Netflix Buffers, Bluesky Soars & Bitcoin Breaks $90k

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Why everyone's rushing to download something called Blue Sky, and
why you might want to join them. If your password
is one two, three, four five six. The good news
is you're not alone. The bad news is that's bad news.
Amazon's new secret store where everything is under twenty bucks.

(00:20):
Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich
Demiro and this is Rich on Tech. This is the
show where I talk about the tech stuff I think
you should know about. It's also the place where I
answer your questions about technology. I believe that tech should
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(00:42):
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Give me a call. If you have a question about technology.
Email is also open. Just go to Rich on tech
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send your feedback for the feedbag later in the show.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Guests.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
This week we've got former USA Today Tech columnist and
current AARP Tech editor at bag. He's going to talk
about tech support for your parents. And later we've got
turn it In's Annie Checatelli. She is going to discuss
the impact of AI on education. Well, it was fight

(01:23):
Night in America once again, but this time with a twist.
This was one of the first major sporting events that
Netflix well try to stream. They've done some stuff in
the past. Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson, Did you watch it?
Probably many many people did. It was sort of a
technical disaster. Now, I'm not blaming Netflix here. I'm not

(01:46):
going to say that this is bad that they did this.
You've got to start somewhere, But it gives us perspective.
This is a huge company with lots of smart people,
and we are still just in the beginning stages of
fakeing this stuff out. Now, There's been lots of live
streams before, but I think that this goes to show
both the popularity of something like this and also the

(02:08):
fact that Netflix has some work to do. All kinds
of streaming problems with the show last night frustrated viewers
all over the world. Lots of people, including myself, reported
buffering and connectivity issues. Some people had to wait a
long time for the show to actually start, and then
some people got this black screen of death, which I

(02:28):
also got, and depended kind of on a lot of things.
Whether you know where you lived, how you were accessing it,
whether it was on mobile, whether it was on your TV.
But you know, Netflix really struggled to handle so many
people watching this event at the same time, Netflix has
over almost three hundred million subscribers, and every single one

(02:49):
of them had access to this at no extra cost.
So it's not like the days of pay per view,
where you're paying fifty bucks and you better have a
clear screen because you're paying for that. No, this was
available to everyone, which is incredible and amazing, but also
it goes to show that it takes a lot to
stream something on this level. So of course people were
on social media, including myself, joking about all the things

(03:12):
that went wrong.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
It wasn't even clear half the time.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
So at first when I first tuned in, I thought
it was incredible because it was looking very clear, and
then all of a sudden it started buffering, and then
all of a sudden it started dropping out, and then
all of a sudden it started not working, and then
all of a sudden, when it came back, the video.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Quality was not very good.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
So even if you had a good connection like myself,
like a fiber connection, you still had issues. So do
we know how many people watch this? We don't know exactly.
Netflix has not said just yet do we know how
much money it generated. One report said eighteen million dollars
at the stadium itself. Seems like a lot. I'm sure
these these guys that fought got paid a lot of money.

(03:49):
I'm sure all the product placement and sponsorships generated a
lot of money.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
But here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Netflix wants to get into live streaming in a big way.
Somehow Amazon has been able to figure it out. But
you know they run that infrastructure AWS, so if anyone
could do live streaming and has the servers for it,
Amazon's got it figured out.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Now.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
I don't know how many people are watching those Prime
football games if it's the same as this level, but
they've got it figured out. But Netflix is set to
stream two NFL games on Christmas Day, and you can
bet a lot of people are going to be watching
those because everyone's going to be at home and everyone
wants to watch those games. So we will have to
see if Netflix can get their act together in the
next what is it, six weeks or so to resolve

(04:31):
those technical issues.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
But at the end of the day, it.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Was still interesting to see the entire US and maybe
the world at large come together to watch something in
a world of fractured and fragmented streaming programs, and everyone's
on a different wavelength, and everyone's on a different level,
and everyone's watching a different show. It's kind of cool
to still have things that bring us all together. And

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last night was one of those times when pretty much
everyone you knew was watching that. All right, moving on now,
also this week, if you heard there is a new
social network that is suddenly popular.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
It is called blue Sky.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Doesn't that just sound nice? So blue Sky gained more
than two million users in the past few weeks many
people after the election, Over fifteen million people are now
on blue Sky. Now, keep in mind that sounds like
a big number, but X and Threads have hundreds of
millions of people. So why are people coming over to

(05:32):
blue Sky. Well, many are unhappy with Elon Musk his
support of the new president, and they also say that
they're mad that X is going to train its ai
on their posts. But come on, if you're on Instagram,
if you're on Facebook, if you're on pretty much any
system that you're not paying for, you are the product
and they're going to train on your stuff. So that's

(05:53):
like kind of a weak excuse to leave. But at
the same time, people are doing it and I'm seeing
a lot of momentum on this blue sky.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
So what is it?

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Well, it looks a lot like Twitter in the old days,
I mean, almost identical to Twitter. And well that's probably
for a reason because it was started in twenty nineteen
by one of the founders of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, but
he left and it was invite only for a long time.
So that's the reason you didn't really hear about it
very much. People that were nerdy, people that were in

(06:23):
the know. Of course, they knew about this. They've been
They're gonna say, I've been on this for a year now,
and you're gonna say, okay, thanks, do you want to meddle?
But many people are discovering it, So what can you
do on it? It's the same as Twitter. You can
follow people, they can follow you back. You can post text,
you can post photos, you can post videos, you can repost,

(06:44):
you can like. But here is the thing. It is
much more open source and decentralized as opposed to something
like Twitter that is run by one person. Well, many
people work there, but you know, Elon Musk is at
the Helm, so this is much more open source and decentralized.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
What does that mean.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
It means that one organization doesn't really own or control
your data. So if you ever want to leave blue Sky,
you can, and it's simple, and you can take all
of your data with you somewhere else. So if something
else comes up better, all your stuff will just move
over to that platform. And so that's really interesting, it's
really unique, and I think this is going to the
idea of Web three Web three point zero, where it's

(07:26):
like more of these things are much more decentralized and
they all sort of work together and you can take
your information and your services wherever you want to go
with them. Now, I will tell you, having used blue
Sky for the past couple of days now, it's nice
and a lot of people are popping up on there.
I see a few problems. Number one, it's tough to

(07:46):
find people on there because you have to pretty much
search for them by name. There's no way to import
your address book, which would be really handy, so you
can't do that. I mean, there are some tools. Someone
told me about a tool where you can take your
Twitter followers and it will scan them, but you have
to do that in Chrome, and it seemed a little wonky,
and I think you have to give access to one
of your accounts to do that, which I never really

(08:08):
liked doing. But I guess people are making these lists
of like various people in groups, like all the journalists
on the Tech Journalists. Here's a list and you can
follow all of them at the same time. So that's
kind of a cool feature too, But otherwise I'm kind
of loving it. I've already got almost a thousand followers
on there, so it's like being back in the old days.

(08:29):
It's like you're starting something new, You're in something fresh.
I have not gone off x just yet. I'm still there.
But now I'm just posting to all these places on
a daily basis. Facebook, X, Blue Sky, what else, Instagram,
So there's a lot and people are gonna get kind
of tired of posting to all these different places, but
right now it does feel kind of fun. I mean,

(08:50):
I joined I remember the day I joined Facebook pretty
much the first day I could. I remember the first
day I joined Twitter back in the day when I could.
And it's fun. It's fun to be on kind of
the round level of these services because there's things that
you find that are great, and there's just a lot
of growing problems too. So if you want to find me,
I am on there at rich On Tech and kind

(09:12):
of fun on Blue Sky, and we'll see what happens
with it, all right. The other big story this week,
Bitcoin once again has surged to a record hive over
ninety thousand dollars a coin.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Why.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Well, a lot of it is because of the President elect,
who has a pro crypto stance, and many people are
optimistic about this digital currency, which means they're putting more
money into it. Also, institutional investors are putting money into it.
Things like retirement accounts and ETFs were approved by regulators
and they've seen a lot of cash flowing in. Bitcoin

(09:47):
has now become the world's eighth largest asset, surpassing silver.
That's pretty wild, but remember cryptocurrency remains highly volatile. You
have to know what you're doing if you're getting in
on this. I've kind of all kinds of people texting
me saying, rich should I get it. I can't give
you the advice on that. If you've got money to lose,
sure go ahead, but this is not something that you

(10:07):
can say, I'm gonna put this money in here, it's
gonna be there forever. We don't know that to be true.
So remember this is an investment like anything else. It
could go up, you could lose it all, but you know,
it is kind of fun to watch what's going on
with it. This is not financial advice, but if you're
looking for a place to get it, coinbase is popular,
PayPal has a way to buy crypto, Venmo has a way,

(10:28):
and cash app those are all very easy ways to
buy it. Of course, do your research before you invest
in anything. And that doesn't go for just crypto. That's
any time you put your money in something where.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
It could go away.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
All right, Coming up, your call is eighty eight rich
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Speaker 2 (11:38):
Or the show.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Let's go to Marcello in Galita, California. Marcelo, you're on
with Rich.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Hi.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
Rich, thank you for taking my call this morning. I'm
calling because I have a friend who mentioned to me
that he has bitcoin lost somewhere on one of his
old phones in an old account, and he got in
the early two thousands, like he said, he bought it
through PayPal and I and I got to thinking, maybe
you know of a company that helps you gain access
to your old account and get access to your old

(12:06):
bitcoin with maybe they charge a fee or something. Given
you information regarding.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
That, Oh good question.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Probably a lot of people trying to figure out what
the status is of the bitcoin. Did I buy some
back in the day, because I know so quick story Marcelo.
I did a story with bitcoin back in Oh my gosh,
I think it was bitcoin ATM.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Let's see when I did.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
This, probably in twenty oh gosh, twenty seventeen, I don't know,
it was a long time ago. But I purchased twenty
dollars worth of bitcoin and I did the math and
it would be several thousand. I mean now with the
ninety thousand point, it would be you know, it'd be
like probably five six thousand bucks at this point.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I don't know. Don't don't quote me on the math.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
My point is I went back to that story and
I tried to freeze frame the little QR code they
gave me, because I just threw out the sheet as
soon as I was done with the story. I was like,
this isn't going anywhere, and I tried to go back
to that story and freeze frame the video where I
pulled a little receipt out of the Bitcoin ATM where
it has my QR code with my access to it.
I was like, can I scan this and recover this bitcoin?

(13:13):
I couldn't, but I agree there's gonna be a lot
of people that are wondering how to access this. So
it is tough. And here's my advice moving forward. If
you are signing up for anything where you're buying bitcoin,
especially if you are signing up with one of these wallets,
they give you what's called a recovery phrase, so you
need to remember that. And I specifically remember many years

(13:34):
ago signing up for a bitcoin service and I got
the recovery phrase, and I have no idea where it is,
and I can't remember if I actually bought bitcoin on
that account either, but my kid and I were trying
to go through and we were like signing into coinbase
and signing into all these apps to see. With that said,
it is very, very tough to recover this stuff. Because

(13:55):
if you're buying it through a big company, then it
might be easier, but if you're buying it through one
of these wallets and you lose it, you're not really
going to get it back. So there are a couple
of resources online. I cannot vouch for them, but I
can tell you what has been featured before in various publications,
and one of those is Cryptoasset Recovery dot com, so

(14:16):
that's one of them. I don't know how much they
cost to do this, let's see pricing. Oh wow, so
password recovery, if they figure it out, they will take
twenty percent of your wallet. So if you had one
thousand dollars in there, they take two hundred dollars, which
probably a small price to pay. But this is a
story out of Motherboard. They are talking about back when

(14:40):
I don't think Motherboard's still around, but they were talking
about how these This is a father son team in
New Hampshire, and I guess they're just trying. They know
people need this. So and then there's another one I
found called keychain x dot io and this says Wallet
Recovery Services trusted since twenty seventeen. And they've got a

(15:05):
whole bunch of information on there as well.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
So let's see.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Keychain x can decrypt most types of cryptocurrency, wallets, Ethereum. Okay,
so they've got basically they they may help you do that,
but again you're gonna pay to get this done. So
how how much does your friend have does he say.

Speaker 5 (15:25):
He said he bought it like in two thousand and six,
or anybody put in one thousand dollars?

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
Yeah, so he thinks he's got a lot there.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Oh, my gosh, two thousand.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
Yeah, I'll talk on the information and I appreciate it, all.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Right, pass on the info that's said. Oh my gosh, okay,
so bitcoin, let's see they bought it. Let's see they
bought it for one thousand dollars, and let's see calculate,
so that'd be worth.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Okay, hold on, let's see.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Okay, so that'd be worth ninety one thousand dollars at
this point. That's just that's just a quick calculator. I
don't know if that's correct or not, but that's pretty wild.
Oh that's not taken into concern. Oh okay, hold on,
I got to look up the buy price from two thousand. Okay,
hold on, bitcoin price so in two thousand it was

(16:19):
let's see, we got to go back. Oh, I guess
I can't even look up. I can't even look up
the price in two thousand. Bitcoin price two thousand was like,
oh my gosh, that's a long time. Okay, Yeah, that's
it's worth more than ninety thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
That's that's worth a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Oh my gosh, okay, yeah, I would pay to have
someone figure that out.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
All right, good question.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Marcelo Please, No matter what you're signing up for, whether
it is bitcoin, whether it is crypto, whether it is
an account that you open up at Facebook or anything,
please remember your account password. I don't know what it
is about people that just they refuse to use a
password manager. Get a password manager. Bitwarden is completely free.

(17:03):
All you have to do. It's like a little notebook.
Just write down your username and password as you sign up. Yes,
it takes you an extra three minutes to sign up
for a website because you have to do a little
legwork to generate the password and save it. But I
do it every day, and I'm telling you it has
saved me so many times. I just set up a
new computer. I said, oh, I'll never forget the password

(17:24):
to this computer. I forgot it as soon as I
set it up, and of course it was in my wallet.
Please use a password manager. Eight A eight rich one
oh one. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to
rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you
talking technology this week. If you like Google, you might

(17:45):
like their new app for the iPhone. They released their
AI app, a standalone Gemini AI app for the iPhone.
So this is something you could access in the past,
but you had to go through the Google app. Now
Gemini AI is standalone, so that means you can go
to the app store search for Gemini AI. Just be
careful because there's a lot of impersonators whenever you search

(18:07):
for these main AI brands, so make sure you're getting
that the one that is actually from Google. I'll put
a link on the website. Rich on tech dot TV
go to the show notes. But what can you do
with Gemini AI. Well, this is this is Google's version
of Chat GPT, so you can text it, you can
ask it questions. There's a camera mode. It also has

(18:30):
Gemini Live. This is their conversational mode, so you can
talk to AI in a natural language. And I was
hanging out with Google this week in New York City
and they talked about how they have not only can
these things speak forty different languages, which is just absolutely wild,
but the names of these these Gemini Live characters, I

(18:52):
guess you can call them whatever you want to, however
you want to describe them. They all are inspired by
heavenly bodies, so they didn't want to name them traditional
names because they thought it'd be weird. If you know,
like remember we have Siri and we have the alex
A one. But you know, Google Assistant never really had
a name, but Jem and I. They wanted to come

(19:14):
up with these interesting kind of names that were much
more kind of mysterious, because you don't want to say, oh,
I'm talking to Bob. You know you're just talking to
Let's see, where's the voices. So here's the voices.

Speaker 6 (19:28):
I'm ready to be your voice. If you like what
you hear, choose me to start talking.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
So that's URSA.

Speaker 4 (19:33):
Feel free to keep exploring until you find the perfect voice.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
That's Vega.

Speaker 6 (19:39):
You can always change voices later.

Speaker 7 (19:40):
I'll be here whenever you're ready to talk.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
And this is Nova described as calm mid range. Here's
Pegasus s.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
It's about the other voices. Swipe to explore or pick
me to start engaged in deeper voice Eclipse.

Speaker 6 (19:52):
Is it good to meet you?

Speaker 8 (19:53):
Give me a chance or check out the other options Energetic.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Maybe I'm your style, Pick me and I can be
the voice you hear.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Why why does he sound a little down? He doesn't
sound like I don't know if you let's go back.
This is dipper hold it.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Maybe I'm your style, Pick me and I can be
the voice you hear.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
I feel like he might read like one of those
like romance novels late at night.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
I don't know. It sounds like the guy at the
bar that just brought you a drink. Yeah, I don't
know that's that one anyway.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
So so all, so this is actually if you haven't
tried this, now is your time.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Now.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Gemini Live used to be a feature they had to
pay for. I'm not sure if they open that up
for free now, but that is the So there's various
options once you download this app, but that live thing
is something you should really try.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
It's in the lower right hand corner. It looks like
kind of a voice.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
But the neat thing about this is that you can
now just access Gemini AI a lot faster on the iPhone. Now,
there are some hang ups because it is the iPhone.
The way it's constructed, it can't access other apps on
the phone unless they're Google properties. So it can do
things like Google maps and link up with YouTube music,

(21:08):
but it's not gonna be able to like do other
things on your phone like Siri would be able to do,
so just keep that in mind.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
But it's kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
I would definitely recommend downloading it. And the thing about
that's neat about Gemini is that it's up to date
with all of Google's information, so that's kind of a
little leg up against some of these other AI chatbots
out there that may not be as fresh like Google AI.
Gemini really has all the information you need, so if
you're looking for like answers to questions about things that

(21:37):
just happened, you can get those answers a lot easier
on Gemini compared to some of the other things. Now
chat GBT just introduced web search results not as good
and also it's a premium feature, so Gemini has that
built in for free, even on the free level. So anyway,
Gemini for iOS, you can check it out. Let's go

(21:57):
to Mark in Los Angeles. Mark, you're on with.

Speaker 9 (22:01):
Rich All Rich, I'm a Mac guy since nineteen eighty four.
I'm about to buy either an iMac or a Mac
Many and one of my considerations is that if I
buy a Macmini, I will have to get an external monitor.
The Apple monitor is awesome, but they love it as

(22:23):
much as I do, and it's kind of expensive, so
I'm looking to either. I would look to a four
K monitor, which would be less. So I'm curious as
to your thoughts on the visual experience of that monitor,
which admittedly would be awesome, and a four K monitor,
and what brands you trust if I were to go

(22:45):
to a four K monitor of a different of a
different kind. I haven't had to buy a monitor in
a very long time.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Well, all the.

Speaker 9 (22:53):
Specs are kind of amazing now, you know, all over
the place.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yes they are. So I will tell you as someone
who just got the Macmini. So Apple sent along the
Macmini to test out. And I've never had a Mac
Mini before, and they just sent the most basic one.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
It was.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
It's like the basic version of it. So it's got
the sixteen gigs a RAM, it's got the standard M
four chip. It's not the pro. And I'm telling you, Mark,
I'm in love with this thing. I was on it
this morning, I was on it last night. My wife
is like, are you coming to bed? I'm like, I'm
still playing on this computer. The screen is huge. They
sent one of the studio displays, so it's the standard

(23:30):
studio display, which I get is sixteen hundred bucks.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
But it's a twenty seven.

Speaker 9 (23:34):
Inches seven inch That's what I have I have a
like a Circle twenty thirteen iMac and it's just they
just don't support it anymore. It won't it won't stop working,
you know, it never gets right, of course, but I
need to replace it. And if it didn't cost so much,
it wouldn't be a I wouldn't think about it.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, well, yeah, there are many other monitors that are
a lot cheaper.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
I think.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
Obviously, Apple of course has a little bit of you know,
sinner between their monitor and their computers, but you don't
really need that. But I will tell you as far
as between the iMac and the Macmini, I would go
with the Macmini for sure, just because I love the
idea that this thing is so small. It's got ports
on the front, which I really like, so you can

(24:18):
plug in things, and it's just it's always there and
it's just simple and it's nice.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
So when it comes to.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Buying the monitor, we actually had a guest on and
the guest was Matthew S. Smith, So look him up.
He's got actually i'll send I'll put the links in
the show notes, but he mentioned all of the monitors
that he recommends. I don't have it off the top
of my head, but he had a great and a

(24:43):
whole buyer's guide, so he explained like the difference between
the monitors, which ones he likes, and I've got it.
I'll put it all in the show notes, but it
was from what I remember, he had some pretty strong
opinions on things. He also maintains the PC mag Monitor
Buying Guide, so I would look there and let's let's

(25:03):
see PC mag.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
Let's okay here, but that's where Matthew Smith Matthew S.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Smith, And if you look at if you look at
his information on there, he's got all the monitors that
he recommends on PC mag. That's I'm trying to look
it up. Of course I can't find it while I'm
talking to you. Monitor Buying guide on PC mag. Let
me see that real quick. Here we go best monitors
of twenty twenty four. So I mean they recommend, yeah,

(25:31):
some of these standard brands that you would know, like
the Lenovo, Dell HP A SEUs. But he explains in
his interview what to look for, and I think that's
the main thing is there's so many specs that he
sort of like explained what he thinks are the things
that you should mainly look for in these.

Speaker 9 (25:47):
Monitors so available on your website.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah, I'll link it up on the show notes.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
I can't find it right now while we're talking on
the air, but it was it was basically everything you
need to know. Like I love when these experts come
on they just say, look, this is what I like.
I've said all these things. This one's like five hundred
bucks and it's going to be fantastic. So but I
would say the main difference between the iMac and the
Macmini is, you know, the iMac is sort of like
stuck in time, like once you get it, that's it.

(26:13):
I mean Mac Minnie kind of the same way, like
you're not going to really be upgrading a lot of
stuff on there. But I just like the idea that
you're bringing your own components. So again, you can get
that nice big display that you want, you can get
a keyboard that you like.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
I mean, you could do that with the iMac as well.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
But I guess the only difference is, and this is
something that Matthew talked about, was whether you should get
a webcam built in or not, and he he said
he does not like the webcams built in, and the
reason is because you know they're usually higher quality when
they're not built in and they're also you know, it's

(26:49):
just much better.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah, here's his buying guide. Okay, I found it.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Okay, so he so his best monitor overall is the
Dell Ultra Sharp PIXEO is the best budget monitor for
one hundred and fifty bucks. I don't think you want
that one. The best budget four K is a Dell
that's three hundred bucks. Best budget gaming monitor is also Dell.
So he really likes the Dell stuff. MSI best Gaming monitor, Alienware,

(27:16):
best gaming monitor a sus they make the best high
refresh rate monitor that's a thousand bucks, and best budget.

Speaker 9 (27:25):
As when they say gaming monitor, what's different between a
gaming monitor and just a good computer like the like
the like the studio display. Is there something different from
a gaming monitor and Apple's expensive monitor.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
I believe it's the refresh rate. I think that's mainly
what it is and how it handles that.

Speaker 9 (27:46):
I'm not a gamer, yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
So you probably don't need to worry about that, but
that's I think that's the main thing. And he explains it.
Let's see, yeah, yeah, higher a refresh rate, but he
was also explaining how the refresh rates you know, for
standard computing, you don't really need something that high. So
I'm looking at the Let's see if you look at
the the Apple studio displays. See like Apple doesn't even

(28:10):
mention their refresh rates on their main page because most
people are not looking at that.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
You know, you know it's going to look good.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
This does okay. Interesting, So the studio monitor does have
a camera built in. I did not didn't even notice
that on one And the other thing that the Apple
monitors are doing now is they have the the iMac.
The only separate the only thing that's a little bit different.
It's got the downward facing camera. So it's called desk view.
So you can put like a piece of paper if

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you're doing a zoom like in front of the monitor
and it will look down at that. So if you're
sharing like things on your desk, you can do that.
So that's one thing the iMac does that I'm not
sure that the studio display does. But that's something to
look for anyway. Great question, Yeah, I'll link it up
rich on Tech dot TV.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Look for the show notes. This is show number. What
is it?

Speaker 1 (29:01):
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Speaker 2 (29:35):
Let's go to uh Kent. Let's see here Kent in
Huntington Beach, Kent. You're on with rich Hi.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
Rich.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
I have a iPhone, twelve promats and two hundred and
fifty six gigabytes. I've got like fifteen gigabytes left, but
he can't download the last seventeen or eighteen iOS so
enough says I don't have enough memory.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Oh you don't have enough memory? Okay, So well, so
you said how many gigs you have left on your phone?

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Fourteen? Like fourteen and a half.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Oh okay, and so and iOS eighteen is saying that's
not enough.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Yeah, when it when it? When the downloads is it's
point like four.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Well okay, but that's that's the download. But that doesn't
take into consideration what this thing needs to do on
your phone. So it doesn't just because the download is
that amount. It wants a certain amount of space on
your phone to make sure that nothing gets corrupted or
it needs it needs some space to work, is what
I'm trying to say. So, is there any way you
can free up like a couple of gigs on your phone?

Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yeah? I could it, just it would be nice if
they would tell you what they need, or you know,
built them in such a way that even if you
i mean, because you you know, you pay a lot
of money for these things in the storage, they should
make it so that it works and you still get
your usable storage, not always having to delete stuff.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Okay, So I'm looking at some things, some reports online
and it's saying that for iOS eighteen, it looks like
you need about twenty gigs of storage available. Now Apple
doesn't I don't think they published this, but that is
what people are reporting you need.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
So yeah, I've heard people with sixty four gigabytes. They're
really I mean, they're they're deleting them a ton of
stuff from they're telling and still can't do it.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Sixty four you mean like sixty four total?

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and you know that is yeah, that's
unfortunate because here's the thing, like, for a long time,
and many in the tech world gave Apple a lot
of you know, a lot of trouble for this is
that for many, many years they were selling phones that
were understored, right, you had way less storage than people
needed for today's current applications, which you know, if you're
taking any sort of four K videos or you know,

(31:53):
even if you're downloading a lot of apps. I mean
apps today are like three hundred megabytes sometimes so and
that you know, just for like an average like Facebook
or something, So you do need much more storage than
you think on your phone. And also a lot of
people think that they can just buy their way to
more storage with iCloud, when you know you can in
a way, but it's also kind of linked to your phone,
so it's not that easy. But and I do wish

(32:16):
Apple would say on the on the actual you know,
when you're downloading this or trying to download it, like, hey,
you need one more gig of storage before we can
install this, instead.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Of just yeah, you need to pree it up this
and then we can download it or a different way
to do it on your computer or something else.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah, and by the way.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
They should also say, like, here's three files you can
delete that we think you don't need. So do you
know how to free up space quickly on your phone
or have you have you come up with a plan
for that or no.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
I haven't really, I mean I have. I have a
lot of photos and videos, and I have a Google
backup and Prime backup, so I could I could delete
a lot of.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Those, Okay, So the easiest way to do it is
if you go into oh see, I've I've got the
new iOS eighteen, but I think it's similar, but I
think under general I'm not sure if they still have it,
but it says iPhone storage.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
This might be new.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
I know they have an iPhone storage somewhere on your iOS.
It may not be under general, but there is if
you find maybe just search for iPhone storage and what
they do is they give you recommendations for what you
can do to free up some storage. So, for instance,
I'm looking at my phone, Netflix is holding fifteen gigs
and that's just stuff I've downloaded on Netflix. I could

(33:29):
easily get rid of that. Those are like downloaded shows.
I can easily get rid of those. In the meantime
to download iOS eighteen and then re download those shows
Instagram eight gigs, podcasts, five gigs, voice memos four gigs.
So again, those are some low hanging fruit. Pretty easy
to get rid of those things without even deleting your

(33:50):
files or videos. But typically what I tell people to
do is as long as they're backed up somewhere else,
is you can delete some of the longest videos that
you have on your iPhone. And I think even Apple
makes that tricky to find those, but sometimes they put
them under the recommendations. But on Android it's pretty easy.
You just go into your files app and you just
sort by the largest files. But on on iPhone, you

(34:13):
can go into your videos and you can just look
at the times of the videos and find the ones.
Let's see, can you sort view options? No filter, Nope, can't.
It doesn't let you sort by biggest videos unfortunately, but
that's you know, an easy way to do it is
just to look for a video that's over, you know,
like I'm looking at one that's uh, let's see here,

(34:34):
maybe like fifteen minutes long or something ten minutes.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
It would be nice, it would be nice if they
gave you the same storage on iCloud that you buy
on your phone, so that if you have to do
a total reset or something, you not have to like
buy in it for a month or whatever just to
save it and put it back.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
Yeah, well there isn't.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
That doesn't always work because I've had the genius part
lose a bunch of my stuff when they set it
downloaded to the cloud and it did.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Well, that's not good. But there is a feature that
Apple did introduce this year or last year with iCloud,
which is I'm trying to find the exact name of it,
but yes, here it is. It's temporary iCloud storage. I'll
link this up in the show notes. So this is
actually something they did that's pretty good. So if you
have if you're switching to a new iPhone and you

(35:22):
don't have enough iCloud storage to back up your current device,
they will automatically expand your iCloud storage to accommodate everything
on your phone so that you can move it over
to your new one, and then once it's moved over
to the new one, Apple will delete that information after
twenty one days. So that's actually kind of a nice
thing they did. Understanding that people don't always have as

(35:42):
much eCloud as they have storage on their phone. But
you also have to remember Kent that Apple makes a
lot of money on iCloud storage. That's one of their
biggest growing areas of money for that company. This is
rich on Tech. Welcome to another hour of rich on Tech.
My name is rich DeMuro, talking technology with you at

(36:03):
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seven four to two four one zero one.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
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Speaker 1 (36:10):
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(36:31):
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want notes or a link to something I mentioned here,
just go to the website and click the light bulb
and that will bring you to the show notes. I've
got lots of shows. This has show number ninety eight,
so you can find that there as well. How good

(36:53):
is your password? Nord Pass, you know one of the
password manager programs. They have a vested interest in this stuff.
But they've been studying passwords for four six years, and uh,
apparently password habits are not improving. Even with all the
people like myself that are saying you got to get
a better password, people are still using week week passwords,

(37:14):
and this is for their personal systems and their company computers.
One two three, four five six is the most common
password for the fifth time in six years. Now here's
the thing. You may say, Oh, I do one two
three four five six exclamation point, that'll keep them out. No,

(37:34):
these uh, these hackers use sophisticated programs that can figure
out these passwords in seconds. In fact, looking at their
website NordPass dot com slash a most common password list,
Uh one two, three, four five six, you might think
seven eight nine.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Adding to the end is going to be better. No
one two.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Okay, So in the top ten, you've got the combination
of knowing one two, three, four, five six, seven eight nine,
and you've got password coardy one two three one one
one one one one one secret Secret is number nine. Yeah,
that'll keep them out. I Love you number eighteen, Dragon
number twenty monkey number twenty one password with a capital

(38:15):
P number twenty six. Yeah, that'll that'll keep them out.
Target one two three, tinkle number twenty nine. Oh bobo,
they found your password. Oh yours is twinkle, of course,
twinkle twinkle, Uh cordy with a G number thirty three.
Uh okay. It just goes on and on and on. Now,

(38:36):
by the way, all of these passwords, every single one
of them, until you get to the word the number
number one O eight, which is seven seven five eight
five two one. Every single one before that takes a
second less than a second to crack using software. This
one takes uh four minutes, but they'll still crack it.

(38:56):
Let's see anything that's seventeen minute. Wow, So if you
use the password unknown, that actually takes seventeen minutes to crack.
So I guess, at the at the very least, if
you're okay. So it looks like interesting. So Nicole takes
two minutes, Anthony takes seventeen to crack. They recommend a
password of at least twenty characters long. You will never

(39:20):
remember a password that's twenty characters long. Plus you have
to mix uppercase, lowercase numbers, and symbols. Never reuse passwords
across accounts. Consider going passwordless. You can use an option
like passkeys. It's kind of funny. I've only set up
pass keys on like one account, but every time I
log into that account, I love it because it's so easy.
You just unlock your phone and it puts you into

(39:41):
the account. It's super, super easy. And of course, use
a password manager. Use a password manager. I talked about it.
You can use there's so many. There's a Bitwarden that's free,
nord pass one password dash.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Lane, there's so many.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
Just pick one and use it and secure that with
a good password and make sure that you do not
lose your recovery key. Let's go to Paul in Columbus, Ohio. Paul,
you're on with Richel.

Speaker 4 (40:11):
Huh. I love it.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
I'll just give you a hard time.

Speaker 4 (40:17):
Yeah, I've got a Tshiba notebook that I'm donating to
the local library at the old computer, but it was
hardly used and it still boots up the better. He's good, mom.
I want to wipe it so they could put Linux
or Chrome Plus or something like that on. But I've

(40:39):
got Windows seven right now.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Oh okay, Yeah, So that's trickier because the new versions
of Windows have an easy way to wipe them. The
old ones do not, So what are you trying to do?
What have you tried to do with this?

Speaker 4 (40:54):
Oh? I know I'm having not much because I didn't
want to screw something up. But I know there was
a stuff stuff I looked up. It said to go
to restore and recover. I think it was. Yeah, I
mean at the end of the matter of fact, I've
heard you talk about this to some extent in the path.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
Yeah, I mean, you can't screw much up because this
computer is you know it's going You're just going to
recycle it. But so on Windows, let's see here. So
Windows eight, Windows eight and ten and eleven obviously have
an easy way to do this. Windows seven does not.
So there are a couple of couple of apps you
can use to do this if you want to just

(41:33):
erase the hard drive. One of them is killed disc.
Have you heard of that one? Okay, so that's one.
There used to be one called DBAN, but I guess
that one is not really maintained anymore. But that's what
that did in the past, is that you would basically
make a put it on a drive like on a

(41:53):
CD drive. You'd put it in the drive and as
soon as you turn on that computer, it would see
that program and it just erase everything. So it seems
like it's still available. But last I heard, I got
an email from a listener last year, Dave, and he
said that d BAN is abandon where it has not
been maintained in many years. It's full of bugs and

(42:14):
it won't boot on a lot of systems. So he
says there is two things that he recommended, which is
n wipe and a bootable version of that called shred os.
So those are the the things that you can look up.
But apparently, you know, all of these look like they
take a little bit of know how to do, so

(42:36):
it may not be that easy if you if you know,
if you don't have the full know how, what about
just putting what about just putting the chromos on there?
That the chromos flex.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
Flex you know, I said plus was flex. Okay? Could
with that overright the window?

Speaker 1 (42:54):
It should if you if you put it on there,
as long as you're installing it and not just running
it off the you know, off the us B because
you can run this off a USB drive, but if
you actually install it on there, you can you know,
that'll that'll format everything, it'll wipe everything.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Off, so you might try that. Yeah, okay, and that
that'll make it.

Speaker 4 (43:13):
I don't even care if Windows seven was on make
sure whether there's not much data on it otherwise, but
they didn't want to erase it other one.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
Yeah, no you won't. You won't need that. It's because
once it's on there.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
So basically, you you create this bootable USB drive and
then uh, that's it. You install it on your your mac. Uh,
well let's see it on trying to see what's going
on here. Okay, Yeah, you install it on your PC
or MAC to replace the operating system and that's it.
And it's that's pretty easy. Maybe just do that and
that way you give it to them already ready to go.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
Okay, thought chickie.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
Yeah, Chrome os Flex it's called. I'll put that in
the show notes as well. Yeah, we got a quick minute.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
Okay. I've got an older Ethernet switch that I've got
my television and Apple Box connected to, and sometimes I'm
getting a pause or a problem with buffering, and I'm
just wondering if the switch could cause an old switch

(44:18):
could kill it. That's like eight or nine sports on.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
I don't think so, I mean a switch is going
to be at minimum one hundred. You know it's it's
a minimum one hundred. So there's no way that that's
going to cause buffering on these systems.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
So what's causing me to get pauses in the middle
of a program? Have you radically?

Speaker 1 (44:39):
Have you tried connecting the device via Wi Fi to
your router and see if it still happens.

Speaker 4 (44:47):
No, it's hard Everything is hard wired at this point.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
Can you disconnect that hard wire or no?

Speaker 4 (44:53):
Yeah, I could sure, I would use a yet or
t a cube.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
Okay, well yeah, I mean you shouldn't be experiencing buffering
the fire TV cube has that's actually like the highest
powered fire So I would say what I would try
to do is I would do two things. I would
first off, connect You might need a long Ethernet cable
to do this, depending on where your router is, but
I would connect the fire TV Cube first. I would
just try it over Wi Fi and see if the

(45:23):
problem persists. And if that problem persists and you know,
it's the cube itself and it's not the actual Internet connection,
then the second thing I would do is connect. If
it's still happening that way, then I would connect the
fireTV Cube directly to your router with an Ethernet cable
and see if it happens there. So if it continues

(45:43):
to happen with all the different methods of connecting, then
you know it's something with your fire TV Cube and Paul,
what I would do is my favorite solution is to
just bring that back to factory settings and see if
that continues to happen. You might have installed an app
on there something that's just not agreeing with it, and
it's that's what's happening and causing that stumble. But today,

(46:03):
in today's day and age, unless you're watching the Netflix
Live fight, you shouldn't really have buffering issues.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
It's just the way it is.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Eighty to eight rich one O one eight eight eight
seven four to two four to one zero one. This
is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
four to two four one zero one. The website for

(46:31):
the show richon Tech dot tv.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Let's see.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
We got an email from Brian in San Diego. He says, Hey, Rich,
I love your show. I have a question about video editing.
Is there a software or app that can automatically edit
video clips into a full video. I have hours of
go Pro footage from a motorcycle trip from San Diego
to the bottom tip of South America, but the amount
of footage feels overwhelming. Is there something I can automatically

(46:59):
go through and find parts of clips that are good
and cut them out and combine them with other clips?

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Thanks keeps the keep the show rolling, Brian.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Yes, there are programs that can do this, but I
will tell you every time I've ever tested one, it's
pretty horrible. They're just nothing will replace an actual human
being going through the video and formatting it for the
video that you want. So I understand, and this is
just a common occurrence. We shoot so many pictures, so

(47:27):
many videos, and when it comes to placing those together,
it is not easy. Now, as someone who edits video
every single day of my life, I find that of course,
I want to have the ultimate say to what these
videos look like, and I can trioge pretty quickly and
find stuff, but I get it. It's it's a lot
of work. It's not easy. But there are some programs

(47:49):
that will do this, and you can try them out
and see what happens. The first is actually built into GoPro.
So GoPro knows that this is an issue for people
that shoot a lot of GoPro stuff, so they have
what's called go pro Quick qu I K. So if
you download that app, and I don't think you have
to pay for it, but yeah, you can import your

(48:12):
go pro video into there and it will come up
with a little highlight reel. And all of these, by
the way, will come up with a highlight reel that
lets you eventually tweak it to what you want. So
go Pro not only will it take the the the
video footage that you've shot on GoPro, but any other camera,
so it can be anything. So I've tried that in

(48:34):
the past. It's pretty good. And all of these programs
are really looking for you know, they're looking for smiling faces,
they're looking for the action in the shot. You know,
they're programmed to look for certain things in the video
clips that might make that something that you want to see. Eventually,
they're not human beings, so they don't always get it right,
but they will do that. And also this go pro

(48:55):
Quick can auto sync the edits to music. You can
change the video speed you've got filters that you can
choose from, so that's go pro quick Quik.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
I've tried it.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
I've never really I don't think I've ever posted a
video that has been made automatically. I just haven't because
they just they're never like they're they're almost there. The
other one that I used to use, I don't know
if this is around anymore, but there's one called Magisto
M A G I t O, but it doesn't I

(49:28):
don't know if this is actually around. It looks like
they might have been purchased by Vimeo, and this one
was actually it looks like it's still on here.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
Yeah okay, oh yeah it was. Yep, it was purchased
by Vimeo.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
It looks like no, it says it was updated in
twenty twenty four, so I might try it. Magisto is
another one that I've used in the past. Again, it's
just okay. The other one, I mean, obviously the big
one is cap cut. So cap cut is gonna have
this feature built into it and you can upload your stuff.

(50:03):
It will come up with a little clip reel and
this might be just fine. This might be all you
need is just a quick clip reel of the stuff.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
That you shot.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
But I find that if you really want to do this,
download one of these apps, like I would say, download
a cap cut or download you know, any of these
video There's so many video editing apps, but cap cut
is one that I really like. Splice is the other
one that I like. I think that's that's both iOS
and Android, but those are those are both easy ways
to kind of do this on your phone. But for

(50:34):
me personally, if I'm doing something that that's a bigger project,
I'm doing this on my computer with final cut Pro.
You can also get final Cut Pro on your iPad
if you have if you have a recent iPad, I
think you have to have an m chip in the
iPad to use final cut Pro, but it's like five
bucks a month.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
But that might be an easy way to do it
on your iPad.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
And you might find, Brian, that you enjoy doing this,
you know, once you start getting into it, you might
find that you really like, you know, because what you
do is just take all the clips that you have,
put them all in the timeline and just go through
each clip and just kind of triage it, like just
clip the parts out that aren't interesting, delete the clips
that aren't interesting, and then clip the little areas of
the clip that's interesting, and then you'll just keep going

(51:14):
from there. So now you're twenty minutes of footage becomes
ten minutes of footage, You're ten minutes a footage becomes
five minutes a footage, You're five minutes of footage becomes
three minutes, and just keep going through. So those that's
the way I usually do it if I have a
lot of stuff to work with, great question and have fun.
That sounds like a fun trip. Now let's get into

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your Amazon News before we have. We've got ed Bag
coming up. He wrote for USA Today for many many
years and now he is the current AARP Tech editor.
He's going to talk about remote solutions for helping your
aging parents with their technology challenges if you don't live
near them, or we'll we're just.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Going to talk in general.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
I've been wanting to talk and see he edited all
the events over the years, so we'll talk to him
in just a moment. But let me give your Amazon News.
So first off, Amazon doing their Black Friday sale starts
November twenty first, so they're doing it for a week
November twenty first through December second. That might be longer
than a week, and of course they're promising all kinds
of stuff.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Oh look at this.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
You can get gas savings for the first time this year,
twenty five cents a gallon for Prime members. So buy
your gas during Prime Week. I mean you probably have
to buy it anyway, don't wait. Amazon also launching their competitor,
I guess their answer to Timu. It's called Amazon Hall.

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This is a section that sells stuff that's just twenty
dollars or less. Many items are priced under ten dollars
summer as low as a dollar. Here's the catch. It
takes you one to two weeks to get this stuff
delivered Amazon, which has made their name on super fast delivery.
The last time I got something delivered, I ordered it
that night and I got it delivered between four and
seven am. So this you have to wait up to

(52:59):
two weeks. I guess to compete with Timu. I guess
it's cheaper. Four dollars shipping fee for anything under twenty
five dollars, fifteen dollars return window, eight thousand return locations.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
You can get an.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
iPhone sixteen case for a bucks seventy nine, kitchen tongs
for four ninety nine winter gloves for three dollars twenty
one cents, table runners for two dollars ninety nine cents.
Amazon dot Com slash haul you can only shop from
your phone. Coming up next, Ed Bag, we'll talk tech
right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich
on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology.

(53:35):
We'll get back to those phone lines in just a
moment at eighty eight rich one oh one. That's eight
eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Give me a call if you have a question about technology.
The website for the show Richontech dot tv can also
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now is a former USA Today Tech columnist and current

(53:57):
AARP Tech editor.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Ed bay Ed Welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (54:02):
Hey, Rich, how you doing?

Speaker 1 (54:03):
I am doing fantastic. So we've seen each other at
many of the tech events over the years. How many
years did you cover tech for USA Today? It was
a long time.

Speaker 7 (54:12):
It was a long time, about twenty years, actually twenty
years over twenty years. Yeah, it's hard to believe. It
goes fast.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
And do you remember kind of the first thing that
wowed you there? Because twenty years are talking, Oh, this
is pre iPhone.

Speaker 7 (54:26):
It's pre iPhone. I mean, there were a lot of
things through the years. I mean I remember early on
being excited about the first Kindle for example, Wow, going back.
But the iPhone, of course, as we know, I'm not
breaking news here, changed so much. And I was fortunate
to be one of four reviewers who got to review

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the initial iPhone ahead of ahead of its launch, and
that was an interesting time, to say the least. And
I remember giving it a pretty glowing review and I
called it a prodigy and I said, like, some of
them burn out. Well I guess the iPhone didn't burn out.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
No, that has been quite the quite the amazing thing
for Apple. But here's the thing, and this happens with
a lot of tech products. When you're reviewing things in
a vacuum, especially something that different that no one had
ever really seen before. I mean, you're by yourself, You're
reviewing this thing, and you're like, I don't know, like,
are people going to like this or people not? Like
it was very limited when it first came out, but

(55:26):
it was so different that it was tough to compare
it to other things.

Speaker 7 (55:29):
So exactly exactly, it was limited, but it also was
very cool. I mean, you know, it didn't have things
that we all take for granted now. You know, there
was no app store to take one example back then,
and of course through the years we know how that changed.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
Yes, no turn by turn directions.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
I mean they had they had Google Maps on there,
but it wasn't the turn by turn that we all
know and love today. I remember when the Motorola I
think it was called the Droid Bionic came out with it.
It was the first exclusive turn by turn. It even
came with like a harness for your car to like
set it up like a GPS device.

Speaker 4 (56:05):
You know.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
Yeah, I mean so many things over the years. So
tell me about ARP as the tech editor. What's what's happening.

Speaker 7 (56:13):
Well, well, I'm writing a column Tech Ask kind of
asked the Tech Guru column in which we're taking questions
from readers and so you know, I'll give a plug
there send in your questions.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
What are the concerns that readers are.

Speaker 7 (56:28):
Well people, you know, it's interesting because we're dealing with
the fifty plus crowd. I mean there's a lot of
people who want, you know, hold on to landlines or
their old phone numbers and things like that. You know,
so we get we get interested in things like that certainly,
Like you know, it's very hard to generalize. Sometimes people think, oh,

(56:49):
a certain generation is in his tech savvy, but you know,
lots of people have grown up through the years with
technology who are certainly in the ARP crowd. So you know,
the people at every end of the spectrum in terms
of technology.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
And and post fifty at is not that old.

Speaker 7 (57:07):
It's not.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
Maybe when I was a kid, I thought it was,
but now I don't think that's that old. Let's talk
about some of the stuff in your recent One of
your recent articles or one of the recent articles in
AARP talked about access, like remote access. You know, if
you have a parent that's across the miles they need
some help with their computer. Is there a way to

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give that remote tech support?

Speaker 4 (57:31):
There?

Speaker 7 (57:32):
There is. There are several ways. And it's interesting because
many people, you know, if you work for a company,
for example, you may have had situations where you know,
an IT person in your organization will will literally take
control of your computer remotely, and if you feel comfortable
with it, you let them access you know, have at

(57:52):
the cursor and do what they have to do. Well,
you can actually do that, say with with you know
a parent or a grandparent who, as you say, lives
miles and miles away and you can't you can't answer
the support call and go to their house.

Speaker 4 (58:06):
Easily.

Speaker 7 (58:07):
Built into Windows, for example, is something called the Windows
Quick Assist and literally when you press control Windows, the
Windows logo key and the queue simultaneously, it brings up
this thing and there's some boxes there and a tool appears.
It's a pop up window, and it creates a code

(58:28):
that the person helping with being you in this case,
shares with the person needing help. And again, if they
feel comfortable with this, uh, you can literally take over
their computer and you're now the I T person for
your for your mom or your dad or your grandparents.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
And that's built in two Windows, built into Windows. I
did not know that.

Speaker 7 (58:48):
Yeah, Yeah, there are some alternatives. There are a bunch
of programs out there. I frankly haven't tested them, but
they're programs with names like any Desk and there's something
called detail Service and help wire and team Viewer.

Speaker 3 (59:03):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (59:03):
There's a lot of ways to do that. There's a
lot of remote programs out there, but again, you've got
this one built right into Windows. That's wild can be
very helpful.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
Now I'm curious because okay, look at it. I just
looked it up and it says learn to protect yourself
from tech support scams. Because here's the thing, ed, we
know that these these scam artists, one of the biggest
ways they take over people's computers is they tell them
to download some software, right they say, okay, now we're
going to lead you through. Could this be used nefariously
in that way as well? Like should people be aware

(59:32):
of that? Like if someone if someone that's not your
kid says, hey, let's connect using quick Assist, don't don't
allow it.

Speaker 7 (59:39):
Absolutely, you always have to keep your guard up, especially nowadays.
You know, Uh, scams, I mean we unfortunately, it's it's
the way of the world. There are a lot of
scams out there, and AI is helping perpetrate some of that.

Speaker 4 (59:54):
I guess.

Speaker 7 (59:54):
The bottom line here is do not do not grant
full access to a device to anyone you do not trust. Uh,
And even if it's somebody you think is a relative.
Make sure you know when you're when you're on one
of these things, uh, you know, be on the phone too.
At the same time, you know, Uh, that's always, you know,
a helpful and easy thing to do. And even if

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you're able to disconnect what you are because obviously, if
you take over my computer and I don't like what
you're doing, I can put you off. But before I
do that, who knows what damage you might do?

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
What about AI? Because you know everyone's using it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
I was just doing a talk to some folks the
other night and I said, look, don't be afraid of AI, Like,
try it out. You're not going to break anything. And
if you don't know how to use it, literally, you
could ask AI. You know, if I'm trying to figure
out how to do something, I will ask AI how
to ask it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
I'll say, hey, how would I ask you to do this?

Speaker 7 (01:00:47):
And it will tell me yeah, and sometimes exactly. And
that's a good, good use case for it, you know,
because it you know, it helps your brainstorm. You know,
what what is it? I forgot to ask? What is
it I should be asking? Who should I should be asking?

Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
Now?

Speaker 7 (01:01:02):
Of course we are, you know, we have to make
sure that the answers that you're getting are accurate. You know,
there's something out there that the tech community has called hallucinations,
where it sounds like what you know, it sounds like
a really authoritative, plausible answer, but guess what, it might
be made up or wrong. Now that stuff's getting a

(01:01:24):
little bit better, some of the companies behind this are
beginning to be a little bit better at providing sources
for the information that that's being you know, sent to you.
But you really have to be careful with what you're
getting back.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
Yeah, and that's the thing, Like nobody really wants to
sit there and fact check everything. But I've been using Perplexity,
which I really like for the you know, gives these
answers and then I'll give you like kind of where
it got the answers. I know that all of them
are really starting to do that more and more. Like
I've noticed, you know, Gemini kind of I think they
kind of pioneered the the Google one. Well, I guess
Perplexity always did, but now I've even noticed because chat

(01:02:00):
gybt has the web search built in, I think you
have to be premium.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
To get it.

Speaker 7 (01:02:05):
But yes, I know right now, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
They're giving some uh what do we call it citations
back in the day, right when you wrote a book report.

Speaker 7 (01:02:13):
Exactly exactly, and you know, I tell people have fun
with AI. You know, when I first started playing around
with it, I would be in a restaurant with my
family and and I remember one one time, We're at
a pizza place where it was cash only, and I
suddenly panic because I don't know about you, but I
don't carry that much cash for me anymore. And I

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so I'm gonna ask. I'm gonna have chat Gypt, I
think it was at the time, write a little on
the spot, little script about a scene about what it
is if you're in a restaurant without you know, without cash.
And it did it, and you know, it was not
an episode of Law and Order or anything, but it
wasn't bad. And then I'd said, well make it, you know,
add a character or make it better or jazz it

(01:02:56):
up somehow, and it would do that. And that was
early on. So you can have fun with AI too,
but just be careful if you're you know, be careful
about using it for something that's really serious, well, finance, health,
et cetera.

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
How did you get out of the restaurant without the cash?

Speaker 7 (01:03:11):
My wife had kid?

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
Okay, well I was so, I just I was at
a restaurant the other night with my family in New
York City actually, and I forgot to I locked my
wallet in my suitcase because I left the room and
I left it in the room to go on a run,
and when I went out to dinner, I forgot to
bring it, and so I'm eating dinner, and of course
I was actually treating for dinner. So I was like,
you guys won't believe this, but I actually forgot my wallet.

(01:03:33):
And my family was like, I mean, now they all
had their cards, so I could, you know. It wasn't
like we couldn't pay for dinner, but actually was able
to add my card from my payment. I actually have
a credit card app, you know, like one of my
bank apps, and it lets you add the card to
your wallet right from the app, and so I thought
that was kind of cool. I was like, oh, this
is why that's here. So I didn't even need the

(01:03:54):
physical card and I was able to tap to pay.
I asked the waiter, did do you take tap to
pay here? And he's like, yeah, we do. I'm like
all right, I'm like I will pay that way.

Speaker 7 (01:04:03):
You were ready to wash dishes.

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
Yeah, well, I was gonna just have my family pay
and I'd be like sorry, I said, I'd treat. But
you know you're paying any AI that you like, anything
that you're using.

Speaker 7 (01:04:14):
Well, I'm trying to play around with everything at this point.
You know, I'm interested in in where AI is going
with with healthcare, and really there's a lot of as
you know, again, I'm not breaking news here to say
that everybody is involved with this in some way. So
I'm playing around with everybody and they all have, you know,
things I like and things that could certainly be better.

(01:04:37):
But I I it's hard to say I would. It's
hard to pick a favorite, if.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
You will, Yeah, we're definitely, I mean, I'm the same way.
I'm using so many different ones. All right, A r
P tech editor ed Big, We're gonna leave it there.
What's the best way for folks to follow you these days?

Speaker 7 (01:04:50):
Well again, come come at us at a r A
a r P dot org slash tech a ar P
dot org slash tech. Al So look for my tech
Guru column which is in the main members the only
section of ARP. So join AARP if you're not already
remember and of course read our magazine, two, ARP Magazine

(01:05:11):
and the ARP boet.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Thanks, Ed, appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (01:05:14):
More Rich on tech right after good to be with you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
out with you, talking technology at Triple eight Rich one
on one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two
four one zero one. I got to tell you the
gift of the year, and I said this probably last year,
but it is just unbelievably amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
I gave my dad one of those Aura frames a
U R A and uh I didn't really know if
you would even like it, Like it's a digital picture frame, right,
And I am not kidding. I have never ever in
my life seen me give something to my dad that
was so quickly and universally loved. I've just never seen

(01:05:58):
anything like it. Like literally, he could not believe how
amazing it was that he could see the pictures that
he takes on his phone on his kitchen counter and
he's like, it's just he just keeps adding them and
adding them and adding them and adding them. And I said, well,
you know, you know everyone else can add pictures to
this frame as well from our phones, and it's just
it's just such an incredible thing that once again I

(01:06:23):
just can't help but recommend it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
So it's a U R A.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
And it's just I've tried a lot of these different
digital frames. I think that this brand is the best
because it's so simple and easy to use, and also
the software is really good and that makes a big difference.
I mean, I remember back in the day when digital
frames first started, you had to put like an SD
card into them, and that's how you got the pictures

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on there.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
This is all Wi Fi.

Speaker 1 (01:06:50):
And the cool thing is you can when you go
home for the holidays, you can set this up for
your family member and then you can still continue to
put pictures on that frame from your phone where you live.
So I'll put a link in the show notes or
a A U R A. And it's pretty pretty amazing.
I just thought of that because I got a notification
that my dad added more pictures to his frame. That's

(01:07:11):
why I thought about it, said, your dad has added
twenty more pictures to his frame.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Let's see here website for the show.

Speaker 1 (01:07:20):
Rich on tech dot TV, James wrote in question on
Apple Passwords, Hey, Rich, I have if I have everything
Apple computer, iPad, phone, is it okay to use Apple
Passwords as my password manager instead of one pass et cetera.
Thank you, enjoy your show. And listening to you on
KFI on Tuesday mornings. Thanks Jim and Dana.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
Point.

Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
Yes, so I think Apple Passwords is perfectly fine. Apple
Passwords is brand new. It is in iOS eighteen. It
is a full fledged passwords app. You can put all
your passwords in there. It will generate passwords, it will
do the two factor authentications. You can look for your
Wi Fi passwords in there. It will also handle pass keys,

(01:08:04):
so it does everything you need. Now here's my caveat
This is great if you only use Apple products. If
you don't, if you are thinking of switching, or use
a combination of products, I don't recommend this. Now if
you use a Windows computer, they do have a plug
in that will make this work. But you know, Apple's

(01:08:24):
heart is not in anything that's not Apple. In fact,
they make it actively tough for you to use their
stuff with non Apple stuff. So I would say they
probably begrudgingly made the password manager work for Windows computers,
but they know that. Okay, you might have an iPhone
plus a Windows computer. Fine, we'll give you this functionality.

(01:08:45):
But I would say, James, in your instance, yes, if
you have everything Apple and you're sticking to Apple forever, fine,
use it, but so like even okay, let me just
look at my Okay, so my passwords here. So like
I'm looking to see if there's a way to export
all my passwords to another device. Now, almost every single

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password manager in the world pretty much lets you export
your passwords to another program if you want to switch.
Of course, I'm not finding that in the Apple passwords.
Let me look in the apps. Let me see if
it's in the Maybe it's in the apps. Let's see passwords. Okay,
can you export? No, I don't see any way to

(01:09:30):
export my passwords. So that would be my number one
red flag is that if you're using something like a
dash lane or a one password or a Bitwarden or
nord pass, there's a million of them out there, they
all let you export your stuff so that you can
switch to another program. Apple, I don't see that functionality.
So that's one thing. Number two, I don't think it's

(01:09:51):
that easy to use, honestly, Like, I'm looking to see
if I want to add a new item, and it's
just okay, I think I'm just I think it's better
than nothing. Like obviously, it just locks you into their
ecosystem more and more and sure, it's easy and it's
gonna work with all their Safari and all this stuff.
But to me, I would just feel better if you

(01:10:13):
signed up with a third party app. But again, James,
if you're just gonna use Apple stuff, fine, it's gonna
work and it's better than nothing. So that's that's the
main thing is that's better than nothing. Let's see another
question here. Dennis writes in from San Clementy. Hey, Rich,
I've lost my email, which was SBC Global dot net

(01:10:36):
the Southern Bell. They were bought by Yahoo and years
later Yahoo was bought by AT and T and three
months ago I opened up my email and nothing's there. James,
Oh sorry, this is Dennis. Dennis Yahoo has I guess
they purchased or they whatever. It's switched over to Yahoo
mail now. So as I understand, if you go to
Yahoo dot com and log in with your original SBC

(01:10:59):
globe Net email address and password, your emails should be there.
Same thing with Cox if you have Cox Cable whatever
it was Cox Internet and your email used to be
through Cox. Yahoo also purchased that, or I guess they.
I don't know if they purchased it or they were
seated it whatever, it was, it's handed over to Yahoo.
They're handling it now. Same thing with AT and T.

(01:11:21):
It's all Yahoo mail now. So just go to Yahoo
dot com your Yahoo mail and log in with your
original log in and it should come over. That says,
I understand it, So let me know. Eighty eight rich
one O one eight eight eight seven four to two
four one zero one. Coming up to sad day in history.

(01:11:43):
The guy who voiced that You've got mail is no
longer with us. I'll explain. Eighty eight rich one on one.
This is rich on Tech. Welcome to another hour of
rich on Tech. My name is rich Demiro. Glad to
have you with me here hanging out talking technology. The
website for the show Richontech dot tv. The phone line

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for the show eight eight eight rich one oh one
eight eight eight.

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
Seven four to two four one zero one. Sad Week.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
The voice behind You've Got Mail has died. Elwood Edwards
was the iconic voice behind aols You've Got Mail greeting.
He passed away at seventy four in North Carolina. Now
he recorded that famous phrase You've got mail, along with welcome,
file's done, and goodbye. I can't do it as good

(01:12:36):
as he did back in nineteen eighty nine. He recorded
that and guess what he was paid just two hundred
bucks for it. His wife, Karen, was a customer service
rep at the company and volunteered him for the job.
This is when Steve Case was running the place, and uh,
just so wild that you can imagine that his wife

(01:12:58):
was like, hey, would you mind recording these things? We're
doing something at work, and next thing you know, you
are literally the voice of millions of Americans checking their
email on a daily basis and logging onto the internet.
Edwards maintained a successful career in broadcasting. He made appearances
on shows like The Tonight Show, and he just you know,

(01:13:18):
he never really did much more than the You've got
mail stuff, but kind of cool, just so cool that
I think he said, he didn't really make a lot
of money on that, but he was able. You know,
he had a nice career in broadcasting. I think he
worked at a local TV station. But anyway, we all
know that phrase. We've all said that phrase. There was

(01:13:39):
a movie of the same name, and I remember having
AOL by the way back in the day, and I
remember they had a section. AOL was like all little sections.
It was like sports entertainment news, and then there's a
section called like Internet. And I remember every day I'd
log onto my computer waiting for that little Internet to

(01:14:00):
switch from like coming soon to like now you can
access the Internet.

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
And one day it just switched, and I was like,
oh my gosh, where do I go? And I don't
even know.

Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
I think I probably went to like yahoo dot com
because there's like nothing on the Internet. I mean there was,
but it was like mostly like you know, universities and
personal web pages and things like that. But what a
wild ride it's been, that is for sure, what a
wild ride.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
Let's go to.

Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
Julie in Downy, California.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
Julie, I hear you. Can you lower your radio in
the background so we can hear your lovely voice?

Speaker 5 (01:14:30):
Oh my gosh, Okay, can you hear me now?

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
I can hear you now.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
It's like the Verizon guy before he went to sprint.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
Okay, how's that sound great? What can I help you with?

Speaker 4 (01:14:41):
Okay?

Speaker 9 (01:14:42):
Sorry about that?

Speaker 8 (01:14:43):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
So, my mom, who is an iPhone iPad user, is
looking to get a new iPad because hers.

Speaker 5 (01:14:49):
Is not holding a charge and she can't update some
of her apps anymore.

Speaker 6 (01:14:55):
Okay, okay, So she doesn't want to spend the.

Speaker 4 (01:15:00):
Money for a pro.

Speaker 6 (01:15:02):
She doesn't want a mini. And when I started to research,
I was looking at either ninth or tenth generation or
is there something else?

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
No, I just go with the tenth the tenth generation
iPad for mom. I think that's going to be on
sale over the holidays a lot. I'm already seeing. Uh
looks like the lowest price already is let's see two
sixty nine. Usually it's about three fifty, so.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
It's already on sale. Let me see how much it
is on UH.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
So on Apple's website it is the standard price, right,
which is three fifty all right?

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
Sorry to me? Three nine is that? Well?

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
Hold on, wait, that's really weird. If I on their
main website, it says three forty nine. Oh, I'm on
the education store. Okay, got it. Sorry, I got to
exit that. So three hundred and fifty bucks for this thing.
If you go online and you look at the different websites,
Amazon on selling it for about three twenty BJS, which

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I don't think you're in Downey. I don't think we
have those out here on the West coast. But that's
they're selling it. For two seventy So I think that's
a good indicator of where we might see that price
go over the holidays.

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
But that's uh, yeah, we don't have a BJ's here
in California.

Speaker 1 (01:16:21):
No, we don't, so no, but you know Costco may
sell it for that for a similar price.

Speaker 5 (01:16:28):
Right another, what did you say that price was?

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
Again, that was two seventy nine, So I'm looking at
let's see here. Yeah, so Amazon had it as low
as three hundred, so I would say, yeah, it looks
like it looks like the price point that most people
are going to have it at is probably around three hundred.
If you wait until Black Friday, like specifically that day,
you're probably going to get it for a little bit cheaper.
But I think in the weeks leading up to it,

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it's going to flirt with that three hundred dollars price point,
and maybe places like Costco and BJ's, because they are
membership member only, they don't have their prices as heavily
advertised outside of the store.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
It might be a little cheaper in there, but.

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
That's don't go with the ninth Don't go with the
ninth generation just because these things are already old to
begin with. Like the tenth and the ninth, so I
think they you know, the tenth is already from a
couple of years ago, so I would I would definitely. Wow,
I believe it's a I believe it's a twenty twenty
two model. Let me look, uh macro Rumors. So there's

(01:17:27):
a great website called mac Rumors Buyer's Guide. And if
I look at the iPad, let's see here the iPad. Yeah,
the iPad has been out for seven hundred and sixty
days since so that's two years. But here's the thing.
You know, what is mom doing on this thing?

Speaker 5 (01:17:47):
She looking up named the medicines and reading books and
not really place any games, and she uses it to
look up information. Yeah, it can be dangerous.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
This is well as long as she's not.

Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
You know, uh, does you have her credit card attached
to Apple pay to maybe take that away from.

Speaker 2 (01:18:03):
Mom, because yeah, no, she does.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
It's very easy to spend money on these things. These
little iPads are literally just like they're literally like your
extension of your bank account to like every company. That's
what really the iPhone is. It's like I was ordering
DoorDash last night, which I try not to do because
it's so expensive, and my wife gives me a hard
time because I go through like fifteen apps to see
which one is the cheapest. But these things, really the

(01:18:27):
iPhone revolutionize spending money in the easiest way ever, with
no friction. I mean, if you really think about it,
that's really what the iPhone has done. Anyway, So I
think the iPad, this ten generation iPad, will be just
fine for mom.

Speaker 5 (01:18:42):
Okay, wonderful, Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
Appreciate it all right, Julie, have a great day there
and downy. So a couple of resources for looking for deals.
Number one, Google Shopping. They just revamped Google Shopping. It's
completely new, so if you haven't been to it in
a while, check it out Google dot Com, slash shopping.
If you type in iPad tenth generation, it's gonna give
you all the places that sell it that are on

(01:19:05):
their kind of like network and how much they're selling
it for. So and I should have mentioned this though
for mom, for the nine year old mom as well,
she could go refurbished and save even more money. So
there are some places, like a gizmo Go you can
buy refurbished goods. Let's see, it's back markets. That's one

(01:19:27):
of them where you can buy refurbished goods. So there's
a lot of places you can go and buy these
things that are cheaper. What was the other one that
I just found out about Tiptop, So you can go
to Tiptop and buy stuff there. So there's a lot
of ways you can save money. Amazon renewed anyway, So
the shopping websites to look for the couple ways I

(01:19:48):
look for deals. Number one is Google Shopping. Yahoo actually
does a lot with shopping as well, so Yahoo's shopping.
And then the other one I like to do is
just type in the product that you want into Google,
so Apple, iPad, tenth generation, and then instead of just
scrolling through the links, actually hit the news tab and

(01:20:09):
you will find that you will see articles about sales
related to the iPad or whatever product you're looking for.
Why do you find those It's because all of these
bloggers it's in their best interest to post links to
these product deals because they get a little tiny cut.
It's called affiliate marketing. And so anyone who posted Amazon link,

(01:20:32):
myself included, they might get a little tiny bit of
that link. If you if you buy something from them,
they might get like one percent of that you know,
maybe on an iPad like a dollar or something. I
mean it's pennies, but it's still added up times. You know,
with these big blogs, millions of people buying off of them,
they get some money every month. So again you can

(01:20:52):
see Tom's guide number one link. iPad tenth generation is
my favorite iPad. It's one hundred and fifty dollars off
in an early Black Friday deal one hundred ninety nine
dollars that was on Amazon. The other way to track
these prices is to install Honey, which I really like.
And Honey has this thing called drop list, and once

(01:21:14):
you put an item in your shopping car on Amazon
or save it, it will email you when that price drops.

Speaker 2 (01:21:20):
And I'm not kidding.

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
So I wanted to get a new ring spotlight for
my house, and it was typically you know, I don't
know whatever it was, but I got an email from Honey.
I just put it in my shopping cart and just waited,
and I knew this thing was going to go on sale,
and sure enough, Honey emails me and says, hey, this
thing's on sale for one hundred and thirty bucks, and let's.

Speaker 2 (01:21:40):
See how much it is now. Ring Spotlight.

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
I think it's a floodlight camera I got. Let's see, Yeah,
it's up to two hundred dollars right now. I paid
one thirty. So again it's it's you're not going to
sit there on Amazon and check the prices every single day,
but honey is. And so I save seventy bucks on
this thing just because I installed this shopping helper.

Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
Now, obviously honey is.

Speaker 1 (01:22:07):
You know, it's a business and they're making money because
I think when you click the link that they send
you they get a little percentage of that. But hey,
they save me seventy bucks, so it's all good. Anyway,
I'll put all of these in the show notes rich
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coming up, install have another guest. This hour, we're gonna

(01:22:50):
talk to the folks that make this software that scans
papers at schools to see if they were written with AI.
That's gonna be interesting, and coming up right away the break,
I'll tell you about dealing with flight anxiety the apps
that might be able to help. This is rich on Tech.
Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

(01:23:11):
out with you, talking technology. So this week I went
to New York City. This actually might have been a
limit for me. I went for twenty four hours, left
la seven am on I don't know Tuesday morning was it?
And I returned Wednesday night at eight pm.

Speaker 2 (01:23:32):
So it was.

Speaker 1 (01:23:32):
Basically, well, I guess, is that more than twenty four hours.
It's a little bit more than twenty four any one
night in New York City. It was a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:23:39):
It was.

Speaker 1 (01:23:40):
It kind of tested even myself, not because I minded
doing all that travel in that time, but it was
really because I love New York City and it's such
a fun place. So I went to dinner with my
family on the night I was there. I actually, I
think I mentioned I used AI to find the restaurant.
So I used AI to find the restaurant. It was fantastic.
If you want to see by the way, they did

(01:24:00):
this thing at the Italian restaurant table side Tierra Mesoue,
which it was just fantastic. It's like they made the
Tierramisioue right right there table side, which I'd never seen before.
So I posted it to my Instagram at rich On
Tech and it was fantastic the restaurant. This is what
I love about these little walkable cities like that, is

(01:24:22):
that you just walk like we're walking down the street,
nothing is around, and all of a sudden, I'm like,
I think the restaurant's right Oh, there it is, and
it's right across the streets. It's a little, tiny, cozy
Italian restaurant, nicely lit, decorated for the holidays, and it
was just so nice and that the owner was there,
his wife was there, We're chatting with them. It was packed,
and it's just it feels like you're in a movie
because it's cold outside, but it's cozy inside. Everyone's just

(01:24:44):
chatting their big jackets and stuff, except for me, who
did not realize that it was cold there. So I
ended up having to go for a run. I went
for a run right when I got off the plane
and it was freezing. I mean, I'm talking wind whipping
all over my ears and I shorts and.

Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
I just you know, it was just so wild. But
I had a great time.

Speaker 1 (01:25:05):
Speaking of flying, if you're one of these anxious flyers,
and I know a lot of folks are, I am not,
I personally love flying. I think it's a miracle of technology,
and I love to put my faith and trust in
these amazing engineers and pilots that know how to do
this stuff, because I don't know how it works, honestly,

(01:25:25):
Like I am in this metal tube that is as
big as a house with three hundred other people, and
somehow it is the most comfortable thing to take off
from lax and land in New York City. How is
that possible? And I'm sitting there like, oh, ring the button, Come,
I have another drink please?

Speaker 2 (01:25:44):
How is that a thing?

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
Like you are literally sailing through the air at six
hundred miles an hour at thirty five thousand feet It
just works.

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
Ninety nine point nine percent of the time.

Speaker 1 (01:25:57):
So anyway, needless to say, I love flying, But I
know there's some white knuckle folks out there.

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
If you're one of those people.

Speaker 1 (01:26:05):
Travel and Leisure wrote an article about these apps that
can help nervous flyers. So the first one is called
Flying Calmly. This is available for the App Store and
Google Play. It gives you turbulence forecasts up to thirty
six hours ahead, so it shows you if there's going
to be turbulence on your flight. Now, I don't know

(01:26:26):
about you, if I'm a nervous flyer, I don't know
if that's a good thing or a bad thing to
know it. But I do know someone close to me
that is a nervous flyer and they look up the
turbulence forecast for the flight, and I think that they
feel better if they know they're going into the flight
when it's not going to be turbulent e. And if
it is going to be turbulent e if that's even
a word, they feel better knowing that, Like that's a

(01:26:48):
predicted thing, right, it's not just like random. By the way,
the best book I ever read that made me a
very confident flyer was by Patrick Smith. And trying to
get the name of the book here, let's see he
wrote the book Let's see Flying Ask the pilot. That

(01:27:09):
was the book. Great, great book. And I read this book,
and I don't know if this book made me. I
think if you don't like to fly, this book might
make you a more scared flyer. But for me, someone
who already liked it, it was like, okay, this is anyway,
Ask the Pilot by Patrick Smith. It's a great book
to read if you're a scared flyer. The other things

(01:27:32):
that they mentioned in this article sore so Sore is
another app that will tell you fear management lessons and
also a G force reader, so you can see the
G force on your plane through this app. Okay, I
think all these apps are actually secretly trying to make
people more scared. And then the one I like is

(01:27:52):
terbly t rbli dot com and this gives you the
turbulence forecast for your flight. You can just do it
on the website. But what's interesting is it gives you
the historical data, so it tells you the most turbulent
routes and the most turbulent airports. So I had a
feeling that in North America some of the most turbulent airports. Okay,

(01:28:16):
so the most turbulent airports of twenty twenty three in
North America number one Portland number two, Denver number three,
Las Vegas. I knew it was Las Vegas. Flying into
Las Vegas is like white knuckle. You're gripping that seat
the entire time you're landing because it's just like you're
being whipped all over the place.

Speaker 2 (01:28:33):
What is white knuckle.

Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
It's like when you hold something so tight that your
knuckles turn white.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
Okay, never saw that? You never you never like, held
on for dear life. I don't know, it just happens. No,
that's the first time I've ever heard it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:50):
Oh, it's it's terminology, but I you know, maybe you know.
My point is it's when you're nervous and you're just
hold you're holding on for dear life. You've heard that,
you get it now, but I didn't know you was before.
You've heard of that though, holding on for dear life. Course, Yeah,
so that's like I think it's similar. I think it
probably comes from like you can see your bone through
the skin.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
Maybe I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:29:11):
I guess they're playing me off. Then they also have
the most turbulent routes. Nashville. I knew it. Another one Nashville.
I flew in there and that was a you know,
a knucklebiter. Is that what they call it all has
to do with your knuckles? If rich on tech dot TV,
I'll link up the the apps and we're gonna talk

(01:29:32):
to turn it In CEO, the folks would turn it
In coming up next. Welcome back to rich on tech
Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The
website for the show rich on tech dot TV. If
you want the links, hit the light bulb for all
the stuff I just mentioned about. The flying Joining me

(01:29:52):
now is turn it In cpo Annie checkatelly.

Speaker 2 (01:29:56):
Annie. Welcome to the show.

Speaker 6 (01:29:58):
Thanks Rich. Happy to be here and excited for the conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
Absolutely So we're talking about turn it In.

Speaker 1 (01:30:05):
I know does some sort of you you can explain,
but you know, in schools AIS having a big impact
because it's being used for everything, not just students, but
everyone's using AI for just about everything at this point,
and so this is a real issue when it comes
to grading papers and students turning in stuff that don't
really care if they, you know, work the system.

Speaker 2 (01:30:26):
So explain what turn it In does.

Speaker 8 (01:30:30):
Sure so, turn it In is a company that's been
around for over twenty five years now.

Speaker 6 (01:30:36):
It got started.

Speaker 8 (01:30:38):
With the beginning of the Internet taking shape and teachers
feeling that many students were going to different sites and
copying and pasting and putting it into papers. So different technology,
similar problem in a different age, and so turn it in.
Originally was was created to find what we call cop

(01:31:00):
be paced plagiarism and to let teachers know when we
saw either there was a lot of matching between a
student paper and a site or perhaps even another paper
that a.

Speaker 6 (01:31:11):
Different student charge in.

Speaker 8 (01:31:13):
So really focused on academic integrity to help students really
create their own original thinking. And then with the advent
of chat GBT. So the end of twenty twenty two
was the release of chat GPT, but it wasn't the
first time we'd started working on generative AI. Chat GPT

(01:31:38):
or GPT three five came out actually in June twenty twenty,
so we got to play around with it in advance
to really learn the statistical patterns of generative AI in writing,
and so we were able to learn early, and so
when it came out, a lot of our customers and
teachers were quite afraid. I think that the sentiment has changed.

(01:32:00):
I think there's still a lot of fear. But those
first two months there were, you know, articles being written
everywhere such as like it's the end of the paper,
it's the end of the essay, Everyone's going to cheat.
And so even the New York public schools actually banned it.
It was January of twenty twenty three, in the hopes
of preventing any problems. There was like an early chaos,

(01:32:23):
and we created an AI Writing Indicator so that teachers
would have insight into whether or not AI was.

Speaker 6 (01:32:30):
Being used in papers.

Speaker 8 (01:32:32):
And so we've come a long way and it's been
quite a journey since then.

Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:32:36):
So at the end of the day, it's very similar.
The teacher feeds the paper that the student writes into
your software and it tells you if it's plagiarized basically,
or if it's coming from AI.

Speaker 8 (01:32:50):
Pretty much so, yes, the student turns it in through
their normal usually a learning management system, and then yes,
the teacher is able to see what parts of the
paper were either matching with a different paper or predicted
as AI writing.

Speaker 2 (01:33:04):
And how accurate are you? Like, how does this you know?

Speaker 1 (01:33:06):
There's so many papers out there, and I guess when
you say if it matches another paper, I think of
all the movies where they pull like at the fraternity house.
Like they pull like the filing cabin open. They're like, okay,
here's your science report that you can just copy and paste.
But how accurate is your technology?

Speaker 6 (01:33:26):
Yeah, so we can divide that up.

Speaker 8 (01:33:27):
So the copy paste the example of you know, pulling
a paper from a database of past papers, that's harder
to do with turn it in nowadays. And so in
that situation, it's actually quite easy because we show the
teacher the paper or the website or the journal article
that it matches. Right, So there's what we call it,

(01:33:48):
you know, a smoking gun there. It's very easy to
point out where that match happens. Whereas AI it's not
as simple.

Speaker 6 (01:33:56):
Right, we're not matching to something.

Speaker 8 (01:33:58):
We're using statistics patterns to determine if something was written
by AI. And in terms of the accuracy, there are
two parts, and it's really important to understand this. There
are two parts of accuracy that make up whether the
effectiveness of a tool. The first is and the most
important is the false positive rate.

Speaker 6 (01:34:19):
So that is when we say, or another tool.

Speaker 8 (01:34:22):
Says that something was written by AI and it was
actually written by a human. And so what we do
is we maximized to we reduce that as much as possible,
So we will change the well how much we catch
in order to keep that below one percent, So less
than one percent of papers will be flagged as having

(01:34:44):
over twenty percent AI.

Speaker 6 (01:34:49):
In total, whereas.

Speaker 8 (01:34:50):
We probably miss on the other side, we probably miss
about fifteen to twenty percent of AI we let go
by so as to keep that false positive break down.

Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
So what I mean, I guess the question is if
I use AI to write my paper, what is this
looking for? So looking for just AI? Is it using
AI to look for AI? Like it knows that a
you know, an AI writs in a certain way, and
can a human you know you said you have the
false positive and stuff. So I mean, obviously there are
instances where a kid probably says, no, I wrote this

(01:35:21):
whole thing and it was clearly just CHATCHBT.

Speaker 8 (01:35:23):
Like absolutely, and so yes, we use AI to detect AI.
So because of our history, we have a lot of
data on how students write, just not how humans right,
but how students write.

Speaker 2 (01:35:36):
Is it all these papers that were fed in back
in the day for the copy paste.

Speaker 8 (01:35:40):
Yes, yes, and so we have this trove of data
that shows us statistically how students put together words in
different types of scenarios.

Speaker 3 (01:35:54):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:35:54):
And then we have that model and we trained it,
and it compares itself to how a large language model
put together puts together words and sentences.

Speaker 6 (01:36:04):
And a large language model the way it writes is
not for completeness of thought.

Speaker 8 (01:36:11):
So when we write something, we think about, Okay, we're
going to make a point here, and we have the
end in mind. When we're writing, we know that we
have to complete a thought that at the end is
going to make a statement or an argument or whatever
it is that our.

Speaker 6 (01:36:25):
End goal is. And LM does not have an end
goal in mind. It goes word by word by word
by word.

Speaker 8 (01:36:31):
That's just predictabor meaning that's exactly what it is.

Speaker 6 (01:36:34):
It's just predicting the next word.

Speaker 8 (01:36:37):
And so it's always pulling the most probable next word,
which humans rarely do they do, but it's rare, especially
in the number of successions. So some of the safety
measures we have on our AI indicator is that we
won't make a prediction if the if there's less than

(01:36:57):
three hundred words, and that's unique to our We feel
we need that much text to really make a judgment
that we can provide insight into So that's one of
those examples.

Speaker 1 (01:37:08):
So can a student kind of check their own like,
do you have like a consumer facing tool that people
can access to like put their stuff into to see
if it might be flagged?

Speaker 2 (01:37:17):
We do not.

Speaker 6 (01:37:18):
We debate this a lot, and we debate it and
we talk about it with our.

Speaker 2 (01:37:21):
Customers because I know why we debate it now.

Speaker 1 (01:37:22):
I just thought of the reason, because then I would
just take my paper and I'll just keep tweaking one
word at a time until it said, oh no, this
was totally written by a human.

Speaker 2 (01:37:30):
Now I guess yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:37:33):
We do offer.

Speaker 8 (01:37:34):
I mean we are working on how we can do
that in a safe way. For instance, how do we
do that in a way that the teacher knows that
they did that. And so in our future iterations of
our product, we're really looking more not so much about detection,
but more about that transparency, so that assumption that you
know what, we're all going.

Speaker 6 (01:37:53):
To use this in different ways. What are responsible ways
of using this?

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
Okay, and I have coached this.

Speaker 1 (01:37:59):
I've got less than a minute, so I want to
I just want to. I got less than a minute,
so I want to. I want your advice for students
and teachers about this whole situation, like, what is your
you know, you've been working with this company for a
long time. What's your advice to students and teachers here?

Speaker 8 (01:38:14):
Yes, I have three teenagers and my husband teaches high
school English, so this is a very common discussion at
my house. So the number one thing is play with
it yourself, right, get accustomed to it. If you've not
open chat, GBT or a tool like that, use it.

Speaker 6 (01:38:29):
Also, ask your students to use it in front of you.

Speaker 8 (01:38:31):
I bet they're already using it in different ways, whether
it's summarizing things or making things easier. Ask them to
use it in front of you, even for a paper,
and see how they're using it, and you can learn
kind of the productive ways in the unproductive ways. And
then when you're talking to your cheek, your student, your kids, teacher,
ask them their philosophy on how much they think and

(01:38:53):
what types of assignments it's appropriate. This is all about
being transparent. It's not about you know, punitive, you know,
making this child punished because they use it, but helping
them understand the right way to use it.

Speaker 1 (01:39:05):
All right, any check Itatelly from the plagiarism detector tool
turn it in dot com. Thanks so much for joining
me today. Really interesting coming up, Rich, We are gonna
have your original thoughts. Nothing chatchybt coming up. It's gonna
be your original thoughts. It's the feedbag right here on
rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich

(01:39:29):
DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology, and it
is time once again for the feedbag. So if you
don't know what the feedbag is. I get a lot
of emails from you, a lot. Like when I say
a lot, I can sit down and do emails indefinitely,
like literally all day, all day, every day.

Speaker 2 (01:39:50):
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And if you know, if you've ever written me, you
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all the things that you send me that I find
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you want to submit something for the feedbag. And by
the way, feedbag is a combination of feedback and mail bag,

(01:40:12):
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it was clever and funny, and so we call it
the feedbag. Well I call it the feedbag I mean,
there's really no one else.

Speaker 2 (01:40:21):
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Just heard you talking about the Aura frame you got
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Speaker 3 (01:41:19):
It.

Speaker 1 (01:41:19):
Sits where we can see it and at our kitchen table.
It brings a smile to our faces seeing memories with
our kids and our grandkids, and yes, all of us
add to it, which makes it amazing to see pictures
we didn't add. I'm actually looking at my aura as
I type this email. Thanks for your great show and information, Agnes. Yes,
I'm telling you this is the easiest gift to get anyone,

(01:41:42):
because it just you can't look at this thing and
not smile. You think that you look at your photos
on the phone, You don't you realize that there's just
so many pictures locked onto your cell phone that you
never look at. And so by day you know, maybe
not day one, there is going to be amazing, but
you know, day three, day four, as you get into
a routine of saying, oh, I took a good picture today,

(01:42:03):
let me share that to my frame or my family's frame.
It's really a great thing. I'll put the link in
the show notes. Dat writes in Hi, Rich, my name
is Dat and I'm blind. I love your show, sir,
you make tech real fun. I'd like you to have
more guests on that are experts on assistive technology on
your show to keep us disabled folk updated on the
latest unique tech for us. Please talk more about accessibility

(01:42:25):
on your show thank you for a great show every week.

Speaker 2 (01:42:28):
That is a good point.

Speaker 1 (01:42:31):
We have had guests in the past talk about accessibility,
and I have gone to the season Accessibility conference, but
we will. I will make it a point to actually
book more guests that talk about these things, because there
are just so many things that are happening on a
daily basis that affect you know, the low vision, the

(01:42:52):
blind community, and just accessibility in general. Tech is such
a huge driver for accessibility, and so we do need
more of that, and I will absolutely keep that in
mind and book more guests for that.

Speaker 2 (01:43:04):
Thanks for that, Thanks for that that.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
Jay David writes in don't know if this will be seen,
but transition lenses need to be broken in by leaving
them in bright sun or under ultraviolet light to get dark.
If you wear them enough outside, they'll eventually darken. In
the past, I've put them in my backyard facing south.
My latest pair was treated at the store of the
UV device for about ten minutes and they got extremely
dark fully broken in. Huh So I mentioned that the

(01:43:30):
ray bands have transition lenses that go darker, but I
said they didn't get very dark and interesting, so Jay
David says that you got to leave them outside. Okay,
I'll leave them outside for a little bit. I feel
like I have noticed they've gotten darker over time, but
they're still They're not like sunglass dark. You know, it's
not like you. You know, So it's like anyway, Bonnie,

(01:43:53):
Oh gosh, this is all about the ray bands. I
would like to buy a pair of those ray bands.
Only problem is, no one thinks there's a large enough
market for people with smaller heads, slash faces, slash wrists,
and thus we get left out of the cool stuff
because it looks ridiculous on us. Thanks for all the
great info you share, Bonnie. You know it's funny. Every
product that's a wearable that I test, someone's not happy.

Speaker 2 (01:44:14):
On one side.

Speaker 1 (01:44:15):
Some people are like, oh that watch is too small,
Oh that watch is too big. So there are many
I think tech companies are getting hip or to the
fact that people want a variety of these devices and
various sizes. So the ray bands do come in various sizes.
So I think that you should give give him a check.
Daniel from Rutherfordton, North Carolina. He says he listens to

(01:44:37):
the podcast and writes in hey rich regarding the caller
who wanted to consolidate and sort photos from multiple external drives.
I suggest Mileo Photos. They have free and paid plans,
work across platforms and devices. Many people love it. I've
used it a little, though I'm not really a photo hoarder.
All right, Mileo Photos if you want a photo management

(01:44:57):
I personally still think Google Photos is the best. In fact,
I just finished a project that I've been trying to
accomplish for probably eight years now, and that is consolidating
all of these different drives I had of my photos,
like backups, and getting them all into Google Photos. Because
Google Photos, I don't know if you know this, but
it's not going to put in duplicates. So if you
have photos in different places, it will upload those photos

(01:45:20):
and it won't put them in your collection if they're duplicates,
which is really nice. So I just I was uploading
I mean I'm talking hundreds and hundreds of gigabytes of
photos that I was uploading, and it all went in
there and it's fine, and now I finally have that.
Now my second phase is to go into Google takeout
and actually download a copy of all my Google Photos.

(01:45:42):
Christopher from Commerce Georgia says, on your November ninth show,
you spoke about home internet provided by cellular companies. I
use T Mobile home Internet and I love it for
the price and speed. I browse email, stream Netflix, Discovery
Plus and Paramount Plus and keep my devices updated. It
works perfectly for all of that without any complaints. The
speed is perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:46:01):
Good to know.

Speaker 1 (01:46:02):
Neil from Ohio writes in, I just want to say
the cybersecurity Lady was great last week and today's newsletter
is fantastic. I'm counting on you to help us stay
more private and save more money. Thanks and keep them coming.
Thank you, Neil.

Speaker 2 (01:46:16):
Let's see.

Speaker 1 (01:46:16):
Paul writes in, I agreed about what you said about
the poor quality of Netflix movies. It was always a
challenge to find something worthwhile watching, and I usually ended
up disappointed in the acting or the plot. I finally
gave up and canceled my subscription. In these times of
rising prices, I was shocked, shocked, shocked to borrow Claude
Rains's line from Casablanca to get an email from my

(01:46:37):
visible phone provider saying my monthly fee is going down
by five dollars for me being a loyal customer of
six years. Thanks for all that you do well. Thank you,
and yes that is I joked last night on Netflix
on Instagram that if you were watching Hot Frosty on Netflix,
you should stop because we needed the bandwidth for the fight.

(01:46:57):
And Kim emailed me and she said, is that a
real movie? And I said, yes it is. It's on
the homepage of Netflix, and you know it's one of
their Hallmark movie esques. Anyway, I have not watched it.
That's going to do it for this episode of the show.
You can find links to everything I mentioned on my website.
Just go to richontech dot tv. You can find me
on social media, including my new found account at blue Sky.

(01:47:18):
I am at rich on Tech. If you haven't gotten
on there, check it out. It's kind of fun. It
feels like you're part of something new. Next week, we'll
have the Wirecutter on to talk about holiday deals and
how to use AI for your recipes and to bake.
Thank you so much for listening. There are so many
ways you can spend your time. I do appreciate you
spending it right here with me. Thanks to everyone who

(01:47:40):
makes this show possible. Bobo on the board today, Kim
on the phones. My name is Richdmiro, I will talk
to you real soon

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