Computer Talk Radio Broadcast 04-19-2025

Computer Talk Radio

Benjamin Rockwell

Hobbies, News, Technology, Tech News, Leisure

4.7 • 11 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This week's full broadcast of Computer Talk Radio includes - 00:00 - Nerd news for normal people - REPAIR Act, bad law, Tesla lawsuit, Sams Club, Comcast - 11:00 - Listener Q&A - cost of GPUs - Derek asks why gaming GPUs high priced after crypto decline - 22:00 - One week after with iPad Air M3 - Benjamin gives Keith a one week update on his new iPad Air M3 - 31:00 - Marty Winston's Wisdom - Marty talks up the Shokz Opencomm 2 UC 2025 headset - 39:00 - Scam Series - crazy job offer - Benjamin talks insane job offer for hour a day, thousands a week - 44:00 - Keske on cyberstalking - Steve and Benjamin talk the technophobia of older generations - 56:00 - Listener Q&A - long support calls - Benjamin answers Ethan on why tech support calls are long - 1:07:00 - Emergency preparedness - Benjamin shares emergency preparedness, including tech ideas - 1:16:00 - IT Professional Series - 323 - Lisa's boss asked for her passwords and Benjamin says no - 1:24:00 - Listener Q&A - social media - Isabella asks if social media is truly designed to addict users

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0:00.0	Across the country, folks are listening to a nerd? Yep, Benjamin Rockwell is back at it again. And now,
0:23.9	with the quest of enriching your experience with computers, here's Benjamin Rockwell with Computer Talk Radio.
0:30.5	Tons in store for you this week here on Computer Talk Radio. Listener questions include Derek.
0:36.9	Why do gaming's GPUs cost so much even after
0:41.0	crypto is no longer big? Isabella asks, is social media really designed to keep you addicted?
0:49.7	Ethan, why do tech support calls take forever and solve nothing?
0:55.6	And Lisa, her boss, just asked for her password.
0:59.6	Is that right?
1:01.1	I've got other topics as well, emergency preparedness and thinking about tech needs.
1:05.8	Steve Keske and I are going to talk about dealing with a technophobia of older generations on the scam series.
1:14.0	Text message job offers part-time hours a day for $2,000 a week.
1:20.6	Yeah, that's a scam.
1:22.5	Marty talks about the Shocks OpenCom 2, UC 2025 update, and that's a nice little headset.
1:31.5	And Keith and I are going to talk about my new iPad Air M3.
1:36.3	This is sort of a continuation after a week of using it.
1:40.2	All of that is on to this week's Computer Talk Radio.
1:43.3	You can go to the website if you miss any of that.
1:46.5	Computertalk radio.com.
1:49.0	Computer talk radio.com.
1:52.3	The phone number, if you want to reach out to me, of course, you can do that on the website too,
1:56.2	but the phone number is 888 nerd 888.
2:00.6	That's 888637888.
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