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"SEASON 5 PREMIER" S5 - E1: Balancing Technology and Tradition in the Holiday Season
Ever wondered how to keep your tech habits in check amidst the holiday hubbub? We're not just talking about the basics; we delve into the less obvious but equally important tech mannerisms, like why your headphones can be the ultimate gift to those around you. And when it comes to screen time, we're looking out for the little eyes—keeping your content kid-friendly is more than just a nicety, it's a necessity. On the move? Don't be that power outlet hog; we've got some electrifying tips to keep your devices—and your relationships—fully charged.
But it's not all about the do's and don'ts; we explore the freedoms and frustrations that come with our beloved gadgets. Ever felt handcuffed by your iPhone's lack of customizability? Our banter about the parallels between tech and automotive industries might just resonate with you. And if you've ever been crammed into an airplane seat during the holiday travel circus, you'll appreciate our humorous take on the high-flying tight squeezes and surprisingly affordable tickets. Beyond the laughs, we also ponder technology's more profound societal impact. We envision a world where our smart devices not only connect us but also amplify our human potential, casting a vision for how tech, wielded with care, can create unity in our diverse world. Join us for a conversation that's as enlightening as it is entertaining.
Hello and welcome to Foundation Nation. I'm your host, Matthew Cote. Today on the podcast, we're going to talk about some interesting recent goings-ons in our beautiful state and maybe even a few things going on in this amazing round thing we call home. Hello, I'm Matthew Cote. This is Foundation Nation, along with Tech Genius Jay.
Speaker 2:Hi, my name is Jay Solme, owner of Jay's Technology Solution. So let's start there for Volody Matt.
Speaker 1:Thank you, thank you. So you're a techie guy, you know IT, you know computer-y stuff. So talk to me about how to avoid being a tech jerk during the holidays, and what the hell does that mean? Tech jerk, tech jerk.
Speaker 2:Well, have you ever been in a restaurant and you're hearing the kids listening to cartoons or playing video games while you're at a restaurant trying to enjoy your meal? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a tech jerk.
Speaker 1:Shut up. I didn't even know that.
Speaker 2:Okay, the early onset of it was being at a restaurant or in a close public place where you're trying to enjoy your time and people are just talking on the phone.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's a tech jerk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, yes, you can talk on the phone, but when people are trying to enjoy their time, they don't need to listen to you. I was actually on Storybook, right, you know, at Disneyland. Yeah, you know, a little canal with the boat.
Speaker 1:Oh, right yeah, Storybook.
Speaker 2:Land, storytel oh, I can't remember the name of it. Right, we're on there and I'm videoing, trying to enjoy this, you know, when my wife's holding our son. He was way younger then and there's this gentleman on the phone talking the entire time while the canal operator was trying to explain the scenery. Yeah, on the phone, talking the entire time. That's a tech jerk, that's a jerk.
Speaker 1:So yeah, probably just in general, that's just a regular day.
Speaker 2:So when you're traveling, people remember you need to make sure that you have headphones. That's the biggest thing, oh yeah, especially for your kids.
Speaker 1:You mean like the noise counts? Oh, you just mean so people don't hear the sound.
Speaker 2:People have to listen to what you're listening to, right, and they do this all the time with kids mostly, right. You know kids mostly will turn it up so they can hear it Right, because everyone else is being loud around them.
Speaker 1:So turn it up. You're going to be louder Right, crank it up, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then on the plane, on a bus, on a train. You know why do I sound like Dr Seuss all of a sudden? Yeah, be mindful of what you're watching. You just missed the automobile, I bet, yeah, yeah, well, an automobile doesn't matter because you're not next to strangers. Be mindful of what you are watching, especially as an adult, right? Because most of the time you're going to have probably a child that can see your screen. Oh, yeah, sure you know. Would you want your child to look over and see someone watching the shining?
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Speaker 2:Silence of the Lambs, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Right or saw or saw.
Speaker 2:Eating his brain, right, you know. So be mindful of what you watch.
Speaker 1:Is there any rules about that or not? I wonder, if there's any rules, what if the planes have rules? How about just being nice yeah?
Speaker 2:Can people just be nice to one another?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I think that's the really, you know, the only thing that I would say. That was kind of like a what was I saying? Like a tech jerk. You know, the only thing I was kind of thinking is, you know, I remember being in an airport in Turkey and they had a different power outlet situation there and there was this one power outlet and it was like the only one I could find, obviously, and there were people like huddled around this guy, you know, he had the only power outlet and he put a power strip on and he's hogging the whole thing, you know, or whatever, and no one was saying anything, but there were clearly people around him waiting for it. So I was like, okay, I'm just gonna wait a little bit, wait a little. People would look and then they'd just kind of, you know, tired of waiting, they'd leave and I was like I'm fucking sticking this out, man.
Speaker 1:I waited exactly an hour, 59 minutes, hour and one minute, something like that, and then I finally said, hey, whatever, you got charged in, I think we're good. And he goes. Oh my gosh, I didn't even realize. You know, I was over here doing whatever and he just it did. He wasn't being a jerk. In my opinion, he was being extremely unaware that there's, like you know, 10 people pretty much consistently around him. You know they would leave and 10 more would come and they'd leave and 10, because there was no plugs around there and I was like, well, you know, there's other people here. You know, he just young kid, you know in his mid 20s maybe, and he just wasn't aware of anything but him.
Speaker 2:So the answer to that is bring your own charging devices if possible. You can get a battery pack that will charge several devices at once multiple times. And if you know you're gonna be in an airport for a while and you think there could be a possibility of only one outlet, hey, let's be nice to one another. Go to Home Depot or Fred Meyer or Walmart, buy a cheap $10 power strip and with like six outlets, you can get it so cheap. Put it in your backpack or your carry-on and then if you go somewhere, there's one outlet and if someone's using it already, you just go up to them like, hey, I would like to use this too. Look, I have a power strip. Yeah, let's share and we unplug yours, plug this power strip in and we'll just plug our devices into this. Yeah, yeah, and actually be nice to one another.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a great idea. That's a great idea Carry your own power strip.
Speaker 2:They're so cheap, they're lightweight, you know, and you know TSA will probably like applaud you for it. Yeah, I don't think I'd be a problem going?
Speaker 1:No, what about those backup battery things? Those go through the security just fine, don't they?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we have one in our carry-on every time we go. Yeah, no issues with those, yeah, okay, yeah, okay, because we can't always guarantee that that plug on the plane's gonna be there or work Right.
Speaker 1:It's more common now, but yeah, I gotta tell you about a flight I had. That was the craziest flight ever. I'd learned so much spirit airlines. Okay, have you ever flown and you wouldn't fit? No, I wouldn't. The chairs are an inch and three quarters thick. They don't move, there's no power outlets and you have to pay for water.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow, okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm glad to say that it's a water.
Speaker 2:It's a repudiated show, because I have a few things to talk about.
Speaker 1:I couldn't believe it when I was on it and the lady in front of me was kicking my feet and everything. I was just my knees were all the way in but my feet were still touching her area and she kept kicking my feet nonstop. But they were under her seat. I don't know where else would they have go Under yours. I can't bend them backwards under me like that for the entire flight. So it was interesting. The bright side of the whole thing was there were less than half of everybody price-wise. Oh, so you get, and it's the same seats width-wise, but it's about 15% more seats length-wise than the other. Oh, dear goodness.
Speaker 2:I would not fit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you really think. You gotta think about it. They don't recline they. You know the tray that comes down, it's about a half a sheet of paper. Oh, that's, that's. That's tiny and it is so close to you you know it's not worth it, you can't do nothing with it. It's just there to say it's there. It's kind of one of those features where they put it in so they'll. You know, like some cars, they have certain features they want to say, oh, it's got, you know, this fancy feature, but it's just there to say they have it, it actually actually has no function. Yeah, you know, it's one of those things. So yeah, that was interesting, that was interesting. So don't, this is the holidays, Everybody's going to be flying. I'm flying on Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve, I mean. So you know, be considerate, Think of other people, you know, come at them with full niceness in the spirit of the holiday season.
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Speaker 1:So what else we got going on.
Speaker 2:So what about this report about iPhone? Yeah, you know there's mixed things on that. Well, so it goes like that.
Speaker 1:It goes like that. It's not even a thousand dollars.
Speaker 3:I mean it's way more.
Speaker 1:It's way more. The pro model? Yes, yeah, it's 1700, maybe. But so, whatever you pay, you know, let's say, over a thousand dollars, you pay and Apple still controls what 100% of it, 98% of it. You get to turn it on and off. That's what you control. You get to charge it, right.
Speaker 2:Well describe on what you mean by control, because when you read the article about that, it's talking about changing out parts with aftermarket parts, right? So the concept here is that in order for the iPhone to work right, it's got to actually have the equipment. It was designed for the software to run right. So the software and the hardware are paired right. So, like, let's say, in the article, it says you can go to an auto shop and get your alternator starter replaced in your car and it's no big deal, right? Sure, yeah, well, yes, in theory, but we're not talking about a mechanical part that does very little with any kind of software. Right, the starter, the alternator there's no software really driving it. Right, it's just on off and then alternator charges.
Speaker 2:So what happens if you take, like, a 2022 Cadillac Suburban type vehicle and you go? You know what? I don't like this screen in here anymore for the radio and stuff and I want to put an aftermarket one in there. Yeah, what happens? I don't think it'll pair up, will it? It's a huge amount of trouble. Yeah, and there's extra equipment that you have to install for it to talk. And I didn't have a Cadillac but I had a Suburban. I put in an aftermarket setup and let me tell you, half of my controls on my steering wheel didn't work anymore. What the hell? Yeah, so, people, I get the concept here. I really do, right, you know, hey, I can't control my own iPhone, but you have, you're literally paying for device that's meant to work and work well, and then you want to put third party cheap parts in afterwards if you break it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's not. No, well, you know, you know, what I think about is when I think about these things. Is I think about that? Well, a couple of different things. One is, you know, the iPhone itself is. You know, what are they? How much money do they have in developing it? You know, because it's the same damn thing since what iPhone 4S? It's, it's, it's, it's just a little bigger, a little smaller, a little bigger, a little lighter, whatever more cameras, faster computing, yeah, but the basic idea is there. You know, the 80% idea is there. The hard work is done. Now they just, you know, making what is better, and so, you know, the profit that they get from these things nowadays is just so ginormous. You know, do we really need to be locking it down in such a way where it's? I don't really know, but it just seems like they're their biggest. You know, when they do updates and stuff, if you don't do the updates, my phone goes crazy.
Speaker 2:until I do the updates, like it won't even work sometimes Mine won't, but I have mine set to automatically update at night, so when there's one that comes in I wake up in the morning. It's done.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you decide you don't want to do an update, you don't get a choice, really after a while.
Speaker 2:So here's the thing, though if you don't like the iPhone, go get an Android.
Speaker 1:But what if I don't like an Android and I like an iPhone? Well, I you know what that goes back to if you don't like the rules in this country, move somewhere else.
Speaker 2:Exactly, Somebody told me that one time you don't like the seats on your flight because they're too small. Yeah, go on a different flight.
Speaker 1:Or enjoy the savings Exactly.
Speaker 2:You know, if you want to sit in a box, sit in a box.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, so what are the features that we're missing here for the most expensive phone known to mankind? You know, I mean I don't have a lot of complaints. It's consistently working for me, it does all the things, great pictures. You know you can run multi a million dollar companies off these goddamn things. You know they don't break if you get a little case that kind of protrudes out past the glass. I mean it's. I don't got a really a lot of complaints, honestly.
Speaker 2:No, I love my iPhone. Yeah, I put ballistic glass protector on the screen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's actually glass, not a sticker. Oh, and whenever I put my phone down, oh, here's a tip for everybody. Oh yeah, when you put your phone down on a table, yeah, put the face of it, the screen facing down. Why is that Right Like this? Right, yeah, face of it facing down. Face it down If something drops on it. Oh yeah, you're not cracking your screen. Oh yeah, and if you got a case on the back of it, most likely nothing will happen, yeah, unless you're dropping a brick. Yeah, well, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, brick layers you hear that, yeah, so, yeah, so put the screen facing down, yeah. And if you own a business, yeah, do what I do Put a sticker of your company name on the back of your phone. So when it's facing down, you're advertising.
Speaker 1:See, you know why I keep mine up during meetings? Yeah, what's that Right? So I always keep mine. I need a sticker. I need a whole new case, though, but yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a lot of things that you can do with what you have, and plus you got your wallet on the back of your phone.
Speaker 1:I love that. I hate wallets all the way if forever.
Speaker 2:So I can't wait for Washington to get the digital license. It's coming.
Speaker 1:Tell me, I don't know, what is that?
Speaker 2:Digital license. Oh, there's. Several states have already adopted it. You can actually add your driver's license to the Apple wallet on your iPhone, whoa, and your license is there. They say to still keep your hard license on you just in case, right, but 99% of the time just show them the license on your phone and it's valid.
Speaker 1:Hmm, so that's interesting. I've never even. I guess I'm. I will hear about it when I go to renew my, because I have that new one. You know the advanced license or whatever. So I thought that's all there was. But yeah, I know that's the. What do they call that? The mark of the beast. Once they have everything in a computer chip and our wrist, they got us yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, people think big brother's watching you, but when you think about it, a lot of this in my mind is a lot of like what Star Trek was doing. Yeah, we're not getting the technology necessarily to watch each other. Yeah, we're trying to do the technology to be better and to have the technology do rudimentary things for us so we can expand ourselves and be better all around.
Speaker 1:Well, I think it brings us closer to being kind of a one race, because which we should be. You know, all humans work together and I like the idea that it kind of globally links us all together, you know.
Speaker 1:So, we all I mean we're all in this planet together, we're using it, we're damaging it, and we're all doing it together. So I like the idea of the phone, kind of like it does help bring us all together and communicate and be able to react to the issues that we create, you know. So iPhones are a powerful tool, probably more powerful than any gun we've ever made you know Well, social media can damage someone in an instant.
Speaker 1:Yeah in an instant. In an instant it could, yeah, absolutely All right. Well, I'm Matthew Cote and this is Jay Solme. Hey, and we're gonna catch you on the flip side. Thank you very much.
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