What computers are you using on the show today and what are their functions?

24:07another day and maybe you'll get lucky with someone that actually has one that can report back All right, let's move on, Courtney. All right, next one comes in from Jerry Hoyle in Wesley Chapel, North Carolina. What computers are you using on the show today, and what are their functions? Ronnie, you probably have more than one computer, right? I have many computers, but in this home office, I've tried to force myself into using just one.

24:37So I have an Apple TV, I have an audio mixer, a physical audio mixer from Allen & Heath. I have all the supported things, but fair to say I'm using all the ports on my M4 Mac Mini. It is connected to a display on my right side where I have the LG Quad display where I have both camera feeds coming in, the multi-views coming in from the Constellation ATEM I have in front of me.

25:07it's two of the displays from the m4 mac mini and the third display is a vertical one where i have all the chats etc on my left side so and it's also controlling my my prompter view running on an ipad as the as the fourth display actually this this small box is is amazing at that type of work and Sometimes I also run Meme Live.

25:34And I recently started to get into the thing of NDI. And I'm trying to see if that is also feasible using this machine. And it seems to be working and chewing through it. At the same time, I'm using my computer for Claude. Sometimes I'm running Docker. And in the case that you remember when I'm having problem here, it's because of everything is chewing up my small memory.

26:03This is a 16 gig only, so that's the memory, not the compute of that machine. So I just regret getting too few gigabytes in that machine. If I had 32, it would probably be breathing a lot easier. Cool. All right, let's go to Courtney. Well, let's see. I'm using an old Dell Inspiron, Inspiron, however they pronounce it, i5, multi, you know, i5 Intel with 12 cores.

26:40It has more than four. It has eight cores, I think, with, you know, four power cores and four efficiency cores and no Apple cores. I'm also using a tablet, Windows tablet PC. That's an eight inch tablet over here on my left that I use for comms. So I'm using the touch version of Unity comms over there so that I can be in touch with those behind the scenes back there and they can yell at me all the time.

27:10And so just with those two computers, the only two computers, I do have one of the rope to hang myself with. I do have one of these little GMK Tech R5s over here that I was going to use for graphics. I do have it fed in, but it's not coming up right now. And I use the RODECaster Video S for switching and doing all the magic compositing and things that I'm sure you want.

27:41I just use the extra screens. I have the screen, three video outputs out of a Dell go into the Rodecaster and to an external ATEM mini to provide inputs that I can switch between here. But I try and keep things compact because it's in my living room. And I have a central workstation that's all glommed together in the space of about four square feet.

28:09Right. And I know, Courtney, you've reviewed and you've purchased many of those little mini PCs, the little fanless ones over the years. Do you keep those? Do they have active duty doing something or do you sell them? Like, what do you do with all that? I used to use them for work, for providing, you know, for feeds for, you know, in a set where you'll have, you know, 20 displays or something like that.