Managing Your Home Tech

Raz from https://www.drinkflowater.com/ joins us this week as discuss some of the substances found in drinking water that might surprise people, what is the FloFaucet, and what makes it unique as well as the benefits of using a FloWater Faucet Filter over just buying bottled water. We also look at the Flowater Refill Station and Flowater ‘On the go’ option for those who want to stop using plastic bottles on a regular basis. All that and more! &amplt;span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”&ampgt;&amplt;/span&ampgt; Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg483 Join Jim Collison / @jcollison and Mike Wieger / @WiegerTech for show #483 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network. WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? http://theAverageGuy.tv/subscribe Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Podcast, Home Gadget Geeks, Flowater, FloWater Faucet Filter, Flowater Refill Station Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord Save $40 on your first Box of HelloFresh Use the code HYDRATE20 at https://www.drinkflowater.com/ for a 20% discount.   Get $10 when you join Coinbase and buy or sell $100 in crypto at http://theaverageguy.tv/coinbase   Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord Get the Home Gadget Geeks subscribe links at http://homegadgetgeeks.com http://theaverageguy.tv is powered by Maplegrove Partners web hosting. Get secure, reliable, high-speed hosting from people you know and trust.  For more information visit http://maplegrovepartners.com

We have Dewain Robinson back after a year and get some updates on a family move, what has changed during the pandemic and an update on all his new office tech. It’s great to catch up with Dewain and lots of gadget conversation!  All that and more! &amplt;span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”&ampgt;&amplt;/span&ampgt; Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg482 Join Jim Collison / @jcollison and Mike Wieger / @WiegerTech for show #482 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network. WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? http://theAverageGuy.tv/subscribe Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Podcast, Home Gadget Geeks, Dewain Robinson Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord Save $40 on your first Box of HelloFresh Follow Get $10 when you join Coinbase and buy or sell $100 in crypto at http://theaverageguy.tv/coinbase   Mobile Gaming: * Laptop * Razer Blade 15 Advanced – RTX 2070 Max – Razer Blade 15 Advanced Edition – Full HD 300Hz – GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q – Black | PC $2199 * Razer Core w/ GTX1080 – Razer Core X – Thunderbolt™ 3 eGPU $499 * Console * Xbox One X – SSD Replacement > Used in RV and Rental Properties – * Rasberry Pi HGG 354 – Still using it and having a blast * Mobile * Tablet * Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+ – Samsung Galaxy Tab S – Tablets | Samsung US $849 * Keyboard Case – Galaxy Tab S7+ Bookcover Keyboard Mobile Accessories – EF-DT970UBEGUJ | Samsung US $229.99 * Dex Capable * Pair with Xbox Controler * Phone * Devices * Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra – Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G | Samsung US $1200 * Check out trade in deals * Samsung Galaxy S20 5G – Galaxy S20 FE 5G | Fan Edition | Samsung US $699 * iPhone 11 Pro * Controller * Razer Kishi – Universal Gaming Cont...

We have Jay Mattison back from TekEverything and we catch up with Jay and his adventures in purchasing an AMD Ryzen 9 CPU and Nvidia GPUs. I think you might be surprise on what he had to do to get them in hand! We also talk small form factor PCs, Office Chairs on the cheap (well, sort of cheap) and an update on is office mic. All that and more! <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg481 Join Jim Collison / @jcollison and Mike Wieger / @WiegerTech for show #481 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network. WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? http://theAverageGuy.tv/subscribe Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Podcast, Home Gadget Geeks, Jay Mattison, AMD Ryzen 9, AMD, Ryzen, Nvidia, CPU, GPU, Office chairs, Small form factor PC Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord Save $40 on your first Box of HelloFresh Follow Get $10 when you join Coinbase and buy or sell $100 in crypto at http://theaverageguy.tv/coinbase Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord Get the Home Gadget Geeks subscribe links at http://homegadgetgeeks.com http://theaverageguy.tv is powered by Maplegrove Partners web hosting. Get secure, reliable, high-speed hosting from people you know and trust.  For more information visit http://maplegrovepartners.com

We have Jon Maddox from Channels this week as we talk about the history of and reasons why Channels exists today. It’s all things Channels this week! All that and more!  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg480 Join Jim Collison / @jcollison and Mike Wieger / @WiegerTech for show #480 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network. WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? http://theAverageGuy.tv/subscribe Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Podcast, Home Gadget Geeks, Channels, Jon Maddox Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord   Save $40 on your first Box of HelloFresh   Follow   Get $10 when you join Coinbase and buy or sell $100 in crypto at http://theaverageguy.tv/coinbase   Find more on Channels at https://getchannels.com/     Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord Get the Home Gadget Geeks subscribe links at http://homegadgetgeeks.com http://theaverageguy.tv is powered by Maplegrove Partners web hosting. Get secure, reliable, high-speed hosting from people you know and trust.  For more information visit http://maplegrovepartners.com

Erin Lawrence is back with us from https://techgadgetscanada.com as we discuss some issues that Jim is having with the new Mac Mini. Erin is purchasing the new Airpods Max to review even though she is just published a review on the Airpods Pro. She is currently doing some home renovations and is adding all kinds of smart gear including a faucet, lights and outlets. All that and more!  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg479 Join Jim Collison / @jcollison and Mike Wieger / @WiegerTech for show #479 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network. WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? http://theAverageGuy.tv/subscribe Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Podcast, Home Gadget Geeks, Mac Mini, Apple Airpods Pro, Apple Airpods Max, Moen Smart faucet Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord   Save $40 on your first Box of HelloFresh   Follow   Get $10 when you join Coinbase at http://theaverageguy.tv/coinbase    https://techgadgetscanada.com/apple-airpods-pro-review-one-year-later/     Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord Get the Home Gadget Geeks subscribe links at http://homegadgetgeeks.com http://theaverageguy.tv is powered by Maplegrove Partners web hosting. Get secure, reliable, high-speed hosting from people you know and trust.  For more information visit http://maplegrovepartners.com

The Mac Mini M1 has arrived and Jim spends some time going over the studio set up, installs and moving all the applications over from Windows. He looks at Raindrop.io to manage browser favorites and Synergy to handle the KVM duties moving forward.  All that and more!  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg478 Join Jim Collison / @jcollison and Mike Wieger / @WiegerTech for show #478 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network. WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? http://theAverageGuy.tv/subscribe Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Podcast, Home Gadget Geeks, Mac Mini, Coinbase, Windows, Bookmarks, Browser Bookmarks, iMovie Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord   Save $40 on your first Box of HelloFresh   Get $10 when you join Coinbase at http://theaverageguy.tv/coinbase     Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord Get the Home Gadget Geeks subscribe links at http://homegadgetgeeks.com http://theaverageguy.tv is powered by Maplegrove Partners web hosting. Get secure, reliable, high-speed hosting from people you know and trust.  For more information visit http://maplegrovepartners.com

With all that is happening with GameStop right now, we discover this technique is nothing new. Crypto traders have been doing this for the last several years! We discuss what happens to Jim’s studio now that the Mac Mini is arriving on February 5th and Mike talks about sleeping PCs. All that and more!  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg477 Join Jim Collison / @jcollison and Mike Wieger / @WiegerTech for show #477 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network. WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? http://theAverageGuy.tv/subscribe Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Podcast, Home Gadget Geeks, Mac Mini, Coinbase, Gamestop, crypto, blockchain, double spend, comtasia, drives, gpu, cpu, unraid, plex Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord   Save $40 on your first Box of HelloFresh   https://theaverageguy.tv/coinbase – $10 to get you started The Mac is on the way, Jim asks Mike about how to reconfigure and upgrade the Studio PC and the rest of his network. I think its time to consolidate. What should I use for a time machine back up? Drobo? Unraid? New Drive? Do I repurpose the Studio PC and and make it the Unraid server? Windows was not going to sleep for Mike.  * Ran command prompt as administrator and ran “powercfg /requests” * Saw a system item for “Driver Legacy Kernel Caller” * Found out it only exists when the GoXLR app is running   Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord Get the Home Gadget Geeks subscribe links at http://homegadgetgeeks.com http://theaverageguy.tv is powered by Maplegrove Partners web hosting. Get secure, reliable, high-speed hosting from people you know and trust.  For more information visit http://maplegrovepartners.com

In a follow up to the post show conversation from show 475, Jim works thru all the options in purchasing a new Mac. Mike and Jim talk about configurations, setup, use and then pulls the trigger. Catch all the action including some additional info on Channels, a look at Jim’s dashboards in Home Assistant and pulling the plug on Plex…well..sort of. All that and more!  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg476 Join Jim Collison / @jcollison and Mike Wieger / @WiegerTech for show #476 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network. WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? http://theAverageGuy.tv/subscribe Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Podcast, Home Gadget Geeks, Mac, Mac Mini, Apple, M1, Plex, Channels Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord   Save $40 on your first Box of HelloFresh     News: To Mac or Not to Mac? That is the question * Podpage Voicemail  * Why now?  M1 envy * How I plan to use it? * Audio and video editing * Live streaming * General Browsing Which one do I buy?   Product Updates: Jim has some HA updates on Dashboards – Show them live   Updates: We showed the wrong dashboard last week for the Ultimate Dashboard for Unraid. https://forums.unraid.net/topic/96895-ultimate-unraid-dashboard-uud/page/29/?tab=comments#comment-936495 https://unraid.net/blog/ultimate-unraid-dashboard   Jim is pulling the plug (sort of) on Plex   Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord Get the Home Gadget Geeks subscribe links at http://homegadgetgeeks.com http://theaverageguy.tv is powered by Maplegrove Partners web hosting. Get secure, reliable, high-speed hosting from people you know and trust.  For more information visit http://maplegrovepartners.com

After months of lots negative feedback from Sarah about Plex, Jim finally takes the recommendation of Josh and Richard at Entertainment 2.0 and tries out Channels. You might be surprised what he finds. Mike and Jim also give an update on their Unraid and Home Assistant installs and finish the show with Jim possibly buying a Mac.   All that and more!  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg475 Join Jim Collison / @jcollison and Mike Wieger / @WiegerTech for show #475 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network. WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? http://theAverageGuy.tv/subscribe Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Podcast, Home Gadget Geeks, Plex, Channels, Zigbee, Home Assistant, Unraid, Mike Wieger Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord   Save $40 on your first Box of HelloFresh   Plex NVR * Plex is using a new provider for guide data. This requires users to delete and recreate their NVR but will fix a lot of issues users have been facing Home Assistant * If you are not able to get all your zigbee devices to connect due to range I would recommend these zigbee plugs which act as a repeater. https://amzn.to/3qjdQOA UnRaid * Great article on updates to the Ultimate Unraid Dashboard that you can get running with Grafana, Telegraf, and InfluxDB Unraid | Ultimate Unraid Dashboard Version 1.5 is Now Available * Jim – I swapped out all the drives on my Unraid box this week.   Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord Get the Home Gadget Geeks subscribe links at http://homegadgetgeeks.com http://theaverageguy.tv is powered by Maplegrove Partners web hosting. Get secure, reliable, high-speed hosting from people you know and trust.  For more information visit http://maplegrovepartners.com

Jim and Mike are back after the long holiday break with some updates on all the Christmas gadgets received this year. Jim has a new Meater+, Wine Fridge and assorted technology that was purchased for the Chia plotting and Unraid box.  All that and more!  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg474 Join Jim Collison / @jcollison and Mike Wieger / @WiegerTech for show #474 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network. WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? http://theAverageGuy.tv/subscribe Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Podcast, Home Gadget Geeks, drives, hard drives, lights, drobo, home, Mike Wieger, tarabytes, zigbee, zwave, Unraid Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord   Save $40 on your first Box of HelloFresh     Wine Fridge – https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YQKHL8N/   Icydock Drive Dock – headed for the Unraid box  – https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YQKHL8N/   Hard Drive Inventory   SeaTools from Seagate – https://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/seatools-win-master/ ATTO  Disk Bench Mark – https://www.atto.com/ CPUID HW Monitor – https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html   Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord Get the Home Gadget Geeks subscribe links at http://homegadgetgeeks.com http://theaverageguy.tv is powered by Maplegrove Partners web hosting. Get secure, reliable, high-speed hosting from people you know and trust.  For more information visit http://maplegrovepartners.com

We have Bob Buskirk and Ryan Kerschner from ThinkComputers.org are back this week as we spend some time talking about the GPU and CPU markets, Hard Drive and Solid State storage and a long look at Bob’s new 49 Inch Ultra Widescreen Monitor. If you are a Patreon Subscriber or follow the Live Channel on YouTube or now on Twitch you can see both the Pre and Post Show there! We have some discussion about CES 2021 at the end. All that and more!  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg473 Join Jim Collison / @jcollison and Mike Wieger / @WiegerTech for show #473 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network. WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? http://theAverageGuy.tv/subscribe Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Podcast, Home Gadget Geeks, Monitor, graphics card, GPU, CPU, Bob Buskirk, Ryan Kerschner, hard drive, SSD, NVMe, Think Computers Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord   Save $40 on your first Box of HelloFresh   Every post mentioned on this program can be found at https://thinkcomputers.org/   Jim Collison  [0:00]  This is The Average Guy Network and you have found on gadget geek show number 473. recorded on December 17 2020. 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 https://TheAverageGuy.TV Studios here in a and Mike we got snow like this weekend and it’s not going away. Like the weird part. It always goes away. Mike Wieger  [0:41]  Like hey, in Omaha when you have your first note, it’s never cold enough. And then it just goes away and then you know usually January snow February snow stick drama. Yeah, it’s still on the ground. It started to melt a little bit today, but it’s been nice. My kids love playing in the snow. We have a nice big snowman out in our front yard right now because they they couldn’t let that go up on the snowman odds of a white Christmas here in the Ohio area. Jim Collison  [1:02]  Do you got any thoughts? I think it’s pretty slim. Mike Wieger  [1:04]  I think it’s pretty slim. I think it’s just a warm up just enough this weekend. It will melt. I don’t see any snow in the forecast next. Jim Collison  [1:09]  Ryan, did you guys get any snow down there in Kansas? Yeah, Ryan Kerschner  [1:11]  we did. We had some last weekend which you know, lasted about 12 hours and then we got some earlier this week, but it pretty much all melted off.

This one is all about Home Assistant. Mike gives the ins and the outs, the specs and add-ins and all that it takes to get Home Assistant up and running. So regardless of if you are using a Raspberry PI, Unraid or your own home brew, we have you covered! All that and more!  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg472 Join Jim Collison / @jcollison and Mike Wieger / @WiegerTech for show #472 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network. WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? http://theAverageGuy.tv/subscribe Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Podcast, Home Gadget Geeks, Home Automation, Home Assistant, automation, sensors, cloud, Hubitat, Amazon, Echo, Alexa, Google, Google Home, Home Kit   Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord   Save $40 on your first Box of HelloFresh     Home Assistant Mike’s Setup * Running as a VM in Unraid * You can run the Docker that is found in the Unraid App Store but it is the Core version without Hass.io so it is recommended to run it as a VM. * There are just a few steps to get it running as a VM. Takes about 10 minutes. This video is a great guide (20) How to Install Hassio on your unRaid Server in a VM – YouTube * Mike is using the following integrations * Belkin Wemo * Ecobee * Google Cast * HACS – Home Assistant Community Store | HACS * Meteorologisk * Mobile App – for family iPhones * myQ Garage Door * ONVIF – for compatible security cameras * Phillips Hue * Plex * Roku * SimpliSafe * Tp-link * Mike is using the following Add-ons * Node-Red * Samba share * Visual Studio Code – to easily edit your config files * A few of Mike’s favorite automations * When Mike’s phone gets within a certain radius of the house the garage door will open. * If the garage is open for more than 10 minutes it will send an alert to both iPhones in the house * Sunrise lights go off and Sunset lights come on * When the garage opens it turns on the hallway lights by the garage on to 50% and then turns them back off after 10 minutes. * NFC tags * Home Assistant now supports NFC tags. You can get 30 for $10 and they setup right through the mobile app. Currently have one in the car to close the garage door since the opener broke a while ago and have been using the phone app ever since. Saves having to find the app and open it. * A few of Mike’s other customizations (edits to configuration.yaml) * Added in access to the family nextcloud calendar so it can display on the dashboard * Pulled in all other non-ONVIF cameras through the “camera” entity...

10th Anniversary Show! Need I say too much more? Christian Johnson and Andrew Morris (Original hosts from episode #1) are back and we talk about Home Servers, Home Automation and chat up on topics we have covered over the last 10 years. All that and more!  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg471 Join Jim Collison / @jcollison and Mike Wieger / @WiegerTech for show #471 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network. WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? http://theAverageGuy.tv/subscribe Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Podcast, Home Gadget Geeks, Christian Johnson, Andrew Morris, terabyte, drives, home servers, home tech podcast, social media, hardware, computers, servers   Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord   Save $40 on your first Box of HelloFresh   Jim Collison  [0:00]  This is The Average Guy Network and you have found Home Gadget Geeks, show number 471 recorded on December 3 2020. Mike Wieger  [0:22]  Here on Home Gadget Geeks we cover all your favorite tech gadgets that find their way into your home product updates and conversation all for the average tech guy. I’m your host Jim Collison broadcasting live from theAverageGuy.TV Studios here in a very beautiful mic Bellevue Nebraska. I think we’ve had some string a nice weather. Hey, I mean, 40s and sunny. I’ll take it in December, late November. It’s it’s been a nice little string. I’ll take it putting up Christmas lights. Not as bad when it’s this warm in December? Jim Collison  [0:49]  No, not that. Well, you know where the weather’s really good. Andrew Morris is down on the other side of the planet. It’s a spring for you guys. Right? Things are pretty good. Andrew Morris  [0:58]  Yeah, call it summer, we’ve already had 40 plus degree days. So what’s that? 100 hundred Fahrenheit. And so today’s a, you know, very nice 80, 80ish degrees. Jim Collison  [1:11]  Right? Things are going well. We’ll catch up with you here in a second. Christian’s out in Maryland, and Christian, how’s the weather in your neck of the woods? Christian Johnson  [1:19]  We’re chilly mid 30s. Taking out trash is getting a bit frosty, but nothing at the Buffalo blood isn’t used to. So Jim Collison  [1:27]  yeah, you’ll get soft. Christian Johnson  [1:29]  Eventually. You’ll know it’s already started. It’s pretty unfortunate, got to be honest. Jim Collison  [1:34]  Good to see both of you guys. Of course, we’re celebrating the 10th anniversary tonight of Home Gadget Geeks, it’ll be kind of a regular show, we’ll have a little bit in style Joe, kind of associated with it. We got some call and stuff.

Sammie Collison joins Jim this week (Mike has the week off hunting) and we recap the Collison Thanksgiving day meal as well as discuss what it is like to be in a college newsroom during a major election. We also talk about her future plans once school is over in the summer of 2021.  All that and more!  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg470 Join Jim Collison / @jcollison and Mike Wieger / @WiegerTech for show #470 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network. WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? http://theAverageGuy.tv/subscribe Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Podcast, Home Gadget Geeks, Sammie Collison, Samantha Collison, college, university, COVID, news, newspaper, classes, graduating, Northwest Missouri State   Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord   Save $40 on your first Box of HelloFresh   [1:00] Big thanks to Hover for supporting the show – https://theAverageGuy.TV/hover [2:38] Get high speed hosting from someone you know and trust – https://MapleGrovePartners.com [3:03] Sammie is Back! [9:04] What is Sammie doing right now? [17:12] How has technology changed in the four years she has been in college? [21:23] How did Northwest Missouri state respond to COVID? [32:04] Celebrating 10 years of Home Gadget Geek and I would love your voicemail – http://HomeGadgetGeeks.com [33:24] The future of Sammie   Jim Collison  [0:00]  This is The Average Guy Network and you have found Home Gadget Geeks show number 470 recorded on November 27 2020. 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 theAverageGuy.TV Studios. Here in a beautiful Bellevue, Nebraska, we had great weather for Thanksgiving. And in of course, we’ll post the show with a few show notes, a lot of conversation tonight. And so I don’t think I have too many links. But of course, you can get access to the full transcript in a little summary of some of the things we talked about at https://theAverageGuy.TV for this show. Just put in a you know, put slash and then hgg 470. Big thanks to hover for supporting us on tonight’s episode. Of course, you can go out to https://theAverageGuy.TV/hover purchased a domain. Sammy, do you do you have a domain yet? Have we gotten you one? Sammie Collison  [1:12]  We have some I think I had Jim Collison  [1:14] 

Chris Nesi from House of Ed Tech and the new The Chase for 28 Podcast is our guest this week.  We spend our time talking about what is happening with his teaching during the current COVID pandemic. Lots of updates and conversation from Chris. We also spend some time talking about his newest podcast, The Chase for 28 and how the MBA, MLB, NHL and NFL have handled fan interactions and who has done it the best!  All that and more!  Full show notes, transcriptions, audio and video at http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg469 Join Jim Collison / @jcollison and Mike Wieger / @WiegerTech for show #469 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network. WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? http://theAverageGuy.tv/subscribe Join us for the show live each Thursday at 8pmC/9E/1UTC at http://theAverageGuy.tv/live Podcast, Home Gadget Geeks, Chris Nesi, Students, Teachers, COVID, Pandemic, Camera, Yankees, Class, Teacher, Home, School Find Us! Join us in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/theaverageguy/ On Discord at https://theaverageguy.tv/discord   Save $40 on your first Box of HelloFresh   [2:13] Welcome Chris Nesi [5:27] Chris talks about being and educator during the pandemic [1:00:26] Chris’ new podcast – The Chase for 28 – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-chase-for-28/id1539104276   Jim Collison  [0:00]  This is The Average Guy Network and you have found Home Gadget Geeks, show number 469 recorded on November 19 2020. 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, I don’t even know my own name, broadcasting live from The Average Guy Network. TV studios, holy cow, my tongue is stuck in my mouth. Here. Of course, in a beautiful Bellevue, Nebraska, we post a show with World Class show notes. I don’t know how many you’ll be out there, the transcripts will be out there. But you can head out to http://theAverageGuy.tv for this show, http://theAverageGuy.tv/hgg469. Big thanks to our friends over at hover, of course, a hover in affiliate relationship working with us if you need a domain for for anything, if you start thinking of starting a new website, head over to http://theAverageGuy.tv/hover get your first domain is two bucks off. And it’s just a great place to house store. Keep keep track all that great stuff. Mike, you’ve had some pretty good experience with hover, right? Mike Wieger  [1:18]  Yeah,