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Speaker 3: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Seanda Weird, and I'm justin leme welcome. Boy.
Speaker 3: That's been going on.
Speaker 1: You've been out for a couple of weeks, justin because
Speaker 1: DJing weddings and getting new products.
Speaker 3: And tearying my calf muscle. Yeah, how'd you do that? Dude?
Speaker 3: It was the most ridiculous. I was walking at water
Speaker 3: World on the last day I went with my family.
Speaker 3: We were just walking. I was walking through the park
Speaker 3: and a kid like cutting in front of me and
Speaker 3: I planted my foot wrong and I stopped immediately, and
Speaker 3: I heard a pop in my calf, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: there goes that calf. It hurt. I did have to
Speaker 3: get carted out of there because I knew I wasn't
Speaker 3: gonna be able to walk up the hill back up
Speaker 3: to the car. So being that I'm an employee of
Speaker 3: water World, I was like I went to one of
Speaker 3: those super advisor is my k can you just get
Speaker 3: one of the maintenance guys to get one of the
Speaker 3: golf carts and just like make me out the back gate,
Speaker 3: bring me up to my car and they're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: no problem. But yeah, I've been wanting to go hiking
Speaker 3: with my family and the weekends I can't do that.
Speaker 3: But it's getting better solely, So yeah, that was that
Speaker 3: was one big thing. But yes, I did a DJ
Speaker 3: wedding and stuff, so.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. Well we'll get to that also, Sean.
Speaker 1: While you were doing that, Sean had sent me a
Speaker 1: picture last week of the control room. Now that's a
Speaker 1: control room at Notre Dame.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So Saturday we hosted our first home football game
Speaker 4: of the season against Northern Illinois University, which we lost.
Speaker 3: I can sense the pain in his voice, Yes I can.
Speaker 4: For those of you who are listening who don't know,
Speaker 4: I'm a broadcast engineer for the University of her name,
Speaker 4: so I handle the majority of live events that come
Speaker 4: out of the university. So note day football. If you're
Speaker 4: a fan, I appreciate you. But we're staying right now, so.
Speaker 3: I don't say that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but I said, I said, Andy I snapped
Speaker 4: a picture of control room, which I do typically in
Speaker 4: all the whole games.
Speaker 3: But what is that famous saying about football? It was
Speaker 3: the name of a movie. To any given Sunday, on
Speaker 3: any given Sunday, Yeah, any well, but for college it's
Speaker 3: any even Saturday. But anyway, you get my point. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you never know, you never know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's it's been a while, you know. In
Speaker 4: this this will be this is my seventh football season
Speaker 4: and I'm in my sixth full year of working there.
Speaker 4: Everybody seventh football season.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: He sends me this picture of the control and I
Speaker 1: was like, wow, I showed it to Gloriam, look at that.
Speaker 1: But I was so excited to see all that equipment
Speaker 1: and all those monitors, and I think that's so exciting, Sean,
Speaker 1: I'd love to do that. And then he sends me
Speaker 1: a picture of an empty stadium. Just it's just sadness.
Speaker 1: It's just invoked the fielding of sadness. And what did
Speaker 1: what did you say in It's something like it wasn't good.
Speaker 4: It was a rough day. Yeah, so like you know,
Speaker 4: after it's like after this, after the event is over
Speaker 4: and everybody's gone, and you know, you can still see
Speaker 4: some people out tailgating, like, we still have to strike
Speaker 4: all of our gear and get ready for other events.
Speaker 4: I had to go down to where the truck, the
Speaker 4: NBC truck was and disconnect some gear and stuff. And
Speaker 4: the fastest way to get there is to walk across
Speaker 4: the field down to the other side of the building.
Speaker 4: And it was just like whenever we lose at home,
Speaker 4: it's deflating. It's just like there's a there's just a
Speaker 4: weird energy in the whole building.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, plus this team, there was something going on with
Speaker 1: this team too. It was like their first win over
Speaker 1: a top twenty five Is that how it worked?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah for the Huskies, you know. So for Northern
Speaker 4: Illinois was their first ever program win against the top
Speaker 4: twenty five ranked team.
Speaker 3: Well can you do? Right?
Speaker 1: I hope that it's better for Notre Dame and the
Speaker 1: upcoming games.
Speaker 3: I mean, hang in their champ.
Speaker 1: You'll get it next time for the Gipper. Now you say, Rudy, oh, Rudy,
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I saw that the other day.
Speaker 3: I thought of you, all right.
Speaker 1: So one of the things that I think is really
Speaker 1: exciting is when we get to try new technology and
Speaker 1: we know that Justin was pretty enamored with the Pixel
Speaker 1: smartphone and the new Pixel nine fold, and we you
Speaker 1: had said you had ordered it, but we didn't know
Speaker 1: if you were going to get it in Today you
Speaker 1: shared a photo on social media that blew me away.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, come on, you did not do that.
Speaker 1: Is this something that comes with the Pixel.
Speaker 3: Nine Yes, So I'll kind of showcase it here. So
Speaker 3: this is the new Pixel ninefold and can open it up. Wow,
Speaker 3: look at that, you know, so I really do. Is
Speaker 3: there a crease that you see in the middle.
Speaker 4: There is.
Speaker 3: There is a little bit of a crease, and but
Speaker 3: you kind of get used to you can kind of
Speaker 3: see it right there in the middle a little bit
Speaker 3: when I tilted, But it is actually when you're looking
Speaker 3: at the screen dead on, you really don't notice the crease.
Speaker 3: And that was one of my biggest concerns was figuring
Speaker 3: out if the crease was going to be bothersome. It's
Speaker 3: really not. I do love the wide screen on it.
Speaker 3: I especially love it when i'm you know, reading the
Speaker 3: latest news and stuff with the builton you know, Pixel
Speaker 3: news app and everything. But going back to your question
Speaker 3: about this photo, Yeah, so the Pixel nine series, the
Speaker 3: Pixel nine the pixel nine XL. Again, they're all pros anyway,
Speaker 3: Pixeline pro, pixel nine PROXL, pixel nine pro fold. They
Speaker 3: leaned extremely heavily into AI, and so Gemini is Google's
Speaker 3: AI platform, And with this particular line of phones, you
Speaker 3: can usualize AI in so many different ways. And one
Speaker 3: of those ways is if you take a picture, you
Speaker 3: can just simply circle around your subject and then say
Speaker 3: tell the AI reimagined this photo, and then it will
Speaker 3: ask you what do you want it to be? And
Speaker 3: I can say, you know, reimagine this photo sitting on
Speaker 3: a beach, and it just it. It took about ten
Speaker 3: seconds and it and it made that picture. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe, like you took a picture, you had
Speaker 1: to take out the background and then you just put
Speaker 1: him in front of a you know, a beach scene,
Speaker 1: him relaxing on a beach.
Speaker 3: AI was able to do that for you. Yep, everything
Speaker 3: about here. But it's my coworker, Anthony, and I just
Speaker 3: took a picture of him sitting in his desk chair
Speaker 3: with his feet up. It literally just it. It was awesome.
Speaker 3: I mean, it took too amazing amazing. Yeah, and so
Speaker 3: I'm really interested to see what else it could do.
Speaker 3: But like another thing, another thing I can do is
Speaker 3: like if you if you are looking up, like let's
Speaker 3: say a set of restaurants or whatever, and you're looking
Speaker 3: up and you have a search result of all these
Speaker 3: different restaurants, you can just simply say tell the AI, hey,
Speaker 3: put these on a map for me, and bam, It'll
Speaker 3: just turn open the maps application and put all those
Speaker 3: restaurants in that little whatever search list on a map
Speaker 3: for you so you don't have to And then also
Speaker 3: with the search feature. One cool thing about this is
Speaker 3: let's say I'm if I'm looking at something on here
Speaker 3: and I'm just like, you know what, I really want
Speaker 3: to know more about this, but I don't want to
Speaker 3: have to type it in. I can just simply raise
Speaker 3: up from the bottom if I can do it. Actually,
Speaker 3: it's sometimes I got to get the I gotta get
Speaker 3: the motion down. I think it's you could circle it, right,
Speaker 3: isn't that you circle it? You just circle what you're
Speaker 3: looking at and they will then find it for you.
Speaker 3: Oh my lord. Yeah, I got to figure out what
Speaker 3: the gesture is. Is this going to be standard on all?
Speaker 1: So, like if I didn't want to get the fold
Speaker 1: or the flip, and I decided I want to get
Speaker 1: just a standard you know, pixel nine pixel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all it's it's on all of them. That
Speaker 3: that Gemini is that what's that's Gemini? Right? Gemini is
Speaker 3: the AI for Google. Yes, and that's gonna be it.
Speaker 3: Do you have to be a extra for that? No, No,
Speaker 3: it comes with the phone, honestly, it comes with it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And being that I'm also a Google five subscriber, so
Speaker 3: that's my cellular carrier, and I'm a Google one member,
Speaker 3: I got so that the phone itself was I think
Speaker 3: it was twenty two hundred dollars. Yes, that's it's it's
Speaker 3: their flagship. But because i'm those five member and the
Speaker 3: Google one member, I got eight hundred dollars back and
Speaker 3: store credit just for buying the phone. Plus us I
Speaker 3: got four hundred and seventy five dollars trade in value
Speaker 3: for my old phone. So if you add that up,
Speaker 3: the phone ended up only being around what, I don't
Speaker 3: know THEO what's seven eight hundred dollars for the phone.
Speaker 3: So what I did with that extra money that I
Speaker 3: got in instant store credit is I also bought the
Speaker 3: pixel Watch three oh, which and now the Pixel Watch
Speaker 3: three is different because well it's the latest, it's got
Speaker 3: the better processor in it, but it also is forty
Speaker 3: five millimeters versus forty one millimeters of the last two models. Me,
Speaker 3: I have trouble. I'm getting older. I can't really see
Speaker 3: up close, so having the larger screen with a larger
Speaker 3: font on the watch actually helps me a lot. And
Speaker 3: I just got the watch in today, like literally just
Speaker 3: a couple hours ago. I got the watch in, so
Speaker 3: I'm kind of going through it, but I could already
Speaker 3: notice that it is much snappier. It responds so much better.
Speaker 3: They've redesigned the interface of it. I'm really liking it.
Speaker 3: I really do like this thing. And I've heard a
Speaker 3: lot of goods stuff about the Pixel nine series, and
Speaker 3: then we just had the news what is it today
Speaker 3: or yesterday that you know, Apple came out with their
Speaker 3: new line of phone. So you know they time these
Speaker 3: things to be in conjunction with each other. But I
Speaker 3: really really like the Pixel nine series.
Speaker 1: Well, the nine is shipping before the iPhone sixteen. I
Speaker 1: mean it's yeah, I mean people already have it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to get the sixteen till
Speaker 1: the twentieth I believe of this month. Pre Orders were
Speaker 1: yesterday they started taking them. And you know a lot
Speaker 1: of people that are in that that Apple world have
Speaker 1: been saying, Okay, yeah, they're adding AI to it, similar
Speaker 1: to what Google has done. But you know, it's I
Speaker 1: was reading that they're very late to the game when
Speaker 1: it comes to their addition of AI. They're the last
Speaker 1: big manufacturer OEM to include AI and their device.
Speaker 3: Yep. And I think, you know, man, I just I'm
Speaker 3: saying what I've always said before. Apple They just they
Speaker 3: take whatever is popular with other carriers and they just
Speaker 3: copy it and then they release it as their own,
Speaker 3: saying oh, we invented this. This is what they do
Speaker 3: all the time. They steal from other manufacturers and they say, oh,
Speaker 3: yeah we did this. But no, they're the last ones
Speaker 3: to bring AI to phones.
Speaker 1: Whose AI is going to be better? Everybody has their opinion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And we talked about this with Slick last week on Siri,
Speaker 1: the Alexa, you know, the all the other you know,
Speaker 1: different assistants that are out there, and the one that
Speaker 1: let's meet out.
Speaker 3: All the time has been in the past has been Siri.
Speaker 1: I've been I've been really disappointed with the results like
Speaker 1: that won't look up certain things or you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's just kind of it's been it's been less than
Speaker 1: I really wanted.
Speaker 4: Well, you know they're saying they're saying that in what
Speaker 4: I've read about the Apple AI stuff is that it's
Speaker 4: very their tasks are very narrow, right, They're staying within
Speaker 4: the Apple ecosystem, So like Siri, it's having Siri focus
Speaker 4: on specific, more narrow tasks like reminders, questions, home devices,
Speaker 4: that type of things like, instead of broadening out being
Speaker 4: more broad where the other you're getting a lot less
Speaker 4: functionality out of Apple Ai than you would with Gemini.
Speaker 3: Or other chat gupte or Claude. Yeah. No, and Google
Speaker 3: was that way. Google, not even just a year ago.
Speaker 3: Google was that way where I would ask the assistant
Speaker 3: a question and half of the time it would tell
Speaker 3: me something like, well, I don't know, but I found
Speaker 3: these results on the web, and it's like, no, I
Speaker 3: don't want to see the web. I want you to
Speaker 3: tell me my answer to my question. But now with
Speaker 3: the release of Gemini and they really leaned into Gemini,
Speaker 3: I'm noticing that I get more results of what I'm
Speaker 3: truly asking versus it just telling me I don't know,
Speaker 3: here's a web search right exactly, and that you know.
Speaker 1: I'll just give you an example last week though, this
Speaker 1: disappointed me about Google. You know, ways is owned by
Speaker 1: Google from what I understand, right, And I was trying
Speaker 1: to find an area out in the middle of nowhere,
Speaker 1: out in uh Coolidge, Florence. I'm looking for a school
Speaker 1: and I just followed the directions. It had me going
Speaker 1: left and right. I took a dirt road. At some point,
Speaker 1: I get up to a major crossroad and it tells
Speaker 1: me to go left, and I go left and I
Speaker 1: drive about maybe I want to say, a thousand feet,
Speaker 1: and it says you've reached your destination.
Speaker 3: And I'm looking around. There's nothing.
Speaker 1: There was nothing like, no buildings, nothing and maybe houses
Speaker 1: in the distance.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what the heck? So I kept driving.
Speaker 1: I saw a guy in a work truck and I
Speaker 1: thought maybe I should pull over and ask him what
Speaker 1: I'm you know, for what I'm looking for? And finally
Speaker 1: I got to another highway, so I pulled up. I
Speaker 1: went ahead and pulled up Apple Maps, and I said
Speaker 1: what I was looking for, you know, And unfortunately it
Speaker 1: took me five miles out of the area that I
Speaker 1: was in, back to that road, back to the dirt road,
Speaker 1: back to that crossroad. Except when I got to that crossroad,
Speaker 1: it had me turn right and their fifty fifty seventy
Speaker 1: five feet away.
Speaker 3: Was the school I was looking for. That's interesting. I've
Speaker 3: never had that problem. Now, were you using ways or
Speaker 3: were you used Google Map? See Ways I've heard is
Speaker 3: not as good now. Google does own ways, but they
Speaker 3: basically own ways to get the traffic data from them,
Speaker 3: because that's what they're known for, is getting that live
Speaker 3: traffic data, whereas Google Maps is much better in terms
Speaker 3: of navigation, and they just rely on the ways for
Speaker 3: the traffic data. But why didn't it just.
Speaker 1: Tell me turn around? It's what I'm looking for is
Speaker 1: back there.
Speaker 3: It is very interesting because I've i've I've heard so
Speaker 3: much about the exact opposite where it's Siri or Apple
Speaker 3: Maps that are on that that's the one that's taking
Speaker 3: you off the edge of a cliff.
Speaker 1: Well, it still took me five miles out of the
Speaker 1: way because that was the fixup weird, you know, And
Speaker 1: I asked that instead of Google because I thought, well Apples,
Speaker 1: and it took me.
Speaker 3: Like, way way out there, I was. I was so disappointed.
Speaker 1: Luckily I did find it, and for the way home,
Speaker 1: I went ahead and I went to Google Maps and
Speaker 1: I used that to get home, because again I was
Speaker 1: taking side roads in the whole bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the majority of the time when I try or
Speaker 4: travel right and call me old school, right, but I
Speaker 4: like using Google Maps because it integrates really well with
Speaker 4: my Apple Car Play. But I still plug in when
Speaker 4: I travel, especially when we're camping and going to some
Speaker 4: of these more remote places, I still plug in. I
Speaker 4: have a garment movie.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I remember those. Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: Because I paid for the perpetual license, I can get
Speaker 4: updated maps for the lifetime of the device.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I upload the maps to the USPS and you know,
Speaker 4: I just updated it a couple of weeks ago to
Speaker 4: the newest version of maps and it works flawlessly. So
Speaker 4: and there's if anybody has a garment neuvie device or
Speaker 4: a garment you can actually get if you plug it
Speaker 4: into your computer, you can get different sprites for your
Speaker 4: your your instead of just the regular car. I can
Speaker 4: out of the arrow. Yeah, mine's mine's an x wing.
Speaker 3: Oh nice, Well they do that on uh yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've done it with other voices too, Like we
Speaker 1: had Samuel L. Jackson drive me around, which is that
Speaker 1: was always fun, but he was always clean, so that
Speaker 1: was good. But still I don't know, so you're happy
Speaker 1: with that the Pixel nine, I will tell you justin
Speaker 1: I took the picture today that you had taken, and
Speaker 1: I said it to a friend who has been on
Speaker 1: the fence about getting herself a new device, and I said,
Speaker 1: look at the picture my friend just took with his
Speaker 1: Pixel nine and was able to use the the AI
Speaker 1: to recreate a different scenario.
Speaker 3: Sean. I put those new links in the chat there
Speaker 3: for you too, so you can see the picture now.
Speaker 3: And what did she say. She went and ordered it.
Speaker 1: She did based on that picture, based on the rumor
Speaker 1: that has been really good about it.
Speaker 3: Now we've talked about the fact that.
Speaker 1: The Pixel has had one of the best camera syste
Speaker 1: the new iPhone sixteen, which we will we'll get to
Speaker 1: in a little bit, that's supposed to have a pretty
Speaker 1: good camera ray. However, somebody i'd noticed, one of the
Speaker 1: people that had got their hands on it to take
Speaker 1: a look at, indicated that the camera system is a
Speaker 1: lot like the fourteen a little different than the fifteen
Speaker 1: but looked almost similar to the fourteen forty eight make
Speaker 1: apixel you know, sensors the whole bit. So you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what Apple is doing in that.
Speaker 3: Another really cool feature. And maybe you could also tell
Speaker 3: your friend or just have her listen to this show
Speaker 3: ordered it. Well, yeah, but the pixel nine has I
Speaker 3: can remember what they call the feature. But let's say,
Speaker 3: you know, let's say you've got a trio like a family.
Speaker 3: Let's say me and Mesa and Eric, right, and I
Speaker 3: want to take a family photo, but there's nobody else around.
Speaker 3: What I do is I take a photo of Mesa
Speaker 3: and Eric standing there. Then I give her the phone,
Speaker 3: I walk into the frame and pretend to put my
Speaker 3: arm around where they were standing, and then the camera
Speaker 3: automatically stitches the photos together to make it look like
Speaker 3: it was one photo. Are you kidding me? Really?
Speaker 1: Do you remember when maybe you weren't there, when we
Speaker 1: were at the old other radio station at Tucson, And
Speaker 1: since I was there, you know, the guy who was
Speaker 1: kind of working on the website and doing their their
Speaker 1: social media at the time, I needed to take a
Speaker 1: picture of the staff, and I have pictures of everybody,
Speaker 1: But I had to catch the morning shows because you know,
Speaker 1: they leave right away. I had to catch them at
Speaker 1: different times and did the same thing with Stags members stags.
Speaker 3: I put stags in there, and I brought.
Speaker 1: In and I put myself as a little little photo
Speaker 1: up in one of the windows. So but I had
Speaker 1: to do that all all with photoshop, and it took seriously,
Speaker 1: it took, you know, half an hour to an hour
Speaker 1: to bring everybody in.
Speaker 3: This does it for you? Automatically? Yeah? Automatically. Yeah. You
Speaker 3: just have to be in the general area of where
Speaker 3: you want it to be and then it will just
Speaker 3: stitch the photos together and make it look like you
Speaker 3: were there. That's pretty dark cool. You're selling me on
Speaker 3: it right now. I mean, this is good. Try it
Speaker 3: and I'll send you the photo sometime. But I'll have
Speaker 3: to try it with with Eric or something and to
Speaker 3: see what it would be like if I were to
Speaker 3: take a picture with him and see. How about for
Speaker 3: video mode. You know, I haven't really done a lot
Speaker 3: with the video mode. I've done a couple of short
Speaker 3: little videos here and there, but I do know that
Speaker 3: they have a new night mode video mode, so it
Speaker 3: will lower down the contrast, and it helps with low
Speaker 3: light videos, which that was a problem in the past
Speaker 3: with with the video mode. Is just a lot of
Speaker 3: times it was just too darn dark. Now it'll it'll
Speaker 3: take it more with it with a tone down so
Speaker 3: you can actually see better.
Speaker 1: Well, I will say the and the Samsung Galaxy smartphone
Speaker 1: that I looked at, I took a picture in almost
Speaker 1: zero lighting and it came out great.
Speaker 3: So again, you know you Sun does a great phone too.
Speaker 3: Both worlds all right.
Speaker 1: So so justin say, now you were going from an
Speaker 1: Android device to an Android device. If somebody is like
Speaker 1: an iPhone and they're listening to this and they've had
Speaker 1: an iPhone forever, or maybe they've got you know, uh
Speaker 1: moto z or an old device that's an Android, how
Speaker 1: easy easy to transfer the data? I know with Apple
Speaker 1: it's super easy when you want to upgrade your phones
Speaker 1: and whatnot, But how is it for the Android platform.
Speaker 3: Well, going being that I went from a pixel to
Speaker 3: a pixel, it is actually really simple. I literally just
Speaker 3: had one pixel sitting next to the other pixel. They
Speaker 3: connected to an ad hoc Wi Fi together and they
Speaker 3: just started transferring all the data over and it was
Speaker 3: able to transfer all the apps, all my chat history,
Speaker 3: search history, basically just make an exact replica of my
Speaker 3: old phone with in about twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: Now, what about what about memory size as far as
Speaker 1: because I know like for the new iPhone you go
Speaker 1: one twenty eight, two fifty six, five twelve and one terabyte.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I I did not go for the largest size.
Speaker 3: It was just too darn expensive. But I think mine
Speaker 3: is one hundred and twenty eight gig. And I honestly,
Speaker 3: I really don't put a lot on there. I mean
Speaker 3: I put a couple apps and then it's mostly just
Speaker 3: photos and and web searches really, so I don't really
Speaker 3: need all that extra space that they, you know, provide
Speaker 3: with the five twelve or the one terabyte models. Wow, Sean,
Speaker 3: what do you think?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I just know that there's a lot
Speaker 4: to upgrade coming up for phones. So here and justin
Speaker 4: talk about the androids and stuff, right, it gets you thinking, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you gotta remember how ingrained these devices are in your life. Right,
Speaker 4: It's like how convenient is it for you?
Speaker 3: Look at what Andy put you in your show notes.
Speaker 3: There you put down that study that was done. Where
Speaker 3: did it go? There? It said there was a study
Speaker 3: about how much we spend on our on our phones.
Speaker 4: Oh, you spend almost eleven thousand days staring at our
Speaker 4: phones or computers.
Speaker 3: That is that is ridiculous. Yeah, but I haven't seen
Speaker 3: a lot of people say that they actually switched from
Speaker 3: the iPhone to the Pixel nine and they said they'll
Speaker 3: they'll never go back, like they said, it just it's
Speaker 3: an amazing device.
Speaker 1: And for those and this used to be an argument
Speaker 1: justin and people have said that that when you have
Speaker 1: a husband and wife or the kids, and you know,
Speaker 1: the family, that when they send the message, the text message,
Speaker 1: you could tell.
Speaker 3: When they read it.
Speaker 1: Oh, like with the Apple interface, you know, if everybody
Speaker 1: has an Apple device, you could see, oh they read
Speaker 1: my message right.
Speaker 3: Well, you can do that with all androids too. But
Speaker 3: now cross platform you cross platform or WhatsApp.
Speaker 1: Some people have said let's use what's app as a
Speaker 1: way to do that and you could still see. So
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't have to stick with that that
Speaker 1: that can't really be an argument anymore because technology has
Speaker 1: opened up. I'm just I'm so amazed at the AI
Speaker 1: features that are a part of the Pixel I want
Speaker 1: to see, you know, did Apple do something really amazing
Speaker 1: with their Apple Intelligence. You know, say never called it
Speaker 1: artificial intelligence during the during their their big glow glow
Speaker 1: time event.
Speaker 3: Of course they didn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Apple Intelligence AI.
Speaker 3: That's what it means. Apple.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, we'll have to see, you know,
Speaker 1: it was funny I didn't.
Speaker 4: They're the master, the masters of branding, right. They're they're
Speaker 4: gonna just get people to think that when they say
Speaker 4: I AI, they're they're pulling the cleanex of tissues, right,
Speaker 4: They're trying to get people to think Apple AI or
Speaker 4: Apple Intelligence that is AI, right, that they're they're trying
Speaker 4: to become the household day for AI.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, yeah, exactly. Now. I did see a
Speaker 3: couple of you know, funny memes about you know, the
Speaker 3: Apple event, and it was there was one guy that
Speaker 3: was on X and he was he kept tweeting. He
Speaker 3: was like the new Apple iPhone this, and then he
Speaker 3: was like wait, next week was no, wait, hold on,
Speaker 3: there's another one. Actually, hold on, wait no, wait no,
Speaker 3: there's another one. Wait, hold on, there's another one. And
Speaker 3: then the last one was like I think I was
Speaker 3: talking about the Apple Watch and they're like it's the
Speaker 3: thinnest Apple Watch ever. Yeah, and it was it was
Speaker 3: a person with their glasses on, like looking like straining
Speaker 3: to look, and the watch was like one not even
Speaker 3: a millimeter thicker or thinner than the old one. And
Speaker 3: it's like you're touting that it's the thinnest one ever
Speaker 3: and it's not even a millimeter thinner than the last model.
Speaker 3: Like that's not that's negligible. There's series there's series ten. Now.
Speaker 1: One thing I will say they are promising with the sixteens,
Speaker 1: better camera system, better battery life, which we hear, you know,
Speaker 1: quite a bit, better ram that's to work the Apple intelligence.
Speaker 1: So I'll have to see how that plays out, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been an Apple guy for years. I
Speaker 1: like Apple, I really do. But i mean, based on
Speaker 1: what I've seen so far from Pixel I'm like, I
Speaker 1: might want to give it a spin and and take
Speaker 1: a look at it and try it out.
Speaker 3: I don't think you would be disappointed. Honestly, it's an
Speaker 3: amazing phone.
Speaker 4: This is just very underwhelming from the Apple. Yeah, underwhelming, right,
Speaker 4: And there are a dozen articles at least just saying well,
Speaker 4: I think part of it too. There's there. It's like
Speaker 4: a mid season refresh for a car, right.
Speaker 3: It's like, I think that's the problem with Apple now.
Speaker 3: They've gotten too comfortable with their status. They think it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter what we do, people are gonna buy it.
Speaker 3: So they can just walk out there and be like, Yep,
Speaker 3: here's your new phone by mic Drop and people are
Speaker 3: gonna buy it. That's basically what they did. They walked
Speaker 3: out mic Drop. People are gonna bite anyway.
Speaker 1: They did announce some new what they're called, and this
Speaker 1: was confusing their airpod's Max. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: saw this their headphones, but they're calling them air pods Max.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but their headphones. What do you guys doing here?
Speaker 3: Do you know what pod means? Yes?
Speaker 4: But you can get them in new fancy colors like
Speaker 4: mid bull orange and starlight.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: That that makes up for all the mislive.
Speaker 4: USBC charging because the EU for suit.
Speaker 3: But yes, YESBC on it.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: They fought that for so long and they finally lost
Speaker 3: that one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, one other thing that though, I do like this,
Speaker 1: and I like the health features of the Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: and I'm wondering your pixel Watch justin do you have
Speaker 1: health features like you could check your heartbeat.
Speaker 3: You could check blood oxygen all that stuff. So, I mean,
Speaker 3: obviously Google did buy Fitbit multitude of years ago.
Speaker 1: They're not making fit bit anymore. They said that they're
Speaker 1: done with yep.
Speaker 3: They they they have fully ingrained Fitbit into the pixel
Speaker 3: community now, so it's gonna be the Pixel watches no
Speaker 3: longer Fitbit anything. I know my pixel Watch one didn't
Speaker 3: have the oxygen sensor, but again, I just got this
Speaker 3: watch today, so I don't know if it has the
Speaker 3: oxygen sensor on this one. I know it does have
Speaker 3: heart rate, it does have step count, it does have
Speaker 3: sleep tracking, which you know, all those were part of
Speaker 3: the pixel Watch one, but I don't know at this moment.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen anything about two sensor yet. So and
Speaker 3: that if I find that out, I'll let you know.
Speaker 1: That's my other downside that I've ingrained in the Apple interface.
Speaker 1: I've got the Series nine Apple Watch, So if I
Speaker 1: go pixel, what do I do with that? No, because
Speaker 1: use it as a watch, right'. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's gonna is it going to communicate?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think it will because Fitbit and Apple, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's a good question.
Speaker 1: One of the other health features that he did like
Speaker 1: is the AirPods Pro two. These are they're actually not
Speaker 1: only as listening devices for music or podcasts like this
Speaker 1: show or radio show streaming, they're also a hearing aid.
Speaker 1: And I thought that was a pretty good idea for
Speaker 1: Apple to do. They keep, you know, working towards the
Speaker 1: health features, So that is something I thought was kind
Speaker 1: of neat. We'll have to see, you know, will people
Speaker 1: jump onto those. But here's a big question, and Sean,
Speaker 1: this is a good one for you talking about how
Speaker 1: people have said that they're just not really enthralled by
Speaker 1: the Apple Intelligence. Do you think it's like them throwing
Speaker 1: the Apple Intelligence onto the device and telling people here,
Speaker 1: you know, it's part of your device.
Speaker 3: Now, do people really want that?
Speaker 4: I think they have to to stay competitives, right. I
Speaker 4: think they have to and they're not going to adopt
Speaker 4: a third party AI. They just won't. They have to
Speaker 4: come up with their own. And I think the AI
Speaker 4: race forced their hand, and I think they had to
Speaker 4: put out AI on the iPhone sixteen. They have waited
Speaker 4: absolutely well, didn't they had They had to? Did they
Speaker 4: announced Apple AI when they announced the iPhone fifteen they said, hey,
Speaker 4: it's coming, right, but at that point it was in
Speaker 4: such an infant stage that nobody knew what it was.
Speaker 4: And with their like, they're so privacy focused, right, they
Speaker 4: they're lacking in the third party integration. They're don't not
Speaker 4: letting other third parties access the information that you're generating
Speaker 4: with the AI, and all of their processing is done
Speaker 4: on device, right, where other manufacturers allow this processing to
Speaker 4: happen in the cloud in other places, right. But Apple
Speaker 4: is primarily focused on privacy. So you're going to see
Speaker 4: some significant quality decreases because of the processing that's required
Speaker 4: on the device versus in the cloud, speed, performance, accessibility
Speaker 4: to data.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: So you're going to get a better user experience from
Speaker 4: Gemini and other AI models, but at the sake of
Speaker 4: your privacy.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: Those models are trained by what you feed them, whereas
Speaker 4: Apples won't be. So it's Apples that's kind of been
Speaker 4: their stick over the last six or seven iPhones has
Speaker 4: been privacy, privacy, privacy, right. Yeah, so we'll see I
Speaker 4: just they're they're behind, I think, but they're trying to
Speaker 4: rein in the mainstream feel of AI by branding it
Speaker 4: Apple Intelligence. So you call it AI. So when somebody
Speaker 4: says AI, they're gonna like, oh, you usually gamble intelligence.
Speaker 3: But that's that's not true. Yeah, like you said, the
Speaker 3: KLEENICX of tissues. Maybe that's what we'll name the show
Speaker 3: this week. We've got to take a break. We come back.
Speaker 3: We've got more.
Speaker 1: We will find out about your djaying experience, and we
Speaker 1: got some more news for you if you've been thinking
Speaker 1: about upgrading to Windows eleven keep running into the roadblocks.
Speaker 1: There's been a great article put up by a guy
Speaker 1: who's been on the show before that we'll tell you about,
Speaker 1: as well as a couple of listener questions as well.
Speaker 3: I'm a Detaylor, I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm justin.
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Speaker 3: So to answer the question that was posed during the
Speaker 3: last segment, there the sensors that are currently on not currently,
Speaker 3: but on the pixel Watch three. You have an accelerometer,
Speaker 3: of course, you've got the function based sensors like the compass,
Speaker 3: the altimeter, the gyroscope, the ambient light sensor, and finally
Speaker 3: they do have the blood oxygen sensor. Oh, good, but right,
Speaker 3: But the blood oxygen sensor in the pixel Watch three
Speaker 3: is inactive at this time. While the sensor has a
Speaker 3: place on the watch, Google has not made any statements
Speaker 3: as to when and where this feature would be unlocked
Speaker 3: for use. That actually is a big thing for me
Speaker 3: because I do know that the Apple Watch does feature
Speaker 3: the O two yeah, and I would love to have
Speaker 3: that O two sensor, So I'm hoping that they do
Speaker 3: figure this out and unlock that feature soon. How about
Speaker 3: EKG or EKG, Yes, you can do that EKG yep, yep, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's really cool. Electrical sensor. It also has the optical
Speaker 3: heart rate sensor, so you can get your heart beat
Speaker 3: and everything, and then again the sleep sensor. How much
Speaker 3: is the pixel Watch? Generally go for pixel Watch with
Speaker 3: the Wi Fi model I think is three ninety nine,
Speaker 3: and then for I think it was four to seventy nine.
Speaker 3: Is for the LTE model if you want, did you
Speaker 3: do that last? My last watch, my pixel Watch one,
Speaker 3: was the LTE model, But honestly, I found that I
Speaker 3: really never went anywhere outside having my phone, so having
Speaker 3: the LTE model on the watch didn't really make sense
Speaker 3: to me. So for this one. I just went with
Speaker 3: the Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: That makes sense there, all right, you DJ'ed, which I
Speaker 1: thought was kind of cool. We've been hearing the kind
Speaker 1: of ramp up to that over the last month.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how did the event go? It went great. Yeah,
Speaker 3: if you missed the last couple of shows or whatever
Speaker 3: we talked about. When I did, I did get back
Speaker 3: into DJ and add some friends that were like, you know,
Speaker 3: we want you to DJ our wedding and I was like, look, guys,
Speaker 3: I haven't done this in like fifteen years. And then
Speaker 3: I realized how much money I could make, and I
Speaker 3: was like, okay, I could make this work, right, And
Speaker 3: so yeah, I went out. I bought the you know,
Speaker 3: a Hercules DJ turntable set, a digital turntable set, and
Speaker 3: I bought the virtual DJ license. I got a bunch
Speaker 3: of music from Title and from Idjpool and yeah, I
Speaker 3: went to the event. It was on Sunday, this last Sunday,
Speaker 3: and I set up and everything went great. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 3: it was so funny because the venue manager, the venue
Speaker 3: owner excuse me, was actually there and he came up
Speaker 3: to me about halfway through the event and he was like,
Speaker 3: you're really good at this like you're keeping everybody on track.
Speaker 3: You know, you're doing things really well. You do this professionally,
Speaker 3: Like is this your full time gig? And I'm like, no, actually,
Speaker 3: I haven't done this in like fifteen years. And he's
Speaker 3: just like, wow, you're really good at this. So that
Speaker 3: made me feel good. And then we got to party
Speaker 3: mode and I started rocking it with the songs and
Speaker 3: the remixes, and people just absolutely loved it and I
Speaker 3: had a blast. It was a great time. And as
Speaker 3: a matter of fact, like I said, the owner was there.
Speaker 3: He was like, hey, do you have a card? I
Speaker 3: want to I want to maybe reference you for some
Speaker 3: upcoming projects. And I was like, yeah, I mean, I'll
Speaker 3: pick up a gig from here and there. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm you know again, I'm not I got a full
Speaker 3: time job. I'm not going to quit that to do this.
Speaker 3: But I picked up that gig and coming up this Friday,
Speaker 3: I'm actually going to be djane Highland Hills, that's the
Speaker 3: company I work for. I'm going to be djying the
Speaker 3: park Fest, which is a major concert series that we
Speaker 3: do at the end of each year. We have a
Speaker 3: bunch of food trucks, we have a live band. So
Speaker 3: I'll be Djane the first hour of that event and
Speaker 3: then introducing the live band. And so that's gonna be
Speaker 3: a great time. So I'm gonna I'm inviting those same
Speaker 3: friends out that we're at the wedding. I'm inviting my family,
Speaker 3: my neighbors are coming out. So it's gonna be a
Speaker 3: good time. So I'll be up on stage. DJ in
Speaker 3: that first hour is making.
Speaker 4: You what's your DJ what's your DJ name? You need
Speaker 4: to come up with an epic DJ name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I went back and forth. Well, back when I
Speaker 3: was in the Navy, I was DJ Spider, but now
Speaker 3: there's an actual famous guy that was DJ Spiders. I
Speaker 3: was like, well, I can't do that one. So I
Speaker 3: went with you know, my nickname on the Gamer you
Speaker 3: Know world is Donnie Narco. So I went with DJ
Speaker 3: d N. I like it. It's not bad. It's simple, simple,
Speaker 3: mysterious d j d N. All right, Well, they almost
Speaker 3: went I almost went with DJ j D because my
Speaker 3: name is Justin David, Right, that would be kind of
Speaker 3: a play like DJ j D. Like, not that DJ Justin.
Speaker 3: That's too basic. It's too basic.
Speaker 1: If you did a DJ name, what would you be
Speaker 1: there Sean, I.
Speaker 4: Have no I literally have no idea.
Speaker 3: Yea DJ Horde, DJ DJ Alliance.
Speaker 4: Probably just de weardy, which is my.
Speaker 3: So weirdy. I like it. So it was a lot
Speaker 3: of fun.
Speaker 1: This is making you think, now you may want to
Speaker 1: just keep pursuing this because you know it's.
Speaker 3: Pretty good business. Yeah, it is. It's a great business.
Speaker 3: I mean, gosh, weddings and and proms and birthdays. I
Speaker 3: mean maybe not so much birthdays, but like, yeah, those
Speaker 3: are events. Dude, DJs can make some serious cash. And
Speaker 3: knowing that, I don't look, I'm literally not trying to
Speaker 3: brag here, but this this stuff comes naturally to me,
Speaker 3: Like being able to just manage a show and manage
Speaker 3: people and be like, Okay, we need to get this
Speaker 3: done at this time, and I'm supposed to do this
Speaker 3: at this time. It literally just came natural to me.
Speaker 3: I was so nervous before the event, but once the
Speaker 3: event started, I just went on autopilot and everything came naturally.
Speaker 3: And the guy was like, like I said, He's like,
Speaker 3: do you do this professionally?
Speaker 1: You're really good at this, so well, plus it doesn't
Speaker 1: hurt that you've been doing bruise trivia nights. So you're
Speaker 1: used to being on the microphone in front of a
Speaker 1: group of people, so.
Speaker 3: Sure, And and the history of radio DJ and stuff
Speaker 3: like that. It helps me talk in front of a
Speaker 3: crowd and stuff. Yeah, so I've got all the pieces
Speaker 3: put together to make it successful. And knowing that I
Speaker 3: can do it, yeah, I think I will pursue it.
Speaker 3: Not fully obviously, but from time to time I'll pick
Speaker 3: up a gig here and there.
Speaker 1: We know, Jonas has been doing a lot of things
Speaker 1: now because the inflatable screens have been you know, you
Speaker 1: remember you wanted to buy an inflatable screen.
Speaker 3: It was really expensive.
Speaker 1: The prices have come down a lot on those projection systems,
Speaker 1: they've come down quite a bit. So now he's doing
Speaker 1: backyard parties. So if you want to have a backyard
Speaker 1: nighttime party, he brings the sound, he brings the streaming device,
Speaker 1: he brings the you know, the projector brings the inflatable
Speaker 1: and apparently there's good money in that as well. So
Speaker 1: I mean that's that you might have a whole new career.
Speaker 1: At least, you know, get the kid a little older
Speaker 1: and he could do it.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, he was already Eric was already interested in.
Speaker 3: He keeps bothering me. He's like, Dad, can I go
Speaker 3: practice DJing? And I'm like, yeah, you can. So I
Speaker 3: can bring him down and I set the computer and
Speaker 3: I just go and he'll scratch around a little bit.
Speaker 3: But hey, you know what, more power to him. If
Speaker 3: that kid can get to like ten or twelve years
Speaker 3: old and he can actually DJ, he's gonna be like
Speaker 3: the most popular kid in school. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If they still have DJs, AI would be doing all
Speaker 1: of it for you. You'd be able to tell Ai
Speaker 1: please mix Led Zeppelin into Barber Streisen. Oh my, oh dude,
Speaker 1: I actually I actually heard that on the radio. It
Speaker 1: was mortifying. Yeah, all right, I got.
Speaker 4: A lighter on a lighter note. Just you guys talked
Speaker 4: about DJing. Right, So here's my dj I news.
Speaker 1: I'll look at that second perfect dji dj I announced.
Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like, just two weeks ago, I
Speaker 4: told you about the dj I four K, which was
Speaker 4: their their four hundred dollar drone. Well, they set the
Speaker 4: bar even lower for price. So they announced that dj
Speaker 4: I Neo, which is a lightweight drone design. This is
Speaker 4: ready just the script off their website. The lightweight drone
Speaker 4: design for beginner's loggers and casual users. Priced at one
Speaker 4: ninety nine dollars, the Neo packed several pressive features for
Speaker 4: its size. Here's some of the key features. Right, it's
Speaker 4: one hundred and thirty five grams, so less than a
Speaker 4: half a pound, which puts it under if a way
Speaker 4: limit for registration. Wow, it's got a twelve megapixel half
Speaker 4: inch censor. Uh, it's can fly up to eighteen minutes
Speaker 4: on a single charge. It comes without a controller, so
Speaker 4: you just use your phone to control it if you want,
Speaker 4: or you can pay a little bit more money and
Speaker 4: get the RC plan which gives you a controller in
Speaker 4: the suffances. But uh, it's tiny, it's it's only you know,
Speaker 4: it's let me ask you.
Speaker 3: About let me ask you about the phone controller, right,
Speaker 3: because now you're talking phone controller, which means it's gonna
Speaker 3: have to communicate one of two ways. It's gonna have
Speaker 3: to communicate via Wi Fi or it's gonna have to
Speaker 3: communicate blue tooth right. Right, You're not gonna be able
Speaker 3: to take this thing very far with that now, and
Speaker 3: you go to the radio route, right, you're gonna have
Speaker 3: much more distance that you can take this thing because
Speaker 3: it uses radio frequency. So what is the distance limits
Speaker 3: on this? Yeah, this emssion, it is gonna have to
Speaker 3: be Why because I mean you're thinking Wi Fi, you're
Speaker 3: thinking maybe what one hundred feet?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. I would have to look at
Speaker 4: what it says. But yeah, you're not wrong, right, it's
Speaker 4: does that. This one. It's definitely not designed to.
Speaker 3: Be set by altitude whatever set.
Speaker 4: Thousands feet away from you or whatever. Right, you're not
Speaker 4: going up eight hundred feet right, Yeah, this one is
Speaker 4: from what the marketing shows, is designed to be like
Speaker 4: a selfie kid's gonna fly around you. It's gonna stay
Speaker 4: near you. You're great, that's what you're gonna be able
Speaker 4: to fly indoors, right, because it's got the prop cards
Speaker 4: and stuff.
Speaker 3: Oh it is.
Speaker 4: It is Wi Fi connectivity with a control range of
Speaker 4: fifty meters right, Okay, okay, so that's in perfect conditions.
Speaker 3: I was in Costco fifty ft.
Speaker 1: I was in Costco the other day and they had
Speaker 1: the Dji Many four and I was like, that's what
Speaker 1: I have. I was like, whoa, because I have the
Speaker 1: three and I thought that they were going to be
Speaker 1: priced reasonably. No, it was still seven hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: nine bucks, and I thought.
Speaker 3: Wait, maybe I have the three because mine was three
Speaker 3: ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well mine was a thousand. The one that I got,
Speaker 1: it got the three pro.
Speaker 3: Yeah, remember what I had that Phantom for the original
Speaker 3: Phantom for my very first drone that I was so
Speaker 3: nervous about getting. And Sean was like, dude, it flies itself,
Speaker 3: trust me, you'll be great. That thing was massive and
Speaker 3: that was what fourteen dollars for that thing.
Speaker 1: That's when they first they were first grabbing the attention.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: So the which one, Sean, is that the four Is
Speaker 1: it the four K that is priced a little lower
Speaker 1: than that seven hundred and ninety nine.
Speaker 4: Right, So right, so they kind of got you with
Speaker 4: the marketing.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: So you have the the the Mavick Pro four and
Speaker 4: then you have the you have the Dji Pro four K.
Speaker 3: Right, Okay, so there's.
Speaker 4: Different This is not a Mavick, it's just the Dji
Speaker 4: four K.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 4: Exactly different design, it's a different style.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: So they got down there, but real quick before we
Speaker 4: have to take a break talking about Dji. So September ninth,
Speaker 4: the day we recorded the show, the house did pass
Speaker 4: the Hr. Two eight six four, which is the Countering
Speaker 4: CCP Drones Act. Oh wow, so that did pass the House.
Speaker 4: So a little bit about that bill real quick, is
Speaker 4: that this bill is set to safeguard US security by
Speaker 4: restricting the use of drones from foreign foreign countries, basically China.
Speaker 4: So that would impact DJI and several other large drone
Speaker 4: manufacturers for sale and access to the US.
Speaker 3: So we gonna be able to fly our drones anymore.
Speaker 4: It's only for what I'm reading, it's only for new
Speaker 4: the imports of new products from DJ like. It's not
Speaker 4: gonna retroactively take away your old drones and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So although if you know the government wants to buy mine,
Speaker 1: I'll sell it, yeah, right, three or four times, so
Speaker 1: i'd be happy I barely use it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So that that bill has to go through the
Speaker 4: Senate and get passed by the Senate.
Speaker 3: All right, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gona take another quick break. We come
Speaker 1: back more of tech Talk Radio. I'm Andy Taylor, I'm
Speaker 1: Sean de Weird, and I'm justin.
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Speaker 4: Would like to take in listener questions. Uh, on the web,
Speaker 4: you can call us, textus, email US, Facebook US, tweet
Speaker 4: at us, whatever. But Gary from Tucson has a question
Speaker 4: for us. All right, He says, Hey, guys, I listen
Speaker 4: to the show whenever I can and love the advice.
Speaker 4: Now I have a question. I'm on a fixed income
Speaker 4: and spending money is something I'm very careful with. I
Speaker 4: have a PC, but don't have antivirus other than Windows Defender.
Speaker 4: Is there a good antivirus that can keep me safe
Speaker 4: or one that's free? Or am I safe with just
Speaker 4: Windows Defender?
Speaker 3: So I really I've been I've been kind of looking
Speaker 3: at this myself because again, I'm an IT manager, so
Speaker 3: we have to, you know, understand the nuances of things
Speaker 3: like that. While in a corporate environment, we do subscribe
Speaker 3: to malware bites and webroot for antivirus and anti malware.
Speaker 3: Windows Defender is amazing. It has gotten so much better
Speaker 3: over the years, and I personally think for the average user,
Speaker 3: as long as you're not doing anything crazy, I think
Speaker 3: Windows to just fine. Good point too, because I think
Speaker 3: it it may depend on the user and what they're
Speaker 3: you know, what they're doing on the web.
Speaker 1: Where they're searching. What are they looking for? That going
Speaker 1: to make a big difference. Do they get a lot
Speaker 1: of email? Do they click a lot? You know, that's
Speaker 1: going to make a big difference soon. And if Gary,
Speaker 1: if you're being safe, maybe Defender's going to be the
Speaker 1: thing for you.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: I've been disappointed because so I use a Semantic. I've
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Speaker 1: and I have another backup option with and I've been
Speaker 1: using that. They also are doing antivirus now with a Kronus.
Speaker 1: So I've been thinking about malware bytes. And I was
Speaker 1: in the store the other day at the office depot.
Speaker 1: They had Norton Semantek for thirty five dollars seventy dollars off,
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Speaker 1: to have to be paying the full price of the
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Speaker 1: for three users for thirty nine dollars, and I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, whenever we've had a situation where we've recommended
Speaker 1: somebody said, hey, my computer's acting up, we've always said
Speaker 1: it malware bytes. Use that to try and figure out
Speaker 1: what's going on, et cetera. But is that the same thing.
Speaker 1: Is it price gonna go up after a year? You
Speaker 1: buy it for thirty five bucks, and then next our
Speaker 1: thirty nine dollars. Next thing, you know, it's going to
Speaker 1: be one hundred and thirty nine next year.
Speaker 3: I personally don't know, because again I'm in a corporate environment,
Speaker 3: so we have a different licensing structure than the average consumer.
Speaker 3: But I do know that malware bytes is an excellent
Speaker 3: option out there. Another option personally at home, I use
Speaker 3: e set and I've been using e set for it
Speaker 3: like twenty years. Yeah, and e set never bothers me.
Speaker 1: It never has pop ups, no pop ups, and they
Speaker 1: have a very small footprint too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know they don't.
Speaker 1: It doesn't slow your system down a lot. Uh, Now, Sean,
Speaker 1: I know you use malware bites.
Speaker 3: What do you? Are you happy with it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's good. It tells me, hey, you know,
Speaker 4: if if I click out a malicious link or something,
Speaker 4: it'll warn me and say, hey, there's you know it
Speaker 4: quarantined to this link or quarantined this file. So I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm not doing anything nefarious, but it does keep me
Speaker 4: a piece of mind thing, right, And I don't seem
Speaker 4: to have any issues, right, I don't, but I don't
Speaker 4: pay a whole lot. Right, So malwaur bites has a
Speaker 4: family protection plan for ten bucks a month, and I
Speaker 4: think that's I believe that's what I have. I have
Speaker 4: to look exactly at my invoice, but.
Speaker 1: It's gonna one hundred and twenty a year. But you
Speaker 1: you get you could protect more than just one system.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can protect up to time. I think ten,
Speaker 4: ten or more devices. So I have it on Candle's computer.
Speaker 4: I have it on my computer. It's MACPC Linux.
Speaker 1: Now you don't have to pay for Windows Defender. I
Speaker 1: did notice that starting to get an ad now for
Speaker 1: backing up. They just matter of fact, Microsoft just pushed
Speaker 1: an update this past week on Tuesday, and you may
Speaker 1: right away. Boom, there was an ad for backing up
Speaker 1: my system and that they wanted me to back up
Speaker 1: I've already gotten.
Speaker 3: I haven't gotten those ads.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just got that one, and I already have
Speaker 1: a backup solution. You know, look look at look at
Speaker 1: what I got.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I cross, Yeah, I don't. I mean it's interesting.
Speaker 3: I'm curious because if you get those ads but I haven't,
Speaker 3: I mean I've gotten too. I got two different computers.
Speaker 3: Well actually, I mean I work with a multitude computers
Speaker 3: at work, but none of them are getting those those
Speaker 3: backup and also have.
Speaker 4: A pie hole.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well okay, but I'm also using my Windows eleven
Speaker 3: computer at work with Windows eleven and I don't get
Speaker 3: those ads. It could be that I'm on Windows eleven
Speaker 3: Pro at work and stuff, so maybe it's different than
Speaker 3: the home. And yes, Sean, maybe because I do have
Speaker 3: the pie hole running, so maybe, yeah, you could be
Speaker 3: that that could be why I'm not getting those ads.
Speaker 1: All right, So we got one from Fred in Green Valley.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Fred actually called the station while I was on the air,
Speaker 1: and he said, hey, I got a tech question for you.
Speaker 3: Fred wanted to.
Speaker 1: Know if we could give away CDs with Linux distributions
Speaker 1: on it. Uh, it could be like the old days
Speaker 1: of AOL.
Speaker 4: Uh I would I would never trust anybody in this
Speaker 4: day of age. No the USB or a CD. This
Speaker 4: is installed this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you should.
Speaker 4: You should never trust anyone that comes and gives you,
Speaker 4: but not even me. How did how did a Well?
Speaker 4: How did AOL get away with that? How day Well
Speaker 4: get away with sending well?
Speaker 3: Because that was before that was before everybody tried to
Speaker 3: scam everybody else. You had people beck them Michael Lane, I'll.
Speaker 4: Think about it. Right, It's like if you gave if
Speaker 4: you gave somebody in an old no offense Andy, an
Speaker 4: older generation and a CD is that here and saw
Speaker 4: this one hundred percent? My mom gonna put that in
Speaker 4: her computer install, yeah.
Speaker 3: Or click it, download and install.
Speaker 4: Yes, right, she's gonna download more ramp for her computer.
Speaker 3: I mean, Fred, Fred, listen, listen, listen. Let me let
Speaker 3: me be honest with you. Do what Sean says, do
Speaker 3: not trust anybody with when for that? If you want Linux,
Speaker 3: you need to go and get Linux yourself.
Speaker 2: Go.
Speaker 4: I will write you a step by step guy to
Speaker 4: how to download Linux and put it on a USB stick.
Speaker 3: Do a video or something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we should, but do Yeah. I would know if
Speaker 4: somebody's coming to you and saying, hey, I put this
Speaker 4: custom distribution of Linux on here for you, go ahead
Speaker 4: and install it, right, I'd be very very hesitant to
Speaker 4: install it unless it came from somebody that I really
Speaker 4: really trust. Even then I would be.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is this is akin to like a
Speaker 3: stranger walking up to you on the street of like Manhattan,
Speaker 3: you know, in the middle of downtown Manhattan and be like,
Speaker 3: here is a random drink. Drink this, yeah, exactly, No, No,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna do.
Speaker 1: It's like finding a USB drive people, you know, colleges
Speaker 1: are back in session. Uh, people have done that where
Speaker 1: they'll drop USB drive on purpose and it's loaded with
Speaker 1: malware or you know, and next.
Speaker 3: Thing you know, you've infected your system. YEP. A lot
Speaker 3: of people, a lot of infections start on college campuses
Speaker 3: because kids are stupid.
Speaker 4: Well that's the thing, Like, that's people. That's the biggest
Speaker 4: oversight in security is people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we are the weakest link combined stupid.
Speaker 4: Like people don't think about stuff like that, right, Like
Speaker 4: every day you you use the thumb drive for your computer, right,
Speaker 4: So you don't think that taking a thumb drive from
Speaker 4: my computer at home and plugging you to computer or
Speaker 4: it would be a big deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it is.
Speaker 4: It's a huge security risk.
Speaker 3: Well this, this is why the government a long time ago,
Speaker 3: back when I was working in UH in the government industry,
Speaker 3: you know, working for the d D, they banned all
Speaker 3: devices like cell phones, they banned USB drives, they banned
Speaker 3: all that stuff because of this exact.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they locked down the USB ports, which a good
Speaker 1: administrator will do.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you need something you have to call
Speaker 1: put in a tick it and it'll be done that way.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: So ed Bott, who has been on the show before
Speaker 1: years ago, who has been with zd net, put together
Speaker 1: a story in how to.
Speaker 3: Upgrade the greatest name ever by the way.
Speaker 1: Ed Bot, I love it, but it's how to upgrade
Speaker 1: your incompatible Windows ten PC to Windows eleven.
Speaker 3: So you know I've been going through that. It's been frustrating.
Speaker 1: You don't have to throw away a perfectly good PC,
Speaker 1: as the article says, UH using some tips found in
Speaker 1: ads articles. So if you go to zd net, look
Speaker 1: for ed Bot's article on how to upgrade. He talks
Speaker 1: about using the registry, edit the bypass CPU checks, changing
Speaker 1: a key to the Windows registry, then downloading the Windows
Speaker 1: eleven IO, then mounting the ISO and filed.
Speaker 3: Explorer, and then running the setup.
Speaker 1: That's one way to do it, and said that you
Speaker 1: can get by the you know, if you go open
Speaker 1: up your computer, you'll see you can't run Windows eleven,
Speaker 1: so you can't download the Isso this is the way
Speaker 1: to get around it.
Speaker 3: You know. That's it's interesting that this did not come
Speaker 3: out years ago when Windows eleven first came out, that
Speaker 3: this workaround. For years, we've been talking about this where
Speaker 3: it's it's impossible to install Windows eleven unless you have TPM,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden it's like, actually, all, yeah,
Speaker 3: I do is change one simple registery setting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's probably the benefit of a great marketing campaign
Speaker 4: and great search engine opsimization. Right, they probably bear They
Speaker 4: probably Microsoft probably paid a ton of money to bury
Speaker 4: anything that listed anything about trying to get Windows tend
Speaker 4: to run without TPM two point oh oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I bought a TPM two point oh it's
Speaker 1: all happy, and it didn't work. Then I found out
Speaker 1: my processor would not qualify. But I think you'd be
Speaker 1: able to get around it on this case another quick break,
Speaker 1: we come back with more of tech talk Radio.
Speaker 3: I'm A D. Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm
Speaker 3: justin Lemme. You can find us on the Facebook's forward slash.
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Speaker 1: For our website of the Week. I love this app
Speaker 1: that Sean told me about. I didn't think I was
Speaker 1: gonna like it. I was like, Yeah, that's cool. That's
Speaker 1: out there. Spot the Station and it's the International Space Station.
Speaker 3: You get the app. It's free to use.
Speaker 1: But what it does is it will alert you when
Speaker 1: the space station is going to be flying over your community.
Speaker 3: And the first time I.
Speaker 1: Tried it, I went outside and it even has a
Speaker 1: tracker and it shows you where in the sky it's
Speaker 1: going to be and you look for not a flashing light,
Speaker 1: just a solid, steady light that will move across the sky. Well,
Speaker 1: the next day I got another alert.
Speaker 3: I went out.
Speaker 1: Every time that thing goes off, I will go outside
Speaker 1: and take a look. I had a great view last
Speaker 1: night or Spot the Station, and I just think it's
Speaker 1: a great app to have.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So it started. It started as a text service where
Speaker 4: you could get text messages.
Speaker 3: So you can.
Speaker 4: You can go to spotthstation dot Nasa dot gov and
Speaker 4: sign up. It's it's free and it's amazing. I've used
Speaker 4: it to track the space station. I've used it to
Speaker 4: line up specific events that I've wanted to capture with
Speaker 4: the space station in them. And this is kind of
Speaker 4: a cool part to tie it into that. They just
Speaker 4: brought back the star Liner module, the Boeing star Yeah,
Speaker 4: the Boeing star Liner module that was up there. So
Speaker 4: if you're interested in space at all, like this is
Speaker 4: a cool thing that you can do with your kids.
Speaker 4: It's free, it gets them outside, it gets them engaged
Speaker 4: with space. It's just a cool thing. And I use
Speaker 4: it all the time and anytime it goes over, I
Speaker 4: just make a point to get outside. It's just just
Speaker 4: for a minute, just to see it go over. It's
Speaker 4: it's just a cool thing.
Speaker 1: It's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: One question I have though, is that do they actually
Speaker 1: have a light on the space station or is that
Speaker 1: the sun reflecting?
Speaker 4: Is that is solely the sun reflecting off of everything.
Speaker 4: It's just every you know, you can see satellites that
Speaker 4: way too, right, So it's just the sun reflecting off
Speaker 4: because if you watch it at night go and you
Speaker 4: watch it for the duration of the time, you actually
Speaker 4: see it fade out. Yeah, like a like a like
Speaker 4: just a light fading out. Because if you do, you
Speaker 4: do long exposures with that, you can actually get the
Speaker 4: trail disappearing with your long exposure.
Speaker 1: The one last night, it was real bright coming over
Speaker 1: and then once it started to go off with the horizon,
Speaker 1: I said, where is it?
Speaker 3: Where'd it go? And yeah, it just disappears.
Speaker 4: The cool part about that too, is still there, you
Speaker 4: just can't see it.
Speaker 3: Ye.
Speaker 4: No, No, it's just the sun has set for the
Speaker 4: space station.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: And what's cool about that too, is that as it
Speaker 4: goes over, if you are into Ham radio at all,
Speaker 4: you can actually listen to the repeater that it's on
Speaker 4: the space station and people that are talking back and forth.
Speaker 4: For Andy, we've done this live, but we did it
Speaker 4: live on the show where I took my radio outside.
Speaker 4: You guys heard it. But if you're you're just free
Speaker 4: to listen. So if you get if you get a
Speaker 4: cheap Ham radio, you can dial in the frequencies and
Speaker 4: listen to the Space station. It goes as it goes over.
Speaker 3: What's the website to address again?
Speaker 4: Spot the station, dot NASA, dot dove, justin.
Speaker 1: You got to get this and show Eric because I
Speaker 1: think he'd probably really like it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for this week's tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 3: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm Justin.
Speaker 3: Let me once again find us on the web at
Speaker 3: tech talk radio dot com. We'll see guys next week.
Speaker 3: Have a good one.