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It’s a sensational Saturday, {{first_name | friend}}. Ready? Engineers put a supercomputer in every pocket, and we use it to photograph soup. Also sunsets, dogs, toddlers mid-sneeze and 19 identical selfies where one eyebrow “looked weird.”
Kodak walked, so we could sprint straight into “storage almost full” purgatory. And yes, industry analysts actually count our photos every year. Somebody had to measure our need to document a sandwich before eating it. We’re all raccoons with Wi-Fi.
📷 How many photos does humanity take per year? A) 10 billion, B) 100 billion, C) 2 trillion or D) 19 per eyebrow. Take your guess. The answer comes into frame at the end.
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TODAY’S DEEP DIVE
Secrets of the geeks
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🤯 WOW! Your cable company charges about $15 a month, forever, to rent a box you can own for $60. The airline seat map showing “almost full”? It’s a sales floor, not an inventory list. And a $12 part could revive that dead dryer. Six trade secrets, Round 2, free.
📖 Read time: 2.5 minutes
Every trade has secrets. When I wrote five repair-counter tricks a few weeks back, your replies all said the same thing: More, please. Fair’s fair. Six new ones, straight from the pros, free of charge.
🤫 Secrets from behind the counter
✈️ The gate agent’s seat map. All that gray doesn’t mean sold out. Airlines block seats for elite fliers, families and day-of assignment, then offer you the aisle for $39. It’s a sales floor, not an inventory list. And always book direct. The federal 24-hour rule gives you a free cancellation window. Expedia bookings don’t count.
🏨 The hotel’s front desk magic hour. The 800 number reads a script. The actual front desk can comp late checkout, waive fees and hand out upgrades. Midafternoon is the magic hour, after checkout and before the evening rush, when the desk knows what’s sitting empty. Call the hotel directly and say five words: “Is there any flexibility here?” Be kind. Clerks bend rules for kind.
📡 The cable guy’s confession. That $15-a-month “equipment fee” rents a box you can buy for about $60. It pays for itself in four months. Over a decade, renting costs $1,800. Check your ISP’s compatibility list, buy your own, return theirs and keep the receipt. Here is the one I recommend.
🛠️ Fix it like you work here
🔧 The appliance tech’s $12 rule. A “dead” dryer can often be resurrected with a $12 thermal fuse. A “broken” dishwasher is usually the result of a clogged filter you never knew existed. Twist, rinse, done. Before booking the $150 house call, type your model number and symptom into AI and see what comes back.
💻 The help desk’s sacred order. “Have you tried turning it off and on again?” became a joke because it keeps working. A restart clears jammed memory and hung programs. The pro sequence: Restart first, reseat the cable second, panic never.
📸 The photographer’s shirtsleeve secret. Hazy photos? Your lens is wearing your pocket lint and fingerprints. Pros wipe the glass before every single shot. For moving kids and pets, hold the shutter for burst mode, then keep the one sharp frame and delete the rest.
You’re in the trade now. First rule: Always look like you knew all along.
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📺 YOUTUBE: THE KIM KOMANDO SHOW
On this week’s show:
A Florida cop ran his ex-wife’s plate 717 times on a camera network watching 120,000 American streets.
This week, Flock Safety cofounder Garrett Langley admitted police have abused his license plate cameras but insisted Flock isn’t Big Brother. Both can’t be true. Dr. Matthew Guariglia of the EFF joins me to sort out which one is.
Plus, a reporter hid an AirTag in a stack of books to find out what Amazon was doing with them. Spoiler: shredding them to feed AI. A flight attendant dropped her phone in an airplane toilet. She went in after it. Elbow deep.
Also on the show: McDonald’s keeps a 515-page file on how you eat, one prank trapped 50 Waymos on a single street, a fake FBI call cost a woman $4.3 million, a 15-second dance saves you 20% on gas, people are marrying their chatbots (vows and everything) and the Komando merch drop lands for one week only.
Watch now before everyone else is talking about it. 👇
Fun fact: My show is on 500+ radio stations. Now you can watch it on YouTube, too. Yes, I have a face for radio. Turns out I have one for video, too. 😉
WEB WATERCOOLER
🧟 Dead websites are getting a second life, and it's not a good one. Infoblox says about 65,000 expired domains get re-registered every single day, and crooks are buying them up because old, trusted names sail past security filters. One crew, "Sable Squirrel," spent a $7 million on 10,000+ domains and tied them to 31,000 malware samples. Lesson: a site you bookmarked five years ago may not be run by the same people. If an old favorite suddenly wants a download or a login, close the tab.
Your cable company may have changed owners overnight. Charter closed its $34.5 billion purchase of Cox, adding about 6 million customers to Spectrum's empire. Mergers mean "new plans," and "new plans" mean your bill quietly creeps. If you're a Cox customer, screenshot your current rate and promo end date today. Then watch for the "verify your account for the transition" emails. The real switch needs nothing from you. The fake one needs your password.
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Secrets become bets: I felt a little sick reading this. More than 150 anonymous Polymarket wallets tied to military and defense bets made $8 million with a 97.2% average win rate, then many disappeared. Researchers say they’re the likeliest accounts to have traded on U.S. military secrets. Because every wager sits on a public blockchain, wealthy bettors and bots copied suspicious moves, including $300,000 placed before strikes on Iran. That’s a flashing billboard for foreign spies, paid for with classified information. Yikes.
🧻 Ground control to Major Tummy: Planning to go to space anytime soon? Add fiber to your grocery list. Researchers studied why it’s hard to poop in space. They took 488 blood samples from 52 ISS crew members and found signs that microgravity slows digestion. When fiber and carbs run low, gut bacteria start fermenting more protein, producing compounds including ammonia and hydrogen sulfide. Translation? Human stink bug! The shift happened within weeks and faded after landing. Mars may require bran muffins. This story’s on a roll.
🎁 My first-ever merch drop just went live
Merch drop is when someone offers cool stuff that is only available for a week.
Four pieces. Zero filter.
The high-quality hoodie says Do Not Disturb, Buffering (the most relatable status since "Away").
The soft stretchy tee confesses I Have Read The Terms & Conditions (I Have Not). Finally, a shirt that tells the truth.
The awesome mug promises No Data Leaks Here, which is more than I can say for most apps on your phone.
And the super cool hat? No punch line. Just KK. For the days you want everyone to know exactly whose team you're on.
One week only. When it's gone Saturday, it's gone for good. No restocks. No reprints. No "notify me when it's back" button, because there is no back.
Grab one for yourself, or for that person in your life who clicks "I agree" faster than they read a stop sign.
Because the only thing that should be buffering is your hoodie, not your chance to get one.
DEVICE ADVICE
⚡️ 3-second tech genius: Google Maps can find gas without messing up the route you’re following. While navigating, swipe up on the info card and tap Search along route. Pick gas, coffee, restaurants or groceries, choose a place, then tap Add stop. Four taps and you’re back on track. Red light only, of course. Eyes on the road.
📸 Quit setting up the same shot twice: Found a camera mode, filter or lighting setup you like? Tell your phone to remember it. On iPhone, go to Settings > Camera > Preserve Settings. On Android, try Camera > Settings > Settings to keep. Next time you open the camera, your favorites are there waiting.
The in-laws text in Español? No problemo. 🤭 WhatsApp has a translator built right in. Tap and hold the message, hit More or the three dots, then Translate and choose English. Android gets a bonus, too. You can translate future messages automatically. If you haven’t tried WhatsApp, it’s free, and pretty much everyone overseas uses it.
👨🏻💼 Your chatbot should argue with you: Before you send that big email or drop money on something expensive, ask for pushback. Try, “What am I overlooking?” or “Give me the strongest case against this.” I use it when I want a real second opinion, not a digital yes-man telling me every idea is genius.
🛡️ Update and restart: Clicking Remind me later on this Windows update is like leaving your tax returns on the porch. This week, CISA put a Task Scheduler vulnerability on its must-patch list because ransomware gangs are exploiting it right now. They can use the flaw to burrow deeper into your PC, where the family photos, passwords and financial files live. Go to Settings > Windows Update > install everything > Restart. I promise the little spinning circle is cheaper than ransomware.
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WHAT THE TECH?
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📸 Developing patience
Before smartphones, people took a photo, moved on with their lives and discovered three weeks later that Dad’s thumb covered half the Grand Canyon.
The $45 Godox C100 wants to bring that energy back. It shoots photos and video with no screen or instant playback, forcing you to actually enjoy the moment instead of conducting a 12-take family photo reshoot. You plug it into your phone later to see what you got.
Apparently, the cure for taking 47 versions of the same brunch photo is simply not letting you look at them.
Check it out here. No screen, no preview, no retakes. It's not a camera. It's trust issues in a $45 box.
LOGGING OUT …
🎓 What you learned today: The airline seat maps and hotel upgrade fine print worth knowing, an urgent Windows update, and sketchy Polymarket defense bets bring up scary questions. Tomorrow, I’ll show you where passkeys help, where passwords are still a mess and the simple way to secure the rest.
🖼️ The answer: C) Nearly 2 trillion photos a year. And a total of 12 of yours are in focus. (Kidding. Sort of.) The real problem: They’re all “somewhere,” and somewhere is a full phone and a cloud bill.
Kill the duplicates.
iPhone: Open Photos and tap Albums > Utilities > Duplicates > Merge. Your phone keeps the sharpest version and ditches the copies. Built in, free, weirdly satisfying.
Google Photos: Tap your profile picture > Manage storage > Review and delete. It rounds up blurry shots, screenshots and giant videos, so you can nuke them by the hundreds. Check, trash, breathe.
The screenshot rule: Screenshots are to-do items, not memories. Act on them, then delete the pile. You don’t need the Wi-Fi password from a hotel in 2022.
Two trillion photos a year, and you still can’t find the one of the baby. It’s not a camera roll anymore. It’s a camera scroll.
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🤗 Take the picture. Hug the people. Life doesn’t do reshoots. See you tomorrow! P.S. Check our merch before it’s gone for good. ✅ Shop the drop now! — Kim
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