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Episode 383 - From The Dungeon! · TechtalkRadio

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The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network. Hey everybody,
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it's comedian Brad Williams and I'll see you February fourth for my show at the
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Fox Theater right here in Tucson. But right now you're listening to tech Talk
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Enjoy the show. Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy
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Taylor, I'm Sean and uh let's see Matt and Justin are both out today.
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It's just just me and and good old Sean. How you doing show.
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It is the holidays, people are traveling, and as you can see
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if you're watching the video, it's just not my normal background or my excellent
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lighting. You it actually looks like you're in something from a horror film because
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you're in the basement of dungeon. I'm in a unfinished Michigan dirt basement.
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So yeah, so, now what is this basement used for? Is it
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like story? It's just it's just the basement of the house. It's it's
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got a concrete floor and it's just use for storage. Now, so did
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you have to take your computer the camera down there or does he have one
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down here? That's what this is. This is my MacBook and so I'm
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just using the FaceTime camera and this is they the Wise gaming headset that I
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brought with. Oh good, that's pretty good. Actually, Wise makes a
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gaming hits that we talked about this last year, and you were pretty happy
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with it. Yeah, it was worth it in my opinion. I think
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they were fifty five dollars and they had. The microphone is removable. It's
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a three point five millimeter headphone jack tip ringk rings sleeve, so it does
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mike and it. Yeah, so just all that stuff. So it's removable,
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so you can use it just as headphones if you wanted to. Their
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bluetooth comes with the little USB dongle that I've got plugged in, and it
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works fine. It sounds good, so I'm happy with it. The only
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the only thing I really didn't like about it it doesn't have this feature which
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my Steel Series Octa seven's have, is the two channels of return audio from
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the computer. It's got two audio channels, so I can split game and
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chat. If I'm chatting a discord and I'm playing a game, I can
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just reach up, flip the knob down and kill all my game sounds,
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but still hear all my chat sounds or flip it up and hear just the
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game sounds and no chat sounds. But it'll generally do a mix, right,
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I mean, why you're it's however, you've got it set, so
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if it's in the middle, split fifty to fifty. But then you can
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finde tune it. Say I'm watching a movie but still chatting with my friends,
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want to hear what they have. I can turn them down, put
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the movie up, or turn the movie down put them up, just by
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adjusting it down my headset. This is just single channel, so it's everything
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from the computer that's being output to the headset into the headset. So I
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like that feature on the Steel Series. But those were also one hundred and
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sixty bucks. These are fifty five dollars, so I can't complain too much,
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and they don't sound it doesn't sound too bad, and it's USBC chargeable.
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The battery life is good, the FOLLM is nice and comfortable. They
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fit over completely over my ears, so I've been very happy with them,
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and I bought them just over a year ago. I think I think I've
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looked at Logitech, which I like. I like theirs. I like Steel
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Series. Steel Series has been kind of when it comes to gaming headsets,
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they've kind of been at the forefront, but the things you're also going to
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pay money for those, Yeah, I would say you have you have Steel
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Series, hyper X, Turtle Beach. Those are kind of the three top
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that I come to in my mind. Mob Tech is in there also.
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You know, it's c retly crazy. Sean when when when you talk about
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sound, like say you go back ten years ago and you talked about computer
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sound, you know, the whether it be headphones or microphones. What is
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one company that you always thought of Soundblester, Yeah, you always thought of
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creative labs, and it just seems like, you know now when you think
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about it. I mean, I know creative labs it's got they've got to
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have headsets. I know that they have, you know, all kinds of
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devices for you know, sound cards. The sound on most motherboards is going
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to be fine from most people, and then if you're gaming, you're gonna
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be wearing you know, a headset anyways, so it's it's going to be
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handled differently. Yeah, creative cs are creative creative labs. They have all
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sorts of stuff. They've got wire z eerbuzz, they've got internal cards,
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they've got used the audio cards, speaker, soundbars, what cams, audio
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adapters, all sorts of stuff. I like their external cards too, those
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were pretty good too, you know if you're doing Yeah, but like but
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when you were you know, back before bluetooth and wireless were a thing,
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right, everybody just had a sound Blaster card in their computer and we're running
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a wired headphone to the to the audio card. Yeah, Exact sound Blaster
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was great. I mean they always make great products, and I'm sure they
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do, but it's like they don't push as much. You like, if
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you if you go into the retail store shelves that you know best buy,
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you it might be hard pressed to find sound Blaster there. Yeah, but
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I think you got the people that know sound Blaster want to buy sound Blaster,
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right, So those people are going to search it out. They're not
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going to go to the brick and mortar stores to get it there or if
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some price still sell it. But those people are going to search it out
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because they know they're going to get good quality. Yeah. They still make
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a great speakers too as well. Speaking of that, and I got it
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first off, did you have a great holid? Was it nice? Yeah,
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it's been nice. The university has been closed, so I've been off
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for a handful of days and it's been nice, just relaxing. And you
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know, it's Max's first reel, like he understands what's going on kind of
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Christmas, so having him help open gifts, help me, you know,
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it's been has been kind of fun. And you know, it's always fun
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as an adult buying for other adults, but sometimes it's hard. I buy
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what I want for myself, so it leaves doesn't leave many options for other
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people when they buy for me. But I held back and I didn't make
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a whole lot of purchases, so I got what I wanted, at least
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what was on my list. I didn't get everything that I wanted because I
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put some expensive things on there just to see who would buy nobody else.
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But yeah, I got a couple of cool things. We talked about it,
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you know, we talked about our wish list a couple weeks ago on
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the show, and out of that wish list, I got the the I
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haven't used. The ex's still upstairs because we just opened stuff this morning,
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because we did our family Christmas with Kale's family this morning, and I got
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the wireless USBC rechargeable PC duster. Oh you did get that. Oh that's
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awesome. So it's got a little brush on it and you can turn up,
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turn down the pressure so stuff. So I can use it to clean
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my keyboard or you know, dust my computer or whatever. So, now
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can you do the outside. I don't know if your case is acrylic or
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do you have like the fan that big, you know, huge fan on
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the side of your case, which if you don't do anything with it,
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over time, you start to see the dust accumulate on the outside of that.
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Yeah, I could see that one, and it's got it on the
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side of mind. So I've got a full flat side with just a one
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hundred and twenty milimeter fan on the side of mine, and it's got an
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led on it so it always lights up so I can always see how dusty
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it's I clean that one pretty regularly. I'm pretty pretty meticulous about keeping my
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PC clean up. I probably open it up and dust it once a month
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at least. Oh wow, for me, it's been like a year.
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No. No, I open mine up and get in there and blow it
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out, just with a can of edge get some dust out because I'm in
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the basement, you know, and I don't want any weird bugs to get
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into the reading. Yeah. Do you have pets? No, we no
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pets, so that probably helps. Yeah, I don't know if you have
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pets like Justina's cats, at least you used to have cats. I don't
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know if people have dogs. You'd be surprised at how much of that that
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fur. You know, you could be like the cleanest person too, but
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how much of that fur gets sucked into the computer and we'll just sit there
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and float around inside the computer? Is that? I mean, that's bad
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for a computer, isn't it. Well, that type of stuff just gets
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kicked on and then it just it retains heat. So you run into it
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just brings the f If you leave it, you get dust caked on and
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stuff just brings the heat of your the total temperature. This vacuum that you
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I wanted to mention a brand because you mentioned it a couple of weeks ago.
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That was on your wish list. You had seen this and you wanted
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to get it, but we didn't get a manufacturer. The at in Genus
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so AT E n G e U S all right, compressed electric cordless brushless
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fan. Right, how much this thy go for it? Forty seven for
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this one. I don't I don't know which brand I got. I didn't
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see the brand name on it when I opened it, but I just know
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it's what it's the duster, right, I just don't know what it is
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now in doing this to your computer, right, so you open it?
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Number one, This is important because it will you know, it takes away
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some of the heat that can build up in your system. If you're getting
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rid of all that dust. It's just this is not a good environment for
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the computer. Just just keep you know. More and more often than that,
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most users aren't opening up their computers to dust them out because not all
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computers are made to be opened properly or easily. So your your average users
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not opening up their computer. But if you've got an all in one,
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yeah, if you've got an all on one or you know, you're not
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doing that, but you can still keep the vents clean and stuff like that.
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You know, if you need to get it clean, take it to
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a take it to a store, have somebody can open it up. Have
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you ever had this happen to you, Sean, Since we're talking about dust
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and everything, you ever had like a USB drive Suddenly like you try to
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plug it in, it's like it's not like making a connection, and it's
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like even hard to push in this it's mostly it's phones phones. You ever
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pulled out a big lit you know, dust bunny from your the phone socket
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for your USB cord because it didn't start charging. Yes, that's exactly what
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it is. So you go to plug it in, it's like, oh,
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my phone was charging my phone stakes cables, bads, you buy a
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cable, it doesn't work. No, the batteries and my phone's screwed up.
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Yeah, and you're look in there and you just use a little toothpick
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or something you pull out a huge dust bunny and then it clicks right in
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and you're ready off to the races. And the reason for that is because
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you put it maybe in your purse, you put it in your pocket and
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that has lint and that will actually just seat nicely inside the USB drive or
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or Yeah, and then you're plugging in and it's not making the connection and
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you have no idea why. I did have an issue though this past week
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and it's driving me nuts. So I have a it is a king?
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Is it a king note. It's a sand disc sixty four gigabyte drive.
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I've had for about maybe a year and a half. And and the other
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day I, you know, I I move a lot of files that I
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use for prepping and you know, data and stories that I need and whatnot.
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And the other day I went to save a file to it and it
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said this is right protected. Well that's kind of strange. I don't think
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there's a right protection notch on this flash drive. So I saved it locally,
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and then I went to the flash drive, took it out, and
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I'm looking at it. I'm moving flas back and forth, and plug it
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back in and it shows the show's files. Try to move a file to
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it, right protect it. I thought, well, that's kind of strange.
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I tried to delete a file that was on that drive. Can't do
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it right protect it. So I'm like, and it is isy, going,
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what the heck is going on here with this flash drive? It had
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Luckily it hasn't you know, deleted in the data from it. So I
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copied all the data off of it onto another folder that I created on a
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local drive, and then I I tried to find my Acronus Disc director but
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it turns out I had a demo on that one, so I cann't try
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and partition. So I used I tried Partition Manager. I tried, you
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know, the tools that are a part of Windows can't even partition, it
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can't format, it can't do anything with it. And so I got in
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touch with SanDisk tech support. And Sandus is really good. I love their
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products. But I got the tech support and finally, you know, the
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guy said, well, yeah, it's your drives defective. What you need
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to do is send it in to us and with a receipt, and he
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sent me paperwork, and I'm thinking, I'm not going to go through all
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of this for an eight dollar drive. So here's the eight or nine dollars
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for a sixty four gigabyte or you know drive. And I just thought,
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And then you go to you can't delete anything off the drive, so you're
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sending any documents that you have on the drive to them. So I'm thinking,
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I'm going to find a tool that is a partition manager tool that maybe
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is better than the Windows you know, the Windows tool that you get with
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Windows ten or eleven, and see if I could do it that way.
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So I know that there's you know, uh, you know a Chronics didn't
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even make I guess disc director anymore. But I'm sure that there's some tools
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out there for doing this kind of thing where you could, you know,
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partition to drive and maybe even have better better ability to go ahead and do
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that. Have you heard of anything like that? The only one that I've
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really ever had to use I use. I usually just mostly use disc Manager
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for disc Utility for Mac or disc Manager for Windows because you can just do
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it all via command line or terminal. It's pretty easy if you know what
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you're doing, or you can just find a guide online. But the one
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that I found that I've used previously in the past and a pinch was Partition
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Wizard. Oh yeah, I have heard of that. Boy that's going back
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though, so but that's a free one. I'm sure there's other tools out
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there, and if you're looking for this kind of stuff, I'm gonna I'm
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gonna shout out a subar. Disc recard Data is a subreddit that I'm a
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part of, and they have a lot of great tools that are on their
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sidebar. So if you just want to quickly or if you have a drive
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that you're trying to get some stuff up. Just go check that out because
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they've got a huge list of resources on there. Justin had sent us a
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picture this week. I don't know if you saw that called a spiderboard,
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and I didn't understand. I've never seen a spiderboard before. But they took
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a USB flash drive or our hard drive basically that was or an SSD,
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and they took it apart and they were able to actually using the spiderboard,
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wire it so that it could work again, they could get data off of
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it. Yeah, it's the spiderboard's unique because it's got these really fine tippins
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that you can drop on a circuit board and put them in the right order,
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so you could just basically have your wires being the spiderboard work as the
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cables for the USB drive by just powering the USB because they had the power
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for the USB. Saw those two on there, Yeah, and they had
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everything else connected via the spiderboard and at worked. But like that's some crazy
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level physical level hacking, That's what I was thinking. I mean, that's
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like if if you have state secrets or nuclear secrets on there and you need
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them offering, you're not doing that just for pictures. Of your grandma.
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Right, But you see this is the whole thing too. This actually shows
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you why you don't want to take a USB drive that suddenly stopped working.
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That's eight dollars. Check it in the trash, because think about it,
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stuff is going to be recoverable. I am able to recover stuff. I
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have software, great software that I can recover stuff after it's been formatted and
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partitioned. So I mean that's that stuff is out there. So if you
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have this thing, you just think, oh, this drive is not working
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anymore. Maybe the USB tip broke off, or you broke it off purposely.
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Stuff could still possibly be recovered. Oh yeah, it's physical security,
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is it's you know, it's not usually the network's prop not usually the it
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or the network problem that causes hacks. It's a human element. It's the
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physical security of the human between the network. All it takes is for you'd
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be just to be social engineered to get a critical piece of information, to
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get your password. You take a thumb drive you found out on the street,
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You plug it into your computer, you know it. I think we
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talked about this once a year at least, if not out of six months.
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Is like when you're traveling, when you're going to places, hotels,
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everywhere now has USB plugged, newspeaports for plugging in your phones, charging your
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computers. Yeah, yeah, yeada. If you latch defcon or dream hack
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or any of those places that are the like the havens for hacker conventions and
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stuff, they will they will tell you that if you plug in your USB
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device, your computer, your phone into a public USB port, likely your
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data is getting stripped. Isn't that amazing? Yeah? Or if if somebody
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hands you, hey, I need to borrow a phone charger. I see
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you have an iPhone. Can I borrow your phone charger? Well, here's
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this special phone charger that as soon as you plug it in, it copies
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all your data off your phone and wireless. He transmits it to me,
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like it's crazy that the level of technology that people can think. So don't
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plug in USB cables you don't know. Don't plug in USB sticks you don't
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know. When you're traveling at the airport, use a power brick or use
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a chargeable battery. Don't plug him into your hotels like you know, Like,
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Hey, the nightstand I've got there's two USB's on the nightstand. Great,
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I got to charge my watch, I gotta charge my phone. Boom
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boom, there's my data gone. You never know. Yeah, take a
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power brick with you. That's your own, your own cable. If you're
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going to be staying in a hotel that you can you can actually control.
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Rather that's being like crazy level, like paranoid about stuff. But you never
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know, right, You never know who's who's hot wired a USB port or
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created a fake USB port just to see who plugs in. You know,
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when we spoke with Kim Crawley about you know, the difference between a hacker
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and a cyber criminal, you know, it's there's kind of a gray line
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there. I mean, I think she explained it pretty good in the book.
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Hacker has been around for many years. They find ways to make things
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better, and in some cases it's ways to make security better. We found
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out about some of these things because people were hacked, hacking or using it
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and saying, wait a minute, you don't want to do this, because
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this could happen to you if you plugged into say a lamp, you know
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socket with the USB who knows who put it in there? Yeah, And
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it's just like with the world of the internet, and things. Right,
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there are billions and billions of devices connected to the Internet, billions billions of
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devices connected to the Internet, and Carl, Yeah, it's just crazy how
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connected the world is. And there are resources and I'm not going to bring
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them up here Beacon, but you can find it was quite googling or using
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tour on the dark Web to find websites that will scour the Internet and provides
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you links to unprotected webcams, unprotected devices, unprotected everything. You can just
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browse them, mind you at your leisure. Yeah, because they're open and
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it's not anybody's fault except for the user who either didn't protect it properly,
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didn't change the admin password, didn't change the IP address or whatever, didn't
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protect themselves, and it's just the level of availability for some of this stuff
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is crazy. So it's like just a little bit of know how and some
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security, like you can protect yourself pretty pretty quickly. But that's gonna bring
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me around to the if you have any Ubiquity unified devices, right, Ubiquity
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had a quite quite a large I don't think they want to call it a
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hack, but a misconfiguration. Uh oh that allowed say you and I both
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had unified devices, right, and you logged in, you might have seen
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my devices. Wait, so I log into my device and I'm gonna suddenly
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see you it's it's there's their web portal, right, and it's there.
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So I would log in and my to unify portal, and then all of
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a sudden, I'm seeing up to eighty devices that aren't mine that I could
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get into, configure, update, turn off, restart, whatever. But
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then as soon as you refresh your browser it had it had something to do
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with caching or something within uh the user credentials, but Ubiquity was able to
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fix it, so it The company admitted that they had a misconfiguration with its
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cloud infrastructure which allowed some of its customers to watch footage from strangers security cameras.
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Oh boy, so now this this may not sound too unfamiliar because Wise
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had the same problem. Was there series one? Right? No? No,
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no, this was their web portal? So why is the whyse web
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portal? You can go to whys dot com slash like it's live and you
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can view all of your cameras on the web. So if I logged in,
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I might have seen your cameras. If you logged in, you might
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have seen my cameras just for a brief second, but they were able to
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identify that only so many people like thirty users or or whatever were able to
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experience this problem. But then they were able to fix it. But it
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had to be something along the same lines of credential caching or webcasing for the
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portal. So it's interesting that this issue came up but with a much larger
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worldwide security firm. Yeah, Ubiquity is pretty big. I don't Broadway,
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who's you know on the show once in a while he used his ubiquity and
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they make all kinds of products. But again, this is that's not good
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because again it makes you question the security of the device that you're using or
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the portal. Yeah, so Ubiquity says twelve hundred and sixteen accounts were affected,
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so only out of millions of customers, only this many, you know,
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a drop in the bucket were affected. But yeah, but if you're
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that one customer, right, But it's like, really, was it just
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I mean, it's it's that kind of like transparency. Really was it just
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that many accounts? Or like I feel like an issue like that would be
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a little bit more widespread, But I'm not a security researcher, so I
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don't know, but I don't want our listeners, you know that are listening
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maybe have different varied levels of expertise when it comes to your devices securing them.
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You may have had, you know, your son or somebody you know
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come over and hook up your router to your home because you wanted Wi Fi,
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you wanted to have a doorbell cam, you know, and maybe you're
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afraid of touching that. I don't you to be afraid of what is out
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there, but you should always know some of this stuff that's going on with
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Maybe you don't have a Ubiquity account, but you may have an Infinity account.
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And Exfinity also suffered a major breach just recently and they're you know,
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doing the credit protection and the whole bit. And in that breach, you
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had partials on socials, you had addresses, you had, you had email
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accounts, you had I believe hashed passwords. You had all of this stuff
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that went out. And the problem is if somebody wants to target you in
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particular, and they're able to get this hash of information and buy it on
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the dark web, uh and have this the thing is that you have to
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realize that you're going to get You're going to get an increase in you know,
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the spam or the email. You know, and some of the email
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is going to look really good because they can see what your emails. So
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who's who's your who's your email coming from? Who do you have account with?
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Oh, you gotta account with Capital One Bank, or you've got to
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get account with the American Express. Oh, because they've got that. They
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might even see the last four year of a credit card and you might get
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that. So here on the Washington Post, the article says that the company
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concluded that the information included user names, hashed passwords, and for some customers,
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the last four digits of their social account security question answers for it's in
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contact information. So you can do a lot with that information to social engineer
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somebody. Yeah, And what that means is you focus on that person and
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you use other methods to try and get more information to be able to do
23:11
a complete hack or again you know. Yeah, I mean with that information,
23:15
you could call Exfinity, get in say hey, I'm sean to weird.
23:22
Hell, yeah, what's the last for digital social here? It is?
23:23
Okay? Cool? What do you want to do well, I want
23:26
to change my count plan, I want to change my password, and I
23:27
want to do all this. They don't know that they're not really talking to
23:30
me right exactly with that information. It's just that's the level where we're at,
23:36
right. It's like with the Internet of Things and just being so connected.
23:40
It's this is just the reality of the world. It's this is going
23:44
to continue to happen and it's going to become more sophisticated. Well, do
23:47
you think people are more safe? And we all everybody on the show here
23:52
uses a password manager, do you feel that we're safer when we do that
23:57
a little bit? It's managing it so that Google's not storing my data.
24:03
It's not, you know, I'm not. I'm keeping it local to my
24:07
machine versus storing it on Google Drive or within a Chrome browser, because I
24:11
don't save my passwords within Chrome anymore, just because the way the way our
24:18
work handles management, if you stay logged in, other people can see your
24:22
passwords and stuff. So I've been either using incognito Windows or just using a
24:30
different browser or whatever. But I don't store anything within Chrome anymore. So
24:34
I don't save my passwords in Chrome. I don't you know, so I'm
24:37
always typing in my passwords or I'm using the links from one pass Well it's
24:42
a little safer, but it's not the end all. It's just if you
24:47
know, if there's a if there's an issue that like my browser gets hijacked
24:51
or something, they're not going to find anything within Chrome, which they would
24:55
have to dig deeper or get access to my machine or whatever. But you
24:59
know, it's like you have people that are saying, oh, my data
25:02
is already have there, so why does it matter? Right, Well,
25:04
because it's a it's a if it doesn't. If you don't care, there's
25:08
not going to be any regulation changes to make it better in the future.
25:12
All right, here's a question for you, Sean. Tell me what happens
25:15
when you do this. And I think a lot of it's gone through that
25:18
you're on the web, you type in a web address, but you mistype
25:22
a couple of letters close but no cigar, And you go to a website
25:27
that looks real blank and plain, and all of a sudden you start getting
25:32
the pop ups, and the pop ups are telling you that your system has
25:36
been you know, frozen for this and that and this and that what's the
25:41
safest thing to do. You can't find a way to shut it down?
25:45
Hold kill your computer with the power bunch, hold it down. Just hold
25:48
it and turn it off. Yep, yeah, just turn it off.
25:51
If you feel like your machine has been compromised, yank out the network cable
25:56
or turn it off if you're you're hardwired, like, just get it off
25:59
the internet. When yank out means you know, unplug it, I mean,
26:03
yeah, depends on how bad do you think it's going to be.
26:07
Yes, No, you're just shutting off your computer and then trying to isolate
26:11
it from the network. You still turn your computer out and run diagnostics and
26:15
run antivirus or run a scan or whatever your however you want to do it.
26:19
But just if you feel like your machine has been compromised, don't turn
26:25
it back on and try and connect to the internet. Yeah, exactly.
26:27
Don't connect it to your home Wi Fi because if your security settings on your
26:32
computer allow your data to be shared across your home network your private network,
26:38
then all of a sudden, your sister's computer could be compromised, or your
26:42
dad's computer, or your phone or you know who knows how what the level
26:47
of attack was but it's just isolating it, taking it to a repair center
26:52
somebody you know that maybe knows a little bit more about computers, and just
26:56
trying to diagnose the problem without being connected the internet run a network. Yeah.
27:00
The other thing too is if if you're trying to shut down, you
27:03
may not be able to shut down. I've seen some of these uh uh,
27:06
these these are the tacks that happened this way. And honestly, for
27:11
people who don't know, you can just hold the power button until your computer
27:14
shuts off and then unplug that get that cable unplugged definitely, and before you
27:18
and let walk away for a little bit. It's really that's you know,
27:22
some people will tend to just want to log back on and keep the network
27:26
cable plugged in, thinking that's gonna fix it, and that may not fix
27:29
it. We got to take a quick break. We come back. We've
27:30
got more stuff to talk about. I wanted an Apple Watch for Christmas,
27:36
and it looks like I may not be able to get one because well they've
27:40
been told they can't sell them in the US. So we'll tell you more
27:41
about that coming up. I'm Andy Taylor. I'm shot the word find us
27:45
at the web at tech talk radio dot com and now back to tech talk
27:49
Radio. So if you were hoping for an Apple Watch for Christmas, ah,
27:55
yes that would be me. It wasn't gonna be the Series nine or
27:57
the Ultra two. Now these are these are the latest in technology for Apple
28:03
Watch. I mean there's other Apple Watch. These were released earlier last like
28:07
I think in September. Maybe they've been on sale for a while, but
28:12
as of December twenty sixth, twenty twenty three, import and US sales of
28:18
some Apple watches were officially banned because there is a lawsuit saying that my Simo
28:25
right, it's a US tech company, and the US International Trade Comission ruled
28:30
in October that Apple had infringed on their patent and this was for blood oxygen,
28:34
right, for reading the blood oxygen level. Yeah, so it is.
28:41
It is for their my smoll. The band comes amid a legal speed
28:47
with my Simo over the blood oxygen technology that they have in their watches.
28:51
Oh and my SMO claims that Apple took employees still trade secrets and infringed on
28:56
patents related to its pulse oxymetry technology. And you know that's the thing about
29:00
you know, Apple watches too. They're great. I mean they're great because
29:04
they do a lot of things. They're some cool apps. But the other
29:07
thing that people have been saying that they really like about them is the fact
29:11
that can kind of monitor your health. They can monitor your your heartbeat.
29:15
If you maybe you have tachycardia or you know, a FIB, it can
29:19
actually monitor how your heart is doing, and it will alert you when you're
29:22
either in tech or a a FIB as well. So I have the Series
29:26
eight so I got it for my birthday eight this year. Okay, we
29:30
got it for me for birthday year. I had the Series three before that,
29:33
right, and it has some of that technology, and it's kind of
29:37
cool because they can just track it'll tell you like, hey, your blood
29:40
broke, your heart rates that I probably high today. It's like cool,
29:44
I can track my anxiety throughout the day because he tells me who my heart
29:47
rate is. Right. But it doesn't have this newer technology like the nine
29:52
or the Ultra two. So, but it's only not available in the US
29:57
because those patents are apparently or only if impacted the US. So they're still
30:02
available outside of the US in Italy and a couple other places. That this
30:07
article says. There's the other cadactil to that too, is that they are
30:11
not available in Apple store. They got pulled from Apple stores. However,
30:15
Best Buy, Target, Walmart, anywhere else that they sell the Apple watch
30:22
products may have them and they are still able to sell them. Correct.
30:27
Yeah, I don't exactly know what exactly, but no more are going to
30:33
come in. You're not going to like what they could sell what they have,
30:36
and then that will be it. Yeah. So, I mean,
30:40
and it's not a small amount of money that Apple brings in. According to
30:44
this Forbes article I'm scrobbing through is in the third quarter of twenty twenty three,
30:48
Apple Wearables, home and accessories brought an eight point two eight billion dollars
30:52
for Apple billion dollars wow billion. Wow. So it's not a small amount.
30:59
If you were looking, you know, it's not a small amount.
31:00
I mean, do you think they did it on the twenty six to wait
31:04
so people could buy them for Christmas? Of course they did? Yeah,
31:07
yeah, right, of course. So they just didn't want to absolutely cause
31:11
chaos with Apple watches and returns and all this crazy stuff. So yeah,
31:15
it's just it's just the newer one. So anything without the technology right,
31:18
without that Mysomo patent, that technology aren't affected. So but it's crazy for
31:23
Mymo, this this tech company to take on Apple and actually get the US
31:30
to ban imports and sales of these watches. I know Apple has gone to
31:33
the Biden administration and actually said can you step in? And they said no,
31:37
they're they're not going to step in on this, and they've been basically
31:41
banned from doing this. So we'll y So we'll see, we'll see all
31:44
that pans out. But this is as of the recording of the show,
31:47
which is on the twenty sixth. That happened today, Well, we'll recording
31:49
the show. It happened this morning, so that ban went to effect the
31:53
day we recorded the show. So I'm I'm wondering though, speaking about Apple
31:57
wearables. You know, I want the Apple Watch for Christmas. I didn't
32:01
get it, But I've been thinking about the Apple and I always call them
32:07
wrong. I call them ear pods. Is that that basically or is it
32:13
air pods? Wait? Wait, what do you call them? Right?
32:15
They're called the Apple air pods and they have the non pro version and the
32:20
pro version and I think they're on series two of the pro versions, right,
32:23
and the difference in price. So the pro version is one ninety nine
32:27
is what I saw that I did see another version for, but another pro
32:30
for two forty nine, so that's probably about the regular retail price. So
32:36
the Yeah, So the benefit of the pro version is it comes includes with
32:39
it includes uh, noise canceling. Okay, So I got these as an
32:45
early Christmas present this year for me, right, and because I like wearing
32:50
my earbuds at work when I'm going in and out working with equipment, I
32:52
give a hands free or I'm talking to on the phone troubleshooting, and they're
32:57
awesome, really all right, battery life is incredible, the sound quality is
33:01
incredible. The noise canceling is phenomenal. If you have a relatively quiet environment
33:12
with some white noises stuff, it just kills all that white noise. It's
33:15
fantastic. So I keep them in almost all day just to kill out some
33:20
of that white noise. But the battery, you know, it's usually a
33:23
day's worth of working I can get out of before I drop back in the
33:27
case and charge them again. Now, the stem, the stem on the
33:30
pro and if you've ever seen an air an air pod, you'll see it
33:37
has like the white piece that goes into the ear canal and then you've got
33:40
this little stem that comes out. It seems like the stem on the pro
33:44
version is a little shorter. It is a little shorter, and it's a
33:47
little more rounder just because of the technology difference between the non pros and the
33:52
pros. Right, they have to have the space for the noise canceling,
33:54
the active noise canceling, the drivers, and there's differences, but they're different
34:00
in size and shape. But you know, it's you're paying for what you
34:02
get, right. If you're not buying the pro version, you're not getting
34:05
some of the noise canceling functions. But I've been very happy with the with
34:10
the AirPods. Now, all right, what about comfort? Because so I
34:14
have and I like them. I got skull Candy and I've got Jabra the
34:20
jobbras I've always loved. I've used those in TV, you know, when
34:23
we were doing a remote I would call in on the phone and we would
34:28
do the video back and forth. But I like those, but they would
34:31
tend to fall out once in a while. Uh is so with the AirPod
34:37
pros, I got four different sizes of removable silicone cups you can put on.
34:43
They come with it, Yes, oh cool, all right, but
34:45
mine did. I mean, I'm sure I got just bought them from Apple,
34:50
so I'm sure they came with it. So I had to go through
34:52
and went, Nope, these are too small. It fell out too easy.
34:54
Nope, these are too big. They didn't fit. They you could
34:58
definitely feel, and then like I went with like one step down from the
35:01
largest size and then they hit fine. Now I'm not sure if I just
35:07
have weird ears, but like, if I'm going around, I'll notice up
35:12
it's gonna slip out, and then it falls out of my ear and I
35:14
have to try and catch it awkwardly. Right, it's like right, So
35:15
they don't always fit in my ears super well, but for the most part
35:19
they stay in ninety percent of the time of worrying them. Maybe that one
35:22
ten percent where I turned my head too funny, or I've been talking a
35:25
bunch and moving my jaw and they work themselves out and you can usually feel
35:29
that. But I've not had an issue with them fitting or fitting comfortably.
35:34
Right, And what about in phone calls, You're having a phone conversation with
35:38
somebody, has anybody ever said I can't hear you, or you know,
35:43
is it pretty cool? You know, it's pretty clear. It even it's
35:47
like in our equipment room at work, when we're in with all the coolers
35:51
and the fans blowing and stuff. It does a good job of canceling incoming
35:53
noise also not just outgoing. They can hear me more clear, and I
35:59
can hear them more clearly when I'm in a louder environment. But what I
36:01
like about it is that if I sit on my computer and I start doing
36:07
something on my computer, it recognizes them on my computer and we'll send the
36:08
audio to me your buds. Oh really, that's kind of cool. I
36:13
pick up my phone or walk away from my computer and take a phone call
36:15
boo boo, boom and moves and moves and right to my AirPods. Nice.
36:19
So seamless transition between the MacBook and an AirPod, you know, my
36:22
phone, an iPad. You can do that all seamlessly just by quickly changing
36:27
your audio settings by going, oh, I need to go to my AirPods
36:29
and it'll sync up to multiple devices. Well, that's all through, that's
36:31
all through iCloud. One of the other things I did like about those shun
36:36
is, so I got and I don't know if you've got one. This
36:38
was on your wish list, the Bellcan three and one. So it's a
36:44
charging stand where you can mag safe charge your your iPhone, mag safe charge
36:50
your your actual watch and if you've got to, you know, an eye
36:55
watch, and then you can actually mag safe the carrying case for your your
37:00
buds, which is pretty cool. All in one on that from that Belcan
37:04
device. Yeah, that was on my list of things that I wanted,
37:12
and it was an all in one stand where you drop your eye you just
37:15
set your phone, your phone on it, charge your phone, you set
37:16
your airpod's case on it. It charges, and you put your watch on
37:20
it and charges, and then if you needed to, you could charge another
37:23
USB device on it as well. But so right now, I just have
37:27
a Belkan single charger for my phone. I drop it on and I just
37:30
plugged my the air podcase in USBC and it charges just fine. Right,
37:34
So you didn't get it for Christmas? No, I did not get it
37:37
for Christmas. Sorry about that. All right, We're gonna take another quick
37:40
break. We'll come back with more of tech Talk Radio. There's more tech
37:44
to talk about. Uh. If you ever have a question for us,
37:45
you can drop us an email. Tech Guys at tech talk radio dot com.
37:50
I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Seanda Weird. Find us on x tech talk
37:52
Radio. Now back to tech talk Radio. All right, there's a Colin
37:55
Machria foseline? Is it anyway you're listening to tech talk Radio. I don't
38:00
know how it works. It's all magical stuff for me. Saw a really
38:06
cool article this week, Jean, about something that some of our older listeners
38:09
may go through. And you know, we talked earlier about headphones. Some
38:14
great headphones that are out there, whether it be hyper x, Steel series,
38:17
you know, you've got the Wise Ones, Logitech. But it comes
38:22
to watching television and being able to hear it because some of the TVs that
38:29
there are TVs that come out in the market that may have a pretty good
38:31
screen size, you have, the audio quality on them is not that great
38:37
and sometimes it's hard. I've had people tell me it's hard to hear their
38:39
TV and I'll say what kind of TV? They? Oh, fifty inch
38:43
you know, Sony TV, And I'll think, how could you not hear
38:46
that? But there are some cases where the TV sound is not that great
38:51
Cnet put together a really good article and I wanted to just give them props
38:54
for that about how to use these fixes to actually make dialogue more audible on
39:00
your TV because it happens now. Some people have asked me when it comes
39:05
to TV audio, if they want to get it, you know, get
39:07
better sound be able to understand it, should they go out and get themselves
39:12
the soundbar? And you know, soundbars are great, but it's like being
39:15
in a movie theater. If your problem is hearing the dialogue. What you're
39:21
getting with the soundbar is more an amplification of the music, the sound effects.
39:25
You know, all of that combined, it still may not be sharp
39:30
enough for you to get all of the dialogue on there. So take a
39:35
look at this article because that will kind of go into better detail. Have
39:37
you run across this at all? Oh? Yeah, So streaming gaps are
39:45
terrible about this. It's about loudness metering and going between YouTube, YouTube,
39:53
TV, Disney plus Netflix. They all have different ranges of volume. Netflix,
39:59
I know't was kind of one of the first, I think to really
40:01
work on this and make this technology available for somebody. Maybe that is a
40:07
little harder of hearing or is a trouble with the dialogue. They did a
40:09
lot to kind of clean that up. Yeah, accessibility, we've talked about
40:15
this and the university a notre name we're doing a big push on in the
40:21
classrooms is about accessibility in the classroom at a digital level. Yeah, So
40:27
accessibility across all platforms is not equal. It's not equitable. So it's hard
40:32
to make a platform and then know how to be accessible to everyone. So
40:39
you know, it's it's not just you and me, there's the whole world
40:44
has to be accessible to this. So it's hard for a manufacturer to conform
40:50
to a standard when there are tens of thousands. There's not hundreds of thousands
40:54
of different applications that have to use this that may change their settings based on
40:59
user preference, right right, People sometimes get so frustrated and like you said,
41:07
I will, I will Oh. Like you said, it kind of
41:09
goes between the streaming services too. I mean network television. You watch it
41:15
okay, then you decide, okay, I want to watch something on and
41:17
you may have seen it come across this too. On the volume levels.
41:21
You know, you go you're watching network television or maybe you're watching a streaming
41:24
service like Disney Plus or Paramount Plus. And then you go back to your
41:29
television and your television blaring because you had to turn it up just to be
41:32
able to hear the sound, and it's it's just pushed at different levels.
41:37
Yeah, so that there is a there is a mandated loudness level that has
41:45
to be met my broadcast television standards now, So there's actually equipment in most
41:50
TV stations that will bring volume levels up and down based on their loudness if
41:54
it's up or over, and then you can get fined if you're if you're
41:57
if you're you're programming exceeds that has to be brought down by this hardware.
42:01
But I will say that if you if you own a Roku TV and you
42:07
download the Roku app on your phone, you can get personal audio delivered from
42:13
your TV to your phone to your phone. So if I'm watching TV,
42:19
say Caitlin's on her computer doing work, all right, I'm sitting in the
42:21
living room on the couch and I want to watch a show. I open
42:24
up the Roku app on my phone, say give me personalized audio, and
42:28
it'll play audio lot on my phone. Nice. So if you're wearing your
42:31
air air buds. You've got that then like going into your headphones. Yeah,
42:36
it goes through your goes from your over the network. It to be
42:38
connected to the same network as your TV. But yeah, I could.
42:43
I've I've done it where I put on my my Wise bluetooth noise canceling earbuds
42:47
that I have or no headphones that I have and have walked around the house
42:51
doing chores while there's a movie been playing on the TV. So you're not
42:53
missing anything. That's kind of cool. Well, you know, you you
42:55
walk through the liver room, stop and watch for a second, walk through
42:59
it comfitting, which cause hear everything, but it's all through, but it's
43:01
not playing out of the TV anymore. So it's not playing in the room.
43:05
So I'm not interrupting anybody else. I'm not interrupting Caitlin if she's doing
43:07
work or so. If you want a Roku TV, I highly recommend you
43:12
downloading the app because it also uses your photos are remote. Now, could
43:15
you use about a Rocu stick? So if you're you're maybe it's not a
43:21
Roku TV, but maybe a Rocu stick that you're watching, you know,
43:24
streaming content on. Can you do the same thing. I guess. I
43:27
don't know. I don't have a Rocue stick. I just have the Roku
43:29
TV, so I don't know, right, I kind of wonder how that
43:31
would work. But that's actually a pretty good Ye Roku TVs are Aren't they?
43:35
Not that bad? Are they? I mean? No, we we
43:37
bought this is our second Recu TV that we've owned. We owned a thirty
43:42
five inch before we moved out of our apartment, and I think we have
43:45
the sixty five inch now and it's been fantastic, right, I remember when
43:50
TV's the last twenty years? Though, Boy I sound old when I say
43:52
that, don't I. I'm trying to think. So. The first LCD
43:57
TV that I bought, right, I bought it for Christmas twenty ten.
44:00
Right. It was a tcl oh gosh, yeah, thirty two inch seven
44:07
twenty p right, and I still have it and use it in the basement.
44:12
Mine was a view Sonic and it still works. When view Sonic made
44:15
televisions, yeah that was. It still works and I use it. I
44:19
haven't set up for my retro gaming system, so I have got my Nintendo
44:22
and stuff plugging because it has actually has a v in. Oh cool,
44:24
but it has it's got two HDMI and av in composite in component in uh
44:32
and I think that's it all right. Question for you speaking of gaming.
44:37
A couple of weeks ago, some of something you had done got you banned
44:44
from playing one of your favorite games. Did How did you? Number one?
44:49
How did you handle it? Because I mean, I play this game
44:52
on my phone a lot, and if I got banned, I would be
44:53
I would be I'd be disappointed. I Yeah, So I a lot of
45:00
World of Warcraft and I have been playing since two thousand and five, right,
45:04
And they released new content for the classic version of the game called Season
45:09
of Discovery. And if you know what happened, if you're listening and you
45:15
play World of Warcraft, or you know somebody that plays World of Warcraft,
45:17
you can ask them about it. There was a big band wave that went
45:21
through it and impacted a lot of people that yes, they violated the terms
45:24
of service by participating in a by participating in the buying and selling of gold
45:32
within the game, violates the terms of service. Could I give you one
45:37
up on play in the game. It's just like an added benefit, right,
45:39
Yes, So there was this massive band wave that banned tens of thousands,
45:44
if not hundreds of thousands of accounts across the world Warcraft and I got
45:47
caught in that because I'd been playing it. How did I let you know?
45:52
Did you get a pop up or did you get an email? Well,
45:55
if you listen to the recording of that show for two weeks go it
46:00
happened while we were on the show. Oh wow, Oh that I did
46:04
know because right at the end of the show, I was logging it into
46:07
play because I was gonna play after we recording the show, and it disconnected
46:13
me. And I was like, oh, I just got disconnected. Log
46:14
back in is like, your account has been suspended for fourteen days. You're
46:19
violating in terms of service. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you
46:22
listen to the go back and listen to the show, because it's funny,
46:23
because you could probably hear me, like my voice probably chasing pitch. I
46:29
was like, I I mad, I might, I might not have talked
46:31
the last twenty minutes of the show. I don't remember. Yeah, you
46:34
were it, but those fourteen days were up today. So I'll once we're
46:39
done recording, I'm gonna check back in, log back in, see when
46:42
the thing's good. But now you have it, will you have the stuff
46:45
that you had before the band? You don't know, Oh my gosh,
46:49
I don't know. They said that, they said, we've taken action against
46:52
you account. We're going to take back the items that you bought with the
46:54
gold that you got and all this stuff. So so it wasn't a significant
47:00
amount of gold, right, it was a very small amount. But according
47:06
to the Reddit threads and the forum posts and stuff, it didn't matter if
47:08
you bought one gold or twenty thousand gold, right, you got caught up
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in it. And so I learned my lesson because I would be devastated if
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I lost my account from of two thousand and five to now all of that
47:22
character progression across all those years. And so learned my lesson. But it
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is what it is. If you know what I'm talking about, you kind
47:31
of understand my frustration with that whole thing. All right. So I'm wondering
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in the meantime, do you have another game that you so here you are
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you can't play this one, and you know you get free time in your
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hand? Is there another game that maybe you jumped to? Yeah, so
47:47
I've been playing Overwatch two. I played some more Boulder Skate three, which
47:52
has been fantastic. I actually worked on some video projects I needed to get
47:55
done that. Yeah, I just downloaded a new game called Wrecked. It's
48:02
a demo derby demolition derby crash them up the game. And then I've been
48:07
playing a a ghost hunting game called Fasmophobia with some friends of mine, which
48:13
is a really fun game. But if you're into horror games, oh cool.
48:15
You have to like go into old buildings and they contact the ghosts and
48:19
then they you have to track them down and it's really fun. But so
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I've been I've been supplementing my time with other games, so I have at
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the end of the world. I've been contemplating of getting the game pass because
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I had it at one time, and I'm thinking, Okay, maybe it's
48:34
time to get that all set up again and and start to just have some
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fun, maybe take you know, an hour and play a game. And
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I was looking at that. I was also looking at Epic and so I
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wanted our listeners to know if you go to store dot Epic games dot com,
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they have some free game content that is in there, and they usually
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do this around this time of the year to get ready for the new year.
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You may find some there to play just this weekend that are going to
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be a lot of fun. My daughter has been a big fan of SIMS,
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and they had SIMS pets that were available and I'm talking free, you
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know, they were doing that. They've got red Dead redemption too, if
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you wanted to play that, you know, if you wanted to play it.
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A couple years ago, it was like sixty seventy bucks. Now you
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can get it for twenty dollars. And again you can find that at storep
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Epic games dot com. They list free games in there as well. But
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yeah, you can always find most of the major game providers, Epic Apple,
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you know all. You know, Activision, you know ea, they
49:36
always have these you know, store sales or you free sometimes free, just
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try and get you in to buy it and hopefully play those games and then
49:43
play more games on their platforms. But Steam always has good sales around this
49:47
time of the year or so. I'll tell you. One of the things
49:50
that blew me away the other day was a demo. If you haven't seen
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it yet, you find it on YouTube for the new updates that they've done
49:55
with Microsoft Flight Simulator and if you think about it, kind of sad because
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Microsoft Flight similarly went away for years. It was gone for a long time,
50:05
maybe five, five years, six years, I don't remember. I
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think twenty twelve was the last one and then twenty twenty was back. Yeah,
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it was like they just kind of okay, it's it's it's out there.
50:16
But the changes they made were pretty dynamic. And now the graphics.
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If you've not seen it since twenty twelve or even some of the earlier days,
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I remember playing it on DOS. That's how far back I go with
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with FLIGHTSIM it's pretty amazing when you see what they've done with it right now.
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And that's one you can play with the Microsoft you know, game Pass
50:38
what was it? It was? What is that one website I've gotten to.
50:42
I've I've bought Office off of there, and I've bought Windows eleven,
50:46
Stax Social yes, yes, Jack Social Keys. Yeah. They had a
50:51
one month subscription to game Pass I think for under eight bucks, so you
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just to get in there. It's been eight bucks. You get in there
50:59
for a month and try it and see if you like it, and if
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you do, then it goes to what fifteen sixteen bucks? A month,
51:04
so it seemed like that would be probably worth it. What year do you
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think the first Matrouf flight sibmitter released? I am going to say nineteen ninety
51:13
five, nineteen eighty six? Are you kidding me? Eighty six? What
51:20
what platform was it on? They? I don't know, but they,
51:24
oh, you know what? Did the series begin in nineteen eighty two?
51:28
That's right, that would make sense because so my mom's boss, May he
51:32
rest in peace. My mom bought an airplane with him. They went and
51:36
the goal was I was gonna get my pilot's license. They bought a Setabria
51:39
and I would go up with him and we would fly and he would do,
51:45
you know, loop the loops and you know, he would do all
51:47
that kind of stuff. But he had flight simulator in his office, so
51:51
that would have been in the early eighties, maybe eighty two. Wait what
51:57
year did you say? Eighty eighty two, eighty three, eighty six?
52:00
Yes, yeah, she stopped working for him in eighty three. But he
52:07
had a DOS version. It was like yellow like may like a wireframe almost,
52:14
but if he needed to, he could hit an escape button and a
52:16
spreadsheet would come up. So if you were at work and it wasn't Microsoft
52:22
that made it. It was it was another Mega. It was another company.
52:27
I don't know was it a Mega. I think it might have been
52:30
have something else. I want to say Apagee or something like that. But
52:34
I know that they kind of change hands. And then Mike when Microsoft took
52:37
him over, they they took it to a whole new level. Yeah,
52:40
and I was wrong. Twenty twelve was not the most recent. It was
52:45
two thousand and six. Was the last flight sim that was out before twenty
52:49
nineteen. Wow, Yeah, they had left. They had let it go
52:51
for a many years. It was still fun to fly fly back then.
52:53
But what you get now is it's pretty amazing. It's incredible you can do
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in VR. It's awesome. All right, Well, take another quick break,
53:01
come back with more of tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm
53:05
Sean Deired. Find us on Facebook at Facebook dot com tech Talkers, and
53:09
now back to tech talk Radio. So we've been talking about flight simars the
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last segment there, and just reminded me of the website that I love.
53:16
He used to sing called adsb exchange dot com. No, what is it,
53:21
adsp exchange. So adspexchange dot com is a flight tracking website, literally
53:28
a beacon. Most airplanes have what they call ADSB transmitter. That's it's the
53:32
location speed VITA Reference information name all Zoe. This guy created this website that
53:42
put these ADSB sensors around the world. He will he will literally send you
53:46
a kit so you can put one at your house and connect to the internet
53:50
and then you can go to this website and literally trackplanes around the world.
53:54
Wow. So if a plane is taken off right now in Brussels, I
53:58
can actually see this plane taken off. Yeah, so you can literally go.
54:02
You can go to this website, go to the map, and you
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can see every flight that is being picked up by an ADSB ADSB receiver.
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Can you do it by tail number? You can do by tail number.
54:15
You can just click out of one. You can just hey, there's a
54:17
plane flying overhead. Go want to go to it on your phone, pull
54:20
it up and say, oh, yep, here there's my location. Hope,
54:22
Yeah, there's a plane. Poop, And then you can see where
54:23
it is, where it came from, it's if it's registered a flight plan,
54:28
where it's landing, how long it's been in the air registration. All
54:30
this stuff is this gonna be a little better than flight Tracker, because that's
54:34
a that's another app, or flight aware, flight aware, they're they're all
54:37
kind of the same thing. Yeah, but this one just from a UI
54:42
standpoint, from a user experience standpoint, it just is so much better.
54:46
And go to this website check it out, and you will be your mind
54:50
will be blown at how many airplanes are actually in the air right now.
54:52
Oh, it's kind of crazy, especially around this time of the year too,
54:55
you know this weekend. Peoples, there are there are, I mean,
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it's insane, all right. So what is the website address again?
55:04
Globe, like the word Globe dot adsb exchange dot com. Awesome. Well,
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I'm gonna take a screen. I'm gonna take a screenshot so Andie can
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post this so you can just put it on our blog site. That'd be
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cool. All right. That's it for this week's tech Talk Radio last show
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of the year. Sorry the other guys couldn't join us, but we'll be
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back hopefully next week with more technology. If you have questions, email us
55:23
tech guys at tech talk radio dot com. Happy New Year to you,
55:28
Sean, yep, Happy new to you. Hope you all have great holiday
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we'll talk to you next week.