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231: What on Earth Would Ordinary People Want With Computers?
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - April 21, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsThe 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 of Gates, Jobs, Ballmer, Wozniak and others, w...
230: Maybe Gentoo Was Right All Along
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - April 14, 2024 19:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsThis 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 were targeted and why, how the attacker social...
229: IMAX, the TikTok of Film Projection
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - April 07, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsWe'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 gaming-focused Windows, when in the product cycle to...
228: Never Forward a Port to Your Brain
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - March 31, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsMarch'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 (or not), the lack of 9s in product naming, Proton-...
227: A Donut of Good Internet
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - March 24, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsInspired 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-...
226: shooter.exe
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - March 17, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsWe'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 g...
225: The Goldblum Conjecture
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - March 10, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsWhat 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 ro...
224: Heavy Metal Twenty-Something Swagger
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - March 03, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsBook 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 outp...
223: Our Favorite Corporate Besties
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - February 25, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsThis 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 feeli...
222: War of the Chatbots
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - February 18, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsNews 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 wre...
221: Cluck to Home Screen
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - February 11, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsWe'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 passthro...
220: Hit That Optimize Button
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - February 04, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsPC 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 r...
219: The Mark of Expertise
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - January 28, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsWe 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, speed...
218: Products People Love
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - January 21, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsWill 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...
217: Still a Festering Hellhole
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - January 14, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsAnother 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...
216: Tactical Baking Method
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - January 07, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsThe 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'...
AAA: Android Faithful is Your New Android Home! - With Jason Howell, Ron Richards, Huyen Tue Dao, and Mishaal Rahman
All About Android (Video) - January 02, 2024 22:45 - 1 minute - Video ★★★★ - 27 ratingsAll About Android fans, listen up! If you were disappointed when the show went away, then you'll be happy to know that Jason Howell, Ron Richards, Huyen Tue Dao, and Mishaal Rahman brought the AAA fun to a new home called Android Faithful. Each week, the AF crew discusses the latest news, hardw...
AAA: Android Faithful is Your New Android Home! - With Jason Howell, Ron Richards, Huyen Tue Dao, and Mishaal Rahman
All About Android (Audio) - January 02, 2024 22:45 - 1 minuteAll About Android fans, listen up! If you were disappointed when the show went away, then you'll be happy to know that Jason Howell, Ron Richards, Huyen Tue Dao, and Mishaal Rahman brought the AAA fun to a new home called Android Faithful. Each week, the AF crew discusses the latest news, hardw...
AAA: Android Faithful is Your New Android Home! - With Jason Howell, Ron Richards, Huyen Tue Dao, and Mishaal Rahman
All About Android (Video) - January 02, 2024 22:45 - 1 minute - Video ★★★★ - 68 ratingsAll About Android fans, listen up! If you were disappointed when the show went away, then you'll be happy to know that Jason Howell, Ron Richards, Huyen Tue Dao, and Mishaal Rahman brought the AAA fun to a new home called Android Faithful. Each week, the AF crew discusses the latest news, hardw...
AAA: Android Faithful is Your New Android Home! - With Jason Howell, Ron Richards, Huyen Tue Dao, and Mishaal Rahman
All About Android (Audio) - January 02, 2024 22:45 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 97 ratingsAll About Android fans, listen up! If you were disappointed when the show went away, then you'll be happy to know that Jason Howell, Ron Richards, Huyen Tue Dao, and Mishaal Rahman brought the AAA fun to a new home called Android Faithful. Each week, the AF crew discusses the latest news, hardw...
AAA: Android Faithful is Your New Android Home! - With Jason Howell, Ron Richards, Huyen Tue Dao, and Mishaal Rahman
All About Android (Video) - January 02, 2024 22:45 - 1 minute - Video ★★★★ - 27 ratingsAll About Android fans, listen up! If you were disappointed when the show went away, then you'll be happy to know that Jason Howell, Ron Richards, Huyen Tue Dao, and Mishaal Rahman brought the AAA fun to a new home called Android Faithful. Each week, the AF crew discusses the latest news, hardw...
215: Taking the Temperature of the Market
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - December 31, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsOn 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...
214: David Smith (Hobbyist)
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - December 24, 2023 08:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsThis 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 ...
213: Therapy Over Teams
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - December 17, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsWe 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...
212: Programmable for the Masses
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - December 10, 2023 08:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsThe 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 fro...
211: The Drier, the Burnier
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - December 03, 2023 08:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsA 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 fau...
210: TWELVE HUNDRED MEGARAYS
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - November 26, 2023 08:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsWill'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...
209: Please Show the Hamster Guy Some Respect
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - November 19, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsIt'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, poweri...
208: Don't Be Mean to Racoons
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - November 12, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsWe'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...
207: When Magazines Were Phone Books
Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - November 05, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 456 ratingsWe'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 O...
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