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Hey there and welcome into a Sunday edition of Tech Talk here on WDBO 1073FM and AM580 Orlando's News and Talk.
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I'm Greg Rhodes here with David Levitt, president and founder of Refresh Computer Superstore and technician Adam Littlefield.
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You can contact the Refresh Computer Superstore, though I'd probably wait till Monday by calling that free Tech Support Hotline over at 407-478-8200, or you can always leave an open mic in the WDBOF during the show.
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Also check out their website over at Refresh Computers.net, or you can stop in at the Refresh Computer Superstore in Longwood at 820 East State Road 434, just three and a half miles east of I-4.
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Store hours are Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m.
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until 7 p.m.
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And now for David Levitt and Adam Littlefield.
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All right.
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Thanks, Greg.
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And thanks everybody for listening to yet another edition of Tech Talk with Refresh Computers, our second video edition, if all goes well.
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That's right.
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We hope to, you know, we'll we'll have this out on our website.
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We usually put the podcast out on the website shortly after the show ends, and you you've always been able to go there and listen to the show.
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Now you'll get to go there and listen and also watch us while while we're talking.
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And uh, you know, it makes it a little more fun.
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We're able to also insert some text in there and stuff like that that you get with the videos and stuff like that.
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So we're really happy to be able to do this and so glad you're able to join us.
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So if you missed yesterday's show, again, go to refreshcomputers.net, click on that podcast link, and you can see and hear this entire show, right?
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Or yesterday's show, and you'll be able to hear today's show after it completes.
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So, what are we going to talk about today?
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We're going to talk about we're going to do some AI chatbot comparisons because the chat bots have gotten pretty popular.
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That's like the up-and-coming thing, right?
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In the AI world.
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Everybody has their favorite AI tool, ChatGPT, Claude, Grok.
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But most have an an added thing called a chat bot, right?
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I had to get that out.
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So uh and my favorite one happens to be right now, the Grok bot, which is awesome.
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We're gonna talk a little bit more about that in detail when we get into that first segment.
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And then we're gonna talk a little bit about why it's important to go ahead and do that Windows update right now.
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Right now, because it's if you haven't done it yet, it needs to be done.
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And we're gonna get into the reasons why during that segment.
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And then we're gonna finish today's show with you know it's daylight savings time again.
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I played uh I played on the morning show.
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I played uh shares to turn back time.
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That was always my uh that's my go-to for uh for when we roll those clocks back an hour here like we did early this morning.
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Yeah.
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What the heck is going on with our politicians and why can't they get this right?
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I think the vast, vast majority, I don't care what side of the aisle you're on, or if you're in the middle where you are.
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You got everybody wants this clock chain stuff to stop.
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You got fired up Adam yesterday, you've got fired up Dave today.
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We'll have a good segment for that, yeah.
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So let's get into the thing about chatbots.
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Yes.
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And what I like most about being able to use this new tool.
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It's it's it's a fairly new tool, you know, in the AI world, using, you know, having your own chatbot, which basically serves as your own agent and your personal assistants and things like that.
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And we're gonna compare some and and see what's what with with all of them.
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So, first of all, you know, what is a chatbot, right?
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So it's basically an app or it's a website, and all the good chatbots now, like the Grotbot, also has a desktop version you can put on your Windows computer.
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Right.
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That's capable of so much more than what the chatbot can even do.
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True.
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And also your it has an iPhone app, it has an Android app, and you can download it on there, and you can do all kinds of things that we would think were well, were unthinkable.
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Yeah.
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Really.
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And you know, things that we warned you about, right?
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That you can do with these chatbots now, and why it might be safer now to be able to do things like give it your credit card number and things like that.
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And I and and I know a lot of you are like, uh-uh,
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not me.
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I am not giving some AI tool my credit card number, and I hear you.
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I was gonna say that was even you a couple months ago.
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That was me.
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That was me, and my mind changed.
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Wow.
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And I'm gonna tell you why.
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So let's just talk about some of the ones that that are out there right now.
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So, Grok, that's the one right now, is really getting a lot of the buzz.
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I mean, if you go download the app, you'll see it's like in the top of downloads right now on Apple and also in the Play Store, as they call it, right?
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And it is such an awesome bot.
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It's the one I use, and we'll get into more detail about that also.
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But there's also ChatGPT, they have their their own the long-known name for the the idea of AI.
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ChatGPT, I think, was kind of the first name that actually got out there that everybody knew.
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Which we talked about when AI first came out.
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Right.
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A couple years ago, we had a show on that.
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And so so I want to be clear though, is it's a distinction between Chat GPT, Grok.
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It's not just the chat GPT, it's not just the Grok that you're used to if you're using that or the Claude that you're using.
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This is a chat bot tool that they have come out with that you can use and not really in place of the actual AI tool, but enhances tremendously.
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I was gonna say definitely in partnership with, yeah.
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Yes, definitely in partnership with.
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When you start using their new chat bot, like the grok bot, it's called, you're actually consuming the same usage that you are already paying for by using grok if you're paying for that.
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Right.
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Grok itself, the chat bot, is I what I equate to almost like your text messaging with smart, like one of the smartest people in the world, that you can ask almost any question and it can give you some fairly good information.
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Now, as always with AI, you know, you do want to verify the sources, but I will say over the last year, AI has kind of gotten better and better on not hallucinating, you know, certain things or misinterpreting articles, Reddit threads, wherever it is sourcing its information from.
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So that is something to always be, you know, to think about the fact that AI it's it's great, it's fast, it gets you information, but always just still double check, make sure information it's giving you is right.
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Dave was mentioning grok bot, which is you know more of the desktop version of this AI, so you can actually ask it to do stuff on your desktop.
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So it will, it has its own desktop on your computer.
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Dave, you've been playing around with this a lot, haven't you?
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Well, yeah, let's let's make this this clear.
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And that's why I think the grok bot right now is and the reason that's so much in the news is because it's right now by far the best one out there, yeah, in my opinion.
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I I've looked at all of them.
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And of course the other the other AI tools are gonna they're gonna catch up because they all catch up to each other, right?
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And but I just want to make this clear distinction.
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There's grok, which you use as your AI tool, and then there's grok bot, which is an integrated into grok tool that has its own separate app and its own separate desktop version if you want to use in Windows.
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And the big difference is in the grok bot, it'll actually present you with a web page from within the grok bot.
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Okay, so it's not a web page on your computer.
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It doesn't use a web page on your computer, it uses a page within the grok bot.
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So you can actually see you can you can click and take over their webpage instead of it taking over yours.
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You see the difference here?
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Yeah, and and so you take over that and then it'll have a login screen for one of the places that you want might want to log into.
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And you can log in there securely.
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If you use a uh password tool like OnePass or your the Google Password Manager, password manager, last pass.
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Think of that because it's the same concept when you enter your password in this screen within the grok bot, it's a password management tool that's saved in the grok bot.
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And then it has its additional encryption.
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And it has it, it's all encrypted.
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And and as a matter of fact, you you know you you one of the things you got to be careful about, and and I don't think it'll even let you, is to type your password in the conversation with the grok bot.
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It won't it it'll tell you, hey, no, I don't want to hear.
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This is not the safe place.
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Oh the safe the safe place is let me present you with a login screen and you use it like your password manager and you put your password in there.
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And so I admit, you know, I was the person that was like, no way, I'm not gonna do something like that before this technology came out, right?
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So you know, and then I and then I it just dawned on me, well, wait, I use a password manager now, and it's really no different.
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Sure.
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It's just another password manager, but it's within the grok bot.
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I guess people's concern would be the how much access does the grok bot have now to your password manager?
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What no, no its own password manager for you.
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It has full access to it because it's in there, but it's encrypted.
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Right.
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And so, you know, so even if anybody was able to somehow break into the grok bot on your on your your grok bot and stuff, you know, that it's not going to work for them because it's your password that's in there, it's encrypted.
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They would have to have your access to to the grok bot.
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Yeah, they could do that.
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Right.
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But, you know, which is that's the same thing could happen if they had got access to your computer and and and they went to your password manager.
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Sure.
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So it's just so it's the same thing.
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It comes down to just having again like a strong password like you would on your password manager, true.
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Making sure you have a strong password on your grok bot and our and grok accounts, just so you know, like Dave's saying, this password manager that grok bot uses can't be compromised.
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And it's directly through the grok tool.
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So that's why I think it's it's to me it's it's exciting that it's out there.
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And and there some of the other ones may have already started catching up, and I and I haven't gotten that yet.
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So forgive me if you if you use Chat GPT and they can do the same thing, and and Claude, and I'm pretty sure Claude can't, because I asked Claude actually this morning.
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Hey, can you and it can't.
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And but so the and grok bot, it's G-R-O-K and then B-O-T.
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You again, you can get that app.
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So you this is the true shopping assistant.
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I was gonna say it sounds like it's almost like your secretary for grok.
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It is.
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Yeah, it's it's your intermediary to ask these questions.
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Hey, this is these are the things I would like to do, and it knows how to develop those into grok for you.
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It does, and and and and it automatically just does it.
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So basically, when you create your first grok bot, this is how it works.
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So you download the app, you the first thing it wants you to do is name a bot to give it a name.
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So give it something short.
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And you can have more than one bot.
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I think I have 15 right now in just the last week.
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I've been playing with this.
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So you give it a personal assistant, just name it personal assistant, and for it'll take it from there.
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I'm telling you, don't have to give it special instructions, you don't have to, it'll come up and tell you all the things it can do.
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Would you want this?
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Would you want that?
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Would you want me to send you emails?
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Do you want me to have access to your calendar?
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Do you want me to do all these things?
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It'll know what to ask you based on the name you gave it.
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So when you give your bot a name and grok bot, keep in mind that that's what the grok bot tool is going to use to set up that bot.
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So be specific, don't name it like Troy.
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Right.
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Like Troy's Grok bot.
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Right.
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And it's just gonna come back and say, okay, Troy, what do you want to do?
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You know.
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Right.
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So be specific.
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So you can do things like shopping bot.
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Just call it shopping bot.
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Yep.
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And it'll come back, it'll know what to do based on how you name the bot.
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Personal trainer.
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Personal trainer.
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All that stuff.
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It'll give you all and it'll prompt you, and then it'll it'll keep working with you till it's fine-tuned it right down to exactly the way you want it.
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Pretty cool stuff.
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Yeah.
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No, it's it's a it's amazing the leaps that we've made.
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I mean, we've been doing the show now for a little while, and since I started with you guys was really when they the big leaps were starting to be made in AI.
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And to the point where we're at now, where you can, again, you can develop an entire 15 squad team of bots to be able to
kind of develop out projects and how to manage your day and set up my personal training schedule and tell me what I need to cook for dinner tonight because I'm on this schedule of things.
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All these different interactions that we are able to have with it now is it's it's it's really again, I've said it a few times here over the last few weeks.
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We're living in the future.
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We are, we are, and and I want to tell you one thing.
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I real quick while we still have time is I have a YouTube bot.
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I just said YouTube, refresh YouTube, refresh computers, YouTube refresh YouTube is what I named it.
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It went through all the prompts with me, and the video for this show right now gets uploaded into that grok bot and it knows exactly what to do with it.
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Yep, yep.
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Captions, it'll insert text here and there for me.
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Click this, it'll it's going to upload it to YouTube for me.
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All these things.
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If you're a business, listen up.
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You can do the same kinds of things.
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Our YouTube channel is terrible right now.
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It's been out there 18 years.
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Terrible.
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Why?
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Because we never really, I never had the time to maintain it.
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Right.
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So, you know, check it out.
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It's a pretty cool tool.
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And that's the thing, is you need to check these things out because it's this is where a lot of this stuff is developing and rapidly going towards.
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Uh, I am I myself, I know I'm behind on it.
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It's something I need to catch up on.
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So we'll continue talking about that as those developments continue coming through.
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You've been listening to Tech Talk right here on WDBO1073FM and AF580.
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Hey there, and welcome back to a Sunday edition of Tech Talk here on WDBO 107-3FM and AM580 Orlando's news and talk.
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I'm Greg Rhodes, sitting here with David Levitt, president and founder of Refresh Computer Superstore and technician Adam Littlefield.
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You can contact the Refresh Computer Superstore by calling that free tech support hotline, 407-478-8200.
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Or if you have a comment during the show, we'd love to hear it.
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Use that open mic feature inside the WDBO app.
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And now back to David and Adam.
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All right.
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Thanks, Greg, and thanks everybody for listening to this edition of Tech Talk with Refresh Computers.
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Very happy to be able to come to you in video format.
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Finally, this is the second show that we've done this.
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Yep.
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Yesterday's show was also on video.
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If you want to catch yesterday's show, which was some pretty good topics, we talked about comparing, you know, buying a used car to the new MacBook on yesterday's show.
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Yep.
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You have some crazy, some crazy things to say there, and it's all true.
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It's right.
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You can go to refreshcomputers.net, click on that podcast link in the upper right hand corner, and you'll be able to listen to yesterday's show in its entirety and see us if you care to.
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And you can listen to the show as well.
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So this segment, we're going to talk about some things that you can do at Refresh Computers, uh things that you can depend on us for, I should say.
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We do need to plug our store a little bit during the show because that's what helps pay for the show.
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And so we're happy to do that.
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And so, and then you know, when we come back after the break, we're gonna talk about this a record month of Windows fixes.
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Did you know that?
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Yeah, a record month of Windows fixes that happen in the month of October.
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But it's a good thing, that means that they're working, and why, but why it's very important if you haven't done the latest Windows update, you need to do it.
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I mean, probably like right now, because it's that serious.
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So we're gonna talk about that when we come back after the break.
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But right now, Adam, talk a little bit about our our in-home, our on-site services for both businesses and your residents and what we can do.
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So we provide a lot of dispatch services.
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This is something where we can come to your home or your office, basically, where you know, the actual environment where you may be having your problem.
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So maybe you want to have some systems uh set up to print to a single printer.
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That's something that we can come out to do.
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We have different costs for our dispatch fees depending on your your range from our store.
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What I always recommend is give us a call.
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Our number is 407-478-8200.
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Um, and we can kind of talk with you on the phone about what you have going on and if it's something that you may have to bring by, or we can just come to you and and fix it on site.
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That's true.
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And I will add this it does happen where you call to pay us to come out on a dispatch, and we're able to just help you out over the phone in a few minutes.
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It saves you the fee.
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It does.
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And we don't charge for that if it just takes us a few minutes over the phone.
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But go ahead, Adam.
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And that's that's normally the one of the steps that we take before we just push to hey, we need to come out and and be on site to look at this.
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Right.
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Um, a lot of times we'll we'll even support doing a remote session.
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We'll push that to where you know, maybe something we can less expensive to do remote hookup to your computer.
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Yeah.
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It saves us from having to go out to your home or business.
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And oftentimes we can just fix it right there over the internet.
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It's something that can be done a little quicker that doesn't have to be just, you know, scheduled put into our dispatch schedule to have a truck roll out to you.
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And I'll tell you, more than half of you know, appointments I've had of on-site was something that, you know, talking over the phone wasn't really explained, and it could have been just a remote session, but sometimes it goes the other way around.
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We think, you know, it's just a remote session and it it gets a little larger than you have to go out, yeah.
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And then we have to go out from there.
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So, you know, technology, it's it's an ever-changing thing.
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Right.
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Well, and I and I promise you that we'll always do what is best for you.
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So that that's one of the reasons we've been around for it'll be 27 years in January.
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One of the reasons we've been around so long.
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I mean, a computer store has been around for 27 years.
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We've out we've outlasted all the big box stores that went up, came up and went out, right?
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And so is because we always do what's best for you, period.
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Because that's what I would want, and that's what we give our customers, and that's what you know.
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We have we're we're a
store with conscience with a conscience.
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Conscience and morals.
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And morals.
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And so I instruct all my employees because I have to have a clear conscience.
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I make sure all my employees have a clear conscience also, and that they feel they are free to discuss with you what's best for you without trying to oversell you on anything.
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Yeah, and that's that's the nice thing with our our site dispatches, our remote sessions, any of our support is again, it's what's going to be best for you.
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Cost effective, wise, and time as well.
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We care about your time always.
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And to learn more about those services, give them a call, 407-478-8200.
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You've been listening to Tech Talk right here on WDBO 1073FM and AM580.
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Hey there, and welcome back to a Sunday edition of Tech Talk here on WDBO 107-3FM and AM580, Orlando's news and talk.
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I'm Greg Rhodes here with David Levitt, president and founder of Refresh Computer Superstore, and technician Adam Littlefield.
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You can contact the Refresh Computer Superstore, though probably wait till Monday, by using that free tech support hotline, 407-478-8200.
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Or if you have a comment during the show, we'd love to hear it.
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Use that open mic feature inside the WDBO app.
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You can also check out the website over at refreshcomputers.net, or you can stop in at the Refresh Computer Superstore in Longwood at 820 East State Road 434, just three and a half miles east of I-4.
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Store hours are Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m.
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until 7 p.m.
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And now for David Levitt and Adam Littlefield.
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All right.
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Thanks, Greg.
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And thanks everybody for listening and watching Tech Talk with Refresh Computers.
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So happy to be doing this in video format.
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And you know, you can check this podcast out by going to our website, refreshcomputers.net.
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Click on that podcast link, and you'll be able to see and hear the show in its entirety.
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And yesterday's show, which was also a video podcast.
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And you know what?
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Go to the bottom of any page at refreshcomputers.net.
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There's a simple little form to fill out.
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It's only one field.
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Just ask for your email address.
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We don't want your name, we don't want your phone number or any of that.
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Just your email address.
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If you put that in there, you will be.
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Be notified whenever one of these shows are ready to be viewed, and then you can go in and view it at your leisure.
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So that's a pretty cool feature, and a lot of people take advantage of that.
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Yeah.
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And because the show is on all of the popular mediums that are out there, right?
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We have our own YouTube channel, you can check it out there as well.
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So the big news story right now that I I want to emphasize, I can't emphasize enough.
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Check your windows, and if it needs an update, update it today.
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We've said Windows updates are important in the past, but this one might be one of the more important ones we've had in a little while, right?
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It is because it is fixing a record number of security flaws.
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And I think it was what, somewhere in the neighborhood of 1800.
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I'd have to check my notes here.
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Wow.
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But so many security flaws.
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And why?
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It's what we have been we talked about before.
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AI is so prevalent now that it can just make all these security issues for things like Windows operating systems that Microsoft needs to take care of.
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And they found some very serious ones, folks.
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And so check.
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If you don't know how to check, we're going to tell you how to check.
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It just takes two minutes.
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And if that's still not comfortable for you, give us a call.
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Free tech support hotline 407-478-8200.
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We can run over it with you on the phone real quick.
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And if that's too too complicated, bring your computer or laptop over to the store and we'll help you get it updated there.
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So the address is 820 East State Road 434 in Longwood.
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It used to be a very normal thing for a lot of us in older Windows versions to just defer updates.
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You know, they were they were just annoying.
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We just want to pull your hair out.
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I want to just stop you there because I years ago we would always advise people don't be the guinea pig and don't be the first to update.
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Yep.
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Because if you can remember
years ago that updates oftentimes cause other issues with your computer, and you'd have to revert back, you'd have to figure out what went wrong.
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And and so, but that's not the case today.
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Right.
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Right.
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So today, if there is a Windows update, if there is an iOS update, an iPhone update, or a Google update, or any Chrome update, do it.
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Do it right away as soon as possible, because in almost every case, it's because of a security flaw that they've uncovered.
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Right.
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And that's that's the important thing is you know, these security flaws, it it can be compromising to anything you have on your computer, any personal information, you know, banking information, anything like that that's vital and could be pretty bad if somebody got a hold of that information.
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You know, that's what these kinds of holes are plugging, you know, these security problems.
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And with AI now, there's again more and more that are going to be coming out, and and Windows will have to be pushing more updates.
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So I suggest honestly, in the in the settings area of Windows and the updates area, make sure automatic updates is just enabled.
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So how do you how do people get to that, Adam?
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So in Windows, all you have to do, what I like to guide is in the bottom where that search box is, just type settings right there, and it's the first result that'll come up with a little gear icon.
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Open that, and there's an option for Windows updates in the top right corner.
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Clicking that opens up the updates area.
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There's a nice blue check for updates button.
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So if you can check real quick, it'll tell you the last time it checks it as well.
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And you can also automatically set it up for automatic updates just down in the middle of that page.
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Okay.
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But by default now, Windows comes with automatic updates turned on.
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Right.
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So, but you might want to make sure that it is turned on.
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It's always worth double checking because some systems that I've seen businesses send out to their employees or some just pre-configured systems that come from like the big box stores, so straight out of the manufacturer factory, have this sort of setting disabled.
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And I've had computers come in that are running the first version of Windows 11 that was released, you know, years ago that you can't even update anymore.
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Right now
it has to be reinstalled.
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Yeah.
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So there are there are possibilities it may be disabled.
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Give yourself the the two-minute check, check the updates, check if that's enabled.
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It's gonna save yourself a headache down the road.
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I will say if that is an assigned computer from your IT department, double check with them before you do that, too.
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That's always a good idea.
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Yes.
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I will say that.
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Just to be sure, because there are some things that maybe don't play too well once you do that update.
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Right.
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And that's that's also a good point, too.
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If you have a large business that manages your system and you see it is disabled, there has to be something on their IT side.
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They are the best to confer with at that point in time.
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That's true.
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That's true.
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Yeah, just yeah, don't just nilly-willy go into your computer like to your point, Greg, and you're right.
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I'm glad you brought that up.
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Yes.
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And change turn that automatic updates on if you're part of an organization.
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Your home computer, you're probably fine.
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But yeah, yeah.
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Because they may have it turned off for a reason, and then it's probably because they will update everything in mass.
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Right.
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They want to and they want to know when it's updated in case something goes on.
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Or there could be something that they use, some piece of hardware sometimes in some cases.
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There's some piece of strange or weird hard hardware that's that's attached to the computer.
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Welcome to radio.
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Yeah, thank you.
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That when you do the update for some reason it might not just not work.
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Might not work anymore.
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So that that's a that's a possibility.
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So if you're a business user, yes, yeah, maybe not turn on that automatic update.
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And I know sometimes even businesses with IT setups where they don't want updates being ran, they can make changes that could remove the option to enable it, or it's may say this is uh maintained by your organization.
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So there it'll it'll actually tell you as well if it's being controlled by your organization.
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But again, like Greg said, if this is something your personal your is your personal computer at home, turn it on.
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Turn it on.
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It it's gonna save you a headache, I promise.
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It's it's better than the alternative.
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Yes.
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So and then again, just check today, check now, and if you don't know how, you should have the information.
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If you're just now tuning in, you need to update your Windows computer now if you haven't done so already.
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And if you have any issues with that, you can give us a call at 407-478-8200, and we can guide you over the phone.
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Yeah, now something that we talked about over the last few episodes is that Windows 10 is the operating system that never dies, right?
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It's uh it was supposed to have its end of life here almost a year ago now, and it's still around because they've extended those updates.
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How does this affect users that might still be on that Windows 10 version?
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Well, that's the thing.
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Windows 10 was a little bit more interesting with your control over updates.
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Um, it really gave you the option to disable automatic updates indefinitely.
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Uh, Windows 11, it's much more difficult to do that just as a personal user.
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So with Windows 10, you know, there are the extended security updates that they're still running right now.
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If you are enrolled in those, your system should already be applying those as they become available.
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But if you are not enrolled, the updates area will normally tell you.
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It will say just underneath saying this version of Windows has reached end of support.
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There'll be an option underneath about enrolling for extended security updates.
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And I know that that line there is extremely buggy for actually popping up.
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So if you don't see it there in the top right corner, it you don't see anything about extended security updates.
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Give us a call Monday, 407-478-8200.
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We can go through with you real quick over the phone, see if we can figure out if you are enrolled in those because just like Windows 11, it is so important to be updating on Windows 10.
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Because like Greg said, this is the operating system that's never died.
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It is still supposed to be gone a long time ago.
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It was.
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And you know, it's it
has its own vulnerabilities separate from Windows 11.
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So that's something still to look out for.
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A vulnerability that got patched in 11 might not have to be done in 10, you know, and vice versa.
00:29:56.559 --> 00:29:57.279
Well, and you know what?
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And something else to watch out for, you know, we had another segment on scams, right?
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With all these AI scams.
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Another reason it's important to go ahead and turn that automatic updates on on your personal computer or laptop is you avoid the scams that are going on right now for Windows updates, because you might get a pop-up that says time to update your Windows.
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And it's not actually Windows.
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And it's and it's not, it's not.
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So these bots are out there, they're doing this to people all over the place.
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And so, and sure enough, if you click on that, you're you're you're given access to your computer now to some bot, and you're gonna be in a hostage situation where you're gonna be calling us, I I can't get my photos, I can't get my files, and and who knows what else it can do.
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So that's another reason why it's important to turn those automatic updates on.
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You don't have to worry about the bots scam that's doing that.
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And if you happen to get a pop-up, whether you have automatic updates on or not, just make darn sure it's really a Windows.
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And if you're not sure it's coming from Microsoft, then give us a call at that free tech support hotline.
00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:04.960
We have people calling us all the time about this, right, Adam?
00:31:05.119 --> 00:31:05.599
We do, yes.
00:31:05.839 --> 00:31:10.000
And the phone number again, 407-478-8200.
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Uh and here's the thing is updates are actually starting to be used now for remote scams as well.
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So if somebody had access to your system at one point, you know, you may have act you may have called one of those scam numbers, let them on your computer.
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If they leave a program that's there, they have the option inside of that program to put up on your screen whatever they want to show you.
00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:35.119
Yeah, at least in the back door, it could also be like a Windows update screen.
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So if you are at a Windows update screen, you're not touching it, and you you see your mouse is moving around, or it's it's been sitting there for a while and and just maybe the circle isn't even moving.
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There's something weird on it.
00:31:46.799 --> 00:31:48.720
Again, you know, that's something to look out for.
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Signs.
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It's signs that that might not be a legitimate update, might be someone on the computer.
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Windows is also starting to change the design of their update window as well.
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Um, I believe it before it was always a black uh blue background, white text on it saying we were working on updates, yada yada yada.
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Easily easily cloned.
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Easily cloned, and I think they are now swapping to do the more darker background, kind of like they changed the blue screen of death to the black screen of death.
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Same kind of concept with your update screen.
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So you may at one point using your fully up-to-date Windows 11 computer, and then all of a sudden just uh something pops up that says we're working on updates in a big blue screen.
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That's a that's a screaming red flag.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Oh wow, good point.
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Yeah.
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Unfortunately, updates are something that all of us uh have to do now more than ever, and they're still being used as just another scam angle.
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That's something that I think we're gonna always see with tech no matter what, is the multiple angles of scams that come up.
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Even to the point of legitimate services like Windows notifications.
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You know, you may see pop-ups coming up on the right hand side about Norton McAfee, you know, you need to update your antivirus on this, or you know, this is infected.
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A lot of those come through a legitimate Windows service, but from a website.
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Right.
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That's all it is.
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And the Windows Security, they are putting in some filters to try and help with those notification scams, but it's it's something that end of the day, you have to keep updated to keep those away.
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So that's something something to think about.
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I keep personal updates on all the time for all of my systems, no matter what.
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Yeah, I do now too.
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I didn't used to.
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I used to have them all off.
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I used to just don't know, I'm gonna control that.
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Right.
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But I just let everything update itself now.
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But it's just you have to, you almost have to.
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And I mean, so many of them now even require certain restarts and things like that for computers.
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I've got a
personal question for you guys.
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Do you guys immediately restart the computer or do you hit the snooze to wait for the update to come in?
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Oh, well, you should immediately restart, I should say.
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And I'll admit that not always, because hey, I'm in the middle of something sometimes.
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So I'll put it off.
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Dave has 150 tabs open.
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Yeah, and so I'll put it off.
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But but that's a great point, Greg, because what?
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You have to restart your computer for the updates to take place.
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So if you put it off, you may you may have thought you updated your computer because you downloaded the updates and it and it is a it applied them, but the the application of those updates don't have become effective until you reboot.
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Yeah, I reboot immediately when it comes up.
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If I'm in the middle of playing a game and I see it pop up, I save and I just hit reboot.
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If it has to close out my game, I don't care.
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That's the best policy.
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I just immediately do it.
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Get it out of the way.
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And honestly, I tell myself this, just being a tech person, if I'm gonna do this update and it's gonna cause me a problem, I just want to deal with it now.
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Yeah.
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And I want to see it now.
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I don't want to see it tomorrow morning when I wake up and my screen is blue screened.
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You know, when I really need it, just let me take care of it now.
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And that's that's why I always do it.
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Yeah, and and the and the only issue with doing it right away that that I can recall having is sometimes the updates are a major Windows update.
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It's right.
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It's it's more it's almost every update has security fixes, but sometimes it's a major, major update to the whole operating system.
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Right.
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And it comes back and wants you to re- you know, start over setting up your Windows.
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Five times it happens.
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It bait and switches you into thinking it's done, and then it restarts one more time.
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You gotta tell it again, no, I don't want Bing to be my default browser, you know, that kind of thing.
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Exactly.
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Well, what about you?
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Let us know.
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Use that open mic feature inside the
WDBO app.
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Are you someone that restarts immediately?
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Again, we'd love to hear about it.
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Use that open mic feature in the WDBO app.
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Coming up, we're gonna have our Windows tip.
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Well, actually, no, we're not a Windows tip this week.
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We're gonna talk a little bit about daylight savings times and how it's affecting you this morning.
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We'd love to we'll continue talking about it here on Tech Talk on WDBO 1073FM and AM580.
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Hey there, and welcome back to a Sunday edition of Tech Talk here on WDBO 1073 FM and AM580 Orlando's News and Talk.
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And now back to David and Adam.
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All right.
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Thanks, Craig, and thanks everybody for listening to another edition of Tech Talk with Refresh Computers, a new video edition, our second video edition of Tech Talk.
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And very happy to be able to do that.
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And if you missed anything today, you can go to refreshcomputers.net, click on that podcast link in the upper right hand corner, and you can listen to this show and watch us while you're listening if you want to.
00:36:55.920 --> 00:36:57.840
And or you know, just put your blinders on.
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I don't know.
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Whoops.
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Dave's got his blinders on already.
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Yeah, my mic.
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And so, and you can you know listen to this show and you go back to several shows that without the video, but you still still get all the audio content right there.
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So why in the world?
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Why are we still moving our clocks back and forth?
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I think I I think I know exactly why, Dave, to bother you.
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I think that's why we do it.
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Just to bother Dave.
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I I think you know what?
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I I mean, shoot me if I'm wrong, but I think that the vast majority of people just want this to stop because there's really no good reason for it anymore.
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Back and forth, back and forth.
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And and so why do we keep doing this?
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And I think, yeah, most of us would happily want it to stop.
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And could it be that half the country wants it to have daylight savings time?
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The other half doesn't want daylight savings, it wants the it wants it the other way.
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I I don't think so because this is up to Congress to do.
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You know, we we have unfortunately very little say in this other than complaining to our our congressperson.
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Yes.
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I mean, you know, so Congress has to do this and only they can change it.
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And it's stuck right now in Congress again.
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So, you know, just this past July, the House of Representatives actually passed it.
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They passed the Sunshine Protective Act.
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That's fitting for the state of Florida, you know.
00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:36.559
Being the Sunshine State, we have the Sunshine Protection Act, but I don't want the sun rising at 5 30 in the morning.
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You know, I don't Yeah, it's gonna be a little rough there.
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I don't care.
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You know what?
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I'll take that.
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If they can just stop changing the clocks.
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They just pick it up, you know.
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Just pick one and go with it.
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So the House of Representatives, they did their job.
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Right.
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They passed it.
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They sent it over to the Senate.
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And what did the Senate do?
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Nothing.
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Yep.
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What does the Senate ever do?
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Well, I love it.
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I don't know.
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But you know, so it's just sat there with no vote.
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And because it has got no vote, well, it can't become law, can't become something that the president can sign and say, okay, let's do it.
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You know, the president himself has come out in support of the Sunshine Act.
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In the past, he hasn't been a proponent of it.
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He's actually kind of been against it, but recently he's kind of changed his tune.
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He's kind of changed it.
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And I think he has his preference, but I think he said he would sign it either way.
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Yeah.
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Just to have a consistency.
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Yeah.
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Whichever way you know that they can decide on doing that.
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We're human beings.
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We have a rhythm, you know, we have a sleeping rhythm.
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And, you know, I I know it splits.
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Some people like being up all night, some people like being up during the day.
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But this forwards and backs shifting of an hour, at least for me personally, messes me up so much.
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Now, you know, the arguments are that there's uh certain daylight hours that they prefer for skit for kids in school and things like that.
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They don't want them waking up too early or too late with the with the level that the sun is at, things like that.
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And also, I mean, there are some of the northern states, it would really change the kind of like the daylight hours of their cry meatier.
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Crime a tear.
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Bring out the violins.
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I mean pick one.
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Just make the decision.
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Pick one and just get it done.
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We're lucky to have the tech we do that automatically adjusts our clocks.
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Not all of them.
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Not all of them, but most of the city.
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I still gotta change my microwave.
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Or you can just camera.
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You can just go on that time and just leave it until the next time, and it'll be fine.
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We see Dave rolling up to the store an hour late.
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We know he did not set his microwave to the right time.
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You know, I gotta have to check this, but what other country in the world even changes clocks anymore?
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I think we are one of the few in the world.
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If not the only one.
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But look, folks, that's all we have time for.
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Thanks a lot for listening and watching this video edition of Tech Talk.
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This is David Levitt with Refresh Computers.
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So happy that you were able to join us.
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We'll be talking to you again next week.