Compute This 6-29-2025

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hello, folks, and welcome into Compute This.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
My name is Thor Schrock. I'm the owner of the
Shrock Innovations computer Company. We've got four locations to help
you out when your computer's on the fritz, when it
doesn't want to work.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
You've got that's kind of what on the fritz means.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
I guess when you know, if you're hard drive fails,
if you need a new computer, if you need us
to come out to your business and check out why
things aren't working the way they're supposed to work, or
why the printer keeps going offline, or you know, if
your Wi Fi router in your house is super spotty
and your wife insists that there's nothing wrong with it,
even though you know it's more than five years old,

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and the guy on the radio says you should replace it.
You know, if any of those problems sound like what
you're going through right now, you find yourself in the
right place. Four zero two, five, five eight eleven ten
is the number if you'd like to join us on
the program today. Also, if you're outside of the metro area,
you can reach us at eight eight eight two five
zero two zero nine to one. That's eight eight eight
two five zero two zero nine one. As we do

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at the end of every program, for those of you
who call in, ask a question, make a comment, you
know are just generally part of the program in some way,
we will go ahead and put you in the drawing
for a twenty five dollars Shock Innovations gift certificate that
will draw for at the end of the show.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
And then you don't worry.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
If you can't listen till the end of the show,
that's fine. I mean I would like you to stay.
But if you can't and you win, we'll call you.
We'll get a hold of you on Monday and let
you know that you've won a couple quick program notes today.
I got something going on right after the program today,
So there will be no after shock today. So for
those of you who are looking for the after shock,
you won't find it because it's not there, because you

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can't do it today. The other thing, we are closing
early on July third, because the lovely Kimberly throws an
amazing July fourth party while we're throwing it on the
third this year, and Sarah, essentially, our employees are all
invited to come to this party. So we're going to
close early on the third so that our employees can

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come to the fourth of July party, and then of
course Independence Day we are closed. Our employees then don't
they don't have to show up for a company event
on Independence Day?

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Do you see how that works out? You know, we
don't have to be that guy.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Hey, we're giving you the day off and we require
you to show up at the boss's house for a
mandatory completely optional, of course mandatory.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Uh, you know, we'll get together. So so the.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Third and the fourth we're going to be some weird
hours and then after that back to business on the fifth.
The other thing that's going to happen on the starting
on the fifth, guys, is uh, this is the this
is the solstice of slowness at Shock. This is at
the end here, this is going to be the July
second is going to mark the slowest day at Shock,

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the fastest possible turnaround times ever all year long. Happened
right then So if you have a prepaid maintenance certificate,
if you have some something you've been putting off coming
in for because you were worried about turnaround times in
the service center, that is the time for you to act.
Because after on the fifth of July, for example, every
day going forward after that, the shops get busier and

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busier and busier until we're back to normal again. So
this is the time. This is your moment. Choose to
seize it. It's all I can say.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Now.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
One of the things that's been kind of kind of interesting,
and I send a message to Alfonso about this. If
you had head over to the specials page over at
Shrock Innovations dot com click on Shopping then specials. I've
been kind of every week talking about different things we
have up on this specials page.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
And I noticed that the specials.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Page was getting kind of crowded, and I thought, man,
I'm talking about this every week, and I mean, I
thought I saw some of this stuff sell but it's
still up here.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (03:47):
And I started clicking on the items and each one
says sold out, sold out. Well, there was only one
available of each thing, so it's a sold out. But
they're still there. So I'm like, Alfonso, can you take
down the sold out items? There's no reason to have
the sold out items left it. There's no reason to
have people look at the specials page and say, oh, man,
if I would have only acted sooner, there's nothing I
can do about it now. And just I just like
to bake. People generally feel horrible when they come to

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us to do business. It's just, you know, it's a
great It's a great thing to do to people, you know,
So can we take down the other the great things
that other people already bought that you can't buy anymore?

Speaker 2 (04:17):
That'd be great. Thanks.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
With that said, there are a few things up there
on the page. I did go through each of them
so I could tell you which ones were, you know,
save you the clicks. Essentially, we still have that custom
Mini Venture. As you know our minis. We introduce those
fully with the Ultimate Upgrade Sale. They're going to be
a mainstay in the next catalog as well. The minis,
though they're they're kind of like Endeavors. They're mid range computers.

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This particular Mini is like a Venture. It's like one
of our high end computers, except it's hundreds of dollars
cheaper than one of our high end computers, but it
does all the same things with the same capabilities. It's
pretty amazing stuff For a six inch by six inch
by two inch package, it's pretty cool. So you can
check that we have one of those left over at
the specials page at trock innovations dot com. Also, there

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are a couple custom Glant laptops that basically we're special
order items. I think one of them is an open box.
Actually that was probably a display model. The other one
was a special order item with the customer ended up canceling,
and you know, we're just kind of.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Stuck with it.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
So if you want to check those out over at
shroc innovations dot com, click on shopping Specials. That's a
cool way to get yourself into a new computer and
save a few hundred bucks while you're at it. Four
zero two five five eight eleven ten eight eight eight
two five zero two zero nine to one. Also, if
you are a fan on Facebook at facebook dot com
slash shrock Innovations, we're currently broadcasting the show live there

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you can comment, make yourself known in Shrockville and you know,
generally be a part of the program if you'd like
over there as well, if you follow us on Facebook,
you know, it was kind of weird here we are,
you know, end of June, early July, and we're talking
about Christmas. What's going on up there? Well, when you
start thinking about it, and this is going to make you,
This is going to make you feel good because everyone's like, oh,

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you know, we we got to get I think someone
amously wants to at least let us get through Independence
Day before you start talking about Christmas, you know, and like, well,
for us, you know, it's like it effectively is July.
So we have July and we we plan out what
we want to do. We figure out what's going to
work and what's not going to work, and we're testing
some really fun stuff and some of it may not work,

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but that's why we test it. And then we're gonna
end up with a few fun things for the holiday
special this year. But you know, we go through prototyping
in July, and then in August we know what we're
gonna build, so we start negotiating with our suppliers to
get the prices down because right now it's going to
cost too much to build what we want to build.
And we have to we have I think we have
to find fifty or sixty dollars per unit to get

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back within budget. So it's not insurmountable. We just everybody
needs to give us a few more nickels or dollars
back and on each part, and then we'll be fine.
And this is all we need, just some discounts, we'll
be fine. And then you know, now you're in September,
and so now we order the parts and it takes
a month to get them all, and then you're in October,
and now you've got to build the computers because you

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know you're gonna start selling them in November. Early birds
start buying in October to do our beta to our
prototype testing, and with consumers. We've built something that we
think is really cool, but you know, we don't want
to get into our own tunnel vision and you know,
build something and then have it have some significant oversight
that we didn't anticipate. So we sell two or three
units out there to individuals and business owners and let

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them try it out and let us know what they
think of it. And of course, you know, ninety nine
point nine percent of the time it comes back great.
I think great, example of what went sideways on one
of these is one year we thought it would be
really cool to have like a three D monitor. This
was back when three D was like a big thing
that was coming around. Three D that didn't require you
to wear glasses, so it was just a standard monitor

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that had a three dimensional capability that you could activate
when you were looking at three dimensional content, and when
you weren't looking at three dimensional content, it was just
a regular monitor. Seemed pretty cool, right, Well, what we
didn't anticipate was that effect on the screen that three
D effect caused. They had to put physical kind of
roofs in the screen, little lines, and so when it

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was not in three D mode, if you were looking
at a spreadsheet or something, those lines, they they made
it really hard to look at the screen. And I
guess we didn't look at a spreadsheet on the screen.
You know, we were looking at three D content, thinking
how cool this was, and we never stopped to say, well,
let's look at a spreadsheet, and then all of a
sudden it's like ooh. And you know, that year we

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kept the three D monitor as an option, and I
think maybe we had five or six people take it,
but everybody else took a standard monitor cost being equal.
So it was a great example of why we do
a test, why we put a few units out there
for people to try before we go full bore on
the sale with what we think is going to be
really cool.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
So we got some fun stuff.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
Keep an eye at Facebook dot com slash shraw Innovations
for any potential leaks that come out, because sometimes when
you're playing with something that's really cool, you just can't
help but talking about it. So it's kind of kind
of neat good good stuff there. Four zero two five
five eight eleven ten eight eight eight two five zero
two zero nine to one. So for those of you
who are fans, were fans of, or customers of the

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Omaha Service Center, you may remember a gentleman that used
to work there. He had fantastic hair, like wow, I
mean mid back, I mean he had a head of
hair on him. It was crazy, right, And you know,
we had an opportunity for him to move up and
move into the Lincoln Service Center and kind of take

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over that service center and step into a leadership role.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
And he did a phenomenal job there. Like I.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Walmart, they would call him a fixer and that's somebody
you put into a service center that has an issue
and they fix it and then they set it up
for success, and then you moved the fixer to the
next problem location.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Right.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Well, we didn't have another problem location to take Kyle too,
and so we sent him back to Omaha. And so
Kyle is going to assume leadership of the Omaha Service
Center and that is well, he's in there now. He
wasn't even supposed to be there till the first but
that's Kyle.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
You know.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
He came in a week early and I was like,
let's get this party started. And he's meeting the staff
and talking to people. And we want to welcome Olivia
for the front desk position in Omaha as well. We
were very excited to have her beginning on Monday. Actually,
so she'll be in Papillon on Monday for training and onboarding,
but then she'll be in the Omaha Service Center and
you'll be nice to her. It's our first week, you know.

(10:16):
Not that you guys are typically mean to the front desk.
A few of you were last time. That was one
of the reasons our last one quit. Actually, you know,
people can be mean. There was a couple of people
that kind of yelled at her and it was stuff
that wasn't her fault. And somebody, you know, you ever
have that person that you're dealing with, it's just having
a bad day and for whatever reason, they just choose
to take it out of the guy at the drive
through it runza. You know, it's just you didn't do anything.

(10:39):
Do you even gave you the food? Right, you know,
And yeah, maybe he was a little slower than you liked,
but and maybe he mumbled a little, but you at
least he got to the food and it was the
order was right, and you know, there's no reason to
like knock his head off at the shoulders verbally, you know.
Come on, So anyway, so I want to welcome Olivia
to the Omaha Service Center. Kyle is back in Omaha's well,
so for those of you who knew Kyle, you might

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want to pop in if you want to pop in.
And you know, he's looking for stuff to do, Like
he's coming in there and he's saying, you know what,
I need to fill my bench, So thora you let
everybody know that I'm back and that my bench is
empty and my turnaround times are fantastic right now, and
so there you go. Kyle all informed for you. All right,
coming up on the program today. If you missed the
show last week, you can check it out over at

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Shrock Innovations dot com. Last week on the program, we
told you about how Norton. You know that the Norton
really I mean, I remember when Norton was Peter Norton Software.
I actually had Peter Norton's floppy disks of Norton anti
virus that we I would install on a computer. You know,
back when they had viruses had cool names like the

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stoned Monkey virus that was a real virus. I caught
that one that literally you turn your computer on and
it would just sit there and run really slowly like
it was stoned, you know, and they have an icon
of a monkey on the screen or something. It was
like they called it stone Monkey back when. No, they've
been bought and sold and bought and sold in LifeLock
and everything so many times that they're not the same

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company they used to be back.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
When Peter Norton started it. Kind of like McAfee. It's
the same thing.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
When John mccafee ran McAfee, it was great antivirus software.
Then Intel bought it and it kind of became an
afterthought to making processors. It's there, it's still as called antivirus,
but it doesn't really use AI. It doesn't do protect
you against a lot of the newer threats that are
out there really realistically. Well, and now we find out

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that Norton's actually installing crypto mining software on your computers.
So how the mighty have fallen there? So we talked
about that last week. Also for those of you who
are Mac users who falsely believe that it used to
be that, you know, they're.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
The Mac PC virus commercials, Oh PC, are you sick?
I have a cold? I have a virus? Well, I
don't get viruses. I'm a Mac.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
That was back in the George W. Bush era when
Vista was out and nobody wanted Vista, and Apple took
a bunch of market share. Well, then Max started getting
viruses and then Apple came out with a new MS
series processors like the M one, and nobody knew how
to put a virus on an M one chip. They
ran differently, they think different ah as what I did there,
And so essentially you couldn't infect them with the old

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viruses anymore. Well, guess what, they made new ones. And
so now there are two official viruses for M based
processors for Mac computers. And it's very possible that your
Mac has one of those two viruses right now because
people running MAX don't run antivirus because MAX don't get infected.
So why would I spend the money on it. I'm
telling you you need to do that. We talked about
that last week. Also we shared the real information on

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the fake news story that literally was fake news that
made it all the way up toto the mainstream media
that sixteen billion passwords were leaked online. No break that down,
Barney style. Just for a second, hear who has sixteen
billion customers like the Social Security Administration? I mean, who
has sixteen billion customers?

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Nobody? How do you leak sixteen billion passwords? You don't.
It didn't happen.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
They added up every password leak for every breach this
year so far, including duplicates, and said, look, sixteen billion
passwords have leaked this year, and the mainstream media ran
with it like a news story like it was on MSN.
It was on all the online new sixteen billion passwords
leaked and largest password leak in history. It didn't happen.

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There was no largest password leak in history. So we
told you about that one too, and then what to
do to keep yourself safe from those kind of things
from happening. Because the new passkeys, I got a lot
of questions about how passkeys work through email this week.
The new passkey thing is really cool. I asked Al
fundso this week, if we could implement passkeys at Shrockinnovations
dot com so people wouldn't have to remember passwords anymore,
it'd be really cool. And he said thor, of course,

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let me get right on that, and he's working on it.
So cool stuff. Fun stuff there coming up on the
program today. The uh you've heard these stories maybe about
how the copper industry is in the doldrums right now
because one of the biggest uses of copper was the
construction of landlines. So all these wires that we were

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using together, we're all made of copper. Well, now that
copper is all gone, you don't need it anymore because
everything's fiber now or wireless. Well, have you heard about
how the cell phone towers are going away? Yeah, that's
the next one. I watched that one in your stock
portfolios over the next five years. If you're somebody who
is investing in the infrastructure of wireless communication, you might

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want to just buy into SpaceX because that's where it's
all going. So not that you can't, but that's where
you might want to think about it. So we got that
story for you. Also, in a weird turn of fate,
here it is getting twenty five percent more expensive to
upgrade older computers, specifically on memory. We're going to tell
you what's going on here. Why has DDR four memory

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gone Why has it gone up twenty five percent? Since January?
DDR five memory has not gone up. Hard drive prices
have not gone up significantly. There was a blip around
the tariff thing, but then that kind of normed out.
You know, maybe things are up maybe ten percent, let's say,
but twenty five percent. What's going on there? We got
that story for you. Also, if you've ever gotten one
of those blue screens of death, you know, like when

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your computer stops working in at reboots.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Sorry, your computer has encountered an error and there's a.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
Frowny face and it does a little countdown while it's
saving something to the hard drive than a computer reboots, Well,
if you've ever seen the blue screen of death. Microsoft
has great news for you. They are retiring the blue
screen of death. It is no longer needed and therefore
being retired by Microsoft. So we're going to bring you
that story as well.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
It's it's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
Actually, blue screen of death really causes people a lot
of anxiety. I understand that some people talk to their
therapists about that, you know. And you know, I was
having a great day at work and then all of
a sudden, blue screen of death comes up and my
day was ruined, my lunch was burnt, I came home,
my dog died, my wife left me. It was a
terrible day and it all started with a blue screen
of death. Well, Microsoft's going to make sure that doesn't
happen to anybody ever again. Four zero two, five, five,

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eight eleven ten. To take our first break of the program. Guys,
when we come back, what is going on with cell
phone towers? Where are they going, why are they going?
And how are you going to possibly communicate in July
of twenty twenty five without them.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
We're going to tell you.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
Coming up next on compute this computer problems usually don't
just suddenly happen. Most failures usually start out as small
issues with few or no symptoms. Over time, they grow
into airror messages, blue screens, and other problems that can
be costly to fix. Shrock Innovations by annual preventative maintenance
check up catches those small problems now before they can

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metastasize and become tomorrow's costly repairs. During the maintenance check up,
our experienced technicians perform up to eight hours of tests, checks,
automated repairs, and optimizations that keep your computer at peak
efficiency while identifying potential issues while you still have options
about how to handle them. When your computer gets its
first check up, it can see it to a twenty

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five percent performance improvement and leaves our service center cleaned,
tiz and running better than the day you bought it.
Just About every complex device requires maintenance. Your computer is
no different, especially considering the valuable information that passes through
it every day. If you have not had your computer
maintenance in the past six months, you are overdue. Stop

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in or call any of our service centers to arrange
a free pickup to ensure your computer continues to work
for you.

Speaker 6 (18:23):
Track Innovations repair technicians also make house calls make an
appointment and let us bring our award winning computer support
right to your home or business.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
Have you noticed that almost every piece of technology seems
to do its best to be disposable? Every day people
talk their phones, tablets, and other electronic devices because they
can't be repaired. Manufacturers have engineered their products to fail
on a schedule so they can extract more money out
of your family budget automatically every year or so. But

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what if it didn't have to be that way. What
if you could get the performance of today's fastest computers
with the expansion and upgrade options you used to enjoy
You just described Shrock's modular desktop computers. Having the right
tool for the job is important, and Shock's modular desktop
PCs pack the performance and flexibility to handle your computing
needs from just checking the email to running a complex business.

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Modular desktops are engineered to be easily repaired with widely
available industry standard parts. Every component is selected intentionally to
give you years of upgrade and repair options. It is
not uncommon for a Shrock customer to be using the
same computer for a decade after they bought it. Modular
PCs are the most popular custom computers in the Midwest

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for a reason. When you are ready for your next computer,
stop in to check out the Modular Lifestyle or shop
online at Shrockinnovations dot com.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
All righty guys, welcome back in. You're listening to compute
this and my name is Thor Schrock. I'm the owner
of the Shrock Innovations computer company. Best of Omaha, Best
of Lincoln, best of Starby County, that's where Papillions located,
and of course now best of Des Moines as well,
so best of across the board. Guys, the best of
season is beginning here in just a couple of days actually,

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so you better believe you'll be getting an email from
us asking me to participate in the Best of Omaha.
We don't know who you vote for, but we give
you some some cool prizes potentially for just participating. We
do hope you vote for us, but if you participate,
we can put you in the drawing for a pretty
cool award. You know, what do you guys want to
see this year? Let me know four zero, two, five, five, eight,
eleven and ten. Would you do you want a laptop
again this year for the prize? Would you like a

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mini instead? Would you like a desktop. You know, what
do you want? And don't call in and say you
want the prototype Holiday Special because I just can't happen.
All right, Oh my gosh. We I'm trying to figure
out how I can say this without saying it. The
processor in the Holiday Special prototype is so powerful that

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we had to do a CPU stress test on it
because we were worried the power supply would fail, that
the computer wouldn't have enough electricity to run the processor
at full load with everything else. Do we need to
buy like a bigger power supply to put in this
thing because it's like, hmm, that's pretty pretty powerful. I mean,

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I think the thing runs to the nines. It's crazy.
There you go.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
There's your hint.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Four zero two five five eight eleven ten eight eight
eight two five zero two zero nine one.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
All right.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
So, speaking of hints, we go old movies from the
nineties or the early two thousands. I remember there was
a there.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Was a movie. Gosh, what was this movie?

Speaker 3 (21:38):
It had Richard gear in it, and uh, he was
a criminal guy.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
I forget.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
I'm not doing any favors for myself here, but essentially,
you know, they were all the bad guys were communicating
with two way radios, and Richard Gear and his crew like.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
How did you get here so fast? How did you
know what we were doing?

Speaker 3 (21:56):
And the girl just like snapshot a flip phone like
she's super high tech, Like I just called him, and
you're just like, oh, didn't see that coming.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
The flip phone assassin tool.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Good stuff. You know, the world has changed. The wall
phones in the kitchen, my grandma's rotary phone, and you know,
we all had landlines, and then you had call waiting,
and then you had caller ID and you had three
way calling, and you know, and then you had.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
A teen line.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Remember teen lines where the phone company got you to
put an extra line in the house for your kid
because you could never get on the phone, or maybe
you had a dial up computer and no one could
ever call because your kids were always on the internet,
so you could never get through.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
You get a teen line.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
I mean, it was all these crazy innovations that came
out of the splitting up of mob Bell. Essentially, now
we've gotten to the point where landlines are going by
bye and being replaced by wireless communication. Everybody's got a
cell phone, everybody, you know. Right now it is considered
you know, For example, we send robo calls from time

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to time at Shock and I know they're not anybody's favorite.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
It's never anyone's you know, nobody ever enjoys getting a
robo call.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
But the robo calls allow us to tell you important
things like, hey, your antivirus is expiring. You're about to
see a charge on your account. This is what it's for,
so you know. Otherwise we get like one hundred phone
calls in a day, like I saw a charge for
thirty five dollars on my account?

Speaker 2 (23:13):
What is that for?

Speaker 3 (23:14):
And you can go back and look. So if you're
if you're getting a renewal on something, we can send
a robo caller an email because not everybody gets emails,
right well now nobody, Not everybody gets robo calls because
the cell phone services will actually block the robo calling services.
So you're paying somebody to make a phone call that's
not going to go through. So now everybody's moving to
text messages instead SMS. You're going to push a notification

(23:35):
to your phone a little poop, Yeah, just let you
know you're you're gonna get charged, and this is what
it's for. So if you don't want to be charged,
get into your account and cancel it before this date.
That kind of stuff. So we've all gotten used to
text messaging. But then the problem comes up against you know,
for example, I was at a restaurant in downtown Omaha
and it is a literal cellular hole. If you've ever

(23:57):
eaten a Jay Gilbert's downtown in Omaha. If you want
to go someplace for a nice romantic dinner with your
wife where neither one of you will be on your phone.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
I mean, if it's a desperate thing and you need
to check in on the kids, you can join the
public Wi Fi there at the hotel, and I think
you get like dial up speed internet. It's enough to
get a text message through, but not much more. You're
not going to load a Facebook page or you know,
check your email or anything like that, or check out
the news. So you're gonna have some dedicated one on
one time with your spouse at Jay Gilbert because your

(24:27):
phones are pretty much offline. Well, SpaceX is going to
solve that for you because now SpaceX has a deal
where they're starting on the twenty fifth of July, T
Mobile is going to be partnering with SpaceX as well
as AT and T and a number of other providers
in their own ways to provide sell service or at
least text messaging coverage, are going to start with SMS

(24:47):
for now everywhere on Earth using satellites, so from space,
your phone will send and receive text messages. Now, at first,
you're kind of like, that's so stupid, right, and it's
going to plus ten bucks a month extra if you
want to subscribe to it. So would you pay ten
dollars a month to have perfect communication? Well, let me
give you a few scenarios where that would have made

(25:08):
a difference for me. I actually have a SAT phone.
We keep it for disaster recovery. It's part of the
Deshrock Innovation's disaster recovery plan in the event that there
is a catastrophic failure of communications. You know, certain key
people in the company have SAT phones and we can
reach out to each other and connect and get a
hold of each other. We pay, you know, a few
hundred dollars a year. The minutes they accumulate, they roll over,

(25:30):
so we get to keep them. Whatever, if we could
just use our regular cell phones and send a text
message through a satellite instead, we wouldn't need to do
that anymore because everyone in my company communicates through text
message almost exclusively.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
You don't call people anymore.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
And if you do call people, if you've seen your
team doing this, you do a video call. But then
you point the camera at the ceiling and you leave
it on the desk and you just talk like it's
a phone call, and you each look at each other's
ceiling if you glance at the phone, so like you
walk past your kid's phone, you look at what you're
looking at. Is that a ceiling? Whose ceiling is that?
Is that your girlfriend's ceiling? What do you What are

(26:05):
you doing with this phone? We're just looking at ceilings. Dad,
You know, I'm not joking. That's what they do. So
now Team Mobile is saying we're gonna do SMS text
messaging from space, which for example, if you are a
scout master on a scout campout in the middle of
nowhere in a in a national park in Wyoming, for example,

(26:27):
and you can't get a message on a bike crashes
and breaks his leg and you literally can't get you
can't call for help. There is no help. You have
to get the broken leg kid down the mountain on
a bike go that really happened in a scout camp out,
or you're you're going down the river and it's a

(26:47):
kayak trip and you're going down the river and of
course you know your boat's gonna dump it whatever. You're
going down the river and one of the kids falls
out of the boat doesn't come back up. I don't
know if that kid, I can't remember if that kid survived,
Like it was just one of those freak weird things
that happened. I don't know if he hit his head
on something or what happened. Life vest on the whole bit.

(27:07):
Everything was right, everybody did everything right. The kid was
a was a had the swimming merit badge. I mean,
he literally wasn't gonna be a problem. Something went terribly
sideways there, and because it was the middle of nowhere,
they can't get a hold of anybody to get any help.
Those situations have being able to send a text message
to somebody, Hey, we need help. This is our location.
You know, please help, you know, get some get to

(27:28):
get an ambulance or get a helicopter here. We need
we need help. We need to save the kid's life
would have made a huge difference. Now in less extreme scenarios.
You know, it's probably kind of silly, but if you're
out driving in the middle of nowhere in rural Nebraska.
I remember my wife one time, she was when we
were very young in our marriage. She was shooting a
wedding and it was a it was a was it

(27:50):
the Star Wars wedding? I don't remember she was. She
was she was a photographer. So she was going to
shoot a wedding and it was in the middle of
a cornfield in Iowa somewhere, like it was like third
third row over from ear number five. I mean it
was literally in the middle of a cornfield. And so
she got done and she got back in her tiny
little car to drive home, and all like the ten

(28:11):
foot tall corner around her and she's like, I don't
know which way is up, Like where how do I
go from here? And so being able to call somebody
for help in those situations when you're in the middle
of nowhere, or get help through a text message or
something would be great. So this is kind of cool.
I think I would probably spend ten bucks a month
on my T mobile plan to have the ability to
do this, and especially because I could get rid of

(28:32):
my satphones, then that'd be great. But you see, T
Mobile is not going to stop there. They're calling this
T Satellite and it's it all runs on starlink. But
eventually they're going to be offering full on cellular service
through satellite. So you won't need a SAT phone at
all anymore, because every phone will be a satphone. And
how is that. All of your modern phones use electronic

(28:54):
sim cards eSIMs, and you can have two eSIMs in
a phone. So one eSIM is your standard wireless five
G communication network, the other SIM is the satellite network.
So when your normal network is not available, like a J. Gilbert's,
you know it's gonna look for a satellite. I don't
know if we were sitting next to a window or not.
I think we were back by the kitchen. I pay

(29:15):
for the good seats, you know, so the food gets
to you quicker that way. But I don't know if
there was a window to get a satellite signal.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
But you get the drift.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
Your phone will switched automatically between five G and cellular
depending on what needs to be done. For ten bucks
extra per month, you have sell coverage anywhere you are
at I think that's pretty cool, and I think that
that could be the downfall of what a lot of
people are. I mean, some of these people are five
G freaks, right.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Like the five G signals are tearing my soul apart.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
Oh you know what's gonna it's a conspiracy, man, Like
people in the UK were burning five G towers for
a while, like they were fire bombing them because they
thought it.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Was going to give them cancer.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
Now I admit it's probably not the wisest idea to
take a giant microwave tower and mounted a b of
the daycare at the church or at the of the school,
you know, the kindergarten classroom, and then point the antennas
downward at the ground. You know, those kids are out
there on recess and like for some reason, one side
of their face is always darker than the other.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
You know, probably not smart, right, And five G requires
a lot of towers very close to the ground, pointed
at the ground. So it's a really intense. Little people
people get kind of concerned about all this electromagnetical stuff
going through the air and everything. If you can communicate
directly with satellite instead, you don't need any of that anymore.
So is there going to be a six G network

(30:35):
in America if it's replaced by satellite? I don't know
something to be thinking about in your portfolios though. For zero, two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten.
We're gonna take a break here, guys when we come back,
upgrading your old computer is getting more expensive for some reason. Now,
usually this is the other way around. Usually the new
computers come out at a higher price and the old

(30:56):
technology gets cheaper over time. So why is it that
DDR for memory, a technology introduced in twenty eleven, is
suddenly twenty five percent more expensive this year. We're going
to walk you through what happened, why it happened, and
how it's going to impact your upgrade options. Coming up
next on compute.

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Speaker 3 (32:57):
All righty guys, welcome back in. You're listening to compute this.
My name is Thora Schrock. I'm the owner of the
Shock Innovations computer company. Quick program notes there is no
aftershock after the program today, so don't be looking for it.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
It's not there.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Those of you who are always complaining I can never
find it, well you really will not find it this week.
It's not gonna be there. Also, July third will be
closing early. The service centers are closing early at different times,
depending on how far away they are from me. Because
we're having a big party on the third of July.
We're going to blow up a bunch of stuff. We'll
put it up on Facebook. We do it every year,
but yeah, just we're gonna blow up a bunch of stuff.

(33:35):
Hopefully no body, but you know, one year we all
won't let Alfonso's wife on fire.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
That was close.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah, I mean, she was doing the hot Ember dance
shaking her shirt.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
It was pretty bad.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
We're right down right between her back and the chair
and just kind of exploded back there. It was kind
of let's all go inside now for a snack. Okay,
four zero two five five eight eleven ten is the
number to join us on the program. Outside of the
Metro area. You can reach us toll free at eight
eight eight two five zero two zero nine to one. Dennis,
Welcome to the program. How can I help you on

(34:09):
compute this today?

Speaker 4 (34:10):
So or, I just wanted to give a big thumbs
up to the two young gentlemen that worked at Papillion yesterday.
I had to pick up my computer yesterday and transfer
some information. I know one of them's name was Corey,
and I didn't. I forgot the other young man, but
they both just w went out of their way to
help me get me started and get things going. I

(34:33):
had to change some information from one computer to another computer,
but they just bent over backwards.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Well that's awesome, Dennis, thank you. I really appreciate the call.
I think the other guy was Liam, actually that was
helping you out, was here, Liam?

Speaker 4 (34:44):
Or that's right, it was Liam.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
Yeah, and just the Papillion team is such a such
a great team. And you know, it was kind of
funny because when we put Liam in charge of that
service center, he wasn't so sure.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
He was like, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Kind funny because at one point, literally everybody in the
Papillion Service Center was a homeschool kid. It was like
the Homeschool Service Center. Everybody working there was a homeschool kid.
And if you you know every if you know one
homeschool kid, you know one homeschool kid. There's not really
a generalization you can make, but one of the things
that you you know, they're very self aware typically, and
so Liam was like, I don't know if this is

(35:23):
for me, Like, I don't know. And he is such
he is such a gifted leader. He doesn't even realize it,
but he has the gift of leadership. And it's not
like that the overbearing, commanding kind of leadership that when
someone's trying to be a leader who's not a leader,
you know how they can kind of get.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Just greasy, you know, it's kind of nasty.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
No, he's a quiet leader and need you to do
that for me, and people do it for him, not
because you know, I guess Liam told me to do it,
but because they genuinely they see that Liam is working too,
and he's doing his part. I want to do my part,
so I'm not dragging the team down. So yeah, if
you need me to do that, Liam, let's go. And
it's just it's a amazing to watch him develop into
the leader that we needed in Pavilion. So it's really cool.

(36:06):
So thank you very much for the call, Dennis. I
really appreciate you joining us on the program to let
me know that today.

Speaker 4 (36:11):
Well, I did that center for a long time and
I just thought these two gentlemen were really really been
a just an excellent job, way better.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Than the last guys. I mean the last guys are
I mean, they were good, but.

Speaker 7 (36:23):
You know, yeah, it just happened. That's who was there
yesterday and it was kind of an almost around noon.
So I said, well, I don't want to bother you
too much, but they just got me taken care of
really well. I couldn't ask for any more help, and
I need help.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
I couldn't ask for more, but I need some Please
please help me. Yeah, all right, hey, thank you, Dennis.
I appreciate the call.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Today.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
We do have you in the drawing as well for
that twenty five dollars Shock Innovations Gift certificate if you
would like to take it away from Dennis as the
sole caller today. So far, you can reach out for
zero two, five, five, eight eleven ten if that's the
kind of person you are. Eight eight eight two zero
two zero nine to one is the number you can
join us total free as well. So everybody thought when
tariffs hit, it was you know, well all the economists

(37:09):
thought that it was going to cause this massive inflationary spiral,
and it was going to be terrible, and it was
going to destroy the world economy. And there were impacts.
Anybody who tells you there were no impacts is drinking
the political kool aid. There were definitely impacts, and there
were definitely businesses writing tariff checks. The tariff money doesn't
come from the countries, it comes from the businesses that
import from those countries. So then businesses change their behavior

(37:32):
because they don't want to pay the tariffs and they
order from other countries instead. And then that is the
leverage that Trump was using to force countries to basically
do more business with the United States essentially or reduce
trade barriers or allow businesses to sell their stuff in
those countries instead.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
So get it all. That's fine.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
What ended up happening, especially in China before the massive
China tariffs hit, there was a huge dumping of just
about everything into the US market, clothing, electronics. I remember
there was a story where the factory that makes Crocs
is in China, and the Crocs the little lit rubber
kids shoes or sometimes nurses wear them and stuff, I

(38:15):
don't know, their boat shoes essentially that you can wear
in water if you don't know what a croc is.
So these these rubber shoes, you know, you go to
the Shields and you're gonna spend thirty forty fifty bucks
on a pair of Crocs for kids, for kids shoes,
it's like buying a nice pair of tennis shoes or something. Well, no,
I guess it's not that I'm showing my old man card.
There nice pair of tennis shoes like one hundred dollars,
one hundred dollars plus. Now it's like buying a really

(38:37):
cheap pair of shoes at Famous Footwear. You know, there
you go, that's it. But you know they're Crocs. The
factory that makes them in China. When the tariffs hit,
they crocs cancel their order, and so the factory was
just stuck with all these crocs and in China, and
they're like, you know, they got to wear shoes in
China too, So they tried to sell them domestically. They

(38:59):
were literally selling them for thirty cents a pair in
US equivalent money in China, and they still weren't selling.
So things got really dicey for a while with the
with the economy, and China's factories left and went to
other countries. It all happened very quickly. China has not recovered.
We've covered this during the aftershock. It's looking really bleak
in China. I think last week we talked about human paste.

(39:19):
That's what they're eating. It's called human paste.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Yeah. It's basically baby.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Formula with all the nutrients that you need, and you
shake it up in a cup and you drink it
because you can't afford real food, and you don't have
time to eat, because you're working as hard as you
can because you don't want to lose your job, not
because you get more money, because you don't want to
lose your job. Because there are so many unemployed people.
It's almost like Depression era mentality for work.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
You know, we don't like it.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
We'll find there's a whole line of people outside. They'll
take your job, so you better do what we tell
you to do. So with all this going on, one
of the things that got dumped was DDR for memory chips.
So everybody, all the countries imported, not just China, but
everybody imported Taiwan, South Korea, everybody in all the DDR
forur memory they could. DDR four memory is no longer

(40:04):
used in graphics cards, it's no longer really manufactured in
new PCs, it's not used for anything new anymore. So
DDR four memory is almost exclusively an upgrade market. So
when you get your computer and you want it and
you bring it into shock and we're like, hey, you're
using eighty five percent of your memory. That's why it's
running slow. We can double up your memory for you know,
sixty bucks. Well that's DDR four memory. In most cases.

(40:27):
The price of DDR for memory, though, when it got
dumped into the market, it went up a little bit
for tariffs, you know, everything went up a little bit.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
But then.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
Nobody started making it again. All the companies Crucial not
just the China companies, but Crucial Time Tech, where we
get our memory from Samsung, South Korean company. None of
them are making DDR for memory anymore because there's just
most of your DDR four computers are not Windows eleven compatible,
so they're all going to be going away soon, you know,

(40:59):
And there's just not enough demand in the Linux community.
Max don't use DDR for memory anymore. Everything's soldered down
on a Mac. It's all DDR five or better now,
So why make DDR four. And I've seen this when
I'm ordering memory. We still need these sticks for upgrading
your computers, and we'll go to order it and they'll say, oh,
there's a shortage on this, or there's a shortage on that,
or we don't have any of this or any of that,

(41:20):
and so when they have it, we order a bunch,
and then when they don't, we just go without. So
we've been seeing it, and we've been seeing the price increases.
I just didn't know that this was why nobody's making
it anymore. So the cost of DDR four memory has
gone up twenty five percent since January. So this is
something to think about when you're looking at upgrading a computer.
We haven't raised our prices or anything on the memory
I mean yet going up twenty five percent. When you're

(41:43):
spending fifty dollars on a stick of ram and the
cost goes up twenty five percent, what is that fifteen bucks?
So it went up fifteen bucks cost? We can eat that.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
That's fine.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
When you're ordering, you know, ten thousand dollars worth of
DDR four memory and the price goes up twenty five percent,
all of a sudden, your ten thousand dollars order is
twelve five hundred dollars. That's a little that hurts a
little bit, you know, Oh golly, And then there's a
tariff on top of that, like ouch. So yeah, the
DDR for memory, it's just another reason guys, if you
have a computer that is going end of life in

(42:17):
October that cannot run Windows eleven, this is just another
another reason to look at upgrading to a new computer.
I know there's been an uptic of people saying maybe
I'll go to Linux, and you know, maybe I'll switch
to Mac. And well, if you're switching to a Mac,
you're buying a new computer anyway. If you're going to Linux, Yeah,
you know, I always tick off all the Linux people

(42:40):
when I say this, but Linux is not any easier
to use than Windows. In fact, it can be more
difficult to use. The same thing applies if you're used
to Windows and you switch to a MAC, or if
you're used to a MAC and you switch to a PC,
they work differently. There's just the things are adoptions are
in different places. The concepts are all the same, but

(43:00):
the options are in different places. The commands are structured differently.
If you're used to one, switching to the other is
going to be difficult. So for those of you who
don't like change, you're not going to switch the LINNXU.
You're gonna threaten it all day long. We used to
we called the the people who didn't want to go
away from Windows ten the bitter clingers. You know, it
was Windows seven, the Windows seven bitter clingers, because that
was back when you know, the Iraq thing was going

(43:22):
on and the people in the regime, the bitter clingers
are hanging on to power. Well, you bitter Windows seven
clingers aren't going to Windows ten and you know slowing
everything down. Well, in October, things are going to get
real dicey for people when when you have to choose
to either pay Microsoft money to get updates or buy
a new computer, and the money you have to pay

(43:43):
Microsoft every year to get updates quintuples, it gets more
and more expensive, like radically expensive, to the point where
you should have just bought a new computer. But by
then it's too late and you've already spent the money.
So so watch out when you're looking for upgrading the computer.
If you've been looking at your own Emory prices online
to buy RAM or something like that for your computer,
and the prices have been a little bit higher. That's

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why for zero two, five, five, eight eleven ten Kirk,
Welcome to the program. How can I help you on
compute this today?

Speaker 8 (44:12):
Yes, if I would switch carriers for a cell phone carrier,
what what what brand would you reason when you're going.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
To which carrier or which brand of phone carrier?

Speaker 8 (44:22):
I have to have my life phones now and moving
upgrade from Pure Talk. We used to have Horizon, but
they just got really too expensive.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
Yeah, so yeah, Verizon is going to have the best
network coverage overall. They're going to have there, they're available
in more places. But you're right, you pay a premium
for that TEA Mobile is going to be one of
the cheapest options. They have a very good network, but
not quite as much coverage. If you're in Jay Gilbert
and you're on T Mobile, you know, you're it on
the phone. Uh So if you're looking for a romantic

(44:52):
dinner with your wife, T Mobile. Uh but uh yeah,
that's what I use at Shock, and we use it
at Shock because it's less expensive. And now, you know,
most of the guys because the phones, if you've ever
noticed this, Now, your phone it's beautiful because you're paying
a ridiculous amount of money for wireless network coverage. But
when you go home and your phone gets on your WiFi,
do you know that it uses your WiFi to provide

(45:13):
signal rather than the cellular towers. So literally, you're you're
paying for a phone to use the internet that you're
paying separately for to make calls. And that's why your
phone seems to work so much better at home than
it does when you're out and about on the go.
My wife was just complaining that, you know, the kids
destroyed her hot spot this month, and so T Mobile
throttled her internet. So because she was being an Internet hog,

(45:35):
you see, and so now she's like, I get I
come home and it's like my phone explodes with notifications
that I wasn't getting because my internet was throttled because
my kids used too much of it. So for those
of you who don't have, you know, dramatic family demands
on your internet, T mobile is going to be the
least expensive option with the best coverage. Verizon's going to

(45:56):
be the best coverage at the most expense, and AT
and T is kind of middling in everything. You know,
that coverage could leave some room to be improved. Price
isn't as cheap as T Mobile, So why would you
be with AT and T. Then, of course, they lost
to all their customers data a while back, and that
didn't make them many friends either, But that you know,
I guess that could have happened to anybody, but you

(46:18):
know it happened to AT and T customers for sure.
So that would be my suggestion, especially if you're coming
off of a Pure Talk or something like that, switch
over to T Mobile.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
You'll probably find that they're the most affordable.

Speaker 8 (46:28):
Okay, all right, hey, thank.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
You, Kirk, appreciate it. All right, we're gonna take our
final break of the program when we come back. Everybody
has seen a blue screen of death at some point.
And when I saw this story that Microsoft has figured
out how to eliminate the blue screen of death, what
does this mean for our business? We we fix computers,
We need the blue screen of death. Yeah, you know

(46:52):
how much money we make off the blue screen of death.
This was a critical story for Shrock Innovations. But then
when I read it, it made me laugh and it's
gonna make you too. Coming up next on compute this.

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Speaker 3 (49:26):
Alrighty folks, final segment of the program. Thanks for sticking
with us to the show today. I want to remind
everybody that if you do have a prepaid maintenance certificate
and you're going to be participating in the Independence Day
festivities that will take you away from your computer, it's
a great time to drop it off at Shock to
have that maintenance done. This is the fastest turnaround times
of the year.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Right now.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
On July fifth, we start to pick up again. It
starts to come out of the slow season and going
into you know, follow them. We're going to have a
safe upgrade because what Microsoft's going to push a new
version of Windows eleven, We're gonna need to get that
out to you. There'll be another maintenance checkup sale. We're
going to have some kind of an event for Windows
ten going end of life. We have to do something
for that. And then of course then there's the holiday special.

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So the back half of the year is going to
go by really fast. There's going to be a lot
of opportunity to do stuff. But if you have a
computer with a prepaid maintenance certificate, now is the best
time to get it in for zero, two, five, five, eight, eleven,
ten is the number to join us. And that's what
Keith has done. Keith, how can I help you on
compute this today?

Speaker 8 (50:26):
Yeah, I was just wondering. You were talking about AT
and T and Verizon and all that, what about Patriot Mobile.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
Yeah, so essentially, what you have when you're talking about
cell phone coverage, the amount of infrastructure that's required to
put together a cellular network, especially one that spans the
nation for example. So all of you your Patriot Mobile
or your Mint Mobile, or all the smaller companies. Essentially,

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what they're doing is they're purchasing coverage from the larger
companies and reselling it to you at a lower price,
and it allows the other companies to fill out their
network and sell additional bandwidth when they have excess bandwidth available.
So the good news is is you get your your
calls cheaper, essentially your service cheaper. But at times of

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high congestion, you can see drop offs in the level
of service because you're you with those smaller companies, You're
not a priority. You know, the priority is the T
mobile customer or the AT and T customer, or the
Verizon customer. Whereas someone like a Mint or a Patriot,
they're buying that they might be buying from all the
companies and they may have an amazing coverage network as

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a result, you know, but that's the trade off. You
So whenever you see somebody saying, hey, this is a
super secure you know, raw raw America, we protect your privacy,
any of those kind of angles, just know that they're
just repurchasing the stuff that you could purchase from another

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provider and selling it to you, but sometimes at a discount.
So there is some financial say be had, but all
the other benefits are are not necessarily real.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
So they don't they don't give you quite the coverage
that they say they do.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
Well, no, you get the coverage, it's just that in
times of in times of high volume, you're not going
to you're not the priority.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
So oh yeah, so if there's you know, the.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
The Verizon customer will always get preference over the Patriot
Mobile customer, for example, because Verizon's going to make sure
that their name is fine. But they have so much
excess network, you know, carry capacity that ninety nine point
nine percent of the time you're never going to notice.
Thank you for the call, Keith. I appreciate you joining
us on the program. We got you in the drawing

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here as well. So Microsoft's getting rid of the blue
screen of death, and I thought, oh my gosh, this
this is huge. I mean, has Microsoft improved Windows to
the point where it doesn't crash anymore? This is crazy. Well,
that's not quite what happened.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
You.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
Remember, this is a great example. I'm gonna totally steal
your thing here. Remember when teachers used to mark your
paper with a red pen and then they figured out
will students were getting anxious because of the red ink
so they switched it to a blue pen. They didn't
figure out that the students were anxious because they were
getting the answers wrong. Well, Microsoft is getting rid of
the blue screen because it causes customers anxiety. They're going
to replace it with a black screen, and it's not

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going to have a frownie face on it. It's just
going to say your computer's experienced a problem and needs
to restart. So much calming, so much more calming than
the blue screen of death, you know. So yay Microsoft
for just dressing up the blue screen of death in
a different color and removing all technical information. Kirk, congratulations,
you got yourself twenty five dollars and we will see

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you all again next weekend for another exciting edition of
Compute This