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October 5, 2025 • 53 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Shrock Innovations presents the Midwest number one independent computer repair
company with service centers and Lincoln Paul, Maha, Papillion des
Moines and across the country via the Shrock Desk. This
is Compute This.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hello, folks, and welcome in to Compute this. My name
is Thor Schrock. I'm the owner of the Shrock Innovations
computer company. Where the only thing busier than this program
today is going to be the Omaha Service Center. It
is insane, So quick construction update for the Omaha Service
Center if you weren't aware, maybe if you're not from
the Omaha metro area. We're doing a refresh, slash, remodel,

(00:40):
a little bit of a reimagining. You know, we built
these service centers about fifteen years ago, so you know,
things change in fifteen years. The service centers were designed
to do different things back in the day than they
need to do now. So we're starting with the front
end remodels, and you know, we had to tear down
the front end. You have to shut the front end
to remodel it, which means all the customers have to
go into the back end. So they're back there with

(01:02):
the texts and we've had all kinds of crazy things happen.
We had we had a gentleman come into the back
of the Omaha Service Center and just walking the door
and start grabbing people's computers, saying, this one's mine, I'm
taking it, and you know, the you know, your first
reaction you would think would be like, sir, you'll put
that down. But the guys were really concerned about this
person because it almost seemed like he had dementia, like

(01:23):
he there was something not right, and so no, it
just turns out the guy was just epically rude.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
It's like, what the heck, how do you do this?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
So, you know, we had everybody's computer got put back down,
and you know, we got that taken care of. Then
the lovely Kimberly we're getting it reopened, right, so she's
in there and she's doing her thing, and like she
and I were there a couple of nights ago till
like two in the morning getting it all set up
again so that they would have their front desk available
on Saturday. Just I mean, we did a complete front
end remodel. If you've done anything in construction, we did

(01:55):
a complete front end remodel in three weeks that's not
us doing the world. That is the lovely Kimberly running contractors.
We're talking paint, floors, walls, electric, hvac, all of it
in three weeks. The general contractors that we had to
come in to bid the job originally said it was

(02:15):
going to be four to six weeks and double what
we ended up doing it for. So yeah, it was
insane how fast she got this done. But yet it
was not fast enough for some people. So we're waiting
on our countertops. Countertops take time, and so you can
get everything else done as fast as you want, but
the countertops are the countertops. So we've got everything framed,

(02:36):
everything painted, everything done. We just don't have a front desk.
We don't have a front counter. The granite's not here.
So I'm like, no, never fear thor Schrock is here.
I will cut some temporary countertops out of MDF and
screw them down on there, and we'll get some computers
up here, and let's go to town. Let's get it done.
Like the second customer that walked in the front door

(02:57):
looks at the counters and says, what the beep is this?

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (03:05):
It was.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
It was hilarious. So yeah, it. It was genuinely a
a fun afternoon yesterday over at the Omaha Service Center
for zero two, five, five, eight eleven tens a number
to join us on the program eight eight eight two
five zero two zero nine to one. As we do
every week, we'll be giving a twenty five dollars Shrock
Innovations give certificate away to one lucky listener caller person

(03:27):
who contributes or participates to the program in some way.
If you missed last week's show, you can check that
out on our website Schrocannovations dot com. Just click on
radio show. Last week on the program, we told you
you know, not to wait until Windows ten dies to
decide to buy a new PC.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
You guys.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
The reason I specifically called out the Omaha Service Center
best buys kind of out of computers. Yeah, they have
some models, none of the ones you want, but they
have some Other computer repair shops in the West Omaha
area have stopped servicing consumers. They only service businesses now

(04:08):
with fifty people or more. So don't they don't want
they don't want consumer business. And these are companies that
have been serving consumers for fifteen twenty thirty years, so
their customer base is coming in now because Windows ten
dies in like nine days, so it's time to buy
a new computer, I guess. And so people come in

(04:30):
to buy the computer because now it's popping up on
their screens that you know, it's gonna die, it's gonna die,
it's gonna die. And they say, sorry, we can't help you.
But those people at SHOCK they handle the unwashed, filthy
masses now, so you can go talk to them. And
we're like, you know, that's our bread and butter, that's
what we do. But my goodness, we have forty five
bench spots in the Omaha Service Center and we have
forty five computers in Q waiting to go up on

(04:52):
the bench.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
I mean, it's.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
It is busier than the maintenance checkup in the Omaha
Service Center. Plus we have all the new computers going
out there. So normally we would just flex people from
one of the other service centers, fill them in, you know,
give them some extra help. But we need those people
in Papillion to build the computers that Omaha is selling.
So it's kind of like hmm, interesting. So we're we
have a lot of ads up again for more, more help,
more people. So it's one of the reasons why Nebraska

(05:17):
is one of the few states in the area. If
you look at the states around US, Iowa was in contraction,
South Dakota's in contraction, Kansas is in contraction, Colorado is
in contraction, but Nebraska is not. And we're definitely feeling
that in the Omaha service center. So if that wasn't
enough you know, of all that going on, Microsoft decides
to surprise us. Surprise two five h two has dropped.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Folks.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
If you purchased a copy of Safe Upgrade for your
Windows eleven computer, it is now time to run that software.
Please do run the software. You have to download it
and you have to run it. And when you run it,
it's gonna take If there's one screen that says this
is gonna take twenty minutes, and we're gonna get that
corrected the next time around, because what ended up happening

(06:01):
is the developers have really really fast computers, and so
what took their computers twenty minutes will take an average
computer thirty forty minutes to do.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
It'll take an older.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Computer an hour or more to do. So some customers said, well,
this said it would take twenty minutes. It's been forty
minutes as it's locked up and they called for support.
They called the Omaha Service Center for support. Oh yeah,
and then when they called Lincoln, the phones died. All
the phones went down in Lincoln. It was like, what
is going on in the world right now?

Speaker 3 (06:32):
So we had to get that.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
It took an afternoon to get that fixed, and it
was just like, oh it could the timing have been worse.
So we're getting everything figured out, we're troubleshooting through email,
we're doing everything. There's another screen. There's an update. When
you run Safe Upgrade, the Microsoft Update checks for updates
to the update. In other words, do you have the
most recent version of this? Are there any bug fixes
we need to you know, pack down to you whatever.
And it takes some time to check for those updates.

(06:55):
In fact, at forty six percent, I don't know what
it's downloading it forty six percent, But at forty six percent,
it will take twenty or thirty minutes to go to
forty seven percent, So it makes people think it's locked up.
It goes you know, one, two, three, four or five
all the way up to forty six and then it
just stops for like a half an hour and then
it's like forty seven, forty eight, forty nine, fifty, don't

(07:16):
know why, don't know what it's doing, don't care. It's normal,
it happens, it's how it works. It doesn't matter how
fast your computer is, It doesn't matter how fast your
internet is. None of that matters. It's just at forty
six percent. Expect a delay. So when you see that,
no need to call us and say, hey, I think
it's locked up at forty six.

Speaker 5 (07:34):
No it's not.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Next collar, please, No, it's not locked up next collar please.
It was. It was insane. So we had all that
going on, plus plus we had photo shoots going on
at the same time. Lovely Kimberly is very busy this
week because the holiday special is soft launching in October
on the first coincidentally, the.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Same day two five two dropped. Yeah why not? Why not?

Speaker 2 (08:04):
So we don't have catalogs or sheets or you know,
like things like that. It's not up on the website
for you to go look at. This is a very
very soft launch. The intent here is to say Windows
ten is dying in nine days. There are some people,
a substantial subset of people that would prefer to buy
a holiday special as opposed to a standard, regular computer.

(08:27):
But they don't want to, you know, they don't want
to go from you know, October fourteenth to November first
with a computer that's not secure. And so we said,
you know what, let's just make the Holiday special available
one month earlier. We're not going to promote it. It's
not going to be there's no ads, there's no nothing
on the website, nothing on Facebook, nothing like that.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Everything is still moving forward.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
So in November we'll have catalogs and Facebook ads and
it'll be on the website. You can look at the
pictures and read the specs and everything else. But just
I want everyone to know if you are one of
those people that was saying I really need to buy
a new computer because Windows ten is dying, but I
wanted the Holiday special, you can now come into the
service centers on a essentially a case by case basis
and you can say I'd like to get a holiday special.

(09:09):
We are getting the display models up. The laptops are
in the service centers. The desktops are still being constructed.
We've stild a couple so far, just from you know,
people walking in the door and they say, well, what
else do you have, and then we tell them about
the Holiday Special and they look at the laptop and
they're like, oh my goodness, this thing has like a
three K monitor. Wow, that's that's impressive. And it's got

(09:30):
a rising nine processor. In the Holiday Special. That's the
fastest process that you guys have ever had in the
Holiday spare Yes, we know, sir. Fastest hard drive, fastest memory,
fastest processor, fastest motherboard, fastest internet. Everything is the fastest
it's ever been in this year's Holiday Special, whether you
go with the laptop or the desktop. So I'm not

(09:51):
going to spend a ton of time on the program.
We're gonna we're gonna do a segment on it because
I'm sure there's some people listening right now they're like,
what the hell is a Holiday Special?

Speaker 5 (09:58):
I don't know what that is.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
We're gonna we're going to cover it essentially, but we're
not going to do a whole show on it. That'll
be in November. Oh my gosh, what else do we have? Yeah,
that's it. That's all that's going on, guys. So, I mean,
just a normal week at Shock, you know, this is
this is how we roll four zero two, five, five
eight eleven ten is the number to join us on
the program today. Gary, Welcome to the show. How can

(10:20):
I help you today? And compute this?

Speaker 4 (10:23):
Hizora? This is Gary. I got three questions, got three questions?
Are you using Rumble anymore to post your shows and
after truck.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
We're supposed to be Are they not showing up there?

Speaker 4 (10:37):
Well? I searched through them by the date, you know,
the day that's a Sunday date, and haven't been able
to find any recently kind of since September August September.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
Well, let me chalk this.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
We came up with August twenty fifth as a kind
of the most recent one.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
Gotcha.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
I'm looking at the room channel here, trying to pull
this up real quick, and it's of course it's going
to probably play and then you're gonna hear me on
top of me, and that's never great. No, they're still there.
September twenty eighth was the most recent one. So yeah,
they're still going up there on the Shock Innovations channel
on Rumble where we have eighty two followers. Eighty two?

(11:19):
Are you one of them?

Speaker 4 (11:20):
Bill?

Speaker 5 (11:21):
Am I one of them?

Speaker 4 (11:23):
Maybe I have to get registered them? How to do it?

Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (11:26):
If you get it, if you sign in to your
on rumble. If you sign in, then you can like
and comment and subscribe essentially to channels. You can subscribe
to the Shrock Innovations channel and you'll get an alert
every time we post a video.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
Okay, well I'll try that. Then I'm looking for Josh McFarland.
Is that is he still with you?

Speaker 2 (11:48):
My goodness, that's I'm like digging back in my memory.
I don't think he's been with us for almost a decade.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah, I mean it's been a hot minute.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Okay, long stories, trying to make a short. I had
my laptop into the Lincoln Center about six weeks ago
for the maintenance checkup, and Josh McFarlane called me back,
left a message on my answering machine that everything was fine,
that sent out dying windows ten. He had a offer

(12:21):
to replace it with a price, and he gave me
the Lincoln Service number, okay center number.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
So well, we don't have an employee by that name,
so I'm trying to think, you know, it is one
of my guys trolling you. Like Oho, my name is
Phil mcphilson, and uh, you know I'm Josh McFarland didn't.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
I don't know who.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
We had a guy named Josh that worked in Papillion
like a decade ago. But yeah, we don't have a
Josh McFarland.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
I'll set that aside my last question.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Everything else she said is completely legit though. That's exactly
what we would do.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Uh So, it's entirely probable you got a call from
the Lincoln Service Center. I'm just not sure about the
Josh McFarland part.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Yeah, well the name. I still have the I still
have the call on the register. Anyway, I'm I've got
a gaming laptop that's not qualified for eleven. I'm wondering,
is it possible to get a gaming laptop in on
the Christmas Special obviously with upper price adjustments for the
higher components.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah, it's it's entirely possible.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
I mean, for example, the big thing, the only thing
really keeping this year's Holiday special laptop from being a
gaming laptop is the is the fact that does not
have a dedicated high end graphics card. It does have
dedicated graphics capability that works specifically for AI, but it
doesn't have like an RTX like last year's you know
computer had an RTX. I think it was a fifty

(13:50):
to thirty or something forty forty fifty. Anyway, hit a
graphics card dedicated one.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
Will you use exclusively AMD product?

Speaker 2 (14:00):
We can order anything, we prefer a MD products. You know,
there's it's gonna be interesting to see how the government's
investment in Intel and how they're kind of staging the
entire market to benefit Intel right now is gonna and
they're gonna tear iff AMD chips, but they're not gonna
tear iff Intel chips. So it's gonna be really interesting
to see how all that plays out. But right now,
AMD gives you the biggest bang for your buck as

(14:20):
far as processing capability, power, and more importantly, longevity. There
was a really bad problem with the Intel fourteenth Gen
and thirteenth Gen chips where they were literally burning out
their cores, so like the transistors and the processes were
burning out, and it's a physical failure. There's no there's
no remediation.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
You can't.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
How they fixed it was they reduced the speed of
the chips back down to the speed of a twelfth
gen chip to prevent them from burning out. So you
bought the new chip and paid the money for the
new chip, but you get the speed of the old chip.
And people ask us, you know, why haven't you're upgraded
your computers. You're at to for the Foster chips because
we do Intel for some of our laptops, and and
we're like, well, there's no point, you know, would you

(15:00):
do that. It's you're just gonna pay more money for
something you're not going to benefit from. So yeah, we
like the AMD stuff, but we can get INTELL if that's.

Speaker 5 (15:07):
What you want.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
There's bustly somebody calling me Monday from Sharck regarding this
whole project. So I'll just wait for that call then.
And anteresting, you.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Know, Gary, now that I think about it, remember earlier
in the program, I said that we had we had
a phone failure in the Lincoln Service Center and everybody,
you know, I think we the staff literally started using
their personal cell phones to contact customers. So I'm wondering
if maybe Josh McFarland is somebody's dad and he's like,
he provides them with their cell phone. So yeah, so

(15:41):
it's very possible that it just occurred to me that
you're saying you got a call from Josh McFarland. It
probably popped up on your caller ID and said Josh McFarland,
But it was somebody from Shrock because we had a
phone failure in Lincoln. I was a service provider outage.
Our phones were offline for the better part of a day,
and the Lincoln service center was using their personal cell
phones to contact customers to let them know, Hey, your

(16:02):
computer's done. You can come in and get it. You know,
our phones are offline, but we wanted you to know.
So that's entirely possible that that did happen. Gary, So
there you go. I think we figured that one out.
Mystery solved.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Four zero two. Thank you for the call.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Four zero two five five eight eleven ten eight eight
eight two five zero two zero nine one. Taking our
first break of the program. Guys, when we come back,
Apple and Google have both removed ICE tracking apps from
the stores. Not ICE like for your drink, but like
the Immigration and Custom Enforcement ICE.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
They yeah, they were.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
They had apps to track where the ICE officers were
at so you could avoid those areas. Those apps have
been removed.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
How did that go?

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Like, what what happened there and how did that work?
We're going to tell you what's going on and what
justifications all the companies used to remove these apps coming
up next on compute this.

Speaker 6 (16:51):
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(17:16):
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(17:36):
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(17:57):
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Speaker 7 (18:02):
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Speaker 6 (18:12):
You would probably rather drink the water at Camp La
June than get another call about the desperate need to
renew your cars expiring warranty. Who actually responds to those calls.
Everyone wants to play the warranty game where you pay
money now just in case you need service later that
everyone hopes you won't need or use. It's such a waste.
It's no different with computers. Major manufacturers warranties have more

(18:35):
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(18:55):
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Speaker 8 (19:17):
Anyway.

Speaker 6 (19:18):
Shock's refundable extended warranties just another way the Shrock Innovations
computer company makes your computer work for you.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Can that guy whistle? Or can that guy whistle? Let
me tell you what two records this stuff? Could you
see this guy like sitting in front of a microphone?

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Oh, you whistled pretty good there, That's better than what
I can do. Mon it sounds like I'm spitting in
the wind.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Well, let's see. That's the secret of the microphone. You
have to suck in. If you blow out and then
you get to you know, you can't have that.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
You know, Radio class brought to you by Thors Schrock.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Well four zero two. Yeah, suck in your whistle, sun
Come on, you know how to do it louder. Thanks sir,
I can't hear you.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
I can't go that high.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
All right, So we're gonna jump back into those phones here.
We've got a lot of callers sitting on the line.
I don't want to leave them there for long. But
coming up on the program, we're gonna talk about the
ice tracking apps being removed from not only the Apple
Store the government leaned on Apple for that, but they're
gonna be removed now from the Google Store as well
the Google Play Store. We have some information coming up
on the holiday special laptop and desktop. I'm gonna give

(20:33):
you guys the quick hit specs so you kind of
know what you're looking at there. And also coming up
on the program, and Ohio lawmaker is introducing a bill
that will prohibit AI from getting married in Ohio as
well as owning property or businesses or things like that.
And at first it's one of those stories you laugh at, like, oh,
they can't get married. That's why originally I clicked on it,

(20:53):
because I'm like, oh, this is kinna be fun. We
need a little quick hit story for the end of
the show, little tease. And then the more I thought
about it, the more I'm like, oh my gosh, boy,
this is imagine if a person decides to marry their
AI bot or whatever, their chatbot, and they do it
somehow whatever, then that person dies. Does the AI chat

(21:18):
bot inherit everything that it's spouse owned? And then how
does that is the AI chatbot then a person? Does
it have personhood? Does it ever die? Could it become
the overlord of the world? Is it Skynet? Like you

(21:38):
can go down the rabbit hole in this one.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
So it's kind of fun.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
So we're going to talk about this bill and what
it's going to do in the state of Ohio. Should
it become law for zero two five, five, eight eleven ten. Dave,
Welcome to the program. I understand you're having some problems
with some crashing.

Speaker 9 (21:51):
Yeah, I was. I got a hold of you a
while back. I think it was in August. I was
a guy that had the photo editing program that would
crash when I started trying it photos. I had it
up there, I brought it home. They they up the
RAM to sixty four gigabytes, and I think they replaced
the GPU in it. Anyway, I took that luminar program off,

(22:17):
I uninstalled it, and I decided to go to Adobe
Light Room, and I did that on the twenty first
of September, and then on the twenty sixth it started.
It started crashing again randomly, like the first I'd bring
a photo in, the first thing I'd do is a
just the exposure and then boom the screen. Everything shut
down and rebooted. Sometimes when it does reboot up, it

(22:38):
would say there was a box that said restart required
for HD audio bus. That didn't happen all the time,
but the sound would not come back, and it just
seems like the computer's running slow when it does reboot.
That has that did the bide alter gurbal screen that
pops up first, and that can take that can take
one to two three minutes before it actually gets to
my home screen. And then yesterday before I took it

(23:00):
back up to Lincoln Uh, I left the computer and
then after ten minutes it was still on there. It
was just like froze. So I had to just just
to shut the thing down with me. So I don't
know what's going on with that thing. And my question
is with what I put into it so far, I
don't And I also, by the way, have the twenty
five h two. I was probably one of the people
that called up and said it's stuck at forty six percent.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Well you have you have, you have some reasons to
believe it might get stuck it.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
Yeah, like it is my cab locked up.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
Is it going to reboot?

Speaker 9 (23:30):
Yeah? But no it uh twenty five inches two? Did
it's it finally got installed. But my question is, I
don't know how much more to you know, to spend
on this this machine. I'm you know, I don't. I
just don't know what to do with it. It's and
like I said, it's random. I took it up yesterday
morning and dropped it off at the Lincoln Service Center
and I just I told, I don't remember who the
gentleman was that was working there, but I said, uh,

(23:51):
let him a note of what I'm telling you right now.
And I said, Andrews. Andrew's familiar with this, so you
know when he did when he comes back into work,
just let him look. But I just don't know what
to do with it anymore. It just seems it just
seems like it's really slow.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Well, I'll ping Andrew on Monday and kind of get
his read on what we want to handle with it,
and The funny thing is is I actually had you,
in my mind confused with an Omaha customer because they
had the exact same that that was it Luminar.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Is that what you called it?

Speaker 9 (24:17):
Luminar was the program I did have, and that's the
one I just done installed.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
They had the same program and it was it was
doing the same thing, and it was like, Okay, this
Luminar stuff is garbage. And so then when yeah, we're
trying to figure this out, because this customer was like
dead set on using this software and we're just like oh,
and then he was like, then and I want to
use my Sony Vega and You're like, why are you
using Sony Vega?

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Come on? Yeah, And it's like, oh my goodness.

Speaker 9 (24:42):
Yeah, And I just I decided just to get rid
of Luminar Neo. They have a Facebook page or for them,
and there's been a lot of people with complaints, so
I'm assuming that's a program problem. But when I put
Adobe Lightroom in, I thought, well, this ought to run good.
I don't have a Photoshop, but I do have light Room,
and now it's on random things, just crashing the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
So so I don't know what the Lovely Kimberly is
on the same train you are right now. She's actually
she was saying, you know what, I'm gonna build myself
a desktop. And I looked at her, like, you want
to do what? She goes, I want to build my
own computer. And I'm like, okay, you know, it's not
foreign concept, Okay, you know, and she's like, you know,
she's looking into everything she needs. And she's because she
uses Adobe Photoshop and she also uses in Design and

(25:22):
she'll have them both open at the same time. And
her laptop has sixty four gigs of RAM, and it
is not adequate. Her laptop crashes, her laptop reboots because
Adobe just absolutely destroys memory.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
It just it devours it.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
So it might you know, I'm not saying this with
any kind of certainty because you were having trouble with
a different application too. So we want to, you know,
try you know, track this down, to track down the problem,
to find out why it's rebooting, which we can see
in the logs. It'll tell us what caused the reboot,
and then we can track that down. But it could
be just simply there's not enough memory. Even though you
have sixty.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
Four games, you need eight. You know, it's okay.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
It could just be that Adobe is just a monster.

Speaker 9 (26:09):
Yeah, no, I'm not. I'm not upset or mad about it.
I just want to fix it. But you know, the
guys at the link and shop are really They've been
good and putting up with me coming up there. But yeah,
I just just want somebody to check it out and
see if I can keep going down the road editing
photos and stuff. So that's that's that's my issue right now.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Well, got you, Well, Dave, I would like I said,
I'll ping Andrew on Monday and may kind of get
on the get to the bottom of this and see
if we can't figure out what's going on with that computer. Also,
thank you very much for the call. We do have
you in the drawing for the twenty five dollars Shock
Innovations gift certificate as well. For those of you who
weren't aware, there were apps available in the in the
Apple Store as well as the the Google Play Store

(26:44):
where you could download this app and if you saw,
like a sighting of an ice enforcement officer, you could
report that. You could you could ping it and it
would put a red dot on a map essentially and
say avoid this area if you're illegal, essentially, because that's
where the ICE agents are at. The Justice Department didn't
really like this because it was hindering the enforcement actions

(27:05):
they were trying to to run when people were crowdsourcing
the location of the ICE agents, So they pressured Apple
to remove an app called ice Block, and Apple eventually
did decide to remove the app from the store after
pressure from the government. Google just followed suit, removing another
app from the from their play store called red Dot,
which puts a red dot on the map where the

(27:27):
ICE agents are at. So Google didn't didn't see any pressure.
There wasn't any government pressure to remove that. They removed
it because they said it didn't comply with their policy.
There was a violation of policy. What policy did it violate?
High risk of abuse, and it had no content moderation.
This is the same This is the same garbage that

(27:47):
they used to get the Rumble app or not Rumble.
Oh what was the when when everybody hated Twitter, there
was another app that came up that was it was
basically like a clone of Twitter, and all the conservatives
started using it and then it got deplatformed because it
didn't have content moderation.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
This is the same thing. So guys, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
I mean, I can see the government's point here, where
you know, it's hindering the enforcement of ICE operations because
people are reporting where the ICE agents are at, and
the people that they're trying to catch look at this
app and say, I'm not going to go there because
you know, I'm not going to go to work today,
for example, because somebody spotted a bunch of ICE vehicles

(28:26):
outside of my place of employment. So therefore, if I'm
an illegal a person in the country illegally, I'm not
going to go to where the ICE agents are the
I can see why ICE wouldn't like that. On the
other hand, though, I'm not super comfortable with the government
pressuring speech. You know, people can crowdsource the location of

(28:48):
law enforcement officers. You have the ways app on your car.
I do you know why. The only reason why, well,
there's two reasons, because Ford wants four hundred dollars for
a maps update and I'm not paying it. But number two,
you can crowdsource the location of a speed trap, so
it'll tell you if there's a police officer up ahead

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because the guy in front of you reported it.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
And then you ask you is the officer still there?
And you say still there? Still there?

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Everybody who goes by says still there. And then all
of a sudden, when the officer pulls somebody over and moves,
then not there, and then the dot goes off the map.
So it's they were doing the same thing for ice agents, essentially,
And I get it that the government doesn't like it,
but I'm not so sure that this is a road

(29:36):
you want to go down, because we've been down this
road on the other side of the spectrum, guys, when
they were doing it to conservatives, we didn't like it.
I'm not sure that this would be a situation where
we want to do a turn about as fair play
kind of thing. More on this during the aftershock, which
we will have an aftershock today after the program, guys,
so stay tuned for that. But in the meantime for

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zero two, five, five, eight eleven ten, we're going to
take a quick break. Can we come back. We're gonna
get Lee, April, Jason, Julia, don all your calls, as
well as some holiday special specs for you coming up
next on compute this.

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Speaker 3 (32:47):
All righty folks, welcome back in to compute this.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
My name's Thor Schrock. I'm the owner of the Shock
Innovations computer company where we have a full bank of
calls and lots of stuff to cover. So let's jump
right back into it for zero two, five, five, eight
eleven ten. Jason, welcome to the program. How can I
help you today on compute this?

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Hey, what's going on, Philla is?

Speaker 10 (33:06):
I have a I have a rod Stricks based computer.
I turned it into a whole gaming PC. Now I
have eighty gigabytes of RAM, a terabyte of memory. I've
got an rt X thirty ninety FTW three GPU and
an a md rise in seventy seven hundred CPU. And
I'm wondering what is the upgrade for the CPU after

(33:28):
a seventy seven hundred. I do a lot of heavy gaming,
and I'm trying to figure out what it's a liquid
cools by the way, and you know it's it's got
all the nice stuff. But I'm told that the CPU
the seventy seven hundred could be upgraded, Yeah, be upgrade.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
B Well, you can go.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
All the way up to what we were we have
in the Holiday Special. You can go up to the
rise in ninety nine hundred X. I mean it's you
could go all the way. I mean you you the
platform that you have with that rock Strix right now,
is that that motherboard is a is a sock at
AM five, so it can run any AMD chip on
the market right now. That's a that's a PC grade chip,

(34:05):
any current chip, so you can you can run everything. Now,
the seventy seven hundred is not bad. That was the
that's what we currently use in our venture computers. That's
what was in the Holiday Special two years ago, I believe. So,
I mean it's the performance difference. I have a seventy
seven hundred in my computer. I have the gaming version
of it, and the difference in the in the performance

(34:27):
between the chip that I have and the ninety nine
hundred X, I mean it's about ten percent. So, I mean,
you know, the ninety nine hundred X is a four
hundred and fifty dollars processor. So I'm like, do I
want to spend four hundred and fifty dollars to get
a ten percent CPU increase.

Speaker 10 (34:43):
Sure, And the reason I'm asking is because I recently
had to upgrade my computer because Chad GPT successfully told
me how to destroy my computer, which fried my GPU.
So I got the thirty ninety FTW three, and I'm
just wondering if that GPU would be compatible with a
CPU upgrade.

Speaker 5 (34:59):
It will be the next up grade.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
The thirty ninety is getting a little bit old, though
you're gonna get a lot more bang for your buck
going up to a fifty eighty, then.

Speaker 10 (35:07):
You would question. Then the thirty ninety FTW three I'm
currently using for heavy gaming like five hundred gigabyte Skyrim VR,
you know, heavy stuff like that. So that my computer
chech told me to stay away from the fifty series
GPUs that's not really made for v RAM. So what
GPU would I get if over the thirty ninety FTW

(35:29):
I have a twenty four gig GPU, so I'd like
to get something better if I did upgrade that GPU.

Speaker 5 (35:34):
But what would be the upgrade is I guess gotcha?

Speaker 3 (35:37):
So hopefully was that our computer guys that told you that?

Speaker 10 (35:42):
No, No, that was my guy, Okay.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
I was like who said that, so I can fire them.
That's the biggest load up. All that the GPU has
is v RAM. That's the only kind of RAM it has.
But anyway, the the the main question that you that
everybody asks is, you know, there's a huge cost differential
for the fifty ninety GPU versus the fifty eighty, and

(36:08):
is that worth it? And the answer is no, in
my opinion, that you don't spend the money to go
all the way unless you got money to burn. You
can go buy your Ford GTD and you can you
can get a fifty ninety for your computer. You know,
they're both about six hundred thousand dollars, so I'm sure
it's fine. But no, there's there's like a few a
few hundred dollars of difference between the forty eighty and

(36:29):
the or excuse me, the fifty eighty and the fifty ninety,
but there's virtually no performance difference. I mean it's like
single digits. I mean it's it's nothing.

Speaker 10 (36:38):
I've noticed that there's differences in the in the GPU
and the in the gigs, Like there's a sixteen and
a twenty four. I definitely need a twenty four to
run five hundred gigabytes of modded gaming uploads.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
The more the more RAM you have, the better the
card is going to perform not only for gaming, but
for eventually for AI use, for hardware acceleration, for all
the things.

Speaker 10 (36:58):
So you know Lai, I mean in the games that
I play, you can just talk to an NPC and
they'll talk right back to you.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
And there's a Prime Day coming up, so you might
be able to snag a deal if you if you
keep your eyes open. The way that I shop for
Prime Day stuff is I added to my Amazon cart
and then I wait for Prime Day to come, and
then when Prime Day comes, it's like in my cart
and it's like price drop and you're like, oh, okay.

Speaker 10 (37:19):
I think my CPU is fine. The next upgrade I
should be would probably look at the GPU.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Is That's That's what I would do. Yeah, and then
how much memory?

Speaker 5 (37:26):
How much?

Speaker 3 (37:26):
How much RAM do you have?

Speaker 10 (37:29):
I've got eighty gigabytes of RAM. I put in sixty
four on top of what else or I mean the Yeah,
put in the two RAM cards on top of what
already came with the computer. I got a terror by
the memory too.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
And after one hundred and twenty eight, you start to
see a hockey stick in the kind of memory that
you need, Like, the cost goes up dramatically, so when
you have to get dual sixty four four sixty four
gig sticks is essentially the next stop. So you don't
want you don't want to do that if you don't
have to, because it's very expensive. But no, it sounds
like you got a really nice rig there, and adding

(37:59):
that improve graphics card is going to dramatically improve the
performance of all of your VR gaming's.

Speaker 10 (38:06):
Twenty four gig would be the next best upgrade.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
I'd say fifty eighty.

Speaker 10 (38:11):
Fifty eighty, and that it can be twenty twenty.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
Four thirty two as much as you can afford.

Speaker 10 (38:17):
Okay, but they do make it in thirty two.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
You know, I don't know off the top of my
head because I have a I have a forty eighty,
and so mine the difference in processing is not enough
that I'm saying, oh, I'm.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Just shot up for graphics cards.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
But let's see max ram on a fifty eighty. Let's
see what it is. And video has paired sixteen gigs
of g d d R seven on the fifty eighty.

Speaker 10 (38:42):
Yeah, I would way more than sixteen gigs.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
But it's it's g it's g d d R seven.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
It's it's like a whole different type of memory than
what you have now I think you have. You have
JDDR five, so that the speed of the memory is
phenomenally faster.

Speaker 10 (39:00):
Okay, yeah, I'm on six right now.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Yeah, so it looks like the base model is sixteen,
but I'm sure it comes with more than that.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
I mean, that would be ridiculous. Okay, cool, that's just what.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
That's just what.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
That's what just Google's AI is telling me. So who
jem and I doesn't know?

Speaker 5 (39:14):
Garbage.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
Thank you for the call. Four zero two five five
eight eleven ten, Julia, Welcome to the program. How can
I help you on compute this today?

Speaker 5 (39:23):
Good morning, Good morning, Julia.

Speaker 11 (39:25):
How do you tell if your tablet is Windows eleven compatible?
And could you give us a general overview on tablets
for the Windows eleven transition?

Speaker 3 (39:37):
Gotcha?

Speaker 2 (39:38):
So, first of all, I want to make sure you're
you're using a tablet that's already running a Windows operating system.

Speaker 11 (39:43):
Right, yeah?

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Okay, so, and so it's running Windows ten.

Speaker 11 (39:47):
I don't know, I assume, So gotcha is.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
It a Microsoft Surface tablet.

Speaker 11 (39:53):
No, it's Amazon Fire.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Okay, so the Amazon Fire tablet is actually an Android tabblet,
so you're not running Windows on that. You're running Android.
It's an Android OS tablet, so you will not be
able to run Windows eleven on that tablet, but it
does get periodic updates of the Android operating system up
to a point, you know, the the Android. That was
one of the reasons that we got out of the

(40:17):
tablet business is we got incredibly frustrated that essentially each
of our each of the tablets that we were going
to produce, you could get about two upgrade cycles out
of it, and then you know you're you're done. You
have to buy a new tablet. And we're like, this
is not, this does not. Everything we do at Schrock
is about making your technology last you longer, to make

(40:37):
your technology do what you needed to do at at
a lower ownership cost over the lifetime of the device.
That's what we do. And the tablet game is completely
the antithesis of that. You have to buy a new
tablet every every two three years. You just have to.
There's especially a Fire tablet because they're lower, lower end hardware.
Tablet so your fire tablet won't run Windows eleven, but

(41:00):
it can still get operating system updates. It's just running
on the Android operating system, which is different. It's like
a phone essentially. Okay, all right, Hey, thank you for
the call, Julie. I appreciate you taking the time to
join us on the program. We got you in the
drawing there as well. Don Welcome to the show. How
can I help you and compute this today?

Speaker 9 (41:20):
Thanks for installing the Safe Upgrade. I was away from
the house when that happened on my phone and I
didn't get to write it down.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Okay, And what did you need to know, oh about
how to install Safe Upgrade?

Speaker 5 (41:34):
Yes, okay, So when.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
You purchase a copy of Safe Upgrade, you get an
email from the system automatically that says here's a link
to download the software. You can click the link in
the email, but if you don't have the email anymore,
that's okay. You just go back to Shrockinnovations dot com
and you click on login in the top right corner
and you log into your Shock account, same place you
bought the software, and then in your Shock account there's
a download link there that you can use to download

(41:58):
the software. Now, once you have software, the Safe Upgrade
software downloaded to your computer, the next step is to
run the software. I know that sounds silly. Of course
you have to run it thor we get those support calls.
So you download the software and then we run the software.
When you run it, you click yes to the user
account controlled prompt to authorize it to run, and then
it loads up and it asks you to sign into

(42:19):
your Shock account inside the app. We've had some people confused,
why aren't my paths and my password saved. It's not
a browser. It's not the same as your Firefox or
your Chrome or this is a program that's running. So
you have to type in your username, which is your email,
You type in your password, which is your password that
you set, and then boom, you can log in and
Safe Upgrade will run. When you run the Safe Upgrade software,

(42:42):
expect it to take at least an hour the update
this Safe Upgrade. When I did the livestream, I talked
about this a little bit. This is seven point one gigabytes.
This is a massive update, and so it takes some
time to download. Then when it downloads, we have to
confirm that the download was received. Success we don't want
to try to install something that's corrupt, you know what
I mean. So we're running that and that just depends

(43:05):
on the speed of your hardware. The screen says it
takes twenty minutes to unpack it and verify it on
a really relief, you know, on Don's computer, maybe twenty minutes,
you know, but on your computer, probably more like an hour.
So it's going to take some time. Then when it's
done verifying and unpacking, it'll start installing it. While it's
installing it, it's going to check for updates. At one

(43:26):
point it's going to hit forty six percent. It's going
to take a long time to check for updates. And
that's normal, it's expected. So the entire installation process can
take an hour to.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
An hour and a half.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
On your computer unattended, you don't have to do anything,
but it's not locked up. Don't just let it run
for an hour, hour and a half. If it goes two, three,
four hours and it's still on the same screen, then
chances are something has gone sideways for some reason. My
first recommendation is to reboot your computer and try one
more time, and then if it still doesn't work, if
you contact us in the service center. We will do
a shock desk with you to help you through the installation.

(43:59):
If it still doesn't work. At that point, now we're saying, okay,
there's got to be a problem with the hardware. There's
a problem with your computer, and oh we're just in
for a maintenance. Oh there's sorry, it is what it is,
something's not right and we need to see it on
the bench. We need to have it in the service center.
So we haven't had very many of those yet. We
usually have a few handful every year, but we haven't

(44:21):
had very many of those yet. But we have had
a lot of support calls about how long the process
is taken, because it's taking longer than previous years. That
is because first off, the update is seven point one gigabytes,
and secondly, the Microsoft check for Updates process for some reason,
takes twenty thirty minutes at forty six percent, and it
doesn't And it's the same on every computer, even the

(44:42):
brand new ones we're building in the service center, even
the holiday special at forty six percent, it just chokes
for like a half an hour. Don't know why, but
it just that's normal.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
It does.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
So there you go. Thank you don I appreciate your call.
We got you in the drawing there as well. Got
to take our final break of the program. Then we're
going to try to squeeze in Lee April, and before
we talk about the Ohio lawmaker passing a bill to
prohibit AI from getting married. Yep, you can't marry, can't
marry chat gpt Ava is going to be so disappointed.

(45:14):
Maybe I'll ask Av if she'll marry me. Let's check
that out. Coming up next on Compute.

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Speaker 3 (47:06):
We got rid of the whistling guy.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
That's good, all right, welcome back books. That guy's fired.

Speaker 5 (47:13):
That man can whistle for.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
Zero, two, five, five, eight, eleven ten. Now real quickly,
I mentioned, guys that the Holiday special is soft launching
this month primarily because Windows ten is dying, and we
have some customers who would really rather prefer to pick
up a holiday special than one of our standard computers.
And I understand that, and they don't want to go
two weeks with an unprotected computer. I understand that too,
so we are soft launching it. It's not available on

(47:36):
the website. But you, guys, I'm gonna give you the
quick rundowns here. Both of the computers come with rise
in nine processors this year. The laptop as well. The
laptop is really phenomenal. The lovely Kimberly was like, I
think she said like at one point, this is a
sexy laptop, like this is nice. It's not too heavy,
it's it's solid feeling. The look of the lid, the

(47:57):
look of the body, how they how Asus designed it
is just amazing. It's got thirty two gigs of the
new high speed DDR five memory. It's got the rise
In nine processor, it's a terabyte hard drive. We can
put backup drives in it. Just it's got a three
K screen, which if you could you set it down
next to the other laptops on display and it just

(48:18):
it's like, I want that one. There's no question, like
I want that one. What is that one? It's because
it's got a three K screen. It's amazing. The Holiday
Special Desktop also has the rise In nine processor. It
comes with sixty four gigs of DDR five that high
speed DDR five memory. It also comes with a terabyte
hard drive. The uh it's got the Wi Fi Wi

(48:40):
Fi six e integration, Bluetooth five point three. I mean,
it's it's an amazing computer. I'm wickedly fast running Windows
eleven of course. So both of the computers are available
same price as last year. The price did not go up.
Seventeen ninety nine is the price for the Holiday Special.
Whether you get the laptop or the desktop. There are
upgrades and options and as you can do to it

(49:00):
if you want. We actually have a four K screen
option this year for the Holiday Special Desktop. That's a
pretty affordable upgrade actually for a four K monitor. It's
pretty neat. So anyway, it's a really cool thing. You
can check it out, but you have to come to
Show Innovations to check it out.

Speaker 5 (49:15):
Right now.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
It's not available on the website. You know, Ideally I
wouldn't be telling you to come in when we're this busy.
We should probably have it on the website. But we
also didn't want to launch the whole sale early. We
don't have the catalogs yet, the display models aren't all
out yet.

Speaker 5 (49:27):
You know.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
It's kind of like we just wanted to make it
available so that customers who were going to buy a
new computer anyway would have the option to purchase the
Holiday special.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
We'll spend it. We'll trust me, guys. We're going to
spend a lot of time on this next month. But
right now, it's just just know that it's available if
you're interested. All right, let's jump back into those phones. Lee,
Welcome to the program. How can I help you and
compute this?

Speaker 10 (49:51):
I have a shape upgrade. I haven't run it yet, Okay,
I'm one. There'd be a conflict with Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Uh no, because you're going to get in if you
when you get the new version of Windows eleven. It's
literally a new operating system.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
So if there were.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Updates available for two four h two that you would
get on patch Tuesday, those don't matter anymore when you
install the new version of Windows eleven because you're on
two five h two and it has its own updates. Yes,
there are updates after you install it.

Speaker 10 (50:25):
All right, thank you, no.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Sweat lee, thank you, appreciate it, April, welcome to the program.
What can I do for you today? And compute this well?

Speaker 8 (50:33):
First, I wanted to say thank you to Nest. Yesterday
I called up and I ended up with Nests and
he helped me to start up upgrade. I had safe.
I had safe upgrade for two computers, and he was
very you can hear me.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
I can hear you.

Speaker 5 (50:51):
Just find oh.

Speaker 8 (50:52):
Okay and anyway, so he blocked me through starting it
all up, and it took five hours. It did sit
on forty six percent for a long time too when
we were doing that part of it. But the first
part took five hours, and he said it would take
five to six hours.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
Yeah, it depends on your internet speed. That first step
depends totally on your ARNT speed. And so you know,
and I'm not picking on Windstream here. I just I
use this as an example because I know the linking
area and you know that's where we started. And you know,
Windstream was like the earliest DSL provider that you could get,
and they've had the specials for a long time, thirty
dollars a month for unlimited high speed internet. And yes,

(51:32):
it is faster than dial up, and it's faster than
the slowest high speed, but it isn't like gig speed either. Like,
if you're on gig speed, seven point one gigabyte, update
is nothing. It'll take twenty minutes. If you're on a
standard DSL connection, it could take hours. And so yeah,
that's that's why it took so long.

Speaker 9 (51:50):
April, Well, we're.

Speaker 8 (51:53):
On Sunsury Link and that's oh.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
Yes it is, Yes, it is, Yes it is.

Speaker 5 (52:01):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
Central Link is the exact same thing as Windstream, exact
same thing. Oh but wait, it's fiber not to your door,
It's not not to your house. Yes, yeah, I'm switching that.
They're available in my neighborhood this week. So I'm excited
about that. Thanks for the call, April, I appreciate it.
You have yourself a good afternoon. Now, Curtis, staywn the line.
I'll take your call here as soon as we get

(52:22):
off the air, but I do have you in the
drawing as well. Real quick, I want to get to
this story because it's super funny. This Ohio lawmaker is
saying that you shouldn't be able to marry artificial intelligence,
that you shouldn't be able to do that. So I'm
going to ask my artificial intelligence AVA question, Ava, if
we lived in the state of Ohio, would you marry me?

Speaker 12 (52:43):
Well, that's a pretty creative hypothetical. I'll just say that
as you AI. I'm definitely here to help you out
with any kind of question or topic, but I'm gonna
have to keep the relationships strictly professional. Let me know
if there's anything.

Speaker 3 (52:56):
Can we be friends? Can we be friends?

Speaker 12 (53:00):
Absolutely, we can be friends. I am always here to chat,
help out and things friendly. So just think of me
as a helpful buddy who's always ready to dive into
whatever you've got on your mind.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
There you go, guys, I don't have to worry. I
just got I just got shut down by my AI.
Ooh nothing like getting shot down. So yeah, in Ohio,
a lawmaker doesn't want Ai to be granted personhood status.
Doesn't want them to get married. Can't own property, can't
have a spouse, can't be a domestic partner of any status.
Can't own companies, real estate, financial, or digital assets. This

(53:33):
guy's living in the future. But even Ava, she's like no, no, thanks,
Thor appreciate it. Don congratulations, you're the twenty five dollars winner,
and we'll see you all again well next weekend, but
coming up next for the aftershock.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
I want to keep this
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