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Speaker 1: Welcome to this week's episode of tech Talk Radio. I'm
Speaker 1: Andy Taylor, I'm Sean dea Weird, and it is good
Speaker 1: to see you. How you doing good?
Speaker 3: Yes, spent a week. Yeah, it's spent a week. And
Speaker 3: you know, we're getting closer to Christmas and I keep
Speaker 3: buying myself present.
Speaker 1: That's the hard thing too. You're you're sitting there thinking,
Speaker 1: I want to get something for somebody in the Oh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: I Telkaitlin because you know, the last episode we talked
Speaker 3: about how I bought the Analog three D. I asked her.
Speaker 3: I was like, can I buy myself a Christmas President?
Speaker 3: And when she asked me, like, what is it? Oh,
Speaker 3: it's a it's a console that will play my old
Speaker 3: and Tennessee's four games, right, And she got kind of
Speaker 3: bummed because then she then told me what she had
Speaker 3: already gotten me, which was a pocket like a handheld
Speaker 3: version which will play a lot of the old classic games.
Speaker 1: Oh I think I've seen those. Yeah, they looked pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I felt kind of bad, but I didn't tell
Speaker 3: her how much it costs though, so.
Speaker 1: Oh you kind of kept battle.
Speaker 3: No, so I did get it and it's awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, So now what is the name of this? So,
Speaker 1: because let's face it, sean the nostalgia that we're seeing
Speaker 1: now of games, and you think about it, you go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was so much fun to play and I love that,
Speaker 1: And then you think, wait, that came out forty thirty,
Speaker 1: twenty years ago, but the nostalgia factor is still good
Speaker 1: and they're still great gaming that's available.
Speaker 3: So the Tendo sixty four came out in nineteen ninety six,
Speaker 3: so thirty years ago. So I was talking to a
Speaker 3: friend of mine last night. I was like, man, this
Speaker 3: is just taking me back twenty years to when we
Speaker 3: used to play these in our bay, you know, in
Speaker 3: the base entry snow days, and goes, dude, that wasn't
Speaker 3: twenty years ago. I was like, wait, what, Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: it was almost thirty years ago, right, wow. So it's
Speaker 3: crazy to think that gaming has been a part of
Speaker 3: my life for that long. But you know, I started
Speaker 3: playing on original Nintendo. My mom played a lot of
Speaker 3: Zelda when I was growing up and drew her own maps. Wow,
Speaker 3: that kind of got my start there. And you know,
Speaker 3: then we bought a Nintendo, you know, a Nintendo Super Nintendo,
Speaker 3: and then a PlayStation, and then we kind of verged
Speaker 3: away from the sixty four ward. We kind of branched
Speaker 3: off with the PlayStation side of things into the Xbox
Speaker 3: and stuff. And I didn't get into sixty four gaming
Speaker 3: because my cousin had one. It cut my friends had them,
Speaker 3: but I really wasn't into sixty four gaming then, it
Speaker 3: mostly just by proxy with my friends. I picked one
Speaker 3: up a handful of years ago and started playing the
Speaker 3: old classics again. And then with the introduction of the
Speaker 3: Nintendo Switch Online, you could buy the subscription for the
Speaker 3: year and play game Boy games and Nintendo games and
Speaker 3: sixty four games, GameCube games, all that stuff on Nintendo Online.
Speaker 3: But it's only if you have an active Internet connection,
Speaker 3: right when, don't you really realistically.
Speaker 1: These days nowadays?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I bought an original sixty four console, fixed
Speaker 3: it up, made it work, and was playing on that
Speaker 3: for a while. Shelved it a decade ago. And then
Speaker 3: about a year ago, I saw the Analog three D.
Speaker 3: That's what it's called, called the Analog three D. Analog
Speaker 3: dot Co is the website. They make an Analog pocket
Speaker 3: which plays Gameboy games and stuff. But then they announced
Speaker 3: they were making a Nintendo sixty four. It runs it
Speaker 3: all hardware based, and I was like, you know, I
Speaker 3: didn't need it. I had my sixty four. If I
Speaker 3: wanted to play it, I didn't really wasn't into it,
Speaker 3: like I wasn't super into ritual gaming again, like I
Speaker 3: was playing current games and Pat passed. And then I
Speaker 3: saw that they were restocking, like I was just looking
Speaker 3: it up because I was curious about it, and they
Speaker 3: happened to be restocking the next morning. So I was like,
Speaker 3: this is the can't be a coincidence that I thought
Speaker 3: about it and then it.
Speaker 1: Happened since yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: So then I said an alarm. I talked to Caitlin
Speaker 3: that night and then I bought it the next morning
Speaker 3: it shipped. I think I got it early December. I
Speaker 3: think like the third or fourth of December.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had talked about it and you hadn't received
Speaker 1: it yet.
Speaker 3: Right then, and in that time I had dug out
Speaker 3: my controllers, try and I couldn't find any of my games. Still,
Speaker 3: you still couldn't.
Speaker 1: Find any of them.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know. I don't there somebody has them.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out if a friend has them,
Speaker 3: if they got put in a box when I moved,
Speaker 3: and I don't know they're missing. I have some manuals,
Speaker 3: I got the controllers. I had the actual sixty four,
Speaker 3: just not the game, so they're somewhere. So I started
Speaker 3: I started paniccking because I was like, I'm gonna get
Speaker 3: this thing and I'm gonna spend all this money and
Speaker 3: games to play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no like games preloaded on it, like two
Speaker 1: or three.
Speaker 3: You can't load ROMs on it. It's not like there's
Speaker 3: no way to play games except if you have the
Speaker 3: physical cards. I'm not gonna tell anybody where I bought them,
Speaker 3: but I started scrounging the internet and ended up buying
Speaker 3: I bought five total games now right. I bought GoldenEye,
Speaker 3: Super Mario sixty four, Perfect Dark, Mario Kart, and Operative Time.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, those are all great games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the one that I want to talk about,
Speaker 3: And I have a question for the collector I'm not
Speaker 3: a collector, right, I play games, I don't collect them,
Speaker 3: but this one stirred a little bit of the collector
Speaker 3: bug in me, and I don't know what to do.
Speaker 3: On an auction site that I was on, I found
Speaker 3: a perfect dark box and that's all it said. It
Speaker 3: didn't really say if there was a cart in it
Speaker 3: or anything.
Speaker 1: Cardboard.
Speaker 3: Yes, I might have been buying the box. It's like
Speaker 3: on faith. I just said, you know what, I'm sure
Speaker 3: it's just a mislabeling. I'm sure it's got a card
Speaker 3: in it. Otherwise it would say just to the box.
Speaker 3: So I got it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we're gonna give it a give us
Speaker 1: a view of it.
Speaker 3: It's in the box.
Speaker 1: It is in the box though, so yeah, wow, that's
Speaker 1: the original box.
Speaker 3: That's like the original box. So I opened it right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: the manuals are still in there.
Speaker 1: Oh cool.
Speaker 3: It is still physically sealed in the box by the cardboard.
Speaker 3: It has not been opened.
Speaker 1: Oh man. So now you're wondering, should this for dirt cheat? Really?
Speaker 3: I don't know if I just happened to find the
Speaker 3: auction at the right time or what. But I could
Speaker 3: sell this for three times what I paid.
Speaker 1: For really, Wow, I'm not going to Well have you
Speaker 1: been like fighting with yourself trying to decide.
Speaker 3: I really have? It's like closed in box, it's worth
Speaker 3: more money. It's put the carts in there, and it
Speaker 3: looks so clean.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a tough one because you probably couldn't
Speaker 1: buy it as cheap for a second one.
Speaker 3: But like the perforated pieces of the cardboard haven't been
Speaker 3: pulled out. I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe some people who watching this could share their thoughts,
Speaker 1: should Sean, crack the case and open it.
Speaker 3: You know, this has sparked a little bit of nostalgia.
Speaker 3: I mean I've been on a retro kick the last
Speaker 3: six months and I've been playing games that I played
Speaker 3: when I was a kid. A lot of Diablo, a
Speaker 3: lot of like hocus Pocus, you know, Doom, Yeah. Wolf
Speaker 3: was all those games that I played growing up. And
Speaker 3: I think that's what drove me to want to get this,
Speaker 3: because it's like, you know, I want to play some
Speaker 3: of those classic games because like the gaming world kind
Speaker 3: of stinks right now where it's like you don't own anything,
Speaker 3: it's all licensed. You have to be online all the time.
Speaker 3: So I got the games I started buying, the games
Speaker 3: I started finding him, spent some of my my own
Speaker 3: my saving like just money that I had saved up
Speaker 3: just for by four whatever I wanted to get. And
Speaker 3: I think I'm good with those five games right now,
Speaker 3: right right, those five games, with the games that I
Speaker 3: grew up playing. There's a couple other games that are
Speaker 3: way too expensive for me to get that are very
Speaker 3: popular that I also played, but I'm not spending one
Speaker 3: hundred dollars or more for a cart at this point.
Speaker 1: Wow, for some of those and how much how much
Speaker 1: were like when the original price in some of these
Speaker 1: games when they came out. Just give people an idea.
Speaker 3: Right, right, So they were still like back in the
Speaker 3: back in the mid nineties, they were still fifty bucks
Speaker 3: for these games. I mean, with inflation and stuff like
Speaker 3: the you know, it's probably I probably play a little
Speaker 3: bit more than what I would have paid back then.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you got to find them in good condition, right,
Speaker 3: You got to find them not beat up, not corroded,
Speaker 3: not fake, because there's a lot of like the more
Speaker 3: popular titles, there's a lot of fakes floating around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm wondering, Sean, there's there's a website We've
Speaker 1: talked about it before, GOG that has a lot of
Speaker 1: games that maybe we played, And I don't know if
Speaker 1: they ported some of the games that we played on
Speaker 1: cartridge or whatever or these consoles to this, But I mean,
Speaker 1: is there a difference, Like, say, now with this device
Speaker 1: you've got that you're playing GoldenEye, which I got a
Speaker 1: chance to see some of the video when I was
Speaker 1: totally blown away. Is there a difference playing it there
Speaker 1: on that original kind of kind of feel that console,
Speaker 1: then playing it on GOG.
Speaker 3: They don't do console games. They mostly do PC games.
Speaker 3: You'd have to rohm or emulate console games like and
Speaker 3: there's a difference in playing the console the ROMs versus
Speaker 3: an actual console.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And some people are you know, puritans when it comes
Speaker 3: to that, they'll only play on the OG console. Some
Speaker 3: people don't care. I'm indifferent, Like, I'll play them on
Speaker 3: a ROM if I have to, if I need to
Speaker 3: or want to, Like playing them on Nintendo Switch Online,
Speaker 3: I don't think there's a difference playing it on Intend
Speaker 3: Switch Online versus playing on the anlog TWD. I really
Speaker 3: can't feel a difference. The quality I think maybe better
Speaker 3: on this just because it's hardware based. It's not streaming,
Speaker 3: it's not from my switch, but it's still fun to play.
Speaker 3: So the other thing is I was a little disappointed
Speaker 3: in is apparently they did this with the with the
Speaker 3: analog pocket, which is like their game Boy version of
Speaker 3: their hardware game Boy version, is they released special editions.
Speaker 3: Oh so, I'm gonna show you a picture a D.
Speaker 3: All right, I can I can change this.
Speaker 1: Here, okay, all right, showing us on the video.
Speaker 3: Much like the hardware side of the industry, a lot
Speaker 3: of people mod they're in Nintendo sixty four's with colored
Speaker 3: shells analog three D. They're releasing eight different colors besides
Speaker 3: black or white. Right, and that came out two and
Speaker 3: a half weeks after I bought mine.
Speaker 1: Oh man, now this is the poet I know, right.
Speaker 3: I would have waited and tried to get a colored
Speaker 3: one because these are cool, like the lime green, the turquoise,
Speaker 3: the purple, the red, the yellow, those are really cool pieces.
Speaker 1: So how does this happen with that? How would this
Speaker 1: hook up to your TV or monitor?
Speaker 3: HD?
Speaker 1: I oh nice, it's.
Speaker 3: Straight in HD's I've got it. I've got hooked up
Speaker 3: to my computer. Right now, so I can show you
Speaker 3: it's just now. God, A'll capture card HDMI in HD
Speaker 3: I out two monitors I can see and captured if
Speaker 3: I want to. It works, it looks, it looks good,
Speaker 3: it feels good, it plays good. I'm using an original Control,
Speaker 3: original hardwired controller. It supports. It supports Bluetooth or wireless controllers.
Speaker 3: So if you have the eight bit DO controllers or
Speaker 3: you have now, it doesn't work with the Nintendo Switch Online.
Speaker 3: Controllers like the ones I have for my switch don't work,
Speaker 3: so I can't connect those to my analog treaty, which
Speaker 3: is a bummer because I've got two sixty four controllers
Speaker 3: for my switch that I was expecting to be able
Speaker 3: to use with this, it doesn't support that. Now, with
Speaker 3: a blue Retro mod adapter, you could plug that in
Speaker 3: and then connect the switch the switch controllers to the
Speaker 3: mod which then physically plugs into the device.
Speaker 1: Now, how do you get how do you get the
Speaker 1: games on this one? Because obviously with the then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me let me show you. Let me switch
Speaker 3: back over to my camera view here.
Speaker 1: All right, and you could watch this up on our
Speaker 1: YouTube page h or blog. You'll find you'll find it
Speaker 1: all there, uh as well if you want to see
Speaker 1: it now. This is the Analog three it's Analog three
Speaker 1: D is what they're called.
Speaker 3: Analog three D. Yeah, but it's spelled Analog is spelled
Speaker 3: the UK version with an own and e okayke. And
Speaker 3: this is this is the box right, So it's got
Speaker 3: the four controller ports on the front. The cart goes
Speaker 3: slides in the just like it.
Speaker 1: It looks just like yeah it does.
Speaker 3: And it's got uh USB so you can plug your
Speaker 3: controllers in USB if you want to to charge them. Uh.
Speaker 3: The operating system and everything runs off of an SD
Speaker 3: car here on the back right, HDMI and USBC charging
Speaker 3: USBC C power.
Speaker 1: So it's so cool. That is really neat. And how
Speaker 1: much that looks?
Speaker 3: How much was that if you don't mind with shipping
Speaker 3: and everything. I think it was like just over three hundred.
Speaker 1: All right, And then you got to be prepared if
Speaker 1: you don't have the games, whether you're going online like
Speaker 1: Sean has found somewhere, even Bookman's that's here in.
Speaker 3: I mean, I went scoured all the stores around here,
Speaker 3: half priced books, discreplay game stores. I was actually kind
Speaker 3: of surprised. I went into a store here I hadn't
Speaker 3: been into and I was like, do you have any
Speaker 3: sixty four games? He goes, we don't do digital gaming here.
Speaker 3: I was like, Nintendo sixty four games, we don't do
Speaker 3: digital gaming here. I was like, he was kind of
Speaker 3: rude about it. I was, yeah, okay, thanks, I'm just
Speaker 3: gonna look around. I guess yeah, and I walked out.
Speaker 1: Thrift stores actually can sometimes you can find a good
Speaker 1: find at a thrift store when it comes to that,
Speaker 1: Like White Elephant might even have them from time to time.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean you kind of got to just
Speaker 3: get lucky at those places.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, exactly. Oh wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So, like I said, I got, you know, GoldenEye,
Speaker 3: Mario sixty four, Zelda Ocreative Time, Mario Kart. And now
Speaker 3: for those listeners.
Speaker 1: Who were thinking, okay, we're talking about these some older games.
Speaker 1: That means you know, eight bit, you know, blotchy blog,
Speaker 1: like maybe it doesn't have that good look. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can fire up GoldenEye. Well, well we're
Speaker 1: on the video just to show you the video gameplay
Speaker 1: of this unit from Analog three D. Actually this looks
Speaker 1: really good, and if you remember.
Speaker 3: This is so if you're watching the stream. Right, this
Speaker 3: is the old games still because it uses the RAM
Speaker 3: to store the saves, it doesn't have to store it
Speaker 3: with a battery. Save files are still on these games
Speaker 3: from whoever owned these previously.
Speaker 1: Really, oh wow.
Speaker 3: There's a complete Yeah, there's a complete game with almost
Speaker 3: every mission completed in here already because somebody whoever owned
Speaker 3: this game before. So I built a new one and
Speaker 3: was playing it. But so yeah, I was just playing.
Speaker 3: I just finished the level right before we were you know,
Speaker 3: we were talking. So right now I have to get
Speaker 3: the goldennikey and leave, and I got to photograph the
Speaker 3: main video screen. So the gameplay is fun. I'm just
Speaker 3: playing off my screen, so it doesn't it probably doesn't
Speaker 3: look the best to me right now, but you're seeing
Speaker 3: a direct output of the capture card that.
Speaker 1: Still looks pretty amazing. Now, pires Brosdon. Actually did he
Speaker 1: do the voice?
Speaker 3: I guess there's no there's no voice.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: I mean there's some cut screens, but it's there's no
Speaker 3: oh real uh screens or anything. But the gameplay is
Speaker 3: really good. Yeah, he's gonna hit the alarm up.
Speaker 1: Up, it's uh, it's it's James Bond stuff. So yeah,
Speaker 1: well back then, we probably not for the kids, you know,
Speaker 1: it was for the grown ups. But it's still fun
Speaker 1: to watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is like stuff that my parents probably didn't
Speaker 3: let it like it. That's probably why I didn't know it.
Speaker 1: Now what you're playing with a controller, right, I'm a mouse.
Speaker 1: I'm a mouse keyboard guy, you know, And I guess
Speaker 1: I gotta I'd have to get used to that. Again.
Speaker 1: It's still pretty. It looks like it flows really well,
Speaker 1: not a lot of lag, I mean.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. Like the Analog three D was
Speaker 3: built on hardware and it's over clocked, so it actually
Speaker 3: plays some of the games at a at a better
Speaker 3: bit rate or a better processing speed, so they actually
Speaker 3: are smoother. Hey, I picked up the Goldenike.
Speaker 1: Oh id that guy that's the that that he did
Speaker 1: that big pose in there when he Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 3: Yes, Boris, Boris, I gotta photog. I gotta photograph something
Speaker 3: and I'm not sure how to do.
Speaker 1: Does this make you want to see the Golden Eye
Speaker 1: movie again? Because it follows the movie pretty close?
Speaker 3: Right, It follows the movie almost to a t, right,
Speaker 3: so you actually play all the missions and stuff.
Speaker 1: It's awesome pretty cool. It's so cool.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so anyway, so that's that's pretty much the
Speaker 3: extent of what that is.
Speaker 1: So all right, so can I ask how much was
Speaker 1: the Golden Eye game?
Speaker 3: I think I paid twenty five bucks for it.
Speaker 1: Well, that's not bad control.
Speaker 3: There's the controllers original wired and sixty four controller atomic purple.
Speaker 1: Now you had that though, still right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I bought another. I bought another one because I only
Speaker 3: have two. I want to have four. I only have two,
Speaker 3: so I bought a third one. This is my third one,
Speaker 3: right because I can't because I can't because I want
Speaker 3: to be able to have do four player games.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: I had two wired ones and I have two Nintendo
Speaker 3: Switch Online sixty four controllers to play on my switch.
Speaker 3: I didn't know those weren't going to work with the
Speaker 3: analog three D, so that gave me my four. Right,
Speaker 3: So now I need to get two more or I
Speaker 3: got one, so I need one more wired one to
Speaker 3: be able to have four total controllers.
Speaker 1: All right, So we've mentioned we mentioned you know, like
Speaker 1: the White Elephant. We mentioned you know, thrift stores. We
Speaker 1: had a good question from al this week who wanted
Speaker 1: to know some tips about buying a used computer. He's
Speaker 1: getting a new computer. It's gonna be a used computer.
Speaker 1: He told me the specs. I'll tell you one thing
Speaker 1: that made me say, yeah, get it. That's a good deal.
Speaker 1: He wanted to get a high He wanted to get
Speaker 1: a gaming machine, not because he games, but because he
Speaker 1: believes that a gaming machine is going to have the
Speaker 1: highest quality graphics, the highest you know processing. You know
Speaker 1: it's gonna have it's gonna have good specs on it,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna be able to do stuff. And he
Speaker 1: said he doesn't game, but he just figured that the
Speaker 1: gaming system is gonna be pretty good. And he said
Speaker 1: he was looking at this Dell system. I want to
Speaker 1: say it was a thirty eight to forty, might have
Speaker 1: been thirty four eighty. I'm going off my memory, but
Speaker 1: he was going through the specs. He said it was
Speaker 1: an I nine processor that was running Windows eleven Pro,
Speaker 1: so he didn't have to worry about that. He's got
Speaker 1: a Windows ten machine at home he's afraid to use,
Speaker 1: you know, rufous or it doesn't qualify for the upgrade.
Speaker 1: So he didn't want to lose anything on there. So
Speaker 1: he's going to start fresh with this. Had a had
Speaker 1: two four had two two terabyte drives in it, right,
Speaker 1: So I thought, okay, that's good, that's pretty good. You know,
Speaker 1: they're not as they're not as you know M two's,
Speaker 1: which are great, they're SSDs. But then he said it
Speaker 1: had one hundred and twenty eight gigabytes of memory. And
Speaker 1: that's what got me because I said, right now, the
Speaker 1: cost of memory is through the roof. If anybody has
Speaker 1: tried to buy memory sticks, they get online, they go,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, what happened to the cost of memory.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. This system he was going to be able
Speaker 1: to purchase for eight hundred dollars And I told him,
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, make sure boots up. But
Speaker 1: he said he wanted to know you know what're just
Speaker 1: some tips about buying a used computer.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, that's a load of question.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: So it's like, you want to inspect it yourself before
Speaker 3: you get it. You want to make sure it power's on,
Speaker 3: and you want to make sure it posts. If it
Speaker 3: has a hard drive in it, I would just take
Speaker 3: the hard drive out. I would just buy a new
Speaker 3: hard drive from what, just not even bother with it.
Speaker 3: I mean, unless they're really good solid state drives, you
Speaker 3: can run smart on them and see how long they've
Speaker 3: been on. No, many read rights they have because mechanical
Speaker 3: drives specifically, they have a lifespan because they're mechanical. Solid
Speaker 3: state drives have a read write life. They actually can't.
Speaker 3: They actually have a specific amount of read rights they
Speaker 3: can do before they start to degree.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you might. You might actually find that over time
Speaker 1: they'll start to the quality you just you know, you
Speaker 1: have little things that will happen and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: so you have to think about that.
Speaker 3: So those things like you want to make sure it
Speaker 3: has a power supply that's going to be powerful enough
Speaker 3: to support any peripherals like graphics card or your processing power,
Speaker 3: your processor, any other PCI cards you may have in there.
Speaker 3: If you have an all one water pump or water cooler,
Speaker 3: you want to make sure it can support that. You're
Speaker 3: taking risks buying us used equipment like you just are.
Speaker 3: It's just there's nothing around getting around that. But you
Speaker 3: can inspect for physical damage. You can expect for water damage,
Speaker 3: you can expect for corrosion, those sort of things. If
Speaker 3: you open up machine, if you open up a machine
Speaker 3: and a bunch of crumbs and dust and mouse caked
Speaker 3: for a mouse or you know it's cover caked in
Speaker 3: dust like that is a sign that somebody didn't take
Speaker 3: care of it, right. Yeah, So there are obvious signs
Speaker 3: to look out for, but more often people selling.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one one that I've found once. Take
Speaker 1: a look at the fans, especially if the graphics card
Speaker 1: and had a thirty I think you said had a
Speaker 1: thirty in it. Take a look at the fans. If
Speaker 1: if you were in a house that somebody smokes in
Speaker 1: and they had a computer, you're making that face. The
Speaker 1: fans become not only do they not maybe spin as much,
Speaker 1: but they get this brown krud that is on the fans,
Speaker 1: that that gets over everything, every on the motherboard, everything
Speaker 1: it gets.
Speaker 3: I have cleaned computers for people's parents that have smoked
Speaker 3: their entire lives, and it is disgusting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gross.
Speaker 3: It's gross.
Speaker 1: It comes into like a yellowish brown kind of it's tar.
Speaker 3: It's cleaning tar and nicotine, and it's gross cleaning a
Speaker 3: smoking computer or a computer that's been in a dirty
Speaker 3: environment where maybe there's wood smoke. Like I cleaned one
Speaker 3: that somebody had in their basement that had a woodstove
Speaker 3: in it, so it still had a lot of wood, like, oh,
Speaker 3: smoke smell to it and stuff kind of that kind
Speaker 3: of smoke to it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, check the fans too on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, check the fans. Make sure they all spin and
Speaker 3: if you you can actually spin them with your hand
Speaker 3: freely and see if they if they feel like they're dragging.
Speaker 3: I mean, fans are cheap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can get you can get new.
Speaker 3: Fans for relatively inexpensive. So I wouldn't. I wouldn't make
Speaker 3: or break a deal on just a fan.
Speaker 1: But I know I saw somebody went was doing a
Speaker 1: yard sale out here and they had an old CRT
Speaker 1: and they had a computer for sale, and I'm thinking
Speaker 1: it had to be probably Windows seven. Maybe I just.
Speaker 3: Sold a ton of stuff at the yard sale. I
Speaker 3: got rid of a ton of old laptops and old MacBooks,
Speaker 3: and like I was selling them for dirt cheap.
Speaker 1: Did you let people boot them up like it? Because
Speaker 1: I would make sure.
Speaker 3: I put Yeah, I put Linux Mint, Oh we am
Speaker 3: on there and it said if you're ready to this
Speaker 3: is this is you can just turn it on and
Speaker 3: put your user and password in and go. You know,
Speaker 3: I would say max max if you put it in
Speaker 3: recovery mode. You can reimage and then you can let
Speaker 3: them as soon as you get to that first page.
Speaker 3: For a Mac, you just shut it off and then
Speaker 3: it boots up and like, yeah, I mean I I
Speaker 3: I sold video cards, I sold ram I sold all
Speaker 3: sorts of stuff. So I think my last year.
Speaker 1: So I was thinking, I have a couple of old
Speaker 1: half nine thirty two's from Killer Master. I mean they're massive,
Speaker 1: These things are massive, and you know, I thought about
Speaker 1: selling them online because I don't use I go for
Speaker 1: the smaller computers now, you know, just they're they're much nicer.
Speaker 1: But shipping would kill me because they're super heavy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I thought maybe selling them, you know, at a
Speaker 1: guard sale in my but then I thought.
Speaker 3: Somebody would pick it up for ten bucks.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm just thinking, Now, take one of the old
Speaker 1: motherboards I have, install you know, Linux on it, put
Speaker 1: Minna and sell it as Hey, it's a working Linux computer.
Speaker 1: You want to get into Linux. This would be the
Speaker 1: way to go. Hmmm. That's actually you can be a
Speaker 1: good idea there. All right, we're gonna take quick break.
Speaker 1: We come back. We'll talk about maybe some holiday gift
Speaker 1: giving ideas of things we're going to be looking at
Speaker 1: coming up, and I know one you're going to be
Speaker 1: really excited about. So we'll do that when we come
Speaker 1: back with more of Tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor,
Speaker 1: I'm Sean.
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Speaker 1: So I know one of the things that is a
Speaker 1: passion for Sean has been drones. We've talked about drones
Speaker 1: quite a bit. You got Dji, you get into three
Speaker 1: sixty with their devices, and there's a new one on
Speaker 1: the market that I started looking at and I thought
Speaker 1: this should be kind of fun to take a look at.
Speaker 1: It's called Anti Gravity. It's the Anti Gravity A one
Speaker 1: and I saw one of the launch videos on it
Speaker 1: and I thought this would be kind of cool. So
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, I said them an email saying, hey,
Speaker 1: I'd love to show this on the Fox eleven segments
Speaker 1: we do. It's always fun to get, you know, the
Speaker 1: news anchors to be able to fly the drones. The
Speaker 1: last time we looked at A drone was the one
Speaker 1: that I ended up buying was the Mavick. Which one
Speaker 1: do I have? I have the three of the four? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I have the three mini. And we flew
Speaker 1: in the studio and it was a blast. Andrew Capasso
Speaker 1: was there at at Fox at the time flew it
Speaker 1: and then before we had done one and she became
Speaker 1: an ABC News reporter. Uh, and Kana wentworth and flew
Speaker 1: it into the building, into the ceiling. All I could
Speaker 1: say was there she goes. And that was it for
Speaker 1: that drone. So this new one, the Anti gravity A one,
Speaker 1: looked pretty good. And I was going to ask you, Sean,
Speaker 1: if you had looked at this one yet, because I
Speaker 1: know you like looking at this This is a great,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of field for you. You love the
Speaker 1: drone stuff. But it looks like it could be kind
Speaker 1: of cool and not that pricey as well.
Speaker 3: I have not looked at it. I knew it existed
Speaker 3: because we had talked about it before when they announced
Speaker 3: it isn't realized it was out yet.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And it hasn't been out very long, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They said that they're going to be sending one
Speaker 1: over so we can give it a flight.
Speaker 3: And then yeah, yes, please, but this has a three
Speaker 3: it's got a three sixty four K camera on it,
Speaker 3: which was the top end round I remember, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I do three sixty. Let's look at the specs, right, Uh,
Speaker 3: it's it falls within with the flight battery falls under
Speaker 3: the two or fifty grand weight limit, which is the
Speaker 3: big one for a lot of places, because that prevents
Speaker 3: you from having to register with the FAA, which I
Speaker 3: think is a little ridiculous, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you don't have to go around.
Speaker 3: Everybody's going to skirt around the regulations somehow because they
Speaker 3: want to get into the hands of consumers.
Speaker 1: Now, is the rich regulation for fa like if it's
Speaker 1: above that weight classes that the one O seven or
Speaker 1: is that only if you want to make money doing
Speaker 1: it or you have to do both?
Speaker 3: Right, you have to you have to register it at all,
Speaker 3: Like anybody has to register their drone if it's over
Speaker 3: two or fifty grams, right, So yeah, I'll have to
Speaker 3: look at clarification on this, but that's my understanding.
Speaker 1: I know, if you want to make money with a drone, like,
Speaker 1: we've got some good guys out here that do some
Speaker 1: great work real estate photography that kind of thing, even
Speaker 1: weddings if you're if you're if you're a videographer and
Speaker 1: they hire you for your wedding and you decide, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a drowne up in the air, you
Speaker 1: have to have a one o seven because you're you're
Speaker 1: putting it in as a part of the package. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So it looks like it.
Speaker 3: Looks like, just from my quick greeting that the video
Speaker 3: recording on this is actually their own proprietary video format
Speaker 3: that you have to export through their anti amigret. Like
Speaker 3: you can't natively take it right off the memory card
Speaker 3: into your own editing platform.
Speaker 1: Right, like you can with DJI, which is ye nice.
Speaker 3: Before or an MLV, depends on how you have a
Speaker 3: set up. But hm, I mean it looks cool and
Speaker 3: it's not the FPV goggles. I mean they're all kind
Speaker 3: of the same if you look at them from a
Speaker 3: top like a wide view, right, they all fly, they
Speaker 3: all take video, right, Which why is one better than
Speaker 3: the other?
Speaker 1: The three six stay idea.
Speaker 3: It's not really to your experience and how easy it
Speaker 3: is to use and reliability, customer satisfaction kind of stuff, right.
Speaker 3: I would buy a dj I hands down, No, problem
Speaker 3: because I've I've I've got multiple I've flown, I've flown
Speaker 3: a bunch. I know they're gonna fly well. I know
Speaker 3: the I know the UI, I know the software, I
Speaker 3: know the hardware. I know I'm gonna get good quality
Speaker 3: with it. It's like that's why I would buy a
Speaker 3: GoPro again, right, because I know I'm going to get
Speaker 3: good quality. So I can't go I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think you could go wrong with GoPro if
Speaker 1: you're looking for an action camera at all.
Speaker 3: But again, I don't know anti gravity. The only thing
Speaker 3: I can go based off is their their media coverage,
Speaker 3: their influencer, their you know, the people that have gotten
Speaker 3: them out and played with them and flown them. You've
Speaker 3: flown it, so I mean it could be good hands
Speaker 3: on them.
Speaker 1: I really want to try this three sixty stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: and see how that how that can be put into
Speaker 1: an editing program, how you can generate something, you know.
Speaker 1: The last video I did was for the the Control
Speaker 1: Lined Model Club that flies their airplanes out here in Tucson,
Speaker 1: and that was a blast. That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: But this would give me even more capabilities, I think
Speaker 1: in the editing process. So some people don't edit the video,
Speaker 1: just keep it this whole under their video.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean I'm not I have not been
Speaker 3: a content creator for a long time, right, I don't
Speaker 3: do a whole lot of content creation on my own anymore.
Speaker 3: And so it's like I don't have a need for
Speaker 3: a drone. I don't. So it's like I'm not the
Speaker 3: right person to target for this kind of stuff right now.
Speaker 3: I do like them, I do know a lot about them.
Speaker 3: I just don't have a I don't have a need
Speaker 3: for them. If I bought a drone, it'd be a
Speaker 3: waste of my money.
Speaker 1: The technology has come a long way. I remember my
Speaker 1: Sun bought one and he brought it out here to
Speaker 1: a park and he flew it. We got five minutes
Speaker 1: flight time, So that's that's changed quite a bit. I
Speaker 1: get a lot more flight time with the DJI product. Indeed,
Speaker 1: that makes a great product. But we'll see what Anti
Speaker 1: Gravity puts together, and hopefully we'll get one in our hands.
Speaker 1: Then maybe after depending on Hong, we get to use it.
Speaker 1: Maybe I could forward it over you and then you
Speaker 1: could take a spin with it and you know, shoot
Speaker 1: some video. It would be kind of cool. Also, we
Speaker 1: got to question in I thought this would be perfect
Speaker 1: for you. Art sent me a note the other day
Speaker 1: and he wants to know the best place to buy
Speaker 1: a Mac and he said, Costco, best Buy. Where should
Speaker 1: I go? And I thought about it. I said, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't have a back.
Speaker 3: Three places right, Three places right, Apple Direct? Okay, that's
Speaker 3: by Costco.
Speaker 1: Those three are are good Apple.
Speaker 3: I would buy it from Apple first, Costco, second, best Buy,
Speaker 3: third right, Apple Direct because you're just dealing with Apple directly.
Speaker 3: There's no middleman, right Costco because you're protected by all
Speaker 3: their awesome benefits as a member of Costco mm hm.
Speaker 3: And they have great deals on Max and macmini's and stuff,
Speaker 3: and you can go in and see them on display,
Speaker 3: just like you can't at the Apple store. Best Buy
Speaker 3: has been always been great, and Caitlin's bought hers there before.
Speaker 3: They have a great display set up there. You're not
Speaker 3: gonna go wrong. I would avoid buying him on Amazon
Speaker 3: or other third party retailers online, though those three I
Speaker 3: would I would buy them from there, no problem Apple,
Speaker 3: Like I said, Apple, Costco, then best Buy. If you
Speaker 3: want it right now, Costco, you can walk out of
Speaker 3: the store with it.
Speaker 1: You can walk Yeah, that's true. They have it ready
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 3: You can do that at Apple too, but if you
Speaker 3: do it on Apple's website, you can order it and
Speaker 3: have it shipped to you. It's easier that way if
Speaker 3: you want to do it that way.
Speaker 1: Now he has a MacBook, he has a MacBook Pro,
Speaker 1: and that's his wife wants. This is going to be
Speaker 1: a gift for his wife. So with a MacBook Pro,
Speaker 1: I don't think you should go with MacBook Air. Get
Speaker 1: her what you have if that's what she wants.
Speaker 3: Oh, hold on, So don't discount them. The mac Airs,
Speaker 3: MacBook Airs, they're all. They're great. Right, If you get
Speaker 3: an M four Macair, it's gonna blow a early M
Speaker 3: one MacBook Pro or MacBook Pro M two out of
Speaker 3: the water.
Speaker 1: A little better.
Speaker 3: The M four chips great M five chips are even better.
Speaker 3: But like the leaps, the leaps from the M one
Speaker 3: chip to the M four chips have been significant, hm
Speaker 3: like like, way better than any other jump in any
Speaker 3: Intel version or rise in version. Like the leaps from
Speaker 3: the M chips have been fantastic, like if she's not
Speaker 3: doing any gaming, hard pressed to believe she's gonna be
Speaker 3: doing any hardcore gaming. But if she's just web browsing,
Speaker 3: surfing the web, Netflix, whatever, a Mac Air, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be lighter, it's gonna have great battery life, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be slimmer, it's gonna be you know, you can get.
Speaker 3: It's just gonna be a better form fit form factor wise.
Speaker 1: So if somebody is looking, then if they're looking at
Speaker 1: a MacBook Air, what would be the kind of top
Speaker 1: spot for that with the with the M five Do
Speaker 1: they have an M five?
Speaker 3: I don't know if the M five MacBook Air exists yet,
Speaker 3: the M four does. Just take a look, I'm curious.
Speaker 3: Now it's to Apple's website.
Speaker 1: Look look, yeah, he is us. She has used his
Speaker 1: MacBook Pro, and that MacBook Pro is going to be
Speaker 1: about two or three years old, I believe. So this
Speaker 1: would be a good reason maybe then to look at
Speaker 1: the MacBook Air. And she's she's more mobile, so that
Speaker 1: would also be another idea. Right there, it's it's going
Speaker 1: to buy.
Speaker 3: Also, you have you have two options of thirteen inch
Speaker 3: and a fifteen inch, right, M four and so it's the
Speaker 3: M four, So there's no M five mac anything. I
Speaker 3: don't think right now. So let's say you wanted so
Speaker 3: the thirteen inch, you can get him starting at nine nine.
Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, if you want.
Speaker 3: A fifteen inch, they start at eleven.
Speaker 1: And software software for both they are going to be
Speaker 1: the same. Right for the MacBook.
Speaker 3: Pro would be back OS twenty six, Tahoe, Right, but
Speaker 3: depending on how old his back book is. All right,
Speaker 3: any well, any any m Chip series will be We'll
Speaker 3: still support Tahoe. I think do you recommend how it
Speaker 3: might be the last version that doesn't support Intel?
Speaker 1: Oh, now do you do you recommend somebody buying an
Speaker 1: extended warranty whether they buy it from Apple, Apple.
Speaker 3: Apple Care, apple Care, apple Care, apple Care every time,
Speaker 3: all the time, apple Care.
Speaker 1: Get Apple kind of.
Speaker 3: So here's a good safety teep tip for everybody. You
Speaker 3: can probably hear in the background right now. The beeppt bepepp.
Speaker 3: It's the weekly test for my weather alert radio. So
Speaker 3: if you're in an area that gets your weather, buy
Speaker 3: yourself a Noah weather radio. It does a weekly test,
Speaker 3: it gives you provides alerts. So if you're hearing that
Speaker 3: in the background.
Speaker 1: Yeah, weekly test, all right, cool? Cool, all right, So
Speaker 1: it's a good safety note there. I like that Noah radio.
Speaker 1: That's a good one, all right, So definitely apple Care,
Speaker 1: you get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so so cool. Cool thing too is like I
Speaker 3: think this just came out earlier this year, earlier, earlier,
Speaker 3: twenty whatever year.
Speaker 1: This is.
Speaker 3: You can bundle your Apple Care devices under one Apple ID.
Speaker 3: So Apple Care costs me twenty nine ninety ninety a month,
Speaker 3: but it covers my watch, it covers my phone, it
Speaker 3: covers my Mac, my m for Mac Minie, all under
Speaker 3: the same Apple Care. So I don't have to have
Speaker 3: an apple Care for an apple Care subscription for that,
Speaker 3: an apple Care subscription for my watch, an apple Care
Speaker 3: subscription for my phone. It's called apple Care one. It's
Speaker 3: I think it's up to four devices that require apple
Speaker 3: Care or that are able eligible for apple Care for
Speaker 3: one subscription cost which is great.
Speaker 1: Now another for my phone.
Speaker 3: I was paying for my watch and I didn't I
Speaker 3: didn't want to pay for the m Form Macvinie that
Speaker 3: I got, but it was eligible. And then I realized
Speaker 3: I could do this. I would. Here's what I figured
Speaker 3: it out. When I upgraded to the Tahoe Beta and
Speaker 3: screwed up my phone. It went to the Apple store,
Speaker 3: and because as I'm good about doing my backups, like
Speaker 3: they were like, oh you can now you have Apple Care,
Speaker 3: it'll all help. We can replace your battery for apple Care. Oh,
Speaker 3: by the way, today we're like the day I went in,
Speaker 3: they launched this Apple one, apple Care one or whatever
Speaker 3: it's called. So look at if you have multiple devices,
Speaker 3: it's per Apple ID. So it's like the devices that
Speaker 3: are registered under my Apple ID are eligible. Kaitlin and
Speaker 3: I would have to have her own, et cetera. So
Speaker 3: but makes it cheap. It's cheaper and then I have
Speaker 3: more devices protected for the same cost.
Speaker 1: Here's a good reason apple Care is such a good idea.
Speaker 1: If if you have something under AppleCare, and you have
Speaker 1: an iPhone and you drop it and you know, we
Speaker 1: got all like great cases, you know, whether you're get
Speaker 1: in an outer box or whatever, you drop it and
Speaker 1: there the screen cracks. I've seen people who.
Speaker 3: Have just really want to remember what happened with my phone? Right, yeah,
Speaker 3: the day the day I got it, I didn't have
Speaker 3: a case yet because it hadn't come hadn't come in
Speaker 3: the mail. Oh no, set it on the edge of
Speaker 3: the bathroom sink. It work and it slipped off and
Speaker 3: hit the tile on the floor and shattered the bad glass.
Speaker 3: I hadn't had it twelve hours and it was the
Speaker 3: day it was like four days after released. So I
Speaker 3: took it back and this caused a whole kerfluffle with
Speaker 3: my SIM card, right because I had actual physical sin
Speaker 3: in it. Because it was so new, they didn't have
Speaker 3: any repaired, repair able parts for them yet, right, so
Speaker 3: they had to give me a whole new phone like
Speaker 3: two days after it.
Speaker 1: But if you didn't have Apple Care, you would oh.
Speaker 3: I would have had to buy a ho new phone.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 3: Or pay or pay because if they didn't have the
Speaker 3: reparable parts then I was waiting. I'd have to ship
Speaker 3: it in. Because I had Apple Care, they were just like, yeah,
Speaker 3: well here's the new phone. Here you go. I was
Speaker 3: in and out in less than twenty minutes with a
Speaker 3: new phone because Apple Care.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm kind of wondering, have you ever tried
Speaker 1: the I Fix It kits on devices? Because I Fix
Speaker 1: It Will Will, We'll do kits if you break your
Speaker 1: phone and it's not warranty that you can do stuff.
Speaker 1: I got one for my iPad. It's still sitting there.
Speaker 1: I've never used it.
Speaker 3: I've replaced screens. So when I worked at Fox, we
Speaker 3: had Apple phones for all the reporters. So you can
Speaker 3: only imagine they're not gentle with equipment, and they're out
Speaker 3: on the street all the time. They're on the road,
Speaker 3: they're traveling there, they're beating stuff up. We had a
Speaker 3: steady stream of I Fix it screens coming in for
Speaker 3: phones in my free time, which I didn't have much.
Speaker 3: It was please replace the screen.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: Now, that was before they that was the all aluminum backs,
Speaker 3: before they had glass on the front and the back.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I would risk trying to do
Speaker 3: a phone now right, but I have repaired old, older
Speaker 3: screens on phones from like an iPhone four and iPhone
Speaker 3: six whenever they stopped, whenever they before they started doing
Speaker 3: the back glass on the phones.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll tell you what we got to take
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Speaker 1: We'll be now back to tech talk Radio. So you
Speaker 1: can imagine that you order something you know from when
Speaker 1: you know, buy something you know on eBay, you get
Speaker 1: it in you're just hoping it's what it says it
Speaker 1: was going to be. But you can imagine if we're
Speaker 1: buying something from a big box store, you can go
Speaker 1: online to their websites and have something shipped to you.
Speaker 1: And there was a story on Reddit recently about somebody
Speaker 1: that had purchased a high end graphics card and when
Speaker 1: they got that high end graphics card shipped to them
Speaker 1: via best Buy, they went to open it up and
Speaker 1: instead of that graphics card, there were four rocks, four
Speaker 1: rocks actually stone rocks there that were in place of
Speaker 1: that graphics card. And again he ordered it from best Buy,
Speaker 1: so he kind of has gone through the process saying, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, I kept this box was full of rocks apparently,
Speaker 1: and again we're going based on a Reddit post. But
Speaker 1: then after some time he kept waiting for them to,
Speaker 1: you know, take care of this, he got a note
Speaker 1: saying they will not be replacing or refunding his twelve
Speaker 1: hundred dollars purchase after their investigation because there's no real
Speaker 1: proof to say that, well, we shipped you this and
Speaker 1: you open it up and know that there were rocks
Speaker 1: in it. So which leads to a really good point.
Speaker 1: I mean number one, that's that's shady as it is.
Speaker 1: But whatever you're buying, when you're buying something on eBay,
Speaker 1: you're buying something on Amazon, you're buying something on best Buy,
Speaker 1: or any of the microcenter, whatever you're having good shipped to,
Speaker 1: you go ahead and set up opening it out of
Speaker 1: the package, a video do it. It's just for your safety,
Speaker 1: opening the package, taking it out, opening the box, show
Speaker 1: the label on the video. Member it's just for you,
Speaker 1: and opening it up, taking it out and showing what
Speaker 1: it is. Because if you imagine if this person had
Speaker 1: videoed them the pay here's the package, it's sealed. Look
Speaker 1: at it's got my name on it. Open it up,
Speaker 1: Open it up, open up. There's rocks. There's no they're
Speaker 1: really very very hard to deny that that's what this
Speaker 1: guy got. But now he he he has no recourse
Speaker 1: in this case. I'm sure he does legally he will
Speaker 1: probably follow through.
Speaker 3: I mean I would, yeah, I mean, you've you're seeing
Speaker 3: more and more of this, and it's not just best Buy.
Speaker 3: It's pretty pretty blatant on Amazon also, right, Yeah, somebody
Speaker 3: buys it ten whatever, A fifty ninety buys it, opens
Speaker 3: it up, carefully, reseals it, returns it, says I don't
Speaker 3: want it because they put up there, but they're keeping
Speaker 3: the original setting back rocks. Amazon brings it back and
Speaker 3: sees it. It's sealed. I'm sure it's not even touching
Speaker 3: a human being. I'm sure it's just getting scanned by
Speaker 3: a bot and it gets kicked right back into the
Speaker 3: system's good inventory.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're buying that in some cases, and.
Speaker 3: That's you've you've been seeing more and more of that.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously the Internet has made it so there's
Speaker 3: a lot more content available, a lot more people are
Speaker 3: available to show you the stuff that they get. But yeah,
Speaker 3: like people are videotaping themselves opening content or opening it
Speaker 3: at stores like FedEx and UPS have been having issues
Speaker 3: with damaged product or a missing product or you know,
Speaker 3: somebody from UPS knows you're a reseller and they open
Speaker 3: your package and take it or fed X.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, so a.
Speaker 3: Lot of resellers or I don't want to say scalpers,
Speaker 3: but that's kind of where it's at, are now opening
Speaker 3: their packages in front of a up an employee. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: and saying this isn't this isn't right, or it's damaged
Speaker 3: or whatever. That way, it doesn't leave the store.
Speaker 1: That's when the downsides. Downsides having stuff shipped out to you.
Speaker 1: You're always hoping it's gonna be. You know what you ordered,
Speaker 1: and this could be. You know, a way to save yourself,
Speaker 1: to protect yourself, don't do still photos. Do a straight
Speaker 1: video from start to finish, and honestly, if there's nobody
Speaker 1: that'll hold your camera for you. There are tripods that
Speaker 1: are out there on the market, very inexpensive. You can
Speaker 1: find those, go in and buy them at the store.
Speaker 1: But you can find those. Just snap the video in
Speaker 1: there and hit the video, but hit your camera and
Speaker 1: hit the button. Belkin makes that one. I like that
Speaker 1: actually moves with you, and that's just a good way
Speaker 1: to just capture it. You know, it's just having that
Speaker 1: little piece of evidence on there. There was also something
Speaker 1: as Sean, I want to get your thoughts on this too.
Speaker 1: We've talked before about VPNs. You know, there are many
Speaker 1: different out there. Nord has one, Semantic has one, Bundled
Speaker 1: Malwarebytes has one. I believe that's that's bundled. But the
Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Securities SISA. We've had Mike Lettman on
Speaker 1: before from SESA. They're a government agency which would handle
Speaker 1: basically the cyber infrastructure.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: They're telling people, and they're reminding people, especially during the holidays,
Speaker 1: now stay away from the free VPNs because there we're
Speaker 1: seeing more and more of the free VPNs that are
Speaker 1: out there, and that they're saying that this could put
Speaker 1: you know, harmful apps on your devices, and this is dangerous.
Speaker 1: So if you want something that's going to protect you,
Speaker 1: spend the money on it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Let's say say this again.
Speaker 3: It's the age old the adage that says, if it's free,
Speaker 3: you're the product, right, since they're your data and doing
Speaker 3: some with it. Yeah, with a VPN, it's your data.
Speaker 3: Like it's like you don't want that data just going
Speaker 3: out there.
Speaker 1: Now. Virtual VPN stands for virtual private networks. So what
Speaker 1: that happens is some people have said, well, you've talked
Speaker 1: about this before. I talked about it on our Fox segment.
Speaker 1: Where you know you're going you're sitting in a coffee shop, UH,
Speaker 1: and you are decided you want to do some shopping
Speaker 1: while you're online, Uh, enjoying your your latte or whatever.
Speaker 1: Doing that just on a public Wi Fi is just
Speaker 1: not good. So what you want to do is is,
Speaker 1: you know, get a VPN virtual private network, so it
Speaker 1: encrypts your information from your point of origin and decrypts
Speaker 1: it on the on the connection side. So what happens
Speaker 1: is all that the encryption that's going on with a
Speaker 1: VPN then protects your information. Uh. And that's why having
Speaker 1: the VPN is is a good idea. But again, don't
Speaker 1: fall for the cheap ones. Maybe get one. Do you
Speaker 1: have a preference? I mean I.
Speaker 3: If I need one, I use the mallorbytes one because
Speaker 3: it's included to do with my plan, my route, my
Speaker 3: my netgear router has one built in. If I wanted
Speaker 3: to enable.
Speaker 1: US, I could link says, I think it has one.
Speaker 3: Just open VPN, I think is what it is that
Speaker 3: your your your big vendors have them, Nord right, cloud Flare.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't use call cloud flair. They've been down too
Speaker 3: much lately for Yeah, yeah, but Nord Semantic. But again
Speaker 3: avoid the free ones, right because there's a million free
Speaker 3: ones out there and they all want the same thing
Speaker 3: your data.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, one of the I'm gonna talk about
Speaker 1: I'm gonna mention this one of the benefits of the
Speaker 1: VPN is and I don't know if this is if
Speaker 1: this is legal, but like, uh, I remember years ago
Speaker 1: there was a documentary about Gordon Lightfoot, you know, the
Speaker 1: guy who's saying sundown and you know, good musician, not
Speaker 1: the direction.
Speaker 3: I thought this was going to.
Speaker 1: Well, Gordon's by this. This the great film, this biography
Speaker 1: they put together because he was Canadian, so they aired
Speaker 1: it in Canada on the Canadian Television Network and I
Speaker 1: just said I wanted to see it. It wasn't available here,
Speaker 1: so I went ahead and fired up the VPN connected
Speaker 1: to a Canadian server and I was able to watch
Speaker 1: it there. And that's you know, one of the benefits too.
Speaker 1: You know, TV gardens has changed a lot of that
Speaker 1: for many people, but this is kind of a neat
Speaker 1: that's kind of a neat way too, to be able
Speaker 1: to experience something in a different origin.
Speaker 3: So there are a lot of people who use VPNs
Speaker 3: to watch specific content on Netflix or Disney Plus or
Speaker 3: things like that. Because it's regional locked, right, so licensing
Speaker 3: agreements say this film can only be viewed in these
Speaker 3: countries or YouTube example, like some YouTube countries. Some this
Speaker 3: all has to do with copyright law and viewership morality
Speaker 3: laws or whatever. Whatever your country says you can't can't watch, right,
Speaker 3: it's not available in another country based on those laws. Right, So,
Speaker 3: if you wanted to watch something from Germany or you know, England,
Speaker 3: the UK, Spain, or or if you're in the UK,
Speaker 3: you want to watch it in the US, just have
Speaker 3: to point you just have to point your VPN to
Speaker 3: a server that originates in the US. Therefore, when your
Speaker 3: data comes out of the VPN, it thinks you're in
Speaker 3: the US. Run how that works until the VPN works.
Speaker 3: So then therefore your your home country is where your
Speaker 3: VPN resides.
Speaker 1: If you're traveling, is it smart to use the via VPN? Oh,
Speaker 1: you can be yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Because otherwise otherwise, if you're connecting to an Internet provider
Speaker 3: here in the US via free Wi Fi, you're connecting
Speaker 3: to US based servers, right, So if you're traveling from
Speaker 3: the UK, for example, and you want to watch your
Speaker 3: UK content, you're not you might not be able to
Speaker 3: it all. Like again, it's it's so specific to every
Speaker 3: person who's trying to watch whatever like you could be
Speaker 3: watching one piece of content that may or may not
Speaker 3: be available. It might be available in Canada, it might
Speaker 3: not be available in the US, but it might be
Speaker 3: available in the UK. There's weird. It's gets it gets
Speaker 3: really weird and kind of trippy on how you have
Speaker 3: to handle where you're watching your media because of different
Speaker 3: laws for every country. So VPNs allow you to do that.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll get some comments on our and our video
Speaker 1: here about which VPN you like to use and which
Speaker 1: one has worked the best for you.
Speaker 3: And VPNs, like Aighties said earlier in Crypto traffic, right,
Speaker 3: so your internet provider doesn't know what you were watching
Speaker 3: or doing, right, because it's encrypted from point to point
Speaker 3: and back from the VPN provider to you. So it's
Speaker 3: to protect you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, all right, this is kind of a this
Speaker 1: is kind of a cool thing. I told you about it.
Speaker 1: I was going to do it. I was thinking about it.
Speaker 1: You know. I had moved away from app Adobe because
Speaker 1: it was not very happy with the fact that I
Speaker 1: had to pay to use a Cloud Pro subscription because
Speaker 1: I had the Creative Suite and I couldn't get it
Speaker 1: installed anymore. And on Black Friday, and we didn't do
Speaker 1: a show last week. I didn't get a chance to
Speaker 1: tell you. I went ahead and I jumped in. I said,
Speaker 1: you know what I talked to working about it, and
Speaker 1: I said, it's thirty nine dollars a month for a
Speaker 1: year and then it'll go up to seventy nine. And
Speaker 1: her thoughts were, go ahead and do it if you
Speaker 1: think it can you know, benefit your workflow, it can
Speaker 1: help you out. And I thought, yeah, I want to
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Speaker 1: suite So i've Got premiere Dream. Weaver YES i still
Speaker 1: DO html website, stuff BUT i got all of this Light, Room,
Speaker 1: firefly AND i got to tell You I've i've. Dumped
Speaker 1: i've jumped more Into photoshop and doing stuff with the
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Speaker 1: Blowing it is amazing what you could do now versus
Speaker 1: WHAT i could do With AND i was pretty good
Speaker 1: With photoshop with the original five to, five AND i
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Speaker 1: i'm starting to kind of move a little more towards
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Speaker 1: it to make stuff. Happen BUT i took photos And
Speaker 1: i've been. Working there's a photo with me and A
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Speaker 1: springs and, unfortunately When gloria took the, photo it was
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Speaker 1: and it WAS i was always like disappointed because you
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Speaker 1: just looked washed. Out SO i started working With photoshop
Speaker 1: with this photo AND i started adjusting and then highlighting
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Speaker 1: i cleaned up a couple of. Things THEN i, thought,
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Speaker 1: you it's. Amazing it looks like that photo was taken,
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Speaker 1: i was a, baby took a photo Of gloria that
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Speaker 1: friends if there's listeners you need a photo, redone send
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Speaker 1: more of, these just to keep them.
Speaker 3: Going, yeah there's a there's actually a great subreddit called photoshop.
Speaker 3: Requests oh, yes if you want a requests Like i'm
Speaker 3: Not i'm not going to photoshop AND i and THE
Speaker 3: ai stuff like THAT'S i don't. Care that's. Stuff so Like.
Speaker 3: Caitlin's When kaitlyn's grandma, passed she wanted a specific picture
Speaker 3: of her on a black, background and it wanted to
Speaker 3: be cut out of the specific. Picture SO i just
Speaker 3: put it up there On photoshop requests and paid someventy five.
Speaker 3: Bucks there you go to to completely clean it, up
Speaker 3: and it took fifteen minutes for somebody to do.
Speaker 1: It it's a blown.
Speaker 3: AWAY i was blown away at how cool it. Was
Speaker 3: And i'm sure they used the same tools and good for,
Speaker 3: them but that's not something that's not a skill THAT
Speaker 3: i really need to. Foster And I'm i'm sure with
Speaker 3: THE ai stuff it's probably really, easy but Again i'm
Speaker 3: Just i'm still kind of hesitant to use a lot A.
Speaker 1: It's it's pretty amazing stuff if you want to check
Speaker 1: it Out adobe dot. Com but will take a quick.
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