685: Fix My Home Tech, What’s Up with Firefox, and the MVP Car

Hey. There's Shop Maniacs. You're listening to another episode of Shop Talk Show. This one's not sad. Yeah. This take this take is happy. This take is great. Yeah, Chris. It's They were doing take three because of my home Internet's weird. You know? Like, you had some stuff to say, but I just just because I'm thinking about it because this just happened to us. I saw it in one of my local Slack groups. You know? I don't know if you're in any, like, Austin one, but I'm in, like, a couple of different day. Yeah. Sure. Tech ones. You know? Yeah. And they're like ghost towns, except every once in a while, somebody have an interesting question and people have ideas. But one guy's like, is there, like, a network guy I can hire? WAN, LAN, etcetera, he writes, you know Yeah. To come just, like, diagnose what's going on with my network. We've talked about this a little bit in the past, but you just it's it it's like a subgenre of tech that is very interesting, and there's a lot to know. And I just don't know any of it, especially because I I don't know if it was you or somebody has, like, seeded my mind with this idea that little, very unexpected things can go very wrong with your otherwise good Wi Fi specifically network. Mhmm. One of those things is that you have a device on your network that supports only old protocols in the way that Wi Fi was designed. It's like, oh, well, I need to support them so everyone gets a degraded experience. They it pulls them all down. And how do you know? Do you know every single thing in your house that can that connects to the Internet? How's your printer doing over there? I just went upstairs and turned it off because I'm like, I have a Wi Fi printer. I don't know if it's any good. And I in fact, I believe that they'd be incentivized to not put expensive Wi Fi componentry in it because nobody wants to buy a $500 printer. They wanna buy a a $112 printer. Like a printer with those, like, spider antennas at the back. Sure. I got an Apple TV sitting here that connects. How how is it doing? Like, maybe that one's fine, but I don't know. Maybe my TV got connected, and it's also a bit I don't know. Like, a new camera you bought your kids? Yeah. Probably not. Yeah. Probably not. I I I can't even think of all this stuff that is is connecting or and, like, does it matter if there's a device that's, like, pinging it, like, trying to connect? Because I I'm in this house at the moment that has this, doorbell that I haven't wired up yet. Mhmm. Mhmm. And I I'm sure it's trying. It sees the network, but I'm like, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. I that's …