In This week’s Flashback episode of TechtalkRadio, The Show kicks off with a laugh, as Justin recounts how YouTube flagged his video simply for having Monday Night Football faintly visible in the background. What started as a minor annoyance turned into a deep dive into the quirks of copyright enforcement online—especially when compared with Twitch streamers who manage to broadcast live sports disguised as gameplay. The crew joked about how even a Mountain Dew can or a MacBook box might get them flagged, highlighting the ever-watchful eyes of content algorithms.
The conversation shifted into new tech purchases and experiments. Matt shared his decision to buy a brand-new 14-inch MacBook Pro with Apple’s M3 Pro chip, not out of Apple loyalty but as the best platform to run Kali Linux for cybersecurity training. This led into a broader discussion on cutting-edge laptops and even the newly announced “Spacetop,” a screenless laptop that uses AR glasses as the display. The crew debated whether augmented reality machines are the future of computing or just a passing gimmick, with plenty of comparisons to Apple’s pricey Vision Pro headset.
Industry news took center stage as the hosts examined reports of Qualcomm eyeing Intel for a takeover. The panel dug into Intel’s struggles with its 13th and 14th generation processors, which have been plagued by overheating and reliability issues, along with looming lawsuits and declining stock. They contrasted Intel’s woes with AMD’s strong comeback, recalling the history of dual-core development and AMD’s Ryzen resurgence. The talk underscored how quickly fortunes can shift in the chip wars—and whether Intel is truly “too big to fail.”
On the lighter side, the team went full-nerd over Warhammer 40K—from Shawn’s first tabletop skirmishes to Henry Cavill’s obsession with the franchise and its upcoming Amazon series. The show wrapped with Shawn’s hands-on tale of reinstalling Windows 11, troubleshooting endless drivers, and finally discovering the time-saving installer tool NiNite. The guys closed with a reminder of why patience and persistence are key in tech, and a promise to tackle more listener questions next week.
The conversation shifted into new tech purchases and experiments. Matt shared his decision to buy a brand-new 14-inch MacBook Pro with Apple’s M3 Pro chip, not out of Apple loyalty but as the best platform to run Kali Linux for cybersecurity training. This led into a broader discussion on cutting-edge laptops and even the newly announced “Spacetop,” a screenless laptop that uses AR glasses as the display. The crew debated whether augmented reality machines are the future of computing or just a passing gimmick, with plenty of comparisons to Apple’s pricey Vision Pro headset.
Industry news took center stage as the hosts examined reports of Qualcomm eyeing Intel for a takeover. The panel dug into Intel’s struggles with its 13th and 14th generation processors, which have been plagued by overheating and reliability issues, along with looming lawsuits and declining stock. They contrasted Intel’s woes with AMD’s strong comeback, recalling the history of dual-core development and AMD’s Ryzen resurgence. The talk underscored how quickly fortunes can shift in the chip wars—and whether Intel is truly “too big to fail.”
On the lighter side, the team went full-nerd over Warhammer 40K—from Shawn’s first tabletop skirmishes to Henry Cavill’s obsession with the franchise and its upcoming Amazon series. The show wrapped with Shawn’s hands-on tale of reinstalling Windows 11, troubleshooting endless drivers, and finally discovering the time-saving installer tool NiNite. The guys closed with a reminder of why patience and persistence are key in tech, and a promise to tackle more listener questions next week.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
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of the screen and I need to move it to
the left, but my mouth is over on the left
hand side of the pad, and if I go any
further to the left, it's going to go off the pad. Anyway,
if you can give me a call, I appreciate it.
I'll wait till you until I hear from you.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, I'm Matt Jones,
and I'm justin.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Let me welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's good to have Matt back with It's been a
little while.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
How you doing, Matt, I'm I'm alive and right now
that that's a victory, that's good.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We're glad you're here. I have to just it is
in a bad mood today. We can tell because he
doesn't hired, he's tired, and he doesn't have the football
game on the TV because last week was an absolute nightmare.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
That's a little ridiculous on their part. Honestly it Listen, remember,
if you don't have the approval of CBS, the NFL
and it's subsidiaries, which we saw in Family Guy when
the FBI busted.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Oh no, no, no, this.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Was the mouse.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
This was the mouse. Yeah, oh it was the mouse.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Those Monday night football, Yeah yeah yeah football, Monday night football.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
I literally, for those of you don't know, I mean
we we also filmed this and we put it up
on the website or on YouTube, and I literally had
the game on in the background and it was like
half of my television.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
You could even see the whole thing. It was like
a half of it, and there was no audio marked.
There was no audio. They marked it for copyright.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I went to upload this the video. You know, we
have the one hour video. And I went to upload
it and the YouTube plagged it. It said, oh, this
has copyright copyritten content in their NFL, and it showed
me where those areas were. So I thought, wow, okay,
that's kind of crazy. So I went and looked and
I'm like, it looks just like every other scene, right.
(01:59):
So I finally I said, okay, it said that it
will still play though, but it's not going to affect me.
It's not a copyright strike against me for having this. Okay,
that's good. So I upload it. Do all the things
that I'm doing. I put it on our blog, tech
Talk Radio blog, and you know, I put the nice synopsis, photos,
the whole bit, and then I go to share it
(02:19):
and I pull up the blog and the blog says
video disabled due to copyright claimed by NFL.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Like what, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
The only way you could watch it was to click
through on YouTube, and the people aren't going to watch that.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I want to make it easy for people. And we
were laughing.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
About it because remember at the end of last week's show, Sean,
did we not all kind of joke around that, Hey,
I wonder if you get flagged for that?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
We're just like, oh, I wonder if we're gonna get
flagged for that. A little bit of the NFL you
can see in the background, right, and I'm curious if
it was because Justin didn't even have the audio up.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
No, not that, No, no, no, not at all, of
course not no.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
But I mean, I find this ridiculous because people will
actually get away with live streaming, uh like UFC fights
or or whatever on Twitch, and all they've got to
do is sit there and with a controller in their
hand like they're a streamer and pretend to be playing
the game and they don't. Yeah, and then they're like, no,
it's not even a game. Yeah, seriously, they don't even playing.
(03:17):
It's an actual real thing. It's a real the real
UFC or the real NFL, and all they have to
do is sit there in the corner with a controller
in their hand, and it confuses the algorithm to think, oh, no,
they're just playing a game.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It is.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
The way I have watched like the last three title
fights is I just go on Twitch and search UFC
and there's some dude with a controllers sitting there, and
he like, I know, some people play games weird, Like,
I know, you got the guys who have like the
controller like tucked under their chin, and that doesn't make
sense to me. That's uncomfortable. But the guy who'll sit
(03:49):
there with this controller like sat on his chest to
make sure it's in view, and if you watch, his
fingers never move once. But he's like, yeah, definitely playing
UFC fight night, not watching the title fight at all.
And I'm like, well, I appreciate your efforts because now
I can watch it and not have to pay money
or go to Buffalo Wild Wings.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Well, I ended up having to go into the blog
deleting that post. I deleted everything YouTube, the blog post.
I thought, I wanted to be clean. I want our
listeners are viewers, followers, to be able to check the
video out. So I thought, okay, I'll go in and
I had numbers there where you know, where content was flagged.
And I went to those numbers and I took a
little pastel screen and I just kind of blurred everything
(04:34):
right where the TV was, and I did it in
both those sections.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Then I took it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I saved it, I re encoded the video, uploaded the video,
and it got flagged for another section somewhere in the video.
I thought, it's gonna flag me throughout the entire video.
So what I ended up doing as I ended up
finding a shot like we have right now where it's
just the black TV. And I went ahead and and
(05:00):
I cropped it. I went into Photoshop, did a special
cropping on it, and then put pop that into the
video with Justin. And it was tedious because I had
to watch the video. There's a couple of shots where
there's like a little bright flash you could tell something
was there, but that kind of got fixed because we
were talking a whole hour of this and every time
(05:21):
Justin talked, I had to go in and fix it.
But it ended up looking pretty good. I gotta say
I patted myself on the back there.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Oh it's a good job. But I mean it's it's
absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I mean, I'm gonna be honestly, I would not be
surprised if we don't get flagged today for Sean's Mountain
Dew can sitting and frame.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Oh where is that, Sean? We got to see your
mountain doo voo doo. I'm gonna make a big screen
now we're gonna get flag.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
It's there zero sugars. So every year Mountain Dew puts
out this Halloween flavor. It's a mystery flavor and they
kind of like they try to get you to guess
and you can potentially win something. This one is definitely
tastes exactly like Smarties. Oh my guys, all right, it
is so good.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
So if you watch the video and that can has
suddenly changed to something else, you know, we got flagged.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Well, or it could be the MacBook box in the
back of my Yeah, I mean that could get flagged.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Matter of fact.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
That's that's marketing.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Matter of fact.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Sean.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I know we were kind of eyeballing his his MacBook,
your new MacBook.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
When did you get this?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
About eight, no nine hours ago?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
So have you even taken it out of the box yet?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I spent nine hours setting up this. Okay, so backstory
of why about the Mac because listeners who know who
have listened to us before in any segment I'm on now,
I'm not an Apple fanboy. For those who don't know.
With my background cybersecurity, I got laid off in July
at the very end of July and jump back into
(06:54):
the utter dumpster fire that is the job market. And
in the two years I've been in my current company,
it changes really fast. But in the last two years
it changed in ways that my company did not adopt,
so I have no background in them. And I looked
at all the courses I'm going to be taking over
the next three months to try and be employable again,
(07:15):
and looked in the best computer for all of those
courses combined was a new Mac. So I went and
you know, went to best Buy today. My wife and
I talked about it, and I bought a new fourteen
inch M three pro chipset MacBook Pro nice and the
main reason I went with Mac is I'm going to
(07:37):
be doing a lot of Linux work in some specific
so Linux comes in what are called distros or flavors distributions,
and I'm going to be trying to get certified in
one that's specifically built for penetration testing, called HALLI Linux,
and the Mac. The MacBook Pro was really highly rated
(07:58):
for it, whether running it as a native VM for
duel booting, or running it as a virtual machine, which
is what I decided to do. But I almost called
an audible the moment I walked in, I was like,
I'm gonna get the Mac. Everybody was busy, so I
just kind of did a loop of all the laptops
and I saw this new Lenovo Yoga nine and it's
(08:20):
the first laptop I've seen where the keyboard is like
outside of the Microsoft surface where it's a wireless keyboard
comes with it and it's actually two screens like this, Yeah,
it folds together. And I was like, I'm also going
to do coding classes and that would be really nice.
Promptly jumped on one of the computers and was like
loading Linux onto this machine and everyone was like, don't
(08:42):
there's your solution. Get a Mac, and I was like, well, hell,
all right, I guess I'm gonna get the Mac. But
with that, the other one that I wanted to bring
to your guys's attention, they have finally released an augmented
reality laptop.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Oh you're kidding me.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
It is not come with a screen at all. There
is no screen with this thing. It looks like the
bottom half of a MacBook Pro.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
And instead of.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Augmented reality glasses, that's your screen and they're hardwired into it.
So instead of like, oh I about a fourteen inch screen,
you have glasses that can be a fourteen foot screen
if you so decide. But seeing that, as we talked
about VR, like one of the last times I was
on here, like and I brought up I'm surprised that
(09:30):
no one's using that for their display. They're now doing that,
and I think that's what we're going to start seeing
here in like the next five years, is display screens
are going to be a nice feature, a bonus that, oh,
if you spend extra one hundred bucks you can get
the externally attachable display. Otherwise, pop these glasses on and
(09:52):
welcome to the Oasis from Ready Player one. Because everything's
going to be done VR now or AR. But it's
called this spacetop, the space laptop, it's the Space top.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I don't know, I kind of I'd like the idea
of having the screen even if this is a feature.
But I think people are gonna buy that for that feature, right,
I mean I can I can't imagine somebody not buying
it because they want to completely immerse themselves in this
environment like that. But I'd always want to have, Like
right now, I have two screens for my laptop and
(10:25):
I love it that are available. I would want to
have that as kind of like a backup thing.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
It's crazy. I'm actually looking at this right now. So
you open it and the case like peels back and
folds over and under and normally goes like over, and
there's like a little like camel hump where the glasses are,
but where it like origami folds over is the webcam
and you can actually it's got like little stilts so
you can pull it up and down to adjust where
(10:52):
it views you.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
So then you've got these ar glasses, this.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Like little keyboard and a camera that you can like
perfectly set and there you go.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I'm kind of wondering though, Apple Sean, how much was
the price on the.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
The the VR from Apple.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Thirty five hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Thirty five hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Someone, are this is the pricing on something like this? Uh,
Matt gonna be similar to that? Would you spend that
much money on something like that? Because I know, Sean,
you said you wouldn't spend thirty five hundred bucks on
the Apple Vision.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
MSRP for the siteful Space Top g One, a screenless
laptop that uses augmented reality to create a virtual display
as a manufacturer suggested retail price of nineteen hundred dollars
not bad. That is cheaper than what I just paid
for this MacBook Pro.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
My son sent me specs for an MSI gaming laptop
that he's looking at and I saw MSI. He said,
I didn't, I've never heard of them. Are they any good?
And I'm like, oh, yeah, MSI is good. Yeah, you'll
be fine with that. But it was twenty one hundred bucks.
But it had a forty seventy in it. I'm thinking,
do you really need that? Do you really need that?
Speaker 5 (12:06):
I mean, I got I got my a sus the
one that I use for work. You know, my a
sus Rock laptop. It's a seventeen inch screen, what is it,
thirty seventy TI graphics card, it's a nine processor, sixty
four gigs a RAM I want to say that was
nineteen hundred bucks total. And that thing can run circles
around anything else that's obnestly. I don't think I would
(12:27):
buy this, this, this AR one. I mean it's not
because of the specs or what it can do. I
think it's just gonna I think people would just it
would look too weird, and people would just be staring
at you and asking questions, and you would never be
able to get anything done because it's so new that
nobody's ever seen something like that. And I just don't
I wouldn't want it. I wouldn't want it because I
wouldn't want to be sitting there constantly taking out my
glass and going, yeah, it's an AR laptop, leave me alone.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Please.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Can you imagine being like a public public bus or
even an airplane on a flight, you know, and you
whip out the glasses, you put them on, you get
the laptop in your lap.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
People can be and what the heck is he doing?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Yeah? So one of the guys that I played Dungeons
and Dragons with does have the air glasses and he
connects them to his MacBook and does the dual displays
in his glasses and just chills in his room.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I mean, pro no, he can't.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
There there are glasses that connect via a connection to
his laptop that can act as external displays for a MacBook.
I'll have to get to God, have to get with
him to see what actually the mad model is. But
he loves them. I got to check him out not
that long ago. And it's weird because you know, it's
they don't have diopters in them, so you can't adjust
the tier. You kind of have to like move them
(13:39):
forward enough to kind of get focused in there. But
you can scale the size and all that stuff. It's
it's it was pretty neat, but I just don't know
if I would do it.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Yeah, yeah, that would be different.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I mean they said kind of said the same things
when like laptops very first came out, was you know,
people sitting there like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Eventually, yeah, it's the CEO of Nvidia actually came out
I think it was yesterday and said we are at
the forefront of a brand new industrial revolution.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
And I was chatting about this with Lee the other
day and I was like, we the original industrial revolution
was obviously manufacturing hard labor like things that you know,
normally have people their hands on AI, and the things
that are coming out now are the in my opinion,
the digital equivalency of that same thing, to where so
many things that might be repetitive, Oh hey I gotta
(14:37):
I gotta script how to do this task so I
don't have to do hands on Now you can just
be like, hey, chat GPT, we do this all the time,
Can you script it for me? And it's like, yeah, sure,
got you bro. So I think with with that tagging
onto VR ar XR, whatever they're going to brand it as,
(14:59):
I think we're seeing kind of turning the corner to
the what's going to be next? And it's exciting. It's weird,
but it's.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Kind of funny when you think about it, though, because
I think we would have thought of in Nvidia as
part of this. You know, well, they make graphics cards,
you know, they beg they do this, they do that,
and we would never have thought of them as being
a big player in this next you know digital you
know revolution, and they have been because they put everything
(15:30):
into saying AI is going to be here, We're going
to support it, We're going to create the products that
will be able to handle all of this, you know,
artificial intelligence and the needs for this. And those people
that bought into the sock with Nvidia that can now
they're just graphics card company. Those people that bought in
are doing pretty good.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Oh yeah, my friend who bought into that when he
was a teenager retired last week.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Amazing, yeah, yeah, amazing.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Younger than me, not bitter at all.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Now, Sean, you had a story that you sent us
this week. Have we confirmed this that there's there's kind
of a run going on for Intel now?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
So it's it popped up in the trades that Qualcomm
had approached Intel to do a friendly takeover. That just
means basically that Qualcom would buy out all of the
stock from the from the board members at at Intel
and then basically shift priorities into Qualkmm that I saw
(16:32):
that article yesterday today. I just read that Qualcomm us
just laid off a bunch of people. So I had
no idea. Oh wow, right, So I mean Intel is
in the tank, is in the toilet right now, right,
I didn't think.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
They were that bad. Why are they in the toilet?
Speaker 6 (16:47):
So you've not seen all of the issues with the
fourteen generation and the thirteen generation chips Yeah, so it's
the Intel had this has this major issue with the
thirteen the thirteen nine Hunters series, and the early fourteenth
gen chipsets that they are basically at the at the
(17:07):
transistor level frying themselves.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Have they come out with the fixed yet?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I know, I think it was gonna be the They.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
They say that if if your processor is showing symptoms
of this problem, it's going to continue to get worse. Right,
your processor is just going to continue to basically overheat
itself and just fry itself. So then it's just like,
well just rm an. Well, they've basically run out of stock.
They can't give people what they what they bought, so
(17:37):
they're either giving you a newer processor that has the
same problem, an older processor that doesn't have the problem,
or they're just refunding you and saying good luck. Oh wow,
So it's been.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Whose fault was this an engineer, the designers, It's.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
A problem at Intel, and it just it did got
past quality control somehow, and it yeah, it's it's it's been,
it's been. Their stock is really really low, like they
they are on an absolute decline right now.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I thought they were just too big to fail, I
mean Intel, So.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Right, so this is this is the big question. Right.
You have you have am D, you have Intel, you
have Qualcomm, you have a couple of other Chinese chipet manufacturers.
Right if Qualcom comes in and says, well, we're gonna
buy out Intel, well there's a lot of people that
are gonna say that's going to violate some you know
whatever the law is anti trust law, right because that's
(18:34):
they're going to qual Coms is just going to have
this huge share. And you've already seen Qualcomm trying to
sneak into the lower end laptop market, so it's smart
for Qualcom to try and do that where Qualcomm has
just historically been a cell phone chip manufacturer or other
you know, onboard integrated circuit manufacturer. So it'll be interesting
(18:55):
to see. But I can't see why it doesn't make
sense that companies aren't trying to buy Intel and if
somebody could absorb them and rebranded or spin it around
into whatever, I don't see how that couldn't benefit some
company that has enough money to spend on you guys.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Remember it would have been the nineties when there was
a penny issue. The Penny And processors had some kind
of issues with them, and they did a fix. They
basically replaced many of the processors. I remember going through that.
It was, you know, and that's when you had opportunities
that you could use Cyrix or you used you know,
(19:32):
or AMD. You know, you would use those processors that
DLC forty and the X forty and some of those
other ones. And Intel had these Penny and processors. But
there was a problem and a lot of people thought
the same thing back then that that was going to
be it, and they ended up coming out of that.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Okay, I'm hoping.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I am hoping because we've had people from Intel on
the show. We still know people that work at Intel.
We were kind of hoping maybe they will come out
of this. But you know, I don't know. When we
got that news about Qualcomm, we thought, well, wait a minute,
maybe this situation is a little more bleak than we'd
like to There's problems, and I'm hoping they're able to
(20:11):
fix them.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I really am. So here's it. Here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
We've discussed this before. We know I'm an AMD fanboy.
I've been an AMD fanboy for most of my life,
way back when. One of the things that really changed
and turned AMD around because they were really lagging behind
Intel for a long time. AMD was the very first
company between Intel and AMD, they were the first ones
(20:37):
to create a dual course CPU. It was the original
Athalon X two and the guy who created the Athalon
X two actually did what is almost considered antiquated now.
He hand laid the architecture for that chip. He didn't
have a computer build it anything like that. He hand
laid it.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
And the the Rizon chip set, which is really turned
AMD around. They basically called him and they were like, hey, buddy,
it's been a while, asn't it. Can you please come back.
We're really struggling. And he handlaid the original Rizing chips,
which they've taken off. They're great, they're great bang for
(21:17):
your buck, their big machine. They're beefy things, especially like
the thread ripper is just a monster. But when the
and this is one of the things that turned me
off to Intel was when the Athlon x two was
really taking off, Intel called all the manufacturers they called Dell.
HP Compact was still around. E Machines was still around.
(21:38):
They called them and they were like, hey, so AMD
is starting to kick our butts. So they did kind
of like a quiet back room deal. They were like,
if you do our chip set instead of AMD for
your pre built systems, we're going to cut a pretty
penny off the cost of your your wholesale purchase. And
(21:59):
it ended up getting them and a lot of legal
trouble because basically they it was not like an it
was not an actual legal deal. It was you know,
back room wink wink, nudge, nudge. You know, hey buddy,
we're fine, right, And it got them into big trouble
with the US federal government. So to see that, you know,
(22:19):
their chips are eating themselves alive, Like I'm sitting here like, uh,
it couldn't happen to a nicer group of folk, Like
that's just hm, that's a shame. I view in terms
of like heech in the market, you either have the
superior product or you don't, right, and they haven't for
(22:40):
a while.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I've built systems with the thirteen to nine and I
was waiting for a fix from Asus for the motherboard
that was in there.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
That was going to supposedly be some.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Kind of a patch to deal with this, and I
haven't seen it yet. I was supposed to get emailed
once that was available, and that was a great machine.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I built my wife's with a twelve nine and it's
I love it.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
It's super It's faster than mine, and I think it's
great because I've got the eleven.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Uh, they've made good processes.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
But you know, I think it's kind of like, you
know how I've been an Apple guy for so long
on my my smartphone. Going to Android was a little scary.
It was, it's it's still been a little hesitant. I'm
still counting the days down till I can, you know,
return it or or I'm buying into it and I'm
keeping it going.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Full force it.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Every day I find another reason to keep it and
to keep going with the Android. I think the Intel
users going to AMD it's been the same thing. You're
a little a little timid about that. I've been using
Intel for so long, you know, why would I want
to try? But AMD has really been putting out a
great product. The Rise of nine amazing, you know, people
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have said so many good things about it.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Kind of think that maybe.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
People if they if they open up their eyes and
they give it a shot, they're gonna be happy with it.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
So go with that. I have been living in a
new video game, Warhammer forty K Space Marine two. I
have been existing in this game, playing the story of
Lieutenant Dominus Titus, and that is my happy place right now.
This is one of the one of the games where
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the AI aspect of the game is crucial because you're
fighting against an enemy that they're they're called terminids if
you've played if you played StarCraft, they're they're the zerg, right,
and it's a first person shooter. So you have this
massive swarm of bad guys coming at you. And I
was actually when I was at fan Expo, I got
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to actually chat with one of the developers because they
were presenting the game there. He was like, yeah, so
the main swarm, when you see it like coming towards you,
the computer runs it as one AI element, and then
as it gets closer, it crosses this delineated line and
these individual units start popping out. But it's every individual
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unit from that rendered swarm, and each unit has its
own AI instruction that's popped in it. So I'm playing
with my buddy, who's got he's got. I want to
say it's about a ten or eleven year old AMD processor,
and he was like, my GPU is like five years
old and it's fine. For the first time ever in
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a video game, I am reaching a CPU bottleneck, oh,
because of the amount of logic required for this AI.
But case in point, what I'm trying to say here
is he is running a ten eleven year old AMD CPU.
It is still able to play this game. You can't
play it on maximum settings, but a ten eleven year
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old CPU from AMD is still able to do that
level of AI logic and routing and control.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Wow, that is pretty amazing stuff. It really is.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
All right, tell you why we got to take a
quick break in Warhammer. I understand Henry cavill Is plays
that and is it's like he is a big fan
of it.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
We'll jump in that after the bar.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I'll touch on that.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean to Weird, I'm Matt Jones,
and I'm justin Lemme find us on the web.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
But tech talk Radio dot com we'll be right back.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
And now fact to tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
So right before the break, Andy brought up Henry Cavill
and Warhammer forty K. When Henry Cavill was actually doing
an interview for The Witcher, one of the questions is
like what outside of the Witcher? What what's your nerd thing? Like,
what what is your thing? And without skipping a beat,
he just goes, oh, Warhammer forty K. And as soon
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as he says that, the actor who played h Yas
here goes, oh, oh you play and he was like,
oh yeah, right now, I'm running. I think he was running.
It was either Terminids or like Ldar, but he's like,
oh yeah, I'm running this right now. And they were like, oh,
so you should, and we should, and people paid attention
to that because the one downfall, the reason Henry Cavill
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actually quit The Witcher is because he knows the lore,
he knows the stories, he knows everything about it. He
is a NERD's nerd. There's a picture of like all
these big name actors like Robert Danny Junior, Chris Hemsworth.
Well all the Chris is like holding these babies, and
then there's Henry Cavill like cradling a thirty eighty ti
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like it's his child, and he knows the lore so
much that he would get so upset with the writers
room being like, no, that's not more accurate. No, that's
not what GARYL would do that. Eventually he just quit
and Amazon came to him and they were like, hey.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
So.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
This friend of a friend told us that you know
Warhammer forty K and we were thinking of making a
Warhammer forty K TV show. Would you be interested? And
they are making it. It is in progress, they are
making the show, but Henry Cavill was like, I will
absolutely be involved if I'm the executive producer and I
have hiring and firing rights everywhere.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
So he has hiring and firing rights for the writer's room.
So if somebody's like, I think we should tell our
own unique story that doesn't have anything to do with
the lore, he is gonna punt that person out of
like an eight floor window and then go hire someone else.
So when you say like Henry Cavo is like big
into Warhammer forty K, he's still today posting on his Instagram,
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like his stats, playing Space Marine two, like getting a star,
like playing the multiplayer component with everyone. It's it's wild
I hope to end up with a lobby with him
one day.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
That is awesome.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Over the summer, my wife's cousin brought the tabletop version
of Warhammer forty k oh to our family gathering, all right,
So I spent three nights, three hour three separate nights,
three hour sessions doing the the Killed Team space ORCS
First Veterans. It was amazing. I'm gonna get the pictures
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and I'm gonna send the men put on the blog.
But he has the whole setup, he's got the starter kit,
he paints his own minis. It was incredible. I almost
bought it when I went to gen Con this in
at the end of August, but I would have spent
way too much money, so I didn't. But there is
a tabletop version of Warhammer that is incredible, so I
will just leave it.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
At that island Warhammer, the tabletop one where you have
to like paint all your miniatures, and you paint the miniatures.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
And then it's it's a specific version called Kill Team,
which is different than like the campaign settings. This is
more like a skirmish where you just fight each other
for an objective. But yes, it is a tabletop version
where you have measurements, if you have a ruler and
you're doing it's it was incredible.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Now if I've never heard I've never played this before,
would I be able to get into it?
Speaker 3 (29:48):
You think? Or is this seasoned gamers?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
If I might jump on this one. So there are
now three different settings where you can play Warhammer forty K.
One Sean is talking about with kill teams. Traditionally, your
miniatures in the campaign setting, each miniature represents like a
squad of guys. In kill teams, think of it like
special ops. Each mini represents one character with specialized versions.
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It is the easiest way to get into the game.
Then they with the new release that they dropped six
nine months ago. I think I'm guessing they dropped a
new thing called Combat Patrol, which is kind of in
between the two. And then you have traditional Warhammer forty K,
which is just massive armies, and the army is decided
(30:38):
by point value. So each unit that you have, like
a little guy is worth x amount of points, mech
is worth x amount of points. A thunder Hawk gunship
is worth a mass amount of points. It's amazing. It
is not an easy thing to jump into by yourself,
but if you go to pretty much any local game shop,
they'll have a Warhammer night and any Warhammer nerd except
(31:02):
for like you know, the Frankly, the basement dwellers. They're
they're gonna be there, willing to bring you in and
teach you. It's it is awesome, it is amazing. It
is complicated. But Sean, when you said Orc's Verse veterans,
do you do you know what army the veterans were?
Speaker 6 (31:20):
By any chance, I don't remember, but they were. There
was a bunch of snipers and uh oh I just
I got I got to murder them with.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
They were Tao. Oh, that's if it's a bunch of
snipers there, Tao, And that's disgusting. I'm so sorry your
intro was Tao.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
So for for Warhammer forty K, you've got all these
and I'm sorry. I I can nerd about nerd out
about this for the whole show. So I'll do this
and then I'll be quiet. But like you have three
different main actions like over arking factions. For Warhammer forty K,
you had the Imperium of man.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
You have the Zenos, which are aliens, and that's like
the Orcs, the Taou, the Eldar, the al Dari. Then
you have the forces of chaos which are corrupted in
perium of man Sean. Orcs are amazing. I'm so glad
you got to experience that, my wife.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
It was, it was, it was. It was the Orc
commandos and the Veteran Guardsmen. So I played both sides.
I prefer the I prefer that I prefer the Orcs
because that's like my play style, Like Big and Beefy
get in there and just messed uf up. And their
names are hilarious, like yeah, slice a Boy and rocket Boy,
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and I mean they're there. It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
It was.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
It was so fantastic.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Gonna bro. When you're talking about the Veteran Guardsman, that's
the Astra Militarum, which is these are regular old humans
equipped with like a laser, uh they call a las
gun and it will blow like a meter sized hole
in a wall with one shot. Like in today's military.
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It would be the end all, be all weapon. It
is jokingly referred to in Warhammer forty k as the flashlight.
It is the weakest weapon out there. The Astra Militarum
subtle fights just based on cure overwhelming firepower and like
sundering amounts of artillery an astro miilitarum artillery brage will
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crack the mantle of a planet.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
All right.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Orcs are ridiculous because they make things work solely by
believing it. Like they're like, this will fly because we
think it should fly, and the world is just like, yeah, sure,
why not?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Okay, some great stuff there about Warhammer. Are gonna have
to definitely check that out. And one of the cool
things about it, you know, we can talk about a
little of everything, video games, consoles, TVs, the whole bit,
but when it gets down to it, we're dealing with
the same stuff that you may be dealing with. And Sean,
I know that you did something that you didn't think
(34:03):
you were going to be doing. You finally took a step.
I'm gonna tell us about that.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
So we've talked about it. And I finally was getting
so frush from my computer. To start, I was losing
USB drivers, like I had issues last last week when
we were recording the show, and this morning I did.
I had the day off of work because I've been
working like crazy, and I just said, you know what,
it's time to wipe my machine. It's time to get
(34:29):
it back to bone bone drive to get it done.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
So I downloaded the Media Creation tool. I made a
USB for Windows eleven Pro because that's the version of
Windows I have is I have Windows ten Pro, which
those license copy over to Windows eleven. And then I
plugged it in. I booted from the USB drive and said,
this computer does not support what it's leven And I
(34:56):
was like, that doesn't make sense. It's not that old
of a motherboards. It's a rise in thirty seven hundred,
Like I should have enough, right, So then I did
some googling. So with with this motherboard, specifically, you can
boot into the older bios mode right, or you can
boot into the uef I mode right, So that had
(35:18):
to be enabled. Well, once that was enabled, I was like,
I'm ready, I'm golden right. No, still said not support it.
So then I had to go in and there I
had to go in and I had to Google. I
had to google. You guys know my Google food is
really good, right?
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
It took me a few hours to find the right
article to find the one the one buried setting and
I don't even remember what it is right now, I
have a screen shot up on my phone because I
was just searching for it and it was a weird
ft PM setting on this. On this I have an
asues Gigabyte Asus Elite Wi Fi motherboard.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
I think it's PTT is it or something like that.
Speaker 6 (35:59):
I don't know, but I found it and once I
turned that on, I had zero issues getting it in there.
Then I spent the majority of the day just getting
Windows eleven. Then you don't realize how many things you
actually have to reinstall when you go to a new
version of Oh my, it was like I wrote a
(36:19):
list of all the applications that I consistently used on
my computer before I wiped it, and then it was
like thirty things. So then I'm just going through the list. Okay,
I got Chrome, I got Firefox, I've got I just
went through this huge list and it's like, oh my god,
there's so many things that I had to do. And
then then things were Then I had to do USB
driver updates because I was having issues with my headset
(36:41):
not working, but the headset worked with the MIC wouldn't work,
and I was having weird issues with my A ten
Mini not being read by the USB. And then my
stream deck wouldn't work with USBs, and then I did
a Windows update and then it worked. So the summary
of my today is that it is not easy even
for somebody who is I feel like I'm pretty technologically savvy,
(37:04):
to just do have a basic Windows with eleven upgrade,
do a clean version of Windows. I feel like a
lot of people that don't have patients with technology would
have just given up and gone up by a new computer.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Right exactly. Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
There there's a great tool I've discovered over the years
if you're if you're doing something like this, or it's
like I got to reinstall Rome and Steam and Spotify
and discord that It's called nine Night and I N
I T E. And you can just go in and
like go down the checkbox of like I want all
of these things, and it pumps out a custom installer
(37:41):
and you run the ex and it goes through and
just like default values for everything. So you can't do
any customized installs. But if you're running like one hard
drive and just trying to get a machine up, it
will go and install all those things for you. It'll
do the download, do the install, and then at the
end it's like all right, I'm done. Now you get
to go spend forty five minutes signing into everything, have
(38:03):
a great day.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Well that was the other thing too. It's like I
had to remember, Okay, now I have to due authentic
and everything. I'm my Google email is getting pained every
two seconds because I have to do authenticate this app
on Google, this app on Google. Now my work VPN
needs to do a dual authenticate through Octa. Now my
one pass room. Now I have to go. Oh did
I save my want my PDF for my master password? Sure?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Did?
Speaker 6 (38:24):
Thank god, because if I would have done that, I
wouldn't have been obt. He's one passing my computer anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
I'm having the same thing going through the.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
New Pixel nine having to re installed basically it's like reinstalling,
having to go to the apps can figure everything. Okay,
that one works, that one works. That's been a pain
in the neck. So but you finally do that. You
had to do that as well, right, justin even you
were going from pixel to a pixel, you still have
to do it right.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Well, I mean, I mean it's obviously it's a backup.
I mean I just restore the backup, but I still
have to log into everything. And reauthenticate everything. So yeah,
that was the problem.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Yeah, but you got Windows eleven installed correctly, Sean, and
you're good to go.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
Yeah, so it's I think it's great if it seems
to run really well. And again, I spent the after
I installed a lot of the apps. I spent the
majority of the day just customized things, getting where I
wanted to and googling how to get rid of all
of the ads that are on this Windows eleven right,
so getting it out of my start bar, getting it
out of my search window, getting it out of everything
(39:24):
on Windows eleven has ads in it now. But there
are ways to go in into the registry and make
some small changes so it doesn't serve you ads. You
can actually disable copilot, which I did immediately.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Where do you see the ads?
Speaker 5 (39:34):
Because I'm being I run Windows eleven three different places
and I don't see any ads anywhere.
Speaker 6 (39:39):
So I would click the Windows button and I would
get served like recommended apps that I don't have installed.
If you click the search bar, it would serve you
sports scores, weather, recent weather highlights like the whole sidebar thing.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
Those aren't those aren't ads?
Speaker 6 (39:57):
Okay, information that I don't care about. How about that's
all right if it's not ads, sure, it's it's information
that I don't care about. I don't want to see
it in my search pro when I'm trying to search
for a file on my desktop.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
But it's wants to learn about you by what you
click on. That's what it's going to do.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
It's also true, but I just want a clean operating system.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Then you're going to want to do Linux because you're
never going to get that with Windows.
Speaker 6 (40:21):
I understand that. I'm just that's I can dream.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
All right, We got to take another quick break. We
come back. Justin has a question.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
He's going to tell us about a new website as well,
and we've got a couple of illiciter questions as well.
Hopefully we can get to I'm Andy Taylor.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
I'm Sean de Weird, I'm Matt Jones, and I'm Justin.
Let me send us an X at tech talk Radio.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
We'll be right back and now back to tech talk Radio.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
So recently, you know, I told you guys, I I
DJ at a wedding by DJ at a festival, and
you know, kind of wanted to get back into doing
more of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
You've been having fun with it.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
Yeah, yeah, I've been having fun with it. But you know,
nobody really knows that I do this kind of stuff.
So I wanted to get some business cards that I
could hand out. But then as I'm designing the business cards,
I realize I don't have a website, I don't have
a professional email address, I don't have any of that
stuff because I just I don't know, I just.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
I just never really thought about it.
Speaker 5 (41:16):
But I'm not going to design a business card and
put you know, my personal Gmail address on it, you know,
and then nothing that people can be able to understand.
So so, yeah, I bought a website nice and I
put it in chat there. I used wish Wix to
design it. You know, the thing about Squarespace and and wis,
(41:40):
you know, they tout that it's, you know, super easy
to design a website. It's it's clicking drag and your
website's up running in minutes.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
It's not true. It's not true.
Speaker 5 (41:53):
There is so much that goes into building a website. Yeah,
granted I don't have to do any of the code,
but all of the every single page you've got to
you've got to talk about all the different elements that
you want to put in there. There's you know, click
click to learn more. Where does this learn more take you? Well,
you got to tell it where to take you. And
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then you know, you got to do all the SEO.
You got to sign up for Google, you got to
get your page, all your meta tags.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Does it let you do jetpack? Jet pack? Have you
seen that yet?
Speaker 4 (42:23):
I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Jet Pack is a really cool tool for for doing
a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 5 (42:29):
Yeah, no, I've never heard of that. But I mean
to take take a look at my website. I put
it in the chat there, but I I designed it
real quick, put it up there. There's there's still a
ton of work to do on it because it's not
the way I like it. But at least now I
have a website. I bought it for three years. I
have the email, I have the domain, I have the website.
(42:50):
So yeah, this should, you know, hopefully help out a
little bit. But again I'm just my point being this
whole thing is, you know, all these create a website
in minutes.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
No that's not true.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Well, yeah, it does take a little more time than that,
you know, And honestly, justin there's been so many people that.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
I know that have said, we don't need a website.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
We're gonna do it on Facebook, We're gonna do it
on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
And those are great resources.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
But I still believe the professionalism is extended when you
have social media, but you have a website that people
can look at and an email address that people can
look at. Now, the only thing I see, and this
is from somebody who's designed and bought domains and the
whole bit is your your I like your site. I
looked at it, but the name can be difficult in
(43:40):
translation only if you tell somebody, but if you're giving
it to them on a card or something like that,
they're gonna see one.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Means one, you know.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
Yeah, So again that's that's that's a good idea. But no,
I do believe people still need to have websites, and
people have kind of wicks.
Speaker 3 (43:56):
I don't know about wicks. I know Barry you Wis
for his website, which you know, I still I own.
I have the domain for that one.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
The I honestly like WordPress and divvy uh divvy is
is pretty good. Again, you still need to learn and
know a certain amount of word press terms and whatnot, But.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
Divvy is really great.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
If somebody is looking you go to element I think
it's Elemental Themes or element Themes that you can find
out or just do a Google search for Divvy. They
have so many templates up there that if you're new
or you know you're looking for somebody you want to
tell a web developer, hey, build a site using this. Uh,
they can do it. And again it's not too bad.
But are you having fun with it? That's the main thing.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
Yeah, I mean I'm having fun looking at it, figuring
this out. I mean I've never really designed a website before. Well, no,
I should take that back. I mean it's yeah, it's
been like twenty some years. But this is interesting the
way they do make it a little bit easier to
get the basis of it, but you really do have
to dive in into the deep details of everything. And
(45:02):
so I find myself clicking through the pages and checking
every single word, checking every single link, making sure that
it actually goes to where I want it to go.
But again, it is about that professionalism to be able
to have that, because I think you know it. Actually
it doesn't really matter what industry you're in, but if
you're trying to promote yourself as a legitimate vendor of
(45:25):
a product or or a service. And you're just going
to give them a Gmail account as your email with
no website for them to go look at. It just screams,
you know, amateur to me. You know, So even just
to have something basic where it's just hey, here's my
website and my card, you know that I'm going to
(45:46):
give out. It's a very simple card. It's got my
logo on the back, it's got the website.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
Especially if you.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Think about it, justin you're in a situation where, okay,
let's face it, somebody wants to book an event like
a wedding.
Speaker 3 (45:58):
They're going to tie you up for a weekend. So
you're gonna want a deposit.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
If you're gonna be leaving a deposit with somebody, you
want to make sure they're a legitimate company and they've
been doing things. One other thing I think would be
great on your website is some video. You know, maybe
have have a mesa come out when you're doing a
gig and just shoot some video.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
Or if you have video friends that are.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Up there, I'm sure you do from the TV days,
have them come shoot the video of you working. There's
a guy in California that I used to work with
and sadly he passed away some months ago. Bob Stock,
it's great DJ. And it was funny because one of
the girls I worked with at the station here in
Tucson moved to San Diego when her daughter got married.
Speaker 3 (46:39):
That's who they hired.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
She said, Oh, yeah, I know this this guy who's
djaying said he knows you know you and Barry and
that whole bit, and it was like, so cool. But
Bob has put put a bunch of videos of him,
not even DJing, just him standing there in a suit
and the camera going around him, and you see that
personality because that's what they want hire so.
Speaker 4 (46:59):
Great want to do.
Speaker 5 (47:00):
That's another thing I want to do too, is I
want to be able to, like, I'm just think about
even just doing like an interview with myself where I
just I want to, like, I want to tell people
my side of the story when it comes to why
you should hire me to do your wedding or your
you know whatever event. Because DJs are dim a dozen, Yeah,
what makes me?
Speaker 4 (47:18):
What makes me different?
Speaker 3 (47:19):
What makes you stand out?
Speaker 5 (47:21):
I want to be able to put that video on
my website and say this is why you should hire
me over blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (47:27):
All right, now you had another issue too.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
This was actually a question about a problem you're running into,
or if somebody else was running into.
Speaker 5 (47:35):
No, I mean I'm running into it honestly at work.
This is the third laptop. These are Dell laptops, relatively new.
I mean I think they're not like the most current gen.
They're not brand new from Dell. We do usually buy
these things from a refurbished website, but they're very legitimate.
They've done great work for us all the time, and
(47:56):
they're all running Windows eleven Pro. And the third laptop,
all of a sudden, just it's like Wi Fi doesn't
even exist on the laptop anymore.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
Like it doesn't it doesn't exist.
Speaker 5 (48:08):
Like you click on the network settings where it you know,
brings up Bluetooth and and you know, accessibility, night light,
all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
Wi Fi just not even there. Just nothing, like it's
not even there.
Speaker 3 (48:19):
Have you gone into the bios to see if it's enabled.
Speaker 5 (48:22):
Bios bios it's enabled, and and and you can see
it in the device manager. You can see why Wi
Fi You can even go into the network connections, which is,
you know, the old Windows network connections, which they make
it almost impossible to find on Windows eleven. But if
you get there, you can see Wi Fi disabled. When
you try to enable it, it just disables itself again.
(48:44):
And there's no reason. There's I don't understand anything. There's
no errors, there's nothing going on. Wi Fi used to
work on the computer. It's got to be a Windows
bug of some sort. I don't have We've googled it.
We can't find anything.
Speaker 3 (48:56):
Has the laptop been opened recently for any reason, like,
you know.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
Taking the back off of it to access a battery replacement?
Speaker 4 (49:04):
No, no, no, no, no, Because the.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
Wi Fi cards in these laptops, you know, sometimes they'll
put it at the top of the bezel.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
Other times they'll put it, you know, on the bottom.
Speaker 4 (49:15):
Of the antenna.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
Usually it's yeah, it's two small little connectors and sometimes
those connectors can fall off.
Speaker 7 (49:21):
Then.
Speaker 4 (49:21):
But see the thing, no, it was. The thing is
it's listed in device manager.
Speaker 3 (49:26):
It's there.
Speaker 5 (49:27):
It shows it in device manager, okay, and it shows
it in the network connections, but it says it's disabled
and you try to re enable it, it just disables
itself again. Have you everything, we googled, it comes up
with nothing like It's just it's so weird.
Speaker 3 (49:40):
Any any thoughts on this one, Sean or Matt, because
you know.
Speaker 4 (49:43):
I mean if if it's in device Manager, the only
the only thought I could have is is kind of
where you were walking towards You'd be like, maybe the
card is in I got bumped or something and it's
not quite fully seated. It's seated just enough to be
seen on Device Manager. But no, that that is that
is absolutely bizarre. But there's three laptops that have done this.
Speaker 6 (50:09):
So are these laptops. Do they have the the the
M two wireless like the M two wireless ship Cynema
that are replaceable.
Speaker 4 (50:16):
That's a good question.
Speaker 5 (50:17):
I don't know they're there. They make there their higher
end Dell laptops, the Precision line because the.
Speaker 6 (50:24):
Newer laptops have have seen a trend in the newer
laptops going with the M two slot wireless cards instead
of like the PCI cards or the on board on
board just because they get better performance with Wi Fi
six and stuff like that too.
Speaker 5 (50:38):
Oh that's an idea saying that something give me got
jostled loose on the motherboard.
Speaker 3 (50:43):
Could be yeah, could be.
Speaker 4 (50:45):
They've they've they started making the change. The original m
DOT two slot was just for storage SSD and then
eventually and VM storage, and then they were like, wait
a minute, the through put on these ports is ridict
Why don't we start using it for other things? Kind
of you know, the way USB happened way back in
(51:05):
the day. But that that truly is bizarre. And the
fact if it's one, okay, so somebody dropped it and
didn't say anything or something like that. But if it's
if it's three four laptops, that that's it feels. It
feels like a Windows issue. But and they're all Dell.
They're all Dell laptops.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
You know. It's funny.
Speaker 1 (51:25):
I opened up a tower system once and they had
M two They were used for their drives. They couldn't
find the screw so they couldn't tighten it down, so
it was it was in, but it was kind of
like you know, like like as ready to catapult.
Speaker 6 (51:40):
So most we ran into this one we built. We
ran into this issue when we built my nephew's computer
and then one of my friend's computers. Drives. They most
motherboards don't come with an M two socket screw on
the motherboard, and most drives don't come with one, so
unless you have one lane round, you're kinda up the
(52:03):
creek when you put an M two drive in.
Speaker 3 (52:05):
So the way I fixed cars, stay a part off
somewhere else. All right, Junkyard, we gotta take another quick break.
We come back.
Speaker 1 (52:13):
We'll see if we can maybe future research that and
see what you come up with on that. But we'll
be back with more of tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 5 (52:20):
I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, I'm Matt Jones,
and I'm justin. Let me find us on Facebook, Facebook,
dot com, forward slash tech Talkers.
Speaker 4 (52:27):
We'll be right.
Speaker 8 (52:27):
Back and now back to tech talk Radio.
Speaker 4 (52:31):
Hey, this is Harold Parano and you listen to the
geeks on the radio tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 6 (52:35):
So in an earlier segment we talked about me putting
Windows eleven on my computer and reinstalling all the apps
and programs that I had, and thanks to Matt for
mentioning nine Night and I n Ite, I was able
to download and install Audacity, Dropbox, ever, Note, file Zilla, Gimp,
Google Drive, Handbrake, metmore bites, Note plus plus, Open Open Off.
(53:00):
It's real V and C Steam, VLC win AMP when
Sep is.
Speaker 4 (53:05):
Seven, somebody's got a good Internet connection.
Speaker 6 (53:10):
And I just hit download it, downloaded them all and
installed them all in a matter. I mean I did
it during the show. I did it between when when
I mentioned it in the show and now and installed
and I'm now configuring my melor bites. And it was awesome,
Like it just worked.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
You know the question that listeners would ask us right now,
is it safe? Be honest, like that scene in Marathon Man,
is it safe?
Speaker 3 (53:30):
It is safe?
Speaker 8 (53:31):
I have.
Speaker 4 (53:31):
I been using it in my IT career since like
the very start of my IT career back in well,
my enterprise Atteker in like twenty twelve, I started using it.
Where Sean is actually using the free personal version. You
can actually buy nine Night Enterprise and use that same
thing and the options to come with that. It's like, okay,
(53:54):
you can set it to a media that you hand around,
you can do network installs, you can look at all
the computers that are on it and manage updates everything
like that. Like it is the question of is it safe?
It is safe, and it's awesome. I've been using it
for fourteen years at this point.
Speaker 6 (54:13):
Now they have very easy Yeah, yes, n Night dot com.
But it was very easy. I just went to it,
clicked to the programs I wanted, hit download. It gave
me a download file. I clicked on it and it
said installing. It just went through the list.
Speaker 3 (54:27):
So it just bulks installs them and then it tells
you when you're done.
Speaker 6 (54:30):
I mean it took it took a matter of less
than ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (54:33):
It's awesome. And the big part of that is the
installer that it provides you is customized to the options
you chose on the site. So choosing those like fifteen
programs that Seawan listed off, they all come in that
custom downloader. If you chose thirteen of them, you get
the custom downloader.
Speaker 3 (54:50):
It's great stuff. Man.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
We still have a lot more to talk about for
this week, but we'll hold it for next week. If
you have a question or comment to us, drop us
an email. Tech guys at tech talk radio dot com
met a couple of people that called into the afternoon
radios this week and actually said, hey, I'm listening, so
thank you and tell your friends.
Speaker 3 (55:06):
About the show as well. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean
de Weird.
Speaker 4 (55:10):
I'm Matt Jones glad to be back and I'm justin.
Let me thank you all for listening and have yourselves
great week. We'll see you next time.
The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
My problem is, I've got my pointer in the middle
of the screen and I need to move it to
the left, but my mouth is over on the left
hand side of the pad, and if I go any
further to the left, it's going to go off the pad. Anyway,
if you can give me a call, I appreciate it.
I'll wait till you until I hear from you.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, I'm Matt Jones,
and I'm justin.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Let me welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's good to have Matt back with It's been a
little while.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
How you doing, Matt, I'm I'm alive and right now
that that's a victory, that's good.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We're glad you're here. I have to just it is
in a bad mood today. We can tell because he
doesn't hired, he's tired, and he doesn't have the football
game on the TV because last week was an absolute nightmare.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
That's a little ridiculous on their part. Honestly it Listen, remember,
if you don't have the approval of CBS, the NFL
and it's subsidiaries, which we saw in Family Guy when
the FBI busted.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Oh no, no, no, this.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Was the mouse.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
This was the mouse. Yeah, oh it was the mouse.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Those Monday night football, Yeah yeah yeah football, Monday night football.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
I literally, for those of you don't know, I mean
we we also filmed this and we put it up
on the website or on YouTube, and I literally had
the game on in the background and it was like
half of my television.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
You could even see the whole thing. It was like
a half of it, and there was no audio marked.
There was no audio. They marked it for copyright.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I went to upload this the video. You know, we
have the one hour video. And I went to upload
it and the YouTube plagged it. It said, oh, this
has copyright copyritten content in their NFL, and it showed
me where those areas were. So I thought, wow, okay,
that's kind of crazy. So I went and looked and
I'm like, it looks just like every other scene, right.
(01:59):
So I finally I said, okay, it said that it
will still play though, but it's not going to affect me.
It's not a copyright strike against me for having this. Okay,
that's good. So I upload it. Do all the things
that I'm doing. I put it on our blog, tech
Talk Radio blog, and you know, I put the nice synopsis, photos,
the whole bit, and then I go to share it
(02:19):
and I pull up the blog and the blog says
video disabled due to copyright claimed by NFL.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Like what, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
The only way you could watch it was to click
through on YouTube, and the people aren't going to watch that.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I want to make it easy for people. And we
were laughing.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
About it because remember at the end of last week's show, Sean,
did we not all kind of joke around that, Hey,
I wonder if you get flagged for that?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
We're just like, oh, I wonder if we're gonna get
flagged for that. A little bit of the NFL you
can see in the background, right, and I'm curious if
it was because Justin didn't even have the audio up.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
No, not that, No, no, no, not at all, of
course not no.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
But I mean, I find this ridiculous because people will
actually get away with live streaming, uh like UFC fights
or or whatever on Twitch, and all they've got to
do is sit there and with a controller in their
hand like they're a streamer and pretend to be playing
the game and they don't. Yeah, and then they're like, no,
it's not even a game. Yeah, seriously, they don't even playing.
(03:17):
It's an actual real thing. It's a real the real
UFC or the real NFL, and all they have to
do is sit there in the corner with a controller
in their hand, and it confuses the algorithm to think, oh, no,
they're just playing a game.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It is.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
The way I have watched like the last three title
fights is I just go on Twitch and search UFC
and there's some dude with a controllers sitting there, and
he like, I know, some people play games weird, Like,
I know, you got the guys who have like the
controller like tucked under their chin, and that doesn't make
sense to me. That's uncomfortable. But the guy who'll sit
(03:49):
there with this controller like sat on his chest to
make sure it's in view, and if you watch, his
fingers never move once. But he's like, yeah, definitely playing
UFC fight night, not watching the title fight at all.
And I'm like, well, I appreciate your efforts because now
I can watch it and not have to pay money
or go to Buffalo Wild Wings.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Well, I ended up having to go into the blog
deleting that post. I deleted everything YouTube, the blog post.
I thought, I wanted to be clean. I want our
listeners are viewers, followers, to be able to check the
video out. So I thought, okay, I'll go in and
I had numbers there where you know, where content was flagged.
And I went to those numbers and I took a
little pastel screen and I just kind of blurred everything
(04:34):
right where the TV was, and I did it in
both those sections.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Then I took it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I saved it, I re encoded the video, uploaded the video,
and it got flagged for another section somewhere in the video.
I thought, it's gonna flag me throughout the entire video.
So what I ended up doing as I ended up
finding a shot like we have right now where it's
just the black TV. And I went ahead and and
(05:00):
I cropped it. I went into Photoshop, did a special
cropping on it, and then put pop that into the
video with Justin. And it was tedious because I had
to watch the video. There's a couple of shots where
there's like a little bright flash you could tell something
was there, but that kind of got fixed because we
were talking a whole hour of this and every time
(05:21):
Justin talked, I had to go in and fix it.
But it ended up looking pretty good. I gotta say
I patted myself on the back there.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Oh it's a good job. But I mean it's it's
absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I mean, I'm gonna be honestly, I would not be
surprised if we don't get flagged today for Sean's Mountain
Dew can sitting and frame.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Oh where is that, Sean? We got to see your
mountain doo voo doo. I'm gonna make a big screen
now we're gonna get flag.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
It's there zero sugars. So every year Mountain Dew puts
out this Halloween flavor. It's a mystery flavor and they
kind of like they try to get you to guess
and you can potentially win something. This one is definitely
tastes exactly like Smarties. Oh my guys, all right, it
is so good.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
So if you watch the video and that can has
suddenly changed to something else, you know, we got flagged.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Well, or it could be the MacBook box in the
back of my Yeah, I mean that could get flagged.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Matter of fact.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
That's that's marketing.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Matter of fact.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Sean.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I know we were kind of eyeballing his his MacBook,
your new MacBook.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
When did you get this?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
About eight, no nine hours ago?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
So have you even taken it out of the box yet?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I spent nine hours setting up this. Okay, so backstory
of why about the Mac because listeners who know who
have listened to us before in any segment I'm on now,
I'm not an Apple fanboy. For those who don't know.
With my background cybersecurity, I got laid off in July
at the very end of July and jump back into
(06:54):
the utter dumpster fire that is the job market. And
in the two years I've been in my current company,
it changes really fast. But in the last two years
it changed in ways that my company did not adopt,
so I have no background in them. And I looked
at all the courses I'm going to be taking over
the next three months to try and be employable again,
(07:15):
and looked in the best computer for all of those
courses combined was a new Mac. So I went and
you know, went to best Buy today. My wife and
I talked about it, and I bought a new fourteen
inch M three pro chipset MacBook Pro nice and the
main reason I went with Mac is I'm going to
(07:37):
be doing a lot of Linux work in some specific
so Linux comes in what are called distros or flavors distributions,
and I'm going to be trying to get certified in
one that's specifically built for penetration testing, called HALLI Linux,
and the Mac. The MacBook Pro was really highly rated
(07:58):
for it, whether running it as a native VM for
duel booting, or running it as a virtual machine, which
is what I decided to do. But I almost called
an audible the moment I walked in, I was like,
I'm gonna get the Mac. Everybody was busy, so I
just kind of did a loop of all the laptops
and I saw this new Lenovo Yoga nine and it's
(08:20):
the first laptop I've seen where the keyboard is like
outside of the Microsoft surface where it's a wireless keyboard
comes with it and it's actually two screens like this, Yeah,
it folds together. And I was like, I'm also going
to do coding classes and that would be really nice.
Promptly jumped on one of the computers and was like
loading Linux onto this machine and everyone was like, don't
(08:42):
there's your solution. Get a Mac, and I was like, well, hell,
all right, I guess I'm gonna get the Mac. But
with that, the other one that I wanted to bring
to your guys's attention, they have finally released an augmented
reality laptop.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Oh you're kidding me.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
It is not come with a screen at all. There
is no screen with this thing. It looks like the
bottom half of a MacBook Pro.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
And instead of.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Augmented reality glasses, that's your screen and they're hardwired into it.
So instead of like, oh I about a fourteen inch screen,
you have glasses that can be a fourteen foot screen
if you so decide. But seeing that, as we talked
about VR, like one of the last times I was
on here, like and I brought up I'm surprised that
(09:30):
no one's using that for their display. They're now doing that,
and I think that's what we're going to start seeing
here in like the next five years, is display screens
are going to be a nice feature, a bonus that, oh,
if you spend extra one hundred bucks you can get
the externally attachable display. Otherwise, pop these glasses on and
(09:52):
welcome to the Oasis from Ready Player one. Because everything's
going to be done VR now or AR. But it's
called this spacetop, the space laptop, it's the Space top.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I don't know, I kind of I'd like the idea
of having the screen even if this is a feature.
But I think people are gonna buy that for that feature, right,
I mean I can I can't imagine somebody not buying
it because they want to completely immerse themselves in this
environment like that. But I'd always want to have, Like
right now, I have two screens for my laptop and
(10:25):
I love it that are available. I would want to
have that as kind of like a backup thing.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
It's crazy. I'm actually looking at this right now. So
you open it and the case like peels back and
folds over and under and normally goes like over, and
there's like a little like camel hump where the glasses are,
but where it like origami folds over is the webcam
and you can actually it's got like little stilts so
you can pull it up and down to adjust where
(10:52):
it views you.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
So then you've got these ar glasses, this.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Like little keyboard and a camera that you can like
perfectly set and there you go.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I'm kind of wondering though, Apple Sean, how much was
the price on the.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
The the VR from Apple.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Thirty five hundred bucks.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Thirty five hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Someone, are this is the pricing on something like this? Uh,
Matt gonna be similar to that? Would you spend that
much money on something like that? Because I know, Sean,
you said you wouldn't spend thirty five hundred bucks on
the Apple Vision.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
MSRP for the siteful Space Top g One, a screenless
laptop that uses augmented reality to create a virtual display
as a manufacturer suggested retail price of nineteen hundred dollars
not bad. That is cheaper than what I just paid
for this MacBook Pro.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
My son sent me specs for an MSI gaming laptop
that he's looking at and I saw MSI. He said,
I didn't, I've never heard of them. Are they any good?
And I'm like, oh, yeah, MSI is good. Yeah, you'll
be fine with that. But it was twenty one hundred bucks.
But it had a forty seventy in it. I'm thinking,
do you really need that? Do you really need that?
Speaker 5 (12:06):
I mean, I got I got my a sus the
one that I use for work. You know, my a
sus Rock laptop. It's a seventeen inch screen, what is it,
thirty seventy TI graphics card, it's a nine processor, sixty
four gigs a RAM I want to say that was
nineteen hundred bucks total. And that thing can run circles
around anything else that's obnestly. I don't think I would
(12:27):
buy this, this, this AR one. I mean it's not
because of the specs or what it can do. I
think it's just gonna I think people would just it
would look too weird, and people would just be staring
at you and asking questions, and you would never be
able to get anything done because it's so new that
nobody's ever seen something like that. And I just don't
I wouldn't want it. I wouldn't want it because I
wouldn't want to be sitting there constantly taking out my
glass and going, yeah, it's an AR laptop, leave me alone.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Please.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Can you imagine being like a public public bus or
even an airplane on a flight, you know, and you
whip out the glasses, you put them on, you get
the laptop in your lap.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
People can be and what the heck is he doing?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Yeah? So one of the guys that I played Dungeons
and Dragons with does have the air glasses and he
connects them to his MacBook and does the dual displays
in his glasses and just chills in his room.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I mean, pro no, he can't.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
There there are glasses that connect via a connection to
his laptop that can act as external displays for a MacBook.
I'll have to get to God, have to get with
him to see what actually the mad model is. But
he loves them. I got to check him out not
that long ago. And it's weird because you know, it's
they don't have diopters in them, so you can't adjust
the tier. You kind of have to like move them
(13:39):
forward enough to kind of get focused in there. But
you can scale the size and all that stuff. It's
it's it was pretty neat, but I just don't know
if I would do it.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Yeah, yeah, that would be different.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I mean they said kind of said the same things
when like laptops very first came out, was you know,
people sitting there like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Eventually, yeah, it's the CEO of Nvidia actually came out
I think it was yesterday and said we are at
the forefront of a brand new industrial revolution.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
And I was chatting about this with Lee the other
day and I was like, we the original industrial revolution
was obviously manufacturing hard labor like things that you know,
normally have people their hands on AI, and the things
that are coming out now are the in my opinion,
the digital equivalency of that same thing, to where so
many things that might be repetitive, Oh hey I gotta
(14:37):
I gotta script how to do this task so I
don't have to do hands on Now you can just
be like, hey, chat GPT, we do this all the time,
Can you script it for me? And it's like, yeah, sure,
got you bro. So I think with with that tagging
onto VR ar XR, whatever they're going to brand it as,
(14:59):
I think we're seeing kind of turning the corner to
the what's going to be next? And it's exciting. It's weird,
but it's.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Kind of funny when you think about it, though, because
I think we would have thought of in Nvidia as
part of this. You know, well, they make graphics cards,
you know, they beg they do this, they do that,
and we would never have thought of them as being
a big player in this next you know digital you
know revolution, and they have been because they put everything
(15:30):
into saying AI is going to be here, We're going
to support it, We're going to create the products that
will be able to handle all of this, you know,
artificial intelligence and the needs for this. And those people
that bought into the sock with Nvidia that can now
they're just graphics card company. Those people that bought in
are doing pretty good.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Oh yeah, my friend who bought into that when he
was a teenager retired last week.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Amazing, yeah, yeah, amazing.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Younger than me, not bitter at all.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Now, Sean, you had a story that you sent us
this week. Have we confirmed this that there's there's kind
of a run going on for Intel now?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
So it's it popped up in the trades that Qualcomm
had approached Intel to do a friendly takeover. That just
means basically that Qualcom would buy out all of the
stock from the from the board members at at Intel
and then basically shift priorities into Qualkmm that I saw
(16:32):
that article yesterday today. I just read that Qualcomm us
just laid off a bunch of people. So I had
no idea. Oh wow, right, So I mean Intel is
in the tank, is in the toilet right now, right,
I didn't think.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
They were that bad. Why are they in the toilet?
Speaker 6 (16:47):
So you've not seen all of the issues with the
fourteen generation and the thirteen generation chips Yeah, so it's
the Intel had this has this major issue with the
thirteen the thirteen nine Hunters series, and the early fourteenth
gen chipsets that they are basically at the at the
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transistor level frying themselves.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Have they come out with the fixed yet?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I know, I think it was gonna be the They.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
They say that if if your processor is showing symptoms
of this problem, it's going to continue to get worse. Right,
your processor is just going to continue to basically overheat
itself and just fry itself. So then it's just like,
well just rm an. Well, they've basically run out of stock.
They can't give people what they what they bought, so
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they're either giving you a newer processor that has the
same problem, an older processor that doesn't have the problem,
or they're just refunding you and saying good luck. Oh wow,
So it's been.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Whose fault was this an engineer, the designers, It's.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
A problem at Intel, and it just it did got
past quality control somehow, and it yeah, it's it's it's been,
it's been. Their stock is really really low, like they
they are on an absolute decline right now.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I thought they were just too big to fail, I
mean Intel, So.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Right, so this is this is the big question. Right.
You have you have am D, you have Intel, you
have Qualcomm, you have a couple of other Chinese chipet manufacturers.
Right if Qualcom comes in and says, well, we're gonna
buy out Intel, well there's a lot of people that
are gonna say that's going to violate some you know
whatever the law is anti trust law, right because that's
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they're going to qual Coms is just going to have
this huge share. And you've already seen Qualcomm trying to
sneak into the lower end laptop market, so it's smart
for Qualcom to try and do that where Qualcomm has
just historically been a cell phone chip manufacturer or other
you know, onboard integrated circuit manufacturer. So it'll be interesting
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to see. But I can't see why it doesn't make
sense that companies aren't trying to buy Intel and if
somebody could absorb them and rebranded or spin it around
into whatever, I don't see how that couldn't benefit some
company that has enough money to spend on you guys.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Remember it would have been the nineties when there was
a penny issue. The Penny And processors had some kind
of issues with them, and they did a fix. They
basically replaced many of the processors. I remember going through that.
It was, you know, and that's when you had opportunities
that you could use Cyrix or you used you know,
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or AMD. You know, you would use those processors that
DLC forty and the X forty and some of those
other ones. And Intel had these Penny and processors. But
there was a problem and a lot of people thought
the same thing back then that that was going to
be it, and they ended up coming out of that.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Okay, I'm hoping.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I am hoping because we've had people from Intel on
the show. We still know people that work at Intel.
We were kind of hoping maybe they will come out
of this. But you know, I don't know. When we
got that news about Qualcomm, we thought, well, wait a minute,
maybe this situation is a little more bleak than we'd
like to There's problems, and I'm hoping they're able to
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fix them.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I really am. So here's it. Here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
We've discussed this before. We know I'm an AMD fanboy.
I've been an AMD fanboy for most of my life,
way back when. One of the things that really changed
and turned AMD around because they were really lagging behind
Intel for a long time. AMD was the very first
company between Intel and AMD, they were the first ones
(20:37):
to create a dual course CPU. It was the original
Athalon X two and the guy who created the Athalon
X two actually did what is almost considered antiquated now.
He hand laid the architecture for that chip. He didn't
have a computer build it anything like that. He hand
laid it.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
And the the Rizon chip set, which is really turned
AMD around. They basically called him and they were like, hey, buddy,
it's been a while, asn't it. Can you please come back.
We're really struggling. And he handlaid the original Rizing chips,
which they've taken off. They're great, they're great bang for
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your buck, their big machine. They're beefy things, especially like
the thread ripper is just a monster. But when the
and this is one of the things that turned me
off to Intel was when the Athlon x two was
really taking off, Intel called all the manufacturers they called Dell.
HP Compact was still around. E Machines was still around.
(21:38):
They called them and they were like, hey, so AMD
is starting to kick our butts. So they did kind
of like a quiet back room deal. They were like,
if you do our chip set instead of AMD for
your pre built systems, we're going to cut a pretty
penny off the cost of your your wholesale purchase. And
(21:59):
it ended up getting them and a lot of legal
trouble because basically they it was not like an it
was not an actual legal deal. It was you know,
back room wink wink, nudge, nudge. You know, hey buddy,
we're fine, right, And it got them into big trouble
with the US federal government. So to see that, you know,
(22:19):
their chips are eating themselves alive, Like I'm sitting here like, uh,
it couldn't happen to a nicer group of folk, Like
that's just hm, that's a shame. I view in terms
of like heech in the market, you either have the
superior product or you don't, right, and they haven't for
(22:40):
a while.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I've built systems with the thirteen to nine and I
was waiting for a fix from Asus for the motherboard
that was in there.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
That was going to supposedly be some.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Kind of a patch to deal with this, and I
haven't seen it yet. I was supposed to get emailed
once that was available, and that was a great machine.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I built my wife's with a twelve nine and it's
I love it.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
It's super It's faster than mine, and I think it's
great because I've got the eleven.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Uh, they've made good processes.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
But you know, I think it's kind of like, you
know how I've been an Apple guy for so long
on my my smartphone. Going to Android was a little scary.
It was, it's it's still been a little hesitant. I'm
still counting the days down till I can, you know,
return it or or I'm buying into it and I'm
keeping it going.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Full force it.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Every day I find another reason to keep it and
to keep going with the Android. I think the Intel
users going to AMD it's been the same thing. You're
a little a little timid about that. I've been using
Intel for so long, you know, why would I want
to try? But AMD has really been putting out a
great product. The Rise of nine amazing, you know, people
(23:55):
have said so many good things about it.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Kind of think that maybe.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
People if they if they open up their eyes and
they give it a shot, they're gonna be happy with it.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
So go with that. I have been living in a
new video game, Warhammer forty K Space Marine two. I
have been existing in this game, playing the story of
Lieutenant Dominus Titus, and that is my happy place right now.
This is one of the one of the games where
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the AI aspect of the game is crucial because you're
fighting against an enemy that they're they're called terminids if
you've played if you played StarCraft, they're they're the zerg, right,
and it's a first person shooter. So you have this
massive swarm of bad guys coming at you. And I
was actually when I was at fan Expo, I got
(24:45):
to actually chat with one of the developers because they
were presenting the game there. He was like, yeah, so
the main swarm, when you see it like coming towards you,
the computer runs it as one AI element, and then
as it gets closer, it crosses this delineated line and
these individual units start popping out. But it's every individual
(25:06):
unit from that rendered swarm, and each unit has its
own AI instruction that's popped in it. So I'm playing
with my buddy, who's got he's got. I want to
say it's about a ten or eleven year old AMD processor,
and he was like, my GPU is like five years
old and it's fine. For the first time ever in
(25:27):
a video game, I am reaching a CPU bottleneck, oh,
because of the amount of logic required for this AI.
But case in point, what I'm trying to say here
is he is running a ten eleven year old AMD CPU.
It is still able to play this game. You can't
play it on maximum settings, but a ten eleven year
(25:48):
old CPU from AMD is still able to do that
level of AI logic and routing and control.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Wow, that is pretty amazing stuff. It really is.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
All right, tell you why we got to take a
quick break in Warhammer. I understand Henry cavill Is plays
that and is it's like he is a big fan
of it.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
We'll jump in that after the bar.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I'll touch on that.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean to Weird, I'm Matt Jones,
and I'm justin Lemme find us on the web.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
But tech talk Radio dot com we'll be right back.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
And now fact to tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
So right before the break, Andy brought up Henry Cavill
and Warhammer forty K. When Henry Cavill was actually doing
an interview for The Witcher, one of the questions is
like what outside of the Witcher? What what's your nerd thing? Like,
what what is your thing? And without skipping a beat,
he just goes, oh, Warhammer forty K. And as soon
(26:43):
as he says that, the actor who played h Yas
here goes, oh, oh you play and he was like,
oh yeah, right now, I'm running. I think he was running.
It was either Terminids or like Ldar, but he's like,
oh yeah, I'm running this right now. And they were like, oh,
so you should, and we should, and people paid attention
to that because the one downfall, the reason Henry Cavill
(27:05):
actually quit The Witcher is because he knows the lore,
he knows the stories, he knows everything about it. He
is a NERD's nerd. There's a picture of like all
these big name actors like Robert Danny Junior, Chris Hemsworth.
Well all the Chris is like holding these babies, and
then there's Henry Cavill like cradling a thirty eighty ti
(27:27):
like it's his child, and he knows the lore so
much that he would get so upset with the writers
room being like, no, that's not more accurate. No, that's
not what GARYL would do that. Eventually he just quit
and Amazon came to him and they were like, hey.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
So.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
This friend of a friend told us that you know
Warhammer forty K and we were thinking of making a
Warhammer forty K TV show. Would you be interested? And
they are making it. It is in progress, they are
making the show, but Henry Cavill was like, I will
absolutely be involved if I'm the executive producer and I
have hiring and firing rights everywhere.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
So he has hiring and firing rights for the writer's room.
So if somebody's like, I think we should tell our
own unique story that doesn't have anything to do with
the lore, he is gonna punt that person out of
like an eight floor window and then go hire someone else.
So when you say like Henry Cavo is like big
into Warhammer forty K, he's still today posting on his Instagram,
(28:26):
like his stats, playing Space Marine two, like getting a star,
like playing the multiplayer component with everyone. It's it's wild
I hope to end up with a lobby with him
one day.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
That is awesome.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Over the summer, my wife's cousin brought the tabletop version
of Warhammer forty k oh to our family gathering, all right,
So I spent three nights, three hour three separate nights,
three hour sessions doing the the Killed Team space ORCS
First Veterans. It was amazing. I'm gonna get the pictures
(29:02):
and I'm gonna send the men put on the blog.
But he has the whole setup, he's got the starter kit,
he paints his own minis. It was incredible. I almost
bought it when I went to gen Con this in
at the end of August, but I would have spent
way too much money, so I didn't. But there is
a tabletop version of Warhammer that is incredible, so I
will just leave it.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
At that island Warhammer, the tabletop one where you have
to like paint all your miniatures, and you paint the miniatures.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
And then it's it's a specific version called Kill Team,
which is different than like the campaign settings. This is
more like a skirmish where you just fight each other
for an objective. But yes, it is a tabletop version
where you have measurements, if you have a ruler and
you're doing it's it was incredible.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Now if I've never heard I've never played this before,
would I be able to get into it?
Speaker 3 (29:48):
You think? Or is this seasoned gamers?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
If I might jump on this one. So there are
now three different settings where you can play Warhammer forty K.
One Sean is talking about with kill teams. Traditionally, your
miniatures in the campaign setting, each miniature represents like a
squad of guys. In kill teams, think of it like
special ops. Each mini represents one character with specialized versions.
(30:15):
It is the easiest way to get into the game.
Then they with the new release that they dropped six
nine months ago. I think I'm guessing they dropped a
new thing called Combat Patrol, which is kind of in
between the two. And then you have traditional Warhammer forty K,
which is just massive armies, and the army is decided
(30:38):
by point value. So each unit that you have, like
a little guy is worth x amount of points, mech
is worth x amount of points. A thunder Hawk gunship
is worth a mass amount of points. It's amazing. It
is not an easy thing to jump into by yourself,
but if you go to pretty much any local game shop,
they'll have a Warhammer night and any Warhammer nerd except
(31:02):
for like you know, the Frankly, the basement dwellers. They're
they're gonna be there, willing to bring you in and
teach you. It's it is awesome, it is amazing. It
is complicated. But Sean, when you said Orc's Verse veterans,
do you do you know what army the veterans were?
Speaker 6 (31:20):
By any chance, I don't remember, but they were. There
was a bunch of snipers and uh oh I just
I got I got to murder them with.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
They were Tao. Oh, that's if it's a bunch of
snipers there, Tao, And that's disgusting. I'm so sorry your
intro was Tao.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
So for for Warhammer forty K, you've got all these
and I'm sorry. I I can nerd about nerd out
about this for the whole show. So I'll do this
and then I'll be quiet. But like you have three
different main actions like over arking factions. For Warhammer forty K,
you had the Imperium of man.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
You have the Zenos, which are aliens, and that's like
the Orcs, the Taou, the Eldar, the al Dari. Then
you have the forces of chaos which are corrupted in
perium of man Sean. Orcs are amazing. I'm so glad
you got to experience that, my wife.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
It was, it was, it was. It was the Orc
commandos and the Veteran Guardsmen. So I played both sides.
I prefer the I prefer that I prefer the Orcs
because that's like my play style, Like Big and Beefy
get in there and just messed uf up. And their
names are hilarious, like yeah, slice a Boy and rocket Boy,
(32:36):
and I mean they're there. It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
It was.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
It was so fantastic.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Gonna bro. When you're talking about the Veteran Guardsman, that's
the Astra Militarum, which is these are regular old humans
equipped with like a laser, uh they call a las
gun and it will blow like a meter sized hole
in a wall with one shot. Like in today's military.
(33:02):
It would be the end all, be all weapon. It
is jokingly referred to in Warhammer forty k as the flashlight.
It is the weakest weapon out there. The Astra Militarum
subtle fights just based on cure overwhelming firepower and like
sundering amounts of artillery an astro miilitarum artillery brage will
(33:24):
crack the mantle of a planet.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
All right.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Orcs are ridiculous because they make things work solely by
believing it. Like they're like, this will fly because we
think it should fly, and the world is just like, yeah, sure,
why not?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Okay, some great stuff there about Warhammer. Are gonna have
to definitely check that out. And one of the cool
things about it, you know, we can talk about a
little of everything, video games, consoles, TVs, the whole bit,
but when it gets down to it, we're dealing with
the same stuff that you may be dealing with. And Sean,
I know that you did something that you didn't think
(34:03):
you were going to be doing. You finally took a step.
I'm gonna tell us about that.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
So we've talked about it. And I finally was getting
so frush from my computer. To start, I was losing
USB drivers, like I had issues last last week when
we were recording the show, and this morning I did.
I had the day off of work because I've been
working like crazy, and I just said, you know what,
it's time to wipe my machine. It's time to get
(34:29):
it back to bone bone drive to get it done.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
So I downloaded the Media Creation tool. I made a
USB for Windows eleven Pro because that's the version of
Windows I have is I have Windows ten Pro, which
those license copy over to Windows eleven. And then I
plugged it in. I booted from the USB drive and said,
this computer does not support what it's leven And I
(34:56):
was like, that doesn't make sense. It's not that old
of a motherboards. It's a rise in thirty seven hundred,
Like I should have enough, right, So then I did
some googling. So with with this motherboard, specifically, you can
boot into the older bios mode right, or you can
boot into the uef I mode right, So that had
(35:18):
to be enabled. Well, once that was enabled, I was like,
I'm ready, I'm golden right. No, still said not support it.
So then I had to go in and there I
had to go in and I had to Google. I
had to google. You guys know my Google food is
really good, right?
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
It took me a few hours to find the right
article to find the one the one buried setting and
I don't even remember what it is right now, I
have a screen shot up on my phone because I
was just searching for it and it was a weird
ft PM setting on this. On this I have an
asues Gigabyte Asus Elite Wi Fi motherboard.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
I think it's PTT is it or something like that.
Speaker 6 (35:59):
I don't know, but I found it and once I
turned that on, I had zero issues getting it in there.
Then I spent the majority of the day just getting
Windows eleven. Then you don't realize how many things you
actually have to reinstall when you go to a new
version of Oh my, it was like I wrote a
(36:19):
list of all the applications that I consistently used on
my computer before I wiped it, and then it was
like thirty things. So then I'm just going through the list. Okay,
I got Chrome, I got Firefox, I've got I just
went through this huge list and it's like, oh my god,
there's so many things that I had to do. And
then then things were Then I had to do USB
driver updates because I was having issues with my headset
(36:41):
not working, but the headset worked with the MIC wouldn't work,
and I was having weird issues with my A ten
Mini not being read by the USB. And then my
stream deck wouldn't work with USBs, and then I did
a Windows update and then it worked. So the summary
of my today is that it is not easy even
for somebody who is I feel like I'm pretty technologically savvy,
(37:04):
to just do have a basic Windows with eleven upgrade,
do a clean version of Windows. I feel like a
lot of people that don't have patients with technology would
have just given up and gone up by a new computer.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Right exactly. Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
There there's a great tool I've discovered over the years
if you're if you're doing something like this, or it's
like I got to reinstall Rome and Steam and Spotify
and discord that It's called nine Night and I N
I T E. And you can just go in and
like go down the checkbox of like I want all
of these things, and it pumps out a custom installer
(37:41):
and you run the ex and it goes through and
just like default values for everything. So you can't do
any customized installs. But if you're running like one hard
drive and just trying to get a machine up, it
will go and install all those things for you. It'll
do the download, do the install, and then at the
end it's like all right, I'm done. Now you get
to go spend forty five minutes signing into everything, have
(38:03):
a great day.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Well that was the other thing too. It's like I
had to remember, Okay, now I have to due authentic
and everything. I'm my Google email is getting pained every
two seconds because I have to do authenticate this app
on Google, this app on Google. Now my work VPN
needs to do a dual authenticate through Octa. Now my
one pass room. Now I have to go. Oh did
I save my want my PDF for my master password? Sure?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Did?
Speaker 6 (38:24):
Thank god, because if I would have done that, I
wouldn't have been obt. He's one passing my computer anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
I'm having the same thing going through the.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
New Pixel nine having to re installed basically it's like reinstalling,
having to go to the apps can figure everything. Okay,
that one works, that one works. That's been a pain
in the neck. So but you finally do that. You
had to do that as well, right, justin even you
were going from pixel to a pixel, you still have
to do it right.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Well, I mean, I mean it's obviously it's a backup.
I mean I just restore the backup, but I still
have to log into everything. And reauthenticate everything. So yeah,
that was the problem.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Yeah, but you got Windows eleven installed correctly, Sean, and
you're good to go.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
Yeah, so it's I think it's great if it seems
to run really well. And again, I spent the after
I installed a lot of the apps. I spent the
majority of the day just customized things, getting where I
wanted to and googling how to get rid of all
of the ads that are on this Windows eleven right,
so getting it out of my start bar, getting it
out of my search window, getting it out of everything
(39:24):
on Windows eleven has ads in it now. But there
are ways to go in into the registry and make
some small changes so it doesn't serve you ads. You
can actually disable copilot, which I did immediately.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Where do you see the ads?
Speaker 5 (39:34):
Because I'm being I run Windows eleven three different places
and I don't see any ads anywhere.
Speaker 6 (39:39):
So I would click the Windows button and I would
get served like recommended apps that I don't have installed.
If you click the search bar, it would serve you
sports scores, weather, recent weather highlights like the whole sidebar thing.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
Those aren't those aren't ads?
Speaker 6 (39:57):
Okay, information that I don't care about. How about that's
all right if it's not ads, sure, it's it's information
that I don't care about. I don't want to see
it in my search pro when I'm trying to search
for a file on my desktop.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
But it's wants to learn about you by what you
click on. That's what it's going to do.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
It's also true, but I just want a clean operating system.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Then you're going to want to do Linux because you're
never going to get that with Windows.
Speaker 6 (40:21):
I understand that. I'm just that's I can dream.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
All right, We got to take another quick break. We
come back. Justin has a question.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
He's going to tell us about a new website as well,
and we've got a couple of illiciter questions as well.
Hopefully we can get to I'm Andy Taylor.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
I'm Sean de Weird, I'm Matt Jones, and I'm Justin.
Let me send us an X at tech talk Radio.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
We'll be right back and now back to tech talk Radio.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
So recently, you know, I told you guys, I I
DJ at a wedding by DJ at a festival, and
you know, kind of wanted to get back into doing
more of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
You've been having fun with it.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
Yeah, yeah, I've been having fun with it. But you know,
nobody really knows that I do this kind of stuff.
So I wanted to get some business cards that I
could hand out. But then as I'm designing the business cards,
I realize I don't have a website, I don't have
a professional email address, I don't have any of that
stuff because I just I don't know, I just.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
I just never really thought about it.
Speaker 5 (41:16):
But I'm not going to design a business card and
put you know, my personal Gmail address on it, you know,
and then nothing that people can be able to understand.
So so, yeah, I bought a website nice and I
put it in chat there. I used wish Wix to
design it. You know, the thing about Squarespace and and wis,
(41:40):
you know, they tout that it's, you know, super easy
to design a website. It's it's clicking drag and your
website's up running in minutes.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
It's not true. It's not true.
Speaker 5 (41:53):
There is so much that goes into building a website. Yeah,
granted I don't have to do any of the code,
but all of the every single page you've got to
you've got to talk about all the different elements that
you want to put in there. There's you know, click
click to learn more. Where does this learn more take you? Well,
you got to tell it where to take you. And
(42:13):
then you know, you got to do all the SEO.
You got to sign up for Google, you got to
get your page, all your meta tags.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Does it let you do jetpack? Jet pack? Have you
seen that yet?
Speaker 4 (42:23):
I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Jet Pack is a really cool tool for for doing
a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 5 (42:29):
Yeah, no, I've never heard of that. But I mean
to take take a look at my website. I put
it in the chat there, but I I designed it
real quick, put it up there. There's there's still a
ton of work to do on it because it's not
the way I like it. But at least now I
have a website. I bought it for three years. I
have the email, I have the domain, I have the website.
(42:50):
So yeah, this should, you know, hopefully help out a
little bit. But again I'm just my point being this
whole thing is, you know, all these create a website
in minutes.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
No that's not true.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Well, yeah, it does take a little more time than that,
you know, And honestly, justin there's been so many people that.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
I know that have said, we don't need a website.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
We're gonna do it on Facebook, We're gonna do it
on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
And those are great resources.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
But I still believe the professionalism is extended when you
have social media, but you have a website that people
can look at and an email address that people can
look at. Now, the only thing I see, and this
is from somebody who's designed and bought domains and the
whole bit is your your I like your site. I
looked at it, but the name can be difficult in
(43:40):
translation only if you tell somebody, but if you're giving
it to them on a card or something like that,
they're gonna see one.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Means one, you know.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
Yeah, So again that's that's that's a good idea. But no,
I do believe people still need to have websites, and
people have kind of wicks.
Speaker 3 (43:56):
I don't know about wicks. I know Barry you Wis
for his website, which you know, I still I own.
I have the domain for that one.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
The I honestly like WordPress and divvy uh divvy is
is pretty good. Again, you still need to learn and
know a certain amount of word press terms and whatnot, But.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
Divvy is really great.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
If somebody is looking you go to element I think
it's Elemental Themes or element Themes that you can find
out or just do a Google search for Divvy. They
have so many templates up there that if you're new
or you know you're looking for somebody you want to
tell a web developer, hey, build a site using this. Uh,
they can do it. And again it's not too bad.
But are you having fun with it? That's the main thing.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
Yeah, I mean I'm having fun looking at it, figuring
this out. I mean I've never really designed a website before. Well, no,
I should take that back. I mean it's yeah, it's
been like twenty some years. But this is interesting the
way they do make it a little bit easier to
get the basis of it, but you really do have
to dive in into the deep details of everything. And
(45:02):
so I find myself clicking through the pages and checking
every single word, checking every single link, making sure that
it actually goes to where I want it to go.
But again, it is about that professionalism to be able
to have that, because I think you know it. Actually
it doesn't really matter what industry you're in, but if
you're trying to promote yourself as a legitimate vendor of
(45:25):
a product or or a service. And you're just going
to give them a Gmail account as your email with
no website for them to go look at. It just screams,
you know, amateur to me. You know, So even just
to have something basic where it's just hey, here's my
website and my card, you know that I'm going to
(45:46):
give out. It's a very simple card. It's got my
logo on the back, it's got the website.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
Especially if you.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Think about it, justin you're in a situation where, okay,
let's face it, somebody wants to book an event like
a wedding.
Speaker 3 (45:58):
They're going to tie you up for a weekend. So
you're gonna want a deposit.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
If you're gonna be leaving a deposit with somebody, you
want to make sure they're a legitimate company and they've
been doing things. One other thing I think would be
great on your website is some video. You know, maybe
have have a mesa come out when you're doing a
gig and just shoot some video.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
Or if you have video friends that are.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Up there, I'm sure you do from the TV days,
have them come shoot the video of you working. There's
a guy in California that I used to work with
and sadly he passed away some months ago. Bob Stock,
it's great DJ. And it was funny because one of
the girls I worked with at the station here in
Tucson moved to San Diego when her daughter got married.
Speaker 3 (46:39):
That's who they hired.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
She said, Oh, yeah, I know this this guy who's
djaying said he knows you know you and Barry and
that whole bit, and it was like, so cool. But
Bob has put put a bunch of videos of him,
not even DJing, just him standing there in a suit
and the camera going around him, and you see that
personality because that's what they want hire so.
Speaker 4 (46:59):
Great want to do.
Speaker 5 (47:00):
That's another thing I want to do too, is I
want to be able to, like, I'm just think about
even just doing like an interview with myself where I
just I want to, like, I want to tell people
my side of the story when it comes to why
you should hire me to do your wedding or your
you know whatever event. Because DJs are dim a dozen, Yeah,
what makes me?
Speaker 4 (47:18):
What makes me different?
Speaker 3 (47:19):
What makes you stand out?
Speaker 5 (47:21):
I want to be able to put that video on
my website and say this is why you should hire
me over blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (47:27):
All right, now you had another issue too.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
This was actually a question about a problem you're running into,
or if somebody else was running into.
Speaker 5 (47:35):
No, I mean I'm running into it honestly at work.
This is the third laptop. These are Dell laptops, relatively new.
I mean I think they're not like the most current gen.
They're not brand new from Dell. We do usually buy
these things from a refurbished website, but they're very legitimate.
They've done great work for us all the time, and
(47:56):
they're all running Windows eleven Pro. And the third laptop,
all of a sudden, just it's like Wi Fi doesn't
even exist on the laptop anymore.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
Like it doesn't it doesn't exist.
Speaker 5 (48:08):
Like you click on the network settings where it you know,
brings up Bluetooth and and you know, accessibility, night light,
all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
Wi Fi just not even there. Just nothing, like it's
not even there.
Speaker 3 (48:19):
Have you gone into the bios to see if it's enabled.
Speaker 5 (48:22):
Bios bios it's enabled, and and and you can see
it in the device manager. You can see why Wi
Fi You can even go into the network connections, which is,
you know, the old Windows network connections, which they make
it almost impossible to find on Windows eleven. But if
you get there, you can see Wi Fi disabled. When
you try to enable it, it just disables itself again.
(48:44):
And there's no reason. There's I don't understand anything. There's
no errors, there's nothing going on. Wi Fi used to
work on the computer. It's got to be a Windows
bug of some sort. I don't have We've googled it.
We can't find anything.
Speaker 3 (48:56):
Has the laptop been opened recently for any reason, like,
you know.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
Taking the back off of it to access a battery replacement?
Speaker 4 (49:04):
No, no, no, no, no, Because the.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
Wi Fi cards in these laptops, you know, sometimes they'll
put it at the top of the bezel.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
Other times they'll put it, you know, on the bottom.
Speaker 4 (49:15):
Of the antenna.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
Usually it's yeah, it's two small little connectors and sometimes
those connectors can fall off.
Speaker 7 (49:21):
Then.
Speaker 4 (49:21):
But see the thing, no, it was. The thing is
it's listed in device manager.
Speaker 3 (49:26):
It's there.
Speaker 5 (49:27):
It shows it in device manager, okay, and it shows
it in the network connections, but it says it's disabled
and you try to re enable it, it just disables
itself again. Have you everything, we googled, it comes up
with nothing like It's just it's so weird.
Speaker 3 (49:40):
Any any thoughts on this one, Sean or Matt, because
you know.
Speaker 4 (49:43):
I mean if if it's in device Manager, the only
the only thought I could have is is kind of
where you were walking towards You'd be like, maybe the
card is in I got bumped or something and it's
not quite fully seated. It's seated just enough to be
seen on Device Manager. But no, that that is that
is absolutely bizarre. But there's three laptops that have done this.
Speaker 6 (50:09):
So are these laptops. Do they have the the the
M two wireless like the M two wireless ship Cynema
that are replaceable.
Speaker 4 (50:16):
That's a good question.
Speaker 5 (50:17):
I don't know they're there. They make there their higher
end Dell laptops, the Precision line because the.
Speaker 6 (50:24):
Newer laptops have have seen a trend in the newer
laptops going with the M two slot wireless cards instead
of like the PCI cards or the on board on
board just because they get better performance with Wi Fi
six and stuff like that too.
Speaker 5 (50:38):
Oh that's an idea saying that something give me got
jostled loose on the motherboard.
Speaker 3 (50:43):
Could be yeah, could be.
Speaker 4 (50:45):
They've they've they started making the change. The original m
DOT two slot was just for storage SSD and then
eventually and VM storage, and then they were like, wait
a minute, the through put on these ports is ridict
Why don't we start using it for other things? Kind
of you know, the way USB happened way back in
(51:05):
the day. But that that truly is bizarre. And the
fact if it's one, okay, so somebody dropped it and
didn't say anything or something like that. But if it's
if it's three four laptops, that that's it feels. It
feels like a Windows issue. But and they're all Dell.
They're all Dell laptops.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
You know. It's funny.
Speaker 1 (51:25):
I opened up a tower system once and they had
M two They were used for their drives. They couldn't
find the screw so they couldn't tighten it down, so
it was it was in, but it was kind of
like you know, like like as ready to catapult.
Speaker 6 (51:40):
So most we ran into this one we built. We
ran into this issue when we built my nephew's computer
and then one of my friend's computers. Drives. They most
motherboards don't come with an M two socket screw on
the motherboard, and most drives don't come with one, so
unless you have one lane round, you're kinda up the
(52:03):
creek when you put an M two drive in.
Speaker 3 (52:05):
So the way I fixed cars, stay a part off
somewhere else. All right, Junkyard, we gotta take another quick break.
We come back.
Speaker 1 (52:13):
We'll see if we can maybe future research that and
see what you come up with on that. But we'll
be back with more of tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 5 (52:20):
I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, I'm Matt Jones,
and I'm justin. Let me find us on Facebook, Facebook,
dot com, forward slash tech Talkers.
Speaker 4 (52:27):
We'll be right.
Speaker 8 (52:27):
Back and now back to tech talk Radio.
Speaker 4 (52:31):
Hey, this is Harold Parano and you listen to the
geeks on the radio tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 6 (52:35):
So in an earlier segment we talked about me putting
Windows eleven on my computer and reinstalling all the apps
and programs that I had, and thanks to Matt for
mentioning nine Night and I n Ite, I was able
to download and install Audacity, Dropbox, ever, Note, file Zilla, Gimp,
Google Drive, Handbrake, metmore bites, Note plus plus, Open Open Off.
(53:00):
It's real V and C Steam, VLC win AMP when
Sep is.
Speaker 4 (53:05):
Seven, somebody's got a good Internet connection.
Speaker 6 (53:10):
And I just hit download it, downloaded them all and
installed them all in a matter. I mean I did
it during the show. I did it between when when
I mentioned it in the show and now and installed
and I'm now configuring my melor bites. And it was awesome,
Like it just worked.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
You know the question that listeners would ask us right now,
is it safe? Be honest, like that scene in Marathon Man,
is it safe?
Speaker 3 (53:30):
It is safe?
Speaker 8 (53:31):
I have.
Speaker 4 (53:31):
I been using it in my IT career since like
the very start of my IT career back in well,
my enterprise Atteker in like twenty twelve, I started using it.
Where Sean is actually using the free personal version. You
can actually buy nine Night Enterprise and use that same
thing and the options to come with that. It's like, okay,
(53:54):
you can set it to a media that you hand around,
you can do network installs, you can look at all
the computers that are on it and manage updates everything
like that. Like it is the question of is it safe?
It is safe, and it's awesome. I've been using it
for fourteen years at this point.
Speaker 6 (54:13):
Now they have very easy Yeah, yes, n Night dot com.
But it was very easy. I just went to it,
clicked to the programs I wanted, hit download. It gave
me a download file. I clicked on it and it
said installing. It just went through the list.
Speaker 3 (54:27):
So it just bulks installs them and then it tells
you when you're done.
Speaker 6 (54:30):
I mean it took it took a matter of less
than ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (54:33):
It's awesome. And the big part of that is the
installer that it provides you is customized to the options
you chose on the site. So choosing those like fifteen
programs that Seawan listed off, they all come in that
custom downloader. If you chose thirteen of them, you get
the custom downloader.
Speaker 3 (54:50):
It's great stuff. Man.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
We still have a lot more to talk about for
this week, but we'll hold it for next week. If
you have a question or comment to us, drop us
an email. Tech guys at tech talk radio dot com
met a couple of people that called into the afternoon
radios this week and actually said, hey, I'm listening, so
thank you and tell your friends.
Speaker 3 (55:06):
About the show as well. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean
de Weird.
Speaker 4 (55:10):
I'm Matt Jones glad to be back and I'm justin.
Let me thank you all for listening and have yourselves
great week. We'll see you next time.
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