October 25, 2024 • 37 mins
I finally bought a 14.6 inch Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra...and uh...it is simply gargantuan. Here's my thoughts (@15:40)
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome to the Geek Therapy Radio podcast. You've got your
mental curator, Johnny Hamburger. As of recording, it is before
ten o'clock in the morning. Just dropped my son off
at school, and you know, I was thinking the past
few days that I really need to record another episode
and really need to. It's not that I need to,
(00:29):
it's that I want to record another show geek Therapy.
I've stated that this, you know, multiple times before in
the past, since twenty seventeen when I started this podcast,
and it was a radio show from twenty seventeen to
twenty twenty four. I recently nixed the broadcast portion of it.
It was just too much to too much to handle
(00:51):
with a newborn child and a four year old about
to be four year old. So I've stated multiple times
that Geeky Radio is therapy for me, just talking about
geek things and occasionally venting. Y'all longtime listeners to the
listeners of the show know that I do vent from
time to time, as I'm prone to do. Uh So
(01:15):
it's it's for me, probably, I don't I don't know
if this is selfish to say. I think it's for
me more than it is for you to say. I
say that because I appreciate everybody who has stuck around,
everybody who continues to listen to Geek Therapy Radio, everybody
who continues to sometimes share it with their friends, let
their friends know about Geek there PI Radio. Because really
(01:38):
the show is letting you into my life in a
reasonable way. You it's really appear into my mind. You know,
you could listen to a lot of other podcast for sure,
that are super well produced, have lots of bullet points,
lots of talking points, well researched, and some of my
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episodes are like that, very few and far between. Do
I make it really research polished podcast for Geek Therapy Radio.
Mostly it's just stream of consciouness, stream of consciousness, talking
about like technical things and geek things and gizmos and
gadgets and computers and areas of our geekdom that are
fascinating to me at the moment. Sometimes it's me just
(02:19):
kind of venting about life. But I think, you know,
I don't plan on That's part of the realness of
this podcast. I think I don't have sixty thousand listeners
every episode. It's nothing massive like that. I what is it?
Every episode is a few hundred listeners something like that,
even after all these years, it's just it's not this big,
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massive thing. And it's probably because I don't All these
episodes aren't super well researched. I don't deep dive into
subjects all the time. Sometimes I do over on the
museum's podcast, Houston Museum and Natural Science. I am the
podcast manager over there. The podcast is called Beyond Bones.
(03:01):
So if you search HMNS Beyond Bones and you look
for like the purple color scheme, that's me doing extremely
deep dive contents. That is me like digging into For instance,
the latest episode I released over there on the Beyond
Bones podcast, and I'll link it in the podcast description here.
The latest episode I did there was called was on
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scientific dating. So for instance, you know, you hear scientists
say the universe is thirteen point seven billion years old,
the solar system in the Earth are four point five
billion years old. The asteroid impact that killed off the
dinosaurs happened between you know, sixty seven sixty eight million
years ago. Now that is the current more focused estimate.
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You hear about a t rex fossil that's seventy million
years old, the triceratops at seventy five million years old,
mammoths that are ten thousand years old. You hear all
these numbers thrown out by scientists when they ask how
they date things, how they how they determine how old
a fossil is, for instance. So in that episode, I
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discuss how they get there, and the angle I approach
it from is that I think most of us kind
of as we hear the term carbon fourteen dating, you know,
we hear that like once in high school, and then
we hear that carbon fourteen isn't super reliable because it
can be the sample can be contaminated. There's all sorts
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of other variables to it. It is not reliable or
it's not accurate, you know, beyond around twenty thousand years
or so, and that really depends on the sample point.
Is most of us hear about carbon fourteen dating and
then we dismiss it. Okay, carbon fourteen dating is not accurate,
so the scientists is not accurate. None of these dates
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scientists are throwing around our accurate because carbon fourteen is
it's only accurate in a very limited number of situations.
What I go onto in that podcast is hey by
the way just using radiometric dating alone, which carbon fourteen
uses radiometric dating, that's the type of dating that it is.
There are dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens and
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dozens of more methods of carbon dating alone. It's not
just carbon fourteen. So for instance, there's this samarium neodymium dating.
There's lead lead dating, where you're basically measuring the ratio
of lead. What is it? Don't quote me directly because
I don't have the information right in front of me,
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but it is correct in the Museums podcast that I wrote.
That's like lead three oh seven to lead three oh six,
or lead two o seven to two six. It's the
isotopes of lead of the element of lead. So that
helps you determine, you know, how many millions or billions
of years old something is, for instance, an asteroid. That's
how they date asteroids. Every asteroid that we measure on
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Earth that originated in our solar system. How they've determined
the age to be around four point five billion years old,
not just using the lead lead dating method, but using
several other radiometric dating methods alone. Everything we pull out
of outer space, the moon rocks, we pull back, we
test that it's around four point five billion years. The
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margin of air is one percent. By the way, that
thirteen point seven billion years old for the universe, the
margin of air there is two hundred million years. So
when a scientist says we estimate that the Earth is
or that the sorry that the universe is thirteen point
seven billion years old, it could be thirteen point five
billion years old. It could be thirteen point nine billion
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years old. That two hundred million years sounds like such
a wild margin of air that a lot of people
just kind of throw the baby out with the bathwater.
That is way too wild of an estimate to be
to be anywhere reasonably accurate. But the actual math of it,
that two hundred million years of margin of air out
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of thirteen point seven billion is a margin of air
of zero point zero one percent. In other words, when
you hear that the that the universe is thirteen point
seven billion years old, we know that within ninety nine
point ninety nine percent accuracy. And every time we study it,
every time we look at it, we just we bring
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the accuracy into sharper focus. So that's that, and you know,
they measure the age of the universe how they measure
the edge of the universes. If carbon fourteen dating is unreliable,
especially when dating you know, asteroids and things like that, well,
that's not how that's not that's one of the radiometric
is one of the ways that they use to estimate
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the age of the universe. The other one is called
the red shift red shift or blue shift. They can
tell the rate of expansion of the universe. It's a
constant rate. It's called the Hubble constant actually, and it
has to do with it's like seventy three megaparsex per
whatever like it's in it account's parallax, and it's measured
on an arc. It's crazy that math isn't sane, but
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it's repeatable and it's and it's accurate. So that's one
of the ways they determine the age of the universe
using the Hubble constant. The rate of expansion and it's accelerating.
I'm getting off into the weeds about scientific dating, but
that's the proved the point that while you listen to
geek therapy radio, and while geek therapy radio is definitely
more of a stream of consciousness podcast, if you want
(08:27):
to hear me deep dive in into subjects, deep deep
dive in into subjects. You should go subscribe to the
Beyond Bones podcast. The Beyond Bones podcast from the Houston
Museum of Natural Science if you want to hear me
deep dive in do it's thoroughly, thoroughly well researched and
even doing interviews with experts. You know, one of the
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one of the blessings of working for a museum is that, Hey,
if I don't know about a subject or I want
more input on a certain topic, we have a museum
full of curators and educators and doctors and masters and
all sorts of experts in their fields that I can say, Hey,
I'm doing a podcast on scientific dating. I can walk
into our paleontology lab and say, hey, Ryan Price or
(09:10):
Colin Diggins, y'all are experts at scientific dating, especially when
it comes to fossils and dinosaurs and all sorts of
things like that. Do you what is your input? I'm
writing this podcast about scientific dating. Can you help me
clarify something? So it's a super duper helpful in that
regard that I get to make these podcasts for the
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museum that are so well researched, and I can really
I'm shoulder to shoulder with the experts and they're right
there with me, and I can just turn to them, Hey,
what do you think about this? So anyways, if you
want to hear me, do more well researched podcasts. Thoroughly
well researched podcast Subscribe to the Beyond Bones podcast from
the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The thumbnail is purple.
(09:52):
There's an old Beyond Bones that I am trying to
get rid of take down from the internet. It's a
past it duration from like twenty nineteen or whatever, and
just kind of confuses the matters. The person that published
the podcast no longer works for the museum, and I
was able to determine through some very through some Sherlock
(10:15):
Holmes investigation, that he was uploading it to a defunct platform,
a defunct back end. So, for instance, I upload my
podcast geek Therapy Radio the back end we use as spreaker.
I also use spreaker for the museum's podcast. Back in
the day, they used I think it was Stitcher or
something like that as the back end, and it's defunct.
(10:36):
It no longer exists. So it is a pain in
the butt to be hunting down, Like, for instance, I
had to email Google, I raise an actual human being saying, hey,
can you unlist this old Beyond Bones because it is
not our podcast anymore. It's it's it's an old version.
(10:57):
We're not using it anymore. Can you unlisted? I don't
have the credentials, the person who uploaded it doesn't work
here anymore, and the back end they used doesn't exist anymore,
so can we unlist it? So I did raise somebody
from Apple and they said, all right, we need you
to put this code into your RSS feed and dot
it like there's all sorts of hoops. I'm like, can
you just can you just go to the it's called
(11:21):
Apple podcast Connect, it's the back end for Apple. Can
you just unlist it? Like what ID and credentials and
do you need from me? Just to just disable it?
Just unpublish it, just unlisted, that's all you need to do.
Why you've got to jump through so many hoops. I
know they got to jump through hoops because they need
to keep it one confidential. They need to protect people's
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data for sure, So I get it. I'm not mad
about it, but it's like, hey, I'm the I am
the institution that made this podcast, but it was made
before my time. I am from the company. I represent
the company. I can give you anything I need to
about the company, so you know, I'm legit. Can you
just unlist it anyways? So yeah, Beyond Bones podcast, look
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for the purple thumbnail has all sorts of like artifacts
and figurines and things on there. It has like the
mercury mercury space mercury capsule that we have in our museum,
which I've done a podcast about. It has like a pharaoh,
it has a bug, a beetle, a butterfly, different kind
of Egyptian artifacts that are It's like it looks like
(12:25):
clip art. It's like cool clip art. Anyway. The color
theme is purple. Beyond Bones podcast hm NS Beyond the
Bones podcast, the color theme is purple. That's where you
can go listen to me do more deep dives into
some really super fascinating subjects. Our museum, by the way,
has over two point five million artifacts, million pieces, so
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there's no shortage of information there. I'll get off the
Museum podcast for a minute. I'm just letting y'all know
where y'all can hear me on a much more regular
basis doing much more de dive subjects. The next episode
I'm working on, I believe for all you Gems and
Minerals fans, they're minerals, Marie. I'm gonna do a podcast
(13:11):
about our gem hall but specifically rhotochrosite. Rhotochrosite is super
awesome looking red mineral. It's beautiful. But I'm gonna do
a deep dive into our gems and specifically rhotocro site
history of rhotochrosite, what it means to different cultures, how
it's formed, where it's formed, where it's found. So I'm
(13:34):
gonna be doing a deep dive into that kind of
stuff if any of you are fans of kind of
more specific subject matters in science and natural history and
human history for that matter. So here's what I really
wanted to talk about today. And I'm gonna have a
hard time labeling this podcast because I just spent the
first fifteen minutes here or whatever talking about what's going
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on in my life, basically in the other podcast for
the museum. I'm driving to the museum right now. By
the way, I'm in bumper to bumper Houston traffic technical
side notes. I am recording this into my Dji Mike two.
I am not using the built in noise cancelation. It
was not good enough for use while driving. It is
(14:18):
and it isn't like if it's the only thing you
can use. It does. It does reduce the noise absolutely.
It is an invaluable tool to have in your kit.
But I'm recording this raw into the microphone, no built
in noise reduction, because when I put the raw audio
into Da Vinci Resolve, Da Vinci Resolves noise reduction is better.
(14:42):
It's the AI or whatever algorithms they're using in Da
Vinci Resolve is way better. And I've begun to start
editing my podcasts now in Da Vinci Resolve. The audio
suite and Da Vinci Resolve is quite robust, especially for
a video editor. You can eq, you can compress, you
can expand you can do all sorts of audio effects.
(15:03):
You can duck underneath each other. It's very high end
and it's kind of keeps my workflow very simple. For instance,
if I need to make a video version along with
a podcast, sometimes I just do it all within Da
Vinci Resolve instead of going from Reaper. Is my dedicated
daw Go for Reaper and then into Divinci Resolve for videos,
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it just kind of cuts out a step in the workflow.
So I just recently for podcasts and audio work I've
been using just a da Vinci Resolve and then if
I add a video, I could just add a video
track on top of the audio track and off to
the races. So what I actually wanted to talk about
today was that I got a new tablet some geek
(15:43):
tech news. I guess, so Samsung they're about to release
They're gonna release the Samsung Galaxy what is it, S
ten Ultra. I think they've already released the S ten
and the S ten plus tablets. The S ten Ultra
is going to come out a little bit later. The
S nine Ultra has been out for a while obviously,
(16:05):
and the S eight Ultra. The S eight Ultra is
the first tablet Ultra series that they've made. It's a
fourteen point six inch tablet and I have had the
tab S eight Ultra in my Amazon cart for probably
at least a year, you know, when it was launched.
It is ridiculously expensive. It's like a twelve hundred dollars
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tablet when brand new. I think the S nine Ultra
brand new is still around one thousand bucks over a
thousand bucks, eleven hundred dollars, and the S ten is
going to be twelve hundred thirteen hundred dollars. Mark my words,
it's going to be over one thousand dollars for sure.
So I had the S eight Ultra waiting for that
to age by a couple of years. Somebody just ran
a red light because Houston. Who cares? Anyways, we had
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the say Ultra in my and they didn't use a
blinker to turn right. How about that TAB eight Sa
Ultra in my Amazon car for over a year, waiting
for the price to fall, And it finally fell to
for the base model below five hundred dollars to get
it refurbished, renewed or whatever. So it was like four
hundred and eighty bucks on Amazon for refurbished. I didn't
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go for just the cheapest model. I thought that's what
I wanted. I specked it up slightly to the five
hundred and twelve gigabyte sixteen gigabyte of RAM model. I said,
you know what if I'm buying a new tablet and
I used my tablets, my Android tablets, especially for years
My previous tablet was the tab S six and I
bought that in twenty nineteen, I think twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen.
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I had it for a good minute for a tablet
four five years and quite frankly, now we're gonna get
to the nuts and bolts of it. Of my reasoning
why a fourteen point six inch tablet, I had never
used a tablet of that size before. I mean, part
of it was just a curiosity. The other part was like, hey,
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I can think of areas of my workflow and my
productivity where a giant screen and a stylus would work out,
would work well for me. This is not a good
place to be parking your car, Dude in the roundabout?
No way? So yeah, someone just had was parked in
the roundabout. Yeah, so I had never had a massive
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tablet and nice part of its curiosity, and part of
it is like, you know, I do a fair bit
of video editing on my Android tablet. I use Lumafusion.
Lumafusion is the best video editor on Android period. It
just is. It is. It's extremely feature rich. What that
also means is that there's a learning curve to it,
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and it's intimidating to use because it's not like cap
Cut or something like that, which is just really meant
for anybody to use, and you have you don't have
a super duper ton of control. You get granular with Lumafusion.
Lumafusion is like using Da Vinci Resolve or Premiere or
Final Cut, but it's on Android. It is super feature
rich and is a very good video editor for Android.
If you are wondering what video editor should you get
(19:03):
for your Android phone or your Android tablet, Lumafusion done.
If you're a serious content creator. If you're a serious
video editor and you need something on Android to take
with you on the go, Luma Fusion it's like twenty
bucks or thirty bucks, depending on the day. I think
I've seen it as low as fifteen dollars. Super feature
rich learning curve because it is a professional video editor,
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there's nothing, there's no hand holding in it. There's no
kind of like easy mode. It's just a it's a
non linear editor, as feature rich as anything else for Android.
So I was like, you know, I bet you Lumafusion
would be amazing on a fourteen point six inch Android
tablet powered by Snapdragon. The ess eight Ultra is Snapdragon
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Gen one, so Snapdragon eight gen one. They changed the
naming scheme. It used to be like nine four five
five five editor, they went to Snapdragon eight gen one
like it's I think they're on Gen three now as
far as like tablets are concerned. And Qualcom also makes
you know the arm based windows PCs that are Snapdragon
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X chips. I won't get off into the weeds with that.
But back to the essay at Ultra Snapdragon eight gen one,
which is the same chip that was in my Galaxy
Z fold four, which is not usable anymore. I thought
by the fourth generation of folding Android phones that it
would be they'd have worked out the kings now to
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be fair. To be fair, though, I don't think that
my z fold four just stop working on its own.
I at the time, for I had in my pocket
for like a year and a half just right up
against a strong neodymium magnet. I had a wallet with
a magnetic clip and the phone was just right up
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against it. You're not supposed to keep phones up against
strong magnets, and I basically had it in my pocket
wedged right up against a st strong magnet for a
year and a half. The screen is fine, everything is fine,
but the stylist doesn't work, and the like screen rotation
doesn't work. Whatever chip controls all of that is a
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It is one ship that controls all of that. That
chip is just thrown out a whack. And I suspect
it's because I had it up against a magnet for
a year and a half. So that's not Samsung's fault.
The folding phones of all generations of Samsung have had
their issues that are Samsung's fault, quote unquote, because it's
still it's still folding phones. I know they've been out
for a minute, they've been out for a few years now.
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It is still a bleeding edge technology. It folding phones
are still very much a technology that is still being
worked on and worked out, and you know it's I
liked having a folding phone. I love my Z fourth
for I was so bummed to only have it for
a year and a half or so, and then I
needed a new phone, hence the S twenty four Ultra
that I got several months ago. I like to use
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my phone for years and years and years. I use
my S nine. Yeah, I use my S nine for.
I don't know I had it four or five years.
I used that for him. Maybe what was it three
four years? I used it for quite a while. Anyways,
back to the tab essay ultra user experience, Yeah, lumafusion
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and editing apps are awesome on a fourteen point six
inch screen. I think most people who are looking at
an ultra sized tablet a fourteen point six inch tablet.
And I think there's some no name Chinese brands that
make a fifteen point six inch tablet, which is just asinine,
especially after you hold a fourteen point six inch tablet. Okay,
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they're gonna back in here, that's fine. My user experience
is like, oh, fourteen point six sisters, that's like a
fourteen inch laptop. That's smaller than a fifteen inch laptop.
So you know, I think it's that'll be pretty cool.
It's it is cool for productivity, it very much is. However,
it is unwieldy. It is not It is not necessarily
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a tablet you can just be laying on the couch
or laying in bed with. Certainly you can use it
in that function. But tablets for just lounging on the
couch and laying in bed, those are the ten inch
tablets like those are the you know, twelve inches below
size tablets. I know, the iPad pro is like twelve
point three inches or something like that. I've got an
iPad Pro. It's it's awesome, But fourteen point six inches
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these kind of mega tablets, it's uh, you learn very quickly. Yeah,
this is a This is a cumbersome beast just for
casual consumption. Like so that's kind of my point here
and pulling into work, but i still have a few
minutes to wrap up. I'm okay. That's my point here
is if you are looking having having if you're listening
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to me your podcast host, who is a person who
has bought the tablet with their own money, It has
an on review of it. The technology is amazing. The
screen is world class, best screens in the world, obviously,
all that stuff is utterly fantastic, flagship top of the game,
better than any other manufacturer out there. The sheer size
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of it though, This is the point I want to
make with it. You need to have a very specific
use case in mind for a giant screen tablet, if
you need to kind of gauge whether or not this
can work for you, Like take your laptop. I assume
your laptop is, you know, thirteen inches or larger, and
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just kind of pull your hands on the screen and
hold it and see, like, can I use a tablet
that's this big? Because that's basically what it is. You
need to have a very specific use case in mind
for a large screen tablet. So if you're somebody who
uses a stylist a lot, like if you're an illustrator,
you're an animator, or whatever you're gonna be, you're gonna
be using that big screen real estate for editing purposes
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is wonderful, perfect, nothing better. If you're just gonna you're
just looking. You know, you're a casual tablet user, as
most people are, there's no no problem with that. That's
kind of the that's where the niche of the tablets
of tablets are. It's kind of casual content consumption. If
it's if you're just about consumption, if you're just about
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laying on the couch and holding a tablet with one
hand and surfing through YouTube and reading web pages and
whatever comics, you know, online comics. I don't think that
the tab essay ultra you know, these ultra size screens
are for you it's like I said, if it's just
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for casual use, it is cumbersome. If you're using it
for productivity, it is amazing. The other thing about it's
a knock against so here. I don't have any buyers
or Moorse on the essay Ultra tablet, especially for the
price I got it for. I think it was like
six hundred and twenty bucks. Since I didn't get the
cheapest cheapest I got refurbished sixteen gigabyte version, sixteen gigabyte
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RAM version. I have zero buyers or morse. I'm gonna
use this tablet for the next few years until I until,
like you know, need something else. So there's no buyers
or morse though. But the big takeaway is just the
screen size. It's unwieldy, an actual knock against Samsung. Like usually,
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I don't have much poor to say about Samsung. Every
once in a while they do get something wrong. They're
a big manufacturer like any anybody else, any other company.
The biggest egregious borderline, if not criminal aspect of these
Ultra laptops, the S eight Ultra, S nine Ultra and
the upcoming S ten Ultra. The price of the cover,
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just the basic cover is like ninety bucks. Maybe it's
a little I paid ninety or seventy or eighty bucks
for the official Samsung cover. It's a great cover, no
problem with it. I want everything to be official and tightened,
compact and flush and work great. The only issue I
have with the actual cover for the S eight Ultra
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is that the s pen isn't covered up like my
tab S six. The official cover had a flap that
covered up the actual stylus, which was which was nice.
On the S eight Ultra. At least, the basic cover
doesn't have a flap that covers the stylus. The stylust
is just it's very strongly magnetic. It has not ever
fallen off on its own over the past few days
(27:27):
that I've kind of been carting it around. But I
really feel better having that flap over the stylus like
my tab S six had. Saight Ultra doesn't do that.
I think the next step up, and this is where
I'm really getting at, like the real borderline criminality of
all this is that you have the keyboard cover they
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call like this the tab book cover or whatever, three
hundred and fifty dollars. It is what that is. That's
why I say borderline criminal. And it's not just me,
A lot of other people say that. The price of
the keyboard, of the book cover, whatever you call it,
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it's three hundred and fifty dollars. And it would be
one thing if it was the best keyboard cover on
planet Earth. But it is not. It is a three
hundred and fifty dollars cover. And I should preface this
by I don't have the cover. This is just every
review I've ever read about it, and just from what
I can see and just holding the official cover, non
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keyboard cover, I can totally understand this because the materials
are similar, or if not the same. Three hundred and
fifty dollars keyboard cover that feels every bit of twenty dollars.
That's wobbly and flexy, and you can't use it on
your lap because it flexes too much. It's not stable.
The keys on a flat surface, I've heard and I
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have no issue believing this at all. If you have
it on like a table, it's great. The keys that
the well spread out. Obviously it's a fourteen point six
inch tablet. I would hope that the keys are well
spread out, that the tab that when you've under perfect conditions,
the actual keyboard feels great. Again, I have not tested it.
This is all just things I reviewed. But if you're
trying to use it in any sort of mobile fashion,
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if you're sitting on your couch trying to use it,
if you are in bed trying to use it like
it's you're not. It's so flimsy that you know it'll
lose physical connection with the little with the with the
the pads underneath it, the gold pads underneath it, so
it'll disconnect every once in a while. It's just not
a three hundred and fifty dollars that's the thing. Even
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if it was one hundred bucks, I think people would
kind of say, yeah, you know, what do you expect?
It's it's you know, pros and cons, But for three
hundred fifty dollars, there's not enough pros to it. I
absolutely have no intention of getting the keyboard cover for
my tab say Ultra, for that exact reason. It's just
for one thing, three hundred and fifty dollars. Imagine you're buying
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a new S nine Ultra or the upcoming S ten Ultra.
You're spend twelve hundred dollars. Let's say for the tablet,
and then another three hundred and fifty dollars for the keyboard.
That is asinine. Holy, you're approaching fifteen hundred dollars for
a get dang android tablet. I love Android tablets for
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what they are and the purposes that they serve. Fifteen
hundred dollars, Good lord, I don't even need to explain
to anybody listening what kind of a powerhouse slim peap
like gaming PC editing PC you can get for fifteen
hundred dollars. For fifteen hundred dollars, you can get a
slim gaming PC with like an RTX forty seventy. Definitely
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an RTX forty sixty. You can get an RTX forty
seventy in a slim touchscreen like gaming editing PC for
that kind of money. Fourteen hundred and fifteen hundred dollars.
It's fourteen hundred. Fifteen hundred dollars for an Android tablet
is beyond beyond comprehension. You can go get an Excelete
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if you want to. If you want to snap Dragon
based PC, go get an Exceleite for less than that.
If you're spending the same amount of money on an
exceleite like two in one laptop, dude, that's what it's.
That is one reason why I said, Okay, I like
this form factor. I like I want to try this
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giant fourteen point six inch form factor. I ain't spending
no fourteen hundred dollars. I don't know what kind of
rich like oil oligarch, Russian oligarch or whatever is this
going to be dropping that kind of coin. It's not
worth it. It's not worth it. It's it's not even
a flex it's it's like a it's a more sense
than money thing. No one's gonna see you with that
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tablet and be and they're going to be impressed as,
oh wow, that thing is huge. It looks gorgeous. The
screen's amazing, it's very snappy. Da, the Galaxy AI is
really cool. All that kind of stuff is cool, And like,
what do you spend on this? Like what is a
six hundred, seven hundred dollars something like that? It can't
be more than seven or eight hundred dollars, can it?
And you've got to say, oh, yeah, all in this
was fourteen hundred bucks, they'd spit out their coffee. Are
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you insane? What the heck did you spend fourteen hundred
dollars on a tab on an Android tablet for fourteen
hundred bucks, Like for an iPad Pro. At least the
iPad pro can run you know, like Da Vinci Resolve,
a very stripped down version of it. Don't. I'm not
saying the iPad Pro is worth fourteen hundred dollars or
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worth over one thousand dollars, but for some people, I
guess it is. The productivity apps arguably in the in
the iPad os ecosystem are better than on the Android
side of things. Yeah, it's fourteen hundred. Spending over one
thousand dollars in an Android tablet is beyond comprehension. Absolutely
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beyond comprehension. I can sort of understand a phone being,
you know, over one thousand dollars. I spent like eleven
hundred dollars on the S twenty four uld trip. That's
just part for the course of the flagship. A flagships
is going to command that price, but to me for
the features, for the power, for how often you use it,
for the battery life, or the screen. Again, mainly just
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for the power inside of it. I can edit videos
just as just as quickly on my S twenty four
Ultra phone as I can on my S eight Ultra tablet,
but on the screen it's on the phone screen, it's
way more compact, cramped. It's it's not that the workflow
is severely restricted on a small screen, but the power
is there to do it if you need to. The
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other thing, I think the big one of the biggest
factors why I pulled the trigger on the S eight
Ultra is that going over to the Mac side of things,
Apple side of things, I'm when I'm within my Apple ecosystem,
So I'm using my Mac sixteen inch MacBook Pro with
the M one pro chip inside of there, and I
have my iPad pro next to it. It's seamless screen
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extension or mirroring. I can just have my open up
my iPad next to it, go into my MacBook Pro
sixteen and just saynd the screen over to my iPad seamlessly,
and it's beautiful. So I can be editing video and
then use the iPad screen as the clean feed to
see what I'm editing, see the big picture of what
I'm editing. Great. I didn't have any way, I didn't
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have any elegant way to do that on the Windows side,
and since I mostly use Windows PCs Windows laptops, I said,
you know, it'd be great if I could have my
Windows editing laptop with my RTX forty eighty and my
I seven thirteen, seven hundred K. It's twenty cores, whatever,
twenty threads. If I could have this beast and then
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seamlessly just extend the screen over to my Android tablet,
that'd be great. And you can obviously do that. That
is a built in feature, a wonderful built in feature
of modern Android tablets. So I can go just toss
extend my screen wirelessly to my fourteen point sixtion eight
Ultra next to me for editing purposes, and it is wonderful.
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It is a dream. The screen is it's O Lead.
I mean, it's a beautiful, accurate, reasonably bright screen. So
editing with it, you know, having opening Da Vinci Resolve
and having my timeline on my seventeen inch laptop screen
and then my clean feed view over on the fourteen
point sixtion tablet screen. O Lead tablet screen is baller.
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It's so good for the price I paid for the
experience around six hundred seven hun Let's say seven hundred
dollars all in with the with just the cover that
I got for it. It's like I said, no regret
at all. It's just for it, kind of laying on
the couch consuming content. It's it's it's cumbersome. Let's just
call it cumbersome. I have no regrets spuying it at
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the price that I bought it for used, you know,
two years old, fourteen double the price, fourteen hundred dollars
all in for like an S ten Ultra, an S
nine Ultra. Take me out behind the shed and throw
a rock at my skull like it's I'm insane if
I've done that, like that is crazy. Anyways, it's I
got to, you know, walk into the museum now. S
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eight Ultra was the main you know, meat potatoes at
this podcast. Check out the Beyond Bones podcast HMNS Houston
Museum of Natural Science Beyond Bones podcast. Look for the
purple color scheme and subscribe there if you want to
hear me deep diving into very well polished, very well
produced podcast. I'll of course include links in the description
here to like the Spotify and the Apple versions of it,
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but you can just search it. It's in pocket. I
use pocket casts on Android and it's it's in there.
But yeah, so you are worthy of love, You're worthy
of giving love, you're worthy of receiving love. With all
that's going on in the world, I hope y'all are safe.
I do very much appreciate you all for listening. I
appreciate your emails, even if I don't respond to every
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single one of them. I appreciate I I know y'all
take time to do that, and I appreciate it so
much so I like to blame my add on it,
like I'll see it and like, oh, I need to
respond to ed ed. I see you, I see you,
and I and I hear the sound bite just ending me.
I appreciate it in full. I hope hope an on
air quote unquote shout out is good enough for that purpose.
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But I'll try to be better about responding uh to emails.
But yeah, all, I love that. I truly appreciate y'all.
Thank you so much for listening to this episode of
Geek Therapy Radio. Go check out the Beyon Bones podcast
from the Houston Museum Financial Science link it below. Take care,
talk to y'all next time.
Welcome to the Geek Therapy Radio podcast. You've got your
mental curator, Johnny Hamburger. As of recording, it is before
ten o'clock in the morning. Just dropped my son off
at school, and you know, I was thinking the past
few days that I really need to record another episode
and really need to. It's not that I need to,
(00:29):
it's that I want to record another show geek Therapy.
I've stated that this, you know, multiple times before in
the past, since twenty seventeen when I started this podcast,
and it was a radio show from twenty seventeen to
twenty twenty four. I recently nixed the broadcast portion of it.
It was just too much to too much to handle
(00:51):
with a newborn child and a four year old about
to be four year old. So I've stated multiple times
that Geeky Radio is therapy for me, just talking about
geek things and occasionally venting. Y'all longtime listeners to the
listeners of the show know that I do vent from
time to time, as I'm prone to do. Uh So
(01:15):
it's it's for me, probably, I don't I don't know
if this is selfish to say. I think it's for
me more than it is for you to say. I
say that because I appreciate everybody who has stuck around,
everybody who continues to listen to Geek Therapy Radio, everybody
who continues to sometimes share it with their friends, let
their friends know about Geek there PI Radio. Because really
(01:38):
the show is letting you into my life in a
reasonable way. You it's really appear into my mind. You know,
you could listen to a lot of other podcast for sure,
that are super well produced, have lots of bullet points,
lots of talking points, well researched, and some of my
(01:59):
episodes are like that, very few and far between. Do
I make it really research polished podcast for Geek Therapy Radio.
Mostly it's just stream of consciouness, stream of consciousness, talking
about like technical things and geek things and gizmos and
gadgets and computers and areas of our geekdom that are
fascinating to me at the moment. Sometimes it's me just
(02:19):
kind of venting about life. But I think, you know,
I don't plan on That's part of the realness of
this podcast. I think I don't have sixty thousand listeners
every episode. It's nothing massive like that. I what is it?
Every episode is a few hundred listeners something like that,
even after all these years, it's just it's not this big,
(02:41):
massive thing. And it's probably because I don't All these
episodes aren't super well researched. I don't deep dive into
subjects all the time. Sometimes I do over on the
museum's podcast, Houston Museum and Natural Science. I am the
podcast manager over there. The podcast is called Beyond Bones.
(03:01):
So if you search HMNS Beyond Bones and you look
for like the purple color scheme, that's me doing extremely
deep dive contents. That is me like digging into For instance,
the latest episode I released over there on the Beyond
Bones podcast, and I'll link it in the podcast description here.
The latest episode I did there was called was on
(03:23):
scientific dating. So for instance, you know, you hear scientists
say the universe is thirteen point seven billion years old,
the solar system in the Earth are four point five
billion years old. The asteroid impact that killed off the
dinosaurs happened between you know, sixty seven sixty eight million
years ago. Now that is the current more focused estimate.
(03:44):
You hear about a t rex fossil that's seventy million
years old, the triceratops at seventy five million years old,
mammoths that are ten thousand years old. You hear all
these numbers thrown out by scientists when they ask how
they date things, how they how they determine how old
a fossil is, for instance. So in that episode, I
(04:05):
discuss how they get there, and the angle I approach
it from is that I think most of us kind
of as we hear the term carbon fourteen dating, you know,
we hear that like once in high school, and then
we hear that carbon fourteen isn't super reliable because it
can be the sample can be contaminated. There's all sorts
(04:27):
of other variables to it. It is not reliable or
it's not accurate, you know, beyond around twenty thousand years
or so, and that really depends on the sample point.
Is most of us hear about carbon fourteen dating and
then we dismiss it. Okay, carbon fourteen dating is not accurate,
so the scientists is not accurate. None of these dates
(04:50):
scientists are throwing around our accurate because carbon fourteen is
it's only accurate in a very limited number of situations.
What I go onto in that podcast is hey by
the way just using radiometric dating alone, which carbon fourteen
uses radiometric dating, that's the type of dating that it is.
There are dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens and
(05:13):
dozens of more methods of carbon dating alone. It's not
just carbon fourteen. So for instance, there's this samarium neodymium dating.
There's lead lead dating, where you're basically measuring the ratio
of lead. What is it? Don't quote me directly because
I don't have the information right in front of me,
(05:34):
but it is correct in the Museums podcast that I wrote.
That's like lead three oh seven to lead three oh six,
or lead two o seven to two six. It's the
isotopes of lead of the element of lead. So that
helps you determine, you know, how many millions or billions
of years old something is, for instance, an asteroid. That's
how they date asteroids. Every asteroid that we measure on
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Earth that originated in our solar system. How they've determined
the age to be around four point five billion years old,
not just using the lead lead dating method, but using
several other radiometric dating methods alone. Everything we pull out
of outer space, the moon rocks, we pull back, we
test that it's around four point five billion years. The
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margin of air is one percent. By the way, that
thirteen point seven billion years old for the universe, the
margin of air there is two hundred million years. So
when a scientist says we estimate that the Earth is
or that the sorry that the universe is thirteen point
seven billion years old, it could be thirteen point five
billion years old. It could be thirteen point nine billion
(06:37):
years old. That two hundred million years sounds like such
a wild margin of air that a lot of people
just kind of throw the baby out with the bathwater.
That is way too wild of an estimate to be
to be anywhere reasonably accurate. But the actual math of it,
that two hundred million years of margin of air out
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of thirteen point seven billion is a margin of air
of zero point zero one percent. In other words, when
you hear that the that the universe is thirteen point
seven billion years old, we know that within ninety nine
point ninety nine percent accuracy. And every time we study it,
every time we look at it, we just we bring
(07:21):
the accuracy into sharper focus. So that's that, and you know,
they measure the age of the universe how they measure
the edge of the universes. If carbon fourteen dating is unreliable,
especially when dating you know, asteroids and things like that, well,
that's not how that's not that's one of the radiometric
is one of the ways that they use to estimate
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the age of the universe. The other one is called
the red shift red shift or blue shift. They can
tell the rate of expansion of the universe. It's a
constant rate. It's called the Hubble constant actually, and it
has to do with it's like seventy three megaparsex per
whatever like it's in it account's parallax, and it's measured
on an arc. It's crazy that math isn't sane, but
(08:05):
it's repeatable and it's and it's accurate. So that's one
of the ways they determine the age of the universe
using the Hubble constant. The rate of expansion and it's accelerating.
I'm getting off into the weeds about scientific dating, but
that's the proved the point that while you listen to
geek therapy radio, and while geek therapy radio is definitely
more of a stream of consciousness podcast, if you want
(08:27):
to hear me deep dive in into subjects, deep deep
dive in into subjects. You should go subscribe to the
Beyond Bones podcast. The Beyond Bones podcast from the Houston
Museum of Natural Science if you want to hear me
deep dive in do it's thoroughly, thoroughly well researched and
even doing interviews with experts. You know, one of the
(08:47):
one of the blessings of working for a museum is that, Hey,
if I don't know about a subject or I want
more input on a certain topic, we have a museum
full of curators and educators and doctors and masters and
all sorts of experts in their fields that I can say, Hey,
I'm doing a podcast on scientific dating. I can walk
into our paleontology lab and say, hey, Ryan Price or
(09:10):
Colin Diggins, y'all are experts at scientific dating, especially when
it comes to fossils and dinosaurs and all sorts of
things like that. Do you what is your input? I'm
writing this podcast about scientific dating. Can you help me
clarify something? So it's a super duper helpful in that
regard that I get to make these podcasts for the
(09:31):
museum that are so well researched, and I can really
I'm shoulder to shoulder with the experts and they're right
there with me, and I can just turn to them, Hey,
what do you think about this? So anyways, if you
want to hear me, do more well researched podcasts. Thoroughly
well researched podcast Subscribe to the Beyond Bones podcast from
the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The thumbnail is purple.
(09:52):
There's an old Beyond Bones that I am trying to
get rid of take down from the internet. It's a
past it duration from like twenty nineteen or whatever, and
just kind of confuses the matters. The person that published
the podcast no longer works for the museum, and I
was able to determine through some very through some Sherlock
(10:15):
Holmes investigation, that he was uploading it to a defunct platform,
a defunct back end. So, for instance, I upload my
podcast geek Therapy Radio the back end we use as spreaker.
I also use spreaker for the museum's podcast. Back in
the day, they used I think it was Stitcher or
something like that as the back end, and it's defunct.
(10:36):
It no longer exists. So it is a pain in
the butt to be hunting down, Like, for instance, I
had to email Google, I raise an actual human being saying, hey,
can you unlist this old Beyond Bones because it is
not our podcast anymore. It's it's it's an old version.
(10:57):
We're not using it anymore. Can you unlisted? I don't
have the credentials, the person who uploaded it doesn't work
here anymore, and the back end they used doesn't exist anymore,
so can we unlist it? So I did raise somebody
from Apple and they said, all right, we need you
to put this code into your RSS feed and dot
it like there's all sorts of hoops. I'm like, can
you just can you just go to the it's called
(11:21):
Apple podcast Connect, it's the back end for Apple. Can
you just unlist it? Like what ID and credentials and
do you need from me? Just to just disable it?
Just unpublish it, just unlisted, that's all you need to do.
Why you've got to jump through so many hoops. I
know they got to jump through hoops because they need
to keep it one confidential. They need to protect people's
(11:43):
data for sure, So I get it. I'm not mad
about it, but it's like, hey, I'm the I am
the institution that made this podcast, but it was made
before my time. I am from the company. I represent
the company. I can give you anything I need to
about the company, so you know, I'm legit. Can you
just unlist it anyways? So yeah, Beyond Bones podcast, look
(12:03):
for the purple thumbnail has all sorts of like artifacts
and figurines and things on there. It has like the
mercury mercury space mercury capsule that we have in our museum,
which I've done a podcast about. It has like a pharaoh,
it has a bug, a beetle, a butterfly, different kind
of Egyptian artifacts that are It's like it looks like
(12:25):
clip art. It's like cool clip art. Anyway. The color
theme is purple. Beyond Bones podcast hm NS Beyond the
Bones podcast, the color theme is purple. That's where you
can go listen to me do more deep dives into
some really super fascinating subjects. Our museum, by the way,
has over two point five million artifacts, million pieces, so
(12:49):
there's no shortage of information there. I'll get off the
Museum podcast for a minute. I'm just letting y'all know
where y'all can hear me on a much more regular
basis doing much more de dive subjects. The next episode
I'm working on, I believe for all you Gems and
Minerals fans, they're minerals, Marie. I'm gonna do a podcast
(13:11):
about our gem hall but specifically rhotochrosite. Rhotochrosite is super
awesome looking red mineral. It's beautiful. But I'm gonna do
a deep dive into our gems and specifically rhotocro site
history of rhotochrosite, what it means to different cultures, how
it's formed, where it's formed, where it's found. So I'm
(13:34):
gonna be doing a deep dive into that kind of
stuff if any of you are fans of kind of
more specific subject matters in science and natural history and
human history for that matter. So here's what I really
wanted to talk about today. And I'm gonna have a
hard time labeling this podcast because I just spent the
first fifteen minutes here or whatever talking about what's going
(13:57):
on in my life, basically in the other podcast for
the museum. I'm driving to the museum right now. By
the way, I'm in bumper to bumper Houston traffic technical
side notes. I am recording this into my Dji Mike two.
I am not using the built in noise cancelation. It
was not good enough for use while driving. It is
(14:18):
and it isn't like if it's the only thing you
can use. It does. It does reduce the noise absolutely.
It is an invaluable tool to have in your kit.
But I'm recording this raw into the microphone, no built
in noise reduction, because when I put the raw audio
into Da Vinci Resolve, Da Vinci Resolves noise reduction is better.
(14:42):
It's the AI or whatever algorithms they're using in Da
Vinci Resolve is way better. And I've begun to start
editing my podcasts now in Da Vinci Resolve. The audio
suite and Da Vinci Resolve is quite robust, especially for
a video editor. You can eq, you can compress, you
can expand you can do all sorts of audio effects.
(15:03):
You can duck underneath each other. It's very high end
and it's kind of keeps my workflow very simple. For instance,
if I need to make a video version along with
a podcast, sometimes I just do it all within Da
Vinci Resolve instead of going from Reaper. Is my dedicated
daw Go for Reaper and then into Divinci Resolve for videos,
(15:23):
it just kind of cuts out a step in the workflow.
So I just recently for podcasts and audio work I've
been using just a da Vinci Resolve and then if
I add a video, I could just add a video
track on top of the audio track and off to
the races. So what I actually wanted to talk about
today was that I got a new tablet some geek
(15:43):
tech news. I guess, so Samsung they're about to release
They're gonna release the Samsung Galaxy what is it, S
ten Ultra. I think they've already released the S ten
and the S ten plus tablets. The S ten Ultra
is going to come out a little bit later. The
S nine Ultra has been out for a while obviously,
(16:05):
and the S eight Ultra. The S eight Ultra is
the first tablet Ultra series that they've made. It's a
fourteen point six inch tablet and I have had the
tab S eight Ultra in my Amazon cart for probably
at least a year, you know, when it was launched.
It is ridiculously expensive. It's like a twelve hundred dollars
(16:28):
tablet when brand new. I think the S nine Ultra
brand new is still around one thousand bucks over a
thousand bucks, eleven hundred dollars, and the S ten is
going to be twelve hundred thirteen hundred dollars. Mark my words,
it's going to be over one thousand dollars for sure.
So I had the S eight Ultra waiting for that
to age by a couple of years. Somebody just ran
a red light because Houston. Who cares? Anyways, we had
(16:52):
the say Ultra in my and they didn't use a
blinker to turn right. How about that TAB eight Sa
Ultra in my Amazon car for over a year, waiting
for the price to fall, And it finally fell to
for the base model below five hundred dollars to get
it refurbished, renewed or whatever. So it was like four
hundred and eighty bucks on Amazon for refurbished. I didn't
(17:13):
go for just the cheapest model. I thought that's what
I wanted. I specked it up slightly to the five
hundred and twelve gigabyte sixteen gigabyte of RAM model. I said,
you know what if I'm buying a new tablet and
I used my tablets, my Android tablets, especially for years
My previous tablet was the tab S six and I
bought that in twenty nineteen, I think twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen.
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I had it for a good minute for a tablet
four five years and quite frankly, now we're gonna get
to the nuts and bolts of it. Of my reasoning
why a fourteen point six inch tablet, I had never
used a tablet of that size before. I mean, part
of it was just a curiosity. The other part was like, hey,
(17:58):
I can think of areas of my workflow and my
productivity where a giant screen and a stylus would work out,
would work well for me. This is not a good
place to be parking your car, Dude in the roundabout?
No way? So yeah, someone just had was parked in
the roundabout. Yeah, so I had never had a massive
(18:20):
tablet and nice part of its curiosity, and part of
it is like, you know, I do a fair bit
of video editing on my Android tablet. I use Lumafusion.
Lumafusion is the best video editor on Android period. It
just is. It is. It's extremely feature rich. What that
also means is that there's a learning curve to it,
(18:41):
and it's intimidating to use because it's not like cap
Cut or something like that, which is just really meant
for anybody to use, and you have you don't have
a super duper ton of control. You get granular with Lumafusion.
Lumafusion is like using Da Vinci Resolve or Premiere or
Final Cut, but it's on Android. It is super feature
rich and is a very good video editor for Android.
If you are wondering what video editor should you get
(19:03):
for your Android phone or your Android tablet, Lumafusion done.
If you're a serious content creator. If you're a serious
video editor and you need something on Android to take
with you on the go, Luma Fusion it's like twenty
bucks or thirty bucks, depending on the day. I think
I've seen it as low as fifteen dollars. Super feature
rich learning curve because it is a professional video editor,
(19:26):
there's nothing, there's no hand holding in it. There's no
kind of like easy mode. It's just a it's a
non linear editor, as feature rich as anything else for Android.
So I was like, you know, I bet you Lumafusion
would be amazing on a fourteen point six inch Android
tablet powered by Snapdragon. The ess eight Ultra is Snapdragon
(19:51):
Gen one, so Snapdragon eight gen one. They changed the
naming scheme. It used to be like nine four five
five five editor, they went to Snapdragon eight gen one
like it's I think they're on Gen three now as
far as like tablets are concerned. And Qualcom also makes
you know the arm based windows PCs that are Snapdragon
(20:13):
X chips. I won't get off into the weeds with that.
But back to the essay at Ultra Snapdragon eight gen one,
which is the same chip that was in my Galaxy
Z fold four, which is not usable anymore. I thought
by the fourth generation of folding Android phones that it
would be they'd have worked out the kings now to
(20:34):
be fair. To be fair, though, I don't think that
my z fold four just stop working on its own.
I at the time, for I had in my pocket
for like a year and a half just right up
against a strong neodymium magnet. I had a wallet with
a magnetic clip and the phone was just right up
(20:55):
against it. You're not supposed to keep phones up against
strong magnets, and I basically had it in my pocket
wedged right up against a st strong magnet for a
year and a half. The screen is fine, everything is fine,
but the stylist doesn't work, and the like screen rotation
doesn't work. Whatever chip controls all of that is a
(21:18):
It is one ship that controls all of that. That
chip is just thrown out a whack. And I suspect
it's because I had it up against a magnet for
a year and a half. So that's not Samsung's fault.
The folding phones of all generations of Samsung have had
their issues that are Samsung's fault, quote unquote, because it's
still it's still folding phones. I know they've been out
for a minute, they've been out for a few years now.
(21:39):
It is still a bleeding edge technology. It folding phones
are still very much a technology that is still being
worked on and worked out, and you know it's I
liked having a folding phone. I love my Z fourth
for I was so bummed to only have it for
a year and a half or so, and then I
needed a new phone, hence the S twenty four Ultra
that I got several months ago. I like to use
(21:59):
my phone for years and years and years. I use
my S nine. Yeah, I use my S nine for.
I don't know I had it four or five years.
I used that for him. Maybe what was it three
four years? I used it for quite a while. Anyways,
back to the tab essay ultra user experience, Yeah, lumafusion
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and editing apps are awesome on a fourteen point six
inch screen. I think most people who are looking at
an ultra sized tablet a fourteen point six inch tablet.
And I think there's some no name Chinese brands that
make a fifteen point six inch tablet, which is just asinine,
especially after you hold a fourteen point six inch tablet. Okay,
(22:43):
they're gonna back in here, that's fine. My user experience
is like, oh, fourteen point six sisters, that's like a
fourteen inch laptop. That's smaller than a fifteen inch laptop.
So you know, I think it's that'll be pretty cool.
It's it is cool for productivity, it very much is. However,
it is unwieldy. It is not It is not necessarily
(23:06):
a tablet you can just be laying on the couch
or laying in bed with. Certainly you can use it
in that function. But tablets for just lounging on the
couch and laying in bed, those are the ten inch
tablets like those are the you know, twelve inches below
size tablets. I know, the iPad pro is like twelve
point three inches or something like that. I've got an
iPad Pro. It's it's awesome, But fourteen point six inches
(23:28):
these kind of mega tablets, it's uh, you learn very quickly. Yeah,
this is a This is a cumbersome beast just for
casual consumption. Like so that's kind of my point here
and pulling into work, but i still have a few
minutes to wrap up. I'm okay. That's my point here
is if you are looking having having if you're listening
(23:52):
to me your podcast host, who is a person who
has bought the tablet with their own money, It has
an on review of it. The technology is amazing. The
screen is world class, best screens in the world, obviously,
all that stuff is utterly fantastic, flagship top of the game,
better than any other manufacturer out there. The sheer size
(24:14):
of it though, This is the point I want to
make with it. You need to have a very specific
use case in mind for a giant screen tablet, if
you need to kind of gauge whether or not this
can work for you, Like take your laptop. I assume
your laptop is, you know, thirteen inches or larger, and
(24:37):
just kind of pull your hands on the screen and
hold it and see, like, can I use a tablet
that's this big? Because that's basically what it is. You
need to have a very specific use case in mind
for a large screen tablet. So if you're somebody who
uses a stylist a lot, like if you're an illustrator,
you're an animator, or whatever you're gonna be, you're gonna
be using that big screen real estate for editing purposes
(25:00):
is wonderful, perfect, nothing better. If you're just gonna you're
just looking. You know, you're a casual tablet user, as
most people are, there's no no problem with that. That's
kind of the that's where the niche of the tablets
of tablets are. It's kind of casual content consumption. If
it's if you're just about consumption, if you're just about
(25:20):
laying on the couch and holding a tablet with one
hand and surfing through YouTube and reading web pages and
whatever comics, you know, online comics. I don't think that
the tab essay ultra you know, these ultra size screens
are for you it's like I said, if it's just
(25:40):
for casual use, it is cumbersome. If you're using it
for productivity, it is amazing. The other thing about it's
a knock against so here. I don't have any buyers
or Moorse on the essay Ultra tablet, especially for the
price I got it for. I think it was like
six hundred and twenty bucks. Since I didn't get the
cheapest cheapest I got refurbished sixteen gigabyte version, sixteen gigabyte
(26:02):
RAM version. I have zero buyers or morse. I'm gonna
use this tablet for the next few years until I until,
like you know, need something else. So there's no buyers
or morse though. But the big takeaway is just the
screen size. It's unwieldy, an actual knock against Samsung. Like usually,
(26:23):
I don't have much poor to say about Samsung. Every
once in a while they do get something wrong. They're
a big manufacturer like any anybody else, any other company.
The biggest egregious borderline, if not criminal aspect of these
Ultra laptops, the S eight Ultra, S nine Ultra and
the upcoming S ten Ultra. The price of the cover,
(26:47):
just the basic cover is like ninety bucks. Maybe it's
a little I paid ninety or seventy or eighty bucks
for the official Samsung cover. It's a great cover, no
problem with it. I want everything to be official and tightened,
compact and flush and work great. The only issue I
have with the actual cover for the S eight Ultra
(27:07):
is that the s pen isn't covered up like my
tab S six. The official cover had a flap that
covered up the actual stylus, which was which was nice.
On the S eight Ultra. At least, the basic cover
doesn't have a flap that covers the stylus. The stylust
is just it's very strongly magnetic. It has not ever
fallen off on its own over the past few days
(27:27):
that I've kind of been carting it around. But I
really feel better having that flap over the stylus like
my tab S six had. Saight Ultra doesn't do that.
I think the next step up, and this is where
I'm really getting at, like the real borderline criminality of
all this is that you have the keyboard cover they
(27:49):
call like this the tab book cover or whatever, three
hundred and fifty dollars. It is what that is. That's
why I say borderline criminal. And it's not just me,
A lot of other people say that. The price of
the keyboard, of the book cover, whatever you call it,
(28:10):
it's three hundred and fifty dollars. And it would be
one thing if it was the best keyboard cover on
planet Earth. But it is not. It is a three
hundred and fifty dollars cover. And I should preface this
by I don't have the cover. This is just every
review I've ever read about it, and just from what
I can see and just holding the official cover, non
(28:33):
keyboard cover, I can totally understand this because the materials
are similar, or if not the same. Three hundred and
fifty dollars keyboard cover that feels every bit of twenty dollars.
That's wobbly and flexy, and you can't use it on
your lap because it flexes too much. It's not stable.
The keys on a flat surface, I've heard and I
(28:53):
have no issue believing this at all. If you have
it on like a table, it's great. The keys that
the well spread out. Obviously it's a fourteen point six
inch tablet. I would hope that the keys are well
spread out, that the tab that when you've under perfect conditions,
the actual keyboard feels great. Again, I have not tested it.
This is all just things I reviewed. But if you're
trying to use it in any sort of mobile fashion,
(29:13):
if you're sitting on your couch trying to use it,
if you are in bed trying to use it like
it's you're not. It's so flimsy that you know it'll
lose physical connection with the little with the with the
the pads underneath it, the gold pads underneath it, so
it'll disconnect every once in a while. It's just not
a three hundred and fifty dollars that's the thing. Even
(29:34):
if it was one hundred bucks, I think people would
kind of say, yeah, you know, what do you expect?
It's it's you know, pros and cons, But for three
hundred fifty dollars, there's not enough pros to it. I
absolutely have no intention of getting the keyboard cover for
my tab say Ultra, for that exact reason. It's just
for one thing, three hundred and fifty dollars. Imagine you're buying
(29:55):
a new S nine Ultra or the upcoming S ten Ultra.
You're spend twelve hundred dollars. Let's say for the tablet,
and then another three hundred and fifty dollars for the keyboard.
That is asinine. Holy, you're approaching fifteen hundred dollars for
a get dang android tablet. I love Android tablets for
(30:19):
what they are and the purposes that they serve. Fifteen
hundred dollars, Good lord, I don't even need to explain
to anybody listening what kind of a powerhouse slim peap
like gaming PC editing PC you can get for fifteen
hundred dollars. For fifteen hundred dollars, you can get a
slim gaming PC with like an RTX forty seventy. Definitely
(30:43):
an RTX forty sixty. You can get an RTX forty
seventy in a slim touchscreen like gaming editing PC for
that kind of money. Fourteen hundred and fifteen hundred dollars.
It's fourteen hundred. Fifteen hundred dollars for an Android tablet
is beyond beyond comprehension. You can go get an Excelete
(31:03):
if you want to. If you want to snap Dragon
based PC, go get an Exceleite for less than that.
If you're spending the same amount of money on an
exceleite like two in one laptop, dude, that's what it's.
That is one reason why I said, Okay, I like
this form factor. I like I want to try this
(31:23):
giant fourteen point six inch form factor. I ain't spending
no fourteen hundred dollars. I don't know what kind of
rich like oil oligarch, Russian oligarch or whatever is this
going to be dropping that kind of coin. It's not
worth it. It's not worth it. It's it's not even
a flex it's it's like a it's a more sense
than money thing. No one's gonna see you with that
(31:44):
tablet and be and they're going to be impressed as,
oh wow, that thing is huge. It looks gorgeous. The
screen's amazing, it's very snappy. Da, the Galaxy AI is
really cool. All that kind of stuff is cool, And like,
what do you spend on this? Like what is a
six hundred, seven hundred dollars something like that? It can't
be more than seven or eight hundred dollars, can it?
And you've got to say, oh, yeah, all in this
was fourteen hundred bucks, they'd spit out their coffee. Are
(32:05):
you insane? What the heck did you spend fourteen hundred
dollars on a tab on an Android tablet for fourteen
hundred bucks, Like for an iPad Pro. At least the
iPad pro can run you know, like Da Vinci Resolve,
a very stripped down version of it. Don't. I'm not
saying the iPad Pro is worth fourteen hundred dollars or
(32:25):
worth over one thousand dollars, but for some people, I
guess it is. The productivity apps arguably in the in
the iPad os ecosystem are better than on the Android
side of things. Yeah, it's fourteen hundred. Spending over one
thousand dollars in an Android tablet is beyond comprehension. Absolutely
(32:47):
beyond comprehension. I can sort of understand a phone being,
you know, over one thousand dollars. I spent like eleven
hundred dollars on the S twenty four uld trip. That's
just part for the course of the flagship. A flagships
is going to command that price, but to me for
the features, for the power, for how often you use it,
for the battery life, or the screen. Again, mainly just
(33:09):
for the power inside of it. I can edit videos
just as just as quickly on my S twenty four
Ultra phone as I can on my S eight Ultra tablet,
but on the screen it's on the phone screen, it's
way more compact, cramped. It's it's not that the workflow
is severely restricted on a small screen, but the power
is there to do it if you need to. The
(33:30):
other thing, I think the big one of the biggest
factors why I pulled the trigger on the S eight
Ultra is that going over to the Mac side of things,
Apple side of things, I'm when I'm within my Apple ecosystem,
So I'm using my Mac sixteen inch MacBook Pro with
the M one pro chip inside of there, and I
have my iPad pro next to it. It's seamless screen
(33:53):
extension or mirroring. I can just have my open up
my iPad next to it, go into my MacBook Pro
sixteen and just saynd the screen over to my iPad seamlessly,
and it's beautiful. So I can be editing video and
then use the iPad screen as the clean feed to
see what I'm editing, see the big picture of what
I'm editing. Great. I didn't have any way, I didn't
(34:13):
have any elegant way to do that on the Windows side,
and since I mostly use Windows PCs Windows laptops, I said,
you know, it'd be great if I could have my
Windows editing laptop with my RTX forty eighty and my
I seven thirteen, seven hundred K. It's twenty cores, whatever,
twenty threads. If I could have this beast and then
(34:36):
seamlessly just extend the screen over to my Android tablet,
that'd be great. And you can obviously do that. That
is a built in feature, a wonderful built in feature
of modern Android tablets. So I can go just toss
extend my screen wirelessly to my fourteen point sixtion eight
Ultra next to me for editing purposes, and it is wonderful.
(34:58):
It is a dream. The screen is it's O Lead.
I mean, it's a beautiful, accurate, reasonably bright screen. So
editing with it, you know, having opening Da Vinci Resolve
and having my timeline on my seventeen inch laptop screen
and then my clean feed view over on the fourteen
point sixtion tablet screen. O Lead tablet screen is baller.
(35:24):
It's so good for the price I paid for the
experience around six hundred seven hun Let's say seven hundred
dollars all in with the with just the cover that
I got for it. It's like I said, no regret
at all. It's just for it, kind of laying on
the couch consuming content. It's it's it's cumbersome. Let's just
call it cumbersome. I have no regrets spuying it at
(35:44):
the price that I bought it for used, you know,
two years old, fourteen double the price, fourteen hundred dollars
all in for like an S ten Ultra, an S
nine Ultra. Take me out behind the shed and throw
a rock at my skull like it's I'm insane if
I've done that, like that is crazy. Anyways, it's I
got to, you know, walk into the museum now. S
(36:06):
eight Ultra was the main you know, meat potatoes at
this podcast. Check out the Beyond Bones podcast HMNS Houston
Museum of Natural Science Beyond Bones podcast. Look for the
purple color scheme and subscribe there if you want to
hear me deep diving into very well polished, very well
produced podcast. I'll of course include links in the description
here to like the Spotify and the Apple versions of it,
(36:29):
but you can just search it. It's in pocket. I
use pocket casts on Android and it's it's in there.
But yeah, so you are worthy of love, You're worthy
of giving love, you're worthy of receiving love. With all
that's going on in the world, I hope y'all are safe.
I do very much appreciate you all for listening. I
appreciate your emails, even if I don't respond to every
(36:50):
single one of them. I appreciate I I know y'all
take time to do that, and I appreciate it so
much so I like to blame my add on it,
like I'll see it and like, oh, I need to
respond to ed ed. I see you, I see you,
and I and I hear the sound bite just ending me.
I appreciate it in full. I hope hope an on
air quote unquote shout out is good enough for that purpose.
(37:11):
But I'll try to be better about responding uh to emails.
But yeah, all, I love that. I truly appreciate y'all.
Thank you so much for listening to this episode of
Geek Therapy Radio. Go check out the Beyon Bones podcast
from the Houston Museum Financial Science link it below. Take care,
talk to y'all next time.
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