Our excellent dystopia with Matt Odell

Really glad to have Matt Odell as a return guest. Instead of an interview we used this as an opportunity to talk about our wonderful dystopia full of 30 hour battery life, folded proteins, and zero privacy. Enjoy!

SHOW NOTES

Apple Silicon

Mac Mini vs iMac 5K

Syncing Bitcoin on M1

Why it's fast

Community builds of Visual Studio Code

The Verge's MacBook Air review

Redox OS with Jeremy Soller

(I was trying to remember the word "UEFI")

Apple bricks its own hardware

Jailbreaking your T2 Mac

PopOS PopShop

Your Computer Isn't Yours

(Matt's right there's no version with 32GB of RAM)

@bunniestudios - I can't think of anyone better than @marcan42 to be taking on a project like porting Linux to Apple Silicon Macs!

GrapheneOS

Chromium OS Verified Boot

bunnie's Precursor open source mobile hardware

The Facebook headcrab

Pod people in Ready Player One

Protein folding is "solved"

Matt shames Paul for using TikTok

The Social Dilemma

Lex on AlphaFold 2

What machine learning isn't

Michael Rectenwald on "The Google Election"

Edward Snowden

Signal

Signal is the Messaging App of the Protests

Apple bans Bitcoin wallets (in 2014)

Follow Matt

mattodell.com

Matt's laptop

(My mnemonic is busted, I bought Micro USB cables)