. You know, when you when you eat McDonald's, and you're just like, Yeah, this stuff is like, I'm eating fried Yeah, the lean beeper goes, kind of like, I'm eating a refreshing burger. And I feel like that's kind of like my bar these days. I suppose. I like a burger that doesn't taste like I'm just eating a bunch of grease. I like a burger that's got health on it. Do you remember that place was it Z pickle, which closed the salad? Health. I thought that was so cute.
Geoff 8:07
Oh, oh my god. I forgot about the the former number one, yes, you told
Georgie 8:12
me about that place. I was like, oh my god, I dig it, and I dig the pickles, yeah,
Geoff 8:16
and I think they had zucchini fries as well. Yeah, I'm pretty sure are they literally fully gone? Yeah, maybe there, oh, there's a website for them. Maybe they're open in Melbourne or something. Trip to Melbourne, here we come. Oh, it's a fan. It's a fancy loading screen. It's like wrote out the word Z, pickle. Oh, can come here, fries. They're really good. Good. Cheetahs, Guac, Guac. Cheetahs, guac. Place of fresh caps and mixed seasoning, popcorn shrimp, chicken WAGs. All right. Where are you? You're
Georgie 9:01
just like, where are the burgers, dude? Yeah,
Geoff 9:03
this is just bar snacks. Queensland. Queensland.
Georgie 9:08
Oh, that's a very slim opening hours. Did you see that?
Geoff 9:13
Oh, wait, what?
Georgie 9:16
Every day, that's it
Geoff 9:17
all right, let's check this out. Sydney. Here we go. How long does it take to drive? Yeah, a lot of stuff
Georgie 9:24
in Burley heads, like I know a lot of
Geoff 9:30
I know what I'm gonna do for the next eight hour and a half hours drive, drive to Gold Coast. Oh, it's in the Gold Coast. What
Georgie 9:40
if you what, if you got, um, DoorDash or Uber, you should order it like eight
Geoff 9:47
and a half hours, but,
Georgie 9:49
yeah, no, wait, hang on. Wait, wait,
Geoff 9:52
they get here. Yeah, they get here almost close to midnight.
Georgie 9:56
Yeah, wouldn't that's not gonna.
Geoff 9:59
I. Will be time we're on the East Coast. They know we're in Sydney. It's okay. Or rather, well, they
Georgie 10:08
don't know when we're recording this.
Geoff 10:13
It's good because apparently my dad's 70th is gonna be on the Gold Coast. I'm gonna go, maybe get to go to see pickle.
Georgie 10:24
You don't have to drive dude. Imagine if there was an Uber
Geoff 10:30
someone 13 hour train, I guess.
Georgie 10:32
No, no. Imagine if there was an Uber person working and they took a flight to deliver food. Uber flights,
Geoff 10:41
Uber Eats people who are willing to fly down. That's dedication. It's the cost of, like, the ticket, plus
Georgie 10:53
Am I think about that, like, how can we make this logically work? Can there be a flight service specifically for Uber drivers, and then there's places to, like, store and keep the food warm on the flight.
Geoff 11:04
Well, if you want to, if you want to actually take an Uber there, I guess we can ask for Uber copter. Um, so is
Georgie 11:13
this like a private, yeah,
Geoff 11:14
helicopter, just for the all the helicopters out there hanging around with nothing else to do, just my spare helicopter. But, yeah, it's kind of like Airbnb, and how, how Uber used to be like Airbnb, or and or vice versa, who are sort of like you have spare bedroom, and you want to make money out of their spare bedroom, so you put up on Airbnb and you rent out the spare bedroom. Same with Uber. You had a car lying around. You had some free time just go pick someone up for a couple bucks, right? But now it's gone like flip side, they're basically a full taxi service, and Airbnb is basically a hotel now, or at least, but shit, yeah, no service hotel, which you are paying the price of a hotel
Georgie 12:08
toast.
Geoff 12:11
So true. I mean, even a two star hotel would have room service, so that, basically, I don't know, service department, I guess. Anyways, back to your keyboard story. Oh,
Georgie 12:24
yeah, right. How do we get
Geoff 12:28
Yeah, how do I clean my keyboard? Okay, so I've been looking at tools to be able to clean my keyboard more efficiently, but they're, like, too expensive for what they are. Okay, let me bring it up. But do you tell the story?
Georgie 12:39
Okay, so I six months, yeah, I did the very dumb thing of like using a vacuum cleaner, just cautiously using a vacuum cleaner to try and clean my Apple Magic keyboard, which I think is like the 2016 model, but that I bought in, like, 2019, and I the vacuum cleaner sucked up the up arrow key. That's fucking great. But to be fair, the keyboard was not like it was already quite dead, like I can't even see, I can't see the R and the T because they've just been rubbed off from use. And then, literally, some of the keys, I don't know how, but have these dents in them. Like, I don't type with my nails, type of my fingers, so I don't know it's Yeah. And then, so anyway, vacuum cleaner sucked up the up key. And I'm like, Oh,
Geoff 13:37
I'm like, sucked sucked
Georgie 13:39
up the I was like, Is this game over? Like, should I just like, give up? No, I didn't. I emptied the vacuum cleaner into the bin, and then I started running amongst the dust to find the up key. And I was like, hello, I found the up key, but then I forgot that you also need the bracket, yes. And I was like, should I just give up at this point? Like, and then I looked, and I was like, I'll try and attach it. And then, so, I don't know, I spent, must have spent, like, 20 minutes trying to stick it back on to the keyboard. And I'm like, it works. Like, it doesn't quite work. And then that was when I kind of inspected it and realized that there was another part to the bracket that was probably in the fucking bin amongst whatever other food is grabs from there. And I was like, do I do I just give up at this point? No, I did. I went back to the bin. I was like, I I'm just gonna try. But then I don't know what the end game was. Was like, was I really hoping to actually fix it? No, oh, wait, because the keyboard was so old that I just, like, didn't give. I kind of didn't give anyway. We just bought one, but it didn't, yeah, didn't want to, because it's just a lot of money to spend it once, and I try. So I found the whole ass bracket, but I just couldn't, for the life of me, stick it back on properly. So I dealt with that for a few days. Days before I decided I should just buy a new keyboard.
Geoff 15:04
Yeah, your keyboard was, I'm guessing, of the scissor switch era. So about a butterfly switch era, because those are very, very difficult to fix,
Georgie 15:20
yeah? Like,
Geoff 15:24
can you show underneath? Just take it off, yeah, in any case, oh, right, right, right, right, yeah, this is the scissor switch. Scissor switch before the butterfly. You completely skipped the butterfly switch era because you kept this keyboard for so long. Yeah, so, but it is difficult if you don't have all of the pieces. Oh, yeah, that's right, you've got a crap
Georgie 15:51
and this is funny, this key, it's a funny inject key, yeah, so that's how I could tell what model it is. Because after the I know, I know, like kids who are listening, if you're like 19,
Geoff 16:04
what's that like? Triangle key in the on some keyboards, triangle,
Georgie 16:08
yeah, with a light
Geoff 16:12
like, I don't think so, to eject a CD which is a which is a disc, which is compact disc, and it's like a shiny, round thing that stores data in the grooves in binary. Yeah, it's groove. It's like your hard drive, which people don't know about. Anyways, we're going too deep into this Eject
Georgie 16:39
key. I knew what model it was. And I was like, oh, it's pretty old. And then since the Eject key, they changed
Geoff 16:44
it to a lock key, yes,
Georgie 16:46
which now I actually find a bit odd, like it's just for you to quickly lock the screen. Okay? And I was like, do I get that one which was like, $159 or do I get the $209 one which has the touch ID
Geoff 17:01
is
Georgie 17:02
compatible with silicon Blair or whatever,
Geoff 17:07
and then you have a watch, right? You don't need that that I know Touch ID if you have a watch,
Georgie 17:16
I know, yeah. But then I was like, I don't know why. Looking at that look icon just makes me feel like a pleb. Also, I don't think they released it with USB C. So the one with the touch ID has USB literally, when I looked at it, it was something someone's gonna find out when this episode was recorded. Anyway, it was it only came out in like November 2024 Yeah, with USB C, I was like, also, it's fresh. It's fresh. And I
Geoff 17:46
know, but they didn't change anything about the keyboard other than USB C, yeah, yeah,
Georgie 17:50
that's fine. But then, like, my trackpad is, like, USB lightning or whatever. But then I was like, we might as well take a step in the fucking USB C direction. I have a USB C phone, like both of my Mac books, USB like my work and personal
Geoff 18:07
one. Yeah, you could have taken this opportunity to get the USB C Magic Trackpad,
Georgie 18:12
but I didn't get the trackpad yet. So anyway, I ended up getting $209 one with the touch ID, and then I tested it with my work laptop, and it didn't work. Some of the some of the keys didn't work. And when I connected
Geoff 18:28
it, that's odd, some of the keys didn't work. Yeah.
Georgie 18:31
So the whole top row, like the brightness, the volume, and the touch ID itself didn't work. And when I connected it, it showed the, you remember that old magic keyboard that had the big battery thing in the in the back, with the surface that was the picture, the graphic that showed up when I connected
Geoff 18:55
on. So it thought it was an older, even older version.
Georgie 18:59
So I think also the globe key, the function key, they don't work. And, yeah, I was like, I don't know what's going on. And then I checked with my personal laptop, which is MacBook Air m2 on Sequoia. And I was like, oh, okay, works here. So it was the fact that my work laptop was on the previous one. I've already forgotten, I don't know Sonoma was on the previous OS, and because the the keyboard was so new, is in November 2024 Oh, it literally wanted you to be in support, like, 15.1 or whatever. So I had to mildly complain to IT support that, hey, can you unblock like because they block you from like, upgrading to the latest thing. If it's not like, yeah, it's a bit more stable. And I was like, my keyboard is not working, and I wanted to be a huge drama queen and make a case for the fact that I couldn't adjust my volume. And I'm like, imagine if I'm in a call and spend. Because, you know, the People's audio is not always consistent, and some people are louder than others, and if I need to emergency adjust my volume, then it's not very accessible. Anyway, was able to upgrade after they removed the block, and then it was working fine. So,
Geoff 20:20
wow, they they literally didn't have the drivers for your keyboard because it was so new on the old one. They didn't bother updating the old you have to be on Yeah, okay. Well,
Georgie 20:36
also with cleaning keyboards, like Normally, I wouldn't take a vacuum to my keyboard, but it was just, yeah, yeah. Slightly tempted. I do have compressed air. I do have compressed air, but even that is kind of like, Why does it feel like so much effort? So tell me, Geoff, what is a good way to clean your case?
Geoff 20:53
Is why you get this is why you get one of these. You get a mechanical keyboard so you can lift all the keys up individually, take them off on purpose, and then clean and you can vacuum them. You can vacuum them. You can do all sorts of things. So, yeah, well, I mean, shit, so I was gonna drop in there. But mechanical keyboards do come with like, like, key cap pullers, and you can just pull off all your key caps and then vacuum underneath it and then put them all back on.
Georgie 21:28
So I have getting a mechanical keyboard, but I actually don't know if I'd even like it.
Geoff 21:34
That's a that's a very good point. So
Georgie 21:38
the sound that they make is that there's not really concern, yeah, like, it's a bit too much. I'm not gonna just put headphones on
Geoff 21:47
and not hear it. Oh, mine. Mine sounds like, like pebbles when you like, click pebbles together,
Georgie 21:55
yeah? Too loud,
Geoff 21:58
yeah, it's not clacky. Yeah, it's like a low rumble, Pebble noise. But you're right. It is a risk. I was debating them as long time as well, because, because you can get so many different configurations, and then they will ask you, do you want more tactile or more mushy feeling you don't like the actuation point? I'm like,
Georgie 22:27
Okay, actually have to think about and choose what like you prefer not.
Geoff 22:31
For this one, they give you kind of like a really medium, medium ish, my keyboard they gave they give you like they don't give you many options for this keyboard because they have, like, a standard switch that is fairly, fairly medium. Like, it's not too hard to press down, but at the same time, you can, kind of, like, feel it doing something, and it's slim, so you don't have to, like, press really hard to get the keys to go down, but it is enough so that you like, Oh, I've actually pressed that key. I don't accidentally press any other key. But you're used to the magic keyboard, which basically has zero feedback when you press on it.
Georgie 23:23
I'm so used to it. Yeah, someone was literally like, do you code on that? Jordan? Because, like, I picked it up once during a meeting to kind of just like, I don't know, shake the fucking dust out. And they were like, Dude, please don't tell me, you use that to code? I'm like, Yeah, I do. I do use it to code. I used
Geoff 23:38
to use it. I use it on my at work, actually, because I use the Mac keyboard laptop, because I don't bring a keyboard to work anymore. I used to have two keyboards, and I'm like, Oh, God, this is getting too much.
Georgie 23:52
So is a mechanical keyboard? Like, actually more ergonomic?
Geoff 23:57
I believe so. I believe so. Because if you you have a look at the profile of this one, I mean, this one is more ergonomic than the other ones because it's so low profile.
Georgie 24:09
How does it differ from a super standard? Just Bob's your uncle keyboard.
Geoff 24:16
Bob's your uncle keyboard.
Georgie 24:19
If you just pick up a cheap ass keyboard that's not mechanical. Is it different? Like,
Geoff 24:24
well, actually, they the keyboards were always mechanical before they came out with these membrane ones that
Georgie 24:31
yeah, they were always, yeah. They were always keyboards mechanical. Anyways, because they're mechanics,
Geoff 24:39
no, that's the that's a really interesting part. All keyboards are not mechanical, because mechanical keyboards have a switch, and you press down that switch to then press, then touch, a touch a microchip. That is the. Am, that sends the letter to your computer. So you press this, press the key cap, then it pushes down a switch that presses the mechanic, PC, PCB, or whatever microchip. But when, when it all came became like really flat, and laptop started becoming popular. A cheaper way of doing that is, is to actually press the key cap, and then it would press down on a silicon membrane. So, yeah, so it's like a plastic sheet, yeah, that's right. And then that will press down on, on the on the micro chip. So you didn't actually have any mechanics in there. It was just you squishing on some plastic, like you popped, if you had a bubble wrap, and you were, like, squishing on the bubble wrap, that's exactly what you're doing. Activated the, yeah, activated the the key you're pressing. So then that's when you, when you go across your keys and you just feel, you feel this, like gel underneath them. It's not like, click, click. It's like, silent, but it's like, mushy. Anyways, there's a lot of reasons to get Macau keyboards.
Georgie 26:23
Customization is very nice and tempting, but then I'm just like, that would also overwhelm me.
Geoff 26:30
Yeah, it is quite overwhelming, because if you're if you're into something like a particular color scheme, then you can spend more money on key caps than you do on a keyboard, like artists and key cap. So yeah, except
Georgie 26:46
on some of them, like, 100 bucks each, even, like, if they're really, yeah,
Geoff 26:51
you get Etsy look up key cap.
Georgie 26:54
Oh, yeah, I think we have
Geoff 26:57
Etsy key caps. And you just like, okay, so people are actually spending their time, like, creating singular keycaps, yeah,
Georgie 27:09
decide on a theme when all of them are fucking cute,
Geoff 27:13
you just get chaos on your keyboard. Yeah, I 100%
Georgie 27:16
like, if I had a mechanical keyboard, like, my keyboard would be killed, and then I'd be like, I'd have choice paralysis all the time by everybody. Well,
Geoff 27:24
that's why that. This is why it's a dangerous hobby, because people have specific like multiple keyboards and multiple key caps to change all the key caps. It's like changing watch band, or even changing your watch and rings or jewelry. You know, you have a full set of jewelry, just to change it up. And, oh, my God, this is
Georgie 27:44
a jubilee one keyboard, right? And so if you want to, you can have five
Geoff 27:47
keyboards. If you want 10, but this is how you clean them. Normally, you just have a massive brush. It goes through all of the crevices, and then you just, like, sweep your keyboard you have and compress air would work on the mechanical keyboard because there's gap down there, not the magic keyboard. Any case, you can return yours and buy a new one if you wanted to, and I can connect it to three different computers, which is what I really need. I realized my old keyboard could only connect to two. And I was like, That is not acceptable. Wait, connect only to one via Bluetooth, one Bluetooth and one via cable. I'm like, this is this is not acceptable. It needs to connect to at least two Bluetooth so fair. Yeah. But these, these, these are really good, like, 40 hours on a charge. I haven't charged mine since I bought it, like six or eight months ago.
Georgie 28:54
I don't six or eight months ago.
Geoff 28:57
Yeah, really, maybe, when did I buy this? I don't even, I even got rid of the cable that's supposed to, like, off my desk. My desk is cable this, completely cable this. And I'm like, Oh, I just realized what I was saying, that I got rid of the cable that was supposed to be there to charge this keyboard because, yeah, haven't had to charge it anyways.
Georgie 29:25
I don't know. Like, I don't mind experiences
Geoff 29:27
better and better. Like, how, yeah, I don't know. Oh, yeah, ergonomics, right? So the magic keyboard is actually too low to the table. People would say, well, it's to keep your hands straight. But I think some elevation actually helps with with ergonomics. But don't take my word for it. I'm not a doctor. Yeah. Anyways, you bought a new keyboard, and I mean, eight years later, maybe you'll consider again. Doing a different keyboard, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, yeah. And your problem of it not connecting to your other computer unless you cable it, yeah? I mean,
Georgie 30:09
that's what I was doing with the old one. But I I haven't bothered, like, putting a cable, a USB C cable, over here and then. But yeah, that was how I did. I just plugged it into the one that I wanted to use and unplugged it. But plugging in basically connected, rather than trying to fucking faff around with, yeah, well,
Geoff 30:27
I mean, this is coming from someone who has to unplug and re plug his webcam whenever I need it to be on one computer or another, like I just switched
Georgie 30:41
same thing. Like every time I change computers, you I unplug the charger and the display. So
Geoff 30:48
not for the lack of trying, though, I did try to virtualize my webcam over the internet. You can do that. So two computers on one, net on one Wi Fi network could technically take the signal from my webcam and then pipe it through the other computer, through the Wi Fi. But why? So that I don't have to do the plug in, plug anymore engineering? Well, I mean, it costs way too much to do it like the software that would, oh, actually, I reached out to support and they, they said that the software wouldn't, wouldn't work for some reason, for webcams, so you can do it on keyboard and mouse, but webcams are too complicated. I don't know.
Georgie 31:37
Yeah, I just use webcam in the laptop.
Geoff 31:40
Yeah, yeah, when I'm at work, I have it closed. Yeah, you're a close
Georgie 31:45
letter. That's the other thing, right? I was like, because you said to me, you have a watch, and so watch can unlock the computer, yeah? But you know, when you want to pay for shit, like Apple Pay or whatever, like, I literally, I can reach it, like, it's right here. Like, I so I didn't need to spend 50 bucks on touch ID. But like, I was just like, what if I don't want to reach and then I was like, I can just claim it back on tax, you know, yeah. And then I was just like, the whole USB C thing. I was like, I
Geoff 32:14
don't know. It's one less one this problem, you're inching, you're inching one this problem, like my dad, he currently was, think he had, like, a, he has two SIMs right, one for one for overseas and one for Australia, and then
Georgie 32:30
just the same one for overseas all the time. Like,
Geoff 32:33
yeah, yeah, is it's the same number, yeah. And he got a jewel SIM phone, a really, really cheap jewel SIM phone. I think it was like under three, $300 or whatever. Anyways, so he gets a jewel SIM phone, and he and all of a sudden, he couldn't receive messages from the International sim anymore whilst he's in Australia. And then he really, and then he, after all this, like Fauci about with the provider of the second Zim, they said, Yes, you need to actually buy an extra package to roam in different countries. Yeah, yeah. Because they introduced this, because they realized they were giving roaming away for free.
Georgie 33:18
Oh my. So he was getting, Wow,
Geoff 33:22
good deal, until they until they cracked down, right? And then he was like, Oh, well, then if I don't, I don't want to pay that extra, so maybe I get an e sim. I told him, I'm like, e Sims also e Sims do that thing too, right? And you could be paying cheaper for an e sim overall. And he's like, oh, and he looked at, I looked up the model of his phone, and he doesn't support it. Doesn't get support for e sim. But he bought it. But he bought it because it was George sim. This is what you get for cheaping out on your technology. You just spent $100 more. No, no joke, $100 more, and you would have gotten the East sim capable, 5g phone, maybe $200 more. But you know what? $200 in the grand scheme of getting a SIM card that would give you the thing you want is not secular, negligible
Georgie 34:23
experience. This is my air pods from the air pods is fucking lightning on my gen two, and I cannot stand any of the newer models, because fucking things don't fit in my ears for anyone.
Geoff 34:36
Well, gen two wireless charges, doesn't Mine doesn't. Yeah, it doesn't. Okay, yeah.
Georgie 34:43
So it is I am stuck. And I know people were like, stockpiling them and then fucking, like, trying to sell them for like, 200 bucks, and they're not even worth that much. And I was like, looking on eBay to see if there were any I'm like, Oh, my God, you're being. Obsolete.
Geoff 35:00
It out I'm being
Georgie 35:01
obsolete, yeah, just thanks to my tiny ass ears,
Geoff 35:04
yeah, yeah. Because
Georgie 35:06
the thing is, like, the the airports are, like, working. They're fine. Yeah, they're functioning. One of them doesn't connect immediately, but, you know, they're still fine for, like, talking, because, like, we talked about you said you don't, like, go on the phone or with your, with your
Geoff 35:24
Yeah, but it was infinitely convenient when someone did call me and my AirPods were in my ears and I pick up and they can't hear me talk. So that's why I got the newer ones. Oh, right,
Georgie 35:35
yeah. Well, for me, for like, you know, because I, I don't call people, but I record like, voice messages, and it's good for, like, hands free and like, that part is still working. Just the airports are just old. Yeah. I just Yeah. I try and my friends, like the fourth generation one that came out, like, recently, and I was, like, wearing ear plugs. Like, I just feel like I'm wearing ear plugs. We also bought some for our parents for Christmas, yeah, and I was trying them again. I'm like, I just
Geoff 36:06
can't do that's the upsell on the pro, though, because the ear, the tip, the silicon tip, does make a difference between the fourth gen and
Georgie 36:16
the Pro. Yeah, the bold part is the bold part still, like
Geoff 36:19
the bulb. The bulb part is still like the semi, similar to the fourth gen, but it really, it's the silicon tip actually makes a difference for the fit. It helps, it helps the standards, because you're wedged in your ear hole or whatever.
Georgie 36:37
Maybe I'll try it. You can buy it for 14
Geoff 36:39
days and just return them. You know, like you just put them on in the store, and you're just like, fucking shit, give them back.
Georgie 36:45
Put them on in the store,
Geoff 36:48
just walk back, just don't even walk out. Just put them on and you buy it. They hand it to you, open it, put in your ear, and say, No, thank you. It's
Georgie 36:59
so frustrating, though. I kind of hope they do the thing where they come back with, like, a different, a new model that is then actually similar to the, you know, when they did the fucking touch bar shit. Could do that and be like, Oh, looks like people aren't buying the air pods. Because,
Geoff 37:17
you know what, if I told you the solution, you can actually get custom ear molds for your air pods. Pro,
Georgie 37:27
so I'll say there's the tip, replace it with, like, a custom
Geoff 37:30
ear mold, yeah, like the silicon tip they give you, then you just chuck that out and replace it with a custom ear means, yeah.
Georgie 37:36
So the silicon tip is, like, even still, too small. Like, I'll just get my own bitch.
Geoff 37:41
Yeah. And if you're not like, like, you, you seem, you seem to be okay with tiny mini or tasks. So you just have to remove them every time you want to charge
Speaker 1 37:53
it. Oh. What are you referring to with this tiny medium, like, like, plugging your keyboard in
Geoff 38:04
a trash can. This is called ear jobs.com.au.
Georgie 38:14
Ear jobs,
Geoff 38:17
that's funny. So they give you a kit, and you but mold your ears and then, and then you send them back, and then they'll give you ear tip.
Georgie 38:28
So how's it going for you? Like, randomly squeezing out your
Geoff 38:33
Oh, it only happens when I talk a lot like I don't think I can do it on purpose. I think, can you move your
Georgie 38:44
it? Can you do? Can you do that thing when you move your ears?
Geoff 38:46
No, I can't. Oh, I can. I think, I think that doesn't, it translates. But the but, yeah, whenever, whenever I'm like, talking excessively on the phone. Jaw movement, yeah, jaw movement. I just have to, I just have to push them back in every now and then. It is, it is tedious. Yeah, it is tedious if my hands aren't free to push them in. So like, use my
Georgie 39:21
try parts. Pots? Have you tried getting some duct tape and just going,
Geoff 39:29
Yeah, if I wanted a waxing effect, I guess. But yeah, ooh, whoa. This is a big set. It's got, it's got a lot of $91 without shipping. This is a key cap set.
Georgie 39:50
And then this reminds me of, I remember having keyboard stickers. Yeah,
Geoff 39:55
yeah. Oh. The best part of. That mechanical keyboards are the key caps you can get the ones that don't the letters don't rub off ever. They get shiny, sure, but they won't rub off. So
Georgie 40:13
my ex had one that just there were no letters. It was blank. Oh,
Geoff 40:19
I really liked blank people,
Georgie 40:20
blank ass, yeah, yeah. I maybe have talked about on the pod before, but he also used a Dvorak.
Geoff 40:30
Oh God, one of those people
Georgie 40:35
be like, what the is going on?
Geoff 40:38
It's like this, right? Oh this ortholine is ortholinear. Oh, by the way, for those who don't know what ortholinear is, it's like, if you have a look at your keyboard, you'll notice that all the keys aren't exactly lined up with the row. Like the column of keys on your keyboard are like a little bit to the right, deliberately, off center. This is actually quite an old pattern based on type writers, because they had to have a bracket that goes onto a bracket in between all the keys. But now people are actually getting into like verdict, like aligned keys, like straight grid, straight out keyboard. Yeah, that's what ortho linear is. It's really weird to get used to, but it kind of makes sense. We don't need them to be offset, because we don't need that mechanical bracket to go to
Georgie 41:40
what about the ones that have, like, this, even further apart, like, and there's like, in the Yeah,
Geoff 41:45
those, yeah, there's a split moon, yeah, split ones, split keyboards, yeah, those are ergonomic, because you don't have to, like, center your hands to tight. You can, like, it has natural to just pop your hands there, or something like that. Yeah, it's like, straight from your armrests. You can type. But I can't get over that because I use my different key, my different fingers for different keys.
Georgie 42:12
Oh, like you don't do the proper touch typing, kind of I mean, every
Geoff 42:15
now and then I'll use the whatever hands most in that it's convenient, convenient to type. I don't,
Georgie 42:23
yeah, see, this is the thing. I do think you type fast, just generally, I don't. I don't think I type fast. No. Oh, okay, yeah, I, I'm a very fast typer. What
Geoff 42:31
was that type test? I, I'm
Georgie 42:35
a very fast typer. And so, like, when I was still, like, dating my ex, like, I tried to use for rack, and it was painfully slow, because you learning a whole whole new fucking keyboard layout. And I think I gave up after like three weeks or something, because, like, the point was, like he was faster on his work, but that's because he was so slow on Qwerty. Like,
Unknown Speaker 43:00
this is really bad. Yeah, 4745
Georgie 43:04
Yeah, yeah. And so I feel like me being fast on a quota keyboard means that any kind of attempt, or most attempts, to try and be faster or more ergonomic in order to be faster don't actually work for me, because I'm already, like, accustomed,
Geoff 43:20
yeah, it's like, go with whatever you you're used to, or, like, try and change what you're used to to a more efficient, yeah, format, oh, my god. 246, 94%
Georgie 43:39
that is fast one. I don't know what mine is, but I think it's definitely over 100
Geoff 43:47
Yeah, do you know what else is over 100 this end of the podcast? So
Georgie 43:53
are the number of episodes? Well, that would be surpassed that like fucking ages ago at this point.
Geoff 43:58
Yeah, I think we're time for a review, but a review, no, we usually do a review of our stats some point. Oh yeah, maybe next time. Yeah, maybe next time. So you can follow us nowhere on no social medias, but you can email us at toastasast and roast@pm.me
Georgie 44:23
Yes, you got it right. And you can find our episodes on Apple podcasts, Spotify, wherever you listen to new podcasts and the big mechanical keyboard,
Geoff 44:33
yeah, apologies, we went on a keyboard round. And your episodes every Monday, so see you next week. Bye. You.