We sat down with Dewain Robinson and caught up with him on his latest responsibilities at Microsoft and a discussion around building your own virtual assistant. We also spend a bunch of time talking about the use of virtual assistants and how they fit into the human space. I think you will enjoy the show.



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Jim on Leaning Toward Wisdom – https://leaningtowardwisdom.com/old-men-are-dangerous-5046/

Jim Shoemaker’s travel post on TAG. https://theaverageguy.tv/2019/11/18/7-tips-for-easy-international-travel/

 

What have you been working on Dewain?

 

* White Label Virtual Assistant

https://github.com/microsoft/botframework-solutions

* BotFramework Composer

https://github.com/microsoft/botframework-composer

 

RAVPower 18W PD 10000mAh portable Charger

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07N3RGNY6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Price $26.99

USB-C Power Delivery and Charge / Full charge back from 0 to 100 in 3 h 16 minutes

 

Jabra Elite Active 65t

https://www.jabra.com/bluetooth-headsets/jabra-elite-active-65t

Price: $189

 

Jim Collison  [0:00] 

This is The Average Guy Network and you have found Home Gadget Geeks show number 424, even though last week I said it was 422, that was really wasn’t true, recorded on November 21, 2019.

Jim Collison  [0:25] 

Here on Home Gadget Geeks we cover all your favorite tech gadgets that find their way into your home news reviews, product updates and conversation all for the average tech guy.

Rich Hay joins us this week in his regular semi-annual rotation and is back from both the Microsoft Surface Event and Microsoft Ignite! Rich catches us up on the Windows 1909 Update and we get a trick to upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10 ahead of the January 14th end of support event. We look at some new Surface hardware and the new Surface Laptop that Rich picked up at the event. We also talk a little Xbox and see a nifty new phone holder for the Xbox controller that will sure to be a hit!  I think you will enjoy the show.



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Show Transcript

Jim Collison  [0:00] 

This is The Average Guy Network and you have found Home Gadget Geeks show number 422 recorded on November 14 2019.

Jim Collison  [0:22] 

Here on Home Gadget Geeks we cover all your favorite tech gadgets that find their way into your home news reviews product updates and conversation. All for the average tech guy. I’m your host Jim Collison broadcasting live from the average guy TV Studios here in Mike it was fall for like three days and then winter and now fall is back so I think we’re in that weird phase. Rich is in Florida he doesn’t it’s summer all year long.

Rich Hay  [0:43] 

It got down to 38 degrees the other day

Mike Wieger  [0:45] 

That’s actually low

Jim Collison  [0:46] 

Did you cover the orange trees?

Rich Hay  [0:48] 

I don’t have orange tree

Jim Collison  [0:50] 

I always just know that it’s a big deal right in Florida

Rich Hay  [0:53] 

Down there they spray them with water and set the flames they burn the burn...

This week on Cyber Frontiers Christian and Jim recap the latest major development in quantum research with Google’s “Quantum Supremacy” milestone. We review the headline narratives and compare today’s quantum progress with where we and others expected it to be. We delve into the tangentially related topic of cryptography, quickly leading to a walk through time of where secure computing has been and where it could be heading looking forward. Scattered throughout we bring in what it all means for the average guy, and even get some time to relate it all back to… ham radios?  Cyber Frontiers is

By surprise, when I was interviewing Christian for Cyber Frontiers 58, he mentioned a site for Ham Radio Operators. Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) is an amateur radio-based system for real time digital communications of information of immediate value in the local area. Data can include object Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates, weather station telemetry, text messages, announcements, queries, and other telemetry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_System). We also talked about our Black Friday shopping lists, some thoughts from Jim on Plex and Mike covers the new AirPod Pro. I think you will enjoy the show.



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Jim Collison  0:00 

This is The Average Guy Network and you have found Home Gadget Geeks show number 422 recorded on November 7, 2019. Here on Home Gadget Geeks we cover all your favorite tech gadgets that find their way into your home news reviews, product updates and conversation. All for the average tech guy. I’m your host Jim Collison broadcasting live from the average guy TV Studios it I think we get a little snow the other day.

Mike Wieger  0:37 

Yes we did. Yeah, a little bit snow kidding. Two separate days events now.

Jim Collison  0:42 

Well, fall came and went. It was chilly today. 17 degrees when I woke up this morning and it was like oh, okay, winter is here. It’s great. I love it. That’s my favorite jackets and those kinds of things. Of course. We we post the show Yeah, like it with world class show notes each week out at the average guy.tv. Don’t forget and we want to remind you if you haven’t downloaded the app yet, you might want to get that done an iOS or Android free Home Gadget Geeks. com best way to listen on the road many of you have it gets really good numbers actually. So head out to Home Gadget geeks.com you can download that for free we would thank our Patreon subscribers who helped me pay for that every single year. By the way, thank you to everybody who who gives through Patreon. Appreciate that. It’s the beginning of the month and and we just got those donations to come through.

In the 10+ years of podcasting, this might make the Top 5 list of favorites. Mike Howard, a long-time friend of Home Gadget Geeks and Jim joins us to give an update on his fight with cancer and general well being. Mike has some important things to say about his health, battling cancer and how he feels about it. Thanks for letting us take a week off from Gadget Tech.  I think you will enjoy the show.



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Jim Collison  0:00 

This is The Average Guy Network and you have found Home Gadget Geeks show number 421 recorded October 31 2019. Here on Home Gadget Geeks we cover all your favorite tech gadgets that find their way into your home news reviews, product updates and conversation all for the average tech guy. I’m your host Jim Collison broadcasting live from the average guy TV Studios here in a least a brisk Bellevue Nebraska we’ve avoided the kids tonight Mike. Did you have many kids come by for Halloween their

Mike Howard  0:39 

Not a ton, maybe a dozen two dozen at the most.

Jim Collison  0:42 

Okay Halloween night Mike Wieger is out with his children “trick or treating” tonight and always a fun tradition. I would sometimes do that with my kids. They’re long gone Mike years are too so we kind of just get to sit back but so you know Mike, out with his younger kids. Of course we post the show and not a lot of show notes tonight. But I don’t know if you’re maybe a new listener. We’ve been doing 100% transcripts now. So if you want to go ahead and take a look at those in the show notes, the average guy.tv slash and then HGG, four to one for this as well. Don’t forget, you can join us on our mobile app, some of you are out. It’s really the easiest way to stream it on the road. It’s just a single app and Android, iPhone. It’ll stream it from just about anywhere as long as you have some kind of connection. You can get that Home Gadget Geeks, com Android iPhone, the big buttons right there you can just download it it’s absolutely free. We thank our Patreon subscribers for that as well.

Jim Collison  1:40 

If you want to join in the conversation you can join our discord group theAverageGuy.tv/discord and our Facebook group, theaverageguy.tv/Facebook super easy to get in those groups as well. We want to thank Jos last week who came on from next cloud and did a bang up job we’ll have him back on he ...

We had Jos Poortvliet this week from Nextcloud on the Podcast this week as we talked about why taking control of your data is important, how Mike uses Nextcloud in his setup and why you might want to consider it too. At the end of the show we talk a little Storj and Jim does a review of the Alxum 2 Bay Hard Drive Docking Station.  I think you will enjoy the show.



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https://nextcloud.com/

Jos Poortvliet

Head of Marketing

 

Review

USB3.0 Aluminum Hard Drive Docking Station with Offline Clone Function:

1. Offline Clone Progress indicator with LED: 25% – 50% – 75% – 100%;

2. Capacity of hard drive when Offline Clone: A＞B;

3. Sleep mode without operation in 30 minutes;

4. Support 2x 12TB hard drive, 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch SATA;

The link for Amazon: 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W7LHVY5

The link for website:

https://www.alxum.com/products/usb-3-0-hard-drive-docking-station-offline-clone

 

Jim Collison  0:00 

This is The Average Guy Network and you have found Home Gadget Geeks show number 420 recorded on October 24 2019. Here on Home Gadget Geeks we cover all your favorite tech gadgets that find their way into your home news reviews, product updates and conversation all for the average tech guy. I’m your host Jim Collison broadcasting live from the average guy TV Studios here in a beautiful Bellevue, Nebraska Mike, get a little chilly. Is it kind of nice to a little frost on the ground? I enjoy it

Mike Wieger  0:38 

We’re going to the Husker game this weekend. And I kind of like that perfect no where coat. You can get a little cold. That’s my perfect Husker. Game Day.

Jim Collison  0:46 

I enjoy it. It’s kind of nice. Not like maybe fall in Germany. Jos joining us from Nextcloud. Jos. What do you think if I lived in Germany, it gets a little chilly. You like fall i n Germany? Is it pretty beautiful?

Jos Poortvliet  0:59 

Well, I think does look good like we have nice few from our apartment looking out over well lots of trees and it...

Ed Sullivan from The Cigar Authority and Ash Holes, and a long-time listener to Home Gadget Geeks is on this week to talk about Cigars. From  the production line to the sales line, Ed gives us an update on the industry. Still a handmade product, cigars are resurging again as very popular products especially here in the United States. We cover humidors, humidification and temperature, bags and lighters and just about everything else that goes in making and smoking a good cigar.   I think you will enjoy the show.



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Justin Simmons – Big thanks for the Bundaberg – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHmw0u2G9kw

Ed Sullivan – Producer/Podcast Engineer at Sonic Cupcake Podcast Production – The Cigar Authority – https://thecigarauthority.com/

Ash Holes Podcast – https://theashholes.net/

 

Jim Collison  0:00 

This is The Average Guy Network and you have found Home Gadget Geeks show number 419, recorded on October 17 2019.

Here on Home Gadget Geeks we cover all your favorite tech gadgets that find their way into your home news reviews, product updates and conversation all for the average tech guy. I’m your host Jim Collison broadcasting live from the average guy TV Studios super beautiful Bellevue Nebraska Of course, we post the show, with worldclass show notes this week. So we post those to the average guy.tv. And and for this one, you don’t want to do the archive.tv slash HGG 419. You can also join us live on the mobile app Tony was going to be out on the road and the best way to join us on the road is to the mobile app, go to Home Gadget Geeks calm Android iPhone either way free you can download them best way to Listen live and on the road is streamed through our Spreaker app and we’d love to have you do that again free Home Gadget Geeks. com join the conversation in our discord group the average guy.tv slash discord or in our Facebook group the average guy.tv slash Facebook both seem to be moving along or humming along nicely so if you want to join us there as well you could do that a quick shout out to Justin Justin Simmons sent me some I know I have been practic...

With all the recruiting travel that Jim has been doing lately, we take a look at what is working and what is not around travel tech. We talk some about all the new hardware that was announced recently from Microsoft and take a look at what Waze is doing around carpooling. We wrap the show with some conversation about Acronis 2020, Mike’s favorite iOS 13 features, Amazon Echo Auto and Jim has an update coming on a new Hard drive dock.  I think you will enjoy the show.



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Conversation

Jim

* Bose Quiet Comfort 35

* I carry 2 batteries now, both very small and recharge fast

* I have stopped taking two laptops – one is so much easier

* Make sure I have cords for everything

* iPhone 8+ still main driver

* Thinking about carrying a Bluetooth speaker for loud hotel rooms

Mike’s Additions

* If you had an iPhone 11 or XS I would say the GigSky app which lets you activate the esim in the phone and get data plans for the country you are traveling to

* TripIt App for organizing your itinerary

 

From The Reset Forums

https://homeservershow.com/forums/topic/17409-how-many-surface-categories-can-we-have-links-to-all-the-new-devices/

 

News

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/10/20906281/waze-carpool-anniversary-stats-update-fee-navigation-drivers

 

Reviews

Acronis 2020 is out! – https://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/whats-new/

 

Product Updates

Currently looking at an Alxum Aluminum 2 Bay hard drive dock. Who is currently using docs?

Amazon Echo Auto – Installed in Mike’s Jeep

Mike’s Four Favorite iOS 13 Features

* Sidecar

* Dark Mode

* Share Photo in iMessage

* Swipe to type

 

Jim Collison  0:00 

This is the Average Guy Network and you have found Home Gadget Geeks show number 418 recorded on October 10 2019.

We were joined by Jay Mattison from https://tekeverything.com/. Jay is a Youtuber who passionate about small form factor PC and all things tech. We spend some time getting to know Jay and find out that he is also a gadget guy. Lots of product conversation and updates. I think you will enjoy the show.



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On Twitter: https://twitter.com/TekEverything

Website: https://tekeverything.com/

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Jim Collison  0:00 

This is The Average Guy Network and you have found Home Gadget Geeks show number 417 recorded on September 26 2019.

Here on Home Gadget Geeks we cover all your favorite tech gadgets that find their way into your home, news, review and product updates, for the average tech guy. I’m your host Jim Collison broadcasting live from the average guy TV Studios and here Mike fall is finally we’ve been talking about this for a while fall is finally your Jay we’re sending some cooler weather your way by the way now. All the Nebraka right, Mike?

Mike Wieger  0:45 

Yes, it has and just in time for Husker game day those Husker Saturday’s are perfect for sitting outside and watching the game sitting around and you can even start a fire at night last week hand of fire to fire to the fireplace outside for the first time and sat around the fire. It was just it’s perfect

Jim Collison  1:01 

Fall in Nebraska is pretty great. It sounds much better. It’s pretty great leaves come down. I mean, it makes it’s one of those seasons that makes it worth living here if you put up with a summer or winter or spring is nice. But of course we post the show with world class show notes each week and at the average guy.tv in this case HGG 417 and they will be there will have a lot of links that show you might want to follow Don’t forget you can follow us on our mobile app if you want to download that absolutely free Android iPhone works great. I just reinstalled it the other day and I was like oh this is pretty cool.

Ryan Kerschner from ThinkComputers.org and a long time listener to Home Gadget Geeks (and the Home Server Show before that) joins us to talk reviews on PC Cases and a Fanless Mini Desktop PC. We look at the SilverStone LD03 Case (links in the show notes), Azulle’s Byte 3 Fanless Mini Desktop PC and the InWin 905 Case together. We also find out that Ryan is quite the collector of 80s and 90s collectables! I think you will enjoy the show.



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ThinkComputers – www.thinkcomputers.org

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Twitter – https://twitter.com/thinkcomps

ThinkComputers Weekly Tech Podcast – https://thinkcomputers.org/category/podcast/

Twitch – https://www.twitch.tv/thinkcomputers

 

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Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/techinthe21st/

Twitter – https://twitter.com/ryankerschner

E-Mail – [email protected]

 

Recent Reviews

SilverStone LD03 Case Review – https://thinkcomputers.org/silverstone-ld03-case-review/

SilverStone LD03 Product Link – https://silverstonetek.com/product.php?