WEBVTT - Tesla's Robotaxi, Electronics Nostalgia & Ring's AI Search 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:06.039 Tesla unveils a ROBOTAXI how your smart TV is spying 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:11.320 on you? Why you're getting so many unsolicited job offer texts? 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.640 Plus your tech questions? Answer ered What's going on? I'm 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:18.120 Rich Dmiro and this is Rich on Tech. This is 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:19.880 the show where I talk about the tech stuff I 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:21.800 think you should know about. It's also the place where 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:25.360 I answer your questions about technology. I believe the tech 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:29.640 should be interesting, useful and fun. Let's open up those 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:32.960 phone lines at triple eight rich one oh one. That's 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:36.959 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:39.640 Give me a call. 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He's gonna explore the pros and cons 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.959 of those art style TVs like Samsung's the frame and 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.360 high senses canvas TV. You know they show artwork when 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.800 you're not using it. And we've got former PR pro 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.920 Scott Baldwin. He's got a new app. He has a 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:32.319 startup and the app is called front Pack. It's a 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:36.360 social network for athletes. So we'll talk to him. Plus 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.240 I've got a special guest. Stay tuned for that. 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:40.280 Well. 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.440 I am coming to you from my home state of 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.200 New Jersey today, so that's why the music you'll hear 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:51.120 throughout the show is all Jersey inspired. Always fun to 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.800 come home. I am actually here for a celebration for 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:58.160 my dad and it's a nice one. Ten years cancer free, 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.240 which I cannot believe. I still remember the day I 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.600 was actually at the doctor with him when he got 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:07.480 the initial diagnosis and it just, you know, puts your 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:12.280 world into a tailspin, just everything, and so my you know, 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.240 I live far away, so I said, you know what, 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.760 I will help. Couldn't bring him to the hospital all 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.280 that stuff, but I will help get his tech life 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.520 in order. So immediately I said, let's go through your stuff. 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:24.280 Let's get everything kind of figured out so I can 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.360 help you pay the bills and all these different things. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.280 And the first thing I learned is that his digital 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:34.360 life was such a mess, as are so many of ours. 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.040 I like to think mine is not, but you know, 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:40.120 there are portions of it that are. But I had 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.840 to go through his passwords and access to everything, you know, 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.360 get online, access to banking and things like that. And 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:48.959 it just took a lot because it's like, Dad, do 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.840 you know your password to this? No? Dad, do you 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:52.920 know how you access this? 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:53.440 No? 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.440 And so I got a lot of things in order, 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.520 but it took a while. A couple of things to 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:03.160 think about. Number One, when you're thinking about, you know, 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:08.000 your access for other folks. Apple has a legacy access option, 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.680 So set that up someone that you can hand over 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.040 your account to in the event that you can't, you know, 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.760 manage it any longer you pass away. Google has an 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.600 inactive account manager as well. They will email you can 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.240 set someone as a sort of a beneficiary of those 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.840 two accounts. Those are the two big ones. But do 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.239 that and also maybe share your passwords of some of 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:32.400 the important stuff with folks. Obviously, my dad's livelihood was 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.640 impacted during this time when he was recovering. He is 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.920 a roofer by trade, so he couldn't go up on roofs, 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.840 although he probably did during some of this time, and 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:43.880 so I set up a GoFundMe for him. That was 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.640 incredible just to see how many friends, family, and even 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:50.280 complete strangers wanted to help. If you did that many 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.400 many years ago, thank you for that. Always set up 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.000 a GoFundMe if someone is going through something in your life, 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:59.080 because there are many people that are just waiting to help. 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.200 And with social media and all these avenues, it's a 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.560 great way to do that and to raise some funds 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.760 for folks who can't work or need some help. And 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.040 it's been a long journey, lots of doctors, lots of hospitals, 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:15.640 lots of sickness, lots of blood. Blood actually helped save 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.520 both my mom's life and my dad's life. They would 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.599 not be here today if it was not for blood donation. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.560 So please donate blood. Personally, I am too scared to 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.960 do that. I know I'm trying to work through it, 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:30.040 but that is something that I do appreciate when other 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:35.760 people do it. I think it's incredible. My dad really strong. 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.240 He's a health nut, always has been, and so he 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.480 did end up getting through his cancer. He got a 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:45.560 stem cell transplant, which, again incredible technology. He had to 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.839 start life over. It was not easy and it was 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.760 a very long journey. Again, it's been ten years. But 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:56.400 modern technology, including includes medical advances. We often forget. We 0:04:56.440 --> 0:05:00.360 think about technology as computers and gadgets and things, but 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:04.280 medicine is also quite incredible these days, and there are 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.440 very smart people figuring this stuff out and continuing to 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.599 make strides. But one thing has not changed. My dad 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:11.360 is healthy now. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:11.680 He is. 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.719 You know, it's you never fully recover from something like this, 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.080 but you know, the cancer is gone and he is 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.200 an incredible person and we're going to celebrate him for 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.359 that today. And one thing has not changed, though, I 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.920 will tell you his passwords are still a mess, so 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.000 that has not changed. While I was here in New Jersey, 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:35.560 I did visit a real life electronics store. It's called Microcenter. 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:37.240 My mom and I were going somewhere else and I said, 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:38.720 I got to stop in that place. I mean I 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:40.719 got to stop in because it's just you know, we 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.400 don't have these, And so I did go there and 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.000 I just thought it was so neat because over the 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:51.640 years we've seen this sort of evolution of you know, 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.040 the the idea of the electronics store. Nowadays it's all 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.320 Amazon overnight, right, But through my years growing up, I 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.200 mean I remember going going to Egghead Software, if you 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.599 remember a place called Egghead Software. But that was like 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.240 as a nerd growing up, it was just so cool. 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.159 You'd walk in and all the software was in boxes, 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.039 and you had discs and floppy drives and you would 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.359 come home and put in like one disc after another 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.239 to install programs. Now we just download them on our 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:19.919 phone instantly. There's a place called Crazy Eddies, which I 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.200 know got a lot of notoriety over the years because 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:23.839 I think the guy ended up getting in trouble with 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.680 the government for like embezzling money. But that was a 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.479 great place where our prices are insane. I mean, these 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:33.000 larger than life, you know characters on TV that would 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:36.120 be promoting electronics. How wild is that? And then of 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:37.800 course I lived close to New York City, so there 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.880 were always these electronics stores, like independent electronics stores in 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.000 New York City. And what you do is you'd buy 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.000 the newspaper. They would all list their prices in the 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.640 back and tiny print, and you'd go into one store 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:50.680 and you say, hey, this other store has this thing, 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.800 this VCR for you know, nine ninety eight. You've got 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:55.480 it for nine to ninety nine. Can we get that? 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.159 You know, this this price that they have. Maybe it 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.120 wasn't that little of a difference, but you know what 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.200 I mean. And so you know, then you had the 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:06.880 regional retailer, so PC, Richards, the Whiz sixth have electronics. 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.080 These were all on the East Coast. I'm sure where 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.440 you are it could be different, but this is where 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.280 I grew up, and there was just so many of them, 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.920 and I love just going into these stores and walking around. 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.000 And over the years, of course, growing up, my dad 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.280 would buy stereos in our first camquarder, our first big 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:27.280 screen TV, our first fax machine, computers and printers, and 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.040 I will tell you my dad would attest to this 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.120 that almost every single thing that he purchased, whether it 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.640 was for a small business or for the house, somehow 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:36.840 ended up in my room at the house. Like the 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.800 fax machine. He bought it for his business, but somehow 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:41.800 it ended up in my room. Like what did they 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.080 sixth grader need with a fax machine. I don't know, 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.360 i'd know in a fax, but it was just so cool. 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:51.000 And then of course later peripherals, sound cards, speakers, graphic cards. 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.160 It just went on and on. My love for electronics 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.720 ran very deep, even as a kid, and the stores 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.680 go on and on. Radio Shack that was next to 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:01.720 like one of the grocery stores my mom would always 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:03.520 go to, and of course I had to duck into 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:05.560 Radio Shack and convince my mom to let me go 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.640 in there and just check it out. And I didn't 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.640 necessarily have enough money to buy anything. But part of 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.720 the fun of going into these stores were the smart 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.920 people that were inside these stores. So because you were 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.960 a nerd, you would find like minded people and just 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.320 chat about nerdy things, and a lot of times you 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.240 were comparing knowledge, right, oh what about this new you know, 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.480 microprocess or this new computer. Oh I tried that. So 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.640 that was just part of it. Nowadays, of course, that's 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.160 all online, it's all in forms, it's all in chats. 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.680 But back in the day, it was like real human 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.240 to human interaction at these places, and you knew where 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.640 to find these people. And then of course it was 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:44.520 the bigger, bigger stores comp USA Circuit City and Best Buy. 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.760 They just continued to get bigger fries electronics when I 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:51.640 made my way to California, but again, local retailers ruled 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.720 electronics for a long time until these mega chains stepped in. 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.240 Back in the day, even office Depot had an excellent 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.720 department that I had never worked in. It was called 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.320 business Machines. I actually worked it off as depots selling 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.000 cell phones back in the day when they were ninety 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.560 nine cents you would, or were they a penny? Whatever 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.840 they were, they were like ninety nine cents or a penny, 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.679 and every time, without fail, people would buy the phone 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.360 and they'd come in like thirty days later when their 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.560 first bill came in the mail and their bill was 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.520 so expensive because it included the first month, the last month, 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.680 the pro rated amount, and I was like, well, the 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.600 phone was only ninety nine cents. I mean, you have 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:28.760 to pay for this somehow, right, And we had to 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.040 work through that. Half the times, the flip phones that 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.480 we sold for a dollar would be returned because people 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.920 were so angry at the giant bill they got for. 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:37.320 And back then it was like, you know, a couple 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.720 hundred bucks for their first bill, and by the way 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.720 in that department business machines. These salespeople again were nerds, 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:46.480 and they were fun and like that's why I just 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.600 sit there and chat with about all the latest electronics. 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.640 And they were commissioned, so if you were a good salesperson, 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.160 you can make a lot of money back in the day. Now, 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.600 of course, a lot of these retailers like Best Buy 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:01.040 have moved away from that sort of commission I pressure sales, 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.920 but it was quite interesting for a long time, and 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.880 now it's all about online reviews, Amazon getting your stuff overnight. 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.960 Cost Go still a big place where people buy electronics. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.880 But I'm curious, are there any local electronics stores left 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.120 in your area? I mean, I travel a lot, and 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.200 of course I will always go into a place if 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.160 I see one, But I was so happy to see 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.120 micro Center. It's just such a such a great place 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.560 to see, like thriving, and I just made my mom 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.240 walk around all we walk down every single aisle and 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.600 just had such a great time. So if you want 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.200 to hop on the phone lines or email me, I 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.360 will mention later in the show or throughout the show 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.839 some of these places that you visited growing up and 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.079 just enjoying electronics because If you're listening to the show, 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.400 you probably have somewhat of a small love of gadgets 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.880 like I did and still do. All right, coming up, 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.920 we're gonna talk Tesla Cybercab, new announcement from Tesla with 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.080 their self driving car. But first we're gonna take some 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.280 of your calls. 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Tony, let's get you on 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:14.440 with Rich. 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:19.240 What's up, Hi, Rich, thank you for taking my call. 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:21.080 I wanted to know. 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:21.760 I have. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.400 Air pods and it's the Model A zero three one. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:31.040 I guess it's the second Gin, okay, but it shut 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:35.760 down after only possibly maybe one hour of youth and 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.199 my battery I'm checking and it's still like eighty percent 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:43.800 or more. So I'm, I guess in the market of 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:48.960 purchasing a replacement, and I noticed that the fourth GIN 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.600 is out right now. So I need your help on 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.760 what shall I buy because I'm quite satisfied with what 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.400 I have. It's just that it doesn't work. 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.480 So the AirPods that you have, what's the problem. The 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.520 battery is not lasting right. 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.559 Another battery still showing. I'll put it back in the case. 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.160 I'm in the middle of of a phone call or something. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.720 I'm using it, and I'll get that little sound word 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:17.760 shutting down it or whatever it makes, and it'll just 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.280 totally go out, and I have to put it back 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.400 in the case. And then I'll always check to see 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.160 what the percentage I have left, and at that time 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:30.920 it's always seventy or eighty percent left on the I 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:34.800 guess the battery line usage or whatever. But it shuts down. 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.000 Okay, well that's odd. So first thing I would do 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:43.360 is reset these to factory like reset. Have you done that? 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:45.080 No? 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.240 Okay, So you put the AirPods in their case, you 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.200 close the lid, you wait about thirty seconds, you open 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.280 the lid, and then you press and hold that little 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.679 button on the back of the case for about fifteen 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.920 seconds until the light will flash amber and then white. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.800 And this is off the AirPod support guide online and 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.719 that will get them back to factory settings. So that 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.880 will clear everything off of them and make sure that 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.200 they are factory fresh once again, and then you will 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:15.800 repair them to your phone and see if the problem persists. Now, 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.280 if the problem persists, I would also do a little 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.520 clean out. I would get a little alcohol, a little 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.080 rubbing alcohol or an alcohol wipe, make sure it's not 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:26.680 super wet. Just you know, maybe put some alcohol on 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.240 a Q tip and I would clean the I would 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.520 clean the all basically everything inside the case and the 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.600 contacts on the air pods themselves, and then I would 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.440 charge them up, pair them back to your phone, and 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.880 see if the problem is still happening. If the problems 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:44.880 still happening, then I would probably get a new pair 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.120 of AirPods. I would see if these are under warranty. 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.080 You said they're the second generation. I don't think they're 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.880 under warranty at this point, and so I would probably 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:55.840 get a new pair at that point. The new ones 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.480 are let's see here. The new ones are one hundred 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:03.080 and twenty nine dollars for the air pods four. I 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.840 will tell you I've been testing them with active noise cancelation. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.840 I don't think it's worth the active noise cancelation. I 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.640 don't think it's very good. So did you need the 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.960 noise cancelation or no? 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.040 No. I normally just wear one anyway, because if I'm 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.280 out walking or doing something, I normally just wear one 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.800 so that I can be more aware of my surrounding. 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:27.200 Yeah, okay, And so is it only one that's messing 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:28.280 up on these air pods. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.760 Well, I only really use the one, and that's the 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.400 one that keeps going out. The other one, I don't. 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:41.200 Know, Okay, got it? Okay, So I'm wondering if I mean, yeah, okay, interesting. Well, 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.160 I mean you could switch the other ear, and it'll 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:44.680 take a little bit for your brain to get used 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.240 to it, because, believe me, I always put mine in 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.000 the same ear when i'm doing just one, and then 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:49.240 it's like if I have it in the other one, 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.760 I'm like, wait, I can't do this, but you can. 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:53.360 You know, if you want to squeeze another couple of 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.200 years of life out of these, you can just put 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.720 it in the other ear and use that one. But 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:59.840 I think maybe a new pair, if you know, go 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.320 through the steps that I mentioned. I'll put the links 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.640 on the website. Rich on tech dot tv. This is 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.520 the show notes. This is show number ninety three, So 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.640 I'll put that in the show notes, and hopefully if 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:15.480 you go through all those systems and see if it's 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.360 still giving you a problem, then maybe it's time for 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.280 a new pair. But I will tell you you're not alone 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.280 these Tony. These For some reason, the AirPods just have 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.600 this weird thing where like sometimes they just show like 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.080 one percent one of them charges, one of them doesn't. 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.560 And so I've seen this happen before with mine. Most 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:33.680 of the time it's sort of a contact thing or 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.320 like just a quirk. And there have been some software 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.400 updates for the AirPods as well, so I'll put the 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.520 link on the website. You can't really force a software 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.520 update with the AirPods, but perhaps you need a software update, 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.800 and I'll put the instructions on how to see if 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:48.960 it needs a software update. You can check like what 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.360 the software that's running is and compare it against what's available. 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:53.840 So hopefully that helps Tony. 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.000 Okay, so you're saying that, let's just say I go 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:00.800 through all those steps and it's still doing the same thing. Now, 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.359 if I were to buy a replacement, you recommending which 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.600 one I. 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.640 Would go at the AirPods for those are the new ones, 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.080 brand new they just came out. AirPods four one hundred 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.960 and twenty nine bucks. Or you can go for a 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.000 replacement AirPod if you just want to replace what you got, 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.520 it's gonna be sixty nine dollars. You're listening to Rich 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.679 on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech eight eight 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.480 eight Rick one one eight eight eight rich one O 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:30.000 one seven four to two four to one zero one 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:35.000 seem to have hit a nerve with the classic electronics stores. 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.760 Lots of you emailing me to tell me that Microcenter 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.960 is also in the La area in Tustin. Yes, I 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.879 knew that I should have mentioned that. I know they 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.719 have more than one location. I just have not been 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.160 to the Tustin location, and this one's a lot closer. 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.280 So yes, I am well aware of that. They're actually 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.359 building a new one in northern California and Santa Clara, 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:01.480 California as well, So they are still expanding and we'll 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.240 talk more about them later. Dave writes in from Temecula 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.680 many years ago. Daytel in San Diego was the place 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.119 to go. They sold the brand new IBM PC and 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.639 also their own brand as a kit. I got the 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:15.960 kit assembled. I got the kit and assembled it myself, 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.159 A whopping one hundred and twenty eight k of memory, 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:22.760 twenty megabyte hard drive, and a amber monochrome monitor. And 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:25.159 it cost over three thousand dollars, quite a lot in 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.960 those days. And go Dosco three thousand dollars is still 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:33.080 a lot. I remember so two computers. I begged three computers. 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:34.760 I begged my dad to buy me my first. We 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.040 were just in PC Richard and we just did it 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.520 on a whim and we bought this computers like a 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:41.600 computer in a box, and it was a three eighty 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:46.159 six SX sixteen. And then my second computer was a 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.679 Gateway two thousand and I don't know if you remember this, 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.960 but I mean I sure did. I could not wait 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:55.000 for PC World to get delivered to my house because 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.920 in the center of that magazine was the Gateway two 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.879 thousand AD and it was headweight in all his like 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:06.040 I don't know, cowboy gear with the cows everywhere the spots, 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:08.000 and I would just flip through this ad and just 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.479 I mean that sold me on that brand so heavily 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.520 compared to like a Dell, I guess, or maybe that 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.480 came later, I don't know, but but Gateway was the 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:19.639 brand for me. And then of course I ordered the 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.320 computer and I got it in, you know, in the box. 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.160 And then later on I got this was a brand 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.399 I'm not even sure it's around anymore. It's called win Book. 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:29.919 And that was my first computer for college and it 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.520 was a laptop and it was so expensive. I think 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.880 it was like thirty five dollars and it was I mean, 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:39.359 nothing was a beast. It was so slow by today's standards, 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:43.000 didn't even have Wi Fi built in. But anyway, I digress. 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:46.520 Keep those emails coming. Rich on tech dot TV hit 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:50.400 contact if you want to send in your electronics store 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.880 that you visited throughout the years. Let's go to line one. 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:58.919 We've got Susan in Santa Monica, California. Susan, right, welcome 0:19:58.960 --> 0:19:59.399 to the show. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:00.440 Thank you. 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.280 I love you from day one. You've been wonderful. What 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:07.520 a gift for all of us, your information personality. Thank 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:08.160 you so much. 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:10.760 Thank you. Is this my mom? I'm just kissing. 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:14.719 Yeah, we were worried about losing Leo, but you're just 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:19.120 such a blessing. You're fantastic anyway, and I really miss 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:22.480 Circuit City. I love Circuit City. So here's my question. 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:26.440 I have two questions. One is probably quick regarding turning 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:31.160 my modem my router on and off at night. That's 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:34.760 the quick question. The main question I have it's a 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.800 landline bundle with Frontiers, so my internet is I guess 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:42.679 you call it broadband. I don't know, so I just 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:46.840 have plain old fashioned landline bundle phone and internet. I 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:50.520 have a router. I guess it's a combo router modem, 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:53.320 and it's been working just fine. Every now and then 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:57.359 I need to reboot it. No problem, it's pretty old. 0:20:58.040 --> 0:20:59.879 Can I give you the name and model and you 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:01.919 tell me if I should be replacing this? 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:07.520 Well? So here, okay, to answer your first question, you 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:10.000 don't need to turn this off at night. These things 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:15.119 are meant. It's okay. I don't think it's gonna harm it, 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:16.960 but I don't think it's a good idea. I mean, 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:19.800 unless it's for a health reason or you don't you know, 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:21.600 you're just you don't like the idea of it being 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:22.480 on or whatever. 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:24.600 But like ty, I do what I'm worried about? WiFi 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:25.320 near my bed? 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:29.879 Okay, I mean, yeah, it's funny. It's funny. I had 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:33.160 a friend had the you know, back when like Wi 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:35.400 fi was first starting. They would just pop the router 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:37.679 like wherever they could, wherever the cable came in. I 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:40.239 remember someone had it under their bed and I was like, 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:42.840 you're just like cooking all night long, aren't you like 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:45.760 this WiFi? Is just radiating up into your body. Now, 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:47.679 I don't know if that's, you know, a problem or not, 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:51.439 but obviously the information on that is very mixed. It 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:53.480 seems to be very safe. We've had it for many, 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:56.479 many years in many people's homes throughout the world. So 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:00.200 I would say, personally, if you're concerned with that, I 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:03.159 would maybe move the router to a different place that 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:05.520 you feel better with. But I don't think that's an issue, 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:07.240 and I don't think it's a reason to turn it 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:10.000 off at night. So if that's the main reason I would, 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:10.840 I would not do that. 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:13.440 It's pretty old. 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:16.080 Yeah, So what I would do is you have to 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:18.280 call is it still Frontier or is it a different 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:18.760 company now? 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:19.400 Frontier? 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:22.359 Okay, so you have to call them and see. Because 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:25.000 here's the thing. The technology on these things has not 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:31.359 changed substantially. There are different there are different standards for 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:36.200 these modems, which is uh DOXIS d O c SI 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:39.560 S and so if your modem does not support the 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:44.040 latest DOXIS standard for your cable company, your speed could 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:47.760 be impacted. I think the standard like this, the typical 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:51.280 one today is like, let's see third generation so three 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:55.040 three uh, yeah, I think it's about the third generation. 0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:58.040 So I would call your cable company or look on 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:00.160 there and see if it says anything about that, if 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:03.200 it's like two or something previous. But otherwise, I mean, 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:06.720 you could have these these modems for a very long time. Now. 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:08.720 I have had mine for ten years, and I will 0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:10.440 tell you I did get a notice from my cable 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:12.680 company and they said it's time to upgrade and we 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:15.280 have to swap it out. And so it does happen. 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:18.960 It's you know, but it's not over a year or two. 0:23:19.080 --> 0:23:21.119 This is a standard technology that's been around for a 0:23:21.160 --> 0:23:24.280 long time. But I would get in touch with with Frontier. 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:26.160 Do you rent it or have you purchased it from them? 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:29.639 Well, I don't pay anything. They gave it to me 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:32.040 many years ago. It's part of it. Okay, this is 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:35.000 part of the package. Okay, I mean I don't trust them. 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:36.880 They might send a new one out and then start 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:37.480 charging me. 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:39.919 Twelve bucks a month, right, And I was just going 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:41.800 to say, that's my concern is that you may be 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:45.600 on a grandfather plan where they didn't charge. But but again, 0:23:45.640 --> 0:23:47.000 you can you can call them. They're not going to 0:23:47.040 --> 0:23:49.159 do anything without you authorizing it. So I would just 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:52.720 call them up and say, hey, here's my model router number. 0:23:52.720 --> 0:23:54.640 Every one might be. 0:23:54.640 --> 0:23:58.280 Okay, oh yeah, absolutely, I think. I mean, especially if 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:00.840 you're getting the speed that you're paying for, like I 0:24:00.840 --> 0:24:03.199 would do a speed test on your computer connected to 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:05.520 your modem, and if you're paying for five hundred down 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:08.200 five hundred up, and you're getting that on a wired connection, 0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:11.920 going to a website like speed test dot net orfast 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:14.520 dot com. If you're getting the speed you're paying for 0:24:14.680 --> 0:24:17.280 on a wired connection, wireless might be a little bit slower, 0:24:17.560 --> 0:24:20.040 but if you're getting that with a Ethernet cable plugged 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:22.679 into your laptop, then your modem's working just fine. So 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:26.280 there's no real reason to change that. And yeah, yeah exactly, 0:24:26.520 --> 0:24:29.320 So thank you so much. All right, thanks so much 0:24:29.359 --> 0:24:32.159 for the call there. Susan and Santa Monica do appreciate it, 0:24:32.200 --> 0:24:34.399 and of course I always appreciate the kind words. It 0:24:34.400 --> 0:24:38.359 really means a lot to me. This week in Los Angeles, 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:43.480 Tesla unveiled the cyber Cab. So this was an event 0:24:43.520 --> 0:24:47.639 at Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles. No, I'm not 0:24:47.680 --> 0:24:50.440 bitter because I wasn't invited, but we'll just get through 0:24:50.440 --> 0:24:55.520 this anyway, twenty Cybercab prototypes at this we Robot event. 0:24:56.040 --> 0:25:01.000 The Cybercab is a two seater vehicle with doors that 0:25:01.160 --> 0:25:04.520 go up. I guess they're not Falcon doors. I guess 0:25:04.520 --> 0:25:06.919 they call them goal wing doors. But there's no wheel, 0:25:07.119 --> 0:25:10.679 there is no pedals. This is a vehicle that just 0:25:10.880 --> 0:25:13.600 is self driving. Now you can buy one of these, 0:25:13.640 --> 0:25:16.400 and that's what's unique about this setup is that Elon 0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:19.240 Musk is promoting this as something that you would buy 0:25:19.840 --> 0:25:21.760 for less than thirty thousand, by the way, that's their 0:25:21.800 --> 0:25:25.040 target price, and it would drive you around. But here's 0:25:25.080 --> 0:25:28.320 the kicker. When you are not using it, it can 0:25:28.359 --> 0:25:31.280 be sent out into the world to act as an 0:25:31.280 --> 0:25:34.480 automated uber on your behalf. So your car would be 0:25:34.520 --> 0:25:38.760 picking up other people, driving them around, dropping them off, 0:25:39.240 --> 0:25:41.959 and then you'd be earning cash on this. How wild 0:25:42.080 --> 0:25:45.000 is that? So they're almost creating like a secondary market 0:25:45.640 --> 0:25:48.520 they want to start production twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven. 0:25:48.880 --> 0:25:53.439 These cars have wireless charging, not plug in chargers. They 0:25:53.480 --> 0:25:56.320 also had a Robovan that was capable of carrying up 0:25:56.320 --> 0:25:59.040 to twenty people that was more like a bus. They 0:25:59.080 --> 0:26:02.840 also had these Optimist humanoid robots on display, they were 0:26:02.840 --> 0:26:06.160 making drinks, they were talking to people. Elon Musk believes 0:26:06.200 --> 0:26:08.639 these will be huge, like a Rosie the robot for 0:26:08.680 --> 0:26:11.560 your house price tag of about twenty thousand dollars to 0:26:11.640 --> 0:26:15.199 thirty thousand dollars. These were a little bit iffy because 0:26:15.240 --> 0:26:18.000 it was clear that they had humans not only doing 0:26:18.080 --> 0:26:21.480 the voice and the interactions with people, but also controlling them. 0:26:21.720 --> 0:26:23.879 But they were standing, it seemed, on their own and 0:26:23.920 --> 0:26:26.399 walking around, which was pretty cool. So they've come a 0:26:26.440 --> 0:26:31.320 long way. Obviously, this is all a very big dream 0:26:31.400 --> 0:26:33.600 right now. We don't know if any of this will 0:26:33.600 --> 0:26:36.840 happen for real. They've got lots of hurdles ahead, including 0:26:37.440 --> 0:26:41.359 people accepting cars driving around by themselves without people in 0:26:41.400 --> 0:26:44.760 them or without a human driver. I know Weaimo does this, 0:26:44.840 --> 0:26:46.560 but there's a lot of talk about the fact that 0:26:46.600 --> 0:26:50.160 Weimo does this very differently. Weimo cars are already driving 0:26:50.200 --> 0:26:52.399 around by themselves in Los Angeles, but they use a 0:26:52.440 --> 0:26:58.119 completely different tech stack, including radar, ldar cameras. They have 0:26:58.160 --> 0:27:01.440 so many sensors on those cars that these cars that 0:27:01.560 --> 0:27:06.200 Elon Musk is promoting do not have. Elon Musk typically 0:27:06.640 --> 0:27:10.160 the Tesla has used cameras to self drive, and we're 0:27:10.160 --> 0:27:12.720 still waiting for that dream of full self driving on 0:27:12.840 --> 0:27:15.679 the current Tesla's the Model three, the Model Why. He 0:27:15.800 --> 0:27:19.320 believes that in California and Texas there will be unsupervised 0:27:19.359 --> 0:27:23.879 full self driving in the next two years or so. 0:27:23.880 --> 0:27:27.199 So again, this is someone who promises a lot, and 0:27:27.240 --> 0:27:29.240 I love the fact that Elon Musk. There's no doubt 0:27:29.240 --> 0:27:32.920 about it. He has delivered many, many things. But again 0:27:32.960 --> 0:27:36.600 we have to hold a little bit of we have 0:27:36.680 --> 0:27:38.520 to be a little bit critical of this stuff and 0:27:38.600 --> 0:27:41.800 a little bit skeptical as well, because this is going 0:27:41.880 --> 0:27:45.840 to take longer than probably many of us think. Again, 0:27:45.880 --> 0:27:48.399 don't forget this was done on a closed set on 0:27:48.440 --> 0:27:52.160 the Warner Brothers lot rather than in a real world situation, 0:27:52.320 --> 0:27:55.720 so everything was highly controlled, although people were getting rides 0:27:55.720 --> 0:27:58.600 in these cyber cabs around the back lot. So it's cool, 0:27:58.640 --> 0:28:02.119 There's no doubt about it. It's very cool. But again, 0:28:02.920 --> 0:28:05.000 I can't wait to see this stuff happen. I think 0:28:05.040 --> 0:28:07.400 it's there's a many many people out there who do 0:28:07.440 --> 0:28:10.000 not want this stuff to happen, or who do not 0:28:10.080 --> 0:28:12.320 want to get into a car like this. But I 0:28:12.359 --> 0:28:14.119 know many people who have taken the way mos that 0:28:14.359 --> 0:28:18.560 including myself. That felt very comfortable. Now eighty eight rich 0:28:18.680 --> 0:28:21.760 one one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:28:21.840 --> 0:28:24.920 one zero one. You are listening to rich on Tech. 0:28:25.520 --> 0:28:28.359 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:28:28.400 --> 0:28:32.680 out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one 0:28:32.720 --> 0:28:35.800 O one that's eight eight eight seven four to two 0:28:35.880 --> 0:28:41.320 four one zero one. Got an email from uh let's 0:28:41.360 --> 0:28:46.160 see Diane in Menefee asking are we able to FaceTime 0:28:46.240 --> 0:28:49.400 with one Apple and one Android phone? And the answer 0:28:49.600 --> 0:28:53.120 is yes, but it's complicated and I don't recommend it. 0:28:53.640 --> 0:28:55.480 So there are many many ways to do a video 0:28:55.520 --> 0:28:58.400 call that does not involve FaceTime. You know, if you've 0:28:58.440 --> 0:29:01.360 listened to the show for any length of time that 0:29:01.520 --> 0:29:09.160 I always always prefer third party, platform independent products, so 0:29:09.320 --> 0:29:13.640 platform products that work on every platform, not just one. Now, 0:29:13.640 --> 0:29:17.760 if you are an Apple person, it's amazing. Everything works great, 0:29:18.240 --> 0:29:22.320 but you are beholden to pretty much everything Apple. In fact, 0:29:22.760 --> 0:29:24.880 one of the best note taking apps out there is 0:29:25.000 --> 0:29:28.520 Apple Notes, which I would love to use, but I 0:29:28.560 --> 0:29:32.200 can't because I test a lot of phones. Maybe I 0:29:32.240 --> 0:29:34.280 want to switch to an Android phone at some point, 0:29:34.880 --> 0:29:37.120 and I would have to switch my entire notes to 0:29:37.560 --> 0:29:39.800 some other program because of that, and it just goes 0:29:39.840 --> 0:29:42.880 on and on. If you use Apple Photos to store 0:29:42.920 --> 0:29:46.440 your photos, Apple Music doesn't work on both. I will 0:29:46.440 --> 0:29:49.720 give them that, but it's pretty much reminders, I mean, 0:29:49.840 --> 0:29:52.680 anything that you do in the Apple ecosystem. It's pretty 0:29:52.720 --> 0:29:55.640 much just glue to keep you on the Apple side 0:29:55.640 --> 0:29:57.560 of things. You get an air tag, you're not going 0:29:57.600 --> 0:30:00.320 to switch to Android. They don't work with Android. Again, 0:30:00.800 --> 0:30:04.840 always prefer things that work on every platform, not just one. 0:30:04.960 --> 0:30:07.200 So when it comes to FaceTime, yes, it's simple, Yes 0:30:07.240 --> 0:30:09.960 it's easy, but if you're trying to use it with 0:30:10.000 --> 0:30:12.479 an Android, it's not that easy. You can do it, 0:30:12.520 --> 0:30:15.560 and here's how you do it. So first off, you 0:30:15.720 --> 0:30:19.360 have to go to a you have to start the 0:30:19.400 --> 0:30:22.320 call from an iPhone, and so you get the call 0:30:22.360 --> 0:30:24.480 on an iPhone, you get it going, and there's a 0:30:24.560 --> 0:30:27.560 link on the iPhone that you can generate when you're 0:30:27.560 --> 0:30:31.080 in the call, and so you can generate that link 0:30:31.200 --> 0:30:36.200 and send it to someone that is on another device 0:30:36.280 --> 0:30:39.160 like a Windows computer or an Android phone, and then 0:30:39.200 --> 0:30:42.000 once they get that link, they can open up that 0:30:43.240 --> 0:30:46.880 link and get on the call. So basically, if you 0:30:47.080 --> 0:30:49.120 are on FaceTime. You can open up the app and 0:30:49.160 --> 0:30:51.480 there's a create link near the top of the screen, 0:30:51.600 --> 0:30:54.680 and then you just send that link to someone and look, 0:30:54.760 --> 0:30:57.080 I mean, yes, it works, but like, why not use 0:30:57.200 --> 0:30:59.680 a program that just works with everything? Right? I mean, 0:30:59.720 --> 0:31:04.520 what's app does great video calls? Telegram does video calls, 0:31:04.600 --> 0:31:08.440 Facebook Messenger does video calls. I think even Instagram does 0:31:08.520 --> 0:31:10.400 video calls. At this point, I mean, can't you just 0:31:10.840 --> 0:31:13.760 use something that you know that just works with everything. 0:31:14.080 --> 0:31:16.360 So that's my recommendation. But yes, if you have an iPhone, 0:31:16.360 --> 0:31:18.520 you got an Android friend and you want to FaceTime them, 0:31:18.840 --> 0:31:21.800 that's what you do. You start the FaceTime, create a link, 0:31:21.880 --> 0:31:25.560 and then send that link to the other person. Let's 0:31:25.640 --> 0:31:29.360 take a call here. Let's go to let's see here, 0:31:30.360 --> 0:31:33.520 let's go to Mark in Woodland Hills. Mark. You're on 0:31:33.600 --> 0:31:34.000 with Rich? 0:31:35.160 --> 0:31:38.520 Yeah, Hi, Rich. I you know I've been listening as 0:31:38.520 --> 0:31:40.200 I've been waiting on hold here, and I do have 0:31:40.240 --> 0:31:46.400 a question about help for seniors with tech things like 0:31:46.400 --> 0:31:48.760 like one Generation here in the San Franco Valley used 0:31:48.800 --> 0:31:52.640 to have college students come in and help seniors work 0:31:52.680 --> 0:31:54.960 out their problems with their laptops and their cell phones 0:31:55.000 --> 0:31:57.480 and such. But I did want to run one thing 0:31:57.480 --> 0:32:01.200 by you. I know it's not happy talk. I couldn't 0:32:01.240 --> 0:32:05.840 be I do not share your fondness for the test list. 0:32:06.400 --> 0:32:06.520 Uh. 0:32:06.960 --> 0:32:10.800 You know, they contain like a dozen toxic chemicals in 0:32:10.840 --> 0:32:13.320 the batteries alone. If you have an accident and you 0:32:13.440 --> 0:32:16.280 catch on fire, you explode. But the main thing that 0:32:16.400 --> 0:32:19.760 really bothers me about that is like cobalt, for instance, 0:32:20.440 --> 0:32:26.160 is mind in the Republic of Congo by children. It's 0:32:26.160 --> 0:32:28.880 a toxic chemical and you know they need food. 0:32:28.960 --> 0:32:31.400 You know. Look, I've heard a lot about this. I've 0:32:31.400 --> 0:32:34.200 heard I've I've heard a lot of complaints about this 0:32:34.280 --> 0:32:36.600 sort of thing, Mark, And you know, here's the deal. 0:32:37.160 --> 0:32:40.720 We're not going to stop progress from happening. I understand that, yes, 0:32:40.800 --> 0:32:44.000 this stuff is dirty at the beginning, but as I 0:32:44.080 --> 0:32:47.360 understand it, the more batteries that we make, the more 0:32:47.520 --> 0:32:50.920 recycled they are in the future. So yes, it's uh. 0:32:51.000 --> 0:32:54.280 And you know, if you're comparing it against oil, like 0:32:54.840 --> 0:32:57.160 I mean, and look, and here's the thing, like, I 0:32:57.200 --> 0:32:59.560 am all for Lectri cars one hundred percent. I'm not 0:32:59.600 --> 0:33:01.680 one of those people who's gonna sit here and say 0:33:01.960 --> 0:33:05.560 let's not progress and let's just default to you know, 0:33:05.640 --> 0:33:07.760 let's just default to oil for the rest of our lives. 0:33:07.760 --> 0:33:11.000 That's not gonna that's not possible. And I understand there's 0:33:11.000 --> 0:33:14.239 a drawback to everything. There is not a thing in 0:33:14.280 --> 0:33:18.640 this world that there is not a side effect or 0:33:18.680 --> 0:33:22.080 a drawback to, no matter what you're talking about. I mean, 0:33:22.120 --> 0:33:24.240 I don't care if you tell me you eat bananas 0:33:24.440 --> 0:33:27.200 and they're perfect for you. There's a downside to eating 0:33:27.200 --> 0:33:30.640 too many bananas, you know. So we have to understand 0:33:30.640 --> 0:33:33.160 that this stuff is. There's a pro and a con 0:33:33.240 --> 0:33:37.160 to everything, and we are progressing. And I get it. 0:33:37.160 --> 0:33:39.000 If you don't want an electric car, don't get it. 0:33:40.000 --> 0:33:42.640 That's the best thing. And nobody's forcing you to do that. 0:33:42.720 --> 0:33:45.320 I understand. Yes, we've got you know, some states in 0:33:45.360 --> 0:33:47.920 some places, and there's been some plans for the future 0:33:47.960 --> 0:33:52.520 of transitioning to these cars, but nobody's forcing anyone to 0:33:52.560 --> 0:33:56.080 do it just yet. Personally, I think the electric car 0:33:56.880 --> 0:34:01.520 is the best thing that I've ever yet mute. Okay, 0:34:01.840 --> 0:34:05.120 I mean personally, I think the yes, mark. 0:34:06.120 --> 0:34:09.800 Yes, sir. It's unsustainable. We don't have the electricity to provide. 0:34:10.719 --> 0:34:13.760 We have brownouts here in California as it is, because 0:34:13.840 --> 0:34:16.560 the environmental is even the leadership of the environmental. 0:34:16.160 --> 0:34:17.880 Almost the last time we had a brown out. 0:34:17.719 --> 0:34:18.520 Clear i c. 0:34:18.920 --> 0:34:23.120 Nuclear is the cleanest power there is. We don't have 0:34:23.200 --> 0:34:26.719 the electrical internet and our network yet. 0:34:26.680 --> 0:34:30.080 Go and look here's the thing. Of course, we don't have. 0:34:30.360 --> 0:34:33.480 It's unsustainable right now because we're still building the infrastructure 0:34:34.040 --> 0:34:36.200 and we're still learning how to, you know, make solar 0:34:36.239 --> 0:34:40.160 that's better and come up with renewable energy. So look, again, 0:34:40.320 --> 0:34:43.440 it doesn't if you don't want it to happen, that's 0:34:43.600 --> 0:34:46.960 that's you. But it's going to happen, and we're making 0:34:47.000 --> 0:34:50.000 this transition, and we have to make this transition. There 0:34:50.040 --> 0:34:52.680 is no way that we have an amount of oil 0:34:53.080 --> 0:34:56.319 or gas that can last infinite amounts of time, and 0:34:56.400 --> 0:34:59.080 so we have to find these renewable sources of energy 0:34:59.400 --> 0:35:03.000 that we can use and use safely and create alternative 0:35:03.040 --> 0:35:06.520 methods of getting around. And again, my electric car is 0:35:06.560 --> 0:35:08.719 the best thing I've ever purchased. It is the most 0:35:08.760 --> 0:35:12.600 incredible piece of technology I have ever used. Are their 0:35:12.680 --> 0:35:15.120 drawbacks to it? Of course? Does it take a little 0:35:15.160 --> 0:35:16.759 bit longer to get to places? Do I have to 0:35:16.760 --> 0:35:19.040 think about it on road trips? Is there a charger 0:35:19.120 --> 0:35:22.080 every single place I ever want. No, I didn't rent 0:35:22.120 --> 0:35:25.640 a car this trip, an electric car, by the way. 0:35:25.640 --> 0:35:27.560 They were half the price of the gas cars because 0:35:27.560 --> 0:35:30.319 nobody's renting them. But I didn't rent one myself because 0:35:30.320 --> 0:35:32.000 I knew I'm not I'm not trying to find a 0:35:32.080 --> 0:35:34.479 charger on my you know, a couple of days out here, 0:35:35.000 --> 0:35:37.279 and so I get it. Mark, I totally understand, and 0:35:37.360 --> 0:35:40.720 I get it. But thanks for the call. Appreciate it. 0:35:40.840 --> 0:35:43.239 Eighty to eight rich one O one eight eight eight 0:35:43.400 --> 0:35:46.360 seven four two four one zero one. Welcome back to 0:35:46.440 --> 0:35:48.960 rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you 0:35:49.160 --> 0:35:53.560 talking technology. The website for the show rich on Tech 0:35:53.880 --> 0:35:58.200 dot TV. The phone number for the show eighty eight 0:35:58.400 --> 0:36:01.200 rich one O one eight eight eight eight seven four 0:36:01.239 --> 0:36:06.240 to two, four to one zero one. Was talking about 0:36:06.800 --> 0:36:11.160 old school electronics stores and pat rode in from Monrovia. 0:36:11.320 --> 0:36:15.080 I bought my first PC at Creative Computers in Lawndale, 0:36:15.560 --> 0:36:18.040 an Amiga five hundred with five hundred and twelve K 0:36:18.200 --> 0:36:22.120 in nineteen eighty seven. Amigas could add graphics and animation 0:36:22.280 --> 0:36:24.960 to home video or pro video, so they required an 0:36:24.960 --> 0:36:28.000 interlaced display. By the time I tried to help a 0:36:28.040 --> 0:36:29.960 friend buy one of the nineties. The parent company no 0:36:30.000 --> 0:36:33.279 longer made those monitors. I asked the salesperson, how can 0:36:33.280 --> 0:36:35.760 you sell a computer with no display? It isn't easy, 0:36:35.920 --> 0:36:40.640 was his reply. Good old commodore, cheers, Pat, great story, 0:36:41.120 --> 0:36:45.120 William wrote in on X Hey, I worked for Staples 0:36:45.120 --> 0:36:48.520 when they were the premier company for computer sales. Isn't 0:36:48.560 --> 0:36:50.920 that wild now? It's like it feels like when you 0:36:50.960 --> 0:36:53.480 go into those stores, you know, the office stores, the 0:36:53.640 --> 0:36:56.800 office electronics is sort of an afterthought. You know, people 0:36:56.840 --> 0:36:59.680 just go in there for paper, And I, quite honestly, 0:36:59.800 --> 0:37:02.560 I'm surprise anytime there's a physical store for anything Like 0:37:02.600 --> 0:37:04.920 it just feels like they're all just you know, it's 0:37:04.960 --> 0:37:07.120 just a matter of time before they all go away. 0:37:07.280 --> 0:37:10.400 And so I don't want that to happen. But I 0:37:10.480 --> 0:37:12.960 understand the economics of it. I mean, these these stores 0:37:12.960 --> 0:37:17.400 are getting undercut by online so easily, and people literally 0:37:17.480 --> 0:37:20.640 are doing price comparisons in the store and then saying, oh, 0:37:20.680 --> 0:37:22.080 I'll just save a couple bucks and I'll have it 0:37:22.080 --> 0:37:27.360 tomorrow morning. This week, Ring introduced a new AI powered 0:37:27.440 --> 0:37:31.520 smart video search. This is pretty cool and it's so wild. 0:37:32.239 --> 0:37:36.040 It's so wild how much AI has just it's it's funny. 0:37:36.040 --> 0:37:38.040 I do a joke every time I interview someone for 0:37:38.160 --> 0:37:40.959 KTLA and talk about you know, their product, I say, 0:37:40.960 --> 0:37:44.840 and how is AI involved? And ninety nine percent of 0:37:44.880 --> 0:37:47.400 the time they have an answer because AI has to 0:37:47.440 --> 0:37:51.040 be a part of every product nowadays, no matter what. 0:37:52.000 --> 0:37:55.160 And so Ring has this thing called smart Video Search, 0:37:55.760 --> 0:37:59.200 and you can now type in just anything you want 0:37:59.280 --> 0:38:03.560 to find speciments in your Ring video history. So your 0:38:03.600 --> 0:38:06.760 doorbell and your cameras have been recording all these clips. 0:38:07.280 --> 0:38:09.279 You know there might be some interesting moments in there, 0:38:09.360 --> 0:38:11.319 or maybe you're trying to look for something like you know, 0:38:11.360 --> 0:38:13.799 your backyard is all messed up and you're like, what 0:38:13.800 --> 0:38:16.319 what animal did that? So you can search for not 0:38:16.400 --> 0:38:20.080 only animal, but a specific animal like raccoon. You can 0:38:20.120 --> 0:38:25.200 search for locations. You could search for packages, people, time vehicles. 0:38:25.560 --> 0:38:27.680 You can say red car and see how many times 0:38:27.680 --> 0:38:31.279 that passes your house. Weather, that'd be cool. I'd love 0:38:31.320 --> 0:38:33.040 to try to see if you can search lightning. That'd 0:38:33.040 --> 0:38:36.279 be kind of cool. And of course some activities as well. 0:38:36.600 --> 0:38:39.440 This works across all their Ring video doorbells and cameras. 0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:41.000 This is all being done on the back end, so 0:38:41.280 --> 0:38:43.880 it doesn't really need any modification on the camera side, 0:38:44.160 --> 0:38:46.760 something that's very easy to I don't know about easy, 0:38:46.800 --> 0:38:50.120 but they're implementing on the back end, server side, so 0:38:50.160 --> 0:38:52.200 that's why they can roll it out on all these cameras. 0:38:52.800 --> 0:38:56.480 It's rolling out in public beta to select customers now, 0:38:57.080 --> 0:38:59.960 and so that means you will not have access to 0:39:00.080 --> 0:39:04.080 it right away, but eventually you will only though, if 0:39:04.120 --> 0:39:07.120 you are subscribed to their new top of the line plan, 0:39:07.840 --> 0:39:11.520 Ring Home Premium. That's twenty dollars a month. I know 0:39:11.600 --> 0:39:13.799 for my Ring, they doubled the price tag from ten 0:39:13.840 --> 0:39:15.520 to twenty dollars a month, So I know a lot 0:39:15.560 --> 0:39:18.120 of people are not happy about that, but you know, 0:39:18.200 --> 0:39:21.040 that's what's happening, and I don't know, we'll see if 0:39:21.120 --> 0:39:23.960 Ring changes their mind about that. But Ring, I will say, 0:39:24.000 --> 0:39:28.160 has been very inexpensive over the years, and so you know, 0:39:28.239 --> 0:39:30.480 twenty bucks a month, it's a lot, but it's kind 0:39:30.480 --> 0:39:32.640 of on par with what people are paying for some 0:39:32.719 --> 0:39:35.840 of their other Alarm subscriptions, and I believe that includes 0:39:35.840 --> 0:39:39.319 some of the alarm features too. November fifth, they're going 0:39:39.400 --> 0:39:43.359 to have that new feature those new subscriptions, So there 0:39:43.400 --> 0:39:45.359 you go. Ring with AI and if you got an 0:39:45.360 --> 0:39:49.600 email about to be owing you some money for a settlement, 0:39:49.680 --> 0:39:51.560 it is legitimate. I got a bunch of emails from 0:39:51.600 --> 0:39:55.080 people saying rich, is this real? Yes to be. The 0:39:55.200 --> 0:39:59.400 free to watch video service is paying nearly twenty million 0:39:59.480 --> 0:40:04.640 dollars in a settlement over video privacy. What do they 0:40:04.680 --> 0:40:09.400 do well? They shared information with third parties without your consent. 0:40:10.280 --> 0:40:12.799 Now I don't know if they agreed to this or 0:40:12.880 --> 0:40:14.560 you know, if this is just the settlement. I don't know. 0:40:14.600 --> 0:40:17.800 Of course, these companies don't admit any wrongdoing in these settlements. 0:40:17.800 --> 0:40:21.600 They just say, fine, settle. So are you eligible? If 0:40:21.600 --> 0:40:25.200 you used TUB between June twenty third, twenty twenty one 0:40:25.239 --> 0:40:28.719 and August twenty six, twenty twenty four, you are eligible 0:40:28.960 --> 0:40:31.960 for cash. So how much are you gonna get? We 0:40:32.000 --> 0:40:34.600 don't know. It depends on how many people file claims. 0:40:35.239 --> 0:40:38.680 So you should definitely file a claim if you got 0:40:38.719 --> 0:40:41.359 that email or if you use TUB. The only way 0:40:41.400 --> 0:40:42.960 you have to prove it is if you have an 0:40:43.000 --> 0:40:46.719 email account that's registered with TUB or the device information 0:40:46.800 --> 0:40:50.799 and dates of use. So the deadline is let's see here. 0:40:51.239 --> 0:40:54.640 Claim deadline. November twenty eighth, twenty twenty four. If you 0:40:54.680 --> 0:40:57.760 want to exclude yourself from this class action, you gotta 0:40:57.840 --> 0:41:02.600 do October thirty first. Anyway, to be how ironic, it's 0:41:02.600 --> 0:41:06.040 a free service, free service that people use for free, 0:41:06.400 --> 0:41:08.160 and now they got to pay twenty million dollars because 0:41:08.200 --> 0:41:12.160 they shared these people's these uh, these customers information with 0:41:12.280 --> 0:41:14.239 third parties. And what's that all about. I'm guessing it's 0:41:14.239 --> 0:41:19.040 all about advertising, because that's what's supporting to be as 0:41:19.040 --> 0:41:21.319 well as a lot of these other services. It's not 0:41:21.440 --> 0:41:24.640 really free. Your data is what's supporting it. But apparently 0:41:24.719 --> 0:41:27.560 they shared that data with too many people. Eighty eight 0:41:27.680 --> 0:41:30.520 Rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to 0:41:30.640 --> 0:41:32.879 two four one zero one. Coming up on the show, 0:41:32.920 --> 0:41:35.120 we're going to talk about the pros and cons of 0:41:35.160 --> 0:41:38.839 those art style TVs. That's this hour. Next hour, we're 0:41:38.840 --> 0:41:41.319 going to talk to us Scott Baldwin. He's got a 0:41:41.440 --> 0:41:45.880 startup called front Pack. This is a social network for athletes. 0:41:45.960 --> 0:41:47.919 Got a new app plus a special guest a little 0:41:47.920 --> 0:41:51.440 bit later on. Let's go to line one. Steve in 0:41:51.600 --> 0:41:57.600 a Hemmett, Steve and Hemmett. You are on with rich Steve, 0:41:57.640 --> 0:42:02.359 Are you there? Nope? Okay, let's go to Uh, let's 0:42:02.360 --> 0:42:07.160 see here. Let's go to line too. Kevin in San Clementy. Kevin, 0:42:07.239 --> 0:42:07.960 You're on with Rich. 0:42:08.800 --> 0:42:11.719 Good afternoon. Just a quick comment. Somebody said about a 0:42:11.800 --> 0:42:14.440 kit a while ago. I remember the old Heath Kit 0:42:14.600 --> 0:42:18.600 days building, those you know, uh things that Heath Kid offered. 0:42:18.640 --> 0:42:21.040 I think it might even still be around. Uh. The 0:42:21.120 --> 0:42:24.400 story I wanted to mention was specific stereo. They were 0:42:24.440 --> 0:42:27.000 on paying a Canyon and I think that's Kilga Park 0:42:27.000 --> 0:42:30.520 out there that was around for years and years and years. 0:42:31.000 --> 0:42:34.200 Oh, isn't it didn't It looks like they're still around. 0:42:34.320 --> 0:42:36.239 Is Oh? You know what I just you just made 0:42:36.280 --> 0:42:38.399 me think of another one, Alan Eds remember that. 0:42:40.520 --> 0:42:47.319 No, there was something Eds on Central Boulevard, I think 0:42:47.320 --> 0:42:48.759 in Tarzan or something. 0:42:49.480 --> 0:42:52.640 Alan Ed's Alan Ed's auto sound. It was like they 0:42:52.640 --> 0:42:53.840 did all car audio. 0:42:54.200 --> 0:42:54.839 Yep. 0:42:55.280 --> 0:42:58.160 Yeah. And I remember getting like it was like I 0:42:58.200 --> 0:43:00.520 obviously it was. It was too expensive for me back 0:43:00.520 --> 0:43:02.319 in the day when I first moved to La like 0:43:02.360 --> 0:43:04.279 to get something, but that's like where you wanted to 0:43:04.280 --> 0:43:06.120 get it done, because it was like, you know, you 0:43:06.120 --> 0:43:08.000 could go to Best Buy, but like that's going to 0:43:08.040 --> 0:43:10.520 be you know, just okay. But this place was like 0:43:10.560 --> 0:43:14.120 they knew what they were doing. They knew their stuff absolutely. Yeah. 0:43:14.160 --> 0:43:16.680 So what my question is, I've got a pair of 0:43:16.719 --> 0:43:20.439 KLH Models five that have the paper cones the mid 0:43:20.520 --> 0:43:24.279 range and the woofer or paper cones. How long do 0:43:24.440 --> 0:43:26.879 paper cones last unless you blow them out? 0:43:28.239 --> 0:43:30.640 That's a great question that I do not know the 0:43:30.800 --> 0:43:34.520 complete answer to. What I would say, until they don't 0:43:34.560 --> 0:43:36.440 sound good anymore? I mean, what is there a problem 0:43:36.480 --> 0:43:37.520 with these speakers? 0:43:37.840 --> 0:43:38.160 No? 0:43:38.160 --> 0:43:40.640 No, no, it was just something I thought of that. 0:43:41.280 --> 0:43:43.040 You know, I'm just curious how long are these going 0:43:43.080 --> 0:43:46.560 to last? Because the ones I have are pre the 0:43:46.600 --> 0:43:50.080 new owners of KLH. Now, these were I think KLH 0:43:50.160 --> 0:43:53.600 sold in twenty seventeen or something, so these are the 0:43:53.640 --> 0:43:57.040 original KLH speakers. So I was just ordered how long 0:43:57.040 --> 0:43:58.200 are they going to last? 0:43:59.320 --> 0:44:01.839 How? How how old are these things? 0:44:02.040 --> 0:44:04.160 Uh? Probably fifteen years old? 0:44:05.040 --> 0:44:09.200 Okay? And they still sound good? I'm sorry, they still 0:44:09.200 --> 0:44:09.719 sound good. 0:44:10.320 --> 0:44:11.320 They sound awesome. 0:44:13.120 --> 0:44:15.640 Well, then, I mean, I'm you know, I think they're 0:44:15.760 --> 0:44:19.360 they're probably fine. I mean it's I'm looking at some 0:44:19.360 --> 0:44:22.120 some info online. It says with good care, twenty to 0:44:22.120 --> 0:44:25.479 forty years could be reasonable. But that, you know, I mean, 0:44:25.560 --> 0:44:28.080 that sounds like a lot, But you know it's a speaker. 0:44:28.120 --> 0:44:30.320 I've it's funny. I I've got the so no speakers 0:44:30.360 --> 0:44:33.160 that I've complained about obviously on this show, But I 0:44:33.480 --> 0:44:36.160 keep thinking, I'm like, when are these no good anymore? 0:44:36.239 --> 0:44:38.320 And I'm like, I guess when they don't work anymore? 0:44:38.320 --> 0:44:41.160 I mean, if it's still sounding fine, like it's a speaker, Like, 0:44:41.200 --> 0:44:43.520 what more do you need if it's if it's sounding good. 0:44:43.880 --> 0:44:46.880 It's funny because we're so used to replacing things and 0:44:46.920 --> 0:44:49.640 getting rid of things. But I bet, I bet even 0:44:49.640 --> 0:44:51.560 if these things went out, you could probably still repair 0:44:51.600 --> 0:44:54.320 them if they if they if someone still the parts. 0:44:54.680 --> 0:44:58.520 Yeah, good point. Okay, Well, I enjoy what you do 0:44:58.680 --> 0:44:59.400 for us. 0:44:59.719 --> 0:45:01.960 Thanks for the trip down memory lane. What was the 0:45:02.000 --> 0:45:04.320 other thing they also had? You know, all these companies 0:45:04.320 --> 0:45:06.239 have been absorbed by other companies. A lot of them have, 0:45:06.719 --> 0:45:09.359 like Best Buy had what was it Pacific Sales? They 0:45:10.160 --> 0:45:13.040 I thought Pacific Stereo was part of that. But Pacific 0:45:13.120 --> 0:45:15.319 Sales I think was like an independent place that they 0:45:15.440 --> 0:45:19.319 ended up absorbing into best Buy as well. So let's 0:45:19.360 --> 0:45:22.160 see what was the you said, Let's see what was it? 0:45:22.400 --> 0:45:25.480 Pacific Stereo looks like it's still around as far as 0:45:25.520 --> 0:45:27.279 I can tell, is this just an online thing? I'm 0:45:27.320 --> 0:45:31.120 not sure, but yeah, it's wild to go down down 0:45:31.160 --> 0:45:32.719 memory lane with some of these things. Okay, do we 0:45:32.719 --> 0:45:35.359 have time to go to uh? Sounds like our other 0:45:35.440 --> 0:45:39.520 callers back online one? We have time for Steve and Hemmett. No, No, 0:45:39.560 --> 0:45:42.800 we don't. Okay, all right, oh Steven Hemmt's gone. Okay, Well, 0:45:42.880 --> 0:45:45.560 this is what happens in a live show here. You know, 0:45:45.640 --> 0:45:49.440 we get people, we drop people, they drop whatever. Okay, 0:45:49.480 --> 0:45:52.080 So a couple of things. The newsletter on the website 0:45:52.160 --> 0:45:54.359 rich on tech dot tv, So if you go there 0:45:54.640 --> 0:45:56.520 you can sign up for my free newsletter. I got 0:45:56.560 --> 0:46:00.440 a lot of emails this week from folks who, surpriseingly, 0:46:00.600 --> 0:46:02.920 do not want to switch. You know, you have to 0:46:02.960 --> 0:46:05.960 if you're on Verizon Messages Plus, you have to switch 0:46:06.040 --> 0:46:09.080 to Google Messages. And I got a lot of emails 0:46:09.080 --> 0:46:11.000 from people saying I didn't want to switch because they 0:46:11.040 --> 0:46:14.720 don't want Google having access to their messages. They they're 0:46:14.760 --> 0:46:18.000 missing certain features that they had in Verizon Message Plus 0:46:18.040 --> 0:46:20.799 that Google Messages does not have. And they're asking me 0:46:20.800 --> 0:46:23.479 if they could use a different app now on Android. Yeah, 0:46:23.480 --> 0:46:25.400 that's the beauty of Android you could use. There's one 0:46:25.440 --> 0:46:29.120 thousand texting apps in the Google Play. You can choose 0:46:29.120 --> 0:46:31.920 any one of them. Obviously, make sure it's a company 0:46:31.960 --> 0:46:33.640 you trust because these are your texts. There's a lot 0:46:33.640 --> 0:46:36.080 of personal information in there. But they're not going to 0:46:36.120 --> 0:46:39.239 support RCS, and that's the big thing. 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Or if you 0:47:18.800 --> 0:47:21.360 want show notes, anything I mentioned on the show, I 0:47:21.400 --> 0:47:23.680 put on the show notes, just hit the light bulb 0:47:23.719 --> 0:47:26.840 and you'll see all of the shows and the notes 0:47:26.840 --> 0:47:31.040 for that. Did you participate in Amazon's Prime Big Deal 0:47:31.160 --> 0:47:34.440 Days twenty twenty four. I bought exactly one thing. It 0:47:34.520 --> 0:47:37.399 was a fog machine for my kid, replacing the old 0:47:37.400 --> 0:47:39.480 one we had, and yet it was on sale. It 0:47:39.560 --> 0:47:41.840 was great, but I did not get anything else, and 0:47:41.880 --> 0:47:43.359 a lot of things were on sale. I do think 0:47:43.400 --> 0:47:46.080 that these sales are getting better. I think Amazon is 0:47:46.120 --> 0:47:48.960 learning their lesson by putting more things on sale and 0:47:48.960 --> 0:47:52.000 not just promising a lot. But they say it was 0:47:52.480 --> 0:47:56.479 Amazon's biggest October shopping event ever. I mean that really 0:47:56.560 --> 0:47:57.279 narrows it down. 0:47:58.480 --> 0:47:58.680 Prime. 0:47:58.719 --> 0:48:02.760 Remember saved over one billion dollars globally across millions of deals. 0:48:03.200 --> 0:48:05.120 They never tell you how much they spent, though, right, 0:48:05.160 --> 0:48:07.200 because that would be that would be too much for 0:48:07.400 --> 0:48:11.359 our brains to handle. More Prime members participated this year 0:48:11.400 --> 0:48:14.600 compared to last year's event, and they've got more deals 0:48:14.600 --> 0:48:18.680 coming up. Fourth Annual Holiday Beauty Haul October twenty first 0:48:18.680 --> 0:48:21.120 and November third. That's a long one. That just sounds 0:48:21.160 --> 0:48:22.280 like a tiktoker's dream. 0:48:22.360 --> 0:48:22.480 Right. 0:48:23.239 --> 0:48:26.160 It's talking to my sister and she she said she 0:48:26.160 --> 0:48:29.000 buys everything that she sees on TikTok, all these beauty 0:48:29.000 --> 0:48:31.520 products that people are hawking all day, and it's a 0:48:31.520 --> 0:48:34.120 big business. I'm sure because that's like half of the 0:48:34.160 --> 0:48:37.520 stuff on there is like beauty tutorials. Right then you've 0:48:37.520 --> 0:48:40.879 got the Black Friday Game, the NFL Black Friday Game 0:48:41.640 --> 0:48:43.920 football game on November twenty ninth. I guess they're going 0:48:43.960 --> 0:48:46.600 to have some sort of deals there. Amazon spent a 0:48:46.640 --> 0:48:49.080 lot of money for those football rights, so I see 0:48:49.120 --> 0:48:51.560 the ads everywhere for that, and it's great. They're their 0:48:51.600 --> 0:48:54.759 football is so clear, it's unbelievable. I don't know how 0:48:54.800 --> 0:48:58.239 they're broadcasting or whatever they're doing, whatever magic they've got, 0:48:58.280 --> 0:49:02.000 but it's it's such a play to watch football games 0:49:02.000 --> 0:49:04.120 on Prime, and it's just the way it should be. 0:49:04.239 --> 0:49:04.359 Right. 0:49:04.400 --> 0:49:06.799 You can just watch it on any device anywhere, no 0:49:06.880 --> 0:49:10.160 matter what. And right now you can get ten percent 0:49:10.239 --> 0:49:14.239 discount on select toys for purchase over twenty five dollars 0:49:14.360 --> 0:49:17.680 until October thirty. First, obviously, you need a Prime membership 0:49:17.680 --> 0:49:19.479 for all this stuff fifteen bucks a month one hundred 0:49:19.520 --> 0:49:21.920 and thirty nine dollars a year, but if you have it, 0:49:21.920 --> 0:49:25.200 it's well worth it. Let's see here, Let's go to 0:49:25.719 --> 0:49:30.520 line three. Brady and Anaheim. Brady and Anaheim. You're on 0:49:30.600 --> 0:49:31.240 with Rich. 0:49:32.680 --> 0:49:33.480 Hi, How are you doing? 0:49:34.160 --> 0:49:35.680 I am doing excellent? What can I help you. 0:49:35.680 --> 0:49:39.880 With So I've used every Note as a note taking 0:49:39.920 --> 0:49:43.720 app for almost ten years, but last year when Broken 0:49:43.880 --> 0:49:48.919 Spoons bought them, they limited the devices, raised prices, made 0:49:48.960 --> 0:49:51.040 it more difficult to use. So I want to know 0:49:51.040 --> 0:49:53.080 if you're aware of an app that I could use 0:49:53.680 --> 0:49:58.320 the export all my notes that would work with iOS, Windows, Android, 0:49:58.920 --> 0:50:02.000 because everywhere I so far there's an issue like, no 0:50:02.160 --> 0:50:05.040 you can you have to still have ever note and updated, 0:50:05.840 --> 0:50:08.719 you know, one drive One Note's been a kind of 0:50:08.719 --> 0:50:11.200 a hassle. Yeah, you have any ideas? 0:50:11.520 --> 0:50:14.239 Are you looking into my brain? Because I think about 0:50:14.239 --> 0:50:17.720 this every single day. I have hopped between every single 0:50:17.920 --> 0:50:20.279 one of these note taking apps. I was one of 0:50:20.320 --> 0:50:22.520 the first new users of ever note Ever. I mean 0:50:22.560 --> 0:50:25.680 I remember I was a user so far back in 0:50:25.719 --> 0:50:28.120 the day. It was it was like an ever scroll. 0:50:28.160 --> 0:50:31.120 It was just an ever, never ending scroll of notes 0:50:31.160 --> 0:50:33.719 that you would put it on, and then of course 0:50:33.760 --> 0:50:36.240 it's evolved over the years. You're right. It was purchased 0:50:36.239 --> 0:50:39.160 by an Italian company, Bending Spoons. I know you called it, 0:50:39.760 --> 0:50:42.360 what did you call it, Problem Spoons or something? 0:50:42.480 --> 0:50:42.840 Spoons? 0:50:43.000 --> 0:50:45.520 Broken Spoons. Now I got to give them credit. I 0:50:45.600 --> 0:50:48.480 actually think the updates and improvements they've done to ever 0:50:48.560 --> 0:50:50.640 Note is excellent. I think they've done a good job 0:50:50.680 --> 0:50:52.880 with it. But yes, you are right, they have squeezed 0:50:52.880 --> 0:50:56.879 out the free user to a place where it's unusable 0:50:56.920 --> 0:50:58.799 if you're if you're a free user, and I would 0:50:58.840 --> 0:51:00.479 agree with that. If you're trying to use this for free, 0:51:00.800 --> 0:51:03.719 don't even bother because you're gonna either hit the limits, 0:51:04.440 --> 0:51:07.080 you know, in three days, or it's just not worth it. 0:51:07.600 --> 0:51:09.480 The other thing is that ever note stores everything in 0:51:09.520 --> 0:51:12.360 a proprietary way, which is you can export it. But 0:51:12.600 --> 0:51:14.680 I found out because I was a big Evernote user 0:51:14.719 --> 0:51:17.239 for many years. When I wanted to export, it got 0:51:17.320 --> 0:51:20.520 really tricky and everything was kind of gobbledygook. And it's 0:51:20.560 --> 0:51:22.319 taken me years to kind of climb out of that. 0:51:23.400 --> 0:51:25.520 So what if I tried I've tried one Note. I 0:51:25.560 --> 0:51:29.000 don't like one Note because it the way it's got 0:51:29.000 --> 0:51:32.160 that infinite canvas I just deal with when you paste 0:51:32.160 --> 0:51:34.880 something in there, the text is like in one little 0:51:34.920 --> 0:51:38.360 box and then it moves over. It's just two doesn't 0:51:38.400 --> 0:51:41.800 work for my brain. Notion is what I'll tell you. 0:51:41.880 --> 0:51:43.640 I've settled on that, but I'll tell you I'll go 0:51:43.719 --> 0:51:46.319 through the thing. Obsidian is what I was using for 0:51:46.400 --> 0:51:49.520 a while, and I think Obsidian is probably, if you're 0:51:49.520 --> 0:51:52.520 a little bit of a nerd, the best alternative to 0:51:52.560 --> 0:51:56.680 ever Note because it is mostly self hosted. Your files 0:51:56.760 --> 0:52:00.239 live on your machine. The file structure and every thing 0:52:00.280 --> 0:52:03.719 is very similar to Evernote. It's not as polished, it's not, 0:52:03.840 --> 0:52:07.239 as you know, full featured, but I think Obsidian is 0:52:07.280 --> 0:52:09.000 really good. You just have to figure out a way 0:52:09.040 --> 0:52:12.400 to sink it across devices, and that includes either paying 0:52:12.440 --> 0:52:15.520 them or doing it yourself. Apple Notes no good because 0:52:15.520 --> 0:52:19.359 it's just one platform, and then you've got Joplin, which 0:52:19.400 --> 0:52:22.879 is an open source program. But I find that it's 0:52:23.280 --> 0:52:25.359 good and I think it's very similar. It's basically an 0:52:25.360 --> 0:52:28.480 Evernote clone, but open source. I just didn't like the 0:52:28.520 --> 0:52:30.920 fact that it doesn't really sink in the background, and 0:52:31.120 --> 0:52:34.040 it's a little bit old school looking compared now. The 0:52:34.040 --> 0:52:37.400 one that I've settled on has been Notion, and again 0:52:37.480 --> 0:52:39.000 you do probably have to pay if you want to 0:52:39.080 --> 0:52:41.600 use Notion in a big way, but I think it's 0:52:41.640 --> 0:52:43.920 the cleanest of all the programs. The thing I don't 0:52:43.960 --> 0:52:46.319 like about it is the file structure. Everything is sort 0:52:46.320 --> 0:52:50.279 of link based, which is good, but it does take 0:52:50.320 --> 0:52:52.680 a little bit of learning. And you can't organize your 0:52:52.760 --> 0:52:56.160 file folders if you want to call that in alphabetical order, 0:52:56.200 --> 0:53:00.839 which really really bugs me. But I would say those 0:53:00.920 --> 0:53:04.000 your options. You kind of have to just play with them. 0:53:04.000 --> 0:53:07.080 And see I did download ever note again today to 0:53:07.080 --> 0:53:08.680 take a second look. But the problem is it's one 0:53:08.760 --> 0:53:11.160 hundred and thirty bucks a year, and once you start 0:53:11.160 --> 0:53:13.520 getting into these programs, if you're if you're in it 0:53:13.560 --> 0:53:15.520 for the long haul, you're gonna be paying that forever. 0:53:16.320 --> 0:53:18.440 So it really comes down to a matter more preference. 0:53:18.560 --> 0:53:22.200 Coming up, we're gonna talk frame style art TVs with 0:53:22.320 --> 0:53:26.360 Christian Deloper. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro 0:53:26.480 --> 0:53:29.680 here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight 0:53:29.920 --> 0:53:32.440 Rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven four 0:53:32.480 --> 0:53:36.200 to two four one zero one, the website rich on 0:53:36.320 --> 0:53:38.680 Tech dot TV. Hit contact if you want to get 0:53:38.680 --> 0:53:43.240 in touch. Uh Joining me now is a tech journalist 0:53:43.320 --> 0:53:46.799 Christian Delooper, to talk about the pros and cons of 0:53:47.080 --> 0:53:51.000 art style TVs. Christian, Welcome to the show. Hey, Rich, 0:53:51.000 --> 0:53:54.120 how's it going. Thanks for having me, Yeah, thanks for 0:53:54.160 --> 0:53:56.680 coming on. Let's uh so, first off, what is an 0:53:56.760 --> 0:53:59.000 art style TV. What does that mean exactly? 0:53:59.719 --> 0:54:02.359 So I think like maybe three or four years ago 0:54:02.440 --> 0:54:04.440 we saw the first one from Samsung, which is the 0:54:04.680 --> 0:54:08.600 kind of much loved or much googled Samsung, the Frame TV, 0:54:08.760 --> 0:54:11.359 and the goal of the TV was essentially to kind 0:54:11.400 --> 0:54:14.440 of replace the big black box that's always in your 0:54:14.440 --> 0:54:17.000 living room with something that can not only be a 0:54:17.000 --> 0:54:19.640 TV but also kind of like a painting. 0:54:21.320 --> 0:54:23.160 Right, And this is something when I first saw it, 0:54:23.200 --> 0:54:25.719 I was like, Oh, I want this because it's like 0:54:26.080 --> 0:54:29.359 this TV just hangs on your wall, but when you're 0:54:29.360 --> 0:54:33.800 not using it, it looks like a framed piece of art. Yeah, 0:54:33.840 --> 0:54:35.839 pretty much. Yeah, I felt the same way. 0:54:35.880 --> 0:54:38.560 And they basically use a few different technologies to kind 0:54:38.600 --> 0:54:42.120 of look less like a glossy black box like I mentioned, 0:54:42.160 --> 0:54:44.759 and kind of more like a painting. For example, they 0:54:44.800 --> 0:54:47.960 have typically a matte glass instead of a glossy glass 0:54:48.600 --> 0:54:50.920 that can that's kind of anti reflective so that they, 0:54:51.440 --> 0:54:53.799 you know, paintings aren't reflective, so that they look much 0:54:53.840 --> 0:54:55.920 more like paintings when they're showing a picture of a 0:54:56.000 --> 0:54:56.799 painting behind there. 0:54:57.840 --> 0:55:00.279 I'm pretty sure Samsung tried to like fake everyone out 0:55:00.280 --> 0:55:02.400 the first time they unveil this where they had had 0:55:02.480 --> 0:55:04.400 us in a room or something and they're like, oh, 0:55:04.480 --> 0:55:07.279 and then it changes to like a TV. So now 0:55:07.280 --> 0:55:10.000 we've got some competition. High Sense also has one called 0:55:10.000 --> 0:55:13.520 the Canvas TV. You tested that, yep, yep. I tested 0:55:13.560 --> 0:55:17.000 that last month. It's their first model, the heighcensed Canvas TV. 0:55:17.120 --> 0:55:18.840 I think the model name is S seven or something. 0:55:18.920 --> 0:55:21.680 So hopefully we'll see other models from them. And that 0:55:21.680 --> 0:55:24.880 one's pretty interesting because it's taking on Samsung at a 0:55:25.000 --> 0:55:26.960 much lower price point. You know, the fifty five inch 0:55:27.600 --> 0:55:31.120 frame TV is fifteen hundred dollars, but the heists model 0:55:31.200 --> 0:55:33.800 is a thousand bucks, so you know, five hundred bucks 0:55:33.880 --> 0:55:36.680 cheaper is a big deal. Yeah, and I have a 0:55:36.719 --> 0:55:39.640 high Sense, so I'm actually I can say the quality 0:55:39.719 --> 0:55:42.960 is great. I like it a lot, and so I 0:55:42.960 --> 0:55:45.520 think that this is probably a nice option. So what 0:55:45.760 --> 0:55:47.120 who do you think these are for? Like how do 0:55:47.160 --> 0:55:48.839 they work day to day? Like when you turn off 0:55:48.840 --> 0:55:51.480 your TV? Does it it just shows the artwork? And 0:55:51.520 --> 0:55:53.120 can you choose what you want on there? 0:55:54.520 --> 0:55:59.480 So it's complicated you can choose what you want. Typically 0:55:59.560 --> 0:56:02.640 they have a kind of art mode, so instead of 0:56:02.719 --> 0:56:04.880 hitting the power button on the remote, you'd hit the 0:56:05.000 --> 0:56:07.120 art Mode button to put it into art Mode, and 0:56:07.120 --> 0:56:10.399 then you know, with the Hyacinths and the Samsung as well, 0:56:10.440 --> 0:56:13.960 they typically turn off after a while. Especially the newer 0:56:14.000 --> 0:56:16.600 models have like motion detection or light detection, so if 0:56:16.600 --> 0:56:18.720 I think it's night and no one's around, everyone's asleep, 0:56:18.840 --> 0:56:22.319 they'll just kind of turn off. But you have to 0:56:23.120 --> 0:56:24.880 unless you're willing to tinker a lot. You have to 0:56:24.960 --> 0:56:26.760 use the built in software to really. 0:56:26.520 --> 0:56:27.880 Get the most out of the art Mode. 0:56:28.440 --> 0:56:30.840 I still have the TV set up I reviewed it 0:56:30.880 --> 0:56:33.040 a month ago, but I use an Apple TV and 0:56:33.360 --> 0:56:35.719 as a result, it's never really an art Mode. It's 0:56:35.760 --> 0:56:37.880 just kind of it looks like an empty frame. 0:56:39.080 --> 0:56:42.080 Oh that's interesting, yeah, because I'm sure there's like things 0:56:42.120 --> 0:56:44.920 competing with these, like you know, your screensavers on your 0:56:45.080 --> 0:56:48.880 other things as well, like yeah, streaming box connected. So 0:56:49.040 --> 0:56:51.000 is there So I was mentioning earlier on the show, 0:56:51.000 --> 0:56:52.799 there's always like a pro and con to something. So 0:56:53.440 --> 0:56:56.640 these TVs are expensive, are they as high quality like 0:56:57.040 --> 0:57:00.719 typically like if you're watching the regular content as you know, 0:57:01.040 --> 0:57:02.840 a nice ole letter or something like that, or is 0:57:02.840 --> 0:57:05.480 there a downside to the screen tech that they're using 0:57:05.520 --> 0:57:06.640 to make these look like art. 0:57:07.560 --> 0:57:11.000 Yeah, so the downside is not as much about the screen, well, 0:57:11.040 --> 0:57:12.839 it is about the screen tech, but the screen tech 0:57:12.880 --> 0:57:15.120 as a result of the form factor. So these are 0:57:15.120 --> 0:57:17.720 built to be super thin. They're built to be mounted 0:57:17.760 --> 0:57:19.600 on a wall and look like a picture when they're 0:57:19.600 --> 0:57:22.120 not in use. But the result of the thinness is 0:57:22.320 --> 0:57:25.200 less cooling and less space for a new tech. So 0:57:25.720 --> 0:57:27.640 the answer is no, that the image quality is not 0:57:27.720 --> 0:57:29.640 anywhere near you know, you mentioned you have a high 0:57:29.640 --> 0:57:32.280 sense before I reviewed this one. I reviewed the latest 0:57:32.320 --> 0:57:35.439 license you eight, which is a stunning looking TV. 0:57:36.320 --> 0:57:39.080 But that's the one I've got. Yeah, it's a great TV. 0:57:39.240 --> 0:57:43.040 But the highcensed Canvas TV, while great, is Yeah, the 0:57:43.040 --> 0:57:45.880 image quality just doesn't compare. And that's mostly mostly because 0:57:45.880 --> 0:57:49.160 of the backlighting technology that just can't produce the same 0:57:49.480 --> 0:57:53.480 deep black levels that dominild black lighting that you know, 0:57:53.520 --> 0:57:54.480 higher end models can. 0:57:55.680 --> 0:57:57.440 So, now when you said that you have this thing 0:57:57.480 --> 0:57:59.440 set up but it's sort of just a black screen, 0:57:59.640 --> 0:58:00.320 why is that? 0:58:01.680 --> 0:58:06.160 Basically because typically well typically I always use the Apple TV. 0:58:06.240 --> 0:58:11.000 You know, our household is Apple based, so I can't 0:58:11.160 --> 0:58:14.800 There's no Art TV button on the Apple TV, and 0:58:14.880 --> 0:58:18.680 I don't see Apple adding one anytime soon. So when 0:58:18.720 --> 0:58:21.480 I'm not using the TV, I use HDMI controls, so 0:58:21.520 --> 0:58:23.400 I can use my Apple TV remode all the time. 0:58:23.680 --> 0:58:26.040 So I hit off and it just goes straight to off. 0:58:26.080 --> 0:58:28.040 You know, that's one of the biggest issues I had 0:58:28.080 --> 0:58:29.920 with it, is that I wish you could. You can 0:58:29.920 --> 0:58:33.040 set up Hdmi to control the TV through the volume 0:58:33.080 --> 0:58:34.560 and the power button and all that kind of stuff, 0:58:34.840 --> 0:58:37.400 but you can't set up the TV to say, hey, 0:58:37.480 --> 0:58:39.440 I just got an off signal, I'm going to go 0:58:39.440 --> 0:58:43.800 in art mode instead of OFF because I prefer to 0:58:43.800 --> 0:58:44.400 have art mode. 0:58:45.320 --> 0:58:47.280 Yeah, I mean, I'm sure that's something they could do 0:58:47.280 --> 0:58:50.160 with a software update, and you know, because it doesn't 0:58:50.160 --> 0:58:53.080 seem like it would be that tricky, it's interesting. So yeah, 0:58:53.120 --> 0:58:55.520 and there are some hacks around it too, So like, 0:58:55.520 --> 0:58:58.680 for example, I could change the Apple TV screen savers 0:58:58.720 --> 0:59:02.200 to be paintings instead of to kind of bird's eye 0:59:02.320 --> 0:59:05.440 view screensavers that Apple TV has become famous for, and 0:59:05.480 --> 0:59:07.720 that would kind of get around it, but you still 0:59:07.760 --> 0:59:11.400 won't get the automatic brightness technology like the Canvas TV 0:59:11.480 --> 0:59:12.920 can change brightness depending on the. 0:59:12.880 --> 0:59:15.080 Environment, so it looks a little more natural, and. 0:59:15.000 --> 0:59:16.000 You won't get the automatic. 0:59:16.440 --> 0:59:17.880 It can kind of turn on and off if it 0:59:17.960 --> 0:59:20.040 detects motion, so if there's no one in the room, 0:59:20.080 --> 0:59:23.040 it'll be off without the TV being fully off, and 0:59:23.040 --> 0:59:24.720 then switch back on if someone comes to the room. 0:59:24.760 --> 0:59:25.280 That kind of thing. 0:59:25.280 --> 0:59:27.400 So you can kind of get around it, but kind 0:59:27.400 --> 0:59:27.640 of not. 0:59:28.840 --> 0:59:31.000 So what you're saying is if you want to get 0:59:31.000 --> 0:59:32.960 the most out of these TVs, you sort of have 0:59:33.040 --> 0:59:36.120 to use their built in streaming service. Does this one? 0:59:36.160 --> 0:59:38.400 Does High Sense have like a Google TV or anything 0:59:38.440 --> 0:59:40.480 built in? Yeah, yeah, that's right. 0:59:40.520 --> 0:59:43.280 It's Google TV built into the Highcense TCL has a 0:59:43.320 --> 0:59:46.040 model as well, and that's Google TV, and there's the 0:59:46.040 --> 0:59:48.800 Samsung the frame. You don't necessarily have to use the 0:59:48.800 --> 0:59:50.960 built in software, but you do have to be willing. 0:59:51.120 --> 0:59:53.040 If you're using an external box, you do have to 0:59:53.040 --> 0:59:58.000 be willing to use two remotes, or at least I 0:59:58.000 --> 1:00:00.800 think you can technically set up the TV remote that 1:00:00.840 --> 1:00:03.360 comes with the Hyacins to control your Apple TV as well, 1:00:03.400 --> 1:00:04.840 so that that might be a good way around it 1:00:04.880 --> 1:00:07.440 for those who are willing to not use the Apple 1:00:07.480 --> 1:00:09.400 TV remote and still want art Mode. 1:00:10.200 --> 1:00:12.760 But as someone okay, but that's ironic because if you're 1:00:12.800 --> 1:00:15.680 buying one of these art TVs. You love aesthetics and 1:00:15.720 --> 1:00:21.080 now you're using like the worst possible real control to plastic. 1:00:22.160 --> 1:00:24.720 But I do use the remote for the high sense. 1:00:24.760 --> 1:00:27.160 Like I I was so against it for so long. 1:00:27.240 --> 1:00:28.840 I had like a third I had my Apple TV 1:00:28.920 --> 1:00:31.360 actually connected to the TV. But then I was like, 1:00:31.400 --> 1:00:33.200 why do I need this extra box, Like as much 1:00:33.200 --> 1:00:35.960 as I love Apple TV, like Google TV does everything 1:00:36.000 --> 1:00:38.880 I need and it's one less remote, and so I 1:00:39.000 --> 1:00:41.240 just you know, that's what we use. But uh, okay, 1:00:41.280 --> 1:00:43.479 So the TCL one looks like it's called the Next 1:00:43.520 --> 1:00:47.000 Frame nxt Frame TV, so they're doing this as well, 1:00:47.920 --> 1:00:53.520 and yeah, sorry what was that? Yeah, no, go ahead, 1:00:53.640 --> 1:00:54.360 talk about this one. 1:00:54.400 --> 1:00:54.760 That one is. 1:00:55.040 --> 1:00:59.240 Yeah, that was really promising because the the big disadvantage 1:00:59.240 --> 1:01:01.560 to these over the past few years has been kind 1:01:01.560 --> 1:01:04.000 of the backlighting technology. We've seeing a lot of different 1:01:04.040 --> 1:01:08.080 backlight technologies make for a more natural image because they 1:01:08.080 --> 1:01:12.800 can turn off sections of the display to produce true 1:01:12.840 --> 1:01:15.640 black levels. The Next Frame can't do that, but it 1:01:15.720 --> 1:01:19.200 does have what's called direct lit backlighting instead of the 1:01:19.240 --> 1:01:22.280 canvas TV and the frame's edge lit. So with an 1:01:22.360 --> 1:01:24.440 edge lit TV, they basically shine lights in through the 1:01:24.560 --> 1:01:27.760 edges will The next frame has a big backlight behind 1:01:27.840 --> 1:01:30.280 the display so that the lighting is much more uniform. 1:01:30.760 --> 1:01:33.080 They can't still can't get really good control over the 1:01:33.360 --> 1:01:35.919 black levels. It doesn't have local dimming or anything like that, 1:01:36.640 --> 1:01:40.560 but it is a much more uniform lighting if you 1:01:40.600 --> 1:01:41.080 care about that. 1:01:42.120 --> 1:01:43.960 And the main thing, like if someone's listening and they're 1:01:43.960 --> 1:01:46.840 sitting there going wait, I'm so confused, Like I've had 1:01:46.840 --> 1:01:50.360 a screensaver on my TV forever, like what's different? The 1:01:50.440 --> 1:01:52.480 main thing is the actual when you walk into a 1:01:52.560 --> 1:01:55.840 room and see this TV. If it's an art style TV, 1:01:56.480 --> 1:01:58.680 it is a different look. It looks much more closer 1:01:58.720 --> 1:02:02.360 to like, let's say the printed painted page versus you know, 1:02:02.520 --> 1:02:03.400 a bright picture. 1:02:04.280 --> 1:02:07.760 Yeah, that's right, it's the main Like physical differences are 1:02:07.760 --> 1:02:11.360 the matt anti reflective gloss that's used. And then I 1:02:11.400 --> 1:02:14.440 guess the frames that you could put around them that 1:02:14.680 --> 1:02:17.040 come with the highcense, and I think that the TCL 1:02:17.040 --> 1:02:18.760 as well for free, but you have to buy separately 1:02:18.760 --> 1:02:19.240 for the frame. 1:02:20.200 --> 1:02:22.200 Okay, and now if you want a kind of a 1:02:22.400 --> 1:02:25.880 cheaper way to do this, DIY, you know, Amazon's got 1:02:26.200 --> 1:02:29.160 what they call the ambient Experience on Fire TV. And 1:02:29.160 --> 1:02:32.480 that's on their fire TV Omni. It's also on the 1:02:32.560 --> 1:02:36.160 fire Stick four K Max and some Panasonic fire TVs. 1:02:36.560 --> 1:02:39.000 And then, like I said, I was at my mom's 1:02:39.000 --> 1:02:41.680 place helping her with her Roku, and they just added 1:02:41.720 --> 1:02:45.640 what's called the backdrops, and it's basically turns your TV 1:02:45.760 --> 1:02:47.400 into an art style TV. Now you're not going to 1:02:47.440 --> 1:02:49.520 get that same dimming and all the you know, the 1:02:49.560 --> 1:02:52.720 matt look, but it's the same thing. Like when I 1:02:52.760 --> 1:02:55.160 pressed her power button on the Roku. Once I set 1:02:55.160 --> 1:02:56.960 it up, it went into art mode and then you 1:02:57.000 --> 1:02:59.200 press again and it turns off the TV. So I 1:02:59.200 --> 1:03:01.040 thought that was pretty cool that they added that as well. 1:03:01.040 --> 1:03:03.880 And obviously a lot of people have real cool Yeah, yeah, 1:03:03.920 --> 1:03:04.720 it is pretty cool. 1:03:04.800 --> 1:03:06.920 If you really want to go DIY, you can just 1:03:07.240 --> 1:03:10.120 find pictures that you like and make those your screensaver 1:03:10.320 --> 1:03:12.760 on at any smart TV. 1:03:13.600 --> 1:03:14.560 I don't think it's hard to do. 1:03:14.640 --> 1:03:17.200 And then so when your TV goes into screensaver mode, 1:03:17.200 --> 1:03:19.000 you could do it on an Apple TV or anything 1:03:19.040 --> 1:03:22.480 like that. It'll be shown the art behind the glossy 1:03:22.520 --> 1:03:24.120 glass that won't look completely. 1:03:23.760 --> 1:03:25.480 Like a painting like some of these art TVs do. 1:03:25.600 --> 1:03:29.600 But yeah, it's a good hack. All right, Christian Delooper. 1:03:30.120 --> 1:03:31.800 Where can folks find you? We're online. 1:03:32.960 --> 1:03:35.280 I write for all all sorts of places. I'm a 1:03:35.760 --> 1:03:38.800 expert for our hosting advice. I write reviews for BGR 1:03:38.920 --> 1:03:41.080 Tom's Guide, do a lot of smart home, a lot 1:03:41.080 --> 1:03:43.840 of home theater. You can find me on threads and 1:03:43.840 --> 1:03:46.200 then you'll see some of my work at Christian Delooper. 1:03:47.200 --> 1:03:48.880 And the end of the day, which one are you picking? 1:03:49.040 --> 1:03:52.720 The frame, the canvas, the TCL or just sticking with 1:03:52.760 --> 1:03:54.880 the Apple TV end of the day. 1:03:55.040 --> 1:03:57.160 The frame is probably the best looking so far, but 1:03:57.200 --> 1:04:00.640 I haven't reviewed the TCL just yet, and it's pretty 1:04:00.640 --> 1:04:05.200 promising in terms of the backlining tech, So we'll see. 1:04:04.160 --> 1:04:06.400 All right. I, like I said, I've always wanted one 1:04:06.440 --> 1:04:09.080 of these, but haven't haven't done it, and I feel 1:04:09.120 --> 1:04:12.560 like we really got to be into that art. Yeah exactly, 1:04:12.960 --> 1:04:14.800 all right, Thanks so much for joining me. Appreciate it. 1:04:15.080 --> 1:04:17.760 Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 1:04:17.880 --> 1:04:19.920 four to two four one zero one. We come back. 1:04:19.960 --> 1:04:21.440 We'll take some more of your calls, and I'll tell 1:04:21.440 --> 1:04:27.080 you why TikTok's getting sued once again. Welcome back to 1:04:27.160 --> 1:04:29.320 rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you 1:04:29.480 --> 1:04:34.800 Talking technology eighty eight Rich one O one eighty eight 1:04:34.960 --> 1:04:38.560 seven four to two, four to one zero one coming 1:04:38.600 --> 1:04:42.320 to you from New Jersey today. Hence the music all 1:04:42.440 --> 1:04:48.000 Jersey inspired. Bon Jovi clearly one of the breakout stars 1:04:48.120 --> 1:04:51.800 of New Jersey. A couple of feedbags before we get 1:04:51.840 --> 1:04:54.440 to uh Todd in Santa Monica to talk about this 1:04:54.520 --> 1:04:58.160 hackathon they've got going on there. Danny wrote in from Riverside, said, Hey, 1:04:58.160 --> 1:05:02.360 back in the eighties, the Federated Group was one of 1:05:02.360 --> 1:05:05.640 the fourth largest consumer electronics stores in the US. If 1:05:05.640 --> 1:05:07.120 you mentioned you were in radio, they'd give you a 1:05:07.160 --> 1:05:11.240 discount on Sendheiser headphones. Besides headphones, I bought my first 1:05:11.240 --> 1:05:15.920 Dolby surround stereo system there. Great for movie watching. Then 1:05:15.960 --> 1:05:19.160 you had Circuit Oh let's see radio personality. Oh Shadow Stevens. 1:05:19.280 --> 1:05:23.600 Huh wow, I remember that name was their spokesperson. Wow. 1:05:23.640 --> 1:05:25.800 That just brought back blasts from the past. Circuit City, 1:05:25.800 --> 1:05:28.120 where I bought my first big screen TV, eventually became 1:05:28.160 --> 1:05:32.480 their main competitor. Atari bought Federated in nineteen eighty seven. 1:05:32.720 --> 1:05:36.840 After a few lawsuits, they folded in nineteen ninety All 1:05:36.880 --> 1:05:40.800 the best, Rich hmm, It's interesting. That's another place people. 1:05:40.800 --> 1:05:43.400 Oh that was another like Montgomery Ward, remember that store. 1:05:43.520 --> 1:05:45.919 That was another place you could buy electronics. So many 1:05:46.960 --> 1:05:50.440 let's see I believe on X says Fyi, Alan Eds 1:05:50.440 --> 1:05:52.800 are still going strong. There's one close to me. Oh, 1:05:52.840 --> 1:05:56.800 good to know always like that's who you wanted to 1:05:56.840 --> 1:05:59.480 install your stuff again, Alan Eds, Let's go to a 1:05:59.600 --> 1:06:04.120 line too, Todd in Santa Monica. Todd, what's going on 1:06:04.160 --> 1:06:05.240 in Santa Monica today? 1:06:06.040 --> 1:06:09.880 Hey, Rich, good to hear from you. We're hosting AILA 1:06:10.080 --> 1:06:13.360 is hosting the largest hack jenerative AI hackathon in the 1:06:13.360 --> 1:06:16.600 region with over five hundred people and it's a pretty 1:06:16.880 --> 1:06:18.080 electric over here right now. 1:06:18.920 --> 1:06:22.320 What's a generative AI hackathons? Use AI to help you hack? 1:06:22.440 --> 1:06:22.720 Or what? 1:06:23.520 --> 1:06:23.760 Yeah? 1:06:23.840 --> 1:06:25.720 Exactly is this really? You know, you could be using 1:06:25.760 --> 1:06:27.960 AI to write your code or actually developing some tind 1:06:27.960 --> 1:06:31.400 of a generative AI platform. So we have a number 1:06:31.440 --> 1:06:34.240 of different types of tracks, whether it's around responsible AI, 1:06:34.680 --> 1:06:37.680 or is around building of a viable startup, a fundable startup, 1:06:38.000 --> 1:06:40.400 or around cybersecurity. And then we have a ton of 1:06:40.400 --> 1:06:42.480 different Obviously we're in Los Angeles, so we've got a 1:06:42.480 --> 1:06:44.720 ton of different tracks focusing on entertainment and media. 1:06:46.000 --> 1:06:48.600 So I guess my question is, you know, everyone thinks 1:06:48.640 --> 1:06:51.040 that AI is the end of everything, especially if you're 1:06:51.040 --> 1:06:53.160 a coder, Like do you still have to learn how 1:06:53.160 --> 1:06:55.800 to code? How does AI play along with what you 1:06:55.880 --> 1:06:56.600 do as a coder. 1:06:57.680 --> 1:06:59.840 Yeah, I mean there's definitely a number of different types 1:06:59.880 --> 1:07:02.680 of products that are helping people code faster and better. 1:07:02.760 --> 1:07:04.680 Like think of it as always having like an assistant 1:07:04.760 --> 1:07:07.200 or co pilot next to you. And so for me, 1:07:07.240 --> 1:07:09.440 as a non clinical person that went to film school, 1:07:09.680 --> 1:07:13.760 I still believe that no matter what, understanding the science 1:07:13.840 --> 1:07:17.400 behind AI and the science behind computer you know around 1:07:17.600 --> 1:07:21.320 coding is very important. So don't give up on going 1:07:21.360 --> 1:07:23.439 to get your computer science degree anytime soon. 1:07:24.480 --> 1:07:26.320 And what are some of the themes that you're seeing there? 1:07:26.360 --> 1:07:27.960 I mean, I know you mentioned some about anything that's 1:07:28.000 --> 1:07:30.040 like stand out to you that people are doing. 1:07:31.160 --> 1:07:33.320 I haven't had a chance to walk around. We seriously 1:07:33.360 --> 1:07:35.720 started like a two hours ago when people started hacking. 1:07:35.760 --> 1:07:38.440 They're going to be working on their projects overnight and 1:07:38.520 --> 1:07:40.680 so tomorrow I'll be able to have more to report abile. 1:07:41.000 --> 1:07:43.920 But there's people, you know, thinking of a lot of 1:07:43.960 --> 1:07:46.400 different applications that some of them are centered around how 1:07:46.400 --> 1:07:49.200 do they use content, how do they digest content and 1:07:49.720 --> 1:07:52.440 edit it in bite sized pieces to like highlight reels, 1:07:52.880 --> 1:07:56.560 or helping YouTubers be able to again cut their content 1:07:56.680 --> 1:07:59.440 faster as a rough cut, so that then they can 1:07:59.440 --> 1:08:00.920 go in and talluld. 1:08:00.360 --> 1:08:03.600 And make it beautiful so wild. I mean, it's also 1:08:03.760 --> 1:08:06.800 like even something like this radio show which is three hours, 1:08:07.080 --> 1:08:09.800 you know, picking out little spots that you can make 1:08:09.840 --> 1:08:12.720 into like you know, clips for shareable social media. You know, 1:08:12.720 --> 1:08:14.400 there's so many companies that are working on that. I 1:08:14.400 --> 1:08:16.680 don't think it's perfect just yet. I think that you 1:08:16.760 --> 1:08:18.839 still need that human touch with some of this stuff. 1:08:18.880 --> 1:08:22.040 But it's definitely happening. And you know, AI is just 1:08:22.160 --> 1:08:25.439 it's such a force in everything these days. So where's 1:08:25.439 --> 1:08:27.600 the event happening and can anyone get involved in this 1:08:27.640 --> 1:08:28.080 still or what? 1:08:28.840 --> 1:08:31.479 Yeah, well, the missions are definitely closed up. We had 1:08:31.520 --> 1:08:35.120 over one thousand registrations. We've got over five hundred actually 1:08:35.200 --> 1:08:38.799 here actively participating and at that one two one seven 1:08:38.880 --> 1:08:41.400 second street here in Santa Monica just stepped away from 1:08:41.439 --> 1:08:44.000 the big DC group Basic tem Z and so we're 1:08:44.080 --> 1:08:47.120 kicking off LA Tech Week with this huge hakathon to 1:08:47.200 --> 1:08:50.200 really help a flag in Los Angeles to show people 1:08:50.240 --> 1:08:52.720 that you know, there's a you know, we're more than 1:08:53.080 --> 1:08:57.280 we're an innovation capital too, not just San Francisco or places. 1:08:56.920 --> 1:08:57.519 Like New Jersey. 1:08:58.560 --> 1:09:02.200 Absolutely awesome is their website people can go to to 1:09:02.280 --> 1:09:02.720 learn more. 1:09:03.640 --> 1:09:06.360 Sure, you can just go to join AI dot la. 1:09:06.760 --> 1:09:09.840 Find out more about our ailate nonprofit that's hosted this 1:09:09.880 --> 1:09:10.559 whole hackathon. 1:09:11.520 --> 1:09:14.000 Join a JOINAI dot l A. 1:09:14.720 --> 1:09:17.400 Correct join AI dot l A and you'll find more 1:09:17.439 --> 1:09:19.080 about the organization and the pacabon. 1:09:19.880 --> 1:09:22.200 All Right, Todd and Santa Monica, thanks so much for 1:09:22.280 --> 1:09:23.519 checking in with us. Appreciate that. 1:09:24.080 --> 1:09:24.760 Thanks so much. 1:09:25.360 --> 1:09:28.559 All Right, good luck with that. Very exciting. I've seen 1:09:28.600 --> 1:09:30.679 a couple of hackathons in my years, and it's cool. 1:09:30.720 --> 1:09:32.720 People come up with like, you know, they spend a 1:09:32.760 --> 1:09:35.880 certain amount of time, let's say twenty four hours just 1:09:35.920 --> 1:09:38.280 working and they got to get a project from idea 1:09:38.720 --> 1:09:42.800 to execution and fruition might not be fully complete, but 1:09:42.880 --> 1:09:44.880 you know, they try to get the best they can 1:09:45.000 --> 1:09:46.479 for what, you know, the time that they have. And 1:09:46.520 --> 1:09:48.599 it's pretty cool because people, you know, they come together, 1:09:48.640 --> 1:09:50.599 they may not know each other sometimes and they solve 1:09:50.680 --> 1:09:54.240 these problems that they you know uh have been considering 1:09:54.479 --> 1:09:57.760 with technology. It's pretty neat eighty eight rich one on 1:09:57.760 --> 1:10:00.719 one eight eight eight seven four to two one zero 1:10:00.760 --> 1:10:03.200 one again the website rich on tech dot tv. I'll 1:10:03.200 --> 1:10:05.639 put that website that Todd mentioned in the show notes. 1:10:05.960 --> 1:10:09.360 Just hit the light bulb there to get those TikTok 1:10:10.000 --> 1:10:13.799 I know, broken record, TikTok, TikTok, TikTok. I saw somewhere 1:10:13.840 --> 1:10:19.360 that TikTok has a countdown clock that you can see 1:10:19.400 --> 1:10:24.600 when when they're expected to be Let's see TikTok countdown 1:10:24.680 --> 1:10:27.160 to ban when they're expected. Oh here it is us 1:10:27.280 --> 1:10:31.800 TikTok ban countdown. Oh gosh, there's like some sort of 1:10:31.800 --> 1:10:34.519 clock I saw on social media that you can countdown 1:10:34.520 --> 1:10:37.920 time or oh here it is TikTok countdown. Now that's 1:10:37.960 --> 1:10:40.479 not the right one. Well this will work. But TikTok 1:10:40.520 --> 1:10:44.320 countdown dot com ninety nine days, nine hours, five minutes, 1:10:44.320 --> 1:10:47.040 four seconds. With the ninety day extension, you've got one 1:10:47.120 --> 1:10:48.760 hundred and eighty nine days. So if you're making a 1:10:48.760 --> 1:10:51.839 living on TikTok, this is the this is the countdown 1:10:51.840 --> 1:10:55.400 to watch now. I I don't know I will get banned. 1:10:55.479 --> 1:10:58.640 I'm not sure and I've already given my opinion too 1:10:58.680 --> 1:11:01.040 many times in the show about electric cars. I'll save 1:11:01.080 --> 1:11:03.720 mine on TikTok. Let me just tell you what the 1:11:04.040 --> 1:11:07.439 what's happening against TikTok. Fourteen states have filed a lawsuit 1:11:07.439 --> 1:11:11.840 against TikTok for violating consumer protection laws. They say this 1:11:11.880 --> 1:11:15.320 platform is addictive, particularly for young users. I don't think 1:11:15.320 --> 1:11:18.760 anyone could argue with that. They say that TikTok uses 1:11:18.840 --> 1:11:24.000 manipulative features to maximize user engagement, including beauty filters. They 1:11:24.040 --> 1:11:27.840 think that harm self esteem, especially for teens, auto play 1:11:28.000 --> 1:11:30.760 and endless scrolling. There's no way to turn off the AutoPlay, 1:11:31.920 --> 1:11:35.599 notifications that make you want to come back, likes and 1:11:35.640 --> 1:11:39.400 comments all over the place, and time sensitive features that 1:11:39.479 --> 1:11:42.120 exploit a fear of missing out. What do they want 1:11:42.160 --> 1:11:45.720 them to do? Change their ways? Sixty three percent of 1:11:45.760 --> 1:11:49.960 Americans thirteen to seventeen use TikTok, seventeen percent reporting they 1:11:50.080 --> 1:11:54.759 use it almost constantly. This is rich on Tech. Welcome 1:11:54.760 --> 1:11:57.040 back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out 1:11:57.040 --> 1:12:01.000 with you talking technology at triple eight rich one on one. 1:12:01.040 --> 1:12:04.200 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 1:12:04.439 --> 1:12:08.880 zero one. The website Rich on tech dot TV. As always, 1:12:08.960 --> 1:12:12.280 Thanks for your emails, your comments, your questions. I do 1:12:12.400 --> 1:12:12.960 read them all. 1:12:13.800 --> 1:12:13.920 Uh. 1:12:14.200 --> 1:12:18.640 Special guests with me, my brother Justin, Justin, Welcome to 1:12:18.680 --> 1:12:21.559 the show. Thanks for having me on. You're a repeat 1:12:21.640 --> 1:12:25.800 guest at this point. And I was talking about Microcenter 1:12:25.840 --> 1:12:28.479 earlier in the show. Yep, I used to work there. 1:12:28.680 --> 1:12:30.679 I just realized that I was sitting the wrong way 1:12:30.680 --> 1:12:33.799 to talk to you because I set up the studio. 1:12:34.360 --> 1:12:36.559 We're on a remote show this this week, and I 1:12:36.560 --> 1:12:38.760 set up the studio and I just realized where I 1:12:38.760 --> 1:12:41.200 set up. Justin is completely like he's just looking at 1:12:41.200 --> 1:12:43.040 my back. And I didn't even think about that when 1:12:43.040 --> 1:12:45.800 I was setting this up. But yeah, you worked at Microcenter. 1:12:46.160 --> 1:12:48.599 I did. Yeah, I was in the BYO PC section. 1:12:49.080 --> 1:12:50.960 And so did you know a lot about you've built 1:12:51.000 --> 1:12:51.519 your own PC? 1:12:51.760 --> 1:12:51.920 Right? 1:12:52.280 --> 1:12:57.120 Yeah, a couple. So what components you need like a motherboard, yeah, motherboard, 1:12:57.200 --> 1:13:00.840 a processor, BRAM, a storage, some kind of stories like 1:13:00.840 --> 1:13:06.000 an SSD. You need a power supply, a case, some fans, 1:13:06.240 --> 1:13:08.920 and somewhere to plug it in. Sounds pretty easy. And 1:13:08.960 --> 1:13:11.599 a monitor. Yeah, you just fit the shapes into the 1:13:11.600 --> 1:13:13.920 slots that they go into. That's pretty much it. Now, 1:13:14.040 --> 1:13:15.880 what would people come in there, because you know, people 1:13:15.880 --> 1:13:18.439 that are building their own computer. Some of them may 1:13:18.479 --> 1:13:20.280 not have known everything, but a lot of them like 1:13:20.360 --> 1:13:22.479 kind of know their stuff. So were they trying to 1:13:22.520 --> 1:13:26.160 like quiz you like, what would be the interaction? Oh? Yeah, 1:13:25.960 --> 1:13:29.160 the smart customers were the worst because they would just 1:13:29.200 --> 1:13:31.160 ask me. They would just test my knowledge as much 1:13:31.160 --> 1:13:35.680 as they could. That's like this show sometime. Yeah, but yeah, 1:13:35.720 --> 1:13:38.200 they would ask all kinds of questions. You know, you'd 1:13:38.240 --> 1:13:40.320 get everybody. You get somebody who just wants you to 1:13:40.320 --> 1:13:42.880 build the computer for them, and I'm like, all right, great, 1:13:42.920 --> 1:13:48.599 here's all the most expensive parts, and you commission I did? Yeah, yeah, yeah, 1:13:48.600 --> 1:13:52.200 everybody works in our commission. So the customer brings up 1:13:52.240 --> 1:13:55.040 the part that they like, and then you slap your 1:13:55.040 --> 1:13:57.000 sticker with the barcode on it. And then when they 1:13:57.080 --> 1:13:59.479 check out, they bring up the part in the barcode 1:13:59.520 --> 1:14:02.720 and you get you know, the commissions calculated from that. 1:14:03.080 --> 1:14:05.800 Oh wow, interesting? Yeah, And how long did you did 1:14:05.840 --> 1:14:08.559 you do that? I think I was there for just 1:14:08.600 --> 1:14:13.120 about a year. Oh that's it. Yeah, Oh wow, did 1:14:13.120 --> 1:14:14.880 I think of so much longer? Okay, So I was 1:14:14.920 --> 1:14:17.479 talking about the idea of when I was growing up, 1:14:17.520 --> 1:14:19.840 and for you a lesser extent, you're a little younger, 1:14:20.120 --> 1:14:22.880 but you know this idea of all these places you 1:14:22.920 --> 1:14:26.880 could go to the store, like these electronics stores like 1:14:26.920 --> 1:14:29.599 for me, you know comp USA and you know before 1:14:29.680 --> 1:14:32.559 Best Buy right right, like like this story yesterday when 1:14:32.560 --> 1:14:34.280 I was walking through the aisles. I mean, they sell 1:14:34.320 --> 1:14:36.519 stuff that you just can't get in a Best Buy, 1:14:36.600 --> 1:14:39.799 like little tiny pliers and like metal fittings and stuff 1:14:39.840 --> 1:14:43.679 like that that's like really nerdy. Yeah, Microcenter is probably 1:14:43.760 --> 1:14:45.600 one of the last places you can get anything like that. 1:14:45.680 --> 1:14:47.840 I know, like radio shack back in the day used 1:14:47.880 --> 1:14:50.200 to have all kinds of little knickknacks and you know, 1:14:50.280 --> 1:14:53.080 little wiry parts that you'd used to connect a circuit 1:14:53.080 --> 1:14:56.679 board to something else. And nowadays it's just micro Center. 1:14:56.720 --> 1:14:58.840 I mean they're the only game in town other than 1:14:59.400 --> 1:15:04.120 small little boutique shops that might sell electronics parts. But yeah, 1:15:04.160 --> 1:15:05.960 I mean it's great. You got to respect them for 1:15:06.000 --> 1:15:09.360 it because they they're a really good business. I mean, 1:15:10.160 --> 1:15:12.960 they have a lot of good parts they have. Let's 1:15:13.000 --> 1:15:15.400 not turn this into an ad for Microcenter. I mean 1:15:15.400 --> 1:15:17.439 it's great that we have them, but okay, let's I'm 1:15:17.439 --> 1:15:20.000 gonna I'm gonna get to some emails here. Gary. We 1:15:20.040 --> 1:15:23.519 had a question about speakers and longevity. Gary wrote in 1:15:23.560 --> 1:15:25.720 to say one of the main things that wears out 1:15:25.720 --> 1:15:29.760 on older acoustic suspension speakers is the foam surround for 1:15:29.800 --> 1:15:32.439 the wolfer. Over time, they just fall apart and turn 1:15:32.479 --> 1:15:34.519 to dust. The good news is that the surrounds can 1:15:34.560 --> 1:15:37.679 be replaced, either by the owner or by a company 1:15:37.720 --> 1:15:40.080 that does this. There are lots of YouTube videos showing 1:15:40.360 --> 1:15:45.280 how to do this. I know that older KLH Acoustics 1:15:45.320 --> 1:15:47.519 and other brands use these foam surrounds. I'm not sure 1:15:47.520 --> 1:15:51.080 if the callers KLH uses these or not. If wolfers 1:15:51.080 --> 1:15:55.040 are using rubber surrounds, they will last much longer. Let's see. 1:15:55.120 --> 1:15:58.120 Let's take Oh, you know Steve, Steve still on line one. 1:15:58.160 --> 1:15:59.640 We should get to Steve. It's been a while. You 1:15:59.680 --> 1:16:01.720 want to say a call with me? Sure? All right? 1:16:02.080 --> 1:16:08.559 Steve online one hammett Oh Kim is on with him. Okay, okay, 1:16:08.560 --> 1:16:10.080 Well maybe she was telling him that we were gonna 1:16:10.120 --> 1:16:13.160 come take him. But okay, well until that, tell me, Bobo, 1:16:13.240 --> 1:16:15.160 tell just bring him on when he's writing. I'll read 1:16:15.160 --> 1:16:20.799 another email here. Uh, Sandra says, I have a smart 1:16:20.840 --> 1:16:23.120 TV that isn't set up to deliver Netflix. If I 1:16:23.160 --> 1:16:25.680 purchase a firestick, is that all I need? Thank you? 1:16:26.360 --> 1:16:29.519 Justin you want to take that one? Sure? Yeah, you 1:16:29.560 --> 1:16:32.160 know nowadays a lot of smart TVs, a lot of TV. 1:16:32.240 --> 1:16:34.719 You almost can't get a TV without the smart stuff 1:16:34.760 --> 1:16:37.880 built into it. But if you do get a TV 1:16:38.000 --> 1:16:42.759 without it, yeah, I would say a Kindle fire t sorry, 1:16:42.760 --> 1:16:46.000 an Amazon fire Stick, fire TV, one of those devices, 1:16:46.240 --> 1:16:49.320 or even Roku personally. What's your favorite? You like the Roku? Huh? 1:16:49.360 --> 1:16:52.360 I do like Roku? Yeah? You know, it's really just 1:16:52.400 --> 1:16:54.800 they all do the same thing. Ultimately, you know, pick 1:16:54.840 --> 1:16:57.519 whatever suits your budget and has the features that you like. 1:16:58.240 --> 1:17:01.040 I just I used a fire TV for a while 1:17:01.520 --> 1:17:04.040 and then switched over to Roku because it was a 1:17:04.080 --> 1:17:07.280 bit more of a powerful device and it has its 1:17:07.280 --> 1:17:11.160 own proprietary interface. I just found that I liked it 1:17:11.520 --> 1:17:13.960 a bit better. So I do I think Roku? I 1:17:13.960 --> 1:17:17.400 mean because Roku is first and foremost a streaming device 1:17:17.479 --> 1:17:20.160 company and a platform. I think that they put a 1:17:20.200 --> 1:17:23.120 lot of effort into their platform, whereas with Amazon, and 1:17:23.160 --> 1:17:25.040 they are a big platform and Amazon's one of like 1:17:25.080 --> 1:17:27.559 the top three. It's you know, I think they do 1:17:27.640 --> 1:17:29.880 a lot of other things, right, fire is just one 1:17:29.920 --> 1:17:31.360 of those things, and I do like the fire I 1:17:31.360 --> 1:17:34.599 think the fire Cube is probably the most powerful device 1:17:34.640 --> 1:17:36.840 that they have, but it's also the most expensive. But 1:17:36.880 --> 1:17:39.280 I'm surprised, Sandra that you're able to get a smart 1:17:39.320 --> 1:17:42.320 TV without Netflix, because the idea of a smart TV 1:17:42.360 --> 1:17:45.760 is that it has Netflix built in. But Firestick, you know, 1:17:46.120 --> 1:17:47.760 I would say a lot of people go with the 1:17:47.800 --> 1:17:50.479 fire Stick just because it's very inexpensive, and that's what 1:17:50.520 --> 1:17:53.880 people like about it. All Right, do we have the caller? Nope, 1:17:53.880 --> 1:17:57.439 we don't have the caller. Okay, let's go to Jamie. Sorry, 1:17:57.520 --> 1:18:00.439 himI in a Los Angeles line. Too high, you're on 1:18:00.479 --> 1:18:00.880 with Rich. 1:18:03.160 --> 1:18:05.439 Hi, thanks for taking my call. 1:18:06.320 --> 1:18:07.840 Absolutely, what can we help you with? 1:18:08.600 --> 1:18:10.799 Yeah, So, my wife and I are in the market 1:18:10.920 --> 1:18:14.840 for an outdoor camera system and we're looking more for 1:18:14.880 --> 1:18:18.559 a wired thing within the five six hundred dollars budget area. 1:18:20.040 --> 1:18:22.080 I'm having a hard time filtering through all the different 1:18:22.120 --> 1:18:24.640 reviews of what's good and what isn't, sort of just 1:18:24.680 --> 1:18:28.719 looking for some general advice. One of the brands I've 1:18:28.760 --> 1:18:31.960 noticed is like real Link versus whys And you know, 1:18:32.040 --> 1:18:34.000 I just can't tell the difference between. 1:18:33.760 --> 1:18:34.320 Any of them. 1:18:35.360 --> 1:18:37.320 What are you looking for? Like what's important to you? 1:18:37.320 --> 1:18:38.120 You want wired? 1:18:39.439 --> 1:18:41.880 Yes, a wired system would I don't want to have 1:18:41.880 --> 1:18:43.760 to worry about battery life or anything like that. 1:18:44.560 --> 1:18:47.360 Well, typically the wise cameras, I mean you can plug 1:18:47.400 --> 1:18:49.639 them in and a lot of the cameras you can 1:18:49.680 --> 1:18:52.200 get with Solar. I mean, how many cameras are we talking? 1:18:52.240 --> 1:18:54.479 Are you covering? Like do you need like a Lorax system, 1:18:54.600 --> 1:18:57.759 Like it's like, you know, fifteen cameras on every angle 1:18:57.760 --> 1:19:00.519 of your house, or like a Swan system or just 1:19:00.920 --> 1:19:02.960 a standard like you need a couple of cameras here 1:19:03.000 --> 1:19:04.720 and there, but you just want them pluging. 1:19:04.520 --> 1:19:06.160 A couple of cameras like maybe three to four. 1:19:07.920 --> 1:19:10.360 Okay, And do you do you have any problem with 1:19:10.400 --> 1:19:12.200 like the monthly fees because a lot of them want 1:19:12.240 --> 1:19:12.920 monthly fees. 1:19:12.960 --> 1:19:16.560 Now, ideally if we can find one without a subscription, 1:19:16.720 --> 1:19:19.080 but you know, we'd have to see what the benefits 1:19:19.120 --> 1:19:20.160 of the subscription would be. 1:19:20.800 --> 1:19:23.559 Okay, Well, I think when the first thing that comes 1:19:23.600 --> 1:19:28.200 to mind with no subscription is U fee eu f y, 1:19:29.200 --> 1:19:31.479 I'm you know, and you with that one, I'm just 1:19:31.520 --> 1:19:34.040 not sure about the plug in aspect of it. You 1:19:34.080 --> 1:19:37.160 would have to you know, you'd have to get probably 1:19:37.240 --> 1:19:40.280 solar with those I like. I mean, I personally like 1:19:40.320 --> 1:19:43.439 Whys because they're cheap and they work. I also have 1:19:43.520 --> 1:19:47.479 some Why's in my house, and yeah, they're very cheap. 1:19:47.560 --> 1:19:49.960 They work, you plug them in, you point them, they 1:19:49.960 --> 1:19:52.880 give you notifications. They're a little bit finicky sometimes I 1:19:52.920 --> 1:19:56.200 will say, if you want to go, you know, that's 1:19:56.240 --> 1:19:58.960 that's more of the plug and play. Very easy, get 1:19:59.040 --> 1:20:01.639 up and go. And they have an SD card slot, 1:20:01.720 --> 1:20:03.840 which I like, right, yeah, so you can roll back 1:20:03.880 --> 1:20:07.560 the you know, roll back the tapes and see continuous footage. 1:20:07.760 --> 1:20:09.840 They support you know, I think up to like a 1:20:09.880 --> 1:20:13.000 five twelve gig card and you can go back, you know, 1:20:13.120 --> 1:20:15.559 several days. I have two six. I think it's a 1:20:15.600 --> 1:20:19.080 thirty two gig card on the on the model I have, 1:20:19.160 --> 1:20:21.600 I believe it's max of thirty two. Oh okay, but 1:20:21.880 --> 1:20:23.200 I you know, you'd have to look at that, look 1:20:23.200 --> 1:20:24.880 at the specs that. Yeah, I do know with mine, 1:20:24.880 --> 1:20:28.120 I can go back up to about six days of footage. 1:20:28.800 --> 1:20:32.640 So yeah, and what I like about the Whys is 1:20:32.640 --> 1:20:34.519 that you have that option. Now the only thing the 1:20:34.560 --> 1:20:37.720 downside of not paying for a subscription if you're on 1:20:37.760 --> 1:20:40.160 the Wisecam or any of these cameras and they're using 1:20:40.160 --> 1:20:44.160 local storage is if someone steals the camera, they've stolen 1:20:44.200 --> 1:20:46.760 your footage. So that's the downside of not having it 1:20:46.840 --> 1:20:49.559 go to the cloud immediately. Now with the Wisecam, I 1:20:49.560 --> 1:20:53.519 do believe you will get just the the frame, like 1:20:54.000 --> 1:20:56.439 a snapshot, will go up to the cloud for free. 1:20:56.720 --> 1:20:58.519 But I think that's it, Like, that's the only thing 1:20:58.520 --> 1:21:00.760 you would have. Like let's say you know someone did 1:21:00.800 --> 1:21:03.160 something and you wanted the footage of it and they 1:21:03.160 --> 1:21:05.680 took the camera on your app, you might just have 1:21:05.760 --> 1:21:09.000 the frame of them, like their face maybe, but that's it. 1:21:09.400 --> 1:21:11.320 So that's, you know, that's something to think of and 1:21:11.600 --> 1:21:14.280 keep in mind. So I have a combination of Ring, 1:21:15.280 --> 1:21:19.639 Google cameras, the Nest cameras, and the Wise cameras. Again, 1:21:19.840 --> 1:21:21.880 the whys are just the most simple kind of like, 1:21:22.360 --> 1:21:24.000 and I've had all these cameras, by the way, for 1:21:24.080 --> 1:21:26.320 like years and years, so they do work for a 1:21:26.360 --> 1:21:29.800 substantial amount of time. I would say Ring probably has 1:21:29.880 --> 1:21:33.000 the most kind of like subscription based stuff. So if 1:21:33.040 --> 1:21:36.360 you're trying to avoid subscriptions pretty much. Ring cameras are 1:21:36.960 --> 1:21:41.240 almost exclusively streaming unless you have any sort of subscription 1:21:41.360 --> 1:21:44.080 with Ring where it records to the cloud. But UFI, 1:21:44.240 --> 1:21:45.799 I know a lot of people. I have not personally 1:21:45.880 --> 1:21:47.479 used the UFI cameras, but I know a lot of 1:21:47.479 --> 1:21:50.200 people like those for the fact that there is not 1:21:50.640 --> 1:21:54.320 a major subscription pushed on people with those cameras. One 1:21:54.320 --> 1:21:57.120 of my friends uses UFI and they like them a lot. 1:21:57.640 --> 1:22:01.439 There you go, Yeah, they have them set up everywhere. Yeah, 1:22:01.479 --> 1:22:04.600 no subscription. All right, himI, thanks so much for the 1:22:04.600 --> 1:22:10.760 call today. Appreciate it. Okay, how much long do we 1:22:10.800 --> 1:22:12.679 have before the break? We got We got a minute 1:22:12.680 --> 1:22:14.320 to do it. Okay, we got a minute. All right. 1:22:14.400 --> 1:22:16.000 Let me just tell you real quick. I've been testing 1:22:16.040 --> 1:22:19.040 the Apple Watch Series ten, and I will tell you 1:22:19.120 --> 1:22:22.000 if you have a Series six or below, it's probably 1:22:22.040 --> 1:22:26.080 a great update. Series ten is thinner, it's lighter, easier 1:22:26.080 --> 1:22:29.200 to wear during sleep. It's got the sleep apnea, although 1:22:29.200 --> 1:22:31.479 you can also get that on the Series nine and 1:22:31.520 --> 1:22:35.160 the Ultra two, I believe, not just the regular. It's 1:22:35.200 --> 1:22:39.040 got this great polish black color which looks more expensive 1:22:39.040 --> 1:22:40.720 than it is. It's the first time they've had this 1:22:41.080 --> 1:22:44.280 polished black on the base model. It's got faster charging, 1:22:44.320 --> 1:22:47.240 it's got a larger screen. You can listen to music 1:22:47.320 --> 1:22:49.880 and audio through the speaker, which is the first time 1:22:49.920 --> 1:22:52.040 you could do that on an Apple Watch before. You 1:22:52.040 --> 1:22:55.040 can only take calls and talk to Siri. The Vitals 1:22:55.040 --> 1:22:57.160 app is really cool. It's like going to the doctor 1:22:57.280 --> 1:23:00.000 every night overnight. When you wake up, it tells you 1:23:00.360 --> 1:23:02.960 if any of your indicators are out of range, like 1:23:03.000 --> 1:23:06.800 your heart or your breathing. It's really really cool, and 1:23:06.840 --> 1:23:09.600 it's got on risk translation, so if you are in 1:23:09.640 --> 1:23:11.680 a different country and you need to translate feature, you 1:23:11.680 --> 1:23:14.920 can use that without a connection. Three hundred and ninety 1:23:14.960 --> 1:23:17.880 nine dollars Go Cellular if you are a runner and 1:23:17.920 --> 1:23:20.519 you want to run with this thing without your phone nearby. 1:23:21.040 --> 1:23:23.920 Apple Watch Series ten available now. You can read my 1:23:23.960 --> 1:23:26.320 full review on the website rich on tech dot tv. 1:23:26.840 --> 1:23:28.519 More of the show coming up and more of me 1:23:28.560 --> 1:23:31.920 and my brother justin right after this. Welcome back to 1:23:32.000 --> 1:23:34.120 rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you 1:23:34.280 --> 1:23:38.639 talking technology the website for the show rich on Tech 1:23:38.880 --> 1:23:41.280 dot TV. Be sure to sign up for the very 1:23:41.280 --> 1:23:44.639 helpful tech newsletter that is free on the website. Put 1:23:44.680 --> 1:23:47.439 your email address in there. You can hit the light 1:23:47.479 --> 1:23:49.800 bulb at the top of the email at the top 1:23:49.840 --> 1:23:52.439 of the website for the show notes, and if you 1:23:52.439 --> 1:23:54.680 want to get in touch with me, just hit contact 1:23:54.760 --> 1:23:58.960 and that will send your email right to me. Alongside 1:23:59.000 --> 1:24:02.160 me today is my brother Justin. I'm in New Jersey, 1:24:02.240 --> 1:24:04.720 so he is hanging out Justin. Thanks for being here. 1:24:04.840 --> 1:24:07.040 How you doing great to be here? Do you have 1:24:07.080 --> 1:24:10.679 a favorite Jersey artist? We've been playing Jersey artists all 1:24:11.040 --> 1:24:14.439 all day so far. Do you have one? I guess 1:24:14.520 --> 1:24:18.559 Bruce Springsteen? Oh wow, Bruce? All right, there you go 1:24:18.640 --> 1:24:20.320 as a classic? Have we Bobo? I don't think we 1:24:20.360 --> 1:24:26.000 played any Bruce, did we nice? Okay? Well we have time. Yeah. 1:24:26.040 --> 1:24:28.759 It's weird because I did a search of like Jersey artists. 1:24:28.760 --> 1:24:30.960 I don't think he came up, which is like he's 1:24:31.000 --> 1:24:34.160 getting robbed and the Google results that's that's like bon 1:24:34.240 --> 1:24:37.599 Jovi came up, like no matter what, Whitney Houston, Dion 1:24:37.760 --> 1:24:41.599 Warwick and a whole bunch of other wrong people on AI. 1:24:42.200 --> 1:24:44.760 But I don't think the what are they called Bruce 1:24:44.760 --> 1:24:48.800 Springsteen the Boss? Sure he comes up first when I 1:24:48.800 --> 1:24:51.000 searched for Okay, well maybe I missed that. All right, 1:24:51.040 --> 1:24:55.840 let's go to line one. Jerry in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. Jerry, 1:24:55.880 --> 1:24:57.880 We've never been closer. What's up? What can I help 1:24:57.880 --> 1:24:58.120 you with? 1:24:58.479 --> 1:25:00.960 Welcome back to the land of Green Pizza. 1:25:00.640 --> 1:25:03.519 Rich, Thank you. I did have a slice and it 1:25:03.560 --> 1:25:06.160 was actually really horrible, but I won't talk about that, 1:25:06.280 --> 1:25:07.880 So go ahead. What can I help you with? I 1:25:07.960 --> 1:25:10.200 like Jerry, already, take a pizza back the kid. 1:25:10.280 --> 1:25:11.040 She deserves it. 1:25:12.240 --> 1:25:13.120 She deserves a lot. 1:25:14.280 --> 1:25:17.760 I have a local radio stations here, you know, on 1:25:17.800 --> 1:25:21.080 my computer, and it's run actually it's run by the 1:25:21.240 --> 1:25:23.960 high school, my local high school. They played great music 1:25:23.960 --> 1:25:27.280 from the seventies and eighties, nineties. Then all of a 1:25:27.280 --> 1:25:30.120 sudden they change the URL. I can't get on my 1:25:30.240 --> 1:25:34.559 Android bone anymore with the same uver L. How do 1:25:34.680 --> 1:25:39.559 I do about sniffing at this URL so I can 1:25:39.600 --> 1:25:41.880 play it with my app on my bone. 1:25:43.280 --> 1:25:46.240 There's a there's a Chrome extension that will help you 1:25:46.320 --> 1:25:51.640 sniff it out. It's called Bulk Media Downloader, and you 1:25:51.720 --> 1:25:54.960 install it on Chrome and you go to that website. 1:25:55.400 --> 1:25:58.480 You tap the extension and it will give you every 1:25:58.520 --> 1:26:02.080 single thing that is going on on that website and 1:26:02.160 --> 1:26:07.160 you can filter by applications image, video, audio, archive, document, tab, 1:26:07.600 --> 1:26:10.200 whatever it is. And so I just went to like 1:26:10.240 --> 1:26:13.040 a random streaming radio station and there's a whole bunch 1:26:13.080 --> 1:26:16.880 of you know, streams that you can see on there. 1:26:17.120 --> 1:26:20.960 So that is what it's called bulk media downloader. I 1:26:21.000 --> 1:26:25.080 don't know, you know, I've used this to sniff thinks out. 1:26:25.160 --> 1:26:28.160 I don't know what you would do to, you know, 1:26:28.240 --> 1:26:30.759 with that URL once you have it, but I imagine 1:26:30.800 --> 1:26:32.360 you might be able to pop it into some sort 1:26:32.400 --> 1:26:34.640 of app or something that you want to use on 1:26:34.680 --> 1:26:37.080 your phone, you know, since it's Android, I'm sure there's 1:26:37.120 --> 1:26:39.519 lots of them that would allow you to play that. 1:26:40.439 --> 1:26:42.920 But that's what it's called bulk media downloader. And I 1:26:42.920 --> 1:26:44.639 don't let's see, do they have a website. I don't 1:26:44.640 --> 1:26:47.440 know if they have a website or just a Chrome extension. 1:26:48.800 --> 1:26:51.000 Let's see here, trying to find a fit. Yeah, it 1:26:51.240 --> 1:26:53.920 looks like it's just a Chrome extension. So I would 1:26:53.960 --> 1:26:56.439 just search for that and you should find it. It looks 1:26:56.479 --> 1:26:58.800 like the uh, I don't know what would you call it, 1:26:58.840 --> 1:27:02.240 like a navigation mark or something the you know, anyway, 1:27:02.320 --> 1:27:04.640 but that's what I look for. Jerry. See if that 1:27:04.680 --> 1:27:05.240 works for you. 1:27:05.760 --> 1:27:07.320 Thank you much, have some more pizza. 1:27:07.360 --> 1:27:11.280 All right, goodbye, report back, report back on the website. 1:27:11.360 --> 1:27:13.720 Rich on tech dot TV. All right, justin, let's talk 1:27:13.720 --> 1:27:17.679 about this notebook LM feature. So we're here in person 1:27:17.840 --> 1:27:21.200 talking on the radio show. But a lot of folks 1:27:21.200 --> 1:27:25.880 are talking about this AI powered audio overview, and so 1:27:26.160 --> 1:27:29.040 it's from Google. It's from a feature called Notebook LM. 1:27:29.400 --> 1:27:31.800 If you're not familiar with Notebook LM, it's basically your 1:27:31.800 --> 1:27:35.479 own personal chat GPT. You can upload as much as 1:27:35.479 --> 1:27:38.760 many documents as you want to this Notebook LM, and 1:27:38.800 --> 1:27:42.640 then you can search through them using Google AI. But 1:27:42.720 --> 1:27:44.759 this other thing they can do is they can now 1:27:45.040 --> 1:27:50.000 generate an AI hosted basically podcast that has a discussion 1:27:50.120 --> 1:27:53.240 of your material. So let's play a couple thirty seconds 1:27:53.240 --> 1:27:57.000 of this. I uploaded my review of the I think 1:27:57.000 --> 1:27:59.600 it was the Samsung Watch Ultra. I just took the 1:27:59.640 --> 1:28:02.120 text my review, uploaded it, and then in like a 1:28:02.160 --> 1:28:04.400 minute or two, it came up with this audio. Let's 1:28:04.439 --> 1:28:04.680 hear it. 1:28:04.880 --> 1:28:08.439 All right, everybody buckle up, because today we are diving 1:28:08.560 --> 1:28:11.200 deep into the world of Samsung health tech. 1:28:11.439 --> 1:28:12.120 It's gonna be fun. 1:28:12.320 --> 1:28:16.000 With their shiny new Galaxy Watch lineup and the game changer, 1:28:16.160 --> 1:28:17.320 the Samsung. 1:28:16.880 --> 1:28:18.799 Smart Ring definitely game changer. 1:28:18.920 --> 1:28:22.280 We are uncovering all the juicy details from tech guru 1:28:22.400 --> 1:28:23.920 Rich Demiro's latest review. 1:28:24.280 --> 1:28:26.040 Love his reviews, he always digs out. 1:28:26.120 --> 1:28:27.280 No, absolutely, and we're going. 1:28:27.200 --> 1:28:29.400 To dissect it all for you today. Awesome. Can't wait. 1:28:30.000 --> 1:28:33.120 So Samsung is really stepping up their game this year. 1:28:33.800 --> 1:28:40.959 Into two hosts are completely AI generated, justin what's your reaction? 1:28:41.439 --> 1:28:44.240 So the first thing I noticed is it sounded just 1:28:44.320 --> 1:28:46.400 like one of those podcasts where you have the one 1:28:46.400 --> 1:28:48.920 host who has all the substance in the content and 1:28:49.000 --> 1:28:53.439 the other one just goes like uh huh yeah, oh definitely, sure, yeah, 1:28:53.479 --> 1:28:57.920 I hear you see what you did there. But it's 1:28:58.000 --> 1:29:00.320 really okay. So here's what I think is interesting this. 1:29:00.360 --> 1:29:02.599 I don't think it's perfect. Obviously you kind of got 1:29:02.600 --> 1:29:04.000 onto that where the guy was just like, uh huh, 1:29:04.040 --> 1:29:07.120 he's great. Sure, he was like a supportive character. I 1:29:07.160 --> 1:29:09.559 think obviously it depends on you know, every single one 1:29:09.600 --> 1:29:12.479 of these is going to be different. But it's kind 1:29:12.479 --> 1:29:15.720 of scary, like they sound pretty good. It's taking the 1:29:15.720 --> 1:29:18.160 information and it runs with it. Obviously, it has that 1:29:18.200 --> 1:29:21.000 same AI issue of like hallucinating and all that stuff. 1:29:21.320 --> 1:29:24.680 But this is like day one. Yeah, day one. I 1:29:24.720 --> 1:29:26.439 mean if you didn't tell me they were AI, I 1:29:26.520 --> 1:29:29.320 might not have even thought that. Yeah, and I can 1:29:29.360 --> 1:29:30.920 only imagine where this tech is going to be in 1:29:31.479 --> 1:29:34.280 a year from now. Yeah. So there you have it. Notebook, 1:29:34.400 --> 1:29:37.040 LM Audio Overview. What I think is really cool about 1:29:37.040 --> 1:29:39.519 this is for learning. If you are trying to study 1:29:39.560 --> 1:29:41.920 for an exam, you want to learn like a complex topic, 1:29:42.320 --> 1:29:44.840 you put your information into this notebook and then you 1:29:44.880 --> 1:29:46.800 make a podcast and you listen to it on the go. 1:29:47.320 --> 1:29:49.720 Helps you understand it in a new and different way. 1:29:49.960 --> 1:29:52.519 All right. Coming up, we're going to talk to Scott 1:29:52.560 --> 1:29:56.080 Baldwin about his new app called front Pack for Athletes. 1:29:57.439 --> 1:30:01.479 There it is, there's the boss. All right. Welcome back 1:30:01.520 --> 1:30:04.240 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 1:30:04.439 --> 1:30:08.840 talking technology. The website for the show rich on Tech 1:30:09.120 --> 1:30:13.200 dot TV. So much good information giving out on this show, 1:30:13.240 --> 1:30:15.960 not necessarily through me, but just in general, like the 1:30:15.960 --> 1:30:18.960 community that we have here of people that know stuff 1:30:18.960 --> 1:30:21.800 and add to the show and ask questions that I 1:30:21.880 --> 1:30:25.559 think we can all take away from My brother's joining 1:30:25.560 --> 1:30:27.840 me as well, Justin is here hanging out because I 1:30:27.880 --> 1:30:30.639 am in New Jersey. My hometown. Is that my hometown 1:30:30.680 --> 1:30:32.920 or my home state? I say home state, home state? 1:30:34.080 --> 1:30:37.160 And then joining me now is Scott Baldwin. Scott and 1:30:37.200 --> 1:30:40.519 I have worked together for years on the PR side. 1:30:41.000 --> 1:30:43.600 Now he has branched off and he's actually starting up 1:30:43.640 --> 1:30:46.920 his own app called front Pack. This is a social 1:30:46.920 --> 1:30:51.320 network for endurance athletes. Scott, welcome to the show. 1:30:52.080 --> 1:30:56.479 Yeah, Hey, Rich, good to be here, and shout out 1:30:56.479 --> 1:30:58.960 to New Jersey. I am also a fellow New Jersey 1:30:58.960 --> 1:31:00.960 in so yeah, how do I. 1:31:01.040 --> 1:31:05.760 Not know that? Look at yeah? See weeah three New Jersey. 1:31:05.800 --> 1:31:09.080 Cool here. So, so tell me about Okay, so you 1:31:09.920 --> 1:31:13.000 went from PR to creating an app? I mean number one? 1:31:13.360 --> 1:31:15.559 What's that been? Like? I mean, is it? Everyone's always 1:31:15.560 --> 1:31:16.880 asking me like, Rich, how do I make an app? 1:31:16.880 --> 1:31:18.760 How do I make an app? I mean it's tough, 1:31:18.840 --> 1:31:21.480 isn't it? Yeah? Absolutely? 1:31:21.640 --> 1:31:21.720 So? 1:31:23.360 --> 1:31:26.000 Is it something that I ever thought I would do? 1:31:26.240 --> 1:31:26.320 No? 1:31:26.640 --> 1:31:28.360 But here I am so. 1:31:28.600 --> 1:31:31.360 Like you said, I was in R Communications for twenty 1:31:31.439 --> 1:31:34.800 years and I had this idea and there was a 1:31:34.840 --> 1:31:38.000 market need that I saw way back in January. And 1:31:38.360 --> 1:31:42.360 the market need was there there was no social network 1:31:42.479 --> 1:31:47.680 for endurance athletes. So it's something I actually created as 1:31:47.720 --> 1:31:51.720 a first a newsletter and then quickly I brought you know, 1:31:51.840 --> 1:31:54.800 all those worlds together. It quickly grew to a few 1:31:54.800 --> 1:31:58.320 thousand subscribers and a lot of people were messaging me, 1:31:58.479 --> 1:32:01.760 a lot of run club, cycling clubs. They were saying, hey, like, 1:32:01.800 --> 1:32:03.960 I think you're onto something and this is really cool. 1:32:05.360 --> 1:32:09.240 Do you have any desire to take it a step further? So, again, 1:32:09.280 --> 1:32:11.240 like I said, there was a market need, there's nothing 1:32:11.240 --> 1:32:15.959 out there. So I actually started the the app creation 1:32:16.320 --> 1:32:18.639 process about five months ago. 1:32:19.080 --> 1:32:20.080 It took a long time. 1:32:20.960 --> 1:32:25.000 I evaluated the things that people wanted, and I also 1:32:25.160 --> 1:32:30.080 interviewed a lot of my own newsletter subscribers. And then, yeah, 1:32:31.120 --> 1:32:33.040 I would say it is very difficult. You have to 1:32:33.080 --> 1:32:36.439 find the right developers and it takes a lot of interviewing, 1:32:36.520 --> 1:32:40.160 which I think, you know, coming from my background before, 1:32:40.600 --> 1:32:44.200 I'm pretty good at interviewing people and making sure we 1:32:44.240 --> 1:32:44.960 have the right fit. 1:32:46.040 --> 1:32:48.000 So you didn't You didn't code the app yourself, Like 1:32:48.000 --> 1:32:52.360 you weren't sitting there learning like Swift or whatever coding language. 1:32:52.840 --> 1:32:56.400 Yeah, exactly. I think if that was the road that 1:32:56.439 --> 1:32:58.160 I went down. I don't know if we would be 1:32:58.200 --> 1:32:59.880 having this conversation quite yet. 1:33:00.760 --> 1:33:03.400 So explain to me what front pack. The website is 1:33:03.439 --> 1:33:06.760 frontpacksports dot com. What is what is the app for? 1:33:06.920 --> 1:33:09.639 What does it help people do? Yeah? 1:33:09.680 --> 1:33:13.559 Absolutely, So it's a social network for endurance athletes by 1:33:13.680 --> 1:33:16.760 endurance athletes. So it's a it's a place for real 1:33:16.760 --> 1:33:23.000 people to connect, motivate. Storytell uh, I'm not sure if 1:33:23.000 --> 1:33:25.920 you've ever done a five k or a half marathon 1:33:26.160 --> 1:33:27.320 or anything, but. 1:33:27.680 --> 1:33:28.720 I think yes, I have. 1:33:29.439 --> 1:33:32.679 Yes, So you understand when you are at the starting line, 1:33:32.760 --> 1:33:36.280 you might actually be super nervous, and you you you're 1:33:36.280 --> 1:33:38.479 not sure if you're training. You know you did your 1:33:38.520 --> 1:33:42.000 training correctly, but then there's always that person that's standing 1:33:42.040 --> 1:33:45.400 next to you, and before the race or after the race, 1:33:45.439 --> 1:33:48.080 you get talking to them and you find out like, oh, 1:33:48.120 --> 1:33:50.240 this person might be in the same boat, or oh 1:33:50.320 --> 1:33:52.720 this person has the same career as I. But once 1:33:52.760 --> 1:33:55.160 that gun goes off, you like you never see that 1:33:55.200 --> 1:33:59.280 person ever again. So front pack, you know, it's the 1:33:59.360 --> 1:34:03.680 answer to just connecting with real people who are like 1:34:03.720 --> 1:34:07.760 minded and like you. It's a way to motivate and 1:34:07.800 --> 1:34:11.160 push yourself to be even better. And not only that, 1:34:11.320 --> 1:34:14.960 but you know, it's focused on the sports side of things. 1:34:15.000 --> 1:34:20.360 But I think quite often everybody uses LinkedIn, but LinkedIn 1:34:20.479 --> 1:34:23.800 doesn't really show you your hobbies or interests. And with 1:34:23.880 --> 1:34:26.080 so many people being laid off in the last year, 1:34:26.120 --> 1:34:29.599 front Pack not only when you sign up you create 1:34:29.640 --> 1:34:33.360 your profile, but you can also connect with people based 1:34:33.360 --> 1:34:38.479 on your profession, so you're connecting based on interest. But 1:34:38.600 --> 1:34:42.000 also you know, you might be in in tech sales 1:34:42.000 --> 1:34:43.120 for example. 1:34:44.960 --> 1:34:48.640 Interesting, so you can so basically you can. You know, 1:34:48.680 --> 1:34:51.400 it's almost like a social network in real life where 1:34:51.560 --> 1:34:54.080 you have the shared interest of doing whatever you're doing, 1:34:54.080 --> 1:34:57.720 whether it's running, cycling. And also you may be in 1:34:57.760 --> 1:35:00.439 the same business or maybe not. But it's kind of 1:35:00.520 --> 1:35:03.480 like extending that network through sports. 1:35:04.280 --> 1:35:04.719 Yeah. 1:35:04.840 --> 1:35:09.120 Absolutely, And I think the thing, you know, most of 1:35:09.200 --> 1:35:12.640 us we grow up playing sports, but unless you go 1:35:12.760 --> 1:35:15.760 on to play sports in college or beyond, you know, 1:35:15.840 --> 1:35:17.960 you have to give up something that was such a 1:35:18.000 --> 1:35:19.760 big part of your life because you need to go 1:35:19.920 --> 1:35:22.000 be a professional, and you need to go work, and 1:35:22.040 --> 1:35:25.320 you need to go you know, you know, you got 1:35:25.360 --> 1:35:27.600 to go make money or have a family. So I 1:35:27.600 --> 1:35:30.400 think the great thing about it is we all still 1:35:30.439 --> 1:35:33.280 have that passion within us and it just because you're 1:35:33.320 --> 1:35:36.080 a working professional doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to 1:35:36.080 --> 1:35:39.640 connect with people who have similar similar interests. 1:35:41.160 --> 1:35:43.559 And so is the app free? Do you charge for this? 1:35:43.760 --> 1:35:45.639 How does that work? And who do you have this 1:35:45.680 --> 1:35:45.960 is for? 1:35:46.800 --> 1:35:47.160 Yeah? 1:35:47.200 --> 1:35:51.080 Absolutely, so anyone can sign up for free. It's at 1:35:51.160 --> 1:35:56.120 frontpacksports dot com. And you know, right now we're just 1:35:56.160 --> 1:35:58.840 trying to grow the user base. We have a few 1:35:58.880 --> 1:36:02.840 one hundred members at the moment, everywhere from obviously the 1:36:03.000 --> 1:36:07.400 US to Canada, but we've also seen an engagement across Europe, 1:36:07.600 --> 1:36:10.639 New Zealand South Africa. So it's been like a really 1:36:10.680 --> 1:36:13.960 interesting mix of people just connecting with you know, other 1:36:14.000 --> 1:36:17.320 folks that they've never met before. But like I said, 1:36:17.320 --> 1:36:19.519 they all have a common goal and that's you know, 1:36:19.640 --> 1:36:21.720 to get better and improve their lives. 1:36:22.800 --> 1:36:24.840 And has this been fun for you to do this? 1:36:24.960 --> 1:36:28.800 It's very different than pr but clearly it's it's a 1:36:28.840 --> 1:36:31.120 new challenge, that's for sure. Yeah. 1:36:31.160 --> 1:36:35.840 Absolutely, So I grew up, like I said, I grew 1:36:35.920 --> 1:36:38.840 up playing sports, but endurance sports have always been like 1:36:38.880 --> 1:36:41.559 a huge thing for me and I think for a 1:36:41.600 --> 1:36:45.479 lot of people like myself, it's a microcosm of life, 1:36:45.560 --> 1:36:48.960 because you don't just get good at you know, running 1:36:49.000 --> 1:36:51.320 a marathon in a week. You know, that takes time, 1:36:51.400 --> 1:36:54.960 It takes years of work, It takes a lot of practice, 1:36:55.040 --> 1:36:57.320 and most often times you're going to run into an 1:36:57.360 --> 1:36:59.559 issue along the way and you have to kind of. 1:36:59.600 --> 1:37:00.719 Quickly figure that out. 1:37:00.800 --> 1:37:04.000 So you know, like and during sports, I think this 1:37:04.200 --> 1:37:08.040 business I'm also figuring out along the way. And you know, 1:37:08.120 --> 1:37:11.160 I I do have to kind of remind myself it's 1:37:11.240 --> 1:37:13.000 it's only been a month and a couple of days 1:37:13.040 --> 1:37:13.799 since we launched. 1:37:14.000 --> 1:37:16.479 Yeah, you're it's a it's a marathon, not a sprint. 1:37:16.600 --> 1:37:18.040 You got to remember that you need one of those 1:37:18.160 --> 1:37:20.920 motivational signs in your own in your own office, you know. 1:37:21.520 --> 1:37:24.000 Uh to two points. First off, I was talking to 1:37:24.040 --> 1:37:26.320 my wife just the other night saying how important I 1:37:26.360 --> 1:37:29.200 think sports are for my kids, Like the amount of 1:37:29.240 --> 1:37:32.000 things you learn in that and the amount of just 1:37:32.360 --> 1:37:34.880 to me, it's just it's been amazing to watch my kids. 1:37:34.920 --> 1:37:37.920 One of them plays basketball, one plays baseball, and it's 1:37:37.960 --> 1:37:39.840 it's really a big part of their lives. And it's 1:37:39.880 --> 1:37:44.600 it's learning so much about teamwork and failure and success 1:37:44.760 --> 1:37:47.200 and and you know, just getting along with people and 1:37:47.280 --> 1:37:49.599 accepting all these things in life that really does help 1:37:49.640 --> 1:37:53.160 you later on. And then the second thing was when 1:37:53.200 --> 1:37:56.519 I did my I did a half marathon, and I 1:37:56.600 --> 1:37:59.120 actually was very fortunate that I was. I had like 1:37:59.160 --> 1:38:01.200 a not a sponure, but I was working with a 1:38:01.320 --> 1:38:03.960 six and so they would they had a person like 1:38:04.000 --> 1:38:06.120 a coach. And also I had a producer I was 1:38:06.160 --> 1:38:08.479 working with and we both were doing it together. And 1:38:08.560 --> 1:38:10.479 so it's what you're talking about in this app is 1:38:10.479 --> 1:38:13.200 almost exactly what we did in real life, where we 1:38:13.280 --> 1:38:16.040 had someone to bounce things off of and to get 1:38:16.080 --> 1:38:18.360 information from, and we also had each other going through 1:38:18.400 --> 1:38:20.479 the same thing. And so that's kind of what you've 1:38:20.520 --> 1:38:23.040 recreated here. And I totally get it because we had 1:38:23.040 --> 1:38:25.000 so many questions. I'm like, should I really be running 1:38:25.000 --> 1:38:27.120 every day? Should I be doing this? And so I 1:38:27.120 --> 1:38:28.439 think that this kind of thing is really hard. I 1:38:28.479 --> 1:38:30.200 think it's one of those things too where you need 1:38:30.240 --> 1:38:32.880 somebody to lean on too, Like an endurance sport. It's 1:38:33.000 --> 1:38:36.080 very intense. You need someone to bounce off of and 1:38:36.520 --> 1:38:39.360 keep that motivation and keep you going because it is 1:38:39.439 --> 1:38:41.559 very intense. It is a lot of work, and it 1:38:41.560 --> 1:38:43.280 takes a lot to keep going back every day and 1:38:43.360 --> 1:38:43.960 keep training. 1:38:45.439 --> 1:38:48.080 Yeah, no, I mean I completely agree on all those points. 1:38:48.080 --> 1:38:50.960 And I think the beauty of the networks so far 1:38:51.040 --> 1:38:54.439 that we've seen is one we created it to be 1:38:54.479 --> 1:38:57.679 a positive place. I think there's way too many social 1:38:57.720 --> 1:39:01.080 networks out there where it's all about anonymity and that 1:39:01.200 --> 1:39:06.080 allows people to be negative and have no accountability. So 1:39:06.200 --> 1:39:08.559 I will say in the first month with over three 1:39:08.640 --> 1:39:14.160 hundred posts, everything has been super positive. Again, like I said, 1:39:14.200 --> 1:39:17.400 it's for anyone as well. So you know, like you said, 1:39:17.560 --> 1:39:20.120 you you had a coach. We have coaches. We we 1:39:20.200 --> 1:39:23.879 have a weekly live stream where we bring on experts, 1:39:23.920 --> 1:39:27.400 we bring on coaches, We talk about the most basic 1:39:27.520 --> 1:39:31.559 things to the most advanced things. So yeah, anyone can 1:39:31.600 --> 1:39:34.200 really kind of grow with the sport and within themselves. 1:39:35.200 --> 1:39:41.800 All right. The website frontpack frontpacsports dot com, frontpacsports dot com. Uh, 1:39:41.840 --> 1:39:45.680 Scott Baldwin, best wishes for this new app available on 1:39:45.800 --> 1:39:46.679 iPhone and Android. 1:39:47.640 --> 1:39:50.240 Absolutely, thank you guys, thanks for. 1:39:50.240 --> 1:39:52.720 Joining me today. All right, coming up, I'm gonna tell 1:39:52.720 --> 1:39:59.160 you how you're streaming TV streaming streaming services are tracking you, 1:39:59.439 --> 1:40:02.240 and also we're going to get into the feedbag that's 1:40:02.240 --> 1:40:06.760 coming up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back 1:40:06.800 --> 1:40:10.240 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 1:40:10.320 --> 1:40:12.960 talking technology. We're gonna get right into it because there 1:40:13.120 --> 1:40:16.640 is a lot to get through, especially with the feedbag. 1:40:16.680 --> 1:40:20.599 It is overflowing today. I could barely drag it up 1:40:20.600 --> 1:40:24.320 to the studio today because it's so filled. But we're 1:40:24.320 --> 1:40:26.519 gonna get through all that in just a moment. I 1:40:26.520 --> 1:40:29.960 got my brother justin here. New report from the Center 1:40:30.000 --> 1:40:34.040 for Digital Democracy says that your streaming services are tracking you. 1:40:34.520 --> 1:40:36.800 They are spying on you, and they are targeting you 1:40:37.160 --> 1:40:41.800 with extensive data on your viewing habits and using that 1:40:41.880 --> 1:40:44.280 to sell you stuff. And this makes a lot of sense. 1:40:44.680 --> 1:40:48.120 And their argument is that we've never really had such 1:40:48.240 --> 1:40:52.280 highly targeted and personalized profiling of people based on what 1:40:52.320 --> 1:40:55.800 they're watching on TV. And the smart TVs themselves are 1:40:55.840 --> 1:40:58.000 a big part of this data collection system because this 1:40:58.000 --> 1:41:02.040 stuff is built right into the foundational software on these TVs. 1:41:02.080 --> 1:41:04.799 It's a fascinating report. It makes a lot of sense. 1:41:05.160 --> 1:41:08.400 Two things going on here. Number One, your smart TV 1:41:08.520 --> 1:41:11.680 is probably scanning the screen no matter what and and 1:41:11.840 --> 1:41:15.800 recognizing the content of everything you watch. It's called automatic 1:41:15.880 --> 1:41:18.559 content recognition. You probably agree to it when you set 1:41:18.640 --> 1:41:20.720 up your TV. You can opt out of it or 1:41:20.720 --> 1:41:25.120 turn it off. The other thing is there is a stream. 1:41:25.280 --> 1:41:28.280 All the streaming services have opt out guides as well, 1:41:28.479 --> 1:41:32.519 so it's a great website. The nai dot org has 1:41:32.920 --> 1:41:36.040 opt out guides for almost every streaming service where you 1:41:36.040 --> 1:41:38.240 can opt out of some of this data collection. I 1:41:38.280 --> 1:41:39.920 don't think you're gonna be able to opt out of 1:41:39.960 --> 1:41:42.320 it all, but I'll put that on the show notes 1:41:42.320 --> 1:41:46.280 pretty wild because we are just hammered with targeted advertising. 1:41:46.320 --> 1:41:50.760 This should be a default opt in. But if you 1:41:50.760 --> 1:41:52.320 set up a if you've ever set up a smart 1:41:52.320 --> 1:41:54.760 TV lately, it's almost like it says like it's it's 1:41:54.800 --> 1:41:57.360 gonna benefit you. There are so many screens you have 1:41:57.439 --> 1:42:01.080 to go through look at them very very closely. Also, 1:42:01.120 --> 1:42:03.200 I hit a nerve this week. I mentioned on my 1:42:03.560 --> 1:42:06.760 Facebook that those texts have you gotten these things where 1:42:06.760 --> 1:42:09.479 they're just like, hey how are you? Or I lost 1:42:09.479 --> 1:42:12.280 your number in my phone book and can we chat again? 1:42:12.479 --> 1:42:15.599 I get those messages about five times a day. Yeah, 1:42:15.640 --> 1:42:17.840 I don't know what it is. It's because all of 1:42:17.880 --> 1:42:21.080 these recent data breaches have put our phone numbers out 1:42:21.080 --> 1:42:22.840 there on the web, and so they've got a fresh 1:42:22.880 --> 1:42:26.400 amount of information. So I posted this to my Facebook. 1:42:26.479 --> 1:42:28.800 Let me just give you some of the responses. Many 1:42:28.840 --> 1:42:32.439 people commented they're also getting these obviously. They come in 1:42:32.479 --> 1:42:35.719 all forms. They talk about weight loss, Amazon deliveries, fake 1:42:35.800 --> 1:42:39.720 job offers. One person even commented, they got a barbecue invite. 1:42:40.160 --> 1:42:42.040 I'll actually go to that. Yeah, that sounds like fun. 1:42:42.040 --> 1:42:46.160 I'd be like where they're confusing and annoying. Makes it 1:42:46.240 --> 1:42:49.720 difficult to distinguish between legitimate messages and scams. I do agree, 1:42:49.720 --> 1:42:51.920 you have to look at everything very closely because we 1:42:51.960 --> 1:42:53.960 are getting and this what I've always talked about. We 1:42:54.040 --> 1:42:56.840 get legitimate messages like this like hey, your package is 1:42:56.880 --> 1:42:58.880 delayed and you're like, oh, okay, and that might be 1:42:58.920 --> 1:43:01.280 from Amazon rare, but you know what I mean, right, 1:43:02.240 --> 1:43:05.240 But they also play upon that and kind of twist 1:43:05.280 --> 1:43:07.800 it and make it into their scrutinize every message you 1:43:07.840 --> 1:43:11.400 get one hundred percent. Let's see. Some people say that 1:43:11.439 --> 1:43:14.400 these senders get aggressive or insulting if you don't respond. 1:43:15.000 --> 1:43:18.080 Don't respond to these people, by the way, but some 1:43:18.120 --> 1:43:21.479 commenters block the numbers, report them as junk, or they 1:43:21.520 --> 1:43:25.000 engage in playful banter to waste their time. I would say, 1:43:25.080 --> 1:43:27.519 do not write back to these people, because once you 1:43:27.600 --> 1:43:30.639 write back, is solidifies your number as being a good 1:43:30.640 --> 1:43:33.519 phone number, right, and then they will target you even further. Yeah, 1:43:33.640 --> 1:43:36.880 exactly same with spam email. But hopefully everybody knows that 1:43:37.000 --> 1:43:39.599 by now, all right. I thought this was pretty cool 1:43:39.760 --> 1:43:44.880 justin this developer Andrew Schmellian came up with a way 1:43:44.960 --> 1:43:49.000 to hack adopt Matrix printer. Not really a hack, but 1:43:49.040 --> 1:43:52.240 he wrote a little program where it pulls the headlines 1:43:52.280 --> 1:43:55.479 from like Reddit and some other news sites, weather, stocks news, 1:43:55.720 --> 1:43:57.760 and every morning at eight am, it prints out a 1:43:57.800 --> 1:44:01.200 one page newsletter for him. I love that. Isn't that cool? 1:44:01.200 --> 1:44:04.639 I love that? So he actually put his whole project online. 1:44:04.680 --> 1:44:07.120 It looks like he needed a dot Matrix printer, a 1:44:07.240 --> 1:44:11.200 Raspberry pie Cereal to USB adapter because the old Dot 1:44:11.240 --> 1:44:14.240 Matrix didn't have USB, so it's just a serial port YEP, 1:44:14.320 --> 1:44:16.880 and then power supply and then he just used the 1:44:16.960 --> 1:44:19.439 free APIs and he made a little programming And isn't 1:44:19.479 --> 1:44:22.439 that cool? Yeah? I mean that that makes it actually 1:44:22.560 --> 1:44:24.760 takes away a lot of the distractions that you'd see 1:44:24.800 --> 1:44:27.080 when you're looking through those headlines, so I like it, 1:44:27.120 --> 1:44:28.519 That's what he said. He was like, you know, this 1:44:28.600 --> 1:44:30.960 is like so much healthier than doom scrolling. All right, 1:44:31.000 --> 1:44:35.320 you want to read the first feedback? Sure? So we 1:44:35.400 --> 1:44:39.160 have Max from Los Angeles writing in saying thank you. 1:44:40.040 --> 1:44:43.120 I'm a senior level it and listen to you because 1:44:43.160 --> 1:44:45.360 of how easily you lay it out to the end users. 1:44:45.960 --> 1:44:49.080 You have talent. Please don't go anywhere. Oh wow, well 1:44:49.120 --> 1:44:51.160 I'm going to stay here as long as humanly possible. 1:44:51.240 --> 1:44:55.080 Thank you. What was his name, Max? Max? Thanks Max? 1:44:55.120 --> 1:44:59.120 All right, Michael writes in. Michael from Calabasas writes in, 1:44:59.160 --> 1:45:02.280 I saw your recommend on whisper flow. You should know 1:45:02.320 --> 1:45:05.960 that it only an Apple Silicon chips, so my Intel 1:45:06.000 --> 1:45:08.719 based iMac couldn't run it. But to keep those tips 1:45:08.720 --> 1:45:12.559 and recommendations coming very informative. This is a life changer. 1:45:12.880 --> 1:45:14.640 So I can press and hold one key on my 1:45:14.720 --> 1:45:18.680 keyboard and I can dictate, and it uses AI to transcribe. 1:45:18.680 --> 1:45:20.680 Not only would I say, but to format it in 1:45:20.720 --> 1:45:24.680 like perfect formatting. It's incredible. But yes it is. It's 1:45:24.720 --> 1:45:27.439 I guess it's Mac silicon only. It's Mac only, but 1:45:27.520 --> 1:45:30.519 we're going to see many, many more apps just like that. 1:45:30.600 --> 1:45:33.679 So thanks for the clarification. Very very useful. When you're 1:45:33.760 --> 1:45:35.720 eating a stack with one hand and you want it, 1:45:35.760 --> 1:45:38.000 you still want to work. Yes, tite things out and 1:45:38.040 --> 1:45:40.360 I get people always say to me, I can't believe 1:45:40.360 --> 1:45:42.960 you responded to my email. I am now responding to 1:45:43.040 --> 1:45:45.920 emails probably three times faster than ever before because I 1:45:45.920 --> 1:45:47.799 don't have to sit there and type them. I can dictate. 1:45:48.120 --> 1:45:50.440 But it's it's so good that it gets the nuances 1:45:50.479 --> 1:45:52.160 of what I'm trying to say, like if I'm if 1:45:52.200 --> 1:45:54.640 I'm like excited, or if I'm writing something in a 1:45:54.680 --> 1:45:56.880 list or whatever, it gets it, all right, all right, 1:45:56.880 --> 1:46:00.639 next one, Just all right, we have Michael from Memphis 1:46:00.680 --> 1:46:04.040 writing in. I have an Android cell phone for personal 1:46:04.160 --> 1:46:07.280 use and an iPhone for business. Are there any earbuds 1:46:07.320 --> 1:46:09.720 out there that will automatically stop what I'm listening to 1:46:09.880 --> 1:46:13.120 on my Android and answer a call I'm receiving on 1:46:13.160 --> 1:46:15.720 my iPhone without having to steer the call on my 1:46:15.800 --> 1:46:19.800 iPhone to switch to the earbuds. Any suggestions would be appreciated. 1:46:20.200 --> 1:46:22.920 All right, This is a feature called multipoint. A lot 1:46:22.960 --> 1:46:26.120 of headphones, a lot of earbuds now support this, so 1:46:26.240 --> 1:46:30.000 look for multipoint connection. A lot of them do this 1:46:30.040 --> 1:46:32.160 where it can seamlessly go. Let's say you're listening to 1:46:32.280 --> 1:46:35.120 music on your computer your phone rings, it'll automatically swap 1:46:35.160 --> 1:46:37.120 to your phone. It's not the same thing as having 1:46:37.120 --> 1:46:41.240 two devices connected. They're basically almost simultaneously connected and kind 1:46:41.280 --> 1:46:44.080 of listening for anything that's happening on each of those 1:46:44.120 --> 1:46:46.920 to kind of spring into action and switch the audio source. 1:46:47.240 --> 1:46:49.759 So multipoint. The ones that I love that I recently 1:46:49.800 --> 1:46:53.760 tested are the CMF buds and justin you tried them 1:46:53.920 --> 1:46:56.080 because I brought them home, right, Yeah, I actually tried 1:46:56.120 --> 1:46:58.880 them today. First of all, excellent sound, I mean, the 1:46:59.640 --> 1:47:03.240 space audio is great on them. I haven't had a 1:47:03.360 --> 1:47:06.200 chance to test the dual point the multipoint yet, but 1:47:06.439 --> 1:47:08.800 it does look like a compelling feature for sure. All Right, 1:47:08.840 --> 1:47:10.519 you got one more real quick one. She got less 1:47:10.520 --> 1:47:13.800 than a minute. All right, we got Ryan from Lucasville, 1:47:13.840 --> 1:47:17.000 Ohio writing in, Hey, Rich, I really enjoyed the show. 1:47:17.040 --> 1:47:19.840 As a technology coordinator for a local school, I fix 1:47:19.920 --> 1:47:23.479 a lot of chromebooks. It's rewarding but crazy. Sometimes. I 1:47:23.560 --> 1:47:25.599 used to listen to Leo Laporte and was glad when 1:47:25.600 --> 1:47:28.240 you took over. You do a great job helping folks. 1:47:28.400 --> 1:47:31.760 Thank you again. All right, well, thank you, Ryan. Appreciate that. 1:47:31.800 --> 1:47:35.120 I always like when it people like the show because 1:47:35.160 --> 1:47:37.240 it means that I'm doing something right. Sure apps, No, 1:47:37.880 --> 1:47:40.720 all right, wow, I cannot believe it that is going 1:47:40.760 --> 1:47:42.559 to do this episode of the show. You can find 1:47:42.560 --> 1:47:44.880 links to everything I mentioned on the website. Go to 1:47:45.000 --> 1:47:47.320 rich on tech dot tv. Be sure to sign up 1:47:47.360 --> 1:47:49.479 for the newsletter. Find me on social media. I'm at 1:47:49.560 --> 1:47:51.080 rich on tech. Do you want people to find you? 1:47:51.200 --> 1:47:54.640 Justin sure? Where are you at? Justin demiro on X? 1:47:54.800 --> 1:47:57.599 There you go. Next week we'll have more of your questions. 1:47:57.640 --> 1:47:59.439 I've got the feedback. It's so full I got to 1:47:59.439 --> 1:48:01.719 bring it back now week. Thanks so much for listening. 1:48:01.760 --> 1:48:03.320 There are so many ways you can spend your time. 1:48:03.360 --> 1:48:05.960 I appreciate you spending it right here with me. My 1:48:06.040 --> 1:48:08.720 name is rich dedmro Thanks to Justin. Let's real