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Hands-On Tech (Audio)

ATTG 1987: Two Heels, No Toe - WiFi Extension, PC Building, Galaxy Z Flip 5, and Smart Home Privacy

Hands-On Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Technology, Twit, Gadgets, Tech, Reviews, Product Reviews

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2023

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

Get ready to boost your tech know-how as we tackle a range of fascinating topics on Ask The Tech Guys! Tune in as we unpack everything from extending your home Wi-Fi network to a barn and small office, building a monster workstation PC for Unreal Engine, Leo's review of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5, and more.

  • An Apple Malware-Flagging Tool Is 'Trivially' Easy to Bypass
  • Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection
  • The CNET lesson: Content pruning Is dumb for news content, don't do it
  • Apple Mail: crashes after downloading emails from Spectrum
  • Troubleshooting Apple Mail crashing with Spectrum
  • How to extend your home Wi-Fi network to a garden office or shed
  • Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 Review
  • Issues copying files between Windows and Mac and iCloud interference
  • Good keyboards for Mac
  • Router recommendations and Thread technology discussion
  • Building a workstation PC for Unreal Engine
  • Privacy in smart homes: Nest and Eve
  • Open-source home automation software Home Assistant and WiFi extenders

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, hey, it's time for Ask the Tech Guys, I'm Leo Laport, and coming up my review of the, I've got it years. Oh, yeah, no, somewhere, the Samsung flip-5, it just came out, and it's hard to find.

0:15.0

And I'm Micah Sargent, and we are going to answer several questions about how to stretch your Wi-Fi.

0:21.0

Then what's the best way to build the Monster Workstation PC? It's all coming up next. I'll ask the Tech Guys.

0:31.0

Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is Tweet.

0:40.0

This is Ask the Tech Guys episode 1987, recorded Sunday, August 13, 2023. Two heels, no toe.

0:49.0

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1:53.0

Well, hey, hey, how are y'all today? That there is sailor man, Micah Sargent. Very stripey today. Oh, hi now. Hi, Micah. This is Leo the port is a cocktail server.

2:10.0

Thank you very much. Are you saying that because I'm wearing a peach colored shirt? It was the peach colored shirt and the loafers and the green jacket, which really is green when I look at it.

2:21.0

This is a faux safari jackets. He's got flaps. That was, you know, second, as I was thinking more about it, I was thinking you could have been coming from Jurassic Park.

2:28.0

I wore a pith helmet. I would be, I have a pith helmet in the other room. I think you feel better. You know, because you have a complete access to my hat collection. I do have a very special key with the handoff of iOS today to Micah and Rosemary.

2:42.0

I had to make the offer of all the hats that we have collected and there are so many. I actually at home have two hat racks in my office because there's still many, many hats.

2:54.0

And I was talking to my mom on FaceTime and I didn't realize about a hat rack over my shoulder. She said, what's that red thing on your hat rack?

3:03.0

I said, oh, that's a Lucho Libre mask, but she said, what's that? Oh, did you get to show her? I put it on. It's a terrifying. Of course, a Mexican wrestler's mask. San Francisco 49 years Mexican wrestler's mask said terrifying. So then I put it on one of the things and put a little hat on it.

3:20.0

Oh, no. Now it looks like there's a scary person wearing a pant on my hat on my hat rack. So much fun. I encourage everybody to get a hat rack. What are we going to do today today?

3:31.0

We're going to take your calls at call.twit.tv. That's the zoom number. Yes, that is indeed, which we think the best way to go about doing that is just going on your phone into the browser, putting that in.

3:42.0

Then you will see, you know, you will then see yourself and us and the microphone will work and it all works.

3:49.0

Well, did you see that? Did you see that? That's another thing we're going to do is we're going to flip around and show you the Galaxy Z Flip 5 just came in.

3:58.0

Nice. The playing with it. Trying to get people to be impressed. Yeah. Try trying our hardest. No one was impressed. Also, the phone number, if you'd like to call in with an actual phone, it's 888-724-2884.

4:14.0

You can call in anytime during the show and you will also pop up for us where we can choose you and bring you on. But what's great about that phone number is you can call any other time when we're not doing the show and leave a voicemail

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