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The gents chat about current books they are reading and then talk about what (non-computer) hardware they use for home, media, health and more.
What books are we currently reading?
What hardware do you use?
- Amazon Echo
- Smartthings Home Control
- Ken built an echo with a Raspberry Pi
- Nest Thermostat
- Automatic bluetooth connector for car to feed information to the phone app
- IFTTT
- Search for conferences and email
- Stocks watching
- Nest notification of movement
- Craigslist notifications
- Lumo Lift
- It notifies you when you’re slouching
- Fitbit Aria Weight Scale
- Tracks weight over time and does BMI
- Withings activite-pop
- Step tracking
- Media Devices
- XBox One for media
- Apple TV 4
- Plex
- Windows Media Center
- Chromecast
- Streaming Services
- Sling works, but having to watch on a specific schedule is hard
- What Internet Service do you have?
- Comcast
- Mediacom
- SouthSlope Coop fiber to the home
- AT&T Uverse
- Comcast Xfinity
- New FCC Chairman is anti-net neutrality
- Do we use a tablet of any sort?
- How do you take notes
- Laptop to Google Drive/Docs
- Naming is important and tagging
- You can assign stuff to others in google docs!
- Laptop to Google Drive/Docs