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Episode 423 - We think he likes this Keyboard! · TechtalkRadio

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  Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Weird, and I'm Matt Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Great to see you, Matt. We missed you last week.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we kind of took a little liberty because
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  Speaker 1: we knew that you were in wire rewiring.
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  Speaker 2: Heck, I saw the picture. Yeah, the picture was accurate.
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  Speaker 2: That was pretty accurate, right, was that was pretty accurate?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. We went into Dali and we asked it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I know Matt's going through. Showed me a picture of
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  Speaker 1: a guy just buried in cables, and one of them
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  Speaker 1: that showed the guy's face, and I said, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: hide the face. And then that's what.
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  Speaker 3: It came up with.
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  Speaker 2: It's not hiding the face, it's hiding the tears, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So what is pretty amazing, though, is what you ended
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  Speaker 1: up coming up with. And we do have photos from
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  Speaker 1: last week on the blog of what you eventually created,
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  Speaker 1: and I got to say, it's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 2: When my wife and I first moved into this house,
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  Speaker 2: I the basement wasn't finn and that's where I'm at
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  Speaker 2: right now. It's done in our basement, So I was
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  Speaker 2: in the other bedroom. We had finally got to do
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  Speaker 2: the culmination of my dream of like a workplay gaming cave,
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  Speaker 2: and it was great. But then you know, the basement
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  Speaker 2: got finished, we had people staying over more often. We
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  Speaker 2: ended up having a roommate for a little while, and
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  Speaker 2: it was like, why am I hogging this big old
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  Speaker 2: honkin room with its own bathroom instead of going to
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  Speaker 2: the one downstairs where I probably should be. So I
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  Speaker 2: ended up around Actually I think I've been down here
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  Speaker 2: for about a year now. But when I moved down
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  Speaker 2: one of the things I wanted was a big floating desk,
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  Speaker 2: So I used two foot by one inch diameter black
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  Speaker 2: just cast iron pipe that you can get at like
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  Speaker 2: home Depot loves whatever. And I got the flanges, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just had a little circular disc that they screw into
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  Speaker 2: and mounted all those to the wall. Now, if I
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  Speaker 2: could go back listeners, the one thing I would do
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  Speaker 2: different would be to lag bolt a two by a
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  Speaker 2: four to the studs and then mount the flanges to
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  Speaker 2: the two by four As it is to the flanges
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  Speaker 2: are now either mounted to the studs or with like
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  Speaker 2: four one hundred pound test anchors per flange, right that
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  Speaker 2: being said, my gaming tower was pretty beefy, and there
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  Speaker 2: would still be days where I'd walk down here and
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  Speaker 2: like put my weight on the desk and you just
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  Speaker 2: hear like that the creek hit that one note too
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  Speaker 2: high where you're just like, oh, okay, well, what.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of case you were running? A? Not a half
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  Speaker 1: nine thirty two or anything like that? Was it? I
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  Speaker 1: mean that?
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  Speaker 2: No, I used to run a half nine thirty two.
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  Speaker 2: Actually I had the original half air case and I
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  Speaker 2: love that thing, but this was a thermal take view
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  Speaker 2: thirty seven. I think it still had some weight to it.
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  Speaker 2: And then one day I saw this YouTube video and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I could rack mount stuff. Oh
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  Speaker 2: I could rack mount stuff. So we used a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of money that came in, picked up the cases
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  Speaker 2: and you know, some new components, and yeah, we decided
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  Speaker 2: just breakdown because my computer was on top of the desk,
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  Speaker 2: my wife's was underneath the desk. So I broke both
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  Speaker 2: of them down, racked them because when I was still
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  Speaker 2: streaming on Twitch, those computers were actually connected in a
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  Speaker 2: various number of ways to be my whole studio, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, if I rack them, then like
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  Speaker 2: doing that. So much easier. Well, one of the big
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  Speaker 2: decisions I made is I was doing all this is
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  Speaker 2: I officially have shut down Captain Oblivious. I've decided I
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  Speaker 2: am no longer streaming on Twitch. I haven't done it
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  Speaker 2: in ages. It's it was fun when I did it,
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  Speaker 2: but now I'm just going to play games for me.
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  Speaker 2: But everything's working great. The cabling's fine, the airflow's good,
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  Speaker 2: you know that. I'm happy.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the first thing when you told me that
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  Speaker 1: you were going to move into a rack mounted case,
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  Speaker 1: and I have a rackmounted case, and I remember I
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  Speaker 1: set it up in our original office and I was
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  Speaker 1: using it and then you know, it takes it does
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  Speaker 1: take up the desk space. I didn't do it like
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  Speaker 1: you did, actually mounted at a rack. I put it
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  Speaker 1: on top of the desk, and I remember, like thinking airflow.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when we think of a gaming computer, we
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  Speaker 1: think of the acrylic, We think of this being able
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  Speaker 1: to see inside in the RGB lights, and I think
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  Speaker 1: of a RAQ.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think of it being a server.
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  Speaker 1: And you just said, no, this actually the airflow and
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  Speaker 1: everything will work good in a rack amounted case as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So the way I've actually got mine. I have
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  Speaker 2: both configured, both computers configured pretty much the same way.
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  Speaker 2: I have a an all in one three sixty milimeter
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  Speaker 2: CPU liquid cooler, and I've got the radiator mounted to
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  Speaker 2: the very front. And I know some people when they
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  Speaker 2: hear this are going to be like, wait, you're not
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  Speaker 2: using the radiator as the exhaust. I know. Anyways, so
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  Speaker 2: the air gets pulled in through the radiator goes in
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  Speaker 2: the case and then I've got two they're two eighty
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  Speaker 2: milimeter but high volume fans in the back as an
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  Speaker 2: exhaust and putting my hand back there like it pumps
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  Speaker 2: air through. Everything's happy. I haven't had any alerts. The
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  Speaker 2: only thing that irritated me, oh there there are no
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  Speaker 2: Wi Fi seven drivers for Windows ten and they have
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  Speaker 2: no intentions of releasing them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh really, so it's gonna be one of those Oh
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  Speaker 1: you gotta get to eleven.
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  Speaker 2: They finally got me. I've made it all the way
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  Speaker 2: until last week and now I'm on Windows eleven, So
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  Speaker 2: good job Microsoft. I'm looking at Windows ten and the
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  Speaker 2: device managers just like, I don't recognize this network controller.
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  Speaker 2: And I looked everywhere and everybody was like, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: how they're getting us sorry, bud wow.
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  Speaker 1: Now even even the manufacturer of the Wi Fi seven
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  Speaker 1: it's stilln wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I went to so I used Gigabyte for my
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  Speaker 2: new board. I went there and tried to pull down
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  Speaker 2: a network driver. As soon as you changed it from
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  Speaker 2: Windows eleven to Windows ten, the driver disappeared. If you
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  Speaker 2: tried to install it with the Windows eleven driver, which
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  Speaker 2: they say can be backwards compatible. Well, the Wi Fi
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  Speaker 2: once aren't. And then I found out the manufacture of
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  Speaker 2: the Wi Fi chip and once you try and pull
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  Speaker 2: it down from them and they were like nah, sorry
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  Speaker 2: dog whoa.
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  Speaker 1: And now I wanted to ask in the picture and
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  Speaker 1: again our listeners can go to blog dot.
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  Speaker 3: Tech, talk radio dot com. The picture.
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  Speaker 1: You have a ring a ring light and in the
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  Speaker 1: center of it it looked like you had a DSLR.
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  Speaker 3: I do is that being used as your webcam?
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  Speaker 2: That is my webcam and it is a Sony zv
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  Speaker 2: E ten. It is a mirrorless SLR. But the thing
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  Speaker 2: is the Sony zb E ten was originally designed for
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  Speaker 2: blogging and vlogging, so it actually when you guys were
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  Speaker 2: talking last week about like cameras having the USB input,
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  Speaker 2: when covid hit I used to have a Canon and
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  Speaker 2: use that until Canon decided now that we're in a
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  Speaker 2: post COVID world, that product should not be free anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And the free version they pushed an update that basically
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  Speaker 2: bricked it, and you have to do the paid version
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  Speaker 2: now that costs either like you know, two bucks a
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  Speaker 2: month or like twenty five dollars a year. Sony's image
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  Speaker 2: Edge software was free. But then I found this camera
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  Speaker 2: and it actually has a built in USB streaming mode wow,
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  Speaker 2: where you can actually so I've got a USBC plugged
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  Speaker 2: into it that goes straight into my computer and a
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  Speaker 2: dummy battery in there that is basically just a way
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  Speaker 2: they use a power pack. So it's always plugged in,
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  Speaker 2: always powered on, and it just goes straight through. I
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  Speaker 2: don't need image Edge, I don't need anything. It just
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  Speaker 2: natively recognizes the camera. You know. I changed the settings
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  Speaker 2: on it to do you know, eye tracking and more
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  Speaker 2: light balancing and things, and you know, as you can see,
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  Speaker 2: the background is softened just that ever so slightly. But
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  Speaker 2: I've I've been using this thing for years.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It's funny because the listener Steve reached out
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  Speaker 1: to me because in the show. I was talking about
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  Speaker 1: how I have the Logitech Brio four K and I
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  Speaker 1: like the cameras from Logitech. They've been great, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've been using him since. Actually, I'll be honest with you,
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  Speaker 1: I had the Connectic's Quick Cam and then it became
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  Speaker 1: Logitech the four K.
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  Speaker 3: It's just I was complaining because.
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  Speaker 1: If I compare the quality between yours, which looks great Justin's.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw his video the.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I took a look at it.
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  Speaker 1: The capture was pretty good. The live was even better.
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  Speaker 1: Sean's camera looks good, but mine. Miss watched out and
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  Speaker 1: he actually got in touch with me and he said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, your problem may not be the camera, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're lighting. And he said, what kind of lighting
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  Speaker 1: are you running? And I said, well, I'm just running.
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  Speaker 1: I've got five lights that are just regular light bulbs
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  Speaker 1: that are above me, seventy five whit bulbs. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. He said, change your lighting and you might
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  Speaker 1: be more happier with the result of what that camera
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  Speaker 1: is able.
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  Speaker 3: To give you.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, for example, so this one, this is
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  Speaker 2: just with the ring light. I used to have a
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  Speaker 2: second light, an Algatto key light air over sitting behind
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  Speaker 2: the second monitor to hit me from my right side.
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  Speaker 2: I took it down when I did the reorg. But
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  Speaker 2: if you look, I mean just turning off the ring
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  Speaker 2: light and the drastic difference. Oh that that makes Look
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  Speaker 2: at that because now you've got the light from my monitor,
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  Speaker 2: you've got the light from above. It messes with the
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  Speaker 2: depth of field and everything. But then as soon as
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  Speaker 2: I pop that back on. And the other thing I
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  Speaker 2: did is the camera is I set the camera color
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  Speaker 2: for forty five hundred K, and I can control the
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  Speaker 2: color of this light as well, and I matched it
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  Speaker 2: so it's picking it like it's tuned in at forty
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  Speaker 2: five hundred K. And my light showing at forty five
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  Speaker 2: hundred K as well helped give it a really nice
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  Speaker 2: soft look.
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  Speaker 3: For somebody like you. Look at Sean set up.
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  Speaker 1: Sean, you do you have an actual like a ring
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  Speaker 1: light or a focus light on you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's a ring light. It's about seven inch
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  Speaker 4: across maybe, so it's a decent sized ring light, and
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  Speaker 4: it's sitting right behind my camera. My camera's not in
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  Speaker 4: the middle. My camera's a little bit lower. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 4: just a I mean, I think I paid fifteen dollars
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  Speaker 4: for it on Amazon, to be honest. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 4: can do it in steps. I can't I can't see
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  Speaker 4: what the color temperature is, but I can just do
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  Speaker 4: it in steps. And I kind of just picked what
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  Speaker 4: I thought looked good, and my camera is set to auto, right.
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  Speaker 1: Kind I kind of want wonder then maybe in situations,
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  Speaker 1: should somebody then just turn off all the lights and
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  Speaker 1: just use the ring light or a if they have
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  Speaker 1: a ring light or a the Logitech has that bar
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  Speaker 1: light as well, just use that instead.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you're still gonna get You're still you're
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  Speaker 4: still limited by the sensor size, right, You're still limited
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  Speaker 4: by the if it has an actual physical aperture or not, right,
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  Speaker 4: because if you can actually shut the physical or open
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  Speaker 4: the physical aperture a little bit, you're gonna get a
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  Speaker 4: little bit that of that boca, the blurriness of the
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  Speaker 4: depth of field. Yeah, you're kind of limited on webcams
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  Speaker 4: because they're you're they're cheap ish for a reason, and
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  Speaker 4: that is their their physical lens structure.
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  Speaker 1: And what they're they're made to do now, correct Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering, Matt, like when it came to uh. When
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  Speaker 1: it came to your wiring, your cabling, I know that
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  Speaker 1: was a big undertaking. You didn't just want to string
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  Speaker 1: everything just on the floor behind, you know, behind everything.
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  Speaker 1: You decided to do it the right way.
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  Speaker 2: I did it the right way, and I went through
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  Speaker 2: so very many zip ties that I made sure to
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  Speaker 2: flush cut every single one of them as God intended,
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  Speaker 2: because I have scars covered up by both of these
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  Speaker 2: tattoos from reaching into racks where somebody didn't. But I
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  Speaker 2: ended up finding a cool little kit online and I
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  Speaker 2: used this when I first built this desk. But it
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  Speaker 2: actually comes with like a circular coreing bit and just
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  Speaker 2: punches a nice like two inch diameter hole uh out
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  Speaker 2: of your drywall and then as a piece that fits
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  Speaker 2: in there, and you, you know, you do the screws
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  Speaker 2: and they butterfly open and seal it in place. And
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  Speaker 2: then there's a plastic gasket you can put over there.
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  Speaker 2: So I've got all my cables either running in the
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  Speaker 2: wall behind my monitors or some of the stuff that's
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  Speaker 2: on the desk. It goes under the desk and then
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  Speaker 2: I've got that all zip tied and bundled and across.
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  Speaker 2: But other than really two spots and they're both tied
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  Speaker 2: to my wife's computer. You can't see any of the
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  Speaker 2: cables because that's how I want it. I want it
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  Speaker 2: super clean and pretty and nice.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I gotta say, talking about the flush cutting of
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  Speaker 1: the zip ties, Sean, that what a subject that was,
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  Speaker 1: because that has garnered one of the most most viewed
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  Speaker 1: segments of the show because of just it touched a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people.
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  Speaker 3: They've all been through it.
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  Speaker 1: Zero commented on on our TikTok page thing not if
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  Speaker 1: you do them right, My zip ties break before they
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  Speaker 1: come undone.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 3: Is that a good thing? I forty five them.
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  Speaker 1: So I think he's somebody who likes to make sure
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  Speaker 1: somebody gets a jagged edge in their arm. Mike Gasser wrote,
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  Speaker 1: using zip ties in a rack should be a fireball
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  Speaker 1: of fence.
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  Speaker 3: Use velcrow.
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  Speaker 4: I would say to that comment about fl crow. Use
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  Speaker 4: this is what I was taught in the years I've been.
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  Speaker 1: In the industry.
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  Speaker 4: You use selcrow for fiber optics because of the bend radius,
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  Speaker 4: because if you pinch them too tight with with zip ties,
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  Speaker 4: it can break the internal glass strands.
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  Speaker 3: All right, anything else.
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  Speaker 4: Is fair game for zip ties.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right? If we got another one too. I
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  Speaker 1: like this one. This one guy mirror Riker said to you, shun,
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  Speaker 1: suck it up, Buttercup, that slack has function.
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  Speaker 2: No it doesn't.
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  Speaker 4: If you do it right, you cut to length and
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  Speaker 4: then underneath the rack, you leave yourself a nice service loop.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was right, though I created a lot
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of conversation about the flesh cutting those
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  Speaker 1: and honestly I had no idea. I was left a
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  Speaker 1: little bit on there, so I was doing them wrong.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, anybody that has is saying suck
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  Speaker 4: it up, Buttercup, has never cursed somebody's name, reaching into
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  Speaker 4: the back of a racket slicing around open. I'm just
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you just haven't. You can cry about it
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  Speaker 4: all day long and say sucking up butter Cup, but
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  Speaker 4: you just you just haven't put in the work.
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  Speaker 2: I have sanctified more than one rack in my lifetime
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  Speaker 2: that I had no desire to sanctify.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not fun.
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  Speaker 2: No. I remember coming home from one and we had
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  Speaker 2: moved a rack. We had moved three racks between data centers,
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  Speaker 2: and we were trying to do it in one day.
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  Speaker 2: And I think I got home at like two am
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  Speaker 2: and my wife who at the time she was at
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  Speaker 2: the time she was my girlfriend. Damn, that was a
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  Speaker 2: long time ago. And she just looks at me and
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  Speaker 2: she was like, oh my god, what happened to you?
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  Speaker 2: Did you get in like a fight in the parking lot?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, now, I've been working in a server
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  Speaker 2: rack all day. This is just how you look when
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  Speaker 2: you're done.
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  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, all right, well that that that isn't a
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  Speaker 1: big pretty good now. One of the things we also
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  Speaker 1: talked about last week was mechanical keyboards.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And this was like, right up your alley and you
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  Speaker 1: have a mechanical keyboard you wanted to tell us about.
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  Speaker 3: That is something that should be something.
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  Speaker 1: That this this lady whose son is saying, hey, mom,
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  Speaker 1: I want a mechanical keyboard.
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  Speaker 3: I need it. You're saying, yeah, this is this is
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  Speaker 3: the one to.
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  Speaker 2: Get technically, if if we're if we're being honest here,
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  Speaker 2: because admitting you have a problem is the start of
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  Speaker 2: fixing a problem. I have six mechanical keyboards well, uh,
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  Speaker 2: scattered throughout my house. The one that I picked up though,
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  Speaker 2: I found on my last trip to Microcenter, which, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, my fellow techie people. Our trips to microcenter
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  Speaker 2: are like handy people's trips to Low's or home depot.
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  Speaker 2: Like you're not doing the project right if you don't
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  Speaker 2: have to go back at least once.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, That's how it used to be.
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  Speaker 3: With Fries. We have Fries Electronics out here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah h yeah, but I found this one. The company
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  Speaker 2: is called keycron k E y C h R O N.
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  Speaker 2: And with keyboards, it used to be keyboards came in
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  Speaker 2: just one size. Yeah, the whole keyboard, number pad, everything
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  Speaker 2: like that. That is considered a one hundred percent keyboard.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: My favorite setup is usually somewhere between the seventy five
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: to eighty percent. So in this case, like I don't
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: have a number pad, I have a delete, a page up,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: page down, and a home key. But then a lot
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: of keyboards will provide additional layers through the function key.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: So for like me to use the end key, I
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: just hit function home. But this keyboard is the key
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Cron V one max. It is a seventy five percent
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: keyboard with mechanical switches and it is just packed full
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: of features. I have it plugged in via USBC, which
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: allows it to charge the internal battery because it can
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: be wireless, but not just wireless like your usual like
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: like a Logitech where it's got the little dongle it
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: has that. It's got two of them. Actually, it has
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: one that's old school USBA on the other is USB C,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: and then it's got a slot for both of them
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: to fit in the back that's almost flush, so if
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: you're not using it, you can just pop it and
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: store it in the keyboard without having to take a
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: case off or anything. Fully rechargeable internal battery, and it
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: can also be Bluetooth. It also has a neat little
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: switch that will switch between whether you want to use
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: it for Mac or you want to use it for Windows,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: and the other thing it says on both of those
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: is iOS or Android, so it is compatible with everything.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: So in essence, if somebody has their smartphone and they've
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: got it, you know, propped up or a tablet, say
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: whether it be an iOS, you know, iPad or whatever,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: they can actually use that keyboard to type out on
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: the iPad or yes. The again nice nice and you
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: said the storage on it is there storage?
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: There's not storage per se. There is a there's online
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: software that you can access on key cron site called qmkuh,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: and you can use that to actually configure and rewrite
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: the firmware on the keyboard. So the other thing that's
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: cool with mechanical keyboards is you know you can pop
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: off your key caps because with the mechanical keyboard you
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: have switches and then key caps that sit on top
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: of the switches. So if you want to do a
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: non standard layout, what we consider a standard layout is
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: your quirity QW E R T Y. Well, we all
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: learned to type on quirity keyboards came about to actually
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: slow down the human capability for typing with typewriters because
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: humans would type too fast with some of the first
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: layouts they did and would cause the typewriters to jam.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: So Cordy is actually designed to slow you down. So
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: there are other non standard keyboard layouts you could do.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: The two most popular are Devora and uh Cole Mack
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: coll Mac Yeah, Cole Mack. So you can go in
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: and rewrite the firmware for this keyboard to turn it
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: into those and then just switch the key caps around
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: and there you go.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Wow, pretty nice, And now I did well, you showed it.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: To us earlier.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: It did it, I can do it.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Let's uh, so the listeners can get a look if
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: they check out the video of the site. Now I
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: was looking at it, going okay, I have Steel series
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: uh you know, mechanical keyboard.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: It lights up, but it's all beautiful. Does this light up?
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Is it RGB?
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: If you look, you'll see it gently kind of here
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: in the shadows light up. If I switched out to
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: a see through uh set of key caps, it would
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: definitely shine a lot more. This one's a little different,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: a lot of like Steel series uh, sean yours that
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: you showed up.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: They usually do north facing RGB, so the light is
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: at the north end of the switch. They configure this
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: so that the RGB is actually at the south end,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: which you know most people are gonna be okay, And
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: but because of the angle of the keyboard, it actually
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: puts it so it's not quite as at the same
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: angle as if it were north facing. So even if
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: you kind of get a look at the switches between
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: the keys, you're not suddenly like, oh, I wonder what's
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Oh it's purple and so bright.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: How's it feel to type on it? Because again that's
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: that's the selling point.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: It's it's like typing on butter I I'm finding excuses
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: to type on this keyboard. For the keyboard nerds who
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: are listening to the show, the switches are the gator
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: on Jupiter Brown. When we talk about switches, there's really
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: three different feelings you can get with them. They're defined
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: as linear, tactile, and clickie. Linear is just key go up,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: key go down. Yeah, there's nothing fancy clicky. As you type,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: you get that old classical like click click click click,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: click click click that you see in all the old
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: eighties Hollywood movies of somebody hacking on a computer.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Exactly tactile.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: You get the physical sensation like of the clickie. You
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: feel the attenuation point of one of the key registers,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: but there's no audible component with it. So these are
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: tactile keys. But what Keykron has done it's really nice,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: is they actually put two layers of sound dampening foam
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: and they mounted it via a gasket mount instead of
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: a hardmount, which gives it just a little bit of flex.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: But because of that, as you're typing on this thing,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: and I experimented with it, like I was banging out
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: on that keyboard, and it's the quietest mechanical keyboard I've
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: ever typed on in my life.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Now you can find this, you said Microcenter.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: You can the one. It's the V one Max. You
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: can find it at Microcenter. I am pretty sure. Well,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: I know you can also find it on their website
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: along with all their other keyboards. I'm checking to see
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: if it's on Amazon right now.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Because all we have to a break.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: But when we come back, Sean got something and I
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: think you got a great deal too on it.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Bl I'm assuming it's a Black Friday deal because it's
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: at the beginning of the.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Week, but yeah, it's got to be. So when we
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: come back, we'll find out what it is that he got. Uh.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: And in the meantime, Matt's going to see if this
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: is available on Amazon, and if so, we'll go ahead
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: and put a link to it on our blog and
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: website as well.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: We'll be back with more of tech Talk Radio.
• 22:25
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• 22:30
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• 22:33
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• 22:35
  Speaker 3: We'll be right back and now back to tech Talk Radio.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: So during the break, I was curious because I couldn't
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: remember what switches my keyboard ass. I have the Steal
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: series Apex M seven to fifty, which is no longer mall.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: I bought it like seven years ago.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Still series career. I've always loved them.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: And it has the QX two linear mechanical switches. So
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: if you were listening before, it linear just means the
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: buttles up and goes down. There's no force feedback, there's
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: no clickie. It's just it's relatively quiet, but it's it's
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: a small I have a seventy five percent, so I
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: don't have the numpad, but I have the home insert
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: delete page page donkeys. And when I was looking at
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: keyboards right and I just wanted something relatively inexpensive, I
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: went to the mechanical keyboard subreddette, which, as Matt was
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: saying at the end of the last segment, you can
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: really go down a rabbit hole with that. Really, you
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: can get get people that are going to argue about
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: what switches better no way.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Really, They'll they'll argue.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, do you want to?
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, I mean to break it down to Layman's terms, right,
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: it's Ford versus Chevy versus Fiat. Right, it's like everybody's
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: gonna have their own opinion on why there's better.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Wow and they and it'll it'll get heated. And I
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: do not mean that in like a friendly like oh
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: that's a good point. I mean like some dude will
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: be like, you like very MX reds, your bloodline is
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: weak and then proceed to like cuss you out about
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: why you're using like the basic Betty of switches. And
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: if you were a real mechanical keyboard fan, what you'd
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: be looking at is, you know, the Holy Panda X
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: tank mech Warrior switches only available from November first through
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: sixth on this one specific website. And I'm like, when
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: I first got into mechanical keyboards, I was like, I
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: thought I could make nerds fight. And I say that
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: as a nerd, But then I walked into that room
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: and it was it's like walking into a bar mid
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: bar fight.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Oh boy.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: With some of those posts, like you walk in and
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: like you just look at the post title and you're like, oh,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: somebody woke up and chose violence this morning. Okay.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: So sub the subreddits, uh, do people get on there
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: and just argue about like you know, windows versus mac Uh? Yeah,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, oh wow, do you.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Do you want to find a spot for nerds to
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: fight about a very specif niche set of things. There's
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: going to be a subreddit for it. There's because you're.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Literally a subardd for everything great, oh Man, good and
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: bad under the Sun. Now we were talking about the
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: deals that you know you could get down, Matt, were
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: you able to find Is this keyboard that we talked about?
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Is this available on Amazon?
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: It is available on Amazon. It is available on Amazon
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: for a current cost of like eighty three dollars, which
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: is less than I paid for it. We will put
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: the link up on our blog for this week's show. Yeah,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: but when you go in you can choose the switches
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: you want in there. They've got Gator on Jupiter reds, Browns,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: and Bananas, which, honestly, guys, just just just google it
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: and look at it. Don't go to a sob breddit.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Just google what is like Gator on Jupiter brown and
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: just go with what Gemini tells you. So don't join this.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: The mom, the mom that was trying to get this
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: mechanical keyboard for her kid that had emailed us, I mean, yeah,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: she could walk in to a Best Buy and buy
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: a Steel Series, Corsair or you know, Logitech mechanical keyboard.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: She's gonna get, that's what you're gonna get. This sounds
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: like you have options. What is something she should know though,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: going in going onto Amazon looking at this keyboard and
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: getting what should she get.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: If this is if this is just for her kid
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: and they're looking for a decent mechanical keyboard. Honestly, this
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: is the one that they should probably get if the
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: kid wants to have, you know, the number pad what
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: we talked about earlier, the full hundred percent sized keyboard
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Keycron has those. I would do those as well. The
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: thing about Steel Series, Razor, Glorious mechanical gaming keyboards, Red Dragon,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of some of the other Corsair. Yeah,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: they're overpriced, and they are overpriced by a lot. Most
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: of them. You have to use their proprietary software, which
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: is crap. The Corsair IQ I'm specifically going to call
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: out along with Razors Razor Zone as like some of
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: the worst vendor specific software I've had to use from
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: those Steel Series GG is also right up there, and
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: you have to use this proprietary junk to do the
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: same stuff that I was talking about. That is for
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: free on keycron site with QMK. I don't have to
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: sign up for it. I don't have to let them
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: into my system. I just do it that way. But
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: the other thing is, like this keyboard right now for
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: eighty three dollars is ridiculous. It is, and they're beefy
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: like just feeling this thing, it feels solid. You have
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: the other ones that do the full aluminum chassis. I
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: did the plastic instead, which, yeah, it's got a little
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: bit of bend to it, but it's you know, you're
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: in a plastic case. If you want the real hefty
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: one that's an aluminum case, Like, there's gonna be no
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: bend to that unless you're really muscling it. But don't
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: buy the ones you're going to see most of the
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: time when you go into best Buy, like you Keikron Oh, no,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: that one was expensive. No, cron is kind of the
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: way to go.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: But man, right now, I'm just we're talking about it
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: right I'm looking at their website and there are fifty
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: five dollars keyboards on their website. Key kron k one
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Mechanical warows. Now it doesn't have the fancy switches, but
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: it has cherry switches, which are cheaper.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Cherry switches are just wine for fifty for forty five,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: that's perfect.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: So I encourage her to look at the website. Look,
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: go to their website, look at Amazon, like you can
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: get a mechanical keyboard for fifty five dollars.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: The other nice feature that you want to try and
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: find with a mechanical keyboard is something called hot swappable switches.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Ah, yes, yeah.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: And the reason the reason you want hot swappable switches
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: is we talked about earlier how you can just pop
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: your key caps off of the switches. These will come
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: with something called a switch puller, which just actually I've
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: got one right here, right, So this is a switch puller.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: It just looks like an oversized pair of tweezers, but
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: you will actually, you know right that there we go,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: that's actually how it's supposed to look. Mind, get a
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: little squished, but then you'll just go into the keyboard
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: crimp it. And you know, you'll obviously want to unplug
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: the keyboard first, but then just a solid yank up
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: and that switch comes out. Because as we've talked about,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: it's a mechanical keyboard, it's a mechanical component. It's going
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: to eventually wear out. A hot swappable keyboard will allow
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: you to just yank those out, go buy new switches
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: and plug them in, as opposed to one that is
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: not hot swappable. That means that those those those switches
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: have actually been soldered to the PCB, which is the
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: control board for the keyboard. And if they're soldered in there,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: then you have to do the whole thing of break
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: it down, undo the soldering, get a new one, trim it. No,
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: no one's got time for that. Just go for one
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: that's hot swappable. Because also as your kid gets older
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: and they start falling down this rabbit hole, because trying
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: buying one mechanical keyboard is like trying just a little
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: bit of crack. It's definitely not going to have any
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: effect on the rest of your life. Eventually, they're gonna
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: be like, I want to try a different set of switches. Well,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: if you have a hot swappable one, you can do that,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: and you just pay for the switches, which are one
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: of the cheapest components you can get.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Right all right, now, again, we want our listener to
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: find the links up on our website, some great, great
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: raves for this company that makes these. Now in the meantime, Sean,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: you know, had been looking on Amazon and he found
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: he got an email in and it was a good deal,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: and you decided to go ahead and go for it.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: So I got on Monday, I got a Black Friday
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: email from Dji saying, hey, look at our deals right,
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: and it had you know, okay, it had the drones,
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: it had the osmos, it had the action cameras, and
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: at the very bottom, it had the DJI Power one thousand.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: We talked about this when they launched it. Right, So
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: it's a solar generator right right, it's a lithium ion
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: or lithium iron phosphate battery that has all the bells
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: and whistles of a generator. It's got AC, it's got
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty vold AC, it's got DC, it's got
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: it's a great kit to put in the camper when
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: we go camping. Oh yeah, And it said forty percent
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: off and I was like, oh, that's that's great. It's
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: been on my list of things to buy when it
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: goes on sale. So then I clicked checked the deals
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: on Amazon, but from the Dji store it was forty
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: eight percent off okay, And I was like, okay, well,
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: I got a code in my email, so I'm gonna
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: see if I could put that code in at checkout,
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: and it gave me an additional forty dollars off.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, so I paid.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: So if you go if normally this is like a
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: nine hundred and not almost one thousand dollars piece of hardware,
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: I paid three eighty four it on Amazon.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Amazing. Wow.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: So with with the with the with their forty percent
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: off plus I don't know if I cheat it by
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: using the code at the same time, but hey, if
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: you're gonna give me the discount, I'm gonna take it.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: So I'm, you know, very thrilled to have this coming.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: I should have it by you know, mid December, because
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: it's gonna take a little while to ship. But no, yeah,
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: I'm very excited to have it and play with it.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Is this the big one that is on wheels and
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: you could roller around?
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Is that? No, it's not.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: It's not that big. It's I don't know what the
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: size is, but it looks like.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: A shoe box sat on its side.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's probably you know, six or seven inches by,
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: you know, twelve inches long. It's like a shit like
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: a shoe box. That's that's a good size for it.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: But for what we do when we go camping, or
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: if I'm out with you know, Steve, my buddy Steve,
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: we're doing astro photography or something, I can charge all
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: my devices. Right if I'm doing cam radio stuff, I
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: don't need to take my you know, I don't have
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: to plug a twelve olt into my car and run
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: twelve volt for my car. This will sustain that. So
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: when we go camping and we want to watch TV
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: or we want to do something, we could just have this.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: It charges up. It has the ability to plug in
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: directly into solar panels, so I can just plug it
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: into my camper and it'll charge this. But like it'll
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: use the solar from my camper to charge this.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: So wow, Now, how much how much power can you
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: get out of something like this? So say you go
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: out your park, Okay, this is where it's going to
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: be for the night. You can watch television, have some lights.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: How much?
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: So it's the ratings are right. It's it's ony twenty
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: four watt hour, which is pretty good. Uh, and it
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: says it's a twenty two hundred sustained wattage output twenty
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: six hundred peak, So you could even run potentially a
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: like a small air conditioner.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Really wow, yeah.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: If you have it, so don't go out and think
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: you can just take it an old camper and run,
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: you know, run your air conditioner off an old camper.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: My camper has what they call a soft start, which
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: means it does a soft load and builds the aster
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: charge up before it draws, so it doesn't have to
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: draw as much like the max. You know, the draw
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: is lower. So there are consumer level air conditioners that
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: you can draw, get soft start draws on and get
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: lower draw from they're starting. But we're gonna be comfortable.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: You can run an AC fan, you can. You know you're
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: gonna be comfortable.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Would you recommend people maybe become a member of the
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: DJI mailing list and maybe they'll get this deal sent
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: to them.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: I don't know, Like yeah, I mean, I'm just on
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: it because I have been for god knows how long.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: But I mean they have deals on all of their stuff.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Anything for the holidays that you've seen.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Have they I got?
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: I got any I'm not interested in any more WISE
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: stuff right now because they really haven't innovated. I really
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: haven't seen anything that has completely stuck out, like I
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: have to have it. Whise, if you're listening, please, to
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: the love of God, bring back motion sensors so I
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: can trigger the life it's in my garage with just
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: emotion sensor. I don't have to dedicate a camera to it.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Well you know that.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Why Why is this been working a lot with Roku?
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: And matter of fact, if you see the cameras that
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Roku has, those are basically WISE cameras and Roku has
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: a motion sensing kit. And I'm wondering if maybe they
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: just said, Okay, well we'll not do that, you go
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: ahead and do that. You know, I don't know how
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: they how they worked that.
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: Well, they had them originally, like when when I first
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: bought my cameras, when I bought the original V two's,
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: they had like a door sensor kits right window sensor
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: kids like the magnet ones where if it loses the magnet,
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: it'll trigger the trigger whatever function you wanted to do.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: But then when they went to their clot more of
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: the AI like tracking stuff, they got rid of that
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: because they wanted you to rely on your cameras to
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: do the sensing. Right, you have a camera, your camera
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: de text movement, your camera to text motion, et cetera,
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: et cetera.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: So I know Roku does have that a home security
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: monitoring kit which is a pretty good integrate with your
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: television as well, which is kind of neat. So if
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: you're watching TV, your camera can pop up. They can
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: notify you while you're watching your show without having a
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: look down at your smartphone. All right, we got to
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: take another quick break.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: We come back. We have listener questions.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: We've gotten a lot over the last couple of days,
• 36:10
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• 36:12
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• 36:17
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• 36:26
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• 36:31
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• 36:35
  Speaker 1: eighty and Al needed some thoughts on installing Windows eleven.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: He told He told me that his system qualifies to
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: run Windows eleven from Windows ten, but he's heard that
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: there have been bugs with Windows eleven? Should he wait
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: or pull the trigger and install Windows eleven now rather
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: than waiting all the way till October? That's when you
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: know the support will kind of end for Whindo ten.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Windows ten will still run, but the sport will land? Uh?
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Or should should he do it before that?
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Wow? I feel uniquely qualified to answer this question.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: You just went, You took you bit the bullet, right
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: he went?
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: He went like two days ago, and I went about
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: a month before that, So that's right?
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Or seann A, you is bitter about it as I am?
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, and so I just I don't know that
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: I've I've complained about this before, but it's like, I
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: just I'm sick of the bloat that comes to Windows, right,
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: I'm sick of ads in the home screen, ads on
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: the start bar, like not necessarily ads, but like search
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: recommendations and all this sort of stuff. Yeah, so I
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: stripped mine down to the bare bones as most as
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: you can do. So, but I wasn't bitter about it,
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: but I definitely waited longer than most people.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: All Right, So I what do you say?
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Just do it?
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Just get it over with just it's like rip off
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: a band aid, like it's gonna come off. You don't.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: You don't really have a choice. Windows ten. The official
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: EOL is October fourteenth of next year. That means it's
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: still gonna function, but you are not going to have
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: any more security updates, any more future updates. The current
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: version twenty two to h two is the last version.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: For comparison's sake, I think I'm on like twenty four
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: h something with Windows eleven. It's gonna be more secure.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Windows is still getting the security patches and security updates
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: and Defender updates and things like that, but man, just
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: just pull the band aid off. There's some things about
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: it that, like Sean was mentioning that I really don't like. Yeah,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I miss my old start menu have come up. Here's
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: all my crap, Yeah, here's the stuff that I've pinned. Instead,
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: you open it and it's like here's all the pin stuff,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: and underneath it is like here's all our recommendations. Well,
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: if you turn off recommendations, that includes like continually open
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: files things like that. But it's also the random bloat
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: ad junk that they're going to float your way of,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: like you know, have you has your aunt Debbie twice removed.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Not convince you to download Candy Crush Saga yet let
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: me give you six ads for it every single day
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: while you're just trying to find word right.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Uh, that is there things that OWL should do before
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: making the jump. Did you do anything before you said, Okay,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna install Windows eleven on it.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: I should do this first.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: So with bailes obviously.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I was gonna say with me, I've got
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: everything spread across three different hard drives in it, so
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: if it nukes my my files are fine. But for
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: most users, you definitely want to do a backup of
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: your files first and not like you know, oh I
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: did a backup on the same hard drive, I'm gonna
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: be installing it on No back it up to you know,
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: if you've just got a couple of word documents and
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: some pictures, like, you can throw it on a USB
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: key or just get an external hard drive or you know,
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: there's cloud providers. You can do Google one that you
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: can get up to a terabyte. You can do. Apple
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: has theirs if you're in that infrastructure for your mobile devices,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Sugar Sinc. There's there's all sorts of cloud providers you
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: can also do, but definitely definitely back up your stuff first.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: All right, when you're done installing it and you have
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: run it, and you're a week, a month, however long
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: you're comfortable, it's down the road and you're like, I
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: am not going to go back. Because when you do this,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: this is called an in place upgrade. The way Windows
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: does that is it basically kind of like boxes up
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: your old operating system, puts it on a digital shelf
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: over here, and then installs Windows eleven and pulls some
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: stuff out of there and puts it back in. When
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: you've had this long enough, you open up your start
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: menu and type in disk cleanup two words, and there'll
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: be a little option says run as administrator. And if
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: you do and check all those boxes, one of them
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: is remove previous Windows installation. And for me, as soon
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: as I ran that, that was thirty eight gigabytes that
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: I got back on my operating system hard drive.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: That's pretty good.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: So that's something you want to do later.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: All right, here's one for Mike. Now, Mike did the
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: original musical theme for the show. Mike drives a truck
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: for a living, but he's a musician. And I've known
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Mike for a long time. But he set us a
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: note and he says, I want to make short videos
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: with AI on YouTube with my music. He said, what
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: kind of software is good for something like this? What
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: might I need to know? I thank you so much
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: for your help so far, and thank you in advance.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, Andy, you've been you've been sending us some really
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: cool like snipped for social media stuff. What are you
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: using for that?
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: I'm using alloclip for that? And that is that allo
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: clip opus clip.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Illoclip was a little camera you used to be able
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: to put on your smartphone. But opus clip and that
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: you know that creates those. But I think what he
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: wants is a complete AI driven scenario.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: And I've been.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: On on the socials like like TikTok and Instagram reels,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: and I've been seeing like there's one I saw with
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: a baby and a cat, and the first time I
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: saw it, I thought, oh, that's really cute the baby
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: and the cat or the babies laughing. The cat made
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: the baby laugh. And then I watched a couple of
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: more and I realized that's AI. It's all of it's AI.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: There's and there's other ones that are completely driven AI,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: and I'm wondering what program could be used to create that.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: I you know, I explained to Mike, we may have
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: to do a little research on this, but.
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we're gonna have to because I don't
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: know of anything that's completely AI driven just from there's
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: something that you have to you have to generate some
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: real content.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: But yeah, that's what I would be thinking too.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: You know. I know there's great editing out there like
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: cap cut that can help you create stuff, but again
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: for doing it from the complete AI standout of what
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: AI could create. And I know that Mike said he
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: wants to have his dog be a superhero or his
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: dog to be featured in them. We're gonna have to
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: research that one. If flicteners have been doing this kind
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: of stuff or they know, please drop us the line
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: and let us know what would be a good one,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: all right. And then this one from Dave in Green
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Valley said, I'm hoping you might know. I have an
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: old hard drive that came out of a Windows XP machine.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: It's pretty it's pretty okay, he said, It's an eighty
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: gigabyte drive and I believe in ide drive. I want
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: to take a look at what was on it. It's
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: never was never backed up. What would I need to
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: be able to do this? I only have a laptop
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: from Dell and it won't fit inside that laptop.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: No, it will not.
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: So we talked about this at the bed of the show.
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: Because we talked. We talked a little bit about the
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: questions we're going to answer. And I have an answer
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: for this.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: I've done it good.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: They make USB to IDE adapters.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Wait to IDE. I've seen the USB to SATA, but
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: not the USB STA.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: So I looked it up and I found one. So
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: Microcenter has one for nineteen dollars. They can buy them
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: on Amazon, but I trust Microcenter. It has the ability
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: to do the three and a half inch, two and
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: a half inch and SATA, not all at once, obviously,
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: But it's USB three. You plug the drive into the adapter,
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: you plug it into your computer USB, and then you
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: power it. They have an external AC power so it
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: powers the drive separately from your computer, and then the
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: USB does the.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Data wow, and then he should be able to see what.
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: Was he should You should just be able to plug
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: the drive into the adapter, plug it USB into your
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: computer and then put power to it. It should recognize it
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: as a USB drive.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's viable.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: I've done that before, but it was years ago, but
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: it was ID. I was moving ide to Acetah heart
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: drive and yeah, I used something like this and they
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: work great.
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have a Now now.
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: If you're using a scuzzy drive, you're up up the
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: green God.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah help you. And oh you can't.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: How would you? How would you get data off an
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: old scuzzy I.
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: Mean, find a mother and find a motherboard that supports
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: scuzzy drives.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: Or even an adapter card. You couldn't even do it that, right,
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: could you.
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: I don't even know if they make adapter carts or
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: scusy drives. I'd have to look. That's such an old
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm gonna have to look. But if you,
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: if you have a scuzzy drive and it works, send
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: it to me and I'll get the data off for you.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know. I'd be interested to find
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: a scuzzy I mean I've seen some scuzzy drives and
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: some of the old stuff that I've gotten from friends
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: and stuff, but I've never tried to pull the data off.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Well, my wife had a medical billing business, and it
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: was a had A server and I built it with
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: it's had scuzzy.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: Her drive was a scusy drive.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: But when she stopped doing that and got back into
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: you know, working over at Northwest, she she just ended
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: up not using it anymore. So it's still sitting in
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: the tower, but it's an old it's a Windows n
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: T station workstation.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: So this is like I'm I'm looking at some of
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: this and seeing some of the solutions that these people
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: have put together, and it's like an adapter into an
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: adapter into an adapter into an adapter into USB. Thus
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: the comment earlier, God help you because we can't.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Right becuse he is a little bit different bottle of waxe. Yeah,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: but ID is good. I have a star doc which
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I love, but it's it's it's basically just say that.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: That's all you can do.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: You plug the drive in. It's neat because it has
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: two bays. You can plug the drive in, then you
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: can put another drive and you can actually copy the drives,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: which I've done here at the radio station before as well.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: But again for ide, I didn't even know there was
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: a cable solution that. So that one's pretty good. All right,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: one more as we approach you know, well we kind
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: of you know, Cyber Monday is going to be on Monday.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: You have Black Friday, which was yesterday, but says I
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: think you guys have talked about this before. I have
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: a forty inch television from about fifteen years ago. The
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: prices of this week for a fifty inch have been
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: pretty amazing. Is there anything I should consider before buying
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: a new TV? How do I know? It's a smart
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: TV that's from Mary in Tucson.
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: So most of the TVs that you're gonna see nowadays
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: will have some form of smart to them. It's just
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: kind of the way it's gone. There's gonna be some
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: form of you know, you have apps things like that.
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: That's why they're cheap.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: That's as as we go towards Black Friday, I'm going
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: to give you a little secret from somebody who worked
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: too many Black Fridays at best Buy. Okay, when you
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: are seeing these super cheap like you know, oh it's
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: an eighty inch panel for like four hundred dollars, it's
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: because that TV that skew was specifically designed for a
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Black Friday sale and will never be made again. It
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: is not a staple model. It is not a part
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: of the staple product line. It is literally like Brankenstein's
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: Television of a way for them to clear out old panels,
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: old parts, old cases, things like that to create a
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: TV and create that skew that they can sell super
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: cheap and that'll be the only day you find it.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: Oh but now are they going to be good deals?
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: I mean they're great deals for like the one year
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: that it's going to last. Oh, and then you're going
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: to start seeing issues because here's the other thing. These
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: these smart TVs basically have a mini computer inside of it,
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: and like any other computer, as it gets more updates
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: because they keep coming through, Internet of Things is doing
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: a little bit better now about securing itself. But as
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: you've got more updates coming through for the whatever operating
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: system it's using, the streaming apps themselves update as time
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: goes on, the computer starts, the TV starts to show
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: its age by slowing down. We have a Visio TV
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: upstairs that you hit the power button. It's like, okay,
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: I want to go to Netflix. And it used to
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: just you know, bop bop. Now it's kind of moseying
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: along and taking its time, so you're going to see
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: a more rapid decline of the software portions of it.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: You'll start seeing hardware issues usually around a year and
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: a half, maybe two years. But these are not TVs
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  Speaker 2: that are meant to last. They're not by by technology
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: and by business profit. They are designed to fail quickly.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: So if you're looking for a new TV, you know
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: you're coming up on a time where it's like, it's
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: honestly a little bit of a risk for which you're
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: gonna pick.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I'm thinking. I had an Insignia that
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: I bought as a Black Friday sale, so forty inch.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: It lasted about three years, and you know, third year,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: it just just stopped turning on. And so yeah, again
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: you could run into that. So I bought.
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: I bought back in twenty ten, I bought a TCL
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: thirty two inch. I think it's thirty two inch. It's
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: over there.
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  Speaker 3: Right, That thing still runs.
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: It's not smart TV though, doesn't it doesn't have it
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: just it's just a TV. It's just a flat panel.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: But you could plug a Roku box into it, or.
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: I ran it with a with a with an Amazon
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: firestick for a long time and now it just serves
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: as my retro gaming hub, so it's got all my
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: retro gaming stuff plugged into it.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it wasn't. Justin talking a few weeks
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: ago about the new Google streamer. Yeah, because they bodied
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: the Chrome cast and turned it into the streamer. So
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: you don't necessarily need a smart TV. You can just
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: you can spend that extra money on a really good panel.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: I mean for for large aspects panels and a large aspect.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you're looking at a big honkin TV, like
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: seventy inches or larger. I look. I like Sony, I
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: really do. I I like TCL. They've improved a lot.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: They're another great one. They're partnered with They were partnered
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: with Roku. I think they changed and they're now partnered
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: with Android TV, which is also what I like with Sony. Yeah, TCL,
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: Sony's good stay away from the the in house brands.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: And what I mean with that is like for best Buy,
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: Insignia and Dinex are produced by best Buy, they're best
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: by brand. Walmart has own or On, Walmart has on
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: and Walmart Actually, last I checked, Walmart bought Visio right yep.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: But I you know, LG Samsung Sony. Yes, Sharp tcl Yes,
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: you're gonna pay more for the name. But there's a
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: reason for that.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: We gotta take another quick break. We come back with
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: more of tech Talk Radio.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Matt Jones. You can find us on the webit
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  Speaker 3: We'll be right back and now fact to tech talk Radio.
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: Now. We we talked about this product a couple of
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: weeks ago, and I'm curious if you used it, Sean
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: nine Nite. Do you remember when we were chatting about
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: that one.
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I did, right. I think I ran it
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: during the show that that episode to get a couple
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: of the things that I didn't have installed. So nine
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: Night is this fantastic website nine Night dot com, I
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: n t E dot com And you can literally just
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: go it. Just you go to the website. It's gott
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: look at all these applications. I can just click click, click,
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: click Chrome, whatever browser're using, whatever, message system, media, imaging,
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: document security utilities, storage, developer tools. You just click the
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: box you hit get your nine Night it devout. It
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: gives you this package and it downloads and installs all
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: of those programs for you, and.
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  Speaker 1: You did this when you were going to Windows eleven.
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I went to Windows eleven and then I was
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: like just going through, like I wrote a list. I
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: literally wrote a document saying what do I have installed
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: on my computer? And I went through and I said, Okay,
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: I've got this, got this, got this, got this, got this,
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: And then I went through and deleted as I installed right,
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: And this would have saved me, I don't know, two
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: hours of my time probably of just going through and
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: going to the website downloading the Okay, got the installer, cool,
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: got the install cool this. Just you click, you literally
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: just do. It's like fifteen clicks and you've got a
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: wrapped up package with all of the programs that you're
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: gonna want that you probably don't even know you need.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: I got to tell you one of the most frustrating
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: things is doing a new installer Windows, getting all your
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: programs and doing a new phone smartphone you're going from
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: one to the other or just brand new phone.
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: It can be it can be a real pain.
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: The other the other thing, the other thing I'll tell
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: you too, is remember if you have saved passwords in
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: your Google Chrome or anything like that, to make sure
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: you've got that backed up, because if you move everything
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: over and you don't bring certain things with you, you're
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: gonna have to relog into everything and you're gonna need
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: to remember your passwords for everything.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: So I think, Matt, you've felt my pain in that one.
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: With that one, I will recommend. I've moved away from
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: like Chrome holding all my passwords. I used Bitwarden. I
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: used to use last Pass, but they had won too
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: many breaches for my taste, and that is one, by
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: the way, one breach is too many for my taste.
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: One pass is the one I use, so I like it.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: But yeah, Bitwarden one pass. Anything that's a password management solution,
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: I highly recommend people look at that because then you
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: really just have to remember your master password and that's
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: it's it, all right.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: That's it for this week's Tech Talk Radio. Thank you
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: for joining us again. If you have a question, feel
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: free to drop us a line. Hope you had a
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: great Thanksgiving. Be careful with cyber Monday. We were gonna
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: go over some of those things to be careful for.
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: We've run out of time. Just be safe when you're online.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm shy to weird.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Matt Jones. You can find us at blog dot tech,
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: talk radio dot com. Have a great holiday, everybody,