WEBVTT - Microsoft puts Windows in the Cloud 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:14.840 Microsoft puts Windows in the cloud, Twitter says goodbye to fleets. 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.600 There's a new wake word for Echo devices. Plus your 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:22.280 tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro and 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.120 this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.560 about the tech stuff I think you should know about. 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:31.120 It's also the place where I answer the questions you 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:34.480 send me. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:38.640 in Los Angeles. Welcome to the show. Welcome to my 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:43.640 friends listening on Facebook from all over the world. I've 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:47.400 been loving this Facebook spaces thing, and right now I'm 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:51.480 just using it to sort of broadcast my podcast as 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.200 I do it. 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We went to this place 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.920 called a Megamart, which I had no idea what it was, 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:40.320 but I knew I was going to Las Vegas, and 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:44.360 I happen to get a pitch for this like interactive exhibit. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:45.920 I don't know what you want to call it, but 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:47.880 I didn't really know what it was all about, but 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.000 I you know, they sent me the two tickets and 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:51.880 I said, all right, let me check it out, and 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.480 so we went there. Just thankfully I scheduled it for 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.720 early in the day because this thing you can spend 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.080 a lot of time here and I won't go into 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.840 all of it, but it's kind of like an immersive 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:06.240 interactive art experience. And thankfully we had a pr person 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.080 to sort of lead us around, because if they would 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.400 have just set me out in there, I would would 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.800 not have known what to do. So on the surface, 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:19.960 it's this really interesting grocery store where everything is just 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.519 not exactly right, like all the names of the products 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.680 and stuff, Like one of the names of the the 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.520 cereals is like simply not spiders or something like that. 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:30.639 And there's just all this stuff and the products are real, 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:32.800 by the way, a lot of them. In fact, you 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.519 can buy them apparently, so but once you go into 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.280 this place, you realize there's like hidden passageways that bring 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:43.960 you into the depths of the actual immersive exhibit and 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.200 you could just sit there and explore It's there's like 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.840 a whole storyline. There's lights, there's songs, there's like these 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:53.160 immersive like sound rooms. There's slides. I went down the 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.519 slide and it was a little rough on my back, 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.760 pretty fast slide. There's like three of them, so be 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.640 ready for that. It was just really really fun and 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.160 interesting and they actually it took me a while to 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.440 figure out because I didn't do the whole storyline thing, like, 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.959 I didn't investigate it for myself. But when I interviewed 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.480 the folks from Miao Wolf who makes Omegomart, I know 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.519 these names are just wild. They explain the whole thing. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.440 So spoiler alert, I'm not going to tell you what 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.720 it's all about, but I might do a YouTube video 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:22.880 to like explain, because I feel like if I went 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:24.440 through that whole thing and didn't know what it was 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.160 all about, I'd want to know what it actually was, Like, 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.800 what did I just experience? So it's at a place 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.480 called Area fifteen in Las Vegas, off the strip that's 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.800 kind of like a big adult playground. I say adult playground, 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.840 but it's really kids are in there. There's ziplining, it's 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.200 all black light, there's like a cool restaurant in there. 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.760 So I was just unprepared for this whole experience, but 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.960 it was it was amazing. And I also visited Resorts World, 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.320 which is a new casino in Las Vegas, which has 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:55.080 this giant like the whole building itself outside is like 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.000 one giant billboard. It's like one of the biggest in 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:00.760 the world. So that was really cool and it's funny. 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:02.560 I came back. I didn't you know, it was just 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.760 on vacation in Las Vegas. And when I came back, 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:06.640 I had so much video that I had shot that 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.760 I said, Oh, I'm doing a story for KTLA about 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.760 all this stuff. So today on KTLA, I ended up 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:13.560 putting all these little things together that I saw in 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.520 Las Vegas, including Omega mart and it was a very 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.120 popular story. People were emailing me saying, Oh, I heard 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:23.520 about this place. That's so cool. Ah, So anyway, lots 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:28.760 of fun there. Definitely crowded there, but it was fun. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:30.719 We had we ate, Oh my gosh, we ate. I 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.760 listened to I've talked about it before Bobby Flay's podcast 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:38.039 Always Hungry with his daughter Sophie, and so we ended 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.640 up going to Bobby Flay's new restaurant, Amalfie. So thanks 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.600 Sophie for getting us in there, by the way, and 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.520 we got the best treatment. Oh my gosh. We had 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.320 such a great dinner at a Malfie. If you go 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.880 to Las Vegas, you have to go. It was just phenomenal. 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.520 They gave us the best table in the house. I'll 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:59.640 just be honest, because they just did, and it was phenomenal. 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.479 The people were coming up to us. We ordered like 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:04.919 such great things. You know, my wife and I like 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.800 to split everything, so you know, we just it was 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.760 so great. Such a The restaurant basically has like a 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.120 what amounts to like an Italian fish market. Inside. You 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.440 walk over, you take a look at all the fresh fish, 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.800 and then you end up ordering one of those fish 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.920 and they make it to your suiting and we're sort 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.360 of whimps. So we didn't get it like fully, you know, 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:27.520 like a fish on your plate like we got it 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.760 fill aid, but it was it was so good. We 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.880 also went to Giada's restaurant, which was awesome, and then 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:34.960 we also went to this place called Bavetts, which is 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:40.160 a really cool, like nineteen twenties French style speakeasy steakhouse. 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.560 Oh my god, it was just ah, it was so fun. Anyway, 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.280 that's enough about my talk about Las Vegas. You want 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.039 to know more, just tweet me or social media me. 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.080 But let's start with the first story of the week. 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.920 This is a big, big shift in the way that 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:59.040 we use computers, and I think Microsoft is probably kicking 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.479 itself for not having launched this a year ago, but 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.960 nonetheless it will forever change the way we compute. It's 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:10.000 it's Windows three sixty five Cloud PC. So it's kind 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.680 of like the dream of being able to run a 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:17.680 computer in the cloud on any platform is now available. Well, 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.000 it's going to be available August second. And it's the 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.479 idea of this cloud PC, which we've heard about for 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.800 so long, but it's never really happened, and it's probably 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.400 happened in different ways. In fact, you know, if you 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.840 think about it for my entire year and a half 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.800 at home, I was remoting in from my Mac computer 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.800 to my Windows computer at work, and for all intents 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.640 and purposes, I was using a cloud PC. Everything I 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.840 was doing on there was happening at my workstation at work. 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.279 But I was using my Mac and I was using 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.920 not a web browser. I was using you know, Microsoft, 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.600 what do they call it? Remote Remote Access? I think 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.200 it's called I don't even know where it is. Where 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.640 is it? It's called Microsoft Remote Desktop. And that's a 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.520 program that I have to install. But with this, you'll 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.599 actually be able to just open up a web browser 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.039 and log into a virtual PC that doesn't exist anywhere. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.760 It only exists on the cloud. And what's really neat 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.480 about this is that you can use any computer you want. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.200 You can use a smartphone, you can use a web 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.400 browser on your Mac, you can use a web browser 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.520 on a PC. You can use a web browser at 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.600 the hotel computer if you ever decided to do that, 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.960 which I would never ever do, because the one thing 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:30.160 that the hotel or the security expert at Chrome at 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.320 Google told me when I interviewed her is she said 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.920 she would never ever use a public shared computer at 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.800 a hotel. Now, this is actually an example of why 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.080 this could change that because think about it, if you 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:45.520 just logged into a PC in the cloud, you wouldn't 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.600 really have to worry about security because all the security 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.400 is handled on the cloud. I mean, it's really really phenomenal. 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:55.360 So Windows ten, Windows eleven will be on this instant 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.360 boot up. All your applications, all your tools, all your 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:02.080 settings are consistent no matter what, and so you can 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.640 get your work done on an iPad, you can do 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.080 it on a computer. You just move through any computer 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:08.920 that you have access to with a keyboard and a 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:12.520 mouse or not. Even you can sit down to the 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.840 same exact desktop. If I feel like I'm under selling this, 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.400 I think i am. Because this is such a huge 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.560 shift in the way that we use computers. You no 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.600 longer need to update your computer with all these software 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.880 things and all this like Microsoft's gonna handle all that 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.080 for you. On the back end. You don't have to 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.320 worry about the amount of RAM on your computer because 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.319 your computer is going to be so fast because it's 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.960 actually just streaming the computer experience. I mean it's like 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.920 basically how Netflix works the same no matter what device 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.640 you access it on. Now we can think about Windows 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.720 being the same. You don't really, it doesn't matter like 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.679 Netflix works the same whether you use it on a 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.880 Roku or on an iPad or anywhere you use it. 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.679 Part of the magic is how or Amazon are sorry 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:00.440 getting ahead of myself, how Netflix has optimized that to 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:04.079 work so well everywhere. So August second, twenty twenty one, 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.360 that's when this is going to be available. It's mainly 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.800 based at organizations, but you know, anyone can use this, 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.040 and I think that we are in for a real 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.600 treat when it comes to the future of computing. And 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:22.960 I cannot wait to try this out. All right, let's 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:29.040 get to the first question. Uh, Zora Aida Da Zora 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.600 Aida says, Hey, Rich, glad to see you back on 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.720 the set at KTLA. Yes, that was exciting. Thank you 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.680 for always enlightening us with your tech wisdom. Question for you. 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:39.679 We have older cars with no Bluetooth, but it has 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.040 an oxport. I just noticed some ox to Bluetooth adapters 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.520 on the market and was wondering if you can recommend one. Again, 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.160 I appreciate your insight and thanks for answering my question. 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:54.120 Zor Aida. Uh, well, I'm actually gonna defer to my 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.600 pal Brian Tongue on this one. When we did a 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:00.760 segment with him over the holidays, he recommended a ox 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:04.040 Bluetooth adapter that he uses on the plane by twelve South. 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.040 It's called Airfly, and that is the one that I'd 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:11.360 recommend because that's a great you know, if he's recommending it, 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.760 it's got to be good. And since he recommended it, 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:17.200 I have seen this at places like Amazon Store. I've 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.280 seen other people recommend it, and it's just kind of 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.600 like a standard, like a gold standard of like this 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.079 what you what you're talking about? So you can connect. 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.840 You can use it as an ox in adapter for 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.640 your car, your boat, or your non Bluetooth speaker. It's 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.160 got sixteen hours of battery life, which is really nice, 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.480 and it's forty five dollars, so I think that's gonna 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:38.720 be a great way to do it. You could also 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.120 connect two pairs of headphones if you want to use 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.200 it the other way, like if you wanted to transmit 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.360 from a device, But Airfly duo I think is the 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.079 way to do it. They have one, two, three, four different, 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.920 four different ones of these ones of these four different, 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:59.080 so the classic might be the best one to go. 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.320 It's only thirty so just see what you need, see 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.760 which one suit you. But that's what i'd recommend. And 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.280 the other thing is if you if your phone, and 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.280 I'm guessing you have a newer phone that does not 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.160 have a headphone jack, but if you have a headphone 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.320 jack on your phone, that's the easiest way to connect 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.000 it to your car. I know it's not wireless, but 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.000 you're gonna get the best sound quality if you just 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:21.880 connected that way. So good question and a good question 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.880 to start things off with. All right, let's talk about fleets. 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:30.400 This is something that Twitter introduced just about eight months 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:34.760 ago and guess what it's going away? So Twitter Fleets 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:39.880 is was Twitter's answer to stories that everyone else has, 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.200 and stories are, you know, these little things that have 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:44.960 become very popular. It's kind of like if you think 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.400 about Snapchat back in the day, like they invented it, 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.800 Instagram took it, ran with it, and now everyone has 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:52.840 a version of stories, you know, like all these apps. 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.520 Facebook has it, Instagram has it, Snapchat has it. It's 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:01.920 just it's kind of like an ephemeral expiring post usually 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:07.200 sixteen by nine vertical, and Twitter introduced it, but I 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.360 was always kind of it was kind of a head 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.439 scratcher to me because to me, Twitter at its core 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:17.240 is already ephemeral and even though tweets don't expire like 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.679 stories do, to me, when you tweet something, there's a life, 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:22.880 there's a there's a shelf life on it. It doesn't 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.640 last forever, and it does, and yes, they can come 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.720 back to haunt you, but and so could a story. 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.480 But to me, Twitter was always kind of like a 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:32.920 in the moment kind of thing where you tweet and 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.480 it goes, and you know, people forget about it until 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.040 they need to until they need to remember about it. 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.280 So fleets are going away on August third. Fleets were 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:46.760 meant to be a lower barrier of entry for conversations. 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.920 Twitter thought that more people would use them because they 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.080 did expire and it might feel like it wasn't as 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.520 much pressure as like a well crafted tweet. But guess what, 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:58.479 that didn't happen. But here is what is going to happen. 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.880 Twitter is not going to get rid of the fleet composer, 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:06.880 so they will continue to build that into the Twitter composer, 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:11.240 so there'll be the text formatting options and stickers. So 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.040 I think what they realize is that just build this 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.520 into Twitter, and it's the same thing. People are gonna 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.559 use these cool ways of making tweets. That's the thing 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.960 that the Twitter composer doesn't have right now, a way 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.560 to like, you know, type in you know, fun text 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.240 or affect pictures and this and that. They're small ways. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.439 But now they're gonna make it basically the idea of 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.280 a story into a tweet. Now what's gonna happen to 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.959 the top of the timeline. They're gonna put their spaces 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.760 product there. And you might be saying, rich, aren't you 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.800 using a spaces like product right now? Yes, I am, 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.040 but I'm using it on Facebook. And I'll be honest, 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.200 the reason why I like it on Facebook versus Twitter 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.160 is because my audience is on Facebook. Yes, I've got 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.960 a small audience on Twitter, but my Facebook audience is 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.680 much larger and I can reach many more people. And honestly, 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.280 the type of people that I reach the most, which 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:02.200 is your average everyday person and is on Facebook and 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:06.880 Twitter is a little bit more of a little bit 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.120 more of a techie because to be on Twitter you 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.520 have to be a little bit more involved in kind 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.640 of I don't know, like you have to be a 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:16.920 little bit more technical, like Facebook is kind of for 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.040 the every person. And Twitter. If you're on there and 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.920 you're especially using it a lot, you're either in media, 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.320 you're in tech. You're definitely it's a little bit different 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.720 than the Facebook audience, and for me, my audience is 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:31.760 much more on Facebook. So that's why I'm using the 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:36.120 Facebook Audio Rooms thing, which is very similar. Anyway, fleets 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.200 did not last very long. There's a million and one 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.240 jokes there about them not lasting long, but I'm not 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:41.680 going to make them. I'm just going to go into 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:48.600 my next question. All right, Carrie says need some advice. 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:50.520 What would be the best hot spot to buy when 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.880 working on the road or traveling? Can you buy a 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.440 hot spot that you can hardwire to your laptop. I 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.360 want to do some traveling, but need to make sure 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.720 I have a good connection. Thanks in advance for all 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:03.640 your help To answer your question, Carrie, I don't think 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:08.160 that you need a hardwired hot spot. I've traveled around 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.360 the world with my wireless hotspots and somehow I've been 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.680 able to manage just fine. So and I do a 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.440 lot of video stuff, I do a lot of social media, 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.360 and the types of stuff that I'm doing does require 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:24.840 big files, usually streaming. So I don't think that you 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.200 need to hard wire now if you want to, you can, 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.080 And I think that number one, you don't necessarily need 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.400 a dedicated hot spot. Now, there are reasons to have those, 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.680 and the reasons for those, and the reasons why I 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.240 like a dedicated hot spot is you plug it in 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:43.000 and it is a nice dedicated Wi Fi network wherever 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.440 you are. So whether you're in the car, or whether 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.600 you're in a hotel room or at an event, it's 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.320 just kind of a nice solid connection that is different 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:55.000 from your smartphone. And so for that reason, it's nice 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.640 to just get into a hotel room, plug in your hotspot, 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.200 your computer and your device is recognize it and it 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.520 just sits there the whole weekend or you know whatever, 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.200 however long you're in that hotel room. Same thing. If 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:06.960 you're in a car, you're on a you know, let's 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:08.760 say you're on a road trip, you plug in the 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:12.080 hot spot using you know, the auxport whatever, you know, 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.360 the power adapter, and now you have just a hot 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.600 spot that's always powered, it's always ready to go, and 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.920 a bunch of people in your car can connect to it, 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.080 and if someone else is driving like my wife and 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.640 I will sometimes you know, she'll drive for an hour 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:27.480 so I can catch up on social media. I mean, 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.280 that's that's the reality of our road trips at this point. 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:31.760 But when I'm on my road trips, I get a 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.040 lot of good stuff for social media. So if you 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.400 want to do a hardwired thing, you can actually connect 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:42.280 the iPhone to your computer via a hardwired connection. I 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.480 believe it's been a while, but I think it's just 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.320 a tethered connection to your iPhone. I have not done 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:48.800 that in a long time, but I think there's an 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.280 option to do that in your personal hotspot. But I 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.920 would just use the personal hotspot feature on your iPhone 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.840 or your your smartphone. If it gets to be where 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.960 it just doesn't work, then I would look into something else. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.200 But uh, and then if you're going to get a 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.119 dedicated hot spot, I would just get one from your carrier. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.600 That's gonna be the easiest to do because you know, 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.960 you'll just it'll just be the same connection. If you 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.040 really want to take things to the next level, if 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.600 you really need a good connection, I would go with 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:20.159 the carrier that's opposite of your cell phone carrier. So 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.840 that way Let's just say, for example, you have AT 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.840 and T as your cell phone, maybe get a Verizon 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.600 hot spot and that way you are covered in a 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:32.879 much bigger way when you're traveling versus just being narrowed 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.000 down to one network. So take your pick. You know, 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.359 you can go tea Mobile. There's also a hot spot 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:42.480 that's unlocked. If you search ZT hotspot. You can buy 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.080 an unlocked hot spot and just pop in a SIM 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:49.280 card and use it that way. So it really just depends. 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.399 There's so many ways of doing this that you know, 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.200 there's not not one size fits all, but those are 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.360 those are sort of the big options that I think 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:00.200 would work for most people. All right, let's get to 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.679 the next story. This is a story I did on 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:07.119 KTLA that of course blew up. I got so many 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:11.280 messages about this. This is a startup called Villo and 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:15.600 they came out with a sixty dollars whole house mesh 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:17.760 Wi Fi system. And I hope I didn't do this 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.399 already in the podcast, but this is you know, if 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.280 you look at one of these mesh networking systems, they're expensive. 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.960 You know, I have one from Ero, Google Wi Fi 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.720 is another one Neckgear Orb there's a whole bunch of them. 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.399 But the bottom line is they are very expensive, especially 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:34.919 if you want to get the Wi Fi six like 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.679 the newer versions like the one I bought retails for 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.399 six hundred bucks. I got it for cheaper since I 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.440 bought it on Prime Day, but it or maybe was 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.600 it near Prime Day whatever, I didn't pay that much 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.680 for it, but it was definitely expensive. So Villo, When 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:50.919 you know they pitched me on this sixty dollars system, 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:52.679 I was like, okay, well you got my interest, but 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:55.359 I wanted to make sure that it worked, and I 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:57.919 have to say I was very impressed with it. Sixty bucks. 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.080 You plug it into your router and you set it 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:03.840 up the first one using the app, and then you 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.080 set up the second one and the third one by 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:08.360 putting them in different places around your house. But they 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:10.480 just find each other, which I thought was really cool. 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:12.920 So that was a nice spin on the whole mesh network, 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.280 which usually takes a little setting up. This one. You 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.800 just plug them in and boom, it's all set up. 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:21.439 The signal was great. I found the signal throughout the house. 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.080 I set it up at the same time as my ero, 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.800 so I didn't want to interrupt my ero. But if 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.000 you want to switch to a new Wi Fi network, 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.560 you know, just use the same network and password name, 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:37.000 network name and password and all your gadgets will follow over. 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:41.520 They will find the new network, and so you know, 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:45.760 the reality is is this as good as the super 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.920 expensive systems? I thought it's I think for ninety nine 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:50.879 percent of people, this is going to be just fine. 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.520 Was my euro a little bit faster? Probably? But is it, 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:58.119 you know, ten times the price faster? I don't think so. 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.040 I thought that the app was really nice. There was 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:05.360 like three software updates, well I should say, I would 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:08.480 say firmware updates for the system in the time I had. 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:10.640 I was using it for a couple of weeks, so 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:12.960 that goes to show me that the company's always trying 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:17.119 to make this thing better. The speeds were great, and 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.080 I think that if you're looking to upgrade the system 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.680 or the Wi Fi signal that typically is included with 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:27.240