In the future, no gadget will go missing

LG calls it quits but promises three years of OS updates; Best Buy tests a membership program; Apple expands Find My to third party gadgets; Google's latest sleep tracking device; Samsung's cheapest 5G phone yet; seeing if your phone number is involved in the Facebook data scrape; Marriott tests self check-in kiosks; a website to easily share a big file with someone else.Listeners ask about a wireless charging stand for an iPhone and Android; alternatives to the Samsung watch; thoughts on the Wyze Watch; paying for additional cloud storage; a fix for Samsung's messaging app; deleting pictures on desktop and the cloud; best phone to upgrade to after the Note 10.Links:Follow Rich!LG OS updatesBest Buy membership programApple expands Find MyGoogle's sleep trackingSamsung's cheap A32 5G phoneFacebook phone number searchMarriott kiosksWormhole file sharing website$30 Aukey charging standGoogle Messages appSee 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 (00:10):
Testing Google's new sleep feature. See if your phone number
is part of that major Facebook breach. Best Buy has
a new membership program. Plus your tech questions answered. What's
going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech,
the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I
think you should know about. It's also the place I

(00:31):
answer the questions you send me. I'm the tech reporter
at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Hope you are
having a fantastic day. Believe me when I say you
love to send me questions. I mean I could spend
all day answering questions from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, even

(00:51):
when I decide to post there. I posted my first
video to TikTok today, which don't get used to that
because I you know, I just did that for fun man.
So last week I was off. I don't know if
you notice, but if you did, congrats You must listen
to the show a lot. But otherwise, Yes, I'm back
from Hawaii. I know, not the time to travel, but

(01:13):
you know, with the vaccinations and all this good stuff,
travel is definitely increasing. And so this was my first
big trip since the pandemic started. Second time I was
on a plane, so The first was to go up
to Seattle for ces. This was the second one, And honestly,
we rescheduled this trip so many times that we said

(01:33):
we're doing it. We're sticking to it. And the wildest
part about the whole trip is so my mom was
scheduled to come with us on this trip to Hawaii.
We had planned this, it's been her dream to go
to Hawaii. Blah blah blah, and no joke. The morning
of the trip, the morning of the trip, she is
flying out from New Jersey to Los Angeles to meet

(01:55):
us to fly to Hawaii. I get a call about
three am saying, not good. I tripped on my suitcase
and I can't make it. Because you know, when you're
a little bit older and you trip, it's not so good.
So she was all bruised and she had to go
get X rays and thankfully she's okay. But you know,
to go on a big trip from you know, New

(02:15):
York to La La to Hawaii, you know, not so
good when you're you know, when you're totally bruised and
beaten up. So that was a bummer. But the funny
thing was we were taking my other mother in law
and so she still came. I mean it was a
whole big thing. I mean, this is you know, this
was just unbelievable circumstances. So we we had a fantastic
time in Hawaii. Uh, notwithstanding all the issues or whatever.

(02:38):
The worst part of getting over there was really the
COVID test that you had to do to test negative
to get over there. But otherwise, once we were there,
it was great. I mean, obviously the island has been
greatly impacted by the pandemic, with a lot of things
closed and not open yet, but overall, once you were
just like on the beach sitting there, it was fine,
you know, and we had a really nice time. So

(03:00):
I probably wouldn't recommend going right now, honestly, because if
you're thinking of doing that, but you know, just wait
for things to change. We're so close. We are so close.
We're getting there. Things are, things are happening, They're they're
in motion. So if you want to watch my video
on the little trip I put it, you know, I didn't.
I didn't set out to make a video, not like

(03:20):
a YouTube vlogger, but I you know, I ended up
recording so many videos on my phone that I ended
up editing them together to h to make like this
little clip video and you can find that on my
Facebook page Facebook dot com slash Rich on tech. All right,
let's get to the first story of the week. Kind
of a big one. I mean, I don't know if
you have an LG phone, but LG has said they

(03:40):
are withdrawing from the mobile industry. Now. You might have
heard that last week. They announced it, I think when
I was in Hawaii. But the big update now, and
it's really sad that LG is exiting industry because you know,
it's one less choice for consumers. And you know, they
did have a decent amount of phones. I think in
recent years they didn't really have hit phone that I

(04:01):
personally loved. But I always loved what they did with
their phones, Like I always really enjoyed their software and
their approach to things. But their camera, you know, it
was good, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted personally,
and some of the software the you know, a lot
of the phones I've noticed in recent years of LG,
and this might have been a problem with them, is
that they were heavily, heavily influenced by the carriers, and

(04:25):
so you'd get this phone to test and it would
just be filled with Verizon software or filled with AT
and T software, and you go to the iPhone and
it's so clean and it's so pristine, and even Samsung
in recent years has been really clean that it's just
it kind of not you know, made for not a
very good experience. Anyway, they said they will give three
years of iOS of sorry not iOS of OS updates

(04:51):
for their phones, and that applies to phones released in
twenty nineteen and later the premium G series, the V series,
the Velvet, and the Wing. Twenty twenty models like the
LG Stylo and the K series, these were like they're
less premium phones will get to operating system updates. So
I mean, it's kind of interesting. Good to know that

(05:11):
they're doing this pledge, but you know, I don't know
they're gonna still make phones. They're winding down July thirty first,
So sad for LG. You know, it's the end of
an era because I really my first phone I ever
tested was the LG Chocolate. That was my first assignment
ever for c neet back in the day. So it

(05:32):
just goes to show how how long I've been doing this.
All right, let's get to the first question. All right,
oh gosh, I'm gonna mess up your name. Hormaz says, Hey, Rich,
thanks for your awesome podcast. I haven't missed even one
episode in the last three years. Well, thank you. I
need your advice to buy a perfect wireless charger stand

(05:55):
for both my iPhone twelve and my Note twenty ultra,
which vendor and modeled you suggest. I want to have
one that works with both iPhone and Samsung. Thank you
for your amazing podcast and your help. Well, oh gosh,
or Moz, I think I'm looking at the perfect one.
I have it on my desk right here. So it

(06:16):
depends if you want a wireless charger stand, I mean,
if you just want one device, or I don't know
if you want to charge two devices at once or
one device you know, at a time. But there's two
i'd recommend. The first is this one I have in
my desk right here. We featured it on KTLA today.
It's called the au Key air Corps three and one,
and it's a three and one charger. It's got a

(06:39):
place for wireless AirPods, whatever earbuds you have that wirelessly charge.
It's got a place for your Apple Watch, and it's
got to stand for your phone, and it should work
with your Samsung. It will work with your Samsung and
also your iPhone, and so i'd recommend that it's only
thirty bucks and it's that's a pretty fantastic deal. The
other one I'd recommend is just a Mophi that has

(07:01):
it's a two in one charger, so you can lay
two phones on this device and charge two devices at once,
and you know that should work as well. So those
are the two that I would recommend. But realistically, you
can go on Amazon. If you just need one device
to charge at a time, you can just go on
Amazon and find a charger. Make sure it's a high

(07:22):
speed charger for these devices, and you know all Key
makes them, Anchor makes them. I think i'd probably look
at those two or Mophi is also the other big
brand that makes these things. So that's what I would recommend.
And you know, if you want to see my video
on the Auki, I've got that on my Facebook page
as well. Let's talk about best Buy. They have a

(07:44):
new membership program. I don't think it's exactly competing with
Amazon because Amazon sells everything in the world, but they
have this new membership program called best Buy Beta. That
does seem pretty compelling if you are a tech person
that likes to buy, you know, gadgets, you'd have to
buy a couple of gadgets to make this worth it
because it is two hundred dollars a year. Here are

(08:08):
the benefits of the membership, dedicated and exclusive concierge support.
So what does that means? That mean like tech support?
I don't know concierge support. I don't really know what
that means. But it's available twenty four to seven by phone, chat, email,
or through the best Buy app. I mean, I don't
know what that what the concierge would help you with?

(08:28):
Like you know now they do have unlimited geek squad
tech support on all technology in your home, whether you
purchased it at best Buy or not. So that's compelling
and that could be quite helpful, especially if you have,
you know, a family member that you are the tech
support person for. This could help with that. But you know,
what's the weight line? What's the weight time on that?
I mean, I don't know how good that is. Either

(08:49):
fast and free shipping with no minimums. Okay, that's cool, exclusive,
but you know a lot of things you buy best
Buy our gadgets, they're more expensive, so you know a
lot of times it's over thirty five anyway or fifty whatever.
Their minimum is exclusive member pricing on a wide range
of products, free in home, standard delivery and installation on
most products. I mean, but how many times a year

(09:10):
are you buying like a dishwasher? So I don't know
about that one. This is compelling. Two years protection on
most purchases at best Buy, including Apple Care on Apple products.
Now that is the compelling part because if you buy
an iPhone once a year, which yeah, not many people
do that. It's usually once every three years, you know,
you buy Apple Care for two hundred bucks or whatever costs,

(09:33):
you know, that could pay for itself, sixty day extended
return window, and ten percent off subscription services build through
best Buy. So I mean, I don't know, two hundred
dollars a years a lot. And you know with Amazon
they're charging what one twenty for their Amazon Prime and
that's like, you know, you're getting something shipped from Amazon
or a lot of people are like on a weekly basis.

(09:55):
For us, it's like twice weekly. So this is interesting.
It's got a lot of perks. You know, there are
a lot of interesting perks, especially the two year protection.
But you have to figure out if it's worth two
hundred dollars a year. I mean, that's that adds up
very quickly. I mean, you do this thing for five years,
that's one thousand dollars. So are you getting one thousand

(10:16):
dollars worth of tech support and in home delivery and
installation and protection. I don't know, but this is starting
at select stores through at Iowa, Oklahoma, eastern Pennsylvania. Then
in April it's gonna expand to Minnesota, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
I'm surprised they didn't do it in Minnesota at the
beginning because that's where best Buy I think is headquartered.

(10:37):
So they're gonna have it a total of sixty stores.
Best Buy has many more stores than that, so I
don't know. Just keep an eye out for it. Best
by best By Beta membership program. Everything's a membership in
the future. All right, let's get to the next question.
This comes from. Let's see, I don't have a name

(10:59):
on this. Let's just say sore, okay, Hi, Richard. I'm
wanting someone calls me Richard, except my mom I'm wanting
to get a new Samsung watch, but I'm not sure
what to get. I don't know if Samsung is coming
out with a new version soon, and if so, the
watch face will be different. I'm not crazy about the
round ones. I would appreciate any advice. Thank you so much,

(11:19):
and a heart sent for my T mobile four G
LTE device. Well, let's see, is Samsung coming out with
a new version soon. They recently came out with one,
so I don't know. Usually their cadence is h Yeah,
I think it just came out, so I would say
probably not. And I don't see them changing to a

(11:41):
square watch face like the Apple Watch. So if you
don't like the round, ah, that's a tough one. So
the thing I would look into is perhaps a fitbit.
They do the square faces, and they've got the Fitbit
versa I think three now. And you know, it's been
a while since I tested a fitbit. I don't know fitit.
It's gone like they like never get in touch with

(12:02):
me anymore. I don't know why. I mean, the last
time I did a fipbit review, it was like it
went bananas online. I mean, I'm talking bananas. I never
saw so many people click on a review in my life.
That was the Versa. That was a Fipbit versa. So
that was like the first like real alternative to the
Apple Watch that was like a smart watch. And I
wrote up a little review and it just went wildly viral.

(12:25):
That was a couple of years ago and ever since then.
And I bought that watch on Amazon and I used
it for a long time and they never get in
touch with me after that, and anyway, so I digress.
So it's been a while since I've tested one. Yes,
I guess I can go out and buy one and
test it out, but it seems, you know, like I'd
rather just borrow one and test it and you know whatever,

(12:46):
So I would just probably go with a Fipbit. There's
another watch that's coming out called the one Plus Watch,
which is a nice alternative to the Samsung. I'll have
my full review on that next week. I've been testing it,
but I can't really talk too much about it right now.
But the fippit would probably be good. The one Plus
is great, but it's uh, well, I can't say it's
great just yet. It seems like it's going to be nice,

(13:09):
but it does have a round watch face. So if
you want square like Apple, then you know you're gonna
have to you know, really the Pippit is the way
to go. The other one is the whys Wyse has
a smart watch for twenty dollars. And in fact, I'm
gonna just go ahead and read these next two emails
because I guess it plays into this. Tomas says, hey, rich,

(13:33):
I just received my phone today and set it up
for twenty dollars on my phone. I think he meant
watch because it says why's watch and set it up
for twenty dollars plus another five dollars for an extra strap.
It's really trick. I'm guessing that means cool, auto correct,
auto correct. I had to wait almost four months to

(13:53):
receive it. It's a great deal. It does a lot of
things the other more expensive watches do. I guess I
won't be wearing my Rolex from now on. Sent from
my iPhone. Oh interesting, he's using it with an iPhone too. Yeah,
the wise Watch works with iPhone Android. The main downside
to the wise Watch there's no onboard GPS. So but
it's twenty dollars. I mean, it's a nice little smart watch.
I haven't tested it again. I think they were supposed to

(14:15):
send it to me. They never did, but whyse I
love what Whys is doing. They make really really nice
stuff for very inexpensive. Kevin writes, Rich, have you gotten
to the new wise Watch? My wife and I received
ours this week. It's nineteen ninety nine. It's pretty fun.
Definitely not an Apple watch, but maybe an overgrown fitpit.
But for about one hundred and eighty nine dollars less

(14:36):
than an Apple Watch, it's nifty. Thanks Kevin sent for
my iPhone. Another iPhone user wow with the wise Watch.
So anyway, that's probably another good option. If you just
want like a watch that tracks your steps and can
give you your notifications and you know, all that good stuff,
and you know, track a little bit of your fitness,
the wise Watch is going to be just fine. And

(14:56):
so is a Fitbit. So those are some good options
for you there if you don't necessarily want the round
watch face that Samsung offers. And I've tested the Samsung watches.
I think they're fine. They're not my favorite, but I
think they're just fine. I personally, I know, I know Apple,
you're such an Apple fanboy, Rich, I just I've gotten
so spoiled with the Apple Watch. I just I love it.

(15:18):
I feel naked without it, I really do. I just
feel like everything I want out of a smart watch
the Apple Watch does. And it just it's truly unbelievable.
I mean, it really feels like it watches over me.
I told the story about how I almost fell, and
it would have called nine one one if you noticed that.
It just attracks my runs and my music is on there,

(15:43):
and the notifications are so good, the haptics are so good.
Everything is just so good about it. And I've said
this before. I would give up my iPhone quicker than
I would my Apple Watch because the Apple Watch is
just so good. It's got cellular connectivity, which I just
I'll be honest. Okay, I can't talk too much about
the OnePlus watch, but I went out for a run

(16:04):
with the OnePlus watch yesterday to test it, and I
felt like I was missing something because I did not
have my cellular connectivity that I'm so used to on
my Apple Watch. And I know these are all things
that are like, oh, first world problems, rich I get it, Yes,
they all are one hundred percent, but you know, when
you test tech for a living. You see these differences,
and the difference of the Apple Watch among all the

(16:26):
other wearables that I test is that it really truly
is leaps and bounds ahead of them, and you know
it's gonna take some catching up. Just the ecosystem that
Apple has built is so strong and it's so solid,
and just you know, I don't try to I don't
set out to say, oh my gosh, I love all
Apple stuff. I love all you know, whatever Apple does

(16:47):
is amazing. Like no, I'm actively testing other things out there,
you know, to see if I can love other stuff
as much. And the Apple Watch is just one of
those things where it just has become such a big
part of my life. We were testing walkie talkie feature
the other day, which we don't really use, but my
wife and I were testing it and we're like, ah,
this is so cool. Why don't we ever use this?
And we didn't use it. After that, All right, let's

(17:10):
get to oh and Apple story. How convenient rich you
Apple lover? Apples find My Network now offers new third
party finding experiences. This is from the Apple newsroom. So
what Apple has done is they have taken on tile
and they have expanded the find My app. Remember it
used to be called find my iPhone. Now it's just

(17:32):
called find My. And what they've done is they've opened
up their network, they're finding network to third party gadgets.
And yes, I'm sure that these third party gadgets have
to pay a nice licensing fee to Apple to use this,
but it hear me out, this is pretty phenomenal. So
three gadgets that now have the find my tech built in,

(17:52):
one from Belkan, one from Chipolo, and then bikes from
Van Moove. So Belkan's doing a pair of earbuds the
uh what are they called, the sound form Freedom true
wireless earbuds. Then Chopolo has a it's a little finder.
So I hate to use the example of Tile because
this is who they're you know, totally annihilating in the

(18:16):
process here. But Chopolo is kind of an alternative to Tile,
and I remember liking Chopolo. I can't remember what the
reason was. I think they have batteries that pop out
and you can put new ones in there, whereas Tile
always had the batteries that were built in. Maybe they
changed that, but it's been a while since I used one.
But Schoppolo is called the one spot and you can
put this on keys, luggage, backpacks and more. And to

(18:38):
be completely honest, I will likely be buying these now
because here is the OH and then the Van Mouf bikes,
the S three and the X three. These are e bikes.
They cost about two thousand dollars and I got to
test one because not that I think my audience is
purchasing these e bikes for two thousand dollars, but I
get so many emails about them. People are really hip

(19:02):
on these e bikes that are, you know, electronic. They
kind of give you a little assistance when you're driving them.
I you know, I don't know. To me, it seems
very expensive, but I don't know. People seem to like them,
and I should probably get some experience hands on with them.
But the okay, So here's how this this find my works.
It basically turns any Apple products into a beacon like

(19:26):
a locator for these lost gadgets. So let's say you
had one of these Chipolo items on your backpack, right
these little tags, and let's say you lose your backpack
in the airport, Well, how many people are walking by
with an iPhone? And yes, I believe you have to
activate the third party like crowdsourcing feature on it, but
it's all anonymous and Apple has done their homework, so
they're making sure that it doesn't eat up all your

(19:49):
power on your phone or doesn't give away your private info.
But when you walk by, your iPhone sees that little beacon,
that little on someone's backpack and it says, oh, it
just it just sends that little day to the network
saying oh, we located this. And then you a thousand
miles away say where's my backpack and the Apple network
on fine my says, oh, well, we saw it at

(20:09):
the Lax an hour ago, and here's the precise location
of it, because we had one hundred and seventy five
iPhones walk past it in the past hour, and so
we're pretty sure it's right here. I mean, that is phenomenal.
Now you might say, rich Tyle did this years ago,
this is what Tile did so many years ago. But

(20:30):
here's the thing Tile was. I think it worked, but
I'm not sure that it was ever able to work
in the way that Apple was because the difference is
that someone had to have the Tile app on their
phone enable the finding feature and walk past that device

(20:50):
and the chances of that happening were a lot less
than some random iPhone or iPad or computer. If it
does computer, I'm not sure it does. But you know,
let's just say iPhones alone. I mean, how many iPhones
are floating around in the world. In the world, So
if you lose your device in Japan, someone's probably gonna

(21:11):
walk past it with an iPhone and locate it for you.
So in that case alone, this is phenomenal. And I
can see why manufacturers are gonna want to jump on board.
In fact, if I was tile, if I wanted to
sell some more tiles, I would jump on board. I
know it probably kills them to do that, but this
is huge, and I will say this again, this is huge.

(21:35):
The potential here is enormous, and I think that the
beauty here is that these devices, these these little clips,
you know, these little Chipolo add ons, and the things
they put inside these uh you know, bikes and stuff.
They don't have to have their own GPS to locate them.
They're just piggybacking on the GPS built into every iPhone.

(21:57):
So this is a huge when I think it has
a lot of potential, mark my words, this will be
one of the most successful programs that Apple does. If
people can get over the privacy concerns of I'm using
my phone to find other people's stuff, don't worry about it.
It's gonna be just fine to find. My network is
a crowdsource network of hundreds of millions of Apple devices

(22:18):
that use Bluetooth to detect missing items nearby, then report
the approximate location back to the owner. Apple says the
entire process is end to end encrypted and anonymous, so
no one, not even Apple or the third party manufacturer,
can view a device's location or information. In fact, I
think I'm gonna buy some of these Chipolos today. Why
would I not. I want this on everything. I want

(22:40):
this on my car, I want this on my backpack,
I want this on my luggage. I want this on
my keys. Oh my gosh. How much is one of
these Chipolos Chipolo one? Now, I will tell you I
covered Chipolo many many years ago with KTLA, and it
was at CES. I saw these things and it didn't

(23:01):
go anywhere because it was like, well, Tile is like
the big one. Okay. Chipolo one spot starts shipping in June,
and how much? How much? How much? Does not say,
I'm guessing they're expensive of regular Chipolo's twenty five dollars. So, ah,
this is huge. This is going to be big. Oh wow.

(23:26):
And let's see replaceable battery, twelve month battery. Oh, this
is going to be huge. Wow. I'm so I've never
been so excited. But no price has been announced just yet,
so we will we will keep an eye on that story. Anyway,
let me move on. Let's see. Thomas says, Hey, Rich,
I love this show. We have the two hundred gigabyte

(23:49):
thank you. We have the two hundred gigabyte iCloud Family
Share storage plan, and we are running out. I don't
really want to bump up to the nine to ninety
nine a month one terabyte plan. I want to remove it.
How can I go about this? Where do I put
these a local drive? Another less expensive cloud service? Thanks Tom, Tom,
I feel your pain, buddy, because I am right there

(24:09):
with you now. I pay for the two hundred dollars
iCloud Family Share plan as well. I think that's three
dollars a month. I also pay for the ten dollars
a month Google Drive plan, which is one two terabytes,
and I believe Apples is two terabytes. As well. I think, yeah,
two terabytes, so it's two terabytes for ten dollars. Now

(24:32):
I'm at the place where I'm right up against my
two terabytes. So I get this thing that says you're
ninety percent full, and the next level up for me
is fifty dollars a month, which is like, that's a lot. Now.
I pay eighteen bucks for YouTube, which you know, I mean,
so it's not that big of a deal to pay
for it, but it's still fifty dollars a month. Six
hundred dollars a year for cloud storage seems like a lot. Now,

(24:54):
I see what you're saying. You're saying I want to
remove the videos. But here's the deal, Tom, You're gonna
go through this whole I mean, you're gonna go through
your iCloud and remove all those videos, and then now
you're gonna have them somewhere else, and now when you
want to look for them, you gotta look somewhere else
for the videos. It's a whole big thing. So I
would say, at this point, there's not really another place
where you can put those videos for free. Even Google's

(25:16):
gonna start charging on June fifteenth for storage, so you
could I don't even know if you can upload them
there before then to get them to get them in
there for free. But I would say, I think you
just go for the ten dollars a month. I know
it pains you, and it's ten dollars a month, and
it's a new fee, but you're already paying three dollars,
so you're only paying seven more dollars a month. And

(25:38):
you know, do you really want your videos in a
different place? I don't know. Probably not. Now, a local
drive is fine. Yeah, you can go to Costco buy
a four terabyte hard drive for sixty bucks and offload
your videos there, which is fine, But you still need
to have them in a second place. So now you're
gonna be sitting there, You're gonna be going through your iCloud,
downloading all these videos, putting them on off separate hard drive.

(25:59):
Then you got to copy that to another hard drive.
Then you got to bring that hard drive to a
friend's house, so you have them in two places. Then
every time you add new videos, you gotta do the
same process over and over. So it just sounds like
something you don't want to do. And so I for
that reason, would recommend just just ponying up for the
ten dollars a month. I know it's tough. I gotta

(26:20):
do it for the fifty dollars a month. It's going
to really kill me to do that. But I think
I don't know what. I'm gonna try to save money
somewhere else, and I'm just trying to figure out where
that is. There's got to be a subscription I have
that I'm not getting the full use of. And last
week or the last show I talked about Verizon has

(26:40):
a twenty dollars a month unlimited storage plan. But again
it's the same problem. Do I really want to split
up my stuff? I was thinking about it and I'm like, okay,
well I can use some you know, some of the
unlimited storage and Verizon to free up space in my
Google Drive. But then I have two different places I
got to look for stuff, and that, you know, there's
also something about making life easier, and that's the goal

(27:01):
with all this stuff, and so you want to you know,
you can't. You can't discount the fact of is my
life more complicated because I'm saving five dollars? And you know,
I always say to someone, did you buy a beer
for five bucks? Have you ever purchased a beer for
five dollars. How long does that last? A half an hour?
An hour and it was five bucks. Now think about that,

(27:23):
you're paying a whole month for seven There's probably something
in your month that you purchase for seven dollars that
doesn't last very long. Whether it's a Starbucks, whether it's
a beer, whether it is you know, whatever it is.
So just think about it that way. That's the way
I've gotten through all these little fees and hopefully that
helps all right. Speaking of Google, I tried Google's latest

(27:46):
gadget that helps you get a better night's sleep, and
I'm obsessed. That is the headline from my KTLA segment
on the Google Nest Hub two. This is you know,
one of my favorite gadgets is the Google nest It's
just my favorite part about it is that it shows
pictures when you're not using it, like all your Google photos.
It's so cool. And then of course it does all

(28:08):
this stuff, like the smart home stuff, like you know,
you can play music on it, you can answer phone calls,
all that good stuff. Now, there's no camera on the
original Nest Hub. This has a seven inch screen and
Google found that a lot of people put it in
their bedroom because of that, the bigger one has a
camera and this has Now the new feature on the
two is a radar sensor. It's called solely, first appeared

(28:28):
on the Pixel four and they realize that they can
use this solely radar to figure out when you're sleeping
and kind of track your sleep patterns. And so I
tested this out. I had this by my bed for
a couple of weeks and it's fantastic. I mean, you
just go to sleep and when you wake up, you
get a little report card of your sleep and it

(28:49):
tells you how long you slept, how long you're in bed,
which gives you your sleep efficiency, So how long it
took you to go to sleep, how long it took
you to wake up, how many times you moved throughout
the night, if you snored, if you coughed, and it's
pretty wild and so how you're breathing. The idea here
is that Google is going to offer insights into your

(29:09):
sleep plus suggestions on how to make make it better,
get a better night's sleep. So for me, the suggestion
it had is that I go to bed and wake
up at very different times throughout the week, which is
causing me disturbances. So there you have it. This is
one hundred dollars. I highly recommend it that the Nest
Hub is. My only problem with the Nest Hub is

(29:33):
that it's sluggish. And maybe they're going to fix this
with a software update, but it's like the thing is
brand new, and you know, I was using it and
it's like you tap it and it takes like three
seconds to respond. Now why is that? Google? Come on?
So I don't know if they're using like a low
powered you know, whatever the processor is, or if they
just you know, I don't think the processor's changed from

(29:55):
the first one. Perhaps maybe it did, I don't know,
but it seems just as slow as the first one.
And so that's my only big problem with it. But
for a hundred bucks, it's a great, you know, digital
photo display and it does all your smart home stuff
and if you don't, you know, if you're in the
Google ecosystem with Google Photos, it's it's a pretty cool
way to see your pictures throughout the day, and then
with this little feature, it's pretty cool as well. The

(30:17):
only thing to know is that Google says this is
a free preview, so they eventually plan to charge for
this thing, so just know that they didn't say how much.
But that's the idea, is that this is free for now,
and later on they will likely charge for the service.
And if you're wondering if they're going to use your

(30:38):
sleep data to sell you ads, Google says they will
not do that. So there you have it. Linda says,
good morning, Rich. I recently I always joke that people
say good morning because they see me on TV and
they go, oh, I need to email that guy. Good morning, Rich.
I recently found out that my Samsung Note nine is

(30:59):
resending pictures without me knowing. How do I fix this? Signed?
Confused Linda, get out look for Android. Oh, Linda, this
was a problem a while while back. I mean I'm
talking like I thought this was like a couple of
years ago. And I guess if you're on the Note nine,
that was probably at least yeah, three years ago, because

(31:20):
at the Note ten and they did the twenty so yeah.
Uh So it's interesting because I thought they fixed this.
I would Number one, do a software update. Update all
of your software, so that means going into the there's
three places I want you to go. Number one Google
Play update all your apps there, and then restart your phone.
Then I want you to go into the Galaxy Store

(31:42):
update all of your apps there. That's a secret one.
On Android phones that are that are Samsung, sometimes you
miss that. It's not necessarily prevalent on your phone. Sometimes
you get to pop up maybe that says, hey, you
got some updates, but maybe turn that off. I would
go into their update your apps there, and then I
would go into the software update in the main settings
and update your phone there, and you know, go through

(32:04):
that process. So if that does not fix it, I
would go ahead and switch to Google Messages. This is
Google's SMS app. I believe that Samsung is replacing their
messages app with this anyway in the future, and I
think that's what they're doing. If not, I mean it's
it's just better anyway. I would just go with the

(32:25):
Google Messages. So all you have to do is download
what's called Google Messages, and once you download it, you
open it up. It will bring over all your old texts.
You don't have to worry about doing anything special and
boom you can. It'll say do you want to use
this as your defall app? Say? Yes? And I don't
think that app has that problem. So I think the
software update should probably fix this, but the fact that

(32:48):
it's still happening this late into the game, I would
just go ahead and switch. I think that the Google
Messages app is better anyway, and it's certainly updated more often,
and just I think they're switching to it anyway, So
I would just do that. Man, every story and every
question is leading into the next story. So this this

(33:08):
goes right into the story that Samsung has unveiled their
cheapest five G smartphone, and just full disclosure, I have
not tested this phone, so I can't say how good
or bad it is. But it's the Samsung A thirty
two five G A thirty two five G. It's their
first five G device under three hundred dollars. And I

(33:31):
was looking at this device because they came out with
that the Samsung FE last year, which was a pretty
pretty solid device for the price, but that was still
like six seven hundred bucks. This is two eighty nine,
a toot eighty. I mean, that's a steal. And I
looked at it. They undercut a lot of these other phones,

(33:52):
like a lot of these other devices that were really inexpensive,
and Samsung at this point, you know, when it comes
to Android, and we saw this with LG. It's like
they're just they're killing it in their own way because
it's a two party it's a what do they call it,
two pony game, two horse race, I don't know what
you call it. But it's basically Apple versus Samsung. When

(34:12):
people think Android, don't even think Android, they think Samsung.
It's Samsung versus Apple. It's not Google, it's not Android,
it's not LG, it's not Huawei, it's not Pixel. It
is Samsung versus iPhone. That's what people think. And so
Samsung has done a really good job of just building

(34:33):
on their momentum of Look, we're the we're the Android king,
and we make a lot of different phones at a
lot of different price points. You don't want to spend
one thousand bucks on a super high in S twenty
one or a Note twenty boom. Here's your five G
A thirty two for twot eighty, and it's got the
features you need. It's got four K video, it's got

(34:54):
the scene optimizer for the camera, so the camera should
be decent. It's got these special ar lenses for snapsh
which I don't know how many people use that but whatever,
it's got a huge battery five thousand million hours. That's
that's among the biggest. In fact, I think that's the
biggest you can put in a smartphone. It's got the
fast charging, it's got power saving mode, and it does

(35:16):
have a micro SD card slot, which is really nice,
so you can add extra memory to this forty eight
megapixel main shooter. It's got a six point five inch
HD LCD screen, so it's not the highest quality screen.
And again with a lot of these things, you're not getting,
you know, the absolute best quality. Maybe you're not getting
the best quality camera. Maybe you're not getting you know,

(35:37):
you're not getting the top refresh rate. This is ninety hertz,
which you know the top is is one twenty. You're
not getting a super ammal ed screen. You're getting an LCD,
you're not getting the full HD, You're just getting an HD, so,
you know, but it's still fine. I think for the
average user, you're not getting the most ram it's four gigs,
and some of these phones now and Android top out
at twelve. You're not getting the most memory. It's sixty

(36:00):
four gigs, which generally one twenty eight is the base nowadays.
But again you have that extra memory slot, you are
getting fast charging. I don't see wireless charging, so you're
not getting that. But the reality is, for most many,
many people who just won an expensive phone, two hundred
and eighty dollars is the difference between saving up your

(36:22):
money for a couple of months and buying a phone
and having a phone payment for twenty four months. So
why buy a thousand dollars phone with all these things
you don't need when you know you can buy a
two hundred and eighty dollars phone and get ninety nine
percent of what you need. Yeah, your pictures may not
be the absolute best, it may not be the fastest,
it may not have wireless charging, but it's going to

(36:43):
be pretty good for the price. And it's a Samsung,
so it's going to be a nice, you know, overall
nice device with a lot of support, a lot of accessories.
So check it out if you want a cheap phone,
a thirty two to five G from Samsung. That's the
big announcement. They're cheapest five G phone yet. All right,

(37:06):
Rich writes in uh, can you tell me if I
delete a picture from my picture account on my laptop
and I have an iCloud account, or I have a
cloud account where I think the picture goes for backup.
Is the picture also deleted from the cloud account or
do I have access to the cloud account to delete
it there? Also? Thanks always enjoy your text segments on

(37:27):
the news Rich well, thank you rich. From one rich
to another rich Richie Rich, thanks Rich, thanks a lot,
thanks a bunch um. Okay, so this gets a little confusing,
and I know a lot of people are confused by this,
so let me explain what happens. Okay, So, if you
are using Google Photos or something similar on your phone, right, so,

(37:48):
you've downloaded Google Photos, You've downloaded one drive, You've downloaded
Amazon Photos. What it does is it takes that picture
from your phone, it sucks it up and puts it
in to the cloud, and so it now lives in
the cloud. And if you're on your smartphone and you
go into your smartphone's photo gallery, not the Amazon Photos app,

(38:11):
not the Google Photos app, and you delete that picture,
it will remain safe and secure in the cloud. So
that's the way it works. If you go to your
desktop computer and you go to Amazon photos dot com
and you look for that photo and you say, eh,
it's not very good, and you delete it, it will
delete it off the cloud, but it will not delete

(38:33):
it off your phone. Do that makes sense? So stick
with me here. If you have Google Photos, same thing.
You upload a picture from your phone to Google Photos,
you go on Google Photos on the web app on
your laptop, you delete a picture in Google Photos, it
remains on your phone. If you delete that same picture
from your gallery on your phone, it remains in Google Photos.

(38:55):
So imagine it's kind of taking a copy of that
picture and sucking it up to the cloud and keeping
it there. Now Here is the big exception. If you
go into Google Photos on your phone and you say, oh,
let me delete that picture from the app, it says,
would you also like us to delete this picture from
your gallery? And you say yes, and it will delete

(39:16):
it off your phone. I know. Now, if you're using iCloud,
this is where it gets really interesting. If you're using
iCloud and you sink your pictures from iCloud, you know,
from your phone gallery to iCloud, and you delete a
picture off your phone, it deletes it across everywhere. It

(39:37):
will be gone out of the cloud, it will be
gone off your laptop. If you use Apple Photos, it
will be gone off the web. If you access your
photos through through iCloud on the web, it will be
gone everywhere. So this is often a thing that happens
to people. They delete a picture and they think it's
going to be deleted just from their phone, and it
deletes it off the cloud. So what you need to

(39:58):
do in the event that you use iCloud is you
need to go into settings and use a setting called
Optimize Phone Storage. And what this does is iCloud will
manage your storage on your phone. Because you're thinking, well,
you know if I if I upload to the cloud,
I can delete it off my phone. No, not if

(40:20):
you using iCloud, because it's not. It doesn't work that way.
It's an integrated platform. So it's a little bit different
and it's a little trickier because if you go deleting
things off your phone, it deletes it off iCloud as well.
So what you need to do is let Apple manage it.
And here's how they manage it. If you have that
Optimized Phone Storage turned on in your photo settings iCloud

(40:42):
Photo Settings, it will look through your phone and as
you reach the end of your storage on your phone,
the physical storage on your phone. It will say, okay,
we're gonna we're gonna offload some of these pictures. So
what it does is it deletes some of the pictures
off your phone, but it keeps a tiny copy, like
a thumbnail copy, but it keeps the original in the cloud.

(41:04):
And so let's say you go back, you scroll back
on your camera roll all the way a year ago,
and you notice that there's a little cloud icon in
the corner. That means that the photo is not actually
on your phone, it's grabbing that data from iCloud. When
you tap that picture, it will immediately download it from
the cloud and it will be on your phone just
like it was before. I know this who very very

(41:27):
confusing f from your mortals that may not be a
tech nerd that you know specializes in this stuff, but
it's what you need to know is if you know,
if you're using iCloud, if you're you know, just if
you're using iCloud, don't delete stuff off your phone. Let's
make sure that that feature is in there. And if

(41:48):
you need to free up storage, like if there's something
you don't need like a picture or a video, like
for me, I ran out of storage on my phone.
The other day, I went through and I deleted a
whole bunch of videos on my camera roll number one.
I know those videos are backed up in Google Photos,
so I'm fine doing that. If I was just using iCloud,
I would only delete things that I knew or that

(42:09):
were stuff I don't need, because I don't you. I
don't use the optimized iPhone storage because I don't use
iCloud for all my photos. So it's a little bit
different for me. But if you're using that, just know
that if you delete something off your phone or computer.
If you're on Apple Photos on your computer and you
delete something, yes it will delete it off everything. It'll
lead it delete that video or picture off your phone
as well. Hope I explained that, and I'm not, and

(42:31):
you're not sitting there more confused than before. Talk about Facebook.
You probably heard about this giant Facebook data breach. Facebook
does not call it a breach. They say that bad
actors scraped giant amounts of information off of their website,
including phone numbers, email addresses, all kinds of stuff whatever

(42:51):
you had on there five hundred million people. So one
of the big things that was a little different this
time is phone numbers were and before we've seen email addresses,
we've seen passwords. It's sad that we're you know, sort
of immune, not immune, but we've we've grown accustomed to
seeing this happen and so we're just like, ya on, okay,

(43:13):
my private information's out there again. Great now what uh?
And you shouldn't feel like that, bully. I'm just saying
that it's just happened so often that we're like, you know,
we just see it. So the phone numbers were the
things that raised a lot of eyebrows because people are like, oh,
and Facebook, because we feel like Facebook is always getting hacked,
but this happened in twenty nineteen. Facebook says that basically

(43:34):
bad actors abused what's called the contact import feature. So
if you've ever downloaded the Facebook app or Messenger or
you know, Instagram, it says, hey, do you want us
to check your contacts and see if any of them
are on Instagram? And you say yes, And what they're
doing is they're uploading your address book and then they're
comparing it against all the people on Facebook that have

(43:55):
inputted their details like their phone number or their email
address and saying, oh, we notice here that you know
this person and you want to friend them. And so
what these bad actors did apparently is just fake a
whole bunch of phone numbers to see if it matched
anyone on Facebook. And now they had the information about
who that person was. So that's what Facebook explained, and

(44:18):
they said this wasn't a hack. It was sort of
a you know, using our systems in a way they
were not intended, and we since patched this up. So
at the long story short, the phone numbers are still
out there, and so there is a website if you
want to check to see if your phone numbers out there.
It's have I Been Pooned? Have I been pwned? That's

(44:40):
how you spell it have And you would think that
would be have I been pawned, but it's pned like owned.
Have I been poned dot com? Pwned dot com? You
can type in your phone number and you can see
if it was part of the breach. Mine was not. Miraculously,
and you might be saying, rich, why what I type

(45:00):
my phone number into this website? Aren't they just gonna
steal it? And this guy is a security guy, the
guy who runs it, and his name's Troy Hunt. He's
been doing it for many years. You can cross check it.
He's pretty good. So he's not sitting there trying to
collect your stuff. He's just trying to make people aware
of when their stuff is out there on the open web.
So you have to type in your phone number because

(45:20):
the reality is, even if your phone numbers out there,
there's nothing you can do about it. You can't recall it.
You can't say, oh, please put this back in your
in your data storage and keep it in there, please.
You can't do that. You just know that your phone
numbers out there for hackers to or spammers to send
spam to. And I was talking about this on my

(45:40):
Facebook page Facebook dot com slash rich on tech about
how all this information that's out there about us is
really bad because because the smart spammers are gonna start
linking up our email address with all this personal information
we have. And so let's say our phone number was
on here, and so now these smart hacks are texting us,

(46:01):
and they can text us with our real name and
with our real email address, and so these texts that
we get seem more legitimate. And I've always thought about
this with all these companies that try to like verify
who we are. I mean how much how many ways
can they verify who we are? I mean, there's only
so many pieces of personal information about us. You know,
the street you grew up on, your mother's may name,

(46:23):
your date of birth. I mean a lot of these
things are now floating around out there, especially with the
amount of information we put out there on the web
about ourselves. So I mean social security number is one
of those things that still reserve for like you know,
hopefully that's not floating around, but sometimes those are floating around.
So I always am concerned for the future that we

(46:43):
need a better way of identifying people about who they are,
because how do you really know someone is who they
say they are? Because how many ways can you verify them?
And I always think this is interesting too. We have
all these computer systems that try to attempt to verify someone.
But imagine you as one human to another. You can
have a friend call you up thirty years later and

(47:05):
you can identify them instantly by the sound of their voice.
So just think about that for a second. All these
systems that we create, right, all these systems that eighteen
T has and Verizon and Google and Facebook and Instagram,
none of them compare to what our human brain can do,
which is identify someone by face or by voice in

(47:27):
about a fraction of a second. Think about that amazing, right,
And I always I always think about this in my mind.
All these systems we're coming up with are basically trying
to to recreate the human brain and the human body
that's already out there. It's already perfect, it's already exactly

(47:47):
what we need as humans to interact with each other. Right,
you want to build trust with someone, you can identify
them in one second. If someone comes up to you
and says they're your mom, you know if they are
not one second, right, there's no there's no like faking it.
You know, someone says your friend from you know, freshman

(48:08):
year college, you can tell on about one second if
they are. Anyway, I find that stuff fascinating. So anyway,
another podcast, the The Extistential rich on Tech podcast. All right,
I don't even know if that is. What does extistential mean?
Let's see, Uh, I just say these words. I'm not
even sure what they mean, but let's see extestential relating

(48:34):
to existence. Philosophy concerned with existence, especially human existence, as
viewed in the theories of ex distentialism. How do you
use the word to define the word. Come on, Oxford,
what are you doing Google logic affirming or implying the
existence of a thing? Anyway, Okay, maybe it is existential

(48:56):
Let's get to another question here. kJ says, good morning, Rich.
I love all the information you shared daily. I've been
watching KTLA way back since Jennifer Yorke barbar Beck Das.
I'm a dedicated fan forever to KTLA. Love the way
you make your audience feel like family. I have a
question for you, now that you've buttered me up. Okay,

(49:18):
let's hear your question. Can you please give me advice
on the best cellular phone that is out there? Now?
I currently have the Note ten I want to upgrade.
I trust only your advice, not the sales associates. I
fax email, scan documents all the time for work using
my phone because I don't have any of these devices
in my home. If you please give me advice, I
greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance. Oh, Lakeisha, kJ l

(49:45):
J interesting Lakeisha? Okay, Well, anyway, I always it's always
interesting to see people's names but their email address. Because kJ,
I would think her first name would be kJ because
her middle name is Jay. Anyway, Okay, you have a No. Ten.
I mean a No ten is still pretty solid. I

(50:05):
would say you could probably upgrade to the Note twenty
and be just fine if you want to continue with
the Samsung route. If you don't want to continue the
Samsung route, I would say a standard iPhone twelve would
be perfect. And I will say one thing. I do
find that the iPhone scans documents better than the Samsung's.

(50:28):
I don't know why they just do, but I would
also there's also a new app for the Androids called
Stack by Google, which does some pretty clean scans. But
I find that the scanning on the samsungs varies a bit.
Sometimes it's clear, sometimes it's not. But anyway, so those

(50:50):
are my advice. I would say Note twenty. If you
want a big phone and you want to continue with Samsung,
I'd go with the Note twenty. If you don't necessarily
need the Note, I would say the S twenty one
plus if you want to continue with a big phone,
would be just fine, but you don't get the stylus.
And if you want to switch to iPhone, which you
know rich you're such an iPhone lover, why do you

(51:11):
always recommend iPhone? I mean, it's a good phone and
it's got, you know, everything she needs, and so you know,
you can do that and you can probably get a
good trade in price if you go through Samsung dot
com if you're trading up to a new Samsung, and
if you go through the iPhone route, Apple will give
you some money for your Note ten. So those are
the phones I'd recommend S twenty one plus Note twenty

(51:32):
if you need not twenty, I think is like that's
only if you need the you know, biggest best phone
for you know, if you want to continue on the
note route. Otherwise, I think S twenty one plus or
the S twenty one Ultra is kind of like the
Note ten or the Note twenty rather, but it's like
the newer version of it, so it's got. I'd probably

(51:54):
go with that over the note because you can still
use the stylus with it. In fact, you can use
your old stylus from the Note ten, So save some
money there, all right. I think I answered that, let's
uh move on to Marriott. Is it Marriott or Marriott
or you know I read somewhere that you're supposed to
say Marriott like Chariot. Oh sorry, yeah, like Marriott. I

(52:15):
don't know anyway, now I'm saying it. It's like do
you ever say a word so many times that it
feels it sounds weird when you say it, Like like
if I say Marriott, Marriott, Marriott, Marrio, it so Marriott,
I say Marriott. Marriott is introducing contactless arrival kiosks. And

(52:37):
this is not new necessarily, I've seen these in Vegas,
believe me. But for Marriott Marriott Marriott to do this
is a big deal because they own let's see, seventy
six hundred properties woo, and they these kiosks are not
at their main hotels just yet. They're at courtyards. They're
at the Moxie, which is kind of like their hip

(52:58):
young fun brand and Townplay suites. And so these kiosks
are for guests who prefer low contact interactions, so you
can skip the traditional check in desk altogether and complete
an easy three step process at the kiosk to check

(53:18):
in and get your room keys. And so they have
these kiosks have anti microbial technology baked into the touchscreen glass.
Then there's UV light to kill bacteria and viruses, and
I think this is fantastic. I love it, and I know, oh,
you know, it does affect the job situation with the
front desk clerks, but let's be real, there's always people

(53:42):
that want to bypass the human contact, the human connection.
I find it's interesting as I get older, I kind
of like the human stuff, but there are places where
I don't necessarily need it, Like at the grocery store.
I do like the cashier because I think they're faster
than the self checkouts. The self checkouts I will use
if I only have a couple items and if the

(54:03):
lines are long at the checkout and everyone's like, ah,
I'm not using that because they are so bad. I
find that Target is decent with their self checkout. The
grocery stores, most of them are terrible. Costco was pretty fast,
but you know, it's like anyway, So I would say,
I think this is fine. And I think in Vegas

(54:25):
a lot of people don't use the kiosks because I
don't know if they're looking for a room upgrade or
if they just don't trust them. But you know the
reality is it's uh, I don't know. It's just one
more option for people, and I think it's pretty cool.
And I think these hotels are starting at because you know,
do you ever hear that thing where you slip the

(54:45):
cashier twenty and they or the front desk perse a
twenty person a twenty and they will, you know, upgrade
your room, which, by the way, has never worked for me.
I don't think I've ever gotten a room upgrade in
my life staying hotels. I mean never. They're always like,
we're all full or completely full? What do they say?

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They say, We're completely committed. That's I think that's the
word they use. We're completely committed, mister Demiro, we don't
have a room. We noticed it one time I booked
a room on Google because it was so simple. It
was like one click and they had all my information.
And the hotel person actually called me out when I
asked for an upgrade, and they're like, oh, you booked
the cheapest possible way on Google. No way or giving

(55:27):
you an upgrade we give We usually give those people
the worst rooms. So I was like, oh, and I've
heard before from other hotel people that like, you know,
if you book on Priceline, they give you like the
worst rooms. So I'm talking price line with the price
line with the auction bidding. You know, they're like, oh,
we reserve our worst rooms for those people. So I
don't know. I've I've I've booked all different ways, believe me,

(55:48):
and even with diamond status at Hilton, and they still
don't care. It seems they're like they might give you,
like a better view perhaps, but it doesn't. I find
that the hotels you gotta pay if you want an upgrade. Anyway,
I digress. So I think the kiosk is cool. I
would definitely use it if it was like a Hampton
in or something where it's like, you know, courtyard. There's

(56:09):
really not a better room at the courtyard. It's not
like there's like a fantastic suite you're gonna get upgraded
to by sweet talking the front desk person. So I
think it works in that kind of hotel. I think
that if you're staying at a five star hotel, I
don't think there's an expectation that you would be checking
yourself in, although if they offered that as an option,
I'm sure some people would use it. And if you're

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at a Moxie, which is really their their kind of fun,
young hip hotel, you do everything on your phone and
so you would expect to check in on a kiosk.
And I know, with Hilton at least, which is a
brand I've been kind of loyal to over the past
couple of years, they let you check in on your
phone and so you can use your phone as a
key for the room. And I don't know, I don't

(56:54):
know if Marriott, Marriott Marriott. I don't know if Marriott
does that. But anyway, so there you have it, all right,
one more story real quick. I thought this was interesting.
This little website called Wormhole wormhole dot app, and it's
a way to send files quickly, end to end encryption,
and it's a link that expires in twenty four hours.

(57:14):
And I saw this on product ton I thought it
was pretty cool. You know, they say their security is
pretty hip. But if you need to send a file
to someone quickly and easily, but it's called wormhole dot
app and you dragon, oh send up to ten gigabytes.
That's pretty good. So if you need to send like
a big video file to someone or you know whatever,

(57:36):
a big file you get a presentation, you need to
share it with someone, you drag and drop it onto
this website Wormhole dot app. It creates a link. It's
end to end encrypted, which is really good for security,
and the link expires in twenty four hours, which is
really quick. But you know, if you're just sharing something
with someone and time is of the essence, this is
a really quick and fast and easy way to do it.

(57:57):
There's another website called Firefi Send, which I recommended, but
that's shut down and this seems to be a pretty
good alternative to that. Ope, you know what that sound means.
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