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Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I am coming to you from my home state of
Speaker 1: New Jersey today, so that's why the music you'll hear
Speaker 1: throughout the show is all Jersey inspired. Always fun to
Speaker 1: come home. I am actually here for a celebration for
Speaker 1: my dad and it's a nice one. Ten years cancer free,
Speaker 1: which I cannot believe. I still remember the day I
Speaker 1: was actually at the doctor with him when he got
Speaker 1: the initial diagnosis and it just, you know, puts your
Speaker 1: world into a tailspin, just everything, and so my you know,
Speaker 1: I live far away, so I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I will help. Couldn't bring him to the hospital all
Speaker 1: that stuff, but I will help get his tech life
Speaker 1: in order. So immediately I said, let's go through your stuff.
Speaker 1: Let's get everything kind of figured out so I can
Speaker 1: help you pay the bills and all these different things.
Speaker 1: And the first thing I learned is that his digital
Speaker 1: life was such a mess, as are so many of ours.
Speaker 1: I like to think mine is not, but you know,
Speaker 1: there are portions of it that are. But I had
Speaker 1: to go through his passwords and access to everything, you know,
Speaker 1: get online, access to banking and things like that. And
Speaker 1: it just took a lot because it's like, Dad, do
Speaker 1: you know your password to this? No? Dad, do you
Speaker 1: know how you access this?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: And so I got a lot of things in order,
Speaker 1: but it took a while. A couple of things to
Speaker 1: think about. Number One, when you're thinking about, you know,
Speaker 1: your access for other folks. Apple has a legacy access option,
Speaker 1: So set that up someone that you can hand over
Speaker 1: your account to in the event that you can't, you know,
Speaker 1: manage it any longer you pass away. Google has an
Speaker 1: inactive account manager as well. They will email you can
Speaker 1: set someone as a sort of a beneficiary of those
Speaker 1: two accounts. Those are the two big ones. But do
Speaker 1: that and also maybe share your passwords of some of
Speaker 1: the important stuff with folks. Obviously, my dad's livelihood was
Speaker 1: impacted during this time when he was recovering. He is
Speaker 1: a roofer by trade, so he couldn't go up on roofs,
Speaker 1: although he probably did during some of this time, and
Speaker 1: so I set up a GoFundMe for him. That was
Speaker 1: incredible just to see how many friends, family, and even
Speaker 1: complete strangers wanted to help. If you did that many
Speaker 1: many years ago, thank you for that. Always set up
Speaker 1: a GoFundMe if someone is going through something in your life,
Speaker 1: because there are many people that are just waiting to help.
Speaker 1: And with social media and all these avenues, it's a
Speaker 1: great way to do that and to raise some funds
Speaker 1: for folks who can't work or need some help. And
Speaker 1: it's been a long journey, lots of doctors, lots of hospitals,
Speaker 1: lots of sickness, lots of blood. Blood actually helped save
Speaker 1: both my mom's life and my dad's life. They would
Speaker 1: not be here today if it was not for blood donation.
Speaker 1: So please donate blood. Personally, I am too scared to
Speaker 1: do that. I know I'm trying to work through it,
Speaker 1: but that is something that I do appreciate when other
Speaker 1: people do it. I think it's incredible. My dad really strong.
Speaker 1: He's a health nut, always has been, and so he
Speaker 1: did end up getting through his cancer. He got a
Speaker 1: stem cell transplant, which, again incredible technology. He had to
Speaker 1: start life over. It was not easy and it was
Speaker 1: a very long journey. Again, it's been ten years. But
Speaker 1: modern technology, including includes medical advances. We often forget. We
Speaker 1: think about technology as computers and gadgets and things, but
Speaker 1: medicine is also quite incredible these days, and there are
Speaker 1: very smart people figuring this stuff out and continuing to
Speaker 1: make strides. But one thing has not changed. My dad
Speaker 1: is healthy now.
Speaker 4: He is.
Speaker 1: You know, it's you never fully recover from something like this,
Speaker 1: but you know, the cancer is gone and he is
Speaker 1: an incredible person and we're going to celebrate him for
Speaker 1: that today. And one thing has not changed, though, I
Speaker 1: will tell you his passwords are still a mess, so
Speaker 1: that has not changed. While I was here in New Jersey,
Speaker 1: I did visit a real life electronics store. It's called Microcenter.
Speaker 1: My mom and I were going somewhere else and I said,
Speaker 1: I got to stop in that place. I mean I
Speaker 1: got to stop in because it's just you know, we
Speaker 1: don't have these, And so I did go there and
Speaker 1: I just thought it was so neat because over the
Speaker 1: years we've seen this sort of evolution of you know,
Speaker 1: the the idea of the electronics store. Nowadays it's all
Speaker 1: Amazon overnight, right, But through my years growing up, I
Speaker 1: mean I remember going going to Egghead Software, if you
Speaker 1: remember a place called Egghead Software. But that was like
Speaker 1: as a nerd growing up, it was just so cool.
Speaker 1: You'd walk in and all the software was in boxes,
Speaker 1: and you had discs and floppy drives and you would
Speaker 1: come home and put in like one disc after another
Speaker 1: to install programs. Now we just download them on our
Speaker 1: phone instantly. There's a place called Crazy Eddies, which I
Speaker 1: know got a lot of notoriety over the years because
Speaker 1: I think the guy ended up getting in trouble with
Speaker 1: the government for like embezzling money. But that was a
Speaker 1: great place where our prices are insane. I mean, these
Speaker 1: larger than life, you know characters on TV that would
Speaker 1: be promoting electronics. How wild is that? And then of
Speaker 1: course I lived close to New York City, so there
Speaker 1: were always these electronics stores, like independent electronics stores in
Speaker 1: New York City. And what you do is you'd buy
Speaker 1: the newspaper. They would all list their prices in the
Speaker 1: back and tiny print, and you'd go into one store
Speaker 1: and you say, hey, this other store has this thing,
Speaker 1: this VCR for you know, nine ninety eight. You've got
Speaker 1: it for nine to ninety nine. Can we get that?
Speaker 1: You know, this this price that they have. Maybe it
Speaker 1: wasn't that little of a difference, but you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. And so you know, then you had the
Speaker 1: regional retailer, so PC, Richards, the Whiz sixth have electronics.
Speaker 1: These were all on the East Coast. I'm sure where
Speaker 1: you are it could be different, but this is where
Speaker 1: I grew up, and there was just so many of them,
Speaker 1: and I love just going into these stores and walking around.
Speaker 1: And over the years, of course, growing up, my dad
Speaker 1: would buy stereos in our first camquarder, our first big
Speaker 1: screen TV, our first fax machine, computers and printers, and
Speaker 1: I will tell you my dad would attest to this
Speaker 1: that almost every single thing that he purchased, whether it
Speaker 1: was for a small business or for the house, somehow
Speaker 1: ended up in my room at the house. Like the
Speaker 1: fax machine. He bought it for his business, but somehow
Speaker 1: it ended up in my room. Like what did they
Speaker 1: sixth grader need with a fax machine. I don't know,
Speaker 1: i'd know in a fax, but it was just so cool.
Speaker 1: And then of course later peripherals, sound cards, speakers, graphic cards.
Speaker 1: It just went on and on. My love for electronics
Speaker 1: ran very deep, even as a kid, and the stores
Speaker 1: go on and on. Radio Shack that was next to
Speaker 1: like one of the grocery stores my mom would always
Speaker 1: go to, and of course I had to duck into
Speaker 1: Radio Shack and convince my mom to let me go
Speaker 1: in there and just check it out. And I didn't
Speaker 1: necessarily have enough money to buy anything. But part of
Speaker 1: the fun of going into these stores were the smart
Speaker 1: people that were inside these stores. So because you were
Speaker 1: a nerd, you would find like minded people and just
Speaker 1: chat about nerdy things, and a lot of times you
Speaker 1: were comparing knowledge, right, oh what about this new you know,
Speaker 1: microprocess or this new computer. Oh I tried that. So
Speaker 1: that was just part of it. Nowadays, of course, that's
Speaker 1: all online, it's all in forms, it's all in chats.
Speaker 1: But back in the day, it was like real human
Speaker 1: to human interaction at these places, and you knew where
Speaker 1: to find these people. And then of course it was
Speaker 1: the bigger, bigger stores comp USA Circuit City and Best Buy.
Speaker 1: They just continued to get bigger fries electronics when I
Speaker 1: made my way to California, but again, local retailers ruled
Speaker 1: electronics for a long time until these mega chains stepped in.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, even office Depot had an excellent
Speaker 1: department that I had never worked in. It was called
Speaker 1: business Machines. I actually worked it off as depots selling
Speaker 1: cell phones back in the day when they were ninety
Speaker 1: nine cents you would, or were they a penny? Whatever
Speaker 1: they were, they were like ninety nine cents or a penny,
Speaker 1: and every time, without fail, people would buy the phone
Speaker 1: and they'd come in like thirty days later when their
Speaker 1: first bill came in the mail and their bill was
Speaker 1: so expensive because it included the first month, the last month,
Speaker 1: the pro rated amount, and I was like, well, the
Speaker 1: phone was only ninety nine cents. I mean, you have
Speaker 1: to pay for this somehow, right, And we had to
Speaker 1: work through that. Half the times, the flip phones that
Speaker 1: we sold for a dollar would be returned because people
Speaker 1: were so angry at the giant bill they got for.
Speaker 1: And back then it was like, you know, a couple
Speaker 1: hundred bucks for their first bill, and by the way
Speaker 1: in that department business machines. These salespeople again were nerds,
Speaker 1: and they were fun and like that's why I just
Speaker 1: sit there and chat with about all the latest electronics.
Speaker 1: And they were commissioned, so if you were a good salesperson,
Speaker 1: you can make a lot of money back in the day. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, a lot of these retailers like Best Buy
Speaker 1: have moved away from that sort of commission I pressure sales,
Speaker 1: but it was quite interesting for a long time, and
Speaker 1: now it's all about online reviews, Amazon getting your stuff overnight.
Speaker 1: Cost Go still a big place where people buy electronics.
Speaker 1: But I'm curious, are there any local electronics stores left
Speaker 1: in your area? I mean, I travel a lot, and
Speaker 1: of course I will always go into a place if
Speaker 1: I see one, But I was so happy to see
Speaker 1: micro Center. It's just such a such a great place
Speaker 1: to see, like thriving, and I just made my mom
Speaker 1: walk around all we walk down every single aisle and
Speaker 1: just had such a great time. So if you want
Speaker 1: to hop on the phone lines or email me, I
Speaker 1: will mention later in the show or throughout the show
Speaker 1: some of these places that you visited growing up and
Speaker 1: just enjoying electronics because If you're listening to the show,
Speaker 1: you probably have somewhat of a small love of gadgets
Speaker 1: like I did and still do. All right, coming up,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk Tesla Cybercab, new announcement from Tesla with
Speaker 1: their self driving car. But first we're gonna take some
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Speaker 1: dot TV. Hit contact. You know, when I took on
Speaker 1: a Saturday live radio show, I did not I kind
Speaker 1: of forgot about how much I travel on the weekends
Speaker 1: to different places, both for personal and for job, most
Speaker 1: of the time in the studio. But you know, I
Speaker 1: didn't want to let this show stop me from being
Speaker 1: places that I needed to be, Like this weekend, let's
Speaker 1: go to let's see here, Let's go to line too,
Speaker 1: Tony in the England Empire. Tony, let's get you on
Speaker 1: with Rich.
Speaker 5: What's up, Hi, Rich, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 5: I wanted to know.
Speaker 6: I have.
Speaker 5: Air pods and it's the Model A zero three one.
Speaker 5: I guess it's the second Gin, okay, but it shut
Speaker 5: down after only possibly maybe one hour of youth and
Speaker 5: my battery I'm checking and it's still like eighty percent
Speaker 5: or more. So I'm, I guess in the market of
Speaker 5: purchasing a replacement, and I noticed that the fourth GIN
Speaker 5: is out right now. So I need your help on
Speaker 5: what shall I buy because I'm quite satisfied with what
Speaker 5: I have. It's just that it doesn't work.
Speaker 1: So the AirPods that you have, what's the problem. The
Speaker 1: battery is not lasting right.
Speaker 5: Another battery still showing. I'll put it back in the case.
Speaker 5: I'm in the middle of of a phone call or something.
Speaker 5: I'm using it, and I'll get that little sound word
Speaker 5: shutting down it or whatever it makes, and it'll just
Speaker 5: totally go out, and I have to put it back
Speaker 5: in the case. And then I'll always check to see
Speaker 5: what the percentage I have left, and at that time
Speaker 5: it's always seventy or eighty percent left on the I
Speaker 5: guess the battery line usage or whatever. But it shuts down.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's odd. So first thing I would do
Speaker 1: is reset these to factory like reset. Have you done that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, So you put the AirPods in their case, you
Speaker 1: close the lid, you wait about thirty seconds, you open
Speaker 1: the lid, and then you press and hold that little
Speaker 1: button on the back of the case for about fifteen
Speaker 1: seconds until the light will flash amber and then white.
Speaker 1: And this is off the AirPod support guide online and
Speaker 1: that will get them back to factory settings. So that
Speaker 1: will clear everything off of them and make sure that
Speaker 1: they are factory fresh once again, and then you will
Speaker 1: repair them to your phone and see if the problem persists. Now,
Speaker 1: if the problem persists, I would also do a little
Speaker 1: clean out. I would get a little alcohol, a little
Speaker 1: rubbing alcohol or an alcohol wipe, make sure it's not
Speaker 1: super wet. Just you know, maybe put some alcohol on
Speaker 1: a Q tip and I would clean the I would
Speaker 1: clean the all basically everything inside the case and the
Speaker 1: contacts on the air pods themselves, and then I would
Speaker 1: charge them up, pair them back to your phone, and
Speaker 1: see if the problem is still happening. If the problems
Speaker 1: still happening, then I would probably get a new pair
Speaker 1: of AirPods. I would see if these are under warranty.
Speaker 1: You said they're the second generation. I don't think they're
Speaker 1: under warranty at this point, and so I would probably
Speaker 1: get a new pair at that point. The new ones
Speaker 1: are let's see here. The new ones are one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty nine dollars for the air pods four. I
Speaker 1: will tell you I've been testing them with active noise cancelation.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's worth the active noise cancelation. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's very good. So did you need the
Speaker 1: noise cancelation or no?
Speaker 5: No. I normally just wear one anyway, because if I'm
Speaker 5: out walking or doing something, I normally just wear one
Speaker 5: so that I can be more aware of my surrounding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, And so is it only one that's messing
Speaker 1: up on these air pods.
Speaker 5: Well, I only really use the one, and that's the
Speaker 5: one that keeps going out. The other one, I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, Okay, got it? Okay, So I'm wondering if I mean, yeah, okay, interesting. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean you could switch the other ear, and it'll
Speaker 1: take a little bit for your brain to get used
Speaker 1: to it, because, believe me, I always put mine in
Speaker 1: the same ear when i'm doing just one, and then
Speaker 1: it's like if I have it in the other one,
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, I can't do this, but you can.
Speaker 1: You know, if you want to squeeze another couple of
Speaker 1: years of life out of these, you can just put
Speaker 1: it in the other ear and use that one. But
Speaker 1: I think maybe a new pair, if you know, go
Speaker 1: through the steps that I mentioned. I'll put the links
Speaker 1: on the website. Rich on tech dot tv. This is
Speaker 1: the show notes. This is show number ninety three, So
Speaker 1: I'll put that in the show notes, and hopefully if
Speaker 1: you go through all those systems and see if it's
Speaker 1: still giving you a problem, then maybe it's time for
Speaker 1: a new pair. But I will tell you you're not alone
Speaker 1: these Tony. These For some reason, the AirPods just have
Speaker 1: this weird thing where like sometimes they just show like
Speaker 1: one percent one of them charges, one of them doesn't.
Speaker 1: And so I've seen this happen before with mine. Most
Speaker 1: of the time it's sort of a contact thing or
Speaker 1: like just a quirk. And there have been some software
Speaker 1: updates for the AirPods as well, so I'll put the
Speaker 1: link on the website. You can't really force a software
Speaker 1: update with the AirPods, but perhaps you need a software update,
Speaker 1: and I'll put the instructions on how to see if
Speaker 1: it needs a software update. You can check like what
Speaker 1: the software that's running is and compare it against what's available.
Speaker 1: So hopefully that helps Tony.
Speaker 5: Okay, so you're saying that, let's just say I go
Speaker 5: through all those steps and it's still doing the same thing. Now,
Speaker 5: if I were to buy a replacement, you recommending which
Speaker 5: one I.
Speaker 1: Would go at the AirPods for those are the new ones,
Speaker 1: brand new they just came out. AirPods four one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty nine bucks. Or you can go for a
Speaker 1: replacement AirPod if you just want to replace what you got,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be sixty nine dollars. You're listening to Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech eight eight
Speaker 1: eight Rick one one eight eight eight rich one O
Speaker 1: one seven four to two four to one zero one
Speaker 1: seem to have hit a nerve with the classic electronics stores.
Speaker 1: Lots of you emailing me to tell me that Microcenter
Speaker 1: is also in the La area in Tustin. Yes, I
Speaker 1: knew that I should have mentioned that. I know they
Speaker 1: have more than one location. I just have not been
Speaker 1: to the Tustin location, and this one's a lot closer.
Speaker 1: So yes, I am well aware of that. They're actually
Speaker 1: building a new one in northern California and Santa Clara,
Speaker 1: California as well, So they are still expanding and we'll
Speaker 1: talk more about them later. Dave writes in from Temecula
Speaker 1: many years ago. Daytel in San Diego was the place
Speaker 1: to go. They sold the brand new IBM PC and
Speaker 1: also their own brand as a kit. I got the
Speaker 1: kit assembled. I got the kit and assembled it myself,
Speaker 1: A whopping one hundred and twenty eight k of memory,
Speaker 1: twenty megabyte hard drive, and a amber monochrome monitor. And
Speaker 1: it cost over three thousand dollars, quite a lot in
Speaker 1: those days. And go Dosco three thousand dollars is still
Speaker 1: a lot. I remember so two computers. I begged three computers.
Speaker 1: I begged my dad to buy me my first. We
Speaker 1: were just in PC Richard and we just did it
Speaker 1: on a whim and we bought this computers like a
Speaker 1: computer in a box, and it was a three eighty
Speaker 1: six SX sixteen. And then my second computer was a
Speaker 1: Gateway two thousand and I don't know if you remember this,
Speaker 1: but I mean I sure did. I could not wait
Speaker 1: for PC World to get delivered to my house because
Speaker 1: in the center of that magazine was the Gateway two
Speaker 1: thousand AD and it was headweight in all his like
Speaker 1: I don't know, cowboy gear with the cows everywhere the spots,
Speaker 1: and I would just flip through this ad and just
Speaker 1: I mean that sold me on that brand so heavily
Speaker 1: compared to like a Dell, I guess, or maybe that
Speaker 1: came later, I don't know, but but Gateway was the
Speaker 1: brand for me. And then of course I ordered the
Speaker 1: computer and I got it in, you know, in the box.
Speaker 1: And then later on I got this was a brand
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure it's around anymore. It's called win Book.
Speaker 1: And that was my first computer for college and it
Speaker 1: was a laptop and it was so expensive. I think
Speaker 1: it was like thirty five dollars and it was I mean,
Speaker 1: nothing was a beast. It was so slow by today's standards,
Speaker 1: didn't even have Wi Fi built in. But anyway, I digress.
Speaker 1: Keep those emails coming. Rich on tech dot TV hit
Speaker 1: contact if you want to send in your electronics store
Speaker 1: that you visited throughout the years. Let's go to line one.
Speaker 1: We've got Susan in Santa Monica, California. Susan, right, welcome
Speaker 1: to the show.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I love you from day one. You've been wonderful. What
Speaker 3: a gift for all of us, your information personality. Thank
Speaker 3: you so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Is this my mom? I'm just kissing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were worried about losing Leo, but you're just
Speaker 3: such a blessing. You're fantastic anyway, and I really miss
Speaker 3: Circuit City. I love Circuit City. So here's my question.
Speaker 3: I have two questions. One is probably quick regarding turning
Speaker 3: my modem my router on and off at night. That's
Speaker 3: the quick question. The main question I have it's a
Speaker 3: landline bundle with Frontiers, so my internet is I guess
Speaker 3: you call it broadband. I don't know, so I just
Speaker 3: have plain old fashioned landline bundle phone and internet. I
Speaker 3: have a router. I guess it's a combo router modem,
Speaker 3: and it's been working just fine. Every now and then
Speaker 3: I need to reboot it. No problem, it's pretty old.
Speaker 3: Can I give you the name and model and you
Speaker 3: tell me if I should be replacing this?
Speaker 1: Well? So here, okay, to answer your first question, you
Speaker 1: don't need to turn this off at night. These things
Speaker 1: are meant. It's okay. I don't think it's gonna harm it,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's a good idea. I mean,
Speaker 1: unless it's for a health reason or you don't you know,
Speaker 1: you're just you don't like the idea of it being
Speaker 1: on or whatever.
Speaker 3: But like ty, I do what I'm worried about? WiFi
Speaker 3: near my bed?
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean, yeah, it's funny. It's funny. I had
Speaker 1: a friend had the you know, back when like Wi
Speaker 1: fi was first starting. They would just pop the router
Speaker 1: like wherever they could, wherever the cable came in. I
Speaker 1: remember someone had it under their bed and I was like,
Speaker 1: you're just like cooking all night long, aren't you like
Speaker 1: this WiFi? Is just radiating up into your body. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's, you know, a problem or not,
Speaker 1: but obviously the information on that is very mixed. It
Speaker 1: seems to be very safe. We've had it for many,
Speaker 1: many years in many people's homes throughout the world. So
Speaker 1: I would say, personally, if you're concerned with that, I
Speaker 1: would maybe move the router to a different place that
Speaker 1: you feel better with. But I don't think that's an issue,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's a reason to turn it
Speaker 1: off at night. So if that's the main reason I would,
Speaker 1: I would not do that.
Speaker 3: It's pretty old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So what I would do is you have to
Speaker 1: call is it still Frontier or is it a different
Speaker 1: company now?
Speaker 3: Frontier?
Speaker 1: Okay, so you have to call them and see. Because
Speaker 1: here's the thing. The technology on these things has not
Speaker 1: changed substantially. There are different there are different standards for
Speaker 1: these modems, which is uh DOXIS d O c SI
Speaker 1: S and so if your modem does not support the
Speaker 1: latest DOXIS standard for your cable company, your speed could
Speaker 1: be impacted. I think the standard like this, the typical
Speaker 1: one today is like, let's see third generation so three
Speaker 1: three uh, yeah, I think it's about the third generation.
Speaker 1: So I would call your cable company or look on
Speaker 1: there and see if it says anything about that, if
Speaker 1: it's like two or something previous. But otherwise, I mean,
Speaker 1: you could have these these modems for a very long time. Now.
Speaker 1: I have had mine for ten years, and I will
Speaker 1: tell you I did get a notice from my cable
Speaker 1: company and they said it's time to upgrade and we
Speaker 1: have to swap it out. And so it does happen.
Speaker 1: It's you know, but it's not over a year or two.
Speaker 1: This is a standard technology that's been around for a
Speaker 1: long time. But I would get in touch with with Frontier.
Speaker 1: Do you rent it or have you purchased it from them?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't pay anything. They gave it to me
Speaker 3: many years ago. It's part of it. Okay, this is
Speaker 3: part of the package. Okay, I mean I don't trust them.
Speaker 3: They might send a new one out and then start
Speaker 3: charging me.
Speaker 1: Twelve bucks a month, right, And I was just going
Speaker 1: to say, that's my concern is that you may be
Speaker 1: on a grandfather plan where they didn't charge. But but again,
Speaker 1: you can you can call them. They're not going to
Speaker 1: do anything without you authorizing it. So I would just
Speaker 1: call them up and say, hey, here's my model router number.
Speaker 3: Every one might be.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh yeah, absolutely, I think. I mean, especially if
Speaker 1: you're getting the speed that you're paying for, like I
Speaker 1: would do a speed test on your computer connected to
Speaker 1: your modem, and if you're paying for five hundred down
Speaker 1: five hundred up, and you're getting that on a wired connection,
Speaker 1: going to a website like speed test dot net orfast
Speaker 1: dot com. If you're getting the speed you're paying for
Speaker 1: on a wired connection, wireless might be a little bit slower,
Speaker 1: but if you're getting that with a Ethernet cable plugged
Speaker 1: into your laptop, then your modem's working just fine. So
Speaker 1: there's no real reason to change that. And yeah, yeah exactly,
Speaker 1: So thank you so much. All right, thanks so much
Speaker 1: for the call there. Susan and Santa Monica do appreciate it,
Speaker 1: and of course I always appreciate the kind words. It
Speaker 1: really means a lot to me. This week in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: Tesla unveiled the cyber Cab. So this was an event
Speaker 1: at Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles. No, I'm not
Speaker 1: bitter because I wasn't invited, but we'll just get through
Speaker 1: this anyway, twenty Cybercab prototypes at this we Robot event.
Speaker 1: The Cybercab is a two seater vehicle with doors that
Speaker 1: go up. I guess they're not Falcon doors. I guess
Speaker 1: they call them goal wing doors. But there's no wheel,
Speaker 1: there is no pedals. This is a vehicle that just
Speaker 1: is self driving. Now you can buy one of these,
Speaker 1: and that's what's unique about this setup is that Elon
Speaker 1: Musk is promoting this as something that you would buy
Speaker 1: for less than thirty thousand, by the way, that's their
Speaker 1: target price, and it would drive you around. But here's
Speaker 1: the kicker. When you are not using it, it can
Speaker 1: be sent out into the world to act as an
Speaker 1: automated uber on your behalf. So your car would be
Speaker 1: picking up other people, driving them around, dropping them off,
Speaker 1: and then you'd be earning cash on this. How wild
Speaker 1: is that? So they're almost creating like a secondary market
Speaker 1: they want to start production twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: These cars have wireless charging, not plug in chargers. They
Speaker 1: also had a Robovan that was capable of carrying up
Speaker 1: to twenty people that was more like a bus. They
Speaker 1: also had these Optimist humanoid robots on display, they were
Speaker 1: making drinks, they were talking to people. Elon Musk believes
Speaker 1: these will be huge, like a Rosie the robot for
Speaker 1: your house price tag of about twenty thousand dollars to
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars. These were a little bit iffy because
Speaker 1: it was clear that they had humans not only doing
Speaker 1: the voice and the interactions with people, but also controlling them.
Speaker 1: But they were standing, it seemed, on their own and
Speaker 1: walking around, which was pretty cool. So they've come a
Speaker 1: long way. Obviously, this is all a very big dream
Speaker 1: right now. We don't know if any of this will
Speaker 1: happen for real. They've got lots of hurdles ahead, including
Speaker 1: people accepting cars driving around by themselves without people in
Speaker 1: them or without a human driver. I know Weaimo does this,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of talk about the fact that
Speaker 1: Weimo does this very differently. Weimo cars are already driving
Speaker 1: around by themselves in Los Angeles, but they use a
Speaker 1: completely different tech stack, including radar, ldar cameras. They have
Speaker 1: so many sensors on those cars that these cars that
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is promoting do not have. Elon Musk typically
Speaker 1: the Tesla has used cameras to self drive, and we're
Speaker 1: still waiting for that dream of full self driving on
Speaker 1: the current Tesla's the Model three, the Model Why. He
Speaker 1: believes that in California and Texas there will be unsupervised
Speaker 1: full self driving in the next two years or so.
Speaker 1: So again, this is someone who promises a lot, and
Speaker 1: I love the fact that Elon Musk. There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. He has delivered many, many things. But again
Speaker 1: we have to hold a little bit of we have
Speaker 1: to be a little bit critical of this stuff and
Speaker 1: a little bit skeptical as well, because this is going
Speaker 1: to take longer than probably many of us think. Again,
Speaker 1: don't forget this was done on a closed set on
Speaker 1: the Warner Brothers lot rather than in a real world situation,
Speaker 1: so everything was highly controlled, although people were getting rides
Speaker 1: in these cyber cabs around the back lot. So it's cool,
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. It's very cool. But again,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see this stuff happen. I think
Speaker 1: it's there's a many many people out there who do
Speaker 1: not want this stuff to happen, or who do not
Speaker 1: want to get into a car like this. But I
Speaker 1: know many people who have taken the way mos that
Speaker 1: including myself. That felt very comfortable. Now eighty eight rich
Speaker 1: one one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. You are listening to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one
Speaker 1: O one that's eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. Got an email from uh let's
Speaker 1: see Diane in Menefee asking are we able to FaceTime
Speaker 1: with one Apple and one Android phone? And the answer
Speaker 1: is yes, but it's complicated and I don't recommend it.
Speaker 1: So there are many many ways to do a video
Speaker 1: call that does not involve FaceTime. You know, if you've
Speaker 1: listened to the show for any length of time that
Speaker 1: I always always prefer third party, platform independent products, so
Speaker 1: platform products that work on every platform, not just one. Now,
Speaker 1: if you are an Apple person, it's amazing. Everything works great,
Speaker 1: but you are beholden to pretty much everything Apple. In fact,
Speaker 1: one of the best note taking apps out there is
Speaker 1: Apple Notes, which I would love to use, but I
Speaker 1: can't because I test a lot of phones. Maybe I
Speaker 1: want to switch to an Android phone at some point,
Speaker 1: and I would have to switch my entire notes to
Speaker 1: some other program because of that, and it just goes
Speaker 1: on and on. If you use Apple Photos to store
Speaker 1: your photos, Apple Music doesn't work on both. I will
Speaker 1: give them that, but it's pretty much reminders, I mean,
Speaker 1: anything that you do in the Apple ecosystem. It's pretty
Speaker 1: much just glue to keep you on the Apple side
Speaker 1: of things. You get an air tag, you're not going
Speaker 1: to switch to Android. They don't work with Android. Again,
Speaker 1: always prefer things that work on every platform, not just one.
Speaker 1: So when it comes to FaceTime, yes, it's simple, Yes
Speaker 1: it's easy, but if you're trying to use it with
Speaker 1: an Android, it's not that easy. You can do it,
Speaker 1: and here's how you do it. So first off, you
Speaker 1: have to go to a you have to start the
Speaker 1: call from an iPhone, and so you get the call
Speaker 1: on an iPhone, you get it going, and there's a
Speaker 1: link on the iPhone that you can generate when you're
Speaker 1: in the call, and so you can generate that link
Speaker 1: and send it to someone that is on another device
Speaker 1: like a Windows computer or an Android phone, and then
Speaker 1: once they get that link, they can open up that
Speaker 1: link and get on the call. So basically, if you
Speaker 1: are on FaceTime. You can open up the app and
Speaker 1: there's a create link near the top of the screen,
Speaker 1: and then you just send that link to someone and look,
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, it works, but like, why not use
Speaker 1: a program that just works with everything? Right? I mean,
Speaker 1: what's app does great video calls? Telegram does video calls,
Speaker 1: Facebook Messenger does video calls. I think even Instagram does
Speaker 1: video calls. At this point, I mean, can't you just
Speaker 1: use something that you know that just works with everything.
Speaker 1: So that's my recommendation. But yes, if you have an iPhone,
Speaker 1: you got an Android friend and you want to FaceTime them,
Speaker 1: that's what you do. You start the FaceTime, create a link,
Speaker 1: and then send that link to the other person. Let's
Speaker 1: take a call here. Let's go to let's see here,
Speaker 1: let's go to Mark in Woodland Hills. Mark. You're on
Speaker 1: with Rich?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hi, Rich. I you know I've been listening as
Speaker 4: I've been waiting on hold here, and I do have
Speaker 4: a question about help for seniors with tech things like
Speaker 4: like one Generation here in the San Franco Valley used
Speaker 4: to have college students come in and help seniors work
Speaker 4: out their problems with their laptops and their cell phones
Speaker 4: and such. But I did want to run one thing
Speaker 4: by you. I know it's not happy talk. I couldn't
Speaker 4: be I do not share your fondness for the test list.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, they contain like a dozen toxic chemicals in
Speaker 4: the batteries alone. If you have an accident and you
Speaker 4: catch on fire, you explode. But the main thing that
Speaker 4: really bothers me about that is like cobalt, for instance,
Speaker 4: is mind in the Republic of Congo by children. It's
Speaker 4: a toxic chemical and you know they need food.
Speaker 1: You know. Look, I've heard a lot about this. I've
Speaker 1: heard I've I've heard a lot of complaints about this
Speaker 1: sort of thing, Mark, And you know, here's the deal.
Speaker 1: We're not going to stop progress from happening. I understand that, yes,
Speaker 1: this stuff is dirty at the beginning, but as I
Speaker 1: understand it, the more batteries that we make, the more
Speaker 1: recycled they are in the future. So yes, it's uh.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you're comparing it against oil, like
Speaker 1: I mean, and look, and here's the thing, like, I
Speaker 1: am all for Lectri cars one hundred percent. I'm not
Speaker 1: one of those people who's gonna sit here and say
Speaker 1: let's not progress and let's just default to you know,
Speaker 1: let's just default to oil for the rest of our lives.
Speaker 1: That's not gonna that's not possible. And I understand there's
Speaker 1: a drawback to everything. There is not a thing in
Speaker 1: this world that there is not a side effect or
Speaker 1: a drawback to, no matter what you're talking about. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't care if you tell me you eat bananas
Speaker 1: and they're perfect for you. There's a downside to eating
Speaker 1: too many bananas, you know. So we have to understand
Speaker 1: that this stuff is. There's a pro and a con
Speaker 1: to everything, and we are progressing. And I get it.
Speaker 1: If you don't want an electric car, don't get it.
Speaker 1: That's the best thing. And nobody's forcing you to do that.
Speaker 1: I understand. Yes, we've got you know, some states in
Speaker 1: some places, and there's been some plans for the future
Speaker 1: of transitioning to these cars, but nobody's forcing anyone to
Speaker 1: do it just yet. Personally, I think the electric car
Speaker 1: is the best thing that I've ever yet mute. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean personally, I think the yes, mark.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir. It's unsustainable. We don't have the electricity to provide.
Speaker 4: We have brownouts here in California as it is, because
Speaker 4: the environmental is even the leadership of the environmental.
Speaker 1: Almost the last time we had a brown out.
Speaker 9: Clear i c.
Speaker 4: Nuclear is the cleanest power there is. We don't have
Speaker 4: the electrical internet and our network yet.
Speaker 1: Go and look here's the thing. Of course, we don't have.
Speaker 1: It's unsustainable right now because we're still building the infrastructure
Speaker 1: and we're still learning how to, you know, make solar
Speaker 1: that's better and come up with renewable energy. So look, again,
Speaker 1: it doesn't if you don't want it to happen, that's
Speaker 1: that's you. But it's going to happen, and we're making
Speaker 1: this transition, and we have to make this transition. There
Speaker 1: is no way that we have an amount of oil
Speaker 1: or gas that can last infinite amounts of time, and
Speaker 1: so we have to find these renewable sources of energy
Speaker 1: that we can use and use safely and create alternative
Speaker 1: methods of getting around. And again, my electric car is
Speaker 1: the best thing I've ever purchased. It is the most
Speaker 1: incredible piece of technology I have ever used. Are their
Speaker 1: drawbacks to it? Of course? Does it take a little
Speaker 1: bit longer to get to places? Do I have to
Speaker 1: think about it on road trips? Is there a charger
Speaker 1: every single place I ever want. No, I didn't rent
Speaker 1: a car this trip, an electric car, by the way.
Speaker 1: They were half the price of the gas cars because
Speaker 1: nobody's renting them. But I didn't rent one myself because
Speaker 1: I knew I'm not I'm not trying to find a
Speaker 1: charger on my you know, a couple of days out here,
Speaker 1: and so I get it. Mark, I totally understand, and
Speaker 1: I get it. But thanks for the call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Eighty to eight rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four two four one zero one. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you
Speaker 1: talking technology. The website for the show rich on Tech
Speaker 1: dot TV. The phone number for the show eighty eight
Speaker 1: rich one O one eight eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two, four to one zero one. Was talking about
Speaker 1: old school electronics stores and pat rode in from Monrovia.
Speaker 1: I bought my first PC at Creative Computers in Lawndale,
Speaker 1: an Amiga five hundred with five hundred and twelve K
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven. Amigas could add graphics and animation
Speaker 1: to home video or pro video, so they required an
Speaker 1: interlaced display. By the time I tried to help a
Speaker 1: friend buy one of the nineties. The parent company no
Speaker 1: longer made those monitors. I asked the salesperson, how can
Speaker 1: you sell a computer with no display? It isn't easy,
Speaker 1: was his reply. Good old commodore, cheers, Pat, great story,
Speaker 1: William wrote in on X Hey, I worked for Staples
Speaker 1: when they were the premier company for computer sales. Isn't
Speaker 1: that wild now? It's like it feels like when you
Speaker 1: go into those stores, you know, the office stores, the
Speaker 1: office electronics is sort of an afterthought. You know, people
Speaker 1: just go in there for paper, And I, quite honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm surprise anytime there's a physical store for anything Like
Speaker 1: it just feels like they're all just you know, it's
Speaker 1: just a matter of time before they all go away.
Speaker 1: And so I don't want that to happen. But I
Speaker 1: understand the economics of it. I mean, these these stores
Speaker 1: are getting undercut by online so easily, and people literally
Speaker 1: are doing price comparisons in the store and then saying, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll just save a couple bucks and I'll have it
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning. This week, Ring introduced a new AI powered
Speaker 1: smart video search. This is pretty cool and it's so wild.
Speaker 1: It's so wild how much AI has just it's it's funny.
Speaker 1: I do a joke every time I interview someone for
Speaker 1: KTLA and talk about you know, their product, I say,
Speaker 1: and how is AI involved? And ninety nine percent of
Speaker 1: the time they have an answer because AI has to
Speaker 1: be a part of every product nowadays, no matter what.
Speaker 1: And so Ring has this thing called smart Video Search,
Speaker 1: and you can now type in just anything you want
Speaker 1: to find speciments in your Ring video history. So your
Speaker 1: doorbell and your cameras have been recording all these clips.
Speaker 1: You know there might be some interesting moments in there,
Speaker 1: or maybe you're trying to look for something like you know,
Speaker 1: your backyard is all messed up and you're like, what
Speaker 1: what animal did that? So you can search for not
Speaker 1: only animal, but a specific animal like raccoon. You can
Speaker 1: search for locations. You could search for packages, people, time vehicles.
Speaker 1: You can say red car and see how many times
Speaker 1: that passes your house. Weather, that'd be cool. I'd love
Speaker 1: to try to see if you can search lightning. That'd
Speaker 1: be kind of cool. And of course some activities as well.
Speaker 1: This works across all their Ring video doorbells and cameras.
Speaker 1: This is all being done on the back end, so
Speaker 1: it doesn't really need any modification on the camera side,
Speaker 1: something that's very easy to I don't know about easy,
Speaker 1: but they're implementing on the back end, server side, so
Speaker 1: that's why they can roll it out on all these cameras.
Speaker 1: It's rolling out in public beta to select customers now,
Speaker 1: and so that means you will not have access to
Speaker 1: it right away, but eventually you will only though, if
Speaker 1: you are subscribed to their new top of the line plan,
Speaker 1: Ring Home Premium. That's twenty dollars a month. I know
Speaker 1: for my Ring, they doubled the price tag from ten
Speaker 1: to twenty dollars a month, So I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people are not happy about that, but you know,
Speaker 1: that's what's happening, and I don't know, we'll see if
Speaker 1: Ring changes their mind about that. But Ring, I will say,
Speaker 1: has been very inexpensive over the years, and so you know,
Speaker 1: twenty bucks a month, it's a lot, but it's kind
Speaker 1: of on par with what people are paying for some
Speaker 1: of their other Alarm subscriptions, and I believe that includes
Speaker 1: some of the alarm features too. November fifth, they're going
Speaker 1: to have that new feature those new subscriptions, So there
Speaker 1: you go. Ring with AI and if you got an
Speaker 1: email about to be owing you some money for a settlement,
Speaker 1: it is legitimate. I got a bunch of emails from
Speaker 1: people saying rich, is this real? Yes to be. The
Speaker 1: free to watch video service is paying nearly twenty million
Speaker 1: dollars in a settlement over video privacy. What do they
Speaker 1: do well? They shared information with third parties without your consent.
Speaker 1: Now I don't know if they agreed to this or
Speaker 1: you know, if this is just the settlement. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Of course, these companies don't admit any wrongdoing in these settlements.
Speaker 1: They just say, fine, settle. So are you eligible? If
Speaker 1: you used TUB between June twenty third, twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: and August twenty six, twenty twenty four, you are eligible
Speaker 1: for cash. So how much are you gonna get? We
Speaker 1: don't know. It depends on how many people file claims.
Speaker 1: So you should definitely file a claim if you got
Speaker 1: that email or if you use TUB. The only way
Speaker 1: you have to prove it is if you have an
Speaker 1: email account that's registered with TUB or the device information
Speaker 1: and dates of use. So the deadline is let's see here.
Speaker 1: Claim deadline. November twenty eighth, twenty twenty four. If you
Speaker 1: want to exclude yourself from this class action, you gotta
Speaker 1: do October thirty first. Anyway, to be how ironic, it's
Speaker 1: a free service, free service that people use for free,
Speaker 1: and now they got to pay twenty million dollars because
Speaker 1: they shared these people's these uh, these customers information with
Speaker 1: third parties. And what's that all about. I'm guessing it's
Speaker 1: all about advertising, because that's what's supporting to be as
Speaker 1: well as a lot of these other services. It's not
Speaker 1: really free. Your data is what's supporting it. But apparently
Speaker 1: they shared that data with too many people. Eighty eight
Speaker 1: Rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Coming up on the show,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the pros and cons of
Speaker 1: those art style TVs. That's this hour. Next hour, we're
Speaker 1: going to talk to us Scott Baldwin. He's got a
Speaker 1: startup called front Pack. This is a social network for athletes.
Speaker 1: Got a new app plus a special guest a little
Speaker 1: bit later on. Let's go to line one. Steve in
Speaker 1: a Hemmett, Steve and Hemmett. You are on with rich Steve,
Speaker 1: Are you there? Nope? Okay, let's go to Uh, let's
Speaker 1: see here. Let's go to line too. Kevin in San Clementy. Kevin,
Speaker 1: You're on with Rich.
Speaker 6: Good afternoon. Just a quick comment. Somebody said about a
Speaker 6: kit a while ago. I remember the old Heath Kit
Speaker 6: days building, those you know, uh things that Heath Kid offered.
Speaker 6: I think it might even still be around. Uh. The
Speaker 6: story I wanted to mention was specific stereo. They were
Speaker 6: on paying a Canyon and I think that's Kilga Park
Speaker 6: out there that was around for years and years and years.
Speaker 1: Oh, isn't it didn't It looks like they're still around.
Speaker 1: Is Oh? You know what I just you just made
Speaker 1: me think of another one, Alan Eds remember that.
Speaker 6: No, there was something Eds on Central Boulevard, I think
Speaker 6: in Tarzan or something.
Speaker 1: Alan Ed's Alan Ed's auto sound. It was like they
Speaker 1: did all car audio.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I remember getting like it was like I
Speaker 1: obviously it was. It was too expensive for me back
Speaker 1: in the day when I first moved to La like
Speaker 1: to get something, but that's like where you wanted to
Speaker 1: get it done, because it was like, you know, you
Speaker 1: could go to Best Buy, but like that's going to
Speaker 1: be you know, just okay. But this place was like
Speaker 1: they knew what they were doing. They knew their stuff absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So what my question is, I've got a pair of
Speaker 6: KLH Models five that have the paper cones the mid
Speaker 6: range and the woofer or paper cones. How long do
Speaker 6: paper cones last unless you blow them out?
Speaker 1: That's a great question that I do not know the
Speaker 1: complete answer to. What I would say, until they don't
Speaker 1: sound good anymore? I mean, what is there a problem
Speaker 1: with these speakers?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 6: No, no, it was just something I thought of that.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm just curious how long are these going
Speaker 6: to last? Because the ones I have are pre the
Speaker 6: new owners of KLH. Now, these were I think KLH
Speaker 6: sold in twenty seventeen or something, so these are the
Speaker 6: original KLH speakers. So I was just ordered how long
Speaker 6: are they going to last?
Speaker 1: How? How how old are these things?
Speaker 6: Uh? Probably fifteen years old?
Speaker 1: Okay? And they still sound good? I'm sorry, they still
Speaker 1: sound good.
Speaker 6: They sound awesome.
Speaker 1: Well, then, I mean, I'm you know, I think they're
Speaker 1: they're probably fine. I mean it's I'm looking at some
Speaker 1: some info online. It says with good care, twenty to
Speaker 1: forty years could be reasonable. But that, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: that sounds like a lot, But you know it's a speaker.
Speaker 1: I've it's funny. I I've got the so no speakers
Speaker 1: that I've complained about obviously on this show, But I
Speaker 1: keep thinking, I'm like, when are these no good anymore?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I guess when they don't work anymore?
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's still sounding fine, like it's a speaker, Like,
Speaker 1: what more do you need if it's if it's sounding good.
Speaker 1: It's funny because we're so used to replacing things and
Speaker 1: getting rid of things. But I bet, I bet even
Speaker 1: if these things went out, you could probably still repair
Speaker 1: them if they if they if someone still the parts.
Speaker 6: Yeah, good point. Okay, Well, I enjoy what you do
Speaker 6: for us.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the trip down memory lane. What was the
Speaker 1: other thing they also had? You know, all these companies
Speaker 1: have been absorbed by other companies. A lot of them have,
Speaker 1: like Best Buy had what was it Pacific Sales? They
Speaker 1: I thought Pacific Stereo was part of that. But Pacific
Speaker 1: Sales I think was like an independent place that they
Speaker 1: ended up absorbing into best Buy as well. So let's
Speaker 1: see what was the you said, Let's see what was it?
Speaker 1: Pacific Stereo looks like it's still around as far as
Speaker 1: I can tell, is this just an online thing? I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, but yeah, it's wild to go down down
Speaker 1: memory lane with some of these things. Okay, do we
Speaker 1: have time to go to uh? Sounds like our other
Speaker 1: callers back online one? We have time for Steve and Hemmett. No, No,
Speaker 1: we don't. Okay, all right, oh Steven Hemmt's gone. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: this is what happens in a live show here. You know,
Speaker 1: we get people, we drop people, they drop whatever. Okay,
Speaker 1: So a couple of things. The newsletter on the website
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Speaker 2: With So I've used every Note as a note taking
Speaker 2: app for almost ten years, but last year when Broken
Speaker 2: Spoons bought them, they limited the devices, raised prices, made
Speaker 2: it more difficult to use. So I want to know
Speaker 2: if you're aware of an app that I could use
Speaker 2: the export all my notes that would work with iOS, Windows, Android,
Speaker 2: because everywhere I so far there's an issue like, no
Speaker 2: you can you have to still have ever note and updated,
Speaker 2: you know, one drive One Note's been a kind of
Speaker 2: a hassle. Yeah, you have any ideas?
Speaker 1: Are you looking into my brain? Because I think about
Speaker 1: this every single day. I have hopped between every single
Speaker 1: one of these note taking apps. I was one of
Speaker 1: the first new users of ever note Ever. I mean
Speaker 1: I remember I was a user so far back in
Speaker 1: the day. It was it was like an ever scroll.
Speaker 1: It was just an ever, never ending scroll of notes
Speaker 1: that you would put it on, and then of course
Speaker 1: it's evolved over the years. You're right. It was purchased
Speaker 1: by an Italian company, Bending Spoons. I know you called it,
Speaker 1: what did you call it, Problem Spoons or something?
Speaker 2: Spoons?
Speaker 1: Broken Spoons. Now I got to give them credit. I
Speaker 1: actually think the updates and improvements they've done to ever
Speaker 1: Note is excellent. I think they've done a good job
Speaker 1: with it. But yes, you are right, they have squeezed
Speaker 1: out the free user to a place where it's unusable
Speaker 1: if you're if you're a free user, and I would
Speaker 1: agree with that. If you're trying to use this for free,
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Speaker 1: you know, in three days, or it's just not worth it.
Speaker 1: The other thing is that ever note stores everything in
Speaker 1: a proprietary way, which is you can export it. But
Speaker 1: I found out because I was a big Evernote user
Speaker 1: for many years. When I wanted to export, it got
Speaker 1: really tricky and everything was kind of gobbledygook. And it's
Speaker 1: taken me years to kind of climb out of that.
Speaker 1: So what if I tried I've tried one Note. I
Speaker 1: don't like one Note because it the way it's got
Speaker 1: that infinite canvas I just deal with when you paste
Speaker 1: something in there, the text is like in one little
Speaker 1: box and then it moves over. It's just two doesn't
Speaker 1: work for my brain. Notion is what I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: I've settled on that, but I'll tell you I'll go
Speaker 1: through the thing. Obsidian is what I was using for
Speaker 1: a while, and I think Obsidian is probably, if you're
Speaker 1: a little bit of a nerd, the best alternative to
Speaker 1: ever Note because it is mostly self hosted. Your files
Speaker 1: live on your machine. The file structure and every thing
Speaker 1: is very similar to Evernote. It's not as polished, it's not,
Speaker 1: as you know, full featured, but I think Obsidian is
Speaker 1: really good. You just have to figure out a way
Speaker 1: to sink it across devices, and that includes either paying
Speaker 1: them or doing it yourself. Apple Notes no good because
Speaker 1: it's just one platform, and then you've got Joplin, which
Speaker 1: is an open source program. But I find that it's
Speaker 1: good and I think it's very similar. It's basically an
Speaker 1: Evernote clone, but open source. I just didn't like the
Speaker 1: fact that it doesn't really sink in the background, and
Speaker 1: it's a little bit old school looking compared now. The
Speaker 1: one that I've settled on has been Notion, and again
Speaker 1: you do probably have to pay if you want to
Speaker 1: use Notion in a big way, but I think it's
Speaker 1: the cleanest of all the programs. The thing I don't
Speaker 1: like about it is the file structure. Everything is sort
Speaker 1: of link based, which is good, but it does take
Speaker 1: a little bit of learning. And you can't organize your
Speaker 1: file folders if you want to call that in alphabetical order,
Speaker 1: which really really bugs me. But I would say those
Speaker 1: your options. You kind of have to just play with them.
Speaker 1: And see I did download ever note again today to
Speaker 1: take a second look. But the problem is it's one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty bucks a year, and once you start
Speaker 1: getting into these programs, if you're if you're in it
Speaker 1: for the long haul, you're gonna be paying that forever.
Speaker 1: So it really comes down to a matter more preference.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we're gonna talk frame style art TVs with
Speaker 1: Christian Deloper. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight
Speaker 1: Rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven four
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Speaker 1: Tech dot TV. Hit contact if you want to get
Speaker 1: in touch. Uh Joining me now is a tech journalist
Speaker 1: Christian Delooper, to talk about the pros and cons of
Speaker 1: art style TVs. Christian, Welcome to the show. Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: how's it going. Thanks for having me, Yeah, thanks for
Speaker 1: coming on. Let's uh so, first off, what is an
Speaker 1: art style TV. What does that mean exactly?
Speaker 10: So I think like maybe three or four years ago
Speaker 10: we saw the first one from Samsung, which is the
Speaker 10: kind of much loved or much googled Samsung, the Frame TV,
Speaker 10: and the goal of the TV was essentially to kind
Speaker 10: of replace the big black box that's always in your
Speaker 10: living room with something that can not only be a
Speaker 10: TV but also kind of like a painting.
Speaker 1: Right, And this is something when I first saw it,
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, I want this because it's like
Speaker 1: this TV just hangs on your wall, but when you're
Speaker 1: not using it, it looks like a framed piece of art. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty much. Yeah, I felt the same way.
Speaker 10: And they basically use a few different technologies to kind
Speaker 10: of look less like a glossy black box like I mentioned,
Speaker 10: and kind of more like a painting. For example, they
Speaker 10: have typically a matte glass instead of a glossy glass
Speaker 10: that can that's kind of anti reflective so that they,
Speaker 10: you know, paintings aren't reflective, so that they look much
Speaker 10: more like paintings when they're showing a picture of a
Speaker 10: painting behind there.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Samsung tried to like fake everyone out
Speaker 1: the first time they unveil this where they had had
Speaker 1: us in a room or something and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: and then it changes to like a TV. So now
Speaker 1: we've got some competition. High Sense also has one called
Speaker 1: the Canvas TV. You tested that, yep, yep. I tested
Speaker 1: that last month. It's their first model, the heighcensed Canvas TV.
Speaker 1: I think the model name is S seven or something.
Speaker 1: So hopefully we'll see other models from them. And that
Speaker 1: one's pretty interesting because it's taking on Samsung at a
Speaker 1: much lower price point. You know, the fifty five inch
Speaker 1: frame TV is fifteen hundred dollars, but the heists model
Speaker 1: is a thousand bucks, so you know, five hundred bucks
Speaker 1: cheaper is a big deal. Yeah, and I have a
Speaker 1: high Sense, so I'm actually I can say the quality
Speaker 1: is great. I like it a lot, and so I
Speaker 1: think that this is probably a nice option. So what
Speaker 1: who do you think these are for? Like how do
Speaker 1: they work day to day? Like when you turn off
Speaker 1: your TV? Does it it just shows the artwork? And
Speaker 1: can you choose what you want on there?
Speaker 10: So it's complicated you can choose what you want. Typically
Speaker 10: they have a kind of art mode, so instead of
Speaker 10: hitting the power button on the remote, you'd hit the
Speaker 10: art Mode button to put it into art Mode, and
Speaker 10: then you know, with the Hyacinths and the Samsung as well,
Speaker 10: they typically turn off after a while. Especially the newer
Speaker 10: models have like motion detection or light detection, so if
Speaker 10: I think it's night and no one's around, everyone's asleep,
Speaker 10: they'll just kind of turn off. But you have to
Speaker 10: unless you're willing to tinker a lot. You have to
Speaker 10: use the built in software to really.
Speaker 1: Get the most out of the art Mode.
Speaker 10: I still have the TV set up I reviewed it
Speaker 10: a month ago, but I use an Apple TV and
Speaker 10: as a result, it's never really an art Mode. It's
Speaker 10: just kind of it looks like an empty frame.
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting, yeah, because I'm sure there's like things
Speaker 1: competing with these, like you know, your screensavers on your
Speaker 1: other things as well, like yeah, streaming box connected. So
Speaker 1: is there So I was mentioning earlier on the show,
Speaker 1: there's always like a pro and con to something. So
Speaker 1: these TVs are expensive, are they as high quality like
Speaker 1: typically like if you're watching the regular content as you know,
Speaker 1: a nice ole letter or something like that, or is
Speaker 1: there a downside to the screen tech that they're using
Speaker 1: to make these look like art.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so the downside is not as much about the screen, well,
Speaker 10: it is about the screen tech, but the screen tech
Speaker 10: as a result of the form factor. So these are
Speaker 10: built to be super thin. They're built to be mounted
Speaker 10: on a wall and look like a picture when they're
Speaker 10: not in use. But the result of the thinness is
Speaker 10: less cooling and less space for a new tech. So
Speaker 10: the answer is no, that the image quality is not
Speaker 10: anywhere near you know, you mentioned you have a high
Speaker 10: sense before I reviewed this one. I reviewed the latest
Speaker 10: license you eight, which is a stunning looking TV.
Speaker 1: But that's the one I've got. Yeah, it's a great TV.
Speaker 10: But the highcensed Canvas TV, while great, is Yeah, the
Speaker 10: image quality just doesn't compare. And that's mostly mostly because
Speaker 10: of the backlighting technology that just can't produce the same
Speaker 10: deep black levels that dominild black lighting that you know,
Speaker 10: higher end models can.
Speaker 1: So, now when you said that you have this thing
Speaker 1: set up but it's sort of just a black screen,
Speaker 1: why is that?
Speaker 10: Basically because typically well typically I always use the Apple TV.
Speaker 10: You know, our household is Apple based, so I can't
Speaker 10: There's no Art TV button on the Apple TV, and
Speaker 10: I don't see Apple adding one anytime soon. So when
Speaker 10: I'm not using the TV, I use HDMI controls, so
Speaker 10: I can use my Apple TV remode all the time.
Speaker 10: So I hit off and it just goes straight to off.
Speaker 10: You know, that's one of the biggest issues I had
Speaker 10: with it, is that I wish you could. You can
Speaker 10: set up Hdmi to control the TV through the volume
Speaker 10: and the power button and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 10: but you can't set up the TV to say, hey,
Speaker 10: I just got an off signal, I'm going to go
Speaker 10: in art mode instead of OFF because I prefer to
Speaker 10: have art mode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm sure that's something they could do
Speaker 1: with a software update, and you know, because it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like it would be that tricky, it's interesting. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and there are some hacks around it too, So like,
Speaker 1: for example, I could change the Apple TV screen savers
Speaker 1: to be paintings instead of to kind of bird's eye
Speaker 1: view screensavers that Apple TV has become famous for, and
Speaker 1: that would kind of get around it, but you still
Speaker 1: won't get the automatic brightness technology like the Canvas TV
Speaker 1: can change brightness depending on the.
Speaker 10: Environment, so it looks a little more natural, and.
Speaker 1: You won't get the automatic.
Speaker 10: It can kind of turn on and off if it
Speaker 10: detects motion, so if there's no one in the room,
Speaker 10: it'll be off without the TV being fully off, and
Speaker 10: then switch back on if someone comes to the room.
Speaker 1: That kind of thing.
Speaker 10: So you can kind of get around it, but kind
Speaker 10: of not.
Speaker 1: So what you're saying is if you want to get
Speaker 1: the most out of these TVs, you sort of have
Speaker 1: to use their built in streaming service. Does this one?
Speaker 1: Does High Sense have like a Google TV or anything
Speaker 1: built in? Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 10: It's Google TV built into the Highcense TCL has a
Speaker 10: model as well, and that's Google TV, and there's the
Speaker 10: Samsung the frame. You don't necessarily have to use the
Speaker 10: built in software, but you do have to be willing.
Speaker 10: If you're using an external box, you do have to
Speaker 10: be willing to use two remotes, or at least I
Speaker 10: think you can technically set up the TV remote that
Speaker 10: comes with the Hyacins to control your Apple TV as well,
Speaker 10: so that that might be a good way around it
Speaker 10: for those who are willing to not use the Apple
Speaker 10: TV remote and still want art Mode.
Speaker 1: But as someone okay, but that's ironic because if you're
Speaker 1: buying one of these art TVs. You love aesthetics and
Speaker 1: now you're using like the worst possible real control to plastic.
Speaker 1: But I do use the remote for the high sense.
Speaker 1: Like I I was so against it for so long.
Speaker 1: I had like a third I had my Apple TV
Speaker 1: actually connected to the TV. But then I was like,
Speaker 1: why do I need this extra box, Like as much
Speaker 1: as I love Apple TV, like Google TV does everything
Speaker 1: I need and it's one less remote, and so I
Speaker 1: just you know, that's what we use. But uh, okay,
Speaker 1: So the TCL one looks like it's called the Next
Speaker 1: Frame nxt Frame TV, so they're doing this as well,
Speaker 1: and yeah, sorry what was that? Yeah, no, go ahead,
Speaker 1: talk about this one.
Speaker 4: That one is.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that was really promising because the the big disadvantage
Speaker 10: to these over the past few years has been kind
Speaker 10: of the backlighting technology. We've seeing a lot of different
Speaker 10: backlight technologies make for a more natural image because they
Speaker 10: can turn off sections of the display to produce true
Speaker 10: black levels. The Next Frame can't do that, but it
Speaker 10: does have what's called direct lit backlighting instead of the
Speaker 10: canvas TV and the frame's edge lit. So with an
Speaker 10: edge lit TV, they basically shine lights in through the
Speaker 10: edges will The next frame has a big backlight behind
Speaker 10: the display so that the lighting is much more uniform.
Speaker 10: They can't still can't get really good control over the
Speaker 10: black levels. It doesn't have local dimming or anything like that,
Speaker 10: but it is a much more uniform lighting if you
Speaker 10: care about that.
Speaker 1: And the main thing, like if someone's listening and they're
Speaker 1: sitting there going wait, I'm so confused, Like I've had
Speaker 1: a screensaver on my TV forever, like what's different? The
Speaker 1: main thing is the actual when you walk into a
Speaker 1: room and see this TV. If it's an art style TV,
Speaker 1: it is a different look. It looks much more closer
Speaker 1: to like, let's say the printed painted page versus you know,
Speaker 1: a bright picture.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's right, it's the main Like physical differences are
Speaker 10: the matt anti reflective gloss that's used. And then I
Speaker 10: guess the frames that you could put around them that
Speaker 10: come with the highcense, and I think that the TCL
Speaker 10: as well for free, but you have to buy separately
Speaker 10: for the frame.
Speaker 1: Okay, and now if you want a kind of a
Speaker 1: cheaper way to do this, DIY, you know, Amazon's got
Speaker 1: what they call the ambient Experience on Fire TV. And
Speaker 1: that's on their fire TV Omni. It's also on the
Speaker 1: fire Stick four K Max and some Panasonic fire TVs.
Speaker 1: And then, like I said, I was at my mom's
Speaker 1: place helping her with her Roku, and they just added
Speaker 1: what's called the backdrops, and it's basically turns your TV
Speaker 1: into an art style TV. Now you're not going to
Speaker 1: get that same dimming and all the you know, the
Speaker 1: matt look, but it's the same thing. Like when I
Speaker 1: pressed her power button on the Roku. Once I set
Speaker 1: it up, it went into art mode and then you
Speaker 1: press again and it turns off the TV. So I
Speaker 1: thought that was pretty cool that they added that as well.
Speaker 1: And obviously a lot of people have real cool Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is pretty cool.
Speaker 10: If you really want to go DIY, you can just
Speaker 10: find pictures that you like and make those your screensaver
Speaker 10: on at any smart TV.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's hard to do.
Speaker 10: And then so when your TV goes into screensaver mode,
Speaker 10: you could do it on an Apple TV or anything
Speaker 10: like that. It'll be shown the art behind the glossy
Speaker 10: glass that won't look completely.
Speaker 1: Like a painting like some of these art TVs do.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's a good hack. All right, Christian Delooper.
Speaker 1: Where can folks find you? We're online.
Speaker 10: I write for all all sorts of places. I'm a
Speaker 10: expert for our hosting advice. I write reviews for BGR
Speaker 10: Tom's Guide, do a lot of smart home, a lot
Speaker 10: of home theater. You can find me on threads and
Speaker 10: then you'll see some of my work at Christian Delooper.
Speaker 1: And the end of the day, which one are you picking?
Speaker 1: The frame, the canvas, the TCL or just sticking with
Speaker 1: the Apple TV end of the day.
Speaker 10: The frame is probably the best looking so far, but
Speaker 10: I haven't reviewed the TCL just yet, and it's pretty
Speaker 10: promising in terms of the backlining tech, So we'll see.
Speaker 1: All right. I, like I said, I've always wanted one
Speaker 1: of these, but haven't haven't done it, and I feel
Speaker 1: like we really got to be into that art. Yeah exactly,
Speaker 1: all right, Thanks so much for joining me. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you
Speaker 1: Talking technology eighty eight Rich one O one eighty eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two, four to one zero one coming
Speaker 1: to you from New Jersey today. Hence the music all
Speaker 1: Jersey inspired. Bon Jovi clearly one of the breakout stars
Speaker 1: of New Jersey. A couple of feedbags before we get
Speaker 1: to uh Todd in Santa Monica to talk about this
Speaker 1: hackathon they've got going on there. Danny wrote in from Riverside, said, Hey,
Speaker 1: back in the eighties, the Federated Group was one of
Speaker 1: the fourth largest consumer electronics stores in the US. If
Speaker 1: you mentioned you were in radio, they'd give you a
Speaker 1: discount on Sendheiser headphones. Besides headphones, I bought my first
Speaker 1: Dolby surround stereo system there. Great for movie watching. Then
Speaker 1: you had Circuit Oh let's see radio personality. Oh Shadow Stevens.
Speaker 1: Huh wow, I remember that name was their spokesperson. Wow.
Speaker 1: That just brought back blasts from the past. Circuit City,
Speaker 1: where I bought my first big screen TV, eventually became
Speaker 1: their main competitor. Atari bought Federated in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1: After a few lawsuits, they folded in nineteen ninety All
Speaker 1: the best, Rich hmm, It's interesting. That's another place people.
Speaker 1: Oh that was another like Montgomery Ward, remember that store.
Speaker 1: That was another place you could buy electronics. So many
Speaker 1: let's see I believe on X says Fyi, Alan Eds
Speaker 1: are still going strong. There's one close to me. Oh,
Speaker 1: good to know always like that's who you wanted to
Speaker 1: install your stuff again, Alan Eds, Let's go to a
Speaker 1: line too, Todd in Santa Monica. Todd, what's going on
Speaker 1: in Santa Monica today?
Speaker 8: Hey, Rich, good to hear from you. We're hosting AILA
Speaker 8: is hosting the largest hack jenerative AI hackathon in the
Speaker 8: region with over five hundred people and it's a pretty
Speaker 8: electric over here right now.
Speaker 1: What's a generative AI hackathons? Use AI to help you hack?
Speaker 1: Or what?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Exactly is this really? You know, you could be using
Speaker 8: AI to write your code or actually developing some tind
Speaker 8: of a generative AI platform. So we have a number
Speaker 8: of different types of tracks, whether it's around responsible AI,
Speaker 8: or is around building of a viable startup, a fundable startup,
Speaker 8: or around cybersecurity. And then we have a ton of
Speaker 8: different Obviously we're in Los Angeles, so we've got a
Speaker 8: ton of different tracks focusing on entertainment and media.
Speaker 1: So I guess my question is, you know, everyone thinks
Speaker 1: that AI is the end of everything, especially if you're
Speaker 1: a coder, Like do you still have to learn how
Speaker 1: to code? How does AI play along with what you
Speaker 1: do as a coder.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean there's definitely a number of different types
Speaker 8: of products that are helping people code faster and better.
Speaker 8: Like think of it as always having like an assistant
Speaker 8: or co pilot next to you. And so for me,
Speaker 8: as a non clinical person that went to film school,
Speaker 8: I still believe that no matter what, understanding the science
Speaker 8: behind AI and the science behind computer you know around
Speaker 8: coding is very important. So don't give up on going
Speaker 8: to get your computer science degree anytime soon.
Speaker 1: And what are some of the themes that you're seeing there?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you mentioned some about anything that's
Speaker 1: like stand out to you that people are doing.
Speaker 8: I haven't had a chance to walk around. We seriously
Speaker 8: started like a two hours ago when people started hacking.
Speaker 8: They're going to be working on their projects overnight and
Speaker 8: so tomorrow I'll be able to have more to report abile.
Speaker 8: But there's people, you know, thinking of a lot of
Speaker 8: different applications that some of them are centered around how
Speaker 8: do they use content, how do they digest content and
Speaker 8: edit it in bite sized pieces to like highlight reels,
Speaker 8: or helping YouTubers be able to again cut their content
Speaker 8: faster as a rough cut, so that then they can
Speaker 8: go in and talluld.
Speaker 1: And make it beautiful so wild. I mean, it's also
Speaker 1: like even something like this radio show which is three hours,
Speaker 1: you know, picking out little spots that you can make
Speaker 1: into like you know, clips for shareable social media. You know,
Speaker 1: there's so many companies that are working on that. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's perfect just yet. I think that you
Speaker 1: still need that human touch with some of this stuff.
Speaker 1: But it's definitely happening. And you know, AI is just
Speaker 1: it's such a force in everything these days. So where's
Speaker 1: the event happening and can anyone get involved in this
Speaker 1: still or what?
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, the missions are definitely closed up. We had
Speaker 8: over one thousand registrations. We've got over five hundred actually
Speaker 8: here actively participating and at that one two one seven
Speaker 8: second street here in Santa Monica just stepped away from
Speaker 8: the big DC group Basic tem Z and so we're
Speaker 8: kicking off LA Tech Week with this huge hakathon to
Speaker 8: really help a flag in Los Angeles to show people
Speaker 8: that you know, there's a you know, we're more than
Speaker 8: we're an innovation capital too, not just San Francisco or places.
Speaker 2: Like New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Absolutely awesome is their website people can go to to
Speaker 1: learn more.
Speaker 8: Sure, you can just go to join AI dot la.
Speaker 8: Find out more about our ailate nonprofit that's hosted this
Speaker 8: whole hackathon.
Speaker 1: Join a JOINAI dot l A.
Speaker 8: Correct join AI dot l A and you'll find more
Speaker 8: about the organization and the pacabon.
Speaker 1: All Right, Todd and Santa Monica, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: checking in with us. Appreciate that.
Speaker 8: Thanks so much.
Speaker 1: All Right, good luck with that. Very exciting. I've seen
Speaker 1: a couple of hackathons in my years, and it's cool.
Speaker 1: People come up with like, you know, they spend a
Speaker 1: certain amount of time, let's say twenty four hours just
Speaker 1: working and they got to get a project from idea
Speaker 1: to execution and fruition might not be fully complete, but
Speaker 1: you know, they try to get the best they can
Speaker 1: for what, you know, the time that they have. And
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool because people, you know, they come together,
Speaker 1: they may not know each other sometimes and they solve
Speaker 1: these problems that they you know uh have been considering
Speaker 1: with technology. It's pretty neat eighty eight rich one on
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two one zero
Speaker 1: one again the website rich on tech dot tv. I'll
Speaker 1: put that website that Todd mentioned in the show notes.
Speaker 1: Just hit the light bulb there to get those TikTok
Speaker 1: I know, broken record, TikTok, TikTok, TikTok. I saw somewhere
Speaker 1: that TikTok has a countdown clock that you can see
Speaker 1: when when they're expected to be Let's see TikTok countdown
Speaker 1: to ban when they're expected. Oh here it is us
Speaker 1: TikTok ban countdown. Oh gosh, there's like some sort of
Speaker 1: clock I saw on social media that you can countdown
Speaker 1: time or oh here it is TikTok countdown. Now that's
Speaker 1: not the right one. Well this will work. But TikTok
Speaker 1: countdown dot com ninety nine days, nine hours, five minutes,
Speaker 1: four seconds. With the ninety day extension, you've got one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty nine days. So if you're making a
Speaker 1: living on TikTok, this is the this is the countdown
Speaker 1: to watch now. I I don't know I will get banned.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure and I've already given my opinion too
Speaker 1: many times in the show about electric cars. I'll save
Speaker 1: mine on TikTok. Let me just tell you what the
Speaker 1: what's happening against TikTok. Fourteen states have filed a lawsuit
Speaker 1: against TikTok for violating consumer protection laws. They say this
Speaker 1: platform is addictive, particularly for young users. I don't think
Speaker 1: anyone could argue with that. They say that TikTok uses
Speaker 1: manipulative features to maximize user engagement, including beauty filters. They
Speaker 1: think that harm self esteem, especially for teens, auto play
Speaker 1: and endless scrolling. There's no way to turn off the AutoPlay,
Speaker 1: notifications that make you want to come back, likes and
Speaker 1: comments all over the place, and time sensitive features that
Speaker 1: exploit a fear of missing out. What do they want
Speaker 1: them to do? Change their ways? Sixty three percent of
Speaker 1: Americans thirteen to seventeen use TikTok, seventeen percent reporting they
Speaker 1: use it almost constantly. This is rich on Tech. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out
Speaker 1: with you talking technology at triple eight rich one on one.
Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. The website Rich on tech dot TV. As always,
Speaker 1: Thanks for your emails, your comments, your questions. I do
Speaker 1: read them all.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 1: Special guests with me, my brother Justin, Justin, Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show. Thanks for having me on. You're a repeat
Speaker 1: guest at this point. And I was talking about Microcenter
Speaker 1: earlier in the show. Yep, I used to work there.
Speaker 1: I just realized that I was sitting the wrong way
Speaker 1: to talk to you because I set up the studio.
Speaker 1: We're on a remote show this this week, and I
Speaker 1: set up the studio and I just realized where I
Speaker 1: set up. Justin is completely like he's just looking at
Speaker 1: my back. And I didn't even think about that when
Speaker 1: I was setting this up. But yeah, you worked at Microcenter.
Speaker 1: I did. Yeah, I was in the BYO PC section.
Speaker 1: And so did you know a lot about you've built
Speaker 1: your own PC?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple. So what components you need like a motherboard, yeah, motherboard,
Speaker 1: a processor, BRAM, a storage, some kind of stories like
Speaker 1: an SSD. You need a power supply, a case, some fans,
Speaker 1: and somewhere to plug it in. Sounds pretty easy. And
Speaker 1: a monitor. Yeah, you just fit the shapes into the
Speaker 1: slots that they go into. That's pretty much it. Now,
Speaker 1: what would people come in there, because you know, people
Speaker 1: that are building their own computer. Some of them may
Speaker 1: not have known everything, but a lot of them like
Speaker 1: kind of know their stuff. So were they trying to
Speaker 1: like quiz you like, what would be the interaction? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the smart customers were the worst because they would just
Speaker 1: ask me. They would just test my knowledge as much
Speaker 1: as they could. That's like this show sometime. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: they would ask all kinds of questions. You know, you'd
Speaker 1: get everybody. You get somebody who just wants you to
Speaker 1: build the computer for them, and I'm like, all right, great,
Speaker 1: here's all the most expensive parts, and you commission I did? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody works in our commission. So the customer brings up
Speaker 1: the part that they like, and then you slap your
Speaker 1: sticker with the barcode on it. And then when they
Speaker 1: check out, they bring up the part in the barcode
Speaker 1: and you get you know, the commissions calculated from that.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, interesting? Yeah, And how long did you did
Speaker 1: you do that? I think I was there for just
Speaker 1: about a year. Oh that's it. Yeah, Oh wow, did
Speaker 1: I think of so much longer? Okay, So I was
Speaker 1: talking about the idea of when I was growing up,
Speaker 1: and for you a lesser extent, you're a little younger,
Speaker 1: but you know this idea of all these places you
Speaker 1: could go to the store, like these electronics stores like
Speaker 1: for me, you know comp USA and you know before
Speaker 1: Best Buy right right, like like this story yesterday when
Speaker 1: I was walking through the aisles. I mean, they sell
Speaker 1: stuff that you just can't get in a Best Buy,
Speaker 1: like little tiny pliers and like metal fittings and stuff
Speaker 1: like that that's like really nerdy. Yeah, Microcenter is probably
Speaker 1: one of the last places you can get anything like that.
Speaker 1: I know, like radio shack back in the day used
Speaker 1: to have all kinds of little knickknacks and you know,
Speaker 1: little wiry parts that you'd used to connect a circuit
Speaker 1: board to something else. And nowadays it's just micro Center.
Speaker 1: I mean they're the only game in town other than
Speaker 1: small little boutique shops that might sell electronics parts. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's great. You got to respect them for
Speaker 1: it because they they're a really good business. I mean,
Speaker 1: they have a lot of good parts they have. Let's
Speaker 1: not turn this into an ad for Microcenter. I mean
Speaker 1: it's great that we have them, but okay, let's I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna get to some emails here. Gary. We
Speaker 1: had a question about speakers and longevity. Gary wrote in
Speaker 1: to say one of the main things that wears out
Speaker 1: on older acoustic suspension speakers is the foam surround for
Speaker 1: the wolfer. Over time, they just fall apart and turn
Speaker 1: to dust. The good news is that the surrounds can
Speaker 1: be replaced, either by the owner or by a company
Speaker 1: that does this. There are lots of YouTube videos showing
Speaker 1: how to do this. I know that older KLH Acoustics
Speaker 1: and other brands use these foam surrounds. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if the callers KLH uses these or not. If wolfers
Speaker 1: are using rubber surrounds, they will last much longer. Let's see.
Speaker 1: Let's take Oh, you know Steve, Steve still on line one.
Speaker 1: We should get to Steve. It's been a while. You
Speaker 1: want to say a call with me? Sure? All right?
Speaker 1: Steve online one hammett Oh Kim is on with him. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: Well maybe she was telling him that we were gonna
Speaker 1: come take him. But okay, well until that, tell me, Bobo,
Speaker 1: tell just bring him on when he's writing. I'll read
Speaker 1: another email here. Uh, Sandra says, I have a smart
Speaker 1: TV that isn't set up to deliver Netflix. If I
Speaker 1: purchase a firestick, is that all I need? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Justin you want to take that one? Sure? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know nowadays a lot of smart TVs, a lot of TV.
Speaker 1: You almost can't get a TV without the smart stuff
Speaker 1: built into it. But if you do get a TV
Speaker 1: without it, yeah, I would say a Kindle fire t sorry,
Speaker 1: an Amazon fire Stick, fire TV, one of those devices,
Speaker 1: or even Roku personally. What's your favorite? You like the Roku? Huh?
Speaker 1: I do like Roku? Yeah? You know, it's really just
Speaker 1: they all do the same thing. Ultimately, you know, pick
Speaker 1: whatever suits your budget and has the features that you like.
Speaker 1: I just I used a fire TV for a while
Speaker 1: and then switched over to Roku because it was a
Speaker 1: bit more of a powerful device and it has its
Speaker 1: own proprietary interface. I just found that I liked it
Speaker 1: a bit better. So I do I think Roku? I
Speaker 1: mean because Roku is first and foremost a streaming device
Speaker 1: company and a platform. I think that they put a
Speaker 1: lot of effort into their platform, whereas with Amazon, and
Speaker 1: they are a big platform and Amazon's one of like
Speaker 1: the top three. It's you know, I think they do
Speaker 1: a lot of other things, right, fire is just one
Speaker 1: of those things, and I do like the fire I
Speaker 1: think the fire Cube is probably the most powerful device
Speaker 1: that they have, but it's also the most expensive. But
Speaker 1: I'm surprised, Sandra that you're able to get a smart
Speaker 1: TV without Netflix, because the idea of a smart TV
Speaker 1: is that it has Netflix built in. But Firestick, you know,
Speaker 1: I would say a lot of people go with the
Speaker 1: fire Stick just because it's very inexpensive, and that's what
Speaker 1: people like about it. All Right, do we have the caller? Nope,
Speaker 1: we don't have the caller. Okay, let's go to Jamie. Sorry,
Speaker 1: himI in a Los Angeles line. Too high, you're on
Speaker 1: with Rich.
Speaker 11: Hi, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, what can we help you with?
Speaker 11: Yeah, So, my wife and I are in the market
Speaker 11: for an outdoor camera system and we're looking more for
Speaker 11: a wired thing within the five six hundred dollars budget area.
Speaker 11: I'm having a hard time filtering through all the different
Speaker 11: reviews of what's good and what isn't, sort of just
Speaker 11: looking for some general advice. One of the brands I've
Speaker 11: noticed is like real Link versus whys And you know,
Speaker 11: I just can't tell the difference between.
Speaker 4: Any of them.
Speaker 1: What are you looking for? Like what's important to you?
Speaker 1: You want wired?
Speaker 11: Yes, a wired system would I don't want to have
Speaker 11: to worry about battery life or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Well, typically the wise cameras, I mean you can plug
Speaker 1: them in and a lot of the cameras you can
Speaker 1: get with Solar. I mean, how many cameras are we talking?
Speaker 1: Are you covering? Like do you need like a Lorax system,
Speaker 1: Like it's like, you know, fifteen cameras on every angle
Speaker 1: of your house, or like a Swan system or just
Speaker 1: a standard like you need a couple of cameras here
Speaker 1: and there, but you just want them pluging.
Speaker 11: A couple of cameras like maybe three to four.
Speaker 1: Okay, And do you do you have any problem with
Speaker 1: like the monthly fees because a lot of them want
Speaker 1: monthly fees.
Speaker 11: Now, ideally if we can find one without a subscription,
Speaker 11: but you know, we'd have to see what the benefits
Speaker 11: of the subscription would be.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I think when the first thing that comes
Speaker 1: to mind with no subscription is U fee eu f y,
Speaker 1: I'm you know, and you with that one, I'm just
Speaker 1: not sure about the plug in aspect of it. You
Speaker 1: would have to you know, you'd have to get probably
Speaker 1: solar with those I like. I mean, I personally like
Speaker 1: Whys because they're cheap and they work. I also have
Speaker 1: some Why's in my house, and yeah, they're very cheap.
Speaker 1: They work, you plug them in, you point them, they
Speaker 1: give you notifications. They're a little bit finicky sometimes I
Speaker 1: will say, if you want to go, you know, that's
Speaker 1: that's more of the plug and play. Very easy, get
Speaker 1: up and go. And they have an SD card slot,
Speaker 1: which I like, right, yeah, so you can roll back
Speaker 1: the you know, roll back the tapes and see continuous footage.
Speaker 1: They support you know, I think up to like a
Speaker 1: five twelve gig card and you can go back, you know,
Speaker 1: several days. I have two six. I think it's a
Speaker 1: thirty two gig card on the on the model I have,
Speaker 1: I believe it's max of thirty two. Oh okay, but
Speaker 1: I you know, you'd have to look at that, look
Speaker 1: at the specs that. Yeah, I do know with mine,
Speaker 1: I can go back up to about six days of footage.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and what I like about the Whys is
Speaker 1: that you have that option. Now the only thing the
Speaker 1: downside of not paying for a subscription if you're on
Speaker 1: the Wisecam or any of these cameras and they're using
Speaker 1: local storage is if someone steals the camera, they've stolen
Speaker 1: your footage. So that's the downside of not having it
Speaker 1: go to the cloud immediately. Now with the Wisecam, I
Speaker 1: do believe you will get just the the frame, like
Speaker 1: a snapshot, will go up to the cloud for free.
Speaker 1: But I think that's it, Like, that's the only thing
Speaker 1: you would have. Like let's say you know someone did
Speaker 1: something and you wanted the footage of it and they
Speaker 1: took the camera on your app, you might just have
Speaker 1: the frame of them, like their face maybe, but that's it.
Speaker 1: So that's, you know, that's something to think of and
Speaker 1: keep in mind. So I have a combination of Ring,
Speaker 1: Google cameras, the Nest cameras, and the Wise cameras. Again,
Speaker 1: the whys are just the most simple kind of like,
Speaker 1: and I've had all these cameras, by the way, for
Speaker 1: like years and years, so they do work for a
Speaker 1: substantial amount of time. I would say Ring probably has
Speaker 1: the most kind of like subscription based stuff. So if
Speaker 1: you're trying to avoid subscriptions pretty much. Ring cameras are
Speaker 1: almost exclusively streaming unless you have any sort of subscription
Speaker 1: with Ring where it records to the cloud. But UFI,
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people. I have not personally
Speaker 1: used the UFI cameras, but I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people like those for the fact that there is not
Speaker 1: a major subscription pushed on people with those cameras. One
Speaker 1: of my friends uses UFI and they like them a lot.
Speaker 1: There you go, Yeah, they have them set up everywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no subscription. All right, himI, thanks so much for the
Speaker 1: call today. Appreciate it. Okay, how much long do we
Speaker 1: have before the break? We got We got a minute
Speaker 1: to do it. Okay, we got a minute. All right.
Speaker 1: Let me just tell you real quick. I've been testing
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch Series ten, and I will tell you
Speaker 1: if you have a Series six or below, it's probably
Speaker 1: a great update. Series ten is thinner, it's lighter, easier
Speaker 1: to wear during sleep. It's got the sleep apnea, although
Speaker 1: you can also get that on the Series nine and
Speaker 1: the Ultra two, I believe, not just the regular. It's
Speaker 1: got this great polish black color which looks more expensive
Speaker 1: than it is. It's the first time they've had this
Speaker 1: polished black on the base model. It's got faster charging,
Speaker 1: it's got a larger screen. You can listen to music
Speaker 1: and audio through the speaker, which is the first time
Speaker 1: you could do that on an Apple Watch before. You
Speaker 1: can only take calls and talk to Siri. The Vitals
Speaker 1: app is really cool. It's like going to the doctor
Speaker 1: every night overnight. When you wake up, it tells you
Speaker 1: if any of your indicators are out of range, like
Speaker 1: your heart or your breathing. It's really really cool, and
Speaker 1: it's got on risk translation, so if you are in
Speaker 1: a different country and you need to translate feature, you
Speaker 1: can use that without a connection. Three hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: nine dollars Go Cellular if you are a runner and
Speaker 1: you want to run with this thing without your phone nearby.
Speaker 1: Apple Watch Series ten available now. You can read my
Speaker 1: full review on the website rich on tech dot tv.
Speaker 1: More of the show coming up and more of me
Speaker 1: and my brother justin right after this. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you
Speaker 1: talking technology the website for the show rich on Tech
Speaker 1: dot TV. Be sure to sign up for the very
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Speaker 1: of the website for the show notes, and if you
Speaker 1: want to get in touch with me, just hit contact
Speaker 1: and that will send your email right to me. Alongside
Speaker 1: me today is my brother Justin. I'm in New Jersey,
Speaker 1: so he is hanging out Justin. Thanks for being here.
Speaker 1: How you doing great to be here? Do you have
Speaker 1: a favorite Jersey artist? We've been playing Jersey artists all
Speaker 1: all day so far. Do you have one? I guess
Speaker 1: Bruce Springsteen? Oh wow, Bruce? All right, there you go
Speaker 1: as a classic? Have we Bobo? I don't think we
Speaker 1: played any Bruce, did we nice? Okay? Well we have time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's weird because I did a search of like Jersey artists.
Speaker 1: I don't think he came up, which is like he's
Speaker 1: getting robbed and the Google results that's that's like bon
Speaker 1: Jovi came up, like no matter what, Whitney Houston, Dion
Speaker 1: Warwick and a whole bunch of other wrong people on AI.
Speaker 1: But I don't think the what are they called Bruce
Speaker 1: Springsteen the Boss? Sure he comes up first when I
Speaker 1: searched for Okay, well maybe I missed that. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to line one. Jerry in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. Jerry,
Speaker 1: We've never been closer. What's up? What can I help
Speaker 1: you with?
Speaker 9: Welcome back to the land of Green Pizza.
Speaker 1: Rich, Thank you. I did have a slice and it
Speaker 1: was actually really horrible, but I won't talk about that,
Speaker 1: So go ahead. What can I help you with? I
Speaker 1: like Jerry, already, take a pizza back the kid.
Speaker 9: She deserves it.
Speaker 1: She deserves a lot.
Speaker 9: I have a local radio stations here, you know, on
Speaker 9: my computer, and it's run actually it's run by the
Speaker 9: high school, my local high school. They played great music
Speaker 9: from the seventies and eighties, nineties. Then all of a
Speaker 9: sudden they change the URL. I can't get on my
Speaker 9: Android bone anymore with the same uver L. How do
Speaker 9: I do about sniffing at this URL so I can
Speaker 9: play it with my app on my bone.
Speaker 1: There's a there's a Chrome extension that will help you
Speaker 1: sniff it out. It's called Bulk Media Downloader, and you
Speaker 1: install it on Chrome and you go to that website.
Speaker 1: You tap the extension and it will give you every
Speaker 1: single thing that is going on on that website and
Speaker 1: you can filter by applications image, video, audio, archive, document, tab,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. And so I just went to like
Speaker 1: a random streaming radio station and there's a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of you know, streams that you can see on there.
Speaker 1: So that is what it's called bulk media downloader. I
Speaker 1: don't know, you know, I've used this to sniff thinks out.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you would do to, you know,
Speaker 1: with that URL once you have it, but I imagine
Speaker 1: you might be able to pop it into some sort
Speaker 1: of app or something that you want to use on
Speaker 1: your phone, you know, since it's Android, I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: lots of them that would allow you to play that.
Speaker 1: But that's what it's called bulk media downloader. And I
Speaker 1: don't let's see, do they have a website. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they have a website or just a Chrome extension.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, trying to find a fit. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: looks like it's just a Chrome extension. So I would
Speaker 1: just search for that and you should find it. It looks
Speaker 1: like the uh, I don't know what would you call it,
Speaker 1: like a navigation mark or something the you know, anyway,
Speaker 1: but that's what I look for. Jerry. See if that
Speaker 1: works for you.
Speaker 9: Thank you much, have some more pizza.
Speaker 1: All right, goodbye, report back, report back on the website.
Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot TV. All right, justin, let's talk
Speaker 1: about this notebook LM feature. So we're here in person
Speaker 1: talking on the radio show. But a lot of folks
Speaker 1: are talking about this AI powered audio overview, and so
Speaker 1: it's from Google. It's from a feature called Notebook LM.
Speaker 1: If you're not familiar with Notebook LM, it's basically your
Speaker 1: own personal chat GPT. You can upload as much as
Speaker 1: many documents as you want to this Notebook LM, and
Speaker 1: then you can search through them using Google AI. But
Speaker 1: this other thing they can do is they can now
Speaker 1: generate an AI hosted basically podcast that has a discussion
Speaker 1: of your material. So let's play a couple thirty seconds
Speaker 1: of this. I uploaded my review of the I think
Speaker 1: it was the Samsung Watch Ultra. I just took the
Speaker 1: text my review, uploaded it, and then in like a
Speaker 1: minute or two, it came up with this audio. Let's
Speaker 1: hear it.
Speaker 7: All right, everybody buckle up, because today we are diving
Speaker 7: deep into the world of Samsung health tech.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 7: With their shiny new Galaxy Watch lineup and the game changer,
Speaker 7: the Samsung.
Speaker 1: Smart Ring definitely game changer.
Speaker 7: We are uncovering all the juicy details from tech guru
Speaker 7: Rich Demiro's latest review.
Speaker 1: Love his reviews, he always digs out.
Speaker 7: No, absolutely, and we're going.
Speaker 1: To dissect it all for you today. Awesome. Can't wait.
Speaker 7: So Samsung is really stepping up their game this year.
Speaker 1: Into two hosts are completely AI generated, justin what's your reaction?
Speaker 1: So the first thing I noticed is it sounded just
Speaker 1: like one of those podcasts where you have the one
Speaker 1: host who has all the substance in the content and
Speaker 1: the other one just goes like uh huh yeah, oh definitely, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: I hear you see what you did there. But it's
Speaker 1: really okay. So here's what I think is interesting this.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's perfect. Obviously you kind of got
Speaker 1: onto that where the guy was just like, uh huh,
Speaker 1: he's great. Sure, he was like a supportive character. I
Speaker 1: think obviously it depends on you know, every single one
Speaker 1: of these is going to be different. But it's kind
Speaker 1: of scary, like they sound pretty good. It's taking the
Speaker 1: information and it runs with it. Obviously, it has that
Speaker 1: same AI issue of like hallucinating and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But this is like day one. Yeah, day one. I
Speaker 1: mean if you didn't tell me they were AI, I
Speaker 1: might not have even thought that. Yeah, and I can
Speaker 1: only imagine where this tech is going to be in
Speaker 1: a year from now. Yeah. So there you have it. Notebook,
Speaker 1: LM Audio Overview. What I think is really cool about
Speaker 1: this is for learning. If you are trying to study
Speaker 1: for an exam, you want to learn like a complex topic,
Speaker 1: you put your information into this notebook and then you
Speaker 1: make a podcast and you listen to it on the go.
Speaker 1: Helps you understand it in a new and different way.
Speaker 1: All right. Coming up, we're going to talk to Scott
Speaker 1: Baldwin about his new app called front Pack for Athletes.
Speaker 1: There it is, there's the boss. All right. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology. The website for the show rich on Tech
Speaker 1: dot TV. So much good information giving out on this show,
Speaker 1: not necessarily through me, but just in general, like the
Speaker 1: community that we have here of people that know stuff
Speaker 1: and add to the show and ask questions that I
Speaker 1: think we can all take away from My brother's joining
Speaker 1: me as well, Justin is here hanging out because I
Speaker 1: am in New Jersey. My hometown. Is that my hometown
Speaker 1: or my home state? I say home state, home state?
Speaker 1: And then joining me now is Scott Baldwin. Scott and
Speaker 1: I have worked together for years on the PR side.
Speaker 1: Now he has branched off and he's actually starting up
Speaker 1: his own app called front Pack. This is a social
Speaker 1: network for endurance athletes. Scott, welcome to the show.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Hey, Rich, good to be here, and shout out
Speaker 12: to New Jersey. I am also a fellow New Jersey
Speaker 12: in so yeah, how do I.
Speaker 1: Not know that? Look at yeah? See weeah three New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Cool here. So, so tell me about Okay, so you
Speaker 1: went from PR to creating an app? I mean number one?
Speaker 1: What's that been? Like? I mean, is it? Everyone's always
Speaker 1: asking me like, Rich, how do I make an app?
Speaker 1: How do I make an app? I mean it's tough,
Speaker 1: isn't it? Yeah? Absolutely?
Speaker 9: So?
Speaker 12: Is it something that I ever thought I would do?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: But here I am so.
Speaker 12: Like you said, I was in R Communications for twenty
Speaker 12: years and I had this idea and there was a
Speaker 12: market need that I saw way back in January. And
Speaker 12: the market need was there there was no social network
Speaker 12: for endurance athletes. So it's something I actually created as
Speaker 12: a first a newsletter and then quickly I brought you know,
Speaker 12: all those worlds together. It quickly grew to a few
Speaker 12: thousand subscribers and a lot of people were messaging me,
Speaker 12: a lot of run club, cycling clubs. They were saying, hey, like,
Speaker 12: I think you're onto something and this is really cool.
Speaker 12: Do you have any desire to take it a step further? So, again,
Speaker 12: like I said, there was a market need, there's nothing
Speaker 12: out there. So I actually started the the app creation
Speaker 12: process about five months ago.
Speaker 1: It took a long time.
Speaker 12: I evaluated the things that people wanted, and I also
Speaker 12: interviewed a lot of my own newsletter subscribers. And then, yeah,
Speaker 12: I would say it is very difficult. You have to
Speaker 12: find the right developers and it takes a lot of interviewing,
Speaker 12: which I think, you know, coming from my background before,
Speaker 12: I'm pretty good at interviewing people and making sure we
Speaker 12: have the right fit.
Speaker 1: So you didn't You didn't code the app yourself, Like
Speaker 1: you weren't sitting there learning like Swift or whatever coding language.
Speaker 12: Yeah, exactly. I think if that was the road that
Speaker 12: I went down. I don't know if we would be
Speaker 12: having this conversation quite yet.
Speaker 1: So explain to me what front pack. The website is
Speaker 1: frontpacksports dot com. What is what is the app for?
Speaker 1: What does it help people do? Yeah?
Speaker 12: Absolutely, So it's a social network for endurance athletes by
Speaker 12: endurance athletes. So it's a it's a place for real
Speaker 12: people to connect, motivate. Storytell uh, I'm not sure if
Speaker 12: you've ever done a five k or a half marathon
Speaker 12: or anything, but.
Speaker 1: I think yes, I have.
Speaker 12: Yes, So you understand when you are at the starting line,
Speaker 12: you might actually be super nervous, and you you you're
Speaker 12: not sure if you're training. You know you did your
Speaker 12: training correctly, but then there's always that person that's standing
Speaker 12: next to you, and before the race or after the race,
Speaker 12: you get talking to them and you find out like, oh,
Speaker 12: this person might be in the same boat, or oh
Speaker 12: this person has the same career as I. But once
Speaker 12: that gun goes off, you like you never see that
Speaker 12: person ever again. So front pack, you know, it's the
Speaker 12: answer to just connecting with real people who are like
Speaker 12: minded and like you. It's a way to motivate and
Speaker 12: push yourself to be even better. And not only that,
Speaker 12: but you know, it's focused on the sports side of things.
Speaker 12: But I think quite often everybody uses LinkedIn, but LinkedIn
Speaker 12: doesn't really show you your hobbies or interests. And with
Speaker 12: so many people being laid off in the last year,
Speaker 12: front Pack not only when you sign up you create
Speaker 12: your profile, but you can also connect with people based
Speaker 12: on your profession, so you're connecting based on interest. But
Speaker 12: also you know, you might be in in tech sales
Speaker 12: for example.
Speaker 1: Interesting, so you can so basically you can. You know,
Speaker 1: it's almost like a social network in real life where
Speaker 1: you have the shared interest of doing whatever you're doing,
Speaker 1: whether it's running, cycling. And also you may be in
Speaker 1: the same business or maybe not. But it's kind of
Speaker 1: like extending that network through sports.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Absolutely, And I think the thing, you know, most of
Speaker 12: us we grow up playing sports, but unless you go
Speaker 12: on to play sports in college or beyond, you know,
Speaker 12: you have to give up something that was such a
Speaker 12: big part of your life because you need to go
Speaker 12: be a professional, and you need to go work, and
Speaker 12: you need to go you know, you know, you got
Speaker 12: to go make money or have a family. So I
Speaker 12: think the great thing about it is we all still
Speaker 12: have that passion within us and it just because you're
Speaker 12: a working professional doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to
Speaker 12: connect with people who have similar similar interests.
Speaker 1: And so is the app free? Do you charge for this?
Speaker 1: How does that work? And who do you have this
Speaker 1: is for?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Absolutely, so anyone can sign up for free. It's at
Speaker 12: frontpacksports dot com. And you know, right now we're just
Speaker 12: trying to grow the user base. We have a few
Speaker 12: one hundred members at the moment, everywhere from obviously the
Speaker 12: US to Canada, but we've also seen an engagement across Europe,
Speaker 12: New Zealand South Africa. So it's been like a really
Speaker 12: interesting mix of people just connecting with you know, other
Speaker 12: folks that they've never met before. But like I said,
Speaker 12: they all have a common goal and that's you know,
Speaker 12: to get better and improve their lives.
Speaker 1: And has this been fun for you to do this?
Speaker 1: It's very different than pr but clearly it's it's a
Speaker 1: new challenge, that's for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 12: Absolutely, So I grew up, like I said, I grew
Speaker 12: up playing sports, but endurance sports have always been like
Speaker 12: a huge thing for me and I think for a
Speaker 12: lot of people like myself, it's a microcosm of life,
Speaker 12: because you don't just get good at you know, running
Speaker 12: a marathon in a week. You know, that takes time,
Speaker 12: It takes years of work, It takes a lot of practice,
Speaker 12: and most often times you're going to run into an
Speaker 12: issue along the way and you have to kind of.
Speaker 1: Quickly figure that out.
Speaker 12: So you know, like and during sports, I think this
Speaker 12: business I'm also figuring out along the way. And you know,
Speaker 12: I I do have to kind of remind myself it's
Speaker 12: it's only been a month and a couple of days
Speaker 12: since we launched.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're it's a it's a marathon, not a sprint.
Speaker 1: You got to remember that you need one of those
Speaker 1: motivational signs in your own in your own office, you know.
Speaker 1: Uh to two points. First off, I was talking to
Speaker 1: my wife just the other night saying how important I
Speaker 1: think sports are for my kids, Like the amount of
Speaker 1: things you learn in that and the amount of just
Speaker 1: to me, it's just it's been amazing to watch my kids.
Speaker 1: One of them plays basketball, one plays baseball, and it's
Speaker 1: it's really a big part of their lives. And it's
Speaker 1: it's learning so much about teamwork and failure and success
Speaker 1: and and you know, just getting along with people and
Speaker 1: accepting all these things in life that really does help
Speaker 1: you later on. And then the second thing was when
Speaker 1: I did my I did a half marathon, and I
Speaker 1: actually was very fortunate that I was. I had like
Speaker 1: a not a sponure, but I was working with a
Speaker 1: six and so they would they had a person like
Speaker 1: a coach. And also I had a producer I was
Speaker 1: working with and we both were doing it together. And
Speaker 1: so it's what you're talking about in this app is
Speaker 1: almost exactly what we did in real life, where we
Speaker 1: had someone to bounce things off of and to get
Speaker 1: information from, and we also had each other going through
Speaker 1: the same thing. And so that's kind of what you've
Speaker 1: recreated here. And I totally get it because we had
Speaker 1: so many questions. I'm like, should I really be running
Speaker 1: every day? Should I be doing this? And so I
Speaker 1: think that this kind of thing is really hard. I
Speaker 1: think it's one of those things too where you need
Speaker 1: somebody to lean on too, Like an endurance sport. It's
Speaker 1: very intense. You need someone to bounce off of and
Speaker 1: keep that motivation and keep you going because it is
Speaker 1: very intense. It is a lot of work, and it
Speaker 1: takes a lot to keep going back every day and
Speaker 1: keep training.
Speaker 12: Yeah, no, I mean I completely agree on all those points.
Speaker 12: And I think the beauty of the networks so far
Speaker 12: that we've seen is one we created it to be
Speaker 12: a positive place. I think there's way too many social
Speaker 12: networks out there where it's all about anonymity and that
Speaker 12: allows people to be negative and have no accountability. So
Speaker 12: I will say in the first month with over three
Speaker 12: hundred posts, everything has been super positive. Again, like I said,
Speaker 12: it's for anyone as well. So you know, like you said,
Speaker 12: you you had a coach. We have coaches. We we
Speaker 12: have a weekly live stream where we bring on experts,
Speaker 12: we bring on coaches, We talk about the most basic
Speaker 12: things to the most advanced things. So yeah, anyone can
Speaker 12: really kind of grow with the sport and within themselves.
Speaker 1: All right. The website frontpack frontpacsports dot com, frontpacsports dot com. Uh,
Speaker 1: Scott Baldwin, best wishes for this new app available on
Speaker 1: iPhone and Android.
Speaker 12: Absolutely, thank you guys, thanks for.
Speaker 1: Joining me today. All right, coming up, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you how you're streaming TV streaming streaming services are tracking you,
Speaker 1: and also we're going to get into the feedbag that's
Speaker 1: coming up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology. We're gonna get right into it because there
Speaker 1: is a lot to get through, especially with the feedbag.
Speaker 1: It is overflowing today. I could barely drag it up
Speaker 1: to the studio today because it's so filled. But we're
Speaker 1: gonna get through all that in just a moment. I
Speaker 1: got my brother justin here. New report from the Center
Speaker 1: for Digital Democracy says that your streaming services are tracking you.
Speaker 1: They are spying on you, and they are targeting you
Speaker 1: with extensive data on your viewing habits and using that
Speaker 1: to sell you stuff. And this makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: And their argument is that we've never really had such
Speaker 1: highly targeted and personalized profiling of people based on what
Speaker 1: they're watching on TV. And the smart TVs themselves are
Speaker 1: a big part of this data collection system because this
Speaker 1: stuff is built right into the foundational software on these TVs.
Speaker 1: It's a fascinating report. It makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: Two things going on here. Number One, your smart TV
Speaker 1: is probably scanning the screen no matter what and and
Speaker 1: recognizing the content of everything you watch. It's called automatic
Speaker 1: content recognition. You probably agree to it when you set
Speaker 1: up your TV. You can opt out of it or
Speaker 1: turn it off. The other thing is there is a stream.
Speaker 1: All the streaming services have opt out guides as well,
Speaker 1: so it's a great website. The nai dot org has
Speaker 1: opt out guides for almost every streaming service where you
Speaker 1: can opt out of some of this data collection. I
Speaker 1: don't think you're gonna be able to opt out of
Speaker 1: it all, but I'll put that on the show notes
Speaker 1: pretty wild because we are just hammered with targeted advertising.
Speaker 1: This should be a default opt in. But if you
Speaker 1: set up a if you've ever set up a smart
Speaker 1: TV lately, it's almost like it says like it's it's
Speaker 1: gonna benefit you. There are so many screens you have
Speaker 1: to go through look at them very very closely. Also,
Speaker 1: I hit a nerve this week. I mentioned on my
Speaker 1: Facebook that those texts have you gotten these things where
Speaker 1: they're just like, hey how are you? Or I lost
Speaker 1: your number in my phone book and can we chat again?
Speaker 1: I get those messages about five times a day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. It's because all of
Speaker 1: these recent data breaches have put our phone numbers out
Speaker 1: there on the web, and so they've got a fresh
Speaker 1: amount of information. So I posted this to my Facebook.
Speaker 1: Let me just give you some of the responses. Many
Speaker 1: people commented they're also getting these obviously. They come in
Speaker 1: all forms. They talk about weight loss, Amazon deliveries, fake
Speaker 1: job offers. One person even commented, they got a barbecue invite.
Speaker 1: I'll actually go to that. Yeah, that sounds like fun.
Speaker 1: I'd be like where they're confusing and annoying. Makes it
Speaker 1: difficult to distinguish between legitimate messages and scams. I do agree,
Speaker 1: you have to look at everything very closely because we
Speaker 1: are getting and this what I've always talked about. We
Speaker 1: get legitimate messages like this like hey, your package is
Speaker 1: delayed and you're like, oh, okay, and that might be
Speaker 1: from Amazon rare, but you know what I mean, right,
Speaker 1: But they also play upon that and kind of twist
Speaker 1: it and make it into their scrutinize every message you
Speaker 1: get one hundred percent. Let's see. Some people say that
Speaker 1: these senders get aggressive or insulting if you don't respond.
Speaker 1: Don't respond to these people, by the way, but some
Speaker 1: commenters block the numbers, report them as junk, or they
Speaker 1: engage in playful banter to waste their time. I would say,
Speaker 1: do not write back to these people, because once you
Speaker 1: write back, is solidifies your number as being a good
Speaker 1: phone number, right, and then they will target you even further. Yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly same with spam email. But hopefully everybody knows that
Speaker 1: by now, all right. I thought this was pretty cool
Speaker 1: justin this developer Andrew Schmellian came up with a way
Speaker 1: to hack adopt Matrix printer. Not really a hack, but
Speaker 1: he wrote a little program where it pulls the headlines
Speaker 1: from like Reddit and some other news sites, weather, stocks news,
Speaker 1: and every morning at eight am, it prints out a
Speaker 1: one page newsletter for him. I love that. Isn't that cool?
Speaker 1: I love that? So he actually put his whole project online.
Speaker 1: It looks like he needed a dot Matrix printer, a
Speaker 1: Raspberry pie Cereal to USB adapter because the old Dot
Speaker 1: Matrix didn't have USB, so it's just a serial port YEP,
Speaker 1: and then power supply and then he just used the
Speaker 1: free APIs and he made a little programming And isn't
Speaker 1: that cool? Yeah? I mean that that makes it actually
Speaker 1: takes away a lot of the distractions that you'd see
Speaker 1: when you're looking through those headlines, so I like it,
Speaker 1: That's what he said. He was like, you know, this
Speaker 1: is like so much healthier than doom scrolling. All right,
Speaker 1: you want to read the first feedback? Sure? So we
Speaker 1: have Max from Los Angeles writing in saying thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm a senior level it and listen to you because
Speaker 1: of how easily you lay it out to the end users.
Speaker 1: You have talent. Please don't go anywhere. Oh wow, well
Speaker 1: I'm going to stay here as long as humanly possible.
Speaker 1: Thank you. What was his name, Max? Max? Thanks Max?
Speaker 1: All right, Michael writes in. Michael from Calabasas writes in,
Speaker 1: I saw your recommend on whisper flow. You should know
Speaker 1: that it only an Apple Silicon chips, so my Intel
Speaker 1: based iMac couldn't run it. But to keep those tips
Speaker 1: and recommendations coming very informative. This is a life changer.
Speaker 1: So I can press and hold one key on my
Speaker 1: keyboard and I can dictate, and it uses AI to transcribe.
Speaker 1: Not only would I say, but to format it in
Speaker 1: like perfect formatting. It's incredible. But yes it is. It's
Speaker 1: I guess it's Mac silicon only. It's Mac only, but
Speaker 1: we're going to see many, many more apps just like that.
Speaker 1: So thanks for the clarification. Very very useful. When you're
Speaker 1: eating a stack with one hand and you want it,
Speaker 1: you still want to work. Yes, tite things out and
Speaker 1: I get people always say to me, I can't believe
Speaker 1: you responded to my email. I am now responding to
Speaker 1: emails probably three times faster than ever before because I
Speaker 1: don't have to sit there and type them. I can dictate.
Speaker 1: But it's it's so good that it gets the nuances
Speaker 1: of what I'm trying to say, like if I'm if
Speaker 1: I'm like excited, or if I'm writing something in a
Speaker 1: list or whatever, it gets it, all right, all right,
Speaker 1: next one, Just all right, we have Michael from Memphis
Speaker 1: writing in. I have an Android cell phone for personal
Speaker 1: use and an iPhone for business. Are there any earbuds
Speaker 1: out there that will automatically stop what I'm listening to
Speaker 1: on my Android and answer a call I'm receiving on
Speaker 1: my iPhone without having to steer the call on my
Speaker 1: iPhone to switch to the earbuds. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Speaker 1: All right, This is a feature called multipoint. A lot
Speaker 1: of headphones, a lot of earbuds now support this, so
Speaker 1: look for multipoint connection. A lot of them do this
Speaker 1: where it can seamlessly go. Let's say you're listening to
Speaker 1: music on your computer your phone rings, it'll automatically swap
Speaker 1: to your phone. It's not the same thing as having
Speaker 1: two devices connected. They're basically almost simultaneously connected and kind
Speaker 1: of listening for anything that's happening on each of those
Speaker 1: to kind of spring into action and switch the audio source.
Speaker 1: So multipoint. The ones that I love that I recently
Speaker 1: tested are the CMF buds and justin you tried them
Speaker 1: because I brought them home, right, Yeah, I actually tried
Speaker 1: them today. First of all, excellent sound, I mean, the
Speaker 1: space audio is great on them. I haven't had a
Speaker 1: chance to test the dual point the multipoint yet, but
Speaker 1: it does look like a compelling feature for sure. All Right,
Speaker 1: you got one more real quick one. She got less
Speaker 1: than a minute. All right, we got Ryan from Lucasville,
Speaker 1: Ohio writing in, Hey, Rich, I really enjoyed the show.
Speaker 1: As a technology coordinator for a local school, I fix
Speaker 1: a lot of chromebooks. It's rewarding but crazy. Sometimes. I
Speaker 1: used to listen to Leo Laporte and was glad when
Speaker 1: you took over. You do a great job helping folks.
Speaker 1: Thank you again. All right, well, thank you, Ryan. Appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I always like when it people like the show because
Speaker 1: it means that I'm doing something right. Sure apps, No,
Speaker 1: all right, wow, I cannot believe it that is going
Speaker 1: to do this episode of the show. You can find
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Speaker 1: Justin sure? Where are you at? Justin demiro on X?
Speaker 1: There you go. Next week we'll have more of your questions.
Speaker 1: I've got the feedback. It's so full I got to
Speaker 1: bring it back now week. Thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 1: There are so many ways you can spend your time.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you spending it right here with me. My
Speaker 1: name is rich dedmro Thanks to Justin. Let's real