It's Tuesday, friend.Let's talk ancient technology. Before the cloud, before thumb drives, before your phone held 25,000 photos you'll never delete, there was the floppy disk. A 3.5-inch square of pure optimism that held 1.44 MB. That's half a song. Maybe. Kids today will never know the panic of "disk read error" the night before a project was due.
💾 Anyway, pop quiz time: How many floppy disks would it take to store ONE measly gigabyte? A) 125, B) 711, C) 3,450 or D) 12,000. Your favorite Netflix show? You'd need a forklift for Season 1. Answer's waiting at the bottom. No peeking.
Weekend got away from you? Same. Good news, the podcast version of my show doesn't expire. Catch the show on Apple, iHeart or wherever you get your podcasts. This way you don't miss a beat. Or a byte. — Kim
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TODAY'S DEEP DIVE
The Wi-Fi 7 trap
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⚡ TL;DR (THE SHORT VERSION)
Wi-Fi 7 is fast, but your internet plan is the real bottleneck, not your router.
Most devices don't support Wi-Fi 7. You need it on both ends to see any benefit.
Before buying anything, run a speed test and try rebooting. Seriously.
📖 Read time: 3 minutes
You've probably seen the sales pitches. "Get blazing-fast Wi-Fi 7 with internet speeds like you've never seen before! Just $600 for a new state-of-the-art router!" Let me save you some money.
🤑 The reality check
Yes, Wi-Fi 7 is fast. Theoretical speeds reach 46 Gbps (46,000 Mbps), compared to Wi-Fi 6's 9.6 Gbps (9,600 Mbps). Here's what that means in real life.
A 4K movie is about 15 GB.
Wi-Fi 6 downloads it in 12–15 seconds.
Wi-Fi 7 does it in about three seconds.
Yeah, you'll never notice the difference.
🐌 The real bottleneck
Most Americans' home internet maxes out between 200 to 1,000 Mbps. That's 0.2 to 1 Gbps, not even close to what your current router can handle.
Think of your router like a speed limit. Even if your local streets allow for 200 mph (Wi-Fi 7), you're still limited by the 60 mph highway (your ISP) that brings the data to your town. A $600 router won't speed up your $80/month plan.
Even if you buy a Wi-Fi 7 router, most devices don't support it yet. You need Wi-Fi 7 on both ends to see any benefit.
Right now, only a handful of flagship devices work with it: iPhone 16 Pro and later, Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra and later, some gaming laptops. Everything else runs at Wi-Fi 6 speeds anyway.
🎮 The latency angle
Wi-Fi 7's real advantage isn't speed, it's reduced latency and better multi-device handling for less congestion. Competitive gamers and heavy duty streamers might notice. Casual folks? Nope.
Who actually needs Wi-Fi 7?
Video editors moving 100 GB+ files wirelessly
Gamers with high-end NAS setups
Power users with 2+ Gbps fiber
Smart homes with 50+ devices
Otherwise, it's like buying a Ferrari to drive to church.
✅ What to do instead
Know your plan. Are you paying for 100 Mbps? 500? Gigabit? That's your ceiling.
Reboot the right way. Unplug your modem and router. Wait 30 seconds, hum the Jeopardy! theme. Plug the modem in first, wait for steady lights, then router.
Speaking of, a router and a modem got married. They were pronounced husbandwidth and WiFi. (Yeah, it was bad. I agree. But not as bad as the joke at the every end of today's newsletter.)
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EV science project: Ford's CEO Jim Farley wants you to know something big is brewing. A $30,000 electric truck is rolling out, built on a brand‑new Universal EV Platform. But it's not easy. He compared the effort to the Apollo space program. They've stopped production on the old Escape, installed mega-casting machines and wrote their own software. Whether it's revolutionary or a nice idea? We'll see this year.
🧶 Not so handmade: I can't be the only one getting bombarded with Instagram ads for hand-knit stuff from cozy family shops. Or so they seem. With AI making pics and descriptions, it's never been easier to fake a family business. Shop safe by looking for a verifiable address, checking reviews or contacting the owner to see if you get a genuine reply.
DocuSign will now read for you: About 60 percent of us admit to signing contracts without fully understanding them. (Raising my hand 🙋♀️!) DocuSign's new AI, called Iris, summarizes agreements and lets you ask questions like "What happens if I need to cancel?" AI hallucinates. So maybe still read the part about your firstborn. Or paste the contract into another AI bot for a second opinion.
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Netflix knows you're not paying attention: Matt Damon spilled some tea on a podcast. Netflix wants movies to restate the plot three or four times in the dialogue because we're on their phones while watching. They also want big action scenes in the first five minutes to hook distracted audiences. So when you notice these changes, now you know why.
🐒 Monkeys, memory and megahertz: This is pretty neat. Imagine if fighting Alzheimer's was as simple as humming the right tune. A new study on monkeys found that playing a certain sound for an hour a day helped flush out toxic brain gunk linked to the disease. The waste protein beta-amyloid spiked in their spinal fluid (aka, the brain's cleaning crew showed up). If you want, you can listen to the 40Hz sound the researchers used.
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The answer: B) 711 disks. That's how many 3.5-inch floppies you'd need to store a single gigabyte of data. Stacking them creates a tower 7.7 feet tall, beating Shaq by half a foot. Your 512 GB phone? That's the equivalent of 364,032 disks. And we complain when the cloud takes five seconds to sync.
Bad nerd joke time: What did the floppy disk say to the other floppy disk? Let's go out for a byte. (I warned you!)
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