Are you watching something on Netflix today? The streaming large’s numbers haven’t been wanting so good in current weeks, they usually’re dangerous sufficient that Netflix has despatched out a letter to shareholders with a warning to anticipate the more severe.

Our new co-host, Michelle Ehrhardt, joins us this week on her inaugural episode of Gadgettes to debate why Netflix misplaced 200,000 subscribers this quarter. We’ll inform you what the corporate thinks it ought to do and why we expect it shouldn’t crack down on family and friends sharing passwords. People are likely to pay for a service in the event that they discover the content material is price watching. Maybe it’s time for Netflix to rethink its maelstrom of status and actuality TV programming and look to usher in viewers from different niches.

In our second section, we invite Phillip Tracy to inform you about his new column, the place the patron tech crew solutions your burning gadget shopping for questions! If you’re fascinated with making a big gadget buy your self, take a look at the shape to submit a question.

We additionally reply a few of your questions! We begin with which 5GHz-compatible sensible bulbs to think about and why you would possibly hand over and go for Philips Hue and its hub-based bulb system. We’ll assist you determine if you should purchase a NAS drive to run your own home’s Plex server or default to the PC you have already got upstairs. In the spirit of the stoner’s vacation, we’ll additionally enable you to discover a new vape pen and clarify why you would possibly wish to keep away from something that syncs with Bluetooth.

Finally, this week’s Gadgettes goes full weeb. Your co-hosts talk about their respective anime journeys. We’ll gush over how cool it was that Dragon Ball Z depicted such epic combat scenes and the way Sailor Moon impressed us to search for manga on the faculty library.

Listen to this week’s episode of Gadgettes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.