Episode 461 - Comedy Wildlife, OpenShot & The Midwest Freeze: Tech You Need This Week! - TechtalkRadio

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network.
Hey is comedian Kathleen Meddigan, and you're listening to tech
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Who's something I will never be listening.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
To because I hate technology. But for those of you
that do, these are your guys.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
I live in a frozen tundra shon de weird.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
No joke about that, Okay, So for those who don't know, yes,
I'm in Green Valley, Arizona, just outside of Tucson. Sean
on the other hand, is in well in your South Bend, Indiana.
I was listening to our ABC DUWS feed on our
Record Day today and they mentioned like one of the
hardest hits was South Bend, Indiana when it came to weather.

(00:45):
That was like pretty bad when it comes to snow
and ice and all that. You're living it right now.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
So if you're a college football fan and you were
watching the Order Name game on Saturday, right it's started
to snow pretty good in the third quarter or fourth quarter,
like we had got we got quite a bit of snow,
about probably three inches two and a half three inches
of snow throughout the football game, and overnight while it
continued to snow Sunday it kind of loosened up. But

(01:12):
overnight Sunday and Monday, we got six inches of snow here. Wow,
And it just was made for a pretty awful commute
into work. And it kept snowing all day and probably
snowed a couple more inches. If you go about three
hours north of here to my parents' house in Lunnington, Michigan,
they got almost fifteen inches of snow.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Oh my lord. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
So and he will put the Andy will put the Yeah,
he'll put the pictures on. My mom sent me a
picture of their of the back deck. And if you
want to see what the current conditions look like here
in south in Indiana or at on campus in our name,
go to earthcam dot com search for the University of
our name. There's a camera that is in the in
the spire on top of our main building on campus,

(01:56):
and you can see all the snow that's that's on
campus right now. It's it was a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Well, it surprised me. Okay, so talk about this this
rugby game that you sent me video for and I
had seen like it's in a really great shot of
the ice covering the lens on one of the cameras.
I think it was that.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
So we have we have cameras that live on top
of the stadium for getting beauty shots around campus, and
this morning we were gonna use it. So Monday morning
we were gonna use it. And uh, it has a
wiper on it because it's outside and it was just
so coated with snow that the wiper could barely break
all the ice and snow off of it. So I

(02:34):
sent Andy a picture of this of the camera with
like half of the ice broken off, and you can
see the Golden Dome in the basilica. But just then
this ice picture. He's gonna put all these together and
put him on the blog.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
But so is the rugby match.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, So Sunday we hosted the big ten collegiate rugby
tournament here on campus. We do it every year. It
always is in November. This is the first time we've
actually had snow. Holy cow, did it snow? It probably
snowed four inches during the day and they played from
ten am to almost ten pm.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Andy, we'll put this on the YouTube channel. You guys
can go watch it, or if you want to, just
go to YouTube search nor name rugby go to almost
like with like six minutes left in the broadcast, and
you're just gonna see it was a blizzard, winds were
blowing and they were still playing, and Notre Dame ended
up winning the Big Ten Championship. So now they're going
to play in the National Collegiate Cup in a couple
of weeks. It's it's great for Notre Dame. But man,

(03:28):
was the weather? Did the weather suck?

Speaker 1 (03:30):
What blew me away is I'm watching this this rugby
match and I'm seeing the snow progression. At one point
it looked good and then all of a sudden it
just wouldn't stop. These guys are wearing shorts. I'm like,
how do you play a game like rugby or any
game where you're outside in shorts in a blizzard? I mean,
that's what you were dealing with. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
We're born differently here in the Midwest. I guess, well, so, yeah,
so it's just still snowing right now, as right as
we're recording the show. If I were to show you
a camera outside, I'll try and get one hooked up
to see if you guys can see what looks like outside.
But it's still snowing right now.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Wow, that's just crazy. Would you what weather sites you
go through, because you have to keep an eye on
the weather, especially with sports at Notre Dame, just to
kind of see what's going to be moving in the
whole bit to decide, Okay, what cameras are cameras at
are risk?

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, I mean we have a couple of outdoor cameras.
Thankfully some of them have heaters, the ones that Rugby don't,
but they're on so they're generating heat and they've been
outside for four years at this point, so wow. Other
other gear, i mean, electronics don't hate the cold. They
performed better in the cold. But for football this past weekend,
we just had rain gear on and protected it from

(04:44):
the snow right and everything seemed to work okay, and
we tried it out after the game. It's just cold.
I mean, the operators can plain more than the gear does.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Being here in Arizona, we you know, we won't. We've
had snow a couple of years ago. We got some
snow and my i'd been last year and today rain,
you know, and just at least that's what was predicted.
But you know, it's funny because I had gone to
help some friends of mine move up to Rexburg, Idaho
some years ago, and it was fun and drove up

(05:15):
there and it was nice. It was June, it was cool.
There was a light rain that was coming down. I
remember saying, Gosh, I really like it here. You know,
maybe maybe I'd like to move here one day. And
their first winter there, they told me you really still
want to come out here, sending me pictures of the
snow piled up at the walmart where they you know,

(05:36):
they have the trucks that come in and clear the
parking lot and they just make big, gigantic piles of snow.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, there's usually betting in this area around when will
that snow be gone? So you bet, like you bet
over under. Is it going to be before April, before Easter,
or is it gonna be after Easter? Is it going
to be into February? You know, is it going to
be into March, April into May. You'd be surprised how
long those big piles of snow last?

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Have you found? Okay, So going through talking about the
tech angle on this in the weather, have you found
one website that delivers better when it comes to weather?
I mean, there's so many out there. There's your weather
dot Com on acuweather, you know underground, which is one
that I kind of like, Is there one that's better
than the others.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Depends on where they get their data from. Most of
them get their data from the same source as the
Noah's Weather Doppler stuff. ACU Weather seems to be the
most accurate for us. It's what we used to track
weather on campus for sports, for if we have to
delay for weather related things. Yeah, ACU weather, I mean
to be honest, some of the local the local like

(06:44):
ABC affiliate there, the weather radar on their app for
their phone is actually really good. Yeah, it's about the
only thing I use ABC fifty seven Weather for is
the app. But yeah, just ACU weather is where I go.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
To Ularry who so work here, who I've seen him
in a while, But Larry worked at ACU weather, So
he's the one to turn me on ACU weather and said,
you know, you got to check out this source. And
I do like it. It seems to be the most
close to what this real situation is.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, you'd be surprised right now because you get a
lot of to talk about the tech technology side of this, right,
you get a lot of the tornado streamers, a lot
of the guys who chase tornadoes. The big thing now
is also just following severe weather, So you get these
guys that are tracking blizzards now too, and driving through

(07:35):
and trying to get content of blizzards in different parts
of the country. So I didn't check to see if
anybody was out last night because it kind of sprung
up on us. Right we had this winter warning. The
weather was favorable, like it was forty degrees most of
the day Saturday until it plummeted and then started snowing,
and then Sunday it kind of got nice again, and

(07:55):
then Sunday night it just the temperature dropped and it
just big fat flakes to drop it out of the
sky and it didn't stop. I mean it was still
snow when I went to work Monday morning. It was
still stone when I came home Monday evening.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Wow, we're in it.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
And everybody's saying this winter is gonna be you know,
we've been had a lot of mild winters. I only
think I had to use the snowboard twice last year,
and you know, I haven't even dewinterized it yet, right,
it's still sitting in the shed.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
So we get a lot of people that we called
some people call.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Them snowbirds, that's what I call.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, they come here during the winter to get out
of that extreme cold. So I'm sure you know for
anybody that is from that area or where your parents
are from, how do your parents deal with this? But
what do you do? I mean with the snow? Yeah,
I mean how do you stay warm in your house?

Speaker 2 (08:43):
You turned the heat on. I mean it's everybody acts
like it's like this big is this big deal? It's
like at the apocalypse where it gets cold. It's it's
not that cold, right. I think it got down to
the mid twenties today. Right, that's coold. Okay, I wouldn't
want to be outside, right, right, as long as you
have a good a decent house with decent insulation and
like you're running the heat and you're wearing a sweatshirt.

(09:05):
If you get cold, you gotta make sure you have
a snow brush and shovels in your car. You gotta
be prepared, Like, don't just go out and go hillbilly
and drive around without it being prepared. Be prepared. Don't
be stupid. Give yourself extra time to get there. Oh
the biggest pet peeve for me in the winter time.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
All right, what is it?

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Brush off your car?

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Now? When we had our snow here, I was driving
around with it proudly. I was like, I like it.
Sitting in the little well there, I've got snow on
the the the hood. It was like, I've been through
snow in Arizona.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Okay, So you get a little dusting and it's cool
you have snow in your I'm talking about the jabbrownis
that don't brush off their back window. They don't brush
off their roof, they don't brush off their license plate,
they don't brush off their tail lights, they don't brush
off their head lights, they don't brush off their hood.
Nothing right. And so when you're saying, you're driving down
the road and you get in the left turn lane

(09:57):
to turn somewhere, and all a sudden, this guy in
front of you, who's got his completely car covered the snow, decides, oh,
I gotta turn left here. He can't see you. It's
like he doesn't see you. It's it takes two seconds
to brush off your car in the morning. Don't be
lazy brush off your car because For one, it's illegal
because you can't see walking your tire. And if it

(10:18):
if it's been days, like if you go days where
it's melted and frozen and melting, now it's chunks of ice, right,
It's it's hilarious. Sometimes you're driving down the freeway and
you get these big semis that have all this ice
and snow on top and all You'll be driving and
all of a sudden, it just let's lose a four by
eight sheet of ice off the roof. I saw that

(10:38):
can kill people, right, So you get these people that
are driving with the snow on the top of their cars,
right on their back windows, and all a sudden they're
losing ice chunks and it's falling, and you're it's hitting
in your car, and just brush off your car where
I'm gonna find.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
You while you're at it. What we talked last week
about the new Coca Cola commercial AI a big part
of that.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
You talking about semis murdering people on the Co Cola commercial.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
People are finally seeing it. However, I did see an
edit of that commercial now for those who haven't seen it,
it's up on YouTube. I forget what the what the
name of that commercial is they actually gave it a name.
But the where they edited out the people at the
end that were at the end of the street walking
across as the big Coca Cola trucks were moving through

(11:24):
that obviously they would have run over. It looks like
they didn't edit and they did remove those people. However,
I did see another commercial and they're they're just leaving
it as is. I couldn't I couldn't quite see how
goofy the people were walking though in this AI commercial,
was there some like goofiness there?

Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yo?

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, they were walking. Some people were walking forward. Well,
I don't know. You couldn't tell because they were just
like these weird amalgamations. They weren't even look like people,
just different colored blobs. Some were going this way, some
were going that way. They just looked like they had arms,
something looked like they had legs. It was weird. I
don't know, it just it just there were so many
Like justin saw it, he said, all looked fine. Like

(12:03):
He's like, it's supposed to be quirky and animated and
it's supposed to look fake. It did not this fake.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
It did have that Coca Cola like heart string feel
to it for the holidays until it gets to the
end and it runs over those people which you brought up,
and he had the same reaction to it. It was like, wow,
how could you How could you guys do this Coca Cola.
I was reading some stories about it. They're saying, you know,
it costs a lot of money to do this, to

(12:30):
do this AI. We think because of the tools that
we have available like open AI and Sora, which I've
been playing with. And I created my my very own
movie trailer for Revenge of the Nerds Reunion just to
see how it would work. And it worked great. You know,
it was cut off a little, but it still looked good.
People see that and they just think, oh, that's easy

(12:51):
to do. It's easy to do. What they do at
Coca Cola is a little different. Is it cheaper than CGI?
I don't know, or you know, traditional animation as we've
seen it, but this was created by you know, artificial intelligence.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
I just think it's large companies at the c level
just saying what's cheapest? Right, what is except let's just
throw it out there. See what sticks on the wall.
See what people complain about. If they don't complain about
it too much. Maybe we'll do it again. Maybe we'll
do it again the next year. If people don't complain
about it too much, maybe they'll forget about the last
time we did it and it was awful. And but

(13:26):
I just it's companies doing it on the cheap. There
are talented people out there that you can hire to
do CGI. We know there's good CGI. People watch movies like.
But it's these companies that just not willing to spend
the money on good marketing. Well, okay, good marketing, right
is this good? Is this considered good marketing? It's kind
of a gorilla marketing.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Well, you exce a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Let's just make it. Let's just make it. Let's make
AI and get all this press. No matter what, whether
it's good or bad, we're talking about it, we're giving
it the time of the day. We hate it, and
we're still talking about it. We're still talking about Coca Cola.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
And everything that you're gonna go watch the ad or
you're gonna see it because it's gonna be on TV
and you're gonna look for it.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
It's hard to believe that this is the way marketing works. Like,
let's just make something controversial, soevery we'll talk about.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
It, which is exactly what happened.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
What happened?

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah, it is all right, here's something that's real. And
I wanted to mention this last week of the show,
but I didn't get a chance to. The twenty twenty
five finalists of the Comedy Wildlife Photo Contests have been announced.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
This is always so good. This contest racks up there
for me as the Katami National Park Fab Bear.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
Contest, the Fat Bear Contest and the Comedy Wildlife Photos
Contests are two of my favorite things to look forward
to in the photography world.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
It's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Well, this is put together by Nikon Nikon's Comedy Wildlife Finalists.
There are about forty individual images and what these are.
These are wildlife that has just caught in just strange
poses situations that put a smile on your face because
you see them and they're just absolutely adorable. And the
thing is you can vote for them as well. Sean
is showing us one in the video feed right now. Uh,

(15:08):
the one with the frogs. It's a frog and there's
another frog on its back looking over the top of
a like a bowl or something.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
I mean, I feel like I feel like as a sibling,
I did this with my brothers. Like my brothers like
I want to see with the fence, get on your
hands and knees out standing in your back exactly exactly
what this looks like. Yeah, So it's just hilarious to
go through these.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
They're so funny that it was like, oh my gosh,
that one's great.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Oh that was a seagull, uh dumping on a dumping
on an eagle there. And some of them are cute,
some are funny. But I mean, you can go back
through the history of these contests and see and just
see the history of these photos because they're just they're good.
It's good, it's good fun, it's good to look at.
It's it's comedic, it's it's a little more heartfelt and
in a hard time.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
So all right, we want you to take a look
at them. You go to Comedy Wildlife Photo Dot comed again.
You can vote for them there as well. We've been
talking about a lot about video editing and audio editing,
and there's so many tools now to make this stuff easier.
I will say, and you know, I know I was
a little rough on Adobe because you know, just their

(16:10):
business model and the way they moved to a subscription platform,
the whole bit. But man, I've been watching videos form Adobe.
It's just amazing what they can do now. Their Adobe
Premiere Suite is just phenomenal, to the point where I'm like, gosh,
do I want to do that? Do I want to
spend the seventy nine dollars a month and you know,
go ahead and have these tools available because it is

(16:32):
so well done. They did a video and one of
the videos I saw, and you can find this on
the Adobe website or even on their YouTube page, they
took a kid running through a field and they were
able to and it was kids in this video explaining
how this worked, sponsored of course by Adobe, and they
were able to mask the kid running, change the entire

(16:52):
background out of this kid running and you know, every
his hair, the whole bit. They were able to fix it.
Just it's amazing stuff. So if you, you know, get
a chance to take a look at that. But there
is another one I wanted to mention that is, uh,
I guess it's an open source I don't know if
you've heard of this one yet, Sean. It's called OpenShot

(17:13):
dot org and it's not familiar. Yeah, open Shot. It's
a free, open source video editor for Linux, mac Os,
and Windows designed to be easy for use for beginners,
offering features like trimming, scaling, transitions, and audio mixing. Uh
some people have told me that have gone to da Vinci,

(17:34):
which I'm on. I use da Vinci. Is sometimes it's
a little tough to know I want to have this
fade out here, or I want to, you know, do
this kind of transition. Once you learn that though, it
just the same way with Premiere. Once you learn it,
it will become common. With da Vinci. It's it's super easy,
but if you're looking for another step, this one might work.

(17:56):
It can be downloaded from the website at open shot
and even off for a cloud API for you to
integrate video editing in your application. So if you're a
developer and you want to have this as a feature,
you can do that, and if you want to find
out more about it, you just go to OpenShot dot org.
I haven't tried it yet myself. I want to do that,
but as it is, I've learned to do pro tools

(18:18):
and learned to do da Vinci. Coming out of the
Adobe world. Now I want to go back into the
Adobe world and play with some of the some of
those toys.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, I think it'd be interesting to get this and
see how well it performs. I mean interesting to see
how well it handles ten ADP or four K. Just
be curious to see. Right, doesn't really give you much
of a few feature screenshots, doesn't give you much of
a preview.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
But yeah, I want to do more like the business
videos where you go into businesses and we show the video,
show their business, the whole bit. I love that Da
Vinci has a whole bunch of credits that you can
use lower thirds titling. I did a Western for guy
the other day, This guy Larry, he's an actor that

(19:04):
does westerns and apparently his real disappeared. So he sent
me the DVD and I said, you know, I can.
I can go ahead and get it and coded digitally
for you. But I wanted to have something in there
as a transition. And there's even the burn away like
remember the I don't know if you ever watched Bonanza
where they would do the fire effect on the map

(19:24):
and it would burn away, And they had that effect
available on Da Vinci. So I just thought that was
kind of cool. So yeah, I mean Da Vinci has
if you if you've not looked into Da Vinci, there's
a free version of it. If you want to play
around with video editing. I'd recommend it. It's really easy
and fun to use. Just like I said, there's a
learning curve.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, like any any software, a little bit of learning
curve never hurt anybody.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yeah, but that's a nice thing about it. You can
go online. You watch YouTube videos now from creators that
will teach you how to do that. We'll teach you
how to and.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
It's like it's like anything else nowadays. You can just
figure it out on YouTube.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Everything you're talking about ads with Coca Cola and their
you know, big AI ad. There's a new term that
I don't know if you've heard about now. I know
that you have you you have Apple TV, don't you.
I do have an Apple You do Apple TV. One
thing you don't deal with is ads? Right? No, all right?

(20:19):
Have you tried pausing something you were watching? And yeah,
an Apple TV when you pause it, I guess something
that they want to start doing or there's talk about
it is a term that they're calling pause ads, and
I know that they have it on some of the
different apps like I've got the TLC app when I'll

(20:41):
admit and I watched a ninety Day Fiance. But when
I'm watching the app and on the TLC app and
I hit pause, it will pause, but a screen will
pop up with an AD and it's not a moving ad.
It's just an AD highlighting something that's coming up that
you can watch on peacock or something you could buy
at a store locally, the whole bit. So pause ads

(21:04):
are becoming like the new thing.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
To be fair, a lot of people, if you're watching
a show back in the nineties, you would just go
during comrocer breaks, right, maybe the one maybe the one
person that didn't have to go to the ad. It
only makes sense that if you're pausing something, you're doing
it to step away from the TV for a second.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Well, when you come back they hit play, it will
be on that ad, so it gets in somebody's face.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
So if you're gonna serve me ads, well it's pause,
you better not serve me ads while it's playing.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Well, Disney was the first one to do this. Apparently
I was doing some reading on this. They did it
on Hulu back in twenty eighteen. They started to do that,
so if you hit pause, you would get some kind
of an ad. I don't know if it was within
their same realm of Disney, you know, or Hulu, but
either way, that's what they were doing back then.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, I just don't get how it's frustrating how greedy
these streaming companies are getting. No people will pay to
not have ads right now.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
And then they will raise the price accordingly too.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah. So like it's like, think about it, right, if
you could look back at your entire Netflix history, right right?
I think I started with a Netflix account in two
thousand and five. When I went to college. I got
three DVD shipped to me.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, that's one of what is dreaming, and I could just.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
Ship them my back right. Actually caused people like dorms
to have issues with you had to have it delivered
to a specific campus at that point, because it was
just every ra was dealing with just putting DVDs in mailboxes.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
I'll tell you funny story. I once left a DVD
at a restaurant I Gotten to Eat, picked up my mail,
took it was showing my friend Gotten to Eat left
the DVD there and I didn't realize until a couple
of days later, somebody had mailed it back for me,
which was kind of cool. So yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Have you seen we're talking about Netflix, right, do you
remember red Box?

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Oh yeah, totally red Box gone now yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Well it is gone. Little internet community that is dedicated
to finding and opening the red boxes. Red Boxes abandoned it, right,
you can't, you can't do anything with it. But there's
a community that is dedicated to tracking the red boxes down,
getting them. People have three D printed the keys, They
are able to open them, get out all the movies

(23:20):
and games that were in it. And people have actually
gotten to hacking the os so that it will can
play the it's got the whole kiosk. Guy's got the
TV up top, it's got the display, and people have
gotten them hacking so they can put their own DVDs
in there and spin them out like you're actually renting
the DVDs from the constant the system.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Again, why and I don't understand why they just bailed
and just left everything.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
The company went out of business right up to the
individual business I what to do with it, scrap it,
junket whatever. So there's a community dedicated to tracking down
and restoring or taking Red boxes it's kind of just
go to reddit and go to the red box subreddit right,
and you will find all of this stuff. It's kind
of comical to see and people like people have them

(24:03):
in their living rooms, in their basements, their man caves, dens, whatever,
and there's all these tips and tricks on how to
do and referb and a lot of us still have
had DVDs and games in them.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
All right, we're gonna take a quick break. We come back.
Something that Microsoft is doing that actually is kind of cool.
We'll tell you about that when we come back with
more of tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Seanda Weird.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
Find us on your favorite podcast platform and give us
the like and subscribe.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
And now back to tech talk Radio.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
I really enjoy listening to your show.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
It's really cool, well, very informative. US rookies. Are you
a rookie. I'm very much a rookie.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Typically before the show, I say the words no night,
and that's usually to my toddler when I'm trying to
put her to sleep.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
You actually say nine night. You actually call it the
brand name, go.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
To sleep please. I could do show yes fall sleep please.
Now it's it's me falling asleep and Andy's calling me saying,
are we doing a show to there?

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Are you awake? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (25:04):
Uh just so so those who don't know, like Andy's
two hours behind me, three hours during day that saving time.
So it's like sometimes I'm put in my boice to
beleeve and I fall asleep. But night Night is an
app that we've we've talked about on the show. I've
used it, Justin's used it, Matt used it. I don't
know if Andy's used or not, but.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Use it yet.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
It's a website you can go to and you can
pick like it's got all these great apps for your computer.
It's got messaging apps and web platforms and web browsers
and text editors and social media sites and social media stuff.
You just curate what you want to pick the ones
you want, hit download and it installs a package and
it downloads a packager.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
So you download this packager, you run it and it
just goes through. It installs the a dozen softwares and
it's just hey, they're installed. It's great.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
People say, it's like, it's like great, if you bought
a new computer you did, do you know any kind
of transfer of that whether PC mover or the other
does the install it works out pretty good that you
just get up and running.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, but just like Microsoft, they're probably gonna root it
because they have their own.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, apparently they came up with what one this week?

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Right, Yeah, it looks like Microsoft has one.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
It's called the uh app pack.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Multi Yeah app Pack multi app Install Windows. It's it
actually looks mysteriously just like non nite.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yep it does you have.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Your productivity tab? You have your creativity tab. I mean
it's it's clearly a non Night competitor built by Microsoft
for Microsoft for Windows users. Right, So it's got a
lot more niche softwares, it looks like, whereas nine Night's
more like your run of the mill. This is what
you're gonna need for a clean install kind of thing,

(26:52):
right now. What this doesn't do that nine Night can
offer for a cost is keeping things up to date
and installings multiple.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Machines, oh, nine Night.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
With nine Night, you can subscribe to their bundle and
allow it to update multiple machines, keep things updated, download
packagers that you can send to people, and install things
like that. So it's like this is for just me
on my computer. The app store but it's right here
on the App Store in Windows looks pretty straightforward. It's
got quite a bit. It doesn't look like I can

(27:25):
do more than what I've already just got right or
what's just here. So it looks like it might just
be these apps that are on here in this list.
It doesn't look like there's more than what's on this
list list, which looks like it's about a handful a
dozen couple dozen, which I'm surprised they have Rufous on here,
because yeah, they have Rufous on here. I'm surprised because

(27:46):
I thought they didn't want people trying to install their
own version of Windows without the I feel like they're
enabling people to do that and then so they can
just take their videos off the internet.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah, so it's like tools and utilities, right, You've got
speed Test, Rufus, a couple other ones that I've never
heard of.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Wow, Personalization, Open obs Studio. I thought was that was
kind of cool to see that in that Microsoft bundle
that was showing.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, I still feel like I still feel like OBS
is hands down the number one platform for content creators
on the Internet. It's lightweight, it's super custom as well.
It's open sourced, it's community driven, it seems to be
just and there's not really an OBS killer that's out
there that does what OBS does for the price.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
I mean, Riverside to me is probably one of the
best that's been around.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah, sure, right, OBS is a content creation tool. Right,
OBS is a content platform. So I feel like you're
paying for the content piece on Riverside, and then if
you're doing live content, you would you still use OBS.
So I think either it's great, I think but OBS
is kind of like the it has the biggest foothold

(28:55):
on the streaming community.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
I am starting to see some adu that are being
focused on telestream wirecasts, and I'm sorting to seeing ads
focused on them, I think getting back to getting their
their you know, users to come back that may have
left and gone to OBS for live shots to lift riverside.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
So it's like it's interesting because like we could never
get wirecast to work.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, we had a hard we had a hard time.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
We had a hard time. Like it just like you
had a different version or I had a different version,
or the browser didn't support it. It was so difficult.
Like I feel like I don't want to say bad
things when we did. When it did work, it looks great.
It just felt like it was extra steps in that
they didn't take the opportunity to develop. And then all
of a sudden, a handful of all the ones came
up and people dumped ship and now they're trying to

(29:45):
offer it as a as a as a lower cost.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
I still have not like jumped in to Riverside FM,
which is the platform we use for live streaming. I
haven't tried that yet. Now. I I went ahead and
I renewed my license for Wirecast just in case I
get a live stream event. I did an event once
in Phoenix with the author Stephanie Meyer, who wrote Twilight,
and that was a huge event and streamed. I needed

(30:11):
to have that, and I'm nervous that, you know, if
we do something like that again, Riverside wouldn't be able
to support it. I've got to I got to put
it through its spaces. We need to do a live
at some point, just to try to see if it's
if it can handle it. You know, not like we're
gonna have the bandwidth that we had with the Wirecast one,
but still it would be cool.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
I don't do much streaming anymore anyways, right, just work
just for work work stuff. But that's all through nor Name.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
So right, well, you know, I'll have to see how
that plays out. But again, if you want to, if
you want to access this, it was a little hard
to find at first. You go to this is the
website link that you can go to to get the
app pack. That's part of the Microsoft Store. Again. It's
in the Microsoft Store. Again, it's free to do. If
you've got Windows, you're running that apps apps dot Microsoft

(31:02):
dot com forward slash app pack and that's a p
P P a c K and you'll be able to
get it there.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
So it's not on the front of their website at all.
They don't make it easy to find things sometimes, you know.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
I find a lot of things like that, like Peacock
all right, the streaming service. Right, they just added Dalton
Abbey all right. Gloria is a big fan of Dalton
abby So it's the grand finale. I wanted to watch
it in the theaters, but you know, we just couldn't
get the time to go. So okay, cool, we'll watch
it on Peacock. I go to the website to the channel,
I can't see it. I have to do a search

(31:38):
for it. I'm thinking, if it's brand new, why did
you just put it on the front page.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
But well, because you're not tagged into the algorithm, right,
it doesn't know what to serve you, so it just
gives you the generic.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Homescreen, right, just kind of a pain in it. All Right,
we have a couple of listener questions. I want to
get to one of those if we can. So let's
go ahead and let's share the one that we got
in from Louri in Tucson says, hello you cheery tech guys.
Maybe Sean's not that cheery because it's a little cold.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Maybe chili, yeah, cheery, maybe it's.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Chilly, Hello you chili tech guys. I'm wondering if you
get answer to this. I'm on social media Facebook, Instagram,
and YouTube. Now I keep getting message requests to connect
from people on Telegram. What is that? And is it safe?
Louri in Tucson Telegram.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
I think I don't know. I honestly don't know, and
I think it's a social media platform. I honestly don't know.
Tell it's basically like what's app it it seems to be.
Telegram is a cloud based messaging app that let's use
your send text, voice, mesage, photos, videos. It's cross platform
end encryption right cloud storage, groups and channels. So it's
just it's in short telegrams like what's Apple Signal, but

(32:51):
with larger group capabilities.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
I want to remind you though, Lourie, uh And I
don't know how you feel about this one, Sean. When
you get message requests from strangers that are on flat Facebook,
Instagram or YouTube and they say, I'm hardly on this,
but I would love to reach out to you and
carry on a conversation, you know, find me on Telegram
or what's your telegram? Gotta be really lary about that.

(33:15):
That's a setup for a scam if.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
It's I mean, I feel like if it's people you know, yeah,
more often than not, you're gonna get asked outside of
social media like hey, I got this new app, let's
connect on Telegram or let's start a group chat on Telegram.
It's not gonna just be like some rando on Instagram
or Facebook's gonna message you and say let's chat on Telegram. Yeah, scam.

(33:40):
That's clearly clearly if you're getting asked to connect with
people on Telegram, maybe it's somebody you haven't talked to
in thirty years, twenty years, ten years, whatever. Be leery
of those types of connections because it's gonna you know,
if they send you a link that says, hey, log
into Telegram, and you click on it and you log
in to a website that you might think looks like Telegram,

(34:03):
well now you might be logged into a fishing site.
Now they have your information. So just or you know,
a lot of sites will ask you to if you
click out a link and it'll say connect or log
in with Facebook, or log in with Google, or log
in with Apple. Right, just be careful if you're clicking
on nefarious links, because they may prompt you with a
very familiar looking website that says connect with Google, connect

(34:25):
with Facebook, you log in with your Facebook crerentials that
you've just provided them with your Facebook login. So yeah,
I would say, if somebody's reaching out to you to
connect on Telegram and you haven't talked to them in
a long time, reach out to them via another or
advert Yeah, reach out to them another way, confirm with

(34:47):
them that they're actually Telegram.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
Do use what'sapp.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
I mean I have used WhatsApp to connect with some
people in Poland and in Germany and a couple a
couple relatives in German and we used it when we
went to the UK just.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
To get some free messaging, right right, it's interesting, all right,
So Laurie, just be be very wary. There is there
is telegram out there, you know, if it's worth your time,
look it up and then make that decision there at
that point that you know that might help you out
with that. So I don't know, or send a real telegram,
send a real what a real telegram?

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Like you go?

Speaker 1 (35:27):
And boy, all right, I I want to share this
with you. I don't know if you've seen this yet.
There's there's a YouTube video on Tom's hardware page and
I mentioned Tom tom is they have some great stuff there.
It's a guy named Vimpo who uh took an Ali
Express led light bulb and took it apart. Uh He

(35:48):
disassembled the bulb then desoldered it's micro controller and the
video shows you all the step by step. So what
this guy did this? This actual micro controller can run
up to a hunter ninety two megahurtz. It's equipped with
a two hundred and fifty two hundred and seventy six
K of ram one hundred and twenty eight k of
ram and what he did with it. He created a

(36:11):
Minecraft server out of a light bulb and the video
shows how to do it. More and more people are
trying to do different things with it, you know, whether
it's servers, the whole bit.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Yeah, so there's a there's a trend of a lot
of people that are trying to do video games.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Right.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
They're taking video games and trying to run them on
anything that has a microprocessor in or a controller. The
big one is can it run Doom? People have tried
to get if it can run even at one frame
per second, right, they will they will count it as
a win and it's something that can run Doom.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
I mean they've gone as far as Randoom on a
pregnancy test. I'm not joking. Wait what really they got
it to run? They got they got it to run
at one frame or half a frame per second or
something silly Doom. There's people try to run Doom on
literally anything, right, So I'm assuming that this is very

(37:11):
similar to that, where what is the the stupidest thing
you can run Minecraft on? And it doesn't have to
run well, it just has to run compile and run
on and give you any sort of video output mind blowing.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
All right, we're going to take another quick break. We'll
come back with more of tech talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
I'm Shrendword.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Send us a telegram. Wait, we don't have that.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Well we do now I just edited the tech talk Radio.
We'll just see if I can figure out how it works.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
Find us on Facebook at tech talk radio dot com.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
We'll be right back and now back to tech talk Radio.
Got a chance this week to take a look at
a new keyboard. And you know, you think about keyboards,
keyboards and keyboards, they've been around for a long time.
You know, with a cordy style of key board that
it can I mean you remember the old plugs that
you had for your keyboard, and then you had USB

(38:07):
came along and it was cool, and then wireless and
then blue tooth, and then the keyboards got smaller, it
became more portable, and we've seen some great ones, even
you know the Logitech K four eighty which I really like,
where you could switch between you you have a small
little keyboard, you could put an iPad or a tablet
in there and control it with the keyboard switch it

(38:30):
maybe to your phone which is over here on the side,
or even your computer. Well, they've introduced this new one.
It's a Logitech signature Slim Solar plus the K nine eighty.
They have a business model and then they have, you know,
a personal use consumer model, the consumer model. The only
difference really is that the consumer model does not come

(38:51):
with a USB dongle or the USB key, you know,
the lodg of bolts, that's what they call it. But
most people have blue tooth on most of their devices,
So there you could do that, or you could buy
a Logia bolt as well. It's powered by light by
light by light, there's no batteries, you don't plug it in,

(39:12):
there's no cable that connects to your computer, connects via Bluetooth.
All powered by the light and not solar light. It's yeah,
you could use it outside, but it could be the
ambient light in a room. And with the Loaja Options app,
it's kind of cool. You download the Outlaga Options app
Options app. It's free from Logic Attach. It will tell

(39:33):
you what kind of charge it's getting and say you
use it in a room that's pitch black, right or
pretty dark, and you've got the screen lighting up the keyboard,
because I don't think the keyboard light's up itself. But
if you do that, it will still run, and it
can run for about three years. It's got a ten
year they say a ten year battery life or ten

(39:55):
year use of this. But I mean pretty amazing stuff.
And it can all be customized with a lodg of
options at So whether it's PC, tablet, mobile, Apple, you know, Mac,
you can you can have some fun fun with this one.
And again it sells for about one hundred bucks. If
you buy the business model, that one sells for about
one hundred and ten dollars, but you can find out

(40:17):
more at logitech dot com. But yeah, lad had a
lot of fun with that.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Yeah, so you're talking about this new keyboard, and yeah,
if you ever wanted a keyboard so bad that you
went and bought it and you got home and you
plugged it in and it didn't work.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
What happened I wanted?

Speaker 2 (40:33):
So go back me. Yeah, two thousand and seven. I've
got a nice Mac Pro from two thousand and seven,
So it's a it's a two thousand and six Mac Pro,
like bought it from my old workplace two thousand and
seven running power PC. Love it right? Playing World of Warcraft.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
Yeah, Steel Series.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Comes out with this zfold World of Warcraft. It's a
zfold key board. It folds out, it's got.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
I remember those, it was just the top folds out right.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Yeah, well no, it's a it's a it's a z
fol but it's like it's got custom buttons on the
side for roller World of Warcraft stuff. It's got a
a Bernie Crusade's module. It's gotta it's got a a
Wrath of Liz key module. So I went to GameStop
and I was like, I'm gonna spend one hundred, one
hundred and fifteen dollars when bought it, drove all the
way home, super excited, got my computer around, went plugged in.

(41:27):
Doesn't support mac os.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
You're kidding me.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
I was so mad. There's because I just I just
didn't pay attention. But you're talking about keyboards, and that
fat memory just comes flooding back of how mad. I
was right. It didn't support mac oes. So a lot
of things that it's weird, like you don't think that USB,
but it's like specific drivers for all the extra buttons
and the functions and max big about not letting keyboards

(41:55):
do certain function controls and stuff like that. So it's like,
I get it now, but at that point I was
just it's just an angry twenty something year old video
gamer that just wanted to play World of Warcraft and
I couldn't with my new Nati keyboard.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Did they take it back? Were you able to take
it back?

Speaker 2 (42:10):
They did, but of course they couldn't give it to me.
You know, I couldn't get the whole because I had
opened it, so that was an open box and so
I got only got like seventy five percent of my
money back, and it was I was mad all the
way around. But anyways, that's my little rant about keyboards.
Now I know better. Now I have a nice Steel
Series mechanical keyboard, ten key lists, but I like a.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Lot of detech. You'll find most of my equipment is
a lot of detect. Steel Series They've been around a
long time. Bruce Hover used to be the CEO of
the company. He's been on the show. I've introduced him
at a different events. Steel Series makes. They still make
some great products, and you know, I know, I know
that people compare Steel Series with Corsair because Corsair makes

(42:52):
a lot of gaming stuff there, but I don't know.
I think I honestly think Steel Series still comes ahead
when it comes to the ranks also in there as well.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
Yeah, I mean I think those are the top trendy brands.
Matt would be mad at me because I completely forgot
about the keyboard that he has that he told us about.
The website. There's a website. He knows. There's a I
can't remember. I should probably just text him and ask him.
There's a bunch of great hobby mechanical keyboard sites that
you can go to and customize your own and build
your own get the right switches you want. Do you

(43:23):
want loud and clackie? Do you want quiet and subtle?
Do you want aggressive? Do you want high rebound? I mean,
you don't think about this right. You think, oh, it's
a keyboard, like there's only one switch. There's one Like, No,
if you want to light the world on fire, go
into a mechanical keyboard subreddit and say cherry blacks are

(43:44):
the best or something silly. Right, You're gonna get You're
gonna get a million people with different different reasons why
their switch is better than this one, and all this
stuff and did you like I said, masks canna be
mad at me.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
I forgot two keyboards that I've had that I liked.
One of them. I think it was a company called Burke,
and it was geared at video editing, and it was
kind of cool because it had a jog wheel on
it so if you were editing, it had lights that
went above it. It had keys that could be customized

(44:14):
for different tasks like you know, cut for editing, for
you know, for splicing, transition, that whole bit. And again,
I don't know if there's still around, but this is
many years ago when I was, you know, working around
with Premiere that I got a chance to play with
this and it was great.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
I found it. I found the website that Matt was to.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
Key Cron, Key kronn all Right.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
A lot of times custom mechanical keyboards can be pricey
and two hundred dollars are up or whatever, but you
can get some of these relatively inexpensive k E y.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
C A E y C h RO and key Kron
like he loved those.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
He did. Yeah, so it looks like I mean, you
can get relatively I mean the keyboards aren't actually ninety
nine dollars for this one that's up, and you can
pick which switches you want between reds or browns, or
you can pick if it's a ten keyless. I mean,
it's just keycrun dot com. If you're looking for a keyboard.
We're talking about keyboards here. We're talking about keyboards we've

(45:12):
had all throughout our days. Yeah, but I know that
Matt really likes these key crowns. And whether you want
one hundred percent board now, when I'm saying the percentages, right,
it's whether or not it has all of the keys
that you know we would get. Ninety six percent would
be something that's missing a couple keys. But then it
goes down from there, right, and you know, seventy five

(45:35):
percent is basically the board without the ten keys, right,
sixty is spread out a little bit more and it's
missing the function keys. You gotta go and look. But
like I'm running a seventy five ten keyless. It's like
I don't have the number pad off to the right.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
See I like that. I like to have it, well,
I do. So.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
I I didn't have a much I didn't have a
whole lot of space on my desk, right, so I
thought I deduced it I five inches or so. But
the number of times that I've I'm typing and I
go to type in a number and I'm like a man,
I have to go to the top row. Then I
get mad because I have to go to the top
row and I'm lazy.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
You know. Programmable keyboards are a lot of fun too,
because you can mess with people. If you know your
co workers, you can get in there reprogram their keys
so the A is actually typing something else or I
mean you that's what's fun about programmables. But I will
tell you the keyboard I never liked was the ergonomic keyboard.

(46:34):
And those are the ones that had kind of a
kind of a bump in the middle of it, and
they say it was good for your hands and the
whole bit. Just never a big fan of the ergonomics
on those keyboards. And if you remember those.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
Yeah, I mean you had the ones that split your hands.
So yeah, typing more split and then you have if
you if you're ever interested, right, the standard for most
keyboards that the most number of keyboards you probably if
A are QW E R T Y querty. Yeah, right,
But have you ever seen a devorge at keyboard. I
don't get it. It's everything's laid out differently. Everything looks weird,

(47:10):
like all that muscle memory you learned, Like I guess
if you learn. They say, if you learn it that way,
it's better. It's faster, more more ergonomic than a curity keyboard.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
But you know what, I'm seeing a lot as people
are learning the shortcuts. They're learning that you know, you
could type windows you or you know when I or
you type all it's it's made it easier. And it's
so funny because honestly, ten years ago I couldn't convince
anybody to do shortcuts here at work. You know, oh

(47:41):
we'll do this, or you know, you teach them control
Z and it's like, oh wow, really that can repair
a lot of my stuff. But people are now actively
looking for those shortcuts on their keyboards, and that makes
life just so much easier when you're.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
And again we've talked about this before too. It's like
it's interesting with this current generation of people learning, a
lot of them don't know how to operate computers. They
don't know keyboard shortcuts. They don't know what's control C,
what's v X, you know, all the keyboard shortcuts that
you needed to know because they're so used to doing
it on their phones, right, and it's like you just
say copy instead of control C yeah or thatch command

(48:19):
see or whatever. So it's interesting to see the trends
across keyboard shortcuts. And you know, you're either a clicker
or you're a keyboard shortcut, right, either a right clicker
do the command, or you're a keyboard clicker. It's interesting
to see just how different people use computers.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
We were talking before the show though, and to switch
the subject of keyboards about security, and there is a
story that I don't know if you've ever seen the
meme where everybody is just hitting their head at the
same time because it's like, are you kidding me? It's
one of the craziest, most ridiculous security stories that I've

(48:58):
read in a while.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
You would think a place that has some of the
most important art and history in the world would have
decent security, right, So take for existence, the Louver. It's
in France, it's a big, important place, it's got a
lot of people coming there all the time. You don't
think that their password would be louve.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
That is just so mindful for those who haven't been.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
Paying attention to world news in the last three months
or so. It's been that long. There was a heist
at the Louver where where some heisters took a cherry picker,
which is a truck with a boom on it, raised
it up to the second floor, opened a window, climbed in,
stole a bunch of French royal jewels and scanandled nop

(49:48):
and they got away. And they literally did a review
of the security at the Louver and found fake cameras.
The password was the password was love. They were running
a unpatched security software from two thousand and three, running
Microsoft Server two thousand and three.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
Are you kidding me? Oh so?

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Like just yeah, the love was still This is what
this is from a PC game article. Documents indicated that
in two thousand and five, the Louver was still using
security software purchased in two thousand and three that's no
longer supported, and running on hardware using Windows Server two
thousand and three. So you think that your work policies

(50:33):
I'm getting from Windows tend to will live in Windows
eleven are bad. Try showing up with a computer running
Windows two thousand Server two thousand and three and see what.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
Happens and having that type of password. Uh, just's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
That's like just that's just like using your first name
as a password or your dog's name, like something that's
so fundamentally simple to solve. I feel like they got
fished by, like what's the first place you visited today?

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Loof?

Speaker 2 (51:01):
What's your favorite place to view art? The loof?

Speaker 1 (51:03):
The Loof.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
So it's like it's like silly to think that such
an important place, Like those are places that you think that,
like it's the security looks and feels so lax because
it's so strong, Like it's it's like one of those
things where it's like out of sight, out of mind. K. Yeah,
I don't see the security, so it's got to be
that good. Yeah, But then it's like you can just
open up the cabinet and take the piece of art.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
Just crazy. All right, we're gonna take another quick break.
We come back with more of tech talk Radio. I'm
Andy Taylor, I'm Sean to Weird.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
Find us on the web at tech talk radio dot com.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
We'll beer back and now back to tech talk radio.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
But I don't want to buy just the absolute primo
system out today that usually wastes money. So I'll be
doing some digital photography, maybe some video editing. Don't do
any gaming at all, so I don't have that demand
on the computer. It's wondering what you guys would suggest,
either in brands or just in general speed and where
do you go to get the maximum bang for the
buck right now sounds.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
Like you want to max.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
We're just talking about security and stuff, but have you
ever had a device and we talked about some of
these device to the fort where you're using it for
a couple of years and then all of a sudden
they make a plan change. It goes to a subscription model,
you lose a feature, right, We've talked about them before.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
Right outcam for me, it was a card camera. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
So Bo's is not one of those companies that you
think would do this right. Bose is a manufacturer of
high end sound systems, but Bose is officially announced it
the cloud support end of cloud support for all of
its Sound Touch products, so Soundtuch bars, Soundtuch speakers. The
benefit of those products is that you could tie them
together with speakers in multiple rooms and tie through the app.

(52:38):
And they're just getting rid of it. They're saying it's
not gonna work anymore after February eighteen, twenty twenty six
year device is essentially going to become a dumb speaker
in the sense of losing its smart wireless cloud you know, connectivity, right, Like,
if you rely on this for streaming the device's Wi
Fi or from the mobile app, that's all gonna go away.
So if you're using it to play Spotify, using it
to play tune In or Pandora or probably things like that,

(53:01):
you're no longer to be able to stream those services
to the speaker. You can still use Bluetooth to stream
from your phones app, but not from the device itself. Yeah,
So people that have been using them to connect multiple
rooms in their homes, that's gonna go away. Yeah. So
it's like one of those another one of those things
where it's like they're just gonna stop. It's gonna become

(53:21):
a dead product.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
And why would they do that after people have invested
in an embody because bus isn't cheap, let's face it.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Yeah, I mean, it's just and they're saying that even
like in the future for newer versions of the software,
it's not gonna be supportive for these older versions, so like,
even if you get a new version of software, it's
not gonna support your older versions of hardware. So it's like,
I'm just curious to see why Boast said to just
probably a security concern, I would imagine because of the
lack of like changing over the support. But I don't know.

(53:52):
I just I don't like that companies leave dead products
like this, where you get so ingrained with a feature
or a streaming platform, or you know, you rely you're
so ingrained in this platform, and then all of a
sudden it's like we're not doing anymore, forces you to
buy something new, forces you to buy something different. I

(54:14):
don't know. My in laws have one of these, so
I'm curious to know how they're going to be affected.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Wow, all right, we'll talk more about that next week
on the show. In the meantime, have yourselves a great week.
Please subscribe to our video up on YouTube our video channel.
There you can see the Fox eleven segments and of
course this show, and we'll be adding some other content
on there as well. I'm Andy Taylor.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
I'm sure to where you can check out all those videos.
And he's gonna post the pictures in the video of
the snow from up here, so you guys down in
Arizona can get a little treat and get a little
taste of what we're dealing with up here in the cold,
barren tundra.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Stay frosty, my friend

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Stay frosty, and we'll talk to you next week.

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