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Speaker 1: Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with I Heart Radio

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Speaker 1: and a love of all things tech. Is time for

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Speaker 1: the tech news for Thursday, July twenty one. Let's get

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Speaker 1: to it now. A few times this year I have

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Speaker 1: mentioned the right to repair movement, and this movement seeks

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Speaker 1: to change how you know, some corporations and companies really

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Speaker 1: locked down their products and they require customers to go

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Speaker 1: through you know, authorized channels for maintenance and repair, like

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Speaker 1: the only way you can get something fixed is by

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Speaker 1: going to a licensed vendor that does repairs well. Back

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Speaker 1: in the old days, you know, if you had the

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Speaker 1: tools and the know how you know, and the time

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Speaker 1: and inclination, you could repair stuff yourself after you bought it.

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Speaker 1: But over time this has changed as more companies have

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Speaker 1: made the internal workings of their products difficult or sometimes

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Speaker 1: even impossible for the average person to access. And then

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Speaker 1: you add in proprietary stuff like fasteners like special screws

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Speaker 1: that require specific types of screw drivers to remove, or

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Speaker 1: you have warranty agreements that are void as soon as

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Speaker 1: someone even thinks about trying to do repairs themselves, and

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Speaker 1: you then have this ecosystem that continues to exploit customers

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Speaker 1: long after the initial purchase. It's kind of like that

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Speaker 1: idea of how can we lock someone in so that

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Speaker 1: we can have them be a continual source of revenue,

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Speaker 1: as opposed to someone who buys a product once and

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Speaker 1: then they're gone. Well. U S President Joe Biden recently

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Speaker 1: it might get the ball rolling. The order encourages the

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Speaker 1: Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, to draft new rules that

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Speaker 1: would restrict companies from, you know, restricting their customers so much.

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Speaker 1: It's far too early to say what those rules might

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Speaker 1: end up looking like should they get drafted, but presumably

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Speaker 1: they could include stuff like requiring companies to post information

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Speaker 1: about diagnostic and repair tools that you would need to

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Speaker 1: detect and address problems with their products. For people who

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Speaker 1: aren't confident in their ability to fix their own stuff,

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Speaker 1: there will still be the option to go to authorize

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Speaker 1: repair services. It also will open up opportunities for other

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Speaker 1: people to open up repair services without necessarily going through

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Speaker 1: So in other words, this doesn't mean that it would

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Speaker 1: suddenly be illegal for you know, Apple to continue to

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Speaker 1: run the genius bar. They still could totally do that,

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Speaker 1: but it wouldn't mean that Apple would potentially have to

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Speaker 1: make available the information people would need if they wanted

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Speaker 1: to do their own repairs on Apple products, assuming they

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Speaker 1: had the ability to do that. It will be interesting

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Speaker 1: to see how this develops, as the right to repair

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Speaker 1: a movement has been gaining a lot of ground in

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Speaker 1: many places, as several states in the United States have

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Speaker 1: already kind of past local laws about this, and we're

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Speaker 1: also seeing movement on this issue in Europe. Now, if

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Speaker 1: you've been listening to me for any length of time,

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Speaker 1: you know that I can be a bit critical of

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Speaker 1: cryptocurrencies for a lot of reasons. Uh, the proof of

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Speaker 1: work types of cryptocurrencies where you're using computers to try

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Speaker 1: and solve mathematical problems in order to mine the cryptocurrency.

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Speaker 1: That includes cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and the current version of ethereum.

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Speaker 1: Those have a massive carbon footprint and obviously that's a problem.

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Speaker 1: They also tend to place a great strain on certain

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Speaker 1: markets like graphics processing cards. You know, and semiconductors. They

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Speaker 1: I'm not the only one to think so. Jackson Palmer,

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Speaker 1: who actually co founded a cryptocurrency, has recently come out

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Speaker 1: and you know, addition to the ones I just mentioned. Now,

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Speaker 1: to be clear, the currency Palmer co founded was doge coin,

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Speaker 1: like quote, I believe that cryptocurrency is an inherently right wing,

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Speaker 1: its proponents through a combination of tax avoidance, diminished regulatory oversight,

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Speaker 1: Crypto has actually been a slump since mid spring, but

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Speaker 1: the cynical people suggest that this messaging be more about

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Speaker 1: crypto investors trying to stabilize and then drive up the

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Speaker 1: value of crypto for their own personal gain before they

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Speaker 1: switch to something else. In other words, of course, people

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Speaker 1: it's similar to a pyramid scheme. It's not a pyramid scheme,

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Speaker 1: you know, not strictly speaking, but depending on people's behaviors

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Speaker 1: in effect are just as manipulative and controlling as you know,

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Speaker 1: currencies that are based around centralized financial institutions. It's not

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Speaker 1: a good look. In other words. Palmer also said that

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Speaker 1: crypto gives opportunities to the wealthy to exploit the less wealthy, or,

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Speaker 1: as he said, quote, cryptocurrency is almost purpose built to

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Speaker 1: the top and less safeguarded for the vulnerable, like taking

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Speaker 1: the worst parts of today's capitalist system e g. Corruption, fraud, inequality,

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Speaker 1: e g. Audits, regulation, taxation, which serve as protections or

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Speaker 1: safety nets for the average person. End quote. Pretty you know,

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Speaker 1: tough stands there. Over on Twitter, Fleets is nearing the

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Speaker 1: end of its fleeting moment. In the spotlight water fleets,

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Speaker 1: Fleets currently are, and soon we will say. We're a

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Speaker 1: Twitter end quote. Cute. Twitter first introduced fleets eight whole

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Speaker 1: When I checked just before recording, there were twenty eight

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Speaker 1: emoji total that have sound capability added to them. Some

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Speaker 1: of them it's not necessarily a sound you would immediately

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Speaker 1: poop emoji. No one needs to know what you sound like. Now. Apparently,

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Speaker 1: include little, playful, interactive elements in messaging. UM. I have

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Speaker 1: Schmidt adventure game. Gosh darn it. And that's it for

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