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Speaker 2: It's go to Dave in the Long Beach.

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Speaker 4: Dave, you're on with rich Oh hi and thanks for

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Speaker 4: taking my call. Okay, I've had a cuts I've downloaded

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Speaker 4: can you prove you actually bought these cuts? Well they've

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Speaker 4: Is there some place I can go that these cuts

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Speaker 1: To Well, when you say cuts, what do you mean

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Speaker 1: by that you had? You had your own music?

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Speaker 4: No, okay, you know you download individual songs from iTunes

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Speaker 1: So you're saying you're looking for your music that you

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Speaker 1: So so the number one thing is, so why did

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Speaker 4: Nobody seems to be able to tell me.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So there is a way did you look in

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Speaker 4: Uh? These were originally iTunes.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So there's a there's an option in iTunes or

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Speaker 4: No, they've basically the backups are going to be the

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well there is a setting inside your your well

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Speaker 1: But once you do that, you can just import these CDs.

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Speaker 1: But you can still import dcds, all right. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: tech dot TV hit contact. That's exactly what Ray did.

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Speaker 1: to Gary, Gary in Los Angeles around with Rich.

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Speaker 6: Hi.

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Speaker 7: Rich, I have a question. I've been having trouble lately

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Speaker 7: when I'm trying to watch YouTube live stream through my

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Speaker 7: Roku streaming stick, and I'm getting that spinning wheel and

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Speaker 7: I'm like the picture freezes up. And I think I

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Speaker 7: have a pretty fast Internet with a spectrum of spectrum

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Speaker 7: four hundred. But I think maybe I have an older

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Speaker 7: Wi Fi rounder it's over six years old. I was

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Speaker 7: wondering if maybe that's contributing to this slow speed.

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Speaker 1: It could be, But let's number one, you have very

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Speaker 1: fast Internet. Four hundred is extremely fast. Don't forget cable

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Speaker 1: internet as like you have. Typically the download speed is

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Speaker 1: very fast. The upload speed is the slow part. So

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Speaker 1: your download speed is great.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: By the way, YouTube does not need a lot of

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Speaker 1: bandwidth to to you know, stream videos. I mean part

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Speaker 1: of the magic of YouTube and Netflix. They're the pioneers

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Speaker 1: in streaming and so they have figured out how can

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Speaker 1: we stream this stuff in a clear way, even on

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Speaker 1: the worst possible signal. So I don't think that it

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Speaker 1: is your internet service. It could be a combination. How

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Speaker 1: old is this Roco.

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Speaker 7: My rocoustick is four and a half years.

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Speaker 1: Old, Okay, So I have a feeling it's either the

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Speaker 1: combination of the rocoustick and the.

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Speaker 2: Wi Fi router, but a six year old WiFi router.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yes, things have changed in that time, but

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Speaker 1: it really comes down to the placement of this router.

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Speaker 1: Does anything else buffer on your Roku stick?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 7: Basically it's only what's on YouTube, because like I'll open

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Speaker 7: up Roku and then I'll and I'll click on the

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Speaker 7: you you YouTube a and uh sometimes it will give

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Speaker 7: you'll see screen shots of all the YouTube channels. And

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Speaker 7: there's been times where the screen shots are very slow,

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Speaker 7: too low, and I'll just see like boxes.

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Speaker 2: Well have you tried restarting the Roku?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you tried restarting that? What about that?

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Speaker 4: Ye?

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Speaker 5: Fine?

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Speaker 7: On Roku you can check the connection and it says

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Speaker 7: signal strength excellent, and it says download speed anywhere. I've

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Speaker 7: seen anywhere from ninety one oh yeah to one oh two.

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Speaker 7: Is that fast enough?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah?

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Speaker 1: That I mean we're talking. Netflix recommends twenty five down

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Speaker 1: for four K video, so you're talking ninety is four

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Speaker 1: times that. So yes, your your speed is completely fine.

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Speaker 1: So I think it has to do with the app

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Speaker 1: or the rokup. So have you updated this YouTube app

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Speaker 1: or the operating system on the Roku lately?

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Speaker 7: Well, what I did was I uninstalled the YouTube appened, then.

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Speaker 5: Reinstalled it and it still happened, and it still.

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Speaker 7: Happens in the rokup. I went into the sheddings and

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Speaker 7: see if if there was an update, and it says

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Speaker 7: that it is up to date.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well that's good. That's all good.

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Speaker 1: So the final thing I'm seeing that you might be

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Speaker 1: able to do is what's called clearing the cash on your.

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Speaker 2: Roku.

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Speaker 1: So some users, I don't know if this is a

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Speaker 1: published thing for Roku or people just found a hack,

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Speaker 1: but this what I'm seeing online says you can press

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Speaker 1: the home button five times followed by the up button once.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, this sounds silly.

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Speaker 1: I'm reading this sounds like that abba thing we used

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Speaker 1: to do back in the day on Nintendo.

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Speaker 2: But here's what it says.

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Speaker 1: It says clear the cash by pressing the home button

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Speaker 1: five times, followed by the up button once, the rewind

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Speaker 1: button twice, and the fast forward button twice.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: That's sounding like a scam if you ask me. But

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Speaker 1: if I were you, I try it because you know

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Speaker 1: that may be your last resort. So I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: see it says. See, this is getting interesting. This is

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Speaker 1: saying it's weird because it's it's coming from some reputable

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Speaker 1: places like yeah, it's saying that it's you can do this.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I would try that and see if that works. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what I would try and see that's your last

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Speaker 1: kind of thing I would say if nothing else, is

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Speaker 1: what I would do again. Okay, so I try this

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Speaker 1: weird clear the cash thing. I don't know if that's

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Speaker 1: gonna work, but you can try it. So it's home

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Speaker 1: button five times, up, arrow once, rewind twice, fast forward

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Speaker 1: two times.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you can try that.

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Speaker 1: The other thing I would try to do is uninstall

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Speaker 1: the YouTube app, restart the Roku, and then reinstall the

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Speaker 1: YouTube app and see if that helps. And the other

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Speaker 1: thing you might be able to do if your Roku

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Speaker 1: is running low on storage, I might check the storage

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Speaker 1: on your Roku and if there's like an app or

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Speaker 1: two you don't need on there, I might get rid

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Speaker 1: of those apps and then restart it as well, because

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Speaker 1: it sounds like there's something going on here where it

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Speaker 1: just can't handle the YouTube situation. But keep me posted there, Gary,

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Speaker 1: that is a frustrating issue, But I don't think I

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Speaker 1: don't think your WiFi is the problem. You don't need

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Speaker 1: a new Wi Fi router after six years. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you can easily keep these things for a long time.

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Speaker 1: And again you told me your speed was ninety, so

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Speaker 1: I think your your speed to the roku is is

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Speaker 1: just fine. I'll put that link by the way, that

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Speaker 1: weird hack on the show notes Richontech dot TV. This

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Speaker 1: is episode one thirteen. You can find the show notes

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Speaker 1: there all right, eight eight eight rich one O one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 1: Coming up, I'm gonna tell you why the smart watch

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Speaker 1: market has hit a snag for the first time ever.

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Speaker 1: We'll dive into some of those numbers and I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you the bright spot in all this right here on

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich

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Speaker 1: Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple

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Speaker 1: eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. We have a special

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Speaker 1: guest on the line, our very own Kim Shaffer.

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Speaker 2: Kim is it you?

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Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, after two years, I finally get to

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Speaker 6: talk to you.

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Speaker 1: You're here. Oh my gosh, where's the applause? Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show. So what's it like to answer

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Speaker 1: calls for the rich On Tech Radio show.

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Speaker 6: It's awesome, But I like, I've only been communicating to

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Speaker 6: you through text and now this is like so interactive,

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Speaker 6: and we could have done this two years ago, but

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Speaker 6: we never thought of it until recently.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I just thought of this last week.

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Speaker 1: I said, Hey, we should try to get you on

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Speaker 1: here because you may not know, but we fully embraced

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Speaker 1: the remote lifestyle. And so Kim is in a different location.

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Speaker 1: Bobo is somewhere in a foreign country. No, I'm just kidding.

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Speaker 1: He's right across the gate.

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Speaker 2: Right in front of me.

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Speaker 3: He is.

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Speaker 1: Actually, we're on the border of California and Nevada.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm just kidding.

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Speaker 8: Exotic Sherman Oaks.

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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, totally exotic location. No, he's there. And do

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Speaker 1: you have anyone else on the team that's in a

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Speaker 1: different place?

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Speaker 9: No?

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Speaker 2: I think this is it. This is the whole show,

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Speaker 2: all right.

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Speaker 1: So do we have a caller we can bring up Kim?

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Speaker 6: Yes, So we have Larry in San Pedro, which down

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Speaker 6: up here up here where I am, we call San Pedro.

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Speaker 10: But that would be totally wrong for.

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Speaker 6: Me to do so in San Pedro he has a

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Speaker 6: call or he wants to know about Is it secure

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Speaker 6: to type in your credit card numbers into a smartphone?

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Speaker 1: M I guess it depends on the situation. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's let's bring up Larry in uh San Pedro. Is

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Speaker 1: that how you say it?

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Speaker 8: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Sure, okay, welcome to the show. I should know how

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Speaker 1: to say that because I live near it. Kim does not, uh,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show. So you have a problem with

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Speaker 1: your credit card number punching into a phone?

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Speaker 2: What's the deal?

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Speaker 5: Well, when I use my landline, uncomfortable typing in my

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Speaker 5: credit card to get to my Chase Bank account. But

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Speaker 5: I just I'm a new smartphone user. I just recently

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Speaker 5: bought a motor Rota Motive G and I'm wondering how

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Speaker 5: safe it is to check my account using this smartphone

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Speaker 5: and punching that credit card number in.

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Speaker 1: Well, generally speaking, there is a potential for someone to

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Speaker 1: be listening in mostly the government, to your cell phone.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that that's going to happen. I don't

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Speaker 1: think that. I think you're safe. Let's put it that way.

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Speaker 1: I think you're safe. So it's an interesting thought, and

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Speaker 1: I think The bigger issue is whether you're typing your

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Speaker 1: number into a an unknown phone number. Right, if you

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Speaker 1: are calling Chase Bank and you know it's Chase Bank,

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Speaker 1: I think you're relatively safe. The other side of this

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Speaker 1: is this your debit card or your credit card.

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Speaker 2: It's debit Oh okay, so debit card. Now. See here's

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Speaker 2: my thing.

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Speaker 1: With debit cards, I'm usually a little bit more protective

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Speaker 1: because that is actual your money.

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 1: Credit card, it's the bank's money until they want to

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Speaker 1: collect it from you, and if there's an issue they

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Speaker 1: you know, you can just say, hey, look, i'm disputing this.

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Speaker 1: With a debit card, yes there are protections, but still

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Speaker 1: that money comes out of your account initially first. So

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Speaker 1: I am always much more cautious when it comes to

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Speaker 1: my debit card number than my credit card number. So

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Speaker 1: I do think that it's it's smart to be cautious,

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Speaker 1: especially with this card number. But I think you're going

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Speaker 1: to be okay typing in that number. You know, if

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Speaker 1: someone was listening on the line, I mean theoretically they

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Speaker 1: could probably figure out what touch tones that you're using.

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Speaker 1: But I think this is why banks are getting much

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Speaker 1: more into automated ways of identifying you and using voice

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Speaker 1: and all that stuff to identify who you are and

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Speaker 1: to authenticate the call. But I think in general you're okay.

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Speaker 1: This has been going on for a very long time,

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Speaker 1: and I don't hear of many stories of people being

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Speaker 1: hacked this way, so I think you're safe. The other

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Speaker 1: thing is, what about downloading the bank app to your

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Speaker 1: phone to check for the balance?

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Speaker 2: Would you be open to that.

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Speaker 5: I will all look into that because.

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Speaker 2: That would be you know, you would number one.

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Speaker 1: It would be simpler because you know, once you store

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Speaker 1: the login on your phone. You know, as long as

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Speaker 1: your phone is pass code protected and all that stuff,

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Speaker 1: you got to be secure. But you know, I've been

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Speaker 1: accessing my accounts online for a long time. It's been

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Speaker 1: it's been quite safe. In fact, I was doing this

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Speaker 1: a long time before it became popular to do that,

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Speaker 1: and nowadays it's very popular. People check their balances before

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Speaker 1: they make a purchase. They just check on them every

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Speaker 1: day just to see what's going on in there. So

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Speaker 1: but I think you're safe at the end of the day, Larry,

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Speaker 1: I think you're safe putting your credit card number into

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Speaker 1: the smartphone, you know, punching it in to authenticate the

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Speaker 1: account as long as you are dialing that number. If

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Speaker 1: it's someone that calls you and says, hey, we want

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Speaker 1: to tell your bank account balance, just type in your number.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that, but you're not gonna do that anyway, right, correct?

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Speaker 1: How you like in the new phone? Is it okay

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Speaker 1: for you? Is this your first smartphone?

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Speaker 9: You said, yes it is.

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Speaker 5: Oh, wow, it's I guess to sum it all up,

667
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Speaker 5: it's a very smart phone. Well I'm impressed.

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Speaker 1: Well, welcome to the year twenty twenty four or what

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Speaker 1: do we in twenty twenty five?

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Speaker 5: Wow?

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Speaker 2: I don't even know the year.

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Speaker 1: Well what do I know? But no, Yeah, I'm glad

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00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: you got on board with the phone. I'm glad it's

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Speaker 1: working out for you, Larry, And thanks for the call today.

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Speaker 1: I do appreciate it. Eight eight eight rich one on

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one

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Speaker 1: zero one. Oh my gosh, I don't even know what

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Speaker 1: year it is. How can you trust a guy that

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Speaker 1: doesn't know what year it is?

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Speaker 2: Especially on a tech show?

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Speaker 1: On a tech show, here's the thing. I mean, some

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Speaker 1: days I don't even know what date is. Like I

683
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Speaker 1: go through the whole day and I like look at

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Speaker 1: my or my watch at the end of the day

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, today's this day.

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Speaker 2: I even Kim, this is what I go to every Saturday. Kim,

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Speaker 2: do you know what day it is?

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Speaker 1: Every single day?

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Speaker 2: I do not, thank you.

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Speaker 1: See, oh well why do you Why do you know

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Speaker 1: what day it is every day?

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Speaker 2: Because I work every day.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's why I don't know what day it

694
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Speaker 6: is every day. Saturday is my benchmark.

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Speaker 2: Saturday.

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Speaker 1: You know when it's Saturday because you're doing the rich

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Speaker 1: On Tech radio show.

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Speaker 2: I will tell you.

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Speaker 1: I do know what day of the week it is

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Speaker 1: every single day of my life because that is very

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Speaker 1: important to what I do, both on TV and the radio.

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Speaker 2: So I do know what day.

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Speaker 1: I may not know the actual date, so I do

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Speaker 1: know that you know, Saint Patrick's Day is coming up

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Speaker 1: in a couple of days, so I will say Monday, Monday, Yes,

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Speaker 1: So there you go.

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Speaker 2: So that's the seventeenth.

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Speaker 1: So see, I'm wearing there's always a day. There's always

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Speaker 1: a day. This has become a party line. What is

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Speaker 1: happening here? Now we have the rich On Tech party

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Speaker 1: line show. Uh eighty eight rich one O one eight

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, I'm gonna tell you about the

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Speaker 1: smart watch sales decline and the the bright point and

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Speaker 1: all this.

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Speaker 2: Are we not going to break? We got time? What

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Speaker 2: ten seconds?

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Speaker 4: Nine?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Okay, well, oh, let.

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Speaker 1: Me tell you this the website rich on Tech dot TV. Uh,

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Speaker 1: there is a way that you can watch all the

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Speaker 1: segments that I do on TV. They're all there on

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Speaker 1: the website. So if you're curious you want to see

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Speaker 1: some of the things I do on TV, go to

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Speaker 1: this show in text form. It's a great read that'll

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Speaker 1: be sent your email box every weekend. Eighty to eight

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Speaker 1: rich one on one back after this, Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,

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Speaker 1: talking technology at triple A Rich one O one. That's

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 1: The website for the show show rich on Tech dot TV. Man,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned a phone number on the radio one time,

735
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 1: and it's like boom, the lines light up. So I've

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Speaker 1: got a whole bunch of things I want to talk

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00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: about but I also have a lot of callers, so

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Speaker 1: I'll do one quick story then I'll get to a call.

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Speaker 2: How about that.

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Speaker 1: I've been promising the smart watch market story for a while.

741
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: Global smart watch market declined by seven percent last year.

742
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: This is, according to Counterpoint Research, the first ever decline.

743
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 1: So that means people were buying smartphones for years, ten years,

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00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: and now last year they stopped. So Apple is still

745
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Speaker 1: the top seller, but their shipments were down nineteen percent

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Speaker 1: last year.

747
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 2: Now I think I know why.

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Speaker 1: Remember that big patent dispute on the Apple Watch about

749
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Speaker 1: the blood oxygen monitoring. I think that scared a lot

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00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: of people away last year because they saw the watches

751
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,399
Speaker 1: not being full featured, so they just or they took

752
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,760
Speaker 1: a wait and see approach. So that's probably what happened.

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Speaker 1: There other things that happened, apparently no Apple Watch Old

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Speaker 1: Time for three that didn't come out last year. People

755
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Speaker 1: saw the S ten series as having minimal upgrades, which

756
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Speaker 1: I disagree with because I've been wearing the S ten

757
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: and it's thinner, the screen is brighter, you can see

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Speaker 1: it for more angles. I thought it was actually a

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00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: great upgrade, and I guess less people are buying the

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Speaker 1: Apple Watch se which is sort of their entry level,

761
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Speaker 1: which tells me that a lot of people had that watch.

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Speaker 1: You know, this market's getting saturated. People that have a

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Speaker 1: smart watch or that want a smart watch have.

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Speaker 2: A smart watch.

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Speaker 1: But the one bright spot kids smart watches, Yes, that

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00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: is a segment that saw growth because of course parents

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Speaker 1: want to track their little ones and see where they are,

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Speaker 1: and they are handy. I know it's a tracker, but

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Speaker 1: to be honest, most of the time we use it

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Speaker 1: just to get in touch with our kids, and it

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Speaker 1: is very handy. So I think it's a good middle

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Speaker 1: ground between you know, having that smartphone and having nothing.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to let's go to act actor in Santa Barbara,

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Speaker 1: Am I saying that right?

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Speaker 2: Actor? Yes, sir, all right, I'm glad.

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Speaker 3: I got to thank you for taking my call. So

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00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:00,320
Speaker 3: so long, long story short on my printers having to

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Speaker 3: be batty. This is an XP seventy one hundred Epstein

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Speaker 3: and all of a sudden on a random basis didn't

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00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 3: used to happen, but see happening increasingly more and more.

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Speaker 3: It will come on and it'll spit out gibberish like

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Speaker 3: eight pages of mostly blank page in one ward on top,

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Speaker 3: maybe blank page with short paragraph of gibberish on top.

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Speaker 3: And once that happens, you can't print anything. Gone through

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Speaker 3: all of you know, the philistine efforts called clean boats,

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Speaker 3: turn it off, pull the plug, counter ten, plug it

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Speaker 3: back and all that stuff. And what's happening anything?

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Speaker 2: How old is this printer?

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Speaker 3: Three years?

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Speaker 1: Three years old? Okay, so it's relatively new. And was

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Speaker 1: there something By the way, we don't do printer questions

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Speaker 1: on this show. Oh sorry, yeah, but I'll answer this

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Speaker 1: one just as a freebie, because here's the here's what

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Speaker 1: I've realized actor in the in the fifteen years of

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Speaker 1: talking about technology on TV, there's never been a solution

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Speaker 1: to a printer problem ever, not once. There has never

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Speaker 1: been a printer that has been solved. Literally, people will

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Speaker 1: take their printer before they solve the problem, put it

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Speaker 1: in the trash can. That's the only way you can

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Speaker 1: solve a printer issue problem. But I will solve this one.

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Speaker 1: We will try. Okay, So it's printing out gibberish, which

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Speaker 1: is quite interesting. You said you've done all the main things,

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Speaker 1: which is turning off the printer, turning off your computer,

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00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: turning off the router restarting all of those things after

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Speaker 1: a few minutes. Okay, So the order you want to

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Speaker 1: turn them back on determines whether you may have some

807
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 1: other conflicts. So turn off your printer, turn off the computer,

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00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,439
Speaker 1: turn off the router, turn back on the router, turn

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Speaker 1: back on the computer, then turn back on the printer

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00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: in that order. Okay, so you're going to reverse order.

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Speaker 1: See if that helps. If it doesn't, you know, you

812
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:56,320
Speaker 1: can try a new cable, but that's probably not the problem.

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Speaker 1: The other thing that maybe the culprit here is something called,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just doing some research online here, the print spooler.

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Speaker 1: This is a section of Windows that sort of basically

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Speaker 1: is the intermediary between your computer and the printer. So

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Speaker 1: it's getting its instructions from this print spooler. And maybe

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Speaker 1: there's an issue with the print spooler, and so you

819
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Speaker 1: can go in. This gets a little complicated, but I

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Speaker 1: was able to do it very quickly on my computer.

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Speaker 11: Here.

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Speaker 1: If you just type services into the Windows taskbar, Okay, services,

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Speaker 1: you bring that up, and that'll bring up this window

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Speaker 1: with all kinds of things that are going on your

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Speaker 1: Windows computer. Scroll down to where you see print spooler, okay,

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Speaker 1: And when you do that, you can tap restart the service.

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Speaker 1: And so if you turn off that service, you won't

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Speaker 1: be able to use the printer at all. But if

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Speaker 1: you press restart, that should just restart the print spooler service,

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Speaker 1: says Windows is a tempting to start the following services.

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Speaker 2: So it restarted, so that.

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Speaker 1: May clear out any sort of issues that are going

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Speaker 1: on with the print spooler and see if that helps.

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Speaker 1: If not, I would just check for you know, I

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Speaker 1: would uninstall. I think you've said you did all this stuff,

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00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: but you know, uninstalled the printer driver, reinstall it, and

837
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Speaker 1: then if worse comes to worse and you really have

838
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: to do this, just take the printer, lift it up

839
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Speaker 1: and throw it out and then just buy a new one.

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00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 1: And that's the other thing. The printers are so cheap now.

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00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 1: It's like the printers on my Best Buy the printer's

842
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Speaker 1: fifty bucks, and it's like, oh wow, this printer's fifty dollars.

843
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: And when you go to buy ink, the ink's like

844
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Speaker 1: seventy five bucks. You're like, wait a second, what kind

845
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Speaker 1: of business are these printer companies running. I'm on that

846
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 1: like instant ink thing. Where I pay for the ink

847
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 1: every month, but it's like on a page basis, So

848
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, when I print too many pages,

849
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:51,959
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, we just charge you, like an extra

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00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: three dollars for that. I'm like, what, Like it's like

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00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 1: you get. I think I get one hundred pages a

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00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: month that I can print anyway. I hope that works

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00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 1: for you, ictor please keep me posted on the on

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Speaker 1: the website, send me email Rich on tech dot tv,

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Speaker 1: hit contact and let me know there. Let's see here.

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00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: We got an email from Tony in Pasadena. He said, hey, Rich,

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00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: I heard the call about the iTunes purchases that are gone.

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00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 1: I looked at Apple Music, I couldn't find anything about purchases.

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00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: I did check the iTunes Store app and found everything

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00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 1: I've purchased under purchases there. I do see family members

861
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: there as well. All right, so there's your purchases. You

862
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: can re download them from there. Let's see here. Gram

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00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 1: Grame writes in from San Diego, Rich, I need a

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00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 1: new iPhone. I have the iPhone seven plus, never had

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Speaker 1: any problems, but it's not supported anymore. A lot of

866
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Speaker 1: apps need updates, but they won't update. Just usually use

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Speaker 1: it for calls, text, email, browsing. I'm intrigued by the

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Speaker 1: sixteen E. I'm also thinking of moving a Mint Mobile.

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Speaker 1: Opinions comments, two questions. Thanks Oh Graham, Oh he wrote

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Speaker 1: it wrong at the top, Graham Graham, Yes one percent.

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Speaker 1: Don't even think about it. Get the sixteen E excellent

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Speaker 1: phone for what you need. Sounds like you just need

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Speaker 1: the basics. The sixteen E is six hundred dollars and

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Speaker 1: it'll give you everything you need, all of the latest features.

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Speaker 1: They're the basic versions of the features. But you get

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Speaker 1: a good camera, get a good processor, you get a

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Speaker 1: decent amount of storage, and I don't think there's anything

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Speaker 1: missing on here that you'll need Mint Mobile. As I

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Speaker 1: was running this morning, I was thinking how much I

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Speaker 1: like Mint Mobile. So yes, absolutely move to mint Mobile.

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Speaker 1: I mean fifteen bucks a month for their cheap plan,

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Speaker 1: thirty dollars a month unlimited and sometimes Mint Mobile. Because

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Speaker 1: now they're owned by T Mobile, we'll actually have deals

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Speaker 1: with smartphones. So some of the some of the phones

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Speaker 1: that they sell on there. Let's see if they have

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Speaker 1: this sixteen I don't know if they do. Let's say

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Speaker 1: sixteen E. Do they sell it? Yes, they do, so Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's interesting. So they sell price seven seventy nine with

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Speaker 1: a year of unlimited included. So let's just do the

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Speaker 1: math there. So thirty times twelve is three sixty, so

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Speaker 1: and the phone is six hundred plus sixty three sixty.

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Speaker 1: That's nine to sixty. Okay, so you are actually saving

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Speaker 1: almost two hundred dollars there by by buying the phone

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Speaker 1: through them and paying in advance for the year. But

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Speaker 1: I would personally just buy the phone out right at

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Speaker 1: the Apple store and just then go to Mint Mobile,

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Speaker 1: and I'd pay for the full year in advance. By

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Speaker 1: the way, if you can. You know, this is all

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Speaker 1: thinking that you can do that. But I would do

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Speaker 1: the twelve months up front because that's how you save

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Speaker 1: the most with mint Mobile, and right now, if you

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Speaker 1: do that, you're only paying twenty five dollars a month

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Speaker 1: instead of thirty if you pay for the full month.

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Speaker 1: My mom's on mint Mobile. She loves it. I have

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Speaker 1: Mint Mobile as my test line. I love it. They

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Speaker 1: I think they do a great job. I know they're

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Speaker 1: owned by the big wireless now and their whole thing

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Speaker 1: was like they were not the big guys, But I

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Speaker 1: think that they do a really good job on keeping

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Speaker 1: their plans simple and easy, and the service works. It's

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Speaker 1: on T Mobile, and I think that it's just the

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Speaker 1: way they run things. I like it keeps it simple

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Speaker 1: Mobile plan. And you don't have to think about a

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Speaker 1: payment for a year when you do that. So that's

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Speaker 1: a great way to do it. Did you hear that

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Speaker 1: Pokemon Go is being sold. Pokemon Go is going to

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Speaker 1: Scopely three point five billion dollars. This company's buying Pokemon

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Speaker 1: Go for They're buying a bunch of other properties from

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Speaker 1: Nyantick as well. Scopely is owned by the Saudi Arabian

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Speaker 1: Sovereign Wealth Fund. They also invest in things like Lucid Motors,

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Speaker 1: Live Golf, and Uber. Basically, you know, Saudi Arabia is

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Speaker 1: trying to reduce its dependency on oil, and video games

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Speaker 1: are a big part of that. They're trying to, you know,

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Speaker 1: just put their investments in other places. And so, as

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Speaker 1: far as I can tell, it doesn't look like pokemon

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Speaker 1: Go is going to change.

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Speaker 2: It just has new owners.

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Speaker 1: So if you're worried about the change to scope leae,

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Speaker 1: I would check when you download the app or you

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Speaker 1: know you continue using the app once they take over.

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Speaker 1: Just be on the lookout for any sort of changes

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Speaker 1: in the terms and conditions, especially when it comes to

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Speaker 1: your personal information, your privacy information, because new companies will

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Speaker 1: so just be careful there. But scope Lely is known

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Speaker 1: for their big game called Monopoly Go. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: Pokemon Go had like hundreds of millions of players when

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Speaker 1: it launched in twenty sixteen. Now it's down to about

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech rich Tomuro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one

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Speaker 1: oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four

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Speaker 1: Tech dot TV. Don't be shy, it's a free visit.

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Speaker 1: just hit contact.

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Speaker 2: What else? I keep a list?

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Speaker 1: Where's my list of stuff? I have a list of

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Speaker 1: all the things that you can do and of course

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Speaker 1: I can't find it. You know, I do think I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty organized, bobo, but sometimes you know that this show,

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Speaker 1: this show takes a lot of.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, let's seasy here. No, okay, I don't know

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Speaker 2: where it is.

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Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: wanted to mention that, let's see. Well, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what I wanted to mention. I I'm just told, oh,

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Speaker 1: we have a guest coming up. That's right, we have

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Speaker 1: a guest. Well, you think it's my first day doing

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Speaker 1: the show here? Huh yeah, let's just go to Sue

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Speaker 1: in Westminster.

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Speaker 2: Sue, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 4: I'm Rich.

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Speaker 12: Thank you for taking my call. So it's time to

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Speaker 12: replace my PC, probably maybe ten years old at this point,

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Speaker 12: the traditional PC tower and monitor, and I'd like to

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Speaker 12: try and eliminate some desk clutter. And I'm contemplating in

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Speaker 12: all in one. Yeah, can you give me the pros

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Speaker 12: and cons of an all in one and maybe get

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Speaker 12: some model recommendations. I've always been a HP.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, HP is great. So here's the deal. All in

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Speaker 1: one PC is basically like you said, it's less clutter.

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Speaker 1: It's easy. It's all in one, so there's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's space saving. The big downside to them is that

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Speaker 1: they are not traditionally upgradeable in a big way. So

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Speaker 1: if you need to, you know, upgrade something later on,

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Speaker 1: you're probably not gonna be able to do that. So

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Speaker 1: that's the big downside the tower PCs. If you're looking

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Speaker 1: at like a you know, big old tower PC, obviously

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Speaker 1: those are built with power in mind, expandability in mind,

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Speaker 1: and you can connect all the peripherals that you want

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Speaker 1: to connect, so you can choose the monitor, you can

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Speaker 1: choose the keyboard, you can choose the mouse. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you could do that with a standard all in one,

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Speaker 1: but it's gonna it's all gonna come in the box.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna want to buy new ones. So those

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Speaker 1: are the two main reasons for each. I think it

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Speaker 1: kind of depends what you're doing too. Are you a

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Speaker 1: big gamer? You're doing a lot of gaming on this PC?

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Speaker 12: No, you know, I'm proaching sixty five, just banking, shopping,

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Speaker 12: social media research, Okay, I've never had to upgrade anything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you'll be fine with the all in

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Speaker 1: one because I think it's gonna be simpler. You're trying

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Speaker 1: to get the You mentioned the word clutter, and so

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Speaker 1: that is the biggest benefit is less cables all over

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Speaker 1: the place. And so are you thinking MAC or PC?

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Speaker 1: You said HP, huh PC?

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So I typically recommend if you go to Costco. If

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Speaker 1: you do you have a Costco membership or no? Oh yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: oh oh. I like the way you said that you're

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Speaker 1: a Costco fan. Huh okay, me too. So they typically

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Speaker 1: in their electronics section have one to two all in ones,

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Speaker 1: and I look at them every time I go there

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Speaker 1: to just confirm this. But they are always an excellent

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Speaker 1: deal and you choose one of those and you're basically

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Speaker 1: getting maybe one hundred dollars more versus the price tag

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Speaker 1: of what you get at another store that's not a

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Speaker 1: membership based store. So I would say go to Costco

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Speaker 1: if they have one, grab it. Just make sure the

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Speaker 1: specs that I like to look for these days, I

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Speaker 1: would say typically at least sixteen gigs of RAM. Of course,

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Speaker 1: a one terabyte hard drive that's going to be pretty

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Speaker 1: simple to find in an all in one, and I

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Speaker 1: would look for either an Intel A five is probably fine,

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Speaker 1: A seven is a little bit faster. They all go

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Speaker 1: by like this, five and seven. So whether it's a

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Speaker 1: MD or Intel, the seven is going to be faster.

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Speaker 1: Nine is going to be much faster. But usually I

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Speaker 1: don't really see those in the all ones. But just

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Speaker 1: stay away from the three. That's gonna be too slow.

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Speaker 1: And I don't even think Costco has that in general,

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Speaker 1: but that's what I would recommend.

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Speaker 2: So, yeah, that's a good upgrade. Ten years. Ten years

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Speaker 2: is a good amount of time to get out of

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Speaker 2: a computer.

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Speaker 12: I like, yeah, but it's going out a snail's pace

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Speaker 12: right now, so it's time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear it.

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Speaker 1: Well, thanks for the call, Sue, appreciate it and enjoy

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Speaker 1: the new computer. We're actually gonna have Kimber streams on

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Speaker 1: from the Wirecutter, so Sue, you may want to listen

1039
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Speaker 1: because you may be able to give your computer a

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Speaker 1: whole new lease on life once you hear what Kimber

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Speaker 1: has to say about, you know, spring cleaning your PC.

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Speaker 2: So you can do that, all right.

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Speaker 1: So AT and T, by the way, is trying to

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Speaker 1: get people to buy landlines again, but they're not the

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Speaker 1: same landline that you're used to. This is a new

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Speaker 1: service called AT and T Phone Advanced. It's not available

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Speaker 1: in every market, but they're in sixty markets across sixteen states.

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Speaker 2: They keep expanding this.

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Speaker 1: They just expanded it southern California, so you're gonna have

1050
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Speaker 1: to check to see where you're listening if they have

1051
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Speaker 1: this in your area, even want it, but if you

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Speaker 1: you know AT and T has been on a push

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Speaker 1: to move away from copper landlines. This thing is basically

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Speaker 1: a box that uses both cellular or broadband. So you

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Speaker 1: basically can use a cellular connection that's built in, or

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Speaker 1: you can plug your Internet into it and then you

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Speaker 1: can change you know, you can pour it over your

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Speaker 1: existing phone number, keep your current phone. So if you

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Speaker 1: have a nice landline, you want some sort of rotary

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Speaker 1: dial phone that you've kept for many years that you

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Speaker 1: still like. I don't know why you would, but maybe

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Speaker 1: you know you're nostalgic, you can plug it into this

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Speaker 1: thing and it acts like a regular phone. Then you

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Speaker 1: can put a fax machine into it, alarms, medical monitoring systems.

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Speaker 1: It has a twenty four hour backup battery to make

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Speaker 1: sure you stay connected even during a power outage. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: it's called AT and T Phone Advance. The competitors here

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Speaker 1: are things like Uma Vonage, but Magic Jack, but.

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Speaker 2: At and T you know, big name, very easy.

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Speaker 1: Pay a buck for this thing, and then it's forty

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Speaker 1: five dollars a month for the service. All right, coming up,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about spring cleaning your PC. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,

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Speaker 1: talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one. That's

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get to our guests. Our guest guest Kimber

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Speaker 1: streams in just a moment. But first I got an

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Speaker 1: email from Brian in San Juan Capistrano and he said, uh, hey,

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Speaker 1: I heard the call about YouTube buffering. My YouTube buffering

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Speaker 1: started when I lost you block. This is an ad

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Speaker 1: blocker buffers for about ten seconds, tries to show me

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Speaker 1: an ad The two could be related. That's a great call, Brian.

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Speaker 1: I did not ask our caller about if he had

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Speaker 1: an AD blocker on his network that could be interfering

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Speaker 1: with his YouTube. So I know, for me, I've got

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Speaker 1: Eero and they have like a network wide ad blocking thing,

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Speaker 1: and so I've never really seen a lot of issues

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Speaker 1: with that. Interrupting things, not even YouTube, but that could

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Speaker 1: be the problem. So yeah, good call. And he also

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Speaker 1: asked what's the best replacement? But we're gonna have a

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Speaker 1: guest on in the third hour to talk about the

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00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: best ad blocker replacements. But first we've got Kimber Streams

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Speaker 1: on the line, tech reviewer at the Wirecutter. It's been

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Speaker 1: reviewing computers and all kinds of stuff for over a

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Speaker 1: decade now, and Kimber is going to tell us how

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Speaker 1: to spring clean our PC. Welcome to the show, Kimber,

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00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 1: thank you, I should say welcome back to the show

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Speaker 1: because you were an early guest.

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Speaker 10: I owe an early guest for back to school laptops.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my gosh. So let's talk about spring cleaning PCs. Well,

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Speaker 1: tell me first off about the PC market. What's going

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Speaker 1: on with that, what's the latest?

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Speaker 13: So right now, it's kind of a weird time in

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Speaker 13: the PC market. There's a lot of choice available, but

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Speaker 13: also a lot of anxiety for people looking to buy

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Speaker 13: a laptop with increasing prices because of tariffs. So I've

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Speaker 13: got a lot of questions about like do I need

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Speaker 13: to upgrade my laptop? Can I keep using what I

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00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 13: already have? When is a good time to buy something.

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Speaker 1: Have the prices gone up because I know Apple, just

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00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: I know you know this is Apple. They do their

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Speaker 1: own thing, but they lowered the price by one hundred bucks.

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Speaker 1: Have we seen an increase in prices.

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Speaker 13: In some laptops, Yes, but not all laptops. So there

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Speaker 13: is still I think a window to get something pretty

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Speaker 13: great before those prices start climbing.

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Speaker 1: And I know we're seeing changes with like the AI button,

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00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: like that little copile of button, and then of course

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00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 1: the snap Dragon processors. But in general, if you have

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Speaker 1: a computer you like, is this the time to.

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Speaker 2: Spring clean it?

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00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:35,879
Speaker 10: Absolutely?

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Speaker 2: And what's the first step? What do you what do you?

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Speaker 2: How do you assas well?

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Speaker 1: Hold on, I guess my question is how do you

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Speaker 1: assess if a spring Do you try this first with

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00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: your computer and then maybe get a new one if

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Speaker 1: it doesn't like it still is like not working very well?

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Speaker 13: Yes, So if your laptop feels slow, you might actually

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00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:56,239
Speaker 13: be able to take a few steps to just clean

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Speaker 13: up some programs, clean up your storage a little bit,

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Speaker 13: and dust it out, and that'll help it feel faster

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Speaker 13: and you might be able to keep using the same

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Speaker 13: laptop for another year or two or even three if

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Speaker 13: you take care of it.

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Speaker 2: Well, So what's the first step. What do you do first?

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Speaker 13: So, first you want to physically clean it out, so

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Speaker 13: dust builds up inside of your laptop, inside of your desktop,

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Speaker 13: and every six months to a year, depending on how

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00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:23,840
Speaker 13: dusty your living space might be, you'll actually want to

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00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:25,279
Speaker 13: open it up and clean it out.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's I used to love doing that with

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Speaker 1: my big old computer, you know, but with a laptop.

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Speaker 1: I still love cleaning my computer. In fact, I wipe

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Speaker 1: down my laptop today with like a little you know,

1146
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 1: alcohol wipe. I love doing that. It's just like my

1147
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 1: favorite thing to do. It's just like so satisfying it is.

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Speaker 1: And the screen, I will say, the screen is tricky

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Speaker 1: because you know, A, you don't want to ruin it,

1150
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 1: and B it's like could leave a little streak, so

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00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 1: just be careful. My advice with that is like, if

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00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 1: you're using any sort of wet cloth, ring it out

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00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:55,240
Speaker 1: as much as possible, because you do not want water

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Speaker 1: like on this computer.

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Speaker 13: Right, Yes, absolutely so I will use a microfiber cloth

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00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:03,719
Speaker 13: actually and dip it in just a tiny bit of

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00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:05,359
Speaker 13: down soap and hot water and.

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Speaker 10: Wring it out really really good, and if it's hot

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Speaker 10: enough and dry.

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Speaker 13: Enough whenever you do it, then all of that extra

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Speaker 13: moisture is just going to evaporate off your screen, so

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Speaker 13: you don't damage the screen or drik water into the

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Speaker 13: bits of your lap up that you absolutely do not

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Speaker 13: want water in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I did do that once I cleaned. I'll

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Speaker 1: never forget this. I was cleaning my laptop with like

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Speaker 1: one of those Lightsol wipes and I just literally took

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00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 1: it out of the Lightsol box, put it on there.

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Speaker 1: All the lightsol got into my keyboard, and like an

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Speaker 1: hour later stop working.

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Speaker 2: I'm not kidding though.

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Speaker 1: I dried out that computer for like two weeks and

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Speaker 1: it worked again and I got a lot of use.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so what's the best way to free up storage

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Speaker 1: on your computer?

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Speaker 8: Yes?

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Speaker 13: So on Windows and Mac you can open up the

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Speaker 13: storage menu. It's called the same thing on both operating systems,

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Speaker 13: and then I'll actually give you a readout of what's

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Speaker 13: taking up the most space on your computer. A couple spaces.

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Speaker 13: The places that are like easy to reclaim storage. In Windows,

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Speaker 13: there's that temporary files folder. There's a button in the

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Speaker 13: storage venue that you can just blow that up and

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Speaker 13: get rid of it. You're not getting rid of anything important.

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Speaker 13: Your computer will download anything else that it needs. Back

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Speaker 13: to that, I also recommend going through your downloads folder.

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Speaker 13: There's probably years of PDFs and memes and app installers

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Speaker 13: and all of that that you have not paid attention to.

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Speaker 13: There might be a couple of things that you need

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Speaker 13: in there, but probably most of it you can get

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Speaker 13: rid of.

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Speaker 2: I do that every Friday.

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Speaker 1: I love that little sound of just cleaning out the

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Speaker 1: track or the downloads folder.

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Speaker 2: What about apps?

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Speaker 1: So I always, you know, like I test a lot

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Speaker 1: of apps, as I'm sure you do, so I'm always

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Speaker 1: installing like apps and then just forgetting about them.

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Speaker 2: Is it a good idea to kind of get rid

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Speaker 2: of some of those things?

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Speaker 13: Yes, So Windows has an installed apps venue, and then

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Speaker 13: back to that same storage menu.

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Speaker 10: In Mac, there's.

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Speaker 13: Going to be like a whole list of all of

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Speaker 13: the apps that are on your computer. You want to

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Speaker 13: remove anything that you're not using anymore. Some computers also

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00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 13: come with a lot of floatwear that's pre installed that

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Speaker 13: is not stuff that you need. If you're not sure

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Speaker 13: what an app is or does in that list, you

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Speaker 13: can actually look it up on the should I remove it?

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Speaker 13: Website and it'll tell you what that app is and

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Speaker 13: does and whether or not you want to get rid

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Speaker 13: of it.

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Speaker 1: And also I noticed that you can sort that menu

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Speaker 1: by large to small, So if you just want to see,

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Speaker 1: like what's taking up the most space, you can do

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00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 1: it that way. But I like the idea of can

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00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:25,320
Speaker 1: you ruin your computer if you unstall something that set's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, supposed to be there.

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Speaker 10: Not from that menu?

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Speaker 2: No, okay, good, good to know there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so what about you know these these programs love

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Speaker 1: to launch when you start your computer, right because they're

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Speaker 1: sticky and they get you know, they get in your face.

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Speaker 1: So do you can you stop that from happening?

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Speaker 13: Yes, So whenever your computer restarts, it launches kind of

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Speaker 13: a series of apps that it's been told or important.

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Speaker 13: And if it's trying to launch too many, your startup

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Speaker 13: is going to feel sluggish and it might take a

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Speaker 13: few minutes instead of just a few seconds. There is

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Speaker 13: a startup menu in both Windows and Mac and you

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Speaker 13: can keep the important things that you need to be

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Speaker 13: running in the background all the time, like maybe your

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Speaker 13: password manager or a cloud backup program. But I go

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Speaker 13: through that list that I turn off apps like Slack

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Speaker 13: or Discord or Steam that I'm just going to launch

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Speaker 13: whenever I.

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Speaker 10: Need to use them.

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Speaker 13: And I also don't use certain things that are in

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Speaker 13: that list, like the Microsoft Edge browser or like Microsoft's

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Speaker 13: phone length features, so I go ahead and turn those off,

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Speaker 13: and then that makes my computer startup faster because it's

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Speaker 13: launching less things at the same time.

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Speaker 1: And that's again if you go into your settings and

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Speaker 1: just type in startup. I just saw this. Wow, I

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01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 1: didn't realize that Edge starts up. I'm turning it off

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Speaker 1: right now, thank you. I just got to win. We're

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Speaker 1: talking to kimber Streams, who's been covering laptops and tech

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01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:44,080
Speaker 1: at Wirecutter for over a decade about spring cleaning your PC.

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Speaker 1: What about the updates and the browser extensions. I feel like,

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Speaker 1: you know, should you get rid of those browser extensions?

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Speaker 1: Can that slow things down if you don't need them anymore?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, So it's the same as a startup.

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Speaker 13: If your computer is trying to run too many apps

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Speaker 13: or too many things in the background, it'll feel slower.

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Speaker 13: So you can go through your extensions, turn off ones

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Speaker 13: that don't need to run all the time. I have

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Speaker 13: a specific pdf mage one that I only use to

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Speaker 13: save PDFs. I don't need that running all the time.

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Speaker 13: I can just run that when I want to. So

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Speaker 13: you can disable those to make browsing feel faster.

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Speaker 1: And so what about anything else I'm not asking that

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Speaker 1: you think is really important to speeding up and clean

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Speaker 1: up the PC?

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Speaker 10: Anything else?

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01:01:28,160 --> 01:01:29,040
Speaker 2: What about backing up?

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Speaker 1: I mean, don't you think that's like such a thing

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Speaker 1: that I guess so many people like calling and emailing

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Speaker 1: about they lose things all the time.

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Speaker 2: Like, what's the best way to back up? You think?

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Speaker 13: So, there's a couple of different ways, but the easiest

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Speaker 13: one is that both Windows and Mac have free backup options.

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Speaker 13: It's file History for Windows and time Machine on Mac.

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Speaker 13: Both of those things only take about ten minutes or

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Speaker 13: like four steps to set up, and then they're going

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Speaker 13: to happen automatically going forward, so you don't have to

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Speaker 13: keep paying.

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Speaker 10: Attention to your backup. It will just happen.

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Speaker 13: We do have step by step guides for setting that

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Speaker 13: up on wire cover.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's kind of cool. So file history interesting. So

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Speaker 1: you plug in a drive and it will kind of yeah,

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01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:14,920
Speaker 1: build a history of your library's desktop contacts and favorites.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of cool and in time Machine I'm familiar

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Speaker 1: with on the Mac side. Okay, so you do all

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Speaker 1: this stuff, how do you know if it's time to

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01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:25,360
Speaker 1: get a new computer or stick with what you got.

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Speaker 10: Yes, So if you've gone through all of these steps

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Speaker 10: and you still boot up your computer and it feels slow,

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Speaker 10: if you're trying to do basic tasks like browsing the web,

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Speaker 10: doing email and it still just feels really slow and frustrating,

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01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 10: then it's actually probably time to bite the bullet and

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Speaker 10: upgrade your computer.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: So the article is how to make your old computer

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Speaker 1: feel new Again. The author kimber Streams. You can find it.

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Speaker 1: I'll link it up on the website. This has everything

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Speaker 1: that we just talked about and more, by the way,

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Speaker 1: So if you want to see all these step by

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Speaker 1: step instructions and it feels good to do this, like

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Speaker 1: when you clean your computer and kind of like get

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Speaker 1: rid of all the junk, I it feels really good now, Kimber.

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Speaker 1: I every year, once a year usually reinstall the you know,

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Speaker 1: the software from scratch, like the operating system. That seems

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Speaker 1: a little elaborate for most people probably, but I really

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Speaker 1: like doing that because I start fresh. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: a laptop recommendation. You have a computer recommendation if someone

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Speaker 1: just wants like a nice, good computer for maybe five

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Speaker 1: six seven hundred bucks.

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Speaker 8: Yes.

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Speaker 13: So, out of the fifty thitted light ultrabooks that I've

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Speaker 13: tested last year and this year so far, those are

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Speaker 13: roughly the Windows equivalent to the MacBook Air. The best

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Speaker 13: one that I found is the aces Vivo Book S fourteen,

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Speaker 13: and the specific model number on that is Q four

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Speaker 13: two three.

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Speaker 10: Essay, it's such a catchy name.

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Speaker 1: Q four three sa Aceus Vivo Book fourteen.

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Speaker 2: What do you like about this?

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Speaker 10: So it is a great laptop.

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Speaker 13: It's thin and light, It lasted eighteen hours in Wirecutters

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Speaker 13: web browsing battery life test. It is just two point

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Speaker 13: eight seven pounds, and it has great performance now and

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Speaker 13: for years to come. It's got a recent processor in it.

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Speaker 13: It has sixteen gigs of memory, five hundred and twelve

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Speaker 13: gigs of storage, and a very spacious fourteen inch Ola display.

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Speaker 13: So the color is gonna look really.

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Speaker 10: Nice on it.

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Speaker 1: And what a sweet deal right now? I know, as

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Speaker 1: who's computers are typically discounted at best Buy a lot

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Speaker 1: four hundred and ninety nine bucks for this thing right

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Speaker 1: now usually nine p fifty. That's a great deal. All right, Kimber, awesome, excellent,

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Speaker 1: great job. Thank you so much for coming on the

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Speaker 1: show today. I'll link up a Kimber Streams article on

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Speaker 1: Richontech dot tv. You are listening to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology at triple eight Rich one

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Speaker 1: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two

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Speaker 1: four one zero one. Let's go to U D D

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Speaker 1: in West Covina. Did you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 14: Mine good to talk to you. I love all your

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Speaker 14: advice everybody.

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Speaker 2: Thank you DD. What can I help you with?

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Speaker 3: I need a.

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Speaker 14: New television set. I have bad macular degeneration and it's

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Speaker 14: going and I've been trying to find a television that

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Speaker 14: is bright, that has good contrast. I've done nothing but

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Speaker 14: get myself totally confused, trying to look on Google, going

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Speaker 14: through best bite. I mean, everybody, who's the best?

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Speaker 13: You know, da, da da?

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Speaker 8: What would be the.

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Speaker 14: Best kind of television to get? I've seen something called

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Speaker 14: the Supersonic. Another one is Sony's bravera nine led. I've

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Speaker 14: seen a Samsung q n D nine D or what

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Speaker 14: as I say. I've gotten myself so confused, and everybody says, oh,

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Speaker 14: this is the best, this is the best. I thought,

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Speaker 14: why don't I just call the pro and find out

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Speaker 14: what would you recommend for something that is bright and

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Speaker 14: has good contrast? Yeah, I think it's only twenty four

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Speaker 14: or twenty eight inches fit my cat.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, well that's twenty four or twenty eight.

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Speaker 2: That's okay.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a little tricky to find a TV

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Speaker 1: in that size, but you should be able to. But

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Speaker 1: I think I think in general, so out of all

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Speaker 1: the companies that I cover, the one that I hear

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Speaker 1: talk about accessibility features the most is Samsung, out of

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Speaker 1: all the TV manufacturers. So I would go with Samsung

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Speaker 1: because they typically make a big splash at CES talking

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Speaker 1: about the accessibility features built into their TVs, and specifically

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Speaker 1: when you're talking contrast, that is one of the big

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Speaker 1: pushes that they typically talk about. They have some features

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Speaker 1: built into their TV that do boost the contrast, that

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Speaker 1: do make the screen easier to see if you do

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Speaker 1: have any sort of vision issues. Now, they just this

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01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:54,200
Speaker 1: year they're using much more AI for all that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff. So your TV, if you're looking at like

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Speaker 1: a twenty twenty five model, you know, that may have

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Speaker 1: the the AI stuff, but before, even before the AI,

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Speaker 1: they've had a lot of features built in to help

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Speaker 1: with you know, with accessibility and vision features.

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Speaker 14: So I think, yeah.

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Speaker 2: I would.

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Speaker 1: I would go with the Samsung because I think you're

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Speaker 1: gonna find and also they you know, they update their

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Speaker 1: software a lot.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just every time I go to a.

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Speaker 1: Samsung event, they make a big deal out of the

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Speaker 1: accessibility features. So I think that they are actively working

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Speaker 1: on that and focusing on it, and so that's.

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Speaker 2: Why I'd go with them.

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Speaker 14: Oh that's awesome. Well I will look at Samsung then

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Speaker 14: and see. I guess Best Buys would probably be the

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Speaker 14: best place to look.

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Speaker 1: For that, do you think yeah, I'd say so, I'd

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Speaker 1: go to best Buy, and I would I would try

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Speaker 1: to find a demo unit where you can actually activate

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Speaker 1: the accessibility feature.

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Speaker 2: I know it may be tough. Where do you live

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Speaker 2: West Covina.

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Speaker 1: If there's a local place, like, you know, like a

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Speaker 1: local retailer, you may be able to actually play with

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Speaker 1: the TV a little bit more, and like ask a

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Speaker 1: salesperson to like, let you look at the settings and

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Speaker 1: see That's what I would recommend, because that way you

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Speaker 1: can actually see, you know, go into the accessibility menu,

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Speaker 1: toggle the contrast setting and see if that helps. And

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Speaker 1: if it does, that's the one to get. At best Buy,

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Speaker 1: they're all on kind of that loop, you know, where

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you'll be able to play with

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Speaker 1: the TV set as you would at a local place.

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Speaker 14: Oh that's great advice, Thank you very much. And would

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Speaker 14: they have to be what would they have to install it?

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Speaker 14: Or could my sons and grandsons do it?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I think your sons and grandsons can do it,

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Speaker 1: especially you're talking. You said twenty five to twenty eight inch.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's that's going to be. You can pick

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Speaker 1: that up with you know, it's very these TVs have

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Speaker 1: gotten so light. When was the last time you replaced yours?

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Speaker 14: Well, I had gotten one about five years ago and

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Speaker 14: in it got sadly got broken.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, what happened to it?

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Speaker 14: Well, we were trying to install some other things with

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01:08:50,840 --> 01:08:58,320
Speaker 14: the recorder type thing and when we pulled or when

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Speaker 14: they pulled on the cords, TV plopped over and hit

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Speaker 14: something in the screen. Went great, but.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, okay, Oh, I just found the mode that

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Speaker 1: that Samsung is always showing off.

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Speaker 2: It's called Relumino mode.

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Speaker 1: R E l U M I n O Relumino Mode,

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Speaker 1: and it says if you struggle to see the screen

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Speaker 1: when enjoying movies or other content, you can use Relumino

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01:09:21,800 --> 01:09:24,599
Speaker 1: Mode on twenty twenty four Samsung TVs.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know that's I think that's when this

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Speaker 2: came out.

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01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:30,880
Speaker 1: It increases the contrast and brightness of the screen and

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Speaker 1: emphasizes the outlines of images to help you see every

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01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:35,280
Speaker 1: bit of the action.

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01:09:35,400 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 2: Does that sound like it would help?

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01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:41,120
Speaker 14: Oh that sounds absolutely perfect, because come night time, everything well,

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01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:44,920
Speaker 14: I've got a very old Toyoga Toshiba and everything turns

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01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:45,719
Speaker 14: black and purple.

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01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:46,400
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:49,280
Speaker 1: Well that's yeah, that's probably the contrast ratio on your TV.

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01:09:49,360 --> 01:09:52,599
Speaker 1: I mean, older models are just not as good. But

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01:09:52,880 --> 01:09:55,679
Speaker 1: this is I think what you need. So did check

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Speaker 1: it out, Samsung. Make sure you look for that relumin

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01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:02,639
Speaker 1: reluine me mode on that TV and I will look

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01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:02,920
Speaker 1: it up.

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Speaker 14: Oh you're an angel. Thank you so very very much.

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01:10:05,360 --> 01:10:08,439
Speaker 14: I truly appreciate all your help and I love your programs.

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01:10:08,479 --> 01:10:11,200
Speaker 14: I'm not a tech person, but I'm fascinated listening to

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01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:12,880
Speaker 14: everything that's going on in the world.

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Speaker 8: That's great.

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01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:15,720
Speaker 1: Thanks Ded, Just to let everyone know, we do not

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Speaker 1: pay DD to say this. Thank you, d D. You

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01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:20,479
Speaker 1: put a smile on my face. Really appreciate it. Have

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Speaker 1: these people to say this stuff. I don't pay, Yes,

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Speaker 2: time I was here, I'd be a broke man.

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here talking technology with you at eight eight

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Welcome to another hour of

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Speaker 1: the show. We've got Jared Newman coming up later.

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Speaker 2: What a treat.

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Speaker 1: Jared writes a newsletter called Advisorator. One of my favorites.

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Speaker 1: The people who write newsletters read Jared's newsletter.

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Speaker 2: He's great.

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Speaker 1: You can sign up for his newsletter for free, mind too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm just making sure that his is free. I think

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Speaker 1: it is. There's at least a free level. Well, we'll

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Speaker 1: ask him when he comes on, but he's gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about the best ad blockers, how to get rid of

1488
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:52,400
Speaker 1: those annoying sign in with Google pop ups, and his

1489
01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:55,760
Speaker 1: quest for the perfect web browser. I will tell you,

1490
01:11:56,080 --> 01:11:59,960
Speaker 1: I will admit after all this time, and I'm not kidding,

1491
01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:05,400
Speaker 1: trying every single note taking app. So I always say

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01:12:05,400 --> 01:12:08,240
Speaker 1: you can do this search on Google called whatever you're

1493
01:12:08,280 --> 01:12:14,000
Speaker 1: searching for versus. So for me, Evernoe was my favorite

1494
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:16,519
Speaker 1: note taking app for years, and then I had to

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Speaker 1: find something different. So if you type in Evernote versus,

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Speaker 1: it'll give you Notion, one Note, Obsidian, Google Keep Good Notes,

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Speaker 1: Apple Notes, Notability. I tried every single one of those,

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Speaker 1: plus more Joplin. I think there's bear, I mean there's

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Speaker 1: so many. I tried every single one and I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you this week I went back to Evernoe. After all that,

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Speaker 1: I've come full circle because I have decided that I'm

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Speaker 1: an adult and if I want to pay one hundred

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Speaker 1: bucks a year forever note, so be it. It does

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Speaker 1: exactly what I needed to do. And I was very

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Speaker 1: sad about getting involved with Evernoe because the more you

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01:12:56,840 --> 01:12:59,280
Speaker 1: put in here, the more you have to pay forever.

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Speaker 1: Every other app that I was using, I'd be like, Oh,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't do that.

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Speaker 2: Every note does that. Oh it doesn't do that. Every

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Speaker 2: note does that? Oh it doesn't do that. Ever Note

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01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:09,880
Speaker 2: does that? Why am I trying to use a program

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01:13:09,920 --> 01:13:11,040
Speaker 2: that doesn't do what I want to do?

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Speaker 8: Ever?

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Speaker 2: Note does it all.

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting here, like every little thing I do on there,

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01:13:14,880 --> 01:13:18,240
Speaker 1: I smile because it's so exciting that it does exactly

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Speaker 1: what I want to do.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not kidding. I could go through.

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Speaker 1: Maybe my next show, I'll do the beginning of the

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01:13:25,439 --> 01:13:27,559
Speaker 1: show about all the pros and cons of these things

1521
01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:31,400
Speaker 1: because I've tried them all. Like one Note by Microsoft.

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01:13:31,520 --> 01:13:31,840
Speaker 2: Love it.

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01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:34,960
Speaker 1: It's great, It's almost perfect. But the problem with one

1524
01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:37,200
Speaker 1: Note is you go to try to print something and

1525
01:13:37,240 --> 01:13:39,160
Speaker 1: on a mac at least it's all over the place.

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01:13:39,200 --> 01:13:41,439
Speaker 1: It doesn't print it properly. And by the way, it's

1527
01:13:41,439 --> 01:13:45,360
Speaker 1: also like this infinite like canvas, so you can't just

1528
01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:47,679
Speaker 1: like have stuff like flow in a line.

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01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:48,880
Speaker 2: It's really weird.

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01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:52,840
Speaker 1: Obsidian, which I was using, was great, but it just

1531
01:13:52,920 --> 01:13:55,799
Speaker 1: became I tried to search for something and I couldn't

1532
01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:59,400
Speaker 1: find it, and I'm like, why am I going crazy

1533
01:13:59,479 --> 01:14:01,559
Speaker 1: trying to say this stuff up that doesn't really do

1534
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:02,240
Speaker 1: what I need to do.

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01:14:03,120 --> 01:14:05,240
Speaker 2: Let's just go back to everyno. So that's what I did. Sonywa.

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01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:07,240
Speaker 1: I'm back on EVERYNOE and I do like it. It

1537
01:14:07,320 --> 01:14:10,000
Speaker 1: is expensive, but you know what, I use it to

1538
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,280
Speaker 1: produce this show, and that to me is worth it.

1539
01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:16,439
Speaker 1: Speaking of free, if you're trying to share a large

1540
01:14:16,479 --> 01:14:20,160
Speaker 1: file simply and easily, there's a website I discovered this

1541
01:14:20,200 --> 01:14:26,120
Speaker 1: week called file Pizza File dot Pizza super easy.

1542
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:27,479
Speaker 2: You literally open.

1543
01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:30,600
Speaker 1: Up the website on your device, open up the website

1544
01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:34,519
Speaker 1: on a friend's device, drag a file in, and boom,

1545
01:14:34,640 --> 01:14:37,040
Speaker 1: you can share it. So the way it works is

1546
01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:40,559
Speaker 1: it's peer to peer file transfers in the browser, so

1547
01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:45,000
Speaker 1: these transfers never pass through file pizzas servers, so it's

1548
01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:48,240
Speaker 1: kind of a big deal for privacy, and basically you

1549
01:14:48,240 --> 01:14:50,439
Speaker 1: do have to keep your browser window open until the

1550
01:14:50,439 --> 01:14:53,360
Speaker 1: transfer is complete. It's all open source, which means a

1551
01:14:53,360 --> 01:14:55,120
Speaker 1: lot of people kind of check in on this stuff

1552
01:14:55,200 --> 01:14:57,600
Speaker 1: make sure that it's good. But basically, you drop a

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01:14:57,680 --> 01:15:00,600
Speaker 1: file in, so just drop any old file there. Let

1554
01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:03,200
Speaker 1: me find a file. Okay, I'm dropping one in. You

1555
01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:07,439
Speaker 1: can set a secret password if you want, and if

1556
01:15:07,479 --> 01:15:09,200
Speaker 1: you don't want it, you know, anyone with a link

1557
01:15:09,200 --> 01:15:11,120
Speaker 1: will be able to do it. And then it generates

1558
01:15:11,120 --> 01:15:14,639
Speaker 1: a QR code, a long URL and a short URL.

1559
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:17,080
Speaker 1: So if Bobo came in here right now and just

1560
01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:20,320
Speaker 1: or if I sent him this link from his phone,

1561
01:15:20,360 --> 01:15:23,160
Speaker 1: he could download this file instantly right from my computer.

1562
01:15:23,240 --> 01:15:25,679
Speaker 1: Like it'll kind of like sets up a connection between

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01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 1: the two. Very easy, very simple. My kid was trying

1564
01:15:29,439 --> 01:15:33,879
Speaker 1: to share something from his Windows laptop to his iPad

1565
01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:36,000
Speaker 1: and he's like, Dad, I can't air drop this. I said,

1566
01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:39,559
Speaker 1: go to file pizza. He's like, Dad, I love file pizza.

1567
01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:42,040
Speaker 1: It's so easy. It's just one of those things where

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Speaker 1: like if you're with a friend, you're in their house

1569
01:15:43,920 --> 01:15:45,680
Speaker 1: and you're like, what's the easiest way to transfer this

1570
01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:50,400
Speaker 1: file from my thing to your thing file pizza cross platform, simple,

1571
01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:54,000
Speaker 1: easy in the browser. I love it. I love finding

1572
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:55,680
Speaker 1: stuff like that. I'll put it on the website. Rich

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01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:58,360
Speaker 1: on tech dot TV. If you got my newsletter this morning,

1574
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Speaker 1: you already knew about that because I mentioned it in

1575
01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:03,640
Speaker 1: the newsletter. Rich on tech dot TV. Uh, subscribe.

1576
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Speaker 2: It is free.

1577
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Speaker 1: There's over forty thousand of you that get it. Actually more,

1578
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Speaker 1: it's like forty three thousand in counting. Now let's go

1579
01:16:11,800 --> 01:16:14,000
Speaker 1: to Bob in Lake Forest, California.

1580
01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:14,880
Speaker 2: Bob, you're on with Rich.

1581
01:16:15,880 --> 01:16:17,439
Speaker 11: Hey, Rich love your show man.

1582
01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:18,080
Speaker 2: Thanks.

1583
01:16:19,240 --> 01:16:22,120
Speaker 11: Hey, I've got a situation here. I know you're you

1584
01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:26,080
Speaker 11: really preached for the mint Mobile. Your mom has it.

1585
01:16:26,600 --> 01:16:27,200
Speaker 11: I got mine.

1586
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:31,120
Speaker 2: Hey, don't bring my mom into this. Bob. You just

1587
01:16:31,160 --> 01:16:35,080
Speaker 2: said your call, you call you, Okay.

1588
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:37,720
Speaker 11: So yeah, every time I leave my house and go

1589
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:41,000
Speaker 11: out about three times a day, I'll pull something up

1590
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:42,679
Speaker 11: and it says you have no selling you the service

1591
01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:47,479
Speaker 11: and I have to reboot hauled customer service. And of

1592
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:52,720
Speaker 11: course they just go, oh, we'll send your send back.

1593
01:16:52,760 --> 01:16:53,760
Speaker 5: The what do you call it?

1594
01:16:53,800 --> 01:16:57,160
Speaker 8: Goes in there, the sim card sim card.

1595
01:16:57,240 --> 01:16:58,719
Speaker 11: Yeah, And I said, well then I'll have a phone

1596
01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:00,599
Speaker 11: and I need it to work. He says, oh, well,

1597
01:17:00,600 --> 01:17:02,840
Speaker 11: go get another phone and then send the SIM crisis,

1598
01:17:03,280 --> 01:17:05,920
Speaker 11: it's not going to work on any suggestions. And what's

1599
01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:06,360
Speaker 11: going on?

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01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:08,599
Speaker 2: Okay? So what kind of phone do you have?

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01:17:09,560 --> 01:17:11,960
Speaker 11: I have a Galaxy A fourteen Camason.

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01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:15,719
Speaker 1: Okay, So you have an A fourteen so well, there

1603
01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:18,439
Speaker 1: could be several things going on. So number one, this

1604
01:17:18,560 --> 01:17:22,599
Speaker 1: phone may not have the reception that a more powerful

1605
01:17:22,600 --> 01:17:25,760
Speaker 1: phone has, so that could be what's happening? Do you

1606
01:17:25,840 --> 01:17:27,280
Speaker 1: have no service on your phone?

1607
01:17:27,280 --> 01:17:28,799
Speaker 2: Whatsoever? Or week? Service?

1608
01:17:30,240 --> 01:17:30,320
Speaker 8: No?

1609
01:17:30,520 --> 01:17:33,200
Speaker 11: Service is fine? Exact. I just went from T Mobile

1610
01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:35,080
Speaker 11: to mint Mobile and I had T Mobile for a year,

1611
01:17:35,240 --> 01:17:36,400
Speaker 11: never had one problem.

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01:17:36,160 --> 01:17:36,840
Speaker 5: With okay at all?

1613
01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:39,280
Speaker 1: All right, so this is the same This is the

1614
01:17:39,320 --> 01:17:41,439
Speaker 1: same network, so you shouldn't have a problem if you

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01:17:41,479 --> 01:17:45,120
Speaker 1: had service. Have you configured the apns? Have you heard

1616
01:17:45,120 --> 01:17:46,760
Speaker 1: that term from the no?

1617
01:17:47,360 --> 01:17:48,800
Speaker 2: Okay? So that's what I think it is.

1618
01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:52,519
Speaker 1: So basically Mint Mobile is a little bit different from

1619
01:17:52,560 --> 01:17:56,519
Speaker 1: some of the other providers where typically when you pop

1620
01:17:56,600 --> 01:17:58,880
Speaker 1: that SIM card in, it should send your phone a

1621
01:17:58,920 --> 01:18:03,760
Speaker 1: text message with these special settings that will configure how

1622
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:07,160
Speaker 1: it looks for the cell towers and sometimes that does

1623
01:18:07,200 --> 01:18:09,640
Speaker 1: not happen, and especially were you using this phone with

1624
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:13,880
Speaker 1: Team Mobile before? Oh yeah, okay, So there's two things

1625
01:18:13,920 --> 01:18:16,400
Speaker 1: I'd like you to do. Number one, you can text

1626
01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:20,320
Speaker 1: set up to sixty seven hundred and they will send

1627
01:18:20,439 --> 01:18:24,519
Speaker 1: the settings to your phone. Okay, so that's number one. Now,

1628
01:18:24,520 --> 01:18:26,559
Speaker 1: if that does not work, what I want you to

1629
01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:29,280
Speaker 1: do is do what's called a reset network settings.

1630
01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:30,200
Speaker 2: Have you done that?

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01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:31,479
Speaker 13: No?

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01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:34,320
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm surprised these customer service folks have not told

1633
01:18:34,360 --> 01:18:37,639
Speaker 1: you this. But basically, if you go into your Samsung okay,

1634
01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:40,960
Speaker 1: if you go into settings, and I'll link this up

1635
01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:42,080
Speaker 1: on the website, you go.

1636
01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:47,679
Speaker 2: To let's see where is it reset? Let's see about phone?

1637
01:18:47,720 --> 01:18:48,680
Speaker 2: Hold on, I.

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01:18:48,640 --> 01:18:51,560
Speaker 1: Gotta find it if I type in, if you just

1639
01:18:51,600 --> 01:18:55,320
Speaker 1: search reset okay, and if you go to reset and

1640
01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:58,560
Speaker 1: you'll see it says reset mobile network settings.

1641
01:18:59,160 --> 01:19:01,559
Speaker 2: And so if you have that, you.

1642
01:19:01,600 --> 01:19:05,280
Speaker 1: Reset, it's basically gonna reset your mobile network settings, which

1643
01:19:05,320 --> 01:19:07,479
Speaker 1: means is gonna clear out the old T mobile settings,

1644
01:19:07,520 --> 01:19:10,439
Speaker 1: It's gonna clear out the Mint Mobile settings, and then

1645
01:19:10,439 --> 01:19:12,479
Speaker 1: when it looks at that sim card, it's gonna go, okay,

1646
01:19:12,479 --> 01:19:14,840
Speaker 1: we've got Mint Mobile, send me the new settings for

1647
01:19:14,880 --> 01:19:18,400
Speaker 1: this and it should automatically find the new settings. So

1648
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:21,800
Speaker 1: if it doesn't work, forget this phone number, forget you

1649
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:23,799
Speaker 1: ever talked to me, because then you won't have any signal.

1650
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:27,680
Speaker 1: But I think I think it's gonna work, and I

1651
01:19:27,680 --> 01:19:30,320
Speaker 1: think that's gonna one of those issues is going to

1652
01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:33,840
Speaker 1: fix your problems. I would start with the with the

1653
01:19:33,920 --> 01:19:37,080
Speaker 1: setup to sixty seven hundred, start with that, and if

1654
01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:40,519
Speaker 1: that doesn't work, I would try the network settings reset

1655
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:42,760
Speaker 1: and see if that helps. If those two things do

1656
01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:47,120
Speaker 1: not work, you could consider switching to like an eSIM,

1657
01:19:47,600 --> 01:19:48,559
Speaker 1: and that could also.

1658
01:19:50,040 --> 01:19:51,000
Speaker 2: I don't think that would help.

1659
01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:54,320
Speaker 1: That phone doesn't take anim yet, and I don't think

1660
01:19:54,320 --> 01:19:56,800
Speaker 1: that would help anyway, because eSIM is more if your

1661
01:19:56,800 --> 01:19:59,240
Speaker 1: phone is cycling through like no service because it says

1662
01:19:59,240 --> 01:20:00,519
Speaker 1: it can't find this cards.

1663
01:20:00,520 --> 01:20:03,240
Speaker 11: Sometimes I leave the SIM card in when I do

1664
01:20:03,280 --> 01:20:05,519
Speaker 11: each of these to the text sixty seven hundred and

1665
01:20:05,520 --> 01:20:07,080
Speaker 11: also the reset mobile settings.

1666
01:20:07,200 --> 01:20:09,080
Speaker 2: Yes, I would leave the SIM card in for both

1667
01:20:09,080 --> 01:20:09,360
Speaker 2: of those.

1668
01:20:09,439 --> 01:20:12,080
Speaker 11: So by both these says you know, if you don't

1669
01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:13,719
Speaker 11: hear from me, then you'll know something happened.

1670
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:15,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, if we if no one hears from you again,

1671
01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:17,679
Speaker 1: then we know you're like stuck somewhere in this world

1672
01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:18,919
Speaker 1: with l any service.

1673
01:20:19,200 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1674
01:20:20,080 --> 01:20:22,160
Speaker 11: In that case, hello to your mother for me.

1675
01:20:22,360 --> 01:20:24,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, and do this in a in an area with

1676
01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:26,679
Speaker 1: Wi Fi just in case you need to get back

1677
01:20:26,720 --> 01:20:27,880
Speaker 1: on line.

1678
01:20:27,880 --> 01:20:30,120
Speaker 11: Okay, right now, So all right, if I switch over

1679
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:32,240
Speaker 11: to Wi Fi or just leave it on Wi Fi.

1680
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:34,800
Speaker 2: What do you mean switch over to Wi Fi?

1681
01:20:35,400 --> 01:20:37,400
Speaker 11: Well, I mean it's it's already it's Wi Fi. If

1682
01:20:37,439 --> 01:20:39,360
Speaker 11: I'm in the house right now, I'm gonna sell you

1683
01:20:39,400 --> 01:20:41,560
Speaker 11: because I just came from an outsite on hold with

1684
01:20:41,640 --> 01:20:44,439
Speaker 11: you guys, So I'm gonna obviously hang up with you,

1685
01:20:44,479 --> 01:20:45,800
Speaker 11: and it should go into Wi Fi.

1686
01:20:46,200 --> 01:20:48,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. And I would just stay on that

1687
01:20:48,320 --> 01:20:50,240
Speaker 1: and do that. Do those two things, see what happens.

1688
01:20:50,560 --> 01:20:52,639
Speaker 1: I think it's going to help you, and hopefully it does.

1689
01:20:52,720 --> 01:20:53,960
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. Let me know.

1690
01:20:54,439 --> 01:20:57,160
Speaker 2: Great, Rich right, Bob, thank everybody? All right?

1691
01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:59,360
Speaker 1: Eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight

1692
01:20:59,479 --> 01:21:02,799
Speaker 1: seven four four one zero one.

1693
01:21:03,760 --> 01:21:04,040
Speaker 2: Wow.

1694
01:21:04,280 --> 01:21:08,000
Speaker 1: Well, well then I guess that sound means it's time

1695
01:21:08,040 --> 01:21:12,880
Speaker 1: for a break. Uh, Okay, We've got more calls coming up.

1696
01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:17,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you that Google Assistant is becoming well,

1697
01:21:17,360 --> 01:21:19,840
Speaker 1: it's going away. It's becoming something else. I'll explain what's

1698
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:23,200
Speaker 1: happening there and when we'll take some more of your calls,

1699
01:21:23,200 --> 01:21:24,920
Speaker 1: and we have a guest plus the feedback. We got

1700
01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 1: a lot coming up right here on rich On Tech.

1701
01:21:28,160 --> 01:21:32,559
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On Tech. Let's go to uh

1702
01:21:32,680 --> 01:21:35,719
Speaker 1: Rick in Orange County. Rick, you're on with rich.

1703
01:21:37,360 --> 01:21:40,800
Speaker 9: Oh hey, rich, thank you for taking my call. I

1704
01:21:40,880 --> 01:21:44,960
Speaker 9: have a Defender right now my PC laptop and step

1705
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:49,000
Speaker 9: for renol. But I'm hardly ever on the PC anymore.

1706
01:21:49,040 --> 01:21:51,760
Speaker 9: So I just wondering. I gets, like a free.

1707
01:21:53,040 --> 01:21:53,879
Speaker 5: Virus protection.

1708
01:21:54,120 --> 01:21:56,560
Speaker 9: Is there one out there that's good?

1709
01:21:57,439 --> 01:21:59,840
Speaker 2: Well, what do you mean so you're paying for Microsoft to.

1710
01:22:01,600 --> 01:22:02,160
Speaker 7: Yeah?

1711
01:22:02,240 --> 01:22:05,439
Speaker 1: Okay, so well why not just why not just go

1712
01:22:05,560 --> 01:22:10,840
Speaker 1: with the Windows security that's built into Microsoft.

1713
01:22:11,400 --> 01:22:13,280
Speaker 9: Oh I can do that? Yeah do that?

1714
01:22:13,600 --> 01:22:17,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, just do that. I don't think you need much more.

1715
01:22:17,560 --> 01:22:19,960
Speaker 1: I mean it's pretty simple. So if you look, if

1716
01:22:19,960 --> 01:22:24,280
Speaker 1: you go on Defender on your I mean they try

1717
01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:26,479
Speaker 1: to look. They're trying to sell you, obviously, and I

1718
01:22:26,520 --> 01:22:26,840
Speaker 1: get it.

1719
01:22:26,840 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 2: It does.

1720
01:22:27,520 --> 01:22:30,640
Speaker 1: It does more stuff like than just the standard built in.

1721
01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:36,080
Speaker 1: But you know Windows already has built in virus and

1722
01:22:36,120 --> 01:22:38,519
Speaker 1: threat detection. So if you if you type in on

1723
01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:43,320
Speaker 1: your uh Windows Security. So if you type in Windows Security,

1724
01:22:43,960 --> 01:22:47,640
Speaker 1: you'll see it tells you what's happening. And if you

1725
01:22:47,680 --> 01:22:51,320
Speaker 1: tap virus in threat protection, it'll tell you current threats,

1726
01:22:51,439 --> 01:22:55,120
Speaker 1: quick scan, no action needed. You can it says security

1727
01:22:55,160 --> 01:22:59,200
Speaker 1: intelligence when the last time it was updated. Ransomware protection,

1728
01:22:59,320 --> 01:23:02,360
Speaker 1: you can set that up. I think the main thing

1729
01:23:02,479 --> 01:23:04,439
Speaker 1: is that you just just you know, get rid of

1730
01:23:04,439 --> 01:23:07,720
Speaker 1: the other thing, let the let the subscription lapse, and

1731
01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:10,559
Speaker 1: then just activate this and and make sure it's all

1732
01:23:10,600 --> 01:23:11,719
Speaker 1: up to date and you're good.

1733
01:23:13,400 --> 01:23:15,559
Speaker 5: Okay, cool, one more time.

1734
01:23:15,720 --> 01:23:16,639
Speaker 9: What's it called again?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it's called Windows Security. So that's it's like

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01:23:20,600 --> 01:23:22,360
Speaker 1: they I think they must have changed the name because

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01:23:22,400 --> 01:23:25,439
Speaker 1: Defender is sort of the uh it looks like the

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01:23:25,479 --> 01:23:28,040
Speaker 1: paid aspect of it, right, that's what you're paying for

1739
01:23:28,160 --> 01:23:28,559
Speaker 1: right now.

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01:23:29,320 --> 01:23:30,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, so if.

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01:23:31,880 --> 01:23:33,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean I get it, you're you know,

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01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:37,320
Speaker 1: it's it's there may be something a little bit more

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01:23:37,360 --> 01:23:39,360
Speaker 1: like it. They're trying to sell on, like the fact

1744
01:23:39,360 --> 01:23:42,080
Speaker 1: that you can get extra security for different things.

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01:23:42,080 --> 01:23:43,400
Speaker 2: Like let's see what they're selling here.

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01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:46,720
Speaker 1: Uh, let's see it says you can get oh hold on,

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01:23:46,760 --> 01:23:50,040
Speaker 1: I gotta log in, but yeah, okay, protection for Android

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01:23:50,080 --> 01:23:55,120
Speaker 1: iOS Mac and Windows Identity, theft VPN. So if you

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01:23:55,120 --> 01:23:57,559
Speaker 1: don't need all of that stuff, I would say, just

1750
01:23:57,640 --> 01:23:59,400
Speaker 1: go ahead and get the built in which is just

1751
01:23:59,479 --> 01:24:03,160
Speaker 1: type in Win Windows Security and make sure that everything's green.

1752
01:24:03,479 --> 01:24:05,000
Speaker 1: So there's a whole bunch of things that says like

1753
01:24:05,080 --> 01:24:09,759
Speaker 1: virus and threat protection, account protection, firewall, all that stuff.

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01:24:09,800 --> 01:24:11,479
Speaker 1: Just make sure it's good and then I would tap

1755
01:24:11,560 --> 01:24:15,000
Speaker 1: the virus and threat protection, do a quick scan just

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01:24:15,040 --> 01:24:17,519
Speaker 1: to have a baseline, make sure your computer's good once

1757
01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:19,120
Speaker 1: you get rid of the other thing, and then just

1758
01:24:19,200 --> 01:24:21,519
Speaker 1: make sure your security intelligence is up to date.

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01:24:22,040 --> 01:24:23,040
Speaker 2: So that's what I would do.

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01:24:23,080 --> 01:24:26,759
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, there's this big argument over whether

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01:24:27,040 --> 01:24:31,720
Speaker 1: you actually need third party security software, you know for

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01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:35,360
Speaker 1: the Windows computers. So there's a ton of it out there.

1763
01:24:35,439 --> 01:24:39,360
Speaker 1: It's a big business. Security is very important. But a

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01:24:39,400 --> 01:24:41,960
Speaker 1: couple of things that I think a lot of what

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01:24:42,080 --> 01:24:44,599
Speaker 1: we do nowadays is on the web, and a lot

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01:24:44,640 --> 01:24:47,519
Speaker 1: of it is through these web services, and a lot

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01:24:47,600 --> 01:24:50,200
Speaker 1: of those services scan things before they even let them

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01:24:50,200 --> 01:24:54,280
Speaker 1: get to our computer. So unless you're like specifically downloading

1769
01:24:54,320 --> 01:24:57,960
Speaker 1: something peer to peer or you know, doing something like

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01:24:58,040 --> 01:25:01,400
Speaker 1: that's very much like a off the typical like just

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01:25:01,560 --> 01:25:06,400
Speaker 1: downloading files and things from you know, reputable websites, most

1772
01:25:06,439 --> 01:25:08,519
Speaker 1: of the time they're going to be scanned in some

1773
01:25:08,600 --> 01:25:11,640
Speaker 1: way before Now, I'm not saying that you should be

1774
01:25:11,640 --> 01:25:14,320
Speaker 1: off guard. You always need to be on guard, especially

1775
01:25:14,360 --> 01:25:17,560
Speaker 1: anytime you download something, anytime you install something, anytime you

1776
01:25:17,600 --> 01:25:20,120
Speaker 1: click a link. But right now, you know, the big

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01:25:20,120 --> 01:25:23,680
Speaker 1: thing is ransomware. That's number one, and identity theft is

1778
01:25:23,760 --> 01:25:25,519
Speaker 1: number two. So those are the two big things we're

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01:25:25,600 --> 01:25:25,920
Speaker 1: up against.

1780
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:26,479
Speaker 2: The viruses.

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01:25:26,479 --> 01:25:28,559
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, there's always going to be viruses out there,

1782
01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:32,200
Speaker 1: and I think that your computer should be protected against that.

1783
01:25:32,920 --> 01:25:35,800
Speaker 1: But I think it's being aware of the situation that's better. Now,

1784
01:25:36,320 --> 01:25:38,920
Speaker 1: for what it's worth, Rick, if you want free software,

1785
01:25:38,960 --> 01:25:42,960
Speaker 1: free antivirus software above and beyond what Windows gives you,

1786
01:25:42,960 --> 01:25:45,639
Speaker 1: you can definitely check out a website I like called

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01:25:45,720 --> 01:25:50,880
Speaker 1: av dash test dot org. So av test dot org.

1788
01:25:53,120 --> 01:25:54,840
Speaker 1: They list they do a whole bunch of tests on

1789
01:25:54,880 --> 01:25:56,720
Speaker 1: these things, and they list the software that they like

1790
01:25:56,760 --> 01:26:00,920
Speaker 1: in the top free software. It's actually a tie. Let's see,

1791
01:26:00,920 --> 01:26:03,519
Speaker 1: it's actually a four way tie right now. So a

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01:26:03,640 --> 01:26:07,599
Speaker 1: vast is number one, AVG number two, of youa number three,

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01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:12,280
Speaker 1: and Bitdefender number four. So those are the those are

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01:26:12,320 --> 01:26:14,599
Speaker 1: the products that they rank as kind of the highest

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01:26:16,000 --> 01:26:16,599
Speaker 1: and depends.

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01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:17,639
Speaker 2: A vast is the.

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01:26:17,560 --> 01:26:19,320
Speaker 1: Free one, so you know, the other ones may not

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01:26:19,400 --> 01:26:22,240
Speaker 1: be completely free, but a vast you can get for free.

1799
01:26:22,439 --> 01:26:25,599
Speaker 1: And of course all of these have a paid version

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01:26:25,680 --> 01:26:30,160
Speaker 1: that offers you more. But yeah, good question, Rick, Thanks

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01:26:30,200 --> 01:26:30,559
Speaker 1: for the call.

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01:26:30,600 --> 01:26:31,280
Speaker 2: Appreciate it.

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01:26:32,080 --> 01:26:36,000
Speaker 1: Google assistant is going away. It's becoming Gemini. We all

1804
01:26:36,040 --> 01:26:39,400
Speaker 1: knew this was going to happen, right. AI is everything.

1805
01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:42,759
Speaker 1: Everyone's replacing their standard stuff with AI stuff. So Google

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01:26:42,800 --> 01:26:45,639
Speaker 1: put out a blog post saying over the next couple months,

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01:26:45,760 --> 01:26:49,000
Speaker 1: mobile users will be upgraded to Gemini. And before you

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01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:51,000
Speaker 1: get all scared and like, oh my gosh, I don't

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01:26:51,000 --> 01:26:53,160
Speaker 1: want this to happen, I think it's probably a good

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01:26:53,160 --> 01:26:55,040
Speaker 1: thing because your phone is going to understand you a

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01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:58,920
Speaker 1: lot more so. Classic Google assistants going away later this year.

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01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:01,320
Speaker 1: It's going to be no longer accessible and most devices

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01:27:01,360 --> 01:27:04,439
Speaker 1: are even available for new downloads. And this is going

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01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:09,280
Speaker 1: to expand beyond just phones. It's gonna be a tablets, cars, headphones, watches,

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01:27:09,320 --> 01:27:12,000
Speaker 1: smart home devices, all this stuff is going to get Gemini.

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01:27:13,120 --> 01:27:15,000
Speaker 2: Why because it's smarter.

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01:27:15,200 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 1: You can have a conversation with it in natural language,

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01:27:18,680 --> 01:27:21,519
Speaker 1: and so that's why they're doing this, And of course

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01:27:21,560 --> 01:27:24,680
Speaker 1: AI is the big thing now. The big problem with

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01:27:24,800 --> 01:27:29,240
Speaker 1: replacing Google Assistant with Gemini in the past was that

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01:27:29,320 --> 01:27:32,840
Speaker 1: Assistant did basic things like setting timers, playing music, all

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01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:35,360
Speaker 1: the lock screen stuff. So they had to you know,

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01:27:35,600 --> 01:27:40,400
Speaker 1: Gemini was envisioned as an AI chatbot. Now they've kind

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01:27:40,400 --> 01:27:43,800
Speaker 1: of worked in where it can actually perform the functionality

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01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:47,240
Speaker 1: it needs to do on your phone. So we saw

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01:27:47,280 --> 01:27:49,840
Speaker 1: this first with the Samsung S twenty five this year

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01:27:50,280 --> 01:27:52,920
Speaker 1: they had Gemini, a version of Gemini that can also

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01:27:52,960 --> 01:27:55,360
Speaker 1: control the phone and also on the pixels.

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01:27:55,360 --> 01:27:56,639
Speaker 2: It can do a lot of the stuff it needs

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01:27:56,640 --> 01:27:56,840
Speaker 2: to do.

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01:27:56,920 --> 01:27:59,479
Speaker 1: But anyway, now for the other Android phones out there,

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01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:02,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna be Gemini. Don't be scared. I think this

1833
01:28:02,160 --> 01:28:04,839
Speaker 1: is a good thing. Assistant, by the way, was launched

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01:28:04,840 --> 01:28:08,439
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, a couple of years after Siri, which

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01:28:08,479 --> 01:28:12,679
Speaker 1: was twenty eleven. Alexo is twenty fourteen, Gemini the AI

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01:28:12,800 --> 01:28:16,160
Speaker 1: version twenty twenty three, and we all know Siri has

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01:28:16,240 --> 01:28:20,879
Speaker 1: kind of fallen behind, whereas Alexa and Gemini have gotten

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01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:23,519
Speaker 1: very very smart in recent years. All Right, coming up,

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01:28:23,520 --> 01:28:26,760
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to Jared Newman of Advisorator about the

1840
01:28:26,760 --> 01:28:30,719
Speaker 1: best ad blockers right here on rich on Tech. Welcome

1841
01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:33,160
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out

1842
01:28:33,200 --> 01:28:37,519
Speaker 1: with you, talking technology the website for the show rich

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01:28:37,720 --> 01:28:41,920
Speaker 1: on Tech dot TV. We've had a great show today.

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Speaker 1: This has been a lot of fun. It's about to

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Speaker 1: get a lot better too, because Jared Newman is on

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Speaker 1: the line. He writes a couple of great newsletters. One

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01:28:50,439 --> 01:28:54,639
Speaker 1: is called Advisorator, the other is called cord Cutter Weekly.

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01:28:55,320 --> 01:28:57,160
Speaker 1: And this is the kind of stuff I almost don't

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01:28:57,200 --> 01:28:59,640
Speaker 1: want to share because he does a better job than

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Speaker 1: I do, and I'm jealous, specifically the cord Cutter Weekly.

1851
01:29:04,200 --> 01:29:06,599
Speaker 1: I'm telling you he I mean, the stuff he covers

1852
01:29:07,040 --> 01:29:09,920
Speaker 1: and the tips he gives, it's very thorough. So you're

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Speaker 1: gonna want to sign up for his newsletters. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show, Jared.

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Speaker 8: Thanks Rich always good to be here. And don't sell

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01:29:15,720 --> 01:29:17,560
Speaker 8: yourself story. I really enjoy your newsletters.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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01:29:19,680 --> 01:29:21,400
Speaker 1: I told I had to tell someone the other day

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Speaker 1: because you know, there's this thing, there's this like fear based,

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01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:26,080
Speaker 1: you know, thing in this world where people don't want

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01:29:26,120 --> 01:29:29,640
Speaker 1: to share people that they see as a competitor or

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Speaker 1: a threat to them because they're worried that's going to

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01:29:32,040 --> 01:29:34,559
Speaker 1: take away from them. And I tell people, I say, look,

1865
01:29:35,080 --> 01:29:37,599
Speaker 1: it was a saying I heard many many years ago.

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01:29:38,080 --> 01:29:41,160
Speaker 1: When you light another candle, it does not put yours out.

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01:29:41,600 --> 01:29:45,000
Speaker 1: So even though you and I theoretically compete with our newsletters,

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01:29:45,000 --> 01:29:46,479
Speaker 1: which we don't, yours is.

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01:29:46,439 --> 01:29:48,120
Speaker 2: Better anyway, you know, it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: I'd love promoting yours because it's more access to the

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01:29:51,200 --> 01:29:52,439
Speaker 1: information that you share.

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01:29:52,479 --> 01:29:54,400
Speaker 2: So I'm very happy to do it anyway.

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01:29:54,479 --> 01:29:57,600
Speaker 1: So let's talk about this, this whole ad blocker situation.

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01:29:58,240 --> 01:30:00,800
Speaker 1: I know that Google Chrome has gotten rid of a

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01:30:00,840 --> 01:30:03,920
Speaker 1: popular ad blocker, you block Origin I think it's called

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01:30:04,479 --> 01:30:06,639
Speaker 1: And what's the deal with that?

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01:30:06,680 --> 01:30:07,680
Speaker 2: Why are they doing that?

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01:30:08,160 --> 01:30:12,120
Speaker 8: Yeah, so you block origin is. I always think of

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01:30:12,160 --> 01:30:14,200
Speaker 8: it as just kind of the best ad blocker if

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01:30:14,200 --> 01:30:16,880
Speaker 8: you want to use an ad blocker. The main thing

1881
01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:21,160
Speaker 8: is that it's it's it just works really well, and

1882
01:30:21,200 --> 01:30:24,639
Speaker 8: it's very lightweight, and it's free and there's no weird

1883
01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:28,120
Speaker 8: up cells or subscriptions or anything like that, so it

1884
01:30:28,320 --> 01:30:30,720
Speaker 8: just does what it means. There's been some comparisons of

1885
01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:33,920
Speaker 8: different ad blockers and how much system resources they use,

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01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:36,160
Speaker 8: and some of them, it's like you're not even better

1887
01:30:36,200 --> 01:30:39,559
Speaker 8: off in terms of like CPU and battery life than

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01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:42,519
Speaker 8: just not using anything at all. U block Origin is

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01:30:42,600 --> 01:30:44,880
Speaker 8: just top notch as far as all that goes. And

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01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:52,080
Speaker 8: what's happening in Chrome specifically is Google is moving beyond

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01:30:53,080 --> 01:30:55,840
Speaker 8: the current platform they use for extensions or moving to

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01:30:55,880 --> 01:31:00,160
Speaker 8: something that extensibly is supposed to improve security, make extensions

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01:31:00,200 --> 01:31:03,360
Speaker 8: more secure. But the short version is that the way

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01:31:03,439 --> 01:31:07,000
Speaker 8: you block Origin works, that's gonna make it impossible for

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01:31:07,040 --> 01:31:10,040
Speaker 8: it to operate. So what they've started doing is they've

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01:31:10,040 --> 01:31:14,080
Speaker 8: started turning off extensions that are affected by this, including

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01:31:14,439 --> 01:31:16,920
Speaker 8: you block Origin. You can actually still turn it back on.

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01:31:17,560 --> 01:31:20,800
Speaker 8: It's a little murky as to when you'll eventually not

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01:31:20,880 --> 01:31:23,880
Speaker 8: be able to use it at all, but eventually the

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01:31:23,960 --> 01:31:27,800
Speaker 8: idea is that this will go away and it may

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01:31:27,920 --> 01:31:30,400
Speaker 8: end up affecting other browsers that kind of use the

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01:31:30,439 --> 01:31:33,559
Speaker 8: same underlying code as Chrome. So kind of just keeping

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01:31:33,560 --> 01:31:35,760
Speaker 8: an eye on all that and helping people figure out

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01:31:35,800 --> 01:31:36,439
Speaker 8: what to do next.

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01:31:36,760 --> 01:31:38,960
Speaker 1: Well, I guess before we get into your suggestion for

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01:31:39,000 --> 01:31:40,840
Speaker 1: what to do next, I mean, what's the benefit of

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01:31:40,880 --> 01:31:44,679
Speaker 1: an ad blocker Obviously it sounds it sounds mean because

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01:31:45,120 --> 01:31:47,720
Speaker 1: these companies like they make a business on you know,

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01:31:47,840 --> 01:31:50,280
Speaker 1: ads on the website, on the stuff you're reading or

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01:31:50,320 --> 01:31:53,200
Speaker 1: looking at. But what is the benefit of an ad blocker,

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01:31:53,200 --> 01:31:55,799
Speaker 1: because there are some arguments as to why people like them.

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01:31:56,160 --> 01:31:58,479
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's definitely a bit of a gray area. I

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01:31:58,520 --> 01:32:02,040
Speaker 8: think ultimately what it is is like you should be

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01:32:02,720 --> 01:32:06,040
Speaker 8: in charge of like what happens on your computer, right

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01:32:06,760 --> 01:32:09,880
Speaker 8: And the thing is that some of these ads they

1916
01:32:09,920 --> 01:32:12,720
Speaker 8: can have malware, or they can you know, they can

1917
01:32:12,720 --> 01:32:15,280
Speaker 8: cover up the whole website so you can't actually see anything,

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01:32:15,360 --> 01:32:18,080
Speaker 8: or they can put a huge drain on your battery life.

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01:32:18,920 --> 01:32:21,400
Speaker 8: You know, like if we were listening to your radio

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01:32:21,479 --> 01:32:23,439
Speaker 8: show and it cut to a commercial and you're listening

1921
01:32:23,439 --> 01:32:26,080
Speaker 8: to the car, you'd appreciate that. You'd be fine with that.

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01:32:26,120 --> 01:32:28,080
Speaker 8: You want to support your radio show. But what if

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01:32:28,120 --> 01:32:30,920
Speaker 8: like it used more gasoline when you were listening to commercials,

1924
01:32:31,120 --> 01:32:32,760
Speaker 8: you might be like, maybe I want to kind of

1925
01:32:32,760 --> 01:32:36,000
Speaker 8: block this, you know, So having that option is something

1926
01:32:36,040 --> 01:32:37,439
Speaker 8: that that you might want to keep in mind.

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01:32:37,600 --> 01:32:40,040
Speaker 1: Maybe if you have an electric car, that might that

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01:32:40,120 --> 01:32:40,840
Speaker 1: might be the case.

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01:32:40,920 --> 01:32:42,800
Speaker 8: You know, you know, you want to you want to

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01:32:42,840 --> 01:32:44,200
Speaker 8: maximize those miles, you know.

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01:32:44,200 --> 01:32:46,360
Speaker 1: So you're putting up the volume and it's like, you know,

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01:32:46,400 --> 01:32:48,559
Speaker 1: the volume is louder on the commercials. Maybe it's using

1933
01:32:48,640 --> 01:32:51,400
Speaker 1: up more juice. So what is the recommendation? What do

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01:32:51,439 --> 01:32:54,960
Speaker 1: you switch to if if you block Origin is not

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01:32:55,080 --> 01:32:56,519
Speaker 1: working anymore on your browser.

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01:32:56,920 --> 01:33:00,880
Speaker 8: Yeah, so if it comes to that point, you kind

1937
01:33:00,880 --> 01:33:04,719
Speaker 8: of have to decide if you value you block Origin

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01:33:04,760 --> 01:33:07,720
Speaker 8: more or if you value Chrome more. Because there's other

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01:33:07,760 --> 01:33:10,719
Speaker 8: browsers that have kind of said that they are going

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01:33:10,760 --> 01:33:14,680
Speaker 8: to keep supporting you block Origin in particular, or just

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01:33:14,760 --> 01:33:17,760
Speaker 8: kind of be more accommodating these kind of extensions. So

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01:33:18,240 --> 01:33:20,800
Speaker 8: you know, Firefox has kind of come out and said,

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01:33:21,240 --> 01:33:26,160
Speaker 8: we're going to accommodate this older framework of browser extensions.

1944
01:33:26,200 --> 01:33:29,720
Speaker 8: At least a specific features that you block Origin relies on.

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01:33:31,080 --> 01:33:33,599
Speaker 8: Brave and Opera I believe is said they were going

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01:33:33,640 --> 01:33:36,120
Speaker 8: to have a little carve out for a handful of

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01:33:36,160 --> 01:33:40,160
Speaker 8: ad blockers so that you'll be able to enable them.

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01:33:40,320 --> 01:33:43,280
Speaker 8: So you know, there's there's some options like that, And

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Speaker 8: keep in mind a lot of browsers now have built

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Speaker 8: in ad blocking capabilities that you can look to instead.

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Speaker 8: I still kind of feel like you block Origin is

1952
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Speaker 8: the best without pear, but there's other options to kind

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Speaker 8: of look to.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so what what if you want to stick with

1955
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Speaker 1: you block Origin? They came out with this light version.

1956
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Speaker 1: Is that just as good?

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Speaker 11: No?

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Speaker 8: I mean, look, it is very good. That it's if

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Speaker 8: it comes down to it and you want to just

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Speaker 8: still use something, you don't want to change your habits,

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Speaker 8: you block Origin light is good. It's it's almost as

1962
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Speaker 8: lightweight as you block Origin proper, and you know it

1963
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Speaker 8: doesn't have any its own up sells and subscriptions or

1964
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Speaker 8: anything like that. So a lot of the same benefits,

1965
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Speaker 8: but there's a few trade offs in terms of it

1966
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Speaker 8: may not work as well. I think there's certain things

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Speaker 8: that they're not quite able to block as well as

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Speaker 8: you block Origin does. And then there's sort of some

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Speaker 8: advanced power user features that I kind of like. There's

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Speaker 8: something in you you block Origin where you can look

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Speaker 8: at a web page and say, I don't like this

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Speaker 8: element on the web page. So if you're on Amazon,

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Speaker 8: you don't like how they show you like the videos

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Speaker 8: and the ads for other products, you can be like,

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Speaker 8: zap this out and don't show me this again when

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Speaker 8: I visit the website. In the future. So there's some

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01:35:01,720 --> 01:35:04,120
Speaker 8: neat things like that that you can do, but you

1978
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Speaker 8: block Origin Lite is a good fallback if all thus sales.

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Speaker 1: Any other recommendations besides that, you.

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Speaker 8: Know, I did talk about we can really talk about Safari,

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Speaker 8: which doesn't support you block Origin to begin with, and

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Speaker 8: they have a built in kind of tracking protection that

1983
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Speaker 8: incidentally ends up hiding some ads. I generally found the

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Speaker 8: ad guard is decent. They do have some sort of

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Speaker 8: upselling kind of things you have to be aware of

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Speaker 8: when you use it, and it's a bit more resource intensive,

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Speaker 8: but that's something to consider. Yeah, I mean, Brave and

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Speaker 8: Vivaldi have they're built in a AD blocking that you

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Speaker 8: can kind of look at as well.

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Speaker 1: My big thing is I noticed a lot of the

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Speaker 1: websites that you go to if you don't have your

1992
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Speaker 1: ads you know, blocked, they trick you. You know, like

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Speaker 1: let's say you go to a software website to like

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Speaker 1: download a piece of software, Like there will be a

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Speaker 1: prominent ad on that page that somehow looks like what

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Speaker 1: you're trying to download, and like you'll click it and

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Speaker 1: like that's actually advertising and so like in this way,

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Speaker 1: some of these things like actually protect you and you

1999
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Speaker 1: were talking about malvertizing. That's a big thing too, Like

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Speaker 1: all those things that like the takeovers on your computer

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Speaker 1: where it's like your computer is infected, like ninety nine

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Speaker 1: percent of that is like those takeovers are delivered through

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Speaker 1: malvertizing where it may only happen for like a couple

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01:36:22,880 --> 01:36:25,599
Speaker 1: of minutes until Google systems figure it out. But it's

2005
01:36:25,640 --> 01:36:28,120
Speaker 1: like that's delivered through an ad a lot of the time.

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Speaker 1: So these things can actually protect you. All right, Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about this sign in with Google pop up, because

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Speaker 1: this happens everywhere I go to red Fan.

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Speaker 2: It's like, do you want to sign in with Google?

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Speaker 1: You know, typically I recommend that people always use a

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Speaker 1: unique password and an a unique log in, just not

2012
01:36:45,760 --> 01:36:47,320
Speaker 1: to connect everything, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: But how can we get rid of this pop up?

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Speaker 8: Yeah? So I just got kind of annoyed by this

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Speaker 8: cause it keeps popping up on different sites that I

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Speaker 8: go do. Even though I'm kind I'm kind of with you.

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Speaker 8: I say, not only like a unique password, but a

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Speaker 8: lot of times I like to use a unique email address,

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Speaker 8: and there's different services that you can use. You've probably

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01:37:05,920 --> 01:37:08,960
Speaker 8: talked about this email aliases or some people just like

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01:37:09,040 --> 01:37:11,000
Speaker 8: to add a plus sign onto their the end of

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Speaker 8: their Gmail address and another thing, and then that way,

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Speaker 8: you know, like who's sending You know, if I add

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Speaker 8: something to the end, I can see, oh, they send

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Speaker 8: an email to this address, and then you have control

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Speaker 8: over who's emailing you, right, you know, once you're on

2027
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Speaker 8: a company's mailing list, ostensibly you can unsubscribe, but you know,

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Speaker 8: maybe that doesn't work, or maybe you just don't want

2029
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Speaker 8: to deal with it, or they make it too hard.

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Speaker 2: Wait, let me tell you.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you real quick, how nerdy I am.

2032
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Speaker 1: So when I used to subscribe to magazines just to

2033
01:37:37,439 --> 01:37:41,080
Speaker 1: see who sold my my like name and address, I

2034
01:37:41,080 --> 01:37:43,720
Speaker 1: would sign up using a slightly different variation of my

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Speaker 1: name so I could tell, like if I did like

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Speaker 1: rich to Miro, I do like our d E m

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Speaker 1: U r O. And then all of a sudden, you

2038
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Speaker 1: start seeing that on your junk mail. You're like, okay, esquire,

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Speaker 1: I see Danie sold my info?

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Speaker 2: Anyway, keep going exactly.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, So, I mean Google really wants you to sign

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Speaker 8: in with them for various reasons. As a look like

2043
01:38:03,840 --> 01:38:05,760
Speaker 8: you sign in with Google. The way it works is

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01:38:05,760 --> 01:38:08,840
Speaker 8: you click that button if you're already signed into Gmail

2045
01:38:09,720 --> 01:38:13,040
Speaker 8: or whatever in your web browser, then it just associates

2046
01:38:13,120 --> 01:38:15,479
Speaker 8: your logging with your Gmail account. You don't have to

2047
01:38:15,520 --> 01:38:17,800
Speaker 8: set a password, so there is kind of a security

2048
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Speaker 8: benefit to not having another password to set up, even

2049
01:38:21,439 --> 01:38:23,720
Speaker 8: if you use a password manager. It's something that can't

2050
01:38:23,720 --> 01:38:26,280
Speaker 8: get lost in a security breach or what have you.

2051
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Speaker 8: But ultimately, you know, I don't want Google to be

2052
01:38:31,080 --> 01:38:33,120
Speaker 8: I don't want Google to be like the centerpiece of

2053
01:38:33,120 --> 01:38:35,280
Speaker 8: my digital life, and I want to be able to

2054
01:38:35,280 --> 01:38:37,519
Speaker 8: have that control. I don't want my Gmail address to

2055
01:38:37,560 --> 01:38:39,920
Speaker 8: go out to whoever I subscribe to. So I was

2056
01:38:39,960 --> 01:38:42,200
Speaker 8: just getting really annoyed by this pop up that is,

2057
01:38:43,240 --> 01:38:45,439
Speaker 8: and to be clear, like this is different from sometimes

2058
01:38:45,479 --> 01:38:47,680
Speaker 8: you go to a website and there's like sign in

2059
01:38:47,720 --> 01:38:50,599
Speaker 8: with Facebook, sign in with X, sign in with Google,

2060
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Speaker 8: those buttons. But this is like if you go to

2061
01:38:53,240 --> 01:38:55,280
Speaker 8: Reddit when you're not signed in, there's like a big

2062
01:38:55,320 --> 01:38:59,519
Speaker 8: pop up in it prevents you from using other logging options,

2063
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Speaker 8: and so I just don't like that, like I want

2064
01:39:02,000 --> 01:39:04,240
Speaker 8: to have that control. It kind of gets back to

2065
01:39:04,280 --> 01:39:05,960
Speaker 8: the same thing with the ad blockers, like I want

2066
01:39:06,000 --> 01:39:09,200
Speaker 8: to be in control of what's happening with my computer

2067
01:39:09,320 --> 01:39:12,720
Speaker 8: and my identity and all of that. So I just

2068
01:39:12,800 --> 01:39:15,479
Speaker 8: went through and I was like, I'd seen something about

2069
01:39:15,520 --> 01:39:17,080
Speaker 8: hiding this pop up.

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Speaker 2: And I got less than a minute, so I gotta,

2071
01:39:19,520 --> 01:39:20,160
Speaker 2: oh yeah.

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Speaker 8: Sure, so so yeah, so I found this and then

2073
01:39:23,640 --> 01:39:25,960
Speaker 8: it went through for basically every web browser and found

2074
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Speaker 8: ways to disable it.

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Speaker 1: And so you've got that linked up on the newsletter

2076
01:39:30,520 --> 01:39:34,840
Speaker 1: Jared Newman dot com Slash Newsletters that'll give you the

2077
01:39:34,880 --> 01:39:37,639
Speaker 1: sign up for both. But basically I know in Chrome

2078
01:39:37,680 --> 01:39:39,519
Speaker 1: at least what it's like a flag you gotta do.

2079
01:39:39,600 --> 01:39:41,479
Speaker 1: It's like a little bit techy, right, you gotta just.

2080
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Speaker 8: And there's some more technical things for other browsers like Safari,

2081
01:39:45,120 --> 01:39:47,320
Speaker 8: but I'm nerdy enough that I'm willing to do that

2082
01:39:47,320 --> 01:39:48,320
Speaker 8: because it's too annoying.

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01:39:48,439 --> 01:39:51,559
Speaker 1: Well, my brother did this too, he texted me. He said,

2084
01:39:51,400 --> 01:39:53,439
Speaker 1: I did this because he was annoyed by it. So

2085
01:39:53,479 --> 01:39:56,559
Speaker 1: it's definitely not just you. It's it's but most people

2086
01:39:56,600 --> 01:39:58,519
Speaker 1: just think you can't change it. And this is why

2087
01:39:58,520 --> 01:40:00,719
Speaker 1: it's great to subscribe to you a newslet or like Jared's,

2088
01:40:00,720 --> 01:40:04,200
Speaker 1: because you realize, yes, you have the control. Jared Newman

2089
01:40:04,360 --> 01:40:05,960
Speaker 1: advisorator Court Cutter Weekly.

2090
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much.

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01:40:06,560 --> 01:40:08,719
Speaker 1: I'll put a link to your newsletters on the website.

2092
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Speaker 1: Rich On Tech dot TV. Thanks for joining me. All right,

2093
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Speaker 1: coming up, we're opening the feedback. Welcome back to rich

2094
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Speaker 1: On Tech. Let's get right to it, because we've got

2095
01:40:19,080 --> 01:40:25,240
Speaker 1: so much to get to. First up, before we get

2096
01:40:25,280 --> 01:40:28,960
Speaker 1: to the feedback. Couple of items of note, digital passport.

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01:40:29,040 --> 01:40:32,320
Speaker 1: You can now add your passport to Google Wallet.

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Speaker 2: So this is new.

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01:40:34,600 --> 01:40:37,840
Speaker 1: It's called an ID pass and you can basically use

2100
01:40:37,880 --> 01:40:43,200
Speaker 1: your passport at tsa security checkpoints for domestic travel. It

2101
01:40:43,200 --> 01:40:46,439
Speaker 1: can also act as a real ID, so it does

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Speaker 1: not replace your physical passport for international travel, but it's

2103
01:40:49,600 --> 01:40:52,679
Speaker 1: a good thing to have just a backup. And also

2104
01:40:52,680 --> 01:40:55,160
Speaker 1: if you're traveling within the States. I know, we got

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01:40:55,160 --> 01:40:57,840
Speaker 1: to get this real ID soon, so if you're if

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01:40:57,840 --> 01:40:59,960
Speaker 1: you're stalling on that like I am for the past

2107
01:41:00,280 --> 01:41:03,680
Speaker 1: you know, three or so years, this is a good

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Speaker 1: thing to have as an alternative because the passport is

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Speaker 1: kind of like universal.

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Speaker 2: So if you have a.

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Speaker 1: Google wallet, you've got a passport, you can now add

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Speaker 1: it to your Google wallet. Apple does not offer that

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01:41:11,920 --> 01:41:14,479
Speaker 1: at this point, but now that Google does, I'm sure

2114
01:41:14,520 --> 01:41:17,479
Speaker 1: Apple won't be far behind Nintendo's opening up a new

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Speaker 1: store in San Francisco. This is their second official US store,

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Speaker 1: opening up on May fifteenth at Union Square. Like a

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01:41:25,840 --> 01:41:29,920
Speaker 1: lot of the shopping districts in the US, Union Square

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01:41:30,040 --> 01:41:32,479
Speaker 1: has been hit hard by the pandemic and other things

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Speaker 1: going on, So Nintendo store hoping to revive things there.

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Speaker 1: Of course, if you've been to one of these, I've

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01:41:38,040 --> 01:41:41,040
Speaker 1: been to the one in New York and Tokyo. It's

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01:41:41,040 --> 01:41:43,160
Speaker 1: a fun place, you know, if you like Nintendo, You've

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Speaker 1: got you know, all kinds of merch, all kinds of games, souvenirs,

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Speaker 1: lots of photo ops with characters larger than life. They're

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Speaker 1: doing a deal where you can win a prize to

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01:41:52,880 --> 01:41:56,240
Speaker 1: go up there, So if you want to check out that,

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Speaker 1: I'll link that up on my show Notes Rich on

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01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:02,879
Speaker 1: tech dot TV. But again May fifteenth, San Francisco, Nintendo

2129
01:42:03,000 --> 01:42:05,840
Speaker 1: opening up a store. All right, let's open up the

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01:42:05,840 --> 01:42:09,680
Speaker 1: feedback now, let's see. Dave writes in, Hey Rich, I've

2131
01:42:09,720 --> 01:42:12,640
Speaker 1: been watching you since you started on KTLA and you

2132
01:42:12,720 --> 01:42:15,439
Speaker 1: continue to educate your viewers and listeners on what's great

2133
01:42:15,439 --> 01:42:18,519
Speaker 1: in tech. Your trick to stop scammers is great. I've

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01:42:18,520 --> 01:42:21,640
Speaker 1: passed it along to my kids. He's talking about the

2135
01:42:21,760 --> 01:42:24,360
Speaker 1: tip I shared on my Instagram about pressing call record.

2136
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Speaker 1: You can go to my instagram at Ridge on Tech

2137
01:42:26,560 --> 01:42:28,960
Speaker 1: if you want to see it. I also love how

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01:42:28,960 --> 01:42:31,679
Speaker 1: you plant little pearls in your posts for those who

2139
01:42:31,720 --> 01:42:34,360
Speaker 1: take the time to read. The pearl in Your last

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01:42:34,360 --> 01:42:35,880
Speaker 1: newsletter for me was Rectangle.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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01:42:36,320 --> 01:42:38,680
Speaker 1: I've downloaded it and can already see how it will

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Speaker 1: improve my photography workflow.

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01:42:40,920 --> 01:42:42,599
Speaker 2: Appreciate all your hard work.

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01:42:42,760 --> 01:42:46,599
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you, Thank you, Dave that I love writing

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01:42:46,600 --> 01:42:48,240
Speaker 1: my newsletter because I sit there and I go, oh,

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01:42:48,240 --> 01:42:50,519
Speaker 1: if people actually take the time to read this, they're

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Speaker 1: going to get a couple of nuggets out of this

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01:42:52,360 --> 01:42:54,680
Speaker 1: that are really good. And I'm glad that that's not

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01:42:54,760 --> 01:42:56,960
Speaker 1: lost on everyone. It's lost on a lot of people,

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01:42:56,960 --> 01:42:57,800
Speaker 1: but not you, Dave.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Tracy. I'm listening and I just heard the question from

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01:43:03,479 --> 01:43:06,879
Speaker 1: the guy who wanted service out to his fence sixty

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01:43:06,880 --> 01:43:09,240
Speaker 1: plus yards away in his workshop one hundred and fifty

2156
01:43:09,280 --> 01:43:11,519
Speaker 1: yards away. I've never heard of the two options you

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01:43:11,520 --> 01:43:13,920
Speaker 1: gave him. I'm wondering why he didn't mention starlink. Wouldn't

2158
01:43:13,920 --> 01:43:16,240
Speaker 1: that solved his issue without all the extra gadgets you

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01:43:16,240 --> 01:43:20,120
Speaker 1: said he needed. Thanks love your show. Great question, Tracy,

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Speaker 1: this was a couple of weeks ago. Yes, Starlink, what

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Speaker 1: the person was asking for was Wi Fi. He already

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Speaker 1: had a Wi Fi connection at his house. Starlink provides

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Speaker 1: a Wi Fi connection in places where there's typically not

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Speaker 1: a connection. So what he just wanted was his WiFi

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Speaker 1: that he already has to reach outside to his yard,

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Speaker 1: his fence, and his workshop. So that's why I recommended

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Speaker 1: the outdoor versions of the I think it was Orb

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Speaker 1: and Eero, So that's it. Nothing against Starlink. I think

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Speaker 1: Starlink's amazing, but you need to have a use case scenario.

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Speaker 1: You don't just buy starlink unless you need it and

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Speaker 1: you're in an area that's underserved or you want mobile

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Speaker 1: coverage everywhere.

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 1: Let's see here, what do we have? Ray from Thousand

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Speaker 1: Oaks rights in. It's Saturday morning and at ninety two.

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Speaker 1: I really enjoy your TV show. I'm not super tech savvy,

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Speaker 1: but I try to keep up. Since I got a

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Speaker 1: new iPad last year and also new MEC another new

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Speaker 1: iPad generation, I can't keep up, but I like it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of flat, slippery keyboard keys, but

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Speaker 1: I've learned to deal with them. Adding a mouse sometimes

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Speaker 1: moves my hands on the keyboard, but I've adjusted roxy.

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing that's his wife is ninety four, enjoys your

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Speaker 1: show too. She's definitely not into tech, but we both

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Speaker 1: learn a lot from you.

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Speaker 11: Ray.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. This is what I love.

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Speaker 1: I love when people say I'm not into technology, but

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Speaker 1: I like your shows, your.

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Speaker 2: Segments on TV.

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Speaker 1: That's my whole point to bring technology to everyone because

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Speaker 1: we're all forced to use it, and by the way,

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Speaker 1: you should enjoy it if you're using it. Ronald writes

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Speaker 1: in I've heard you mentioned Rosebud for journaling. I use

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Speaker 1: another AI journal called mine Sera. It doesn't have a

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Speaker 1: mobile app, just top, but it's a professional tool with

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Speaker 1: new features added regularly. Just something your listeners might like

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Speaker 1: as a comparison listening on Google Home Kfi.

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Speaker 2: There you go. Let's see here.

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Speaker 1: Ross from Canada rights in, I was surprised when your

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Speaker 1: guest said it's illegal to in New York City to

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Speaker 1: wear headphones while riding a bicycle. I looked it up

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Speaker 1: and it turns out you are allowed to wear headphones

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Speaker 1: in one ear, which is the same rule for driving

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Speaker 1: a car. The law is there to ensure awareness of

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Speaker 1: your surroundings. Here in Canada, I don't believe we have

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Speaker 1: any such law as people with hearing laws or impairments

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Speaker 1: are still permitted to drive and ride bicycles.

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Speaker 2: Good point.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, most of the time they don't want both ears

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Speaker 1: taken up by the earbuds, but one ear should be fine.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think anyone enforces if you're riding a

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Speaker 1: bike in New York City with your AirPods in. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure anyone's ever been arrested for that. I can't

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Speaker 1: imagine a world where that has happened. That's probably one

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Speaker 1: of those things that's not really enforced. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: find one more here before we have to go, Jim says,

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Speaker 1: it's cool. You've read my email about the counting, so

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Speaker 1: you've read some of my emails before. But this time

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Speaker 1: it was extra fun because it turned into a whole thing,

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Speaker 1: even carrying into the next segment. When Adam played the

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Speaker 1: original Joni Mitchell track as a bumper for a couple

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Speaker 1: of minutes, I felt like I was part of the show.

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Speaker 1: I was out on a bike ride in southern California

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Speaker 1: while listening. It was great to hear thank you, Jim.

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Speaker 1: Jim has been writing in a lot. Love Jim's comments,

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Speaker 1: but good to feel part of the show. And Tricia says,

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Speaker 1: I found your show driving home from work one weekend.

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Speaker 1: I've been a faithful listener ever since. Your tips have

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Speaker 1: come in handy for my business and personally. Thank you, Tricia.

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Speaker 1: Next week we're going to talk to the founder of

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Speaker 1: the death clock app. Yeah, it uses AI to predict

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Speaker 1: how long you live. Is it bogus or is it real?

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Speaker 1: He'll explain, I think it's real.

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Speaker 2: That's going to do it.

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Speaker 1: You can find links to what I mentioned on the

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Speaker 1: website rich on Tech dot tv. I'm on social media

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Speaker 1: at rich on Tech. Thanks so much for listening. Thanks

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Speaker 1: to everyone who makes this show possible. Kim for appearing

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Speaker 1: this week on the air, Bobo behind the board. I'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you real soon.