Not All USB-C Is Created Equal (transcript)
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So folks wanted to talk to you this week a couple people talked about the audio last week being a little
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Little echoey. I finally found the problem with that
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Apparently so when you’re using garage man, which is what we use to record here
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You have to be very careful that you do not
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Have the bright voice button hit and I did so I make sure to fix that so hopefully the audio is a little bit better this week
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It still sounded good everybody said but it was a little bit
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You know a little bit. How can I say it echoey pretty much like you know sound like I was
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Talking into a can so I think we should have that resolved this week
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but thank you for listening the few people that
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Reached out to me and pointed out so I appreciate that so I have a couple couple tech news stories that I
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Want to talk about this week as I always do but I want to talk about Windows Windows on arm
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For a minute, so I got the demo unit and I have a write-up coming up for the for the site here this week or next week
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But one of the things is Windows as a new snapdragon
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device it’s on the
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It’s on it’s on their website right now. It says it’s for developers, but neither anybody could
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Anybody come really buy one, but I got one of these you today. It’s not expensive. It’s a little over 200 some dollars
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But I tested Windows on arm and I tested Windows 10 first on it and I tested Windows 11
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And I think I don’t Microsoft has another one coming out this this summer
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They’re supposed to have another Windows on arm device coming out so that they could
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You don’t want to compete in that armspace, but this particular one is the QC
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710 it’s like as it’s made by made by snapdragon. Like I said, you can find it on
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Microsoft’s website under the developer. It’s a developer kid. So if you buy it, you can’t return it just FYI
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But what was interesting about this device is I messed with it. I
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Would tend to mess with it at with 11 and
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I really the device itself I could see the use case for it, but as a daily driver
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I just don’t say it. It’s only got four gigs of RAM
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And I just don’t think those don’t think that’s enough on and on any machine
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Especially a Windows device eight is now they do have an 8 gig version of this
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I didn’t get that one. However, a couple people who left mess comments to me on the site
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whenever so or on my Twitter
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Said to me the 8 gig version is it makes a world of difference
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So I’m wondering if it could be a RAM issue more than a processor issue even though the snapdragon
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That dragon makes pretty good process
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So I’m just wondering if it’s a software thing or not, but it’s kind of hard to tell but
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The new one is coming out really soon. I would like to get that one to test it
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But it was incredibly slow. I upgraded it to 11. I pretty much ran overnight. That took so long to do
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I can’t be fast load that was but
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Like I said, I mean I could see the use cases for these kind of devices. I really could
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If you just running if you just want to need something to like if you
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You just want if you need something just really can promote desktop device
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Like if you have users that just need remote desktop to remote to terminal servers or Citrix, I could see this being a
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Use case device for that. It’s cheap enough that you can just it’s cheap enough in a client. I could really see
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This being used for something like a Windows IOT device or
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You know if you’re a point of sale system just to run the one piece of software
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I mean once you get this thing open it runs fine. It’s just it slow as anything to get to that one device so
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That one app so like I said, I could see the use case scenarios for this
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I mean for like I said 200 some dollars a little bit more than 200 dollars with shipping
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You know if something would get broken and we get stole it’s not a huge loss
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It’s about the price of a Chromebook maybe so I mean I could see the this in use place devices something
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Whether it’s all web browser based or like I said something that’s that’s just I mean I can see use case scenarios for this
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but I think I know it’s probably a cost-cutting measure, but I
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Still think if they want to win eight gigs of RAM it might have been a little better because I know people have who have ordered these not from Microsoft
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But I’m off of snapdragon site and they said they got the eight gig version the eight gig version was much much better
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so just something to
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Remember if you’re looking at one of these devices is go with a gig a RAM model. It really makes a difference
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Port I mean it was Wi-Fi. It does have an ethernet port on it’s only 10 100 ethernet
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Which I don’t really understand that they could I don’t know why they couldn’t give us any gig of an ethernet port but
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Wi-Fi 5 which is pretty new
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Had so this is the thing that really upset me a little bit about this device
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So it’s got one USB C port, but that’s like a
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That’s like a joke because you can’t really plug anything into it because you have to that’s what powers it
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So and it’s like a little like a little desk thing. It looks like size of a Roku
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so
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What’s really upsetting is you can’t use that USB C port so
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You have USB 3.2 is one and USB 2.0. So you have two USB ports now
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You’re gonna have to get a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse with those Bluetooth on this device
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Because if you plug in a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse
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I’m sorry if you plug into USB keyboard and USB mouse you have no ports left
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So you can either get one of those USB
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Keyboards that have the keyboard and mouse on the same USB device that will give you one free
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USB device or just go with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse
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There’s HDMI coming out of it. So that works out pretty well
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but
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I just know as a as a I mean like I said, I really see the use case scenarios for this
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But you know, I think you’d have to really I think with a touchscreen
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Maybe if you like added a touchscreen to this
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You know that would solve your port problem. I do see the use case scenarios for this
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It is it is very very slow
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I think if this was something you’re just gonna keep the browser open all time or just keep that one app
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You need open all time. It could really
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Really work. So I I do I did like this thing
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Like I said, it does come with a snapdragon
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S7180 so it is a it is a pretty decent mobile processor
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I think it’s I really think the RAM is the the memory is that the issue
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It does have them the one thing I do they did notice
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As far as putting apps on it is it only has 64 gigs of RAM and Mike windows takes up a large chunk of that so
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If you are going to use this for anything, there is a micro usd card slot
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You’d have to add a micro SD card possibly to it. I did notice that especially when upgraded to 11
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Had to make sure I deleted 10 off it because I mean there was literally like a gig or two left
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So I mean 64 gigs is enough, but you do have a micro like I said a micro usd card that you could
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Use for expansion. That’s what I was planning on using anyway
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so just
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That’s something I did notice as well
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So just just be cautious of that if you are going to use it for apps
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Make sure you you have a money you buy it when you order it border us, you know micro us
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You as a micro SD card
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they’re cheap enough might as well and
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Go and try it out windows on our now Microsoft does have another Windows on arm device coming out real soon
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It definitely is I might be better than this one. We don’t know yet. I would imagine it probably is but
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You know, I can see windows on our being a real thing real soon
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especially with I out windows on IOT and all that so
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Like I said, it’s the QC 710 like I said, we do have a demo here
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I guess it is a developer unit. So you cannot return it if you buy it
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so if you are going to buy this you’re gonna be stuck with it and
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I mean, it’s not a bad thing to be stuck with it
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I can find a couple use cases already for it in my house with my kids and stuff like that
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So but just because if you do buy it you cannot
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Return it. So it’s something to know about one thing that really upset me
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That really I know I guess it annoyed me with this whole thing is the USB C device
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Like I said, if you’re only gonna put one USB C device on it
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And you’re gonna have to use that for charging. It’s kind of a I know it’s kind of annoying to me
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I will later see at least two on here so we can charge you know power one and it’s not like the battery
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So you have to keep it plugged in so that would have been nice to see but
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One thing I will say though
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I’m becoming I really get annoyed with it with USB C those of you that know me and have been watch me on my
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On anything or reading them out, you know how I feel about USB C. I really upset me in the fact that
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The other day I like I said I got a laptop from from somebody that was doing something before and it had I didn’t ask for the charger
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And of course thing doesn’t charge you as BC so I had to go ahead and call the person to say hey
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Do you have the charger?
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All my devices my MacBook Pro
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But I know the new ones have Mac safe on it, which annoys me. I mean, I think that’s a step back for Apple
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but
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My my my Dell XPS that I use for gaming if you use it watch me on Twitch
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All these devices are USB C. I don’t buy anything that does not charge us PC anymore or doesn’t power us PC
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I think it’s silly
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It’s one charger for everything. I mean, I mean under the iPhone eventually may go
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To USB C that would be nice as well, but it doesn’t I’ve got a million lightning cables laying around here, but
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Yeah, I don’t I mean a lot of people talk to you about getting system 76 laptops and some of that
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I I don’t I’m really as much as good as these those laptops are I hate the fact that any of the separate charger just annoys me like
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USB C I can I just don’t understand what anybody would name these that the USB C to charge
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And that goes for Apple too at the MagSafe white white that was a step backwards. You already have I mean my MacBook Pro that I have
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It’s a 2016 is the last version for Intel and literally any port on the thing I can charge it with
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I mean, I just I don’t understand why you need a special charger
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I know Apple does it because they get $4 for I think it’s a MagSafe
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And then I don’t know that that’s a popular thing. I just found that out the other day. I didn’t know about it, but um
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Apparently if you anybody that creates a lightning cable or you or any type of
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MagSafe cable they have to pay Apple $4 because Apple has the patent on it
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And I think that’s one of the reasons why Apple is gonna fight USB C because I think they don’t I don’t know if they want to
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Give that money up. We’ll have to see what happens with that, but
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Yeah, so that’s a story with that
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But I am I’m me I’m sure to that person that if it what why do we need a separate charger?
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Just just just make it charge via USB C and not all USB C has created equal
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You know, there are some that do charge some that don’t charge. I actually have a Lenovo laptop here
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I don’t sorry. I don’t remember the model of it. It’s in my pile over there
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but I didn’t have the charger and I actually looked up online to see what getting a charger for it and
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Come to find out you can actually use the one USB C port has to charge it. I thought that’s pretty cool
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So cool to Lenovo that I want to say 16 maybe I
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Know the nose at the 14 because the 14 I have a pop a lesson like the mess on with it
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But it might be the 16 to 18, but anyway, yeah long story short
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You you do need a special charger which annoys the crap enemy
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But if you don’t have the charge you could charge it with USB C. That’s that Lenovo
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Definitely gets that’s a high five for me for that one because I thought that was very very cool
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So a couple of things too. I wanted to point out that we’re in the news don’t have stories about them
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But they were in the I read about them in the news
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As we all know cryptocurrency has been
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Well, you know crashing as we’ve all watched with anybody who’s watched the news knows that cryptocurrency is crashing by the way
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But apparently now you can get video cards for the longest time those all of you guys are the gamers and follow me on the blog and
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Twitch and I’ve been talking for months about almost a year about how you can’t give video cards can’t give video cards now apparently
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You can give video cards now. So
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This cryptocurrency now now the cryptocurrency crashed
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there’s a glut of of
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Video cards now you can actually get there’s a bunch of
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Nvidia and G4 stuff that you can actually get right now. So if you need a video card or thinking about upgrading a video card
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Now is the time to buy folks. You can find up quite a bit of them online right now
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They’re just not getting chewed up as much as they as much they were before the crypto thing crashing
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I guess people aren’t mining as much so
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Go ahead folks if you have if you really need a video card now would be the time to buy
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also do
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Spotify
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Release something that my wife and I have a messing with around a little bit this week is the they have
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Invite friends to play this or you can invite your friends to a playlist
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It’s kind of neat it takes the popular songs that that person listened to takes the popular songs that you listen to and join
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Some into a playlist and refreshes it every couple days
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So I get to see what my wife listen to she gets to see what I’ve been literally listening to
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Not sure if you’re interested in or not if you’re Spotify user though
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It is pretty fun. I really my wife and I really enjoyed it
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To kind of see what he says listening to you to kind of you know see what’s new what the other person is listening to some of that
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So that actually is a pretty something pretty cool
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If you’re interested in that spot if I release that and I saw that over the week
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So that was another thing that
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Another new story that I thought was was kind of interesting that I thought I would just share with everybody that we’ve tried and used
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But in in actual news that I have news stories for
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Researchers have uncovered that
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the file sharing
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Service mega
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That there is the way to break their encryption. So a lot of us that that like mega
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Obviously remember mega was founded by Kim comm after the big raid on
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Mega upload and all that he started mega which is that it’s mostly files with those of chat and video sharing and some of that
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But
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Apparently there’s been a way to he sold it, but there’s been there’s actually a way to break the encryption now so
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If you do store your files on
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Mega they may not be as safe as you think they are so you may want to encrypt them on your machine and then upload them there
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Give you kind of a double layer of safety
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case somebody does break it
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they can actually
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You know go ahead and at least they’d be encrypted. So I saw that story there
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I actually was a big mega advocate for a lot of years
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Especially after he sold it and the whole thing went legit
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but apparently they haven’t been keeping up with the encryption because
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Like I said a recent paper release said they can actually
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Decrypt the files
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But don’t want to get too technical to technical into because it was really a long period
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I think it’s like a the most 18 page paper that people released, but apparently
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What they do is there’s a way of them getting
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The RSA key and the recovery key and it makes it easy for them to be able to decrypt the files
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You need to have so many successful logins. There’s a little more complicated than that
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But like I said, this is the first time Megas had security issues. I just want to point that out
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I remember a couple of years ago mega had issues where people were able
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If you use the mega file sync on Firefox, you know, it’s a Chrome or Firefox one of them
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They actually steal your password. So this is the first time that Megas had had some issues with security
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But this is I think a bigger one because now
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They actually decrypt all the files. There’s a lot more that goes into it
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I guess it’s like an 18 page paper. You can read about it on the hacker news
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but just so you know be very you know cautious of that because
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Your files may not be as safe as you thought they are
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So Netflix confirms that there’s gonna be a couple more tiers coming out
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Over the next couple of months couple of them and they’re saying by the end of quarter four
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I don’t think it’s gonna be five before that personally
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Because they’re already testing it in a bunch of markets, but there’s gonna be they’re doing the exact same
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They’re basically playing catch up here and as far as I’m concerned because there’s basically
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the same thing that you know paramount or Hulu or
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Any of those HBO has I don’t think the only Disney plus has it
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But any of those services like I said HBO was one of the first ones to start with it paramount then jumped on board
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Hulu’s had it for who lose had who lose actually initially one because they’ve changed hands so many times
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They’ve had a lot of different platforms over the years, but they actually have the the you know the
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Same thing where you know all ads less ads and no ads thing and the same never soon
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There’s something that Netflix is kind of I believe a little bit behind on this
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What I think this is really gonna do for Netflix if nothing else is people that were sharing passwords might say well
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I’ll just get the ad support of one that would be a little bit cheaper
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I think that’s what’s really gonna happen to be honest with you because I don’t think there’s many
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Like I said, I don’t you know I mean people that want Netflix are gonna get Netflix is what it comes down to but
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Maybe people that are sharing passwords of like, you know, they can’t get into their password anymore after Netflix
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So it’s enforcing a thing might say well, maybe we’ll get the the cheap version with a lot of ads on that
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So I think this you know
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It may help Netflix in the long run, but I don’t think it’s gonna be a massive a
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Massive thing for them. But yes, there is the the cheaper versions coming for those of you that are sharing passwords
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You don’t have to worry you will
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Be able to you know be able to get it much reasonable rate
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And I again, I think Netflix may catch up on this because they’ve always never had a tear like this
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They always have the very good so this is like I said a big I might think and they’re just they’re just doing what everybody else is
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Doing now. I don’t think it’s revolution right, but they did had say they are rolling out a password system
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After this and I think that’s really nice of them to do that they could really
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Well, I think I mean not nice of them
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But I mean what they’re doing is they’re gonna make sure okay, we’ve got these other options rolled out
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We got the bugs faked out and you know fixed now we’re gonna roll out the password issue
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So they don’t want to upset any customers by saying okay. Well, at least if it hits them
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There’s an option for them that they did it the other way where they rolled out the password enforcement and then rolled this out
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They could really hurt the customer base. So they’re being very smart about it doing it the the way they’re doing it now
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Kind of roll out the cheaper tiers get those bugs worked out get the advertisers lined up
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And then we’re gonna roll out the password enforcement. I think a month or two later. So
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I think really why I’d read Hastings very being very smart about this as far as how they’re doing it
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They don’t want to alienate any customers
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Fitbit I wanted to point this out. There was an article
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Thorot comm fit Paul thorats. I actually read his site every day. He’s probably one of the best
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Tech journalist out there. He covers the news. He makes sure he has everything fact-checked. He’s he’s very very good
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And like I said, it’s the rot calm but he had an article up this week on Fitbit premium
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It’s actually going to be adding sleep profile features to Fitbit
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And what this is gonna do is yes
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I mean to me the sleep monitoring on the Google stuff that I’ve talked about their sleep monitoring stuff on on Apple Watch that I use
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He uses Fitbit boy. What this is gonna actually do is
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It’s gonna take people’s data, you know, your age your, you know
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People that have your same sleep hours of that and it’s gonna compare them to show you where you compare against everybody else
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I kind of give you a benchmark of saying hey, you know, you’re only sleeping this many hours
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You’re not you’re not doing that. Well other people your age are doing this
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Kind of giving you kind of a benchmark and it’s gonna create the profile for you
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And it’s actually gonna actually I mean they’re going as far. I mean to actually include longitude and latitude
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Analysts people in that long should land to their sleep patterns
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I mean really going above and beyond I don’t expect this especially since Google about Fitbit
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They can you know, I definitely expected them to be able to do this
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You know, it’s gonna calculate trends. It’s gonna calculate like I said
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Everything into your age or gender all these kind of metrics that it’s gonna clue
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Like I said, especially longitude latitude for people in the air all different kinds of stuff
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Like I said, it’s gonna it’s gonna analyze
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They said the point only Fitbit does anything analyze roughly about 22 billion hours of sleep dev
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Roughly 22 billion hours of sleep data that they can compare to so we’ll see
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You like I said, I guess and I’m not like I said, I haven’t I don’t have Fitbit personally
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but
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You know, definitely something to
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Definitely something to look into if you are if you are in need of sleep tracking
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I really do think that the the Google home nest home if you don’t if you like me
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I don’t like to wear anything when I sleep that I use that by my bed. That’s really good
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And Fitbit is very good as well. So I’d really recommend those of you having trouble sleeping
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Sleeper night sleep is very important, especially with men. I can lead to heart disease stuff like that. So
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Go ahead and and check that out. I think it’s really cool and I think Fitbit is one of the better ones
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So please check that out if you need
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also to
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interesting news coming out of
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the Microsoft
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Camp I guess you could say Windows 8 1 are gonna start getting end of support notifications next month
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I’m not really that worried about this to be honest with you
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I don’t I know myself I have my own business and I don’t have many customers if any with Windows 8 1 or Windows 8
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7 was a bigger thing for me
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Microsoft like she said Windows 8 1 didn’t have as many users they expected. So now I’m not really that worried about this
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I don’t know. I mean if you haven’t went to computer with 8.1. You should look it up green 10. It’s free
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but
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You know, I don’t know. I’m not really I’m not really that worried about it to be honest with you
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Just because I just I don’t know I mean it’s sad
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I mean, I don’t know many people with with Windows 10 or say Windows 8 that the haven’t gone to 10 already
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So I think Windows 8 was so bad that so many people upgraded already
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Yeah, I just I just really think that people are already there
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You know, I just I don’t like I said, I’ve won a round. I just don’t have
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Many people friends customers any with that have you on I just I find it really interesting
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I mean it was like it’s one of those Windows versions that nobody has like Millennium me
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You don’t see many people that had it when it was time to upgrade
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It was just that one of those Windows versions that didn’t get a lot of traction
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But I will say this very important if you are on a lot eight or eight one
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Your end of your life cycle is January 10 2023. So you have a couple of months left about six months left
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So go ahead and if you are upgrade to 10 again, it’s free. It’s not gonna cost you anything and trust me
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It is like 10 times better. It’s like night and day. So
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Go ahead and do this quickly. You can trust me. You really appreciate it
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also to
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the couple a little bit of more more news out of out of Microsoft but stuff I think is a
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Little important that I did want to talk about
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For my couple friends of mine that listen that our developers
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jithub co-pilot
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Which is that AI feature that jithub has so if you’re taping code and you know
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It’s one of the popular language the C sharp Python any of those
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And it sees that you’re trying to do something and it’s having
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It actually said you hey you try to do this and we’ll actually bring up the code that I think you need I
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Actually have used this and a couple times
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I’ve got and I’ve had issues that are been stumped on an issue and this is actually helped quite a bit
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And I know it’s a very popular feature because on Twitter when it first released
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In beta to everybody who wanted to try the beta it was going like gangbusters. It was trending for days on Twitter
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So this is a hugely popular feature and I expected that Microsoft now is where jithub which is owned by Microsoft
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It’s gonna charge $10 a month or $100 a year. I expect that it when you have a feature. That’s that popular
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You know jithub is is one of those was one of those great great things that it is very well done
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It’s got a lot of money behind it and they give away so much for free
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but
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When it’s a hot feature like this they’re gonna charge for it the same thing with the public and the private repositories
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They gave away private private repositories for free about a couple years ago
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Because they noticed not many people had a lot of private repositories
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So it’s one of those things where they look and they say okay, we’re not gonna make a lot of money for keep
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We’re charging for this we’re not making a lot of money. Let’s give it away for free
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This though had so much positive feedback from it
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That they actually decided to charge for and it is a great feature. I like I really liked it
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I was in the beta
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Helped me out. I can say a couple times when I was stuck and I think
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Myself I mean I’m probably gonna pay for it
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But if you are a developer and you’re debating if it’s worth ten bucks a month
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If you’re if you’re struggling or having issues
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This really is is a really great thing also to they said it actually is in the works that possibly to help you find
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Bugs in your code when you’re troubleshooting so
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It may be worth it for that if you want to hold if you’re nice and say well
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I’m gonna hold off I might be I would hold off if if you’re thinking about holding off
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Just keep an eye on the Twitter feed for it and because that feature might be something I’d be interested as well
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So just keep an eye out for that. I think you at least you are a developer using jithub
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It may be worth ten dollars a month for you just to help you with your workflow and help you get your work done quicker
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And I guess that they are going to be adding features for it. I think they said they’ve got a couple features already in the pipeline
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That will be coming soon. So keep an eye out for that
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And like I said, I really think it is is worth it. By the way to jithub
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I was just messing with my phone the other day jithub actually does have
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Some widgets for the iPhone. I was just messing with the other day. I mean, obviously they had widgets for
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Android for a while, but
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With the commits and and all that where you can actually have a map of all your commits
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I thought that was kind of neat. There’s a little fun things for your phone. But that’s pretty cool
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By the way, too, just remember what jithub as well if you are using jithub
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You’re going to be forced to be going to factor very soon. So if you don’t have to factor turned on
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Make sure to turn it on relatively soon
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Also, too, by the way, I just want to point out one other thing. I forgot with a co-pilot
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Any popular
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Open-source projects will be getting co-pilot for free still
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So if you are an open source contributor and you’re in a popular project if you go I believe – I don’t give you don’t quote me the
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I thought it was jithub slash comm slash
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Opens I want to say open source copilot, but it’s not
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Something layer copilot jithub.open or something like that. Check Google it you’ll find it
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If you are part of an old if you are a contributor to a popular open source project you can get
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Jithub copilot for free. So just check it out if you’re a contributor. You might be able to get it for free
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Not to pay for it. So just something to check about
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Linus Torvo’s a guy that maintains Linux another piece of valuable information for a lot of us that use Linux in our day-to-day
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lives, I know myself I use system 76 laptop to mess with and code and stuff of that and
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Also use Linux for a lot of customers. I have Linux servers
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But this is the interesting part about this. He is saying that rust will be built into the Linux kernel
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Possibly on the new kernel 5.20
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So if you’re out if you’re like me and it’s something you you’re wondering why hasn’t rust which is a very very popular
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programming language, especially in the Linux platform stuff like system 76 and
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I don’t want to say cent, but I don’t think I’m right
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And maybe debbie and but I know pine. No definitely system 76 are all rust programming shops
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So a lot of people wondering why isn’t it built in especially with so many GUIs and stuff that being
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created in rust
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Apparently Linus is saying that rust will be built in on the possibly
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5.20 so those of us that have been waiting wait a little bit longer
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And then you will eventually
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Get it. So that’s like I said just something to keep it, you know just something to you know keep keep an eye on
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I really I think that I really think that the new
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That the new version of five five two five dot two has got so much more going into it
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I really think they’re taking on a lot with this release and it’d be really cool if rust was in it
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I know they’ve been working on
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possibly trying to get
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Linux on arm
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The the kernel on arm work on the m3 on the M1
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They’ve been doing a lot of stuff. They’re taking a lot out this release. That’s why it’s taking so long
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But I really am curious to see what’s gonna happen when it gets released
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Also, too, I’m not a huge a fan of brave. I don’t use it that much. I’m more of a Firefox guy. That’s just
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No reason. I don’t like brave. It’s just force of habit years of you know
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Just he’s one of those in use of habit
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But brave actually has said they have 2.5 billion people using brave search
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Which is big?
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You know duck to go said a couple years ago, they have few they have like 300 400 million
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While these are big numbers, especially 2.5 billion a big number
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It’s so so tiny when you look at
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What Google is and what Bing has especially Google?
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It’s big. They’re targeting a niche market and they’re doing a good job with it brave and
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Duck to go are targeting that niche market and they’re doing a good job at that niche market
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And this is a big number for them for that niche market, but
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You know a lot of people had a couple people read read the comments on this post and people are like
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Oh, well, see just they’re gonna eventually take over Google and I’m like not even close not even close
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You know and there’s the thing wrong that but it’s I mean Google
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I think there’s billions a day where they’re doing you know a billion or two a year nothing anyway from them
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That’s so huge. I would love to have a website that got billions of hits of you know a year, but
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You know when you really look at it
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It is it is a tiny slice of pie compared to what Google has
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But again, they are targeting that niche market and that is working for them in that niche market
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They’re getting they’re getting market share them and duck duck go
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duck duck go obviously having a little bit of bad press recently with that whole thing with
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you know
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You know Bing but you know again, you know brave and duck to go are working
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They’re pushing towards that specific thing and and they’re gonna get a chunk of the market because it’s so good for them
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And they know their market and stuff like that
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So that’s really important to understand to they know their market. They know the people there. They’re working with and
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You know, they’re gonna get their little slice of the world because of it, but good for them
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The one thing I do say about I do like brave
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I do like duck to go my only thing is is I really like with Firefox because Firefox is written on its own platform
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I’ve said this many times if chromium
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Not chrome chromium the the open source that everybody’s built on if chromium ever has a security vulnerability
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It’s going to hit every browser even the secure ones like duck to go and all that
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Firefox is the only one that’s built differently
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And an explorer used to be built differently obviously an explorer has been defunct now and edges based on chromium. So
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Just something to think about I we haven’t had an issue yet
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But it’s something I’ve always wondered that if that open source for some reason should ever get compromised
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We’re gonna have a bug in every browser. So
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just something to to think about
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security wise
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And so I had ladies that have had a couple of questions emailed to me. I want to get to the question segment
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Which which I thought was pretty neat a couple of good questions
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Do you want to send your questions send them to admin at the technology geek?
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Org that’s the site. That’s the email again admin at the technology geek or extend your questions
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and I really enjoy them and
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You know, I’m more I read by back
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But then I also answer them on the podcast
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You know, the way the whole week specific as you’re having but like I said, thank you very much
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And like I said, please send me in the questions. We have a very small audience right now
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We’re just getting started again after a long layoff
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But you know, if you do hear the showing do you have a question? Please feel free to send it in because I do appreciate it
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And creates content for the show and also to an answer is your question
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But like I said, I will email you back and then answer it on the show as well
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So I do appreciate that
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Somebody asked what is the best antivirus to use on a Windows machine?
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So I tell everybody go with McAfee
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Norton I like personally I like Sophos. I like they have something called hitman pro
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I personally push everybody to Sophos. I think it’s probably the best out there
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Hitman pro is a very good
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piece of software that
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Very good and we viruses spyware all that kind of stuff. I recommend it to anybody out there
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So I push people to Sophos. I push people to a vast and AVG
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Um, like I said Norton isn’t bad
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McAfee’s not bad. I do see issues with it in once in a while where it doesn’t catch everything
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But if you stick to like I said Sophos a vast AVG Norton
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Like I said McAfee even I tell everybody stay away from Kaspersky because they’re a Russian based company
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and I’m not trying to start any political thing trust me or anything like that, but I
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Just can just concern me especially with everything going on right now in the world
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I would say stay I tell everybody stay away from Kaspersky. You never know what’s going on with that
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I
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Just I just a little worried with everything going on the same thing with Panda antivirus. They’re a Chinese company they have
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They have gotten issues in the past. They were on that list back earlier
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I think last year the year before well, you know supposed to do business with they got taken off
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But then I think they got put back on they got taken off again. So I
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Recommend stay away from Kaspersky stay away from Panda try to stick to the American based companies if you can
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Like I say have to meet certain standards. Definitely like I said, I recommend Sophos
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I’m big one on that ten years ago. I said stay away from Sophos, but they’ve gotten much much better under under the current regime
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Like I said vast is very very good. I actually use a vast of quite a few customers
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I use Sophos and quite a few customers AVG is very good
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And like I said, if you if you want to use the big two obviously Maca fee is is okay
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It’s not great and
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Semantic is very very good. So stick with those guys and you should be pretty safe online
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But like I said, I recommend everybody stay away from Panda and stay away from Kaspersky right now
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There’s been a little too many issues going on with everything in the world right now and
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There’s been too many issues people get in their hands caught in the cookie jar, and I just don’t trust them right now
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I’m proud of the paid safe. That’s sorry personally
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Somebody has some another question somebody asked me is how can I change my search engine on?
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On an Apple device and and what if I’m interesting about this question is I was actually
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I’ve actually looked into this and and you cannot a lot of people that
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Might not remember this but back in the day the default search engine if you search in the little search box
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On your iPhone on spotlight
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Was big it was for being for a couple years and what’s Google that stayed Google for all these years
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looking into that I did not actually realize that
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That’s actually gets they actually bid that out Apple actually bids it out for contract
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And I think it’s a couple of your contract where you get to be the default search engine and Google
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I think a state number one for quite some time now because they’ve either the contracts longer they outbid everybody but
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You can change your
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Your browser on your device you can change your default browser on an iPhone
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You cannot change
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your default browser or your default search engine on a
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Apple device they do not let you I found that quite interesting
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I looked into this deeper and there’s no way to do it
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In spotlight you have to use Google you cannot use you can use duck to go you can open now
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You can open your browser
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Like if you have duck duck go or one of the chrome as your default browser you can go to Google and search and use that through the
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Browser, but you cannot in spotlight change your default search provider
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So I thought that was pretty cool. So
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Yeah, I thought I thought I I don’t know if they’re ever gonna change that because I know Apple makes money on that
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But I thought that was a little bit interesting also to I
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Did notice something at some point it’s in the answer. I was kind of well the end of one of the I think was a I was in some kind of security
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group over in
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Discord just talking to friends of a friend of mine and we were getting together more like a group chat kind of thing and
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somebody pointed out too is that
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Apple’s changing things you can change your default mail app you can’t default web browser
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But if you notice they don’t let you change your default map app
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They don’t each they’re not gonna open up those little Pandora’s boxes right now
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And let you make something else your default map because you notice you open up a map in anything it automatically opens default a Facebook or any of them
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It automatically has to use iPhone maps
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Apple Maps it does not you can’t change your default map provider and I don’t think that’s ever gonna change
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I don’t think Apple wants open up that little box because they want to get the route and data and
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Location data for that whatever they’re doing
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But yeah, I noticed that too. That’s a little one that you can’t change either
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And I don’t think you can do it on Google either. I don’t think you can change the default map provider on Google
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I don’t know, you know, I just little things you notice when you start digging in a little bit deeper as a tech person
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It’s like, oh look at that. You can’t do that. So
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Just just something to
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To keep into back of your mind
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You know when you’re messing around with your phone
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There are little things, you know Apple gives you certain things, but there’s certain things that does not give you
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And they made it over though and I’m an Apple fan
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I use an iPhone use a Mac to record this podcast, but it’s just something I wanted to point out to everybody that I
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Noticed and yeah, you might want to just
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You might just want to just just take notice of that next time you’re on your phone
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Also – one of the last questions that you guys asked what was the best phone or camera for shooting video and photography
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You know, I’m not gonna lie. I’m not a big digital camera person. I know my wife
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She she bullies buys Canon or Nikon. I
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Don’t know enough about digital cameras to really give you a better good enough information on this
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I’m honest about that kind of thing on the phone though. I have done some testing. I will say without a doubt
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Phone camera
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I’m gonna say probably the pixel. I know people are gonna say what I really think it’s the pixel
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The pixel or the Samsung give the best photo
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I personally like the pixel my wife like pixel the photos were better on the pixel
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The screen is better on the Samsung
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But the camera is better on the pixel and it’s just the way just the way Google does the hardware
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as far as
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You know the new iPhone does
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4k video does 4k
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Audio does all that
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so
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You know, I really think if you’re gonna either go if you’re gonna go if you’re gonna go Android
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I would say go definitely go pixel or
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Possibly Samsung
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On on the Apple side the new phone go at least I think 12 or better
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Because 12 doesn’t want to start with the the different camera with a 4k
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I mean you have people that are recording videos
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Real good real good videos on just their iPhone. They’re not even using digital cameras anymore
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I know we use a tripod the other day for recording some stuff for our
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Star family get together. It’s not a youtuber in that but and I use just a tripod with my iPhone 12
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I think at the 11 or 12. I think it’s 12 I’m using and the photos were very very good. So
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like I said go ahead and
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I
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Really think the pixel does take the better better photos on the Android
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But the screen is much better on the Samsung
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So it’s really up to you what I would do if are you if you can go to a go to a go to a phone store
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If you can’t get the pixel get the Samsung take photo take same as that photo both women look at the can see what you like better
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Yeah, that’s it and or you can go iPhone what I would do if however you I would go I would you know
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Take take three take me one to fix all on the Samsung with the iPhone or just see what you like best and
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And that’s the the phone you pick if that’s the big selling point for you is the
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Phone the camera on the phone, then that would probably think by be the best way to go about doing it
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That’s what I would do. That’s what my wife has done many times
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We’ve been in the phone store an hour while she compares photos of different things
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So because she’s big the only she wants a phone for his camera because he’s into photography and all that kind of stuff
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So but I guess I’m gonna wrap it up this week
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Like I said, you get all of our old shows at the technology
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Dot org I want to thank you all for listening and we will see you on the next podcast. Thank you very much
