Compute This 3-23-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Shrock Innovations presents the midwest number one independent computer repair
company with service centers and Lincoln Paul mahaf a billion
des Moines and across the country via the Shrock Desk.
This is compute This.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good morning, folks, welcome in to compute this. My name's
Thor Schrock. I'm the owner of the Shrock Innovations computer
company with four locations all across the listing area to
help you out when your computer isn't working right, when
you need someone to come to your house, pick it up,
bring it back. A lot of people don't realize that
we offer complimentary pickup and drop off. I had somebody
email me. A lot of people with the maintenance sale

(00:35):
have been emailing and saying, hey, can you do maintenance
checkups on site? Well, technically yes we can, but technically
know you wouldn't want us to because they take like
eight hours, and you know we can't bill you the
sale rate for eight hours of on site labor. It's
not like, you know, sixty five bucks to come to
your house for eight hours. It would be you know,
one hundred and seventy dollars an hour for eight hours,
so you really wouldn't want to do that, but we

(00:58):
can come to your house and pick up your computer,
bring it back to the shop, do the maintenance check up,
and then bring it back to you when it's done.
So that's kind of neat. We can do that for you,
So that's pretty cool. But for locations that can help
you out, We've got the the og Shrock Innovations just
south of fifteenth and Pine Lake Road in Lincoln, Nebraska.
If you're wondering where fifteenth and Pinelake Road is, it's
right beside fourteenth and Pinelake Road. That's a little easier

(01:20):
to find. In Omaha, we're at one hundred and one
hundred and sixty eighth in Burke Street, just across the
street from the Village Point Shopping Center in Papilion eighty
fourth and Highway three seventy in the Midlands Place Shopping Center.
And also in West des Moines, Iowa, ninety five hundred
University Avenue, the newest Shack Innovations location. They're opened up

(01:41):
in the middle of twenty twenty because we had nothing
better to do during a pandemic. Well, we have a
pretty good show, I'm if I do say so myself,
a pretty good show. Planned for you today if you
missed last week's show, just a quick reminder that you
can pop onto Facebook dot com slash Shrock Innovations and
watch today if you'd like. The last week's show is
able of course at Shrock Innovations dot com. Uh you

(02:02):
can go there, click on radio show and you can
watch the show, see the video, watch the after shocks.
They're all there. Last week there was not an after shock.
This week there will be one. So for those of
you who missed it last week and we're a little
salty about it, you know, I'll be back. It's all right,
but uh yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
We'll do.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
I have a good one. I actually planned the after
shock today. That tells you anything. So I don't go
on like a two hour ramble fest and we're gonna
we're gonna keep it. We're gonna keep a clock on it.
But if you missed the show last week, we talked
about the maintenance sale that was going on at Shock.
Of course, we talked about T Mobile raising their cost
per wireless line by five dollars and who was gonna

(02:39):
be impacted by that. We warned you about deep fake
scams that everybody assumes are just you know, they only
go after big businesses, and they do, but they're also
coming for consumers now, things where they're they're calling you
on the phone and they're they're usurping somebody's voice. It
sounds like it's somebody you know. They talk like someone
you know, and it's not so one.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
You know.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Usually this has been something you get through an email scam.
Now it's actually coming through voice, you know, and even video,
even a video chat. Now, let's sign on to a
Zoom meeting and here's your boss on video telling you
to go buy gift cards and send them the gift
card numbers. You know, this has happened. This has happened
to Shrock employees where they oh, yeah, Bill, it's happened
to you two.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Here, Yeah, it's happened to me. I got I got
scammed out of one. Sounded just like the guy that
I worked for, and I ended up getting scammed four
hundred bucks.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
So you know, that's just something about you, Bill, that
you're a good enough guy that if your boss called
you and said, can you spot me four hundred bucks,
that you would spot your boss four hundred I.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Was brand new at the time, and he said he's
going to reimburse me.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
You're buying in. You're buying in.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
So they got me on that one.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh boy. So yeah it there you go, guys. It happens.
And so we told you all about how that happens
last week, so you can watch out for it. Also,
we told you about your those capsure things like that
that I approve you're a human. Click the fire hydrants,
or click the bicycles, or click the motorcycles or the
buses or the crosswalks or whatever. Well, if they ask
you to copy and paste something, that's that's a scam,

(04:05):
that's a virus, that's something that's going to infect your computer.
So we warned you don't copy and paste to verify
that you're a human, just as a rule, don't do that.
Coming up on the program today, you know, it's hard
to believe this, guys. It feels like we just launched
the maintenance check up sale. But this is the final week.
I mean, we got like nine days left, so I mean,
we'll have one more radio show before the end, but
I mean this is essentially the final week of the

(04:26):
maintenance checkup sale at Shrock. It has gone by so quickly.
We've had so many people purchased certificates. Not as many
people actually came in this time as purchase certificates. So
the shops they were in q where you know, basically
there's not a shortage of work in other you know,
one computer comes off the bench, there's another one ready
to come on the bench. So the guys had a good, stable,
consistent workflow. But they were also able to keep turnaround

(04:48):
times really reasonable for the most part, so that was
really great. It was great service. Great job from everybody
at SHOCK making sure that our customers get taken care of,
which is the most important thing. We're a service company
that happens to provide technology solutions, not a technology solutions
company that tries really hard to provide service. It's the
other way around. And you know, that's one of the
reasons why we've been around for twenty six years is

(05:10):
because we realized that. You know, I went to a
restaurant yesterday and I picked up dinner. It was my
son's birthday party, so my wife had been doing birthday
stuff all day. She's like, I just I don't want
to cook, and I was like, well, you know, I
don't want to make anything either, So let's go. Let's
go grab some burgers. So I'm not going to say
where we went, but you know, I went and did
some takeout. We got some burgers, brought them back to
the house, you know, and of course, husbands, husbands, husbands,

(05:32):
I want you to listen to my words. When you
go get takeout. It is your job as the man
of the house, as the leader of your household, you
are obligated. At least I've been told to open the
bag and count the food items to ensure that everybody's
food is in the bag. Because they gave me two bags,

(05:53):
and I thought, surely two bags of food is enough,
and I took it home and apparently I missed bag
three or they didn't hand me bag.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Three or whatever.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
So I was missing a burger in two sides. So
I called the restaurant back, and I mean the kid
that answered the phone, I mean, you could tell he
was getting trained. It was like his first week, maybe
first day, I don't know, And he was all sheepish
and you know, mumbler kind of. And it's a loud
environment and I'm half deaf, and you know, you're you're
mumbling at me, kid, and I'm trying to be polite.
And I'm just tired. It was a birthday day. We

(06:22):
went to the sac Museum, did a bunch of stuff,
and I'm just tired, you know. And I'm like, quit
mumbling at me, and just give me my food please.
So he goes back. I didn't say that, of course,
you know. So he goes back and gets my food
and brings it to me. And I get home and
I don't have the food. And then I'm like, I
call and who answers the phone. It's the Mumbler kid,
Like all right, well, yeah, so it appears that, you know,
I'm missing some items from my order, and I was

(06:43):
unreasonably upset about it. Like in my head, I was
like very angry, and I was reminding myself, like everybody
makes mistakes, and we make mistakes at shock and sometimes customers,
you know, feel this way too, And I really appreciate
it when they're nice to our staff even though we
made a mistake. So I'm gonna be nice to this guy.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna get grumpy, I'm not
gonna get upset. I'm just gonna, hey, there was a mistake.

(07:04):
We just need to make it right. Focus on the solution,
go go and get the you know, he says, okay,
well let me hold on just a second, like okay,
not great phone etiquette, but okay, I got the message.
And he sets the receiver down on the counter. You
hear the click the clack as he sets it down,
and then you know, you can hear him talking to
someone in the back, like the Charlie Brown boy. You

(07:25):
can't understand what he's saying, but you can hear him talking.
And then the female manager and then you know, she
picks up the hands that she goes is he on mute?
And I'm like, nope, not on mute. And she's like, oh,
so sorry, Yeah, I don't know what you were saying,
but I didn't hear any I didn't say that I
was let her believe I heard everything not on mute.

(07:46):
But that's okay. So here's what the album missing my
food items. I go back to the restaurant, I get
my food items. Uh. They threw three chocolate chip cookies
in the bag from from my from my make good
on my Time, and I thought, well, at least they
tried to. No one said so I'd rather have a
sorry than three cookies. I'm on a cut right now,
I can't eat the cookies. So I gave the cookies
to the teenage kids that were eating with me, and

(08:07):
they were very happy to get the cookies. But I digress.
I don't know how I got off on the tangent
that's not on the agenda here. But you know, one
of the things that we are as a service company,
and so one of the things that I try to
do whenever I go on vacation, whenever I'm out out
of my element out in the world and I'm experiencing
service somewhere else, I'm always looking for things that go
right because I want to incorporate those things into my business,

(08:28):
and I'm looking for things that go wrong because I
want to prevent those things from happening in my business.
We have a newer guy working at one of the
service centers and I called into the shop because you know,
Marissa gave me a call and she said, hey, THO,
I need to talk to you about something. Nothing bad
or urgent, but she called on a Friday, and Friday
is kind of my day off, and you know, I'm
not like one of those like my day off, don't
call me if there's something, you know, you need, you know,

(08:50):
feel free to call me. So she texted me and said,
when you have time, call and I said, okay, I'm
out with Kim right now. I'll call you later. So
I called her. You know, she's off at six. I
call it five point fifty nine because you know, not
non on purpose, just because that's the time I remember
to call. And she'd left for the day, already cutting
out a minute early. Marissa, come on. And so it
was Friday. She's like, I'm out. And so one of
the guys answers the phone and he's newer on the phones,

(09:12):
and I'm like, Hi, is Marissa available? And he said no,
he didn't know it was me and he said no,
and that was it, just no, And I thought, okay, well,
you know he answered the question, and I said, okay,
well I'll go ahead and call her on her cell. Okay,

(09:33):
thanks for calling.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Bye.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Hey. He ended the call. That's good. Good training there,
And so I had the opportunity to talk with him
later and I'm like, you know, in the future, if
somebody asks for someone particular, usually you would say no,
and you would follow up with can I help you with?
Is there something I can help you with? And he said,
I thought that might have been you on the phone,
and like all the more reason he was great. So anyway,

(09:55):
we try to train our guys in Galas to do
really great service and not you know, and make sure
everything gets in your bag essentially, you know, so you
don't have to check your your computer order before you
head out. But if you're looking to take advantage of
the maintenance checkup special, it's thirty percent off right now
at Shrock we time is almost up on the sale.
You can bring your computer in and get a really
great turnaround time right now. You don't need an appointment

(10:16):
or anything. You can just drop it off at any
of the for service centers, especially des Moines. Des Moin
is completely caught up. They are ready to rock and roll.
If you want a quick turnaround on a maintenance checkup
or something, des Moin is ready to help you out.
If it's not convenient for you to come in right
now because you know, you have a kid's birthday party,
or you're going to the sac Museum, or you know,
perhaps you have to go back to the restaurant to

(10:36):
get your burgers. You know, if anything like that is
on your agenda today and you don't have time to
bring your computer in for a maintenance check. Just go
to Shock Innovations dot com, click on shop and then
specials and you can buy a certificate. That certificate is
good for six months, so anytime in the next six
months that it works for you, you can bring your
computer in. You don't have to print the certificate or
anything like that. We know if you have one or not.

(10:58):
Just come in present your computer. We say, oh, you've
got a certificate, and then we go ahead and use
it for you. So we're gonna go ahead and get
that taken care of for you and get your maintenance
check up done when it works for your schedule. So
please don't miss out on this opportunity. I am looking
at the promotional calendar. Guys. We normally try to do
two maintenance checkup sales a year, you know, coincidentally spaced
out by about six months, if you catch my drift,

(11:20):
because they're due every six months. But we have a
lot of events happening later this year. We have a
new version of Windows eleven coming out in the September
October November area October. We have Windows ten going end
of life, so you know we're gonna have some kind
of a computer sale or something that month, so the
promotional calendar is looking a little crowded. Six months from now,
so if you catch my drift, there may not be

(11:42):
another maintenance checkup sales, So if you did come in
for maintenance, you might want to pick up another certificate now,
So six months from now, you have one to burn
if you catch my drift for zero two five, five,
eight eleven ten eight eight eight two five zero two
zero nine to one. If you're outside the metro area,
as we do every week, we'll give away twenty five
dollars to one lucky caller who calls in, asks a question,

(12:03):
makes a comment. Can you know anything you want to
talk about? Doesn't have to be you know, some supercomputer question,
because honestly, guys, if you have a question, I guarantee
you that you're just the brave one in the class
that's going to raise their hand because everybody else is
sitting there thinking the same thing. And people learn people
learned it from the show. I always get Hey, I
love your show so much. I always learned something new.
Most of the things that people learn that are new

(12:24):
are the result of callers asking questions and me saying, oh, well,
let me explain why that's the way it is, and
people are like, I didn't know that. That's amazing stuff.
You know, you learn fun facts in life that way.
My wife hit me up with a with a fun fact.
It's not really fun if it happens to you. But
do you know that is what bill? If you had
to guess what is the survival rate for people who

(12:46):
fall and break their hip, how many people die from that,
I'll say percentage seventy. Oh, seventy percent of people who
fall and break their hip die from it. I just
came up in conversation because I took a nasty spill
on the black ice feet up in the air, landed
on my shoulder blades, blew my hat off my head,

(13:07):
my glasses flew off my head. I compressed all the
soft tissues in the front of my neck against my
collarbones somehow, so I feel like I've been choked, like
I have a tenderness around my neck.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Well, I'm glad you survived.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Oh good, Well, it was one of those things where
I got up really fast because you want to make
sure you can get up. And I don't know why
if you feel like if I get up quick.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Number one, I'll slip and fall again. But if I
get up quick, then I'm okay. But if I lay
on the ground a minute, I might just decide I'm
not okay. Yeah, so I just got up. Katie had
to get to school, so I got up and took
her to school.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
That's good philosophy.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, get up quick. So yeah, if you fall and
break a hip, get up quick, survival. That's the difference
between the seventy and the thirty. I guess hmmm. So yeah.
You see, when people ask questions and make comments about things,
you'll learn new facts and that's how that's how we
educate on this program, guys. But you didn't know that.
So one thing I'll smack you up with that I
learned doing show prep this week for the program. You know,

(14:03):
we use in all of our laptops. We use a
SUS as our base model for the laptop. The reason
we use them is because a SUS makes a lot
of the hardware. They have second and third party manufacturing companies.
They make a lot of the hardware that goes into
dells and hps and stuff like that through their Pegatron
company and other stuff. But if you want to get
the real high value stuff, you grab an a SEUs

(14:24):
because they're where it all comes from. And so we
sell a Sus laptops because they're light, they're powerful, and
they have like lots of plentiful ports and options, and
they can run multiple monitors and all kinds of crazy things. Well,
now there was a study that came out. It was
a reader's Choice twenty twenty five your favorite laptop brands,

(14:46):
and a Sus actually came in third overall among PC manufacturers. Now,
they were fourth if you include Apple, because Apple is
not a PC. Apple is an Apple, so they were fourth.
Apple came in third essentially, so they were they were
third in PC manufacturers overall for overall. Everybody loving them.
Now that means a Sus beat Dell, they beat Lenovo,

(15:11):
they beat Acer, they beat Samsung, they beat HP. The
only two brands that scored higher than a SUS were LG,
which I was shocked by. I mean, if you said
buy an LG laptop, I wouldn't buy an LG monitor,
let alone an LG lapto. I owned an LGTV wants
and it was awful, So I mean it soured me
on the brand. But I guess LG laptops are the

(15:34):
highest rated laptops in the world for customer satisfaction, like
nine point eight out of ten, So maybe I'll have
to take a look at LG laptops just to make
sure I'm not missing something there. But and MSI laptops,
now we don't like MSIs at shock why they are
impossible to source repair parts for. So, yes, you get
a great value when you buy the unit, but it's
kind of like an ACER. You get it really cheap

(15:55):
when you buy it, but when you have to source
parts for it, they're either hard to find or you
have to buy use parts because the same part on
everybody's ace or breaks all the time, and then you
can never get parts from ASER for it, so you
just left with something you'd have to pay a lot
of money to fix that you didn't pay a lot
of money for in the first place, so you just
throw it away. And MSI is not different in that regard.

(16:15):
But they actually score really high on customer satisfaction overall,
which is great. ASU scored second among high performance laptops.
This would be gaming laptops or laptops that you would
consider Holiday special grade, so that's one of the reasons why,
I mean think I think one year in the last decade,
we used a non Asus laptop for the holiday special.

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HP won a whole bunch of design awards for a
model one year and it was really slick, and so
we use that for the holiday special and it was
well received. But you know, for the most part, this
is why As scored second among performance laptops. They scored
number one in screen quality. That means they beat Samsung
for screen quality. That's crazy. So just fun, fun facts

(16:58):
that you might not realized. When you pick up your
or solid state laptop from Shock. We take that Acus
laptop and then we modify it six ways from Sunday.
So we're taking something that's already highly rated and making
it even better. So when you're looking for your next laptop,
be sure to check out that line of solid state
laptops at Shrock. You can see them all at Shrock
Innovations dot com. Four zero two five five eight eleven
ten or eight eight eight two five zero two zero

(17:19):
nine to one. It's breaky break time. We're gonna take
a quick break. Care when we come back, I'm gonna
tell you what's happening with your Amazon A Word device.
I won't say her name because it'll activate everybody's household everywhere.
But your Amazon a Word device is experiencing a privacy
change next week by default, they are lowering your privacy
by default. Next week, We're gonna tell you what you

(17:41):
want to watch out for coming up next on compute this.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
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someone who has. It's unfortunate, but sometimes the technology we
rely on simply fails. And the last question you want
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(18:07):
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Speaker 5 (18:21):
Sometimes you only get one.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
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Speaker 5 (18:41):
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Speaker 6 (18:50):
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Speaker 1 (18:54):
The next time your.

Speaker 6 (18:55):
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Speaker 4 (19:00):
Laptops are subjected to some of the most stressful computing
situations imaginable. They get dropped, stepped on, slap shut, and
pushed until the battery dies. Sometimes your laptop works hard
for you, so when it has a problem, take it
to the laptop experts at Shrock Innovations.

Speaker 5 (19:17):
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Speaker 4 (19:19):
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(19:42):
if you have never been into our service centers before,
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Speaker 5 (19:46):
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Speaker 4 (19:48):
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or your two year old decides a glass of milk
is exactly what your laptop needs to cool off, Take
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Speaker 2 (20:08):
All righty folks, welcome back into compute this. I'm still
Thor's Shock, and I still own the Shock Innovations computer company,
and it's still a really cool place to have your
preventative maintenance done on your existing computer. Why should you
do this? Why should you do preventive maintenance on a computer? Because,
like we just said with maybe you're looking at your
acer and saying, well, Thor, you just said, when it breaks,
I'm gonna throw it away, and you could do that.

(20:29):
One of the things I had a customer email me
and he was asking about minis and he wanted to
know the specs on the minis and what you know,
if you could finance one on a freeom modular and
some different questions like that. And if you look at
our website you won't find the minis right now. People
who know Shock know we have them, but we're not
actively marketing them right now. And there's a couple of

(20:50):
reasons for that that I can't get into on the show,
but nothing bad. It's just we have plans in the
future for them, and we have some dates in certain
that are in mind. We're spa are going to change,
for example, so we don't want to advertise a bunch
of specifications now and then have someone think about it
for a month and then come back and then where
did that computer go? Did you raise the price? What happened?
You know, No, it's not that. It's just the model

(21:12):
end of life and we move to a new model.
So he was asking all these questions about, you know,
the computer models and everything, and for the minis, and
you know it, it's one of those things where we
want to make sure we're providing the types of technology
that people want. And the minis, they took me by surprise,
the customers who see the mini in person when we

(21:33):
tell them this can do everything your desktop can do. Everything,
and it's you know, six by six by two six
inches by six inches by two inches, and it can
do everything your computer. It can do everything our mid
range Endeavor can do, even support dual monitors. And it's
just this tiny little box. It takes up so little space.

(21:56):
I mean, it's just an amazing piece of technology. So,
you know, no wonder people are interested in it. And
we have some big plans for the Mini, some big
plans for the Mini. That's good. Yeah, big mini plans. Uh,
that's gonna be the marketing life. It's gonna be the
big Mini.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
I can see the billboard now.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Large, Mini, Mini large. We just have a billboard. It's
a giant billboard with just a little Mini on it.
Tick a tiny little Mini in the middle, with.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Your face with a big old thumbs up Mini large.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Pointing at it.

Speaker 7 (22:25):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
We don't have to put my face on everything. I
already have the whole radio show. I don't. Yeah, it's
one of the things guys, you know that it's like
people are like, oh, that's thorst company. They used to
say you're so young to own such a large company.
But they don't say that anymore. Maybe a company got smaller.
Maybe that's what happened. Yeah, that's probably why. That's probably why.
All right, four zero two, five, five, eight eleven, ten's
number to join us on the program. Alex is making
some privacy changes by default on March twenty eighth. We're

(22:47):
gonna get to that in just a moment. But first, Frank,
welcome to the program. How can I help you today?
On compute this eight morning, I.

Speaker 7 (22:56):
Used a debit card at a gas station and they
still my information off the debit card. Yeah, skimmer, And yeah,
I was wondering would Apple pay be safer to use
on my iPhone?

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Well, yeah, I mean one of the things that Apple
Pay does, very much like PayPal originally did, was you
you enter all of your card information into the Apple
Secure system, and then when you go to pay someone
with Apple Pay, it never reveals your card information to
the merchant. So people who buy if you like, if
you went to Shock Innovations right now and you wanted
to buy a maintenance certificate and you used PayPal to

(23:32):
pay for it, you know, we never get your credit
card number. Ever, you know, we get your email address
associated with your PayPal account. That's it. And you know
you can use that to pay in the future, and
Apple pay works the same way. The other thing that
I use on the gas pumps all the time now
because my wife's gotten hit by skimmers so many times,
especially when we're traveling and I'm looking for the skimmers

(23:52):
and she's getting hit. I mean, we're not stupid people,
So please don't feel bad, frank Like, even if you're
looking for it, it can be really hard to spot
because you know, you're if you're out traveling, you don't
look at this gas pump every day. You don't think
it looks different than last week. You know, it's just
it's the it's the card reader. But most of the
pumps now also have a contact list, like a tap
to pay little pad that you can tap your chip on.

(24:14):
Those can't be skimmed.

Speaker 7 (24:17):
Okay, so if.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
You Apple pay would be a great way to shield that.
But if you're gonna use Apple Pay, that means you're
using tap to pay, And if it supports tap to pay,
you can just tap your credit card on the on
the sensor and and pay that way rather than swiping
your card in the terminal.

Speaker 7 (24:33):
So it is one safer than the other.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Well, tap to pay is you know, people get freaked.

Speaker 7 (24:38):
Out using the phone or the debit card. Is one
safer than the other.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Well, if I would encourage you to set up Apple
Pay if you haven't done so already, because Apple Pay
can be used across the Internet on lots of websites.
In fact, we're in the process of integrating it in
on Shock's website now, so that if you have Apple
pay you instead of you having to type in your card.
My wife grumbles every time she goes to buy something
online and she has to get out her card and
type in her whole number because she's so used to

(25:04):
having an Apple Pay option. She just taps Apple Pay,
It pops up, says which card do you want to use?
It gives her the last four of a bunch of cards.
She taps on the card that she wants, and it
just pays and she doesn't have to get out her wallet.
She doesn't have to look at her card number because
the card number is never sent to the merchant. So
having Apple Pay set up has benefits. Aside from gas
pumps and tap to pay, you can use it on
the internet as a much safer way to pay, So

(25:26):
I would encourage you to set.

Speaker 7 (25:27):
It up okay, thanks, thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
Hey, no worries, Frank, thanks for the call. For those
of you who don't use iPhone, if you use an
Android phone, and said, Google pay does the same thing.
Samsung Wallet does the same thing. They're kind of neat
and now I can. I can. Actually, the other day
I took my daughter to the shot. That's her big
thing around. She wants to go to the mall and
go shopping, but all she wants to shop for our
lol surprise balls, and there's only they're only at five below,

(25:50):
So we just end up spending like four hours at
a five below. But hey, it's father daughter time. Even
if it's painful, you know, it's quality time. And we
get all the way out to the mall and she's excited.
We talked about it all week. And we get to
the mall and we go into the store. We're walking
in there and we're looking around five below, and about
halfway through five below, I realized I don't have my wallet. Yep,
don't have my wallet. Oh boy, And I'm like, wait,

(26:13):
my watch. I look at my watch and sure enough,
my Samsung wallet has one of my one of my
credit cards in it, so I can tap my watch
on the terminal to pay save my save my biscuits,
and save me from being a bad dad too. So
setting up those wallets can really be beneficial. Four zero, two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten. So Amazon Alexa is going to is going
to implement a it's called Alexa Plus. It's an AI

(26:34):
equipped processing for your voice commands. Now, why on earth
would you want this? What are the benefits? Let's start there.
What are the things you're gonna get when they do this? Now,
if you if you've set up Alexa to have access
to these things, Alexa can look through your email I
keep saying the name I shouldn't say that over and
over again. The A word, can look through your documents.

(26:57):
A can also look through news report and things like
that and literally learn to filter information the way you
want it. So it can learn essentially what you're doing.
If you order something online and they send you an
email receipt and you say, what when is my wat
your majigger gonna ship? It can go look through the
receipts and find a tracking number and tell you when
it's gonna ship. So it has some actual helpful applications

(27:22):
that can make your life easier now, what is the
price you're paying for that. You may or may not
have done this, But when you originally set up your
aword device and asked you if you wanted to store
the recordings of your voice locally or upload them to
the cloud for analysis, privacy concerned people read the privacy
policy and said I want them stored locally, so that
they did not go to the cloud. Therefore, Amazon never

(27:43):
had your voice recordings. They could never analyze them, they
could never store them, all that stuff. That's what's changing.
Amazon is saying, unfortunately, the A word devices aren't powerful
enough to do AI processing locally, so it can't analyze
everything locally. So what's gonna happen on March twenty eighth
is if you select did local only, what's gonna happen
is any recordings stored on your A word device are

(28:05):
going to be automatically deleted and then every new voice recording.
And what is a voice recording, It's when you issue
a command to your A word device, it records that
and then it's gonna upload it to the Amazon Cloud,
analyze it, and then immediately delete it. So yeah, they're
gonna keep it safe by deleting it after they've analyzed
it and cataloged it and databased it for you. And

(28:26):
that way, if you ever turn on your AI functions,
it will already know you essentially and be able to
do what you need it to do. However, it will
not have access to the AI options until you enable
and allow the storage of your voice commands online, if
that makes sense. So you're gonna get stored online no
matter what you do. But if you want the AI benefits,

(28:47):
you have to tell them it's okay to do that,
but they're gonna do it anyway. This report brought to
you by the Show Innovations Computer Company, where everything is
always sunny and happy. For zero two five to five
a A if you're outside the metro area eight eight
eight two five zero two zero nine to one Franks
in the drawing right now, for that twenty five dollars
short gift certificate. If you want to take it from him,

(29:08):
you can do that. You can be that guy or
that gal, be that Meani. In the meantime, while you
think about that, we're going to take a quick break
here because we got a big one. When we come back,
where all we I try to find AI stories that
are actually applicable, like things that you can we can
actually learn from, rather than ooh AI it's scary or
ooh AI it's great. You know, the State of Pennsylvania

(29:30):
tested AI on its state workers. I shouldn't say that
sounds like the medical procedure. They they gave AI to us,
to their state workers to see what would happen to
their job performance if they had AI tools to help
them do their job, and they got some data back
that was kind of surprising. So I'm going to share
that data with you so you can get an idea

(29:51):
of what the future for AI is going to look like.
Coming up next on compute this.

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Speaker 2 (32:25):
All righty folks, welcome back into compute.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
This.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
My name is Thor Schrock. I'm the owner of these
Shock Innovations computer company.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
For better or for.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Worse, it's mine, mine, Oh mine, Oh boy. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
We definitely had that bad guy laugh down.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yeah. Well, yeah, you practice it for years, twenty six years,
you know. Uh boy, I I got stories. They're the
kind of stories you don't tell on the radio. But
they're the kind of story and you can't even tell
them on the aftershock really, but you know, they're just
like sometimes you just wish you had a website where
you could rate customers, like you could warn businesses like

(33:00):
this person's crazy, don't let them into your business, don't
sell them anything, because we twenty twenty five has had
a hell of a Bengo car this year for Shrock.
I mean, it's been crazy, but yeah, I digress. The
it's been one of those years already, and we know
we're only in the first quarter still and the maintenance

(33:20):
check up sales almost over guys, so that's coming up
done in nine days here we can. It's hard to
believe the month of March has flown by so quickly.
So if you have not come in for your maintenance checkup,
if you need one, please do come in. We're We
sent out some emails, of course, we did Facebook posts.
Then we sent for the first time an SMS message
that was targeted to people that we knew had assets

(33:43):
we call them assets, or had computers that needed maintenance
that haven't had it in the last I think we
said twelve months. We were pretty generous with the we
didn't want to spam text a bunch of people that
were just in like six months and a day ago,
you know, And so we sent out something like sixteen
thousand text messages to customers, sixteen thousand households because you know,
we didn't if you had three computers, we didn't send
you three messages. We just sent you one for you

(34:05):
have a computer that needs a maintenance checkup. And so
we've got a response back on that. So now we're
actually going to generate the last phase of this sale, guys,
as we're going to generate a list of customers who
typically buy the certificates, who have bought in the past,
but who have not bought this time for some reason.
And so and then we're going to let you know
we're going to call you and make sure Hey, maybe
you haven't heard the program, maybe you didn't see the email.

(34:27):
You know, text message gets scoops up by spam now too,
So we're going to actually reach out to you and
make sure that you know that the maintenance checkup sale
is on, that you should get a certificate. If you can't,
come in now and do it because you always do
this typically, and the price is thirty percent off this year,
so I mean, it's the savings is amazing. You you're
not not seeing discounting right now. That's one of the

(34:48):
things actually in retail in the first quarter, in the
in the fourth quarter, there was tons of discounting, which
is why all the stores had really great uh fourth quarters,
because there were so many sales and specials and stuff.
But then it all dried up in the first quarter,
and the retail numbers went through the floor in the
first quarter because there's no specials, there's no sales, there's
no nothing. I mean, Athleta was sending my wife fifty

(35:11):
dollars gift cards, not a coupon. This is a fifty
dollars gift card. You can come into the store by
anything you want, and here's fifty dollars off. So if
it's less than fifty bucks, you can have it for free.
If it's more than fifty bucks, here's fifty dollars off.
And she thought she was very happy to get that,
like this was better than a coupon because it was
a gift card. And you see, Thor's brain sees these
service things and says, telling customers you appreciate them by

(35:33):
sending them free money makes people happy. Huh who tonew
who to thunk it? So one of the other things
that makes people happy is making their jobs easier. And
the state of Pennsylvania, led by Governor Josh Shapiro, decided
it was going to test to see what impact AI
would have on its state workforce. We're hearing a lot

(35:56):
about this from DOJE and this is one of the reasons.
I mean, I know this is not a political show,
but why did the Democrats decide? Why did Chuck Schumer
decide to not shut the government down and go ahead
and vote for Trump's spending package. He did that because
the government shutting down, the DOGE team was ready to
automate their functions. So, yes, social Security payments will still

(36:21):
get made, and we don't need the people to do
them because we've always been curious about how we can
automate that. Let's just automate it. It's just rules and payments.
It can all be done by computer. It's done by
people typing on computers. So do we really need the people?
And once it's automated, once you have the software to
do it, why would you bring the people back after
the government reopens. So, yeah, everyone was mad at Chuck

(36:46):
Schumer for not shutting the government down over this, But
what Chuck Schumer was saying, you morons. What you don't
realize is if we do this, they're not gonna stop.
They're gonna just automate everything and they don't need the
people to do that. And once it's automated, it's not
going to get unautomated. And that's the power of AI.
So when you do something stupid like you raise the

(37:08):
minimum wage for a fast food worker to twenty dollars
an hour in California, yeah, business owners are going to
find ways to use technology to replace them. Where literally,
I mean there was one restaurant in California that when
you will go into place your order, there wasn't like
an order kiosk we had to type on the screen.
They just basically had a zoom call with someone in
Malaysia who took your order from Malaysia. And then you

(37:30):
go to your pickup counter and the screen there would
pop on and it was the same lady that took
your order from Malaysia saying your orders in the kitchen
right now, it's being cooked up and it'll be ready
for you in about three and a half minutes. Thank
you for your business. We really appreciate it. Better service
than you were getting from the humans that were there.
It's unintended consequences. So one hundred and seventy five employees
across fourteen different agencies got to use chat GPT in

(37:56):
their regular daily workflow to help them automate whatever aspect
of their job they wanted to automate. It could have
been writing reports, it could have been analyzing data, anything
they wanted to. Fifty percent of the employees in the
study had never used chat GPT before. Fifty percent of
them had used it in the past. Eighty five percent
of employees reported that their experience of using chat GPT

(38:19):
to make their jobs easier was eighty five percent somewhat
positive or very positive. Eighty five percent had a positive
response they thought this is great. Why did they think
it was great? Chat GPT saved their employees ninety five
minutes a day on average, per employee, ninety five minutes

(38:40):
a day. It's an hour and a half a day
of time saved where they were doing monotonous bureaucratic stuff
that you can automate through AI.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
Now.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Governor Josh Shapiro was very careful with this. He specifically said, quote,
but let me be clear, AI will never replace our workers.
Instead We're equipping them with the best tools to do
what they do best, get stuff done for Pennsylvanians, and

(39:09):
build a training set for the next AI agent we're
going to implement. Because political sentiment is one thing, and
saying things like this are nice, But let me do
the math for you on this. One ninety five minutes
per day per employee. Now, this is just one hundred
and seventy five employees that tested it. Okay, not all

(39:32):
the employees tested it in the state government. This is
just one hundred and seventy five people in the state
of Pennsylvania. Take ninety five minutes times five days a week,
times one hundred and seventy five employees, you get one
thy three hundred and eighty five hours of time saved.
Divide that by a forty hour work week. Because it's
a week and you have thirty four full time equivalents,

(39:53):
it's actually thirty four point eight, but you can't fire
point eight people, So thirty four full time equivalent could
be replaced in state government if we just implemented a
little a little bit a basic AI and a bit
of basic AI training on a workstaff that's only half
familiar with with how AI works. So that's why Chuck

(40:14):
Schumer didn't shut the government down, guys, because if that
happened there, you can automate tons of things in government
with AI agents and make them completely automated where no
human intervention is required. They will follow the set of rules.
If the laws change, you simply change the instruction. You
can send an email to the AI agent saying the
law just changed and now we have to do it
this way, and the AI AI agent will reply back

(40:37):
and say okay, and it'll just do it that way
like it's a human. That's how powerful this stuff is.
And that's it's the new stuff. This is like brand new.
This isn't even like this is like model t AI agents.
This is not Ferrari AI agents or you know what
they're going to be capable of in the future. Haven't

(40:58):
even been automated yet. And they say one hundred or
thirty four full time equivalents just by autumn by giving
AI tools to one hundred and seventy five employees. So
there you go. I mean, are we gonna lose jobs
to AI in the future. Probably yeah, And they're probably
gonna be the menial jobs, the tedious jobs, the bureaucrat jobs,
the accountant jobs. They're gonna be the jobs that have

(41:20):
well defined rules where things apply. There's no gray areas. Now,
are they going to be able to replace the mumbling
kid at the restaurant? Probably not. AI doesn't mumble well,
and you know you're at a restaurant. It's a service business.
So one of the things I'm saying, salespeople are going
to be replaced by AI. Prospecting is gonna get replaced
by a You're gonna have virtual sales agents prospecting you

(41:42):
and then handing it off to their business partner, who
is a human being once it's a qualified lead. So
you're going to see a lot of automation and calling
and emailing and things like that. And I'm seeing that
in my inbox already for 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
one if you would like to call from outside of
the metro area. You know, one of the things, this

(42:04):
is just an aside. This isn't in the schedule, but
I've got a couple extra minutes, so I'm gonna mention this.
I read a crazy story last night, like like ten
o'clock at night that Microsoft CEO announced they discovered a
fourth state of matter and it's going to revolutionize the
way that we look at the entire world, the same
way that Newton's Apple revolutionized the way we looked at gravity.

(42:26):
And I'm like, what the heck is this right? And
they said, so, it's not a solid, it's not a liquid,
it's not a gas. And they also added, it's not
plasma because you know the plasma. You know this thing,
and this is spooky as heck. It's solid like titanium,
but it flows like a liquid when you apply an

(42:47):
electrical current to it. It can take any shape instantly
based on the electrical current you apply to it, rigid shape.
And then there was some cryptic reference to and in
the process of doing this, it defines its own reality.
So this has quantum computing applications. Essentially. The reason we

(43:07):
don't have quantum computers on a massive scale is because
when you scale up quantum computers, things get funky, like
weird doctor strange stuff starts happening. Spider men pop out
of portals, there's a spider pig, you know, all kinds
of crazy things. Happen, so it's not super reliable. Microsoft
is saying that this breakthrough that took them six hundred
and seventy some odd prototypes that failed and a warehouse

(43:29):
fire to figure out. Yeah, they threw the warehouse fire
in for fun. I guess, I don't know. They said,
now they've cracked it, and this is going to revolutionize
the way we do AI computing, or excuse me, the
way we do quantum computing, which of course has applications
to AI. So if Microsoft has actually discovered a real
fourth state of matter, does this not sound like the

(43:50):
liquid terminator? Like you, it could take the shape of
anything it saw or touch. It was anything it touched,
it could take its shape. So it's like the electrical current.
Oh there we go. I can become your face. And
it was like the terminator. That's what this sounds like.
We can shoot it with a current and it takes
whatever shape we want, spirals, staircases, whatever we want. I mean,

(44:11):
that is some pretty powerful tech if that's true. Man,
Microsoft stock is about to go pop. So I thought
i'd share that little nugget with you since you like
to learn new things on the program. It's not really
a tech story. It's not really like there's no application
for it yet. I don't know what they're gonna do
with it yet, aside from quantum computing. But it's not
every day that somebody discovers a whole nother state of matter, right,

(44:32):
I mean states of matter are the states of matter,
but now there might be a whole, brand new one
thanks to Microsoft. Four zero two five five eight eleven
ten eight eight eight two five zero two zero nine
to one. We're gonna take our final break of the program,
and when we come back, I have a question for you.
I saw a story. Americans are fascinated by debt, like
we're always borrowing, we're always lending, you know, we're always

(44:58):
you know, I get paid on Friday, but I want
to buy this on Wednesday so I could do the
whole buy now, pay later thing. And you know, some
people use it smartly and other people, you don't, and
they get into a debt trap with it. I remember
when it was like a ride of passage where you'd
go to college and there would be all these tables
set up at the student union from all these different
credit card companies, and all of them wanted to give
you a credit card and they give you a credit cards.

(45:18):
So here's a credit card with a ten thousand dollars
limit and they give it to an eighteen year old
with no credit history. It's the first thing I did.
I went to Best Buy. First thing I did like, Wow,
I can go buy whatever I want. And then you
learn quickly that well, when you do that, the bill
eventually comes due. Well, now, the world of buy now,
Pay later has expanded to an area that I'm not

(45:39):
sure is a great idea. So I'd like to get
your thoughts on this coming up next. But should you
be able to buy burritos on buy now, Pay later?
That's the question coming up next. And compute this.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
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renew your cars expiring warranty.

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Who actually responds to those calls.

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Everyone wants to play the warranty game where you pay
money now, Just in case you need service later that
everyone hopes you won't need or use.

Speaker 5 (47:28):
It's such a waste. It's no different with computers.

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Major manufacturers warranties have more subscript crosses than a Sunday
morning church service.

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Batteries are exempt.

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Hard drives must be completely dead and forget about anything
that they can remotely claim.

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Us physical damage.

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(48:22):
computer work for you.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
All righty folks, welcome back in to compute this final
segment of the program, reading some of these comments here
during the break at Facebook dot com slash Schrock Innovations,
where we're streaming live right now, Ron says, IRS, I
had a somewhat complex tax return. I got my refund
direct deposited in seven days. I think the IRS is
just approving everything. Ron, No, it's not that they're approving everything.
It's that they're back in the office. They're not working

(48:53):
from home. And I know that's not going to be
popular with a lot of people who enjoy their flexible
work from home arrangements. But if you enjoy it flexible
work from home arrangement and you're just as productive at
home as at work, you are the minority. You are
being the honest, good person that is actually doing their job.
Because Marissa had to call the IRS about a tax
matter that we had, and I think you I may

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have talked about these tax matters in the past on
the program about how you know you call into the
IRS and they say we're not gonna have time to
take your call today, call back tomorrow click like otherwise,
they say, well, you can put in your number and
we'll schedule you for a callback. Marissa called the IRS.
Not only did they answer the phone, a human got
right on the line with her. She was in and

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out in seven minutes. Seven minutes for an IRS question
during tax season. Tell me they're not more productive because
they're in the office. That's after they laid off all
those probationary employees. So, I mean, it's it's pretty crazy.
So for zero, two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten, Alan,
welcome to the program. How can I help you today

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on compute this?

Speaker 8 (49:58):
Yeah, MONA, just just a quick kind of question. So
I've recently started using my laptop as my main device,
and I'm just curious, would you say it's better for
the laptop battery to leave it plugged in all the

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time or to like, maybe I don't know, once a week,
let it get down to twenty percent or something. What's
the best experience for the battery.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
Yep, this is a this is a timeless question. I mean, people,
thank you for calling in with this one all And
this is a perfect example of somebody with a question
that I know lots of people in the audience have
because I get this question at least once a quarter
from somebody. Now, the reason that the answers are different.
If you google the answers, you get different results. And
that's one of the reasons this is so confusing. The

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reason that that's the case is because the battery technology
has changed over the years. Now, when I was younger,
you know, when I was a when I was a
so young to have such a large company. Back in
those days, the batteries were were nikad. They were nickel cadinium,
and the nikad batteries had a memory effect. So if

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you charged them up to one hundred percent and then
use the battery, and then you charged it up to
like seventy five percent because you were impatient and you
wanted to raise the rc CAR before the batteries were
fully charged, the batteries would never ever again charge over
seventy five percent. They would only go to seventy five
percent and so on. So the battery had a memory
effect to it, so in those cases you had to

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you had to make sure you fully charge them before
you use the battery every time. Then after that we
got the uh Oh nickel metal hydride batteries and the
nickel metal hydride batteries, those had a an effect where
if you charge them and discharge them, if you didn't
drain them all the way down every single time, then

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they wouldn't they wouldn't take the charge appropriately next time.
Now we have lithium ion batteries. The great news here
is you use your laptop any way you want, Alan,
because there's it makes absolutely no difference whether you leave
it plugged in, whether you run the battery to zero
every day, whether you charge it fully or not. It's
you can use this battery exactly as life hits you.

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You don't have to worry about it. You can't do
anything to kill it faster, you can't do anything to
kill it slower. Okay, Hey, thank you for the calling
a great question, Alan, Thank you for being a part
of the program today. Got you in the drawing there,
all right. So, buy now, pay later is the thing
that's you all over the place. It's been around for
a little while now. Used to be called lay away
back in the day, but that was pay now, get later.

(52:35):
It's different. They didn't give you the item and then
let you make payments on it. You had to make
the payments and then you got the item. Well, now
you can do door dash with buy now, pay later,
And I'm like, viscerally, I'm like, this is not a
good idea. Door dash is the most expensive way possible.
You can buy food, and then if you're saying you
don't even have to pay for it now, you can
pay for it later. I can see like a younger

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thor saying, you know, I get paid on Friday, so
it's Wednesday, and I really want a burrito, so I'll
just Google buy now, pay later burrito, and I'll pay
for it later. And you end up paying double for
the burrito paying for it later because it's door dash.
If you just go get the burrito, it's cheaper, but
then you got to pay for it. Buy now, pay
later for food. Is that really what we have come

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to in Please teach your children about debt. Please teach
your children about delayed consumption and the value of delayed consumption.
I wish, I wish somebody would have specifically explained that
concept to me. When I was younger. Everyone said be
good about how you use credit and all that. No
one ever said, don't consume stuff so you can consume
more later. Frank, congratulations, you got yourself a twenty five

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