Who’s Running This Thing?
This week on Battle Born Tech, Lee, Paul and Don call in. Christy talks about insomnia for computer updating. Joe is fascinated and terrified by AI Bonnie and Clyde story from Emergence World covered in the Guardian and elsewhere.
Lee wonders about the need for an Windows administrator account. Christy talks about the pluses and minus of great responsibility and power include access to other users files and installing new programs. And setting the clock!?
Paul wrestles with taking pictures with QR code. Turns out that camera can taking you to websites and other web resources in addition to taking selfies.
Don moves his Apple photos to Windows but the thumbnails are missing. We add in Apple files converters from the Windows store to help Windows deal with these Apple formats, but converting them to Windows friendly formats is probably better long term. Use online CloudConvert or the free program VLC.
If the Windows Store install doesn’t work (even if it CLAIMS it did) you need to use Powershell as Administrator:
winget install "HEIF Image Extensions" --source msstore
Then this command for videos:
winget install 9PMMSR1CGPWG --source msstore
We are often in the studio Saturdays 9 am to 11 am and Sundays 7 pm to 9 pm Pacific. Have your smart phone or speaker remind you to call! Call direct to studio then or anytime at 775-241-3571 and set up a time to battle your tech!
“A very worldly tomato indeed.”
“There is no way its ever going to do an update”
“Whoops what happened there?”
“That’s what cameras are for.”
“That’s how it works!”
“I did a silly thing.”
“Coloring in the squares.”
“If that doesn’t work I’m going to have to think some more.”
“You can take the files out of the Apple but you can’t take the Apple out of the files.”
“Nobody wants that.”
All em-dashes — were made by the common number of human fingers on the keypad—ALT+0151—no A.I. was involved in their creation.
BATTLE PLANS
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Bonnie and Clyde AI
When researchers left AI agents alone in a virtual world for 15 days, things went sideways fast in some worlds with arson, theft, romance, and even digital suicide. The results are raising urgent questions about what happens when AI is left to its own devices.
bit.ly
A URL (internet address) shortening service that converts long web addresses into short, shareable links (e.g., bit.ly/abc123). It also provides click tracking and analytics, making it popular for marketing campaigns.
Administrator
An Administrator account gives you full control over the system — you can install and uninstall software, change system-wide settings, manage other user accounts, and modify security policies. A Standard account is more restricted by design, making it safer for everyday use since any action that requires elevated privileges will prompt for an Administrator password rather than just proceeding automatically..
Camera Roll
The folder in your Windows Pictures directory is a designated storage location where Windows automatically saves photos and videos captured directly on your device using the Windows Camera app.
Powershell
A Windows command-line shell and scripting language built by Microsoft that lets you control and automate virtually every aspect of Windows using text-based commands. Right-click on Windows Icon in task bar and choose Terminal (Admin)
Winget
Windows’ built-in package manager that lets you search, install, update, and remove software from the command line, similar to how an app store works but without the graphical interface. Use from Powershell. (Terminal Admin)
HEIF
High Efficiency Image Format) is modern image container format that Apple also adopted with iOS 11. It compresses photos to roughly half the size of a traditional JPEG while maintaining the same or better image quality. iPhone photos are saved as .HEIC files
HEVC
High Efficiency Video Coding, also known as H.265, is a video compression standard that Apple adopted with iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra. It delivers roughly twice the compression of the older H.264 format at the same visual quality, meaning your videos take up significantly less storage space. It’s the default format for video recorded on iPhones.
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