Full Transcript for Compute This 10-25-2026

need. And a lot of people, you know, they 71 00:03:31.250 --> 00:03:33.610 don't they don't think about that when they buy technology 72 00:03:33.629 --> 00:03:36.729 because everything else in life, you only buy what you need. Right. 73 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:38.639 you know, if you, if you, if you only have 74 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:41.300 two cars, you don't buy a three car garage. If you, 75 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:44.120 if you, uh, you know, you're going to plan dinner 76 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:46.680 for seven days, you don't buy eight days worth of food. 77 00:03:46.939 --> 00:03:50.800 You don't buy what you don't need. Right. Um, with 78 00:03:50.860 --> 00:03:53.560 a computer, however, it's a little different because your needs 79 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:57.210 change over time. Even if you're doing the exact same 80 00:03:57.259 --> 00:04:01.169 thing every single day for the last 10 years, every day, 81 00:04:01.210 --> 00:04:03.370 your needs change. Let me give you some examples. Um, 82 00:04:04.219 --> 00:04:06.659 everybody knows about updates. You get windows updates, you get 83 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:08.340 all kinds of things that come into your computer and 84 00:04:08.419 --> 00:04:11.520 every one of those updates that plugs a security vulnerability 85 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:14.319 or has windows do a little something new. It adds 86 00:04:14.379 --> 00:04:17.500 just another little tiny bit of load to your computer. 87 00:04:17.899 --> 00:04:20.579 You don't notice it update to update, but year to 88 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:24.189 year or windows 10 to windows 11, you notice it, 89 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:27.199 you know, windows 10, you could run that. I mean, 90 00:04:27.259 --> 00:04:30.230 technically you wouldn't want to, but you could run windows 91 00:04:30.230 --> 00:04:33.329 10 on like two gigs of Ram. It would work. 92 00:04:33.329 --> 00:04:37.569 4 gigs of RAM, you're going to have a reasonable experience. 93 00:04:37.569 --> 00:04:41.129 8 gigs of RAM was a dream. Well, welcome to 94 00:04:41.170 --> 00:04:43.269 Windows 11 where you must have 8 gigs of the 95 00:04:43.310 --> 00:04:46.089 most expensive memory that God ever put on the planet 96 00:04:47.970 --> 00:04:51.009 just to make it a passable experience. It was so 97 00:04:51.069 --> 00:04:53.560 bad that this last 26H2 update that came out, by 98 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:55.579 the way, if you haven't run your safe upgrade software, 99 00:04:55.879 --> 00:05:00.339 you should do so. The 26H2 update that was released 100 00:05:00.379 --> 00:05:04.329 in October. One of the features of that update was 101 00:05:04.620 --> 00:05:07.699 on computers with 8 gigs of memory or less, we're 102 00:05:07.740 --> 00:05:12.379 just going to remove some Windows functionality. So your computer 103 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:14.339 seems faster. It's going to do less. It's not going 104 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:16.459 to have all the capabilities of Windows 11. So now 105 00:05:16.500 --> 00:05:20.689 we're in this world where two people with two different 106 00:05:20.730 --> 00:05:23.250 pieces of hardware can both have Windows 11 and both 107 00:05:23.269 --> 00:05:27.529 be on the same version and have completely different capabilities. 108 00:05:28.490 --> 00:05:31.670 That's crazy, right? Like you think if I buy an 109 00:05:31.730 --> 00:05:34.029 F-150 and you buy an F-150 and they're the same 110 00:05:34.069 --> 00:05:35.790 make and the same model and the same year with 111 00:05:35.810 --> 00:05:39.269 the same trim package, we essentially have identical, maybe they're 112 00:05:39.290 --> 00:05:42.600 different colors or something, but we have identical F-150s. Under 113 00:05:42.629 --> 00:05:46.199 the hood, it's the same truck. That is no longer 114 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:51.779 the case in software. Now, what your software does is 115 00:05:51.860 --> 00:05:56.660 dependent on what your hardware can do. This is not new. 116 00:05:57.100 --> 00:06:00.089 Photoshop's been doing this for years. Adobe Photoshop, all the 117 00:06:00.129 --> 00:06:02.250 photographers use to like, you know, straighten your teeth in 118 00:06:02.269 --> 00:06:06.779 the wedding pictures and stuff. They, yeah, that hasn't come 119 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:09.339 up at all. No, no wedding, wedding pictures. You know, 120 00:06:09.740 --> 00:06:12.540 the photographers that use Photoshop, if you don't have a 121 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:16.779 graphics card. Photoshop runs like a dog. It is awful. 122 00:06:17.180 --> 00:06:19.139 If you've tried to do, if you try to do anything, 123 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:21.860 they have like a magic eraser button. And I remember 124 00:06:21.899 --> 00:06:24.540 like Photoshop five, six years ago, this was fan. This 125 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:26.519 is crazy. Like you have a picture, there's a kid 126 00:06:26.540 --> 00:06:29.040 with some acne. You get the, the, the heel tool 127 00:06:29.100 --> 00:06:30.790 and you just, you click on his acne a couple 128 00:06:30.810 --> 00:06:32.769 of times and it just kind of makes it disappear 129 00:06:32.790 --> 00:06:35.269 in the picture. It was like magic. It was AI 130 00:06:35.310 --> 00:06:38.329 before AI. It was great. Um, and now they have 131 00:06:38.370 --> 00:06:40.110 like a magical tool that you just click on anywhere 132 00:06:40.129 --> 00:06:41.509 on the picture and it just makes you look like 133 00:06:41.529 --> 00:06:43.509 a God, you know, you're a goddess, you know, whatever. 134 00:06:44.779 --> 00:06:47.259 that's the AI version of that tool. But you don't 135 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:50.279 get that tool, or if you do get the tool, 136 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:54.680 it runs. One click might take five minutes to execute. 137 00:06:54.899 --> 00:06:56.740 And I'm not talking on a piece of garbage computer. 138 00:06:56.779 --> 00:07:00.279 I'm saying you've got like, you know, 64 gigs of 139 00:07:00.339 --> 00:07:04.139 RAM

and a two terabyte hard drive and, you know, NVMe, 140 00:07:04.230 --> 00:07:08.189 everything fast, super awesome processor, Ryzen 9, you know, Intel i7, 141 00:07:08.230 --> 00:07:11.910 Core 7, you know, whatever you've got. Photoshop, without a 142 00:07:11.930 --> 00:07:16.790 graphics card, will run like a dog. So you get 143 00:07:17.370 --> 00:07:22.149 different features from Adobe Photoshop if you have different hardware 144 00:07:22.250 --> 00:07:25.509 in your computer, a graphics card in this case. This 145 00:07:25.569 --> 00:07:28.029 is coming to every piece of software that you're going 146 00:07:28.050 --> 00:07:32.990 to have on your computer. Everything from Microsoft Word all 147 00:07:33.009 --> 00:07:37.790 the way to Paint, Microsoft Paint. You know, it's stupid, right? 148 00:07:38.110 --> 00:07:40.819 Depending on the hardware you have in your computer, for example, 149 00:07:41.339 --> 00:07:43.660 if you have a computer that has a processor that 150 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:47.579 does over 40 TOPS, which nobody knows what that means 151 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:53.439 and nobody cares, 40 TOPS or TOPS is a measure 152 00:07:53.459 --> 00:08:01.810 of AI productivity. 40 is garbage. 40 is like you 153 00:08:01.829 --> 00:08:03.990 got on your Vespa to go to Walmart or to 154 00:08:04.029 --> 00:08:05.769 go to Sam's Club to buy a pallet of something. 155 00:08:06.250 --> 00:08:07.470 and you're just going to pull it behind you on 156 00:08:07.490 --> 00:08:10.779 the Vespa on the way home. That's 40. You get nothing. 157 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:15.500 But it's enough to do little things, like when you 158 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:19.639 do a Zoom meeting, it can transcribe the audio from 159 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:24.240 the meeting into a transcript on your computer. Not Zoom, 160 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:28.129 your computer. This radio show, for example, I can save 161 00:08:28.149 --> 00:08:29.970 the audio, and with a computer that has at least 162 00:08:29.970 --> 00:08:33.870 40 TOPS, that's a co-pilot PC, basically, I can do 163 00:08:34.370 --> 00:08:37.149 basic AI stuff. I can do basic photo manipulation. I 164 00:08:37.190 --> 00:08:42.490 can do those things natively on my computer. A graphics card, 165 00:08:42.509 --> 00:08:47.690 a proper graphics card gives you something like 300, 400 TOPS. 166 00:08:47.730 --> 00:08:50.289 I mean, it's like, so, you know, the stuff you 167 00:08:50.309 --> 00:08:53.889 get in the processor is the barest essentials to get 168 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:57.919 the job done. And I'm telling you, most computers that 169 00:08:57.940 --> 00:09:01.450 are made today don't even have that. But every piece 170 00:09:01.490 --> 00:09:03.460 of software that's coming out, everybody says, I'm not going 171 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:05.799 to use AI. I don't use AI. And you don't 172 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:07.799 know that you're using AI every time you turn on 173 00:09:07.820 --> 00:09:10.860

your television. Your television is using AI. 174 00:09:11.460 --> 00:09:11.720 How? 175 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:14.399 Well, how do you think Netflix figures out what you 176 00:09:14.419 --> 00:09:20.440 want to watch next? Yeah, it literally is running an algorithm, 177 00:09:20.460 --> 00:09:22.659 an analysis on what you've watched before, how long you've 178 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:25.090 watched it, what you've opened, who was logged in when, 179 00:09:25.110 --> 00:09:27.450 how many people are in your household, all these variables 180 00:09:27.470 --> 00:09:29.980 that go into it. Because they only make money when 181 00:09:30.019 --> 00:09:32.460 they have eyeballs on the screen. So they're trying to 182 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:35.059 get you engaged with any content they can get you 183 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:40.500 engaged with. That's AI. You know, there's tons of uses 184 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:43.340 behind the scenes for AI, and companies are figuring this 185 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:46.679 out and integrating it into their software. The problem is, 186 00:09:47.139 --> 00:09:51.330 if you don't have the hardware to run it, well, 187 00:09:52.250 --> 00:09:54.070 I guess you're just going to run it the old-fashioned way. 188 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:56.549 And a lot of people don't have a problem with that. 189 00:09:56.590 --> 00:09:59.090 I'm fine with that. I'm not in a hurry. Until 190 00:09:59.129 --> 00:10:01.590 the day comes when... you're not able to run it 191 00:10:01.789 --> 00:10:04.580 at all because you don't have it. And that's where 192 00:10:04.620 --> 00:10:08.080 this is going. That's where Microsoft went already with 26H2. 193 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:12.179 If you don't have enough memory, pieces of Windows turn 194 00:10:12.419 --> 00:10:15.720 off and you cannot use them. And it's supposed to 195 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:18.000 make your experience better because they figure if you have 196 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:20.679 a piece of junk laptop, that has less than eight 197 00:10:20.740 --> 00:10:26.320 gigs of RAM, you're probably not doing anything super advanced, grandma. 198 00:10:27.419 --> 00:10:29.500 So we're just going to turn off these advanced features 199 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:32.830 that you're probably not using anyway. It's not a bad 200 00:10:33.809 --> 00:10:36.230 logic to have, right? I mean, it makes sense. If 201 00:10:36.250 --> 00:10:38.909 you have a basic computer, you're doing basic things. But 202 00:10:38.929 --> 00:10:41.690 the trouble with that logic, and this goes back to 203 00:10:41.809 --> 00:10:45.710 people buy what they think they need. The things you're 204 00:10:45.750 --> 00:10:50.860 doing today that are basic, Tomorrow, once they get layered 205 00:10:50.899 --> 00:10:52.879 up with stuff, they're not going to be so basic anymore. 206 00:10:53.539 --> 00:10:56.419 And so when the day comes, everybody's fine with everything 207 00:10:56.700 --> 00:10:59.759 until the day comes when somebody takes something away. Like 208 00:10:59.820 --> 00:11:03.399 when Cox took away email and pushed you to Yahoo, 209 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:07.179 that was not fun for a lot of people. A 210 00:11:07.179 --> 00:11:09.500 lot of people had a problem with that. A lot 211 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:11.080 of people still are on Yahoo and have a problem 212 00:11:11.100 --> 00:11:16.100 with that. Um, When companies say, well, we used to 213 00:11:16.139 --> 00:11:19.159 do– it's like shrinkflation. We used to get 16 ounces 214 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:21.500 of cereal in the box and now you get 12. 215 00:11:21.500 --> 00:11:23.559 But the box is the same size, so you're probably 216 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:26.399 not going to notice anyway. This is the same thing. 217 00:11:26.460 --> 00:11:29.850 It's just in the technology world now. They don't want– 218 00:11:29.870 --> 00:11:32.370 in a world where everybody is paying for the tokens, 219 00:11:32.750 --> 00:11:34.669 AI is measured in tokens like you have to pay 220 00:11:34.710 --> 00:11:36.950 for the tokens and that's how you do stuff with AI. 221 00:11:39.409 --> 00:11:42.190 if I'm Microsoft or if I am Netflix, I don't 222 00:11:42.250 --> 00:11:46.470 want to pay for the tokens. If I'm Google, remember 223 00:11:46.509 --> 00:11:50.379 when Google started offloading AI processing to your local computer 224 00:11:50.820 --> 00:11:52.639 so that they wouldn't have to do it themselves on 225 00:11:52.659 --> 00:11:56.480 their servers. And that came enabled by default in Chrome. 226 00:11:56.740 --> 00:11:58.799 Some of you are probably still letting that run on 227 00:11:58.820 --> 00:12:01.480 your computer because you haven't listened long enough to hear 228 00:12:01.500 --> 00:12:03.919 the instructions to turn it off. We've covered that story 229 00:12:03.950 --> 00:12:07.210 a couple of times. So yeah, Google is literally telling 230 00:12:07.269 --> 00:12:11.519 you that they're going to use your computer to to 231 00:12:11.580 --> 00:12:14.960 run their AI stuff, to make their services better. And 232 00:12:14.980 --> 00:12:18.299 of course, your experience better as a result. But they're 233 00:12:18.340 --> 00:12:19.730 not going to pay for that. They're going to make 234 00:12:19.870 --> 00:12:24.929 you do that. Your electricity, your hardware, your capabilities. Oh, 235 00:12:24.970 --> 00:12:27.269 you don't have the ability to do that? I guess 236 00:12:27.289 --> 00:12:29.360 you're just going to get a different experience on Chrome 237 00:12:29.379 --> 00:12:35.350 than somebody who does. Sorry, not sorry. So when we're saying, hey, 238 00:12:35.389 --> 00:12:37.210 we're going to build you this amazing laptop and it's 239 00:12:37.250 --> 00:12:41.610 a holiday special, it's the 25th anniversary, 2026 holiday special. 240 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:48.360 We know it's got to last you 10 years. And 241 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:50.620 if we look backward 10 years of what

you were 242 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:54.759 doing with your computer 10 years ago, and if you 243 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:57.750 honestly look backward 10 years back, you know, when you 244 00:12:57.759 --> 00:13:01.629 were on Windows 8, maybe still on Windows 7 back then, 245 00:13:04.210 --> 00:13:06.690 AI was something that IBM was doing with deep seek. 246 00:13:08.789 --> 00:13:11.159 It was like, it was, it was some magical thing 247 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:14.639 that the international business machine company was doing. You know, 248 00:13:15.019 --> 00:13:16.759 now it's like, you know, Oh, it's in your laptop. 249 00:13:17.259 --> 00:13:20.360 So if you look back 10 years, and if we 250 00:13:20.379 --> 00:13:22.600 look forward 10 years, we can, we can make the 251 00:13:22.659 --> 00:13:25.379 reasonable assumption that you're going to be doing more advanced 252 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:27.799 things a decade from now than you are now. Even 253 00:13:27.860 --> 00:13:30.600 if you don't feel like you yourself understand or are 254 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:34.460 executing those things yourself. So when we build you a 255 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:37.460 computer that's going to last that long, and the holiday 256 00:13:37.500 --> 00:13:39.710 special does, we've been doing it for 25 years, guys. 257 00:13:40.809 --> 00:13:43.110 I think the oldest holiday special we've documented still in 258 00:13:43.169 --> 00:13:49.490 use was built in 2012. I mean, for a computer, 259 00:13:49.529 --> 00:13:54.620 that's fantastic. Upgrades along the way, sure. Repairs along the way, yep. 260 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:57.720 Nothing runs for 10 years without a single repair, not 261 00:13:57.740 --> 00:14:02.429 even cars, you know, furnaces, roofs, you know. everything needs 262 00:14:02.470 --> 00:14:05.350 a repair from here and there. But you know, if 263 00:14:05.370 --> 00:14:06.809 we're going to build you a computer, that's going to 264 00:14:06.870 --> 00:14:09.070 last like that. We have to look toward the future 265 00:14:09.110 --> 00:14:12.309 and say, if we sell this customer what they need now, 266 00:14:12.429 --> 00:14:15.250 if you buy a normal computer with just what you 267 00:14:15.289 --> 00:14:18.389 need now in three or four years, you're going to 268 00:14:18.429 --> 00:14:20.610 be wishing you would have bought a different computer because 269 00:14:20.629 --> 00:14:22.110 you're going to have to buy it all over again. 270 00:14:23.870 --> 00:14:25.850 That's where the holiday special is strong. And that's why 271 00:14:25.870 --> 00:14:27.350 it was so hard this year to pick a laptop. 272 00:14:27.970 --> 00:14:30.629 We are in one of the most challenging environments in, 273 00:14:31.090 --> 00:14:36.919 for purchasing memory and storage right now. It is six 274 00:14:37.019 --> 00:14:39.720 times more expensive than it was last year for the 275 00:14:39.740 --> 00:14:45.399 holiday special. 32 gigs of RAM is $ 500 wholesale cost.

276 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:50.279 So if we're selling a computer for somewhere between, let's say, $ 1, 600 277 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:51.129 and $ 1, 700, and we have to put $ 500 of just 278 00:14:51.149 --> 00:14:59.440 memory in it, That's not a Windows license. That's not 279 00:14:59.460 --> 00:15:02.649 a motherboard. That's not a screen. That's none of those things. 280 00:15:04.269 --> 00:15:06.330 It's hard to do. It's hard to make that– and 281 00:15:06.350 --> 00:15:08.909 we make the holiday special at cost. So there isn't 282 00:15:08.970 --> 00:15:14.690 any markup in the initial computer essentially. You're going to 283 00:15:14.809 --> 00:15:18.220 add things and customize things and purchase follow-on services. We 284 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:21.039 are a service company that happens to sell technology. So 285 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:22.620 we sell the technology and then we say, would you 286 00:15:22.659 --> 00:15:24.360 like a data transfer with that? Would you like us 287 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:26.419 to move your stuff for you? And you could say no. 288 00:15:27.549 --> 00:15:29.879 I'll move it myself. That's fine. You can still take 289 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:32.840 advantage of the holiday special, or you can have us 290 00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:34.700 move your stuff for you and get the warranty behind 291 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:36.720 it and everything else. And then if you choose to 292 00:15:36.779 --> 00:15:38.360 do that, you know, we're here with that white glove 293 00:15:38.379 --> 00:15:41.799 service to help you out. So yeah, it's this year's 294 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:46.409 holiday special, 32 gigs of Ram on board. So yeah, 295 00:15:46.409 --> 00:15:48.690 $ 500 of that price is just the memory for sure. 296 00:15:49.470 --> 00:15:54.789 One terabyte NVMe hard drive. Yep. $ 300 of that price 297 00:15:54.850 --> 00:15:58.220 is just the hard drive. Now we're at $ 800 just 298 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:00.740 for memory and storage. We haven't even bought a screen yet, 299 00:16:00.779 --> 00:16:03.759 like a laptop, like the actual laptop itself. We just 300 00:16:03.779 --> 00:16:06.649 have a pile of, like, chips. We don't even have 301 00:16:06.690 --> 00:16:09.909 a laptop yet, and we're $ 800 in. And so this 302 00:16:09.929 --> 00:16:12.470 year's laptop actually is going to have a larger screen 303 00:16:12.490 --> 00:16:14.549 than last year. It's the largest screen we've ever offered 304 00:16:14.590 --> 00:16:18.289 in a holiday special laptop. It's 16 inches. I mean, 305 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:22.340 it's a beautiful screen. Keyboard is backlit because that– if 306 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:24.299 you've never had a backlit keyboard, when you get one, 307 00:16:24.500 --> 00:16:26.159 you never go back, just to be honest. You never 308 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:34.799 go back. And most importantly, the computer is upgradable. The computer, yes, 309 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:38.179 it has 16 gigabytes of memory on

the board, which 310 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:44.419 is what you need for the AI Ryzen processor. But 311 00:16:45.850 --> 00:16:48.649 there's a memory slot and we can add more. So 312 00:16:48.690 --> 00:16:51.970 we're doubling it to 32 gigs. We can go to 313 00:16:51.970 --> 00:16:54.590 48 if we want to. I don't think you want to. 314 00:16:54.669 --> 00:16:57.379 I'd wait till next year. myself and see if those 315 00:16:57.399 --> 00:16:59.539 prices come down. But we could. We could do it. 316 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:02.539 Hard drives, it'll support two terabytes. It'll go all the 317 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:04.759 way up to four terabytes if you wanted to. Same deal. 318 00:17:05.059 --> 00:17:06.890 I wouldn't do that this year unless you need it. 319 00:17:07.380 --> 00:17:09.819 I would wait and see those prices come down. Everything 320 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:12.480 we're seeing is that we're starting to see oversupply conditions 321 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:14.380 in the market, and maybe the prices will start coming 322 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:17.220 down sometime next year. But in the meantime, that doesn't 323 00:17:17.269 --> 00:17:19.289 help us for the holiday special this year. We have 324 00:17:19.329 --> 00:17:22.589 to build an amazing computer that blows the barn doors off, 325 00:17:23.089 --> 00:17:25.329 lasts you 10 years, and we have to keep the 326 00:17:25.349 --> 00:17:31.680 price at least reasonable. We can't say it's a $ 2, 000 laptop. 327 00:17:33.700 --> 00:17:35.759 I don't think that's going to work right now. So 328 00:17:36.380 --> 00:17:39.759 the holiday special next week. Stay tuned for that. Listen 329 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:41.940 for it. You're going to hear it first here on 330 00:17:42.019 --> 00:17:42.740 Compute This. 331 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:43.740 402-558-1110. 332 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:46.509 We're going to take our first break of the program. 333 00:17:46.529 --> 00:17:50.309 When we come back, Rex and Don, your calls coming 334 00:17:50.369 --> 00:17:51.670 up next on Compute This. 335 00:17:53.130 --> 00:17:55.880 You would probably rather drink the water at Camp Lejeune 336 00:17:56.180 --> 00:17:58.579 than get another call about the desperate need to renew 337 00:17:58.619 --> 00:18:02.480 your car's expiring warranty. Who actually responds to those calls? 338 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:05.480 Everyone wants to play the warranty game where you pay 339 00:18:05.539 --> 00:18:08.130 money now just in case you need service later that 340 00:18:08.289 --> 00:18:11.549 everyone hopes you won't need or use. It's such a waste. 341 00:18:12.130 --> 00:18:16.210 It's no different with computers. Major manufacturers' warranties have more 342 00:18:16.349 --> 00:18:20.640 subscript crosses than a Sunday morning church service. Batteries are exempt. 343 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:24.279 hard drives must be completely dead and forget about anything 344 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:27.200 that they can remotely claim

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in the past six months, 376 00:20:13.980 --> 00:20:16.630 you are overdue. Stop in or call any of our 377 00:20:16.670 --> 00:20:19.470 service centers to arrange a free pickup to ensure your 378 00:20:19.529 --> 00:20:21.349 computer continues to work for you. 379 00:20:21.369 --> 00:20:38.529 Music Alrighty, folks, welcome back into Compute This. You know, 380 00:20:38.690 --> 00:20:40.609 we're super secure here on Compute This. We have a 381 00:20:40.630 --> 00:20:42.670 story coming up here on the program talking about some 382 00:20:42.690 --> 00:20:46.059 security stuff, and I'm in two-factor hell here trying to 383 00:20:46.099 --> 00:20:48.299 get into my Facebook account. I'm trying to log into 384 00:20:48.339 --> 00:20:50.440 my own Facebook account, and it's like, how do we 385 00:20:50.460 --> 00:20:53.880 know it's really you? How do we know it's, like, you, you? Like, well, 386 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:57.420 use my passkey. The passkey won't load. Like, it just spins. Oh, really? 387 00:20:57.500 --> 00:21:00.940 And I'm like, okay, well, then send me a text message. Or, no, 388 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:03.680 verify me on another device. Okay, hit verify. I don't 389 00:21:03.700 --> 00:21:07.769 get a notification on my phone. I'm broadcasting on Facebook 390 00:21:07.849 --> 00:21:09.710 right now on the computer right next to this one. 391 00:21:10.049 --> 00:21:12.039 I'm pretty sure it's me. I mean, do you need 392 00:21:12.059 --> 00:21:14.220 me to do, like, the face thing? From the side? 393 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:19.019 From the front? Turn your head left? Front and side 394 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:24.559 mug shots. Yeah. Verify your identity. So, yeah. So, anyway, 395 00:21:24.579 --> 00:21:26.400 I'm getting this up so I can actually, like, you know, 396 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:30.900 talk to people about comments and stuff and, you know. Well, 397 00:21:31.460 --> 00:21:33.230 my problem is not your problem. Sorry for making it 398 00:21:33.250 --> 00:21:33.569 your problem. 399 00:21:34.329 --> 00:21:34.470 402-558-1110. 400 00:21:35.549 --> 00:21:37.930 Speaking of problems, let's jump into those phones. Don, welcome 401 00:21:37.950 --> 00:21:39.839 to the program. How can I help you on Compute 402 00:21:39.859 --> 00:21:40.319 This today? 403 00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:44.500 Hello, this is John, actually. 404 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:47.039 Oh, John, apologies, John. What can I do for you? 405 00:21:47.539 --> 00:21:50.480 No, not a problem. I've got a very practical question. 406 00:21:50.519 --> 00:21:55.829 I'm a pastor, and I am trying to print my 407 00:21:55.930 --> 00:21:58.470 sermon out of my computer, but I got a Microsoft 408 00:21:58.549 --> 00:22:02.490 update last night, and it kicked me off. I can't 409 00:22:02.670 --> 00:22:05.250 access the Internet now. It just doesn't even give me 410 00:22:05.289 --> 00:22:08.410 an option to do that. It comes up with Bluetooth, 411 00:22:08.509 --> 00:22:12.390 and I've tried what I can to do to get 412 00:22:12.430 --> 00:22:14.720 it fixed, and I can't. Do you have any recommendations? 413 00:22:15.259 --> 00:22:18.859 Yeah, so if it's only detecting a Bluetooth connection, what's 414 00:22:18.900 --> 00:22:24.109 probably happened here is the device, your wireless, your Wi-Fi 415 00:22:24.130 --> 00:22:28.720 card has become uninstalled. And so there's a couple different 416 00:22:28.740 --> 00:22:30.579 ways we can do this, and some of it's technical. 417 00:22:30.619 --> 00:22:32.049 Are you in front of the keyboard right now? And 418 00:22:32.069 --> 00:22:34.390 I'll see if I can't get you online because, I mean, 419 00:22:34.710 --> 00:22:36.789 you shouldn't wait until the last minute to print the sermon. 420 00:22:36.809 --> 00:22:42.660 I mean, it's Sunday morning at 730. I mean, that's 421 00:22:42.700 --> 00:22:45.599 all right. I'm just giving you a hard time. All right. 422 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:47.319 So if you're in front of the computer, and I'm 423 00:22:47.339 --> 00:22:49.000 assuming you're on Windows 11, correct? 424 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:50.900 Yep. Perfect. 425 00:22:51.420 --> 00:22:53.779 Um, so down at the bottom of the screen, there's 426 00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:56.519 a start button. If you right click on that start button, 427 00:22:57.619 --> 00:22:59.380 this is, this is going to make a menu pop 428 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:00.029 up on the screen. 429 00:23:01.509 --> 00:23:03.089 Okay. Bottom right of the screen. 430 00:23:03.750 --> 00:23:06.710 So the, the start button is the four Microsoft boxes. 431 00:23:07.769 --> 00:23:07.950 Yep. 432 00:23:08.089 --> 00:23:10.190 Got it. So right click on that, not left click. 433 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:12.960 Oh, okay. Hold on. 434 00:23:14.059 --> 00:23:14.319 Okay. 435 00:23:14.779 --> 00:23:16.640 And then this made, this made a little skinny menu 436 00:23:16.680 --> 00:23:18.640 pop up and about the fifth thing from the top 437 00:23:18.660 --> 00:23:25.470 says system. Right below that is Device Manager. Left-click on 438 00:23:25.509 --> 00:23:29.289 Device Manager. And this opens up a list of every 439 00:23:29.309 --> 00:23:32.430 device that's on your computer, everything that works in the computer. 440 00:23:32.950 --> 00:23:36.140 And they're all in alphabetical order. Network adapters will be 441 00:23:36.180 --> 00:23:41.680 under N, obviously. And if you scroll down to that, 442 00:23:41.740 --> 00:23:43.920 is there anything in there with an exclamation mark or 443 00:23:43.980 --> 00:23:46.740 a red X or any kind of trouble-y looking thing? 444 00:23:47.960 --> 00:23:53.289 Yeah, the first one has a little warning triangle, Intel 445 00:23:53.410 --> 00:23:55.829 Wireless AC9462. 446 00:23:56.230 --> 00:23:58.690 All right, there we go. That's your Huckleberry. So what 447 00:23:58.710 --> 00:24:02.309 we're going to do is right-click on that bad boy. Okay. 448 00:24:03.009 --> 00:24:06.630 And you are going to

click on Uninstall Device. This 449 00:24:06.670 --> 00:24:09.609 seems counterintuitive. Trust me on this one. There's going to 450 00:24:09.630 --> 00:24:11.170 be a box that pops up, and there's going to 451 00:24:11.210 --> 00:24:13.799 be a little checkbox in there. Don't click anything yet 452 00:24:13.819 --> 00:24:16.000 until I'm done. There's going to be a checkbox there 453 00:24:16.039 --> 00:24:18.759 that says Also Remove the Driver. Make sure that is 454 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:22.279 not checked. We want to leave the driver alone. 455 00:24:22.299 --> 00:24:23.859 Okay. 456 00:24:24.420 --> 00:24:27.059 And so then go ahead and complete the uninstall of 457 00:24:27.099 --> 00:24:30.079 the device there. Hit okay. And it should disappear from 458 00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:30.609 that list. 459 00:24:35.210 --> 00:24:35.650 And it did. 460 00:24:36.029 --> 00:24:38.730 All right. So we're not fixed quite yet. Up at 461 00:24:38.750 --> 00:24:41.730 the top of the screen, there's a little ribbon of icons. 462 00:24:42.589 --> 00:24:45.380 And one of the icons, it's maybe the fourth one 463 00:24:45.390 --> 00:24:48.089 from the right. is a little computer screen with a 464 00:24:48.150 --> 00:24:58.470 magnifying glass over it. So at the top left, you 465 00:24:58.490 --> 00:25:01.039 see like file, action, view, help. 466 00:25:02.279 --> 00:25:02.500 Oh, yeah. 467 00:25:02.680 --> 00:25:05.019 And then below that, there's a back button and a 468 00:25:05.079 --> 00:25:07.279 forward button and a bunch of other stuff. And then 469 00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:08.539 if you keep going to the right, you're going to 470 00:25:08.579 --> 00:25:10.279 see this screen with a magnifying glass. 471 00:25:11.359 --> 00:25:11.920 Okay, see it. 472 00:25:12.289 --> 00:25:15.390 Left-click on that, and this is going to check for 473 00:25:15.509 --> 00:25:22.930 uninstalled hardware that's just sitting on your device. And it is. Okay, 474 00:25:22.950 --> 00:25:25.289 and then let's see. It's going to detect that Intel 475 00:25:25.430 --> 00:25:27.789 chipset is there, and it's going to try to install 476 00:25:27.829 --> 00:25:30.170 it really quick. And we'll see if it comes back 477 00:25:30.250 --> 00:25:31.910 and doesn't have a triangle this time. 478 00:25:37.470 --> 00:25:39.170 No, it has a triangle on it again. 479 00:25:39.789 --> 00:25:40.130 Bugger. 480 00:25:40.809 --> 00:25:46.450 All right. Basically, what's happening here is your wireless adapter 481 00:25:46.490 --> 00:25:51.049 is not functioning. One last thing. If you right-click on 482 00:25:51.390 --> 00:25:54.390 the network adapter that has the triangle on it and 483 00:25:54.410 --> 00:25:57.430 go to Properties, is it telling you it's like a code? 484 00:25:57.589 --> 00:25:59.660 It'll give you a code. It'll say Code 10 or 485 00:25:59.700 --> 00:26:01.599 something like that. What is it telling you the problem is? 486 00:26:02.779 --> 00:26:03.740 Code 43. 487 00:26:03.720

--> 00:26:06.700 I haven't seen that one in a long time. 488 00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:06.950 Let me see. 489 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:16.140 Code 43. Code 43. Bear with me just a second here. 490 00:26:17.029 --> 00:26:17.160 Yep. 491 00:26:17.490 --> 00:26:17.849 Thank you. 492 00:26:18.009 --> 00:26:22.190 I got it. Yeah. It's a graphics driver problem. Yeah. 493 00:26:22.410 --> 00:26:26.990 That doesn't make any sense. So, okay. Um, that's fun. 494 00:26:27.329 --> 00:26:29.670 So the last thing that we're going to do, um, 495 00:26:29.890 --> 00:26:32.180 that could potentially solve this one. This is like the, 496 00:26:32.259 --> 00:26:34.559 this is the cannon to kill the fly. Um, it, 497 00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:37.180 I mean, it's possible that your wifi adapter has just 498 00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:40.799 pooped out. I mean, it is coincidental that it happened 499 00:26:40.819 --> 00:26:43.579 with an update, but, it's possible that the two were 500 00:26:43.619 --> 00:26:46.579 not related. Usually that's not the case, but I've seen 501 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:48.940 weirder things. So what we're going to do next is 502 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:52.440 we're going to roll back the update. So I'm going 503 00:26:52.460 --> 00:26:53.880 to step you through this real quick, but this is 504 00:26:53.900 --> 00:26:55.220 going to take a little time. So I won't be 505 00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:56.539 able to stay on the air with you for this 506 00:26:56.559 --> 00:26:59.349 whole process, but we're going to roll it back. We're 507 00:26:59.369 --> 00:27:01.289 going to click on, now we can close any open 508 00:27:01.329 --> 00:27:02.970 windows you have open. We can get rid of them all. 509 00:27:05.069 --> 00:27:06.730 And then we're going to left click on that start 510 00:27:06.750 --> 00:27:09.890 menu this time. So this is going to open up 511 00:27:09.930 --> 00:27:12.920 the menu with all the icons and, And then you 512 00:27:12.940 --> 00:27:15.750 can click on the settings gear. It's a little, it's 513 00:27:15.769 --> 00:27:18.910 like a, there you go. It's a gear. Click on 514 00:27:18.930 --> 00:27:21.839 the settings gear. And then on the left-hand side of the, 515 00:27:22.470 --> 00:27:24.630 you're going to go down to the very bottom for 516 00:27:24.710 --> 00:27:30.849 windows update. Yep. And then what we're going to do 517 00:27:31.410 --> 00:27:33.190 is let me see. They moved it around in this 518 00:27:33.250 --> 00:27:35.450 version of windows. So let me, I was about to 519 00:27:35.490 --> 00:27:37.269 do it from memory. I was like, go to, you know, 520 00:27:37.710 --> 00:27:39.430 I was like, go to update and security. Like, wait 521 00:27:39.450 --> 00:27:41.910 a minute. It's not that anymore. All right. So if 522 00:27:41.950 --> 00:27:43.589 you click on advanced options. 523 00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:47.359 Advanced options. 524 00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:47.640 Yep. 525 00:27:49.720 --> 00:27:54.619 And I'm scrolling down. Get

me up to date. 526 00:27:54.700 --> 00:27:54.920 Nope. 527 00:27:55.029 --> 00:27:56.130 Download updates over meters. 528 00:27:56.170 --> 00:27:56.730 Nope. Nope. 529 00:27:56.950 --> 00:28:02.910 Nope. Is it optional updates? We don't want that. Okay. 530 00:28:04.869 --> 00:28:05.759 We don't want to reset. 531 00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:05.990 Okay. 532 00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:11.619 They've changed the options. I moved them around on me. 533 00:28:11.640 --> 00:28:16.880 This is not fair. Reverting to a previous Windows version easily. 534 00:28:17.220 --> 00:28:20.730 Don't we all just love technology? It's so awesome at times. Yeah, 535 00:28:20.750 --> 00:28:22.430 they give me help files now. Well, they used to 536 00:28:22.470 --> 00:28:24.069 give you just a thing like this is roll back. 537 00:28:24.150 --> 00:28:26.009 You just roll back. That's all we're trying to do 538 00:28:26.049 --> 00:28:30.390 is just roll back and update. All right. Stay on 539 00:28:30.430 --> 00:28:33.299 the line here, John. I'm going to figure out the menu. 540 00:28:33.339 --> 00:28:35.279 The menu is just it's changed. So I just need 541 00:28:35.299 --> 00:28:36.710 to click through it and figure out where it's at. 542 00:28:37.049 --> 00:28:38.490 Stay on the line there, John, and I'll come back 543 00:28:38.529 --> 00:28:40.089 to you and make sure I get you that update there. 544 00:28:40.609 --> 00:28:42.230 We just have to roll back the update, and then 545 00:28:42.289 --> 00:28:45.470 that should solve it if it's genuinely a hardware problem 546 00:28:46.299 --> 00:28:49.539 or a software problem. If it's a hardware problem, then 547 00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:52.500 we're going to have to replace the Wi-Fi card. All right. 548 00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:54.859 Thanks for the call there, John. Rex, welcome to the program. 549 00:28:55.119 --> 00:28:56.579 How can I help you on Compute This today? 550 00:28:56.599 --> 00:29:03.099 Yeah, I was wondering when's that computer drawing? And have 551 00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:04.180 him say a little prayer, too. 552 00:29:05.650 --> 00:29:08.609 Oh, yes. 553 00:29:08.670 --> 00:29:11.309 And we skipped that step. We should have asked for 554 00:29:11.369 --> 00:29:16.680 intervention before we. All right. So, yes, the computer drawing, 555 00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:18.940 I think what you're talking about with it, is that 556 00:29:19.299 --> 00:29:20.460 the best of Omaha thing? 557 00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:24.319 Well, yeah, whenever you're going to give that computer away. 558 00:29:25.230 --> 00:29:26.910 You know, you're going to give a computer away. 559 00:29:27.190 --> 00:29:30.380 Yeah, we gave one away. We did it. Yeah. Tanya won. 560 00:29:30.980 --> 00:29:33.599 And so she, yeah, Tanya and Papillion won the computer. 561 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:35.970 We had a lot of people vying for that one. 562 00:29:35.970 --> 00:29:38.220 It was uh one of our intrepid laptops it was 563 00:29:38.380 --> 00:29:40.619 an 800 laptop and yep tanya won it in papillion 564 00:29:41.220 --> 00:29:43.559 and uh we and i do it i i don't 565 00:29:43.599 --> 00:29:44.960 think we made like a big we didn't have her 566 00:29:44.980 --> 00:29:46.990 on the radio one year guys we had the winner 567 00:29:47.089 --> 00:29:49.890 on the radio um we called him up on sunday 568 00:29:49.930 --> 00:29:52.509 morning right and we didn't do it right at seven 569 00:29:52.569 --> 00:29:54.329 because you know i'm not mean like that we waited 570 00:29:54.349 --> 00:29:56.809 till like 7 45 We called them up, and it 571 00:29:56.849 --> 00:29:59.470 was live on the air, and it's like, hey, how's 572 00:29:59.509 --> 00:30:01.650 it going? You're on Compute This. And they just hung 573 00:30:01.690 --> 00:30:04.690 up on us. It was like, click. I hope this 574 00:30:04.710 --> 00:30:07.490 is you, too. Yeah, we called them back, and it 575 00:30:07.529 --> 00:30:09.869 was like, they're like, what do you want? And we're like, 576 00:30:10.329 --> 00:30:13.150 we want to give you a free laptop. You won 577 00:30:13.170 --> 00:30:17.150 it in the contest. I didn't enter any contest. Oh, 578 00:30:17.170 --> 00:30:19.779 my gosh. You voted for Schrock Innovations and the Best 579 00:30:19.819 --> 00:30:21.920 of Omaha, and that got you in the contest to 580 00:30:21.940 --> 00:30:24.779 win a free laptop. And they're like, oh. 581 00:30:25.769 --> 00:30:28.009 Just think of Rex next time you do that. 582 00:30:28.269 --> 00:30:29.170 Yeah, they don't want it. 583 00:30:29.250 --> 00:30:31.029 Rex isn't going to hang up on me. I know that. 584 00:30:31.049 --> 00:30:33.569 All right. Hey, thanks for the call, Rex. I appreciate 585 00:30:33.589 --> 00:30:37.089 you joining us on the show today. 402-558-1110. Got to 586 00:30:37.109 --> 00:30:39.170 take a quick break, guys. When we come back, there 587 00:30:39.210 --> 00:30:43.000 was a massive PHP update that most of you probably 588 00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:46.119 didn't hear about and probably don't care about. Bill's like, yeah, 589 00:30:46.140 --> 00:30:48.039 you spent your whole week dealing with this. 590 00:30:48.380 --> 00:30:48.579 Oh, yes. 591 00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:55.180 And it literally... Every server on the internet needed this patch, 592 00:30:55.619 --> 00:30:57.660 and it was a 9.3 out of 10 on the 593 00:30:57.700 --> 00:31:01.970 critical scale. If you have a business or you work 594 00:31:02.130 --> 00:31:05.349 at a business and they have a server, a web server, 595 00:31:06.410 --> 00:31:09.650 an exchange server, any kind of server, and they didn't 596 00:31:09.710 --> 00:31:14.200 install this PHP patch, you got problems. We're going to 597 00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:15.599 tell you what's going on and what you should watch 598 00:31:15.660 --> 00:31:17.140 out for coming up next on Compute This. 599 00:31:18.579 --> 00:31:21.490 Have you noticed that almost every piece of technology seems 600 00:31:21.549 -->

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00:33:14.630 time it doesn't slow down nearly as fast. 633 00:33:21.700 --> 00:33:26.740 All righty, folks, welcome back into Compute This. Went back and, yeah, 634 00:33:26.799 --> 00:33:29.779 the challenge is they took away the option to go 635 00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:34.130 back depending on how updated you are. Love that. So, John, 636 00:33:34.349 --> 00:33:36.390 thanks for sticking with us there. I did a commercial 637 00:33:36.410 --> 00:33:38.470 break there. I took a look into this. Are you 638 00:33:39.109 --> 00:33:43.049 still on that settings gear screen? Yep. All right. On 639 00:33:43.089 --> 00:33:46.230 the left-hand side, the second from the top option is system. 640 00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:51.259 Go ahead and click on system for me. Okay. And 641 00:33:51.299 --> 00:33:54.539 then click on Recovery. You might have to scroll down 642 00:33:54.579 --> 00:33:56.779 a little bit to see this one. It's toward the 643 00:33:56.819 --> 00:33:57.259 bottom there. 644 00:34:01.660 --> 00:34:02.559 Recovery, okay. 645 00:34:02.859 --> 00:34:06.740 And then basically under Recovery Options, the first option is 646 00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:10.840 Reset This PC. Don't do that one. The one underneath 647 00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:15.380 that says Go Back. Is yours available, or does yours 648 00:34:15.420 --> 00:34:17.739 say this option is no longer available on this PC? 649 00:34:18.860 --> 00:34:20.619 This option is no longer available. 650 00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:21.849 Love it. 651 00:34:22.099 --> 00:34:28.519 All right. I do have two options above that. One 652 00:34:28.539 --> 00:34:33.190 is fix problems without resetting your PC and fix problems 653 00:34:33.349 --> 00:34:37.469 using Windows Update. Reinstall your current version of Windows and 654 00:34:37.530 --> 00:34:37.889 so on. 655 00:34:38.150 --> 00:34:41.409 You know, didn't Windows Update cause your problem? 656 00:34:42.769 --> 00:34:43.449 Yeah. 657 00:34:43.570 --> 00:34:46.400 Fix it with Windows Update. Wow, nothing like making the 658 00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:48.980 tool needed. You can go ahead and click on Fix 659 00:34:49.019 --> 00:34:51.579 Problems Without Resetting the PC. It's going to run you 660 00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:53.519 through the troubleshooter that's basically going to do what we 661 00:34:53.559 --> 00:34:57.099 already did. So I'm not super confident that's going to work. 662 00:34:57.139 --> 00:34:59.900 So unfortunately, in this case, John, it looks like we're 663 00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:01.119 going to need to see this one in the service 664 00:35:01.159 --> 00:35:04.079 center to figure out what's going on with that Wi-Fi adapter. 665 00:35:04.539 --> 00:35:08.079 Other possibilities, you know, if we're talking workarounds, sometimes you 666 00:35:08.099 --> 00:35:10.280 have an Ethernet port. You can use a wire to 667 00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:13.719 connect because the problem is you can't see your printer 668 00:35:14.090 --> 00:35:16.369 because it's on the network and you can't get on 669 00:35:16.389 --> 00:35:19.530 the network. You can't email anything either from that computer 670 00:35:19.550 --> 00:35:21.389 because it can't get on the network. It has no 671 00:35:21.449 --> 00:35:23.420 Wi-Fi adapter. So the only option you have is to 672 00:35:23.460 --> 00:35:25.599 put a wire in the side of it. Is this 673 00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:26.760 a laptop by any chance? 674 00:35:28.059 --> 00:35:30.639 Yeah, it's one of your laptops. 675 00:35:30.900 --> 00:35:34.980 Got it. Perfect. I think you're going to have to 676 00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:35.659 take it to church. 677 00:35:37.420 --> 00:35:37.679 Okay. 678 00:35:37.860 --> 00:35:38.860 Yeah, I think you're going to have to take the 679 00:35:38.900 --> 00:35:41.239 laptop to church and read the sermon off the screen. 680 00:35:41.980 --> 00:35:44.699 You know, I was like, we got to get back 681 00:35:44.739 --> 00:35:46.679 to John. We can't leave this church hanging. They need 682 00:35:46.699 --> 00:35:49.440 their pastor. You know, and it's like, you know, oh, 683 00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:52.159 and technology bites you at the worst possible time. So 684 00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:53.860 I'm sorry that we couldn't do more for you on 685 00:35:53.900 --> 00:35:56.800 the air here, John. But yeah, that when that when 686 00:35:56.820 --> 00:36:00.130 those adapters go like that, especially if it's a Windows 687 00:36:00.190 --> 00:36:04.269 update in a driver thing. One last ditch thing that 688 00:36:04.289 --> 00:36:06.090 I'll tell you to do is we can go right 689 00:36:06.150 --> 00:36:08.980 click on that start menu one more time. And then 690 00:36:09.059 --> 00:36:13.639 left-click on Device Manager one more time. And when you 691 00:36:13.679 --> 00:36:17.670 have that open, find that network adapter. Remember that box 692 00:36:17.710 --> 00:36:21.769 that I told you not to check about removing the driver? 693 00:36:22.929 --> 00:36:25.250 Check that box this time. When you get there, check 694 00:36:25.269 --> 00:36:27.909 that box. And then hit OK. And it's going to 695 00:36:28.010 --> 00:36:31.900 blast everything. So I'm hoping that maybe Windows gave you 696 00:36:31.940 --> 00:36:35.780 a driver update to be helpful. And that driver update 697 00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:38.860 is what's broken. And so if we delete the driver, 698 00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:40.980 it's got to rediscover it again. It's got to go 699 00:36:41.019 --> 00:36:43.420 find it again. It's going to download a new driver. 700 00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:45.730 That might solve it, but I can't make any promises. 701 00:36:45.750 --> 00:36:48.269 But that's the last thing you can try before just 702 00:36:48.309 --> 00:36:50.730 taking the laptop with you to the pulpit and reading 703 00:36:50.750 --> 00:36:53.250 it right off the screen like you're some high-tech pastor, 704 00:36:53.269 --> 00:36:53.489 you know? 705 00:36:54.829 --> 00:36:59.539 Okay. Where is

that last thing that you were talking about? 706 00:36:59.579 --> 00:37:01.139 Is that on the device manager? 707 00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:05.340 Yeah, in device manager on the network adapter that has 708 00:37:05.380 --> 00:37:06.610 the triangle on it. 709 00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:06.980 Yep. 710 00:37:07.340 --> 00:37:10.190 If you right-click on that one and go to properties– 711 00:37:11.059 --> 00:37:13.420 or sorry, not properties. I apologize. If you right-click on 712 00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:19.429 it and delete, like uninstall the device, it will bring 713 00:37:19.489 --> 00:37:22.269 up that box. And is there a checkbox in there 714 00:37:22.309 --> 00:37:28.650 that says also delete the driver? Yeah. 715 00:37:29.050 --> 00:37:29.199 Yep. 716 00:37:29.469 --> 00:37:32.840 So this time check that box and then hit okay. 717 00:37:32.860 --> 00:37:33.039 Okay. 718 00:37:33.539 --> 00:37:36.050 And then when it's all done with that, click that 719 00:37:36.090 --> 00:37:38.530 little rescan icon at the top, the computer with the 720 00:37:38.570 --> 00:37:42.050 magnifying glass, and see if it finds the driver for you. Okay. 721 00:37:42.630 --> 00:37:44.070 All right. Thank you, John. Good luck. 722 00:37:44.789 --> 00:37:46.260 Thanks so much. Yeah, God bless your day. 723 00:37:46.429 --> 00:37:48.780 You too. Thank you. Bye-bye. 402-558-1110 is how you do 724 00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:53.320 it right there, guys. A couple things have been going 725 00:37:53.380 --> 00:37:55.449 on this week. We have this router ban. We covered 726 00:37:55.469 --> 00:37:57.989 this story on Compute This a while ago. The router 727 00:37:58.050 --> 00:38:01.369 ban is a, you know, foreign-made routers are no longer 728 00:38:01.409 --> 00:38:02.869 going to be allowed in the United States. The whole 729 00:38:02.929 --> 00:38:06.130 idea is we want people to make routers in America. 730 00:38:06.849 --> 00:38:09.820 The only router company that's mostly made in America is Netgear, 731 00:38:09.860 --> 00:38:12.380 and most people don't like to use Netgear routers for 732 00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:14.840 a list of reasons that I won't repeat on the 733 00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:18.780 air because I don't like to get sued. And so, yeah, 734 00:38:18.800 --> 00:38:21.699 they're fantastic, I'm sure, for somebody else. They're great. Somebody 735 00:38:21.739 --> 00:38:26.440 else probably loves them, you know. So anyway, Nighthawk, it's great, right? No, 736 00:38:26.699 --> 00:38:29.619 I threw that away. $ 150 and I threw it away. 737 00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:34.300 But anyway, I digress. The whole idea was let's get 738 00:38:34.340 --> 00:38:38.449 the routers built in America. So under this thing, you 739 00:38:38.510 --> 00:38:41.119 can't import your routers unless you get an exemption. The 740 00:38:41.179 --> 00:38:43.300 only way you can get an exemption is if you 741 00:38:43.340 --> 00:38:45.920 give the United States government your plan of how you 742 00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:49.760 plan to build routers inside America within the next 18 months. 743 00:38:50.619 --> 00:38:54.869 Netgear got an exemption. Asus, the routers that we sell, 744 00:38:54.889 --> 00:39:00.050 they're mostly made in Taiwan and Mexico. They got an exemption. EERO, 745 00:39:00.369 --> 00:39:02.769 which is what Amazon sells a lot of, they got 746 00:39:02.789 --> 00:39:06.730 an exception. Starlink, which is an American company, still doesn't 747 00:39:06.769 --> 00:39:09.760 make their routers in America because nobody makes things in America. 748 00:39:10.449 --> 00:39:14.179 They got an exemption. MSI just got their exemption also. 749 00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:18.980 The only company that does not have an exemption is TP-Link. 750 00:39:20.179 --> 00:39:23.550 TP-Link is also currently being sued. This week, the Nebraska 751 00:39:23.570 --> 00:39:28.210 Attorney General joined the lawsuit against TP link for disguising 752 00:39:28.250 --> 00:39:30.730 the fact that their routers were completely Chinese made and 753 00:39:30.789 --> 00:39:35.449 had some severe potential threats as a result because the 754 00:39:35.469 --> 00:39:39.050 Chinese government controls TP link essentially. Um, so you don't 755 00:39:39.090 --> 00:39:41.329 want TP link devices if you can help it anymore 756 00:39:41.409 --> 00:39:43.769 because you just don't know what's in them. Um, and it's, 757 00:39:44.090 --> 00:39:50.960 they lied and it's a $ 1 billion lawsuit. Um, Now, 758 00:39:51.659 --> 00:39:55.489 the funny thing is, I just said all these companies 759 00:39:55.530 --> 00:39:59.050 to get the exception or exemption, you have to have 760 00:39:59.070 --> 00:40:03.530 a plan. None of them have a plan. Not even 761 00:40:03.590 --> 00:40:05.780 Starlink has a plan of what they've submitted. They all 762 00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:10.739 just got the exemption. The only company that has submitted 763 00:40:10.800 --> 00:40:14.119 an actual plan to the United States government to make 764 00:40:14.179 --> 00:40:17.500 their routers in the United States of America with American 765 00:40:17.559 --> 00:40:23.230 workers in American factories is ironically is TP link. The 766 00:40:23.349 --> 00:40:26.769 only one that did not get an exemption. The law 767 00:40:26.829 --> 00:40:29.750 literally says to get the exemption, you must have a plan. 768 00:40:30.010 --> 00:40:32.909 TP link makes a plan. Everybody else makes no plan. 769 00:40:33.170 --> 00:40:38.219 Everybody else gets an exemption. TP link doesn't. I don't 770 00:40:38.260 --> 00:40:39.849 make it up guys. You just can't make it up, 771 00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:43.239 you know, and with security, you can't screw around anymore. 772 00:40:43.639 --> 00:40:46.199 This PHP thing that happened. Let me, let me walk 773 00:40:46.219 --> 00:40:50.079 you through this. It went public. What was it, Wednesday? 774 00:40:51.099 --> 00:40:53.920 I believe it was Tuesday, Wednesday. Yeah,

something like that. 775 00:40:53.940 --> 00:40:55.500 Somewhere around there. It went public, and it was a 776 00:40:55.559 --> 00:40:59.420 bad one. Basically, if you have a web server with websites, 777 00:41:00.260 --> 00:41:04.429 anybody could execute anything on your server without any passwords. 778 00:41:05.289 --> 00:41:07.510 They could just hit your server and just have their 779 00:41:07.530 --> 00:41:09.130 way with it like it was the computer in their basement. 780 00:41:10.250 --> 00:41:12.989 And all you have to do to do this is 781 00:41:13.010 --> 00:41:16.099 send a command to the server, and all servers accepted 782 00:41:16.119 --> 00:41:21.619 the command. CISA, the federal government, basically their cybersecurity division 783 00:41:21.639 --> 00:41:25.960 came out and I'm going to paraphrase. They said, install 784 00:41:26.159 --> 00:41:30.190 the patch, write TF now or just turn your server 785 00:41:30.369 --> 00:41:32.750 off because that's how badly you're going to get owned. 786 00:41:33.989 --> 00:41:36.550 Just turn it off. They'll exfiltrate all your data. They'll 787 00:41:36.570 --> 00:41:39.670 steal all your clients information. They'll steal all your databases 788 00:41:39.969 --> 00:41:46.280 like it can do anything. Did your company patch their server, 789 00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:47.920 their PHP server? Do you even know if you have 790 00:41:47.940 --> 00:41:50.920 a PHP server? If you have a website, odds are 791 00:41:50.940 --> 00:41:55.849 you have a PHP server somewhere. So, yeah, you better 792 00:41:55.869 --> 00:41:58.469 have patched your PHP on the server. Oh, wait, you 793 00:41:58.570 --> 00:42:01.369 can't patch it because some piece of technology that you're running, 794 00:42:01.389 --> 00:42:06.070 rural water district, doesn't allow you to patch. Oh, yeah, 795 00:42:06.090 --> 00:42:08.570 I'm talking about a specific rural water district here. It 796 00:42:08.610 --> 00:42:11.230 doesn't allow patches because it's too old, but you won't 797 00:42:11.289 --> 00:42:15.449 let us build you the right technology? Or fix it 798 00:42:15.489 --> 00:42:17.389 or update it or make it new because, you know, 799 00:42:17.429 --> 00:42:22.769 tech doesn't last forever? Well, we're just going to have 800 00:42:22.789 --> 00:42:26.070 to turn your server off. Sorry. I know it's a 801 00:42:26.179 --> 00:42:29.079 federally mandated water alert system that you have to have. Otherwise, 802 00:42:29.099 --> 00:42:32.179 you have to door knock for boil orders. But we're 803 00:42:32.219 --> 00:42:34.500 not going to let you compromise in our entire server 804 00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:37.159 because you won't update your software. Now, the thing is, 805 00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:39.340 the problem with this is you need a provider that 806 00:42:39.400 --> 00:42:42.300 works with you. That's going to take security seriously enough 807 00:42:42.539 --> 00:42:46.000 to tell a paying customer, we will shut you down

808 00:42:46.739 --> 00:42:51.030 because you are going to jeopardize everybody because you're incompetent 809 00:42:52.090 --> 00:42:54.730 and you're a governmental agency. You've got to have a 810 00:42:54.750 --> 00:42:58.349 business that's willing to say that because anything less than that, 811 00:42:58.369 --> 00:43:03.920 they're not protecting you. You've got to take security that seriously. Now, 812 00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:07.619 here's the standard operating procedure for every MSP. And at 813 00:43:07.659 --> 00:43:12.150 Schrock Business... Yes, we do manage services. We're an MSP. 814 00:43:12.690 --> 00:43:16.280 But businesses need a managed service provider or somebody that 815 00:43:16.300 --> 00:43:18.940 a business hires to manage their technology and their infrastructure. 816 00:43:21.179 --> 00:43:23.239 The way that it worked before is if there's a 817 00:43:23.260 --> 00:43:26.619 big patch or something, it takes a little time for 818 00:43:26.699 --> 00:43:29.980 everybody to digest the patch, right? So there's a big patch, 819 00:43:30.059 --> 00:43:32.409 and then somebody else has another piece of software that 820 00:43:32.429 --> 00:43:34.030 works with your piece of software. So if you give 821 00:43:34.050 --> 00:43:36.829 them a couple days or maybe a month to get 822 00:43:36.869 --> 00:43:40.809 their stuff together, They'll update their software, their plugins to 823 00:43:40.849 --> 00:43:44.050 work with the new patched main application. And then when 824 00:43:44.130 --> 00:43:46.550 you do the patch, nothing breaks and you are a 825 00:43:46.590 --> 00:43:50.510 technology god. You have a reliable system and nothing goes wrong. 826 00:43:51.900 --> 00:43:56.340 That's when the window was days. You guys, when this 827 00:43:56.400 --> 00:44:01.139 went public Tuesday, Wednesday, whenever that happened. It was minutes. 828 00:44:01.460 --> 00:44:04.760 The window is minutes now. It was minutes before AIs 829 00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:07.820 were scanning the Internet for compromised servers and exfiltrating every 830 00:44:07.860 --> 00:44:13.769 piece of data they possibly could. Minutes. The old nobody's 831 00:44:13.809 --> 00:44:16.269 going to look. Why would anyone know that? We bought 832 00:44:16.309 --> 00:44:19.250 a phone system from a local Omaha company years ago 833 00:44:19.530 --> 00:44:21.650 before we started doing our own phone systems because it 834 00:44:21.670 --> 00:44:25.980 was that these people were that dumb. They did everything. 835 00:44:26.239 --> 00:44:28.619 End-to-end service. White glove service. We manage it from end-to-end. 836 00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:30.119 We install it. We set it up. It's all great. 837 00:44:30.340 --> 00:44:32.340 We get our phone bill. We have $ 900 of calls 838 00:44:32.360 --> 00:44:34.719 to the UK. We don't know anybody in the UK. 839 00:44:35.050 --> 00:44:38.250 What's going on? Well, it turns out they left the 840 00:44:38.289 --> 00:44:40.630 default password in the phone system because who's going to 841 00:44:40.670 --> 00:44:42.190 see the phone? Who's going to know you have a 842 00:44:42.210 --> 00:44:46.010 phone system? Why would they even find it? Well, because 843 00:44:46.030 --> 00:44:48.289 you can do this thing called port scanning. And with 844 00:44:48.329 --> 00:44:51.159 an AI doing port scanning, yeah, they'll find it at 845 00:44:51.199 --> 00:44:53.340 machine speed. Like, yeah, they're going to find it. They're 846 00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:55.820 going to find it within minutes. The window is minutes. 847 00:44:56.440 --> 00:44:59.360 So if your MSP for your business doesn't take your 848 00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:03.300 security that seriously, if you have a small business and 849 00:45:03.340 --> 00:45:07.239 you don't think you need top-level security anymore, everything that's 850 00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:08.989 good in the world that you can do with AI, 851 00:45:11.750 --> 00:45:13.889 all the things I genuinely get excited about that we 852 00:45:13.909 --> 00:45:16.130 can do with AI now that we couldn't do before, 853 00:45:17.110 --> 00:45:19.309 the flip side of that coin is the bad guys 854 00:45:19.670 --> 00:45:24.280 can do all those things back to you unless you're protected. 855 00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:26.340 So if you don't have somebody that can protect you, 856 00:45:26.699 --> 00:45:28.880 God help you. I mean, you're going to need John. 857 00:45:28.900 --> 00:45:30.579 You're going to hope that John gets that thing to 858 00:45:30.619 --> 00:45:32.590 print that sermon because you're going to need it. You're 859 00:45:32.610 --> 00:45:35.010 going to need some prayers because that's the only thing 860 00:45:35.050 --> 00:45:37.730 that's going to keep you safe is if maybe the 861 00:45:37.769 --> 00:45:41.090 sweet Lord Jesus himself is on your side. That is 862 00:45:41.110 --> 00:45:44.780 the only way the Huskers are going to win. I 863 00:45:44.820 --> 00:45:45.260 had to go there. 864 00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:45.940 All right, we're going to. 865 00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:47.480 Take our last break of the program, guys. By the way, 866 00:45:47.500 --> 00:45:49.519 there is an After Schrock today coming up after the program, 867 00:45:49.539 --> 00:45:52.800 so stay tuned at facebook.com slash schrockinnovations for that. When 868 00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:55.989 we come back, we have the world's most expensive ping. 869 00:45:56.800 --> 00:45:59.889 What's a ping? That's when you send a command from 870 00:45:59.989 --> 00:46:03.250 one computer to another computer, and it responds and says pong. 871 00:46:03.969 --> 00:46:07.230 You say ping, it says pong. I'm here. I answered. 872 00:46:07.769 --> 00:46:10.820 I am available. I've answered your ping. Well, the world's 873 00:46:10.860 --> 00:46:13.380 most expensive ping in a world of AI technology and 874 00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:16.860 everything is so futuristic now and confusing, some scientists

decided 875 00:46:16.900 --> 00:46:21.179 to go medieval. And they sent a ping the very 876 00:46:21.239 --> 00:46:22.909 old-fashioned way. We're going to tell you about it coming 877 00:46:22.929 --> 00:46:23.829 up next on Compute This. 878 00:46:24.309 --> 00:46:27.170 When your computer has a warranty and you have a problem, 879 00:46:27.489 --> 00:46:31.670 don't call the manufacturers for help. Call Schrock Innovations. Schrock 880 00:46:31.690 --> 00:46:36.679 will contact HP, Dell, Asus, Samsung, or any other manufacturer 881 00:46:36.719 --> 00:46:39.460 to arrange a warranty repair at no cost to you. 882 00:46:40.090 --> 00:46:43.050 We know how these companies work. We know the loopholes 883 00:46:43.130 --> 00:46:45.929 and the tricks to get your system repaired under warranty 884 00:46:46.110 --> 00:46:49.530 as quickly as possible. Even so, manufacturers can take up 885 00:46:49.860 --> 00:46:52.420 to 21 days to fix your computer. We'll give you 886 00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:55.000 the option of a fast local repair in one of 887 00:46:55.079 --> 00:46:58.199 our service centers or provide you with a loaner laptop 888 00:46:58.219 --> 00:47:00.699 to use while you wait. We can even back up 889 00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:03.460 your data before we ship your computer just in case 890 00:47:03.519 --> 00:47:06.909 the warranty fix includes a hard drive wipe. Schrock tests 891 00:47:06.929 --> 00:47:09.429 your computer when it comes back from repair to ensure 892 00:47:09.469 --> 00:47:12.570 the problem was solved properly and all of your hardware 893 00:47:12.630 --> 00:47:13.530 works like new. 894 00:47:13.809 --> 00:47:14.789 There's a reason. 895 00:47:14.530 --> 00:47:18.420 Schrock Innovations has consistently voted the best in town. Whenever 896 00:47:18.480 --> 00:47:21.559 you need help, wherever you need it, Schrock Innovations makes 897 00:47:21.619 --> 00:47:23.000 your computer work for you. 898 00:47:23.760 --> 00:47:26.880 Schrock Innovations Data Recovery Lab saves the data the other 899 00:47:26.920 --> 00:47:29.780 guys can't. The next time your hard drive, camera card, 900 00:47:29.860 --> 00:47:32.889 or flash drive fails, let Schrock get your data back. 901 00:47:34.059 --> 00:47:37.039 Everyone has experienced some form of data loss or knows 902 00:47:37.139 --> 00:47:41.170 someone who has. It's unfortunate, but sometimes the technology we 903 00:47:41.210 --> 00:47:44.070 rely on simply fails. And the last question you want 904 00:47:44.090 --> 00:47:46.670 to hear at that time is, you have a backup, right? 905 00:47:47.349 --> 00:47:50.340 When your hard drive, memory card, backup drive, or flash 906 00:47:50.360 --> 00:47:53.579 drive fails you, turn to the data recovery experts at 907 00:47:53.659 --> 00:47:57.539 Schrock Innovations to get those pictures, songs, and memories back. 908 00:47:57.980 --> 00:48:00.659 You know, not all data recovery companies are the same. 909 00:48:01.099 --> 00:48:03.590 Having the right tools and knowledge to get the job 910 00:48:03.610 --> 00:48:06.250 done right on the first attempt makes all the difference 911 00:48:06.289 --> 00:48:09.610 between a successful recovery and the permanent loss of your 912 00:48:09.650 --> 00:48:12.510 important data. Sometimes you only get one shot at a 913 00:48:12.570 --> 00:48:15.969 successful recovery. That's why Schrock has invested in top of 914 00:48:16.010 --> 00:48:22.239 the line recovery imagers, a class 100 clean environment. over $ 10, 000 components, 915 00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:24.960 and a staff of recovery engineers that are the best 916 00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:28.639 in the business. Schrock has a 96% recovery rate getting 917 00:48:28.699 --> 00:48:32.260 data back from failed devices. When the unthinkable happens and 918 00:48:32.300 --> 00:48:34.739 you need your data back, turn to the experts at 919 00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:39.219 Schrock Innovations for professional and affordable data recovery services. 920 00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:50.380 Alrighty folks. Welcome back into compute this final segment of 921 00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:53.420 the program. Thanks for sticking with us today. As I mentioned, 922 00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:56.360 there is an after Shrock after the program, there's all 923 00:48:56.409 --> 00:48:58.590 kinds of stuff happening in the world guys that, that 924 00:48:58.829 --> 00:49:02.150 just doesn't really, it doesn't fit in compute this, right? 925 00:49:02.510 --> 00:49:06.210 It's not a, it's not computer related. It's not, well, 926 00:49:06.250 --> 00:49:08.849 sometimes it is, but it's not directly, it doesn't touch 927 00:49:08.869 --> 00:49:11.250 your world. Like the way it's touching John's world right now, 928 00:49:11.329 --> 00:49:15.380 you know? Um, Those things, we keep them in their 929 00:49:15.409 --> 00:49:19.969 own space. So we got a cryptocurrency update for you today. 930 00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:22.900 There's some interesting stuff going on in that market. A 931 00:49:22.920 --> 00:49:24.360 lot of it's going to hinge on the interest rate 932 00:49:24.380 --> 00:49:27.820 decision coming up here soon. We've got an update on 933 00:49:27.860 --> 00:49:31.579 what's going on with the Starlink situation in Ukraine, why 934 00:49:31.619 --> 00:49:36.699 their Starlink got interrupted, what happened there. So that was 935 00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:39.130 kind of an interesting story. You know, sometimes when the 936 00:49:39.170 --> 00:49:42.070 president of the United States makes a suggestion and you 937 00:49:42.110 --> 00:49:46.360 choose to ignore it, it's not really a suggestion. They 938 00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:49.559 just are being polite, you know. So don't ignore. Don't 939 00:49:49.780 --> 00:49:55.389 keep blowing up diesel refineries. So we got some updates 940 00:49:55.409 --> 00:49:58.190 there for you as well. A bunch of stuff going 941 00:49:58.250 --> 00:49:59.530 on in the world. So we're going to give you 942

00:49:59.670 --> 00:50:04.170 the Iran situation, the oil situation, the gas shortage in Nebraska. Yes, 943 00:50:04.300 --> 00:50:08.039 in Nebraska. There's pictures on Reddit of Casey's gas station 944 00:50:08.059 --> 00:50:10.239 with signs in the window saying diesel only, no fuel. 945 00:50:12.440 --> 00:50:15.099 And everyone's like, oh my gosh, it's the war in Iran. 946 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:20.179 It's not. It's not the war in Iran. They told 947 00:50:20.219 --> 00:50:22.820 you this was going to happen like weeks ago. But nobody, 948 00:50:23.119 --> 00:50:27.119 everybody's like, oh, I'm sure it's fine. Now you're like, oh, shoot, 949 00:50:27.139 --> 00:50:29.059 where's the gas? Don't worry, it'll be back like soon. 950 00:50:29.179 --> 00:50:31.000 So don't worry about it. They're just, they have to 951 00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:32.960 retool the refineries for the winter blend. They have to 952 00:50:33.039 --> 00:50:35.840 stop making fuel for a day or two. And when 953 00:50:35.860 --> 00:50:37.409 you're running on a tight market, a day or two 954 00:50:37.429 --> 00:50:39.449 is a long time. So we've got all these news 955 00:50:39.489 --> 00:50:41.449 and stories coming up for you during the After Schrock. 956 00:50:41.730 --> 00:50:45.170 We air that at facebook.com slash schrockinnovations. That's the only 957 00:50:45.190 --> 00:50:47.780 place you can listen to it. You can watch it, 958 00:50:47.829 --> 00:50:50.519 listen to it, whatever you'd like. It's also available after 959 00:50:50.619 --> 00:50:52.599 the program is over. So if you don't have time 960 00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:55.360 or you're headed to church, you can always listen to 961 00:50:55.400 --> 00:50:58.760 that later. 402-558-1110. We're going to draw our winner for 962 00:50:58.780 --> 00:51:01.869 the $ 25 Schrock Innovations gift certificate here in just a moment. 963 00:51:02.750 --> 00:51:05.409 But before we do that, I came across this story. 964 00:51:06.369 --> 00:51:11.110 And if you're one of the people, and we have 965 00:51:11.130 --> 00:51:15.250 these customers, there's nothing wrong with Windows XP. Why did 966 00:51:15.289 --> 00:51:19.579 they have to change anything? Right? Okay, and then there's 967 00:51:19.619 --> 00:51:22.260 nothing wrong with Windows 7. Why did they have to 968 00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:26.440 change anything? Nobody said that about Windows 8. And then 969 00:51:26.460 --> 00:51:30.460 there's nothing wrong with Windows 10. Windows 8 was a disaster. 970 00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:31.860 Are we going to go back to Windows ME? Yeah, 971 00:51:31.880 --> 00:51:42.179 it's Windows 2000, but for people, not for businesses. Yeah, 972 00:51:42.219 --> 00:51:45.679 it was not confusing at all. There's nothing wrong with 973 00:51:45.739 --> 00:51:49.530 Windows 10. And then now we're in Windows 11. So 974 00:51:49.889 --> 00:51:51.750 if you're one of the people out there that would 975 00:51:51.789 --> 00:52:00.289 rather just use legacy technology, there is in Norway or 976 00:52:00.389 --> 00:52:02.349 in 1990, there was a joke. It was somebody did 977 00:52:02.389 --> 00:52:04.469 a thesis at like MIT or something. And they said 978 00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:09.079 they came up with an Internet protocol for transmission of 979 00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:12.510 data by carrier pigeons. So you could literally put like 980 00:52:12.769 --> 00:52:15.610 a packet of binary code on a pigeon and send 981 00:52:15.630 --> 00:52:18.050 the packet. And so it was a joke, right? It 982 00:52:18.070 --> 00:52:21.429 was just like a whatever. Well, in 2001, the Norwegians 983 00:52:22.170 --> 00:52:24.269 actually decided to make this just to see if they could. 984 00:52:24.869 --> 00:52:30.789 And so they got nine of these pigeons, right? And 985 00:52:30.829 --> 00:52:32.269 I thought it was 10, but it looks like it's nine. 986 00:52:32.289 --> 00:52:34.760 So they got nine pigeons. Maybe there was 10. What 987 00:52:34.780 --> 00:52:38.840 happened to the– was Fauci there? What happened to the 988 00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:42.380 10th pigeon? Anyway, so there's nine pigeons, and they put 989 00:52:42.420 --> 00:52:45.280 a message on the leg of each pigeon, and they 990 00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:49.030 released them. They went three miles. They only recovered four pigeons. 991 00:52:49.510 --> 00:52:54.030 So they had a 57% packet loss. So they did. 992 00:52:54.329 --> 00:52:57.190 But it was enough got through that they were able 993 00:52:57.230 --> 00:53:00.940 to make the transmission. Basically, now the little scrap of 994 00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:04.440 paper that was tied to the pigeon's leg is for 995 00:53:04.500 --> 00:53:07.960 sale at an auction house at Christie's. And it has 996 00:53:07.980 --> 00:53:11.739 an active bid for $ 4, 000. How much are you putting 997 00:53:11.780 --> 00:53:14.440 in for it, Thor? I don't want the poopy paper 998 00:53:14.480 --> 00:53:19.250 from the pigeon leg. I'm fine. But it makes it 999 00:53:19.289 --> 00:53:22.110 the most expensive ping ever sent in computer history. So 1000 00:53:22.150 --> 00:53:23.989 that's fun stuff. So if you really want to go 1001 00:53:24.030 --> 00:53:25.989 old school, guys, you can go medieval and put your... 1002 00:53:26.659 --> 00:53:29.880 Maybe John, you can send the sermon on a... How 1003 00:53:29.900 --> 00:53:33.920 many pigeons? I don't know. All right, today's winner, $ 25 1004 00:53:33.039 --> 00:53:36.429 Schrock Innovations gift certificate is Rex. Congratulations, Rex. We'll get 1005 00:53:36.449 --> 00:53:38.949 you that certificate added to your Schrock account, and we'll 1006 00:53:38.969 --> 00:53:41.550 see you all again next weekend or maybe in a 1007 00:53:41.570 --> 00:53:44.389 few minutes for the after Schrock for the next episode 1008 00:53:44.590 --> 00:53:45.199 of Compute This.