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Dust, Disasters & Digital Hoarders on TechtalkRadio | Ep 481 · TechtalkRadio

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  Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network.
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  Speaker 2: And Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Aby Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, and we are
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  Speaker 1: the show that talks about.
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  Speaker 3: Computers, technology, and the.
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  Speaker 1: Internet, game games and games. Yes, and games, got to
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  Speaker 1: talk about games too. We got a lot of cool
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  Speaker 1: stuff to talk about. I'll be honest with you, I've
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  Speaker 1: needed this show today. The last three days have been
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  Speaker 1: technological heck, nothing working, rebooting stuff, firmware updates.
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  Speaker 2: My phone isn't working anymore.
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  Speaker 3: So here's the real question about that. Ye are you
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  Speaker 3: patient with technology or are you just fuming smoke out
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  Speaker 3: of the years the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so here's my take on it.
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  Speaker 1: I know not everybody's going to agree with me, but
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  Speaker 1: sometimes I think that people that put the tech together
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  Speaker 1: got they're great minds, but the people that work on
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  Speaker 1: the other side they forget, Like the base, Why do
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  Speaker 1: I have to do this when I could do this?
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  Speaker 1: And it's frustrating when you're trying to get something done
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  Speaker 1: and you can't do it, Oh, because this wants you
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  Speaker 1: to do this over here. And yeah, that's that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of what I've been dealing with.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Here's something that I've always teld people. Do you think
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  Speaker 3: technology has feelings?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Have you noticed that sometimes maybe you threaten its life,
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  Speaker 3: threatened a deprivat of power, it just miraculously starts working again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I wish that was the case for me.
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  Speaker 3: But yees, you know, at work, I get they call
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  Speaker 3: it the engineering touch, right, it wasn't working and now
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  Speaker 3: you walked in and it started working because I just
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  Speaker 3: threatened it and it starts working.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you see, that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: But it's just you know, there's a video I've seen
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  Speaker 1: on social media and it's this guy. He's like sitting
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  Speaker 1: there and he gets a phone call. Obviously he's a
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  Speaker 1: remote engineer, and he's telling them to turn off a server.
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  Speaker 1: He can't access it, to turn it off, right, And
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  Speaker 1: he's telling him and they're saying, no, it's it's it's off.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's not working.
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  Speaker 1: So it shows him, you know, getting his his tech
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  Speaker 1: bag together, getting in his his little Audie, driving to
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  Speaker 1: the airport, hopping on a plane, flying to wherever that
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  Speaker 1: location is, getting off the plane right, getting into a
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  Speaker 1: an uber driving to the place you know where the
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  Speaker 1: server the rec servers are walking up the halls, getting
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  Speaker 1: to the server room and looking and no, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: still on.
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  Speaker 3: That sounds about right. So what it's off has been
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  Speaker 3: wrong in antis technical world.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So here's what here's what I've been dealing with.
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  Speaker 1: I noticed the other day my RCS chats were no
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  Speaker 1: longer working. And I use the Google Pixel device, the
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  Speaker 1: Pixel XL nine, and I couldn't figure it out. Why
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to It was, you know, I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: send our daughter, you know, a group chat and it's
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  Speaker 1: had a big exclamation point and the only other exclamation
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  Speaker 1: points next to my chats were with you and justin.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought, oh my gosh, did I miss any messages.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't getting messages, I wasn't seeing anything, couldn't respond.
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  Speaker 1: So I went through trying to get it to work
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  Speaker 1: and get all the settings, and you know, you go
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  Speaker 1: down one rabbit hole on the pixel and then.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're gotta go over here and do this. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Then I tried to fix that and it was really
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  Speaker 1: it and frustrating. I went ahead and guy called support
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  Speaker 1: and he told me it sounds like the problem is
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  Speaker 1: with your eSIM. So I think what we should do
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  Speaker 1: is flash or eSIM And I said, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's okay. I would rather wait, and I will if
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  Speaker 1: I have to, I'll take it in and we'll have
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  Speaker 1: them do that there. So I just, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: just kept playing with it, going on to the web
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  Speaker 1: and doing searches, not working what to do.
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  Speaker 2: I'd see different videos.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know where they get their settings because
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  Speaker 1: it weren't the same as what I was looking at.
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  Speaker 2: And then finally, you know, have rebooting.
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  Speaker 1: The phone and going that whole bit seven or eight
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  Speaker 1: times check checking settings. Our chess came back. So I
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  Speaker 1: was fine. I was like, okay, good next day, driving
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  Speaker 1: to work. My voice assistant isn't working now for me
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  Speaker 1: and for anybody that is used in Android device, and Sean,
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  Speaker 1: I know you're still in the Apple world. Siri is
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  Speaker 1: very limited, and what Siri will do for you, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's it's the just the way it is.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I have an iPhone, but I also
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  Speaker 1: have the Android. I would say hey Google, and nothing
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  Speaker 1: would come up. It just would not work. I was
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  Speaker 1: hoping that because we were doing the show, I'd say
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  Speaker 1: hey Google and I look down just to see if
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  Speaker 1: my phone would suddenly come alive again, went through every setting,
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  Speaker 1: and I just couldn't get it to work. At wants
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  Speaker 1: to fight with Gemini because you've got Gemini as an
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  Speaker 1: assistant and you've got Google Voice as an assistant. I
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  Speaker 1: prefer the Google Voice. It's faster if I need quick information.
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  Speaker 1: I was doing my radio show. I needed something quick
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  Speaker 1: about an artist that had passed away, and you know
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  Speaker 1: you missed that. I couldn't say, Hey, Google, can you
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  Speaker 1: tell me something about blah blah blah? And now suddenly
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  Speaker 1: I had to push a button and I had to
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly I was in Gemini mode. I wasn't in the
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  Speaker 1: assistant and it's just a different experience. So that's been
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  Speaker 1: frustrating me. Still not fixed. Then I get home and
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, my rokud device wouldn't work, and I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't figure.
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  Speaker 2: Out what was going on with it.
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  Speaker 1: So I started looking around and I found other devices
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  Speaker 1: that weren't working, and I go and I look at
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  Speaker 1: my router. Why is there a magenta light on this?
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  Speaker 3: That's a fun color.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a good color, So what the heck
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  Speaker 2: is going on here?
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  Speaker 1: So I kept looking at it and went ahead and
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  Speaker 1: rebooted the cable modem. You know, the process is if
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  Speaker 1: you have an issue, unplug the modem, let us sit
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  Speaker 1: for about the thirty seconds, you know, unplugged the wire
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  Speaker 1: the router as well, and then unplugged the motem. Let
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  Speaker 1: it sit for about thirty seconds. Then plug the motor
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  Speaker 1: back in. Let it get to all all of your
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  Speaker 1: indications working. Then I plugged the links this in and
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  Speaker 1: it came back up, and I was like, okay, cool,
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  Speaker 1: that was good. But still I had things that were
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  Speaker 1: not working, and I could not see the two point
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  Speaker 1: four gigahertz network. I know what happened to it. And
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  Speaker 1: the only network that was working was a Wi Fi
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  Speaker 1: extender that was in another room, so everything was drawing
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  Speaker 1: off that. So I thought, oh great, now my links
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  Speaker 1: this router is gone. Right.
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  Speaker 2: It was a blue light though, so I went.
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  Speaker 3: Through something like super hot, there is your WiFi? Is
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  Speaker 3: your m just struggling?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I was thinking about that too. Maybe the
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  Speaker 1: heat was setting it off, because you may find depending
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  Speaker 1: on where you're putting it, you know, that could be
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  Speaker 1: the case. And I just went back and forth and
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  Speaker 1: finally I went ahead did a factory reset of it.
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  Speaker 1: But once you do a factory reset and you you know,
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  Speaker 1: reset up your network. I got that all work, and
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  Speaker 1: now I'm going through having to re set up all
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  Speaker 1: the cameras, reset all the different devices that I have
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  Speaker 1: that we're tied to.
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  Speaker 2: That It's been not fun at all.
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  Speaker 3: I'm terrified when I have to do mine, right, because
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  Speaker 3: I've done a lot of architecture on my network. If
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  Speaker 3: I have to restart my I'm just running a Netgear Nighthawk, right,
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  Speaker 3: so nothing.
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  Speaker 2: You have an ass on your system, right, I've.
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  Speaker 3: Got an ass. I've got multiple leaf switches. Right, I'm
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  Speaker 3: configured for multiple v lands. I'm convicted conflict, you know,
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  Speaker 3: configured for multiple Wi Fi networks. Guess Wi Fi networks.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I've done a ton of networking architecture that
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  Speaker 3: if I lose that, I'm sure I can download a configure.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, I might do that during the show,
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  Speaker 3: download a config just in case.
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  Speaker 1: Now you got me spooped, oh yeah, oh no, and
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you all. While doing this, I also
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  Speaker 1: decide factory reset my phone. And the thing is, luckily,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we I use a very good, strong password
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  Speaker 1: manager that I can access from my system. But that
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  Speaker 1: was that has not been a fun experience because dealing
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  Speaker 1: with Wise, I can't get my Wi's cameras back.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: I go into Wyse, I log in, there's no cameras
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  Speaker 1: there at all. It's like I have to reset the
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  Speaker 1: entire Wise interface.
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  Speaker 2: So you could imagine that sucks. Yeah, you could imagine
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  Speaker 2: how that would go.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that sucks. I would say I would
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  Speaker 3: recommend for the why stuff. Right. Have you been able
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  Speaker 3: to log into the web the web portal and see them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: No, I can't even see him on the web portal.
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  Speaker 1: It's like that account no cameras ever existed because it
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  Speaker 1: said let's add your cameras, and.
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  Speaker 3: I bet, I bet it's I bet it's a newer
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  Speaker 3: version of the app, and set settings didn't come over.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking.
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  Speaker 3: How that would suck too. I would again if that
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  Speaker 3: happened to me, I would just pull them all out
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  Speaker 3: and get new cameras. I would just go to a
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  Speaker 3: different brand. I'm just I don't know, upset so many
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  Speaker 3: devices and so many light bulbs and stuff that Oh
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  Speaker 3: my god, that.
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  Speaker 1: Four four Wise cameras that are located in different, you know,
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  Speaker 1: different places and then I have a Nest camera.
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  Speaker 2: And that was another one.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you would think, Okay, I still have the
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  Speaker 1: box for my Nest camera. I've had that for many years.
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  Speaker 1: You would think when it came time to add that camera,
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  Speaker 1: that I had add back to my Nest interface. You
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  Speaker 1: would think they would have put in the box, maybe
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  Speaker 1: the you know, logging code for the camera, like the QR. No,
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  Speaker 1: where is that It's at the very bottom of the camera.
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  Speaker 1: Where is it at the highest point of my house.
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  Speaker 3: Physical security?
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  Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, I have you on the ladder. I
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  Speaker 1: have to climb a ladder, hopefully not break my neck.
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  Speaker 1: I tried zooming in with a camera trying to get
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  Speaker 1: a good shot so I wouldn't have to climb the ladder. No.
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  Speaker 1: So all of this at the same time, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: everything meshing old passwords being pulled up by you know,
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  Speaker 1: by by the app, and I'm like, no, no, no, I
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  Speaker 1: will use my other password where I have to recreate
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  Speaker 1: what It's just Yeah, it's frustrated.
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  Speaker 2: It's been frustrating.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I met yeah I again. If I lost all
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  Speaker 3: my wide stuff, I don't know what I would do
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  Speaker 3: because I would have to read SYNK so many rules
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  Speaker 3: that I've got built in, And.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of the things that I thought about too, Sean,
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  Speaker 1: is like, why don't they make it so you could
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  Speaker 1: just back up and save those configuration files.
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  Speaker 3: It should be safe, Like that's I don't understand. It
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  Speaker 3: should be like if I log in, even if Caitlin
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  Speaker 3: logs into hers, right, it can pull.
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  Speaker 1: It pulls what I have on my account exactly. But
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  Speaker 1: why my cameras are just aren't there. It's so ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe somebody else can see your cameras now.
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  Speaker 1: But nobody. Yeah, I know, right, that's.
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  Speaker 3: A that's a poke of them for the issue. They
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  Speaker 3: had a couple like A two where if you logged
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  Speaker 3: into the app you saw other people's cameras.
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  Speaker 2: Can you share my camera with me? Please? But no?
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  Speaker 2: And that's the frust three straighting thing about it.
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  Speaker 1: I finally reached out to Wise and just to make
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  Speaker 1: sure we're logging in with the right account. I went
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  Speaker 1: through every email I have to for log in up
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  Speaker 1: only one account, so I reached out to them.
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  Speaker 2: I got to call them tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: If I give them the serial number off one of
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  Speaker 1: the cameras which I have here, I'm thinking maybe they
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  Speaker 1: can pull that and see what that was tied to
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  Speaker 1: in case there's some other Did I use a hotmail address?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That's really frustrating. So yeah, I'm and then I've got
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  Speaker 1: to take my Android after finally getting tech support today,
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  Speaker 1: I've got to take my Android into a local shop
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  Speaker 1: because I reset the phone that still didn't bring the
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  Speaker 1: voice system back.
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  Speaker 3: I will say though, you know, when I had the
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  Speaker 3: issues with my phone where I took it, I upgraded
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  Speaker 3: up something. I want to go get the FaceTime camera
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  Speaker 3: replaced or something, and then they were like, oh, you
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  Speaker 3: get a battery upgrade, and I had to like downgrade
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  Speaker 3: from the Betex I was running in the iOS twenty
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  Speaker 3: six beda at that time. That is something that Apple
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  Speaker 3: just does really really well. Is the iCloud backups? Right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: It was. It was. It took a little while, but
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  Speaker 3: it was pretty seamless and how it you could get
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  Speaker 3: right back into doing what you needed to do. And
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  Speaker 3: I think the biggest thing that took the longest was
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  Speaker 3: because I don't delete any of my messages, So my
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  Speaker 3: messages and yeah, I think I have like fifty six
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  Speaker 3: gigs worth of iCloud messages.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my lord, wow, because I've never.
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  Speaker 3: I've I've always just had. I've never deleted any iCloud
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  Speaker 3: messages I've ever had. I've never turned it off.
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  Speaker 1: Like so, if somebody sends you an attachment in your messages,
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  Speaker 1: like hey, here's a photo of it's in the cloud,
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  Speaker 1: and that increases the size of the.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I have to I'll look it up. I'll
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  Speaker 3: look it up during the break. But it's it's like
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  Speaker 3: fifty or fifty six, it's like somewhere above fifty gigs
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  Speaker 3: of total.
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  Speaker 1: Would you say you're a text hoarder?
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  Speaker 3: Is that tech and text order? Yes? I but I
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  Speaker 3: can go back, like any I could go back when
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  Speaker 3: you had your iPhone. I can go all the way
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  Speaker 3: back to all the messages I've ever seen you, right,
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  Speaker 3: all the message I've ever said, justin because he he
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  Speaker 3: had I don't know if he had an iPhone then,
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  Speaker 3: but he did, I think, Caitlin, I can go my
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  Speaker 3: mom my, dad, and ever since I've had an eye,
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  Speaker 3: an Apple address, or a you know, an iCloud, I've
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: never important question.
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  Speaker 1: So you keep text messages photos that are stored on
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  Speaker 1: your phone when you take a photo, are you offloading
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  Speaker 1: those and saving those no.
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  Speaker 3: Because I bought the five twelve. I have the five
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  Speaker 3: twelve gig iPhone I've still got I mean, here, how
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  Speaker 3: many photos do I have on my phone right now?
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  Speaker 3: If I look and I look, I've got eleven thousand,
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  Speaker 3: four hundred and thirty eleven thousand, eleven and thirty nine items.
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  Speaker 3: So that's videos, photos and everything.
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  Speaker 1: Now, do you have an extended service plan with Apple?
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  Speaker 1: Did you get a large I mean, five twelve's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of storage. But I'm thinking, because I keep getting
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  Speaker 1: notifications from Google saying you're running out of space, your
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  Speaker 1: fifteen gigabytes is just I mean.
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  Speaker 3: I pay for because I do a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: archiving stuff for my family. I have one hundred gigs
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  Speaker 3: of iCloud stores that we barely put a dent in
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  Speaker 3: between me and Galen right, and then well, maybe maybe
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  Speaker 3: I have more. Maybe I had more one hundred. I
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  Speaker 3: think I maybe have one terabyte for iCloud stores, and
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  Speaker 3: then I do two terabytes of Google, and I think
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  Speaker 3: I'm running in like seven hundred gigs total across all
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  Speaker 3: my family accounts now, so I have quite a bit
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  Speaker 3: of cloud Stars, but it's also backed up. I have
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  Speaker 3: it on my Nass right, and my NAS is fourteen
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  Speaker 3: terabytes I think twelve terabytes, twelve or fourteen terabytes, and
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  Speaker 3: that's not even I'm not putting it even putting a
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  Speaker 3: dent into that, just because I just have so much
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  Speaker 3: space on that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're talking about okay, eleven thousand photos. That's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people. And some people might be going, well, wait,
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  Speaker 1: if you lose your phone, you lose all those photos.
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  Speaker 1: That's not going to be the case because all backed
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  Speaker 1: up I Cloud and it all gets backed up to iCloud.
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  Speaker 3: And it's sinking. So it's not only is it sinking too.
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  Speaker 3: So I hate the photos app on the phone. I
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  Speaker 3: don't like Apple Photos. I'm not I do live in
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  Speaker 3: the app the Mac ecosystem, right, I just hate Apple Photos.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like it. I've never liked Apple Photos. I
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  Speaker 3: always like Google Photos. What you can do is on
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  Speaker 3: your iPhone, you can set it up so it'll automatically
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  Speaker 3: back up to Google Photos. Also, so not only do
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  Speaker 3: I have my iCloud backup, but if I were for
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  Speaker 3: some reason to lose my entire iCloud backup, or you know,
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  Speaker 3: forget to or change a setting so it doesn't restore
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  Speaker 3: for six months or something. All of my photos and
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  Speaker 3: videos are still going to Google also, which is great
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  Speaker 3: because that's the easiest way for me to categorize stuff.
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  Speaker 3: If I want pictures of my kids, I have a
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  Speaker 3: folder that is just every picture I take of Max
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  Speaker 3: is put into a folder. Every picture of Daniels's in
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  Speaker 3: its own folder. My parents, my grandparents, et cetera. I
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: can just quickly organize by family faces. And some people
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: think that's creepy because you're, you know, giving Google all
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: this face data, but it makes it convenient for me
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: to not if I need a photo off my phone
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: or I need to send it to somebody or print it,
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: I just go to Google Photos on my computer desktop
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: wherever I am. Where I say, Caitlin log can because
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: she has the which we share our Google account. Yeah,
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: she can log in and see my pictures. I can
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: see her pictures from her phone and they update to
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: the same album. So we're just constantly getting all of
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: our photos from both of our devices live in the
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: same place, which is fantastic for sharing, especially with my
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: parents stuff because we don't neither of us will be
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: use social media. Caitlin's not a heavy social media user either,
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: but we send a lot of pictures to our family
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: through Google because it just works.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: I am a screenshotter, so I'm and I don't know
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: about you, but like, if I've go through my phone
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: right now, I look, I have got well all the
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: text from number one bit how to do an effect
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: in after effects to you know, how to fix my phone.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: I've been doing that.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: So I'll see something and I'll screenshot it, and that way.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: It's saved on my phone.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, look at that one thousand screenshots, even one thousand,
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: even the screenshot I took today made it one thousand. Even,
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: I screenshot everything.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: I would love to hear from one of our listeners
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: that also screenshots and see you has more than you
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: on their device.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I screenshot, like if I if I see
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: something on Reddit that I think is interesting, if I
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: see something on a website that I think is interesting,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: I screenshot it because then I'll circle back to that.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: I never circle back never.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: But yeah, so a thousand even, it's crazy, A thousand
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: just that's just screenshots.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Now, if there's anybody who listen to it right now,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: because get we get some people that have not had
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: experience too much with smartphones Screenshotting gives you the ability
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: to press a couple of buttons on your device and
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: actually take a picture of your screen. So if you're
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: on a screen, like say you're an Amazon and you're like, oh,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I really like that, and you want to find a
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: quick way to save just that page with the photo
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: on it, so you could share it with somebody, say hey,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: I'd like this for my birthday, or I'd like to
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: get this, and you just want to be able to
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: remember what it was called, you screenshot it. Or you
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: find an instruction on how to cook something a recipe,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: screenshot it. Screenshots can be great and you could even
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: like with Google Photos. You know, I've done this before.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Gloria's said okay, I want to get I want to
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: learn how to make that, So she'll send me a
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: photo of the recipe. I'll go ahead and go to
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Google Photos. And with capture you can actually pull the
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: text from that image.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: It's fantastic.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you could do that with the iPhone iOS devices too, right, can.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: You do that or is that strictly?
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: And I know I've used it quite a bit to
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: screenshots a Reddit thread or something that I off and
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: copy it and put it into a notes tab. I
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: have a bazillion notes. I use the notes app a
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: lot too. So yeah, but it's like I find stuff
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: that's interesting, Like here's a jar of chain wax for
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: dirt bikes that I wanted to I wanted to remember
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: the brand name. So when I need to go buy
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: more chain wax for my dirt bike, I can go, oh,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: I remember taking a picture of that. Or it's like
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: a screenshot of like our switcher inputs that I wrote
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: down on a sheet of papers that I took a
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: picture a screenshot of, or you know. So it's like
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: it's stuff like that. I've got screenshots of everything, but
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: a thousand screenshots.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Screenshotting is you know, people will say, oh, it just
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: takes up space.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: You can go through if you have to.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: You can go through and delete them, or you could
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: offload them if you're.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Like me, I don't delete photos. Maybe I I I
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: keep all I keep so much media from everything that
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: I've shot edited.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: How do you how do you weed through it? Can
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: you put keywords on them?
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Oh? My dude, I spent when I got my nass,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: all right, I spent This was during COVID, so I
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: was archiving photos and stuff. I did a hard drive inventory.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: I went through an inventoried all of my heart.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: It was some the data order subreddit as a kind
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: of a comprehensive list of like if you want to
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: get your your ducks in a row, do these things.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: It's like, start by categorizing all your hard drives. What's
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: on them, serial numbers, data volume size, et cetera. I
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: went through and then I went drive by drive and
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: took and organized it. So I said, here, okay, I
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: took it all from this drive, put in the nass,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: went to the next drive, said oh, here's duplicates, didn't
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: duplicate it, and then organized it by year by month.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Out dude, I went, I went down a rabbit hole
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: with this. I'm I'm organized like by year for photo,
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: this is for photos, photos and videos by month and
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: if you can go in and for mostly it's stills.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: But I went through and just blitzed through it so
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: that when I scanned in all my stuff with the
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: my fast scanner, my fast for bat EP's in six
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: eighty yeah right, it was all. I went through it,
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: organized it all by year and months. So when I
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: scanned them, this was October eighty six this was November
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: twenty nineteen. This was and I could just dump them
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: right into those folders.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Well, what I loved I loved about the six eighty
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: when I got a chance to play with a couple
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: of times we've looked at that is that you could actually,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: before you scan if you've gathered every photo up from
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: say nineteen seventy eight trip to London, right you put
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: them in the scanner. In the midea tags, you could
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: actually put nineteen seventy eight trip to London. So when
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: they are come out and they're in that you could
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: drag them to a folder nineteen seventy eight trip to London.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, man, that scanner saved me weeks of
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: time in terms of organizing, in terms of and I
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: mean Krkudo's absence, because it's incredible, it's super easy to
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: use front and back postcard scans. It was. It's incredible
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: scanner and it just helped me. But organizing, Yeah, I
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: don't know how we got down this rabbit hole of
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: now we're talking about scanners and data hoarding and stuff.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: But I Will didn't want to tell you though. I
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: did look at their new scanner, the EPSOM is five
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: ninety W, which is mainly for documents receipts, but it's
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: ultra fast, and.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: It was funny because I was trying to compare it.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I was showing it on Fox eleven, and I brought
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: in a flatbed scanner, you know, and you know, oh,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: you can scan one page and then it goes through
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and then oh, there's your image. But I took this
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: a page of papers from the doctor that was you know,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: about about an inch thick from when I had my
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: little heart thing going on. I took that page, I
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: put them in the scanner and it was just like boom,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: boom boom. Forty five pages permitted.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: It says it'll do one hundred.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: You can stock it up with one hundred sheets, one
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: hundred sheets of paper, and you can collate them. You
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: can make it tag them so you can put them
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: in a folder. Because I am a paper hoarder, I
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: have file cabinets of just papers, not in files, just
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: packed stacked up in the file cabinets. So I'm starting
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: to go through that five ninety W is available. Now
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: they've got a new six to twenty W that's going
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: to be coming out, and I believe that is I
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: think that's another photo scanner, but to compete with the
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: six to eighty W that is probably the top of
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: the line. What was the modeler for twenty W that
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I believe is already out. The five to ninety W
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: came out a couple of months ago.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: We had it.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: We had it like a week after they put out
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and got a chance to play around with it, and
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I was impressed with receipts were good. If you want to,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: you can buy a subscription to be able to collate
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: those a little better.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: But it's still it's still made it very easy.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: The six twenty is available. It's for twenty nine on
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: being right. It says it'll do forty five pages per
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: minut it or ninety images per minut.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: It ninety wow, and it'll do even the small you
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: have those small pictures. You know, I was going through
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: my mom's photo albums because you know, I told the
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: story about finding my mom's relatives, and I'm finding more relatives.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: We're getting more pictures.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: And I found an old photo album from when my
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: mom turned fifteen, so that would have been.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Nineteen fifty.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: And but if I don't know why they would print
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the photo is so small, they're like maybe double postage
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: stamp size, but yet the scanner can handle them. Yeah,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: just close them down and put them through. And it's
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: been it's been really good. So yeah, all right, we.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Gotta take a break.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: We come back.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Got a good question in from ROBERTA. And I know
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Sean has the solution, So we're gonna tackle that one
• 24:47
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• 24:50
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• 24:52
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• 24:54
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• 24:55
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• 24:57
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• 24:59
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• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Sean and I during the break were hot kind of
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: went down another rabbit hole of talking about digital capturing
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: and digital imaging. And it was kind of interesting because Sean,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: you brought up a good point that I had heard
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: some trivia this week that a good majority of people
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: like aren't printing their photos anymore.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Well, think about it, right, look around your house. How
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: many pictures you have, pictures hanging up on the wall
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: maybe right? How many people have photo albums anymore? Or
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: picture books? I mean they might be in a dusty
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: old bin somewhere, right, But you think about twenty twenty
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: years ago, you could go over to somebody's house and
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: buy the fireplace, or over the mantle or in a
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: corner there was a shelf of photo albums. Yeah, so
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: you could flip through and see pictures. And now I
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: still have all the physical pictures that I've scanned. Now
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: they're they're tidied away and organized, and if I wanted
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: to go get them, I could. But I have a
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: whole corkboard full of pictures I think are fun, family
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: related that are just up there that I right go
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: over and look at and see. And it's four generations
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: of my family that I can see on the wall.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: And people don't. People forget that when you touch those
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: there's physical touch memory, like set memory and things like
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: when you hold on stuff, whether it's an old polaroid
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: or an old four by six or whatever, that there's
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: just a mental component there that is so foreign to
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: some people that live in a complete digital world. And
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: I'm in the minority here on that that I would
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: I prefer printed images.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean a lot of people do. I think
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: they do too. It's cool to be able to show
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: somebody maybe on your computer.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: It's great.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Digitizing them is great though, because you can't share them
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: a lot easier with family members. You know, my cousins
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: that are in England. They've been sending me, you know,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: photos back and forth. They've been digitized. But having that
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: print it is something about that I think, and I'm
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: worried with the number increasing of people that aren't printing them.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Some say, well it's because I can't print them. Well,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: you could go to Walgreens, you know you could. You
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: could do them right there. They got a kiosk that
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: is very easy to do.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: We talked about it in the earlier segment about how
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: I have all my stuff tied into Google. All I
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: have to do is go to Google and I say
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: print to Walgreens. In twenty minutes, I get an email
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: saying your prints are ready.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: You don't have to.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Go to the Walgreens to do it.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Sitting there at the kiosk where people are walking by
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: and you look at it.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: That's how we print.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: We print all of our Christmas cards every year at Walgreens.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: I doodle them up on the computer, I save a file,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: I send it to Walgreens, and in thirty to forty minutes.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: We have seventy five to eighty Christmas cards that we
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: can address the mail out. That's a great idea, Greens
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Meer Walmart. You can do them on all of them,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: and you can take you if you can take your
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: camera in or your splash drive in and do the Kiosk.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: But those hardly those hardly don't exist anymore either.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Now if you want to, if you do want to
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: control it a little, and you want to print your
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: own eight by tens, you want to do your own
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: eleven by fourteen's, I recommend the EPSOM. It's the XP
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: and this is a printer that I've had for a
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: few years. The only thing is you will use a
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: lot of ink.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: For this to do these.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: You know, you get the you get the photo paper,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the glossy photo paper.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: You know, you buy the ink. But you control it yourself.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Now, if you want to take it into again Walgreens,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: that's going to be a kind of a quicker way
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: to go and less money. So I went to visit
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: my friend Joey who has lived it here in town,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: and I took a photo album for him. I just
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: took you know, digital photos. Did the same thing. Went
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: to wal Greens had them print them, bought the album there,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: put them an album and.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Gave them, gave him to Joey, so that way he
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: had them.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: But I mean it's that, it's that having that print
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: is something, there's something special about it. You know, we
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: can carry them on our phone. But again having your
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: your own print to carry that makes it pretty nice.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Which I this this works into a pretty good segue here.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: You have done Super eight movies. I know that you've
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: done that. How do you do that getting your Super
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: eight movie real, you know, into a digital format?
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean for the layman, I would tell them
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: to use Legacy Box because that's the cheapest and best
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: one that we found.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: My photos does it too, Photos on the show.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah. But I have a Wolverine I think it's called
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: a Wolverine Pro movie Maker. It's a really I bought
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: it during COVID when I got all my family's film stuff.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: It's a step by step scanner, so it actually you
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: load the film into a carousel and it goes across
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: like a lightbed scanner, and it's got an immature like
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: an image processor that points straight down to do it,
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: and it actually clicks frame by frame, so it'll has
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: a stepper motor that pulls the film across and it
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: takes an image of each frame a video and you
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: can actually go in and overscan so you can actually
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: get the whole the leaders in everything.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: And if if I'll send a link to Andy so
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: you can post a link to some of the films.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: But I think it was like three hundred and forty
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: nine dollars or maybe four hundred dollars for the scanner.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: But that is time consuming, yeah, because it is a
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: it is a step by step.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I mean thirty thirty thirty frames per second.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Four twenty four to particularly film speed. I don't know,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: I don't remember what speed these were shot at, but
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: I mean it's it. It takes a picture maybe two
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: every every every second or every other second. It's click click,
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: click click. Right, So you imagine, Okay, I've got dozens
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: and dozens of film reels, and I'm talking not just
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: the small ones. I'm talking the five hundred footers.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you imagine frame by frame, and these frames are
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: very big. It's taking five six hours for a five
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: hundred foot reel to go through.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's it.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: And that's that's not upscaling. That's not generating, that's just
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: getting that picture.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: It's just taking the pictures that the actual scanner does.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Put it into an MP four format, which is a
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: little bit of a bummer because I would like a
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: little bit more control because it does all the white
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: balancing and you have to kind of you kind of
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: had to prep it a little bit in terms of
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: the quality the image control. But it does a really
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: good job. That's why I overscan because you can punch
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: in and you can do some digital a little bit
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: of optical zooming on it. But I found that that
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: overscanning was better because you got the full image and
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: sometimes if you were if it got caught or bumped
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: or something, you had a little bit more leeway when
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: it was over scanned. I'm very happy with it. And
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: it's called Wolverine. Yeah, I'll have to go. I'll provide
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: a link for you. I bought it on B and H.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Kodec has got one out that is Super eight as well.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I'd like to find I would love to find sixteen
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: because a sixteen millimeter because back in the day when
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I was when I was a nerd, I would go
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: to Star Wars and Star Trek conventions, and there were
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: vendors that were there and they would sell film reels,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: usually you know, movie trailers on sixteen millimeter. To watch them,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I'd have to go to the library because they had
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: a sixteen millimeter projector at the good old Hunting Beach
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Public Library there, and I could watch my trailer over
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: and over and over again. One of those trailers I
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: still have is the original Star Wars trailer, which you know,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: and I saw it online somebody had it all digitized
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: and everything, and it had that music, it had the narrative,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: and I thought I own that steam milimeter trailer. It
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: was kind of cool, but I found I don't know
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: anywhere that'll do sixteen millimeters conversions, so i'd have to
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: do it with Yeah, she know me that.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure you're starting to add commos into the
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: price at that point, so.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. All right.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: So I have to tell you about a little rabbit
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: hole I fell down this week.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: And I'll be real quick about this one.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: You're talking about film, and you know, I talked about
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: upscaling and I got a chance this week and I
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: did a segment on Fox eleven to get a look
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: at Topaz Labs Video Generation. Now, Topa's lab has been
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: around for a while. Topaz labs dot com. If you're
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: a photographer, they make all kinds of great photographic elements
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: and tools for the photographer. Maybe a photo isn't shaded properly,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: or maybe just you want to work it a little
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: with maybe some color correction, you want to do some
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: you know, gentle tweaks.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: On a photo.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Topaz has a wide range of different films that you
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: could use for your photography professional photographers. I'm speaking with
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: guy who we were talking about that who works here
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: at the station, and he was telling me, you know,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: about how he likes using Topaz because when it comes
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: to doing some correction corrective stuff, it doesn't give like
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: a waxy look to the face, which some people just
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: go into Gemini and say here, you know, process this
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: and it just you just it just done. Doesn't look great,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: looks uncanny. So I got a chance to look at
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: their video generation. They have a couple in there. One
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: of them is called Astra. What Astra will do is say, Sean,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: you're out on a shoot, you're doing a video shoot,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: and suddenly you want to get a slow motion shot
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: of something.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Getting that can be a bit of a challenge. Now,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: if you have.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Premiere Resolve some of the other programs that are out there,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: uh pro to you you can you know, you could
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: kind of work around and get a slow motion effect.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: But what they have from Topaz Labs with Astra, I mean,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: you can go way slow mode without lou quality and
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: it keeps everything up and it's it's pretty amazing. If
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: you're on the site, you can look at some of
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: their features. But their new one is Starlight Precise two
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: point five. So this is how I tested it, Sean,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: I have a video shot with Tommy Chong from chiech
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: and Chong. Tommy came to Tucson back in two thousand
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: and five when I was working at the Rock station
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: in Town in Tucson, and we had them in the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: studio and I had only thing I had with me
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: was I want to say it was a Logitech camera,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: but it was three twenty by two forty. Yeah, that
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: quality is pretty bad. So I shot the video. It's
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: on our it's on the tech Talk Radio YouTube page.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: So you know, one of the ones that I put
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: while I was working at that station. You know, we
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: started it I added it and it's still there. It's
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: not tech, but a lot of people find it, uh
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: and a lot of people comment on it still gets
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: a lot of so I thought, let's try with the.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Tom Me Chong video.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: So three twenty two forty I decided, let's go twelve
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: eighty by seven twenty. It can go all the way
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: up to eight K if you want it.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: I've seen that.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at the website.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: But I decided let's just do that. Started processing it.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: You know that God was able to get a key
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: from the folks at topaz labs dot com to test
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: it out, try it out, and it started processing at
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: about I want to say, fifteen minutes in my computer
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: shut off completely boom gone. Wouldn't start up either, and
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: I thought, oh, what is it going on here?
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: What is happening?
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: So finally, you know, going through trying to turn it
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: on and off, throwing my hands up in the air,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: told you had a bad tech week. I came back
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: to it. It had cooled down and I was able
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: to get it started again. So I just I'll do
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: it tomorrow. Let's let it, let it, let it cool down,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: so let me see what else I can do.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: With it.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: So I tried different things and got about not even
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: halfway done.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Shut down the computer. It was so frustrating.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: And it showed me though the piece of footage because
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: it did still create that the MLV file.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: And when I opened it up, oh my.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Gosh, it was like I was shot yesterday on high definition.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: I was so amazed by the quality. Little uncanny in
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: the eyes a little, but I mean he'd used AI generation.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: It went frame by frame. It totally corrected it and
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: gave me a high definition output, although part of it
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: no sound. So here's a good tip for the tip
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: for us from tech Talk Radio today. It's the summer.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Make sure your computers are clean. Decided to give it
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: a try again, and I was sitting in front of
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the computer and I looked at the beautiful lights I have.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I have colored RGB lights in the front, and I noticed, wait,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: what's that on top of the fans. I took the
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: case cover off to get to the fan and I
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: had a, I want to say, a rug of dust
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: that was completely circling the fan, all three fans.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: I thought, hmm.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: So I went and got my little vacuum that you
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: had told me about some years ago. I got it,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: started cleaning and up, cleaning everything up, and then opes
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: to open the side of the case and I could
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: feel that air. I started measuring the temperature one hundred
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: and eighteen degrees one hundred and twenty and then cleaned
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: it and I noticed it was running at a general
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: eighty eight degrees and it got through the entire process
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: without shutting down. So if you're trying to process stuff,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: you know, you got to remember keep the dust out
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: of your computer.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: It'll run a lot better.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: Clean clean your computer. This is your yearly reminder to
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: clean your computer.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: All Right, we gonna take quick break, we come back.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: We have that listener email from Roberta standing by. I'm
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Find us on Facebook at tech talk Radio.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Well we're back and now back to tech talk Radio.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: So when we were at our pre show, Andy and
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: I were talking about what's which listener questions we're gonna
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: bring it in. He said, oh, I got a great
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: one from Roberta. And I said, oh, perfect, because I
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: have an answer for Roberta.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Yes you do, and I think you'd be the perfect
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: person for this. That'd be great.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: So Roberta asks, says, love your shows, love your show.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Half of the stuff I understand. Half I don't, but
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: I listen and absorb appreciate that very much. I have
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: about fifty DVDs of my favorite movies and I want
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: to get them in my computer. Is it legal? And
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: if it is, how with like four exclamation points? Thanks,
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: We'll be listening and taking notes. ROBERTA from Saha, Rita.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: You know, that's a good question because I know a
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: lot of people listening have their favorite DVDs. I don't
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: know if you saw this, but Kill Bill. They're coming
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: out on VHS, a special edition that's going to be out.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: But people who have DVDs, you know, they maybe don't
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: want to they're DVD player, they don't have it, or
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: there were whatnot, and maybe they want to watch it
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: on their computer or yes, the big State with USB.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: It's actually a very simple process. The hardest the hardest
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: part is going to be finding a computer with a
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: DVD platform in it. Yeah, finding a tower that has
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: a DVD burner or a DVD player in it that
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: can actually receive the DVDs. So, yes, there is a way.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: And I just did this and I'm about to do
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: it some more because we had our neighborhood grab sale.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: I found a binder of DVDs at a yard sale.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, And I was like, wow, there's a lot
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: of good movies in here. And she's like, make me
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: an offer, said five bucks. Said yeah, there's no way.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: There's forty plus DVDs in here.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Wow for five dollars five bucks.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: A lot of them. I don't have a lot of them.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: I didn't have. So there is a software that you
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: can get. There's actually two pieces of software I recommend.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: One of them is called hand Break. It's Handbreak dot
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: f R. It's a French it's a French company.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Would you say of getting this from because you've got
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: to be careful, you know, right being camera software? Where
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: you're getting it from? Alternative to do they offer that
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: on their website?
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: Good question? I will look. I believe they do. But
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: it's handbreak, So if you want to go to Alternative
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: look it up. I'll look it up while we're talking.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: But Handbreak you.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Download it dot f R.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Handbreak that fr. You open the software, put your
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: DVD in, you let it process for a second. The
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: hand the software will let you target the DVD when
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: it pops in and you can set it to be
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: There's a handful of presets you can pick and you
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: click burn and it'll rip. It'll rip it to an
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: MP four. It'll include chapter markers, it'll include it'll list
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: all the files that found, and you can you can
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: have it do each individual file. You can just have
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: it do the main movie, you can have to do
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: all the special features, et cetera. The issue you run
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: into is there some of the DRM isn't supported by
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: handbreaking right. There's another piece of software you can get
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: called make MKV. Make MKV does DVDs in addition to
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: Blu rays, So if you have a bunch of blue
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: rays you want to rip too, you can get find
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: a Blu ray burner. And there's if you go to
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: the make MKV. If you just google make mkv and
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: find their website, you can find a lot of these
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: processes on what drives work best, specific drives that don't
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: work for certain drms, specific drives that you can flash,
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: do fir more onto to support certain things. There's a
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: whole community built on the ability to archive and rip
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: DVDs and Blu rays. So yes, it's legal, yeah, extent
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: the extent of my knowledge is you. I own it.
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: I paid for it. Right, there's a reseller market for
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: DVDs and blue rays. You can find them at yard sales,
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: secondhand shops, pawn shops, you name it. I have paid
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: for it. I own it. But if I don't have
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: a DVD player, how do I watch it? I will
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: rip it and then I can put it on my
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: Plex server and watch it however I please, on whatever
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: device I want.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Right, So, oh well, that's the other embarrassing thing. From
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, Sean our last what was
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: our last subject? Our last subject was Plex.
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: H Yes, we talked about it on the show because
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: we talked about Plex, and I had said, you know,
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: about six months ago, a year ago, they raised their
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: price to two fifty for the lifetime pass. I don't
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: think it was an hour after we stopped recording and
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: I saw an article that said Plex is raising their
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: lifetime pass to seven hundred and fifty dollars seve hundred
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: ninety nine dollars, and I was.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: Like, crazy, are you kidding me?
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: We just talked about this. My ears were burning the
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: whole time, apparently, so I mean, I get it. I
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: don't get it.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, there there are some other things.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Jellyfinn is one some people the one jellyfin and then
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: what is the other one? Mb MB Yeah, MB is
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: another one if you want to be able to watch
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: this media. But for ROBERTA, the if you don't have
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: a DVD drive, even if you have a laptop, does
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: this require a lot of power to be able to
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: generate and make the DVD? No? You?
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: I mean so ripping DVDs has been around for a
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: long time, right, yeah, ripping DVDs. I've ripped a ton
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: of my DVDs from when I was in high school
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: and in college, so the mid two thousands, I was
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: ripping DVDs with my Toshiba satellite laptop right with a
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: penny and four in it. So, and there were other
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: you know. Nero DVD Burner was one that I used.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: There are a bunch of old programs that were you
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: had to pay sixty seventy bucks for it OfficeMax or whatever,
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: and you actually got a physical copy of the CD
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: and you install the software that way. Yeah, that's right,
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: Nero movie Maker, ROXYO Toaster. There was actually a program
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: called Toaster, which is how a lot of those DVD
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: burner type things became known as toasters because there was
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: a program called Toast that would rip and burn DVDs
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: like Toast, So but Handbreak kind of became the forerunner.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: It's simple, it's easy. It it just does what you
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: needed to do. And if you're a nerd like me,
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: you can go in and tweak your settings and upscale
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: and you can do higher frame rates and do you know,
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: up your bit rate and all that stuff. But for
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: the average layman, it's pretty simple to just click and rip,
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: and it's gonna take time, Right, if you have a
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: two hour movie, it's gonna take thirty to forty minutes
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: potentially to rip based on the quality. Right, if you're
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: doing a single passing code, multi passing code, obviously multipasses better,
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: you're going to get better, better scan, better quality. But
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: for a DVD, it's standard deaf right, it's still five
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: I or four EIGHTYP depending on what region you're watching
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: it in or PAL whatever the path format is. But
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: I'm just.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Wondering, and I have to look at the program, and
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I don't have it on this system though, VLC, which
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: is a great program.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: The Smith's Army Knife of media players. It really is.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: I mean I have been able to watch like old Flash.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: So we used to shoot videos here at the station
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: and we put them in Flash format, and you know,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: the tapes are long gone.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: We would just do it and export it to Flash.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: And I have the Flash video files, but you don't
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: have the aviis that we originally created. So it was
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: cool to be able to go back and actually convert those.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: But using VLC you can watch some of that stuff.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: So even if I'm on my computer and like if
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: I don't have Plex running, I have a shared media
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: drive on my PLEX server that I can just watch
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: the files in VLC. So VLC is a it's called
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: the Video Land. That's the name of the company that
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: makes it. It's the best media player for playing I
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: don't even know how many media types it plays. It
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: plays all of them.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: And it's a free program.
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's free. You can donate if you want. It's
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: open source, so if if somebody wants to make a
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: fork of it, and you know, they just have to
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: be able to provide that platform and any new code
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: they make for free. But it's it's free VLC dot
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: org and you can download the traffic cone, it's a
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: symbol for they. But yeah, so handbreak, make mkv VLC.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: You're off and running. You're off for the races.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: I like what is doing.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: You'll find a little better if she's doing blu ray
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: using make mkav uh, you know, being able to keep
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: that up. But honestly, if she's you know, she just
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: wants to be able to watch them when she wants.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: To watch them.
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: So on the topic of watching right right, Ah, I
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: have flex on my TV, which we watch a lot
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: of movies that we own.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: What size TV screen was?
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: It was a fifty five inch until one of my
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: boys decided to throw a block at his brother and
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: hit the TV instead.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Oh no, instantaneous.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's spider web pretty much right at the top.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: And we suffered through it, and the boys understood that
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: they damaged the TV. They we're not buying a new
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: TV right away, right, and so we survived with us
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: a little bit of a spider web, not too bad.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: You can still see most of the image was fine.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: And this past weekend, Caitlin was out shopping at Costco
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: and we were talking about, well, why don't we just
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: we're planning on getting a new TV. Well, the boys
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: are being better about not throwing stuff at it, and
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: Daniel must have sensed our energy about us potentially wanted
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: to buy a new TV because he went up and
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: smacked the TV and it completely It's straight lines all
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: the way across the entire rammage. Now. I sent Andy
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: a picture of it earlier. Yeah, and then like twenty
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: minutes later, kating this something me, Hey, I found this TV.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think I should buy it? I said, this,
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: Dandy hadn't it. It was a whole thing. So I
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: ended up going back to Costco later and buying a
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: new fifty five inch TV. We bought a tcl TV,
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: which is the same brand we had before, but it's
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: not a Roku TV, it's a Google Smart TV, so
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: having to adapt, we haven't plugged it and he's still
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: in the box upstairs. This was this past weekend, so
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: we've got a new TV. The old TV's out, But
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: in the interim we took a thirty two inch TV
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: that Caitlin had. It's a Sony Visio from like right
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: thousand and nine. It works right and it still works
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: and you can actually put apps on it. And but
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: we have an Apple TV plugged into it, so I
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: had to put I got you know, we can do
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: all of our pluck stuff with the Apple TV. H
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: so it's still working. And but it's just been a
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: whole thing with our TV where the boys just I
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: mean it's comical, right, I mean they're going to destroy
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: everything I own, which is fine.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: But yeah, oh yeah, kids and TVs that that's pretty good?
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Is that why you didn't go with a seventy five
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: or an eighty five? But the price right now is great.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: You know, I don't think we're I it's hard to
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: picture this, right. It's like when I was a kid,
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: you had a TV that weighed more than you did
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: as a kid.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: Nobody stole TVs.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: It couldn't carry it couldn't carry them, and if they fell,
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: they'd kill you. Yeah, so you didn't knock them over.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: They were on these massive TV stands, right, and or
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: they just gave you you know, they made you magnetic.
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah hecausing. So these small, thin TVs are so fragile
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: that a small I mean granted, this block had quite
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: a bit of velocity behind it when it hit the TV. Uh,
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: it did a number on it. And then Daniel just
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: went up and smacked it the other day.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: To give you a five.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but so now I'm worried, Like do I even
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: unbox this other TV? Do I even want to put it?
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: Do we just do we just suffer with this thirty
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: two inch TV? Yeah, but so we got into TV
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: so qled it was three hundred and nine dollars. So
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: it's not the end of the world. But we're not
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: gonna buy you know, an ol o ed for ten
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: you know, for twelve hundred bucks that could potentially get
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: ruined the moment I open it, right, So let.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: Me back that TV again. All right, we gonna take
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: a quick break.
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: We come back.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: We got more of tech talk radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: I'm shan to weird find us on the web tech
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: talk radio dot com won't be here.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Back and now fact to tech talk Radio.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Sean has been going down the rabbit hole here looking
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: at info. We talked about, you know, handbreak, we talked
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: about PLEX, we talked about make MKV. You found there
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: are alternatives to PLEX other than a Jellyfinn and MB
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: yeah ninety something.
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: It was a lot some I've never heard of, but
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: jellyfin and MB were the top two. There's one called
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: Melo Infuse Servio, I mean Android TV. There's a bunch
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: of defults.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: As a reminder to you know, we talk about these,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: these are a way that you have them on your computer.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: You'd be sitting in your TV room. If you've got
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: you know, an app driven television, you get the app
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: for those and you can watch it on your TV.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: It doesn't just mean content that you ripped from DVDs.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: You've got a wedding video that's been digitized, or you've
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: got a video from a party that you want to
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: watch on the TV. You've got people coming over, you
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: want to show this video you put together.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: This is home movies.
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all of the stuff that I've ripped from all
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: my family stuff, all of my family HI eight tapes,
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: do mini dv's, all live on my Plux server. So
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: I have a very select few people that I've given
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: permission to view from the outside that can come in
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: and watch these home videos so they don't have to
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: stream the my YouTube or I don't upload them to YouTube,
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: et cetera. But I paid for my lifetime past for Plex,
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: so that allowed me to do that. But and then
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: I was kind of blown away by this. But for handbreak.
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: There are one hundred and two alternative to results, and
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: of course the one that came up and I use
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: this all the time at work is FFmpeg, which is
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: a is a command line driven We use it all
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: the time for conversion of broadcast content to other formats.
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: It's used a ton, It's used a ton, an absolute
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: ton in the broadcast industry on the back end for
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: a lot of servers for media conversions. So if m
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: PEG is one, it's free, it's open source. There are
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: guys that people have made with it. A lot of
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: platforms are probably thought FFmpeg, but there are tons and
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: tons and tons and tons of different ones. Make MKV
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: is on.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Here right, so then you can find these all at
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Alternative two. That's THO dot net right correct. Yep, okay,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: all right, something to check out real quick. I'm gonna
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: see if we can get one of these to take
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: a look at. Uh. Logitech has introduced the new Signature
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: Comfort Plus eight point fifty L. It's a desktop mouse
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: that features a soft palm cushion for extra comfort during
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: long hours.
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: I feel like it's those wrist pads that we used
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: to get, oh god, when I was growing up that
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: I never used for risk pad, I used to. I
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: used them to beat my brothers with Perfect because they
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: were heavy and they need a satisfying slap when you
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: hit somebody with them.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Absolutely all right. That's it for this week's Tech Talk Radio.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Seanny Weard.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: Don't beat up your brothers.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: Wove notes till you next week.