WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.240 The following program is produced by the Tech Talk Radio Network. 2 00:00:03.279 --> 00:00:06.400 Hey guys, this is Al Petrelli from the Transient Orchestra. 3 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:09.039 Normally I'm not a nerd, but I am a tech 4 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:11.279 talk radio god bless, stay safe. 5 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:16.920 Welcome to another episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, 6 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:19.879 I'm Sean de Weird. We have got a lot of 7 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:22.719 tech to talk about today. There's a lot going on. 8 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:24.199 There's just a lot. 9 00:00:24.359 --> 00:00:26.679 Yeah. We Now we always get together like before the 10 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:29.399 show and we talk about like some of the things 11 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:31.960 that all what interested you and what was said, and 12 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:34.320 we were like going over going, well, I got this, Oh, 13 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:36.479 you got this, I got this, you got this, I 14 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:38.200 got this, you got this one. 15 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:39.960 Yeah, I mean I felt like we had a lot 16 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:40.520 last week. 17 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:44.479 We did. Actually, I gotta tell you. Last week we 18 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:48.679 gave out a website address. And the website address I 19 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:51.039 thought that was kind of interesting. It was cool, right, 20 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:53.399 you were looking at it on the air and you 21 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:55.920 were kind of surprised by it. I had already, you know, 22 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:58.240 taken a glance at it and was looking through it, 23 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:00.880 and I was also impressed by it. That of course 24 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:03.920 was TV dot Garden and TV dot Garden In case 25 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:06.239 you missed last week's show or you haven't caught up 26 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:08.719 on a yet. Is a website where you can go 27 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:12.719 and there's a globe and you could point anywhere on 28 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:14.239 the globe you want, So if you point to the 29 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:19.400 United States, it'll show you pretty much every streaming television 30 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:23.879 channel that is available for you to watch online. Now 31 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:27.959 I know there's more than what they actually had, but 32 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:29.840 it still was cool. The only one I could find 33 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:32.760 a twoson was k Gun. K Gun nine was one 34 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:35.799 of those streaming options. But if you want to find 35 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:39.120 obscure channels, there are small mini channels that have been 36 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:42.400 launching out, low power TV whatnot. But also you could 37 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:45.159 find channels from around the world, so it was cool. 38 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:48.640 I posted that on social media and a lot of 39 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:50.480 people were loving it. Matter of fact, it's the highest 40 00:01:50.519 --> 00:01:52.920 view count of any of the videos we had done. 41 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:56.480 But then somebody had commented in there and I didn't 42 00:01:56.519 --> 00:02:00.560 know it. There's a Radio Garden as well, and Radio 43 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:04.280 dot Garden, and if you go there, it's the same premise. 44 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:07.840 You can listen to any radio station around the world. 45 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:12.680 I listened to stations from England, from India, from Spain, 46 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:17.000 from Italy, from the United States and matter of fact, KGVY, 47 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:20.240 the station we broadcast on, has just been added because 48 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:22.800 I found it and added our station to it by 49 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:24.879 suggesting that we be on there, and sure enough it 50 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:28.719 was added earlier this week. So you can listen to 51 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:30.280 streaming channels or listen. 52 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:31.599 To another place. You can listen to us. 53 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:33.280 Yes, Radio dot Radio. 54 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:37.680 That's awesome. And so we talked about like the TV 55 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:40.280 Garden the radio garden rate. There's I'm gonna pitch in 56 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:43.319 one of my other another really great radio website, which 57 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:46.840 is WebSDR dot org, which is is a ham radio. 58 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:50.719 It's it's a website for ham radio people that have 59 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:55.759 built these web SDRs basically software defined radios that you 60 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:59.039 can have listened to Ham radio signals from around the world. 61 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:01.360 You can tune men, you can listen to him, so 62 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:04.199 you could from your computer listen to Ham radio signals 63 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:05.800 from around the world. It's pretty it's pretty cool. If 64 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:09.439 you're into amateur radio at all, at any capacity, or 65 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:13.280 if you're interested in it, dial this up. Webstdr out 66 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:16.800 of org. Find a webstr somewhere, even if it's in 67 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:19.039 your region or if it's in the if you want 68 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:21.319 to listen to something overseas, or it's just really cool 69 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:23.960 to tune in and hear Ham radio stuff around the world. 70 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:26.240 Well, it's kind of cool because I have a friend 71 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:30.520 named Fu that's from Myanmar, from Burma, and I mentioned 72 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:32.960 that last week of the show. She has been studying 73 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:36.879 in England and she has a boyfriend, and her boyfriend 74 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:40.439 is into picking up the radios now and doing the 75 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:43.520 shortwave radio. So if I found out when he was 76 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:46.199 going to be on, I'd be able to actually tune 77 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:47.479 in and listen. 78 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:50.080 Depending on where he's broadcasting from, you would have to 79 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:54.000 find something probably close ish to him, depending on when 80 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:56.439 he's broadcasting and how much power is put now, but 81 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:59.879 you could probably listen in and he'd pick him up. Yeah. 82 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:02.280 Wow. We have an amateur radio club here in Green 83 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:04.199 Valley and I know where the show is and I've 84 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:06.800 thought about going in because honestly, I haven't had that 85 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:09.759 much time with my radio and I really want to. 86 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:11.960 I want to do it more because it just seems 87 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:12.879 like it's a lot of fun. 88 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:15.599 Well, I mean, you remember about two years ago on 89 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:20.680 the show, we all got our GMRS licenses right, and 90 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:25.360 and we were participating in the MYGMRS dot net, which 91 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:29.399 had the Internet connected repeaters all around the country. Well, 92 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:32.480 just over a year ago, the FCC put a kebash 93 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:37.600 on Internet connected repeaters because it violated the use like that. 94 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:40.360 There was some some legal ease they put in there 95 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:42.480 that said, you basically can't have a repeater connect to 96 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:45.600 the Internet because it violates the redistribution of the signal 97 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:50.720 or something something. So that really cut my GMRS use out. 98 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:56.079 Nobody here locally outside of like two people were talking 99 00:04:56.120 --> 00:05:00.360 on the gm RS repeater. So the guy that I 100 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:03.519 was talking to every day while I was driving do 101 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:06.319 it from work or traveling, you know, from where we 102 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:08.839 go camping. They were all connected so I could just 103 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:11.160 keep talking to them, just picking up different repeaters along 104 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:15.639 the way. That just cut my amateur radio stuff in half, 105 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:16.519 which was a bummer. 106 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:17.600 Yeah. 107 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:22.639 And then that the people locally to me, there was 108 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:25.399 one lady that was just kind of got crappy and 109 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:29.000 just kind of like ruined it for everybody, and the 110 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:31.240 owner of the repeater said, nah, I'm done, I'm not 111 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:33.000 dealing with this anymore and shut the repeater down. 112 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:33.879 Man. 113 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:37.720 So outside of two meter, the two meter repeaters in 114 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:39.720 town and some simplex stuff like I don't do a 115 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:42.519 whole lot of ham radio stuff every day. I still 116 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:44.920 do some HF stuff and some listen. I do a 117 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:45.600 lot of listening. 118 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:47.439 But it was kind of cool because one of the 119 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:50.000 things I remember you did, and this was a special event. 120 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:51.439 I don't know if they're still doing it, and there 121 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:54.399 was somebody who was on the space station flying overhead 122 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:56.519 and you were able to communicate or at least listen 123 00:05:56.800 --> 00:05:57.040 the way. 124 00:05:57.040 --> 00:05:59.120 So that happens all the time, right, So the space 125 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:02.480 issue goes over all the time, right during the daytime 126 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:04.759 when you can't see it, but you can pick up 127 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:08.439 and listen to the VHF UHF repeater that's on the 128 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:14.000 space station. And so I bought an arrow high game 129 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:19.759 yaggy antenna so that I can have my radio set 130 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:23.759 to a frequency because it's UHF up and VHF down. 131 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:26.439 I'd have to look at the sheet to remember off 132 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:29.439 the top of my head. Can transmit on my radio 133 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:32.040 to talk to the repeater and then listen to the 134 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:36.199 to the other frequency on the down link. Here myself 135 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:39.040 bounce off of that repeater and then other people hear 136 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:41.120 it and can respond to me off that UHF repeater. 137 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:46.399 Now there's a schedule that when some of the astronauts 138 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:50.319 up there have their hand radio licenses, they will listen 139 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:54.000 in and can actually respond to those calls from the 140 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.279 space stations. There are specific times you can do it 141 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:00.240 to get to get on board the space station and 142 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:03.519 get actual contact from the space station. But yeah, I've 143 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:07.040 got QSOs from you know, because when you think about it, 144 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:09.439 think about it, right, it's it's way up. So when 145 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:12.160 it's really low on the horizon and i'm i can, 146 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:14.399 I can hit it with my antenna and talk to it. 147 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:18.920 Those signals are being bounced over the visible curve of 148 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:22.000 the Earth that I can see to the western part 149 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:25.240 of the country or the eastern part, depending on which 150 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:28.920 direction it's traveling. Right, So, yeah, I've got QSOs from 151 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:32.360 all over the West coast and other places. I'd have 152 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:33.120 to look at my log. 153 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:36.360 But to anybody listening right now that has never thought 154 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:39.040 about doing it or never, it's not an expensive hobby, 155 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:41.240 is that? I mean? The radios they aren't too bad. 156 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:45.879 Getting into HF can be expensive getting getting getting into 157 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:50.240 the the HF bands can be a little bit prohibitive 158 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:52.360 to new users. If you don't have a radio or 159 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:55.040 have an antenna setup. You can really just build your 160 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:58.759 own antennas, really, but each of radios. It's fun. I 161 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:02.160 recommend listening for a while. First, right go to WebSDR 162 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:04.079 just pull it up and see what you can tune in. 163 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:06.199 Start it. You know, you have to get a license 164 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:08.279 to do. You know, there's three different tiers of licensee 165 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:11.920 of technician, general, an extra. I'm a general, so I'm 166 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:15.560 the the second tier of the three, and that gives 167 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:18.639 me enough privileges to do what I feel comfortable doing. 168 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.000 But it's fun. You get to experiment, you get to 169 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:25.240 play with it, and you know, you throw up a 170 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:27.720 random piece of wire and now you're talking across the country. 171 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:28.399 It's pretty wild. 172 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:31.199 It's pretty cool. What would be a good website to 173 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:33.240 go to to get more inful? If if somebody is 174 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:35.840 like listening to this and I want to get into this. 175 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:38.480 I mean, obviously, like I said, the Green Valley Amateur 176 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:41.120 Radio Club, they've got one. They do all kinds of events. 177 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:42.440 But if they want to go to a web is 178 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:43.399 there a website for this? 179 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:47.919 So aid Rlso the Amateur Radio Relay League, which is 180 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:50.639 like the kind of the catch all for the ham 181 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:53.120 radio world. They're kind of the governing arm of Ham 182 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:55.960 radio outside of the SEC, but find a local club. 183 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:58.440 To be honest, a lot of times your local clubs 184 00:08:58.480 --> 00:08:59.720 are gonna be the ones they are gonna be. They 185 00:08:59.799 --> 00:09:02.919 usually have monthly meetings, weekly meetings, et cetera. You'd be 186 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:06.120 surprised how many repeaters are actually around you. So rl 187 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:08.960 dot org. If you already have a radio and you 188 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:13.360 want to listen, go to repeater book dot com to 189 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:16.360 find repeaters around you. It'll give you put in your location. 190 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:18.440 It gives you a radius of repeaters around you with 191 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:22.240 their pl tones and whatever. Radio reference is another good one. 192 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:24.960 That one will give you frequencies that you can listen to. 193 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:27.720 So like it gives you your local municipality, It gives 194 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:32.039 you your fire ems emergency stuff. It gives you local repeaters. 195 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:36.879 It gives you other stuff like the university's public service 196 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:39.879 stuff is on their school you know, the different schools board. 197 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:42.159 You know the different school corporations have their stuff on there. 198 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:45.919 The airport frequencies are on there. A lot of what 199 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.879 I have fun doing with Ham radio stuff is just listening. Right, 200 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:52.279 You can do a lot of listening, but you can 201 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:55.399 get into it relatively inexpensively for two meter and seventy 202 00:09:55.399 --> 00:10:02.879 centimeters two meter which is UHF or VHF Yeah, VHF 203 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:06.480 and UHF two meter, seventy centimeter which is gm RS, 204 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:09.600 and then the lower tier of the HAM radio bands. 205 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:11.960 But yeah, I mean it's fun. You gotta study a 206 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:13.879 little bit if you're interested in taking the test, or 207 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:16.600 you're thinking about taking the test. Hamstudy dot org. They 208 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:19.080 have an app you can deleraate your phone take practice tests, 209 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:19.720 is what I did. 210 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:20.480 Yep. 211 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:26.080 Yeah, it's it's not completely hard to get into. It 212 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:28.799 takes a little bit of effort, just like any hobby 213 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:32.559 to get experience on. But if you find a local club, 214 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.799 you can go and ask questions, join their Facebook group, 215 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:36.440 you know. 216 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:39.720 Yeah, well here's something to think about too. And we're 217 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:42.120 speaking about hobbies, so we got to mention this one. 218 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:44.879 I went out this week buddy of mine, Chuck Taylor. 219 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:49.080 No relation is into radio. It's it's not radio controlled. 220 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:53.799 It's control line airplanes model airplanes. So they have they 221 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:56.600 sit in the circle. They stand in a circle and 222 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:59.960 basically these airplanes with motors they go around. I mean 223 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:02.440 they fuel him up and everything and then they go 224 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:04.639 and they can make do effects with him. And I 225 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:07.039 mean it's one of the oldest clubs in America, and 226 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:09.720 he asked, I go out there, you know, and just 227 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:13.200 shoot some drone footage, and I thought, wow, I haven't 228 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.639 taken out the drone in months. So I went ahead 229 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:19.399 and I said, yeah, I'll do it. So I charged 230 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:21.919 up the batteries and everything, made sure I had all 231 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:24.879 the cards, made sure the firmware was updated. I've got 232 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:28.159 the DJI Mini three, and I went out there and 233 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:31.159 it was a lot of fun, which then got me thinking. 234 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:35.120 Somebody the other day asked me about shooting a birthday 235 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:38.679 party a video going in video video graphing, you know, 236 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:42.279 as a paid service. Can I come out do videos, 237 00:11:42.360 --> 00:11:45.320 take photos? And I yeah, sure, I've done that kind 238 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:47.840 of thing before. And then he wanted drone footage. And 239 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:50.480 it's like it's uncomfortable because they say, well, I can't 240 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:53.120 do the drone because if I'm charging you because I 241 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:55.200 have I don't have a Part one oh seven license. 242 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:58.000 So I started going online and looking at some of 243 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:00.679 these courses where they say, hey, we can help get 244 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:03.240 you part one o seven. We've got all the study 245 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:06.639 manuals and everything else. And then I thought of something. 246 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:11.320 I I after looking at this ready to sign up 247 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:14.519 right now. And I don't know if we never know 248 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:16.759 when it's going to end, but right now, the government 249 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:20.279 isn't shutdown, let's face it, right, So I looked it up. 250 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:23.720 Not doing any drone certifications right now, matter of fact anything. 251 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:25.720 When it comes to licensing, you got. 252 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:29.080 Hamber Ham radio licensing too, right, So you can't even 253 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:31.480 get an FRN number. You can't get you can't apply 254 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:34.519 for your license, et cetera. So until the shutdown gets 255 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:36.639 taken care of, yeah, you. 256 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:39.120 Can't even you can't even add your phone number to 257 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:43.000 a do not call registry radio license, drone license, you 258 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:45.320 can't do that. So you might as well wait until 259 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:47.559 we see when this blows over, and then you know, 260 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:51.919 all the agencies are back together and however long that takes. 261 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:55.720 Yeah, So Jennifer, you ended up flying I intered flying 262 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:57.399 U and it was good. 263 00:12:57.480 --> 00:12:59.440 It was a lot of fun. It was at a 264 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:03.720 park open. There was somebody though that had that came 265 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:05.960 out and brought their drones too, and they had the 266 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:09.120 little mini drones. But they were sitting in their car 267 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:12.320 like they weren't standing like I'm standing there with the 268 00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:15.440 remote control. They're sitting in their car. They're wearing a headset, 269 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:19.840 so they've got the I guess they call them FPV Yeah, 270 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:23.279 FPV drones, and they make a lot of noise, those 271 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:27.200 little guys. But yet they moved pretty fast, and I 272 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:29.080 thought that that would be kind of cool to check 273 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:30.840 out as well. But I was just having fun with 274 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:33.879 the controller, but it was you know, it's funny. I 275 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:36.519 don't know about you. With a hobby. You start doing 276 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:39.720 it and then you want to just go more into it, 277 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:41.840 you know, you wanted to like do more of it. 278 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:44.440 You guys have seen my basement. How many hobbies do 279 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:44.960 you think I have? 280 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:45.639 You have question? 281 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:48.879 I have too many. And I get super invested in 282 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:51.840 one hobby for like eight months, nine months, twelve year, 283 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:56.360 and then I'm just like, eh, yeah, next, and then 284 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:58.799 I get supervolved in the next hobby, and then I 285 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:01.120 cycle back and then into the next the other hobby 286 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:06.120 again for a long time. Yeah. No, it's uh yeah, 287 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:07.000 I have a problem. 288 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:10.600 All right. I'll get into some tech stuff. Kind of 289 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:13.159 interesting because I have seen a lot of people now 290 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:17.200 that are talking about and you know, some people it 291 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:20.600 took their their steps to get into chat, GPT, and 292 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:23.279 then they're trying out some of the other AI services now. 293 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:25.720 But now a lot of people are talking about Copilot, 294 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:27.759 which of course you know a big part of Windows 295 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:30.200 eleven and you know, they're really trying to get a 296 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:31.919 lot of people to use it and one of the 297 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:36.399 newest features of course voice chat on Copilot. Some people 298 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:39.720 have compared it to if you think about it in 299 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:42.159 your home, maybe you have an Alexa device, or you 300 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:45.679 have Siri, or you have you know, Google device, And 301 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:48.120 people are saying, well, you can actually have conversations. You 302 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:50.600 could have it do stuff for you, and you could 303 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:53.759 do it now if you wanted your microphone to always 304 00:14:53.799 --> 00:14:56.799 be listening for you know, you to be able to 305 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:59.679 ask it something, it can do that, or you could 306 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:02.120 turn off and there's shortcuts. But again you could be 307 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:05.200 sitting in your computer just hit a button and now 308 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:08.519 have response from Copilot. But some people are saying, well, 309 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:11.639 Copilot is a lot different than with shat, GPT or 310 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:13.879 some of the other AI services out there. Just I 311 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:16.200 still have not come to the idea of running it 312 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:18.759 on my system. Have you had a chance to experiment 313 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:19.240 with it all? 314 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:22.200 It's immediately it turned off for me. The Windows a 315 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:27.720 lot I just can't wrap my head around integrating an 316 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:29.879 AI into my machine. I just don't. I just don't. 317 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:34.240 I don't know. It's weird to think about it. I 318 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:39.480 understand AI's purpose, I understand it's a tool. I don't 319 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:42.799 know if I want it on my machine. What benefit 320 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:44.399 is it going to do on my machine that I 321 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:46.600 haven't used it? So maybe I don't know yet, But 322 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:49.679 I just don't foresee myself. Like anything I'm doing on 323 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:52.519 my computer, I already know what I want to do now. 324 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:55.279 For our listeners that don't want to have this, it 325 00:15:55.320 --> 00:16:00.320 can be stopped or removed. It's not yeah, or you 326 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:02.440 have it. It's like one drive. If you don't want 327 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:04.440 to use one drive, you don't have to. I have 328 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:08.360 one computer that uses well, two computers that use one drive, 329 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:10.000 and the rest of them don't. 330 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:14.600 Yeah, you can't. You can't completely delete copile from your computer, 331 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:17.559 but you can disable it and prevent it from running, 332 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:20.840 so it is possible to at least quickly. That's to 333 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:24.720 say a lot of people are just wanting to disable it. 334 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:25.559 It's just like I. 335 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:32.000 Wish again, I wish Windows would just give us a 336 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:34.759 clean version, no bloat. 337 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:38.000 Yeah, they give us without the bloat, without the having 338 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:40.360 to do this, having to do that. Just here, this 339 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:42.440 is what it can do to get stuff done. But 340 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:44.399 then that's when people will say, well, that's why you 341 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:45.360 have Linux. 342 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:49.360 Right, which is outside of So I've got this rig 343 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:51.200 that I'm on now which has Windows on it, which 344 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:54.759 is my gaming rig and my streaming ring. I have 345 00:16:54.840 --> 00:16:58.440 a Mac which runs Mac os Tahoe now and I've 346 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:02.039 just been installing Linux and everything else. It's just just 347 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:05.279 easier to use, Easier, faster to get up and running, 348 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:08.599 faster to install things, faster to do stuff, easier to 349 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:13.400 quickly do things. I just put it on a I 350 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:15.960 have an Aceus Rock laptop that I got from a 351 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:17.559 friend of mine who was getting a new one and 352 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:20.519 put Linux on it and it runs amazing on there. 353 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:24.720 And I've been using it for hard drive moving content 354 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:27.400 off hard drives into my mass and it's super quick. 355 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:31.759 And Linux doesn't care what file format your drives are. 356 00:17:31.799 --> 00:17:35.519 It'll read NFS, it'll read or NTFS, it'll read x FAT, 357 00:17:35.559 --> 00:17:38.960 it'll read whatever. So I can copy stuff quickly that 358 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:41.559 way and look at drives and format them, and I 359 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:45.440 just did. I was on a mission last night trying 360 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:49.440 to find I got my old this is going to 361 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:51.160 be a little bit, a little bit of a throwback. 362 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:52.519 This is kind of what I was getting at with 363 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:55.480 why I want a clean version of Windows eleven. My 364 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:58.720 mom gave me back a laptop that I had given 365 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:03.759 her for just used around the house, probably in two 366 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:07.640 thousand and seven. Right, it was the first laptop that 367 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:09.519 I had bought with my own money. I bought it 368 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:11.440 with my high school graduation money from when I went 369 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:11.960 to college. 370 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:13.119 That's cool. 371 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:19.400 It was a Toshiba Latitude or Toshiba Satellite, sorry, Toshiba Satellite, 372 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:24.240 single core petty and four running three point four gigaherts. 373 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:26.640 And so she gave that back to me, and I 374 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:28.920 pulled the hard drive out of it, and I was wondering, 375 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:31.519 you know what this is when I first started playing 376 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:34.759 World of Warcraft on I wonder if I can recover 377 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:37.160 any of my old screenshots. 378 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:39.519 But that's kind of cool. Yeah, So of. 379 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:43.319 Course, like I had deleted stuff, but I never formatted 380 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:45.160 the hard drive. 381 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:47.519 Well, even if you formatted you might still be able 382 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:48.000 to get something. 383 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:49.880 So what I did, and I haven't gone through all 384 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:52.240 the photos yet, is I ran I looked at I 385 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:53.359 just looked it up, but I got to look at. 386 00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:55.000 Make sure I tell you guys to rate the right 387 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:59.799 software that I used for it was. I used the 388 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:06.519 a data recovery utility that's free. It's called PhotoRec Photo Recovery. 389 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:07.640 Wow, that's cool. 390 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:12.480 Via another open source service called test disc, which is 391 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:17.920 kind of there's a data hoarders subreddit and a data 392 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:21.319 recovery subrendit that I'm on just for curiosity, which is 393 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:25.240 this is highly recommended in there. It took me two 394 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:30.400 minutes to install it. Hold the followed the instructions on 395 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:35.440 their website and let it scan this old hard drive 396 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:40.319 which was an ide A two point five inch IDE drive, 397 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:45.119 which I have a USB to IDE adapter, so I 398 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:48.039 just plugged it in, plugged it in a USB, let it 399 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:50.799 read it saw that it was an eighty eighty gig 400 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:53.559 hard drive and let it rip and it found I 401 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:56.720