Speaker 1: Twitter is going to elon. Apple will now help you
Speaker 1: repair your own iPhone. Snapchat has a drone plus Your
Speaker 1: tech questions answered?
Speaker 2: What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich
Speaker 2: on Tech, the podcast where I talk about the tech.
Speaker 1: Stuff I think you should know about. It's also the
Speaker 1: place where I answer the questions you send me. I'm
Speaker 1: a tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Welcome to the live viewers on Facebook.
Speaker 1: And this time around, I'm actually taking live callers. So
Speaker 1: I've been wanting to try that for a long time.
Speaker 1: You know what, Let's just see if this works. Now,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. This is live on Facebook. The podcast
Speaker 1: goes out later on. But the reality is I'll take
Speaker 1: the calls. I might have to chop it up a
Speaker 1: bit depending on how this works. I have no idea,
Speaker 1: but let's see. We've got two to one three on
Speaker 1: the line. Two one three you're on with Rich.
Speaker 3: Hello, my name's Charlie. I got a new Samsung, the
Speaker 3: one you called the Model AF or F.
Speaker 1: E Okay, yep, yep, af Yeah, the F the Samsung
Speaker 1: Fi Fan Edition, Right.
Speaker 3: I love the phone. It's great, but can't figure out
Speaker 3: how to make it charge other items when you set
Speaker 3: them on the back.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good question. Does it have the reverse
Speaker 1: charging capability?
Speaker 3: Actually I thought you said it did. Let me say
Speaker 3: when you were reviewing it.
Speaker 2: Oh, you know what, Yes it does. Okay, So here's
Speaker 2: how you do it.
Speaker 1: So on your phone, open it up and swipe down
Speaker 1: from the top, and then you have to swipe down
Speaker 1: again and you have to edit press that little there's
Speaker 1: like a little upper right hand corner. There's like three
Speaker 1: dots and it says edit buttons, and then there should
Speaker 1: be a button if it's not already in there for
Speaker 1: the wireless charging.
Speaker 2: So it's called power Share. Let's see if it's on
Speaker 2: this one. Uh no, I got to add it. So
Speaker 2: do you see what I'm talking about here?
Speaker 3: Well, I swiped down twice. Let me Oh, the three
Speaker 3: dots run the top right buttons. There we go.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now it says available buttons. I know, I say
Speaker 1: button weird. And then there's one that says wireless power Share.
Speaker 2: You drag that.
Speaker 1: Down to the uh to the bottom there and that
Speaker 1: will give you that button.
Speaker 3: Okay, I have to re enter my pin. Darn it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's a handy feature and it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's basically once you so it doesn't it's not activated
Speaker 1: all the time, so they only you know, they want
Speaker 1: to save power by not having it activated all the time,
Speaker 1: so it's only when you press this button that will activate.
Speaker 1: So did you get to the part where it lets
Speaker 1: you edit the buttons?
Speaker 3: There it says available buttons, and then I have to
Speaker 3: go to the let me see.
Speaker 2: Not finding it, so it says edit buttons.
Speaker 1: So did you see the upper right hand versays edit
Speaker 1: and then up at the top it says available. And
Speaker 1: there should be one that says wireless power shares on
Speaker 1: mine it says wireless po because it's cut off a
Speaker 1: little bit, okay, and then once you find that you
Speaker 1: can drag uptown.
Speaker 3: Mine says wireless poo.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: Ok So, now you drag that down to the to
Speaker 1: the area with all the buttons and then you tap
Speaker 1: that before you want a power share and that should
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Charlie. Where are you calling in? Founder? La?
Speaker 3: I take it, La. Yeah, I work downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: Have been at my job for twenty seven years. But
Speaker 3: I'm not going to say it because people are criticized me,
Speaker 3: don't call in while you're at work.
Speaker 2: Bunch, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: We thank you for the call, appreciate it, and I'm
Speaker 1: glad this all worked. It seems like people can hear you,
Speaker 1: so that is amazing. Thank you and appreciate the rest
Speaker 1: of your da Have a good have a good day
Speaker 1: there in downtown La. Uh wow, I've got to say,
Speaker 1: I am what can I do for that?
Speaker 2: I can. I don't have any clapping I have to do.
Speaker 2: I have to do this.
Speaker 1: It actually worked to take the phone call. I cannot
Speaker 1: believe it. This is something I've wanted to do for
Speaker 1: so long, and I've done it in different iterations, but
Speaker 1: it's uh, you know, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 1: But now I've got this full set up here and
Speaker 1: it's gonna work every time. So if you want to
Speaker 1: call in, give me a call. The phone number is
Speaker 1: three one nine five two seven six seven three seven.
Speaker 2: Where's that area code? Area code three one nine? Where
Speaker 2: is that? I have no idea?
Speaker 1: That is uh Iowa, But you know, it's just a
Speaker 1: phone number. They kind of generate. So if you have
Speaker 1: a question, call me. If you just want to chat,
Speaker 1: give me a call. Since this is kind of an
Speaker 1: experimental show, I'm not going to hold you to like
Speaker 1: a specific tech question, but if you want to just
Speaker 1: say hi, or test it out, whatever, I'm totally open
Speaker 1: to that. All right, let's talk about Twitter's new new owner,
Speaker 1: who is Elon Musk. I'm sure you've heard this story.
Speaker 1: It's been in the news so much. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to do a whole lot on it because right now
Speaker 1: we are left with a lot of rumors, speculation, and
Speaker 1: just a lot of kind of opinions in this aspect
Speaker 1: of what's going to happen to Twitter now that Elon
Speaker 1: Musk is going to take it over.
Speaker 2: But I'll just give you the nuts and bolts of it.
Speaker 1: Twitter is now going to be owned by Elon Musk
Speaker 1: once this deal goes through. It's probably going to take
Speaker 1: six months to go through. But Elon Musk offered about
Speaker 1: basically paid forty four billion dollars for Twitter.
Speaker 2: Bunch of that many.
Speaker 1: Money came from himself from cash, bunch of the money
Speaker 1: came from Tesla in the form of a loan, A
Speaker 1: bunch of banks gave him.
Speaker 2: Whatever. I'm not a finance guy, so I.
Speaker 1: Don't know what they call it like a I don't
Speaker 1: know whatever, it's some sort of loan, but it's like financing.
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's like debt financing. I don't really
Speaker 2: understand that stuff. But that's it.
Speaker 1: He will own Twitter in the next six months, they're expecting.
Speaker 1: And of course this has been a hotbed issue because
Speaker 1: people are wondering what he means by making this a
Speaker 1: He wants to make free speech the bedrock of a
Speaker 1: functioning democracy. So people on the left are angry that
Speaker 1: it's gonna, you know, just basically take a downward spiral
Speaker 1: into a very not nice place. People on the right
Speaker 1: are excited because they feel like they can you know,
Speaker 1: they feel like they were being held down by Twitter
Speaker 1: and so and people in the middle are just kind
Speaker 1: of like, I don't know, We're gonna wait and see
Speaker 1: what happens. But the reality is this is going to
Speaker 1: be a change. Elon wants to make Twitter better by
Speaker 1: giving it new features. He wants to open source the algorithm,
Speaker 1: defeat the spambots, and authenticate humans. So here is the
Speaker 1: bottom line with this situation. The bottom line is that
Speaker 1: this costs a lot of money. Elon Musk is a
Speaker 1: smart guy and I don't think he is going to
Speaker 1: just let Twitter run into the ground and be a
Speaker 1: place where, you know, it's just full of hate speech
Speaker 1: and misinformation and all the things that you know, you
Speaker 1: can't really do on the other platforms.
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm optimistic that he'll make it better, right
Speaker 1: because Elon Musk has done really amazing things with Tesla,
Speaker 1: with SpaceX and Twitter. Even though I can't one hundred
Speaker 1: percent say that, I am a huge fan of what
Speaker 1: he's been tweeting ever since he took over.
Speaker 2: Like I'm like, it's a little.
Speaker 1: Bit like on the on the scale of like, uh,
Speaker 1: what's going on Elon, it's kind of like a nine
Speaker 1: out of ten right now, maybe a ten out of ten.
Speaker 1: And so I'm kind of hoping that's just kind of
Speaker 1: just to give him, you know, he just likes to
Speaker 1: kind of get people flustered and all this stuff. But
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, there's also talk, of course,
Speaker 1: people talking in the chat room about unbanning Trump from Twitter,
Speaker 1: but we don't know, we don't know what's.
Speaker 2: Going to happen.
Speaker 1: So I'm hopeful that Twitter will become a bigger social
Speaker 1: network than it is, maybe more people. It's kind of
Speaker 1: an insider social network where people that are in the media,
Speaker 1: people that are select brutes brands use it, but average
Speaker 1: people don't typically use Twitter. Average people use Instagram, they
Speaker 1: use TikTok, and yeah, like Frank said in the live chat,
Speaker 1: he's not the most mature. No, he's definitely not for
Speaker 1: someone that's just spent forty four billion dollars on Twitter.
Speaker 1: The stuff he's been tweeting has been a little bit surprising,
Speaker 1: you know. It's like, it's just I hope that it
Speaker 1: levels out. Let's put it that way. But that is
Speaker 1: the news with Twitter, and we'll see what happens. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm curious, and I just hope that it's a good
Speaker 1: thing for Twitter personally. When it comes to Twitter, for me,
Speaker 1: it's my least. It's interesting. It's a very important social
Speaker 1: network professionally, but it's not an important social network for
Speaker 1: me as a I don't know what you call a
Speaker 1: creator or someone like this, Like I'm choosing to go
Speaker 1: live here on Facebook because Facebook is where I have
Speaker 1: a lot of people following me. I would go live
Speaker 1: on Instagram. If I went live on Twitter, I'd have
Speaker 1: three people watching if so, it's just not a big
Speaker 1: place for me personally, so I just don't put that
Speaker 1: much stock into it. Even though I love Twitter. I
Speaker 1: love the way it works, I love the functionality. I
Speaker 1: love how you can actually post stuff and post a
Speaker 1: variety of stuff, unlike Instagram, which is very much like complicated.
Speaker 1: Even though it looks pretty, it's complicated on the creator
Speaker 1: side because you know, it's just tough to do a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff on there, like you can't even post
Speaker 1: a link very easily.
Speaker 2: So stay tuned on that one. All right.
Speaker 1: You can call in if you want, if you want
Speaker 1: to chat, you can call in. That's one hundred percent okay. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to my questions that I have that
Speaker 1: people have pre sent in.
Speaker 2: Uh, let's see, Eva says.
Speaker 1: My husband and I are having discussion about what three words?
Speaker 1: Please help us understand why it's better than using GPS
Speaker 1: coordinates or just sharing your location with something like Google Maps.
Speaker 2: Great question.
Speaker 1: So if you watch me on KTLA, you know that
Speaker 1: I did a story on this app called what three Words?
Speaker 2: And what three.
Speaker 1: Words is basically GPS but in words. So what they've
Speaker 1: done is they've divided up the entire world into ten
Speaker 1: by ten squares, and so the app will reveal your
Speaker 1: ten by ten square wherever you're standing, and it will
Speaker 1: translate that into three words, and those three words you
Speaker 1: can send to someone and they can navigate right to
Speaker 1: those three words.
Speaker 2: So how is it better than GPS?
Speaker 1: Yes, every address in the world, well not every address,
Speaker 1: but I guess they do. It has a GPS or
Speaker 1: a physical address. So why would you give some of
Speaker 1: the three words. Well, let me give you one good example.
Speaker 1: Let's say you are tailgating in a parking lot at
Speaker 1: a big stadium. Now you tell someone I'm in the
Speaker 1: stadium right in front of tunnel forty seven or twenty
Speaker 1: six or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: It's really tough to find people.
Speaker 1: And so what you have to do with what three
Speaker 1: words is you can narrow down to exactly where you're
Speaker 1: standing in that parking lot, and then you can send
Speaker 1: that location to someone using those three words, and then
Speaker 1: they can navi gate right to that location using those
Speaker 1: three words. And the three words are different every ten feet,
Speaker 1: So you can imagine if you're standing one hundred feet down,
Speaker 1: your three words would be different than the person that's
Speaker 1: one hundred feet away, so it would bring them right.
Speaker 2: To your tailgate.
Speaker 1: So that's the best way that I can describe it.
Speaker 1: The other scenario I would see is that if I happen.
Speaker 2: To be stranded.
Speaker 1: If I was taking a hike and I got stranded
Speaker 1: on a mountaintop somewhere, and I literally had like one
Speaker 1: percent battery left and there was nothing else I could
Speaker 1: do except like make one tweet, make one phone call,
Speaker 1: I would go to this app, get my three words,
Speaker 1: and tweet it out, and basically, you know, let's say
Speaker 1: it's like shovel, horse fly, you know, And that way,
Speaker 1: someone would know exactly where I am specifically because of
Speaker 1: that app. Now, it might take them a little bit
Speaker 1: to realize, like what are these weird three words that
Speaker 1: Rich used as his last three words of his life.
Speaker 1: But you know, if someone figured it out, it could
Speaker 1: be very advantageous to finding me.
Speaker 2: And also, let's say I can only.
Speaker 1: Make a voice call, I would tell the person you know,
Speaker 1: horse fly, shoe, whatever, and I wouldn't be able to
Speaker 1: say my GPS coordinates, like no one can say. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: if you want to say your GPS coordinates, it's like
Speaker 1: a really involved number and your address if you're on
Speaker 1: a mountaintop, you don't know your address. Oh I'm on
Speaker 1: I'm on King Mountain. I don't know. It's it's like
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to relay that. So the
Speaker 1: best way I can describe what three words is it's
Speaker 1: a simple, fast, easy way to relay your location in
Speaker 1: three simple words. And also another example is if you
Speaker 1: were a farmer's market person, Like let's say you a
Speaker 1: little booth at a farmer's market. You can say find
Speaker 1: us at the you know, West La farmers Market, we
Speaker 1: are at cat you know, toy mouse, whatever the three
Speaker 1: words are, and someone can navigate right to your booth
Speaker 1: instead of just, you know, somewhere in that giant inside
Speaker 1: that giant farmer's market trying to find your booth. So
Speaker 1: that is the that is the the kind of the
Speaker 1: DL on what three words. I think it's pretty fantastic.
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty smart. I just think a lot
Speaker 1: more people need to learn about it. And I think
Speaker 1: it's just the app is easy to use, but it's
Speaker 1: also like one of these things where ninety nine percent
Speaker 1: of the time you can just send someone a pin.
Speaker 1: But this also works across platform, and there's just a
Speaker 1: lot more like even for voice recognition like in cars.
Speaker 1: They're building this in and so I think it's a
Speaker 1: smart way, uh to do voice navigation as well, because
Speaker 1: you don't have to say the address, you can just
Speaker 1: say the three words. So I think for marketing purposes,
Speaker 1: and I think they had this in mind for marketing purposes.
Speaker 1: It's really cool because it's super easy to tell someone
Speaker 1: where your store is if you just uh, you know,
Speaker 1: if you just say those three words. All right, we
Speaker 1: got another phone call six oh two, six oh two.
Speaker 2: You are on with rich what's going on? Who's this?
Speaker 3: Green's the name of follows on Always Birds is passive.
Speaker 1: Dongie is CEO of winning team based in Toney.
Speaker 4: Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: I'm having a great time and loving the apps and
Speaker 1: all the different technology.
Speaker 5: That's coming out.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, what are you seeing for the world
Speaker 1: in the future. What am I seeing in the world
Speaker 1: in the future? Pastor I am seeing? And I think
Speaker 1: if if you're do you do you run a church too?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I have a broadcast network.
Speaker 6: We have three meeting listeners and.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, well here's what I'm Here's what I
Speaker 1: see as the future. I see virtual reality as the future.
Speaker 1: So if you are not doing a virtual reality church
Speaker 1: or that's not in the plans, I'm telling you you
Speaker 1: can be standing in I could tell you, but I'm
Speaker 1: telling you if you've put on that VR headset, it
Speaker 1: is phenomenal. And I'm telling you virtual reality is going
Speaker 1: to bring people together in ways we have never even imagined,
Speaker 1: and especially for someone like yourself that's trying to get
Speaker 1: a message out to a lot of people and also
Speaker 1: connect with those people. I think that VR is going
Speaker 1: to be a huge part of that. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's there just yet. I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: couple of years before it's you know, progressed and the
Speaker 1: technology gets better. But I'm telling you what Facebook's doing
Speaker 1: with the Metaverse. I know they've got that fancy name
Speaker 1: and everyone's kind of making fun of it, but I'm
Speaker 1: telling you they're onto something. And I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: start seeing people traveling in VR. I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: see them attending church in VR. They're gonna they're gonna
Speaker 1: check out hotels before they check into them on VR
Speaker 1: to see if it's somewhere they want to go. I
Speaker 1: just see a big, big potential for that pastor.
Speaker 4: That's big.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for knowledge.
Speaker 1: I'm telling my get some of this education, all right,
Speaker 1: send them my way, Thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All the way from Las Vegas. They're one of my
Speaker 1: favorite towns. I love Las Vegas. I don't think I
Speaker 1: could live in Las Vegas because I think I'd become
Speaker 1: pretty degenerate quickly. But I love Las Vegas. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of Vegas one of those places that people
Speaker 1: either love or hate. But I gotta tell you, I've
Speaker 1: been playing with VR more and more and it is
Speaker 1: just mind boggling. How how I mean, we're just at
Speaker 1: the beginning. I was watching Netflix and VR the other
Speaker 1: day and you put the headset on and next thing
Speaker 1: you know, my entire living room was transformed into a
Speaker 1: giant mansion in the middle of on a snow capped mountain.
Speaker 2: It was snowing outside. I could see the window.
Speaker 1: I had this huge, big screen TV, nice fireplace, coffee table,
Speaker 1: and I'm just watching that nature documentary inside the headset.
Speaker 1: And it just blew my mind that this is what
Speaker 1: Netflix has built, like a virtual theater, and just times
Speaker 1: that times everything, I mean, a virtual experience is just
Speaker 1: it's such I don't think the headsets are there just
Speaker 1: yet because they're kind of bulky. They kind of hurt
Speaker 1: your eyes to watch for a long time.
Speaker 2: It's not that clear.
Speaker 1: It's not as clear as a regular TV. But I
Speaker 1: really think that there is something there and it's really
Speaker 1: really exciting to me. Let's talk about Apple. Self Service
Speaker 1: Repair is now available. So Apple has this new website,
Speaker 1: the Self Service Repair Store. You can go on there
Speaker 1: and order over two hundred individual parts and tools to
Speaker 1: fix the display, the camera, and the battery on your
Speaker 1: iPhone twelve, your iPhone thirteen or the iPhone se. These
Speaker 1: are all genuine products. They're selling them at the same
Speaker 1: price that they sell to their authorized repair providers. They'll
Speaker 1: also give you the instructions, they might give you a
Speaker 1: small credit when you return a part for recycling, and
Speaker 1: they'll also rent you the tools to do this for
Speaker 1: forty nine dollars. So I think this is a good
Speaker 1: thing overall, really good thing. The downside of this, according
Speaker 1: to Ifix, it is that they link all of the
Speaker 1: parts to a serial number on the iPhone, which makes
Speaker 1: it just there's just a little bit of resistance, a
Speaker 1: little bit of friction there. You can't just go on
Speaker 1: and order like twenty five screens and then help people
Speaker 1: repair things. But you know help you know, neighbors all
Speaker 1: repair their phones. You'd need like their serial number to
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: But I think this is cool. I think it's a
Speaker 2: good step. I guess I should try replacing a screen.
Speaker 2: Why not? I should? I should?
Speaker 1: Actually, you know what, let me note to self, I
Speaker 1: should do a story where I try repairing an iPhone
Speaker 1: like a cracked screen and see if I can do it.
Speaker 2: What a brilliant story.
Speaker 1: So the last time I replaced something on a device
Speaker 1: was I'm dating myself. But this was an iPod and
Speaker 1: I replaced the battery on the iPod.
Speaker 2: And it, you know, it was great.
Speaker 1: It the battery like ran out, and so I ordered
Speaker 1: a new battery on I think it was Amazon.
Speaker 2: Pulled it out.
Speaker 1: It was really tough to get, like the glue and
Speaker 1: all this stuff out from the bottom.
Speaker 2: I did it.
Speaker 1: iPod worked great and I probably used it for another
Speaker 1: six months or so, so it was kind of fun.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Susan says, I'm increasingly getting more spam text messages. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts about this or any other spam? And
Speaker 1: she sent a link to a spam text blocker called
Speaker 1: text Killer.
Speaker 2: Well, so here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I My advice with the spam text is that it
Speaker 1: comes and goes. So the number one thing you want
Speaker 1: to do is is, you know, sign up with whoever
Speaker 1: your carrier is. I mean there's only three at this point,
Speaker 1: AT and T, T Mobile, and Verizon. So make sure
Speaker 1: that you have whatever protections they offer turned on. And
Speaker 1: so I think for T Mobile it's called scam Shield,
Speaker 1: For AT and T it's called call protect, and for Verizon,
Speaker 1: I think it's called call Filter. So make sure you
Speaker 1: have those features turned on and those apps downloaded to
Speaker 1: your phone. They also work with phone calls, and I
Speaker 1: believe they do a certain level of text message filtering. Now,
Speaker 1: this text Killer, I don't know because I'm just curious
Speaker 1: how it's going to block texts, because I just don't
Speaker 1: know how it would intercept texts. Like the way that
Speaker 1: iOS is set up is that you can't really have
Speaker 1: a program intercepting the texts, and so I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out.
Speaker 2: I guess I'd have to look at this, but it says.
Speaker 1: Eliminate ninety nine percent of text messages. But I'm not
Speaker 1: really sure, like what how it's getting, you know, how
Speaker 1: it's intercepting your text messages. That's the main thing I
Speaker 1: want to know, because you can't like iOS doesn't really
Speaker 1: let you do that. So I have to look into
Speaker 1: this program more. I probably would not recommend it right
Speaker 1: at this time. I mean, it's made by Robokiller, which
Speaker 1: I do trust. I do trust that company, so that's good.
Speaker 1: Let's see how much it is. So it looks like
Speaker 1: it's thirty dollars a year or three to four dollars
Speaker 1: a month for this protection. I don't know if spam
Speaker 1: protection is worth four dollars a month. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: already paying your cell phone bill and I get, you know,
Speaker 1: my phone number is kind of out there a lot,
Speaker 1: and so I don't even get that many spams where
Speaker 1: I would think it's worth four dollars a month.
Speaker 2: There's just probably no way I would do that.
Speaker 1: So the thing you can do if you're really worried
Speaker 1: about spam messages is or spam texts, you can go
Speaker 1: into the iPhone and there's a setting that will filter
Speaker 1: unknown senders. I think even that's overkilled because a lot
Speaker 1: of messages from random people, like let's say you order
Speaker 1: an uber and they text you that would go into
Speaker 1: that unknown messages and you might not even see it
Speaker 1: because they kind of go in there silently. So personally,
Speaker 1: when it comes to text, I think texts are very important.
Speaker 1: I don't like to mess with them at all. I
Speaker 1: want to get them if it's a bad one, which
Speaker 1: I've gotten. I've gotten some pretty dicey texts, and you know,
Speaker 1: I just say, I see it. I'm like, wait what,
Speaker 1: and I just delete it so I know it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of jarring. The main thing is not to click
Speaker 1: links inside those texts. If you're on an Android phone,
Speaker 1: the main thing you want to do is use Google
Speaker 1: Messages because they do have spam filtering built into Google messages.
Speaker 2: So that's what I would do. That's what I would
Speaker 2: do for sure. All right, let's get to another caller. Here.
Speaker 2: We have six two six on the line six two six.
Speaker 2: You're on with Rich.
Speaker 6: Hi.
Speaker 5: Hi, Robert under from Mexican.
Speaker 2: Robert.
Speaker 1: I recognize Robert's name, Robert. It's good to put it's
Speaker 1: good to put a voice to the name because I
Speaker 1: see you, I see your comments, I see your likes,
Speaker 1: and I wonder who is this Robert? So you're calling from?
Speaker 1: You said Pasadena Oh, Temecula.
Speaker 2: I love Temecula. I used to go there a lot.
Speaker 2: So what's on your mind?
Speaker 5: Yes, this week I had with my question is my
Speaker 5: wife is looking at a device called Remarkable. I was
Speaker 5: wondering if you had any any knowledge of it. It's
Speaker 5: a it's a note taking device that works with windows,
Speaker 5: and basically she can take notes and pull them up
Speaker 5: whenever she needs to find something she's written over the
Speaker 5: last month or two, okay, and she's been reading a
Speaker 5: lot of negative feedback on it, so I was I
Speaker 5: told her I would ask to see if you had
Speaker 5: any ideas on it.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, let's see. So I the fact that I
Speaker 1: am not familiar with this is number one my my worry.
Speaker 1: The number two thing that makes me worried is that
Speaker 1: when you google it, it says remarkable is it legit?
Speaker 1: Now I'm looking at a Tom's Guide review and it says, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a unique tablet, it's the ultimate tablet
Speaker 1: for writers. It got it got a Editor's Choice award.
Speaker 1: So the problem is that I would see with this
Speaker 1: is that it looks like it's kind of expensive. It's
Speaker 1: like three hundred dollars. But it's also it's also a
Speaker 1: proprietary device. So for me, now, why is there a
Speaker 1: reason why she doesn't want an iPad?
Speaker 5: I well, on the iPad, are you able to connect
Speaker 5: that with your your desktop and pull up notes as
Speaker 5: you need them by the date?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is a there's an app that I like
Speaker 1: called Notability, which is really good, and that can do
Speaker 1: you know, you can take notes and do that.
Speaker 2: I've gotten they just sent this to me.
Speaker 1: But there's a screen protector called paper Like and it's
Speaker 1: actually kind of a screen protector that is almost like
Speaker 1: a matt finish, like a grippy kind of a It
Speaker 1: mimics the feel of paper.
Speaker 2: So I haven't put it on there yet. They just
Speaker 2: sent it to me. I'm gonna test it out.
Speaker 1: But that could also be a good a good solution,
Speaker 1: So if your wife really wants to do this personally,
Speaker 1: if it was me, I would go with something like
Speaker 1: an iPad, just because Apple has put so much effort
Speaker 1: into their experience of the pen and paper on this iPad.
Speaker 1: Plus you get the you get the most apps for this,
Speaker 1: like remarkable. You're gonna have to use their proprietary app.
Speaker 1: Plus you can add things like the successory that I
Speaker 1: mentioned this paper like, it's paperlike dot com if you
Speaker 1: want to check it out, but it's a screen protector
Speaker 1: that has you know, it feels like paper. And so
Speaker 1: again it's for all of those reasons that I think
Speaker 1: it's probably a better a better thing to go with
Speaker 1: the with the tablet that so many people have gone with,
Speaker 1: versus this remarkable. Now I haven't tested this remarkable. It
Speaker 1: could be amazing, but to me, it seems like a
Speaker 1: one trick pony that might be good. But also if
Speaker 1: this company goes under or if they stop supporting it
Speaker 1: or the software doesn't come out. And also it's just
Speaker 1: not as flexible as having an iPad that you know,
Speaker 1: when she's done writing, she can do other stuff like,
Speaker 1: you know, if she wants to use it for email
Speaker 1: or watching videos.
Speaker 2: Or things like that.
Speaker 1: So it looks like it has kind of a kindle screen,
Speaker 1: which I did play with one of these at a
Speaker 1: show once, but it you know, it's like a pen
Speaker 1: and paper, but it's it's a it's an expensive pad
Speaker 1: of paper. So you know, is there a place that
Speaker 1: you can try it out before you buy it?
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 5: I haven't seen one yet, And I, like I said,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of negative feedback online about their uh
Speaker 5: working with the customers, so I was heading against that.
Speaker 5: I figured the iPad would.
Speaker 3: Be the better choice.
Speaker 6: So I just wanted to pick your brain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think go with the iPad. I
Speaker 2: mean that iPad Mini is.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how big she wants the screen,
Speaker 1: but the iPad Mini is a nice size if you
Speaker 1: want something that's smaller. But uh again that that paper
Speaker 1: like screen protector. Definitely look into that and see what
Speaker 1: the deal is because uh, I think that that could
Speaker 1: be onto something if she wants that pen and paper
Speaker 1: kind of experience. So, Robert, it was great to talk
Speaker 1: to you. And now I have a voice to the name.
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm happy that this whole uh, this whole
Speaker 1: call and thing actually worked out. I'm actually like floored
Speaker 1: right now that this is so easy for me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you, and I'll keep watching your show.
Speaker 1: Thank you, all right, Robert, take care of thank you,
Speaker 1: and uh, let's talk about another new product.
Speaker 2: And this is the thing.
Speaker 1: So like, uh, you know, when people ask me about stuff,
Speaker 1: like a lot of times I have to make kind
Speaker 1: of a what's called a you know, not an educated guest.
Speaker 1: But a lot of things I do play with and
Speaker 1: I do get to experience, you know, most of the
Speaker 1: gadgets that are out there, like the mainstream ones. But
Speaker 1: then there's a lot of stuff that I have to
Speaker 1: make like an educated guess on. And so I get
Speaker 1: so many questions about these photosticks, and people are like this,
Speaker 1: you know, they advertise them on Facebook or wherever, and
Speaker 1: they say should I get this? And I can look
Speaker 1: at the website and in one second I can tell
Speaker 1: if a product is scammy because of the website, if
Speaker 1: the website is using high pressure sales tactics, if it's
Speaker 1: got like a big discount right off the top, if
Speaker 1: you move your mouse off the main website, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden it says, oh, stay, we'll give you
Speaker 1: two for the price of one. The other one I'm
Speaker 1: seeing it with right now. Are all these eco savers,
Speaker 1: like these fuel saver gadgets, And you know it's like,
Speaker 1: come on, if you could spend twenty dollars and pop
Speaker 1: something into your car and get triple the gas mileage,
Speaker 1: like we'd all have that, right So well, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: because I.
Speaker 2: Have a Tesla. But you know, you know what I
Speaker 2: mean people that have a gas car would have that.
Speaker 1: But you know I'm saying, I mean, it's one of
Speaker 1: these things where you know, I can just tell when
Speaker 1: I go to these websites that people send me that
Speaker 1: they're just they're just not right. And another thing that
Speaker 1: they do is this is something that's a little bit
Speaker 1: elevated for you know, the average consumer.
Speaker 2: To kind of know.
Speaker 1: But like they these companies when they come out with
Speaker 1: a product that is kind of like scammy, they put
Speaker 1: out a press release and then a lot of these
Speaker 1: big mainstream websites, you can pay to have your press release.
Speaker 2: Put on that website, and so it looks like that
Speaker 2: product is being talked about on you know, a mainstream
Speaker 2: news site, and it's actually just a press release. You
Speaker 2: can look closely and it might.
Speaker 1: Say sponsored or press release provided or news provided by.
Speaker 2: And so you have to be on the lookout.
Speaker 1: And this is why I'm here, is to help you
Speaker 1: navigate all these things, because you know, these people are
Speaker 1: trying to trick you. It's it's been going on since
Speaker 1: the beginning of mankind, right, all right, So snap snap
Speaker 1: is the new name for snapchat. So when I say snap,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm talking about, but they don't want to
Speaker 1: be called Snapchat because I think they're just called snap now.
Speaker 1: But they came out with a new drone. It's called
Speaker 1: the Pixie. This is a two hundred and thirty dollars
Speaker 1: autonomous drone. Joanna stern Over at The Wall Street Journal
Speaker 1: got one in advance of the announcement today and she
Speaker 1: tried it out, and basically, it sounds like it's fun,
Speaker 1: but for two hundred and thirty dollars, it's probably not
Speaker 1: something you're gonna rush out and buy. The pictures aren't
Speaker 1: as good as you would get on your phone. A
Speaker 1: lot of times she was wondering why she wouldn't just
Speaker 1: set up her phone on a tripod to take pictures.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you can't discount the fact that it is
Speaker 1: fun to send a drone up into the air to
Speaker 1: have it capture pictures of you. That is really cool.
Speaker 1: You're on a hike with your kids, you send this
Speaker 1: drone up. It's all autonomous. There's no controlling it. It
Speaker 1: just you just pick one of four flight modes. Okay,
Speaker 1: so there's hover, which the Pixie reverses a couple of
Speaker 1: feet and floats in front of you. Like a hummingbird,
Speaker 1: and you can get up to sixty seconds. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like an indoor it's kind of like a video selfie.
Speaker 1: Then you've got the reveal. This is kind of that
Speaker 1: fun shot that we see all the time on movies
Speaker 1: and TV shows where the drone starts above you and
Speaker 1: then it just flies way up in the air and
Speaker 1: it reveals kind of like the whole area around you.
Speaker 1: So that's really cool. Then there's follow which it will
Speaker 1: follow you, but very very slowly. Joanna said that its
Speaker 1: struggled to keep up with her casual walking speed. And
Speaker 1: then there's the orbit, which makes a full circle around
Speaker 1: you and records that. So it's cool and I think
Speaker 1: that you like Snap calls themselves a camera company, now
Speaker 1: they're not just like they don't want to be known
Speaker 1: as just for Snapchat, so they're trying new things with cameras,
Speaker 1: and also snap is going to be on the cutting
Speaker 1: edge of virtual reality as well. You can't count out
Speaker 1: these companies. They have very smart people working there. And
Speaker 1: although what they're doing right now, like this drone, you'd
Speaker 1: be like, that's not really like, I'm not spending two
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty dollars on it. It's part of a
Speaker 1: bigger picture that they're building. And that's really what's happening
Speaker 1: here with so many of these companies. Right. Let's take
Speaker 1: another question here, Oh, I can actually use my Oh no,
Speaker 1: it's not a I shouldn't. I need the dial tones again?
Speaker 2: Two on three? Who am I speaking with? You're on
Speaker 2: with Rich?
Speaker 4: Hi is Deon?
Speaker 2: Hi Deon? How are you?
Speaker 7: Ok? Hi?
Speaker 4: I'm well, thank you?
Speaker 2: Where are you calling it from?
Speaker 4: In my storage?
Speaker 2: I'm calling from Inglewood? Okay, you're in here, You're in
Speaker 2: your storage?
Speaker 4: And uh huh. And I got an old computer, and
Speaker 4: I remember watching me on the show one the News
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago, and you mentioned software or
Speaker 4: an app to put one advice to make them terment.
Speaker 4: I went on the website and I can't find it.
Speaker 1: You know, you have the number one question of anyone,
Speaker 1: not the software, But I can't find what you talked
Speaker 1: about on TV. So let me, uh, first off, let
Speaker 1: me first off give you my trick for finding anything
Speaker 1: that I've mentioned on TV. So I always search for
Speaker 1: like one keyword, which is like, you know, old computer,
Speaker 1: new software, and then I add DeMuro ktla or ktla
Speaker 1: DeMuro and that nine times out of ten when I
Speaker 1: need to search for something, because people text me all
Speaker 1: day saying, hey, rich, can I you know what's this story?
Speaker 1: And I just find the link that way, So that
Speaker 1: nine times out of ten if you ever hear me
Speaker 1: mention something on TV or social media, that's kind of
Speaker 1: like how I find it and how most people can
Speaker 1: find it. What you are specifically referring to is called
Speaker 1: Chrome os Flex, and this was software that is put
Speaker 1: out by Google to turn an old computer into a chromebook.
Speaker 1: And what a chromebook does is it is fast, it
Speaker 1: has software updates, it doesn't need a lot of memory
Speaker 1: or processing power to run really fast, and it can
Speaker 1: really breathe life into an old computer.
Speaker 2: Like you said, you have one of these things. It's
Speaker 2: free to download, it's free to install. But here is
Speaker 2: the problem, deionn.
Speaker 1: I talked to an expert who tested this out for me, okay,
Speaker 1: and he installs Chrome on a lot of computers, and
Speaker 1: he said that quite honestly, this is not ready for
Speaker 1: primetime just yet, because we're going to do a story
Speaker 1: for KTLA, a bigger story on testing it out and
Speaker 1: showing how it works. And he said, it's just not
Speaker 1: ready yet. So the good news is that you can
Speaker 1: still try it if you want to try it yourself.
Speaker 1: It's fully downloadable. You can put it on a USB drive,
Speaker 1: you can put it on the computer, and you can
Speaker 1: see how it works if you can get it to work.
Speaker 1: I tried a little bit just quickly to see if
Speaker 1: I can get this to work, and I just got
Speaker 1: stalled at something and then I got distracted. But once
Speaker 1: I talked to this expert, he said, Rich, it's better
Speaker 1: before you go prime time with this and show everyone
Speaker 1: exactly how it works.
Speaker 2: Let's make sure it works really well.
Speaker 4: And so.
Speaker 1: I would say, maybe, wait a little bit, but what
Speaker 1: are you hoping to do with this computer? It's just
Speaker 1: kind of browsed the web or what.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm looking to get back in the job. Oh
Speaker 4: and I don't want to send in the library all day.
Speaker 1: Okay, So basically like doing resumes and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff, do you have.
Speaker 2: A good resume?
Speaker 4: Exactly?
Speaker 2: Exactly do you have a good resume?
Speaker 7: Not just yet.
Speaker 4: I feel like I need to tweak it.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me let me give you a hint here.
Speaker 1: I've got a oh my gosh, I gotta find this
Speaker 1: because I've got a a website that I found that
Speaker 1: helps you do a It'll write a resume for you
Speaker 1: for free. So tell me, tell me about what you'd
Speaker 1: want to do while I look for this.
Speaker 4: Well I have I've been a hairstylist for twenty years.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 7: And then with COVID nineteen coming through, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 7: now I need to get a second career because I
Speaker 7: was considered non.
Speaker 2: Essential, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 7: Ridiculous, right, But I have a bit of history in
Speaker 7: customer service, you know, working in Macy's and that kind
Speaker 7: of stuff. And also my husband passed away of heart disease,
Speaker 7: so that sent me into becoming a mat. So before
Speaker 7: he passed away, I was like, you know what, I
Speaker 7: think I can do CNA work and then I, you know, continue,
Speaker 7: you didn't continue. But now I'd rather I'd rather do
Speaker 7: health care than.
Speaker 4: Any of these things.
Speaker 7: Okay, So you want to help get and I need
Speaker 7: to do resume in health care.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you want to you want to like in
Speaker 1: home care and stuff like that, right, and that's a
Speaker 1: that's a that's a growing area too.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I found the website. It's called Leaked Resumes l E. E. T.
Speaker 1: Resumes dot com and so it says they will write
Speaker 1: your resume for free if you're a professional with two
Speaker 1: years of experience in the US and Canada and the
Speaker 1: only thing they work on is a tip. So I
Speaker 1: would say give this a shot, check it out. I've
Speaker 1: interviewed the guy who helped start this website and he's
Speaker 1: a very smart guy, so I think that he's probably
Speaker 1: doing really cool stuff with this. But Diane, good luck
Speaker 1: with everything, and thanks so much for calling. The fact
Speaker 1: that I can take calls on the show, it's it's
Speaker 1: like the most fun thing for me. All Right, let's
Speaker 1: talk about the next story, which I'm gonna kind of
Speaker 1: be a little negative about. But Charter and Comcast are
Speaker 1: developing a streaming platform now. So if you think of
Speaker 1: streaming platforms, we have Apple TV with tvOS, we have
Speaker 1: Amazon's Fire TV, We've got Chrome Cast, We've got Roku.
Speaker 1: You know, those are the main, like big platforms for streaming.
Speaker 1: So when you have a device for streaming, it's or
Speaker 1: you know, you might have a Samsung TV that has
Speaker 1: their streaming stuff built in. If you've listened to me
Speaker 1: for a while, you know that I personally like to
Speaker 1: choose one of the major streaming platforms, whether it is
Speaker 1: Apple TV, whether it's Roku TV, whether it is.
Speaker 2: Five.
Speaker 1: Those are the three Fire, Roku, and Apple, all the
Speaker 1: ones that are built into the TVs. They're okay and
Speaker 1: they work as long as the apps that you want
Speaker 1: are on there. But I've mentioned this before. Apps are
Speaker 1: updated more often on these kind of what I would
Speaker 1: call core platforms. So that's why I really like them,
Speaker 1: because you're getting the latest, greatest, up to date apps.
Speaker 1: But if what's working for you, if what you have
Speaker 1: on your TV is working, it's absolutely just fine. So
Speaker 1: don't don't get too caught up in that part of it.
Speaker 1: So Comcast and and Charter are coming up with their
Speaker 1: own platform, which I can't imagine a world where I
Speaker 1: would ever want to seed my platform to a giant
Speaker 1: cable company.
Speaker 2: I just can't imagine why.
Speaker 1: How can they do something better than an Amazon or
Speaker 1: an Apple or a Roku, which is a nice independent
Speaker 1: company like Comcast and and Charter do not have and this,
Speaker 1: you know, this is my opinion, they do not have
Speaker 1: the same intentions or the best intentions of the you know,
Speaker 1: of the customer in mind, because you know, they've got
Speaker 1: so many businesses like you know, Charter. If you think
Speaker 1: about them, you know, they're they're trying to you know,
Speaker 1: sell you Internet and they're trying to sell you cable
Speaker 1: TV and comcasts. You know, they own NBC and they
Speaker 1: own all these other you know, the Peacock Network or
Speaker 1: the Peacock platform and all this stuff.
Speaker 2: So you know, it's tough for them to say, oh,
Speaker 2: let's really push Netflix. Now.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that this platform is not going to
Speaker 1: be okay, and it's not. You know, they're gonna get
Speaker 1: a lot of people on it. They're gonna come out
Speaker 1: with TVs, they're gonna come out with streaming boxes. But
Speaker 1: the reality is I don't want it, and I just
Speaker 1: don't see why anyone would want it, because, uh, it's
Speaker 1: just one of these things where I'd rather go with
Speaker 1: a kind of a third party independent company rather than
Speaker 1: a big cable company. And part of that reason is
Speaker 1: because they have they have crossed us in the past.
Speaker 1: You know, they have proven time and time again with
Speaker 1: the price increases, with the you know, the modem rental fees.
Speaker 2: And all these little things. There's a there's always a gotcha,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And it's just something.
Speaker 1: When I plug in my Amazon Fire TV stick, it
Speaker 1: works really well. Amazon customer service is really good.
Speaker 2: When I use.
Speaker 1: Roku, they offer everything everyone's on that platform. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: have some problems once in a while with some of
Speaker 1: the providers, and you know it's a money grab and
Speaker 1: this and that, but you know, Apple TV it works
Speaker 1: really well. The apps are really nice. So again I'm
Speaker 1: just telling you what's coming up because you will see
Speaker 1: this and this. Because it's marketed by Comcast and Charter,
Speaker 1: it will be a big deal because they're.
Speaker 2: Gonna sell it to a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Now, when they sell you cable, they're gonna say, hey,
Speaker 1: by the way, we can send you a box for free,
Speaker 1: and you know you can use that box to stream
Speaker 1: all your stuff.
Speaker 2: And you're gonna say, oh, okay, that's cool.
Speaker 1: And you know, next thing, you know, you've got this
Speaker 1: streaming box from Comcast and Charter, which you know, who
Speaker 1: knows is if it's gonna be very good.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just maybe I'm being too negative about this, but
Speaker 1: I'm I'm kind of a pessimist when it comes to large,
Speaker 1: large companies like this trying to do good for the customer.
Speaker 1: Like I just can't imagine that this could be a
Speaker 1: good thing. And you know, you can challenge me on it,
Speaker 1: put it in the comments. But the reality is I've
Speaker 1: never really sat there and said like, oh, I love
Speaker 1: my cable company.
Speaker 2: I love my you know, Mike.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at cable boxes for the longest time.
Speaker 1: The screen on the cable box was like trapped in
Speaker 1: the eighties. Why because they had no incentive to change,
Speaker 1: and if you called them to like get a new box,
Speaker 1: they would charge you for the upgraded box.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just the way it works. So that's
Speaker 2: just you know, my, my thoughts.
Speaker 1: But you're listening to the rich On Tech Show, so
Speaker 1: of course I am allowed to share my thoughts. Let's
Speaker 1: go to nine oh nine, nine oh nine, you are
Speaker 1: on with rich Who's this.
Speaker 2: Mike? How you doing, Mike? Welcome to the show. Hi
Speaker 2: doing well, Thank you great.
Speaker 6: I'm just wondering what you thought about direct TV stream.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, if you were hearing my if you were
Speaker 1: hearing me go off about what I was just saying
Speaker 1: with the Comcast and Charter, I probably won't be as
Speaker 1: kind about DirecTV stream. Now.
Speaker 2: Direct TV stream is kind.
Speaker 1: Of like, uh, is that basically there that that old
Speaker 1: it's like a cable provider, right, but all streaming.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Correct?
Speaker 2: So was this the old? Okay?
Speaker 1: I remember covering this because I was at like the
Speaker 1: launch thing, but it was like AT and T had
Speaker 1: like a streaming cable thing for a while, and I
Speaker 1: was a subscriber for a long like a year.
Speaker 2: I think I got But what was that called? Do
Speaker 2: you remember that? I think it became DirecTV stream?
Speaker 6: Yeah. I think it was AT and T stream or
Speaker 6: something like.
Speaker 1: That, AT and T now, at and T TV now.
Speaker 1: So that's what it was, and I had this. Okay,
Speaker 1: So here's here's my thing. I think this is cool
Speaker 1: if if it has you know, if you want that
Speaker 1: kind of cable experience, you want cable channels. You know,
Speaker 1: Direct TV is in a precarious position because for many
Speaker 1: many years they were the leader. You know that you
Speaker 1: couldn't challenge Direct TV because they had satellites, They had
Speaker 1: access to content and programming that nobody else had. And
Speaker 1: that may still be the case with certain things on
Speaker 1: this direct TV stream. So what is it that appeals
Speaker 1: to you about this specifically? Is it some kind of
Speaker 1: programming you can get on there?
Speaker 6: Well, the programming is great. It's nice because my mom
Speaker 6: is disabled and I'm able to have it at her
Speaker 6: home as well as ours. But then we can watch
Speaker 6: it anywhere we go. So that's what makes it pretty cool.
Speaker 2: And what do you pay?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm looking at the prices. It's like, see, now
Speaker 1: here's one thing I don't like. It's you know, you've
Speaker 1: get these these starter prices where it's fifty nine ninety
Speaker 1: nine for the first three months, and then it goes
Speaker 1: up to sixty nine ninety nine and then you get
Speaker 1: the premiere for one hundred and fifty bucks and it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it kind of reminds me of
Speaker 1: the old cable pricing. Now, with all of that said,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at you get unlimited Cloud DVR, which is included,
Speaker 1: you get you know, you can choose from these four packages.
Speaker 2: You can stream you know, anywhere you want, and you've
Speaker 2: got all these.
Speaker 1: Different networks, and it looks like the main thing that
Speaker 1: they offer that nobody else does is they've got more
Speaker 1: regional sports. Is that kind of something you are interested
Speaker 1: as well? Not necessarily, no, okay, And it looks like
Speaker 1: it works on the different streaming boxes or you can
Speaker 1: get their device.
Speaker 2: Do you have their device with this, the stream device?
Speaker 6: No, I have no devices. I just have the smart TVs.
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean, you know what I'm looking at here
Speaker 1: is it seems like it's very similar to what you
Speaker 1: get with like YouTube and you know, Hulu or Sling TV,
Speaker 1: So I would kind of put this all in the
Speaker 1: same bucket as those. So in that case, I would
Speaker 1: just go with the one that offers the channels you want.
Speaker 1: It sounds like if it's working for you, I have
Speaker 1: no problem with it. I mean, I would definitely do
Speaker 1: a price check to see what you're paying for this
Speaker 1: versus something like a YouTube TV. If it, you know,
Speaker 1: if it gives you those same things for that price,
Speaker 1: then I you know, I think stick to it until
Speaker 1: they either raise the price or something like that, or
Speaker 1: they do something that you don't like, and then you know.
Speaker 1: But it seems fine. I mean, it just seems like
Speaker 1: it's a it's a cable TV service that's delivered through
Speaker 1: the internet and that with the unlimited DVR, which and
Speaker 1: it sounds like you can use it at different places,
Speaker 1: which is nice. So I don't see a problem with this, Mike,
Speaker 1: I really don't, Okay.
Speaker 6: We love watching you on the channel type. Thanks so much.
Speaker 1: Now my question is do they have Channel five on
Speaker 1: this direct TV stream? I'm trying to remember if it
Speaker 1: was on AT and T.
Speaker 2: I don't think it. Oh they don't go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well that's not really a direct TV thing, that's honestly,
Speaker 1: it's a KTLA thing. It's our our parent company the
Speaker 1: way it was before and this our new company is
Speaker 1: now doing. You know, we have the app that's free
Speaker 1: and so that's nice. But for a while we weren't
Speaker 1: on sort of any streaming and that was that was
Speaker 1: definitely a tough period. But at least you can get
Speaker 1: us for free somehow, and it's you know, we're not
Speaker 1: on the streaming services per se, but you know, people
Speaker 1: are finding us on KTLA Plus, which is nice and
Speaker 1: also you know over the air, right all right, Well,
Speaker 1: I know I know Temecula, Well I know, uh do
Speaker 1: you know where Clinton Keith Road.
Speaker 2: Is over there?
Speaker 6: I absolutely do.
Speaker 2: Harvest and Lake Okay.
Speaker 1: I used to my wife's grandma and grandfather lived out there,
Speaker 1: so we would come to Temecula and you know, hang
Speaker 1: out there. Sometimes I'd sneak off to uh Pachanga for
Speaker 1: a bit and uh, while the family was all meeting.
Speaker 1: But it's a it's a nice place and uh it's
Speaker 1: it's uh, you know, probably getting hotter soon out there, though,
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's a beautiful city. It's a great place to
Speaker 6: raise a family. I've been here my entire life. My
Speaker 6: parents came here in nineteen seventy seven, so we've seen
Speaker 6: a lot of growth. Yeah, and Clinton Keith like two
Speaker 6: exits down from us. It's not that far and they're
Speaker 6: actually building a brand new Costco that's opening in June.
Speaker 6: So that'll be exciting.
Speaker 1: Oh that's that's always exciting, a new cost go we
Speaker 1: you know, all right, Mike, Well, thanks for calling in.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I'm glad the calls worked. And again I'm still quite
Speaker 1: impressed with this little setup I have because it's the
Speaker 1: easiest setup I've ever had.
Speaker 2: And so it's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: Jason says on the on the chat from Seami Valley,
Speaker 1: Me and my family enjoy watching your category bit on
Speaker 1: KTLA five. Thank you, Jason, it's funny. I you know,
Speaker 1: I've been on KTLA. I was thinking about this. You know,
Speaker 1: I've been on there for ten plus years now, which
Speaker 1: is just absolutely wild.
Speaker 4: To me.
Speaker 1: But also it's really wild to me just how many
Speaker 1: people that KTLA reaches. It never ceases to amaze me
Speaker 1: no matter where I am, whether I'm in LA or
Speaker 1: another city in America, you know, because they do syndicate
Speaker 1: the segment.
Speaker 2: It's just it's just pretty.
Speaker 1: Wild that, Like, I've been in the oddest places and
Speaker 1: people come up to me and hey, rich, I like
Speaker 1: your segment. And the good news is when people come
Speaker 1: up to me, it's always like they're very nice and
Speaker 1: they're always like, I like your stuff, which is good.
Speaker 2: I've yet to have someone come up and be like,
Speaker 2: your segment is the worst You're you know, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: So I do like the fact that people like what
Speaker 1: I'm doing, so I'll keep doing it. All right, let's
Speaker 1: talk about Google Search. Two things today that I posted
Speaker 1: about Google. So, number one, they've got a new forum
Speaker 1: or not a form, a form where you can request
Speaker 1: to have some of your personal identifiable information removed from
Speaker 1: Google Search.
Speaker 2: Now here's the thing.
Speaker 1: This sounds good, and the reality of it is that
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily what you probably need. So if you've
Speaker 1: ever been on Google Search and you've searched your own name.
Speaker 1: You've probably noticed that your phone numbers on there, your
Speaker 1: address is on there, all kinds of information. If you
Speaker 1: go to a website I think it's called I don't
Speaker 1: even want to give them a publicity because it's so scary.
Speaker 2: But if you go to a website called fast.
Speaker 1: People Search, you can basically find information about anyone because
Speaker 1: what they're doing is they're calling all of these public
Speaker 1: records and putting it into an easy to search and
Speaker 1: find database.
Speaker 2: And it's perfectly legal. That's the thing.
Speaker 1: If you've bought a house or if you've done some
Speaker 1: sort of business, it's it's all there and it's all legal,
Speaker 1: So they're not gonna take that kind of stuff down.
Speaker 1: What what Google will now take down is you know
Speaker 1: your contact information, phone number, email address, physical address, but
Speaker 1: only if you're somehow at risk, right if someone is
Speaker 1: harassing you, if someone is intentionally putting this information out
Speaker 1: there to you know, to really you know, to put
Speaker 1: you at risk, your family at risk, you at risk,
Speaker 1: And so they will then take that information down from
Speaker 1: their search, not from the original website. Google does not
Speaker 1: have the ability to go to the website itself and
Speaker 1: take it down. But since Google Search is so big
Speaker 1: and prominent. If they take it off of their search,
Speaker 1: it's going to be tougher to people for finding that information.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: This is often called dosing.
Speaker 1: That's when basic least someone happens to journalists a lot,
Speaker 1: where you know, someone gets doxed or anyone. It could
Speaker 1: be anyone in the public light, could be anyone in general,
Speaker 1: I guess. But they basically put your information out there saying, hey,
Speaker 1: here's here's their information.
Speaker 2: Do with it what you want.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, maybe you show up in front of
Speaker 1: their house and protest about something. And so that's really
Speaker 1: called doxing someone and or you know, scaring someone or whatever.
Speaker 2: It's not very nice. It happens a lot, it is.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it happens inadvertently, like let's say you screenshot a
Speaker 1: text message with someone that said something mean to you
Speaker 1: and you kind of put their name out there or
Speaker 1: the user name. That's that's pretty much doxing, where you're
Speaker 1: basically like, oh, I'm sorry, did I put your information
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 2: It's not a very nice thing to do.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Google will they have a new form where
Speaker 1: you can fill out and say, hey, I think that
Speaker 1: I'm at risk, and they will review that and see
Speaker 1: if they will take down that information. If it comes
Speaker 1: from a public source like a you know, a government
Speaker 1: record or something, they're not going to take it down.
Speaker 1: So it's only if someone put it up there maliciously.
Speaker 1: I've got the link on how to do that on
Speaker 1: the website rich on Tech dot tv. The other thing
Speaker 1: that Google can do, and this is kind of cool.
Speaker 1: I made a video about this on my Instagram today,
Speaker 1: so if you want to check it out, go to
Speaker 1: my Instagram at rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: But they have a new feature that lets you.
Speaker 1: See fewer ads in certain categories including weight loss, pregnancy
Speaker 1: and parenting and dating ads and also alcohol and gambling.
Speaker 2: So you can go on this website ads.
Speaker 1: It's Ads Ads ads settings dot Google dot com and
Speaker 1: it will give you a picture of who you are.
Speaker 1: So I went to this website this morning. And you
Speaker 1: can also turn off ad personalization in general. Personally, I
Speaker 1: leave AD personalization on because if I'm seeing ads, then
Speaker 1: I want to see ads that are personalized for me.
Speaker 1: Oh and Jason just said here on twitch, me and
Speaker 1: other streamers always have to be careful about dosing. It's
Speaker 1: an issue on live streaming. Very true because let's say
Speaker 1: this actually happened to me on TV one time. I
Speaker 1: was showing something on my phone and my wife's phone
Speaker 1: number popped up.
Speaker 2: And I am not kidding.
Speaker 1: She got so many phone calls. This was at five
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning. She got so many phone calls
Speaker 1: all at once. Everyone thought it was my number for
Speaker 1: some reason, so they're just starting. They weren't nice. Everyone
Speaker 1: was very nice, but they would just call like it
Speaker 1: was like the circuit the all circuits were busy. It
Speaker 1: was that many people, and it was a total mistake
Speaker 1: on my part, but I guess I really did docs her.
Speaker 2: Let's see what the definition of DOS is.
Speaker 1: On docs is okay search for and publish private or
Speaker 1: identifying information about a particular individual on the Internet, typically
Speaker 1: with malicious intent, So quote unquote hackers and online vigilantes
Speaker 1: routinely docs both public and private figures.
Speaker 2: So that's the definition of it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I tried calling my wife to tell her
Speaker 1: what happened, and I couldn't get through to her because
Speaker 1: so many people are calling her phone number, and so
Speaker 1: I ended up texting her and she was like, what
Speaker 1: just happened?
Speaker 2: And I was like sorry.
Speaker 1: And some people actually stored her phone number for a
Speaker 1: long time, and they would text her at random times
Speaker 1: to like get in touch with me. It was really funny.
Speaker 1: So that's simmered down, so it's all good at this point. Anyways,
Speaker 1: So you can go to ads settings dot Google dot
Speaker 1: com and see what Google thinks it knows about you.
Speaker 1: For me, it thinks that I'm into lows door, dash, Accura,
Speaker 1: air travel, android, apps, apparel, auto exterior, which is true.
Speaker 2: I like to clean my car.
Speaker 1: Beaches and islands, sure, Big Island, Hawaii, BMW, Boston Metro Like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not really into the Boston Metro.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means. Casual games, commercial properties,
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Credit cards. I do have one credit card, but I've
Speaker 1: talked about how it's funny. I'm obsessed with credit card research,
Speaker 1: but I don't actually get credit cards because I like
Speaker 1: to use my debit card. Face and body care, I mean, okay, guilty.
Speaker 1: I don't know flowers, food, GPS and navigation. I mean,
Speaker 1: who's not into GPS and navigation, horror films, hybrid and
Speaker 1: alternative vehicles.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll give you that.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: A lot of this stuff is because I, oh this
Speaker 1: is one. I took issue with parental status not a parent,
Speaker 1: So you can go in there and I can turn
Speaker 1: this off. I can't believe that it thinks I am
Speaker 1: not a parent. That's really sad. I am a parent,
Speaker 1: so now I'm parenting.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Anyway, if you scroll all the way down to the bottom,
Speaker 1: you can turn off these sensitive ad categories including alcohol, dating, gambling, pregnancy,
Speaker 1: and weight loss. Two more stories I do want to
Speaker 1: get through because I think they're important. Number One, Fidelity
Speaker 1: is going to allow retirement plans to have bitcoin for
Speaker 1: the first time. So Fidelity is a company that does
Speaker 1: handles many of the retirement plans for twenty three thousand companies,
Speaker 1: and so the fact that they're allowing those companies to
Speaker 1: give their users or their employees access to bitcoin inside
Speaker 1: their four to one K is a huge deal. Now,
Speaker 1: as we know, bitcoin all over the place. Some people
Speaker 1: love it, some people don't really understand what it is.
Speaker 1: The rest of the folks are just sort of in
Speaker 1: the middle, just maybe have a small position in some
Speaker 1: app like Robinhood. But the fact that they're allowing people
Speaker 1: to add bitcoin to their four oh one k's that's
Speaker 1: a pretty big deal because this is a big, legitimate company. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know they make money. I'm guessing somehow on fees
Speaker 1: on you know, providing this service and your inside your
Speaker 1: retirement plan. You know, retirement plans do have fees, but
Speaker 1: they're they're not really noticeable unless you look at your statements.
Speaker 1: But if you look at your statements, you are being
Speaker 1: charged retirement plan fees through your company. It's usually in
Speaker 1: your statement at the bottom it says like a some
Speaker 1: sort of fee that you know they take out of
Speaker 1: your retirement basically. Anyway, I thought that was a really
Speaker 1: big deal. And the other story I wanted to mention
Speaker 1: because this is a question I get a lot, but
Speaker 1: a lot of people have hearing aids and they want
Speaker 1: to be able to listen to the TV through those
Speaker 1: hearing aids.
Speaker 2: A lot of the new high tech hearing.
Speaker 1: Aids are basically Bluetooth compatible or some sort of wireless
Speaker 1: compatibility either connect to your smartphone or you know, different
Speaker 1: things using Bluetooth, and so fireTV now the fireTV Cube
Speaker 1: can connect directly to hearing aids. So this is very important.
Speaker 1: If you have a loved one in your life that
Speaker 1: has hearing aids, it might be time to get a
Speaker 1: fire TV Cube because if they have some of these
Speaker 1: high tech hearing aids, you can just literally link them
Speaker 1: up with the fireTV. Now they can listen through their
Speaker 1: hearing aids to whatever is on that streaming player.
Speaker 2: So this is the first.
Speaker 1: Streaming media player to support audio streaming for hearing aids
Speaker 1: commonly known as ASHA, so it's pretty cool you connect
Speaker 1: them directly. It works with various hearing aids, including brands
Speaker 1: from Starkey.
Speaker 2: All Audible, New Ear, micro Tech, and Audigy.
Speaker 1: So this is something again that you should look into
Speaker 1: if you've got someone that has hearing aids and they
Speaker 1: want an easier way to listen to streaming stuff. That's
Speaker 1: this is a pretty big deal and and kudos to
Speaker 1: Amazon for putting that functionality inside the fire TV Cube.
Speaker 1: So again, it's only the fire TV Cube and it
Speaker 1: has to be certain hearing aids for this to work,
Speaker 1: but I think that's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: If if you want to get in on the line
Speaker 1: before I go, it's area code three one nine five
Speaker 1: two seven six seven three seven. I'll take one more
Speaker 1: question if I have the time, but that's pretty much
Speaker 1: gonna do it for this show. Let me see what
Speaker 1: else do I have here? Let's see here. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: so many questions. Uh, Cindy says, Hey, Rich, I love
Speaker 1: the Samsung Fold, but it was still too thick for
Speaker 1: my small hands. Is there anything on the horizon for
Speaker 1: a small screen Android similar to the iPhone Mini?
Speaker 2: Which is perfect? But I'm an Android fan.
Speaker 1: It's funny you say this, Cindy, because the iPhone fourteen
Speaker 1: apparently is not going to have a mini, so I
Speaker 1: guess not many people purchase the iPhone fourteen Mini, which
Speaker 1: is a small, good sized phone. But I think it's
Speaker 1: funny because we saw this trend of bigger screens. People
Speaker 1: think that if it's a big screen, they're getting more
Speaker 1: value for their money. So with the new iPhone, they're
Speaker 1: actually going the opposite direction.
Speaker 2: They're giving the.
Speaker 1: iPhone Standard thirteen is going to come in a bigger
Speaker 1: version this time, so you're actually gonna be able to
Speaker 1: get a bigger iPhone sorry, iPhone fourteen and a bigger
Speaker 1: screen size for like two hundred dollars less than having
Speaker 1: to go with.
Speaker 2: The pro model.
Speaker 1: So that's a pretty big deal. Let's see, we got
Speaker 1: some comments here. Oh my gosh, Let's see what else
Speaker 1: do we have here? Oh, Jason said, keep up the
Speaker 1: good information and entertaining tech topics, and remember to.
Speaker 2: Be careful of what you share.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a challenge, you know, doing stuff that's like
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent off my phone. I mean, I'm always
Speaker 1: showing my phone screen, so it's really tough. Especially when
Speaker 1: you're doing like mapping apps and things. There's always some
Speaker 1: sort of personal information on your phone screen. So, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, you know what that sound means. That's gonna
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