Tonight on CEP!

• Programmer and YouTuber K0 returns to finish our 7000 Download Celebration!
• He explains how Support Scammers and their mules operate and what his group is doing to protect seniors who encounter them.
• Apple's attempt to detect "depression and cognitive impairment"
• What they record about you to make that detection, and why the whole thing is sad.
• The difference between Opt-In versus force-attacks when a new feature comes out.
• Imagine a product that does what you want!
• Once we put out all the fires in the industry, we discuss creating GOOD products that actually respect the user. Someday!
• "Yellow Dots of Mystery" - yet another way printers are spying on you.
• "It's not a bunch of men smoking cigars in a room..." how the cogs in the industry are just doing what they think is right.
• Software tethered to the factory using crazy DRM schemes, vs Donationware, that simply works forever.

Check out his YouTube page "TotallyNotK0", or join the good fight and start protecting seniors for a living at BecomeAnExorcist.com

Tonight on CEP!

• We're celebrating hitting 7000 downloads by interviewing a really brilliant programmer called K0.
• We concur on things like the hazards of fake cleaners and futility of consumer VPNs, and how both of us find our 10 year old laptops to be perfectly sufficient even for our advanced work.
• We discuss how you have the familiar Windows on one side, and the "for developers by developers" Linux on the other. He emphasizes that there is NO NEED for that tradeoff. You CAN have both simplicity and reliability.
• His volunteer group Raven are creating tools to simplify Windows and remove any treacherous anti-features: Even Windows 11's "New Notepad" has anti-features!
• They're also making a new desktop environment, or "dashboard" for Windows that brings back the simplicity.
• We discuss how naggy software should just be simple and blunt about asking for money one time.
• Finally, we discuss WHY the industry is ruled by a small pile of monopolies.
• Check out his YouTube channel "TotallyNotK0" to learn about the bloat and how to put a stop to it!

Join the good fight and help protect seniors for a living at BecomeAnExorcist.com

Tonight on CEP: A very special Torment a Scammer episode!

• Marc announces his new Webinar Waiting Lists - one for consumers and one for aspiring technicians!
• Foghorn calls those Norton impostors back, and asks them why they keep urging him to cancel. (Once you request a refund, they can ask for your credit card or bank account numbers.)
• I then hear another guy in the background scamming someone else, so I ask my scammer about him.
• Once I finally let him into my test computer, he claims there's "AI Software scanning your computer", when in reality he's snooping around looking for passwords.
• The next call was done by a buddy of mine who goes by Karl Millechamp. I pass him the number for an Apple impostor and he makes quick work of them. When they ask for his name, he takes them on a journey through wild spellings ("K A J R X L...") and they fall for it. It's a comedic masterpiece unlike anything you've heard here so far.

So if you're ready to learn more about tech or want join the good fight, sign up for my webinar waiting list at thecomputerexorcist.com !