Episode 450 - Pixels, Packets and Privacy : Taking Back Your Tech

From ditching Zoom for a better recording platform, to debating Windows 11 upgrades, to reminiscing about the golden days of AOL dial-up, this week’s TechtalkRadio is packed with tech talk, nostalgia, and a few surprises—including a home lab build and a Nintendo Switch 2 that didn’t get the reaction anyone expected.

In this week’s episode of TechtalkRadio, Andy Taylor, Matt Jones, Justin Lemme, and Shawn DeWeerd discuss with starting with their recent move from Zoom to Riverside FM. They share why Zoom was no longer meeting their needs and how Riverside FM’s superior video quality, cleaner audio, and feature-rich platform have improved their workflow—making it the right choice for the show moving forward.

The conversation then shifts to the pros and cons of upgrading to Windows 11. The hosts share personal experiences, touching on hardware compatibility challenges, software update quirks, and the OS’s enhanced security and features. They also explore options for those who can’t—or don’t want to—upgrade, including Microsoft’s recently introduced Consumer Extended Security Update Program for Windows 10. These insights offer listeners practical guidance for making the right decision for their setup.

Nostalgia kicks in as the crew reflects on AOL’s decision to retire dial-up internet. They swap stories of early online adventures, the unforgettable connection sound, and how far we’ve come—from sluggish dial-up to lightning-fast fiber. Justin adds a personal twist, recalling his time working in an AOL call center and the unique challenges of supporting users in the early internet era. They also discuss the benefits of switching providers for improved speed and reliability.

Wrapping up, Matt takes listeners inside his home lab build, showcasing the repurposed servers, networking gear, and AI-driven security components that power his privacy-focused smart home. Justin follows with the story of tracking down and buying a Nintendo Switch 2 for his son—only to be surprised when it didn’t spark the excitement he expected. Together, these segments highlight the personal side of tech, from ambitious builds to unexpected reactions.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome to tech Talk Radio. I'm your host, Matt Jones.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
I'm not dead, I'm Sean's Weird, I'm Justin Lemmey, and
I'm Andy Taylor.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Good to see that you are not dead. Matt. It's
been a while. How long has it been since you
been on the show.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's been months.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah. People miss you. They say, where's that guy? Matt?
They call in all the time. They don't call when
I'm out sick, they call where's Matt.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
It's because I'm so pretty.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Well. Now they can see you in better quality with
Riverside FM. So there you go. We're all getting a
chance to test this out today. Sean. I liked what
we did last week with it, and it came out
pretty good, very easy to use.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
So for I'm like the first comment was, hey, the
video quality's better.

Speaker 5 (00:48):
So I mean, even if the layman is looking at
it and going to qualities better. I know that YouTube
and those other places that they can really muck up
the algorithm and then the compression and stuff.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
But it looked really good.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
You sent me the link to it.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Immediately.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
Notice a difference from what we had to been uploading
the Zoom and I know that Zoom was keeping as
it like six forty three twenty or something.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, yeah, and this is great because I've got the
thirty five hundred dollars Cameraight here, I'm running four K,
so I'm gonna look beautiful.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, that's the thing. So we're we're on kind of
the testing plan for it. Was that a maybe not so.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Beautiful cameras cameras watch your mouth, well I watch your mouth, mat.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
But we're you know, we're using the the kind of
a test run for it. Next week. We may even
go with the actual four K version to see where
we It's just the problem is I paid for a
Zoom subscription for a year. It's not up until February,
so it'd be like I'm gonna have to find some
other purpose for it because Zoom is just not delivering.

(01:46):
And when I asked him, I said, wait, we all
have HD. Why can't we, you know, get it in
at least seven to twenty p And they said to
do that, it's about two grand years.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
Just straight up, just straight up tell him you're gonna quit,
Just straight up say I'm moving to a different platform.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
That's cheaper because your product socks.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, it's just it's just a total tell them that. Yeah.
And you know the thing. One one of the other
reasons I do like Zoom and I will give it
to Zoom is their AI transcription. So afterwards I could
go back and read what the show, what we said
about in the show, and it's it's actually put in
together into synopsis using AI. I don't do it word

(02:23):
for word, but I go through it and I use
it kind of as a as a template. It gives
me the ability to edit.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Turns out Riverside does this as well, and it does
the clips. So again, I'm really happy so far with
what I've seen. We'll see what we get as far
as the actual with all of us and how it
ends up looking. So yeah, let us know what you
the viewer think about this. Matt. The reason you've been
out is work.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Work has been a lot, learning a lot, very quickly
getting spun up. I really am enjoying it. I like
my new coworkers, I love my new shop. I am
having a great time. It is just been thoroughly kicking mckeister. Yeah,
and you know it's but it's good. I'm learning a
lot there. I'm learning a lot with stuff I'm doing
on my home lab. I'm I'm in a happy place.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
That's good. That's good. And I know justin you were
at last week because it's just been kind of NonStop
for you as your Is you gearing up for a
new season or the wind down? Is that what finds
you busy?

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Well, I mean, I'm gearing up for back to school,
you know, kids going back to school. We're having to
do a lot of last little yeah, i know, right,
last little day camp things. And then there's obviously days
where I've just i have to watch them the entire day,
and you know, having an eight year old kid running around,
it's uh, you know, yeah, he demands attention all the

(03:41):
time unless you're put him in front of a screen.
So it's a it's a challenge for that. But yeah,
and work side, Yeah, I'm just trying to wind down
the season where we're getting close to the end of
the season here and things are busy. We're you know,
off season is kind of where we get busy with
an it. You know, during the season, it's you can't
really do much, you know, you gotta it's pretty much

(04:02):
break fix. But when we get through the off season,
when we're not in operation mode. Yeah, that's kind of
when we get busy.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
I'm kind of wondering because you do an it for
different groups within an organization, and of course one of
the big things that we're talking about now, we're two
months away now from Windows ten end of life? Have
you getting me? You getting questions from some of your
user base? Are they saying, what do I do? Is

(04:28):
my stuff still gonna work? Is there a misconception that
suddenly their computers won't work anymore? Or are you making
sure everybody's updated? Well, for the most.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Part, we're completely h updated. I mean, there's a there's
a few computers that we have to rely on that
are Windows ten, but we've paid for the extended support,
so we have, I believe, until twenty twenty seven before
we have to, you know, really start thinking about what
we're gonna do here. But for the most part, we're
we're on Windows eleven. Now, you know, there's a there's

(04:57):
a lot of people out there there are still running
Windows ten. In fact, there's that an article I read
about the guy from California suing Microsoft saying that it's
unfairly moving people to Windows eleven. I think his argument
was trying to prepare people for the AI model, and
you know, not really saying that Windows ten is not

(05:18):
a good operating system. He's saying it's a fine operating system.
But you're just trying to want to push everybody to
Windows eleven so you can run your AI models and stuff.
So I don't know that that's gonna be an interesting
one to follow to see if that goes anywhere, But
in terms of my world, we're pretty much on Windows eleven.
Did anybody think it was strange though, that when Microsoft
came out and made the announcement that, oh, well, we're

(05:40):
gonna find different routes for those that are still using
Windows ten and are not able because not everybody can update.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
It's not a choice for many people. It's just you can't.
You don't have the equipment, you don't have the TPM
two point zero, you don't have a suitable processor, just
not the right situation for you to be able to update.
And then he came out and said, well, we're gonna
make it so that we can push security updates, so
they still can do it, but push security updates, not

(06:06):
feature updates, but security updates. If you allow us to
use one drive and you connect with a Microsoft account. Now,
if you're like I know most of us, I would
think they use a local account. Suddenly now you're gonna
have to use a Microsoft account with one drive to
be able to get that. Or you could pay around
thirty bucks and get the support for a year with

(06:28):
the security updates. Is it make you feel like, wait
a minute, wait, so you can help us, you can
give us what we've paid for.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
I think that's what the the guy with the lawsuit
is claiming. He's like, you are fully able to keep
providing support for Windows ten. You don't want to provide
support for Windows ten. So I think that's where this
guy's lawsuit lies.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
I'm also remembering, like back in the day, when they
were doing the initial press junk kits for Windows ten,
they were like, we are moving we are moving on
from Windows eight point one, and there was much rejoicing there.
We're going to go to Windows ten, and I remember
them being like, this is the last operating system from
Microsoft you will have to buy, because we're just going

(07:09):
to keep pushing feature updates and security updates and building
it that way. We're not going to go past Windows ten.
Fast forward to a few years later, they're like introducing
Windows eleven and everyone's like, wait a minute, you told
us we didn't have to do this anymore. This is
not a feature update. This is a whole new operating system.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
If we think about it. Windows eleven has been around
for how long, Like was it four years ago that
when it came out that it was actually launched eleven?
So I mean we've had all this time and ten
has worked fine, eleven has worked fine, So why are
they forcing this on the people? If they can do
security updates for a year, they can definitely give it

(07:49):
to everybody and without them having to pay the thirty bucks.
So is it corporate greed? That's going to be a
part of it, especially for companies because we talk about
that thirty dollars for a company that's thirty dollars per seat,
If they want to do that, you know, we're in
a situation where we have computers that run specific software,

(08:10):
specific equipment. They're not saying a word. They haven't said
anything about Windows eleven and what's going to be happening
past October Now? Some people are saying, well, why you
guys even talking about it doesn't really matter. Then it
does from a security standpoint, because we still would hope
that we'd have these security features that you'd be able
to update. Well, if somebody asked me, is this something

(08:33):
that malware bites could do? Could it? Did Matt fall
asleep or did his camera lock up? They froze? I
looked at Matt's camera and I'm like, his eyes are closed.
I think he fell asleep. We are all t maybe
our listeners are doing the same.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
I don't know, honestly, Like it froze for a second.
I immediately checked like all my bad and with this fine,
there's no overhead, I can log into my all my
networking gear, and it was like everything's fine. It was
just for a second. Riverside FM was just like, no,
I don't.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Think it's he's and he's gone, Well he'll come back
in a second, all right. Now, we didn't get a
what the heck is it doing to him? All right? So, Sean,
what about you? We didn't get a chance to hear
from you, like what you so?

Speaker 4 (09:28):
Well if you want to ask about Windows ten.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
So we were told so the university has a very
strict policy on when official support ends you cannot have
a device that's ruined that operates this just about campus.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Oh wow, all right, so they will.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
They will.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
I'm not joking when I say they will come to
your office, knock on your door and say where is.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
This device plugged into this switch, plugged into that port.
It's running Windows ten. That's what they're doing right now.
They're auditing us. Right now.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
We have somebody from IT that's here in our office
auditing our entire network stack and checking every computer to
make sure it' scott Windows eleven or the most up
to date version of whatever Linux version we're running, whatever version.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
Of mac OS we're running.

Speaker 5 (10:14):
Like, if you can't run the most recent version of
mac OS that's been verified or vetted by the university,
it's gone.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
It's gotta go. Well now, so it's it's pretty wild.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
So my question before we had Matt fall asleep, the
question was could a third party program like malur bites,
e set or any of those programs help provide that
layer of security that Microsoft says, well, you'll lose if
you don't update to Windows eleven.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
For a layman, yeah sure, yeah, sure, I mean you
have people still running XP you still for people running seven.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
No, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
I mean XP, Yeah, I don't know about that.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
There are still people running it because people.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
I have seen I have seen. I have seen countless
YouTube videos of somebody who fires up a VM running
Windows XP and as soon as they enabled that network adapter,
within like thirty seconds, they've got like fifteen pieces of
malware viruses just simply being connected to the Internet. Like
they don't even go on browse anything. So I highly

(11:13):
doubt anyone's actually running XP.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Well that's a good point though, And here's something else too.
If you run Windows ten and you're not connecting to
the internet, it's just to do something within your network
that's not connected to the Internet. You really don't have
to worry about it. At that point you're gonna lose,
you're not gonna get some feature updates, but at that
point you're it's not gonna be too much of a

(11:37):
security risk. We had Windows XP here at the radio
station up until three years ago for doing our music
and playing our automation. It was a system that Google
it actually had bought Scott Studios became Google, and then
of course that's what did it, and it just was
not connected to the Internet. It was connected networking from

(12:00):
the studio to the production room and that was about it.
So we really didn't have to worry about it, I'll
tell you. Making the update to Windows ten was kind
of sweet. It was nice, just a little better. We're
still not connected to the internet, you know, They're just
connected within the network and that's it. So, you know,
I just wonder. I just wonder how many people are

(12:21):
just are fearful that Windows is going away. I did
a TV segment on Monday about this, and there's a
lot of people that are really frightened about it. That
but with these two options, it still makes you wonder
what the heck is going on that couldn't they just
give that to you anyways for the for a price?

Speaker 3 (12:38):
I guess, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
I kind of wonder too about third party companies that
they don't make the software anymore. Somebody was using Windows
ten and they want to start using Windows eleven and
they can't update it, and now they're not going to
be able to use that third party software. I ran
into that with Creative Sweet five point five. I couldn't
get it activated anymore.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Speaking of just you know, Internet in general, I mean
running an old operating system on the internet. Is is
just definitely not something that you should be doing. Uh yeah, No,
like I said to XP or whatever, you want to
keep yourself updated as best as you possibly can. You know, yeah,
I do know people out there are still running Windows seven,
and I guess Windows seven still gets you know, and

(13:20):
that doesn't really get any you know, feature updates. It
might get a few security updates or anything, but it's
just going to go the way of XP. I would
just say, I mean, just just I mean, we talked
about it a couple weeks ago. You know, if you're concerned
about having to constantly buy a new operating system over
and over and over, you know, do what we talked
about a couple weeks ago, run Linux. Yeah, and Linux
is getting so much more exposure now. There are more

(13:42):
people writing about it, more people talking about it, more
people testing it out, showing you know, the different and
we have told people, Sean, you mentioned this last week
on the show, if they have an old computer, what
should they do.

Speaker 5 (13:53):
Little Linux on it. I mean, you have an older computer,
some older with with a little bit of extra effort,
most older men can also run Linux. I mean they're
all just running Intel process. There's anyways is Linux Mint.
It's super easy. There are tons and tons of guys
online to just here's how you install it. You can

(14:14):
be up and running in a short period of time faster.
You can faster than you can with Windows. So I
just I highly recommend if you're at least technologically curious
about not running Windows, Linux Mint rufus and you're off
and running.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Sean, you're kind of the Mac guy out of the group.
I think, I don't know justin You're you're not a
Mac guy, right, No, So I'm just wondering, Sean, do
you think this will cause some people to say, em,
I'm gonna go ahead and try Mac.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Oh, one hundred percent. So I have a coworker who
just said, I'm done with Windows. I'm done.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
Loved how the M four chips work, sports, everything we
need to do, we're all we mostly have Max at work,
so he was kind of getting introduced with it there too,
but he either runs Linux or runs Mac. He just
kind of got fed up with Windows eleven. The bloat,
the ads, the complications of what I think the co
pilot stuff, and then the recall portion of it kind
of triggered him. In terms of his his vantage point

(15:12):
on privacy and security. So I think he kind of
got spooked by that.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
So much better.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
Is recall still a thing though? I mean, is that
to me? It was like everybody's talking about it, and
then it was like, eh, I think they recalled recall.
I know you could turn it off.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
But Linux, I mean, if you don't like when, I mean,
it is what it is. If you if you're used
to it, it's it's people are gonna use it no
matter what. You're not going to convince the masses to
give it up for privacy.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
This is the part where we really needed Matt back
in the conversation right here, because he recently just went
through the whole process of just getting rid of big
tech from his house. I mean, he talked a little
bit about in pre show getting rid of all of
his Google speakers, is Amazon, Alexa's, there was ness, doorbell,
you know, all that stuff, because you know, they're just

(16:02):
it doesn't matter even if you you know, he was
telling me privately, he was like, yeah, you know, we
turned off the we turned off the microphones on our
on our speakers, and we would be having conversations and
yet we'd still get ads based on that even though
the microphones were turned off quote unquote air quotes there
turned off. Now, some some listeners may may may not
know what you're talking about because some of this technology

(16:25):
that we bring into our homes and we we think
it's cool to be able to ask a device to
play a song for us, or set a timer.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
You know. I I every night, I set I mentioned
the other day, I set mine to wake up to
a certain song or certain artists every morning, and at
you know, four fifty in the morning. Uh. And I
looked at Glory and I said, man, to think we
used to do this with an alarm clock, you know,
or that old AMFM radio Clay you remember those things.

(16:54):
Now you just do it with your voice. But some
people don't understand that that stuff that they that they
are talking about, suddenly they get ads on their Google
accounts or while they're browsing that were stuff that they
were talking about. You saw this first, sand justin.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Well, yeah, absolutely, yeah. I mean I'll reiterate what happened
a long time ago. I just kind of tested it.
I walked around the house and we had an what
was at Amazon Echo the Alexa, right, and we had
a couple Google speakers, and I'd walk around the house
and I would just casually mention the words Lamborghini Ferrari Portia,

(17:32):
you know, just just randomly. I wasn't talking about them.
I would just say the name Lamborghini Ferrari Portsie over
and over and over for about three days. And then
all of a sudden, all my social media accounts, you know,
read It and Facebook and whatever, my Google ads all
of them were for luxury vehicles.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Wow, and you had not.

Speaker 5 (17:51):
Just this past weekend we went to gen Con in Indianapolis,
which is geeming tabletop dice. Literally all of Klans social
media is now dice. In board games, ads, Oliver ads
are for dice. Here's where you can get done.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Well, that's to go.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
They track you on your phone.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Well yeah, I know. I'm just saying.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
This is the simple It's it's all based on geo tracking.
It's all based on what you've searched for, It's all
based on what you know, you're what you're like on
your friend's profiles.

Speaker 4 (18:16):
It's it's all tracked, and I mean an algorithm.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
And again it goes back to the old adage. If
you're not paying for the product, you are the product
Google and Amazon. Amazon is a retailer, but for the
most part, Amazon and Google are advertising data scraping companies.
That's how they make their money. They sell your data,
that's how they get their money. So having these cute

(18:41):
little speakers in your home that you can, oh, look
at this, I can play a Spotify song, sure, yeah
you can. But you're also giving them every piece of
your data and and everything that's going on, you know,
in your life. You know, it is a funny story.
And this has I know we're talking about them tracking you.
This has nothing to do with them tracking you, because
you're gonna get it when I mentioned this, but it's
it's not not in relation to this. But we you know,

(19:06):
my little speaker, I have a Google speaker next to
our bed, and I always play relaxing like creek sounds
or thunderstorm sounds. I love those. Yeah, And so I'll
tell it. You know, hey, you know play you know,
thunderstorm sounds for twelve hours and it'll just on repeat.
It'll just keep playing like thunderstorm sounds. And a few
nights ago, I don't know why, but like I think

(19:27):
it was like two thirty in the morning, all of
a sudden, the thunderstorm sounds stopped, and it was like, attention, men,
do you have ED? And I was like, oh my god,
what like in the middle of the night it decided
to play an ad It had never done that before. Really,
in the middle of the night. It was like, attention, men,

(19:47):
do you have ED? Come to our clinic.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
And I'm like, I've noticed have you noticed it?

Speaker 4 (19:52):
Also?

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Okay, So here's the other thing. We talk about our devices.
One of the devices we have in our homes that
we you know, it becomes the cornerstone for entertainment. I'm
not talking about your tablet, your desktop, your notebook, your television.
Your television is talking to those advertisers.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Oh app yeah, I use pie hole, you know the
Raspberry pie.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Does that block some of that TV? Absolutely? It blocks.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Every time my Samsung or LGTV tries to reach out
and call home, it blocks it. And I've I've downloaded
these these lists that give domains for it to block.
And so my TV tries so hard to try to
contact and call home and say here's what he's been
doing with the TV, and it can't do it. Finally,

(20:40):
after a while, the TV it won't even show any
of the apps anymore, and it just it just like
becomes a dumb monitor.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Wow. Now can somebody set up high hole pretty easily? Sean?
Did you set that up?

Speaker 4 (20:52):
I set it up on my Synology?

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, me too, all right, and well it us Is
it easy to set up? Can somebody go on line
and get all all the instructions how to do it?
Because I mean you can buys.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
You have to be I mean, you have to be
familiar if you're doing it on as analogy with doctors. Yeah,
but alling that way and configuring and you know, understanding DNSS,
and you know, there's a handful of things you have
to under have a rudimentary understanding of. There are guides
if you're if you like you watching YouTube videos and learning,
just watch a YouTube video on it and you'll build
a figure it out.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah, it's not too adi. It's a lot easier if
you actually use a Raspberry Pie because basically you can
download an entire image, flash it to an SD card,
pop that SD card into your Raspberry Pie, plug it
into your network, and then just simply point all of
your devices at that Raspberry Pie as it's DNS server.
Because a lot of people at home, they're using you know,

(21:43):
they're they're likely using Google DNS, which again goes back
to the adage. We're talking about. Google's tracking you there
everything you do on your computer. Every time you go
and search for a website, it has to use DNS
to try to figure out what is the IP address
of that website. While if it's using Google DNS, it's saying, Hey, Google,
this guy's searching for you know, Kansas City chiefs or

(22:06):
whatever it might be, you know, and it's going to
start serving you ads based on that.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Now, if somebody's using an antenna, and I know not
everybody can do that, are there's no way that they
could be tracked that way, is there? If they've switched
to antenna mode.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
If your TV is a smart TV, it can absolutely
track what application you're using on your oh, unless you've
turned it to the RF tuner, but most of them
have an app that you launched that goes to the
digital tuner. You're not, so it's so it's still your
TV still knows you're watching. You know, you're not changing
it to channel three or channel four, right, you're using

(22:43):
the the live TV mode.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
Of course, your TV knows that you're doing that.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
It's tracking what how long you've been on e chap,
what app you switched from, in which app you switched to?

Speaker 1 (22:52):
How long?

Speaker 3 (22:53):
What? What's your volumes set at? What's your color correction?
You know, are you set at the dynamics settings of color?
Do you have HDR turned on? So it's sending everything.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
I'm a little older, so obviously I probably pump up
the volume a little more. Got close captioning turned on
so they could tell, Oh, this guy's older, let's pump
them ads for you know, hearing aids, yeah, or arthritic
pain relief, that kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Oh yeah, yep.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Wow, the world revolves around commercialism. All right, we got
to take a break. We come back with more of
tech talk Radio. A big change was announced. People that
relied on a way to get connected to the Internet
not going to be able to do that anymore. We'll
talk about that coming up with tech talk Radio. I'm
Andy Taylor.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
And I'm justin let me. We'll be on the web.
You can find us there at tech talk radio dot com.

Speaker 5 (23:43):
We'll be right back now back to tech talk Radio.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
All right, So before the break, we kind of teased
upon this, but a major change is coming.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, and it's it's a little bit sad.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
It's a little bit nostalgic. AOL the old Internet that
a lot of people used to use.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
But Whmerica can online.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yeah, like back in nineteen ninety nine we had over,
you know, eighteen million subscribers. I used to work for
America Online at the call center. They are now ending
their dial up internet service. Wow, that's that is, they
say at the end of September.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yep. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
Who knew that Skype would be killed off before AOL?

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah, wow, good point. Never even thought about that.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
I'm just gonna miss the you know, I mean, it's
gonna go down in history, but I'm just gonna miss
the old dial up sound.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Oh yeah, that's screeching. Yeah screen.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
We used THETI but now we all, now we all
it's nostalgic. You know.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Well I used to I don't know about you guys
with dial up though. I used to connect to BBS's,
you know, the bulletin board systems, and those were a
lot of fun, you know, especially for us in morning radio.
We had a BBS where we connect, share notes and
do all this stuff, and that was a blast. But
AOL was just a great way for your listeners to
reach out and connect with you as well. But now

(24:56):
one thing to make sure of, A well is not
going away, and it has not gone the way apparently
AOL is still there. I still have an AOL email
that I checked the other day. It was like, so
we still you still can use AOL. It just your
dial up. You won't be able to dial up into it.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
My earliest Internet memories are tael netting into a luminet.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Bbs, oh my gosh, which.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
They still are available. You can still get them.

Speaker 5 (25:21):
And I actually have a pet project that I'm working
on that is building my own bbs.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Really like the old school bbs. Yes, wow, that would
be kind of cool.

Speaker 5 (25:30):
It's it's it's a I actually bought the domain from
the original owners of it that ran the bbs in
my hometown, and I've been talking to them and we're
in the process of rebuilding it.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
So now, what would it be? What would you do
with it?

Speaker 5 (25:44):
I mean I would host I would host archival content
from my hometown.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Now a lot of people go on social media to
do that, but this would be kind of nostalgic and
a different way.

Speaker 5 (25:53):
To to It'd be a way for those who want
to find it can find it, a creative way for
people to get on the internet, search it out. If
you're interested in this kind of thing, it's gonna be
a very niche thing, right, it's gonna be. But if
you're interested in it, if you know about it, it's
gonna be a cool way to log in, see what
it is, maybe have a conversation, maybe post some content,
maybe back up some stuff.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
It's it's gotten some cool.

Speaker 5 (26:16):
I don't know, it's very nostalgic for me because, like
I said, it's my very earliest memories of connecting to
the internet.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
So oh wow cool. You know. The thing is, I
was just stupid thinking a second ago, thinking well, there's
no ice supports anymore, because that's how we always use.
Somebody talking did what was Yeah? That was creepy.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
I heard it in the background.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
I was like, wait, what was that? You turned around
a little scared. It's wants to participate in the show.
We were talking about Google, you know, I was thinking
about there's no remember the internal motives. We all had
three hundred bod but there there were external motives. I
wonder if motems are well, obviously people are using it
to connect to the net, to connect to AOL. Now

(27:01):
it's gonna go away. What are these people going to
use that for? Can they still like AOL.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
Is the only service?

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Right?

Speaker 5 (27:07):
There are other deal providers that have services still, but realistically,
starlink it's a little bit more money, but it is
significantly more reliable. They've only had two major outages over
the last year and a half two years that have
been resolved within thirty thirty six hours or so. Realistically,
that's your best option for a way better bandwidth.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah, there are other smaller local a lot of like
co ops that serve like farm communities and stuff that
will provide you with dial up, but a lot of them.
You know, my mom lives in a very very small town,
a town of probably less than a thousand people, and
they actually have a local co op, which means it's

(27:50):
kind of owned by everybody that actually provides cable internet
and cable TV. So even in a small little town
like a thousand people, that can serve that kind of area.
But then when you go out of town, you know,
to a certain range, I don't know what the range is.
Then yeah, you're left with you know, being on cellular,
cellular internet or star Link or possibly dial up that

(28:13):
that company does provide dial up to some of the
farm communities around, but people not able.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Too, and people forget too.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
As as the providers jump higher to hire take the
five the five G, those frequencies, those frequencies don't travel
as far. So now you have more cell phone towers
and shorter businesses because you're trying to serve It's like
fifteen hundred feet line of sight from a tower that
serves five.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
G ultra wide.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
So if you're looking to get that ultra high bandwidth
from a cell phone plan, you're gonna have to just
accept that you're gonna see more cell phone towers.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Now.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
I'm wondering, like when you go with options that we
all think about how we have gone on this Internet thing.
And I remember moving from Coachella, California to here in Tucson.
I was so excited because we had you know, it
was a faster connection and it was so exciting. We're
getting right now as I speak in the front yard,
my front yard's dug up because Wired is coming through

(29:08):
and laying the fiber. I took a picture of the cables.
I'll put it up on our blog of the cable
line because they're all gone. So I took off one
of the cones and took a picture of the cable
line itself as they're fishing it up the street. I
don't know, is fiber gonna be really something that I
would say, Okay, time to leave Exfinity and go with

(29:28):
this wired fiber.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
I did it one year ago, right I left Exfinity.
Metro Net came around, put flyers hundred ours in six months.
We're gonna have one gig service. Great, perfect, It was
reasonably priced. It was only eighty bucks a month for
one gig. That's really good.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (29:46):
I was paying sixty five for three hundred down but
god knows what my speed was up with Exfinity, and
so I went with metro Net.

Speaker 4 (29:55):
It's been great. Maybe one outage since we've gotten it.
The downside. About two weeks ago, he announced they got
bought by T Mobile.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Ooh, so what happened?

Speaker 4 (30:06):
Don't know what.

Speaker 5 (30:07):
That means for me? Am I going to be a
T Mobile customer now because I've been getting inundated with Hey,
you now have T Mobile because you have Metronet, come
come buy ourself.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Oh yeah, I know T Mobile has been in Green Valley.
I know that that's been one of the options for people.
And that's the downside to these companies that we had.
Actually it was a different company completely that was going
to first be coming in here and then all of
a sudden the work stopped because they were going up
the street marketing where they were going to be doing

(30:37):
all the work, and then it stopped. And that about
a month later it was announced Wired was taking it over.
And that's the thing. You never know. They might come
in and be there for a while. One thing you
can say about Exfinity is that it's been there for
a while now. Their new ad campaign or if you
guys have seen this is you know the WiFi is
booming because they're talking about that you can have an

(31:01):
Exfinity account and connect to Wi Fi wherever you're at,
you know WiFi. Exfinity is my my wireless provider. Now
I switch from Verizon to Exfinity. But now I don't
know what's going to happen if I decide to go
with this wired service.

Speaker 5 (31:16):
I'm just going to say I caution against like I'm
always skeptical about this and skeptical about that connect anywhere
wirelessly because it's so shady, I think, because you never
know what the access point is when you're connecting wirelessly.

Speaker 4 (31:29):
Yeah, it's an infinity access point, but some people's infinities
in their homes.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
Just like Amazon tried to do with Amazon Sidewalk, they
allow people to turn on their access points so you
can connect in areas that may or may not have
wireless coverage.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
So you don't know where your data is going.

Speaker 5 (31:46):
Oh, it's protected and to end decryption, but that's you
never know who's sniffing that.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah. Thank You can go into your settings and you
can say that you opt out that you don't want
to be able to share your connection.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
But either way, realistically, what users doing that?

Speaker 3 (32:01):
Yeah, no, there's not a lot.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
I mean that's a lot.

Speaker 5 (32:04):
There are some people that are like tinfoil hat and
we'll go in and turn all this stuff off, but
the generic user is not turning that.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Off, right, Okay, it's the same thing.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
I don't agree with that. As soon as I heard that,
you know, Xfinny was doing that kind of thing where
you can use everybody else's internet and be able to
just connect to their internet, I just thought, Nope, not
not a chance. I'm not letting somebody connect to my
Internet because then I don't know what kind of stuff
they're searching for.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
They could be searching for illegal content, downloading illegal content,
and then I'm gonna be the one to get pinged
for it because it was on my account. Yeah, it
was on your IP yep, and it was on my IP.
I'm not going to do that now, you know you
We talked about fiber just a little bit. I've had
I've had fiber for ten years, over ten years. We
really got fiber as soon as we moved into this house.
It was from CenturyLink. But then just last year century

(32:53):
Link spun off and they they divided their company, so
century Link Lumen will first off Lumen Yeah Lumen, Yeah,
you know, yeah, they went Lumen, so it was Lumen
and then they spun off Lumen to the commercial side
and created Quantum Fiber for residential. It's still the century
Link Lumen infrastructure and there and their their their glass.

(33:16):
When I say their glass, I mean their fiber because
fiber is made of glass. It's still their glass, but
it's now through a company called Quantum Fiber. And I've
had nothing but great luck with Quantum Fiber and Central Link.
I've had maybe three outages in the past ten years,
so it's actually worked really well for me, So I
like it.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Now, Matt, you're you're running fiber too, aren't you? I am,
And how's your experience been?

Speaker 2 (33:42):
I think, like Justin, I've had maybe a handful of
outages in the five years I've lived here.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
It's about it versus what you had before, h versus.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
What I've had before, and in other places it's just
not been nearly as reliable. But Century Link and now
Quantum here where I'm at, the fiber experiences just been
absolutely phenomenal.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Now, both both you and Justin, You're you're in a
major market. Though you're in a major city, Denver is
Let's face it, it's one of the big cities. Is
there one that stands out as far as a provider
out of all of them? Justin? Are you using that provider?

Speaker 3 (34:17):
Well, I mean that that's in a major market. Yeah,
well yeah, Quantum Quantum Central Link is is the biggest,
probably besides Exfinity. But again with the fiber, I mean,
Exfinity does not provide fiber. If you got you know,
Comcast business then yeah, you can get Fiber, but Exfinity
is their cable cable internet, and cable internet inherently is

(34:38):
not the best because you may get great download speeds,
but your upload speed is horrible because you're also sharing.
It's just the technology. It's the technology of cable internet
sharing it. You're sharing it with everybody else. And also
you're also sharing your download. So at thet at peak
times of the evening, you're not going to get the
same download you would if you were doing it at
you know, two in the morning. Whereas Fiber it's dedicated.

(35:01):
It's dedicated up and down to each person everywhere.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Now, as far as motives, where we're at right now
with the technology, I remember, you know, every time there
was some kind of increase, Oh you gotta you gotta
have this motive you have the doxis three, doxas two,
I mean, where are we at now? And then Ethernet
are we in Cat five of Cat seven? Now? Like
Wi Fi seven? Where are we at with that?

Speaker 2 (35:27):
So you've got Wi Fi seven is is the new
current Wi Fi standard. Uh and the big jump between
six and seven seven was dedicated to just punching as
much speed through as possible. So I mean, looking at
mine right now, I have I'm connected via Wi Fi seven,

(35:49):
and I'm connected on the two point four gig, the
five gig, and the six gigahertz band all at the
very same time. So I'm using as much as I
can to get as fast as I can. According to
my computer, which is breathing again for right now, I
should be getting like two point three gigs up and

(36:09):
down across Wi Fi seven. Now, what I just read
the other day an article is even though Wi Fi
seven has now been kind of finalized and the standard
has been pushed out, they're already working on Wi Fi eight,
And the difference is seven was just make it go fast.
Eight is okay, We've got to make it go fast down,
make it reliable, make it reachable, make it powerful. So

(36:31):
now we've moved from focusing on speed to on signal
quality and signal penetration, which has always been Wi Fi's downfall.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
All right, we got to take another quick break. We
come back with tech Talk Radio. I want to find
out about, if we don't lose you again, your home
lab and what that's all about, and why somebody could
create this and the reason behind it. With more of
tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean to Weird,
I'm Matt Jones.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
And I'm Justin. Let me send us an X at
tech talk Radio. We read back, and now back to
tech talk Radio.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
One of the big things when it comes to gaming,
of course, was announced It's Gaming Fun the Nintendo Switch too,
and I don't know anybody that got one except for
Justin so far wanted to get your thoughts.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Well, I mean, I was lucky, I think. I mean,
you know, obviously it came out and everybody you know,
grabbed it off the store shelves right away, and I thought, okay, well,
this is going to run the same way as it
did with the PS five and the Xbox you know,
series S and X, where I was going to have
to wait, you know, a year for it to come out.
But I was actually running by a best Buy one morning.
I was on the way to work and I stopped

(37:37):
in and I just said, hey, you guys got any
switch toos And They're like, yeah, we got like seventy
five of them, and I was like, oh wow, okay,
I'll take one. So I bought the bundle that came
with the Mario Kart and then also I bought the
Donkey Kong game that that was extra, so I want.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
To get think it was.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
I think it was like after tax it was like
maybe like six' ten think it, was so, YEAH i
mean it.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Was it, was you, know pretty.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
Expensive it was For, eric you, know he'd been begging for.
It he's been wanting it so so, bad and he
really really wanted it and we gave it to him
and he was crying and he just he was so
so happy and wanted to play. It and, yeah he
played it for like a day really and then, WELL
i mean he still plays it every once in a,

(38:22):
while but he's still, like you, know super hooked on you,
Know minecraft and things like. That so it's like IF
i take him out to go play games or, Whatever i'm, like,
hey let's, go let's go over To bruise and let's
play some. Games you want to bring the switch or
you want to bring your, computer and he's like, computer you,
know every single. Time, Computer so it's kind of, like,
well you, know it's so.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Don't get me.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Wrong the switch too is. Good the screen is much,
bigger the quality of the graphics much, better the controllers
are much. Better THE i like how they just click
on now instead of having to slide them on and.
Off that's really. Good the the the kickstand is obviously
way much. Better so overall it's a great new. SYSTEM

(39:01):
i just think, there's just as any new console it comes,
out there's not a lot of games for.

Speaker 5 (39:07):
It.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Now it still does run the Original switch, games and
some of The switch games are actually, run you, know
with increased a, resolution like they're, upscaled but for the most,
part you, know most of the games are just kind
of run at the standard. Thing and they're coming out
with some. REMAKES i, mean they're coming out with A
legend Of, zelda you, know all the ones that were
for The, switch Original, Switch they're like remaking them for

(39:30):
The switch to And i'm just, like, yeah that's kind
of more of a. Gimmick SO i think it's gonna
be time will, tell let's see what kind of games
come out for. IT i Think Metro prime four is
going to come. OUT i think there's gonna be a
New Smash. BROTHERS i think that. MIGHT i THINK i
heard a rumor about. That but as it, stands it's
a good, system but there's just not a lot.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Of games for. It, well The Donkey kong won is
the one BECAUSE i used to Play Donkey kong the
arcade game AND i loved. It it was the best,
one you, know going up the adders trying to get
to get to the top and save the. Princess And
i've Not i've not found found a stand up for that.
Either so just to be able to Play Donkey.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
KONG i think this is not the same kind Of
Donkey kong that you would think. This This Donkey kong
is more Like Super Mario. Galaxy it's open. World you're
smashing through, things you're smashing into you, know the, ground
and you're digging your own tunnels in the. Ground it's
it's kind of like it's it's it's a different style
of open. World it's very very. Interesting i've never seen

(40:31):
anything like. It you can kind of forge your own
way through the. Level you don't have to run along
the beaten path as per. Se you can literally punch
your way through a wall and then connect up with
the next part of the level way down the. Line
so it's kind of like this giant, sphere uh inside
of a, game and it's completely destructible and every sort

(40:51):
of every sort of, way and you can just kind
of complete the level how you want to complete the.
Level so that's kind of interesting about, it but it's
also it's a little confusing unless you know what you're.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Doing. WELL i know that you have to bounce, out
but before you, DO i wanted to tell you A
Turtle beach made an announcement if you saw, this they're
putting out a budget headset for The Switch, too go
to be Out september, third AND i, thought oh, cool,
right how much is it gonna be seventy eighty? Dollars
twenty seven? Dollars? What, yeah twenty seven. Bucks it's a wired,

(41:22):
headset it's not, wireless but twenty seven to twenty eight,
bucks making it very. Affordable so you've invested the money
in The Switch, too and now you can have a
headset to go with. It so also that works out pretty. Good, anyway,
listen hopefully you'll be able to join us next week
BECAUSE i know you you got to bounce, out but
now we want to find out about the home. Lab

(41:43):
so justin thanks, again And, matt can you tell us
about your home?

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Lab, absolutely my wayward little, CHILD i will be on
all that BEFORE i have such a love hate relationship
with this thing at this. Point, like so back WHEN
i first started, THIS i was, Like i'm going to
use this as a learning. Experience i'm going to repurpose old,

(42:08):
hardware and kept going through iterations Where i'd, like get
to a certain, point break the whole thing have to.
Restart like at one POINT i was, Like i'm going
to do this via ansible and terror. Form it's gonna work, great,
right and THEN i pushed an update that destroyed the
entire Open ssh stack across every machine AND i could

(42:29):
no longer log into any of. Them, ooh like all,
right so we're going to start, again And i'm going
through and going, through and THEN i started. REALIZING i was, like,
this this one node is being really really, weird and it.
Was it was like a ten year old. MACHINE i
ran some checks on, it and it was it was.
Dying so the lab now currently consists of A lenovo

(42:50):
Think Center mini an Old Dell. OptiPlex i got both
of those Off. eBay they're refurbished for really. INEXPENSIVE i
don't want to say cheap. Inexpensive there's an Actual eBay
store The Nevada school for The blind and they referb
hardware and sell it, out and it's a way they make.
Money but it's great hardware at a really low. Cost

(43:13):
so it's those two nodes and now A synology Nass
synology nine three plus with four drives two or fourteen,
terabytes two or three, terabytes two to one terabyte solid
state drives for a, pool and thirty two gigs. Around

(43:34):
SO i made this little box. Beefy and the REASON
i did all this is because NOW i have gotten
rid of all of The nest devices in my. HOUSE
i have replaced them with Either bluetooth speakers or real link.
CAMERAS i now have living on one of those little
machines is A docker container running this cool program Called.

(43:58):
Frigate frigate ingests all of the streams from those cameras
and saves all that data to My sonology. Drive so
it's kind of the equivalent of you, know The nest,
monitoring AND i can access that internally or. Externally and
then my project for this week IS i have a

(44:22):
replacement for one of those machines coming. In that's a
bit beef. Here along with these are really cool. Chips
they're really hard to. Find Their google coral chips and
their machine learning, chips and those will go into the new,
machine which has kind of an ANTIQUATED, gpu But i'll
be setting up AN ai detection, system so the machine

(44:42):
learning chips will handle so, sorry THE gpu will handle
decoding the frames from the streams, right and then those
chips will actually use machine learning to identify like, cars license,
plates people, faces things like, that and frigate will tie
in To Home assistant and then push all those alerts to.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Me so if somebody comes to your door that it,
recognizes it would, say, oh this is Your Aunt betty
coming to.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Visit and because of HOW i have the camera set,
up it would be Like Aunt betty is walking up
your front. Drive Aunt betty just rang the, Doorbell Aunt
betty just pulled a hatchet out of her, purse And
Aunt betty looking through some things With Uncle, joseph and
you should probably call the.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
Cops oh, man this is. Cool so you're really training
your OWN ai to, do so you're not counting on
all these other. Experiences it Is MATT'S. Ai, yes that's.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Kind of where we're starting with. It and THEN i
was using CHAT gpt as kind of my second brain
AND i was, like, hey what.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Else could we do with?

Speaker 2 (45:48):
This Like i've got all this, Equipment like how much
farther can we push? This So i'm going to start
installing my OWN llm on, there my own large language,
model you, know grab some of the open source, ones
AND i really want to drive to the original idea
of a smart, home like where you you do have

(46:12):
all these features that we have in smart homes now
through Like google Or alexa or who Or apple or.
Whoever BUT i want to own all the data there you.
Go and this all came about WHEN i was upgrading
the home network AND i installed A unify Sorry Ubiquity
Unify cloud, gateway AND i looked at some of the

(46:33):
stats AND i was, like how AM i uploading sixty
gigs of data To google a?

Speaker 5 (46:38):
Day?

Speaker 2 (46:39):
Boa and THEN i looked AND i was, like all
These nest cameras are constantly pumping all that. FOOTAGE i was,
like and as soon as it goes up, THERE i
don't own it. Anymore that's. True, Yeah and there's a
there's actually there was a news article just the other
day that came out That ring said that they are
just going to allow law enforcement access to footage that

(47:01):
they hold without a warrant because it's their footage even
though it's from your house and your. Device the terms
of service say that when it's, uploaded that's now their
footage and they can allow access as they. Please so
they're going to give warrantless information to surveillance footage from
all those cameras that they have to law. Enforcement and
the MOMENT i saw, THAT i was, like not THAT

(47:23):
i have anything.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
To, hide but, No i've Had i've had law enforcement
come to the house Because i'm one of the FEW
i think that has a camera system that is visible
from the street there and they've come asking if they
could look at my, footage you, Know AND i mean
that's something that the law enforcement they, yeah they want
to be able to do. That so very interesting how

(47:44):
that's gonna work? Out? Now has this been kind of
a pain to set? Up do you get help in
the coating on? This so.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
It has been a titanic pain to set Up, Initially
the biggest change was honestly WHEN i got this synology
in there.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
There.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
Uh their container management solution is very intuitive and made
things a lot, easier especially with like intra container networking
was SOMETHING i kept tripping up on.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
For THE it.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
People just remember if it's NOT, dns it absolutely IS.
Dns SO i kept HAVING dns, issues but CHAT gpt
was helpful in walking me through some some definite stumbling.
Blocks my My yamel game for yamal files has definitely
gotten a lot, STRONGER uh and just my my General

(48:37):
linux And docker. Knowledge it's been a great learning. Experience
at this, Point i've got a unified cloud, GATEWAY i
have a core. Switch the whole house is Wired cat
Six cat SIX. A i've got two point five gig
edge switches in three different places WHERE i need wired.
USAGE i upgraded the access points To UNIFY u seven,

(49:02):
pros so those all have a two point five gig
uplink to the two point five gig. Switch so that's
the networking, stack and THEN i ran through the the
home labs stack. Earlier BUT i basically have a small
to medium grade enterprise set up in my house that's
way overpowered for WHAT i. Need and Tonight i'm going

(49:23):
to install A minecraft server just BECAUSE i.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
Can oh, nice, nice could you host your own server
for outside? Connections, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
There are several things That i've set up that you
KNOW i can access OUTSIDE i actually one of them
IS i did set up my OWN plex, server so
that has been. GREAT i, know hypothetically one could use
us net to populate THAT plex server with. Material again purely,

(49:56):
hypothetically But i've got a couple of different programs that
are all all interconnected VIA api. Calls so you, know
IF i want, to you, know dump a file in,
somewhere it grabs it from a, monitor file, location renames,
it moves it to the proper, place indexes, it uploads
it To. Plex Like I've i've had a lot of

(50:17):
fun and there's a lot more THAT i want to still. Do,
Uh gryfana and, Uh i'm gonna Use graffana to build
a nice little. Dashboard i've got a monitor set up.
There But gryfana is mean. Man, well maybe if you
get a, chance you could send us some. Links we
could share it on the blog if our listener will
look more into this about trying it. Themselves, absolutely and

(50:40):
if you, WANT i can also throw pictures of physically
How i've got it all set. Up but, Yeah i'll
send uh links to the Guides i've been looking at.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
All, right quick, break we'll be back with more of
tech Talk. Radio I'm Ady, Taylor.

Speaker 4 (50:50):
I'm sean To.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Weird I'm Matt, jones.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
And you can find us on the web at tech
talk radio dot. Com we'll be right back.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
And now fact to tech Talk.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
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 and that's open.

Speaker 5 (51:20):
Beta even beta will run over two periods of, Time
august ninth and tenth And 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 you ever done a beta like, This, Yeah i've
done betas for several games over the, years some of

(51:41):
the some of the Original battlefields Also battlefield four.

Speaker 4 (51:44):
Right some of the Other blizzard games THAT i, play
and some other just other.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
You have to have like a killer, system a gaming
system to be able to.

Speaker 5 (51:53):
Do to be, HONEST i think it was like a
ten SEVENTY ti was still like the bottom end of the.

Speaker 1 (51:59):
Spectrum, oh most people will have a little better. Anyways,
yeah you can go.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
To their webs EA's website and find out what the specs.
Are but all, right, 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 (52:22):
Oh, man oh, yeah forgot About CHROME os. TOO i
would say Probably microsoft holds the biggest piece of. PIE
i would say much as the. PIE i would say
it's about fifty two, percent.

Speaker 4 (52:33):
Seventy to seventy one Percent? Windows is it really?

Speaker 1 (52:36):
Still?

Speaker 5 (52:37):
Wow this is based off of Stat, counter which is
the website that it pulled.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
From, right what About Mac mac? Six that's? It?

Speaker 4 (52:47):
LINUX i don't, KNOW i feel like it's.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Right and Then chrome IS. CHROMEA i don't know very
many people that just stick With chromet 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.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
Change put for Phones android seventy, TWO i was twenty six.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Percent 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 rog nine 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

(53:34):
week we should have hopefully Have matt the whole. Crew
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.

Speaker 4 (53:44):
I'm sean De.

Speaker 5 (53:44):
Weird just find us on the web tech talk radio
dot com or are there social, medias and have a great.
Week