In the Car, With My AirPods

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Rosemary Orchard enrolled her grandmother in device management just to stop her from losing apps off her home screen.

Micah starts chilly. Dan sets up the usual Clockwise shape: four people, four tech topics, thirty minutes, plus enough cold-basement banter to make the greeting wobble. Paul Kafasas joins without fuss. Rosemary Orchard arrives next, and the table falls into the familiar first-name rhythm where everyone knows how to get in, answer, and move on. The panel keeps things brisk. Even the cold open has everyone lightly needling Micah for sounding slow before conceding that basements do, in fact, win sometimes. One prompt turns practical. Micah lands on everyday tech redundancy, the kind that sounds silly until the one cable you need is not in the bag. Paul is on board. He has built kits with chargers and multiple cables, and keeps a travel setup ready for suitcases and cars. Mildly wasteful? Sure. Also one of the better purchases he has made, because it kills a small travel panic before it starts. Dan's compressor gets the room's attention. Paul knows the problem from Boston-area weather, where cold makes tire pressure drop and the car starts complaining. The old version was a pain. The replacement is battery-powered, quicker, and shaped a bit like a helpful gun, which feels very Clockwise and still makes sense. Rosemary gets her due as well. Paul makes sure her suggestion does not disappear, even after the compressor takes over the practical-tech spotlight. Halftime lands on time. The show moves through its Oracle read, then points members to overtime on favorite first-party Mac apps. Dan thanks Paul and Rosemary, says Michael will be back next week, and signs off with the usual keep-watching-the-clock handoff.

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A brisk Clockwise installment about small tech purchases that make holiday travel and winter hassles easier to manage.

Clockwise keeps its holiday-season tech chat brisk and practical, with Dan Morin, Micah Sargent, Paul Kafasas, and Rosemary Orchard turning small purchases into the kind of everyday fixes that matter when travel, family visits, and winter errands pile up.

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Four tech people compare notes on the gear that actually survives holiday car trips.

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