Compute This 4-27-2025

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:12):
This is Compute This.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Good morning, folks, and welcome into Compute this. My name
is Thor Schrock. I'm the owner of the Shrock Innovations
computer company. If you're wanting to join us this morning,
we are live and local here on the radio with you.
Also Facebook dot com slash Shrock Innovations if you're watching online.
Welcome everybody over there in Shrockville. I didn't name it.
They named it. That's okay. They can name their own town.

(00:37):
That's okay. They can name it whatever they want. It's
better than Thornton. You know, I'd take Shrockville over.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Thornton and a coffee place in Canada.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
It does sound like something like that, doesn't it. Yeah,
Thornton Horton the BDID Canadian coffee place. Like, yeah, I
can see that. That's a South Park reference. By the way,
I'm not actually calling Canadians. We love our Canadian brothers
to the north. And I mean if you have beds,
plenty of Americans that have BDIs as well. For zero
two five five eight eleven ten, somebody save me toll free.

(01:06):
If you are in Canadia, you can call us eight
eight eight two five zero two zero nine to one.
There is no tariff on that call. You can call
that absolutely free. I will pay the tariff for you
paying a lot of tariffs these days. But that's okay,
all right. So guys, if you missed the show last week,
it is up and available at schrokinnovations dot com. Just

(01:27):
click on radio show and specials there. Last week on
the program we gave you. We're doing this kind of
a weekly thing. You know, I'm joking about the tariff stuff,
but it's having a real impact, especially on small business.
There's almost an outsized impact on small businesses. And it
seems like there's nowhere to go for information about this
that is a political right, that is this is what

(01:51):
is happening. This is the impact this is having. Now
we can all argue about what the what you know,
why the impact is needed, or what the overall goals
of the of the program are, but this is what
is happening now, and that's the kind of information that
people need to be able to structure and plan their
families purchases and their lives and how they're going to
do what they're going to do right, So we want

(02:13):
to make sure that we have all that information available
for people in a way that is, you know, it
seems like if you know, if you make a joke
like I did about paying a lot of tariffs these days,
well thor you don't pay tariffs. China pays tariffs and
the importer pays the tariffs. Actually, now China loses business
because the importers don't want to pay the tariffs, so
they avoid doing business with China. And that's how tariffs

(02:35):
impact you know, Chinese commerce. But when it comes time
to pay the import taxes, whoever's importing the equipment, the devices,
the stuff is the one who pays the import taxes.
And so when you point that out, you could say, yeah,
China pays the tax in that people don't buy from
China if there's a tax, so people, you know, but

(02:57):
if there is a tax to be paid, if the
only place you can get something is from China, or
later in the program we'll talk about some other stuff
that if the only place you can get it is
from Russia, well, then you're going to pay the tariffs
because you don't have a choice, you're just going to
do it. And so we want to give you clean, fresh,
and so clean updates on everything what's going on with
that situation. There was a lot of developments this week.

(03:19):
There's also a lot of stuff that you're if you
listen to business and financial news, you're hearing little whispers
about what's actually happening in China. If you're watching some
of the Chinese dissident YouTube channels, you have to kind
of filter that a little bit because of course they're
dissident channels, so they don't like the CCP. Their coverage
is going to necessarily be biased against the CCP as

(03:40):
a result, so you have to kind of filter a
little bit and make sure that you understand, yeah, maybe
that's true, maybe it's not, but let's just assume that
everything's fifty percent true. Let's just go that route. Everything's
fifty percent true. We'll give you an idea of what's
actually going on inside of China right now and the
stresses that this is causing for them and their economy
as well. So we did that last week. We're going
to give you an update on the situation this week. Also,

(04:01):
we talked about last week some specific cases that hit
the Data Recovery Lab and how you can back up
your your computers and your your external devices. A lot
of customers are relying on external hard drives as primary storage.
I asked, I'm talking to you photographers, I'm talking to
you Mac users. I'm talking to people not even you know,

(04:22):
I said, Mac users, because Macs usually were they were
the first computers to really come with limited, non upgradeable
storage space. So when you bought your Mac, you had
to pick do I want a two hundred and fifty
six gigabyte Mac? Do I want a five hundred and
twelve gigabyte Mac? And of course the difference in price
for the Mac was ludicrous as you got higher in storage.
If you wanted a two terabyte Mac, it's going to

(04:43):
cost you, like, you know, eight hundred dollars more. I mean,
it's ridiculous. And then of course, if you run out
of storage space because you didn't have the eight hundred
dollars so you bought the smaller Mac, but then you
filled it up, you're using external hard drives. Well, now
a lot of PCs are coming that way. Too with
pre configured storage, especially these Copilot AI PCs, and a
lot of people are turning to external hard drives to

(05:04):
augment their storage, to be able to store more files
and more data. The problem is external hard drives are
very prone to failure. Even the SSD models, they're extremely
prone to failure. They're great for backing up, but backing
up means a second copy, a backup. It doesn't mean
primary storage. Like I put all my kids photos on
this drive that I have plugged into my computer because

(05:25):
I don't have room on my computer anymore. So we
went over all the details about how you should back
things up, you know, if those nasboxes really do the
work that they're supposed to do, and what's technically and
going on with those A lot of different things that
were covered on the program last week and again you
can pick that up at Facebook dot com slash Shock
Innovations in the feed, or even easier, just go over
to shrock Innovations dot com, click on radio show. It

(05:47):
won't sound like that, that's just the thorst shock sound effect,
and then you can click on radio show and see
all the previous shows as well as the aftershocks. Speaking
of aftershock we did not have one last week. That's
why it's not up there on the website. We will
have one following the program today. During the after Shock today,
we are going to dive into the politics of what's
going on with the China tariff situation a little bit.

(06:07):
That's a separate discussion from the tariffs themselves. We'll get
into that during the Aftershock today. So if you want
to watch that one Facebook dot com slash Shock Innovations
there for zero two five five eight eleven ten eight
eight eight two five zero two zero nine to one.
As we do every week, we'll be giving away a
twenty five dollars Shock Innovations gift certificate to one person
who calls the program, asks a question, makes a comment,

(06:30):
is a part of the show in some way. So
coming up on the program today, we are going to
be it's hard to believe that we're saying this already,
but I mean, we're wrapping up the Ultimate Upgrade. Guys.
It's been a month. It feels like it's gone by
very quickly because every week there's been something else to
talk about, and this Ultimate Upgrade, it's one of the
ones that it's gone by very quickly and very slowly

(06:51):
at the same time, because every time I go to
order more stuff, it's been record breaking, number one, record
breaking ultimate upgrade. When you see the economic numbers, and
I'm not just talking about shock here, but when you
see like the national economic numbers come out for the
month of April, you'll see that probably sometime in May
or June. When you see those numbers come out, they

(07:11):
are going to be very good. And the reason that
they're very good is a lot of people are front
loading the tariff situation, and so they're purchasing goods now
because they may not be able to purchase them later.
One of the things that we're going to talk about
coming up on the program is the accordion effect of
what's going on with these tariffs and how you're not
really feeling the impact of them yet, but you will.

(07:33):
Just like an accordion, you don't get the compression in
the middle until the two ends come together, and the
two ends will come together around May tenth, and you're
going to really feel it thin. And so we are
actually seeing it on our side when we go to
order stuff. We're seeing quantity limitations. Suppliers are saying that
you know, hey, you can only order two of these
because they're trying to make their warehouse stock last longer

(07:53):
so that they don't have to import more stuff. We're
getting random, just seemingly random notifications about things we can
buy anymore. This is a story that didn't really make
the list of good stories to talk about on the
radio show because you know, people outside my industry don't care.
But PC case maker height halts all shipments to the
US due to tariffs. The company was already this is

(08:16):
the subhead. The company was already dealing with thin profit
margins before the tariffs, which at one hundred and forty
five percent make doing business in the US far too expensive.
At the moment. This company makes, you know, decent nice cases.
Would we wouldn't use these in our computers because there
are kind of gaming cases. They're a little gaudy, a
little I mean, I shouldn't say that. Some guy others

(08:37):
like our computer cases beautiful, man, you know, they're just
they're not shock Okay, it's just not what we do
and so, but they're nice cases internally, like if you're
a technician working on these cases, just looking at the
picture of the sample case, they have bottom mounted power supply,
which is nice vertical and horizontal card mounts, which is

(08:57):
great for high end graphics cards and motherboards. Just really
you know, an inexpensive inexpensive cases. Almost all of your
computer cases. A computer case, by the way, is the
housing that the computer is built in. So your motherboard
goes in it, your drives go in. It's the external
thing that you see. It's your tower. It's but the
metal part of it, the metal and plastic tower itself.

(09:18):
Those cases, you know, they're typically on the cheap side.
If you're gonna go buy one, Let's say you're going
onto new Egg or you're going onto Amazon. You're looking
for a cheap computer case, a really really cheap one.
I mean I'm talking one that you can you can
wiggle the side panel and it goes wong wong, wong wong.
You know, it makes that that metal warping sound. That's
gonna cost you around thirty forty bucks, maybe ten dollars

(09:40):
shipping on there, maybe not, just depends on the case.
If you're gonna buy a nice, a nicer case, like
a brand name case that actually has some structure to
it that's gonna hold up, like with the antech cases,
that we use at Shrock. You're gonna pay fifty sixty
dollars a case in some cases, some cases get it,
you know. In some antique cases you cost more than that,
but the ones we purchase around fifty sixty bucks apiece.

(10:03):
If you're gonna buy a nice gaming case, you're gonna
spend one hundred two hundred dollars three hundred dollars for
a really, really nice gaming case that's gonna keep everything
cool and give you all kinds of room inside. So
cases run the gamut of prices. But what I'm telling
you right now is our ANTIQ cases are up eighteen
percent in price. PC cases were not exempted by the

(10:25):
tariffs or in the tariffs because they're not a chip
component for a computer. They exempted whole computers, but not
the cases and not the power supplies. So power supplies
are also up ten to eighteen percent somewhere in that
realm as well. So there's a lot of impact happening
there as well. So we see stories like that coming
out and that's just not being it's not being reported

(10:47):
right now. The stuff that you're not going to be
able to buy because it is only made in China.
Now of course, the whole point of the China tariffs,
in the grand scheme of things, is to have things
made in America again, or worst case, you know scenario
as friend shore them over to like India, for example,
some friendlier country that could make them instead of China.

(11:07):
There is going to be some disruption in the supply chain.
We're already seeing it at Shock. We're trying to stock
up on the things that you guys are gonna need.
You know, we're not getting egregious about it.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
You know.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
The other day I bought fifty or fifty surge protectors
and my staff asked me, or what's what the search protectors?
Why we have so many surge protectors coming in. I'm like,
because they're made in China and they're made of plastic. Oh,
you haven't heard about that. Of all the ironic things,
there is one thing that China cannot make itself. Ethane.

(11:39):
Ethane is a byproduct of natural gas. It's a petrochemical.
It's used to make plastic. China makes sixteen percent of
the ethane that they need to make the plastic gizmos
and gadgets they make for the entire world. They only
make sixteen percent domestically. Do you know where they get
the rest of their ethane? You know, States of America.

(12:02):
Do you know that China has a one hundred and
twenty five percent tariff on all imports from the United
States of America right now as a retaliation against the
Trump tariffs. So literally, China has crippled their own plastics
industry because they can't The plastic manufacturers would make, you know,
one hundred dollars a unit on something. Now they're losing
one hundred dollars a unit on it, and they import
at the tariff price, So they're just not making those

(12:24):
plastic things anymore. Think about your computer case, Yeah, it's
mostly metal, but the front face plate is plastic. Think
about your surge protector. Yeah, it's all wires and metal inside,
but the cord is coded in plastic. The housing of
the unit is plastic. I remember back in the day
when we do our maintenance checkhupselves. I'm looking up, I'm

(12:45):
looking at you up here in the corner. Now, remember
back in the day when you'd see a surge protector
made of metal. If you have a metal surge protector
under your desk, it's time to replace it. You see
how that light is flashing on that Surge protector up there. Bill,
That's what happens when they go bad.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
I always wondered what happened to that.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Yeah, above it is dark. You see that. It's like
the light's gone.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah there is.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
That's bad too. So yeah, those two search protectors here
in the studio, they are shot. They're from the nineteen eighties.
They're made of metal, and they're shot. Time to go Now.
They're glorified search or Go I should say Surge glorified
power strips essentially. And so I'm ordering all these these
weird things and that we're getting, and my staff is like,
you know, normally list we're having, are we having a
sale coming up? Because thor usually don't stock up like

(13:25):
this fifty or one hundred units unless they're on sale.
And I'm like, well, they're not on sale, but I'm
worried that we're not going to be able to get
them for maybe a month or two months. So I
don't want to buy like a thousand of them and
set on them for ten years. But it wouldn't be
a bad idea if you're a small business owner listening
right now to identify some things that are made of
all plastic, and maybe buy a little bit more, but

(13:47):
by as much as you think you're going to need
for the next sixty days. Now, and of course there's more,
more and more businesses and people and consumers do this.
My wife, for example, is helping plan Gigi's ninetieth birthday party,
and you know what she needed to get? Plates, napkins, forks,
you know, party stuff. There are no party stores in

(14:07):
Omaha anymore. All they've all closed. I've heard a rumor
that there's one opening back up where Party City used
to be, though. Interesting, great time to open an import business, right,
And guess what those plastic for all those plastics give
it away? Dang it, I'm so bad at this. Guess
what those knives and forks and spoons and everything are
made of? Plastic? Guess what the paper plates are coated in?

(14:30):
Actually plastic? Where's all that come from? China? They can't
make it without our ethane, and they can't send it
over and import it here without a two hundred percent
tariff on it. So you're just not gonna be able
to buy plastic knives, forks and spoons, I mean, And
it's one of those stupid things you're like, oh, thor

(14:51):
whoe is me? I might have to eat on metal
utensils again. Oh I might have to wash them. You know,
I get it, get it. You know, they're the hardships
that we endure, you know, for geopolitical stability. But you know,
all the same, there are things like when you can't
buy a search protector anymore, and you're like, well, I
guess we're gonna roll without a search protector. You're fine

(15:12):
for a couple months without a search protector, gets worse
after that. So with the ultimate upgrade being gone here
in a few days, what is the ultimate upgrade sale?
If you haven't heard me talk about this yet real briefly,
you can trade in any computer that you've got for
a discount on a brand new modular laptop or modular mini.
So we have minis and we have laptops. The thing is,
I went to go order the minis yesterday. We needed

(15:33):
another ten, right, because if we're getting toward the end
of the sale, I don't want to order like one
hundred minis and then be stuck with ninety of them
at the end, right, So I'm trying to slow the
roll a little bit, bring them in ten at a
time instead of if you're fifty at a time or whatever.
I go to order ten, I put them in my
little cart and do whatever, and then you know, something
comes up, phone rings, whatever. I kind of forget about

(15:54):
the cart. I come back six hours later and they
are gone. I cannot buy them anymore. They're gone. They're
sold out, done, gone. Now. Luckily I was able to
source the ten I wanted from a different company that
happened to have some existing stock left. But you know,
the minis they have plastic shells. Guys, they're just not

(16:16):
importing them right now. So what do you do with that?
How do you fix that? You don't there is nobody
in America making plastic? Well, I mean I shouldn't say
that there are companies in America making plastic. There are
injection molding companies in Omaha. I've talked to them. Do
you know how expensive it is to have something injected molded?
Injection molded if you're not gonna make like a million

(16:36):
of them, Like if you want to make a hundred
thousand of something, one hundred thousand of them, the price
to make it in China is even after shipping, was
less than half of the cost to make it domestically, Well,
when you have a two hundred percent tariff, guess what,
it's cheaper to make it here. So the plastic injection
molding places might get a little business because we have
all the ethane we need apparently, and China doesn't. So

(17:00):
when you're talking about computers, there's an exemption right now
that the Trump administration put in place for thirty days.
This was a few weeks ago on all computers, chip products,
things like that. There were specific reasons for that, which
we'll get into during the tariff updates. That exemption is
going to expire in about ten days, and then all
the computers get those tariffs imposed on them as well.

(17:21):
So the computer market is going to get very interesting,
very quickly. One of the reason top things that they
said online to help deal with tariffs from a consumer
perspective is to buy refurbished equipment, which makes I understand
why they would say that. It is an awful idea
when it comes to computers, to buy refurbished computers. It
is terrible. You do not want to do it. There's
a reason at Shock we do not sell refurbished computers.

(17:43):
I can tell you stories. I will during the aftershock,
we spun up a separate company. We actually purchased a
local company called ARN Networks, and we spun them up.
We sourced all of our recycled computers to ARN Networks
and had people there take them apart, test all the pieces,
put whole computers together with the pieces, and resell them
for fifty percent of retail And guess what, you know,

(18:05):
they sold some computers. It was It was fine. But
the thing is, you can't have a high service business
selling used equipment because used equipment breaks a lot, and
people get upset when they have to come in every
other day because something broke or something you just fixed
broke again because you put a second use part in
to fix the first use part. And it's it's not
worth it from a service perspective. And the problem I

(18:27):
had was I didn't know how to run a company
that wasn't a service company, And so I was trying
to run this Era and Networks as a service company
when it was it's a it's a discount company. It'd
be like if you had a concierge service at Walmart.
It just doesn't work. You can't do it for zero two, five,
five eight eleven ten eighty eight two five zero two
zero nine to one ultimate upgrade only five point forty

(18:49):
nine for a brand new computer when you trade in
your old one. If you have a Windows ten computer,
this is your shot to get out of it. You
only have a few days left. It's something you want
to do. I would recommend you do it quickly. You
can do it on our website at shrowcinnovations dot com.
Click on shopping specials. They're all there. Otherwise, you pop
into the service center, take a look at the display
models and make your purchases there in the service center.

(19:09):
If we don't have them in stock, they are literally
on the way there. They've been shipped confirmed, they're on
the way. There are day two days out. We're building
as fast as we can. We're gonna take a quick
break here, guys. When we come back, we're gonna give
you a quick update on the tariff situation. What how
other companies are responding to This company is like Apple,
for example, and a Chinese delegation was spotted entering the
Treasury Building by a reporter who then was immediately ordered

(19:34):
by the Chinese government to remove the pictures from the internet.
Now this reporter was like, no, I'm not going to
do that. China says, we can't and we can't order
you in America to remove pictures from the Internet, but
we can't tell you you can't take pictures of our people.
Oh so you admit it was your people. Oh heat
you American media. We're gonna tell you what's going on.
Coming up next on compute this.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
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(20:15):
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Speaker 5 (21:06):
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Speaker 4 (21:15):
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June than get another call about the desperate need to
renew your cars expiring warranty. Who actually responds to those calls.
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. It's such a waste.
It's no different with computers. Major manufacturers warranties have more

(21:38):
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(21:58):
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(22:20):
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Speaker 3 (22:34):
All right, If folks welcome back in to compute this.
My name is Thora Schrock. I'm the owner of the
Shrock Innovations Computer Company. Where we are building laptops, building mini's,
flipping out computers as fast as we humanly can. This
is it's like the Holiday Special essentially, which is you know,
the ultimate Upgrade is our second most popular sale that

(22:54):
we do every year. This year we're gonna we're going
to sell more units in the Ultimate Upgrade than we
sold during the holiday special. It is absolutely insane how
fast these things are selling. I'm having to update the
quantities on the website daily so as we get another
shipment in, I can say, okay, we need to go
back up, we need to change the quantity available to
this quantity. And then a day, two days later, we're

(23:16):
down to I'm getting alerts in my email like, hey,
your online store is down to only two left in stock.
Heads up, and I'm like, yeah, I know, we got
more comming, we just haven't built them yet. Do you
say they're in stock even though they're coming and they're
not in in stock. I don't know. You don't want
to have people think you're out of stock, and especially
right now. People freak out when your quantities get low,
and you know a lot of times when you're looking
at Amazon, they play that game where there's only like

(23:37):
five units left to place your order. There's only five left,
and of course you buy the last five, and then
an hour later there's twenty five in stock, and suddenly
and you're like, they're just waiting for the quantity to
drop to create that sense of urgency. I would encourage you, folks,
things are not the same right now. If you see
that on Amazon or any other website that you're thinking

(23:57):
of shopping at, and you have the choice between perch
something now or purchasing something in six hours. If it's
something that you need and it's something that you want,
you should purchase it now because six hours later, like
as I found out, it could be gone and you
don't want to end up paying more because you're having
to buy it from a secondary source. You know, some
scalper essentially that bought it at the lower price and

(24:18):
is reselling it to you at a higher price. You
don't want to have to do that. Four zero two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Real quick here tariffs. Apple is beginning
to move all and I said all iPhone production out
of China to India. Remember back in the start of
the tariff for we're like you Trump's tariffs. They're gonna
make the iPhone cost three thousand, nine hundred dollars and

(24:41):
you're gonna pay it because you want the iPhone seventeen,
the iPhone Air. Have you heard about the iPhone air.
It's like a super thin iPhone that's coming out. Of course,
Samsung has a thin phone now too. I don't know
how do you make them any thinner. I mean you
can just snap it in your hand, like if you
get angry, you squeeze it really hard. If your wife's
yell at itchen, you squeeze the phone.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
It's like snap phone's dress ball.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
Yeah, exactly, three nine hundred dollars a ball. It gets
pretty stressful. I'll tell you what. Well, they're moving them
all to India because the the triffs from India are
obviously going to be lower than China. So there you go.
I mentioned a Chinese delegation was seen entering the Treasury
Building this week. They were photographed that the journalists actually
did a journalistic job for a change, zoomed in on
the badges and the photos and saw that the country

(25:23):
delegation that was going in there was one guy, a
Chinese minister, accompanied by ten lackeys, and they were all
going in with China ID badges on. And the configuration
of the badges was identical to the configuration of the
badges that you would give a foreign delegation coming to
meet with the Treasury officials. So China is meeting with
the Treasury Department. There was a you know, zero hedg

(25:45):
ran As stories that said, oh my gosh, could it
be that maybe Trump was telling the truth dot dot
dot again. It's like again, like, oh my gosh, for
the second time in his life. Oh my goodness that
you know. Trump said, hey, we're talking to China, and
he said something that was very interesting. We're gonna get
into this in the aftershock, he said, they're talking to us.

(26:09):
We're going to have a deal. It doesn't matter who
they are.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Now.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
When I first heard that it doesn't matter who they are,
I thought he was basically cueing the media, don't ask
me who I'm talking to. Don't ask me if we're
talking to g don't ask me. Don't ask me who
in China we're talking to. We're just we're trying to
keep things on the download. China wants to save some
face here. We're trying to accommodate that. That's kind of
how I interpreted the that comment. But then some other

(26:36):
things came to light that made me think maybe there
was a different reason that Trump is saying it doesn't
matter who they are, because perhaps They're the reason that
we're hearing Trump say hey, I'm talking to China, and
then China immedia comes out and says, there's no talking
happening here. We just need the US to unilaterally back
down on their tariffs if they want to be serious
international norms and blah blah blah, free free brokets for us,

(27:00):
not for you, that kind of stuff. What if there's
two factions in China and the left faction doesn't know
what the right faction is doing. What if the CCP
is in opposition to jijiping? Interesting aftershock stuff. So, China

(27:20):
has quietly dropped some of the retaliatory tariffs on certain imports,
including ethane, because they're going to crush their own economy
and you know, things like grain farmers. Some of these tariffs,
these Chinese import tariffs on your grain are going away
because guess what, even though the Chinese Foreign Minister said defiantly,

(27:42):
the people of China will fight to the end, we
will eat grass for a year if that is what
is required, because I'm sure he'll be the one eating
the grass. Meanwhile, I'm watching, literally watching video on YouTube
of Chinese people right now eating tree bark i don't
know if it's a joke. They're eating tree bark, not
because they don't have any other food, but because food

(28:02):
costs money. To get food, you need to have money.
To get money, you need to have a job. To
get a job, you need to work in a factory
making plastic stuff. But you can't do right now. So
interesting times. China. Unemployment, especially among youth is above, was
above forty five percent in twenty twenty four. Had no idea.

(28:27):
Almost half of the Chinese youth were unemployed in twenty
twenty four. And we're gonna talk about this in the
aftershot because there's all kinds of things that I thought
I knew that that I just I just don't know
as much about, like Tianaman Square, you know, tank Man
and all that stuff. That was a Greig democracy protest.
Right give me freedom, give me democracy, give me death.
And China said, okay, where theme was the tank? It

(28:49):
wasn't a democracy protest. It was an unemployment protest. It
was a youth led unemployment protest. Do you know what
the unemployment rate was when that happened?

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Just over.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Last year, the youth unemployment rate was forty five percent.
What do you think it is now twelve point five
million college graduates entering the Chinese workforce this year. How
many of them will have a job again, we'll talk
about that during the aftershock. Something is happening in Chinese
leadership guys. This is something we'll get into later on
as well. Some kind of CCP power struggle is happening

(29:21):
over there between different factions. We're seeing people in the
military structure get purged, to the point where the military
couldn't conduct a military exercise in the Taiwan straight because
they didn't have officers who knew how to run the
There was such a risk that somebody would screw up
and accidentally really shoot at Taiwan or something that a
live fire exercise without these guys that they purged was

(29:43):
too risky. So they brought the guys back out of
house arrest with CCP leash holders to run the exercise.
And even with them running the exercise, they were only
able to run the exercise for two days. They canceled
it early and brought everything back home again. Propaganda video
to fill in the blanks in the local news coverage.

(30:04):
One side is saying that China will negotiate. One side
is saying that China will not negotiate. Some interesting, interesting
times that are happening with the tariff updates. Meanwhile, as
I mentioned, the accordion principle is that it takes about
thirty days for stuff leaving China to hit the ports
in Los Angeles. You're already starting to see the news
stories about Los Angeles port volume being down. Once that

(30:26):
port volume falls to nil, which is where it's going
to go here soon, that hits the trucking industry. The
trucking industry moves the containers from Los Angeles across the country.
So by the tenth of May, you're going to start
to see the port volume drop to nearly zero on
the West coast. When that happens, the trucking volume is
going to drop to near zero. When that happens, you're
going to see not a lot of trucks coming across

(30:48):
the country, which means by the fifteenth the twentieth, you're
not going to see a lot of products on the shelves.
So again, if there is a particular thing that you
like to purchase, like chlorox wipes, let's just say you
know the clorox wipes or the chemical in them is
made in China. The wipe itself is made in China.
The plastic container that they come in with the little

(31:09):
clip shut lid that you always have to just pull
the whole lid off because that little clip shit lid
doesn't you can't get a wipeout and then it tears
the wipe. It's awful. But that's made in China too,
And so as a result, if you like those kind
of things, those kind of conveniences in your like, can
we live without Clorox wipes? Of course we can. We
did during the pandemic. Couldn't buy them anywhere. But if
you want those things in your life, maybe you should say,

(31:31):
how many little containers of Clorox wipes do we go
through in a month, two whatever? Maybe we should have
a four pack. Let's go out and buy a four
pack at Sam's Club and have that so we have
it here at home, so we've got it ready, you know,
whatever the case might be. Because I'm telling you guys,
in about May fifteenth is when you're gonna start to
feel the impact of the product availability that we are

(31:52):
seeing in the wholesale channel now at Trock. That's when
it's gonna hit the retail channel about forty five days.
Just wait for it for zero two five, five, eight
eleven ten eight eight eight two five zero two zero
nine one quick break. When we come back, Tim and
Don your call is coming up next. On compute this.

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Speaker 3 (34:43):
All righty guys, welcome back into Compute This. My name's
Thor Schrock. I'm the owner of the Shock Innovations computer company.
Jumping through these Facebook comments here at Facebook dot com
slash Shock Innovations, where you can watch the show live
if you want to. A couple things. Somebody said, well,
how do I listen to the aftershock? I don't I
can ever find it? Like, okay, well after if you're
commenting on compute this, the aftershock comes right after Compute this.

(35:05):
It's at Facebook dot com slash Shock Innovations. Just hit refresher,
you know, refresh our page and it'll pop up. Give
me six or ten minutes after the show to get
everything reset and everything go to the bathroom and get
a drink of water, you know, human things, and then
I can get started on that. Lee commented, Hey, I
thought this was a computer show. You know, Like I
get it, Lee, I know there's a lot being talked
about that's not like circuit boards and stuff. Show me

(35:27):
the news story this week in the IT world that
is not about tariffs. Show it to me. The stories
that I could find. Apple has a rumored iPhone Air
coming out. Here are all the rumored specs. Oh, and
it's going to be made in India because of Trump tariffs. Oh,
the new Samsung Galaxy twenty five thin is coming out.

(35:47):
It was delayed due to you know, geopolitical tensions in Taiwan.
They had a whole like you know, governmental revolution thing
going on over there, or you're excuse me out Taiwan,
South Korea. In South Korea. And so it's rumored to
cost around one thousand dollars a phone, although we don't
know what the price is going to be with the
Trump tariffs. I mean, every story, every single story, So

(36:11):
it's really difficult for me to find some stories out
there that don't involve tariffs. But I did find one.
Stay tuned because Google is going to be end of
lifing your thermostat. You know how Microsoft is getting rid
of your Windows ten computer and you have no choice
after that, Like you're just gonna you're gonna have to
buy a new one. Remember when you got your smart thermostat.

(36:31):
Guess what they're gonna it's just a computer. They're gonna
end of life that on you, and you're gonna have
to buy a new one, a new thermostat for your wall. Yeah,
isn't that crazy? So we got that coming up that
that was the new story that didn't have a teriff
in it, the new story that didn't have a tariff
in it. So Lee, I'm doing my best for you, man,
I really am for zero two, five, five, eight eleven ten. Tim,

(36:52):
Welcome to the program. How can I help you on
compute this today?

Speaker 6 (36:55):
Good morning?

Speaker 2 (36:55):
So how are you doing?

Speaker 6 (36:57):
Well?

Speaker 3 (36:57):
How are you doing?

Speaker 6 (36:58):
I'm doing okay. Hey.

Speaker 7 (37:00):
By the way, I love your backstory on business that
surrounds high tech. I think that really paints a picture
that we might not get anywhere else. So keep up
the good work. I think that's very very important. I
follow it myself and bring it forward. Is just a
very important piece of what you do there. So I
really enjoy that. My wife has an Apple laptop that's

(37:21):
an older one and we brought it in a probably
eighteen months ago, and then your shop. But I think
at Papilion rebuilt it. It only worked for about a year.
I'm wondering if it's worth. It only comes up on
a white screen. Now she's in love with it because
she does her digital photography on it. It's an old
seventeen inch MacBook, which obviously they don't make anymore, and

(37:43):
I'm not sure if it's worth putting a good money
after bad TRYNK. We spent quite a bit of money
having it rebuilt.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
Yeah, those hard drives are expensive. I'm guessing that you
had a hard drive put into it.

Speaker 7 (37:52):
I think they put a Salsey hard drive, a motherboard
and some stuff and it didn't work for more than
just a few months and then it died again or
don't restart at least anyway, Okay, and I'm not sure
if it's worth I looked up to the build the
window on it and I think it was like twenty
ten eleven, So if it is an older unit and
it may not be worse for resurrecting.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
Well, there's a couple of things. If it was less
than a year ago, all those parts that we put
in your computer, they had a one year warranty.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Okay, so if it's.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
Less than a year, you know, please or at least
give us a call to the service center and let's
check on that the invoice date, because if it's less
than a year and it's not working, we can fix
it for free. And this is something that you know,
everyone's like, what's the special going to be next month
or and I'm like, I don't know, because we don't
know what we're going to be able to get. And
one of the thing, one of the thoughts that occurred
to us was, oh, my gosh, well we're going to

(38:37):
get burned on extended warranties right right, because everybody out there,
we're telling everybody you're stupid if you don't buy a warranty,
and you get your money back if you don't use it.
And now we'll be like, yeah, what if we have
to raise the price of hard drives by double next month? Sure,
And you're saying, yeah, I put a lot of money
into that one, and what if it was double and
you said, well, I'll just buy a new computer. Then
you go to look at new computer prices and what
if they're double, And all of a sudden you're just like,

(38:59):
maybe I should the hard drive in. Wouldn't you really
be glad if you had an extended warranty then? And
so well, I guess what I'm getting at is, please
call us quickly so we can check on the warranty
status of those parts so that we can get replacement
parts ordered. If that's the case, Now, everything else that
you said might actually be true, because given the fact
that the computer is old, Apple is end of lifed

(39:21):
it or is end of lifing it, you're not gonna
be able to get the newest operating systems from Apple.
Number two is the new MacBooks that are out actually
have processors that are capable of taking taking advantage of
artificial intelligence, which will require your wife to purchase the
new versions of the Adobe products that she's already using
that she knows how to use that you don't ever
want to change because they change the shortcuts and they

(39:42):
make the life. My wife actually used a tool the
other day in her foot. She has a Photoshop subscription.
She always has the newest version of it. She's of course,
she has the AI equipped computer and she says, I'm
gonna try this photoshop AI. Was my son's senior prom
picture and in the middle of the picture, some random
dude just walks in the background through the picture, and
so she's like, she she clicks on the guy and

(40:04):
she uses the magic erase tool and the AI removed
the dude from the picture and filled in the background
as if it was just the lake behind him. And
she was like, I would have spent hours doing that
and just click, click boom, and it was done. So
there are some really cool things that are available in
the newer technology that your wife probably hasn't had the

(40:24):
opportunity to play with or use and may not want to.
She may not want to, but when when it's click,
click boom, I mean my wife, she's not easy to
impress with the AI stuff, and she's like, that's pretty cool.
I kind of like that. Never thought i'd use AI
until right now. So anyway, now, the Canva AI, that's awful.

(40:45):
If you use a Canva, don't even try their AI.
It's it'll lock your computer up six ways from something.
So I guess the question is, let's check the let's
check the warranty status on those parts. If we can
fix it for free, then obviously we should fix it
for free. If it's something that that is of warranty.
At this point, it may be time, especially if we're
looking at a motherboard or something like that. A hard
drive by itself isn't terrible, but if we're looking at

(41:07):
a whole mother board or something, then it gets pretty expensive.

Speaker 7 (41:10):
Right, Yeah, and I think we're past the warranty window.
I think I did look that up, and I think
it's been over a year. And then she got sick
and I had a couple of major surgeries and it
sat for a while, so that's why we didn't pick
up that it was spreading up. So that's just kind
of a little sidebar to the situation. But I appreciate
the input on it, and we may call to see
if you can figure out something on that. I did
to buy another one of your upgrade specials or whatever,

(41:32):
the ultimate up grade. Yeah, this last time, and we're
waiting for it to be shipp because I thought maybe
it'd be in stock. It's a good problem to have.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
We didn't expect we expected it to be busy, you know.
I bought fifty laptops ahead of the sale, so we
have them ready to go and have them in stock
for the majority of the sale. Maybe we'd have to
buy a few more, but I'm ordering fifty a week.

Speaker 7 (41:52):
That's amazing.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
Well, yeah, it's a good problem to have, but it's
also it's also makes me terrified of next month because
like next month, all of a sudden, no one's going
to need an here anymore. Right, thanks for the call, Tim,
I really appreciate it. For zero two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten, Don,
welcome to the program. How can I help you on
compute this today?

Speaker 6 (42:08):
Yes, good morning morning. I want to make one statement,
talk about the quality of the product you turn out, sir.
I have a two thy thirteen holiday special Wow.

Speaker 8 (42:22):
And it's still going strong, and you upgraded it to
from A ten to eleven. But I'm gonna tell you
it speaks well for the product you guys make and
the service I get from your people's excellent.

Speaker 3 (42:37):
Well, thank you, Don.

Speaker 6 (42:39):
And what I'm doing right now is I am working
on a class reunion and we're trying to get a
group call after the computer, like a zoom call. But
I don't have a camera. But I do have a microphone,
and I was wondering, ken, I have a what I've

(43:01):
got a microphone callor C V zero zero or C
two hundred. Okay, is that possible to get that hooked
into my computer so I can talk to these people online.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
Yeah, there's a lot of different ways. Thank you for
the call down. There's a lot of different ways we
can do this. So, like on the back of your computer,
there are three they look like headphone jacks. There's three
holes in the back. The red one or sometimes it
looks pink, but the red one is for your microphone.
It's usually the bottom one. If you plug your microphone
into that one, you'll be good to go. If it's
got to plug in. The other thing that a lot

(43:36):
of people overlook. If you're gonna do like a zoom
call or something like that, everybody gets really focused on
I have to use my computer for this because it's
where the camera is and everything else. But if you
have a smartphone or an iPad, a lot of people
forget that those have cameras and microphones too, and you
can get the app, the Zoom app for those devices
and use those devices to do your zoom calls as well,

(43:58):
so if you have a laptop of course can do it.
An iPad or a tablet can do it. Even the
Android tablets have an app to do that. Your phone.
If you have a smartphone it has a camera and
an app, you can do that too. So there's lots
of different ways that you can get connected with that call.
But yes, don if you want to plug that microphone
into the computer, use that pink or red hole at
the bottom in the back and you can plug right

(44:19):
into the back. Thank you very much for the call.
I appreciate you joining us here on the program today.
Four zero two five five, eight eleven ten. That's their
number to get in on the drawing as well. Here
at the end of the program, if you'd like one
of the real quick things. This is kind of a
it's a terriff. It has a terriff angle like everything anymore.
But we are buying a new piece of equipment for
our data recovery lab in the Omaha Service Center. We

(44:40):
don't talk a whole lot about the equipment that we buy.
Everybody just says, oh my gosh, the data recovery is
four hundred dollars, Oh my gosh, the data recovery is
eight hundred dollars. That's so expensive. Don't you just hook
it up to your magic data recovery machine and hit
go and it just gets my data and after we
do a bunch of work to your hard drive. Yes,
we have an imager we hook it up to. It's
not like we're in there, you know, pulling the files

(45:01):
out with the thread you know, come out of there.
But yeah, we have a piece of equipment we hook
it up to.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
You know.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
That's called the PC three thousand. The new PC three
thousand Pro imager handles all of your top of the
line Gen five solid state hard drives, the stuff you
don't have yet that that's going to be out there soon.
It also handles all the raid stuff and the business
grade stuff and all that other stuff. The imagers cost
around twenty thousand dollars each. So we have one, two, three,

(45:29):
four of them in the Omaha Service Center in the
Data Recovery lab right now. We're going to be adding
a fifth one. But you see, the thing is, I
only got so much bench space, so we're going to
take one of our old imagers and we're going to
transfer it to the Lincoln Service Center. And the reason
we're doing this is Kyle and his team and the
Lincoln Service Center have data recovery trained professionals on staff
in that service center that we transferre They used to

(45:49):
work in Omaha that we transferred there, and so they're
used to the equipment. They know how to run it,
they know how the data recovery process works. They were
doing the data recoveries with me while I was in
the Omaha Service Center. So we're gonna give Kyle an
imager and Lincoln. The reason I'm bringing this up is
if you're listening in Lincoln right now, the good news
here is your data recovery turnaround times are going to
go way down because we won't have to transfer all
the drives from Lincoln to Omaha. The more basic data

(46:12):
recovery cases will be able to be handled in the
Lincoln Service Center by Lincoln Service Center staff, which is
gonna be great because you know, I don't need all
those images in the Omaha Service Center. And when you
pay twenty grand perimeger, it's not like you just throw
them in the trash when you're done with them. You
know you're gonna You're gonna try to find a way
to continue to make them useful for your organization as
you go forward. Ironically, guess where the very first PC

(46:33):
three thousand that we bought twenty ten ish has a
sticker on it that says made in Russia, because that's
where it's all made. Ironically, though, now they're sold by
the Czech Republic. I'm sure they're not really made in
Russia and being sold through the Czech Republic. No, no, no,
I'm sure there's a reason why they're willing to sell
me the equipment for four thousand dollars and charge me

(46:56):
sixteen thousand dollars for the software which I can buy
on line and not have shipped. Wink, wink, nod, nod.
I'm telling you guys, tariffs are impacting the way every
business is operating, even data recovery imagers for data recovery labs.
It's crazy stuff. Four zero two five five eight eleven.
Time I'm gonna take a quick break when we come back.
Your nest thermostat is end of life. Guess what it means.

(47:20):
It's gonna stop working if you don't replace it. That's
not gonna be a problem at all. Right, don't worry.
You can still manually set the thermostat if you wanted
to like a you know, like mom's thermostat that is
a dial on the wall and you turn the little
dial to the temperature you want and then it would
just hold that temperature. Your nest thermostat will do that
for you still, even if it's end of life. But
that's about it, So we're gonna tell you what's going

(47:42):
on coming up next on compute.

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Speaker 3 (49:26):
You, all right, guys, Thanks for sticking with us. Their
final segment of the program. This hour has just flown by.
I was a little nervous going into this show, honestly, because,
aside from tariff stuff, there wasn't a terrible amount of
new IT news. Let me just give you a few
examples of the of the headlines that we had to

(49:50):
work with today. You'll appreciate this Russian nuclear link satellite
spinning uncontrollably, because that's important. The best iPhone game for
twenty twenty five. You know, Candy Crush doesn't cut it anymore.
Apparently Trump appointed attorney accuses Wikipedia of allowing foreign actors
to spread propaganda. Shock, Wikipedia is not always true. Who

(50:14):
to thunk? The best mac keyboards for twenty twenty five?
Don't they come with keyboards?

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Um?

Speaker 3 (50:21):
The grad Gift Guide The best laptops for each type
of graduate? What do you mean by types of graduates?
Like you graduate at top of the class versus you know,
you barely squeak by you know, do you get a
different laptop? I don't know. I don't know. Well, one
of the things that you're gonna want to squeak by
on is your Nest thermostat, because Google is end of
lifing the first and second generation Nest thermostats. Now, admittedly

(50:45):
these thermostats were sold in twenty eleven or twenty twelve. Now,
let me ask you a question. For those of you
who do not have a smart thermostat, you have like
mom and dad had the old dial, right, the metal
dial on the wall. If you got a thermostat, when
is the last time you purchased a new thermostat? What

(51:07):
did you purchase more frequently your refrigerator, an oven, or
a thermostat, Because I mean, you don't buy them very often, right,
So when you say from a computer perspective, something you
bought in twenty eleven or twenty twelve, That's why Don's
call was so shocking. He's like, yeah, I got the
holiday special, I bought it in twenty thirteen, and I'm
doing the math. I'm like, that's that's twelve years, thirteen

(51:29):
years almost that you've been using that computer. That doesn't
happen in computers, guys, they're built to last eighteen to
twenty four months. Now, So your nest thermostat having the
same computerized thermostat since twenty twelve, that's a long time
to have a computer. And Google agrees. So Google is
going to stop giving you updates for your thermostat. Yes,

(51:49):
that's right, you were getting updates for that thermostat and
when it goes end of life to encourage you to
replace it. They're also going to remove your ability to
control your thermostat from your smartphone. So you'll still be
able to walk up to the wall and set the temperature,
just like Mom's old dial, but you won't be able
to control it remotely anymore. Like if you're laying in
bed at night and you're like, it's hot in here,

(52:09):
and you pick up your phone and you turn on
the air conditioner and you put the phone down again.
You won't be able to do that anymore if you
were doing that before now. Of course, because Google is benevolent,
they are generous, they are concerned with the plight of
modern man in these inflationary times. They're going to offer
you a special discount to purchase a new Nest thermostat

(52:31):
and install that on the wall yourself, or you could
always bring your HVAC guy in to do it too.
Hear that the trades are easy to get to work
on a job right now, so you know whatever you
want to do. But this is one of the consequences
of doing the Internet of things with everything where everything
is computerized. Now, how long is it going to be
till your toaster goes end of life? Like, I just
wanted some toast. Sorry, E, no updates available for your toaster?

(52:54):
What do you mean updates? What do I need an
update for my toaster for It's an Internet connected sir.
You need an up date security your next thermostat security.
Went out and saw the movie with my wife yesterday,
the accountant to on Friday, and it was really a good,
really a good movie, guys. As long as you're okay
with the you know, the violence part of it, you know,

(53:14):
it's a really good movie, really touching at times. Actually
I'm not being sarcastic there. You know, you got to
touch people to kill them typically.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
You know.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
But one of the things they're doing is they're hacking
into networks through thermostats. That's like in the movie. I'm like,
so of course it must be true. Tim. Congratulations, you're
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because we can't extend it, so make sure you cash

(53:43):
in on that and we'll see it next week. For
compute this