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Leo Laporte answers Ben's question about apps, like Pocket Casts, crashing and closing in the background on his Pixel 3.

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Leo Laporte answers John's question about smartphone privacy and robocalls while explaining how to control app permissions on iPhone and Android.

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Leo Laporte talks about the difference between copying a file and transcoding a file, along with the difference between lossy and lossless compression.

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Leo Laporte explains the differences between virtual private networks, remote desktop protocol, and Tor 'the onion router.'

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• RemotePC: https://www.remotepc.com/

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Leo Laporte answers John's question:
I just got a Fujifilm X-H1, which has a cropped sensor smaller than my Sony a7S II (which is full-frame), but my X-H1 is considerably larger and heavier. I thought the benefit of a cropped sensor was a smaller camera system. What gives?

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Leo Laporte answers Martin's question about downloading all of his photos and videos from Google Photos to backup.

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Backup and Sync: https://google.com/drive/download/backup-and-sync/

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Leo Laporte answers Ruchie's question about dealing with a phishing email holding her online passwords ransom for Bitcoin.

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Leo Laporte answers Maggie's question about running Linux on a MacBook Pro and dual booting from an external drive.

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Leo Laporte on what you need to know about hi-resolution audio music: how the source of the audio and the way it was recorded matters, the Nyquist sampling theorem, how it relates to other lossless audio formats like FLAC, and why you probably shouldn't bother with hi-res audio.

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Leo Laporte answers Joe's question: My Bitdefender expired two days ago. I am looking to the top-rated virus protection. Bitdefender was at one time but I see so many scan protection as number 1 and I don't know if I should keep Bitdefender or buy a new one. What's the top virus protection today?

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