WEBVTT - Instagram map privacy, ChatGPT 5 & the gift card trick you should know (133, Aug 9, 2025) 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.040 Instagram adds a new way to connect, but its map 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:07.520 feature has people worried about privacy. A big new version 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.639 of chatchybt is here and it's smarter than ever. Hulu 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.200 is going away kind of sort of plus your tech 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:18.239 questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich dmiro and this 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.720 is Rich on Tech. This is the show where I 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:24.200 talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about. 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.200 It's also the place where I answer your questions about technology. 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:32.440 I believe that tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.400 Let's open up those phone lines at triple a rich 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.199 one oh one. 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Thanks for tuning 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.160 in over the radio the podcast, however you watch or listen, 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:02.320 I appreciate it. This week, it is the last week 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.640 of summer in the DeMuro household, which I cannot believe. 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.720 Summer went very fast. Kids are going back to school, 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.360 and you know how tough it is over the summer 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.280 to keep kids entertained. They went to camp, but you know, 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:19.480 the default was always screen time. And so I did 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:24.360 something interesting this week. I ordered some kites on Amazon. Yes, kites, 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.280 the old school thing that you fly, you know, go 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.800 fly a kite. And I came home from work one 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:32.359 day and I said to the kids you know who 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.720 were on their screens, and said, hey, we're going to 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:35.600 fly some kites. 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:37.440 Let's go, And they're like, I don't want to go 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.240 to as a note, we're going. 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.720 So we grabbed some sandwiches. My mom is in town, 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.680 so we grabbed her. We went to the park and 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.040 we put together these kites. I had no idea I'd 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.560 not flown a kite in like, you know, thirty years 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.680 or something. Put them together and I didn't know what 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.080 to expect. But all of a sudden, we're putting these 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:57.840 kites together, We're getting them in the sky, and it 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.760 was great. Oh my gosh, we had It's such a 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.440 good time flying these kites, figuring out how to get 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.040 them up into the air. So my advice to you, 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.160 order some kites, go go fly some kites with your kids. 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.120 It's it's just such a good reminder that like the 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.640 simplest things in life are sometimes just so much fun. 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.680 Like that cost me all of like twenty dollars minus 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.480 the sandwiches, which costs a little bit more. 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:21.600 But we had a great time. 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.359 My kids, who were, you know, complaining about it at 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.560 the beginning, by the end we're like, let me fly again, 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:28.959 let me fly again. So we had a great time 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.320 doing that. I talked that we got some sandwiches on 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.280 the way. This was another thing we tried this week, 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.440 ordering discounted gift cards online. So we were going to 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.720 this place, you know, the sub sandwich place Jersey Mikes. 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.720 I'm sure you've heard of it, and I was like, 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.400 I wonder if they sell a discounted gift card, you know, 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.640 because some places never have a discount, and this is 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:50.760 one of them. And so I was like, I bet 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.560 you can buy a gift card online and then use 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:55.880 it on the app. And so we found this website. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.920 It was called Let's See Where is It card, cash 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.360 Card cash Dot, and you go on there, you buy 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.400 your gift card at a discount, and basically it's other 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.960 people that have this gift card that don't want it, 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.160 and they sell it at a discount to this website, 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.120 and then the website sells it for a little bit 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.560 more to you. And so I bought like an eighty 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.840 dollars gift card for like sixty five bucks, and then 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:21.680 we used it to order our food, and so we 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.200 saved like fifteen to twenty percent just by doing something 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.000 that took about two seconds. So I thought that was 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.480 pretty cool. And then I went through all the gift 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.320 cards that I had laying around the house and I 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.599 sold them to card Cash, So you know, yes, you 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:39.479 get much less than the face value. But this one 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.360 gift card I literally had sitting in my home for 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.600 fifteen years. It was a fifty dollars gift card and 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.039 so it didn't expire. The value was still there, and 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.799 I sold it for like, I know, it was twenty 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.560 seven dollars, which is half, but if I went to 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.960 the restaurant to use that gift card, it probably would 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.719 have cost me a couple hundred dollars, right because it 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:58.640 was for like a nice restaurant. So I was like, 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.080 you know what, I'll just take the twenty seven dollars 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.920 instead of the fifty. And I literally, I've I've had 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:05.919 that gift card sitting in my house for so long. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.120 I know it sounds silly to do that, but clearly 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:10.719 people do it because there's a lot of gift cards 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.480 on that website that's card Cash. There's other websites similar 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.960 to that, like I think Raise is the other one. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.000 They might have changed their name to Gift Card Exchange. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:21.520 So we did that. 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.640 The other thing we did this we got new furniture 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.680 for the kids this week before the new school year. 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.919 You know, they had these old beds and things, and 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.400 so typically I would just put their old furniture out 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.320 by the curb, wait a day and hopefully someone takes it. 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.920 If not, schedule the trash to pick it up. My kid, 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.200 my oldest kid, was like, Dad, we got to put 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.760 these things on offer up. I said, nobody wants to 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.000 buy these old dressers. He said, yes, they will. 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:47.839 I will do it. I said, all right, you do it, 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:49.839 and I'll split the money with you if it works out. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.520 So he took the pictures, he wrote the listings, he 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.840 put it on offer up using my phone, and I'm 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:59.360 not kidding. Within seconds, these messages just start coming in like, hey, 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:00.000 is this available? 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:01.839 Is this available? Where are you? Is this available? I 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:02.240 was like what? 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.480 And you know, they were not expensive, like maybe fifty 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.160 bucks each, And so finally we got someone. He's like, 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.479 I will be there at this time and I'll pay 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.120 the hundred bucks in cash for both of them. It 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:13.640 was like all right, you know, like the one is 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:15.720 broken this and that. He's like, no, it's fine, I 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.479 do this all the time. So sure enough, this guy 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.240 shows up. He's got to pick up truck. He picks 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:22.800 up the two dressers and I said, what do you 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.040 do with these? Do you like refurbish them and resell them? 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:26.960 He goes, no, I just kind of fix them up 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:30.160 and we rent them out for homestaging. I was like, brilliant. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.800 So again, I mean, we've heard the old adage one 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.560 man's treasure, one man's trash, another man's treasure. I mean 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:39.039 it's so true, and these apps lets you kind of 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.719 tap into this world that has never been available before. Sure, 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.280 you could have a garage sale, it takes a lot 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.200 of effort, but we sold this within like a couple hours, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.080 and it really was awesome. I gave my kid half 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.880 of it. We ended up selling their old bed as well. 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.359 And that's like a little bit longer. The person was. 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.640 They said they'd be there a certain time, they didn't. 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.520 We ended up waiting till like the night time, and 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.800 the person finally showed up. But they and then they 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.159 show up in this tiny car. I'm like, there is 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.320 no way you're fitting this giant bed in this car. 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.159 I don't know how they did it, but they got 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:10.800 it all in there and they got and that was 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.080 another you know, one hundred dollars for that so again, 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.760 think of these things offer up the main thing you 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:21.080 have to think about when you're selling this stuff like Facebook, Marketplace, whatever. 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.160 You have to be aware of the scam artists. There's 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.840 a lot of scams out there, so be careful with that. 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.840 But you also have to have patience because there are 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:34.200 so many messages that you're getting about this stuff that 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.480 you really have to have patience in answering those questions. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.360 So anyway, I thought that was pretty cool. Now the 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.720 big news of the week Instagram. They've got this new 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.720 feature that people are just going nuts over because they're 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.800 worried that Instagram is sharing their location. It's this new 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.280 maps feature that when you open up Instagram, you can 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.600 see where all your friends are on a map. So 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.680 people are freaking out because they said, hold on, I 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.120 didn't turn this on, and I see myself on this map. 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:05.440 So here's what happened. So Instagram made this feature smartly 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.960 opt in, which means it is off by default. But 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.360 here's what happened, and this is why people are freaking out. 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.320 They saw themselves on the map because they had tagged 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.720 one of their posts with a location. And if you 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.320 do that, even if you turn this feature off or 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.040 leave it off, you're still going to be showing up 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.280 on that map. So here are the options for sharing 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:30.480 this is this new Instagram maps feature. Okay, number one. 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.800 The first option is the most generous. It is letting 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:37.160 everyone see where you are that you follow, who follows 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.840 you back, your quote unquote friends, Right, that's the most generous, 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.000 Like pretty much anyone can see your location if they're 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:46.320 following you that you follow back. Then you've got your 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.680 close friend list, which this is the list that you 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:50.880 might have set up. It's like the starred friends on 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.319 your stories. When you share a story, you can share 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.080 it widely or you can share it to just your 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.640 close friends. That's the second option for sharing your location. 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.520 The next option is just thesise civic people. Maybe you 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.720 just want to share with your spouse or your kids 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.800 or vice versa. You can make a new list that says, hey, 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:08.520 I just want to share my location at all times 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.080 with these people, and then no one at all is 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:12.920 the default, and that's the one that a lot of 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:13.800 people are choosing. 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:14.520 Now. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.760 If you choose to share your location, it updates every 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:21.400 time you open the Instagram app. And so again people 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.560 misunderstood this because they all of a sudden saw this 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.000 map and saw themselves on it and said, wait a second, 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:30.840 Instagram opted me in. No, it's because you went to 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.440 a restaurant and you tag that location and it showed 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:36.480 that location on the map. So you got to be 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.200 aware of these things. I made a post on my 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.960 Instagram at rich on Tech so that people understand this 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:44.959 and I get it. This is the thing like this 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.920 feature would be so cool if it worked, Like I 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.240 would love to share my location at all times with 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.200 my friends because think about it, I fly all the time. 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:54.839 I'm always going to a new city. Let's say I 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.720 go to Denver, New York City, or wherever I land. 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.440 I don't know every one of the people that I 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.920 know that's in that area, but it'd be cool if 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.319 I landed, I open up Instagram maps and I say, oh, yeah, 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.319 Jim lives here. Let's let me call up Jim and 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.160 let's go grab a drink or go to dinner. You know, 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.679 that would be super cool. Let's say you go to 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:14.760 a baseball game or a concert. You say, I wonder 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:16.880 who else I know that's here. You could open up 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.200 this map and see who else is there, So it'd 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.040 be really cool in theater where you are at all times, 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.760 because for them, that's what their world is all about, right, 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.720 meeting up with friends, making sure they're at the party 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.120 on Friday night or at dinner, whatever they're doing, they 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.000 want to be there. But I think with Instagram it's 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.880 weird because Instagram is such a blend of public and private. 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.640 It makes this feature really tricky. So you've got the 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:44.400 closed systems like find my or Life three sixty, which 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:48.480 you're specifically using for that sort of friend finder feature. 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.840 Instagram is much more nuanced with so many different privacy settings. 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.840 So anyway, if you see that setting and you don't 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.880 want it, you can just keep it turned off. 0:10:57.880 --> 0:10:58.920 That's no one at all. 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.280 You don't have to go your Facebook or your Instagram 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.600 settings on your phone. A lot of people are saying 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.200 you got to go in and revoke Instagram's ability to 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.120 see your location at all. You could do that if 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.480 you're really worried, but you don't have to just keep 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.719 this setting off. And I put a link in directions 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.200 on how to find that setting on Instagram onmind. Just 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:20.960 go to at rich on Tech. You can find it 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.800 there all right. Coming up on today's show, I'm going 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.199 to talk about all kinds of great stuff, including Hulu 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:29.160 is changing in a big way. 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.160 I'll talk about that, plus your calls. 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.200 Eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.240 seven four to two, four to one zero one. Give 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:37.960 me a call if you have a question about technology. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:38.920 My name is Richdmuro. 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:44.880 You are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.400 rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:51.720 talking technology at Triple eight rich one O one eight 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.400 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:56.520 Uh. 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:57.400 We've got everyone here. 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.720 We've got Bobo on the board, We've got Kim on 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.880 phone owns, We've got you on the line. 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.160 We've got emails already coming in. 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:05.840 Uh. 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.360 The playlist is from my mom, so direct all comments 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.560 about the playlist to her Bobo. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.559 What songs do we have coming up on there? Uh? 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.000 Let me see what else you got on here? 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:21.880 Got some Fleetwood, Fleetwood, Mac, some Bruno, Mars, Aretha Franklin, Okay, yeah, 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.960 she's she's some some Aerosmith, Okay. 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.840 Eclectic eclectic? You were you were? You had a question 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:31.679 earlier with the with the offer up, with. 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:32.199 The offer up? 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.560 Yeah, did you meet them at your house or did 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:36.199 you meet them somewhere else. No, I met them at 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:37.599 my house. So did they recognize you? 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:38.280 They didn't. 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.440 Well, you never know, yeah, you know what I mean. 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.200 But I I you know, I kind of put on 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:46.480 the hat with that little mustache and the glasses and 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:50.080 I come out and I'm like okay, and I talking now. 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:52.440 I mean, you never know, like people some you know, 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.520 that's always the risk. For me like that, that is 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:59.199 a very isolated, like because I'm on TV, it's a 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.800 little bit different, like average person doesn't have to think 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:02.760 about that, right, Yeah. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:03.160 True. 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.400 For me, it's a little bit more like weird because yeah, 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.600 there's always this chance this person comes like, hey, aren't 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:09.080 you that guy? 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.560 It happened to me, Yeah, oh it did. Yeah. 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:13.720 I went to buy a couple buy a pair of 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.160 shoes from a guy a couple of years ago, and 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.240 he kept like he kept looking at me, and then 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.319 when I said something, he was like I know you 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.440 And I was like, no, you don't, Like I don't 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:25.840 even live in this area. He was like, nah, your voice, 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.280 you bobo, you work on a radio. I was like, oh, yeah, 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:29.720 that's me. 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.040 That's how people actually, I would say, the most come 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:34.800 up to me is say well they I mean, obviously 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:36.960 they know from TV, but it's always the voice. I 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.040 heard you around the corner and I heard your voice, 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.400 or I mean, it's just it's all kinds but. 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.200 Part of the job, part of the job. But try it. 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.640 Jim Jim rode in by the way, for the gift cards, 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.400 he said this, this website gives all current discounts for 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.440 every gift card and every site that sells discounted gift cards. 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.120 It's really convenient and it seems like it's been pretty 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.880 accurate every time I've used it. It's called card bear doc. 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.120 And what's really neat about this it's almost like an 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:07.120 aggregator site. So it shows you all the different gift 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.880 cards and where you can get them for the discount. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.280 So like, for instance, it's funny the gift card that 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.800 I sold is actually on here on the front page, 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.240 and it gives you all the different places you can 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.160 buy it with a different discounts. So card cash is 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:25.880 listed GCX, card depot Cardcookiecardcenter, gift cards dot Com. I 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.160 guess there's a lot of these websites that sell gift cards, 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.200 but I'm telling you, it only takes a couple of 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:33.520 seconds I'm guessing if you do this a lot, there 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.680 is a chance you could be burned, right, because there 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.240 is some you know, there could be fraud whatever, so 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.840 just be careful, you know, maybe try one or two. 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.800 But I did it again with DoorDash. After the first 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:46.280 time I did it, I was like, I'm kind of 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.680 liking this because you say five to ten, especially with food, 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.360 Like if you're trying to buy like a Target gift 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.320 card or a best Buy Home Depot Walmart, you're not 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.200 going to get a big discount because those are very 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:02.880 very popular places. All the food places are very heavily 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:07.080 discounted because there's a lot of there's a lot of 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.360 extra I guess I don't know cost in there. Like 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:11.880 you know, you're buying a sandwich for ten dollars. It 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:13.720 only costs them a dollar to make it, so there's 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.160 a little bit of extra in there. But let's go 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:20.520 to Maryland in Chula Vista, Maryland. You're on with Rich Hi. 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:20.960 Rich. 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.360 I have a smart TV. The brand is high Sense. 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:28.720 We get our table through at and t u Verse. 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:33.560 My favorite channel is Turner Classic Movies comes through just 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:37.400 fine on the cable TV. So I also installed on 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:42.560 my smart TV the Watch TCM app so that you 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:47.520 can also watch excuse me, Turner classic movies through the app. Sure, 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:51.040 and it worked just fine, and then all of a 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.840 sudden one day it quit working. I couldn't figure out why. 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:58.200 What happens is when I click on the little you 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:03.320 know icon there on the screen, it shows watch TCM 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.080 and the music comes on to introduce it, and then 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.360 all of a sudden, the little white arrow thing starts 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.160 spinning at the bottom and that's all it does. 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:14.680 Okay, so nothing's happening. 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:18.280 I tried to uninstall it and then reinstall it. I 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:22.520 did that twice. Did not work. I tried unplugging the TV, 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.280 plugging it back in, didn't work. And by the way, 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:30.240 all my other apps do work. Did what the only 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.240 one that has suddenly quit working? 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.280 What type of software is this TV running? 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:37.600 Oh? 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.120 I'm sorry, rich, I don't know what. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.880 Well, okay, it's a high Sense TV. Is it running 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.080 Google TV? Is it running Roku TV? 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:44.400 Like? 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.760 Yeah, so it's a high Sense running Roku. Okay. 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.880 Interesting, I'm looking for the Watch TCM. It says available 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:57.240 online iOS phones and tablets, Android phones, Amazon and Apple TV. 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.920 It doesn't say anything about Roku which is interesting. So 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.720 that's that's odd in itself, Like it doesn't seem like 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.200 this app is available, but maybe they just haven't updated 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.760 their website. What I think happened is, uh, there's probably 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:13.600 a bad update to this app. So I think he 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:18.280 did the right things. Uninstall, reinstall, restart the TV. Other 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.800 than that, I would say, unless you're running some sort 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.600 of VPN that is or an AD blocker that's messing 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.520 with it, check for that. It's probably just an app update. 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.240 You gotta wait for an app update, reinstall the app, 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.160 make sure your apps are updated. 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:32.840 And hopefully it comes back to life. 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.280 Eighty to eight rich one O one seven four to 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.480 two four one zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.920 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.080 Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.200 four to two four one zero one. Uh Kim says, 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:52.399 this is the Ocean Spray Cranberry juice song. Remember that 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:56.200 the viral video. The guy he was, Uh, I guess 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:57.120 his name is my house? 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:57.560 Off of it? 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:59.440 Did he yep me into buying a house off the 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:00.440 money he made this? 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:00.960 Wow? 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:01.640 There you go. 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.199 He was on a long boarder drinking ocean spray and 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:06.680 remember it was like just like a twenty two second 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.280 video that guy I see here it is on TikTok. 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.639 Let's let me let me watch this, Yeah, just cruising along. 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.640 You gotta love social media. I mean it really has launched. 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:19.760 I mean I go to all these events. So I've 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:21.919 been to like all the tech events for you know, 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.000 fifteen years now twenty years, and. 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:25.520 It's just amazing. 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:27.680 It used to be when you went to these events, 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.040 I'll be honest, it was just a lot of like 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:35.399 you know, you know, standard tech journalists, let's put it 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.680 that way, from over the years, like maybe a little 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:41.239 bit older folks, you know, from the big newspapers and 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:43.919 you know, and it just was very different. And now 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:49.159 you go, and what I love about all these tech companies, Google, Samsung, Apple, 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:53.560 they pluck these people that are, you know, the TikTokers 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:57.520 of the world, the Instagram folks that do really well, 0:18:57.920 --> 0:18:59.960 and they bring them to the events or they invite 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:01.280 them at least I don't know if they bring them 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:01.840 or invite them. 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:03.280 Either way, sometimes it's like a mix. 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:06.080 But it's just so cool because now it is such 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:07.840 a diverse group of people. 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:09.639 You've got young, you've got old. 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.680 You've got people from all over the world, and really 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.439 the entree is just if you did something cool with 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:18.760 your phone, you can now be a part of this 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.639 world because you have an audience and you've got followers, 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:24.359 and you're you've got a voice, and you share something 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.159 that's unique, and so it's really cool. 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:27.520 It's not. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:29.919 I mean literally, when I started, it was the people 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:34.800 from you know, the major news networks, the major newspapers, 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:38.760 and the major you know, YouTube sites, just literally the 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:42.520 biggest people. And now anyone who's got you know, who's 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.359 kind of taken off online can be invited and be 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:47.240 a part of this, and I just think that's so cool. 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:50.960 Big new oh eight eight eight rich one oh one 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:53.760 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:56.560 The website for the show rich on tech dot TV. 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.840 Everything I mentioned is listed there. Uh let's say we 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:01.600 had an email from someone saying, hey, what was that 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:03.720 website for the you know where you sold the furniture 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.679 offer up, It'll be listed on the website rich on 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:07.400 tech dot TV. 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.760 I do link up everything we talk about. 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:16.040 This week chat GPT got a big new update they 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:20.040 call it GPT five, and I was it's so funny 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:22.240 how I get excited about this stuff. I literally was 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.920 sitting there refreshing my screen on my computer all day 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.680 yesterday waiting for my app to get GBT five. 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:32.320 I mean, what a dork. I mean, it's such a nerd, but. 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:34.520 It's cool, and you know, you see it and you're like, oh, 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.560 what can this do differently? I mean, I don't know, 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:41.560 but it just seems better and so it's faster, it's smarter. 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:44.560 So the big news about. 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:47.920 GBT five is that it's now a unified model, so 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:51.080 it now kind of understands what your question is and 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:54.840 decides the best way to respond. Now you might be thinking, rich, 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:58.240 didn't it always do that? Yes, but now it's thinking, Okay, 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.040 are you asking a coding question, are you asking a 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:04.040 deep reasoning question? Are you adding a quick are you 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:06.720 asking a quick question like you know which cities have 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:08.639 the most people in the US. You know that's an 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:11.359 easy question. But it can also understand if you're asking 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:13.879 something deeper, and it will go into its different modes 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:17.080 automatically in the background to figure out the answer. So 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:20.919 that's really cool. So it's just basically one one window 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:23.040 for everything. Now you don't have to check a lot 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:26.960 of boxes and things like that. Coding, it's gotten much 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:30.000 better at coding. It's gotten much much better at writing. 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:33.360 I use my chat gbt to polish up my newsletter 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:35.480 every week. If you're not subscribed to the free newsletter, 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:39.119 definitely get on the list. And I noticed yesterday when 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:41.199 I was polishing, it just seemed a lot smarter. And 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:43.280 it seemed to kind of stick to my writing a 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:45.560 lot better, which I like because I don't want it 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:48.000 to change everything. I want it to keep how I write, 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:50.480 but just kind of, you know, keep the grammar perfect, 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:53.240 you know, make sure that everything's spelled right. So it's 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:58.200 just better at doing that. Yesterday I noticed better health responses. 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:00.760 So a lot of people are asking questions about mental 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:03.479 health and just in general medical questions and things, so 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:07.800 it's better at that. It's more accurate if flags concerns, 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:11.919 better adapts to a user's knowledge level. Still not a 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:15.080 replacement for a doctor. Do not use chatchybt's your doctor. 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:18.800 I mean just even in my house, like my kid 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:20.359 came to me, he's like, Dad, what's this thing on 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:22.280 my face? I'm like, it's a scratch. He's like, I 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:24.520 asked chatgybt and it said it could be this, this, this, 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:29.160 I'm like Tanner, come on, like, dude, relax, it's a scratch. 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:33.920 You scratched your face. Less hallucinations, that's the big thing. 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:37.040 You have to be concerned. Like these ais will just 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:39.920 spit out answers like nobody's business, and you'll think they're 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:42.560 right and it's like completely wrong sometimes, so you got 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:45.000 to be careful about that. But it says that it's 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:51.040 much better at that at this point. Also, it's less agreeable. 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:53.679 So like a lot of times these GPTs will just 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:55.639 agree with you, like no matter what you say, it's 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:57.919 like yeah, yeah, that's a great idea, it's like, no, 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:00.680 it's not. And now it's less agreeable, so that's smart. 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:03.679 And they also have different personalities. Now, so when I 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:05.760 asked it the question for the first time, it said, 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:08.000 do you like this personality? I said, I didn't realize 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:10.560 you had different personalities to choose from, But now you 0:23:10.560 --> 0:23:14.040 can ask for different personalities. You've got a cynic, a robot, 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:18.040 the listener, and the nerd, so I haven't switched to 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:20.199 one of these different personalities, but you can do that 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:24.040 as well. So again, GPT five, if you're opening up 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:26.080 CHATCHIBT and it says, hey, we have a new version. 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:29.119 It's available to everyone, even if you're on the free model. 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:31.040 And you might be wondering, well, why do I have 0:23:31.040 --> 0:23:33.359 to pay for CHATCHYBT if I get the free model 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:36.399 for free? Well, the difference is how much you use it. 0:23:36.680 --> 0:23:38.960 So if you start using this a lot, it will 0:23:38.960 --> 0:23:42.200 at some point say, okay, you're out of your free answers. 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:45.880 If you want to continue with this model that's advanced, 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:48.480 you have to pay or we're going to drop you 0:23:48.560 --> 0:23:52.840 down to the lesser model until you're I guess the 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:55.800 usage resets after a certain amount of time twenty four 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:59.400 hours or something like that. The other big news this week, 0:23:59.440 --> 0:24:04.040 Disney Plus is going to integrate Hulu into the Disney 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:08.480 Plus app, so the Hulu standalone app is going to 0:24:08.560 --> 0:24:12.800 go away. So this is gonna happen where Disney is 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:15.119 going to fully merge Hulu into Disney Plus in the 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:19.200 next year, so no more separate Hulu app, which already 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:22.080 they've integrated the Hulu content, which I think is kind 0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:24.840 of annoying because it's like, oh, let me watch that show. 0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:26.800 Sorry, you got to pay for Hulu. I'm like, oh, 0:24:26.840 --> 0:24:27.760 why'd you show me that? 0:24:28.040 --> 0:24:29.919 So now I guess that's going to get even worse 0:24:30.000 --> 0:24:32.040 because Hulu is just going to be completely gone as 0:24:32.040 --> 0:24:34.439 a standalone app, and it's just going to be inside 0:24:34.480 --> 0:24:38.320 Disney Plus. So the integration, I get it. It makes 0:24:38.359 --> 0:24:42.080 sense because now it's just one place for everything. And 0:24:42.119 --> 0:24:44.800 then ESPN, I guess they did a big thing where 0:24:44.840 --> 0:24:47.200 they are going to launch their first direct to consumer 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:50.280 streaming service on August twenty first. This is going to 0:24:50.359 --> 0:24:53.000 be twenty nine to ninety nine a month, and it's 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:57.000 going to include all of the ESPN networks, ESPN Plus 0:24:57.400 --> 0:25:01.080 and forty seven thousand live events per year. For the 0:25:01.119 --> 0:25:03.480 one thing you want to watch, you're gonna go to 0:25:03.480 --> 0:25:05.160 that app be like, oh let me watch the game. 0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:06.919 Not gonna be there. It's gonna be on the one 0:25:06.960 --> 0:25:10.240 service you don't subscribe to. So the bundle deal at 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:16.240 launch this is pretty good. Actually, ESPN Unlimited Plus, Disney 0:25:16.240 --> 0:25:18.919 Plus and Hulu for twenty nine to ninety nine a 0:25:18.920 --> 0:25:21.720 month for your first twelve months. That sounds pretty good. 0:25:21.720 --> 0:25:25.879 I'm guessing that that is the ad the version that 0:25:25.920 --> 0:25:28.119 includes ads. There's no way they're giving you all that 0:25:28.160 --> 0:25:30.639 stuff for thirty bucks a month without ads. Maybe I 0:25:30.640 --> 0:25:33.359 don't know, because I feel like I paid twenty dollars 0:25:33.400 --> 0:25:35.000 a month for Disney Plus just by itself. 0:25:35.119 --> 0:25:38.280 I remember when Disney Plus launched, it was so cheap. 0:25:38.320 --> 0:25:39.560 It was like six ninety nine a month. 0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:41.959 You're like, wait a second, I can get everything that 0:25:42.040 --> 0:25:45.160 Disney has ever made in its entire lifetime for seven 0:25:45.200 --> 0:25:47.760 bucks a month? Why would I not subscribe? And all 0:25:47.800 --> 0:25:50.439 of a sudden, over the years, what's happening. Oh, it's 0:25:50.560 --> 0:25:53.000 just click click click click click. 0:25:52.880 --> 0:25:53.960 More and more and more and more and more. 0:25:54.160 --> 0:25:55.800 And by the way, the new stuff to watch was 0:25:55.800 --> 0:25:59.120 like less less less, less less. And that's the other thing, 0:25:59.560 --> 0:26:01.640 the old school movies, like you try to go back 0:26:01.640 --> 0:26:03.800 to these movies that you watched as a kid, which 0:26:03.840 --> 0:26:05.720 was you know, ratings as a kid, like basically you 0:26:05.760 --> 0:26:07.439 just didn't watch a rated AR movie, you know, like 0:26:07.440 --> 0:26:10.280 if you're a kid. I snuck into one rated AR 0:26:10.320 --> 0:26:12.560 movie once, and I tell my kids this story. I 0:26:12.720 --> 0:26:16.320 was so scared. It was the scariest experience. 0:26:15.920 --> 0:26:16.320 Of my life. 0:26:16.400 --> 0:26:18.000 My best friend and I went to a movie theater. 0:26:18.520 --> 0:26:21.080 We snuck into a RATEDAR movie. I remember the movie. 0:26:21.080 --> 0:26:24.880 It was called Jacob's Ladder. That's dating me long time ago. 0:26:25.160 --> 0:26:28.040 We got into this movie and we were not prepared 0:26:28.480 --> 0:26:30.359 for what we saw. And I don't even know what 0:26:30.400 --> 0:26:33.000 we saw. All I know is I was so scared. 0:26:33.040 --> 0:26:34.760 We ran out of that movie theater. I was like, 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:38.160 this is what adults do, Like, we just ran out. 0:26:38.480 --> 0:26:40.000 And to this day I tell my kids that because 0:26:40.000 --> 0:26:42.320 they want to watch rated R this and that. I'm like, look, 0:26:43.119 --> 0:26:44.960 you don't need to watch that right now, like, just 0:26:45.000 --> 0:26:48.199 there's a time and a place for it. And then 0:26:48.240 --> 0:26:49.560 my kid the other day in the car is like, Dad, 0:26:49.600 --> 0:26:52.959 have you watched any NC seventeen movies? I'm like, what, Like, 0:26:53.000 --> 0:26:55.240 what are you talking about? I don't even know if 0:26:55.280 --> 0:26:57.000 they make those anymore? Say, oh, yeah they do. I 0:26:57.000 --> 0:26:58.480 looked it up on Google. They gave me a whole 0:26:58.520 --> 0:27:02.560 list of them. I'm like, what this. Oh my gosh, 0:27:02.960 --> 0:27:06.639 I'm telling you, these kids today are so far advanced. 0:27:06.720 --> 0:27:09.000 They really really are. And you know, if you don't 0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:11.120 have those parental controls. By the way, on your internet, 0:27:11.400 --> 0:27:14.440 you got to uh eighty eight rich one O one 0:27:14.560 --> 0:27:17.120 eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:27:17.160 --> 0:27:19.520 All right, coming up, We've got more of your calls. 0:27:20.600 --> 0:27:26.280 Plus Google is giving college students free access to AI. 0:27:26.400 --> 0:27:27.199 I'll tell you about that. 0:27:27.240 --> 0:27:29.880 Plus there is a new streaming service you can subscribe 0:27:29.880 --> 0:27:32.160 to you for just three dollars a month. 0:27:32.280 --> 0:27:33.400 Eighty eight rich. 0:27:33.280 --> 0:27:35.600 One O one eighty eight seven four to two four 0:27:35.640 --> 0:27:43.200 one zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich 0:27:43.240 --> 0:27:48.360 DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at eight 0:27:48.359 --> 0:27:52.080 eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven 0:27:52.280 --> 0:27:53.959 four to two. 0:27:53.320 --> 0:27:55.120 Four one zero one. 0:27:55.320 --> 0:27:57.320 Did you know you can listen to this show as 0:27:57.359 --> 0:28:00.919 a podcast. If you want to listen to uh segment again, 0:28:01.200 --> 0:28:04.080 or maybe you missed a show you're out and about. 0:28:04.119 --> 0:28:07.600 Just search Rich on Tech in your favorite podcast app 0:28:07.720 --> 0:28:11.080 or audio app and just hit subscribe and you'll get 0:28:11.080 --> 0:28:15.879 every show. Frank from port Chester, New York writes in 0:28:15.960 --> 0:28:18.480 Hey Rich, I love your idea about saving a note 0:28:18.480 --> 0:28:21.640 in Google Keep about a person and then adding relevant 0:28:21.640 --> 0:28:24.159 info about them. I'm a sales guy and this is 0:28:24.200 --> 0:28:26.480 a great way for me to track what's been said 0:28:26.480 --> 0:28:29.240 at meetings, like noting a client has two kids, hates 0:28:29.280 --> 0:28:32.879 Italian food but loves German. I'm trying to adopt this system, 0:28:32.880 --> 0:28:35.439 but I'm struggling with using Gemini to enter notes. It 0:28:35.480 --> 0:28:38.360 doesn't always do what I want, it'll start researching a 0:28:38.400 --> 0:28:41.000 topic instead of entering my notes. For example, I'll say 0:28:41.040 --> 0:28:44.200 something like client is interested in AI, and instead of 0:28:44.240 --> 0:28:48.040 recording that, it starts reading facts about how AI will 0:28:48.120 --> 0:28:51.000 change the world. It also sometimes cuts me off mid 0:28:51.040 --> 0:28:53.560 sentence and only saves part of what I said. I 0:28:53.600 --> 0:28:56.240 know I can type or dictate notes directly into Keep, 0:28:56.280 --> 0:28:58.240 but I loved your idea of integrating Gemini. 0:28:58.280 --> 0:29:02.440 Help. What am I doing wrong? Well, thanks for listening in. 0:29:02.360 --> 0:29:05.000 New York City there or at port Chester, I'm guessing 0:29:05.080 --> 0:29:08.200 that's New York area, right, You're right. I think that 0:29:08.280 --> 0:29:12.960 Gemini is finicky and the system that I described is 0:29:13.000 --> 0:29:16.719 not perfect, but it is really good when it works. 0:29:16.800 --> 0:29:19.640 And so the trick that I found is you have 0:29:19.720 --> 0:29:24.040 to use specific starter phrases like create a note or 0:29:24.160 --> 0:29:27.280 take a note. So if you say something vague like remember, 0:29:27.720 --> 0:29:31.840 it might trigger a different AI mode. So that is 0:29:31.880 --> 0:29:34.160 the main advice that I have if you're trying to 0:29:34.240 --> 0:29:37.000 use Gemini with any of Google's apps. So if you 0:29:37.000 --> 0:29:40.040 go to Gemini dot Google dot com, go into the 0:29:40.080 --> 0:29:43.080 settings on the left hand side and then tap apps, 0:29:43.640 --> 0:29:46.040 and it gives you the hints for all of the 0:29:46.120 --> 0:29:49.520 different apps. So for instance, for Gmail, it says prompt 0:29:49.760 --> 0:29:53.480 to try find emails by topic. So for instance, I 0:29:53.480 --> 0:29:57.360 would say to Gemini search my emails for and that 0:29:57.440 --> 0:30:00.000 will trigger it to look in my emails, versus saying 0:30:00.120 --> 0:30:01.800 something like I want to email. 0:30:01.560 --> 0:30:02.560 Blah blah blah blah blah. 0:30:02.600 --> 0:30:04.760 Like you have to use these phrases, and yes, this 0:30:04.800 --> 0:30:07.160 is going to get better, but right now it is 0:30:07.280 --> 0:30:10.000 a little bit sort of mechanical. It's kind of like 0:30:10.040 --> 0:30:11.800 the old days of you had to know what the 0:30:11.840 --> 0:30:15.120 syntax was to kind of use the voice systems. That's 0:30:15.160 --> 0:30:16.920 the way I feel it is because think about it, 0:30:17.240 --> 0:30:21.239 these AI systems are doing two different things. One is saying, oh, 0:30:21.320 --> 0:30:24.520 let me look into your personal stuff. The second is, oh, 0:30:24.600 --> 0:30:27.920 let me just kind of go at AI knowledge in general. 0:30:28.360 --> 0:30:32.440 So that's my main answer is try to use the 0:30:32.560 --> 0:30:36.240 keywords at the beginning of your question. So for instance, 0:30:36.240 --> 0:30:38.160 when I want to do a calendar invite, I'll say 0:30:38.680 --> 0:30:42.640 create a calendar invite that says take a note that 0:30:42.840 --> 0:30:46.760 says remind me to do this, and that's when it 0:30:46.840 --> 0:30:49.600 really triggers those Google apps. 0:30:49.720 --> 0:30:50.520 So good question. 0:30:50.560 --> 0:30:53.040 Thanks for the email, Frank, appreciate you listening there on 0:30:53.440 --> 0:30:57.560 wr in New York City. Doreen from Irvine writes, in 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:01.160 you reported on how to use a flash drive to 0:31:01.200 --> 0:31:04.160 back up photos from a phone. Is it possible to 0:31:04.280 --> 0:31:07.600 use a flash drive to back up contacts or text messages? 0:31:07.960 --> 0:31:09.360 I have a Samsung phone. 0:31:10.080 --> 0:31:14.600 Yes, it is so for text messages, and you're thankfully 0:31:14.680 --> 0:31:16.840 you said Samsung, because if you said iPhone, there's no 0:31:17.080 --> 0:31:18.840 there's no easy way to do this. There is an 0:31:18.840 --> 0:31:21.360 app called I Amazing, which we'll do it, but I 0:31:21.400 --> 0:31:23.840 believe you have to pay for that. Apple doesn't really 0:31:23.840 --> 0:31:25.560 give you an easy way to get your texts as 0:31:25.600 --> 0:31:29.240 far as I know. But on Samsung, very very easy. 0:31:29.320 --> 0:31:32.680 You can download an app called SMS Backup and Restore. 0:31:33.280 --> 0:31:36.440 SMS Backup and Restore. I've used it for many years. 0:31:36.800 --> 0:31:39.160 You just download it and next thing you know, you 0:31:39.200 --> 0:31:42.880 can say export my messages and it will go right 0:31:42.920 --> 0:31:46.000 into your phone storage, or you can send it to yourself, 0:31:46.240 --> 0:31:48.760 upload it to the cloud, whatever you want to do. Now, 0:31:48.800 --> 0:31:52.080 for contacts, it's actually quite easy as well. So if 0:31:52.120 --> 0:31:55.320 you go into the Contacts app on your Samsung phone, 0:31:55.760 --> 0:32:00.520 go into Contacts, look in settings, tap settings, and right 0:32:00.560 --> 0:32:04.320 there you see export Contacts. You can just export your 0:32:04.320 --> 0:32:06.600 contacts wherever you want. You can put them into storage, 0:32:06.640 --> 0:32:08.120 you can put them on a flask drive, whatever you 0:32:08.160 --> 0:32:11.360 want to do. Now, I also discovered lo and behold. 0:32:11.360 --> 0:32:13.960 The iPhone actually lets you do this as well. So 0:32:14.000 --> 0:32:16.440 if you open up the Contacts app on the iPhone, 0:32:17.920 --> 0:32:19.920 go into your list. So in the upper left hand 0:32:19.920 --> 0:32:23.160 corner it says lists. It's of course a hidden feature. 0:32:23.560 --> 0:32:25.720 But if you tap on one of your lists, press 0:32:25.760 --> 0:32:29.280 and hold, lo and behold, it says export. You tap 0:32:29.320 --> 0:32:32.640 export and you can export that entire contact list like 0:32:32.640 --> 0:32:35.160 of it, nine hundred and eighty contacts. It'll send it 0:32:35.200 --> 0:32:39.280 wherever you want. You can email yourself that file, you 0:32:39.320 --> 0:32:42.040 can upload it to the cloud, whatever you want. So 0:32:42.080 --> 0:32:46.480 again on the iPhone contacts lists, tap a list, press 0:32:46.520 --> 0:32:48.520 and hold on it, it says export. It's like a 0:32:48.640 --> 0:32:51.120 secret menu that you would never find if you were 0:32:51.160 --> 0:32:53.440 just looking. I didn't even know it existed until I 0:32:53.480 --> 0:32:58.200 looked for it, and now it's there. So great question, Doreen. 0:32:58.280 --> 0:33:03.120 Appreciate that. Jay from Los Angeles writes in I use 0:33:03.200 --> 0:33:06.480 Wirecutter and Consumer Reports for reviews of products I want 0:33:06.480 --> 0:33:09.520 to buy. Please recommend a few more reliable review sites. 0:33:09.600 --> 0:33:14.200 Thank you, Jay, Those are great great sites. I often 0:33:14.240 --> 0:33:17.560 look at Wirecutter, you know, I love Wirecutter. I feel 0:33:17.600 --> 0:33:21.000 like sometimes their stuff can be hit or miss. So 0:33:21.200 --> 0:33:23.280 I like to kind of do my own research as well. 0:33:23.320 --> 0:33:26.440 So obviously I'm always recommending stuff that I like, but 0:33:26.480 --> 0:33:28.120 I find that Wirecutter is pretty good. 0:33:28.240 --> 0:33:30.280 They do a wide span of stuff. 0:33:30.000 --> 0:33:34.080 Consumer reports, you know, I think they're really good as well. 0:33:34.160 --> 0:33:36.120 I think I use them for my washer dryer the 0:33:36.160 --> 0:33:37.920 other day that I bought, and I will be honest, 0:33:38.280 --> 0:33:42.280 they're fine. It's not like amazing, but it's fine. The 0:33:42.320 --> 0:33:44.880 site that I think is really interesting is called Vetted 0:33:45.040 --> 0:33:48.400 v E T T D vetted dot AI, and so 0:33:48.520 --> 0:33:51.480 what their idea is is they use AI to help 0:33:51.520 --> 0:33:53.640 you find stuff. And what they do is they go 0:33:53.720 --> 0:33:56.440 through all the different websites that have reviews that are 0:33:56.440 --> 0:33:59.520 sort of vetted, I mean hence the name, and they 0:33:59.560 --> 0:34:03.480 will look at all those reviews and aggregate them and 0:34:03.560 --> 0:34:06.719 put them together and then come up with their recommendation. So, 0:34:06.760 --> 0:34:11.440 for instance, I just did best espresso machines and Vetted 0:34:11.520 --> 0:34:17.160 Analysis comes up with the leel It Bianca V three. 0:34:17.800 --> 0:34:21.359 This machine is best overall for ideal for serious home 0:34:21.400 --> 0:34:25.680 buristas three thousand dollars Bobo. You know I'm not spending 0:34:25.719 --> 0:34:28.600 three grand on a home buriste. Okay, so that's ridiculous. 0:34:28.640 --> 0:34:31.320 I am not spending that. I love my coffee, no. 0:34:31.200 --> 0:34:33.120 Way, I'm not a coffee drinker. But you spend it. 0:34:33.360 --> 0:34:34.840 I would not spend it. I barely. 0:34:34.880 --> 0:34:37.680 I wanted to buy a sixty dollars cake cup machine 0:34:37.719 --> 0:34:38.520 at Target the other day. 0:34:38.520 --> 0:34:39.920 I wouldn't buy that because I'm too cheap. 0:34:40.080 --> 0:34:42.200 I was like, I'll try to see if the one 0:34:42.200 --> 0:34:43.279 I have at work still works. 0:34:43.280 --> 0:34:45.480 And it didn't. By the way, you know about of 0:34:45.480 --> 0:34:46.839 shoes that I sent you either, and that was one 0:34:46.880 --> 0:34:47.480 hundred and twenty. 0:34:47.480 --> 0:34:50.840 No, I'm a cheap skate when I love buying stuff, 0:34:51.080 --> 0:34:53.000 but I don't buy stuff that I don't need. It 0:34:53.040 --> 0:34:55.480 takes me a while to buy stuff, like it really 0:34:55.520 --> 0:34:58.399 really does. Like I'm not I like buying. But it's 0:34:58.440 --> 0:34:59.960 not like I'm just sitting there, like you sent me 0:35:00.000 --> 0:35:02.000 those shoes that I've wanted, I'm like, oh, these are cool. 0:35:02.239 --> 0:35:04.359 I'm not just like that person that just presses By 0:35:04.520 --> 0:35:08.479 no way, believe me. I've got a brand new peril 0:35:08.480 --> 0:35:09.080 on right now. 0:35:10.760 --> 0:35:11.840 I'm still wearing my crocks. 0:35:11.880 --> 0:35:13.680 I need a new pair of crocs I've been wearing 0:35:13.719 --> 0:35:15.359 for three years on this show, and I won't buy 0:35:15.360 --> 0:35:18.439 those and I wear them every weekend. Anyway, vetted dot 0:35:18.440 --> 0:35:22.200 ai is great and chat gybt and Google are really 0:35:22.200 --> 0:35:24.319 doing a lot of things with reviews on ai, so 0:35:24.440 --> 0:35:27.120 check those out as well. Eighty eight rich one oh 0:35:27.160 --> 0:35:29.520 one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero 0:35:29.600 --> 0:35:35.680 and more rich on Tech after this, welcome back to 0:35:35.760 --> 0:35:38.319 rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you 0:35:38.440 --> 0:35:42.080 talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one eight 0:35:42.120 --> 0:35:45.239 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:35:46.120 --> 0:35:49.160 Bar brights in on email. Hey Rich love all your 0:35:49.200 --> 0:35:52.359 tips and ideas. I watch you on KTLA two. I 0:35:52.400 --> 0:35:54.440 wonder if you've had this question before. I have an 0:35:54.440 --> 0:35:58.040 iPhone sixteen Pro. I don't use iCloud. It bugs me 0:35:58.080 --> 0:36:00.000 when they keep asking for money just to back up 0:36:00.120 --> 0:36:03.480 my data. I use Google Photos and Google Drive, and 0:36:03.560 --> 0:36:06.920 I just learned that iTunes is only used for podcasts. 0:36:07.040 --> 0:36:09.240 I used to use iTunes to back up my phone. 0:36:09.640 --> 0:36:13.200 Do you have any suggestions? Thanks for your time. Yes, 0:36:13.719 --> 0:36:17.600 you actually still can use iTunes on Windows to back 0:36:17.680 --> 0:36:21.440 up your phone to your computer. It's not as straightforward 0:36:21.600 --> 0:36:23.120 or as apparent as it. 0:36:23.080 --> 0:36:23.520 Used to be. 0:36:23.719 --> 0:36:27.759 But I just downloaded it to my Windows computer sitting here, 0:36:28.239 --> 0:36:31.720 and sure enough it's you plug it. So download iTunes 0:36:31.760 --> 0:36:32.320 to your computer. 0:36:32.480 --> 0:36:32.840 Okay. 0:36:33.000 --> 0:36:35.600 And by the way, iTunes is not just for podcasts, 0:36:35.600 --> 0:36:39.000 it's for everything still. It's got music and shows and 0:36:39.200 --> 0:36:41.960 you know, it's just everything is through the cloud now. 0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:43.480 So Apple wants to push the cloud. 0:36:43.480 --> 0:36:46.000 They don't think people are plugging their phones into computers 0:36:46.000 --> 0:36:49.080 anymore because that doesn't get them any money, and so 0:36:49.160 --> 0:36:50.279 they don't want to promote that. 0:36:50.920 --> 0:36:51.960 But you can still do this. 0:36:52.120 --> 0:36:55.000 So if you plug in your phone to your computer 0:36:55.200 --> 0:36:57.120 and unlock your phone, it'll say do you want to 0:36:57.160 --> 0:37:01.759 trust this device? And you do that, and you will 0:37:01.800 --> 0:37:04.600 see up at the top where it says music and 0:37:04.640 --> 0:37:07.640 things like that, underneath the little menu bar there would 0:37:07.640 --> 0:37:11.239 be a little tiny icon of a smartphone. Tap that 0:37:11.600 --> 0:37:15.080 icon and you'll now see all the settings for your phone, 0:37:15.719 --> 0:37:18.040 just like the old days. And then you'll see somebody 0:37:18.080 --> 0:37:21.760 that says backups, and so it says automatically backup iCloud, 0:37:21.840 --> 0:37:24.400 backup the most important data on your phone to iCloud 0:37:24.600 --> 0:37:28.600 or this computer. You can tap that and it will 0:37:28.600 --> 0:37:31.600 automatically back up your iPhone a full backup of your 0:37:31.600 --> 0:37:34.200 iPhone will be stored in this computer. Now, the only 0:37:34.200 --> 0:37:35.680 thing that gets a little tricky there is if you 0:37:35.680 --> 0:37:38.799 have a ton of photos on your phone's it might 0:37:38.880 --> 0:37:40.880 run out of space because you're trying to put all 0:37:40.880 --> 0:37:43.560 those photos on your computer. So you said you use 0:37:43.640 --> 0:37:46.080 Google Photos. What you can do is you can go 0:37:46.120 --> 0:37:50.120 into Google Photos and there's an option to delete the 0:37:50.160 --> 0:37:53.640 pictures off your phone. So if you tap press and 0:37:53.680 --> 0:37:56.880 hold on the Google Photos icon on your smartphone, it'll 0:37:56.880 --> 0:37:59.360 say free up space. You tap that, it will delete 0:37:59.360 --> 0:38:01.799 all the pictures off your phone, but keep them in 0:38:01.880 --> 0:38:05.040 Google Cloud for safekeeping. Of course, you always want to 0:38:05.080 --> 0:38:07.399 have a secondary backup somewhere else, just in case something 0:38:07.440 --> 0:38:10.120 happened to Google Cloud. I don't expect that to happen, 0:38:10.160 --> 0:38:13.200 but you never know it could. So again, Barb, to 0:38:13.239 --> 0:38:16.319 answer your question, you can absolutely use iTunes to back 0:38:16.400 --> 0:38:20.440 up your iPhone to your computer on Windows eleven. Just 0:38:20.560 --> 0:38:24.600 know that they don't make the icon as visible as 0:38:24.640 --> 0:38:27.320 it used to be, So when you plug in your phone, 0:38:27.760 --> 0:38:29.920 just look underneath the little menu bar for that tiny 0:38:29.920 --> 0:38:32.560 little phone icon and it will. 0:38:32.880 --> 0:38:37.680 Bring you up that backup option. Let's go to Mark 0:38:37.719 --> 0:38:38.799 and Woodland Hills Mark. 0:38:38.880 --> 0:38:41.160 You're on with Rich, Well, Rich. 0:38:41.000 --> 0:38:43.000 I know you travel quite a bit and you're the 0:38:43.080 --> 0:38:46.040 tech guy, so I'm gonna see what you can advise 0:38:46.120 --> 0:38:49.120 us with. I have to get a whole new travel kit. 0:38:50.200 --> 0:38:54.920 I'm looking at carry on luggage, Hardshell check the luggage. 0:38:55.400 --> 0:38:59.960 I'm getting contradictory information online and from TSA about smart 0:39:00.080 --> 0:39:03.840 suitcases because I guess some of them have lycium batteries 0:39:03.880 --> 0:39:06.719 embedded into them. And I'm just kind of confused at 0:39:06.719 --> 0:39:08.680 this point. And I was hoping that you could help 0:39:08.719 --> 0:39:12.640 me get a fresh start. And I don't plan to 0:39:12.640 --> 0:39:15.520 do more than you know, three days a three weeks 0:39:15.560 --> 0:39:19.839 travel day, for instance. And is there anything locally, like 0:39:19.880 --> 0:39:26.319 a nice outlet that has reasonably priced equipment, you know, 0:39:26.360 --> 0:39:27.320 for travel? 0:39:27.440 --> 0:39:30.000 Yeah, well, good question. I've actually been looking at new 0:39:30.080 --> 0:39:34.759 luggage myself. I'm currently using Amazon Basics luggage, which I 0:39:34.800 --> 0:39:37.880 think I purchased for about I should look because this 0:39:38.000 --> 0:39:41.960 is talk about being cheap. I travel around the world. 0:39:42.440 --> 0:39:45.439 My suitcase has been to like twenty countries. I don't 0:39:45.440 --> 0:39:48.920 know so many countries and it's literally Amazon Basics, And 0:39:49.320 --> 0:39:51.560 I'm looking at my Amazon to see how much I 0:39:51.600 --> 0:39:52.440 spent on this and. 0:39:52.360 --> 0:39:56.920 I'm telling you it's held up. Let's see my luggage. 0:39:57.280 --> 0:40:01.120 Okay, I order this in twenty twenty one Amazon Basics 0:40:01.239 --> 0:40:03.719 Urban Soft Side Spinner, a three piece set. 0:40:03.760 --> 0:40:06.880 Okay, let's see how much this cost me? Three pieces? 0:40:07.200 --> 0:40:09.600 Okay, of course it's not it's no longer available, but 0:40:09.680 --> 0:40:12.120 let's see if I can see my order details. So 0:40:12.160 --> 0:40:16.280 I bought three pieces of luggage I still use, okay, 0:40:16.320 --> 0:40:19.120 more than I thought. Two hundred and nine dollars for 0:40:19.160 --> 0:40:24.759 three pieces. That's actually pretty good. I mean, yeah, that's 0:40:24.800 --> 0:40:26.080 pretty that's pretty cheap. 0:40:26.120 --> 0:40:28.959 I think I have a suggestion, Yes this is weird 0:40:28.960 --> 0:40:32.400 for me, if you literally go to Believe it or 0:40:32.400 --> 0:40:36.200 not home Depot and look up suitcases like luggage on 0:40:36.320 --> 0:40:39.880 home Depot. I bought my son a three piece set 0:40:40.040 --> 0:40:41.080 for ninety bucks. 0:40:41.200 --> 0:40:45.120 Oh that he's still using. And it's see this is the. 0:40:45.040 --> 0:40:48.040 Thing about luggage, and I'm looking at Amazon Basics now 0:40:48.080 --> 0:40:51.479 it's actually way cheaper. So the same or similar three 0:40:51.520 --> 0:40:54.200 piece which looks way better than what I got, is 0:40:54.239 --> 0:40:56.279 only one hundred and twenty three dollars now, so the 0:40:56.280 --> 0:40:58.520 price is actually dropped. It drop yeah, And I'll put 0:40:58.520 --> 0:41:00.480 this link on the thing because I've brought the luggage 0:41:00.480 --> 0:41:04.560 around the world. It has been perfectly fine. It is great, 0:41:04.920 --> 0:41:07.400 and there's I mean, it's got the little wheels that spin, 0:41:07.600 --> 0:41:10.920 it's got the telescoping arm. I mean, it's it's perfect. 0:41:11.360 --> 0:41:13.440 And my wife keeps bugging me to get a new luggage. 0:41:13.440 --> 0:41:15.080 She's like, Ranch, you travel so much, you have to 0:41:15.080 --> 0:41:17.680 have a nice luggage. I said, why, this luggage works 0:41:17.719 --> 0:41:20.319 just fine. I even when I landed in Mexico City 0:41:20.320 --> 0:41:23.520 a couple of weeks ago, it was pouring rain. My 0:41:23.600 --> 0:41:26.600 luggage was out in the rain for like thirty minutes. 0:41:26.719 --> 0:41:29.000 It took about an hour to get my luggage. And 0:41:29.239 --> 0:41:30.600 I'm not kidding. I opened it up. 0:41:30.640 --> 0:41:31.160 It was fine. 0:41:31.800 --> 0:41:34.680 It was even repelled the rain. So again, why do 0:41:34.760 --> 0:41:36.879 I need something that's more expensive? So she's been trying 0:41:36.880 --> 0:41:39.000 to convince me to get something like, you know, this 0:41:39.120 --> 0:41:43.680 priceier luggage American Tourist or the Away Luggage and Mark. 0:41:43.760 --> 0:41:46.360 To quickly answer your question about the place that's local, 0:41:47.080 --> 0:41:49.400 I mean, if you want to go super pricey, obviously 0:41:49.440 --> 0:41:50.960 to me is fantastic. 0:41:51.040 --> 0:41:52.640 You're gonna spend an arm and a leg in there. 0:41:53.280 --> 0:41:53.759 But if you. 0:41:53.719 --> 0:41:57.799 Want there actually is an away luggage store in the 0:41:58.000 --> 0:42:01.040 Los Angeles area, and Away makes you know. They're kind 0:42:01.040 --> 0:42:03.719 of this like company that's super hip and cool, and 0:42:03.760 --> 0:42:07.879 they make really nice luggage that people like. And they've 0:42:07.880 --> 0:42:09.879 got a store in West Hollywood, so if you want 0:42:09.880 --> 0:42:12.959 to see that stuff in person, it's on Melrose. That's 0:42:13.000 --> 0:42:14.880 the stuff that I really like, Like I think Away 0:42:14.920 --> 0:42:19.279 makes really nice stuff. There's also another luggage that's called 0:42:19.400 --> 0:42:23.759 Props Props Props luggage, and this is really cool because 0:42:23.760 --> 0:42:25.000 it's got the legs built in. 0:42:25.520 --> 0:42:25.600 So. 0:42:25.680 --> 0:42:28.320 I don't know about you, but I do not unpack 0:42:28.400 --> 0:42:30.680 when I get to a hotel room. I just use 0:42:30.800 --> 0:42:33.520 my luggage to live out of. And so I just 0:42:33.560 --> 0:42:35.760 take that thing out of the closet, that like little 0:42:36.160 --> 0:42:38.960 luggage stand, that luggage rack, and I put it in 0:42:38.960 --> 0:42:41.160 the room and then I just put my luggage on top, 0:42:41.200 --> 0:42:43.400 and I just live out of my suitcase. 0:42:43.480 --> 0:42:46.080 As they say. But I know some people like to unpack. 0:42:46.160 --> 0:42:49.799 But Props has that little luggage stand built into the 0:42:49.840 --> 0:42:53.520 suitcase itself. Propsluggage dot Com. I have not tested this, 0:42:53.680 --> 0:42:55.560 but they pitched me on it a couple of years ago. 0:42:55.560 --> 0:42:56.720 I thought it was a cool idea. 0:42:57.120 --> 0:43:00.920 I've got some friends that use it. It's let's see, 0:43:00.920 --> 0:43:05.839 it's probably I'm guessing it's quite expensive. Let's see graphite. Yeah, 0:43:05.840 --> 0:43:08.120 three hundred and ninety nine dollars for one suitcase, so 0:43:08.200 --> 0:43:12.359 it's not cheap. The other thing is you mentioned the 0:43:12.440 --> 0:43:15.960 lithium battery in the suitcase. Why that is my question? 0:43:16.160 --> 0:43:19.200 Why do you need smart luggage? Why do you need 0:43:19.239 --> 0:43:22.160 a battery pack in your suitcase? You do not need that. 0:43:22.719 --> 0:43:26.319 Battery packs are cheap, they're inexpensive, they're thirty dollars. You 0:43:26.360 --> 0:43:28.320 want it in your backpack when you're on a plane 0:43:28.440 --> 0:43:29.960 because you want to be able to charge your stuff. 0:43:30.000 --> 0:43:34.839 I do not understand this fascination with USB ports and 0:43:35.160 --> 0:43:37.160 power packs inside the luggage. 0:43:37.160 --> 0:43:37.839 We don't need that. 0:43:38.640 --> 0:43:40.880 And the thing about the lithium batteries, I am not 0:43:40.920 --> 0:43:43.440 an expert in this, but i do travel with a 0:43:43.480 --> 0:43:46.200 lot of gadgets and I've often you know, they always 0:43:46.239 --> 0:43:47.840 ask you when you check in your luggage do you 0:43:47.880 --> 0:43:52.080 have any lithium ion batteries in your luggage? And I'm like, oh, 0:43:52.520 --> 0:43:55.880 I have like a portable bluetooth speaker, I have a 0:43:55.920 --> 0:43:58.040 phone in there, I've got a tablet in there. Sometimes 0:43:58.080 --> 0:44:00.719 I'll travel with stuff in my actual check loveuggage, and 0:44:00.760 --> 0:44:04.280 from what I've understood, and don't you know, don't quote 0:44:04.280 --> 0:44:05.959 me on this, like don't pack stuff in your bags 0:44:06.000 --> 0:44:09.560 without telling the airport. But what I've understood is that 0:44:09.880 --> 0:44:14.080 those lithium ion batteries are specific to like medical devices. 0:44:14.080 --> 0:44:16.920 It seems like they are very specific. It's not like 0:44:17.640 --> 0:44:22.120 if you bring a Bluetooth speaker in your luggage. I 0:44:22.160 --> 0:44:24.239 don't think that's what they're talking about, or an air 0:44:24.320 --> 0:44:26.239 tag or something like that. Like, I don't think they're 0:44:26.239 --> 0:44:29.520 worried about that. I think they're worried about really big, 0:44:29.760 --> 0:44:34.040 like very energy dense batteries in your luggage, and so 0:44:34.120 --> 0:44:37.160 I think that's what they're talking about. But Mark, the 0:44:37.200 --> 0:44:40.759 short answer is, when you are talking about luggage, I 0:44:40.800 --> 0:44:44.560 think that there are so many options out there. I'm 0:44:44.600 --> 0:44:46.840 not the best person asked because I again, I have 0:44:46.920 --> 0:44:50.759 Amazon Basics, so I'm not really interested in the top 0:44:50.840 --> 0:44:52.960 quality luggage, even though I think it'd be nice to 0:44:53.000 --> 0:44:56.720 have that. I just don't think you need the luggage 0:44:56.760 --> 0:44:59.000 with all of the tech built into it. So thanks 0:44:59.040 --> 0:45:01.399 for the call today, I appreciate and hopefully you're going 0:45:01.400 --> 0:45:06.719 somewhere fun. 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I'm not 0:46:02.320 --> 0:46:04.759 sure if they still offer that, but go for it. 0:46:04.840 --> 0:46:06.920 I mean, get this free pro plan just for the 0:46:06.960 --> 0:46:10.239 two terabytes of storage plus the notebook LM, which is 0:46:10.280 --> 0:46:10.880 really cool. 0:46:11.280 --> 0:46:12.360 So that's that's. 0:46:12.160 --> 0:46:15.840 An amazing deal right there, Gemini dot Google slash students. 0:46:15.880 --> 0:46:17.480 I will link it up on the website rich on 0:46:17.600 --> 0:46:20.919 Tech dot TV. Uh, do I have time for one more? 0:46:20.920 --> 0:46:22.520 We heading right to break. Nope, we're heading to break 0:46:22.520 --> 0:46:25.239 all right, eighty eight rich one O one eight eight 0:46:25.280 --> 0:46:27.719 eight seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up, 0:46:28.200 --> 0:46:31.080 I'm gonna tell you about this new streaming service for 0:46:31.160 --> 0:46:34.239 three dollars a month, launched by Roku. And we got 0:46:34.239 --> 0:46:37.440 Adam Daud on the way. He's gonna talk about robotic lawnmowers. 0:46:37.520 --> 0:46:41.600 This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:46:41.719 --> 0:46:46.399 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 0:46:46.440 --> 0:46:48.879 eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight 0:46:49.040 --> 0:46:49.799 seven four to. 0:46:49.800 --> 0:46:51.919 Two four one zero one. 0:46:53.239 --> 0:46:56.239 Let's go to Bonnie in Ohio. Bonnie, you're on with 0:46:56.360 --> 0:46:57.879 Rich Hi. 0:46:58.000 --> 0:46:58.239 Rich. 0:46:58.680 --> 0:47:02.879 We have a text three several weeks in Ohio on 0:47:03.440 --> 0:47:07.440 items like laptop things for kids to go back to school. 0:47:08.080 --> 0:47:11.720 I'm wondering if you have a laptop under five hundred 0:47:11.719 --> 0:47:18.279 dollars you would recommend just for basic internet searching email? Uh? 0:47:18.440 --> 0:47:20.480 Are you interested in a Chrome book or do you 0:47:20.520 --> 0:47:24.480 want like a Windows based or a Mac based Windows 0:47:24.520 --> 0:47:27.839 based Okay, Windows based okay, because the Chromebooks are very 0:47:27.840 --> 0:47:30.080 inexpensive and so you can get that for a deal. 0:47:30.760 --> 0:47:32.960 I think when it comes to the Windows based laptops, 0:47:33.000 --> 0:47:37.800 my favorite is really the Asus the Vvo Book it's called, 0:47:37.920 --> 0:47:41.520 and I love this because it's such a great laptop 0:47:42.600 --> 0:47:45.239 for not a very expensive price. So those are the 0:47:46.040 --> 0:47:47.920 that's the one that I really like. The problem is 0:47:48.400 --> 0:47:50.239 you got to find it when it's on sale and 0:47:50.280 --> 0:47:52.520 you said you have like a you've got like a 0:47:52.960 --> 0:47:54.440 tax free holiday coming. 0:47:54.280 --> 0:47:58.080 Up, Yes, through the fourteenth, I believe. 0:47:58.000 --> 0:48:01.319 Okay, So I wonder when they uh do that, you know, 0:48:01.440 --> 0:48:04.480 do the sale or the sales as good? Because this 0:48:04.560 --> 0:48:07.040 laptop was on sale for even though what I'm testing, 0:48:07.040 --> 0:48:09.319 which is the Asus zen Book, which I really like, 0:48:10.280 --> 0:48:12.319 that one was on sale I think for six ninety nine, 0:48:12.360 --> 0:48:15.320 which is incredible, Like this thing is brand new, beautiful, 0:48:16.640 --> 0:48:19.880 So that that brand I like, if you see a 0:48:20.000 --> 0:48:22.000 sus at the you know, if you're going to Best 0:48:22.000 --> 0:48:24.399 Buy or wherever you're going to buy it. The other 0:48:24.480 --> 0:48:27.160 thing is really I think that what it comes down 0:48:27.160 --> 0:48:30.840 to is the specs of the computer. So you know, 0:48:30.880 --> 0:48:32.400 I can give you the top brands that I like. 0:48:32.440 --> 0:48:35.200 I think Lenovo is great. I think a SUS is great. 0:48:35.560 --> 0:48:37.239 But I think really what it comes down to is 0:48:37.280 --> 0:48:40.839 the specs. And so if you're looking for specs, I 0:48:40.880 --> 0:48:44.040 think you want to make sure that you're getting something 0:48:44.120 --> 0:48:48.120 that's either it's interesting because they've got these new processors 0:48:48.160 --> 0:48:52.280 called Snapdragon, which the battery the battery life is really 0:48:52.320 --> 0:48:53.040 good with those. 0:48:53.400 --> 0:48:54.280 So if you're. 0:48:54.160 --> 0:48:56.759 Looking for a Snapdragon, I think it's called like the 0:48:56.960 --> 0:48:58.879 x E Leade or something like that. The battery life 0:48:58.920 --> 0:49:01.479 is really good on those, but it's not so good 0:49:01.520 --> 0:49:04.319 for things like super high end processing, like if you're 0:49:04.400 --> 0:49:07.080 video editing or something like that, it'll work, but it's 0:49:07.160 --> 0:49:09.200 maybe not as good as like an Intel or an 0:49:09.239 --> 0:49:13.120 AMD processor. But in general, in general, i'll give you 0:49:13.160 --> 0:49:17.280 my thoughts for these things. So for the Intel chips 0:49:17.440 --> 0:49:20.240 or the AMD, you want at least an Intel five 0:49:20.400 --> 0:49:23.160 or an AMD five. They've got different levels, but if 0:49:23.200 --> 0:49:25.240 you go with five or higher, you're gonna be good there. 0:49:25.960 --> 0:49:29.040 Hard drive, you want a one terabyte hard drive, So 0:49:29.160 --> 0:49:31.080 one terabyte hard drive is going to give you plenty 0:49:31.080 --> 0:49:35.040 of room when it comes to RAM. This is the 0:49:35.800 --> 0:49:41.000 gigabyte number, like four gigs, sixteen gigs, eighteen gigs or sorry, eighteen. 0:49:41.160 --> 0:49:45.839 It's usually in numbers like four, eight, sixteen, thirty two. 0:49:46.320 --> 0:49:49.359 I would look for at least sixteen gigs of RAM. 0:49:50.000 --> 0:49:52.160 I told you about the hard drive for a terabyte. 0:49:52.280 --> 0:49:54.839 Now the graphics card, that's the other thing under five 0:49:54.920 --> 0:49:59.040 hundred dollars. You're probably not gonna find a separate graphics 0:49:59.480 --> 0:50:02.680 card instead these computers, but you might, and so you'll 0:50:02.719 --> 0:50:06.480 notice it'll either say integrated graphics or it'll specifically give 0:50:06.480 --> 0:50:09.520 you the graphics card number. Ideally, you would want a 0:50:09.560 --> 0:50:13.480 computer that gives you a graphics card number separate, because 0:50:13.480 --> 0:50:16.879 that means that it's got better graphics processing than one 0:50:16.880 --> 0:50:20.200 that's built into the processor. And then with the screen size, 0:50:20.239 --> 0:50:22.359 you always want to get the biggest screen size you can. 0:50:23.200 --> 0:50:26.520 Fourteen sixteen inches would be ideal. I had a thirteen 0:50:26.520 --> 0:50:29.760 inch laptop and it just it was way too tiny. 0:50:30.920 --> 0:50:33.000 But again, yeah, I'm looking at this. Oh wow, look 0:50:33.040 --> 0:50:36.200 at this. So they've got best Buy has a list 0:50:36.280 --> 0:50:39.600 of laptops under five hundred dollars, so you can actually 0:50:39.600 --> 0:50:41.160 go through. Let me see, I'm going to type in 0:50:41.200 --> 0:50:43.440 some of the things I just put in there. I 0:50:43.560 --> 0:50:48.279 said sixteen gigs of RAM, and the storage and let's 0:50:48.280 --> 0:50:51.680 see what comes up. So they're coming up with two hps. 0:50:51.760 --> 0:50:54.239 Those are refurbished. Oh wow, so it might be a 0:50:54.320 --> 0:50:58.359 little tough. Let me see, you might have to go. Yeah, 0:50:58.400 --> 0:51:02.959 the sixteen gigs of RAM is really tricky. Interesting, Maybe 0:51:03.000 --> 0:51:04.919 it's thirty two. Let me try one more thing here, 0:51:05.440 --> 0:51:06.920 maybe you can get even more O there you go. 0:51:07.440 --> 0:51:09.560 So it looks like you can get those specs for 0:51:09.680 --> 0:51:11.480 under five hundred. A lot of it is the Dell 0:51:11.520 --> 0:51:16.320 and the HP models, so you know you can find it. 0:51:16.320 --> 0:51:18.879 It's just a little trickier to get that under five 0:51:18.920 --> 0:51:20.759 hundred dollars price point. You're gonna watch something that's on 0:51:20.840 --> 0:51:23.600 sale for sure. But great question, Thanks Bonnie. I know 0:51:24.080 --> 0:51:26.600 back to school is coming up and it's one of 0:51:26.640 --> 0:51:28.920 these things. My kid went back to school and they 0:51:28.960 --> 0:51:31.799 gave him like a Chromebook and it's just like this 0:51:31.840 --> 0:51:33.240 thing must be like one hundred dollars. 0:51:33.280 --> 0:51:35.560 Like it's just it's so bad. It's just like, oh 0:51:35.600 --> 0:51:36.160 my gosh. 0:51:36.200 --> 0:51:39.480 So get the best specs you can with the money 0:51:39.480 --> 0:51:41.520 that you have to spend, and that is the best 0:51:41.520 --> 0:51:46.760 advice because it will last you longer. Roku has launched 0:51:46.800 --> 0:51:51.640 a new streaming service called Howdy. This is a only 0:51:51.719 --> 0:51:54.799 three dollars a month, ad free It's gonna be on 0:51:55.000 --> 0:51:58.600 Roku devices at start. That's not a trial price, no ads, 0:51:58.640 --> 0:52:02.759 no contracts. Got ten thousand hours of entertainment from all 0:52:02.800 --> 0:52:06.360 the different companies Lionsgate, Warner Brothers, Discovery. 0:52:06.320 --> 0:52:07.719 Plus Roku originals. 0:52:08.640 --> 0:52:12.680 Designed to complement premium streaming services, not replace them. So 0:52:12.880 --> 0:52:16.520 it's gonna be available now on Roku devices and rolling 0:52:16.520 --> 0:52:20.799 out to other devices and platforms soon. Roku, as you know, 0:52:21.320 --> 0:52:22.719 has a whole bunch of stuff. Now they've got the 0:52:22.800 --> 0:52:25.239 Roku Channel, which is free and ad supported. Then they 0:52:25.320 --> 0:52:27.640 got Friendly Tv which they just purchased, which is like 0:52:27.680 --> 0:52:30.399 a live TV kind of cable TV kind of thing. 0:52:30.800 --> 0:52:32.759 And now they've got Howdy which I think is a 0:52:32.760 --> 0:52:36.759 great name the website Howdy dot tv. So streaming for 0:52:36.800 --> 0:52:38.560 three dollars a month. I think this is going to 0:52:38.640 --> 0:52:42.360 have a back catalog of older stuff. But again, it's like, 0:52:42.480 --> 0:52:44.839 if you like what they're doing with Roku Channel where 0:52:44.840 --> 0:52:47.520 it's all free, but you kind of want some stuff 0:52:47.560 --> 0:52:50.120 that's ad free. You just want to watch stuff, this 0:52:50.200 --> 0:52:53.600 is probably a good option Howdy dot tv. I'll put 0:52:53.640 --> 0:52:55.440 the links to everything I just mentioned on the website 0:52:55.520 --> 0:52:56.520 rich on Tech dot TV. 0:52:56.640 --> 0:52:57.560 Coming up, Adam Daud. 0:52:57.600 --> 0:53:00.359 He's going to talk about robotic lawnmowers and some other 0:53:00.400 --> 0:53:04.680 things he's been testing on rich on Tech. Welcome back 0:53:04.719 --> 0:53:07.000 to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with 0:53:07.080 --> 0:53:10.640 you talking technology. Triple eight rich one O one eight 0:53:10.680 --> 0:53:13.439 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:53:13.920 --> 0:53:18.120 The website for the show is rich on tech dot tv. 0:53:18.920 --> 0:53:19.080 Uh. 0:53:19.080 --> 0:53:20.920 There you can get the show notes to anything we 0:53:20.960 --> 0:53:25.800 talk about. This is episode one thirty three. Everything is 0:53:25.880 --> 0:53:26.560 right there. 0:53:26.520 --> 0:53:26.879 All right. 0:53:26.960 --> 0:53:30.600 Joining me now is Adam Dawd, freelance technology writer. He 0:53:30.760 --> 0:53:33.879 is always testing something. We're always running into each other 0:53:33.880 --> 0:53:35.400 at all the events around the world. 0:53:35.920 --> 0:53:36.000 Uh. 0:53:36.080 --> 0:53:39.640 This guy travels, I think more than anyone I know. Uh, 0:53:39.719 --> 0:53:42.560 and is always trying something. Adam, Welcome to the show. 0:53:43.520 --> 0:53:45.520 Thank you for having me. It's good to be here. 0:53:45.600 --> 0:53:47.560 Are you on the road a lot throughout the year 0:53:47.680 --> 0:53:47.840 or what? 0:53:48.880 --> 0:53:49.760 Uh? 0:53:49.800 --> 0:53:52.680 So, I'm I'm usually on the plane at least once 0:53:52.760 --> 0:53:56.840 per month going somewhere or doing something, So yes, I 0:53:57.000 --> 0:53:57.919 might travel a lot. 0:53:58.120 --> 0:53:58.440 Yeah. 0:53:58.480 --> 0:54:03.280 And you've got you've got a quite the freelance proliferation 0:54:03.520 --> 0:54:06.520 of sites that you write for. What's your primary do 0:54:06.560 --> 0:54:08.120 you have like a primary place you write. 0:54:09.080 --> 0:54:11.960 Probably slash Gear is where I do get a lot 0:54:12.000 --> 0:54:13.319 of my bread and butter. I do a lot of 0:54:13.400 --> 0:54:16.160 editing behind the scenes at slash Gear, though, so but 0:54:16.239 --> 0:54:18.239 I write there too, so you'll see my work there. 0:54:18.280 --> 0:54:19.359 But most of the work that. 0:54:19.320 --> 0:54:22.279 I do there you'll never see, because you know, the 0:54:22.320 --> 0:54:23.799 good editors, they never know. 0:54:23.760 --> 0:54:24.200 What you do. 0:54:24.480 --> 0:54:25.239 Yeah, I love that. 0:54:26.080 --> 0:54:29.200 So you've been testing a bunch of stuff, robotic lawnmowers. 0:54:29.280 --> 0:54:32.719 I've been fascinated by because the idea of a spinning, 0:54:33.320 --> 0:54:38.640 cutting sharp blade on a robot making its way around 0:54:38.640 --> 0:54:41.880 my lawn with kids and pets and things just sounds 0:54:42.840 --> 0:54:44.080 curiously interesting. 0:54:44.160 --> 0:54:46.120 So what do you make of these things? Which ones 0:54:46.160 --> 0:54:47.040 did you test? 0:54:47.880 --> 0:54:51.720 Okay, so I tested so far, I've tested six of them. 0:54:51.920 --> 0:54:56.200 The most notable comes from Napimo, which is a sub 0:54:56.200 --> 0:54:58.680 brand of Segue, which are you know, the little Paul 0:54:58.680 --> 0:55:02.680 Blart scooters that around. Yes, also did one from Sunseeker. 0:55:02.840 --> 0:55:06.400 Also did one from Yarbo, which is is a trip 0:55:06.400 --> 0:55:08.880 by itself. Yeah, Yarbo is is a bit of a trip. 0:55:09.800 --> 0:55:11.400 So just to uh. 0:55:12.560 --> 0:55:15.200 To put aside, one of the one. 0:55:15.000 --> 0:55:20.400 Of the the the the popular culture things that you mentioned, 0:55:20.760 --> 0:55:24.640 is this maning blades. Unlike a traditional lawnmower, a robot 0:55:24.719 --> 0:55:28.880 lawnmark is basically just a plastic disc with like little 0:55:29.280 --> 0:55:32.800 razor blades about an inch long that sticks out the 0:55:32.920 --> 0:55:35.239 end of it. So like it's not the metal bar 0:55:35.400 --> 0:55:40.319 that traditional so, and it's because it reduces the weight 0:55:40.360 --> 0:55:42.520 that the motor has to run because these are usually 0:55:42.560 --> 0:55:46.000 battery powered. So that's you know, that's one of the 0:55:46.000 --> 0:55:48.440 things like even if it did run over your foot, 0:55:48.440 --> 0:55:51.840 which by the way, one of mine has it, it 0:55:51.920 --> 0:55:54.040 probably won't do a whole ton of damage. 0:55:54.160 --> 0:55:56.880 Okay, So it's it's they've they've thought about that that 0:55:57.000 --> 0:55:59.960 so it's more like almost like one of those weed whackers. 0:56:00.000 --> 0:56:01.759 Remember it has like that little kind of blade that 0:56:01.800 --> 0:56:03.359 comes out. I mean, I get that. So it's all 0:56:03.400 --> 0:56:05.640 it's just plastic. Okay, So it's not as dangerous as 0:56:05.680 --> 0:56:06.320 you might think. 0:56:06.880 --> 0:56:08.520 I mean, it is a metal blade at the end 0:56:08.520 --> 0:56:11.520 of that plastic disc, right, Yeah, it's like it's like 0:56:11.560 --> 0:56:13.279 the little blade that you'd find in like a like 0:56:13.280 --> 0:56:15.000 a like a thing you shave with. 0:56:15.120 --> 0:56:18.319 Okay, got it. Okay, So so you charge this thing up, 0:56:18.400 --> 0:56:20.120 you set up the app. Do you have to tell 0:56:20.120 --> 0:56:21.920 it where to go or does this find its way 0:56:21.920 --> 0:56:22.840 around your lawn or what? 0:56:23.760 --> 0:56:25.680 Yeah, so some of them will find their way around 0:56:25.719 --> 0:56:28.640 their lawn by yourself. Other times you have to like 0:56:28.719 --> 0:56:32.080 draw a boundary and then it'll go in. Like it'll 0:56:32.120 --> 0:56:33.960 go in and just like figure out the best route 0:56:33.960 --> 0:56:36.479 to go. Like with all the obstacles and stuff like that, 0:56:36.800 --> 0:56:38.879 most of them you just you just draw the out 0:56:39.120 --> 0:56:42.839 external boundary and it just goes. And the nice thing 0:56:42.840 --> 0:56:45.239 about these things is you set it and forget it, 0:56:45.320 --> 0:56:47.799 like once you go through all the initial setup, which 0:56:47.880 --> 0:56:50.160 by the way, is a lot, But once you go 0:56:50.239 --> 0:56:52.840 through the initial setup, you just let it go and 0:56:52.880 --> 0:56:55.120 you say, I want you to mow my lawn, you know, 0:56:55.200 --> 0:56:58.200 three times a week Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and you 0:56:58.239 --> 0:57:02.120 have a perpetually short lawn. It doesn't go through the 0:57:02.280 --> 0:57:04.560 long and then short and then long in the short phases. 0:57:04.840 --> 0:57:09.800 It's just perpetually all that one, which is really nice 0:57:10.160 --> 0:57:13.000 and uh it's it's also a great conversation starter. I 0:57:13.040 --> 0:57:16.400 have had cars stop back up. 0:57:16.520 --> 0:57:18.360 And say, excuse me, what is that? 0:57:18.920 --> 0:57:22.680 Yeah, now on that note, what's to keep someone from 0:57:22.720 --> 0:57:23.960 just stealing this thing? 0:57:24.040 --> 0:57:24.560 Is it the same? 0:57:24.640 --> 0:57:28.800 You know, like it's there's a few things. First of all, 0:57:29.160 --> 0:57:33.200 most robot lawnmowers have built in security, like if they 0:57:33.200 --> 0:57:36.200 get picked up, they'll like go into like a lockdown mode. 0:57:36.560 --> 0:57:36.640 Uh. 0:57:36.800 --> 0:57:39.240 Second of all, if you can't charge it, you can't 0:57:39.320 --> 0:57:40.840 use it. So if you're gonna steal the mower, you 0:57:40.920 --> 0:57:44.680 better steal the base station as well. And also most 0:57:44.880 --> 0:57:47.840 robot lawnmowers have a third element, which is called an 0:57:48.000 --> 0:57:50.120 RTK beacon, which. 0:57:50.000 --> 0:57:55.120 Is you're getting fancy on me here, I am, I. 0:57:55.120 --> 0:57:58.800 Really am, so this RTK beacon. The probably the most 0:57:58.960 --> 0:58:01.840 robot lawn mower is the stay use GPS there boundary 0:58:01.840 --> 0:58:05.479 wires are very rarely a thing anymore. But the problem 0:58:05.520 --> 0:58:07.960 with GPS is the GPS you're using to drive down 0:58:07.960 --> 0:58:11.640 your street has an accuracy of roughly three to nine 0:58:11.680 --> 0:58:15.400 feet find when you're driving down Hollywood Boulevard. Not so 0:58:15.520 --> 0:58:18.280 great when you're trying to stay stay off your neighbor's lawn. 0:58:18.880 --> 0:58:22.480 So these robot lawnmowers use an RTK beacon, which is 0:58:23.160 --> 0:58:27.880 a fixed point on the planet Earth where the GPS 0:58:27.920 --> 0:58:30.919 satellites will talk to this beacon and say, I say 0:58:30.920 --> 0:58:33.360 you're here, and the beacons like nope, I am actually 0:58:33.400 --> 0:58:36.320 here five feet to the north, and then the satellites 0:58:36.320 --> 0:58:38.040 will be like, oh, I must be a little bit off, 0:58:38.080 --> 0:58:40.800 So I'm going to tell your lawnmower that everywhere I 0:58:40.840 --> 0:58:42.960 think it is is actually five feet to the north, 0:58:43.320 --> 0:58:46.200 and with that you can get down to like centimeter 0:58:46.320 --> 0:58:47.200 level accuracy. 0:58:47.640 --> 0:58:47.920 Wow. 0:58:48.040 --> 0:58:50.880 That's used in robot lawnmowers. It's also used in like 0:58:51.040 --> 0:58:55.720 large construction vehicles like John Deere. Construction vehicles have these 0:58:55.840 --> 0:58:59.560 RTK beacons that can like their graters will like actually 0:59:00.520 --> 0:59:03.160 use this beacon to figure out where they are so 0:59:03.200 --> 0:59:06.760 they can they can push away dirt where they're supposed 0:59:06.800 --> 0:59:08.960 to and not push away dirt where they're not supposed to. 0:59:09.080 --> 0:59:11.600 Okay, it's really wild. It's got the beacon. Which of 0:59:11.640 --> 0:59:15.480 these three did you like the best? I guess the 0:59:15.840 --> 0:59:18.480 takeaway is like, which features should we look for in 0:59:18.520 --> 0:59:19.680 a good robotic lawnmower? 0:59:19.680 --> 0:59:21.320 And what's the price point? I feel like these things 0:59:21.320 --> 0:59:22.160 are expensive too. 0:59:23.120 --> 0:59:28.280 They are very expensive, not appropriately enough. The most expensive 0:59:28.280 --> 0:59:30.400 one that I tested was also my favorite. 0:59:31.400 --> 0:59:35.280 But the mowers start at about. 0:59:37.200 --> 0:59:41.040 Above a thousand dollars, so roughly one thousand to twelve hundred. 0:59:41.120 --> 0:59:43.680 Maybe that's for the for the lower end ones. The 0:59:43.720 --> 0:59:45.760 one I the one I like the most, was like 0:59:45.800 --> 0:59:47.280 closer to five thousands. 0:59:48.200 --> 0:59:50.360 But they have smaller versions. 0:59:50.560 --> 0:59:53.000 I can one guy live with me for that price. 0:59:54.000 --> 0:59:56.400 The one I have is designed for like golf courses, 0:59:56.760 --> 0:59:59.880 so like they have smaller ones that are closer to like, 1:00:00.200 --> 1:00:03.720 you know, fifteen hundred to two hundred to two thousand rathers. 1:00:03.360 --> 1:00:04.920 So they are pricey. 1:00:06.040 --> 1:00:09.040 However, you know, think about the man hours that you 1:00:09.080 --> 1:00:11.919 spend pushing this thing back and forth across your lawn. 1:00:12.280 --> 1:00:14.600 You know you're in la so you do this year round. 1:00:14.720 --> 1:00:15.560 Why don't do anything? 1:00:15.840 --> 1:00:19.040 Let's be clear, Oh Kia, I've never mowed a lot 1:00:19.080 --> 1:00:21.640 in my life. I actually have once when I was 1:00:21.640 --> 1:00:24.480 a kid and I had the blade so close to 1:00:24.520 --> 1:00:27.840 the grass. My neighbor had to call my dad and say, 1:00:28.360 --> 1:00:31.040 never again, because your kid ruined all of my grass. 1:00:31.120 --> 1:00:32.800 And so that was the one and only time I 1:00:32.840 --> 1:00:34.800 ever mowed the lawn. Now, my dad, by the way, 1:00:35.400 --> 1:00:38.919 loves mowing the lawn like he is a lawnmower OFFICIANTO. 1:00:39.080 --> 1:00:41.280 So he would not want this technology in any way, 1:00:41.320 --> 1:00:43.120 shape or form, because he likes to be out there. 1:00:43.240 --> 1:00:44.720 I think it was his way of being away from 1:00:44.760 --> 1:00:46.840 the family, you know, like, oh, gotta go mow that 1:00:46.920 --> 1:00:47.480 lawn again. 1:00:48.560 --> 1:00:50.320 See he goes and mows the lawn. I go to 1:00:50.360 --> 1:00:52.360 London and we just have our different methods. 1:00:52.440 --> 1:00:53.440 Yeah, there you go. 1:00:54.240 --> 1:00:56.520 But but yeah, so it's it's really cool. 1:00:56.600 --> 1:01:00.320 And they are expensive, no doubt about that, but they 1:01:00.360 --> 1:01:01.320 are coming down in price. 1:01:01.360 --> 1:01:03.480 They're actually a lot more popular in Europe than they 1:01:03.520 --> 1:01:03.960 are here. 1:01:05.120 --> 1:01:09.040 Another mowere that I tested up was from Huskvarna and 1:01:09.320 --> 1:01:14.960 they actually developed the first autonomous lawnmower back in the 1:01:15.040 --> 1:01:18.880 nineties and this thing used you know, boundary wires and 1:01:18.920 --> 1:01:20.800 stuff like that. It kind of went across your lawn, 1:01:20.880 --> 1:01:23.840 kind of like a robot vacuum cleaner inside your house. 1:01:24.880 --> 1:01:27.800 But but yeah, Husbarn has been this in this for 1:01:27.840 --> 1:01:30.960 a long time. Navamo, this is actually one of their 1:01:31.040 --> 1:01:33.640 first that they that they launched, so I was kind of. 1:01:33.640 --> 1:01:35.680 Surprised that they did it as well as they did. 1:01:35.800 --> 1:01:37.840 So, wait, which one is your favorite, the Navamo the 1:01:37.920 --> 1:01:41.000 Sunseeker or the Yarbo the. 1:01:40.720 --> 1:01:43.560 The Navamo is is my favorite because it was the 1:01:43.640 --> 1:01:47.640 easiest to set up and it it does the best job. 1:01:48.360 --> 1:01:49.280 The Yarbo. 1:01:50.480 --> 1:01:55.600 Man that is a study in over engineering because this 1:01:55.600 --> 1:01:58.480 thing has like tank treads, and it's designed for like 1:01:58.640 --> 1:01:59.960 real like solid. 1:01:59.720 --> 1:02:00.560 And dust use. 1:02:00.760 --> 1:02:02.760 But the nice thing about the Arbow is you can 1:02:02.800 --> 1:02:04.520 put a snowblower attachment on it. 1:02:04.600 --> 1:02:07.120 Oh my gosh, I'm not kidding. 1:02:07.920 --> 1:02:09.760 And you can put a leaf blower on it. They 1:02:09.760 --> 1:02:11.800 have a couple of other modules that you can do. 1:02:12.280 --> 1:02:14.800 But but yeah, so the Arbow is is. 1:02:14.840 --> 1:02:19.560 Oh I'd love to see an autonomous snowblower going down 1:02:19.600 --> 1:02:21.840 the street, like on your sidewalk. Like people would just 1:02:21.880 --> 1:02:23.560 be like, what the heck is going on at the 1:02:23.560 --> 1:02:26.800 DeMuro house, although it doesn't really snow where I live. So, okay, 1:02:26.800 --> 1:02:29.640 we got we got about a minute left. I want 1:02:29.680 --> 1:02:33.320 to quickly talk about your take on Samsung's foldables. My 1:02:33.560 --> 1:02:35.600 thesis was that they've gotten to a place where I 1:02:35.600 --> 1:02:37.320 can actually recommend them this year, but you have to 1:02:37.360 --> 1:02:38.600 have a reason for wanting it. 1:02:39.040 --> 1:02:39.840 What's your thought? 1:02:41.400 --> 1:02:44.000 Very similar to this is a remarkable leap forward. I'm 1:02:44.080 --> 1:02:47.959 using the fold seven as we speak. It's a great 1:02:48.040 --> 1:02:51.120 leap forward and very much needed. Samsung was doing a 1:02:51.160 --> 1:02:53.680 little bit of laurel resting up until this year, so 1:02:54.120 --> 1:02:56.160 now it's caught up with a lot of the competition 1:02:56.200 --> 1:02:58.840 and actually surpassed a lot of the competition, which is 1:02:58.920 --> 1:03:03.840 great to see, and uh, it's still a little bit 1:03:03.880 --> 1:03:04.600 too expensive. 1:03:05.400 --> 1:03:09.160 The flip is less impressive. 1:03:08.680 --> 1:03:12.080 But they increase the UH screen on it, which is great, 1:03:12.120 --> 1:03:14.560 the cover screen on it, which is great. And I 1:03:14.560 --> 1:03:17.560 think the funny part about my opinion foldables is I 1:03:17.680 --> 1:03:20.360 judge foldables based on how much I can use them 1:03:20.400 --> 1:03:26.000 when they're folded, not when they're open. And both phones 1:03:26.080 --> 1:03:28.760 do a really great job in that in that respect. 1:03:28.880 --> 1:03:29.680 So yeah, if. 1:03:29.520 --> 1:03:32.040 You're in the market for a foldable, if you work 1:03:32.040 --> 1:03:34.520 with a lot of spreadsheets, spreadsheets are great on this 1:03:34.600 --> 1:03:38.040 thing then and I'm a data nerd, so I use 1:03:38.040 --> 1:03:40.560 spreadsheets all the time. But anyway, yeah, if you're if 1:03:40.560 --> 1:03:42.520 you're into that, then yeah, these are great. 1:03:42.680 --> 1:03:42.919 Yeah. 1:03:42.960 --> 1:03:44.520 I think this year is like if you have a 1:03:44.600 --> 1:03:46.320 use case, like you're like, oh, yeah, I wanted a 1:03:46.320 --> 1:03:49.960 bigger screen to watch movies or use spreadsheets or you know, 1:03:50.080 --> 1:03:52.600 edit photos, whatever, or if you just want to be 1:03:52.640 --> 1:03:54.480 like on the cutting edge and have something cool that's 1:03:54.520 --> 1:03:58.000 different than Sure, I couldn't say that in previous years, 1:03:58.000 --> 1:03:59.560 Like this is the first year. I'm like, yes, this 1:03:59.720 --> 1:04:02.960 is You'll be completely happy with these, all right, Adam Daud. 1:04:03.000 --> 1:04:06.200 We're gonna leave it there, dead Technology. That is your 1:04:06.320 --> 1:04:10.360 user name on threads, Adam Dowd Dead Technology. There is 1:04:10.400 --> 1:04:13.360 a story there, but you're gonna have to ask Adam 1:04:13.400 --> 1:04:15.080 if you want that. He can explain. 1:04:15.160 --> 1:04:18.440 This is nothing. It's just it's silly, it's funny. It's 1:04:18.480 --> 1:04:20.880 silly anyway. Thanks for joining me today. 1:04:20.640 --> 1:04:23.439 Adam, Thanks for having me forward to doing it again. 1:04:23.560 --> 1:04:25.200 I will see you at the next event. I'm guessing 1:04:25.240 --> 1:04:27.720 the Pixel event in New York City. Uh eighty to eight 1:04:27.800 --> 1:04:30.280 rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to two, 1:04:30.480 --> 1:04:33.840 four to one zero one. More of your calls and emails. 1:04:33.600 --> 1:04:34.160 Right after this. 1:04:37.320 --> 1:04:40.160 Welcome back to rich on tech rich DeMuro here hanging 1:04:40.200 --> 1:04:46.360 out with you, talking technology the website rich on tech 1:04:46.560 --> 1:04:49.680 dot TV. 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So just to be very clear, you 1:06:52.240 --> 1:06:56.200 do not need the base cable service to get YouTube 1:06:56.280 --> 1:07:00.200 or to get NFL Sunday Ticket. But there are some 1:07:00.240 --> 1:07:02.400 caveats to that because basically you're not going to get 1:07:02.440 --> 1:07:05.520 all the games because the ones that are local or 1:07:05.560 --> 1:07:07.800 are on a different channel or something or yeah, like 1:07:07.840 --> 1:07:11.160 Prime TV ins or Prime Amazon, Prime Peacock, you're not 1:07:11.160 --> 1:07:14.400 going to get those necessarily, So just be aware of that. 1:07:14.560 --> 1:07:19.640 But here are the deals that I found online. Number one, Verizon, 1:07:20.520 --> 1:07:23.800 you can get NFL Sunday Ticket for free if you 1:07:23.880 --> 1:07:24.200 get a. 1:07:24.160 --> 1:07:25.680 New line with them, if you add a line. 1:07:26.320 --> 1:07:30.080 Existing customers pay two hundred and seventy six dollars, so 1:07:30.520 --> 1:07:34.400 that's you know, decent savings. There Best Buy two hundred 1:07:34.400 --> 1:07:37.440 and fifty eight dollars if you do the my best 1:07:37.440 --> 1:07:39.560 Buy Plus membership, So if you already have that, you 1:07:39.600 --> 1:07:41.480 can get it or you have to buy that membership 1:07:41.520 --> 1:07:44.600 which is fifty dollars a year. Students, this is the 1:07:44.600 --> 1:07:48.880 best deal one hundred and nineteen dollars via YouTube Student plan. 1:07:49.360 --> 1:07:51.000 So if you're a student, I think you have to 1:07:51.040 --> 1:07:52.760 be a college student because I couldn't figure out how 1:07:52.760 --> 1:07:54.320 to do it for my kid who's in you know, 1:07:54.440 --> 1:07:58.320 elementary school and high school, so that we couldn't take 1:07:58.320 --> 1:08:03.360 advantage of military first responders, nurses, teachers, and medical providers. 1:08:03.400 --> 1:08:06.480 That's a lot of people. One hundred and ninety eight dollars. 1:08:06.760 --> 1:08:09.920 But you have to get verified through id dot me. 1:08:10.440 --> 1:08:12.120 If you're not familiar with it. This is like a 1:08:12.120 --> 1:08:14.840 platform that has a bunch of discounts on things, but 1:08:14.920 --> 1:08:17.880 you have to verify your eligibility and usually you only 1:08:17.960 --> 1:08:20.839 have to do that one time. So if you're already verified, 1:08:20.920 --> 1:08:22.840 this should be pretty easy. But in the case of 1:08:22.880 --> 1:08:27.960 my wife, who is a teacher, she basically had to 1:08:28.000 --> 1:08:30.400 submit like her social Security number, and I was like, uh, 1:08:30.680 --> 1:08:32.960 not doing that. So I ended up going with the 1:08:33.080 --> 1:08:35.759 Verizon deal two hundred and seventy six dollars. 1:08:35.760 --> 1:08:36.439 That's what I did. 1:08:37.160 --> 1:08:39.280 You can also get it if you're a new customer 1:08:39.280 --> 1:08:42.240 for two eighty through the YouTube you know, the standard 1:08:42.320 --> 1:08:45.800 YouTube YouTube TV thing. So anyway, yeah, watching football, it 1:08:45.840 --> 1:08:48.519 turns out is very expensive, something that I did not 1:08:48.640 --> 1:08:54.120 realize till my kid got into it. Uh, Comcast is 1:08:54.600 --> 1:08:58.840 moving their email service to Yahoo. So a Comcast is 1:08:58.840 --> 1:09:02.760 shutting down it's Infinity email platform and it's going to 1:09:02.840 --> 1:09:06.200 migrate all Comcast dot Net accounts to Yahoo Mail over 1:09:06.240 --> 1:09:11.040 the next few months. So yes, Hiler, Hiler, Hiler, things 1:09:11.080 --> 1:09:11.679 are changing. 1:09:12.800 --> 1:09:13.440 Uh. 1:09:13.520 --> 1:09:15.759 Now, I think this is probably gonna be better because 1:09:15.880 --> 1:09:18.639 you know, if you're using some random third party email service, 1:09:18.680 --> 1:09:22.360 it's probably not that good. So Yahoo has a decent, 1:09:22.479 --> 1:09:24.680 you know, email platform, which I think is going to 1:09:24.720 --> 1:09:26.680 be better in general. But I get it, it's going 1:09:26.720 --> 1:09:28.920 to be a major shift for a lot of people. 1:09:29.080 --> 1:09:32.280 But everything's going to transfer over all. Your messages, your folders, 1:09:32.320 --> 1:09:35.800 your contacts, your email addresses are going to stay the same. 1:09:36.160 --> 1:09:39.200 So basically the only thing that's going to change is 1:09:39.720 --> 1:09:45.200 everything where you go to log in and of course 1:09:45.240 --> 1:09:48.800 the way everything looks. So I guess they started sending 1:09:48.840 --> 1:09:51.360 out messages on August second to customers, so if you 1:09:51.439 --> 1:09:55.040 got that, it is legitimate. About thirty days after that, 1:09:55.120 --> 1:09:57.720 so we're talking September second, you're going to get an 1:09:57.720 --> 1:10:00.439 email that's going to tell you to log in at 1:10:00.439 --> 1:10:05.519 connect dot exfinity dot com to accept the new Yahoo terms, 1:10:05.960 --> 1:10:08.040 and then you have one hundred and twenty days from 1:10:08.040 --> 1:10:11.720 that day to complete the migration. If you don't, you 1:10:11.800 --> 1:10:15.000 might lose your entire account. So again, you've got one 1:10:15.040 --> 1:10:18.120 hundred and twenty days to do this, but you know 1:10:18.320 --> 1:10:20.800 you should probably do it earlier than later. Now, if 1:10:20.840 --> 1:10:22.880 you don't want to switch to Yahoo Mail, you can 1:10:23.000 --> 1:10:25.479 just export all of your stuff and close your account. 1:10:25.880 --> 1:10:29.479 You can do that at export dot exfinity dot com. 1:10:29.960 --> 1:10:32.519 So that is happening. It's going to be a big change. 1:10:32.960 --> 1:10:35.960 And finally, before we go to break here, Amazon Autos 1:10:36.080 --> 1:10:39.760 is now selling used and certified pre owned vehicles just 1:10:39.800 --> 1:10:44.040 in the LA area. So Amazon Autos basically if you 1:10:44.040 --> 1:10:45.519 want to look for a used car, you can do 1:10:45.520 --> 1:10:49.759 that there three year, three day, three hundred mile return policy, 1:10:49.840 --> 1:10:54.120 thirty day, one thousand mile limited warranty, no hidden fees, 1:10:54.160 --> 1:10:57.519 transparent pricing. So basically you can buy the car on 1:10:57.560 --> 1:10:59.880 the website and then you go to your dealer to 1:11:00.040 --> 1:11:01.960 pick it up. So they're working with local dealers that 1:11:02.000 --> 1:11:05.120 list these cars. I guess, so one more option. I 1:11:05.120 --> 1:11:07.400 think they're going up against the car Maxes of the 1:11:07.400 --> 1:11:10.760 world and also the Carvanas of the world. Now you 1:11:10.760 --> 1:11:13.120 can go to Amazon for your use car eight to 1:11:13.200 --> 1:11:15.560 eight rich one O one eighty eight seven four to 1:11:15.560 --> 1:11:17.600 two four one zero one. 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That'll send your email to my inbox. 1:11:57.840 --> 1:11:58.080 Uh. 1:11:58.080 --> 1:12:02.040 Coming up this hour, We've got us CEO, Ahmed Kattak. 1:12:02.240 --> 1:12:04.880 He is going to talk about the services that they 1:12:04.960 --> 1:12:08.599 offer and how they have this need this need offering 1:12:08.640 --> 1:12:10.880 where basically you can have two networks on your phone 1:12:10.880 --> 1:12:13.719 at once, kind of like the old days of Google 1:12:13.840 --> 1:12:15.640 Fi what they were trying to build there, but you 1:12:15.680 --> 1:12:18.400 can actually do this with them. And I'm a big 1:12:18.400 --> 1:12:20.400 fan of their service. So we'll talk to him and 1:12:20.680 --> 1:12:25.839 here he's building over there. Let's go to Sabrina in Eugene, Oregon. 1:12:26.320 --> 1:12:33.920 What's up, Hey, I traveled last weekend and I used 1:12:34.040 --> 1:12:37.480 the hotspot on my phone to connect to the internet 1:12:37.520 --> 1:12:40.840 the first evening and the next morning, and then I 1:12:40.960 --> 1:12:43.760 left to go watch a granddaughter's game, and after that 1:12:43.960 --> 1:12:47.640 I could not connect to the internet. Figured I just 1:12:47.680 --> 1:12:50.439 didn't have a good enough signal from a hotspot to work. 1:12:50.600 --> 1:12:54.680 I got home and it still will not connect. I 1:12:54.760 --> 1:12:59.759 can see an IP address, it will not connect to Google. 1:13:01.240 --> 1:13:01.439 You know. 1:13:01.479 --> 1:13:04.920 I can't use the Chrome browser, I can't use the Fi, 1:13:05.040 --> 1:13:09.120 I can't use Firefox. I pinged a couple things and 1:13:09.200 --> 1:13:12.439 the ping does not work. Can you think of any 1:13:12.640 --> 1:13:15.959 settings I might have done to make it not work anymore. 1:13:16.360 --> 1:13:19.719 Okay, So where where is this hotspot coming from? Your phone? 1:13:20.400 --> 1:13:20.960 My phone? 1:13:21.040 --> 1:13:23.160 Okay? Do you have an Android or iPhone? 1:13:23.760 --> 1:13:28.400 iPhone fourteen on AT and T okay, iPhone fourteen on 1:13:28.479 --> 1:13:28.960 AT and T. 1:13:29.240 --> 1:13:31.120 So here's my question. 1:13:31.240 --> 1:13:33.920 Does if you go to you know, the web on 1:13:34.000 --> 1:13:36.000 your phone itself, does that work? 1:13:36.560 --> 1:13:36.960 It does? 1:13:37.200 --> 1:13:37.599 Okay? 1:13:37.760 --> 1:13:41.120 So and then but then I got home and my 1:13:41.320 --> 1:13:47.040 internet provider is Comcast, and it still doesn't work. I 1:13:47.200 --> 1:13:50.240 have full bars, I can see the Internet, and I 1:13:50.280 --> 1:13:53.760 can see IP, but none of my browsers and none 1:13:53.840 --> 1:13:56.919 of my cloud kind of apps nothing works. 1:13:57.200 --> 1:13:58.800 Well, what do you mean when you're connected to the 1:13:58.840 --> 1:14:01.720 hotspot or in general, because the Comcast wouldn't be that 1:14:02.080 --> 1:14:04.280 doesn't really have anything to do with your hot spot? 1:14:04.600 --> 1:14:07.439 No, right, once I got home, I quit using my 1:14:07.520 --> 1:14:12.160 hotspot and connected like I normally would at home. Yeah, 1:14:12.200 --> 1:14:13.840 and it still doesn't work. 1:14:14.000 --> 1:14:16.479 Oh okay, So it sounds like the device that you're 1:14:16.560 --> 1:14:17.719 using is not working. 1:14:20.000 --> 1:14:25.000 How How I don't I don't. I'm just kind of wondering. No, okay, So, 1:14:25.280 --> 1:14:26.840 and I guess it could be hardware. 1:14:27.040 --> 1:14:28.679 But yeah, well that's. 1:14:28.680 --> 1:14:31.720 Because I'm really hyper sensitive on how I take care 1:14:31.800 --> 1:14:33.760 of my computer because it's my livelihood. 1:14:33.880 --> 1:14:36.320 Well, so it sounds like the computer's not working, not 1:14:36.439 --> 1:14:39.280 the hot spot, because if you're saying you're connecting your computer, 1:14:39.360 --> 1:14:42.599 it's your home Wi Fi and it's still not working. Right, 1:14:42.680 --> 1:14:44.559 That has nothing to do with your hotspot. Now now 1:14:44.600 --> 1:14:46.719 we're talking, it's just a computer that's not working. 1:14:46.920 --> 1:14:49.080 Oh no, I agree with that, and so I just 1:14:49.320 --> 1:14:51.760 can you think of any setting or something I may 1:14:51.800 --> 1:14:54.919 have done on the computer so that it wouldn't connect. 1:14:55.640 --> 1:14:57.600 The only thing I can think of is, well, a 1:14:57.600 --> 1:14:59.840 couple of things. I mean, obviously you've tried restarting the 1:15:00.000 --> 1:15:00.960 computer and all that good. 1:15:00.840 --> 1:15:02.080 Stuff multiple times. 1:15:02.160 --> 1:15:04.160 Yeah, all right, So the only thing I can think 1:15:04.200 --> 1:15:06.240 of is that it's trying to connect to the hotspot 1:15:06.479 --> 1:15:09.120 and it's not getting a good signal from there, and 1:15:09.160 --> 1:15:10.320 that's causing the issues. 1:15:10.760 --> 1:15:13.240 Does does anything work on this computer? 1:15:13.280 --> 1:15:16.160 To see all my options? And I can clearly click 1:15:16.240 --> 1:15:20.639 on you know, my two point four, my five from 1:15:20.640 --> 1:15:23.120 my home Wi Fi and it still doesn't work. 1:15:23.160 --> 1:15:24.000 And it still doesn't work. 1:15:24.040 --> 1:15:27.200 Okay, So so it sounds like this computer there's something 1:15:27.240 --> 1:15:29.680 going on with it. Have you tried hardwiring it to 1:15:29.840 --> 1:15:32.080 your modem to see if it works. 1:15:31.840 --> 1:15:35.400 That way, I have hardwired in it does not work. 1:15:35.720 --> 1:15:39.000 Doesn't work that way either, Nope. Okay, Well what kind 1:15:39.000 --> 1:15:39.640 of computer is. 1:15:39.640 --> 1:15:42.280 This Mac fourteen pro? 1:15:42.479 --> 1:15:44.240 Okay? So it's a Mac. Okay. 1:15:45.400 --> 1:15:47.519 So what I would do is if you go into 1:15:47.560 --> 1:15:51.679 your network settings on your Mac, you can you can 1:15:51.720 --> 1:15:57.360 go in and delete the different services like the Ethernet service. 1:15:58.720 --> 1:16:00.599 I don't think you could delete the WiFi Fi service, 1:16:00.720 --> 1:16:04.040 let me say, and that could help you know and 1:16:04.080 --> 1:16:05.599 when you when you reconnect it. 1:16:05.800 --> 1:16:05.960 Oh. 1:16:05.960 --> 1:16:07.960 The only other thing is you can look inside and 1:16:08.000 --> 1:16:11.559 this gets a little bit kind of techy, but you 1:16:11.600 --> 1:16:14.519 can look inside the Wi Fi kind of settings and 1:16:14.560 --> 1:16:16.320 proxies do you have. Are you running any sort of 1:16:16.400 --> 1:16:17.280 VPN or anything? 1:16:18.640 --> 1:16:23.519 I do have Decender VPN, but I've since to say 1:16:23.720 --> 1:16:27.640 that I deleted it. I'm installed it to see if 1:16:27.640 --> 1:16:29.360 that made any difference, and it didn't. 1:16:30.040 --> 1:16:31.000 Interesting okay. 1:16:31.400 --> 1:16:35.400 And if you tried a different web browser on this computer, yeah, I. 1:16:35.439 --> 1:16:38.040 Did, Firefox, Chrome and Safari. 1:16:38.120 --> 1:16:40.559 All right, Sabrina, I think it sounds like it's time 1:16:40.600 --> 1:16:43.559 to take this computer into the Apple Store and get 1:16:43.560 --> 1:16:45.880 them to do a diagnostic on it and see what's 1:16:45.920 --> 1:16:49.160 going on. Sounds like you're pretty tech savvy, so it 1:16:49.200 --> 1:16:52.120 sounds like you've done all of your due diligence on 1:16:52.160 --> 1:16:55.960 this thing. You've checked the different networks. And it's interesting 1:16:56.000 --> 1:16:58.320 though that you came to me thinking that it was 1:16:58.360 --> 1:17:01.200 the hot spot on your phone, because I was going 1:17:01.240 --> 1:17:03.960 to say, if if the computer is working on your 1:17:04.000 --> 1:17:06.479 home Internet, I was going to say, you probably just 1:17:06.560 --> 1:17:09.160 ran out of your hot spot data allotment on your 1:17:09.200 --> 1:17:11.200 phone because you were using it so much on the 1:17:11.240 --> 1:17:14.840 vacation or on the trip. So that doesn't sound like 1:17:14.840 --> 1:17:17.680 it's the case, because nothing's working on this computer. So 1:17:18.160 --> 1:17:20.960 I would take it into the uh the Apple store 1:17:21.080 --> 1:17:23.320 and have them run a diagnostic. It could be that 1:17:23.400 --> 1:17:27.800 your it sounds like to me like there's some sort 1:17:27.840 --> 1:17:31.679 of DNS issue with your like if you were using 1:17:31.720 --> 1:17:33.840 like a different DNS setting or something like that. That's 1:17:33.840 --> 1:17:35.639 what it sounds like to me, like it's not getting 1:17:36.760 --> 1:17:38.320 Let's see, I'm trying to look in here and see 1:17:38.360 --> 1:17:42.080 what i've got, Like your your your IP address, I 1:17:42.080 --> 1:17:43.760 mean you said your IP address was fine. I mean 1:17:43.760 --> 1:17:46.640 it's just everything you said sounds like you've checked it 1:17:46.640 --> 1:17:51.080 out and it's just that, Yeah, something something's weird there, 1:17:51.120 --> 1:17:53.559 So uh, bring it in and see what they say 1:17:53.640 --> 1:17:56.720 and hopefully they fix it, because that is not good 1:17:56.760 --> 1:17:57.479 to not be with. 1:17:57.400 --> 1:18:00.160 Your computer for sure. Thanks for the call. 1:18:00.280 --> 1:18:02.720 Eighty eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven four 1:18:02.720 --> 1:18:07.080 to two four one zero one. If you use Microsoft Lens, 1:18:07.920 --> 1:18:12.000 it is shutting down. Microsoft is retiring its popular Lens 1:18:12.120 --> 1:18:16.479 PDF scanner app for iOS and Android. This according to 1:18:16.479 --> 1:18:20.120 Bleeping Computer. I guess they found a help note on 1:18:20.160 --> 1:18:23.400 this on the Microsoft website. So this used to be 1:18:23.439 --> 1:18:26.560 called Office Lens. Now it's called Microsoft Lens. But it 1:18:26.600 --> 1:18:29.320 doesn't matter because it's all going away. So this was 1:18:29.320 --> 1:18:33.400 actually one of the better free PDF scanners out there, and' 1:18:33.640 --> 1:18:37.080 I mean clearly it had fifty million downloads on Google Play. 1:18:37.280 --> 1:18:38.360 That's a lot. Wow. 1:18:39.439 --> 1:18:43.120 Retirement is starting mid September, so if you're using this 1:18:43.240 --> 1:18:45.320 mid September, you got to think about a new program 1:18:45.320 --> 1:18:48.360 that you can use to replace this mid September rather 1:18:48.439 --> 1:18:50.639 mid November. It's going to be removed from the app 1:18:50.640 --> 1:18:55.360 stores December fifteenth, twenty twenty five. No new scans are 1:18:55.400 --> 1:18:59.960 possible inside the app, so existing scans will remain viewable 1:19:00.080 --> 1:19:02.360 in your my scans folder, but you can't do any 1:19:02.439 --> 1:19:05.240 new ones. And there's no more support. So what do 1:19:05.320 --> 1:19:08.080 you do. You can download, Oh my gosh, you're gonna 1:19:08.080 --> 1:19:13.880 love this, the Microsoft three sixty five Copilot app, and 1:19:13.960 --> 1:19:17.040 so yeah, they're trying to get you to do more 1:19:17.160 --> 1:19:20.439 with their with their AI. So I did check this 1:19:20.479 --> 1:19:23.080 Microsoft Copilot app. I did download it, and if you 1:19:23.120 --> 1:19:26.080 press a hold on the icon, sure enough, the scan 1:19:26.240 --> 1:19:27.599 functionality is in there. 1:19:28.040 --> 1:19:31.559 It's just as good as it was before. And it's 1:19:31.680 --> 1:19:34.759 I think that the Microsoft one has pretty good scanning. 1:19:35.320 --> 1:19:38.679 So let's see what this does. Yeah, I mean it does. 1:19:38.760 --> 1:19:40.880 It does everything you need. It copies the text, it 1:19:40.920 --> 1:19:43.200 cleans things up, you can write on it, you can. Yeah, 1:19:43.240 --> 1:19:46.640 it's it's really good. So again, if you're using Microsoft 1:19:46.720 --> 1:19:51.280 Lens formerly Office Lens, you need to transition to a 1:19:51.320 --> 1:19:55.240 new program called Microsoft three sixty five Copilot App. You 1:19:55.280 --> 1:19:58.000 can also use the built in scanning functionality that's on 1:19:58.040 --> 1:20:02.439 the iPhone or the Adobe Scan app which is also 1:20:02.479 --> 1:20:05.080 cross platform and that's really good. Or you can use 1:20:05.120 --> 1:20:07.760 Google Drive. They also let you scan documents as well, 1:20:07.840 --> 1:20:10.320 so there's a lot of ways to scan documents. 1:20:10.360 --> 1:20:10.639 Now. 1:20:11.280 --> 1:20:14.280 It's pretty easy at this point, but the Microsoft one 1:20:14.439 --> 1:20:15.080 was a good one. 1:20:17.000 --> 1:20:17.639 Let's see here. 1:20:18.320 --> 1:20:21.240 Nick from Alpine writes in Hey, Rich, I listened to 1:20:21.320 --> 1:20:23.439 your show and you mentioned that Google Photos has a 1:20:23.520 --> 1:20:27.960 storage saver setting that compresses your photos. Does Gmail have 1:20:28.080 --> 1:20:31.800 a similar setting. I'm nearing my limit. There's no compression 1:20:31.800 --> 1:20:34.880 option that I know of in Gmail. But they do 1:20:34.960 --> 1:20:39.000 have a feature called Google Storage Manager. And if you 1:20:39.040 --> 1:20:43.800 go to one dot Google dot com, you go there, 1:20:44.000 --> 1:20:48.840 you tap storage okay, and then you go scroll down. 1:20:49.120 --> 1:20:50.240 Let's see where is this. 1:20:52.280 --> 1:20:56.120 Get more storage? Cleanup space. Tap cleanup space and you 1:20:56.160 --> 1:20:58.519 will see it'll tell you how full your storage is. 1:20:59.040 --> 1:21:01.439 And I'll give you all all of these suggestions for 1:21:01.560 --> 1:21:04.000 cleaning up your storage. So I can get rid of 1:21:04.080 --> 1:21:06.200 large photos and videos. I can save nine hundred and 1:21:06.240 --> 1:21:09.360 forty five gigabytes. I can get rid of large drive files, 1:21:09.360 --> 1:21:12.559 save one hundred and eighty two gigabytes. I can Okay, 1:21:12.640 --> 1:21:17.000 here's the wild one. I can delete emails with large attachments. 1:21:17.080 --> 1:21:19.479 I can get rid of seven gigabytes in my Gmail 1:21:19.560 --> 1:21:21.960 right now, and then you can tap it says clean 1:21:22.080 --> 1:21:24.120 up by service. You can go in and get even 1:21:24.200 --> 1:21:28.040 more specific with all the giant attachments and things, so 1:21:28.080 --> 1:21:31.559 you can go emails with large attachments, emails and trash 1:21:31.640 --> 1:21:34.920 spam emails, so you can offer to it'll offer to 1:21:35.080 --> 1:21:37.719 clean up all of that stuff for you. So emails 1:21:37.760 --> 1:21:41.439 with large attachments, Gosh, I only have thirty two of those. 1:21:41.479 --> 1:21:44.760 I've cleaned them all out over the years, so but yeah, 1:21:44.800 --> 1:21:46.840 pictures will take that up. But anyway, that's where you. 1:21:46.840 --> 1:21:47.160 Want to go. 1:21:47.280 --> 1:21:49.639 Nick one dot Google dot com. 1:21:50.040 --> 1:21:52.479 Check out those clean up your storage options and you 1:21:52.520 --> 1:21:55.360 can get rid of all of that stuff. Good question 1:21:55.920 --> 1:21:58.400 eighty eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven four 1:21:58.400 --> 1:22:01.360 to two, four to one zero one. On the website 1:22:01.479 --> 1:22:04.719 rich on Tech dot TV. Follow me on social media 1:22:04.760 --> 1:22:07.639 at rich on Tech. Free newsletter, go to the website 1:22:07.720 --> 1:22:10.000 hit sign up. It's all right there, got a great 1:22:10.080 --> 1:22:12.040 new issue today, more. 1:22:11.880 --> 1:22:13.240 Of your emails and calls. 1:22:13.240 --> 1:22:15.080 Plus I'll tell you why AT and T is paying 1:22:15.080 --> 1:22:18.200 out one hundred and seventy seven million dollars in a 1:22:18.280 --> 1:22:24.479 data breach settlement. Coming up next, Welcome back to rich 1:22:24.560 --> 1:22:28.080 on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. 1:22:29.280 --> 1:22:31.880 Eighty to eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven 1:22:32.000 --> 1:22:34.000 four to two, four one zero one. 1:22:35.160 --> 1:22:36.240 My mom is doing. 1:22:36.080 --> 1:22:39.560 The playlist today, Paulette wrote, wrote in on my Instagram 1:22:39.560 --> 1:22:42.160 at rich on Tech, your Mom's playlist is killing it again. 1:22:42.640 --> 1:22:46.719 I think you need to make her your permanent music person, Paulette. 1:22:46.760 --> 1:22:51.840 That really hurts me and Bobo. We sit here every 1:22:51.920 --> 1:22:53.720 week and pick out the music for this show and 1:22:53.760 --> 1:22:56.920 we think we do a nice job, and we never 1:22:56.920 --> 1:23:01.040 get compliments on our playlist. Never, no one ever comes in, Oh. 1:23:00.920 --> 1:23:02.840 My godness, the great I know. 1:23:02.920 --> 1:23:05.519 It's like, well, what I mean, what was that song 1:23:05.560 --> 1:23:07.519 you just played? Good film Florida. 1:23:07.600 --> 1:23:12.439 Okay, that's not all that unique. Come on, we would 1:23:12.439 --> 1:23:16.160 have played that j just because Mom wanted it and 1:23:16.280 --> 1:23:17.040 we get some love too. 1:23:17.200 --> 1:23:18.520 Was that on her list? 1:23:19.160 --> 1:23:19.439 That was? 1:23:19.520 --> 1:23:19.720 Yeah? 1:23:19.800 --> 1:23:23.559 Yeah, okay, so she's I mean no, it's not like 1:23:23.600 --> 1:23:27.200 she pulled something like some deep sided B track or something. 1:23:27.720 --> 1:23:30.519 Anyway, I get you when you go home, hopefully they're 1:23:30.560 --> 1:23:31.600 not listening. 1:23:32.880 --> 1:23:35.679 At and T is paying one hundred and seventy seven 1:23:35.720 --> 1:23:38.360 million dollars in a data breach settlement. 1:23:39.280 --> 1:23:41.759 So you might remember this. This was back in twenty 1:23:41.840 --> 1:23:42.360 twenty four. 1:23:42.400 --> 1:23:46.839 They had two data breaches impacted seventy three million customers 1:23:46.840 --> 1:23:50.200 in April and one hundred million in July. And there 1:23:50.280 --> 1:23:52.120 was a lot like one of these was worse than 1:23:52.160 --> 1:23:54.439 the other, but they had all. This was like the 1:23:54.560 --> 1:23:58.920 mega mega data breach. I mean we're talking names, addresses, 1:23:59.400 --> 1:24:02.799 social security numbers, pass codes for the account. 1:24:02.800 --> 1:24:04.000 I mean this was bad. 1:24:04.720 --> 1:24:08.599 So settlement is twenty eight million for the April breach, 1:24:09.000 --> 1:24:12.720 one hundred and forty nine million for the July breach. Now, 1:24:12.760 --> 1:24:15.960 if you were like really affected and you've got like 1:24:16.080 --> 1:24:20.800 traceable I guess quote fairly traceable losses to the April breach, 1:24:20.840 --> 1:24:23.639 you can get up to five thousand dollars. The July 1:24:23.800 --> 1:24:26.040 breach victims can get up to twenty five hundreds. So 1:24:26.080 --> 1:24:28.120 I think the April must have been the worst one 1:24:28.160 --> 1:24:31.679 with the socials. If you do not have direct damages, 1:24:31.720 --> 1:24:34.640 like someone like myself where my data was breached, it 1:24:34.680 --> 1:24:37.840 was out there, but there was no traceable, you know, 1:24:38.000 --> 1:24:40.800 damage to it, you'll get a smaller payment. They haven't 1:24:40.840 --> 1:24:43.600 said what that payment is, but the claim window is 1:24:43.640 --> 1:24:47.599 now open until November eighteenth. The court will finally approve 1:24:47.600 --> 1:24:51.360 this on the December third. Payouts expected early next year. 1:24:52.600 --> 1:24:55.439 If you didn't get an email about this, you probably will. 1:24:55.520 --> 1:24:57.559 They do them in like rolling waves, so you might 1:24:57.600 --> 1:25:00.640 not have gotten it immediately, but you eventually will. Or 1:25:00.680 --> 1:25:02.679 you can just go on the website and file yourself 1:25:02.720 --> 1:25:07.840 preemptive preemptively uh telecom data settlement dot com. 1:25:07.960 --> 1:25:10.640 Telecom data settlement dot com. 1:25:10.760 --> 1:25:12.920 That's for the AT and T breach to get your 1:25:13.000 --> 1:25:16.479 uh get your name in there. Yeah, I'll put that 1:25:16.520 --> 1:25:18.519 link up on the website. Rich on tech dot tv, 1:25:20.200 --> 1:25:22.800 uh Bob from Los Angeles writes in Hey, Rich, I 1:25:22.880 --> 1:25:26.000 always shoot video on my Samsung phone in horizontal mode 1:25:26.040 --> 1:25:28.600 because it feels like I get a fuller frame. But 1:25:28.640 --> 1:25:31.160 when I go to edit that footage, especially with the 1:25:31.200 --> 1:25:35.320 Instagram edits app you recommended, I sometimes get weird black 1:25:35.439 --> 1:25:39.080 bars on the sides. The video looks fine on my phone, 1:25:39.080 --> 1:25:41.000 but not so much after importing. Is there a right 1:25:41.080 --> 1:25:43.040 or wrong way to record video? If I know I'll 1:25:43.040 --> 1:25:48.640 be editing it later. This is the biggest problem of 1:25:48.680 --> 1:25:53.760 our time. I mean not really, but it's one of them. 1:25:53.840 --> 1:25:54.120 Now. 1:25:54.280 --> 1:25:59.160 There was a time, there was a time when I 1:25:59.520 --> 1:26:02.040 would pooh pooh vertical video, like I would say, you 1:26:02.160 --> 1:26:06.400 cannot shoot vertical video ever. But here's the problem. We 1:26:06.479 --> 1:26:09.800 are in a world with two different videotypes. When you're 1:26:09.840 --> 1:26:13.880 looking at your computer screen, it's horizontal. When you're looking 1:26:13.920 --> 1:26:17.360 at your TV or a movie, it's horizontal. When you're 1:26:17.400 --> 1:26:21.479 looking at your phone, it's vertical. And what are people doing. 1:26:21.520 --> 1:26:23.720 They're flipping through these videos on their phone and it's 1:26:23.760 --> 1:26:27.240 all vertical. So this is the bane of all creators' 1:26:27.240 --> 1:26:31.240 existence because when I'm out on a shoot, my photographer 1:26:31.280 --> 1:26:34.120 is shooting a horizontal and I'm shooting at vertical because 1:26:34.160 --> 1:26:35.920 I know I'm going to post my stuff to social 1:26:35.960 --> 1:26:39.320 He's going to create the other piece for TV. So 1:26:39.840 --> 1:26:42.000 what I would recommend, Bob, if you want the best 1:26:42.040 --> 1:26:45.240 of both worlds, go into your camera app and turn 1:26:45.280 --> 1:26:48.400 on the grid. In your settings, there's an option for 1:26:48.479 --> 1:26:51.760 a grid, and when you're shooting, keep your subject in 1:26:51.840 --> 1:26:55.760 the middle of that grid between the two lines, and 1:26:55.800 --> 1:26:58.680 that way you've got horizontal covered and you've got the 1:26:58.760 --> 1:27:03.960 vertical covered. If you ever edit it, that's the reality 1:27:04.000 --> 1:27:05.840 of it is that you either shoot it one way 1:27:06.240 --> 1:27:08.320 that works for both, or you shoot it one way 1:27:08.360 --> 1:27:11.040 or the other way. Now, with respect to edits, there 1:27:11.160 --> 1:27:13.880 is a way to get rid of things and get 1:27:13.920 --> 1:27:16.400 rid of those black bars on the sides or the 1:27:16.439 --> 1:27:18.960 top or the bottom. So when you're in your video, 1:27:19.600 --> 1:27:22.000 you have to tap the video and you'll see something 1:27:22.040 --> 1:27:25.280 where it says crop and you can crop your video, 1:27:25.840 --> 1:27:28.320 expand it. You can usually pinch it, just use your 1:27:28.320 --> 1:27:30.920 fingers to pinch it, or you can snap it to 1:27:31.040 --> 1:27:33.599 like nine by sixteen is the standard kind of up 1:27:33.600 --> 1:27:39.240 and down video. Half video, half half square video, sixteen 1:27:39.280 --> 1:27:41.040 by nine and you could do all these different things. 1:27:41.080 --> 1:27:44.280 But that's called the aspect ratio. But you're not alone, Bob. 1:27:44.400 --> 1:27:46.040 This is this is a major issue. 1:27:46.040 --> 1:27:46.519 They used to have. 1:27:47.760 --> 1:27:49.439 They used to have apps that you can use on 1:27:49.479 --> 1:27:52.120 the iPhone that even if you were shooting horizontal, it 1:27:52.160 --> 1:27:53.880 was still shoot vertical. I mean, it's a whole thing 1:27:53.960 --> 1:27:58.120 or vertical whatever. So confusing now, but yeah, basically, know 1:27:58.160 --> 1:27:59.720 where you're putting the video. If you're gonna watch it 1:27:59.760 --> 1:28:02.800 on your TV, shoot it horizontal. If you're gonna edit 1:28:02.840 --> 1:28:06.639 it for Instagram reels, shoot it vertically. That's the bottom line. 1:28:07.120 --> 1:28:09.639 Eight A eight rich one O one eight eight eight 1:28:09.760 --> 1:28:12.080 seven four to two four one zero one rich on 1:28:12.200 --> 1:28:16.160 tech dot TV. If you're not watching my TV segments, 1:28:16.439 --> 1:28:17.200 you can do it there. 1:28:17.360 --> 1:28:17.479 You know. 1:28:17.479 --> 1:28:19.200 I've got a whole bunch of TV segments I do 1:28:19.280 --> 1:28:22.839 every week for KTLA in Los Angeles and our partner 1:28:22.840 --> 1:28:25.960 stations across the US. This week I talked about the 1:28:26.000 --> 1:28:28.880 Samsung Z Fold seven and the z Flip seven. I've 1:28:28.880 --> 1:28:32.759 got my review there. I visited the Tesla Diner in Hollywood. 1:28:32.800 --> 1:28:34.880 I've got my video of that, and I've got my 1:28:34.960 --> 1:28:37.759 preview of iOS twenty six Liquid Glass. 1:28:38.320 --> 1:28:40.599 It's all on the website. Rich on Tech dot TV. 1:28:40.640 --> 1:28:42.839 All right, coming up, we're gonna talk to the CEO 1:28:43.000 --> 1:28:45.719 of US Mobile right here on rich on Tech. 1:28:47.760 --> 1:28:49.200 Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:28:49.320 --> 1:28:53.080 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology the 1:28:53.080 --> 1:28:56.120 website rich on tech dot tv. If you need a 1:28:56.160 --> 1:29:01.400 link to anything I mentioned. HBO is going to crack 1:29:01.680 --> 1:29:06.360 down on password sharing. HBO Max says it's about to 1:29:06.360 --> 1:29:11.240 get aggressive with users who share their accounts. So here's 1:29:11.320 --> 1:29:14.800 what we can expect. According to droid Life, they will 1:29:14.960 --> 1:29:18.720 Warner Brothers Discovery will roll out tougher messaging to suspected 1:29:18.720 --> 1:29:21.639 account sharers in September, so if you're sharing your account, 1:29:21.680 --> 1:29:23.760 you might see like, hey, you should really get your 1:29:23.760 --> 1:29:27.920 own account. Some messaging will require action to keep watching 1:29:27.960 --> 1:29:32.720 instead of the easily disablable warnings from before. But by 1:29:32.760 --> 1:29:36.160 the end of the year Titan enforcement, so it's going 1:29:36.200 --> 1:29:39.360 to be even worse. The goal the company has spent 1:29:39.479 --> 1:29:44.240 months analyzing data to identify legitimate versus unauthorized users, which 1:29:44.280 --> 1:29:47.840 basically means they want to convert shared accounts into paying subscribers. 1:29:48.280 --> 1:29:51.080 So if you are freeloading on someone's HBO Max, you 1:29:51.120 --> 1:29:52.720 better start saving your money now because you're going to 1:29:52.760 --> 1:29:54.560 need your needs your own account by the end of 1:29:54.600 --> 1:29:54.920 the year. 1:29:56.360 --> 1:29:57.080 Let's bring on. 1:29:58.320 --> 1:30:02.240 We've got the CEO of of US Mobile, Ahmed Kattek, 1:30:02.600 --> 1:30:03.960 Thanks so much for joining me today. 1:30:05.240 --> 1:30:06.679 Great to be on your show, Rich. 1:30:07.479 --> 1:30:09.040 I'm a fanboy for a little bit. 1:30:09.160 --> 1:30:11.880 I just got to say I absolutely love what you're 1:30:11.880 --> 1:30:16.599 doing at US Mobile. I really am impressed, genuinely. I've 1:30:16.640 --> 1:30:20.880 got two lines with you guys, and it's unbelievable. 1:30:21.000 --> 1:30:26.200 Just it's okay. So US Mobile is it's a carrier. 1:30:25.920 --> 1:30:27.439 You may not even have heard of, by the way, 1:30:28.200 --> 1:30:30.320 But what's cool is that you've built the carrier that 1:30:30.400 --> 1:30:33.559 I want because you've done it in a tech forward 1:30:33.600 --> 1:30:36.320 way that lets me control everything I need to control 1:30:36.800 --> 1:30:39.839 from a dashboard without going into a store, without talking 1:30:39.840 --> 1:30:43.120 to someone, without really doing anything except just doing what 1:30:43.200 --> 1:30:43.599 I want. 1:30:43.680 --> 1:30:44.960 So good job on that. 1:30:46.160 --> 1:30:48.840 Thank you, Rich, And for those of you who haven't 1:30:48.920 --> 1:30:51.920 heard of US Mobile. I promise you you'll all hear 1:30:52.200 --> 1:30:55.360 us about us you know, in the next year or so. 1:30:55.360 --> 1:30:57.320 So what explain what US Mobile is. 1:30:58.439 --> 1:31:03.200 So US Mobile is what you call a virtual network operator. 1:31:03.240 --> 1:31:07.799 But what that means is that we offer cell phone service, 1:31:07.880 --> 1:31:10.560 but we don't really operate any of our net networks. 1:31:10.600 --> 1:31:15.800 And we are basically built on top of existing networks, 1:31:16.400 --> 1:31:19.080 which in the US means all three. 1:31:20.400 --> 1:31:21.200 Major networks. 1:31:21.240 --> 1:31:24.280 We are the only virtual network operator that's built on 1:31:24.320 --> 1:31:29.759 top of all three major networks. And and and just 1:31:29.760 --> 1:31:31.920 just an f I I if you know, if you know, 1:31:33.000 --> 1:31:35.200 you know when you're using any of you know, whether 1:31:35.200 --> 1:31:39.960 whether you're using Venmo or any of these tools, remember 1:31:40.040 --> 1:31:43.400 that they're also not banks. They're also virtual banks. So 1:31:43.479 --> 1:31:47.000 this technology, this business model has existed for a very 1:31:47.000 --> 1:31:50.640 long time in insurance and banking, and now more and 1:31:50.680 --> 1:31:53.400 more people are obviously learning about it on the on 1:31:53.439 --> 1:31:54.799 the wireless and telco side. 1:31:55.000 --> 1:31:57.559 And the neat thing is that you can choose from 1:31:57.680 --> 1:32:00.240 whatever network you want to run on you. You've got 1:32:00.240 --> 1:32:03.559 funny names for them like dark Star and like, uh warp, 1:32:03.640 --> 1:32:04.679 what are they dark star? 1:32:04.960 --> 1:32:07.320 Warp and something else light speed. 1:32:08.520 --> 1:32:10.720 The part of it is I grew up watching Star 1:32:10.720 --> 1:32:13.800 Wars and start directly, and I dreamed of being in 1:32:13.840 --> 1:32:16.680 a spaceship when I was a young kid. So I 1:32:16.720 --> 1:32:18.800 think there was a bit of uh, you know that 1:32:18.840 --> 1:32:24.479 geekness playing into this. But also US Mobile is probably 1:32:24.479 --> 1:32:28.519 the most public wireless network in a way that we 1:32:28.880 --> 1:32:31.439 are subredded. Sees tens of millions of views, and I'm 1:32:31.439 --> 1:32:34.719 there responding to people directly. A lot of these names 1:32:34.760 --> 1:32:38.639 are just crowdsourced. We asked our customers what we should 1:32:38.720 --> 1:32:44.160 name these networks, because contractually we're not allowed to, you know, 1:32:44.600 --> 1:32:47.519 call these networks with the parent carrier's name, like Team 1:32:47.520 --> 1:32:49.880 Olverizen or AT and T so, so we had to 1:32:49.880 --> 1:32:51.680 come up with our own names, and we thought it'd 1:32:51.720 --> 1:32:54.200 be fun to ask our users what they wanted. 1:32:54.680 --> 1:32:58.639 Yeah, and you actually have a feature that lets you 1:32:58.720 --> 1:33:01.320 this is so I was earlier in a ts that 1:33:01.439 --> 1:33:03.880 like you kind of did what Google five was trying 1:33:03.920 --> 1:33:05.880 to do many years ago, which was like unify the 1:33:05.920 --> 1:33:08.439 networks into like their idea is, you'd have one mega 1:33:08.479 --> 1:33:10.479 netlik you didn't have to think about what network your 1:33:10.520 --> 1:33:11.280 phone was using. 1:33:11.640 --> 1:33:13.280 It would just choose the best network. 1:33:13.320 --> 1:33:16.120 And you've sort of done that now with your plan, 1:33:16.240 --> 1:33:20.040 you can add a secondary carrier that it'll it'll default 1:33:20.120 --> 1:33:22.320 to if the first carrier doesn't have as good of 1:33:22.360 --> 1:33:23.799 a signal. Can you explain that feature? 1:33:24.360 --> 1:33:24.920 Absolutely? 1:33:25.000 --> 1:33:28.000 Rich, So, you know, we call the US Mobile a 1:33:28.080 --> 1:33:30.120 super carrier, and the reason we call it is because 1:33:30.160 --> 1:33:32.840 we're the only network in America that has access to 1:33:32.960 --> 1:33:36.400 all three networks. And the timing was right. 1:33:36.400 --> 1:33:38.560 So the way the Google Fi did it was they. 1:33:39.000 --> 1:33:42.599 Had their own you know, they they on a network 1:33:42.680 --> 1:33:45.840 level try to steer traffic to different networks based on 1:33:46.360 --> 1:33:50.559 different parameters. And one of the biggest sallegies with that is, 1:33:50.600 --> 1:33:52.599 you know, the Google file said, we're on t mobile land, 1:33:52.600 --> 1:33:54.559 we ere on Sprint like tmobile is spind to any 1:33:54.600 --> 1:33:56.000 of these and they're not going to tell you if 1:33:56.000 --> 1:33:58.920 they're bad in a specific area. And also, the way 1:33:59.000 --> 1:34:01.840 latency works in network, because you're bad for that one 1:34:01.920 --> 1:34:03.960 second might not mean that you're bad for the next 1:34:04.000 --> 1:34:06.360 second or the second after that. Having said that, all 1:34:06.360 --> 1:34:09.519 networks have their strong suits in different cities and areas 1:34:09.640 --> 1:34:12.760 urban suburban, So we took a different approach towards it. 1:34:12.840 --> 1:34:15.759 We combined all three networks, but we gave the users 1:34:15.760 --> 1:34:19.679 the power to switch to any network instantly. 1:34:19.920 --> 1:34:21.479 And there's two ways you can do it. 1:34:24.080 --> 1:34:27.720 Pretty much every single recent flagship phone in America has 1:34:27.720 --> 1:34:31.840 two SIM cards in it. But having said that, iPhones 1:34:32.360 --> 1:34:36.080 started going double SIM cards back in twenty seventeen, so 1:34:36.320 --> 1:34:38.200 you know, you've almost had seven or eight years, You've 1:34:38.160 --> 1:34:41.759 had hundreds of millions of phones. iPhones and Samson phones 1:34:41.800 --> 1:34:45.120 actually have the ability to have two networks on them. 1:34:45.600 --> 1:34:46.960 And so that technology is. 1:34:46.960 --> 1:34:50.360 Called DSDs which is dual same dual standby, and we 1:34:50.400 --> 1:34:52.559 are going to get into DSDA later that I can 1:34:52.600 --> 1:34:55.360 talk about which is dual same dual aggregation, and I'll 1:34:55.400 --> 1:34:57.679 explain both of them, so it be dual same dual 1:34:57.680 --> 1:34:59.559 span by. What happens is you can have two networks 1:34:59.560 --> 1:35:02.800 at the same time. And there's you can either with 1:35:02.880 --> 1:35:06.080 a flip of a button switch networks immediately. So with 1:35:06.360 --> 1:35:09.519 for example, on my iPhone with the US Mobile, I've 1:35:09.560 --> 1:35:11.479 set my iPhone up here, I double tapped the back 1:35:11.560 --> 1:35:13.360 of the phone, or I use the action button and 1:35:13.360 --> 1:35:16.160 the switches it, or you can go into the settings 1:35:16.600 --> 1:35:19.479 off your phone. You know, this is goes for pretty 1:35:19.520 --> 1:35:23.519 much all these dual save phones, and you can have 1:35:23.640 --> 1:35:26.160 the phone decide. You know, there's a all of you 1:35:26.200 --> 1:35:27.639 if you you know, you can go into your settings 1:35:27.640 --> 1:35:30.800 and you'll say allow automatic data switching, right, and then 1:35:30.840 --> 1:35:34.960 the phone decides based on congestion ratios and vice versa, 1:35:35.080 --> 1:35:39.120 and and and so so that you know, and so 1:35:39.240 --> 1:35:42.320 US Mobile kind of was born a few years before 1:35:42.360 --> 1:35:47.400 that technology became mainstream. What's special about US Mobile is 1:35:47.400 --> 1:35:49.200 that we've built the whole carrier around. We built the 1:35:49.200 --> 1:35:51.760 whole experience around the fact that you should be able 1:35:51.760 --> 1:35:53.479 to switch. So when you when you get a plan 1:35:53.560 --> 1:35:56.000 with US Mobile twenty five dollars limited plan or a 1:35:56.040 --> 1:35:58.360 forty four dollars and limited plan, depending on whether you 1:35:58.400 --> 1:36:02.000 travel abroad or because both them are limited and uncapped. 1:36:03.280 --> 1:36:05.479 The forty four dollars aimed plant comes with one multi 1:36:05.479 --> 1:36:07.600 network lin so you can add a second network. The 1:36:07.680 --> 1:36:10.680 twenty five dollars one you can spare anywhere between five 1:36:10.680 --> 1:36:14.120 to ten dollars. But what that basically means is you 1:36:14.160 --> 1:36:20.599 will never end up anywhere in America without having cell 1:36:20.600 --> 1:36:23.960 phone bars unless you're I was in in a moab 1:36:24.080 --> 1:36:27.840 Utah like last year's and other house November. But even 1:36:27.880 --> 1:36:30.919 that we are solving, right, I mean, that's where satellite 1:36:30.960 --> 1:36:31.280 comes in. 1:36:31.360 --> 1:36:32.880 Well, I was going to ask about that, because that's 1:36:32.920 --> 1:36:35.680 you know, and I've been you know, people wonder like 1:36:35.760 --> 1:36:38.120 why should I go to an MV and O versus 1:36:38.200 --> 1:36:40.880 an AT and T, a T mobile or a Verizon 1:36:42.080 --> 1:36:44.439 you know, in the satellite I think is going to 1:36:44.479 --> 1:36:46.759 be a differentiator. But are you guys going to add 1:36:46.760 --> 1:36:48.440 that to your to your plans? 1:36:48.520 --> 1:36:50.120 Like how where are you with that? 1:36:50.720 --> 1:36:55.040 With some With some companies we're talking directly like startlink 1:36:55.080 --> 1:36:58.920 with others, you know, uh, with others, we're going to 1:36:58.960 --> 1:37:02.040 get that as a detrit from our carrier having that partnership. 1:37:02.080 --> 1:37:04.559 So like one of our carriers is parknering with ASD 1:37:04.720 --> 1:37:05.439 Space Mobile. 1:37:06.280 --> 1:37:08.439 So the point is it's going to be part of 1:37:08.520 --> 1:37:11.240 our It's going to be part of our plans. 1:37:11.400 --> 1:37:13.439 Okay, because that's I mean, because people in the future. 1:37:13.479 --> 1:37:15.559 That's to me, it's like I want a phone that 1:37:15.640 --> 1:37:18.320 not only supports satellite, but also a plan that does 1:37:18.360 --> 1:37:20.920 it as well, and I think that's important. And then 1:37:20.760 --> 1:37:23.559 the other thing is the cellular watches. I know you 1:37:23.680 --> 1:37:26.439 recently added that feature. Do people even care about that? 1:37:26.479 --> 1:37:28.559 I mean, I know, like for me, like I run 1:37:28.600 --> 1:37:30.800 a lot without my phone, so I always like the 1:37:30.800 --> 1:37:33.240 cellular But when I talk to people. Most of them 1:37:33.400 --> 1:37:35.240 are a majority don't have a use case for that 1:37:35.240 --> 1:37:37.160 because they're not without their phone most of the time. 1:37:37.640 --> 1:37:40.839 I think it's a there's a two prong issue. Should 1:37:41.000 --> 1:37:43.719 you have a cellular watch one hundred percent? Just imagine 1:37:43.720 --> 1:37:45.439 the peace of mind it gives you, I mean rich, 1:37:45.520 --> 1:37:48.400 forget the fact that you run without your phone, what 1:37:48.479 --> 1:37:51.400 if your phone's battery dies. It's been an absolute game changer. 1:37:52.479 --> 1:37:55.439 So everyone should have cellular connectivity. US Mobile gives it 1:37:55.479 --> 1:37:57.240 for free with the forty four dollars plan, and then 1:37:57.640 --> 1:38:01.000 so you can add it as lewis five dollars. Then 1:38:01.120 --> 1:38:05.400 why doesn't everyone have it? Because carriers make it really 1:38:05.400 --> 1:38:08.160 hard to activate it. You had Apple that built a 1:38:08.200 --> 1:38:11.200 really great technology. I think it's a mixture of Apple 1:38:11.240 --> 1:38:14.080 and carriers who really couldn't figure out that really great experience. 1:38:14.120 --> 1:38:18.160 With US Mobile, we really redefine that experience. We're adding 1:38:18.200 --> 1:38:20.880 a cellular watch is basically two or three clicks. I 1:38:20.880 --> 1:38:24.240 would say that's the bigger issue. And by the way, 1:38:24.280 --> 1:38:26.880 Sellar watch has been a huge driver for US Mobile, 1:38:27.160 --> 1:38:29.960 not in terms of subscribers. Sure, we're adding more subscribers 1:38:30.000 --> 1:38:32.519 on Apple Watch, and probably most carriers out there. But 1:38:32.760 --> 1:38:35.080 that is how now people are learning about us if 1:38:35.160 --> 1:38:38.439 you look at even our Twitter and how I mean 1:38:38.520 --> 1:38:41.920 starting with Jack Dorsey who you know, basically found US 1:38:41.920 --> 1:38:43.840 mobile because he was looking at for a cellular watch 1:38:43.880 --> 1:38:45.720 than a lot of other people. If you actually go 1:38:45.720 --> 1:38:50.920 to any GPT in America, CHAGPT, clode Rock, if you 1:38:51.080 --> 1:38:55.640 ask what the best Apple cellular watch plan is, the 1:38:55.760 --> 1:38:59.360 number one response will be US Mobile on it. So 1:38:59.400 --> 1:39:03.360 I would say it's everyone should have it. It's a 1:39:03.439 --> 1:39:07.439 great security. And now with all these schools banning phones, Apple, like, 1:39:07.479 --> 1:39:11.200 I mean, watches are the way to go, but the 1:39:11.280 --> 1:39:14.679 reality is it's hard to activate it, and that's where 1:39:14.720 --> 1:39:16.240 you lose most of the customers. 1:39:16.600 --> 1:39:19.040 Well, I like US Mobile because you know, I test 1:39:19.080 --> 1:39:21.719 a lot of phones, and I'm not kidding. I switch 1:39:21.840 --> 1:39:24.280 my sim my e sim to a different phone pretty 1:39:24.360 --> 1:39:28.559 much like every week, and that is nearly impossible to do. 1:39:29.040 --> 1:39:31.400 I've been locked out on like the main carriers. I 1:39:31.439 --> 1:39:33.479 get where it goes into I call it never never Land, 1:39:33.479 --> 1:39:35.800 where it leaves my phone and never makes it to 1:39:35.840 --> 1:39:37.320 the new phone with yours. 1:39:37.360 --> 1:39:38.519 It is so easy. 1:39:38.840 --> 1:39:41.040 I literally say I need to activate this on a 1:39:41.080 --> 1:39:43.439 new plan. It sends me a QR code to my email, 1:39:43.479 --> 1:39:46.040 I scan it and within seconds that line is on 1:39:46.080 --> 1:39:48.080 a new phone. I know that's only my use case, 1:39:48.120 --> 1:39:50.080 like not a lot of people need that, but for 1:39:50.200 --> 1:39:53.479 me that the ease of activation and switching and changing 1:39:53.520 --> 1:39:56.400 the plan like features is so nice. 1:39:57.320 --> 1:39:59.360 Listen, you're not wrong, and I'll tell you why. It's 1:39:59.439 --> 1:40:03.200 hard because most of these carriers don't own the hardware 1:40:03.240 --> 1:40:05.599 and the software together. There's a third party company that's 1:40:05.600 --> 1:40:08.559 built the software for them, and that's what made Tesla great. 1:40:08.640 --> 1:40:10.599 That's what made some of these other companies great, which 1:40:10.760 --> 1:40:12.960 is whether you agree with Elon or not, the Tesla 1:40:13.120 --> 1:40:16.360 is a product works really well because they own that 1:40:16.439 --> 1:40:17.160 software layer. 1:40:17.280 --> 1:40:18.840 And that is what happened with. 1:40:18.800 --> 1:40:21.519 You Apple too, same thing. I mean that the phone 1:40:21.760 --> 1:40:26.280 software in the hardware, we got a run. But in 1:40:26.400 --> 1:40:29.400 US Mobile dot com is the website. You can go 1:40:29.479 --> 1:40:32.080 there check it out. What's number one reason why someone 1:40:32.160 --> 1:40:33.799 should switch from their standard carrier. 1:40:35.280 --> 1:40:38.160 I believe you to have service anywhere in America, no 1:40:38.200 --> 1:40:40.160 one offers that. And then the second reason is we 1:40:40.160 --> 1:40:41.960 were ranked and we're one on the consumer reports to 1:40:42.000 --> 1:40:44.439 have the best customer service. And you can reach out 1:40:44.479 --> 1:40:48.160 to me anytime on reddit on our subreddit. So I 1:40:48.160 --> 1:40:49.920 would say, you ask for one reason, I gave you 1:40:49.960 --> 1:40:50.599 three reasons. 1:40:51.360 --> 1:40:54.200 You know, in ten seconds, three reasons, three carriers. There 1:40:54.200 --> 1:40:54.519 you have it. 1:40:54.680 --> 1:40:58.280 US Mobile CEO Ahmed Katak, thanks so much for joining 1:40:58.320 --> 1:40:58.599 me today. 1:40:58.600 --> 1:41:00.840 I really appreciate it. Thank you so much. 1:41:00.840 --> 1:41:01.160 Streach. 1:41:01.560 --> 1:41:04.040 All right, coming up, we are going to open up 1:41:04.040 --> 1:41:07.360 the feedbag and read some of the emails, the comments, 1:41:07.400 --> 1:41:09.680 and the questions that you sent me this week as 1:41:09.720 --> 1:41:12.800 coming up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back 1:41:12.840 --> 1:41:16.320 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 1:41:16.479 --> 1:41:20.080 talking technology. We're going to get to the feedbag in 1:41:20.360 --> 1:41:25.480 just a moment. Good article this week from Consumer Reports 1:41:26.120 --> 1:41:28.880 which details how to get better sound from your TV 1:41:29.680 --> 1:41:32.920 if you can't really hear what's happening on the screen. 1:41:33.240 --> 1:41:35.799 Not just if you're you know you have hearing loss, 1:41:35.800 --> 1:41:38.679 but just in general. You know, sometimes you just can't 1:41:38.680 --> 1:41:42.360 really hear what's happening. So even if the volumes up, 1:41:42.400 --> 1:41:44.439 dialogue can be tough to follow. This is like a 1:41:44.479 --> 1:41:47.360 thing on TV. I don't know, as someone's explaining to 1:41:47.439 --> 1:41:49.519 me why this is nowadays, but there's just so much 1:41:49.560 --> 1:41:52.320 going on anyway. They say to start with the TV 1:41:52.400 --> 1:41:56.040 audio settings. Look for dialogue speech, boost voice clarity or 1:41:56.040 --> 1:41:59.960 clear voice modes. Turn off night mode if if flat 1:42:00.160 --> 1:42:03.920 is the dialogue, switch from surround sound to stereo sound, 1:42:04.960 --> 1:42:08.920 or boost the center channel sound, or use the EQ 1:42:09.160 --> 1:42:12.559 to lower the base and boost mid high frequencies where 1:42:12.640 --> 1:42:16.400 voices typically are. They've got sound bars with voice enhancement, 1:42:16.439 --> 1:42:19.840 which include the Sons Ray and the ARC Samsung Voice 1:42:19.920 --> 1:42:25.240 Enhancement LG Clear Voice, and then z Vox and then 1:42:25.280 --> 1:42:30.160 wireless listening. You can connect Bluetooth earphones or earbuds. TV 1:42:30.280 --> 1:42:32.519 listeners they've got those. I've seen them at Costco, like 1:42:32.520 --> 1:42:37.040 those STETHOSAP style headsets like TV ears or Sendheiser, they've 1:42:37.040 --> 1:42:39.240 got them. And then of course you might be able 1:42:39.240 --> 1:42:42.120 to connect your hearing aids directly to the TV. So 1:42:42.840 --> 1:42:45.599 the main bottom line is that if you just want 1:42:45.600 --> 1:42:48.599 the easiest and most effective way to listen to audio 1:42:48.680 --> 1:42:51.439 or hear our see audio, just turn on the close captions, 1:42:51.439 --> 1:42:53.360 which is what we do in our house. And it's 1:42:53.360 --> 1:42:55.080 not because we can't hear the TV. It's mostly just 1:42:55.120 --> 1:42:57.200 because our kids are so loud in the background. We're like, 1:42:57.280 --> 1:43:00.920 what are they saying? All right, I'll link that up 1:43:00.920 --> 1:43:03.600 on the website. Rich on tech dot Tv. Time for 1:43:03.640 --> 1:43:07.559 the feedbag segment. That is your feedback plus the mail bag. 1:43:07.600 --> 1:43:09.640 These are the emails, the comments, and the questions I 1:43:09.680 --> 1:43:12.160 get from you. If you'd like to submit yours, go 1:43:12.240 --> 1:43:15.920 to rich on tech dot tv hit contact. Mike writes 1:43:15.920 --> 1:43:18.120 in from Bakersfield, I just watched your review on the 1:43:18.160 --> 1:43:21.320 Samsung Galaxy Fold seven. You gave a good review, but 1:43:21.360 --> 1:43:23.400 there's one thing I learned from my Fold five. I've 1:43:23.400 --> 1:43:26.559 had to change the screen twice in two years. It 1:43:26.600 --> 1:43:28.720 starts out as a black dot along the crease, then 1:43:28.800 --> 1:43:32.280 it spreads the AT and T repair shop says it's common. Luckily, 1:43:32.320 --> 1:43:35.000 my phone protection plan has covered the repairs. I do 1:43:35.120 --> 1:43:37.679 like the phone and its features, but get cell phone 1:43:37.680 --> 1:43:40.800 protection because you will need it. Mike, I do believe 1:43:40.800 --> 1:43:43.479 that Samsung said the screen was more durable this time around, 1:43:43.560 --> 1:43:46.639 so but good warning. Thanks for the comment on that. 1:43:47.240 --> 1:43:50.280 Julia from Los Angeles writes in, Hey, rich rose Bud, 1:43:50.320 --> 1:43:52.759 you mentioned it before. It's an awesome app for journaling, 1:43:53.040 --> 1:43:55.800 dream analysis and even thrown out problems that it will 1:43:55.840 --> 1:43:58.599 solve like a therapist. I still use it every day. 1:43:58.680 --> 1:44:01.759 I'm never stuck with anything. I've never stuck with anything 1:44:01.800 --> 1:44:04.960 this consistently when it comes to journaling. It's great at 1:44:04.960 --> 1:44:07.120 remembering details and learning about you. 1:44:08.080 --> 1:44:08.280 Yeah. 1:44:08.360 --> 1:44:11.559 Rosebud just celebrated it's one year anniversary. They said they 1:44:11.600 --> 1:44:13.960 have over one hundred thousand users. We profiled them when 1:44:13.960 --> 1:44:16.560 they first started, and I'm glad to hear it is 1:44:16.600 --> 1:44:20.519 working out for you. Karen in Tarzana says I had 1:44:20.520 --> 1:44:24.839 trouble controlling my Sled smart bulbs with my Alexa recently, 1:44:24.920 --> 1:44:27.680 something I imagine many of your listeners have experienced. I 1:44:27.720 --> 1:44:30.880 got an email from Amazon saying the Sengled skill no 1:44:30.920 --> 1:44:33.840 longer works in Alexa, but I found a workaround that 1:44:33.920 --> 1:44:35.360 saved me from buying new bulbs. 1:44:35.360 --> 1:44:36.479 I have an Echo Show eight. 1:44:37.040 --> 1:44:39.720 I put the Show eight into this device discovery mode 1:44:39.800 --> 1:44:42.120 using a voice command. Then, one by one, I reset 1:44:42.160 --> 1:44:44.360 each bulb by switching the lamp off and on ten 1:44:44.439 --> 1:44:47.679 times until the bulb blinked. About a minute later, Alexa 1:44:47.720 --> 1:44:50.360 discovered the bulb, I renamed it, put it back in 1:44:50.400 --> 1:44:52.559 its usual spot, and now I can control all my 1:44:52.640 --> 1:44:56.839 bulbs by voice again, even in Alexa routines. This Sengled 1:44:56.880 --> 1:44:59.400 app no longer sees the bulbs when I'm okay with that, 1:45:00.000 --> 1:45:01.320 Thanks for keeping us up to date and all this 1:45:01.360 --> 1:45:05.360 tech stuff. I'm a loyal podcast listener and a KTLA viewer. Yeah, 1:45:05.400 --> 1:45:07.320 you're not the only one that had issues with Single. 1:45:07.479 --> 1:45:11.720 I look this up. Apparently they were so off and 1:45:11.760 --> 1:45:15.360 on with their support that Amazon said we're no longer 1:45:15.400 --> 1:45:19.200 allowing you to be on this Alexa Skills platform. So 1:45:19.640 --> 1:45:22.240 the company's still in business, but they just weren't living 1:45:22.320 --> 1:45:25.400 up to their side of things, I guess. So I'm 1:45:25.400 --> 1:45:28.360 glad you hear that things are working for you. Incidentally, 1:45:28.439 --> 1:45:32.800 in the future with thread, which is local control of 1:45:32.840 --> 1:45:35.840 your smart home stuff, a lot of those issues will 1:45:35.880 --> 1:45:38.040 not have to go to the cloud, so a lot 1:45:38.080 --> 1:45:40.479 of these devices will be controlled in your home by 1:45:40.520 --> 1:45:43.240 your devices in your home. So things should get better 1:45:43.240 --> 1:45:47.000 in the future. Melody from Carlsbad says, I listened to 1:45:47.040 --> 1:45:49.040 most of your radio shows on KFI or co Go. 1:45:49.200 --> 1:45:51.760 I wanted to give you a scam alert. I got 1:45:51.760 --> 1:45:53.960 an email claiming to be from Triple A saying I 1:45:54.040 --> 1:45:57.280 had a thousand points to redeem for roadside equipment. I've 1:45:57.280 --> 1:45:59.880 been an AAA member for years, so it seemed legit. 1:46:00.560 --> 1:46:02.320 I called them to verify, and sure enough, it was 1:46:02.360 --> 1:46:05.120 a scam. I deleted the email before hitting the redeem button. 1:46:06.000 --> 1:46:09.639 There you go. Okay, so watch out for that. Hey, rich, 1:46:09.680 --> 1:46:12.120 I really like your show, Warren says from corpus Christy. 1:46:12.360 --> 1:46:15.200 You provide so much good information. One recommendation on the 1:46:15.240 --> 1:46:19.519 MacBook answer is to consider Apple refurbished devices combined with 1:46:19.560 --> 1:46:22.680 a student discount. Thank you, Warren for looking out for us. 1:46:23.520 --> 1:46:25.120 That is going to do it for this episode of 1:46:25.160 --> 1:46:27.280 the show. You can find links to everything I mentioned 1:46:27.280 --> 1:46:31.280 on the website richon Tech dot TV. You can find 1:46:31.320 --> 1:46:34.200 me on social media. I am at rich on Tech. 1:46:34.760 --> 1:46:36.880 I've been hanging out a lot on threads lately. I'm 1:46:36.960 --> 1:46:39.800 testing that out. But my bread and butter still is Instagram. 1:46:39.840 --> 1:46:41.559 So if you want to follow me in one place, 1:46:42.000 --> 1:46:44.800 Instagram is the place to do it. Thank you so 1:46:44.880 --> 1:46:46.720 much for listening. There are so many ways you can 1:46:46.760 --> 1:46:49.080 spend your time. I do appreciate you spending it right 1:46:49.080 --> 1:46:51.880 here with me. One reminder before I go, please do 1:46:51.960 --> 1:46:54.200 not text and drive. Whatever it is it can wait. 1:46:54.240 --> 1:46:56.720 It's not just your safety, it's for the safety of 1:46:56.880 --> 1:47:00.320 everyone around you as well. Thanks to everyone makes this 1:47:00.360 --> 1:47:02.720 show possible. Bobo on the board, Kim on Phones, my 1:47:02.800 --> 1:47:04.920 mom on music. My name is rich Damiro. 1:47:05.080 --> 1:47:06.639 I will talk to you real soon