Episode 449 - Google It or Let the Dice Decide! - TechtalkRadio

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome back to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm
Sean de.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Weird, I'm Andy Taylor, and the table you are looking
at right now on the video for the show is
Sean's Hall from gen Con. Yeah, I got.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Back Sunday night from gen Con twenty twenty five, right,
so there's a little bit of picture of my haull.
So I've got some new games, some more Everdell games,
Everdel Silverfrost of Everdell Duo, which is a two player version,
Twinkle Twinkle which is a constellation building games, Tark Stars
in Space of course, Shocker, a game called Galaxy Trucker

(00:50):
which is another space game, Dice Tray Some Dice, a
Dagger Heart book which I actually had bought before gen
Con but got it signed. And then some new D
and D five E books from Gooey Cube, which is
which is the third party platform for D and D
one of my favorites. I've been following them for a
long time and got to participate in their live show
this year, which is pretty cool. And then a game
called Foxy for a friend of ours who likes Foxes.

(01:13):
And then do you remember POGs, Andy.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
POGs, POGs, POGs, POGs with those Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
I do.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
As a matter of fact, I had a pog with
my face on it. It was me and my old
morning show partner. They were to hand out these POGs
and it was me and Barry on these POGs. I
think I still have a few somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
So POGs were very popular when I was in grade school,
so this would have been mid nineties, late nineties, right,
And one of the games that I play, called Dice
THROWNE was t teas like two years ago an April
Fool's joke called slam Thrown, a pog version of their
game where you have a metal slammer and you slam

(01:54):
down to do damage and stuffing that, And this year
at gen Con they're like, no longer in Apris Fool's joke.
Here it is, you can buy it.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
They actually came out with the game all right. For
our listeners that have tuned in Now, last year we
talked about gen Con, and you should talked.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
About gen Con. Since I've been on the show, I've
gone the last ten.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Years, So tell us about every year where it's at
and you know what it's all about.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
So gen Con is kind of is dubbed as the
best four days in gaming. It's a tabletop RPG, fantasy
card game, tabletop RPG, you know, whatever you name it anything,
board game related, tabletop gaming convention. It's held in Indianapolis
at the Indianapolis Convention Center. It takes over the Convention
Center and it takes over Lucas Oil Stadium.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Would you say, Sean with so many devices, with so
many announcements, you know, consoles switched to the whole bit?
Is desktop gaming as far as playing on a tabletop
you know, like Dungeons of Dragons Traveler that type, is
that still popular?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
So it hasn't broke through into this convention as big
as you think it was, as big as you think
it would. There are some parts of it that there
are some people who bring in, like some computer based
RPG games or some computer based role playing games. So
like some states, some people had some space games where

(03:18):
everybody sated a computer and did a different part of
the ship and involved they did like a role playing
scenario where you flew through the flu ship and stuff
like that. But as far as like video games and
things like that, not here, not a gen gun.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Really, it's just board.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Games, card games, tabletops, RPGs, fantasy games.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
So there's still a lot of people. There's still a
lot of people playing these type of games versus you know,
plug you know, using something on a screen. They're using
their creativity more than.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
You would think to be honest, and it's it's very popular.
And there are a lot of familiar titles that have
popular ips like Marvel and and Spider Man, and you know,
you got to get into a lot of those ips
that have a lot. But then there's also games that
they just have their own ips. There's their own, they're
their own, like Everdell has. There's about a dozen games

(04:11):
in the Everdell series.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Right, I own.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
I own the complete collection, plus the two new ones
they just came out. Yeah, I'm just a bit. I
have a lot of boarder games, as indicated by that
picture that's just by my table. You can see the
shelf off that here.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
I'll put it back up yeah, let's see that kind
of see get that when you went after the.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Right there's a there's an Ikea shelf over there that
is full. It's a it's a six by six shelf.
It's full of boarder games. Right, And you can see
more more board games on the back wall, more more
magic cards on the left side. I've got a whole
room in my basement dedicated to this stuff.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
So now, how long, like you're playing one of these
games for our listeners that maybe have never thought, hey,
this might be fun to do with, you know, the kids,
or maybe you know with a group of friends. You know,
how long can one of these games last? I mean,
so you start a game, can you have it go
a couple hours? Or can they That's the.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
That's that's the beauty about board game, right. You can
find your niche. You can find the game that takes
five six hours to play if you really wanted to.
But a lot of the games are dialed into like
thirty to forty minutes, an hour, hour and a half.
It all depends on the technique that you know. Some
people like complicated games, some people like fast paced games.
Some people like turn based games. Some people like cooperative

(05:20):
games some people like you versus the games. Everybody has
their own version of what they want to play, like
the style that they're their gameplay, what they like. So
there's tons of games for everybody. Not all the games.
Not all games are for everybody. There are games that
I don't like playing because it's not my style. But
I have a pretty wide variety of pretty wide range
because I just like games in general. But yeah, I

(05:40):
would say my favorite is like high Fantasy turn based.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Is there one one game, like, say, at gen Con,
you know, you look at well comic Con, everybody's talking
about the movies, They're talking about the comics, they're talking
about TV shows, streaming stuff. I mean, George Lucas made
an appearance at San Diego Comic Con, and it was
like everybody wanted to talk about this because you know,
he's got such a huge fan base. At gen Con,

(06:05):
is there one game that everybody was talking about that
they said, you've got to try this. It's big? And
is there one developer bigger than the others?

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Oh Man, there's so many big developers. I would say
probably the biggest one this year was another tabletop RPG
called Dagger Heart, which we've talked about on the show
before because I got into the open beta a couple
of months ago. They actually have a full production release.
And we've talked about Critical Role on the show before.
So the publisher called Darrington Press is who Critical Role

(06:35):
Stouter started. They started the publishing company called Darrington Press
and they released their own Dice based ARPG system called
dagger Heart. So that is big. It's fully released now
and they're already talking about future pieces, expansions, character updates,
et cetera. And we actually went to a live show
in Fisher's, Indiana, which is just north of Indianapolis. It

(06:58):
was a live play through of dagger Heart with the
Critical Role cast.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
And they announced that they announced their new campaign, which
is a campaign four. It's rumored to be in the
dagger Heart series. They've been playing D and D five
E for the last three campaigns, but it's very highly
rumored and most likely going to be Daggerhart. So it's
a whole new like, it's a whole new system that
is competing with Dungeons and Dragons at this point.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
So well, it's kind of cool because I know that
it was probably a few months ago. I went to
a shopping center just outside of Marana, and it's an
outdoor shopping center and I've been trying to remember the
name of it, but they had a store in there
dedicated to what we're talking about, the games, the books,
the board games, and they do very well and there

(07:49):
was a lot of people that play them and a
lot of us. You know, maybe we're so wrapped up
in our words, our world. I remember my mom and
dad used to play bridge and poker with their friends
when they would come over and visit on a Saturday.
But this is something that maybe a younger said, is
getting to Is it geared the male audience or females?
Do they get involved in it as well?

Speaker 2 (08:08):
It is the entire spectrum. Everybody has loved to gen
Con like it's a big part of their identity. Is
everybody's welcome. Harassments not welcome here, everybody. You get kids
all the way, I mean everybody. There's games catered to everybody.
There's games catered to specific identities, there's games just everybody.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
Now. I remember I used to play Traveler and that
was for our devices, so it was a lot of fun.
It was you know, a role playing your roll the
dice and then it was fun. I remember that this
is many many years ago. Now I'm wondering, though, have
we seen a kind of emerging of the board games
with technology, so like somebody might need your smartphone for

(08:52):
a certain piece of that. And of course, if they
do add ons like you had mentioned, maybe a brand
new series. These games aren't just you open the ball
like scrabble. You open the box, you play it, and
then you're done. You could have different adventures or different scenarios, right.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, So there are usually expansions for games, and a
big thing for me for a lot of games is replayability,
so being able to play a game and come back
to it and have a different experience. Right, So you
play it once with your friends, you have a completely
different outcome. You play it the next time with a

(09:28):
different group, completely different outcome because it's all based on
random number generation and dice rolling and things like that.
So there's not a lot of games. There's a lot
of game popular games that have digital versions. Ticket to Ride,
Cotan Dice Don't's coming out with a digital version. There
are ways to play these games online, right.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
How about battlefield sir?

Speaker 2 (09:52):
So you want to talk about space based or military
based games. You're starting to get into things like Warhammer
and uh you know other other miniature based games like
that Warhammered, uh Stars, uh Star Wars, uh Legion, a
couple other like miniature based dice rolling, tactical turn by
turn based games, and there's a ton there's a ton

(10:13):
of that stuff too. So gen Con has everything. Man,
I'm telling you, if if you're into if you're into
anything related to board games, or maybe if you think like,
oh my board games, stop at Monopoly, Like there's a
whole new world out there for you.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Kind of think that last year when you had gone,
you had sent some photos. There's cosplay that happens, So
there are people that really get into it and they
dress up in costumes. Did you see a lot of that.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Uh yeah, yeah, So there's a lot. And like again,
it's it's across. There's so many genres, so it's not
like you're going to something that's just a specific ip, right,
So you have people that are dress up as characters
you may have never even heard of, but it's from
their favorite series or favorite game. And we went to
the Critical Role Live Show, and the Critical Role Live
Show is just a whole different sub sect of the community,

(11:00):
right right, it's a lot of creative people. The costplay
there was so much better than costplay I've seen other
places because they're so dedicated. They're so focused on one
ip and you just saw characters from that series and
there's a whole. There's a whole. They do a parade
through the convention center with all the costplay and then
they do a contest too, so you can go in

(11:21):
and watch the contest and you can win prizes and
stuff like that for best best dress and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
That's pretty cool. Now, do you have a favorite? You know,
for our listeners that are thinking, well, I'm gonna go
check out this store in Morana or they want to
go online and maybe order one of these, Do you
have a favorite that maybe somebody who wants to get
into this or try it. What would be a game
that they they should start with? And what is your favorite?
Right now?

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Oh man, that is a loaded, loaded question, right It's
because it's it's it's you have everybody's different, right, So
I will tell everybody to try a game at least once,
because because you might find that you like it. You
might find that, you know, if you're interested in board games.
I would tell you dice th Own is one to
get into pretty quick if you like dice rolling games.
A little bit of tactical uh, player versus player player verse,

(12:08):
the environment, player versus the game. They have a Marvel set,
they have an x Men set, they have their own
eye characters in the series. I have a ton of that.
That one's fun. The Everdell series is a fantasy worker
placement game where you collec resources and try and build
your own little world, your own little town inside Everdell,
and compete for resources against other players. They make a

(12:30):
version of that called My Little Everdell, which is like
for ages six and up. Really so, but if you're
interested in learning the Everdell series, like the core mechanics
of Everdell, that's your go to. I bought it two
years of gen Con because I had never played Everdell.
I have a friend who's obsessed with it. She told me,
if you want to learn how to play Everdell by this,

(12:51):
you're gonna love it. Bought it at gen Con. My
friend Steve and I figured out how to play it,
and I was like, this game is awesome. Last last
year I bought the whole complete collection of Everdell, which
was like eight games within the whole box. You remember
I showed you that big box.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
That was a huge, huge box.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
That huge box it has like it has all the
Everdel games in it, plus the expansions in the Collector's
editions of all the games too. So then they added
a new version of Everdell this past year called Silver Frost,
which I bought and then got. I got to meet
and talk with the husband and wife who developed Everdell,

(13:29):
and they signed the player guide for me and signed
the inside of the box. And then Caitlin when she
came down because she came with me for one day
this year, she saw an Everdell Duo, which is a
just a one v one you play against the other person.
It's based the same core mechanics, but you're fighting just
it's just one on one. It's not four player, it's

(13:51):
just a two player version of Everdel. But there's so
many good games. I mean, I don't know where to start.
But if you want party games, I liked, I like,
I have a lot of party games. So there's like
a game called Sushi Go. It's it sounds it sounds funny,
it's a game where it's a game where you try
and collect different types of sushi. And it's a party game,

(14:14):
so you could be two to eight players, so you
can have eight players at the same time fighting for sushi.
It's really incredibly fun. Oh god, there's so many good
games Andy, I don't even know where to start.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
It's mainly jen Con is mainly adventure games. You're not
gonna find games like Cards against Humanity, which a few
years ago.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
But you'll find Yeah, you'll find Card against Humanity. You'll
find all sorts of those kinds of games. You'll find
anything tabletop related this year, so you'll find Card against
the Humanity. You'll find the really kind of crude and
humorous ones like Joking Hazard Uh. If you're familiar with
the comic Cyanide and Happiness, Yes online they have. They

(14:54):
created a card game a handful of years ago. They
actually created several Trial by Trolley, which is another really
fun one. There's so many good games, like I could
just show you my shelf and tell you why these
games are all good. Right, But then there's table there's
RPG's right, so you've got Dungeons and Dragons, Dagger Heart,
Call of Cthulhu Eat the Reich. I mean, there's so

(15:16):
many good RPG games that are out there that I
don't even know about because I wasn't super into other art,
tabletop barbieges besides D and D for a long time.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Now, if you've never been, uh, you've never played D
and D, right, and the actual Dungeons and Dragons, is
that something you know? I don't want to call it newbies,
but is that something that they can get into pretty
easily with a small girl friends.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
So, Dungeons and Dragons has been around for a long time.
In twenty fifteen, I think twenty fifteen, they announced a
new version of Dungeons and Dragons, right, because you had
D and D three point five, then Dungeons Dragons four
E which came out, and then they announced it was
originally called D and D Next, but then they called
it five E, fifth editionion and it kind of became

(16:04):
a very rudimentary way to get people involved. It was
a simpler set of rules, condensed everything. They started making
these starter kits, starter boxes that were one shot modules,
pre generated character sheets, things that made it really easy
to get into D and D without having a D
and D knowledge. Also spurned by stranger things. Right things
came out. They were playing D and D in the

(16:25):
show that you saw a big You saw a big
uprising in popularity from that show. Plus you started seeing
a trend where you had a lot of podcasters coming
in doing play a live place. So you had critical
role coming in around twenty fifteen doing D and D
five E coming from Pathfinder, which is another tabletop version,

(16:46):
another D and D style version of a game called Pathfinder.
Different rules set, different rules, its own core world, its
own system. Then five E became very popular. Now there
are more podcasts than you can count on. Dungeons Dragons
now slowly turning into a little bit more dagger Heart
because Daggerhart just came out. It's a little bit more popular.
I think it's incredible. It's an incredible system. I think

(17:09):
Daggerheart's a little bit more user friendly for new players.
So I think I said this about D and D.
I know Matt plays D and D. I know Justin's
maybe played once or twice, maybe you played a handful
of years ago, back in the day. I would like
to do a tech talk radio one shot I got
to it, I would run it. You me, Matt and
you me, Matt and Justin, and I think it'd be incredible.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
That would be a blast.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
But I think with Daggerhart. I think with dagger Heart
we'd be able to just drop in and do it.
I think it it'd be fun to do one in
five E and one in Daggerhart and then compare for
new players the systems. But yeah, I mean there's so
many good, good shows. And what I like about gen
Con is that you get to go and meet the
people that make these games, because they like playing games

(17:55):
just as much as you do.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
That's why they created it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah. And then there's one group that I picked up
a version of one of their games called The Darkest Dream,
which was a it's a module for five E. So
it's a book maps character, background story, you know, world
and building, and it was incredible. It was called Gooey
Gouey Cube. They're based out of Colorado, right met them there,
loved their books. They you know, they said, hey, come

(18:19):
check out our little show that we do. We're doing
this little like game show style. We're going to bring
in some D and D celebrities. We're gonna have them
play our game for a little bit and maybe give
some prizes away. That was like six years ago and
now they're probably one of the biggest five E publishers
third party publishers that exist. Wow, and their game show
sales out every year and I did it this year,

(18:42):
and they they have five players. They have four players
that play the game show. This year they picked team captains.
I was the team captain for one of the one
of the players, so I got to help pick because
they get the audience involved, and the audience can buy
power ups and and buy rewards and stuff, and it
was incredible I got to do that. We ended up
not winning as but it was incredibly fun and I

(19:05):
ended up getting some some a gift card for their store,
which I went and properly spent more than what I
probably should have at their store.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, is this an expensive hobby to get into?

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yes, it can be, right, it doesn't have to be
because you can buy board games. And I think if
you go and look go to Target, Target, really Walmart wherever,
and go to their gaming section fifteen years ago, you
never would have seen a majority of the titles that

(19:38):
are on the shelves. You would have seen Uno, Monopoly Life. Sorry, right,
trouble you know to your typical fahaha, fun Funwer family Games,
candy Land, Shoots, the Letders, whatever. You are seeing a
majority a lot of these titles at these retailers because
they're becoming popular. Catan probably one of the most pop

(20:01):
if if if you talk to somebody that's into board games,
you said, what's the game that unit you like to play?
And they'll take a.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Tan, right.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Catan is It's a settler. It's a hex based building.
You restsettle and get resources and stuff. It's an incredibly
fun game. It's been around for a very long time.
I played it in grade school. It's kind of where
I got my start and this whole thing. I played
it with a youth with my youth group growing up
and kind of just kind of rooted me into game
board gaming at that time. But until I had adult money,

(20:28):
I didn't really have a whole lot of money to
spend on board games until after college and stuff, so
kind of got into it.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Then that's cool, all right. If our listeners gonna get
more information about it, obviously there's websites. Is there one
website maybe versus another that they could learn more about
the different games or is it really.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Bords Game, Board game geek dot com.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Board game geek dot com. All right, that's that's probably.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
It's probably the best web website resource for board games.
It's gonna give you, uh information about the game. It's
gonna tell you you literally everything you need to know
about the game, where you can buy it, Reviews, articles,
they were all do they have They had a huge
booth at gen Con so they do a big review

(21:11):
every year. But you can sign in, build a profile,
and put all of your games in there and then
find other people that play those games and talk about them.
Oh wow, I want to play if you want to
play online?

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Oh yeah, that was that was gonna be my next question.
Can that be.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Board game Arena dot com?

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Oh all right?

Speaker 2 (21:29):
And you can play a lot of these titles online
and they keep adding more and more every day, every
you know, every time you go to there, like, oh,
I can play that game?

Speaker 1 (21:36):
So how did how would that? How would that work?
It's not a digital game, it's a board game, but
you're playing online. Is it like a camera on your
board or one board?

Speaker 2 (21:45):
No, it's it's a virtualized version of the board on
the It's it's you just play in the browser. And
it shows you the board and you it pops up
the cards and it's all interactive. And they have a
ton of the major major title platforms on there, and
also some of the major titles have their own versions.
Ticket to Ride Catan has their own but it's available
on Board Game Arena, gloom Haven. I mean, there are

(22:07):
so many good ones that just have their own digital
platforms because it makes it more accessible. Because again, in
the world of technology, in the world of knowing people
around the world, you can't always get together and collaborate
at a table. But true you're one screen away from
being able to play with your friends around the world.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
So that makes it pretty cool. And that's how we
would probably do the Tech Talk Radio one.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, we would. We would do it on our website
called roll twenty right, so a website designed for it's
called the Virtual Tabletop so VTT. If you go to
my YouTube channel, you guys have probably seen me streaming
it before, where I streamed a handful of my DD
games a couple of years ago throughout my sessions that
I do. But I can make maps, I can put
in minis, I can do all dynamic lighting, I can

(22:55):
do all sorts of stuff, so I will build it
in there, and then with dagger Heart. There's a website
called Demiplane which has a character builder of character sheets,
interactive character sheets that you can track all of your
stats and everything online dynamically within the game, so that
when you make changes, I see them as the as
the GM and the other players can see them dynamically

(23:16):
and it's all virtual.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
All right. Once again, that's bored great.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
There's a great community around it, and it's just it's
it's so good.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
All right. That's board game geek dot com.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yeah, Bord gamegeek dot com. All right, Bordgamemarina dot com.
We're all twenty dot net, demiplane dot com. And I
think we have to take a break.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
All right, We are going to take a break. Some
comments made last week regarding Linux had some great responsive
feedback and social media. We'll share a couple of those
thoughts with you coming up on tech talk Radio. I'm
Andy Taylor, I'm Sean to Weird.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Follow us on Facebook at tech Talkers when we're back
now back to tech talk Radio.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
During the break, Sean was showing me some of the
photos from gen Con and uh, it's actually if you
take a look at his camera, Sean, tell me what
is this picture we're looking at right now?

Speaker 2 (24:07):
At gen Con, they have a vendor hall which has
all the stores from the and this is the this
is this. This is on Sunday, right of the people
waiting to get in because the vendor hall opens at
ten am every morning. And this is just the sea
of people waiting. This is day five of the con.

(24:28):
And this is the number of people waiting in line,
so you can kind of see it just stretches on.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
And they come from all over for this the world.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
So a lot of these, a lot of the vendors
are from Europe Asia. They're not just from the US
or from this they're from Like having this so close
to me here in Indianapolis is a blessing.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, of course I.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Would travel to this show if it was in the
different part of the country. Right it's it's a two
and a half hour car drive for me.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Oh it's still oh wow.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
But you get people flying in from all over the
country to come to gen Con, all over the world
to come to gen Con.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Amazing great photos. Again, if you haven't seen the video
up available, it's up on our websitelog blog dot tech
talk radio dot com. This past week we talked a
little bit about Linux, and I remember there's a there's
another radio show that's out there that does tech and
I remember when I heard the host make some kind

(25:22):
of comment regarding Linux and said that he wouldn't talk
about Linux. You didn't want to talk about it on
the show because he felt that it was a niche
and that not enough people were getting into it. And
you know, it's rare to hear, you know, other shows
talking about Linux and what it presents for you the user.
And you may be fine with Windows and you know,

(25:42):
you may be oh cool, and you may have already
gone to Windows eleven. You're happy with it and it
does its thing for you. Or maybe you're a Mac
user and it really doesn't affect you that much because
everything seems to work fine with Mac, right. But Linux
is something for a lot of people, and there's so
many different distributions. Justin made the comment, you know, Linux
is kind of like you have this great Linux distribution,

(26:05):
like Linux Mint twenty two. And it's like that meme
with the guy walking with the girl and then he's
turning around looking what he's looking at is the newest
version of Windows. And we posted that clip on a YouTube, shorts,
TikTok and other social media and it got a lot
of comments and a lot of views from people out
there that are using Linux. And I wanted to mention

(26:26):
some of these comments because for those that have been
on the fence about Linux, and I don't know, you
have used Linux in the past, right, Sean Oh.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
I got yes, I've been using Linux for various things
for decades at this point, right.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
And I know Slick who is on the show with
us quite quite often has used different distributions red hat
the whole bit when goes way back with Linux used
to carry around USB drives on you know, the things
you wrap up put it around your neck, and he'd
have like ten or twelve of them. It's a carry
over out. But so with the comments that Justin had

(27:04):
made on the social media, some of the comments Jarreff
Fox wrote, Linux unlimited customization runs almost everything, open source
alternatives for almost everything that doesn't work or is not free.
Windows familiar and easy and intrusive and very virus friendly.

(27:24):
You know, it's pretty accurate, because I mean, it's not
to say that the Linux community does not have to
deal with you know, spyware, malware viruses, the whole bit.
But it is pretty accurate that Windows becomes a giant
target number one for its huge user base, although that's
decreased over time. We saw a report recently and said

(27:45):
that the number of people that have left the Windows
platform was quite substantial. There's another one here from Brossia.
Chill says, I can understand the appeal of Linux, but
as a daily driver, I've always used Windows and can't
force myself to switch. I think we get used to
some of the programs that are out there, and you know,
the programs that run within Windows, and whether it be Office,

(28:08):
whether it be Adobe Suite, or whether it be you know,
any of those programs that we use under Windows. We
get so used to them we don't realize that there
are good options in Linux that people could be using.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, so there's good desktop environments, right, there's so everybody.
When you think of Linux, you think of like a
hacker sitting at a computer running command line. Sure, if
you're into that, you can run a command line only
in There are Linux distributions that are command line only. Right,
You have to know how to make directories and point
and run the executables from directories and compile stuff. And

(28:46):
sure if you want to, if you're into that, great,
But there are a lot of distros that come natively
with a gulley that you can you can log into
and you get Firefox built in. Most often you can
download Chrome if they have a software center. Like if
you're just doing daily web browsing and maybe some minor
work processing, you would have no issue using Linux.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Absolutely open Office. There's so many there's so many third
party programs out there that are available on the that
will run on the Linux platform that are either free
or not very expensive, and you could get the free
version to see how it's gonna work for you, and
then maybe expand to a version that can provide a
little more you know, customization and maybe for what you want.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Alternative too, and we may have mentioned this last week.
Does that have you know an area where hey, if
you're running Linux, this is my work for you. Yes,
So alternative to dot net as a site you can
go to if you run a program like maybe you're
using Adobe Photoshop and with the change the software and
services it got a little expensive. You decided, Man, I

(29:55):
haven't a hard time with this, but I want to
be able to adjust my photos. Yes, our smartphones can
do a lot of that, but you know, there's other
programs out there like Gimp, and I don't know if
there's you know that'll that'll run under that. There's other
programs that'll run under these great environments.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
On alternative too. I just typed in what is what
is alternative to Linux Mint, which is one of my
favorite distributions. Now I've used a lot, right, I've used
a BUN two, I've USEDDBN, but Linix Mint just just
the most user friendly less It's just it just works
and it's a quickly.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
I got it to run on a CD if you know,
if you if you want to on an old laptop
it it'll work great.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
But I put it in there were one hundred and
seventy seven different alternatives to Linux Mint.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Oh wow, what does that tell you? Yeah, go go
down the hole?

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Right?

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Another comment there, Linux is great if you're unemployed and
have nothing better to do than fight your operating system.
Twenty four to seven. I don't know if that one
can be one hundred percent true. Kobe, I think had
written that one because I think, honestly, you're gonna find
a different distribution may solve some of the issues you've
been having that may be a lot easier.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
You gotta find one, find one that is built for
people that don't want to learn Linux. So I mean, yes,
there is some fundamental understanding you have to have. It's
not Windows. You're not gonna be able to go to
a website, download their file and install it for Windows
because the one they might not have it. Two they
might have a Linux installer for it. If you get

(31:21):
a good distribution of Linux that has a guy that
makes it easy to install stuff.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
You're gonna be just fine.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
But every version of Linux allows you to take that
step into the deep end and run your own command
line in their faces if you want, build it out
from there. But the benefit of Linux is it runs
on everything. You've got a ten year old laptop laying
around that you don't know what to do with, slap
us hard driving it, get it to the highest amount
of ramu R CPU can support. Put Linux on it. Yeah,

(31:51):
it's gonna run.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Got the old computer to.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Get some life into an old computer. If you want,
you give it to your kid to play with. Like
I'm excited for all. I mean, I've got tons of
computers in my house. Reals that I'm excited for when
Max can just break down a computer and put Linux
on it and have fun and destroy it and riddle
it with malware and like learn how to learn how
to you know, do stuff on a Linux computer. Like

(32:14):
that's where I started right so long ago, and still
doss at that point. But such so much of our
stuff in the industry runs on Linux back end servers
and stuff like that. Having a fundamental understanding of the
basics of Linux is important. Do I know how to
deep dive and like code stuff and do all my

(32:37):
own software development? Get no, But I can at least
step in the right direction and say, okay, here's where
our problem lies, and then go to the developer and say, look,
it's screwing up this directory by when I install this
file or run this thing, it goes, you know, and
then they can figure it out from there.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
But some some there were some great comments, and I
want to thank everybody who did take the time to
leave a comment, whether it be ond TikTok or YouTube.
But I like this one and it makes sense, And
tell me if this is the truth. Linux is a
great operating system. I've used it for decades. The problem
I found that it's got a very toxic community. If

(33:13):
you don't know something, don't ask in a forum, you'll
most likely get ridiculed till you leave. There's very little
help for newbies.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
And that's why I like chat GPT.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Yeah, yep, because absolutely I can ask chat.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
GPT the question and it gives me the answer.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
It doesn't say go get a book, or doesn't say
go to coding school or figure it out yourself. But
that's true of any hobby that.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
There's always somebody in that hobby, whether it be radio
control or drone flying, the whole bit. If you join
a group, there might be somebody in there that knows
more than you, and they'll lay like.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Everybody on every forum that just says use Google. Yeah, Well,
if I wanted to be part of the community, why
in the heck am I going to go to Google?

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Why can't I interact with the community and get advice
from other people in the community that may have had
these struggles when I started. That's what I hate about
online forums. There's no sense of community. It's it's just
me against you figure it out yourself. Google it. I
don't want to take the time to help you figure
it out yourself.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
And it happens in every community. That's the Linux community though,
but a Linux it's it's photography. I've seen that photography.
I've seen the people everything.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Yeah did everything?

Speaker 1 (34:31):
Uh and Chad gbt well, some people will say, oh,
I'm not using that. I'll tell you it's helped in coding.
I have seen. I've put in stuff where I said, hey,
how can I clean this code up? And it will
tell it'll go through and tell you how to do it.
It's been to me, it's been Okay, this is really helpful.

(34:52):
That's why I am hoping in schools that they are
really gonna go ahead and make this a part of
the curriculum, or they teach the proper prompting and use
of chat GPT to get the most out of out
of AI whatever, you know, whatever platform they're using, because

(35:12):
there is chattpt isn't the only game in town, but
honestly so that they can learn.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yeah. And my favorite thing to see on forums and
and threads and stuff is have you ever had somebody
just send you a link to the let me google
that for you.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
No, I haven't is.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
There is a website that you can go to. It's
called let me Google that dot com.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Really okay, you type, you.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Type in what you wanted to search, and then you
send them a link. Right opens up Google and it
types it in and hits search for you. So you
click on the automatically opens Google types in what you
wanted to say in searches.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Now, I know you're on Reddit. Do you do you
find that type of community that that toxic kind of
feeling something the whole website you mean or read it? Yeah,
the whole website is overally.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
You have to you have to take Reddit with a
grain of salt, right, any any community on Reddit. Some
of them are okay, yeah, a lot of them are
are full. Are full. It's this is your first time
on the internet, Andy, Like, I mean.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
I've caught some of that, but you know, I just
it's it's yeah. I've been in radio many years and
I've had people that have come up to me right
to my face that said I don't like you on
the radio. You know that that'll bit that happens, and
you've got a smile, just say, okay.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
It's every industry, every hobby, everybody's got them right, you know.
I just I'll always answer questions for people as honestly
and truthfully as they can.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Well, when we did started doing the show too, we
would get that, you know, you get somebody would call
in and they would ask a question, and then we
give the answer, and then somebody else would call in
and say, you gave the wrong answer. This is the answer.
I mean, that's gonna help.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Then you you do your own show. That okay, bye,
you want to be the face of the show, Go
away and ahead, make your own show, all right.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
New products. We love talking about new stuff, especially when
it comes to drones, photography, the whole bit. There's some
new stuff we want to tell you about. We got
a listener question as well that we're going to go
over two of them when we come back with tech
talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean Dea Whirred.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Follow us on Instagram at tech talk Radio.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
We love your right back and now back to tech
talk Radio.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
During the break, we kind of went through a couple
of listener questions. We're gonna read a couple here, and
we've got Dave right and say where Dave's from but
somewhere in there, David da I would say it wrong.
So Dave has a new laptop, right, and it's in
Windows S mode.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Right.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
And when Andy told me what this question was and
I read it, I was like, what, yeah, what what
is Windows?

Speaker 1 (37:54):
You haven't had to deal with Windows.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
You had to deal with Windows sight, right, Okay, we're
doing when it was eleven, right, but now it's Windows eleven.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
S all right, or Windows TENNIS stands.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
For Windows eleven Secure.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yeah, all right. So Dave's question says, I have no
idea what that is, but a buddy at work said,
get rid of it.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Simplified secure, switchable. That's what it means, which is it's
a limiting version of Windows. It's like parental controls for Windows.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Exactly what it is. And people have been buying these
laptops with Windows S on it, not realizing that there
is some limitations to it.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
But what they don't know is it's actually Windows eleven.
It's just in S mode. So you can if you
really want to, and you should, in my opinion, follow
the steps. I found it just a quick Google search,
which we talked about Google in the last episode. I
googled it. Tech Radar has a great article about it.

(38:54):
There's hand vision a dozen articles about it right off
the rip on Google on how to get out of
wind that mode. All right, but according to the article,
it's going to scare you. Yeah, oh, it's it's going
to threaten you. If you leave Windows asmods, you can't
go back.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
Well, I think, I don't know. This is kind of
the thing that we're going through right now with the
Windows ten to Windows eleven. There's a lot of fear
going on. There's people who actually believe you should know
that your computer will not suddenly not turn on on
October fourteenth, when the support for Windows ten will supposedly

(39:32):
or previous versions have already gone, but when Windows ten
will no longer be considered a supporting operating system. Now
they're scaring you. They're believing if the people that believe that,
they think, oh my gosh, I got to get something
new now. The new word that they're putting out is well, no, no, no.
You could get security updates for a year, because that's

(39:52):
what is Windows ten will still work and you get
security updates. If you're connected to the net, you get
security updates fore year. But you gotta connect your laptop
of your desktop, whatever one you're using to one drive.
And we've talked about one drive.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
We hate one drive. I hate it.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
It's mucked up.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
It's mucked up the last two major installations I've done
for somebody, I've had to field phone calls. Why do
I only have five gigabytes of storage on my hard drive?
What are you talking about? I tried to copy my
files over it and said it was full. I was like, full,
you've got a terabyte since I have five gigabytes and

(40:35):
I need to pay for more storage. As soon as
you said I have to pay for more storage, I
knew it was one drive immediately, and I was like, yep,
that out of here.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
I'm beginning emails recently, uh for photos from one drive.
It says these are your daily photos. They're a month old.
I thought this is some kind of spam, but they're
my photos. They're my photos that I used on a
previous system that was connected to one drive, that were
uploaded and it's now send emailing me those photos saying,

(41:03):
here's the memories you have from one drive because it
wants me to use one drive and this is the
thing you shouldn't be afraid. WINDOWSS is designed to protect
your system from going out and getting third party programs
and installing them. If that program is not available in
the Windows Store, the Microsoft Store, right, whether it be

(41:26):
free program or a paid program, you can't install it.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
It's just it's just a way to prevent people from
just installing willie nilly. It'd be great for a kid,
maybe an elderly parent that maybe doesn't know how to
stop and clicking on bad links or downloading fake programs
and stuff like that. Sure, but for the general user,
it's just going to frustrate you.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Yeah, and you have to use it.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Follow the steps, get out of Windows S mode, get
on to Windows eleven, and you'll be just fine.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
The other thing is you have to use their Edge
browser if you're in S mode, So that has which
is the end of world.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Right, everybody's like, oh, it's Edge. Edge is built on Chrome.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
You don't like Edge.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Right, everybody's gonna have an opinion. We talked about this
last and they're in the last segment, right, every have
opinion about their browser, their favorite one, and how many
ways you can wash a sheep or skin of scirt
of skin a cat whatever, whatever the analogy.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Is, give a sheep.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
Whatever, you know what I mean. But it's everybody's gonna
hate on Edge. Everyone's gonna hate on Chrome, Everyone's gonna
had on Firefox, Brave you, everybody's gonna hate on whatever
browser you use because it's not the one they use, right,
But it's Edge. It'll get you where you want to go.
It'll get you. So you can download Chrome, but do.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Not to know, and I don't mean to, you know,
go off of the left field here. I personally am
getting so tired of these programs that want to connect
with everything you do, whether it be Chrome or Edge.
I have some ManTech. I use the Norton product. I'm
like every day saying I need to drop this thing

(43:00):
because it's become so obtrusive, like every day pop up,
Hey let's do this, or send me twenty four dollars,
we'll do this. I just don't want anymore. I want
it to be able to just do what you want,
do what I paid for, and dow load Linux. There
you go, and I'll go back to Linux. I need

(43:23):
to turn this, you know, this system into a Linux box.
I'm pretty much sure we're going to do it. You know.
Right now we're trying something different too. We use Zoom.
Normally we use Zoom all the time. We like it,
we use it for our show, our video, but the
quality is not really that great. I've not been very
happy with that. And then we pay a third party

(43:44):
service to create these great video short videos with that
are you AI creates them? It says this would be
a great this would be a great clip. Here, this
would be a great and it gives it a scale.
We use Opus clips for that, and it's you know,
it's getting it's it's expensive. So I want to say,
maybe on four hundred bucks, we can't upgrade to FOURK

(44:06):
or two K even or the higher quality ten ADP
with Zoom unless we were paying something like I want
to say, two thousand dollars a year until I say, okay, ridiculous.
We're on a tight budget. So I found this program
called Riverside FM. I want to thank Scott Sands for
recommending that. Who does radio? Scott told me about this

(44:26):
and I looked at it and right now that's what
we're doing with our video. So we're testing it out today.
You might take a look at it and go that
looks awful, Andy, or you might say that looks really great.
You should stick with it. And it offers the environment
the same thing that Zoom does with its transcripts, with
its ability to save video, but it's saving it in
higher quality. Supposedly. We don't know yet. This is the

(44:47):
first time we've done it, and it will create the
clips for us rather than us having to go and
pay thirty bucks to Opus Clips for a month for
us to get the features out of that. So again,
never know, So again I may, I may, I may
jump to Linux Mint this next week, So we'll see
how that works for us next week.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Yeah, and the segue off of comment you made just
a little bit ago, right, I just thought about this.
You talked about how one drive has pulled photos from
an old build because you were connected. Yeah, and it
reminded me of another software that I or another website
that I used to use for photos. Have you ever
heard of the website photobucket.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Oh? Yeah. I got emails from them for a long
time saying grab your photos you right.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
So about a year ago I started getting emails from
photo Bucket and I was like, I haven't used photobucket
for ten years. They're like you've got photos and photo
buckets that are gonna be deleted if you don't pay
for five ninety nine a month. And I was like,
it's a free service. What happened? Yeah, So I bit
the bullet because they're like, you can't get access to
your photos unless you pay five ninety nine?

Speaker 1 (45:47):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (45:48):
You couldn't log it, You couldn't log in and to
get your photos. Nless you paid? Man, right now, I'm
curious what do I have in there from that long ago?

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Yeah? Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
And so I logged in and there were like ten
pictures from something I uploaded to read it or Divan
or like fifteen years ago. Oh. Man, right, but then
but then I forgot to cancel. Oh a month later,
I got an email saying thanks for your resubscription Photobucket.
It was like, you got me, You got me exactly

(46:17):
what you wanted. Here's your five all right?

Speaker 1 (46:20):
So would you recommend to Dave? And one thing I
want to mention, Uh, Dave, if you do remove Windows S,
you will also get warnings that once you remove it,
you will not be able to reinstall it, all right,
So just remember that. But if you don't think it's
something you need. Yeah, you could. You could probably remove
that safely. It's not going to do you any harm

(46:41):
as well. Uh, all right, so we got to talk.
We got to talk about what as a dji Uh
and Instat three sixty both have had some pretty cool announcements.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
Yeah, yeah, drone, some drone stuff.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
So Insta three sixty up the bombshell on the industry
saying hey, here it comes. Instead three sixty we called
it adrenalinarly, that's not right. I bought that it again.
It's called the Instant three sixty Anti Gravity drone anti gravity. Now, okay,
there's not a whole lot of stats on it right now.

(47:21):
It's but it's got a built in three hundred and
sixty degree camera which it's expected to weigh under the
two hundred and fifty gram limit, so you don't have
to require the FAA infrastructure to register it. But they're
saying it's going to have a huge, huge flight time.
But they're saying the target launch is August, so that's soon, right,
We're in August. It's August.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Oh wow, so when is it coming? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (47:46):
But there's not much more. But it's saying built in
three hundred and sixty degree eight K capture because NAB
in April they launched their new insta three sixty eight K.
But yeah, so if you think civilization, it's got, it's got.
But yeah, so then are.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
We going to run into the same problems though with
into three sixties we did with dj I, you know,
with the manufacturer where they're made because of that, terroriffs
or even the complete you know, I can't get them
in the US.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
I don't know, not really much info on that. But
in response, you know, DJI has a gazillion drones. Everybody
knows that, right, if you're flying a drone, it's likely
a dj I. So this will this will break into
that market and maybe put some pressure on d g I.
And not that DJI needs the competition there, their drones

(48:38):
are really really priced. Well, but so what's this going
to do? What market is this going to shift in
and where is it going to kind of filter in
at competition for DJI? Well, then d g I drops
the Osmo three sixty.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Right, and they've had the Osmo line for a while, yeah,
the Osma line, right, but they haven't had a three
sixty camera, has it?

Speaker 2 (49:00):
They really had, They've had an act they've had an
action cam, they have three sixty, right, go Pro has
the go Pro Max, which apparently GoPros is pushing an
update for their three sexy camera. So there's this, there's
this interesting struggle. Right a decade ago, so twenty fifteen,

(49:20):
three sixty camps were huge, widely popular. Go to my
YouTube page and go back and look at some of
the three sixty videos I made using a Theta riok.
Theta s that that was all pictures video. You could
do it all with it, So it's not it's not
a new it's not a new technology. It's been around
for a long time. You're seeing it being used in

(49:45):
vertical videos to show a whole scene. So you're seeing
a lot of influencers, a lot of content creators using
three sixty cameras and showing and being able to show
different content, different angles, different clips, all from their same
video interactively. You're seeing it's wild. You're seeing a ton

(50:06):
of it on YouTube shorts.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
So so I could be watching a video and you know,
turn my device to the right and I may be
able to see what's going on on the right.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
So some of it, yes, So YouTube. You can stream
three sixty video live on YouTube. At least you have
been able to. I haven't done it in a long
time where your phone is the camera. Now that's live
right right. So that's the that's the hard part. Week
I couldn't figure out was how do you make interactive
content for YouTube with three sixty degree videos? You have

(50:37):
to edit them. You have to. You have to edit
and be creative and storytell within the three der sixty
degree environment. It's too much for people. We tried to
do it with news content. We tried to do it live,
but nobody wants to sit their phone and go, Okay,
what am I looking at?

Speaker 1 (50:52):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (50:52):
Hold on, I got to handle the right Oh there's
the action. Oh oh cool, Now so there's this guy.
Oh oh I missed it.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
So trying to generate that content, but you're seeing it
being used interactively in edited pieces a lot on YouTube shorts,
a lot on Instagram, and a lot on TikTok. So
it's interesting how much of a time period has passed
with this technology that exists has existed, and there wasn't
a market for it at first. It kind of just
fell outder the radar and everybody focused on action cams

(51:23):
and higher quality cameras, and you know, and now all
of a sudden, there's this huge Into three sixty kind
of just was there. They kept developing, the technology, kept
they kind of became the industry leader in three sixty, right,
and then all of a sudden it was like, whoa, hey,
why is everyone all three sixty content? Where Into three

(51:44):
sixty is the only one. No, there's Nikon has a
three sixty cam, Kodak made a three sixty cam, go
Pro made one. There's so many other three sixty cams
that exist that are hilarious because you think, like, oh,
this is wild, but there was no market for it,
so they just stopped developing it, and Instant three sixties

(52:05):
kind of kept there, and wow, now there's three major players,
go Pro, Dji and Insta.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
We'll have an update maybe next week we get a
little more info about that. Maybe we'll find out an
actual release date for the Anti gravity as well. We're
going to take another quick break. We come back with
more of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean
to Weard.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Find us on the world wide Web at tech talk
radio dot com or use Google it and tell somebody
about us by making them google it.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Yes and now fact the tech Talk Radio. It was
announced this week that many people who have been fans
and waiting for the next Battlefield video game, if if
you like playing games and you've played the Battlefield franchise,
that there was going to be number one release date
they got for I believe it's October tenth for Battlefield six.
But they're giving people the chance to try it out

(52:53):
and that's open beta.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
Open beta will run over two periods of time, August
ninth and tenth in August fourteenth to seventeenth, So that
just helps them get an idea of what the server
load's going to feel like. It kind of gives you
an idea of what the game is going to feel like,
find out any game breaking bugs, that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
You ever done a beta like this?

Speaker 2 (53:12):
Yeah, I've done betas for several games over the years,
some of the some of the original Battlefields, also Battlefield
for some of the other Blzer games that I play,
and some other just other.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
You have to have like a killer system, a gaming
system to be able to do.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
To be honest, I think it was like a ten
seventy TI was still like the bottom end of the spectrum.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
Most people will have a little better anyways, Yeah, you
can go.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
To their webs EA's website and find out what the
specs are. But cool, And then I wanted to bring
one more thing up. All right, what do you think
across the OS is? What's the market share between Windows,
Mac OS, Linux, Chrome OS and other?

Speaker 1 (53:56):
Oh? Man, oh, he forgot about Chrome OS too. I
would say probably Microsoft holds the biggest piece of pie.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
I would say much as the pie.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
I would say it's about fifty two percent.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
Seventy to seventy one percent? Is Windows?

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Is it really? Still?

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Wow? This is based off of stat Counter, which is
the website that it pulled from.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
Right, what about Mac Mac.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
Sixteen?

Speaker 1 (54:20):
That's it? Linux?

Speaker 2 (54:22):
I don't know. I feel like, yeah, that's.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Right.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
And then Chrome is Chrome?

Speaker 1 (54:29):
I don't I don't know very many people that just
stick with Chrome and get unless it's a laptop for school.
That's all I think of when I think of that.
But I don't know if Windows has got to be
that much, I would think it's a little less. Well,
those numbers will change.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
But for phones, Android seventy two percent, iOS twenty six percent?

Speaker 1 (54:49):
Really wow? So well Android, I looked at the new
Android this past week. You got to check out the video,
the one from Asus, the raw rog nine oh Man,
the ro and I'm pro pretty amazing. Again. Check out
the website tech talk radio dot com. You see the
video there. That's it for this week. We ran out
of time. Thank you Sean for coming on. I think
next week we should have hopefully have Matt.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
The whole crew.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
Everybody will be with us and if you've got questions
email them tech guys at tech talk radio dot com.
I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean to Weard.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Just find us on the web tech talk radio dot
com or are other social medias and have a great week.

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