1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Luigi's family arrived in Santa Cruz in the 1930s (!!!), &amp;amp; his grandfather bought a house in 1937 (!!!)....for $12,000!!! (his grandfather packed meat, &amp;amp; sold ice); Luigi opened up his shop in 2011; &quot;The Money Question&quot; (are you able to make a living doing what you do?) &quot;Yes!!! ...because I live in the house my grandfather bought! Otherwise, it'd be really tough.&quot; Luigi discovered when he wa a boyt that he could speak to computers, &amp;amp; understand them...he read a DOS manual, and later, when his dad's computer broke a 2nd time, he fixed it - at age 12!! Later, he would dumpster dive in the East Bay, and soon had a bedroom filled wiht desk top computers that he fixed; when the company he was working for after college took his anti-roll technology from car safety to missile control systems, he quit, and started his own computer repair shop; A.I. has added more work for him because it's often wrong; AI is a tool, and we are in the &quot;spaghetti phase&quot;, where we throw it up against the wall to see what sticks'; Momento Maury &amp;amp; Gemini team to describe Luigi (&quot;Pretty good!! Would I get the same thing if I asked?&quot;); Right-to-Repair; Western Digital announced at the beginning of the year that...they had already sold all of the hard drives they would make this year! Data centers lead to price increases, shortages; the next 15 years? You will be more locked out of your data / files, and you won't have a laptop (everything will be in Data Centers, and all you'll have is a terminal [&quot;The more things change, the more they stay the same!!&quot; *]); Warner Herzog reading AI - &quot;Where's Prunedale?!?!?!&quot;. * the famous French aphorism coined by journalist and novelist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in 1849 (&quot;plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose&quot;). [ironically provided by AI Gemini] An interview on &quot;The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club&quot; with &quot;Dangerous Dan&quot; Orange, &amp;amp; &quot;DJ Spark Plug&quot; (Dylan Estevez) &amp;amp; &quot;Momento Maury&quot; (Maury Burnett-Cavotto) airing Friday mornings on KZSC Santa Cruz, California. 2026 is Bushwhacker's 37th year on the air! Thanks for listening! To support KZSC (&amp;amp; these podcasts), please go to KZSC.FM and click on the &quot;Donate to KZSC&quot; button in the upper right-hand corner. Thanks! KZSC Santa Cruz http://kzsc.fm/talk <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/41484300/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/202461695