5 Acre Tech

A Journey Through VPNs, Home Automation, and Electronic Pay.

August 07, 2023 Adam Ogan and Ronnie Tofte Season 1 Episode 6
A Journey Through VPNs, Home Automation, and Electronic Pay.
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5 Acre Tech
A Journey Through VPNs, Home Automation, and Electronic Pay.
Aug 07, 2023 Season 1 Episode 6
Adam Ogan and Ronnie Tofte

Ever wondered how a three-year-old could outsmart his grandpa, turning a podcast into a Barbie movie feature? That's exactly what happened at our house, and you won't believe how it turned out. This episode is a delightful mix of tech humor and nuggets of trivia, like a surprising fact about Apple's original logo - hint: it's not the apple! We also share about our adventures with different lawnmowers, and trust us when we say it's a ride you wouldn't want to miss.

From hilarious anecdotes to technical discussions, we cover it all. This episode takes you deep into the evolution of VPNs, their uses and the cat-and-mouse game they've become with some companies. Discover how the Wise brand is revolutionizing home automation. Speaking of homes, have you ever experienced flickering light bulbs and wondered why? We've got the answers and a nifty solution involving a ceiling fan light limiter. We wrap up with an honest chat about our experiences with different lawnmowers; the good, the bad and the downright 'bad boy' zero-turn ones. So, buckle up as we embark on this humorous, yet enlightening journey together.

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Ever wondered how a three-year-old could outsmart his grandpa, turning a podcast into a Barbie movie feature? That's exactly what happened at our house, and you won't believe how it turned out. This episode is a delightful mix of tech humor and nuggets of trivia, like a surprising fact about Apple's original logo - hint: it's not the apple! We also share about our adventures with different lawnmowers, and trust us when we say it's a ride you wouldn't want to miss.

From hilarious anecdotes to technical discussions, we cover it all. This episode takes you deep into the evolution of VPNs, their uses and the cat-and-mouse game they've become with some companies. Discover how the Wise brand is revolutionizing home automation. Speaking of homes, have you ever experienced flickering light bulbs and wondered why? We've got the answers and a nifty solution involving a ceiling fan light limiter. We wrap up with an honest chat about our experiences with different lawnmowers; the good, the bad and the downright 'bad boy' zero-turn ones. So, buckle up as we embark on this humorous, yet enlightening journey together.

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Support the Show.

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Adam:

Today I'm 5-acre tech Amazon, echo, the property, vpns, electronic pay and home automation. This is 5-acre tech recorded on August 3rd 2023. I'm your host, adam Oghan.

Ronnie:

And I'm Ronnie Tofty.

Adam:

I'm not sure if he's a host or a co-host.

Ronnie:

I'm not sure what I am.

Adam:

I'm not sure. Even I should be the host.

Ronnie:

Oh, you're the host Am I. Yep.

Adam:

Am I the hostess?

Ronnie:

with the mostest. No, you wouldn't qualify for that Okay.

Adam:

Well, I thought that just because I knew more about tech.

Ronnie:

But I really don't know a lot about tech. Maybe me, but you know more than me Maybe.

Adam:

I'm not sure. Yeah, okay. So today I'm going to talk about what happened with the Amazon Echo last week. If you listen to the last show, I brought up that after you would say a word to the Amazon Echo, it would basically say, okay, or well, you can hear it. Of course, we call ours a different name. Ziggy, turn off the Kegurator light.

Ronnie:

Okay.

Adam:

And then would make a weird sound afterwards like shwing.

Ronnie:

Where'd that come from? Well you said it was the kids.

Adam:

I finally questioned everybody, I questioned everybody.

Ronnie:

Was it like a light? Was it like an interrogation? Did you pull them in the back room with a heat lamp?

Adam:

Yes, well, not exactly like that, but I really wanted to do that. I mean, it really really wanted to do that. But I finally found out. My granddaughter told my wife hey, jude, turn that on. And he's my grandson, how old is?

Ronnie:

Jude. Wait a second. How old is Jude? He is three, almost four. How in the world did a three slash four-year-old turn on that?

Adam:

But the Amazon Echo show. He knows how to get to things more than I do Really. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. So at one point he said the word Barbie because the Barbie movie's out and then all of a sudden this thing comes up and he touches it and he turns on a skill. So, after everything that was said, including jokes, it would be a Barbie joke or it would make sounds from the Barbie movie. Well, I haven't seen it yet, probably not going to see it, but a lot of people liked it. Family watched it, but that's something that I'm not going to do. So I didn't recognize any of the sounds. So finally I talked to him about it and he says basically, I'm sorry, papa, I'm not going to do that anymore without asking, because he did buy a few things without us knowing and it cost him money, and that one was free, I think. But I really didn't look that hard. Oh my goodness.

Ronnie:

Yeah, pretty, pretty funny. So we had the Barbie movie in our podcast last week. That's what you're saying.

Adam:

Yeah, and we had it in the movie. Hopefully we don't get in trouble. Oh, that's true, very true, very true.

Ronnie:

How about a factoid?

Adam:

Let's do it, but before the factoid OK, ziggy, tell a joke. Actually, ziggy, what do ghosts like?

Ronnie:

to wear in the winter.

Adam:

Tell a tech joke.

Ronnie:

Ghosts like to wear in the winter.

Adam:

I blew it.

Ronnie:

A life jacket.

Adam:

OK, ziggy, tell a tech joke.

Ronnie:

Why was the programmer a terrible bartender? He wouldn't use tabs, yeah. I'm not a dad joke, yeah, dad joke.

Adam:

We can give it one of these. I guess we'll do it. There you go.

Ronnie:

All right, our factoid.

Adam:

Go ahead with the factoid.

Ronnie:

So Apple logo. You know what it is. Yeah it's an apple.

Adam:

I have an apple.

Ronnie:

Yeah, I know.

Adam:

So, yes, very it's, it's, it's an apple.

Ronnie:

Everyone knows a bite out of it it's white. Yeah, everyone knows the symbol. It was not the original symbol.

Adam:

Logo excuse me, yes it wasn't. I know what the I did not know that you know what the original logo was no.

Ronnie:

It was a picture of Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree With a ribbons. You know like they wrapped around the picture like a ribbon and it said Apple. Computer Company. That was the original logo of the apple.

Adam:

Wow, I did not know that.

Ronnie:

It was in 1976 that that was that was around. I don't know when they switched. I guess I should have dove in a little deeper to see when they switched to the modern logo, which is way better, quite frankly. It stands out easy to recognize All that good stuff. Very cool.

Adam:

Had no clue. I mean as long as that was the first computer I started with. That was a Mainstream computer right after I got married, so that was like 30, 37 something years ago.

Ronnie:

Don't tell my wife I said that, but you don't have an apple. I'm staring, and not at an apple computer, I'm a no, no, pretty much.

Adam:

I wanted to get into computers since I was a teenager and had to find my way in and I started with Apple doing desktop publishing. That was one of the first things you can do, had the second Mac computer out. It was really cool but it really didn't work out. And then people asked me to start working on their IBM computers and then Windows came out and I haven't looked back on that portion. I have got a few Mac computers since then. They're great computers. It's nothing that I support people with. So everybody Pretty much has windows, window computers and most, most of the industry that I serve.

Ronnie:

So Very few people have Apple, so there you go, even though you like them.

Adam:

Yeah, I love them. They're great computers. Okay, probably she'd use it for this podcast. Yeah, oh yeah, but we're both Windows guys, so, yeah, we'll see how it goes. Cool, but that is really really interesting info. Should we move on to the property?

Ronnie:

if that's what's next, yeah that's next.

Adam:

So tracking the zero-turn lawnmower.

Ronnie:

So wait. So you bought one let's let's just catch everyone up in case they missed it. You bought one, took it back. Wait, wait, wait, let's back up again. You bought one right, put some air tags in it and a tile tracking, a tile tracking device. But you had some issues with that lawnmower, so you returned it and you forgot To take out the air tags.

Adam:

I I did not take out the air tag, I Disabled it from my phone so it could be reused if somebody found it, and I did not take out the tile. So I'm not tracking anything except for the tile, but once it moves from the location where I bought it, so I'm planning on I'm getting rid of it at that point, but it's still at the store.

Adam:

It's. It seems to be still at the store the last time it was located. I Shoo it's not even telling me the date. Think it would Is July 28th at 143, so it has not moved from the store yet.

Ronnie:

Well, I know why. Maybe it does we'll?

Adam:

we'll get back to you guys.

Ronnie:

It's someone didn't find it. Because they found it, it would either be in the trash or yeah. It would be turned off from your ability to track it.

Adam:

Yeah, we probably find it at the landfill Cool well then.

Ronnie:

But it didn't Okay. So now what happened?

Adam:

you got enough, you got a second return, got a second one from the box store. It didn't turn out well. It wasn't what they showed me. They had to build it. I got there, picked it up, said this looks smaller. So no, that's the product, it's what you bought. So I immediately took it back. The next day I was like now I'm not even gonna use it. I couldn't even get it on the trailer. But that's just what happened. So I Traded off from a 12 foot trailer to a 18 foot trailer because I'm basically bought a tractor and I needed something bigger to haul it with to get it back to the property. So at the same place I bought the Trailer, they had a bad boy zero-turn lawnmower and let me tell you I've already used it and it's a bad boy. You like this?

Ronnie:

one.

Adam:

It is really good. It probably has a few more horsepower. It you can step on the To get up onto the zero-turn lawnmower. It's a 54 inch. You can actually step on the deck that where the blades are underneath and walk right on the deck and it's solid. Wherever you place it, it's solid. You can walk right on it. You know, on the zero-turn take off.

Ronnie:

How's it doing with all the brush? Because you were throwing belts on the other ones.

Adam:

Yeah, through belt on the first one and we had a lot of saplings that we had to cut down and I I basically said I got to get back there and get this done. So I'm went mowed over at all and it went fine. Unfortunately, some of the soil that we have it made it very difficult to go around. I Am gonna add a winch to the front of it.

Ronnie:

Is it? Did he get stuck in sand or?

Adam:

it got stuck in some sand in some of the part.

Adam:

So it it, it. We actually didn't get stuck. It started to. I was able to get it out, but it happened like three or four times and if you're out there by yourself that's gonna be really hard. Yeah, so my dad actually said I went ahead and bought a winch to pull myself out, because he lives by the water and some of the grassy mows is really close to the waterline and sometimes it will be higher, higher tide or something and it'll just stick in mud and, yes, to pull himself out. So good idea. Yeah, thanks, dad, yeah, so that's that's, that's where they're.

Adam:

Oh, and the in the the tractor. I finally got to try it out, so I've never really owned a tractor before.

Ronnie:

I don't think we've talked about. I think you talked about buying a tractor, but I don't think we talked about we having the tractor. What'd you get? We bought a.

Adam:

Kubota nice, very nice, l series. I think it's Don't quote me, I could be wrong on the number 5301 Front-end loader. We bought forks because we're gonna have to move stuff around later on and we bought a backhoe. Never used a backhoe, never used a bucket. We used a tractor before just to pull a trailer down a road In an RV park to pull a man lift, but that's all I've ever used it for. Very cool piece of equipment For will drive diesel. So I practiced moving some dirt around, dragging the bucket to flatten the dirt down with some reclaim asphalt did the same thing and then I dug a five foot hole, which took a while with the backhoe because I've never used one before, but it was really cool.

Ronnie:

How big of a bucket is it?

Adam:

I don't know the bucket, but for the backhoe it's a 16 inch Buckets. I really don't even know, but if I can connect it to the internet I would tell you all about it. But I don't know that. All I know is it's made out of steel and it's orange, and I can buy something to go on the front with some serrated teeth to be able to dig a little easier in some of the brush and we're pulling small trees out or something. So we're going to add on that pretty soon before we get started on everything. But we're still just going through the process of getting everything approved. So that's why we have other stuff to talk about on the show, such as VPNs, vpns. So why don't we talk about VPNs? What are they good for? What's the acronym? The acronym is Virtual Private Network. Virtual Private Network.

Ronnie:

Why do we want a VPN?

Adam:

Why would you want a VPN? Why?

Ronnie:

am I sure. Why would you want a VPN?

Adam:

Well, vpns kind of started as making a network over the internet, and so it's a virtual private network. So you can have two businesses and they have, such as the Ubiquiti Unify routers, which they just turned on a really cool feature. They just added it a few days ago, don't remember the name. The feature allows for instant VPN to come on so you can turn on, as they say, magically that's one of the words they use. In it Hit a couple of locations, as long as one of them has a static IP address, meaning that you've programmed that address in. It's not going to change. All the rest of the VPNs that you want to connect to or offices will connect up. Now you can share printers, share phone systems, share things from one office to another in different cities and communicate, share data, share files, without going outside the internet, so you can keep it more secure as long as you don't have anybody get into your network.

Ronnie:

That's the private part of the VPN.

Adam:

That is correct. That is the private part. So basically they started that way. Also, you can, when you're in the VPN and you have somebody working from home basically it makes them go out that you can set it up where it will go out the internet of the company so you can turn on content filtering, or they can use an internet which is an inter office internet, so it's called the internet, and so that was real useful in the day. And then all of a sudden people started realizing well, wait a minute, if I'm on a VPN in another country and I'm in another country and I want to get back to watch TV or something in the United States, I can connect in and watch my shows on Netflix or whatever. So they started using there's all these VPN companies out there that mask their location.

Adam:

Right, so you can choose that. You're going to be out of your. Let's say you're in Europe somewhere and you want to go back home and watch your local news channel in Seattle. You can turn it on, probably go their website, pick an app and some of them will allow you to go through, as we were testing today. Some of them don't. Somehow they're able to figure out you know without GPS that you're really not verified. They haven't verified you out that IP address before, so they want to verify. For example, youtube TV is going to verify you through your phone and it's going to pick up to GPS and so far they haven't figured out how to mask a GPS that I know of. I'm sure somebody's going to figure that out one day, or has and hasn't told anybody, or I have not looked that up, so I'm not into that kind of stuff. But basically it's a useful tool, very useful.

Ronnie:

Yeah Well, I've been dobbling with it myself a little bit, but see if it works for what I needed to work for.

Adam:

Yeah, a lot of people use it to watch football so they can watch their teams. So it's kind of very cool for that aspect.

Ronnie:

And it feels pretty controlling and pretty smart, though they're probably going to make it hard.

Adam:

It seems like since the first time I tried it in this fashion, that it's much more difficult. Everybody's making it a lot more difficult to view your mainstream stuff. But it is kind of nice if you wanted to have, if you had a dream machine router and you wanted to be secure connecting back home to your products. So, for example, if you had. Of course you don't need to do this for this, but Plex is a great way to watch your local TV if you're out of the country. So you can put a TV card on, connect it into your TV service, or you can connect directly back to a computer and watch it from the computer remotely. So basically you're remotely watching it or use a remote program and watch it that way, so such as TeamViewer.

Ronnie:

And is that what that's doing?

Adam:

Sling does streaming TV. They had a streaming actual product that connected to your cable or direct TV through HDMI. They had lots of really cool stuff that you could do back in the day. But since the introduction to streaming TV, a lot of that's going away. So the control is coming back. So they really don't want you to watch anything outside your local area, which is kind of sad, because if you're from another city and you want to watch something, it's really makes it hard Because you're, like you know, nostalgically want to listen to your favorite newscaster or just listen to the local news to find out what's going on, because you may have family there, whatever. So they you know the industry's made it very hard for whatever reason. Advertising, I'm sure it is. I'm sure it is.

Ronnie:

They want the local commercials to hit those local people so as they wish.

Adam:

Yep, they have the opportunity to do that, but people will find a way they always do. So have you ever forgot your wallet? Yes, so let's talk about electronic pay. Okay, so sometimes you can be driving somewhere like to work and all of a sudden you get really close to where you're going to get gas and it could be like an hour away and all of a sudden you forgot your wallet. What do you do, ronnie?

Ronnie:

I don't know what you would do, you sure? Well, maybe I know, maybe I know a little bit about that. That happened to me today. Is that what you're trying to say?

Adam:

Oh yeah, I forgot, you told me that.

Ronnie:

So what I did? Because I wasn't thinking in technology terms. I had a lady cat well kind of technology, this was very technical. Yeah, so she, I cashed, well, my boss cashed after and then she used her credit card to pay for my gas. So she had the money $40 put into her account as soon as she's seen it. She said okay, and she used her credit card to open up the gas pump. She couldn't put the credit card numbers in manually. She said it would not allow her to do that.

Adam:

Yeah, a lot of companies don't allow that fruit, so cheating can happen.

Ronnie:

So what I didn't think about was the fact that I already had my credit card on my phone. Ronnie uses a Android phone. We've talked about this before.

Adam:

We have so I'm not sure what your wallet Android phones use, but being an Apple phone owner and having the Apple card, it sure is easy. You can use your watch, but you know what either way, and he has a card on his phone. We just have, as people that have, this technology. You just kind of have to embrace it and use it, Because sometimes you do forget your wallet. A long time ago we had to go back or we got stuck or we had to call somebody else to come pick us up and bail us out.

Ronnie:

Yeah.

Adam:

Really you don't anymore.

Ronnie:

Yeah, it's as long as you put this information into your phone, like I had already done that to protect myself and just forgot.

Adam:

I was just foolish today.

Ronnie:

Last time this happened, my daughter was like don't you have your wallet? I'm like oh yeah, and then I didn't remember today. So what happens when you get old?

Adam:

Definitely. It's funny watching myself, as in my 50s, being wondering if I'm going to get to the point where I'm starting to forget all this stuff, not using it. So, for whatever reason, I have the propensity to do this and it comes natural for me, but a lot of people don't, and so if you don't use it, it just kind of goes away. So one of the things you can do is find out. You know, google has their own wallet, so you can put that on there, use this NFC to tap the phone or tap a credit card machine to allow you to make a payment. So if you forget your wallet, you have that set up and you use it quite often. You'll know it's ready to go, but sometimes, I mean a while back, they didn't even have that.

Adam:

I had a problem. I was leaving for a cruise halfway to Galveston, texas. I get a call from the bank. At that point we were using basically our debit card we didn't use a lot of credit cards and they had to close the account because somebody was purchasing things actively in Dallas, texas, as I'm in Wharton Texas, which is probably about three, four hundred miles away, I'm guessing. So, yeah, I said no, I'm here. So they said well, we're going to have to cancel the card and we'll send you a new card, but that evening I'm going to be on a cruise ship.

Adam:

So what do I do? A very difficult way to figure that out. So back then, which was probably six or seven years ago, I basically had to kind of fool the system. So I took money out of my bank account using PayPal and then moved it to the PayPal credit card. So I had money there using their debit card to be able to utilize what I needed to spend wherever I was going. So we had to move money around that way or take a credit card and make a payment to myself. And it was very tricky, of course, trying to do that on a ship with very bad internet at the time, or very slow. It was very difficult and lengthy. So kind of didn't blow the trip, but it made it much more difficult.

Ronnie:

Can I ask a curveball question? Sure, you speak about ships and internet. What are most of those cruise lines using for internet? Do you know? Are they using Starlink or they have something else?

Adam:

Starlink is starting to go into all these ships and about three, four months ago I was on a ship in Alaska that had Starlink on it and it was worth every cent to use their onboard internet access.

Ronnie:

They charge you for it.

Adam:

Yeah, they charge you for it. $17 to $20 a day somewhere around there, just depends when you buy the package. It was great. It was like I was at home. I made phone calls using calling over Wi-Fi from my phone. I was able to do work. Nobody even knew where I was at. So if I was on land it was no problem. But Alaska has very, very few locations with 5G so that made it kind of hard and their LTE was a little slow. Not too bad. Once we got back on the ship, it was like I was at home. It was incredible speeds. So, yeah, it's a good side note. So if you're on a ship now, this happens, it's going to be a lot easier. But the other things you can use is like Cash App. That's a really good one. Of course, apple Pay, google Pay and a lot of people take those now, so you can send money back and forth to people Makes it very, very easy.

Ronnie:

Yeah, I think that's what you're using to pay me when I worked for you.

Adam:

Yeah yeah, I use Cash App for you. The rest of my employees I use Apple Pay because they follow in line. I mean they have Apple funds.

Ronnie:

I meant to say Not everyone's perfect, adam.

Adam:

No, no, not everyone, but for some of my friends. She sent me a picture of the moon the other night, when we just had the full moon, from one of the latest Samsung Android phones 200 megapixel camera. Oh, my goodness, it was like how did yours compare? Oh, anyways, we're going to talk about home automation. Even though I have the iPhone 14, it's got a 42 or 48 megapixel camera turned it on raw, aimed it at it and it was. It was just this little bitty thing out there, still a little bitty, so couldn't see anything like she saw with hers. It was pretty cool. It would be better if she had it on some kind of tripod where it wouldn't move. Sure, is that little bit of movement that far zoomed out? It's very hard, but it did really good. Yeah, I mean really good. She knows how to take pictures, of course she does so, yeah.

Adam:

So let's talk about home automation light switches. I've been having a problem. Really, the problem I've been having is I've had them a while, maybe about five, six years and all of a sudden I've got a couple of them that are started to die. So some of the brands I'm not going to mention any of them If you're going to buy home automated light switches or do home automation, like we're going to do on the new house coming soon. You want to be able to get a you know, find a light switch that you're happy with, check the reviews and expect that you may have to replace them. Some of them I'll never go back to, they're just. They just didn't work well. They died pretty quickly, maybe within a couple of years or less than a couple of years, but more than a year, and some of the light switches, like the ones that went out some of them have gone out within six months. They send you back a new one. It's great. Eventually we're going to go over this again. We're going to put a list together and we'll put it on our blog or on our webpage or however we're going to communicate in the future and give you guys a whole list of. You know what we think is working good, since I'm moving things around and trying new stuff.

Adam:

So a lot of the stuff I've bought off of Amazon. The one I've been really happy with is the wise brand of home automation equipment cameras, light bulbs, switches. I'm really impressed with their product, but even they weren't, they were having issues. So they have a very cool light switch and we use it in this office slash man cave, slash podcast recording studio I have to come up with a name for that, maybe I'll figure it out an acronym for that and this switch basically you can turn it where it's always on, even though it's a light switch, and so it never really goes off. You're just hitting a button and it turns it in from a button that turns off the physical switch and turns it back on the power to a always on power. So you can use the wise light bulbs. And this is wise. You go to their website, w Y Z E and their color light bulbs are super bright when they're in white, very bright, and so I'll put themes together in here and some cool stuff using home automation, where it will show up stuff on the TV and play music and turn the lights to different colors, and there's a lot of really neat things you can do. But these light bulbs are wifi light bulbs and they need to be on. Now they connect back pretty quick, but they know it's going to need to be on.

Adam:

But when I first hooked this up, man, I was having all sorts of problems. I was reading a lot of people as they were updating the firmware. It got better and better and now it's to the point where it's very few problems. Now they really do their job to make this product work. So I'm probably going to go with that brand.

Adam:

But now that I'm going to have to replace one, that's just more of an on and off switch in the master bathroom I probably going to go ahead and put the Y switch in there and try it in there and for the master bedroom and the reason for the master bedroom is I'm going to replace it anyways just because I have some wise light bulbs in the ceiling fan. But I had a problem. I thought it was the home automated switch. So troubleshooting is really important. So what I found out was my light bulbs were flickering and it was like the switch was going on and off, like there was something wrong with the home automated switch.

Adam:

So naturally you thought it was the switch. Yeah, I thought immediately it was the switch, because I already had a problem in the bathroom. So I was just saying well, they're going out at the same time. So I don't rush into anything on this stuff. We just I've been busy, I've been thinking about it and then I sat there and heard a noise up by the fan and I've had this problem before. Brother-in-law Mai told me about it was an electrician years ago and said you can replace the light Like a limiting device or the ceiling fan light limiter. So if you pull the light down from the ceiling fan there'll be like a square or rectangle device in there with two wires. They're usually white and it passes through there and it limits how much wattage you can put on of bulbs on that ceiling fan.

Ronnie:

So you can't put too big of a light bulb into your fan it doesn't really affect you much on an LED bulb, because they're typically these.

Adam:

I think these are 60 watt bulbs. I don't really know what it was rated for in that fan, but it seems like the new fans are coming with the standard size incandescent style light bulbs, as we all know that you screw in. So I put these wise bulbs in there. That were working great. But then I walk in there and they're all flashing green, which means they need to be set up for the first time. So I have to reset the put re, add them to the app and then they go right back to where they were and everything is saved and it's no problem. But they're just flickering on and off or turn off and it's been a problem. So I'm going to have to replace that, that little device in there to fix this problem. So it's kind of interesting. But it's all about the device is going out. The device is going out.

Ronnie:

We just call it the limiter.

Adam:

Yeah, the the ceiling fan light limiter and it's really the wattage light wattage limiter. Okay, yeah, so something to look for. And you, if you have regular bulbs in there, it'll just flicker on and off or could go out, I guess. I'm not sure, but I've had one either go out or flickered in the past. So I remember that and it's like okay, that's, that's what I need to fix.

Ronnie:

And a lot of them will have a model number and brand on yeah, as you look at them inside, yeah, easy to find that part.

Adam:

So I'm going to go out what the name of this was and because I really didn't know the name. So right before the show was talking to Ronnie and said, hey, let's go to YouTube. So you can go to YouTube, you can search for ceiling fan light limiter and it will tell you there's different videos and tell you what, what you can do.

Ronnie:

Different options. Yep Cool.

Adam:

Yeah, the other thing we added. The last thing I can talk about is we added more information with Buzzsprout and it will do a transcript of this show now. So if you go to, if you go to our actual webpage, it'll and you go into the podcast, there there'll be all the information about the show, this full transcript. So now you can go ahead and pull it up from there. Just go to the end and have the transcript and you'll find what I'm talking about, nice.

Ronnie:

Cool. Yeah so is that our show? I?

Adam:

think so.

Ronnie:

Hey, I got something for you this day in in history tech history. What do you think happened on this day in tech history? Kind of tech, tech, tech. Enough for us.

Adam:

Yeah, there's so much tech out there, I'm going to just give in August. Well.

Ronnie:

I'll tell you the day August 1st 1981. Okay, what? What do you think happened in 1981? No clue. Okay, MTV dropped.

Adam:

What.

Ronnie:

Yeah.

Adam:

What happened to MTV? I thought it was just music television. Mtv killed the radio, yeah it did it really did. The radio came back.

Ronnie:

And now it's different. It's different, we're doing it. It is way different. I think we're kind of doing it. You can do it in your house now.

Adam:

Yeah. Do it right in your house. It's amazing. Yep, cool. Anyways, if that's the end, then that's the end.

Ronnie:

Thanks, for listening.

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