Compute This 4-13-2025

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:12):
This is Compute This. Good morning, folks, and welcome in
to Compute this. My name is Thor Schrock. I'm the
owner of the Shrock Innovations computer company. We've got four
locations all across the area to help you out when
you're having trouble with your computer, or you need something done,
if your technology is not working for you, if you

(00:32):
have questions, crazy stuff. We literally had a customer, a
business client, call us yesterday so on a weekend, asking
us how to create an account for a website on
a cell phone. And we're like, sure, you know, that's
just what we do. So you know, even if it
seems like a silly little question, we're always here to
help you.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Now.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
We have our original location just south of fourteenth and
Pine Lake Road in Lincoln. Of course, in Omaha, we're
at one hundred and sixty eighth in Burke Street, just
across the street from the Village Point Mall, where the
rent is slightly cheaper. The location in Papillion eighty fourth
and Highway three seventy and also the newest location ninety
five hundred University Avenue in West des Moines. Hard to
believe we opened that in twenty twenty. You know, there

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was nothing really going on then and we were kind
of bored and all the no one else was really
doing it right back then, in the middle of a pandemic.
But we decided to open a brand new location and
have a grand opening, and I think we skipped the
cookies because we thought that was one bridge too far,
but you know, we did the rest of it. So
no matter which, no matter where you're at, there's a
Shock pretty much within thirty miles of you. You can hear

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our voice now. Of course, that is unless you are
listening at Facebook dot com slash Shock Innovations, where we're
broadcasting live right now. You can literally watch the show.
There be a contributor in Shrockville if you'd like to
make sure that you are getting a full involvement wherever
you can there. But yeah, everything is live there at

(01:56):
Facebook dot com slash Shock Innovation, So welcome aboard to
everybody watching there as well, and thank you for the
audio check. Winston I do appreciate that. All right, So
coming up on the program today, guys, if you missed
last week's show, it was it was kind of a
It was a really busy show. We took all the
politics out of the tariff stuff. You know, there was
no pro Trump, there was no anti Trump, there was
no you know, there was no dooms doomsday prophecies about

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how this was going to destroy the economy, or how
this was finally going to bring the industrial manufacturing based
back to America. You know, none of that stuff. It
was literally, this is what you can expect to see.
This is what you're going to feel. This is what
is happening right now in real time, in the real
world of business, in people who import, people who export.
So it was a great show last week. There was

(02:39):
a lot of information there. I'm not going to go
through it all again today with you. We will update
you a little bit. There's been a few developments this
week if you've been following the news. But if you
missed that one, go to Fate, go to Shock Innovations
dot com and you can go to radio show and
you can click on that and it will basically give
you all the previous shows. Then We did a deep
dive into tariffs during the Aftershock where we got into
the politics a little bit, a lot of the inside

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baseball kind of stuff. If you want to hear all that,
that's the Aftershock that's also available at Shock Innovations dot com.
You can just click on radio show there. We did
introduce the Ultimate Upgrade as well last week, which is
our trade in sale that we do every year in
the spring where you can trade in any old, tired,
worn out piece of garbage computer or maybe you know
a computer that can't go to Windows eleven because it's

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too old, for example, you can trade that in for
a discount on a brand new Modular Mini, which is
the first This is kind of like the debut. The
Mini's been around for a while, but it's been kind
of a quiet member of the family. It's been that
family member that we just don't talk about too much. Well,
now Uncle Minnie is out for everyone to see, and
it's an amazing machine. It's essentially our endeavor. It's our

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mid range computer, but it's in a six inch by
six inch package that's about two inches tall, and it
just sits on your desk silently and does everything you
needed to do with multiple monitors, wireless keyboards, and mice,
the whole bit. It is just an amazing piece of technology.
Only five forty nine after your trade an endeavor is
nine hundred dollars. So getting this for five fifty, especially

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right now, is just phenomenal. If instead you're thinking laptop
right now, we're we're about two to one laptop, which
is laptop to many, which is where we normally see
the desktops fall, you know, about two to one. So
a lot of people want lapped, a lot of people
want laptops, especially because this year's laptop is essentially the Resolute.
So when you come into the service end of the like,

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what kind of piece of junk you got here for
the ultimate upgrade? Thoor, Well, it's that same computer that's
sitting over there on the shelf that we normally sell
for seven hundred and fifty bucks. So yeah, you can.
You can pick that one up there. You can get
this one for five to fifty over here, just trade
in something. We don't care what it is. We're not
going to take anything out of it. It's the exact
same computer. And people are stunned. They're like, wait a minute, yeah,

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we put two of them out just for visual but
I mean if you look at them, if you put
them side by side, they're literally the exact same computer.
It's it's crazy. So you can get either one of
those for five forty nine. We introduce that sale. We'll
talk about that a little bit today on the program. Well,
we also told you last week about how Facebook was
actually ditching fact checkers, going to a community notes standard
very much like X so there was some good news there.
We also added that, of course, the first people that

(05:10):
were invited to be certified community notes contributors on Facebook
worthy former fact checkers. So at least the thing is
they said they're going to stop using the fact checking.
It wasn't just that you were getting fact checked before,
but a negative fact checked on one of your posts
would cause it to be basically pushed down in the algorithm.

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No one would ever see it, and so you could
post all you wanted if you got a negative fact check,
Well not only that post, but all of your other
posts were getting pushed down in the algorithm. Facebook says
that's not going to happen anymore. So now the fact
checkers can fact check all they want, and then people
can look at the fact checkers fact checks, they'll see
it and they'll be able to say, well, that's stupid
and that's not true, and then the rest of the

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community can come to your defense if you want them to.
So kind of an interesting thing there as well. And
we also again talked a lot about the the impact
of tariffs on all electronics, not just computers and tablets
and phones and things, but pretty much everything that was
going on. So this week, guys, the ultimate upgrade. As
I mentioned, it's been I did a quick live earlier
this week. I thought about doing another one with the

(06:15):
update after the announcements yesterday, but I'm like, we're going
to do a show on Saturday or Sunday. I mean,
and you know, we got the aftershock. We can talk
about stuff, so I don't want to steal my thunder
the day before the broadcast. But if you didn't hear yesterday,
President Trump announced that all tariffs on semiconductors, computers, tablets, smartphones,

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you know, basically everything a personal electronics, all the reciprocal
tariffs were paused for ninety days. Now, the first thing is,
I want everyone to understand that when these tariffs went
to it went into effect The reason I did a
live is because I was trying to order parts to
continue to build minis, to continue to build Ultimate Upgrade laptops,

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to continue to build our regular computer line, because a
lot of companies, especially right now, are taking advantage of
the Ultimate Upgrade sale to get rid of their old
Windows ten gear and get into new stuff. So we
were selling. We ordered enough laptops and minis for what
would be a normal Ultimate Upgrade sale. We had enough.
I was not afraid of tariffs in the slightest. In

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the first week of the promotion, we blew through all
that inventory. It was gone. And so now I'm like, oh, Schnike,
can we actually order more at that price? And it
turns out the answer is, in some cases yes because
it still exists in the retail supply chain. In some
cases no, because we were ordering it from wholesalers to

(07:43):
get that price. In the wholesalers, we're not getting shipments
out of Asia. And I have a video to play
for you during the aftershock today. It's going to be
a different aftershock today than normal because I brought in
a video to illustrate what's happening in China right now
with the tariffs because we're all focused on what's happening
in America, but no one's talking about how it's going
for China. Well, ships that were on their way here

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with cargo literally stopped in the middle of the Pacific
Ocean and turned around and went back to Asia. Because okay,
let's say your Gigabyte that they make the motherboards that
we use in our modular computers. If your gigabyte a
Timewanies company, and you suddenly slapped with a fifty four
percent tariff on your motherboards, you don't know what to
charge for the motherboards anymore. How much do you have

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to charge to make back? You know, how are other
motherboard manufacturers going to be impacting? You don't know what
the market looks like. Number Two, These tariffs might just
get lifted the next day. So what kind of a
sucker are you if you import your stuff on a
Monday and pay a fifty four percent tariff and on
Tuesday there's no tariff anymore. And if you would have

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just waited one day, you would have saved fifty four percent.
Well that's kind of what happened. It just took a week.
So all shipments Micron that makes computer memory that's used
in graphics cards as well as Copewter memory chips stopped
all shipments out of Asia. Gigabyte stopped all shipments out
of Asia. B Link, the company that makes the motherboards

(09:09):
that go in the minis, stopped all shipments out of Asia.
Aesus was having trouble getting its components from Taiwan, so literally, everybody,
everybody just stopped. Does this remind you of anything we've
seen this script play before. This is what happened at
the start of COVID. At first, everything just stopped and

(09:31):
nothing seemed to change for like the first month, almost right,
It just kind of kept going, and then all of
a sudden the shortages began, and then all of a sudden,
the price increases hit. And then all of a sudden
everyone figured out that it wasn't a given that if
you went to the store that whatever product you were
going for was going to be on the shelf. And
then sometimes when you found the product, it was weird.

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It didn't look the same because it was in different packaging,
because while they could make the product, they couldn't make
the packaging. And then you started to realize how many
supply chains stretched across the world. Somebody broke down an
F one fifty the other day and said that in
the F one fifty it is it has components. It's
assembled in Detroit, but it's got components from twenty four

(10:12):
different countries within the F one fifty, And so every switch,
every plastic panel, every hinge has to be resourced from
somewhere else. And that's a big, a big engineering thing
to do. Well, you know a package of peanut butter,
you know, a jar of peanut butter, Well, maybe you
get a different shaped jar because they couldn't get the jars,

(10:33):
or maybe now you're getting something crazy, a glass jar
of peanut butter. What the heck was that? Right? When
is the last time that's happened during COVID? So yeah,
it was. It was just nuts, all these different things.
So I'm not saying that that's what we're going to
see this time. What I'm saying is there is there
has been a disruption that is going to eventually that
bubble is going to move through our economy. Wholesalers are

(10:56):
trying to adjust for it this time, and they're doing
that through quantity limitations. So when we go to order
computers for example, normally we can order as many as
we want. How many can I get you? How many
thousand do you need foror now it's you can have
one per day, or you can have ten per day.
So every day we have ten more laptops arriving in Papillion.

(11:16):
There's ten laptops coming in today. The guys come in,
they're like time to make the donuts, and they make
their ten laptops for the day, and they say, my
work here is done. I came in yesterday and Corey
was sweeping the floor when you're paying a computer tech
to sweep the floor. Because we just can't get the
parts fast enough to build the stuff. I called our

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our memory supplier, and our memory supplier says, well, we
have the inventory that we have. Here is the current pricing,
its price stat which was about a ten percent increase,
which is what we're seeing across the board, about a
ten percent cost increase in parts overall right now, and
you know you can get what you can get. We
can give you one terabyte drives, two terabyte drives, we
can give you five hundred and twelve gig drives, and
we can give you one twenty eighth But we have

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no more two fifty six sorry, they're sold out. Well
during the ultimate upgrade, Guys, when you come and buy
a computer, it's the upgrade price is for all the components.
You can check it out at Shrock Innovations dot com.
We drop the prices on everything for the sale. So normally,
like doubling up to a two to fifty six hard
drive is like a two hundred dollars expense. When you
buy a new computer, it's fifty dollars. Right now at

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Shock it's fifty bucks. I can't get those drives anymore.
So when we're out of two fifty six is we're
just going to have to take that option off the website.
So it's going to be, you know, ninety dollars to
go to a five to twelve if you want to
go to a bigger drive. So I guess where I'm
going with this is we have another story coming up
in the program today talking about budget devices. Our budget

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device is a thing of the past, and we're going
to break that down. What go Why is it you
can go to Walmart and buy an Acer laptop at
Walmart for three hundred and fifty dollars. That on you know,
if you set the specs on the card next to
the specs on a card with one of our solid
state laptops, they would be roughly equivalent, or maybe the
ACER would look a little bit better, a little bit
more high tech. Even why is it you can buy

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a computer like that for three hundred and fifty dollars
where all our computers are seven hundred dollars. What makes
that happen? Aside from the fact that acers are garbage
and you would never want to own one. The Predator
series gaming laptops are, they're okay, But when you get
the ACER from Walmart, I mean, when has it lasted
more than six months? Really? I mean the hinges break,

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the keyboards, the keys fall off the keyboard, the touch
pad stops working, the battery dies. The hard drives the
cheapest hard drives you could ever put in something. You know,
when I'm ordering drives, I'm like, oh, gosh, guys, we
have a ten percent cost increase. I'm really concerned about this,
and you know availability is rough and we have quantity limitations,
and well, well, forour here, we can give you ten
good drives, and we can give you ten really crappy ones.

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And yeah, I could probably mix those together, and you
wouldn't know one way or the other if you got
one of the good drives or one of the crappy drives. Right,
you used to using an acer, what would you know?
That's not how we roll. We put the Gen four
drives in our stuff. That's what we're buying. And yeah,
maybe we can only buy ten of them a day,
but we're gonna go. We're gonna keep buying ten a

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day to make sure we've got those drives. Right now,
we are about thirty laptops in the hole with customers.
That means we have thirty laptops sold to customers right
now who have put their money on the table that
we owe a laptop to. And I have forty five
laptops on the way that have been shipped, that are
confirmed shipped. It means they're in UPS's hands, they will
be delivered. So I'm ordering ten a day. Guys, you

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do the math on that. How do you fall behind
ordering ten laptops every day? Well, we're selling them like crazy,
So while we can, as long as we can continue
to get them in, we're going to. As long as
we can continue to have enough coming that we know
we can cover what we're selling will continue selling. But
when the time comes, when that bubble works its way
through the economy, we're going to have to stop. So

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if this is something that you want to do, I'm
not trying to go doomsday or you know, hurry up
and do it. You know, it's not like that. But
I want you to understand the reality that as our
options are constricted by the marketplace, we will have to
constrict options as well. And so you might find a
few of those things like I wanted to go to
a two fifty six, Well that's not there anymore. I'm sorry,

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little things like that is that's what's going to happen first.
Then maybe this bubble works its way through with minimal disruption.
That's the hope. But guys, this is a ninety day
pause on something without again, without getting into the politics
of it. We have plenty of time during the aftershock
for that. President Trump showed the world what it looks

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like when America imposes reciprocal tariffs. This is just the
same tariffs that you put on our stuff, we're putting
on your stuff. And according to the stock market, it's
it's like apocalyptic life ending. I saw one article that
called it. It's the end of the landfill economy in America.
The landfill economy means all the cheap garbage that you

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buy from China that you end up throwing in the
landfill because it breaks after a few months, like an
a laptop, you know, that kind of stuff. So there's
been a wide political commentary on this end of the world.
The stock market crashes, tariffs are suspended, the stock market skyrockets, woo,
you know, and we're going to see more of that.
This is a ninety day pause. Do you really think

(16:17):
that in ninety days, if these tariffs are still in
place from these other countries, that Trump's not going to
just go back and do this again. He showed you,
he what is possible. He showed us, He showed everybody
what the world looks like when he does this. And
he said, all right, now that you've seen, it's like
getting a little taste of Dante's inferno, and then saying,

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we don't have to go back there if you don't
want to, but you got to change your behavior, got
to you gotta lose the sin. And the question is
are they going to do it? And if they don't,
here we go again for zero two five five eight
eleven ten is the number to join us on the
program if you are outside of the metro area. Eight
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you need some help with on your computer. We're here

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to help you out anytime you need us. Now, we're
gonna take a quick break. Guys, when we come back,
we're gonna come back. I'm gonna tell you a little
bit more detail. We're gonna take just a quick, short
segment to do a little bit more detail on what's
going on with the tariffs. Because in all the news
reports that I have heard, and I mean I listen
to a lot of Fox, I read a lot of

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zero Hedge. I read a lot of a variety of sources.
One of the things that I'm seeing reported in very
few places is what tariffs were actually stripped away by
the announcement on Saturday, and which ones still remain. This
is a critically important thing to understand, and we're gonna
tell you what's coming with that next on computer this.

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(18:22):
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Speaker 2 (19:42):
All righty folks, welcome back into compute this. My name
is Flora Schrock and the owner of the Shrock Innovations
computer company where we're fixing them. We're baking them, We're
making them. We'll like those Keebler elves in the hollow
little tree. Come on, you remember that commercial, right am

(20:03):
I the only one from the eighties that remembers the
Keebler elf commercial little little before my time. I mean, now,
they can't do that. You know, Let's put some elves
in a hollow tree and make them bake cookies all day.
There'd be some DEI person who'd be like, you can't
do that to little people. It's a fire hazard. It's
a fire hazard. And who hauloed out the tree? See?
I mean, you know there's a crime here somewhere. Is

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it a redwood? You can't do that. You can't do that.
Four zero two, five, five, eight eleven ten. You got see,
there's comedy in everything. In fact, the CCP released a
video and it was it's a little AI generated propaganda video.
But it's funny, right. You have to be able to
laugh at yourself, because the whole point of the video
is this is what it would look like in America

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if they made their own stuff. Make America great again.
The Chinese CCP video says, and it's like this fat
black guy on a sewing machine, sewing bras, and he
just looks like the most destitute depressed. I mean, it
looks like his life is over. His dog died, his
wife left him, and all he has left in his

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life is a brazier factory and he's just making bras,
you know, and not pretty bras either, not the lazy ones.
I mean these are like these are like Grandma's bra
you know, these just sewing them on.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
There.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
Then there was something that they have. It was an
AI generated video, so it was the same guy. It
looked like Mike Rowe, you know, dirty jobs, but there
was like twenty of them in a row like they
were clones, and they were they had little iPhones in
front of them, and they had the powered screwdrivers and
they were you know, putting the ship that screws in
and everything. Again, they just look miserable. It looked awful.

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So it's like, yeah, make America great again. This is
what it looks like to make stuff in America. The
funny thing is is China doesn't show that video to
their people. That was an AI generated video that was
released for American audiences to see. This is what your
life will look like if you make your own stuff.
Do you really want to do that? Now here's the thing.
Maybe I'm the only one who thinks this is cool,
But the thing I ordered from China, it's a hobby project.

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I do some bitcoin mining. I want to take one
of my air cooled miners and convert it to a
liquid cold unit. I need some water plates. I need
a big radiator, and I need a fan on the
radiator and a little pump. And they sell a kit.
The kit costs like one hundred and fifty bucks for
the whole kit. It's gonna cost me two hundred dollars
in shipping to get it here, but it's one hundred
and fifty dollars for the kit. The same kit on

(22:21):
eBay or Amazon costs seven hundred dollars. And I've got
to tell you, I'm like, how hard could this be
to make? It's a tiny little pump, it's a fan,
it's a radiator. The hardest thing to make is the radiator. Now,
the aluminum plates that go inside the bitcoin minor. Yeah,
we can maybe see and see route thos. I'm not
miserable trying to think. I'm having fun thinking about this.

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I'm like, if I could make these if I could.
My son's like, why don't you just get a car
radiator and retrofit it. I'm like, we could do that,
But I want something that I'm manufacturing, something that I'm
making so that we can make it and make it
and make it and make it and improve it and
really build a product out of it with support and
spare parts. Something that it's not going to be landfill,
something that's going to last, like stuff that they used

(23:05):
to build in America. I mean, it's just it's I
think it's exciting. Now. Am I going to be able
to make as much money as if I was making
them in China and selling them here? No, that's just
not going to happen. But if I can come up
with a design that actually works, that that does what
it needs to do, and I can figure out how
to manufacture it and then train other people to do
that work and build a business around that, guys, I

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phoned an LLC this week. I'm like, this is something
we could do. So yeah. The Chinese Communist Party puts
out a video that shows how miserable Americans will be
making their own stuff. What they don't realize is that
some of us want to make our own stuff. Some
of us would love the idea that we can take
an idea in our minds and fabricate it into reality,

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and some of us would rather buy stuff like that
rather than buying the landfill stuff from China. So I
mentioned on Saturday that President Trump exempted all semiconductors, smartphones, tablets, computers,
servers from tariffs. What he did not exempt from tariffs

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the metal that goes into those devices, for the casing,
the housings, the plastics that go into you want your
cheap acer laptop, Well, guess what, it's all made of plastic.
Even the hinges are plastic, which is why they always break. Well,
all those plastic pieces that are injection molded, those are
still tariffed. So unless they're assembled completely into a computer,

(24:39):
and then the computer is not covered because it's a
computer and it's not tariffed. Any spare parts, replacement parts,
stuff like that that you're doing over in China and
shipping here. Huge tariffs. Now, the reciprocal tariffs are what
Trump dropped. The twenty percent original tariff on China that
was over and above the twenty percent tariff that was
already on China went from his first term, so we're

(25:01):
talking a total of like a forty percent tariff is
still in place on China. Now. One of the things
that we heard this week was China said out, we're
going to raise our tariffs to like one twenty five
percent or whatever on American goods, and we're not going
to retaliate further. Why did they say that? Number one,
And we'll cover this during the aftershock. China needs an
off ramp here. They can't be seen as giving in,

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but they need They need an off ramp here. They
need a way to slow this down, cool it off,
and maybe try to get it back to baseline. And
they don't have They don't have years to do it.
They have months to do it, possibly weeks to do it.
It's that bad. So they needed an off ramp so

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they said, we're not going to escalate any further. It's
kind of a meaningless thing to say, because once you're
at one hundred and twenty five or one hundred and
forty percent tariff, you've effectively closed the market. No one's
going to spend one hundred and forty percent on a
product over and above the original cost. You may as
well have it made in America. At that point, it's
going to cost the same and you don't have to ship.

(26:02):
It might cost less, so you're gonna make it here.
I mentioned we're seeing things like quantity limitations. Wholesalers are
slow rolling inventory. Amazon, you're seeing order cancelations. Where did
you know that ninety percent of sellers on Amazon are
actually Chinese companies that are direct shipping from China. Ninety

(26:23):
percent of independent sellers on Amazon are Chinese companies shipping
direct from China, which means when you buy a backup battery,
when you buy pencils, when you're buying pencil pouches or
back to school backpacks or clothes off of Amazon, they're
being directly shipped from China or Vietnam or some other
place overseas. So those orders literally got canceled on customers

(26:49):
because the shippers aren't going to ship and the boats
turned around. There's no way to do it. We can't
even get you the product right now. But ships are
sitting empty in the ports in China, or in the
worst case, is loaded with cargo ready to rock and roll,
but now no one's paying to ship the cargo anymore.
So the ship is just stuck. It's loaded, but it
can't ship and deliver the goods because there's no one

(27:11):
shipping them, no one paying to ship them. So they're
just sitting there waiting for them people to come get
their cargo back off the boat, and the people the factories,
they don't want their cargo back. They want to leave
it on the boat because they're like, well, maybe the
tariffs will go away tomorrow and we can ship it tomorrow.
So that's the situation that everything's in the supply chain
has been disrupted, but it is going to get back

(27:32):
to normal here at some point. Well when I say normal,
it will be a new normal. Globalization is dead. It
is dead, It's done. What was it? China is refusing
to take delivery of a bunch of Boeings because they
have one hundred and forty percent tariff one hundred and

(27:53):
twenty five percent tariff on American goods. Do you know
how much extra a Boeing costs? At one hundred and
twenty five percent over, that's an expensive airplane. But they've
already ordered them. Boeing already built them. Boeings our number
one exporter in the United States, so you expect to
see the headlines of us GDP takes a hit. Blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah. Yeah, there's going to
be a period of adjustment where things are going to

(28:13):
take hits. That's going to be completely normal for zero, two, five, five, eight,
eleven tens number to join us, Rod, Welcome to the program.
How can I help you on compute this today?

Speaker 5 (28:22):
Well, good morning, good morning. We have a particular thing
going on with our PC. When we go to shut
it down, it will say an application is running. Do
you want to go back to it because you lose
all your work? Or continue to shut it down. I
know of no application that is running. I do not
even know how to find something like that if it is.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
What gotcha? So one of the things that when you're
running your computer, there's actually a whole lot of programs
running in the background, right, So I'm aware of that. Yeah,
And so one of those programs that's running in the
background is getting the command from Windows to okay, time
to wind it up. Go we're shutting down, and it's
not responding appropriately. It's not stopping whatever it's doing. It

(29:04):
could be your antivirus program, it could be any number
of things. And so then windows is coming up saying, hey,
I got a misbehaving kid over here. Is it okay
to just, you know, turn off his I you know,
take away his iPad?

Speaker 6 (29:17):
You know?

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Do you hear about the In England there was a
mom who took away her kids iPods that put her
in jail for seven hours because England is truly broken.
But yeah, you can't take a kid's iPads away in England,
So don't do that here. I don't know. In Colorado
maybe I don't know, but you don't do it here.
What's happening is the computer saying can I just shut down?

(29:37):
Can I just take away the technology and shut this
program down? You say, yes, it does it. The program ends,
The computer shuts down, saying no, yeah, it's not a
big deal. It happens to everybody. It happens to me sometimes,
you know, and a kid. Sometimes it's just that there's
a program trying to finish a task before it turns off.
Sometimes those tasks are important that it's trying to do,

(29:57):
but most programs are coded to to recover from that. Now,
so you can hit weight and let it sit for
a few seconds if you want to. But if you're
trying to turn off the computer, and you've closed everything
that's important to you. Anything else that gets disrupted, it
can do its work again later. So yeah, it's not
a problem. But I'll just click that end task or
end process button and it'll it'll shut that process down

(30:18):
and let the computer turn off.

Speaker 5 (30:20):
Well, that's good, that's what we've been doing, and so
that's that's fine. I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Very much, no sweat. Thank you for the call. I
do appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (30:29):
Rod.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
We got you in the drawing as well for the
twenty five dollars Shock Innovations gift certificate for zero two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten. Real quick before we go to break, Neil,
Welcome to the program. How can I help you on
compute this today?

Speaker 7 (30:41):
I'm going to buy a Mini to replace my old
HP Windows ten.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Gotcha?

Speaker 7 (30:48):
Do you transfer all this stuff off the old computer?
Or do I have to make two trips?

Speaker 2 (30:53):
We sure can so the thing if you want us
to transfer the stuff. We have two different data transfer options.
We have a simple one that's just a file transfer.
We do files and settings and it moves all the
so your documents go to your documents, your downloads go
to your downloads. Your desktop goes to your desktop, your
email to your email, and then your settings, your sleep settings,
the screen savers, the desktop wallpapers, all that will get

(31:16):
moved over also, And so then when you get the
idea is when you get the computer home, the new one,
the mini, it should look as much like your old
computer as possible. Now, in some cases customers need something
more than that. They need what's called like an application transfer.
Because we don't move your programs, those have to be
reinstalled during the simple data transfer. During the advanced data transfer,
technicians actually take an inventory of what programs are installed

(31:39):
on your computer. Any of them that we can migrate,
we migrate sometimes we can do that, and some of
them have to be reinstalled, like if you have Office
three sixty five, if you've got Outlook, stuff like that,
we will reinstall those programs for you and get them
set up again so that they work like the old
ones did. So then truly, when you go home, the
mini should be a near identical clone of what you

(32:00):
had before. And that's usually the one that customers choose.
The cheap one, the less expensive one. I shouldn't say cheap.
None of our products are cheap. We're not landfill. But
you know, one hundred and fifty bucks for the basic
data transfer and it's two eighty five for the advanced
data transfer. Now on the same On the other hand,
if you want to transfer your own stuff, I've said
this before, the trade in program, it's about keeping stuff

(32:23):
out of the landfill. It's about we actually recycle devices
with seate Off Recycling in Lavista, Nebraska, so it goes
to a place where they actually get recycled. So we
want to keep this stuff out of the landfill. We
don't care when you trade in your computer. If you
need a week to move the data because you want
to move your data, just drop it off next week.
That's fine. You know, we're not you know, we're not

(32:44):
doing anything with your old computer, you know, referming it
and selling it, or you know, using parts from it
to build your new one or anything like that. We're
we're just going We're we're grinding it up into pieces,
making sure your data is completely destroyed, and then sending
it to say it off to have it recycled for
its core materials and opponents. If you haven't heard, we
kind of need those rare earth elements now, So we're

(33:04):
going to try to see how many of those say
it off can get back for us here in America.
But nevertheless, if it's something you'd like us to transfer,
we can definitely do that for you. If you prefer
to do it yourself, we're happy to give you the
time so that you can do it on your schedule.

Speaker 7 (33:17):
Okay, that's basically what I was wondering. I live in Blair,
so it's a waste to your eye to get to
your store.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
But yeah, it is a little bit to get to
Yamahasa for sure.

Speaker 7 (33:26):
Two trips are no big deal. So okay, I'll.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Do that all right, sounds good, Neil, Thank you. I
appreciate the call. Got to take a quick break. Guys
when we come back. If you have an iPhone and
you haven't noticed yet, iOS eighteen point four dropped this week.
You know what that means. Your battery sucks, and yeah
you get some new AI features if you have the
right phone. Anyway, We're going to tell you what's going
on with iOS eighteen point four coming up next on compute.

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Speaker 2 (36:15):
Alrighty folks, this hour is just flying by, So thanks
for everybody watching at Facebook dot com slash Shock Innovations.
Don't forget we're gonna do an aftershock here coming up
after the program. Give me about ten minutes to reset
and get everything set up for it. I'm gonna be
bringing you a video during the aftershock this week of
what things are looking like in China right now. This

(36:37):
is a video, and I'll throw an astis in front
of it by saying, you know, you always have to
be aware of confirmation bias, right, that's when you seek
out information that confirms your existing bias. Like we all
want to believe that as painful as whatever it is
here in America, China's feeling it worse, and here's a
video that shows that, so that must be true. This

(36:57):
is from a source called China Observer. A lot of
the videos AI generated. You know, the CCP is putting
out AI generated videos of what it looks like to
make goods in America and they think it's pretty funny,
and it is kind of funny. All satire has a
nugget of truth in it, right, I mean there are
a lot of really obese people in America and that
would probably not enjoy making bras for a living. You know,
I'm just saying it wouldn't excite me. Really. You know,

(37:20):
if I don't see another bra in my entire life,
you know, I'm done. You know, it's it's crazy, right,
So you know, we got it. We Hey, last week
it was Angelina and Joe Lee, So we we gotta
we gotta keep the train going, got to keep it going,
got to keep it going. Four zero two five five
eight eleven ten is the number to join us on
the program. Outside of the Metro area, you can call
us up eight eight eight two five zero two zero

(37:43):
nine one. So, if you're an iPhone user, iOS eighteen
point four dropped this week, and iOS eighteen point four
has a lot of AI features that are giving you
capability of doing things. And this goes back to something
that we're been saying for the last six months. Everybody
says through I don't want AI thor I'm not gonna

(38:03):
use AI, you know, And I suppose in the same
way you can avoid using a smartphone by buying a
flip phone, maybe you can avoid AI. But now even
the flip phones are just Android phones that don't have
a touch screen. There's still the same phone as if
you had a smartphone, you just don't get the capabilities
because nobody makes flip phones anymore. So when you go

(38:26):
and you have an iPhone, if you have one of
the iPhone sixteen series, you're going to get some of
the AI capabilities that come along with iOS eighteen point four. Now,
whether you use them or not is completely up to you.
I'll be the first one to admit some of these
are stupid. I wouldn't use some of these, But some
of them are actually kind of interesting, kind of neat.
For example, notifications are now going to be sorted automatically

(38:52):
by Apple Intelligence. Have you ever not touched your phone
for like, you know, a half a day, and then
you pick it up and there's like twenty seven notifications
about everything that you missed while you weren't touching your phone,
and it's almost overwhelming, like you just hit clear all,
like you don't even want to look at them. Well,
Apple Intelligence understands your plight, and it will sort your
notifications and organize the most important ones at the top

(39:15):
where they're prominent, so you can see your most important
notifications while your brain is still fresh, process through those.
If you want to go through the rest after that,
that's on you. Otherwise you can just click clear and
get rid of them because they weren't important anyway. There's
an action button there has been for a little bit
on iPhone sixteen, but the action button didn't have a
whole lot of action until now. Now. This action button

(39:36):
that you can activate on your phone allows you to
get AI help on objects. So now let's say, for example,
you're looking at I'm trying to think of a good
thing a package of Keebler cookies, and you want to
know were these actually made in a hollow tree? Maybe
you're not sure about that commercial. Maybe that was just
CCP propaganda, right, Maybe Bobby Kennedy is going to go

(39:59):
to the Keebler company and figure out if they really
are making these cookies in a hollow tree, and if
that's healthy for us. I'm not sure. So you take
your Apple phone with running iOS eighteen point four, You
point the camera at your Kebler cookies, and you press
the action button. Everything you ever wanted to know about
those Keebler cookies there it is on your screen. Here's

(40:19):
the Wikipedia link. Here's the AI summary of what you're
looking at. These are cookies. They are not good for you.
They were not made in a hollow tree by an elf.
You know, they were made in a factory. Fact Food
made in factories is typically not good for you. Don't
eat factory made food whenever possible. You know, of course
they won't say that because you know this is sponsored
by the Food Pyramid, where you eat more carbohydrates than

(40:39):
anything else in a day to keep yourself healthy in fat.
So yeah, that sorry again, all satire. You know, it's
got a nugget of truth in it. So your action
button you can you can click on that. I wonder
it happens if you pointed at a person and say
it hit the action button, doesn't look look up their
website of like, if you pointed at a famous person,
would it tell you anything about the person?

Speaker 6 (41:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (41:00):
I played with Chad GPT or some AI tools before
and it comes up with some interesting results, especially when
you do like crossover fiction.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Well, I can imagine that. What if what if you
had a TV screen with a person on the screen
and you use your action button to take a picture
of that, would it tell you about the television or
would it tell you about what's on the screen. I
don't know. Yeah, how intelligent is Apple Intelligence, I don't know.
So again, things you can play with sometimes though, you

(41:28):
just get stressed out at work. You know, you're just
having one of those days and just you could just
use some ambient music to chill out. Well, the new
ambient music feature from your iPhone will allow you to
select from several genres like relaxation or sleep. Don't use
that when at work. You know other things like that
that you can turn on your iPhone and it does
something special with the speakers just to make a calm,

(41:49):
quiet music sound that is just intended to soothe you
and not offend your coworkers in any way. And apparently
that is powered by Apple Intelligence. I don't know if
it measures like the frustration level of your coworkers and
adjust the volume accordingly. I'm not sure. Also, if you
were thinking about getting one of those new apps from
the app Store, but you didn't want to read all
forty seven thousand reviews for it, or maybe they were

(42:11):
reading review bombed, or you know, somebody got a bunch
of bad reviews so then they went and paid for
a bunch of good reviews to push the bad reviews
down so nobody sees them well. Apple Intelligence will now
summarize the reviews for you on an app before you
install it, so that you can actually get the skinny
on what all the reviews together assembled together means. Amazon's
been doing this for a little while on their products

(42:32):
will allow you to get a summary of like all
the reviews on a product, and it usually goes something
like this. People tend to enjoy the taste of Keebler
cookies while they are not made in a hollow tree
by helves. Some people say they make the cookies have
made them fat, but aside from those few complaints, the
cookies tend to be delicious and part of a balanced diet.

(42:56):
Well the same way frosted flakes is part of a
nutritious breakfast. You know. They see that what's the healthiest
part of the milk or the sugar, Well, there's no
milk in the frosted flakes, you know, So it's part
of a balance, you see. The balance is the key.
You can't just eat the frosted flakes. You gotta put
some bananas in there, and you gotta know where do
you get them. The protein is the milk there. You
can't put meat in your cereal. That'd be weird meaty flakes.

(43:18):
It just doesn't work. Four zero, two, five, five, eight, eleven.
Ten is the number to join us. Gosh, we're off
on a tangent, aren't we. Jim, please save me. Welcome
to the program. How can I help you on compute
this today?

Speaker 6 (43:28):
Well? Thanks, Thor. I've got a dumb question. Yeah, if
you if you turn on your computer or start it up,
it's just a dumb box, so it won't do anything.
You have to have software in there to make it
do its thing and make be ready for command from
you to do whatever you want to do. So I
want to call that for me right now software one.

(43:51):
Then let's say you want to do a work processing function,
so you want to type a letter, you would do
software for that. Maybe Windows ten, we're processor, and I
will call that software too. Are those two the same?
And are they Windows ten for example?

Speaker 2 (44:16):
So I hear what you're saying here, So in other words,
you're right, there is a layered approach to software on
your devices. There's actually three layers on using your analogy,
and I'll try to use this like a like. Let's
use the analogy of roads. So before we had paved roads,
you had a wagon train. Let's call that the BIOS,
the firmware. We're going west. We don't have an established

(44:37):
way to go west. We just know this is a wagon.
It's got wheels, we have oxen. This is the Oregon Trail.
You died of dysentery. You know, we're just gonna go west.
Any eighties kid knows what that means. The H So
that's your BIOS. That's the basic input output system. We're
going west. Now, next up on that, somebody put a

(44:57):
road down. Now we have a paved road. In the
road has a map, it has a structure. This is
how it works. This is where you go. This is
how fast you can go. This is how you stop.
This is how you go. This is where you turn.
That is your operating system. That's the rules of the
road that basically say, yes, we're going west, but this
is how this particular device is intended to go west.

(45:18):
That's your Windows operating system. You were saying Windows ten
or Windows eleven. That's your Windows operating system. Now, once
you have the infrastructure in place of this is the
way that the system works. This is the way the
roads go, and this is where all the stops and
goes and everything are. Then on that road we can
place automobiles. And the automobiles all have their own functions.

(45:40):
Some of them drive themselves, some of them don't. Some
of them haul stuff, some of them don't. Some of
them are motorcycles. It just depends on what you're trying
to accomplish. Different tools for different jobs. That's your word
process or your Microsoft Office. That is your genealogy software.
That is your your Excel spreadsheets, your Outlook email, all
that stuff. So yes, you have these three layers of software.

(46:02):
What's happening right now? And thank you for the call
in this gym because this is a great point. Windows
ten right now is going end of life in October.
You got like you know, just in October, it's gone.
And when I say gone, it means there's no more
security updates, there's no more hardware, there's no more software,
there's no more support, there's no more anti virus, there's
no nothing. You're literally on your own in the cold,

(46:24):
and every bad guy in the world is going to
attack you left right every which way from Sunday because
they know you're vulnerable and you have no support, you
have no backup, it's just you. So you're going to
get attacked. So you have to move to Windows eleven
to have a safe computing platform. This goes into the
landfill economy we're going to talk about during the aftershock today,
this planned obsolescence where you know you have to go bigger,

(46:47):
you have to go better. You need this, you need that,
and to get that, we're going to make this other
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All righty guys, final segment of the show. That hour
flew by, so make sure you join us for the
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at the conclu vision of the program. Here, give me
about ten minutes to reset and we'll pop right into that.
The budget devices. This is something that that kind of
goes hand in hand with tariffs because one of the
things that globalization promised us was cheaper goods. We're basically

(50:14):
outsourcing labor costs to countries where people made less money.
So if you pay somebody a dollar a day to
work instead of you know, fifteen dollars an hour to work.
Not that anyone in a factory actually makes fifteen dollars
an hour. They make a lot more than that, but
just saying if you can get them for a dollar
a day instead, you're going to the cost of building
your product is going to be much lower. You also
have to account for the cost of the nets they

(50:35):
have to install on the side of the building to
keep the employees from killing themselves at Fox Con. That
for those of you, I mean, unless you that really happened,
that's a real thing. They have nets on the side
of the building so employees don't jump off the roof. Yeah,
so there's a cost to globalization, but you know, most
people here don't care about that. You know, they'll go

(50:56):
on TMU and buy They don't care what's happening to
the people who are making stuff for TIMU. Hey, I
get a new shirt for like seven dollars. That's amazing,
you know, and they buy the shirt. So the globalization
promised US goods that were lower priced, but with the
tariffs hit all of a sudden that upended all of that.
Now those lower priced goods were suddenly the same price,

(51:18):
are even more expensive than goods that were made domestically
in America or sourced or friend short source from a local,
closer country or a friendlier country. So China accounts for
seventy nine percent of the total laptops and tablets exported
to the United States in twenty twenty three. That's the
most recent data we have. Seventy nine percent if you're

(51:42):
saying that the purpose of the tariffs is to completely
shut down shipments from China. This is why the Trump
administration had to exempt tablets and smartphones and computers from
these tariffs. Politically, it just would have been too too
devastating to have somebody say, yeah, your aphe's gonna cost
three grand now because we have to have you know,
a Clone by, you know, Clone Micro making it in America.

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You know that, unfortunately, And he doesn't look very happy
about it. We haven't had it installed nets yet, but
you know, we let him wear a ball cap at work,
and the guy in the picture was wearing a ball
cap in the video. So higher end devices though, like
your Aceer Predator laptops, they've got more chips for sure,
but they also have much higher margins because it's a
gaming laptop, people who expect to pay more for that

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for the capabilities. So when you go to Walmart, you
buy the three hundred and fifty dollars ace So you're
not buying it to be a powerhouse computer. You're buying
it to be the cheapest thing that you can buy
and still compute with it for a little while. The
Predator laptop is the opposite end of the spectrum, so
it's got a bigger margin. So what you're going to
see the way that these tariffs are going to hit.
They're not going to hit your higher priced goods nearly

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as hard as they're going to hit your budget goods.
In fact, you're going to see some budget items completely
disappear from the marketplace because without globalization, they just don't
work anymore. If you had to pay the same price
for the ACE or three hundred and fifty dollars laptop
as you paid for the ACE or Predator laptop, wouldn't
you just rather have the ACE or Predator? I mean,
even if you're not gaming. I mean, just logically, wouldn't

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you rather have the more expensive computer if you're going
to pay almost the same price. So yeah, of course,
of course you would. Anybody would. So if you're looking
for lower priced computers because you're not a super user
of computers, your time to strike is now. That's why
we have the ultimate upgrade sale going on. That's why
we're spending so much time talking about this kind of
stuff on the radio. We're in a reorganization of the

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way the world's working. And I'm very happy to tell
Jim that he has a twenty five dollars Shock Innovations
gift certificate, so if he wants to take part in
this low cost computer option, he can now save twenty
five dollars. Thanks for joining us on the program today, guys.
We'll see you again next weekend for another edition of
Compute Tests