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Speaker 1: Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich

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Speaker 1: Damiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where

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Speaker 1: tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. I

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Speaker 1: it just wasn't integrated with the iPhone and Apple Wallet

430
00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:21,960
Speaker 1: as deeply. So maybe you can in those states just

431
00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,679
Speaker 1: show your digital license. I'm not sure. Here in California,

432
00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,160
Speaker 1: we don't have this ability just yet, but the next

433
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:32,320
Speaker 1: states to roll this out are Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma,

434
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,359
Speaker 1: and Utah. They will be next. So here's how this works.

435
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:39,120
Speaker 1: You scan your driver's license with your iPhone, and then

436
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,719
Speaker 1: you take a selfie and you move your face around

437
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,400
Speaker 1: and somehow, with that combination the one two punch, your

438
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 1: state figures out that you are who you say you are.

439
00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:50,720
Speaker 1: And now you have a digital copy of your driver's

440
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,359
Speaker 1: license or your state ID in Apple Wallet. And then

441
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,040
Speaker 1: when you want to present it, you can just double

442
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 1: tap or you can just double click your Interesting it

443
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,080
Speaker 1: says you can just tap your iPhone. Okay, I'm guessing

444
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 1: if it's still access the wallet. Of course, you double

445
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 1: click the SERI button. On your iPhone, which will bring

446
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:10,399
Speaker 1: up your Apple Wallet and you pull your ID, you

447
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 1: select that, and then you don't show that to the

448
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:17,159
Speaker 1: TSA person. You actually just tap your phone to a reader.

449
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 1: And I really like this for a lot of reasons.

450
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,560
Speaker 1: So I was in Target the other day we happen

451
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,159
Speaker 1: to be buying a bottle of wine, and I just

452
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,919
Speaker 1: think it's really funny that at a place like Target, I,

453
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: who is mister privacy centric, just hand over my ID

454
00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:34,879
Speaker 1: to this random cashier that then looks at all the

455
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 1: information on my ID, where I live, how old I am,

456
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 1: my date of birth, you know, my height, my weight, everything,

457
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 1: and they just type in my day to birth and

458
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 1: you know, send me on my merry way. So I

459
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 1: always found that really interesting that we just hand over

460
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,919
Speaker 1: our IDs to so many random people, right, And so

461
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 1: what Apple is saying that this is actually more secure

462
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,600
Speaker 1: because when you tap your phone to that little reader,

463
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 1: it's actually just verified the information that the TSA needs

464
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:06,200
Speaker 1: to give that person a green light check. Now I'm

465
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 1: guessing it also somehow displays my picture because it's that's

466
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 1: the only information it needs to link me up to

467
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 1: what's on my phone. But in the background, it's verifying. Okay,

468
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 1: this is this person's date of birth that checks out,

469
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: this person is clear to fly today that checks out.

470
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,120
Speaker 1: And this person's name matches their ticket that checks out.

471
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 1: We don't need to show the agent any of that information.

472
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 1: All we need to show you is, hey, does this

473
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 1: person's picture look like who they say they are? Cool,

474
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 1: because we've verified all the other stuff on our own

475
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 1: on the back end. So I think that's really powerful,

476
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,920
Speaker 1: especially if some retailers start to accept this tap as

477
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,920
Speaker 1: the preferred way of showing your ID, because it does

478
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,479
Speaker 1: make things a lot more safe and secure for people.

479
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,879
Speaker 1: There's also potential for fraud, and I think that Apple

480
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 1: and all these states that are allowing this probably understand that,

481
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: and they've probably thought through some of these scenarios that

482
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 1: people can try to get over on. And I think that,

483
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 1: you know, that's above my pay grade. I mean, I

484
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: have to just trust that they figured out that kind

485
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 1: of stuff. But Apple, when it comes to security and privacy,

486
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 1: says Apple and the states do not know where or

487
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:17,120
Speaker 1: when users are presenting their IDs, which is kind of surprising.

488
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 1: I would think that they would get a list of that,

489
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,199
Speaker 1: but you know, for tracking purposes, for later on, but

490
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:26,440
Speaker 1: you know, maybe not. And they also support this mobile standard.

491
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: So just because Apple is out front on this does

492
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 1: not mean that this will not come to Android. In fact,

493
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,439
Speaker 1: I have no doubt this feature will will be on

494
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: Android at some point. It's just not there just yet

495
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,680
Speaker 1: as far as I know. So I think this is great.

496
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 1: I'm very excited about this. I can't wait till it

497
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: comes to California because you know, my goal is to

498
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: get rid of my wallet. And I did a little

499
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 1: video on my Instagram about this little Apple mag Safe

500
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,919
Speaker 1: wallet that I was attaching to my iPhone and it

501
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,679
Speaker 1: was great. I used it in Vegas. But there are

502
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 1: pros and cons to that. It's a little bulky on

503
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 1: my phone, and some times it's just easier for me

504
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 1: to carry my wallet because I can carry more cards.

505
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 1: But I like the idea that eventually I will be cashless.

506
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: I will be just tap to pay and tap to ID.

507
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 1: That is a really interesting future. Laurie says, Hey, Rich,

508
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: I want to take my son's pictures and video from

509
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: his wedding off of my Mac. What do you suggest

510
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 1: I use to back up these pictures on an external drive?

511
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Lori Well, Laurie, I would recommend a

512
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: couple of things. Number One, I don't think you should

513
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,880
Speaker 1: just have them on an external drive. I think that's

514
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,120
Speaker 1: a good place to have them, but I don't think

515
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 1: that that's the only place, and so that's pretty easy.

516
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 1: I mean, what I would do is just get a

517
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 1: Seagate drive or you know, or a Western Digital drive

518
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: on Amazon. They're both basically the same price. Let me

519
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: see how much of those are going for. So if

520
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 1: I go a Seagate portable two terabyte external hard drive

521
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: USB three three point zero is sixty dollars on the Mac,

522
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 1: you probably don't even need two terabytes. You probably only

523
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,640
Speaker 1: need one terabyte, which is fifty dollars. So you get

524
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: one of those, you plug it into the Mac, you

525
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 1: drag everything over onto the drive, and you are done. Now.

526
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: I would not stop there. I would also upload these

527
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: pictures to a cloud service, and with that cloud service,

528
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 1: my personal preferred would be Google Photos. And the reason

529
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: why I like Google Photos is because once these pictures

530
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: from the wedding and videos are in there, you can

531
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: now go through and give names to the faces in

532
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,159
Speaker 1: those photos and videos. And so if you want to

533
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 1: see all the pictures of Edna at the wedding. You

534
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,439
Speaker 1: can click Edna's face and now you see all the

535
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: pictures of her, and you can send those off to her,

536
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: or make a book about them, or you know, print

537
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: them out, whatever you want to do. So it just

538
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: gives you more flexibility with organizing those photos. It also

539
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 1: just gives you another place to store those photos. Let's

540
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 1: say this little portable drive that you get brakes or

541
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 1: you know who knows you lose it, there's still at

542
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: least you have a copy on Google Photos. Now, on

543
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 1: Google Photos, the default is this, uh well, actually, you know,

544
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the default is anymore, but I

545
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: would use the original resolution on Google Photos because you

546
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,679
Speaker 1: don't want to lose any quality with these pictures, because

547
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: you know, these are precious. These are pictures that your

548
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 1: son had at his wedding, and you don't want to

549
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:27,719
Speaker 1: lose those, that's for sure. All right, let's get to

550
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: the next story. This is something that I got a

551
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: lot of emails about. Low Cast is shutting down. So

552
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: low cast is this streaming service that lets you stream

553
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: local channels and it was pretty cool for people that

554
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 1: used it because it was kind of a stop gap

555
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: between antenna and the streaming services. Now in many cities,

556
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: the streaming services include all the channels that you want.

557
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 1: Here in Los Angeles, KTLA is not on streaming services

558
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: except our own. And so when we were not on

559
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 1: any streaming service, how do you get us? Well, you

560
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: had to have an antenna or cable, and so a

561
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: lot of people turned to different solutions, you know, watching

562
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: us on the web. I think we were on low Cast,

563
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,239
Speaker 1: although I'm not really sure if KTLA was on there

564
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: because I never used it. But my mom did in

565
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: New York, New Jersey, and she liked watching Channel seven ABC,

566
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: and the only way to get it without an antenna,

567
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: well that she didn't have to pay too much for

568
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: was low Cast, and so we set her up with that.

569
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: It was like a five fifty a month you pay,

570
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: and it was great. She loved it. It worked great well.

571
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: They basically shut down overnight, and so in all these

572
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 1: cities including Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Orlando,

573
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: New York, LA, Miami, Madison, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, Tri cities.

574
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: In Washington is that where I used to live, Yakoma area,

575
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. It shut down overnight, so boom, it's gone done.

576
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: So the big networks ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC they

577
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: did a copyright infringement lawsuit. This is according to the

578
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 1: Streamable website. And they said, Nah, you can't do this.

579
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: This is our stuff. You can't just sell it, you

580
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: can't resell it, you can't say that you're putting up

581
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: antenna's and just send this to people's houses, because we

582
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: have our own streaming services and we want to control this.

583
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: And so I'm not going to get into the nitty

584
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: gritty of whether I think they're right or wrong, but

585
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: this is the reality that we're in. Other startups have

586
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: tried this. They have. There was another one. I can't

587
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: remember what the name was, like Arable or Arrow or

588
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: something like that, but it was a company that put

589
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 1: tiny antennas on roofs, like a farm of antennas. And

590
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: their argument was that no, no, we're just we're just putting

591
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: we're just selling antennas to people virtually, and we're just

592
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 1: giving the stream from that antenna to people's computers or

593
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: their phone. And again, the court was not having it,

594
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: and so they shut that down. It took a little

595
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: bit longer for low casts. That was actually kind of

596
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: impressed how long they survived. It's been a couple of

597
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 1: years for sure, but they are now shut down. And

598
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: so a lot of people emailing me rich, which what

599
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: do I do? How do I watch my local stations?

600
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: And I said, I can't help you with that. I mean,

601
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: all the local stations in LA are on streaming services. Yeah,

602
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 1: they're just way more expensive to access. And when it

603
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: comes to KTLA, there's it's a no brainer. We have

604
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 1: a free ktla plus app that you can download to Roku,

605
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: Apple TV and also Fire TV, so you can get us.

606
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: And quite honestly, that's all I care about, because that's

607
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: why I work for and to me, that's what I'm watching.

608
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: If I'm watching local news and all the shows that

609
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: you get on the other networks, you know, like if

610
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: you're watching a show on ABC, NBC, CBS, whatever, a

611
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,239
Speaker 1: lot of those are available on the streaming services, and

612
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 1: so I get it. Yeah, this is definitely not ideal,

613
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: but it's going to force a lot of people to

614
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 1: subscribe to more expensive streaming services. But this is you know,

615
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: I don't write these rules, and I'm not in charge

616
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: of saying whether this should be allowed or not. And

617
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: this is just how the cookie crumbles, and so low

618
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: cast is shut down and it goes from five to

619
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: fifty a month that you paid for that as a donation,

620
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: or maybe you just watch the ads too, you might

621
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: need to now spend twenty thirty forty fifty sixty seventy

622
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: eighty dollars on a streaming service. So it's not ideal

623
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form, but that's what's happening.

624
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: And so if you're if you're looking for KTLA, you

625
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: can download the KTLA Plus app. If you're looking for

626
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: other stations, a lot of them do stream for free.

627
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: Like I know that, I think CBS does. I'm not

628
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: sure about the other ones. I just don't watch them

629
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: enough to know. But you know, there are ways, there

630
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: are streaming services to get this. And at the end

631
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: of the day, get an antenna. If you really want

632
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: this stuff for free, spend the you know, fifty bucks,

633
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: buy an antenna. The company that I like is Glide

634
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: gl No, it's not Glide. Antennas Direct is the one

635
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: I like, and they also own Mohu. Now Mohu, So

636
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: get an antenna installed in your house and then if

637
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: you really want to have a DVR functionality, you can

638
00:32:55,760 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 1: get a thing called Tableau t a b l oh

639
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: and that can give you GVR functionality. And by the way,

640
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: all that the antenna plus tableau. Yeah, you have to

641
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: pay one time out of pocket, but after that it's

642
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,959
Speaker 1: all there's no monthly fees for that for the basic services.

643
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: So that's what's happening there. And yeah, Rance says, good morning,

644
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,479
Speaker 1: Rich I'm a retired welder, and that should answer it.

645
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 1: I have a question. I don't know if that makes sense.

646
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 1: I have an iMac now, but it's about four years

647
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: old and getting slower. What is the best computer for me?

648
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: I just do a little banking, mostly search. The Mac

649
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: is easy for me. Are they still a little safer

650
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: than the others? Please help this old man, Thank you, Rance, Rance.

651
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if you need a new iMac. Four

652
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: years old is not that old for an iMac. I

653
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: think what you should do with this iMac is get

654
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: someone that you trust, get someone that you know, get

655
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: some help and actually just reformat this and reinstall the

656
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 1: operating system fresh. So yeah, your computer might be a

657
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: little bit slower than was from day one, but four

658
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: years old is for what you're doing. If you're doing

659
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 1: just a little banking and mostly search, you don't really

660
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 1: need a high powered, horsepower system to do this. I

661
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,439
Speaker 1: think four years old, you could probably get another two

662
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 1: three years out of this computer, So that would be

663
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: my first choice. Find someone that's knowledgeable about this and say, hey,

664
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 1: can you do a clean reinstall of my operating system

665
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: on my iMac? That is the question to ask, and

666
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: you can bring it to a local place. Go on Yelp,

667
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 1: look for a local Mac shop and they should be

668
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 1: able to do that for you. You can also, depending

669
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: on the Mac the iMac, see if you can add

670
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: memory to this. I know it's been a while since

671
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 1: they've allowed that, but if that's a possibility, you can

672
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: do that. You know, it could be your internet connection

673
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 1: that's slow. But if you're going to buy a new computer,

674
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 1: I would just recommend going with the base new iMac,

675
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: which is the iMac M one, and that thing's just

676
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: going to blow you away because it is it is

677
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: extremely fast, and it's going to be way faster than

678
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 1: your old computer. But again, I don't necessarily think you

679
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: need a new computer. This is a problem that could

680
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: be solved with maybe just redoing the software, because you know,

681
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 1: over time our computers get kind of bogged down with

682
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: all the little fragments of things that you know is

683
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 1: on there, all the little you know, the software gets bloated.

684
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: You delete stuff it's still on there, parts of it.

685
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: The other thing you might do is just change your

686
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: web browser. You can maybe try changing to Safari or

687
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,359
Speaker 1: Microsoft Edge if you're not already using one of those.

688
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 1: If you're using Chrome, Chrome is notoriously slow on a

689
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,720
Speaker 1: lot of Mac computers and computers in general, so especially

690
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: the more things you have installed, the more extensions you've got,

691
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: So you can switch to Safari and see if that

692
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 1: works for you. That might just feel like a new

693
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: computer right there. But again, I personally would go through

694
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: and delete everything on this computer, back it up of

695
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: course first, and then do a clean install, and then

696
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: just just copy your files back. Don't do like a

697
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: restore from backup on time machine, because that's just gonna

698
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: put all the garbage back on there. So I would

699
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 1: not do that. The other thing you can do is

700
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 1: run an app like Clean my Mac, and that might

701
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: give you a little new lease on life with this computer.

702
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: Clean my Mac is the program that I like, and

703
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 1: it will go through and scan your computer for old files,

704
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,760
Speaker 1: big files stuff. You know, it can help you uninstall

705
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 1: all your programs that you don't need. So that's the

706
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 1: kind of the light way of doing this. But I

707
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: would definitely squeeze another year about out of this computer,

708
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,879
Speaker 1: at least a year. I think you can get two

709
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: more years out of this computer, all right. There's some

710
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: new rules over in China when it comes to online

711
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: video games, and this definitely got people up. In a

712
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,479
Speaker 1: little hubbub on my Facebook page, people were talking about

713
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 1: these rules because over in China, apparently they have a

714
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: big problem with kids being addicted to video games, and honestly,

715
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: I don't think it's much better here in the US.

716
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 1: I know in my house it is a struggle with

717
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 1: these games. I know I've talked about this before, but

718
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: roadblocks is blocked, so there's not even roadblocks in my house,

719
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 1: and it's still a problem. The only thing my kids

720
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: really play is Minecraft, and once they get on there,

721
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 1: they can't stop. I mean, my older kid is a

722
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: little bit better than my little kid, but it's a

723
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 1: real problem. And I get it. They love it. They

724
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: love what they're doing, and I think it's cute. And

725
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: I think it's fun, but it's this weird thing that

726
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: gets over on them that they just can't stop playing it.

727
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 1: They just want to play forever. And my wife and

728
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: I joke, I mean, last night, it was kind of

729
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: an off night, so we let the kids play their

730
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: iPads and eat dinner at the table with their iPads. Well,

731
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: my wife and I watched the TV show and that's

732
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: kind of a treat. But the reality is we just joke,

733
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 1: We go, we don't even know our kids are in

734
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: this home because they are in the playroom playing the

735
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: video games and they just are so they just don't

736
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: even care about anything else at that point. Once they're

737
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: on these games, it's like they can just play forever

738
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,439
Speaker 1: until we're like, Okay, it's time, it's over. And there's

739
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,439
Speaker 1: been times when we say it's over and it gets

740
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: pretty messy. You know. Kids get angry, they get mad,

741
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 1: they call us names, they throw their iPad And I

742
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 1: am sure I am not the only parent listening to

743
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: this or the only parent that's experienced this. I think

744
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: this happens a lot, and I think that a lot

745
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: of parents the default is just to say it's just

746
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: easier to let this go. And to not deal with

747
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 1: it and to let my kid play and give my

748
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: kid on access as much as they want. But that

749
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: is I think that that's a problem. And so anyway,

750
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: here over in China, they've got new rules. So here

751
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 1: are the rules for online video games in China. No

752
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: playing during the week and on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

753
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: No Friday, Saturday, Sunday. You get one hour a day

754
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: and week on public holidays you get three hours a day.

755
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: No more than three total hours during the week. And

756
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: by the way, there's also times you can play, so

757
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: you have to play, you can't play past a certain time.

758
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 1: This is weird. It doesn't really make sense what they

759
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 1: mentioned here in the Wall Street journale. They say they

760
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:02,400
Speaker 1: will only be permitted to play between eight pm and

761
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: nine pm, So eight pm at night on Friday night

762
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: to nine pm the next day. I don't know if

763
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 1: that makes sense, but so yeah, they also have to

764
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: register these online video games with an anti addiction system,

765
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: and then users have to register using their real names

766
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,439
Speaker 1: and government issued IDs. Now this is China, so yeah,

767
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: they have a little bit more of a hold over

768
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,399
Speaker 1: the people there that you know, they can't really it's

769
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,399
Speaker 1: a whole different world over there. Let's put it that way.

770
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 1: So these rules are in effect. I'm sure there are

771
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: ways of circumventing these rules, but this, this is what

772
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: the baseline is. Now. I'm not advocating for these rules

773
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 1: in the US. I don't. I don't think that, you know,

774
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: we need to be this drastic, but I think that

775
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: it is a challenge, and I don't know what the

776
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,919
Speaker 1: answer is. I think that helping kids limit definitely, putting

777
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: those limits on the devices really helps. You know. We

778
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 1: use screen time and there's a device called Circle that

779
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 1: we've used in the past which is really good. And

780
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,240
Speaker 1: then when it comes to YouTube, I block it throughout

781
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 1: the week and then on Friday I unlock it all right,

782
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,439
Speaker 1: unblock it at a network level, so in on my router,

783
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: on my euro I just say, you know, block YouTube

784
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 1: all week, and then on the weekends it's unblocked. Now,

785
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 1: the pain about doing that is that it affects me.

786
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: So I can't look up a YouTube video on my

787
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 1: Google homes during the week, and I can't just sit

788
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 1: on the couch. I can't tell you how many times

789
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 1: I've sat on the couch and said, oh, let me

790
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: look at my YouTube subscriptions and ah, sorry, can't access

791
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,720
Speaker 1: the network. And it's like, uh all because of my kids,

792
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 1: Like I don't get to enjoy my YouTube that I

793
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: want to watch, and then I got to go into

794
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:41,919
Speaker 1: the app and I gotta unlock it, and I gotta

795
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: do this and that, and it's a whole big thing.

796
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: And the best part is that when my kid, he

797
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: checks every single day to see if YouTube just happens

798
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: to be unlocked. So if I unlock it to watch

799
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: something in the afternoon and I forget to relock it,

800
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: he'll he'll find it immediately when he gets home from

801
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: school and he's like, oh, I'm watching YouTube because it

802
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: was unlocked. I'm like, how'd you figure that out? He's like, oh,

803
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: I just check every day. So these kids are there.

804
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: There's something else. Now. When I was a kid, yes,

805
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: I got I got the Nintendo thumb from playing RC

806
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: pro Am so much and Zelda and all these different

807
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 1: games and Super Mario Brothers. But there was a limit

808
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: to this, like it wasn't online, your friends weren't always online.

809
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: These games are much stickier these days because you go

810
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: online and some of your close friends might be playing

811
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: at that point, or some of your friends that you've

812
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,720
Speaker 1: made online are playing, and guess what, there's always someone playing,

813
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,720
Speaker 1: and so there's always an excuse for my kids. Oh well,

814
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 1: Jay Dog seventy four twenty nine is on and I'm like,

815
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,359
Speaker 1: who's that? Like one of my friends on Minecraft. So

816
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 1: it's just an uphill battle for parents. But I think

817
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: that putting some of these things in place is a

818
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: good thing for parents to do because I think it

819
00:41:53,719 --> 00:42:00,400
Speaker 1: really really helps. All right, let's get to another question.

820
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: Felix says, Hey, Rich, I wanted to see if you

821
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: can help me with a suggestion or recommend a good

822
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: Wi Fi router. I just recently bumped up my internet

823
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 1: speed on AT and T to one thousand megabits per

824
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: second one gig. I'm using the Wi Fi modum that

825
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: AIGHT and T gives you. If I have it hardwired

826
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 1: to my computer, I get about eight to nine hundred down,

827
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,800
Speaker 1: But on Wi Fi get one twenty, I unplug it,

828
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,359
Speaker 1: reset it, I still get the same. So what would

829
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,279
Speaker 1: you recommend? Would you suggest a Wi Fi router to

830
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: get faster wireless speeds? Thank you, Felix. So, Felix, a

831
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: couple things. Number one, AT and T just introduced an extender,

832
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 1: and so I would get that if I were you,

833
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: And let's see if I can find it. Uh, where

834
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 1: is it? Oh gosh, oh, here we go. Let's see

835
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 1: what it's called. It is called the AT and T

836
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 1: Wi Fi six Gateway and Extender. So I this just

837
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: launched on August fourth, and so what I would do

838
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:04,880
Speaker 1: is I would call AT and T and I would

839
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: ask them to give you this AT and T Wi

840
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: Fi six Gateway and Extender. And that's the easiest solution

841
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 1: because AT and T already gives you your Internet and

842
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:19,720
Speaker 1: this is the proper term, is the BGW three twenty

843
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: and so I think that's the easiest way to do

844
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:27,399
Speaker 1: it because that way, you are going through AT and T.

845
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 1: They can't give any gripes about you know, oh we

846
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: can't help you because you're not using our router. And

847
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: so it's a lot easier. Now. I don't know how

848
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: much this costs, but the Wi Fi six Gateway lets

849
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: you connect more more devices on the network, gives you

850
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 1: better coverage. It's triband and Wi Fi six enabled, and

851
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,720
Speaker 1: it says you get seventy five percent improved download speeds

852
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: and ninety percent when you're using a Wi Fi six

853
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: enabled devices plus connectivity in your entire home. Wi Fi

854
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: six devices include the iPhone eleven and the S ten,

855
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:03,880
Speaker 1: which means it'll also include devices past that as well.

856
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: The air Ties Wi Fi six Extender seamlessly extend. It

857
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: connects you with your Wi Fi gateway to create a

858
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: mesh network throughout your house. So I would do that.

859
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: That would be my solution. If you don't want to

860
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: go with AT and T solution, then I would go

861
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: with Eero e e R Eero Pro is going to

862
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: give you that faster speed. That's what I have. I

863
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: do not get my one gig speed around my house.

864
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:32,280
Speaker 1: I get closer to five hundred, which is about half

865
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,439
Speaker 1: of what I would ideally be getting. But that's kind

866
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: of what the reality is with Wi Fi. You get

867
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: kind of half of what you're paying for around the house.

868
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: So I think that the AT and T solution is

869
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: much simpler, much easier, and just more straightforward. And I

870
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,919
Speaker 1: don't know how much they I don't know how much

871
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 1: they charge for that, but that's my indication of what

872
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:56,880
Speaker 1: I think you should do because it's just the easiest.

873
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 1: I also did a story on something called Villo vil

874
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,880
Speaker 1: Oh and it's a mesh network system for just sixty bucks.

875
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: Now that does not go up to the full speed.

876
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get the full wired speed or the

877
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 1: full You're not gonna get the full one gigabit throughout

878
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 1: your house. This is probably gonna be closer to a

879
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: five hundred solution. So if you want the full, I

880
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 1: would go with what AT and T is offering you.

881
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about Facebook and Instagram. You might

882
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: get a notification on your Instagram that they need to

883
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,879
Speaker 1: know your data birth. Why are they doing this, Well,

884
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 1: they're trying to weed out situations and posts and advertising

885
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 1: that might not be appropriate for people under eighteen. Now,

886
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,399
Speaker 1: a lot of people have already given their data birth

887
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:50,240
Speaker 1: to fate Instagram, and so it's probably not really even

888
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 1: a thing for me. I looked in my settings and

889
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: sure enough, my Instagram already had my data birth from Facebook,

890
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: and so they share that with Facebook shares that data

891
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:05,320
Speaker 1: with Instagram. So if you want to check to see

892
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 1: if your data birth is already on your Instagram, just

893
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:13,720
Speaker 1: go to Instagram, then Settings, then account, then personal information again,

894
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: Instagram Settings, Account, personal Information, and does it say data

895
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: birth if it's already there you're not going to get

896
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: this prompt. But what I thought was interesting about this

897
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,320
Speaker 1: prompt is not only are they going to let users

898
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 1: kind of dismiss it a couple of times before it's required,

899
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 1: they can tell if you're lying when you answer this

900
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: question because they're using artificial intelligence, so they're looking at

901
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 1: the posts that you have made or when people comment

902
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: happy birthday, and that's just one signal they're using. And

903
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: so when you do this, they will and you say,

904
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: let's say you say you're eighteen on this thing, or

905
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:50,839
Speaker 1: let's say you're let's say you're a thirteen year old

906
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: and you say you're eighteen, and Facebook's like, hmmm, I

907
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 1: don't know, because a lot of people are wishing you

908
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: a happy seventeenth birthday last year so or sorry, a

909
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: happy fourteen birthday, whatever, happy thirteenth. You know what I'm saying.

910
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: Their data will go through and then if you lie,

911
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: they will say, I don't know, we don't think that

912
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:13,399
Speaker 1: you're actually telling the truth. So we are actually going

913
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 1: to request for you to verify your age in a

914
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: different way, which they didn't say how, but you know

915
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: that could be uploading an ID or whatever. So Facebook's

916
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: getting real serious about this stuff, and I think we're

917
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: seeing these social media companies get more and more serious

918
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 1: about protecting users and putting in safeguards and getting a

919
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,800
Speaker 1: little just tightening things up just a little bit because

920
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: there is always that threat of government regulation, and so

921
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 1: far these companies have really had a lot of leeway

922
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 1: in what they do and they want to do things.

923
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 1: It's kind of like I think I've talked about this before.

924
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the movie the movie rating system

925
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: that is voluntary from the movie company. So the companies

926
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: that make movies tell us what the rating of the

927
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: movie is, who it's appropriate for, and you know, that's

928
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:01,760
Speaker 1: that's that's an interesting place to be, and of course

929
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: it's an advantageous place to be because they keep pushing

930
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: the envelope. Right. A PG thirteen movie is just a

931
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: little racier than a PG thirteen movie from the nineties

932
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:14,439
Speaker 1: or the eighties, or if they even had. I forget

933
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 1: what the first movie was that was PG thirteen. I

934
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 1: think it was. My friend told me it was like

935
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:21,320
Speaker 1: Indiana Jones or something. I don't know. Don't quote me

936
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 1: on that one, but anyway, so that's what's happening with

937
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: the Happy birthday stuff and the Facebook posts. They don't

938
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: care about your birthday because they want to wish you

939
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: a happy birthday. They care because a they want to

940
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: be able to target more ads towards you, but they

941
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 1: want to be able to target less appropriate things or

942
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: I guess things that are not appropriate towards miners. They

943
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 1: want to make sure that they're trying to keep that

944
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: stuff away from them as much as possible. There's another

945
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: place you might see this happy birth or this birthday

946
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: question is when you look at a post that might

947
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 1: be sensitive or graphic. So when you look at one

948
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 1: of these posts, they may ask you, hey, before you

949
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 1: look at this post, let's just verify your birthday real quick.

950
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,360
Speaker 1: And again, if you lie, they'll say, hmmm, that's interesting

951
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: because our data tells us that you're not this age.

952
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: And again, I just think it's really fascinating that Facebook

953
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,280
Speaker 1: and Instagram are using artificial intelligence to kind of figure

954
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 1: out how old we are, and most of us just

955
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 1: hand over this information by ourselves. But the reality is

956
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: if they're using AI to do this, just think of

957
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,919
Speaker 1: all the different things they're using AI for. It does

958
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 1: not end at this. There is so much stuff that

959
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 1: they are that they are using AI for. It's just

960
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 1: it's pretty pretty unbelievable, just amazing actually and also kind

961
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 1: of scary. All right, AJ says, hey, Rich, what are

962
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: your recommendations to back up a MacBook Pro computer wirelessly?

963
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: I've been using Western Digital MyCloud. It's not stable. I

964
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 1: appreciate your content and enjoy your podcast, thanks aj. Aj.

965
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 1: Here's what I would do with that Western Digital MyCloud.

966
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: I would format that drive and I would set it

967
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 1: up as a time machine. And time machine has the

968
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:09,400
Speaker 1: ability to link up wirelessly. That my cloud should have

969
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 1: a Wi Fi network built in. It should give you

970
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: access to that time machine drive through your Mac. So

971
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 1: those steps once again, make sure that whatever's on your

972
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: computer is already backed up somewhere because you're gonna erase

973
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: this MyCloud. Then I would format the MyCloud on your

974
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:33,360
Speaker 1: Windows computer as a as a drive with a time machine,

975
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 1: you know, open up time machine, it says, hey, do

976
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:37,319
Speaker 1: you want to use this drive as a time machine drive,

977
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:41,760
Speaker 1: and then you know, connect that that my my cloud

978
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: drive to your computer wirelessly and it will just it

979
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 1: will just back up to that that using time Machine.

980
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,279
Speaker 1: I know I'm totally screwing this up, but The time

981
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 1: Machine is a feature on the Mac and it can

982
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:58,920
Speaker 1: be done by plugging in an external hard drive, or

983
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,360
Speaker 1: it can also be done wirelessly. As long as you

984
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: set up a drive as a time Machine drive, once

985
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,919
Speaker 1: the Mac sees that drive on the network, it will

986
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:10,759
Speaker 1: start wirelessly backing things up to that drive. So the

987
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 1: trick here is to make sure that the MyCloud drive

988
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 1: has a time Machine set up on it, which will

989
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 1: require you doing that through your Mac and then also

990
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:24,320
Speaker 1: being on your network. And I believe that's the software

991
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 1: through the Western Digital MyCloud software. You're not using their

992
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:32,359
Speaker 1: software to actually back up, but you are using their

993
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:34,840
Speaker 1: software to just kind of get this drive on the

994
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: wireless network, if that makes sense. So I've done this

995
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:41,240
Speaker 1: in the past. It's simple, it's pretty painless, and anytime

996
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: you open up your MacBook computer it will start syncing

997
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:48,880
Speaker 1: to the wireless time Machine. I've stopped using time Machine

998
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 1: these days because quite honestly, all my stuff is in

999
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: the cloud and so I don't really need a backup

1000
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 1: of anything on my computer. In fact, if my computer

1001
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: hard drive ever crashes, I see it as a blessing

1002
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: into because I get to set my computer up fresh

1003
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 1: and start over. Again, knock on wood. I hope that

1004
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. I don't really want that to happen, but

1005
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: that's the way I see it, and so yeah, that's

1006
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:13,760
Speaker 1: that's my thing. All right. Let's do one more question

1007
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 1: here before we go. Marty says, Hey, Rich, can you

1008
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: recommend an authenticator app for seniors? It has to be

1009
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: user friendly and not complicated. Thank you, Marty, sent from

1010
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: my iPhone. So there's a couple authenticator apps that I

1011
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 1: would recommend. I Marty number one. I love that you

1012
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 1: are looking into an authenticator app because two factor authentication

1013
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:40,360
Speaker 1: is the most important thing you can enable on any

1014
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,319
Speaker 1: and all of your accounts that support it. What two

1015
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: factor authentication is is this, you have a password on

1016
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:50,760
Speaker 1: your account. That password is probably easily hackable by a hacker.

1017
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: They can get into your account in a million different

1018
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: ways if you just have a password, especially if you're

1019
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 1: using that password everywhere. But when you bring an authentication

1020
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:02,359
Speaker 1: app into the mix, or two factor authentication, even if

1021
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 1: a hacker logs into your account, what happens is it says, okay,

1022
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 1: you logged in. That's cool. Now what's the the two

1023
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 1: factor authentication number? We just texted to you or that's

1024
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,760
Speaker 1: displayed on your app, and the hacker goes ah, foiled again,

1025
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 1: and then they pull off their face like they do

1026
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:23,239
Speaker 1: in Scooby Do at the end and they go, oh,

1027
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: get you kids. And so you foil them because chances

1028
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: are they don't have access to both your password and

1029
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 1: your smartphone, and they can unlock your smartphone and they

1030
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: can get the text and they can type in this

1031
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 1: secondary code. Now, SMS works, but it's not as good

1032
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: because SMS can be hacked as well, it can be redirected.

1033
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:49,879
Speaker 1: You know, it's just not as good. But these authentication

1034
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:51,920
Speaker 1: apps are pretty good because they live on your phone,

1035
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 1: they're linked up to the website, and they just generate

1036
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:58,759
Speaker 1: a different code every thirty seconds or so. And so

1037
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,839
Speaker 1: what you do is you go into something like let's

1038
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 1: say Facebook, you set up two factor authentication, and you

1039
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: link it up to this little app, usually by scanning

1040
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: a QR code from the app on your phone screen,

1041
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 1: and then it says, okay, here's your Facebook code, and

1042
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,360
Speaker 1: it changes every thirty seconds, and when you go to

1043
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,839
Speaker 1: log into Facebook, you'll log in with your password, but

1044
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:19,840
Speaker 1: then it says, okay, now can you please enter the

1045
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: code from your authenticator app, and chances are only you

1046
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:26,879
Speaker 1: have access to that authentication app. And so you open

1047
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 1: the authentication app on your phone, you look at the

1048
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 1: code and you type it in and Facebook says, okay,

1049
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: you now typed in your password. You now typed in

1050
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,400
Speaker 1: the authentication code, and we're going to grant you access

1051
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,359
Speaker 1: to this account. And that is the most secure way

1052
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: I know of for getting into accounts. Now there might

1053
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 1: be some even more secure ways, but they're much more complicated,

1054
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 1: and for that reason, just use one of these apps.

1055
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 1: So the three that I like are called Authyauty, and

1056
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 1: then Google has one called Google Authenticator, and then Microsoft

1057
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:00,959
Speaker 1: has one as well, and it's the same. They're they're

1058
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 1: all the same. They're basically all the same. Just pick

1059
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: one that you like. If you want to use Microsoft

1060
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 1: Mobile Phone Authenticator authenticator app that works. If you want

1061
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 1: to use the Google Authenticator that one works, or you

1062
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 1: can use Authie which is kind of a third party one.

1063
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 1: But either way, just just pick one of these and

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Speaker 1: use it and that's it. Now. The caveat to this

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Speaker 1: is you don't want to lose access to this authentication app,

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Speaker 1: because if you do, it's kind of a pain. So

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Speaker 1: when you set up this process of authentication two factor authentication.

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Speaker 1: Each website is going to give you a list of

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Speaker 1: backup codes. Keep those codes in a safe place, even

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Speaker 1: in a file somewhere in your house. That I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: recommend that, but that's you know, if you have to

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Speaker 1: do that, do it. What I would recommend is copying

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Speaker 1: and pasting those codes into your password management app, which

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Speaker 1: I hope you're using as well. So those are the

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Speaker 1: things that I would recommend. And you know, you got

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Speaker 1: to secure these accounts. You got to just get these

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Speaker 1: things secured because hackers are working twenty four to seven

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Speaker 1: that you know, they can do a lot of stuff

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Speaker 1: with your personal data. But that's a whole nother conversation.

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