July 16, 2025 • 55 mins
This Week on TechtalkRadio: Andy Taylor and Shawn DeWeerd hold down the fort while Justin takes his son to see the new Superman movie in IMAX. Shawn shares his own IMAX experience with the new F1 film and discusses Apple’s potential takeover of F1 media rights from ESPN.
The duo dives into the evolving world of streaming platforms, comparing Apple TV+ with Netflix and Hulu. They also explore how content consumption has changed for kids, with YouTube creators like Ms Rachel reshaping early education and digital habits.
The conversation shifts to tech and parenting, highlighting the role of AI and digital tools in learning. Shawn stresses the need for parents to understand tech to help guide their children, advocating for a balance between screen time and outdoor activities.
Shawn then shares details about his Plex server upgrade, moving from an older Intel i3 system to a powerful i7-9700 setup with an NVIDIA 3060 GPU, running Linux Mint 22. He explains what Plex is, how it works, and how it allows users to stream their personal media libraries with features like metadata tagging, remote access, and RAID storage.
Also in this episode, Andy chats with Anna Bilych, founder of Les Amis, a platform built to help women foster real friendships. Anna discusses the challenges of building the platform, its use of AI for connecting users, and how Les Amis is helping women connect through curated local events. From pottery nights to group chats, Les Amis is redefining digital community with style and purpose.
To wrap things up, Andy and Shawn reflect on the changing ergonomics of smartphone use, from the days of one-handed texting on Sidekicks to today’s two-thumb operation on large-screen devices. It's a new kind of digital workout — a true Battle of the Thumbs!
Connect With Us on social media
YouTube @TechtalkRadio
Facebook @techtalkers
Instagram techtalkradio
Web: TechtalkRadio.Com
Also Available on KGVY AM/FM, Spotify, Audacy, iHeart, Amazon Music, PodBean and other Delivery Networks!
The duo dives into the evolving world of streaming platforms, comparing Apple TV+ with Netflix and Hulu. They also explore how content consumption has changed for kids, with YouTube creators like Ms Rachel reshaping early education and digital habits.
The conversation shifts to tech and parenting, highlighting the role of AI and digital tools in learning. Shawn stresses the need for parents to understand tech to help guide their children, advocating for a balance between screen time and outdoor activities.
Shawn then shares details about his Plex server upgrade, moving from an older Intel i3 system to a powerful i7-9700 setup with an NVIDIA 3060 GPU, running Linux Mint 22. He explains what Plex is, how it works, and how it allows users to stream their personal media libraries with features like metadata tagging, remote access, and RAID storage.
Also in this episode, Andy chats with Anna Bilych, founder of Les Amis, a platform built to help women foster real friendships. Anna discusses the challenges of building the platform, its use of AI for connecting users, and how Les Amis is helping women connect through curated local events. From pottery nights to group chats, Les Amis is redefining digital community with style and purpose.
To wrap things up, Andy and Shawn reflect on the changing ergonomics of smartphone use, from the days of one-handed texting on Sidekicks to today’s two-thumb operation on large-screen devices. It's a new kind of digital workout — a true Battle of the Thumbs!
Connect With Us on social media
YouTube @TechtalkRadio
Facebook @techtalkers
Instagram techtalkradio
Web: TechtalkRadio.Com
Also Available on KGVY AM/FM, Spotify, Audacy, iHeart, Amazon Music, PodBean and other Delivery Networks!
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Good by the science Guy here whatever I am listening
to the radio, especially tech talk Radio. It's such a party.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
I'm Sean Twird. We are the show that talks about computers,
technology and of course the Internet and all the fun
gadgets that are a part of that. Just Sean and
I four this week. Actually, Justin took his son to
the movies to go see the new Superman movie in
(00:35):
what he's seeing Imax? Right?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, ix I saw. I saw last week the F
one movie in Imax. How was that? Which was incredible? Yeah?
It was. It was a unique opportunity. So for Mother's Day,
I had gotten Calen tickets to go see Wicked, and
so I took her and her sister down to Indianapolis
to go see Wicked, and I drove so they didn't
have to drive late at night. And during that time
(00:58):
they had a showing for F One at the Indiana
State Museum in their Imax theater. So I just popped
in for two and a half hours and watched the
movie and then got out and drove them back home.
It was a cool movie. The practical the way they
did it, with the practical effects, and they drove, actually
drove cars in actual F one races and took a
lot of actual F one race content. It felt like
(01:21):
you were watching a documentary about an F one race.
You literally felt like it. Just the way it was shot,
the way it was handled. It was very very well done.
The music is incredible. Hans Zimmer did the score, of course,
so that's gonna be incredible. It was good, so I
think it lived up to the hype. I'm a big
(01:41):
motorsports fan, so it was kind of fun to see.
On the topic of F one, right, the big controversy
around F one is F one or Apple is vuying
very hard for the media rights for F one. Really
they the Apple's is in the range of one hundred
and fifty million a year, Wow, significantly higher than the
(02:05):
ESPN's current eighty five to ninety million a year. So
it'd be interesting to see how that would play in
because if Apple takes it over, then it would be
on Apple TV, so I then wouldn't have to have
an Apple TV account and an F one TV account
or you know, so it'd be interesting to see and
you know, Apple was a primary stakeholder in the F
(02:28):
one movie. It's gonna it'll be on their platform and
they just kind of have been branding around the F one.
So it'd be interesting to see how that comes up
and if ESPN can keep it or not. Right So,
the reason why I like it on ESPN right now
is that it's commercial free right there. They're flag to
flag coverage right there's no which is incredible compared to
(02:49):
the other the other motorsports that are on TV, Nascar,
in DYEA, ARCA, you know, those those other other series.
So the production value is so much different.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Now do you do you have Apple TV currently?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I do?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
What do you think of that? Because I don't have
Apple TV. I had an Apple TV box for a
while and then I gave it to my daughter and
you know, I don't know whatever happened. But uh, I mean,
do you as a service comparing it to the say
Netflix and Hulu or Paramount Plus, how does it rate?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
We probably don't watch it as much as we should
for what we pay for it, as we do with
every other service we own. But it's got the content.
You know, there were specific shows who Caitlin wanted to
watch Severance. There were a couple of other shows that
are on there that are good, and to be honest,
sometimes the movies that we want to watch, and you know,
when you search for a movie on the Roku, it
(03:42):
tells you which apps are on. Sometimes the movies we
want to watch are only on Apple TV or the
only on Amazon, or the early on Netflix or the
Paramount Plus. We kind of spread the wealth around our
family with the with the with the Apple Apple Idea
accounts and stuff. So it's right. Netflix is shared, Disney
Plus is shared. The Disney Plus one is included in
(04:03):
our Horizon bundle, so that works out really well for us.
That's good.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I do a bundle with my provider, which is Infinity,
and I get like Peacock Peacock Premium, which is kind
of cool. I get HBO or Max as it is.
I don't get HBO itself. I get Max, which you
know is online.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
They're rebranding back to HBO by the way, HBO back.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So so I wonder if it's I mean, how yeah,
what is that going to change? What is that going
to mean? I mean, I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It's just back to HBO Max. I don't know. They're
rebranding back to what they were.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Sometimes these companies do these things like what does that
all mean? Hopefully maybe they'll get people back, I don't know.
And then we get Hulu. We get Hulu with that
as well, so Hulu, Disney and Max. But it's funny
because you mentioned that, you know, maybe you don't want
it as much it I can't tell you the last
time I'm I've logged into to Max to see something.
(05:03):
You know, most of the time it'll be Hulu or
you know, Disney. I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I think the current climate for a lot of the
streaming stuff is the streaming platforms are vying for Internet eyeballs. Right, So,
do you know the famous YouTuber miss Rachel?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah? Yeah, oh gosh, you know she's on Netflix now, right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Absolutely, So you're gonna see I think you're gonna see
more and more of this where you're gonna get these
popular YouTube content creators and then they're gonna leave the
YouTube platform for other platforms because then they're going to
be able to take those subscribers from you from YouTube,
off of YouTube to other platforms.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I was still I'm sorry, Sean, but I was still
trying to figure out. And I found her content compelling,
you know, the kids seemed to my my grandson seemed
to like it. How does she make ten million dollars
a year doing that? I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It's just it's the sheer volume of content that she like,
the sheer volume of views she gets on you Tube.
It's I mean, every every video she's putting out is
getting hundreds of millions of views, just breaking in and revenue.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And when I can attest to this, right when Max
and Daniel sometimes we just veg out and we just
put on YouTube. We put it on a kids channel
and a loop for two or three hours in the
afternoon while we're doing around, while they're playing with legos,
or they're reading books or playing puzzles or doing whatever,
or while we're eating lunch or eating dinner. So sometimes
(06:31):
YouTube is on our TV five or six hours a day.
We're not always there watching it, but it's just one
we paid for YouTube premium, right, so I don't I
don't get ads served to us anymore because trying to
do that without without YouTube premium was a real pain
in the red.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Now there is a difference between what YouTube premium and
YouTube TV, right, I mean correct? Yeah, okay, So YouTube
premium just means you're just not getting ads, or do
you get access to other content?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You get access to some other premium content on Netflix,
on YouTube get access to other movies, some other content
gets unlocked. But it's just the ad. The experience on
YouTube without premium was awful, trying to stream the content
that Max wanted to watch, or the content that Richmas Rachel,
and then all of a sudden you're getting these ads.
(07:19):
So you get these ads that play because people just
leave their TVs on looping for background noise whatever, and
all of a sudden it's playing an ad every five
to ten minutes, right, right, So every five to ten minutes,
Max would come over with the remote and say uh oh,
and he knows there was an ad to skip.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Right, there was. It's funny though, because I've noticed that
as the kids get older, and I think Max is
the same age, are near the same age as my grandson,
they tend to like the quality of like they number
Blocks was big, Number Blocks was huge, right, and he
has tended to Now I can put on PBS Kids
(08:03):
and he'll love PBS Kids and loves the programs, and
I noticed it just grabs his detention and not Sesame
Street per se, not you know, Elmo or any of
these other shows. It's more of the different content that
they put on there that's scared at the children. And
as they getting older, I noticed that the educational programs
(08:23):
are better, and Miss Rachel seems to have tapped into
that young market as well as the older you know,
the older kids, they seem to really enjoy watching that,
and parents watch it with the kids because they feel safe.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It's not awful content to watch. The music is catchy, yeah,
you know, and it's not like it's people that don't
know what music is.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Some of the people on her show are actual Broadway
actors and actresses, you know Broadway. They have lived on Broadway,
so you know, some of her friends and family have
been on the show that are real professional musicians. So
you have a production quality to it, and her production
quality on the camera side and the editing side has
gone up significantly compared to the earlier. But that's every show.
(09:09):
Every kind of the track for every YouTube person that's
gotten popular over the years is you know, they start
with a crappy webcam and a micro crappy microphone, and
then they get a little bit of money and they
buy some better equipment, and then they get better. I
don't know, it's just it's just wild to see the
transition of what we're watching on YouTube compared to two
decades ago.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
And now you think about what you grew up watching.
What was kind of like a big influence for you.
Do you look back.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
We actually, we actually talked a little bit about this
with some of my family. Is what is the shared
internet experience these days?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Oh? Yeah, right, good?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, So for me, I grew up, my internet experience
started in the late nineteen nineties, so ninety seven, ninety eight,
when the internet kind of really started to be a thing, right, yeah,
into the early two thousands, so grade school, through middle school,
and through high school. So primarily from two thousand to now, right,
(10:06):
it was what the intern is. So when the Internet
was first round, everybody had the same shared experience. You
all went to the same flash websites, you all went
to the same humor websites, you all went to the
same video websites, LiveLeak, YouTube, Ebomb's World, you know what.
Everybody had the same shared Internet experience. So when I said, oh,
(10:26):
I saw this funny thing on Homestar Runner. Everybody goes, oh, yeah,
it was great, you know, strongbad open up emails, and
but that today is different because the kids, you know,
the kids we get in our program at the university
are all talking about, oh, I watched this TikTok, or
I watched this this influencer, or I watched but then
(10:48):
this this kid over here said, well, I don't know
who that is, right, I've never heard of that person
I watched. I watched this electrical engineering YouTube channel, I
watched this you know, marble racing YouTube channel or whatever.
No kids now growing up with the Internet will have
a shared Internet experience. It's all going to be different.
It's all siloed, all based on what you give the algorithm.
(11:11):
It's all based on what your interests are. So it's
interesting to see. So like for me, I grew up
watching a lot of storm chasing videos because that was
that interested me. When I was growing up, I watched
a lot of Red Timber. Well. Red Timber is now
probably one of the largest storm chaser YouTube channels that exists.
He's a little eccentric, he's you know, he's probably not
(11:33):
the most popular by a lot of stretch. So I
watched him and then I mean, there's not really any
other YouTube creators that I followed that's outside of my
motorsports connections. I like to watch a lot of VA
Supercars because they post a lot on on YouTube, a
lot of motorsports videos. Other than that, I don't really
have a set number of people that I follow or
(11:55):
content creators that I followed. Especially for the last like
five years, I've been off the internet a little, off
the social media a little bit. So it's been interesting
to see how I get my content, whether it's from
what Caitlin shows me, or what I get through Reddit right,
or when I get shared via my friends.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Do you know I do this with mcgrandson? Do you
do with your your kids like you might? I heard
about this channel, I want to little check it out
and you might look at it and just to see
is this something that would interest them, you know that
kind of thing, or do you just go with what
you know the most popular ones.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I mean, we kind of just let it. We kind
of just let it go right Max. You know, he
had some interests. He liked trains for a while, like airplanes,
So we watched a lot of like live streaming of airplanes,
train videos, and then he kind of got into hot
wheels and legos. We did a lot of hot wheels
and legos, and now he's more into a couple of
just you know, silly animated ones, some some animated panda
(12:59):
bear ones that are funny with songs that are catchy.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Were you able to keep them away from Baby Shark?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
No?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So one of the shows is called baby Bus by
the people who made Baby Shark. So there's a lot
of the songs in there for that, which is fine.
But it's fine. Yeah, But we've with the YouTube premium
side of it too. We've allowed it allows us to
curate it a little bit on the side, so we're
(13:30):
not getting into the It's not unfettered access for him, right.
He doesn't just have the remote to watch forevery once.
He's also only three and a half, so he doesn't
he doesn't really know what he wants. He just knows, Oh,
I want to watch cars, or I want to watch YouTube,
or I want to watch cars legos. That was big
for him. Those are the two. Those are the two
big ones. Like he likes to watch people unboxing matchbox cars.
(13:55):
He likes to watch people build legos, like spaed building
things like that.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah, we ended up we ended up getting I'll tell
you we got August number blocks because he watches number blocks.
We got him the number blocks. So that's got to
be huge revenue for them to be able to sell
the toys that are branded based on the So he'll
be watching the number blocks and building the number of blocks.
They all kind of plug into each other and put
(14:23):
a number on the top of them and everything else.
And then this is kind of cute. I gotta tell
you about this. I'll post post a photo up on
our blog. We got him the alphabets. They're you know, ABC,
d FG. We got got him those. They're in a
wooden like a little little wooden platform and they fit
in there. And he could create words. Well, now he's
(14:43):
watching like he'll watch TV and see the bug and
the bottom of the right screen and it says PBS,
and he'll create PBS with the letters. So the other
day I had recorded my Fox segment and and it
was on, and what did he create?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Fox?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Of course, I said to the producer of the show.
She thought that was cute. But yeah, so, I mean
there are so many kids are learning so many different ways.
Whereas before you think about this too, if you had
to do any research, you had to have mom and
dad drive you to the library. That's what my mom
and dad would do if I needed to do research
(15:24):
for product project. There wasn't the Internet when I was
growing up. That didn't come along un till I was
having kids already. And you know, as far as educational TV,
I actually worked in high school. I was the student
advisor to our local KOCETV for educational television. I don't
(15:49):
know how I got into that, but I ended up.
I ended up going to meetings and I would say, yeah,
the kids would like this, or the kids wouldn't like this,
the kids would like this. And we saw a lot
of three to one contacts of the other shows that were,
you know, uh available on that local PBS type station.
And it's funny because now I just think, man, kids
(16:10):
have got it great. They have to do studies, they
can pull it up. And now you've got AI that
is doing things. There's even course that I think we're
gonna try and get this guy on the show that
actually has a website that helps educators learn how to
use AI in the classroom and you know, not to
use it incorrectly, because use it incorrectly that that that
(16:31):
can't be great for the students. So again it's I know,
it's pretty interesting. I like to see where we have
come from and where we're going.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
It'll be interesting to see in for four more years
when Max is actually in grade school, first second grade,
how this all pans out? Yeah, like what h it's
it's going to be interesting right So right, No, don't
really know where it's going to go. And it's so
hard with how fast technology is going to anticipate where
(17:03):
it's going to go or what do we need to
prepare for? What do we need to be encouraging him
to do? What do we not want to be doing?
What impacts does? Though? Are these technologies going to have
on his social life growing up? On his mental aptitude
growing up? Like how are these going to impact him?
(17:23):
So it's just trying to we're encouraging. You know, we
do a lot of book reading, We do a lot
of puzzle We do a lot of puzzles. We are
not doing tablets in the car right so whenever we're traveling,
it's books or toys or they can stare out the
window if they throw their toys around or throw their
books that they don't get anything. So we're you know,
(17:46):
at least for a point right up unto a point
where they can understand what they're doing and why, you know,
they're not just aimlessly staring into a tablet and swiping
while we're driving, and we're just being present with them more. Yeah,
and we're doing a lot of outdoor stuff. It's really
nice out here. The weather's really nice, so we've been
doing a lot of hiking on the weekends. We've been
(18:07):
doing We've done camping five times this year already. So
just being more present with them with less screen time. Now.
It's interesting because I like to talk about this because
it's like sometimes when we come home from work, we
just want to we just want to relax, We just
want to do what we want to do. I know
the feeling, and I have to remind myself our day
(18:30):
Our daycare has been fantastic. So when Kaitlin and I
are both working, our daycare is so good about engaging
our children in things, and we get updates and we
have feed we get feedback, and we can provide our
feedback to what we want our kids to be able
to do, and they're engaged from the time we drop
them off till the time we pick them up. No screens, activities,
gym time, all that stuff. So sometimes I have to
(18:52):
remember they've had a busy day too, right, they need
some mental unload time, right to just process the day.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Good point.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
We don't want to necessarily force them to not have
screen time at home with limits, right. We're not gonna
just let them watch TV for six hours until they
go to bed, right, But we have to remember that, like,
they've been engaged all day long mentally, and that their
brands still need a break just like ours.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah. So yeah, you know, I'm I had somebody ask
me about about AI and they were wondering, you know,
like what do I think about it? And you know,
I'm very honest. I do use it and I think
it's important to understand how it works. But they said
they're going to keep their kids away from AI. They're
gonna get and I told them, I said, you know,
I said, that's like the parents that said they didn't
(19:44):
want their kids involved in computer education back in the eighties,
that they didn't want their kids to understand how computers work.
They were that actually can be a detriment. I think
it's important that they they un understand how AI can work,
(20:04):
not to do the work for you, but to understand
that you're gonna have to understand how to prompt it,
how to get the correct information. Some parents will probably
disagree with me, but I think it's important that they
understand that it is something that is being used.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Parents have to take the responsibility to help educate future generations.
You have to you have to be involved. The people
that said I don't want my kids involved in computers,
they just didn't understand how computers were going to help
shape the future. They just didn't. They just they didn't.
They were scared of it. They thought it was gonna
take away jobs, which they did. It did, but it
(20:42):
generated so much more on the back end in terms
of technology, generational wealth, generational knowledge. So the people that
are saying, like AI is garbage, We're not gonna keep
let our kids use AI. We're not gonna let our
kids use screen time. We're not gonna let our kids
do this. There's they cannot function in society with if
you're limiting them on how they are going to perceive technology.
(21:05):
If you're just saying AI bad, I'm not gonna learn
it because I think the as bad. You are setting
your kids up for a technological failure in the future.
You have to take the responsibility to understand even if
you don't agree with it or don't use it, you
as a parent have to understand how it works, how
it is treated as a tool, so that you can
(21:26):
a avoid the bad AI. Don't let your kids get
unfettered access to it so they just go in and
start searching willing nilly on whatever they want. Show your
kids how to use it. Show your kids the benefit
it can provide them. Show them how to foster it
into a tool that they can use to help themselves
down the road. Because if you don't, they're gonna learn
(21:48):
from their neighbor, They're gonna learn from their friends at school,
They're gonna learn from the internet. They're gonna learn from
all of the places you wanted them to avoid in
the first place. Engage with your kids in the in
the technology and the tools you want them to learn in,
and they are going to love it. Going to be
so much better off if they're learning it from you
as a parent and you have the understanding of it.
(22:10):
And just you need to just get the knowledge yourself
so you can then pass it on to your children,
even if you don't agree with it.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I remember my twelve year old son, Ricardo would sit
in the kitchen with me, and that's where we had
a little kitchen table, and I would build computers, and
that's you know, when I was really getting into it.
I would build like a three eighty six, you know,
you build the first the two eighty six, three eighty
six and put the memory in and I would show
(22:36):
him what we were doing. And I have pictures of
him like watching they watching this thing put together, and
even had him help once in a while. Little did
I know that, you know, years later he was learning
how to code, he was learning how to write, you know,
scripts and do all this really cool stuff with technology,
(22:56):
and that's, you know, part of what he does now
as his profet. Just that time to understand what was
being done was very it was very helpful to maybe
help him and what he would do in the future
and continue to express that desire for it. So again,
I think you're right, it's important you do all that
stuff with them and help them along.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
AI is a tool. It's just another tool. It's like
I said, we talked about it in the break where
we were saying, this is how I use AI. Right,
I'm using it to search. You know we were talking, Hey,
when you wanted to look something on in Linux? Yeah,
well previously, how would you do that? You look it
up in a book?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Right, You go go.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
To the shelf, pick the book off, look in the
index what you wanted for, search, search page by page, Go, okay,
here it is, and then you go to your computer
and you try it. All I'm doing with AI is
now instead of going to the shelf picking up the book,
I'm asking the prompt, Hey, this is what I'm trying
to accomplish. How do I list all of my hard
drives in Linux?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Right?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
If it's out of command and I can type it in,
and I've now learned a.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Thing, yeap could be totally helpful, totally helpful.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
So instead of me having to go to a book. Now, great,
it's great to have books, it's great to be tactile,
it's great to have the feelings. But this the way
I'm using AI is a tool to help me learn
the little things like how to do small commands and Linux,
or searching for manuals searching in manuals, like, Hey, I
have this piece of hardware I need to know how
(24:22):
to do X, Y or Z. Please find me the
manual for this and show me in the manual where
it is, and then I can go read the manual.
It'll pull it up for me, or it'll guide me
so I can download the manual, or it'll provide provide
it for me as a PDF, and I can then
search with the manual.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
All right, we had to take a break, but I
will also say this for those that are listening right now,
and maybe you're not working with Linux, or you're not
working on your computer. Maybe it's something else around the
house you need to figure out how to do. Maybe
you know a brand name that doesn't seem to be
working right. You can actually ask your AI in most cases,
(24:56):
how to do something, or what is the meaning of something?
You get an error code on something, or my TV
isn't a channeling right? How do I fix that? You'd
be surprised at how we can answer and respond to it.
So again, give it a shot. You might be happy
with what you get. We're gonna take that break. We'll
come back with more of tech Talk Radio find out
why Sean has got all these computers sitting around laying
(25:18):
on the floor in his studio. I'm Andy Taylor.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I'm shying to wear and find us on the web
at tech talk radio dot com. Now back to tech
talk Radio. My basement is covered with computers.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Why is yours?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
That's not abnormal for my basement. Let's be honest, but
it's extra messy. Right now. If I rolled backwards, i'd
tip over my pluck server because it's it's on the
floor behind me running.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
You've got several computers behind you.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah, there's a shell of one. There's a shell of
another one. A coworker of mine just one day decided
getting out of the PC world. He's gonna go Mac only,
just real, right up, said I'm getting rid of all
my PCs. I'm going Mac only. And just I'm done
with Windows. I'm done with the PC life. I'm going
Mac only.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
And so he said, if anybody wants PC stuff, I'm
giving it away from dirt cheap. So, of course I
can't turn down cheap computer parts. So I obtained a
small collection of computer parts, processors, motherboards, you name it.
Built my niece a computer out of It got her
super happy running Minecraft on a thirty sixty TI. She's
loving it, and she's super happy that she wants to
(26:24):
get into computers. Anyways, But then I was able to, finally, finally,
thank God, upgrade my plex server.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Oh great, Now what were you running before?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It was running an old I buy power micro atx board.
Oh wow, running an I three twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Hundred okay wow, and only sixteen.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Gigs a RAM. It was originally a Windows Vista machine
I think, or Windows seven machine I think, maybe even.
But it was an old I buy power pc that
I had ripped out of a box, shredded it apart,
took the micro atx board out put it. It was
running a very low went I five or an I
three inchel So I finally migrated to a current gen system.
(27:06):
So now I'm running I seven nine series. Oh wow?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Really I jumped way up.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, and I'm running a thirty sixty in there, an
Nvidia thirty sixty. I went from a ten to seventy
to a thirty sixty the benefit And this is what
was cool. I tried this. I was running running Linux
Mint twenty two. Linux Mint is probably the best version
of Linux I've used. It's just got a great UI.
It's super easy to use.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I thought when bo when boontu was the thing until
I installed Linux bin and played around with that, and
I said, nop, this is this is it?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
H I mean, I I've played with Debian, I've played with Ubuntu,
I've played with Elementary, I've played with a handful of
other Linux distributions. Linux Mint is by far the best
and easiest one that I've had inexperienced using. So everybody's
gonna have their own opinion. Yeah, but I was curious,
so I asked. I asked one of my coworkers, and
I was like, do you think if I went from
a Intel processor to an Intel processor and an Invidia
(27:58):
GPU to an Invidia G if I could just migrate
the OSH into the new machine? All right? He's like,
he's I gotta know, never tried it. So I just
moved the hard drive over and plugged it into the
bio on the motherboard, booted to it. You had no
problem with it, zero issue loading into it.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Oh my god, that's pretty It detected that there was
a change right and I don't remember what it said,
but it booted, so I figured it was gonna be fine,
that's all.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
And I haven't had any issues, right, And that was
off the integrated graphics on it, and then I put
in the thirty sixty, downloaded the Linux and video drivers,
loaded them and it's been running fine. Now it's still
sitting right behind me because I haven't had a whole
lot of time to actually put it back in the
rack in my workshop and remount it and get everything
back in. Plus, because the old micro ATESX board only
had four state of ports on it. Now I have
(28:45):
eight state of ports on this motherboard. Oh man, I
can Now I can populate it with four more two
terrible drives and put them in RAID and get six
terriboids of storage in a RAID. So now I'll have
a little bit more RAID space, which I wanted originally.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
For listeners that don't understand show al server, can you
quickly tell us what is that?
Speaker 4 (29:04):
So?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Plexus is a media server that plays media off of
a computer that you can then stream via the app
or the the the Windows application and play media back movies.
So I've ripped all of my DVDs digitally, so I
rip I have used handbrake or make MKV to rip
my DVDs in my Blu rays Digitally, it basically pulls
(29:25):
the media files off of and stores them on my computer.
PLEX is then basically a library for that where I
can put those files into PLEX and then view them
on the app and play them.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
So it's almost like having having your own Netflix or
your own.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
It's a home theater system, right, it's it's it's a
home it's a PLEX, it's a media player. There are
many like it. U use Alternative to to find out
another one if you don't want to use PLEX. But
it allows us to put media on the network and
then be able to watch it on your iPhone, watch
it on your Android, watch it on your Smart TV,
watch it on your Xbox, your PlayStation, your PC. But
(29:58):
it's great because I've also put all by home movies
on there though all my family stuff is in there.
And then what you can do is, if you're smart
enough about it, you can make it accessible outside of
your home. I tell my family, hey, download PLEX, connect
to my server. Here's my log in, you know, connect
to this IP address, and then they can watch all
of the home movies that I have on my plextir.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
You can choose what they're able to see. So that's
kind of cool. Yeah, So then then I.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Don't have to you know, they don't have to go
to a Google Drive and download a Google Drive folder
or a link and watch it there. They can just
go to Plex and they can watch whatever they want
and it treats it. You know, you can put thumbnails in,
you can give a descriptions, et cetera, et cetera. So
that's what you see behind me is kind of a
a PLEX upgrade graveyard with PC parts kind of strewn
(30:43):
all over the place.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Have you ever thought about starting your own business? How
about a business in the tech world? Creating a website
that will bring visitors and create conversations. That is exactly
what Anna Belch did with her website, Leamie. We're gonna
be talking to her about the creat of this website,
who it's geared to, and why it has finally come
(31:04):
to fruition and it's seeing some really great results. That's
coming up with tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I'm sean to weird send us an X at tech Talk.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Radio and now back to tech Talk Radio. Hey, this
comedian Kathleen Meddigan, and you're listening to tech Talk Radio's
something I will never be listening to because I hate technology.
But for those of you, the two these are your guys,
no doubt. When you are looking to make a friend,
(31:34):
sometimes you go on to Facebook and you might find
somebody in your circle that you know you could connect
with that maybe you have the same interest. When it
comes to dating, there have been so many dating apps
over the years for connecting, whether it be sites like
you know, Tinder or even some of the other sites
that are out there. And I've even seen some people
(31:54):
jump on the LinkedIn and you know, try and establish
friendships there. But there is a new website that is
really making a great connection with the female audience. And
Anna Bilch is the founder of les Amiss if I
pronounce it right, and it's with us on tech Talk Radio,
and I thank you so much for coming on the show.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Absolutely thanks for the invitation.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Tell us a little bit about this idea on ley
Amiss and how it is redefining how women make meaningful
friendships in twenty twenty five outside of possibly the dating world.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Sure, absolutely so.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
First of all, how Lesendie was created and why Lezenmie
was created is basically from my personal story in general,
I moved countries twice. So first I'm from Estonia originally.
Then I moved to Dublin to work at Paper as
a product manager, and then after a couple of years,
I moved to Barcelona, and I was absolutely surprised that
(33:00):
it's actually so hard to find like minded people in
the new city, especially if you're not a student anymore,
you're working from home, or maybe you're working like in
the office, or like with the colleagues who is for example,
much older than you, or only like male dominated companys.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
And then I tried I.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Think, all the apps, all the websites, and you were absolutely.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Right mentioning for example, Facebook groups.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
There was also meetup, evan Bright, bumblebff, and so try
them all and unfortunately didn't find any friends, even though
I was like, wow, like I'm absolutely normal person, why
it is so hard to find new friends? Even though
I would say, like in my mind was that finding
(33:56):
friends is kind of just like a basic Yeah, it
sounds very easy, but in reality it's not at all.
And you're also absolutely right that there's like one hundred
apps for dating for like bumble, Tinder, hearing, Raya, and
there's like literally hundreds of them, and then from like
(34:18):
my personal experience of using gold apps for friendship and
I kind of noted why it didn't succeed for me
basically and try to fix all the problems.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
That's kind of I had.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Well, if you think about this on there, there's a
certain amount of guard. You know, you put up a
wall when you're online on social media in many of
these situations, especially with Facebook, in Instagram and snap even,
you have to have a kind of a wall for
protection number one of your assets, but also your person
(34:58):
who you are. Finding a group though, where everybody really
has the same kind of I don't want to say goal,
but yeah, that would be right goal. That's the same
idea of meeting some people would like mind that you
could be friends with and learn from and share with.
That's that's got to be the challenge, and that's exactly
what leam meets has kind of set forth with this
(35:21):
whole friendship economy. It's kind of you know, you may
have been, you know, a real trendsetter and trend starter
here finding what was lacking in the others and being
able to put it all into one.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Absolutely, you're totally right, because what is like special for
Les I mean, first of all, we're meeting and groups
usually the groups of like women is ten or maximum
twelve people. Why so, first of all, of course safety,
meeting in the groups are way safer than meeting one
on one. And also in terms of just as you
(35:56):
mentioned the goal or for example, I call it, that
everyone come with the same intention intention of finding friends.
Then also the conversation goes way more like smoother when
it's like ten people than just one to one, because
especially if you're an introverted person, it's actually really hard
(36:17):
to come to this one to one meeting because you
know you will feel like awkward, maybe like you won't
be able to figure out which question to ask and
so on. It's like small talk and the first talk
with stranger. It's always hard. But what we do in
Lezamie is that first of all, yeah, you meet in
the in small group, and second there's also an event
(36:41):
like in place kind of in the middle of this meeting,
and it can be everything. So right now we do
over five hundred events per month, and it can be
like pottery, book and making, just like branch.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
S by evenings. Any beauty is skin gear.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Like talks and song with the host with the expert
that is like teaching you how to use for example,
carrying cosmetic and song. And then usually event these two
hours and after these two hours, it's because it's went
so smoothly, and then nobody were pushed to let's say,
(37:22):
remove the silence and say something, because there's always something happening.
And then in the meantime you can also have the
conversation the girls. And that's like one way how we
connect our users. And the second way works a bit different,
is that we build our own algorithm like AI model,
(37:44):
which basically calculates the connectivity score between women based on
their profiles. So basically like for example Anna and Emma
they have many things on common the city scoreless ninety
two percent, for example, and then we create a chegger
(38:04):
for them and explain why you got connected, which also
really helps because then they have this kind of theme
for a small talk because that like it says, okay,
of course you both live in the same city, and
you both like play tennis and love something else, and
then as an easy question can be already asking like oh,
(38:28):
like for how long you're playing tennis and where you're playing,
Maybe let's go together to play tennis, and that's how
we meet and that's what we see from like all
the feedbacks from this like AI feature that we built
in the app.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
That there's actually the feedback is really really good.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
So you can actually group this geographically as well. So
if you have like a group that isn't like Green Valley,
Arizona or Phoenix or possibly you know, another part of
the world, or maybe even they have they're from those areas,
they can actually connect with those that have those same
interest based on the area as well with these events.
(39:09):
That's a great idea.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Absolutely, yeah, that's how it works.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
What was it like on a for you to get
this great idea and then get it made? Was it
a challenge to get done? Did you find a lot
of people that said, no, we can do this, we
can do this, we have this capability.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
It is definitely a challenge, and it's still a challenge
even though we're building Lezbie for three and a half years.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
For sure, I.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Can say the first year is the hardest because first
of all, like I started with my copounder Olik, there
was just two of us in the beginning. At that time,
I was like the in playing big corporation. Olik was
also like at Google for almost ten years, and for
(39:59):
us jumping into something uncertain and very questionable. Of course,
it's hard because once you have like your job in
a big corporation, you're feel absolutely let's say safe and secure.
You have guaranteed paycheck in a certain day of the month,
(40:21):
and you always know that everything is covered. Maybe you
also have some perks as an insurance and so on,
which is like awesome. And then one day, like you
decide to build something by your own and there will
be just for in our case, two of us, and
we need to cut everything. There is no insurance anymore,
(40:41):
no paychecks. It's only you, your knowledge and your savings,
and you don't know like when will it work out,
or will it like work out.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
At the end, like in general or not.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
And in addition to that, even though it's always the sense,
but in addition to that, you have an imposter syndrome
because right now there's only two of you. But imagine
there's about like your idea, there's just an idea. The
company is not incorporated. There's no website, there's no log
(41:16):
no branding. You don't even know how it will look like,
how it would work. There's no app there's no clients,
there's no ads about you, and like there's like literally nothing,
which means two of you need to do all that
stuff and you become a marketing manager, a product manager, designer,
(41:36):
a lawyer, accountant and like everything. And of course I've
been only a product manager all my life basically, so
this is something that I'm doing good and I know
I have knowledge, and then like within a day you
become like ten more roles, and of course you feel
(41:58):
quite awkward. Of course you have like something like depressions,
or of course, since you start to work like fourteen
twelve hours per day absolutely every day, without any weekends
and vacations, Like my first vacation was only two years
after it started. That was the time when we're like, okay,
(42:21):
now we have a team of six and probably they
can manage one week without me.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
You're hoping, yes, yeah, we're just hoping.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
And you don't know because also what I understood, if
you kind of go to vacation but you're still working, like,
for example, three four hours per day just to check
it out, then it doesn't help you to really like
relax and recharge. You need to like shut it down
absolutely without any messages.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
And so on.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
You know, I love the message of the website and
I've been on the website. I can't sign up. I'm
a guy. But we enable women to achieve more by
bringing them together. And you know, that's that empowerment phase.
And I've talked to a lot of women business owners,
young women that are saying, hey, what should I do
(43:14):
here or what should I do there? This is a
great way to get that input from other women that
have like yourself, that have experienced starting a business from
scratch or even maybe have succeeded in many other businesses
in the past.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
It's not just.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
About the arts. It's not just about relationships. It's about
also learning from many others that can be help and
a great way to start a valuable friendship. When you
think about it and you look at it and you say, well,
social tech and again we've talked about some of the
other sites there, it's not just about making that match.
(43:52):
It's about having that feeling of belonging. And that's what
Limis kind of brings to everybody, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Yeah, absolutely, And that's what we wanted to and like
this message reconnecting, we enable you to achieve more by
connecting you together. Is actually came also from my personal
experience because for example, once I joined PayPal, I was
just twenty one, actually one of the youngest, and then
(44:18):
there I was like I got multiple mentors also only
women in the company who were like pushing me and
like showing me the path where should I go. And
then also once for example, I was just twenty four
once I became I see you and a co founder,
(44:41):
also very young. And then to overcome a lot of challenges,
I also got some coaches also actually the only women,
it just happened like that who really helped me to
go through through the challenge of.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
Like finding myself.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
And also you can imagine, and you're just twenty four,
you do these tons of like different hands, hats, you're
wearing different heads, and then you go to conferences and
you need to speak with investors and of course they're
only men, and they see this twenty four years old,
(45:20):
very young girl, and of course they don't like really.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
They don't give you a full ear. Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (45:30):
Like, okay, you're just doing something. Okay, you're a nice girl,
but let me talk with like real men and real businesses.
Of course, now tables have turned and like you can
see like the result and the product and so on,
but it's a really hard time, just like.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
To show yourself, to show what you can create.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
The website is lay a miss dot see it's l
E S A M I S dot c C. The name.
How did you come up with the name and how
it represents the brand?
Speaker 3 (46:10):
So we wanted, like we wanted to create a stylish
brand but which also will be kind of playful and
a beautiful name.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
And that's how like, that's how we decided.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
That maybe it can be something French unless I mean,
for example, it.
Speaker 4 (46:32):
Just means friends in French.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
But the funny thing, we actually consider it as the
first name. It was the first idea of us friends.
But of course, as a business owner, the first thing
what you do once you're choosing the name, you're just Google.
You go to the Google search and put the name.
See like what's happening. And you can imagine there was
(46:56):
at least like ten pages only about Friends, the TV series,
and we're like, okay, it's impossible to beat them in
the search, so let's do. Let's think about another idea.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Well, yeah, I think it's perfect. It fits really well,
it's a great looking website and I hope our listeners
take a look at it and recommend it to you know,
their daughters, their friends, their coworkers. Had a great way
to continue to build and you've seen really great growth
since the site has been officially launched.
Speaker 3 (47:29):
Actually yes, and we didn't expect that because just within
the first month we got almost two thousands applications just
in one city and it was like wow, because in
the beginning, I was, of course questioning, is it like
the problem just for me in terms of finding friends,
(47:51):
because I never heard anyone complaining about that. But like
when we started, they're I mean, in the world in general,
there was no such a movement of communities or different
apps or like even talking about friendship at that time.
(48:12):
Only like government, like different countries started to talk about
loneliness lowness epidemic in general, and that year, for example,
England decided to have Minister of Loneliness.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
Really, oh wow.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
They have this role.
Speaker 3 (48:33):
They have like a particular budget to like overcome the
lonness epidemic and that's free, so which means that within
the stry and health years, we I mean, we started it,
but now there's a lot of companies like similar ones
to talk more about lowliness, about finding friends, and that's
(48:53):
actually normal to have your like third place, third community,
not only like family work, but then there are also
something else.
Speaker 4 (49:03):
For example, before.
Speaker 3 (49:06):
Right now it's not really the case anymore, the third
place was church.
Speaker 4 (49:11):
Actually church was connecting people.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
Very well because everybody like true like neighbor Woods are
coming to the church on Sundays. They know they will
meet a lot of people, make friends. And so now
the new era of communities and something like lessami, where
you have your community, you belong to something and you
have your circle around you.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Well, it is great. Continued success to Youanna. I want
to thank you for coming on the show and telling
us about the website. I want to tell our listeners
to check it out. L E. S, A, M. I,
S dot C C and I hope we get a
chance to talk to you again and again continued success
with the site.
Speaker 4 (49:50):
Thank you very much for this conversation.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
We will have more of tech talk Radio that is
coming up. Make sure you find us up on YouTube.
You can subscribe to our page as well. Com Forward
Slash tech Talk Radio and now Factor tech Talk Radio.
Apple has announced that they have their iOS twenty six beta.
(50:13):
Now they change the name being Pattern of their iOS.
So now, of course it's coinciding with the year. So
I guess they're looking ahead for the next year, which
will be you know, twenty twenty six. So my question
for Sean today was, of course, did you get the beta?
Speaker 2 (50:29):
I always like getting the betas. Everybody thinks I'm crazy
because they're like, oh, you're gonna get a buggy mass
it's gonna be annoying. Well, that's how you help. I
can now help develop a little bit, right, I can
help cater to the things that I want to see.
So I upgraded to the Developer Beta, which is great, right,
but it includes the new liquid Glass update.
Speaker 1 (50:50):
Okay, so yeah, there was a lot of talk about
that when they made the announced.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
It's just it's just a way for them to look
at the icons and make them more rounded and shiny
and look like glass. And I'm not a big fan,
to be honest.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
Is it just getting used to it you think? Or
is it No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (51:07):
It's just it's just not it's not a good look.
I don't I don't care for it. It rounds a
lot of things. They made the icon. The certain icons
are way bigger. Menu options are way bigger, even with
my font sizes the way they were, and the icon
size is the way they were. Some things just you're like, whoa,
that's in your face. Oh, and they move some things around.
(51:28):
They changed the icons for a couple of the core apps.
So just some muscle memory getting used to some muscle memory,
some more customization options. The big one is they moved something,
like they said, they move some things around. Some of
the big ones are the search function. Really normally, like
on an iPhone, you would swipe down from the top
and the search bar would be at the top near
(51:48):
the island. If you have a newer phone, now all
the searches are at the bottom above your keyboard, and
the search bar kind of floats there above the keyboard.
Speaker 1 (51:57):
I have that with a pixel. They have it down
to tour to the bottom.
Speaker 3 (52:00):
Two.
Speaker 2 (52:01):
Yeah, so it's it's just different. Right. So now I'm
getting used to where my eyes are trained to the
use or my thumb, where my thumbs are because they
moved a lot of the the the excess to close
things to the to the bottom next to the search bar.
So getting used to that, and I I think I
(52:22):
mentioned it like this, right more often than not a
lot of times. When we were first getting smartphones, everybody
had it in one hand. Everybody wanted one hand operation
of their phone, being able to reach across with your
thumb to keep you. But now that phones are so big,
everybody's gone to a two handed operation. So where are
(52:44):
your thumbs? Right? If you hold your phone with both hands, everybody,
I want, I want people. If you hold your phone,
your index fingers are typically on the on the sides
and your thumbs are at the bottom right. So now
try hold of your phone like that. Try to close
a menu with an ax at the top.
Speaker 1 (53:06):
Oh yeah, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (53:08):
You're moving your you're moving your whole hand yep, or
you're moving your right hand or your left hand. Right.
Most people I've seen using phones now are double handed.
Everybody's using double handed yep, not single handed anymore, and
the UI is adapting to that.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
Unless you're styling and you've got the old school flip
phone and you swept that thing out, flip it all ten.
Speaker 2 (53:30):
Warning, still off to YouTube two thumbs.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
Yeah, I guess so, Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (53:35):
Yep, that's we're kind of going back to that right,
That's how you held your old phones. Now a lot
of people could teenine and order with one thumb if
you were smart enough, or you had the sidekick, you
slipped it open, you had a full keyboard. I had
a sidekick. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
Those were good.
Speaker 2 (53:49):
But it's interesting to see I'm now a two hand
phone holder, like I'm now seeing the UI and the
user experience is now for seeing me to be the
two thumber. Whereas before I would do one hand and
reach across or reposition my hand, I'm doing a lot less.
It's actually a lot less hand movement.
Speaker 1 (54:12):
Yeah, but when you're holding it with one hand.
Speaker 2 (54:14):
It's it's weird to think about, but it's it's it's
it's drawing me into the two handed, two thumb interface.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Kind of like exercising to be a thumb wrestler. Let's say, hey, yeah, one.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
Two, three, four, thumb wore five six, seven, eight. Yeah,
there you go. All right, we are so yeah, we are.
Speaker 1 (54:34):
Out of time.
Speaker 4 (54:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (54:35):
You covered a lot of stuff, and there was a
lot more stuff we wanted to cover. Hopefully next week
I'll be able to talk a little bit about that.
With the Lenovo Legion Wi Fi thirty that I have
been having major issues with and I want to find
out your thoughts save this. Maybe some listeners can let
us know too what they think about one.
Speaker 2 (54:53):
Yeah, we have some great listener questions that I wanted
to get to. BOE ran out of time, so I
just we always love your listener questions. Call us, email US,
text us, FaceTime US. Yep, we'll answer your pulse.
Speaker 1 (55:04):
Everything you'll find at tech talk radio dot com. I'm
Andy Taylor, I'm suan to Weard.
Speaker 2 (55:08):
Have a great week.
The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Good by the science Guy here whatever I am listening
to the radio, especially tech talk Radio. It's such a party.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
I'm Sean Twird. We are the show that talks about computers,
technology and of course the Internet and all the fun
gadgets that are a part of that. Just Sean and
I four this week. Actually, Justin took his son to
the movies to go see the new Superman movie in
(00:35):
what he's seeing Imax? Right?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, ix I saw. I saw last week the F
one movie in Imax. How was that? Which was incredible? Yeah?
It was. It was a unique opportunity. So for Mother's Day,
I had gotten Calen tickets to go see Wicked, and
so I took her and her sister down to Indianapolis
to go see Wicked, and I drove so they didn't
have to drive late at night. And during that time
(00:58):
they had a showing for F One at the Indiana
State Museum in their Imax theater. So I just popped
in for two and a half hours and watched the
movie and then got out and drove them back home.
It was a cool movie. The practical the way they
did it, with the practical effects, and they drove, actually
drove cars in actual F one races and took a
lot of actual F one race content. It felt like
(01:21):
you were watching a documentary about an F one race.
You literally felt like it. Just the way it was shot,
the way it was handled. It was very very well done.
The music is incredible. Hans Zimmer did the score, of course,
so that's gonna be incredible. It was good, so I
think it lived up to the hype. I'm a big
(01:41):
motorsports fan, so it was kind of fun to see.
On the topic of F one, right, the big controversy
around F one is F one or Apple is vuying
very hard for the media rights for F one. Really
they the Apple's is in the range of one hundred
and fifty million a year, Wow, significantly higher than the
(02:05):
ESPN's current eighty five to ninety million a year. So
it'd be interesting to see how that would play in
because if Apple takes it over, then it would be
on Apple TV, so I then wouldn't have to have
an Apple TV account and an F one TV account
or you know, so it'd be interesting to see and
you know, Apple was a primary stakeholder in the F
(02:28):
one movie. It's gonna it'll be on their platform and
they just kind of have been branding around the F one.
So it'd be interesting to see how that comes up
and if ESPN can keep it or not. Right So,
the reason why I like it on ESPN right now
is that it's commercial free right there. They're flag to
flag coverage right there's no which is incredible compared to
(02:49):
the other the other motorsports that are on TV, Nascar,
in DYEA, ARCA, you know, those those other other series.
So the production value is so much different.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Now do you do you have Apple TV currently?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I do?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
What do you think of that? Because I don't have
Apple TV. I had an Apple TV box for a
while and then I gave it to my daughter and
you know, I don't know whatever happened. But uh, I mean,
do you as a service comparing it to the say
Netflix and Hulu or Paramount Plus, how does it rate?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
We probably don't watch it as much as we should
for what we pay for it, as we do with
every other service we own. But it's got the content.
You know, there were specific shows who Caitlin wanted to
watch Severance. There were a couple of other shows that
are on there that are good, and to be honest,
sometimes the movies that we want to watch, and you know,
when you search for a movie on the Roku, it
(03:42):
tells you which apps are on. Sometimes the movies we
want to watch are only on Apple TV or the
only on Amazon, or the early on Netflix or the
Paramount Plus. We kind of spread the wealth around our
family with the with the with the Apple Apple Idea
accounts and stuff. So it's right. Netflix is shared, Disney
Plus is shared. The Disney Plus one is included in
(04:03):
our Horizon bundle, so that works out really well for us.
That's good.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I do a bundle with my provider, which is Infinity,
and I get like Peacock Peacock Premium, which is kind
of cool. I get HBO or Max as it is.
I don't get HBO itself. I get Max, which you
know is online.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
They're rebranding back to HBO by the way, HBO back.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So so I wonder if it's I mean, how yeah,
what is that going to change? What is that going
to mean? I mean, I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It's just back to HBO Max. I don't know. They're
rebranding back to what they were.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Sometimes these companies do these things like what does that
all mean? Hopefully maybe they'll get people back, I don't know.
And then we get Hulu. We get Hulu with that
as well, so Hulu, Disney and Max. But it's funny
because you mentioned that, you know, maybe you don't want
it as much it I can't tell you the last
time I'm I've logged into to Max to see something.
(05:03):
You know, most of the time it'll be Hulu or
you know, Disney. I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I think the current climate for a lot of the
streaming stuff is the streaming platforms are vying for Internet eyeballs. Right, So,
do you know the famous YouTuber miss Rachel?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah? Yeah, oh gosh, you know she's on Netflix now, right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Absolutely, So you're gonna see I think you're gonna see
more and more of this where you're gonna get these
popular YouTube content creators and then they're gonna leave the
YouTube platform for other platforms because then they're going to
be able to take those subscribers from you from YouTube,
off of YouTube to other platforms.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I was still I'm sorry, Sean, but I was still
trying to figure out. And I found her content compelling,
you know, the kids seemed to my my grandson seemed
to like it. How does she make ten million dollars
a year doing that? I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It's just it's the sheer volume of content that she like,
the sheer volume of views she gets on you Tube.
It's I mean, every every video she's putting out is
getting hundreds of millions of views, just breaking in and revenue.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And when I can attest to this, right when Max
and Daniel sometimes we just veg out and we just
put on YouTube. We put it on a kids channel
and a loop for two or three hours in the
afternoon while we're doing around, while they're playing with legos,
or they're reading books or playing puzzles or doing whatever,
or while we're eating lunch or eating dinner. So sometimes
(06:31):
YouTube is on our TV five or six hours a day.
We're not always there watching it, but it's just one
we paid for YouTube premium, right, so I don't I
don't get ads served to us anymore because trying to
do that without without YouTube premium was a real pain
in the red.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Now there is a difference between what YouTube premium and
YouTube TV, right, I mean correct? Yeah, okay, So YouTube
premium just means you're just not getting ads, or do
you get access to other content?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You get access to some other premium content on Netflix,
on YouTube get access to other movies, some other content
gets unlocked. But it's just the ad. The experience on
YouTube without premium was awful, trying to stream the content
that Max wanted to watch, or the content that Richmas Rachel,
and then all of a sudden you're getting these ads.
(07:19):
So you get these ads that play because people just
leave their TVs on looping for background noise whatever, and
all of a sudden it's playing an ad every five
to ten minutes, right, right, So every five to ten minutes,
Max would come over with the remote and say uh oh,
and he knows there was an ad to skip.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Right, there was. It's funny though, because I've noticed that
as the kids get older, and I think Max is
the same age, are near the same age as my grandson,
they tend to like the quality of like they number
Blocks was big, Number Blocks was huge, right, and he
has tended to Now I can put on PBS Kids
(08:03):
and he'll love PBS Kids and loves the programs, and
I noticed it just grabs his detention and not Sesame
Street per se, not you know, Elmo or any of
these other shows. It's more of the different content that
they put on there that's scared at the children. And
as they getting older, I noticed that the educational programs
(08:23):
are better, and Miss Rachel seems to have tapped into
that young market as well as the older you know,
the older kids, they seem to really enjoy watching that,
and parents watch it with the kids because they feel safe.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It's not awful content to watch. The music is catchy, yeah,
you know, and it's not like it's people that don't
know what music is.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Some of the people on her show are actual Broadway
actors and actresses, you know Broadway. They have lived on Broadway,
so you know, some of her friends and family have
been on the show that are real professional musicians. So
you have a production quality to it, and her production
quality on the camera side and the editing side has
gone up significantly compared to the earlier. But that's every show.
(09:09):
Every kind of the track for every YouTube person that's
gotten popular over the years is you know, they start
with a crappy webcam and a micro crappy microphone, and
then they get a little bit of money and they
buy some better equipment, and then they get better. I
don't know, it's just it's just wild to see the
transition of what we're watching on YouTube compared to two
decades ago.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
And now you think about what you grew up watching.
What was kind of like a big influence for you.
Do you look back.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
We actually, we actually talked a little bit about this
with some of my family. Is what is the shared
internet experience these days?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Oh? Yeah, right, good?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, So for me, I grew up, my internet experience
started in the late nineteen nineties, so ninety seven, ninety eight,
when the internet kind of really started to be a thing, right, yeah,
into the early two thousands, so grade school, through middle school,
and through high school. So primarily from two thousand to now, right,
(10:06):
it was what the intern is. So when the Internet
was first round, everybody had the same shared experience. You
all went to the same flash websites, you all went
to the same humor websites, you all went to the
same video websites, LiveLeak, YouTube, Ebomb's World, you know what.
Everybody had the same shared Internet experience. So when I said, oh,
(10:26):
I saw this funny thing on Homestar Runner. Everybody goes, oh, yeah,
it was great, you know, strongbad open up emails, and
but that today is different because the kids, you know,
the kids we get in our program at the university
are all talking about, oh, I watched this TikTok, or
I watched this this influencer, or I watched but then
(10:48):
this this kid over here said, well, I don't know
who that is, right, I've never heard of that person
I watched. I watched this electrical engineering YouTube channel, I
watched this you know, marble racing YouTube channel or whatever.
No kids now growing up with the Internet will have
a shared Internet experience. It's all going to be different.
It's all siloed, all based on what you give the algorithm.
(11:11):
It's all based on what your interests are. So it's
interesting to see. So like for me, I grew up
watching a lot of storm chasing videos because that was
that interested me. When I was growing up, I watched
a lot of Red Timber. Well. Red Timber is now
probably one of the largest storm chaser YouTube channels that exists.
He's a little eccentric, he's you know, he's probably not
(11:33):
the most popular by a lot of stretch. So I
watched him and then I mean, there's not really any
other YouTube creators that I followed that's outside of my
motorsports connections. I like to watch a lot of VA
Supercars because they post a lot on on YouTube, a
lot of motorsports videos. Other than that, I don't really
have a set number of people that I follow or
(11:55):
content creators that I followed. Especially for the last like
five years, I've been off the internet a little, off
the social media a little bit. So it's been interesting
to see how I get my content, whether it's from
what Caitlin shows me, or what I get through Reddit right,
or when I get shared via my friends.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Do you know I do this with mcgrandson? Do you
do with your your kids like you might? I heard
about this channel, I want to little check it out
and you might look at it and just to see
is this something that would interest them, you know that
kind of thing, or do you just go with what
you know the most popular ones.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I mean, we kind of just let it. We kind
of just let it go right Max. You know, he
had some interests. He liked trains for a while, like airplanes,
So we watched a lot of like live streaming of airplanes,
train videos, and then he kind of got into hot
wheels and legos. We did a lot of hot wheels
and legos, and now he's more into a couple of
just you know, silly animated ones, some some animated panda
(12:59):
bear ones that are funny with songs that are catchy.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Were you able to keep them away from Baby Shark?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
No?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So one of the shows is called baby Bus by
the people who made Baby Shark. So there's a lot
of the songs in there for that, which is fine.
But it's fine. Yeah, But we've with the YouTube premium
side of it too. We've allowed it allows us to
curate it a little bit on the side, so we're
(13:30):
not getting into the It's not unfettered access for him, right.
He doesn't just have the remote to watch forevery once.
He's also only three and a half, so he doesn't
he doesn't really know what he wants. He just knows, Oh,
I want to watch cars, or I want to watch YouTube,
or I want to watch cars legos. That was big
for him. Those are the two. Those are the two
big ones. Like he likes to watch people unboxing matchbox cars.
(13:55):
He likes to watch people build legos, like spaed building
things like that.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah, we ended up we ended up getting I'll tell
you we got August number blocks because he watches number blocks.
We got him the number blocks. So that's got to
be huge revenue for them to be able to sell
the toys that are branded based on the So he'll
be watching the number blocks and building the number of blocks.
They all kind of plug into each other and put
(14:23):
a number on the top of them and everything else.
And then this is kind of cute. I gotta tell
you about this. I'll post post a photo up on
our blog. We got him the alphabets. They're you know, ABC,
d FG. We got got him those. They're in a
wooden like a little little wooden platform and they fit
in there. And he could create words. Well, now he's
(14:43):
watching like he'll watch TV and see the bug and
the bottom of the right screen and it says PBS,
and he'll create PBS with the letters. So the other
day I had recorded my Fox segment and and it
was on, and what did he create?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Fox?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Of course, I said to the producer of the show.
She thought that was cute. But yeah, so, I mean
there are so many kids are learning so many different ways.
Whereas before you think about this too, if you had
to do any research, you had to have mom and
dad drive you to the library. That's what my mom
and dad would do if I needed to do research
(15:24):
for product project. There wasn't the Internet when I was
growing up. That didn't come along un till I was
having kids already. And you know, as far as educational TV,
I actually worked in high school. I was the student
advisor to our local KOCETV for educational television. I don't
(15:49):
know how I got into that, but I ended up.
I ended up going to meetings and I would say, yeah,
the kids would like this, or the kids wouldn't like this,
the kids would like this. And we saw a lot
of three to one contacts of the other shows that were,
you know, uh available on that local PBS type station.
And it's funny because now I just think, man, kids
(16:10):
have got it great. They have to do studies, they
can pull it up. And now you've got AI that
is doing things. There's even course that I think we're
gonna try and get this guy on the show that
actually has a website that helps educators learn how to
use AI in the classroom and you know, not to
use it incorrectly, because use it incorrectly that that that
(16:31):
can't be great for the students. So again it's I know,
it's pretty interesting. I like to see where we have
come from and where we're going.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
It'll be interesting to see in for four more years
when Max is actually in grade school, first second grade,
how this all pans out? Yeah, like what h it's
it's going to be interesting right So right, No, don't
really know where it's going to go. And it's so
hard with how fast technology is going to anticipate where
(17:03):
it's going to go or what do we need to
prepare for? What do we need to be encouraging him
to do? What do we not want to be doing?
What impacts does? Though? Are these technologies going to have
on his social life growing up? On his mental aptitude
growing up? Like how are these going to impact him?
(17:23):
So it's just trying to we're encouraging. You know, we
do a lot of book reading, We do a lot
of puzzle We do a lot of puzzles. We are
not doing tablets in the car right so whenever we're traveling,
it's books or toys or they can stare out the
window if they throw their toys around or throw their
books that they don't get anything. So we're you know,
(17:46):
at least for a point right up unto a point
where they can understand what they're doing and why, you know,
they're not just aimlessly staring into a tablet and swiping
while we're driving, and we're just being present with them more. Yeah,
and we're doing a lot of outdoor stuff. It's really
nice out here. The weather's really nice, so we've been
doing a lot of hiking on the weekends. We've been
(18:07):
doing We've done camping five times this year already. So
just being more present with them with less screen time. Now.
It's interesting because I like to talk about this because
it's like sometimes when we come home from work, we
just want to we just want to relax, We just
want to do what we want to do. I know
the feeling, and I have to remind myself our day
(18:30):
Our daycare has been fantastic. So when Kaitlin and I
are both working, our daycare is so good about engaging
our children in things, and we get updates and we
have feed we get feedback, and we can provide our
feedback to what we want our kids to be able
to do, and they're engaged from the time we drop
them off till the time we pick them up. No screens, activities,
gym time, all that stuff. So sometimes I have to
(18:52):
remember they've had a busy day too, right, they need
some mental unload time, right to just process the day.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Good point.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
We don't want to necessarily force them to not have
screen time at home with limits, right. We're not gonna
just let them watch TV for six hours until they
go to bed, right, But we have to remember that, like,
they've been engaged all day long mentally, and that their
brands still need a break just like ours.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah. So yeah, you know, I'm I had somebody ask
me about about AI and they were wondering, you know,
like what do I think about it? And you know,
I'm very honest. I do use it and I think
it's important to understand how it works. But they said
they're going to keep their kids away from AI. They're
gonna get and I told them, I said, you know,
I said, that's like the parents that said they didn't
(19:44):
want their kids involved in computer education back in the eighties,
that they didn't want their kids to understand how computers work.
They were that actually can be a detriment. I think
it's important that they they un understand how AI can work,
(20:04):
not to do the work for you, but to understand
that you're gonna have to understand how to prompt it,
how to get the correct information. Some parents will probably
disagree with me, but I think it's important that they
understand that it is something that is being used.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Parents have to take the responsibility to help educate future generations.
You have to you have to be involved. The people
that said I don't want my kids involved in computers,
they just didn't understand how computers were going to help
shape the future. They just didn't. They just they didn't.
They were scared of it. They thought it was gonna
take away jobs, which they did. It did, but it
(20:42):
generated so much more on the back end in terms
of technology, generational wealth, generational knowledge. So the people that
are saying, like AI is garbage, We're not gonna keep
let our kids use AI. We're not gonna let our
kids use screen time. We're not gonna let our kids
do this. There's they cannot function in society with if
you're limiting them on how they are going to perceive technology.
(21:05):
If you're just saying AI bad, I'm not gonna learn
it because I think the as bad. You are setting
your kids up for a technological failure in the future.
You have to take the responsibility to understand even if
you don't agree with it or don't use it, you
as a parent have to understand how it works, how
it is treated as a tool, so that you can
(21:26):
a avoid the bad AI. Don't let your kids get
unfettered access to it so they just go in and
start searching willing nilly on whatever they want. Show your
kids how to use it. Show your kids the benefit
it can provide them. Show them how to foster it
into a tool that they can use to help themselves
down the road. Because if you don't, they're gonna learn
(21:48):
from their neighbor, They're gonna learn from their friends at school,
They're gonna learn from the internet. They're gonna learn from
all of the places you wanted them to avoid in
the first place. Engage with your kids in the in
the technology and the tools you want them to learn in,
and they are going to love it. Going to be
so much better off if they're learning it from you
as a parent and you have the understanding of it.
(22:10):
And just you need to just get the knowledge yourself
so you can then pass it on to your children,
even if you don't agree with it.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I remember my twelve year old son, Ricardo would sit
in the kitchen with me, and that's where we had
a little kitchen table, and I would build computers, and
that's you know, when I was really getting into it.
I would build like a three eighty six, you know,
you build the first the two eighty six, three eighty
six and put the memory in and I would show
(22:36):
him what we were doing. And I have pictures of
him like watching they watching this thing put together, and
even had him help once in a while. Little did
I know that, you know, years later he was learning
how to code, he was learning how to write, you know,
scripts and do all this really cool stuff with technology,
(22:56):
and that's, you know, part of what he does now
as his profet. Just that time to understand what was
being done was very it was very helpful to maybe
help him and what he would do in the future
and continue to express that desire for it. So again,
I think you're right, it's important you do all that
stuff with them and help them along.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
AI is a tool. It's just another tool. It's like
I said, we talked about it in the break where
we were saying, this is how I use AI. Right,
I'm using it to search. You know we were talking, Hey,
when you wanted to look something on in Linux? Yeah,
well previously, how would you do that? You look it
up in a book?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Right, You go go.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
To the shelf, pick the book off, look in the
index what you wanted for, search, search page by page, Go, okay,
here it is, and then you go to your computer
and you try it. All I'm doing with AI is
now instead of going to the shelf picking up the book,
I'm asking the prompt, Hey, this is what I'm trying
to accomplish. How do I list all of my hard
drives in Linux?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Right?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
If it's out of command and I can type it in,
and I've now learned a.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Thing, yeap could be totally helpful, totally helpful.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
So instead of me having to go to a book. Now, great,
it's great to have books, it's great to be tactile,
it's great to have the feelings. But this the way
I'm using AI is a tool to help me learn
the little things like how to do small commands and Linux,
or searching for manuals searching in manuals, like, Hey, I
have this piece of hardware I need to know how
(24:22):
to do X, Y or Z. Please find me the
manual for this and show me in the manual where
it is, and then I can go read the manual.
It'll pull it up for me, or it'll guide me
so I can download the manual, or it'll provide provide
it for me as a PDF, and I can then
search with the manual.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
All right, we had to take a break, but I
will also say this for those that are listening right now,
and maybe you're not working with Linux, or you're not
working on your computer. Maybe it's something else around the
house you need to figure out how to do. Maybe
you know a brand name that doesn't seem to be
working right. You can actually ask your AI in most cases,
(24:56):
how to do something, or what is the meaning of something?
You get an error code on something, or my TV
isn't a channeling right? How do I fix that? You'd
be surprised at how we can answer and respond to it.
So again, give it a shot. You might be happy
with what you get. We're gonna take that break. We'll
come back with more of tech Talk Radio find out
why Sean has got all these computers sitting around laying
(25:18):
on the floor in his studio. I'm Andy Taylor.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I'm shying to wear and find us on the web
at tech talk radio dot com. Now back to tech
talk Radio. My basement is covered with computers.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Why is yours?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
That's not abnormal for my basement. Let's be honest, but
it's extra messy. Right now. If I rolled backwards, i'd
tip over my pluck server because it's it's on the
floor behind me running.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
You've got several computers behind you.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah, there's a shell of one. There's a shell of
another one. A coworker of mine just one day decided
getting out of the PC world. He's gonna go Mac only,
just real, right up, said I'm getting rid of all
my PCs. I'm going Mac only. And just I'm done
with Windows. I'm done with the PC life. I'm going
Mac only.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
And so he said, if anybody wants PC stuff, I'm
giving it away from dirt cheap. So, of course I
can't turn down cheap computer parts. So I obtained a
small collection of computer parts, processors, motherboards, you name it.
Built my niece a computer out of It got her
super happy running Minecraft on a thirty sixty TI. She's
loving it, and she's super happy that she wants to
(26:24):
get into computers. Anyways, But then I was able to, finally, finally,
thank God, upgrade my plex server.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Oh great, Now what were you running before?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It was running an old I buy power micro atx board.
Oh wow, running an I three twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Hundred okay wow, and only sixteen.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Gigs a RAM. It was originally a Windows Vista machine
I think, or Windows seven machine I think, maybe even.
But it was an old I buy power pc that
I had ripped out of a box, shredded it apart,
took the micro atx board out put it. It was
running a very low went I five or an I
three inchel So I finally migrated to a current gen system.
(27:06):
So now I'm running I seven nine series. Oh wow?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Really I jumped way up.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, and I'm running a thirty sixty in there, an
Nvidia thirty sixty. I went from a ten to seventy
to a thirty sixty the benefit And this is what
was cool. I tried this. I was running running Linux
Mint twenty two. Linux Mint is probably the best version
of Linux I've used. It's just got a great UI.
It's super easy to use.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I thought when bo when boontu was the thing until
I installed Linux bin and played around with that, and
I said, nop, this is this is it?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
H I mean, I I've played with Debian, I've played with Ubuntu,
I've played with Elementary, I've played with a handful of
other Linux distributions. Linux Mint is by far the best
and easiest one that I've had inexperienced using. So everybody's
gonna have their own opinion. Yeah, but I was curious,
so I asked. I asked one of my coworkers, and
I was like, do you think if I went from
a Intel processor to an Intel processor and an Invidia
(27:58):
GPU to an Invidia G if I could just migrate
the OSH into the new machine? All right? He's like,
he's I gotta know, never tried it. So I just
moved the hard drive over and plugged it into the
bio on the motherboard, booted to it. You had no
problem with it, zero issue loading into it.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Oh my god, that's pretty It detected that there was
a change right and I don't remember what it said,
but it booted, so I figured it was gonna be fine,
that's all.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
And I haven't had any issues, right, And that was
off the integrated graphics on it, and then I put
in the thirty sixty, downloaded the Linux and video drivers,
loaded them and it's been running fine. Now it's still
sitting right behind me because I haven't had a whole
lot of time to actually put it back in the
rack in my workshop and remount it and get everything
back in. Plus, because the old micro ATESX board only
had four state of ports on it. Now I have
(28:45):
eight state of ports on this motherboard. Oh man, I
can Now I can populate it with four more two
terrible drives and put them in RAID and get six
terriboids of storage in a RAID. So now I'll have
a little bit more RAID space, which I wanted originally.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
For listeners that don't understand show al server, can you
quickly tell us what is that?
Speaker 4 (29:04):
So?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Plexus is a media server that plays media off of
a computer that you can then stream via the app
or the the the Windows application and play media back movies.
So I've ripped all of my DVDs digitally, so I
rip I have used handbrake or make MKV to rip
my DVDs in my Blu rays Digitally, it basically pulls
(29:25):
the media files off of and stores them on my computer.
PLEX is then basically a library for that where I
can put those files into PLEX and then view them
on the app and play them.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
So it's almost like having having your own Netflix or
your own.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
It's a home theater system, right, it's it's it's a
home it's a PLEX, it's a media player. There are
many like it. U use Alternative to to find out
another one if you don't want to use PLEX. But
it allows us to put media on the network and
then be able to watch it on your iPhone, watch
it on your Android, watch it on your Smart TV,
watch it on your Xbox, your PlayStation, your PC. But
(29:58):
it's great because I've also put all by home movies
on there though all my family stuff is in there.
And then what you can do is, if you're smart
enough about it, you can make it accessible outside of
your home. I tell my family, hey, download PLEX, connect
to my server. Here's my log in, you know, connect
to this IP address, and then they can watch all
of the home movies that I have on my plextir.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
You can choose what they're able to see. So that's
kind of cool. Yeah, So then then I.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Don't have to you know, they don't have to go
to a Google Drive and download a Google Drive folder
or a link and watch it there. They can just
go to Plex and they can watch whatever they want
and it treats it. You know, you can put thumbnails in,
you can give a descriptions, et cetera, et cetera. So
that's what you see behind me is kind of a
a PLEX upgrade graveyard with PC parts kind of strewn
(30:43):
all over the place.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Have you ever thought about starting your own business? How
about a business in the tech world? Creating a website
that will bring visitors and create conversations. That is exactly
what Anna Belch did with her website, Leamie. We're gonna
be talking to her about the creat of this website,
who it's geared to, and why it has finally come
(31:04):
to fruition and it's seeing some really great results. That's
coming up with tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I'm sean to weird send us an X at tech Talk.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Radio and now back to tech Talk Radio. Hey, this
comedian Kathleen Meddigan, and you're listening to tech Talk Radio's
something I will never be listening to because I hate technology.
But for those of you, the two these are your guys,
no doubt. When you are looking to make a friend,
(31:34):
sometimes you go on to Facebook and you might find
somebody in your circle that you know you could connect
with that maybe you have the same interest. When it
comes to dating, there have been so many dating apps
over the years for connecting, whether it be sites like
you know, Tinder or even some of the other sites
that are out there. And I've even seen some people
(31:54):
jump on the LinkedIn and you know, try and establish
friendships there. But there is a new website that is
really making a great connection with the female audience. And
Anna Bilch is the founder of les Amiss if I
pronounce it right, and it's with us on tech Talk Radio,
and I thank you so much for coming on the show.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Absolutely thanks for the invitation.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Tell us a little bit about this idea on ley
Amiss and how it is redefining how women make meaningful
friendships in twenty twenty five outside of possibly the dating world.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Sure, absolutely so.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
First of all, how Lesendie was created and why Lezenmie
was created is basically from my personal story in general,
I moved countries twice. So first I'm from Estonia originally.
Then I moved to Dublin to work at Paper as
a product manager, and then after a couple of years,
I moved to Barcelona, and I was absolutely surprised that
(33:00):
it's actually so hard to find like minded people in
the new city, especially if you're not a student anymore,
you're working from home, or maybe you're working like in
the office, or like with the colleagues who is for example,
much older than you, or only like male dominated companys.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
And then I tried I.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Think, all the apps, all the websites, and you were absolutely.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Right mentioning for example, Facebook groups.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
There was also meetup, evan Bright, bumblebff, and so try
them all and unfortunately didn't find any friends, even though
I was like, wow, like I'm absolutely normal person, why
it is so hard to find new friends? Even though
I would say, like in my mind was that finding
(33:56):
friends is kind of just like a basic Yeah, it
sounds very easy, but in reality it's not at all.
And you're also absolutely right that there's like one hundred
apps for dating for like bumble, Tinder, hearing, Raya, and
there's like literally hundreds of them, and then from like
(34:18):
my personal experience of using gold apps for friendship and
I kind of noted why it didn't succeed for me
basically and try to fix all the problems.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
That's kind of I had.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Well, if you think about this on there, there's a
certain amount of guard. You know, you put up a
wall when you're online on social media in many of
these situations, especially with Facebook, in Instagram and snap even,
you have to have a kind of a wall for
protection number one of your assets, but also your person
(34:58):
who you are. Finding a group though, where everybody really
has the same kind of I don't want to say goal,
but yeah, that would be right goal. That's the same
idea of meeting some people would like mind that you
could be friends with and learn from and share with.
That's that's got to be the challenge, and that's exactly
what leam meets has kind of set forth with this
(35:21):
whole friendship economy. It's kind of you know, you may
have been, you know, a real trendsetter and trend starter
here finding what was lacking in the others and being
able to put it all into one.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Absolutely, you're totally right, because what is like special for
Les I mean, first of all, we're meeting and groups
usually the groups of like women is ten or maximum
twelve people. Why so, first of all, of course safety,
meeting in the groups are way safer than meeting one
on one. And also in terms of just as you
(35:56):
mentioned the goal or for example, I call it, that
everyone come with the same intention intention of finding friends.
Then also the conversation goes way more like smoother when
it's like ten people than just one to one, because
especially if you're an introverted person, it's actually really hard
(36:17):
to come to this one to one meeting because you
know you will feel like awkward, maybe like you won't
be able to figure out which question to ask and
so on. It's like small talk and the first talk
with stranger. It's always hard. But what we do in
Lezamie is that first of all, yeah, you meet in
the in small group, and second there's also an event
(36:41):
like in place kind of in the middle of this meeting,
and it can be everything. So right now we do
over five hundred events per month, and it can be
like pottery, book and making, just like branch.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
S by evenings. Any beauty is skin gear.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Like talks and song with the host with the expert
that is like teaching you how to use for example,
carrying cosmetic and song. And then usually event these two
hours and after these two hours, it's because it's went
so smoothly, and then nobody were pushed to let's say,
(37:22):
remove the silence and say something, because there's always something happening.
And then in the meantime you can also have the
conversation the girls. And that's like one way how we
connect our users. And the second way works a bit different,
is that we build our own algorithm like AI model,
(37:44):
which basically calculates the connectivity score between women based on
their profiles. So basically like for example Anna and Emma
they have many things on common the city scoreless ninety
two percent, for example, and then we create a chegger
(38:04):
for them and explain why you got connected, which also
really helps because then they have this kind of theme
for a small talk because that like it says, okay,
of course you both live in the same city, and
you both like play tennis and love something else, and
then as an easy question can be already asking like oh,
(38:28):
like for how long you're playing tennis and where you're playing,
Maybe let's go together to play tennis, and that's how
we meet and that's what we see from like all
the feedbacks from this like AI feature that we built
in the app.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
That there's actually the feedback is really really good.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
So you can actually group this geographically as well. So
if you have like a group that isn't like Green Valley,
Arizona or Phoenix or possibly you know, another part of
the world, or maybe even they have they're from those areas,
they can actually connect with those that have those same
interest based on the area as well with these events.
(39:09):
That's a great idea.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Absolutely, yeah, that's how it works.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
What was it like on a for you to get
this great idea and then get it made? Was it
a challenge to get done? Did you find a lot
of people that said, no, we can do this, we
can do this, we have this capability.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
It is definitely a challenge, and it's still a challenge
even though we're building Lezbie for three and a half years.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
For sure, I.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Can say the first year is the hardest because first
of all, like I started with my copounder Olik, there
was just two of us in the beginning. At that time,
I was like the in playing big corporation. Olik was
also like at Google for almost ten years, and for
(39:59):
us jumping into something uncertain and very questionable. Of course,
it's hard because once you have like your job in
a big corporation, you're feel absolutely let's say safe and secure.
You have guaranteed paycheck in a certain day of the month,
(40:21):
and you always know that everything is covered. Maybe you
also have some perks as an insurance and so on,
which is like awesome. And then one day, like you
decide to build something by your own and there will
be just for in our case, two of us, and
we need to cut everything. There is no insurance anymore,
(40:41):
no paychecks. It's only you, your knowledge and your savings,
and you don't know like when will it work out,
or will it like work out.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
At the end, like in general or not.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
And in addition to that, even though it's always the sense,
but in addition to that, you have an imposter syndrome
because right now there's only two of you. But imagine
there's about like your idea, there's just an idea. The
company is not incorporated. There's no website, there's no log
(41:16):
no branding. You don't even know how it will look like,
how it would work. There's no app there's no clients,
there's no ads about you, and like there's like literally nothing,
which means two of you need to do all that
stuff and you become a marketing manager, a product manager, designer,
(41:36):
a lawyer, accountant and like everything. And of course I've
been only a product manager all my life basically, so
this is something that I'm doing good and I know
I have knowledge, and then like within a day you
become like ten more roles, and of course you feel
(41:58):
quite awkward. Of course you have like something like depressions,
or of course, since you start to work like fourteen
twelve hours per day absolutely every day, without any weekends
and vacations, Like my first vacation was only two years
after it started. That was the time when we're like, okay,
(42:21):
now we have a team of six and probably they
can manage one week without me.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
You're hoping, yes, yeah, we're just hoping.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
And you don't know because also what I understood, if
you kind of go to vacation but you're still working, like,
for example, three four hours per day just to check
it out, then it doesn't help you to really like
relax and recharge. You need to like shut it down
absolutely without any messages.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
And so on.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
You know, I love the message of the website and
I've been on the website. I can't sign up. I'm
a guy. But we enable women to achieve more by
bringing them together. And you know, that's that empowerment phase.
And I've talked to a lot of women business owners,
young women that are saying, hey, what should I do
(43:14):
here or what should I do there? This is a
great way to get that input from other women that
have like yourself, that have experienced starting a business from
scratch or even maybe have succeeded in many other businesses
in the past.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
It's not just.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
About the arts. It's not just about relationships. It's about
also learning from many others that can be help and
a great way to start a valuable friendship. When you
think about it and you look at it and you say, well,
social tech and again we've talked about some of the
other sites there, it's not just about making that match.
(43:52):
It's about having that feeling of belonging. And that's what
Limis kind of brings to everybody, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Yeah, absolutely, And that's what we wanted to and like
this message reconnecting, we enable you to achieve more by
connecting you together. Is actually came also from my personal
experience because for example, once I joined PayPal, I was
just twenty one, actually one of the youngest, and then
(44:18):
there I was like I got multiple mentors also only
women in the company who were like pushing me and
like showing me the path where should I go. And
then also once for example, I was just twenty four
once I became I see you and a co founder,
(44:41):
also very young. And then to overcome a lot of challenges,
I also got some coaches also actually the only women,
it just happened like that who really helped me to
go through through the challenge of.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
Like finding myself.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
And also you can imagine, and you're just twenty four,
you do these tons of like different hands, hats, you're
wearing different heads, and then you go to conferences and
you need to speak with investors and of course they're
only men, and they see this twenty four years old,
(45:20):
very young girl, and of course they don't like really.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
They don't give you a full ear. Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (45:30):
Like, okay, you're just doing something. Okay, you're a nice girl,
but let me talk with like real men and real businesses.
Of course, now tables have turned and like you can
see like the result and the product and so on,
but it's a really hard time, just like.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
To show yourself, to show what you can create.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
The website is lay a miss dot see it's l
E S A M I S dot c C. The name.
How did you come up with the name and how
it represents the brand?
Speaker 3 (46:10):
So we wanted, like we wanted to create a stylish
brand but which also will be kind of playful and
a beautiful name.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
And that's how like, that's how we decided.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
That maybe it can be something French unless I mean,
for example, it.
Speaker 4 (46:32):
Just means friends in French.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
But the funny thing, we actually consider it as the
first name. It was the first idea of us friends.
But of course, as a business owner, the first thing
what you do once you're choosing the name, you're just Google.
You go to the Google search and put the name.
See like what's happening. And you can imagine there was
(46:56):
at least like ten pages only about Friends, the TV series,
and we're like, okay, it's impossible to beat them in
the search, so let's do. Let's think about another idea.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Well, yeah, I think it's perfect. It fits really well,
it's a great looking website and I hope our listeners
take a look at it and recommend it to you know,
their daughters, their friends, their coworkers. Had a great way
to continue to build and you've seen really great growth
since the site has been officially launched.
Speaker 3 (47:29):
Actually yes, and we didn't expect that because just within
the first month we got almost two thousands applications just
in one city and it was like wow, because in
the beginning, I was, of course questioning, is it like
the problem just for me in terms of finding friends,
(47:51):
because I never heard anyone complaining about that. But like
when we started, they're I mean, in the world in general,
there was no such a movement of communities or different
apps or like even talking about friendship at that time.
(48:12):
Only like government, like different countries started to talk about
loneliness lowness epidemic in general, and that year, for example,
England decided to have Minister of Loneliness.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
Really, oh wow.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
They have this role.
Speaker 3 (48:33):
They have like a particular budget to like overcome the
lonness epidemic and that's free, so which means that within
the stry and health years, we I mean, we started it,
but now there's a lot of companies like similar ones
to talk more about lowliness, about finding friends, and that's
(48:53):
actually normal to have your like third place, third community,
not only like family work, but then there are also
something else.
Speaker 4 (49:03):
For example, before.
Speaker 3 (49:06):
Right now it's not really the case anymore, the third
place was church.
Speaker 4 (49:11):
Actually church was connecting people.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
Very well because everybody like true like neighbor Woods are
coming to the church on Sundays. They know they will
meet a lot of people, make friends. And so now
the new era of communities and something like lessami, where
you have your community, you belong to something and you
have your circle around you.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Well, it is great. Continued success to Youanna. I want
to thank you for coming on the show and telling
us about the website. I want to tell our listeners
to check it out. L E. S, A, M. I,
S dot C C and I hope we get a
chance to talk to you again and again continued success
with the site.
Speaker 4 (49:50):
Thank you very much for this conversation.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
We will have more of tech talk Radio that is
coming up. Make sure you find us up on YouTube.
You can subscribe to our page as well. Com Forward
Slash tech Talk Radio and now Factor tech Talk Radio.
Apple has announced that they have their iOS twenty six beta.
(50:13):
Now they change the name being Pattern of their iOS.
So now, of course it's coinciding with the year. So
I guess they're looking ahead for the next year, which
will be you know, twenty twenty six. So my question
for Sean today was, of course, did you get the beta?
Speaker 2 (50:29):
I always like getting the betas. Everybody thinks I'm crazy
because they're like, oh, you're gonna get a buggy mass
it's gonna be annoying. Well, that's how you help. I
can now help develop a little bit, right, I can
help cater to the things that I want to see.
So I upgraded to the Developer Beta, which is great, right,
but it includes the new liquid Glass update.
Speaker 1 (50:50):
Okay, so yeah, there was a lot of talk about
that when they made the announced.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
It's just it's just a way for them to look
at the icons and make them more rounded and shiny
and look like glass. And I'm not a big fan,
to be honest.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
Is it just getting used to it you think? Or
is it No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (51:07):
It's just it's just not it's not a good look.
I don't I don't care for it. It rounds a
lot of things. They made the icon. The certain icons
are way bigger. Menu options are way bigger, even with
my font sizes the way they were, and the icon
size is the way they were. Some things just you're like, whoa,
that's in your face. Oh, and they move some things around.
(51:28):
They changed the icons for a couple of the core apps.
So just some muscle memory getting used to some muscle memory,
some more customization options. The big one is they moved something,
like they said, they move some things around. Some of
the big ones are the search function. Really normally, like
on an iPhone, you would swipe down from the top
and the search bar would be at the top near
(51:48):
the island. If you have a newer phone, now all
the searches are at the bottom above your keyboard, and
the search bar kind of floats there above the keyboard.
Speaker 1 (51:57):
I have that with a pixel. They have it down
to tour to the bottom.
Speaker 3 (52:00):
Two.
Speaker 2 (52:01):
Yeah, so it's it's just different. Right. So now I'm
getting used to where my eyes are trained to the
use or my thumb, where my thumbs are because they
moved a lot of the the the excess to close
things to the to the bottom next to the search bar.
So getting used to that, and I I think I
(52:22):
mentioned it like this, right more often than not a
lot of times. When we were first getting smartphones, everybody
had it in one hand. Everybody wanted one hand operation
of their phone, being able to reach across with your
thumb to keep you. But now that phones are so big,
everybody's gone to a two handed operation. So where are
(52:44):
your thumbs? Right? If you hold your phone with both hands, everybody,
I want, I want people. If you hold your phone,
your index fingers are typically on the on the sides
and your thumbs are at the bottom right. So now
try hold of your phone like that. Try to close
a menu with an ax at the top.
Speaker 1 (53:06):
Oh yeah, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (53:08):
You're moving your you're moving your whole hand yep, or
you're moving your right hand or your left hand. Right.
Most people I've seen using phones now are double handed.
Everybody's using double handed yep, not single handed anymore, and
the UI is adapting to that.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
Unless you're styling and you've got the old school flip
phone and you swept that thing out, flip it all ten.
Speaker 2 (53:30):
Warning, still off to YouTube two thumbs.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
Yeah, I guess so, Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (53:35):
Yep, that's we're kind of going back to that right,
That's how you held your old phones. Now a lot
of people could teenine and order with one thumb if
you were smart enough, or you had the sidekick, you
slipped it open, you had a full keyboard. I had
a sidekick. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
Those were good.
Speaker 2 (53:49):
But it's interesting to see I'm now a two hand
phone holder, like I'm now seeing the UI and the
user experience is now for seeing me to be the
two thumber. Whereas before I would do one hand and
reach across or reposition my hand, I'm doing a lot less.
It's actually a lot less hand movement.
Speaker 1 (54:12):
Yeah, but when you're holding it with one hand.
Speaker 2 (54:14):
It's it's weird to think about, but it's it's it's
it's drawing me into the two handed, two thumb interface.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Kind of like exercising to be a thumb wrestler. Let's say, hey, yeah, one.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
Two, three, four, thumb wore five six, seven, eight. Yeah,
there you go. All right, we are so yeah, we are.
Speaker 1 (54:34):
Out of time.
Speaker 4 (54:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (54:35):
You covered a lot of stuff, and there was a
lot more stuff we wanted to cover. Hopefully next week
I'll be able to talk a little bit about that.
With the Lenovo Legion Wi Fi thirty that I have
been having major issues with and I want to find
out your thoughts save this. Maybe some listeners can let
us know too what they think about one.
Speaker 2 (54:53):
Yeah, we have some great listener questions that I wanted
to get to. BOE ran out of time, so I
just we always love your listener questions. Call us, email US,
text us, FaceTime US. Yep, we'll answer your pulse.
Speaker 1 (55:04):
Everything you'll find at tech talk radio dot com. I'm
Andy Taylor, I'm suan to Weard.
Speaker 2 (55:08):
Have a great week.
Popular Podcasts
Fudd Around And Find Out
UConn basketball star Azzi Fudd brings her championship swag to iHeart Women’s Sports with Fudd Around and Find Out, a weekly podcast that takes fans along for the ride as Azzi spends her final year of college trying to reclaim the National Championship and prepare to be a first round WNBA draft pick. Ever wonder what it’s like to be a world-class athlete in the public spotlight while still managing schoolwork, friendships and family time? It’s time to Fudd Around and Find Out!
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!