Compute This 3-2-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Shrock Innovations presents the midwest number one independent computer repair
company with service centers and Lincoln, pah Maha, Papillion des
Moines and across the country via the Shrock Desk. This
is compute this.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
All righty folks, welcome into Compute this. My name's Thor Schrock.
I'm the owner of these Shrock Innovations computer company. Wow,
we got some lively discussions before the show today. I'm
telling you a few things go pop bang boom in
the Oval office, and all of a sudden, everybody wants
to talk about it. And yeah, I got some opinions,
and then you know, I have Bill here challenging those opinions,
which is great. It's gonna make for a great aftershock later.

(00:37):
But that's for later. So now you know what's coming
in the aftershock. It's pretty much all we're gonna talk about.
Because ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna decartelify Mexico. You've heard
about this, right, So we're gonna we're gonna give you
some some what if You know that that Marvel show,
you know, what if? Like what if this would have happened?
Like what if Captain America would have been Agent Carter instead,
and she would have been like a British female Captain America.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Like what woo?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
How would that have been different? Would have been tapped
in England? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
So we'll do a what if in the aftershock later
on today. But right now four zero two five five
eight eleven ten is the number to join us on
the program. We are live and local, taking your questions, comments, concerns,
technology information uh eight eight eight two five zero two
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you can get into the program. And if you do,

(01:24):
make a call and contribute to the program in some way,
ask a question, make a comment, whatever you want to do.
You're in the drawing for a twenty five dollars Shock
Innovations gift certificate and that is going to come in
very very handy here soon. I just realized I didn't
do an audio check, and.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Now we're good.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Facebook dot com slash Shock Innovations is where you can
actually watch this. I got so busy talking about stuff
that I forgot to do my work, you know, so, yes,
this is why we need AI. You know, so thora
doesn't forget to do his audio check.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
We're called live radio Baby.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
The Facebook microphone should be good to go there so
you can check us out. You can watch the show
if you'd like. Facebook dot com slash Shrock Innovations. Good
stuff there. There's Winston. Winston are the unofficial audio technician
of Shock Innovations is commenting good audio.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Thank you, Winston. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
I didn't even have the page open to see your
comment because I was yack the app y appen before
the show and not think think thinking, so we'll we'll
get that taken care of today. So if you missed
last week's program, they are available at shrocinnovations dot com.
You just click on radio show there and you can
see all of the previous radio shows that compute this programs.
If you're looking for the Aftershock, I know some people

(02:33):
are saying that sometimes I can't find the Aftershock on Facebook,
Like it doesn't notify me, it doesn't pop up. You know,
you don't have a set start time. It's not like
The Young and the Restless that it's on like two o'clock.
You know, it's kind of you know, six to twelve
or fifteen minutes after the other show ends.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
So if you miss it, if you can't find it.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Whatever happens, you can find the video Facebook dot com
slash Shock innovations usually about oh, i'd say a day
or so after, you know, by Monday, Alfonso usually has
it up there. But if you missed the show last week,
it was a good one. Apple is ditching all encryption
for people in the UK because the UK changed their
laws to require Apple to allow the UK to see
all encrypted data and Apple's not going to give them

(03:12):
a backdoor into the encryption. They're not going to create
one for them. So Apple just took away everybody's encryption.
So this is why we can't have nice things in
the UK. Bastion of free speech that country is, according
to the Prime Minister. We also see that Windows ten
is going to expire. Last week, I told you was
in eight months. Guess what, Happy March. It's now seven

(03:36):
months until your Windows ten computer goes night night.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Now what does that mean? We actually went through this
in the show.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
It's not like you know you're going to wake up
on October first and hit the power button on your
Windows ten computer and it's just not going to turn on.
That's not what's going to happen. But what is going
to happen. Actually, why is it that when Microsoft deems
an operating system to be end of life that you
have to upgrade what is causing the part? So we
went through everything lined by line of what you can

(04:02):
expect to happen and about how long it'll take to
hit you. So if you miss that, that was a
good one if you got a Windows ten computer and
you're looking to stretch its life.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
There.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
We also scared the pants off you with this Protoclone robot.
If you miss this one, this is like straight out
of the intro to Westworld. And I'm not joking. It
looks like the intro to Westworld. If you haven't ever
seen Westworld, do not watch it with your children. It
is not children appropriate. It hasn't R rating for a reason.
But if you've never watched West World, it is a
dystopian glimpse into what can happen to a society that

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creates humanoid robots with real personalities of AI. It's kind
of it's kind of rre. Okay, we introduced my six
year old son Lou to the Marvel Universe yesterday.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
We watched the og iron Man from two thousand and eight.
It was the first movie. My wife's got a little
book and we're gonna call it Superhero Saturdays, and we're
gonna watch a movie every Saturday.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
It's just it takes an excuse to do.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Something family related, right, We sit down together, we watch
the movie, and then in the book, Lou gets to
write because he gets to practice his writing skills.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
What his favorite part of the movie was.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
He gets to tell he has five stars, He gets
to give it a one through five star rating, you know,
kind of kind of some critical thinking skills here.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
What did you like?

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Why did you like it? Why didn't you like it?
That kind of stuff, just, you know, good stuff. My
wife's always squeezing the education in there where she can't.
And we sit down, we watch iron Man, and the
thing it strikes me. Iron Man was made in two
thousand and eight. In two thousand and eight, we did
not have AI. It was science fiction. In two thousand
and eight, Jarvis was science fiction. Now, while we don't

(05:38):
have anything that can do what Jarvis can do, you know,
even today, you know, chat GPT four point five was
released this week. It's not interesting enough we're going to
talk about it on the program because you know, who cares?
What does it do? It does everything a little bit
better and it understands emotion better. There you go, that's it,
you know, not a segment, not worthy of a segment.
But it can have a conversation with you. It can

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respond to you. Now it's beginning to understand emotive tone
of voice. So when you are standing around in your
kitchen having a conversation with your wife and your Amazon
A word device pops up and starts talking about the
weather in uz Bekistan, and you're like, shut up a word,
you know, not the bad a word, but you know

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what I mean. I don't want to say it because
then everyone's device will wake up, you know, so I
can't say the A L e X a word. So
when you say shut up a L e XA, now
it'll know that you sound frustrated, and it'll say, oh,
I'm sorry instead of fine. He literally said that to us.
It's like fine, like ooh, a word getting an attitude.

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So now she'll understand she has an attitude. Right, So
that's just the first step to emotional intelligence. And you know,
nothing could go wrong there skynet. So, but in two
thousand and eight, we didn't have any AI when this
movie was made, this was pure science fiction. And now
today I'm not going to say it's reality, but it
is definitely within the attainable reach of reality. I mentioned

(07:02):
to you that Alfonso gets these radio shows posted usually
by Monday. We are working right now on an AI
agent that's going to within an hour of the show's broadcast,
and literally, our programmer was apologetic that it was going
to take an hour. He goes, this model is going
to take an actual It has to listen to your
show in real time, so it will take an hour
for it to understand the show, and then it's going

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to slice it up into social media segments, schedule the posts,
post the videos at shrowkinnovations dot com, and do all
the things that it takes Alfonso four hours a week
to do. So this AI agent, that is a real
thing that we are creating now is going to send
me an email and it's going to say thor here's
the social media post because I told it. You know, Tyler,
I need to check on this because I don't want
it to go like crazy, start posting Nazi propaganda on

(07:45):
our Facebook page or something stupid. You know, I've seen
some stuff that AI does, and you know, the black
George Washington thing isn't gonna fly on our Facebook page.
You know, it's just it's not gonna work. So we
we got to have a check on this. And he goes, okay, fine, No,
It'll send you an email and it'll have the posts
in it and it'll say is this okay? And you
can just reply yes, or you can reply you know,
whatever you want to say. If you want it to
be a little softer, if you want it to be

(08:05):
a little harsher, if you want it to be a
little bit different here or there, just tell it what
you want.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
It'll send you a revision.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
So what you're telling me that I now have a
digital employee that I can converse with through email that
will send me revisions of its work based on me
just talking to it. I don't have to code my
response in a certain way or not like with a
Google where you have to type the search an exact
certain way and put the quotes in the right spot
to find what exactly what you want.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
I just have to talk to it. Yeah, that's it. Wow.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
And it's going to save us four hours of work
a week every week for the rest of eternity, and
it never takes a vacation and it never goes on break. Yeah,
pretty much that's reality now. So coming up on the
program today, one of the things that we're going to
talk about how many people are actually using AI at work.
And this is a really I saw. This was a

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new Pew research study that came out about people's perception
of AI at work and it broke it down by
how much you make. It broke it down by your
age group, it broke it down by whether or not
you use AI at work, and it was really interesting
to see what industries are excited about AI, which industries
are pessimistic about AI, which age groups are excited and pessimistic,
and more importantly, which income groups are excited and pessimistic

(09:16):
about AI. So it's kind of an interesting thing. We're
going to cover that on the program. Also, if you
haven't heard this week, Skype is gone. It's done, Microsoft
putting to bed the og video calling service. I'm pretty
sure everybody who's had a computer knows what Skype is
because it's been around forever and now it's all going

(09:36):
to be Microsoft Teams. All that functionality is within teams now,
as we learn during the pandemic, you know the zoom
stuff and everything that's essentially what Skype was. Well, there's
no need for Skype anymore. No one's really using it
except scammers anymore. And you know Bitcoin pump and dump schemes,
so nobody's really using Skype anymore. So Microsoft said it's
time to put that to bed. So we're going to

(09:57):
cover that one on the program for you here today
as well. Also Microsoft releasing yet another optional patch for
Windows eleven two four h two, and this one actually
solves some problems. For example, last week, when I'm trying
to remotely log into my home computer so that I
can walk you through doing things on a computer that's
not locked down by a corporate entity, I had trouble

(10:19):
logging in remotely logging into my computer. I had to
try three times, not because my password was wrong or
because I was doing anything wrong, but because it just
the login process locked up twice, so the third time
it let me in. That's a glitch that has been
fixed by a most recent patch that is optional. In
other words, you're not going to automatically get this patch.
So if you're having problems with Bluetooth audio stuttering, mice

(10:42):
with a moss pointer, jumps around on the screen, remotely
remote desktop, anything like that. If you're having problems with
any of that stuff, there's a patch available. You have
to go down to your Microsoft Update app and run that,
and then you have to click on the optional patches
and install those and that should get you, you know,
back up and running with what you need.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Now, that sounds like a lot of work. Sounds like
paint in the butt.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
I'll put it right up there on the to do
list with feeding my sour dough starter and spraying the
antiseptic in my sneakers today, you know, like things you
don't want to do, changing the furnace filters. Yeah, right
up there. It's the first of the month. Time to
do that, guys. So what if I just said we'll
just do it for you. What if I said you
could come on into Shock bring your computer in. In fact,

(11:29):
while we're doing those updates for you, we'll go ahead
and check everything in the computer. We'll check your hard
drives health, we'll check your laptop's battery. We'll make sure
you don't have any infections or malware. We'll clean up
all your cash and temporary files. I can't tell you
how many stories I've seen on the Internet this week,
and they're all dumb. They're all true, but they're all
like so basic, Like why it's important to clean the

(11:50):
cash on your computer to improve its performance. Well, you guys,
when you load stuff on your computer, your computer wants
to make you happy, believe it or not, So it's
going to remember what you do most often and then
kind of try to preload those things so it doesn't
have to fetch them in real time when you ask
for them. So, in other words, if it's sitting idle,
it might try to load something in the background that

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it thinks you're going to use next, and then if
you use it next, it opens really fast. Well, over time,
say six months, you're using your computer for a lot
of different things, a lot of different apps, a lot
of different programs. You're loading a lot of stuff, and
when you load all that stuff, your computer says, I
got to load all this stuff in the background to
keep you happy, And all of a sudden, it's almost

(12:33):
like a negative feedback loop where it's loading so much
stuff in the background that loading the next thing that
you're actually trying to load takes longer, not less time
because it's doing so many other things and all of
its resources are tied up loading all this garbage you
don't need. So when during a maintenance checkup, for example,
we will go through and clean out all that garbage

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and make sure that your computer is loading just what
you want when you want it. And of course people
tend to use the same things over and over again,
so your computer, if you've never had a maintenance checkup before,
when we're done with it, we're talking like a twenty
five percent speed improvement.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
It's not small potatoes.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
If you do it every six months, you're maintaining that
because it gets slower over time. You don't really notice
it because it gets just a little bit slower each day,
a little bit slower, a little bit slower, and then
six months later you're like, man, this computer used to
be so fast. You get it back from a maintenance checkup,
and I mean it's moving again. So we do all
that during a maintenance checkup. Plus we're going to physically

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dust and clean the interior of the computer. We're going
to wipe down the exterior of the computer disinfected essentially,
especially on laptops, this is super important.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
On keyboards and touch pads and things like that.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
People you'll wipe it down, but you know, how do
you actually disinfect it? I mean we learned this during
the pandemic. Actually, it was one of those things that
we just said, you know, this doesn't cost us really
any more to do, and you know we used to.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
We have a spray.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
It's essentially a pH neutral windex kind of spray that
we use. We sprayed on a cloth, a microfibercloth, and
we wipe down your computer. We get all the smudge
in the grunk off it and everything else, so when
you get it back, it's shiny and nice. The reason being,
the reason we started doing it was because when we
do a maintenance check up on your computer, we put
eight hours of work into that in some cases. And

(14:11):
when you get your computer back, if it looks exactly
the same as when you brought it in, how can
we represent eight hours of actual effort and work that
we put into your computer for one hundred bucks when
it looks the same at least, when you get it back,
if it's shiny and clean looking, well, you know that
we did something to it. You know, you got some
value for your money there. And then during the pandemic,

(14:32):
it became important because you know, we were disinfecting everything.
So we actually started mixing isopropyle alcohol with the screen cleaner,
the glass cleaner essentially, and it evaporates much more quickly.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Now that's nice.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
It also has a disinfectant to it, so we were
not spraying lyesol. You can't spray lysol on touch screens, guys.
You can't use those kind of cleaners on touch surfaces
and it destroys them. So that's why you see at
the grocery store they say, you know, during the pandemic,
you saw a sign that said do not spray directly
on terminal and they put those big rubber bags over
the terminals because they had to disinfect.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
Them all the time.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
And the employees were spraying the touch screens terminals and
destroying them, and the touch screen computers and the self
checkouts and destroying them. Well, you can't directly spray touch screens,
but nobody knows that. Right now you do. So now
you're gonna spray the cloth and you're gonna wipe the screen.
You're not gonna spray the screen and wipe the screen,
and you're gonna use a pH neutral cleaner, so you
don't destroy the surface that registers in the touch for

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your screen.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
It's important.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Same thing in your car, with your touch screens in
your car. You can't just wipe those down with your
glasses cleaner. You know I've done that.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
Oops. You know you got to use the right stuff.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
So anyway, we'll go through and do all that for you,
and when you get it back, it looks clean, it
runs better. All the hardware is checked. If you have
a shock warranty, if you have a Shock device that's
under warranty, which every one of you who has a
Shock computer should absolutely keep it under warranty. I send calls.
I know people hate to get the calls. We have
some people that ask us don't call me anymore. You
know I don't buy warranties. I get it, but the

(15:56):
warranty is literally refundable. We give you your money back
at the end. We call you to give you your money back.
That's why you're getting this call. We owe you money
and we're gonna give you that money back in your
Shock account. You're gonna get the money back whether we
talk to you or not. You just can't decide to
to buy another warranty if we don't talk to you first.
So there's all kinds of reasons. If you come in
for a maintenance checkup and we find something wrong and

(16:17):
you're under warranty, we're gonna fix it for free. Of course,
we're going to ask you if you want it fixed first,
and then if you do, we're gonna fix it for free.
So if you have a warranty through Dell or HP
or any of those places, if you have a problem
with your computer, don't you want to get it fixed
while it's under the warranty. Still, This is why maintenance
is important. It's so important, guys, that we're putting it

(16:38):
on special. This is the twenty twenty five Maintenance Checkup Special,
the launch, the official launch of the twenty twenty five
maintenance Checkup. It is not ten percent off, It is
not twenty percent off. It is thirty percent off the
normal price. I mentioned it was one hundred bucks normally,
So you do the quick math on that one sixty
nine to ninety nine plus tax got to have the text.

(17:01):
Governor's got to get his share no matter what state
you're in, or her share. So there it is Maintenance
Checkup Special going on for the month of March. What
happens during the maintenance checkup sale. We get busy, but
not as busy as you might think. So we're going
to take a quick break here. When we come back,
we're going to talk about Skype going bye bye, and
then I'm going to tell you the best way that

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there's actually a method that you can use to take
advantage of the maintenance checkup sale to make it super
efficient for your life, to fit into your schedule, so
you're not going without your computer at a bad time
and all that stuff. I'm going to tell you all
about it coming up next on Compute this.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
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Speaker 2 (20:00):
The whistling bumper music man, like, really, yeah, this is
one of those tracks, like somebody said, let's make a
track and we can sell it online.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
It's not bad. It's got some moves, right, yeah, it's
not pop in my head to it.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
I've definitely heard worse. I've definitely heard worse. Well, welcome back, folks,
you're listening to compute this. Four zero two five five
eight eleven ten is the number to join us on
the program. Eight eight eight two five zero two zero
nine to one we're going to cover the factor bill.
You didn't realize that Skype is gone.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
In May, Yes, you were talking about that. I didn't
realize Skype was what's leaving us. I guess I could
have some nostalgic memories of you know, conversations gone by,
whether it was with my mother or a certain girl
I knew ten twenty years ago. But you know, it's
something that you kind of reflect on and it's like
I should have these nostalgic feelings. But then again, it's

(20:49):
just a piece of software and teams is superior.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
Oh, I mean, yeah, everyone everything.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Basically, if you have Skype, all of your conversations if
they can if you're a person you're having a conversation
with has a team's account, it's all moving to teams.
So your conversations, your contacts, all that stuff, if they're
legit people, which is gonna be great. Like all those
people who have relationships with like the Nigerian prints, those
Skype accounts aren't going to get migrated.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
And so it's kind of.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Like Elon sending out the the are you a live
heartbeat message? Tell me five things you did last week
just to show me that you're alive and uh, you know,
but it's like that, but it filters out the Nigerian
princess and of course Shrockville. Here Aaron comments on Facebook
that her last boyfriend dumped her over Facebook, or excuse
me over Skype, over Skype, and she says coward.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
Hello, ouch, yeah, it's not you, it's me and gotta
go whoa the signal? Gotta see it?

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yeah, that's static and the camera just goes black and
you put a piece of paper in front of the webcam.

Speaker 4 (21:52):
Well, it's not like you've done this, Bill.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
I may or may not have experience. No, I don't
have experience.

Speaker 4 (21:59):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Four zero two, five, five, eight eleven ten. Dave, Welcome
to the program. How can I help you this morning?
On compute this?

Speaker 8 (22:06):
Hey, how are you doing this?

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Doing well? Dave, doing well?

Speaker 8 (22:08):
Thanks twice in the past year now you've really helped
me out. And it's kind of funny because you just
mentioned one of them. I got one of your maintenance
specials and I have a laptop that's three years old
and I thought everything was working good with it. I
brought it in, got a call and found out the

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battery inside of it had started to swell and that's
not good. That's a fire hazard. Found out also found
out that the hard drive was showing very early signs
of depth. And I happened to have your warranty. He

(22:52):
took care of everything, and I came in. I had
absolutely no idea there was a problem with anything, and
everything was taken care of, didn't cost me anything extra.
Because you have been looking out for me for the
last four years. I was just happy as could be.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
Well, thank you, Dave.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
You know, it's one of those things where the guys,
you know, sometimes they feel bad during the maintenance checkup
special because customers come in and guys, we okay, here's
what we're doing. We're we're going to do it a
little bit differently on the marketing this time around, because
I know that people don't want robo calls. So what
we're going to try to do this time around is
we're going to say it's the maintenance checkup sale. If

(23:33):
you want a certificate, get a certificate, if you want
to come in for a maintenance checkup, come in for
a maintenance checkup.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
And then next week we're going.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
To look back and look at everyone's computer in the
system that hasn't had one in the last six months,
and then we're going to send you an SMS like
a text message saying, hey, your past due for your
maintenance and it happens to be on special right now.
Please come in. Thank you for your call, Dave. I
really appreciate it, and I really appreciate you putting your
faith in us, you know, those extended warrant. He's the guys,

(24:01):
Like I was saying, the guys feel sometimes, like you know,
like at the oil change place where you go in
for just an oil change and they hold up your
air filter and like, hey, you want to change this thing,
and you're not sure, like is it dirty enough? Like
could it go another three thousand? You know, I don't know,
you know, and they hold it up and you're like, well,
I guess so. And it's like it's an upsell game, right,
and you know when you have these are the rules,

(24:21):
these are the things. This is what can be wrong
with your computer, and this is what passes, and this
is what fails. They're numbers, and so it's not like
the guys can say like, eh, yeah, you know this
thing is bad. Over here they hold up a perfectly
clean air filter and say, Oka, now dirty, this is right.
It looks pretty dirty to you, right. This used to
be pristine white. Now it's just kind of a at
crew color, you know. You know, well, I don't know
what color a crew is, but that sounds bad. It's

(24:44):
like off white. Okay, So you know it's not like that.
If we especially if you have a warranty, we're fixing
this for free. Now, why in the world would we
do this? Why would we sell you a warranty that
you can get your money back for and then encourage
you to come in and use the warranty if you
actually need it. Instead of bad hard drives like three
hundred bucks, a bad battery is another two hundred and fifty.

(25:05):
So essentially that's a new laptop. They've needed a new laptop.
Why would we not sell Dave a new laptop and
instead sell him a warranty on the off chance he
might need it or we might have to give him
his money back. Because we want to keep Dave for
ten years as a customer, for twenty years as a customer.
We want Dave to trust us so that when we
do tell him something is wrong with his computer, he

(25:26):
knows we're shooting him. Straight because there are so many
computer they're all gone now right. I mean they go
out of business, they stop serving customers, They go to
business only you know that kind of stuff, because they've
screwed up their reputations so badly by telling customers things
that aren't true that you can't recover from that. You

(25:46):
can't burn people for a quick buck and expect to
stay in business for twenty years. You know, we're pushing
twenty six now. And it's because we do it right.
We make sure that you're taken care of so that
you when you come in for maintenance work, we send
you out the door and say everything is fine. You know,
everything is fine. And if we send you out the
door and we say, hey, you're hard to have a
showing early signs of death. That is what they say,

(26:08):
your early signs of death. Well that doesn't mean you
have to do anything. It just means you're showing early
signs of failure. You should make sure you have a
good backup. We're letting you know heads up. This is
like if you go to the doctor and they're like,
you know, looks like you got some hypertension. You might
want to lower your blood pressure. Doesn't mean you're going
to stroke out tomorrow. Just means hey, you should keep
this on the radar, right, doesn't mean you need brain surgery,

(26:31):
just keep this on the radar. So there's all kinds
of different ways that you can look at this. And
one of the things that's going to be really interesting
is a lot of people who have Windows ten computers
are going to say to themselves, you know what, maybe
I don't need a maintenance checkup because this thing is
dead in seven months anyway, And I would strongly, if
I could strongly implore you to bring that computer in

(26:52):
any way. We have new methods of getting you to
Windows eleven through different hardware upgrades that we can do,
especially to our own modular systems. For laptops, there's nothing
we can do. But for desktops, especially custom built desktops,
there's a lot of things we can do. So if
you get that Windows ten computer into us, we can
actually tell you what you're using that is going to

(27:12):
go bye bye, and how serious this Windows ten end
of life thing is for you and what it can
do for you or your business. So if you have
the time to bring your computer in for a maintenance
checkup in the past years year's gone by, we get
absolutely destroyed. The first week of the maintenance checkup sale,
everybody comes in and then it kind of wanes a
little bit as people, you know, the early movers are done,

(27:34):
and then the procrastinators haven't procrastinated long enough to take
action yet, so we don't see a lot of activity
in the middle of the month. Then, of course the
last week where like it's almost over, and then all
of a sudden thump, we get hit again, and it
leads to poor service because we can't deal with that
many computers at one time. You know, hundreds and hundreds
of computers per location in a week is way more
than we normally check in. So we introduce the idea

(27:55):
of certificates so you can just come into the service
center and grab a place in line, drop your computer off.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
Nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Turnaround time is going to be We're gonna try for
twenty four to forty eight hours like normal, but if
it gets extended, they'll tell you that when they're checking
it in. You can also choose to purchase a certificate
from Shrocannovations dot com. You can go to our website
Schrocinnovations dot com, click on shop and Specials, and you
can find the maintenance checkup certificate there. Essentially, what you're
doing is you are a pre paying for the maintenance

(28:24):
checkup now while it's on sale, and you have six
months to use that certificate anytime that it's convenient for you.
Going on a vacation this summer, drop your computer off
before you leave. I mean sometime that it's convenient for you,
that it works for your schedule. Now, what's different this time?
This time we are going to be actively pinging people
who are past due for maintenance checkups, telling them they

(28:45):
are pasted to you.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
Is that going to make a difference.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Everybody knows you need to go to the dentist every
six months, But when your dentist calls you and says, hey,
it's been twelve months since i've seen you, are your
teeth still all in your head? We'd love to find out.
Please schedule a cleaning. Here's thirty percent off. I mean
people are going.

Speaker 4 (29:01):
To react to that.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Not not everybody will, but people are going to react
to that. And people are going to react to it saying, oh,
it's on special. We can only send so many characters
through a text message. We can't say, you know, on
special through the end of the month. Some restrictions apply
see store for details. Blah blah blah blah blah. You know,
use clocks to get your whites white. You know, we
have to keep it brief. So we're going to say
your past due, it's on special. Click this link and

(29:25):
the link is going to take you to the maintenance
check up certificate. It's going to say you can buy
the certificate or you can come into the store your choice.
So we're going to do that.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
It's different.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
We sent out emails over the weekend to all Shock
customers in our database. Twenty six thousand unique email addresses
received an email, and that was just the people who
want to receive email correspondent. Some people have put themselves
on the you know, they do not email this essentially,
so we don't email them. Next, we're going to send

(29:56):
text messages. And we've never sent text messages before. Every
single customer is on the text message list still because
we've never done this before. So of course some people
might reply stop and then we'll take them off the list,
that kind of thing. But what I'm saying is it's
going to be different this time. The volume is going
to be different this time. So if you are one
of those early movers, please do move early because you're

(30:17):
going to get the best turnaround times early in the
sale or in the middle of the sale. If you
are a procrastinator, please try to procrastinate just a little
bit less. Don't wait till the last day, because everybody
does wait till the last week. See you're still procrastinating.
I'm not asking you to change who you are. We
love you for who you are. But then you know
you're getting your computer back quicker. And if it's not
a good time right now, please get a certificate and

(30:40):
that way you're good to go. Now, if you have
a certificate already, it's been about six months since the
last maintenance check up certificate was sold, which means your
certificate is about to expire. So please come in and
use your certificate. We want to see you as that
we can get that taken care of four zero two
five five eight eleven ten eight eight eight two five
zero two zero nine one taking a quick break when
we come back us your call as well as how

(31:02):
is AI perceived in the job market. Now, we do
these AI stories and everyone's like, I don't care about
AI thor and I'm going to tell you the percentage
of people who actually don't care about AI and you
are not alone. We're going to tell you about it
coming up next on Compute this.

Speaker 6 (31:15):
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and child in the US an old, outdated, and useless
computer system. Obsolete tablets and smartphones are nearly as bad.
Most people know not to throw them into the landfill
where they leak and contaminate, but it's hard to find
a place to safely recycle electronics. That's why Shrock Innovations

(31:35):
offers free recycling for computers, laptops, phones, tablets.

Speaker 7 (31:39):
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Speaker 6 (31:43):
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More importantly, Shrock will securely delete any data from your
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just to be saved. When you recycle your old technology
at Shrop, you know your identity and privacy are protected

(32:03):
and your equipment is being actually recycled by a certified
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economy and ecology. Do your part by dropping your old
gear at any SHOCK service center and be part of
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(32:24):
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Speaker 5 (32:26):
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Speaker 4 (32:30):
The next time.

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Speaker 6 (32:36):
You would probably rather drink the water at Camp La
June than get another call about the desperate need to
renew your cars expiring warranty.

Speaker 7 (32:44):
Who actually responds to those calls.

Speaker 6 (32:46):
Everyone wants to play the warranty game where you pay
money now just in case you need service later that
everyone hopes you won't meet or use. It's such a waste.
It's no different with computers. Major manufacturers' warranties have more
subscript crosses then a Sunday morning church service.

Speaker 7 (33:03):
Batteries are exempt.

Speaker 6 (33:04):
Hard dripes must be completely dead and forget about anything
that they can remotely claim.

Speaker 7 (33:09):
Us physical damage.

Speaker 6 (33:10):
That's why Shrock warranties are different. When you purchase a
modular PC or a solid state laptop and extend your warranty.
We offer a no risk money back guarantee. If you
need the warranty, you will be thrilled to have it
if you don't use it, and we refund your money
automatically every time.

Speaker 7 (33:26):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
We are so confident in the quality of our products
that our extended warranties are refundable. Many Shock customers use
their refunds to purchase another warranty, or pocket the savings
and move on. We all know you'll need it to
cover that expiring car warranty anyway. Shocks refundable extended warranties
just another way the Shrock Innovations computer company makes your

(33:48):
computer work for you.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
It's just in hope. Francis spends night resting this stuff.
I mean, this is a news pope. You know I
spent the night resting as well, but no one writes
a news story about it. Yeah, but you're You're not
the pope.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
I'm not the pope. The pope sleeps at night. He
also puts his he wears pants, right, I mean, it's
robes in the hospital. I don't know, I don't know. Yeah,
just the boat wear pants.

Speaker 4 (34:18):
These are the questions.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
I'm not Catholic. I don't know these things. I ate
the fish sandwich at Freddy's yesterday.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
It was pretty good. I'm like, I'm lent must be here.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
I'm like, that's the only time they ever have fish
sandwiches there. So I was like, oh, that's actually pretty good.
Twenty grams of protein. Where can you go to a
fast food place and get twenty grams of protein in anything?
I was like, that's pretty impressive, twenty grams of protein.
And in fact that I was telling the Lovely Kimberly
about that, and she said, actually she was not that

(34:46):
she hangs out on like McDonald's conference calls or anything
for the earnings report. She's not like a McDonald's investor
or anything.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
But she said no.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
During the McDonald's call, they said they expect to see
protein options, protein, protein, protein on all the fast food menus.
There's a huge protein movement in America right now, and
the fast food restaurants are missing it because they're all carbs,
carbs and French fries. And so they're like, we're gonna
put protein options on the menu. And I bet RFK
is like.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
Your boy and cook it and tallow. You know, we
don't want to go there again. We don't want to
start the Tallow conversation again. That went on for like
three hours. I was crazy.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Four zero two five five eight eleven ten. That's the
number to join us on the program today. Please don't
call me about Tallo. Please toll free as long as
you're not calling about Tallow eight eight eight two five
zero two zero nine one. Lawrence, he has a question
about an Apple desktop that I'm assuming he does not
want to cook in Tallow. So, Lawrence, what can we
do for you today on compute this?

Speaker 9 (35:39):
Yeah, I have an Apple desktop. It's before the M
one generation. Yeah. I've noticed in the last three or four,
maybe six months, but every time I click on what
I'm going to call is an application on an Apple, Yeah,
the little box starts bouncing up and down for about
ten twenty seconds before it finally opens it.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
Yes.

Speaker 9 (36:01):
And then I've noticed on certain websites like my bank
that change their website about eight months ago. And now
I'm getting a spinning wheel every time I try to
auto fill the password. Is that the sign the computer is?

Speaker 2 (36:15):
It's almost like it's almost like every time your Mac
tries to access its hard drive, there's something slowing it down.

Speaker 8 (36:23):
Okay, so one of the things.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Okay, so I don't know if you know this, not
because you're a Mac user, but you don't have a
hard drive activity indicator light on your Mac. Now, if
you're a PC user, you used to having that little
blinking light that's always blinking when the computer.

Speaker 4 (36:38):
I was thinking, look, I can see the light blinking.
Mapples don't have that.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
Why Steve Jobs was a big believer in like your
computer should be like a swan. You know, it should
just be smoothly gliding across the water. If there's some
furious stuff happening under the water, you know, that's that's
my business. Your business. You should have a beautiful computing experience.
Now your Mac is trying to deliver that beautiful computing

(37:02):
experience too. But sometimes hardware fails, even in a Mac.
Sometimes hardware just fails. And when your hardware and your
Mac starts failing. Rather than having a big box that
pops up and like brack hard drive failing, or having
like a light or an indicator light that's blink, it's
maybe it's solid now more like a power light.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
It's always working. Why is it working so hard?

Speaker 2 (37:22):
You have no indication of the level of intensity of
the load that your Mac is seeing under the hood.
So essentially what we're seeing in that situation is, if
you're at Mac has a removable hard drive, chances are
your hard drive is starting to have a failure, and
we can wallet before it fails. We can still clone everything.
We can still basically make it new again without a

(37:43):
whole lot of money, and then we can upgrade it.
We can move it to a faster, newer generation solid
state that maybe didn't exist when your Mac was built,
and it'll run faster than the day you got it now.
The other thing is people also don't understand that Max
can get viruses. Max need anti virus software.

Speaker 9 (38:01):
I've got on it.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Perfect perfect, and also MAX need maintenance. They need maintenance
like any other computer. They have a cash that builds up,
they have you know, they don't have a registry that
needs to be repaired. That's a Windows thing. But they
do have maintenance things. They do move air to cool components,
that's those vents and fans get full of dust and gunk,
just like any other computer. So I would suggest if

(38:25):
you bring it in for a maintenance checkout. Not only
are we going to clean up all the gunk to
make it as fast as it can be with the
hardware it's got. If you're having a bottleneck where for example,
you know, maybe you don't have as much memory as
you need to have, and your memory is upgradeable, we
can upgrade.

Speaker 9 (38:39):
I haven't even used half the memory on this computer.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Well, memory is different than the space. So the hard
drive space is how much storage you have in the
filing cabinet. Your memory is how many things your computer
can do at one time without giving you a spinning
beach ball or a bouncing window, or or a or
a you know, a thinking wheel while it's working on
blogging you in. So it could be that you're short
on computer memory, not storage space, but computer memory. Then

(39:03):
that's because every time you get an update from Apple
and all these other programs, it's asking your mac to
do more with the same resources it has. And if
you keep just like a human, if you keep piling
more work on them and only giving them eight hours
in a day, sometimes the work is going to carry
over to the next day. Things there's going to be
a delay and getting the work done. Just talk to
anybody who works at the irs, So any the long

(39:26):
and the short of it, Lawrence is, I would suggest
we start with a maintenance check up, especially since they're
on sale. It's cheapest way to get on the bench.
And while it's in there, if we're going to test
the hard drive, and if we find that the hard
drive is in a failure state, then we're going to
recommend a replacement for you, as long as it's replaceable.
Some Macs do not have replaceable hard drives. If it's
not replaceable and you're starting to have a hard driver

(39:47):
or a storage error, at that point, we want to
make sure you have a really good time machine backup
because you know, you need to start budgeting for a
new Mac essentially. And you know, some of those some
of those new M series Max are pretty powerful stuff.
Like our who does all of our AI work swears
by them, so you know they're they're pretty powerful little tools.

Speaker 9 (40:05):
I hate to say it, I bought an older edition
because it still had the plugins on the back. Ye
it had they had the M one and M chipped
two at what I bought this three years ago. But yeah,
I didn't like the fact I couldn't plug things into it.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Yeah, you know, and that's the thing everything is going
chip on board now, and thank you for the call, Lawrence.
And it's one of the one of the challenges I
had to explain to somebody. You know, why, why is
it that you know our laptops are what they are essentially,
is what he was asking. Why do you use this
chip instead of that chip? Why don't this brand new
chip is out? Why don't you have it? I'm like, well,
because when they put out the brand new stuff, it's
all chip on board, which means it's all one circuit board,

(40:40):
all one circuit board made in Taiwan, assembled in China,
shipped over here, or assembled in Mexico shipped over here.
By the way, guys, tariffs I we had our first
impact at shock on tariffs. Our power supplies apparently are
assembled in China, the power supplies we use in our
modular computers, and the price went up ten percent and
they directly passed all ten percent through us.

Speaker 4 (41:01):
We put an order in for.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
More power supplies yesterday, and our sales representative in California said, hey,
if you can order more, take more, because they're about
to be an additional ten percent tariff, so it's gonna
go up another ten percent and it's like, you know,
how many power supplies does a guy need. I mean,
it's like ten percent on the power supply. It's not
the end of the world. You know, if it's an
extra ten bucks, okay, so you know it's not the

(41:24):
end of the world. But I mean, if you can
save ten bucks and you're going to order seventy of them,
that's seven hundred bucks you're gonna save. I mean, I
would you rather have seven hundred dollars in your wallet
or would you rather just not so? So in this
one particular case, I'm gonna I told you I was
gonna be honest and straightforward with you when we experience
this stuff.

Speaker 4 (41:41):
What's happening.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
The cost of power supplies is being directly increased to
us the same proportion as the tariffs. In other words,
the Chinese company right now is not eating any of
the tariff costs. They're just passing it all on now.
That could result in lower sales volume, although we're still
buying the power supplies, so that would indicate to me
that probably won't because there is no other place to

(42:04):
buy power supplies four zero two five five eight eleven
ten eighty eight eight two five zero two zero nine
to one. How is AI perceived by the job market.
There was a Pew research study that came out and
said eighty percent of Americans do not use AI at work,
And a lot of you are sitting there right now
saying to yourselves, I knew it, I knew it so

(42:25):
or you've been talking about AI for like you built
a whole holiday special about it. I don't don't care
about AI. Well, let me reframe that result for you.
Twenty percent of the American workforce is using AI at work.
Interesting now, fifty two percent of employees are worried that

(42:47):
AI is going to hurt their future employment opportunities. So
over half of the workforce has some level of concern that,
you know, while AI is nice and it's making my
job a little easier, if it makes my job too easy,
I might not have a job. So there's some concern there.
Thirty six percent of employees who responded to this survey
are hopeful that their work will become easier as the

(43:09):
result of AI. They're saying, I see the potential here
my job, like Alfonso is saying, oh I hate posting
these video store man, My job will be so much
easier if you would just get an AI to do it.
So you know, he's got real important things to do,
and he's like posting the radio shows is kind of
beneath his skill set, right, so he's like, I got
to I have to code the new online system. Thor

(43:30):
come on, give me, give me my time back, So
four hours a week back to Alfonso.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
He's one of the thirty six percent that are hoping
that AI is going to make their jobs easier. Twenty
nine percent we're actually excited about what AI can do.
This is Tyler, He's the guy making the ass. This
is the doge brothers at know. Tyler's my own little
doge guy. You know, I don't know if he's going
to be offended by me calling him that. I don't
know what his political leanings are. I should probably be quiet,
but you know he but that's his skill set, that's

(43:58):
what he can do the same thing. So we're actually
doing that for SHOCK right now. And it's really cool
to see knowledge workers who work in it banking, finance,
like accounting, even in real estate are most likely to
be excited about AI. However, people who work in lower

(44:20):
income ranges are a lot more pessimistic about AI's impacts.
So your cashiers, your tellers, your people that are not
minimum wage but slightly above minimum wage, they're really concerned
that their jobs are going to be eliminated by AI.
Upper income workers, however, are not concerned in one bit
about AI, not concerned at all about it.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Now.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Where I say upper income workers, I mean not your
middle management class, but your upper management tier. They're looking
at all the things that AI is going to do
to make their operations work more effectively, and they know
that they're going to be in charge of deploying those solutions,
so they're not so worried. You know, right now, deploying
AI still a human thing. There's not an AI to deploy.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
The AI yet, so you know, it's like, heya, we're
not too worried about our jobs. But here's the interesting thing.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
Now.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Remember twenty percent of the American workforce is using AI
at work. Eighty percent is not. So you might conclude
from that that eighty percent of people are opposed to
using AI or don't see any value in doing it.
Only twenty four percent of the American workforce has had
any training whatsoever and how to use AI, so that

(45:32):
means they've trained twenty percent of the workforce and four
percent of them.

Speaker 4 (45:36):
Said, ah, I'm not going to use this garbage.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
And the other twenty percent are the ones that are
actually using the AI to make their jobs easier.

Speaker 4 (45:44):
So interesting.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
So if businesses train their employees more on how to
use AI, they might make their individual employees way more productive.
And productive employees are the ones who keep their jobs interesting.
What did you accomplish last week? Well, I implement a
AI to do all these things? Do you know how
to do that?

Speaker 4 (46:03):
Boss?

Speaker 6 (46:03):
No?

Speaker 2 (46:03):
I guess you keep me around then, aren't you for zero, two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten?
Gonna take our final break of the program. Here, Beth,
your call is coming up next. Also, Microsoft releasing another
series of patches for Windows eleven. We're gonna tell you
how to get those coming up next.

Speaker 6 (46:16):
On compute this computer problems usually don't just suddenly happen.
Most failures usually start out as small issues with few
or no symptoms.

Speaker 7 (46:24):
Over time, they grow.

Speaker 6 (46:25):
Into error messages, blue screens, and other problems that can
be costly to fix. Shrock innovations by annual preventative maintenance
check up catches those small problems now before they can
metastasize and become tomorrow's costly repairs. 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

(46:49):
efficiency while identifying potential issues while you still have.

Speaker 7 (46:52):
Options about how to handle them.

Speaker 6 (46:54):
When your computer gets its first check up, it can
see up to a twenty five percent performance improvement and
ves 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,

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Speaker 4 (48:52):
Quick update guys compute.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
This listener asked me the other day, Well, thor, why
don't you just make have AI make a video of
you answering questions for people, and then you know, basically
people can just send you in questions and the AI
could just answer them being you. And I actually thought,
you know, you was kind of tongue in cheek. He
was a joke, right, But then I thought about it
and I'm like, you know, we try to make social
media content, and if there's problems that come up with

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windows all the time, and there's a way to solve
those problems, I could sit there and cut a video
for each problem, like.

Speaker 4 (49:24):
Hey, guys, this is the problem.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
If you're having this problem, ninety nine percent of people
aren't having the problem. But it's a long tail approach,
so in other words, it's in the search results. So
anybody anywhere that searches for the problem finds my video,
maybe they find the radio show. You know, it's a
cool thing. It's a way to gain listeners. But that's
a lot of work to make all those videos. So
I said, Tyler, can we have we have a ton
of video and audio of me, can we sample that

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and train an AI to essentially create a deep fake
of me answering questions? And he was like, I've never
created a deep fake before, so that's interesting, which is
good because he only does jobs he finds interesting. Is interesting,
But just so I understand, you want to create a
deep fake of yourself?

Speaker 4 (50:06):
I like, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. And he's like, oh,
no one's ever asked me for that before. That's a
new one. But it was just an interesting thing. Could
we do that?

Speaker 2 (50:16):
And then would Meta have a problem with that, like
they have a rule against posting AI generated content? Like
would Meta have a rule or YouTube or anybody have
a rule with us posting videos that are AI generated
of a real person that we're generated by the person
wanting them to be generated. Because then I can answer
all the questions and post all the answers.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
I would literally have all the answers. WHOA for zero two.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Five, five, eight, eleven ten. You can talk to the
guy who's gonna soon have all the answers. That's what
Beth is doing. Beth, I hope I have the answer
for you, because I don't have the AI yet. So
this is you're you're dealing with out natural thhor here,
what can I do for your computer?

Speaker 4 (50:55):
He knows what OG means.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Somebody said that last year. I don't know what OG
means means original game.

Speaker 10 (51:01):
Question. I got a maintenance checkup that's due, but I
also bought the core upgrade, so I don't know if
the maintenance checkup is inside the core upgrade, and I
should maybe separate and have the check up now and
do the core upgrade later, or do them both at
the same time.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
If you can do them both at the same time,
there's no point in separating them. Whatever works best for
your schedule, because when we do the core upgrade, we're
replacing the motherboard and the processor and the memory. During
that process, testing the hard drive is a really good idea.
During that process, we're going to upgrade you to Windows
eleven if you're not already running Windows eleven, So we're

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going to do a maintenance checkup first to clean out
all the gunk and to try us to make sure
that the hard drive is clean when it starts, so
we're not transferring a bunch of junk into the new build. Essentially,
then when we're all done, you know, we're still going
to physically clean the computer. We're still going to make
sure that everything is running, that your antivirus protection is good,
that your secure updater is running that you're the drive
Advisor is installed in doing its thing. All those things

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are still going to happen because of the maintenance check,
so it doesn't hurt it all to do.

Speaker 4 (52:01):
Them both at the same time.

Speaker 9 (52:03):
Okay, thank you, Hey.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
Thank you, Beth. I was able to answer that one.
That was good.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
That was easy. Thank you for the easy question. Beth
didn't have the AI there to to crutch on during
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of Netflix password in his hotel, makes him get his
own account.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
I mean, it was it was a pretty rough weekend.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
So we're gonna I'm gonna make some friends on the
Aftershock today, and there are people who are not going
to be happy with what I have to say on
the Aftershock today, so it's controversial. We're gonna do that next,
So stay tuned. Facebook dot com, Slash, Shock Innovations. Also,
Microsoft has some patches, some optional patches that are gonna
deal with any kind of glitchy problems that your Windows
eleven is having right now. You have to open up

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the Microsoft Update app on your computer and then select
optional updates and install them, or you during the maintenance checkup,
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