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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

237 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 456 ratings

Each Sunday, Brad Shoemaker and Will Smith discuss a new technology topic. Come for the long-form conversations about virtual reality, space travel, electric cars, refresh rates, and a whole lot more.

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Episodes

227: A Donut of Good Internet

March 24, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB

Inspired 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 modern mesh networks to fiber in the home, ISP-provided equipment, whether you should separate your wi-fi from your gateway, rolling your own router, the rapidly decreasing cost of high-end network speeds, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to...

226: shooter.exe

March 17, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MB

We'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 in Unreal Engine to push CPUs and GPUs in a game development context, and then we check in on how the grand unification of smart home devices is coming along with the new Matter and Thread standards, now that products have been on the market for...

225: The Goldblum Conjecture

March 10, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 66.2 MB

What 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 Microsoft stages to people in their living rooms, to reminisce about some of the most exciting reveals and try to locate the exact intersection where earnestness and carnival barking meet to create a truly memorable presentation. Show notes and...

224: Heavy Metal Twenty-Something Swagger

March 03, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 76.1 MB

Book 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 pre-id team's blistering one-game-a-month output at Softdisk, technical innovations that led to id's most groundbreaking games, the internal strife that ultimately split the company, retrospective thoughts on a very different mid-'90s Doom 3 than...

223: Our Favorite Corporate Besties

February 25, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MB

This 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 2024, how we use bookmarks these days, our feelings on mechanical versus smart watches, and a long-awaited update on the wi-fi sheep shed. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus e...

222: War of the Chatbots

February 18, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 69.4 MB

News 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 used for, and what sorts of havoc it may wreak. Next, the effects of the EU's Digital Markets Act and the stringent ways that some large platform holders are starting to respond to it (looking at you, Apple). Lastly, the talk out of DICE about ...

221: Cluck to Home Screen

February 11, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 89.6 MB

We'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 external Mac, the ins and outs of the video passthrough (and your loved ones appearing as ghosts atop Mount Hood), and everything in between. Check out Norm's upcoming Vision Pro video, plus all his other work: https://www.youtube.com/@tested Support...

220: Hit That Optimize Button

February 04, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 63.9 MB

PC graphics settings have only gotten more complex in recent years, with new options around AI-driven supersampling, ray tracing, latency reduction, and a bunch of other stuff joining classics like SSAO. We attempt this week to step through the most common settings, with basic explanations and recommendations, as well as our experiences getting things like variable refresh to work, choosing between borderless and fullscreen, debating whether you should just let GeForce Experience do all this...

219: The Mark of Expertise

January 28, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 67.7 MB

We 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 ended up on WASD, crowdfunding a Moon landing, speeding up your bulk photo-scanning, and the shameful faux pas of changing your profile picture. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus...

218: Products People Love

January 21, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MB

Will 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. Before we all standardized on mice and dual analog sticks, there were apparently a lot of different ways to Frankenstein together trackballs, dials, joints, hinges and more, and this week we try to catalog as much of it as we can. Notes for this ep,...

217: Still a Festering Hellhole

January 14, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MB

Another 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 technologies), the strange and ridiculous (AI-powered cat doors, a robot that parks cars, a whole-mouth toothbrush), plus a bonus lightning round where we attempt to stump each other with real versus fake products. Digital Trends' report on the...

216: Tactical Baking Method

January 07, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 73.5 MB

The 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, extending wi-fi across hundreds of feet, whether we'll ever see a 128-bit CPU, L-shaped desks, our auditory sleep strategies, and more. The GDC talk about Bungie's Production Engineering role: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025970/Bungie-s-Force-Multi...

215: Taking the Temperature of the Market

December 31, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 99.6 MB

On 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 that we were most excited about in 2023! Plus, scene drama! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support ...

214: David Smith (Hobbyist)

December 24, 2023 08:00 - 55 minutes - 51.4 MB

This 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 in brain science, the cheapest way to land on the Moon, long-standing math problems solve by amateurs, and the year in science woo.  Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episo...

213: Therapy Over Teams

December 17, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 63.5 MB

We 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 midrange GPUs, the eternal struggle of inputting text with controllers, mixing chocolate milk and lemonade in the same glass (not a euphemism, we swear), pivoting careers mid-life, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get a...

212: Programmable for the Masses

December 10, 2023 08:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MB

The 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 holiday decoration warfare, keeping your CPU from (almost) melting, neglecting your cast iron, maximizing your Panda Express order, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonu...

211: The Drier, the Burnier

December 03, 2023 08:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MB

A cornucopia of great questions graced our podcasting table this month, and from it we drew such topics as (not) mixing and matching your RAM, fishing for game saves in AppData, an appreciation of the demoscene past and present, the redundant measurements that are totally the power company's fault, and the unmitigated decadence of the Tim Tam slam. Here's Area 5150, the IBM PC demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zADeLm9g0Zg MartyPC, the IBM PC/XT emulator: https://github.com/dbalsom/mart...

210: TWELVE HUNDRED MEGARAYS

November 26, 2023 08:00 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MB

Will'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 screen size to weight to battery life, heat and cooling, memory bandwidth, and even the color of the power button. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in th...

209: Please Show the Hamster Guy Some Respect

November 19, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 62.6 MB

It'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 of both wireless and wired headphones, powering one computer off of another computer, learning to love YouTube again, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, ...

208: Don't Be Mean to Racoons

November 12, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MB

We'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 files to A/B testing and eliminating variables, the dos and don'ts of both searching for and contributing to advice online, and other methods of stepping through the problem, hopefully this ep helps make your problem solving just a little bit eas...

207: When Magazines Were Phone Books

November 05, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 72.9 MB

We'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 at the early MMO boom brought on by Ultima Online and EverQuest, a preview of EA's weird social game Majestic, reviews of Voyager: Elite Force, Metal Gear Solid for Windows, and the Geforce 2 Ultra, and a bunch more! Here's the browsable versi...

206: A Bunch of Ferrets Is Called a Business

October 29, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 78 MB

October'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 usefulness of a nut milk bag (seriously) for filtering coffee, and perhaps the most Tech Pod email we've ever received from a contributor to not one but two legendary operating systems. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and ge...

205: More Than a Drip, Less Than a Gush

October 22, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 76.6 MB

This 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 television set. Will has also been testing a coffee brewer FROM SPAAAACE!!!! or at least co-designed by an astrophysicist, and has some tips on zero-bypass brewing, wetting your paper filters (eww), and more. Some links from this episode: Hisens...

204: Science Cookies??

October 15, 2023 19:24 - 1 hour - 62.7 MB

We'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 trains, personal undersea robots, the cottage industry of R2-D2 replica builders, and more, this is your podcast. If you also want to hear about Brad's contemplation of a PC water cooling conversion and Will's recent questionable RGB projects, that's...

203: Don't Mess With Big Encyclopedia

October 08, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 63.9 MB

Following 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 leaders with Microsoft-made equivalents has left us with plenty to talk about, from phones to joysticks, questionable Windows add-ons, an actually superlative streaming service, some very brown portable media players, and plenty more. Big thanks to K...

202: The Puritanical Wrath of the Universe

October 01, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB

A 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 screens even matter in the age of ultra-compressed video, the relative utility of network racks and pizza ovens, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and o...

201: Core 1 Ultra Extreme Plus+

September 24, 2023 22:41 - 1 hour - 76 MB

Intel 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 chiplet-style modular CPU design, their ever-shrinking process nodes, major changes to how the CPUs are named, their first "neural processing unit," how complicated it's getting to benchmark all this stuff, and more. Check out some of PCWorld's recent cove...

200: Bump to Squirt

September 17, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 80.9 MB

Sometimes 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 friends are imminent and Will has installed every available *OS beta and is here to talk about some of the new features (VPN on AppleTV?!?), the newly announced iPhones and Watches, and some other stuff! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech...

199: MAKE ROME

September 10, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 63.7 MB

Will 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 in-depth chat about everything from build servers to source and version control of both code and binary assets, pre-baked lighting, creating automated nightlies of your game, partying in TeamCity, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the T...

198: Insert ASCII Shrug™ Here

September 03, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 67.1 MB

We're back this week with another round of hot tips for making your computing life less annoying, including super secret UI settings, methods of bending digital voice assistants to your will, a low-level Windows hotkey not even Will knew about, the latest PowerToys (since the last time we talked about PowerToys), an easy way to trim videos without encoding them again, the fastest video player in the West, and other tips you won't want to miss! The apps we mentioned in this ep include Lossle...

197: The Pigs Go Ham

August 27, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 78.1 MB

Another 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, service-nagging from your smart appliances, running dynamic DNS for your home VPN, books about computer history, peated whiskey, and more! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, ...

196: HDMI Kablammo

August 20, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 69.2 MB

Since 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 and HDR standards, and think about why format wars are never going away, which legacy audio connector is getting short shrift these days, why everything is labeled "8K" all of a sudden, when to buy an OLED, and a bunch more. Support the Pod! Co...

195: In Our Bendy Phone Era

August 13, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 64.5 MB

Our 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 isn't just a screen protector, how great the Game Boy Advance SP was (very great), and whether Apple might get in on this trend, we analyze whether this a passing fad, or the most exciting thing to happen to phones in some time. Support the Pod! Co...

194: All I Want Is Simple Determinism!

August 06, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 65 MB

We'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 pretty much the only home VPN game in town. Next we dissect the lessons Will learned about operating an electric vehicle in extreme heat on this year's just-concluded sojourn to Palm Desert. Lastly, Brad does a quick update on cold brewing coffee...

193: The Bob Ballard Fan Club

July 30, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 72.1 MB

It'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 chore-doers, a check-in on our download folders, and the amount of that sweet, sweet pre-war steel in the Empire State Building. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and o...

192: Straight Out the Bunn

July 23, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 86.7 MB

Will 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 world class cup, some of the flashier and more modern brewing methods out there these days, and a bunch of other details that will hopefully prove informative to even the most refined coffee connoisseur. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod...

191: WINNER: NONE

July 16, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 59.2 MB

We'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? Is the movie somehow more relevant now than it was then? How much did all that gear in Matthew Broderick's bedroom cost? Listen to this podcast and answer these questions! Sources for this episode: https://www.wired.com/2008/07/ff-wargames/ ...

190: A Mishmash Mismatch

July 09, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 63.7 MB

New 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 about the idea of federated social media -- that is, a bunch of communities loosely connected together -- and how it's being implemented on Mastodon and Bluesky, wrestle with the implications for moderation and network effects when everyone is no lo...

189: A Long Time in a Short Time

July 02, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 69.3 MB

There'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 self-immolating in spectacular fashion, and an exciting new discovery has been made in the hot astronomical category of gravitational waves. Events! Current ones! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord...

188: Full-Time Lego Broker

June 25, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 68.7 MB

As 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 for parents, some thoughts about the coming passkey era, acceptable data hoarding, and more. 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 suppo...

Special FOSS Ep: Pine64 With Lukasz Erecinski

June 18, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MB

Due 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 including smart phones and watches, laptops, earbuds, soldering irons, and plenty more, all based on ARM and RISC-V. Senior advisor Lukasz Erecinski joins us on this episode to talk about the company's origins, letting your userbase weigh in ...

187: Certified Volumetric Environment™

June 11, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 110 MB

Our 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 extraordinarily expensive piece of high technology, from getting his face and ears scanned to the gesture-based controls, his (shocking!) favorite experience, comparisons with other headsets, and all kinds of other stuff. Check out Norm's video from...

186: Cutting Matt

June 04, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 70.3 MB

This 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 make your 30-year-old hard drive spin up, ways to fight back against the tyranny of MAX, and more. 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! Y...

185: That's Nana's Prerogative

May 28, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 67.4 MB

The 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 these years? How sustainable is the direct-funding model for indie media? Are bedsheet habits a shockingly contentious subject? Has the time come for the 220v personal computer? Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get acces...

184: Not the Out-of-Box Experience

May 21, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 80.7 MB

Now 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 love of portable apps, unconventional cloud storage strategies, much handwringing about motherboard vendor drivers, Windows package managers, some hefty praise for WSL2 (plus a dangerous digression into the varied feelings about systemd), and more....

183: HiroProtagonist Loves an Inhale

May 14, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 91.9 MB

We'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 chat to first-class downloadable games and controller standardization, evolution in game development and mainstream marketing, our memories of working with the system in the media, and not-so-flattering things like the red ring, HD-DVD, and Kinec...

182: The Healthy Kind of Nihilism

May 07, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MB

We'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 topics like the new research being enabled by the JWST, ingenious ways of using astronomical objects to study other astronomical objects, the programming languages astrophysicists use, the shocking truth about chalkboards versus dry erase, and more. ...

181: Hatch Watch Is On

April 30, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MB

Our 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, our two-factor and recipe-organizing strategies, leaking state secrets on Discord, evolution (and aerodynamics!) in PC cases over the year, and... wearing outside clothes to bed. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to ...

180: Chowder 'n Cookies

April 23, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MB

Spring 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, reliable old laser printers, the return of GPU space heaters, replacing filthy Windows installs, and the end of girl scout cookie season. Bitfocus Companion: https://bitfocus.io/companion Loupedeck: https://loupedeck.com/us/ Amcrest IP cameras: htt...

179: The World’s Largest Graphics Card

April 17, 2023 00:04 - 1 hour - 61.3 MB

Yes, Brad built a new PC. Seriously! For this momentous occasion, we got together to talk all things PC-building, starting with some early impressions of the new build and then heading off into tangents on ludicrous ray tracing performance, the ongoing mystery of PCIe lanes, working with the executive motherboard, the terror of the land grid array, and more. Download Fan Control here: https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get a...

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