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Support the pod on Patreon: http://patreon.com/techpod]]>enTechnologyCopyright Welly Cnovahttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7ba43739f064208be06ba7c95d67353e.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/memory-and-history-podcast--7433147Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:49:54 +0000Welly CnovaWelly Cnovafeeds@spreaker.comWelcome to Memory and History Podcast, a place where the past comes alive through stories. Here, we explore fascinating moments from history, from ancient civilizations and forgotten places to remarkable people, important events, and stories that...
Support the pod on Patreon: http://patreon.com/techpod]]>true275a3f6a-0073-50d5-995c-0277e82cbea8episodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/360-the-bridgestone-affair--75727941https://patreon.com/techpod]]>d5254020-3e89-433f-8274-0567dedb8cd7Sun, 11 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaBrad's on the road this week, so we shook up another potpourri of mini-topics to discuss, including DIY VR mods, the questionable wisdom of working remotely on a brand new laptop, backing into creating a site-to-site VPN, a those vibe-coded clones of...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4357adobe,galactic racer,lix,nix,titanfall 2,vibe-coded photoshop,vpn,vr,wireguardfalse360fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/welcome-to-the-stories-of-the-past--75564617https://api.spreaker.com/episode/75564617Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:41:19 +0000Welly CnovaStep into the world of history with us as we begin a journey through the stories of the past. In this first episode of Memory and History Podcast, we explore why history is more than just dates, names, and old events. Behind every moment in history...375falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/359-potatoes-from-the-sky--75727985https://www.theverge.com/report/1002172/potato-by-air-wing-drone-deliveryValve's Pyrowave beta update: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream/discussions/0/564794422009744473The Pyrowave author's deep dive on the codec: https://themaister.net/blog/2025/06/16/i-designed-my-own-ridiculously-fast-game-streaming-video-codec-pyrowave/Third Circuit finds AI training is copyright theft: https://www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-of-copyrighted-material-not-fair-use-third-circuit/Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/28/dutch-government-turns-to-nixos-for-a-sovereign-desktop/5299501 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>34bab650-eb3f-45be-bce8-5ea468b1c9e5Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we round up some news items that have caught our interest in the last few weeks. Google and Walmart have rolled out a backyard drone-delivery program for small orders. Valve is beta testing a unique ultra-low-latency video codec for Steam...https://www.theverge.com/report/1002172/potato-by-air-wing-drone-deliveryValve's Pyrowave beta update: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream/discussions/0/564794422009744473The Pyrowave author's deep dive on the codec: https://themaister.net/blog/2025/06/16/i-designed-my-own-ridiculously-fast-game-streaming-video-codec-pyrowave/Third Circuit finds AI training is copyright theft: https://www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-of-copyrighted-material-not-fair-use-third-circuit/Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/28/dutch-government-turns-to-nixos-for-a-sovereign-desktop/5299501 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3874ai,digital sovereignty,drones,google wing,linux,nixos,pyrowave,remote play,steam,training data,valve,walmartfalse359fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/358-it-s-a-de-rail-not-a-db-rail--75727952https://news.sparkfun.com/14298 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>658e0fba-0e6a-456b-bdc8-640543d9b3d7Sun, 27 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt turns out we haven't answered all the questions that have ever been asked yet, so we figured we'd take a few more from you, the listener, this week, covering topics like cell phone signal strength and the way your carrier prioritizes your traffic,...https://news.sparkfun.com/14298 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4349arm,db-9,intel,linux,mvno,nvidia,vibe-coding,wearable,x86false358fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/357-drag-your-pc-into-the-back-yard--75727943https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9JyWAVj94E Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>f2798273-b7e2-4b37-8bc7-71a5696e94b7Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaFollowing up on our bonus Steam Frame episode earlier this week, Tested's Norman Chan stops by to go much deeper on Valve's new standalone headset, unpacking topics like the pros and cons of pancake optics, local Alyx versus streamed Alyx, a headset...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9JyWAVj94E Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4250arm,fex,half-life alyx,oculus,steam deck 2,steam frame,vrfalse357fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/356-extra-steam-frame-edition--75727990https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5014ddb4-933f-4289-8c0b-a1bebd96c1c8Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaValve sent us a review unit of their new standalone VR headset, the Steam Frame and we're here with first impressions, after testing it for about 40 hours over the course of a week. We talk about the FEX x86 to ARM emulator, how well it works with...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>1512steam,steam frame,steam hardware,steamos,valve,virtual reality,vrfalsebonushttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/356-small-team-big-thinking--75727965https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQymn5flcekAT&T's 1994 video for PersonaLink and "the Cloud": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbNrqe2IgSA1994 Wired story about General Magic: https://www.wired.com/1994/04/general-magic/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>c74ed5ed-26ee-4ac9-b3e8-fbbcc1988ca7Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we sat down with the 2018 documentary General Magic, about the early '90s startup of the same name that was full of Macintosh veterans who were way ahead of their time about mobile computing, online communications, and a lot of other stuff....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQymn5flcekAT&T's 1994 video for PersonaLink and "the Cloud": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbNrqe2IgSA1994 Wired story about General Magic: https://www.wired.com/1994/04/general-magic/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3537andy hertzfeld,apple,emoji,general magic,internet,iphone,mobile computing,smartphone,sony,tony fadellfalse356fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/355-spindly-greebly--75727961https://virtualosmuseum.org/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>0c7b59ea-dfc2-40d3-a8ac-159e35562f68Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're back with another hodgepodge of user-submitted topics this week to clear out some of our backlog from the summer, leading us to talk about everything from uses for a PC's real-time-clock wake feature to domain hijacking and protecting your...https://virtualosmuseum.org/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4545false355fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/354-the-dog-nose-knows--75727947https://www.scanlinecity.com/mortal-kombat-ii-3-layerhttps://github.com/emilianoarlettaz/arcade-pcb-case Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>b18923ff-5fc1-464e-a7ad-602ff99399f1Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe Q&A returns for August with a variety of topics including pet-related tech mishaps, the contentious multimeter pronunciation debate, arcade boards and Super NES expansion chips, the return of physical keyboard phones, and an accidental grip of...https://www.scanlinecity.com/mortal-kombat-ii-3-layerhttps://github.com/emilianoarlettaz/arcade-pcb-case Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4185arcade pcb,cyberattack,disneyland,flock camera,hugging face,minimal phone,multimeter,openai,pets,soldering,super nesfalse354fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/353-notes-about-notes--75727977https://patreon.com/techpod]]>ac6ee5e6-847f-4d95-bfae-d1fe8aad3b08Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's been a while since we checked in on note-taking apps and ways to wrangle their data, and a lot has changed with our personal use cases on that front. Will has gone deep on Notion's relational capabilities and seen how well they can support a...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4702dropbox,evernote,google keep,icloud,joplin,linux,logseq,macos,notes app,notion,obsidian,onenote,pandoc,rclone,simplenote,to-do list,windowsfalse353fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/352-tell-the-robots-to-eff-off--75727991https://imgur.com/a/california-extreme-26-td-crt-demo-cabinet-5s2gB1k Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>742a2655-af2c-4efb-ac73-d42e24987a4fSun, 16 Aug 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe reach into the grab bag again this week for a selection of topics we hope will delight and/or inform. On the AI front, Twitch stepped in it this week with a belated ability to opt your streams out of use in Amazon's AI training, raising questions...https://imgur.com/a/california-extreme-26-td-crt-demo-cabinet-5s2gB1k Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4320ai,apple refurbished,california extreme,crt,lunar lander,macbook pro,scraping,td-crt,twitchfalse352fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/351-if-name-will-smith-grade-a--75728009https://tinyurl.com/techpod-351-vcfw-disney Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>90f0187b-deed-421e-a7fc-72190d8661bbSun, 09 Aug 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaBrad and Will reconvene this week to talk about their recent adventures in the real world. Brad returns from the Vintage Computer Festival West once again with a recap of this year's highlights, including projects to resurrect everything from classic...https://tinyurl.com/techpod-351-vcfw-disney Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5332america online,atari 2600,deathmatch,disneyland,ethernet,mickey and minnie,object show,vintage computer festivalfalse351fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/350-mice-make-bad-decisions--75727962https://gamehistory.org/e3-history/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>0cd1c3be-7cd9-4a2f-bc70-3b96b99cac36Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:11:50 +0000Welly CnovaOur friend Steve Lin joins Will this week for a broad discussion about hobbies, learning new skills, and preserving the past. Topics include everything from the multidisciplinary practice of maintaining arcade cabinets and pinball tables, the Video...https://gamehistory.org/e3-history/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4757arcade games,california extreme,e3,pinball,soldering,vintage computer festival,watch repairfalse350fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/349-we-re-gonna-do-some-popcorn-science-here--75727975
Content Warning: I discuss self-harm in the context of taking health advice from LLMs from 55-58 minutes.  Links:

• Intel SR-IOV driver note on Github
• The Idea Factory
• Soul of a New Machine
• In the Beginning.... Was the Command Line
• Fire in the Valley
• Hackers
• Reddit List of Computer History Books
• Whirley-Pop

Links contain affiliate codes. Buying stuff using them helps support the pod!  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>a512f388-8a6d-4bdd-b73c-a531865c8f05Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's our first-ever solo Q&A episode, and Will takes on a backlog of awesome questions from the audience. Topics include Will's favorite way to make popcorn, under-volting for fun and profit, good books about the history of modern computing, the...
Content Warning: I discuss self-harm in the context of taking health advice from LLMs from 55-58 minutes.  Links:

• Intel SR-IOV driver note on Github
• The Idea Factory
• Soul of a New Machine
• In the Beginning.... Was the Command Line
• Fire in the Valley
• Hackers
• Reddit List of Computer History Books
• Whirley-Pop

Links contain affiliate codes. Buying stuff using them helps support the pod!  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3779aio coolers,coolers,history of computing,peltier,popcorn,sr-iov,tec cooler,whirley popfalse349fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/348-vincent-caravella-back-alley-electrician--75727996Nextlander's Vinny Caravella sits down with Will to ask a cavalcade of questions. Topics include whether paid search engines are worth the cash, what happens when your NAS needs new hard drives in 2026, why Fastmail rules, when you do (and do not) need to hire an electrician, and what can only be described as group therapy session about the horrors plumbers face every day. If you want to try Fastmail, consider using Will's Fastmail affiliate link to get a 10% discount on your first year and Fastmail throws a few bucks Will's way.  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>35b75828-d358-440f-9541-d108911b559dSun, 19 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIn a wide-ranging conversation, https://patreon.com/nextlander's https://bsky.app/profile/vinnycaravella.bsky.social sits down with Will to ask a cavalcade of questions. Topics include whether paid search engines are worth the cash, what happens when...Nextlander's Vinny Caravella sits down with Will to ask a cavalcade of questions. Topics include whether paid search engines are worth the cash, what happens when your NAS needs new hard drives in 2026, why Fastmail rules, when you do (and do not) need to hire an electrician, and what can only be described as group therapy session about the horrors plumbers face every day. If you want to try Fastmail, consider using Will's Fastmail affiliate link to get a 10% discount on your first year and Fastmail throws a few bucks Will's way.  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6161clogs,daylight savings time,diy,electricians,enshittification,fastmail,google,hard drives,home automation,home repair,kagi,nas,old man yells at cloud,paid search,plumbers,rampocalypse,smart techfalse348fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/347-is-that-the-monster-from-godzilla--75727982Read Only Memo newsletter, it's awesome and free!   We talked about: 

• Wes's Decomp and Recomp List
• MiSTer Companion
• Juaniwck's Mister Retroarch Save Sync Github
• PC Ports of Old Console Games Are the New AI Vibe Coding Battleground

Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>7b5025b6-26f6-4ec8-8409-1acba7cb21e2Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaPC Gamer and Read Only Memo's Wes Fenlon joins us on the pod this week to talk about the latest retro game recompilations for N64, PSX, and Xbox 360 games, with a big bonus helping on the latest MiSTer UI and maintenance updates. Sign up for Wes's...Read Only Memo newsletter, it's awesome and free!   We talked about: 

• Wes's Decomp and Recomp List
• MiSTer Companion
• Juaniwck's Mister Retroarch Save Sync Github
• PC Ports of Old Console Games Are the New AI Vibe Coding Battleground

Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4529decompilation,dk64,donkey kong 64,emulation,mister,mister fpga,misterpi,n64,nintendo 64,playstation,psx,recompilation,retro games,retro gaming,xbox 360,zaparoofalse347fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/346-are-steam-sales-even-that-good--75728007Tested's Norman Chan to dig deep into their extensive hands on testing with the Steam Machine, including how it fits into Valve's burgeoning hardware ecosystem, performance testing, how console-y it actually is, whether you could use it as a more traditional desktop, pricing in the rampocalypse, and even answer some questions from the audience.  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>177c3ad4-8637-4ebd-9c74-5fa314a4da07Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis week, Will is joined by https://youtube.com/tested https://nchan.bsky.social to dig deep into their extensive hands on testing with the Steam Machine, including how it fits into Valve's burgeoning hardware ecosystem, performance testing, how...Tested's Norman Chan to dig deep into their extensive hands on testing with the Steam Machine, including how it fits into Valve's burgeoning hardware ecosystem, performance testing, how console-y it actually is, whether you could use it as a more traditional desktop, pricing in the rampocalypse, and even answer some questions from the audience.  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5036bazzite,games,linux gaming,proton,steam deck,steam frame,steam hardware,steam machine,steamos,steam os,valvefalse346fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/345-i-covered-this-on-my-livejournal--75727999Florence Ion, of PC Mag, Material Podcast, and Android Faithful to talk about what Google's been up to, the inevitable encroachment of Gemini into Android, and the shocking revelation that she uploaded her Livejournal archive to Gemini. It's a wide-ranging conversation about the state of tech, good and bad uses of AI, what it's like working for a long time in tech journalism, and a whole lot more.  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>25eefc1f-a80f-49a7-abb0-535b15e4a2d2Sun, 28 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis week, Will is joined by tech journalist https://florenceion.com/, of https://www.pcmag.com/authors/florence-ion, https://relay.fm/material, and https://www.androidfaithful.com/podcast/ to talk about what Google's been up to, the inevitable...Florence Ion, of PC Mag, Material Podcast, and Android Faithful to talk about what Google's been up to, the inevitable encroachment of Gemini into Android, and the shocking revelation that she uploaded her Livejournal archive to Gemini. It's a wide-ranging conversation about the state of tech, good and bad uses of AI, what it's like working for a long time in tech journalism, and a whole lot more.  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4371android,banana stand,gemini,google,google ai,google io,google io 2026,livejournal,nano banana,wwdcfalse345fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/344-a-fistful-of-videogames--75728068Expedition: Handheld and The Full Nerd! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>000674cb-2ced-4b23-8c84-c6cbdf121a74Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaBrad's out of town this week, so Will welcomes Expedition: Handheld and The Full Nerd's Adam Patrick Murray to run down the current state of the handheld gaming console market. We talk about Intel's new GPU-first handheld processor, the current state...Expedition: Handheld and The Full Nerd! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3948arm gaming,handheld gaming,linux gaming,msi claw,rog ally,steam deck,tegra,the full nerd,xboxfalse344fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/343-siri-lives-on-dynamic-island--75727964https://patreon.com/techpod]]>7ed204e3-70bb-4100-a52c-02b8e22e30beSun, 14 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaApple's Worldwide Developers Conference happened this week, and there was enough going on that we wanted to unpack the whole thing, primarily due to the company's uncharacteristic backpedaling on its... controversial Liquid Glass UI language, not to...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4390apple,apple intelligence,iphone,macbook,macos golden gate,siri ai,steve jobs,wwdcfalse343fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/342-faster-thinner-quieter-cooler-cheaper--75728008https://tinyurl.com/techpod-342-computex-26 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>fe5a02f7-97a0-46c6-83be-88799c15cf63Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaComputex happened this week, and there was enough to talk about to devote this week's episode to rounding up the high points, including Nvidia's attempt to dominate the consumer Windows market with RTX Spark, the first RGB mini-LED monitors, 8GB...https://tinyurl.com/techpod-342-computex-26 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4721arm,computex,laptop,noctua,nvidia,panther lake,rgb mini-led,rtx spark,ryzen 5800x3d,wildcat lake,x86false342fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/341-f2-is-my-most-used-f--75727951https://patreon.com/techpod]]>8732c2c4-e718-4813-b5fa-437add209f95Sun, 31 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaQuestion time again! This month we discuss quite a wide range of topics, such as tracking down printer dots with a USB microscope, the dream of going to SIGGRAPH, the legality of scanning and uploading "lost" old magazines, how to stay objective about...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4824cpu cooling,electric vehicle,ev,icq,midlife crisis,open source,printer dots,siggraph,steam deck,usb microscopefalse341fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/340-like-a-bong-for-your-cpu--75727981https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbGomv195sk Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>f472f72e-a562-4ca5-8455-45906f111138Sun, 24 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaBrad's tired of throttling his CPU due to an inadequate heatsink. Will's been spending a lot more time testing PC hardware of late. Between those two things, we thought it was a good time to do a check-in on CPU cooling, and primarily liquid cooling,...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbGomv195sk Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4214aio,amd,cpu,custom loop,gpu,intel,noctua,water coolingfalse340fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/339-billionaires-versus-dinosaurs--75728072https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWOErbTL9N4 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>25a0f881-54bb-47e0-8ae9-86c935c5b63cSun, 17 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaAfter a couple years off, we're returning to our annual tradition of each picking a year for our birthdays that we want to review in-depth from a tech and science perspective. This time Will picked 2002 because... well, you'll see, but it gave us the...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWOErbTL9N4 Support the Pod! 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Discussed on this episode are stories about canary traps in political databases, AMD bringing true HDMI 2.1 support to Linux,...https://tinyurl.com/techpod-338-news Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3482amd,canary trap,hdmi 2.1,keychron,linux,magnetic switches,ms-dos,open source,steam controller,valve,wildcat lakefalse338fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/337-they-re-3d-printing-shoes-now--75728054https://patreon.com/techpod]]>2d9e94f3-bc3c-40e2-a3c9-a8d3f67ff61eSun, 03 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe've got a project potpourri this week of things we've been getting our hands on, literally in the case of Will and his brand new Steam Controller. We talk through the ins and outs of Valve's first new hardware in a while, including button feel, a...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>45243d printing,airprint,brother laser,linux,mouse,proton,steam controller,steam machine,valvefalse337fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/336-when-triple-redundancy-isn-t-enough--75728047https://cacm.acm.org/news/how-nasa-built-artemis-iis-fault-tolerant-computer/https://www.ghs.com/news/20260423_int-178_orion_lockheed.htmlhttps://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19900015844/downloads/19900015844.pdf Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3effab7d-0839-42e8-aa08-89bfcd5fab4bSun, 26 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaAfter all these monthly Q&A episodes, you folks continue to send us great Qs every month, and this time around we dig into such topics as the MacBook Neo's target audience, Windows running on Linux, technical and corporate work jargon bleeding...https://cacm.acm.org/news/how-nasa-built-artemis-iis-fault-tolerant-computer/https://www.ghs.com/news/20260423_int-178_orion_lockheed.htmlhttps://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19900015844/downloads/19900015844.pdf Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5259airplay,apple,artemis,home assistant,linux,macbook neo,mechanical pencil,nasa,windowsfalse336fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/335-with-craft-and-focus--75727955https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>1b561e3d-939d-4409-8c29-2072d25afaddSun, 19 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's time to fix Windows 11. OK, that might be a little ambitious for one podcast episode, but it's at least time to step through the plan Microsoft unveiled recently for improving Windows 11 and addressing some of its shortcomings (and perhaps...https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/ Support the Pod! 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We explore everything from the astronauts' wakeup playlists and diets to the wireless and...https://tinyurl.com/techpod-334-artemis-ii Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4291apollo,artemis,integrity,moon,nasa,rocket,sls,space commerce,space explorationfalse334fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/333-i-used-to-do-a-podcast--75727994https://patreon.com/techpod]]>7df8ec51-7b36-4946-a27a-332112452d19Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaBrad's out this week, so Norman Chan takes the guest chair to talk us through the current state of the art in 3D printing. We cover the latest in FDM printers, whether resin printers are right for you, the best places to find 3D models to print, how...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>38663d art,3d model,3d printer,3d printing,bambu,fdm printer,resin printerfalse333fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/332-shout-out-to-the-1979-lady-kenmore--75728053https://patreon.com/techpod]]>188d4501-c8ce-4926-9e62-54f3e7abc6a3Sun, 29 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIs it time for another Q&A again already? How the months just fly by. This month we address everything from auto-generated podcast chapters and episode links to computer class-action lawsuits, corporate remote administration of your personal...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4832canned air,class action lawsuit,computer,pc,podcastfalse332fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/331-more-teddy-ruxpin-less-chucky--75728069https://patreon.com/techpod]]>24d5df1a-b133-4640-8c45-7f844781e964Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's been a while since we got down to brass tacks with a tips and tricks episode, so that's what we're doing this week with a new list of tech that's making our lives a little more pleasant lately. Will extols the tiling window manager once again --...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4363bd-rom,bluebubbles,imessage,linux,macos,nest,niri,powertoys,windows 11false331fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/330-our-e-cores-are-better-than-your-p-cores--75728002From GDC: Building the Next Generation of Xbox - Xbox WireGDC 2026: Announcing new tools and platform updates for Windows PC game developers - Windows Developer BlogUpgraded PSSR upscaler is coming to PS5 Pro  – PlayStation.BlogSay hello to MacBook Neo - AppleIntel's cheaper, faster new Core Ultra CPUs still have a lot to prove | PCWorldNVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Delivers Major Upgrade With 2nd Gen Transformer Model For Super Resolution & 6X Dynamic Multi Frame Generation | GeForce News | NVIDIA Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>c79fb73f-0f6b-43bf-8b4e-f2fae1d85591Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThere's kind of a mountain of hardware news from the last week, so we're rounding it up this week, starting with Microsoft's Project Helix (a.k.a. the next Xbox), interrogating what exactly that box is going to look like inside and out, how much...From GDC: Building the Next Generation of Xbox - Xbox WireGDC 2026: Announcing new tools and platform updates for Windows PC game developers - Windows Developer BlogUpgraded PSSR upscaler is coming to PS5 Pro  – PlayStation.BlogSay hello to MacBook Neo - AppleIntel's cheaper, faster new Core Ultra CPUs still have a lot to prove | PCWorldNVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Delivers Major Upgrade With 2nd Gen Transformer Model For Super Resolution & 6X Dynamic Multi Frame Generation | GeForce News | NVIDIA Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5630arrow lake refresh,core ultra 7 270k plus,dlss 4.5,macbook neo,project helix,ps5 pro,pssr 2,xbox modefalse330fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/329-a-plaid-decade--75728089https://archive.org/details/maximum-pc-the-nearly-complete-collection/Maximum%20PC/2001/031%20Maximum%20PC%204-1-2001/page/n1/mode/2up A clip of the Jack Matthews Metroid Prime interview (full interview also on the channel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oiIm5Ymu6s Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>c3a4ad4f-a0b5-4593-822f-a72a658a5d42Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe just passed the 25th anniversary of the GeForce 3, which felt like a good reason to dust off the April 2001 issue of Maximum PC. We reflect on both a quarter-century of programmable pixel shaders -- the tech that's defined 3D rendering ever since...https://archive.org/details/maximum-pc-the-nearly-complete-collection/Maximum%20PC/2001/031%20Maximum%20PC%204-1-2001/page/n1/mode/2up A clip of the Jack Matthews Metroid Prime interview (full interview also on the channel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oiIm5Ymu6s Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5319geforce 3,maximum pc,metroid prime,nvidia,pentium 4,pixel shaders,vertex lighting,wi-fi,windows xpfalse329fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/328-shared-resources-shared-problems--75728071https://patreon.com/techpod]]>d2f512a3-92a9-4b5b-a0fd-df69363f0b7aSun, 01 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's another glorious bounty of listener questions for the monthly Q&A, touching on a bunch of subjects like modern HDMI switchers, enormous turn-of-the-century TVs, MikroTik network gear, Pluribus, why the PCIe retaining clip exists (and how to...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4787cell phone,esp32,hdmi switcher,mikrotik,pci express,pluribus,punch the monkey,unixfalse328fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/327-two-hours-of-war--75728059https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally Notepad++ compromised: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/ An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/ (Much more has emerged about the AI agent story since we recorded, including contact with the agent's operator, all described at the link above.) Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>e4ca5810-e614-4fa7-ae49-3ea2ec6bd5e8Sun, 22 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThere's... a lot going on lately, so we're rounding up some of that news this week, starting with Discord's forthcoming age verification policy rolling out globally, with cursory discussion of some of the alternative platforms starting to assert...https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally Notepad++ compromised: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/ An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/ (Much more has emerged about the AI agent story since we recorded, including contact with the agent's operator, all described at the link above.) Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3862age verification,ai agent,discord,fluxer,matrix,moltbook,notepad++,openclaw,playstation 6,scott shambaugh,steam machine,stoatfalse327fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/326-quantumly-entangled-keyboard-switches--75728048https://tinyurl.com/techpod-326-mag-switches Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>d0d557b8-0245-4784-b227-00e621d4caa2Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaMagnets have been replacing potentiometers in a variety of places for a while now, especially as Hall effect and TMR joysticks have started popping up in fancy game controllers. Now magnetic switches are becoming more common in mice and mechanical...https://tinyurl.com/techpod-326-mag-switches Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4163hall effect,lightspeed,logitech,magnetic switches,mechanical keyboard,mouse,potentiometer,tmr,transducerfalse326fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/325-renderdeez128--75727973https://tinyurl.com/techpod-325-homelab-update Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>27531724-09ec-417e-a899-b891ca9b04ddSun, 08 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's been a while since we did a deep dive on our home networking and server infrastructure (what some might call a "homelab"), so it's time for the 2026 check-in to run down what we're working with these days. By request, we spend a big chunk of the...https://tinyurl.com/techpod-325-homelab-update Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6254beelink,docker,linux,n100,nas,podman,proxmox,samba,truenas,unraid,wildcat lake,zfsfalse325fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/324-the-intel-batman--75727986https://patreon.com/techpod]]>7b37b142-6cf0-4e0b-94e2-4e66c143c0e3Sun, 01 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaAfter two months of accumulated Qs, we felt we still had plenty of As to dispense, so we're wheeling back around to a supplemental questions episode this week, touching on such topics as generating negative mileage in an EV, what the iOS low battery...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4466bash,electric vehicle,intel,ios,linux,low battery mode,n100,network rack,powershell,voyager,wildcat lakefalse324fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/323-ignore-all-previous-instructions--75727995https://patreon.com/techpod]]>9695f9b1-c383-4263-904f-04c7888108e9Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe questions piled up over the holidays and now it's time to answer them in this, the first Q&A of 2026. This month we touch on topics like the splendor Gateway 2000's cow boxes, the mystery of the ENIAC, whether a shed qualifies as off-site...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3814claude code,eniac,gateway 2000,llm,nostalgia,off-site backup,tested.com,volt-ampsfalse323fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/322-it-was-dns--75728001https://patreon.com/techpod]]>a8466a48-749f-4ce6-8b20-a8827a4220ecSun, 18 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe get into the nitty gritty this week with a grab bag of home computing projects that's really more like a set of cautionary tales. Will discovers the perils of hanging your entire household's Internet access on a couple of older, neglected Raspberry...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4712circuit breaker,dns,energy monitoring,linux,moonlight,pi-hole,raspberry pi,smart plug,sunshine,systemd,ups,xbox series xfalse322fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/321-how-to-charge-your-knife--75728004https://tinyurl.com/techpod-321-ces-2025 Support the Pod! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4157amd,ces,consumer electronics show,intel,nvidia,panther lake,pebble,ryzen ai,segway,smart legos,solid state battery,stream deck,vibrobladefalse321fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/320-maybe-somebody-hates-brian-eno--75728051https://tiny.cc/tp320-sounds Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>cee292cb-be0e-474b-96e9-0760a6e14fa0Sun, 04 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're back to start the new year with the second and final installment of our ranking of startup sounds. To close out the tier list we consider later consoles like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, more recent Windowses that we didn't even realize had...https://tiny.cc/tp320-sounds Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>39333ds,analogue,beos,fpga,nintendo,os/2,playstation,sony,switch 2,windows 11false320fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/319-an-amuse-bouche-for-your-device--75728023https://tinyurl.com/tp319-sound-tiers-684jfsdi Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>ead66b7b-cdbe-4977-aa74-1d9c71097edcSun, 28 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaAs is tradition (?) around here, over the holidays we're doing another extended ranking, and this year it's a two-part tier list of... every startup sound we could find across video game consoles, handhelds, and computer operating systems. Where does...https://tinyurl.com/tp319-sound-tiers-684jfsdi Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3924apple,macintosh,microsoft,playstation,windows,xboxfalse319fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/318-system-b-or-systemd--75728034https://linuxunplugged.com/644Switch 2 grips Will mentioned: https://amzn.to/48IpFXE Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>be22791a-14c4-4aa1-a57a-4c20fb74f3c5Sun, 21 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaAs the end of the year rolls up on us, we attempt a little personalized year-in-review, looking back at 2025 without dwelling on the various tech crises we've already talked about ad nauseam. Instead we focus on things we thought were cool or...https://linuxunplugged.com/644Switch 2 grips Will mentioned: https://amzn.to/48IpFXE Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4559airpods pro 3,bcachefs,ebike,electric car,ev,flea market,linux desktop,mechanical keyboard,nas,screen protector,self-hosting,switch 2false318fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/317-schrodinger-s-airpod--75728096https://mastodon.online/@grumpy_website/115673036992705122 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5d8aed62-6068-4ac2-9248-f1217c72463dSun, 14 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's briskly, unusually cold here in the Bay Area this year, so what better time to crack open another tray of cold opens for your bite-size listening pleasure. This time we discuss such micro-topics as what happens when the building fire alarm gets...https://mastodon.online/@grumpy_website/115673036992705122 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4397airpods pro 3,apple tv,bluetooth,linux,nixos,ssd,switch 2,usb4,usb-c,virtual game cards,windows 11false317fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/316-i-don-t-like-the-sparkle--75728011https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-businessGamersNexus video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A-eeJP0J7cSteam Machine and HDMI 2.1: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/why-wont-steam-machine-support-hdmi-2-1-digging-in-on-the-display-standard-drama/Disable Firefox AI features: https://flamedfury.com/posts/disable-ai-in-firefox/The Verge on Google News AI headlines: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/838354/googles-ai-news-bot-is-still-confused-but-no-longer-replacing-our-headlines Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>badd0ab2-a996-440f-992a-923977624566Sun, 07 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThings are getting so dire in the PC-building space that we had to revisit the subject again this week, primarily to discuss the sudden and shocking end of longtime RAM and SSD maker Crucial, with a deeper dive into the way the memory supply chain...https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-businessGamersNexus video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A-eeJP0J7cSteam Machine and HDMI 2.1: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/why-wont-steam-machine-support-hdmi-2-1-digging-in-on-the-display-standard-drama/Disable Firefox AI features: https://flamedfury.com/posts/disable-ai-in-firefox/The Verge on Google News AI headlines: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/838354/googles-ai-news-bot-is-still-confused-but-no-longer-replacing-our-headlines Support the Pod! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3781ai,chips act,crucial,ddr5,firefox,hdmi 2.1,linux,open source,ram prices,steam machinefalse316fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/315-work-in-progress-till-i-die--75728085https://patreon.com/techpod]]>e60ba918-4b05-4893-8c3f-c381059f9b9dSun, 30 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe end of November brings a fresh crop of your questions, this month addressing subjects like getting lost in a corporation's Kafka-esque support infrastructure, video game voice chatting with Internet celebrities, how often to change your CPU paste,...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4347all sky camera,appletv,cpu,ethernet,linux,nvidia,thanksgivingfalse315fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/314-we-hope-we-wish-we-ask-we-request--75728058https://www.pcmag.com/news/ssd-storage-prices-to-climb-as-ai-demand-meets-tight-nand-supplyAgentic Windows impressions: https://www.theverge.com/report/822443/microsoft-windows-copilot-vision-ai-assistant-pc-voice-controls-impressionsNo Longer Evil: https://nolongerevil.com/Sett Thermostat: https://sett.homes/Switch 2 dock news: https://kotaku.com/nintendo-just-blocked-third-party-switch-2-docks-and-it-sucks-2000644081 Support the Pod! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>1e9c4f24-9ec7-4710-ad30-f532b90a090aSun, 16 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt seems like this week's big salvo of Valve hardware announcements is all anyone's talking about right now, particularly the Steam Machine, and who better to fill in a bunch of hands-on details with that li'l box, plus the new Steam Frame VR headset...https://www.youtube.com/@tested Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5009cross buy,linux,playstation,proton,steam,steam controller,steam frame,steam machine,valve,vr,windows,xboxfalse313fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/312-the-original-tree-puncher--75728067https://www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/game-design-is-simple-actually/PC Gamer's Everquest history: https://www.pcgamer.com/breaking-the-internet-the-story-of-everquest-the-mmo-that-changed-everything/Dreamcast online functionality and Sega.net history (with links to similar pages for PS2, GameCube etc. at the bottom): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast_online_functionality Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3e8c5ae9-12de-40f6-ac19-e43d42da7ce2Sun, 09 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaOnline game design veteran Raph Koster recently posted a new piece about how he thinks about game design, which got us talking about the history of online multiplayer, so then we figured, why not talk about that subject in a (slightly) more...https://www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/game-design-is-simple-actually/PC Gamer's Everquest history: https://www.pcgamer.com/breaking-the-internet-the-story-of-everquest-the-mmo-that-changed-everything/Dreamcast online functionality and Sega.net history (with links to similar pages for PS2, GameCube etc. at the bottom): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast_online_functionality Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5186crossplay,doom,ethernet,everquest,gamecube,ipv6,modem,mud,nat,online multiplayer,playstation 2,ultima onlinee,xbox livefalse312fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/311-the-fab-floor--75728090https://patreon.com/techpod]]>c4285a2c-5896-4fd4-9f90-ca723facaca3Sun, 02 Nov 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaPC World's Adam Patrick Murray stops by this week to discuss the trip he and Will recently took to visit Intel's new 18A chip fabrication facility in Arizona. Settle in for a wide-ranging chat about the upcoming Panther Lake architecture, why Intel...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>532418a,amd,intel,nvidia,panther lake,ray tracing,ryzen,semiconductor,tsmcfalse311fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/310-target-has-a-github-account--75728020https://patreon.com/techpod]]>f087c02f-03f2-47c9-80b6-28751bee68b7Sun, 26 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's that time again for more of your questions, and this month we discuss medical equipment conducting secret data collection, dangerously fast CD-ROMs, what we'd want in a brand new operating system (assuming we'd even want one), open source...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4372bipap,cpap,github,mini led,oled,paperless ngx,rivers cuomo,weezerfalse310fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/309-tivoization--75728082https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updatesWindows LTSC FAQ: https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_linksTiVo is done: https://cordcuttersnews.com/tivo-stops-selling-dvrs-marking-the-end-of-an-era/Pioneer sells off its BD-ROM business: https://www.techpowerup.com/336803/pioneer-has-ended-production-of-computer-blu-ray-drives-transfers-pddm-business-to-shanxi-group Support the Pod! 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Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3833aol,bd-rom,blu-ray,end of life,eol,extended support updates,linux,open source,tivo,windows 10false309fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/308-new-lake--75728030https://ripitapart.com/2020/07/16/reverse-engineering-and-analysis-of-sandisk-high-endurance-microsdxc-card/Oasis driver for Windows Mixed Reality headsets: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3824490/Oasis_Driver_for_Windows_Mixed_Reality/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>d520cb86-3173-43c5-81aa-90d95ca4ffdaSun, 12 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's been a bit since we did a roundup of tools and tricks that are making our tech lives a little easier, so we're doing that again this week! Will talks about USB-C-to-SATA adapters that can power 3.5" hard drives, Switch 2 grips that actually work,...https://ripitapart.com/2020/07/16/reverse-engineering-and-analysis-of-sandisk-high-endurance-microsdxc-card/Oasis driver for Windows Mixed Reality headsets: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3824490/Oasis_Driver_for_Windows_Mixed_Reality/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3835airpods pro 3,micro sd card,nano tape,nova lake,playstation vr 2,raspberry pi,switch 2 grips,thread scheduler,windows mixed reality,write endurancefalse308fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/307-i-hate-smishing--75728049‘SIM Farms’ Are a Spam Plague. A Giant One in New York Threatened US Infrastructure, Feds Say | WIREDThat annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this - Ars TechnicaWhy iRobot’s founder won’t go within 10 feet of today’s walking robots - Ars TechnicaWhy Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity – Rodney BrooksSteam will wind down support for 32-bit Windows as that version of Windows fades - Ars Technica Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3ef2e494-fd1a-4c3b-a1a1-377aefb21291Sun, 05 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaA handful of news stories have caught our eye recently, so we're rounding them up this week. We start with a pair of stories about everyone's least favorite subject, SMS spam, one involving an organized crime ring and the other vulnerable everyday...‘SIM Farms’ Are a Spam Plague. A Giant One in New York Threatened US Infrastructure, Feds Say | WIREDThat annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this - Ars TechnicaWhy iRobot’s founder won’t go within 10 feet of today’s walking robots - Ars TechnicaWhy Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity – Rodney BrooksSteam will wind down support for 32-bit Windows as that version of Windows fades - Ars Technica Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>403432-bit,figure.ai,humanoid robot,robotics,sim box,smishing,sms spam,steam,tesla,windows 10 eolfalse307fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/306-the-worst-thing-about-bluetooth-is-sometimes--75728075https://decky.xyz/MagicPods for ear buds on the Steam Deck: https://magicpods.app/steamdeck/The deep rabbit hole about PCIe and ASPM: https://z8.re/blog/aspm.html Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>2e13cd3d-b742-45dc-98dd-f3e58a6511bdSun, 28 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaQuestion time is here again, and this month we attempt to provide answers about subjects such as homebrew on the Steam Deck, outsourcing the university network support, buying phones just to trade them in, grifters getting angry about game engines,...https://decky.xyz/MagicPods for ear buds on the Steam Deck: https://magicpods.app/steamdeck/The deep rabbit hole about PCIe and ASPM: https://z8.re/blog/aspm.html Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4783bbs,drop shipping,game engine,mvno,steam,unity,unreal,windowsfalse306fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/305-hardly-an-off-the-shelf-knob--75728098https://www.theverge.com/report/629259/winring0-windows-defender-fan-control-pc-monitoring-alert-quarantineNoctua on fan placement and beat frequencies: https://noctua.at/en/fan-speed-offset-explainedStackable hard drive feet Brad bought: https://sednashop.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=95Seasonic pinout and cable compatibility info: https://seasonic.com/cable-compatibility/How to de-pin a power supply cable with two staples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6gQ5ie2Dw0Brad's NAS/hard drive setup and de-pinned cable: https://imgur.com/a/WKPwhCQ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>7c7b09a0-bb5b-4bdd-b886-13885216641cSun, 21 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe've been tinkering with a lot of esoteric PC hardware stuff lately, so we're here with a roundup on what we've been up to this week that you'll hopefully find informative. We get into Microsoft's crackdown on the vulnerability in FanControl and...https://www.theverge.com/report/629259/winring0-windows-defender-fan-control-pc-monitoring-alert-quarantineNoctua on fan placement and beat frequencies: https://noctua.at/en/fan-speed-offset-explainedStackable hard drive feet Brad bought: https://sednashop.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=95Seasonic pinout and cable compatibility info: https://seasonic.com/cable-compatibility/How to de-pin a power supply cable with two staples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6gQ5ie2Dw0Brad's NAS/hard drive setup and de-pinned cable: https://imgur.com/a/WKPwhCQ Support the Pod! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5067cpu,fancontrol,hard drives,heatsink,iphone air,nas,noctua,power supply,windows,winring0false305fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/304-gamify-your-sleep--75728037https://patreon.com/techpod]]>ce5dc639-07db-49f8-b40e-7623aae672a0Sun, 14 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaApple really brought the goods to its iPhone 17 event this week, with a freakishly thin phone in the new iPhone Air, major production-level video features and accessories in the 17 Pro, significant health and sleep features in the next Apple Watch,...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4396airpods pro 3,apple,apple watch,battery,iphone 17,iphone air,iphone pro,series 11false304fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/303-spaceships-built-for-cats--75728061https://store.steampowered.com/app/301280/Skin_Deep/Blendo has a lot of fascinating writeups about their dev process and tools: https://blendogames.com/news/Sanjay's work as a games programming consultant: https://loophole.games/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>ef221dca-21e1-48b5-90cd-0982817c367dSun, 07 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaFor years, Blendo Games has been releasing its unique brand of systems-driven games on open source id Software tech, most recently with this year's Skin Deep running on a modified version of the Doom 3 engine. Sounds like a Tech Pod topic to us! We're...https://store.steampowered.com/app/301280/Skin_Deep/Blendo has a lot of fascinating writeups about their dev process and tools: https://blendogames.com/news/Sanjay's work as a games programming consultant: https://loophole.games/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5185blendo games,doom 3,godot,idtech,open source,skin deep,source code,steam,unity,unreal enginefalse303fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/302-the-system-tray-is-no-man-s-land--75728106https://archive.org/details/no_bs_podcast_100A particularly cool cyberdeck: https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/1m9ufwz/rpi_dev_finally_done_youtube_and/The Chicago dog: https://www.wienerschnitzel.com/food/hot-dogs/chicago-dog/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>8bfc65b4-3dd7-4b28-9159-cdf36fdf55cfSun, 31 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaA few links from this episode:The musical No BS Podcast #100: https://archive.org/details/no_bs_podcast_100A particularly cool cyberdeck: https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/1m9ufwz/rpi_dev_finally_done_youtube_and/The Chicago dog:...https://archive.org/details/no_bs_podcast_100A particularly cool cyberdeck: https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/1m9ufwz/rpi_dev_finally_done_youtube_and/The Chicago dog: https://www.wienerschnitzel.com/food/hot-dogs/chicago-dog/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4787bd-rom,cyberdeck,geforce now,makemkv,mechanical keyboard,mister fpga,optical drive,pickles,podcast,xcloudfalse302fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/301-will-ruined-the-internet--75728055https://86box.net/https://winworldpc.com/homehttps://www.vogons.org/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>adee18f9-42b7-40a9-8300-f465a9c5c48eSun, 24 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaSome handy links if you want to start playing with your own virtual Windows 95 machine:https://86box.net/https://winworldpc.com/homehttps://www.vogons.org/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a...https://86box.net/https://winworldpc.com/homehttps://www.vogons.org/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5271bbs,bill gates,eternal september,internet,macintosh,microsoft,tcp/ip,usenet,windows,windows 95false301fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/300-never-stop-talking--757281248e36be5a-043e-4045-90ac-7011cc4bc6ecSun, 17 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaHave we really done 300 episodes of this podcast? We have now! To mark the occasion, we're taking a look back at a lot of the things that have changed in the tech world since we posted our first ep in September 2019. Turns out, uh, a lot has happened...5149amd,electric car,ev,handhelds,intel,linux,nft,steam deck,streaming,vrfalse300fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/299-donkey-kong-is-a-florida-man--757280652070e46b-929f-4049-97e2-641f0ef53235Sun, 10 Aug 2025 20:17:35 +0000Welly CnovaIt's a topic two-fer! Brad's refrigerator died last week, which gives us a chance to talk about online appliance-buying on a budget in 2025, some refrigeration and food-safety basics, product minimalism and applying the Unix philosophy to home...4482appliances,food safety,home ownership,mario kart,refrigerator,super nintendo world,theme parks,universal studiosfalse299fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/298-don-t-accidentally-become-a-bank--75728062https://aftermath.site/steam-itch-porn-censorship-collective-shout-visa-mastercard-paypalitch.io reindexes NSFW content: https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-contentValve comments on payment processors: https://kotaku.com/mastercard-denies-pressuring-steam-to-censor-nsfw-games-2000614393Here's the RTINGS article on types of OLEDs mentioned toward the end: https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/qd-oled-vs-woled Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>731f7ae6-ef31-4df9-aec0-bb5bc2421b95Sun, 03 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe situation we talked about in the episode is evolving pretty rapidly; here are some of the latest updates since we recorded:Info on how to contact payment processors yourself:...https://aftermath.site/steam-itch-porn-censorship-collective-shout-visa-mastercard-paypalitch.io reindexes NSFW content: https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-contentValve comments on payment processors: https://kotaku.com/mastercard-denies-pressuring-steam-to-censor-nsfw-games-2000614393Here's the RTINGS article on types of OLEDs mentioned toward the end: https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/qd-oled-vs-woled Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4108censorship,collective shout,itch.io,mastercard,payment processors,steam,stripe,video games,visafalse298fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/297-the-ai-content-centipede--757280708dc9324b-e045-4365-9d08-bad9983d791cSun, 27 Jul 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's the monthly question time again, and this month we talk about what's going to happen when AI is only left with AI-generated content to consume, our thoughts on ad-blocking as people who used to subsist on ads, how to blog about a tech project,...4371ad-blocking,ai,blogs,cloudflare,geolocation,podcast,power supply,spotify,upsfalse297fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/296-the-slopposite--7572806054ada353-e300-474a-a0bc-dde0063088fdSun, 20 Jul 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWhat better way to beat the summer heat than with another stack of cold opens for your listening micro-pleasure? This time around we delve into such short topics as etiquette at the EV charging station, why kids hate charging their phones, how to...3243electric vehicle,ev,friendslop,gasoline,iphone,lethal company,peak,procedural generation,procgenfalse296fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/295-hacker-tourism--75728077https://archive.org/details/wired-magazine-04.12-1996-decemberShow notes with page numbers for everything we discuss: https://tinyurl.com/techpod-295-wired-dec-96 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6162a2be-2956-4c3e-8cf5-72a150452192Sun, 13 Jul 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWired 04.12, December 1996: https://archive.org/details/wired-magazine-04.12-1996-decemberShow notes with page numbers for everything we discuss: https://tinyurl.com/techpod-295-wired-dec-96 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get...https://archive.org/details/wired-magazine-04.12-1996-decemberShow notes with page numbers for everything we discuss: https://tinyurl.com/techpod-295-wired-dec-96 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4837ad tracking,ai,doubleclick,fiber optic,financial trading,google,laptop,neal stephenson,neural networks,surveillance,undersea cablesfalse295fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/294-the-god-tier-gpu--75728107https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIipgLFxpt4 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>120563bb-d27c-43ff-885e-58318397f58bSun, 06 Jul 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaBrad's historic YouTube video, "Here's Like 18 Minutes of Destiny 2 at 4k60:"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIipgLFxpt4 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIipgLFxpt4 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>35581080 ti,5080,9070xt,amd,arc,battlemage,geforce,gpu,gtx,nvidia,radeon,rtxfalse294fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/293-j-ing-and-k-ing--75728079https://rss.joy and https://ooh.directory Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>85072256-62a1-46b9-bfdc-62136ad08009Sun, 29 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe monthly Q&A ep is here again, and this time around we field emails and Discord Qs about managing the cognitive load of your hobbies, doing jury duty in a movie theater, site discovery on the indie web, safe ways to repair damaged power cords,...https://rss.joy and https://ooh.directory Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4531indie web,networking,passkeys,soldering,sports broadcastingfalse293fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/292-winning-the-hummingbird-war--75728119https://kindlemodding.org/A pretty good basic explainer about Kindle jailbreaking and demoing KOReader: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtk7ERwlIAk The style of travel router Brad's looking at (not sponsored!): https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-axt1800/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>10113d9f-eeb5-452e-a165-00418275f8c4Sun, 22 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaOn this week's ep, we take inventory of upcoming tech projects we've been looking into, to evaluate our use cases and pick each other's brains about what's worth sinking the time and/or money into in the near future. For Brad, that's getting a proper...https://kindlemodding.org/A pretty good basic explainer about Kindle jailbreaking and demoing KOReader: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtk7ERwlIAk The style of travel router Brad's looking at (not sponsored!): https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-axt1800/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4059home assistant,ip camera,jailbreak,kindle,koreader,security camera,travel router,twitch 1440p,wi-fi 7false292fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/291-evil-finder-icon--75728087https://patreon.com/techpod]]>9586c6ea-4746-4f1d-9bdb-2a56fb2f97beSun, 15 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaApple's WWDC and Google I/O have both come and gone, and... well, we took a look at I/O and it was practically all AI this year, so we skipped that. But Apple's annual developer's conference was surprisingly light on AI features -- in fact, the...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4821ai,google,i/o,ipad,iphone,liquid glass,macos,siri,wwdc,x86false291fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/290-earn-your-nintendo-license--75728076https://patreon.com/techpod]]>9ad0cc34-72a4-4503-bb3b-5dfabc2d9956Sun, 08 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill got a chance to attend the Switch 2 launch event at Nintendo's brand new San Francisco store and then started feverishly digging into the fundamentals of the new hardware, so this week we had an impromptu discussion about his hands-on impressions...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4144gamecube emulation,haptics,hdr,link,mario kart world,nintendo,switch 2false290fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/289-computer-shangri-la--75728088https://patreon.com/techpod]]>a427c85b-eb78-42d5-aadd-e7f1537346daSun, 01 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill's here with a two-fer trip report this week, one of which was a literal trip to the grand opening of the brand new Bay Area Micro Center. We dig into what a big-box retailer oriented around building PCs is like in 2025, reflect a bit on the...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>37863d printer,amd,geforce,geforce now,intel,laptop,micro center,monitor,oled,pc,radeon,rtx,steam deckfalse289fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/288-high-quackuracy--75728083https://patreon.com/techpod]]>17d3c5b1-9a76-45ad-9d0e-c6c5981b37d5Sun, 25 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThat Q&A time is here again, and this month we field emails and Discord Qs about such things as the hopeful return of the webring, what to do with the hardware if your PC is compromised by a bad actor, Nvidia cards in Linux, using game consoles as...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5036courtroom,ducks,linux,malware,pirate radio station,ransomware,streaming,webringfalse288fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/287-never-click-show-more--75728086https://www.openstenoproject.org/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>f4ae66f5-0f15-46d2-820a-cdf6dff4468aSun, 18 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're reaching deep into the grab bag again this week, with a wide array of topics like the fascinating world of shorthand and stenography machines (plus an open source project to build your own, naturally), replacing your thermostat (there's open...https://www.openstenoproject.org/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4382ai,darth vader,gpu,iphone,jar-jar,microstutter,stenography,thermostat,wi-fifalse287fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/286-sheevquest-2025--75728137https://patreon.com/techpod]]>69f76dd6-3a74-4723-9dd9-759e5bdb558cSun, 11 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWith Brad spending most of his week in a courtroom for the rest of May, we may be doing some looser episodes here and there until we're back on our normal schedule again. This week, a grab bag of tech topics for your consideration, including Will's...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3347ai,appletv,a/v receiver,doom the dark age,games,google tv,micro-stutter,oscilloscopefalse286fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/285-more-free-space-than-free-time--75728092https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.htmlEverything, the universal search tool: https://www.voidtools.com/How to use Windows File History: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/backup-and-restore-with-file-history-7bf065bf-f1ea-0a78-c1cf-7dcf51cc8bfcMore info on Windows Libraries: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/client-tools/windows-librariesEaseUS' free Windows backup utility: https://www.easeus.com/backup-software/tb-free.html Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>67fda79c-6208-4dec-a5bc-aab28f7a627cSun, 04 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaBy listener request, we're talking about our personal file organization and storage layouts this week, with a focus on our desktop computers--including how we use our OS-level home folders, whether to interact with the root system drive or not, and...https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.htmlEverything, the universal search tool: https://www.voidtools.com/How to use Windows File History: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/backup-and-restore-with-file-history-7bf065bf-f1ea-0a78-c1cf-7dcf51cc8bfcMore info on Windows Libraries: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/client-tools/windows-librariesEaseUS' free Windows backup utility: https://www.easeus.com/backup-software/tb-free.html Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4984file history,flac,home folder,jellyfin,linux,macos,nas,plex,samba,shadow copies,ssd,time machine,windowsfalse285fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/284-shatner-s-sap-shack--75728064https://patreon.com/techpod]]>b1ad2ab3-6101-4f42-aada-01c2d000672dSun, 27 Apr 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWhere does Robocop's data spike rank on our big list of connectors? What do you do with an old cable modem or cable box? What's the fastest discontinued product in tech history (and is it the Microsoft Kin)? Where do ISPs get their Internet? Is it...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4476apple,blu-ray,cable modem,internet,iphone,isp,maple syrup,microsoft,robocopfalse284fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/283-nook-nuc-a-nuc-for-your-nook--75728122https://patreon.com/techpod]]>c1b14c65-0294-4b4b-9aee-ec4db9f9b339Sun, 20 Apr 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's been 16 frigid months since our last all-intro episode, but now we're pulling the ice tray out of the freezer and offering you another cube of cold opens, covering everything from surge protector safety to thermal paste application methods,...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4246cpu,lcd,monitor,notifications,oled,storage bins,surge protector,thermal paste,weird al,windows 95false283fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/282-you-can-t-contest-the-knob-feel--75728095https://crtdatabase.com/crts/toshiba/toshiba-14af42This is a great teardown and servicing video for the Toshiba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ij0i-xnvic Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>ee4a34d4-1edf-4881-9f6e-d944b084222cSun, 13 Apr 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe've both gotten our hands on CRT televisions recently--Will's one from his youth and Brad's a much more modern set--and we've spent a bunch of time tinkering with them, getting our MiSTers to play nicely with them, and generally enjoying some warm...https://crtdatabase.com/crts/toshiba/toshiba-14af42This is a great teardown and servicing video for the Toshiba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ij0i-xnvic Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4341analog,crt,mario,mister,nintendo,nintendo 64,retro,super nes,vga,video gamesfalse282fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/281-fully-ray-traced-metal-mario--75728108https://patreon.com/techpod]]>70c82bdb-ed13-47b9-addc-687db5fcbc23Sun, 06 Apr 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWith the wraps finally being taken off the Switch 2 this week, PC World's Adam Patrick Murray joins us for a handheld state of the union this week, with a closer look at some of the technical aspects of the new Nintendo handheld including the specs on...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4716amd,dlss,donkey kong bananza,gsync,mario kart world,nintendo,nvidia,steam deck,steamos,switch 2,xbox,xbox handheldfalse281fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/280-pay-to-reject-cookies-should-be-illegal--75728097https://mausimus.itch.io/shaderglassArticles on Apple's sealed/immutable system layout in recent MacOS versions:https://eclecticlight.co/2021/10/29/how-macos-is-more-reliable-and-doesnt-need-reinstalling/https://eclecticlight.co/2024/10/22/boot-volume-layout-and-structure-in-macos-sequoia/  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>e8881dd6-ebbe-4ddc-8f7b-032fafb1a853Sun, 30 Mar 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaLinks mentioned on this episode:ShaderGlass: https://mausimus.itch.io/shaderglassArticles on Apple's sealed/immutable system layout in recent MacOS...https://mausimus.itch.io/shaderglassArticles on Apple's sealed/immutable system layout in recent MacOS versions:https://eclecticlight.co/2021/10/29/how-macos-is-more-reliable-and-doesnt-need-reinstalling/https://eclecticlight.co/2024/10/22/boot-volume-layout-and-structure-in-macos-sequoia/  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4388dlss,frame gen,linux,macos,network switch,nuc,proton,stadia,tp-link,uplift,windowsfalse280fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/279-30-000-to-take-off-a-pair-of-glasses--75727958https://gdconf.com/alt-ctrl-gdcThe blog post referenced later in the episode: https://www.joewintergreen.com/if-you-want-shorter-games-with-worse-graphics-made-by-people-who-are-paid-more-to-work-less-graphics-tech-advancements-should-please-you/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>15c119da-b846-40ac-8fd7-58240daca81bSun, 23 Mar 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe Game Developers Conference has come and gone for another year, and this week we have a potpourri mostly focused on our experiences at the show, with a particular focus on some emerging dev tools like Nvidia's AI-driven text-to-animation system and...https://gdconf.com/alt-ctrl-gdcThe blog post referenced later in the episode: https://www.joewintergreen.com/if-you-want-shorter-games-with-worse-graphics-made-by-people-who-are-paid-more-to-work-less-graphics-tech-advancements-should-please-you/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4064ai,arduino,game development,gdc,maker,text-to-animation,video gamesfalse279fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/278-rare-platypus-1372--75728117https://patreon.com/techpod]]>0ec6857e-d0a5-4db0-a76d-f5e0858c3ac6Sun, 16 Mar 2025 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaEmail hasn't gotten any less complicated since the last time we covered it, but we have tried a few new options for wrangling our ever-increasing number of inboxes. This week we dig into some of our current strategies, with a focus on Will's time...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3883crt,email,fastmail,gemini,gmail,imap,office 365,outlook,proton mailfalse278fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/277-very-ultra--75728154https://patreon.com/techpod]]>0a2ebbbc-f297-4f09-a6d9-f3e3e490fcd8Sun, 09 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe PC hardware market has finally settled down with the release of AMD's new Radeon 9000 series and no more major CPU or GPU product launches later this year. So we assess the state of the PC union a bit this week, with a focus on the new AMD cards...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>47569070xt,9950x3d,amd,arrow lake,battlemage,intel,nvidia,panther lake,radeon,rtx 5090,wildcat lake,zen 5false277fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/276-the-greatest-treasure-of-the-sith--75728073https://patreon.com/techpod]]>ce46566c-8fec-494e-8a6c-58c95e76b889Sun, 02 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe've done it: we've brought on Rob Zacny -- host of (among many other things) A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast -- to dissect and attempt to make sense of the rules of technology in the Star Wars universe. Join us as we consider questions...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6705a more civilized age,anakin skywalker,aurabesh,blaster,death star,george lucas,hyperspace,lightsaber,lucasfilm,palpatine,star destroyer,star warsfalse276fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/275-the-bottomless-q-hole--75728016https://patreon.com/techpod]]>d5a0e443-670d-425f-b671-fd0e4dbf93d9Sun, 23 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe had quite a PC-heavy Q&A this month, with multiple questions about Windows 10 and 11 with the former's end-of-support date looming in October, as well as Qs about pronouncing country-code domains, the latest Nvidia 50-series...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4094amazon,e-books,gallium nitride,geforce rtx 5090,kindle,nvidia,power supplies,secure boot,tpm,windows 10,windows 11false275fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/274-a-little-bit-less-good--75728120https://next.content.town/Our previous episode on dark patterns: https://techpod.content.town/episodes/174-weaponized-smurfing Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>06a92577-3c6b-4fad-abd3-c61ad7db0af6Sun, 16 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill is trying on a new hat soon, with a newsletter about the ongoing enshittification of our collective computing experience, and some tips and tricks for... unshittifying it a bit. So this week we're digging into both the subject matter itself, and...https://next.content.town/Our previous episode on dark patterns: https://techpod.content.town/episodes/174-weaponized-smurfing Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3830asahi linux,beehiiv,cms,computing,dark patterns,email,enshittification,linux,mail server,memberful,newsletters,patreon,rust,substackfalse274fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/273-the-requisite-deepseek-episode--75728063https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/why-is-deekspeek-such-a-game-changer-scientists-explain-how-the-ai-models-work-and-why-they-were-so-cheap-to-buildhttps://hackaday.com/2025/02/03/more-details-on-why-deepseek-is-a-big-deal/https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/https://www.vellum.ai/blog/the-training-of-deepseek-r1-and-ways-to-use-it Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>e09052df-ed79-40af-92e9-3f41454f58e4Sun, 09 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's been a couple of weeks since the Chinese firm DeepSeek released its new R1 large-language model and sheared an enormous amount of value off of American AI companies. Now that the dust has settled, we don our AI-skeptic hats again and try to...https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/why-is-deekspeek-such-a-game-changer-scientists-explain-how-the-ai-models-work-and-why-they-were-so-cheap-to-buildhttps://hackaday.com/2025/02/03/more-details-on-why-deepseek-is-a-big-deal/https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/https://www.vellum.ai/blog/the-training-of-deepseek-r1-and-ways-to-use-it Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3666artificial intelligence,chatgpt,deepseek,machine learning,nvidia,ollama,openai,stock marketfalse273fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/272-mac-osx-snow-leopard-2--75728128https://forms.gle/VYgL9gLeSBKkNtfy9 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>05242808-c808-46b0-8024-6afefd9d4399Sun, 02 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaQuestions! The time to answer them is here again, and this month we do our best with such topics as the relative scarcity of nuclear energy, nested comment systems, USB thumb drives versus portable SSDs, browser RAM usage, why CPUs get faster from one...https://forms.gle/VYgL9gLeSBKkNtfy9 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5301analog clock,camera bump,geforce rtx 5090,iphone se 4,nuclear power,reddit,ssd,usbfalse272fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/271-big-honkin-die--75728104https://forms.gle/VYgL9gLeSBKkNtfy9  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>395a492b-3eb7-4d4a-aca4-4cced75c1d75Sun, 26 Jan 2025 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill's gotten his hands on Nvidia's fancy new RTX 5090 in advance of its release at the end of the month, and he's spent the last several days feverishly benchmarking it and testing its new features, so this week we dive into the raw performance...https://forms.gle/VYgL9gLeSBKkNtfy9  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>46955090,50 series,blackwell,dlss 4,machine learning,mega geometry,neural net,nvidia,ray tracing,rtxfalse271fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/270-cat-o-five-tails--75728114https://amiaopensource.github.io/cable-bible/Recompute's port roundup: https://recompute.co.zw/buying-guides/a-complete-guide-of-every-type-of-computer-port/The current cable tier list: https://tinyurl.com/techpod-cable-rankingsSubmit ideas about secret information encoding in the world around us for an upcoming episode:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I_oc-N4n3j0QgLStoaXcqaMDgceyYYI1aimcn2udF1s/edit?gid=265742791#gid=265742791 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>577ffd45-6288-4998-95b9-a5e7ee69c866Sun, 19 Jan 2025 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe work of ages continues as we return (for the last time this month) to our tier list of every-ish cable and connector ever made. Such heavy hitters as DisplayPort, SATA, and USBs both mini- and micro- enter the fray this week, with digressions...https://amiaopensource.github.io/cable-bible/Recompute's port roundup: https://recompute.co.zw/buying-guides/a-complete-guide-of-every-type-of-computer-port/The current cable tier list: https://tinyurl.com/techpod-cable-rankingsSubmit ideas about secret information encoding in the world around us for an upcoming episode:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I_oc-N4n3j0QgLStoaXcqaMDgceyYYI1aimcn2udF1s/edit?gid=265742791#gid=265742791 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3993cable,dvi,ethernet,hard drive,hdmi,port,sata,s-video,tech,usbfalse270fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/269-comically-tall-laptops--75728161https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I_oc-N4n3j0QgLStoaXcqaMDgceyYYI1aimcn2udF1s/edit?gid=265742791#gid=265742791 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6812079d-e894-4d8b-a800-d92d7a08a53dSun, 12 Jan 2025 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's the Consumer Electronics Show once again, and there's a lot to talk about this year, so we chat this week about all the most interesting topics out of the show, including the Nvidia 50 series and its reliance on DLSS 4, new mobile chips from...https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I_oc-N4n3j0QgLStoaXcqaMDgceyYYI1aimcn2udF1s/edit?gid=265742791#gid=265742791 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>48245090,9950x3d,amd,blackwell,ces,displayport,geforce,hdmi,intel,nvidia,panther lake,project digits,rtx,ryzen z2,steam deck,steamos,switch 2false269fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/268-we-re-pro-thunk-around-here--75728074https://www.gofundme.com/f/join-us-in-supporting-dara-glenn-and-marianneThe Cable Bible: https://amiaopensource.github.io/cable-bible/Recompute's port roundup: https://recompute.co.zw/buying-guides/a-complete-guide-of-every-type-of-computer-port/The current cable tier list: https://tinyurl.com/techpod-cable-rankings Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>8551490f-99cc-458d-aa4d-904730e8dc97Sun, 05 Jan 2025 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe note the tragic passing this week of our good friend and tech reporting legend Gordon Mah Ung, with a short tribute and a bit of reminiscing about Gordon's illustrious career and the impact he made on everyone he came into contact with. Then we...https://www.gofundme.com/f/join-us-in-supporting-dara-glenn-and-marianneThe Cable Bible: https://amiaopensource.github.io/cable-bible/Recompute's port roundup: https://recompute.co.zw/buying-guides/a-complete-guide-of-every-type-of-computer-port/The current cable tier list: https://tinyurl.com/techpod-cable-rankings Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4116apple,cables,displayport,hdmi,lightning,scart,tier list,usb,usb-cfalse268fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/267-cold-boot-fresh-browser--75728091https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5c18cd4d-00b3-425e-ac74-3e448cc6611bSun, 29 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's our last pod of 2024, and thus, another batch of year-ending questions meets our entirely professional and learned answers. This month we talk about improving your Bluetooth quality in Windows, our personal mouse grip, tech-related anime we've...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5046black friday,bluetooth,elf on the shelf,intel,mouse,npu,programming,web browser,windowsfalse267fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/266-connector-mouthfeel--75728142https://amiaopensource.github.io/cable-bible/Recompute's port roundup: https://recompute.co.zw/buying-guides/a-complete-guide-of-every-type-of-computer-port/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>e95e1380-5644-4811-8351-9304b428b122Sun, 22 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaAs the end of the year is here again, we're finally doing it: we're ranking every plug and connector in existence, or at least all the ones we can think of. Join us as we evaluate the relative merits in multiple categories -- like ease of use,...https://amiaopensource.github.io/cable-bible/Recompute's port roundup: https://recompute.co.zw/buying-guides/a-complete-guide-of-every-type-of-computer-port/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4132apple,audio recording,hdmi,iphone,ipod,lightning,sega genesis,usb,vga,video games,xlrfalse266fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/265-shuck-em-if-you-got-em--75728101https://wired.me/technology/the-tech-behind-taylor-swift-concert-wristbands/Audience bracelet fun: https://x.com/swifferupdates/status/1644415217445609508ShuckStop: https://shucks.top/Easy shucking with guitar picks: https://forums.truenas.com/t/easystore-drive-shucking-like-a-pro-by-a-pro/1498 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>855f2c8a-43bc-41f7-aedf-95d66efb587eSun, 15 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill and family just got back from the final show of Taylor Swift's Eras tour, so this week we dig into some of the technical aspects of a modern arena mega-concert, from turning the audience into a human light show to innovations in ticket-sharing QR...https://wired.me/technology/the-tech-behind-taylor-swift-concert-wristbands/Audience bracelet fun: https://x.com/swifferupdates/status/1644415217445609508ShuckStop: https://shucks.top/Easy shucking with guitar picks: https://forums.truenas.com/t/easystore-drive-shucking-like-a-pro-by-a-pro/1498 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3804eras tour,hard drive,nas,seagate,shucking,taylor swift,ticketmaster,vancouver,western digitalfalse265fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/264-will-s-congressman-s-enormous-wang--75728116https://www.pcworld.com/article/2376881/how-to-get-wordpad-back-windows-11-24h2.htmlThe Microsoft Fandom wiki: https://microsoft.fandom.com/wiki/Windows_95 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>f97312f1-0149-4fd2-b6f3-024d9436a7c8Sun, 08 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaTwo momentous events have recently rocked the computing world: First, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger abruptly stepped down this week, less than four years after taking the company's helm, and before completing the ongoing transition to its next-generation...https://www.pcworld.com/article/2376881/how-to-get-wordpad-back-windows-11-24h2.htmlThe Microsoft Fandom wiki: https://microsoft.fandom.com/wiki/Windows_95 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>385418a,amd,apple,arm,cpu,fabrication,intel,lisa su,nvidia,pat gelsinger,tsmc,windows,wordpad,word processor,x86false264fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/263-the-smith-chart-is-s-tier--75728078https://patreon.com/techpod]]>0c08d47a-d921-4347-b9eb-7975a5313894Sun, 01 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe monthly Q&A commenceth again, with emails and Discord Qs positively pouring in about the origin of the flange effect, why all the electrical outlets are upside down, gaming on an M4 Mac Mini and how Apple's move to a 16GB minimum affects their...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4738aliexpress,amazon,amd,apple,board games,geforce 5090,m4,mac mini,macos,nvidia,taylor swift,vancouver,windowsfalse263fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/262-mrs-collier-was-a-real-one--75728093https://patreon.com/techpod]]>261df9f3-2dc9-48e8-918b-107071499f9bSun, 24 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaAmerican Thanksgiving draws near, so it's time again for our annual recitation of techie stuff that we're thankful for. From tangible products on your desk, around the house, and on the road, to more abstract things like moderating your social media...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5263airpods,amazon,bluesky,electric vehicle,ev,glasses,ioniq,notion,raspberry pi,spatchcock,ssd,steam deck,stream deck,thanksgiving,turkey,twitter,x86false262fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/261-a-big-black-slab-of-shame--75728148https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4b222796-395d-4e9f-b7c7-fa73d158d342Sun, 17 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're back again with that floral favorite, the potpourri episode. This time it's a project potpourri, touching on some tech-related projects we've either tackled recently or are planning to get to soon. Learn the full story of how Will more or less...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4481black friday,cloud,docker,eeprom,home assistant,linux,nas,obs,smart plug,tp-link kasa,ultrawide,virtual private server,vps,windows 11false261fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/260-cpus-have-been-juicing-for-too-long--75728193https://patreon.com/techpod]]>bbf0fe4b-9f26-46fa-b050-7ee5800f27c0Sun, 10 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's been a wild few months in CPUs, with next-generation releases from both AMD and Intel in their respective Zen 5 and Arrow Lake categories. Now that most all the big parts are out, we break down what's what, including why everyone is finally going...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>52789800x3d,am5,amd,arrow lake,chiplet,chipset,cpu,disaggregated architecture,intel,motherboard,ryzen,tile,x3d,x870e,z890false260fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/259-hey-google-it-s-time-for-bed--75728050https://patreon.com/techpod]]>176cb3e5-7f42-41ce-a4a4-f911abcaca89Sun, 03 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're here at the end of the spookiest month and ready to field your questions once again, this time addressing subjects such as alternative file managers, how often (and why) to replace your surge protectors, why some electrical plugs have that...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4780false259fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/258-some-real-macgyver--75728123http://cellmapper.net/https://atlas.eia.gov/apps/all-energy-infrastructure-and-resources/explorehttps://organicmaps.app/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>ef9e265a-94cc-49c3-8492-6c73da5452acSun, 27 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaBrad's back from Western North Carolina, so it's time for a casual debriefing on being out there for two and a half weeks dealing with the Hurricane Helene aftermath, with a focus on all sorts of technical subjects like portable lighting strategies,...http://cellmapper.net/https://atlas.eia.gov/apps/all-energy-infrastructure-and-resources/explorehttps://organicmaps.app/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5432battery pack,cell phone,drinking water,electrical,flooding,generator,hurricane helene,internet explorer,mold remediation,portable lights,usb,usenet,windows 95false258fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/257-fire-copilot-down-the-cortana-hole--75728005https://patreon.com/techpod]]>8aed8a3d-0a89-42cc-90c6-187aa4c2be5bSun, 20 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWes Fenlon stops by this week to help Will run down all the new features and changes in the 24H2 update to Windows 11, from better quick settings to Wi-Fi 7 support and the long-awaited (or perhaps dreaded) addition of Microsoft's Copilot AI features....https://patreon.com/techpod]]>614924h2,ai,control panel,copilot,maker faire,wi-fi 7,windows 11false257fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/256-gotta-get-that-smooth-40--75728115

Bazzite

Retro Game Corps

The Phawx

  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>b6debabf-c031-435c-b9af-1e95653d5f05Sun, 13 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaAdam Patrick Murray, PC World's handheld PC gaming expert, drops by to talk about the current state of the handheld union. We discuss what's going on with hardware for the Valve Steam Deck, the ASUS Rog Ally X, and a whole lot more, plus dig deep into...

Bazzite

Retro Game Corps

The Phawx

  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3634false256fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/255-don-t-ask-the-ai-for-a-recipe--75728099https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3e77ea02-3e4b-4143-932a-f9efa9ed5d5dSun, 06 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaNorman Chan has seen the future of eyewear and it is... well, not something you can buy, or even try. But he's donned Meta's Orion AR glasses and has seen (and touched) the augmented reality future. We also talk about the Harvard students who turned...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4640apple vision pro,ar,augmented reality,avp,meta,oculus,oculus quest,orion,vrfalse255fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/254-how-to-hide-your-sardine-bricks--75728084https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4dab059e-ad59-4d87-8323-18b89d1e9e7fSun, 29 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaQuestions! You ask 'em, we answer 'em. This month, we field Qs about such subjects as migrating search engines to Kagi (or at least just away from Google), wi-fi etiquette as the in-home sysadmin, novel uses for power over Ethernet, where the speed...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3906biometrics,faceid,google,kagi,passkeys,playstation 5 pro,power over ethernet,ryzen,search engine,tech,touchid,wi-fifalse254fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/253-my-three-dacs--75728103https://patreon.com/techpod]]>aef69709-19ee-4a67-bda7-cd62e5e8e96dSun, 22 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill's out this week, so Nextlander's Vinny Caravella stops by for a freewheeling gab session about what he's been up to in tech lately, including the professional and personal roles for the eight (!) computers that live in his house, adventures in...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6056internet of things,javascript,nas,port forwarding,proxmox,python,reverse proxy,router,truenas,vlanfalse253fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/252-frames-win-games--75728102https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>bc90e7ef-1aa4-4a12-b262-110b42675188Sun, 15 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt was a really big week for hardware announcements, with Sony finally filling in the details on the PlayStation 5 Pro, and Apple announcing new phones, watches, headphones and more. We dive into both subjects, including the PS5 Pro's promising AI...https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5371airpods,amd,apple,apple watch,dlss,gpu,iphone,iphone 16,microsoft,nvidia,playstation 5 pro,sony,video games,xbox series xfalse252fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/251-that-6ghz-really-tied-the-spectrum-together--75728105https://dongknows.com/wi-fi-7-explained/Our original Wi-Fi 6 episode (which was episode 9!): https://techpod.content.town/episodes/9-orthogonal-frequency-division-multiple-access-Sb_AgiQeOur more recent networking primer from early this year: https://techpod.content.town/episodes/227-a-donut-of-good-internet-UAno2S2L Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>c0654de5-73db-45e3-92f0-f35caa16ea47Sun, 08 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe world is steadily moving on to Wi-Fi 7 (or 802.11be, if you like), so we figured it's about time we sit down and attempt to understand what separates this latest standard from all the wireless fidelity that came before. Where in the world did they...https://dongknows.com/wi-fi-7-explained/Our original Wi-Fi 6 episode (which was episode 9!): https://techpod.content.town/episodes/9-orthogonal-frequency-division-multiple-access-Sb_AgiQeOur more recent networking primer from early this year: https://techpod.content.town/episodes/227-a-donut-of-good-internet-UAno2S2L Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>37915ghz,6ghz,access point,ethernet,home network,ipv6,lan,router,wi-fi,wi-fi 7false251fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/250-the-arbiters-of-authentication--75728151https://patreon.com/techpod]]>04826d04-1d12-47f6-a142-bc2a112fdcaaSun, 01 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we put our security expert* hats back on to talk about the latest hotness in login technology, passkeys. Find out how passkeys work, how they enable you to login without a password, which major platforms are supporting them, and where and...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3866authenticator,authy,data breach,login,one-time password,passkey,password,security,totpfalse250fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/249-good-enough-is-good-enough--75728165https://patreon.com/techpod]]>0293d292-3868-4bcf-aef9-fc8a7c1803b3Sun, 25 Aug 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe Qs that we attempt to A in this month's question-fest include: What are some less obvious benefits of portable apps? How trustworthy is a package manager? Is a Windows Pro license really worth it? What's your microwave technique for even,...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4522apple,e-waste,macbook,magsafe,microwave,package manager,portable apps,windowsfalse249fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/248-peace-love-and-old-computers--75728121https://tinyurl.com/techpod-248-vcf-westOur photos and videos from the festival: https://photos.app.goo.gl/KW4WX6tYLyjyamYXAYou should really see the home page for the VCF Midwest in Chicago: https://vcfmw.org/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>e95dc3fc-bffb-4851-b4e7-5665c44713bbSun, 18 Aug 2024 17:37:27 +0000Welly CnovaOur good friend Steve Lin joins us to run down the trip he and Brad recently took to the Vintage Computer Festival: West Coast Edition, hosted in Mountain View, CA's wonderful Computer History Museum. Did you ever wonder about the strange arrow-key...https://tinyurl.com/techpod-248-vcf-westOur photos and videos from the festival: https://photos.app.goo.gl/KW4WX6tYLyjyamYXAYou should really see the home page for the VCF Midwest in Chicago: https://vcfmw.org/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5495apple,bill gates,cray,crt,intel,macintosh,mos 6502,prodigy,sgi,solaris,sparcstation,steve jobsfalse248fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/247-what-s-in-your-tray--75728186https://www.voidtools.com/mpv: https://mpv.io/MusicBee: https://www.getmusicbee.com/EarTrumpet: https://eartrumpet.app/SumatraPDF: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/WinMerge: https://winmerge.org/WizTree: https://diskanalyzer.com/LosslessCut: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cutAuto Dark Mode: https://github.com/AutoDarkMode/Windows-Auto-Night-ModeWinDynamicDesktop: https://github.com/t1m0thyj/WinDynamicDesktop Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4cfd98f1-a50e-4df1-9c4a-935f0601907cSun, 11 Aug 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe got a listener request to talk about our ride-or-die software, the apps we just can't live without, and we thought a good way to focus that subject was to step through everything we've got on our taskbar, running in the system tray, and pinned to...https://www.voidtools.com/mpv: https://mpv.io/MusicBee: https://www.getmusicbee.com/EarTrumpet: https://eartrumpet.app/SumatraPDF: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/WinMerge: https://winmerge.org/WizTree: https://diskanalyzer.com/LosslessCut: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cutAuto Dark Mode: https://github.com/AutoDarkMode/Windows-Auto-Night-ModeWinDynamicDesktop: https://github.com/t1m0thyj/WinDynamicDesktop Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5084apps,chrome,firefox,photoshop,start menu,steam,taskbar,windows 11false247fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/246-the-guy-in-chicago-problem--75728126https://www.activision.com/cdn/research/CallofDuty_Matchmaking_Series_2.pdf Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>c90ab110-0d17-4a49-90a1-d03c550e89d7Sun, 04 Aug 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaMatchmaking: it's hard. Wait, not the online dating kind (well, maybe that too) but the kind where you have to match a bunch of different players with different hardware and different geographic locations together over high-speed Internet and let them...https://www.activision.com/cdn/research/CallofDuty_Matchmaking_Series_2.pdf Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4970activision,battle royale,call of duty,dota 2,fortnite,ladder,league of legends,matchmaking,mobas,online multiplayer,pubg,ranking,starcraft,valorantfalse246fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/245-rgb-has-gone-too-far--75728057https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZSFRWJCUY4 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>eedcfe90-c4fa-4bff-8c91-4d0d387fdc3cSun, 28 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaQ&A time! The last episode of July sees us discussing topics such as turning a childhood computer into a VM, mandatory open source software in government institutions, the strange and continuing ubiquity of 3.5" card readers, building your own...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZSFRWJCUY4 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4060air travel,card reader,doom,open source,television,virtual machinefalse245fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/244-otaku-christmas--75728139https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration36Dec1997/mode/2up Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>9fcf3bde-3541-4e32-8b70-4e67ce96b4dfSun, 21 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're putting the time machine back into service again this week with another magazine review, this time of Next Generation issue 36 from December 1997. Notably, this was the issue when the venerable thinking-person's game magazine first declared the...https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration36Dec1997/mode/2up Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5424dreamcast,gran turismo,indie games,jedi knight,nintendo 64,playstation,sega saturn,video gamesfalse244fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/243-f-ing-boeing-holy-s--75728125https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/starliner-still-doesnt-have-a-return-date-as-nasa-tests-overheating-thrusters/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/10/openai-board-microsoft-apple-withdraw/https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/gs-research/gen-ai-too-much-spend-too-little-benefit/report.pdf Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>19be884e-e617-4a99-9f11-06718253021cSun, 14 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we discuss a three-fer of mini-topics from current events. First we take a look at Boeing's troubled Starliner test flight that's left a pair of astronauts stranded on the International Space Station. Next up, Goldman Sachs has issued a...https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/starliner-still-doesnt-have-a-return-date-as-nasa-tests-overheating-thrusters/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/10/openai-board-microsoft-apple-withdraw/https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/gs-research/gen-ai-too-much-spend-too-little-benefit/report.pdf Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4122ai,artificial intelligence,boeing,iss,machine learning,spacex,starliner,tpm 2.0,windows 10,windows 11false243fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/242-skittles-exterior-m-ms-interior--75728110https://patreon.com/techpod]]>048f8cdf-e183-4dbf-bcb8-7c48f4f4f56fSun, 07 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're back with another hot month's worth of your questions to answer, this time addressing such wide-ranging subjects as easy ways to defeat Blu-ray region locks, tech tips for your fantasy new-home build, the sweet spot for solar panels paying for...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>436610 gigabit,blu-ray,discord,forums,google,howard stern,search,solar panels,streaming,subscriptionsfalse242fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/241-the-computruth-about-computex--75728198What Hardware Should You Use for UE5 Development?
PC World's YouTube Channel
The Full Nerd Podcast
How MSI Laptops are Designed Video
MSI's GPUs Through History Video Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>32f98eef-ed18-4371-a1fa-a32c4d81d7b3Sun, 30 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis week, Friend of the Show Adam Patrick Murray from PC World joins Will to share the ground truth about Computex. Freshly returned from Taipei, Adam is a Computex veteran, and told us what it's like to attend and cover the most important PC...What Hardware Should You Use for UE5 Development?
PC World's YouTube Channel
The Full Nerd Podcast
How MSI Laptops are Designed Video
MSI's GPUs Through History Video Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4080amd,ces,computers,computex,e3,intel,motherboard,nvidia,pc cases,personal computerfalse241fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/240-the-mouse-that-changed-everything--75728132https://techpod.content.town/episodes/183-hiroprotagonist-loves-an-inhale-a0zOAKKo Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>92253ab3-f5e4-40bb-aa8f-6f25db28ce0fSun, 23 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're taking another close look at a product that broke out and redefined its entire category, this time the venerable IntelliMouse Explorer. These days it's hard to remember that it was Microsoft who banished the infernal ball and introduced the...https://techpod.content.town/episodes/183-hiroprotagonist-loves-an-inhale-a0zOAKKo Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3240intellimouse,laser mouse,logitech,microsoft,mouse,optical sensor,pc gaming,razerfalse240fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/239-calculator-on-an-ipad--75728127https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>9f056446-b820-40d4-a695-dee62c913c6dSun, 16 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaApple's Worldwide Developer's Conference has come and gone again, and frankly there were enough interesting additions to the company's various OSs that we figured an episode was warranted even before we got to "Apple Intelligence." We do our best in...https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6409apple,apple intelligence,appletv,ios,ipad,ipados,iphone,macos,siri,tvos,vision pro,wwdcfalse239fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/238-the-dread-of-sitting-in-the-cone-zone--75728129https://tinyurl.com/techpod-238-ioniq-5Here's our episode on the Chevy Bolt and the basics of EVs: https://techpod.content.town/episodes/88-it-just-makes-the-lithium-angrier Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>bd153190-5fb2-4260-aa3b-2d0f65f8957aSun, 09 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill just traded in the ol' Chevy Bolt for a 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5, so it's time to run down all the pros and cons of this newer and more robust electric vehicle, and also check in on everything that's changed in the world of EVs in the three (!!)...https://tinyurl.com/techpod-238-ioniq-5Here's our episode on the Chevy Bolt and the basics of EVs: https://techpod.content.town/episodes/88-it-just-makes-the-lithium-angrier Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6207battery,charger network,electric vehicles,e-shift,ev,hyundai,internal combustion,ioniq 5,teslafalse238fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/237-should-we-really-be-teaching-machines-to-lie--75728166https://tinyurl.com/techpod-237-copilot-plus-ai Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>da39bead-0868-4188-a8b2-e0c1ac429a49Sun, 02 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaMicrosoft has announced some... controversial new AI-driven features coming to Windows 11, so we thought it was time to dissect the Copilot+ PC spec and particularly its Recall functionality, especially in light of the new Qualcomm ARM chips that are...https://tinyurl.com/techpod-237-copilot-plus-ai Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4448ai,apple,arm,copilot,microsoft,npu,qualcomm,recall,snapdragon x elite,windowsfalse237fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/236-not-an-egg-not-yet-a-chicken--75728184https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4cd5383b-c6b3-496e-98b5-278c80e6b158Sun, 26 May 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's another Q&A episode, and this month we get into a wide range of topics including our haul from the electronics flea market, our growing appreciation for SCART, Micro Center's rapidly expanding operations, the open-source automotive...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4443comma.ai,flea market,game patches,layoffs,micro center,openpilot,printers,scart,steam,windows 95,windows ntfalse236fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/235-the-diabolical-nature-of-ear-bones--75728170https://github.com/HoloISO/releasesBazzite: https://bazzite.gg/Wabbajack: https://www.wabbajack.org/Viva New Vegas: https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/Tale of Two Wastelands: https://taleoftwowastelands.com/Rounds: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1557740/ROUNDS/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>513ac991-d450-48d7-b189-eae8738e243eSun, 19 May 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe've got another two-fer of mini-topics this week around projects we've been tinkering with lately. First, Will has been investigating ways to get the SteamOS experience on hardware that's not a SteamDeck, with both the full-on SteamOS rebuild...https://github.com/HoloISO/releasesBazzite: https://bazzite.gg/Wabbajack: https://www.wabbajack.org/Viva New Vegas: https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/Tale of Two Wastelands: https://taleoftwowastelands.com/Rounds: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1557740/ROUNDS/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3969bazzite,fallout,holoiso,linux,lutris,mod.io,new vegas,overwolf,proton,roblox,steamdeck,steamos,wabbajackfalse235fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/234-one-step-closer-to-bringing-back-webrings--75728188https://tinyurl.com/techpod-234-self-hosted-rssCheck out Wes' newsletter on emulation and retro games: https://www.readonlymemo.com/Episode art courtesy of Sandwich Tribunal: https://www.sandwichtribunal.com/2024/02/south-australias-fritz-and-sauce/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>f89261fb-6ede-497d-b247-b838556d7d41Sun, 12 May 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaHey, remember RSS? Friend of the show Wes Fenlon joins us for a record fourth (!!) time to reminisce about the glory days of really simple syndication, when you could just aggregate all your favorite news and blogs into one tidy feed. This episode is...https://tinyurl.com/techpod-234-self-hosted-rssCheck out Wes' newsletter on emulation and retro games: https://www.readonlymemo.com/Episode art courtesy of Sandwich Tribunal: https://www.sandwichtribunal.com/2024/02/south-australias-fritz-and-sauce/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4713blog,docker,freshrss,indie web,linux,nas,news,rss,self-hosted,server,truenas,unraidfalse234fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/233-my-wife-is-a-laserdisc-guy--75728130https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RSrzM7dM-YShow notes for this ep, with links to a lot of the videos and images discussed: https://tinyurl.com/techpod-233-analog-home-video Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>9d341b77-55af-4024-b8f2-d33150034dc2Sun, 05 May 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're embarking on a two-part rundown of home video formats this week, with part one focusing on analog video up through the mid-1990s and covering biggies like VHS and LaserDisc, plus also-rans like Betamax, Video8, and the truly strange CED. Tune in...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RSrzM7dM-YShow notes for this ep, with links to a lot of the videos and images discussed: https://tinyurl.com/techpod-233-analog-home-video Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5664analog video,betamax,ced,dvd,home video,laserdisc,movies,vhsfalse233fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/232-secret-search-engine--75728111https://patreon.com/techpod]]>161b36b7-6806-4619-aeeb-39029ecfb33fSun, 28 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaApril concludes with another round of questions, during which we entertain the idea of inviting Q to assist us with Qs, Will teases a historic search engine switch, and we field a wide array of topics including breakaway USB-C cables, how to wade...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4228ai,algorithm,browser,chrome,firefox,google,search engine,seo,steam,usb-cfalse232fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/231-what-on-earth-would-ordinary-people-want-with-computers--75728118https://archive.org/details/piratesofsiliconvalley_201908Read Fire in the Valley, the book the movie is based on: https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Valley-Birth-Personal-Computer-dp-1937785769/dp/1937785769/Check out Folklore.org's sprawling history of the Macintosh's development that Brad mentioned (linked here to a story about who actually created the Mac project): https://folklore.org/The_Father_of_The_Macintosh.html Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>2f5fe468-dcd9-478f-ac73-8bbb1b52e8d9Sun, 21 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe time has come for our deep dive into Pirates of Silicon Valley, the 1999 made-for-TNT movie that chronicles the parallel rises of Apple and Microsoft. Join us for a bunch of chatter about the historic business deals and betrayals, the portrayals...https://archive.org/details/piratesofsiliconvalley_201908Read Fire in the Valley, the book the movie is based on: https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Valley-Birth-Personal-Computer-dp-1937785769/dp/1937785769/Check out Folklore.org's sprawling history of the Macintosh's development that Brad mentioned (linked here to a story about who actually created the Mac project): https://folklore.org/The_Father_of_The_Macintosh.html Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5148apple,apple ii,bill gates,macintosh,macos,microsoft,ms-dos,paul allen,steve ballmer,steve jobs,steve wozniak,windowsfalse231fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/230-maybe-gentoo-was-right-all-along--75728173https://tinyurl.com/techpod-230-xz-backdoorGo watch Pirates of Silicon Valley for an upcoming episode where we'll discuss it: https://archive.org/details/piratesofsiliconvalley_201908 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3bf1a1a7-79fa-4682-a31e-5b3a048759efSun, 14 Apr 2024 19:39:56 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we attempt to unpack the recent, historic security breach in the open source world, after the discovery of a secret backdoor that was inserted by a malicious actor into the the xz-utils package, with a focus on which specific Linux distros...https://tinyurl.com/techpod-230-xz-backdoorGo watch Pirates of Silicon Valley for an upcoming episode where we'll discuss it: https://archive.org/details/piratesofsiliconvalley_201908 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3718backdoor,cisa,infosec,jia tan,lasse collin,linux,macos,open source,xz,xz-utilsfalse230fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/229-imax-the-tiktok-of-film-projection--75728164https://archive.org/details/piratesofsiliconvalley_201908 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>b41fd721-1fde-491d-8721-8a4fbbde6a2bSun, 07 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're doing a follow-up Q&A this week while we sort out some scheduling hurdles on the backend, and taking a bunch more of your questions from the last six months about ideal pixel density on monitors, what the heck Salesforce does, a portable...https://archive.org/details/piratesofsiliconvalley_201908 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4461air tag,amd,chrome,cory doctorow,enshittification,firefox,google,incognito mode,intel,ipad,ryzenfalse229fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/228-never-forward-a-port-to-your-brain--75728135https://archive.org/details/piratesofsiliconvalley_201908The SGI Onyx $250,000 supercomputer video Brad mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3lUw9GUJAAnd in case you're curious, the two Ethernet termination standards we talked about.  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>c3b461e5-24ee-4f4e-9b24-75887dd2a6eaSun, 31 Mar 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaMarch's Q&A features a wide array of questions that inspired discussions about such wide-ranging topics as our love of screensavers, a world without Gmail, Will's strong opinions on Ethernet termination standards, wearing shoes inside the house...https://archive.org/details/piratesofsiliconvalley_201908The SGI Onyx $250,000 supercomputer video Brad mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3lUw9GUJAAnd in case you're curious, the two Ethernet termination standards we talked about.  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4613apple,ethernet,gmail,google,iphone,microphone,microsoft,networking,podcast,screensavers,windows,windows 95false228fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/227-a-donut-of-good-internet--75728131https://patreon.com/techpod]]>17386752-a3f1-4bcc-8104-3de9e0c24ae2Sun, 24 Mar 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaInspired by what's probably the most common subject we see questions about on our Discord, this week we're doing an updated primer on home networking, with a refresher on some basic terms and concepts and our thoughts on a wide array of topics from...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4139access point,eero,ethernet,fiber,firewall,mesh network,orbi,pfsense,router,tp-link archer,wi-fifalse227fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/226-shooter-exe--75728136https://www.theverge.com/23997548/matter-smart-home-2023-platformsArs Technica on the continued value of Zigbee and Z-Wave: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/i-was-wrong-to-ignore-zigbee-and-z-wave-theyre-the-best-part-of-my-smart-home/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6c70d4f8-de5c-4df7-89b9-8e8c1042aa56Sun, 17 Mar 2024 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe've got a two-fer this week, with a pair of topics that might not have filled a whole ep on their own but turn out to be two great podcast tastes that, uh, taste great together... anyway, first we talk about the benchmark Will is currently creating...https://www.theverge.com/23997548/matter-smart-home-2023-platformsArs Technica on the continued value of Zigbee and Z-Wave: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/i-was-wrong-to-ignore-zigbee-and-z-wave-theyre-the-best-part-of-my-smart-home/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3991alexa,amd,apple home,benchmark,cpu,google home,gpu,intel,matter,nvidia,ryzen,smart home,thread,threadripper,unreal engine,wyze,zigbee,z-wavefalse226fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/225-the-goldblum-conjecture--75728133https://tinyurl.com/techpod-225-famous-tech-demosOur Xbox 360 deep dive episode: https://techpod.content.town/episodes/183-hiroprotagonist-loves-an-inhale  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>911d0804-f685-4bb0-92e9-220cf9b1cfc5Sun, 10 Mar 2024 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWhat makes a great tech demo? Besides killer tech, do you need theatricality? Stage presence? The risk of everything exploding at the seams at any moment? This week we look back on a ton of notable tech demos big and small, from the largest Apple and...https://tinyurl.com/techpod-225-famous-tech-demosOur Xbox 360 deep dive episode: https://techpod.content.town/episodes/183-hiroprotagonist-loves-an-inhale  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4326apple,doom,geforce,iphone,microsoft,mother of all demos,nintendo,nvidia,playstation,xboxfalse225fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/224-heavy-metal-twenty-something-swagger--75728144https://www.amazon.com/Doom-Guy-Life-First-Person/dp/141975811XRomero's fan mail to Jordan Mechner: https://twitter.com/jmechner/status/1253777950299873283 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>bf4116cc-0328-4111-9a70-4c1ea1c2712fSun, 03 Mar 2024 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaBook club returns this week, now that we've both read id Software founder John Romero's memoir, Doom Guy: Life in First Person. Join us for an extremely nerdy chat about Romero's early days as a teenage Apple II developer learning 6502 assembly, the...https://www.amazon.com/Doom-Guy-Life-First-Person/dp/141975811XRomero's fan mail to Jordan Mechner: https://twitter.com/jmechner/status/1253777950299873283 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4972apple ii,assembly language,doom,game development,game engine,id software,john carmack,john romero,programming,quakefalse224fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/223-our-favorite-corporate-besties--75728189https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>bf9dffcc-5266-4555-a793-88c6d37eab31Sun, 25 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis month's Q&A features another bumper crop of great topics, including installing in-wall speakers and hidden audio systems, the final word on the origins of WASD, doing A/V production on Linux (really), the relative value of the Raspberry Pi in...https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3794am5,amd,audio,intel,ip camera,linux,raspberry pi,ryzen,sheep,video,wasd,wi-fifalse223fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/222-war-of-the-chatbots--75728145http://tinyurl.com/techpod-222-news-roundup Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>d7722aa7-c645-4c77-aeb7-fa2d4382914cSun, 18 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaNews has been happening (when hasn't it?) and this week we're rounding up some of the stories that caught our attention in recent days. First, the launch of OpenAI's generative-video product Sora, as we consider what this thing is actually going to be...http://tinyurl.com/techpod-222-news-roundup Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4532ai,apple,chatgpt,dice,digital markets act,embracer,european union,google,microsoft,openai,sora aifalse222fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/221-cluck-to-home-screen--75728167https://www.youtube.com/@tested Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>a3c785c6-d2df-41a3-b85d-1cef2975f6ceSun, 11 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're pleased to welcome Tested's Norman Chan back to the show, fresh off of his first week with the Apple Vision Pro and ready to fill us in on everything from the fitting process at the store to UI shortcuts with your mouth, connecting to an...https://www.youtube.com/@tested Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5861apple,apple vision pro,app store,meta quest,oculus,virtual reality,vision pro,vrfalse221fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/220-hit-that-optimize-button--75728140https://tinyurl.com/techpod-220-gfx-settings Support the Pod! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4172amd,cyberpunk,dlss,fsr3,geforce,gpu,graphics,intel,nvidia,path tracing,radeon,ray tracing,xessfalse220fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/219-the-mark-of-expertise--75728199https://patreon.com/techpod]]>9d743038-17a7-4323-af04-412d6133c310Sun, 28 Jan 2024 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe begin this month's Q&A with a slightly mind-bending discussion of questions that exist in a quantum state, before falling back to more grounded topics like charging your EV out your apartment window, real-life keyboard shortcuts, why we all...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4423electric vehicle,ev,keyboard,moon landing,photos,profile picture,technology,video games,vr,wasdfalse219fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/218-products-people-love--75728141https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT-lwdhF-FAZmBOaWimIr1ExIcNW0ZYy4plcw_BKtZA7xQB5c0ZLjxRbaTCSBv2wzJk4otzOhjXRTGt/pub Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4babba36-c199-418b-877c-fbff1268f9b2Sun, 21 Jan 2024 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill unearthed a venerable SpaceOrb 360 in his garage recently, which sent us down a rabbit hole chasing all the weird, experimental input devices of the late '90s, back when everyone was just figuring out 3D control in the first-person shooter....https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT-lwdhF-FAZmBOaWimIr1ExIcNW0ZYy4plcw_BKtZA7xQB5c0ZLjxRbaTCSBv2wzJk4otzOhjXRTGt/pub Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>38353d,doom,john romero,joystick,logitech,mouse,quake,sidewinder,thrustmasterfalse218fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/217-still-a-festering-hellhole--75727978https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eONWY3kbZc0 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5d06d07b-880e-4003-aaff-ad5c84a0fddcSun, 14 Jan 2024 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaAnother Consumer Electronics Show has come and gone, and we've sifted through the highs and lows to bring you a casual discussion about the stuff that actually mattered (Nvidia's Pulsar G-SYNC tech and Super GPUs, better wireless charging, new screen...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eONWY3kbZc0 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3888ai,amd,ces,geforce,microled,nanoled,nvidia,oled,qi,radeon,wireless chargingfalse217fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/216-tactical-baking-method--75728162https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025970/Bungie-s-Force-Multipliers-ProductionThe one sheep-herding video you simply must watch: https://www.tiktok.com/@seanthesheepman/video/7312752825379884321 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>0a599b2b-528d-4537-9e1f-162deb2b0e94Sun, 07 Jan 2024 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe seasonal metaphors continue as we weather a blizzard of great questions from you for the monthly Q&A, this time covering everything from Swiss army knife roles in game development to replacing USB ports, the mythical petabyte retail drive,...https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025970/Bungie-s-Force-Multipliers-ProductionThe one sheep-herding video you simply must watch: https://www.tiktok.com/@seanthesheepman/video/7312752825379884321 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>480164-bit,computers,cpu,desks,hard drive,pb&j,petabyte,ssd,usb,welding,wendy'sfalse216fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/215-taking-the-temperature-of-the-market--75728169https://patreon.com/techpod]]>8b1244e6-240b-4ba7-b95d-4f8b35649e74Sun, 31 Dec 2023 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaOn the final day of 2023, Will is joined by Adam Patrick Murray from PC World to discuss the year that was. We run down the last twelve months of PC and mobile hardware, pick this year's winners (and a few losers) and call out the trends and hardware...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>65132023 in tech,pc world,year in reviewfalse215fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/214-david-smith-hobbyist--75728112https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4f7df372-45ee-4585-917e-0d3564222714Sun, 24 Dec 2023 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis week, Will is joined by Kishore Hari, who takes us on scientific journey through some of the biggest science stories of the year. Topics include advancements in cancer research, a cure for sickle cell anemia, the Nine Boundaries graph, advances...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>33572023 in science,brain scans,einstein tiles,moon landing,mrna vaccine,nine boundaries,sick cell cure,the year in sciencefalse214fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/213-therapy-over-teams--75728155Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>e08492f6-4acb-4273-b56c-fd5057b0742dSun, 17 Dec 2023 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe had such a surplus of good questions in October and November that this week we're shattering our own precedent and doing a supplemental mid-month Q&A to catch up on topics like how (or whether) to block YouTube ads, the increasing costs of...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4148ad blocking,amd,controller,gpu,intel,nvidia,steam,youtubefalse213fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/212-programmable-for-the-masses--75728174Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>a23a613b-e195-43e6-8985-48b81deea691Sun, 10 Dec 2023 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe temperature outside is plummeting, but the number of cold opens in this episode is skyrocketing! We convene once again this week for our sort-of-semi-annual block of short segments about everything from video game Yule logs to neighbors waging...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3040aio,apple watch,cast iron,cpu,fan control,holiday decorations,ipad,panda express,unreal engine,video gamesfalse212fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/211-the-drier-the-burnier--75728181https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zADeLm9g0ZgMartyPC, the IBM PC/XT emulator: https://github.com/dbalsom/martypc Support the Pod! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>7d13a8d7-a29a-4718-938b-0e53070102c2Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill's been fortunate to spend a chunk of time with the new Steam Deck OLED, and now it's time to talk through both his firsthand impressions and the list of small-yet-significant upgrades Valve has made to just about everything on the device, from...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3571handheld,lcd,linux,portable,proton,steam,steam deck oled,valve,windowsfalse210fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/209-please-show-the-hamster-guy-some-respect--75728146Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4a270f07-edae-4366-9163-a8509804ebdeSun, 19 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's nearly Turkey Day here in the US once again, so it's time to discuss another round of tech we're thankful for, which includes such topics as the year USB-C finally happened (for real), freeing yourself from the single critical computer, the joys...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4087airpods,bluetooth headphones,macbook pro,usb-c,windowsfalse209fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/208-don-t-be-mean-to-racoons--75728147Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6e3ee45b-cec5-49e1-82be-395437ecd0f4Sun, 12 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe've been thinking about troubleshooting lately (because it feels like we've all been doing a lot of it), so in this ep we did a formal rundown of how we approach solving technical problems, both in PCs and otherwise. From the analytical joy of log...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3938amd,blue screen,cpu,crash,intel,ram,ryzen,troubleshooting,windowsfalse208fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/207-when-magazines-were-phone-books--75728177https://archive.org/details/UneditedPCGamer_marktrade/PC_Gamer_079u/mode/2upSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>8dfc4273-c5a9-46da-a64b-d4de2ac7f691Sun, 05 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're firing up the time machine again this week for another visit to the era when computer coverage was "printed" on "paper" in bound volumes called "magazines." This time, we take a look at the voluminous December 2000 issue of PC Gamer, with a look...https://archive.org/details/UneditedPCGamer_marktrade/PC_Gamer_079u/mode/2upSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4762amd,elite force,geforce,intel,pc gamer,pentium,retro computing,sidewinder,year 2000false207fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/206-a-bunch-of-ferrets-is-called-a-business--75728182Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4e3521a5-974f-4305-b7c8-6f7621033581Sun, 29 Oct 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaOctober's terrifying batch of questions hits us like an airborne jack-o-lantern this month, as we discuss topics like: why it's RGB and not RYB, the origin of the computer "wizard," the ethics of tracking your family's movements around the house, the...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5100alan wake ii,amd,apple,ferrets,geforce,home assistant,microsoft,motion sensor,nvidia,radeon,rgb,windows xpfalse206fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/205-more-than-a-drip-less-than-a-gush--75728192https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/hisense/u8-u8kNextlevel Pulsar: https://nextlevelbrewer.com/pulsar-brewer/Coffee ad Astra: https://coffeeadastra.com/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>92f3f7fd-d1eb-4b87-827a-8ebc81dbbe51Sun, 22 Oct 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we're doing some follow-ups on recent episodes to fill in a few blanks. Spurred on by the PS5's Spider-Man 2, we wanted to talk about the recent advent of gaming at 40Hz, and that led us to finally talk in some more depth about Brad's new...https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/hisense/u8-u8kNextlevel Pulsar: https://nextlevelbrewer.com/pulsar-brewer/Coffee ad Astra: https://coffeeadastra.com/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>500640hz,4k,alan wake ii,coffee,hdr,hisense,lg,mini-led,nextlevel pulsar,oled,playstation 5,samsung,spider-man 2,zero-bypass brewingfalse205fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/204-science-cookies--75728113https://makerfaire.com/Build your own R2-D2: https://makezine.com/projects/building-your-first-r2/OpenROV: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openrov/openrov-trident-an-underwater-drone-for-everyoneOpenRGB: https://openrgb.org/Project Aurora: https://www.project-aurora.com/Artemis RGB: https://artemis-rgb.com/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>a78069f6-38ab-423a-a9af-732810d67120Sun, 15 Oct 2023 19:24:10 +0000Welly CnovaWe've got a pleasantly floral potpourri this week, mainly focused on Will's trip report from this weekend's Bay Area Maker Faire, the first time the DIY science and tech show has been held since 2019. If you want to hear about model-size mag-lev...https://makerfaire.com/Build your own R2-D2: https://makezine.com/projects/building-your-first-r2/OpenROV: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openrov/openrov-trident-an-underwater-drone-for-everyoneOpenRGB: https://openrgb.org/Project Aurora: https://www.project-aurora.com/Artemis RGB: https://artemis-rgb.com/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>40933d printing,amd,intel,maker faire,r2-d2,rgb,science,wall-e,water coolingfalse204fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/203-don-t-mess-with-big-encyclopedia--75728156https://killedbymicrosoft.info/Don't miss the FOSS Pod ep we mentioned about 3D Movie Maker: https://fosspod.content.town/episodes/3d-movie-maker-with-foone-turingSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>a59162bd-a7a4-4b82-9bc5-957099c833f0Sun, 08 Oct 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaFollowing on from our consideration of Google's many terminated products in episode 74, we turn our attention to another graveyard this week, one with a big "Microsoft" on the sign. The company's decades-long policy of trying to supplant market...https://killedbymicrosoft.info/Don't miss the FOSS Pod ep we mentioned about 3D Movie Maker: https://fosspod.content.town/episodes/3d-movie-maker-with-foone-turingSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4171apple,google,iphone,ipod,linux,microsoft,nokia,windows,zunefalse203fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/202-the-puritanical-wrath-of-the-universe--75728171Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>80d6aef2-a4bb-4240-9447-857044df9162Sun, 01 Oct 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaA crisp Fall batch of questions has found its way to the show this month, as we attempt to deliver answers about such things as trusting your devices with your biometric data, whether to color-calibrate your screens or not, whether bigger and better...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>41444k video,hdmi cec,hdr,home assistant,logitech harmony,windowsfalse202fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/201-core-1-ultra-extreme-plus--75728197Meteor Lake Tech Tour Deep DiveHands-On With Core Ultra Laptops Running AI DemosIntel & The AI PC, NPU Performance, Developer Support & More | The Full Nerd Special EditionSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>ad74a13a-d87b-49de-ab3b-ab805c49ace1Sun, 24 Sep 2023 22:41:43 +0000Welly CnovaIntel held its annual Innovation event this week, and our friend Adam Patrick Murray from PC World was there. Now he's here to fill us in on all the details about the company's big shift to Meteor Lake and beyond, including the embrace of...Meteor Lake Tech Tour Deep DiveHands-On With Core Ultra Laptops Running AI DemosIntel & The AI PC, NPU Performance, Developer Support & More | The Full Nerd Special EditionSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4969ai,amd,apple,arm,intel,intel innovation,machine learning,meteor lake,nvidiafalse201fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/200-bump-to-squirt--75728176Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>f3628ec2-9006-4728-b1d4-df035d3898d5Sun, 17 Sep 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaSometimes the events are so current we can't help discussing them, and such is the case with this week's act of self-immolation on the part of Unity and its relationship with the many developers who use its engine to make their games. Plus, iOS 17 and...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5291apple tv,apple watch series 9,blender,game development,godot,installs,ios 17,ipad pro,iphone 15,mobile games,unity,unrealfalse200fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/199-make-rome--75728157Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>46f2ec32-efad-44cd-a5e1-faa8b5384e6bSun, 10 Sep 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill dons the game developer hat again this week for a deep dive into how a game gets built. No, not the coding and design and art and all that -- we mean how a game gets literally built into a package that you can run on your PC or console, with some...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4164git,github,open source,perforce,playstations,ray tracing,steam,unity,unreal,video games,xboxfalse199fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/198-insert-ascii-shrug-here--75728163

Win + . - emoji/Unicode picker

Win + Shift + S - easy screenshots

Win + R - run applications

Win + L - lock your computer

Win + Alt + B - disable / enable HDR at the OS level

Win + Ctrl + Shift + B - video driver

Win + P - select output device

Win + alt + r - record video of game window that’s open (needs Game Bar)

Win + alt + g - record last 30 seconds, but needs to be turned on first (also Game Bar)

Win + V - clipboard history (need to enable in privacy)

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Win + . - emoji/Unicode picker

Win + Shift + S - easy screenshots

Win + R - run applications

Win + L - lock your computer

Win + Alt + B - disable / enable HDR at the OS level

Win + Ctrl + Shift + B - video driver

Win + P - select output device

Win + alt + r - record video of game window that’s open (needs Game Bar)

Win + alt + g - record last 30 seconds, but needs to be turned on first (also Game Bar)

Win + V - clipboard history (need to enable in privacy)

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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>20b80f2f-98fc-4327-9263-45a732b3d637Sun, 27 Aug 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaAnother piping-hot batch of questions is here straight out of the oven (where "the oven" is Discord and our inbox), and we do our best to deliver answers about amassing a collection of Allen wrenches, the seeming fragility of OLED panels,...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5106dns,hdtv,oled,scotch,smart appliances,vpn,whiskey,windowsfalse197fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/196-hdmi-kablammo--75728196Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>2afebb0e-26ac-4e68-9f2a-11c17c24e08fSun, 20 Aug 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaSince Brad just went through the new-TV-buying-and-setup process (for someone else), we decided it was time for us to look past our classic plasmas and take stock of the modern TV landscape. In this ep we attempt to casually dissect HDMI 2.1 features...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4523apple tv,av receiver,denon,hdmi,hdr,hisense,lg,mini led,oled,samsung,sound barfalse196fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/195-in-our-bendy-phone-era--75728200Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>27f6d387-9f9e-4211-bbc5-f2ffdb392f44Sun, 13 Aug 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaOur friend Wes Fenlon is back, this time to talk about his experiences daily-carrying Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip series of foldable smartphones. By interrogating such topics as whether glass is really meant to bend like that, when a screen protector...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4213android,apple,foldable smartphone,galaxy z flip,google,iphone,oled,pixel,samsungfalse195fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/194-all-i-want-is-simple-determinism--75728190https://www.wireguard.com/Tailscale: https://tailscale.com/PiVPN: https://www.pivpn.io/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>990c1734-446e-47c0-84ac-ccccf3460559Sun, 06 Aug 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're back this week with the mythical three-peat of updates on topics we've discussed either recently or in the distant past. First, following up on last month's patron episode, we dig into our recent experiences with Wireguard and discuss why it's...https://www.wireguard.com/Tailscale: https://tailscale.com/PiVPN: https://www.pivpn.io/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4246burr grinder,coffee,cold brew,electric vehicle,ev,ip address,vpn,wireguardfalse194fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/193-the-bob-ballard-fan-club--75728175Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6b77816b-fe29-4b9a-a4c8-6a5dae7d61a9Sun, 30 Jul 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's that Q&A time again, so in between waxing philosophical about meteor showers and shipwrecks, we take a few of your questions this week, about the etiquette of color-matched bidet installs, the current state of AM5, a growing army of robot...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4710am5,empire state building,google domains,heat dome,perseids,pre-war steel,robots,stemfalse193fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/192-straight-out-the-bunn--75728168Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>c1444a1a-6c2e-4f6e-8442-d5fdffa4f133Sun, 23 Jul 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill gets to dispense his considerable knowledge of coffee this week as Brad gets into cold brew and consuming way too much caffeine, with a medium-bodied discussion covering the cherry-esque fruit that houses the sacred bean, ratios for brewing a...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5667burr grinder,chemex,coffee,cold brew,dark roast,french press,light roastfalse192fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/191-winner-none--75727966https://www.wired.com/2008/07/ff-wargames/https://gizmodo.com/the-computer-simulation-that-almost-started-world-war-i-1686123550https://www.cio.com/article/220297/the-technology-of-wargames.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/movies/wargames-and-cybersecuritys-debt-to-a-hollywood-hack.htmlSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4bac2ebb-8163-4c15-b845-eafd52e07cf6Sun, 16 Jul 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're dusting off the ol' projector this week for a discussion about the 1983 nuclear-warfare classic WarGames (which Brad had never seen!). Did you know the original movie had nothing to do with hacking or nukes? What exactly was inside WOPR, anyway?...https://www.wired.com/2008/07/ff-wargames/https://gizmodo.com/the-computer-simulation-that-almost-started-world-war-i-1686123550https://www.cio.com/article/220297/the-technology-of-wargames.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/movies/wargames-and-cybersecuritys-debt-to-a-hollywood-hack.htmlSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3866ally sheedy,dabney coleman,icbm,matthew broderick,norad,nuclear missiles,nuclear war,wargames,woprfalse191fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/190-a-mishmash-mismatch--75728194https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q3eA6wYil41986 discovery press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe54buLGWS8Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>80010590-7315-44d2-a3cc-818faff87bdfSun, 09 Jul 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaNew competition is springing up in the microblogging space by the week these days, and to one degree or another, all these new services are attempting to reduce the centralization that led to the current sorry state of Twitter. In this ep we chat...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q3eA6wYil41986 discovery press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe54buLGWS8Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4158activitypub,at protocol,bluesky,mastodon,meta,threads,truth social,twitterfalse190fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/189-a-long-time-in-a-short-time--75728178Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>a1366df1-c8dc-4c52-acb7-9d7179640e8bSun, 02 Jul 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThere's a lot going on lately (isn't there always?), so we did a roundup of some recent news stories this week. Canada is now requiring Google and Facebook to compensate news producers whose stories they aggregate, Reddit and Twitter are both...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4525api,astrophysics,facebook,google,gravitational waves,pulsars,reddit,twitterfalse189fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/188-full-time-lego-broker--75728202Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>a379b3e5-d9ec-46b9-b493-e20e01180263Sun, 25 Jun 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaAs one social media platform after another lights itself on fire, we spend a good chunk of this month's Q&A thinking about other ways to use (or just get off of) the Internet, plus field some other Qs about ways to keep Windows XP alive, laptops...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4490apple,discord,laptop,macbook,passkey,password manager,reddit,twitter,windows xp,x86false188fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-foss-ep-pine64-with-lukasz-erecinski--75728203Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>322a002f-84ff-47de-a7be-f5de491ebb8fSun, 18 Jun 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaDue to travel and other scheduling, we're debuting a brand new episode of the FOSS Pod in the feed this week. Hope you enjoy!Pine64 is one of the most ambitious open hardware projects around, delivering a wide range of low-cost and modifiable products...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3806arm,foss,linux,open hardware,open source,pine64,pinecil,pinephone,risc-v,single-board computer,socfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/187-certified-volumetric-environment--75728149https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0HBzePUmZ0Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>bb531f15-2595-43b9-aa45-ceecd1c3b347Sun, 11 Jun 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaOur friend Norman Chan of Tested.com seized the chamfered aluminum ring this week by not only getting invited to the Apple Vision Pro reveal event but also getting to actually try the thing. Norm joins us this week for a very deep dive into this...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0HBzePUmZ0Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>1392239b-886c-4ac2-9a71-25906d6067eeSun, 04 Jun 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we're rounding up another handful of lifehacks-that-aren't-lifehacks, ranging from unexpected uses for barcode readers to apps that reduce food waste, a shocking truth about surge protectors, cutting mats and foot rockers, one weird trick to...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>45951password,apple,foot rocker,hbo,max,passkeys,power strip,too good to go,usbfalse186fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/185-that-s-nana-s-prerogative--75728204Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>38e9b375-77f3-4720-83d4-1fe21f9af5afSun, 28 May 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe last Sunday of the month heralds questions such as these: What's Amazon going to do with data on the layout of your house? Are the Netflixes of the world going to fight back against VPNs eventually? Is Windows really getting .rar support after all...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4402220v,alexa,amazon,logitech,netflix,roomba,vpn,windowsfalse185fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/184-not-the-out-of-box-experience--75728207https://www.wired.com/2008/02/the-race-to-save-the-cougar-ace/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>28c6eafd-69c4-412c-941b-35985a389fd6Sun, 21 May 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaNow that we're both on new PCs in the last six months, it's time for us to run through some of our experiences and offer a few (hopefully new) tips for anyone else building a machine. Join us as we talk shop this week about recent BIOS trends, our...https://www.wired.com/2008/02/the-race-to-save-the-cougar-ace/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5277amd,bios,dropbox,google drive,intel,linux,onedrive,powertoys,rclone,ryzen,systemd,windows,wsl2,x3d,zen 4false184fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/183-hiroprotagonist-loves-an-inhale--75728150Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>502f1864-0800-47f0-b6d2-8d8ddb51e77eSun, 14 May 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're going to start taking the occasional look at a product that changed everything in its respective field, starting this week with the game console that redefined how consoles work in the online era, the Xbox 360. From achievements and cross-game...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6010directx,dlc,microsoft,nintendo,playstation,sony,video games,wii,xbox,xbox 360false183fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/182-the-healthy-kind-of-nihilism--75728179https://www.astrokatie.com/Cornell's arXiv, the open-access archive for scholarly articles: https://arxiv.org/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>b2106d99-e379-4bb3-9e29-19cf23ad49d5Sun, 07 May 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're delighted to be joined this week by Katie Mack, noted astrophysicist and author of The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), to talk about, well, how to think about the end of all existence, along with a bunch of other cosmological...https://www.astrokatie.com/Cornell's arXiv, the open-access archive for scholarly articles: https://arxiv.org/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>b8b9cd4f-d00c-4391-8fb9-982316330c78Sun, 30 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaOur month-ending Q&A is here again, with a bevy of emails and Discord questions pertaining to subjects such as these: scanning and 3D-printing precision parts, parental controls on your kid's first PC, the great Imgur purge of anonymous uploads,...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>37642fa,3d printing,archive.org,discord,imgur,paprika,recipes,soldering,two-factorfalse181fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/180-chowder-n-cookies--75728138https://bitfocus.io/companionLoupedeck: https://loupedeck.com/us/Amcrest IP cameras: https://amcrest.com/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>a43c77e0-eccd-4ed8-81ec-7572c3ae90b5Sun, 23 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaSpring is in the air, flowers are blooming, and the potpourri is back. In our latest floral pouch of podcast topics, we get into the IP camera setup Will is using for his bird cam, Stream Deck alternatives like Bitfocus Companion and Loupedeck,...https://bitfocus.io/companionLoupedeck: https://loupedeck.com/us/Amcrest IP cameras: https://amcrest.com/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3802allergies,benchmark,bitfocus companion,girl scout cookies,gpu,ip camera,stream deck,stress testfalse180fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/179-the-world-s-largest-graphics-card--75728143https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.ReleasesSupport the Pod! 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Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4004amd,cyberpunk,geforce,intel,motherboard,nvidia,pc building,ray tracing,ryzenfalse179fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-foss-ep-raspberry-pi-with-eben-upton--75728187Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>2baf8609-1889-4b9f-8a68-6fb104c71c64Sun, 09 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaEach of us are on overlapping mini-vacations this week, so we're debuting a brand new episode of the FOSS Pod in the feed. Enjoy!With tens of millions of units sold, it's no surprise the Raspberry Pi has become synonymous with the phenomenon of...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4246eben upton,linux,open source,raspberry pi,single-board computerfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/178-windows-on-top-of-windows--75728210Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>ed37af67-3cb9-4800-bb2f-8d8056ac4b15Sun, 02 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's been several months since Will needed a laptop and bought an M2 iPad Pro, keyboard, and pencil instead, so we figured enough time has passed to decide if that was the right move or not. In this ep we dig into the ups and downs of replacing a...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3803apple,chromebook,google,ipad,m2,macbook pro,microsoft,surfacefalse178fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/177-five-thou-tolerances--75728152https://github.com/yarrick/pingfsAnd YouTubeFS: https://github.com/robertkeizer/youtubefsSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>cb81fba4-d943-4641-b3e2-62c890ba6160Sun, 26 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaAnother month's worth of questions has accrued, and so this week we dispense answers about being the family tech support, silliness with Imperial measurements, gigantic patches for games, recurring spell check issues, questionable PC-building tricks,...https://github.com/yarrick/pingfsAnd YouTubeFS: https://github.com/robertkeizer/youtubefsSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4496command line,halt and catch fire,imperial,macos,metric,ms-dos,tech support,video gamesfalse177fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/176-phone-blasters-in-dos-land--75728211https://archive.org/details/boot-magazine-vol01-issue01-sept-1996Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>8bcee70c-eb41-4516-923c-51e1eeada36fSun, 19 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaTech news is getting a little too surreal for us lately, so we're taking a brief trip back to a simpler time. This week we go through the very first issue of Boot (later Maximum PC) from 1996, which has everything from Jean-Louis Gassée on the launch...https://archive.org/details/boot-magazine-vol01-issue01-sept-1996Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>42183dfx,bebox,bill gates,directx,flight simulator,microsoft,pc building,retro computing,retro pcfalse176fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/175-short-analog-long-digital--75728153Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>67787824-180c-4ec7-a494-cd6cb81a13edSun, 12 Mar 2023 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaOur desks have evolved since the last time we talked about our personal workspaces (Brad has even achieved the elusive Cord Zero), so we're doing an updated check-in to talk about the current gear we're working with, aspirational cable-routing,...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4599desktop,dslr,elgato,key light,mirrorless,monitor arm,stream deck,ultrawide,usb,video capturefalse175fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/174-weaponized-smurfing--75728183Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>a93c59fc-3227-4f1f-8f03-87755da98e59Sun, 05 Mar 2023 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaRemember when pop-up ads looked like they were part of Windows XP? Dark patterns are all around us, even when we don't realize it, and this week we cover a wide range of these insidious methods of manipulating our online behavior, touching on...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4673dark patterns,fortnite,free to play,microtransactions,mtx,world of warcraftfalse174fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/173-splinter-cell-in-a-kayak--75728100Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3844bff0-898d-479d-94c7-41250a53db28Sun, 26 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaBrad spent a whole bunch of time in the PlayStation VR 2 this past week, and given Will's previous life as the proprietor of a VR-related business, we're pairing hands-on (or maybe face-on) experience with institutional knowledge this week to dissect...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4006half-life,horizon,meta quest,oculus,playstation 5,playstation vr2,ps5,psvr2,quest,valve index,virtual reality,vive profalse173fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/172-orange-ricky-smashboy--75728214Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>63d33f7e-b27f-4ad3-b415-c3429133c16cSun, 19 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaSome scheduling switcharoos mean we're doing February's Q&A episode one (1) whole week early! This month we field Qs about public Unix servers, noisy hard drives, the desirability of your own phone booth, an update on that attempt at roasting weed...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4297hard drives,house plants,linux,phone booth,tetris,unixfalse172fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/171-gratuitous-stroke--75728206https://shifthappens.site/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>62f876e4-b83d-486c-9fdc-2907ba40a784Sun, 12 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we're thrilled to be joined by Marcin Wichary, author of the upcoming and extensively detailed history of the keyboard, Shift Happens. We get into all kinds of typing-related subjects like QWERTY dominance, the shift wars of the late 1800s,...https://shifthappens.site/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6094history,ibm model m,keyboards,marcin wichary,shift happens,typewriters,typingfalse171fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/170-the-robots-hopefully-aren-t-coming--75728215Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>b933bd5a-11ac-406a-90ed-d8795b8c4d57Sun, 05 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaArtificial intelligence, machine learning--whatever we're calling it, it sure is in the news a lot all of a sudden. Everything about the use of AI feels uncanny enough lately that we sat down and had a free-wheeling conversation about the subject,...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4347artificial intelligence,chatgpt,dall-e,google,layoffs,machine learning,microsoft,midjourney,neural network,openai,silicon valley,stable diffusionfalse170fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/169-don-t-trust-alberta-s-lies--75728195Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>438a4f90-0c41-4060-80c7-b94f87320545Sun, 29 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaYou sent some serious Qs for this month's Q&A, which got us talking about the intermingling of control schemes in online shooters, the best sci-fi robots, the absurdity of discount medical care, pronounceable file extensions, AI-driven customer...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4826ai,airtag,alberta,apple,artificial intelligence,canada,fortnite,science fictionfalse169fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/168-it-s-cool-to-be-cool--75728219https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/magazine/tesla-autopilot-self-driving-elon-musk.htmlSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>9f36a6dc-0c5f-4666-a75a-da37c6e0dd7cSun, 22 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt was a pretty heavy week for a variety of reasons, so we decided to discuss a variety of shorter topics this week to try to take it in, starting by touching on the mass layoffs sweeping the tech industry and elsewhere. Then we make a... Musk...https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/magazine/tesla-autopilot-self-driving-elon-musk.htmlSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3984api,apple,elon musk,google,layoffs,linux,microsoft,nas,nuc,tesla,twitterfalse168fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/167-we-can-t-give-them-the-heads--75728094Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>433f9bff-4524-45ce-8682-a5d7b893a9d5Sun, 15 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill does the unthinkable this week and PODCASTS WITH HIS BOSS, as Stray Bombay head Chet Faliszek joins us on the one-year anniversary of the release of The Anacrusis to talk all things running a small video game studio. From Steam and Xbox backend...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4995anacrusis,bts,first-person shooter,game pass,steam,stray bombay,unity engine,unreal engine,xboxfalse167fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/166-someone-else-s-cables--75728221Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>c457d051-249f-4ec0-bf38-5c0892a8bfeeSun, 08 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's (belatedly) time to answer more of your questions, and this time you posed Qs that resulted in As about an iPhone without charging ports, cured meats, hyphy dark roast, favorite classic screensavers, favorite console boot-up animations, the rise...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4128apple,coffee,gamecube,iphone,playstation,usb-c,weed,windows,xboxfalse166fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/165-i-don-t-believe-in-adverbs--75728223Blake Patterson.Support the Pod! 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OK, not quite, but we're going to do our best to assemble a list and put it in an order... eventually. If you've ever wanted to hear someone...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3936freebsd,lamp stack,linux,netscape,ranking,software,super mario 64,winampfalse164fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/163-jwst-just-wonderful-science-and-technology--75729025Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4353alphafold2,asteroids,dark energy,dart,endurance,james webb,jwst,nasa,nuclear fusion,proteins,quintessence,shackletonfalse163fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/162-storage-wars--75729031https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIJBxR_BkRISupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>fd623e1e-034e-4cd5-81dc-85d6ba312177Sun, 11 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill's recent clean-slate PC build and newfound abundance of extremely fast storage got us thinking about all things storage. So this week we had a top-to-bottom chat about our current storage strategies, including the ways we are and aren't still...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIJBxR_BkRISupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3781dropbox,google drive,gordon mah ung,icloud,nas,nvme,onedrive,pci express,pc world,rclonefalse162fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/161-get-stretchy--75729028Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! 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Join us for some chill discussion of everything from defying gravity (under the desk) to the simple joy of playing guitar into your...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>47644090,amd,core,eco mode,gordon mah ung,intel,nvidia,overclocking,pc world,ryzen,undervoltingfalse156fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/155-cyberplunk--75729035https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/12gb-4080-unlaunch/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>586d3d50-06c1-4210-ba80-894a6fc48f8bSun, 16 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe sizable slab of silicon known as the Geforce 4090 has landed in Will's computer, so this week we did a deep dive on his experiences with it so far, ranging from basic performance to impressions of how DLSS 3 impacts micro-stutter and game feel,...https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/12gb-4080-unlaunch/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! 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What's up...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4019disney,disneyland,millennium falcon,pixar,rise of the resistance,space mountain,star wars,universal studiosfalse154fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-foss-ep-octoprint-with-gina-haussge--75729161https://fosspod.content.town/Learn more about OctoPrint: https://octoprint.org/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! 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This month we field everything from automating household chores to HDMI-CEC woes, that time one of the Mythbusters (guess who!) built a...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3518carl sagan,displayport,drone,fire safe,hdmi,mythbustersfalse153fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/152-three-pfizers-to-the-wind--75729167https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9QES-FUAMSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>fd2a2a5b-8bab-446c-9fdf-d1f3d8911b6aSun, 04 Sep 2022 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're thinking a lot about the ways you receive and watch TV this week, with a look back at the last 20-ish years of set-top boxes beginning with the venerable TiVo. Remember paying a monthly fee for TV listings, or hacking your old Xbox to run an...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4613apple tv,chromecast,hdtv,hulu,netflix,oled,roku,tivofalse150fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/149-the-rhythm-nation-test-suite--75729042https://www.netflix.com/title/81092327Support the Pod! 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Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4086advertising,fountain pens,git,microphones,podcasts,the price is right,wikipediafalse149fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/148-neither-fish-nor-fowl-the-foo-vr-story--75729059https://store.steampowered.com/app/411820/The_FOO_Show_featuring_Will_Smith/Andre's original demo reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uru5Wp9oJASupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>43233d animation,facebook,meta,oculus,virtual reality,will smithfalse148fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/147-why-thread-matters--75729188https://fosspod.content.town/episodes/home-assistant-with-paulus-schoutsenThe Connectivity Standards Alliance's Matter page: https://csa-iot.org/all-solutions/matter/The Verge's very helpful interview on Thread and Matter: https://www.theverge.com/23165855/thread-smart-home-protocol-matter-apple-google-interviewThe requisite XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>1189c21e-7424-46d7-a573-f389ffe105ddSun, 14 Aug 2022 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaTogether, Matter and Thread are the new software and networking standards that promise to make all of your home automation and IoT gear work together, regardless of manufacturer. After Home Assistant's Paulus Schoutsen piqued our interest on the FOSS...https://fosspod.content.town/episodes/home-assistant-with-paulus-schoutsenThe Connectivity Standards Alliance's Matter page: https://csa-iot.org/all-solutions/matter/The Verge's very helpful interview on Thread and Matter: https://www.theverge.com/23165855/thread-smart-home-protocol-matter-apple-google-interviewThe requisite XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! 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MONITOR.: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/control_my_monitor.htmlSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3678false146fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/145-fat-stacks-of-dimms--75729160Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4641bidet,coffee,hard drive,james webb,nasa,tech,wfh,work-from-homefalse145fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/144-the-anamorphic-squinch--75729183Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>0ff189bc-19ca-426f-a525-ad21bc6271e3Sun, 24 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaBrad's birthday has come and gone, which gives him the privilege of choosing our next tech year in review. This time, the banner year of 1997, which saw everything from Dolly the cloned sheep to IBM's chess-playing Deep Blue, the nuclear-powered...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5177chess,deep blue,dolly,dvd,garry kasparov,star wars,steve jobsfalse144fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-ep-a-flickr-group-for-martian-photographers--75729027Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! 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Topics include tech-savvy AirBnb hosts, optimizing your...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3621airbnb,electric car,mesh network,obd adapter,tsa pre-check,usb-c,wifi,xboxfalse143fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/142-flanders-is-dead-long-live-neddy--75729190Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>b61cdcfd-405a-4c96-affe-0dc56f8cbd80Sun, 03 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill's longtime home server Flanders has finally given up the ghost, and now he's streamlined his life by moving to an integrated Synology box. After significant hands-on time, we get into the ins and outs of what it's like running network storage in...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4269amd,geforce,hard drive,nas,pentium,plex,ryzen,synology,truenas,xeonfalse142fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/141-poor-pour-pore-technique--75729067Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>ee0d4ae8-be3e-4bff-8466-ee1469acab65Sun, 26 Jun 2022 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt means being bad at researching how to use a spout. Oh, right, this is a Q&A episode! This month we discuss the potential of open smartphones, Fermi's paradox, French toast supremacy, electronics in the bathroom (yea or nay), Brad's dwindling...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3487false141fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/140-wes-and-norm-were-right--75729076https://github.com/SteamGridDB/steam-rom-managerEmuDeck: https://www.emudeck.com/Chiaki: https://git.sr.ht/~thestr4ng3r/chiakiSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! 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Chill! at the campsite mishap that demolished someone's data plan. Spill! your drink...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3094false139fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/138-crank-the-unofficial-game-of-the-movie--75729179Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>2da2f945-7e69-4434-ab2c-35edbf29a6feSun, 05 Jun 2022 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe've been mulling the idea of donning our game dev hats and attempting to make our own little Playdate game as an educational exercise, and this week we commit ourselves to this task publicly with a consideration of the hardware and controls at our...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3368arcade,c++,game development,gorilla.bas,lua,playdate,refresh rate,video gamesfalse138fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/137-emails-qs-are-qs-too--75729088Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>d2f14e05-47ed-4cb7-a7b6-bfd97552e9e9Sun, 29 May 2022 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt seems like it was only last month that we answered our last batch of questions, and yet here we are with another one. This time we address subjects like getting squashed by an asteroid (or meteorite), who in the world ever used eSATA, the ancient...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3311apple,asteroid,cats,coding,esata,noodles,pasta,siri,smart home,virtual machinefalse137fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/136-the-hubble-ub--75729109Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4514apple,biosphere 2,fermat,hubble,mac,newton,pdf,rar,theorem,utf-8false136fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/135-this-machine-is-a-server--75729195Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>66efce8f-0102-4ca1-9ae1-887fea5c421bSun, 15 May 2022 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaOn the occasion of Will's birth we're back for another year in review, this time taking a look at the year he went off to college, 1993 (or at least as much of it as we can fit into one episode). Join us as we gab about everything from NCSA Mosaic and...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3874cern,jurassic park,macintosh,nextstep,nvidia,pentium,tim berners-lee,webfalse135fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/134-another-lane-disaster-waiting-to-happen--75729216https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2022-04-23-fiber7-25gbit-upgrade/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! 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This month we field Qs from you, the listener, about better electric vehicles versus better mass transit, the mysteries of the L-shaped desk, extreme climate-change preparedness, throwing bread like a frisbee (??),...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3574bread,burrito,climate change,desk,discord,domain names,electric vehicles,mass transitfalse133fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/132-the-coldest-open--75729209https://play.date/dev/https://sdk.play.date/1.10.0/Inside%20Playdate.htmlSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>ffebd15c-84ce-44fd-9e74-ce46b364b797Sun, 17 Apr 2022 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's time for another visit with Stewart Cheifet and the Computer Chronicles. This time we're heading back to 1995 for a computer games special that includes Microsoft's ill-fated DirectX event Judgment Day, a very silly Bill Gates promo video, demos...https://archive.org/details/CC1308_greatest_gamesBill Gates invades Doom:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2V9TFrmQ_QThe letter from Alex St. John's daughter:https://www.wired.com/2016/04/alex-st-johns-daughter-wrong-women-tech/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3932bill gates,computer chronicles,directx,doom,roberta williams,stewart cheifetfalse131fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/130-the-last-home-button-standing--75729217https://www.theverge.com/22968066/apple-iphone-se-5g-mmwave-verizon-uwEpic's RealityScan app:https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/epic-games-introduces-realityscan-app-now-in-limited-betaThat next MacBook Air notch may come in white:https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/28/next-macbook-air-white-notch-bezels/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5e68238f-4817-40bb-bcba-108edea55588Sun, 10 Apr 2022 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWell, we're only about *check's Apple Watch* a month late to the most recent Apple event, which we're using as an excuse to talk about a whole range of topics like: the (potential) death of millimeter-wave 5G, whether the Mac Pro line has truly left...https://www.theverge.com/22968066/apple-iphone-se-5g-mmwave-verizon-uwEpic's RealityScan app:https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/epic-games-introduces-realityscan-app-now-in-limited-betaThat next MacBook Air notch may come in white:https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/28/next-macbook-air-white-notch-bezels/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! 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What were the first 24 hours like? How close did he get to being on cable news? Have Twitter's tools improved for...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3039blocked,chris rock,main character,oscars,slap,twitter,will smithfalse129fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/128-an-elevator-named-otis--75729163Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>de079c5f-8e97-49a9-8b13-aea64144a97aSun, 27 Mar 2022 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe monthly questions came in, and now the answers go forth, pertaining to such topics as these: weirdly named folders on our desktops, regrettable usernames, paltry American downstream speeds, Brad's delusions of cross-coastal VPN grandeur, an...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4329false128fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-episode-return-of-manhattanhenge--75729097Senate plan for permanent daylight saving time faces doubts in the HousePermanent standard time is better than daylight saving, sleep experts sayAnd the links from the original DST ep:A cartographer makes maps to argue for ending DST altogether: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-25/these-maps-prove-that-daylight-saving-time-is-the-actual-worstStats on DST and traffic accidents: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002243751000112XWhere all 50 states are at with DST legislation: https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/daylight-saving-time-bill-status-all-50-states/507-25ff8777-63bc-423f-895d-22f5a3d5d28cInfo on the famed Manhattanhenge: https://www.farmersalmanac.com/manhattanhengeSupport the Pod! 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This week we're reissuing our in-depth DST explainer from last Fall,...Senate plan for permanent daylight saving time faces doubts in the HousePermanent standard time is better than daylight saving, sleep experts sayAnd the links from the original DST ep:A cartographer makes maps to argue for ending DST altogether: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-25/these-maps-prove-that-daylight-saving-time-is-the-actual-worstStats on DST and traffic accidents: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002243751000112XWhere all 50 states are at with DST legislation: https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/daylight-saving-time-bill-status-all-50-states/507-25ff8777-63bc-423f-895d-22f5a3d5d28cInfo on the famed Manhattanhenge: https://www.farmersalmanac.com/manhattanhengeSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>40872b64-a77a-438f-9fed-26fb098fd1e9Sun, 13 Mar 2022 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill just happened to watch a whole bunch of Star Trek: TNG when he was laid up recently, so we got together this week to decidedly NOT talk about Best of Both Worlds, Measure of a Man, Darmok, or The Inner Light, but instead to run down some of our...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>da9078ed-8901-4180-b7ca-085e3c64327aSun, 06 Mar 2022 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaAnother round of your questions meets another round of our answers this week, with queries about delayed eating habits, the "break-even" point on fixing or replacing old appliances, the mystery of cryptic crosswords, a theoretical number of monitors...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3920false126fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/125-a-nuc-with-a-screen--75729119PC Gamer, and Norm's review on Tested.Support the Pod! 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Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4411amd,apu,arch linux,kde plasma,linux,steam,steam deck,valvefalse125fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-episode-foss-nas-solutions--75729202https://www.openmediavault.org/TrueNAS: https://www.truenas.com/Proxmox: https://www.proxmox.com/en/And some of the turnkey hardware solutions you might pair with these projects are:Synology: https://www.synology.com/en-usQNAP: https://www.qnap.com/en-us/The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.googleSubscribe to the FOSS Pod at https://fosspod.content.town/!Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>c800b701-f78b-4e69-99d5-df53b50ab4e6Sun, 20 Feb 2022 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaBuilding a NAS served as the gateway into free and open source software for both of us, so in this ep we're looping back around and checking in on the current state of FOSS-y network attached storage options like OpenMediaVault, TrueNAS, and Proxmox,...https://www.openmediavault.org/TrueNAS: https://www.truenas.com/Proxmox: https://www.proxmox.com/en/And some of the turnkey hardware solutions you might pair with these projects are:Synology: https://www.synology.com/en-usQNAP: https://www.qnap.com/en-us/The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.googleSubscribe to the FOSS Pod at https://fosspod.content.town/!Support the Pod! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>abe2d4e7-d021-4cb8-af8a-49dd83baf07bSun, 13 Feb 2022 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThat pleasantly floral scent you're detecting means it's time for another potpourri ep! This time we dive into the nitty gritty of our podcast workflow and Brad's forthcoming adventures with XLR recording chains, a laparoscopic trip report, the...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4523arm,audacity,audition,blue yeti,nas,nvidia,podcasting,signalrgb,xlrfalse124fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/special-episode-enter-the-foss-pod--75729223https://fosspod.content.town/!Support the Pod! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>e7c75890-7123-4ee4-b2d1-fc4859c9e431Sun, 30 Jan 2022 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaYou have questions, we have answers about what we thought was cool in 2021, a couple of our war stories working in media, repairing a classic flip clock (and other old gear), the ins and outs of a hologram group-buy, a short love letter to neofetch,...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3983amazon,apple,faang,facebook,google,hologram,meta,microsoft,netflixfalse123fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/122-hashtag-octothorpe--75729125Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>b0c34595-cf63-459d-bfa0-6a0db9bf9f46Sun, 23 Jan 2022 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaMicrosoft's mind-boggling purchase of Activision this week prompted us to look back on other tech acquisitions large and small over the last two decades. Herein, a chat about the big winners, the stinkers, and everything in between. Which company has...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3864activision,apple,facebook,google,meta,microsoft,oculusfalse122fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/121-notepad-dark-mode--75729131Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6106e8cc-3ec4-4941-b351-93838cd0d6f3Sun, 16 Jan 2022 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill just successfully shipped his first game, and Brad has spent years asking questions about shipping games, so this week we met in the middle with a freewheeling chat about some of the technical nitty gritty of making and promoting a game. Listen...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3722anacrusis,epic games store,microsoft,playstation,sony,steam,unreal engine,valve,xboxfalse121fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/120-what-comes-after--75729237https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ces-gadget-show-turnout-falls-more-than-70-25-thanks-to-covid/ar-AASzFiwhttps://venturebeat.com/2022/01/06/e3-shifts-to-online-only-event-because-of-omicron-concerns/Panasonic's goggles-sized SteamVR headsethttps://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/panasonic-tiny-glasses-sized-steamvr-goggles-are-coming-this-spring/Samsung making its own quantum dot OLED panels:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/explaining-qd-oled-samsungs-display-tech-thats-wowing-ces/HDMI 2.1a sounds like a painhttps://www.theverge.com/2021/12/29/22856103/hdmi-2-1a-spec-standard-mess-cables-source-based-tone-mapping-ces-2022Nvidia announced 3050, 3090tihttps://www.anandtech.com/show/16671/nvidia-launches-geforce-rtx-3050-and-rtx-3050-ti-for-laptopshttps://www.anandtech.com/show/17173/nvidia-briefly-teases-geforce-rtx-3090-ti-more-details-later-this-monthAMD talked details on their 2022 CPU roadmap, Zen 4 launching this yearhttps://www.anandtech.com/show/17152/amd-cpus-in-2022-cesAM5 is the long term socket for Zen 4https://www.anandtech.com/show/17192/ces-2022-amds-nextgen-am5-platform-to-have-long-term-supportSupport the Pod! 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Listen on for some loose chatter about goggles-shaped VR headsets, Samsung's entry into the OLED market,...https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ces-gadget-show-turnout-falls-more-than-70-25-thanks-to-covid/ar-AASzFiwhttps://venturebeat.com/2022/01/06/e3-shifts-to-online-only-event-because-of-omicron-concerns/Panasonic's goggles-sized SteamVR headsethttps://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/panasonic-tiny-glasses-sized-steamvr-goggles-are-coming-this-spring/Samsung making its own quantum dot OLED panels:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/explaining-qd-oled-samsungs-display-tech-thats-wowing-ces/HDMI 2.1a sounds like a painhttps://www.theverge.com/2021/12/29/22856103/hdmi-2-1a-spec-standard-mess-cables-source-based-tone-mapping-ces-2022Nvidia announced 3050, 3090tihttps://www.anandtech.com/show/16671/nvidia-launches-geforce-rtx-3050-and-rtx-3050-ti-for-laptopshttps://www.anandtech.com/show/17173/nvidia-briefly-teases-geforce-rtx-3090-ti-more-details-later-this-monthAMD talked details on their 2022 CPU roadmap, Zen 4 launching this yearhttps://www.anandtech.com/show/17152/amd-cpus-in-2022-cesAM5 is the long term socket for Zen 4https://www.anandtech.com/show/17192/ces-2022-amds-nextgen-am5-platform-to-have-long-term-supportSupport the Pod! 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Join us for a deep dive into the movie's stellar and surprisingly august cast, the prescient view of information...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3202ben kingsley,cryptography,encryption,hacking,robert redford,sidney poitier,sneakers,wargamesfalse117fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/116-nano-on-both-sides--75729180Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>a392808c-6a72-47d4-92ee-48729e2f4628Sun, 28 Nov 2021 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we're thankful for our listeners and the many questions they provided to this Q&A ep, which got us talking about topics including how we research a new tech project before diving in, using VR to desensitize yourself to real motion...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4027chronobiology,daylight savings,space,spatchcocking,stuffing,vrfalse115fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/114-that-s-one-spicy-pillow--75729185Kyle's Twitter, as well as iFixit's Twitter and website.Support the Pod! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6857analog stick,controllers,gamepad,nintendo,playstation,rumble,triggers,video games,xboxfalse113fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/112-here-comes-manhattanhenge--75729243https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-25/these-maps-prove-that-daylight-saving-time-is-the-actual-worstStats on DST and traffic accidents: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002243751000112XWhere all 50 states are at with DST legislation: https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/daylight-saving-time-bill-status-all-50-states/507-25ff8777-63bc-423f-895d-22f5a3d5d28cInfo on the famed Manhattanhenge: https://www.farmersalmanac.com/manhattanhengeSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! 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We clear up some myths and history about DST's origins, talk about the axial tilt of the planet a bunch,...https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-25/these-maps-prove-that-daylight-saving-time-is-the-actual-worstStats on DST and traffic accidents: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002243751000112XWhere all 50 states are at with DST legislation: https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/daylight-saving-time-bill-status-all-50-states/507-25ff8777-63bc-423f-895d-22f5a3d5d28cInfo on the famed Manhattanhenge: https://www.farmersalmanac.com/manhattanhengeSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3569daylight savings time,dst,equinox,manhattanhenge,solstice,standard time,time zonesfalse112fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/111-flanders-is-running-in-a-degraded-state--75729172Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>209149bc-e192-49e2-b59c-003131321425Sun, 31 Oct 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's the most horrifying Q&A episode we've ever recorded! This month we field Qs about such topics as: how to teach your kids to view Internet content and influencers with a critical eye, our home electronics protocols for going out of town,...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5342amazon basics,bash,flanders,influencers,simpsons,youtube,zshfalse111fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/110-the-upc-of-the-beast--75729250Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4489false110fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/109-a-house-of-lies--75729169Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>1aff37df-8961-4592-a0e7-ddf6452cd6ceSun, 17 Oct 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's been nine years since Will's last big house cleanup, and the time has come once again to discuss... THE PURGE (of all his stuff). In the interest of general decluttering, this ep is a rambling consideration of such topics as: What should you do...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3289basement,hard drive,hdmi,lego,nas,titanic,usbfalse109fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/108-deez-network-servers--75729174Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet (cloudflare.com)More details about the October 4 outage - Facebook EngineeringUpdates on the Twitch Security Incident | Twitch BlogTwitch’s security problems started long before this week’s hack - The VergeSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>772b792c-771b-4ca4-b53d-187639ea608fSun, 03 Oct 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill Smith, this is your life! Or at least one month of it, specifically November 2009, when you published an issue of Maximum PC that included a review of Windows 7, speculation about ray tracing in video games, a breathless report about absolutely...https://web.archive.org/web/20160618072632/http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/MPC1109-web.pdfSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>21a887e0-b689-4101-a46f-d4c516334cecSun, 26 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaOur monthly Q&A episode is all over the place in September, addressing such wide-ranging subjects as the fastest Internet we've ever used, surviving bear attacks, why they're so stingy with the USB-C ports, when exactly the week begins and ends,...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4020bear,electric kettle,fiber,gigabit,grits,grizzly,oatmeal,robot vacuum,roomba,toaster,usb-cfalse106fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/105-the-hardest-lift--75729208She's A Beast: A Swole Woman's Newsletter, and here are some starter fitness links provided by Casey herself:GZCLP: https://saynotobroscience.com/gzclp-infographic/r/fitness basic beginner routine: https://thefitness.wiki/routines/r-fitness-basic-beginner-routine/ StrongLifts: https://stronglifts.com/ A beta of Casey's program LIFTOFF:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14GO0yclhOU4_Jfj7DPBHVr_CIvkZvBoFt37TriHo8DY/copySupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4801amd,headphones,ikea hacks,intel,monitors,overclocking,speakersfalse104fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/103-a-watershed-moment-in-copyright-litigation--75729263Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>f8273499-38c1-46ef-bb3a-e89e060c3ecaSun, 05 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we're joined by Google's director of open source, Chris DiBona, to talk all things software licensing. 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pfSense's

• Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call | Ars Technica
• The hijacked OPNSense domain: https://opnsense.org/opnsense-com/

Ubiquiti's terrible week:

• Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” – Krebs on Security
• Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface (x-post from HackerNews) : Ubiquiti (reddit.com)

ffmpeg vs Newtek (NDI)

• #7589 (NewTek distributing non-free FFmpeg build) – FFmpeg

Linksys GPL Violation:

• https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/03/06/08/1749217/is-linksys-violating-the-gpl

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pfSense's

• Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call | Ars Technica
• The hijacked OPNSense domain: https://opnsense.org/opnsense-com/

Ubiquiti's terrible week:

• Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” – Krebs on Security
• Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface (x-post from HackerNews) : Ubiquiti (reddit.com)

ffmpeg vs Newtek (NDI)

• #7589 (NewTek distributing non-free FFmpeg build) – FFmpeg

Linksys GPL Violation:

• https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/03/06/08/1749217/is-linksys-violating-the-gpl

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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>a1ae9d54-ba7a-4bcc-b5b1-b70325609c95Sun, 08 Aug 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe recently found a Hackers-sized hole in Brad's filmgoing history, so we're killing two birds with one stone this week by making him watch the movie, and then recording an ep about it! Join us for a chat about this campy cult classic as we consider...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4230angelina jolie,hackers,powerpc,zero coolfalse99fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/98-the-fox-knows-what-s-up--75729267Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>9708c03f-298e-41e8-b3d0-6a39cc68b542Sun, 01 Aug 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaQuestion time is here again, and this month our answers address topics like these: why anyone is still using big ol' ATX, our favorite flea market finds of the past, drop shadows under mouse cursors, extremely frivolous 3D printing projects, the...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>39143d printing,atx,bluetooth,flea market,jeff bezos,laser cutter,mouse cursor,richard bransonfalse98fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/97-how-to-survive-the-chipocalypse--75729230Model 100 Kickstarter here!Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3ce30a03-4016-4301-adf3-06c442a236f5Sun, 25 Jul 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaEver wonder what it's like to try your hand at small-batch manufacturing overseas? Keyboardio's Jesse Vincent joins us this week to address that very subject in a broad discussion of his company's history, with a focus on the trials and tribulations...Model 100 Kickstarter here!Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5047ergonomic,jesse vincent,keyboardio,keyboards,shenzhenfalse97fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/96-national-ground-beef-day--75729173https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vem8/inside-story-sierra-online-death-cuc-cendant-fraudSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! 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Topics include Ben's grassroots efforts to resurrect the Finger protocol, rooting around in 1977-era Unix source code, why...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3111ben brown,finger,podcasts,source code,spotify,unixfalse95fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/94-naked-corporate-opportunism--75729268https://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-11-understanding-the-system-requirements-and-the-security-benefits/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>1cc8a9c5-369f-4375-b367-4cf789e45cf6Sun, 04 Jul 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaYou knew we couldn't resist doing a Windows 11 episode, and indeed we're here to talk about the whole shebang: virtualized security and the controversy around CPU support, the good (better window-snapping!), the bad (bottom-only taskbar!), and the...https://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-11-understanding-the-system-requirements-and-the-security-benefits/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4138android,google,microsoft,tpm,trusted platform module,windows 10,windows 11false94fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/93-missives-from-the-void--75729273UCLASupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6847d17a-8cf1-45f8-9667-978de29b4503Sun, 27 Jun 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis month's Q&A episode features Qs (from both email and our Discord) that got us chatting about such topics as: the ARPANET, passive-aggressive email signatures, pre-microprocessor computing history, battery management in devices you never use,...UCLASupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4041arpanet,cryptography,email,video conferencingfalse93fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/92-carmackology--75729277PC Gamer's early Quake preview featuring the dragonGary Whitta's story from the game's launchThe Quake II cover story that touches on Romero's split with idSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>ca87539f-948a-4eca-bc69-69eb3d4930ccSun, 20 Jun 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly Cnovaid Software's Quake came out 25 years ago this week, and it also changed both of our lives. In this episode we wax nostalgic about the astonishing legacy of technical innovations Quake brought to game design, the ways it inspired our fascination with...PC Gamer's early Quake preview featuring the dragonGary Whitta's story from the game's launchThe Quake II cover story that touches on Romero's split with idSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>b32d5431-5458-423d-98ab-28a5ec5fce7cSun, 13 Jun 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaIt's been a big week around these parts--Will helped reveal a new game at E3, and Brad helped launch a new online media property--so we did a potpourri episode touching on a bunch of the technical details of working on these projects, including:...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3690discord,duckduckgo,e3,git,linus torvalds,nextlander,powershell,summer game fest,the anacrusis,twitchfalse91fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/90-control-my-monitor--75729182https://www.nextofwindows.com/when-was-my-windows-10-originally-installedClonezilla, the drive-imaging tool: https://clonezilla.org/Ninite, the multi-app installer: https://ninite.com/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! 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This time around we consider such listener-provided topics as questionable soap-on-soap interactions, discerning frame rate by eye, dot-com-era layoffs, the legacy and contemporary...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4095dot-com,frame rate,gateway 2000,hdmi,layoffs,neal stephenson,neuromancer,snow crashfalse89fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/88-it-just-makes-the-lithium-angrier--75729227https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1396003181151272963Science Magazine on the EV battery-recycling problem: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/millions-electric-cars-are-coming-what-happens-all-dead-batteriesThe fiery Houston Tesla crash: https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/04/18/2-men-dead-after-fiery-tesla-crash-in-spring-officials-say/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! 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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>c2b904bd-49dd-44c4-bef5-7491a84b4943Sun, 09 May 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaVery special guest Vinny Caravella joins us this week for a wide-ranging chat about his years of video production, juggling cameras in the early days of Whiskey Media, a love letter to analog signals, the infamous List of Terminated HDMI Adopters, a...https://www.hdmi.org/adopter/terminatedSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! 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Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>f87016c3-38ea-416d-b2d5-70ff83dfc8f0Sun, 25 Apr 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaEmail time! In this month's Q&A, we talk about Spring cleaning and strategies for organizing electronics with limited storage space, overusing ellipses and other Internet chat habits, long-lost Usenet posts, the great turn-of-the-century capacitor...https://gretchenmcculloch.com/podcast/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! 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CDC COVID Data Tracker

NYT Article About Kati Kariko

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CDC COVID Data Tracker

NYT Article About Kati Kariko

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You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>322df42a-6c97-41dc-ab41-9b8a863fb892Sun, 11 Apr 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaUltra-wideband support has been making its way into phones for a couple of years now, but... what the heck is it? This week we attempt to demystify this old wireless technology being adapted for modern devices, including its potential for very fine...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3515airpods,android,apple,bluetooth,headphones,iphone,samsung,tesla,u1 chip,ultra-widebandfalse82fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/81-a-cube-of-cold-opens--75729278Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6e0ea890-0a6e-400f-8c87-bb80d7a19ff1Sun, 04 Apr 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWhat is this week's episode about, you might ask? Why, it has a delightfully floral scent, almost like... a potpourri. You could say it's sort of a buffet, offering a little something for everyone. It's a little from column A, a little from columns B...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3309bohemian rhapsody,cold open,discman,dishwasher,evony online,fingerless gloves,lord of the rings,screwdriverfalse81fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/80-that-s-a-sewer-diamond--75729245Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>0f908ed0-5569-41c7-bb70-f242c7bc1109Sun, 28 Mar 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaLike Spring, emails are upon us once again, and this month we talk about such listener-provided topics as the stagnation of flash memory, a Starlink trip report, some of the downsides of PC-building, multithreading video games, TVs that are monitors...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4030cpu,flash memory,multithreading,pc,ssd,video games,water treatmentfalse80fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/79-a-subsidiary-of-starko-industries--75729286Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodIGN's summary of Joy Con lawsuits and joystick damage:https://www.ign.com/articles/all-the-lawsuits-nintendo-is-facing-over-joy-con-driftiFixit's breakdown of the DualSense joysticks (also thanks to them for the show image):https://www.ifixit.com/News/48944/heres-why-ps5-joysticks-drift-and-why-theyll-only-get-worseTronicsFix on the DualSense triggers:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rNITneXnCo&t=555s  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3e81c2c4-66f1-45de-a6c6-47e891096c3cSun, 21 Mar 2021 07:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWhat the heck is going on with modern video game controllers? That's the question we're trying to address this week, with Joy Con and DualSense analog stick drift, unresponsive Xbox face buttons, do-it-yourself repair, advanced soldering techniques,...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodIGN's summary of Joy Con lawsuits and joystick damage:https://www.ign.com/articles/all-the-lawsuits-nintendo-is-facing-over-joy-con-driftiFixit's breakdown of the DualSense joysticks (also thanks to them for the show image):https://www.ifixit.com/News/48944/heres-why-ps5-joysticks-drift-and-why-theyll-only-get-worseTronicsFix on the DualSense triggers:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rNITneXnCo&t=555s  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3942analog stick drift,buttons,controller,dualsense,ifixit,joy con,microsoft,nintendo,playstation,soldering,sony,switch,triggers,xboxfalse79fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/78-the-one-with-the-racing-stripes--75729251Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>75ad98a9-9a97-45ed-bf6c-008d3e045abcSun, 14 Mar 2021 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis week our quest to find consensus on the best advancements in PC-building reaches its end. From the USB superposition to the class warfare of fancy motherboards, the baffling duality of the M.2 socket, the many flavors of PCI Express, and the...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5731headlamp,linux,m.2,motherboard,nvme,operating system,pc building,pci express,sata,usb,windowsfalse78fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/77-big-shoutout-to-thumbscrews--75729287Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>95f1d127-c2c7-4d4a-83a8-1d985d8d192cSun, 07 Mar 2021 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe urge to rank is upon us again, and this time we're looking to put together a list of the best advancements in hardware over our 25-year history of building PCs. Can modular power supplies step to the mighty universal serial bus? Is there anything...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5348bios,cpu,ethernet,gpu,headlamp,motherboard,pc building,pci express,power supply,sata,usbfalse77fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/76-hell-or-palo-alto--75729284Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>358fff81-a4af-4f62-b8c7-c378afd240c0Sun, 28 Feb 2021 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaListener emails return after a brief hiatus, and this time they bring chatter about the correct Windows taskbar positioning, the latest PlayStation VR news, where we think AR might be going, "biannual" workarounds, a lament for the closure of Fry's,...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4746ar,astrophysics,augmented reality,dyson sphere,freeman dyson,fry's,playstation vr,rss,taskbar,windows 10false76fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/75-the-right-right-stuff-stuff--75729288Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>23c0e98c-d55a-4f58-a39d-7ce97a36af7fSun, 21 Feb 2021 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we're joined by Adam Rogers, Wired senior correspondent and author of Proof: The Science of Booze, to talk all things alcohol. Topics include millennia-old fermentation practices, the stimulant/depressant dichotomy of drinking, that...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4487adam rogers,alcohol,beer,booze,cognac,fermentation,rye,whiskey,wine,wired,yeastfalse75fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/74-mining-for-computronium--75729260The Google GraveyardGoogle's statement on the Stadia pivotThe guy who founded his own ISPSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>c0751ad0-c304-4035-a9ea-4652879a40deSun, 14 Feb 2021 18:36:40 +0000Welly CnovaGoogle's "pivot" away from first-party Stadia development seemed like a good cue to spend an episode not only pondering the future of the company's game-streaming service--including third-party applications for Stadia's technology stack, and what all...The Google GraveyardGoogle's statement on the Stadia pivotThe guy who founded his own ISPSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3760chromecast,computronium,culture series,fiber,google,iain banks,isp,stadia,streaming,video gamesfalse74fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/73-thirteen-issues-a-year--75729231Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's the short article that kicked off this ep, about Future, Chris Anderson, and .net Magazine:https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/magazines-about-the-web-sitepoint-smashing-magazine-net-magazine-css-tricks/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>68949025-5f3b-4712-ab62-439fc1ca2dadSun, 07 Feb 2021 08:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWill used to work for a tech magazine. Brad always wanted to. We both read more than our fair share back in the day. So let's talk about magazines! In this ep we look back on those mammoth issues of Computer Shopper, our love of the PC Gamer demo CD,...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's the short article that kicked off this ep, about Future, Chris Anderson, and .net Magazine:https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/magazines-about-the-web-sitepoint-smashing-magazine-net-magazine-css-tricks/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3991archive.org,computer shopper,demo cd,future publishing,ign,imagine games network,maximum pc,pc gamerfalse73fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/72-the-state-of-the-virtual-union--75729178Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5dad7285-0d22-4422-b332-0c2eb9e6104cSun, 31 Jan 2021 17:52:15 +0000Welly CnovaIt's time for a check-in on the health of VR, including the latest in headsets and controllers, standout games and productivity software, the open-sourcing of Tilt Brush, our amazement that Windows Mixed Reality still exists, and the potential for AR...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5223half-life alyx,hp reverb 2,htc vive,oculus quest 2,oculus rift,tilt brush,valve index,virtual reality,vive cosmos,vr,windows mixed realitytrue72fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/71-curiosity-and-perseverance--75729266Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>95c5cad7-1382-451d-a763-f1057879573eSun, 24 Jan 2021 18:46:37 +0000Welly CnovaFriend of the podcast Doug Ellison from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab stops by to give us the lowdown on the newest Mars rover Perseverance, set to land on the red planet in just a few weeks, plus all kinds of fun info about Lagrange transceivers, making...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5958curiosity,drones,europa,jet propulsion laboratory,jpl,mars,nasa,perseverancefalse71fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/70-executed-by-google--75729176Intel's ARK CPU Fact Sheet SiteAMD's Product Fact Sheet Site Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>da05bcb8-697e-4a73-82e2-657daae9ac6bSun, 17 Jan 2021 14:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaTime for some 2021 emails! This month we talked about dearly departed Google products, how to fix a broken USB port (or whether you should even try), how we got started doing this, why your TOSLINK cable is keyed, a lab meat topic we should never have...Intel's ARK CPU Fact Sheet SiteAMD's Product Fact Sheet Site Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3971blue snowball,google,lab meat,lord of the rings,s/pdif,toque,toslink,usb portfalse70fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/69-the-gravest-day--75729292Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>11518410-145a-4dfd-ac36-55a9070df64eSun, 10 Jan 2021 14:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe were unable to turn our attention to anything but the week's horrifying events in Washington, D.C., so for this episode we had a freewheeling chat about... well, everything, including some perspective from Will's time working on the Hill, the...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3183capitol building,congress,electoral college,fascism,infosec,insurrection,sedition,trumpfalse69fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/68-the-treacherous-world-of-magnetic-flux--75729270Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's the Computer Chronicles episode we're discussing this week, S03E16 from 1985:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBsKakmW0fs Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>e3ab97a4-10aa-4974-84d5-d0e21e0018b8Sun, 03 Jan 2021 14:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe're kicking off 2021 with a trip back to... 1985? Yes, we sat down with a vintage episode of the Computer Chronicles to reflect on the hard disk's momentous arrival on the personal computing scene. Join us as we take a look back at drives measured...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's the Computer Chronicles episode we're discussing this week, S03E16 from 1985:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBsKakmW0fs Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3692computer chronicles,hard drives,hyperdrive,ibm xt,lucasfilm,macintoshfalse68fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/67-nog-ambitions--75729184Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5ef6a82f-50e2-4707-a2dc-057e0c2f634eSun, 27 Dec 2020 14:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWith 2020 (finally) drawing to a close, we look back on a few of our favorite tech things, big or small, from this challenging year. From advances in medical science to ways to stay social from afar, from new workflows we worked out to new gadgets we,...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5039animal crossing,coronavirus,covid-19,eggnog,laser cutter,mister,nas,nintendo switch,playstation 5,ssd,vaccinefalse67fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/66-that-classic-chonk--75729235Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>90b3b251-10db-46b4-83ff-c16062fc6ef6Sun, 20 Dec 2020 14:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaOur last email ep of 2020 addresses such topics as: how to trust Google search results (or not), bad tech habits we just can't shake, how to get and stay digitally organized, the worth of external GPU enclosures, a life-changing tip about our Gmail...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4185beanie,cat6,egpu,fiber,gigabit,gmail,google,networking,reminders,sled,tobogganfalse66fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/65-visionary-or-villain--75729186Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's the article we reference extensively throughout the episode:The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food:https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4ac97f3a-6759-4206-aa4d-51bdd6c0f747Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaProduct design is on our minds this week, starting with the industry-redefining research that led to the production of modern, psychologically optimized junk food. Have the same sensibilities now overtaken the design of consumer electronics? Do...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's the article we reference extensively throughout the episode:The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food:https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3529airpods,airpods max,cheetos,home theater,junk food,lunchables,sonos,soundbarfalse65fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/64-that-cheapskate-cumulonimbus--75729224Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>cbe80a1c-cf87-485c-9a88-a066cfb87114Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThe time has come to discuss 5G and the latest cellular data specs (largely because Will got an iPhone 12). We get into his hands-on experience with 5G speeds, the differences between low, medium, and high-band spectra, how 5G compares to LTE, what...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>37495g,android,at&t,fcc,iphone,iphone 12,millimeter wave,nasa,noaa,verizon,weather forecastfalse64fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/63-brad-and-will-build-a-dream-house--757292915cdccbfa-7195-4033-a658-e7138aca5e70Sun, 29 Nov 2020 14:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWhile we're nursing our meat hangovers, we took a cue from last week's email about future-proofing your home to chat about 21st-century home ownership, including the thermodynamically efficient passive house, strategies for replacing cables in walls,...3700air conditioning,concrete,conduit,dark fiber,ethernet,gigabit,hdmi,heating,home building,insulation,passive house,plumbing,rack mountfalse63fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/62-pemdas-for-monitors--75729244Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>8325f809-d344-4cc1-9582-773eda15e5cdSun, 22 Nov 2020 14:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaOur Fall cornucopia of emails contains such succulent questions as: How future-proof should your new smart home be? To prebuilt PC or not to prebuilt PC? Where are all the HDMI 2.1 accessories? How do you wrangle a monitor and a TV in Windows? Plus, a...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4693av receiver,christmas,drones,hdmi 2.1,holidays,oled,open source,pemdas,skype,smart home,thanksgiving,windows 10,zoomfalse62fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/61-the-bad-kind-of-complexity--75729191

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   Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4349embark studios,iphone 12,lidar,mouse,pcb,playstation 5,soldering,xbox series xfalse61fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/60-forgiveness-not-permission--75729236Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>de9402b9-edbf-4428-b3fc-a8aa4c108791Sun, 08 Nov 2020 14:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaBig AMD energy this week. PC World's Gordon Mah Ung has gotten his hands on the new Ryzen 5000 series chips, and now he's here to tell us all about AMD's latest attempt to take the CPU crown (well, that and getting the fire department called). Then we...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>48555600x,5900x,5950x,amd,ampere,big navi,dlss,dxr,geforce 3080,pc world,ray tracing,rdna 2,ryzen 5000,vulkan,zen 3false60fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/59-how-you-know-you-re-living-in-the-future--757292716679fb89-3812-4248-a9ce-c609c876eb19Sun, 01 Nov 2020 14:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaWe've both tumbled down the Home Assistant rabbit hole, so this week we recorded an informal trip report on this sprawling open-source home automation system. Why would you want to replace your commercial hub? What sort of crazy scripting and...4144alexa,amazon,apple home,google,google home,home assistant,home automation,homebridge,homekit,nest,raspberry pi,smartthings,zigbee,z-wavefalse59fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/58-lil-doppler-redshift--75729249Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>fb1f8839-8116-4e5e-9eae-08550231d5afSun, 25 Oct 2020 13:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaOn this month's email show we talk about our love of astrophysics, a PC that could last you forever, bad interface design in consumer electronics, why e-ink screens aren't everywhere, Android longevity, the social niceties of Discord, and a bonus...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5038amd,android,astrophysics,athlon,discord,doppler,e-ink,hubble,intel,irc,lineage os,linux,numlock,nvidia reflex,pentium,personal computer,redshiftfalse58fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/57-everything-s-bigger-in-texas--75729234Computer Time vs. Human TimeSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>071d36a5-42ca-4a66-8913-b86f3c2f1e35Sun, 18 Oct 2020 13:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaAll these new PC hardware announcements have us feeling nostalgic again, so we took another trip down memory lane to talk in-depth about the '90s 3D accelerator boom. The rise and fall of 3dfx! The OpenGL vs. Direct3D wars! All those .plan updates!...Computer Time vs. Human TimeSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>43053dfx,amd,ati,direct3d,g,geforce,glide,id software,intergraph,john carmack,nvidia,opengl,.plan,radeon,riva tnt,sgi,voodoo,vulkanfalse57fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/56-tressfx-vs-hairworks--75729189Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodLinks!AMD's Zen 3 PresentationPlayStation 5 Teardown Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>528f20fb-3604-4728-9d72-5b0cd49277ccSun, 11 Oct 2020 13:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaThis week, we couldn't resist talking about the newly announced Zen 3 CPUs from AMD, along with the tease of their upcoming Big Navi-based graphics cards, plus a bonus segment on that PlayStation 5 teardown. We're just a couple of big old hardware...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodLinks!AMD's Zen 3 PresentationPlayStation 5 Teardown Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4002amd,big navi,chiplet,core,intel,liquid metal,playstation 5,ps5,rdna2,ryzen,ryzen 5900x,teardown,zen 3false56fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/55-five-altairian-dollars-a-day--75729272Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>616fcee4-2e9c-4dbf-9705-3edbe339649cSun, 04 Oct 2020 13:00:00 +0000Welly CnovaBrad just read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the first time (and Will reread it for the eleventy-thousandth), and now we're here to discuss the book's cheeky sci-fi Anglicisms and cavalier relationship with reality and metaphysics, its endless...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3455arthur dent,douglas adams,drone,hitchhiker's guide to the gala,iphone,mos def,sam rockwell,trillian,zaphod beeblebroxfalse55fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/54-lack-rack--75729280Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>31bdc9bc-9cdb-4571-8d3f-60d2eb078298Sun, 27 Sep 2020 13:00:14 +0000Welly CnovaThe emails cometh, and bringeth with them questions and tips about why nobody can order a 3080 or PS5, the eyeball-saving properties of red nightlights, rounded vs. angular phone design, consumerism in tech and ethics in coding, and, yes, how to make...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4135automation,coding,geforce 3080,headlamp,ikea hacks,ikea lack,iphone 12,iphone 4,playstation 5,preorder,programming,red lightfalse54fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/53-the-mass-to-volume-ratio--75729248Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>e39d57b0-38ea-4d8d-a66c-30b650458da6Sun, 20 Sep 2020 13:00:22 +0000Welly CnovaNvidia bought ARM. Nvidia bought ARM! It's one of the biggest semiconductor deals in history, so we dive deep into what it all means, from some basics on CPU architecture to the implications for the mobile, enterprise, and machine-learning markets....Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4090android,apple,arm,cortex,geforce,iphone,macbook,mips,nvidia,risc-v,switchfalse53fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/52-it-s-an-app-basket--75729256Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodSome useful links for this week's show:Moonlight - https://moonlight-stream.org/Steam Link - https://store.steampowered.com/steamlink/about/Parsec - https://parsecgaming.com/Raspberry Pi 3 - https://amzn.to/35xiL7yRaspberry Pi 4 - https://amzn.to/2FfcDWNURI vs. URL - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier#URLs_and_URNs Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>fd0876a9-868c-4b1c-985a-1f757caa0731Sun, 13 Sep 2020 13:00:23 +0000Welly CnovaPlaying video games remotely has gotten surprisingly good lately, so this week we decided to sit down and figure out the what's what of home game streaming. From older options like Steam Link to the Parsecs and Moonlights of today, not to mention some...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodSome useful links for this week's show:Moonlight - https://moonlight-stream.org/Steam Link - https://store.steampowered.com/steamlink/about/Parsec - https://parsecgaming.com/Raspberry Pi 3 - https://amzn.to/35xiL7yRaspberry Pi 4 - https://amzn.to/2FfcDWNURI vs. URL - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier#URLs_and_URNs Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3773chat roulette,geforce now,glosc,h.265,moonlight,nvidia shield,parsec,playstation 5,ps4 remote play,rainway,stadia,steam link,xbox series x,xcloudfalse52fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/51-the-man-with-the-spatula--75729199Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>bea24c8b-d4d8-4a51-9fdc-77bb3c4c2799Sun, 06 Sep 2020 13:00:22 +0000Welly CnovaLast week Brad and Will got to attend a virtual deep dive on Nvidia's new 30-series GPUs, and in this ep we attempt to break down all the new ray-tracing optimizations, DirectStorage capability, whole-system latency reduction, push-pull cooler...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>60072080ti,3070,3080,3090,directstorage,dlss,geforce,gtx,input lag,latency,nvidia,nvme,pcie,ray tracing,reflex,rtx,ssd,titanfalse51fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/50-two-is-one-one-is-none--75729198Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodShow art credit: Chechu RiskGemini (a Gopher-like protocol)Camera Clamp Tripod Extender(Use 2x Camera clamps + one tripod extender to make a monitor arm mountable camera mount) Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4aaee0b8-2933-4e12-9de0-c1ebf552290dSun, 30 Aug 2020 13:00:16 +0000Welly CnovaOur 50th episode doesn't quite have 50 emails, but it's close: tune in for listener mails about bugout bags, evacuation tips, data over HAM radio, the resilience of municipal fiber, and very, very high-end broadcast video.Support the Pod! Contribute...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodShow art credit: Chechu RiskGemini (a Gopher-like protocol)Camera Clamp Tripod Extender(Use 2x Camera clamps + one tripod extender to make a monitor arm mountable camera mount) Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4289amd,bugout bag,derecho,evacuation,fpga,geforce,gigabit,ham radio,intel,municipal fiber,ndi,ryzen,sdi,wildfiresfalse50fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/49-proto-prepping--75729281Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>7b2414aa-927a-476a-b652-fc2888b82caaSun, 23 Aug 2020 13:00:10 +0000Welly CnovaWith the latest round of California wildfires heavy on our minds, this week we ended up with a wide-ranging conversation about what to take with you when you evacuate, climate change, PCs as space heaters, crawl space water cooling, and the genius of...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4295big basin,california wildfires,climate change,derecho,douglas adams,evacuation,hitchhiker's guide,pc,personal computer,water coolingfalse49fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/48-grip-is-good--75729210Retractable cables (Digital Ant's look pretty good)
Charging station (bamboo or other)
Articulated HDMI extenders (Monoprice is a good bet for these)WillAnker Multiport USB Chargers  
MagSafe-like USB cables - Digital Ant Gen-X Micro
A good headlamp - Black Diamond Spot 325
USB-powered lights stuck under the bottom edge of your monitor
USB pantry/closet light Amico Motion Sensor Closet Light
Soldering extra hands - KOTTO Third Hands  
Unipod thingy for webcam/whatever - Dinkum Systems Action Pod Pro
Cable grabbers - Bluelounge CableDrop    
Nano bubble  grip surfaceSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>880208eb-b3d5-4d50-a3c1-c55f5d2be297Sun, 16 Aug 2020 13:00:08 +0000Welly CnovaFollowing up on our software unitasker ep from a few weeks ago, we're now moving into the physical realm. This week we run down a few of our favorite devices, trinkets, and doodads that make it just a little bit easier to get things done.Here's a...Retractable cables (Digital Ant's look pretty good)
Charging station (bamboo or other)
Articulated HDMI extenders (Monoprice is a good bet for these)WillAnker Multiport USB Chargers  
MagSafe-like USB cables - Digital Ant Gen-X Micro
A good headlamp - Black Diamond Spot 325
USB-powered lights stuck under the bottom edge of your monitor
USB pantry/closet light Amico Motion Sensor Closet Light
Soldering extra hands - KOTTO Third Hands  
Unipod thingy for webcam/whatever - Dinkum Systems Action Pod Pro
Cable grabbers - Bluelounge CableDrop    
Nano bubble  grip surfaceSupport the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4649cable grabber,genki covert dock,hdmi,headlamp,magsafe,motion lights,nano bubble,nintendo switch,soldering iron,soup wallet,unipod,usb chargerfalse48fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/47-key-hoarding--75729282Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodSome mech keyboard resources:Drop: https://drop.com/Keyboard Catalog: http://keyboardcatalog.com/Deskthority: https://deskthority.net/NovelKeys: https://novelkeys.xyz/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3aa05cca-72f2-4a2b-acf7-725d4e134049Sun, 09 Aug 2020 13:00:41 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we very carefully lower ourselves into the unthinkably deep rabbit hole of mechanical keyboards. If you've ever wanted to know your MX reds from your blues, tenkeyless from 65%, keycaps, backlights, and more, this episode is for you.Support...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodSome mech keyboard resources:Drop: https://drop.com/Keyboard Catalog: http://keyboardcatalog.com/Deskthority: https://deskthority.net/NovelKeys: https://novelkeys.xyz/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4364backlight,cherry mx,ergodox,keyboard switches,keycaps,mechanical keyboard,membrane keyboard,mx red,n-key rollover,numpad,rgb,tenkeylessfalse47fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/46-the-suborbitable-caterpillar--75729187Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's the magical hanging cable organizer in all its full-size glory: https://imgur.com/a/r4URJ0G Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>bfa732d5-2765-4ac4-a100-d26d819dbba5Sun, 02 Aug 2020 13:00:03 +0000Welly CnovaEeeeeeeeeeeeeeemails this month address questions like: Where the heck are the color e-ink readers? Can we imagine a world without DNS? What in the world is a sputtering target? Want a quick 'n easy cable-organizing tip that will BLOW YOUR...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's the magical hanging cable organizer in all its full-size glory: https://imgur.com/a/r4URJ0G Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3497apple,cables,cloudflare,cpu,dns,e-ink,gopher,iphone,kindle,nook,sputtering target,ups,waferfalse46fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/45-no-tonsil-stone-zone--75729196Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's Wes' article on PC Gamer about pfSense: https://www.pcgamer.com/i-built-my-own-super-router-out-of-old-pc-parts-and-ive-never-felt-so-powerful/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>b329676b-d5b3-431b-8850-eec2f24bd034Sun, 26 Jul 2020 13:00:05 +0000Welly CnovaPC Gamer's Wes Fenlon stops by to talk about turning an old PC into a new router. Why would you want to roll your own router in the first place? What are your hardware and software options to do so? What kind of fancy new network stuff can you do with...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's Wes' article on PC Gamer about pfSense: https://www.pcgamer.com/i-built-my-own-super-router-out-of-old-pc-parts-and-ive-never-felt-so-powerful/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4140amplifi,firewall,freenas,mesh,netgear,opnsense,orbi,pfsense,router,truenas,ubiquiti,wififalse45fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/44-alt-barney-dinosaur-die-die-die--75729293Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's the microsuction stuff Will mentions in the intro: https://www.amazon.com/Sewell-Direct-AirStick-Microsuction-250mmx300mm/dp/B00ITX9OU2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=notthatwill0d-20&linkId=4f0530f913b3084c875bb01bf3140f20&language=en_USDust off your telnet client and let's all play Legend of the Red Dragon: https://lord.stabs.org/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>0f8c95b2-3c56-4510-8d81-38c13e5f9341Sun, 19 Jul 2020 13:00:11 +0000Welly CnovaIn these trying times, we thought a nostalgic little walk down memory lane might be nice. Join us as we look back at the '90s Internet, from PPP connections and .plan files to Gopher, IRC, and Will's part in the Eternal September.Support the Pod!...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's the microsuction stuff Will mentions in the intro: https://www.amazon.com/Sewell-Direct-AirStick-Microsuction-250mmx300mm/dp/B00ITX9OU2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=notthatwill0d-20&linkId=4f0530f913b3084c875bb01bf3140f20&language=en_USDust off your telnet client and let's all play Legend of the Red Dragon: https://lord.stabs.org/ Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3579aol,archie,bbs,compuserve,efnet,gopher,irc,trumpet winsock,usenet,vax,wang,windows 95false44fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/43-sigh-ops--75729240Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>79a92b92-1bcb-415c-ba7f-96c8ecb86daeSun, 12 Jul 2020 13:00:02 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we run down a few of the common and not-so-common software tools that make our lives a bit easier. From text-syncing to task-scheduling, audio management and phone automation, we hope there's something in here that can make your life a...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4010anti-virus,apps,automation,cron,encryption,ios,ios 14,malware,shortcuts,voicemeeterfalse43fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/42-it-s-only-a-mistake-if-you-don-t-learn--75729285Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3ecc55be-9100-44e2-94f8-2f7c8b674497Sun, 05 Jul 2020 13:00:18 +0000Welly CnovaThis month's email episode contains some of your own tech horror stories, from melted carpet fibers and shutting down a whole town's Internet to causing seven-figure production stoppages. Also: draconian ISP upstream policies and a chat about the...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4271ad blocking,curta calculator,gpu,intel,power supply,psu,socket,tech horror storiesfalse42fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/41-the-great-simian-mathematician--75729294Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's MKBHD's great iOS 14 hands-on walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLyDvABxGF0 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>7a5ff722-fbe9-456e-9e3a-f5523de774efSun, 28 Jun 2020 13:00:21 +0000Welly CnovaAnother Apple episode already? Yeah, we didn't expect it either until WWDC brought such a bounty of new stuff to talk about. In addition to ARM-based Macs, somehow iOS managed to be the most interesting thing at this year's conference. Home screen...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's MKBHD's great iOS 14 hands-on walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLyDvABxGF0 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3762a12z,app defaults,apple,app library,arm macbooks,ios 14,ipad os,siri,smr,wd red,widgets,wwdc,x86false41fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/40-gigantic-flaming-luminous-orb--75729289Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>9d13d94e-bb5e-46ba-84ef-27c32465846aSun, 21 Jun 2020 13:00:06 +0000Welly CnovaOh, the horror! This week we recount some of the tech disasters from our past. From near-miss electrocutions to ruined prototype hardware, PC-building boondoggles, all-night server restores, and extremely lucky data recovery, relive some of our best...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3650bios,cpu,data recovery,ethernet,gpu,intel,it,motherboard,nvidia,pci-express,tech horror stories,twisted pair,video cardfalse40fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/39-the-eternal-optimist--75729246https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4a28e675-ce68-48fd-9540-def393352b9cSun, 14 Jun 2020 13:00:12 +0000Welly CnovaThings are rough out there, so this week we recorded a free-wheeling episode about tech-ish self-care strategies for things like exercise, meditation, lighting, and so forth. Plus: Will's making his own MiSTer case!Support the Pod! Contribute to the...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>32767 minute workout,blue light,exercise,fpga,insight timer,meditation,misterfalse39fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/38-embrace-extend-extinguish--75729297Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6c4d820f-82e8-4cd4-8dff-2bf354571e4fSun, 07 Jun 2020 13:00:04 +0000Welly CnovaIt's time for infosec episode, the sequel! Will recounts the hackery he's dealt with since our initial podcast about online security a few weeks ago, then we grade the big tech companies on their privacy efforts (or lack thereof) and dig into the...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3333amazon,apple,cambridge analytica,chrome,cookies,data collection,edge chromium,facebook,firefox,google,microsoft,pi-hole,trackingfalse38fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/37-mr-reginald-edit--75729295Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's the American Cinematographer deep dive on The Mandalorian's production that we mentioned a couple weeks ago. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>52cfa280-b5b2-4ed6-8189-752226f6a6b4Sun, 31 May 2020 13:00:31 +0000Welly CnovaSupport the Pod! Contribute to the https://patreon.com/techpod and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's the...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's the American Cinematographer deep dive on The Mandalorian's production that we mentioned a couple weeks ago. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>2460algorithm,auto-complete,ethernet,google,mesh network,playstation 5,the mandalorian,xbox series x,youtubefalse37fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/36-the-frankencoder-liiiiiiives--75729205Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>2fb34ff1-18f9-4901-a2d0-18d7d4c82a32Sun, 24 May 2020 13:00:08 +0000Welly CnovaWith everyone trapped indoors, streaming video on the Internet is an especially good way to connect with people right now. This week we did a broad survey of practical streaming tech, from hardware and software setups to codecs and protocols, Brad's...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4464blue snowball,blue yeti,codec,encoder,ffmpeg,microphone,mixer,nvenc,obs,quicksync,rtmp,streaming,twitch,twitch.tv,vmix,x264,xsplit,youtubefalse36fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/35-every-polygon-is-a-pixel--75729309Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodUnreal Engine 5 tech demoThe Mandalorian virtual set deep diveUE4 Next-Gen Virtual Production Demo Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>1aa87de5-8611-49da-bc10-432f4b0d8872Sun, 17 May 2020 13:00:04 +0000Welly CnovaWith the advent of another generational Unreal Engine tech demo, it's time to have a live watch party and then mull over what the UE5 tech means for asset creation, real-time lighting, and other trends in game development, and then gush over the...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodUnreal Engine 5 tech demoThe Mandalorian virtual set deep diveUE4 Next-Gen Virtual Production Demo Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4268disney plus,epic games,jon favreau,lumen,nanite,playstation 5,polygons,tech demo,the mandalorian,triangles,unreal engine 5,xbox series xfalse35fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-my-other-computer-is-a-datacenter--75729308Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

• Google Takeout
• Tock
• Google Corkboard Server
• The Google Server Rack We Discussed
• Tefi Tape
• Fermilab Tevatron
• Tevatron Magnet
• Iomega Pocketzip
•  

Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6eb56909-db33-412a-939c-92ef38701627Sun, 10 May 2020 13:00:07 +0000Welly CnovaFriend of the pod Brian Fitzpatrick of Tock Inc. and ORD Camp stops by to talk about the early days of big data at Google, shipping 1500-pound rack servers, working on widely used open-source software, and how to score a half-ton irradiated...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

• Google Takeout
• Tock
• Google Corkboard Server
• The Google Server Rack We Discussed
• Tefi Tape
• Fermilab Tevatron
• Tevatron Magnet
• Iomega Pocketzip
•  

Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3818brian fitzpatrick,datacenter,electromagnet,fermilab,git,github,google,large hadron collider,ord camp,subversion,svn,tevatron,tock inc.true34fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/33-prudiest-common-denominator--75729261Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

• How Windows works on ARM
• How Microsoft does x86 emulation
• Bloomberg Report on ARM on OSX
• Gruber on ARM OSX

Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4e547476-9afc-4c70-aea2-fe0936712071Sun, 03 May 2020 13:00:15 +0000Welly CnovaBy all accounts, Apple is moving its laptops to ARM sooner than later. What's this transition going to mean for existing MacOS software? How many days straight will your new MacBook run on battery? Can we envision a big old Mac Pro running on an itsy...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

• How Windows works on ARM
• How Microsoft does x86 emulation
• Bloomberg Report on ARM on OSX
• Gruber on ARM OSX

Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3756amd,apple,arm,core 10900k,intel,ipad,ipad pro,iphone,macbook,mac pro,ryzen,steve jobs,tsmc,x86false33fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/32-bless-the-drive--75729203Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>a270be07-5be5-4374-a663-35b003e2d1abSun, 26 Apr 2020 13:00:03 +0000Welly CnovaTime for another Q&A! This week we discuss listener-submitted emails about the ultra-sandboxed future of Windows 10X, a short mouse retrospective, waiting for the right time to build a new PC, electron beams 'n electromagnets, questionable phone...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4981ampere,biometrics,comet lake,covid-19 test,crt,faceid,intel,iphone se,joy con,mouse,rocket lake,ryzen,sandbox,windows 10x,xbox 360,xbox elite controller,zen 3false32fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/31-virtuals-on-virtuals-on-virtuals--75729299Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>c0f83d05-96ef-4b6b-8dae-2931fac07871Sun, 19 Apr 2020 13:00:04 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we reach into our grab bag of homebound projects to chat about the tech stuff we're up to lately, from Will's ray-traced camera obscura and adventures in Behringer mixing to Brad's efforts to bring a FrankenMiSTer to life and get to the...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3904acrylic,audio mixer,behringer,caseta,cree,laser cutting,led lighting,lutron,minecraft rtx,mister fpga,nas,ray-tracing,samba,smr hard drive,wd redfalse31fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/30-the-neighborhood-software-pirate--75729300Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>d885b113-eddd-475d-8fa4-458375827f05Sun, 12 Apr 2020 13:00:11 +0000Welly CnovaSpecial guest time! Digital Eclipse's Mike Mika joins us to talk about the early days of programming video games, how not to get murdered by your arcade machine, reverse engineering classic games without source code, the coming CRT apocalypse, and...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4645apple ii,arcade games,arcade machine,assembly language,commodore 64,crt,digital eclipse,emulation,fpga,mike mika,mister,mister fpga,other ocean,vector monitor,video game history foundationfalse30fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/29-have-laser-will-cut--75729206Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodSome links from this week's episode:That 3D-printable NAS case: https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-mk735-mini-server-nas-chassis-96113The ground loop isolator Brad bought: https://www.amazon.com/Isolator-Audiophile-Frequency-Without-Distortion/dp/B01N10AQ76/Get the blue screen of death back: https://winaero.com/blog/show-bsod-details-instead-of-the-sad-smiley-in-windows-10/Laser-cuttable PPE: http://bit.ly/solinflatpack  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>ace0dc44-deca-410b-a869-b3bf8252ae88Sun, 05 Apr 2020 13:00:07 +0000Welly CnovaIn this grab bag of an episode, we cover topics ranging from ground loop isolators to the MiSTer, fixing holes in air mattresses, modern uses for 3D printing, an in-depth primer on coronavirus testing, reclaiming that precious blue screen of death,...Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodSome links from this week's episode:That 3D-printable NAS case: https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-mk735-mini-server-nas-chassis-96113The ground loop isolator Brad bought: https://www.amazon.com/Isolator-Audiophile-Frequency-Without-Distortion/dp/B01N10AQ76/Get the blue screen of death back: https://winaero.com/blog/show-bsod-details-instead-of-the-sad-smiley-in-windows-10/Laser-cuttable PPE: http://bit.ly/solinflatpack  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>47523d printing,air mattress,blue screen of death,coronavirus,covid-19,folding@home,fpga,mister,pcr test,power supplyfalse29fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/28-low-bidet-lability--75729215

Serious Eats Food Safety

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Social Distancing Strategies for Curbing COVID-19

COVID Tracking Project

 As always, we couldn't make this show without our Patrons. Special thanks to our Producer-level Patrons! Executive Producer - David Allen
Associate Producer - Iain Baillie
Associate Producer - Graham Banks
Associate Producer - Sam Buck
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Associate Producer - Thomas Shea Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>d5ec7f2e-e570-4e2b-b028-3a5d00086aa0Sun, 29 Mar 2020 13:00:01 +0000Welly Cnova - https://www.seriouseats.com/2020/03/food-safety-and-coronavirus-a-comprehensive-guide.html - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjDuwc9KBps&feature=youtu.be - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.22.20041079v1.full.pdfe-guide.html -...

Serious Eats Food Safety

The YouTube Food Video

Social Distancing Strategies for Curbing COVID-19

COVID Tracking Project

 As always, we couldn't make this show without our Patrons. Special thanks to our Producer-level Patrons! Executive Producer - David Allen
Associate Producer - Iain Baillie
Associate Producer - Graham Banks
Associate Producer - Sam Buck
Associate Producer - Ezekiel Holiman
Associate Producer - Paul Reust
Associate Producer - Thomas Shea Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4802coronavirus,covid-19,healthcare,kishore hari,mesh network,pandemic,quarantine,router,vaccinefalse28fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/27-the-week-that-it-happened--75729303cba37276-6bb3-410a-9e5a-d9dee9cfbc24Sun, 22 Mar 2020 13:00:05 +0000Welly CnovaMicrosoft and Sony dumped a treasure trove of Xbox and PlayStation hardware specs this week, and we do our best to break down the APIs and SOCs, ponder ultra-fast flash storage and ray tracing, speculate about how the new boxes will affect development...5459directx 12 ultimate,game pass,gddr6,mark cerny,nvme,pcie 4.0,playstation 5,playstation now,ssd,xbox live,xbox series xfalse27fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/26-come-on-downe-to-dongle-towne--75729214https://patreon.com/techpod]]>9f175893-9b7e-4c43-9915-d0e9b1fb876bSun, 15 Mar 2020 16:00:02 +0000Welly CnovaHere's Will's ridiculous portrait ultra-wide monitor: https://imgur.com/a/yy3EJNp Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits!...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>2517coronavirus,covid-9,home office,isolation,loneliness,social distancing,wfh,work from homefalse26fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/25-put-a-doober-in-the-wall--75729296Anker 5-port 60W USB ChargerAnker Quick Charge 3.0 BatteryAnker Wireless Charging PadAnker Wireless Charging Stand Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>5da11182-5800-4fb7-9241-a6a241ed8b50Sun, 08 Mar 2020 16:45:28 +0000Welly Cnovahttps://amzn.to/2PVSAhUhttps://amzn.to/2wF9R8ihttps://amzn.to/2PW2d0ghttps://amzn.to/2TKasxD Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great...Anker 5-port 60W USB ChargerAnker Quick Charge 3.0 BatteryAnker Wireless Charging PadAnker Wireless Charging Stand Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3242apple,charging,fast charge,lightning cable,qi,usb,usb 3,usb-c,usb-pd,wireless chargingfalse25fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/24-the-mad-max-threshold--75729247

d.Light Solar Lantern + Phone Charger

MPOWERD inflatable Solar Lantern

BigBlue 5V 28W Solar Charger

Anker Backup Battery

Lifestraw Personal Size

Lifestraw 1Gallon Bag

UV Light Water Sterilizer

Ensure Milk Chocolate

Emergency Crank-Powered Radio

A Big Car Camping Tent

Sleeping Bags

Bleach

Tea Lights

Emergency Blanket

First Aid Supplies

Gas Shutoff Wrench

Can Opener

Wet Wipes

Demolition Tool

Gerber Shard

Pliers Multitool

Medicine dropper

Fire starters

Electric Match

Jetboil Camp Stove

A Kindle!

N95 Masks (for dust, but not Coronavirus)

Pet Food

People Food

Baby/Kid Supplies

A good starter option: 2 Adult/3 Day Kit (Food + first aid + supplies)

Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>6be14597-6fe2-434a-bbcc-35ffd15b6b05Sun, 01 Mar 2020 17:22:37 +0000Welly Cnova - https://amzn.to/39ne4Mm - https://amzn.to/2vCgHv9 - https://amzn.to/38kkL0r - https://amzn.to/38kVROv - https://amzn.to/2IdGU6b - https://amzn.to/2Iejcqb - https://amzn.to/32LgQbO - https://amzn.to/2IdH915 - https://amzn.to/2TywSlj -...

d.Light Solar Lantern + Phone Charger

MPOWERD inflatable Solar Lantern

BigBlue 5V 28W Solar Charger

Anker Backup Battery

Lifestraw Personal Size

Lifestraw 1Gallon Bag

UV Light Water Sterilizer

Ensure Milk Chocolate

Emergency Crank-Powered Radio

A Big Car Camping Tent

Sleeping Bags

Bleach

Tea Lights

Emergency Blanket

First Aid Supplies

Gas Shutoff Wrench

Can Opener

Wet Wipes

Demolition Tool

Gerber Shard

Pliers Multitool

Medicine dropper

Fire starters

Electric Match

Jetboil Camp Stove

A Kindle!

N95 Masks (for dust, but not Coronavirus)

Pet Food

People Food

Baby/Kid Supplies

A good starter option: 2 Adult/3 Day Kit (Food + first aid + supplies)

Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>2321battery,coronavirus,covid-19,disaster preparedness,fema,mre,n95 mask,power outage,radio,solar power,uart,uv,water purificationfalse24fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/23-some-real-karen-energy--757292114fab0066-8371-4930-b1d1-851a5eca72eeSun, 23 Feb 2020 15:01:14 +0000Welly CnovaQ&A time! On our latest emails episode we cover topics like Raspberry Pi media servers, backing up old Nintendo games, dystopian uses for biometric data, COM ports in 2020, Will's travails with Netflix customer chat, and the ancient, forgotten...31112fa,biometrics,facial recognition,gamecube,handbrake,lightscribe,makemkv,plex,raspberry pi,wii,wii ufalse23fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/22-like-a-70s-oldsmobile--757292215a679bb6-cc43-4ef1-aeb1-da2276d23fc5Sun, 16 Feb 2020 19:26:19 +0000Welly CnovaOur super-definitive ordering of every Windows concludes with the all the modern ones: XP and SP2, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and 10. Remember the Start Screen? Remember WinFS? Remember hooking your unpatched PC straight into your Internet connection? After...4780directx,longhorn,start screen,windows,windows 10,windows 7,windows 8,windows vista,windows xpfalse22fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/21-windows-on-trial--75729253Windows 2000 and Millennium Edition. It's like traveling through time! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>129d576c-fbef-48f4-939b-c607d066b053Sun, 09 Feb 2020 14:00:26 +0000Welly CnovaDon't miss Will's old magazine reviews of https://books.google.com/books?id=GAIAAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false and...Windows 2000 and Millennium Edition. It's like traveling through time! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3459longhorn,microsoft,operating system,ranking,windows,windows 3.1,windows 95false21fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-it-s-like-a-usb-condom--75729301a49413c3-ac1f-4c69-9c66-6ba0ad7f9efeSun, 02 Feb 2020 20:46:37 +0000Welly CnovaInformation security is more important than ever these days, so it's time to talk best practices, from two-factor authentication to Yubi keys, password strength, drive encryption, financial security, and more. Don't miss out on free food like we did!...29311password,2fa,bitwarden,encryption,filevault,gmail,infosec,password manager,recovery codes,two-factor,veracrypt,yubi keyfalse20fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/19-the-codec-sperts--757292556b554413-0e75-47a4-bb20-b7971307936bSun, 26 Jan 2020 18:30:08 +0000Welly CnovaIt's that time again: emails! We're computer-heavy this week with questions about our favorite PC cases and understanding video formats, but we also make time for silicon wafers and diamond-resin grinding wheels, the Kessler Syndrome, and the great...3053cpu fabrication,ffmpeg,kessler syndrome,mac pro,meatloaf,mkv,mp4,pc cases,silicon wafer,spacex,starlink,video formatsfalse19fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/18-a-cave-for-your-hard-drives--7572930426995e28-79ee-4665-818a-7299284f6cb7Sun, 19 Jan 2020 21:54:45 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we're getting NASty... network-attached storage, that is. From wi-fi-enabled USB drives to Synology to FreeNAS and beyond, this episode is a wide-ranging deep dive on network storage options, RAID, ZFS, dealing with open-source media...3579freebsd,freenas,gpl,linux,nas,network attached storage,network ups tools,open source,oracle,plex,qnap,raid,synology,zfsfalse18fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/17-jimmy-dean-organic--7572930540cb68e4-048d-4157-8c61-0a284b40b381Sun, 12 Jan 2020 20:49:12 +0000Welly CnovaAnother Consumer Electronics Show has come and gone, and while we dodged the Vegas bullet this year, we still read all the news: Bluetooth LE audio, fake pork, Sony's fake car, Intel's possibly real GPU, AMD's bazillion chiplets, 360Hz monitors, and...3531360hz,amd,bluetooth le,ces,chiplets,filmmaker mode,impossible pork,intel dg1,playstation 5,ryzen,sony vision-s,threadripperfalse17fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/16-heavy-hdmi--75729238683f9493-6e9e-4f66-b82a-949626a8974bSun, 05 Jan 2020 21:44:33 +0000Welly CnovaWill and Brad turn Qs into As in another mailbag edition of the Tech Pod. Topics include getting hands-on with Half-Life: Alyx, next-gen console minspecs, why there's never a queue to watch Watchmen, Brad's long HDMI cable, and the state of AMD's...3434chiplet,cpu,half-life: alyx,intel,nvme,playstation 5,ps5,ryzen,ssd,star trek,xbox series xfalse16fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/15-bob-iger-will-eat-you--7572926433a1bd7b-ef35-4ae5-89f8-3c55fe08f7d0Mon, 30 Dec 2019 01:10:33 +0000Welly CnovaA new decade is nigh, so what better time to look back on the tech trends that defined the twenty-tens... teens... whatever. From smartphones to 3D movies, home laser cutters to endless payments of $10 a month, settle in for a look back at the decade...49182010s,3d printing,bob iger,disney+,drones,dslr,hulu,justin.tv,laser cutter,netflix,nintendo ds,smartphone,spotify,twitch.tv,voice recognitionfalse15fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/14-it-s-just-math--75729306ac3c49f8-9caa-49f1-a173-1ed67168e099Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:37:12 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we dip our toes into the wild world of ray tracing, from the physical basics to emerging APIs, a brief history of GPU design, what the ray tracing solutions might look like in the new consoles, and a DIY tech demo you can do at your kitchen...3579api,ati,directx,geforce,gpu,intel,nvidia,playstation 5,radeon,ray tracing,vulkan,xbox series xfalse14fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/13-tech-the-halls--75729242www.twinkly.comHomebridge: https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>b1e72d35-4410-49d9-80c5-229854a6f831Sun, 15 Dec 2019 20:14:15 +0000Welly CnovaProgrammable lights: http://www.twinkly.comHomebridge: https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great...www.twinkly.comHomebridge: https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3648apple home,christmas lights,google home,home assistant,home automation,homebridge,homekit,incandescent lights,led lights,openhab,twinkly,zigbee,z-wavefalse13fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/12-i-have-a-website--75729225ac25ad63-deae-4462-9db6-de7b6b64aa5aSun, 01 Dec 2019 18:50:06 +0000Welly CnovaYou ask and we answer! This week, we tackle relevant tech topics like chicken farming, vaporware, drive-by-wire, upgrading a 486 to a 586, and what will definitely be the final email about cooking rice in a pressure cooker. Enjoy! Support the Pod!...3656486,586,chicken,errata,farming,greybeard,rice cooker,upgrade,vaporwarefalse12fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/11-spatchcock-central--75729241a4b89b2b-646c-4652-bb4d-274ab00b1eb4Sun, 24 Nov 2019 18:24:50 +0000Welly CnovaThe annual giving of thanks is almost upon us, so Brad and Will sat down to chew the well-rendered bird fat about a few of the technologies they're thankful for, from noise-canceling headphones to... speedy Windows installs? Support the Pod!...3231game streaming,home automation,noise-canceling headphones,plug and play,podcast recording,spatchcocking,ssd,steam link,stuffing,thanksgivingfalse11fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/10-the-corgi-of-cars--75729254self-driving car GIF Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>434c928f-b81a-4266-8b49-6f088dd61354Sun, 17 Nov 2019 18:48:29 +0000Welly CnovaThat https://i.imgur.com/1gG63Os.gif Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at:...self-driving car GIF Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3559assistive tech,autopilot,lane-keeping,robot car,self-driving car,teslafalse10fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/9-orthogonal-frequency-division-multiple-access--75729310https://patreon.com/techpod]]>f72eb915-7ae3-4d69-ad59-740919527965Sun, 10 Nov 2019 17:00:02 +0000Welly CnovaApologies for the crackling in the audio! A recording snafu forced us to use a backup recording that wasn't as high quality as we would have liked. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly...https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3309802.11,802.11ax,eero,google home,mesh network,orbi,qam,router,wifi,wi-fi,wi-fi 6,wireless networkfalse9fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/8-the-one-where-we-go-dark--75729259The best reference material I found on quantum computing (It's a comic).Scott Aaronson's blog with a ton of good quantum computing info.Larry Osterman on Microsoft's backwards slashes. The time Pixar deleted Toy Story 2.  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>1b69b476-3f3b-4a25-b10f-f7800f417dc0Sun, 03 Nov 2019 20:03:01 +0000Welly Cnovahttps://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4372https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2005/06/24/why-is-the-dos-path-character/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dhp_20j0Ys Support the Pod! Contribute to...The best reference material I found on quantum computing (It's a comic).Scott Aaronson's blog with a ton of good quantum computing info.Larry Osterman on Microsoft's backwards slashes. The time Pixar deleted Toy Story 2.  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>3195emailsfalse8fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/7-singularities-all-around-us--7572923311f20e72-2052-47fc-8f0c-2d875274545eSun, 27 Oct 2019 17:00:01 +0000Welly CnovaThe technological singularity may or may not be looming in our future, so we attempt to get to the bottom of singularities past and present, quantum intelligence, civilizational collapse, and other cheerful subjects. Plus: a hands-on report and one...3165futurism,logitech,machine learning,neal stephenson,printing press,raymond kurzweil,singularityfalse7fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/6-spray-the-frame-hose--757292576db6c316-b5b7-4b34-aa9b-51440bec8059Sun, 20 Oct 2019 17:00:09 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we crack open the time capsule with the first episode we ever recorded, about screens! From their humble origins with the first analog TVs to modern ultra-fast gaming monitors and adaptive sync in next-gen consoles, we go deep on this most...5287freesync,gsync,microled,monitor,ntsc,oled,refresh rate,tv,vsyncfalse6fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/5-punch-a-couple-of-nuns--75729239a3efbd78-8fe8-4221-9000-506d1b245de6Mon, 14 Oct 2019 01:35:46 +0000Welly CnovaThis week, we talk about supply chain. Why did the iPod Nano beget the iPhone? What's the big deal with batteries? What does the Gmail launch have to do with supply chain? Find out the answers to these questions (and more!) on this week's Tech Pod....3875battery,economics,flash,flash memory,iphone,ipod nano,supply and demand,supply chain,techpod,tech pod,teslafalse5fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/4-a-bomb-that-sits-on-your-stove--75729327e8b2b705-09b0-442f-aeee-7839e0a21629Sun, 06 Oct 2019 20:11:18 +0000Welly CnovaThis week we had the brilliant idea of talking about food tech while we were starving. Pressure cookers! Air fryers! The Maillard reaction! N-nitrogen dewars? Roto-stators? Do people really put sugar in grits? All that and more on our most delicious...3100air fryer,food,instant pot,nitrogen dewar,nitrogen ice cream,pressure cooker,roto-stator,sous videfalse4fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/3-340-trillion-trillion-trillion--75729262https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>cc9be066-5998-4867-bce5-e48816b77633Sun, 29 Sep 2019 18:04:06 +0000Welly CnovaHere's the mid-'90s memo outlining the use of private address ranges like 192.168.0.0 for internal network use. If you happen to be Robert G. Moskowitz, we'd love to chat!https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod...https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918 Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod]]>4371access point,at&t,comcast,dnsmasq,fiber,gigabit,google home,iata,ip,ip address,ipv4,ipv6,mesh networks,nat,router,tcp/ip,ubiquiti,wifi,wi-fifalse3fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2-captain-crunch-s-electric-car--75729333d839a9fa-bd04-4624-803e-53368d57a095Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:24:37 +0000Welly CnovaBatteries power everything from phones and laptops to cars now, but it feels like the technology is lagging behind. Brad and Will talk about different types of batteries and how they work, share some good guidelines for care and maintenance of the...3690batteries,battery,eneloop,gigafactory,lipo,lithium-ion,lithium polymer,nimh,phone battery,primary battery,rechareable battery,techpod,teslatrue2fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/1-we-re-gonna-need-jncos-for-that--757292695b488c2e-5d16-4002-a701-e6cf48caca87Sun, 15 Sep 2019 22:00:31 +0000Welly CnovaBrad and Will contemplate their own mortality while discussing this week's Apple event. Topics include Apple's newest iPhones, Watches, iPads, and services. There's also at least one banger of a segue. Enjoy! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech...3321apple,apple arcade,apple tv+,apple watch,death,ipad,iphone,jncofalse1fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/0-sweatpants-tech-podcast--7572930751e19459-61b9-42f6-9ffe-01b3bbcc7472Thu, 12 Sep 2019 17:23:24 +0000Welly CnovaOn this inaugural episode, Brad and Will share their technological origin stories and why they've always loved tech. Hear the reason they're making a podcast, the stories of their first PC builds, and their love of Socket 7. Enjoy! Support the Pod!...2866falsefull