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Schrock Innovations presents the Midwest's number one independent computer repair
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company with service centers in Lincoln, Omaha, Papillion, Des Moines,
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and across the country via the Schrock desk. This is
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Compute This.
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All righty, folks, welcome in to Compute This. My name's
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Thor Schrock. I'm the owner of the Schrock Innovations Computer Company,
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and boy, do we have a show planned for you today.
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402-558-1110 is the number to join us. We are live
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and local and caffeinated. That's right. It's caffeine. It's Red Bull.
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I don't think I've ever seen that one. This is
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the pink one. Yeah, this is actually wild berry. It's
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pretty good stuff. Not as good as the yellow one.
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The yellow one is really good. It tastes like Smarties.
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I like it. Yeah, I don't like Smarties. It's almost
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like a Sprite kind of– I don't know. I like
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the grape and the orange. Anyway, well, I'm caffeinated, so
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we're good to go. We're going to get through this hour.
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It's going to go by real fast, unfortunately. But if
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you missed the show last week, you can catch that
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at schrockinnovations.com. Click on Radio Show up there. Last week,
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we talked about these meeting invites that get into your
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inbox and then automatically add themselves to your calendar. I
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found it to be super annoying. I'm getting reminders on
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my screen like webinar for, you know, this, that and
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the other. And you're like, I don't want to have
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a webinar about, you know, advanced trash collection services. Like what?
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What?
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What is this? Why would I put this on my calendar?
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The answer is you didn't. It added itself to your
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calendar because somebody just sent you an invite. And that's
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the default behavior. Why would that be the default behavior?
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And it's not just Outlook. It's Google. I mean, everybody
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does this. You just send a calendar invite. It just
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adds it to your calendar. I'm sure it's fine. Well,
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some of those invites had links in them, and those
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links were taking people to malware pages. So when you say,
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why is this on my calendar? And you click the
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link to see more information about what you're meeting about, supposedly. Well,
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that takes you to an infection site and infects your computer.
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So best practice there is there are settings in every
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calendar program that you can turn that off so it
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does not automatically add appointments to your calendar and you
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should turn those settings on like I did. And then
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all of a sudden you have no more waste management
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meetings on your agenda. We also told you about Apple's
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new iPhone Cast system. Yeah, this one really ticked off
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the text in the shop. When I was telling them
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about this, a lot of people did not like this. Um,
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essentially what Apple's going to do is when you buy
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the new flagship phone, you get the iPhone 18, it'll
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be great. You get all these AI features and you know,
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everybody who bought the iPhone 16, which was the first
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AI based supposedly iPhone with Apple intelligence, uh, that Apple
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is paying a class action lawsuit about because it was
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not so intelligent and they couldn't get it to work. Well,
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now that they've kind of got it working, well, you're
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going to get access to that. If you have an
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iPhone 16 for exactly a year. Because when they come
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out with the iPhone 19, you'll be more than two
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generations behind. Then you can continue to have access to
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your AI features as long as you're willing to pay
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a subscription fee. This is the same thing Ford and
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all the other motor vehicle companies are doing with their vehicles.
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You like Blue Cruise? You get it free for a year,
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just long enough to get used to having it. And
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then you have to pay $ 425 a year to keep it.
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So just like a car, you own the device. You
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do not own the software. So Apple, every two years,
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you have to either
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buy a new phone or pay
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the tax to keep the intelligence features. So that's something
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that no one's going to get hit with that today.
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Apple announced it. It's just going to be this thing
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that then when it happens next year, they'll be like, oh, yeah,
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we announced this like a year ago. This is a
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surprise to you? Shouldn't be a surprise. It's going to
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be one of those things. Nasty, nasty thing that actually
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becomes a surprise. We also looked at a military AI
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that wrongly flagged a Chinese cargo ship as carrying nuclear
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material to Iran. And we were scrambling fighters. People were,
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you know, everything was go, go, go, go, go. Like,
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let's go get this cargo ship. And it would have
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been an international incident. But then finally, a human analyst
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looked at the AI intelligence and said, actually, that is
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just those are just yellow bananas. You just thought they
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were you hallucinated the yellow cake. Those are just yellow
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bananas going to Iran. And so there is no need
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to send a sealed, you know, sealed team 17 to
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go intercept the cargo ship full of bananas. And so
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they called off the strike and the cargo ship got through.
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which I thought there was a blockade on Iran anyway,
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so why did it get through? Isn't it just oil?
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I think it's all ships. They're blockading the ports so
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they can't get goods. They're starving the economy. Yeah, I know.
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So why did they let the Chinese bananas in? I
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don't know, humanitarian reasons? I mean, they are bananas. So anyway,
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if you missed any of that stuff, you can check
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all that out at schrockinnovations.com. Just click on Radio Show. Now,
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coming up on the program today, guys, there is– This
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big update, Windows 11 26H2. I spent some time yesterday
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looking at all of the rumor channels and the rumblings
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and everything. The final version of this release is already
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in the pre-release candidate stream. In English, what that means
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is the people testing this have it already. I'm about
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to sneeze. It's bad. It's going to come. It's going
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to sneak up on me. But the people who are
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supposedly testing this. They already have it, and they've been
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testing it for a while. This means there are no
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more fixes coming. There are no more polish. It's done.
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So when is 26H2 going to hit consumers? Well, typically
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it happens in October, typically. Sometimes it's been November. It's
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been as early as September. And so, you know, September
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is kind of long in the tooth here. You know,
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we don't have that much of September left. And patch Tuesday,
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the second Tuesday of every month when Microsoft releases updates,
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is the 13th. There is a two-week window between today
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and the 13th that they could push this out the door.
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It could come out as early as this week. So
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Windows 11 26H2, for those of you who are new
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to the program, every year Microsoft pushes a brand new
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version of Windows 11. Of course, they tell you it's
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not going to automatically download to your computer, even though
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it already has in some cases. You don't have to
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install it right away. Click cancel to continue. That's what
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they're going to say in the menu. That's what they
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do every year. And people click cancel saying, I don't
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want to install it. And it's canceled to continue. So
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that means install it. And then their computer reboots and like, well,
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I can't take it back now. 80% of the time,
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the installation works just fine. There's no issues. 20% of
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the time, it's cataclysmic. And it seems to hit the
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same 20% of the people all the time. It's really ridiculous.
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So if you've had problems with these updates in the past,
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odds are you're going to have problems again this time
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as it comes through for your computer problems. What kind
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of problems would you expect with this thing? Microsoft is
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promising that they are on the path
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of the, they call it AI slop. The, the, the
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stupid AI, like Microsoft paint has an AI feature now
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where you can like create it for me. Like, has
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anybody ever actually painted anything with paint, like a picture,
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or do you just use paint to grab a screenshot
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and then draw a circle around something with an arrow? Like,
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look at this. That's what I use it for. I've
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never decided to open Microsoft Paint and create a work
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of art. I just didn't really know. Well, now you
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can open Paint and ask the AI to create a
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pastoral scene, and it'll just do it. And you're like,
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does anybody need that? Does that make anyone's life better? Copilot?
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Frigging useless. As far as touching anything with your computer,
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ask Copilot to change the brightness settings on your screen.
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One of the simplest things to do from a settings
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perspective on a computer, make my screen brighter, Copilot. Copilot
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will pop up in a window that tell you, here
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are all the commands that you can do to make
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your screen brighter. Okay, thanks, Google. Like, are you an
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AI or not? Like, can you do anything or not?
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The answer is not. And then we see companies are
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actually using Copilot to automate things, and they don't realize
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that they're just making fancy cronjobs. Fancy Python scripts. That's
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all it is. There is no intelligence behind it. There
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is no automation really behind it. It's getting stuff done,
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but it's because a human set it up and a
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human has to understand how it works and a human
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has to fix it when it breaks. And it's not good.
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So all this stuff that Microsoft has gotten wrong, they're
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promising to fix it. They're going to fix it. And
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that fix, the first phase of this fix of making
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Windows 11 relevant again, stable again, and productive for you again,
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is 2-6-H-2. So, I want to be a good person,
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and I want to believe, I want, I want to
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wish that Dylan Royola has a good game in Oregon.
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I really want to wish that, and I realize that
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I am a bad person when I'm watching him take over,
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and I'm saying, man, I mean, I don't want to
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see him get knocked out, but You know, a couple
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sacks certainly wouldn't hurt me. I don't want to be
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that person, right? I want to be the guy that's like,
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you know, good for him. Like, you know, good for
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him to step up and have a good game, which
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he did, and, you know, have success. That's good. We
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should want that for each other, right? We should want
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that for Windows 11. Well, Windows 11 does not have
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a history of delivering that. I've seen memes online where
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it's a stack of paperback books, and the books get
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increasingly larger and heavier as they go up the top
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of the stack. So the smallest book is on the bottom.
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It's an inverted pyramid with dictionaries and thesauruses on the
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top of the stack. And then you wonder why it's
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not stable. So this is Microsoft saying we're going to
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start to fix the pyramid in a world where, guys,
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if you're watching the cutting edge stuff that's coming out
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right now, there are entire AI-based operating systems that are
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open source now that you don't even have to touch
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a keyboard to run your computer. You don't even have
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to touch it. The world's not quite ready for that,
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I don't think, because it's hard for people to say, well,
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what do you mean? You don't need a screen.
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What?
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Come on, Thor. No, you don't. I mean, it talks
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to you through your phone. Your computer is this thing
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that sits on a shelf somewhere. You don't sit in
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front of it. You're mowing the yard. You take your
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phone out of your pocket and you say, send the
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TPS reports. And then you put your phone back in
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your pocket and you keep mowing the yard. That's the
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world
we're going to, and Microsoft knows that. Within 10 years,
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that's what we're all going to be doing with our computers, guys.
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We're not going to be using computers the way we
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use them now. But Microsoft is in trouble if they
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can't get Windows 11 to be the cornerstone of that
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new market. They need Copilot to be good. They need
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to have that trust reputation because in a world of AI,
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we've discussed this at Schrock, in a world where AI
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can make everything better in a workplace, better tools, more efficient,
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Easier work. Well, everybody in their brains translates that to
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fewer employees. And I translate that to better tools, better productivity,
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better service. So I need the same number of employees.
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I might need a different skill set in my employment set.
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I want maybe more customer service people and fewer superstar
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technicians because we don't need all of those superstars anymore.
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We can have one or two or three or four
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and scale that across the organization pretty easily with A.I.
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But I need people up front to talk to the
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other humans. People don't want to talk to computers. So
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let's be the service leaders. And so Microsoft is trying
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to be that service leader. They're trying to rebuild that
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trust because in a world of AI, trust is all
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you have. Trust is the only thing that separates you
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from fixmycomputer.com on the internet. That's the only thing that's–
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the fact that you know that when you call Schrock,
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you're talking to a local company, is somebody that you
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can trust. That's the only thing that separates it at
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the end of the day. Do you trust Microsoft to
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push 26H2 to your computer and not screw it up?
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the service centers. It's not a value judgment. It's not
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me wishing Microsoft falls on their face or gets sacked.
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It's not like that. It's history. It's watching history and
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understanding that Dylan Raiola throws 10-yard passes. That's what he does.
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and you win football games. But he's not throwing 45-yard
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bombs to people. He can. He just doesn't for some reason.
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I don't know why. So when you're putting it all
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together and you realize Microsoft is going to push this
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to you, you're going to get it. Whether you want
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it or not, you're going to get it. And when
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you get it, there's a chance that you could end
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up with a $ 300 repair bill to have Schrock fix
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the damage that Microsoft causes. Those customers are never happy
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in the service centers. It's not a great service experience,
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not because we did anything wrong, but because it's hard
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when you're upset to be a happy customer. That's why
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we created Safe Upgrade. Safe Upgrade is a program that
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we sell at Schrock that automatically installs this 26H2 update
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the exact same way we do it on the bench
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in the service center. When our guys install this on
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the bench, it's 100% success rate. It works every time,
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and there are no consequences. Every time. What are we
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doing different than Microsoft? Microsoft is downloading the bits and
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the pieces. How little can we send to your computer
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and have you get all the features set that you need?
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If we miss something, if something gets corrupted, lots of
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different pieces, lots of complexity, very complex system, lots of
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gears and levers and any one of those things breaks.
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train comes off the tracks. Well, at Schrock, We bring
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a locomotive to every install. We install the entire 4.8
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gigabyte package every single time. We have all the pieces
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with us in a tested environment for every install. Just
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that fact alone, we bring the right tools for the
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job at the beginning of the job, is probably the
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biggest thing we do different. And then, of course, there
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are failures. The update fails for lots of reasons. Previous
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damage to your computer, settings incompatibilities, security programs. There's lots
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of reasons that 26H2 can fail. Well, when it fails
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on the bench and we see it fail, we're like,
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what happened? Okay.
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Let's take a look at this bad boy. And then
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we figure out why it failed and then we make
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it not fail. That's what safe upgrade does at home
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without you having to bring your computer in through the
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torrential rainfall that is Nebraska and Iowa right now. We've
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had so much rain guys in September. You know, the
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average amount of rainfall is like 2.5 inches in the
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month of September. We've had 4.5 inches of rain. It's
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been double the normal amount of rain in the month
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of September. The only thing all week long that I
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was thinking to myself, well, besides, man, the service centers
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are slow because nobody takes their computer out for a
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walk in the rain. The only thing I was thinking was,
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thankful this isn't snow. Could you imagine? Days and days. Boy,
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you're not kidding. Days of snow. Like the snow thrower. Oh, again. Again?
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My shoes aren't even dry from last time. Again? Yeah, it's...
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I hope we're not in for that this winter. So
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Safe Upgrade is currently available at schrockinnovations.com. You purchase the software.
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You're not going to download anything today. You don't have
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to do anything today. You just have to get a license.
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We only had 600 licenses available at the beginning. We
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have 430 left. We're sending the mass email on Monday, tomorrow.
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That's when we're going to see a huge drop in
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the number of licenses. It's going to get cut in half.
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So 430 remain. When those 600 are gone, it's gone
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until somebody uses theirs. That'll free up the license, and
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then we can sell it to somebody else. But that's
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how many people that we can support in real time
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if something goes sideways. So make sure you visit schrockinnovations.com
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and get a copy of Safe Upgrade for each computer
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that you want safely upgraded with Windows 11 26H2. 402-558-1110
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is the number to join us on the program. We're
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going to give away a $ 25 Schrock Innovations gift certificate
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at the end of the show to one lucky caller.
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Coming up here, guys, I want to encourage you to
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take a look at schrockinnovations.com slash jobs. Keep an eye
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there for new jobs going up. We've got a lot
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of new positions coming up open soon at Schrock. New positions, not, sorry,
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did I say new positions? New positions. New positions.
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NEW.
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Yeah, NEW.
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Maybe I'll put the Red Bull down. New positions at Schrock.
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We don't have the other type. Please don't. These are
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computer repair techs. You don't want to see that. You know,
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new positions at Schrock and the new positions. Some of
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them are at our new flagship location, the corporate office
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of Schrock Innovations on F Street that we're opening up
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here this month. So really, really exciting times at Schrock.
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Also coming up on the program. If you bought Microsoft Office,
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if you had a standalone copy of Microsoft Office, you
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bought that so that you don't have to deal with
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the Microsoft 365 game where they charge you every year. Yeah,
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you get the latest software all the time, but Microsoft's
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always monkeying with your software. And as we have talked about,
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sometimes Microsoft monkeying with your software leads to unintended consequences.
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That's exactly what happened to users of Office 2016 and
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2019 this week. If you've been having trouble with your
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Microsoft Office, Microsoft did that to you. We're going to
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tell you what happened and why. Another one, everybody loves
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the Thorstradamus predictions that we do at the end of
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every year. It's kind of the New Year's show. What
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did we predict last year? What came true? And we're
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honest about it. Like the Thorstradamus predictions, we give you–
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we make four predictions and here are the four we made.
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Did they come true or not? There is no editing.
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I mean he just happens to have 100 percent success rate.
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I mean it's just– Thorstradamus is that good, right? But
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not every futurist or technology prediction or psychic person is
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that good. You never hear about the bad things. You
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never hear about the failures, right? We're going to give
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you the absolute most fail whale AI doom predictions. Not
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just AI, just technology predictions. Going back to Albert Einstein.
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Albert Einstein had predictions that were so wrong, it's not
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even funny. So we're going to give you all the
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predictions so that when you hear these doomsday technology predictions
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about how this or that technology is going to change
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the world and make it destroyed, you'll understand that it's
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not that problematic. And then we're going to wrap the
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show up with a fun story about a robot arm.
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You remember the Iron Man movies? He's got the robot
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arm named Dummy. Yeah, how could I forget it? Yeah, Dummy.
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Dummy the Robot Arm saved his life in one of
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the episodes. Literally saved Tony Stark's life. Yeah, in the
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third movie. That's why when Tony's whole house gets burnt down,
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the only thing he put in the trunk of the
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car and drove away with was Dummy.
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And a screwdriver. Saved him from the Mandarin. And a screwdriver.
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That was it. So anyway, Marvel lesson for you there.
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There's a robot arm out there that runs a vending machine.
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He works hard every day. You buy a soda, he
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gives you a soda. And apparently he's also giving refunds.
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So this has led to perhaps you would like to
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buy the stock in this company. We're going to tell you,
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you don't need to be an AI futurist. to know
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that
this business model is not going to hunt. Coming
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up next on Compute This.
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Have you noticed that almost every piece of technology seems
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to do its best to be disposable? Every day, people
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toss their phones, tablets, and other electronic devices because they
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can't be repaired. Manufacturers have engineered their products to fail
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on a schedule so they can extract more money out
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of your family budget automatically every year or so. But
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what if it didn't have to be that way? What
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if you could get the performance of today's fastest computers
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with the expansion and upgrade options you used to enjoy?
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You just described Schrock's modular desktop computers. Having the right
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tool for the job is important and Shrock's modular desktop
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PCs pack the performance and flexibility to handle your computing
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needs from just checking the email to running a complex business.
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Modular desktops are engineered to be easily repaired with widely
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available industry standard parts. Every component is selected intentionally to
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give you years of upgrade and repair options. It is
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not uncommon for a Schrock customer to be using the
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same computer for a decade after they bought it. Modular
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PCs are the most popular custom computers in the Midwest
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for a reason. When you are ready for your next computer,
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stop in to check out the modular lifestyle or shop
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online at schrockinnovations.com.
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Schrock Innovations can't teleport technicians to you, but online help
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is only a click away with the Schrock desk. Subscribe
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today and get unlimited help whenever you need it.
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Schrock Innovations solid state laptops are engineered locally for speed
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and reliability you just can't get from the major national brands.
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Each of our laptops starts off with an Asus chassis.
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We remove the stock drives and memory and upgrade them
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with higher performing components. This unlocks the full potential of
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the laptops. making the unit up to 25% faster. This
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is why Schrock solid-state laptops last so much longer than
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the competition. If your laptop starts out 25% faster, that
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means over time it doesn't slow down nearly as fast.
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Seems appropriate. Yeah, yeah, kind of peaceful and quiet. All right.
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Welcome back, guys. You're listening to Compute This. My name
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is Thor Schrock. I'm the owner of the Schrock Innovations
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Computer Company. Service centers are doing a really good job
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right now of keeping up on repairs, maintenance, things like that.
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The rain has helped with that. We've had a much...
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a much slower intake than we normally would. So a
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lot of basically people with just really, really broken stuff,
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not the usual, you know, hey, I want some maintenance
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or hey, check this out or hey, I have this
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annoying problem. Schrock desk has been very busy as we've
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been doing a lot of Schrock desk. We're also doing
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a lot of pickups and drop offs right now where
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we come out to your home and pick your computer up,
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bring it back to the service center for repair. Complimentary
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pickup and drop off has been very popular with the
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gas prices being where they are right now. 402-558-1110 is
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the number to join us on the program today. Ask
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a question, make a comment, just be a part of
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the show in general. We'll put you in the drawing
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for that $ 25 Schrock innovations gift certificate. Now we're talking
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about the two six H two update and how, you know,
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we had, we had a listener on Facebook and, and
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he was, he was being genuine. He goes, this sounds
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like a scare wear campaign. Like, Hey, you should, you
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should buy our product. You should be scared, you know? Um, and,
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there is an insurance element to it because if you
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purchase safe upgrade and the update, if it doesn't work,
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like you, you run the program and something on your
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computer is not allowing it to install. Well, you get
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a
warranty on the install. I mean, unless the problem
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is like, there's something broken on your computer, like your
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hard drive is bad. So it won't install. Well, you know, yeah,
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that's not going to work. You know, we will, we're
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happy to give you your money back for the program
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or install it for you in the shop after you
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fix the hard drive. Uh, because that's why it's not working.
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But if it just fails on its own accord and
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there's nothing wrong with your computer, you have a warranty
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for that. And that's something that– that's what brings everybody
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in because if it fails, it has one of these
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catastrophic consequences. You have a warranty for that fix. You're
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not spending any money out of pocket to do it.
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It's really cheap insurance for $ 65. I mean it's good stuff.
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And it gets the update installed for you. But the
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whole cornerstone of that product is that people don't trust
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Microsoft to get the job done right the first time. Well,
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here's an example of that. Microsoft breaks Microsoft Office 2016
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and 2019. I'm not talking about 365. I'm talking about
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you purchased a copy of 2016 or 2019, installed it
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on your computer with your little license code, the whole bit,
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and you're just trucking along using your same software. Well,
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you probably don't know this, but when you purchase a
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copy of Microsoft Office, it doesn't work forever. You don't
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own Microsoft Office forever. You own a license to use
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Microsoft Office for a particular amount of time until the
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software is end of life. Now, in the past, before
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the internet, there hasn't really been a way to enforce this.
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So people used Office 2010 for a decade, two decades.
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We still have people coming in that are on Office
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2010 and we're like, you need to stop. This is bad.
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Can you move it to my new computer? No, we
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can't do that. The activation servers are offline. Bill Gates
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was still in charge of Microsoft when this thing was
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made like that. You just missed the entire Steve Ballmer era.
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I mean, just, you know, so Microsoft pushes a Windows
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update automatic to your computer that says, hey, if you
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have a really ancient version of Microsoft Office, time to
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put that to bed.
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Sorry.
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And turns it off. So you wake up one morning
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and the Microsoft Office 2010 or 2013, those were the
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intended targets that you paid for, just stops working. We
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sold a lot of copies of Office last week. Except
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Office 2016 and 2019 are still under service. They're still supported.
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And they shut those off too. So anybody who had
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Office 2016 or 2019, it just stopped working all of
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a sudden. Microsoft acknowledged the fix. They.
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The update was supposed to be an optional update. I
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don't know how many times you can screw this up.
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Number one, it broke everything. Number two, the update, you
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weren't even supposed to get it. It was supposed to
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be an optional update, an update installed by IT professionals
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to make sure that the stupid people working in an
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office didn't use really ancient software that exposed the company
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to risks. Instead, it was made a required update and
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automatically downloaded to you and installed on your computer. So
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they screwed up. The update itself was broken. You weren't
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supposed to get it, but you got it anyway. So
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Microsoft has paused that update. And what's the fix? Well,
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you need to reenter your product key. You have that
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little piece of cardboard, right? With the key on it. Right? Yeah,
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that's always a problem. If you have a newer version,
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like 2016, 2019, a lot of those are saved in
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your Microsoft account. You know the login to your Microsoft account, right? Right?
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I just used my PIN to sign into the computer.
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Oh.
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Well, we need to reset that password for you. Let's
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go through that. So there
you go, guys. Microsoft can't
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even update Office, and they're going to update your entire
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computer with 26H2. Just saying.
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402-558-1110.
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Lillian, welcome to the program. How can I help you
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uncompute this today?
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Hi, Phil. I love your program, by the way. I
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00:27:25.730 --> 00:27:31.609
love your people. Thank you. My problem is, well, my
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safe upgrader, you know, you have the little shield symbol there,
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whatever it is, and it is red. And I do
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shut down my computer every day. And it comes up first.
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It's yellow.
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Then it's red. So I'm not sure what it's doing.
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Gotcha. When it's red, that means there's an application that
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needs to be installed that can't be installed for some reason. Now,
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you're right. The most common reason that happens is the
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application is in use. If you have your browser open,
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we don't want to force close your browser, install an update,
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and reopen your browser again. because you're going to lose
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whatever you're potentially working on. If you're filling out, if
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you're in the middle of a checkout and you, and
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it's like, you know, the timer's taken down, you're trying
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to buy movie theater tickets or something. And then boom,
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we just decided to update your browser in that moment.
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It's not, it's not cool to rip somebody's browser out
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from under them. So secure updater waits. But when you
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restart the computer, nothing's running at that point. And so
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it'll try to go ahead and, and do the update
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at that point. If it's not, if it's failing still
538
00:28:35.140 --> 00:28:38.539
at that point, odds are that there is some application
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installed on your computer that's broken. We can't install over
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the top of it. So the way we would figure
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this out is that red shield that you have down
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there by the clock, not the one that's in the
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middle of your desktop somewhere, but the one that's down
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by the clock down there, if that's the one that's red,
545
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right-click on it, and then you can say Show Secure Updater.
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And it'll bring up that window for Secure Updater, and
547
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you click on the Programs tab. The Word program? Yeah,
548
00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:11.180
the Word program is on the left side. And this
549
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is going to show you all the programs that are
550
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selected on your computer, what's getting installed. And it'll show
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you the installed version and the current version. Well, one
552
00:29:19.329 --> 00:29:21.990
of those is going to be outdated. One of it's
553
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going to say the installed version is lower than the
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current version. That's the one that's giving you trouble. Now,
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you can do all this. You can troubleshoot it yourself,
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and some people enjoy doing that kind of thing. If
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you are one of the people that does not enjoy
558
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doing that kind of thing, This is why you call
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the service center we can pop in on a schrock
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desk call connect to you remotely and take a look
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at this and there's no charge for that connection you
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pay for secure updated we want to make sure the
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software is working for you so if you this is
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how you how we would check it to see what
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application isn't working right then we would simply uninstall that
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application from the computer and then restart the computer Secure
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Updater takes care of the rest. It downloads, it updates,
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it does everything on its own from that point forward.
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So that's usually what's going on if this is the case, Lillian,
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where it's not doing an update.
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Okay, because I'm looking at all the programs, and the
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ones that I.
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Selected do appear to be the current version, but I'm
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not completely 100% knowledgeable as to what I'm looking at,
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so I guess I will give them a call tomorrow.
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Sounds good, Lillian. We'll look forward to talking to you soon.
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Alrighty.
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Thank you very much. Thank you for the call. I
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appreciate it. And the service centers are open today, Lillian,
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also from noon to five. So you can give us
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a call today if you prefer. Or, you know, tomorrow's
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fine too. Monday's a whole new day. 402-558-1110. Got to
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take a quick break. When we come back, guys, I
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have some doozies for you. These are the fun predictions.
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These are the ones that did not come true. All
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those people who said all these technology things, we're going
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to change the world, change the internet, the original computer technology,
588
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was going to destroy office jobs. Clerical staff will be
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obsolete because of the computer. Yeah, we've got them all
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for you. Stay tuned for this one. It's going to
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be a fun one coming up next on Compute This.
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to 21 days to fix your computer. We'll give you
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rely on simply fails. And the last question you want
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to hear at that time is, you have a backup, right?
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All righty, guys, welcome back into Compute This. My name's
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Thor Schrock. I'm the owner of the Schrock Innovations Computer Company,
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where we've got four locations, four actual physical places you
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can actually physically go to get your computer fixed. Imagine that.
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You know, remember back in my day, we went to
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the mall and we bought things. We hung out. We
640
00:33:54.779 --> 00:33:56.519
had no money, but we went to the mall to
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not buy things. It was crazy, right? And then now
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kids are like, that'd be so wild. Like I just
643
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sit on my Xbox and talk to my friends. Like
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we didn't have an Xbox. We had to go somewhere
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and talk to our friends and we didn't want to,
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you know, you had the cord on the kitchen phone
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on
the wall, you know, that's pretty short. So technology
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has come a long way since then.
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Right?
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So I've got some predictions here. These are, these are
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predictions that actual futurists made about technology, how it was
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going to impact everybody in the future. These are kind
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of fun. Um, These are the misses, by the way.
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These are the things that nobody talks about. Albert Einstein
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in 1934 said nuclear power was impossible. He said it
656
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would require you to split the atom at will. One
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00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:46.699
year later, a university created the first chain reaction, nuclear
658
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chain reaction. So it was the first precursor to nuclear power.
659
00:34:50.389 --> 00:34:54.309
So even Einstein gets them wrong. This guy named Metcalf
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in 1995 said the Internet was going to collapse by 1996. Okay, well,
661
00:35:01.449 --> 00:35:06.199
that's funny. The Washington Post in 1982 said, because the
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Washington Post knows their stuff, that computers are going to
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kill all clerical jobs. There are no more clerical jobs.
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I bet you didn't know that. Our new flagship location,
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we're in the same building as the Omaha Metro Credit Union.
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There's a lot of people working in the Omaha Metro
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Credit Union doing a lot of clerical things. Nobody told
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them that their jobs were gone in 1982. It's crazy.
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Critics in 1983 said the pocket calculator was going to
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rot kids' brains because they would not learn how to
671
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math anymore. The pocket calculator. What ended up happening was
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the pocket calculator just redefined what math you needed to
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do in your head versus what math you could do
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reliably with a calculator. Critics, let's see. YouTube. This is
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the guy, the creator of YouTube. The guy that made
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it and sold it to Google for like a bajillion dollars.
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In 2005, one year before he sells it to Google,
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he says, honestly, there's not that many videos online I
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really want to watch. The creator of YouTube didn't think
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YouTube was going to make it because there's not very
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many videos I want to watch. Steve Ballmer, 2007. This
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iPhone thing isn't going to catch on. Not a chance.
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Not a chance. No market share for the iPhone. All right, Steve.
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In 2016, Hinton said, stop training radiologists. This is 2016.
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Now Hinton, who is Hinton? He is called the godfather
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of AI. He was doing the AI thing before AI
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was a thing. And he said, stop training radiologists because
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it's completely obvious that deep learning like IBM's Watson deep
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learning is so much better at reading, you know, radiology
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reports that we don't need humans anymore. What ended up
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happening instead? We have like double the number of radiologists
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now that we had back then because the population got older,
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imaging scans got cheaper and the AI got it wrong
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a lot of times. Now the humans working with the
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AI are, is a bang-up combination. Apparently, they can detect
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a whole lot more together than either one of them
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can detect separately.
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Hmm.
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Funny how that worked. He was the godfather of AI,
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and he got it wrong.
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Elon.
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Our good buddy Elon in 2013. We will have self-driving
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cars in three years. 90% of all the miles driven
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on the road could be self-driven. There's no reason they
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shouldn't be in the next three years. That was in 2013. Yeah,
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my Blue Cruise is all right, but I'm not sure
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it's worth $ 425 a year. So these are all headlines, guys.
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None of them came true. All of these were headlines
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at the time. They were people got upset about them.
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People got worked up about them. People got scared by them.
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And not a single one of these headlines ever came true.
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So I'm watching the Huskers game yesterday. And, you know,
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it's a pretty solid performance. You know, I wish we'd
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there'd have been, you know, fewer penalties and fewer injuries like.
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It was almost like, can we play football, or is
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--> 00:38:18.519
this an ER episode? It was bad. Just people going
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down left and right. You don't want to see that. Yeah,
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the other team lost more players than we did, but
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you don't want to see all these young guys getting
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hurt like that. But the thing that really interested me
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about that game was the commercials. We're in political season, guys,
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so there's all kinds of commercials. Some of those commercials
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were sharp. Like they were throwing elbows, right? And then,
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of course, you have the obligatory commercial. And that's why
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I oppose data centers. And, oh, it gave me the ick.
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That's what the girls say. It gave me the ick. Yeah,
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I didn't like it. Why don't I like it? Let
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me tell you. Now, I'm going to preface this because
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I tell you things that are true on this program.
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I am not running for office. I don't need your vote.
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What I need is you to choose my business for
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your next computer or next computer repair. And that's based
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on trust. So when I tell you something, it needs
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to be true. You need to know that you can
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trust what I'm saying is true. That is why in
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the midst of COVID, I literally got on the microphone
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at KFAB, not just on the compute this program, but
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on the afternoon show on KFAB. And I said, masks
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don't work. The science says masks don't do anything. Not
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a single, if you have a cold or a flu
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and you wear a mask to work, I hope you
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feel better. I hope the mask gives you some psychological
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comfort because that's all it's doing. Masks stop wet particulates.
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That's it. That's what they're designed to do. It wasn't
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very popular at the time. Oh yeah, the whole natural
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immunity thing. That one got me in trouble. You know,
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the human body is an amazing vehicle and it tends
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to defeat viruses and infections on its own without an injection.
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I did a segment. Are you going to get the vaccine?
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Every single caller called in and said they were going
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to get it because they loved the people around them
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and they wanted to make sure they didn't get sick.
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It wasn't about their health. It was about helping other
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people stay healthy. And now we know after the fact
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that the vaccine actually probably caused more harm than it
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did good. And Fauci was pleading the Fifth Amendment, won't
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testify about it. So I was right. It wasn't popular,
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and I said it anyway. Guys, the whole COVID thing,
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let me show you what a PSYOP looks like, a
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psychological operation. This is an AstroTurf campaign. An anthropic researcher
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comes out and says, I worked at Anthropic for six months,
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and what I saw there just– terrified me so much
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that I just left and now I'm going to go
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do a whirlwind press tour funded by an anti-AI lobby. Yeah.
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Brett Baer asked, is there any money back in what
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you're doing? Full well knowing that the whole interview was
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organized by an anti-AI lobby. What a disingenuous, the guy said,
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I mean, the guy said, no, there's no money involved
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here at all. And Brett's like, okay, next question. You know,
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it's like, there's no follow up there. Another anthropic researcher
771
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comes out and he's like, there's a 90% chance that
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AI is going to kill every human being on the
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planet within 10 years. All right. Say that again slow.
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A 90% chance. That means a near certainty. If you
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said the Huskers are 90% certain to beat Oregon, you'd
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be pretty confident going into that game, right? Not sure
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that's really the odds, but You know, you'd be really
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confident going into that game. 90% certainty that within 10 years,
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you and everyone you know will be dead. Thanks, AI.
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Best we better stop the data centers now before we're
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all dead. Does that sound familiar? Best go get your
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shot before everyone you love around you is dead. Because
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you were selfish and you didn't get a shot. Sound
familiar?
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Sam Altman. chief executive of OpenAI, and Dario, we got
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to pump the brakes, Anthropic CEO. We got to pump
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the brakes on AI. It's getting out of hand. We're
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moving too fast. Meanwhile, both of them, within 10 days,
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released new, more powerful models than the world has ever
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seen before. Opus 5.5 is flipping fantastic. If you haven't
790
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tried it, you need to try it. It's just amazing.
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Mark Zuckerberg is still a Facebook guy. He's still like,
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trust me, bro. We don't need any regulation. Just trust me, bro.
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Okay.
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That's the Zuck right there. That's the Zuck we all
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know and love. Anthropic has an IPO coming up. Big money,
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big money stuff. Oracle, force majeure. That's a fancy word
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for saying they want out of their big AI data
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center in Texas. They can't get out. So their stock
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is tanking because apparently there's some reason that this data
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center is not, they can't get power availability. There's going
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to be a big delay. Texas is coming out and saying, oh,
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we don't like data centers now. Fear sells. Fear gets votes.
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OpenAI caught China directly pushing an anti-AI AstroTurf campaign. That's
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where the money's coming from. That's where the politicians are
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getting their money. Of course, not directly from China. It's
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going through a number of hands before it gets to
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the politicians. So the politicians all can claim and probably
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some of them even believe that this money is just
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clean contributions to their campaign as long as they take
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the anti-AI line. Follow the money. We told you about
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all the things that were true before that were not popular.
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And I know a lot of people, the reason that
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politicians are saying these nasty things about data centers is
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because people don't like AI and they can't quite put
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their finger on what they don't like about AI. So
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when you give it a target, a data center, that's
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the thing I'm going to attack. You can't really attack AI.
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How do you fight AI? Well, I can fight the
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data centers in my community. That's what I can do.
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Data centers... are just warehouses full of computers. They don't
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drink water. Most of them use closed water cycle loops, honestly.
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They're not destroying the environment. They're not soaking up the
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groundwater and dumping it into a river in Omaha. Those
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are all fake. None of that's happening. But yet you
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hear about that. So the next time you see a
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political commercial talking about how I'm against data centers and
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you should be too, or anything like that, anything that's
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just that, that fear response, that's stoking a fear response.
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They're going to take away your social security, stoking a
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fear response. They're going to take away. You're going to
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push grandma. Remember Paul Ryan was going to push grandma
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off the cliff in a wheelchair and take away her
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Medicaid fear response. You're being manipulated. So you heard it
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here first guys. The truth will come out.
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402-558-1110.
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We're going to take a quick break. When we come back, Dave,
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your call and also this robot arm at the Los
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Angeles airport that sent its company $ 10. 5 million in the
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red last quarter on Perrier. That's a lot of Perrier.
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We're going to tell you what the robot arm did
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coming up next on Compute This.
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All righty, guys. Welcome back to Compute This. I'm going
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through some of the comments here at Facebook.com slash Schrock Innovations.
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And, Bonnie.
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You know, you have to be tolerant of people who
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disagree with you here. And Bonnie has posted a comment
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and says, I do believe that there is a 90%
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chance that I will be dead in 10 years. Not me, her.
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She's talking about herself. I believe there's a 90% chance
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I'm going to kill you. No, I believe that there's
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a 90% chance that I'll be dead in 10 years.
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And then there's some asterisks here. She says, of course,
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I'm 79. I've had cancer twice. Two small strokes, a
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half page of chronic health conditions. And by the way,
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I love the service that Schrock has. And I have
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the text come to my house to pick up my
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stuff all the time. Bonnie, she's got a sense of
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humor about it, at least, you know, but but that's
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the thing, guys. You know, when you hear these kind
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of outlandish things like 90 percent chance that the human
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race will be extinct, like say it out loud. And
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does it sound stupid? Like there wasn't even a 90% chance.
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Even Fauci didn't say there was a 95% chance that
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you were going to all die of COVID. I mean,
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but AI is going to get you COVID couldn't come on. Maybe,
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maybe AI makes the new COVID.
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Ooh.
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Yeah. Is that the plot of the next terminator? It's
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gotta be, it's gotta be a biological weapon.
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All right.
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Last call of the day here, Dave, welcome to the program.
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What can I do for you on compute this today?
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Morning, Thor. Morning. I have a question for you. I
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did get a copy of the 26H2 update and waiting
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on that, but this is more of a question about
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the Tuesday, the second Tuesday of the month, once they
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push out. Is there a possibility that they can sometimes
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corrupt or mess up programs or apps that are not Microsoft?
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Typically not. If it does, and it has happened before,
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00:50:13.340
but it isn't because they messed with the apps themselves.
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This is a great question. Thank you for the call, Dave.
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It's not because they messed with the apps themselves. It's
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because that something the app depended on in the computer
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was broken. So for example, if this particular program interacts
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with the network card in such a way to get
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access to the internet and they change the way the
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network card works and it has a knock-on effect to
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that program. So it wasn't like they were monkeying with
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the program itself. but they changed something the program uses
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in Windows, and now something's not compatible anymore. The same
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reason I'm terrified to upgrade my mom. Every time there's
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a new version of Windows 11 that comes out, I
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have to ask myself, is Scrabble from 1999 going to
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still work on this computer? It may not. There may
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be something that is dependent that is gone now, and
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it just won't work anymore. So legit reasons, legit things. Now,
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speaking of legit things, there's this robot arm at the
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Los Angeles airport. So imagine a bar, like a bartender, right?
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It's like an airport bar, but it's got bottled water, drinks,
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Red Bull, stuff like that. And then you go up
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to the thing and you pay for you, you order
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a Perrier and you pay for it. And the robot
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arm goes and it reaches behind it and reaches into
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the cool, the case, like the refrigerated case, grabs your
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bottle of Perrier, brings it back around and sets it
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on the counter in front of you. And you pick
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up your bottle and you say, thanks, robot arm, and
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you walk away to your plane. A lot of things
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had to happen for that to work. You had to
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make your payment. The robot had to say, okay, the
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customer is paid. What does the customer want to order?
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The customer put this on the order. Where is that
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in the case? I'm going to go to the case.
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I'm going to grab the correct bottle and give that
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to the customer. And then I have to have a
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camera that watches the customer walk away with the product.
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Except the camera, that last step, they kind of forgot
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that one or it wasn't working quite right. Remember when
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the AI at like Whole Foods was a bunch of
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guys in India sitting there watching computer feeds and then
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checking you out remotely?
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Yeah.
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It's our new AI innovation. It's just a bunch of
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humans in India. Like it's not AI. This is really AI.
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And there was a glitch and the camera didn't see
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the guy pick up the bottle and walk away. So
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it immediately refunded the guy. It just assumed that he
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left it behind. The computer wasn't smart enough to wonder
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where all the bottles of Perrier went. There are supposedly
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still sitting on the counter. It never put it back
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in the case. but it gave him a refund. Now
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this company is needing to raise $ 10. 5 million of emergency capital.
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Now this company, in case you want to invest, this
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is the LAX robot store that is run by Venhub. Venhub.
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That is the company you want to invest in. Their
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stock's pretty cheap right now, I hear. And if they
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get this camera thing figured out, maybe robot vending is
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the future, but right now they need $ 10. 5 million cold
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just to not go Out of business. This is the
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robot arm that's going to kill 90% of us within
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10 years. Is it putting something in the barrier? I
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don't know. If I give you a refund, am I responsible?
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I don't know.
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All right.
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Today's winner, Dave, congratulations. You snuck in there and got
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yourself a $ 25 Schrock Innovations gift certificate. We'll get that
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out to you here on Monday. No after Schrock today
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after the program. So, you know, this is the end
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of the show. Don't fear. We'll be back again next week.
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We're going to do it all over again. Also, check
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out our Facebook page throughout the week, facebook.com slash schrockinnovations.
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00:53:36.809 --> 00:53:38.969
We're going to be pushing out the update there when
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26H2 lands. So watch for that coming very soon. And
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we will see you all again next weekend for another
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edition of Compute This.