September 5, 2019 • 46 mins
Facebook introduces a dating feature; Google adds a useful feature to the iPhone Gmail app; Roku unveils a new soundbar; Sonos has a portable outdoor speaker; Notable Android 10 features; Spectrum upgrades customers' internet speeds for free. Listeners ask about getting rid of spam email, a good online backup service, the security of fingerprint passcodes, whether Sony Android TV's spy on them and video chatting from an Android to an iPhone.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Faster internet for free. Here's how Roku, Amazon and Sons
all have new speakers. Facebook does dating the thing you
should do if you use Gmail on your iPhone. Plus
your questions answered?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
about the stuff I think you should know about happening in.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The tech world.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Plus it's the place where I answer the questions that
you send me. Welcome producer Megan to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Welcome Rich to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Thank you. How's it going very good?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, it's been busy.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It has been very busy.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And you know, next week is the whole big Apple thing,
so we've prepping for that. Megan did a great job
of booking her hotel room. She was like a pit
bull on the phone with the hotel because we you know,
the hotels all sell out, especially the ones that are close.
And I usually, based on speculation, make a hotel reservation.
(01:04):
Wayne advanced, just guessing when the event is gonna be. Yeah,
years in advance. Yeah, I have next year's iPhone already on.
And so I told Megan, well, were staying and you know,
get a room, and of course they said, no, there's
no rooms.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
There's no availability.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well you told me tuesday, You're like you can yeah,
And I was like, okay.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, it all happens.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
You get the invitation two weeks before, and then we didn't.
I mean, yeah, we just didn't have time figured out. Yeah,
but the reality is you did work it out. She
went from having no availability at the hotel to them
telling her it was a three day minimum to stay
there to getting a room.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I called like ten times and then at the tenth
time they were like, oh, it's a three day minimum.
And I was like, uh, okay, well if I stayed
three days, and then I basically yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Got your way, So good job. That was very good.
It was a new side of you that I that
I have not seen.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Before, but you coached me.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Very impressed with that.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
On the flip side, for me personally, I finished my
iPhone book the first draft, so yesterday. That was a
huge deal because I'm you know, I have this book
one hundred and one handy tech Tips for the iPhone.
I'm revising it for iOS thirteen, so I've been using
the beta to get all the new tips, and then
my goal is to have it out as soon as
possible when the new one, you know, the new phone
(02:21):
comes out and the new software. But I still have
a lot of work ahead. I got to revise it,
i got to come up with a cover. I've got
to everything marketing. It's a whole big thing. But in
the meantime, if you do want to be notified when
the new book is available, you can go to Amazon
and follow my author page.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Oh I'm going to do that, so you'll.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Get notified, like literally the minute it's like up there,
you'll get like the little notification.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So it's really cool. That's so exciting.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It is exciting, and I'm excited for this book because
I made it simpler and better.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I've this the third version, so I've learned a lot
along the way, and I'm using a new program to
write it, which I'm I can't wait to do, so
I to publish it or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You want to say. Let's talk about Facebook.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Facebook is finally getting into the dating game. Facebook dating
is brand new here in the US. And this is
interesting because Facebook, it's weird. I have a love hate
with Facebook because Facebook is the place that we all
know and sort of love, but I feel like it
(03:20):
has fallen out of favor with a lot of people,
but people still use it in a big way. Now
are the people that are dating using it?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I'm not sure. So.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I mean you have these big dating apps like tender Match.
I'm sure there's a million others out there. I think
what makes Facebook dating so interesting is that they have
the most data on us. And so here's the line
from what they're basically what they're doing. They're not going
to link you up with your friends. They will if
you do something, and I'll tell you about that in
(03:50):
a second, But here's what they're doing. So how it
works is you create a separate dating profile that's separate
from your main profile, and they're going to suggest people
on the Facebook platform based on your preferences, interests, and
other things you do on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Okay, they stalk people, no.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
But they really understand who you are. They see what
you're looking at on Facebook, they see the types of
music that you like.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They just see what you interact with.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Right with something like Tinder or Match, they're not getting
all that rich data about a person. The person's typing
in saying I like wine, I like going for long
walks on the beach. Facebook knows this person spends ninety
five percent of their time looking at Iron Maiden records
from the seventies or something.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I don't know, Wait through through what Like, how do
they know that whatever you do?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
No, while they can do that too. They can link
up what you do on Google through the through the
Facebook like buttons that are everywhere, so they're collecting all
this data no matter where you are on the web.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Okay, because I feel like with my Facebook, all the
interests and all the artists that I've liked are from
when I was like.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Twelve, That's true, and a lot of people are trying
to update that to be fair for you.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That was only like two years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I know, because I'm fourteen. Everyone I don't know Rich
told you I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Want to reveal Megan's very young age.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
But yes, but that's a thing that's when I started Facebook.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
But they're still going to see like the kind of
posts that you interact with, the kind of things that
you like.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Okay, I mean, it's it.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Facebook has a lot of data, and I agree, Like
what you're saying is very valid that just because they
build this profile of you doesn't necessarily mean it's right.
Like you can go into Facebook and look at the
advertiser like targeting for you right now, like half it's wrong,
you know, but anyway, I find that interesting. The other
interesting feature about this that I find could be very
(05:36):
interesting is there's a secret crush feature where normally they
don't link you up with your friends, but you can
identify nine of your friends that you're interested in, and
then let's say your friends identify you as one of
those people that they're interested in. If you both do that,
Facebook will notify you and kind of hook you up.
(05:57):
But it only has it's all secret, so if if
if someone doesn't request, you know, put you as a crush,
then nothing happens. I'm curious how many times you can
change those secret crushes?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Could think about it?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
What if you could change them every day and you
just went through all your friends until you found a match, right.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah and then yeah wow yeah, So anyway, I think yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Anyway, So that is Facebook dating in a nutshell. It
is available starting today. The other thing that's weird about
this are you gonna try it?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I don't know, maybe you should.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You should try it and report that quest.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Okay, I'll let you know how go.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
But the other thing that's interesting is that they're sort
of merging Facebook and Instagram for the first time because
now it's cross friends, so it's your friends from Instagram
as well.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Okay, yeah, because I feel like Instagram's a great way
to you know, slide into dms meet people. Right, yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Know theoretically, you would know better. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
All right, So this first question comes from Jerome. And
by the way, if you want to send a question,
all you have to do is go to Rich on
tech dot tv, click on the contact link, and you
can send Rich your question. So Jerome writes in is
it The subject is video chat Android to iPhone. The
(07:09):
question is it possible? How to make it happen?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
This is one of those questions that I read and
I'm just like, oh wow, this is interesting that this
is a question because it seems so simple in my mind.
But the reality is, all we've heard about over the
years is FaceTime, FaceTime, FaceTime, FaceTime. That's the way people
video chat and skype. But in reality, there are many
other ways to do this, and there are many simple ways.
The simplest way is the program that's probably installed in
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your both phones already, even if you're iOS and Android,
and that is Facebook Messenger. People forget that Facebook Messenger
has a video chat feature and you can easily use that.
So if Facebook Messenger is installed on both phones, go
ahead and use that to chat. You're already friends on there.
You don't have to set up a separate account. It's
all done and it works nicely. The other thing, and
I think this is probably the better way to do it,
(07:57):
is Google Duo and Google Doo. I did a video
on Facebook when this came out a couple of years ago.
I think it was like five years ago at this point,
let's say August sixteenth, twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Three years ago.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I was nine.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Sorry, continuing with the young joke.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I like that, okay, But this app came out and
I thought it was the greatest thing ever because it
was really the first time you had a dedicated app
that you could use to video chat. And Google Duo
is very simple, it has better quality video than a
lot of the other apps out there. It's totally free.
It works on both Android and iOS. But for some reason,
(08:32):
nobody thinks about it ever. Did it come to mind
when you saw this?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I think about it all the time. No, no, no,
I've actually never this is the first time I've ever
heard of it.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
But I really the first time see that.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
But I was also thinking, I know people that not
a ton of people, but my sister facetimes or video
chats with people on Instagram, like her friends on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yes, you can do Instagram as well. So there, okay,
So here are your options. Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, Google Duo,
and obviously face and Skype.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Skype is a little bit more old school.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I think that's more like people think of that for
business purposes, yeah, for personal and yeah, Instagram is probably
one of those other ones that's really easy because it's
already on your phone and everybody's on Instagram. So I
would say those are probably the two or three ways
to check it out.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
But it can be done. It's very simple.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I think the main thing is that on Android versus
iOS or going cross platform, it's not as simple as
FaceTime because FaceTime, it's like you click their phone number
if they have an iPhone, boom, it just connects. And
that's of course part of the magic and nightmare of
the way Apple sets things up.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Is it going to be blurry if you're on an
iPhone and you're video chatting with the Android on Duo.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, no, quite quite contrary. It's Duo is very clear.
In fact, they have this cool night site feature which
makes your nighttime chatting like even brighter, which is kind
of cool.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
And no, it looks great.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And the thing that when Duo came out versus FaceTime,
the thing that was different is FaceTime was I mean,
it's gotten better, yeah, and plus internet speeds.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Have gotten better over the years.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
But when FaceTime was first, it was it always dropped out,
it was blurry, it didn't hold a connection very well.
So when Duo came out, Google was using their YouTube.
Google has learned so much from YouTube about compressing video
and making video delivered very fast. They apply that to
all their products, so Duo is no different. They're figuring out.
You know, when you have a good connection, they'll make
(10:29):
the screen look really good, the picture really clear. When
you don't have as good of a connection, they'll drop
back that quality, but still keep the conversation going and
still keep the video. Sometimes the video may go out
if you have a really terrible connection, but I rarely
see that anymore. Anyway, good question and check those things out, Jerome,
Thanks for emailing in so many things to talk about
(10:51):
this week, including Samsung. And I'm not going to give
this much more than like thirty seconds, because nobody cares
about this phone. Nobody is buying this phone, and the
only reason we care about it is because it's like
our hurt player in sports. I'm not sports guy, so
I don't even know this analogy, but like you're hope
that you want to see them win, right that guy?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
That never mind, I'm not going to also try to because.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
No, we don't do sports analogies here because we don't
do sports sports. There's a reason why I talk about technology.
But the thing is, the Galaxy Fold was supposed to
launch on April twenty sixth. It did not launch because
there's a whole bunch of problems. We've been waiting for
it to launch. Nobody's really been waiting for it to
launch except the media that just wants to talk about it.
Nobody really, Like, no one go up to thirty people
(11:34):
in the street and not one person is ready to
buy this thing. But nonetheless, it's cool that Samsung is
experimenting with new technologies, and I do think this will
be indicative of technologies to come, and I think we
will see more foldable phones. But the story is that
the Galaxy Fold will launch in the US in the
coming weeks. It is available in South Korea. So Megan,
(11:56):
if you have nothing to do this weekend and you
want to get.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
A plane the fold, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
That's what I'm going to do tomorrow after work.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
They did not say anything about the price. But the
other thing that I do want to mention is that
there's a rumor going around that Samsung will create a
second foldable phone for next year, and that one's supposed
to be more like the Motorola Eraser where it folds
in half, like like it flop folds down. I guess
you should say, right, instead of folding in half, you know,
so it folds like a flip phone, like the old.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
School flip phone.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
And I think that that's really interesting because that could
be kind of cool to have a big screen phone
in your pocket that folds up small, not the one
square into a square, not the weird one that the
Galaxy Fold is just really thick and weird, Like, yeah,
you want like a thin phone that also when you
open it up, has.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
A giant like a nice big screen. Yea.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Anyway, so I'm rooting for it.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
You're excited.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I am excited for next year the square, not for
this one.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
All right. This next question comes from Stephen. He writes,
thank you again for all your information. You're a life saver.
Oh wow, what is your opinion on thumb I D
for your iPhone? I don't want my thumb print out there,
so I don't use that doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I haven't heard uh number one. I didn't even know
people still use the thumb print. But I guess you
have it on your phone.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Okay, all right, but hate and this could be this
could apply to various phones because the Samsung phone still
have a fingerprint reader.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
But is he talking about the iPhone or is he
talked does this say sent for my phone?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Thumb ID for your iPhone?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Your iPhone?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Okay, So the thing about thumb I D they call it,
it wasn't called it called touch id.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah, but you I guess you could use your thumb.
You could also you can use your finger, but not
your elbow.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Not your elbow.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
So the thing about this is that Apple has been
very clear that they do not store the fingerprint anywhere
except on your phone in what they call the secure enclave,
and that's just a fancy word for like a little
lock box inside your phone that all this secure stuff
is stored inside, and it's really tough to crack into,
(14:08):
and there are various safeguards that if someone did crack
open your phone or try to steal it, they wouldn't
be able to retrieve your information. And it doesn't go
on the internet. It's not transmitted anyway. It's not stored
in iCloud. So when you take an imprint of your
fingerprint on your iPhone, it's staying on that phone and
that's it. And it's only being used to authenticate the device,
(14:29):
and everything happens on device. It's not being sent to
the cloud for verification all that stuff I just said.
So I think that you're safe using the touch ID. Yeah,
and the face ID works in the same way. And
you know, Apple has been a very big proponent of
privacy on your phone, and it shows. I mean a
lot of things that happen on the iPhone do happen
(14:49):
on device. I'll give you an example, since I'm writing
the book, and I was experimenting with a new photos
app on iOS thirteen, and it scans your pictures for
things that are inside them. So if you take a
picture of a piece of p pizza, you can search
for pizza and your iPhone will show.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You your pizza pictures.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And Google can do this on the you know, on
any phone with Google Photos. The difference is your pictures
are being sent to a server to be scanned by
Google's artificial intelligence, and that information indexed through Google. So
it's not as secure as the iPhone, where it's just
being done on the iPhone. So Apple sends a whole
bunch of instructions to the iPhone saying, here's how you
(15:26):
recognize pizza, Here's what a beach looks like, Here's what
a dog looks like, and then your iPhone identifies those
things and it's all kept kind of secret on your phone.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
See the difference.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah, that makes sense. But now I'm curious about Google, Like,
so they have access to all of our photos basically,
or am I?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah? Pretty much?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I mean they're scanning them to see what's in them
there but we know that well, I mean I do, yeah,
but it is there is a level of trust that
has to be given to these companies, especially when you're
getting something for free. Now, I would argue the iPhone
comes at a premium because if you really think about it,
and I go between iPhone and Android a lot, and
you can see, I've got my Android in front of
(16:05):
me and my iPhone, and there's a lot of things
that are different. Like when you think about it, I
message is really a service that you're sort of paying
for built into the price of your phone, because that
is a whole separate messaging service that is very private
and very encrypted and secure photos.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I mean, even though you might pay.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
For iCloud space to store your photos, again, that's a
private service that nobody else is seeing your photos unless
you choose to share them. But with something like Google,
when you're uploading your photos, Google is looking at those
photos for different reasons.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
And let's see what else.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Notes, like the notes app, you know, if you look
at the notes app on your iPhone is syncs with
your computer. That again, it is another service that you
might pay for. You might pay forever, Note, you might
pay for Bear, you might pay for any of these
other app note taking app programs. So a lot of
things that are built into the iPhone, you're sort of
they're front loaded. You're paying, you paid for it, You
paid for the iPhone and you're kind of getting these
(16:57):
services to go along with it. And yes, you have
to pay for iCloud to at more online storage. Yeah,
but a lot of the software that's built into the iPhone,
like maps, you know, a lot of that is much
more private than what Google's doing with Google Maps. When
you drive around, Google's recording everything that you do and
everywhere that you go to make their products and services better. Apple,
to a lesser extent, is doing that. They're still looking
at the place you're going. I'm not sure how they're
(17:18):
using that data, but in general, it's a little bit
more secure than what Google's doing.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
So if you write in a doc on Google like right.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Google Docs, Yeah, I don't know, I mean, where does that?
I mean it is?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
It's it's yeah, So all right, good to know.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
All right, let's talk about some of the there's like
three speakers right now, three new speakers.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
So Roku came.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Out with a Roku Smart soundbar, and the only thing
you need to know about this one hundred and seventy
nine bucks going to be available in October.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
And the thing.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
That I think is kind of interesting about this is
that it includes Roku in the bar, which is kind
of cool because I don't know about you, but most
TVs have terrible sound, Like even my TV like it
just don't have very good sound. I have Sonos, so
it sounds better, but it's still sometimes really tough to
hear dialogue. Maybe I'm just getting older, I don't know, but.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
It's tough to you can't hear It's tough to hear.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Dialogue, and you know, my wife complains about that. And
Sonos has like a feature that supposedly.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Makes it better. It really doesn't, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
But the Roku Smart Soundbar apparently makes dialogue sound better,
and I think a soundbar is just a good thing
to have on any TV because think about it, TVs
are mainly screen. They're not known for their speakers. So
one hundred and seventy nine dollars you get a Roku
plus the soundbar built in, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I don't see anything when it comes to compatibility for
either Airplay or chrome Cast, which are two services that
might make it easier to use audio from your phone
with this soundbar. But if you have Roku, you don't
really need that because you can just dream, Spotify and
stuff from the Roku. Yeah, you'll have Roku, right, So
they have like a Spotify Appy, Pandora app.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, they have. They have it all almost.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
So that's that.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
The other thing that I'm more excited for because I'm
out of Roku house, but I am a Sono's house.
They have a new speaker called the Move and this
is the first battery powered Sono speaker.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
That you can use outside.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
And not only does it connect to your existing son
No system, but it also uses Bluetooth. So for me,
for instance, let's say I'm having a party. I've had
a son No speaker on my back patio for a while.
Problem is, I always forget it in the rain and
next thing you know, you know, it's plugged in.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
So that's dangerous. Number one.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Number two gets in the rain. It's lasted even getting
wet rain, yeah, which is I guess it dries out
and it's fine. I don't really trust it as much
and the control on it has kind of worn out
because of the rain, so I have to use.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
It doesn't really rain that much, no, but it did
for a while, but you forget, Yeah, and it did
for a while all the time.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So I think that's really cool. So anyway, this is
going to be much better outside. So in the backyard
it would just connect to my existing Sonos system. But
let's say we go to the beach and you want
to use your son No speaker. You can now take
this speaker and it has a battery which lasts for
let's see, ten hours, oh wow, which is fine. And
it also has Bluetooth streaming, so you can just use
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it with Bluetooth on your phone.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I love this.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It also has an IP fifty six rating, which I
don't believe is that that with stands falls, bumps, rain
and moisture, dust and dirt. I don't think IP fifty
six is as good as you know, like a higher rating.
But that's still fine. It's still going to be able
to withstand being outside. I don't think it's meant to
be left outside, but it can be brought outside and
(20:31):
kind of like if you forget it overnight, it's gonna
be okay, right, okay, what else? Hands free Airplay two.
Here's the kicker on this whole Sono speaker. And what
my problem with Sona says over and over is that
it is a three hundred and ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Dollars I was about to ask is it the praise?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Oh wait, hold on, that's for Is that a different story?
Oh that's not Yeah, it is three and ninety nine okay, yeah, three.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Hundred nine dollars. That's expensive for a Bluetooth speaker.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
You can get a blue Tooth speaker for way cheaper,
way cheaper.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But the thing is, if you're like me and you're
in a son's house, you're kind of building out that
system that works really well. Like the first thing I
do every single day when I get home is put
on Sonos every single day.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
What do you listen to?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Actually, recently I've been listening to I found a new
feature inside YouTube music which I use, and it basically
you search for an artist and then you scroll all
the way down it gives you all the similar artists.
So one of my favorite artists for like working is Tycho.
It's like instrumental music, and so it just I just
pick one of the other artists and listen to them
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on shuffle or I do Tycho Radio Artist Radio, and
it mixes in all the Taycho songs and then all
the other artists that are similar, and I just leave
that on for like hours. It's very easy, kind of
like yeah, eats like cool, just chill beats.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Oh I want to listen, so Tycho write that.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Down, Tycho.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I believe that the album that I really fell in
love with is called Awake, and it is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
If you just want to get some.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Work done, Yeah, you can like focus.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, Tycho away, it's really great.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yeah, because when I listen to rap music, I can't really.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It's tough.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
It's tough with little Nas, Little Nas as your study guide. There,
let me do one more. I'll just get all the
kind of audio video stuff away. But they also have
a new Amazon Fire TV Cube. This is kind of
the highest end Fire TV as far as I know.
And the thing about the cube that is different than
the Fire TV sticks is that the cube lets you
(22:29):
control your TV hands free and your cable box. So
it has a lot of smarts built in where you
can say tune to channel five and it will turn
on your TV and tune into that channel on your
cable box.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
So it's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
It's only one hundred and nineteen dollars, and I think
that this is now the most powerful fire TV stick
because I have the or the Fire TV because I
have the stick four K, which is forty dollars, and
I'm looking at this and it has Yeah, the fire
TV Cube has a built in speaker, which means you
can have Alexa right there. You've got far field voice control,
(23:01):
which means the thing can be off and you can
just scream from across your room and well, yell whatever,
and you can you know, you don't.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Have to press anything.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah, you need to say a turn on the TV
and tune into whatever Netflix there's and it works with
a lot of different things as well. Okay, so the
processor is now hexacore instead of quad core, and HEXA.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Don't quote me, but hex is what eight hexagon? How many?
How many sides does a hexagon have? Six sides?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Okay, so six cores and two Okay, so six cores
versus four. And it has sixteen gigs of storage versus eight.
And it also has an Ethernet adapter built in, which
is really cool because if you want really fast Internet
instead of using Wi Fi, you can plug an Ethernet
cable into the.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Back of the fire TV Cube.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
So if you want the best kind of home system
for fire TV, the cube is now the best.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I may have to upgrade. But I'm very happy with
my stick. It works.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Just that's what my mom and dad have.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I gave it to them, oh Christmas.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
They never use it.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Well, then it's oh it doesn't work. What do they use?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
They just you know, watch cable. I can't really get
into it right now.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
We need an old school, old.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
School, all right. So this next question comes from Sam.
He says, who do you recommend for online backup? I
had a bad experience with Carbonite, so not them.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Oh wow, abrupt endings Carbonite. I'm wondering what the bad
experience was. I think that the experience with all these
online backups, and the reason why I don't use them
is because there's two number one. Almost everything I'm doing
is in the cloud these days. So I'm laughing because
(24:52):
Megan was taking a sip of her was it coffee, Yeah,
trying to trying to get caffeinated here. It was just
a very funny sip because we wear these microphones and
you kind of have to, like anything you have to do,
you have to.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Like kind of do it around and Ale, Yeah, it's
it's just funny.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah. I was trying not to look at you.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah, I know, but you did and you looked like
those funny eyes that are like off to the side
that you're doing something wrong.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
So classic.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
So uh, the reason why I find these online backup
services kind of tricky is because a almost everything I'm
doing is in the cloud. Anyway, I'm using Google Docs,
all my pictures are with Google. I like to have
a physical backup close by. Because Number one, to do
one of these backups, if you have everything on your computer,
takes a while to like actually get the first backup,
(25:38):
and then after that it's fine. It's incremental, so anything
that changes on your computer, it will update, but that
first update could take a couple of weeks depending on
your internet connection.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And I used to do I should probably do this again.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And because last week we talked about on the show
how I did lose my desktop because that wasn't backed up.
But if you have iCloud and a Mac, your desktop
can be backed up on iCloud. In fact, a lot
of your computer can be backed up in die cloud.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
So anyway, to.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Get to his answer, I would say, the other one
to look at is Backblaze, and Backblaze is kind of
like the biggest competitor to carbonite and all of these companies.
There used to be a ton of them out there.
They've all pivoted sort towards the enterprise or business solutions.
But Backblaze, I am checking. They still do a personal
backup for six dollars a month. Now, six dollars a
(26:25):
month doesn't sound expensive, but over time, that is a
very expensive way to back up your computer. Six dollars
times twelve is seventy two dollars. You can get a
drive on Amazon to back up your computer for I
think it's like sixty dollars for like a terabyte or
even wow, let me look that up.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
You know what. You're right, that's definitely how much mine
was what I think.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
It was sixty Yeah, for like one terabyte of hard drive.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
It might even be two terabytes. At this point, Western
Digital two terabyte drive is now sixty dollars, So imagine
a two terabyte drive sixty bucks. You plug it into
your computer. Both Windows and Mac both have very easy
to use backing up systems, which on Makets Time Machine.
On Windows it's just backup, so search on your Windows
and if you just go to backup settings and if
(27:12):
you go into there you plug in a drive. Windows
will say hey, backup using file history.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
So that's what it's called. So you just plug in
your drive.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Every time you plug in that drive, it automatically backs
up all the new stuff and boom, sixty bucks, a
lot cheaper than seventy two for the year. The benefit
to the online is that it's online, so you don't
really have to think about it as much. You don't
have to worry about your backup drive crashing. The problem
comes when you want to restore from an online backup
and guess what, Downloading all those terabytes.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
To your computer takes forever.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
And so what they want to do is they'll say, oh,
we'll send you a hard drive with all this stuff
on it. Maybe they do it for free, but a
lot of times it might cost you a one time
fee of like, you know, twenty five fifty bucks, okay,
which again, now add that all up and you're talking
it's a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But with that said, it's peace of mind totally.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
And you're using back blaze or carbonite. It's very simple
because it's peace of mind.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Yeah, and that reminds me, I think I really need
to backup my laptop, my old laptop.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
You should, yeah, but I think in general, if you
have the external hard drive with Time Machine or on Windows,
and you have everything on your computer that's in two places,
so hopefully both of those things don't crash at the
same time. Yeah, you're hoping either you're not hoping, but
either your computer hard drive is going to crash or
the external is going to crash, hopefully not at the
same time.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
The only time that you have to be worried is
I mean, God forbid, you're in the house, your computer's
in your house, and your heart drives in your house
and everything burns down, right, Yeah, that's when you.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
But again the other but if there was a fire,
I'd probably just grab my laptop.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
No, you probably wouldn't grab my dog. You'd want to
save yourself and you know, anyone else, my puppy.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah, but I always think about that.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I'm like, oh, with a fire like that puts you
in a tough place if you didn't back up.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, because you're like, I knew I should have listened
to Rich on tech.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I don't know why, but that really stresses me out.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Oh, it's totally stressful.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
It's the worst, like anything that has to do with
your house or that's why it's.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Better to live in a brick house, right, because I
can't catch on.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I'll never forget asking my Oh my gosh, this is embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
You have to tell us now.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
I didn't even want to tell because it gets into
religion and stuff, but I'll never forget. In third grade,
my teacher we were talking about fires and somehow like
a church came up and I was like, well, a
church can't burn down because it's God's house. Yeah, and
my teacher was like, and I didn't go to Catholic school,
it's just public school, and she's like, oh, no, I
can burn down.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I was like what.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I was like devastated to know that, Like, oh my gosh,
God can't protect his own house.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
It was really that's really sad.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
I'm just going to end the podcast here.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yeah, well, if it's made out of stone, right, I
don't know anyway I.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Can still burn. I've seen churches burn, Notre Dame that
wasn't that a church that burned?
Speaker 3 (29:51):
That was really sad.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
All right, let's talk about something fun, talking about backing
up your stuff. If you live in the LA area
or any area that is serviced by Spectrum in a
large city, you might want to do a speed test.
I saw commercial on TV and I think we talked
about this in a previous podcast where it said now
speeds you're double to two hundred, and I pay for
one hundred. So I was like, what I want two
(30:14):
hundred because faster internet is always better. So I tweeted
about this and I got some responses online and some
of the folks said that, yeah, they live in the
LA area and they're all already getting the faster internet,
and one person told me that you don't have to
do anything. They chatted with the Spectrum folks and they said, yeah,
just reset your modem and you'll notice.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
The faster speeds we have.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Spectrum I think.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Went to my house, went to my house and did
a speed test, and sure enough, I was not getting
the faster speeds. So this morning I chatted with Spectrum
and they said, oh, we looked up your account. You
are getting you got it. We are automatically upgrading pretty
much everyone that's paying for one hundred to two hundred,
which is awesome. Wow, never mind you I pay sixty
five dollars a month, so two hundred sounds, you know,
(30:59):
way better than one hundred for that price. Yeah, long
story short, I did a speed test and sure enough
I got over two hundred down. Still ten up, but whatever,
it's fine. So the thing is, they figure most people
are more downloading than uploading. But when you're uploading, that
comes in handy for things like backing up all that
good stuff, you know. But they're thinking most people are
just downloading stuff.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
So wait, sorry, my brother has a YouTube channel, yes,
and he's always uploading stuff. Does that like slow our
internet down for us?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
It could?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, I mean you get a certain amount of bandwidth,
so yeah, it could do that if he's uploading all
the time.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, it can. You know, you only get so much
of the pie, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, And that's why with cable internet in your neighborhood,
when all of your neighbors are online at the same time,
that's one of the downsides of cable internet versus the
internet from the phone company is that you're sharing that
line among your neighbors. Now, I think that things have
gotten so good these days that it's not that much
of an issue. But I will say sometimes at night
on a Friday or Saturday night, when everyone's streaming Netflix,
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you might notice a hit on your speed versus two
pm during the day when I'm normally home. So anyway,
my advice to you is, if you have Spectrum, definitely
do a speed test. Couple of ways you can do that.
Number one, go to fast dot com on a web
browser that is connected to your Wi Fi at home
and check out the speed and see if you're getting
(32:19):
close to two hundred. If you're not, I would call in.
If you're getting something under one hundred. You got to
check see what's going on with your internet.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Your WiFi is not necessarily the best way to test
your internet because Wi Fi is generally slower than what's
coming into the modem because the signal is sometimes getting interrupted.
But if you have a system like Ero or one
of these mesh Wi Fi systems, generally like me, I
get the perfect Internet throughout my house because of that system.
The other thing to do if you're not getting it
(32:48):
is to just unplug your modem and restart it and
see if that triggers the upgrade. But otherwise, I put
this on my Facebook page and I got a lot
of responses, and people are all posting their Internet speed
tests and they're saying.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, Rich, I got it.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Oh my gosh, that's so cool, and it just feels
good to get more for what you're already paying for.
Right the other way to test and I like an
app called Meteor met eo R. It's available for both
iOS and Android, and you can do a speed test
with that. It's just a fun little app that just
looks cooler than your typical speed test app.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
All right, Megan, it's all you, all right.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
So this next question comes from Madelina. She writes, Hi,
do you have any solutions for stopping mail from a
sender that uses various forms of an app called spot
dot com. I've been getting hundreds of unsolicited trashy emails
on my hotmail account. She says the suggestions that she's read,
(33:48):
I wait suggestions to set rules, and the settings do
not work. Although they automatically go to junk box, they're
irritating just the same. One blogger said they're even going
to his child's account. And then she goes on to say,
I've never seen this addressed by tech pros.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Thinks you've never seen spam addressed by tech pros.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Come on, I think it's specifically this. No.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I looked up that website number on that website is
not trashy, so I don't know what there might be,
like a variation on that website. Yea, I looked up
the spot website and it's not trashy. So look, the
reality is she's saying that these are going to her
junk spam.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I mean, have you ever checked her spam? There's all
kinds of garbage.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
So it doesn't to me if it's going into spam.
I don't really care. Yeah, and yes, I will take
a casual glance at the spam every once in a
while just to see like what's in there besides the spam,
and sometimes some legit emails do get in there. But
if you look at this stuff in spam, I mean,
it's garbage. A lot of it is just terrible, terrible
stuff that you know, who cares though it's in your spam.
(34:52):
So I wouldn't worry about it too much. I think
if the spam filter is doing its job, people are
gonna send spam. You're not gonna like put these people
in jail. It's like, the spam is going to come
no matter what. I think that if it's coming to
your inbox, that's a problem. And yes, some people are
saying to do filters, and usually I know a Gmail,
you can go into the menu for any email and
(35:13):
say filter messages like this. If it's not if your
spam blocker is not working, you can filter a message
and just send it straight to trash. If it's like
a mailing list that will just not stop. The other
thing you can do is report spam, and almost all
of the email providers let you report spam by pressing
the report spam.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
She mentioned Hotmail.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
I mean, realistically, if you're still using Hotmail, like, it's
not the best email out there, So I would switch
over to something like Outlook dot com or Gmail dot
com or anything but Hotmail. Yeah, just I don't think
it's really kept up with the time.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
So my mom uses AOL and it's so annoying.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
My parents use SBC Global.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I don't even know what that one is. That like
back in the day.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
I made my dad a Gmail, like four years ago.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Yes, so did I my mom dad, and they barely
use it, and it's like it's just one of these
things where Gmail has sort of mastered email. So even
if you have to use iCloud, like you can set
up a free iCloud email address if you want, and
there's probably not as much spam there, but.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Anything but hotmail.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Oh, speaking of email, if you're using Gmail on the iPhone,
there is a setting that I think you should look
into and this will help cut down on spam and
all kinds of emails that you don't want. But now,
in the iOS version of Gmail, there is a way
that you can turn off automatic image loading. And I
have this setting turned on on both my Android device
(36:39):
and also my web Gmail. What it does is it
does not load images. So when you get an email
like this, you can see.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Well, that loaded the image.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Wait, I thought you said it was on iOS.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Well, this is new on iOS. It's always been available
on the desktop and on Android. Now it's coming to iOS.
So let's see if this one works.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Well.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
That one that's weird. Uh, both of those images loaded.
That's so strange.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Here's one okay, So here's my Spectrum bill. See this
and see where it says Spectrum logo at the top.
How it's not loaded. It's like a broken image.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
That means that it's not going to load the images
until I press display images below. And now you see
how it all comes in the reason why I do
that is because inside these images are a whole bunch
of trackers, and those trackers help identify when you've opened
an email, where you've opened an email, how many times
you've opened an email, and it just generally lets people
track you in different ways.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
So by having these off, you are less apt to
be tracked. Also, it does not send a signal to
these spammers that your email address actually works. Because let's
say you look at a spam email, it loads that image.
It tells a spammer, oh, we know that Megan just
opened this email. It then tells you that that's a
good email address. A lot of times spammers are just spamming,
(37:56):
they're just sending a bunch of emails. So if you
have this feature turned on, it helps protect your email
address just a little bit more. And yes it's annoying
because a lot of times you do have to press
you know, let me see these images. But you can
also press the option for let me see these images
every time for this email address. So with people like
my family and friends, like obviously I press always load
(38:17):
images for them, and when they send me something, I
see it immediately. I don't have to take that extra step.
But for all the other garbage that you get, all
the bills and the you know, random unsolicited emails and
all the mailing list, it's just kind of one extra
little step. So you can go into settings on iOS
and look for the option to turn image blocking on,
which it probably will say something like load images by
(38:39):
default or ask and I.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Would change it under the Gmail like.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Yeah, should be under the You have to probably go
into the app settings, so it's probably into Gmail apps side.
On iPhone, there's two different settings. There's your setting settings
and then there's like inside the app you have setting right.
Very confusing sometimes, but there you go. All right, let's
see what do I want to talk before we go?
(39:04):
Let's see, Well, Android ten I know launched, but nobody
has it, but I do have it on my Pixel.
And the problem with Android ten this is like the
new version of the operating system. It's great, but nobody
really gets it unless you have a Pixel And if
you have a Samsung phone, you're not going to get
this for six to nine months, which is wild because
with iPhone, when the update comes out with iOS, you
get it that day. With Android it takes forever, so
(39:28):
I have been playing with this on my Android on
the pixel and it's really cool.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
It's very beautiful. They've had a lot of new features
that are just very nice.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
It works great. Smart reply is one of my favorite
features on Android. When someone sends you a text, it
gives you a bunch of options at the bottom, which
I don't know if you know that, but so for instance,
like if you look at this text message on here,
this one didn't work, of course, but okay, so you
sent me a text that says everything's set up, and
at the bottom it says yay, little smiley face, awesome
(39:58):
and great. So with one tap, I can just send
you that message. So that's really I don't have to
think about it. And they're expanding it into more apps
so it works across various apps. They've got a dark theme,
so you can now have dark theme. I noticed on
my phone this morning as I was driving in everything
was black. That was kind of cool because it gives
you that dark theme. Easy on the eyes. Gesture navigation,
which is just like the iPhone. Location sharing is really
(40:21):
upgraded in Android ten. So a lot of apps when
you first use them, like Yelp, it gave me a
notification and said, hey, YELP just asked for your location.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
In the background.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Did you know that? Did you want that? And it'll
give the option to say no. You don't realize that
all these apps are asking for a location in the
background all the time. So now with Android ten, you'll
be much more aware of that. Somehow you can mark
notifications to be silent. I've not really figured that out,
but there's definitely more control there. And there's Focus Mode,
which I've talked about I think in the last podcast,
(40:50):
where you can now press one button and kind of
gray out some of the apps that disturb you or
distract you.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Yeah, and I love that feature and it's been really fun.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
So and you have that on your Instagram.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Right showing I think I put on my Instagram to
show the folks. I think it might be on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
I don't. I don't. I don't think it made it
to Instagram. Did it? No? It did not? Sadly, Oh
that's so sad. Did not?
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Should I talk about cyber insurance anyway? If you think
you need cyber insurance, Mercury's got it. You can google
about that one.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Do you want to do? One more question before we go?
Quick question A quick one.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Yeah, I have a quick one from Kathleen. She just
bought a Sony Bravia Bravia Ravia. On the box it
says I must agree to a Google account to use
the TV. I'm not thrilled about giving up my privacy.
Is this TV just an excellent spy that's.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
If she's saying that you have to have a Google account, Yeah,
I have a Sony TV that was pre Google, pre Android.
So the Sony TVs, you know, like you have a
Roku TV, or you have an Amazon TV or a
Samsung TV or an LGTV, they all use different operating systems,
but the Sony uses Android Android TV specifically from Google.
(42:09):
And yeah, you probably have to agree to that, which,
if you think about it, Google is collecting stuff, collecting data,
probably information on what you watch, what you're streaming, how
you're using the TV. They're getting some of that data.
So if you're not comfortable with that, I would recommend
taking the TV back. And the TV might also have
a microphone on it, depending on the model.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
That could also be a considering excellent It's probably funneling
more information to Google about you now. It also depends
on whether you think that's evil or not. Do I
care if you're seeing what I'm watching on my TV?
Not really, I don't really care. So at Google it
if you do care, and that's a concern, And since
you're emailing me, that probably is a concern of yours,
(42:51):
I would say go with a different TV.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
The problem is all the smart TVs are doing the
same thing. Whether it's Visio, whether it's Samsung. They're all
collecting data on what you're doing on that TV, and
now with the internet connections, they're sending it back.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
But you don't need a Gmail account for Roku, do you?
Speaker 1 (43:07):
No? But Roku's doing their own thing. Yeah, they're also
they're doing their own thing. Yeah, Roku they're a huge
advertising platform. Why do you think they're trying to get
people to get their system? It's all advertising. Yeah, they say, hey,
we've got twenty million people using Roku's we can sell
ads against them, and we know that Megan is this
age and she makes this much money and she lives
in this area, and we can target ads to her.
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Don't you have ads on your homescreen on Yoku?
Speaker 3 (43:31):
You do? It's like a billboard in my room.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Exactly, and they know exactly who you are, and they
also know what you're watching. They know what you like,
they know what you don't like. It's all linked up.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
That is so so if you don't want that to happen.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
If you don't want that to happen, you need to
get a TV that is not smart. Alternatively, you can
not connect your TV to Wi Fi. Then it's going
to be tough to stream stuff.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
Aka, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
All right, that's going to do it for the show.
Thanks so much for listening. We do appreciate it. If
you have a question for me, you can go to
my website rich on tech dot tv, hit the contact
button and send it my way. I can't guarantee at
this point any personal responses because I'm getting so many emails,
so many emails, I do try to respond to each
and every one of them. If it's something that I
(44:18):
don't understand or can't really easily explain in an email,
I just or you know, I may just explain it
here and I may just ignore you. It's nothing against you,
and you're free to email again if you think you're
not getting the service.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
You should email ten times a day. If you don't,
please don't don't do that.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
But again, I am one person and I you know,
I do try to respond best to my abilities. But
I do have family, kids, and.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
This is just part of my job kind of a life.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Oh, I don't have a life, So that's okay, that
part you're covered with. Yeah, let's see. I told you
about the book. If you want to follow me on Amazon,
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format and that's kind of fun. And Meghan, how can
people get in touch with you?
Speaker 3 (45:03):
I'm on Twitter and my Twitter account is producer Megan,
and I'm on Instagram. But it's not like.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
Really tough to find until she changes it to producer Megan,
which she's really how is it hard to find?
Speaker 3 (45:15):
Meghan mcmonoca?
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Oh yeah, that's that just rolls off the monocle.
Speaker 3 (45:19):
Yeah, it's a very easy last name to pronounce.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
I am at rich on Tech and you can find
me there on Instagram and Facebook. On Twitter, I'm at
Rich DeMuro, which is really tough to find too. I mean,
how are you going to find that? You know how
to spell DeMuro? Just off the top of my head.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
Should I changed my Instagram handle to Meg with tech No.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
I think you should do producer Megan. It's good because
here's how easy this is.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
You say producer Megan, and now you can just be
like I'm producer Megan across all things and people just
find you Preucer Megan. But for a while, producer Megan
had her face, had her Instagram closed down. So but
now it's open again.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
You had a private Oh yeah, I've gone in and out.
Yeah yeah, I changed my mind periodic.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
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listening to the show. If you like the show, please
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You know, we're trying to grow, trying to grow the show,
grow the show. Yeah, I am going to rhyme in
no time.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
Oh maybe we should just end the show now, I
think so.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Thanks so much for listening. Have a fantastic day, Umrich
shmiro Rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
about the stuff I think you should know about happening in.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The tech world.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Plus it's the place where I answer the questions that
you send me. Welcome producer Megan to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Welcome Rich to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Thank you. How's it going very good?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, it's been busy.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It has been very busy.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And you know, next week is the whole big Apple thing,
so we've prepping for that. Megan did a great job
of booking her hotel room. She was like a pit
bull on the phone with the hotel because we you know,
the hotels all sell out, especially the ones that are close.
And I usually, based on speculation, make a hotel reservation.
(01:04):
Wayne advanced, just guessing when the event is gonna be. Yeah,
years in advance. Yeah, I have next year's iPhone already on.
And so I told Megan, well, were staying and you know,
get a room, and of course they said, no, there's
no rooms.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
There's no availability.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well you told me tuesday, You're like you can yeah,
And I was like, okay.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, it all happens.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
You get the invitation two weeks before, and then we didn't.
I mean, yeah, we just didn't have time figured out. Yeah,
but the reality is you did work it out. She
went from having no availability at the hotel to them
telling her it was a three day minimum to stay
there to getting a room.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I called like ten times and then at the tenth
time they were like, oh, it's a three day minimum.
And I was like, uh, okay, well if I stayed
three days, and then I basically yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Got your way, So good job. That was very good.
It was a new side of you that I that
I have not seen.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Before, but you coached me.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Very impressed with that.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
On the flip side, for me personally, I finished my
iPhone book the first draft, so yesterday. That was a
huge deal because I'm you know, I have this book
one hundred and one handy tech Tips for the iPhone.
I'm revising it for iOS thirteen, so I've been using
the beta to get all the new tips, and then
my goal is to have it out as soon as
possible when the new one, you know, the new phone
(02:21):
comes out and the new software. But I still have
a lot of work ahead. I got to revise it,
i got to come up with a cover. I've got
to everything marketing. It's a whole big thing. But in
the meantime, if you do want to be notified when
the new book is available, you can go to Amazon
and follow my author page.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Oh I'm going to do that, so you'll.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Get notified, like literally the minute it's like up there,
you'll get like the little notification.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So it's really cool. That's so exciting.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It is exciting, and I'm excited for this book because
I made it simpler and better.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I've this the third version, so I've learned a lot
along the way, and I'm using a new program to
write it, which I'm I can't wait to do, so
I to publish it or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You want to say. Let's talk about Facebook.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Facebook is finally getting into the dating game. Facebook dating
is brand new here in the US. And this is
interesting because Facebook, it's weird. I have a love hate
with Facebook because Facebook is the place that we all
know and sort of love, but I feel like it
(03:20):
has fallen out of favor with a lot of people,
but people still use it in a big way. Now
are the people that are dating using it?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I'm not sure. So.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I mean you have these big dating apps like tender Match.
I'm sure there's a million others out there. I think
what makes Facebook dating so interesting is that they have
the most data on us. And so here's the line
from what they're basically what they're doing. They're not going
to link you up with your friends. They will if
you do something, and I'll tell you about that in
(03:50):
a second, But here's what they're doing. So how it
works is you create a separate dating profile that's separate
from your main profile, and they're going to suggest people
on the Facebook platform based on your preferences, interests, and
other things you do on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Okay, they stalk people, no.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
But they really understand who you are. They see what
you're looking at on Facebook, they see the types of
music that you like.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They just see what you interact with.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Right with something like Tinder or Match, they're not getting
all that rich data about a person. The person's typing
in saying I like wine, I like going for long
walks on the beach. Facebook knows this person spends ninety
five percent of their time looking at Iron Maiden records
from the seventies or something.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I don't know, Wait through through what Like, how do
they know that whatever you do?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
No, while they can do that too. They can link
up what you do on Google through the through the
Facebook like buttons that are everywhere, so they're collecting all
this data no matter where you are on the web.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Okay, because I feel like with my Facebook, all the
interests and all the artists that I've liked are from
when I was like.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Twelve, That's true, and a lot of people are trying
to update that to be fair for you.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That was only like two years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I know, because I'm fourteen. Everyone I don't know Rich
told you I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Want to reveal Megan's very young age.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
But yes, but that's a thing that's when I started Facebook.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
But they're still going to see like the kind of
posts that you interact with, the kind of things that
you like.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Okay, I mean, it's it.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Facebook has a lot of data, and I agree, Like
what you're saying is very valid that just because they
build this profile of you doesn't necessarily mean it's right.
Like you can go into Facebook and look at the
advertiser like targeting for you right now, like half it's wrong,
you know, but anyway, I find that interesting. The other
interesting feature about this that I find could be very
(05:36):
interesting is there's a secret crush feature where normally they
don't link you up with your friends, but you can
identify nine of your friends that you're interested in, and
then let's say your friends identify you as one of
those people that they're interested in. If you both do that,
Facebook will notify you and kind of hook you up.
(05:57):
But it only has it's all secret, so if if
if someone doesn't request, you know, put you as a crush,
then nothing happens. I'm curious how many times you can
change those secret crushes?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Could think about it?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
What if you could change them every day and you
just went through all your friends until you found a match, right.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah and then yeah wow yeah, So anyway, I think yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Anyway, So that is Facebook dating in a nutshell. It
is available starting today. The other thing that's weird about
this are you gonna try it?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I don't know, maybe you should.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You should try it and report that quest.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Okay, I'll let you know how go.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
But the other thing that's interesting is that they're sort
of merging Facebook and Instagram for the first time because
now it's cross friends, so it's your friends from Instagram
as well.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Okay, yeah, because I feel like Instagram's a great way
to you know, slide into dms meet people. Right, yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Know theoretically, you would know better. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
All right, So this first question comes from Jerome. And
by the way, if you want to send a question,
all you have to do is go to Rich on
tech dot tv, click on the contact link, and you
can send Rich your question. So Jerome writes in is
it The subject is video chat Android to iPhone. The
(07:09):
question is it possible? How to make it happen?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
This is one of those questions that I read and
I'm just like, oh wow, this is interesting that this
is a question because it seems so simple in my mind.
But the reality is, all we've heard about over the
years is FaceTime, FaceTime, FaceTime, FaceTime. That's the way people
video chat and skype. But in reality, there are many
other ways to do this, and there are many simple ways.
The simplest way is the program that's probably installed in
(07:36):
your both phones already, even if you're iOS and Android,
and that is Facebook Messenger. People forget that Facebook Messenger
has a video chat feature and you can easily use that.
So if Facebook Messenger is installed on both phones, go
ahead and use that to chat. You're already friends on there.
You don't have to set up a separate account. It's
all done and it works nicely. The other thing, and
I think this is probably the better way to do it,
(07:57):
is Google Duo and Google Doo. I did a video
on Facebook when this came out a couple of years ago.
I think it was like five years ago at this point,
let's say August sixteenth, twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Three years ago.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I was nine.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Sorry, continuing with the young joke.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I like that, okay, But this app came out and
I thought it was the greatest thing ever because it
was really the first time you had a dedicated app
that you could use to video chat. And Google Duo
is very simple, it has better quality video than a
lot of the other apps out there. It's totally free.
It works on both Android and iOS. But for some reason,
(08:32):
nobody thinks about it ever. Did it come to mind
when you saw this?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I think about it all the time. No, no, no,
I've actually never this is the first time I've ever
heard of it.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
But I really the first time see that.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
But I was also thinking, I know people that not
a ton of people, but my sister facetimes or video
chats with people on Instagram, like her friends on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yes, you can do Instagram as well. So there, okay,
So here are your options. Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, Google Duo,
and obviously face and Skype.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Skype is a little bit more old school.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I think that's more like people think of that for
business purposes, yeah, for personal and yeah, Instagram is probably
one of those other ones that's really easy because it's
already on your phone and everybody's on Instagram. So I
would say those are probably the two or three ways
to check it out.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
But it can be done. It's very simple.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I think the main thing is that on Android versus
iOS or going cross platform, it's not as simple as
FaceTime because FaceTime, it's like you click their phone number
if they have an iPhone, boom, it just connects. And
that's of course part of the magic and nightmare of
the way Apple sets things up.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Is it going to be blurry if you're on an
iPhone and you're video chatting with the Android on Duo.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, no, quite quite contrary. It's Duo is very clear.
In fact, they have this cool night site feature which
makes your nighttime chatting like even brighter, which is kind
of cool.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
And no, it looks great.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And the thing that when Duo came out versus FaceTime,
the thing that was different is FaceTime was I mean,
it's gotten better, yeah, and plus internet speeds.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Have gotten better over the years.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
But when FaceTime was first, it was it always dropped out,
it was blurry, it didn't hold a connection very well.
So when Duo came out, Google was using their YouTube.
Google has learned so much from YouTube about compressing video
and making video delivered very fast. They apply that to
all their products, so Duo is no different. They're figuring out.
You know, when you have a good connection, they'll make
(10:29):
the screen look really good, the picture really clear. When
you don't have as good of a connection, they'll drop
back that quality, but still keep the conversation going and
still keep the video. Sometimes the video may go out
if you have a really terrible connection, but I rarely
see that anymore. Anyway, good question and check those things out, Jerome,
Thanks for emailing in so many things to talk about
(10:51):
this week, including Samsung. And I'm not going to give
this much more than like thirty seconds, because nobody cares
about this phone. Nobody is buying this phone, and the
only reason we care about it is because it's like
our hurt player in sports. I'm not sports guy, so
I don't even know this analogy, but like you're hope
that you want to see them win, right that guy?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
That never mind, I'm not going to also try to because.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
No, we don't do sports analogies here because we don't
do sports sports. There's a reason why I talk about technology.
But the thing is, the Galaxy Fold was supposed to
launch on April twenty sixth. It did not launch because
there's a whole bunch of problems. We've been waiting for
it to launch. Nobody's really been waiting for it to
launch except the media that just wants to talk about it.
Nobody really, Like, no one go up to thirty people
(11:34):
in the street and not one person is ready to
buy this thing. But nonetheless, it's cool that Samsung is
experimenting with new technologies, and I do think this will
be indicative of technologies to come, and I think we
will see more foldable phones. But the story is that
the Galaxy Fold will launch in the US in the
coming weeks. It is available in South Korea. So Megan,
(11:56):
if you have nothing to do this weekend and you
want to get.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
A plane the fold, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
That's what I'm going to do tomorrow after work.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
They did not say anything about the price. But the
other thing that I do want to mention is that
there's a rumor going around that Samsung will create a
second foldable phone for next year, and that one's supposed
to be more like the Motorola Eraser where it folds
in half, like like it flop folds down. I guess
you should say, right, instead of folding in half, you know,
so it folds like a flip phone, like the old.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
School flip phone.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
And I think that that's really interesting because that could
be kind of cool to have a big screen phone
in your pocket that folds up small, not the one
square into a square, not the weird one that the
Galaxy Fold is just really thick and weird, Like, yeah,
you want like a thin phone that also when you
open it up, has.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
A giant like a nice big screen. Yea.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Anyway, so I'm rooting for it.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
You're excited.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I am excited for next year the square, not for
this one.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
All right. This next question comes from Stephen. He writes,
thank you again for all your information. You're a life saver.
Oh wow, what is your opinion on thumb I D
for your iPhone? I don't want my thumb print out there,
so I don't use that doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I haven't heard uh number one. I didn't even know
people still use the thumb print. But I guess you
have it on your phone.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Okay, all right, but hate and this could be this
could apply to various phones because the Samsung phone still
have a fingerprint reader.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
But is he talking about the iPhone or is he
talked does this say sent for my phone?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Thumb ID for your iPhone?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Your iPhone?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Okay, So the thing about thumb I D they call it,
it wasn't called it called touch id.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah, but you I guess you could use your thumb.
You could also you can use your finger, but not
your elbow.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Not your elbow.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
So the thing about this is that Apple has been
very clear that they do not store the fingerprint anywhere
except on your phone in what they call the secure enclave,
and that's just a fancy word for like a little
lock box inside your phone that all this secure stuff
is stored inside, and it's really tough to crack into,
(14:08):
and there are various safeguards that if someone did crack
open your phone or try to steal it, they wouldn't
be able to retrieve your information. And it doesn't go
on the internet. It's not transmitted anyway. It's not stored
in iCloud. So when you take an imprint of your
fingerprint on your iPhone, it's staying on that phone and
that's it. And it's only being used to authenticate the device,
(14:29):
and everything happens on device. It's not being sent to
the cloud for verification all that stuff I just said.
So I think that you're safe using the touch ID. Yeah,
and the face ID works in the same way. And
you know, Apple has been a very big proponent of
privacy on your phone, and it shows. I mean a
lot of things that happen on the iPhone do happen
(14:49):
on device. I'll give you an example, since I'm writing
the book, and I was experimenting with a new photos
app on iOS thirteen, and it scans your pictures for
things that are inside them. So if you take a
picture of a piece of p pizza, you can search
for pizza and your iPhone will show.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You your pizza pictures.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And Google can do this on the you know, on
any phone with Google Photos. The difference is your pictures
are being sent to a server to be scanned by
Google's artificial intelligence, and that information indexed through Google. So
it's not as secure as the iPhone, where it's just
being done on the iPhone. So Apple sends a whole
bunch of instructions to the iPhone saying, here's how you
(15:26):
recognize pizza, Here's what a beach looks like, Here's what
a dog looks like, and then your iPhone identifies those
things and it's all kept kind of secret on your phone.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
See the difference.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah, that makes sense. But now I'm curious about Google, Like,
so they have access to all of our photos basically,
or am I?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah? Pretty much?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I mean they're scanning them to see what's in them
there but we know that well, I mean I do, yeah,
but it is there is a level of trust that
has to be given to these companies, especially when you're
getting something for free. Now, I would argue the iPhone
comes at a premium because if you really think about it,
and I go between iPhone and Android a lot, and
you can see, I've got my Android in front of
(16:05):
me and my iPhone, and there's a lot of things
that are different. Like when you think about it, I
message is really a service that you're sort of paying
for built into the price of your phone, because that
is a whole separate messaging service that is very private
and very encrypted and secure photos.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I mean, even though you might pay.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
For iCloud space to store your photos, again, that's a
private service that nobody else is seeing your photos unless
you choose to share them. But with something like Google,
when you're uploading your photos, Google is looking at those
photos for different reasons.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
And let's see what else.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Notes, like the notes app, you know, if you look
at the notes app on your iPhone is syncs with
your computer. That again, it is another service that you
might pay for. You might pay forever, Note, you might
pay for Bear, you might pay for any of these
other app note taking app programs. So a lot of
things that are built into the iPhone, you're sort of
they're front loaded. You're paying, you paid for it, You
paid for the iPhone and you're kind of getting these
(16:57):
services to go along with it. And yes, you have
to pay for iCloud to at more online storage. Yeah,
but a lot of the software that's built into the iPhone,
like maps, you know, a lot of that is much
more private than what Google's doing with Google Maps. When
you drive around, Google's recording everything that you do and
everywhere that you go to make their products and services better. Apple,
to a lesser extent, is doing that. They're still looking
at the place you're going. I'm not sure how they're
(17:18):
using that data, but in general, it's a little bit
more secure than what Google's doing.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
So if you write in a doc on Google like right.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Google Docs, Yeah, I don't know, I mean, where does that?
I mean it is?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
It's it's yeah, So all right, good to know.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
All right, let's talk about some of the there's like
three speakers right now, three new speakers.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
So Roku came.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Out with a Roku Smart soundbar, and the only thing
you need to know about this one hundred and seventy
nine bucks going to be available in October.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
And the thing.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
That I think is kind of interesting about this is
that it includes Roku in the bar, which is kind
of cool because I don't know about you, but most
TVs have terrible sound, Like even my TV like it
just don't have very good sound. I have Sonos, so
it sounds better, but it's still sometimes really tough to
hear dialogue. Maybe I'm just getting older, I don't know, but.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
It's tough to you can't hear It's tough to hear.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Dialogue, and you know, my wife complains about that. And
Sonos has like a feature that supposedly.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Makes it better. It really doesn't, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
But the Roku Smart Soundbar apparently makes dialogue sound better,
and I think a soundbar is just a good thing
to have on any TV because think about it, TVs
are mainly screen. They're not known for their speakers. So
one hundred and seventy nine dollars you get a Roku
plus the soundbar built in, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I don't see anything when it comes to compatibility for
either Airplay or chrome Cast, which are two services that
might make it easier to use audio from your phone
with this soundbar. But if you have Roku, you don't
really need that because you can just dream, Spotify and
stuff from the Roku. Yeah, you'll have Roku, right, So
they have like a Spotify Appy, Pandora app.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, they have. They have it all almost.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
So that's that.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
The other thing that I'm more excited for because I'm
out of Roku house, but I am a Sono's house.
They have a new speaker called the Move and this
is the first battery powered Sono speaker.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
That you can use outside.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
And not only does it connect to your existing son
No system, but it also uses Bluetooth. So for me,
for instance, let's say I'm having a party. I've had
a son No speaker on my back patio for a while.
Problem is, I always forget it in the rain and
next thing you know, you know, it's plugged in.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
So that's dangerous. Number one.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Number two gets in the rain. It's lasted even getting
wet rain, yeah, which is I guess it dries out
and it's fine. I don't really trust it as much
and the control on it has kind of worn out
because of the rain, so I have to use.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
It doesn't really rain that much, no, but it did
for a while, but you forget, Yeah, and it did
for a while all the time.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So I think that's really cool. So anyway, this is
going to be much better outside. So in the backyard
it would just connect to my existing Sonos system. But
let's say we go to the beach and you want
to use your son No speaker. You can now take
this speaker and it has a battery which lasts for
let's see, ten hours, oh wow, which is fine. And
it also has Bluetooth streaming, so you can just use
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it with Bluetooth on your phone.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I love this.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It also has an IP fifty six rating, which I
don't believe is that that with stands falls, bumps, rain
and moisture, dust and dirt. I don't think IP fifty
six is as good as you know, like a higher rating.
But that's still fine. It's still going to be able
to withstand being outside. I don't think it's meant to
be left outside, but it can be brought outside and
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kind of like if you forget it overnight, it's gonna
be okay, right, okay, what else? Hands free Airplay two.
Here's the kicker on this whole Sono speaker. And what
my problem with Sona says over and over is that
it is a three hundred and ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Dollars I was about to ask is it the praise?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Oh wait, hold on, that's for Is that a different story?
Oh that's not Yeah, it is three and ninety nine okay, yeah, three.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Hundred nine dollars. That's expensive for a Bluetooth speaker.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
You can get a blue Tooth speaker for way cheaper,
way cheaper.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But the thing is, if you're like me and you're
in a son's house, you're kind of building out that
system that works really well. Like the first thing I
do every single day when I get home is put
on Sonos every single day.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
What do you listen to?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Actually, recently I've been listening to I found a new
feature inside YouTube music which I use, and it basically
you search for an artist and then you scroll all
the way down it gives you all the similar artists.
So one of my favorite artists for like working is Tycho.
It's like instrumental music, and so it just I just
pick one of the other artists and listen to them
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on shuffle or I do Tycho Radio Artist Radio, and
it mixes in all the Taycho songs and then all
the other artists that are similar, and I just leave
that on for like hours. It's very easy, kind of
like yeah, eats like cool, just chill beats.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Oh I want to listen, so Tycho write that.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Down, Tycho.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I believe that the album that I really fell in
love with is called Awake, and it is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
If you just want to get some.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Work done, Yeah, you can like focus.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, Tycho away, it's really great.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yeah, because when I listen to rap music, I can't really.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It's tough.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
It's tough with little Nas, Little Nas as your study guide. There,
let me do one more. I'll just get all the
kind of audio video stuff away. But they also have
a new Amazon Fire TV Cube. This is kind of
the highest end Fire TV as far as I know.
And the thing about the cube that is different than
the Fire TV sticks is that the cube lets you
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control your TV hands free and your cable box. So
it has a lot of smarts built in where you
can say tune to channel five and it will turn
on your TV and tune into that channel on your
cable box.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
So it's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
It's only one hundred and nineteen dollars, and I think
that this is now the most powerful fire TV stick
because I have the or the Fire TV because I
have the stick four K, which is forty dollars, and
I'm looking at this and it has Yeah, the fire
TV Cube has a built in speaker, which means you
can have Alexa right there. You've got far field voice control,
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which means the thing can be off and you can
just scream from across your room and well, yell whatever,
and you can you know, you don't.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Have to press anything.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah, you need to say a turn on the TV
and tune into whatever Netflix there's and it works with
a lot of different things as well. Okay, so the
processor is now hexacore instead of quad core, and HEXA.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Don't quote me, but hex is what eight hexagon? How many?
How many sides does a hexagon have? Six sides?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Okay, so six cores and two Okay, so six cores
versus four. And it has sixteen gigs of storage versus eight.
And it also has an Ethernet adapter built in, which
is really cool because if you want really fast Internet
instead of using Wi Fi, you can plug an Ethernet
cable into the.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Back of the fire TV Cube.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
So if you want the best kind of home system
for fire TV, the cube is now the best.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I may have to upgrade. But I'm very happy with
my stick. It works.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Just that's what my mom and dad have.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I gave it to them, oh Christmas.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
They never use it.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Well, then it's oh it doesn't work. What do they use?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
They just you know, watch cable. I can't really get
into it right now.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
We need an old school, old.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
School, all right. So this next question comes from Sam.
He says, who do you recommend for online backup? I
had a bad experience with Carbonite, so not them.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Oh wow, abrupt endings Carbonite. I'm wondering what the bad
experience was. I think that the experience with all these
online backups, and the reason why I don't use them
is because there's two number one. Almost everything I'm doing
is in the cloud these days. So I'm laughing because
(24:52):
Megan was taking a sip of her was it coffee, Yeah,
trying to trying to get caffeinated here. It was just
a very funny sip because we wear these microphones and
you kind of have to, like anything you have to do,
you have to.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Like kind of do it around and Ale, Yeah, it's
it's just funny.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah. I was trying not to look at you.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah, I know, but you did and you looked like
those funny eyes that are like off to the side
that you're doing something wrong.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
So classic.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
So uh, the reason why I find these online backup
services kind of tricky is because a almost everything I'm
doing is in the cloud. Anyway, I'm using Google Docs,
all my pictures are with Google. I like to have
a physical backup close by. Because Number one, to do
one of these backups, if you have everything on your computer,
takes a while to like actually get the first backup,
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and then after that it's fine. It's incremental, so anything
that changes on your computer, it will update, but that
first update could take a couple of weeks depending on
your internet connection.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And I used to do I should probably do this again.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And because last week we talked about on the show
how I did lose my desktop because that wasn't backed up.
But if you have iCloud and a Mac, your desktop
can be backed up on iCloud. In fact, a lot
of your computer can be backed up in die cloud.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
So anyway, to.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Get to his answer, I would say, the other one
to look at is Backblaze, and Backblaze is kind of
like the biggest competitor to carbonite and all of these companies.
There used to be a ton of them out there.
They've all pivoted sort towards the enterprise or business solutions.
But Backblaze, I am checking. They still do a personal
backup for six dollars a month. Now, six dollars a
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month doesn't sound expensive, but over time, that is a
very expensive way to back up your computer. Six dollars
times twelve is seventy two dollars. You can get a
drive on Amazon to back up your computer for I
think it's like sixty dollars for like a terabyte or
even wow, let me look that up.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
You know what. You're right, that's definitely how much mine
was what I think.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
It was sixty Yeah, for like one terabyte of hard drive.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
It might even be two terabytes. At this point, Western
Digital two terabyte drive is now sixty dollars, So imagine
a two terabyte drive sixty bucks. You plug it into
your computer. Both Windows and Mac both have very easy
to use backing up systems, which on Makets Time Machine.
On Windows it's just backup, so search on your Windows
and if you just go to backup settings and if
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you go into there you plug in a drive. Windows
will say hey, backup using file history.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
So that's what it's called. So you just plug in
your drive.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Every time you plug in that drive, it automatically backs
up all the new stuff and boom, sixty bucks, a
lot cheaper than seventy two for the year. The benefit
to the online is that it's online, so you don't
really have to think about it as much. You don't
have to worry about your backup drive crashing. The problem
comes when you want to restore from an online backup
and guess what, Downloading all those terabytes.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
To your computer takes forever.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
And so what they want to do is they'll say, oh,
we'll send you a hard drive with all this stuff
on it. Maybe they do it for free, but a
lot of times it might cost you a one time
fee of like, you know, twenty five fifty bucks, okay,
which again, now add that all up and you're talking
it's a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But with that said, it's peace of mind totally.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
And you're using back blaze or carbonite. It's very simple
because it's peace of mind.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Yeah, and that reminds me, I think I really need
to backup my laptop, my old laptop.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
You should, yeah, but I think in general, if you
have the external hard drive with Time Machine or on Windows,
and you have everything on your computer that's in two places,
so hopefully both of those things don't crash at the
same time. Yeah, you're hoping either you're not hoping, but
either your computer hard drive is going to crash or
the external is going to crash, hopefully not at the
same time.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
The only time that you have to be worried is
I mean, God forbid, you're in the house, your computer's
in your house, and your heart drives in your house
and everything burns down, right, Yeah, that's when you.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
But again the other but if there was a fire,
I'd probably just grab my laptop.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
No, you probably wouldn't grab my dog. You'd want to
save yourself and you know, anyone else, my puppy.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah, but I always think about that.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I'm like, oh, with a fire like that puts you
in a tough place if you didn't back up.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, because you're like, I knew I should have listened
to Rich on tech.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I don't know why, but that really stresses me out.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Oh, it's totally stressful.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
It's the worst, like anything that has to do with
your house or that's why it's.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Better to live in a brick house, right, because I
can't catch on.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I'll never forget asking my Oh my gosh, this is embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
You have to tell us now.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
I didn't even want to tell because it gets into
religion and stuff, but I'll never forget. In third grade,
my teacher we were talking about fires and somehow like
a church came up and I was like, well, a
church can't burn down because it's God's house. Yeah, and
my teacher was like, and I didn't go to Catholic school,
it's just public school, and she's like, oh, no, I
can burn down.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I was like what.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I was like devastated to know that, Like, oh my gosh,
God can't protect his own house.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
It was really that's really sad.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
I'm just going to end the podcast here.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yeah, well, if it's made out of stone, right, I
don't know anyway I.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Can still burn. I've seen churches burn, Notre Dame that
wasn't that a church that burned?
Speaker 3 (29:51):
That was really sad.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
All right, let's talk about something fun, talking about backing
up your stuff. If you live in the LA area
or any area that is serviced by Spectrum in a
large city, you might want to do a speed test.
I saw commercial on TV and I think we talked
about this in a previous podcast where it said now
speeds you're double to two hundred, and I pay for
one hundred. So I was like, what I want two
(30:14):
hundred because faster internet is always better. So I tweeted
about this and I got some responses online and some
of the folks said that, yeah, they live in the
LA area and they're all already getting the faster internet,
and one person told me that you don't have to
do anything. They chatted with the Spectrum folks and they said, yeah,
just reset your modem and you'll notice.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
The faster speeds we have.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Spectrum I think.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Went to my house, went to my house and did
a speed test, and sure enough, I was not getting
the faster speeds. So this morning I chatted with Spectrum
and they said, oh, we looked up your account. You
are getting you got it. We are automatically upgrading pretty
much everyone that's paying for one hundred to two hundred,
which is awesome. Wow, never mind you I pay sixty
five dollars a month, so two hundred sounds, you know,
(30:59):
way better than one hundred for that price. Yeah, long
story short, I did a speed test and sure enough
I got over two hundred down. Still ten up, but whatever,
it's fine. So the thing is, they figure most people
are more downloading than uploading. But when you're uploading, that
comes in handy for things like backing up all that
good stuff, you know. But they're thinking most people are
just downloading stuff.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
So wait, sorry, my brother has a YouTube channel, yes,
and he's always uploading stuff. Does that like slow our
internet down for us?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
It could?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, I mean you get a certain amount of bandwidth,
so yeah, it could do that if he's uploading all
the time.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, it can. You know, you only get so much
of the pie, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, And that's why with cable internet in your neighborhood,
when all of your neighbors are online at the same time,
that's one of the downsides of cable internet versus the
internet from the phone company is that you're sharing that
line among your neighbors. Now, I think that things have
gotten so good these days that it's not that much
of an issue. But I will say sometimes at night
on a Friday or Saturday night, when everyone's streaming Netflix,
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you might notice a hit on your speed versus two
pm during the day when I'm normally home. So anyway,
my advice to you is, if you have Spectrum, definitely
do a speed test. Couple of ways you can do that.
Number one, go to fast dot com on a web
browser that is connected to your Wi Fi at home
and check out the speed and see if you're getting
(32:19):
close to two hundred. If you're not, I would call in.
If you're getting something under one hundred. You got to
check see what's going on with your internet.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Your WiFi is not necessarily the best way to test
your internet because Wi Fi is generally slower than what's
coming into the modem because the signal is sometimes getting interrupted.
But if you have a system like Ero or one
of these mesh Wi Fi systems, generally like me, I
get the perfect Internet throughout my house because of that system.
The other thing to do if you're not getting it
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is to just unplug your modem and restart it and
see if that triggers the upgrade. But otherwise, I put
this on my Facebook page and I got a lot
of responses, and people are all posting their Internet speed
tests and they're saying.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, Rich, I got it.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Oh my gosh, that's so cool, and it just feels
good to get more for what you're already paying for.
Right the other way to test and I like an
app called Meteor met eo R. It's available for both
iOS and Android, and you can do a speed test
with that. It's just a fun little app that just
looks cooler than your typical speed test app.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
All right, Megan, it's all you, all right.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
So this next question comes from Madelina. She writes, Hi,
do you have any solutions for stopping mail from a
sender that uses various forms of an app called spot
dot com. I've been getting hundreds of unsolicited trashy emails
on my hotmail account. She says the suggestions that she's read,
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I wait suggestions to set rules, and the settings do
not work. Although they automatically go to junk box, they're
irritating just the same. One blogger said they're even going
to his child's account. And then she goes on to say,
I've never seen this addressed by tech pros.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Thinks you've never seen spam addressed by tech pros.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Come on, I think it's specifically this. No.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I looked up that website number on that website is
not trashy, so I don't know what there might be,
like a variation on that website. Yea, I looked up
the spot website and it's not trashy. So look, the
reality is she's saying that these are going to her
junk spam.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I mean, have you ever checked her spam? There's all
kinds of garbage.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
So it doesn't to me if it's going into spam.
I don't really care. Yeah, and yes, I will take
a casual glance at the spam every once in a
while just to see like what's in there besides the spam,
and sometimes some legit emails do get in there. But
if you look at this stuff in spam, I mean,
it's garbage. A lot of it is just terrible, terrible
stuff that you know, who cares though it's in your spam.
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So I wouldn't worry about it too much. I think
if the spam filter is doing its job, people are
gonna send spam. You're not gonna like put these people
in jail. It's like, the spam is going to come
no matter what. I think that if it's coming to
your inbox, that's a problem. And yes, some people are
saying to do filters, and usually I know a Gmail,
you can go into the menu for any email and
(35:13):
say filter messages like this. If it's not if your
spam blocker is not working, you can filter a message
and just send it straight to trash. If it's like
a mailing list that will just not stop. The other
thing you can do is report spam, and almost all
of the email providers let you report spam by pressing
the report spam.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
She mentioned Hotmail.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
I mean, realistically, if you're still using Hotmail, like, it's
not the best email out there, So I would switch
over to something like Outlook dot com or Gmail dot
com or anything but Hotmail. Yeah, just I don't think
it's really kept up with the time.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
So my mom uses AOL and it's so annoying.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
My parents use SBC Global.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
I don't even know what that one is. That like
back in the day.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
I made my dad a Gmail, like four years ago.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Yes, so did I my mom dad, and they barely
use it, and it's like it's just one of these
things where Gmail has sort of mastered email. So even
if you have to use iCloud, like you can set
up a free iCloud email address if you want, and
there's probably not as much spam there, but.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Anything but hotmail.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Oh, speaking of email, if you're using Gmail on the iPhone,
there is a setting that I think you should look
into and this will help cut down on spam and
all kinds of emails that you don't want. But now,
in the iOS version of Gmail, there is a way
that you can turn off automatic image loading. And I
have this setting turned on on both my Android device
(36:39):
and also my web Gmail. What it does is it
does not load images. So when you get an email
like this, you can see.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Well, that loaded the image.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Wait, I thought you said it was on iOS.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Well, this is new on iOS. It's always been available
on the desktop and on Android. Now it's coming to iOS.
So let's see if this one works.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Well.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
That one that's weird. Uh, both of those images loaded.
That's so strange.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Here's one okay, So here's my Spectrum bill. See this
and see where it says Spectrum logo at the top.
How it's not loaded. It's like a broken image.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
That means that it's not going to load the images
until I press display images below. And now you see
how it all comes in the reason why I do
that is because inside these images are a whole bunch
of trackers, and those trackers help identify when you've opened
an email, where you've opened an email, how many times
you've opened an email, and it just generally lets people
track you in different ways.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
So by having these off, you are less apt to
be tracked. Also, it does not send a signal to
these spammers that your email address actually works. Because let's
say you look at a spam email, it loads that image.
It tells a spammer, oh, we know that Megan just
opened this email. It then tells you that that's a
good email address. A lot of times spammers are just spamming,
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they're just sending a bunch of emails. So if you
have this feature turned on, it helps protect your email
address just a little bit more. And yes it's annoying
because a lot of times you do have to press
you know, let me see these images. But you can
also press the option for let me see these images
every time for this email address. So with people like
my family and friends, like obviously I press always load
(38:17):
images for them, and when they send me something, I
see it immediately. I don't have to take that extra step.
But for all the other garbage that you get, all
the bills and the you know, random unsolicited emails and
all the mailing list, it's just kind of one extra
little step. So you can go into settings on iOS
and look for the option to turn image blocking on,
which it probably will say something like load images by
(38:39):
default or ask and I.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Would change it under the Gmail like.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Yeah, should be under the You have to probably go
into the app settings, so it's probably into Gmail apps side.
On iPhone, there's two different settings. There's your setting settings
and then there's like inside the app you have setting right.
Very confusing sometimes, but there you go. All right, let's
see what do I want to talk before we go?
(39:04):
Let's see, Well, Android ten I know launched, but nobody
has it, but I do have it on my Pixel.
And the problem with Android ten this is like the
new version of the operating system. It's great, but nobody
really gets it unless you have a Pixel And if
you have a Samsung phone, you're not going to get
this for six to nine months, which is wild because
with iPhone, when the update comes out with iOS, you
get it that day. With Android it takes forever, so
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I have been playing with this on my Android on
the pixel and it's really cool.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
It's very beautiful. They've had a lot of new features
that are just very nice.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
It works great. Smart reply is one of my favorite
features on Android. When someone sends you a text, it
gives you a bunch of options at the bottom, which
I don't know if you know that, but so for instance,
like if you look at this text message on here,
this one didn't work, of course, but okay, so you
sent me a text that says everything's set up, and
at the bottom it says yay, little smiley face, awesome
(39:58):
and great. So with one tap, I can just send
you that message. So that's really I don't have to
think about it. And they're expanding it into more apps
so it works across various apps. They've got a dark theme,
so you can now have dark theme. I noticed on
my phone this morning as I was driving in everything
was black. That was kind of cool because it gives
you that dark theme. Easy on the eyes. Gesture navigation,
which is just like the iPhone. Location sharing is really
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upgraded in Android ten. So a lot of apps when
you first use them, like Yelp, it gave me a
notification and said, hey, YELP just asked for your location.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
In the background.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Did you know that? Did you want that? And it'll
give the option to say no. You don't realize that
all these apps are asking for a location in the
background all the time. So now with Android ten, you'll
be much more aware of that. Somehow you can mark
notifications to be silent. I've not really figured that out,
but there's definitely more control there. And there's Focus Mode,
which I've talked about I think in the last podcast,
(40:50):
where you can now press one button and kind of
gray out some of the apps that disturb you or
distract you.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Yeah, and I love that feature and it's been really fun.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
So and you have that on your Instagram.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Right showing I think I put on my Instagram to
show the folks. I think it might be on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
I don't. I don't. I don't think it made it
to Instagram. Did it? No? It did not? Sadly, Oh
that's so sad. Did not?
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Should I talk about cyber insurance anyway? If you think
you need cyber insurance, Mercury's got it. You can google
about that one.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Do you want to do? One more question before we go?
Quick question A quick one.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Yeah, I have a quick one from Kathleen. She just
bought a Sony Bravia Bravia Ravia. On the box it
says I must agree to a Google account to use
the TV. I'm not thrilled about giving up my privacy.
Is this TV just an excellent spy that's.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
If she's saying that you have to have a Google account, Yeah,
I have a Sony TV that was pre Google, pre Android.
So the Sony TVs, you know, like you have a
Roku TV, or you have an Amazon TV or a
Samsung TV or an LGTV, they all use different operating systems,
but the Sony uses Android Android TV specifically from Google.
(42:09):
And yeah, you probably have to agree to that, which,
if you think about it, Google is collecting stuff, collecting data,
probably information on what you watch, what you're streaming, how
you're using the TV. They're getting some of that data.
So if you're not comfortable with that, I would recommend
taking the TV back. And the TV might also have
a microphone on it, depending on the model.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
That could also be a considering excellent It's probably funneling
more information to Google about you now. It also depends
on whether you think that's evil or not. Do I
care if you're seeing what I'm watching on my TV?
Not really, I don't really care. So at Google it
if you do care, and that's a concern, And since
you're emailing me, that probably is a concern of yours,
(42:51):
I would say go with a different TV.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
The problem is all the smart TVs are doing the
same thing. Whether it's Visio, whether it's Samsung. They're all
collecting data on what you're doing on that TV, and
now with the internet connections, they're sending it back.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
But you don't need a Gmail account for Roku, do you?
Speaker 1 (43:07):
No? But Roku's doing their own thing. Yeah, they're also
they're doing their own thing. Yeah, Roku they're a huge
advertising platform. Why do you think they're trying to get
people to get their system? It's all advertising. Yeah, they say, hey,
we've got twenty million people using Roku's we can sell
ads against them, and we know that Megan is this
age and she makes this much money and she lives
in this area, and we can target ads to her.
(43:29):
Don't you have ads on your homescreen on Yoku?
Speaker 3 (43:31):
You do? It's like a billboard in my room.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Exactly, and they know exactly who you are, and they
also know what you're watching. They know what you like,
they know what you don't like. It's all linked up.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
That is so so if you don't want that to happen.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
If you don't want that to happen, you need to
get a TV that is not smart. Alternatively, you can
not connect your TV to Wi Fi. Then it's going
to be tough to stream stuff.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
Aka, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
All right, that's going to do it for the show.
Thanks so much for listening. We do appreciate it. If
you have a question for me, you can go to
my website rich on tech dot tv, hit the contact
button and send it my way. I can't guarantee at
this point any personal responses because I'm getting so many emails,
so many emails, I do try to respond to each
and every one of them. If it's something that I
(44:18):
don't understand or can't really easily explain in an email,
I just or you know, I may just explain it
here and I may just ignore you. It's nothing against you,
and you're free to email again if you think you're
not getting the service.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
You should email ten times a day. If you don't,
please don't don't do that.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
But again, I am one person and I you know,
I do try to respond best to my abilities. But
I do have family, kids, and.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
This is just part of my job kind of a life.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Oh, I don't have a life, So that's okay, that
part you're covered with. Yeah, let's see. I told you
about the book. If you want to follow me on Amazon,
go ahead and do that, or you can sign up
for my newsletter go to rich on tech dot TV
hit newsletter and that is where I tell you about
all the stuff I think you should know in newsletter
format and that's kind of fun. And Meghan, how can
people get in touch with you?
Speaker 3 (45:03):
I'm on Twitter and my Twitter account is producer Megan,
and I'm on Instagram. But it's not like.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
Really tough to find until she changes it to producer Megan,
which she's really how is it hard to find?
Speaker 3 (45:15):
Meghan mcmonoca?
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Oh yeah, that's that just rolls off the monocle.
Speaker 3 (45:19):
Yeah, it's a very easy last name to pronounce.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
I am at rich on Tech and you can find
me there on Instagram and Facebook. On Twitter, I'm at
Rich DeMuro, which is really tough to find too. I mean,
how are you going to find that? You know how
to spell DeMuro? Just off the top of my head.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
Should I changed my Instagram handle to Meg with tech No.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
I think you should do producer Megan. It's good because
here's how easy this is.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
You say producer Megan, and now you can just be
like I'm producer Megan across all things and people just
find you Preucer Megan. But for a while, producer Megan
had her face, had her Instagram closed down. So but
now it's open again.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
You had a private Oh yeah, I've gone in and out.
Yeah yeah, I changed my mind periodic.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
All right, that's gonna do it. Thanks so much for
listening to the show. If you like the show, please
rate and review us on iTunes. Tell your friends about
the show. We do appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
You know, we're trying to grow, trying to grow the show,
grow the show. Yeah, I am going to rhyme in
no time.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
Oh maybe we should just end the show now, I
think so.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Thanks so much for listening. Have a fantastic day, Umrich
shmiro Rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
We'll see you real soon.
Host
Rich DeMuro
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