WEBVTT - Sony hands off TVs to TCL, TikTok stays & keeping Android safe from malware (158, January 24, 2026) 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.080 If your Windows computer is giving you issues, you are 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:07.240 not alone. Why you might be overpaying for your ride 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:13.200 shares and ads are coming to chat GPT plus your 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:16.120 tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich Tamiro and 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.840 this is rich on Tech. This is the show where 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:21.680 I talk about the tech stuff I think you should 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:23.880 know about. It's also the place where I answer your 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:27.400 questions about technology. I believe that tech should be interesting, 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:31.280 useful and fun. Let's open up those phone lines at 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.640 triple eight rich one oh one. 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That was the gold standard of TVs. 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:48.520 Right. 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.160 If you had a Treni Tron, that big old Honkin 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.400 TV set in your living room, you were living large, right. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:56.760 I mean, yes, there is the people with the Projector 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.240 TVs that was a whole other level. But if you 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.000 had a Sony TV, you had the best of the best, 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:06.120 and they ruled for many, many years, and they still do. 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:08.520 I think when it comes to picture quality, every expert 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:12.480 I've talked to, Sony is still tops. But here's the deal. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:17.240 They're feeling pressure from China and all these other upstarts, 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:21.240 not just China but also South Korea with Samsung TCL 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:23.959 high sense. But if you can't beat them, join them. 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:29.200 So TCL and Sony are teaming up for TVs and 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.079 home audio. TCL is going to own fifty one percent 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.240 of the new company, which means they have the commanding 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:38.359 lead here. Sony will keep forty nine percent. But TCL 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.520 is going to bring all of the smarts when it 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:48.560 comes to manufacturing, design, manufacturing, sales, shipping, customer support. Make 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.639 no mistake, TCL is in charge here now, even though 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.880 they're running the operation TVs and this is smart, this 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.080 is very smart. TVs are going to carry the Sony 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.560 and Bravia name. So the next time in a couple 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.160 of years, when you buy a Sony Bravia TV, look 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:08.240 closely at the back, it will say manufactured by TCL. 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:12.520 How wild is that? So? Sony obviously is bringing all 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.120 of their picture processing, their audio technology, everything that they 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.799 know about making those that picture on that screen look amazing. 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.800 But TCL is bringing everything it knows about manufacturing, and 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:25.720 they do everything top down, so they've got their own 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:29.160 display panels. They know how to keep costs down but 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.240 make the quality high. And I think that that's really 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.119 what put TCL on the map. You'd sit there, you'd 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.040 go to costco. Do they sell tcls at Costco. I'm 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.120 sure they do wherever they sell them. But you'd go 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.520 into the store best Buy and you say, hold on, 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.760 I could get this TV that's sixty five inches from 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.400 Sony for a couple thousand dollars, or I can get 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:53.120 this TV from TCL for a couple hundred dollars. I 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.320 think I'm going with the TCL. And that's what happened 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:59.240 over and over and over. So the goal here is 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.560 obviously to compete with the other giants out there that 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.280 are still going to be competing in a big way, 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.120 like Samsung in high sense, but this could be big. 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.120 I think that this will really help the Sony Bravia 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:14.400 name get into more households. And Sony, as we know, 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.960 has been kind of, you know, not focusing so much 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.360 on TVs. They're looking more at their gaming, their movies, 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.440 all the stuff that they still do in that aspect 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.919 is a huge part of Sony's business. They've got the 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:33.320 car where they teamed up with Honda, the Sony Afila. 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:35.960 So we'll see what happens. It's not going to be overnight. 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.839 This deal still needs approval, but the new venture could 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.680 launch in twenty twenty seven. I just thought that was wild. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.880 Now our other top story of the week also has 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:49.799 to do with China. See the trend here. After years 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:54.440 of drama, we finally have a deal to keep TikTok 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:55.559 in the US. 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:55.719 Now. 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:57.120 I don't know if that's a good thing or a 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:01.040 bad thing to some of you. You're thinking, ugh, that's annoying. 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:06.640 Bobo's clapping. I'm sure for all the creators out there 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:10.240 that were worried about losing their livelihood, this is a 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.080 good thing for them. But the app has struck a 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.000 deal to create a new American version of TikTok. You're 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:17.680 not really going to notice the difference. The app is 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.719 still on your phone, it's still the same. But this 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:24.240 ends a six year legal and political battle over national 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.200 security concerns. I can't believe it was twenty eighteen. I believe, no, 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:32.080 twenty eighteen, I'd be six seven eight years. I remember 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.680 going out and doing this story on TikTok. I don't 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:36.039 remember what year it was, but it was the first 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:37.640 time we heard of this, like, hold on, this might 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.719 be banned, And I went and I talked with some 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.240 TikTokers and now here we are. We finally have a resolution. 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.160 So a group of non Chinese investors are going to 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.720 own more than eighty percent of US TikTok they're calling it, 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:53.120 including Oracle, silver Lake, and an investment firm tied to 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:56.640 Michael Dell of Dell Computers. Byte Edance will keep just 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:01.279 under a twenty percent stake. And that's where because they 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:05.080 cannot have this controlled by China or else it would 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.320 be banned in the US. So TikTok says this will 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:11.560 keep the app alive for more than two hundred million 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.680 US users. It avoids the shutdown. Remember there was that 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.520 little shutdown last year. People went nuts like, wait that 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.080 get they could actually do this. They could actually do this. 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.240 They could take this thing down if you had it 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:23.600 on your phone. I think it still worked. 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:23.839 Though. 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.520 The new TikTok us will be run by Adam Presler. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.919 He is a longtime TikTok executive. The board is going 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.599 to be based or mostly US majority. But here's the 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.599 thing that's a little bit weird. Byte Edance did not 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.600 hand over the algorithm. Remember everyone said this app is 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.280 all about the algorithm. They actually did not end up 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.480 handing over the algorithm. They're going to keep control over 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.680 TikTok's algorithm. And license it to the US company, which 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.960 is a little strange. But if you use TikTok, nothing's 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.360 gonna change at this point, same app, same endless scrolling. 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.599 You can still scroll to your eye fall out of 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.159 your head. Now, here's what I thought was interesting, the 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.120 updated terms of service and privacy policy. This is what's 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.359 going viral right now. And I even posted on my 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.720 Instagram at rich on Tech kind of went through this 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:13.640 thing because people are questioning me, Hey, why do we 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:17.480 have to accept these new terms. Number one, content rights. 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.800 Anything you upload to TikTok they get to keep forever, 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.920 even if you delete it, and they can use that 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:27.000 content to train AI models, which is a huge side business. 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.360 Everyone needs a content to train models. TikTok's going to 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.200 get a flow of it every day. Even if you 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:36.480 delete a video, those rights do not disappear. I thought 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.520 this was crazy. Drafts. Even if you just put something 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.240 into the TikTok app, it is now theirs. They can 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:46.760 analyze it as much as they want. That includes videos, audios, captions, 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.520 anything that you do inside that app they can analyze. 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.640 So remember that if you want to think about uploading 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:57.200 something biometric data, they can collect face prints, voice prints 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.440 from your video and audio. We're allowed by law estroke 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:05.360 patterns on your phone. Sensitive personal information they can collect 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:09.840 or infer, including your health and mental health data, sexual orientation, 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:15.920 immigration status, financial info, and your precise location. Now I'm 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:19.200 not saying other apps don't do this, but for TikTok 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.960 to spell this all out, they are going for the gold. 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.800 They want it all, and guess what they're gonna get 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.200 it all. There are millions of users of this app. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.920 People like it, They use it on a daily basis. 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:34.520 It's a treasure trove of information. It is a data play, 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:36.960 just like every other app that you're getting for free. 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.520 Remember that none of this is illegal. Lots of other 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.840 big platforms do the same thing, but they are very 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:46.400 specific about what they're collecting on us users, even though 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:51.520 this is a new TikTok. So I thought that was interesting. Now, 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.880 I personally do have a TikTok account. I don't know 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.120 if I'm gonna continue. I'll be honest, I've got that 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:59.920 I've stopped on that screen where it says you got 0:08:59.920 --> 0:09:02.600 to accept this new privacy policy. You got to accept 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.720 these new terms and conditions. So I stopped right there 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:07.880 and I said you know what, let me give some 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:12.120 pause here. I don't actively upload stuff to TikTok, and 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:18.280 I think that overall, TikTok has enabled creators to create 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:20.800 an entirely new business for themselves, and I love that. 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.959 I think that's amazing. I think that they are paying 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.640 people right now, just like Instagram was a couple of 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.160 years ago. Instagram would pay people for posting. They don't 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.480 really do that in a big way anymore, but TikTok 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.000 still is, and so that's what keeps the fire under 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.600 under this thing, keeping it going. But I think for 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.560 a lot of people that did make their livelihood on 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.520 this app, it does let them breathe a sigh of 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.560 relief that they know this app is going to be around, 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:47.439 they know it's going to be here. I don't think 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.320 everyone's happy with the privacy policy and the new terms 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.200 and conditions, but it's not outside the scope of what 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.720 a lot of these other apps do. So there you 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:59.280 have it, TikTok staying in the US, all right? Eighty 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.760 to eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.640 four to two four one zero one. We got a 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:06.400 lot on the show today. We've got great guests. We're 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.319 gonna talk about Super Bowl TVs. I know we've got 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.520 a major winter storm either approaching in the East Coast 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.360 or happening in the East Coast, depending on when you're 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:16.880 listening to this show. If you're not listening live, we'll 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.360 talk about what you can do to stay protected from 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.080 that with your tech. And we got the feedback plus 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.360 the website rich on tech dot TV. My name is 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.839 rich Dmiro more rich on Tech coming your way right 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:36.640 after this to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.920 out with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.640 oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two, 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.640 four to one zero one. I know we got a 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.840 big storm on the East Coast. I know my family's there. 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.600 Everyone is bracing for a lot of snow. Now, depending 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.760 on when you listen to this, the storm may have 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.360 already happened. But we're here live, and so I'm just 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.760 gonna give you some these tips because it's funny. We 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.959 had a power outage at the house last night, only 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.520 for a little bit, and I'm telling you, when the 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:12.280 power goes out at the house, you realize just how 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.600 dark it gets and just how much you rely on everything. Now, 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.720 my kids don't really understand this, and so they're like, 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.880 hold on, do we have internet? Do we have this? Like, 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:23.000 what's happening? What's going on? You know, So if it's 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:24.559 the first time that's happening to you, you're like, wait 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.240 a second, what's the deal? What works? What doesn't work? 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:32.520 So Verizon sent some tips over keep your phone working. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.079 That's the thing. You need to keep your phone working 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.360 because a lot of times, even if the power goes 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.320 out at your house, you may still have access to 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.079 your phone. I think satellite has made things a lot 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:46.960 better as well. So number one, charge everything now, have 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.320 things charged up. My wife as soon as the power 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:50.880 went out, she goes, oh my gosh, my phone is 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.480 at like ten percent. I should have charged it. So 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.439 even if you're in your house, I always recommend just 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.880 charging your phone, keep it charged while you're in there, 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.240 because you don't want to be caught with the with 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.840 an uncharged phone or a tablet or a smart watch. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.839 And even your portable battery packs, make sure you're charging 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.360 all them up. We have one of those giant things 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:13.000 from ecoflow portable power station, and you know it takes 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:14.600 a while to charge it up. Once you charge it up, 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.640 it should stay charged for a while. You know, they 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.080 only lose a tiny percentage of the charge, so check 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:23.520 it every six months and make sure that your portable 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.560 batteries are charged. Cold weather can drain batteries fast, so 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.559 keep your device warm. If you're outside, keep your phone 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.959 close to your body and dry. I did not realize 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.440 that colder weather drains batteries fast. I guess that makes 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.560 sense because when you go to charge a Tesla, they 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.439 want you to warm up the battery so it's easier. 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:41.360 I don't know if that's related, but it seems like 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.360 it would be. If cell service is spotty, wi Fi 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.440 calling can be a lifesaver, so calls go over your 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.280 home internet instead of the cell network. So if the 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.480 cell network goes down, you might be able to have 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.400 Wi Fi calling, and vice versa. If your home internet 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.240 goes down, you might be able to use a cell network. 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.439 And also keep in mind a lot of phones now 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.240 support satellite text so I would go and check to 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.640 see your phone and your plan and see if satellite 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.400 texting is a thing. With the iPhone, it's iPhone fourteen 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.960 and up. With the Samsung, I believe it's the Samsung 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.720 S twenty five and up, and with the Pixel, it's 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:17.040 the Pixel ten and up, I believe. So if you 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.760 have one of those phone models, you have satellite texting. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.760 It might be through your phone itself in the case 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.480 of the Pixel and the iPhone, or it might be 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.640 through your carrier in the case of Samsung. So do 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.640 a little research online and see if your device supports 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.679 satellite messaging and get familiar with it before you actually 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.160 need it. And then if you're in a situation where 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:38.800 your phone you know you need it and everything else 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.679 is out, turn on low power mode. Get familiar with that. 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:43.640 You might have tried that on your iPhone, but all 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:45.680 of the phones have that, and some of them even 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.240 have like an ultra low power mode that can do 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:52.120 just the basics on your phone, like calls and simple 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.240 things like displaying the time, and that can really extend 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.680 your phone for a long time. Also dim your screen. 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.400 Those two steps alone could add hours of time. Download 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.360 apps ahead of time if you need to download the 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:07.000 app for your carrier or your local emergency alerts, make 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.760 sure you're signed up for those and you're getting notifications. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.640 Also set up your emergency contacts. That's a good thing 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.240 to do. Make sure I had a friend at work say, hey, rich, 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.640 let me make sure my phone rings when someone calls 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:22.360 me twice. Get familiar with these emergency contact features because 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.480 you never know when you'll need them, and you want 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.440 to make sure all your contacts are easy to find, 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.080 easy to dial. You don't want to have to be 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.280 looking for this stuff when you need it. You want 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.480 to have all this stuff in place before. Very very important. 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.840 Let's see what else. Oh, I thought this was wild. 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:45.960 This just came out, this Microsoft story about encryption. Bottom line, 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.600 if you have a Windows laptop, it might not be 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:54.320 as private as you think. Microsoft confirmed just recently that 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.560 they will give the government the encryption keys to your 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.560 laptop if they get a valid warrant. Now, they didn't 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:02.520 get a ton of these last year. They got about twenty, 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:06.200 it says according to this Forbes report. But if you 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.280 have BitLocker encryption turned on on your laptop, which a 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.240 lot of people do, if you store that encryption key 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:16.520 in the cloud, Microsoft can give that encryption key to 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.600 the FBI if they ask for it and they have 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.760 a valid warrant for it. So that means it's kind 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.720 of handing over the keys to the Kingdom. Even though 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.960 your computer is encrypted. If you store that encryption key 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.320 on the cloud with Microsoft, they can go in and 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.960 grab that key and give it to the FBI. Keep 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.160 in mind bitlockers turned on by defall on many Windows computers, 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:41.400 and Microsoft encourages users to back up the key to 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:45.000 their account. It's convenient to back it up to the cloud. 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.120 If you lose your password to your computer, you'd be 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:51.400 able to still access this, but it's very risky for privacy. Now. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.000 Other companies like Apple famously design their systems so they 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.240 say we are hands off no matter what. If you 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:02.160 encrypt your iPhone, we cannot unlock it for you. Period. 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.360 And we saw this play out a couple of years 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:09.280 ago with that San Bernardino situation. This was an iPhone 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.720 for when was this? This was in twenty sixteen. They went, 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:17.920 you know that, gosh, I'm trying to remember. It was 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.400 like a I want to say, a kid. It was 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:24.720 a young man that you know. It was a terrorism 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:28.560 attack in Santa Bernardino and I shot and killed fourteen 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:32.040 people and the FBI wanted to get Apple to help 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:33.840 open the phone, and they said, no, we're not doing this, 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.360 And ultimately the FBI found a contractor to hack into 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:42.560 the iPhone. But you know, it gives people that have 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.840 an iPhone the knowledge that, hey, things on this phone 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.200 are private no matter what. And I'm not saying it's 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.040 it's good or bad. Right in that situation, you probably 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.200 wanted the FBI to have access to that phone. So 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.040 we can understand why this was done and how it 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.080 was done. But in a lot of ways, you know 0:16:58.120 --> 0:16:59.960 these things. You know, any judge can ask for this 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:06.000 and theoretically get it from Microsoft. So if if you 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.120 have a Windows laptop and you want that recovery key, 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.119 store it on a USB drive, store it locally. Do 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.520 not put it in the cloud if you are concerned 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.520 about privacy in any way, shape or form. That's the 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.520 bottom line there eight eight eight rich one o one 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.280 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.560 The website for the show rich on Tech dot tv. 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:31.880 Coming up, Oh, you might be overpaying for your ride shares. 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.600 I'll explain why you might be leaving money on the table. 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:41.360 Coming up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.119 to rich on Tech. Eight eight eight rich one on 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:47.400 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:52.440 zero one. The website rich on Tech dot TV. Looks 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.200 like we got to follow up from last week. Kathy 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.200 and Los Angeles. What's up, Hi? 0:17:58.520 --> 0:17:59.000 How are you? 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.760 I'm doing well? What happened? You tried the Tesla? You're 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:03.640 trying to get a CD player for your Tesla? 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:10.520 Yes, unfortunately, so listen. Thank you for the link. I 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.119 went in the car. It wouldn't even pair with my 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:14.879 iPhone fourteen. 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.800 The bluetooth you guys, Okay, so explain what you did. 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.240 You went, You bought a CD player. 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.720 I bought the note, the Go Go, NAD, Go Go 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:24.800 whatever you told me about. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:29.840 Okay. The klim Kl i Am Nomad twenty twenty three 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:36.360 portable CD player with headphones, radio FM compatible Bluetooth ideal 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:40.520 for cars, sixty dollars on Amazon. You bought this and 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:42.600 what it doesn't pair with anything? 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:46.600 It didn't pair with anything. So I left the car 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:49.439 and I just tried to pair it with my iPhone 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.040 and it wasn't even pairing with the iPhone at all. 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:54.800 So it sounds like it's a problem with this thing. 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.240 And this is the problem with these little off brands 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.000 on Amazon. It's like you never know if they're going 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.760 to work or not. This has this has thirty five 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.119 hundred reviews. It gets a four point four. So it 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.520 seems to work. Are you sure you've got it in 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:10.680 the bluetooth mode? Yes, and it's just okay. The fact 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:15.440 that it won't pair with your car, is with your 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.800 phone is a little you know. That's what's concerning to me. 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:20.600 Is it because the phone is old? 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:24.359 No, Bluetooth is universal. It should work. So when you okay, 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.600 so when you turn this this little CD player on 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.960 the bluetooth mode, your phone does not see the CD player? 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:31.199 No? 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:32.280 Interesting? 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.520 Well nope, well I have not does play by itself 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:40.879 because I put the earphones on and it works, okay, 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.320 just not pairing with my iPhone. 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:49.520 You plugged in earbuds? Yes, okay, so you didn't try. Okay, 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.120 I wonder if you could try pairing it to some earbuds. Wait, 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:53.920 now that I think about it, hold on, why would 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:54.760 it pair to your phone? 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:01.840 I don't think it was I have to use the phone. 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:08.200 Well no, you would pair this directly to your Tesla, but. 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:12.200 It wasn't recognizing it either the Tesla yep. 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:14.640 Okay, So you tried pairing it with your Tesla? 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:16.200 Yeah, okay, exactly. 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:18.240 Okay, Well the phone would not recognize it, because there's 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.720 no reason a device does not play audio to an iPhone, 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:23.679 you know what I mean, Like the iPhone is not 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:25.639 a is not a receiver for that, it would be 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:29.160 a pair of Bluetooth headphones. So what I can say 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:31.600 is in a couple of things here. Number one, at 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.040 this point, I'm going to order this and see, you know, 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:37.720 if it works with my car. Number two, I would 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.080 make sure that your CD player is in the Bluetooth 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:43.160 mode and then pair a pair of headphones that are Bluetooth. 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:44.680 Do you have a pair of Bluetooth headphones or no? 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:47.680 You mean not the ones that came with. 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:53.080 No, because those are wired, I'm guessing. So you're gonna 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:55.000 have to find a pair of yeah, oh. 0:20:55.160 --> 0:21:00.400 Oh, oh, I don't have a pair of wireless all right, 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:01.960 I see what you're saying. 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:03.919 Yeah, So I would test it to make sure that 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:07.199 you know the actual Bluetooth is working and transmitting and 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:09.399 that it's working. But your car should see it, your 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:11.840 tesla should see the Bluetooth when you toggle it into 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:13.639 the Bluetooth and you have to go into that screen 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:17.200 where you would connect something like a phone, and it 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:18.440 would it would go that way. 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:20.959 But should I connect the phone. 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:22.920 No, I wouldn't do that, because you can, you can 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:25.960 connect multiple things. It may just be that the protocol 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.120 that this is using the cars like, we don't really 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:31.879 understand what you're trying to do here. So that's why 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:34.639 i'd have to look and see what the tesla to 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:37.080 anyone say in the comments that it was working with 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:42.280 a Tesla No, nobody, Ah, okay, that's probably like. 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:44.520 Who the hell is asking this stupid question? 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:47.520 I know you're getting. I actually got a lot of 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:50.080 feedback on I'm going to read some of that, but 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:52.520 I'm going to read some of the feedback I got 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:55.560 on this. Kathy. Let's see here. Ryan said, Hey, I 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:57.920 saw you talking about adding a CD player to a Tesla. 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:00.240 I was thinking, why not just grab a sixty dollar 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:03.520 USB one from Amazon, or even a portable CD player 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:06.640 with Bluetooth. The battery powered sixty dollars is not that much. 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:10.120 It might be worth a try. That's what we tried 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:12.879 to do, and it didn't seem to work. Let's see. 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:16.280 Uh okay, and I got two links. It looks like 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:18.520 people sent two links. One of them was the clem 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:21.760 Let's see the other one here. The other one is 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:26.720 the Oh, okay, this is a USB external universal CD 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:29.520 player for car. This plugs into the USB port. I 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:31.560 don't know if that's gonna work either. Let's see. I'm 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:32.960 gonna search Tesla real quick. 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:33.920 No in the. 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:38.000 Comments part, because I have a I saw something in 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:39.200 the glove compartment. 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:41.919 Yeah, that's for the USB drive. I don't know if 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:44.520 it would connect to a USB, you know, CD player 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:48.760 and then the USB. Uh, it's in the center console. 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:52.520 Usually it's like there's some in the back. My old car, 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:55.000 it was in the back, and I think, okay, it 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:55.840 was just in the back. 0:22:55.880 --> 0:22:57.320 But that's not a USB. 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:03.960 Though it's a small USB, it's USB. It's called oh Matthew. 0:23:04.400 --> 0:23:07.280 Matthew wrote in with another hack. He said, for the 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:10.159 Tesla's CD player problem, there's an old school solution that 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:14.240 still works. Use a portable CD player with an FM transmitter, 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:17.720 which yours has. The transmitter creates a tiny FM station 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:21.040 for the CD player's headphone jack. Then you tune the 0:23:21.040 --> 0:23:24.320 Tesla's FM radio to that frequency. I did this back 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:26.520 in the nineties when my car didn't have a cassette deck. 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:29.080 It works the same way today. So I think this 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:33.600 device that you bought, yes, this clim it does have 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:36.680 Let's see, is it FM transmitter FM? Does it have 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:41.040 an FM transmitter? Though, that's the question. I'd have to 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:44.680 check that too. FM transmitter. Let's see what it says 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:47.800 here FM. I don't see if it has it doesn't 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:50.479 look like it has an FM transmitter. But you can 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:52.679 buy one of those. But I'll be honest, in my experience, 0:23:52.840 --> 0:23:56.320 FM transmitters do not work very well. Maybe if it's 0:23:56.359 --> 0:23:58.240 wired into your system like back in the day I 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:00.240 had that, but I don't think it's going to really 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:03.240 worked that well. But I think that, uh, this is 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:06.200 this is a tricky one. I am uh. I'm actually 0:24:06.240 --> 0:24:09.960 going to Tesla this week. I will ask them. I'm 0:24:10.000 --> 0:24:12.960 gonna ask them specifically and see what they say. But 0:24:13.000 --> 0:24:14.800 thanks for the call, Kathy. We're gonna we're gonna get 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:16.080 to the We're gonna get to the bottom of this. 0:24:16.560 --> 0:24:16.639 Uh. 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:18.919 Until then, you're stuck with you know, you're stuck with 0:24:18.960 --> 0:24:20.600 me on the radio here, so enjoy. 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:23.480 Well, what should I hold on to it before returning 0:24:23.480 --> 0:24:24.400 it to Amazon? 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:27.280 I would try I would try pairing it one more 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:30.080 time to see if yeah, with the with the FM 0:24:30.240 --> 0:24:32.360 or the bluetooth, and see if it works, but keep 0:24:32.440 --> 0:24:35.439 us posted and we'll we'll see if anyone else some solution. 0:24:35.520 --> 0:24:39.080 Thanks a lot, Kathy, Quite the quite the interesting issue, 0:24:39.160 --> 0:24:41.520 you know, trying to get a CD player to work 0:24:41.520 --> 0:24:43.360 with the Tesla. You've got the most high tech car 0:24:43.400 --> 0:24:45.840 in the world. You've got a phone which obviously can 0:24:45.840 --> 0:24:49.639 play music, You've got radio, you've got streaming services. But 0:24:50.240 --> 0:24:54.120 like Kathy explained last week, she wants what she has, 0:24:54.200 --> 0:24:56.800 which is her CDs, and she understands them and she 0:24:57.000 --> 0:25:00.600 likes them. So I get that, Uh, you might be 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:03.120 overpaying eighty to eight rich one on one eighty eight 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:04.919 seven four to two four one zero one. You might 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:08.240 be overpaying for ride shares. This is from the National 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:12.639 Bureau of Economic Research. They did a study that the 0:25:12.800 --> 0:25:16.439 same exact ride often costs different prices on Uber and Lyft. 0:25:16.920 --> 0:25:19.639 The average difference is about three dollars and fifty cents. 0:25:19.680 --> 0:25:22.239 I know, not a ton of money, but if you're 0:25:22.280 --> 0:25:24.960 taking these a lot, that could add up to a 0:25:24.960 --> 0:25:27.760 lot of money over the years, over the whole over 0:25:27.800 --> 0:25:30.320 the course of a year. So that's about fourteen percent 0:25:30.320 --> 0:25:32.200 of the fare. So depending on the fares that you have, 0:25:32.720 --> 0:25:35.040 that could be a substantial amount Now you would think 0:25:35.080 --> 0:25:38.520 most people check both apps, but only about sixteen percent 0:25:38.600 --> 0:25:42.399 actually do in this study, and that lack of comparison 0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:45.560 adds up to more than three hundred million dollars a 0:25:45.680 --> 0:25:47.560 year in extra spending. And that was just in New 0:25:47.640 --> 0:25:50.720 York City alone. So the researchers say, the friction is 0:25:50.760 --> 0:25:52.560 pretty small. All you have to do is open up 0:25:52.600 --> 0:25:56.000 the other app and compare the price. But that tiny 0:25:56.040 --> 0:25:59.520 little friction lets prices stay higher and helps the platforms 0:25:59.560 --> 0:26:02.840 make more money. Now Uber does not allow third party 0:26:02.880 --> 0:26:06.040 price comparison tools, so that makes it tougher. They used 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:07.680 to have. When these things first came out, there was 0:26:07.720 --> 0:26:10.200 a whole bunch of there's a cottage industry of apps 0:26:10.200 --> 0:26:11.959 that would let you see the prices on both at 0:26:11.960 --> 0:26:14.800 the same time. That's really no longer the case. I 0:26:14.840 --> 0:26:19.520 will tell you, in my experience, prices vary widely. Sometimes 0:26:19.600 --> 0:26:21.880 I will open up Uber, which is kind of my default, 0:26:22.440 --> 0:26:24.919 and I will say, oh, that's really expensive. Let me 0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:28.200 check Lift, and Lift for the same exact ride could 0:26:28.200 --> 0:26:31.679 be half the price sometimes or substantially lower, and then 0:26:31.720 --> 0:26:34.159 I wonder, well, wait, why, it just has to do 0:26:34.160 --> 0:26:37.439 with the algorithm. Sometimes it's more. Sometimes it's less. So 0:26:37.520 --> 0:26:41.240 the bottom line from this research paper is have both apps. 0:26:41.280 --> 0:26:45.080 If you take ride shares, install Uber, install Lift, have 0:26:45.200 --> 0:26:48.280 them both on your phone. And if you're taking these things, 0:26:48.440 --> 0:26:53.320 try them both. That's what you have to do. Windows eleven. 0:26:53.359 --> 0:26:55.080 If you're having a whole bunch of problems, you're not 0:26:55.119 --> 0:26:58.640 the only one. Windows. Microsoft put out their first major 0:26:58.720 --> 0:27:01.919 update of twenty twenty SI and big issues for a 0:27:01.960 --> 0:27:05.480 lot of people. Some PCs are not shutting down properly, 0:27:06.320 --> 0:27:10.160 they just restart. Remote desktop issues, so if you're trying 0:27:10.200 --> 0:27:14.520 to use remote desktop or VPN, that could be an issue. Outlook. 0:27:14.520 --> 0:27:16.960 If you're using the classic version of Outlook, it's crashing 0:27:17.040 --> 0:27:20.639 or hanging or hanging in the background. Some apps just 0:27:20.640 --> 0:27:24.320 don't open and they're thrown out error codes, including the 0:27:25.040 --> 0:27:29.400 dreaded zero x eighth three F eight thousand and one. 0:27:29.600 --> 0:27:33.640 Watch out for that one cloud storage freezing or opening 0:27:33.680 --> 0:27:37.960 files when you're looking at one driver, dropbox, all kinds 0:27:38.000 --> 0:27:41.480 of issues during startup, black screens, wallpapers, resetting to black, 0:27:42.080 --> 0:27:46.040 sleep mode issues. So Microsoft has pushed out emergency fixes. 0:27:46.600 --> 0:27:49.840 But the bottom line is here. If you are on Windows, 0:27:49.880 --> 0:27:52.160 you did a major update and your PC's acting kind 0:27:52.160 --> 0:27:55.000 of weird. It is not you, as they say, it's 0:27:55.040 --> 0:27:58.760 not you, it's them. Is that what they say? Something 0:27:58.840 --> 0:28:02.200 like that? So, but do the updates. If you see 0:28:02.200 --> 0:28:05.320 more updates, do them. If you have these issues, If 0:28:05.320 --> 0:28:07.960 you didn't do the update, I'd hold off unless it's 0:28:08.280 --> 0:28:11.520 forced on you, which sometimes they do, but I would, uh, 0:28:11.560 --> 0:28:13.200 I would hold off if you haven't done the update. 0:28:13.280 --> 0:28:15.840 Let them fix some of this stuff. That's always frustrating. 0:28:16.119 --> 0:28:17.679 That's why I like a show like this where you 0:28:17.720 --> 0:28:20.840 hear it, you see it, or even social media, we're like, oh, okay, 0:28:20.880 --> 0:28:24.720 that's what's happening. I'm not the only one, okay. Eighty 0:28:24.800 --> 0:28:27.080 eight rich one on one eighty eight seven four to 0:28:27.119 --> 0:28:29.280 two four one zero one. The website for the show 0:28:29.520 --> 0:28:32.639 rich on Tech dot TV. We'll get to some of 0:28:32.720 --> 0:28:36.560 your calls after this, and also what else I gotta 0:28:36.560 --> 0:28:40.200 tell you. Oh this is this is interesting. Verizon just 0:28:40.280 --> 0:28:43.400 bought back the network it sold to Frontier a couple 0:28:43.400 --> 0:28:45.360 of years ago. I'll explain with what that's all about. 0:28:45.400 --> 0:28:52.280 Coming up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back 0:28:52.280 --> 0:28:54.520 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 0:28:54.600 --> 0:28:59.560 talking technology, Triple eight rich one oh one eight eight 0:28:59.640 --> 0:29:06.080 eight seven four two four one zero one? Uh, Seafur? 0:29:06.200 --> 0:29:08.800 Is that how I'm saying it right? Seafur in San Diego? 0:29:10.960 --> 0:29:13.280 You're on with Ritchie there, Yes, sir, how do you 0:29:13.280 --> 0:29:14.840 say your name? Did I say it right? 0:29:15.720 --> 0:29:16.680 Ye? Actually? Caesar? 0:29:17.040 --> 0:29:20.280 Oh Caesar, yes, sir. Now I got Seafur on my 0:29:20.400 --> 0:29:20.960 screen here. 0:29:21.360 --> 0:29:24.800 No, let's say it's actually says that for Spanish. But okay, 0:29:24.880 --> 0:29:25.840 friends call me Caesar. 0:29:26.000 --> 0:29:28.880 Okay, Caesar, I can say that. That's easy. Okay, Caesar, 0:29:28.920 --> 0:29:29.360 what's up? 0:29:30.320 --> 0:29:32.480 Thank you? Thank you for taking my call and joy 0:29:32.520 --> 0:29:32.920 your show. 0:29:33.240 --> 0:29:34.520 Thank you week, Thank you. 0:29:35.920 --> 0:29:39.520 I'm calling because I would like your recommendation or opinion 0:29:39.640 --> 0:29:44.880 on regarding I have my main TV. It's I have 0:29:44.960 --> 0:29:47.640 a fifty five inch I believe it is? 0:29:48.040 --> 0:29:49.040 Oh that small? 0:29:49.680 --> 0:29:52.200 Why? Why so small? I'm kidding? 0:29:52.680 --> 0:29:55.160 My daughter was My daughter was two years old when 0:29:55.160 --> 0:29:57.840 I bought it, and she's turn eighteen a few months ago. 0:29:57.680 --> 0:30:03.719 So hey, yeah it I just want to do it is. 0:30:03.760 --> 0:30:06.200 I'm nothing wrong with it, but I just want something more, 0:30:06.440 --> 0:30:09.800 you know, bigger, bigger screen. And I went to, uh, 0:30:09.920 --> 0:30:12.440 it's amazing how the prices have come down quite a bit. 0:30:12.480 --> 0:30:15.680 I noticed on on the on TVs. But then my 0:30:16.000 --> 0:30:18.960 question also is I would look for you know, I 0:30:19.040 --> 0:30:21.360 was looking for another l GV because they've been good 0:30:21.360 --> 0:30:25.680 to me. Yeah, and I noticed that they have UHD, 0:30:26.480 --> 0:30:29.680 then they have an q L ED TV, and then 0:30:29.800 --> 0:30:33.160 of course the the ol legs. But I want to 0:30:33.200 --> 0:30:36.800 I found a t C L E L E D, 0:30:37.400 --> 0:30:40.720 and I wanted your opinion on those. I was inclined 0:30:40.760 --> 0:30:42.560 on one of those because it seems that you get up, 0:30:43.160 --> 0:30:47.480 you get better better, you know, better specs on the 0:30:47.520 --> 0:30:48.480 TV for the money. 0:30:48.600 --> 0:30:50.640 Oh yeah, yeah, Well this is what we were talking 0:30:50.680 --> 0:30:53.000 about at the beginning, and this is why Sony is 0:30:53.000 --> 0:30:56.080 having such a tough time because these TCL prices. I'm 0:30:56.080 --> 0:30:58.720 looking at them right now. So I'm on slick deals, 0:30:58.800 --> 0:31:00.640 looking at some of the latest. You know, right now 0:31:00.680 --> 0:31:03.600 is the time to buy because the Super bowls coming up, right, 0:31:03.720 --> 0:31:06.600 So all these TVs are on great deals. So I'm 0:31:06.600 --> 0:31:09.959 looking at a fifty five inch O lead from Samsung 0:31:10.920 --> 0:31:14.400 for one thousand bucks. I'm looking at a sixty five 0:31:14.440 --> 0:31:18.080 inch O lead from lg for eight hundred and nine dollars, 0:31:19.040 --> 0:31:22.720 a sixty five inch TCL QM eight K, which is 0:31:22.760 --> 0:31:26.719 their flagship, that's nine to ninety seven and that's their 0:31:26.760 --> 0:31:31.200 flagship device right now, what what are you looking to spend? 0:31:31.400 --> 0:31:33.360 Are you looking to spend like under five hundred, under 0:31:33.360 --> 0:31:34.800 one thousand, under two thousand? 0:31:35.640 --> 0:31:39.120 I mean to be honest, and I don't know if 0:31:39.160 --> 0:31:41.760 it was fifteen hundred, I was, you know, even even 0:31:42.520 --> 0:31:44.440 two thousand if I had to. But then when I 0:31:44.520 --> 0:31:47.600 noticed prices are low, and it's just I'm not sure 0:31:47.600 --> 0:31:48.040 where to go. 0:31:48.240 --> 0:31:48.640 Okay, but. 0:31:50.160 --> 0:31:51.400 Whatever you were thinking. 0:31:52.080 --> 0:31:56.080 I think this this TCL QM eight K, which is 0:31:56.120 --> 0:32:01.160 a QD Mini led, I think that for one thousand 0:32:01.240 --> 0:32:06.640 bucks is a fantastic deal. Sixty five inch TV tcls 0:32:06.680 --> 0:32:10.760 are super highly rated. This is actually one of the 0:32:10.960 --> 0:32:13.280 one of the highest rated TVs from our expert that 0:32:13.320 --> 0:32:16.400 we have on Let's see, Yeah the. 0:32:16.440 --> 0:32:20.320 Cue and then yeah, I'm looking at I'm hoping that 0:32:20.360 --> 0:32:22.040 at least to get at least of seventy five. 0:32:22.440 --> 0:32:24.680 Oh, at least a seventy five Okay, so they see, 0:32:24.760 --> 0:32:26.840 let's see, okay, seventy five inch, let's see if they 0:32:26.840 --> 0:32:29.040 have one here seventy five. I think they make that 0:32:29.120 --> 0:32:32.120 same one. Okay, So here's the here's these Okay, this 0:32:32.160 --> 0:32:34.360 is the one you want right here? Best Buy seventy 0:32:34.360 --> 0:32:38.920 five inch TCL QM seven K sent one fifty bucks. 0:32:38.920 --> 0:32:40.720 That's it, Caesar, you got it. Just go to best 0:32:40.720 --> 0:32:43.200 Buy right now. That's that's a that's a deal. 0:32:43.920 --> 0:32:47.800 Oh. I truly appreciate it. I truly appreciate it. I mean, 0:32:48.080 --> 0:32:50.520 it's just like there's so many different options and I 0:32:50.560 --> 0:32:52.520 don't know where to go. But I did I did 0:32:52.600 --> 0:32:56.160 hear that tcls are becoming very much much better for 0:32:56.200 --> 0:32:59.240 the money. And also I don't I really don't. I 0:32:59.360 --> 0:33:02.920 really don't not focused on apps because on the TV, 0:33:02.960 --> 0:33:04.800 I don't care for the smart portion of it. Okay, 0:33:05.040 --> 0:33:08.040 I use I use external devices. I use an Nvidia 0:33:08.120 --> 0:33:08.560 Shield Pro. 0:33:09.600 --> 0:33:10.680 Nice. People love us. 0:33:10.720 --> 0:33:14.240 I love that thing. And I use the fire sticks 0:33:14.240 --> 0:33:14.880 from my bedroom. 0:33:14.920 --> 0:33:17.200 So nice. Okay, Well this I think this is the 0:33:17.200 --> 0:33:19.640 deal you want. It's the uh now, it's gonna come 0:33:19.680 --> 0:33:22.720 with Google TV. But it's the TCL seventy five inch 0:33:22.800 --> 0:33:28.880 QM seven K four k UHD HDR QD Mini LED. 0:33:29.120 --> 0:33:31.720 It's nine to ninety nine at best Buy. I'll be honest. 0:33:31.760 --> 0:33:34.720 I bought my TV from best Buy a couple years ago, 0:33:34.760 --> 0:33:37.040 maybe two years ago. I ordered it in the morning. 0:33:37.160 --> 0:33:39.480 I was watching it by the afternoon. I could not 0:33:39.640 --> 0:33:43.160 believe the delivery, the service, everything. I was so impressed. 0:33:43.200 --> 0:33:48.360 So it looks like I found my TV. I appreciate 0:33:48.400 --> 0:33:48.800 your time. 0:33:48.840 --> 0:33:51.840 All right, Caesar, thank you, thanks for listening. Sounds like 0:33:51.880 --> 0:33:54.560 the super Bowl party is at Caesar's house this year. 0:33:54.760 --> 0:33:57.040 Whenever you get the new TV, you got to have 0:33:57.080 --> 0:33:58.920 the super Bowl party. That's what I did a couple 0:33:58.880 --> 0:34:01.200 of years ago. When I had my brand new TV. 0:34:01.560 --> 0:34:03.760 I was like, all right, we'll do this because I 0:34:03.880 --> 0:34:08.760 upgraded from a fifty five inch TV that I had forever. 0:34:08.920 --> 0:34:11.600 I think it was a Visio maybe, and it was great, 0:34:12.000 --> 0:34:14.640 but I went with the high sense. Let's see, I 0:34:14.640 --> 0:34:16.600 think it was the I think it was a U 0:34:16.640 --> 0:34:19.680 eight and I love it. I mean it's great. It's 0:34:19.719 --> 0:34:21.560 everyone that comes to my house is rich. This TV 0:34:21.640 --> 0:34:23.520 looks so good. I said, it's not even that expensive. 0:34:23.560 --> 0:34:25.680 It was like under a thousand bucks. I think everything 0:34:25.920 --> 0:34:26.680 all included. 0:34:26.880 --> 0:34:27.040 Now. 0:34:27.160 --> 0:34:28.640 The only thing I did wrong was I went with 0:34:28.680 --> 0:34:31.840 sixty five inch instead of seventy five. Everyone now is 0:34:31.880 --> 0:34:34.520 going with seventy five. So if you have the space, 0:34:35.080 --> 0:34:37.520 go with that. But yeah, and we will, by the way, 0:34:37.640 --> 0:34:41.120 have an expert on a little bit later. On Caleb Dennison, 0:34:41.360 --> 0:34:45.239 he is the TV guy. He will be talking about 0:34:45.280 --> 0:34:48.480 all these TVs later in the show, and he'll talk 0:34:48.480 --> 0:34:52.600 about some of the newest deals out there. Verizon and 0:34:52.680 --> 0:34:57.480 Frontier are back together again. Verizon just basically purchased these 0:34:57.800 --> 0:35:00.000 areas from Frontier that they sold to him a couple 0:35:00.120 --> 0:35:04.960 years ago, so these fiber networks. So basically, if you 0:35:05.080 --> 0:35:08.600 here's here's the thesis of this. If you are in 0:35:08.160 --> 0:35:11.719 an area that used to be Frontier or sorry, that 0:35:11.800 --> 0:35:14.080 used to be Verizon then became Frontier and now it's 0:35:14.080 --> 0:35:17.200 back to Verizon, you should call them up and see 0:35:17.200 --> 0:35:19.279 what kind of deal you can get, because they're doing 0:35:19.360 --> 0:35:22.880 really good deals. If you get your mobile phone through Verizon, 0:35:23.400 --> 0:35:26.000 or if you're a Verizon customer, you can get six 0:35:26.040 --> 0:35:28.960 months of Frontier fiber Internet for free. If you bundle 0:35:29.600 --> 0:35:31.879 so you can get free phones or giving away free 0:35:31.880 --> 0:35:35.520 iPhone Seventeen's so long story short. If you live in 0:35:35.520 --> 0:35:39.600 an area that either had Frontier or used to have 0:35:39.680 --> 0:35:42.080 Verizon and became Frontier and now it's back to Verizon, 0:35:42.200 --> 0:35:44.200 call them up. Call up Verizon and see what kind 0:35:44.200 --> 0:35:46.080 of deal they can give you, because right now they're 0:35:46.400 --> 0:35:48.680 rolling out some pretty aggressive deals to get people into 0:35:48.680 --> 0:35:51.879 these bundles. Eighty eight Rich one oh one eighty eight 0:35:51.960 --> 0:35:54.319 seven four to two four one zero one more rich 0:35:54.360 --> 0:35:58.360 on Tech, come in your way right after this. Welcome 0:35:58.360 --> 0:36:00.600 back to rich On Tech. Rich to Mire here hanging 0:36:00.600 --> 0:36:04.279 out with you talking technology at triple eight Rich one 0:36:04.280 --> 0:36:07.360 oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two 0:36:07.440 --> 0:36:11.840 four one zero one. We were talking Windows issues. A 0:36:11.880 --> 0:36:14.200 lot of people did these updates. They had some issues. 0:36:14.239 --> 0:36:18.040 But Josh and Lansing, Michigan says he has a solution. 0:36:18.280 --> 0:36:20.920 If you're having some issues with your Windows computer. What's 0:36:20.960 --> 0:36:21.440 your solution? 0:36:21.600 --> 0:36:26.240 Josh, yeah, Hi, so I had the same issues everybody 0:36:26.280 --> 0:36:29.640 else had. The solution is, even when you check your 0:36:29.680 --> 0:36:33.040 computer to update its drivers, it says you're up to date, 0:36:33.080 --> 0:36:36.720 you're not. You have to locate your graphics card manufacturer 0:36:37.360 --> 0:36:42.320 and go to the manufacturer's website and update your graphics 0:36:42.360 --> 0:36:45.880 card from there. My update took about two two and 0:36:45.920 --> 0:36:48.520 a half hours, and every sense I'm. 0:36:48.320 --> 0:36:51.640 Back, Oh nice, Okay, So you were having some flickering 0:36:51.640 --> 0:36:54.359 issues and all that kind of stuff, and Windows was saying, oh, 0:36:54.400 --> 0:36:56.279 you're fine, you're up to date. But then you went 0:36:56.320 --> 0:36:59.040 to like what in video's website or Intel's or something, 0:36:59.040 --> 0:37:01.279 and it was like, Oh, there's a firmware update for 0:37:01.320 --> 0:37:02.560 your or driver update. 0:37:03.560 --> 0:37:06.160 It was it was it was Intel for me, it's 0:37:06.200 --> 0:37:09.640 gonna work for everybody. I suspect because Windows isn't communicating 0:37:09.640 --> 0:37:12.479 with those chip manufacturers and that's why they can't find 0:37:12.480 --> 0:37:13.840 the issue interesting. 0:37:13.880 --> 0:37:15.759 Okay, all right, so good, so good tip. If you're 0:37:15.760 --> 0:37:19.200 having issues, something flickering, something's giving you. It could be anything, right, 0:37:19.280 --> 0:37:22.080 like your your your scanner, whatever you've got, that's. 0:37:22.160 --> 0:37:26.080 Videos, my videos. I use the same streaming services and 0:37:26.520 --> 0:37:29.720 watch the same videos routinely, and they would just stop 0:37:30.239 --> 0:37:33.520 and two seconds later start and then five seconds later stop. 0:37:33.920 --> 0:37:36.239 That was consistent, and that was a huge issue too. 0:37:36.320 --> 0:37:37.239 And that solves. 0:37:37.480 --> 0:37:39.839 Okay, so everything was off. Even though Windows was saying 0:37:39.840 --> 0:37:41.200 you're up to date, you really weren't. 0:37:41.200 --> 0:37:42.680 Basically exactly, I. 0:37:42.640 --> 0:37:44.359 Did all the up to dates on Windows. I even 0:37:44.400 --> 0:37:47.480 said from other manufacturers, some new products, and there's nothing there. 0:37:47.520 --> 0:37:49.440 I was fully up to date. I even went to 0:37:49.480 --> 0:37:52.840 my internal computer check to run diagnostics, and it's that 0:37:52.960 --> 0:37:55.080 I was up to date. Wow, that's what I That's 0:37:55.120 --> 0:37:57.120 what really throws people off that are looking into this 0:37:57.160 --> 0:38:00.480 It's so frustrating because usually that's correct. But after another day, 0:38:00.520 --> 0:38:02.239 I was forget this, and I went right to the 0:38:02.239 --> 0:38:05.320 manufacturer and it scanned my computer. I just clicked support 0:38:05.320 --> 0:38:08.280 at the Intel site and it scanned my computer instead. 0:38:08.320 --> 0:38:11.120 That was what I suspected was there and update now 0:38:11.160 --> 0:38:11.759 and I did it. 0:38:12.080 --> 0:38:14.680 Wow. Good, okay, all right, good to know, Josh, thanks 0:38:14.680 --> 0:38:17.960 for the call. Appreciate it. So yeah, if your computer's 0:38:17.960 --> 0:38:20.319 saying it's working and it's up to date, it may 0:38:20.360 --> 0:38:23.719 not be. So just remember that eighty eight rich one 0:38:23.800 --> 0:38:26.640 oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:38:26.880 --> 0:38:27.759 one zero one. 0:38:28.239 --> 0:38:28.359 Uh. 0:38:28.440 --> 0:38:31.240 Scott writes in I keep getting letters saying my personal 0:38:31.239 --> 0:38:35.440 information may have been exposed in data breaches. Kaiser, Permanente, 0:38:35.480 --> 0:38:38.440 and AutoNation are the latest. Each time they give me 0:38:38.560 --> 0:38:42.880 free credit monitoring through companies like LifeLock, Equifax, or cyber Scout. 0:38:43.600 --> 0:38:46.600 Right now, I already have one more year free of LifeLock, 0:38:46.680 --> 0:38:49.239 two years of experience. I'm wondering if I should sign 0:38:49.320 --> 0:38:51.520 up for every service that's offered or just stick with 0:38:51.560 --> 0:38:54.480 one or two. It feels like these breaches are inevitable, 0:38:54.520 --> 0:38:59.600 but paying for multiple monitoring services can get expensive fast. Well, 0:38:59.640 --> 0:39:01.800 it's inches, so you're not well. I think you wouldn't 0:39:01.800 --> 0:39:04.600 be paying for them because you're getting them free. But 0:39:04.680 --> 0:39:08.520 here's the deal. I think that you know LifeLock and Experience, 0:39:08.560 --> 0:39:12.439 they're reputable. I think that those two are enough for now. 0:39:12.520 --> 0:39:14.320 I don't think you need to sign up for every 0:39:14.480 --> 0:39:17.520 free monitoring offer that comes along. I get these things 0:39:17.560 --> 0:39:19.560 in the mail all the time, and I've yet to 0:39:19.560 --> 0:39:20.759 sign up for one of them. And I'll tell you 0:39:20.800 --> 0:39:24.200 why in a second. Number one. Every time you sign up, 0:39:24.239 --> 0:39:26.120 you have to hand over all of your information of 0:39:26.200 --> 0:39:29.680 that company, and so you're giving them everything that you've 0:39:29.719 --> 0:39:32.879 got so that they can go out and monitor for you. 0:39:33.440 --> 0:39:36.040 So if you really feel like you need that done, 0:39:36.080 --> 0:39:38.160 sure sign up for one of them. Get that free year, 0:39:38.520 --> 0:39:42.000 see what happens. But I think the easiest way to 0:39:42.120 --> 0:39:44.960 do this and to deal with this situation is to 0:39:45.040 --> 0:39:47.440 freeze your credit. And you could do that for free. 0:39:47.840 --> 0:39:52.200 You can go on to Experience, Equifax and TransUnion. You 0:39:52.239 --> 0:39:55.319 go to their websites, you sign up. Now. The thing 0:39:55.400 --> 0:39:58.560 to be careful about every one of these websites will 0:39:58.600 --> 0:40:02.319 try to fake it, and they will they will put 0:40:02.400 --> 0:40:04.680 up some offer because they know people are going here 0:40:04.680 --> 0:40:07.480 to do this. Right when you log in, it'll be like, oh, 0:40:07.560 --> 0:40:10.160 do you want to pay for credit plus freezing? And 0:40:10.200 --> 0:40:11.719 you're like, oh, yeah, that's what I came here to do. 0:40:11.840 --> 0:40:15.719 Uh ah, that's a paid service. You do not want 0:40:15.760 --> 0:40:17.080 to do that. You want to go to the bottom 0:40:17.120 --> 0:40:19.400 of the screen. There's a tiny little text that says, 0:40:19.680 --> 0:40:24.080 freeze my credit and it's free, completely free, and I've 0:40:24.080 --> 0:40:26.520 done this. It is very easy to unfreeze your credit 0:40:27.000 --> 0:40:28.680 if you need to go in, you know, you want 0:40:28.680 --> 0:40:31.520 to apply for a card, to loan whatever. I'm not 0:40:31.560 --> 0:40:34.839 a financial person, but that's what I do, and it's 0:40:34.920 --> 0:40:37.440 I've done it, I've unlocked it, I've locked it. It's 0:40:37.480 --> 0:40:40.680 pretty easy to do, so take the time to do that, 0:40:40.760 --> 0:40:41.880 and you don't have to deal with a lot of 0:40:41.880 --> 0:40:43.879 this other stuff. But if you're getting the year free 0:40:43.880 --> 0:40:46.200 and it makes you feel better, absolutely sign up. But 0:40:46.239 --> 0:40:47.839 you don't need to sign up for one hundred of these. 0:40:49.800 --> 0:40:52.040 Connie writes in Hey rich, my husband just got hearing 0:40:52.080 --> 0:40:54.239 aids now. The TV volume that works for me is 0:40:54.280 --> 0:40:57.560 too loud for him. Someone suggested headphones so I can 0:40:57.600 --> 0:41:00.720 listen louder without bothering him. There's so many ops online. 0:41:00.960 --> 0:41:05.680 I'm not sure what's easiest for us older folks. Any suggestions, So, Connie, 0:41:06.000 --> 0:41:08.880 the easiest thing would be wireless headphones that connect directly 0:41:08.920 --> 0:41:11.799 to the TV. So a lot of TV support Bluetooth. 0:41:12.600 --> 0:41:14.520 If yours doesn't, you might be able to add like 0:41:14.520 --> 0:41:16.920 a little Bluetooth transmitter to the headphone jack or the 0:41:16.960 --> 0:41:21.560 optical audio port. But the key thing here is that 0:41:21.680 --> 0:41:25.440 your TV has to support headphones and speakers at the 0:41:25.440 --> 0:41:28.239 same time. Not all of them do. So if you 0:41:28.239 --> 0:41:30.480 want to confirm that, I would just get any pair 0:41:30.480 --> 0:41:33.680 of Bluetooth earbuds you have around your house and connect 0:41:33.719 --> 0:41:36.360 them to the TV. See if you can listen on 0:41:36.440 --> 0:41:41.160 those earbuds and listen through the speaker, so your husband 0:41:41.160 --> 0:41:42.880 be able to listen and then you'd be able to 0:41:42.880 --> 0:41:45.839 listen at the same time. If that doesn't work, there's 0:41:45.920 --> 0:41:48.200 a whole bunch of products from this company called a 0:41:48.320 --> 0:41:52.000 van Tree A v A N t r e E. 0:41:52.560 --> 0:41:55.759 They've got a whole bunch of products specifically for these solutions. 0:41:56.600 --> 0:41:59.000 A v A N t r e e dot Com. 0:41:59.480 --> 0:42:02.479 Check them out. Clearly someone there was like, oh, yeah, 0:42:02.520 --> 0:42:06.799 people need these solutions, that's why they have them. Mary 0:42:06.840 --> 0:42:09.279 writes in Hey, Rich, Happy New Year. I'm eighty seven 0:42:09.400 --> 0:42:11.680 years old. I'm not very tech savvy. I have a 0:42:11.719 --> 0:42:15.840 Samsung Android phone, and I'm worried about viruses and staying protected. 0:42:16.320 --> 0:42:18.359 I'm on to fixed in some income, so i can't 0:42:18.400 --> 0:42:22.319 afford fancy expensive security services. Can you recommend something that 0:42:22.360 --> 0:42:27.239 will keep my phone safe? Mary, Happy New Year to you. 0:42:27.239 --> 0:42:29.000 You don't need to be tech savvy. Anyone should be 0:42:29.040 --> 0:42:31.680 able to do this. If you have a Samsung phone, 0:42:31.840 --> 0:42:35.759 it already has built in protections. So the thing you 0:42:35.800 --> 0:42:39.360 want to do is visit a section of your phone 0:42:39.520 --> 0:42:44.080 under the settings. Hopefully you can get there settings Security 0:42:44.080 --> 0:42:46.719 and Privacy, and there's a whole bunch of stuff. It 0:42:46.760 --> 0:42:49.920 will immediately start scanning your phone for threats. Up at 0:42:49.920 --> 0:42:51.960 the top should have a green banner that says looks good. 0:42:52.480 --> 0:42:54.759 Make sure you have your lock screen set. Make sure 0:42:54.760 --> 0:42:58.360 you have no recommendations under account security, loss, device protection, 0:42:59.080 --> 0:43:01.920 app security, I'll say no threats found updates. You can 0:43:01.960 --> 0:43:06.200 look there. Now the things you want to do. Make 0:43:06.239 --> 0:43:09.680 sure your auto blocker is on, so tap that on. 0:43:10.440 --> 0:43:14.160 This will block apps from unauthorized sources, like if you 0:43:14.200 --> 0:43:18.879 try to download something outside of Google Player. The Galaxy Store. 0:43:18.880 --> 0:43:22.440 It'll prevent that from being installed. It'll block malware, images 0:43:22.480 --> 0:43:27.800 and messaging apps, non official software, updates, commands by USB cable. 0:43:27.880 --> 0:43:30.680 It'll do a lot, make sure auto blocker is turned on. 0:43:32.440 --> 0:43:35.080 What else The other thing you want to do is 0:43:35.719 --> 0:43:41.040 use Chrome. Chrome will protect you with what's called what 0:43:41.080 --> 0:43:44.560 do they call it. They've got two levels. They've got 0:43:44.600 --> 0:43:49.400 Safe Browsing and then they've got Enhanced Chrome Safe Browsing. 0:43:49.960 --> 0:43:54.480 Safe browsing is the basic that means that basically every 0:43:54.880 --> 0:43:57.359 URL you enter into Chrome, it is checking to make 0:43:57.400 --> 0:43:59.319 sure that it's legitimate and it's not going to try 0:43:59.320 --> 0:44:02.160 to steal your info. Doesn't always work, but it works 0:44:02.239 --> 0:44:04.680 pretty well. Now, if you want a little bit more, 0:44:04.719 --> 0:44:08.440 you can turn on what's called Google Enhanced Safe Browsing. 0:44:08.840 --> 0:44:10.960 And if you turn that on, it's actually going to 0:44:11.040 --> 0:44:14.120 use a little bit more AI to give you extra support. 0:44:14.200 --> 0:44:16.880 So these are websites that it may never have encountered, 0:44:16.920 --> 0:44:19.279 and it still looks at them and says, eh, we 0:44:19.320 --> 0:44:20.920 don't think this is safe. We're gonna put up a 0:44:20.920 --> 0:44:23.440 big red screen to make you not use it. So 0:44:23.480 --> 0:44:27.520 you can turn those on in your Chrome settings. Let's 0:44:27.520 --> 0:44:30.880 see if I can find it here let's see if 0:44:30.920 --> 0:44:34.440 it's on here. See if I can't find this stuff quickly, 0:44:34.520 --> 0:44:36.919 how do I expect you to find this stuff quickly? Right? 0:44:37.680 --> 0:44:43.279 So I'm looking about Chrome downloads, languages. Okay, where are 0:44:43.280 --> 0:44:47.480 you a Chrome? Come on basics? Oh, privacy and security 0:44:47.520 --> 0:44:53.760 there it is, duh, privacy insecurity, safe browsing. Enhanced protection 0:44:53.960 --> 0:44:56.600 is turned on. I would go into your Chrome on 0:44:56.760 --> 0:45:01.280 your Android settings and then look under privacy and security 0:45:01.760 --> 0:45:06.160 and delete. Sorry, where'd it go? Safe browsing? Make sure 0:45:06.239 --> 0:45:09.279 enhanced protection is turned on. That'll do a lot to 0:45:09.360 --> 0:45:12.200 keep you protected. No matter what link you click, it 0:45:12.280 --> 0:45:15.359 will scan that and make sure it's safe. Not gonna 0:45:15.400 --> 0:45:17.560 work every single time. Yes, there are things that can 0:45:17.600 --> 0:45:19.520 still slip through the cracks, but it's gonna be pretty good. 0:45:20.080 --> 0:45:23.040 The other thing is this app I like called Sofos 0:45:23.320 --> 0:45:29.560 Intercept X Sofos Intercept X for mobile. It's free and 0:45:29.600 --> 0:45:31.600 I have it on my phone, and it does a 0:45:31.600 --> 0:45:34.759 pretty good job. It's scanning, it's basically doing a lot 0:45:34.800 --> 0:45:36.840 of the stuff that the Samsung is doing. So if 0:45:36.880 --> 0:45:38.640 you're okay with all that stuff and the Chrome stuff, 0:45:38.640 --> 0:45:40.400 you don't need this. But if you want a little 0:45:40.440 --> 0:45:45.720 extra level, then I would say, try this Sofos Intercept 0:45:46.120 --> 0:45:49.839 X and it's mobile. It's available on Google Play. Let 0:45:49.840 --> 0:45:54.239 me see what is exactly the name is. Of course, 0:45:54.280 --> 0:45:56.240 don't have a link. That's weird. Okay, here's the link. 0:45:56.480 --> 0:46:00.840 Sofos Intercept X for Mobile by Sofos Limited. The problem 0:46:00.880 --> 0:46:03.760 is when you search for these apps, there's other apps 0:46:03.760 --> 0:46:06.319 that kind of masquerade under the same more similar name. 0:46:06.400 --> 0:46:08.719 So be very careful when you download stuff that I 0:46:08.800 --> 0:46:11.880 mentioned on the radio that you're getting the right app. 0:46:12.320 --> 0:46:14.200 And I link this stuff up on my website. So 0:46:14.280 --> 0:46:17.200 go to rich on tech dot TV. This is episode 0:46:17.400 --> 0:46:20.800 one five eight. You can go there get the links 0:46:20.800 --> 0:46:22.560 to everything I just mentioned. I'll put it all there. 0:46:23.200 --> 0:46:25.680 Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven 0:46:25.760 --> 0:46:28.600 four to two four one zero one. Rich on tech 0:46:28.640 --> 0:46:31.719 dot TV. My name is rich Demiro more rich on Tech. 0:46:31.760 --> 0:46:42.640 Coming your way right after this. Welcome back to rich 0:46:42.680 --> 0:46:45.680 on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology, 0:46:45.760 --> 0:46:48.600 triple eight rich one On one eight eight eight seven 0:46:48.719 --> 0:46:52.319 four two four one zero one. H. Jim is in 0:46:52.400 --> 0:46:54.000 San Diego. Jim, what's going on? 0:46:55.280 --> 0:46:58.719 Hi? I got a Shwlett Packard laptop a few months 0:46:58.800 --> 0:47:03.120 ago and within a few weeks, the letters on the 0:47:03.200 --> 0:47:05.480 keys started fading on the most common you know, on 0:47:05.520 --> 0:47:10.719 the ert and the I can barely discern the what 0:47:10.760 --> 0:47:12.799 the keys are anymore, and I don't know how to type. 0:47:12.840 --> 0:47:15.200 I still hunt and pet and I went back to 0:47:15.239 --> 0:47:17.040 the store I bought it, and they said I would 0:47:17.040 --> 0:47:19.600 have to send it back to Hewlett Packard, and I 0:47:19.600 --> 0:47:22.239 guess they would take it and do something with it, 0:47:22.280 --> 0:47:25.000 and I'd have no laptop for a while, and I'd 0:47:25.000 --> 0:47:27.880 have to pay to get everything transferred over to a 0:47:27.920 --> 0:47:30.440 new laptop. So what can I do to make my 0:47:30.520 --> 0:47:31.840 keyboard more visible to me? 0:47:32.560 --> 0:47:32.840 Well? 0:47:33.000 --> 0:47:33.080 What? 0:47:33.760 --> 0:47:35.600 Okay? So how long have you had this thing? 0:47:36.400 --> 0:47:38.800 Well, now, it's probably been three months. 0:47:39.080 --> 0:47:40.839 Okay, it's been three months. You probably have a year 0:47:40.880 --> 0:47:42.000 warranty on it. I'm guessing. 0:47:42.760 --> 0:47:45.120 I don't recall that I paid anything extra, so I 0:47:45.120 --> 0:47:46.359 don't know what I got with it. 0:47:46.480 --> 0:47:50.200 Okay, but you have whatever comes with HP laptops, yes, okay, 0:47:50.840 --> 0:47:52.560 let me see. I'm looking up what the warranty is. 0:47:52.560 --> 0:47:55.000 I'm guessing itself. Okay, So you can go on Okay 0:47:55.040 --> 0:47:57.080 says it's usually a standard one year. But you can 0:47:57.080 --> 0:48:00.040 go on their website and check the warranty by putting 0:48:00.080 --> 0:48:01.880 in your serial number, so you can see if you 0:48:01.880 --> 0:48:03.920 have a year warranty, which I'm sure you do, if 0:48:03.960 --> 0:48:06.479 you didn't pay anything extra. Now did you buy you 0:48:06.520 --> 0:48:07.960 Did you use a credit card to buy this? 0:48:09.680 --> 0:48:09.879 Yes? 0:48:10.080 --> 0:48:12.840 Okay, so you may have Depending on your card, you 0:48:12.880 --> 0:48:15.880 may have some protections through them, and they may be 0:48:15.880 --> 0:48:18.120 able to help you with this. But that's you know, 0:48:18.160 --> 0:48:21.080 that's another way where if everything else doesn't work, you can, 0:48:21.200 --> 0:48:23.040 you know, maybe call the credit card company and just 0:48:23.080 --> 0:48:25.720 see some of them offer, you know, sixty days extra, 0:48:26.239 --> 0:48:28.960 one hundred and twenty days. That might be another avenue. 0:48:29.000 --> 0:48:30.879 Just keep that in the back of your head. There, 0:48:32.200 --> 0:48:34.600 So I have a feeling. So there's a couple of 0:48:34.600 --> 0:48:37.160 things going on here. Number one, HP does not know 0:48:37.200 --> 0:48:39.879 how you handle this computer. Right. You might have taken 0:48:39.920 --> 0:48:43.080 this computer and rubbed alcohol on the keyboard the first 0:48:43.160 --> 0:48:45.200 day you got it. You got rid of all the keys, 0:48:45.239 --> 0:48:47.640 and they don't really know if you did that or not, right, So, 0:48:48.200 --> 0:48:51.800 cosmetic issues like this could be that this thing is defective, 0:48:52.080 --> 0:48:54.320 or it could be that you did something and scratched 0:48:54.320 --> 0:48:56.399 them all off. They don't really know the difference, right, 0:48:56.960 --> 0:49:00.440 So in some aspect, you're at their mercy here because 0:49:00.760 --> 0:49:05.160 they don't necessarily have to do anything. But if you said, hey, 0:49:05.200 --> 0:49:08.000 I want this under warranty, my my keyboard is is 0:49:08.080 --> 0:49:10.080 you know, seem like it wasn't very good from the beginning. 0:49:11.120 --> 0:49:13.279 Replace my keyboard. Like you said, you're gonna have to 0:49:13.360 --> 0:49:16.040 send this thing in. You either wipe the information or 0:49:16.080 --> 0:49:18.000 it's going to be you're not going to see it again, 0:49:18.040 --> 0:49:20.120 depending on what they do to this thing there, it's 0:49:20.120 --> 0:49:21.640 going to be out of your hands for a while. 0:49:22.040 --> 0:49:24.319 And it doesn't seem like a very good solution. I mean, 0:49:24.360 --> 0:49:26.040 you are you ready to not have this thing for 0:49:26.080 --> 0:49:27.280 a couple of weeks? 0:49:28.120 --> 0:49:31.160 Well, I could use my old one. I guess it 0:49:31.200 --> 0:49:32.960 would be kind of a hassle because I try to 0:49:32.960 --> 0:49:37.160 work off one main laptop instead of having data on both. Right. 0:49:37.160 --> 0:49:40.600 The other concern I have is to retransfer everything back 0:49:40.680 --> 0:49:41.640 onto it. 0:49:41.960 --> 0:49:42.640 Yeah, it's a pain. 0:49:42.960 --> 0:49:44.360 We have to do what I did last time. We 0:49:44.480 --> 0:49:47.040 take it in somewhere and have them, you know, transfer 0:49:47.080 --> 0:49:48.800 everything over and yes. 0:49:48.719 --> 0:49:51.280 Total war money. Yeah, total pain. And it's not something 0:49:51.400 --> 0:49:53.799 And usually when you bring your laptop in they say, look, 0:49:53.800 --> 0:49:55.959 you know, we we can't anything that's on this drive 0:49:56.040 --> 0:49:58.279 could be a race because because HP, they could get 0:49:58.280 --> 0:49:59.480 it and say, you know what, we're just gonna give 0:49:59.480 --> 0:50:01.520 you a refurb We're gonna give you a new one. Whatever. 0:50:01.760 --> 0:50:03.719 You know, they can. They reserve their right to do 0:50:03.760 --> 0:50:06.040 a lot of different things. So where do we stand. 0:50:06.080 --> 0:50:08.279 Are you okay with just putting stickers on these keys? 0:50:08.280 --> 0:50:10.240 What if you just order some new stickers from Amazon 0:50:10.280 --> 0:50:11.280 and put them on the keys? 0:50:12.440 --> 0:50:15.200 That would work? I didn't know there was such a thing. Yeah, 0:50:15.440 --> 0:50:16.120 I could work with that. 0:50:16.600 --> 0:50:21.000 Let me I'm looking up keyboard decals. Uh, let me 0:50:21.040 --> 0:50:23.480 see here. Okay, so they have a whole Actually this 0:50:23.600 --> 0:50:25.480 might be even better if you you know you've got 0:50:25.560 --> 0:50:29.319 they've got all kinds of different ones. Now individual Okay, 0:50:29.320 --> 0:50:32.920 here's one hundred and ninety four piece set luminescent extra 0:50:33.000 --> 0:50:37.040 large three years, will not wear fade eight ninety nine, 0:50:37.520 --> 0:50:38.440 so nine bucks. 0:50:40.280 --> 0:50:42.040 I mean it looks like a pretty good illuminus. That 0:50:42.120 --> 0:50:43.879 means it retains some light. 0:50:44.120 --> 0:50:46.520 Yeah, it looks like these are these are specifically like 0:50:46.719 --> 0:50:49.560 large print, so like they're easier to see. But you know, 0:50:49.560 --> 0:50:51.360 I'm looking on Amazon. They have they have a thousand 0:50:51.440 --> 0:50:54.680 different types of these things, so that might be your 0:50:54.680 --> 0:50:57.400 best bet if you just want something simple and easy 0:50:57.440 --> 0:50:59.399 and you don't want to deal with bringing this thing back. 0:50:59.760 --> 0:51:04.160 I'm I'm annoyed that this thing the keys faded so quickly. 0:51:04.200 --> 0:51:05.920 I mean, you said it's only a couple of months. 0:51:05.960 --> 0:51:08.560 I've got my computers for years, and yes, some of 0:51:08.560 --> 0:51:10.759 the keys I use more definitely have a look to them, 0:51:11.000 --> 0:51:13.279 but they're not wiped off, you know, like if this 0:51:13.360 --> 0:51:14.040 was a stick. 0:51:13.960 --> 0:51:16.400 To my history as well, historically I go years and 0:51:16.440 --> 0:51:18.120 then you could see a little bit and this actually 0:51:18.120 --> 0:51:20.799 started happening within a few weeks. I just haven't done 0:51:20.800 --> 0:51:21.799 anything about it yet. 0:51:21.880 --> 0:51:25.040 Yeah, that's weird. I mean, I think it might be 0:51:25.080 --> 0:51:27.600 in your best interest to call HP and to really 0:51:27.640 --> 0:51:30.120 tell them, like, look, I think I'm deserving of a 0:51:30.120 --> 0:51:32.920 new keyboard, here a new computer, and here's why I 0:51:32.960 --> 0:51:35.400 think that this was defective. And I think that you 0:51:35.400 --> 0:51:37.800 should take a look at it and see what happened, 0:51:38.080 --> 0:51:39.840 because there might be other people if this happened to 0:51:39.880 --> 0:51:41.480 and you frame it in that way where you're kind 0:51:41.520 --> 0:51:43.520 of helping them, and then you say, and by the way, 0:51:43.560 --> 0:51:46.200 I want you to send me the new laptop in advance, 0:51:46.280 --> 0:51:47.840 and I will ship back the old one when you 0:51:47.880 --> 0:51:49.920 get when I get it. The only issue there is 0:51:49.960 --> 0:51:52.040 they probably might require a credit card or something, and 0:51:52.040 --> 0:51:53.400 if they don't get the old one, then you're on 0:51:53.440 --> 0:51:56.360 the hook. So there's a lot of nuances here with 0:51:56.480 --> 0:51:58.279 how this works. If HP had a place where you 0:51:58.280 --> 0:52:00.560 could just bring it in and it was easy, that 0:52:00.600 --> 0:52:03.160 would be the best case scenario. Do they have any 0:52:03.200 --> 0:52:05.360 service centers that you can just bring this thing into, 0:52:05.760 --> 0:52:06.880 Like physically. 0:52:07.600 --> 0:52:10.440 I'm but there's a place I go, but it's not 0:52:10.480 --> 0:52:12.600 an HP place and they weren't able to help me. 0:52:12.960 --> 0:52:16.480 Yeah, these are okay. The Best Buy isn't authorized. They 0:52:16.480 --> 0:52:21.040 do have authorized locations, so you're in San Diego. You 0:52:21.120 --> 0:52:23.160 might be able to bring it to an authorized place 0:52:23.719 --> 0:52:25.439 where they can do it, but I don't. That doesn't 0:52:25.480 --> 0:52:27.920 necessarily mean it's free or under warranty, you know. It 0:52:28.040 --> 0:52:29.880 just means that they can work on it. 0:52:30.520 --> 0:52:33.440 But you're starting to think for nine or ten dollars, 0:52:33.480 --> 0:52:36.960 I may be better off just getting the getting the 0:52:37.280 --> 0:52:39.120 endms you mentioned to stick on to the keys and 0:52:39.520 --> 0:52:40.200 be done with it. 0:52:40.560 --> 0:52:42.279 I would I would think that's the easiest. What I 0:52:42.280 --> 0:52:44.719 would do is, you know, Jim, before you put the 0:52:44.840 --> 0:52:47.600 stickers on, you want to clean the keys well so 0:52:47.640 --> 0:52:49.920 that they say the stickers actually stay on there. There 0:52:49.960 --> 0:52:52.600 may be some instructions that come with these little keyboard stickers. 0:52:52.920 --> 0:52:56.239 I would recommend an alcohol wipe or even you might 0:52:56.280 --> 0:52:58.160 even try like a lyceole wipe. And before you do 0:52:58.200 --> 0:53:02.480 this in your computer, be careful ring it out. Do 0:53:02.600 --> 0:53:04.440 not make the mistake I made one time of using 0:53:04.480 --> 0:53:07.040 a liceol wipe on my keyboard without ringing it out. 0:53:07.200 --> 0:53:09.960 I'm not kidding. It ruined my whole computer for about 0:53:10.000 --> 0:53:12.719 six months. It finally came back to life. It did 0:53:12.719 --> 0:53:15.040 come back to life, but it took about six months 0:53:15.080 --> 0:53:18.719 to dry out. Do not do that nowadays. Ring ring 0:53:18.800 --> 0:53:21.759 it out, ring it out till is just just just 0:53:21.800 --> 0:53:24.120 a little tiny bit moist. And if you're even worried 0:53:24.120 --> 0:53:26.000 about that, you can just use a microfiber with a 0:53:26.000 --> 0:53:27.680 little bit of a tiny bit of spray on it, 0:53:27.840 --> 0:53:30.000 a little bit of water spray ring that out. Make 0:53:30.040 --> 0:53:33.120 sure it's just damn not even not even wet at all. 0:53:33.760 --> 0:53:36.560 Do not come complaining to me that you ruin your keyboard. Please. 0:53:37.000 --> 0:53:38.759 Eighty and eight rich one on one, we're gonna talk 0:53:38.760 --> 0:53:41.640 about how to use AI to make apps. Coming up next, 0:53:43.640 --> 0:53:46.040 Welcome back to rich on Tech Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:53:46.040 --> 0:53:49.560 out with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one 0:53:49.560 --> 0:53:52.520 O one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:53:52.560 --> 0:53:55.080 one zero one. You got a call about you got 0:53:55.080 --> 0:53:57.680 a question about technology? Give me a call. Email is 0:53:57.719 --> 0:54:02.880 also an option rich on Tech TV. This is episode 0:54:02.920 --> 0:54:05.680 one fifty eight. So if you need a link to 0:54:05.719 --> 0:54:07.600 something I mentioned, you could just go to the website 0:54:07.680 --> 0:54:11.239 and find the link there. My kid and I had 0:54:11.280 --> 0:54:13.640 a lot of fun this week. He discovered that you 0:54:13.680 --> 0:54:17.120 can use Gemini to make apps, and so I'm not kidding. 0:54:17.239 --> 0:54:19.680 He just sat there all week and just started coding 0:54:19.680 --> 0:54:22.359 these apps or I guess using AI to code them. 0:54:23.040 --> 0:54:25.400 And it really is just amazing that, Like, if you 0:54:25.400 --> 0:54:27.960 have an idea for something, most people don't know how 0:54:28.000 --> 0:54:30.960 to make that into either a website or an app. 0:54:31.880 --> 0:54:34.839 Amanda Span is an app educator and founder of the 0:54:34.880 --> 0:54:38.359 app Accelerator. She's here to talk to us about how 0:54:38.400 --> 0:54:41.680 professionals can turn their app idea into a real product 0:54:41.960 --> 0:54:44.600 without being technical. Amanda, welcome to the show. 0:54:45.000 --> 0:54:47.160 Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate 0:54:47.280 --> 0:54:47.960 being here. 0:54:48.080 --> 0:54:51.400 So thanks for being here. What is the app Accelerator? Explain? Like, 0:54:51.440 --> 0:54:53.759 why you came up with this right. 0:54:53.800 --> 0:54:57.160 The app Accelerator is a fifteen week training program that 0:54:57.239 --> 0:55:01.399 teaches working professionals how to build an app incrementally, step 0:55:01.480 --> 0:55:04.319 by step, without ever learning how to code. And the 0:55:04.360 --> 0:55:07.239 program is based off a book that I wrote and 0:55:07.440 --> 0:55:10.560 is going to be up for release on March tenth, 0:55:10.600 --> 0:55:14.200 call I Have an App Idea. The book was written 0:55:14.719 --> 0:55:16.920 as a result of my own experiences being a non 0:55:17.000 --> 0:55:19.600 technical founder and having to learn so many things the 0:55:19.640 --> 0:55:20.120 hard way. 0:55:21.120 --> 0:55:23.800 I lost forty thousand dollars. 0:55:23.400 --> 0:55:29.239 And paying someone to like, yeah, yeah, just not knowing 0:55:29.239 --> 0:55:32.680 what I didn't know, right, And that's actually less than 0:55:33.120 --> 0:55:35.919 the most non technical founders lose on their first app, 0:55:35.920 --> 0:55:38.319 but the average amount is around fifty thousand dollars in 0:55:38.360 --> 0:55:39.640 time and inefficiencies. 0:55:39.880 --> 0:55:42.239 Then non technical founders lose and they waste about two 0:55:42.360 --> 0:55:44.759 years of time just trying to get a product off 0:55:44.800 --> 0:55:47.320 to the ground because they don't know what steps come next, 0:55:47.640 --> 0:55:51.520 They don't understand the terminology, and it feels overwhelming, it 0:55:51.560 --> 0:55:54.279 feels intimidating, and so I didn't want anyone else to 0:55:54.480 --> 0:55:56.759 have to go through that process. After, you know, I 0:55:56.760 --> 0:55:58.600 started building apps and got a lot better at it. 0:55:58.640 --> 0:56:02.120 I built a framework out that was repeatable no matter 0:56:02.160 --> 0:56:04.800 what type of app you're building, and it provides people 0:56:04.840 --> 0:56:07.040 with a step by step framework and step by step 0:56:07.120 --> 0:56:10.560 infrastructure for understanding product development, so you know how to 0:56:10.600 --> 0:56:13.879 engage with developers and no matter what development path you take. 0:56:14.120 --> 0:56:15.399 Like similar to you and. 0:56:15.360 --> 0:56:17.000 Your son this weekend, who were doing what we like 0:56:17.040 --> 0:56:20.400 to call vibe coding, the product of using you know, 0:56:20.480 --> 0:56:24.720 a chat, GPT, a cloud or LOLM to build an app, 0:56:25.360 --> 0:56:28.440 or him and I to build an app. And you know, 0:56:28.640 --> 0:56:31.480 whether you're using that path or whether you are working 0:56:31.520 --> 0:56:36.960 traditionally with a developer, you have all the steps, tools, resources, education, 0:56:37.080 --> 0:56:40.480 and that foundational knowledge you need to know to build 0:56:40.600 --> 0:56:41.840 a revenue ready app. 0:56:42.200 --> 0:56:44.960 So what you're talking about, Okay, so you say, like 0:56:45.000 --> 0:56:47.440 a non technical professional, so this, let's say I'm a 0:56:47.480 --> 0:56:50.080 little league coach and I'm doing this and every day, 0:56:50.200 --> 0:56:52.440 you know, every weekend, I'm like, wait, it'd be really 0:56:52.440 --> 0:56:54.759 good if they had an app for this, right? Is 0:56:54.800 --> 0:56:56.680 that what you're saying, Like a professional, it's in some 0:56:56.719 --> 0:56:59.319 sort of job that they are like, Oh, I see 0:56:59.320 --> 0:57:01.319 a need for this, but I have no idea how 0:57:01.320 --> 0:57:03.400 to do that. That's what your book targets. That's what 0:57:03.400 --> 0:57:04.120 you're talking about. 0:57:04.320 --> 0:57:05.960 That's absolutely what I target. 0:57:06.000 --> 0:57:09.520 I am a firm believer that people who are closest 0:57:09.520 --> 0:57:13.040 in proximity to the problem are best positioned to solve it. 0:57:13.200 --> 0:57:13.359 Right. 0:57:13.600 --> 0:57:15.400 So, if you're a little league coach and you're. 0:57:15.239 --> 0:57:19.880 Seeing you know, their organizational inefficiencies with how they're running 0:57:19.880 --> 0:57:22.320 the league, right, and it could be solved with an app, 0:57:22.720 --> 0:57:24.960 there is no way that you're not going to know 0:57:25.040 --> 0:57:28.320 how the best solve that problem, as opposed to you know, 0:57:28.400 --> 0:57:31.080 some nineteen year old kid in Silicon Valley who's like, 0:57:31.160 --> 0:57:34.120 you know, starting their second semester at Stamford, Like no 0:57:34.240 --> 0:57:37.160 shades to Stanford, but right, they're not going to know 0:57:37.200 --> 0:57:41.400 what's right about managing little league as a coach who's 0:57:41.440 --> 0:57:44.560 been doing this for twenty something years, right, And so 0:57:45.200 --> 0:57:47.680 what I want to do is position people like that 0:57:47.720 --> 0:57:50.600 little league coach, like that doctor, like that lawyer, like 0:57:50.640 --> 0:57:56.600 that social worker, like that operations manager to understand product 0:57:56.640 --> 0:58:00.720 development so that they can work with developers or you 0:58:00.760 --> 0:58:03.760 know op for you know, using AI or vibe coding 0:58:04.360 --> 0:58:06.680 to position themselves to build the products of the future. 0:58:06.760 --> 0:58:09.680 Because there are billion dollar opportunities in industries that we're 0:58:09.720 --> 0:58:12.320 just ignoring. Right now, because you know, there's a lot 0:58:12.320 --> 0:58:14.520 of people who don't know how to turn their skills 0:58:14.560 --> 0:58:15.320 into software. 0:58:15.640 --> 0:58:18.320 Okay, so what is the first thing someone should do 0:58:18.360 --> 0:58:20.760 to see if their app idea is worth pursuing. 0:58:21.560 --> 0:58:24.840 They should definitely validate it. So a big part of 0:58:25.240 --> 0:58:29.360 determining whether you should build an app idea is diving 0:58:29.400 --> 0:58:32.560 deep into the problem, right. And so you want a 0:58:32.680 --> 0:58:36.560 problem that is big enough for people to pay for, right, 0:58:36.560 --> 0:58:38.360 because there's lots of problems out there. 0:58:38.600 --> 0:58:40.400 But there's a difference between a. 0:58:40.440 --> 0:58:43.680 Vitamin level problem and an oxygen level problem. 0:58:43.800 --> 0:58:44.000 Right. 0:58:44.000 --> 0:58:46.040 I don't know if you know you or your listeners 0:58:46.040 --> 0:58:49.800 have heard that analogy before, but a vitamin level problem, 0:58:49.840 --> 0:58:51.640 you know, we can take vitamins every day, but if 0:58:51.680 --> 0:58:53.360 we skip a day, it's not the end of the world. 0:58:53.480 --> 0:58:53.680 Right. 0:58:53.920 --> 0:58:57.200 Then there's painkiller level problems where you know, you take 0:58:57.240 --> 0:58:59.280 painkillers when you're in pain, but as soon as that 0:58:59.320 --> 0:59:03.400 pain subside, you stopped taking the painkiller. But oxygen, right, 0:59:03.600 --> 0:59:05.800 there's not much we can compare to oxygen. We all 0:59:05.800 --> 0:59:08.760 need oxygen. So you want to tackle problems when you 0:59:08.840 --> 0:59:12.480 are building a business around building a business around a 0:59:12.520 --> 0:59:15.720 problem that are so big that people can't even think 0:59:15.760 --> 0:59:19.200 about how this problem was solved before then. And a 0:59:19.240 --> 0:59:21.960 good example of this is like ride share. Right, I'm 0:59:22.000 --> 0:59:26.080 just gonna say, I can't remember how I got to 0:59:26.120 --> 0:59:26.720 the airport. 0:59:27.400 --> 0:59:30.000 You know, Oh, you begged a friend. Come on, I 0:59:30.000 --> 0:59:32.120 gave people rights to the airport. The worst thing ever. 0:59:32.160 --> 0:59:33.840 But you know you actually have to talk to your 0:59:33.840 --> 0:59:35.960 friends and you know around them up. 0:59:36.200 --> 0:59:38.720 Now you have the luxury of doing right area, But 0:59:38.760 --> 0:59:41.439 they're solved. They solved a multimillion dollar problem. 0:59:41.560 --> 0:59:42.760 And now every. 0:59:42.480 --> 0:59:45.040 App idea doesn't have to solve a billion dollar problem, 0:59:45.040 --> 0:59:47.920 but it does if you were planning on making money 0:59:47.960 --> 0:59:51.520 with this app, right, which I look at apps as 0:59:51.520 --> 0:59:53.840 the business and the perspective I teach from in the 0:59:53.880 --> 0:59:57.600 book and in the program the App Accelerator. I teach 0:59:57.600 --> 0:59:59.920 people that apps are a business, right, and that you 1:00:00.000 --> 1:00:02.080 should be thinking about the problem in that way. And 1:00:02.120 --> 1:00:04.360 so you want us try to identify a problem that 1:00:04.400 --> 1:00:07.760 people are willing to pay money to solve. Right, The 1:00:07.800 --> 1:00:09.959 next thing you want to do is validate that idea, 1:00:10.000 --> 1:00:12.800 because sometimes we think in ideas really good, but until 1:00:12.800 --> 1:00:15.840 we actually you know, go out and prove to the 1:00:15.880 --> 1:00:19.160 world that someone is willing to pay for this we're 1:00:19.160 --> 1:00:22.000 not exactly sure, and you want to do that before 1:00:22.040 --> 1:00:24.000 you invest lots of time and money. And there's lots 1:00:24.040 --> 1:00:26.280 of different ways you can validate an idea. You can 1:00:26.320 --> 1:00:31.640 do surveys, you can do a concierge test, just essentially 1:00:31.680 --> 1:00:34.880 running that running what you're going to do in the 1:00:34.920 --> 1:00:36.840 app in like a white glove service. 1:00:37.240 --> 1:00:39.040 An example of this is like meal prepping. 1:00:39.080 --> 1:00:41.440 Like maybe you believe that you know, tens of thousand 1:00:41.440 --> 1:00:43.760 people will pay for like a meal prep service, right, 1:00:43.800 --> 1:00:46.240 that's automated through an app. Right, but you may want 1:00:46.240 --> 1:00:49.720 to run that service manually first in your community and 1:00:49.800 --> 1:00:51.600 test out that people are willing to pay for it 1:00:51.640 --> 1:00:54.520 before you invest the money or the time into building 1:00:54.600 --> 1:00:58.120 an app and an automation around it. Because whether you 1:00:58.120 --> 1:01:00.320 you know, decide you want to go to develop, or 1:01:00.360 --> 1:01:03.479 whether you want to you know, vibe code it, build 1:01:03.520 --> 1:01:06.040 it yourself, it's still an investment of time or money, 1:01:06.080 --> 1:01:07.320 and time is money. 1:01:07.760 --> 1:01:11.640 Okay. The keyword these days is AI. So I talked 1:01:11.640 --> 1:01:13.320 about how my kid and I we kind of, like 1:01:13.360 --> 1:01:16.040 you said, vibe coding. You know, you're just using Gemini 1:01:16.400 --> 1:01:19.480 or one of these various ais that can handle that 1:01:19.640 --> 1:01:23.240 to make these things it's not perfect, obviously, But what 1:01:23.320 --> 1:01:25.400 do you think about AI and how has that changed 1:01:25.440 --> 1:01:27.760 the process of building an app compared to just a 1:01:27.760 --> 1:01:28.480 few years ago. 1:01:29.400 --> 1:01:32.960 Well, AI, from my perspective, it should be used as 1:01:33.000 --> 1:01:36.680 a tool to improve quality of life, and I mean 1:01:36.720 --> 1:01:39.840 that across tech and as many other verticals as well. 1:01:40.880 --> 1:01:44.400 But AI is a great equalizer in the sense that 1:01:44.720 --> 1:01:47.040 you know, while I think coding is still relevant and 1:01:47.080 --> 1:01:49.640 I think the role of developer is still very pertinent, 1:01:50.200 --> 1:01:54.280 it has made you know, being able to build software 1:01:54.360 --> 1:01:57.920 and build products a lot easier. So the difference is, 1:01:57.920 --> 1:02:00.400 if all things are equal now and if any one 1:02:00.480 --> 1:02:02.880 even you know, your your son can build an app 1:02:03.480 --> 1:02:07.800 by just using you know, AI, the difference is, and 1:02:07.800 --> 1:02:11.080 the distinction will be moving forward, is domain expertise. So 1:02:11.240 --> 1:02:14.000 I believe that domain expertise is a new technical edge. 1:02:14.160 --> 1:02:17.680 So if you pair a degree of AI or a 1:02:17.720 --> 1:02:22.080 baseline knowledge of AI with your domain expertise, you're unstoppable. 1:02:22.600 --> 1:02:24.640 Okay, let's dig into that a little bit more. Because 1:02:24.640 --> 1:02:27.400 everyone's always worried about jobs, and you know where the 1:02:27.440 --> 1:02:31.560 future is going, you seem optimistic. Do you think that 1:02:31.640 --> 1:02:34.560 we are gonna lose jobs because of this? Do you 1:02:34.600 --> 1:02:36.919 think that you know, if someone is wanting to become 1:02:36.960 --> 1:02:38.919 a coder, like there will there always be a place 1:02:38.960 --> 1:02:40.800 for them. I mean you said domain expertise. I think 1:02:40.840 --> 1:02:43.640 that's really interesting that, yes, you have to be you 1:02:43.680 --> 1:02:45.000 still need to know this stuff. 1:02:46.320 --> 1:02:49.440 So I think I feel like some jobs are going 1:02:49.480 --> 1:02:51.600 to be replaced, but I think that is the nature 1:02:51.640 --> 1:02:52.160 of innovation. 1:02:52.200 --> 1:02:53.440 That's the way of our world. 1:02:53.560 --> 1:02:53.720 Right. 1:02:53.840 --> 1:02:56.360 You know, we don't have as many coal mining jobs 1:02:56.360 --> 1:03:00.200 as we used to. Right, the world innovates, and you know, 1:03:00.280 --> 1:03:04.520 some jobs are phased out, right, but I think coding 1:03:04.720 --> 1:03:08.720 and computer science jobs will evolve, right, and so you 1:03:08.840 --> 1:03:12.680 will see a lot more developers themselves using AI in 1:03:12.720 --> 1:03:15.480 the role, and so the way that they work will 1:03:15.520 --> 1:03:16.080 be different. 1:03:16.120 --> 1:03:18.280 And what I think you'll see on the computer. 1:03:18.040 --> 1:03:21.600 Science side and in that vertical is a lot of 1:03:21.640 --> 1:03:24.440 more productized services. And what I mean by that is 1:03:24.480 --> 1:03:27.760 instead of a developer. And I don't know if you 1:03:27.800 --> 1:03:29.800 know your audience or you are privy to the way 1:03:29.880 --> 1:03:33.360 developers traditionally work, but they might say, Okay, I have 1:03:33.480 --> 1:03:35.840 this project, and I believe this project is going to 1:03:35.880 --> 1:03:38.480 take me one hundred hours. I'm going to build fifty 1:03:38.560 --> 1:03:41.840 dollars an hour for this project, right, And so they're 1:03:41.840 --> 1:03:44.160 building that out over the next six months for you. 1:03:44.520 --> 1:03:46.560 But now that they can use AI to build a 1:03:46.600 --> 1:03:48.919 lot faster, they're probably going to take on a lot 1:03:48.960 --> 1:03:51.880 more clients. And that project that used to take you know, 1:03:51.960 --> 1:03:57.920 six months can now take you know, you know, three weeks. Right, 1:03:58.000 --> 1:04:00.640 So they'll probably be able to take on ten clients 1:04:00.680 --> 1:04:04.480 at one time, right, And they'll have shorter timelines, and. 1:04:04.440 --> 1:04:06.280 They'll package up those services. 1:04:06.320 --> 1:04:10.080 So instead of saying, Okay, well I'm gonna build this 1:04:10.520 --> 1:04:12.560 dating app for you from scratch, I might have a 1:04:12.640 --> 1:04:15.840 dating app package where I can rent and repeat the 1:04:15.840 --> 1:04:18.080 way I build dating apps, and I can produce them 1:04:18.120 --> 1:04:20.480 really really quickly, and they'll be a flat rate of 1:04:20.560 --> 1:04:24.040 maybe three thousand dollars where I used to charge you know, 1:04:24.320 --> 1:04:27.080 thirty thousand for this, but now I can charge ten 1:04:27.160 --> 1:04:30.960 people three thousand dollars a piece versus thirty thousand to 1:04:31.040 --> 1:04:31.600 one client. 1:04:32.080 --> 1:04:34.000 Really does change things, all right, I got to less 1:04:34.000 --> 1:04:35.920 than a minute here. The book is called I Have 1:04:35.960 --> 1:04:40.720 an App Idea Amanda Span coming out on March tenth, 1:04:41.120 --> 1:04:43.000 and what will people who's this for? 1:04:44.240 --> 1:04:47.640 This is for everyday innovators, It's for working professionals who've 1:04:47.640 --> 1:04:49.880 been sitting on an app idea. It's for people who 1:04:49.920 --> 1:04:52.520 have bottlenecks and the way that they work. It's for 1:04:52.600 --> 1:04:55.880 people who believe they have a million dollar ideas. It's 1:04:55.920 --> 1:04:58.120 for people who they believe they have thousand dollar ideas 1:04:58.120 --> 1:05:00.400 and billion dollar ideas. It's for people who who have 1:05:00.560 --> 1:05:02.800 always wanted to create an app, but just didn't know 1:05:02.800 --> 1:05:05.480 where to start. The book teaches you how to build 1:05:05.480 --> 1:05:07.680 a business around your app idea, how to design it 1:05:07.720 --> 1:05:10.520 for your target audience, how to identify the best development 1:05:10.560 --> 1:05:13.040 path for you, whether that be working with a traditional 1:05:13.080 --> 1:05:16.280 developer or using AI to build with, and then how 1:05:16.320 --> 1:05:18.320 to deploy that app out to the world and make 1:05:18.320 --> 1:05:21.880 sure that you maintain and manage that investment. It is 1:05:21.920 --> 1:05:24.160 that step by step guide you wish you had when 1:05:24.200 --> 1:05:27.200 you had that business idea ten years ago, and so 1:05:27.280 --> 1:05:29.600 I really hope people enjoy it dive into. It is 1:05:29.600 --> 1:05:32.400 a very light and easy read, but it will change 1:05:32.400 --> 1:05:34.840 the way you fundamentally think about products and how you 1:05:34.880 --> 1:05:37.360 build digital based businesses moving forward. 1:05:37.600 --> 1:05:40.200 All right, thanks so much Amanda for joining us. Say 1:05:40.240 --> 1:05:41.960 really appreciate it. I'll put a link to your book 1:05:42.000 --> 1:05:45.160 on the website. Rich on tech dot TV once again. 1:05:45.200 --> 1:05:48.840 It's called I have an app idea Amanda Span all right, 1:05:48.880 --> 1:05:51.480 coming up, Yeah, thank you eighty eight rich one on 1:05:51.560 --> 1:05:54.680 one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one, 1:05:54.720 --> 1:05:57.680 coming up my AI voice to text keyboard of the week. 1:05:57.880 --> 1:06:03.520 You got to try this out. Welcome back to rich 1:06:03.560 --> 1:06:07.600 on tech rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. 1:06:07.760 --> 1:06:12.480 Well as I say, over and over, the free ride 1:06:12.680 --> 1:06:18.320 is over. Ads are coming to chat GPT, especially if 1:06:18.360 --> 1:06:21.280 you're on the free version. Open ai says it's going 1:06:21.320 --> 1:06:24.320 to start testing ads inside chatchybt in the US in 1:06:24.360 --> 1:06:28.680 the next few weeks. They'll appear for logged in adults 1:06:29.440 --> 1:06:31.960 using the free tier, or they came out with this 1:06:32.000 --> 1:06:34.720 new cheaper plan called chatchybt Go, which is eight dollars 1:06:34.760 --> 1:06:36.600 a month. They will still have ads on that plan. 1:06:37.320 --> 1:06:38.880 They're going to show up at the bottom of your 1:06:38.920 --> 1:06:42.800 answers and be labeled as sponsored, and open ai says 1:06:42.800 --> 1:06:45.800 the ads will not influence the answers that chatchybt gives, 1:06:46.520 --> 1:06:51.520 and responses will not be optimized for advertisers. That's it. 1:06:52.400 --> 1:06:55.240 You will. Let's see. You can turn off ad personalization 1:06:55.360 --> 1:06:57.360 or clear the data used for ads. At any time. 1:06:57.960 --> 1:07:02.040 But as you can imagine, the investors of chat cybt 1:07:02.360 --> 1:07:06.560 cannot wait for this company to toggle these ads on. 1:07:07.040 --> 1:07:10.960 It is going to be a it's just going to 1:07:11.000 --> 1:07:14.880 be a wild amount of money that they will generate instantly. 1:07:15.560 --> 1:07:21.280 Why because chatchbt has the public right now. People are 1:07:21.320 --> 1:07:24.360 on there every day, They're searching all kinds of stuff. 1:07:24.560 --> 1:07:29.840 They're asking very intricate questions, and that is very valuable 1:07:29.840 --> 1:07:33.760 to advertisers who know exactly what these people are looking 1:07:33.760 --> 1:07:35.840 for and what they want. Now, they might not be 1:07:35.920 --> 1:07:38.400 perfect at the beginning. You know, remember when when all 1:07:38.440 --> 1:07:41.040 these pay per click ads first came out in Yahoo 1:07:41.080 --> 1:07:45.280 and Google, they were pretty general and it took time 1:07:45.320 --> 1:07:48.440 for them to get very specific. And now it's almost 1:07:48.440 --> 1:07:50.440 as if you know, the first couple of results at 1:07:50.440 --> 1:07:54.400 Google is it almost looks like that's personalized for what 1:07:54.440 --> 1:07:57.440 you're searching for. And that will eventually be the case 1:07:57.560 --> 1:08:00.840 for chatchbt. But don't be surprised if you start seeing 1:08:00.880 --> 1:08:03.800 ads in your chatchybt window. Like I say, the free 1:08:03.880 --> 1:08:08.560 ride is over, melody is in Carl's Bad Melody. You're 1:08:08.600 --> 1:08:09.160 on with Rich? 1:08:10.440 --> 1:08:12.760 Hey, Rich, I have two things. I have a comment 1:08:12.880 --> 1:08:16.800 in a question oh, okay. Comment is earlier you had 1:08:16.800 --> 1:08:21.879 a caller who was asking about for TV volume because 1:08:24.160 --> 1:08:27.240 for her husband, because now she has hearing aids. Yes, 1:08:27.320 --> 1:08:32.639 she needs to contact for hearing aid provider because there 1:08:32.760 --> 1:08:36.640 is a device that she can use to have the 1:08:36.760 --> 1:08:40.800 volume adjusted in her hearing aid where she wants it, 1:08:41.280 --> 1:08:45.920 and it leaves the volume on the TV where her 1:08:46.040 --> 1:08:48.760 husband needs it. So she needs to check with them 1:08:48.800 --> 1:08:49.240 on that. 1:08:49.680 --> 1:08:51.880 So you're saying there's a they can adjust it or 1:08:51.920 --> 1:08:52.599 there's a device. 1:08:55.120 --> 1:08:58.320 No, it's a she can adjust it on her. 1:09:00.439 --> 1:09:01.679 On her hearing aid app. 1:09:02.160 --> 1:09:04.240 Okay, on the app, got it okay to kind of 1:09:04.320 --> 1:09:07.920 level to keep the levels the same basically just her her. 1:09:07.800 --> 1:09:10.920 Volume on her app, right and the TV can be 1:09:11.040 --> 1:09:12.760 wherever her husband wants it to be. 1:09:13.000 --> 1:09:16.080 Okay, I believe because. 1:09:15.800 --> 1:09:19.120 Right now I'm talking to you through my hearing aid, 1:09:19.240 --> 1:09:23.560 not through the phone. So it's the same same concept, 1:09:23.840 --> 1:09:27.680 but a different advice she would have to purchase. I 1:09:27.760 --> 1:09:30.680 believe there's a device she does need to purchase to 1:09:32.120 --> 1:09:35.679 hook to the TV, much like if she had if 1:09:35.840 --> 1:09:38.360 if her husband had headphones. 1:09:38.040 --> 1:09:40.479 Got it okay? So if if that, yeah, okay, so 1:09:40.520 --> 1:09:41.960 she should look into that. And I think it was 1:09:42.000 --> 1:09:44.400 actually the opposite. I think the husband got that got 1:09:44.439 --> 1:09:46.920 the hearing aids. She was the one that was saying, 1:09:46.920 --> 1:09:52.599 oh the TV's her husband either way, but we got it. Okay, perfect, good, 1:09:52.680 --> 1:09:53.160 good call. 1:09:53.560 --> 1:09:57.599 Okay, that's my time. My question is this about two 1:09:57.720 --> 1:10:00.960 nights ago. Uh, there was a power outage in the 1:10:01.040 --> 1:10:07.680 evening and since then my printer hasn't worked and I 1:10:07.720 --> 1:10:09.200 don't know how to get it. 1:10:09.520 --> 1:10:10.200 What happened? 1:10:10.680 --> 1:10:10.880 You know? 1:10:10.960 --> 1:10:14.639 I went on to my system settings to make sure 1:10:15.439 --> 1:10:19.680 that everything was still set, and it shows my my 1:10:19.800 --> 1:10:23.000 printer on there and everything. But my printer does not 1:10:24.160 --> 1:10:25.000 have any power. 1:10:25.479 --> 1:10:28.320 Okay, well it doesn't have any it doesn't have any power. 1:10:29.720 --> 1:10:33.280 Well, when I put the power but non nothing happens. 1:10:33.280 --> 1:10:36.360 Oh okay you when I tried to print, nothing happens. 1:10:36.439 --> 1:10:37.760 It says it's offline. 1:10:37.800 --> 1:10:40.720 Okay. So a couple of things. Do you know that 1:10:40.840 --> 1:10:44.840 the the plug that you're plugging this into, do you 1:10:44.880 --> 1:10:45.639 know that it works? 1:10:45.680 --> 1:10:45.760 Like? 1:10:45.880 --> 1:10:46.120 Is it? 1:10:46.240 --> 1:10:46.320 Like? 1:10:46.360 --> 1:10:48.960 Can you plug something else in and confirm that it 1:10:48.960 --> 1:10:50.800 where you got to start at, like the beginning? So 1:10:51.000 --> 1:10:52.639 is it does a plug work? 1:10:52.720 --> 1:10:55.840 Power strip and other things on the Okay, were working. 1:10:56.000 --> 1:10:59.320 That's good. So have you tried pulling this, uh this 1:10:59.560 --> 1:11:01.720 power plug out and leaving it out for like a 1:11:01.760 --> 1:11:02.400 minute or two. 1:11:03.760 --> 1:11:05.280 You mean I'm plugging the printer? 1:11:05.520 --> 1:11:05.880 Correct? 1:11:06.479 --> 1:11:09.679 Correct, I haven't done that plug is so hard. 1:11:09.520 --> 1:11:09.920 To get to. 1:11:10.120 --> 1:11:12.599 Well, do it do on the back side of the printer. 1:11:12.640 --> 1:11:15.920 It usually connects both to the plug and the backside 1:11:15.920 --> 1:11:16.360 of the printer. 1:11:18.560 --> 1:11:21.080 Okay, well that's what what's hard to get to. I 1:11:21.120 --> 1:11:23.120 can get up on a step ladder to do that, 1:11:24.520 --> 1:11:27.080 so I haven't, but that might be a fix. 1:11:27.360 --> 1:11:29.240 Yeah, that that's the first thing I would do. It 1:11:29.280 --> 1:11:31.519 sounds like maybe this thing just did not come back on, 1:11:32.360 --> 1:11:34.880 So plug it back in or unplug it for you know, 1:11:34.880 --> 1:11:36.320 a couple of minutes, leave it out, you know, I 1:11:36.360 --> 1:11:40.120 would say two, three, five minutes whatever, plug it back in, 1:11:40.560 --> 1:11:42.400 and then turn the prow and then press the power 1:11:42.439 --> 1:11:45.040 button back on. And it may just come on when 1:11:45.080 --> 1:11:46.479 you plug it in. It may you may have to 1:11:46.479 --> 1:11:48.840 press that power button. But see, those are the first 1:11:48.840 --> 1:11:55.200 things I would do when I my FI exactly. Yeah. Okay, 1:11:55.800 --> 1:11:58.679 it's funny though. Week we had a power outage last 1:11:58.760 --> 1:12:00.320 night and my printer. I'm trying to I think if 1:12:00.320 --> 1:12:03.240 I had any issues, if I had to press any buttons. 1:12:03.240 --> 1:12:04.640 I don't think so. It came back to life. It's 1:12:04.680 --> 1:12:07.360 an HP, but that's what I would try, Melody. Thanks 1:12:07.400 --> 1:12:10.479 for the call today. I appreciate it on both counts. 1:12:10.479 --> 1:12:13.759 There eighty eight rich one on one eighty eight seven 1:12:13.840 --> 1:12:16.360 four to two four one zero one. Still so much 1:12:16.400 --> 1:12:18.280 to tell you. In fact, we're gonna talk about the 1:12:18.320 --> 1:12:21.720 most AI resistant jobs coming up right here on rich 1:12:21.760 --> 1:12:27.040 on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro 1:12:27.160 --> 1:12:30.519 here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight 1:12:30.760 --> 1:12:33.600 rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to 1:12:33.640 --> 1:12:36.880 two four one zero one. You are in for a 1:12:37.000 --> 1:12:39.559 treat this hour. We have one of my favorite guests, 1:12:39.720 --> 1:12:43.320 Caleb Dennison. He is going to break down all the 1:12:43.400 --> 1:12:46.080 latest in the TV world. I know you're looking at 1:12:46.080 --> 1:12:48.320 TVs for the Super Bowl. We're gonna see what his 1:12:48.360 --> 1:12:51.719 recommendations are. Also, get his take on this whole Sony 1:12:51.840 --> 1:12:55.640 TCL deal and anything he saw at CES that was 1:12:55.680 --> 1:12:58.720 interesting to him. We got a lot so that will 1:12:58.720 --> 1:13:03.240 be in this hour. Can't wait to do that AI. 1:13:03.320 --> 1:13:06.760 We've heard so much about it. You're probably wondering, well, 1:13:06.760 --> 1:13:09.080 what jobs are going to be the most AI resistant? 1:13:09.640 --> 1:13:13.360 First I'll give you the big jobs, and then we'll 1:13:13.360 --> 1:13:15.280 go into the entry level stuff. But this is from 1:13:15.360 --> 1:13:19.400 resume now. They analyze labor department and pay scale data 1:13:19.960 --> 1:13:22.919 to rank jobs least likely to be replaced by AI 1:13:23.800 --> 1:13:28.439 and the common thread. They found jobs that demand calm, 1:13:28.600 --> 1:13:33.560 under pressure, adaptability, and human judgment. Well, that makes a 1:13:33.600 --> 1:13:36.640 lot of sense. Human judgment. AI can't really replace that, 1:13:37.080 --> 1:13:39.519 not yet, I guess. At the top of the list 1:13:39.560 --> 1:13:47.000 are a lot of healthcare roles nurse anesthetists, emergency physicians, surgeons, 1:13:47.560 --> 1:13:53.080 and physician assistants. Aviation also high on the list commercial pilots, 1:13:53.240 --> 1:13:58.000 flight engineers, air traffic controllers, all places where mistakes are 1:13:58.000 --> 1:14:02.760 not an option. Commercial pilot, Bobo, Would you get on 1:14:02.800 --> 1:14:06.120 a plane driven by an AI pilot? You get on, 1:14:06.240 --> 1:14:09.599 you walk on, You're flying a you know. Wherever they 1:14:09.600 --> 1:14:11.719 get on they say, hey, we got we got AI 1:14:11.880 --> 1:14:15.759 Jim in the cockpit today. He's a complete robot. 1:14:16.120 --> 1:14:16.240 YEA. 1:14:16.560 --> 1:14:18.320 I will not get on a plane. You will knock 1:14:18.320 --> 1:14:21.280 get on the bill. Why not not trusting all AI 1:14:21.439 --> 1:14:23.760 to fly me nowhere? I don't trust a AI in 1:14:23.840 --> 1:14:25.680 my car. When was the last time you met the 1:14:25.720 --> 1:14:29.080 pilot of your plane? Last time I was on a flight. Okay, 1:14:29.120 --> 1:14:31.920 you introduced yourself. Yeah, he was standing right there. I said, hey, 1:14:31.920 --> 1:14:33.640 how you doing. He said, hey, I'm Bob. I was like, 1:14:33.840 --> 1:14:35.080 you need to say that. I'm just saying but I 1:14:35.080 --> 1:14:37.720 did see him, okay. And you feel more comfortable when 1:14:37.720 --> 1:14:40.360 you put it like a face to the person flying you. 1:14:40.439 --> 1:14:43.080 Yes, I do, Okay, makes me a little more comfortable. 1:14:43.160 --> 1:14:44.479 I don't know, it just feels better. 1:14:44.600 --> 1:14:46.479 Yeah. But no AI. So if they said, hey, we're 1:14:46.479 --> 1:14:48.920 gonna this thing is taken off and landed, no problem 1:14:49.000 --> 1:14:52.920 one hundred thousand times, like a way moo weaimo for flight, 1:14:52.960 --> 1:14:55.599 you wouldn't haven't done a weimo yet, Okay, because you're 1:14:55.760 --> 1:14:56.639 you don't want that either. 1:14:56.840 --> 1:14:59.080 Well, because I saw it stuck in an intersection on 1:14:59.120 --> 1:15:01.439 the west side and I was like, yeah, no, I'm 1:15:01.479 --> 1:15:02.040 not doing that. 1:15:02.120 --> 1:15:04.680 I got a video of it. I'll show you. It 1:15:04.760 --> 1:15:07.000 was funny. I was shooting a video of the Zookes, 1:15:07.040 --> 1:15:10.439 which is Amazon's kind of weymo, in Vegas and it 1:15:10.680 --> 1:15:13.599 made the turn, but then I got stuck behind a truck. 1:15:13.720 --> 1:15:15.680 It just like stopped and it couldn't go around it. 1:15:15.720 --> 1:15:18.120 All these people started honking. I was like cracking up, like, oh, 1:15:18.200 --> 1:15:20.720 not the right time taking video. Okay, so that's out 1:15:20.800 --> 1:15:26.479 for BOBO leadership and accountability judges, CEOs, cybersecurity leaders, and 1:15:26.560 --> 1:15:30.720 financial managers also make the list. So there you go. 1:15:31.160 --> 1:15:34.280 That's the high end stuff. Right now, we're talking about 1:15:34.760 --> 1:15:38.880 the entry level AI proof jobs, or I can't say 1:15:38.920 --> 1:15:44.160 AI proof, let's say AI resistant people focused once again. 1:15:44.240 --> 1:15:46.760 See it's got to be. There's the human aspect of 1:15:46.880 --> 1:15:50.559 jobs is very much kind of underlining all of these. 1:15:50.640 --> 1:15:53.960 Dental high genis number one. I just went to the 1:15:54.000 --> 1:15:55.920 dentist and had the dental hygienis and I was like, 1:15:56.600 --> 1:15:58.439 could a robot replace this? I don't know if I'd 1:15:58.439 --> 1:16:01.400 want it. I mean yeah, And they're all kind of different, 1:16:01.439 --> 1:16:03.400 by the way dental hygienis. Some use that thing where 1:16:03.400 --> 1:16:05.479 they spray the water to like clean your teeth. Some 1:16:05.560 --> 1:16:08.920 do like the actual that scraper thing. And sometimes I 1:16:08.920 --> 1:16:12.320 feel like they're literally out of like medieval times, like 1:16:12.360 --> 1:16:14.759 I'm just torturing you right now, like I'm just gonna 1:16:14.880 --> 1:16:17.280 I told you to floss rich and I'm gonna make 1:16:17.280 --> 1:16:20.160 this as painful as possible for you because you didn't. 1:16:20.720 --> 1:16:22.880 Sometimes I literally think they're doing that in their head, 1:16:22.920 --> 1:16:28.920 but I don't know. Uh, diagnostic medical scenographers they pay 1:16:28.920 --> 1:16:33.080 close to ninety thousand dollars with an associate's degree. Respiratory therapists, 1:16:33.240 --> 1:16:38.280 radiological texts, occupational therapy assistants, all in high demand and 1:16:38.280 --> 1:16:43.400 hard to automate. And then of course skilled trades electricians, HVAC, 1:16:44.040 --> 1:16:50.360 wind turbine technicians, electricians in HVAC, those guys. Here's the thing. 1:16:51.400 --> 1:16:53.400 There's a level of people that come to your house 1:16:53.920 --> 1:16:56.120 and they say, here's what we need to do, here's 1:16:56.160 --> 1:16:58.080 how much it's gonna cost you, And you're just like, 1:16:58.280 --> 1:17:01.120 what am I gonna do? You know what you're doing. 1:17:01.240 --> 1:17:04.599 I don't go ahead, fix the thing whatever it's gonna cost. 1:17:04.640 --> 1:17:09.720 I need my toilet. Emergency roles like EMTs and paramedics, 1:17:10.760 --> 1:17:14.559 and yeah, physical skills, real time problem solving, and human interaction, 1:17:14.800 --> 1:17:17.880 all areas where AI still struggles question. Yeah, are you 1:17:17.920 --> 1:17:21.040 going to go see the movie Mercy? I have not 1:17:21.120 --> 1:17:22.080 heard of it yet. 1:17:22.040 --> 1:17:24.639 The movie with Chris What was it Chris Pratt? 1:17:24.760 --> 1:17:27.320 Okay, oh yeah I did. He's flying around in that 1:17:27.640 --> 1:17:28.880 little automated chair thing. 1:17:29.000 --> 1:17:31.840 Yeah, but it's the AI found him guilty. I think 1:17:31.880 --> 1:17:34.360 of killing his wife or something like that. And he 1:17:34.439 --> 1:17:37.000 has to prove to the AI that he didn't do it. 1:17:37.560 --> 1:17:41.040 Oh wow, yeah, interesting ninety minutes to prove your innocence 1:17:41.120 --> 1:17:44.599 or face execution. Yep. Okay, is this in the movie 1:17:44.600 --> 1:17:45.880 theater or it's coming out? 1:17:45.960 --> 1:17:48.240 If it's not out, I think it came out yesterday. 1:17:48.760 --> 1:17:52.679 Yeah. Release date is this week, so it's Amazon MGM, 1:17:52.760 --> 1:17:58.360 which means it'll be on Amazon Prime weeks. I've seen 1:17:58.400 --> 1:18:01.200 the ads during the Super Old in the NFL. You know, 1:18:01.280 --> 1:18:03.920 Prime now has so many things on Prime, like all 1:18:03.920 --> 1:18:06.240 the spoil. They had the basketball game on Prime the 1:18:06.280 --> 1:18:07.800 other day, which I didn't realize. I thought it was 1:18:07.800 --> 1:18:09.559 like I thought Prime just did football. No, they do 1:18:09.600 --> 1:18:13.240 all kinds of stuff now, basketball, baseball, football, Yeah, it's wild. 1:18:13.400 --> 1:18:15.760 The only thing they don't have is soccer. Okay, well 1:18:15.800 --> 1:18:18.759 Apple has a lock on that now they really Okay, 1:18:18.800 --> 1:18:22.759 So this is uh Mercy Chris Pratt sci fi thriller. Okay, 1:18:22.800 --> 1:18:26.160 So now this ticket is is something I gotta do 1:18:26.640 --> 1:18:28.519 because it's a I did not realize. I saw that. 1:18:28.880 --> 1:18:31.080 I saw the trailer one hundred times. I still didn't 1:18:31.120 --> 1:18:33.360 understand what the movie was about. So maybe they need 1:18:33.400 --> 1:18:38.679 to have better markets. Okay, let's go, let's do it. Okay, 1:18:38.840 --> 1:18:40.720 does this show? Is this AI to run the show? 1:18:40.920 --> 1:18:43.080 It just goes right and I'll turn on AI Rich. 1:18:43.800 --> 1:18:46.240 We'll go a rich all right? 1:18:46.479 --> 1:18:46.679 Uh? 1:18:46.920 --> 1:18:50.759 Speaking of AI more AI. Uh, there's a voice keyboard 1:18:50.800 --> 1:18:53.080 for Android this week. Okay. So you know, if you 1:18:53.120 --> 1:18:54.840 if you listen to me at all, you know I 1:18:54.880 --> 1:18:57.320 love my whisper Flow, which is my voice to text 1:18:57.320 --> 1:18:58.000 on the iPhone. 1:18:58.960 --> 1:18:59.080 Uh. 1:18:59.200 --> 1:19:00.640 And I was waiting for them to come out with 1:19:00.680 --> 1:19:02.880 Android and they've I don't know, I don't want to 1:19:02.880 --> 1:19:04.720 say they've been dragging their feet. Maybe it's trickier to 1:19:04.720 --> 1:19:07.639 do than they thought. But it's been a while and 1:19:07.800 --> 1:19:09.559 they I think last year they said by the end 1:19:09.600 --> 1:19:12.599 of the year. Now it's like, okay, let's hear what's happening, guys. 1:19:12.600 --> 1:19:17.400 But another company came out with an AI voice keyboard 1:19:17.400 --> 1:19:22.080 for Android. It is called Typeless Typeless dot com. I 1:19:22.080 --> 1:19:27.080 guess it's type less. Okay, So this is for Android. 1:19:27.200 --> 1:19:29.040 They also have it for iPhone. They also have it 1:19:29.040 --> 1:19:31.080 for Mac. They also have it for Windows, but they 1:19:31.200 --> 1:19:33.320 just came out with Android. So if you have an 1:19:33.320 --> 1:19:36.040 Android phone and you want better voice to text, try 1:19:36.080 --> 1:19:41.200 this out. Here's what the deal is it understands intent. 1:19:41.680 --> 1:19:44.240 And that is the big thing here that you might say, rich, 1:19:44.280 --> 1:19:46.080 I already have voice to text on my phone, It's 1:19:46.120 --> 1:19:48.479 not the same because what this is doing is it's 1:19:48.560 --> 1:19:52.960 using AI to understand what you're saying and then polish it. 1:19:53.320 --> 1:19:55.600 So not only can it do things like if you 1:19:55.680 --> 1:19:58.960 say let's go to the movies, I mean the beach, 1:19:59.520 --> 1:20:01.240 it won't all that stuff in there. I'll just say 1:20:01.280 --> 1:20:03.519 let's go to the beach because it knew your intent 1:20:03.680 --> 1:20:07.840 of you corrected yourself. It works everywhere, so you can 1:20:07.920 --> 1:20:10.160 use it in all the apps that you like. They 1:20:10.160 --> 1:20:12.959 have a whisper mode so you can talk really quietly. 1:20:13.400 --> 1:20:16.519 Works in a hundred languages and mix and match. How 1:20:16.560 --> 1:20:20.040 wild is that You can start talking in English, switch 1:20:20.080 --> 1:20:22.160 to Spanish, go back to English, and it will still 1:20:22.200 --> 1:20:25.400 figure it all out. That is incredible. And they say 1:20:25.439 --> 1:20:28.200 it's private. They don't keep your data, they don't train 1:20:28.240 --> 1:20:31.240 on your data. All your history stays on your device. 1:20:31.840 --> 1:20:34.760 So again, this is called Typeless. Make sure you get 1:20:34.760 --> 1:20:37.440 the right one if you look it up in Android, 1:20:38.120 --> 1:20:43.280 it's Typeless. Typeless AI voice keyboard made by a company 1:20:43.320 --> 1:20:47.960 called Typeless, and it I try this, here's my problem 1:20:47.960 --> 1:20:49.599 with it. I love it. I think it's really great. 1:20:49.640 --> 1:20:51.400 You could do up to I think I think it's 1:20:51.479 --> 1:20:54.720 up to four thousand words a week for free. The 1:20:54.800 --> 1:20:59.240 problem is it's in the entire keyboard is taken up 1:20:59.280 --> 1:21:03.160 by just a microphone button. And that's great because yeah, 1:21:03.200 --> 1:21:05.960 that's the main functionality, but it's also kind of annoying 1:21:06.040 --> 1:21:07.519 if it gets something wrong or you just want to 1:21:07.600 --> 1:21:10.280 change something very quickly. I wish they would give you 1:21:10.320 --> 1:21:13.760 the keyboard still and just put the little put the 1:21:13.800 --> 1:21:17.080 little uh microphone in the corner. That would be better 1:21:17.080 --> 1:21:20.920 to me. But yeah, that's the that's the main thing. 1:21:21.760 --> 1:21:21.880 Uh. 1:21:22.120 --> 1:21:26.720 Let's see here. Uh we've got Michael. Could we go? 1:21:26.760 --> 1:21:28.439 I don't know if I you know, I'm gonna have 1:21:28.439 --> 1:21:30.720 to save him for the next break here, because you know, 1:21:30.800 --> 1:21:33.080 we get these, we get close to the break here, 1:21:33.120 --> 1:21:35.360 and it's you know, if the questions are longer, I'll 1:21:35.400 --> 1:21:36.840 do it. I'll do an email because I can do 1:21:36.960 --> 1:21:40.439 that quickly. Mario writes in I was wondering if you've 1:21:40.439 --> 1:21:43.360 ever reviewed apps that let you change your ad a 1:21:43.439 --> 1:21:46.120 phone number. I want a separate number for contest coupons 1:21:46.120 --> 1:21:48.840 and sign ups because I already get enough spam calls. 1:21:48.920 --> 1:21:51.040 I've had the same cell numbers since nineteen ninety seven. 1:21:51.040 --> 1:21:53.840 I don't want to change it. Any tips would be appreciated. Also, 1:21:53.880 --> 1:21:56.960 I loved watching your KTLA TV segments when I lived 1:21:56.960 --> 1:22:00.559 in SoCal. Thanks Mario number one. I think Google Voice 1:22:00.600 --> 1:22:03.240 is probably the easiest. It's free, it's uh, you know, 1:22:03.320 --> 1:22:06.280 you sign up, and that's probably that's what I use. 1:22:06.400 --> 1:22:08.720 I've got. I've had my Google Voice since day one. 1:22:09.280 --> 1:22:12.559 Used to be called Grand Central. Google bought them. I've 1:22:12.600 --> 1:22:14.840 had it since day one. I love it and it's 1:22:14.840 --> 1:22:18.799 great Google Voice. If you want something like a virtual 1:22:18.880 --> 1:22:21.880 second line, you can actually call your carrier and a 1:22:21.880 --> 1:22:23.479 lot of them will give you a second line for 1:22:23.520 --> 1:22:25.599 ten dollars a month. Now, I don't know if it's 1:22:25.640 --> 1:22:28.840 worth ten dollars a month for entering contests. I don't 1:22:28.840 --> 1:22:32.480 think it is, But if you're willing to pay that, 1:22:32.479 --> 1:22:34.080 that's an easy way to do it. And you can 1:22:34.160 --> 1:22:36.360 use that as a second line through your carrier. And 1:22:36.400 --> 1:22:40.360 then they have services. So there's services like sly number 1:22:42.080 --> 1:22:44.120 that I think Bobo is a big fan of that one. 1:22:45.439 --> 1:22:49.920 And then what I thought, I saw that app on 1:22:49.960 --> 1:22:51.840 your phone for Sly number No. I was just kidding. 1:22:51.840 --> 1:22:56.479 I don't want to get you in trouble. The other 1:22:56.520 --> 1:22:59.600 one is text free. Now you have to understand what 1:22:59.680 --> 1:23:01.960 some of the these free ones they may not allow 1:23:02.000 --> 1:23:06.480 you to to It may not have the full functionality 1:23:06.520 --> 1:23:09.280 of a regular phone number. So you can try it. 1:23:09.320 --> 1:23:12.360 Some of these, some of these like automated texts to enter, 1:23:12.880 --> 1:23:15.200 may not allow you to use what they call a 1:23:15.280 --> 1:23:18.040 voipeline voice over ip number. But a lot of them, 1:23:18.080 --> 1:23:21.160 like I mean, it looks like text free, just try it. 1:23:21.160 --> 1:23:24.280 It's it'll probably work. SLI number, how much it looks 1:23:24.280 --> 1:23:26.880 like slide number you have to pay for. Yeah, but 1:23:26.960 --> 1:23:29.840 text free or text free is free. Google Voice is free. 1:23:30.600 --> 1:23:33.080 Eighty eight Rich one on one eighty eight seven four 1:23:33.120 --> 1:23:35.000 to two four one zero one more rich On Tech 1:23:35.000 --> 1:23:43.000 coming your way right after this. Welcome back to rich 1:23:43.040 --> 1:23:48.400 On Tech. We've got Michael in rialto Michael. You're on 1:23:48.439 --> 1:23:49.040 with rich. 1:23:50.800 --> 1:23:51.760 Good afternoon, Rich. 1:23:51.960 --> 1:23:52.920 Hi, Hey, Wes City. 1:23:53.040 --> 1:23:58.320 Is tavy the electronic recycling event going on today. Matter 1:23:58.320 --> 1:24:00.280 of fact, we've got about forty minutes to get there. 1:24:01.360 --> 1:24:03.760 I'll make it quick, Okay. 1:24:04.479 --> 1:24:05.240 I have a. 1:24:05.920 --> 1:24:09.360 Windows eight computer. I was wondering. I was a little 1:24:09.360 --> 1:24:11.880 skeptical about bringing it down there or not. Do you 1:24:11.920 --> 1:24:15.480 think there would be an issue, you know, with the 1:24:15.520 --> 1:24:17.639 information that still might be on the hard drive? 1:24:18.200 --> 1:24:21.640 Did you wipe it? Did you recycle or sorry? Did 1:24:21.720 --> 1:24:23.559 you like wipe the hard drive? 1:24:25.240 --> 1:24:28.599 I think I did. I am not percenture. I'm not there. 1:24:28.960 --> 1:24:32.080 Okay, bavvy. When you start up, does the computer still 1:24:32.080 --> 1:24:32.559 start up? 1:24:34.280 --> 1:24:36.519 I think that, well, I have it disconnected because I 1:24:36.560 --> 1:24:39.519 ended up buying a whole new computer when the everything 1:24:39.600 --> 1:24:41.360 switched over to Windows eleven. 1:24:41.520 --> 1:24:46.920 Right, okay, So Windows has a built in setting that 1:24:47.040 --> 1:24:50.040 it says, remove everything and reinstall Windows. Do you remember 1:24:50.120 --> 1:24:50.599 doing that? 1:24:52.360 --> 1:24:52.439 No? 1:24:52.720 --> 1:24:54.519 I did not. I'm a hold on to it. 1:24:54.640 --> 1:24:57.360 Okay, that's what That's what I would do. So, I mean, 1:24:58.040 --> 1:25:00.120 you know, it's nice to donate. So I think you 1:25:00.120 --> 1:25:01.719 said a school is doing the donation. 1:25:03.640 --> 1:25:04.080 The city? 1:25:04.160 --> 1:25:07.160 Oh, the city? Okay. So typically here's the deal, Like 1:25:07.280 --> 1:25:11.280 anyone that's taking these computers, any reputable company is going 1:25:11.360 --> 1:25:14.400 to wipe them clean of the data. They're gonna they're 1:25:14.439 --> 1:25:16.320 gonna pledge to do that. They're gonna make sure they 1:25:16.360 --> 1:25:20.360 do that. But I would say, in general, for my 1:25:20.400 --> 1:25:23.200 own privacy, I would not want to bring a computer 1:25:23.600 --> 1:25:25.800 that still has my personal information on it. Can you 1:25:25.840 --> 1:25:29.200 do it? Yes? You know, is it gonna be okay? 1:25:29.320 --> 1:25:32.000 A majority of the time, probably, But I can't in 1:25:32.040 --> 1:25:34.920 good faith, as a person that works with electronics all 1:25:34.960 --> 1:25:37.280 the time, say yeah, it's fine, just bring your computer 1:25:37.360 --> 1:25:39.280 with all your personal data on there. There's just too 1:25:39.320 --> 1:25:42.599 much data out there, and you never know. The company 1:25:42.680 --> 1:25:45.000 might have good intentions, but someone might break into the 1:25:45.000 --> 1:25:47.559 company and steal all these computers, you know, before they 1:25:47.600 --> 1:25:51.880 get recycled. So ok, So what I would do, Michael, 1:25:51.960 --> 1:25:57.240 for sure, is go into Windows Settings and there's a 1:25:57.400 --> 1:26:00.000 a I mean basically, I'll put these instructions on the websit. 1:26:00.080 --> 1:26:03.600 I be going to settings, Change PC Settings, Update and 1:26:03.640 --> 1:26:08.000 recovery recovery, and then there is a get started button 1:26:08.160 --> 1:26:12.080 and you basically just say remove everything and reinstall Windows. 1:26:12.080 --> 1:26:19.400 There's a section that says that, and that's it. Basically. Yeah, 1:26:19.600 --> 1:26:22.800 just basically search recovery in your Windows and look for 1:26:22.840 --> 1:26:25.880 the remove everything in reinstall Windows and that should get 1:26:25.920 --> 1:26:28.240 you to a place where the computer has your stuff 1:26:28.240 --> 1:26:30.759 off of it if you want to. If you want, 1:26:30.840 --> 1:26:34.280 there are some third party there are some third party 1:26:34.280 --> 1:26:37.439 products out there that people use just to make sure 1:26:38.080 --> 1:26:39.439 and I know I'll get the emails if I don't 1:26:39.439 --> 1:26:42.120 mention them. So a couple of them are kill disc 1:26:42.640 --> 1:26:45.280 k I l L D I s K. So obviously 1:26:45.800 --> 1:26:47.960 that does what it sounds like. It kills the disc. 1:26:48.000 --> 1:26:49.920 They've got it for Windows, they've got it for Linux, 1:26:49.960 --> 1:26:53.200 they've got it for mac os. And then disc wipe 1:26:53.280 --> 1:26:58.280 as well. They've got that one. Let's see is this one. Yeah, 1:26:58.320 --> 1:27:00.599 it looks like it's free as well. So free software. 1:27:00.680 --> 1:27:03.960 Support others by telling people about it, or support us 1:27:03.960 --> 1:27:05.840 by telling people about it. That's what I just did. 1:27:06.360 --> 1:27:09.040 So again, kill disc disc wipe. Now, if you have 1:27:09.520 --> 1:27:13.760 a newer computer, like I said, with Windows, Windows ten, 1:27:13.840 --> 1:27:17.719 Windows eleven, the newer max, they all have a system 1:27:17.760 --> 1:27:20.800 built in to wipe the drive clean and get it 1:27:20.840 --> 1:27:23.400 back to factory. That's gonna be good for ninety nine 1:27:23.439 --> 1:27:26.559 point nine percent of recycling or giving away the computer. 1:27:26.880 --> 1:27:30.360 But if you really want all of your information super 1:27:30.479 --> 1:27:33.200 super scrubbed from the hard drive, you might want to 1:27:33.240 --> 1:27:35.360 look into one of these programs like kill disc or 1:27:35.400 --> 1:27:38.200 wipe disc wipe, because what they can do is they 1:27:38.200 --> 1:27:41.639 can rewrite over the data once and so that way 1:27:42.280 --> 1:27:45.559 it makes sure that nothing is retrievable. Even if someone 1:27:45.680 --> 1:27:48.000 was a little tech savvy and got into that disc 1:27:48.040 --> 1:27:51.719 and was able to do that. So those are the recommendations. Michael, 1:27:51.760 --> 1:27:55.160 thanks so much for that. Let's see if we can 1:27:55.200 --> 1:27:57.960 get David and Covina real quick. David, you're on with 1:27:58.080 --> 1:28:04.720 Rich Hi, Rich Hi, thank you absolutely. What's up? 1:28:05.840 --> 1:28:11.799 Yes, Google, I why don't it switch to Yahoo? 1:28:12.760 --> 1:28:12.920 Oh? 1:28:13.120 --> 1:28:16.639 Your your browser switched to Yahoo? Okay? Uh, that sounds 1:28:16.720 --> 1:28:20.360 like you've got malware on your system, or you installed 1:28:20.400 --> 1:28:23.000 something on your system, either a browser we call it 1:28:23.040 --> 1:28:28.000 a browser redirect, so a hijack extension, or you just 1:28:28.040 --> 1:28:30.360 did you installed something from Yahoo and they said, hey, 1:28:30.360 --> 1:28:32.000 do you want to switch to Yahoo and you said yes. 1:28:32.560 --> 1:28:35.479 So you can go into Chrome. You can go into 1:28:35.520 --> 1:28:40.200 settings and there's a way to go about Chrome and 1:28:40.360 --> 1:28:42.240 let's see there's a way to read. Oh, here it is. 1:28:42.479 --> 1:28:44.160 So you go into your settings on Chrome and it 1:28:44.200 --> 1:28:48.880 says reset settings. You tap reset settings to their original defaults, 1:28:48.920 --> 1:28:52.120 and that will clear everything that you've changed in the settings, 1:28:52.560 --> 1:28:56.280 including that Yahoo search default, and it will bring it 1:28:56.320 --> 1:29:01.240 back to Google. So again, open up Chrome setting. That's 1:29:01.520 --> 1:29:04.200 you go to menu, then Settings and then look on 1:29:04.240 --> 1:29:07.320 the left hand side. It says reset settings, and it 1:29:07.320 --> 1:29:10.080 says restore settings to their original defaults. You tap that 1:29:10.160 --> 1:29:15.840 and it should bring back David, your yeah or your Google. Yeah. 1:29:15.840 --> 1:29:20.519 This happens. It's it's very it's very common. In fact, 1:29:20.600 --> 1:29:22.840 you know, people install stuff and next thing you know, 1:29:23.200 --> 1:29:26.679 their computer, their browser is doing something a little differently. 1:29:26.760 --> 1:29:30.639 So look at your extensions. The extensions are the software 1:29:30.640 --> 1:29:33.080 that you install into your browser. It's not a bookmark, 1:29:33.520 --> 1:29:37.000 it's not an application outside your browser. It's in your browser. 1:29:37.800 --> 1:29:40.200 And so just make sure you go through your extensions 1:29:40.240 --> 1:29:42.439 regularly and get rid of the ones that you do 1:29:42.520 --> 1:29:46.360 not need or don't recognize. Eighty eight rich one on one. 1:29:46.400 --> 1:29:49.719 Coming up, we're going to talk TVs with Caleb Dennison. 1:29:50.400 --> 1:29:52.439 What's the best TV to buy right now? He will 1:29:52.479 --> 1:30:00.639 reveal all. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro 1:30:00.760 --> 1:30:04.240 here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple eight 1:30:04.400 --> 1:30:07.880 rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to 1:30:07.880 --> 1:30:12.320 two four one zero one. Let's see we got a 1:30:12.320 --> 1:30:14.240 couple of things. Oh oh, if you've been wanting to 1:30:14.240 --> 1:30:17.880 get your hands on that Samsung trifold, it is in 1:30:17.920 --> 1:30:23.439 some stores, specifically Samsung Experience stores. This is that fold 1:30:23.520 --> 1:30:26.360 that the foldable phone that opens up to that ten 1:30:26.520 --> 1:30:29.360 inch display. I checked it out at CS. It basically 1:30:29.360 --> 1:30:34.479 looks like a tablet in your pocket. But keep in 1:30:34.520 --> 1:30:37.720 mind this is hands on. It's not uh, it's not 1:30:37.880 --> 1:30:40.760 you can't buy it just yet. Samsung says they're going 1:30:40.840 --> 1:30:42.280 to release this in the US, but they have not 1:30:42.320 --> 1:30:45.120 given US pricing or a release date. It is available 1:30:45.200 --> 1:30:48.760 in South Korea and uh it is uh, we don't 1:30:48.800 --> 1:30:54.760 have a price just yet. So okay, okay, I just 1:30:54.840 --> 1:30:58.080 I just heard from our guest, uh Caleb, Oh, we're 1:30:58.120 --> 1:31:05.759 not going to get the TVs FAM emergency So yeah, bummer. Anyway, 1:31:05.880 --> 1:31:11.560 so you've got you've got the Samsung Experience stores in California, Minneapolis, 1:31:11.720 --> 1:31:15.400 and let's see Queen's Center, and a couple other places 1:31:15.479 --> 1:31:17.640 across the US. So I'll put a link on the website. 1:31:17.880 --> 1:31:20.000 But if you've been wanting to see this thing in person, 1:31:20.240 --> 1:31:25.200 you now finally can. There you go. In other news, Spectrum, 1:31:25.280 --> 1:31:27.679 if you have Spectrum Internet and you've got dead spots 1:31:27.720 --> 1:31:29.519 in your house, you can now fix those for about 1:31:29.560 --> 1:31:32.880 five dollars a month. Spectrum is launching new Wi Fi 1:31:33.080 --> 1:31:35.800 seven extenders. So this is kind of like what I 1:31:35.840 --> 1:31:37.880 talk about in the in the house. If you have 1:31:37.920 --> 1:31:41.080 an euro system, this is basically their version of that, 1:31:41.360 --> 1:31:44.400 so you can buy this extender. Each extender covers about 1:31:44.400 --> 1:31:47.639 two thousand square feet of coverage, so basically, if you're 1:31:47.680 --> 1:31:50.080 having issues you've got a bigger house, or even if 1:31:50.120 --> 1:31:54.400 you're having any kind of issues with Spectrum, you can 1:31:55.040 --> 1:31:57.840 rent one of these. It's five dollars a month per extender. 1:31:58.160 --> 1:32:00.920 It only works with Wi Fi seven if you have 1:32:01.000 --> 1:32:03.519 the Spectrum Wi Fi seven routers, so keep in mind. 1:32:03.960 --> 1:32:07.000 They may have extenders for their older routers like the 1:32:07.040 --> 1:32:10.400 Wi Fi six, but check with them. But it's probably 1:32:10.479 --> 1:32:12.599 easier to do that if you're already renting your router 1:32:12.680 --> 1:32:15.719 from Spectrum you're having issues. Instead of buying a whole 1:32:15.760 --> 1:32:18.559 new Eurosystem, you can just rent this for five dollars 1:32:18.600 --> 1:32:20.559 a month from them, and that'll be a lot easier 1:32:20.600 --> 1:32:24.439 than doing that. And then remember we talked about this 1:32:26.120 --> 1:32:29.120 the startup Telly, remember that startup that gives out the 1:32:29.120 --> 1:32:31.599 free TVs with all the ads on them. We even 1:32:31.640 --> 1:32:34.960 had the founder on here and we've talked about them 1:32:35.040 --> 1:32:37.840 at length. They wanted to give out a whole bunch 1:32:37.920 --> 1:32:44.120 of TVs. But this newsletter low Pass from Yenko Rogers. 1:32:44.680 --> 1:32:49.400 He says that Telly has only given out thirty five 1:32:49.479 --> 1:32:53.479 thousand TVs as of fall twenty twenty five, and that's 1:32:53.520 --> 1:32:56.240 a long way from the company's early promises to ship 1:32:56.280 --> 1:33:00.240 five hundred thousand TVs in twenty twenty three million more 1:33:00.280 --> 1:33:03.479 after that. So you might remember, these TVs are free 1:33:03.920 --> 1:33:07.760 in exchange for ads. So they have a main screen 1:33:07.800 --> 1:33:09.880 which is fifty five inches, and then underneath there's a 1:33:09.920 --> 1:33:13.640 secondary screen that's built into the set, so it's got 1:33:13.720 --> 1:33:17.400 like widgets on there, like sports scores and news and 1:33:17.600 --> 1:33:19.880 the report which, by the way, Telly is not telling 1:33:19.960 --> 1:33:21.640 us this. They don't want us to know this, but 1:33:22.040 --> 1:33:24.360 this is a report that this newsletter got a hold of. 1:33:25.720 --> 1:33:29.439 Logistics have been a major problem. About ten percent of 1:33:29.439 --> 1:33:33.559 the TV's ship via FedEx arrive broken. Now, these are huge, 1:33:33.640 --> 1:33:36.000 heavy TVs and a lot of people have gotten them, 1:33:36.439 --> 1:33:39.160 but not enough. I mean, thirty five thousand is a 1:33:39.200 --> 1:33:42.400 good start, but it's not the scale they want to 1:33:42.439 --> 1:33:47.519 be able to deliver ads to make money. Now here's 1:33:47.680 --> 1:33:51.400 the user base. Telly made about twenty two million in revenue, 1:33:51.880 --> 1:33:55.599 which is about fifty dollars per TV per month. I mean, 1:33:55.840 --> 1:33:59.920 that's fine. It's not great. But oh he actually says, 1:34:00.560 --> 1:34:04.639 oh wow, Okay, that actually beats Roku's last reported average 1:34:04.640 --> 1:34:08.200 revenue per user. So the model can work. That's good news. 1:34:08.520 --> 1:34:10.080 I mean, the good news is the model can work. 1:34:10.120 --> 1:34:12.599 The problem is they've got to get more TVs into 1:34:12.600 --> 1:34:16.400 people's hands to make this work. And so if you've 1:34:16.439 --> 1:34:19.519 been waiting for a TV, you're not alone. A lot 1:34:19.560 --> 1:34:21.720 of people. Every time I mentioned Telly, people sign up 1:34:21.720 --> 1:34:23.360 for it and they're like, Rich, where's my TV? I 1:34:24.520 --> 1:34:28.840 don't have your TV instantly. Let's see should we do 1:34:28.920 --> 1:34:35.240 a let's do an email question here. Gary in Scottsdale says, 1:34:35.240 --> 1:34:37.880 I heard you warn about the risks of storing authenticator 1:34:37.960 --> 1:34:40.720 codes and a password manager. I don't even realized that 1:34:40.840 --> 1:34:43.760 was a thing. All the authenticator apps I use just 1:34:43.800 --> 1:34:46.439 show a constantly changing number, So I'm confused. Why would 1:34:46.439 --> 1:34:48.439 anyone want to save or store those codes in the 1:34:48.439 --> 1:34:52.599 first place? Okay, that is confusion, Gary. When I say stored, 1:34:53.120 --> 1:34:56.680 I mean using the password manager to generate those one 1:34:56.760 --> 1:35:00.280 time codes for you. So it's all about convenience, right. 1:35:00.320 --> 1:35:04.840 You have the code, and your password manager has both 1:35:04.840 --> 1:35:07.000 the password and the one time code all in the 1:35:07.000 --> 1:35:10.559 same place. But the downside, I think is the risk 1:35:10.600 --> 1:35:12.920 of having those two things in the same place. If 1:35:12.920 --> 1:35:15.320 someone was able to get into your password manager, they 1:35:15.360 --> 1:35:19.080 also have your two factor authentication code. So my preference 1:35:19.200 --> 1:35:22.519 is to use separate apps for both your passwords and 1:35:22.600 --> 1:35:26.120 your two factor authentication. And the one I like. You 1:35:26.160 --> 1:35:27.639 know what I'm going to say. If you've been listening 1:35:27.640 --> 1:35:31.680 to me, The one I like is you're ready. It's 1:35:31.800 --> 1:35:38.400 Proton Authenticator. Proton Authenticator, and this thing has been amazing. 1:35:38.760 --> 1:35:41.759 What I love about it is that it's open source, 1:35:42.439 --> 1:35:44.799 which you know I love. It's available on every device, 1:35:44.880 --> 1:35:48.400 which you know I love. And it's free. What's better 1:35:48.439 --> 1:35:50.439 than free? Now you might be saying, rich, Oh, if 1:35:50.479 --> 1:35:52.840 it's free, it can't be that good. I really like 1:35:52.880 --> 1:35:55.479 what Proton's doing. And what they're doing is they offer 1:35:55.520 --> 1:35:59.200 a free level of their products, knowing that people are 1:35:59.240 --> 1:36:01.200 going to get in there and say, oh, what's this. Uh, 1:36:01.400 --> 1:36:04.599 end to end end to end encryption? What is that? 1:36:04.640 --> 1:36:04.760 Oh? 1:36:04.800 --> 1:36:07.000 Let me, Oh they have that that's really private? Cool? 1:36:07.320 --> 1:36:09.760 I like that. Oh what's this authenticator? 1:36:09.920 --> 1:36:10.040 Oh? 1:36:10.080 --> 1:36:12.599 I like this? It works exactly the way I want. 1:36:13.080 --> 1:36:17.280 No ads, no tracking, encrypted sync, open source, available on Android, 1:36:17.280 --> 1:36:21.200 available on iOS, available on Windows, Mac and Linux. And oh, 1:36:21.240 --> 1:36:24.320 by the way, you can export your codes when you 1:36:24.360 --> 1:36:26.599 want to switch to something better, if that ever comes along, 1:36:26.920 --> 1:36:30.000 which really burned me with Authie, which is where I 1:36:30.000 --> 1:36:32.920 had them before, and then I realized, oh wait, I 1:36:32.960 --> 1:36:35.400 can't export my codes. So now I had to go 1:36:35.439 --> 1:36:40.160 through and reset up every single authentication uh service that 1:36:40.240 --> 1:36:42.280 I had my two factor. I had to go through 1:36:42.280 --> 1:36:44.920 every single app and reset it up. But it really 1:36:44.920 --> 1:36:49.559 works well. So Proton Authenticator and they make Proton I'm sorry. 1:36:49.600 --> 1:36:51.519 They make a lot of great stuff. They really do. 1:36:52.520 --> 1:36:56.360 I mean, if you want to they have mail, calendar, drive, VPN, 1:36:57.240 --> 1:37:00.599 all these things. If you want a VPN for free, 1:37:01.280 --> 1:37:06.240 Proton they've got a free level of VPN and why not. 1:37:07.200 --> 1:37:10.479 So it gives you for free one device at a time, 1:37:11.000 --> 1:37:13.040 medium speed, so it's not gonna be the best speed, 1:37:13.680 --> 1:37:16.080 but you can connect it servers in ten countries which 1:37:16.080 --> 1:37:21.960 are randomly selected. But that's pretty good for free, no ads, 1:37:22.600 --> 1:37:24.760 So if you're looking for a free VPN, that's not 1:37:24.800 --> 1:37:28.320 bad at all. So check out Proton for all these things. 1:37:28.320 --> 1:37:30.800 I mean, I really like what they're doing there. All right, 1:37:30.840 --> 1:37:38.040 so we got that question answered. Let's see here. Patty says, 1:37:38.040 --> 1:37:40.880 I love your podcast, newsletters and TV spots. You're helpful 1:37:40.920 --> 1:37:42.960 and patient with such a wide range of listeners. I 1:37:42.960 --> 1:37:45.759 want to use apples Hide my Email feature more often, 1:37:46.160 --> 1:37:48.719 but I mainly use Chrome even though all my devices 1:37:48.760 --> 1:37:51.640 are Apple. Is it worth switching back to Safari or 1:37:51.680 --> 1:37:53.680 is there a good extension or app that lets me 1:37:53.760 --> 1:37:57.360 use Hide my Email and Chrome? This is why Patty, 1:37:57.360 --> 1:38:00.639 this goes exactly into what I was saying about open 1:38:00.720 --> 1:38:05.639 source and independent third party products. Apple. I love them, 1:38:05.960 --> 1:38:08.479 love Apple. They do amazing stuff, and I think Hide 1:38:08.479 --> 1:38:12.120 my Email is great. The problem is everything with Apple 1:38:12.560 --> 1:38:16.439 leads you to more Apple. That's their entire game. 1:38:16.840 --> 1:38:17.000 Now. 1:38:17.040 --> 1:38:19.720 They do great stuff, but they don't care about anything else. 1:38:19.760 --> 1:38:22.160 They don't care that you're using Chrome. They don't want 1:38:22.200 --> 1:38:24.120 you to use Chrome. They want you to use Safari. 1:38:24.400 --> 1:38:26.040 Why do you think they make their stuff work so 1:38:26.120 --> 1:38:28.200 well with Safari? Why do you think it works so 1:38:28.240 --> 1:38:30.240 well with Apple Mail? Why do you think it works 1:38:30.240 --> 1:38:32.559 so well with the passwords app that they make, and 1:38:32.640 --> 1:38:36.320 of course the iPhone. So if you want to use 1:38:36.360 --> 1:38:41.840 Hide my Mail and you're a paying subscriber Ofiicloud, you 1:38:42.240 --> 1:38:44.280 have to go to Safari. That's going to be the 1:38:44.280 --> 1:38:47.280 best way to do it. Hide my Mail. Hide my 1:38:47.320 --> 1:38:50.559 Email really works best in Apple's own apps like Safari, 1:38:50.600 --> 1:38:54.160 Apple Mail and the iPhone, And if you want to 1:38:54.320 --> 1:38:57.800 use hide my Email, you've got to switch back to Safari. 1:38:58.200 --> 1:38:59.080 Is Safari bad? 1:38:59.160 --> 1:38:59.200 No? 1:39:00.000 --> 1:39:01.800 I don't think so far. He's bad at all. But 1:39:01.960 --> 1:39:04.679 there are other third party products that you can use 1:39:04.880 --> 1:39:07.200 that give you a similar protection. Number one is Duck 1:39:07.280 --> 1:39:10.160 Duck Go. They have something called Email Protection, which is 1:39:10.200 --> 1:39:15.120 free and that'll work. And then you've got Yahoo, but 1:39:15.280 --> 1:39:17.000 you have to pay for plus on there, so if 1:39:17.000 --> 1:39:19.160 you're not doing that, you got to pay for Yahoo Plus. 1:39:19.960 --> 1:39:22.799 Let's see what else you got. Gmail they have something 1:39:22.840 --> 1:39:26.040 called aliases. So basically, if you have a Gmail address, 1:39:26.479 --> 1:39:29.080 Let's say your Gmail address is rich on Tech at 1:39:29.080 --> 1:39:32.439 gmail dot com, you can create an email address on 1:39:32.479 --> 1:39:36.680 the fly that's rich on Tech plus Time magazine. Let's 1:39:36.680 --> 1:39:39.280 say you're subscribing to that at gmail dot com, and 1:39:39.320 --> 1:39:41.640 that email address will still go to Gmail. But the 1:39:41.680 --> 1:39:43.759 cool thing is you can filter out that email address 1:39:43.760 --> 1:39:45.559 to the trash when you don't want to use it anymore. 1:39:46.200 --> 1:39:50.760 Firefox has something called Firefox Relay. Oh, and look at 1:39:50.760 --> 1:39:56.800 This is this Proton simple login. They've got email aliases 1:39:56.840 --> 1:40:01.760 for free. How many can you do? See pricing? You 1:40:01.800 --> 1:40:04.280 can do ten of them for free. So there you 1:40:04.320 --> 1:40:07.320 have it. Proton's got a solution there too. Eight to 1:40:07.320 --> 1:40:10.400 eight rich one O one rich on tech dot tv 1:40:10.680 --> 1:40:12.800 is the website for want links to anything I just mentioned. 1:40:12.840 --> 1:40:14.599 I know, I just gave you a lot. I'll put 1:40:14.600 --> 1:40:16.880 it all on the website rich on tech dot tv. 1:40:17.000 --> 1:40:20.560 Coming up, we're opening up the feedbag right here on 1:40:20.720 --> 1:40:27.479 rich on tech. Thank you. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:40:27.560 --> 1:40:31.280 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The 1:40:31.320 --> 1:40:35.320 website for the show is rich on tech dot tv. 1:40:35.439 --> 1:40:37.960 This is episode one five eight. So if I mentioned 1:40:38.000 --> 1:40:41.799 anything that you liked, you can go there and find 1:40:41.960 --> 1:40:45.400 exactly all the things I mentioned, but also the links 1:40:45.439 --> 1:40:48.360 to everything I mentioned. I gave you a lot this week. 1:40:49.680 --> 1:40:52.320 While you're there, be sure to subscribe to my free newsletter. 1:40:52.400 --> 1:40:55.400 It's packed with helpful tips, tricks, and the latest tech news. 1:40:55.439 --> 1:40:58.280 I think you should know. It's all right there rich 1:40:58.479 --> 1:41:02.280 on Tech TV, and of course follow me on social media. 1:41:02.400 --> 1:41:06.240 I am at rich on tech on Instagram. It's all 1:41:06.320 --> 1:41:10.559 right there. Let's open up. Actually, let's do one story 1:41:10.560 --> 1:41:12.960 before we open up the feedback. I thought this was interesting. 1:41:13.040 --> 1:41:17.880 The American Academy of Pediatrics released updated guidance on screen time, 1:41:18.560 --> 1:41:20.920 and they said, it's a little bit more complicated than 1:41:20.920 --> 1:41:24.519 it was before. So you've got apps, you've got social media, 1:41:24.560 --> 1:41:27.000 you've got video games, you've got algorithms, you've got AI. 1:41:27.600 --> 1:41:31.439 All of them are designed to hook kids in. That 1:41:31.640 --> 1:41:35.320 is number one. We already know that, but it's getting 1:41:35.439 --> 1:41:39.440 even worse. The platforms are built to keep kids scrolling, 1:41:39.600 --> 1:41:43.360 watching and tapping longer than is healthy. So this is 1:41:43.360 --> 1:41:45.920 what I thought was interesting. They're not saying that all 1:41:46.000 --> 1:41:48.880 screen time is bad. They're saying, in fact, that some 1:41:49.040 --> 1:41:52.519 screen time is good. You know, it's educational, it's social, 1:41:52.600 --> 1:41:54.400 it's interesting, it's fun. It's like when we used to 1:41:54.439 --> 1:41:56.479 watch a movie when we were a kid. The problem 1:41:56.560 --> 1:42:01.280 is the platforms themselves are designed to keep kids in, 1:42:02.000 --> 1:42:05.880 and that heavier screen time is linked with less sleep, 1:42:05.960 --> 1:42:10.600 less physical activity, less attention, more emotional regulation challenges. If 1:42:10.600 --> 1:42:12.120 you're a parent, you know what I just said is 1:42:12.160 --> 1:42:16.920 all true. So what can you do? Stop blaming parents 1:42:16.920 --> 1:42:20.599 and kids alone? And they're saying that tech companies should 1:42:20.640 --> 1:42:24.599 be held accountable for these designs. Right, they're designing apps 1:42:24.600 --> 1:42:27.920 that keep kids linked and keep kids on the screen, 1:42:28.439 --> 1:42:31.720 so they want safer defaults for kids, less targeted advertising, 1:42:32.080 --> 1:42:36.200 less auto play, features, stronger privacy protections, and for families, 1:42:36.720 --> 1:42:40.759 focus on quality content co viewing as much as possible. 1:42:40.800 --> 1:42:42.160 I know the kids are gonna be on their screens 1:42:42.200 --> 1:42:45.839 by themselves, screen free meal times like meals in bedtime, 1:42:46.400 --> 1:42:49.559 and then open conversations about what kids see online. I 1:42:49.560 --> 1:42:53.120 think that's all great advice. Let's open up the feedback. 1:42:55.080 --> 1:42:57.479 Karen writes in I thought you'd get a kick out 1:42:57.520 --> 1:42:59.759 of this. I was making dessert for a family gathering 1:42:59.760 --> 1:43:02.920 and using Alexa for reminders. I said, Alexa, remind me 1:43:02.960 --> 1:43:05.240 to put the Bobka on the racks in ten minutes. 1:43:05.800 --> 1:43:09.160 Ten minutes later, Alexa announces Karen put the vodka on 1:43:09.200 --> 1:43:14.760 the rats. Apparently I need to enunciate better looks better 1:43:14.800 --> 1:43:16.519 than it sounds. Oh, she sent a picture and no 1:43:16.640 --> 1:43:19.360 animals were harmed in the making of this recipe. That 1:43:19.520 --> 1:43:24.479 is funny. Karen Steve writes in, My wife and I 1:43:24.520 --> 1:43:27.400 started using the Zoe app you mentioned, and we've been 1:43:27.400 --> 1:43:31.160 really enjoying it. We're starting to make better meal choices 1:43:31.200 --> 1:43:33.559 and even earning those beans along the way. Just wanted 1:43:33.640 --> 1:43:36.760 to say thanks. We're sticking with it absolutely, Steve. I 1:43:36.800 --> 1:43:40.680 love this app Zoe Health. In fact, it made me 1:43:40.760 --> 1:43:44.320 put beans in my dinner last night and my breakfast 1:43:44.760 --> 1:43:47.599 because they are all about increasing your fiber and stuff 1:43:47.640 --> 1:43:50.599 that's good for your gut. So check it out Zoe 1:43:50.760 --> 1:43:53.200 dot com, Ze dot com. They've got an app for 1:43:53.240 --> 1:43:55.720 both the iPhone and Android. You scan your food, it 1:43:55.760 --> 1:43:57.200 tells you how good it is for you. My wife 1:43:57.240 --> 1:43:58.960 and I love this. It's like we sit there and 1:43:59.040 --> 1:44:02.080 we try to guess what's going what's bad, not actually 1:44:02.120 --> 1:44:04.920 not good and bad. It's more like what's healthier for you? 1:44:06.880 --> 1:44:08.960 Sienna in California, I just want to say thank you. 1:44:09.040 --> 1:44:11.400 I love reading your newsletter every week. I'm a librarian 1:44:11.360 --> 1:44:14.120 in California. I teach a free class for seniors called 1:44:14.160 --> 1:44:17.599 tech Help. I really enjoy your tech questions from readers section. 1:44:17.720 --> 1:44:19.880 I often use the things you share on substach and 1:44:19.920 --> 1:44:24.120 your podcast as inspiration or as a reference for my students. 1:44:24.560 --> 1:44:27.760 It really makes tech feel more approachable for them. Keep 1:44:27.800 --> 1:44:32.040 doing what you're doing. Thank you, Sienna. Kendra and Kansas 1:44:32.080 --> 1:44:33.720 City writes in I heard you on the Woody Show. 1:44:33.720 --> 1:44:35.720 I'm so glad I found your newsletter after hearing you 1:44:35.760 --> 1:44:38.280 on the Woody Show. When I was in high school, 1:44:38.320 --> 1:44:40.519 in college, tech felt easy. Now, at forty three, I 1:44:40.520 --> 1:44:43.439 feel ancient and behind, especially when my teenage niece is 1:44:43.439 --> 1:44:46.040 teaching me how things work. On top of that, my 1:44:46.080 --> 1:44:48.000 parents always need tech help. I used to be their 1:44:48.000 --> 1:44:50.200 go to person. Now I struggle to keep up myself. 1:44:50.520 --> 1:44:53.240 There's so much new technology it can feel overwhelming, but 1:44:53.320 --> 1:44:56.160 your newsletter makes it feel less daunting and way less stressful. 1:44:56.240 --> 1:44:58.439 Thank you well, Thank you Kendra for finding me on 1:44:58.479 --> 1:45:02.599 the Woody Show. So Tony, Hey Rich. I usually get 1:45:02.600 --> 1:45:04.960 the fastest help with airlines by reaching out on Twitter 1:45:05.080 --> 1:45:08.040 or x especially when things like TSA PreCheck don't show up. 1:45:08.360 --> 1:45:10.320 That's worked well for me in the past, but last year, 1:45:10.360 --> 1:45:12.240 when I tried to change a booking with west Jet, 1:45:12.760 --> 1:45:15.160 I replied to an account that looked legit. It had 1:45:15.200 --> 1:45:17.040 west Jet in the handle and the logo. They tried 1:45:17.040 --> 1:45:20.479 to DM me, then pushed me to WhatsApp that raised 1:45:20.479 --> 1:45:23.719 a red flag. I later realized it was an imposter account. 1:45:23.920 --> 1:45:25.800 Thankful I didn't share any info. I think we said 1:45:25.800 --> 1:45:29.559 this one on air last week. Yeah, be careful. Anytime 1:45:29.600 --> 1:45:32.120 you're calling for tech support, do not just call the 1:45:32.200 --> 1:45:35.960 number that comes up in search. Look at the website 1:45:35.960 --> 1:45:40.120 itself for the specific number. Nancy, I just want to 1:45:40.160 --> 1:45:42.040 say thank you. I always look forward to your newsletter. 1:45:42.040 --> 1:45:43.920 It's one of the few emails I actually read all 1:45:43.960 --> 1:45:46.240 the way through. I'm in Canada, so not everything applies, 1:45:46.640 --> 1:45:48.920 but most of it does, and I always learned something new. 1:45:48.920 --> 1:45:51.719 I'm not very tech savvy, but your explanations really make sense. 1:45:52.320 --> 1:45:56.040 Thank you. Nancy. Sean listening to the podcast says, I 1:45:56.040 --> 1:45:58.760 wanted to add that, Oh, this is from a question 1:45:58.800 --> 1:46:01.240 we had last week about location sharing. I said Life 1:46:01.280 --> 1:46:03.479 three sixty was a good way of doing it. I 1:46:03.560 --> 1:46:05.600 just want to add that Google Maps another option for 1:46:05.680 --> 1:46:08.920 live location sharing. When my mom drove to Alabama to 1:46:08.960 --> 1:46:11.639 visit my sister, she shared her location in Google meet 1:46:11.960 --> 1:46:14.759 Maps and I could see her driving the entire way. 1:46:15.360 --> 1:46:17.160 She turned it off while she was visiting, then turn 1:46:17.240 --> 1:46:19.160 it back on for the drive. I'm assuming this works 1:46:19.160 --> 1:46:21.760 the same way on the iPhone. Let me check. I 1:46:21.880 --> 1:46:25.360 believe if you tap that blue dot, yes, So if 1:46:25.400 --> 1:46:27.960 you're in Google Maps, you tap the blue dot on 1:46:28.040 --> 1:46:30.960 your screen it says share location, and then you can 1:46:31.000 --> 1:46:34.599 now share your real time location for an hour or until, 1:46:34.720 --> 1:46:36.800 or you can just set amount of time or until 1:46:36.840 --> 1:46:39.559 you turn it off. Sean, that's a great, great tip. 1:46:39.640 --> 1:46:42.639 I should have mentioned that last week. That is excellent. 1:46:42.680 --> 1:46:44.599 A lot of people are already using Google Maps. Again. 1:46:44.640 --> 1:46:46.280 If you want to share your location for like an 1:46:46.280 --> 1:46:49.720 hour or a certain amount of time or ongoing, you 1:46:49.760 --> 1:46:51.679 can do it by tapping the blue dot and Google 1:46:51.720 --> 1:46:58.639 Maps and it says share my location. Great great tip, Steve. 1:46:59.640 --> 1:47:02.240 Watching that woman struggle with music in or Tesla made 1:47:02.240 --> 1:47:04.280 me think there's a super duper solution. Oh, I think 1:47:04.280 --> 1:47:06.280 we already got that. She should grab a portable CD 1:47:06.360 --> 1:47:09.480 player and pair it with a cheap bluetooth audio transmitter. 1:47:09.520 --> 1:47:13.920 Sometimes we get similar oh, John writes in one thing 1:47:13.960 --> 1:47:16.920 I wanted to add from your printer discussion on my Mac, 1:47:16.960 --> 1:47:20.120 there's a simple option in the print setup to switch 1:47:20.120 --> 1:47:22.320 from color to black and white. Just flipping that toggle 1:47:22.360 --> 1:47:23.920 can save a lot of color ink. And I did 1:47:24.000 --> 1:47:27.439 not hear that mentioned. All Right, I love it. All right, 1:47:27.479 --> 1:47:29.240 that's going to do it for this episode of the show. 1:47:29.320 --> 1:47:31.160 Thanks so much for listening. You can find links everything 1:47:31.160 --> 1:47:33.160 I mentioned on the website. Just go to rich on 1:47:33.360 --> 1:47:36.559 tech dot TV. Once again, I'm on social media at 1:47:36.640 --> 1:47:38.559 rich on tech Next week, let me take a look 1:47:38.560 --> 1:47:42.439 at the guests we've got. We've got Sharon Guy. She 1:47:42.640 --> 1:47:45.280 is going to talk about, oh, ways to use AI 1:47:45.400 --> 1:47:49.080 to stay relevant. We've also got oh, We've got Julia 1:47:49.120 --> 1:47:52.840 Pugachevski to talk about why bricking your phone is the 1:47:52.880 --> 1:47:55.000 new dry January. Oh, I've seen a lot about that 1:47:55.080 --> 1:47:57.639 on social media. Thanks so much for listening. There are 1:47:57.680 --> 1:47:59.439 so many ways you can spend your time. I really 1:47:59.439 --> 1:48:01.559 do appreciate you spending it right here with me. One 1:48:01.640 --> 1:48:05.439 reminder before I go, please do not drive distracted. Those 1:48:05.520 --> 1:48:08.759 texts can wait. Thanks everyone who makes this show possible. 1:48:08.920 --> 1:48:11.880 My name is rich Demiro. I'll talk to you real soon.