Compute This 6-1-2025

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good morning, folks, welcome in to compute this. And I
did it again already, I already screwed up. I promised
a listener like two weeks ago that I would try
not to say good morning, because you know, if you
hear the show in Des Moine, you hear it at
two in the afternoon and you're like, it's not morning anymore,
and moron, you know so. And I can't say good
afternoon because then everybody else hears it in the morning

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and they're like, it's not afternoon. So good day, and
welcome in to compute this. Guten dog, gluten togg vocalmen. Yeah, golly,
all right, Well however you celebrate it. Happy day for
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to join us on the program today, not this morning today.

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know the whole answer rito if you will, you can
check that out there. Also, we are broadcasting live right
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com slash Shrock Innovations, where you can watch the show
live there, make comments, and during the commercial breaks, I
try to jump in there and answer any questions you
might have as well. So it's kind of a fun
way to be a part of the program. If you

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don't want to just you know, listen to the radio,
you can actually watch something more interesting than watching your radio.
If you're on the road, if you're driving, please don't
watch your radio, just watch the road and continue to listen.
If you did miss the show last week, we gave
you last call on the search Protector sale you. We
haven't done that one in a couple years, guys, and
I was friend shocked by the number of Surge Protectors
that that people purchased. I mean it's not like a

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high dollar sale. It's not something that you know, wait,
the kids are going to college, you know, it's it's
not that's not what it's about. It's more about protecting
what you have. And I think we sold over two
hundred Surge Protectors in the course of thirty days, which
I mean, we don't run a lot of marketing on
the surge Protector sale because again, it's not a high
margin thing. It's not like we can afford to do
a ton of marketing to sell, you know, another one

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hundred Surge Protectors.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
It doesn't make sense.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
But for our customers who understand that, you know, when
we tell you that you should get something, you know.
For example, I'm not going to sit here and tell
you that every person listening needs a FIREWALLA for their home.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
What is a FIREWALLA.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
It's a It's an amazing device that allows you to
control and monitor the network activity in your home. If
you have kids and you don't have a FIREWALLA, no
excuse because you can control with the push of a
button on your smartphone. You can shut down gaming, you
can shut down social media, you can block all pornography.

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I mean, it's it's amazing. If you don't have that
at home and you have kids, that's ridiculous expensive. Yeah,
they run six seven hundred bucks. I mean they are expensive,
but it's a one time buy. There's not a license
for it. But does everybody need one? No, So I
don't spend a ton of time on the radio talking
about how you need to go out and buy a
fire or buy a fire walla. It's just something you
don't that everybody needs. You know, Do I sit here

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and tell you that everybody needs to have a two
thousand dollars graphics card in their computer. No, because most
people don't play games like that, or don't aren't doing
advanced AI applications. They don't need it. So I don't
sit here and tell you that you need it. But
everybody needs a search protector. Everybody needs at least one.
If you have a computer, you need at least one.
If you're charging iPads, iPhones you need at least one,

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if you're you know, if you have a smart TV,
you need at least one. So everybody needs a search protector.
So when I come on here and say you got
to get a surge protector, you know people understand that, Hey,
I don't have to do a ton of marketing because
it kind of sells itself. You're like, you know, logically,
this makes sense. We're going into storm season, the weather's
getting a little wacky, the you know. I had one
gentleman who was emailing me who was trying to buy

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it online, and he was frustrated because he was having
trouble with the checkout process. There's nothing wrong with the website,
by the way, it's just some people have trouble with
online purchasing. It just happens. And then he said, lightning strike.
I got a lightning strike near my house, and now
I really need that surge protector.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
It's like, yeah, I get it. I get it.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
So you know, just just you know, pick up the
phone and call us if there's lightning striking your house.
You know, gets to a safe place and then you'll
call us. And I remember the first time cordless phones
were a new thing. You see, when I was young,
you know, back in my day, we had phones on
the kitchen wall and they had buttons.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
You might remember the days of it.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
I remember my grandma's house had at a rotary dial phone,
and it was really funny because I was like if
you put your finger in the four, but you only
go three notches with it.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
The phone things, you.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Put your finger in the three.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's like the wonders of the children in technology. Everyone's like,
who's pranking people in town? It's those shock kids again
on Grandma's rotary phone. They're calling eight one to one
over and over again. But uh I remember the the
first time we you know, the firefighters come to the schools,
come to the elementary schools and like, and if there's
an electrical storm, don't don't pick up the phone. Don't

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be on the phone during an electrical storm. Well, because
everybody was on a corded phone, and there was a
small probability or possibility that lightning could strike and it
could go through the wires, and then you're holding a
phone in your hand and that's not good, especially if
you're in the bathtub or something wouldn't be good. So
don't be on the phone, young teens, when you know,
when there's an electrical storm in the area. Little girl

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raises her hand. What if you have a cordless phone?
Fireman obviously has never ever asked that question before.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
He's like, uh.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
I guess you can be on the phone. Then it's
like I got nothing. The whole moral was don't be
on the phone, teenage girl. But fine, be that way.
It's kind of like when I had my stop class
and they were trying to explain blood alcohol content and
one girl raises her hand and says, but what if
some people handle their liquor better than other people? And

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You're just like, oh my gosh. You didn't just say
that in the stop class. Oh my gosh. So I
was kind of like that. So you know, last week
we talked about the end of the Surge Protector sale.
We warned you about all the privacy leaks that are
potentially there with Microsoft recall. We also warned you about
those remember those capskis that can infect your computer. Well,
we totally had a follow up story on that where

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Microsoft is finally now four weeks later, five weeks later
protecting you from that. So yay Windows Defender being only
five weeks behind the curve, and we explained how one
hundred and eighty four million passwords were leaked in one
single data breach from all kinds of different websites. Moral
of the story there was make sure you have two
factor authentication turned on because your password is no longer enough.

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Coming up on the program today, guys. You know, I
want to tell you a little bit about what's going on.
There's a there's a crazy amount of activity happening on
the specials page over at Shrock Innovations dot com. We
got a new award for the Des Moines Service Center
that we won that we weren't even trying to win,
so it was kind of a shock when we found
out we did win, because we didn't even know there
was a contest, so that was kind of crazy. We

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got a new PC three thousand pro for the data
recovery level. All kinds of interesting summer fun going on
over at Shrock. Also, one of the things that's interesting
is everybody was hearing about how tp link routers are
made in China, and there was a concern that, because
you know, tp link is exclusively a Chinese company, there's
the possibility that communists China could use tp link routers

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to infiltrate American telecommunications infrastructure. And tp link is pretty
much the chip set that's used in If you have
a modem from your Internet service provider, you probably have
a tp link chip set in that mode. I mean,
you won't you don't even know it. And so we
were selling TP link routers at Shrock and so we said,
you know, but let's the better part of valor here.

(08:02):
We can switch over to a SUS routers. A SUS
routers actually have a little bit more robust security. They've
got some AI protections and some things that the tepee
links don't have. And you know they're made in Taiwan,
so I mean it's still not made in America. There
isn't really a router that's made in America, but at
least it's not made in China exclusively. Right, And this
week I'm bringing to the story about a SEUs routers

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are getting hit with a massive malware attack. So fun
times that we're going to tell you what's going on there. Also,
if you're planning a trip this summer, you might want
to be aware of some new policies surrounding portable chargers.
Southwest Airlines, among many and almost all other airlines are
changing the policies on whether or not you can have
those portable charging banks to recharge your phones and stuff

(08:43):
in flight. So we're going to cover that for you,
so you know what to expect they're at the airport. Also,
tariff moratorium expired yesterday. There were no news stories about
this though. It's almost like people are tired of saying.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Oh, the tariffs the world the wicked witch.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
You know, you throw water on it, she melts. It's
like people, have you heard about the taco trade? Trump
always chickens out. A reporter asked that to his face,
can you imagine, sir, what do you feel about the
newest acronym on Wall Street? Well?

Speaker 3 (09:19):
What is that? I don't know that acronym taco?

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Trump always chickens out because you always back down on
the tariffs at the last minute.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
The next day and we're gonna double the steel tariffs
to fifty percent. Nah, oh my gosh, it was great.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Well, no one was talking about how the moratorium on
motherboards and graphics cards. The tariff moratorium on those two
devices expired yesterday. So who knows what we're going to
see in the next week, if it's going to be extended.
Nobody really knows yet. But because some reporter had to
ask him about taco, I don't think he's gonna chicken
out and extend the moratorium because you know, somebody had

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to say something. If you got a good thing, you
just don't talk about it, right, you just you just
keep quiet about it. For zero two, five, five, eight
eleven ten is the number to join us on the
program eight eight eight two five zero two zero nine
to one. As we do every week, at the end
of the show, we will be giving away a twenty
five dollars Shrock Innovations gift certificate to one lucky caller
slash listener slash viewer, letting them have twenty five bucks

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to spend on anything they want over at the service center,
which could come in pretty handy because we've got some
really active things going on the specials page now. During
the summertime, guys, people are traveling, they're on vacations. Last
month was horrible, like graduations. They call it Macember because
it's like December without Christmas that you're busy, you're doing something.
There's always an event to go to, a marriage, a celebration,

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a wedding, a rehearsal, something, there's always something, concerts, there's
something going on. And now people are heading out of
time for vacations, or they're going to see the grandkids,
or they're doing all the things they're out in the garden,
they're tech, they're generally not breaking their tech, and so
we typically see a slowdown in the service centers this
time of year. Now I'm going to talk in the
aftershock today a little bit about why that's a little

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bit different this year, because apparently everybody else in town
has decided they don't like consumers when it comes to
computer repair, that they rather just not deal with the
filthy masses apparently, so we're not as slow as we
normally are, which is good, that's a good problem to have,
but it's definitely you know, we have hundreds of bench spots, guys,
and there were nowhere near full. And so if you

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have those maintenance checkup certificates that you purchased and you
were going to bring your computer in at a time
when we were a little slower to get a faster
turnaround time, that time is now that this is the
time to do it, because so you know, fewer people
are coming in because they're doing other things. They're not
breaking their tech, you know, they're just they're just not
thinking about their computers right now because there's other stuff
going on. And so one of the things that we

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do during this time is. You know, we focus on
our internal systems. We you know, change over our phone systems,
or we we clean our our own computers. We do
maintenance check ups on our own computers. You know, we
clean our own service center. We make sure we do repairs.
We fix the broken toilet in Omaha, you know, just
things like that that we've been putting off for a while. Well,
you know, the guys, I don't know if they flush

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it violently, I don't know. I mean, are they flushing
it so hard that they break the handle on the
float and the handle is just dangling down.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
I'm like, how do you do that to a toilet bowl?

Speaker 2 (12:13):
And then if you wiggle it around enough, you feel
it catch on the inside and you can get one
more flush. So it's like, do we really need to
fix it? If we can wiggle it and cat like
fish hook it kind of like unlocking a car with
a coat hanger, we can kind of sort of get
it to flush one time. And it's the employee bathroom,
so you know, the worst case, you're reaching the tank
and you flush it right. I mean, it's not like
it's the customer bathroom where we're asking customers to do that.

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Then the other day I go in there and there's
a sign on the customer bathroom that says out of order,
Like what happened to that one? And they're like, I
don't know. It's like all the guts inside the toilet
are blown up. Like the guys didn't want to go
reach in the tank and flush the toilet, so they
went into the customer bathroom and broke that one too.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
Hm.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
That's called the plumber.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
So, you know, these are the kind of things that
we do during off season at Shruck. You know, we
fix things in the service center. We still that the
fan in the employee bathroom has been shot for like
a year.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
We need to replace that.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Somebody keeps turning it on like it's going to magically work.
I mean, you're just going to catch the place on
fire quick turning that on. Don't flip the switch. It's broken.
Everybody knows it's broken. Who works here? Why do you
keep turning it on?

Speaker 3 (13:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
It's not a light switch. So these are the things
we do. One of the things that we do as
we clean up, and especially in the Papillion service center,
is we find stuff that we didn't know we had anymore.

Speaker 5 (13:23):
So.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
For example, here's a holiday special case that we evaluated
for a holiday special two years ago that we decided
not to use.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
But it was like the.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Test case, the test case, haha, the test enclosure that
we chose not to go with, but we kept it
because we might need it someday. We put it on
the shelf back there. Why are we holding onto this forever.
Let's build a computer in it. You know, tariffs are
crazy right now. So the cases went through the roof
and price. Let's go ahead and build this computer. Mark
it down as a special, put it on the specials page,

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and now you have a boundless on special for one
hundred dollars off. It's exact same boundless you would buy
for seven hundred dollars, except this was only six hundred dollars.
The only difference is it comes in a case that
doesn't look like the other cases that we normally sell.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
It doesn't look like the catalog. You see.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Another example, we have a Glant laptop up there on
the website right now. It's just like the regular Galant laptop,
just an open box item. You see when we change
out our display models. This is essentially the last year's
display model, but rather than it being sold as an
open box at the time, somebody put it back in

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the box and stuck it in the cabinet. For god,
it existed. So we're cleaning out the cabinets and we're like,
what is this computer? And we say, hey, it's a galant,
and well we should probably get rid of it, right,
We should probably sell it to somebody. So we put
it up and we mark it down for a couple
hundred dollars off and put it on sale in the
specials page. So you can find some really great deals
this summer at Shrockinnovations dot com. If you click on

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shop and specials. If you see something on the specials
page that you like and you want to purchase it,
but you don't want to buy it online, you can
always call us in the service centers will help you out,
help you find it and figure out how to get
it to you.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Otherwise, if you want.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
To be sure that you get what you don see,
these are single, one off items. These are not like
you know, we don't have twenty of these things. So
when it sold, it's sold. So if it's something that
you want, buy it online because it's available until it's
not available and then it's gone. But you can check
that out over at Shrock Innovations dot com. Just click
on shop and then specials. Also, we found out last

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week that we won the Best of Des Moines award.
That is the first year since the Moine We opened
to Moines in twenty twenty as a brand new service
center in a market where we had no radio show.
The whole point of the Des Moines Service Center was
to figure out if we captured lightning in a bottle
here in Nebraska, or if we could repeat this model

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in a location where no one knew our name. And
it turns out we were able to do that. We
went far enough away that we were outside the boundaries
of our terrestrial radio show. We jumped on who with
all of our friends in Des Moines. We did our
whole thing there and amazingly, so here we go five
years later and we are being voted Best of Des Moines.
So I want to thank everybody that voted for us.

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I did not even know there was a Best of
Des Moines contest going on. Usually I will at least
ask you to vote for us, like please go vote
for us in the Best of Des Moines competition. Well,
I didn't even have to ask you guys are amazing.
It's just amazing. And so we promise we're going to
keep doing the same job we've been doing for the
last five years to continue to earn your vote going forward.
Now I know when the Best of Des Moines competition is,

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so I know if we're going to win or not.
But I want to thank everybody who voted for us
in the Best of Des Moines and welcome. That was
the only market that we had not won a best
of in every other market. We're best, best in our market,
best in our class, best in Sarpy County, best in
best of Omaha, best of Lincoln, and now best of
Des Moines as well.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Loving that for.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Zero two five five, eight eleven ten eight eight eight
two five zero two zero nine one. Going to take
our first break of the program, Clyde, your iPad question
is coming up next on compute this.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
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Speaker 2 (19:16):
All righty folks, welcome back in to compute this. My
name is Thor Schrock. I'm the owner of the Shrock
Innovations computer company. We have four locations to help you
out when your computer is not behaving properly when you
need a new machine, maybe if you're hard drive fails
and you need data recovery services. We do that at SHOCK.
The new PC three thousand Pro that we just received
in the seventeen thousand dollars data recovery imager that we

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we just got in the Omaha service center is supplementing.
We already had a PC three thousand, but this is
the PRO model allows us to do some things like
Intel Optane drives that we couldn't do before. Also native
raid recovery, which is kind of neat. A lot of
people are buying those multi hard drive boxes thinking that
it's the end all be all to keep the data safe.
When we have to send those away for recovery, for example,

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it can cost you know, thirteen thousand dollars to.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Get those recovered.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
To being able to do those in house would be
a huge savings to our customers. So we're making sure
that we can do whatever we can to keep your
technology costs as low as possible. That's one of the
things that Shock Business does.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
By the way, as well.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Shock Business is the corporate side of Shock that works
with business to business. Of course, we have a lot
of small business owners that come into Shock and use us,
you know, like hey, I have a computer in my
business and it's broken, can you fix it? And they
just come in as a customer, and we don't even
know you're a business. When we find out you're a business,
we usually approach you and say, hey, listen, the prices

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that you're paying to have consumer grade service, you could
actually be paying less and getting business grade service that's
more focused on preventing problems and maintaining uptime than responding
to issues and dealing with downtime. There's a difference in
the approach and Shock business. Is that difference? In fact,
I just got a comment here from Facebook dot com

(21:04):
slash Shock Innovations. Let me double check make sure I
get the name right here from Carol She said she
bought an Ultimate upgrade, had all of her data transfer.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Those are all consumer services.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
Including QuickBooks, which is usually used for people who have
small businesses. And now I'm getting air one five, one
zero six. It's in the shop getting worked on. Why
is there such a problem with QuickBooks now never used
to be before. Well, here's the thing. QuickBooks is pushing
all their customers to go to their online subscription based
software because you can use it from your phone. You

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can use the app, you can create invoices on the go,
you can request payments, and they can charge you every
single month. You don't buy the software and use it
until your computer dies and then buy a new copy
of QuickBooks, which is the old model. So when you're
getting a computer, a new computer, and we're transferring the
older desktop software of QuickBooks from the old computer to
the new computer, sometimes depending on the version you have,

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we have to hack it along to make it compatible. Sometimes,
you know, we always have to always have to reactivate it.
QuickBooks doesn't want to be reactivated. They don't want you
to continue using that. They want you to migrate to
the online version. They'll offer you all kinds of incentives
to do that. And then we see errors like this
now like one five to one zero six that we
never used to see before. And we're installing the same

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software that we saw before. So why is there a
new error that we've never seen before. You know, I
don't want to you know, you know, I don't want
to say this is something nefarious that's being done on purpose,
but it sure is a pain in the tooks.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
Right.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
So luckily, because Carol bought an Ultimate upgrade and got
a data transfer, she has a thirty day warranty on that,
so she's not being charged to have this quickbook software
you know, solution implemented. But if this happens to you
and you're in business and your quick Books goes down
for a day, two days, three days, you can't write invoices,
you can't do business. So you don't want to take

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it into a consumer repair shop. Have to drag it in,
set it on a bench, have a technician work on
it along with the other people that are on the bench,
wait a day to get it back, then get it
back and then say okay, now I can invoice everything
I need to do. No, you want somebody to come
out now. You want somebody to remote in and fix
it immediately, and you want somebody who has fixed it
a million times before. And that's Shock business. So I said, Carol,

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you know every I commented back and said, we see
this all the time in the service center. The guys
know how to handle this problem. However, the shock business guys,
they can do this with their eyes closed, usually through
text message in their sleep, because they do it so
much it breaks so much. QuickBooks breaks all the freaking time,
all the time, especially when you change hardware. So we'll

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get it straightened out for you. It's not a big deal.
But if you're in the same boat as Carol and
you're looking at you know, you only have four months
left now to upgrade from Windows ten. And when you
do that upgrade, you're gonna have to buy a new
version of QuickBooks or transfer the one you have. And
if you think it's going to be a buttersmooth process,
it's not going to be. Do not wait till the
last minute to do this. And you know, if you

(24:04):
sign up with Shock Business, you know it costs you
four hundred and fifty dollars per computer per year, guys
per year. Compare that to you know, Bizco or five
nines or any of the other big guys. I mean
usually I don't name competitors on the air here, but
everybody knows if you're in business. We received quotes from
these guys, you know who they are. They're charging you
two grand a month. We're charging you four hundred and

(24:27):
fifty dollars a year. So if that's if we're describing
your business, call Jeff in Omaha, call Ryan in Des
Moines find out. Just just have a meeting, a one
on one. We'll sit down, look at what you got,
and if you're sitting pretty with what you've got, We're
not gonna try to upset the Apple card. But if
we can save you half of your IT budget, which
is usually a conservative scenario.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
We're gonna let you know.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
We're gonna say, let us give you a quote so
at least you can go back to the big guys
and say, hey, I can get it at shock for
this much. What are you going to cut my price to?
At least use this as a bludgeon to get your
costs down with the provider you want to stay with.
Just have a meeting. That's all we ask for. Four
zero two five Clyde, Welcome to the program. How can
I help you on compute this?

Speaker 5 (25:09):
Good morning, thor thank you for taking my call? Morning,
Yes you can hear me. Good hey, Thank you for
your wonderful, fantastic business and the value add you bring
to all of us out here, whether it's our home,
residential or businesses. I try to refer your business to everybody.
I can't brother, and man, I pray you guys don't

(25:31):
ever go away. Please anyway, My quick question is on
my iPhone. You know, in this battery driven world we
live in anymore, you know, the batteries. You know, technology
will eventually, I hope and pray will catch up when
batteries will last for a lot longer than they do.

(25:51):
But this iPhone, do you guys offer a service? My
iPhone works perfectly, but you know after three years, just
three years, the batteries, it's just life, it's just kind
of do you guys offer a service to replaces the
battery in these devices?

Speaker 2 (26:08):
You know there are places out there that will replace
batteries in your Apple devices. The problem that we have
with this now is Apple is getting especially Apple is
getting more and more difficult about it. So now you
have to have an authorized Apple battery. Otherwise, every time
you turn on your iPhone, it says unauthorized battery detected.

(26:28):
And of course if you go if you go by
the unauthorized battery, you can get a battery that has
double the capacity that Apple ships the batteries with. It
can actually last all day without being on the charger.
Like my wife, she loves her iPhone, but at the
end of the day, she's dead. She's she's like on
a battery, you know, on a hack a battery. And
I'm sitting here, you know, rocking my my z fold
six and yeah, it weighs a ton, but you know,

(26:51):
it goes all day long and does every I can
run my hotspot on a road trip and nine hours later,
I'm only at thirty percent and my daughter's in the
back seat. She's been quiet the whole trip because she's
got a hotspot. You know. It's like, it's amazing, right,
So can we replace it? Yes, we've done it before
for people. Is it something that we really advertise that
we do. No, because none of the guys want to

(27:12):
do it because it's an absolute pain in the butt.
The big problem you have is the fact that after
you've done the repair, you know, if you're an Apple
authorized repair service center, which we are not. If you are,
if you take it to the Apple store, for example,
or to best Buy or some other place that's authorized
to do the work, they have the Apple authorized part

(27:32):
and they have the software that Apple gives that allows
them to reset the message essentially, so you don't get
the unauthorized battery message, because it's way worse if you
replace a screen or something like that. Now like you
can't even you can't do anything. You break a screen
and you take it to one of the mall fix
it stores. They can replace the screen and it'll work,

(27:54):
but you know, and all of a sudden, your fingerprint,
your detection doesn't work on your older models anymore, or
you know, the screen. The way that some of the
fix it stores go is they'll use the cheap Chinese
screens for the first repair because seventy percent of the
time those screens will last just fine, but then thirty
percent of the time they start to fail within a year.
So if you go back then they'll use the higher

(28:15):
quality Samsung or Apple grade which Apple uses Samsung screens,
that the higher Samsung grade screen in the second repair,
so you don't become a third time repeat customer. So
the industry for repairing mobile devices is awful. So I
heard a joke a while back to basically every new
version of the iPhone is basically just a battery replacement.

(28:36):
I mean, the tech gets a little bit better, but
it's essentially a battery replacement. You're buying a new device
because your old device doesn't last. You can go you know,
So what I would suggest you do in those situations, especially.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
On the iPhone, purchase apple Care.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Apple Care is actually a really good deal, and in
fact it's way underutilized by a lot of people. But
purchase apple Care not because you're going to break your
phone or break your screen or whatever. It's for the battery,
because you know, darn well, if you buy three years
of apple Care, you're gonna need You're gonna need a battery.
And when you need a battery, they're just they're they're
not gonna replace your battery. They're gonna switch out your
whole device. They're gonna basically take your phone and give

(29:11):
you a whole new device. So it it's a win.
And that way you get a whole new device, you
can make your phone last longer than three years, essentially.
And then you'll say do you want to now that
you've used your Apple Care, do you want to renew it?
And you're like, no, I'm fine for now, because you
know you're probably not gonna want to keep that phone
for six years, you know what I mean, Like, unless
you're Gary Sadlemyer, you're not gonna keep your phone for
six years. That man will keep a phone for a

(29:34):
long time, and then he's like, I got a new iPhone.
I'm like, oh, sweet, did you get the iPhone sixteen?
He's like, no, I got the iPhone thirteen.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
Like why because that's what they offered me.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
I'm like, all right, all right, then, so he's gonna
have that one for six years? Okay, but but yeah,
So I mean that's what I would. I would get
the Apple Care and then have it fixed at the
authorized Apple service center.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
So I mean, this is the thing.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Can I make money fixing your iPhone? Absolutely? My guys
will get paid good work for him to do. They
may not like the work, but hey, it it puts
food on the kid's table and shoes on their feet.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Right.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
But when there's a situation where we're not the best
solution for something like that, where when you can get
it cheaper for less and you also get coverage on
your screen, then as well, same thing with Apple Watch,
get the Apple Care on your Apple Watch. My wife's
Apple watch did. She had to buy a brand new one.
The new Apple watches, especially for the ladies, they're huge.
They're like a man's watch. The small ones are huge.

(30:28):
So my wife had a really small one that that
was one of the older models that she really liked
because it fit her wrist well, and she had to
get rid of it. Why because the battery swelled and
it popped the back off, and so if she would
have had Apple Care on it, she could have taken
it in and insisted they replace it instead, you know,
to go buy the new one.

Speaker 5 (30:47):
Well, that's what I love about you, guys. You look
out for what it's the golden rule. You treat others
how you want to be treated. But your advice to
me is fantastic. Get this Apple Care when I get
a new phone, and then after two and a half
years or so, going there, Hey the battery sucked and
you know it ain't working, then they'll give me a
new phone, last me and other whatever before I get

(31:09):
a brand.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
New model, you know exactly.

Speaker 5 (31:11):
So that's great. Door God bless you, and thank you
for your program here too. All right, Hey care sir,
Thanks for the.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Call, Clyde, and we also got you in the drag
there for a twenty five dollars Shrock Innovations Gift certificate
four zero two five five eight eleven ten. I'm a
little late for the break here, but before we go
I want to get this in Asus routers. Only about
nine thousand routers on the Internet so far have been
reported as infected, so odds are I checked. I have
an Asus router at home because it has a lot
of AI functions and parental controls built into it that

(31:41):
you can do time limiting where you can turn off
the Internet access to specific devices on the network at
specific times. So if you don't want your kid playing
video games in the middle of the night when you're sleep,
you just make sure their computer has no Internet until
they figure out how to pap a hotspot on their
cell phone and then connect to that, you're good to go.
Because they're smart like that. They're like little criminals. They
figure everything out. That was a little criminal once, and

(32:01):
I figured things out too. I always got the order
my mom, are you eating the oriols.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
O?

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Or you know, I'm trying desperately to swallow whole oreo
cookies in my throat. I was a gen X kid.
We came up with solutions like that. But uh, you know,
so all these ASIST routers, nine thousand of them, are
getting hit. So how is it that it was detected
after only nine thousand routers were infected well because AI

(32:29):
was used to analyze web traffic patterns and it discovered
an emerging threat where there was anomalous traffic happening on
a specific port across one brand of router Asus routers.
You see this attack. It happens through a brute force
attack of your router. So a lot of people install
a router and they don't change the default username and password.

(32:50):
It's still like admin admin or something, or admin rut
or root admin. So if you don't change the password,
you change it to password exclamation mark or something.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
Stupid.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Bad guys they will pin your router over and over
and over again, and eventually they'll get in. And when
they get in, they change the programming. They don't they
don't disable your internet or do anything crazy. They just
change the programming on your router. They open up SSH
port number five three two eight to two, and then
once that's open, that allows them to come back anytime
they want later, even if you change the password on

(33:22):
your router, even if you do a firmware update on
your router, that port remains open because the router thinks
you open the port and so the port is opened.
It allows bad guys to come back and use your
Internet connection to attack other computers on command. So when
you hear about a botnet attack, we're trying to attack
the some telecommunications thing and knocked out of the phone system.

(33:45):
They used your router to do that. Used to be
they had to use your computer to do that. Well,
people have gotten more sophisticated now with so fose antivirus
and things like that protecting the computers. They're a little
harder to get to. And if we get your router,
then we can use your entire Internet connection and not
just be limited to one device on your network. So
the only way to fix this if you get hit
with it is to do a factory reset on your

(34:07):
Asus router. I mean that's the easy way to I
mean the way they'd fix it at Shock Business is
they would just close port five three two eight two.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
Problem solved.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
So I was able to log into my a SUS router,
check out my SSH ports and see port number five
three two eight two was not open, and so therefore
I was not impacted by this attack. All the same,
I turned off the ability. I don't need anyone to
have the ability to SSH into my router from over
the internet.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
I'm not doing it.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
So I turned that function off and now I will
never be impacted by this threat. Even if they brute
force my stuff, I'll never be impacted. So if you
want those kind of solutions, if you have an Asus
router in your home or especially your business, all the
service centers have a SUS routers, and all of our
service centers do same thing. We can do all kinds
of restrictions on the network. And so I sent you Ben,

(34:56):
our senior engineer at Shock Business. I'm like, Ben, check
all the service centers a SUS routers, make sure none
of them were hit by this, because we just don't
want to have it. What are the odds very small,
but if we got hit, it would be a problem.
So if you have an Asus router, this is definitely
something you need to check. If you're a business and
you have an Asus router, it's time to give Shock
Business a call. This is something that we can check
for you remotely, usually five minutes or less, and it's

(35:20):
a great way for us to get a conversation started.
If you want to get a free be out of
us the grit, the best way you can do that
is contact a sales guy and be like, I'm willing
to talk about my IT needs, but I need you
to check this out for me first. Jeff's a sucker
for that one. He'll fall for it every time. So
you get a free be out of them there. But
then he's gonna want to talk to you, and then
you're gonna have to dodge him, like you know that
annoying sales guy. H No, I'm just kidding. He's not

(35:41):
gonna if you tell me to go away, he goes away.
So but yeah, if you have an Asus router, definitely
check it out for zero two five five eight eleven
ten eight eight eight two five zero two zero nine
to one. Got to take a quick break when we
come back. Guys, we've got don your call as well
as Southwest is changing their policy on portable charging devices.
What do you need to know before you fly? We'll
tell you coming up next on compute this.

Speaker 6 (36:02):
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(36:22):
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Speaker 7 (36:26):
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Speaker 6 (36:28):
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(36:48):
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Speaker 6 (37:23):
You would probably rather drink the water at Camp La
June than get another call about the desperate need to
renew your cars expiring warranty.

Speaker 7 (37:31):
Who actually responds to those calls.

Speaker 6 (37:33):
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 net or use. It's such a waste.
It's no different with computers. Major manufacturers warranties have more
subscript crosses than a Sunday morning church service.

Speaker 7 (37:50):
Batteries are exempt.

Speaker 6 (37:51):
Hard drives must be completely dead and forget about anything
that they can remotely claim.

Speaker 7 (37:56):
As physical damage. That's why Shrock warranties are different.

Speaker 6 (37:59):
When you or just a modular piece or a solid
state laptop and extend your warranty, we offer a no
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Speaker 7 (38:06):
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Speaker 6 (38:08):
Thrilled to have it if you don't use it, and
we refund your money automatically every time.

Speaker 7 (38:13):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (38:14):
We are so confident in the quality of our products
that our extended warranties are refundable. Many Shock customers use
their refunds to purchase another warranty or pocket the savings
and move on. We all know you'll need it to
cover that expiring car warranty anyway, shocks refundable extended warranties
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(38:35):
computer work.

Speaker 7 (38:35):
For you.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Just having a conversation here and you'll that spot about
the Sunday Morning subscript crosses. You know, I actually got
a call from a pastor who said that, you know,
aventually that you know, he didn't appreciate that. And you know,
it was it's supposed to be you know, a tongue
in cheek humor. It's it's like, you know, it's not
intended to be blasphemy, you know, yeah, And so I

(39:11):
was like speaking of blasphemy the other day. Is something
weird happened to me. I was tending myself an email
from my phone and I typed in, you know, t
Shrock at Shrockomminnovations dot com, and I, you know, I
tapped the next field and you know how it'll change
your name to be your friendly name, like it'll just
say force Rock or whatever, like, you know, to whatever
you have it saved in your contacts. It changed my
name to Jesus. I did not save myself in my

(39:34):
phone as Jesus. I double check just to make sure
I didn't have like a narcissistic moment and like save
my own name is Jesus in the phone? But no,
I did not do that, So I don't know why
my phone thinks I'm Jesus. And my wife said, well,
is there something you need to think on, because maybe
someone's trying to talk to you or maybe that subscript
cross commercial needs to go, you know, through your phone. Yeah, well,

(39:57):
I mean that's the best way to get ahold of me, right,
I mean, how's God going to talk back to you?
I look for signs. That's so much easier now when
you have a phone, you can just text you, I suppose.
So I've seen billboards for that need Jesus and it's
like text one two three, four five, and you're like,
it's that easy now. Usually I had to like get
on my knees and I had to bow my head
and fold my hands to keep them from not being busy,

(40:18):
close my eyes so I don't get distracted, and then
actually think, Now I can just text Jesus, and it's amazing.
Of course, I'm I'm speaking in jess. Guys, we all
know how to pray four zero, two, five, five eight
eleven ten is the number to join us on the program.
One of the things that you might you know a
lot of people pray before they get on an airplane
these days, especially if it's a Boeing. You know, you'd

(40:39):
never know, but Southwest flies Boeings exclusively, by the way,
and Southwest is changing their policies. I don't know why
this story picked on Southwest, because airlines all across the
world are changing their policies on those portable phone chargers
like a power bank. Essentially, you take them with you
when you travel because if your phone gets low, like
you're stuck at the airport or something. You know, everyone

(41:00):
tells you don't plug into the USB ports that are
on the chairs, don't plug into weird charging stations, because
your phones can get infected with malware through the USB
cables on those devices. So you want to just bring
your power with you, or bring your own charger brick
with you, bring your own physical one hundred and ten
volt plug that you plug into a power outlet with you,

(41:22):
because that way you know you're not getting infected.

Speaker 5 (41:24):
You know.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Amy just asked me on the Facebook group here at
facebook dot com slash raw Innovations on the live show
Good Morning. I use my iPhone exclusively for all my
computer needs. Do I still need some type of malware
protection from my phone? The answer is absolutely you do.
Phones are getting attacked more and more and more. The
FBI now says you need to reboot your phone every
day because most attacks remain resident in memory, So rebooting

(41:46):
the phone every day will help clear them out. But
then you only go one day with a compromised phone.
Isn't that great? We wouldn't it be better just to
not get compromised. So, yeah, if you got anti malware
software on your phone, you're a little bit safer. But now,
if you're flying on Southwest, you can't even take your
portable backup battery with you anymore. So what are you
supposed to do with that? Well, you can take it

(42:07):
with you, you just have to keep it in plain sight.
Apparently there was an issue on a South Korean air
flight where the backup battery somebody would plugged it into
a device they were going to recharge their iPad or whatever,
and they plugged in their device and then they put
it in their carry on and they stowed their carry
on in the overhead bin. And whether there was no

(42:27):
indication on whether it was a manufacturing flaw. Most of
these batteries are made in like crappy little factories in China.
Some of them are better than others, some of them
have quality control issues, to be honest, and so nobody
knows if it was a manufacturing flaw or if maybe
you know, when you pack a battery and an iPad
and roll it up in a sweater and you know,

(42:47):
stick some kindling in there and then put it in
a bag and zip it shut, it might start to cook.
You know, it might get a little hot, and so
as a result, who knows, maybe maybe the device just
overheated and caught something in the luggage on fire. Whatever,
there was a fire, and so now everyone's freaked out
about power banks. So you can use them, but you
have to keep them in plain sight, which means you
can't put them in your purse or in your carry

(43:09):
on bag or your bag under the seat while they're
charging a device. You have to keep them in plane view.
But you still can take them with you. In fact,
the FAA says, and this is not a joke, that
you can take up to twenty backup batteries with you
on a flight. Now in my family, I am known
as the battery Nazi. If you leave your device laying

(43:30):
around randomly in the house and then you can't find
it later, there's a good chance it's on a charger somewhere.
So we centralize the chargers so everybody knows. When Dad
picks up the device and sticks it back on the charger,
that's where it went. I'm like, your battery is only
at ninety percent, let's go, you know, plug it in.
And so even I do not take twenty backup batteries
with me on a flight. It's like I have a

(43:52):
special briefcase just for your backup batteries. You might have
a problem, so I don't. I'm not that bad, but
but I do take a back a battery with me
when I fly. And now I'm gonna have to leave
that battery out in the open if it's charging a device,
so it doesn't catch something on fire. Don Welcome to
the program. How can I help you on compute this today?

Speaker 8 (44:10):
Yes, good morning to morning. I have a two compliments
I wanted to make Kyle. I'm well, basically what I'm
telling him, I'm working on a class reunion and some
documentation for that and some spreadsheets, and Kyle helped me
earlier this week and then I had a question I
think on Friday, and Emily was super helpful. She was

(44:36):
very patient. I'm one of those people that contain himself
into a corner without any effort or at all, and
Emily was super helpful. So you have to be complimented
on your people.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Again, thank you very much. I really appreciate it. Thank
you well, thank you for the call. Don I appreciate
you joining us. It's really sad that, you know, we
tried to do everything, but Emily is going to leave us.
She's so amazing and I'd like, Emily, no you can't go, Like, no,
you can't go, you can't leave. But it's a great opportunity. It's,
you know, in a career field I want to go into.

(45:08):
I'm like, no, no, you don't.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
What can I do? Is it?

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Is it money? Is it recognition? I got you flowers
on administrative assistance day, like what more can a man do?

Speaker 8 (45:17):
You know?

Speaker 2 (45:19):
And she said it's not you, it's me. And she
didn't say that, she just said, no, it's a great opportunity.
And you know, we we I had Marissa work on
her and she Nope, it wasn't. It wasn't going to happen.
So unfortunately we know we're losing an amazing person there.
So when one door closes, another another door open. So
if you are an amazing person like Emily looking for

(45:41):
something in the administrative assistant field, you're going to work
directly with me in the data recovery lab quite a bit.
You're also going to work on a lot of things
that aren't really administrative administrative assistanty kind of stuff. There's
a lot of responsibilities. That's an important position in the
Omas Service Center. You deal with a lot of the
sofa subscriptions, you know, some fight tech work where of
course we train on that. It's not like we're going

(46:02):
to ask you to be a technician on day one
or something. But if you want some if you've had
an administrative assistant position and you got bored with it,
take a look at our opening on indeed for the
Omaha Service Center, you're not going to get bored. Four zero, two, five, five,
eight eleven ten number to join us. Got to take
our final break of the program when we come back
the tariff moratorium on motherboards and GPUs that's graphics cards

(46:24):
are expier did expire yesterday, So what's going to happen
today and tomorrow? We'll tell you what we think coming
up next on Compute.

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Speaker 6 (47:50):
Have you noticed that almost every piece of technology seems
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Speaker 7 (48:00):
They can't be repaired.

Speaker 6 (48:02):
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Speaker 2 (49:09):
Let's see that's some good generic bumper music. I like this,
You like the phone? Huh yeah, I mean it's kind
of nice. It's not elevator music. We're not impending on
any or impinging on anyone's copyrights.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
Guys.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
When we started broadcasting the show at Facebook dot com
slash Shock Innovations, we lost the ability to use regular
music in the podcast, so we can't use you know,
ac DC and stuff like that anymore. We had to
go to this like generic kind of music. Some of
it's really bad. Some of it's like wow, I wouldn't
play that in an elevator bad. It's like hold music

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that makes you want to hang up the phone.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
Bad. But that one was pretty good.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
That one was pretty good. All right, guys, thanks for
joining us on the program today. You know, one of
the things that that we try to keep up with
without getting into the politics of it. We save that
for the aftershock. There will be an aftershock at facebook
dot com slash shock innovations coming up here at the
inclusion of the program to plan topics. Of course, the aftershock,
if you've ever been there, it can go in random directions,

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it really can. But the planned the plan for the
show is we're going to talk about some of the
local computer repair companies. We're going to name names, what
local computer repair companies are telling their customers they don't
want them anymore. Because you hear me say that on
the radio and here on the show. I usually don't
talk about other competitors. You know, it's number one. It's

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a class thing. Try to be classy, like you know,
you don't badmouth other people. But this isn't really bad mouthing,
because if you call these same companies, they'll just tell you, no,
we don't do that anymore. And when you say, well,
where am I supposed to go? Their individual technicians will
say we can go over to shock. They'll take care
of you. But when we call management and say, hey,
with let's put a deal together where we transition your

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residential customers over to Shock. Let's offer from a special
deal a free maintenance check up, We'll take over warranties,
you know, things like that. Then we get the cold
shoulder because some of you have a subscription deal with
your existing service providers for antivirus and things like that,
and they don't want to let the recurring revenue go
because it's easy money. They don't have to do anything
for that money. But when you come in and you

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want a data transfer or something, they don't want to
help you because they don't deal with messy consumers anymore,
and so they send you over to Shock, and so
then we end up converting you piecemeal essentially. So you know,
we're not going to name on the regular show of
the airwaves that the local company names that are doing this,
but we are going to do that during the aftershock,
so tune in for that. Also a little bit of

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a crypto update. There was a huge bitcoin conference in
Las Vegas this week and there was a lot of news.
Jd Vance was at the conference. He spoke the Trump
Media Group made a huge bitcoin move this week. So
there's a little bit of some market news to discuss there. Also,
I want to cover this auto pen controversy. If you've
been following the autopen, you know that it you know,

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basically there's some doubt as to whether Joe Biden actually
knew about what was being signed with the Autopen, and
so a lot of people are kind of going crazy
on the internet saying, well, this may not be legal
because of that, and this may not be legal because
of that, And I'm gonna it's fun to have those
conversations in theory, but I want to break it down
Barney style about what is probably going to actually happen

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with this, which is in a nutshell.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
Nothing.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
So yeah, we're going to tell you why, and it's
going to take a lot of people off, but that's
all right. That's what the aftershock is for. But during
the regular program, we try to stay out of the
political stuff. We try to stay away from that and
just get down to the raw tech news. And the
raw tech news is the tariff moratorium on graphics cards
and motherboards expired yesterday, which means effective today, which of

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course no one is shipping anything on a Sunday. Sorry
if you hear the show on a Saturday, but it's
recorded on Sunday. On Sunday, no one is shipping and
receiving anything, so there's no tariffs being collected today. But
tomorrow that changes. So your prices for motherboards and your
prices for graphics cards could actually go up starting tomorrow.
Whether they go up for legit reasons or just because

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people who have them think they can charge more, who knows.
There's no word on whether or not the moratorium will
be extended, whether it's a taco or not. Most of
this is well, this is going to affect almost exclusively
Chinese made graphics cards and motherboards, which just about all
these devices are in some way manufactured in China, whether

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it's just the heat, sinks or whatever, so it's going
to pretty much touch everything. Companies are rushing to open
US assembly plants. I've seen a lot of companies opening
US plants, but they're just not quite there yet. Don congratulations,
you got yourself a twenty five dollars Shock Innovations gift certificate.
Thanks for calling into the program, and we will see
you all again next weekend for an exciting edition of

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Compute This