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Speaker 1: Hello at richontech dot TV. Welcome to the show. Lots
Speaker 1: to talk about. Back from the weekend at the ranch,
Speaker 1: back at the studio. The sun is actually shining in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles for a change, which I know sounds odd,
Speaker 1: but Los Angeles has had the oddest six months of
Speaker 1: whether I can remember ever in the time I've been here,
Speaker 1: except for El Nino, that was also odd. That was
Speaker 1: just a lot of rain, but this was like, for
Speaker 1: the past six months, we've just had over cast skies,
Speaker 1: which I know not that big of a deal, but
Speaker 1: it kind of is. In Los Angeles, a city that
Speaker 1: promises endless sunshine, so we are finally breaking out of
Speaker 1: that and getting some sun, so I imagine more people
Speaker 1: will be outside. But anyway, why do I tell you that,
Speaker 1: I don't really know. It's just because it puts everyone
Speaker 1: in a good mood. I think it's just nice to
Speaker 1: have that sun shining. It feels like there's a there's
Speaker 1: a promise in this world, the promise of a better future,
Speaker 1: a sunny day ahead. Well I got snagged. Can you
Speaker 1: believe it? It happened to me. I was talking about
Speaker 1: it on this very show, and the very thing I
Speaker 1: talked about happened to me. I will tell you, I
Speaker 1: got snagged by this whole Netflix password sharing crackdown. It
Speaker 1: happened to me, rich on Tech. Here's what happened. After
Speaker 1: I came back from the Apple event. I was all
Speaker 1: hyped up about the whole vision Pro, their virtual reality headset,
Speaker 1: augmented reality headset, whatever you want to call it. And
Speaker 1: so I said, you know what, let me charge up
Speaker 1: the old oculus again and see how that thing does.
Speaker 1: And so I charged it up, and I was like,
Speaker 1: let me let me just see kind of some of
Speaker 1: the apps that I might use on this thing. And
Speaker 1: so Netflix was the first app that I opened on it.
Speaker 1: And so I had to sign in on Netflix, which
Speaker 1: was impossible with the headset because they want you to
Speaker 1: Number one, it said scan a QR code to log in.
Speaker 1: I was like, how can you scan a QR code?
Speaker 1: That's inside a headset like that makes no sense. So
Speaker 1: clearly they've sort of optimized the app for the oculus,
Speaker 1: but not really enough. And then it was like, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll enter this code into your phone. Okay, I'll enter
Speaker 1: the code.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The difference between the Oculus and the Apple Vision Pro
Speaker 1: is that you can't really see your surroundings. You kind
Speaker 1: of can with the Oculus, but not really Apple Vision Pro.
Speaker 1: I would have been able to just look at my
Speaker 1: phone and also look at the screen in front of me.
Speaker 1: That's not the case. So I had to take off
Speaker 1: the headset, remember the number, pop it in on my
Speaker 1: phone and I did that, which was fine. That linked
Speaker 1: my account and then I got a message, I have
Speaker 1: it right here. I printed it out just for you.
Speaker 1: It says, this TV isn't part of your Netflix household.
Speaker 1: Create an account to enjoy your own Netflix today. And
Speaker 1: I said, hmm, well that's odd because I've been paying
Speaker 1: twenty dollars a month for Netflix for as long as
Speaker 1: I can remember, and yes I have a Netflix account,
Speaker 1: and yes this is part of my household. So what happened?
Speaker 1: It says, did we get it wrong? You have options?
Speaker 1: You can update your Netflix household or it says i'm traveling,
Speaker 1: you can press those buttons. Well, neither of those things.
Speaker 1: I guess. The update the Netflix household was my first guess.
Speaker 1: So I said, all right, let me update my Netflix household,
Speaker 1: and then it all made sense. I got a text
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago that said your Netflix household
Speaker 1: has been set, and I was like, that's odd because
Speaker 1: I didn't set my Netflix household. Turns out, someone who
Speaker 1: had my password in my family set the household where
Speaker 1: they live, which is not where I live. And so
Speaker 1: I know, should you be sharing your password? Probably not?
Speaker 1: Do one hundred million people do it? Yes, that's what
Speaker 1: Netflix said, forty three percent of its global user base
Speaker 1: shares their password. Well not anymore. So what I had
Speaker 1: to do was embark on a journey to try to
Speaker 1: reset my household to claim my Netflix account as mine,
Speaker 1: which I know sounds silly because I'm the one paying
Speaker 1: for it, But here I am proving to Netflix that
Speaker 1: it is my house that I want to watch this
Speaker 1: thing on my own headset, in my own home. So
Speaker 1: it said you can only do this from a TV,
Speaker 1: and so I said, all right, well that's easy enough.
Speaker 1: I've got two TVs. Here with Netflix, so let me go.
Speaker 1: So I fired up the Netflix app on the Apple
Speaker 1: TV and it says to go into your account and
Speaker 1: click update Netflix Household, which I just couldn't do. That
Speaker 1: button was nowhere to be found on an Apple TV,
Speaker 1: and so it took me a while to realize that
Speaker 1: the Apple TV software is clearly different from the other
Speaker 1: Netflix software anywhere else. I wasn't going to be able
Speaker 1: to use my Apple TV to update my household. Then
Speaker 1: I figured, okay, well, let's go to the fire TV
Speaker 1: because Android software is usually a bit more flexible, usually
Speaker 1: different than what Apple has out there. So let me
Speaker 1: see if the button appears on that device. So I
Speaker 1: go to the TV that has the fire stick, I
Speaker 1: fire up Netflix. I go into the settings where it
Speaker 1: says update your household, and sure enough, there's the button.
Speaker 1: It says update Netflix household, and so I click the
Speaker 1: button and lo and behold, it says your household has
Speaker 1: been updated. I can now watch Netflix. I was able
Speaker 1: to log in on the headset, I was able to
Speaker 1: watch it on my Apple TV. I was able to
Speaker 1: watch it on this TV. But what happened all my
Speaker 1: password leechers around the US, my family members lost access immediately,
Speaker 1: and I told them. I texted them, I said, he
Speaker 1: heads up. I sent to our group chat. I said,
Speaker 1: heads up, the free ride is over. You have enjoyed
Speaker 1: Netflix for many, many years for free. I didn't mind.
Speaker 1: It seemed like Netflix didn't really care. But now the
Speaker 1: free ride is over. Netflix is no longer free for you,
Speaker 1: And so I sent this. Nobody in my family said
Speaker 1: anything back, but I know a couple of them were affected.
Speaker 1: And sure enough, I am talking to a family member later,
Speaker 1: about two or three days later, and I said, family
Speaker 1: member that will remain unnamed. I said, ah, have you
Speaker 1: noticed that you don't have any access to Netflix anymore?
Speaker 1: And they said, yeah, I did notice. Now I've got
Speaker 1: nothing to watch. I said, well, you know, I have
Speaker 1: been paying your bill for like, you know, five years now,
Speaker 1: And they said, you know what. I was talking to
Speaker 1: a friend about this because the same thing happened to them.
Speaker 1: Their son was paying for their Netflix bill and their
Speaker 1: free ride is over. So clearly this crackdown is working.
Speaker 1: In fact, I have some numbers here from Antenna. This
Speaker 1: is a company I guess that monitors this stuff. Netflix
Speaker 1: had the four single biggest days of US sign ups
Speaker 1: in the four and a half years since this Antenna
Speaker 1: company has tracked data on May twenty sixth and May
Speaker 1: twenty seven this was right in the wake of Netflix's
Speaker 1: big crackdown. There are almost one hundred thousand sign ups
Speaker 1: every day. During each of the four days, the company
Speaker 1: saw an average of seventy three thousand new memberships, according
Speaker 1: to Antenna, So clearly my little password crackdown story was
Speaker 1: resonating around the US as everyone sort of realized, oh, this,
Speaker 1: this little game is over. We can no longer share
Speaker 1: our Netflix accounts. Now. I'm not saying this was right
Speaker 1: or this was a good thing to do, but the
Speaker 1: reality was Netflix looked a different way for many, many years.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of questions about this. While people
Speaker 1: are emailing me, I have an RV, how's it going
Speaker 1: to work with that? I have a you know, a
Speaker 1: kid in college, How's it going to work with that.
Speaker 1: Netflix has a whole bunch of ways of figuring out
Speaker 1: where these sort of households are. It says we use
Speaker 1: information such as IP addresses, device IDs, and account activity
Speaker 1: to deter whether a device is signed into your account
Speaker 1: as part of your Netflix household. We do not use
Speaker 1: GPS data to try to determine the precise physical location
Speaker 1: of your devices. So basically, if you're traveling, if you've
Speaker 1: got a kid at college, these are all probably use
Speaker 1: cases where it's going to be fine, because the idea
Speaker 1: is that kid from college will bring their laptop back
Speaker 1: to home every once in a while, and maybe you
Speaker 1: have to make a case for the TV there. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, but the reality is to bring this all home.
Speaker 1: The family member I was talking to said, I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, it's time for you to get your
Speaker 1: own account, and they said, actually, it's a little bit
Speaker 1: cheaper if you continue to pay, but it's eight bucks
Speaker 1: a month, and you can pay for an extra person
Speaker 1: and I will pay you back. I said, all right,
Speaker 1: I guess we can try to do that. So, I
Speaker 1: mean a Netflix account is about sixteen bucks a month
Speaker 1: for the standard one, and so eight is half of that.
Speaker 1: So I guess their reasoning's pretty good. Anyway, if you're
Speaker 1: having those issues with a family member, you do know
Speaker 1: that you can give them their own account. They can
Speaker 1: transfer their profile, or you can just sign up for
Speaker 1: an extra account on your account and pay the extra
Speaker 1: eight bucks. I don't know how I'm gonna ask my
Speaker 1: family member pay me eight bucks a month. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, that's kind of kind of gonna be tough.
Speaker 1: All right. We got a great show coming up today,
Speaker 1: lots going on, a couple of great guests. Dan Seaffer
Speaker 1: of The Verge is going to join me with his
Speaker 1: review of the Amazon Fire Max eleven tablet. We've got
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Peter in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Peter, you're on
Speaker 1: with Rich.
Speaker 3: I can't be the special guest.
Speaker 1: Well you're special, but there's there's other special guests.
Speaker 3: Okay. As I told you on the screener, I'm having
Speaker 3: an issue with my phone. Basically it's a smartphone that's
Speaker 3: been with a brick.
Speaker 4: Now, like literally basically I can't well not literally, but
Speaker 4: I think it's I've gone through some issues with you know,
Speaker 4: the settings were maybe wrong, and then the text thing
Speaker 4: wouldn't work at all in certain days, and I discovered
Speaker 4: if you shut it off, let it sit for a
Speaker 4: couple of hours, it would be fine.
Speaker 3: And uh so, bottom line is right now I can
Speaker 3: send a text and get a text, but it doesn't
Speaker 3: keep a record of my what I said, I can
Speaker 3: make a phone call and get a phone call. Nothing
Speaker 3: else works. It's basically becoming a pretty brick.
Speaker 5: So I'm thinking about a new phone, and I'm trying
Speaker 5: to avoid you know, different people. Uh, the person who
Speaker 5: took olf R on Sunday, Leo. I talked to him
Speaker 5: and basically at one point we got to a point
Speaker 5: where it's like, well, there's something to be said for
Speaker 5: a new a phone. Meaning what I here from people
Speaker 5: around me in this area is no samuel an update
Speaker 5: to help your phone. But because your phone is a
Speaker 5: little bit older, guess what, it screws up your phone.
Speaker 5: So you're supposed to run out.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, we don't need you don't need a
Speaker 1: new phone necessarily. What kind of phone are we talking
Speaker 1: about here.
Speaker 3: We're talking about a Samsung S.
Speaker 1: Ten Okay, so that is definitely an older phone, the
Speaker 1: Samsung S ten E. Let's see when that came out,
Speaker 1: Samsung S ten E, the S ten that was in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Okay, so we're talking four years old? Is this?
Speaker 1: So here's what I'd recommend. So nothing's working with the
Speaker 1: Is this this is not a five G phone? Is it?
Speaker 1: Is it a four G. Still it's a four okay,
Speaker 1: So that could be part of the issue is that
Speaker 1: a lot of these networks have moved to five G,
Speaker 1: but four G still works.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 1: What I think you should do and have you tried this?
Speaker 1: Have you tried a factory reset to sort of start
Speaker 1: fresh on this phone?
Speaker 6: I have not.
Speaker 3: But right now, like even like say apps that you
Speaker 3: have on the phone, you if you say, okay, you
Speaker 3: know updates. Even when I go to say my brother's house,
Speaker 3: which will automatically hop onto the internet, you know, the
Speaker 3: Wi Fi, it won't do anything.
Speaker 1: Okay. So I think I think there's a couple of
Speaker 1: things you should do here. So first off, before you
Speaker 1: do anything, have you tried a network settings reset?
Speaker 3: Are you talking the APM?
Speaker 1: Nope? Network settings? There's a there's a reset of the phone.
Speaker 1: So if you go into the reset menu on your phone,
Speaker 1: So if you go into settings and search reset, there's
Speaker 1: a an option in there that says reset all settings,
Speaker 1: reset network settings, reset accessibility settings. What I would first
Speaker 1: try to do is reset the network settings. What that's
Speaker 1: going to do is that is going to clear out
Speaker 1: all of your settings for your cellular, for your WiFi,
Speaker 1: for your Bluetooth, and then when your phone and then
Speaker 1: restart your phone. Obviously, when you restart your phone, all
Speaker 1: of those things are going to try to reconnect, and
Speaker 1: so you're gonna have to reconnect to Wi Fi. It's
Speaker 1: going to find the cellular network. It's going to download
Speaker 1: those APMs that you talked about that you know, most
Speaker 1: people never really have to deal with on their phone
Speaker 1: because those are set automatically, and it's going to reset
Speaker 1: the Bluetooth settings. Now, if your phone still isn't working,
Speaker 1: if you still can't send and receive data all that
Speaker 1: stuff through Wi Fi, then there's another option that says
Speaker 1: reset all settings, and so now you can go through
Speaker 1: and that will reset your security settings, your language, your accounts,
Speaker 1: all your personal data, all of your settings for your
Speaker 1: downloaded apps. It's kind of like the last thing you
Speaker 1: can do before you actually do a factory reset. Now,
Speaker 1: if that doesn't work, if you get your phone to
Speaker 1: work after that, that's great. So what I'd immediately do
Speaker 1: is do a system update. And I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: latest Verizon update for this phone was in March, So
Speaker 1: depending on the carrier that you have, it seems like
Speaker 1: this phone is still getting a couple of security updates,
Speaker 1: which is pretty good for a four year old phone.
Speaker 1: That's kind of like the breakoff point. The cutoff point
Speaker 1: for phones nowadays is about four years. So if all
Speaker 1: that doesn't work, and you can update your apps and
Speaker 1: you can update your software, because I definitely do a
Speaker 1: software update after that, and by doing that, you go
Speaker 1: into your settings again and you go into let's see
Speaker 1: whereas that settings it says software update, You download and
Speaker 1: install that, make sure you got that working. And then
Speaker 1: if you can't get any of that to work, you
Speaker 1: gotta do the final nuclear option, which is the factory reset.
Speaker 1: And so if you do a factory reset and that
Speaker 1: will reset everything. This will bring your phone back to
Speaker 1: the exact conditions that it was when you got it,
Speaker 1: from the first day you had it, and it will
Speaker 1: start fresh. You're gonna have to reinstall everything. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to sign into Google and all these different accounts
Speaker 1: that you have in there, so make sure things are
Speaker 1: backed up before you do that. But if your phone
Speaker 1: doesn't work after that, then it is time for a
Speaker 1: new phone. So those are all the steps I would
Speaker 1: take personally, But you can use this phone, I think
Speaker 1: for another year. So if you get all those things
Speaker 1: to work, unless there is a physical problem with the
Speaker 1: hardware on this phone, then you should still be able
Speaker 1: to use it, so it should still be supported at
Speaker 1: this point. All right, great question, Pete. Thanks so much.
Speaker 1: And uh, I know everyone likes to just say get
Speaker 1: a new phone, get a new phone. We live in
Speaker 1: the culture here in America just throw it out, toss
Speaker 1: it away, get a new one when things go wrong.
Speaker 1: You don't necessarily need to do that. These things are
Speaker 1: built much much better these days, and they last much longer,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's really just a software issue. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the call, all right, Hop on the line, triple eight
Speaker 1: Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Coming up next, we've got
Speaker 1: Dan Seffert, deputy editor at The Verge. He is going
Speaker 1: to join us to have of his review of the
Speaker 1: Amazon Fire Max eleven tablet. You are listening to Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Joining me now is Dan Seffert, deputy editor
Speaker 1: at The Verge. He recently reviewed the Amazon Fire Max
Speaker 1: eleven tablet. This is Amazon's latest tablet. I've got one
Speaker 1: right here so we can compare notes. Dan, Let's get
Speaker 1: straight to the review. Thanks for joining me today. I
Speaker 1: do appreciate it fire Max eleven. This on paper had
Speaker 1: a lot of promise for me, but your headline kind
Speaker 1: of says it all not the productivity tablet you're looking for,
Speaker 1: So kind of give me the kind of your synopsis
Speaker 1: of your review of this thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, I mean I would agree with you in
Speaker 3: that it held a lot of promise on paper. This
Speaker 3: is like Amazon's brand new tablet. It's got their fastest
Speaker 3: processor they'd ever put in a tablet. It's the nicest
Speaker 3: hardware they've used on a tablet in a long time.
Speaker 3: So it's like markedly better looking than the lower tier
Speaker 3: Amazon tablets that we're familiar with. But once you get
Speaker 3: like past those first looks and you start using it,
Speaker 3: you realize that it is effectively the exact same experience.
Speaker 3: And the problem that I've had with Amazon tablets for
Speaker 3: a long time, especially ones that are kind of trying
Speaker 3: to market as beyond just basic media consumption but for
Speaker 3: productivity and stuff like that Amazon's selling this as a
Speaker 3: bundle with the keyboard and the stylists and things like that,
Speaker 3: is that Amazon doesn't build any of the software that's
Speaker 3: necessary to make all use of all of that, so
Speaker 3: it's very hard to like kind of actually get work
Speaker 3: done on this when you don't have the apps or
Speaker 3: services that you might be looking for or accustomed to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you might save half the price of buying
Speaker 1: an iPad is similarly equipped. But then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you get this thing and you're like, wait a second,
Speaker 1: I okay, So Office is installed on this thing as
Speaker 1: a ninety day free trial Microsoft three sixty five. But
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where it's just it doesn't
Speaker 1: feel like a tablet where you're meant to do work
Speaker 1: on it. It feels like a tablet where you're meant
Speaker 1: to watch movies, read books, and basically try not to
Speaker 1: do much else because it's just it's a very frustrating
Speaker 1: operating system. Let's put it that way.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And you can see that right from the home screen,
Speaker 3: right like when you. Amazon's had the same basic homescreen
Speaker 3: on its tablet for I don't know how many years now,
Speaker 3: but it's effectively just kind of like showing you things
Speaker 3: to watch, things to read, and things to buy from Amazon.
Speaker 1: It's horrible. It's absolutely horrible. I'll just say it. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing with this tablet if they had a nice
Speaker 1: clean version of Android installed on this tablet, it would
Speaker 1: be incredible. And if you can install the apps that
Speaker 1: you want. The first thing I did was try to
Speaker 1: install Chrome. Guess what you can't. I mean, you could
Speaker 1: probably sideload it somehow, But the average person that's buying
Speaker 1: this tablet is not trying to sideload this thing.
Speaker 3: I don't think, right exactly, Yeah, I agree with either.
Speaker 1: So, I mean the apps, and so Amazon has their
Speaker 1: own app store, They've got their own software, and it's
Speaker 1: all geared towards selling you or helping you watch Prime Video,
Speaker 1: any Amazon product. So why are they so protective of this?
Speaker 1: Like why couldn't they just make this better and still
Speaker 1: sell a lot of them?
Speaker 3: So I think it's a multi pronged problem for Amazon. One,
Speaker 3: I think their business model just kind of leads them
Speaker 3: to this type of product, because their business model is
Speaker 3: really not making money on the hardware that they're selling you.
Speaker 3: It's making money on the books that you're buying. And
Speaker 3: like you mentioned, the Prime subscription that you pay for
Speaker 3: to get Prime Video or the other thing that is
Speaker 3: all over the home screen is literal products that it
Speaker 3: thinks you want to buy from Amazon, so like their
Speaker 3: business model kind of drives them towards that experience. The
Speaker 3: other thing is they don't have what we call Google
Speaker 3: services on this tablet. So, like you mentioned, you can't
Speaker 3: download Chrome, there's no Gmail, there's Google Maps. If you've
Speaker 3: got an Android phone, you're used to all of those
Speaker 3: apps and services on the phone, and then you go
Speaker 3: to this tablet and it's like none of them are available. Basically,
Speaker 3: the only thing that's available is as you mentioned, Microsoft
Speaker 3: Office Fee and very scattered, few random apps that you've
Speaker 3: probably never heard of in Amazon's pretty small, anemic app store.
Speaker 3: So to fix that, they would have to partner with Google,
Speaker 3: which they haven't seem to want to do in the
Speaker 3: ten or twelve years that they've been making fire tablets,
Speaker 3: and or they would have to really court developers to
Speaker 3: get their apps into Amazon's app store. And either developers
Speaker 3: just don't want to do it because they don't see
Speaker 3: the return on their investment, or Amazon just hasn't put
Speaker 3: the effort in to making it worthwhile for those developers.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so frustrating that even YouTube is not
Speaker 1: available as a native app on this device, which is
Speaker 1: available on pretty much any device around the world that
Speaker 1: you get that.
Speaker 3: Has, you know, the list of apps that you can't
Speaker 3: get on an Amazon Fire tablet, it's much longer than
Speaker 3: the list of that you can get.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now for the positive side of this thing, So
Speaker 1: I had my kids try rollblocks on it. They said
Speaker 1: it was fine. I had them try Minecraft, as seemed
Speaker 1: to be fast Zoom. We did a zoom call and
Speaker 1: the camera actually was better than my kid's camera on
Speaker 1: his MacBook. Has got a sixteen inch MacBook. So those
Speaker 1: things were fine and Zoom ran just fine. But who
Speaker 1: is this best for? Because I feel like people buy
Speaker 1: these tablets and they return them a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard for me to pin down who this
Speaker 3: is exactly best for.
Speaker 6: Like, it is.
Speaker 3: Better than Amazon's prior tablets in that you know, it's
Speaker 3: got a faster process or better performance. Amazon's tablets kind
Speaker 3: of have a deserved reuse reputation for being slow and
Speaker 3: pokey and stuff like that because they're so cheap. But
Speaker 3: my kind of perspective on that is, if all you're
Speaker 3: doing is getting into a video streaming app, which is
Speaker 3: like say you're just watching something from Max or Pair
Speaker 3: unt Plus or Amazon Prime or whatever, you don't really
Speaker 3: need the fastest tablet in the world, and the experience
Speaker 3: between this and the I believe it's like eighty dollars
Speaker 3: cheaper Fire ten is not that much different for that
Speaker 3: perhaps if it's you know, a kid that has games.
Speaker 3: Amazon does have a really the one piece of software
Speaker 3: that they do actually pretty well is their Kids Mode.
Speaker 3: So it's very easy for parents to kind of say,
Speaker 3: setting this up for a child age to say, seven
Speaker 3: to ten, and I want them to access this, this
Speaker 3: and this, but not this, this and this, and then
Speaker 3: just hand it off to them and they get like
Speaker 3: a very curated experience, which is still a lot harder
Speaker 3: to do with an iPad. It's not as easy to
Speaker 3: do on other Android tablets. Amazon really does that experience
Speaker 3: really well. But are you going to buy the top
Speaker 3: end version of Amazon's tablet and hand it to a
Speaker 3: kid and stuff like that? I find that hard to believe.
Speaker 3: So I'm not really sure who this is for. I
Speaker 3: assume at some point Amazon's going to put it on sale,
Speaker 3: like it does with all of its products, and then
Speaker 3: it will be maybe more of a compelling purchase at
Speaker 3: like kind of just a nicer version of its existing
Speaker 3: tennis tablets. But I don't think it's for anybody who
Speaker 3: thinks that, oh, I'm going to buy a tablet to
Speaker 3: knock out some email and compose documents and get collaborate
Speaker 3: with my colleagues and work and stuff instead of using
Speaker 3: my laptop. That's just really not what this device provides.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm looking at the product listing page. It's
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty dollars. Looks like it's available now.
Speaker 1: It does say on there we want you to know
Speaker 1: the fire tablet does not does come with lock screen ads.
Speaker 1: So that's another kind of punch in the gun there,
Speaker 1: because if you want if you want this without the ads,
Speaker 1: you got to pay even more. And then it says
Speaker 1: Google Play is not supported on Amazon fire Tablets, which
Speaker 1: I think would probably be confusing to a lot of people.
Speaker 1: They'd be like, what does that mean?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 1: And then the other thing is that I do like
Speaker 1: is the expandable memory is kind of nice, so you
Speaker 1: can put in a one up to a one terabyte card,
Speaker 1: which you know, maybe you need that, maybe a don't.
Speaker 1: How did you find the battery life to be?
Speaker 3: You know, I really didn't have a problem with the
Speaker 3: battery life, and I think that part of that is
Speaker 3: because I just ended up in a lot of scenarios
Speaker 3: where I couldn't get what I needed to get done
Speaker 3: on it, so I had to move to a different device.
Speaker 3: But even for like basic video streaming and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: like I could. I think with most tablets these days,
Speaker 3: whether they're an iPad or a fire tablet or a
Speaker 3: sam flung tablet, I really don't worry too much about
Speaker 3: the battery life. They last, yeah, in twelve hours, and
Speaker 3: like you know you're going to use it all day
Speaker 3: and then or you know it'll last across country flight,
Speaker 3: which is the longest that most people use these at
Speaker 3: a stretch. So the battery life I don't think is
Speaker 3: a problem at all. And even the performance wasn't that bad.
Speaker 3: It's not as fast or snappy as Apple's iPads, but
Speaker 3: I didn't have any problems where like I was sitting
Speaker 3: there waiting for things to load, or it wouldn't respond
Speaker 3: to my inputs or.
Speaker 7: Anything like that.
Speaker 1: And the screen the first thing I noticed when I
Speaker 1: took it out of the box. I was expecting a
Speaker 1: nice screen, and the screen looks like it's from five
Speaker 1: six years ago. It's just it's not that clear, it's
Speaker 1: not that bright. And I hate to knock this thing
Speaker 1: because I really want to like this and be able
Speaker 1: to recommend this to people because it's a nice, simple tablet.
Speaker 1: But I just feel like the software just really hampers this.
Speaker 1: And unless you are literally just watching you know, videos,
Speaker 1: or maybe just playing roadblocks or maybe just you know,
Speaker 1: kind of doing that, there's really not much more you
Speaker 1: can do on the thing. Like even surfing the web
Speaker 1: is not fun because you're kind of tied to bing
Speaker 1: and like all these different things that they try to
Speaker 1: trick you on, and it's just it's not a very
Speaker 1: good experience, let's put it that way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would love for Amazon to kind of go
Speaker 3: back to the drawing board and revisit its software experience
Speaker 3: and really, like, you know, the hardware is the hardware,
Speaker 3: and for two hundred and thirty bucks, I don't really
Speaker 3: have a lot to complain about the hardware, but the
Speaker 3: software just kind of ruins the whole experience for me.
Speaker 1: Someone needs to come up with a one click install
Speaker 1: of like clean Android software for this device, and it
Speaker 1: would be amazing. All right, Dancy if we're going to
Speaker 1: leave it there. Deputy editor at the Verge. Where can
Speaker 1: folks find you these days? Online?
Speaker 7: You can find me at the Verge.
Speaker 3: It's probably the best place to look. You can also
Speaker 3: find me on Master Darn if you happen to use that.
Speaker 3: I don't find myself using Twittered very much anymore these days,
Speaker 3: but you can definitely find all of my work and
Speaker 3: a lot of my thoughts and usings on the Verge.
Speaker 1: Awesome, Dan Seffert from the Verge, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for joining me today. Coming up, I'm going to tell
Speaker 1: you about this email that you probably got an update
Speaker 1: to album archive, Google killing another product. I'll explain what
Speaker 1: that's all about, plus more of your calls at Triple
Speaker 1: eight Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. You are listening to
Speaker 1: Rich on tech. Let's go to Brian and Westport, Washington. Brian,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich. Thanks for calling out today.
Speaker 8: Sure, hopefully it will be a fun question for you.
Speaker 8: Can tech executives themselves be replaced by artificial intelligence? You
Speaker 8: got your ears all the tech stuff. Is it possible?
Speaker 8: That's the reason why they're so concerned about AI is
Speaker 8: that they themselves can get replaced in their own jobs.
Speaker 6: What do you think, ooh.
Speaker 1: Good question. You know, I think that at this point,
Speaker 1: anyone is up for grabs, any job is up for
Speaker 1: grabs when it comes to AI. So we are just
Speaker 1: at the beginning of AI. We are just figuring out
Speaker 1: what it can do. The power of this technology. And
Speaker 1: there's been many, many studies. I'm looking at one here.
Speaker 1: You know, according to experts, tools like chat GBT have
Speaker 1: the potential to disrupt certain jobs, especially those in white
Speaker 1: collar professions intermediate level skills and experience. Some jobs that
Speaker 1: are at risk include coders, computer programmers, software engineers, data analysts.
Speaker 1: AI can number, crunch and code faster than humans. Then
Speaker 1: you've got media jobs, advertising, content creation, technical writing, and
Speaker 1: also journalism could be affected because these things are so
Speaker 1: efficient at writing. Then you've got the legal industry. Jobs
Speaker 1: like paralegals and legal assistants could be impacted because AI
Speaker 1: can handle these language and structured tasks. And then of
Speaker 1: course you have market research analysts, teachers, finance industry jobs, traders,
Speaker 1: graphic designers, accountants, and customer service agents all up for
Speaker 1: grabs when it comes to disruption by AI. Now here's
Speaker 1: the thing. Many experts believe that AI is going to
Speaker 1: be a productivity enhancing tool rather than just a complete
Speaker 1: replacement for human workers. But at the same time, you
Speaker 1: have to keep in mind that there will be some
Speaker 1: fallout from this. Now I can tell you personally when
Speaker 1: I'm using AI for already on a daily basis, and
Speaker 1: it is kind of like the way I think about it.
Speaker 1: And we debate this stuff in my family all the time,
Speaker 1: as my kids say, oh, well, nobody's gonna have to
Speaker 1: write a paper for school and this and that. Well,
Speaker 1: here's what's happening. We as humans are getting more of
Speaker 1: our brain freed up to do even higher tasks than
Speaker 1: we used to have to be able to do. Let
Speaker 1: me give you an example. So when I post a
Speaker 1: Instagram reel right to my Instagram at richon Tech, it
Speaker 1: used to take me a couple of minutes to come
Speaker 1: up with a couple of hashtags for that reel that video.
Speaker 1: If it was a video that I just posted the
Speaker 1: other day about a hologram, I would think, okay, hologram, holographic,
Speaker 1: three D video chat video chatting, And I'd have to
Speaker 1: sit there and really think about some of these terms
Speaker 1: that might work for that reel and get people to
Speaker 1: click on it. Well, now what do I do. I
Speaker 1: just copy my script that I wrote for the video
Speaker 1: into Bard, which is Google's version of chatch ebt, and
Speaker 1: I say, give me ten Instagram hashtags for this, And
Speaker 1: within seconds I've got my ten hashtags. I copy, I
Speaker 1: paste them, I put them into Instagram. Now did that
Speaker 1: ruin my job? No? Now did it ruin some apps
Speaker 1: that I might have turned to pay for to get
Speaker 1: those hashtags? Absolutely, there's a whole cottage industry of services
Speaker 1: and apps and things that will be disrupted by this
Speaker 1: technology because you just don't need them anymore. Let me
Speaker 1: give you another example. Summarizing things. You want to summarize
Speaker 1: an article, you can use an extension on Chrome to
Speaker 1: summarize that article something that may have taken someone. Let's
Speaker 1: say you have a producer for your show, Like for me,
Speaker 1: for a radio show, you may have had a producer
Speaker 1: that would summarize things for you and give you notes
Speaker 1: on your guests. Well, now you can do that all
Speaker 1: in five seconds on CHATGBT or Google Bard. Hey give
Speaker 1: me a brief background on this person comparing things, I
Speaker 1: mean shopping. It is so powerful. I've been using the
Speaker 1: new Google Search. It is so powerful. I can't tell
Speaker 1: you how incredible it is. It's it's so good that
Speaker 1: I actually am considering a switch to an Android phone
Speaker 1: to have better access to this stuff. I've actually set
Speaker 1: up my iPhone in a different way just to get
Speaker 1: better and easier access to the Google Bar system when
Speaker 1: I do my searches. So will the executives be replaced? Yes,
Speaker 1: some of them will be? Will I be replaced? Will
Speaker 1: the person next to be replaced? Who knows? This is
Speaker 1: all too new to know exactly what it's going to
Speaker 1: replace and the impact it's going to have. But the
Speaker 1: bottom line is it is going to have a major
Speaker 1: impact on our world and there is no going back,
Speaker 1: that is for sure. All Right, coming up on the show,
Speaker 1: we still got lots to talk about. I'm gonna explain
Speaker 1: this album archive from Google. I'm gonna do that right
Speaker 1: when we come back, because I know I've been talking
Speaker 1: about it for a bit. Then later in the show,
Speaker 1: we've got some great guests. We're gonna talk about lab
Speaker 1: grown cheese, and then later diabetes tech plus. If you
Speaker 1: want to hop on the phone, give me a call.
Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four to one zero one. You
Speaker 1: are listening to rich on tech. Looks like we've got
Speaker 1: a line open, So give me a call. Get in
Speaker 1: with your question, comment suggestion. Well, I don't know about suggestions.
Speaker 1: I don't know I phone. I'll open myself up to that.
Speaker 1: I get enough of that through the internet, believe me.
Speaker 1: The good news is I know that you're listening to
Speaker 1: this show because I get a lot of emails from you,
Speaker 1: So I am very happy about that. Oh email also
Speaker 1: is hello at richon tech dot TV. It's interesting being
Speaker 1: on TV versus radio.
Speaker 2: TV.
Speaker 1: I get emails, but radio much more details, much more
Speaker 1: detailed emails about what I'm talking about and what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: So it's just different mediums. I guess.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: Speaking of TV, you can watch my TV segments on
Speaker 1: the website. Just go to rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 1: You know, I cover a variety of tech topics. The
Speaker 1: latest thing I did is a hologram kind of box
Speaker 1: that it's expensive, but it's one of those I don't
Speaker 1: know how you explain it. It's just it looks like
Speaker 1: you're a hologram. You step in this box, or you
Speaker 1: step in front of the studio and they beam you
Speaker 1: into this box and you literally look three D. It's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. I've always wanted to become a hologram and
Speaker 1: now I have. All Right, let's go to Tim in
Speaker 1: more Park, California. Tim, you're on with Rich. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 6: Program. Should I use to put on an old Dell
Speaker 6: computer as Windows ten on it?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 6: It's too old to put Windows eleven on it? And
Speaker 6: there's a program to put on there. Also, if I
Speaker 6: have an old if I use an old phone that
Speaker 6: I plug in the wall, I can call a radio station.
Speaker 6: But if I use a portable handheld house phone, there's
Speaker 6: a time delay and I can't call the radio station.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know about the question number two, but
Speaker 1: I can't help you with question number one. So your
Speaker 1: computer's too old for Windows eleven. It's you're referring to
Speaker 1: something I've mentioned in the past called Chrome os Flex,
Speaker 1: and this pretty much turns an old Windows or Mac
Speaker 1: computer into a chromebook and it's very easy to install.
Speaker 1: You can put it on a USB drive, You pop
Speaker 1: the USB drive into your device, and then you can
Speaker 1: install Chrome os flex. So the main things you need
Speaker 1: to know about this, You got to have eight gigs
Speaker 1: of storage on the drive, got to have a Windows
Speaker 1: PC or a Mac. The Mac I believe runs it
Speaker 1: from the drive, and then you also have to have
Speaker 1: some internal storage on there as well, so you can
Speaker 1: see all of the requirements if you just google Chrome
Speaker 1: os flex. That's what the deal is. And the neat
Speaker 1: thing about it is that it turns an old computer.
Speaker 1: It kind of gives it a couple more years and
Speaker 1: you'll be able to do the basics on here. This
Speaker 1: is not gonna be able to run Android apps or
Speaker 1: any sort of specialized apps, but you will have full
Speaker 1: access to the web, and let's be honest, for like
Speaker 1: ninety nine point nine percent of what you need to do,
Speaker 1: the web is going to be just fine. And this
Speaker 1: is going to take an old computer and just kind
Speaker 1: of make it new again. And again it works on
Speaker 1: max PCs. They won't really slow down because this doesn't
Speaker 1: need much to run. And so it's one of these
Speaker 1: things where you can breathe an extra couple of years
Speaker 1: of life into your device. And it is free, so
Speaker 1: you don't really need to do much more except install it.
Speaker 1: And I'll put the link on the website. Rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot tv. There are some certified models and you
Speaker 1: can check that on the installation guide as well. But
Speaker 1: it's very very simple once once you make that little
Speaker 1: USB drive, it's pretty simple to get this thing on there.
Speaker 1: Let's see, I'm looking at the requirements. Minimum device requirements
Speaker 1: Intel or AMD eighty six, four gigs of RAMS, sixteen
Speaker 1: gigs of internal storage a USB drive. You do need
Speaker 1: full BIOS access and oh oh, hold on. Components made
Speaker 1: before twenty ten might result in a poor experience. So
Speaker 1: if your computer is that old, then yes, it may
Speaker 1: be time for an update. But otherwise this is gonna
Speaker 1: work pretty well. And it's just one of these things
Speaker 1: where it's nice to know that you can do this
Speaker 1: for free. All right, I'll put that link on there.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Google, and I didn't mean to avoid your
Speaker 1: second question, Tim, but I'm not really sure and I
Speaker 1: think that's highly specialized to calling a radio station, so
Speaker 1: I think that, I mean, yeah, I'm not sure of
Speaker 1: that one. Okay, So if you have a Google account,
Speaker 1: you probably got this scary email that said an update
Speaker 1: to album archive. What does that mean? Hey, Rich, you're
Speaker 1: receiving this email because you've viewed album archive recently, or
Speaker 1: you may have some content that's visible in album arc
Speaker 1: starting on July nineteenth, twenty twenty three, album archive will
Speaker 1: no longer be available. Now I'm thinking, I don't even
Speaker 1: know what album archive is, but now I'm scared that
Speaker 1: I'm losing access to album archive. We recommend using Google
Speaker 1: Takeout to download a copy of your album archive data
Speaker 1: before then. What is the album archive? No idea. Here's
Speaker 1: some content that's only available in album archive and it
Speaker 1: will be deleted July nineteenth. Rare cases like small thumbnail
Speaker 1: photos and album comments or likes. What is that some
Speaker 1: Google Hangouts data from album archive? Okay, that's those Google
Speaker 1: hangouts was back in the day when we were chatting
Speaker 1: with Google Hangouts. This is my favorite one. Background images
Speaker 1: uploaded in the Gmail theme picker prior to twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: If you're missing a background image that you uploaded to
Speaker 1: Gmail prior to twenty eighteen, I think by this time
Speaker 1: you can let go of that. Now, if you'd like
Speaker 1: to access this data, please make a copy using Google Takeout.
Speaker 1: You can also view the content directly. So some of
Speaker 1: the other things that we're in this was Blogger. Long
Speaker 1: story short, I'm not even gonna spend that much time
Speaker 1: on this because it's just kind of nonsense. Just go
Speaker 1: to get dot google dot com slash album archive. That is,
Speaker 1: get dot Google dot com slash album archive, and that
Speaker 1: will show you all of the stuff that you have
Speaker 1: in this mysterious album archive. And so I found one
Speaker 1: picture of Swedish meatballs in sauce that I have no
Speaker 1: idea where that's from. I don't know if I had
Speaker 1: this at Ikea back in the day. This was from
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. I must have posted that picture that was
Speaker 1: to Blogger. And then in my hangout photos, I did
Speaker 1: have a couple of photos in there from various chats
Speaker 1: that I had over the years, and I went through
Speaker 1: and I I did kind of a cross reference. So
Speaker 1: I clicked the photo and I clicked a little info
Speaker 1: on it, and then I took the photo name, and
Speaker 1: I then popped that into Google Photos to see if
Speaker 1: I had a copy of that picture. And out of
Speaker 1: almost every picture that I looked at, just kind of
Speaker 1: a spot check, I had them all my Google Photos,
Speaker 1: because if you think about it, these were all photos
Speaker 1: that I chatted, I sent to someone on a chat,
Speaker 1: and so I probably sent them from my phone at
Speaker 1: some point, and so I probably took them on my phone.
Speaker 1: But anyway, if you're curious about this whole thing, I
Speaker 1: think you're probably gonna be okay. But just go to
Speaker 1: get dot Google dot com slash album archive to see
Speaker 1: if you have anything in this mysterious I know everyone's
Speaker 1: like Google is shutting down another product. They're so wishy
Speaker 1: washy with their products, they don't care about anything. But
Speaker 1: this is the stuff that nobody has used in a
Speaker 1: long time. Let me let's see another Let me just
Speaker 1: do one more Google story before we go here. You
Speaker 1: probably heard about this as well. It was all over
Speaker 1: the news. If you clicked on a Google search link
Speaker 1: between twenty twenty six and twenty thirteen, you might be
Speaker 1: eligible to receive some money. Twenty three million dollars. Well,
Speaker 1: guess how much you're gonna get seven dollars and seventy cents.
Speaker 1: And guess what that requires you to do. You have
Speaker 1: to fill out your full name, your address, and your
Speaker 1: email by July thirty first. So if you want to
Speaker 1: do this, that's fine. I'm not judging you for it.
Speaker 1: But I saw all the headlines everywhere that made you
Speaker 1: click right, Google owes you money. Yeah, I searched Google.
Speaker 1: How much am I going to get out of this
Speaker 1: twenty three million less than eight bucks. Is my name,
Speaker 1: address and email worth eight dollars? Probably not. I am
Speaker 1: not giving this information to some random legal firm so
Speaker 1: that I can potentially get a seven dollars and seventy
Speaker 1: cent check down the line. Now, I will say today
Speaker 1: I did get Let's see if I can find it.
Speaker 1: I got a PayPal notification that I did get. Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: what was this Avis Budget Group? I got thirty seven
Speaker 1: dollars for an e tole settlement today, So these things
Speaker 1: do work. But I don't even remember putting my information
Speaker 1: in for this e toll settlement from Budget Avis. I
Speaker 1: didn't even know those were part of the same company.
Speaker 1: So anyway, if you want to do the Google search thing,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna hold it against you. But for seven
Speaker 1: dollars and seventy cents, I mean, these these class action settlements,
Speaker 1: they sound great. Google has to pay twenty three million
Speaker 1: dollars because of privacy concerns, But the average person really
Speaker 1: gets nothing out of this. The lawyers they're gonna make
Speaker 1: out really really well. I'm sure they're getting more than
Speaker 1: seven dollars and seventy cents. Again, I'll put it all
Speaker 1: on the website. Rich on tech dot TV. All right,
Speaker 1: as Kim would say, I'm getting fired up eight eight
Speaker 1: eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four to one zero one. I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: to get our special guests on coming up, but we
Speaker 1: are going to talk to Jason Horn, food writer about
Speaker 1: muzzarella cheese grown in a lab. I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: I thought of that, plus more of your calls and
Speaker 1: the top tech scams text t e X tape. You're
Speaker 1: listening to rich on tech. Uh do we have the
Speaker 1: special guest? It looks like we do. Okay, let's let's
Speaker 1: bring up. Let's see here we are well line six? Mom, Yes, Hi, Hello,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show.
Speaker 9: Hi, thank you.
Speaker 1: So this is my mom in New Jersey. You are
Speaker 1: you actually listen to the show, don't you? How do
Speaker 1: you listen?
Speaker 9: I go to my Google home and ask it to
Speaker 9: play KFI.
Speaker 1: I love it. Well, that's good. See if I had
Speaker 1: a little ding, i'd say ding. That's right. And so
Speaker 1: what do you think of the show? Do you think
Speaker 1: the host is good?
Speaker 2: Or what.
Speaker 9: You meaning that you're the host?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 9: I hope I maybe byas but yes, no, I think
Speaker 9: you're You're amazing.
Speaker 1: What you do is the information easy to understand because
Speaker 1: the show, you know, I'm trying to make the show
Speaker 1: understandable by a lot of people, including I always say
Speaker 1: my mom, and that's you. So are you understanding the show?
Speaker 9: Yeah? Most of it. I mean I think you tried
Speaker 9: to talk in terms that the average non high tech
Speaker 9: person can understand.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, the reason I call you is a very
Speaker 1: important one. You were telling me that they change something
Speaker 1: and that is AOL. Yes, you love AOL.
Speaker 9: I guess you could say that, and yeah, go.
Speaker 1: Ahead, what do you What do you like about AOL?
Speaker 1: Many people might not even realize that AOL is still around,
Speaker 1: but then there's a lot of people that actually still
Speaker 1: use it.
Speaker 9: Yes, that is true. Yeah, a lot of people don't
Speaker 9: use AOL anymore. But that was the first email. I
Speaker 9: don't even know what you call it, thing I used,
Speaker 9: and I guess I just never really wanted to change it.
Speaker 1: And so what happened this week? You called me up
Speaker 1: frantically and you said, Richard, you call me Richard when
Speaker 1: you're you know, and you said, and you said what
Speaker 1: you said, I don't like this?
Speaker 9: Okay, So yeah, initially, I didn't like it because they
Speaker 9: changed the format and as far as I know, they
Speaker 9: didn't give a warning, like all of a sudden, it
Speaker 9: was just changed.
Speaker 8: And I guess that.
Speaker 9: Threw me where wow, And I didn't initially like it.
Speaker 9: I am getting used to it.
Speaker 1: That's good. So you're getting used to the new a well,
Speaker 1: I would I wouldn't even think that. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's probably one person working on the AOL program,
Speaker 1: because I don't even know what's happening with AO. All
Speaker 1: these days. You're still using like the downloaded program on
Speaker 1: your computer. It's not like you're going to AOL dot com.
Speaker 9: I have no idea.
Speaker 2: Just saw my desktop.
Speaker 9: I really don't know. You probably put it there for me.
Speaker 1: Okay, so all of the formatting changed. But now you're
Speaker 1: saying you're getting used to it, So it's.
Speaker 9: Okay now, well, because I guess I've gotten used to it.
Speaker 9: The one thing that I decided I'm not that crazy about.
Speaker 10: When you click on an email, you don't see the
Speaker 10: entire email. There's a little arrow on the right side
Speaker 10: of the email that you have to click on to
Speaker 10: expand the email to see the entire email. And that
Speaker 10: little arrow is.
Speaker 9: So teeny tiny that it's kind of hard to see.
Speaker 9: Like it's not in a bright color, it's like a
Speaker 9: light gray, so you know, you kind of have to
Speaker 9: really look to.
Speaker 2: Find it.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, as long as you know it's there. And
Speaker 1: do you think they're there's a connotation when people get
Speaker 1: your email from AOL dot com. Do you think people
Speaker 1: judge you for that?
Speaker 11: Probably?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I think so. They probably wonder why do
Speaker 9: you still have AOL?
Speaker 1: And why do you you what's your answer?
Speaker 9: That's a good question. I guess I'm just very loyal,
Speaker 9: all right. I don't really I don't really have a
Speaker 9: better answer than that. I just I just always liked it.
Speaker 1: I guess that's.
Speaker 9: Really the reason. I mean, you know, I do have Gmail,
Speaker 9: but I don't use it very often.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay for work, but I do have it. As
Speaker 1: of let's see here, As of twenty twenty one, one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy four million people still go to AOL.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean it's like users. Two point one million
Speaker 1: people still use AOL's dial up service. That was in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen.
Speaker 9: I didn't know they still have that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't thing. Yeah you remember that? And then
Speaker 1: one point five million US or pay for AOL and
Speaker 1: twenty one. Good news is you don't pay for it.
Speaker 1: It's free anyway. Thanks for calling in, Mom, or I guess.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being on the show. Appreciate it.
Speaker 9: Oh, thanks for having me. And I have one other
Speaker 9: thing to say.
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Speaker 1: All right, coming up here, we are going to talk
Speaker 1: fake cheese, lab grown muzzarella with food writer Jason Horn.
Speaker 1: And if you have a question, give me a call
Speaker 1: Triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two, four to one zero one. My
Speaker 1: name is Rich Dmiro. I'm having way too much fun
Speaker 1: hanging out out here with you talking technology. We got
Speaker 1: lots more to come. Stay tuned, all right, So I
Speaker 1: got a fun little conversation here. We're going to talk
Speaker 1: lab grown cheese and why would anyone want to eat that? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. We're going to discuss Jason Horn is
Speaker 1: joining me, food writer. His social is Messy Epicure. Jason,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 12: Thank you very much, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: So you and I were at an event together where
Speaker 1: we met Pizzeria Moza, and this was an event for
Speaker 1: a cheese called New Culture, And you want to take
Speaker 1: it from there? What is New Culture?
Speaker 7: Sure?
Speaker 12: Yeah, So basically they're kind of going a step further
Speaker 12: than the fake cheese that's on the market now and
Speaker 12: they're making real quote unquote fake cheese. So yeah, the
Speaker 12: idea is they have found a way to produce cassion,
Speaker 12: which is the protein that is in cow milk, that
Speaker 12: is in cheese without cows, using some kind of bacterial fermentation,
Speaker 12: and they make that into mazzarella.
Speaker 1: Now they've never mentioned that this is lab grown cheese.
Speaker 1: They don't use that terminology, but I do, And this
Speaker 1: is this lab grown? Or am I just being overly dramatic?
Speaker 12: I mean I suppose at some point the lab gets
Speaker 12: big enough, but.
Speaker 7: It's a factory.
Speaker 12: But yeah, they're sort of taking the individual components of
Speaker 12: cheese and mixing them up into a cheese that is
Speaker 12: not didn't come from cows, didn't come from milk.
Speaker 1: And so we tried this cheese at Pizzeria Moza, which
Speaker 1: is a pretty famous pizza place in Hollywood, California. It's
Speaker 1: been around forever. The chef is very famous, Nancy Silverton.
Speaker 1: So it's not like this is just some fly by
Speaker 1: night place that's trying this. This is like a real
Speaker 1: peace place.
Speaker 12: No, this is Yeah, this is a big deal. Like
Speaker 12: Nancy's Overton's a big name chef, she's big in the
Speaker 12: pizza world, and she's kind of, as I understand it,
Speaker 12: kind of their first like chef partner. She's on board
Speaker 12: with them. They're sort of jumping into this whole thing.
Speaker 1: Together now before we get into like how this tasted
Speaker 1: and kind of the night. This stuff is expensive, So
Speaker 1: the one thing they didn't really talk about was how
Speaker 1: expensive this cheese is to make. And when I press
Speaker 1: them on this, they said they want to be competitive,
Speaker 1: but they don't really have anything to say about it
Speaker 1: until next year. So is this cheese really expensive? Because
Speaker 1: Nancy joked when she was shredding it that don't drop
Speaker 1: a piece of it because it's like gold.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I mean I did hear someone said that, you know,
Speaker 12: the small group of us in the room, we're eating
Speaker 12: like thousands of dollars worth of cheese. So I mean,
Speaker 12: this is not something that's going to be on the market.
Speaker 12: They said it'll be in the restaurant in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 12: So like this is very early stage. I mean, I
Speaker 12: think it's probably incredibly expensive to make right now, but
Speaker 12: the goal is to make more of it cheaper and
Speaker 12: to become competitive with standard cheese eventually.
Speaker 1: And of course the question is why do this? And
Speaker 1: there's many reasons. The reason for new culture they say,
Speaker 1: it's all about sustainability. This cheese is different than plant
Speaker 1: based cheeses. It's not made with nuts, it melts, its stretches,
Speaker 1: it's vegan, it's lactose and cholesterol free. What do you
Speaker 1: make of this whole world of like these companies that
Speaker 1: are coming up with stuff because I report on this
Speaker 1: stuff a lot and people always give me a hard time,
Speaker 1: like it, just eat the real stuff. But is there
Speaker 1: a reason why these companies are making this stuff?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 12: I think so. I mean a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 12: don't want to eat dairy, don't want to eat meat.
Speaker 12: They're trying to for all sorts of different reasons. Sometimes
Speaker 12: it might be for dietary reasons. Sometimes it might be
Speaker 12: for sustainability reasons, you know, sometimes it might be for
Speaker 12: you know, cruelty to animal reasons, like you just don't
Speaker 12: want to eat animal products. There are a lot of
Speaker 12: reasons someone might want pay plant based mozzarella substitute. But
Speaker 12: the problem is, you know, if you're not eating cheese,
Speaker 12: you're not eating cheese, so like, you know, you sort
Speaker 12: of like you've given up mozzarella, Like you don't need
Speaker 12: an exact substitute of mozzarella. It kind of defeats the purpose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, that's that's always kind of the question
Speaker 1: I have. It's like if you're if you're not eating
Speaker 1: this stuff, it's like, are you really seeking out just
Speaker 1: a different version of it?
Speaker 12: Exactly? Yeah, I don't know that. Like there are people
Speaker 12: who eat cheese right now who would switch to non
Speaker 12: dairy if only there was a perfect mozzarella substitute. In
Speaker 12: a lot of ways, this and some of the lab
Speaker 12: grown meat, which I think we're going to get into
Speaker 12: a little bit, they're sort of solving a problem that
Speaker 12: doesn't really exist.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's before we get as a lab grown meat,
Speaker 1: which I was actually on LinkedIn earlier and I saw
Speaker 1: that just that does the eggs they're doing meat apparently,
Speaker 1: Oh well, yeah, so it's it's so anyway, Okay, So
Speaker 1: let's talk about the taste of this cheese. So what
Speaker 1: were your thoughts. We tried it on pizza, we tried
Speaker 1: it on some rice balls and in an eggplant sort
Speaker 1: of palm dish. What was your thought of this cheese?
Speaker 12: So, I mean, I feel like we only got to
Speaker 12: try kind of the cheese really on its own on
Speaker 12: the pizza. The first two it was sort of mixing
Speaker 12: with other stuff, so you couldn't really get a good
Speaker 12: impression what it tasted like. But on the pizza, I mean,
Speaker 12: the stretch was really good. I definitely have not seen
Speaker 12: a plant based cheese that like melts and stretches quite
Speaker 12: like that. So the texture was really good that the
Speaker 12: flavor was right. I mean we got to taste also
Speaker 12: like a few shreds of kind of the raw cheese,
Speaker 12: and it tasted like mozzarella cheese. There was something I
Speaker 12: don't know if it was just like in my head
Speaker 12: because I knew it wasn't it was you know what
Speaker 12: it was. There was something slightly off about the texture.
Speaker 12: I can't really describe exactly what it was. It was
Speaker 12: like it was almost two stretchy.
Speaker 1: It was almost well the actual texture. It was a
Speaker 1: little bit not as like bitey, I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's a word, but like it didn't like it was
Speaker 1: a little mushier, almost like a valveda, like if you
Speaker 1: if you sliced like a velveto.
Speaker 12: It was like it was like three Yeah, it was.
Speaker 12: It was softer, yes.
Speaker 1: Softer, yeah, and like almost like silkier. The other thing
Speaker 1: that I thought was that it wasn't as salty as
Speaker 1: regular cheese, which is easily fixable.
Speaker 12: Yeah, exactly, that's yeah. I mean part of it I
Speaker 12: think might have been just because they were trying to
Speaker 12: show off this cheese. They really like went back on
Speaker 12: the seasonings on the rest of this stuff. But yeah,
Speaker 12: I mean that you're right about that. But that's that's
Speaker 12: such an easy problem to fix. It didn't even stick
Speaker 12: in my mind.
Speaker 1: So you've been covering food for a long time. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously there's a need for this stuff, and I like
Speaker 1: the fact that this is cholesterol free, lactose free, you know, vegan.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are people that are seeking this type
Speaker 1: of thing out, But why do we see such an emphasis.
Speaker 1: I mean the fake meats, the fake cheeses, I mean
Speaker 1: basically fake everything and is it fake or is it real?
Speaker 12: Well, yeah, it's the thing that New Culture said was
Speaker 12: they're calling themselves the first real vegan cheese because it
Speaker 12: has the real protein that's in cheese. I mean, it's
Speaker 12: silly to use the terms fake and real with this.
Speaker 12: I like, you know, vegan cheese for example, or plant
Speaker 12: based cheese a little less because plant based is also
Speaker 12: kind of you know, iffy. But like, you know, vegan
Speaker 12: cheese makes sense because there's no animal products in it.
Speaker 12: That's kind of the point of it. I mean I
Speaker 12: think that like there are reasons to look for this stuff.
Speaker 12: There are you know, environmental reasons. Cows are pretty bad
Speaker 12: for the environment. I just at this point, this cheese
Speaker 12: is probably just as bad for the environment. Like when
Speaker 12: we had that dinner, that was you know, months of work.
Speaker 12: It had been presumably flown in from northern California. They
Speaker 12: held all the executives along with it. So like they've
Speaker 12: got a long way to go before they're making it,
Speaker 12: you know, at a high in a volume that it's
Speaker 12: going to make any difference.
Speaker 1: Ooh and one thing that I kind of led my
Speaker 1: review with for KTLA is that I had to sign
Speaker 1: a waiver to eat this cheese.
Speaker 12: Yes, indeed, that was the first time I've ever had
Speaker 12: to sign a waiver to taste of food for sure.
Speaker 1: Right, that was a little concerning. And I said to
Speaker 1: the CEO, Matt Gibson, who was standing there, a CEO
Speaker 1: of New Culture, and I said, Matt, is this stuff safe?
Speaker 1: I mean, what am I eating here that I have
Speaker 1: to sign a waiver. I've never had to sign a
Speaker 1: waiver to eat something.
Speaker 12: That is true. I feel like it was mostly to
Speaker 12: protect the restaurant, because you know, the restaurant wasn't exactly
Speaker 12: serving the cheese. Yeah, it's a weird situation because it
Speaker 12: is kind of this like it's an experimental food that
Speaker 12: you know, we in theory something in there could have
Speaker 12: made a sick but like all the parts of it
Speaker 12: are things that are in other foods, Like it's just
Speaker 12: it's mixing existing foods together in a new way.
Speaker 1: I just left there in a cold sweat. I woke
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night thinking, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: there's going to be something in that cheese that is
Speaker 1: like a spore or some sort of like thing that
Speaker 1: will never come out of my body and I'm going
Speaker 1: to die from eating this cheese. I didn't, thankfully, but
Speaker 1: that's what I woke up thinking in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night.
Speaker 12: Right, Yeah, I don't think they're using, you know, some
Speaker 12: kind of alien microbe that fell from space and their cheese.
Speaker 12: But they were pretty cagey about the fermentation process and
Speaker 12: what exactly makes the case.
Speaker 1: They were exactly all right, We're going to leave it there.
Speaker 1: Food writer Jason Horn, you are at messy epicure on
Speaker 1: social media. What kind of stuff do you cover your
Speaker 1: in your day to day.
Speaker 12: Kind of everything food and drink and cooking, so you know,
Speaker 12: everything from I was writing about the best Indian cookbooks
Speaker 12: this week and the best cheap blood because last week.
Speaker 12: So really really everything food and drink related. I've covered
Speaker 12: it all.
Speaker 1: Do you remember what that You remember what the top
Speaker 1: recommendation was for the cheap vodka just asking for a friend.
Speaker 12: Oh my god, it was I think it was Taca Taca.
Speaker 1: Okay, well you heard it here first. Sounds like something
Speaker 1: I might have had in college.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 1: Jason Horn, thanks so much for joining me today. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thanks rich all right, take care one. All right.
Speaker 1: If you want more information about anything I mentioned here again,
Speaker 1: go to the website. Rich on tech dot TV coming
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Speaker 1: So that's exciting, and I'm gonna talk about this. Where
Speaker 1: is it here? I've got the top text scams. These
Speaker 1: are interesting. So you always get these text scams, you know,
Speaker 1: these little text messages that are trying to scam you.
Speaker 1: I always wondered what's the end game. I've got one, two, three, four,
Speaker 1: five of the top text message scams. I'm gonna explain
Speaker 1: what they're trying to get out of you when they
Speaker 1: text you that package is lost or whatever they say.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Rich Marshall is in Recita, California. Marshall,
Speaker 1: you're on with Writch Hi fell in New Jersey and
Speaker 1: Oh what's up New Jersey?
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, it's been a lot of time. I haven't
Speaker 11: seen you in the Amazon press on Topanga recently. I
Speaker 11: ran you have the first that I met with the
Speaker 11: first tour, first opening.
Speaker 1: Oh was that you?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I remember, yes, Oh that was so long ago.
Speaker 11: Yeah. Anyways, that phone that I had, that no Tony
Speaker 11: Ultra that I had, I was that Daughter stadium and
Speaker 11: I think I put on top of my buddy's car
Speaker 11: and drove off without getting it, and I lost it.
Speaker 11: And I'm not too right because I didn't back anything up,
Speaker 11: including my contact, my notes, and a lot of other
Speaker 11: stuff that I want to almost kill myself for doing, Okay,
Speaker 11: And I was hoping that somehow, you know, somehow miracle
Speaker 11: was able to be done, somehow, that if somebody in fact,
Speaker 11: somehow rechieved the phone and got it somehow, that you
Speaker 11: know that I am numbers or whatever. All those numbers
Speaker 11: that are inside the phone like that they're basic, like
Speaker 11: a thumbprint or something like that. If they ever tried
Speaker 11: to reactivate it again, then something he would be able
Speaker 11: to be found and retrieved because it would be working
Speaker 11: on the same numbers somehow. Is there some hope that
Speaker 11: there's somebody trying to find it at all?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So number one, have you checked out Google Find Mine?
Speaker 11: I think somebody tried to do it in the store.
Speaker 11: I don't know if they did it and they couldn't
Speaker 11: find it at the time. I don't know, Okay, I
Speaker 11: think they did that and they couldn't find it if
Speaker 11: I recall correctly. Forgive me, but I'm not tech savvy,
Speaker 11: so I don't know how to do a lot of
Speaker 11: stuff at all.
Speaker 1: No, that's fine. So I think the first thing to
Speaker 1: do is, do you have access to a computer outside
Speaker 1: of the phone. No, don't in the library, okay, so
Speaker 1: go to the library. Do you know your Google login information?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, So go to Google dot com slash slash Android
Speaker 1: slash find. Okay, that's the first thing you need to do.
Speaker 1: And so when you go there, you'll get You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to log into your Google account and you will
Speaker 1: see a list of your devices. If it's only this
Speaker 1: one device, you should see it on there. You click
Speaker 1: that device, it will tell you.
Speaker 11: I had a bunch more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've lost more than one device, Marshall.
Speaker 11: So over the past ten fifteen years, I've lost four devices.
Speaker 1: Oh my okay. We got to come up with a
Speaker 1: new solution for you not to lose these things. Have
Speaker 1: you ever heard of a leash that you know, those
Speaker 1: chains that people use for their wallets. You can get
Speaker 1: one of those phone.
Speaker 11: I've resorted to put it on lanard on my phone, okay,
Speaker 11: to have a big lantern hanging off with so I
Speaker 11: try to wrap it around my wrist. I still left
Speaker 11: it behind a couple of times, but I'm getting much
Speaker 11: better at it now.
Speaker 1: Okay, So notwithstanding, you're going to find when you log
Speaker 1: into here, you're going to find a lot of devices
Speaker 1: that you've left in places over the years. But once
Speaker 1: you go to this website, Google Find my device, you
Speaker 1: can tap the device and there's a couple of things
Speaker 1: you can do. You can play a sound that's not
Speaker 1: really going to help unless the device is nearby. You
Speaker 1: can secure the device and that will actually lock the
Speaker 1: device and sign out of your Google account. That's given
Speaker 1: this device has Internet still it may not, and then
Speaker 1: you could erase the device. So it'll also show you
Speaker 1: where that device is on a map, so you can
Speaker 1: see if you know the last known location of that device. Now,
Speaker 1: if this flew off of someone's car in a parking lot,
Speaker 1: chances are you're probably not going to retrieve it. But
Speaker 1: I will tell you my father left his phone on
Speaker 1: top of his car and it did fly off, and
Speaker 1: I showed him how to do this, and he did
Speaker 1: see where it was located on the side of the freeway,
Speaker 1: and he was adventure and adventurous enough to go back
Speaker 1: and he did retrieve his phone and he found it
Speaker 1: and it was great. The phone was ruined. But the
Speaker 1: best part was the case was just fine. And when
Speaker 1: he got his new phone, he put the old case
Speaker 1: that had been run over one hundred times on the
Speaker 1: freeway on his new phone. So it goes to show
Speaker 1: you the dedication he had to that case, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, I recommended to him, and that's what saved
Speaker 1: the whole situation. Anyway, that's what you need to do.
Speaker 1: Look for this device on your Google Find my see
Speaker 1: if it's on there. Now when it comes to your
Speaker 1: information on this device, there's a couple places to look.
Speaker 1: Google is really good about backing up devices, even if
Speaker 1: you don't think they're backed up. And so the first
Speaker 1: place I want you to look for your contacts is
Speaker 1: contacts dot Google dot com, and you may find that
Speaker 1: all of your contacts are miraculously in there. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: bet they are. And then the other place I want
Speaker 1: you to look is one dot Google dot com. This
Speaker 1: is spelled out the word one O N E dot
Speaker 1: Google dot com. And inside there you can tap storage
Speaker 1: and then you can go into it says your device backups,
Speaker 1: and I can see I've got my Google Pixel, my
Speaker 1: Galaxy S twenty three Ultra, and it will tell me
Speaker 1: backed up nineteen hours ago, and then you can see
Speaker 1: details and lo and behold, I can see photos and videos,
Speaker 1: SMS messages, call history, device settings, and then eighty one apps.
Speaker 1: Now the notes is going to depend on the apps,
Speaker 1: the app you use for notes. If you use Google Keep,
Speaker 1: you can go to keep dot Google dot com and
Speaker 1: check for your notes in there. They may be in there.
Speaker 1: If this was a Samsung, you may be using Samsung's
Speaker 1: proprietary notes program, which is sometimes linked to one note
Speaker 1: on Microsoft if you decided to do that. Other times
Speaker 1: it's not, but not all hope is lost here, Marshall.
Speaker 1: I think that that's Those are the places to look
Speaker 1: for your phone and see if you know, if you
Speaker 1: can locate it and then locate the information, then you
Speaker 1: got to think about getting a new phone. I would
Speaker 1: recommend the Pixel seven A as a new phone. If
Speaker 1: you want to stay with the Android. I know you
Speaker 1: had the note. I think that the Android seven A
Speaker 1: will be nice because it's a good price. And maybe
Speaker 1: this time think about insurance on your phone, because oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, I can't believe you lost so many phones.
Speaker 1: Speak a phone, so I'm gonna give you one more
Speaker 1: website and remember I put all this stuff on the
Speaker 1: show notes. This is show number twenty four, So if
Speaker 1: you go to rich on Tech dot tv you can
Speaker 1: see that. But this is a listener. Jim sent me
Speaker 1: this website. It's Broadbandmap dot FCC dot gov. And this
Speaker 1: is a cool website that will show you the high
Speaker 1: speed internet providers at your home. So this is the
Speaker 1: government makes this map so that they can figure out
Speaker 1: where to put federal funding for better internet in different places.
Speaker 1: They've got like forty two billion dollars to spend. But
Speaker 1: for you as a regular person, it's just a cool
Speaker 1: way to see what internet service providers are servicing your home.
Speaker 1: So if you want to switch, or you want to
Speaker 1: see if you can get a better deal, or you're
Speaker 1: just curious, broadbandmap dot FCC dot gov. You can pop
Speaker 1: that in to the website. Then you put in your
Speaker 1: address and it will show you all the different providers
Speaker 1: that service your home. Can you believe it? That's going
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Speaker 1: I want to get to the top tech scams text,
Speaker 1: I keep saying tech text of twenty twenty two. But
Speaker 1: first let's go to uh Alice in Yucca Valley. Alice,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show.
Speaker 7: Thank you, excuse me.
Speaker 13: So I am really annoyed with Windows ten. I have
Speaker 13: a Windows ten machine, which I hate to use. I'm
Speaker 13: still using my old Windows Pro seven pro because I
Speaker 13: can organize my files the way I want to organize
Speaker 13: them in a folder, and I can organize my folders
Speaker 13: where I want to organize them. And I'm a super
Speaker 13: organized person, and so I like to be able to
Speaker 13: put stuff the way I want to, so I can.
Speaker 13: I don't want to do it alphabetically, and it really
Speaker 13: doesn't allow me. Windows ten does not allow me to
Speaker 13: sort it anyway I want. If there used to be
Speaker 13: work around, even with Windows seven, didn't want you to
Speaker 13: do it, but you could, you could do work There
Speaker 13: was a workaround, And so what can I do Windows ten?
Speaker 13: So I can sort the files the way I can
Speaker 13: put manually put something on top if I wanted it
Speaker 13: to be on top.
Speaker 1: M oh, I see what you're saying. You want to
Speaker 1: just move a file to the top and not put
Speaker 1: it in any specific like alphabetical or anything like that. Right, Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a way to manually do that.
Speaker 13: Don't tell me that.
Speaker 1: There may be a helper app But I mean you've
Speaker 1: gone through, and you've gone through and right clicked and
Speaker 1: saw the different ways you can organize things, and none
Speaker 1: of those kind of those ways you want to use.
Speaker 13: No, I mean, there's probably forty of them, but none
Speaker 13: of there's some really obscure ones.
Speaker 1: I mean those they are, yeah, but you want to
Speaker 1: do like you want this file up at the top,
Speaker 1: you want this file up at the bottom. So I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what I do, And this is kind of
Speaker 1: a little hack, but you know, I do the same thing,
Speaker 1: but because sometimes I want some things to stay at
Speaker 1: the top, I want some things to stay at the bottom.
Speaker 1: So what I do, and I know this is I'm
Speaker 1: sure someone listening is going to have a much better
Speaker 1: solution than this. But what I do is I just
Speaker 1: put like a one dash at the top file that
Speaker 1: I want, and then for the bottom files I put
Speaker 1: zzs and so those will always stick to the bottom.
Speaker 1: And then I do alphabetical. But that is a total, Like,
Speaker 1: I can't really recommend that that's the best way to
Speaker 1: do it, but that's what I do. And it's funny
Speaker 1: you say this because I was just in my drop
Speaker 1: box the other day and I was sorting by different ways,
Speaker 1: you know, date modified, and you know, size and kind
Speaker 1: and all these different things you can sort buy. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I literally just put
Speaker 1: a ZZ against the files, you know, the file name
Speaker 1: or the file folder that I want to stick to
Speaker 1: the bottom, and a one dash at the top or
Speaker 1: an a whatever whatever works. But that's the only thing.
Speaker 1: There may be a third party app, like a helper
Speaker 1: app for Windows. I don't know of that right now.
Speaker 1: Maybe someone that's listening can email and explain that and
Speaker 1: then we can include it in the feedback segment later
Speaker 1: in the show. Hello at richontech dot TV. But I
Speaker 1: know that's not the answer. But you want to keep
Speaker 1: these in a specific way, that's what it sounds like.
Speaker 13: Huh, Yeah, that's true. I mean if I do a one,
Speaker 13: then what if I come along with something else that
Speaker 13: I want to be one? Then I have to renumber
Speaker 13: the other.
Speaker 7: One that's two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not a perfect system, but you know it
Speaker 1: does work for me. I mean, believe me, that is
Speaker 1: what I use and that's the only way that I
Speaker 1: know of doing it. There may be, like I said,
Speaker 1: you know, you do get these built in options to
Speaker 1: sort by, but you're not. The custom sorting is something
Speaker 1: that I just don't see on that I've seen on
Speaker 1: either machine, Mac or Windows. But I have a feeling
Speaker 1: there could be a helper app that may do it,
Speaker 1: but I have not come across that app. But what
Speaker 1: are you trying to organize? Just do you like things
Speaker 1: to be in a certain way?
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know I have.
Speaker 13: I have I'm a scientist. I have lots of different
Speaker 13: folders for different projects and and I want, you know,
Speaker 13: I'd like to have like the current thing that we're
Speaker 13: working on, like at the top, or and maybe something
Speaker 13: else comes in that okay, that really kind.
Speaker 7: Of needs you up at the top.
Speaker 13: Two And and you know I don't care about I mean,
Speaker 13: other stuff can just be at the bottom because I
Speaker 13: haven't really I mean, it's not stuff. I can just
Speaker 13: say it can be alphabetical or date modified or whatever.
Speaker 13: But and I don't really care because I never look
Speaker 13: at it. But it's it's yeah, it's it's all the
Speaker 13: projects I work on. It's like, I want to be
Speaker 13: able to organize it the way I want. It's just
Speaker 13: like you would organize your files in your in your office,
Speaker 13: you know, the way you want them organized, so you.
Speaker 1: Can get yeah, I mean it's yeah, if you want
Speaker 1: something in the front, something in the back. The only
Speaker 1: other thing I would say that you could do to
Speaker 1: to maybe is you know the hack that I mentioned.
Speaker 1: The only other thing I would say is you can
Speaker 1: pin a file for quick access. So that's on the
Speaker 1: left hand side. We'll have like their different files, like
Speaker 1: if you and I do that as well. So I
Speaker 1: have a couple of file folders that I just keep
Speaker 1: on my I mean, I'm using a Mac, but it's
Speaker 1: on the left hand side. It's my favorites. I just
Speaker 1: keep those in there. It's not a perfect system, believe me.
Speaker 1: I think that there are definitely some divisions between what
Speaker 1: we do in real life and what we can do
Speaker 1: on the computer with the organization of files. And believe me,
Speaker 1: you're way ahead of ninety nine percent of people who
Speaker 1: have just given up on any sort of organization whatsoever.
Speaker 1: So the fact that you want to organize these things, Alice,
Speaker 1: is great, but I don't have the answer for you
Speaker 1: on how to do that. The best way. The only
Speaker 1: other thing I can think of is maybe if you
Speaker 1: don't have your if you have your view instead of
Speaker 1: a list, maybe you can just have your stuff where
Speaker 1: it's just kind of in a folder. But it's still
Speaker 1: going to kind of default some sort of grid, I believe.
Speaker 1: But we'll look for a helper app and we'll see
Speaker 1: if someone can email that and get that to us,
Speaker 1: because that would be really helpful. All right, let me
Speaker 1: tell you about some of these scams I've been promising you.
Speaker 1: The top text scams. So Number one, this is from
Speaker 1: the FTC, by the way, to three hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: million dollars lost to text scams in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: These are text messages coming to phones median loss one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, and these things are doubling and tripling year
Speaker 1: over year, so more people are getting scammed by text messages,
Speaker 1: so that's why more scam artists are using them. Number
Speaker 1: one copycat bank fraud prevention alerts. These are really tricky,
Speaker 1: so you might get a fake number to call about
Speaker 1: suspicious activity on your account, or they might say hey,
Speaker 1: reply yes or no. To verify this transaction that, of
Speaker 1: course you either did or didn't make, or you don't
Speaker 1: really understand if you made it. Once you reply, you'll
Speaker 1: get a call from the fake fraud department. And people
Speaker 1: thought it was their bank helping them out. Instead money
Speaker 1: was transferred out of their account. This scams median loss
Speaker 1: was three thousand dollars last year. That's a lot. Number
Speaker 1: Two bogus little gifts that can cost you. You might
Speaker 1: get a text about a free gift, a reward, or
Speaker 1: a prize that looks like it comes from a company
Speaker 1: you work with, Walmart or who knows next thing you know.
Speaker 1: You click the link and you pay a small shipping fee,
Speaker 1: and you just gave your credit card number to a
Speaker 1: scam artist. Now you have fraudulent charges. Number three fake
Speaker 1: package delivery problems. This is when this is when you
Speaker 1: get all the time. I posted about this one on
Speaker 1: my Twitter the other day. It was a text pretending
Speaker 1: to be from the USPS. They said, hey, confirm this.
Speaker 1: It could be from FedEx, could be from UPS says
Speaker 1: there's a problem with delivery. They link to a website
Speaker 1: that looks real. I don't think it looks real, but
Speaker 1: it's not real you know that, and then you have
Speaker 1: to pay a small redelivery fee, which, come on, there's
Speaker 1: no such thing. Many people report that that is a
Speaker 1: trick to get your credit card number. These scam artists
Speaker 1: also try to get your personal information, including sold security number.
Speaker 1: Why would USPS, FedEx or ups need my social Security number?
Speaker 1: They do not. Where's our buzzer? Phony job offers promises
Speaker 1: of easy money for mystery shopping at stores like Whole
Speaker 1: Foods in Walmart. This is a favorite scam job. Scammers
Speaker 1: also target people who post their resumes to employment websites
Speaker 1: like Indeed, in most of these reports, scammers use checks
Speaker 1: that seem to clear but turn out to be fake,
Speaker 1: or trick people into sending them money. All of these
Speaker 1: things are basically to trick you and to get you
Speaker 1: to somehow give over your personal information or get money
Speaker 1: into their hands. And finally, the not really from Amazon
Speaker 1: security alerts. These look like a fake bank text, but
Speaker 1: this is from Amazon. It's an automated fraud prevention method.
Speaker 1: A message. It's saying you need to verify this big
Speaker 1: ticket order that you made, but of course you didn't
Speaker 1: make it. So you call the number in the text,
Speaker 1: you get an Amazon rep who's phony. They're going to
Speaker 1: fix your account. You trust them, and next thing you know,
Speaker 1: you give theF You give the rep remote access to
Speaker 1: your phone so they can fix things or get your
Speaker 1: refund for you. The rep says a couple of zeros
Speaker 1: were accidentally added to the refund, so they need you
Speaker 1: to return that money to them, often by buying gift
Speaker 1: cards or giving them the gift cards pin numbers. Do
Speaker 1: not send gift cards over the phone. You go to
Speaker 1: any store nowadays, Target, Walmart, Big signed by the gift
Speaker 1: cards do not give these gift cards to people for cash.
Speaker 1: Like I had someone that emailed me and said, Hey,
Speaker 1: I've got a friend that's really sick and I can't
Speaker 1: make it to buy them an Apple gift card, can't
Speaker 1: get to the store. Can you buy me one and
Speaker 1: send me a picture of the back And said, really,
Speaker 1: you could just go online and buy this thing, buddy.
Speaker 1: And we went back and forth before they realized that
Speaker 1: I was not going to play their game. So what
Speaker 1: can you do? Report these scam text? You can forward
Speaker 1: it to seven seven two six, which spells out spam.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that really does anything, but they
Speaker 1: say it helps re wireless provider spot and block similar messages.
Speaker 1: You can also report using Apple on I messages or
Speaker 1: Google messages, or you can report it to the fc
Speaker 1: FTC at Reportfraud dot FTC dot gov. And again again again.
Speaker 1: Do not click on links in unexpected texts. They will
Speaker 1: try to get your money or your personal information. And
Speaker 1: you can also filter unwanted texts. The problem with that
Speaker 1: is that it does catch some texts that you may want,
Speaker 1: so I don't turn that feature on. I think it's
Speaker 1: better to just be aware of this stuff and that
Speaker 1: way you don't get caught, all right. Coming up on
Speaker 1: the show, we've got Justin Eastzer. He is the founder
Speaker 1: and host of diabet Tech. He's going to join us
Speaker 1: to talk diabetes Tech plus more of your calls at
Speaker 1: triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two, four to one zero one. You're
Speaker 1: hanging out with me, Rich DeMuro, you are listening to
Speaker 1: Rich on tech. Let's go to Eric in Wanna wak Co, Mexico. Eric,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 7: Hey, Rich, thanks for taking my call. My issue is
Speaker 7: with my Yahoo mail. This started years ago and the
Speaker 7: issue is I cannot take my file like I cannot
Speaker 7: take emails that are junk from my inbox and dump
Speaker 7: them into my junk file. For some reason, that option
Speaker 7: is no longer available. I did talk to Yahoo about this,
Speaker 7: and they didn't really give me a solution or anything
Speaker 7: that I could kind of figure out. I can take
Speaker 7: those junk emails and dump them manually into say iCloud
Speaker 7: or g email. But it's, you know, it's it's it's
Speaker 7: it's just a pain of me. We're in and and
Speaker 7: the option that I get rich is, you know, and
Speaker 7: I'm on my phone obviously, and it's the same thing
Speaker 7: with my iPad is when I slide the email over
Speaker 7: to dump it into my junk file, that option is
Speaker 7: like dimmed out there. There's even like a little X
Speaker 7: on it, like it just doesn't it's, you know, it's
Speaker 7: like it's not there. I hope I'm making sense.
Speaker 1: So these are all you're you're basically trying to get
Speaker 1: the spam email gone from your inbox.
Speaker 7: Correct. That is correct, And and I'm trying to train.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to train the system, which should be trainable.
Speaker 1: Two to a market as spam and to say don't
Speaker 1: don't let these through again.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 1: When you try it. When you try to do that,
Speaker 1: you're not getting that option.
Speaker 7: No, and and and and to the extent that I'm
Speaker 7: putting it into Gmail or iCloud, well yeah, those those
Speaker 7: systems recognize it, but not my my Yahoo, and my
Speaker 7: Yahoo is my go to pretty much for everything.
Speaker 1: Are you Are you running any sort of AD blocker
Speaker 1: on your phone or on your desktop?
Speaker 7: You know, I I don't think I am not an
Speaker 7: AD blocker.
Speaker 1: No, that could be interfering with it. So an AD
Speaker 1: blocker could be interfering. Have you tried deleting the Yahoo
Speaker 1: app and reinstalling it? This is only happening on your phone.
Speaker 1: Does the same thing happen on the desktop?
Speaker 7: You know, I looked at the desktop this morning before
Speaker 7: I called you in, and I think I'm able to
Speaker 7: easily dump the files into junk. However, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 7: but they're still coming through junk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's I mean. Look, it's tough to stop
Speaker 1: all the spams, especially on a Yahoo or an Ay.
Speaker 7: You know that too, Rich? Is that my iPad, my
Speaker 7: cell phone, and my desktop are all sync right now,
Speaker 7: and I'm using my iPad my cell phone almost ninety
Speaker 7: nine percent of the time.
Speaker 1: Okay, And are you using one more question or using
Speaker 1: the native app or using an app that's built into
Speaker 1: the iPad or the iPhone, like did you did you
Speaker 1: download the Yahoo app? Or are you using like the mail.
Speaker 7: App it's Yahoo Mail, Like I'm pretty sure, Rich.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right? So what I would do is I
Speaker 1: would I would just try uninstalling the app. If it's
Speaker 1: working on the desktop, it sounds like the feature is there,
Speaker 1: it's just not properly working on your phone. So if
Speaker 1: this is something that was not working across all of
Speaker 1: your different devices, I would say it's a Yahoo issue.
Speaker 1: But it sounds like it's something on your device. It's
Speaker 1: a device specific thing. So I would uninstall the Yahoo app,
Speaker 1: reinstall it, and also make sure that you're using the
Speaker 1: Yahoo app. If you're using a third party mail app,
Speaker 1: it may not have the same functionality that the Yahoo
Speaker 1: app does on the desktop. So look in the app
Speaker 1: store for the Yahoo Email app. Install that. See if
Speaker 1: it still doesn't let you spend sent a spam. I
Speaker 1: think that should cover it.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 1: Triple A Rich one on one you're listening to Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech joining me now is justin east Zer, a
Speaker 1: YouTuber that specializes in Diabetes, Technology and Gadgets formerly of
Speaker 1: CNA Justin. Thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 2: Of course, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: So first, let's start with your journey here to doing
Speaker 1: your own thing. You were at CENE, I know they
Speaker 1: had a lot of turnover there and things changed, so
Speaker 1: you made the decision to go off on your own.
Speaker 1: How did you feel on that sort of thought process,
Speaker 1: like what made you want to do that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it felt kind of natural because prior to
Speaker 2: see I was actually a tech YouTuber reviewing all types
Speaker 2: of tech products from the smart home products, VRAR and
Speaker 2: just emerging tech and then Seena. It was kind of
Speaker 2: like this dream job. I had something on my list
Speaker 2: that I always wanted to check off, and I'm so
Speaker 2: grateful that I got to like work there, and I
Speaker 2: worked with some incredible people, But it kind of felt
Speaker 2: like just the industry, the media industry and teenut were
Speaker 2: kind of going in a direction that I didn't want
Speaker 2: to go in, and I all so happened to be
Speaker 2: diagnosed with diabetes a couple of years ago and I
Speaker 2: was just putting up videos online with that and it
Speaker 2: was they were helping people and I kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: found that my specialty in tech and this new life
Speaker 2: experience could be something I could do full time. So
Speaker 2: it kind of just felt like this natural step to
Speaker 2: kind of take my career and it's been incredible.
Speaker 1: And you you do the YouTube videos. Can you tell
Speaker 1: me how to say this again? Because I heard you
Speaker 1: say it's diabet tech, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm so glad you said it, like I'm so
Speaker 2: glad you said it correctly.
Speaker 1: It's tricky because it looks you know, it looks like
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different ways you can say it,
Speaker 1: but it's really look I mean, the internet is all
Speaker 1: about sort of these niche categories and diabetes. When you
Speaker 1: were diagnosed, I mean that was only a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, you said, yeah.
Speaker 2: And the crazy part about it, rich was that I
Speaker 2: was diagnosed on TikTok. I was posting videos on TikTok
Speaker 2: of what my doctor at the time had me doing
Speaker 2: and symptoms I was experiencing. I was misdiagnosed with type
Speaker 2: two diabetes at the time, which happened a lot for
Speaker 2: people that are older in age. I was thirty years.
Speaker 7: Old at the time and very unheard of or very rare.
Speaker 2: For people to be diagnosed with Type one. That late anyway,
Speaker 2: my doctor said I had Type two. I was going
Speaker 2: with the flow.
Speaker 7: I lost twenty pounds.
Speaker 2: I was so sick. I was posting these videos on TikTok,
Speaker 2: and the diabetes community found my videos and they were like,
Speaker 2: you need to get an endochronologist, you have type one,
Speaker 2: You need to get an influent pump, you need to
Speaker 2: get a continuous gluecost monitor. And I owe my life
Speaker 2: and my health to this community. You know, they basically
Speaker 2: prevented me from going into diabetic ketoacidosis and like going
Speaker 2: to the hospital, Like it was incredible.
Speaker 7: Wow, that is that kind of inspired me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to kind of help other people. So tell me
Speaker 1: about some of the tech that you use for your diabetes.
Speaker 1: I imagine that when you were diagnosed, you and as
Speaker 1: a tech person, you probably wanted to turn to the best,
Speaker 1: and you probably did a lot of research in the
Speaker 1: products that you would personally use.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, I mean I wouldn't be where I am
Speaker 2: today also with like the incredible help that I received
Speaker 2: for my support system, my anthrochronologist and my diabetes educator.
Speaker 2: But yeah, like naturally, like I wanted to have the
Speaker 2: best tech available, and I feel like a spoiled person
Speaker 2: with diabetes, like I came in at a time when
Speaker 2: there's so much incredible technology available. So on a daily basis,
Speaker 2: I'm wearing both an influent pump and a continuous glucost monitor.
Speaker 2: My infulent pump, the one I wear is a tube
Speaker 2: less one, so it's it's kind of like a path
Speaker 2: that I put on that. You know, other people may
Speaker 2: have seen ones that look like beefers and have a
Speaker 2: tube connected to people, So this one's kind of its
Speaker 2: own thing that I put on tube bliss, and that
Speaker 2: gives me insulin throughout the day. And then it also
Speaker 2: so I have to program using my phone when I'm eating,
Speaker 2: So anytime I'm going to eat throughout the day, I
Speaker 2: let it know because I also need to get inflint
Speaker 2: for those meals. The other device I wear is a
Speaker 2: continuous glue coost monitor. So what that does is it
Speaker 2: measures my blood sugar levels every five minutes so that
Speaker 2: I don't have to use one of those finger pricking devices.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes I'll have to use that, but very rare.
Speaker 7: Now I just have this device pump.
Speaker 2: Now. The best part about these two devices, and this
Speaker 2: is something relatively new over the last few years introduced.
Speaker 2: I'm using what's called a closed loop infulin delivery system.
Speaker 2: Both of these devices talk to each other, and so
Speaker 2: the continuous glue coost monitor tells my inflant pump, Hey,
Speaker 2: this is his blood sugar now, and then this is
Speaker 2: where it was five minutes ago, and then this is
Speaker 2: where we think it's going to go. And so based
Speaker 2: off of my trajectory and my current blood sugar number,
Speaker 2: the insulin pump is able to make these decisions every
Speaker 2: five minutes so that I can so it can prevent
Speaker 2: me from getting highs and lows and kind of curb those.
Speaker 1: Wow, it sounds like it's much more automated than past systems.
Speaker 1: I'm curious where do we stand. I often get the
Speaker 1: question about watches and things. Where do we stand on
Speaker 1: sort of the watch that can tell what your levels
Speaker 1: are through the skin without any sort of invasive nature.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So there have been a lot of rumors about
Speaker 2: that technology over the years. Specifically, I think more recently,
Speaker 2: Mark German, like a huge person that reports, you know him,
Speaker 2: reports on Apple technology. I'm sure you talked about him
Speaker 2: on the show, but he reported that Apple's working on
Speaker 2: a device that's non invasive, that can re bloodigger levels
Speaker 2: using like lasers that go through your skin from what
Speaker 2: I hear, especially because I reported it on that day
Speaker 2: that that news came out, maybe a couple months ago,
Speaker 2: and I actually had some people from the diabetes community
Speaker 2: respond saying, like, we've been hearing about this for years.
Speaker 2: It's so far off. We haven't seen any prototypes, Like
Speaker 2: people are very skeptical about the technology. I honestly like
Speaker 2: with the device I'm wearing, this continuous glucose monitor is
Speaker 2: so small that like, I don't even really feel the
Speaker 2: need for this technology, especially since it's since it's tied
Speaker 2: to like a watch I have to always wear, and
Speaker 2: I don't know, sometimes I don't want to wear watch
Speaker 2: it I don't, but I don't mind having this patch on.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we don't know when this is coming Apple
Speaker 2: technically they're saying Apple's working on one, but who knows
Speaker 2: when will see that, and even if they do, who
Speaker 2: knows if if that will be like a legitimate like
Speaker 2: medical device or if they'll you know, a lot of
Speaker 2: Apple's features with their like ECG and other features, like
Speaker 2: they're like, don't quote like we're not doctors. This is
Speaker 2: not a medical device, so it's unclear if it would
Speaker 2: even be able to be used with like a system
Speaker 2: like what I use.
Speaker 1: What's your advice for someone who was recently diagnosed.
Speaker 7: There's community out there and you're not alone.
Speaker 2: I think that that's one of the biggest impacts I've
Speaker 2: seen and my content has on other people is that
Speaker 2: And even like when I was diagnosed, I felt really alone, scared.
Speaker 2: There was all this information I needed to soak in,
Speaker 2: like it takes a year to get diabetes down, and
Speaker 2: that's it's like totally normal to feel overwhelmed. But there
Speaker 2: are people on hand and ready, myself included, who are
Speaker 2: out there with like incredible knowledge to share and also
Speaker 2: like a great community that like are commenting on these
Speaker 2: posts and will answer your questions. My dms are open.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of other diabetes influencers. They're d
Speaker 2: ms are open, Like, like, don't hesitate to reach out
Speaker 2: to these people, because we get it. This is the
Speaker 2: club no one wanted to join. And I think, like,
Speaker 2: we're happy to offer this information because we know how
Speaker 2: it felt kind of to not have it at first.
Speaker 1: So tell me how to find you online. Tell folks
Speaker 1: how to find you online and what you cover and
Speaker 1: what's you know, the sort of the best ways to
Speaker 1: follow you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so for like short clips and short information stuff,
Speaker 2: I'm on Instagram and TikTok at dia be underscore tech,
Speaker 2: diabet Tech. I'm also on YouTube for much longer form
Speaker 2: content also diabet tech no underscore for that. And then
Speaker 2: I also have a podcast where I interview CEOs from
Speaker 2: different pump companies, different executives, and I also talk to
Speaker 2: diabetes educators about management and kIPS for people. That's called
Speaker 2: the diabet Tech Podcast. You can find it on all
Speaker 2: major podcast platforms as well as in video form on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Awesome, justin Itatzer, thanks so much for joining me today
Speaker 1: and thanks for you got in touch with me a
Speaker 1: long time ago, way before CNET, and then when you
Speaker 1: saw me at CES you said, Rich, I didn't know
Speaker 1: that you worked at c NEET, and sure enough, yes,
Speaker 1: I worked at CNET as well. So we grow a
Speaker 1: we're part of a growing list of alumni at CNET.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of fun.
Speaker 7: I love it.
Speaker 2: This is this is such just a full circle moment.
Speaker 2: I'm so happy to come on here.
Speaker 7: This is amazing.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thanks for coming on the show and sharing
Speaker 1: your journey and also follow Justin on social media. I'll
Speaker 1: put all of his links on my website at richontech
Speaker 1: dot tv. I can't believe it. The show is coming
Speaker 1: to a close. Coming up, we are gonna do your
Speaker 1: favorite segment, the feedback segment, and apparently my conversation with
Speaker 1: Mom about AOL hit a nerve. Some of you are
Speaker 1: angry at me. You're listening to rich on tech. I
Speaker 1: thought this was kind of cool. BetaNews dot com found
Speaker 1: a hidden Windows restart feature. It's called the Emergency Restart.
Speaker 1: It's on Windows ten and eleven. And I had to
Speaker 1: try this for myself because I never knew about this,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was really cool. So you know
Speaker 1: that you can press control all delete right to get
Speaker 1: to the task manager and all the different shutdown options. Well,
Speaker 1: if you look in the lower right hand corner of
Speaker 1: your screen, there is a power button and that if
Speaker 1: you press it will give you sleep, shutdown or restart.
Speaker 1: But if you do that same thing, you know, control
Speaker 1: all delete to bring up that screen. But then you
Speaker 1: press and hold down control and click the power button.
Speaker 1: Now you will access a hidden emergency restart screen which
Speaker 1: will immediately restart your system, and it says this should
Speaker 1: only be used as a last resort when you know
Speaker 1: your computer freeze is up. You will lose any unsaved
Speaker 1: data when you use the emergency restart, but this is
Speaker 1: just a nice thing to keep in your back pocket.
Speaker 1: Let's say you know a lot of people have these
Speaker 1: things on their computer where some sort of malware or
Speaker 1: some sort of website will take over their screen. They
Speaker 1: can't do anything, so control it, delete and then control
Speaker 1: click that power button and now you can get that
Speaker 1: emergency restart. It'll restart your computer immediately. I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: a video about this on my Instagram at rich On Tech.
Speaker 1: I thought that was a cool little feature. Mercedes Benz
Speaker 1: is introducing chat GPT into its cars, So if you
Speaker 1: have a Mercedes and if you do congrats, you can
Speaker 1: enable chat GPT. So the way that they're posting this
Speaker 1: is it's a beta program. They're trying it out for
Speaker 1: the next three months. You can pretty much ask chat
Speaker 1: GPT questions like you would on the computer, so you
Speaker 1: can ask complex questions, make requests related to your destination.
Speaker 1: And this will work in over nine hundred thousand Mercedes
Speaker 1: with the m Bucks sounds like Starbucks, the m Bucks
Speaker 1: infotainment system. So you can try this out, give them feedback.
Speaker 1: If you want to try this, all you have to
Speaker 1: do is say, hey, Mercedes, I want to join the
Speaker 1: beta program, and I guess that will take you to
Speaker 1: the system to get this feature in your car. Now,
Speaker 1: if I just said that in your Mercedes, that you
Speaker 1: now have it. So there you go. The rollout is
Speaker 1: going to happen over time, but that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: I mean, I chat GBT. You know, it's not up
Speaker 1: to date per se. It's only up till September twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, I think, or sometime in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: so it's not like totally new, but it's got a
Speaker 1: lot of good data in there. So kind of fun
Speaker 1: to have that in your Mercedes. All right? What else?
Speaker 1: We got a story from Kenneth He wrote in He
Speaker 1: wrote to Hello at rich on tech dot tv, maybe
Speaker 1: sometimes it's not so bad to be a Luddite and
Speaker 1: other stuff. Kenneth says, I was in Target the other day.
Speaker 1: The person in front of me was trying to pay
Speaker 1: with a Target or some other app on her phone.
Speaker 1: It took her about five minutes to finally figure out
Speaker 1: how to pay it. She just paid with her credit card.
Speaker 1: It would have taken about ten seconds. Well, Kenneth, this
Speaker 1: good thing, you said her phone, because this could have
Speaker 1: been me at Target. I'm always inside the Target app,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you why. Because two things. You need
Speaker 1: to scan your Target loyalty card through the app, and
Speaker 1: then they also have these things called Target offers, and
Speaker 1: you can add these Target offers to your card and
Speaker 1: like save a whole bunch of money. We were actually
Speaker 1: in CVS the other day and my total was like
Speaker 1: sixty bucks and I said, ooh, let me see if
Speaker 1: there's any like CVS offers. Same thing. If you download
Speaker 1: the app, you can load these offers to your card,
Speaker 1: and so I did that while we were in line,
Speaker 1: and my wife, of course kind of rolled her eyes
Speaker 1: at me. Sure enough, there was a coupon hidden in
Speaker 1: there for thirty percent off my entire order. So my
Speaker 1: order we watched as it went from about sixty five
Speaker 1: dollars to forty two dollars, and my wife was like, wow,
Speaker 1: good thing. You took a couple of minutes to do that,
Speaker 1: much to the uh chagrin of everyone behind me in line.
Speaker 1: That was waiting for me to fiddle with my phone.
Speaker 1: So Kenneth, it happens. Let's see. Donna writes in Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I recently ow funny tech story from a baby boomer.
Speaker 1: Hope how many more minutes we have in the show
Speaker 1: because this one's a long one. Hey Rich, I recently
Speaker 1: started listening to your podcast and I really like it.
Speaker 1: I would like to share tech story with you, since
Speaker 1: tech is your thing. Yep, Rich on tech that makes sense.
Speaker 1: I'm seventy one years old. I own a Tesla Model three.
Speaker 1: I use the iPhone and have an Apple Watch, which
Speaker 1: I mostly use for keeping track of my steps. One day,
Speaker 1: while shopping at Walmart, I placed my handbag with my
Speaker 1: cell phone in the trunk with the groceries and mistakenly
Speaker 1: closed the trunk with the cell phone inside. As I
Speaker 1: realized my error, I saw the side view mirrors of
Speaker 1: the Tesla closing, which we all know if you have
Speaker 1: a Tesla, that means the car is locking. I kept
Speaker 1: trying to unlock it would not no cell phone, so
Speaker 1: I couldn't call Triple A. I went inside the store,
Speaker 1: I explained my predicament, asked if I could use their phone.
Speaker 1: I called my son, I didn't know anyone's phone number
Speaker 1: by heart except his. It went straight to voicemail. I
Speaker 1: stressed out, then realized I had my Apple Watch. I
Speaker 1: saw I can go through my recent text and attempted
Speaker 1: to send my kids a text. It didn't work. Finally
Speaker 1: I found my phone number to my grandson, who lives
Speaker 1: about twenty miles away. I called him. He answered, which
Speaker 1: rarely happens. He has the Tesla app for my car
Speaker 1: on his phone. He used his app to unlock my Tesla.
Speaker 1: He did so, and I happily saw the side view
Speaker 1: mirrors open up and caps text saved the day for me.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to starting to listen to your podcast
Speaker 1: because it's a baby boomer. I want to keep up
Speaker 1: with the podcasts and there you make it fun, interesting
Speaker 1: and easy. Oh thank you, Donna. And uh yes. So
Speaker 1: my old car used to have a feature when I
Speaker 1: locked my keys in the trunk, which I did all
Speaker 1: the time, it would beep three times to go bit
Speaker 1: bit boop, and then it would pop open the trunk
Speaker 1: and it saved me so many times from locking my
Speaker 1: keys in the trunk. Now, with the Tesla, I agree,
Speaker 1: I usually don't put my phone in the trunk. But
Speaker 1: there have been so many times and I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. If I locked my keys in the car
Speaker 1: right now or my phone, I would never be able
Speaker 1: to open it. But I do carry one of these
Speaker 1: spare Tesla keys in my pocket because of that reason.
Speaker 1: AOL Steve says AOL was bought. Whoever owned Verizon bought it.
Speaker 1: My email address kept the Verizon extension. Just last this week,
Speaker 1: AOL updated the page layouts. For one thing, they switched
Speaker 1: the log into the right side to the page. I
Speaker 1: think that's what my mom was talking about. And Chris says, Rich,
Speaker 1: shame on you for AOL shaming your mom. I didn't
Speaker 1: AOL shame her. Stop shaming your mom. And it's a
Speaker 1: big long email about how I shamed my mom for
Speaker 1: using AOL. I did not shame her. I just said,
Speaker 1: why do you still use AOL? I didn't judge her
Speaker 1: for using AOL. I get plenty of emails from folks
Speaker 1: that use AOL on a daily basis. Do I think
Speaker 1: there's better things out there? Absolutely? Can she continue to
Speaker 1: use AOL?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: And I help her with that every day. That's going
Speaker 1: to do it for this episode of the show. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening number twenty four. You can find me on
Speaker 1: social media at rich on Tech. My name is rich Dmiro.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways
Speaker 1: you can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending
Speaker 1: it right here with me. Thanks to everyone who makes
Speaker 1: this show possible. I will talk to you real soon