Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. Hey,
Speaker 1: good by the science guy here whatever I am listening
Speaker 1: to the radio, especially tech talk Radio. Welcome to another
Speaker 1: episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean
Speaker 1: de Weird. I am so glad that you were able
Speaker 1: to get in on this show considering how busy you are.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's graduation season, right, so the semesters wrapped up,
Speaker 2: sports are over, We're trying. We're about to jam in
Speaker 2: twenty plus college different graduations on campus this weekend. So
Speaker 2: it's gonna be wild.
Speaker 1: So are you thinking about are you thinking about taking
Speaker 1: a vacation like once this is all done graduation comes up, or.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we go. We always go camping for memortally weekend,
Speaker 2: which we're gonna we talked about pre show. I've got
Speaker 2: some little tips and tricks for some new battery stuff
Speaker 2: that I got from my camper. This summer, we are
Speaker 2: going up to the lake, you know, like my wife's
Speaker 2: family's trip every year we go to the Upper pennsul
Speaker 2: of Michigan.
Speaker 1: Kind of humid this time of year. Does it get
Speaker 1: a little human Not that bad?
Speaker 2: No, I mean it's it's Michigan. I don't really know
Speaker 2: how to explain it. Not like the Salve where it's
Speaker 2: like ninety five percent humidi all time. Right, he'll be
Speaker 2: daymore against that humid. But it's the weather along the
Speaker 2: lake like Michigan is really nice.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna get some time to travel in at least,
Speaker 2: but just until graduation. Man, it's it's been busy, busy, busy.
Speaker 1: You did something this past weekend that I thought was
Speaker 1: actually pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, past weekend, the University of Notre Dame hosts the
Speaker 2: fish Off National Chamber Music Society, the National Chamber Music
Speaker 2: Association competition every year and it brings students from all
Speaker 2: over the world at a senior level. So that's like
Speaker 2: grad students, college students, et cetera, and then juniors, which
Speaker 2: is like twelve to eighteen, and it's two day competition.
Speaker 2: It's it's a multiple day competition where there's that to
Speaker 2: the semi finals and then the finals. We at starting
Speaker 2: Studios produce and direct the last two days of the competition, right,
Speaker 2: So I was the technical director and director for that.
Speaker 2: And on Saturday it was eleven and a half hours
Speaker 2: live music.
Speaker 1: Eleven and a half Now.
Speaker 2: I think there were twenty five groups.
Speaker 1: You're streaming this live over the campus like close circuit television.
Speaker 2: No, it's it's to their YouTube page.
Speaker 1: Oh wow on YouTube? Kid, Was there any way to
Speaker 1: get metrics back to see hey, people are watching this
Speaker 1: or because that's always the part about I know.
Speaker 2: What the live metrics were, but be good. I mean
Speaker 2: we got I don't know, I'd have to look at
Speaker 2: the metrics. I don't really pay attention to that stuff,
Speaker 2: I guess. But it's a it's a worldwide international competition.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: So I think I think the group that won was
Speaker 2: a string quartet from Juilliard. Wow. Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 2: it's two days of probably some of the best chamber
Speaker 2: of music you'll hear in the setting at that level.
Speaker 1: That was kind of cool because you do enjoy that
Speaker 1: music as I do as well. So like it wasn't
Speaker 1: anything you didn't like, Like if you didn't like country
Speaker 1: music and it was a country music thing, that would
Speaker 1: be rough.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, I mean some of the people that have
Speaker 2: done it in the past of it just like it's
Speaker 2: you know, like one of the other engineers last year,
Speaker 2: he just he doesn't really care for classical music. So
Speaker 2: he's just kind of like, it's I have to sit
Speaker 2: here and injury the show, and I don't just sit
Speaker 2: here to play solitaire or something on my fault, Right,
Speaker 2: So I got to pop in and I actually got
Speaker 2: to TD direct this one. It's great. I'm gonna give
Speaker 2: Andy the links he can put to the two pages
Speaker 2: up there. The last day. I'll just put the last
Speaker 2: day to seven and a half hours or almost eight
Speaker 2: hours of content.
Speaker 1: And people go in there and they could watch it.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, watch it and then and then you kind of
Speaker 2: get an idea of what fish Off is and if
Speaker 2: if you're inclined, you can donate to fish Off. It's
Speaker 2: a non profit and they support international music and it's
Speaker 2: a really incredible international music competition, right that is hosted here.
Speaker 2: It's up end. It's been here for like something fifty
Speaker 2: something years. You know what.
Speaker 1: I always wonder though, and we've run up against this,
Speaker 1: and I wonder how that works with classical music because
Speaker 1: we have done you know where you have maybe a
Speaker 1: song in the background. I even shot a video once
Speaker 1: at the Oral Valley Country Club and the speakers were
Speaker 1: playing music outside and I got flagged by YouTube for
Speaker 1: it for copyright infringement because of the music that was
Speaker 1: playing over the speakers. I appealed it and they okayed it.
Speaker 1: They let it go. But how does a concert venue
Speaker 1: on YouTube streaming? Do they get by the rights?
Speaker 2: If I remember correctly, it has to do something with
Speaker 2: the music groups that they licensed it through. They got
Speaker 2: the light the rights to stream it because they're nonprofit.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there has something to do involve. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it was incredible. I mean, like I said, some of
Speaker 2: the most incredible and some of these kids are twelve
Speaker 2: to eighteen.
Speaker 1: Years old, oh wow.
Speaker 2: Because there's a junior division, and then there's a senior division,
Speaker 2: which senior division is I think eighteen to like college
Speaker 2: age students, so mid twenties. The group that won, so
Speaker 2: it ends up so there's two different groups. There's a
Speaker 2: string group and a win ensemble group, so like think
Speaker 2: like saxophones and horn horn things or just strings like cello, violin, based,
Speaker 2: et cetera. And then they compete. They compete and then
Speaker 2: there's gold win gold medal winners in each category, so
Speaker 2: a gold gold medal strings and a gold medal wins
Speaker 2: and then those two compete for a grand prize. That
Speaker 2: Grand prize includes like a residency in Europe where they
Speaker 2: play and they travel around Europe and play, and it's
Speaker 2: a very prestigious competition, right, And.
Speaker 1: It's great for the kids because they it's a love
Speaker 1: of music, which you know that they can't go wrong
Speaker 1: with that. That's really cool. And they're playing an instrument
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, we'll put the links up on our
Speaker 1: blog if you want to check that out at blog
Speaker 1: dot tech talk dot com. A lot has happened in
Speaker 1: the world of tech the last week. One of the
Speaker 1: things that I wanted to talk about last week before,
Speaker 1: just for Mother's Day, I thought was interesting because you know,
Speaker 1: we call you the wise Guy, Sean because generally, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're the one who introduced us to Why's when Wy's
Speaker 1: first came around, you said, hey, you guys got to
Speaker 1: check out these wise cameras. They're a security camera that
Speaker 1: is relatively inexpensive and very easy to use. And they
Speaker 1: they kept evolving and putting out more and more product
Speaker 1: that was like different and good. But they ran an
Speaker 1: ad for Mother's Day to give mom the gift she'll
Speaker 1: she'll love. It was a high tech vacuum.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've seen It's not the first tech company to
Speaker 2: do something like that. It's just to stir up people
Speaker 2: are gonna post about ohla call terrible Satis, but it's
Speaker 2: just generating positive revenue for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a bit tacky. I think Caitlin would be
Speaker 2: upset if I got her a vacuum.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: For Mother's Day, I got our tickets to go see Wicked.
Speaker 1: Wicked the musical or the movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Wicked the musical is playing in Indy. Is
Speaker 2: is that the Broadway tourist coming through India in July?
Speaker 2: So I got Galen and her sister tickets to go
Speaker 2: see it.
Speaker 1: Does she like the movie?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she loved Wicked when it was on Broadway
Speaker 2: and back in the mid two thousands and and.
Speaker 1: Well, I know that coming up next month they're gonna
Speaker 1: be showing Wicked again in the theaters, the original Wicked
Speaker 1: in the movie theaters. But the reason they want people
Speaker 1: to go is because it will be the unveiling of
Speaker 1: the trailer for the next part of Wicked. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of weird for those that don't know they put
Speaker 1: the movie out. It's a two parter, kind of like
Speaker 1: what they did with this newest Mission Impossible film, which
Speaker 1: is going to be out, but it's a two parter.
Speaker 1: So you watched it and then people said they cried
Speaker 1: at the end of it, and now they're gonna go
Speaker 1: see it.
Speaker 2: It's incredible. It's an incredible movie. I never see incredible
Speaker 2: show incredible. The movie and the show are incredible. I've
Speaker 2: not seen the live Broadway show. I have only seen
Speaker 2: the movie. Kalyn has. Kaitln has gone and seen it
Speaker 2: on Broadway and she saw when it was in Lansing
Speaker 2: and a couple of other places. She's seen it multiple times.
Speaker 2: But it's totally worth going and seeing and it's you know,
Speaker 2: it's uh yeah, it's just a good show. Another wise
Speaker 2: note though, is about two months ago I got a
Speaker 2: survey from WYS kind of detailing do you want or
Speaker 2: would you use RTSP native on the camera, So those
Speaker 2: who aren't familiar with URTSP is it's a built in
Speaker 2: streaming platform that you can then pull in you know,
Speaker 2: from like VLC, LBS, et cetera, and stream live basically
Speaker 2: live stream the image from the camera. You can then
Speaker 2: put that into your own your own recording system and
Speaker 2: record locally into your system and they kind of hinted
Speaker 2: at maybe well they were going to maybe charged for it,
Speaker 2: or if you if it was included in camplus that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. Well, they actually put out a actual
Speaker 2: public survey now this this past week, asking for more
Speaker 2: feedback on whether or not they would want RTSP because
Speaker 2: a lot of these other lower end, lower not lower end,
Speaker 2: but lower cost camera platforms are already including RTSP out
Speaker 2: of the box, which gives more flexibility because the the
Speaker 2: big bummer about WISE is that it's all cloud based
Speaker 2: except for recording locally to the SD card. So if
Speaker 2: you want to view it on the app, or if
Speaker 2: you want to view it while you're away from your home,
Speaker 2: it all has to go to the cloud, all right.
Speaker 1: So if you sean, if you have one of these
Speaker 1: WISE cameras and you have a you know, TF card
Speaker 1: that's in there, an SD card that's in the slot
Speaker 1: for it, but you don't pay for the monthly service
Speaker 1: to Wise, can you still watch video that's been triggered
Speaker 1: via a connection? You can't.
Speaker 2: You can't watch them, you can't connect to it. You can't.
Speaker 2: If you don't pay for their subscription cost, you wouldn't
Speaker 2: be able to view it. On the app. When you're
Speaker 2: not at home on your Wi Fi, you can then
Speaker 2: view locally the local storage. When you're on your own network,
Speaker 2: you can view that. If you had a VPN, I'm
Speaker 2: sure you know.
Speaker 1: You can get that way too.
Speaker 2: But yeah, there's nothing stopping from just recording to the
Speaker 2: SD card. Now. They what I would recommend if you're
Speaker 2: getting into whys do you want to buy multi more
Speaker 2: than five or six cameras, Just pay for the cam
Speaker 2: Plus Unlimited, which is ninety nine dollars a year, and
Speaker 2: you get to subscribe to any number of cameras to
Speaker 2: the camp plus platform. Oh really, Now they have they
Speaker 2: have other features cam wise monitoring, you know, basically like
Speaker 2: auto police calling, and there's a I've had just great
Speaker 2: success with just the cam Plus Unlimited, which is ninety
Speaker 2: nine bucks a year. I think I have eight cameras, but.
Speaker 1: That also cover the doorbell because they have a wise
Speaker 1: doorbell as covers the doorbell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, covers any of the cameras that can be subscribed
Speaker 2: to the camplus platform. So I like them. I had
Speaker 2: their two outdoor cameras, I take I take those away
Speaker 2: I travel because you can you can hot spot those
Speaker 2: and I just hotspot them to my phone and leave
Speaker 2: you know, when my phone's in the camper, I can
Speaker 2: leave it on and it will trigger me if there's
Speaker 2: this motion on it inside my camper. I could do
Speaker 2: time lapses with them, things like that. So I like
Speaker 2: their outdoor cameras too.
Speaker 1: Would you say it's pretty important to have that camp
Speaker 1: plus service because if somebody was to come to a
Speaker 1: business late at night and they've got the Wise cameras
Speaker 1: and they drive up and you're they don't have that
Speaker 1: service and they steal the camera, then there there's that's it.
Speaker 1: That's you're not going to see. Basically maybe a screen
Speaker 1: shot and that's about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's kind of up to if you're
Speaker 2: serious about doing security, you can't skimp. You gotta pay.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just the nature of it, and that's
Speaker 2: why a lot of people are going to But again,
Speaker 2: a lot of the ones that offer POE power or
Speaker 2: the ability to do RTSP out of the box are
Speaker 2: a little bit more expensive. So I mean you're paying
Speaker 2: for what you get and a lot of people forget that.
Speaker 1: And the quality is not too bad on those Wise cameras.
Speaker 1: It's really not.
Speaker 2: Oh no, it's not. I mean I've had I have
Speaker 2: every almost almost every version of the cameras. I've got
Speaker 2: the version one, which I don't even have plugged anymore
Speaker 2: because it's just literally they say it's it is such
Speaker 2: a security risk on the first on the first Farmware version,
Speaker 2: you don't even want to plug it anymore. I have
Speaker 2: the version two, their version three pro, the version four,
Speaker 2: and then they went to some like o G camera.
Speaker 2: They haven't really gone beyond the you know. Then they
Speaker 2: kind of added some different colors, and they added a doorbell,
Speaker 2: doorbell pro, some PTZ cameras, you know, a couple of those.
Speaker 1: And I've had a lot of fun with cameras because
Speaker 1: some people will say, I don't want a camera in
Speaker 1: my house. I don't want a camera to do this.
Speaker 1: I don't want any kind you know of They say
Speaker 1: they think privacy, But it's the peace of mind when
Speaker 1: you have it. When it's whether it be in the backyard,
Speaker 1: I'd be in the front on the doorbell over the garage,
Speaker 1: in the garage, just because that split second, when you
Speaker 1: get that notification if somebody breaks in to your home,
Speaker 1: that gives you the opportunity to check it, contact authorities,
Speaker 1: if they're not automatically contacted. Some of the services will
Speaker 1: do that and have them come out and do what
Speaker 1: they need to do, and about if you didn't have that,
Speaker 1: then they have free rain and that makes it pretty nice.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I like is my recent purchase
Speaker 1: of the bird feeder. We talked about that last week
Speaker 1: from a company called Evergreen, and I have been having
Speaker 1: so much fun with this. Originally I had it on
Speaker 1: top of a chimenea that's out in the backyard and
Speaker 1: if birds would kind of find it, it was under the tree.
Speaker 1: And when I decided it was a little windy that day,
Speaker 1: I moved it to the top of the jacuzzie, so
Speaker 1: we got a Jacuzie. It's got a Jacuzie cover run
Speaker 1: and I put it there. It's been NonStop to the
Speaker 1: point where birds are like they're eating a full bag
Speaker 1: within three days, and it's been kind of cool. But
Speaker 1: the quality of the camera has been great and I
Speaker 1: don't pay an extra I don't pay the AI fee
Speaker 1: for it, which I may just do. But the AI
Speaker 1: feature will tell you what kind of bird it is,
Speaker 1: how often that bird visits. It can actually identify that bird,
Speaker 1: even give the bird a name, but I can see, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's that bird that keeps coming by. I can actually
Speaker 1: see it. And it's been a lot of fun to
Speaker 1: capture that. On the segment that's available on our website
Speaker 1: right now, I actually include it. So we did the
Speaker 1: Fox eleven segment, but we didn't have footage. I have
Speaker 1: put that footage into the segment so you could see it. Actually,
Speaker 1: it's actually really cool. So again, it's totally worth the
Speaker 1: ninety nine bucks if you want to pay the AI.
Speaker 1: I think it's nine dollars a month for the service,
Speaker 1: but I don't have to. I just got the app.
Speaker 1: It's connected to my home network and I get a
Speaker 1: notification on my phone or on the app, and it
Speaker 1: will just tell me, yeah, there's a bird there, and
Speaker 1: I can go look at it and watch them and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: I know. I know some people like to live stream theirs.
Speaker 1: You haven't thought about that. I guess that would be cool, right.
Speaker 1: You get a lot of people that pop in and
Speaker 1: see it, go, there's that bird. It was cute because
Speaker 1: quails are they're really quails are like they've got an attitude.
Speaker 1: Because I hadn't filled the food, I was here at
Speaker 1: the radio station, and they were upset. They were actually
Speaker 1: trying to break the plexiglass that is on the front
Speaker 1: of the camera so they could get to some food
Speaker 1: that maybe was behind there that hadn't come out yet.
Speaker 1: And I just thought that was pretty funny that you've
Speaker 1: seen the little attitudes and the birds because they're hungry.
Speaker 1: So yeah, if you want to find that check out,
Speaker 1: you'll find the link to Evergreen. And I got this
Speaker 1: one at Costco and again it was like ninety nine
Speaker 1: dollars on sale and it's a lot of fun. But
Speaker 1: having a good time with it the only downside to it.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna have to build some kind of a
Speaker 1: platform that is away because the jacuzzi is kind of
Speaker 1: low to the ground. It's got a wide area. They're
Speaker 1: very messy, the birds. But of course, one night, my
Speaker 1: camera at three in the morning caught a mouse, a
Speaker 1: little you know, little field mouse that was also trying
Speaker 1: to eat there. And so when you see those you
Speaker 1: suddenly go, I don't want to do this anymore. I
Speaker 1: don't want to I don't want it to attract mice
Speaker 1: and rats. It's going to But if you put it
Speaker 1: into an area where you don't if you have squirrels
Speaker 1: that could be a problem. Have this five seven nine rule.
Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, do that all right, Uh go
Speaker 1: and camp it. I know you're gonna be doing that soon.
Speaker 1: You should be something a little while ago regarding battery power,
Speaker 1: which kind of spun my head a little because it's
Speaker 1: a new Is this a new system?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I gotta grab it once second, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So it's it's something like brand new. He showed me.
Speaker 1: I said, what the heck is that? It's a what
Speaker 1: kind of battery is this?
Speaker 2: So it's a twelbo battery. It's like you would find
Speaker 2: in your car or a camper. It's just a new
Speaker 2: chemical format, right. So you have lead acid batteries, which
Speaker 2: is your lead acid plates and the chemical and it
Speaker 2: generates the reaction. And then you have lithium ion or
Speaker 2: a MG batteries. So this is a lithium iron phosphate battery.
Speaker 2: So life PO four like O four plus, it's twelve
Speaker 2: point eight folds, but it's your lot.
Speaker 1: It gets.
Speaker 2: It's just a better medical, better chemical structure for drawing,
Speaker 2: and better life expand, better charge cycles, better amp hours, better,
Speaker 2: you know, just overall better, just better, better, better, better, better.
Speaker 1: Light, light, lighter. That looks pretty heavy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's still it's not light, but it's
Speaker 2: lighter than a lead acid battery of this size. And
Speaker 2: but a lot of people, you know, I like to
Speaker 2: research stuff that I buy. I won't glad will go
Speaker 2: down every rabbit hole finding every little detail about things
Speaker 2: when I buy it. Do you read I do? I
Speaker 2: read reviews. I read other yeah, reviews, web articles, et cetera.
Speaker 2: And what a lot of people forget is if you
Speaker 2: have existing solar on your camper. So I have one
Speaker 2: hundred and ninety watt solar panel on the camper, I've
Speaker 2: got an additional two hundred watt panel here behind me.
Speaker 2: Then I'm gonna put on and put them put them
Speaker 2: in in in in cere in in parallel so that
Speaker 2: I can get the extra the extra wattage at the
Speaker 2: same voltage. A lot of people forget when you move
Speaker 2: battery chemical formats, so from lead acid to amg or
Speaker 2: to lithium iron phosphate, they require different voltage properties when
Speaker 2: they charge, Oh, they require different components. Whether it's smart charging,
Speaker 2: whether it's deep cycle charging, whether it's there's just there's
Speaker 2: a lot of factors that go into it. So if
Speaker 2: you have a AMG battery in your camper and you're great,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna buy a lithium iron foss three battery. Gonn
Speaker 2: toss it in. It's not gonna destroy the battery, it's
Speaker 2: just not gonna charge it properly. Because AMG batteries charged
Speaker 2: at a different nominal voltage then with the motorn fosphate batteries,
Speaker 2: they require different care when they're charging. So I have
Speaker 2: to I had to upgrade my solar controller, so I
Speaker 2: have I have the solar controller, so when the solar
Speaker 2: panels come in, it goes to a solar controller, takes
Speaker 2: in the I think, I think the think like twenty
Speaker 2: three volts that brites on, like twenty three volts coming
Speaker 2: out of the out of the solar panel at full bright.
Speaker 2: Well that's got to get controlled and reduced to the
Speaker 2: voltage needed to charge the battery. So that goes to
Speaker 2: the solar controller. So that handles the d C to
Speaker 2: d C part of it, from the solar panel to
Speaker 2: the battery. Well, then you also have to get the
Speaker 2: A C to d C charging part of it. So
Speaker 2: when you're plugged into shore power, your AC voltage is
Speaker 2: coming in at one. Well, yeah, and then it's got
Speaker 2: to get reduced to whatever voltage you need for your soul,
Speaker 2: so for your battery. So I had to I have
Speaker 2: to buy. I'm waiting for it to come in a
Speaker 2: new and basically a new entire breaker box for my
Speaker 2: camper that will allow it to be to have the
Speaker 2: proper circuitry in there to manage the lithiumnor fossil batteries.
Speaker 2: So I've got a little bit of work to upgrade.
Speaker 2: We took the camper out this a couple of weekends ago,
Speaker 2: and I kept the AMG set up in there because
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I needed this extra piece. It
Speaker 2: didn't have time to get it. It didn't come in time.
Speaker 2: So now I'm waiting. But all I'm told i'll be
Speaker 2: able to have I have one hundred amp hour battery.
Speaker 2: Currently I'm going to get another one. You know. It's
Speaker 2: one of those things where you're like, oh, this is
Speaker 2: a good deal. It was right before it was like
Speaker 2: right before the tariffs we're going to kick in, and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, it's great. It's it's like just
Speaker 2: under four hundred bucks for this hundred one hundred damp
Speaker 2: hour battery. I bought it right, well, like two days ago,
Speaker 2: I get an email saying here's our new two hundred
Speaker 2: damp battery for five sixty nine.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, it's like always happens. Yeah, But what
Speaker 1: I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Do is I will once I get the system in place,
Speaker 2: I will just get another one hundred damp hower battery,
Speaker 2: put them in parallel, get do double my storage, and
Speaker 2: then just ties in perfectly with the solar panel and
Speaker 2: the power and stuff.
Speaker 1: So say say you go camping Sean and you park,
Speaker 1: you find the you know parking spot, you don't plug
Speaker 1: in somewhere, You've got battery, You've got the solar panels,
Speaker 1: and you want to watch maybe maybe a movie. It's
Speaker 1: late at night, listen to music. Uh do you have
Speaker 1: enough to run all night on something like this?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So yeah, So using the AMG battery that it
Speaker 2: currently happened, we can charge all of our devices overnight
Speaker 2: using just the DC. There is an inverter it built there.
Speaker 2: I do have an inverter assigned way, so it will
Speaker 2: take the DC voltage and and basically transform it up
Speaker 2: to one hundred and twenty four AC. We don't need it, right,
Speaker 2: but you know it would if just watching the you know,
Speaker 2: just watching the TV or charging our devices, we'll get
Speaker 2: two days out of the battery with pretty with the
Speaker 2: solo with A with a medium coverage solar panel. You know,
Speaker 2: you know, most times when you go camping, you're hoping
Speaker 2: to be parked in shades. You you're keep it cool, right,
Speaker 2: so you're hoping that when you're traveling or when the
Speaker 2: unit is sitting. Yeah, when you're I guess that when
Speaker 2: you're traveling or when you're driving, it'll be charging because
Speaker 2: you're mostly direct sull light when you're driving. But when
Speaker 2: you're camping, like where we go camping, it's usually you're
Speaker 2: getting very broken sunlight. It'll still get decent voltage, but
Speaker 2: it's not going to keep you topped off if you're
Speaker 2: still using it. So we we supplement with a with
Speaker 2: A with a gas generator.
Speaker 1: All right, So I'm wondering, Uh, you're gonna go on
Speaker 1: this camping trip. Have you done it yet? Because a
Speaker 1: lot of campers that I see that take the I
Speaker 1: ten through Tucson and the I nineteenth through Green Valley,
Speaker 1: I'm seeing a lot of these campers and r vs
Speaker 1: with the INSTA three sixty on top of it, have
Speaker 1: you been contemplating maybe doing something like that. I know,
Speaker 1: I believe GoPro has just come out with their own
Speaker 1: like three hundred and sixty three camera system as well,
Speaker 1: But have you been thinking about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, GoPro has their Max camera.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's it.
Speaker 2: I don't I'm not a content creator.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: I mean I like doing time lapses, right, I like
Speaker 2: doing the star photography, the long exposures and stuff. I
Speaker 2: have no interest in posting the time to edit that stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, it's a cool concept, and I get it,
Speaker 2: like everybody's trying to be an influencer on everything they
Speaker 2: need and they want to report every little dy bitty
Speaker 2: p right right, I'm over here shooting polaroids and thirty
Speaker 2: five millimeter film and that's what I want to do. Like,
Speaker 2: that's the stuff that I'm loving doing because I'll during
Speaker 2: our break, I'll go grab the poll rides. It took
Speaker 2: them with a camp as best we get.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of that, we do have to take a break.
Speaker 1: We come back. We have some listener questions. We got
Speaker 1: more news too, and something brand new that I would
Speaker 1: love to get my hands on when we come back.
Speaker 1: I'm Andy Taylor.
Speaker 2: I'm trying toward find us on the web at tech
Speaker 2: talk radio dot com. We'll talk to you.
Speaker 1: About and now back to tech talk radio. So we
Speaker 1: were talking about before the break about the inset three sixty,
Speaker 1: which is a device that you could put on is
Speaker 1: you might see motorcycle helmets with them, or motorcyclists or
Speaker 1: RV's cars and they put them on top and it
Speaker 1: gives a three hundred and sixty view of what it captures. Now,
Speaker 1: on one hand, and Sean, I don't know, we might
Speaker 1: be a little different on this. I look at it
Speaker 1: as a security measure. That's why we have dash cams,
Speaker 1: and now we have dash cams at our rear facing apparently,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to get my hands on when Cobra's
Speaker 1: got one that is three capturing from three different angles,
Speaker 1: so it captures from both sides, front and back. So
Speaker 1: that way, if you're driving and you get hit from
Speaker 1: the side, there's there's video of that, and that could
Speaker 1: be good in an insurance situation or something like that.
Speaker 1: Into three sixties. Yeah, like you said, a lot of
Speaker 1: the influencers are posting the videos up there, but it
Speaker 1: could also be a security thing, and that's one of
Speaker 1: the things they've added to the brand new DGI Mavic
Speaker 1: Pro four. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was just looking at the specs.
Speaker 1: It has three cameras utilizing that same kind of three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty degree rotating gimbal for footage that can
Speaker 1: tilt roll and do what they they say is true
Speaker 1: vertical filming. So if your drone is going up or down,
Speaker 1: I've seen I saw footage once of a drone hitting
Speaker 1: it like a smoke stack, going down the smoke stack,
Speaker 1: which was pretty darn amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean you get the FPV drones. The guys apply
Speaker 2: those are nuts.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: But yeah, So the the Mavic four Pro, it's on sale,
Speaker 2: but not technically in the US.
Speaker 1: There's only I.
Speaker 3: Think two retailers have it. BH Photos is one of them,
Speaker 3: ye at AABA and B and H. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 3: subject to the thirty.
Speaker 2: Percent tariff, so it's pricey. May thirteenth was the global launch,
Speaker 2: so a couple days ago. Right, They have no tactical
Speaker 2: US market release, nop.
Speaker 1: They didn't even send the Mavic Pro for to any
Speaker 1: US reviewers. Yeah, nobody. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So the Mavic four Pro comes with the new
Speaker 2: one hundred megapixel Hostile Blod camera.
Speaker 1: Uscile Blood Really wow, it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 2: Paired with a forty eight megapixel telephoto with a seventy
Speaker 2: millimeter focal length and a fifty megapixel long telephoto with
Speaker 2: a focal length of one hundred and sixty eight milimeter.
Speaker 2: Oh man, so you've got quite the range there. There's
Speaker 2: also what and he was talking about the Infinity gible
Speaker 2: that gives three hundred and sixty degrees of rotation, allowing
Speaker 2: for better vertical shots. Right, six K sixty frame per
Speaker 2: second HDR wow on the main camera and four K
Speaker 2: sixty fps on all three elements.
Speaker 1: So I will tell you because I have the three,
Speaker 1: the Mavic three Pro, and I really do love it.
Speaker 1: I mean, the quality of the video is great. I
Speaker 1: put it up in a thunderstorm, a lightning storm because
Speaker 1: we get monsoon season here, and it captured it risky.
Speaker 1: It probably was a little it was off of the distance,
Speaker 1: but it captured some great video. Not that I'm saying
Speaker 1: you should do that, but it captured some great video.
Speaker 1: But the problem with this is again going to be cost.
Speaker 1: I saw the pricing, like if you want the full setup,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be somewhere around four grand all the way.
Speaker 1: Like that, you want everything, the retailers have it up
Speaker 1: for sale.
Speaker 2: I'll see what BNH has it for. Basically, the camera
Speaker 2: plus the controller with the screen twenty seven hundred. The
Speaker 2: fly More combo which is the camera, the case, the controller,
Speaker 2: two intelligent Flay batteries thirty five hundred. Right, the Creator
Speaker 2: combo which looks like it's got internal storage, two batteries,
Speaker 2: controller fast charging. That's for almost five grand.
Speaker 1: Wow. Now the other thing about it, it's similar to
Speaker 1: the three which gets what fifty almost fifty one minutes
Speaker 1: of battery life, which is great. And again here's the thing.
Speaker 1: If you if you go to Canada and you go
Speaker 1: to Mexico because you want to buy it, and you're
Speaker 1: able to get across with this and I don't even
Speaker 1: know how do they do do they tear a few
Speaker 1: when you're crossing. But they're saying that even if you
Speaker 1: do DG, I won't honor its limited warranty if you
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, that's just the nature of the political
Speaker 2: climate right now. That's just the way the world market
Speaker 2: is right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, So is there a drone that that could compete
Speaker 1: with DJI and be just as good on the market,
Speaker 1: that is in the US, made in the US. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw something a couple of days ago and I thought, okay,
Speaker 1: it was It was very clickbaity, you know, check out
Speaker 1: this new drone from the US that rivals the DJI product.
Speaker 1: And of course I didn't. I didn't click through. It
Speaker 1: just looked okay, yeah. Sure. DJI has been known for
Speaker 1: being one of the best. I'll tell you a funny story.
Speaker 1: The other day, my neighbor asked me to move my
Speaker 1: car because she's putting her house on the market, and
Speaker 1: she thought, you know, the guy's going to come out
Speaker 1: and photograph it. Didn't want to have the car in
Speaker 1: the shot. So I said, yeah, no, no problem all.
Speaker 1: So then I came here to work and then uh,
Speaker 1: I reached out to Gloria and I said, hey, did
Speaker 1: that guy show up? And he goes, yeah, he's out
Speaker 1: there right now, and and I said, don't tell me
Speaker 1: he's doing a drone. She goes, yeah, he's got a drone.
Speaker 1: So she I said, go out there take pictures, so
Speaker 1: she did. He had a little hell he had a
Speaker 1: little like landing pad that he put in the street,
Speaker 1: which I thought was cool. He must have his part
Speaker 1: one O seven, which you know you have to do
Speaker 1: if he's charging for it. But yeah, he put his
Speaker 1: his It was a Maverick three, put it in the
Speaker 1: air and got some great shots. From what I understand
Speaker 1: a quick a quick Google food.
Speaker 2: It looks like there are some US companies that have
Speaker 2: skidio is one, I think that's right. One brink drones.
Speaker 2: A lot of these are for like firefighting, agricultural agricultural stuff,
Speaker 2: so really not much for outside of like I mean,
Speaker 2: what DGI offers.
Speaker 1: Right, I have seen one that Customs of Border Protection
Speaker 1: use that was huge. It wasn't DJI enormous. It was
Speaker 1: seriously it was about the size of a cabin of
Speaker 1: a vehicle, you know, from front to back. And it
Speaker 1: had these weird slots on the top of them. And
Speaker 1: when I asked the agent, I said, what is that for?
Speaker 1: Is it batteries? Just pop keep popping the batteries in
Speaker 1: so they can have They had probably a spot for
Speaker 1: about fifteen batteries that they could put in there and
Speaker 1: get longer flight time.
Speaker 2: A lot of space to cover along the border.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were huge, so anyway, if you only get
Speaker 1: more info about it, you go to Dji's website and
Speaker 1: find out.
Speaker 2: Now it doesn't mean not on their website.
Speaker 1: It's not even on their website yet, you can't.
Speaker 2: It's not even on their website right now, I cannot.
Speaker 2: I was looking for it because you mentioned it was open.
Speaker 2: Right there's PC mag has an article. I mean, but
Speaker 2: there's it is not on their website.
Speaker 1: And they might be blocked because because of location.
Speaker 2: They're like, if you google it, you can get to
Speaker 2: uh a website. You know, you get to the website
Speaker 2: the links and it came to a four or four
Speaker 2: page So I don't don't see it on their website
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 1: Right now, I would I would want to test a VPN,
Speaker 1: do a VPN into Canada and then see if it
Speaker 1: comes up. I kind of wonder if that would be right.
Speaker 2: Now, here's a Google Mavic four specs. I go to
Speaker 2: it four a four page.
Speaker 1: Fil right unless people are crashing it because they want
Speaker 1: to they want to order it, maybe thats all right.
Speaker 1: We got a listener question in from Rick in Celwite.
Speaker 1: I thought we'd tried go go ahead and cover one
Speaker 1: of these. It says, Hey, all, well, Justin and Matt
Speaker 1: and slicker out. But hey, y'all love listening to your show,
Speaker 1: and I've been thinking I really want to learn more
Speaker 1: about the basics of technology. So I told my friend
Speaker 1: about this and he said, just watch YouTube videos. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: it be better to take a class? Your thoughts from
Speaker 1: Rick and Celidia.
Speaker 2: You need to narrow the scope a little.
Speaker 1: When you when you say technology, a.
Speaker 2: Lot of technology up there. What you need to kind
Speaker 2: of pick a focus? What niche part of technology? Do
Speaker 2: you want to get to your cameras, drunes, computers, cars, cameras,
Speaker 2: that's true, videos, solar panels, batteries, wow.
Speaker 1: Putting together? Does he maybe want to put them together?
Speaker 2: Do you want to get into like technologly because there's
Speaker 2: a ton of technology and like h VAC, right you
Speaker 2: want to go program your furnace or you know, it's
Speaker 2: like there's so technology is such a broad term. But
Speaker 2: YouTube is not a bad place to start. No, extron Academy,
Speaker 2: you dot me those tens of places too where you
Speaker 2: can actually if you if if you're more of a
Speaker 2: book learner, like you want to read articles and take
Speaker 2: tests and stuff like that instead of just watching somebody
Speaker 2: else explain it to you. You got me Academy code. Uh,
Speaker 2: there's a couple of other websites if you know you too.
Speaker 1: Do you remember? Do you remember what we had? Do
Speaker 1: you remember what we had?
Speaker 2: We had?
Speaker 1: I mean, YouTube really wasn't around when I got started.
Speaker 2: Encyclopedia Britannica.
Speaker 1: No, the Dummies books. You know that you had bos
Speaker 1: for Dummies, Windows for Dummies, it computers, computers for dummies.
Speaker 1: I think did you ever see Fast Times of rich
Speaker 1: One High?
Speaker 2: Long time?
Speaker 1: Okay, so here's the story. A lot of people don't
Speaker 1: know this, but in the movie Fast Times of Richmond High,
Speaker 1: you might remember the guy who worked in the movie
Speaker 1: theater that liked Stacy and he was kind of a
Speaker 1: nerdy character. He is the guy, Andy Rathbone, that wrote
Speaker 1: The Dummies, a couple of the Dummies books. But Andy
Speaker 1: was the inspiration for that character because he went to
Speaker 1: that school and talked with the writer of that film,
Speaker 1: the director of that film, and that's where he became
Speaker 1: inspiration for Mark Rattner, that character. And I've always thought
Speaker 1: that was kind of funny. That's based on the guy.
Speaker 1: That's like something you'd read on the IMDb trivia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've always known it. We've had Andy Rathbone on this
Speaker 1: show before years ago, but yeah, and it was always
Speaker 1: fun to kind of bring that up. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: So I would tell Rick, like, find it. If you're
Speaker 2: interested in technology, find something that piques your interests, like, oh,
Speaker 2: I want to learn more about how to play with
Speaker 2: the stream deck and how to integrate it into my computer,
Speaker 2: or I want to repair my old Xbox or you know,
Speaker 2: things like that. There are tons of great guides for
Speaker 2: pretty much anything you can think about.
Speaker 1: All right, here's one I was thinking, And tell me
Speaker 1: what do you think about this one? Sean. I got
Speaker 1: into it by one day, you know, getting a computer
Speaker 1: and tearing it apart and then putting it back together.
Speaker 1: And then that was with the Apple, and then I
Speaker 1: ended up moving towards the two eighty six and then
Speaker 1: the three eighty six. I'm actually this is kind of
Speaker 1: funny too. I rented a three eighty six, an old
Speaker 1: laser computer from rent to Center when they used to
Speaker 1: rent PCs, and I rented this thing and I would
Speaker 1: like take it apart, and I would like, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is how it works, this is memory, this is you
Speaker 1: know you. I would learn all the basic aspects of it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, what do you think the idea, depending
Speaker 1: on your budget is maybe Rick's idea. And if this
Speaker 1: you know anybody else that's thinking about doing this is
Speaker 1: the thought, maybe build your own system.
Speaker 2: And yeah, if you're if you're if you're interested in computers, like,
Speaker 2: if you're interested in doing computer stuff, go to like
Speaker 2: watch a couple of YouTube videos on people that are
Speaker 2: doing it. M HM, budget out what you want. Go
Speaker 2: to PC part picker, put your budget in there and
Speaker 2: buy some pieces of components. And doesn't it to be
Speaker 2: a blazing fast computer doesn't even have a dedicated graphics card.
Speaker 2: Like get the motherboard, get the process or get the RAM,
Speaker 2: get the case, slap it all together, put the powers
Speaker 2: play they're plug things in and then push the power
Speaker 2: button and it doesn't turn on because you forgot to
Speaker 2: turn the power supply switch on. Don't know that from
Speaker 2: personal experience. But yeah, so, I mean it's technology is
Speaker 2: as much as you put into it is what you're
Speaker 2: going to get out of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, Like Andy said.
Speaker 2: He started with, you know, with Mac computers and taking
Speaker 2: computers apart. My journey with technology started with more with
Speaker 2: actually working on cars and dirt bikes with my dad
Speaker 2: fixing cars. Technology, and it's all technology. It's just analog,
Speaker 2: it's just different mechanical technology. Then I got into photography
Speaker 2: and started taking cameras apart, and then I got into
Speaker 2: digital video. I did some offset press printing in high school,
Speaker 2: and then when I got into college, then I really
Speaker 2: kind of got into the computer side of things, where
Speaker 2: I had to start editing on computers and doing that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff, and didn't really even build my own
Speaker 2: my own computer until like twenty ten.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's when I first really.
Speaker 2: Built my That's that's when I bought and purchased my
Speaker 2: own computer, my own parts, and built my own computer.
Speaker 2: Right now. My mom was super into computers, and I
Speaker 2: helped her put the computers together and stuff, and you know,
Speaker 2: she we had a bunch of you know, I learned
Speaker 2: how to do doss and that kind of stuff, and
Speaker 2: I had friends that were super into computers in high school.
Speaker 2: But I never built my own until and then once
Speaker 2: and now it's you know, that's kind.
Speaker 1: Of you I kind of missed the doss days. I mean,
Speaker 1: I missed the commands. I miss you know, the dos stuff.
Speaker 1: And then you know, Microsoft will have our os do
Speaker 1: it for you.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean there's something to be said about
Speaker 2: being able to understand how the computer thinks. Okay, how
Speaker 2: do I change the directory? How do I load from
Speaker 2: the A drive? How do I load? How do I
Speaker 2: load it to RAM? And how do I load it?
Speaker 2: You know, there's a fundamental understanding of how that works. Right,
Speaker 2: you don't get now because it's just the computer's doing
Speaker 2: it all break the operating systms doing it. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, if if you really want a deep dive
Speaker 2: into computers work, and you really want to go crazy
Speaker 2: and work in that kind of an environment, put Linux
Speaker 2: on it.
Speaker 1: They go, oh there you go, yeah, maybe you already
Speaker 1: understand Windows and that Linux would be a whole And
Speaker 1: that's actually rather satisfying when you do a litic and
Speaker 1: like you said, maybe build a computer system and then
Speaker 1: install Linux instead of Windows and take it.
Speaker 2: Take an older laptop, something that's maybe got an older
Speaker 2: I five or an older AMD processor in it that
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, this computer is so slow. Put Linux
Speaker 2: on it, yeah, and tell me how it runs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then figure out which.
Speaker 2: You can You can revive so many older system you
Speaker 2: can revive so many older systems with Linux.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so true because.
Speaker 2: They don't have there. I mean, there's obviously minimum restrictions
Speaker 2: for like the guy the web, you know, the Guy's
Speaker 2: and stuff like that, but Linux is very low weight
Speaker 2: in terms of resource management.
Speaker 1: All right, we got to take we got to take
Speaker 1: another break. We come back. I was able to make
Speaker 1: a decision when it comes to software and upgrading, what
Speaker 1: is going to be the way to go. And it's
Speaker 1: all because I took a look at one of the
Speaker 1: products that they offer. So tell you more about that
Speaker 1: when we come back. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Seanda Weird.
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Speaker 1: You can find us there. And speaking of question for
Speaker 1: the show, Sean, you've got one.
Speaker 2: I know this one is in Arizona, and it's not
Speaker 2: I'm not I know.
Speaker 1: This is too soon. It's not gonna get you caught
Speaker 1: this time. Right, I'm gonna get me.
Speaker 2: Called this time. This one is from Laura in Tucson.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: I'm not always near a computer, and sometimes I will
Speaker 2: see a story on my phone that I want to
Speaker 2: copy the text. Is there a simple way to do that?
Speaker 2: If I take a picture of the text.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, most most newer phones.
Speaker 2: I could do this with my iPhone thirteen. If I
Speaker 2: take a picture of text, or if I take a
Speaker 2: screenshot in my photo library, I can just highlight the
Speaker 2: text like I want on my keyboard and copy it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I know. If you use Google Photos photos dot
Speaker 1: Google dot com, if you whether you have an iPhone
Speaker 1: or you know an Android device. I have my my
Speaker 1: pixel Pixel nine. I can just go into Google Photos,
Speaker 1: look at that photo that maybe I've taken, whether it
Speaker 1: be a picture off a story in the newspaper or
Speaker 1: screen capture. Maybe I've done that with screencaps before and
Speaker 1: using the lens, the Google lens feature, I can highlight
Speaker 1: the text and then copy it to word pad or
Speaker 1: notepad or word or whatever. You know.
Speaker 2: I screen I screenshot tons of stuff on my phone.
Speaker 1: All the time.
Speaker 2: Articles. Weblinks. Oh that's a cool picture, or that's a
Speaker 2: cool thing I want to remember, or oh I need
Speaker 2: to remember how to do that, you know, two days
Speaker 2: from now, or I just screenshot it. It's two It's
Speaker 2: the top button and the right you know, the top
Speaker 2: left button and the right button on my click screenshot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I AGLORI I can.
Speaker 2: I can crop it, I can edit it, I can
Speaker 2: highlight it. So on my iPhone, I know that Android
Speaker 2: or Google pixel like very similar process to do. And
Speaker 2: if you just want to copy it, you should just
Speaker 2: be able to on any web page on your phone,
Speaker 2: just press it hold, highlight the text within the article itself,
Speaker 2: copy the text into a note, into an e mail,
Speaker 2: to a text message.
Speaker 1: Yeah. With that. The other day she saw a recipe online,
Speaker 1: so she was able to screencap, you know, screen cap it.
Speaker 1: Then she said can you print this for me? And
Speaker 1: I said, oh, what are you gonna do with it?
Speaker 1: She's well I want to. I want to, you know,
Speaker 1: put it in my thing of recipes. And I said, oh,
Speaker 1: if we do this, So I showed her basically copying
Speaker 1: the text and all that, and she said, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to do that. She said, it's too much work.
Speaker 2: Also, you think about so if you want to revisit
Speaker 2: it later and it's run a weblink. They just sink
Speaker 2: your book barks between your mobile and your Chrome. Like,
Speaker 2: if you have Chrome, you can sink. You can sink
Speaker 2: book barks between mobile and desktop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my Mac does it all the time.
Speaker 2: If I'm sitting at my desktop right and I had
Speaker 2: my phone open and I'm browsing, like, it'll pop up
Speaker 2: an icon and I can just click on it on
Speaker 2: my Mac and it'll pop up that into my Mac.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know about that. That's good.
Speaker 2: It's very easy to if you save a bookmark on
Speaker 2: your phone and then if your bookmarks are sync, go
Speaker 2: to your computer and write continue off where you left off.
Speaker 1: So all right, So there's a story that has been
Speaker 1: out there about aiars technica. Actually the story and I
Speaker 1: read it and it just made me shake my head.
Speaker 1: It was something that I think we're going to see
Speaker 1: more and more of the new owners of VPN provider
Speaker 1: VPN Secure have been canceling lifetime subscriptions. So you know,
Speaker 1: you sign up with the service, you pay X amount
Speaker 1: of dollars and you've got a lifetime subscription. The owners
Speaker 1: apparently told customers they didn't even know about the lifetime
Speaker 1: subscriptions when they bought the company, and that there's no
Speaker 1: way that they can honor those purchases. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, at some point, we could see attorney generals,
Speaker 1: we could see lawsuits being filed, because when somebody buys
Speaker 1: something in perpetuity, or they buy a lifetime license, they
Speaker 1: should that is what they should get.
Speaker 2: Right in a a world driven by software as a service,
Speaker 2: you were going to see this so much more. I
Speaker 2: get it from a from a bottom line standpoint. If
Speaker 2: you if I like I have plex, I bought like
Speaker 2: plex pass, right, this is another good example like it.
Speaker 2: Plex Pass did this where they're like, hey, FYI were
Speaker 2: raising our price on our lifetime subscriptions to plex pass.
Speaker 1: You've already paid people.
Speaker 2: If you don't buy it before this date, it's going
Speaker 2: to go up by a significant amount of money. And
Speaker 2: so a lot of people bought it, or you know,
Speaker 2: I bought my like eight years ago and it's been fantastic, right,
Speaker 2: But if Plex have decided to just nuke my lifetime subscription,
Speaker 2: I would just go to someone else, like I would,
Speaker 2: I would refuse to go back to Plex after that,
Speaker 2: claiming to not know they existed. That's just shoddy business management.
Speaker 2: But you saw stuff like this with Broadcom taking over VMware.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, that just happened recently too.
Speaker 2: Where Broadcom came in and said we bought VMware. We're
Speaker 2: raising the price by three thousand percent, and companies were like,
Speaker 2: what what do you mean? Well, yeah, if you want
Speaker 2: to keep your product past your current contract, you're gonna
Speaker 2: have to pony up three thousand percent more money. And
Speaker 2: people lost their mines because you don't think how much
Speaker 2: content lives on virtual machines in the cloud. It's a lot.
Speaker 1: Well, especially now where we're seeing Windows eleven coming around
Speaker 1: for the consumer or even business user Windows eleven coming around,
Speaker 1: it could cause computers that needed to be reinstalled. Maybe
Speaker 1: they can update a computer so they have to reinstall software.
Speaker 1: Suddenly their software won't install because well, they've taken down
Speaker 1: activation servers we saw that with Adobe. It's what I've
Speaker 1: been going through. I used the Adobe Master Suite of five,
Speaker 1: which has been phenomenal. I got it back in twenty
Speaker 1: twelve and I love it Photoshop Adobe Edition Premiere Pro,
Speaker 1: and I've mastered how to use it after effects and
Speaker 1: it's been great. But now go into Windows eleven. I
Speaker 1: wanted to install it on the new eleven system I bought,
Speaker 1: and it won't let me install it because their registration
Speaker 1: servers are not accepting any more registrations because they want
Speaker 1: everybody software and services. And I'll tell you, Sean, I
Speaker 1: was really upset about it, and I started thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to look for other means. I do
Speaker 1: know that Adobe right now is doing their creative cloud
Speaker 1: licenses at are reduced price. So basically, if you want
Speaker 1: everything in their software pool, it will cost you about
Speaker 1: fifty bucks a month, maybe even maybe fifty nine dollars
Speaker 1: a month. And I was ready to say forget it.
Speaker 1: I started learning a different audio program, Render which was
Speaker 1: recommended no Reaper, which was recommended by Matt, and I've
Speaker 1: kind of mastered that one, but I've got to pay
Speaker 1: for a license a sixty five bucks and then I
Speaker 1: noticed my mixture that I have the MACI has a
Speaker 1: free license for pro Tools. So I went ahead and
Speaker 1: in Salt Pro Tools. And it took me about a week,
Speaker 1: but I've learned how to use it to do what
Speaker 1: I need to do for work. And I was ready
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, that's what I'm gonna end up doing.
Speaker 1: I will still have I have the Master Suite on
Speaker 1: one system that I will just keep using even when
Speaker 1: everything goes Windows eleven and you know, on Windows ten.
Speaker 1: But then I found Firefly from Adobe, and that has
Speaker 1: changed almost everything in the way. I'm thinking it is
Speaker 1: worth it when you look at and Firefly is separate,
Speaker 1: but you get the creative cloud. You're going to master
Speaker 1: all of the cool new tools that are a part
Speaker 1: of Premiere Pro, all the cool tools that are part
Speaker 1: of the new Photoshop audition, dream Weaver, if you use that.
Speaker 1: So many different parts of this. But you've got generative
Speaker 1: fill for Photoshop, generative extent for Premiere and now with Firefly,
Speaker 1: you could create images from text that you could drop
Speaker 1: into videos. You know, I need an angry sun and
Speaker 1: the boom it pops up an angry sun, or I
Speaker 1: need a hit one of the things they had on
Speaker 1: their gallery a hippopotamus that is wearing a watermelon that
Speaker 1: is in the water. It's a video and it's pretty
Speaker 1: amazing stuff. It's AI. Of course, they're doing it separately
Speaker 1: outside of the Adobe Creative Cloud. So when you pay
Speaker 1: for your credit, you get credits. You'll pay nine dollars
Speaker 1: in ninety nine cents a month and you'll get I
Speaker 1: believe it's two thousand credits. You could pay more, or
Speaker 1: you can pay all the way up to two hundred
Speaker 1: bucks a month, depending on how you're going to be
Speaker 1: using this, Like I could imagine that, you know, graphics
Speaker 1: design shops of film houses, they're all going to be,
Speaker 1: you know, probably delving into Firefly a little more. But
Speaker 1: that's what kind of changed my mind that and maybe
Speaker 1: realize that, yes, I've been using the Creative Suite for
Speaker 1: almost ten years, but I have lost the innovation that
Speaker 1: the company has done with some of the changes they've
Speaker 1: made with version six and now with the Creative Cloud.
Speaker 1: So it looks like I'm probably gonna have to bite
Speaker 1: a little of the a little of that and go
Speaker 1: with the next version of Creative Cloud. So that's I
Speaker 1: think that's the way I'm going. But if you get
Speaker 1: a chance take a look at Firefly. Just go to
Speaker 1: Adobe dot com. I believe you can set up a
Speaker 1: free count if you don't have one already, and then
Speaker 1: they'll let you generate two of them and it might
Speaker 1: be pretty amazing for you to see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't. I haven't used I don't know.
Speaker 2: I haven't used a whole lot of the Adobe Sweet
Speaker 2: outside of light Room and Photoshop Right Premiere for some
Speaker 2: basic editing. I mostly use Final Cut, Final Cut pro
Speaker 2: YEA for my video editing, or Da Vinci Resolved for
Speaker 2: color grading. So I don't. I don't have a need
Speaker 2: for I don't have a need for it. To get
Speaker 2: to pay the license, I also with my with my
Speaker 2: edu with the Notre Dame. Oh I get I get
Speaker 2: the student I get access to the suite through the university.
Speaker 2: So I was I originally was paying for the photography bundle,
Speaker 2: which was like twenty eight dollars a month I think,
Speaker 2: which came with Photoshop, Lightroom, light Let Classic and you know,
Speaker 2: like the couple gigs of storage on the cloud. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't have experience with the Firefly AI
Speaker 2: generative stuff Hey, you know I've I took part of
Speaker 2: the I took part in the chat GPT pilot with
Speaker 2: the university, and I still use chat GPT on almost
Speaker 2: a daily basis at with with at work doing basic
Speaker 2: things like what I use it for primarily is searching
Speaker 2: for search and searching manuals, like hey, I have this
Speaker 2: specific close captioning encoder and I need to see the
Speaker 2: seven to eight captions as open.
Speaker 1: Captions right right, boom, here it is, here's the manual.
Speaker 2: Here's what you need. I don't have to go find
Speaker 2: the manual. It finds the page right. It's great. That's
Speaker 2: what I use it for. I use it for troubleshooting,
Speaker 2: time saving, right and things like that.
Speaker 1: But all right, well listen, we got to take another
Speaker 1: quick break. We come back with more of tech Talk
Speaker 1: Radio if you get a chance to check that one
Speaker 1: out though Adobe dot com. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm.
Speaker 2: Sean de Weird.
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Speaker 2: So everybody knows that I love flashlights, like everyday carry
Speaker 2: a flashlight a software in EC three pro, and I
Speaker 2: decided to make Max his first lash light.
Speaker 1: Now how old is Max three three okay, good.
Speaker 2: Everybody that was born in the eighties had this flashlight
Speaker 2: growing up.
Speaker 1: Play school. Look at this.
Speaker 2: It is the play school try color flashlight, all right, now,
Speaker 2: this is this is the special translucent translucent one I had. This.
Speaker 2: This is not the one I had growing up. That
Speaker 2: one is long gone. They have multiple solid colored versions.
Speaker 2: But it came with a Measley. I don't even remember
Speaker 2: what watch the light bulb was, right, So I said,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm gonna put an led in there?
Speaker 1: An led So I gutted it right.
Speaker 2: And I took a I don't even remember what the
Speaker 2: battery size is. It's the you know the sixteen eighty
Speaker 2: forty five, sixteen eighty forty five whatever the battery size,
Speaker 2: took the battery holder out, which was which was the
Speaker 2: two D cells or two C solid batteries. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: just just over three volts of power. Those batteries put
Speaker 2: out three point seven vaults. I got a three point
Speaker 2: seven volt ten watt LED, wired it all into the
Speaker 2: switch and Bengo bright.
Speaker 1: That's brighter than that light has ever been. Right, Brier's
Speaker 1: last event.
Speaker 2: It's still got the it's still got the color. I
Speaker 2: can still do greed. I can still do red. It's awesome.
Speaker 2: I hear. I'll even turn off the lights for you
Speaker 2: guys see on the video and in the video it's bright.
Speaker 2: It lights up my room and it's cool.
Speaker 1: I Max, did you find step by steps online or
Speaker 1: you just I just.
Speaker 2: I just hack and toshed it myself. I found some
Speaker 2: I found some people that had done it with just
Speaker 2: dropping in like a flashlight right like pouring out the middle.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just kind of went on my own.
Speaker 2: And it's also charge rechargeable USBC.
Speaker 1: You actually built that as a part of it. That
Speaker 1: is pretty amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this battery. I'm I probably geta to
Speaker 2: charge it once before it gets destroyed by Max, I mean.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so it's.
Speaker 1: We'll put video up on the website too. You send
Speaker 1: me some really cool video on that, and you could
Speaker 1: change the colors the whole bit. Ye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's using the existing switch. I added some wiring
Speaker 2: to it because some of it was broken when I
Speaker 2: got it, because I bought out the ar chanl for
Speaker 2: two dollars. But uh yeah, so this is this is
Speaker 2: one project for me to do and uh yeah.
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Speaker 1: that wraps up this week's Tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
Speaker 1: I'm Shonda Weird, and this is my ghost story. It's
Speaker 1: kind of that's kind of scary, yeah,