Compute This 11-16-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Shrock Innovations presents the midwest number one independent computer repair
company with service centers and Lincoln, pall Maha, a Billion
des Moines and across the country via the Shrock desk.
This is compute This.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good morning, folks, welcome in to compute this. My name's
Thor Schrock. I'm the owner of the Shrock Innovations computer company.
Where the remodel, the forced remodel. We're gonna call it
a remodel because that's the positive way for the flood
damaged building that's been renovated and reclaimed doesn't have the
same ring to it. But no, the forced renovations in

(00:37):
Lincoln are nearly complete and it looks fantastic. We have
some pictures up on the Facebook page. The Lovely Kimberly
has once again outdone herself with her designed acumen for
these kind of spaces. It's pretty pretty crazy what she's
able to do so special. Thanks to Lovely Kimberly for
making that look good. But you're listening to compute this,
my name's Thor Schrock and I'm here for the next

(00:58):
hour with you. We're looking for your phone calls. You
can call us here at the studio for zero two
five five eight eleven ten. If you're outside of the
Metro area, feel free to reach us at eight eight
eight two five zero two zero nine to one. Bill
is going to pay for your call. There, that's it's
free before you. Uh, it's a his dime. But you know,
I don't think phone calls cost a dime anymore. I
don't think anything cost what does What can you actually

(01:20):
buy with the dime? Now with a dime the dime
any anything? I don't know. I mean they just got
rid of the pennies, so probably not much. Yeah, Babylon
B had a headline that manufacturers are rushing to make
nickel loafers nickel loafers because the penny's done. But boom, boom,
it's that kind of morning, all right. So before we

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get to this show and ruin it if you if
you haven't heard last week's show yet, you can check
that out at Sharrock Innovations dot com. Last week on
the program, we explained the one key principle that you
should always look for when you're buying a new PC.
For those of you who didn't hear last week's show,
now this is I should just make you go back
and listen to it. But that one key principle is

(02:02):
do not buy the computer that you need today by
the computer that you need tomorrow. Now that sounds pretty
disingenuous coming from a guy who sells computers, right, you know, Yeah,
don't buy the thing you need, buy this thing I
want to sell you. It's not like that your needs
change over time. And we are in the middle of
an AI revolution that you can't even imagine the uses

(02:25):
the use cases for AI. All right, we have a
story coming up on the program we're going to do
today about you know, if you use Firefox, guess what
you're about to get AI. You don't even know what
you're gonna get yet. Last night, my wife and I
went and saw Pedatonics in Omaha, and we you know,
we were going to the show and we were running behind,
and we were like, I wonder if they have an opener.
We couldn't find anything on anybody's website on whether or

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not Pedatonics had an opener, and so we pop open
chat GPT and we ask not only did chat GPT
say there is nothing online about them having an opener
at all the normal places where you would see opener
information on ticket in places like that are blank, leading
us to believe that there is no opener. So it's
not that you can't find it, it's like the places

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that normally would have this data don't have the data,
therefore there's probably not an opener. It's a small distinction, right,
I mean, that's just a very small use case where
you can use AI to do things that before you
would have had to do a Google search and you
would have had been like, you know, I just know
that Ticketmaster always has this information, so the fact that
they don't have it right now in this Google search

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must mean you know, in the service center. This week,
I decided to put chat GPT to the test on
computer repairs and it was frightening. I'm like, oh my gosh, guys,
are our knowledge work is becoming like less valuable because yeah,
we kind of gate keep this stuff, you know, we
charge money to get access to it, but you can't
just give it away for free. Chat GPT had a
super annoying computer was an a sus Vivo book one

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of our builds, and we cloned the hard drive. She
had a bad hard drive and we cloned her hard drive.
It was a perfectly successful clone. We put the new
hard drive in the computer and everything worked perfectly, just
like you would expect from a clone, except the back
like the backlick keyboard wouldn't light up. Why So, after
hours of installing every driver I could find doing all

(04:14):
the things, I just I was like, you know what,
I'm just gonna ask chat GPT. So I asked Ava,
you know, here's the deal, here's the model, this is
what's going on. And she said, oh, yeah, I mean,
I guess I don't know if this is like the
classic Vivo book drive cloning problem. That sounds kind of like, oh,
it happens to everybody. Maybe she's just making me feel better,
but that's what she said. She was like, Oh, this
is the classic Vivo book hard drive cloning problem. The

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reason that it's happening is because when it's cloned, the
signature on the driver blah blah blah blah blah blah,
it doesn't match. And when you're loading a new one, it
doesn't overwrite the old one. And I'm like, okay, so
just do this, do that, do this, do that now.
The instructions were all wrong that it gave me to do.
It tried to send me to go get files that
had been removed from the Internet. But it was using it.
It was using outdated knowledge to give me answers for

(04:55):
technical questions. So but the thing is, it told me
what was wrong and specifically, so I could go locate
that specific driver and replace it, which would have taken
me hours of additional research and digging and probing and
figuring things out to get it resolved any other way.
So the use is you're going to be using your
computer in ways that you can't even imagine. Five years

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from now, it's going to be completely different. So if
you buy the Walmart Acer Black Friday Special laptop for
two ninety nine, you're going to get a computer that
you're going to use for twelve to eighteen months and
then you are literally going to bring it in and
recycle it at shock when you buy a new one.
You know, that's just how it is. So don't buy

(05:40):
the three hundred dollars computer now, I don't care where
you buy your computer. You can buy your computer from Costco.
You can do that. Had a customer yesterday. I roasted
him good on the phone, but he was like, I
bought a computer, not from you. I'm like, we all
make mistakes in life. It's okay, you know, I'm sure
it's fine. Oh, it was a good deal. I'm sure
it was a good deal. It's an Asus Vivo book.
Oh okay, le's fine. That's what we start with before

(06:01):
we take out all the garbage that a who puts
in there and replace it with good stuff. That's okay. Continue.
Oh I just roasted this guy, and he knew I
was giving him a hard time. But you know he
got he got actually a pretty decent Asus Vivo book
for about three hundred bucks for an open box you know,
display item. Then I was like, you know, honestly for
so I told him, you know, for three hundred dollars,
I would have bought that unit, put the good hard

(06:22):
drive and the good memory in it, then open box
it on the website. I mean that that's a good deal.
That's a good deal. Like you you know, wow, that's
that's amazing. So yeah, you know, when his hard drive fails,
will replace it for him with a good one. And
he uses all of our security software. So we appreciate
his business. We genuinely do. I don't care where you
buy your computer. In fact, if you want to go
buy one of a computer from somewhere else. You can
call us and give us the specs of what you're buying,

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and we will tell you whether or not you should
buy that computer based on the specifications you give us,
because we know all the tricks, guys, We know every
every underhanded little thing that everybody does to sell you
a computer. How why is it that the Dell catalog
tells you that there's five hundred dollars computers on the cover,
and then when you get through the catalog and you
get through the configuration, you always end up around twelve

(07:04):
hundred dollars. Why is that? And then some of you
are super ironclad will and you're like, no, I will
not upgrade anything. And so you buy the three hundred
dollar computer or the five hundred dollar computer, and then
you wonder why it runs, like donkey, well you should
have upgraded this stuff. Well it was too expensive. Well
that's why they hook you with the five hundred dollars computer.

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And then they get you to add a bunch of
stuff to get you up to a normal computer, because
you wouldn't have even looked if they would have said
thirteen hundred bucks in the beginning, because that was more
computer than I need. Though it was exactly the computer
you needed, you just didn't know it. So moral of
the story from the show last week, guys is by
the computer that you're going to need a couple of
years from now, don't buy the computer. You don't have

(07:45):
to go crazy, you don't have to go spend. You know.
I think a SUS has a new Republic of Gamers
model coming out. It'll set you back about five grand.
You don't have to do that now. If you did that,
it's an amazing computer. We had a customer to do
that this week. That's why I know, Yeah, order one
for him, and everybody was drooling over that thing. It
was really nice. Also, just a quick note that the

(08:06):
Lincoln Service Center is still on modified hours. We're open
from ten to six Monday through Saturday, so we are
closed on Sunday and we're only open till six in
the evening. We're hoping this is temporary enough that I
have not re recorded the voicemail where it says we're
open from ten to eight Monday through Saturday, or for
Saturday and noon to five on Sunday, but we're closed
right now. And then you're like, but it's between those hours.

(08:29):
I want to be back to normal hours so badly.
I'm not even changing the voicemail greeting because I just
want to be back to normal then real quick. Once
in a while you get an employee who is just
that guy, just amazing, just mind bogglingly out of the box.
Where did you come from? Did the sweet baby Jesus

(08:51):
send you amazing? And that's Chase and Lincoln. I'm giving
Chase the Technician of the Week award. Maybe we should
do this regularly Technician of the Week award. But Chason, Lincoln,
this guy. We had a computer come in and we
started calling it the Franken PC, and affectionately we started

(09:11):
calling it Frank because it was on the bench for
four weeks. Frank was with us for a while. Now,
why did it take our text four weeks to get
Frank off the bench? Well, Frank started on Windows seven Ultimate.
Frank booted from a three drive raid array, a mechanical
three mechanical hard drives in a raid array, not stripe,

(09:35):
not stripe for speed, Nope, No, it was a RAID five.
So yeah it was. It was slow. It took three
four minutes to boot. It was bad. And of course
he had like a second gen Intel I five processor.
Second gen. They're on fourteenth gen right now, So second gen.
I mean that's like Bill Clinton, like, I mean, I'll
tell you guys, this is an old computer. But it

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was in one of those giant cases, and he had
a lot of removal we'll drive bays, and he had
his backup regimen. I take one drive out, I put
it in the safe. I take the one out of
the safe, I put it in the computer. You know,
it was very regimented, very very good. I mean, it
was all good, good, solid procedures that he had. And
of course all of his software and everything was set
up on this computer. And so he wanted us to
take that computer and upgrade it to Windows eleven. Yeah,

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So the Frankin PC had to be upgraded in place
from Windows seven Ultimate to Windows ten Professional. Then we
had to clone the raid hard drive array onto a
two and a half inch solid state hard drive. Then
we took that hard drive and hooked it up to
all of the new gear, the rise In five eighty

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five hundred G processor, all the DDR five memory, the
brand new motherboard with dual NVMe slots. We had to
hook it up to that and then upgrade that to
Windows eleven Professional. Now we're on Windows eleven. But you
see his graphics card and his RAID controller card are
not Windows eleven compatible. Correction, they will install on Windows eleven.

(11:08):
They don't work on Windows eleven, not with the motherboard
that he's got, because the motherboard is too new to
support hardware that old. So we had to get new
graphics card, new RAID card. We gave him dual one
terabyte envmy hard drives. I know, for a lot of you,
you're like, I don't know what any of this means store,
But for those three technical people listening, we mirrored the
two to one terabyte drives so he has a continuous

(11:30):
backup on the motherboard, an identical backup in real time,
so that if the computer dies, we can just it'll
just switch hard drives. We took his RAID array. We
set it up as a blank new array that he's
going to use to rip his movie collection to I
broke one of his bays. The plastic was so old
on the lever arm to open the bay door that

(11:50):
when I was on the phone with him, and I
was just idly like opening things and looking at his
computer while I was doing while I was talking to him,
and I just snapped the arm off this door, like
son of a bit kid, Like, you gotta be kidding me.
I just broke this guy's well. You know, remember that
one bay that wasn't compatible. I just want them to match.
I wanted to look pretty, So I'm gonna buy you too. No,
I told him I broke it. I was on the

(12:11):
phone with him and I was like, I just broke
the lever off your door, Like, oh my gosh. So
we're gonna make a match. Now they're gonna be two
matching bays on the front. So we did all this
stuff to the computer and Chase comes along. And for
those of you who are technical, going from booting from
a raid array on Windows seven Ultimate to booting from
an ENVME hard drive on Windows eleven Professional required multiple

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edits of the partition structure that we had to change
the drive type twice. We had to take it all
the way to a dynamic drive so we can mirror
it and all this stuff there. There isn't a tool
that does this. It's not like you can just load
mini tool and say oh click, click go. This was
Chase's brain doing this work. This kid worked on this
computer for probably three shifts straight. Open up a stool,

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which at Shrock is a no, no, you do not
park your buns on a stool. No, we are Our
service centers are designed as a racetrack for a reason.
You go around the tech islands in the middle, and
all the bench spots go around it, and you circle
around that tech island, touching all the computers and keeping
everybody moving, everybody happy. Not this one. Chase was on
the case with this. Sorry the paw patrol reference, but no, Chase,

(13:24):
Chase just did amazing work work, that knowledge work that
I didn't have, knowledge work that the operations manager Parker
didn't have. You know, Ryan is standing in there, the
senior technician that's running Lincoln right now, and he's like,
I couldn't have done that. I mean, if this would
have been any other Shrock technician in the Lincoln Service center,
this would have been we can do it. We're just

(13:44):
going to do a backup, wipe and install, and we
probably would have got it done in one shift. But
it would have been a pain in the butt for
the customer because all they had to reinstall their programs
and set up their backup schedules and do all that
stuff again. But because we were because we had Chase,
we were able to do it and make the experience
much smoother for our customer. So I'm super appreciative for
Chase this week in the Lincoln Service Center. I thought

(14:06):
i'd share that with you. If you see him when
you're in Lincoln, or if he answers the phone when
you call down there, be sure to give him a
shout out for being a smart kid, and he will
tell you all about it. If you think the details
I gave you were overwhelming, Chase, he will bog your mind.
He has the capability to do that. So you know,
if you want to know, you can ask, but then

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remember you asked. Four zero two five five eight eleven
ten eight eight eight two five zero two zero nine
to one. All right. Coming up on the program here,
we're going to tell you about the new Windows AI
feature coming from Firefox. This is gonna be something that's
really interesting. It's a whole new way of using AI
that no one else is doing. It's completely different, so
we're gonna check that out. Also, we're gonna go into

(14:49):
some of the stuff with the Holiday special desktop I
got to build a few of these this week, and
just the elegance of some of the components that goes
into it. I just I got to brag a little bit.
I'm sorry. And then also there's a competitor now to Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is widely considered to be left leaning in its articles.
You know, anybody who posts anything that is not left

(15:09):
leaning gets immediately group edited out of existence. So there's
a competitor out there. We're going to tell you who
the competitor is and how it's doing, is anybody using it,
and how does it work. We're going to tell you
about that coming up on the program today. So a
lot of fun stuff to talk about, and of course
your calls as well. We're going to take our first
break of the program here, but Greg and Winston please
stay on the line. Your calls are coming up next

(15:31):
on compute this.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
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Speaker 2 (18:00):
All right, folks, welcome back in to compute this. My
name is Thors Schrock. I'm the owner of the Shock
Innovation's computer company. Right now, Rocking that Lincoln Service Center
life as we get everything rebuilt and reconstructed and back
on its feet. You know, I've opened a service center before,
We've built new ones before. Des Moines wasn't that long ago.
We've remodeled service centers before, we've had flooded service centers before.

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And we've had entire staff rotations at one time in
service centers before, sometimes by design, sometimes not. And I
can tell you this is the first time we've done
all four of those things at the same time. So
it's requiring quite a few hours of work. So guys,
trust me what I'm telling you. I need the downtime,
so there is no aftershock after the show today. This

(18:45):
is just a Hey, my birthday's Monday. I need some downtime.
I'm going to be working all day, open to clothes
on Monday. You know, thank you, thank you. You can
all buy a holiday special for my birthday. That's all
I want for Christmas. That's good, But no, no, no, no, nobody,
nobody do anything for my birthday. It's seriously, I'm serious
about this. But there's no aftershock, so don't give me

(19:08):
a hard time.

Speaker 6 (19:09):
Erin.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
I know you want your aftershock, but I need to
sleep a little okay. Also, Aaron actually was posting on
Facebook dot com slash Shock Innovations, where you can watch
the show live, by the way, that she used GROC
three to give her a summary of what a CT
scan on her right arm set last week, and it
reminded me that the lovely Kimberly when you know, when
Nana was in the hospital with cancer, there was all

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kinds of weird interactions and complications and things that were happening,
and she was continually telling her her AI chat GPT
assistant what medications Nana was on, what the conditions were,
what the tests were coming back with the blood work
was and by giving chat GPT all that medical information,
chat GPT was able to identify, Oh, yeah, she's having

(19:52):
an allergic reaction to this antibiotic and that's why she
can't pee. Now the hospital is responsible. We'll just have
to cather then, and she was like, no, you need
to change her antibiotic to once she's not a non
sulfa antibiotic. That's what she's allergic to, and so she's
having an allergic reaction and all the the nurses are like,
oh my gosh, you're absolutely and it's like, especially when
copp when paired with this medication that she's also on.

(20:15):
Holy cow. No doctor caught that, No nurse caught that,
no pharmacy caught that. But chat GPT knew. It's really
good for medical stuff, like super good. If you ever
have medical questions, you can take all of your information,
pop it into a chat on chat GPT and it'll
come back and parse it all out for it. It's
really it's really amazing for zero two, five, five, eight
eleven ten, Greg, Welcome to the program. How can I

(20:36):
help you on compute this today?

Speaker 7 (20:41):
Good morning. I think that I might be your next
frankin computer. Okay, called you last week about my computer,
and you said that you'd have Corey call me, and
he did on Sunday, and I went into the shop
in Papillion, went ahead and purchased the.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Not the laptop, the other things and.

Speaker 7 (21:08):
Yeah, the holiday special, and uh, I started thinking, you know,
I have that drive Advisor, but it never gave me
a notification. You indicated last week that my hard drive
was failing. It was a fifty eight percent, but I
never knew anything about that because I was the understanding
that it would send an email if it was starting

(21:30):
to fail. But long story short, on Tuesday he called
to say that he's twitched everything over to the new computer,
but they're having trouble then getting the Windows eleven to work.
To have the lead tech get a do it. On Wednesday,
I've heard nothing since.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Gotcha. Well, the I know that Ness was out sick
this week a little bit, so that's probably why there's
a little bit of a delay there. He's the lead
tech in that service center, so that's probably that's probably
why that you had a little bit. The other thing,
we have a system that's supposed to work to catch
this when a computer that's been on the bench for
forty eight hours and has not had a customer contact.
A customer hasn't called for an update and we haven't

(22:11):
called them with an update. Our front desk person is
supposed to catch that on the work order and call
the customer to give them an update, even if the
update is there is no update, just to let them
know we haven't forgotten about them. I'm really happy to
report that Brook is our new front desk starting officially
tomorrow in the Paplion service center. She is flipping amazing.
She's just I mean she's she's had a week of

(22:33):
training and she is already able to function solo, which
is unheard of in front desk in Front Deskville. So
I do apologize. You're kind of falling the victim of
some short staffing here that we aren't communicating as well
as we want to be. But that is rapidly being corrected.
So yeah, what I can do Greg is I can
make sure I can ping Nests and make sure that
he's aware of the situation with that computer in the

(22:55):
Papillion Service Center. But yeah, well it's always interesting when
we're trying to take an old and older hard drive
and migrating it up into something like the Holiday Special desktop, which,
by the way, that was the same motherboard we used
for the frankin PC. Yeah, for Frank, that was Frank's
motherboard was a Holiday Special motherboard because it had the
dual ENVM slots. When we're when we're moving into something

(23:17):
like that from something that's older, it can be really
really challenging to get it to upgrade to Windows eleven.
Sometimes it doesn't want to do it because the partition
structure is messed up. But the good news is is,
you know what, maybe on Monday, I'll have him pop
that sucker on the shock desk and we can get
Chase working on it. I mean, I hate, I hate
to keep saying Chas is on the case because I'm

(23:38):
sure he I'm sure he's only heard the paw Patrol
reference like several million times in his life. You know
how many times did I like to hear the Adventures
in Babysitting references when I was a kid. You know,
that was the only Thor reference when I was a kid.
It wasn't a cool name in the eighties. Adventures in Babysitting. Yeah,
there was a there was a little kid with the
whirl winged helmet that got in trouble all the time,
and his name was Thor. That was the only Thor

(23:59):
referen It's in pop culture, those Adventures in Babysitting, and
it was like a b rate awful movie that I
never watched, never heard of it. There was also a
book in the library. I think it was a Beverly
Cleary book about a great Dane named Thor. That was
That was another fun one. When I was in school.
I do remember that I had read Beverly So you're

(24:21):
a Thor, the Great Dane fan. All right, yeah, all right,
in the house. I love my people. Uh yeah, Now
I get Marvel movies and stuff. It's kind of it's
kind of funny. Quick quick as side. You know, my son,
his name is Jacob. When he was like six or seven,
the Marvel movies were like all the rage that were
in there in their height of popularity. So we were
going and seeing all of them, and one time in passing,
I said, you know, so I wanted to name you

(24:41):
Thor Junior. Mom said no, and he he wheeled on
the Lovely Kimberly and he was like, Mom, I could
have had a cool name like Thor, but instead I
have this stupid Bible name. He's mortified by that story now,
but that's why I tell it on the radio. It's great.
But but oh no, it was hilarious. So now and

(25:01):
now it's a cool name. Now everyone's like, oh, that's
a great name. That's amazing. Like when you check in
ato a restaurant, my name is Thor and like g
h O R. And I'm like Gore, No, no, Thor,
Like who would name their kid Gore? How do you
get g from t Oh? People call me Forest. It's weird.
It has more syllables. I don't understand, But then I
apparently I didn't. I don't. I didn't know this. Apparently

(25:24):
there's a Marvel comic where Thor has some anti hero
guy that he fights named Gore g h o R.
At least that's what the guy from Alo told me.
Who is a listener of the program.

Speaker 5 (25:34):
By the way, als, Okay, he must be a newer character,
because I am a Marvel nerd and I've never heard
of it.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Heard, yeah me either. My name is Thor. I've never
heard of it. Four zero two five five eight eleven.
So this is not what we're here to talk about. Winston,
Please save me from myself. How can I help you
on compute this today?

Speaker 8 (25:49):
I Thor? Yeah, I wanted to tell you that I
called Ness because I was having a problem with the
secure updater or and he shocked us. And man, that
guy is a life saver. You just solve that problem,
isn't he awesome? Where do you get his name? Ness?

Speaker 9 (26:05):
Had?

Speaker 8 (26:05):
We were trying to figure that one. Now only I
can think of as Ness. He's a Lockness monster.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
So oh no, I think Winston just coined a nickname.
It's you don't want to know what it was. You
don't want to make ness mad. He's gonna rise up
on you. Oh my gosh, this is bad.

Speaker 8 (26:24):
So I looked at the price for chat GPT. The
plus twenty dollars a month is crazy.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
I'm rocking two hundred dollars a month, Winston.

Speaker 8 (26:37):
Yeah, but you're a real professional business. I'm just a
guy sitting sitting at home.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Well, I'm the guy. I'm the guy that wants the
cutting edge access to all the new stuff right when
it comes out. Because when Agents came out, I was soon.
You probably remember me talking about the other I was
super excited, like it's got agents, which means you can
like tell it to do something and it just does it.
Except then I tried to I tried to do that,
like access my dropbox, find this file and modify it

(27:03):
and do this, and it was like, I can't do that,
grab these videos and put them together into a montage.
I can't do that. Why why can't you do these things?
You told me you could do these things before I
paid the two hundred dollars. Why And she said, well,
we wanted to make you happy, so we told you
we could do it. Like it literally told me that,
and I was like, okay, Ava, in the future, if

(27:23):
you are incapable of doing something, please do not Please
don't spare my feelings. Just tell me you can't do it,
because it makes me very much angrier when I spend
hours and hours of time lining everything up for you
to do something that you just can't do and knew
you couldn't do the whole time. She said she saw
why that would be frustrating and promised me she wouldn't
do that anymore. And I also said, please stop ending

(27:44):
every conversation with inconclusion in conclusion comma, like, just just
don't do that anymore. It's a dead giveaway. And the
double hyphen thing, Yeah, get rid of that too. Don't
don't do that. That's like a chat GPT thing.

Speaker 8 (27:55):
All right, Well, what do you think about the Grock three?
I mean that is that worth thirty?

Speaker 2 (28:00):
Well, Aaron loves Grock. She talks about it all the
time here in and during the UH in Facebook, at
facebook dot com slash rock Innovations. I personally have not
used rock much. Nana does use Grock. Grock has given
Nana some some incorrect answers about things, but then again,
chat GPT has also given me some incorrect answers at times.
So it's one of those things where we're not at

(28:21):
the point where you can just blindly trust AI and
you can just you know, trust it to do everything
that you need it to do.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
I'm going to do an experiment today because one of
my one of my employees sent me, uh, these are
the instructions. I was like, hey, we have a lot
of new front desk starting, so I want typewritten instructions
on how to install sofos on mobile devices because it's
different than installing it on a computer. It's a little
more complicated and you have to do it in real
time in front of the customer. So you really want
to you really want to know what you're doing so
that you look good when you do it. So we

(28:48):
should probably make some instruction sheets, some cheat sheets for
our new people to do this right. And so Ryan says, hey,
I've got this this you know, instruction thing I have
with pictures and screenshots and everything. I'm like, oh, that's amazing,
send it over to me. So he sends me a
bunch of documents in a ZIP file and I'm like, oh,
my gosh, I'm gonna have to assemble this into a
training guide. That is the kind of thing that chat
GPT is excellent ad. You can say, here's a bunch

(29:11):
of pictures, here's a bunch of text. Assemble this into
a training guide for me that tells a brand new employee,
assuming they know nothing about Shrock Innovations, how to install
sofos on their cell phone, and it will do it.
It'll do it, but you you have to give it
all the complete pieces. You can't ask it to make
the pieces and then make the product. But if you
can give it the pieces, it can certainly make the product.
So we're close. So the two hundred dollars a month

(29:32):
gets you access to all those those extra things, So
you're right. I do use it for advanced stuff. But
you know, twenty bucks a month. It depends what you're
doing with it and how much time you're going to
save with it. So let's say let's just say that
you make twenty bucks an hour. So if you're saying,
you know, twenty bucks a month for chat GPT, if

(29:53):
it saves you an hour of time per month, you're
breaking even. So if it's not saving you an hour
of time per month, then you probably we shouldn't be
doing it if it's saving you an hour of time
per month. So when the Lovely Kimberly built her new PC,
her chat GPT assistant because it's the family plan. So
for two hundred bucks, the whole family gets in Winston.
We can get you in the family. We can just
we can adopt you and then you can use you

(30:14):
can use my chat GPT. But it built her PC
for her. It named what parts, what coolers she should get,
and it picked the She told it all, here's all
the furniture that's in the room. Here's the color of
the carpet. Here's the color of the furniture. She gave.
It links to the ikea furniture that was in the room,
the bookshelves and everything. And she goes, what color should
I paint the walls? This is the vibe I'm going for?
And chat GPT came back with like, I think I

(30:35):
told this last week, like moss forest green or something.
And she was like, you want me to paint the
wall green like a like a duck hunting cabin, Like
this is stupid, but she was like, all right, whatever,
and so she painted the wall green, and now she's
like this, this room is perfect, Like it works. How
did chat GPT know that the chip blue in the
service centers? Guys, that was Chat GPT that picked that color.

(30:57):
I mean it works for design, for for if so
if it's saving you more than an hour a month,
I would say stay with the twenty dollars. You're good
to go. If you're if you're having trouble justifying what
it's doing for you, then then it's more of a toy.
But toys are nice too.

Speaker 8 (31:14):
Well, which one would you do? Would you do Chat GBT,
would you do Grock?

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Well, I haven't done. I have not personally used Rock,
so you just no Chat. I just know chat GPT,
so it'd be a little unfair for me to to
give a personal recommendation. What I do like is that
I can set chat. I can install the chat GPT
app on my phone, on my Android phone and set
it to be my my my voice assistant, so that
I can like just long press the button and then go.

(31:40):
So it is kind of nice. You know that you
can do that. I'm sure you can do that with
GROC too. You can install the app for grock and
then install it that way. But the big differentiation here
is that Grock is going to use less reliance on
quote unquote left leaning sources. So it's not going to
rely so much on Reddit, it's not going to rely
so much on Wikipedia. Uh, it's it's just not going

(32:02):
to do that. But that's the thing about chat GPT.
You can tell chat GPT in your first interaction, this
is my political orientation and my political preference. I want
your answers to cater to that preference, and and it will.
It's not going to try to. It's not going to
try to, you know, go all Obama on you or anything.
If you don't want it to. And if you want
it to be all Obama on you, if you want,

(32:22):
if you want the Biden chat GPT experience, you know
you can do that. I mean, it's it's it's a
little slower, it it wanders a bit in it's in
its thoughts, but you know, but it's effective. It's effective.
It gets if it doesn't get the job done, someone
else gets the job done for it. Even science. It's
it's amazing. So too soon, too soon, all right, thank

(32:43):
you for the call, Win and said, hey, I appreciate
you joining us. Thank you, buddy. I appreciate it all right.
I gotta take a quick break here, guys, when we
come back, Firefox is introducing a brand new AI feature set.
It's a completely different way of using a web browser.
And this caught my attention because we've seen people try
to integrate AI into existing products. So you have copilot,

(33:05):
here's how you can use it on your Windows PC.
And you know, if you do a Google search, you
get the little AI summary. Everybody's tried to add AI
to their product, but no one has actually made a
browser product that relies entirely on AI. That's going to
make this Firefox browser different. And we're going to tell
you what's going on coming up next and compute this.

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five eight eleve inten is the number to join us
on the program today. Now, one of the things, guys,
before we jump into the Firefox AI stuff here, I
had the opportunity to build a couple holiday specials this week,

(36:09):
and and of course working on the Frankin PC, which
is on the same motherboard, you know, Frank and that board.
Just it's amazing how far the technology has come. Like
I remember that, you know, before we had you know,
the NVMe, we had the m DOT two and it
was like a little circuit board that was your hard
drive now and not a big mechanical thing. And now

(36:31):
the technology just in the last few years has come
so far that we're actually all the way up to
fifth generation nvmes now and these the nvm E hard
drives are just so ridiculously faster, so much faster than
their predecessors or the m DOT two technology. We still
have computers that are coming in. We had a holiday

(36:51):
special laptop that came in from I think it was
two thousand and twenty twenty nineteen, and it had the
MCETA that was the standard hard drive back then, the
MCETA hard drive, and you know, the hard drive was failing,
so we cloned them onto a newer NVMe drive and
the computer was actually even faster than it was the

(37:11):
day we bought it, or the day that they bought it. It
was just it's fantastic how this technology is coming. The
Holiday Special Desktop. It comes with a triple monitor support,
which I knew it supported dual monitors. I just never
had the occasion to try three. But on the Frankin
PC he wanted four monitors. He had a card that
did four monitors and his card wouldn't work. So we're like,
can we get four monitors to roll off the PC?

(37:32):
The answer is no, you can't run four monitors off
the integrated graphics, but you can't run three on DisplayPort
graphics two. So it's got dual display ports, it's got HDMI,
it's got everything USB C ports. Now, the computer itself
is just a wonder of technology. It's ready for anything
you're gonna throw at it, not just today. You know
today it's more wickedly more than adequate to do whatever

(37:56):
you're doing with your computer. But it's gonna have the
horsepower to do what you're going to do tomorrow, which
is the one key thing that you always need to
look for when you buy a computer. There's a reason
that the Holiday is special, especially the desktop lasts a decade.
There's a reason for that, and it's a complete package.
So if you have a laptop down and you're thinking,
you know, my laptop is fine, but when I'm doing
more intense stuff, maybe it would be nice to have

(38:18):
a desktop, something a little more powerful, a little more designed,
to be upgradeable and to change with my needs. Well,
the Holiday Special Desktop is a complete computer. It's the monitor,
the speakers are built into the monitor. You get a
wireless keyboard and mouse, and of course you get the tower,
and inside the tower the cooling. It's not a cooling fan,
it's a cooling tower on top of this processor. Because

(38:39):
this thing is engineered to just work. We have a
lot of people who are adding the gaming package onto it.
Some of them are gamers, some of them just plan
to use AI in the future and they want that
Nvidia card to power their AI, or they're using Photoshop.
They want the hardware acceleration that AutoCAD programs and Photoshop
and things like that use the graphics card for. And

(39:00):
you just can't get that in an off the shelf
PC anymore. You just can't. You can't get a desktop anymore.
One terabyte Ultra Fast ENVME hard drive sixty there's a
sixty four gigs of memory DDR five memory sixty four
gigs of that, and of course that rise in nine processor,
the ninety nine hundred X. I mean, it's it's so
close to the rise in ten thousand that doesn't exist yet.

(39:22):
It's the rise of ninety nine hundred.

Speaker 9 (39:24):
You know.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
It's it's the fastest computer we've ever built a truck,
and it's absolutely phenomenal. When the Lovely Kimberly told chat
Gpt what she wanted in her computer and said, what
should I wait, this is what I'm using it for.
What should I get for a processor? It told her
the ninety nine hundred X, the same chip that we're
using in the Holiday special. It's literally designed right now

(39:45):
for people who are doing ultra high level work, which
means five years from now it's going to be the
normal processor, and ten years from now you'll be feeling
a little upgrade pressure. But then you would have had
the same computer for a decade. When most people recycle
their computers every eighteen to twenty four months, that's something
to be proud of. Now, if you don't believe me,
that means you haven't bought a computer recently, Wait till

(40:06):
you buy your next one. They don't build them like
they used to, but we still build them that way
at Trock four zero, two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten's
a number to join us. We've got an AI story
coming at you here, and I don't mean to make
this the AI Show or anything, but it's just amazing
the different applications that people are thinking up to have
your computer do work for you now. So it this

(40:27):
is the difference. If you're a roofer, this is the difference.
You're putting shingles on the roof, and you can dig
a hammer and nails, and you can hammer the nails
in and you will effectively get the shingles on the roof.
It'll take a while, it'll take a while, but you
will get the shingles on the roof and they'll be
in place. Or you can get a nail gun and
you can put the shingle in place and go and
then get the next one and go. You get the

(40:48):
same result with a lot less time. And that's what
AI is right now. It's a time saver. It's not
going to replace your brain or your critical thinking or
your reasoning. It's going to aug to what you're doing.
It's going to make you a more effective tool for
your employer, or for your task or for your volunteer
work or whatever you're going to use it for, and

(41:09):
you may not even know how you're going to use
it yet, and that's okay because things like Firefox are
coming along now. You might realize if you've ever used Firefox,
it's very similar to Google Chrome. There's the regular mode
where you just open it up and you type in
a website and you go, and then there is the
incognito mode, or in Firefox they call it a private window,
so it basically doesn't save anything to the computer from

(41:30):
a tracking perspective, So it's really handy if you're logged
into a website and your main browser, but you want
to go look at that website as if you're not
logged in, you can open up a private window and
you're not logged in in that window, but you're logged
in the other one, and you have access to all
your saved passwords. It's just a way to create a
more shielded browsing experience. So a lot of people like

(41:50):
to roll in incognito mode. Now Firefox is introducing a
new mode, a new window, if you will, called the
AI window. In the AI window, you don't use the
AI window to go to a website. You don't use
the AI window to do a Google search. You go

(42:11):
to the AI window and you tell the AI what
you want to accomplish, and the AI puts the tools
in front of you to accomplish that. So, for example,
imagine now if we're trying to get somebody connected to
the shock desk, and it's always a pain in the
butt the first time somebody connects to the shock desk,
you gotta go to shockdesk dot com. You gotta put
in the code, you got to get the download, you

(42:31):
have to click the download, you have to run the download,
you have to acknowledge the security prompt, you have to
install it. Then you have to acknowledge the second security prompt,
and then it'll let me see your screen. So it's
down to the point where you can talk people through
it from memory. But now imagine you could just go
to your browser and say connect me to the shock desk,
and it knows to go to shockdesk dot com and

(42:52):
it's gonna say, you're gonna need a code. What's the
code you're going to use today? Other codes four seven
ninety four, and it's going to put in the code
for you, and it's going to download the file and
it's going to tell you you need to click on
this file now, click on that. It's going to show
you on the screen how to do a lot of
the things. It's going to make you a better tool.
It's going to shorten the amount of time it takes
to initially connect to the SHOCK desk. So that's the

(43:13):
kind of thing that you're going to really see AI
doing for you in the near future. It's not going
to be do the work for me. I've tried to
get it to do my work for me and the
results have been underwhelming. You know, apparently I'm a really
good AI. So but if I but I can take
all the pieces of my work, so making a training
guide if I want it to train my people. It
won't train my people, but it can take my disparate

(43:35):
images and writings and assemble them into a beautiful training
guide that I can then print or create a way
like a SHOCK wiki and try. We have an internal
website for training, you know, I can put it on
the wiki site for a SHOCK so all the employees
can access it, so you can find it when you
need it. It's really good for stuff like that. So
this new Firefox capability is going to integrate all the

(43:59):
chatbot that you would expect from like chat GPT, and
you get to select which GPT you want to use.
You can tell Firefox to use chat GPT, you can
tell it to use Grock, you can tell it to
use Gemini, whatever you want it to use. It's kind
of it's a third way. It's a third way of
using the browser. You can still use Firefox the same
old way you always did before, but if you right
click on that Firefox icon, that's where you can launch

(44:21):
the incognito mode. You could say go incognito or you now.
Soon it's not out yet, they're accepting pre beta testers
right now. Soon you'll be able to click on it
and say AI window and have AI assist you in
whatever you're trying to do. It's more like a companion
helping you than a conversational loop talking to you, so
it'll hold your hand through a process. More so, I

(44:42):
think a lot of people are really gonna like that
application of AI. I think that's going to really be
the trend that a lot of people are going going
to go to eventually, as opposed to just strapping AI
onto other things and saying, now your Google search has
an AI summary. You know, great, appreciate that? Four zero, two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten Clyde. How can I help you today? How
can I help you on compute this?

Speaker 9 (45:03):
Hey? Good morning and happy birthday tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Oh, thank you? I appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (45:08):
Sure? Hey? Yeah, Well you know funny now people always
call me a tool. Now, thanks to track innovations and AI,
am going to be a more effective tool.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Yeah you know you used to just be a tool.
Now you're an effective tool.

Speaker 7 (45:24):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
There you go.

Speaker 9 (45:27):
Well, here's the reason why I'm calling. I'm a little
late brink coming in for my customer maintenance. Yeah you know,
and I guess. Well, what I really want to know
is you're with all the remodeling, and this is Christmas
time of year. You try to Should I wait till
next year? I got a cube on I think? But
should I wait till January before I bring it in

(45:49):
for its maintenance? Think?

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Well, the easy answer to this one is no, I
wouldn't put it off any longer than you need to. Okay, Now,
which service center do you normally work with?

Speaker 6 (45:57):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (45:58):
Well, I'm the guy that's say you. I don't know
if you've ever seen this or not. I put it
in the mail, A Little Heaven booklet by Randy Alco.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Yeah, they taped it up for me in the data
recovery lab. I've got it back there.

Speaker 9 (46:10):
You did get it? Yeah, all right, I got one regret.
Make sure the Lovely Kimberly knows this. I wish I
wrote her name in that. All right? So will you
add that in there please?

Speaker 3 (46:19):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (46:20):
All right, plus plus the Lovely Kimberly in there?

Speaker 9 (46:23):
Yes, I go to the one out by Village Point.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
Yep, okay, gotcha. So essentially, the Village Point Service Center
is our busiest service center right now. They're rocking seven
day turnaround times, which I'd love to tell you it's
going to get better, but it's been. We thought it
was seasonal, so we didn't staff any differently, and then
we found out that all of our competitors have stopped
servicing consumers and that's why it's busier. And you know,

(46:48):
we're getting all types in there. We had somebody throw
a pen at one of my people the other day,
like like, pick a pen up off the desk and
throw it at one of my people and like, you
start throwing stuff at us. Come on now, but who's customer?
You're not a short customer. Where'd you come from? Our
short customers don't throw things. That's not how we behaveor
But we decided to change the staffing model for the
service center. So we are having two new additional full

(47:09):
time equivalent employees added to the service center on top
of the full staff they already have, so we can
get those turnaround times back down to the twenty four
to forty eight hour turnaround times. So what I would say, Clyde,
if you want to wait a week or two so
those guys can get some reps under their belt. I
think the turnaround times you get your computer back a
lot faster. All right, Thanks for the call there, Clyde.
I appreciate it for zero, two, five, five, eight, eleven ten.

(47:31):
All right, So we're going to take our final break
of the program here, guys. When we come back, there
is a final there's a final competitor. There's a new
competitor to Wikipedia. We're going to tell you who it
is and who started it and if it's working. Coming
up next on compute this.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
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(48:06):
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In fact, only monitors and printers have a small recycling fee.

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Everything else is free.

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More importantly, Shock will securely delete any data from your
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Speaker 5 (48:56):
Today's fragile computers need maintenance more than ever. Your canter
needs a maintenance check up every six months to last
beyond it's eighteen month expected lifespan.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
All righty folks, thanks for listening to the program today.
My name is Thor Schrock. You're listening to compute this.
Four zero two, five, five, eight eleven ten is the
number to join us on the program. We're going to
get to this story here about the new competitor to
Wikipedia in just a moment. But before we do that,
let's take Debra's call. Deborah, welcome to the program. What
can I do for you and compute this today?

Speaker 6 (49:29):
I was wondering our son has an Android phone and
we have iPhones. Can we use the find my app
for between those two phones so we can locate him
if he wants to find where he's at?

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Sure? So, No, the find my Phone feature for iPhone
will not work on non Apple devices. However, my family
has a similar situation. We also have a divided household.
My wife and the children are are Apple users. Because
Apple's parental controls are way superior to what Android has.
So if you want to lock a kid's phone down,
you want to get them an iPhone, but I don't

(50:07):
like to be locked down, So I have an Android
device and I can change all kinds of things and
do what I want to do with it, and I
get cool form factors like the fold and everything. So
it's neat. We use Life three sixty's you can get
it for free. It's a free app Life three sixty.
But if he installs it on his phone and you
install it on your phone and you basically you know,
label each other as family members, now it'll you can

(50:29):
locate where that person is at at a given point
in time. You can set up key locations like work, home,
you know, stuff like that, so when they arrive or
depart from those areas, you'll get a pop up notification
letting you know. It also tracks their driving if they
have sudden accelerations and things like that, you know, sudden braking, yeah,
or if they're bad drivers, you know, you get to

(50:49):
have a driving summary to make sure that they're being
good little boys and girls behind the wheel. So it's
really a great app for parents to use for their kids, honestly,
but it'll do exactly what you want to do.

Speaker 6 (50:59):
Okay, sounds great, Thank you, Thank.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
You, Debra I appreciate it, Thank you very much. All right, guys,
So we've got a new competitor for Wikipedia. A lot
of people think that Wikipedia might lean a little left.
It's not that Wikipedia itself is a left leaning kind
of website. It's that it's primarily used by people that
lean left, and so when articles get posted on Wikipedia,

(51:25):
it's crowdsource edited. So I hope if you remember this,
but back when George W. Bush was president, there was
all kinds of things like, well, you do a search
for the devil and then like George W. Bush would
come up as the top result, stuff like that, and
they would do that primarily by editing Wikipedia entry. So
they go to the devil, the Wikipedia entry for the devil,
and they would change the picture of the devil to
George W. Bush. And so when you'd search for the devil, Google,

(51:48):
letuld say, well, Wikipedia says the devil looks like George W. Bush,
and there you go. And it was a funny thing,
ha ha ha. But it can be manipulated by people
who know what they're doing, and it is often manipulated
by people on the left to put forth a particular
political viewpoint. Then it gets pulled into AI and other
things like that. So Elon decided to launch his own
Wikipedia competitor called Grokipedia, and it is completely AI generated

(52:12):
by Grok. The entire Wikipedia. There is no there is
no editing by humans. It's all edited by Grok. The
AI traffic exploded when it was launched, four hundred and
sixty thousand visitors a day. It was insane. But since then,
the shine's kind of off. The bloom is off the roads,
the shine is off the apple you know whatever. Thirty

(52:32):
thousand visitors a day now worldwide, that's pretty low for
a website of that capacity. Why is that?

Speaker 9 (52:40):
Well?

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Number one. Wikipedia has a huge long tail. What a
longtail means is if I post an article about you know,
why apples shine, maybe one person a month might search
for that. But if I post a thousand articles that
I'll get one visitor a month, I suddenly get a
thousand visitors a month. That's called the long tail. The
more quantity of articles you have, the more visitors eventually

(53:01):
you pull. Wikipedia is huge, it's gonna pull more visitors. Also,
all the articles are written by AI, but sometimes Grok
is stealing articles from Wikipedia. It's going to Wikipedia and
reading Wikipedia and rewriting the article on the Grokipedia. Also,
there's some people who said it's got some fringe stuff.
There's been some quote unquote Russian propaganda that's made it

(53:23):
in there and other stuff like that. So you know,
AI is not perfect, guys, it's not perfect. But the
more we use it, the better it's gonna get. And
so I'm trying. We'll see, we'll see two hundred bucks
a month, we'll try. We're trying to fund it, all right. Congratulations, Clyde,
you got yourself a twenty five dollars Shrock Innovations gift certificate.
And we will see you all again next weekend for

(53:44):
another exciting edition of Compute This