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Episode 398 - Better Than a Colonoscopy! · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. This is Alice
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Cooper, the original Techno Todd, and you're listening to tech Talk Radio.
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This is tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird,
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I'm Matt Jones, I'm Slick, and I'm justin lemme. The entire crew
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is here and everybody is tired of grubby. Yeah, just a little bit.
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I don't know, as Sean, what do you think when when the
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cameras came on, everybody was sitting here with just this look of their face
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like I'm angry. Yeah, it's everybody's busy. I'm busy. Yeah,
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It's kind of like how and next week we'll probably do nineteen graduation ceremonies.
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Oh yeah, I would rather rub my eyeballs with sandpaper. The look on
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everybody was everybody's face when we first joined the Zoom call for this recording was
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kind of like that look on your face the morning of your calling. Yeah,
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that would be good after all those the great liquid Yeah, oh that
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tastes so bad. But we're here for you, folks, But we love
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you. We hate everybody else, but we love our listeners. I think
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I think we found the name for this week's show. You know, we
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always looking for a name. I think this week's show is it's better than
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a colonoscopy, more entertaining than a colonoscopy. Well, you know it's gonna
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be interesting because you know, Okay, granted, we're all not in the
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very best of moods for various personal reasons, but this should actually make for
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an interesting show. So let's see. Let's see how it turns out.
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There is a there's a lot of stuff to talk about. Earlier this week,
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Apple had their big to do and I know and as I'm gonna go
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get a beer, I'll be back in a couple of minutes. As I
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was putting this together, I realized, you know, Justin is not the
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biggest fan of Apple when it comes to their announcements, their hoopla. They
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had a big event that they hosted this week where they introduced and everybody knew
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what they were going to be introducing. They were going to introduce the new
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iPads. And the thing is not just putting out a new iPad. They
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did announce some technology with it, the M four. I was looking at
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iPads the other day and I was thinking about getting one myself. But then
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I looked at the price and I thought, you know, I could just
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I could beef up my system if I really wanted to. Yeah, I
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mean you got to think about who the iPads are really targeting, right,
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They're the people who don't have desktop computers. They're the creative people who are
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on the go. My mom has an iPad pro that she uses for all
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version of nastics judging, and she loves it, so she it's for her
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with the pencil, I think she has one of the other versions of the
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pencil, and she's able to doodle all of her notes and able to share
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them with other people, and she really enjoys it. So she doesn't have
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a big fancy desktop. She doesn't have. I don't even think I have
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a desktop computer at a home anymore at all. Oh wow, they really
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they are. Well they're using iPads for ever. I would never have thought
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of somebody actually using this as a replacement for a desktop or even maybe a
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laptop. Definitely can. Yeah, for my parents who are on the go,
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they use it all the time for when they travel. They have them
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with the cell phone plan on them so they can use them for all of
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their work their emails. And also my parents are both retired, they're traveling
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a lot, so it makes sense for them. But Samsung has their decks
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de Ex, which does the desktop experience with their tablets, So they actually
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sell a specific dock where you can take a Galaxy tab, pop it in
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that and it actually starts acting as a PC. Oh wow. So there
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are people who are definitely being like, I don't need this heavy laptop.
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I don't need this gigantic tower looking at mine. They would just rather have
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a small tablet they can take everywhere. So it's a little bit of a
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variation of what you guys are talking about. But if I may jump in
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just for a moment to talk about like from the video game aspect of this.
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You know, I've I've got a really really nice desktop computer that I
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built a year and a half ago. I mean, I've upgraded it over
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the years, but I mean I'm talking you know, an AMD top of
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the line processor, you know, lots of RAM, a nice video card,
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you know, triple monitors. I don't use it for anything except to
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record tech talk radio anymore because my Steam deck, you know, I played
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video games. I don't even touch my Xbox anymore. Wow. I strictly
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play on the steam Deck, and which is really weird because I remember the
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day that Matt showed me his wife's steam deck. We were on the Amtrak
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train heading to Glenwood Springs from Denver and we were on what was it a
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six and a half hour train ride. I remember you talking ride. I
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remember taking his wife's steam deck and I'm like, oh, this is that
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new thing they called the steam deck on me check it out and I was
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like, gosh, it's it's kind of bulky, and I don't know if
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I'd like this or whatever, but I never really got a chance to sit
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out and play with it. But you know what, I ended up buying
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my own. We've talked about it on a previous show. I bought a
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steam Deck and it is completely transformed the way I play games because I can
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just do this on the on the go. So to go to your point
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where you don't need to have a desktop, whether it be a PC or
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a Mac. If you can do everything you're doing on the go like an
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iPad pro or if you're gonna play video games, if you can do it
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on a steam deck, I mean it's becoming more and more of a handheld
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market, and not to even go into a whole other category. But now
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there's super huge rumors out there that are talking about the next Xbox console.
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It's not gonna be a console at all. It's gonna be a handheld.
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They're gonna try to take on Nintendo in Nintendo's turf. M h yep.
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And I think part of that is the leaps and bounds that cloud computing has
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made along with building out the internet infrastructure, having more people having access to
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high speed internet, having five G Internet that is, you know, rivaling
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most people's home internet, to where you now have companies ISPs offering five G
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home Internet to the point where you don't need to have some big super processing
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unit at home in the form of a console, a PC, things like
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that. You can do it all on the go. I mean, we
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talked about this in a previous show, you know, justin just brought it
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up with Xbox saying, you know, it's going to be something handheld because
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they have so much power on the back end on the other side of that
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cloud connection. You know, Sony renders half of their games through PS.
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Plus you stream the game, it installs like a five hundred kilobyte file on
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your hard drive and you're streaming the game directly to your machine. So why
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do I need to buy a big bulky thing when you have it in a
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data center somewhere else. And back to our original point with the tablets,
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you don't need to have all that storage space on a tablet or at home
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anymore because it's all on the cloud accounts. You have Adobe Creative Cloud,
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you have iCloud, you have Google Cloud, every Office three sixty five.
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Everything is turning into software as a service. It's all subscription based and it's
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all accessible everywhere. I mean one note ever note they will ever note is
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more of the first. But you just have it all saved up in a
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cloud location. You can access it anywhere. Why wouldn't we do that?
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Yeah, I think it's gonna be kind of a return to like an old
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concept where there's gonna be these huge you know, in your house maybe or
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a service you sign up for, there's gonna be that huge mainframe esque thing
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and you're just gonna be walking around with your hand terminals. Who cares how
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much power the terminal has, it's just linking up to the big boy.
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I'll tell you. And it's pretty amazing with the power of some of these
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points, some of these tablets now you know, you yes, you could
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use them for you know, for work, use for fun as well.
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I mean you put all your apps on there that you stream with, whether
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it be you know, Paramount Plus, Netflix, Hulu, and you could
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use it as an entertainment device. I just recently on television showed a product
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from Logitech, and you know you're talking about, you know, the docking
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station. Logica has the Universal Folio and it is a universal four iPads as
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well as androids. So you know, I have the Samsung Galaxy tab A
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eight and that worked in it and it connects me a blue tooth to the
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tablet itself and a little switch turns it on to lithium batteries power this this
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little keyboard and you have the ability then so you don't have to use the
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on screen keyboard, which some people have told me that's what they don't like
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about tablets is trying to type on the screen and doing that. Well,
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now it's almost transformed into a type of a type of laptop, although I
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wish there was like a like kind of a pad on it where you could
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move around a little easier. But again, you have the ability now with
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this this follicle which only runs about they're listed at sixty bucks. I summon
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Amazon for twenty five dollars. It's a that's a great little device. You
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get a lot of power. You just off did the same thing with the
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with the surface. Yeah, you went from having a big machine to the
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surface or the keyboard that's got the tablet. Can we just get this over
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with and just give us all our pit boys and jumpsuits and let's just call
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us a day, Like, seriously, what are you talking about pit boys
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on jump sualt? You're putting me in. I am not going into some
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of those. I'm sorry for those of you not following me. I'm referencing
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Fallout. Oh I tried. I started watching. I watched it. About
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halfway through. I was like, okay, oh my god, I finished
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it. I finished it. It's so good. I'm talking about the first
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episode. It was like so violent. I was like, okay, dude,
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yeah, I was like, well, see, now here's the thing.
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Andy. I know you you have a history of saying that you're gonna
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watch stuff, and then you watch one episode and you're like nah, I'm
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gona going back to Hallmark. It didn't grab me. I was like,
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I don't know, I gotta give it a chance. But even then,
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I'm just saying with all the what I'm trying to say is, with all
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the talk about the everybody's on the go with their handheld tablets. Yeah,
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just give us all a pit boy. We start it to our wrist,
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give us our jumpsuits, tell us what vault we're going into, and we'll
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call it a day. I'll tell you a really cool use for tablets.
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And I don't know how everybody uses the tablet. I think we all have
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them, right, we all have a tablet. There is a company called
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RCS and they make software for broadcasting. They have a product called Zeta,
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and this is what's so cool about it. And I know there's other products
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that are out there, but say somebody is broadcasting, and I will say
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one of us had to go down to the grand opening of BUCkies, which
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we're hoping we get invited to, all right, and do a broadcast remote
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from there with the Zeta. This is so cool. It's a tablet you
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can actually dial into the radio station without somebody even having to be there.
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At the radio station and record a you know of what they call a break
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saying, you know, hey, it's you know, justin I'm over at
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Bucky's for the grand opening with tech Talk Radio. They love us, We
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love them. Come on down. As long as you've got an Internet connection,
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you're good to go. They have made tablet technology so easy to use.
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You don't do this with a laptop. You do it with a tablet.
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Now with the power, you know, with the M four inside the
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iPad pro. You know, they're gonna launch eleven inch tablet for just under
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one thousand bucks, a thirteen inch tablet for twelve ninety nine. I had
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the Gen two. I couldn't update it anymore, you know, and it's
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pretty much a battery life. It'll run for about twenty five minutes. I'm
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thinking maybe it's time for me to upgrade and try to put myself into the
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tablet. I remember the very first tablet I had was a Gen one iPad
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back when I stole work for Apple, and then I remember we were trying
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to sell them, telling people that well, it's not a replacement for your
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computer, it's like an interim between. And for the longest time that's been
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the discussion of tablets. It is an interim between a phone and a computer.
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It is more powerful than a phone. It is dumber than a computer.
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And that is pasted. The tablets are are just they're so capable,
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they're stupid powerful. Like we said earlier, you link it up to the
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cloud services and for your average everyday user, that's gonna take care of ninety
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five percent of what you're gonna need. Yeah, and that's been. That's
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enough. That's like you. I use tablets, don't you? I use?
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I have, Well, I have a couple. I have one uh
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that's uh the government gaming and you know, just basic service on it,
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wireless service. Another one. I have a ten inch tablet that I've been
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watching streaming on and taking notes and stuff like that. The problem I have
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is that, to my surprise, I think this tablet has three gigs a
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RAM and it's it's stuttering on me. I'm sorry, three running three gigs
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a RAM. That's kind of they don't do that. Did you buy it
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from China or something? No, it was, I mean it was major
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brand. I can't even think of it. Rams don't come in odd numbers,
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dude, No, this one did come with three point Well then you
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definitely got it from like Timu or something. Oh no, I did not,
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I do not do no, I I it was probably it's probably older,
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isn't it. Yeah? Yeah, it's quite a bit, and it's
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from Ye Wish the Comah. If you guys gonna make me say Amazon,
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you're gonna make me say I wished for six gig I got three, but
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that it's gonna be thirteen. And you said thirteen inches on the new iPad.
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Yeah, third, they'll have a thirteen inch for twelve ninety nine.
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And that's the largest they've made, right, Uh, yeah, no,
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it is, it is. It is actually the largest they made. I
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just I can't wait till they released a fifty inch iPad pro. There was
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a product we looked at for television some years ago from a company I think
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it was called Naboo, and it was a tablet that was enormous, but
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it was for kids. I want to say. It was a twenty inch
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tablet or maybe even a twenty five inch tablet. And it was funny because
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they kept telling everybody the new tablets are out, but it was really just
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for kids, special applications, and I don't know if the company still still
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makes them. But that was just a lot of fun to have and play
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around with. That was good. Just waiting for the new Newton, the
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Newton Newton. The Newton's been around for like that, are they coming back?
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I just want one. I aways wanted the next. You're gonna want
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to pomp pilot or I had them all the way up to the last one.
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Now, Sean, howbout you? How do you use your tablets?
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I have an iPad Mini two, so the second version of the iPad Mini
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two, and it is woefully out of date. I can't even get close
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to the most recent version of I strictly use it for running my mobile plex
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Raspberry Pie in my camper. Oh there you go. So I have the
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Raspberry Pie running rasbian and I'm running Actually I'm not running PLEX, it's actually
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running MB because MB is a little bit more user friendly when you're not connected
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to the Internet than plexes with updates and anything like that. And then I
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just connect. I have a TP link Mini Wi Fi router, so it's
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got one Ethernet port and I plug that into the Pie and then that gives
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me connectivity there via Ethernet, and then I connect my iPad to it,
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and I can stream the movies that I have on a one teraby drive.
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So I plug it all in via twelve volt, and I've got it wired
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up with adapters and buck converteris and stuff to be all powered over twelve volt.
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So when we're camping, I can just plug it in and I've got
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it all the Pelican cases, plug in one cable and all powers up,
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nick MyPad to it, and I can stream movies on my Yeah. It's
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kind of a good thought though, what you're talking about. You can actually
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take older tablets that you could still power up and you could find other uses
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for them, right, I mean I do, Yeah, you do have.
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I have mindset up for the home assistant in the in the home,
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so I've got a couple of tablets mounted to the wall. So I hired
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an electrician to come out and put like a recessed what do you recessed outlet?
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Yeah, junks box, yeah, sure, why not? Yeah behind
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it, and then I just mounted the tablet over the top of it so
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it stays charged. But yeah, it's an it's an older Amazon Fire.
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I don't know HD nine, HD ten something like that, whatever, But
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I just use it just to run Home Assistant bad. All right, we
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got a question in from Brian. We got a couple of listener questions this
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week, so I thought we could all kind of chime in on this one.
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Says Hi, guys, your thoughts on this. I was at a
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groad sale here at Tucson last week and they had some cool old tech.
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Oh that's always good to fight to the garage sale, right, I gotta
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find slick as Newton. I'll give you a fake Dudon said, Uh,
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I did pass to the old CRT fourteen inch optiquest monitor. No, why
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would you pass on that? That was a great monitor. But there was
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a Western Digital my book one terabyte for fifteen bucks. M So the lady
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said it works. But I'm wondering number one, who sells old storage and
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what can I do to protect myself when I plug it into my computer?
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I can answer number one. Number one is old ladies at garage sales that
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have no idea what they have? You think? So how can I protect
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myself when I plug it in? That's easy? Yeah, you gotta be
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really careful about in. Yeah, you gotta be care like finding a USB
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drive on the street. You never you never take it and plug it into
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your theater. Yeah, I would not plug it into your main computer.
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Yeah, by I have a Linux box for that little little stand you know.
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Yeah, okay, but but okay, let's let's look at you.
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I understand that's that's that's probably the route that I would. Oh, that's
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probably the route Matt would go. But if you're talking about a normal user
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who doesn't have the technical prowess of somebody who might know how to run Linux
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and whatnot, is there a way to protect yourself with you know, if
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you want to see what's on it by plugging it into Windows machine? Like
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what how could you go about doing that? How? How could you do
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it? Well? Realistically? If you so, if you had like you
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say, malware bites or Norton or set or or even a Chronus cyber home,
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if you had that on your computer, would that be enough to protect
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you? I don't think. I still don't. Well, okay, so
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the best thing that you could do in this case would be to do something
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like malwaar bites if I say MBAM, that's what it is. Would be
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to get something like malware bites, set it up to do an offline scan,
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which is basically where you will set it up. You'll lug in that
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drive and the machine reboots and it reboots into I'm honestly not sure iff Mount
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Warbite still has this anymore, but it will reboot to kind of like a
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light OS and then yeah, and then it'll scan that drive without initializing it.
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Matter is that the paid version of the free version. Will they both
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do it or just one? Is the paid version? The free version is
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just like your machine is filled with nasty stuff? What are you doing?
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Let me fix it? But the paid version has a lot more kind of
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guts to it. I know Akronus has it, but it'll it boots to
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their own little proprietary OS. I can tell you how that all works,
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but I'm tired and not I want to. It goes into like some super
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detail. Yeah, but but there is a way to do it though there
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probably is. You know, another thought would be building a I don't know
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if you go through all of this, but it only never helped. It
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never hurts because I've got one a production machine that is off the network that
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is just basic Windows, and I could use it to test stuff out.
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Justin you're having your Tooby. It just no, it just sounds so funny.
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I spent fifteen dollars at a garage sale to buy a one terrabyte USB
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drive. Then I took it home and built a seven hundred dollars test machine
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to plug it into. Well you could do that with an order so much
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money? Yeah, but she asked us, Yeah yeah he ain' Brian,
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Brian, Brian, Brian, I'm sorry, Brian asked us. You could
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if you had an old system leground turn it into a production machine. Just
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don't put it on the web. Don't put it on the net and test
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it out that way. I mean, you're taking the chances. But if
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you really want to use this one terrorbyte, look, Brian, I'm gonna
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I'm gonna level you. Go ahead, Okay, I'm gonna level with Let
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really want to test it out, Brian, buy the drive, take it
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to work and just plug it into your work machine. Oh my god,
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I'll pick your resume before you do that. The views of Justin Lemmy are
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not that of tech Talk Radio or this radio station. You remember that one
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time where I said we're going to live stream this and absolutely get sued.
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That would do it. That would probably do it right there. I would
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do it. Do not do that, Brian, Do not do that.
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It's like I worked for the Department of the Navy. Is that gonna be
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a problem. You don't look it into I just work at this small place
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called Quantico. It's completely fine. No, you definitely don't want to do
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it. I don't know, Brian. You get it at least Brian knew
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to ask, and Brian is thinking about that. No. Yeah, because
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I'm pretty sure that maybe somebody that's not as well versabile just see it,
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think oh, this is great, buy it. And this is the other
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thing you have to watch out for when you're buying stuff online. You don't
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know where you really sometimes don't know where this is coming from. Okay,
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here's what the easiest, easiest way for him to deal with this problem.
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Look at the one terabyte drive, see that it costs fifteen dollars. Then
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drive to Walmart and spend eighteen and buy the one terabyte flash drive instead and
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don't have this problem. Yes, okay, now, but let me let
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let's let's back up one second. There. Let's let's go look at look
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at it from a different way. Okay, let's just say he buys the
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the one teraby drive. Let's say it doesn't have any viruses. Let's just
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say for a moment that viruses don't exist. Okay, what what if you
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find something on that drive that he's not supposed to which is a possibility.
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Yeah, what if there's some illegal content on that drive? Or or what
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if there's just some personal information or personal information? Yeah? Personal information is
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one thing. Okay, Like you'd be like, oh wow, this person
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just gave away a bunch of personal information. But what if there was illegal
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content? And now that you've plugged it into your computer? M now you
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might be the person that's in possession of illegal content. And when I say
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that, I do mean in the worst possible way. You just turned out
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a very dark corner. But yes, you're right. Unfortunately I have had
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to deal with this before. So let me tell you exactly what you do.
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You unplug it, you wrap it up, You put it in a
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bag. You write where you bought it, if you remember the address of
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the sale, You write it down when you bought it, what you've done
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with it so far. You put it off in a corner, and you
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immediately call your local law enforcement and tell them exactly what happened. I went
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to a garage sale. There was a hard drive for sale. I bought
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it. I plugged it in, I found some stuff, and you guys
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need to come get it right now. Yeah. Yeah, And I have
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unplugged it. I've put it in a ziploc bag, I've written the information
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on it, and it's sitting in a corner. I will wait for you
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to show up. Yeah. And if you're concerned about, well, what
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if they say that that I put it on there. No, they have
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forensic tools to know when the files were put on there, that you would
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know that. No, this person did not put them on there. Sylvia.
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Don't know when somebody is fixing computers. And I too have been in
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this similar situation where somebody they divorced, and she had the data. She
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wanted to go through the data and she's looking at the data while I'm looking
24:15
at it and I'm showing her what was on it, and it was very
24:18
uncomfortable. But again, this is something that sometimes tech guys we don't necessarily
24:23
want or tech girls don't want to see. We don't want to deal with
24:26
it. But unfortunately that's out there. We did turn a very dark corner.
24:30
On that, we have another question that's not that bad that actually I
24:34
think Sean could be a big help for We'll find out more about that when
24:37
we take a come back from our break. This is Tech Talk Radio.
24:41
I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, I'm Matt Jones, I am
24:45
Slick, and I'm justin lemme. And don't worry. We can always turn
24:48
a dark corner. We'll be right back now back to tech Talk Radio.
24:53
So our next question comes from ROBERTA in Tucson. I have internet and cable
24:57
TV service with Xfinity. I'm sorry, I only have one opinion channel,
25:03
HBO. They call it Max Now, yeah they do this week. It's
25:07
getting ridiculous with the bill, and I've been thinking about cutting the cord.
25:10
I heard one of you talking some time ago about YouTube TV if it were
25:14
if I was to get rid of the cable boxes and keep my neck connection.
25:18
Is YouTube easy to navigate? Do I use a box with it?
25:21
And can I have it on three TVs in the house? Sean, I
25:25
think this is directly up your alley, buddy. Yeah, so I have
25:27
had direct experience with this, and I have an update to this because my
25:30
in laws are moving, so they are still going to keep you GDV in
25:34
there. Just I'll get into that later. But YouTube TV is just like
25:38
using your Infinity service. You load the app and you get the guide.
25:42
You get all the channels, but the guide is much better. Oh but
25:48
the guide is way better, is it really? Oh? Yeah, the
25:51
Exfinity that's what That's what my in laws had, and it was awful and
25:53
they were paying way too much money for not enough content. And they decided
25:59
to jump the gun and cut cut the cord, so to speak, from
26:03
Exfinity for TV and they went with YouTube TV. Now, when they first
26:07
did it, it was not as expensive as it is now, right like
26:11
every other streaming services has gone up. I think they're paying around sixty eight
26:15
or seventy dollars a month, and yes, around that, and they have
26:22
been very happy with it. Right, they can set it up to record
26:25
their shows a DVRs. It all lives in the cloud, so you can
26:30
set it up and pretty much however you want. Wait, so you don't
26:33
have a you don't have a physical DVR. It's actually it all lives in
26:37
the cloud. How accurate? Remember that thing we said about cloud getting stupid
26:42
powerful yes, going into everything answer your question and it's it's super accurate.
26:49
I mean it's just like a regular DVR. I mean yeah, okay to
26:53
be told like with a with a typical DVR, let's say maybe Exfinity or
26:56
maybe like what was that other one you know directs? Uh right? What
27:00
was there? Was big? With TVO, Yeah, you could. You
27:03
could set it to like record one minute prior or one minute after or whatever.
27:08
You don't have to worry about with that with ut TV because it knows
27:11
the program you want to watch and it will record it when it starts and
27:15
when it ends. It just knows. Now with YouTube TV, and I'm
27:21
glad Roberta has asked this question. Do you have the capability then of getting
27:25
local channels or is it going to be depending on where you're at? So,
27:29
well, it's depending on where you're at, right, So if you're
27:33
based in Ludington, Michigan, you're gonna get the seven and four out of
27:37
Traverse City. You're gonna get the nine to ten out of Cadillac, you're
27:40
gonna get the the ABC affiliate out of gut Rapids. But if you share
27:45
it like they share it with us, because we share our Disney Plus with
27:48
them, we get our local TV channels here because it goes based off of
27:53
your IP address and or however you sign in right, so we get we
27:57
get the you know, the South Best stations here. They get their local
28:00
stations. Now occasionally, when you log out or get forced to log out
28:06
and log back in, it goes based off of the original user's location.
28:11
So right now, for probably for the next week, we'll be getting the
28:15
Northern Michigan channels again, until it figures out that we're not actually watching it
28:18
from burthern Michigan. I thought that was the craziest thing because I also have
28:22
YouTube TV, right. I cut the court a long time ago. I
28:26
went just straight over the air for a while, but I decided to go
28:27
YouTube TV. When I was on vacation in southern California. I brought along,
28:34
you know, my tablet, and I launched YouTube TV on the tablet,
28:37
hoping to see you know, my local Denver channel because there was a
28:41
particular news story I wanted to see, and no, I got Los Angeles
28:45
Television. I'm like, wait a second, what does this But Sean is
28:49
right, it's based on your IP address. The other really nice thing about
28:53
YouTube TV, unlike Comcast is it's not contractual. You pay for the months
29:00
to months, you don't have a contract with it. I ran it for
29:04
a while and my favorite thing was during the football season, I would grab
29:08
the sports package so I could have access to all the football games, red
29:14
Zone, whatever I wanted to watch, yep. And then as soon as
29:17
the football season was over, which for the Raiders is way before the season
29:21
actually ends, which is basically September, you can just go ahead and just
29:26
go done, and you kick that ad in, you kick off that add
29:30
on, and then the next month not on your bill. Now. The
29:33
thing is, though, if you're talking about football, there is something to
29:34
be said about that. The what is that the Sunday NFL Sunday ticket They
29:40
have an agreement now with YouTube TV. That is I think the only place
29:45
to get a Sunday ticket anymore, and they promote the heck out of it
29:48
now. That is one thing is annoying about it is every time I launch,
29:52
you know, my Google not not I don't launch YouTube TV, but
29:55
I have. I use YouTube TV using a Google TV. It's kind of
29:59
like got Amazon Fire TV stick or a Roker or whatever. But every time
30:03
I turn on the Google TV. It's like, are you sure you don't
30:07
want to get Come on, you want to get NFL side a ticket.
30:08
Here's one hundred dollars off. I'm like, no, I don't care about
30:11
Sunday ticket, but yes, you can get Sunday ticket. Do you ever
30:15
do this? You guys ever go to best Buy and you're just walking around
30:18
taking a look and you hear a clerk helping somebody and they don't know the
30:22
answer to a question. I try and stay out of there as much as
30:27
possible. Well, this just happened the other day to be because I was
30:30
walking and it's only because of Sean. Do I know this because he's been
30:33
to this before. But I was walking through and I hear a gentleman talking
30:38
to the sales guy and he's saying, you know, I had dish or
30:41
direct, I think he said, and I got this. This the sports,
30:45
and I don't get the sports anymore. They got rid of the Sunday
30:48
ticket and I heard it. My ears went, you've got to speak up,
30:52
Andy, you must speak up. And I turned and I walked over
30:57
because the guy said, I have no I don't know what that is,
31:00
and I said YouTube TV I said, they actually carry Sunday ticket now and
31:04
he goes, oh yeah. They go yeah, you could get a subscription
31:07
and you could go ahead and you could watch it that way with YouTube.
31:10
He goes, that's great. The other guy said thanks, and then I
31:11
walked away and you lost that guy's commission. So well, first off,
31:17
best Buy doesn't work on commission. Second off, it was probably an eighteen
31:19
year old kid that had no idea about how the world works. But you
31:22
know, I think it was. But still and confirm, just to let
31:27
you know the amount of training you go through at best Buy for your department.
31:33
Like you'd think, like, we're gonna sell computers, we should make
31:37
sure after the interview process that you know more about computers. Nope, yeah,
31:41
you know how to spell your name. Good, you're hired. And
31:45
the guy was talking about having somebody come to his house for the Geek Squad,
31:48
pay him a hundred bucks and he would help set up his brand new
31:52
laptop. It's like that famous scene from from Parks and rec where Ron Swanson
31:57
walks into a home depot and he got I was like, can I help
32:00
you find something? Sertny guys like I know more than you that's that's that's
32:07
exactly how I feel when every time I go into best Buy, I'm like,
32:08
no, I know more than you tell me where this is at.
32:12
You wear your blue shirt? Yeah right, I burned them in effigy.
32:17
Yeah, but it's actually it's actually funny you bring up like wanting to send
32:22
geek Squad agent out there, because I was just reading the other day the
32:24
best Buy is actually spinning down there the Geek Squad Road Agent division really,
32:30
which which they call I think it was like mobile Agents. I don't remember.
32:34
They tried to act like they're the CIA, and they're they're not,
32:37
with all the names, but they tried too hard to be Chuck. That's
32:42
the hard Chuck. Whoever wrote Chuck worked at best Buy way too long.
32:49
Yeah, the number of things they got right, we were just like,
32:52
oh my god, he's one of us. They understand for those who don't
32:55
know that's a TV show. That was pretty funny. So yeah, but
32:59
no, they're they're actually spinning down the mobile unit of geek Squad, so
33:04
like they'll still have the installers and stuff, but from what it seems like
33:07
a lot of the in home support they're trying to move that to remote support
33:10
instead, which we used. The actual code name for that used to be
33:15
Agent Johnny Utah. And when you would connect to geek Squad, you'd be
33:19
connecting to some dude in a help center who would always say, Hi,
33:22
I'm Agent Johnny Utah. I'm here to help you. Oh wow. All
33:24
right. Now back to Roberta though, with her question about the boxes.
33:29
You don't so you don't need any kind of box to use YouTube TV.
33:32
You just need a smart television, okay, So that you do have to
33:37
have or a a like a Roku fire stick or something like that, or
33:40
like a YouTube TV app. Right, And the benefit is also you can
33:45
put it on your iPhone, You can put it on your Android, you
33:46
can do it whatever you wherever, or your Google phone whatever. You can
33:50
put it anywhere and get it on the gup too. So well, this
33:52
I just tied to your house. Right, If you want to watch your
33:54
favorite show that you missed because you were traveling, blow it up on your
33:59
app on your phone, which which also means then when you think about it,
34:01
Roberta would be saving because you have to pay for a DVR. You
34:06
have to pay for the technology behind the DVR. You have to pay for
34:09
the cable box if you've got a converter that changes your channels, so she'd
34:14
be saving money on just those alone. But this makes me think, because
34:19
I have three four televisions, only two of them have the boxes, so
34:23
the other ones they have to have a stick on there, and you're stuck
34:27
with Roku or Amazon. However, if you wanted to get those other channels,
34:31
just like the cable service, how many can you do on one account?
34:37
I'm thinking five. I thought it was six. Yeah, wow,
34:42
I think they might be five. Six might be right, but I think
34:44
it's five right, But it's enough. I mean, if you've got six
34:50
TVs, you can afford better stuff. Three three just googled it. They
34:53
have changed it. Your membership includes up to three simultaneous streams, no chargemaneous
35:04
three people using it at once for an additional monthly charge. Our four K
35:08
plus add on unlock unlocks unlimited streams at home, so you can watch YouTube
35:14
TV on as many compatible screens as you want. And do I have to
35:19
share one DVR library with my household? Not at all. Your dream library
35:23
is all yours. That was one thing I really I wanted to bring up
35:28
with this When you do YouTube TV, you have your own profile. So
35:34
with with a traditional DVR, let's say with Comcast or Infinity or whoever you're
35:37
with, you you kind of have to just have the one DVR with all
35:40
your programs and your husband, your your brother, your your son, your
35:45
daughter, whatever, you all share it. No YouTube TV, when you
35:50
go to log in, it'll ask you who's watching, and you pick your
35:53
profile. Then it shows you not only just your favorite channels, because you
35:58
can also do your favorite channel, so you only get to see the channels
36:01
that you want to watch. For Andy, that might be like Hallmark and
36:06
whatever. I'm sorry, I'm just never going to let you live that down.
36:09
But if I want to watch like let's say MTV or whatever, that
36:15
channel is going to be listed as one of my favorites. And I get
36:17
my own DVR, so the channels and the shows that I've recorded or I've
36:22
told it to watch, it will be there for me and my whole family
36:28
won't have to worry about seeing that stuff. All right. Here's another thought
36:30
though. Obviously she would have to have that relationship with her internet provider,
36:36
which I mean there are going to be options soon with a starlink and then
36:40
you've got a more fiber that's going to be available, and then of course
36:45
you've got Exfinity. If she stays with them. Are you going to chew
36:47
up more bandwidth though, because you're using YouTube as your official TV provider and
36:52
could that end up costing you some money? It depends on if you have
36:54
data caps, because it is going to count as data instead of of you
37:00
know, just cable. But if we're on the topic of also saving money,
37:05
I'm ROBERTA. If you are listening, I'm looking at this right now.
37:09
They have a deal right now fifty seven ninety nine, so fifty eight
37:15
bucks a month for your first three months, then it's seventy three bucks a
37:17
month thereafter for the base plan without that four K upgrade we talk So that's
37:22
only three simultaneous streams, but that's the cost there are well, she got
37:29
HBO Max, so that well, that's yes, you'd have to add HBO
37:30
Max in there as well, so there's a there's going to be you know,
37:34
the charge for that channel as well, but you're not going to be
37:37
when you look at your Comcast bill, you've got well, this is my
37:39
plan. And then we talked about the equipment fee, but then you're not
37:43
going to see like retransmission fees and local cable taxes and da dah da da.
37:47
Because Comcast is very famous for being like, this will be your bill
37:52
and then you get it and it's like what what is all this other stuff
37:57
and they're like, oh, we're so sorry. Charges. Yeah, so
38:01
there's no there's no extra charges with YouTube TV. It is just that cost.
38:07
Wow, that's it. I wonder if do they do a trial so
38:10
if Roberta wanted to give it a spin seven day, yeah, seven day,
38:15
seven day trial, seven day trials, so give you know, Berberta,
38:17
it's not going to hurt you to try it out for seven days.
38:21
See if you could adjust to it and you know, go that route.
38:23
But now there is a there is a downside though, a little bit to
38:28
the YouTube TV. We should probably discuss that too. I mean, like
38:31
we we kind of touched on it a little bit. YouTube TV started out
38:35
as like what fifty bucks a month for everything, Then it went to fifty
38:38
five, then it went to sixty, went every sixty five, then it's
38:42
seventy now seventy five. Now there's there's there's talk about the the FCC is
38:47
trying to or actually, I'm sorry, so all the local TV stations are
38:52
trying to get YouTube TV classified as cable television because then they get the the
39:00
the local channels don't have to fight with the cost of I don't know all
39:04
the logistics behind it. All I know is that YouTube TV is basically becoming
39:09
a cable provider. They said that they were the uncable when they first came
39:15
out, and now they are pretty much the same thing as a cable provider.
39:17
Which if that's the case, you're going to pass the taxes along to
39:21
the consumer, right sure, Yeah, that's essentially I don't know if you
39:25
guys saw, But the FCC also reinstated net neutrality, so I don't know
39:31
if that's going to come into play as well. But also talking because I
39:37
want to make sure I get this information. For Roberta. They actually have
39:40
what they call their Entertainment Plus Bundle, which is Max Paramount plus showtime and
39:49
Stars for thirty bucks a months. That's actually pretty good, so all for
39:53
those for an extra thirty So you're looking at when you get out of your
39:59
trial period, out of the promotional period, you're looking at one hundred and
40:02
three bucks a months and you're getting it out. Yeah. And also you're
40:07
talking about HBO Max and you're talking about Paramount Plus, right, Yea.
40:09
They all have their own apps, right, that have their own content.
40:14
If you have a YouTube TV subscription, you can sign in to those apps
40:19
and get the content that isn't available on YouTube TV because you do pay that
40:24
so you don't have to have Exfinity or whatever cable provider account. YouTube TV
40:30
classifies as good enough to get you access to those apps because those apps do
40:37
contain content that isn't available on normal cable television, right, Chun. Your
40:43
parents they're moving, they're taking this with them, I'm sure, so they're
40:46
gonna have it even where they end up going. It's worked out really well
40:50
for them. Yeah, they like it because they get the shows that they
40:54
want to watch, and with sharing our Netflix, because we paid for Netflix
41:02
to allow them to have it out of the house, like because Netflix stop
41:07
people from having it outside of their range or whatever. Right, and they
41:13
get they want and they don't watch that much TV anyways, but for what
41:16
they wanted, that was the best and didn't save the money. So you
41:20
sean your parents when they go on travel with YouTube DV remind me you can
41:24
actually download your shows, right, like you can download shows offline, so
41:29
you can watch them without having an Internet connection, right is my understanding?
41:32
Also, Wow, Okay, that's actually really good deal. I might even
41:36
do the seven day trip trial myself, Roburton. I'll talk about it next
41:39
week on the show. See what we think on your new iPad. Andy,
41:43
Well, if you want to do the seven day trial, who's something
41:45
I was going to ask the guys. Yeah, so, Andy, if
41:46
you do the seven day trial, see if you can with your Google account,
41:51
assign me as a user with my Google account, so that way you
41:54
could try it out, right, so I don't have to so I don't
41:58
have to log in with your log in. Just don't get me be mad.
42:00
If i'm they'll go beyond that seven days. I've had friends that have
42:04
said, hey, I really want to watch someone Hallmark tonight, can you
42:07
can I borrow your account? I'm like, yeah, okay, here you
42:10
go, and then they get mad when I cancel it. No, we
42:13
just put it on our Google calendar to shut it down on the sixth day.
42:15
There you go. All right, we gotta take another quick break.
42:19
We come back with more of Tech Talk Radio. I bought a toy.
42:22
I've got something to talk about, but it's actually pretty good for the health.
42:25
That'll be more with tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean
42:29
de Weird, I'm mad Jones, I am Slick, and I'm justin.
42:32
Find us on the web tech talk radio dot com. We'll be right back,
42:37
and that fact to tech talk Radio. Jessica Fierro is a BAFT writer
42:43
for Seen It, and she put together an article not long ago. In
42:45
the article, she talked about the fact that using health apps has helped her
42:51
focus and stay focused on, you know, getting up and moving and being
42:57
active. And she got herself an Apple Watch and has been writing about the
43:01
experience on cnet. Not only the Apple Watch in reminding her to be healthy,
43:07
reminding her to move, but also finding really cool apps that are different.
43:12
So you could find Jessica's articles on snet. Well, I recently went
43:15
through some surgery and it evolved my heart and I wanted to and I've been
43:21
in this group where they've talked about this particular condition and I thought, you
43:24
know, I really want to kind of keep an ear and eye on what
43:29
other people are going through. And I learned that that was a big mistake
43:30
because everybody is doom and gloom. So I finally decided, okay, I'm
43:34
gonna go ahead and get myself one, and I got myself the Series nine,
43:38
Series nine Apple Watch. I got the forty five forty four milimeter,
43:43
not the forty nine, which is the Ultra, and that's that's a really
43:46
well received watch. But it's like eight hundred dollars and this one I picked
43:51
up on sale. It COSTCO for three hundred and fifty bucks, so I
43:54
think I got a pretty good deal with it. And you know, I
43:59
used the hell I've been used in the health app on the iPhone, which
44:01
is good, but I have to tie my cardios system into it for doing
44:07
you know, scans of the heart and getting an ECG and finding out what's
44:10
going on. But the Apple Watch is constantly monitoring, and I love that.
44:14
If I want to take a look and see, okay, what's the
44:16
heart rate, what's my step count all of that, I can actually see
44:21
it on the Apple Watches. I was not sure I was going to keep
44:24
this. I showed it on TV and then I thought, you know what,
44:27
I'm kind of hooked on it now because it does help you get up,
44:30
and it does say okay, get moving. And now, justin you
44:32
have experienced with a couple of different watches. Yeah, well, first,
44:37
first off, we all know my films on Apple. However, I do
44:40
like the Apple Watch. I do think the Apple Watch is probably one of
44:45
their better products in terms of Apple. If you enjoy the Apple Watch,
44:50
you know, for all, for any reason, even if it's just simply
44:53
to use it for a health purpose, to be able to remind you to
44:57
get up and walk around, go for it. I love it. I
45:00
love that idea behind it. The Apple Watch is cool. I just want
45:05
to say Android also does it too, you know, like you said,
45:07
Samsung has their Galaxy Watch, the pixel has the pixel Watch. I do
45:13
find myself with I have a pixel Watch as well. I do find it
45:16
lacking in certain areas where I do And please don't tell anybody about this,
45:22
but I do wish from time to time that I had the Apple Watch,
45:25
because that is the one product of Apple that I do actually enjoy. So
45:29
I just want that to be said. Yeah, but I do have experience
45:31
with them, and yes, I love the fact that even with the Samsung
45:36
orry, the pixel Watch or the Apple Watch, whatever. I love how
45:37
they track your health. You know they have the trackers underneath. Now for
45:44
me, I'm Irish and Norwegian, I'm hairy. I have a lot of
45:47
hair. I have a problem. I literally have to shave the area underneath
45:53
my watch sensor because it won't read it sometimes because I have too much hair.
45:59
Oh wow, it doesn't just snatch it off your wrist or anything.
46:01
No, it doesn't do that. Now, what is the thing? I
46:05
follow this on Reddit. A couple of days ago, people posted about on
46:08
this reddit. There's like a I think it was the Samsung Galaxy, maybe
46:12
it was a different model, but there was like a watch that exploded or
46:15
something and like burned a hole in somebody's hand. There were literally like canyons
46:22
in this guy's hand from the watch battery leaking overnight, and for some stupid
46:28
reason, the guy never woke up, woke up the next morning with like
46:30
literally holes in his wrist. Oh my god. And then people were that
46:36
you posted about it on Reddit, was like, oh, what do you
46:37
think I should do about this? And they're like, bro, call the
46:40
watch manufacturer. They take this stuff seriously. And the guy's like, ooh,
46:44
already destroyed the watch. I'm like, well, you just lost out
46:46
on one hundred thousand dollars or a million dollars because they take these things extremely
46:51
seriously. These things are not supposed to happen, and you could have a
46:54
serious lawsuit on your hands. But my suggested was co doctor, Well not
47:00
too but after you do that. But no, seriously, watches like this,
47:05
and I'm sorry, that's as kind of a scare tactic. Do not
47:07
think about that. That is super super rare. Watches like these are amazing
47:13
with fitness tracking, tracking your run. I love mine because it's LTE so
47:16
I don't have to have my phone on me. I can walk away from
47:20
my phone and if I get a call, oh, just press the button
47:22
and talk through my watch, like Dick Tracy. There was some confusion about
47:25
that, and the salesperson and I were talking about it and if some people
47:30
think they have to get the cellular version, which could be a little pricier
47:35
for them to be able to use it like with their phone, that's not
47:38
true. No, if your phone is nearby, it pairs to your phone.
47:43
You can make phone calls with it. I can ask a question on
47:46
it, you know, by saying the name of the assistant and it will
47:51
actually give you the answer. The one other thing that I love about all
47:53
these wearables, if you're wearing them at night is somebody who struggled with sleep
48:00
issues for most of their life. Is the sleep tracking. Yeah, I
48:04
love not only will not only will it be like, hey, you slept
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well, or you slept for absolute crap. It'll like show you on a
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graph, Here's how much light sleep you had because of the bud light.
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Here's how much uh you know, ren deep sleep. Here's where you were
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tossing and turning. I was keeping my uh was it the Google Nest Hub,
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the one of the little screen on it next to my bed for ages,
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because it would detect coughing and snoring and everything else, and it would
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give you a sleep score the next day. And if you're like, well
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my score was crap, I'd be like, well, yeah, you had
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a bright screen on that I could detect until one am. No wonder you
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didn't sleep well. Here's our recommendations, right, So I completely agree that
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it's not just like oh I can check my text messages and I can have
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a call on the go. It's a little mini medkit, ye Shonda or
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sleep do you guys have an Apple Watch. I do not. Somebody gave
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me a fit bit or something, so I've been wearing that and uh,
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you know, just because yeah. Yeah, yeah, so I had a
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Series three. We bought them in twenty Yeah, so we bought them as
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first anniversary gifts for each other for in twenty eighteen, and then I didn't
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buy a new watch until twenty twenty three, so I kept another Apple Watch,
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right, Yeah, I bought the series eight, so I think they're
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up to the series nine. Now. I love it. I love it.
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Yeah, I really enjoyed it because from a social aspect, right,
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I have an iPhone, so it ties in flawlessly with my messages and all
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this stuff, and it's easier to be connected in the Wi Fi in the
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house where at work and be able to receive calls, messages and everything without
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having my phone tied to me all the time. The benefit is that at
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work, because we're on we have edge of Rome, which is you university
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Wi Fi, I could be anywhere on campus and my watch will connect to
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edgy Rome. So if I forget my phone at my desk, or if
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I stand up or walk away from my desk and go into our control room
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or to the other building where we have our other control rooms. I can
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still get messages and everything on my watch. So your watch is in LTE.
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No, I don't have the Nolt Watch. Yeah, that's pretty good.
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I do like it. I think it's a it's a good bye for
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anybody that just wants to maybe you know, maybe it'll motivate you more.
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And that's what that article at Sinet said was that it was getting her to
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say, Oh, I've taken this many steps, I'll take some more.
50:37
It's like, well, last week we were aired a best of show and
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it was that show about the watches where you would walk something like fourteen thousand
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step Shawn. Oh. Yeah. So when I first had when I had
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my first watch and I was working as a utility for the university and doing
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all of the setting up the cameras and stuff. The University of Michigan game
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we played them in the fall of twenty eighteen, walked to like thirty eight
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thousand steps wait, which is wow, which is like six and a half
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miles because I had to park far away and then I had to walk back
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there, and then I had to walk around the stadium sitting everything up,
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But I wanted to make a quick mention about my dad has the same watch
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that you have. Andy. He actually he actually can get a HSA,
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he can spend, he can use his HSA. He used his HSA money
51:22
to get the watch because he whoa track his hypertechtic cardia. WHOA yeah,
51:30
whoa because it because it is a medical device. Whoa, Anthony or I'm
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sorry, Andy, do you have an HSA. I don't. I haven't
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regular insurance. But still, well you can write it off on Texas right
51:45
if you have hypertactic cardia or another heart ailment. Uh, my dad has
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actually registered his hypertechtic cardia with his watch and gone and got it like resolved
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and things like that. So I think I have hypertractic cardia right now,
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out just go get myself. That is great. All right, Well you
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take another quick break. We come back with more of tech Talk Radio.
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52:28
One of the big things that we like to talk about on this show
52:30
not only the cool tech, the new products, the upcoming products, but
52:35
also, yeah, we love games and video games are a big part of
52:38
the technology industry. And one of the big games is Helldiver. Now,
52:43
actually, you've got some inful on this, so we've talked a little bit
52:45
about this game on the show in the past. Helldivers too, right,
52:47
this game kind of came on by storm. Hell Divers was the PlayStation game
52:52
that came out a handful of years ago. Hell Divers two, very very
52:54
popular. Sony did a big booboo. Really, Sony came out, so
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it's on Steam. It's a PC port of a PlayStation game. Sony came
53:04
out and said, oh, by the way, six months after this game
53:07
is the number one game on Steam, we're going to make you register a
53:10
PlayStation network account to access the game. So here's if you don't make your
53:15
pist of Country team, you can't play it. What here's the real kicking
53:21
the teeth for that. Sony made that a requirement. It was initially going
53:25
to be a requirement. They backed off when the game first dropped because it
53:29
was causing server issues and they had to drop it so the game could actually
53:34
run. Then they reinstated this and it was supposed to drop on the March
53:37
sixth update, and the announcement came sometime last week that it was going to
53:43
be reinstated. So many of the countries that this game was available in that
53:49
people had already bought the game, put hundreds of hours into the game,
53:52
PlayStation Network is not available in those countries. Sony had no idea what to
53:58
do with that. They just said, well it's easy, just make a
54:00
PSN account. And you had people in you know something is Stan who were
54:04
like, well, you don't have PlayStation Network in in my country, so
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what am I supposed to do? So, for one of the first times
54:10
in a long time, Sony back down. The player base of hell Divers
54:16
too as a loyal Helldiver spreading managed democracy it the fan base did so much
54:24
review bombing on Steam that it went from overwhelmingly positive for both sets or reviews
54:30
it is now overwhelmingly negative in both sets or reviews. That takes a lot.
54:37
The community manager on the official discord was like, well, just ask
54:42
for Steam refunds and review bomb it and I think they actually is just seeing
54:47
a post Spitz just lost his job. But for the first time, the
54:52
player base linked up and Sony back down. Oh wosh amazing. All right,
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