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Speaker 1: tech questions answered. What's going on Rich Demiro And this
Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech. This is the show where I
Speaker 1: talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about.
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Speaker 1: like I said, this is the first show of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. Welcome. If you are listening for the very
Speaker 1: first time. If you're listening for the one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty fifth time, well you get a gold star for today. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's how many shows we have done. So far right
Speaker 1: here on rich On Tech. I can't believe it either.
Speaker 1: This is year number four. How is that possible? Year
Speaker 1: number four? I remember starting this like it was yesterday.
Speaker 1: I mean I really do. I had Bill standing right
Speaker 1: there watching every word I said. And now he'll just
Speaker 1: show up. You know, I can't remember the last time
Speaker 1: he was here. We love you anyway, Bill. We got
Speaker 1: Bobo here, we got me, we got Kim on the phones.
Speaker 1: And I call this the shoulder season in technology. We
Speaker 1: are just moments away from CS in Las Vegas, kicks
Speaker 1: off this weekend. And if you're not sure what that is,
Speaker 1: CS used to stand for Consumer Electronics Show. It does
Speaker 1: not stand for that anymore. It is now just CES
Speaker 1: because it's way bigger than just gadgets, because there is
Speaker 1: everything on display. You know, this was the start of
Speaker 1: the DVD player, the TVO, the flat screen TV. All
Speaker 1: this stuff got it started at CES when it was
Speaker 1: the Consumer Electronics Show. Now it is just CS because
Speaker 1: we have health tech, AI, wearables, car tech, data security,
Speaker 1: and all kinds of stuff that's getting not only an
Speaker 1: Internet connection this year, but also AI. This is one
Speaker 1: of my biggest weeks of the year. I always love
Speaker 1: bringing back the information to you that I find the coolest,
Speaker 1: the weirdest, the most useful things that I see out there.
Speaker 1: I've been covering that show for more than fifteen years now,
Speaker 1: and I remember, yes, my very first CS. I was
Speaker 1: with CNET back in the day, and I remember staying
Speaker 1: at the Palms Hotel for eleven days straight. I mean
Speaker 1: that was a marathon. I was a lot younger back then.
Speaker 1: But I'll be there for the whole week endless rows
Speaker 1: of exhibitors all across the convention center. Basically every hotel
Speaker 1: on the strip also has some sort of exhibitor there
Speaker 1: on display. There's no way to see it all, but
Speaker 1: I do my best. And the cool thing is you
Speaker 1: get to see every single person you've ever met in
Speaker 1: the tech world, and the people you email with on
Speaker 1: a daily basis, walking and talking, and you know you
Speaker 1: kind of catch up with them as well. So stay tuned.
Speaker 1: I've got a lot coming from seats next week. Can't
Speaker 1: wait for that. We've got a lot of news on
Speaker 1: the show today. But I have to tell you about
Speaker 1: my trip back to New Jersey. My kids hit the
Speaker 1: vacation lottery because it snowed, not just not once, but
Speaker 1: twice while we were there. And yes, I know you
Speaker 1: could see snow in California, but we don't go to
Speaker 1: the mountains that much, so for my kids this was
Speaker 1: a huge deal. My kid literally ran outside in his
Speaker 1: pajamas and started throwing snowballs. It was so cute. It
Speaker 1: reminded me of waking up back in the day growing
Speaker 1: up in New Jersey checking the window and hoping for
Speaker 1: a snow day because that was the best. You didn't
Speaker 1: have to go to school, and back then they would
Speaker 1: literally sound this loud alarm. I don't know how they did.
Speaker 1: It was like a foghorn or something, and that's how
Speaker 1: you knew there was no school. And then you go outside,
Speaker 1: you play, you know, shovel your neighbor's sidewalks for some
Speaker 1: extra money. It was great. I did stay at my
Speaker 1: dad's house in New Jersey, and I didn't expect to
Speaker 1: be the geek squad as much as I was, But yes,
Speaker 1: I was the geek squad for my dad. And what
Speaker 1: I loved about this is that every time I go
Speaker 1: home or just being like another person's home, I realized
Speaker 1: what the average person deals with when it comes to technology. So,
Speaker 1: first off, he had switched his Internet to T Mobile
Speaker 1: five g. He switched all of his Internet and his
Speaker 1: phones to T Mobile without asking me. He was like, hey,
Speaker 1: they gave me a great deal. I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: So of course I ran a speed test to see
Speaker 1: how that was functioning, and I was very impressed. He
Speaker 1: got like a pretty good speed there. You place this
Speaker 1: if you're not familiar, you place this router near a window.
Speaker 1: It pulls in a cellular signal and turns it into
Speaker 1: Wi Fi for the house. My friend gave me this
Speaker 1: great analogy. It's almost like a hose. The hose is
Speaker 1: the Internet connection, and then the sprinkler is the router
Speaker 1: that kind of sprinkles the signal throughout the house. Problem
Speaker 1: was that signal did not reach everywhere, so as TV
Speaker 1: kept buffering, and he said, Rich, I'm dealing with this
Speaker 1: every single night. The TV just buffers. So I had
Speaker 1: anticipated this idea, and so I brought my old euro system.
Speaker 1: EUO is a Wi Fi mesh Wi Fi system. You
Speaker 1: put a bunch of these little leafs around the house
Speaker 1: and they all work together to give you a nice
Speaker 1: blanket of Internet. Imagine different sprinklers all over your lawn,
Speaker 1: right instead of just one sprinkler in the middle, so
Speaker 1: I set it up. It took just a few minutes,
Speaker 1: and everything was faster and more reliable instantly. Now the
Speaker 1: funny thing is he used to have Euro before he
Speaker 1: switched to T Mobile, so I just reused his old
Speaker 1: Wi Fi network name so all his devices would reconnect automatically,
Speaker 1: which sounds very simple, but he kept saying to me Rich,
Speaker 1: I don't understand I canceled that internet. How do I
Speaker 1: have it back? I don't have that anymore. And that
Speaker 1: kind of sums up how confusing this stuff can be
Speaker 1: because he didn't understand that the pipe is different from
Speaker 1: the Wi Fi signal. Right, even though it is confusing,
Speaker 1: because T Mobile and Spectrum and AT and T they
Speaker 1: all name their WiFi after the connection, which you can
Speaker 1: make that any name you want, so I always come
Speaker 1: up with something really fun. So next up was the TV.
Speaker 1: He was using an LGTV with the built in software,
Speaker 1: which I tried for like one second and I hated
Speaker 1: it instantly. Now, don't write me angry letters. If you
Speaker 1: have an LGTV and you love the webOS stuff, sure,
Speaker 1: if it works for you, that's great. For me, it
Speaker 1: did not, and I asked him. I said, Dad, you
Speaker 1: like this remote? Do you like how it waves around
Speaker 1: like a pointer on the screen. He goes, no, I
Speaker 1: hate it. I thought that's the only thing I could have,
Speaker 1: and I was like no, So I ordered him a
Speaker 1: fire TV stick. It arrived the next day. I plugged
Speaker 1: it in. I cleaned up all the cables behind the
Speaker 1: TV because he had like everything that used to be
Speaker 1: plugged in still there but not plugged in. Put it
Speaker 1: all into the soundbar and I said, Okay, here's your
Speaker 1: new remote. Just use this. And he loved. He's like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this is so much easier. I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: so just by swapping out the streaming stick that you
Speaker 1: have or the streaming platform that you have on your
Speaker 1: smart TV, you can have an entirely different experience with
Speaker 1: the same exact device. And just in that twenty four
Speaker 1: hours that I switched this all over, everything was just
Speaker 1: so much better. But the real headache was his logins
Speaker 1: and passwords. Hey Dad, I got a log into your Netflix.
Speaker 1: What's your account? Oh, I have no idea. Okay, what
Speaker 1: about your password? No, no idea. I don't even know
Speaker 1: I had Netflix. I mean it's just on there. Okay, Dad, well,
Speaker 1: you must pay for it. Somehow, turns out it was
Speaker 1: included with his T mobile subscription. So I said, remember
Speaker 1: that app we set you up with Bitwarden. Let's figure
Speaker 1: that out again. So I went on his computer and
Speaker 1: this is so wild. He had Bitwarden, Apple passwords, and
Speaker 1: Google passwords all competing for his attention when I would
Speaker 1: click one of the logins screens, so they'd all pop
Speaker 1: up at the same time. Now that is confusing, even
Speaker 1: for me who's sitting there going okay, these all popping
Speaker 1: up at the same time. So I had to go in,
Speaker 1: go into the settings and cancel them out and just
Speaker 1: keep one, which was Bitworten, which I really like because
Speaker 1: it's free in a cross platform. Google was the trickiest,
Speaker 1: by the way. It kept popping up for a very
Speaker 1: long time, even after I turned it off, and I
Speaker 1: had to really do some little things on Chrome to
Speaker 1: get it to stop doing that. So Google, come on,
Speaker 1: make it a little easier for us. But I got
Speaker 1: it all figured out. We went through all of his
Speaker 1: main logins and I said, all right, Dad, we've got
Speaker 1: to fix these. We've got to clean them up. We
Speaker 1: can't use the same words over and over and then
Speaker 1: when you show someone that doesn't use a password manager
Speaker 1: the wild passwords that it generates, they get very intimidated.
Speaker 1: And I understand that because everyone's like, well, I'm never
Speaker 1: going to be able to remember that. You don't have
Speaker 1: to remember it because your password manager will remember it.
Speaker 1: So I got that all figured out. We went through
Speaker 1: the main passwords, we consolidated all of it, and we
Speaker 1: got most of it working. And it's been about I
Speaker 1: don't know, a week and a half since I've been
Speaker 1: not there, so I have not gotten that phone call
Speaker 1: yet that says, hey, I I can't do this. What's happening?
Speaker 1: I can't access something I used to be able to access.
Speaker 1: So clearly things are working. It's better. The sound is improved,
Speaker 1: the log just everything. So what is my takeaway here?
Speaker 1: I tell you this because this stuff is not always easy,
Speaker 1: especially if you're not a digital native, especially if you
Speaker 1: don't understand basic concepts. Hey click that icon? What's an icon?
Speaker 1: You know? Hey? Open that program? What's that program? Do
Speaker 1: I do it on my phone? Do I do on
Speaker 1: my computer? These are things that you know, I take
Speaker 1: for granted because I've been covering this stuff forever. But
Speaker 1: when I talk to regular people, and a lot of
Speaker 1: them call this show. I realize that this stuff is complicated,
Speaker 1: even for people like me. So I tell you this
Speaker 1: because I want you to relax. I want you to
Speaker 1: take a deep breath. I want you to understand that
Speaker 1: you're not going to understand this stuff instantly. It may
Speaker 1: not come naturally, but you can figure it out if
Speaker 1: you take the time and you get organized from the start.
Speaker 1: So when you do things, just take that extra minute
Speaker 1: to create a strong password, Take the extra minute to
Speaker 1: save that password, Take the extra minute to turn on
Speaker 1: two factor authentication. Write things down, Write down your process,
Speaker 1: keep notes. I will tell you you will not remember
Speaker 1: this stuff later off the top of your head. You
Speaker 1: just won't. Like for instance, I set up bitwarden with
Speaker 1: a passcode on his computer. He said, oh, what's the
Speaker 1: pass code? And I instantly forgot about it. I was like, oh, wait,
Speaker 1: which one was it? And of course it took me
Speaker 1: a minute to remember, but it was like something that
Speaker 1: I thought i'd remember instantly. No, you won't. But it's
Speaker 1: a new year, perfect time to go through clean up
Speaker 1: the apps that you use. Go ahead, delete stuff that
Speaker 1: you're no longer using. Look at the services that you have,
Speaker 1: the subscriptions, go through, cancel, delete, upgrade, whatever you need
Speaker 1: to do, downgrade, check out the tech you're using, and
Speaker 1: get it all up and running. I did that over
Speaker 1: the past week. I've got my systems in place and
Speaker 1: it feels so much better. Cleaning up your tech world
Speaker 1: is worth it. You will breathe a sigh of relief,
Speaker 1: and yes it can be done. And no, you're probably
Speaker 1: not going to break anything, so enjoy all right eight
Speaker 1: eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. We got a
Speaker 1: great show planned for you today. We'll take some of
Speaker 1: your calls coming up next, plus news, opinions, all kinds
Speaker 1: of stuff right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology. The website for the show is rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot tv. There you can get links to anything
Speaker 1: that I mentioned on the show, learn more about the show,
Speaker 1: follow me on Instagram, all that good stuff. It's right
Speaker 1: there rich on tech dot tv. This is episode one
Speaker 1: fifty five, so click that if you want the exact
Speaker 1: links that I mentioned here on this show. So go
Speaker 1: to Mike in Mankato Minnesota. You're on with Rich.
Speaker 2: Hey, Hey, Rich, it's Mike in Minnesota. Hey. So, I
Speaker 2: have a nept geary.
Speaker 3: By cable modem router that I purchased at a new Egg.
Speaker 2: And it says too because I.
Speaker 3: I forgot the uh the user or the password for
Speaker 3: the admin.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. I don't know because.
Speaker 3: I'm visually impaired and I can't. I use a screen
Speaker 3: it called Josh the Windows. It's a screenerader, and I
Speaker 3: can't read the label on the because it says to
Speaker 3: enter the It says to enter the uh the the
Speaker 3: password three times wrong when I go to you know,
Speaker 3: user dot log in, and.
Speaker 2: So I do that and then it says to enter
Speaker 2: the serial number. But I can't read the label on
Speaker 2: the on the router.
Speaker 1: Well, here, here's an easier way to do this. There
Speaker 1: is a tiny hole on the back of the router
Speaker 1: that you can press, uh press a paper up into
Speaker 1: and that will reset it to factory. And then once
Speaker 1: it's going to reset to factory, that way, you should
Speaker 1: be able to just go onto your computer and type
Speaker 1: in it. It's typically one nine to eight dot one
Speaker 1: six two dot one dot one or something like that.
Speaker 1: And then once once you go there, it should give
Speaker 1: you the ability to get back into this router. But
Speaker 1: you're saying, if you do that, it's going to give
Speaker 1: you the factory information from the that's printed on the
Speaker 1: bottom of the router. Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 2: No, Well, when I go, because when I go and puts.
Speaker 3: The forgot password button, it says to It says to
Speaker 3: enter the wrong password three times when I'm on uh
Speaker 3: router dot log in dot.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's what they use.
Speaker 3: It says that, Yeah, and then it says, enter the.
Speaker 2: Cereal number of your product. But I can't read the
Speaker 2: serial number.
Speaker 1: Is it scratched out?
Speaker 2: No, I'm visually impaired, so I can't. My eyes don't work.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well I can't.
Speaker 3: I can't see anything.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well why don't you do this? Have you heard
Speaker 1: of the app be my Eyes?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, why don't you just use that to connect
Speaker 1: with someone that can read the number for you off
Speaker 1: the bottom of it?
Speaker 2: Okay, that would work?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think that would work. Because this
Speaker 1: is an app that basically, you know, if you're familiar
Speaker 1: with it, you download it. It's it works two ways. Visually,
Speaker 1: impaired download it to their phone and it's kind of
Speaker 1: like a FaceTime with someone, and so they can when
Speaker 1: they need help seeing something, they can say, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: let me reach out, and then me on the other end,
Speaker 1: who can see I can log onto the app and say, oh,
Speaker 1: let me help this person. I look at whatever's on
Speaker 1: my screen. I can read it out or whatever. So
Speaker 1: why don't you try that? Yeah and do that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love this show. This thing is so cool.
Speaker 1: Oh oh thank you?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because because what's that bit bitwarden you were talking about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bitwarden. So bitwarden is the password manager that I like.
Speaker 1: And the reason I like it is because it's free
Speaker 1: and it's open source, so you can you can download
Speaker 1: it to your computer, you can download your phone, you
Speaker 1: can download your iPad, and it's going to work the
Speaker 1: same way across all those and they're not going to
Speaker 1: charge you for it either. Now there is, of course,
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of free apps have some sort of
Speaker 1: paid level, you know, that you can step up to.
Speaker 1: But I use this. I've been using it for the past,
Speaker 1: you know, eight months or whatever when I switched over,
Speaker 1: and it works great, and I haven't paid a dime.
Speaker 1: I want to pay them because I love it so
Speaker 1: much and I was paying sixty dollars a year for
Speaker 1: my old one, right right, But Mike, what what station
Speaker 1: do you listen on over there?
Speaker 4: KA way out of Colorado?
Speaker 1: Awesome? All right, Well, thanks for thanks for the call today,
Speaker 1: and keep me posted. Let me know if you figure
Speaker 1: this out.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Will, all rights, have a great one, all right? Eight
Speaker 1: eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. We'll get to
Speaker 1: more calls after the break. CS, like I mentioned, is
Speaker 1: happening next week in Las Vegas, but already some companies,
Speaker 1: you know, the whole name of the game is trying
Speaker 1: to capture the attention of the journalists that go to
Speaker 1: CS or the media in general. So some companies will
Speaker 1: kind of put out a couple of little announcements before
Speaker 1: the actual event happens so that they can kind of
Speaker 1: capture this slow time of news to you know, get
Speaker 1: the headline. So a couple things trickled out this week.
Speaker 1: Number one, LG is going to make a gallery TV.
Speaker 1: So if you're familiar with Samsung, they've got that frame
Speaker 1: TV that they've been doing forever. Well, LG is now
Speaker 1: unveiling a new art TV at CES twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: It's called the LG Gallery TV. The idea is that
Speaker 1: your TV doubles as artwork when you're not using it,
Speaker 1: So it's got a screen that looks more like art. Now,
Speaker 1: I will tell you that, you know, Samsung does this
Speaker 1: the frame I saw at Costco yesterday. They all all
Speaker 1: the TV makers have some sort of like ambient art.
Speaker 1: But if you truly want it to look like art
Speaker 1: when it's not in use, obviously you need a certain
Speaker 1: screen that is matt and not reflective and it just
Speaker 1: looks not, you know, like super bright. But you can
Speaker 1: do this, by the way, if you have a fire
Speaker 1: TV stick, there's an ambient mode on it and so
Speaker 1: you can use that. It's kind of like the screen
Speaker 1: saver on your TV, except it just looks much more
Speaker 1: like art. So the lighting of the TV sort of
Speaker 1: changes to make it blend in with the room, so
Speaker 1: that doesn't look like this big bright screen. It almost
Speaker 1: like if you just walked into that room, you'd say, wait,
Speaker 1: is that a piece of art on the wall. Oh no,
Speaker 1: it's a TV. So it's very popular. People love these
Speaker 1: that have them and so of course that will be
Speaker 1: one of the things I'm checking out the LG Gallery
Speaker 1: TV eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four two four one zero one. More of your
Speaker 1: calls coming up on rich On Tech right after this.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On Tech. Let's go to Jamie
Speaker 1: and Tampa.
Speaker 4: You're on with rich Hey, how you doing today, man?
Speaker 1: I'm doing well? What's up?
Speaker 2: First off?
Speaker 4: I love your musical selection choice you go from you
Speaker 4: go from Little Darling By. I think it's the Beatles, Brad.
Speaker 5: What you know?
Speaker 1: I pick everything myself, Jamie, So yes, these are these
Speaker 1: are There is a theme today. The theme is sort
Speaker 1: of a rebirth of fresh you know, new Year. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to keep with the New Year's stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: even though I have not heard one person, not one
Speaker 1: person talk about resolutions, not even in the news nowhere,
Speaker 1: Like nobody talks about resolutions anymore, because I think we've
Speaker 1: all decided that nobody keeps them anyway. So what can
Speaker 1: I what can I help you with? Today?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 4: Bro, I got two questions. First of all, I want
Speaker 4: to thank you for your advice. You gave me what
Speaker 4: I called you just think was either last year the
Speaker 4: year before last, asking about how to cut my swimming
Speaker 4: bill because man, I was paying where the freaking sun
Speaker 4: didn't for three and television, and you said, hey, getnintenna.
Speaker 4: Well I got one, and I got the amplifier for
Speaker 4: it I bought. I bought a separate amplifier because the
Speaker 4: one that they can be intended intendant come with team
Speaker 4: to be basically just cheap crap. Anyway, I bought a
Speaker 4: better amplifier for it, and I love it for the
Speaker 4: most part. But I want to know how do I
Speaker 4: get I mean, is there a way? Because there's that
Speaker 4: one channel and it just happen to be the local
Speaker 4: CBS Facilia for some.
Speaker 1: Reason, CBS which one CBS CBS.
Speaker 7: You know that you know that there is that one?
Speaker 1: Okay, I have and for some of it.
Speaker 4: I cannot get it. I live near the towers. I'm
Speaker 4: like fifteen miles from the broadcast towers. I get everything
Speaker 4: else except that one, and I don't want to.
Speaker 5: Have to go.
Speaker 4: And I also went out too. I'm visually impaired just
Speaker 4: as Mike is.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, and I love it.
Speaker 4: I love it when I saw a blank community reach
Speaker 4: out to your show.
Speaker 1: By the way, Oh, yeah, me too. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about those meta glasses last year.
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's eye opening, no pun intended. I
Speaker 1: hate I hate that I just said that, but it's, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's really been interesting to see, you know,
Speaker 1: how technology is used and how it is opening up
Speaker 1: the world for people of all different abilities. But here's
Speaker 1: my solution for you. Why not just download their free
Speaker 1: streaming app.
Speaker 4: Well it's well, okay, okay, the I have them is
Speaker 4: the app. It's good for new.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, but not programming.
Speaker 4: But if I want to watch stay yes, yes, I yep.
Speaker 2: That can that can be a little bit of a okay.
Speaker 4: Luckily, the only thing I really watched it on TVs
Speaker 4: is the Price is right?
Speaker 1: You and my kids they watched it every day. Uh
Speaker 1: well okay, but here here's a couple of things. So
Speaker 1: have you you've tried putting the antenna in different locations
Speaker 1: of your home?
Speaker 4: That I tried, And it's funny how I have to
Speaker 4: do it. I literally have to stand on a stool
Speaker 4: because I put four.
Speaker 1: Be careful, Jamie, I don't want you fallen off a
Speaker 1: stool to get to prices right, Well, I tried listen.
Speaker 4: The funny thing is my girlfriend saw me up there
Speaker 4: one day says, oh my god, my boyfriend got.
Speaker 7: To kill hmself.
Speaker 1: All the name of Drew Carey. Now I'm just kidding, right, Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: here's what I think you should do. Have you checked
Speaker 1: out an app called Antenna Point that well, I you
Speaker 1: may have to have someone help you, but you know
Speaker 1: what it does. Is it you put in your you know,
Speaker 1: basically based on where your phone is, it will show
Speaker 1: you where to point your antenna to get the reception
Speaker 1: of the channel that you want. So if you're looking
Speaker 1: at this thing, and I've done this in my home,
Speaker 1: you know, most of the channels come from a certain
Speaker 1: tower right like here in where I live. They all
Speaker 1: come from the same mountain pretty much in your area.
Speaker 1: That may be the same case, but you won't know
Speaker 1: until you open up this app and look. So I
Speaker 1: would get that app. It's called Antenna Point. It comes
Speaker 1: from Antenna's Direct and you basically can look at that
Speaker 1: and see where this antenna needs to be aimed for
Speaker 1: the maximum reception. And it may be that you know,
Speaker 1: you change it to one side, it's going to get CBS.
Speaker 1: You change it to the other. It's not gonna get
Speaker 1: anything else, so you have to you know, the whole
Speaker 1: antenna thing is not a perfect system. Let's put it
Speaker 1: that way.
Speaker 4: It's just not another thing. Rich I keep hearing about,
Speaker 4: is this whole next in TV?
Speaker 1: Yes, you know.
Speaker 4: My concern is because I keep hearing that they have
Speaker 4: all these APSP three boxes you can get. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: have to get a new TV down the road anyway,
Speaker 4: but like, do they make accessible like ATSD three boxes?
Speaker 4: Like because my Rowcup TV it's talked, So that's why
Speaker 4: I know what I'm doing, right, But I don't want
Speaker 4: to have to pay money through the nose for a
Speaker 4: box that I need somebody here to help me use.
Speaker 4: I want to go to watch TV independently without needing
Speaker 4: to have my goal friend whoever in the house with
Speaker 4: me be like, Hey, okay, Jamie, you got to click
Speaker 4: on this thing and do this thing. And I'm like,
Speaker 4: I'm very impatient with stuff that is mostly.
Speaker 1: The preciety, right, Oh, I totally get that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I would say because the next gen TV stuff is
Speaker 1: so new, and by the way, I'd said, I'll be
Speaker 1: at CS next week They're going to have this on
Speaker 1: display like they always do. This has taken a lot
Speaker 1: longer to mature than I think these broadcast companies wanted,
Speaker 1: and I think the take up is not as high
Speaker 1: because people, you know, I don't know if you remember,
Speaker 1: we all went through that digital transition with the channels,
Speaker 1: so that was a big thing, and now they want
Speaker 1: people to buy a different box to go to this
Speaker 1: next gen TV, which is great and it has a
Speaker 1: lot of cool features. I mean, they've got all these
Speaker 1: enhanced features. It's almost like a mix of streaming and
Speaker 1: over the air, right like it brings interactive features to
Speaker 1: standard broadcast channels. And I'm sure the TV companies love
Speaker 1: it because I bet I just have a feeling that
Speaker 1: they probably get a lot more analytics from the people
Speaker 1: that tune in, so like for things like ratings and stuff.
Speaker 1: It's probably really good. They can also deliver data alongside
Speaker 1: the programming and that kind of stuff. But I would
Speaker 1: say these boxes are very immature, and so I don't
Speaker 1: know if they have all those accessibility features. But you
Speaker 1: know what, I will definitely ask when I'm there and
Speaker 1: at CES and meet with these folks and see where
Speaker 1: they're at with accessibility. But Jamie in the meantime, I
Speaker 1: would definitely check out, you know, see if you can
Speaker 1: get that antenna app again, it's called Antenna Point. It's
Speaker 1: available for iOS and Android. See if that helps you
Speaker 1: figure out if you can even receive the CBS channel
Speaker 1: in your area, like you may not even Let's say
Speaker 1: you point your antenna towards the mountain where it says
Speaker 1: you still may not get it. I mean, and you
Speaker 1: know antenna signals are you know, they can be finicky.
Speaker 1: So great question. Thanks for the call, Really appreciate it,
Speaker 1: Jamie listening in Tampa, and thanks so much today. It's
Speaker 1: just so nice to hear from folks all over the US.
Speaker 1: Here Debora rights in listening on the podcast. Hey, I've
Speaker 1: got a few old printed wedding photos four by six
Speaker 1: five x seven. I'd love to remove just my ex
Speaker 1: from them. I've tried some free editing software. The trials
Speaker 1: are super limited, and I don't want to sign up
Speaker 1: or pay for anything. That's the best question. I don't
Speaker 1: want to pay for anything or sign up for anything,
Speaker 1: but I still want to be able to do this.
Speaker 1: I hear you, Deborah. The tricky part is he has
Speaker 1: his hand around the arm of the person next to him,
Speaker 1: so when I remove him, it looks like her arm
Speaker 1: is cut off. I know there's a way to use
Speaker 1: layers and patch in some skin area, but that's way
Speaker 1: too complicated for me. Do you know if a simple
Speaker 1: website or company that can handle this. Thanks for any advice.
Speaker 1: I'm always listening to you. You're everywhere, Deborah. Thank you.
Speaker 1: The good news is you do not need to pay
Speaker 1: a dime to do this. You will not believe how
Speaker 1: easy this is to do with Google's Gemini AI Gemini
Speaker 1: dot Google dot com.
Speaker 8: It is free.
Speaker 1: It will do an amazing job with this. I showed
Speaker 1: my wife yesterday. I was doing a picture for the newsletter.
Speaker 1: I said, ah, I don't want to have you in
Speaker 1: this picture, so watch me remove you. And she goes,
Speaker 1: wait what And it was like watching like Back to
Speaker 1: the Future, where it's just like you just get a
Speaker 1: race from the picture instantly. Again, So scan your photo.
Speaker 1: You can use the free Google Photo Scan app. It's quick,
Speaker 1: it'll remove Claire. Then go to Gemini on the web
Speaker 1: or on the app, upload the photo and all you
Speaker 1: have to do is type something in like remove the man,
Speaker 1: remove this guy that crossed me, remove this X that
Speaker 1: I hate now, I'm just kidding. Google may respond with
Speaker 1: that remove the guy with his hand on her arm,
Speaker 1: or you can just say remove the guy from the picture.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is. Try it. It will do it so easily,
Speaker 1: and I'm not kidding. You will even recreate whatever parts
Speaker 1: of the body that it's covering that you know gets erased.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty pretty amazing. So try that, Deborah,
Speaker 1: thanks for listening. Really appreciate the kind words. Super super simple.
Speaker 1: You will not believe. You know, you've probably heard me
Speaker 1: talk about this Google Nano Banana that is just a
Speaker 1: nice funny name for Gemini, which is okay, let me
Speaker 1: start at the beginning. So you've got different flavors of
Speaker 1: AI out there. You've got Chat GBT that's an AI,
Speaker 1: You've got Gemini, which is an AI that's from Google,
Speaker 1: and then nano Banana pro is just a fancy way
Speaker 1: of referring to the image editing technology that is built
Speaker 1: into Google Gemini AI. And the way they got that name,
Speaker 1: they didn't even it wasn't even supposed to be named that. Basically,
Speaker 1: an engineer just put that in as like a placeholder
Speaker 1: when they were coming up with something with this. They
Speaker 1: were going to launch this and they said, oh this
Speaker 1: is call it Nano Banana, and it stuck and people
Speaker 1: started loving it. They love the name and it's really
Speaker 1: given branding to this image generator and photo editor. So
Speaker 1: if you have not tried this, if you have ever
Speaker 1: used photoshop in your entire life and you've been like, oh,
Speaker 1: like okay, here's a great example. I have had this
Speaker 1: dream of changing signs. You know, when you see a
Speaker 1: street sign or a sign on the side of the road,
Speaker 1: or an exit sign, whatever you see a sign. I
Speaker 1: always love in my head thinking how silly those signs
Speaker 1: would be if they said something silly, right, almost like
Speaker 1: that La movie What was it? What was the one
Speaker 1: with Steve Martin La Story? Yeah, where like the signs
Speaker 1: on the freeway had like funny things that they said
Speaker 1: to him, Like I've always thought that was really interesting.
Speaker 1: Now you have to match the font, you gotta match
Speaker 1: the background, you gotta match everything. I tried this in
Speaker 1: Nano Banana yesterday. I just went through probably one hundred
Speaker 1: signs in my photo album and just changed them all
Speaker 1: to silly stuff just for my own laughter. And you
Speaker 1: can do this now, so try it. Gemini dot Google
Speaker 1: dot com put a photo in there, ask to edit
Speaker 1: super super simple. By the way, not to be outdone,
Speaker 1: chatch Ebt also upgraded their image generation tool a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and it's also gotten very good, So
Speaker 1: you can't go wrong with either of these. I understand
Speaker 1: it's impacting jobs, it's impacting all these people that learned photoshop,
Speaker 1: but I mean, I didn't invent it. This is just
Speaker 1: how we're moving forward, and it's wild. So you got
Speaker 1: to try this stuff. Eighty eight Rich one O one
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four to one
Speaker 1: zero one. More rich on Tech coming your way right
Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology. Eight eight eight
Speaker 1: rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Let's let's go to Jamie
Speaker 1: in San Dimas. Jamie, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 6: Hey, how's it going, Rich?
Speaker 1: It is going fantastic. How are you doing on this
Speaker 1: new year?
Speaker 2: I'm pretty good.
Speaker 6: I'm glad I finally got through to you because this
Speaker 6: has been an ongoing problem that I'm hoping Apple has
Speaker 6: got a solution for, but maybe not. So I have
Speaker 6: an iPhone twelve soon to upgrade through A fifteen. But
Speaker 6: I constantly when I make a phone call, if I
Speaker 6: try to click out of the phone or something like that,
Speaker 6: I end up hitting somebody else in my favorite contact
Speaker 6: list and make another phone call. Is there any way
Speaker 6: to set it up to where when a call ends,
Speaker 6: that screen closes automatically.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a way to have that screen close.
Speaker 1: But what I do is and this is the thing
Speaker 1: that a lot of people just forget to do. But
Speaker 1: you know, I just press the lock button on the side.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I know that.
Speaker 6: My son tells me that all the time. Just turn
Speaker 6: the phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I yell at my mom. I don't yell.
Speaker 1: I'm very nice. But there's certain people that like to
Speaker 1: leave their screen on all the time, and they put
Speaker 1: it in their pocket or their purse with the screen on,
Speaker 1: and then they say, oh, my app's moved around, or
Speaker 1: my home screen got rearranged, or I called someone. It's
Speaker 1: all because the phone is still on. So there's really
Speaker 1: you know, so when you're talking you dial a person.
Speaker 1: Let's say you dial someone right and then that end screen.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna dial my wife real quick. She'll
Speaker 1: probably call me back and be like, what's happening? Uh okay,
Speaker 1: So I press end and then you're okay, it ends,
Speaker 1: and then it goes right to that favorite screen exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 6: And I have a tendency when I'm trying to hit
Speaker 6: and if it doesn't end right away, right my fingers
Speaker 6: on there is in the process of trying to hit
Speaker 6: end again and then I'm back to the favorite.
Speaker 1: Right and I and I've done that. I've done that
Speaker 1: where I dial someone else or you know what happens
Speaker 1: Sometimes you dial someone and it like hangs up for
Speaker 1: some reason really quickly, and I'm like, wait what and
Speaker 1: I press something and it immediately dials the next person.
Speaker 4: So exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this is definitely an issue. I mean
Speaker 1: it's really Yeah, there's there's not really a way to
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 6: I don't think there's I just have to get into
Speaker 6: muscle memory of turning off the phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I mean, that's really that's that's the best
Speaker 1: way to do with the muscle memory. Now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: run through a couple other ways just to kind of
Speaker 1: set up your phone if this is always happening to you.
Speaker 1: So number one, you know, because butt dialing is a
Speaker 1: is a problem. People do it all the time. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's just here we are in twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: and we're still it's a It's like a problem that's
Speaker 1: been you know, fifteen years old. So Number one, you
Speaker 1: have to get into the habit of when you're done
Speaker 1: with your phone, just press that lock button on the
Speaker 1: side of it, the power button, whatever it does to
Speaker 1: lock your phone. That's it. So that's number one. Some
Speaker 1: people set their phones up. You have Android, you could
Speaker 1: like double tap the screen to lock it. Whatever you do,
Speaker 1: just turn it off. That's number one. A couple other
Speaker 1: ways to make it on the iPhones that you don't
Speaker 1: misdial someone by accident. You can disable raise to wake,
Speaker 1: So if you you know, when you raise your iPhone,
Speaker 1: it kind of on. It doesn't unlock it, but it
Speaker 1: will wake it up. And when your phone's in a
Speaker 1: wake up state, it's easier to unlock, and it's easier
Speaker 1: for the face i D to work. So you can
Speaker 1: go into settings and turn it off if you want
Speaker 1: to kind of be in control. So you go to
Speaker 1: settings and then display and brightness, and there's an option
Speaker 1: for raise to wake turn it off. The other thing
Speaker 1: you do. By the way, Jamie is turned the auto
Speaker 1: lock to like thirty seconds instead of a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: I have mine on five minutes. Autolock is how long
Speaker 1: your phone automatically locks, and I always recommend, by the way,
Speaker 1: keeping that to a lower number in general because of
Speaker 1: security reasons. You don't want someone to come over and
Speaker 1: grab your phone and it's on lock for five minutes.
Speaker 1: That would be a privacy nightmare, all right, So that's
Speaker 1: number two. Then you've got tap to wake, so in accessibility,
Speaker 1: you can go into settings Accessibility and then touch and
Speaker 1: there's a tap to wake, so it says tap or
Speaker 1: swipe to wake. You can turn that off so that'll
Speaker 1: make your phone not wake up as much. And then
Speaker 1: if you have a passcode, you can let's see, well,
Speaker 1: obviously you should set a passcode. But the other one,
Speaker 1: the other one that you may not know about, is
Speaker 1: in settings under face ID and passcode. Let's see where
Speaker 1: that is. That's going to ask for your passcode, So
Speaker 1: put that in. And then there's an op shin that
Speaker 1: says return missed calls. And see if you go in
Speaker 1: here it says allow access while locked. There's a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of things that your phone can actually do when
Speaker 1: it's locked if you have these turned on, and one
Speaker 1: of them is return miss calls. So if you're always
Speaker 1: if you have those miss calls on your lock screen
Speaker 1: and you put your phone in your pocket or your
Speaker 1: jim bag or you're pressing your phone and your screen
Speaker 1: touches your finger touches one of those missed calls, it
Speaker 1: will dial that number. So even if your phone is locked,
Speaker 1: because you know, Apple is trying to make things easier
Speaker 1: for you, so you can go in and turn that
Speaker 1: off so that you know, now, I hate to be
Speaker 1: like a kind of like look into the dark side
Speaker 1: of things, but there's always, you know, there's a reason
Speaker 1: why you might want to keep that on. Let's say
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't want to. It gets too tough.
Speaker 1: I run a lot, and so I'm always thinking if
Speaker 1: I'm just left dead in a ditch somewhere, if someone
Speaker 1: has to like pick up my phone and like dial
Speaker 1: a number from it to like call my loved ones.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know why I think that way,
Speaker 1: but it's like good, you know, it's something you kind
Speaker 1: of have to think about sometimes. But anyway, so I
Speaker 1: always think about that, like if someone found me, like
Speaker 1: when I go running like a foreign city, I'm like,
Speaker 1: if someone found me in this, let's say in Tokyo,
Speaker 1: right in Japan, someone found me here on a run,
Speaker 1: Like literally, what would they do? They'd have to like
Speaker 1: put my picture on TV and be like who is
Speaker 1: this guy?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: So I'm always like, Okay, I have to put my
Speaker 1: my ID in my pocket because I need something that
Speaker 1: like they can go through my pocket and be like,
Speaker 1: all right, we found this guy. I mean, it's sad
Speaker 1: and it's kind of weird to think that way, but
Speaker 1: that's how my brain works. So anyway, if you find
Speaker 1: me running, just look at my pocket, because yes, my
Speaker 1: ID will be in there, and you'll be able to
Speaker 1: tell who I am now getting in touch with someone
Speaker 1: on that D I don't know how that would work
Speaker 1: where they got to like go to the embassy and
Speaker 1: be like, hey, can you look up the phone number
Speaker 1: for this guy?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: These are things I never want to find out, but
Speaker 1: it's like things I think about. Eight to eight rich
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Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Welcome to another year.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another year of this show. It has been
Speaker 1: quite the ride. It's been so much fun to do this,
Speaker 1: coming in every weekend, talking with you, going over the
Speaker 1: news of the week. My favorite thing though is really,
Speaker 1: you know, anyone can tell you the news in the
Speaker 1: tech world, but my favorite thing is when I find
Speaker 1: the little tidbits that I tell you that are interesting
Speaker 1: and useful and helpful. And we've had a bunch of
Speaker 1: them over the years, so that is really what keeps
Speaker 1: me going. And of course the feedback when I tell you,
Speaker 1: when I tell you I can do email for an
Speaker 1: unlimited amount of time, that is not a joke. It
Speaker 1: is not a joke. I will send I will, I
Speaker 1: will look at my email as soon as I do
Speaker 1: a show, as soon as I do a newsletter, as
Speaker 1: soon as I do a TV segment. The emails come in,
Speaker 1: and then I reply to those emails as much as
Speaker 1: I can, and more come in. But I love it
Speaker 1: because you know, this would not be anything if it
Speaker 1: wasn't for you. So thank you for that, and I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I'm honored that you trust what I say
Speaker 1: and you like my recommendations. It is not lost on
Speaker 1: me in any way. So I was saying that some
Speaker 1: of this technology for thank you Bobo, Thank you Bobo.
Speaker 5: Some of this.
Speaker 1: Technology they're trying to get ahead of at CS. One
Speaker 1: of them is pretty interesting. We've actually talked to Clicks.
Speaker 1: They're the company that makes those physical keyboard cases. They
Speaker 1: just unveiled their first phone and it kind of looks
Speaker 1: like where BlackBerry left off. So it's called the Clicks Communicator,
Speaker 1: And if you go to their website Clicks dot tech,
Speaker 1: I mean, this thing looks like a BlackBerry and it's
Speaker 1: got a screen. Let's see the specs here. It runs Android.
Speaker 1: So the idea is that this is your second phone.
Speaker 1: So people that are juggling like a work and personal device,
Speaker 1: you can have this secondary device that's just focused on messaging,
Speaker 1: email and getting things done. So it's got software that
Speaker 1: you can have you know, Gmail on there, WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram,
Speaker 1: in a message hub. It's got this signal light on
Speaker 1: the side that glows different colors. Remember those Remember when
Speaker 1: phones used to have a physical light like an led
Speaker 1: on them that would light up when you had a
Speaker 1: message that was the best. No, no phone has it
Speaker 1: anymore as far as I know, So VIPs can have
Speaker 1: a different color than your group chat. It's got a
Speaker 1: real physical keyboard so you can type faster, and you
Speaker 1: can also scroll. So there's a little let's see, is
Speaker 1: there a little scroll wheel on the side. No, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I can't see the left side of
Speaker 1: this thing, but maybe there's a scroll wheel. Let's see
Speaker 1: what else. So the hardware has things that people I mean,
Speaker 1: this is just wild. They put a headphone jack, micro
Speaker 1: SD card, physical SIM plus E SIM tactical tactile tactical
Speaker 1: tactile kill switch, so you can map that to airplane
Speaker 1: mode or notifications whatever you want. Kind of like kind
Speaker 1: of like the button on the the action button on
Speaker 1: the iPhone, but it's actually a real switch. It's got
Speaker 1: Android sixteen, five years of security update, four thousand million battery,
Speaker 1: wireless charging, fifty megapixel main camera. I'm guessing the camera
Speaker 1: is going to be the sore spot here, but you're
Speaker 1: not getting this for the camera.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of intrigued. I'm really intrigued. Five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: You can get that price down to three ninety nine,
Speaker 1: and if you reserve it now, you can put two
Speaker 1: hundred dollars down to reserve it for three ninety nine.
Speaker 1: I know it's confusing, so if you don't do anything,
Speaker 1: you're gonna pay five hundred, but if you reserve it
Speaker 1: for two hundred dollars, you'll pay four hundred. Shipping expected
Speaker 1: later this year, I don't know. Kind of interesting. Check
Speaker 1: it out clicks dot Tech. This will be at CS
Speaker 1: of course. I don't know. I've kind of gotten over
Speaker 1: the physical buttons on my phone, so I don't know
Speaker 1: if I need this, but I think that they definitely
Speaker 1: are coming out the product that people that have a
Speaker 1: work phone and a personal phone could enjoy, Cause if
Speaker 1: you just want to throw away your work phone when
Speaker 1: you get done with work and you don't want to
Speaker 1: deal with all the emails that come in and the
Speaker 1: messages and things like that. You just get this phone,
Speaker 1: put all your work stuff on it, and then you know,
Speaker 1: hide it under a pillow when you get home, but
Speaker 1: it's still there for when you need it. So anyway,
Speaker 1: kind of a neat idea. Clicks dot tech. Let's go
Speaker 1: to let's go to Brian line for Brian in uh
Speaker 1: oh Claire with constant.
Speaker 8: You're on with Rich, Hey, Rich, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 8: Hopefully quick question here. I think I know the answer,
Speaker 8: but uh, you know, over the holidays, usually get an
Speaker 8: Amazon gift card and I'm not a huge online chopper,
Speaker 8: so I usually use that to purchase my TurboTax for
Speaker 8: the for the year. Sure, and I went to do
Speaker 8: that this year, and I was about to download it
Speaker 8: when I realized it's kind of in fine print there
Speaker 8: that it says now it's only for Windows eleven and newer,
Speaker 8: and I'm I'm running Windows ten on my on my
Speaker 8: HP Pavilion X three sixty. They do offer an online option,
Speaker 8: and I kind of poked around in there and I
Speaker 8: thought it was a little bit cumbersome. I guess a
Speaker 8: couple questions if if I were to download it on
Speaker 8: Windows ten, woul would nothing happen? Or would it just
Speaker 8: be a security risk? Or is there kind of a
Speaker 8: workaround that I'd still be able to use it on
Speaker 8: my the desktop or a downloaded version on my on
Speaker 8: my HP pavilion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great, great question. Actually, I think someone emailed me
Speaker 1: this question late last year and said, hey, for the
Speaker 1: next upcoming year, you know you're not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to run TurboTax on Windows ten. And so yeah, the
Speaker 1: company has said that the TurboTax desktop program twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five will require Windows eleven because there's no more. Now,
Speaker 1: this is the interesting thing. They say this because of
Speaker 1: security reasons, right, because Windows ten is no longer actively supported.
Speaker 1: But the funny thing is it is sort of actively
Speaker 1: supported by Microsoft for security updates. But I think the
Speaker 1: problem is they can't guarantee that everyone has those updates.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure what the reasoning is, like why
Speaker 1: they said you can't do this anymore. I think it's
Speaker 1: just because they want to make a blanket. You know, Okay,
Speaker 1: we know Windows ten is not supported in a big
Speaker 1: way anymore. So we're just going to move forward with
Speaker 1: Windows eleven. So that is the company line. What they're
Speaker 1: saying is this software will not run on ten. So
Speaker 1: and they did say that, you know, security was the
Speaker 1: main reason. So what are your options now? Is there
Speaker 1: some sort of hack or work around. I'm sure there is,
Speaker 1: but I don't know of that hack, nor can I
Speaker 1: recommend that because you're talking about your taxes, you're talking
Speaker 1: about your personal information, talking about you know, the most
Speaker 1: personal and private and secure information you're working with as
Speaker 1: a person. So I can't really say like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I just do this and and get around that. So
Speaker 1: I think your best option is if you you know,
Speaker 1: you can upgrade your computer Windows eleven if that supports it.
Speaker 1: If it doesn't, then of course, or if you don't
Speaker 1: want to, that's a whole nother thing. But why do
Speaker 1: you not want to use the online thing? And I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people like this desktop software. Is
Speaker 1: it just because it's offline? Like, what's the reason for that.
Speaker 8: I was poking around a little bit yesterday and it
Speaker 8: just seemed that, I want to say glitchy, but it
Speaker 8: was it was a little bit harder to read the
Speaker 8: best stop version and a little bit more difficult to
Speaker 8: you know, to copy and paste from like a you know,
Speaker 8: a W two and from bank statements and that sort
Speaker 8: of thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, and it was it.
Speaker 8: Wasn't terrible but any means, but not not as streamlined
Speaker 8: as the desktop version that I was used to.
Speaker 1: I guess, okay, I mean I understand that I'm trying
Speaker 1: to see here, So yeah, I mean that's okay. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at Reddit right now, and you know, some people
Speaker 1: are discussing this, of course, and it is interesting because
Speaker 1: people said, well, hold on, now that we have these
Speaker 1: security updates to October twenty twenty six, why can't they
Speaker 1: support it? Like, come on, people are you know, if
Speaker 1: you if you're doing that extension. So I would say
Speaker 1: you're probably going to be unless TurboTax changes their mind.
Speaker 1: You're probably stuck using the online system. You can also
Speaker 1: switch to a different app, but of course that's a
Speaker 1: pain because I'm sure all your data is in this app, right.
Speaker 2: That's correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I would say, now here's my other question.
Speaker 1: If you're using the desktop app, does your data follow
Speaker 1: through to the online app?
Speaker 8: You can you can upload the you know, the file
Speaker 8: from your from your from your from the browser and
Speaker 8: it will you can you can transfer it over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so that's probably what you're gonna be stuck
Speaker 1: with doing, Brian. I know you said you thought you
Speaker 1: knew the answer before you call it. I think that's
Speaker 1: really you know, the only other thing that would be Yeah,
Speaker 1: there is a thing where you can like write click
Speaker 1: on an app on Windows and do like compatibility mode,
Speaker 1: but I think that's only for backwards compatibility, so if
Speaker 1: you're running it, you know, if you wanted to run
Speaker 1: on an older version or something like that. But I
Speaker 1: don't think you're gonna be able to get around this
Speaker 1: unless TurboTax changes something. I will keep an eye on this.
Speaker 1: It's definitely something that a lot of people are chatting about,
Speaker 1: and I think it's going to impact more people. Were
Speaker 1: only a couple of days into January, so I think
Speaker 1: people are going to be discovering this as we move
Speaker 1: into January, and maybe the more people that are vocal
Speaker 1: about it, the more that TurboTax into it might have
Speaker 1: a change of heart. But right now, that is what
Speaker 1: the company says, that's what they're doing. I'll be honest.
Speaker 1: I use TurboTax for a long time. I now use
Speaker 1: this app called fly fin, which you know I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you have to change what you use,
Speaker 1: but I love this app and I already got to
Speaker 1: sign my CPA to do my taxes and it's I
Speaker 1: used it last year, I used it the year before.
Speaker 1: It's incredible. If you are even if you are not
Speaker 1: a person that is a freelancer or whatever, you have
Speaker 1: a lot of deductions. This app is just so cool.
Speaker 1: I love it because it's like high tech. So basically,
Speaker 1: you connect all of your accounts. It looks at all
Speaker 1: of your transactions and you classify them. It helps with AI.
Speaker 1: It'll say like, oh, we think this is a business
Speaker 1: expense or even a you know, if you don't have
Speaker 1: a business, just your personal expense, you know, But you
Speaker 1: have to get past that whatever it is, like the
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars that you get. You know, I'm not
Speaker 1: a tax expert, but I know there's like some sort
Speaker 1: of threshold for your deductions. But anyway, it's really good.
Speaker 1: And then at the end of the year, you literally
Speaker 1: just someone they assign you a CPA and then they
Speaker 1: just do your taxes for you. And I will tell
Speaker 1: you that last year, I did get like a disclaimer
Speaker 1: that said, you know, just so you know your your
Speaker 1: CPA is overseas, like they're not based in the US.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, I don't know. I mean everything
Speaker 1: is overseas now, right. I mean, it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: this person is not any more qualified or less qualified
Speaker 1: to do this, but you know that that was a reality.
Speaker 1: I think that was the only warning I saw. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's the same as this year. I
Speaker 1: didn't see that warning, but just so you know, you know,
Speaker 1: that's probably how they're doing it for a much better
Speaker 1: price tag than some of these other things. But and
Speaker 1: I've tried the live CPA assist on Turbo tax and
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I wasn't as impressed with that. But anyway,
Speaker 1: by you know who likes taxes anyway, not no one
Speaker 1: I've ever met except CPA's. They kind of like them,
Speaker 1: but they're making a lot of money off of them.
Speaker 1: Eighty to eight rich one on one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one back after this, Oh,
Speaker 1: this one's a slow burn. Okay, wait for it? Is
Speaker 1: this the right now song? Okay? This will forever? Is
Speaker 1: this right here? Right now, right, Okay, I think this
Speaker 1: was the Crystal Pepsi song. Look up on YouTube Crystal Pepsi?
Speaker 1: Is this van Helen?
Speaker 8: Okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, nineteen ninety two Crystal Pepsi Van Halen. They did
Speaker 1: a commercial I think it was on Saturday Night Live
Speaker 1: and it was like, oh gosh, now I'm forgetting if
Speaker 1: it was the actual commercial or just the Saturday Night
Speaker 1: Live version. Anyway, they did a version on Saturday Night
Speaker 1: Live that was Crystal gravy. I will never forget as
Speaker 1: a kid just seeing that, and I love Crystal pepsi.
Speaker 1: It was like the clear Pepsi. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: how did they make pepsi clear?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 1: Because it's all chemicals and fake That's how eight to
Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Christine has been waiting patiently
Speaker 1: at Huntington Beach with her question. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I can help, because I can't. I don't understand what
Speaker 1: it says on my screen here, But I will, I will,
Speaker 1: I will attempt. What can I help you with?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 10: Hi, happy to be here, rich and Bobo, and thank
Speaker 10: you for taking my calm. And I just want to
Speaker 10: tell you I'm always learning from you, and I'm always
Speaker 10: replaying your podcast to learn to learn more all the time.
Speaker 1: So oh my gosh, I feel so bad for you replaying.
Speaker 1: I mean, listening to it once is worse enough for
Speaker 1: some people.
Speaker 2: No, no, it's good.
Speaker 10: I learned a lot. So okay, So I have never
Speaker 10: had this happen to me before. So last week I
Speaker 10: have a laptop and it's Microsoft based, and I went
Speaker 10: to restart my computer and then when the screen came up,
Speaker 10: you know you put in your credentials, like you put
Speaker 10: your password in. Well I put it in, and it
Speaker 10: kept saying Microsoft, your log off of your offline with Microsoft.
Speaker 10: So I thought, well, that's really weird. So maybe I
Speaker 10: didn't type it right.
Speaker 2: So I typed it.
Speaker 10: I typed it several times, constantly just kept telling me
Speaker 10: I was offline with Microsoft. I couldn't open up. It
Speaker 10: literally locked me out of my computer. I couldn't open
Speaker 10: up any screens. I couldn't go to Google to like
Speaker 10: start typing the thin to figure out what it's wrong
Speaker 10: with my right whatever. So I thought, okay, well, let
Speaker 10: me just go to my phone. So I went to
Speaker 10: my phone, I typed in Microsoft, went in there found it,
Speaker 10: put my credentials in, and then it started asking me
Speaker 10: a series of questions and one thing I couldn't get around.
Speaker 10: And I don't know if you call it a it
Speaker 10: gave me a single use code or maybe you call
Speaker 10: it a pass key. I couldn't get around that because anyways,
Speaker 10: because I think I remember you saying something like don't
Speaker 10: don't take a pass key because I could.
Speaker 4: Goof you up or something.
Speaker 10: But I have to go back and listen to that podcast.
Speaker 10: So anyways, after like trying to figure this out for
Speaker 10: a couple of hours, I ended up logging in on
Speaker 10: my phone with Microsoft directly, and it ended up I
Speaker 10: was able to get into my computer. It was the
Speaker 10: strangest thing I've never had this happen. And I've you know,
Speaker 10: been having computers for over thirty years and always dealing
Speaker 10: with Microsoft. So have you ever heard of this happening before?
Speaker 1: Well, I think what I think what it sounds to
Speaker 1: me that you basically so Microsoft, for some reason, they
Speaker 1: really like an internet connection when you're logging on to
Speaker 1: like verify the account unless you're using a local account.
Speaker 1: So and some people kind of have a work like Basically,
Speaker 1: Microsoft wants everything to be done online at this point, right,
Speaker 1: like they want everything to be you know, a Microsoft
Speaker 1: account and when you sign in, it's checking against the
Speaker 1: online account. So that sounds like it sounds like two
Speaker 1: things were happening. Number one, it could have been a coincidence.
Speaker 1: Has this happened again, No, it happened.
Speaker 10: Happened since last week.
Speaker 1: So I'm wondering if when you logged in, your computer
Speaker 1: was offline, like it just you know, sometimes these things happen,
Speaker 1: and your computer was just happened to be offline at
Speaker 1: that moment and it couldn't log in, and then when
Speaker 1: you went to your phone, it did log in because
Speaker 1: your phone, you know, either your WiFi was fine there
Speaker 1: or the connection was there, or you're you know, you're
Speaker 1: on cellular whatever, and you're able to log in there.
Speaker 1: The thing that's confusing to me is the one time passcode.
Speaker 1: So did you were you able to log into your
Speaker 1: computer the regular way at the end?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 10: I was, and I was able to do it. And
Speaker 10: I kept checking my because I have a euro Wi
Speaker 10: Fi or system in my house based on your recommendations,
Speaker 10: so I kept looking at it.
Speaker 2: It was lit.
Speaker 10: It wasn't offline or anything. It was and I kept
Speaker 10: looking at my computer to see that the Wi Fi
Speaker 10: signal was up and I was connected. It was just
Speaker 10: the strangest thing, and I can never.
Speaker 2: Have that happen.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, here's here's an easy way to try this again.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you want to put yourself
Speaker 1: through this pain again, but you could, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: either turn off your Wi Fi or if your if
Speaker 1: your computer is connected via Ethernet, you can just pull
Speaker 1: that cable and see if you get that same error
Speaker 1: and then you know that like it was just a
Speaker 1: one time thing because your phone wasn't online. So that's
Speaker 1: one way. But but I don't know if you want
Speaker 1: to do that, because you know, I know, once things
Speaker 1: are working in the tech world, you don't really want
Speaker 1: to mess them up again. But in the future, if
Speaker 1: this happens again, you might be able to do what's
Speaker 1: called a local account and set up like a local
Speaker 1: login for this computer just to still get in even
Speaker 1: if you you know, can't get in with the with
Speaker 1: the Wi Fi situation. And then at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, there's something called safe mode which you can
Speaker 1: boot into that and you can see, you know, if
Speaker 1: that if that can help you at least get into
Speaker 1: your computer. But it sounds like this was just a
Speaker 1: fluke to me. Yeah, and the one time code and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, I think was just I don't think
Speaker 1: anyone hacked you. I don't. I think that this was
Speaker 1: a fluke and it just maybe at the moment your
Speaker 1: computer was not connected, at the second it logged on
Speaker 1: or something like that.
Speaker 10: Well, And I was also thinking, like not to even
Speaker 10: have a password to even get into my laptop.
Speaker 4: Just I was thinking that, like, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't recommend that, dog you down. Do not recommend that, no,
Speaker 1: because I mean, it's just too you know, with everything
Speaker 1: we store on these computers. Even if you say, oh,
Speaker 1: I just leave my computer at home, it's not a
Speaker 1: big deal. I don't try. I just I can't in
Speaker 1: good faith tell people to not have a passcode on
Speaker 1: their computer or password on you know, passcode on their phone,
Speaker 1: password on their computer. There's too much stuff on there,
Speaker 1: and you know, you just don't want this to get
Speaker 1: into the wrong hands. Thanks to the call, Christine, really
Speaker 1: appreciate the kind words there and huntingdon be eighty eight
Speaker 1: rich one on one. Coming up, we're gonna talk with
Speaker 1: the author of the subtle art of not giving a
Speaker 1: you know what? Right here, I'm rich on Tech. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech, rich DeMuro here hanging out
Speaker 1: with you, Talking technology triple eight rich one O one
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Some more news trickling out of the prelude to CS
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Samsung is bringing Google Photos to its
Speaker 1: Samsung TVs and twenty twenty six, which is interesting and
Speaker 1: that's great, But hey, Google, let's make a Google Photos
Speaker 1: app for all TVs, right, Samsung, Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV,
Speaker 1: where is the app? Come on, I got all my
Speaker 1: photos in there. I want to see him on my
Speaker 1: big screen. And now I can call it Apple too,
Speaker 1: because they don't have an Apple Photos app for anything
Speaker 1: except Apple TV. But you know, and yes, you can
Speaker 1: cast your photos, but I want a native app that
Speaker 1: I can just have on my screen anyway. So that's
Speaker 1: something we'll be checking out. Samsung bringing Google Photos to
Speaker 1: Samsung TV's twenty twenty six models first, and then some
Speaker 1: of the older devices will get them as well. Here's
Speaker 1: what I love about my job, Here's what I love
Speaker 1: about my shows. I've read this book when it came
Speaker 1: out and I can't believe it's been this long, by
Speaker 1: the way, and I never thought I'd actually interview the
Speaker 1: author of this book, but yet here we are Mark
Speaker 1: Manson on the phone. He's got a new app called Purpose.
Speaker 1: He's the author of the I got to figure out
Speaker 1: how to say this on the radio, the subtle art
Speaker 1: of not giving. Can I say an F I guess
Speaker 1: I just did Mark, Welcome to the show, be here,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. So was it really released in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen? I know, man, we're coming up. It's going
Speaker 1: to be ten years this year. That's wild. I mean,
Speaker 1: this was so I'll never forget reading this book. And
Speaker 1: I had like a little and I'm sure you've heard many,
Speaker 1: many stories about how this affected people's lives, but I
Speaker 1: had a little extra swagger in my step after reading
Speaker 1: this book. I'm like, you know what, I don't care
Speaker 1: about anything anymore. Yeah, yeah, those were the days. Similar days.
Speaker 1: So how has life changed in the wake of this book?
Speaker 1: So you wrote this obviously bestseller, did anything you know?
Speaker 1: Did your perspective change on anything? Because so many people
Speaker 1: are now suddenly coming to you for this type of advice.
Speaker 1: I it's interesting because in hindsight.
Speaker 9: I didn't think about this at the time, but looking back,
Speaker 9: you know, ten years into the past, I do think
Speaker 9: one of the reasons it did so well is that
Speaker 9: it was one of the first books to name something
Speaker 9: that everybody was experiencing. So if you think about the
Speaker 9: early twenty tens, Facebook released its newsfeed.
Speaker 1: I believe in twenty twelve.
Speaker 9: Social media Instagram came out twenty eleven, like social media
Speaker 9: really started to take off, like twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen,
Speaker 9: and and so that's when you start getting this like
Speaker 9: these ideas of fomo and social media and douced anxiety
Speaker 9: and all this stuff. And so I think the just
Speaker 9: the message of the book about being noticing what is
Speaker 9: worth caring about and what's not worth caring about. I
Speaker 9: think it caught really the struggle of our generation at
Speaker 9: a very very early And so when I when I
Speaker 9: look back over those ten years, I'm like, Okay, now
Speaker 9: it kind of makes sense why it did so well.
Speaker 9: But at the time I was just like, oh my god,
Speaker 9: that's a lot of book sales. Yeah, you've got a
Speaker 9: new app called Purpose. It's an AI coaching app. Explain
Speaker 9: what this app is all about. So the app is
Speaker 9: designed to help people find direction and clarity in their life.
Speaker 9: The best way to describe it is, I don't.
Speaker 1: Know about if you've done this, but.
Speaker 9: The recent survey show that almost fifty percent of chat
Speaker 9: GBT users use chat GPT for life advice. They asked
Speaker 9: personal questions they give them, you know, I'm having an
Speaker 9: argument with my spouse or I want to make a
Speaker 9: career change, and they're using They're starting to use AI.
Speaker 1: For these sorts of questions. I've heard people gotten divorced
Speaker 1: because of it, Like they're like, oh, you should divorce
Speaker 1: your wife and they're like, okay, sure, I'll do.
Speaker 9: It's it's actually crazy, Like there's some crazy stuff that's
Speaker 9: been happening around this.
Speaker 1: And I first this landed on my radar about a
Speaker 1: year ago.
Speaker 9: I started running into a number of people in my
Speaker 9: personal life who are like, hey, I'm using chat GPT
Speaker 9: as a therapist. And I was like, huh, So I
Speaker 9: went to it and I started testing it out. And
Speaker 9: the problem, which is pretty well documented at this point,
Speaker 9: is that the foundational AI models like they don't they're
Speaker 9: psycho fantic. They kiss your butt, they don't challenge you,
Speaker 9: they don't disagree with you. You know, if I go
Speaker 9: to chat GPT and I tell it that I'm the
Speaker 9: Queen of England and I should conquer the world, like,
Speaker 9: it's probably not going to push back. It's probably just
Speaker 9: going to start helping me come up with, you know,
Speaker 9: whatever I want to come with.
Speaker 1: My wife, and my wife and I joke about this
Speaker 1: all the time, so like any idea you have, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's a great idea. Oh I just said it's going
Speaker 1: to mix you know, vinegar and whatever. It doesn't even matter.
Speaker 1: It's like, yes, this is great. It's like okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: can I get a real independent perspective here? Okay, So
Speaker 1: we know the problem. That's that's the problem. These things
Speaker 1: are just kissing up to everyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: And the issue is that ultimately, these these AI models,
Speaker 9: they're designed to be assistance. And what does an assistant do.
Speaker 9: An assistant says yes to everything anything you ask. Yeah,
Speaker 9: I can do that anything you want. Yeah, sure you
Speaker 9: should have that. So I started thinking of like, okay,
Speaker 9: they're really if people are already going to be doing this,
Speaker 9: then there needs to be some sort of AI on
Speaker 9: the market that that is at least going to challenge
Speaker 9: your assumptions, question your beliefs, you know, kind of poke
Speaker 9: at some blind spots because ultimately, like that is what
Speaker 9: good coaching or therapy is. Is it somebody who can
Speaker 9: reflect back to the things that you're missing or not seeing.
Speaker 9: So I met my co founder.
Speaker 5: I was looking to.
Speaker 9: Like invest in a startup that was working on something
Speaker 9: like this, and that's when I met my co founder
Speaker 9: about a year ago, and he's been building AI products
Speaker 9: for over ten years, and we just said, screw it,
Speaker 9: why don't why don't we make it?
Speaker 1: And so okay, so you've got this app, So explain
Speaker 1: kind of like if you're using let's say you're already
Speaker 1: using chatchybt for like everything, you know, questions answers. What
Speaker 1: does purpose do differently, like what is it? What does
Speaker 1: it bring to the table that chatchybe doesn't. I would
Speaker 1: say the first thing it does is that it is
Speaker 1: it is designed to be challenging. It's designed to question
Speaker 1: your assumptions. One of the things that people notice right
Speaker 1: away with it is that it if you go to
Speaker 1: it and you say, like I want to lose ten pounds,
Speaker 1: you know, chatchybt will will give you like a die,
Speaker 1: a plan and a workout routine purpose will say, why
Speaker 1: do you want to lose ten pounds? What is it
Speaker 1: about the ten pounds that you think is going to
Speaker 1: make you happy?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 1: It's there?
Speaker 9: Is there another is this being motivated by something that's healthy?
Speaker 9: Or are you like feeling insecure for some reason? And
Speaker 9: so it looks it always tries to look a layer deeper.
Speaker 9: The second thing that it does is that it has
Speaker 9: I mean, we've worked really hard on the memory system.
Speaker 9: Like the problem with the memory of most AI models
Speaker 9: at the moment is that they can't sort by importance. Right,
Speaker 9: so chat GBT knows that you you know, your probably
Speaker 9: your mother's name, and the city you grew up in.
Speaker 9: It also knows what TV stand you bought last month
Speaker 9: or the the issue you had with your car last week.
Speaker 9: It doesn't understand that those are two completely different things.
Speaker 9: That one memory, your memory of your mother, is far
Speaker 9: more important and close to your identity than what TV
Speaker 9: stand you bought last month. And so we've tried to
Speaker 9: build a memory that will rank and prioritize the importance
Speaker 9: of memory so that it like understands that you know,
Speaker 9: it won't get fixated on some like random detail of
Speaker 9: your life and and start to start over indexing on
Speaker 9: the advice that it gives. And then the last thing
Speaker 9: that we've really focused on is just personality, Like it's
Speaker 9: I've been writing in this space for twenty years. I've
Speaker 9: been very successful, you know, communicating a lot of these
Speaker 9: ideas to people, and so the goal was to really
Speaker 9: just like give it a little bit of flavor, personality,
Speaker 9: some fun like a make it tonally and stylistically a
Speaker 9: little bit different.
Speaker 1: Than a normal AI that you would talk to. So
Speaker 1: the website for the app is purpose dot app. If
Speaker 1: you want to see what we're talking about here, Purpose
Speaker 1: dot app. So would you consider this therapy?
Speaker 9: Is it a journal? Is it something in between? Like
Speaker 9: who do you think need this? And why it's not
Speaker 9: We're definitely not going after therapy. We actually consciously chose
Speaker 9: to kind of stay out of the therapy world for
Speaker 9: a couple of reasons. One is just I think it's
Speaker 9: higher stakes and I think this technology is still.
Speaker 1: So new that it's not.
Speaker 9: I don't like, I don't want to be making these
Speaker 9: grand tests on people who are very psychologically vulnerable. I
Speaker 9: think that that the technology really just needs to be
Speaker 9: worked on quite a bit more before we like put
Speaker 9: it in these high stake situations, so we're more focused
Speaker 9: on kind of the coaching mentorship side of things, more
Speaker 9: of the personal growth, personal development. I jokingly call it
Speaker 9: the high quality problems. It's it's like if you want
Speaker 9: to get a raise at work this year, or if
Speaker 9: you're struggling to figure out whether you should stay in
Speaker 9: a relationship or not. It's basically problems that normal, well
Speaker 9: functioning adults, everyday people struggle with. But it's not like
Speaker 9: a major emotional crisis. It's not like a psychiatric issue.
Speaker 1: Anything like that.
Speaker 9: For those things and and for those things purposes, it
Speaker 9: is trained to tell you to go seek a professional.
Speaker 1: Interesting, So would you is it almost it's not really
Speaker 1: life coaching or it almost is like life coaching, but
Speaker 1: you don't want to you don't want to frame it
Speaker 1: in these things. It's more of like a helpful app.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's it is weird because it is new territory, right,
Speaker 9: So on the one hand, it is I think probably
Speaker 9: the closest thing in the human world that it would
Speaker 9: compare to is life coaching. But on the other hand,
Speaker 9: like I mean, you can use it for all sorts
Speaker 9: of different things. I mean it's we we get people
Speaker 9: who uh, you know, use it to just bounce ideas
Speaker 9: off of as they're going throughout their day. We get
Speaker 9: people who are like, if they're bored on their commute,
Speaker 9: they just pull it up and talk to it. So
Speaker 9: like it is, I do feel like AI is going
Speaker 9: to inhabit a lot of different categories that like we
Speaker 9: haven't really that don't don't exist.
Speaker 1: Among humans, and I imagine that this product is no different.
Speaker 1: So you've got the app, You've got a seven day
Speaker 1: free trial. It's twenty dollars a month or one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty for the year. The question that I think
Speaker 1: people are going to be asking themselves is, hey, how
Speaker 1: is this better than my chat GBT or how is
Speaker 1: this better than chatting with Gemini or whoever they're using?
Speaker 1: And what's your answer to that? What are they going
Speaker 1: to get out of this that they don't get.
Speaker 9: You're going to get a higher, higher signal to noise ratio,
Speaker 9: and you're going to get it much faster. I would
Speaker 9: just I always encourage people and like, just download it,
Speaker 9: try it for like twenty minutes. Generally speaking, people are
Speaker 9: blown away within the first conversation.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 1: It is it's eerie.
Speaker 9: How like we've got an onboarding process where we kind
Speaker 9: of pull some personality traits and learn a little bit
Speaker 9: about you. And it is shocking sometimes how dead on
Speaker 9: the AI is in that first conversation. So I would
Speaker 9: just encourage people to give it a shot, and if
Speaker 9: it feels weird or it's not for you, that's totally fine.
Speaker 1: But he there, let us know what you think. They're
Speaker 1: playing me off purpose dot app. Mark Manson, thanks so
Speaker 1: much for joining me today. I really appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Rich all right, purpose dot app. Hey you heard them?
Speaker 1: Download it? Try it, see what you think you know,
Speaker 1: get some life changing insights. Eight eight eight rich one
Speaker 1: O one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. The
Speaker 1: website for the show is rich on Tech dot tv
Speaker 1: if you're going there to grab that app. We were
Speaker 1: just talking about purpose or I was able to find
Speaker 1: the official TurboTax letter from let's see who was it?
Speaker 1: The vice president of Turbo Tax that talked about their
Speaker 1: decision to not support Windows ten and They do address
Speaker 1: the fact that a lot of people are getting the
Speaker 1: extended software updates, and they understand that, but they still
Speaker 1: say that, you know what, it's just too risky to
Speaker 1: use this system. So they've got a whole letter if
Speaker 1: you want to read all about that. Rich on tech
Speaker 1: dot tv again the whole turbo tax. The new TurboTax
Speaker 1: software is not going to work on a Windows ten
Speaker 1: computer this year. So if you did an upgrade or
Speaker 1: you didn't, you know, you're not using Windows eleven, You're
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to run that. You got to
Speaker 1: use the online software. Let's go to Vivian in Menefee.
Speaker 1: You're on with Rich.
Speaker 7: Yes, I enjoy listening to your show, Thank you, but
Speaker 7: I have a very serious.
Speaker 4: With my email.
Speaker 7: It's an email I don't like and it seems like
Speaker 7: it's sub fixed in one because it has all these
Speaker 7: giggles on it to your amount where you can't read nothing,
Speaker 7: and every time I tried to delete it, it comes back.
Speaker 1: So you're trying to get rid of this this So
Speaker 1: you're you're getting a phishing email and it's you're deleting
Speaker 1: it and it's coming back. Is it the same exact sender?
Speaker 1: Or is it different senders it's the same okay, same center. Uh,
Speaker 1: you can. If it's the same sender, I would recommend
Speaker 1: blocking the sender. So on whatever email app you have,
Speaker 1: there is typically a way to block a sender with
Speaker 1: a specific email address. Now you have to understand that
Speaker 1: most of the time when you're getting spam emails or
Speaker 1: a phishing email, they are coming from different addresses. But
Speaker 1: if this email keeps coming back from the same person
Speaker 1: with the same address, you can block that. And the
Speaker 1: way to do that is just Google, Yahoo, you know,
Speaker 1: block email sender and you know it'll give you the
Speaker 1: directions for whatever your email address is. So if you're
Speaker 1: using Outlook, just say Outlook block email sender. If you
Speaker 1: using Gmail, block out block sender. Apple lets you do
Speaker 1: it on their phone. But whatever software you're using, you
Speaker 1: either have to use the block or you can create
Speaker 1: a filter that will just automatically filter that message into oblivion.
Speaker 1: But Vivian, I would be careful. You know, if this
Speaker 1: phishing email, I mean they're very common, so if you're
Speaker 1: getting this, it's no real indication of your security. But
Speaker 1: if they're using anything or they include anything in that
Speaker 1: email that is personal, that you're still using. Like let's
Speaker 1: say they say, oh, you have your password, and they
Speaker 1: tell you what it is. A lot of times these
Speaker 1: emails will scrape data that they find on the web,
Speaker 1: especially from data breaches, and they will include that information
Speaker 1: in the email to make it seem more legitimate. But
Speaker 1: do not be swayed by that. These people, you know,
Speaker 1: they're just phishing. That's where this term phishing email came from.
Speaker 1: They're literally just throwing casting a wide net and hoping
Speaker 1: to catch folks in it that are, you know, not
Speaker 1: reading closely or not reading carefully, or they're scared, or
Speaker 1: they're worried and they click a link, or they give
Speaker 1: over their information, whatever it is. So that's the best
Speaker 1: way to do it. You can also report as spam
Speaker 1: in your email program and that will help you as well. Now, additionally,
Speaker 1: I would do some things to keep your information from
Speaker 1: getting out there. So, for instance, when you sign up
Speaker 1: on websites you know that are just for advertising emails
Speaker 1: and things like that, use the different email address. I
Speaker 1: mentioned bitwarden a bunch on this show. One of the
Speaker 1: other things I like about them is that you can
Speaker 1: use it to generate usernames that still send to your email.
Speaker 1: So if you have Gmail, you know, Gmail lets you
Speaker 1: do this thing where you can say your Gmail address
Speaker 1: plus and put a plus sign there and then at
Speaker 1: the end put a bunch of random letters, and whatever
Speaker 1: that email address is, it will still come to your email,
Speaker 1: so you can use that as a first line of defense.
Speaker 1: And when you sign up for a website, you can
Speaker 1: just sign up with a with a plus to email address,
Speaker 1: and that way you can just filter that email address
Speaker 1: to the trash when you don't want to get that
Speaker 1: email anymore. Most of the big companies will respect your
Speaker 1: wishes to to not get their emails once you're done.
Speaker 1: But the phishing emails are different because they're not These
Speaker 1: are not like a legitimate company that's sending you this.
Speaker 1: These are just scam artists, so be very careful. I
Speaker 1: also do a thing where I do not load the
Speaker 1: images on my email program. So if you go into
Speaker 1: your settings, you might see a setting that says remote
Speaker 1: image loading, so you can turn that off. And what
Speaker 1: that does is anyone that's using a system to track
Speaker 1: when you open your email, they will not be able
Speaker 1: to tell that you open that email. And I tested
Speaker 1: this out with my friend the other day, we were
Speaker 1: out to lunch and he said, oh, you superhuman. I
Speaker 1: can tell when you open my email. I said, not mine.
Speaker 1: I said, let's try it. He sent an email and
Speaker 1: it said, uh, you know, sent a rich And then
Speaker 1: he said, did you open it yet? And I showed
Speaker 1: him on my phone, Yeah, it's open, and on his
Speaker 1: thing is still said not opened. Because these email programs
Speaker 1: that people use to track you, they've got a little
Speaker 1: tiny tracking pixel and the way they can track that
Speaker 1: you've opened their email is that image loads on your
Speaker 1: end and as soon as it loads, their server says,
Speaker 1: oh he just loaded that image. You opened the email.
Speaker 1: When you turn off external images, that can't happen. So
Speaker 1: that's another line of defense. I'll link that up in
Speaker 1: my website. Richontech dot tv eighty eight rich one O
Speaker 1: one eighty eight seven four two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Back after this, Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: Demiro here hanging out with you Talking technology eight eight
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Speaker 1: read all the things that you email me throughout the week,
Speaker 1: all the different little topics and things, and then of
Speaker 1: course the questions that you email me. Some of those
Speaker 1: become topics for this show as well, Samsung is gonna
Speaker 1: come out with a two hundred dollars, a two hundred
Speaker 1: dollars smartphone. It's called the Galaxy, a seventeen to five
Speaker 1: G affordable five G smartphone, big screen six point seven
Speaker 1: inch ammal ed display. It's got a smooth refresh rate
Speaker 1: ninety hertz, which is not the highest, but it's not
Speaker 1: the lowest. That's good. It's a good middle ground, so
Speaker 1: good for scrolling, good for video. It's got a you know,
Speaker 1: fifty megapixel camera with better low light photos, and a
Speaker 1: lot of other budget phones apparently according to Samsung. I
Speaker 1: haven't tested this personally yet. Battery is five thousand million
Speaker 1: amp hours. That's huge. It'll recharge fifty percent in thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: And here is the best part. Samsung is promising six
Speaker 1: years of security updates and Android updates. So you're talking
Speaker 1: six years for a budget phone that costs just two
Speaker 1: hundred bucks. That's incredible. And it's got some AI features.
Speaker 1: So I have not tested this phone, but I love
Speaker 1: the fact that we have choices. Not everyone wants a
Speaker 1: thousand dollars phone. Some people just want a good phone
Speaker 1: for a couple hundred dollars. This is something that you
Speaker 1: could buy unlocked and use without a monthly payment and
Speaker 1: use and it's cheap and it gets the job done,
Speaker 1: and it's not a lot of times these budget basic
Speaker 1: phones are horrible. Yeah, you can get a phone for
Speaker 1: one hundred bucks unlocked on Amazon and guess what, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be terrible. It's gonna be bloatwear city. The screen's
Speaker 1: not gonna be good, the camera's gonna all cloudy and nasty.
Speaker 1: So I love that these companies, and I include Apple
Speaker 1: and this as well, they're using their size to their
Speaker 1: advantage at this point because they're coming out with these
Speaker 1: high end technologies that two or three years later are
Speaker 1: still really good, but the price has come down on them,
Speaker 1: and so they could put them in a phone like
Speaker 1: the A seventeen to five G and come out with
Speaker 1: it at two hundred bucks. And I love it because
Speaker 1: now you can have a phone that actually works and
Speaker 1: it's really good for a price that is not extravagant
Speaker 1: for you know, or out of reach for a lot
Speaker 1: of people. So that's coming out on January seventh. Hopefully
Speaker 1: I'll get a review unit on that one. I have
Speaker 1: to because I want to try that out. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Melissa in Los Angeles. Melissa, you're on with Rich?
Speaker 11: Yes, thank you for taking my call. I have a
Speaker 11: question regarding the floppy beast okay, because they're absolutely.
Speaker 2: Now where can it go?
Speaker 11: Because I have certain family photos in there and certain
Speaker 11: documents that I want to transfer to my computer? So
Speaker 11: where do you know where I can go to have
Speaker 11: that done? Because I don't have anymore away, I don't
Speaker 11: know a way how to.
Speaker 1: They're so obsolete, what they don't What kind of discs
Speaker 1: are we talking? Are we talking like a five and
Speaker 1: a quarter inch floppy or three and a half inch?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: How what kind of discs are we talking about here?
Speaker 11: Remember those square ones the floppy discs?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the true floppy like it's big and like
Speaker 1: it's just it's just no.
Speaker 11: They're small.
Speaker 1: Okay, So this is so it's okay.
Speaker 11: Like in the seventies up to the late nineties.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's the smaller ones, but they're they're hardshell
Speaker 1: kind of like they're they're not flexible.
Speaker 11: No, they're not flexible. And then there's small square got it?
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's a three and a half inch floppy disk? Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean you call it a floppy even though it's not,
Speaker 1: but technically it's. Yeah. Do you have a computer, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's.
Speaker 11: Macair.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I know it doesn't have a drive on it.
Speaker 1: But you can order a floppy drive on Amazon, like
Speaker 1: a USB one for about twenty bucks.
Speaker 6: What do you call it?
Speaker 11: Floppy disk drive?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so look on Amazon for something, look for a
Speaker 1: three point five inch USB floppy disk drive, or you
Speaker 1: just say, just say here, let me just see if
Speaker 1: I type in three point five inch USB disk drive,
Speaker 1: let me see if that brings it up.
Speaker 11: We would I would also need what do you call
Speaker 11: that a cable right to cook it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll it'll come with a cable. The only thing
Speaker 1: that you may need is and it looks like it
Speaker 1: comes with it, so your computer may have USB C
Speaker 1: it's called this. This comes with a U B A,
Speaker 1: but it looks like it comes with a connector, so
Speaker 1: you basically and and the beauty of Amazon is that
Speaker 1: you can try this put your disc in there. I
Speaker 1: can't guarantee that your your computer is going to read
Speaker 1: this disc, but if it does, you know, you just
Speaker 1: copy these over to a cloud drive or you know,
Speaker 1: at the very if it's a jpeg. Obviously it's going
Speaker 1: to be fine because that's a universal format. But if
Speaker 1: it's in some funky format from the the earlier days
Speaker 1: of things, you may have to convert it. And there's
Speaker 1: a million websites that can help you do that as well.
Speaker 1: One of them is called vert v e r T
Speaker 1: dot s H vert dot r T. Yeah, V like convert,
Speaker 1: you know, but v e r T dot s H.
Speaker 1: And so if you run into a document or a
Speaker 1: file that I mean this one. When I'm looking at
Speaker 1: these the image files that it can convert, it's like,
Speaker 1: I've never even heard of half of these, So you
Speaker 1: should be good there. So if these come up in
Speaker 1: some kind of weird format, even if your computer won't
Speaker 1: read them, uh even if it sees it but it
Speaker 1: can't open it, just copy them over to your your
Speaker 1: hard drive, and then you can upload them to this
Speaker 1: website and it will convert them into a format that
Speaker 1: a modern computer can see, like a JPEG, or if
Speaker 1: it's a document, you know, it can convert them into
Speaker 1: a word doc or a whatever you need, and then
Speaker 1: you can save them. And I would of course recommend
Speaker 1: saving them to the cloud so that you don't lose
Speaker 1: them in the future. But I would just look on
Speaker 1: Amazon for a USB floppy disk drive three point five
Speaker 1: and that should get you there. If not, if you
Speaker 1: don't feel comfortable doing this, you could just go on
Speaker 1: Yelp and look for something like a data doctor or
Speaker 1: something like that in your area and they may have
Speaker 1: a computer or a system that can accommodate these old
Speaker 1: media formats.
Speaker 11: I don't know if there's anyone.
Speaker 1: Around, well you're in Lost, Well, if you're in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: there definitely there's a lot of people can do this.
Speaker 1: So if you do, like a data recovery or something
Speaker 1: like that, specialist, they should have a computer that they
Speaker 1: can that they can use to get these things. And
Speaker 1: if they don't, they they'll know how to do it.
Speaker 1: At least. Now, of course, you're gonna have to pay
Speaker 1: someone to do that, which is, you know, not ideal
Speaker 1: because you can do all this yourself hopefully. You know,
Speaker 1: the modern computers these days, they don't have any of
Speaker 1: these connectors. You know, we used to have a floppy drive.
Speaker 1: We used to have a DV drive, a DVD drive,
Speaker 1: a CD drive. None of that stuff is on today's
Speaker 1: you know, most of the laptops for sure, some of
Speaker 1: the desktops have them, but you know, it's just getting
Speaker 1: rareer and rarer because everything's everything's done with the cloud.
Speaker 1: And if if the phone makers had their way, and
Speaker 1: this may be happening, Melissa, is that they don't want
Speaker 1: any inputs on these phones whatsoever. You know, even that
Speaker 1: the thing where you plug in your power cable at
Speaker 1: the bottom, they want to get rid of that too,
Speaker 1: because the more we can move people to the cloud.
Speaker 1: Guess what, the more you know, it's it's better for
Speaker 1: security on the on the on the pro side, on
Speaker 1: the flip side, it's better for their business because guess what.
Speaker 1: Now you got to use their software to transfer things
Speaker 1: to your phone. You've got to store stuff in their cloud,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, it's just one less way for
Speaker 1: you to kind of open up the possibilities on this
Speaker 1: phone with a with a connector cable, and it's just
Speaker 1: one less thing to break. I mean, there's a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of reasons why they want to get rid of it,
Speaker 1: and it probably will happen over time, hopefully not in
Speaker 1: the next year or so.
Speaker 11: Eventually, I want to transfer photos also to shutterfly. You're
Speaker 11: you're familiar with Shutterfly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I personally wouldn't recommend Shutterfly. I mean nothing against Shutterfly.
Speaker 1: It's fine, but you know, there are there are other
Speaker 1: services out there that I think are better. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to print these, I mean, I personally
Speaker 1: like Google Photos. I think that that's a really good
Speaker 1: place to put these because, Melissa, you'll find that they
Speaker 1: have amazing AI built in that if you put a
Speaker 1: bunch of people, you know, old relatives and things in
Speaker 1: these photos, it will sort them by people, places, things.
Speaker 1: And Shutterfly may do this. I haven't. I haven't used
Speaker 1: them in a why well, I used to use them
Speaker 1: a lot. In fact, that's where I kept all my
Speaker 1: pictures for many, many years. But I think that there's just,
Speaker 1: you know, better thing, better places to store your photos
Speaker 1: at this point. Shutterfly to me is more a place
Speaker 1: where you go to print your photos, not necessarily store
Speaker 1: them for the long term. Amazon Photos is really good
Speaker 1: and if you're a Prime member, that's completely free to
Speaker 1: store unlimited photos. Obviously, if you have an iPhone, iCloud
Speaker 1: is good, drop Box one edrive, I mean, there's so
Speaker 1: many ways to do this, Melissa, But the main thing
Speaker 1: is get those things off the discs, get them onto
Speaker 1: your computer, get them into the cloud, and then once
Speaker 1: you have them all converted and figured out, then you
Speaker 1: can go from there. Are you good on the process?
Speaker 1: You feel confident?
Speaker 11: Yeah, after your explanation. But the one thing I want
Speaker 11: to tell you is I don't have confidence privacy issues
Speaker 11: with Google.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's okay, I would. I mean, I I
Speaker 1: think that you know a lot of that. I think
Speaker 1: Google is actually a pretty good company when it comes
Speaker 1: to a lot of this stuff.
Speaker 5: But they do.
Speaker 1: Look, they've built their business on using you know, people's data.
Speaker 1: But anytime you're using a free product, that's kind of
Speaker 1: the agreement you have with them. So I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1: If you don't want to use Google, you don't have to.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not I'm just giving you what I like.
Speaker 1: But there's there's yeah exactly. But if you want something
Speaker 1: that's super private, they're not really trying to do anything
Speaker 1: with your stuff. I mean, use Dropbox. You know, you
Speaker 1: can get a couple gigs on there for free. Amazon obviously.
Speaker 1: If you don't like Google, they're kind of you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not really using your data for your photos.
Speaker 1: But you know it's just if you want something, you
Speaker 1: use whatever you want. I'm not I'm just telling you
Speaker 1: to try to get it into the cloud, just for safekeeping.
Speaker 8: You know, right, But do as you like.
Speaker 11: One more quick question.
Speaker 1: Hold on, We're gonna have to take it off the air.
Speaker 1: Hang on, Hang on because I gotta go to break
Speaker 1: eighty eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one the website Rich
Speaker 1: on tech dot TV. I'll link up that floppy disc
Speaker 1: reader rich on tech dot TV. Welcome back to which
Speaker 1: on tech Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking
Speaker 1: technology at Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four to one zero one.
Speaker 1: Ellison says, hey, Rich, happy holidays. Oh wow, happy holidays.
Speaker 1: I guess people are still saying that. I love it
Speaker 1: when your sons are on the show. They're like young
Speaker 1: versions of you, so articulate and intelligent.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: All I think about is how articulate intelligent I used
Speaker 1: to be. They're just coming up in this world. I'm
Speaker 1: like coming down. Quick question, what was on what was
Speaker 1: the name of the website you mentioned a few weeks
Speaker 1: ago for getting discounts on shopping sites. It was simply Codes.
Speaker 1: Simplycodes dot Com. Love that website. It's the only one
Speaker 1: I check. I tell you this every single time. If
Speaker 1: I was shopping on a website the other day and
Speaker 1: I looked at simply Codes and it was you know,
Speaker 1: if if you search for the website on there and
Speaker 1: the word codes is like crossed out, that means there's
Speaker 1: no codes. And you can go try looking at codes
Speaker 1: all over the internet. You're not gonna find them, guaranteed.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the secret sauce is of that.
Speaker 1: We should have Simply Codes on the show because I've
Speaker 1: talked about them so much. Sue says, Hey, Rich, I
Speaker 1: have one of those flash drives that lets you download
Speaker 1: pictures from your iPhone to your desktop computer. Can you
Speaker 1: also go the other way download pictures from the desktop
Speaker 1: to the iPhone. You could, but most of the way
Speaker 1: that Apple is sort of like configured is one way.
Speaker 1: So you could do this, and I believe you can
Speaker 1: plug that into your iPhone. And I think there's an
Speaker 1: import functionality on the photos app that shows up when
Speaker 1: you are when you plug something in. I don't have
Speaker 1: something to plug into here right now. I mean I
Speaker 1: do but it's well, let me say, hang on. This
Speaker 1: is why I bring my bag of tricks with me everywhere,
Speaker 1: so I can test this stuff. Let's see if I
Speaker 1: have a flash drive here. Usually, yeah, I do. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna plug this into the bottom of my iPhone
Speaker 1: and see if it has an import. Now, if you
Speaker 1: said Android, yeah, simple, but iPhone, you know they're a
Speaker 1: little bit a little bit different. Everything's there, it's just
Speaker 1: in you know, sometimes not necessarily where you think. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I've got I went here, let's see. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: not seeing an import. There's gotta be okay, hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on, I'm looking at utilities. Hold on, let's see utilities.
Speaker 1: Uh it says imports. Let's see. Now those are the
Speaker 1: things I have imported. Okay, I'll have to look at this.
Speaker 1: But in general, I'm gonna know you can import into
Speaker 1: the files app like copy things over, but I got
Speaker 1: to look to see how to do that with them.
Speaker 1: But in general, a couple of ways to get photos
Speaker 1: from your computer to your iPhone. Number one, if you
Speaker 1: have a Mac computer, just air drop them. They'll go
Speaker 1: right into the photos app. You could turn on iCloud
Speaker 1: photos on both devices, so you can drag and drop
Speaker 1: on your photos app on the desktop and they'll sync
Speaker 1: right to your phone. There's some wire options if you
Speaker 1: have a cross platform, like if you have a Windows computer,
Speaker 1: you can use the app called local Send, and basically
Speaker 1: if you're on the same Wi Fi network, you can
Speaker 1: just transfer large files anything from your phone or your
Speaker 1: computer to your phone. And then another one is called Blip.
Speaker 1: I just use this today. This one's this is basically
Speaker 1: like an air drop, but it does work over the Internet.
Speaker 1: But once you install it on your computer, like it's
Speaker 1: really cool. Like let's say you have a computer, a
Speaker 1: Windows computer and an iPhone. You can install Blip on
Speaker 1: both of those devices, and then everything gets a name,
Speaker 1: so when you want to share a picture from one
Speaker 1: thing to another, you just literally tap the name of
Speaker 1: the product like your phone, and it will send it
Speaker 1: to it. So it's kind of like Local Send, but
Speaker 1: like less geeky. And then if you want something that's
Speaker 1: really good, I love this app called Walter Pro and
Speaker 1: this is really cool because it does more than just photos.
Speaker 1: It basically lets you transfer any file onto your phone
Speaker 1: like Dragon drop or your iPad. So if you've been struggling,
Speaker 1: you got an ebook or something. You know, a lot
Speaker 1: of the stuff has gotten easier thanks to the Internet,
Speaker 1: but you know, before when it was all cables and stuff,
Speaker 1: it was really tough to move things to your iPhone.
Speaker 1: But this is this app is like it's in my
Speaker 1: toolkit and I just love it. Walter Pro wa l
Speaker 1: t r Pro and you just drag and drop any file,
Speaker 1: so it figures out what the file is, it converts
Speaker 1: it if your iPhone can't play it, and it will
Speaker 1: put it into the right app. So all of these things.
Speaker 1: It's really really good at that stuff. So it's called
Speaker 1: Walter Pro works on Mac and Windows, and I love
Speaker 1: it because you can just drag and drop anything. And
Speaker 1: so I mean you can do files, you can do photos,
Speaker 1: you can do music, you can do any video, and
Speaker 1: it's just it's just so it's like what it's what
Speaker 1: Apple should give you, but they don't. And I'm not
Speaker 1: sure why they don't give us that, but they don't.
Speaker 1: Let's say one more before we get to the break here,
Speaker 1: Darren says, hey, Rich, is the website missing money dot
Speaker 1: com legit. I heard it's for government for finding old
Speaker 1: lost money. I went there, found some started filling out
Speaker 1: the form and asked for my social Should I give it?
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas? It is legit, so it's run on behalf
Speaker 1: of state governments to help. You know, these reunite people
Speaker 1: with unclaimed funds. But I agree. I did the same thing.
Speaker 1: I went there and I started doing the claim. Then
Speaker 1: I asked for my social I was like, ah, I
Speaker 1: really want to give that. But anyway, all the states
Speaker 1: run their own sites as well, so you can go there.
Speaker 1: I think this's just links to them. But yes, it
Speaker 1: is legit. You just have to decide if the money's
Speaker 1: worth it. Eighty to eight rich one oh one rich
Speaker 1: on tech Dot TV more after this, Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich on tech rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology. We got a call. We got a question
Speaker 1: about importing photos onto the iPhone. It is possible. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to find where the import they've moved. It
Speaker 1: looks like on the iPhone, so I'm trying to find
Speaker 1: where to import those. I know you can do it
Speaker 1: in the photos app somehow. I just with iOS twenty
Speaker 1: six it seems like it's changed. So there I see
Speaker 1: the imports, but I just can't seem to get it
Speaker 1: to find the photo on my flash drive, but it
Speaker 1: is possible. Eighty eight rich one on one eighty eight
Speaker 1: seven four two four one zero one. The website richon
Speaker 1: tech dot tv. It's updated with everything that we've mentioned
Speaker 1: so far. My next guest is someone who I interviewed
Speaker 1: for KTLA, a web a story about EXIF data metadata
Speaker 1: on your phone. Remish Strina of Austin is a UCLA
Speaker 1: professor and director of the uc Digital Culture's Lab Ramess
Speaker 1: you there.
Speaker 5: I'm here.
Speaker 1: Hi, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm so glad to join you. Thank you for
Speaker 5: having me, Thank.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being here. I know this a long time coming.
Speaker 1: We're we're trying to figure out the best date and time.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad you're here because you said some great
Speaker 1: stuff in the interview we do with KTLA about privacy.
Speaker 1: But let me just ask you, it's twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: What's top of mind when it comes to you know,
Speaker 1: what people are up against this year when it comes
Speaker 1: to their digital life.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the gateway to so many anxieties we
Speaker 5: have about technology today, Rich, is the reality that almost
Speaker 5: as we discussed in the story, the great story you
Speaker 5: did for KTLA, is that almost anything in everything we
Speaker 5: do is surveilled rich basically almost anything and everything we
Speaker 5: do is turned into data, and that data is captured.
Speaker 5: That data is being used to train AI systems that
Speaker 5: in many cases are displacing, if not replacing work. That
Speaker 5: data is being used to prop up the most powerful
Speaker 5: companies in the history of the world. That data is
Speaker 5: being used, you know, combined with particular algorithms to have
Speaker 5: polarizing effects on the American population. So I hate to
Speaker 5: be a doom and gloomer because I think we can
Speaker 5: do a ton to transform the status quo. But the
Speaker 5: reality is is these forces that make many people feel insecure.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm not sure if they can trust what
Speaker 5: they see or who they're engaging with online. These forces
Speaker 5: are all built upon the collection, uh the aggregation and
Speaker 5: the retention of our our lives, our intimate personal lives.
Speaker 5: And if you just think about it, even like social
Speaker 5: media itself, I don't really go on to social media
Speaker 5: to see what Mark Zuckerberg is up to.
Speaker 1: You know, No, you don't care that he's body surfing
Speaker 1: or whatever he's doing.
Speaker 5: I mean, just a little it's funny. It's a little funny,
Speaker 5: and I've actually met him before, so he looked very
Speaker 5: different when I met him those ten years ago.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, the.
Speaker 5: Up right, Or I go into social media maybe if
Speaker 5: I'm voyeuristic to see what an ex girlfriend is up to.
Speaker 5: That's why I go in social media. Right. So we
Speaker 5: are the product and the customer, right, But it's all
Speaker 5: our data that is being monetized for these third parties,
Speaker 5: which is these insanely wealthy evaluated companies that are dominating
Speaker 5: the stock market. So that's why there's concern and anxiety today.
Speaker 5: But this digital world could serve all of us if
Speaker 5: we put in particular reforms, and I truly believe we
Speaker 5: can do that, but it might take some time and
Speaker 5: the political will as well. Well.
Speaker 1: I mean in the US, at least, the company is king, right,
Speaker 1: like the tech companies are the ones who are writing
Speaker 1: the rules. There's really not a lot of laws around
Speaker 1: this stuff. Now we're seeing some, but it's all very much.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, the these tech companies fight it. Of course,
Speaker 1: they don't want any rules around what they do.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: Is that is that fair to say?
Speaker 5: Absolutely? Yeah.
Speaker 1: We had we had a woman who I a caller
Speaker 1: who was I recommended Google Photos to her and she said,
Speaker 1: I don't want to put my stuff into role. I
Speaker 1: don't trust it. I don't like the privacy aspect. And
Speaker 1: I said, you know, we have this agreement with these
Speaker 1: companies that we are the data and so they're monetized.
Speaker 1: If it's free, we are the product, right, isn't that
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not the first process.
Speaker 5: It's all built on terms of service that we all
Speaker 5: sign on to or we just you know, hit a
Speaker 5: checkbox on that are totally designed to be unintelligible, meaning
Speaker 5: like I mean, they're not just legal speak, but it's
Speaker 5: like extremely impossible to understand it. And the default that
Speaker 5: the real problem is, the default is warrantless data collection.
Speaker 5: The default should be, you know that we opt in
Speaker 5: maybe with particular services or perks offered to us to
Speaker 5: certain types of data collection. But now the status quo
Speaker 5: data is data collection about everything and anything. Let me
Speaker 5: just give you an example. It's not just on a
Speaker 5: platform rich as I said, the aggregation and data. So
Speaker 5: an example I like to say, always tell people are
Speaker 5: my students, you know, we're starting term at UCLA on Monday,
Speaker 5: is okay, it's one thing for you know, my Instagram
Speaker 5: data to be you know available to Meta, the holding
Speaker 5: you know, the big com the parent company, but it's
Speaker 5: another for that. You know, we're in Instagram, I'm always
Speaker 5: having a good time. I'm just too cool for school.
Speaker 5: But what if that data was aggregated with my seven
Speaker 5: to eleven data going there last night at midnight and
Speaker 5: buying forties and cigarettes and I didn't do either of
Speaker 5: those things. But think about that that part of my
Speaker 5: There are different parts of our lives. So privacy is
Speaker 5: not just a one size fits ault thing. It's certain
Speaker 5: things in certain contexts, right, and so that is being
Speaker 5: violated right now. And what you call tech companies rich
Speaker 5: are not just tech companies. The biggest taxi company in
Speaker 5: the history of the world is a tech company Uber,
Speaker 5: the biggest hotel company in the history of the world
Speaker 5: accommodation company is a tech company Airbnb. The biggest media
Speaker 5: company in the history of the world is Meta slash Facebook. Right,
Speaker 5: So they've taken over everything in anything, monetizing our data
Speaker 5: with these little gremlins in the middle that we call
Speaker 5: I'm just joking about the which we call algorithms.
Speaker 1: But it's true.
Speaker 5: We see in what we don't see, all based on
Speaker 5: surveillance of us. So people are being individually micro targeted
Speaker 5: with content. And that's why maybe you and I rich
Speaker 5: are like brothers from another mother, same demographic, SA, this, same, that,
Speaker 5: same everything. But you and I could both be on
Speaker 5: Twitter slash x and be presented with visions of the
Speaker 5: world and the nation that have no overlap whatsoever with
Speaker 5: one another.
Speaker 1: That's wild Why.
Speaker 5: At scale we get fragmentsed in polarized.
Speaker 1: This is I talk about this all the time. We
Speaker 1: used to have shared values in this world, by the way,
Speaker 1: and country, yeah, and we also have. We also have.
Speaker 1: We also used to all watch the same thing, like
Speaker 1: we used to sit down for better or for worse.
Speaker 1: Wizard of Oz came on once a year, you sat down.
Speaker 1: It was that shared experience. Right now everyone has their
Speaker 1: own individual experience and it's run, like you said, by
Speaker 1: an algorithm that, by the way, is leading people down
Speaker 1: paths that have never been done before. Right Like you're
Speaker 1: you're sitting there, you watch one video about something, and
Speaker 1: now you're suddenly seeing a thousand videos about an eating
Speaker 1: disorder or something like that.
Speaker 5: Never hardcore en us, you know, for these platforms, it
Speaker 5: just makes you more and more and more hardcore because
Speaker 5: it's predicting, computationally predicting content that is likely to grab
Speaker 5: our attention, which is extracting dopamine. It's usually these three
Speaker 5: hormones are part of the process. Dopamine, cortisol, and adrenaline.
Speaker 5: I mean, I am an adrenaline junkie, I'll be honest,
Speaker 5: you know. But at the same time, I also know
Speaker 5: that too much adrenaline firing in my brain could actually
Speaker 5: imbalance me. Same thing with dopamine and cortisol. Right, dopamine,
Speaker 5: we get a dopamine rush when we get maybe ding
Speaker 5: ding ding at a slot machine. But then we know
Speaker 5: you get strung out if you just become a dopamine hounds,
Speaker 5: so to speak. So this is why we are, you know,
Speaker 5: being fragmented, because if you actually look at Americans or
Speaker 5: Californians or Angelino's like us, we have remarkable actually agreements
Speaker 5: in a lot of different things. If you just pull
Speaker 5: this country seven percent, you know what, there's widespread consensus
Speaker 5: on many issues politically, economically if you just do a
Speaker 5: wide poll outside of this category of political party or
Speaker 5: what have you. And the and the reason the engines
Speaker 5: that individualize us and separate us are really part of
Speaker 5: this technology world, and the sad part of it for
Speaker 5: me is not that it's all only that it's built
Speaker 5: upon data collection and micro targeting through these algorithms, but
Speaker 5: it's also built on an Internet that started at UCLA
Speaker 5: where I work fifty now fifty six years ago that
Speaker 5: we paid for US taxpayers. So if you compound these
Speaker 5: issues and then you look at the emergence of AI,
Speaker 5: which is creating content that's indistinguishable, you know, like fake
Speaker 5: human beings.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: I was even told by a friend of mine who
Speaker 5: is tech CEO rich that you know that I know
Speaker 5: we're doing this audio, but say we even video that
Speaker 5: an AI could do this interview for me within you know,
Speaker 5: six months to one year. And I don't know, I
Speaker 5: could just you know whatever, it's just whatever you want your.
Speaker 1: Data than my AI to do that, right, I do
Speaker 1: believe it. It's it's wild because it's these things have
Speaker 1: taken on a life of their own, and they kind
Speaker 1: of they absorb so much information quickly and regurgitate it
Speaker 1: that it's unlike anything we've ever seen before. Real quick.
Speaker 1: We got to run in a in a minute. But
Speaker 1: I want to what's the solution you've talked about this
Speaker 1: idea of you know, a more democratic internet. What do
Speaker 1: you think?
Speaker 5: I mean, what?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: What's the solution here? Do we have one?
Speaker 5: It involves, you know, harnessing the kinds of political forces
Speaker 5: to set up checks and balances in our system. And
Speaker 5: that's not going to be anti tech innovation. It's going
Speaker 5: to direct it in a way that continues to amass
Speaker 5: astronomical profits and valuations for these companies, but not at
Speaker 5: the cost of workers, consumers, citizens, even people of the planet,
Speaker 5: given the disastrous effects of AI on energy, water, and
Speaker 5: rare earth minerals. So instead, what we can do is how,
Speaker 5: as I alluded to earlier, have the default being not
Speaker 5: the surveillance and capture of our data, and actually create
Speaker 5: regulations that ensure that people have certain levels of power
Speaker 5: and transparency and the ability to have greater accountability. So
Speaker 5: we can create things like data unions that represent us
Speaker 5: for our data. We can create mechanisms where people have
Speaker 5: you know, job security and economic security as jobs get
Speaker 5: automated out. We can regulate the algorithms that actually do
Speaker 5: the dividing on social media platforms to ensure that there's
Speaker 5: third party audit without divulging the source code so they're
Speaker 5: the cool thing about this all is as fun as engineering.
Speaker 5: As I'm a former engineer. There are even more sort
Speaker 5: of solutions to guide and redirect this digital world so
Speaker 5: it actually supports everybody's interests rather than the very very
Speaker 5: very few at you know, pitted against the rest of us,
Speaker 5: you know, and that just creates division. And that's what
Speaker 5: we need to change right now in this country.
Speaker 1: I believe greed. Ramesh, doctor Ramesh shrina Vast and thanks
Speaker 1: so much for joining me today, professor at UCLA. I'll
Speaker 1: put a link to all of his books and website
Speaker 1: and podcast online. Rich On Tech dot TV coming up, Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you. We are going to open up the feedbag
Speaker 1: to hear from you. Coming up next on rich On Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you. We're gonna get to the feedbag. I
Speaker 1: want to share my inflight texting hack that I used
Speaker 1: on my last flight, which I cannot take credit for
Speaker 1: this Android authority in clude me into this last year
Speaker 1: and I was I did it last year and I
Speaker 1: might have mentioned it, but I just I love it
Speaker 1: because it's so great if you're on the plane and
Speaker 1: you've got an Android phone and you've got you don't
Speaker 1: want to pay for Wi Fi, but they give you
Speaker 1: messaging for free. If you open up the Google Messages app,
Speaker 1: you can chat with Google Gemini for free, just like
Speaker 1: you would text someone. So if the airline has given
Speaker 1: you free texting, and instead of texting another person, you're
Speaker 1: just texting AI. And so I did this all flight long.
Speaker 1: I finished a book, I watched a movie, and I
Speaker 1: had the you know, the book. I said, okay, explain
Speaker 1: me this in the book. And then the movie, I
Speaker 1: just you know, asked. I watched this movie called Friendship,
Speaker 1: which was, oh my gosh. I mean it's like whoa,
Speaker 1: it was a. It was just it was it's about
Speaker 1: guys trying to make friends with other guys, and it's
Speaker 1: like very real about how tough it is, Like women
Speaker 1: seem to make friends, no problem, guys a little bit
Speaker 1: trickier anyway. So it was like it was cringe worthy,
Speaker 1: let's put it that way. Anyway. Uh yeah, it's such
Speaker 1: a I'll link up the article in the show notes.
Speaker 1: But it's such a cool way to uh kind of
Speaker 1: hack the system. And it's great. The other thing this
Speaker 1: another article is let's see where is it. Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find it. Oh yeah. Android Wi Fi
Speaker 1: sharing So this another thing where you can basically share
Speaker 1: your Wi Fi. Uh if you log into a Wi
Speaker 1: Fi network you want to share it with your friends.
Speaker 1: I know people do this on the plane as well.
Speaker 1: You don't need to travel router, you can just share
Speaker 1: it using an Android phone. So both of these things
Speaker 1: are Android specific because iPhone has different rules and regulations
Speaker 1: with their phone. But anyway, I thought they were both
Speaker 1: really interesting. I'll link them up on the show notes.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the feedback. Bruce in southern
Speaker 1: California says Rich, I've got to watch it. Consumer alert.
Speaker 1: I paid what looked like a simple five dollars fee
Speaker 1: on a website to get help with an old laptop issue.
Speaker 1: I only need a quick answer. What I didn't realize
Speaker 1: is that the five dollars question quietly signed me up
Speaker 1: for a sixty five dollars a month subscription. I skipped
Speaker 1: the fine print while chatting with their bot, which was
Speaker 1: my mistake, but the way it's presented is not clear
Speaker 1: at all. I caught it quickly and canceled, but it
Speaker 1: still showed up as a pending charge. My credit card
Speaker 1: company told me to wait. Anyway, I found lots of
Speaker 1: lawsuits and settlements over this exact issue with this company,
Speaker 1: single question fees turning to expensive monthly subscriptions without clear disclosure.
Speaker 1: I'm usually careful about this stuff, so this one caught
Speaker 1: me off guard. Just wanted to flag it for others.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the work you do, Bruce. This leads me
Speaker 1: to advice that I always give. You have to look
Speaker 1: for the fine print. And I know you sound like
Speaker 1: you do, but look, look look again. Anything that you're
Speaker 1: getting for like ninety nine cents for a one week
Speaker 1: trial or you know, whatever it is, there's going to
Speaker 1: be a big payment that comes after that, and that's
Speaker 1: the reason they're giving you that dollar trial or whatever.
Speaker 1: So always look in. My other pro tip is you
Speaker 1: can cancel the subscription as soon as you sign up
Speaker 1: for it, and you'll still usually get to use it
Speaker 1: until the free trial runs out, whether you're on Android,
Speaker 1: iPhone or even with any sort of subscription you sign
Speaker 1: up for. So just remember that. Dennis in Florida says,
Speaker 1: what the heck Man no Show on December twenty seventh,
Speaker 1: at least give us a best of you're slacking, Rich. Oh,
Speaker 1: we did have a show. It was a best of
Speaker 1: show and we did give it to you. Maybe he
Speaker 1: sent this before the podcast came out. But you know,
Speaker 1: no matter what, we only do a tape show like
Speaker 1: a couple times a year, and no matter what, I
Speaker 1: get emails from people saying Rich, I can't believe you're slacking.
Speaker 1: It is like I gotta take a break once in
Speaker 1: a while. Come on, cut me some slack jack. Let's
Speaker 1: see here. PJ says someone asked you about scanning programs recently.
Speaker 1: One I like a lot is a free program called
Speaker 1: NAPS two. Not another PDF scanner. It's open source, it's free,
Speaker 1: works on Mac, Windows, and it's compatible with most scanners
Speaker 1: like Cannon brother HP built in scanning ocr searchable PDFs.
Speaker 1: It's great NAPS two dot com. All right, that's a
Speaker 1: good one to add to the list. I'll put that
Speaker 1: on the website. John says, I tried downloading that Glimpse
Speaker 1: notifications app you recommended, but I ended up with the
Speaker 1: wrong one called Easy home Screen. It tried to charge
Speaker 1: me thirty nine dollars and took over my home screen.
Speaker 1: Turns out, when I searched for a glimpse in the
Speaker 1: play Store. The first one that popped up was not
Speaker 1: the real glimpse. This time I used your direct link.
Speaker 1: I got the free the right free app installed. From
Speaker 1: now on, I'll be more careful and check the details
Speaker 1: before downloading, or better yet, use the links you provide. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: this happens all the time. I recommend an app on
Speaker 1: TV or the radio. People download whatever they find when
Speaker 1: they search for it, and they blame me and they say, Rich,
Speaker 1: you just recommended this app. They're charging me ten dollars
Speaker 1: a month, sixty dollars a month, and that's not the
Speaker 1: app I recommended. Look closely when you search something on
Speaker 1: Google Play. The first link that comes up is not
Speaker 1: always the link to the direct app. It's probably an ad.
Speaker 1: Same thing goes on iPhone, same thing goes on Google.
Speaker 1: So be careful, use direct links when possible, and double
Speaker 1: check the names. A lot of these apps they sound similar,
Speaker 1: but they're not the same spelling.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: They They're said one way, but it's spelled another way.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Cecilia says, Hey, Rich, I just saw
Speaker 1: your Rich on Tech Weekly show on KTLA for the
Speaker 1: first time, and I love it. Keep it going. This
Speaker 1: was so funny. This happened over the break. KTLA, the
Speaker 1: TV station I worked for, showed my TV show that
Speaker 1: we've been doing for two years now on streaming. They
Speaker 1: showed it over the air. Usually it's just on streaming,
Speaker 1: so all these people were like, wait, what you have
Speaker 1: a show? Oh my gosh, this is so exciting. It's
Speaker 1: been out there for two years. But because it's on streaming,
Speaker 1: you know, the audience was much bigger when they put
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Speaker 1: ten minutes of this radio show on this show on TV,
Speaker 1: so if you want to see some behind the scenes
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Speaker 1: They're on demand anytime. Let's see do you say one minute?
Speaker 1: Or do you say? We got to go? Ed says
Speaker 1: On Christmas Day? Instead of that burning log on TV,
Speaker 1: they should run a rich On Tech marathon with all
Speaker 1: your segments from the year. I like the way you
Speaker 1: guys think. You guys are funny. I love it. Let's see,
Speaker 1: do we have time for one more? Probably not? I
Speaker 1: think that's going to do it for this episode of
Speaker 1: the show. You can find links to everything I mentioned
Speaker 1: on my website. Just go to rich on Tech dot tv.
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Speaker 1: This is the best time to follow me on Instagram
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Speaker 1: cannot wait to show you all of the cool stuff
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