Compute This 6-8-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Shrock Innovations presents the midwest number one independent computer repair
company with service centers and Lincoln Paul Maha a billion
des moines and across the country via the Shrock Desk.
This is Compute This. Good morning, folks, and welcome into
Compute This. I'm battling with a microphone here because it
wants to go up my nose apparently, so I don't know.

(00:23):
You're supposed to have it down into the side just
a bit, but it's kind of up into the side
a little bit. So I'm just gonna like pretend like
it's not blocking half of my view in my left eye.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm gonna ask you, okay over there.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Well, I every time I pull it down, the spring
just lifts it back up, so.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
I know it almost hitching the face.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
I was, Yeah, it's like an AI microphone. All right, guys,
welcome to Compute This. My name is Thora Schrock. I'm
the owner of the Schrock Innovation's computer company. Numbers to
join us on the program today for zero two, five,
five eight eleven ten or eight eight eight two five
zero two zero nine one. Now if you missed the
program last week, all the shows are available at Shock

(01:00):
innovations dot com. You can check that out on the website.
All the video is there, the audio podcast is there.
It's also available on all the normal podcast services. iHeart Apple,
all the all the It's in all the places.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
But if you did miss the program and you want
to watch the video, or maybe you missed the aftershock
and you want to check that out, those are available
at shrocinnovations dot com. Just click on radio show now.
We are broadcasting live, by the way right now at
Facebook dot com slash Shrocannovations, Facebook dot com slash shrock Innovations.
Where you can you know, watch the video, watch your
radio if you want to, and take part of the

(01:34):
conversation in Shrockville there as well. Thank you for the
audio check Winston. Good to see Eron, Good to see
all of Roger. Good to have you guys with us.
If you missed the show. Last week, we shared some
cool specials on the specials page at shrocinnovations dot com.
I'm gonna direct you to that page again this week.
We have some new items up there for you to
take a look at today. That's Shrocannovations dot com. You

(01:54):
click on shop and then specials. Also, we talked about
how a SOUS routers were getting hit with a an
attack basically that was specifically intended for those AUS routers.
The people were brute force attacking the username and password
using all the you know, standard credentials and then getting
in and rather than doing something to fary us immediately,
they would open up a port that would allow them

(02:16):
to come back later and do something later. So they're
creating a botnet, if you will, that will allow them
to attack anybody they like in the future, using your
Internet connection as a as a foot soldier in their
personal battle. So if you have an ACEUS router, we
told you how to check that out and make sure
you weren't get getting hit on that one. Also last week,
the tariff moratorium on motherboards and graphics cards did expire

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the day before the radio show, and you know, we
weren't exactly sure what was going to happen there, and
the answer is, nothing really happened. So, you know, while
the prices of motherboards and you know, GPUs are always
all over the place because first it was mining and
now it's AI and everything else, but the prices of
motherboards did see a tick up when the when the
first tariffs were announced, before they even hit the market,

(03:02):
the you know, manufacturers raised their prices. It was almost
like an excuse to raise prices. But we haven't seen
any additional price increases or anything, you know, that would
indicate that there's you know, inflationary pressures, no resulting lack
of availability, no shortages, nothing like that. So you know,
it appears that, you know, the tariff moratorium expiring didn't
have an impact on that piece of our industry at all,

(03:25):
which is, you know, great news for consumers because you know,
when costs go up on businesses, sometimes some of those
costs have to be passed on to consumers. And if
the cost didn't go up, we're talking eight bucks on
a motherboard. Total total impact was eight dollars on a motherboard.
You know what, guys, we can be friends and I
can I can take you out for a cup of
coffee and I can put eight dollars towards your motherboard.
I think we'll be okay for zero two five, five

(03:48):
eight eleven ten eight eight eight two five zero two
zero nine to one. Coming up on the program today,
we've got, like I mentioned, some specials that we're going
to talk about on the specials page. We have the
brand the brand new imager in the Omaha Service Center
got its first data recovery last week, so that was
pretty cool. Maintenance check up certificates, it's time to use those, guys.
This is the summertime. This is when we are typically

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slowest and have the fastest turnaround times. And as far
as slow season goes, this it's been slower than it
had been. But we're definitely not as slow as we
used to be. And part of that is because, I mean,
I'd love to say it's because of our award winning
service and our amazing marketing here on Compute this, but
and I'm sure those things are part of it, but

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it's attrition. There's just not a lot of places left
to go, and so when people go a look in
that moment of need, it's kind of like if you
need a plumber, if I asked you to name a
plumber right now, unless you've recently done business with a plumber,
you're not going to have the name of a plumber
top of mind. Or the name of an electrician. Maybe
that's even better because people use electricians a lot less
frequently than the use plumbers. You have something electrical fails

(04:52):
in your home, it can it can wait a couple days,
but if the toilet doesn't work, I mean, you want
that plumber there. So you might actually have a plumber
in your rolodex. You know, alright, kids, you might actually
have a plumber saved in your iPhone because you know,
you don't know what a rolodex is. Yeah, you don't
know what a rolodex is.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
No enlightened me.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
This is one of those moments in life when you
realize you're old. Uh wow, I remember when I started
this company. There, you're so young to have such a
big company. They don't say that anymore, but anyway, No,
a rolodex was. Think about it like a plastic box
that had a button on the front that you push

(05:35):
and it would flip open on a spring, and on
the right side you would slide a slider up and
down to the appropriate letter. So if you wanted shrock,
you would slide it down to S for shrock, and
you'd push the button on the front and it would
hold the pages and flip the thing open to show
you all the s names in your phone book.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Essentially like a file cabinet.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's like a contact list. It's a paper based contact list.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Oh, it's a contact list.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yes, there, there we go. So that's why I said,
Or your iPhone, I guess, because that's where your contacts
are all save now kids. So yeah, unless you have
a plumber or how did we get off on this tangard?
Unless you have a plumber or an electrician saved in
your iPhone. The bottom line is you don't know, you
don't have one. You have to look it up. So
you go to the Yellow pay No, you wouldn't go

(06:21):
to the Yellow Pages because they don't have the Yellow
Pages anymore. You'd go to the Google, and you would google,
you know, fix my electricity or fix my light switch,
or you know, fix my pipes, or if you're looking
for a computer person, you'd say computer repair and Omaha
or Papilion or Lincoln or des Moin and you will
find a bunch of results there, and then those results
you'd find Shrock. So you call a bunch of results,

(06:42):
You talk to a few kind of shifty sounding guys
that are like, hmm, I don't know if I'm really
inspiring confidence. Then you'll call Shrock and then somebody pleasant
will answer the phone. You'll talk to a human. They'll
listen to your problem. They won't make you feel silly
or stupid for explaining it the way that you would
explain the way that I would explain a problem with
my electricity. You know, they're not going to make you

(07:02):
feel dumb. Or my pipes it makes this clunk clunk
clunk sound and it gets clogged a lot. Okay, I
think my toilet's broken. No, it's just the pipes, sir. Oh, okay, great.
You know they don't care. They're not gonna make me
feel bad about not knowing all the right terminology and
then the welds and the joints and all that stuff.
You know, they'll just okay, let's fix the problem. And
so that's what you get when you call shock. And
then then they said, well how much is it going

(07:23):
to be? And they say, well, tell you what, you're
a new customer, you've never been in before. Why don't
you bring that in to us, because first customer, new
customers get their first hour of labor for free, and
it's a way for you to try us out, to
encourage you to try that relationship, to see if we're
a good fit and if we're not a good fit.
It's no skin off your back. You can just walk
away and you will give you your computer back and

(07:44):
you can walk away if it is a good fit. Though,
it just saved you one and one hundred and fifty
bucks off your computer repair, So that's a pretty good
that's a win right there. So it it is great
all the way around. It works out well for everybody.
So we get a lot of new customers. I think
last month we had in just the Omaha service center alone,
we had one hundred and twelve new customers last month.

(08:04):
And then you break that down by the day. I mean,
that's like four new customers a day if you include
if you even if you include Sundays. So it was
pretty phenomenal. Right, So we're getting a lot of this
from attrition because there's just nowhere else to go that's
not super shady, or you know, Bob's computer repair from
you know Craig's list, I mean Facebook marketplace because nobody

(08:25):
uses Craigslist anymore. See, I've been around. I've been doing
this too long, twenty seven years almost, guys, it's been
too long. It's been too long for zero, two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten. What hasn't been too long?

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (08:36):
I think it's just been seven days since I gave
away twenty five dollars for calling into the radio show.
That's right, If you call in, ask a question, make
a comment, we'll put you in the drawing for a
twenty five dollars Shrock Innovations gift certificate that you can
use toward anything you want, one of the things that
I would recommend you take a look at if you're
looking for a new computer right now. And you know, Gthor,

(08:57):
I love your products. They're great, you know, support, the service,
all that stuff. They do the job. They just work well.
They're built from solid components. I love them. They're a
little pricey for me, you know, I might just go
get that ACER from Walmart instead and call it good
for two ninety nine and buy another one in six months,

(09:18):
because yeah, I can't afford the twelve hundred dollars venture
right now. If that's the case, if that's your boat,
no shame, no problem. I mean, we've got some specials
on the specials page at Shrock Innovations dot com, and
we have more specials coming next week, so we already know.
I already have computers built and ready to go that
are going to be on the specials page next week.

(09:39):
That we just had too many specials this week, so
we just were slow rolling it a little bit. So
if you check out the specials page, you have a
laptop option, which is a modified Gallant laptop. It's like
an open box Galant essentially, and you also have a
desktop option, which is a kind of a specially constructed Boundless.
We had some extra leftover Holiday special cases you know

(09:59):
around enough, and they don't have any bays you can't
put you there's no the Holiday special doesn't come with
like external drives, like DVD drives and things like that,
so all of them are USB based, which is how
everything is going now, and so the Holiday specials are
a higher end computer, so they don't have all those
bays and things like that. Well, the only computer that
we offer that doesn't require an external bay in our

(10:19):
regular lineup is the Boundless, so we use those cases.
We built a Boundless saved a little bit of money
off it knocked down the price one hundred bucks for you.
So if you're looking to buy it a computer and
you were thinking about buying the Boundless anyway, you may
as well go buy the one on the specials page.
It's one hundred dollars cheaper. There's only one of them,
and you can pick that up at Shrock innovations dot
com slash specials. I mentioned maintenance certificates. Now this is

(10:41):
something I'm not trying to sell you a maintenance certificate here.
I'm not telling you to come buy one. They're not
on special right now. But if you did buy one
one of the really, whenever I say, hey, maintenance is
on special, come buy them now, everybody shows up and
buys a certificate. But then I'm like, hey, it's time
to use your certificate, and people are like, oh, I'll
get around to it, you know, but you're already paid
for it, Like use it, you know, we want you

(11:03):
to use it. We I how can I expect or
ask you to purchase one next time if you never
use the first one you purchased. So it's not just
completely selfless. You know, I do need you to use
these things, and it's the maintenance that your computer needs.
The whole reason you bought the certificate was because we're
really busy during the maintenance checkup sales. So if you
buy a certificate, you can use it during our slower times.

(11:26):
That's in the summer's that's right now. So if you
have a vacation coming up, if you've got if you're
going out of town, anything like that, you want to
get the computer out of the house because family's coming over,
you can bring it over to the shop, check it
in for a maintenance check up using your certificate. We'll
go through the whole maintenance checkup for you, get it
back to you in top running form. Again, and like
I said, it's already prepaid. It's not like you even

(11:46):
expected to spend any money. We'll check everything out and
make sure it's working well. So if you do have
a maintenance certificate, I would encourage you to make use
of those this summer. Also, one of the things that
I haven't mentioned probably enough that well, we got shocked
a few weeks ago. When we want a best of
des Moin award, I typically stay on top of when
the best of contests are happening. You'll hear me talk
about them on the radio. Sometimes we even offer prizes

(12:08):
if you go vote. We can't tell who you voted for,
but if you go vote, we'll give you a chance
to want a laptop or something apparently there was a
Best of Des Moines contest and I had no idea,
And suddenly we get a call from the media organization
saying congratulations on winning Breast of des Moines. And we're like,
is this a joke? Is this one of those like
you have a speeding ticket text messages like my son

(12:29):
got yesterday. Yeah, people all across Nebraska are getting those
right now. It's kind of crazy. Somebody's texting everybody's saying
you got a speeding ticket and click here to go
pay it, and people are clicking the link and paying it.
My son got one and he freaked out. He thought
his stop class didn't go through. He's like, I don't
have money to pay the ticket. We're like, it's fake,
don't don't worry about it. But yeah, he woke up

(12:51):
by his text message in the morning and then he
got him out of bed. So I'm thinking, you know,
for parents, those of you who have trouble getting your
kids out of bed in the morning, send them a
text message that they owe somebody money and then all
of a sudden they wake up real quick. It's pretty crazy.
It worked really well, but I know, so we win
the Best of des Moines Award, and that actually rounds
it out for us. I mean, we have Best of

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Omaha Awards, we have Best of Lincoln Awards, we have
Best of Sarpy County Awards, that's the Papillion Service Center,
and now our first ever Best of Des Moin Awards.
So thank you for all the Des Moines listeners that
voted for us in that contest without me even asking
you to. It's super humbling to know that we're doing
the kind of work and doing the kind of job
that you appreciate enough that you would take the initiative

(13:35):
to go out and vote for They say that, you know,
if you have a problem with your business, something's not
going right, and you choose not to fix that, and
instead you choose to handle your declining sales because you
have a problem with your service, you're declining sales by
increasing your marketing. Well, we just need to bring in
more people. The fastest way to kill a company is

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to bring more people into a company that has a problem.
So if you don't have a problem and things are
going well, and you know, every day, guys, we get
up in the morning, we seek out those employees. In fact,
we're hiring right now for the Omaha Service Center, we
have a front desk position open there. We're going to
be hiring another technician in the Lincoln Service Center. I
got to meet Mo the other day in Lincoln. Mo

(14:17):
is short from Muhammad, and I'm like, hey, there's only
room for one God in this company. I've been waiting
all day to say that one. Yeah, the morning's early,
and you know, so Mo is in there, and I
mean just he's maybe two weeks in and the guy's
on the phone and I'm listening while he's on the phone,
and he is just slaying it. He's smooth, he's confident,
he knows what he's talking about, and he's comfortable. He's

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comfortable being conversational with people in a way that makes
other people feel comfortable. Those are the kind of people
we look for at Schuck. You know how rare they
are to find. I mean, how many times have you
ever been in a customer service experience where you go
talk to somebody and they are just over the top amazing.
I mean, we've all been to Chick fil A and
we all hear him say it's my pleasure, you know,

(15:01):
except you can really tell that some of them mean
it and some of them are just required to say it.
You know, it's my pleasure versus oh, no problem at all,
that's my pleasure to help.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Okay, well I believe you, and I'll get up to
the window and actually chat with you as opposed to the
other guy. How's your day going? Like, I know you're
just stalling me because the food's not here, So just
let's just skip the pleasantries and I'll just wait in
silence versus my day's going great. You know, how's your
day going? Have you had a has it been going faster?
You off soon?

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Like?

Speaker 3 (15:32):
You know, you got to be careful when're a guy
asking those kind of questions, because you know, you don't
want to be misinterpreted. But you know, just making idle
conversation with somebody who's working in a fast food window,
you know. So those are the kind of people we
look for at SHOCK and those are the kind of
people that end up delivering the award winning service that
wins the awards in the future going forward. So one
of the things I always say, if somebody at one

(15:54):
of my service centers has done amazing work for you,
please feel free to call to email me to let
me know you know, I try to reply to every
single email that I get from every single customer. I
don't always succeed, but I do try. And then if
you ever have a problem with any of my people,
you know, let me know. You're not hurting them, you're
not hurting me. You shouldn't feel bad about it. It's

(16:18):
just if you don't say something, I can't fix it.
And if I can't fix it, we don't get better,
and we just drive more people through that system that's
not working. Right. You know, we got new phone systems
in the Omaha Service Center, and we tried to cancel
our landline phone numbers and apparently we have cocks. So
you know, oh, you're under contract for another nine months
on those phone numbers. You can't cancel them. Oh well,

(16:40):
what's the cancelation penalty. Maybe it's cheaper to pay the penalty. Nope,
the penalty is exactly the same as keeping the phone lines,
so you may as well just keep them, okay, whatever,
You'll put a calendar reminder into cancel them in June
and be done. Then we'll move our internet too, just
despite you. But anyway, I digress. We left the phone
system turn Nobody thought to turn the old phone system

(17:02):
off because we have a new phone system. So when
you when you call the main phone numbers for the
service centers, you go to the new phone system. But
nobody turned off the old phone system. And for like
a month two months, some of you apparently have the
secondary phone numbers for the service centers. So we have
four phone lines in each service center, and when we
call you from one of those other phone lines, the
caller ID you know, instead of saying you know in Lincoln,

(17:24):
for example, four two three ninety five ninety five, you
may have received a call from four to two three
ninety five ninety six, and you may have saved that
in your roll I phone for Shock Innovations. And so
now you're calling back and you're like, these mother truckers
used to be so good, but now they don't even
answer the phone anymore. I just get stuck in this
endless loop of like we'll be with you in just

(17:45):
a moment, and they never come. I don't understand. I'm
gonna send them an email. So finally somebody did send
an email and we're like, oh no, we didn't occur
to us to turn off the old phone system. So
if so, you don't say anything, guys. We can't fix
the problem, so we shut down the old phone systems now,
and those numbers just ring now because we can't disconnect
them because you know we're under contract, cock, can you

(18:07):
I thought they were supposed to be forwarded anyway? For
zero two five, five eight eleven ten eight eight eight
two five zero two zero nine to one. We're gonna
take a quick break when we come back as millions
of AT and T customers or have their data exposed
yet again. So we're gonna tell you what to be
concerned about there if you have AT and T services
coming up later in the program. If you're worried about AI,
I went out and purchased the Mac Daddy two hundred

(18:31):
dollars a month GPT Chat GPT subscription because I wanted
to try this out for I have two projects that
I'm working on. One of them is a super serious
project and the other one was kind of a fluffy
project that I just wanted to test things on. If
you're worried about AI taking your jobs TLDR, don't worry
about it. It ain't happening anytime soon. I'm gonna share

(18:51):
my experience with you coming up next on compute this.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
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Speaker 3 (20:41):
All righty folks, welcome back into compute. This. This is
why I love the people of Schrockville. At Facebook dot com,
slash Shock Innovations. I was feeling a little bit down
going into that commercial break. If you couldn't tough from
my voice, yeah, because I'm a professional, I try to
keep it positive, but I'm like, man, I'm getting old.
Like people don't know where the rolodex is anymore, and
people in the comments are like Thori, you described a

(21:02):
list finder. That's not even a rolodex. That's a list finder.
A rolodex spins and then I do remember that, but
my goodness, I didn't know what a rolodex. I feel
so much younger now, Thank you everybody for making me
feel better. I see. I mean, this is why you
come to shock. You just feel better. You know, will
come to you and say your computer needs like five

(21:22):
hundred dollars worth of work, and you're like, oh gosh,
that's terrible, but hey, we're gonna We gave you one
hundred and forty dollars off for your first hour labor free,
and your computer's gonna run three times faster and it's
half the price of buying a new one. You know,
I don't feel so bad about that. Now. When do
you go in to get your car fixed and they
tell you, well, you need a new engine, and that's

(21:43):
the bad news. It's gonna be like five grand. But
the good news is is you're gonna have double the
horse power and lots more torque, so it's gonna drive
a lot better. Nobody ever says that. You know, you
don't get anything better, You just get it fixed. At shock.
We not only fix it, but the parts that we
use are such a higher quality than the parts that
HP or Dell or as Us is originally putting into

(22:05):
the computer that the higher quality parts improve the performance
of the computer so dramatically. It just feels like a
new machine. It's a beautiful four zero two five five
eight eleven ten or eight eight eight two five zero
two zero nine to one. Dave, Welcome to the program.
How can I help you on compute this today?

Speaker 7 (22:23):
How are you doing? I've got a holiday special with
two hard drives, all right, one's a backup drive and
the other ones is I believe a solid state. I
have drive Advisor and I'm starting to get in error
message it says my backup drive dropped to ninety nine

(22:44):
percent and has a little broken heart. How long do
you recommend before it's broken enough to bring in? Because
I don't want to lose anything even though it's backup drive.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
Gotcha. So there's a couple things going on here. Number one.
I mean, I know everybody has been super patient on
the new version of drive Advisor, and I just incredibly
appreciate that we've had several challenges getting the right coder
on the project to actually build the code for us.
We didn't know what a great coder we had, Like
in twenty seventeen and we built the first drive Advisor. Adam,

(23:24):
if you're listening, I did try to reach out to you,
but you just you won't return my calls. I don't
know what I did to you. But the new version
of drive Advisor we're in the we're in literally, it's
we're done, it's ready. But when we went to install it,
there was an issue with the it's weird because now
Windows uses apps instead of applications, and so apps have

(23:44):
different security requirements so they don't throw weird errors like
this program may not be safe, you know that kind
of thing, and we have to make sure that drive
Advisor doesn't throw those kind of errors. And so when
we went to install it, normally it's an MSI file,
it needs to be an MSI x file now, and
of course the updater system inside of drive Advisor that

(24:04):
allows us to push updates for it only we'll install MSIs,
but we have to have an MSIX and so now
we're like, great, this is this is one of those
stupid things, like you gotta be kidding me, and so
we're recoding the updater system right now. That'll allow us
to push out updates for it. We can't release it
till the updates the update function is ready obviously in
case there's a bug or something, we want to be

(24:25):
able to fix it. So I was supposed to have
that this week, the final version of it. I checked
with the coder, he said it's coming still. As far
as your question goes, this is the reason I'm bringing
up the new version of drive Advisor is it was
made in twenty seventeen before we had envme hard drives,
which is what your holiday special is running as far
as its main hard drive goes. And then we also

(24:47):
had mechanical hard drives, which if your mechanical hard drive
is at ninety nine percent, it is technically in a
failure state. Technically speaking, it has had a heart attack
and it should be replaced.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
Now.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
If you have AA SSD for your backup drive, so
they both hook up on the STA channel. But if
it's an SSD, that's a different technology that can drop
to ninety nine percent and not be a desperate failure
state situation. So it all depends on the level of
technology and the new version of Drive Advisor differentiates between

(25:20):
the three types of drives and will give you the
appropriate rating with the broken heart in the right situation.
The old Drive Advisor will give you a broken heart
anytime a drive drops below ninety nine percent. So what
I would suggest, ninety nine percent if it's a mechanical
hard drive even is something that should be taken seriously.
But it's not the end of the world, especially because

(25:43):
it's only a backup drive, and there shouldn't be anything
stored on that drive that isn't stored on your other drive.
It's a backup drive. Are you using it as only
a backup drive? Or are you saving stuff on it
only it's a backup drive? Okay, So it's not mission critical.
In other words, if if it did, if smoke started
pouring out of the side of that drive, we'd say, oh,

(26:04):
good thing, you have a warranty on that one, and
we'd unplug it and we'd all laugh and we'd replace it.
So I don't think you need to jump in your
car and run into the service center right now to
address that situation. But the next time you're in for
a maintenance checkup, for example, we will address that situation.
We're going to take a look at the drive and
make sure that it meets the health requirements that we're
looking for, and if it is in fact a drive

(26:24):
that needs to be replaced, we would replace that for you.
So one of the things I know, it's a holiday
special cost of a hard drive for a backup drive
on a holiday special, it's going to be at least
a two terabyte hard drive. So if it's a two
terabyte hard drive and the drive is it's going to
be an hour of labor to replace it. So you're
looking at three four hundred bucks to replace that hard

(26:46):
drive if it's not under a warrant.

Speaker 7 (26:48):
The thing I got your warranty, bingo, I.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Was gonna make sure because you see, right now you've
called the radio show, You've said, you know, I might
have a drive that might be in a failure state
or it might not be just depending on my drive advisor,
I don't know. But if it is inn a failure state,
if you had a warranty, we'd fix it for free.
And if you don't have a warranty, you can call
us right now and buy one. Ah, isn't that neat?

(27:13):
And then all of a sudden you've saved like three
three hundred bucks. It's great. So you've got the warranty,
so you're good to go.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Dave.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
That's what That's where I was going with that. It's like,
if you didn't have the warranty, you might just before
you bring it in, call us and buy the warranty.
You know, yes, I could. I would make a lot
more money selling you the four hundred dollars repair than
the refundable warranty that you get your money back if
you don't use it. But from a service perspective, doesn't
it feel better to come in and say, dang, that

(27:40):
was a four hundred dollars repair and I got it
done for free because I had this one hundred dollars warranty.
Doesn't that feel better?

Speaker 7 (27:47):
You have been taking great care of me for years
and it's worth it to me.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Well, thank you, Dave. I really appreciate I appreciate your patronage,
I appreciate I appreciate your business, and I appreciate you
calling the program today. I do have you in the drawing,
by the way, as well for a twenty five dollars
Shock Innovations gift card. Flattery will get you everywhere but
Carolyn also wants the card, and we got to take her
call coming up in just a moment. But before we
do that, millions of AT and T customers had their
data exposed again on the dark web. I say again,

(28:17):
because these are the same customers, the exact same customers,
like name for name, the same customers who had their
data exposed in March of twenty twenty four. So if
you were involved in the March twenty twenty four AT
and T data breach and then left AT and T, well,
your information was exposed again. Now AT and T is saying, hey,
this isn't a big deal. This is just some hacker

(28:39):
who repackaged the original data into a new looking file
so you could try to make some money online selling
it to people on the dark web. The hacker online says, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
We've won Best of the dark Web awards. Here we
have really good stolen data. And this stolen data that
when we first stole it, Yeah, we had some names,
and we had some email address and there was like

(29:01):
information in there like social security numbers and dates of birth,
but those were encrypted and so none of the bad
guys could use any of that information. So we put
the big brains at dark Web Inc. To work and
we came up with a way to decrypt all of
your social Security numbers and dates of birth, and then
we went back into the file and we repackaged it

(29:23):
to include that information in plaintext. So now every thief
on the planet can essentially file your tax return because
they have everything they need. They got your name, they
got your address, they have your Social Security number and
your date of birth. Yay. AT and T replies, well,
hold on just a second. I don't think you actually
did that, dark Web Inc. I'm just making up. That's

(29:43):
not a real company. I'm just making that up. Okay,
you can catch that people out there googling. I'm gonna
file a I'm gonna file a complaint against dark Web Inc.
So AT and T says, no, they didn't really do that.
And how does AT and T know that? Because AT
and T insists that they didn't decrypt your data and
put it into that file because when we lost your

(30:05):
data the first time, we didn't encrypt it. Ha, it
was plain text the whole time. Baby, all your data
has been out there for a full year plus and
these guys are just trying to make it sound like
they did something special. You know, when your defense is
we screwed up so bad the first time that they
didn't that they couldn't have made the screw up any worse.

(30:27):
That's AT and t's defense, guys. So if you're an
ATAT customer, it's a good news bad news story kind
of day. The good news is it's not any worse.
The bad news is it was really really bad last
year if you just had forgotten about it, because you know,
life goes on. Yeah, it's still out there for zero
two five five eight eleven ten eight eight eight two
five zero two zero nine. We're going to take a

(30:48):
break when we come back, Carolyn, your call is coming up,
as well as my experience with chat GPT pro. A
lot of people don't show out two hundred bucks a
month for the pro model. I thought maybe the pro
model would be way better than the free one, and
it's got some advantages, but it was not a smooth experience,
and I'm going to share that with you coming up
next on compute.

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All right, welcome back in folks, you're listening to compute this.
My name's Thor Schrock. I'm the owner of the Shrock
Innovation's computer company where we fix computers, we build computers,
We recover data off of crashed computers, crashed hard drives,
all that kind of stuff. We had our first big
recovery on the brand new PC three thousand professional system
in the Omaha Service Center. That twenty thousand dollars wonder

(33:52):
of a piece of technology was actually able to recover
a drive that the other PC three thousand system couldn't get.
And that's why the call to PC three thousand pro
So it was just one more way that we can
if we The customer had a quote. They'd taken it
to best Buy. Best Buy said we can't recover it,
but we can send it to drive Savers for you.
Drive Savers had quoted them seven thousand dollars to recover

(34:14):
the data off their hard drive. It was it was
a little envme drive just out of a laptop. They
brought it into us, and though to be fair, drive
Saver said between thirty five hundred and seven thousand dollars.
But you see if you've ever done business with drive advisors,
it always ends up at seven thousand dollars every single time.
It's never the low end of the spectrum. So they

(34:36):
bring it into us and we recover it for four
hundred dollars. Why were we able to do it for
four hundred dollars because I plugged it into the PC
three thousand Pro model and it said I can see
the files, and I said, click, click, click, extract files.
And then I came back like three hours later, and

(34:56):
the cookies were done, and it being they were Pillsbury
Fresh and all this beautiful data babies first Christmas was
just amazing all right there, and yeah, four hundred bucks.
I didn't have to do anything. I click click, click boom. Now,
maybe on the old PC three thousand I would have
had to do a little bit more. I might have
been an eight hundred dollars recovery. But this thing is
just smooth as butter. So if you have a situation,

(35:18):
you know one of those things like the plumber, nobody
needs a data recovery guy until you need a data
recovery guy. And you know, I continue to learn every
single day, guy. So as I'm in the commercial break here,
I'm on eBay looking at rolodexes because I'm like, you know,
maybe I and so what I described, guys, was a

(35:38):
wheel decks. It was made by the Rolodex company. Sorry,
what I described was the flip file. You're right, but
there's the wheel deck. So there was the Rolodex that
had the cards in it that you would flip one
after the other. Then you had the wheel decks. Now, guys,
for kids out there who don't know what I'm I'm describing,
imagine a bunch of note cards on a on a

(36:00):
like a tire like thing that you would spin with
a handle on the side. And so in your iPhone,
it would be like if you were spinning through your contacts.
You were flicking up and scrolling down, scrolling down, and
you hit Z, but you could keep flicking and keep
scrolling and you would just start over again at a
It's like that. It's called the wheel decks. So I
mean contact lists go way back, all kinds of old stuff.

(36:21):
There were business card holders then made me remember, like
there were cards for the wheel decks designed to hold
business cards that you didn't write on. You just stuck
the business card in the little holes. It was pretty
amazing technology, you know, back in the day. This is
eighties tech right here, pre Reagan tech. Tell you what
for zero two five five, eight eleven ten eight eight
eight two five zero two zero nine to one, Carolyn,

(36:42):
Welcome to the program. How can I help you on
compute this today?

Speaker 8 (36:46):
Hi, Thor, you're taking me back. I remember using the
roll of deck.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Oh golly, you know.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
And that's the thing. I think some of these on eBay, Carolyn,
they're selling for like the the basic rolodex is like
thirty dollars for a used rolodex. I mean, I don't know.
I don't know if you get new do you get
new cards, do the contacts come prepopulated? Like I don't know.
And then the wheel dex is the wheel decks is
as much as seventy thousand or seventy thousand, seventy dollars,

(37:17):
seventy dollars after a used wheel dex. I'm like, somebody,
I'm pretty sure somewhere in this building, if I if
I dig back deep enough, I'm gonna find a wheel
deck somewhere. It's gonna be here anyway. How can I
help you, Carolyn?

Speaker 8 (37:31):
Okay, I just wanted to say and you were talking
about your new phone system. I called Omaha and expected
to talk to Amy, so I was put on hold.
And then the next thing, I noticed the sweet female
boys answers. But it's not only it's I think, Emily.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
Yeah, Emily, Emily.

Speaker 8 (37:55):
Yeah. So she was very sweet. She answered my question,
tell me what I needed and everything. But the main
point is that whenever I've been acted, I don't recognize
your voice. This is Carolyn and round Rocks, and I'm
used to talking to Amy. And she says, oh, well,
Amy is in Omaha and I'm in Lincoln.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
I said, oh, I thought I called the Oh so yeah,
you talked to Eliana, which, yeah, you talked to Eliana.
So yeah. So the new phone system it we debated,
do it one of the things that I always hated.
I don't know any of you who out there, since
we're reminiscing about rolodexes and stuff, does anybody ever remember
calling comp Usa, the old computer store back in the day.

(38:38):
Comp Usa, Well, they have a big bin. And you
know how Walmart has the been of DVDs in the
middle of the aisle by Electronics, they have a bin
of like mice and you could like dig through the
mice and find the one that you like the best.
And yeah, so comp USA, and you'd call comp USA
because you wanted to find out if they had a
specific thing, like a do you guys have the Multimedia
Upgrade kit in stock? Has a DVD rock? I'm in

(39:00):
a sound card so I can add it to my
computer and you'd credit call them and it would take
you to the eight hundred number. And it was somebody
who was distantly remote, who had no idea what was
in the stores, and you're just this is not helpful.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
And so.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
There's a big push, especially in the IT industry, to
automate and AI and do all these other things and
hook it up to databases so that you know, you
don't even have to answer the phone anymore. So the
phone gets answered. Plus one for this, press two for that.
And I mean I do get that, you know, sometimes
having so when you call schwacky here recording that here
are hours because a lot of people call say when
are you open till? Well, then the customers all I

(39:35):
got what I need. I can just hang up. You know,
we don't have to spend human time telling everybody when
we're open. But when you get to a person. If
the objective is to get to a person, we want
to take you right to a person. But the problem
is we only at some point. Sometimes we only have
one or two people in a service center. We have
four phone lines per service center. So now the new
phone system, if you would call Omaha and all the
phone lines are busy or Omaha can't answer because they

(39:58):
have a customer in front of them. After the first
set of rings goes directly to Omaha, the second set
of rings rings every phone in the company, and anybody
anywhere in the company can answer that phone and help
help Carolyn. So yeah, sometimes you'll get Lincoln, sometimes you'll
get Des Moines, sometimes you'll sometimes you'll get me, you know,

(40:18):
like whoa You answer the phone like, well, if it's
a ring and it's right in front of me, you know,
right here. But no, thank you for the call, Carolyn,
I really appreciate it. Emily's in our Omaha service center
and Ellianna is in the Lincoln service center. But we
actually Emily's last day was Thursday, so that was pretty
sad because she was amazing. But Marissa in Hr has
found I don't know, she's found somebody a diamond in

(40:40):
the rough that somebody who is apparently going to do
very well for us, and we're very excited about it.
So we'll tell you more about that next week. All right,
thank you for the call, Carolyn. I appreciate you being
with us today. Four zero two five five eight eleven
ten eight eight eight two five zero two zero nine
to one, So real quick before we go to break.

(41:00):
I wanted to try out chat GPT pro. I wanted
to find out what what I could do with it essentially,
And the main reason is we need to make backup
software because the backup software that's available that you all
are using, its sucks. It's bad. It is bad. And

(41:21):
you can go get Carbonite. You can peruse your backups
with an app. Why would you do that? Why would
you get an app on your phone so that you
could look through your backup files so you can change
your backup files and then lose it when you back
up again. Why would you do that? I don't understand.
And so and then when you get a new computer,

(41:44):
have you ever tried to recover a Carbonyite backup onto
the computer? Like it takes days and I'm not joking,
like seven days to download your whole backup. It's so
slow that they have an option for one hundred and
fifty dollars where they will mail you an external hard
drive with your data on it. It takes one day
to put the data on the drive, then they're gonna
ship it to you, so let's just say the next day.

(42:05):
The next day it to you. It takes a second
day to get to you. Then it takes a third
day for you to transfer that data into your computer.
So even with the one hundred and fifty dollars mail
you a hard drive option, like it's you know, Netflix
on a DVD in the mailbox, you're still three days out.
So we somebody needs to do something different with this,
and we're gonna do it. And then on top of
that the data security. Everyone's like, just save it in

(42:26):
the cloud. Then it's saved forever, and that's true. It's
saved forever for you to peruse through, or the federal
government to peruse through, or Microsoft to go through, or
AI to use to train its models. It's available for everybody.
So we need to make backup software that stores your
data encrypted locally, like in one of our service centers,

(42:47):
is not stupid expensive and just works. And so this
is going to require a lot of planning. And I'm
thinking to myself, you know, I've talked this through with
a lot of people before, and I have a good
idea in my head of how we're going to do it.
But we need to create the project document that we
can handle the coder that says this is what we
need to build, and it needs to think of everything
because once you hand it to the coder and he

(43:08):
builds it, if he didn't think of something, well it's
not in there. That's a lot of organization. And I thought,
you know, this would be a good thing for AI
because I am literally I have the plan in my
head already. I just need to get the plan in
my head out on a piece of paper, and we
need to create wireframes for the interface, the whole bit.
So I start talking to Chat. I subscribe to chat
GPT pro, and I start talking to it and describing

(43:31):
what we want to do and explaining how our systems
work and giving it all this background and for training
the model essentially, and I'm doing this with my voice
using my phone. I said it to be my AI
assistant on my phone and I can just talk to
it which is useful. So that's going swimmingly well. Like
the model seems to be understanding everything I'm saying. It's
going great. So then I decided, you know, I bet

(43:52):
I could use this for something else. I have a
little side project. I wanted to create a poster that
was like bitcoin price predictions from famous people. So here,
here's bitcoin, here's the difficulty, here's the network hat Tara
hash rates, and here are the predictions of where everyone
thinks it's gonna be by twenty thirty. Some people like
Kathy would think it's gonna be at one point five
million dollars by twenty thirty. Some people you know, like Fidelity,

(44:13):
think it's gonna be at like one hundred thousand dollars
in twenty thirty, essentially unmoved from where it is today.
So I just thought it'd be cool to have a
chart that shows that. And so I could make this
chart and excel. Right, you put the values in the grid,
you click the chart button. It ain't Rocket science. So
I'm like, okay, chat chat GPT, I want you to
make me a chart. I want a four K poster.
I'm gonna print it on the put it on the wall,

(44:34):
so it's got to be four K, and it's got
to have three different predictions from famous people about bitcoin stuff.
Plus I want a pessimist model, somebody who thinks it's
gonna crash and burn, something like a warm Buffett. Gotta
include that in the model, right. I want lines for this,
lines for that, any projected data. Make it dashed lines
because we don't know where things are going to be
beyond you know, present, So make those a dashed line.

(44:56):
And then at the bottom put, you know, put the
names of the people that have the p and they're facing
like a little circle like you know, like the NPC bubble,
with their face in it, so that you can say,
that's Kathy Wood from our investments and her line is purple,
and look there's her purple line on the chart. Isn't
that special? Again? Something I could do in Excel in
probably in less than an hour, for sure, including sourcing

(45:17):
the pictures, cropping and putting them in a bubble. The
whole bit, no joke. I spent an entire flipping day
with chat GPT. I broke the model so many times
it here's your chart, Great, clicked the link to download
it and the download failed. What do you mean the
download fild Oh sorry, it took too long to click

(45:39):
the links of the environment reset and that's in essence.
Chat gpt left the conversation because I'm a human and
I got distracted by another human and decided I could
come back to my computer because the human was more important. Well,
chat gpt didn't like that, so it reset all the
environment variable. So I had to re upload all the
pictures of the people, tell it all to do everything again,
generate a new link for me, and then I could

(45:59):
click it. And I am not kidding guys. It got
it wrong every single time. And then at the end
when I thought, I mean, it was so close. It's
just like the pictures of the people in the bubbles
were compressed, so they were all super skinny and tall,
you know. So I was like, those people are the
aspect ratio on the people is wrong. They need to

(46:19):
be like fatter. Yeah, the vertical axis is expanded and
the horizontal access is compressed. We need to So it says, okay,
I fixed it. Here's your link. Download it. So I
clicked to download it and it's a white piece of paper.
I'm like, is this a joke? I asked, the model,

(46:39):
is this a joke? It didn't know what to say.
It was like, I don't understand your question. I'm like,
this is a white piece of paper and it says
you're absolutely right. It looks like I made a mistake.
And so then we get done right and I'm like,
you forget this, forget it. I'm just gonna do it myself.
And then the thought occurred to me, it got every
single thing about this chart wrong. I never went back.

(47:01):
I asked it to find that the estimates for bitcoin prices.
I looked at Kathy Wood and her estimate was at
one hundred and fifty thousand. I'm like, that seems or
excuse excuse me. It was at half a million in
twenty thirty, and I'm like, Kathy Wood is always like
crazy like with her estimates, so that doesn't seem crazy.
That seems pretty prop plausible by twenty thirty. So I

(47:22):
went back and double checked the original numbers. They were wrong.
I asked the model where did you get these numbers?
What was the source? And the model says, oh, you
got me. It literally said that you got me there.
I just estimated the numbers what you made them up? So, yeah,
before you use chat GPT to plan your data backup utility.

(47:43):
Just no, it's just gonna make stuff up. It's great.
All I gotta take our final break of the program. Guys,
when we come back, Amazon is going to start utilizing
robots for delivery to your home. What's that going to
look like? We're gonna share that with you coming up
next on compute this.

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All righty folks, thanks for sticking with us through the
program today. This is the final segment of Compute this
But after the program, give me a ten minutes or
so to reset and we'll do an aftershock. We've got
some interesting stuff to talk about this week. There's been
a lot like in the in the aftershock is intended
for just like I don't know, cultural news more than

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just computer technology news. We have a technology angle on it, obviously,
but you know it's a little more. I don't know
President g in China. I'm going to make a prediction
that he's going to be gone by the end of
the summer. Yeah, and I have it on I don't
make predictions lay in thorst Damis, but I don't make

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predictions lightly. But yeah, so there's gonna be something. There's
something happening in China right now. We're going to talk
about that. Also, what actually, what was this Ukraine spiderweb
attack that blew up all the bombers in Russia and
then all the follow up attacks that you haven't heard about.
You know, they shot down an SU thirty five yesterday.

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That's not supposed to be possible. That would be like
Tom Cruise in his F fourteen taking off his mothballed
F fourteen that happened to be fueled and prepped and
ready to fly after years of being under a tarp,
takes off and then shoots down like an F twenty two.

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That's just it's it's that bad. It just doesn't happen.
So we're going to talk about that. And also the
whole Trump versus Musk thing that's been going on. Have
you followed that quick question? Is it real or was
it all a deception from the beginning? Are they really
angry with each other or are they secretly laughing behind

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the scenes at everybody's reaction to this stuff? Did did
Trump send Elona text when he posted the picture of
the Epstein thing and say too far. So Elon's like
sorry man, and he took it down. You know what's
going on here. We're going to talk about that one too,
so fun stuff to talk about on the aftershock, and
we're going to cover that for you. So meanwhile, though,

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Amazon is going to start using delivery robots to deliver
packages to your home. Now you might remember some stories
from like twenty twenty three about this. They were testing
like a six wheeled robot dog thing that was delivering
packages in California. They did it for about six months
or so. No, I guess it went on for a
few years. The total project did. It was in the

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field for about six months or so before they finally
shelved it. It just wasn't it wasn't feasible. The technology
wasn't there yet. This tells you how far we've come.
Now it's twenty twenty five, Amazon's bringing it back. The
robots are going to hook up to the back of
the Rivian electric vehicles that Amazon uses for delivering my guests,
is to recharge off the battery in the truck, and

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they're going so the trucks are driven by humans. There's
still a human in the loop. But they're going to
work basically as augmentation for the human driver so that
they can deliver packages more efficiently. Now. Amazon already uses
tons of robots in their warehouses that work alongside humans
to make their jobs easier, and this looks like an
extension of that. They're not going to be replacing your
favorite Amazon driver with a robot, but your favorite Amazon

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driver might wave from the truck while the robot brings
the package to the door. Today's winter is Dave. Congratulations,
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and we'll talk to you all next weekend for another
exciting edition of Compute This