 Well, I think we're representing the fact that nobody is unidimensional. Right. Exactly. Just because you like doing tech news doesn't mean you can't talk about sports. I have a uni problem. I'm not unidimensional. Sarah Lane, would you like to read line three today? I would love to. You're the best. All right. Let's get rolling then. All right. Alex Ruzica has supported independent tech news directly for just about a day. Why not be like Alex and become a DTNS member at patreon.com slash DTNS. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, April 24th, 2019 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Feline, I'm Sarah Lane. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. We do not have Scott Johnson because he's getting ready for his trip to Las Vegas this weekend for the Viva TMS Vegas event that I will also be at. But we're very blessed to have Nicole Lee, senior editor from Engadget back on the show. How's it going, Nicole? Hey, how's it going? It's good. I'm reporting from surprisingly sunny San Francisco. Yeah. Roger was trying to feel better about not living there anymore. And you're like, oh no, it's sunny and wonderful today in San Francisco. Well, folks, Nicole has got an interesting article she's been working on for Engadget about magazines and the unusually tech startup publishers that make them these days. But let's start with a few other tech things you should know. TF Industries' Ming-Chi Kuo reports that his sources say that Apple will launch new Aripod models sometime between September and March. One of the models will have an all new design as well. No more cigarette butts hanging out of yours. AT&T lost subscribers in all its services except wireless. Last quarter, TV subscribers fell 544,000. Direct TV now subscribers fell 83,000. But AT&T added 80,000 wireless phone subscribers. Perhaps by telling them they were getting 5G when they weren't. I don't know. WarnerMedia operating income rose 11.6%. That also helped bolster total revenue to $44.8 billion and earnings per share of 86 cents. A state court in Tamil Nadu, India, moved to reverse its ban on the TikTok app. The court had previously ruled that the app encouraged pornography and caused Apple and Google to remove both from their stores in India. The federal IT ministry will request that Apple and Google reinstate TikTok to their stores there. Doesn't appear that this latest decision will be appealed. Yeah, so this might be the end of the road. Bite Dance may have won this battle. The Telegraph reports that during a national security council meeting, the UK Prime Minister has approved the use of Huawei equipment in non-core parts of 5G networks built in the country. A recent report by the UK's Huawei Cybersecurity Evaluation Center oversight board said it could only provide limited assurance that risks to national security posed by Huawei parts could be mitigated, but they did not recommend a ban, so this is consistent with that report. All right. Let's talk a little more. I promise we won't talk about it every day. We have a little more news around the Galaxy Fold, right, Sarah? We do, and it comes from iFixit, and iFixit is they do good work. iFixit released the results of its teardown of the Samsung Galaxy Fold, calling the design alarmingly fragile. While the hinge seems sturdy, iFixit found dirt could easily get between that seven nanometer gap between the bezel and the OLED screen. It said, quote, when closed, the screen is protected, but the spine is flanked by massive gaps that are opening picks hop right into, quote. This may explain what happened to the model at the verge, and iFixit says you'll almost certainly be replacing the screen before long. I guess an important point because some people have said, well, Samsung said the hinge was sturdy and these things are breaking, but the hinge is not breaking. Those 200,000 repetitions of the hinge, those seem to be real and the hinge is fairly sturdy. They just engineered too much of a gap here and dust can get in. Seven millimeters, that's almost a centimeter. I know that means nothing to Sarah because, you know, but it's like, you know, third of an inch. I mean, get rid of the metric system and then I'll please don't start us on that road. But that's a healthy gap. And it sounds like that combined with the fact that it's a plastic screen, which we all know people were pulling off the protective layer. It makes sense why this is happening now. Nicole, though, don't you think that this is something they would have expected to happen? Yes, like this seems like after the galaxy note the buckle that they went through, like how many years ago that was, you would think that they would double down on checking it and making sure everything worked well before handing it to reviewers who you know will tear it apart and who you know will will examine every nook and cranny of this thing and to sort of backtrack and say, oh, it's a prototype. No, you didn't say it was before you had set it out to people. You can't just say, oh, you know, that was, I mean, I don't know. I get when you send review units and you say this isn't the final production model, there may be some weird things. That's fair, right? And especially when it comes to software, that that is often the case. We're like, wow, there's this weird bug, but they said they'll fix it by the time the final software ships, but a hinge with a seven millimeter gap doesn't feel like something that, oh, we just didn't catch it. That's only the prototype, right? Like that, that's that seems like something that would have been caught earlier in the design phase. If they thought it was a problem, apparently they didn't think it was a problem. Yeah, feels like more R&D should have been done here. I mean, clearly, I mean, for sure. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean, at this point, it's it's it's pretty clear. Sure, the product may not have been ready for release, but there are these real world issues that people who are testing the, you know, the the product were like, yeah, some something's up here. And I think that no matter how much internal testing you do, sometimes a company still can get that wrong. And it's not because they don't care or it's not because they're a Russian or product necessarily. It's because when you actually have real, real people, yeah, who are using something, they will notice things that you just didn't notice because you were so kind of, you know, in in blinders are on a little bit. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's fair. I mean, I would say then Samsung should hire iFixit to test their stuff. Yes, probably. It didn't take them that long in the relative scheme of things to figure this out. At a board meeting on Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the folks who bring you so many things, including the Oscars, voted not to change eligibility rules for feature length films. Any movie that has at least a seven day theater run with three showings a day minimum will remain eligible. That's been the rule. It's going to stay the rule. If you remember, Steven Spielberg had led a movement to try to maybe get that rule changed to increase the requirement for the theater run in order to disqualify some Netflix movies, which don't get the usual 90 day theater exclusive run. One change that was improved, approved, was renaming the foreign film category to international. I thought that was that was somewhat interesting. I don't know. And that's probably the right move, I guess. I don't know. I mean, you're basically, but aren't all the movies international? Yeah, yeah, but it's whatever. Like I don't want to get too hung up on that. Yeah, it's a little bit more of like a PC move than anything else. But, you know, Steven Spielberg was also called out as soon as he was part of Apple's latest rollout of their upcoming TV. Apple TV Plus. Exactly. That, you know, it was like, oh, well, now we know why Steven Spielberg was railing against Netflix because he was in cahoots with Apple this whole time. And there's probably some two sides. I don't know. I think the the Apple versus Netflix thing is overplayed. Not that they aren't competitors, but I think it is overplayed. I think Steven Spielberg feels like some of the Netflix movies, not Roma, but some of the Netflix movies deserve to be in theaters. And that movies that are given an Oscar should be the kind of movie that is best consumed in a theater. I think he honestly believed he was arguing something legitimate. Like Oscars should only go to movies that are meant for the theater, for the big experience. And Netflix has both. Netflix has some made for TV movie styles and it has some theater styles. And if they have theater styles, they should prove that they're meant for theaters by marketing them first. The Google Fit Health Tracking app is coming to iOS with full integration with Apple Health. Last August, Google focused the fit app on smart activity goals created with the American Heart Association. Move Minutes tracks all kinds of physical activity. Heart points are awarded for things like risk walks and workouts and at least 100 steps a minute. It also tracks steps, calories burned and distance walked. Google Fit adjusts goals based on your progress. And on iOS, it can now pull data from the phone and Apple Watch as well as from where OS devices devices. I don't want to make too much out of this. You know, it's not like we're in an open universe where everybody can make anything and it runs on anything. But it is nice to see this trend of the big companies, at least, making more of their stuff run on other stuff. So I'm an Apple Watch user. The idea that I could use Google Fit now to tap into that on an iPhone means I don't have to think about which device I own. I can own a Wear OS. I can own an Apple phone. I can own an Android phone. I can own an Apple Watch and I can decide that Google Fit is my preferred way of tracking all this stuff. And I think that's good. Oh, absolutely. I mean, as a consumer, that's a total win. Nicole, I don't know how much fitness tracking you're doing on watches or iOS apps or the like. But what's your take on this? Well, I think it's it's definitely I think it it helps both sides, to be honest with you. I think it helps Apple Health improve its products. You know, maybe they'll see something Google's doing that they're not doing and they'll try to incorporate it or make them make their product better than Google's. And I think that's good for consumers in the end. Hopefully both companies competition will help, you know, elevate features on features on both devices. And more importantly, for me, is that the idea is that you can use any wearable you want, whether you want to use a wear OS or whether you want to use an Apple Watch or whatever it is, you can use it on hopefully any phone. Of course, I don't think this works with on the other way around, per se, with with, you know, Apple Watch on Android. I'm not entirely sure on that just yet. But at least this is one way to do it. And hopefully this will help open up conversations around cross interoperability on everything else. Yeah, exactly. I like I said, I don't want to pretend like, Oh, it's all good now. Everything works on everything. But it's nice to see moves this way. And I like that Google is working with the American Heart Association and trying to come up with better ways of motivating you with, you know, heart points and movements may sound kind of silly. But an easy number that you can see go up or down is a great motivator. Usually that's been steps, which is better than nothing. But steps aren't the best, most accurate way to to measure whether you're improving your health. And this does this says like, Oh, we're going to we're going to separate certain kinds of activity from heart healthy activity. So you can get a better handle on that. I think that's good. Yeah, it kind of reminds me of, you know, back in the day when we were all getting used to mobile apps and the fact that it's like, Oh, you can do like Google stuff with an iOS. Like great, they're all working great together. Well, there's a lot more to it than that. It's very complicated. But when it comes to these companies trying to further fitness apps, you know, and let's call them watches in this situation and and all of and all of the things that people can get used to using. And and in many cases for their own health benefit, like real, real stuff. Like, you know, this is not posturing on the company's parts. It's it's it's actual good stuff happening that I think we all win. Yeah. Old guy says who even knows what that means, though. And the thing is, you can actually go in and find out what that means. The American Heart Association and Google define what the what the minutes mean. But in the day to day, you don't want to have to track 15 different numbers that that's made up of. You want one score that you can have some confidence is giving you an idea if you're going in the right direction or not. Microsoft issued a support document saying it's May 2019. Windows 10 update may not install on systems that use external USB storage or SD cards due to an inappropriate drive reassignment, and they will block installation when they text those cases. Now, there's an easy way around this. You can remove your thumb drive or your external USB drive or your SD card. Make sure that's all out of there. Then restart May 2019 update and it'll work fine. And then once it's updated, plug everything back in. If you're running Windows off a thumb drive, obviously, you can't do that. And Microsoft does plan to address the drive reassignment problem in the future. One thing to note, this drive reassignment bug apparently showed up in the Windows 10 April 2018 update, although it didn't cause a problem till now. So if you have a version of Windows 10 prior to the April 2018 update, you haven't updated since then, you can update to the May 2019 update without worrying about this, even if you have your external drives plugged in and all of that. So I, you know, a lot of people are trying to play this off as like, here we go again, Microsoft with a bug delaying their update, but it's not delaying the update. This is the new system working and catching a bug and being able to give advice about it before people actually get to the update, which I think is a good thing. Yeah, I mean, I'm definitely in the camp of did not update before April of 2018. So this is, I mean, I'm glad, I'm glad to hear about this rather than the alternative. Yeah, Nicole, I don't know if this affects you at all. Does it? No, I don't. I don't really have, I mean, I do have a Windows machine, but I don't have any external USB storage or anything like that. So this doesn't really affect me. But, you know, this is a good workaround that they mentioned, you know, removing those media first before installing the update. Slightly annoying, but at least you can do it. Yeah. UAV delivery company ZipLine is expanding its unmanned aircraft deliveries to Ghana. If you're not familiar, it will deliver 150 different medicines, vaccines and blood to 2000 clinics in the country. ZipLine drones can travel up to 160 kilometers at speeds of up to 100 kilometers per hour. ZipLine has operated in Rwanda since 2016, which is where you might have heard the story or the name at least before and begin rolling out service for Tanzania last year as well. So, yeah, this I mentioned this when we were talking to Patrick about the Project Wing announcement coming to the US. And I don't think ZipLine gets enough credit for having run an actual drone delivery service for real, doing important things for years, for for more than three years. This this is this is a real thing. Africa has had drone delivery longer than any other continent, I think. I'm pretty sure this has been the longest running commercial company. And I think it gets dismissed sometimes because people say, well, it's just limited. Oh, it's just medicine. Oh, it's just in Rwanda. Oh, well, now it's in Tanzania, but I don't know where that is. And I think this is really impressive. I don't think ZipLine gets enough due for what it's doing. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, Nicole, you mentioned you were from Malaysia earlier in the show. Is what what what is the sort of drone delivery landscape look like there? I don't think well, Malaysia has a lot more. What do you call that is for structure, right? More so than I think countries like like this is supposed to cater to. So it's good there. I do think it's really important to have these delivery systems to remote areas in Ghana, not just Ghana, but anywhere in the world, really, that needs medicines and vaccines, the ASAP. Well, we were talking before the show, too. Like all the attention gets paid to people wanting their burritos delivered. But suddenly, when someone's delivering something much more important, well, I mean, a burrito is pretty important. But I think your medicine is probably even more important than a burrito. A burrito can be life or death, but yeah. And, you know, I think you'd be surprised. I mean, granted, yes, Malaysia has better infrastructure than than probably Erwanda has, but I think you'd be surprised the infrastructure that's available. And I also don't think that if they had all the infrastructure that that would have solved this problem. I mean, obviously, we all want this drone delivery in places with heavy infrastructure as well for the convenience. Yeah. Well, folks, zipline, go give them a pat on the back and say, thank you for being the pioneer. That's what I say. Absolutely. To get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, be sure to subscribe to DailyTechHeadlines.com. So we have told you many times over the past year, if you've been listening close to DTNS about tech companies doing magazines. Years ago, CNET started a magazine that it still puts out. There's also Airbnb with a magazine we've talked about. We talked about Netflix putting out a limited magazine in advance of Emmy consideration to try to drum up support for its shows to get Emmys. Bumble has a magazine. The list goes on. Nicoli, you've been looking into this. Why are all of these tech companies turning to dead tree media? I thought the whole point was like, we got apps now, you know, they these startups are proving we don't need to read on print anymore. Right. So I have I have a couple here on the video version here. This is Airbnb, beautiful glossy magazine. This Bumble, another beautiful glossy magazine. And these magazines are I would say that if I didn't know they were from Airbnb or Bumble, like they're legit magazines. Like Airbnb is a legit travel lifestyle magazine. Bumble is a legit, you know, female, female focused interest magazine. And I think it's really interesting because on the one hand, they're like a real magazine, like, you know, with real interesting stories and photos and all that, but they're also kind of marketing vehicles, right? Like these are basically like they're basically marketing Airbnb's around the world. They're basically marketing the app as far as Bumble goes. So it's kind of a two fold effort in terms of like this is a magazine, a real quote unquote magazine, but also with this brand behind it. Right. But it's it's sort of it's just weird because, you know, when I'm when I'm looking at Airbnb, does it make me want to use Airbnb? Maybe I'm not entirely sure of of that of that juxtaposition there. And the same thing that goes with with the Bumble, because I'm not in I'm not, you know, in the need for a dating app, but this is more than just dating and it has like tips for work situations, tips for toxic friendships in here. And so it's it's kind of a general interest magazine. A lot of it, you know, and and I am holding my most recent copy of the magazine, which actually came to the person that lived in my apartment before me. So it wasn't actually, you know, it didn't actually come to me. But I I enjoyed it. This is a nice magazine. It's nice. It's really nice. There's a lot of information here. You also get the sense that and, you know, I have been an enthusiastic Airbnb user for years. I, you know, I I love the service and and I've definitely stayed in Airbnb's and in cities all over the world. So I get the idea of it at the same time, like any magazine, you know, there there are obvious kind of underhanded advertising handshake situations going on, right, you know, where it's like, hey, the coolest, best place to to hang out in Austin, Texas. You know, it's a sort of it's sort of like when you read an airline magazine on an airplane and you're like, OK, I got it. This is, you know, you just real articles. But we are trying to get us to want to travel more. Yeah, there's there's an agenda. Yeah. But but but again, that said, I'm like, I can't wait for my next Airbnb. These things cost money, Nicole. I know some like the Cina magazine, you pay for a subscription. They just launched that four or five years ago. But Airbnb, do they send this to you for free? So that's the other thing is that both Airbnb magazine and Bumble magazine, they partner with Hearst and Hearst is a giant in the magazine industry. They do Asquire, El Decor, all of those things. So because of this partnership, that's why the magazine is so good. And that's why he has these beautiful articles. I mean, that's why the credibility is there. And the thing with Airbnb magazine is that they're charging for this. This is like, you know, there's money behind it. According to Airbnb, it's $18 for a year subscription or it's per issue. It's like six dollars per issue. Like this is like six bucks. Yeah, Christy. I mean, if that wasn't called Airbnb, though, I probably wouldn't blink because, you know, travel and leisure and all those kinds of magazines are about the same, right? So I'm surprised they don't call it something else. Like Uber's magazine is called Vehicle, right? And that seems kind of like that's the route. I would expect them to go like, let's just make it look like it's a really good car magazine. And guess what? It's actually, you know, made by Uber. Right. Right. And the thing with Airbnb is that they charge for it, but they also, I mean, they're also sending it, obviously, as Sarah mentioned, they're also sending it for free to various Airbnb hosts around the country and so forth. As a little like, oh, you're staying here for a weekend to recognize a little magazine to read about, you know, yeah, you could subscribe as a host and leave these out for your guests, I suppose. Yeah. So it's it's free for our hosts and free for customers. The same thing with Bumble. I think I think it's only free. I think it's free for for a subscriber and so forth. So I think a lot of these do start out with the free model, but Airbnb is strange in the sense that they're charging for this. And I kind of want to say it's it's really like it looks like it costs money. Yeah. You know, it's first, then it's real journal. It's real editors, you know, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, it looks it looks really genuine. And you mentioned you mentioned Uber's vehicle and that one is it's very limited. It's only at least only in Seattle and DC at the moment. And that's a very limited focus thing. And according to what I've got, I don't have the actual physical copy with me. But from what I understand, it's very similar ish. Does it have the same power of Hearst behind it? So maybe not as as flashy as some of these magazines, but it does have a similar feeling in the sense of like asking journalists to actually write real stories about the area they live in, real recommendations of a local restaurant. It's not just a van or whatever. Right. Right. So I don't know. I mean, I feel like the Airbnb model is perfect because as you said, Nicole, you can have it on the coffee table when your guest comes in and it's all part of the experience that they were, you know, they had signed on to initially with Bumble. OK. You're bringing on your date. I don't know. No, I don't know. Maybe it's at the hair salon or I don't know. Yeah, there are definitely places where these things can be placed. But where they're placed very wildly based on the companies that they originate from. Well, and that's my my last question here is, you know, we are seeing the decline of print. We're seeing magazines go out of business all the time. We're seeing magazine sections get smaller and smaller in the places that even still have them. So why is this a good idea? I mean, if they're pouring Hearst quality into this, that can't be cheap. Oh, yeah, I think this is totally. I mean, if you look at print subscriber numbers in the past year, I mean, they're not pretty, right? I think everybody knows that. But I think this is kind of part of Hearst's like money making strategy because, you know, Airbnb is paying them really to like make these magazines. So it's kind of like another revenue outlet. You could kind of think of it that way. Was there a big get out of it, though? Airbnb gets name recognition. They get name recognition. They get no one's reading magazines. How does that work? Well, that's an older people who might be at an Airbnb are like, oh, cool. This is a real like this. Right, I don't know. I just wondering if it's like this sort of trend I've been tracking where millennials read print books more than we would have expected. Vinyl is on an uprise with the sale. There might be something to that as well. So I think so according to what some of the articles I've read, Airbnb's executives do say, oh, there's some kind of quality that print lends to the magazine experience that print adds this quality to it. And I think they're sort of trying to add an era of legitimacy or era of like, you know, specialness about their brand with the advent of these magazines. I think for Airbnb is kind of like a quality kind of like branding issue, I think. And of course, for Hearst, they're making money, right? It's better than losing money. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I still read Scientific American in print form. Even though I can also get it, I get it on on on digital as part of my subscription. I just, you know, every once in a while, I'll read it in digital because I'm like, oh, I forgot to bring the magazine with me. So it's a nice backup. But there's something more relaxing about like, I'm just going to focus in on my print magazine. Print magazine audience. Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's better. I mean, an iPad is one thing, but a real physical magazine is a whole other experience like flipping through it. It's a very different feel, for sure. Yeah, I'm not going to get interrupted by a text message or an Amber alert. I got an error alert this morning. I'm like four today. In this area, yeah. But Jesus out of me. But, you know, that they aren't important. I'm just know they're very important. I always look at them, but still. When you're deep into tech news research, my God, what is happening with my phone? Thanks, everybody who participates in our subreddit, you submit all the stories and you can submit more and vote on others at daily technewshow.reddit.com. We're also on Facebook, facebook.com slash groups slash Daily Tech News show. Let's check out the mailbag. Let's do it. Richard Rodin said, last year, my family and I stayed in Airbnb while on vacation. This is so apropos, Richard. I noticed a little home at many on the counter. And the first thing I thought was somebody could be listening to our conversations since this wasn't my own device. I was even more apprehensive about it. So I unplugged it right away and I left it unplugged with a note for the host explaining what I did. Yeah, I'm not going to accuse Richard of being overly paranoid. That's a perfectly sensible thing to do. If you're like, you know what, I don't want my conversations to accidentally trigger this and then get logged on an account that I don't have access to. Yeah, that's totally fair. I get that. I get that too. But I found this TechCrunch article of a survey from Microsoft that said 41% of voice assistant users are concerned about passive listening. And the fact of the matter is like, I want to make clear to people these voice assistants aren't constantly logging everything you say in the room you're in with them. There is a short buffer that has been audited by security professionals that is only checking for the wake word and then discarding its data. Now, you can be paranoid and say, well, I don't believe that. But people that I trust have said, no, that's what it's doing. And it only actually logs things and sends it through the cloud when you say the wake word. Now, granted, like I said, you could accidentally say the wake word and have it log something. And that's why it's good that these have ways for you to go in and check and say, oh, you know what, I want to delete that. I want to delete that. And maybe that's why you might want to mute it or unplug it in Richard's case. But I don't want people to think like, oh, if you have one of these in the room, it's all it's constantly recording you like a dictaphone going. Because that's no certainly. I mean, hotel rooms are, you know, they're they're only going to increase putting either Echoes or Google Homes or the like in their systems as well with the with the the idea that it's going to help you as a person. So yeah, I mean, if you're if you're paranoid, I think, Richard, you you're you're not wrong, but again, yet probably has a lot more to do with who your host is rather than what Amazon or Google is doing. Yeah. Oh, and a quick note from Josiah, a long time listener and supporter. Thank you, Josiah. The reason we might see Project Wing being tested in Christiansburg, Virginia is because that's the home of Virginia Tech. About 35,000 students there. He says they have unexpected advantages like a concentrated population centers as far as population centers, educated population with higher income because of the university. So it may not be as surprising as you might have thought that that's where they're testing it. Thank you, Josiah. Thank you very much, Josiah. And also thank you to Nicole Lee for being with us. Nicole, we missed you and thanks for being back. Let folks know where they can keep up with all your latest work. Yeah, you can read about this magazine, internet company, friendship, partnership issue on engagement.com later this week. Yeah, keep an eye out for that. Also follow Nicole on Twitter, twitter.com slash Nicole. Our goal each month is to get one more patron than last month and we're getting closer and closer to that every day. In fact, if we just have one more person sign up every day between now and the 30th, we will have at least one more person than last month. And there is some cool stuff today. Roger has his column coming out, patreon.com slash DTNS. And on Saturday, I'm going to for the five dollar and up users post an editor's desk where I walk through all of the ways that I choose stories for the show when I'm helping try to decide the rundown. 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He likes it. I love being in there. He does, yeah. Lucy weirdly really wanted to be part of the show at the end there. She was like, Nicole Lee is my favorite. She has a lot to say about magazines. She does. She says, she says I'm into print. Yeah, finally, something I care about. Yeah, no iPad for me. Yeah, no paper. Paper's always good. She's actually just getting old and crotchety. Just wants to be all up in our business. You know, well, we've got some title ideas being submitted at showbot.chatrealm.net. Samsung steps into the gap. Netflix and read. Maybe Samson minds the gap. That's what I think. I submitted that one. Samsung minds the gap. Yeah, we're doesn't mind the gap. Doesn't mind the gap. Might be. There's also air, be and read. I mean, I'm telling you guys, it's a good magazine. It is like, I mean, magazines. Magazines are the new finals. Magazines are new finals. I like that. Yeah, that's a good one. All right, let's go with that. Magazines are the new vinyl. Perfect. Actually, let's make it a question so that people are like, oh, they are new vinyl. Yeah, that's good one. Oops, come on. Putting it into the rundown for you now. Why don't you copy? Because I haven't finished writing it. Our magazines, the new vinyl. Hmm. And GDI. Oh, yeah. Was there a separate GDI suggestion? I bless the drums down in Africa. I think we use that one before the line. That was in the show. I feel I notice. Oh, really? Where you going? It's like they picked the title. I'm done. He says, I'm not going anywhere. I'm just going to I'm just going to move slightly behind you. So we were talking about we were talking about Valley Girls in the pre-show. So much quality at first. Yeah, gag me with a gag me with a sport with a with a with a gag me with a sport based drone. And Greg me with a spark. It is Greg. Gag. Greg. Greg. That's the guy who used to sell him a barbecue corn chips. Greg. Man, I meant to to talk about this on yesterday's show, but I just bought a new printer that I'm very excited about. You you're into this laser print. Oh, my OK. So here's the backstory on this. I have an Epson printer and I still have it sitting right over there. Inkjet printer, inkjet printer scanner for a long time. And it it doesn't allow you to use special characters in the wireless. So at one point, I changed my Wi-Fi password, as you should do every so often, to something stronger that used special characters and then realized, well, crap, now I can't connect my printer. Doesn't look like a security problem. I mean, yeah, I mean, it's not a security problem. It's just a usability problem. I mean, a security problem in that it encourages you to use a less secure password. Yeah, that's the point. Yeah. So whenever I need to print on it, I have to walk over and plug it in by USB, which is annoying. And it's inkjet, so you never quite know if the next page is going to print out correctly or not, or if you're going to have to change the ink. Yeah, it dries out. I don't use it. Yeah. So I I found this. This was a I actually found this on I09, but also it's the wire cutters pick on the budget level from Brother. It's a compact monochrome laser printer, the HLL2350DW for 80. I got mine for 89. Right now, it's listed as 100 on on Amazon. But I think it's still 89.99 on on Walmart dot com. But it's it's tiny, fits perfectly. It's a laser printer, so it's not going to dry out. It's not going to run out of ink and it's wireless and it's fast because it's a laser printer. I forgot how much faster laser printers are. Yeah, I remember this one. I got one for my dad. You got the same model. I think I got the I think it's the one that came before this, but it looks exactly the same. OK, yeah. But I got it for my dad because it was recommended on PC Mag because he killed his Samsung laser printer. Anyway. And you make it. We were talking about this yesterday where I was like, well, it's not a photo printer, though. And you were like, well, no. But I mean, I don't really need a photo printer. And I still have the old Epson with the inkjet. I guess I could hook up and my ink for if I really. My old Epson, I had to print out a bunch of stuff for tax reasons, which definitely did not need to be in color. But all of my, you know, ink cartridges were, you know, out because I hadn't plugged in my printer for probably three years. And I mean, it was a hundred dollars to get new ink. Like it's almost like it was a third of the cost of a printer in the beginning. And for the price of your new ink, you could just buy this laser printer. Right? I know. Yeah, I know. So it was, yeah, I don't know. I had to print some quarterly tax filings for the company. And instead of having to walk over, I could print them with right here, sitting here. And it was amazing. And it changed my life. Although they were so fast, I also printed something from my phone. And I was like, that's, you know, that's something that the other printer just didn't have the capability of it all, even if it hadn't had the password. So, yeah, this is, I'm pretty excited about having a better printer. We're talking a lot about paper prints today. I don't know why. There's something great about like you get a new device and you're like, it works really well, you know, and you just want to like, like share the gospel with the world. Yeah, I think so. Because I know like laser printers aren't new. This, Roger pointed out, even this brother has had previous models. It's been around for a while. So I'm not, it's not a revelation for anybody who hasn't also been in the same situation and done the same research. But you're an influencer, Tom. This is your testimony. Oh, don't even, don't even. You just take that back right now. How dare you call me an influencer? Well, you know, it's interesting. The most common, it's the most common thing people often kind of recommend are automobiles and like a home appliance, like a washer, dryer, fridge or something. Like it's like, oh, I really love this car. It's great. Even if it's something really ugly, like a honey, you mean like people talking to each other? Yeah, like they're over like influencers anymore. You're just talking about general people get cars based on what other people tell them are good cars. Yeah, like, for example, you're at a picnic or a barbecue. And some guys like, oh, I see you got the new Honda, whatever. Like, how does it drive? Oh, it's great. You know, it's it's very interesting. Yeah, I also feel sometimes I'm a little I'm a little bit of an oddity in the tech world because I don't really have to have the latest, coolest, best, most high-spec. I just want. You're alone. I am. I am very much. Yeah, like I only want what I need. I just want things that work. I don't want to have that trouble. That's the thing, like having reviewed so many bleeding edge products back at Tech TV, there's a point where like, I just need it to work. I don't because I have a tiny little twenty seven inch monitor that I use. And sometimes people come over like, oh, aren't you? I thought you'd have like big monitors and I'm like, seven inches, not small. No, but like now nowadays, thirty four inch monitors are all the age and the big wrap around the size of this is like, like, you know, this plays exactly into it. Like, I'm like, I have a twenty eight inch monitor. Yeah, huge. And I'm just like, you know, it does what I need to do. Like every once in a while, I'm like, you know, it would be nice to have a little more screen real estate than I could see more than Otis on the video. I mean, I guess that would be OK. But but it works to stand up this whole time. I just moved to a twenty seven inch monitor. Now you're making me feel like a twenty seven is small. I just got into the market. Yeah, my monitor is seven years old. Well, I will add my monitors also a four K monitor. But yeah, mine is definitely not a four. I mean, there's definitely there were there was definitely a time certainly in the Apple ecosystem, where it was like, you know, newest and greatest and latest. And I still do play into that because I can I can say that it's for work and research. And it's also just the ecosystem that I've been in for a while. But the sort of breathlessness about getting the newest and coolest thing has worn off a lot. And you know, maybe it's because we've been working on this industry as long as we we all have. Well, but I'm like, I'm like, I don't want a new iPhone unless I like really need one, unless my iPhone is breaking. I'll use two examples from the chat room right now. GPEG earlier was like, time for color laser. And I'm like, see, no, that's and I know just throw away comments. That's not like GPEG's like pressuring me or anything. But this is this is sort of the the instinct is like, oh, you got a you got a monochrome time to get an upgrade to a color. And W's got us one is like, you need one of those twenty one nine widescreen monitors, right? Like, again, I I'm not picking on them for saying that. That is the normal thing that even I will say to people like, oh, you got that, you know, the next next step for you is to do this. And honestly, like, no, just as long as it works, you don't need to take that next step. No, no. What did we used to call it the upgrade cascade? Ah, yeah. Uh-huh. He can't grade grade. It wasn't called the upgrade cascade. I upgraded to cascade. It keeps my glasses virtually spotless. Oh, I can't. I did that one time. I totally ruined the coating, the anti-glare coating of my glasses. So I only use dish, dish, dish washing, not dish washing, like palm, not palm olive or Dawn, like dish in your dishwasher. Not for his glasses. Oh, you used cascade on your glasses. Oh, yeah, that's not good. But it kept your glasses spotless. See, I don't have glasses, and that's why I can't read anything. Join us, Sarah. Join. No, I know, you know, it what's so funny. There's a a Walgreens right down the street. And, you know, they kind of have those, like, cheap reading glasses, you know, that are by the pharmacy. And I know that I need them. And I'm just dragging my feet because I don't want to wear things on my face. I don't even really like sunglasses. Given, given. I know, I know, but I put on a couple to read, like, small labels because I can't read labels. That's the problem. Like, about some oxyclean the other day. And I was like, how do I use this? I can't read it. I just can't read it. And true, true enough, those glasses really make all the difference, you know? And I'm like, I could buy $10 glasses here. I mean, I probably should get like a prescription. But like, I don't know, it's it's better than what I'm doing now. I am old, man. Now I have to take off my like, if I have like, say, something as small as this font on this. On your why is your floss right there with you? That's amazing. That's where you're very healthy. What's wrong with having Tom? The question you should ask is why you don't know. Yeah. You have everything in your life. Yeah. But like anything smaller than the small type on this, I have to take my glasses off in the store. Like I'm reading a medicine bottle. Wait, you have to take your glasses off. Is there for Farsighted? Or for Nearsighted? I'm Nearsighted. I got it. I'll do this. And I feel like I'm old guy. See, when I first got this monitor, I didn't wear glasses. Oh, it made you wear glasses. There, I have to see a lesson to all you big monitor people. You get a big monitor, you get to wear big glasses. That's right. Yeah. No, and I put it off. I was I didn't go. I went I went to the eye doctor for the first time in 2013. After having my previous eye doctor appointment happened in 1986. Ooh. And I when I went to the eye doctor in 2013, I was like, I don't want them to tell me and they said you don't need glasses. You're fine. That time. That was the last time. 2014. They're like, you probably need reading glasses and now I need progressives. But but yeah, I went from 1986 to 2013 without going to the eye doctor. And so I say this because like, I totally understand where you're coming from, Sarah. You're just like, no, no, I don't I don't want to go there because once you're there, you're stuck there. Well, this is like, I actually think like, it depends on the person, but glasses are a cool look. It's not that I don't want to wear them. Mm hmm. You don't want to have to. It's one more thing that I just have to worry about. I the big the big hang up for me was like, I don't want to have to remember to put something on in the morning to breathe. Exactly. Yeah, you know what? You get used to it. It just happens automatically. You don't even notice. Yeah. I mean, you're going to have to anyway. Once you read it by like, I can't read this. Where am I? Yeah, right. Exactly. I was doing this where I was reading my phone out here, like, oh, I mean, all the way at the end of my every yeah, everything I read is like as far away as it can be. And and like I was saying about the oxyclean thing, like not even kidding. I was like, how do I use this detergent? Like I was like trying so hard to read it and I couldn't get it far away enough. Like it like I can't read things anymore. Hi, we will all decide whether we're getting lasik surgery for the audio listeners, but video folks, that's it for you. Thanks for watching. Audio folks stick around. There's medical decisions still to come.