Rich On Tech Radio Show 002 - January 14, 2023 - Rich On Tech

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Samsungs. That's a date on veil, It's newest smartphones. The
new scam with a yucky name. Yet another streaming service
is raising prices. Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on?
I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the
show where I talked about the tech stuff I think
you should know about. It's also the place where I

(00:22):
answer your questions. Phone lines are open at triple A
Rich one oh one. That's one eight eight eight rich
one oh one. And once again, my name is Rich Dmiro,
tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles and
now coming to you live on radio station's Coast to Coast. Now,
as many of you know, Leo Deporte has retired from

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radio and this is the new show, so welcome, very exciting.
This is episode number two. Now, many of you wrote
to me, tweeted me, DMed me. You let me know
that you listened last week, and I am very grateful
about that. Thank you. But I did not realize that
I had so many esteemed radio critics in my audience.

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It was kind of fun to hear from so many
of you. Alex said, good job, but yeah, you sounded
a little nervous because of that, it seemed like you
were rushing deep breath and you'll be fine. Okay, here
we go, deep breath. I know you know. When I
was growing up, I learned you didn't want any dead
airtime on the radio. So I felt like you had

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to fill every second with something, with some word, with
some phrase, with something pithy, something interesting. Mario said, avoid
speaking with what could be described as vocal fillers, such
as certain uses of the word whatever. Did I really
say whatever?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
A lot?

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Whatever? Randy said, great start, good guests, and excellent content.
Looking forward to your positive and uplifting attitude during the show. Okay,
I like that. I think things are getting better. Let's see.
Carooda said, good luck on your new radio slash streaming show.

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I am listening to streaming on my PC at home
in Honolulu, Hawaii. Okay, that's cool. Maybe we should do
a remote show from Honolulu, Coroda. Would you be good
with that? I think so. Mike said, super duper great
show was very tech diverse, focused, and very appreciatively moved quickly.

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Meliki and those were his words. Thanks Mike, and thank
you for listening. This show will continue to evolve just
like the tech I talk about in it. This is
episode number two. I'm still getting the hang of this. Yes,
I do TV during my weekdays, and so radio is
new to me. And it's really fun because I get

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to talk about this stuff for just a little bit
longer than I get to talk about this stuff I
do on TV. But it's all the same stuff, and
that's the beauty of it. So if I find something
interesting during the week, and I've got a pile of
stuff here to talk about, that's the whole point of
this show is it's really too you know, you're busy,
you're doing your work, you're doing your job, You've got
your kids, you've got your family, you've got travel, whatever

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you're doing, you know, you're taking care of you and
I'm taking care of the tech side of things. And
so the whole point of this is to, you know,
have me talk about the tech stuff that I think
you should know about. And that's what we're gonna do
here this week. Speaking of kids, I actually went to
a movie with the kids, and this is kind of
a big deal. I know a movie does not seem

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like a big deal, but it is because most of
the time, what are we doing we're streaming stuff at home,
and this was a movie we actually saw Puss and Boots,
which was funny. By the way, all the Shrek movies
are pretty funny. And you know, I'm not a big
like kids movie, especially animated movie person, but when they
get it right, like when they get the jokes to
work for the kids and the adults, I mean, that's

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a win in my book. And this was this was
like on point, so highly recommend seeing it. But going
to the movies was kind of a big deal because
a it's expensive and the movie is streaming at home,
so yeah, it was a little more expensive. Like this
movie is one of those like they're you know, they're
like experimenting with where it's like thirty bucks to watch
at home, which if you think about how much I've

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paid for three tickets, it was about the same. So
of course at home you only get to watch it once.
I guess that's the same in the movies. But it
was much more comfortable to be at home. You've got
your couch, you've got no overpriced popcorn. You know, I
can make my own popcorn. I've got my own soda
and drinks, and you know, candy could pause the movie
if you want to get up to do something. But
I think that's the problem, right, So when we got

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to this movie theater, the seats are comfy. They had
heated seats. I've never seen that before in a movie theater.
So here I am turning on the heat on a seat.
It was like a you know, it's felt like one
of those blankets, you know, those like heated blankets for
your back, like if you're having like a you know,
and I just happen to have like a little stretch
in my back that kind of hurt. So I'm like,
all right, this is cool. I'm getting like a back
therapy session and a movie all in one. So that

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was cool. You know, the kids are not really bopping
around as much as they would at home because it's
a movie theater. And when you're in a movie theater
something comes over you. It's like a hypnosis that you
just sit there and watch the screen. It's so big,
it's larger than life. And so that was kind of
the whole point of this. That was my thesis of
this whole movie is that you know, we've replaced so
many things in our lives with new, better, digital on

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demand and sometimes doing things the old way just feels right,
and a movie is one of those examples. Now, I
know the movie business has been impacted greatly by all
of this streaming and people with their big TVs and
this and that, But when you actually go to a movie,
I don't think you have a bad experience. I mean,
when I was a kid, yeah, the ground was sticky

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and you threw your trash on the ground, right. I mean,
now people take their trash and they put it in
the trash can at the end of the movie theater
when you walk out. I mean, that's an improvement. But
this whole experience because I had such a good time.
You know, every time I go to a movie in
the theater, which is not very often, I always like
plan my reach to the theater. I'm like, I'm going
to a movie next week. I can't wait. I'm taking
Tuesday off of work and I'm just gonna sit in

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that theater and watch a matinee. And you know, it
never really happens until like another six months. I'm like,
ah see, I should have come earlier. I should have
come to the movies again. But it got me thinking
of all the different ways that we sort of do
things digitally versus the old analog way. And one of
these questions I proposed as I'm trying to get organized
in the new year, I said to folks on Twitter,
I said, hey, do you use paper or digital for

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your daily planner, for your to do list? For your notes?
And I got so many people chiming in, you know,
paper is better, digital is better. Here's the app I use.
And so I went down this sort of rabbit hole
of trying out all these different apps for my to
do list and my daily notes. And I've used, you know,
all the suggestions people were telling me, and I did
come to a conclusion of one app that I really like.

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The problem is it's twelve dollars a month, and I
don't know if I want to be that organized, Like
it's my organization worth twelve dollars. I'm not sure, but
so far I really like it. It's called noe Plan, and
I like it is because it's a very simple thing
that not many apps offer. Many apps offer you the
ability to do a to do list, which is fine,
and then some have a calendar. This one puts it

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all together, so every single day you get a fresh
page for your calendar. That you can just take notes on.
It's kind of like a notebook for your calendar, and
that's the way I operate. Like every day, I'm like, Oh,
that's a cool website. Let me where do I put that?
Do I put it in my notes? Do I put
it in my to do list?

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (07:28):
I got to call someone? Do I put that in
my to do list, my notes, my calendar as a reminder?
Do I put it as an event in my calendar?
This sort of brings everything together.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Now.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
I think it's a little bit over the top for
many people's uses. It's got a lot of different little
features in it and the ways you can link notes
and templates and all this stuff. So I don't know
if I need all of that stuff, but it's a start.
And I've been using it now since let's see yesterday,
the day before, the day before that, so about three
days now, and I think that it has made me

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a better person. I think I'm much more organized. I
can see my notes from every single day this week,
and it doesn't get lost because you can refer to
the day before the next morning, so things that were
still on your list or your notes that you kind
of didn't get to you say, oh, yeah, that was
something I wanted to do. But this, of course got
me thinking about all these different things that we've just

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done digitally, Like remember all the things we used to
have on paper receipts, movie tickets, concert tickets, newspapers, records.
I saw a record player at CS that connects with
sons and I've never had a I mean I had
a record player as a kid in my house, but
I was like, I need this record player. And it's
an expensive record player, but it connects with Sonos, which

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I have in my house, and I just thought it'd
be cool to put a record on. And then I
told my wife about it, and she was like, a,
do we really need a record player with all the
streaming music we have? I said, I don't know. It
sounds kind of fun. I mean you got to change
the record every forty minutes, but I mean that's a
small price to pay, right. Sometimes it give me a
challenge to sort of adopt these new digits things, but

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then we get used to it. Like my mom, she
flew home the other day and I gave her her
boarding pass for the first time on her smartphone. I said, Mom,
I'm not printing this out for you. You're going to use
your phone as your boarding pass. And she was very hesitant,
but I said, you're going to do this, and you're
gonna And she was so proud of herself when she
got home with just her phone. Remember if you lost
your plane ticket was gone forever. I mean that that

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was the way things worked back in the day. Money
is digital. I mean we were asking around the office
the other day who uses, you know, cash, who has
cash on them? And only a handful of people actually
raise their hand. But if you ever try this, try
this for me, Take a twenty dollars bill and try
to spend it like using the cold, hard cash in
your hand. For some reason, it takes longer to come
out of your hand than tapping your phone. I don't

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know why. It's just like this thing like I can
tap my phone no problem, but if I have to
hand over cash, man, it's just a whole nother world. Anyway,
this is the kind of stuff I think about on
a weekly basis, And this is the kind of stuff
I'm putting in my new app that I like, called
note Plan. So I decided it it's a combination of
No Plan and Microsoft to do for me, and that's
what I'm gonna stick with for the new year. All Right,

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I've got a great show planned for you today coming up.
Bitcoin is up, Tesla is down. I've got the Google
Drive shortcut you need to know about. We're gonna talk
TVs later. We're gonna talk to a psychology professor about
whether big social media companies are really ruining teenagers' lives. Plus,
the phone lines are open at triple eight rich one

(10:26):
oh one. That's triple eight rich one O one. You
are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to 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. Phone lines
are open. It is triple eight rich one oh one,
Triple eight rich one O one. Andy is in Pine River. Andy,

(10:47):
You're on with rich.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Oh good afternoon. Thanks about for taking my call. I
was just wondering if you're gonna get into well, I'm
kind of a lot ied. I'm bed buying my first
one phone or Android phone, and just you know, is
there a model or a place you can start if
you don't need a whole It doesn't need to be

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that sophisticated. I don't need that much, you know, just
you know, it's kind of a way to wait in.
Is there something you know? How do you get started?

Speaker 1 (11:19):
You have no smartphone, You've never.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Had a start? Nope, I've never had a smartphone. I've
had a flip phone that I stepped on. I can't
even send tex to at the moment. I'm looking for something.
I'm pretty low tech, looking for something I don't need
a lot of.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
I mean, what do your friends think of this? I'm
I'm fascinated right now because you're you're one of a
few that don't have a phone unless someone's trying not
to have a phone, right, Like some people don't want
to have a smartphone. I know people like that, but
you've just not kind of gone into this world just
because what.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Well, because I like, give an example, like when I
was in a band, I didn't buy a CD player
till my band released CD. In other words, I wasn't
going to buy a CD to listen to somebody else's
music on a CD. So I recorded a CD. I
didn't need a CD player. So I've always been just
kind of a luddite and I never I never bought

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a computery, like that whole computer craze. It's like a
computer was kind of like a fancy file cabinet back
in the day, and then now all of a sudden,
you know, I mean, that's all I was. It was
an accounting packet. It was a file cabin with accounting packete.
So I never jumped into the hole let's buy a computer,
and I never did it, and it kind of left

(12:32):
me in the dust down the line because I never
wanted a smartphone. I just so here I am. You know,
it's twenty twenty two or twenty twenty three now, and
I don't have a smartphone. I'm off the grid as
far as you can get. I don't have a landline,
I don't have an I got nothing.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Don't even calling me. I mean, what are you? Are
you on a pigeon messenger pigeon right now?

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Am I a what?

Speaker 1 (12:55):
How are you calling me?

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (12:57):
I'm just calling on a flip phone. Oh don that.
I can't even text?

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Got it? Okay? So what do you want to do
on this new phone?

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Well, all I'd want to do on my phone, it's
just to be able to get on the internet, you know,
maybe get song lyrics and you know, get on Google.
You're not. It wouldn't need to be just almost minimal.
I don't need to Facebook or nothing.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
And you're not sitting there like with Apple Envy saying
oh I've got to have an iPhone. I mean, you
know you're open to Android as well.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yes, Android is what I was told. That's the simplest one.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Well, I mean, I think that's debatable, but I think
for I mean, you know, for someone just getting into this,
I would actually recommend a Google Pixel. I think that
that's going to be a phone that takes a great
pictures if you want to get into that eventually. But
also I think what you'll like about it is the voice.
It really has great voice commands, so you can.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Wrote I wrote that down, I wrote down Google Pixel.
But what I was asking, what is the Well, I
guess what I would ask, what's the price range for
one of those?

Speaker 1 (13:58):
So you can get the XEL six A, which is
the phone i'd recommend for you. That's sort of their
basic starter phone. It's gone on sale for as cheap
as about three hundred dollars, and I think it retails
for like four fifty. But I wouldn't pay that. I
would get you know, just check for sales and it
goes on pretty regularly.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
But what I like, the other question is is I
would like to avoid I don't want five G. I
heard that's very unhealthy, so I'd like to keep it
in the like four gears. Last, Is that an option too.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
I mean, there's ways that you might be able to
change that on your phone where you can kind of
limit it to LTE like a four G connection. But
I think that the whole five G issue is probably
a little bit overblown. I don't think you need to
worry about that, especially as a person who's just getting
their phone for the first time. I mean, I do
think about the fact that I wear an Apple Watch

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and I've got this connection that is just sort of
on my wrist at all times, like you know, during
the day, So you know, I think there's a there's
a reason to sort of wonder about that stuff, but
I'm not sure there's anything that's concrete, especially with the
five G signals. I mean, that's pretty standard on most
phones at this point. But I think the Pixel six
A is really going to be your best bet. I

(15:13):
think that you'll love the ability to use your voice
to search on that phone. It's got great voice search,
it's got a great camera. I think the software is
very simple, and also the software updates quite frequently, so
you'll get new features on that phone for a few years.
So if you're looking to invest, like I said, three
fifty four hundred bucks on a phone, I think it'll

(15:34):
last a long time. I know everyone has the iPhone,
and the iPhone is great, it's a fantastic device, but
you know there are other phones out there, and especially
for someone like yourself that's just getting into it, I
think that the Pixel six A is going to be
great for you. The only downside, and I'll tell you
this about getting the Pixel, is that your friends probably
don't have that, so when you have trouble with your phone,

(15:58):
you can't really ask a friend, Hey, how do I
put this into airplane mode? Or how do I put
this into you know, how do I change the Wi Fi?
Because most of your friends are probably gonna have iPhones,
so that would be the argument to maybe get a
basic iPhone if you don't want the Pixel. But great question, Andy.
I wish I had more time to hear about your
your rock star past, because I feel like there's a

(16:19):
lot there, and I think that you've probably got some
some cool stories there. But thanks for calling the show.
I appreciate it. All right. Phone lines are open triple
eight rich one oh one. That's one eight eight eight
seven four to two four one zero one. All right.
Speaking of smartphones, if you're in the market for a
new Samsung, I would hold off because Samsung is going

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to hold their next event they call them Unpacked events
in February February first, to be exact, this is their
first in person event in three years, and this is
for the Galaxy S series, so this is their top
of the line phones. The S twenty three is what
we're expecting to see here. Samsung says it will be
the epitome of how we define the ultimate premium experience.

(17:03):
In fact, this was the last event that I went
to before COVID stopped all of the events, so I
was up in San Francisco. It was at this really
cool location. I can't remember what it was called, but
it was so neat and it was packed, and I
remember there were little signs that had to take our
temperature because it was February something and it was just
at the beginning of COVID and they were like, Okay,
well we're still having this, but you know, everyone take

(17:24):
your temperature and you'll be fine. And I'm not even
sure masks were a thing at that point, but this
was the last event I went to before the entire
world came crashing down. So again, February first, we're going
to hear all about the new Samsungs. All right, coming up,
My guest is a psychology professor. She's going to talk

(17:44):
about Seattle public schools in the lawsuit against the big
tech social media companies, and whether TikTok is really ruining
our teenagers' lives. I'm also going to talk about Bitcoin
being up, Tesla being down, and the Google drive shortcut
you need to know about. My name is Richdimiro. You
are listening to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here, rich
on Tech. You are listening to rich on Tech on

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the radio. This is the show where we talk about
tech stuff and answer your questions. Phone lines are open
at triple eight Rich one oh one. So I should
probably mention that I am on social media. It's a
big part of my day actually Instagram at rich on Tech.
So I'm looking through some of the things I've posted lately.
I you would be surprised at how much time I

(18:29):
spend sort of crafting Instagram posts. And I don't know why,
because you know, it's just fun and I love I
think the combination, like when they came up with Reels,
which I know is a direct copy of TikTok, But
for me, Instagram is sort of where my followers are,
so I kind of stuck with it and it's just fun.
Like I got this video editing program that I use

(18:52):
on my phone called Splice, which a friend recommended. So
I was, okay, I guess I'll tell you the whole story.
But I was editing reels on my phone and using
the built in editor on Instagram, and it was just
it was horrific, like I couldn't do anything, like it
just took me hours on end to try to like
do one thing, and so I ended up. I saw

(19:12):
my friend who was posting, and I said, hey, how
are you getting these things so good? Like what how
are your posts always so amazing? He goes, dude, don't
use the built in editor. He's like, you got to
use this program called Splice, and so I downloaded it.
Of course it's like a little free trial, and then
it costs me money, but it has changed my life
because it's so great and it just works so well.

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And so now I'm editing things on Splice all the time,
and it's just it's almost like a hobby, and you know,
I don't have to do it, but it's just great
and it's fun. And so anyway, some of the things
I posted recently, some of the more fun ones. This
Lenovo notebook that is just wild. It's got like two
giant screens. It's a yoga notebook, so it just folds

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in a million different ways. I've got the Ring carcam
on there, which is the new ring you know them
for their video doorbell. They've got a new camera for
your car. And then I've got this cookie shot robot
that is inside Caesar's Palace. I've got this glow in
the dark basketball that I got my kid or well,
we got sorry, my cut my nephew. We got him

(20:18):
one of these things. Then we've got this Britta water
filter for your countertop. We've got the Ring Flying Drone camera.
I mean, it's just Oh. I've got this thing that
it's like a pet I don't know what you call it,
a flowbe for pets. It's just cool. It's just fun.
So anyway, check it out at richon Tech on Instagram
if you want to see some of my reels on there.

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And yes, I answer people's questions on there too, Like
people are always surprised when I write them back and say,
you know, like they'll comment on stuff, and I don't
really expect to return message when I text someone through Instagram,
and I'm always surprised that I never get them. But
when I right back to people, they're surprised they do
get them. And I do spend a fair amount of
time doing that again Instagram at rich on Tech if

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you want to join in the fun there. So bitcoin
a little surprise. Woke up this morning and I saw
an email that bitcoin was over twenty k. Now, this
is not the show where I'm gonna sit here and
talk about the nuances of the bitcoin price, but I
feel like this is a pretty big change in bitcoin
because it is above twenty thousand for the first time

(21:25):
since early November. And that's when ftx collapsed, you know,
that platform that was doing things a little, I don't know,
not so right, and everything came crashing down. And so
the whole thing about bitcoin is everyone was really into
this during the pandemic, and people were investing money and

(21:46):
they were excited. And yes, you still have a lot
of people that are excited, but then you have a
lot of people that have invested a lot of money
and now have to be excited because they wanted to
go back up so that they recoup some of their
losses that they've sustained over the last couple of years.
And so I think that's where we're at is there's
an excitement again because I looked at the numbers and

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you know, by the time you listen to this, if
you listen, you know later if you're not listening live,
you know, the numbers could be down again. But if
you look at the past month of bitcoin, it's up
like sixteen percent. Like where did that come from? And
I kind of I just stopped looking. I stopped looking
at the app that I used for this because I
just got bored and I was like, all right, you
know what, this money is gone. It's never coming back.
I don't have a ton of money in it, but

(22:27):
I've got some and I just you know, it's gone.
I just figured it was written off forever. But who knows,
Maybe it's not so. Bitcoin definitely going up, but if
you remember the high, it was over sixty five thousand
dollars at one point, and this is the price per coin.
I'm not a bitcoin expert, but you know it goes
by coin. And I remember my friend who is a

(22:50):
big sort of crypto person, he was emailing me back
when bitcoin was starting, and he's like, hey, you got
to cover bitcoin for your you know, tech report or
it's this thing is like over I think the coin
was over one hundred dollars and I was like, I
don't know if I'm getting into all this digital currency stuff,
but sure enough, he was right, and I probably should

(23:11):
have invested back then, but that didn't really work out anyway.
So if you have bitcoin and you want to take
a look at it once again and not feel so depressed,
now's the time to do it. But I wouldn't sell
just yet. I mean, actually, you know what, I'm not
giving investment advice. You can do whatever you want. But
I think it's one of these things where it's just
kind of at this point, you just kind of kind
of wait and watch. Speaking of Bitcoin being up, Tesla

(23:35):
is down. This week. Tesla cut prices across the board
on a lot of its cars. And you know, people
have been kind of mixed about Elon Musk lately. I
say that nicely because most people have been like, not
very nice about Elon Musk. But he's been making a
lot of changes both at Twitter and Tesla, and so

(23:57):
Tesla some massive price drops. The Model Why is now
thirteen thousand dollars less than it was just a few
days ago. That's almost twenty percent cheaper than it was.
So let's look at some of these prices. The Model
three old price about forty seven thousand, now the new
price forty four thousand. Model Why was sixty six thousand,

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and the new price is fifty three thousand. That's thirteen
thousand dollars less. The Model Why Performance was seventy thousand,
now it's fifty seven thousand. These are still very expensive cars.
And you know the thing about the Tesla is there's
a lot of competition that's grow. It's just the competition
continues to pile up against these cars. Now, I still

(24:43):
think that Tesla still has the best charging infrastructure, and
I think that makes the biggest difference for this company
than any other car you get. And I've heard horror
stories people that have other evs. You know, it can
be tricky. Now, with that said, if you are commuting
with this car, you know, any any EV you are
just fine. If you're charging at home or you're charging

(25:05):
at work. Most people are commuting, you know, maybe thirty
miles each way to work. That I think that's the
average in America. Most of these cars can do sixty
miles in a day, no problem, you know, many of them.
The new ones can do two, three hundred miles in
a day. You know. Then you've got the lucids that
can do like five hundred miles in a day. But
we don't really need that. I mean, I've done road trips.

(25:25):
I'm not driving five hundred miles before I stop to
get a drink or go to the bathroom or something.
I mean, you know, two hundred miles is just fine.
I mean, I think it's more of peace of mind
because we've gotten so used to the gas cars having
a five you know, four to five hundred mile range perhaps,
But with electric cars, if you're just getting one to commute,
you'll be fine. If you install a charger in your

(25:45):
garage or if you have charging at work, you'll be
just fine. With any of these electric cars, I think
the Tesla the advantage is it's got that that charging
infrastructure that allows you to take road trips and be
just fine because you can pretty much find a Tesla
charger supercharger anywhere. Now there are many electric chargers around,
they're just not that fast many times. And what people

(26:07):
realize the first time they take their non Tesla EV
on a road trip is, oh, wow, I pulled up
to this charger and it's a slow charger. So I
gotta stay here for an hour to get this thing charged,
or I gotta stay for forty five minutes to get
any kind of range on this thing, whereas a Tesla
it could be, you know, fifteen twenty five minutes to
get a charge, and if you want a full charge,

(26:29):
you know, you just got to stay there for half
an hour or something with some of these really fast chargers.
So the other thing about these Tesla is that I
think is happening here is that they are now once
again eligible for this seventy five hundred dollars US tax credit.
And that's a change at the beginning of the year.
So it's there's been a lot of changes with all
of this stuff. And the Tesla prices have just been

(26:51):
all over the place in general over the past couple
of years, but this, this price cut is pretty big.
I'm trying to see if there's something that I'm quoting
Electric by the way, that's a good blog that covers
all this stuff. Trying to see if Elon Musk said anything.
I guess he cited inflation and just kind of the
changing nature of this whole thing. But that's a pretty

(27:12):
big deal if you had your eye on a Tesla.
Now with that said, I think there's a lot of
other cars out there that if you just can wait
a year for a new EV I think that there's
a lot of cars out there to consider, and things
just continue to get better with evs. I mean here
in Los Angeles we're on based. I mean EV's have
been a thing for a while. I think in other cities,
you know, it's a good option if you just want

(27:33):
to be on the cutting edge, or if you like
different things, or like I said, if you're just commuting
with a car, that's kind of the way to do
it all. Right, coming up, we're going to talk about
another streaming service that is hiking prices. This just is
happening with all of them. Plus we're going to talk
TVs later on in the show. I've got some great

(27:54):
recommendations for Super Bowl TVs. And of course phone lines
are open at Triple eight. Rich one on one. You
are listening to me Rich DeMuro here on rich on Tech.
Welcome back to the show, Rich DeMuro here. This is
rich on Tech, the show where we talk tech stuff
and answer your questions. Ron is in Downey, California. Ron,

(28:16):
you're on with Rich.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Hey, richat great to talk to you. Hey, I've got
I've got a Chromebook and I've got a work laptop
and they connect to the Internet through Wi Fi no problem.
But my HP PC Windows ten I turned it on
this week and it won't connect. And I get an
error that says Wi Fi doesn't have a valid IP configuration.

(28:41):
Reset Wi Fi adapter completed, Investigate router or broadband modem
issues failed, and I don't know what to do. I've
searched on the internet for some command line codes to
reset things, and I'm kind of at a loss.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Now have you ever connected to the internet on this But.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
It's worked, it's worked, it's hummed along, worked just fine until.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
What what changed? Was it a software update.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
I don't know. I just turned it on. I turned
it on this week and I've wanted to download something,
but I could never connect. It would never it would
never connect to the internet.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
What about a different Wi Fi network? Have you tried that, a.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
Different Wi Fi network? Just from what five? Two four?

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Well? Yeah, I mean that's well that. I don't think
that's the problem, because you've said you've connected before. But
I'm saying, like, have you tried just connecting to a
different like you're trying to connect to the Wi Fi
network in your home. I'm guessing, what about like a
hotspot on your phone? Like will it connect to that?

Speaker 5 (29:41):
Like?

Speaker 4 (29:41):
Is it just haven't? Yeah, I haven't tried that, Okay.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
So I would start there and see if it would
connect to a different network. Have you deleted the old
network off the computer completely?

Speaker 6 (29:54):
No?

Speaker 4 (29:54):
Probably not, okay.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
So I would go into your Wi Fi settings and
look at your saved networks and then I would delete.

Speaker 4 (29:59):
The Oh yeah I've done that. Oh yeah, I did that. Yeah,
I did that.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Okay. And so when you do that and you does
it find the new does it find the network again?
And say connect? And you type in your password and
then what it just says, can't do it.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
It can't do it.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Interesting. Okay, Well, and you've tried restarting this obviously, yeah,
and that doesn't work. What about how old is this computer?

Speaker 4 (30:20):
It's probably seven or eight years old.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Oh okay, so it's it's definitely an older computer. Okay. Interesting.
Uh And you've done all the software updates on.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
It, yeah, as far as I know, but you know,
so it hasn't been turned on in a while, and
and now I just like, so I just want to
turn it on and download my tax software and I can't.
I can't get I can't get connected.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Interesting okay, Uh, well, it sounds like either the Wi
Fi connection has you know, it's kind of fried up.
But I without knowing if you're able to connect to
a different network. I think that's the tricky part. Do
you have a hotspot on your phone? Like, do you
have that ability to turn on your cell phone and
turn it into a hot spot or now?

Speaker 4 (31:03):
Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure I do. That's something I
don't think I've ever done. But I'm if that's a suggestion,
I can try and figure out how to do that.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah, so that's what Okay, So what I would do,
and this is you know how Rich would troubleshoot this personally,
is I would Number one, I'd update all the software
on this computer, so I would make sure that everything
is up to date. Make sure that you know I'm
running the latest software. It's all good. I would get
rid of any programs that I don't need. I mean,
there could be some malware that that's interfering here, that

(31:31):
might be interfering with your connection. So I would get
rid of any programs on this computer I don't need
anymore or don't recognize. I would delete those, and then
of course restart the computer one more time. I'd go
into my Wi Fi settings. I would delete any networks
that I'm no longer using, including the old network, and
then again I would restart, and then I would try

(31:51):
connecting this to my mobile phone. So turn on the
hot spot setting on your mobile phone. You can go
into settings, turn that on. It'll it'll generate a little
mobile hotspot just like your regular WiFi in your home,
and try connecting to that. If it doesn't connect to
that network, then you know you have a bigger problem here.
And it's not just the fact that your WiFi has
decided to stop talking to this computer. If you are

(32:13):
able to connect to the hot spot, you can use that,
of course. But then once you've got that connection uh completed,
now you can go back to the other Wi Fi
and see if that one works. And if it works,
you're good. If not, then you're gonna have to investigate
a little further. And it could you know, if it
connected to the one on your phone, it's probably not
a big problem because the hardware seems like it's intact,

(32:34):
So then it could be something with how your router
is configured. And that's getting a little bit more technical then,
you know, than most people want to deal with. But
that's kind of the uh the steps I would take
ron those are you know, those are the steps that
I would take to troubleshoot that and hopefully you can
get on there. I would just be careful if you're
doing taxes or anything, you know, very secure on a

(32:55):
computer that's that old. I would make sure that your
software is up to date and there's no no issues
with that computer because you know, that's that's some private
stuff there, so you want to make sure that computer
is secure. Thanks for the call, Uh, We've got is
it Gay in Woodland Hills.

Speaker 5 (33:13):
Yes, by thank you.

Speaker 7 (33:15):
I want to find out two things, if I may please.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Sure, Well, let's start with the first thing. That's the
first thing.

Speaker 7 (33:23):
First one is how do I play a DVD on
my Chromebook? And the second is the transfer from last
test to Bidwarmen. I was told if you do that,
there's a point where your transferred file will lose encryption
and it has to be deleted right away. That's what

(33:44):
Leo said. So if you can give me a step
by step process how to do that transfer from last
past to bid warm Those are two questions.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Okay, Well let's start with the Let's start with the
DVDs on the Chromebook. So it's possible it's going to
require an external DVD drive. So if you've got you know,
you probably have to invest in one of these things,
and it's going to need a specific DVD drive because
not all of them are going to work. For instance,

(34:14):
I've got the I've got a MacBook and they stop
doing DVD drive so a while ago on these things,
and so at home, I've got just a DVD drive
that I plug in from time to time, and you
plug it in, the computer recognizes it and it works. Now,
I'm not sure exactly how far you can go with
this DVD device, Like you probably don't want to get

(34:35):
like a DVD burner or anything like that, because it's
probably not going to be able to burn DVDs or
do anything very elaborate, but you should be able to
play them. And from everything I'm seeing, it looks like
you're going to need some software to do that as well,
which VLC should should take care of that. VLC is
a great sort of it's almost like a Swiss Army

(34:57):
knife of apps. It will play almost anything, and so
you can you know, you can use that to play
the DVD. It'll play almost any file. It's a great
program that a lot of people rely on. When you
find a file that just doesn't work, try VLC. And
it's an open source program that should work. So that's that.
I mean, you're gonna have to invest a little bit.
I'm not sure how much those drives cost anymore, maybe

(35:18):
thirty to fifty dollars for one of those drives. When
it comes to switching over from last Pass to Bitwarden,
and you know, it's a logical thing to do because
last Pass has had so many issues The issue is
you probably have to have a file that is going

(35:39):
to be readable by Bitwarden, and I'm guessing that's a
you know, Comma separated value. Anyway, last pass is going
to export your file. Bitwarden's going to take that file.
But for it to read it, you know, you've got
to have no encryption on there because the file, you know,
it has to be able to see all your passwords
and your user names. So once it's in Bitwarden, it's

(36:01):
going to be encrypted again. But yes, I think what
you're referring to is you probably want to get rid
of that file almost immediately because it is going to
be pretty insecure. And that's the concern is you don't
want to keep that password file on your computer because
someone could just crack open that file and see everything
that's in there because of the way you need to

(36:21):
export it. But I love Bitwarden. I think it's a
great program. I think that's a smart thing to do.
So thanks for calling from Woodland Hills this morning. You're
listening to Rich on Tech. Coming up later in the show,
I'm going to talk about the Google Drive shortcut you
need to know about, plus the streaming service that's hiking
prices similar story these days. My name is Rich Damiro.

(36:41):
Give me a call Triple eight rich one oh one.
Welcome to rich on Tech. This is the show where
we talk about tech stuff and answer your questions. My
name is Rich Jamiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five
in Los Angeles. During the week, I am covering technology
for ATLA, keeping track of all the trends and things

(37:02):
that you need to know about, and on the weekends
right here talking with you about the stuff that happens
during the week. And there's a lot of it. A
lot of things are little, some things are big. Depends
on the week, depends on you know, sort of the
new cycle of things. But there's always something. There's always
something changing in the tech world. If you want to
keep up with me, I am on social media at

(37:24):
rich on Tech. My website is rich on tech dot tv.
That's also where you can watch my TV segments. So
it's where I sort of take a deep dive into
different things, new gadgets, kind of cool. Last night we
were watching Shark Tank. One of the stories I did
last week, I met with a startup that was going

(37:46):
to be on Shark Tank and they were on last night,
and I guess spoiler alert since it's already aired. They
got a deal, which is kind of fun. So it
was kind of neat to watch them because I just
had interviewed them at their place in Hollywood and then
seeing them on TV that night. But of course Shark
Tank was taped like months ago, but they couldn't tell
me what the outcome was, so I got to watch
it live. Kind of cool, kind of fun. They did

(38:08):
a well, I guess it's It was called Cabinet, and
it's basically a new way for your medicine cabinet like
reusable pill bottles, cool idea. Hbo Max announces its first
price hike, effective immediately. I mean, I don't know if
you've seen the trend, but pretty much every single streaming

(38:29):
service that I have has gone up in the past
I don't know, six months to a year. I mean,
every single one of them, just like clockwork. So I'm
paying more for my YouTube TV paying sorry, not YouTube TV,
what's the other one? Just YouTube? I guess YouTube premium
went up from like I think it was seventeen ninety

(38:50):
nine to twenty two ninety nine, and then my Apple
storage went up. Netflix went up. Actually, I think the
Netflix was the one that didn't go up because I
was subscribed to the highest. I can't you know, I
can't even keep them straight anymore because so many of
these things came in And the thing is they've got
you on that automatic payment. So realistically, what are you
gonna do. You're gonna stop subscribing to Netflix because of
a dollar price increase? I don't know. I mean some

(39:12):
people consider it, I guess, but in my house, you know,
people if I mention anything about switching up services, it's like, oh, no,
you can't do that. I may watch that one day, okay.
But Warner Brothers, which owns HBO Max Warner Brothers Discovery,
raising the price for the first time since it launched
two years ago. So effective Thursday, January twelfth, the price

(39:33):
went up from fourteen ninety nine to fifteen ninety nine
a month, So that's about a seven percent increase. According
to Variety, existing subscribers who are already paying fourteen ninety
nine a month will see their rate increase to fifteen
ninety nine a month effective next billing cycle. So Saturday,
February eleventh, I guess if you if basically, if your

(39:57):
subscription is passed that day, Like if you get billed
on the twelfth, the thirteenth, whatever, you're going to see
it on the next cycle, not this one, because it
didn't have time to catch this cycle. And then they
said they told Variety that the price increase of one
dollar will allow us to continue to invest in providing
even more culture defining programming and improving our customer experience

(40:18):
for all users, the company said in a statement. So
one dollar makes a big difference. I guess when you
have seventy million subscribers, then you know it's seventy million
dollars a month. You just printed at a thin air,
and maybe a couple of people will drop it. But
I don't think so. I think that once you're on
these this cycle, remember Hbo when you had it as

(40:39):
part of your cable company. It was really tough to
get rid of because you had to call someone and
you had to say, you know, you know, Sopranos just ended.
I'm not really watching anything on there. I don't really
I can't justify the twenty dollars a month, And they'd say,
no problem, sir, we can give you Hbo for the
next six months. For five dollars a month and he said, okay, fine,

(41:02):
I'll keep it. Now. You can't really do that. I mean,
some of these will do that. Like I had Paramount
Plus and I went to cancel it and it said, hey,
you know, keep it for another three months for you know,
ninety nine cents or whatever it was. So some of
them do have some of these like systems programmed to
try to keep you even when you get rid of it,
But I don't know if they're savvy. Most of them,

(41:22):
like Netflix is literally just like you. You you say cancel,
and it's like canceled before you even breathe, like before
you even click. It's like, oh, shoot, did I really
just do that? Uh oh h Now I got to
go back because some of them are just merciless. They'll
just cancel immediately. Like you don't even get that like
confirmation screen that says please stay so HBO Max, don't
be surprised when your price goes up. Joe is in

(41:44):
Los Angeles? Did I get that right?

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Joe?

Speaker 1 (41:47):
Are you in LA or Louisiana? Y? No, Okay, what's
going on?

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Joe?

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 6 (41:53):
Oh and welcome.

Speaker 8 (41:55):
I've seen a lot of times I'm glad that John
dis So of course, and there's the other show. But sure,
we're gonna listen to you from now. I don't know,
get about catch on a while to listen Lilio every
now and then as well.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Well excellent, thank you the best of both worlds.

Speaker 8 (42:13):
Absolutely.

Speaker 6 (42:14):
So I'm here.

Speaker 8 (42:15):
I'm just doing some household chores on a rainy day
and one of the things that bigger. Hey, maybe not
to get to the rich. You got a question about
the flat TV. It's an older one, obviously, you got
some new smart TVs here. I got a Roco box.

Speaker 7 (42:26):
Hooped up to it.

Speaker 8 (42:27):
I got the dish hooked up to it, DVR.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Hooked up it.

Speaker 8 (42:30):
But one of the things it's not and I discovered
it's not blue tooth capable. I've tried searching like a
Hitten menu at all. So no, there's something external I
could plug into, maybe to a USB port, perhaps get
it blue tooth capable, because then I have I was
a Bluetooth speaker, you know, soundbody. They would work with
it if I'm able to do that.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
Okay, I don't know if they have one that would
plug in via USB, because I don't think that that
TV would output the audio signal through USB. But does
it have some other external connections like an RCA or
like even like a headphone jack on the back? Do
you do you see those? Does it have any of
those things?

Speaker 8 (43:08):
The RCA is is there the audiof but I got
a tuble check. I'm not in the same room or
the TV.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
Is that right now?

Speaker 8 (43:15):
But I'm thinking those RCA audio is already being utilized,
and I forget where it might have been the dish
or it might be the vocal box. Is there splitters
a little ball or do I have to decide between
one or the other?

Speaker 9 (43:27):
They?

Speaker 1 (43:27):
Yeah, I mean there may be a splitter. I mean,
obviously you can find anything on Amazon, but I don't
know if that would be the best quality audio. But
there are devices you can plug in, like a Bluetooth
transmitter that you can plug into the back of this TV.
You know, they're not that expensive. I'm looking on Amazon
right now. I see one for about forty bucks. I
think the problem is going to be the sync, like

(43:48):
whether it actually syncs up to what you're seeing on
TV may or may not work. I think that's the
biggest consideration. Do you want to be able to listen
to all of the audio through this TV on headphones
or is it just certain things like you're maybe just
your streaming. No.

Speaker 8 (44:03):
Absolutely. What I wanted to do is, uh, there's a
USB stone bar we have, and I like it to
be able to listen to the programs through the USB
songdbar rehab. I tell us a Bluetooth sombar.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
Okay, so it's a Bluetooth soundbar, So you want to
connect the Bluetooth soundbar. Okay, Yeah, So I think you're
gonna need one of these transmitters and you're just gonna
have to kind of try and see if it works.
So you know, it connects in different ways. If you've
got an optical out on the back of this TV,
some of the older TVs do have that, that may work.
That's probably your best bet. Actually, that's the way I
connect connected many things over the years, was the optical out.

(44:37):
But I think that might work, and that will take
the optical audio output and it will send that to
the Bluetooth transmitter and then your Bluetooth sound bar will
pick up that signal, and of course you can hear
things through there, and that should work with all the
audio that runs through the TV. So whether it's the dish,
whether it's the Roku box. The other solution you could

(45:00):
use or try is you know Roku boxes, the rokup remote.
A lot of them have like a little headphone jack
on the side. Does yours have that or no?

Speaker 8 (45:10):
Yeah, and actually it does work. We've done that already
when that's when we're watching, say we're streaming a movie,
and I'll do exactly what you just said, I'll plug
the ro cool uh jack and then then when we're
hearing the sound bar and we're watching the movie through that.
But that's only when we're utilizing the rocup box. If
I'm watching you know, something on dish or whatever, then
again that doesn't work. It's not utilizing a roll cup.

(45:32):
So absolutely, you know that does work. But then our
thing is that maybe perhaps making uh you know, utilizing
the Bluetooth or gaming a game a capable. That's that's
what I was asking. But that what you just said,
it actually does work.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Well, Okay, so that that's one option. But I think
the Bluetooth transmitter, if you want everything from this TV
to go through the sound bar, I think that's probably
gonna be your best bet. And it's gonna be a
hit or miss. Like this may work amazing, it may
not work very well at all. I have not personally
tried this, but that is kind of the solution.

Speaker 9 (46:02):
Now.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
If you have a you know, if you have a
headphone jack on there, like a you know, standard headphone
jack on the back, that would be your best bet.
There's also another company that I like called Airfly and
or sorry, a device called Airfly from a company called
twelve South, and they make a little device that you
can plug in. It's very simple and easy that that
may work as a way to just sort of connect

(46:24):
these two things. I mean, I think the bluetooth transmitter.
Just search Bluetooth transmitter for TV on Amazon and pick
one that you think is you know, either highly rated,
lots of reviews and people say it works and try
it and if it doesn't, you can always return it.
But that's that's what I do. So thanks for listening.
Is it's still raining outside in Los Angeles because.

Speaker 8 (46:43):
It yeah, but you know what, it's raining, but kind
of like regular. Last week's storm was a little bit
more hefty.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
This one.

Speaker 8 (46:52):
We'll see how it goes. It looks like it's just
regular nice going on.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Oh, man. Yeah, it's been it's been wild here in
Los Angeles. I'm more rain in the past six months
than I've seen in a long long time here. But
it's cozy in here in the studio. You are listening
to Rich on Tech. My name is rich DeMuro. Coming up,
we're going to talk about Seattle Public schools. They are
suing these big tech companies over the youth of our nation,

(47:21):
and I will talk about that. Coming up, Phone number
triple eight, Rich one oh one. You are listening to
rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. This
is the show where we talk about technology and answer
your questions. My name is Richdmuro. I am at Rich
on Tech. On social media, oh gosh. Speaking of social media,

(47:41):
Seattle Public Schools filed a ninety one page lawsuit against
the companies behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and YouTube. They
say that these apps are ruining kids' lives. Now, I'm
a parent and my kids are not on social media,
but they are on devices, and I've seen the impact

(48:02):
of that, and I think that there's a lot to
unpack here. Joining me is professor of psychology Gene Twangy.
She is author of Eye Jen why today's super connected
kids are growing up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy,
and completely unprepared for adulthood. Gene, thanks for joining me.

Speaker 9 (48:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
What do you make of this? What do you make
of this lawsuit? Like when you heard about it, what
did you think? What was your reaction?

Speaker 10 (48:33):
Well, it is actually really just yet another case where
people are trying to hold the social media companies to account.
So at this point, doesn't the families have social media
companies for harm to their children? And a group of
attorneys general are doing the same on the behalf of state.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
Governments, And so far it's been like teflon, you know,
it's nothing's really stuck. And they all say, oh, we're
doing what we can. We've got these you know, safety
things in place. We do this with the advertising. They
make a small change. But the school system is accusing
these social media platforms of increasing students' anxiety and depression.

(49:19):
Is that possible through social media?

Speaker 10 (49:23):
Absolutely? And we have lots and lots of studies showing
that that's the case. The more time a team spends
on social media, the more likely it is that she's depressed,
that she's harming herself. The experimental data showing causation as well. Plus,
the adolescent mental health crisis that we're grappling with right

(49:43):
now didn't begin during the pandemic. It began more than
ten years ago, right at the time that social media,
because became very popular among kids.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
What is it about social media that is feeding this?
Like what makes you know, what ruins these teams life
lives because of it?

Speaker 7 (50:01):
Like?

Speaker 1 (50:01):
What is it doing to them?

Speaker 10 (50:03):
There's a lot of factors. There's a lot of factors.
So for some young people, especially girls, they experience major
issues with body image and eating disorcer disorders. And Facebook's
own research delved into that, so they you know, the
company's aware that these things are happening, you know, based

(50:26):
on the Facebook papers that were leaked in fall twenty
twenty one by Francis Howgen. So that's one of the issues. There's,
of course, cyber bullying. There's, of course the constant comparison
to other people. There's seeing all the things you're missing
out on. There's the amount of time that teams are

(50:47):
spending on social media, which is not a coincidence because
the algorithms on these apps are designed to keep people
on the apps for as long as possible and keep
them coming back as many times as possile.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
Now, can't some of this be said for adults? I mean,
I see the same thing happening with adults. You know,
you see someone on vacation and next thing you know,
you want to go to that vacation place as an adult.
Is it different because our brains are you know, different?
Or is it the same problem?

Speaker 10 (51:17):
The problem is similar, It's just that for adults, you know,
right or wrong. We consider adults as making their own choices,
and we as a society tend to protect children and
teens from many of these harms. So, for example, alcohol,
Alcohol can be harmful no matter what age you are

(51:40):
when you're using it, But we have made the drinking
age twenty one with the idea that children and teens
are less able to control those impulses and make good
decisions when it comes to alcohol. You could argue the
same should possibly be true for social media. Yet there's
lots of kids on these platforms and minim they are

(52:01):
supposed to be thirteen. It's not enforced, and these platforms
were not designed for children, they were designed for adults.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
I see it every day in my home. I mean
I see my kids flipping through not TikTok, but you know,
YouTube shorts, maybe to a lesser extent Instagram, but it's
it's definitely it takes a hold of them. I mean,
they can't stop. And also we haven't even talked about
the information that they're getting from there. That could be wrong.
I mean, as an adult, you know, you have a
sense of what's real, what's fake, what's not, you know

(52:31):
what's good, what's bad. As kids, you may not have that,
and I think that's another issue that we see here.
What's your recommendation to parents about all this? What do
you think parents can do to either understand this more
or you know, act with their teams? I mean do
they The problem is the teenagers are all on it,
so you can't stop them from being on there.

Speaker 10 (52:52):
Of course you can, of course. Why why Well, I
mean it is true that the companies are basically conspiring
again parents to allow us to do that. They don't
require Frital perussion because they don't force their eight limits. However,
to take it as as a parent, so one has
no device in the bedrooms overnight. That's not just good

(53:14):
for kids and teens, it's good for adults too, because
that will at the very least prevent them being on
it in the middle of the night. But then, you know,
don't allow your kids to have social media until they're
at least thirteen. That's actually the way it's supposed to
be under the law. And consider having that age be
sixteen or even eighteen.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
What do you do all their friends are on it?
How do you deal with that?

Speaker 9 (53:38):
You say no.

Speaker 10 (53:39):
If all their friends were drinking alcohol or jumping off cliffs,
you could also say no.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
It's not easy as a parent to do that.

Speaker 10 (53:46):
And I'm not going to suggest it's easy. I don't
mean to be overly good. I have three kids myself, sixteen, thirteen,
and ten. So there are other ways to communicate.

Speaker 5 (53:55):
Is the thing.

Speaker 10 (53:56):
You can text, you can face time. There is so
many other ways that kids can connect online. It doesn't
have to be social media.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Yeah, all right, I'm gonna have to leave it there
for time. Thank you, doctor Gene Twangy for talking to me,
author of I jen Why today's super connected kids are
growing up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy, and completely
unprepared for adulthood. It's a problem even in my house.
My kid wants, you know, he wants to sign up

(54:25):
for a discord. He wants he wants me to change
his Google account to be thirteen and up so that
he can access certain things that he can't get with
his account that he's with his real age. So I
don't know what to say as a parent. It's really
really tricky. And I understand if you're listening and you're saying, Rich,
these are really really tough things to stand firm on,

(54:45):
But I get it. My name is Rich Dmiro. You're
listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
My name is Rich Damiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel
five in Los Angeles. Taking your calls at triple eight
Rich one one. That's one eight eight eight seven four
to two, four to one zero one. You can find

(55:06):
me on social media at rich on Tech. You can
even email me rich on Tech. Dot tv is the website.
Got a dm on Instagram and this is Alejandra says.
Do you know how do you know if some apps
are listening to your conversations? How do you disconnect them?
It's a good question. Now, I know this gets into

(55:28):
some sort of conspiracy theory kind of things, but it's
a valid argument. It's a valid question of you know, well,
number one, what qualifies as an app spying on you?
Are you just thinking about audio and video or are
you thinking about location as well? So I would consider
all three of these things. Also, your camera, could it
be monitoring that? Your microphone could it be monitoring that.

(55:51):
Now this all comes to sort of the forefront when
remember how a lot of people and I guess people
still say this, but they say that Facebook is listening
to them because the ads on there. You see an
ad on Instagram, and it's uncanny. It's like something that
you just talked about with your friend and you said,
they must be listening to me because I'm seeing an

(56:12):
ad for the dog food that my friend was telling
me about, or the mattress or the sneakers or anything.
And everyone's had it happen to them, myself included. And
I come from the background of there's just no way
that Facebook is listening to our microphones, to millions and
millions of people, billions of people and scanning for keywords

(56:36):
and then matching up those keywords. But it is uncanny,
and it is quite remarkable how many times this happens,
and I'm talking even if you go to a friend's
house for dinner or something and something that you mentioned
in your conversation with them shows up on your Instagram feed,
and it just happens. It's happened to everyone now. The
way Facebook and Instagram explain it is that their systems

(56:58):
are so smart and so high tech that they understand
that if someone recently bought something on one website and
now your phone is in the vicinity of that person,
they figure, well, they might have talked about it, and
they serve up that. I don't know, it sounds like
that would be pretty complicated in its own right, but
that's sort of their explanation. Don't forget they're tracking you

(57:20):
on pretty much every website you go to, whether it's
on your phone, whether it's on the web. And here's
what I would say. I would recommend checking your permissions.
So I don't think that these apps are spying on
you in the way that you may think traditional spying happens,
but they are collecting a fair amount of information. So

(57:41):
if you go on the iPhone into your settings and
this is just something you want to look at, let's
just choose an app so you can go to your
settings and just on your main page, scroll all the
way down and you can look at something like Instagram.
So let's just do this right now, here is Instagram
on my phone. Okay, I got to get my abcdefgh am.
I the only person that has to spell out the

(58:02):
alphabet every time I want to see where a letter falls. Okay,
So now I tap Instagram and it says allow Instagram
to access. You've got location, you've got contacts, you've got photos,
you've got microphone, you've got camera, Syrian search, background, cellular data,
and notifications. So location is a big one, and there

(58:22):
is a reason why it wants access to all of
this information. Location is so that if you want to
tag the restaurant you're at, when you go to tag it,
it shows the closest things to you, the closest restaurants,
the closest points of interest, and you can easily select
one and tag your photo with that. So there's a
reason why they want that. Now, there are some settings
here where if you dive into that, you can allow

(58:45):
location access. Never ask me next time while using the
app or precise Location. Now, I would turn off precise
Location because I don't think Instagram needs to know your
precise location. Now they can understand your general location. If
you want to tag stuff, that's fine. Next up contacts.
Contacts helps you helps them figure out who they should
suggest to you. So if they look at your contacts

(59:08):
and they sync them up on the back end, they
can suggest someone in your feed that you're friends with
that's in your address book, or someone you work with,
or someone that you've exchanged contact info with. And next
thing know now their network grows photos. Pretty self explanatory.
They want to scan your photos to help you upload stuff.
Microphone and camera. Now, if you're not taking pictures inside Instagram,

(59:32):
you may not need access to camera. And if you're
not doing Instagram stories with audio and video, you may
not need the microphone. And so you can turn those
off safely until you need them again. Now, when you
swipe over for stories, it may ask you, hey, we
need access to this, and you can't do anything until
you give that access again. So the other thing is

(59:52):
that when you're on the iPhone or on Android, in
the upper right hand corner of the iPhone, it will
have a little light when when something's accessing your camera. Oh,
it's actually moved to the center Now, when something's accessing
your camera, you'll see a little dot towards the center
middle top part of your phone. And so that little

(01:00:13):
microphone or that little light means that a camera is
accessing or some app is accessing your camera. If you see,
I believe it's an orange light. That is when something's
accessing your microphone and similar on the Android devices they
do that as well. So if you open up your
camera in the upper right hand corner there it is
in the upper right hand corner, it'll have a little

(01:00:35):
green dot that means that an app is actively using
your camera. And you can just test this out, just
open up your camera app. So the concern and the
reason why they did this, I think is because people
were saying, you know, Instagram's accessing my camera and my
microphone without me knowing. Well, theoretically, if they were, you
would see that light light up. So if you ever
see that light light up when you're not using the app,

(01:00:58):
that you think, then you have a problem. But that's
kind of my general you know, quick lesson in are
your apps spying on you? I don't think they are,
but they are collecting a lot of data and they
do know a lot and they mix it, by the way,
with other forms of data. So just keep that in mind.
The less permission is the better. That's my advice. Billy

(01:01:19):
is in fuller tin. Billy, you're on with rich what's happening?

Speaker 6 (01:01:23):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
Hi?

Speaker 6 (01:01:28):
I have a Lenovo laptop and I just got a
T Mobile five G Internet while I was Internet for home.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
Oh great, how's that working?

Speaker 6 (01:01:37):
Well? My phone and my wife's Lenovo laptop is connecting
to it. But my personal laptop, Lenovo also is not connecting.
It's not even on the list of the Wi Fi.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:01:50):
And I worked with a T Mobile technician. We did everything.
He changed the frequency to a lower frequency and all that.
My computer is up to date. But there's a seven
year old Lenovo with Windows and ten.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
Okay. So you worked this out with a T Mobile
tech and you think I'm able to figure it out.
I don't know. It seems like no.

Speaker 6 (01:02:10):
He suggested I call Lenoby Oh okay.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
So okay, So you're calling Rich on tech. So your
wife's laptop is newer. I'm guessing.

Speaker 6 (01:02:20):
Yes, it is newer. She got it from work late
after I got mine from you know, Costco. Mine is
seven years old.

Speaker 1 (01:02:28):
HER's is seven years old. So I think this is
a problem of the spectrum that it's using. That whether
it's two, there's a term there's either five gigahertz wi
Fi or two point four gigaherts, and I think what's
happening is that this hot spot is putting out the
five gigaherts, not to be confused with five g. Five
G is how it's getting its cellular signal. But it's
putting out this five gigaherts signal by default, where you

(01:02:51):
ab to change the signal from the router to be
also two point four because that's usually in the setting.

Speaker 6 (01:02:56):
Yeah, tam Obile Tech did that. He changes to two
point four. We assigned a new name, and it still
doesn't appear on the list on my laptop. So I'm
guessing it's gonna be my old laptop time to get one.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
Yeah, I think so, because here's the thing. There's another
there's another part of this two point four which is
the band that it works on, and it's usually like
B or G or something like that. And so I
think that this new hotspot is just not putting out
the signal that would be compatible with your laptop anymore.
And that's you know, if you try to switch it

(01:03:32):
to the two point four and it's just not working,
it's not picking it up, it's it's probably not gonna work.
You could get an adapter. Have you thought about it.

Speaker 6 (01:03:40):
It thing is, I've been using a Spectrum wireless router
and I have two options. I have five G and
two point four and either one works on my laptop.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
Oh, well, that's interesting.

Speaker 6 (01:03:55):
Really interesting. I've been using that. That's what I'm using
right now. For some reason, it doesn't like T Mobiles.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
Well, that's definitely frustrating. And I know a lot of
people are getting these new five G kind of home
wireless internet connections from either Verizon or T Mobile. Typically
it works, but it is a mystery though, the fact
that it's not working on your laptop. It just sounds
like I mean, I would think that the five gigahertz,

(01:04:25):
if it's working from Spectrum, your laptop has that capability.
It seems like that would work. But since it's not,
that is a mystery. I don't know. It could be
time for an upgrade for the laptop. I hate to
recommend an upgrade, but you know, if you figured it
out with the tech from T Mobile, and you also
you know, called me, but I would, I would try

(01:04:46):
to figure it out. Maybe just give the Lenovo folks
a call with tech support, see what they say. They
may know something that I don't, but that is definitely frustrating.
And of course if you have this as your home Internet,
you want it to work, that's for sure. So good question.
We're getting a lot of Wi Fi questions. Apparently a
lot of people have trouble with their WiFi. It's one

(01:05:07):
of those things where I was testing a gadget one time,
like this plug, and it just I could not get
it to connect to my Wi Fi. For anything I did,
it just would not work. And I tried so many
different things, but sometimes it just happens, all right. Coming
up in the show, I'm going to talk about the
Google Drive shortcut you need to know about. I learned
about this this week. It's fantastic. I'll tell you why
people are mad about Twitter all over again. And plus

(01:05:29):
we'll talk TVs later in the show, specific recommendations on
what to get. You're listening to Rich on Tech, give
me a call at Triple eight rich one oh one.
Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name is rich DeMuro,
taking your calls, answering your questions and also talking about
the tech stuff that happened throughout the week, things that
are interesting, things of notes and stuff you can use

(01:05:52):
like this. So I basically use Google Drive every day
of my life. It's just a necessity. And it's one
of these things where when I want to do a
new document, it takes me a bit to figure it out.
You know, you got to go to the bookmark of
Google Drive. You gotta say, I mean, it's like a
ten step process, right. You gotta click new, and you

(01:06:14):
gotta click Google Docs and you gotta decide do you
want a document, do you want to template? It just
takes a couple of seconds. So I knew about this,
but I had forgotten about it because this is nothing new.
But once you commit it to memory, it'll be a
whole lot easier. So if you go to a web
browser and use Google Docs, if you just type doc
dot new, it will give you a brand new Google Doc.

(01:06:37):
It is like magic. And so when I figured this
out the other day, I was in the newsroom, I
went around and screamed to everyone, do you use Google Drive,
Do use Google Docs? You need to know about this.
Do you know about it, and I heard the oohs
and ohs coming from the various folks in my newsroom
because it's just one of those things that saves you

(01:06:58):
time and time. You know, saving time is fun. Other
things you can do. By the way, you have to
be signed into your Google Drive for this to work.
If you're not, it will attempt to open up the
new file, but it will have to ask you to
sign in first. So if you get the sign in
page that means that you're not signed into Google. I
don't know how you'd be signed out. I mean, I
don't think I ever signed out unless I have to.

(01:07:20):
But you can also create a new Google slides presentation
if you type slide dot new, slide dot new. You
can do a new spreadsheet if you type sheet dot new,
S H E E T dot new, a new Google
form if you type form dot new, f O, R

(01:07:40):
M dot new, a new Google site site dot new.
And one of the other ones I might use is
a new calendar event cal dot new, and so if
you type that in you can get a new calendar event.

Speaker 3 (01:07:53):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
I don't know if that one's that handy, because if
you're in Google Calendar, you can tap create. I mean,
it's only two cli to get an event, so it's
not that big deal, a big of a deal, or
you can just tap somewhere in your calendar and start
a new event. But to me, the doc dot new
is pretty big. There's a whole list of shortcuts. Google
actually bought I guess that new dot new domain, and

(01:08:16):
that's how they're doing this. So let's go to Google
slash shortcuts and there's a whole list of shortcuts that
they've got. But you know, those are the those are
the important ones. I think that the doc dot new
is just so handy. Write that down because you never
know when you need it, and thank me for it. Now,

(01:08:38):
I guess, don't thank me. I didn't do it. People
are up in arms about Twitter once again, all over again.
So when Elon Musk bought Twitter, people went nuts over it,
and you know, there's a lot of discussions about people
whether they're going to stay on Twitter, whether they ditch Twitter.
You know, there's there's a couple of changes, things settled down,

(01:08:59):
and now people are back up in arms because they
have changed the feed on Twitter. So when you open
up the Twitter app now it defaults to what's called
a for you feed. Twitter did not invent the for
you feed. They are just doing what every other social
media company at this point is doing, which is the

(01:09:20):
for you. Let me explain. TikTok sort of started this.
You know, you had Okay, you had Facebook back in
the day. Then you had Instagram and Twitter, and all
of these websites operated pretty much the same way. You
followed people, and if someone posted something, you would see
what they post in your timeline in the order that

(01:09:40):
people posted it, mostly your friends. Well, then all of
a sudden, they weren't getting the engagement they wanted, because
who's to say that when someone posts something it's interesting.
So now they started to reorder your feed and prioritize
things based on what they think you might like to
see first. So if it's one of your friends, you
know that just had a new kid, you would see

(01:10:02):
that at the top of your feed because that's probably
the most important thing in your feed. This is called
an algorithmically you know, an algorithmically ordered feed. And they
started doing that, but it was still your friends. Then
you had TikTok come along, and TikTok said, you know what,
we don't really care who you're following, We're just gonna
show you a whole bunch of stuff that you might like.

(01:10:24):
And they called it your for you page, and it
worked really well. It still works really well. You watch
one video on TikTok about a certain topic, and next
thing you know, you're gonna see a whole lot of
videos about that topic. It's just how their algorithm works.
And they're gonna start it sprinkling in other things and
see what you react to, what you like, what you

(01:10:46):
linger on, what you click, what you interact with, who
you follow and so TikTok and why people can go
viral on TikTok and why people find it so addicting
is that TikTok doesn't care who you follow. I mean, yes,
use that as one signal, but TikTok really just wants
to show you stuff that it thinks you will interact with.

(01:11:07):
And now the other websites have seen this Instagram, Facebook
and they're saying, Okay, we're going to kind of do
the same thing because it seems to be working for TikTok,
and people engage with this stuff because if you like
pictures of you know, cats, and you know, cute cats
in funny poses, you know, like you know, like those

(01:11:28):
what of those Angetti's like pictures, you know, like the
kids that were like in like different you know, flowers
and stuff. Remember those? You know, maybe you like cats
and you know, I don't know, just in silly kind
of situations. And so next thing, you know, it's like, well,
we're going to show you this cat picture that's really
silly because so many people across the world have loved it,

(01:11:48):
So if you like this, you're gonna love it too.
And then they get that interaction and things go viral
and the creators like it and everyone is happy except
for the folks on Twitter right now, because Twitter has
always been this world of you follow people for a
reason and you want to see what they post. Well,
now you see a whole bunch of stuff in your
for you feed and that's the default. And so some

(01:12:11):
people may argue that it's better in a way because
now you're exposed to different thoughts, ideas, people, things, accounts
you may want to follow. You can always go back
to the regular following by swiping. But the problem is
it always goes back to the for you when you
reopen the app, so it doesn't stick to the following
and there's no way to set a default where hey,

(01:12:33):
I only want to see stuff from people that I follow,
And so sure you can manually swipe every time you
get into Twitter, but who wants to do that. It's
a lot of work. So that's why people are up
in arms. People are saying, once again, I'm leaving Twitter.
I noticed that all the people that say they're going
to leave Twitter, they're back. I mean, I haven't really
noticed a substantial change in my feed, Like I haven't

(01:12:55):
noticed oh yeah, that person I used to love is gone.
I've noticed that the followers seem to be up, and
the interaction seems to be up, and I seem to
be having more fun on Twitter. I don't know. So
I don't know if all the changes have been as
horrible as people have made them out to be, but
it seems to be an evolving place. But anyway, so

(01:13:16):
if you use Twitter or any of these services, that's
what's going on all right. Coming up in the show,
I've got a couple of things to talk about this
new social engineering trend. It's a scam. It's got kind
of a yucky name, but you definitely need to know
about that. You need to know why you should not
be paying to use chat GPT, at least not right now.

(01:13:37):
And we're going to talk TVs later in the show.
My name is Rich Dmiro. You are listening to Rich
on Tech. We'll be back after this. Welcome to rich
on Tech. My name is Rich DeMuro. This is the
show where we talk about technology and answer your questions.
A lot of stuff this week about scams. I'm always

(01:13:59):
interested in the latest scams and I'm always posting about
them on my social media at rich on Tech if
you want to follow me. By the way, I'm the
tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. And
this is a new show. This is a tech show
that has been reinvented, reborn, kind of changed up. A
lot of things have stayed the same, but you know,

(01:14:21):
we're switching things up a little bit. So if you
feel like it's a little different, that's for a reason.
It's you know, it's a new show. So I'm going
to try to pack it with information and news you
can use. Obviously, i'll take your calls, but the main
thing here is to just when you're listening, you feel
like you are smart about technology. That's the takeaway that's

(01:14:41):
what I want the goal to be. Every single week,
I want you to feel like I've listened to Rich
And yeah, Rich doesn't have all the answers. I don't
know everything there is to know about technology, but I'm learning,
You're learning, and hopefully we all learned so that we can,
you know, we can be in charge of our gadgets.
We can you know, not get scammed. We can you know,
spend our money in places that make sense. So that's

(01:15:04):
kind of the goal of the show, and I will
continue to evolve the show to make that happen. It's
a work in progress and it's it's new. This is
only episode number two, so it will get it will
change and evolve and breathe and live just like you
know it should. This is an interesting new social engineering scam.

(01:15:25):
It's got this weird name. It's called pig butchering. I mean,
that does not sound fun. Definitely don't want that to
happen to you. But the analogy is apparently with fattening
up a pig than butchering it for all it's worth.
And yeah, that's not very appealing, I guess. But here's
the thing, and you know, anyone can be scammed. This

(01:15:47):
is not you know, scamming is not like an old
person thing. It's not like a dumb person thing. It
can happen to anyone. And because we have so many
tools in our world now that make it easier than
ever to hand over your heart acquired hash and it
can go to anyone, anywhere quickly. That makes scams even
more interesting to scam artists because it's not just like oh,

(01:16:11):
stealing twenty bucks from someone that you see in person,
or getting a check from someone or their credit card.
Now it is like Venmo, gift cards, PayPal. I mean,
there's so many ways that people can scam people, and
it's a worldwide thing, not just local. And so that's
why you hear so much about scams because it just
you know, if you get one percent or even a

(01:16:33):
half a percent of people to fall form, it could
be a lot on a big level. So here's how
this new pig butchering works. It begins with sort of
a cold call or a text. Right, So you may
get a text that just says, hey, it was good
to catch up last week, and you say, what what
do you mean good to get I don't know this person,

(01:16:53):
what are you talking about? And so in an act
of common courtesy, you tell either the caller or the
texter that you know, sorry, I think you got the
wrong number, and next thing you know, they strike up
a conversation with you and it sounds, you know, oh
I'm sorry, Oh gosh, I you know, I must have
the wrong number, and they start talking with you. And

(01:17:16):
what they're really doing is they're trying to establish a
relationship with you. And the closer and deeper they can
get this relationship, the more they might be able to
scam you. Now you may be thinking, oh, come on, rich,
who's going to fall for this? People do, and not
everyone is as savvy as you may think. And a
lot of people, especially people that come from kind of

(01:17:38):
an older school mentality of courtesy, and you know, let
me write this person back to say, you know, sorry,
of the wrong number whatever, They could be targeted by this.
And so once the scammer gets the person in a
place where they think they are fattened up, you know,
that relationship is established, that's what they go in for

(01:18:00):
the kill. And that's when they try to get, you know,
them to sign up for some sort of app, maybe
some sort of financial platform that may try to scam
this person out of their money. And so once they
get this going on, next thing, you know it's over.
You know, they get this person hook line and sinker,

(01:18:21):
they get them to fall for this, and you know
they trusted this person because they built this relationship with them. Now,
I don't know. I think it'd be tough for me
to fall for something like this, but I will tell
you that I have texted folks and said, hey, it's
rich with KTLA, everything good, blah blah blah, and I

(01:18:47):
sit there and I think about it. Oh wait a second.
I just gave this person my name. I just gave
them where I work. And if I had the wrong number,
if I was off by a digit, if this person,
in any way, shape or form, wanted to take advantage
of me, they probably could because they can say, yeah,
we're up for lunch next week, where do you want
to meet? And you know it's not even the right
person because they now know your name and who you are.

(01:19:09):
So you just have to think about this stuff. Just
be very careful because there are people out there that
are actively looking to take advantage. I got an email
from Chase this week, and they sent a whole email
about learn how to spot a scam, and a lot
of this stuff might be commonplace, but they went through.
I thought it was actually a pretty good email coming
from a big bank saying, you know, look, scammers pretend

(01:19:33):
to be someone they're not. They trick you into providing
information again, access to your account. Here are some of
the scams that are going around, and you want to
keep your account safe from these. So number one online shopping.
They set up a fake online store and they ask
you to pay in ways other than a debitter credit card.
So obviously the whole point of that is, you know

(01:19:55):
they don't want you to pay with debitter credit because
you get some some you know you're safe from some
of the scams out there. If you use a debit
or credit card, it puts a little buffer between you
and this bad person. But if you pay by a
check or cashier's check or transfer the money instantly, then
you know they've got that and you're not getting it

(01:20:15):
back or Venmo or any of these other ways. Pay yourself.
A person pretending to be an employee ask you to
transfer money to yourself to resolve a fraudulent activity. I mean,
come on, don't fall for that. One grandparent someone impersonating
a loved one and a crisis, claims their car broke
down or they lost their wallet. They need money right away.
Tech support. Oh my gosh, I've seen this one so

(01:20:37):
many times. I can't believe it. But yeah, people get
these messages on their computer screen. It says, hey, it's
a tech support here. We noticed there's a problem with
your computer. Call this number and we'll fix it. And
people fall for this every single day. I've talked to
very smart people, I've interviewed them, and they fall for it,

(01:20:57):
because again, it's social engineering, appealing to, you know, our
good side. It's appealing to our good nature. It's appealing
to just like, oh, I got to solve this problem.
I got all my stuff on my computer. I can't
stand to lose it. Here. Let me call this number
to Windows Support and figure it out. Utility shut off
A person may pose as a utility employee saying your

(01:21:19):
service is going to be stopped unless you pay them immediately.
You might think who's going to fall for this? But
I was at dinner a couple of weeks ago and
my friend told me that his family members fell for this,
and uh, in fact, it involved some of his money
as well. So this happens and not everyone you know,
for me, you know, in sitting around this table, we

(01:21:41):
were all talking about how we would figure this out,
be like, well, wouldn't you log into your account, wouldn't
you see if you owe any money? Wouldn't you get
a big red letter in the mail like five or
ten times saying like you owe this money before you
resolve this. But the way these scam artists got this
person is that they they really preyed upon the immediacy
of this and this person had something going on they

(01:22:03):
didn't want to you know, story in the holidays, they
had people over, they didn't want their power to go out,
and so they paid, and of course it was a
big scam. Following tips, Oh, romance, that's another one. Scammer
creates a fake profile. I mean, I'm sure I'm not
on the dating apps, but I'm sure this is must
be a huge concern on these dating apps when you

(01:22:25):
try to text people back and forth, and of course
there's just a lot of scammers on there. You got
to be careful there because you know, once you get
love involved, that's a whole other level of scamminess. All right,
How to protect yourself, guard your personal information. Don't give
it out. I don't give information out to anyone. You
gotta be very careful about who you give your information out.
Don't act immediately. These scammers often they're preying upon our

(01:22:48):
time and sort of the immediacy of the solution. Don't
act immediately. Use a lot of caution when you're sending money.
I talked about this earlier in the show. But you
can send money so fast using things like zell, Venmo
or PayPal. Just be very very careful and make sure
you know who the recipient is. Once that money goes,
it's not coming back, I'll be honest. It's just it's

(01:23:09):
a one way street with these apps. You're never getting
your money back if you paid out to someone that
you shouldn't, and also if you have to credit or
debit cards. They do give you a little bit of
protection in these circumstances, and I guess that's why Chase
is sending it out. Similarly, Chat GPT, you've probably heard
about this. Everyone's talking about this amazing new website. Do

(01:23:32):
not pay to use Chat GPT right now. There is
no paid chat GPT as of right now. There's a
bunch of apps. If you search in the app store.
Chat GPT. This is this new search engine that's supposed
to take on Google. It's amazing artificial intelligence. It's free.
If you want to use it, just go to the
website chat dot OpenAI dot com and that is the

(01:23:54):
way you can use it for free. Again chat dot
OpenAI dot com. Yes, in the future they may have
a paid service, they may have a paid app, but
that's not happening right now. So if you're looking for
an app on the App Store or Google Play for
chat GPT, do not pay for them, do not download them.
Just go to the website on your web browser chat
dot OpenAI dot com. And by the way, if you

(01:24:16):
have not used chat GPT, you got to try it out.
It is quite phenomenal. It's in beta, it's a test,
but this is going to give Google a run for
its money. In fact, Google's entire business in every business.
I mean, it's really quite phenomenal. What you can ask
this thing. One app was charging eight bucks a week
to use it. And by the way, these apps are

(01:24:37):
totally free. You don't need to use you don't need
to pay for an app. There's not even an official app.
I mean, I guess there is right now, but again
it's it's free to use. So chat GPT is free.
How many times I have to say that? I don't know.
Coming up, we're gonna talk TV. I'm very excited for
my guests. He is the senior editor at Digital Trends.

(01:24:58):
He's going to talk about the best team for Super
Bowl Sunday, which is coming up. We're also going to
talk about the tracker that I've been using in my wallet.
It's really really cool. You can give me a call
triple eight Rich one oh one one eight eight eight
seven four to two, four to one zero one. You're
listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to Rich on Tech,

(01:25:19):
the show where I talk about the tech stuff I
think you should know about and answer your questions. My
name is Rich DeMuro. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA
Channel five in Los Angeles, hanging out with you today,
taking your calls, and just talking about the stuff that
has happened throughout the week. This show is all about,
you know, useful tech information, and that's really my goal

(01:25:41):
is to make this super super useful, So not just
the stuff I talk about, but also the calls that
we take.

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
I want you to learn. I want you to have
a takeaway from each and every one of these. Will
is in New York, New York. Welcome to the show.

Speaker 5 (01:25:55):
Will Hey, thank you for taking the call, and I'm
enjoying the show today. So, but I want to ask
I have I've had a Gmail account for almost twenty
years now, and this past year, maybe six months ago,
they told me I was at my like my limit
of the amount of volume I'd used. I don't even

(01:26:18):
know the my gigabytes. I guess yeah, and but both
with the Gmail and also I guess Google Photos. So
it wants me to start paying two dollars a month
or twenty dollars and two dollars a month. And I've had,
you know, my my credit debit card on file with them,
and then my my card number change, so interrupted it

(01:26:41):
just the convenience of this doesn't feel great. And also
I'm wondering if that's the best value for me to do,
and also if I want to stay married to Google,
you know, going forward. I mean, it's really handy and
I don't want to lose this Gmail account, But I
guess I'm putting it all out there for advice. You

(01:27:01):
know what, what do you think is the best way
to go both there's a fight, you pay or to
another service? What do you think?

Speaker 1 (01:27:10):
Okay, so I I number one. When when Gmail first
came out, they had this little kind of number one.
It gave you, like I think it was a gigabyte
of storage, and it was just like, whoa what a gigabyte?
Because back in the day, hotmail was like ten megabytes
or one. It was a tiny amount, right, And so
Gmail came along and blew everyone out of the water.
Everyone signed up. It was amazing, It worked really well,

(01:27:32):
and it was also supposed to increase as it went along,
like they had this little ticker on the homepage that
showed that your storage was always increasing, like every second
of every day. And then, of course Google became a
wildly successful company. So many people signed up and they realized,
oh wait, we actually have to pay for the storage
that we're giving to people for free. And so now

(01:27:54):
things have changed a lot. Google Photos, like you said,
is also linked and it's the same thing. Google Photos
started out completely free, and then they started to kind of,
you know, turn the ratchet a little bit on people
and say, uh, you know, you got to pay so
I'm in the same boat I am. I've got Gmail,
I've got Google Photos. I'm up to paying I think,

(01:28:15):
like I think it's twenty five bucks a month because
I've got such a lot of storage in there and
I'm trying to pair down. So here's what I recommend.
Number one. I think I think you stick with it.
You can continue to pay the two dollars a month.
I would obviously, I would probably pay the twenty dollars
a year just to save the you know, the twenty
percent or whatever they give you discount. But what I
think you should do is see if you can get under.

(01:28:37):
What they do is they give you a fifteen gigabyte
limit for free, so you can see if maybe you
can get over that, get under that fifteen gigabyte limit.
And there's a couple ways of doing that. Number one
go to a website called one dot Google dot com.
And inside this website they have an area called clean

(01:28:57):
up Storage. And so not only is that website let
you see what's taking up your storage, but you can
also use it to sort of clean up your storage.
And so if you look at that website, it will
show you the items that you have in trash or spam,
and so I'm looking, I've got two hundred and thirty
nine megabytes of emails and trash. I've got forty megabytes
and spam. I've got nine hundred megabytes almost a gigabyte

(01:29:20):
of files and trash in my Google Drive. Then it
shows me my large items, so it says I can
gain up to two hundred and eighty gigabytes by freeing
up all this stuff. So I've got emails with large attachments,
I've got large files, large videos and files or sorry,
large photos and videos, and I can review those. And

(01:29:40):
then you also have this thing called unsupported items, So
inside your Google Photos you may have unsupported items that
you can review and clean up. So that's the place
to start. Have you looked at any of that stuff?

Speaker 7 (01:29:52):
I haven't.

Speaker 5 (01:29:53):
I haven't been. It seemed to daunting because I just
feel like I don't want to have to going to
all these documents and decide, and I'd rather My thought
was always just it would be there if I needed it,
right right, you and.

Speaker 1 (01:30:09):
I agree with that, But here's the thing. There are
some like I went through the other day on my
just on a Saturday morning, and this is just the
fun for me is I'll just sit there on my
couch and I'll go through. And I looked at the
files that were over one gigabyte in my Google Drive,
and I just went through and I was like, do
I need this? Okay, I can get rid of that.
And so just by going you know, if you if
you clean up, you know, five of those, that's five gigabytes.

(01:30:31):
And for me, I'm taking a lot of video, so
there's going to be a lot of those kind of
files in there. The other thing you can do is
that if you go to Google Photos on your phone,
and Google is, by the way, added all of these
tools in the last like year, because or year or two,
because you know, people are getting much more savvy about this,
because they're when when you're forced into paying or when
you have to start paying, you're a little bit more critical.

(01:30:53):
You're like, oh wait a second, let me see do
I really have all this stuff in there? Do I
need it? So if you go into your Google Photos
and then you tap your profile picture in the upper
right hand corner, then you tap managed storage, it'll give
you a whole bunch of tools you can use where
you can review and delete large photos and videos, videos
from other apps, screenshots, which right now I've got two
gigabytes of those, and then blurry photos. And the other

(01:31:16):
thing that I do is I'm pretty brutal about going
in my Gmail and I will search using the search
bar in Gmail for anything that has a large attachment.
And so you can just tap in there, say has attachment,
and then put a size limit on there of like
you know, over ten megabytes and go through and see

(01:31:39):
or just over twenty five megabytes and see what you
can get rid of that way. So there are many
options for clearing this stuff out. But I agree we're
all in this area of you know, once you're on
that payment train, it's tough to get off, all right.
Coming up next, we're going to talk TVs with a
special guest, the best TVs for Super Bowl coming up.
Welcome back to Rich on Tech, the show where we

(01:32:00):
talk about tech stuff and answer your questions and have
on fantastic guests like this guy. Caleb Dennison is the
editor at large for Digital Trends and he is a
TV expert, and we're going to talk about TVs for
Super Bowl because it's coming up. Caleb, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (01:32:21):
Great to be here.

Speaker 1 (01:32:22):
Hey, good to see us ces. Did you have a
good time there?

Speaker 3 (01:32:27):
I did have a good time. It was much busier
than the year prior, so a lot more activity. Good
to see some folks that I haven't seen a long time.
But the TV exhibitions were especially good this year.

Speaker 1 (01:32:39):
I felt okay. Super Bowls coming up February twelveth, this
is kind of the time when people I don't know
they do people still upgrade for the Super Bowl. I
think they do because I get a lot of questions
around this time.

Speaker 3 (01:32:51):
I get a lot of questions around this time as well.
I think the Super Bowl is an occasion to get
geared up and a lot of folks want to get
a fancy new TV so they can see this huge
game in the best possible way.

Speaker 1 (01:33:05):
Which is still not broadcast in four K? Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
It is not?

Speaker 3 (01:33:10):
Unfortunately four K broadcasts are getting a little bit more common,
but the getting the Super Bowl broadcast in four K
is a pretty monumental challenge and they're still working up
to that.

Speaker 1 (01:33:24):
Okay. I mean, it's it's kind of odd how long
it's taken. You think that that would be kind of
a event that they'd want to get on four K
like immediately. But anyway, Okay, so I'm scrolling through on
you know, best buy dot com and I'm looking at
all these different terminologies. Okay, l ED, Mini l A,
D O LEAD, Q LEAD or q l ED. What

(01:33:48):
do you make of these? Like? What what do we
need to know about these terms?

Speaker 3 (01:33:52):
Sure? Well, there's really only two prominent display technology types
out there. You've got the OLED, which we call in
emissive display. This is an organic compound that makes its
own light at the pixel level. And then you've got
basically LED LCD TV. You know, we've seen changes to

(01:34:13):
how the back light works, but at the end of
the day, you still have an LCD panel with lights
shining behind it, and that's how you get the picture
from that. The thing is the evolution of that back light.
The stuff that makes the light has gotten better and
better over the years. So when we start hearing terms
like mini LED, they're just using much tinier little LED

(01:34:37):
light and more of them, which gives you a brighter
picture and a little bit more control over which part
of the picture is bright and which part is dart
so you get better contrast out of the mini LED
TV with the o ED TVs. Again, each pixel is
making its own light, so when you turn it off,
it's completely off, which means you get perfect black levels.

(01:35:00):
Very good colors come out of that as well.

Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
Now, what about the reflection, because that was a consideration
in the past, like if you got a certain TV
and you had a bright room. Do all TVs look
okay in different rooms nowadays? Or we still have that
issue with the reflection.

Speaker 3 (01:35:15):
Well, the O LED TVs that we were talking about
tend to prefer having glossy screens, right, because they look
best when they have a glossy screen, and so sometimes
you get more reflection off of those. If you've got
a lot of bright lights in the room, or if
you've got sun coming in the windows, you're going to
see a little bit more reflection when there are darker

(01:35:38):
moments on the screen. Then you would a higher end
LED TV because they tend to put anti reflective or
anti glare coatings on those TVs so you get a
little bit less of that glare. That tends to be
a problem mostly when you got a lot of lights
in the room and you're trying to watch something dark.
When you're watching something like the super Bowl, there's a

(01:35:59):
lot of bright colors and brightness happening on the screen,
and you're less likely to run into a reflection problem
with something like that. It's mostly when you're watching movies
and there's lots of dark scenes, and that I think
brings us to an important point. When people buy TVs
for the Super Bowl, they're thinking about the Super Bowl, right,

(01:36:19):
and how good it's going to look for the sports,
But think about the other things you use your TV for.
You like to watch a lot of movies. You know,
in the time when the super Bowl is not on,
you might want to get a TV that's going to
look great for movies as well, and anti glared coating
can really help when you're watching during the day.

Speaker 1 (01:36:37):
We're talking to Caleb Dennison. He is the editor at
large for Digital Trends on social media at Caleb Underscore. Dennison, so,
what about this idea of four K versus eight K?
Do we need to get the eight K TV just yet?

Speaker 3 (01:36:54):
I am telling most folks know you do not. Eight
K is something that seemed like a nat full progression
from four K, and now that there's a lot of
four K content that we can watch, we can kind
of get rid of this conversation about how, oh, there's
no content to watch in four K, why would I
want a four K TV? Well, these days almost all

(01:37:15):
TVs are are four K, and everything's.

Speaker 1 (01:37:17):
In four K. I mean Netflix is in four K.
I mean all the movies, everything that's streaming is pretty
much in four K at this point if you're paying
for it.

Speaker 3 (01:37:24):
By the way, yeah, exactly. If you play pay for
the premium tier of many different streaming services and even
cable channels, some of them are available in four K
from time to time. So there's lots of four K content.

Speaker 2 (01:37:37):
If you're getting.

Speaker 3 (01:37:38):
Anything over, say at thirty seven inch TV, it's probably
going to be four K anyway, you don't really need
to think about it. But if you're looking at a
very premium TV, a lot of those TVs are our
eight K resolution. For a while there, manufacturers put their
best stuff into eight K TVs, and so it's less
of a question about whether you really needed that eight

(01:37:59):
K resolution in that AK panel and more a question
of did you want to get the best you could
possibly buy. We're seeing manufacturers back down from that now.
There were not that many aktvs at the big Cees
Electronics show that you and I were just at and
I think that is that's basically saying the brands have
got it. They're like message receives you guys aren't interested

(01:38:21):
in AK, so we're going to quit trying to shove
it down your throat so much. I would not worry
about getting an AKTV right now.

Speaker 1 (01:38:28):
Okay, that's that's fair, So let's talk about I mean,
I think the most popular is going to be your
budget pick. What's your budget TV pick?

Speaker 3 (01:38:38):
There's a couple. They're both made by TCL. TCL has
really done an outstanding job providing really great picture quality
for a very attainable price. So whether you're looking at
the TCL five series or you want to spend a
little bit more and get the TCL six series, both

(01:38:58):
of those are outstanding options that are very affordable no
matter which screen size you get.

Speaker 1 (01:39:04):
And what if you wanted a little step up, like
what do you have like a middle ground pick? Like
if I don't necessarily want budget but I don't want
to spend the most, you have something in the middle.

Speaker 3 (01:39:14):
Yeah, I'd like the Samsung Q seventy. The Q seventy
is kind of this sweet spot for Samsung where it's
not outrageously expensive, but boy does it pack a punch.
It's got great HDR performance and good color. That's a
really solid pick. And you know, I mentioned the TCL

(01:39:34):
six series earlier, that one kind of treads into the
mid tier territory. So if you're buying a larger screen size,
it's definitely in the mid tier. But it has a
really great performance as well. So those are both good
good options to look at.

Speaker 1 (01:39:48):
What about a premium set, Like, I want the best
of the best, What am I getting if I want
the absolute top of the line.

Speaker 3 (01:39:56):
I mean, for me, the best TV of two was
the Sony A ninety five K. That's a quantum dot
o lip so they took Olt technology, they threw quantum
dots on it for even brighter, more well saturated colors,
and that TV is just spectacular. The only bummer about

(01:40:16):
the Sony A ninety five K is that only goes
up to sixty five inches right now. So if you
want the best sixty five inch TV, you can get
the Sony A ninety five K is the one. If
you want a larger screen size but equally premium performance,
I'd be looking at the lg C two that guy
goes all the way up to eighty three inches. I

(01:40:38):
believe it is, and that is just an outstanding television
all the way around.

Speaker 1 (01:40:43):
And do you get the smarts built in? I mean
most of these TVs have their own sort of operating
system built in. I like to attach, you know, an
external like Apple TV or whatever, but it seems like
people just want something built in. Huh.

Speaker 2 (01:40:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:40:58):
These days, just about every TV has some kind of
smarts built in, whether that's Roku or Google TV. LG
has its own brand, and Samsung's got it so a
brand as well. But like all the apps that you
need to watch any number of different streaming services, it's
all built in right now. So you don't have to
get something like an Apple TV. But if you just

(01:41:22):
love that Apple TV experience, absolutely go ahead and get it.
Throw it in one of the HDMI ports and you're
good to go.

Speaker 1 (01:41:27):
All right, Caleb, thanks so much for joining me today
on the show. I appreciate it. Episode number two My pleasure.

Speaker 3 (01:41:33):
Thanks so much, Rich, I've been an.

Speaker 1 (01:41:35):
Honor Caleb Dennison. Go follow him at Digital Trends. You
can follow him online. He is the TV expert. So
if you're looking for a new TV. Just look at
some of his reviews. He just gave us some great,
great options for Super Bowl. I know I'm looking to
upgrade myself. Maybe I was just being a little selfish
in that interview because I'm just curious for myself. You're

(01:41:57):
listening to rich on Tech. Coming up, I'll tell you
about the new wall tracker I've been using and it
works pretty well. You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome
back to rich on Tech. Bruce is in the San
Gabriel Valley. Bruce, you're on with rich what's up?

Speaker 9 (01:42:14):
First off, I wanted to congratulate you on your new show,
Rich Well, thank you. I'm a longtime listener of your podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:42:21):
Oh thanks.

Speaker 9 (01:42:23):
Between you and Dave Ramsey, I walked off about fifty
two pounds over the last year.

Speaker 1 (01:42:27):
I love it. Very nice. One of my favorites too.

Speaker 9 (01:42:31):
Give you my situation here. I'm a senior citizen and
I'm in a retiredment club for my former company. I
have been for the last couple of years the Zoom
administrator for our monthly meetings. Now that we're able to
go back in person, I've been tasked with setting up
and equipping hybrid meetings. So I need to know where

(01:42:54):
to learn basically production technology and what you recommend for
either equipment or where to check out equipment. I'm local
southern California, same as you.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
And are you trying to set up like sort of
a little studio where people can pop in and do
zooms or what.

Speaker 9 (01:43:12):
No, it's going to be a large meeting hall. We've
got the hall already with no equipment available. It's seating
for about two hundred and then plus our online zoom
people who want to come back in who are either
too far away or not able to come on any
particular day.

Speaker 1 (01:43:31):
Oh got it. So you need like almost like you're
live streaming and event kind of thing.

Speaker 9 (01:43:37):
Exactly. The closest thing that I've I've been looking a
lot online. The closest I can see is a church meeting.

Speaker 1 (01:43:43):
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

Speaker 9 (01:43:44):
Both, yeah, live stream and in person.

Speaker 1 (01:43:48):
Oh wow, So you need like microphones for the speakers
all that kind of stuff. Huh.

Speaker 9 (01:43:51):
Absolutely, I need to be fifty years younger and go
back and take broadcast technology.

Speaker 1 (01:43:58):
Well, I mean, look, you're gonna there's there's a couple
of ways you can do this. I mean there's there's
like full software where you can just use only software
to accomplish this, and there's a lot of stuff that
you know, sort of off the shelf software that will
help you accomplish this with web cameras and you know,
wireless microphones. But I think the best way to do

(01:44:19):
this is realistically with a couple of cameras and I
think a mixer as well, because you're going to want
to feed all of this audio and video into one
place that you can then send out to Zoom. So
there's a couple of ways to accomplish this if you
want to do it with maybe just you know, software

(01:44:39):
based experience. There's something from Logitech that I really like
called Mevo M e v O and M e v
o dot com. That's Mevo M e v o dot com.
And this started out as one camera. Now they have
multiple cameras that you can kind of link up together
and you know, you can place some in different areas

(01:44:59):
of the room, so you got like three different cameras,
maybe one wide, one close up, one side whatever. And
then the beauty is the app they have, So the
app kind of brings it all together and you can
live stream to different things, so you can live stream
to like you know, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Twitter. But the
other thing you want to do is you can use
this as a webcam, and Zoom is one of these

(01:45:21):
supported platforms. So that is sort of a more of
a software based solution that you can use, which I
think would work really well. But if you want to
get into more of a hardware solution, which I think
might be better in this situation, you know, you might
have to look at just some cameras and a computer
and then also a mixer with microphones, because if you're

(01:45:44):
talking about a big room for two hundred people that
are sitting there, you probably want some microphones because these
cameras are not going to be super close up to
the person. They're not going to be right in front
of them like it would on a computer. So in
that case, I would just get a mixer. I mean,
Road makes some of the best mixer out there, especially
for these, you know, these kind of solutions. So you

(01:46:05):
get that, you get a couple of microphones, maybe lav
mics that people can put on. You connect those to
the mixture, and then you put that out and they
have a USB out on that mixture to your computer
that you're going to be bringing all this stuff in
on so you've got the cameras coming in and you've
got the mixed audio coming in as well, and then
it goes on to Zoom. So it's it's going to

(01:46:27):
take some work, it's going to take some set up,
it's going to take some you know, trial and error.
But you know, and also you'll evolve this as you
go along. So the stuff that you use day one,
you know, you may not use that day thirty. And
you know, there's some there's some more dedicated hardware solutions
out there too, Like if you go to Zoom's website

(01:46:48):
or just type in Zoom hardware. You know, Zoom has
like a whole area of recommended cameras and so they've
got different appliances for zooming. And this is really expand
did over the last couple of years because of the
whole work from home kind of stuff. But if you
go to Zoom, their website is actually zoom dot us,
Zoom dot us slash hardware, you've got all kinds of stuff.

(01:47:12):
So I think that's probably your best place to start
is just look there for some of the different things
that they recommend, and they even have it for room
types they've got a huddle room which is two to
seven people, a conference room which is seven to nineteen people,
and a hybrid classroom which is fifteen to twenty five.
So because you're even larger than that fifteen to twenty five,

(01:47:34):
you're gonna want to look into into a more kind
of studio solution where you're kind of rolling your own solution,
like I mentioned, with a combination of software and hardware.
But the good news is you're in Los Angeles. There's
a lot of production people here, and there's a lot
of stores you can go into, like physical stores like
Sammy's Camera. You know that's a local place that has

(01:47:54):
a lot of kind of this stuff there and just
talk to people and see what they recommend, what of
a people used, what have other people done, and you
know that would be my start. So great question Zoom.
It's funny. I had to do a zoom yesterday and
I used to have a good zoom setup in my
home when I was doing remotes for TV during the pandemic,

(01:48:17):
and it was nicely set up. It was never perfectly
set up, Like the lighting was never as good as
I wanted, camera was never as good as I wanted.
But it worked, And yesterday I had to do a
zoom with someone and it's just my camera looked horrible.
My lighting was bad. I mean, unless you have a
good setup, sometimes these zoom calls you just it's like
I'd rather just be in person sometimes because they're just

(01:48:37):
you know, you gotta have a good setup. You gotta
have one of those ring lights and all that good stuff. So, uh,
great question. Thanks for that. All right, let me quickly
tell you about this card finder. I've been using Chipolo
card Spot. This is an air tag, but for your wallet.
It's made by a company called Chipolo c h I
p O l O. It's called the card Spot and

(01:48:59):
it looks like a credit card, but it uses the
Apple find My network to locate your wallet. So this
slips into your wallet like a credit card. It costs
about thirty five dollars and you can use the find
My app on your iPhone to find where this is.
So it's using all the other Apple devices in the
world to locate your wallet, just like an air tag.

(01:49:20):
But an air tag is too thick to put in
your wallet. Now, how did they get this to fit
in your wallet? Well, the battery is not user replaceable,
so you pay thirty five dollars for this. It lasts
about two years. It will help you see where your
wallet is on a map. You can play a sound
so you can hear where your wallet is. You can
see the last known location. I'll send you alert if
you leave your wallet behind. But when the two years

(01:49:42):
is up, you can then just send this back in.
They will recycle it, replace the battery, and they'll send
you a new one for seventeen bucks. So Topolo card
Spot highly recommend checking it out. If you want the
power of an air tag in your wallet, that's going
to do it for this episode of the show. If
you want to submit a question for me to answer,
you can go to my website Richontech dot tv and

(01:50:03):
hit the email icon. You can find me on social media.
I am at rich on Tech. If you want to
see my TV segments, you can find me on YouTube
KTLA channel or you can download the ktla plus app.
Next week, I'm going to share my favorite apps for journaling. Yes,
my goal is to journal in the new year. I
think there's so many benefits to journaling, so I'll tell

(01:50:24):
you what I found there. Once again, my name is
rich Dmiro. Thanks so much for listening, especially to episode
number two. We're building this thing up. There are so
many ways you can spend your time. I really do
appreciate you spending it right here with me. I'll talk
to you real soon

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