Compute This 2-23-2025

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good morning, folks, and welcome in to Compute This. My
name's Thor Schrock. I'm the owner of the Shrock Innovations
computer company. We got some numbers for you this morning.
We are live and local for you to call into
the program with questions, comments, anything that is going on
with your computer, anything in the technology world you have
questions about, We'll do our best to answer it for
you here four zero two five five eight eleven ten.

(00:37):
If you're outside of the metro area, you can call
the program at eight eight eight two five zero two
zero nine to one. Now, one of the things that
I don't know. I come in here and I try
to do a really good show for you guys, and
you know, I think the shows have gotten better over
the years.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
You know.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Now, I realize, and I'm not sure I'm saying that
from a humble place. I'm not saying that I don't think.
I don't think I've gone a little bit better. If
this no literally literally, gosh, darn it, I did it already.
I didn't give five seconds into the show and I said, literally,
darn it. Okay, back in the day, guys, I would
sit down in front of the microphone and the light

(01:15):
would go on and I would just go. And I
prided myself on the fact that I could just go.
I didn't have to plan anything. I was so packed
full of entertainment and information that I could just and
people listen to it. And it never occurred to me
that perhaps that maybe could could have been partially true.

(01:36):
But how much better would the show have been with
a little planning, you know, with a little structure, with
a little this is what we're gonna do today, you know,
right an agenda?

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
So last night, yesterday, all day, I was slaving away
in the minds of Beatrice, Nebraska at the Moonraker bitcoin
mining facility, proud Shruck business client that they are, and
there was there was a lot of During the colder
days like we had this last week, when it gets
really cold out, bitcoin mines are required to shed, to

(02:09):
shut down, to stop using power because you know, people
run around space heaters, so we you know, they save you.
Large corporate clients. You get a good price on energy,
but if we need the energy, you got to shut down. Well,
when you shut down bitcoin miners in the freezing cold,
things break, and so every time we had to shut
down multiple times last week, so I had to make
a visit to fix all the broken stuff from I

(02:29):
replace the fans and the boards and everything else that failed.
So I'm out there doing this all day long. And
it's not it's not like backbreaking mining work, like if
you're a coal miner. I'm not coal mining, you know.
This is like fixing computers all day long, but in
thirty degrees in a wind tunnel with a stocking cap
on and ear muffs like the protective ear gear, that
kind of stuff. So anyway, I'm doing all this, doing

(02:51):
it all day, get home, you know, eat my dinner,
hang out with my wife for a little while, relax,
and then we go to bed. This morning, I wake
up at five thirty to get ready to do the show.
Get it up, get cleaned up, you know, shave, you know,
all that kind of stuff you gotta do before you're
on the camera. At Facebook dot com slash Shrock Innovations,
and it hits me smack. I did not plan a
thing for the show today, not one thing. I have

(03:15):
been planning the shows now for so long. I don't
know that I can just go anymore. I don't know
if I could do that. So I ran downstairs really
fast and I said, I'm gonna plan a show. So today, guys,
this is as close to me just going as I
do anymore, Cause you know, I'm getting up there in
the years a little bit not quite as witty as
I was when I was younger. I don't know. But nevertheless,

(03:39):
we have an entertaining show for you today because it's
gonna be a little wild. So first off, we have
to talk about what we did last week to make
sure that you know that that show is available at
shrockannovations dot com if you click on radio Shows. If
you missed the show last week, or you missed the
after Shock last week, they're both available there for you
to view. If you'd showed should desire to do so,
you can check those out schocknnovations dot com, and of

(04:01):
course click on radio show. As I said, but last
week on the program, we told you this just crazy
story about the UK government requiring Apple to drop encryption,
not just for UK users, but for users around the world,
the UK wants the right to snoop in anyone's iCloud
account anywhere in the world. They wanted a backdoor into

(04:23):
the encryption, so that was an interesting story. We have
a follow up on that for you today as well. Also,
Apple did push off those Serie AI updates that they
were going to do in the most recent version of Appleios.
They're just not ready yet, so they kind of pushed
them back a little bit. We also discussed what it
means when Windows ten is done in October. You know,
we've been telling you for months Windows ten is done

(04:44):
in October of twenty five. If you running Windows ten,
you need a new computer or you need to upgrade
to Windows eleven. If you can on your hardware, Well,
what does that mean? What does it mean? It's dead?

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Like?

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Is it like Y two K. Do you wake up
in the next day and you're afraid that if you
hit the power button, nothing's going to happen? Or is
it like Y two K When you wake up the
next day and you hit the power button, then there's
no problem. What's the difference? So we talked about that.
That was a good segment. That's one you definitely want
to hear if you have a Windows ten computer at home. Also,
we brought you the story of the Iron Mountain limestone mine.

(05:17):
That's right, a mind that they used to extract limestone
from that The government leases on an annual basis from
a company called Iron Mountain and they use it to
process and store government retirement on paper by hand for
every single retiree in the federal government. Their maximum processing
capacity is ten thousand retirements a year. We went back

(05:41):
and checked the math on how many federal workers retired
last year in the year before, and it's roughly about
ten or you know, they seven thousand people reportedly took
the fork in the road termination offer from Elon and
Trump and Doge. So are those people just going to
take seven years to have the retirements processed. I don't know.
I don't know what's going to happen. My guess is
there to do something there. But it was a fun
story that we covered for you last week as well. So,

(06:03):
like I said, it was a great show last week.
Lots of planning went into that show. It was a
good show. Now we get to see what happens when
there's no planning. Okay, so coming up on the program today.
Number one, this is something that I get questions about
all the time that I've literally stopped talking about because
every time I say something it ends up not being right,
and so I'm just like, I'm not gonna talk about
it anymore. But Drive Advisor, I have an update for

(06:25):
you on drive Advisor. I have been working personally with
the coding staff to get this across the finish line
and we are so very close. I'm going to give
you an update on that one. Also update on that
Apple encryption story. Apple did find a work around with
the UK law and unfortunately, if you're in the UK,
it means you're gonna have a lot less privacy. The
other thing, there was an interesting story that came across

(06:46):
my desk this week about Apple inflation coming Tim Cook
from Apple is basically saying, if the tariffs are implemented
as described, the price of an iPhone is going to
have to go up to protect Apple's bottom line. So
the question is, you know if you're buying an iPhone.
I bought an iPhone sixteen for a new employee that

(07:07):
that started with us this week, and uh it truck business,
and you know I paid nine hundred bucks for a
basic iPhone, Like we's eight hundred bucks for like just
not the super big one, not the super high story.
It was a one twenty eight storage was the smallest
storage you know, some regular size iPhone and we paid

(07:28):
eight hundred bucks for it. So how much more are
you willing to pay for a phone? Interesting thought there,
And then also there's a just the absolute most creepy
thing I've seen in a long time. I saw last
night on the internet as I was putting my daughter
to bed, you know, scrolling through YouTube, I see this
thing called Protoclone, and I'm like, what the heck is this? Literally?

(07:48):
I mean, I watched Westworld. Okay, West World's not for
the faint of heart. I wouldn't watch it with your kids,
if you know what I mean. But if you know,
if you've seen it, you know what I'm talking about.
And if you haven't seen it, it's a real kind
of dystopian look at the future of what robotics could
look like when humans decide to make robots their playthings.
And Protoclone is literally a humanoid robot that is I said, literally, again,

(08:18):
where's that swear jar he's holding up at two that's
two one more striking. We hit the dump button. It
never happened. It just dump. It never happened. You know
when you get a caller who calls in and is like, yeah,
Thor you'r such a mother truncker, and we just boop,
you know, dump, he never happened. You never hear that.
And then we just continue on the show and you're like,
that's a weird transition. Yeah, dump. So if I say

(08:41):
it again, just just dump it so it doesn't happen
a third time. I don't want to get kicked off
the air. But this protocolol thing is super creepy, so
we're gonna tell you about I had no idea anything
like this even existed yet. It makes Elon's optimist robot
look like a joke, and it's super creepy. And I'll
share the link to the video at facebook dot com
slash shraw innovations in the show notes here for you
as well. I want to welcome all of our viewers

(09:04):
on Facebook. Aaron, Roger Thomas, good to have you, Elizabeth,
thanks for coming in. Mary's here as well, Roger, Gary
Brad Wow, the whole gang is showing up all right.
Let's see, ron says stockfish AI chess versus open Ai
Open Ai caught cheating to win at chess. He sends
me the story from Reddit. I know, Ronnie, you can't

(09:25):
really believe everything you'll read on Reddit. I don't know
if you read if you believe everything you read on Reddit.
You know, the federal government is cruel, cruel and disrespectful
for asking its employees what did you accomplish last week?

(09:46):
I'm like, last week I asked my employees, what did
you accomplish today? You know, like, what have you accomplished
in the last hour? Do you need to go home
right now? You know? He was like, we need to
cut hours today, my goodness to disrespectful disrespectful people. So
I don't know. I read that on Reddit too, So
I don't know. Maybe that's true as well. All right.
So one of the things that we try to do,

(10:08):
it Shrock Shock Innovations, is a customer service company that
happens to do technology. We happen to do computers and
it support for consumers and businesses. But we are a
customer service company in the old school definition of what
customer service is what it used to be where you
actually answer the phone it's not an AI auto attendant
all the time, when you actually greet a customer when

(10:31):
they come in and then you help them carry their
stuff out to the car. You know, just the old
school idea I remember growing up. Any any TV commer.
You don't see TV commercials for local businesses anymore because
the TV commercials are too expensive. But when you saw
a TV commercial for like Computer Renaissance or one of
these local computer chains, the only the only thing they

(10:52):
could ever show them doing was carrying something out to
somebody's car. That was the only this is our great service.
Look at this, we carry it out to your trunk
for you. You know, It's like that was all I could
choke because what else you're going to show? How do
you show customer service in a computer repair? And that's
the thing. The customer service in the computer repair doesn't
all happen when you're in the service center, or when

(11:12):
you're standing at that front counter, or when we're talking
to you on the phone about your computer. There is
all with computers, especially modern computers, there's all the stuff
that happens in between. So one of the things that
we developed was a free product called drive Advisor, and
it kind of follows with that theme of shock taking
what you know business customers. Like, if you had a

(11:32):
business IT company monitoring your computers, one of the things
they're going to monitor is the health of your hard
drive and your data storage. Well, why can't consumers have
that too? Why is that something special that only businesses.
It's not hard technology. It's not like we can't take
the technology that's used for businesses and give it to consumers.
But the problem is that technology that's sold to other

(11:54):
businesses is sold at such an egregious price thousands of
dollars in some cases a month, that to deploy it
to twenty six thousand customers locally here in Lincoln, Omaha
Papilion des Moines would just be not cost effective. The
only way that we could make that work is if
we built the software ourselves so that we didn't have

(12:15):
to pay a monthly fee to run the software. So,
way back in twenty seventeen, we came up with drive Advisor,
its adviser advice Er because it's made in America now
really because drive advisor dot Com was already reserved by
somebody in the UK probably, so drive adviser dot com
is where you go to get drive Advisor now right now,
if you go to get drive Advisor and you install
it on your computer, eighty twenty chance it doesn't detect

(12:37):
all your hard drives eighty percent against because the technology
has changed so much since twenty seventeen. Now twenty seventeen.
Through the quick math here was six years ago, or no,
sorry do the quick math was eight years ago. I
step back into twenty twenty three for a minute.

Speaker 6 (12:55):
There.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
I saw it was two twenty three, and I did
the math. I was like, eh, whatever, So eight year ago.
In eight years, technology has come so far that software
designed to recognize what a hard drive is in twenty
seventeen no longer works on today's envm E solid state
hard drive technology. Radical right, So it works on all

(13:17):
your older rotating discs and your your older solid state drives.
Those are fine, but those those newer nvmes and those
m DOT two satas doesn't work so hot. So drive
Advisor needed some work. So what we had to do is,
you know, we built it in twenty seventeen, and we
let you use it for free all the way up
through you know now never charged wants for it, not
one dime ever, not a Nickel. Ever, our business customers

(13:41):
at Shock Business all get it for free. Also, we
don't charge businesses for it because you're a business. I
guess we can charge you. Nope, we just give it
to you for free, because why would you send them
to be a business if you can just get it
free as a consumer, So you would just get it free.
And we have some it's kind of funny. We can
see you can see you guys doing this. We have
some it people that grab drive Advisor and they install
it on the computer, and they install it on like

(14:02):
forty different computers and they all report back to the
same email address. That's how we know. And we don't care.
We don't care. It's fine, But there is some it
guy at some company somewhere that wants to monitor the
health of the hard drives and the company that is
using our product to do that because it's as good
as a business grade product and it's free, so why
wouldn't you use it? Well, the problem is it's kind

(14:24):
of dropped off on usage because it doesn't always detect
the newer hard drives. So we had to come up
with a new version of drive Advisor that understood this
new technology, and then could differentiate between the types of
hard drives because they all have different failure characteristics. Now
you know what kills a solid state hard drive is
different than what kills a rotating disc hard drive is
different than what kills an envme hard drive. So drive

(14:44):
Advisor has been completely re engineered. Some of you have
seen the new interface. I'm not super stoked about it.
We're going to work on it a little bit. But
right now we're working on functionality, and we are so
close it. Right now we have drive Advisor detecting hard
drives reliably, detecting batteries reliably. It'll also test the health
the battery at your laptop. By the way, now it
will automatically not only send you an email when your

(15:06):
hard drive is going bad, it will send you an
SMS notification, a push notification to your phone to let
you know your drive is failing. Or in my case,
I'm here's mister thor right. I know everything about my computer,
and I installed drive Advisor on my computer. The coder
gives me a new version to test. I don't want
to go over to the test and computer that's across
the room because I'm too lazy, So I'm just gonna
install it where I'm sitting. And I installed it on

(15:26):
my main computer, and sure enough, it installed and it
worked great. I detected all my drives. I had some
mechanical drives, I had some solid state drives, I had
some MVME drives. It detected all of them and all
the health percentages were accurate, and I was like, this
is beautiful. Then about two minutes later, my phone buses.
I get a text message. I grabbed my phone literally,
it's drive Advisor sending me a text message saying my

(15:49):
hard drive is too full, Like wait what? And I
found a typo in the text message it said my
hard drive was thirteen percent full. What it meant to
say was my hard drive only has thirteen percent space remaining.
We'll fix that. Little things glitches, but it's true. If
your hard drive gets more, if your envyme drive is
more than eighty percent full, the odds of you having
a failure or stressing that drive you're overly stressing it

(16:11):
and creating failure sooner are way higher. I'm like, I
don't want to buy a four terabyte Gen five hard drive, man,
that's going to be like, that's not a five hundred
dollars cost hard drive. My goodness, those are expensive. I
don't want to buy it, but I'm like, yeah, I
don't want to delete anything either though, so I guess
I better buy it, you know, because I know what's
going to happen if I don't. And now drive advisor

(16:32):
told me, and it was a beautiful thing, because honestly,
I wasn't watching the percentage of use of my hard drive.
Who watches that on a continual basis? I don't even
do that. Drive Advisor is such a valuable tool. So
in the coming weeks, we are going to be releasing
drive Advisor to everybody that has the legacy version. You
will automatically get an upgrade to the new version. So
if you don't have drive Advisor running on your computer

(16:54):
right now, I don't blame you because it doesn't work
all the time. I get it. But if you install
a version that's available now at drive advisor dot com,
when the new version comes out in a week or two,
you're going to get that new version automatically, and then
you're going to have all the benefits of this as well.
So something to check out drive advisor dot com. I'll
be updating that website with all the new screenshots and

(17:15):
you know, FAQs and all that kind of stuff and updates,
so all the information there is like from twenty twenty,
so you know, bear with me, guys, We're gonna get
it done for you. But I wanted to make sure
we gave you an update on that because I've neglected
talking about it because I'm not super hot about talking
about things that I'm frustrated about. And this was supposed
to be done last March, so I'm kind of frustrated.
It's like that that rail system in California, except we

(17:38):
actually have laid some track four zero two, five to five,
eight eleven tens a number to join us on the program.
Got to take a quick break. When we come back,
Apple ditching encryption for all UK users? What does that
mean for you in America? And what is that? Is
this a good idea? Is this the right way to
answer the legal dilemma that the UK government has placed

(17:58):
upon Apple. We'll talk about it coming up next on
Compute This.

Speaker 7 (18:00):
Computer problems usually don't just suddenly happen. Most failures usually
start out as small issues with few or no symptoms.
Over time, they grow into error messages. Blue screens and
other problems that can be costly to fix. Shock innovations
by annual preventative maintenance check up catches those small problems
now before they can metastasize and become tomorrow's costly repairs.

(18:23):
During the maintenance check up, our experienced technicians perform up
to eight hours of tests, checks, automated repairs and optimizations
that keep your computer at peak efficiency while identifying potential
issues while you still have options about how to handle them.
When your computer gets its first check up, it can
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(18:43):
leaves our service center cleaned, sanitized, and running better than
the day you bought it. Just About every complex device
requires maintenance. Your computer is no different, especially considering the
valuable information that passes through it every day. If you
have not had your computer maintenance in the past six
months your overdue, stop in or call any of our
service centers to arrange a free pickup to.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
Ensure your computer continues to work for you.

Speaker 6 (19:08):
Today's fragile computers need maintenance more than ever. Your computer
needs a maintenance check up every six months to last
beyond it's eighteen month expected lifespan.

Speaker 7 (19:18):
Have you noticed that almost every piece of technology seems.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
To do its best to be disposable.

Speaker 7 (19:23):
Every day people talk their phones, tablets, and other electronic
devices because they can't be repaired. Manufacturers have engineered their
products to fail on a schedule so they can extract
more money out of your family budget automatically every year
or so. But what if it didn't have to be
that way. What if you could get the performance of
today's fastest computers with the expansion and upgrade options you

(19:45):
used to enjoy. You just described Shrock's modular desktop computers.
Having the right tool for the job is important, and
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component is selected intentionally to give you years of upgrade
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after they bought it. Modular PCs are the most popular
custom computers in the Midwest for reason. When you are
ready for your next computer, stop in to check out
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Speaker 2 (20:38):
All righty guys, welcome back and you're listening to Compute
This from the Shock Innovations computer company. And you can
reach us today at four zero two five five eight
eleven ten, also toll free if you're outside of the
metro area. Like our listener during on the Facebook page
here Facebook dot com slash Shrock Innovations is listening all
the way from Virginia. So that was pretty cool. I

(20:59):
thought that was pretty neat. So up nationwide here for
compute this, where we we'll sell you a computer in Virginia.
Don't mind four zero two five five eight eleven ten
eight eight eight two five zero two zero nine one. Clyde,
Welcome to the program. How can I help you on
compute this today?

Speaker 5 (21:14):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (21:15):
Can you hear me? Okay?

Speaker 2 (21:16):
I sure can?

Speaker 5 (21:17):
Awesome?

Speaker 8 (21:18):
Hey, megadidtos an honor of Rush limbob.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Oh wow, you know what means?

Speaker 8 (21:22):
You know what an honor of that is? You're your
old company, you and your whole company. All right, So
the quick question here is I tried to go on
your website and I don't know, maybe I'm messing up
I'm trying to find it. I don't have Facebook, the
Facebook yet. I'm gonna have to get it because I
want to sell some stuff. But anyway, can I see
Can I hear the aftershock off your website? Or do

(21:45):
I have to have Facebook to hear it?

Speaker 2 (21:47):
No, it's available. Yeah, go to operations dot com and
there's the video of each week's show. So there's a
video of Compute This and there's a video of the
aftershock as well. Now where we post the aftershock is
different than where we post the regular show, So we
have a YouTube channel. All the Compute This programs go
to the YouTube channel because all these these we don't

(22:07):
say very controversial things during Compute This. You know, we're
advertising for a business here. It doesn't make sense to
alienate people, right, Or if you disagree with people, it
doesn't make sense to even talk about it. During the aftershock.
That's different. We say things that are true. We don't
really care about your feelings so much, so we tend
to we tend to make people a little well yeah,

(22:29):
it's it's fun, but I mean some people can't handle fun, right,
and so we get we get strikes on YouTube, We
get strikes and so we don't want to get banned,
so we actually put the Aftershock on our Rumble channel.
Rumble is the open source or the excuse me, the
free speech alternative to YouTube. It's it's basically, Rumble is

(22:51):
YouTube with all the content not filtered. Yep. So you
can if you if you watch one of the Aftershock
videos on our website, it streams from our Rumble channel,
you can follow that back through to Rumble and then
literally subscribe to our channel. Then you'll get in a
notification every time we post a video. And we're gonna
be doing some additional video posting and some additional video work.
I've been kicking around some ideas with the staff on

(23:13):
some things that we can do, and Jeff really really
wants me to build a like an actual location for
Shock business, and I'm like, no, that's how we keep
it cheaper than all these other competitors. Your locations are
the service center. You have four locations, Jeff, you don't
need your own like conference room. And He's like, I
found the space downtown Omaha. It's really, you know, really
really cheap. We could get there, and you know, I'm like, yeah,

(23:35):
I don't know, man, you know, but then I could
build a podcasting studio HM anyway. So yeah, so the
Aftershock is available on Rumble. Both the videos are available
at Shock Innovations dot com. You can watch them right
on the website. You don't have to go anywhere if you.

Speaker 5 (23:48):
Don't want to Thank you for your help.

Speaker 8 (23:51):
I'll try again to figure this, sass.

Speaker 5 (23:52):
I appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Have a great day. Bye bye, all right, four zero
two It's that easy, guys. Four zero two five five
eight eleven ten eight A two five zero two zero
nine to one. So Apple is ditching encryption for UK users. Literally.
The UK passed law we talked about this last week
that said Apple must allow the UK government access to
any iCloud account they want to access. It doesn't matter

(24:16):
if they're a UK citizen or not. And obviously the
UK doesn't have jurisdiction to access data that's not either
stored in the UK or stored regarding its citizens. Right,
So you can pass all the laws they want. But
Apple is pretty confident in court if it comes to

(24:38):
that that the court would rule that the UK doesn't
have jurisdiction over American iCloud data from American clients stored
on American servers encrypted. Now here's the thing. When Apple
says that your stuff is encrypted. Now, when it comes
to when it comes to Google, do you trust Google?
If Google told you that your stuff is encrypted and
we can't even look at it, would you actually believe them?

(25:00):
And I'm like, h e double hockey sticks. No, I
don't believe a word Google says. But when Apple says
your stuff is encrypted and we can't even access it,
I believe them. They have a much higher trust rating
among even I'm not an Apple user, Like I don't
have an iPhone, I don't have a MacBook. I mean
I have a Macmini that I use for data recovery

(25:22):
work on some things. But you know, I have a PCs.
You know, other people in my company, I like the
guy who does our our AI automation one hundred percent
Mac user, one hundred percent Mac user. You know, literally
please pay me in Mac Mini's like like he wants
more max Uh you know. I mean that's that's the thing.

(25:43):
There's nothing wrong with them, it's just the trust rating
is higher among Apple users with Apple as a company.
And so Apple comes back to the UK and says,
we can't access the data you're asking for we have
no way to do it. UK says, then you will
build a back door that gives you access to it,
and Apple said, if we build a back door, eventually

(26:03):
somebody's gonna find it, and when they find it, it's
gonna be a problem for everybody. Look at what happened
in the US telecom industry. They were forced to build
a back door to allow the US government to snoop
to wired tap essentially any phone conversation that happens in
the United States. As a result, China found the back door,

(26:25):
and Chinese hackers subsequently started listening to every phone call
that they wanted to listen to in the United States
and there isn't anything that the telecom companies can do
to stop it. They literally had to replace their literally
that's three three. I'm really trying, guys, but again I'm
I'm off the cuff, off the cuff for the most

(26:45):
part today. So that's unfortunately what you're gonna get. Okay,
so they they can't. I've almost said it three more times.
I had to stop myself. The UK wants this back door,
but if Apple builds it, other people are going to
find it, and these telecom companies to get rid of
their back door. They had to replace all the hardware.
The US government had to appropriate money in the budget

(27:08):
in one of those Biden bills to pay the telecom
companies to really quickly replace their hardware so they could
stop the hack. Essentially, that's what had to happen. Put
a different but move the back door. Somebody found it.
Lessons not learned. So Apple says, we're not going to
do that, sorry, UK. And the only other option that
they really have is to drop encryption for all UK customers.

(27:28):
So now your iCloud messages are out there in the wild.
So if you're in the UK, I mean not that
we have that many UK listeners, but if you travel
to the UK, don't send any kind of data through
I message thinking and it's protected because the encryption doesn't
work there. Now. Apple pointed out that the UK can
pass whatever laws they want, but they can't. You can't

(27:48):
pass a law requiring us to do the impossible. And
it's impossible for us to decrypt what's already been encrypted
because we don't have the encryption keys. Even if you
told us that we had to create a back door,
we can't create a backdoor when there wasn't a back
door before, so there is no way for us to
decrypt the encrypted data of current UK users. But going

(28:11):
forward in the UK, anything you put into your iCloud
account not encrypted anymore. So that's it. When you demand,
when the government makes a demand that you have no privacy,
the only solution that companies can give to stay in
business is to literally take away all your privacy. And
that's what happened in the UK. And I'm really thankful
that that we have, you know, Fourth Amendment protections in

(28:32):
the United States and our Constitution that is supposed to
prohibit the government from looking into your stuff when they're
not supposed to. Now have that always worked, No, But
it's better than a poke in the eye with a
sharp stick, for sure. Four zero two five five eight
eleven ten eight eight eight two five zero two zero nine.
I'm going to take our second break here. When we
come back, Lillian and Scott, your call is coming up next.

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I was just lamenting. If you're watching the camera, you're
probably like, what is going on in the studio? Is
he dancing? No, I was showing you the feeling when
you're in a field in Beatrice and there's only one
building in this entire field and you have to pull
up to the building, and I would say I went
to the car washer to wash the Beatris off my truck,
and I realized that sounded kind of derogatory toward Theatrice. No,
it was that I was driving around in a mud

(31:06):
field essentially, and my truck is covered in mud and
grass and stuff because all the snow is melting, and
he pull up to the building and it was like
just kind of schlam to the side, like in the mud.
Like I thought I was gonna hit the building. I'm like,
it's the only building in the field, and I managed
to No, I didn't hit the building, but I got closed.
So it was like, don't pull up to the building

(31:26):
very quickly because there's no gravel there and the mud
just moves for zero two five five, eight eleven ten.
This is what you get when there's no agenda eight
eight eight two five zero two zero nine one number
to join us on the program. So coming up on
the program, guys, we got a story about iPhone inflation coming.
And I don't know if this is uh Tim Cook
basically just spinning his wheels on tariffs, you know, you

(31:50):
know basically everybody, Oh, tariffs.

Speaker 4 (31:51):
Are going to be terrible.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
They're gonna make the price of everything go up. Or
if Tim Cook is saying we can't move our supply
lines out of China, we have to keep them in China,
or what's going on here, so you know, basically, or
the fact that if we made the phones in America,
maybe the price would be more expensive because American employer
employees get paid so much more money than other people
in the world that having the manufacture things is literally

(32:14):
not cost effective. So there could be a number of
reasons there, but we're going to dig into that in
just a moment. Before we get there, let's jump back
into those phones. Four zero, two, five, five, eight eleven ten. Lillian,
Welcome to the program. How can I help you on
compute this today?

Speaker 3 (32:27):
Hi, thank you for taking my call, and best of
everything to you. To thank you, I am going to
purchase one of your computers next couple of weeks or so.
I don't currently have a Shrock computer, and I do
understand that instead of Microsoft Office, so your computers come
with Libre Office.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yeah, Libra and yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
And I was wondering because one of the things I
use is Publisher. Does Libre Office have a publisher equivalent?

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Oh? Great question. So let me give you the backstory
on what's going on with publisher Right now, Microsoft is
yanked micro Publisher from all Microsoft Office packages. So if
you buy a home and student, home and business, there
is or there is no more Microsoft Office Professional. They
got rid of Professional and now it's Office three sixty five.
So if you want Publisher, you have to subscribe to

(33:21):
Office three sixty five to get it. So that's the
only way to get publisher anymore. Now are there open
source alternatives? There are when it comes to desktop publishing.
Probably the number one, I don't know, the gold standard
out there is something called scribe us, and scribe us
is an open source desktop publishing application very similar to Publisher.

(33:42):
It's got more than a decade of active development, so
it's a very heavily developed program. It's not pre installed
on your modular computer, but if you tell the guys
that you want it, we'll just install it for you.
It's not hard to do. Basically, it has all the
basic features that you would expect to find in Publisher.
It can also handle like a wide variety of formats,
so if you have publisher files, you can actually open

(34:04):
your publisher files inscribe us and then work with them.
So it's kind of neat. If you're trying to transition,
you don't have any kind of where you have to
like redo all your work. You can just open it
up in there also has a nice user a nice
user interface. It's not really threatening, you know, there's not
like sometimes you get a new user interface and the
hardest part is figuring out where the menu options are.
And so this one is pretty user friendly, pretty easy, logical,

(34:25):
you know, things fall into line. There's also a lot
of help and resources out there. Libre Office has something
called draw, but it's not It gives you some more
capability and it's possibly the best choice if you're trying
to do something that's like a complex newsletter, like if
you're if you're doing the church the church bulletin or something,
you might want to use Libreofice's draw that comes to

(34:46):
Libre Office. There's another option out there called markup. You
know it's uh requires coding, so you know you don't
want to use markup. I'm just gonna say, right, you
don't want to use markup. So your your best options
are going to be Libre Office, Draw or sscribe us.
But they're both open source, they're both free. Or if
you want publisher, you have to subscribe now to Office

(35:06):
three sixty five to get publisher. And it's kind of
to the point where we're actually looking into the possibility
of providing three sixty five subscriptions to our customers through
Shrock rather than through Microsoft. The only challenge that we're
having with this is trying to find a way to
do this that is, you know, essentially profitable, is it
worth it? And also is cheaper than Microsoft than what

(35:29):
they offer from Microsoft dot com. And they're when it
comes to we on the Jeff at Shrock business is like, okay, thora,
there's two hundred and eighty seven, no joke, two hundred
and eighty seven. So I didn't say the word I said,
no joke, no joke. Two hundred and eighty seven different
versions of Office three sixty five that you can get
for business owners. Hare's this package, in that package, in

(35:52):
this feature and not that feature. And here's the cheapest one,
and here's the most expensive one. So we have to
just go through those and figure out which one is
going to be the best fit, and then see if
we can provide that at a reasonable price for our customers.
And then how many of our customers are just going
to say, I'd just rather keep the free one rather
than pay you, you know, pay you or pay anybody
you know twenty bucks a month or whatever, a ten
bucks a month, whatever it is to have Microsoft Office,

(36:14):
you know. And I can see the logic there. If
the free one is doing the job, why would you
pay for it?

Speaker 3 (36:24):
Perfect?

Speaker 2 (36:25):
Yep?

Speaker 3 (36:25):
I agree, all right?

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Well, hate I really right Lily, and I appreciate you
considering us for your next computer. It means a lot
to me. The we have just a wide distort ready
thinking laptop or desktop.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
Oh, definitely a laptop. I need to be portable.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Gotcha. And do you like touch screens or no touch screen?

Speaker 3 (36:46):
I touched my screen, but not to do anything with it,
so no, no touchscreen, gotcha?

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Gotcha. So yeah, that's always one of the things we
always talk about. Some customers. We had one model that
was a touch screen, and it was the mid range model,
and people would cheer, there's the mid range model, even
if it didn't meet their computing needs because they wanted
the touch screen and the high end one didn't have it.
So then we introduced a high end one that has
a touch screen, and now everyone's buying that one instead,
and the midrange one doesn't sell anymore. So we're like, okay,

(37:13):
this is this is interesting. People just love that I
didn't I don't I have a touchscreen on my studio
computer here, and I touched it once when I was
starting it up because I didn't have my mouse out yet.
It's like, oh, I just hit remind me later and
moved on. It was kind of nice. But but anyway,
I just always curious. I always curious, Lily, And thank
you for the call. I appreciate it. We're gonna get
you in the drawing for that twenty five dollars Shock

(37:33):
Innovations gift certificate as well, because it sounds like might
come in handy for you here in the near future.
All right, So iPhone inflation is it coming? So the
latest year? This is from zd net. The latest US
tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump have put Apple in
a bit of a crosshair, like they didn't know what
was coming. Really. With multiple tariffs impacting countries worldwide, including

(37:56):
a ten percent charge on all imports from China, ectronics
makers like Apple will soon have to decide if they
will take the brunt of the damage or redirect it
to end consumers by increasing the price of goods. Okay,
let me stop the train right there. This is a
false choice because let me tell you what happens. You
might recall there was this guy in twenty sixteen who

(38:19):
got elected and his name was president uh what was it,
Donald drump What was his name? I can't remember anyway,
nobody thought he was gonna win, and he upset the
lady and all of a sudden, you know, Russia, you know,
is crazy. So he gets into office and he slaps
a twenty five percent tariff on electronics being shipped from China.

(38:44):
Twenty five percent. Do you know if you happen to
work in a bitcoin mine, you know this. Every single
bitcoin mining piece of equipment in existence is made in China.
If you want to mine bitcoin, you have no choice
but to buy your gear from China. It chips through
Hong Kong and you get smacked with a twenty five

(39:06):
percent tariff. So if you're buying to keep the math
easy a one thousand dollars unit, that unit is one thousand,
two hundred and fifty dollars if you in the United
States of America en now for a while, you know, we
had a Canadian employee. He was a native and he
was from Canada, right. He was a US resident, but
he lived in Canada, and he was like, you know,
you could ship those things to my family in Canada

(39:28):
and then when I go home to visit, I could
just bring them back then there's no tariff. You're like, yeah,
I don't know, we need to get into I don't
want to have you stopped at the border crossing and
then have a truckload of bitcoin miners, like it's only
you know, one hundred grand a bitcoin miners. We're gonna
have to seize these improperly, you know, tagged bitcoin miners. Yeah,
I don't know that. I'll just pay the tariff. Sorry,
thank you very much. Well, guess what happened. People in

(39:50):
the United States started buying used bitcoin equipment because it
was twenty five to fifty percent cheaper than buying the
equipment from China. Bitmain, one of the largest manufacturers of
bitcoin equipment, decided to start doing this thing called a
qpon you may have heard of them. Based on how
much you spend with bitmin they rewarded you in the
form of qupons. So your first time you buy, you

(40:12):
pay the twenty five percent tariff, you take the hit.
The second time, they say, as a valued returning customer,
you now have two thousand, five hundred dollars in coupons
in your account. So when you go to buy the
next thousand dollars minor, the price comes out to one thousand,
two hundred and fifty dollars after tariff, but you had
twenty five hundred dollars in qupons, so Bitmin, the manufacturer

(40:35):
in China, took the hit because they were better able
to take the hit than any reseller or middleman along
the way. Apple sourcing ports from sellers in China. Apple's
going to go back to their their suppliers in China
and they're going to tell me they got to take a hit,
you got to cut this by ten percent. And they're
going to do it because what's what choice do they have.
They're going to do it, and if they don't do it,

(40:57):
Apples phones are going to get more expensive. Meanwhile, the
supply of Samsung phones in South Korea, they're gonna get
cheaper by comparison, and you're gonna buy a Samsung next
time instead of an iPhone. And Apple's going to figure
out real quick they can't mark their phones up ten
percent higher to cover the tariff. So they're either going
to start making them in America, which will probably cost
more than ten percent more, honestly, or they're going to

(41:19):
make them in some other country where the tariff is
a little bit lower. They're going to try to friend
shore it a little bit. So there's all kinds of
different things that can be done here, or more importantly,
the Chinese company may open up a factory in America
to produce the parts in America. Essentially, there's a lot
of different ways this can shake out in the short term.
Could it mean the price of an iPhone goes up.
I'm telling you, if the price of an iPhone goes

(41:40):
up ten percent, I mean I spent eight hundred bucks
on an iPhone? Would I have spent eight hundred and
eighty dollars on the iPhone? My employee asked on what
phone they wanted. I just paid this guy like a
bonus to hire the mean, he's a real git, and
I'm like, what kind of phone do you want? And
if he said iPhone and it was eighty dollars more,
I would have bit the bullet and paid the eighty dollars.
A lot of people would, But then again, a lot

(42:02):
of people also wouldn't. A lot of people are stretching
to make they can't afford the eight hundred dollars, let
alone eight eighty. They may just decide to buy the
cheap Samsung all plastic version at Walmart instead for three
hundred and fifty dollars jen older, but that's okay. Gets
the job done, and it's way cheaper, and I can
put it on a firm and pay for it monthly

(42:23):
for like twenty two dollars a month or something. So
you know, there's a lot of different ways this cuts.
But when I see articles like this that talk about
these tariffs and how they're going to destroy the entire
everything you love about everything, take a breath. Take a beat,
because it's way more complex than you believe. Some manufacturers,
like Acer, the story continues, have already suggested that upcoming
laptops may cost ten percent more than last year. According

(42:45):
to I hope they do, because ours aren't going to
cost ten percent more. Then will be a lot more competitive.
According to Whamsey Mohan, I don't know who want Wamsey Mohan,
an analyst for Bank of America. Oh what does whamsea
have to say? Literally, his name is Wamsi wams Wamsay, Wamasay,
I don't know. Apple may follow a similar path, raising
prices across their product portfolio in order to keep its

(43:08):
balance sheet in the green and investors satisfied. So Apple
would increase the price of its products by three percent
is what CNBC is expecting, which would increase its which
would reduce its loss to twenty one cents per share
because of tariffs. This is this is like people doing
first grade math goes up ten percent here at the

(43:31):
at the start of the supply chain, and that ten
cents is going to automatically pass through without making any
changes to any incentives anywhere, all that ten percent, all
the way down to the end user. The only person
who might decide that this isn't worth it is the
end user, says CNBC. And I'm telling you that's not
how this works. I know from experience four zero two

(43:51):
five five eight eleven ten eight eight eight two five
zero two zero nine to one. We're going to take
our final break of the program here, guys. When we
come back, we got the creepy Westworld like robot thing.
It's called protoclone. I'm going to tell you all about it,
and Scott your call coming up next on compute this.

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Four zero two, five, five, eight eleven ten, Scott, Welcome
to the program. How can I help you on compute
this today?

Speaker 5 (47:56):
Morning, Doris, Thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
Glad to have you. Thanks for call.

Speaker 5 (48:00):
Oh Scott, Hey, what is going on with Nvidia and
this frame generation stuff that they're somehow trying to count
it as actual frame rate? I don't see how regenerating
the same frame four times and then sticking another frame

(48:20):
in there exaccurate.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
I don't get that, gotcha. It's like the simulated framewer
like that. It's kind of like the wind chill. Is
it twenty five degrees or is it negative fourteen? I mean,
what is it? Well, if you're standing in the wind, yeah,
if you are standing in the wind. For me, if
I'm at the Bitcoin mine, I'm standing literally in a
wind tunnel. There's four fans on one side of me

(48:43):
and eight filters on the other side of me, and
the air is very clean, and it's very cold moving
through across my face at a twenty mile an hour clip.
The wind chill in there is pretty freaking cold. But
if you're outside, the wind's not constantly blowing, and it's like,
you know, you can have frostbite on an exposed skin
within ten minutes. It's like, well, if you if you
stuck your hand in the ice draw of your freezer

(49:04):
for ten minutes, you get frost by two. I mean,
why would you do that? Why would you go outside naked?
It's twenty five degrees, that's I mean, you're not.

Speaker 4 (49:13):
A viting what do you.

Speaker 5 (49:16):
Yeah, price and availability of these cards is just crazy.
I mean by comparison, I mean you would think TMC
would be able to generate more of these cards or something.
I mean I was on a pre order list and
through best Buy and never even got contacted. Yeah, and
I'm just like a nine to seventy costs three hundred

(49:36):
and thirty bucks and now if you want like a
fifty eighty, you're going to spend between you know, one
thousand and fourteen hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
I paid twelve hundred bucks for my forty eighty.

Speaker 5 (49:49):
Yeah, I got forty eighty two right now, and I paid, well,
I've paid a thousand bucks for mine.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Yeah, I mean like, I don't.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
See that the fifty eighties any faster than the forty
eighty in all reality.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Right, So there's some limitations that were coming up against
in the computer hardware side of things. So thank you
for the call, by the way, I appreciate it. The
what you're what he's saying here is the graphic card
doesn't seem to have that much more capability, but are
changing the way they measure things in order to make
it appear like you're getting more. Now, there's a few
things going on here. Why don't they lower the prices

(50:21):
of the graphics cards? We know why? Or why isn't
there more availability? This is the same reason why they're
drill baby, drill is not simple. Who drills for oil?
Oil companies? Why do they drill for oil? Because they
sell the oil? They sell the oil for dollars. Oil
is pretty stable at seventy dollars a barrel, right now,

(50:44):
What happens if you suddenly double the supply of oil?
What happens to the price It falls? So if oil
goes to thirty five dollars a barrel. Can you still
extract the oil at a profit? So drilling. You know,
we have all these natural resources under the earth, but
drilling them doesn't always make sense, especially if there's a burden,

(51:06):
some regulatory or tax thing over the top of your head.
You know, the thing that I'll save this for the aftershock.
Somebody remind me during the aftershock to talk about thinking
about what it would be like to keep your entire paycheck.
That is a fun exercise if you could keep your
money rather than pay an income tax. I mean, it's

(51:27):
a fun exercise. But anyway, somebody remind me during the
after shock to talk about that. I want to go
off on that tangent here, because the same thing is
true with graphics cards. Why would Nvidia make more? If
they make more they have there would be more availability,
there wouldn't be a shortage, the price would come down.
They got to the point. I literally I knew a
guy wants who was who thought he was hot stuff
selling the empty boxes for oh. I said, literally, dang it,

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he hold up a four. I'm like, I don't have
four minutes about four minutes? No, wait, he's holding up
before Because I said, literally, I had this guy worked
for me for a while and then we ended up
letting him go because as somebody who will do this
is probably not somebody you want to have on your staff.
He would buy a graphics card and then he would
like close up the box and list the box on eBay,
and he was very clear in the auction, this is

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a box for a graphics card. The box is empty,
it does not contain a graphics card. And he would
sell the box for eight hundred dollars and someone would
buy it because there's people that have automated bidding computers
that are bidding based on the pictures, and so it's
like Okay, they bid on the graphics card and then
they get the win the auction and they have to

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pay and you can't contest the auction because you literally
bid on an auction for an empty box and paid
nine hundred bucks for it. Sorry. I'm like, yeah, that's
too darn close to stealing from my taste. So they're
not going to change the way they do it because
it doesn't make economic sense. They're going to reduce the capability,
or you try to increase the capability of the card,

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but there's a limit to how much power it can
draw and the PCI slot speed, how much availability there
is three put of data to the computer itself. They
need a new gen and PCI slot in order to
get that faster. All right, we're gonna draw a winner
for the twenty five dollars Shock Innovations gift card. But
before we get to that, this protoclone thing is ultra
frigging creepy. If you haven't seen this thing I'm gonna

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post a shortcut to it in the show notes here.
For all the videos from that, you can pick up
on Duck about it. But essentially, this thing has the
same number of bones as a human human body, same
number of bones, It's got one hundred and fifty muscle fibers,
like just crazy stuff. And when it moves, it twitches
like a actual human being. It's insane to watch this

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thing move. It's still a little choppy, but it's gonna
get there quick. Clyde, Congratulations, you're the winner of the
twenty five dollars Shock Innovations Gift certificate. Stay tuned for
the aftershock, and we'll see you next week on Compute.

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