Compute This 9-28-2025

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 (00:17):
Hello, folks, and welcome in to Compute This. My name
is Thor Schrock.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm the owner of the Shrock Innovations computer company. We
got a couple different phone numbers for you to join
us on the program this morning. You can reach us
at four zero two five five eight eleven ten if
you're local, otherwise if you're outside of the metro area
eight eight eight two five zero two zero nine to one.
Apparently on my headphones they are they are battery operated,
and I must have left them on after last week's

(00:42):
show because Okay, the noise canceling so scared me for
a minute. It's just that it's not canceling anything. So
it sounds weird. It sounds like I'm in a tin
can in my own ears. But I'm sure I sound
fine to everybody else.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
You sound terrific. There we go, terrific. I love it
all right, guys.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
So if you missed the show last week, I would
encourage you to bounce on over to shroc innovations dot
com and click on radio show that you can download
all the previous shows.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
You can watch them.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
You can, you know, with the videos we're live right now,
for example, at Facebook dot com slash shroc Innovations. You
can check out the show there if you like, But
you can watch all those shows over at shrocannovations dot com.
While you're over there, do check out the specials page.
You can click on shop and Specials. We have some
one of a kind computers there that basically they you know,
open box items or sometimes sometimes it's like, you know, hey,

(01:30):
we were digging up the lovely Kimberly is remodeling Omaha,
and she emptied out all the cabinets and she found
a holiday special. She's like, what is this. It's like
last year's holiday special. And we're like, don't know why
that's in there. Well, let's check it out and if
it checks out, let's put it on the specials page.
So you can check that out the specials page shrocannovations

(01:51):
dot com. Click on Shop and Specials. We're gonna talk
a little bit about new computers. I have not seen
anything in my entire twenty six year career at Shrock,
Like what's happening right now with new computers.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
It is absolutely insane.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
So we're gonna talk a little bit about that, what's
going on with that in the industry right now as well.
Last week on the program, if you missed the show,
where we talked about the disastrous launch of Meta AI,
how pretty much every demo failed epically, even for Zuck,
you know, it wouldn't answer his calls and do his things,
and the chef dude tried to have it make him

(02:26):
some kind of Asian steak sauce, and the AI kept
telling him that he was already started when he hadn't,
and that he'd already mixed some ingredients when they were
all sitting right in front of him. So it was
not the smoothest launch. The concept of the technology is interesting.
Meta AI, through the new glasses that they have, essentially
can look at your environment around you and then inform

(02:48):
you on things happening in your environment around you. So
like in the case of the chef, if you have
a bunch of ingredients on the table and you say,
I want to make an Asian steak sauce with the
ingredients on the table. It will tell you what to
do in theory and how to make that sauce. Because
I wouldn't know how to make an Asian steak sauce.
I no clue what I didn't know there was such
I didn't know steak sausage, steak sausage, steak sauces could

(03:11):
be divided by ethnicity, you know. I just okay, I
figured steak sauce is steak sauce, and you'll give me
some of that steakhouse marinate and we're good to go.
But no, apparently you can make steak sauce with ingredients
unless you have metaglasses, and then it doesn't work out.
We also told you last week about how Elon's company, Neurlink,
was super excited to be hooking up human brains to

(03:34):
large language model AI. In other words, they're hooking up
human brains to grock and that was super exciting, I'm sure. Also,
if you have a Samsung smart fridge and they are
the lovely Kimberly, and our washer and dryer died, well
just a washer, they didn't really die. You got those
electronic gremlins where you just walk past it in the

(03:55):
room and it starts beeping and dinging like someone's pressing
buttons on it, but no one is pressing buttons. And
then in the middle of a load of towels, it
fills up with water and then it just quits.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
It's like do Doo plays its.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Little song like it's done, but the towels are in
there and the whole bit basin is full of water
and we have to like unplug it and have you
tried turning it off and on again? We have to
unplug it, plug it back in, we get it to drain.
So that was we had to buy a new washer
and dryer. Well well, while we were standing there checking
out with this washer and dryer over it lows, I'm
standing there looking at all the Samsung refrigerators thinking about

(04:26):
the last week's show, saying, all these people who have
these big screens on their fridge, they're all gonna be
getting ads from Samsung. So we talked about that on
the program last week. Oh sorry, not advertisements, curated promotional announcements,
because that sounds so much better, all right, in your kitchen,
in your kitchen, isn't that crazy? Coming up on the

(04:46):
program this afternoon, guys, we're gonna give you an update
on the Omaha construction. What's going on with Nube computer
builds two five h two is getting closer than ever.
We're gonna talk about that. The deadline for Windows ten
is upon us. iOS twenty six has landed.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Now.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
I've heard two different songs, sometimes from the same people
on iOS twenty six. A lot of people are liking
a lot of the things that it offers, and some
people are really gritchy about some of the things that
it's making them do. So you know, I've heard both
sides of it. But we're gonna give you an idea
of what is in this new update. And partially because
I got a really interesting email from a from a

(05:24):
listener who said, Hey, I'm on iOS eighteen and this
is iOS twenty six. My phone tells me I'm up
to date, but that iOS twenty six is available, so
should I install it? And I can see why that's
a confusing message. Usually if there's an update, you know,
whoever is issuing the update is like install the update,
But it depends on which iPhone you're using, whether or
not you should install, whether or not you can install

(05:47):
iOS twenty six. So we're gonna let you know what
iPhones are actually eligible to receive that update. And then
there are certain features of iOS twenty six that are
not available except for on the newest of iPhones. So
we're going to talk about that as well, and then
love him or hate them. And you know, I don't
have any hate for electric electric cars. Like electric vehicles,

(06:08):
in some cases they make a lot of sense. In
most cases they make absolutely no sense. But in a
rural setting they make no sense. And in any kind
of setting where you're trying to do some kind of work,
toe something, houl something, pull something, they don't make any sense.
I saw a cyber truck the other day towing a
U haul and I thought to myself, how far I mean?

(06:30):
He must be doing an intown move because he's not
driving between cities like that. And I can guarantee you
that that seven five hundred dollars EV tax credit goes
away on Tuesday, And I have a question, is that
going to destroy the EV market? In other words, this

(06:51):
whole EV market where all these all these car manufacturers
have started making electric vehicles because that's what the government
told them to do. There's all these tax credit they
believe that's what people wanted. But it really not a
lot of people wanted the electric cars, and you know
the government was hot on them, but the power grid
doesn't have the power to power them. And if we
take away the tax credit and there is no native

(07:13):
demand from humans, what happens to the EV market? Should
you trade your EV in now for a gas powered
vehicle before it's not worth anything. We're gonna give you
some details of what's what to expect on what's coming
up with that transition away from those tax credits on
Tuesday as well. For zero, two, five, five, eight, eleven,
ten is the number to join us on the program today.

(07:35):
Welcome in, Aaron Loeanne, Roger Steven. Good to have you
all in Shrockville. Here at facebook dot com slash shrock Innovations.
You can watch the show there as well if you
would like to be a part of Shrockville, if you
want to. I didn't name it, they named it. You know,
I'm not that conceited, you.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Know, let's what should we call it? What should we
call it?

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Thorville? No, Thorville is too narcissistic. What about Shrockville. I
bet we could charge we could charge Schrock Innovations a
sponsorship fee and call it Shrock powered by Schrock Innovation.
You know, we could do something like that'd Shrockville it
is now. I didn't name it, they named it. So
that was good stuff. Thorberg, thor Thorberg, Thornville, Thornville, oh Fanville.

(08:17):
All right, So construction in the Omaha Service Center, the
Lovely Kimberly has been extremely busy overseeing, essentially general contracting
the remodel of the front end of the Omaha Service Center. Now,
if you ever drive past the Omaha Service Center anywhere
near it, if you drive down Burke Street over there
by by Village Point, like if you're going to Village Point,
just look towards Shork Innovations. And if you don't know

(08:40):
where Schrock Innovations is at, look.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
For the blue.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
So the painters were painting it, and when they came,
the Lovely Kimberly picked all the colors. She hung all up,
you know ya you hang the paint chips on the
wall to see what they look like in different lights
and stuff.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
And she found like the perfect blue. This is the blue.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
This is the new Shrock blue that we're gonna run
in the service centers. And so here we go and
the painters come in and they painted the wall, and
she comes in after they're done, and they're like, look.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
It's the same color as the tape. It's literally Painter's
tape blue. It's the same color as the tape. But
it's a lot of blue. It is like ba bam blue.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
And so on one hand, I look at it and
I'm like, it's bold, it stands out. It's different than
what I've looked at for twenty six years. So yeah,
I kind of like it. And on the other hand,
I see what she's saying, Damn, that's a lot of blue.
Like in the winter time, you're gonna when it gets

(09:40):
dark early, you're gonna be like, what is that blue
beacon on the hill? Oh, that's just Schrock Innovations. It's fine.
So that's kind of funny.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
So it's a lot of blue.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
We're gonna get the TVs on the wall and see
how that, you know, changes things up. Maybe we got
to put some vinyl on the wall too. We're not
sure what to break it up a little, but we
got some of the wall treatments up. The lights are up.
The the floors, we need to get the floor span.
If you if you own a floor cleaning company, and
you like to return phone calls, please give me a
call because we need somebody to clean and buff and

(10:08):
polish and wax the floor, and apparently nobody likes to
return phone calls, so we're trying to get somebody in
there to get that done.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
But we're about a week away.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Or so from having that front end reopen, so thank
you for your patients. As we've all crammed into the
back half of the service center, you go to live
with the text for a little while on that side
when you come in the other door, but the front
end of the service center will be open with the
new ADA counter so you won't have to lift your
computer so high up in the air anymore, closer to
the door, so that you don't have to walk so
far into the room as you used to have to

(10:38):
walk to you know, walk the walk of shame as
we called it, as you walked across the service center
with your computer. I don't know what I did to
it and put it on the counter. Now it's a
lot that's a much shorter walk, you know, less shame.
Less shame is a good thing. We've our focus groups
have found that when you shame customers less often, they
tend to spend more money.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Probably true. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
We didn't actually have a focus group, but this is
probably true. So that was that was good stuff there. Also,
this was a really interesting time. We wanted to try
to get the construction and the remodel done before the
holiday special launch. We didn't want to go into the
fourth quarter with, you know, the torn up front end essentially,
and it didn't occur to me when we planned this

(11:22):
that the way bigger concern was we didn't want to
crunch up the front end right before Windows ten died.
Windows ten dies officially on October fourteenth. And when I
say die, what I mean is you will no longer
receive security updates for Windows ten after October fourteenth. So
October fourteenth, let me just get the October fourteenth is

(11:46):
a Sunday, so the second Tuesday of the month is
a patch Tuesday, so you'll get your final round of
updates on October. Oh, I'm looking at September. Hold on
a second, sorry about that. The fourteenth is a Tuesday.
It is the second Tuesday, so your final that makes
more sense because I had I'm like, weird, why would
they make it a Sunday. But the patch Tuesday is

(12:06):
the second Tuesday of every month. The fourteenth is the
second Tuesday of October. So you're going to receive your
final set of security patches and updates on the fourteenth.
After that, you will not receive anymore. And as a result,
what's going to happen is on the fifteenth, anybody who
has a hidden vulnerability in their back pocket for Windows
is going to let it go. They're going to use it,

(12:28):
and then Microsoft's not going to patch it for you,
and your computer is just going to be endlessly exploited
over and over and over again by every bad guy
on the planet, and your antivirus isn't going to stop
it because your antivirus can't stop vulnerabilities in the Windows code.
Windows isn't going to update or patch your computer, and

(12:48):
your hardware doesn't support Windows eleven, so you're just dead
in the water. You have to buy a new computer
or do a core upgrade or something like that. If
you have a Shock built computer, we can do a
big upgrade on it and make it make it compatible.
But if you have like an HP or a Dell
or a Sony or a laptop or something like that.
You're just dead in the water. There's nothing you can do. Now,
there is one thing you can do. You can Microsoft

(13:09):
has this whole thing where you go online and you
add it to the card and you check out, but
it's free and you have to add a credit card
but you don't get charged, and you know, but it
gives you one more year of updates on Windows ten,
and you can do that up until the fourteenth. Can
you continue to use Windows ten safely after that? The
answer is yes with an asterisk, because after the fourteenth,

(13:35):
everybody and their dog is going to stop caring about
Windows ten. Everybody, your internet service provider is going to
officially end support for all email and internet connectivity. You
call for help and they say what version of Windows
are you on, and you say Windows ten. They say,
I'm sorry, we don't support Windows ten. And that's where
the even though it has nothing to do with Windows,
that's where your support ants can't get your email. Oh,

(13:57):
I'm sorry, we don't support Windows ten. You don't get
any help with your email. You want to go buy
a new printer, so you go to the store and
you you know, at first it won't be bad because
there'll be old, new stock that you can buy. But
as you know, after Christmas time, essentially all the new
printers and scanners and accessories coming out, none of them
are going to have Windows ten drivers anymore. They're all

(14:17):
going to come with only Windows eleven drivers because it
costs those companies' money to support Windows ten. And if
Windows ten is officially end of life, officially, they don't
really care that you spent you know, zero dollars and
checked out and got one more.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Year of updates. Good for you, good for you, But
we don't care.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
We don't care.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
You know, it's you're not going to get anything new,
so you can continue to use what you have potentially
for another year. But when you go to get that
new version of software, oh guess what, it's not compatible
with Windows ten, so you can't get it. Or when
you go to renew your antivirus and they say, oh,
we don't support Windows ten anymore, you can't renew your antivirus.

(14:59):
You can't have security software, or at least good security software,
because there's always somebody who's going to sell you quote
unquote security software, especially people who are looking to scrape
by on Windows ten. So what I'm telling you, guys,
is you do not want to be on Windows ten
after the fourteenth of October. You do not want to

(15:20):
be there. It's not going to be a fun place
to be. Eventually, you're gonna get cajoled into moving off
of Windows ten, so you may as well do it
on your terms. And that's what a lot of people
are doing, and that's what has been absolutely crazy. We're
going to go into the details in the next segment
on this a little bit, but new computers are flying
off the shelf at truck. This is like way busier

(15:41):
than Christmas time, way busier. And we've hired four new
people just to help us keep up on builds, just
to give us eight extra hands.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Wouldn't it be weird if I said seven? Now?

Speaker 3 (15:55):
You know, we don't discriminate eight extra hands to build
computers so that we can keep them coming into the
service centers. And every time I go to order them,
I have to I'm ordering computers ten fifteen twenty at
a time now, and I'm not saying ten to fifteen
twenty a week. I'm saying ten, fifteen to twenty a
day a day. Normally this time of year, we'd be

(16:16):
ordering you know, four or five six a day, So
people are moving, people are leaving Windows ten. And there's
also another factor playing into this. We'll get into that
in the next segment as well. Also, two five h
two Windows eleven's big update is inching ever so closer.
It is also going to hit in October. This is
a big annual update happens every year about this time

(16:39):
in the fall, where Microsoft releases their new version of
whatever version of Windows they're on. This case, it's Windows eleven.
Two five stands for twenty twenty five H two stands
for half two the fall, and so I don't know
in South America is half to the spring? I mean
on the other side of the you know the other right.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
So you're talking the wrong guy. I have no idea.
The toilet spins backwards. I know that.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Yeah, I know that too, But interesting anyway, I think
it's two five h two no matter where you're at
in the world. But two five h two is landing,
and it's going to add all kinds of AI upgrades
to Windows eleven. It's gonna utilize all that hardware that
you've been purchasing that hasn't really been doing anything yet.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
So that's gonna be amazing stuff.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
There's going to be new capabilities regarding Wi Fi seven
that are built into Windows eleven that are going to
give you even better Internet speeds, more secure connections, lots
and lots of upgrades, guys. And the scariest part about
this is eighty percent of the time it's going to
go just fine. Why is that scary? Well for you,
it's not if you're in the eighty percent, But if

(17:44):
you're a lucky, lucky person in the twenty percent, it
can mean your computer doesn't reboot after install. It can
mean that your computer, that your data disappears, that your
programs are not compatible and don't work anymore. There's all
kinds of potential problems that you can run up against.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Or it just loop.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
In other words, it tries to install and it fails,
so it reboots, and then it tries to install, but
it fails, so it reboots, and you just get stuck
in that endless loop forever. All those things happen every
single time one of these updates is out, which is
why Safe Upgrade is a program that we made to
basically install this update for you. We have one hundred
and ten copies of Safe upgrade left out of the
original six hundred that we made available. We have never

(18:22):
sold them this quickly before in the past, and that's
just how big this update is.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
I'm not going to spend a ton of time on
it because I don't have to. The thing sells itself.
If you want two five h two safely installed on
your computer, safe upgrade is the way to do it
for zero two five five, eight eleven ten. We're going
to take a quick break here, guys. But when we
come back. I mentioned that everybody's buying new computers right
now and it's kind of crazy. Yes, Windows ten is dying,
and that's one of the big reasons why. But there's

(18:48):
another reason as well. There's some big changes in CPU
tariffs microchip tariffs that are coming that are causing a
lot of people to decide maybe I should get especially businesses,
maybe I should decide to get new computers now rather
than waiting another month or two. And we're going to
go into those details real quickly.

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Speaker 2 (20:55):
All righty folks, welcome back in to compute this.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
My name's Thor Schrock and the owner of these Shock
Innovations computer company with four locations to help you out
when you're three and a half right now because Omaha
is half closed because we're remodeling the front. But four
locations to help you out whenever you need help with
your computer, We're always here for you. Lincoln, Omaha, Papillion
and West des Moines, Iowa.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Four zero two five five eight.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Eleven ten is the number to join us on the
program or eight eight eight two five zero two zero
nine to one. Bonnie, thanks for taking the time to
call into the show. How can I help you and
compute this today?

Speaker 7 (21:26):
Yes, I would like to kind of two things combined.
The tech that delivered my new computer Monday, he was
dealing with a very frustrated old woman, but he was
very professional. And I had some serious still have some
serious health problems. And I was on the phone so

(21:49):
long with the Post Office press and one press and
two press and three press and four and befo, I'd
never get to talk to a person, none of those
with what I wanted. And finally I got to talk
to a live person. And so I appreciate when I
call Shock, I get to talk to a live person.

(22:10):
And I can't remember the text name began with a
Bee Bradley, with my frustration and my health problems. My
mind just wasn't working right this Monday night, and my
camera wasn't working, the Internet wasn't working, and he tried
and tried and basically gave up, and I thought I

(22:33):
was going to have to get a monitor to get
Wi Fi. And as he left, I thought, oh, maybe
Shock sells monitors, and I thanked him for not trying
to sell me one right off the bat. But what
had happened was Cox was working in the area and
Cox was down, so it was not the text fault
at all that I couldn't get what I was getting,

(22:53):
But I'm sure you can probably find out. I know
it began with a B. Bradley or brad or something
like that.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Okay, yeah, it sounds like Bonnie.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
Those are always really frustrating when you when you're trying
to troublesheet a problem, then you find out that it's
a service interruption. And that's why, because you know that's
not supposed to be the problem. If your water doesn't
come out of your faucet, your last thought is is
the water tower fall over? Like the water is water
offline and in the city. No, that's you don't go
there first, you say, what's wrong with my faucet?

Speaker 2 (23:23):
You know.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
Well, thank you very much for the call, Bondy. I
appreciate you taking the time to give us a call out,
but sorry, the post office is quite frustrating. I agree
with you there, and so is Cox Communications sometimes, which
is why I'm excitedly waiting for Alo to tear up
my sprinklers and get that new service to my home
so i can switch. I've already signed up like I

(23:46):
signed up months ago, like please please please tear my
sprinklers up and then I can complain about that four zero, two, five, five,
eight eleven tens number to join us on the program.
So I mentioned that new computers are flying off the
shelves at Shrock, and it's not an exaggeration, guys.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
And it doesn't matter what what make, what model.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
They're all the everything, the you know, everything from resolutes
all the way up to glants on the laptop side
or on the desktop side. I mean just everything is
disappearing from shock and it's as fast as we can
build it. In some cases, you know, my my ops
manager came to be negos thor you know, we're negative
twelve on intrepids, meaning we owe twelve more intrepids to
customers have purchased twelve and we don't have any, and

(24:24):
so he's like, can we get some more? And then
we get a shipment in and you know, the seller,
the manufacturer essentially says, oh, the ones you ordered, we
can't get those right now. We don't have any left,
so we're going to substitute these for you, and they
just substitute, like, oh, I'm sure it's fine, and then
you get them and they don't have touch screens or something.
We can't do that to our customers, like no, so
we send them all back and say no, if you

(24:45):
don't have what we order, then just tell us you
don't have it, and then we'll order something different.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
We'll pick it, you don't pick it for us.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
And so you know, we think, ray, we're getting twenty
laptops today, and then we get them and we have
to send them back and it's super frustrating. Well, the
big increase in demand is obviously in part due to
Windows ten dying. People are deciding it's time to move
on and time is running out, so you need to
do it quickly. But the other thing that's happening is
chip tariffs. Now this week we saw tariffs on pharmaceuticals

(25:13):
and and you know some other things, you know, furniture
cabinetry for example, kitchen cabinets, stuff like that. And of
course you know, there was all the normal, don't I
don't get too bent out of shape about tariffs anymore.
Like it's you know, it's not going to be the
end of the world, but it is going to result
in a one time price adjustment. Higher because no matter

(25:33):
how you slice it, the stuff was being made somewhere
else for a reason, and it wasn't because Americans won't
do that kind of work. Now you could say Americans
won't do that kind of work for that wage, that
that could be legit, but that means the wages have
to come up. And so when the wages come up,
we can make these things in America again, but that

(25:55):
means the cost of the items have to go up.
And I was listening to Fox Business the other day
and they're essentially saying that businesses are absorbing about seventy
percent of the tariff increases. They're taking that hit to
the bottom line, and thirty percent are being passed on.
But additional tariff increases, you know, you can only absorb
so much. And so one of the things that we're
going to see soon are tariffs on all semiconductors. This

(26:18):
is everything from the microchip in your toaster that tells
your toaster when to pop. Because remember back Grandma's toaster,
you can fix it by sticking a knife in it
or something. You I mean, it's like now the toaster
is like it's got a microchip, and it's like, okay,
the toast is done, becaw and it pops, and so
you're great, and you can set it on bagel setting
that little button you can press and put it on bagel,
not the physical button that would be different, but the

(26:39):
digital touch button that you can touch on your toaster
to turn it into bagel setting.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
That's a microchip.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
So everything from that microchip all the way up to
the processors that are going into the holiday specials, we're
buying those ahead right now because we're anticipating those processors
are cost four hundred dollars a piece, so if they
go up twenty percent, that's a significant I mean, yeah,
that's a lot of money. So we don't want to

(27:05):
see a twenty percent increase in the cost of the
holiday special We don't want to have to raise the price.
We sell them at cost, so we would have to
raise the price. So we don't want to see that.
So we're making sure we get everything in now. So
we're doing the same thing that a lot of.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Other people are doing. We're kind of front running this. Now.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
What's really interesting now from a if you're into economics
and stuff, what's really interesting is the government now owns
a US government owns a ten percent stake in Intel
and in Nvidia, who desperately wants export licenses for their
chips to China, which are granted by the US government,
decided just you know, randomly, that they were going to

(27:40):
invest a whole bunch of money in Intel also and
combine they're in Nvidia chips in with Intel's chips. We
talked about that briefly last week on the program, and
then then all of a sudden, there's going to.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Be chip tariffs.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
And the way that it worked on the pharmaceuticals was,
if you have a plant currently under construction planned, not promised,
but a plant in the United States to manufacture pharmaceuticals
that is currently under construction, then the tariffs don't apply
to you. Who owns all of the CPU fabs in
America Intel, So that means if they follow the same

(28:22):
pattern for every other tariff, that every other chip from
every all your AMD chips, essentially what we use at Shrock,
are all going to go up. Because AMD always leases
fab space from Intel. They don't have their own fab
in America or anywhere else for that matter. They don't,
you know, they lease their fab from other places. So yeah,

(28:44):
so we're trying to frontload this a little bit and
get ahead of it. And this just doesn't apply to
the processor in your computer. But like the Broadcom, the
Wi Fi chips, the solid state hard drives, none of
those are made in America. The Micron memory is made
in America, but unfortunately, Micron is only about thirty percent
of the memory market, So seventy percent of your computer.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Memory is not made in America.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
So a lot of the chips, it's going to be
nickels and dimes, nickels and dimes, nickels and dimes that
are going to eventually result in dollars and tens of
dollars and possibly one hundred dollars in increased costs and
laptops because of you know, the tariffs that are going
to be placed on them. And so I don't say
that angry about it. I don't say that excited about it.

(29:24):
I'm just looking at it pragmatically and saying, this is
what's going to happen. So how do we protect our
customers as long as possible from this situation? How do
we protect our bottom line as a company.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
You know what we do.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
We buy now, We buy now, and we buy as
much as we can get And that's what everybody is doing.
Every consumer is doing it. This is why we're selling
twenty computers a day. Every seller, every every wholesaler is
dealing with this. As retailers like us are coming back
to a sus and saying, hey, we need another you know,

(29:57):
I know we can't get one hundred, can we get ten?
And they send us the wrong ten and we're like,
come on, And then you have to ask the question,
even though these are wrong, do we keep them and
put them on the specials page and just be thankful
we have these. I mean, we still have to order
what our customer's ordered from somewhere, But do we send

(30:18):
these back?

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Do we keep them?

Speaker 3 (30:20):
It's crazy. So there's a lot of weird stuff happening
right now in the PC market. So I would encourage
everybody listening if you're thinking about getting a new computer,
because Windows ten is dying on October fourteenth, please do
not wait until October thirteenth expecting to go into the store,
whether it's Best Buy, whether it's the Mart, or whether
it's Shock and walk out the door that day with

(30:40):
a computer. The odds are that's not gonna happen. Four
zero two five, five, eight eleven ten eight to eight
two five zero two zero nine. We're going to take
a quick break here. When we come back, Steve, Jim, Paul,
your calls all coming up next on compute this.

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Speaker 2 (33:19):
All righty folks, welcome back into compute.

Speaker 8 (33:21):
This.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
My name is Thora Schrock. I'm the owner of the
Shrock Innovations computer company. Hour is flying by, and you guys,
I have to let you know program. Note there is
no after shock today. After the program, I have a
hospital visit I'm gonna go do and so I've got
to go do that. So unfortunately, no after shock this week.
I'm gonna try to get you one next week and
hopefully we'll have some interesting stuff. Yeah, call me, got indicted,

(33:42):
But what's it matter lying under oath to Congress?

Speaker 2 (33:49):
I mean doesn't everybody you know? So anyway, Yeah, I
don't know that I would tell them the truth either.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Like the other day, the county assessor came to my
front door asking questions about the add on for Nana
and I was like, it just says on here add on.
It doesn't say anything else on our records, and so
we really don't know anything about this add on And
I said that's because we didn't want you to know
anything about it, and she just looked at me deadpan,
like are you kidding right now?

Speaker 2 (34:13):
And I was like, no, no.

Speaker 6 (34:15):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
You're just gonna raise my taxes. Oh that's not my departments.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
Oh yeah, okay whatever for zero, two, five, five, eight
eleven ten is number to join us on the program, Steve,
Welcome to the show. How can I help you today?
On compute this?

Speaker 9 (34:27):
Yeah, I see these ads about Guardio and some of
these other companies that are supposed to be able to
remove your information off the dark web, And have you
never heard of him? Does it really work?

Speaker 2 (34:41):
Well?

Speaker 3 (34:41):
You know, if I had a business that said I
could remove all the personal information owned by criminal entities
from their databases about you. Yeah, In other words, no,
it doesn't work dark web. Now I'm gonna throw an

(35:01):
asterisk on here. So Guardio does a whole lot of stuff.
I'd never heard of Guardio before your call. I had
to look it up because I'm like, what the heck
is Guardio. But Guardio is a program essentially that is
designed to protect your identity. They do the the VPN,
they block the trackers, They give you a special web
browser add on and stuff like that that supposedly increases
your level of privacy. Has a mobile protection as well,

(35:26):
has some phishing protection, so if you try to go
to a website that's known to be compromised, it'll it'll
block it from loading. This is all the same stuff
that sofos does. I mean, this is this is basic
anti virus capability. The big thing that Guardio, that the
Guardio has going for against it, honestly is its cost.

(35:47):
So I'm not opposed to anybody using anything that's going
to improve their security. And if it removes some stuff
off the dark web, then that's great. But you know,
the dark web is the dark web for a reason.
It's not like this is the place where legitimate business
owner go to open a website to broker information about people.
There are legitimate websites that actually broker information like, for example,

(36:07):
how much water you use in your house. That information
is sold and laundry detergent companies decide whether or not
to send you coupons based on how much water you're
using in your house, because they can estimate how many
people live in your home. I mean, it's ridiculous the
amount of data that's out there about you from legitimate
data brokers. Now, the dark Web is a whole bunch
of illegitimate data brokers. There's trafficking and stolen credit cards

(36:29):
and all kinds of stuff. So how in the world
are you going to remove information from their databases? You
can maybe get in a Guardio will alert you that
the information is out there. So for example, you could
cancel a credit card and have it reissued, you know,
so to prevent it from being compromised. So there is
some value to that, but I'm not sure it covers
the cost of Guardio. I'm kind of shocked here because

(36:49):
I'm looking online and it's the cheapest. You know, there's
a free version of Guardio that's like just basic stuff,
you know, that you can pretty much get from you know,
an ad blocking add on in Chrome. I mean free
because you can get it from anybody for free. But
if you go to the Individual plan, which is the
cheapest plan for Guardio, which gives you a mobile browser protection,

(37:09):
scam and phishing attack warnings, so it doesn't even keep
you safe.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
It just warns you.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
You're being attacked, which most people will just click oh okay.
They won't even read the warning data leak alerts. Oh no,
your data has been leaked out on the dark web.
What are you going to do about it?

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Nothing?

Speaker 3 (37:23):
Okay, great, Now you can just feel anxiety about it.
Account security insights. Your password needs to be changed because
it's too easy, you know, password one exclamation mark isn't
too tricky. And twenty four to seven email support because
they do not have any telephone based support of any kind,
will cost you one hundred and twenty dollars if you

(37:45):
pay for it annually. Now, SOFOS gives you all that stuff.
Plus we answer the phone at Shrock.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
And it's eighty bucks a year, you know. So it's like,
you know, it's.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Yeah, I don't think it's I'm not sure Guardio is
worth the money. I mean again, it's better than a
poke in the eye with a sharp stick. I'm just
not sure it's worth the money.

Speaker 9 (38:09):
Yeah, well I was very skeptical about it.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
So yeah, well there you go, proven right again. Thank
you for the call. I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
Steve, thanks for joining us on the show today, Jim,
Welcome to the program. How can I help you today
on compute.

Speaker 8 (38:22):
This Well, Thor, I have a kind of a strange
question for you. About a month and a half ago,
I was in with my laptop. It's not my laptop,
my desktop. Had you get it bit to like Square one?

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Okay?

Speaker 8 (38:37):
I have since sold it. The individual that I sold
it to is a good friend and it is running
Windows ten, and I have recommended that he get the upgrade,
the safe upgrade. My only question to you is because
you basically worked off of an account with the the

(39:01):
email address and all of the rest, I was actually
going to go ahead and get the safe upgrade for
him and give it to him to Like I said,
he's a good friend. Sure, but my problem is does
he not also have to have you have a safe
updater or not safe updat or.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
The secure UPDATEA right?

Speaker 8 (39:17):
Yeah, yeah? Does he not have to have that on
there as well?

Speaker 3 (39:21):
He doesn't have to have it. The two products are separate.
You can have one and not the other. Of course
we'd recommend both, but you don't have to have both.
And you're correct that the product subscriptions are tied for
secure data as a subscription. It's an annual subscription, so
if you tie that to your email account, you're going
to get charged every year for that Safe upgrade. When

(39:42):
he goes to run the Safe upgrade, he's going to
have to log into the account that purchased the license,
which would be your email address and your Shock password.
So you have to give him your password to your
Shock account essentially to allow him to run the software.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
What would be.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
Much easier would be to have, for example, have him,
you know, have him call into the service center, or
basically have him purchase it. It's going to make your
life a lot easier. And I appreciate you recommending our
products to your friend. You know, you know, wa way
to get out from under that Windows ten laptop there
just right, you know, right before the deadline. Hopefully it's
upgradeable the Windows eleven. It sure would be a shame

(40:19):
if the processor couldn't handle Windows eleven.

Speaker 5 (40:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (40:23):
I had had you guys taken put in the I
didn't last year. Last last Christmas, you were running like
an upgrade.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Yeah, the core upgrade. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (40:35):
Yeah, so that we had done that on it, and
I believe we're at I think you think we're running
eleven on it.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
Oh okay, perfect, perfectly, okay, as long as it's got eleven.
I was like, oh man, you you you sold your
good friend a laptop that was going to die in
a month. It sounds like it was a desktop, you know.
But he's like, he's a good friend, and I'm like,
for now, like, hey, thank you, Jimmy, than you noy,

(41:02):
no worries. I really appreciate your recommending our products to
your friends. It means a lot to me. Thank you
so much for that for zero, two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten,
Now you guys. iOS twenty six has landed, and there's
some general confusion because it jumps from like iOS eighteen
something to twenty six. I don't know why they did that,
but they did. It doesn't matter. Yes, if your phone

(41:23):
can run twenty six, you probably want to run twenty six.
What phones can run iOS twenty six? Any iPhone except
for the ones that have an X in the name
and anything earlier than that, so the iPhone X, X, E, XS, XR,
you know, all those. The iPhone tens essentially are all
end of life. So anything iPhone eleven or newer can

(41:44):
run the new iOS twenty six. That said, there are
some AI features from Apple Intelligence available in iOS twenty
six that are only available on iPhones that have the
capability of running Apple Intelligence, which is the iPhone fifteen
and newer. So to make life easy, if you have
an iPhone fifteen or newer, heck, yeah, you really really

(42:07):
want iOS twenty six. If you have an iPhone eleven
or newer, you probably should install it. It may not
rock your world, but there are some really cool things.
We're gonna get into a few of those here. So
first of all, people are really reporting that they like
this new feature that Apple is introduced called liquid Glass. Now,
what this does is you can take a photo. It

(42:29):
brings Apple's devices in line with what's currently available from
Android essentially, but you can take a background a photo
and it will separate the background of the photo from
the foreground of the photo through AI, and then you
can set that as your wallpaper and it gives it
like your phone almost like a three dimensional depth, like
you're looking into a room in your phone or something

(42:50):
like there's a three dimensional box there that has a
landscape or a scenery or something. It's really really amazing
how this works, and it looks super slick. The liquid
glass interface change also permeates across all apps and menus.
Things fade and slide and do things beautiful. There's a
couple visual glitches still, they'll get worked out, but overall,

(43:11):
the liquid glass is stunning.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
It's amazing.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Apple CarPlay got widgets and the lovely Kimberly loves this.
She was stuck in traffic the other day, so she's
just decided to play around with her iOS twenty six
update and she found that she could pipe essentially a
photo album to her dashboard screen on Apple car Play
and just have it rotate through photos on her phone.
So there's pictures of the family on the dashboard. It's

(43:35):
really cool. And that's just one of the simple widgets
you can do. There's a live radar widget where you
can put live weather radar on your dashboard of your car. Now,
I mean, it's pretty cool stuff. You can get all
these different kinds of widgets and just have it broadcast
to the dashboard.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
It's kind of neat.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
There are more personalization options. iPhone is finally thank you,
Apple releasing the stranglehold of you. Will have these icons
on your home screen, will have this on your lock screen.
You cannot deviate from these things, which you've been able
to customize all that stuff on Android for a decade,
and Apple is finally saying, you know, people might like

(44:11):
to make the iPhone feel like their own, so maybe
we should allow them to customize it, kind of like
Ford figured out with the Mustang, Like maybe we should
let people tune the new Mustangs and maybe we'll sell.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
More of them.

Speaker 3 (44:21):
Yeah, you think, well, now you're gonna now you can
personalize your iPhone. The spatial screens, the liquid glass and
spatial screens are different. Spatial screens. Spatial scenes is the
thing that separates the photo the foreground in the background,
So that's a separate thing. Still very cool for wallpaper.
There's a new feature called call screening. So what call

(44:44):
screening does is it allows you to automatically send calls
to voicemail by and bypass all rings. So if you
get a lot of you know, spam calls or things
like that that you don't like, you can have those
phone numbers directly go to voicemail and your phone won't ring.
You can also turn on something that will when somebody
calls you from an unknown number, AI will ask the

(45:06):
caller why are you calling? And then it'll listen to
what the person says and it will send you a
transcript of that. Now you're probably getting a lot of
these AI calls recently.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
I know I am.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
The AI is not going to answer a question, it's
just going to keep talking. And so you're gonna be
able to tell really easily from the transcript that this
is an AI call that I don't need to answer,
and maybe the AI callers will stop calling if enough
people do this. Because it's the number is seven to
be placed on the do not call list, just press seven.
It doesn't seem to be working for me because I
keep pressing seven. Used to be three, but they changed

(45:37):
it to seven. Heads up. I wonder why they change
the button to add you to the do not call list.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
I don't know. Hold Assist is a new feature. Now.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
Hold assist is really cool. Have you ever called somebody
like you know the irs and like please hold to
the next available representative? Well, hold assist says, oh, you're
listening to hold music. We're going to put you can
suspend this call essentially, and when they come back, we'll
ring your phone that you can come back. So you
can put your phone down and do something else and

(46:07):
not have to sit and listen to the stupid hold music.
Isn't that neat? Like I'm like, I want that on
my phone. I don't even have an iPhone. I want
that on my phone. And also Live Translate is now
integrated with FaceTime messages and the phone app, which means
you could have a straight up conversation or a video
call with someone who speaks an entirely different language than

(46:28):
you and have it live transcribed. It's captioned on the screen.
It's not audio, but Apple Intelligence will actually transcribe what
everybody is saying for everybody else, so that you can
actually have a conversation with somebody who doesn't speak English. Now,
I ordered a new iPhone seventeen for my son two
days ago, and we were connected with a gentleman in Tennessee,

(46:49):
which is way better than the gentleman in India. Honestly,
you know, grat it's America, right. But his name wasn't Cooter.
But I mean when we were talking to Cooter, I
mean he'd get excited about stuff, was like, how can
I help you today? And we're like, we're going to
order a new iPhone seventeen Pro Max and he said whoa,
And we just looked at each other, like, when's the

(47:10):
last time you had a phone rep? Just like, is
there like a contest? And is the he did he
get an award for selling? Like that was the millionth
iPhone seventeen or something? Is there a spiff? Like what's
going on? He was really happy about it. Yeah, that
is a fine, fine device, sir. And he gets so
excited he'd start slipping into southern drawl. We couldn't understand
what he was saying, and w said, I'm sorry I
didn't catch that. Then he'd realize he'd slow down and

(47:30):
he did enunciate clearly. It was really funny. The guy
was hilarious. But it was the most interesting phone ordering
experience I've ever had. But now my son will have
an iPhone seventeen and I'll get to see iOS twenty
six on that screen with the Apple intelligence, and I'll
have to have him call a Fonso and talk to
him in Spanish and see if the live translate works.
It's gonna be really cool, all right. Four zero two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Got to take our final break of

(47:52):
the program. Here we're gonna try to squeeze Paul and
Don's calls in and also the electronic vehicle electronic the
electric vehicle tax credit is ex hiring on Tuesday, seventy
five hundred bucks on new vehicles, four thousand on used vehicles.
Is this the doom of the ev industry? We'll cover
it coming up next on compute this.

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of mind that your software is being updated quickly and safely.
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Speaker 3 (50:31):
Alrighty, folks, we got like four minutes and a lot
to do, not a lot of time to do it in,
so let's get to it. My name's Thor Schrock. I'm
the owner of the Shock Innovations computer company. Let's jump
back into those phones, Paul, Welcome to the show. How
can I help you today on compute this?

Speaker 9 (50:45):
Yeah, my Netgear product end of service notification email? I
just Scott yep? Is that legitimate due to the month?

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Oh yeah, oh heck yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
So a lot of people don't realize that you're router
receives security updates like you know your computer does, and
it's called a firmware update, and some people install them.
Most people don't, but you really really should because the
firmware updates prevent people from hacking into your network at home.
And so after about five years, the companies that make

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the routers stop supporting a given piece of technology. The
technology is too old, you know, not enough people are
using it. And of course, you know, pushing out these
updates costs money because you have to test them, you
got to make sure they work, and so you can't
support every model forever. So every five years or so
you need to buy a new router. Even if your
router works perfectly, which usually they don't last that long,

(51:39):
but even if it still works perfectly, you need to
buy a new one to get the security updates. Now,
the good news here is that, Paul, if you get
yourself a Wi Fi six or a WiFi seven router,
you're going to get speeds that are phenomenally faster than
what you've had before because the technology has come that
far in the last five years. But yeah, it's a
real deal.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
It does expire, Okay, I you appreciate it, no sweat.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
Paul, Thanks for the call today, don final call out
of the program. How can I help you on compute this?

Speaker 9 (52:08):
Good morning?

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Good morning.

Speaker 9 (52:10):
Last year I bought the Windows update thing and didn't
worry about it, and apparently it updated because it never
crafted or anything.

Speaker 8 (52:21):
And I just purchased another.

Speaker 9 (52:23):
One well a couple of weeks ago, and I just
I looked at my Windows update history and I noticed
I'm still running twenty three h stuff. Yeah, if you
were just updating, isn't there supposed to be from twenty four?

Speaker 8 (52:41):
In there?

Speaker 3 (52:41):
There's a twenty four h two. That's the one we
sold last year. So if you bought one in twenty
twenty three, that was the two three h two that
you got last year was twenty twenty four two four
h two. If you did purchase that, you still have
a license for it and you should still run it,
so we can. If you want to give us a
call in the service center, we could walk you through
how to do all that. There's a whole and everything
we sent out with instructions, but that was like a

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year ago, so we'll walk you through it over the phone.
Not a problem at all. Thank you for the call.
I appreciate you joining us on the program today. Final
story here, guys, the EV tax credit is going away,
and if you compare Chinese electric vehicles to American EV's,
do you know that you can buy an EV in
China for nine seven hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
That's that's the cheapest EV.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
You can't get one for under thirty forty thousand dollars
in America. And reural car dealerships are relieved that the
tax credit's dying because they were freaked out about selling
EV's because no one in the rural areas wants them.
But there is some new battery tech coming that will
be around in about seven years on the road that
will probably change the math. But until then, maybe you

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should think about trading that EV in. We'll see you
next week, guys. Jim, you're the winner. Congratulations,