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Episode 402 - Which ID Are You Today? · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network. Hi, this
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is Adrian Barbo. You're listening to tech Talk Radio and you're gonna learn a
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lot. Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
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I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm Justin Lemme. I was doing that.
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We're doing great Happy Father's Day. We get father. Well it's not your
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first Father's Day, Sean to your second one, right, third, but
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like times two because he's got two kids, that's right. Yeah, so
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but your first one was three years ago. This is my seventh, you're
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seventh. This will be my fortieth something like that. Yeah. Well,
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yeah, it's a good Father's Day week and we'll go over some my Father's
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Day gift that. So if you don't know, listeners out there, if
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you don't know the age difference between us, now you do he just pop
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in to our video. You could see all look at that one with all
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the gray. Yeah. Well, it's kind of interesting because you have been
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kind of out for a couple of weeks, justin You've been going through through
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all kinds of stuff. We weren't even sure you were going to be able
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to join us today. Yeah, it's no, it's been interesting. No
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more water, yeah, no more water. Yeah, because I work at
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water World. Yeah, well maybe that's why you're going through this? Is
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that what we shut? Shut up? No? So what my family?
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My family, uh, my wife and kid. They recently went to Japan.
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Uh uh, let's see what was it? Two weeks? No?
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Hold on, let me see what is Yeah, okay, let's like,
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let's say a couple of weeks ago Friday. Right, wow, So I
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don't go down in my basement, which was which is where I'm recording this
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show from right now, as in my basement. I have a studio down
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here, but I don't go down here every every day, like I mean,
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I go down here when I need to. And also the the the
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maintenance room with with the water heater, the HVAC. I also have the
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cat litter, you know, all that stuff down here. So I came
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down on a Friday night to watch some TV because I had my theater down
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here as well. Everything is cool, right, So then I don't come
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down Saturday. But I come down and this is you know, my Friday
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was when they left. So I come down Friday night, you know,
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fine, Saturday, I don't come down Sunday morning. I come downstairs to
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go and change the cat litter, which I normally do every couple of weeks.
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As soon as I step down off the stairs onto the main basement floor,
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I hear squish squish. The feeling in the world. I'm like,
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oh my God. I rush in over to the maintenance room and I have
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to actually kick down the door because the door was swollen like I couldn't open
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the door. I had to literally kick the door in and when I opened
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it up, I was blasted by like a sauna like it was. So
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what was going on was my water heater was sprain hot water out of the
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pressure relief valve. But it had been going for you know, god knows
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how long. I would say, twenty four to thirty six hours. Oh
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my lord. But the pressure relief valve pipe was not installed correctly, and
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it was not installed to drain into the floor of the floor drain. It
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was left four inches below the water heater, so it just sprayed water everywhere.
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But you popped on the camera with all of us because we're all we
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can all see each other. Even though Sean is in South in Indiana,
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justin You're in Denver. I'm here in Green Valley, Tucson. I looked
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at it. It doesn't look that bad. It's not as bad as I
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thought it was. Now, granted, part of it is because they built
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the house differently than I would have ever expected. So it was only about
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an inch or two inches of water within that area. Now, it did
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leak out from the maintenance room. It leaked out into the spare bedroom,
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and it also leaked out into the family room, which is where my studio
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is. But it didn't reach quite to the point where my computer is where
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I'm sitting right now talking to you. But when they so, it got
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the like the carpet, the pad, the base boards, the door frame,
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all of that got water damaged. But when they removed all of that,
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we realized that when they built the house, they actually built a four
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inch gap between the I don't know what do you call it, the foundation,
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right, and then the first So the reason behind that is because in
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Colorado the houses settle a lot more than normal, So they put this gap
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in between the foundation and the studs, right, And so if the house
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has to settle, it settles upon soft wood, and they put these little
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spacers in between all of the foundation and the frame. So if the house
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has to settle, it squeezes upon the spacers. Right, So all those
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spacers were removed. So now, but granted this has been we've been in
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this house for ten years, like there's no more there's no more settling done.
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So the spacers, they've done their job. So all the spacers got
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removed, all the base boards, the carpet got damaged. They had to
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cut some of the carpet, so we're probably going to have to get new
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carpet because they had to cut it to expose some of the damage. Right.
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Wow, amazing, and that's work you had done not long ago,
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two years ago to the day, right, kind of remember that showed a
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day Sean just went through something similar to this. Yep, yep. It
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was the pipe for my faucet on the front of my house. We had
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a really early freeze last winter and I had left my hose on and it
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froze. And then when I went to use it when we went camping for
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the solar eclipse. Yeah, it all the water, Most of the water
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went into the basement instead of opposts. We had this exact same thing like
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our basement, this exact same area had the same problem. We had an
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outdoor spigot that wasn't installed correctly by the builder. They didn't put it at
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a down grade, right, they put it at an upgrade. And so
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when the water during the winter froze when we went to Canont, it burst
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that pipe, and our spare bedroom, which is the same area that I'm
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talking about now, it also flooded. I'm wondering, though, and I
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hope this gets taken care of justin I really do, But I'm wondering in
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a situation like this. Technology. You know, we see technology in many
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different respects when it comes to carbon monoxide smoke detectors. Isn't there something similar
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to this that works when it comes to water pressure or water problems within the
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home? Yes, absolutely there is. So so I'll expand upon this a
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little bit. I can talk a lot more about this. So what we
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had done after the plumbers came in, they talked about this. They also
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said, we're going to test your water pressure. And now I remember a
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few shows ago we talked about how I was doing a remodel up in our
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master bathroom because we also had a leak up in the master bathroom. And
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when the guy came out to test that water pressure because he's like he's looking
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for a cause of loss, which is what the insurance company calls it.
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He said, hey, look man, your your water pressure sitting at like
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ninety five one hundred psi? Right, And I'm like, okay, so
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what does that mean? Like what does that mean? Like what is what
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is supposed to be? Well, well, code is seventy five, like
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city city provides you one hundred and fifty psi. All right, right,
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your pressure regulator valve knocks it down to seventy five. That's what your house
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should be at. And I was like, so we're sitting at ninety and
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he's like yeah. I was like, okay, well, can you go
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ahead and turn it down for me? Yeah, yeah, sure, no
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problem, I'll turn it down. Boom he turns it down right yeah,
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or so I thought fast forward to this event about six seven weeks later,
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right with the water heater plumbers come out. They're like, oh, yeah,
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you know, problem, problem whatever. They're like, we're gonna test
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your water pressure. Okay. They told me you're getting one hundred and fifty.
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What I'm like, wait, wait, hold on, what like you're
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getting City Pressure. Right, your pressure regulator valve has failed, and you're
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lucky that your other pipes in your house didn't burst because you are getting one
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hundred and this is double what you should be getting in your house. Wow.
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And I was like, okay, so how do I fix this?
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They're like, well, your pressure regulator valve that was installed by an I
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I totally am gonna call them out on this, David Weekly Homes. Yeah,
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plastic plastic. I had a plastic pressure regulator valve that has thankfully lasted
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me for ten years. Now. I had to pay eleven hundred dollars to
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get a brass one. But on top of that, to answer your question,
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I asked them, look, I want to get a smart valve.
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There you are, that's what it's called. Yeah. So what they did
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is to start, we put a smart valve sensor on my water heater,
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so if it senses a water leak, it will shut off the intake to
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the hot water heater. That'll stop that part. However, I'm also going
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to get once I can recover financially from all this, now, I'm going
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to get another smart water valve that'll go on to my main What I'm gonna
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do with that. One is I'm gonna set up home assistant. So if
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I sense a le on any of my toilets, any of my sinks anywhere
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in the house, right, I'm gonna set up an if then that if
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water leak, since, then turn off water main right, because I am
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done dealing with this. That would not be good. And that technology is
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readily available. You could find it. I think you can find this stuff
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at home depot and low some of it, some of it, yeah,
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some of you can. Z wave and ziggiwaveh yeah, z wave and Zigby.
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Now z wave is kind of on its way out. Zigby is kind
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of in the middle. The new technology is called matter matter okay, matter,
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and that is approved by Google, Apple, all the other big tech
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companies. They're trying to incorporate one big technology called matter. But honestly,
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z wave isn't going anywhere for the next five or ten years. I've heard
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of that, and I've always thought about it. If that's actually a pretty
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good idea. They integrate into your you know, in your home. I
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know, cameras are great, dark bills are great. Why not an alarm?
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You know what? I have to admit, Andy I failed you because
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I wanted to get read from smart Homesolver. He is an amazing YouTuber.
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I mean, this guy is amazing. He lives in Phoenix. I mean,
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dude, you literally could drive up the road and go talk to him.
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This guy is probably the best smart home solver that's as a channel Smart
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Homesolver, but literally, this guy is amazing and the guy lives in Phoenix.
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I should get you in touch with Reid because I would love to interview
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him. And I honestly think you would love to see his house because I've
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watched his videos on YouTube. The amount of automations, the amount of stuff
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that his house can do, It's like Star Trek, you know, I
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kind I kind of like it, but I don't know. You know,
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I'll be honest and as Sean you might you might agree with me here.
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I'm just so concerned with all this AI stuff and all of this stuff taking
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over your homes. And I don't want to sound like somebody who is like
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just scared of this stuff, but it's getting out of hand. I mean,
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if I want a door to lock, good lock the door. You
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know, I don't need you to unlock it every day. At the same
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time and maybe off base there, But do you know what I'm saying.
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I think a lot of us are getting a little a little leigery about this
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stuff. I just don't need to start. I just don't want a smart
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home right now. The only things that are smart in my house are the
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light bulbs and the doorbell and the cameras. Yeah, but I can't talk
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to them. I don't have anything set up. I don't use z Wave,
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I don't use home Assistant, I don't use any of that stuff.
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But I just don't feel like I need to talk to my house. Let
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me ask you both a questions. Are you concerned more about the privacy or
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about like big tech, you know, getting your data? Is that what
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you're concerned about. I don't know. You're just worried about self autonomy,
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Like I want to do the things. I want to get up physically,
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tactile, touch the thing, the thing that is my motive, that is
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Caitlin and I have agreed that that is we like doing those things, right,
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Okay, that's fine. Losing that is just like a weird a weird
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catch for me. Like no, that I okay, I understand it.
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I was thinking more along the lines of you guys were afraid of like big
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tech getting your data and stuff. That's what I was going to say is
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Home Assistant doesn't do that because everything Home Assistant does is local. It doesn't
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go to the cloud, it doesn't go to any companies. It's all local.
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Everything is local to your own home. And you can even run home
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Assistant without an Internet connection. Like so it's not like a right, Yeah,
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you're not giving your data to the cloud. You're not giving your data
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to big tech to run a smart home. I understand what you're saying.
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However, Sean with your point, no, I totally get that. Like
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you want to be able to touch things. And that's why I think you
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should watch read on smart Home Solver on YouTube. Our Homesolver is the name
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of the channel because I've got a smart thermostat and I'll be honest with you,
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I absolutely love this thing. It's so easy to use, very easy
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to set up. I could do it from away from the house, you
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know, if I know I'm coming home and it's a real hot day and
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I want to make sure that the temperature is set to a certain you know,
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with the using the Nest thermostat, I can go ahead and do it.
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I love that piece of technology. Here's the thing about read. Read
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is like me, I want everything automated. Sean no disrespect. Is like
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Reid's wife. He doesn't. She does not want everything automated. She wants
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some things automated, but some things tactile, being able to do certain things.
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And he has been able to solve all of that. So I believe.
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I'm pretty sure his channels called smart Home Solver. It is it's smart
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Home Solver. All right, Well, we'll have to check that out definitely.
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Well, and I want to try to give on the show. All
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right, I would like that we have a couple of questions today, and
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I thought before we get into some of the big news this week, which
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we will tell you. Number one is the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference has happened.
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There have been a lot of similarities between some of the announcements they've made
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and some of the things that have already been available to Android. Now it's
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not that it's not the dis Apple and say, you know, well Android
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was first, but there are a couple of things. There is one area
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that they have really jumped ahead, and we'll be talking about that also Adobe
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Adobe is this is so it's so weird because I just honestly just started using
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the brand new light Room Photoshop Premiere with the generative fills, the AI features
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the firefly, and I'm loving it. Death I showed you a photo.
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I took a photo of Justin and I removed the background, put him in
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a data center and did it within fifteen seconds. Before that would have taken
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me maybe forty five minutes to an hour to do by hand in Photoshop.
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And now it's just with the technology that's available. But they are really they've
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really upset a lot of people. This is bad. Yeah, yeah,
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So we'll tell you the story about that, but first let's get to Genie's
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comment. Geenie in Tucson, So I've been doing projects on my MacBook and
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I'm running out of ports and I don't know which model she's running, but
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it says I have to unplug then plug in and it's been a bit of
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a pain. Is there a hub device that I should check out so I
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can plug more in? Uh, and we'll having more items plugged in to
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grade the performance of the MacBook. So, Adie, there's a website that
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you've shared previously that you've done some stuff with that has some really great products.
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I can't recall it off the top of my head, but you've shown
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some of them on here. They have I remember seeing some USBC hubs.
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One of them was easy Quest and that's easy dash Quest they make. And
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again I think it all depends. I mean, if if you've were using
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a MacBook versus an actual Mac you know that's gonna be a little different depending
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on the plugins. But the easy Quest, they have an easy Quest device
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that plugs into the MacBook. That is it offers like thirteen different huh.
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It's like a big hub with thirteen different connections available. So that one I
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kind of like USB is USB. I mean that's universal. So yeah,
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SEP Brent makes universal devices as well, so which could work as well.
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But that's yeah. The problem. The problem is, like, so if
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she has an early twenty eighteen twenty nineteen MacBook. This is where Apple kind
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of bit shots themselves in the foot right there. They announced the thirteen inch
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MacBooks, right they so they had the fifth to fifteens, the thirteens,
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and then the airs, the airs and thirteen's. They only went with two
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USB c's and also got rid of the HDMI port, the built in HDMI
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port, and the headphone port. You had to doggle literally everything right by
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extra. So then with the twenty twenty one MacBook with the refresh the three
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whatever, the typical three year to refresh, they brought back the thicker MacBook
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body with the HGMI port with two usbc's on both sides of total four USBC
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ports plus the plus the mag safe charger. Right. So the MacBook that
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I have with the M two chip in it has two usbc's on the left
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side with the mag Safe plus a headphone port plus an HGMI plus two additional
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uspcs on the other side. I rarely find myself having to dongle with that
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unless I want USBC USB A right right, so the normal USB, like
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if I have to plug in a card reader or you know, something along
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those lines. Easy quest could be an option for her, depending and it
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sounds like it could be, you know, good VIXI the way, it's
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so funny because we just take it for granted. Most most laptops, honestly
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in the five hundred dollars price range of people say, oh, get a
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great deal, only have two USB ports on them, you're gonna find maybe
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maybe one USB C and two you know generally USB three point ones, so
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you're not getting that, you know what I mean, You're gonna spend more
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money to get more ports. But again you could you could find those pretty
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inexpensively, all right. So for those listening that are thinking, yeah,
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this is something I could probably use, here's the website address for easy Quests
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And again they have a whole bunch of products that could be very helpful.
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If you get to their website, you're gonna see on the front page a
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USC USB C Gen two hub with adapter with seven ports on it, so
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they kind of address everything. And again I like their product line that is
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easyq dot com. Now the other one that also makes a lot of great
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products not only for Matt but also PC users, and I've used a bunch
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of their products before as the brent S A B R, E N T.
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And they honestly make everything from hubs to enclosures. So if you've got
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a drive that has to go into a new enclosure or you want to add
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an external, you could do that with them. Two even, I mean,
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a great product line. You could find them at brent S a b
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r e n t dot com. Again, s A b R e n
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t dot com. You'll find their products there and they sell a lot in
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retail as well as online. But again, some good stuff you're looking to
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add that. Now, Justin is making his Fallout character dance and is affusing
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himself on the camera. Thank you, Genie, Thank you, gen all
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Right, tell us about this shirt. Why did you get this? Oh?
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Okay, all right. Fallout the game, the video game Fallout.
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You know it's been around for god twenty years now. It's a series twenty
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years in Amazon right, yeah, well now, yeah, and then it
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got like super popular with the Fallout TV series, right that just came out
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on Amazon Prime. I've I've gotten back into Fallout. I mean, I've
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always loved Fallout. I played now granted I did not play Fallout one and
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two, but I played Fallout three, fall Out New Vegas, Fallout four.
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Now I'm into Fallout seventy six. So I had to get the T
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shirt with the Fallout Vault boy because I just I think it was awesome,
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and I had to get Oh yeh, look at that Nuka cola. If
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you're gonna watch the video on our website tech talk radio dot com. You
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can see the video. I got this Nuka Cola metal. I don't know
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what would you call it? Just a little. So they're selling, they're
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selling merchandise. Now, oh my god, about the merchandise. Oh,
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Max God, there's so much ben selling merchandise for the games. The games
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we came in Sandy popular in the early two thousands. I've never been I've
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never played Fallout. What what's the what's the goal of it? All?
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Right, Sean, you you go ahead and give the premise of the Fallout.
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So the premise of Fallout is it's a post apocalyptic video game where you
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are in a vault, right, and there are living underground, right,
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a nuclear vault, a nuclear show, a new but there are an unknown
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number of vaults around the world, and they are all based on different scenarios.
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So one is like you're you're you have a you know, you could
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be wealthy and have all the supplies you need to survive, right. One
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might be you're living in squalor and you only have this level of things.
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A way, there are all these different scenarios. Every vault is different.
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So then when all the vaults open, all these people in these different vault
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scenarios come out into the post apocalyptic world and meet each other. It's just
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a unique You kind of have to play the game to understand it. But
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yeah, so, so each game takes place in a different section in America.
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So Fallout three takes place in Washington, d C. Baltimore, Virginia,
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right, Fallout New Vegas takes place in obviously Vegas. Fallout four takes
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place in Boston, Massachusetts area, Rhode Island, stuff like that. Fallout
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seventy six is what I'm playing right now. It's an it's so the difference
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between all those and Fallout seventy six is that Fallout seventy six is actually technically
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classified as an MMO massively multiplayer online, So it is Fallout, but you're
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playing with other people, like real people, seventy other people. Well,
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technically you're only playing with twenty five other people on East Server. So what
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did they call it seventy six because I used to love a game called seventy
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six. Well, Fallout seventy six is because the vault number that was in
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Appalachia, which this one takes place in Appalachia, West Virginia, and all
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that stuff is called Vault seventy six. Okay, so that's why they call
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it Fallout seventy six. So this one, this particular game that I'm playing
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right now is Fallout seventy six. It is an online game. Now.
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The game costs sixty bucks. Right. You can play it from there for
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free. However, if you want to get a bunch of extra stuff,
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like you want to get new cosmetic items or extra money to buy things,
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this is where you have to actually pay real money. And this is how
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they make you know, Bethesda makes money supporting this game. Right now,
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Here's the thing about Fallout seventy six. Fallout seventy six came out and twenty
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eighteen. When I bought it in twenty eighteen, it was a giant mess,
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like it was horrible. I played it for about two hours and I
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was like, yeah, this game sucks. Yeah, and I put it
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down until a month ago right now. Granted, because of the Fallout TV
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show, right, I was like, hey, I want to get back
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into it. I didn't know, but at the time when I got back
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into it, I looked into it. Over four million new players came on
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to fall Out seventy six. Oh my lord, it has become an amazing
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game again and it's gotten much better, and I would like to talk about
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that more after all. Right, Yeah, we gotta take a quick break.
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We come back. We have another listener question we will share, and
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it's actually very important that it could add to the security of your smartphones.
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We'll do that when we come back. I'm ADYE Taylor, I'm Sean de
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Weird, and I'm justin. Let me find us on the web at tech
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talk radio dot com. We'll be right back and now fact to tech talk
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Radio. All right, So before the break, we talked about how I
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got into fall Out seventy six, and again that's more of like a like
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a like a multiplayer game where you meet real people, and I was playing
26:07
by myself and I was a low level character. You know. Again,
26:11
this game has been out since like twenty eighteen. There have been people that
26:15
have been playing this since twenty eighteen, but I recently got back into it.
26:18
So like I'm just like this low level character, don't really know nothing
26:23
about nothing, right, And I stumble across this guy. His his character
26:30
name is Jay Dog, right, Jay, I don't know Jay Dog sixty
26:34
nine or something like that. I don't remember exactly right, right, jay
26:37
Dog. So I'm like, hey, let's team up for a thing,
26:41
you know whatever. So we do this mission together and then he turns around
26:45
to me and he just like he drops a bag on the ground. This
26:48
is the character in the game. It's a character in the game. It's
26:52
a real person. He's a real person, right, And he's playing with
26:56
me and he drops his bag on the ground and I'm like, what I
27:00
do with this? And he keeps pointing at it like he uses his characters.
27:03
See how the character's point and move. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
27:07
the character, like the character, he keeps pointing at it, and I'm
27:10
like okay. So I pick it up, and he's given me all of
27:12
this like armor and weapons and food and everything I need to survive. And
27:19
I'm like, okay, this dude's pretty cool. Yeah right. So I'm
27:23
like I ad him as a friend on Xbox. I'm like, hey,
27:26
that's rue. Let's let's do this. Let's play again, you know,
27:30
right, So we start chatting on Xbox right, And so tonight, right
27:34
before I did the show, we finally got to chat with with A with
27:40
A with the audio, Like I actually did a party chat because I've never
27:45
had an Xbox headset. I finally bought one for Father's Day. Oh cool,
27:48
right, So I bought a Father's Day headset. I got him.
27:53
I'm like, hey, man, what are you up to. He's like
27:56
no, I'm like, let's let's do a party. So we got on
27:57
a party. We started chatting. We actually went and did like an expedition,
28:02
which is like a really super hard mission, and we just chatted the
28:07
entire time. And I tell you right now, the both of us,
28:11
we had so much fun. That's cool because it makes it a more fun
28:14
experience, right, it really does, and with me and even him.
28:18
He even mentioned that even though the community of Fallout seventy six is very friendly,
28:23
there's not a lot of people that chat. There's not a lot of
28:26
people that talk. Everybody kind of just does things by like using their characters
28:30
to point at things. But to be able to have an actual voice chat
28:37
with humans and to be able to talk, that's what makes gaming so great.
28:42
And I really had a great time playing with Jay Dog. So,
28:47
Jay Dog, I know you're listening because I told you told me you were
28:49
gonna listen to this. So Jay Dog, thank you so much for listening
28:52
to this and thanks for playing because cool. Honestly, you have kept me
28:57
interested in Fallout seven. I know that some years ago when I was at
29:02
what we call the morning show boot camps, and when I was doing morning
29:06
radio, we would go to these camps and you like meet other other you
29:10
know DJs that tell you stories of what they do on the air and some
29:12
of that. And there was a show and I want to say it was
29:15
in Atlanta, and what they would they would actually have game nights with their
29:21
listeners. So they would say, hey, tonight, we're gonna be playing
29:23
this, and the listeners could come in on voice chat and they could play.
29:27
And there was a pirate game if I'm not that you played at Justin
29:33
with pirate ships in the whole bit. CFS was one of those that was
29:37
real popular for that type of thing. But I mean, this is a
29:41
great way to connect with others or even have your friends get together and do
29:45
it. I know, you know, the closest thing before that has been
29:48
D and D with Sean has been and Matt both play that quite a bit.
29:52
And before your time, before you knew us, here we go no
29:57
no no no no no no no no no no. I don't mean like
30:00
that. Sean and I used to play every single Yeah, we would get
30:07
on No, it was days. But what what we We weren't even using
30:11
Discord at the time because we were using team Speaker. Yeah, so there's
30:18
there's a quick summary of the of the way we used to chat with playing
30:22
video games. All is a messenger for a long time, yep, MSN
30:27
messenger, then then a mess messenger added video ic q if you did ic
30:33
q q. Then it was Mumble, I remember Mumble yeah. Then it
30:40
was Ventrillo Wow. Then it was team Speak yep. Then it was Skype
30:48
right yeap, everybody everybody skype calls. Then it was uh kind of back
30:55
and forth between Mumble team Speak. A lot of companies tried to put in
31:00
voice chat into their games, yeah, without success, and then Discord came
31:04
along. This sort has been the biggest, right. Discord originally was a
31:08
browser, just a browser base, just like you just logged into a web
31:12
page and you just chatted to a HTML five or whatever. Yeah, and
31:17
it was not very good. But it's crazy how fast discord. You know.
31:22
Discord has been around now since I think twenty fifteen, right, well,
31:26
because how crazy and I know companies that use it to do all their
31:33
like they use it for it, you know, meetings and everything because the
31:36
video and audio it's you pay for a Nitro subscription and you get way better
31:41
audio video and it's cheaper than a Zoom license. It's cheaper than most right,
31:45
I've kind of dabbled a little in Discord. We have like a Discord
31:48
channel which I've really done nothing with and I kind of like to this,
31:52
maybe gonna get me to get my button gear and actually start giving that a
31:56
shot and playing around with that. And Zoom kind of surprised a lot of
32:00
people because Skype was the big thing and then suddenly Zoom came along and now
32:07
they have have subscription based We actually bought a license so we can all use
32:12
it. And you know, I love it. I think it's a great
32:15
service. And hadn't thought about using Discord as that, you know, with
32:19
that in mind too. And Microsoft a big story this week and I kind
32:22
of want to get your your thoughts on this, guys. How do you
32:27
guys feel about this this new Microsoft co pilot feature that some are saying it's
32:32
going to scream, this is see this is how they make it seem so
32:37
so plausible. It's going to screen capture like every thirty seconds what you're doing
32:42
on your computer. Well, the recall thing, right, yeah, the
32:46
recall COLT recall. It got leaked and then they were just like, oh
32:52
yeah, we're thinking about doing that, and then more details came out,
32:55
literally capturing everything everything you do on your computer, everything, he strokes,
33:02
inputs, mouse movements, right everything. I'm sorry, I just okay.
33:09
I I can go to my computer right now and search for a random file
33:16
and it would never show up, right, So, so how am I
33:22
supposed to believe that this is going to be better? Like you've had what
33:29
forty no, thirty five years to refine your search feature within Windows and you
33:37
can't do it. And now all of a sudden you're gonna come out and
33:39
say, hey, we're just gonna take snapshots of your computer and we'll be
33:44
able to find what you're looking for. No no, no, no,
33:46
no, no no no. You're taking snapshots in my computer and you're going
33:51
to archive it to train AI. I don't. I don't believe it,
33:54
and I don't that's I don't want it, And that's driving a lot of
33:58
people to the point where there's I'm done with this, you know what,
34:00
Yeah, I'm going to Linux exactly. You look at the shares of raspberry
34:05
Pie. They went up quite a bit just recently, and you wonder is
34:08
there a reason for that. Are people finally saying, you know, the
34:13
whole push for people to move from Windows ten to Windows eleven, people say,
34:16
is that so that they'll be able to have these capabilities? Corporate greed?
34:21
You know, somebody asked the other day, and users don't want an
34:25
ad experience in your faith on their personal computers, Like, that's just corporate
34:29
greed. It's so it's so intrusive on Windows ten and Windows eleven, Windows
34:34
eleven, it's atrocious. And there's more talks about it being added in Windows
34:37
twelve, even more ads in Windows twelve. Right, it's just ever since
34:44
they put ads in the start menu in Windows eight. Yeah, I lost
34:47
my brain about it. And it's so hard to even say I'm gonna dump
34:52
Windows for Linux because there's a lot of stuff that I do that doesn't support
34:57
on Linux. Yeah, that's the thing. And you know what, we've
35:00
kind of over the years used programs and kept integrating these programs into the Windows
35:06
interface. The idea of switching out to you know, the Linux operating system
35:10
just because we don't want to have that means those problem those programs were not
35:15
going to be able to use anymore. Now. Trust you can find a
35:17
lot of similar programs Open Office and some of the others that will work.
35:22
But we've gotten so used to using what works for us, so we're kind
35:27
of pigeonholed into that. You know, I've got and I really would love
35:30
I would love it if Slick was here, because Slick is the one that
35:34
I think out of all of us that's probably delved the most into the Linux
35:37
OS's. But you know, I've got a Raspberry Pie system here with a
35:43
keyboard that plugs into the computer through via HDMI. I mean, it's it's
35:46
actually really really cool. But I really have yet to be able to just
35:52
sit down and start working in it and and utilize it. And I think
35:57
that's going to be the problem for a lot of people that say, maybe
36:01
I don't want to do this whole Windows twelve thing or Windows eleven thing.
36:05
I don't want to see ads. I don't want to you know, I
36:07
don't want to have AI taking screenshots of the work I'm doing. So you
36:14
know, maybe go this other route, but are they really gonna want to
36:17
do that? And then you've got that learning curve. Then you've got people
36:21
that go, well, I'll just move over to Apple then, you know,
36:22
and Apple's got its own things going on right now. They're you know,
36:27
they're really delving in the whole AI, the AI interface as well.
36:31
So there's just so many different issues that I think confuse a lot of US
36:37
users that are maybe saying we're on the fence and then maybe we just accept
36:42
it and just just roll with it. So I don't know who knows there,
36:45
and there's a lot of people that suddenly just becomes a conspiracy theory for
36:50
so many people. This is the thing we as, you know, we're
36:52
doing the show here and we're talking about we're supposed to talk about the finer
36:55
points of technology. We've kind of gone down a little rabbit hole where we're,
37:00
you know, we're looking at these conspiracies. But again, there's a
37:02
lot of people that are saying, I've had enough conspiracy. But there's people
37:06
that said I have enough. Why why do I want my computer to screenshot
37:10
every thirty seconds? But say, oh, it's for the good of the
37:14
user. Because it's going to help our AI streamline how it's going to be
37:17
able to deliver faster for you. What if I'm watching some content that I
37:23
don't want. That's the whole point people to know. That's that's the whole
37:28
point. That's why people are saying, you know, wait a minute,
37:31
where is my privacy in how you say you're going to make the technology better
37:36
for me? How is that going to really happen. We've seen time and
37:39
time again where companies will say we're doing this thing and don't worry, your
37:44
data is protected, nobody can see it and nobody can view it. It's
37:49
it's safe, it's encrypted. And then a year later it's like, oh,
37:52
yeah, those four people in that one room that we're monitoring everything on
37:55
that one thing you did. Yeah that was a one time deal. And
38:00
then a year later, oh, all that data is now on the dark
38:02
web. So you guys are host Yeah, yeah, no everything. No,
38:06
there is no privacy. There is nothing, dude. Seriously, everything
38:09
they talk about is oh privacy, Oh, you're gonna be fine, even
38:14
Apple with oh we're the best in the privacy business. No you're not.
38:19
Everything you do is going in the dark web. Well, justin. I
38:22
don't know if I go that far to say that everything that we do is
38:27
on the dark web. Let's face it, technology is awesome. I love
38:31
it, and it can be a lot of fun to get online and be
38:35
able to connect with you know, connect with relatives, connect with friends,
38:38
you know, follow your passions, follow your hobbies, and you know,
38:43
we're talking about that dark side of the technology. There is a bright side
38:46
and it can be a lot of fun to learn. I mean, I've
38:51
been able to get online and find letters from my grandfather that were posted on
38:57
eBay that were just blew me away, not know that these even existed,
39:01
you know, or even take a look at the house that you grew up
39:05
in, or see the town. So yeah, there is positives to it,
39:08
but we have to be aware of the turns that could be taken.
39:15
And just as long as we're informed, I think we're okay either way.
39:19
We're going to take another quick break. We come back that listener question that
39:22
could address some security issues that you should know about. On the way,
39:25
I'm Andy Taylor. I'm sean to word find us on the dark web.
39:28
Oh yeah, I'm justin. Let me and you can find us on x
39:31
at tech Talk Radio. We'll be right back now back to teeth Talk Radio.
39:37
So we've been talking about a lot about privacy and stuff. We have
39:39
another listener account that kind of ties it as Rodney in Saharrita. Yeah,
39:44
says I heard the NSA is telling people to reboot their phones as a safety
39:47
measure. Is that something I should do with my PC? I have a
39:52
computer that I leave on all the time. Is that bad? Oh?
39:54
Wow, there's a good thought. Are NSA, for those who don't know,
39:58
is National Security Agency. You're a division of the federal government and they
40:04
look at all things cyber and security. I know that Andy touched on this
40:08
last week in the show and he read another reader comment about restarting their phones.
40:15
So yes, you should be restarting your computer, for one, because
40:19
if you don't reboot it, it's not going to get the most to current
40:21
updates. And those updates are there to help you in security. Right,
40:25
it's good every you know, every Tuesday, every the first Tuesday of every
40:29
month, Windows pushes out new updates. They push out security updates even more
40:32
frequently than that. So yes, you should be rebooting, rebooting your computer
40:37
every day, not necessary every other day. Sure, but it's just getting
40:43
it, getting in a good habit of making sure those updates are running on
40:45
your computer so you're protected at least from a security standpoint. There is a
40:50
lot of people that you may talk to that will say that they turn off
40:52
their computer every night, and you know, in some cases you can enable
40:58
hibernation. God no, no, really, hibernation has been proven to be
41:04
bad. Do not use hibernation. Okay, you think it would be better
41:08
to leave because I honestly think that letting it sleep would be kind of an
41:14
okay thing. Now, sleep, sleep is fine? Sleep, Well,
41:16
that's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking No, they're there.
41:19
But the thing is is Windows there is a hibernation mode that is not good.
41:25
Hibernation mode was a thing that Microsoft came out with XP. Yeah,
41:32
it is horrible. It is not good for your computer. Hibernation mode is
41:37
the first thing that you should disable on a Windows PC. Now, granted,
41:43
what you said, sleep mode is fine, Sleep is fine, right,
41:47
and going what Sean said every other day, every two days, three
41:52
days, whatever, Yeah, restart your computer, but you don't need to
41:57
shut it down every single night. You don't want to shut it down every
42:00
single night and reboot it because that increases wear and tear on your computer parts.
42:06
Okay, but the phone actually, for those who didn't know and maybe
42:08
didn't hear last week, that is something that should be should be done at
42:14
least once a week, same way as you said once a week with a
42:16
computer. So it's it's it's a priority because mobile phones are really more of
42:22
a target than personal computers at home because they're out and about being connected to
42:30
any number of cell phone towers or hotspots or you know, you're more mobile
42:34
with your phone obviously, and you're connecting to more unsecure wells, networks and
42:37
things like that. So Apple and Android and Google they released pretty much daily
42:45
security updates sometimes if if there's a zero day exploit or something like that that
42:50
hasn't been patched or needs to be patched immediately. So just making sure you're
42:53
restarting your phone to get those updates and to you know, clear out unnecessary
42:59
appsider running in the background, things like that. Just an overall health of
43:01
your phone it helps too. So and this this still applies not only to
43:06
iPhone but also Android devices as well. If when it comes to really it's
43:10
any internet connected technology. Just making sure you're getting your security updates is the
43:16
big one. Well, honestly, Sean, would any technology in general.
43:21
Yeah, that's true. We start your devices, laptops, cell phones,
43:27
uh uh, your internet router, your emotem at your home, right,
43:30
disconnect it once in a while every week, unplug it, plug it back
43:36
in, reboot it. It's gonna help refresh that cash, that that memory,
43:43
right, It's gonna make things work better. Great stuff, great tips.
43:46
Thank you for that email. Appreciate that. Member. You can email
43:50
us your questions at tech Guys at tech talk radio dot com. Again,
43:55
tech guys all one word at tech talk radio dot com. All right,
44:00
now, let's shift over to what's going on with Adobe. There has been
44:04
a lot of people upset at Adobe this week, and Adobe Photoshop users are
44:10
kind of outraged by the company's new terms and their new terms and conditions.
44:17
Have some of these people that do a lot of creation work kind of upset.
44:22
And I'll be honest with you, just really loving. I'm really loving
44:25
the new Photoshop light Room Premiere Pro, the whole suite of products. I've
44:30
been able to test it out, and I got to say I'm happy with
44:32
what it could do, and then all of a sudden it turned around and
44:35
this story was coming out. The big concern with this is that Adobe's new
44:39
terms could allow it to access user content, and that's what is upsetting people,
44:45
and even some of this content that may be protected. So say you're
44:51
doing a movie poster for a film that has got an NDA a non disclosure
44:58
agreement, and suddenly a third party could come in and look at your work.
45:02
That's do I think that'll do with it? I don't know. But
45:07
the BAC concern is it appears that Adobe would be training its generative AI model,
45:13
Firefly, on user content. So if you're generating content with Firefly,
45:17
it's going to train its continue to train its AI model on that, which
45:22
can be potentially proprietary or NDA, you know, nondisclosure agreement stuff. So
45:30
that's the big thing, and it even you know, caused some people like
45:34
Alton Brown, the famous celebrity chef. His production company suspended their use of
45:38
Adobe products until I don't know if they're back using it or not as of
45:42
this recording, but he said, until the lawyers get in it, we're
45:45
not generating any content on Adobe because we don't know if it's our content anymore.
45:50
There was a antel Adams was a great photographer and the antel atoms the
45:54
state recently found and Adobe did take it down, which was good. So
46:00
the problem basically surrounded AI, artificial intelligence that can create images. And you
46:07
know, we think of, okay, the ability for AI to fix an
46:09
image as a photographer or somebody that does digital digital restoration work. It's really
46:15
cool when AI can get in there and kind of adjust things. But to
46:21
create an image like this is what the complaint was. To create an image
46:28
that was almost replicant by the AI of Ansel adams work, and this AI
46:35
created photo was actually sold in the Adobe stock images. That's what upset a
46:39
lot of people. Now again Adobe did take the images in question down,
46:45
which is good, but it did upset a lot of people because AI is
46:49
going to be calling on certain images, certain styles, and that's where there's
46:54
a really there's really kind of a dark area there. But you know,
47:00
these are the kind of things that we may see start to happen on a
47:01
more regular basis with the use of products like this. The other issue that
47:07
caused a lot of ire was the terms of services and how it seems like
47:14
the terms of services have been adjusted, and some are saying this is not
47:17
what they want. Some people are saying that's it, They're going to boycott
47:21
Adobe. Others are saying they need to adjust their their their actual terms their
47:28
agreement, and people need to read that fine print when they sign up for
47:32
using a product. Well, see, that's the problem is nobody ever reads
47:37
the fine print. I'm guilty of it. I'm sure both of you are.
47:40
Also it's I'm too lazy to read through the terms of service. Agree,
47:45
agree, Agree without reading it knowing, Oh, I just gave up
47:50
my entire contact list on my phone to an app that I is owned twenty
47:52
eight percent by ten cent or you know who knows what, right. Yeah,
47:55
So a lot of people don't. And that's just the corporations and the
48:00
lawyers knowing that people aren't going to read those and trying to sneak things in
48:05
under people's nose. Well, like I said, I've been using the product,
48:07
just recently started this new version because I go back to CS five on
48:14
the Adobe Master Suite and I'm really liking it. And this is kind of
48:17
a bummer. But hopefully they'll adjust that for the consumer, because you know,
48:22
they have to go in knowing that if their product, is their creation
48:27
is going to be used somewhere else, then they have to make a decision
48:30
that's going to benefit them. All right, I really wanted to show you
48:31
guys some stuff that I have gotten. These could be some really good Father's
48:37
Day pics for gift giving tomorrow of courses Father's Day. First off, an
48:43
Anchor five point twenty one power station. Holy crud. This thing is so
48:49
cool. It can power USBC USB three point one. The thing's massive heavy
48:55
is that it's I want to say, maybe ten pounds. It's not that
49:00
but takes about four hours to fully charge. But here's what I love.
49:04
You know, when you get an air compressor in your car and your tire
49:07
you've lost, you know, lost the air pressure in your tire and you
49:10
or you need that air. That air compressor no problem. You could actually
49:15
use it by plugging in. It's got an actual car type lighter in.
49:20
It has an emergency strobe light. Sells for about two hundred bucks I found
49:24
it. Anchor is amazing. Anchor makes some really good products and you can
49:29
recharge this with solar panels. The solar panels are about two ninety nine,
49:34
it'll take a little longer than the four hours to fully charge. Can you
49:37
can you just charge it regularly with electricity? Like oh yeah, yeah,
49:40
yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, definitely definitely. But I'm just saying that
49:44
as an option if if you were in a situation, were in a situation
49:46
we had no power and lost power completely, you want to have if you
49:51
have solar panels, you'd be able to do that. What's the battery life
49:53
on that for like a typical like use well, to give you an idea,
49:57
you could recharge your smartphones about twenty times fully charged. Holy cow,
50:01
So on one charge drones you're taking a drone out, you can recharge out
50:06
about five times, so fully charged. What is it? Sell for two
50:09
hundred bucks and although Anchor Direct was selling it on Amazon for so you may
50:19
find an even better deal on it. But love this one, and then
50:22
that's amazing. I ended up getting some headphones because I want to try start
50:28
playing games. I got the Steel Series Arctics Nova five wireless. No,
50:34
you need a pair of headphones, just as Bundy to himself there, I'm
50:38
pretty happy with these. You can it has a dongle, so you can
50:42
plug it into everything, even a switch, or you can just I went
50:46
on a walk and did Bluetooth and it was great. I was able to
50:51
hear and these are really comfortable, really good. I actually almost bought that
50:55
exact model. I was looking for a pair of headphones that would work with
50:59
the Xbox, but because Xbox uses their own codec, you have to either
51:04
have a dongle or you have to have the exact Bluetooth capable headset for that,
51:09
and I didn't get it because I got the Xbox headset for seventy nine.
51:14
Oh that's even better because this one retails for one twenty nine, which
51:19
is actually a better price point than some of the other Steel series headphones,
51:24
which deliver awesome quality. This really does deliver great, great quality as well.
51:29
All Right, one more thing about I want to show you guys this
51:31
little device that's inside this little foil wrapper. No, I'm not happy with
51:38
the fact that Microsoft is forcing a lot of us to jump to Windows eleven
51:44
as of October of next year. That's it. It's gonna be it.
51:46
You're not gonna get security updates. Who knows if that'll change between now and
51:50
then. I have a feeling that there will be something, however, I
51:53
went in and bought myself a TPM two point zero module. I'm gonna try
52:00
it, sucker. It was sixteen dollars, so I'm gonna give it a
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shot. To plug it into my motherboard. I've got any where does that
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plug into. There's a TPM header on the board, so you have to
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have like an actual like a recent motherboard to even have that ability exactly.
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And this will allow you to plug that in and then you would be able
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to of course hopefully, and I'm going to test it. I'll do it
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on video, be able to test it and see if I can actually get
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it to run sixteen bucks for that sixteen dollars. Basically, it's going to
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be motherboard specific. So if you've got an MSI, you've got an Asus,
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but there is a company that makes a universal TPM two point oh module.
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I hopefully have an update for you next week on that. I gotta
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take another quick break, moving back with more of tech Talk Radio. I'm
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Andy Taylor, I'm Sean Duird and I'm justin. Let me find us on
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Facebook at facebook dot com forward slash tech Talkers. We'll be right back and
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now back to tech talk Radio. Hey, this is Harrold Paranoia and you
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listen to the geeks on the radio tech Talk Radio. I want to make
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sure we remind you that you can check out our YouTube page which is up
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on YouTube look for tech Talk Radio and there you will find our television segments
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from News thirteen Fox eleven where we talked about some of the products that I
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showed this past week. The Anchor five twenty one power station, which is
53:22
actually a really cool device and with monsoon storms coming, this could be a
53:25
great solution for you. Also, we have shared the Steel series Arctus five
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X headphones. These are great headphones, can work with just about anything,
53:36
whether you want to work out, or play your games, or connect to
53:37
your computer, you could do that. And then of course the TPM two
53:42
point zero module, which we'll have a video up there where we actually show
53:45
getting that in and hopefully getting Windows eleven to install on a computer that was
53:51
not fully capable as of yet. Again, that's a tech Talk Radio on
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YouTube. Another feature we do love is our website of the week. We
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like to give you websites that you might want to check out and have some
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fun with. Justin you've got one all ready to go. I came across
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this a couple of weeks ago. Cloaked dot com. That's a cl o
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a k ed cloaked dot com. So it's website to protect your personal identity
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from everyone. Really, so you can make your data invisible by generating unlimited
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identities. So no, I mean really, I mean seriously, now this
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is so think about this. Think about this. You go to a website,
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a random website, and it's like, hey, register with us to
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get the most current updates and to access the information that you really want to
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know, right, And you're like, well, I really don't want to
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do that because now you're just gonna spam me with with with marketing emails.
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Right, yeah, well you use cloaked dot com, you can generate an
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email. That email will then forward to your real email, right, but
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then everything else gets gets put into like a black hole. Okay, cloaked
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dot com if you want to create just it's just too it's too confusing to
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be who I am and now as it is. Well, yeah, true,
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but this also works with your cell phone too. Okay, so if
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you have to give up a number, it'll actually generate a different number for
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you. I mean being cloaked work for the Romulans and Star Trek, so
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it's gotta be good. All right, there we go, There it is
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there, it is the Star Trek reference. Well, we're gonna beam ourselves
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out of here. That wraps up this week's Tech talk Radio h Thank you
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for joining us, Justin. We hope your water situation gets taken care of.
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Thank you. That's it for this week. I'm Andy Taylor and I'm
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Justin. Let me live long and prosper. We'll see you next time.