You have to pay for it somehow
There’s always a payment, no matter the method, whether it’s money, time or sheep. There will always be a payment made somehow.
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Summary
Everything has pros and cons and you have to pay for it somehow. A guy on Twitter was fighting microphone inputs in Zoom and Teams, and I told him to just Sellotape a solution together with OBS for now. He didn’t want to because ’technology should work’, but sometimes you pay with wasted time and annoyance. The pros of a [VERY] temporary fix can outweigh the cons.
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You know, it doesn’t matter what you do in life. There are always pros and cons. There are pluses and minuses. You have to pay for it somehow, whether it’s via payment, money, sheep, time. Whatever it is, you have to pay for it somehow.
And there was a Twitter conversation I was in. This guy basically has a bunch of meetings today with Zoom and Microsoft Teams and Google and so on and so forth. And he basically said, how many times is it going to take me to change the microphone inputs? We’ve all had that issue when we go from one app to another. Somehow the microphone doesn’t work for some bizarre reason.
So I gave him a solution and it was basically Sellotape[ing] it together. Now, with that cellar tape, and I hate sell taping things, I said, you know, use up OBS and you should be okay for now. He didn’t want to do that because he thought technology should work. Well, yes, it should work, but the price you have to pay in using technology is sometimes it doesn’t work and it wastes our time. Here’s a solution. You can use it for the moment.
So again, it doesn’t matter what you do. I live on the road, as you know, I live on people’s couches and so on. I’m a digital nomad and I love it. But there are pros and cons to that as well. But the pros totally outweigh the cons and it’s the same with this microphone thing. The pros of having this cellar tape solution, which I hate anyway, but sometimes we have to do it, would outweigh you going in and trying to change it, and can you hear me, can you not hear me, it’s annoying.
So sometimes there are pros and cons and no matter what you do you’re paying for it somehow. The question is, how much are you willing to pay for it and sacrifice to do the things that you actually want to do? Right now, I’m loving it and I’m not sacrificing anything.
Have a great day. I’ll see in the next one. Ciao. Hey, Woof!, come on, let’s go.