- Ron Brown is the host of Tech for Senior Live
- They discuss news articles and Amazon Prime purchases
- They have a Monday show on Zoom
- They are broadcasting on Stream Yard today
- They encourage viewers to participate and share their location and Amazon Prime purchases
- The panel includes Ron, Huey, Bob, and Ray
- They discuss their locations and recent trips
- Ray is the president of APCUG and the music director

- The speaker discusses driving speeds in different areas, mentioning speeds in Ohio and Texas.
- Various listeners from different locations comment on the weather.
- The speaker shares personal purchases made on Amazon, including a coffee equipment, green coffee, Tim Horton's coffee, a cooling pad for knee surgery, and Szechuan peppercorn powder.

- The speaker bought specialty items and spices on Amazon, including a new iPad to replace an old one.
- Another person bought a Samsung solid-state drive for their computer to address storage issues.
- They also purchased a wireless mouse with USB-C charging and a package of remote controls for their Roku TV.
- The group discusses the benefits of Amazon Prime and upcoming shopping opportunities.
- There are comments from viewers about the weather and recent purchases.

- The FCC has mandated that internet service providers must provide clear information about the cost and speed of their services by April 2024.
- California has passed a right to repair act, requiring companies to provide access to repair materials for electronics and appliances for a certain period of time.
- YouTube has surpassed Netflix as the preferred video platform among teenagers in the US.
- Google is making passkeys the default option for personal Google accounts, increasing security against phishing attacks.
- The former AOL headquarters is being demolished to make space for a new data center, despite some people still paying for AOL subscriptions.
- Yahoo has faced security issues but is still being featured in a new game show.

- Yahoo uses questions from Yahoo as part of their game show program
- Charging stations at airports can pose a risk to personal information
- Uber now offers a service to pick up and return parcels for a $5 fee
- Microsoft is concerned about Google's search dominance in relation to AI
- Google is updating its Chrome OS with the Chromebook Plus features
- Amazon has introduced cashier-less stores in Canada where items are automatically charged to the customer's credit card
- Whole Foods on Hilton Head Island has Amazon lockers for delivery and return services.

- The discussion revolves around the convenience of using Amazon lockers for delivery and returns.
- Some participants mention that Amazon also offers free pick-up for returns.
- The conversation shifts to the compatibility of smartwatches with different phone brands.
- The idea of creating a bootable USB drive for computer repairs is discussed.
- Starlink's availability on airlines and the potential for satellite phone services are mentioned.
- The conversation ends with a brief mention of the possibility of AI-generated profile pictures for job applications.

- Ron Brown hosts Tech for Senior Live, a show discussing news articles and Amazon Prime purchases
- The show is broadcasted on Zoom and Stream Yard
- Viewers are encouraged to participate and share their location and Amazon Prime purchases
- The panel includes Ron, Huey, Bob, and Ray, who discuss their locations and recent trips
- Ray is the president of APCUG and the music director
- The speaker discusses driving speeds in different areas and listeners comment on the weather
- Personal purchases made on Amazon are shared, including coffee equipment, spices, and electronics
- The benefits of Amazon Prime and upcoming shopping opportunities are discussed
- FCC mandates clear information about internet service providers by April 2024
- California passes a right to repair act for electronics and appliances
- YouTube surpasses Netflix as the preferred video platform among US teenagers
- Google increases security with passkeys and AOL headquarters is being demolished
- Yahoo faces security issues but is featured in a new game show
- Charging stations at airports pose a risk to personal information
- Uber offers a service to pick up and return parcels for a fee
- Microsoft is concerned about Google's search dominance in AI
- Google updates Chrome OS and Amazon introduces cashier-less stores in Canada
- Whole Foods on Hilton Head Island has Amazon lockers for delivery and returns
- Smartwatch compatibility and creating bootable USB drives for computer repairs are discussed
- Starlink's availability on airlines and potential satellite phone services are mentioned
- The conversation ends with the possibility of AI-generated profile pictures for job applications.

- The speaker mentions the ability to create pictures that make people appear 100 pounds lighter
- They discuss the idea of using AI to avoid going to work
- The group plans to do some AI-related activities
- There is mention of missing someone and being glad to see them back
- They invite people to join their Zoom meeting on Monday
- The speaker concludes by saying goodbye and wishing everyone a great week.

- AI can be used to create pictures that make people look 100 pounds lighter
- AI can potentially replace the need to go to work
- The group is planning AI-related activities
- Someone was missed and is now back
- The speaker invites people to join their Zoom meeting on Monday
- The speaker says goodbye and wishes everyone a great week.

What did you buy on Prime Day?  The TFS gang tells all and gives away hidden secrets.  This and all the Tech News of the week this Thursday.

It's Ron Brown with Tech for Senior Live.

Please put in the chat where you're from and who you are.

When we start reviewing the news articles, If you want to look at our Facebook page, just click here and you can follow the articles along as we go See you in a moment Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good evening.

Good morning, good afternoon, wherever you are.

I'm Ron Brown, I'm your host for the next hour.

We're all here today, I'll introduce everybody in a moment.

Well, we are a group of seniors who like to talk and we like to talk and talk and talk but talk about Technology.

So this is of course the the end news so today is the is the show that we talk about all the news of the day And we're going to also talk about what you spend at Amazon for Prime Days You know, you must have bought something most of the people listening are probably techie So we're hopefully you'll have bought something on Prime Day and can tell us all about it.

Now, just to let everyone know that we actually have a Monday show, which is our main show that we do.

This is since Huey and I started way, way back when, right, Huey?

So we we're, we invite you to come and participate on the show, have some fun with us.

It is, of course, a Zoom meeting and you can find out all about the details.

Let's have a look here at, there we go, www.techforsenior.com.

If you wanna come and have some fun with us on Monday, join us and participate.

Have some fun, Ray shows some music, it's a good time.

So if you're over there, as I see a few of you are today, you're over in our Zoom meeting, we're not there.

This is not a zoom meeting today We broadcast this out on stream yard and it goes to course our facebook page and our youtube channel So if you go over to tech for senior.com, I've got a button there You click the button and it'll take you right to the page take you right here.

So if you're over there, pop over here, you can watch the show.

We also record all these shows and they're available so you can watch them later on.

Now before I introduce our great group of our talent today that's going to go over all the news.

We'd like to know something about you and who you are.

We're sitting here in our studios, but we don't know who's out there.

It's not quite like in a zoom meeting where we can see everybody We have no idea who's listening to us The only way we know is if you put something in the chat So if you could put something in the chat and say hey here We are what the weather is today.

Maybe let us know what you bought on Amazon Prime.

Yeah, you know, you don't be embarrassed We all bought some interesting things.

We're gonna bear our soul today So don't don't don't feel embarrassed if you bought something just let us know what it is.

We won't tell anybody yeah, so we'll keep it secret right And so anyway, let us know and put maybe your name and where you're from in the chat and we'll talk about that in a minute.

All right, Let me move on and introduce our our our panel today.

We have it's it's an exciting time for me because Hugh and I have been lonely the last last couple of last month We haven't had everybody our usual group together, but we had a lot of fun, but we missed you guys.

So the first, first let me introduce, well, let me introduce myself.

I live on a little island off the West Coast of British Columbia in a town up the coast called Comox, and that's where I am today.

It's a foggy day, there's not much going on, and that's where I am.

And of course, on the other side of the world, almost we, and who I, a fellow who I talk to almost every day, our co-host for Monday show, this is Huey Popluck from Bradenton, Florida.

And we're, We're expecting a cold wave here.

It's gonna get down into the 60s and maybe even the 50s next week.

So tell me, what's going on there with all the Canadians flocking south.

Yeah, I probably used the line before, so it's probably not funny.

But here in Florida, we know it's fall because the color is changing.

Yeah, I would imagine you're getting a lot of...

You can tell by the traffic that season's starting.

And we're starting to see a lot of the people coming back.

Now don't tell everyone what you bought, but I hear you have a lot of fun on Prime Days.

But it was the next day because it wasn't same day shipping.

Well, you're lucky enough that you get same day shipping, right?

yeah, but I well and I lived in Mesa You know, we got same day shipping and 1 time I even got 2 hours shipping.

That was pretty cool But we don't get that in Canada.

Sorry, that's not Particularly when you got a ferry to get across over to our little island here.

And of course, from Los Lunas, New Mexico, our traveling guru of technology and security, the man who has been with us since day 1, keeps us safe because he's our security expert on our Monday show.

He talks internationally on security issues.

He's a heck of a nice guy and someone who Always makes a lot of videos that we show on our show It's Bob.

Nice to be back Wasn't so sure how long it was gonna take to come back It's such a nice vacation and then they get hit with something totally unexpected.

The doctor didn't know what it was until some test results came back.

Well, it's nice to see you back, Bob, and we certainly look forward to a lot more of your great wisdom.

And of course, the man who put 7,000 miles on his car, the man who is a traveling crazy maniac, who is our music director on our Monday show from Pine, Arizona.

You are the, man, you put a lot of miles on your car, but you're also the president of APCUG, Association of Personal Computer User Group, and of course, our music director.

And of course, what Carol, his wife, always says, he's a real nice guy.

So with that, I'm going to introduce Ray Baxter.

Actually, you made me think of a song just then in your introduction Ricky Nelson Traveling Man.

Yeah, we used to play that all the time But when we left on her trip when we started out going down to Mesa or whatever We'd always put a Ricky Nelson

Well on the road again was was the signature.

I always played that when we left our house.

It was always there, and I was there with our signature theme.

When I left, I put on a Ricky Nelson, On the Road Again.

You know, it was a great trip, 4 weeks, 18 states and the province of Ontario and I was mentioning before for the rest of the group that's there now I love to look at my GPS on my car as I was driving in Ontario because it told me the speed limit was

Of course that was kilometers and not miles per hour.

You know unless you're in Ohio, I wonder if Greg's listening, I think it was a 110 miles per hour on the highway there when you're going through.

When we were going through Ohio, it was really, really fast.

I can tell you in Texas, outside of Lubbock, we were driving and in a residential area, not heavily residential, but houses on the street, 75 miles an hour.

There are parts of interstate 10 in Texas with speed limit is 85 miles an hour.

That's pretty quick, especially if you go a little bit over that.

And if you're a big truck, a big transport truck, it was, you're really, really huffing it.

Steve, Steve from Kirkland, Washington, 52 degrees, foggy and rain.

That's about what we got to neil bob g I will send you some of this evening for november program Liz hi from ohio 60 degrees mostly cloudy

Jalen, hi, Jalen of course was on the show, helped us with the show last week.

Jalen is a Computer techie of all techs and she works tirelessly in the low country of South Carolina And it is rainy and 66 degrees Mike from Moncton, New Brunswick.

Hi Mike Jolin I am over here, too I'm over here to Murray Strom says good morning from Victoria BC.

I ended up not buying anything on Prime Day now Murray I can't believe that I almost bought a UPS but didn't get it done in time I did buy some cereal, but that wasn't the Prime Day special You bought some cereal on Amazon that counts that's cereals fine But just because it wasn't a prime prime special.

Okay Bernard sterling heights computer club Detroit, Michigan Jolin good to see Bob and Ray are back and fine fettle.

And Murray says it's sunny and it whoa sunny in Victoria just away south from Ron and I am only a few blocks from the ocean Sunny Wow, I don't know how it gets to be sunny there.

I just don't drink right Murray says I don't just don't drink too much water too fast My wife Did that for a bladder test and ended up in the hospital for 4 days John says I purchased a carry case for my lovely little bluetooth label printer called a nimbot Also an SSD dock reader.

Oh Label printer called but I'm gonna look that 1 up.

Murray says Montana has some roads that have no speed limits and Irving from Ottawa 51 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny did not shop Amazon Betty Says hi from stormy clear water Florida we are under a Tornado warning are you is there a tornado come?

All right, so here, now my wife, the important thing is My wife doesn't know that I bought these things.

All right now so all right so the first thing I'm gonna show you that I bought and you're gonna say hey What the heck is this all about?

And the reason I wanted to show that the reason I bought this was because I did buy it specifically because of the show today It is a Prime Day special but I wanted to show everyone that what you, that, you know, I mean, there's the TVs, the watches, and all the usual stuff that you see, but there's a lot of specialty equipment as well on Amazon.

And this is, I'm a coffee nut, and I have a lot of coffee equipment and this is called a naked bottomless porta filter.

Well, if you look at a porta filter for your espresso machine most of them have these little drip things underneath here.

And so when you put the basket in here with the puck in there with the coffee that it goes through, it comes out into the cup.

But if you want to actually look at the bottom of this, and see Exactly how it's how it's Going through your filter screen You need 1 of these which doesn't have that little thing at the bottom and this is called a naked Part of filter and this was $68.

It was 24% off and so Anyway, so I bought that and that was so the but the reason I bought it was to show everyone that that you do get specialty equipment on Amazon not just the usual stuff and here's an example of a naked portafilter Underneath And you can see all this coffee coming through.

The next thing that I bought, which was, is of course you're saying, Ron, when I buy coffee, You stick it in a coffee maker and it makes coffee when I buy coffee.

The coffee is green coffee, and it doesn't You have to roast it.

And so this is I bought some green coffee and and And so the other thing I wanted to let everyone know about Amazon is you can get specialty food, like specialty items like coffee.

And There are a lot of coffee distributors that sell unroasted coffee, but a lot of the problems is associated with transportation So the most of these big distributors put put them in bags and then remarket them on Amazon so it makes distribution a lot easier and this was 1 of the coffees I bought this is From Brazil.

I bought 2 pounds of it and It's it's going to come in and I'm going to roast it So just to let you know as well that there are there are other things on Amazon other than just you know TVs and and and Echoes and stuff like that.

So that was that was 1 of the things that and then the next thing I bought Was 1 of our gales favorite coffee that is not this is roasted coffee.

This is Tim Horton's whole bean bags and this is 2 pounds of coffee and the price on Amazon was $19.53 now if you go to Walmart And you look at it is now actually up to 29 dollars.

This is an old I don't have a current picture of this But this is an old picture on the shelf at Walmart and it's 20 of this bag was $21 and 97 cents, but it's now up to $29 at Walmart.

So when I say that I have, you know, Amazon delivering daily to my house, people look at me as though I'm crazy, but it I'm actually buying consumables This is this is like a $10 saving on on a bag of coffee that that that that Amazon sells and it's so it's it's it's a it's a good value on on the coffee that I'm buying because I'm saving $10 a bag in this particular case the other 1 that I bought my wife is coming up for knee surgery and she'll be probably happening in the next couple of weeks.

And this is a, it's called a, this is a medical sort of device.

It's a cooling pad that you put ice and water in here and it cools The knee and it also offers compression stability for it.

This is a medical company that sells sells sells this they have their own website, but The price is the same as if I buy it on Amazon and I really wanted it quickly So I bought it on Amazon because it's two-day shipping and it arrived and it was perfect, right?

So it's it's instead of buying it actually from the the medical wholesaler you can get it shipped on Amazon and that be and the reason I bought it was because of the shipping And last but not least I bought was with some spices

do a lot of cooking and I wanted this a Szechuan peppercorn powder and I couldn't you know I where am I gonna find that I gonna have to go to all the grocery stores in town and try and find the damn stuff But again just did a Google search.

I think it was $12 and 918 79 cents it was 20% off.

I don't have to go and find the stuff, right?

So again looking for specialty items and spices and things like that when you're cooking It's again.

You don't have to just buy echoes and fire TVs and stuff like that There's a lot of really cool specialty items that you can that you can buy so that's what I that's what I That's what I bought On on Amazon so Huey tell us what you bought.

I have a 10 year old iPad Air, bought in 2013, and I bought it as a refurb from Apple.

And it's been about 2 years now, I can't update it.

And so I can't put the latest operating systems on it.

And so a lot of the apps don't work on it anymore.

Or there were some new ones that I wanted to add that it wouldn't take.

You know, I tried using my Chromebook a couple of times where you fold it all the way over and make a tablet out of it.

It's just too heavy, too bulky, and just not easy to use, where an iPad really is nice to use.

And I've been watching the ads and they don't take a lot off, But for Prime Day, there was about $100 off, but I wanted the 1 with cellular.

And so my old 1 had that, which was great because I could use it anywhere.

And I pay 20 bucks a month on my account, on my phone account, just to have a...

It has its own cell number and the chip in it.

And so I just, when I bought, I went ahead and I ordered a newer iPad, which came, as I said, yesterday.

And all I had to do is take the chip out and put it in the new 1 and it was online.

The newest 1 is 10th generation and the next new 1 won't be out, I don't think until after the first of the year.

So I'm 1 year behind, but it was a considerable savings.

Well, hold on, Bob, did you buy, you didn't, you- Oh,

I saved a whole lot of money I didn't spend a dime

So you will just say not that your heart wasn't spending money.

It's just you were busy at the doctor's office.

And all right, Ray, now you look like you have a big smile on your face.

Do you look like you spent the wad on Amazon Prime days?

No, no, The smile is there, Ron, for what you said before, that you had to buy something on Amazon Prime for 2 days because you needed something to talk about today.

So, Carol's computer, her main desktop, has been this unusual circuit, her C drive.

And you know how newer computers have a C and D, your C is for your operating systems and your programs, while the D is for your storage for your data, et cetera.

Well, her C drive, which is not all that big, files get added to it.

I'm not sure why, but all of a sudden, she's out of space.

The next day, overnight, when she leaves the computer on, more stuff has been added to it.

I have not been able to figure out why this is being done, but this computer has an older standard type of hard drive.

So I bought a Samsung 870 EVO solid-state drive.

So that was 18% off the normal price So I thought it was good.

I like Samsung solid-state drives I put him in almost all my other computers because they use this system called magician And it's so easy to move the operating system between the 1 that's existing in the computer and the new drive.

So that'll be my project for when it comes later on this week.

Now, are you actually gonna take, you're gonna physically take, there must be a dock or a door on the back of the computer where you just take The screws out and you can see the hard drive.

All right Well, will you will there be a will there be a will you may not even have to take see out?

I want to take it out because of the problems it has.

And I've used C cleaner, I've used a couple of other things.

It says everything is healthy, but yet overnight Files get added to it from some of the usually font files things like that But they take up space on this C Drive which as I said before Doesn't have an awful lot to begin with so anyway.

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