00:00SPEAKEROkay major new development. Wait what? I got through an entire stream earlier today
00:06SPEAKERwith no buzzing, no popping, no clicks, no dropping, no desyncs, no nothing. Two straight
00:12SPEAKERhours of clean audio and video. I think there is hope for us all. I can't help but notice you're
00:19SPEAKERstreaming, I'm talking to you from the laptop today. That was the next thing I was gonna,
00:23SPEAKERto be clear this was on the PC, this was on my new PC. Uh-huh. Two hours of streaming with no
00:28SPEAKERproblems on the PC. Does that mean I'm confident enough to record this podcast on this PC?
00:34SPEAKERNo. No, not quite. Well so. I thought about it. I was like do I really want to tempt fate?
00:41SPEAKERYou're leaving for somewhere tomorrow? We're not exactly going to be able to re-record this
00:45SPEAKERpodcast if it goes south. Maybe I should stick to the proven machine which is this MacBook.
00:50SPEAKERSo the fun thing is as it's gotten warmer here in the Bay Area,
00:54SPEAKERmy machine's gotten a little bit wonky. Huh. And you don't say. It's possible that the nuclear fast
01:00SPEAKERDDR5 maybe was getting a little warmer than it likes so I put a little fan on it. So as my PC
01:09SPEAKERproblems decrease, you were just taking them on. Yeah. I will tell you I updated the BIOS
01:18SPEAKERthe other day and as a result of that I had to turn off PCI express link state management in the
01:23SPEAKERWindows power control panels because that was making bad things happen I think. And I haven't
01:28SPEAKERhad any bad things happen since I turned that off. So and I've gotten really good at troubleshooting
01:34SPEAKERWHEA logging issues. Oh you don't want those. No they're bad. They're a bad thing. I had one
01:42SPEAKERtwo hours ago. Can you just drop the speed of your memory a little bit?
01:48SPEAKERI mean if I what why why no no I cannot Brad. I mean yes I could but no am I going to the
01:57SPEAKERanswer is no. I dropped my I dropped my I dropped my memory to JEDEC last night just to see what
02:02SPEAKERwould happen and when I fired up Fortnite I was only getting 180 frames a second. It was horrible.
02:07SPEAKERWell thanks for joining us. This has been the shortest tech pod ever. See you next week. Look I
02:12SPEAKERsaved the audacity file beforehand so if I blue screen or something I'll still have whatever we've
02:16SPEAKERrecorded up to the point that I crap out. Oh I see now the tables have turned now you're recording
02:21SPEAKERon an unstable machine. That's probably fine. I haven't had any problems yet today. Never update
02:26SPEAKERyour BIOS I'm going to say I mean I'm in I'm still in the land of computers that burn themselves to
02:32SPEAKERdeath with the wrong BIOS so I have to but I flashed the newest beta BIOS the other day
02:38SPEAKERand I think we both do this. I think this is a good litmus test for how well you've set up
02:43SPEAKERyour windows install. If you open device manager and you don't have any flags on any devices
02:48SPEAKERin terms of the driver is missing for this thing or it failed to start or whatever
02:53SPEAKERyou've done well right. I'm going to go and tell you the number of times in the last 20 years that
02:58SPEAKERI've had little yellow exclamation points on stuff in device manager that were unsolved by the time I
03:03SPEAKERwent to sleep that night is probably like two. Wow no kidding. I always my shit is always locked in.
03:11SPEAKERThat's what I like to hear. Well I was five by five Brad. I guess I was I was in the same place
03:15SPEAKERwith this machine until I flashed that new beta BIOS and now under universal serial bus controllers
03:21SPEAKERall of a sudden I have this ite USB connector client device. Oh yeah. With a little yellow
03:26SPEAKERexclamation mark. Yeah what does that thing do? This device cannot start code 10 status device
03:32SPEAKERpower failure. Well uh yeah you got a code 10 situation there it sounds like. That wasn't there
03:37SPEAKERbefore I flashed that new BIOS. What's going on? Uh you probably just need to you probably need to
03:42SPEAKERalign your Jeffries tubes and uh get the Cochrane coils fired up and everything will work itself out.
03:47SPEAKEROh hey I got this pinestool in so maybe it's time to crack open this case and get to work.
03:51SPEAKEROh that's a bad idea.
04:07SPEAKERWelcome to Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod. I'm Will. I'm Brad. How you doing Brad? I'm Brad.
04:27SPEAKERI don't know if you knew that. I'm Brad all day is this your new? Yes uh Denny Crane. I I had to
04:34SPEAKERgo pick up my daughter from school and I rode my bike to pick her up today and uh she rode it was
04:40SPEAKERit was uh I'm I am slowly after 10 years of living someplace that I can ride my bike pretty much
04:46SPEAKEReverywhere in town. I'm almost comfortable riding a bike on busy streets now and it's terrifying.
04:52SPEAKERThat is um progress. Helmeted I assume? Of course. Please okay. Yeah no I gotta keep the that's the
04:59SPEAKERmoney maker up there. Are you are you all sticky now? I I'm gonna go and tell you I could use a
05:03SPEAKERshower covering this office. It's hot down there? Uh not off and on it's been pretty nice it's like
05:13SPEAKERit's like you know May and Pacifica it's foggy and cool. Okay I was gonna ask if the I feel
05:19SPEAKERlike the fog started early this year I'm very unhappy about it. It's like so I love the fog
05:24SPEAKERit's like good it's a good fog though because it's like it's just like you have like light
05:27SPEAKERair conditioning everywhere you go it's not like it's not like 50 it's like 62 which is good fog.
05:32SPEAKERI think I get like low-key seasonal affective disorder at this time of year because I mean
05:38SPEAKERI don't know how much fog you guys are getting but it's like 24/7 around here like
05:42SPEAKERno sunshine for days on end. Oh no see this is okay look I'm just gonna tell you this because
05:47SPEAKERit's just you and me and nobody else is listening. Pacifica we get fog at the end of the day but in
05:54SPEAKERthe morning and afternoon it's sunny. Oh no. So you come down here and like I take the dog out in
06:00SPEAKERthe morning I sit out have some coffee throw the frisbee I eat some oatmeal drink some coffee.
06:06SPEAKERIt's like a nice start to the day. My whole body is just bathed in sun and then when it just about
06:13SPEAKERthe time you'd be like man I wish I had air conditioning it's getting hot as shit in here
06:16SPEAKERyou crack open a window and it's 62 degrees outside it's perfect. That sounds pretty good
06:20SPEAKERyou know I do like a nice sunset but that's I you know I would take that. Yeah just don't tell
06:24SPEAKERanybody because we don't want more people here we're full go home. I would take that over this
06:27SPEAKERwhich is getting up every morning throwing the curtains open and being disappointed.
06:31SPEAKERYeah well that disappointment just continues for until about let's say no early October late
06:40SPEAKERSeptember. Really it's that bad it wasn't that man okay so where you live. It actually might be
06:45SPEAKERa climate change thing I don't remember it being this bad here when I moved in this area like 15
06:50SPEAKERyears ago. So I used to live on the other side further south from you and it was not as bad down
06:55SPEAKERthere when I lived it like so I used to live it like at like inner sunset and on the other side
07:01SPEAKERfor you further south and it was not it was not as bad. It very well could be a climate change
07:07SPEAKERdevelopment actually anyway. Yeah hi. We're here to bring some sunshine to the tech podcast world.
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07:22SPEAKERsend it to techpod@content.town. Now I want to go see how much techpod.com would cost.
07:28SPEAKERIt was really expensive. We already have control of the superior domain content.town but yeah
07:33SPEAKERcontent.town come on down to content town we got all the content that you need in the content town.
07:39SPEAKERMaybe we should register techpod.zip. Nope I'm not registering any .zips fuck Google for starting
07:45SPEAKERthat bullshit. How about techpod.mov. Now I'm in for that. Okay that's where the video podcast
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08:08SPEAKERdomains that end in popular zip names and your browser will just auto correct you straight into
08:13SPEAKERinto into malware land. 30 plus years of references to file name .zip across the internet are about to
08:20SPEAKERbecome links pointing to domains that are going to get registered and used as scams. It is profoundly
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08:48SPEAKERthat at patreon.com slash techpod. The good kind of nerds. Yeah like like we're not talking about
08:54SPEAKERthe crappy candy that is like nobody likes. You don't like nerds? No man nerds suck. Wow what?
09:00SPEAKERYeah nerds are gross they make your mouth hurt and like my honestly my teeth hurt when I have a nerd.
09:07SPEAKERYou do you do feel like after a box of nerds you do feel like some enamel has been removed.
09:12SPEAKERYeah there's enamel gone and and also I need to talk to wilfred brimley about the diabetes.
09:16SPEAKERBut yeah I love nerds. I haven't had nerds probably since I was a kid but I love nerds.
09:21SPEAKERMy daughter got a nerds rope for easter valentine's day or something one year and
09:26SPEAKERlike it was just it was like it was like you just watched her will to live
09:30SPEAKERas she got further into that thing until she was she was just a shell of a human after that.
09:36SPEAKERYeah but like a happy shell? No she did not seem happy she needed a nap it was awful.
09:42SPEAKERAll right fine yeah speaking of naps. Yeah wait what does that mean? I don't know I was just
09:48SPEAKERtrying to give you a segue there is we have a nap related question I figured there was a nap
09:51SPEAKERquestion. Speaking of naps here's some answers it'll put you to sleep. Oh yeah perfect. Here's
09:56SPEAKERthe email mysteriously signed in. Oh yes Nancy. I'm sorry. It's from Nancy. I don't even know when
10:04SPEAKERwe talked about this this might have been a couple questions a couple months ago I think yeah. I can
10:09SPEAKERconfirm that certain models of the Roomba used SLAM technology to map interior rooms. The use
10:15SPEAKERof SLAM enabled Roomba to clean in the cornrow pattern compared to the random bumping that
10:21SPEAKERless guided robot vacuums do. Brad was right in my opinion that the reason Amazon bought iRobot was
10:28SPEAKERbecause of the mapping capability of the Roomba. In what ways do you think Amazon will try to
10:34SPEAKERmonetize the interior mapping data they're now getting from the Roomba? Do you think the recent
10:38SPEAKERlayoffs that hit the Alexa business are indicative of a lower than expected internet of things
10:43SPEAKERmarket hence the need to diversify by buying iRobot? I think that the layoffs that hit the
10:49SPEAKERAlexa business are because they they've been giving away Alexas for free for almost 10 years
10:53SPEAKERnow and they can't figure out a way to make money with them. I think that I don't have any idea how
11:00SPEAKERthey can monetize SLAM maps of people's houses. Yeah I mean you could see it feeding into Amazon
11:06SPEAKERrecommendations somehow like if they you know certain certain amounts of floor space might
11:11SPEAKERcorrespond to increased desires for blank household goods or decorations or whatever or yeah I bet
11:18SPEAKERthey could even run algorithms on layout right and try to I bet they get into it like oh they have
11:23SPEAKERthey have more bathrooms than this other family they probably want more of this that goes in the
11:28SPEAKERbathroom I don't know. Yeah I mean like like I would say the things that they'll successfully
11:33SPEAKERrecommend to me are going to be wildly different than the things that they successfully recommend
11:38SPEAKERto somebody that has a 4,000 square I have a small house you have a small apartment I mean it's a big
11:43SPEAKERapartment but it's still like it's not it's not a 4,000 square foot house. Wait does this count as a
11:48SPEAKERbig apartment? I think it's a pretty good size apartment. Yeah yeah. Two bedroom one bath?
11:52SPEAKERYeah I mean look one bath is always the is the like I feel like the bay area luxury is hey you
11:59SPEAKERhave two toilets. Oh sure yes indeed. Yeah anyway yeah I think it's probably house size would be my
12:07SPEAKERguess something really granular. Yeah. But also they could find that out because they know your
12:11SPEAKERaddress so they could just look you up on the property maps so I don't know why they need
12:14SPEAKERRoomba for that necessarily. Yeah yeah. It beats messy people versus clean people. Yeah sure okay.
12:22SPEAKERYeah SLAM SLAM is simultaneous location mappings we use multiple camera inputs to
12:28SPEAKERto to detect like make a map make a 3D map of an area by the way robots use it to move around
12:33SPEAKERspaces. VR headsets use it to track their position in 3D space inside a room. The more you know.
12:40SPEAKERYeah. All right question from Cogbert you said you had an answer for this.
12:45SPEAKERHow long before PCs start using a 220 volt power supply? Okay so I think I told the story in the
12:50SPEAKERpodcast before but it's good so I'm gonna do it again. In like 2002 or 2003 when I was talking
12:55SPEAKERto Tony Tomasi at Nvidia he was the he's not the chief scientist but he's like the technical
13:01SPEAKERmarketing guy so he's you could ask him scary questions. We started talking about like what
13:06SPEAKERthe upper limits of PC performance were and he pointed at the plug on the wall and was like look
13:12SPEAKERthe most we can get out of a wall plug if you have a 20 amp circuit breaker on the circuit is 1600
13:17SPEAKERwatts and there's some overhead so realistically it's like you know 15 14 50 or something like
13:22SPEAKERthat. So everything that they've done up until this point is how much compute can we jam out of
13:32SPEAKERthe 1600 watts that you get out of the average 120 volt wall plug in a in a U.S. house. I don't think
13:39SPEAKERanybody's going to put 220 volt power supplies in for normal computers at home but yeah it's
13:46SPEAKERlike there is going to be that is the hard limit and they've been thinking about it for 20 years
13:50SPEAKERat this point. Wait 120 is 120 volts? 20 amps. I mean the electricity continues to be one of the
13:58SPEAKERmost mystifying subjects to me. Okay. But if the grid is 120 or the wall outlet is 120 volt
14:05SPEAKERcould you even have a 220 volt power supply? I mean if you if the wall can supply that. Oh
14:10SPEAKERso 220 is basically taking two so you you can combine two circuits to basically double so 220
14:17SPEAKERis basically 220 circuits. So you would need to you would need outlets on two different circuits
14:21SPEAKERyou couldn't use just two plugs on the same outlet? No no no you use it's a different kind of plug.
14:26SPEAKERI see. So like where you grew up and where I grew up we used electric dryers we didn't have
14:31SPEAKERgas dryers right and they the electric dryers electric stoves have a different kind of plug
14:37SPEAKERthan the 120 volt two vertical prongs in one round plug that you're accustomed to. Is it that kind of
14:42SPEAKERcircular plug with the diagonal? Yeah it's like a round one and the prongs go up inside and there's
14:47SPEAKERa diagonal one usually. Yeah so so those are 220 volt plugs. I see. So it's a completely like if
14:54SPEAKERyou have used them for electric big electric appliances like the dryer the the clothes dryer
15:01SPEAKERthe hot water heater the if you have an induction range or an electric range if you have a car
15:07SPEAKERcharger an l2 car charger that'll be a 220 volt plug or it can just be wired directly into the
15:12SPEAKERwall and a lot of places like where we live our power box the thing that the way the electricity
15:19SPEAKERcomes in and is distributed throughout the house doesn't have enough spaces in it to do
15:25SPEAKERmore than maybe one 220 volt line because you need breakers it takes multiple sets of breakers for
15:31SPEAKEReach 220 volt line so you like that that's where the 1600 watt limit because 200 because 120 volts
15:38SPEAKERI'm going to do the math here make sure this actually works 120 volts times 20 amps 25 amps
15:45SPEAKERis equal to 3000 3000 watts yeah that's a lot of watts it's a lot of watts it's 20 amps though
15:53SPEAKERso it's 120 times 20 is like 2400 watts yeah so anyway 1600 is the is what he told me
16:01SPEAKERmaybe it's the 50 maybe it's a 15 amp breaker is what their their math is that actually works 120
16:06SPEAKERtimes 15 is math is hard I want to cut this part out because this is embarrassing 1800 watts so
16:11SPEAKER1600 1600 is probably the the the overhead they have on a on a 15 amp circuit I guess then you
16:21SPEAKERknow I let's just cut to the chase here I think we can say if we're at the point where the wiring
16:27SPEAKERlayout of the average house needs to be changed to accommodate a plug yeah for a computer yeah
16:33SPEAKERwe've screwed up also people are probably gonna yell at me because I think 120 volt plugs are
16:37SPEAKERactually 110 volt plugs we just call them 120 volt because of reasons that I I think that might be
16:43SPEAKERright anyway certainly I'm out of my depth but we're not electricians that's the that's the big
16:48SPEAKERtakeaway here let's say what if we continued focusing on performance per watt and getting
16:52SPEAKERmaking that better instead of dumping more juice and things that seems like a good idea brad
16:57SPEAKERum I was looking up uh some of the current scuttlebutt about the next intel CPU after
17:03SPEAKERthe next one the one the one the one the first one to use their their big new process intel
17:08SPEAKERwhat is it 20a the angstrom era yeah have you kept up with that anyway one of the rumors is
17:14SPEAKERthat it's supposed to be like 1.5x more efficient than current that sounds good like it's the first
17:21SPEAKERyou know since change in leadership there and you know obviously takes years to change the product
17:25SPEAKERroadmap or whatever yeah you know AMD's been pretty good with efficiency recently well although less
17:32SPEAKERso with these new ones but anyway like it's nice to hear that intel might be getting competitive
17:36SPEAKERthere too I mean the efficiency stuff makes a huge difference because my like even just looking at my
17:41SPEAKERCPU doing normal stuff it often if I'm playing a game or something will hit the either the thermal
17:47SPEAKERlimit or the power limit or both if I'm if I'm spiking multiple CPU cores so being more efficient
17:53SPEAKERwould mean I could go faster anyway who doesn't want to do that I love going I like sonic I too
17:59SPEAKERwant to go fast yeah uh question from Jason from the discord where do you both get your tech news
18:07SPEAKERfrom twitter sites like the verge or ours I this is even beyond tech news to drive and broaden this
18:15SPEAKERto all news let's say this is less true recently but until recently for a very long time twitter
18:21SPEAKERhas probably been my primary news source yeah everything for so I moved from like using a
18:27SPEAKERreally well-defined list of google reader feeds like RSS feeds run through google reader to when
18:33SPEAKERgoogle killed google reader I switched to basically using twitter for that stuff by following
18:38SPEAKERliterally by following journalists whose work I liked like that was where I found that I also
18:42SPEAKERfound people who were relatively good aggregators who also were mostly journalists yeah on all
18:47SPEAKERtopics politics tech science whatever the decline of twitter and the fact that the good journalists
18:55SPEAKERhave mostly left twitter at this point except for for promotional purposes means that I had a hole
19:00SPEAKERin my life tech news tech news I kind of skim the front pages of the verge and ours I don't I
19:10SPEAKERI love ours I started out at ours so I have a little bit of a bias there I'm less interested
19:15SPEAKERin the kind of the product access coverage that the verge does and more interested in the why
19:21SPEAKERthings are the way they are that that ours does yes tech memes pretty good I usually look at hacker
19:28SPEAKERnews okay like if I'm looking if we want to do a new current news story then I'll look at hacker
19:31SPEAKERnews and see what people are talking about there but it's increasingly crazy people yeah you've
19:37SPEAKERyou recommended tech dirt to me recently oh tech dirt's great yeah mike maznick has been doing tech
19:42SPEAKERdirt for a really long time and it's good for like digital freedom stuff dmca like like like bad
19:48SPEAKERlegislation he's been really good about like why how twitter is fucking up on every level he he's
19:56SPEAKERthere they're they're very aware of the challenges with moderation at scale and why that stuff
20:02SPEAKERdoesn't typically scale and has a good understanding of how the internet works both
20:07SPEAKERfrom a legal and a functional standpoint which is kind of unusual like there's a lot of sites that
20:11SPEAKERare good at the legal stuff there's a lot of sites that are good at the technical stuff and that the
20:15SPEAKERoverlap of like the legal the technical the operations all that stuff is is challenging and
20:21SPEAKERtech dirt does a good job with that yeah yeah I maybe maybe to clarify a little bit like I use
20:26SPEAKERtwitter to notify me about news but I anything I actually really want to know about and retain
20:30SPEAKERinformation I usually click through and read the article well yeah yeah clicking the clicking like
20:35SPEAKERjust reading the headlines on twitter is a has always been a bad way to get the news
20:39SPEAKERthat is a bad way to yeah to even have accurate news uh master don i i get so these days on masto
20:46SPEAKERi get like all the security people i used to follow on twitter seem to be over there
20:50SPEAKERso i find out about breaches and hacks and and problems with hardware and software and stuff
20:54SPEAKERlike that there and then the blue sky has replaced a lot of my my old twitter news following it turns
21:00SPEAKERout man i can't wait till that thing just opens up and they release all of the code and people can
21:04SPEAKERrun their own instances and we can just fucking is all of it i don't think all of it i think they're
21:10SPEAKERstill working on some of it but i saw they they open sourced the app uh a week or two ago yeah
21:14SPEAKERthere's custom feeds now so you can you can you can generate your own feeds and dump them into the
21:19SPEAKERand people can subscribe to them like like uh you follow a person now just cool yeah i just it needs
21:24SPEAKERto be open wide before we can truly leave twitter behind but i feel like we might be on our way
21:29SPEAKERi'm pretty sure i've left twitter behind at this point well uh yeah but there's like still some
21:33SPEAKERstuff you can only get there i'm just going to set up a bot on my account that replies uh with
21:39SPEAKERa slap anytime somebody says something stupid about me yeah yeah that's the thing to do that
21:45SPEAKERis what you would do isn't it yeah i mean you know me just slapping people left and right that's what
21:50SPEAKERi do if you want to find me on blue sky i'm will smith dot actor by the way apropos of nothing is
21:56SPEAKERthere a dot actor fuck yeah there's a dot actor i am literally will smith dot actor wait oh you're
22:01SPEAKERnot joking you actually changed it no i paid 30 are you kidding me i paid 30 for will smith actor
22:06SPEAKERare you the fucking i mean of course you would yes it's hilarious but i'm saying you changed um
22:12SPEAKERyour blue sky username chat yeah so the the the code that you put in the domain on blue sky like
22:18SPEAKERthe text from text entry that you put on the domain is the same so you can just go once you
22:23SPEAKERset it up on your domains you can go change it on a whim oh i knew that i could be will dot content
22:28SPEAKERdot town i could be um uh i think i have not that will smith dot com and i had uh will smith dot fun
22:36SPEAKERset up for a while too yeah yeah yeah i i knew about that stuff like i have a very good short
22:40SPEAKERdomain that i've been sitting on that i will use as my username on the thing eventually but the
22:43SPEAKERthing here's here's what i really want to ask like so if you get on there uh and register a
22:48SPEAKERbsky social name first yeah and then you change it to another domain gone baby does that release the
22:54SPEAKERbsky social name so that's why i'm not doing it yet is oh i don't care about the bsky social
22:59SPEAKERbsky social is not going to matter because it's going to be federated doesn't it's it's a well i
23:03SPEAKERknow i know but i'm guessing if that thing catches on that's still probably going to be the primary
23:08SPEAKERplace that most people who don't care about having their own domain may have a name i'm just you know
23:13SPEAKERwith issues around impersonation and stuff i kind of just want to squat my name on bsky social
23:18SPEAKERyeah but i'll i will make another account to use my family username okay okay is is where i'm
23:24SPEAKERleaning fair fair fair fair anyway question from unimaginative pseudonym do you use a flat sheet
23:34SPEAKERon your bed or not absolutely when you say flat sheet where does the flat sheet go on the bed
23:41SPEAKERsandwich the flat okay the fitted as the name implies is the one that fits around the mattress
23:46SPEAKERyeah the flat if you are one to use a flat is the next one up it's the sheet that would go right
23:53SPEAKERabove you yeah you so you go between the fitted and the flat yes correct yeah and if you don't
23:59SPEAKERhave a flat then the comforter is right on you which is for people with a difference of opinion
24:06SPEAKERfrom me let's say so so oh man this is going to be bad you're not going to like my answer to this at
24:12SPEAKERall okay go ahead i don't like fitted sheets what yeah wait what the fuck i can at least understand
24:23SPEAKERi've stayed in european hotels where they don't have a flat sheet just a comforter like i at least
24:28SPEAKERget that i have never heard anybody who doesn't like the fitted sheet well so you you can use flat
24:33SPEAKERsheets and you just fold them a special way the problem with fitted sheets is they never fold well
24:39SPEAKERso they're always big and poofy because of the because of the gussets i guess so i use a flat
24:44SPEAKERsheet on the bottom what and then above that is me and then above that is a duvet that is like a
24:53SPEAKERsheet material duvet and then if it's cold then there's a blanket on top of the duvet how does the
24:58SPEAKERflat sheet stay adhered to the mattress how does it's but what are you doing you roll around at
25:07SPEAKERnight like it's gonna surely it's gonna like no bunch up and it goes underneath them it gets
25:12SPEAKERtucked under the mattress you fold the corners into hospital corners and it just tucks under
25:16SPEAKERthere okay yeah it's perfectly normal but but also my duvet is my duvet cover is made of the
25:23SPEAKERsame stuff as the sheets it's like sheet material so i just take that off and wash that every you
25:28SPEAKERknow whenever i wash the sheets it's not the direction i expected this question to go i love
25:33SPEAKERi love i gotta say we got a new we got a new down comforter duvet for the duvet cover before winter
25:40SPEAKERthis last year it was a good decision because i've been cozy and it's warm in the winter it's cold in
25:47SPEAKERthe summer it's just like they said polyester was in the 70s but that was all a lie the the
25:51SPEAKERdown comforter highly recommended sure we almost we almost sprung because we have a hot and cold
25:57SPEAKERproblem in our house where i'm always cold and my wife's always hot oh and we almost sprung for
26:05SPEAKERthe hot sea cold sea duvet where like one side has more fill than the other side but we at the last
26:11SPEAKERminute we decided a it was a stupid amount of money more expensive than the already expect too
26:15SPEAKERexpensive down comforter and be uh like just managing that seemed like it would be a pain in
26:21SPEAKERthe ass so i'll say the reasons that i like the flat sheet number one it's nice to not feel like
26:28SPEAKERi have to wash the comforter every two weeks because it's not touching me directly yeah
26:34SPEAKERnumber two i sleep extremely hot so sometimes all i want is a sheet and nothing else so do you
26:42SPEAKERdo you have like a do you have like a down fill thing in there is it just a comforter that's a
26:45SPEAKERcup like see that with the down comforter you only wash the outside part so it's just like having an
26:49SPEAKERextra sheet in there yeah that's what we have yeah like two of those because my partner's like you
26:55SPEAKERand wants she wants she wants the mountains of comforter we go and tell you if you want to get
27:00SPEAKERher something really nice you need to get her a heated mattress pad and she will love you forever
27:06SPEAKERit is fantastic so i colds i i am i am the type of person that no matter how cold it is in the house
27:12SPEAKERyeah if it is like you're literally shivering in here it is that cold yeah if i get all the way
27:18SPEAKERunder a big like down comforter yeah and sleep there for too long oh god it's so good i will
27:23SPEAKERwake up drenched in sweat i just want to be i just want to be all i want to i want to have just my
27:27SPEAKERnose and eyes poking out and no like if i if i am fully burritoed inside of a like down comforter
27:34SPEAKERfrom like neck to toe like i will be i will be sweaty as the disgustingly sweaty after like
27:41SPEAKERthree or four hours you goose down you got the duck down what kind of down you got some kind of
27:45SPEAKERdown in there i don't know okay i don't know i system of we bought we bought a bamboo blanket
27:51SPEAKERoh wow a bamboo fiber blanket how's that it's awesome really it's very thin it's very breathable
27:58SPEAKERokay i'd by and large i use the flat sheets and that blanket a bamboo blanket and i'm good
28:04SPEAKERwhat's your jam situation are you like uh are you like just like flannel jammies or anything or you
28:09SPEAKERit's getting a little personal okay sorry fleeces uh just underwear okay okay
28:16SPEAKERi like a pair of flannel pants and a t-shirt personally man you are you do run cold god man
28:22SPEAKERi'm i'm cold all the time if i was wearing flannel pants and a t-shirt in bed i would
28:26SPEAKERprobably sweat just under the flat well they're not like heavy flannel pants it's not like it's
28:31SPEAKERnot i'm not it's not like a bunion's shirt up there it's just like a light flannel you know
28:36SPEAKERit's just soft i like soft things i'm delicate brad yes yes i get that you you marked this email
28:43SPEAKERyou marked this email from bodysaurus slash josh top three ice cream flavors i don't think i have
28:49SPEAKERan answer for this i don't can't believe i'm even i am shocked to say this but i don't think i don't
28:54SPEAKERcare about ice cream enough to name my three favorite flavors i don't know what they are
29:00SPEAKERman see i have the opposite problem is i've never really met an ice cream that i didn't like
29:04SPEAKERhuh uh i i'm struggling here man like some some kind of peanut butter cup chocolate chip thing
29:12SPEAKERor something maybe i don't know i like cookies and cream okay sure yes that's good yeah cookies
29:17SPEAKERstrawberry i'm gonna say strawberry is a good strawberry is a top tier but bad strawberry is
29:22SPEAKERa garbage flavor um i like uh i i had uh the tillamook boysenberry pie or uh the tillamook
29:32SPEAKERpie flavor but is it what flavor is it i don't know i didn't know tillamook made anything but
29:39SPEAKERcheese marionberry pie no tillamook tillamook marionberry pie ice cream is a banger it has
29:45SPEAKERlittle bits of like graham cracker chunks in there and like a blueberry marionberry ripple
29:50SPEAKERit's very good vanilla is nice i guess i don't know sure yeah coffee like a little coffee ice
29:55SPEAKERcream it's kind of a nut like a praline or a walnut or something praline is not a nut what
30:00SPEAKERis that isn't a praline like a nut wrapped in caramel or something i think i think that's right
30:06SPEAKERmy wife worked at oh yeah butter pecan butter pecan is an old person flavor brad i like a butter
30:12SPEAKERpecan ice cream that's like that's when when my wife worked at a baskin robinson she my dad loves
30:18SPEAKERbutter pecan and she says that's the flavor that no one under 90 orders so that's congratulations
30:23SPEAKERlet's say we had it around a lot yeah my grand my grandparents had it around a lot yeah we used to
30:28SPEAKERmy grandparents always had were contact bar people they always have contact bars and and you would cut
30:33SPEAKERthey'd cut the contact bar diagonally in half whoa and we would each get a half of the contact bar
30:40SPEAKERwhat would you do for a diagonally cut half of a contact you know why you cut it diagonally right
30:45SPEAKERwhy because it's it's impossible to get an uneven cut if you cut diagonally if you do it
30:50SPEAKERhorizontally it's wild card somebody's gonna walk away feeling burned somebody's gonna get screwed
30:56SPEAKERyeah nana nana nana is not gonna get fucked over by anybody yes that's that that's nana's prerogative
31:03SPEAKERyeah um from ice cream to soup okay question from ev nix is there any meal in which it is not
31:13SPEAKERappropriate to order soup with the meal hell no it can either be brought before the meal or with it
31:19SPEAKERi i guess i guess as long as it's like thin enough to be an appetizer soup that's fine
31:24SPEAKERsome listen there is some soup that eats like a meal oh really yes and you might know you might
31:34SPEAKERnot want to order one of those soups along with let's let's say like a leg of lamb or something
31:38SPEAKERheavy is it favored is it favored by uh senators from texas is that what you're thinking of okay
31:43SPEAKERwait wait does he have some weird did you not know the story about ted cruz in the in the chunky soup
31:49SPEAKERno when he first was sent to washington he he got an apartment and he stocked it exclusively with
31:58SPEAKERcans of chunky soup and that's what he was able to because he wasn't capable of cooking for himself
32:03SPEAKERokay anyway food and wine magazine says ted cruz's love for soup apparently knows no bounds
32:10SPEAKERyeah it's not it's not a glowing endorsement he wants camels he once bought a hundred cans of
32:15SPEAKERcampbell's chunky soup according to his wife yeah uh i've got a we've got a small stock of canned
32:21SPEAKERsoup here and i am desperately trying to improve my diet let's say yeah and i got to looking at
32:29SPEAKERthe nutritional information on that soup and no yeah don't do that i'm going to eat through the
32:36SPEAKERrest of it but i don't think i'm gonna buy anymore after that because holy shit well so the thing i
32:40SPEAKERwill tell you is that the reduced sodium okay yes the if you eat the reduced sodium or reduced fat
32:50SPEAKERlike we get we get a lot of um we have chicken noodle because you know i've kept getting sick
32:54SPEAKERa lot that's fine the reduced sodium chicken noodle soup does not taste like it does has
32:58SPEAKERreduced sodium in it at all it still is insanely salty like some some of the soups i've got in
33:03SPEAKERthere have got over 60 of your daily allotment of sodium in the one can in one serving of the one
33:09SPEAKERcan because the can is two servings oh geez yeah so wait a minute yeah would the fda allow them to
33:17SPEAKERsell a soup that was over a hundred percent of your daily sodium yeah they don't it's fucking
33:21SPEAKERamerica capitalism rules you can buy whatever you want you want you want oreos with pop rocks
33:24SPEAKERthey'll do that oh boy um with nerds no fuck nerds man nerds suck uh i don't know about breakfast
33:34SPEAKERsoup oh you know i could still see it it's like cereal and cereal breakfast soup get a bowl of
33:40SPEAKERcereal with your pancakes i mean i love soup i love a soup is that a meal soup oh if it's runny
33:49SPEAKERenough maybe yeah what about cream of wheat cream of wheat seems like it'd be a soup man i miss cream
33:54SPEAKERof wheat oh you can you know i'm going to tell you there's a there's a magical place called safe
33:58SPEAKERway that you can go get cream of today oh yeah i could do that but if you're not going to put an
34:03SPEAKERunhealthy amount of brown sugar in your cream of wheat and a good dollop of butter as well what's
34:08SPEAKERthe point wait what butter also cream of wheat is a white sugar cereal 100 you don't put brown sugar
34:13SPEAKERand cream of wheat what is this this is definitely one of those tennessee north Carolina divides
34:18SPEAKERgod this is a splash of milk and a little bit of white sugar what no it was a it'll fix what ails
34:24SPEAKERyou it was a large quantity of butter and brown sugar for us we put by would you put butter in
34:29SPEAKERgrits oh sure are you a salt and grits or a sugar and grits um go either way grits were a salt for
34:37SPEAKERme usually all right well my parents my dad specifically thought that grits were a salt
34:42SPEAKERthing i i like grits with sugar that's fair man maybe i should look into savory cream of wheat
34:48SPEAKERi'm gonna go and tell you do you have a you have a rice cooker right yeah yeah cream of wheat grits
34:55SPEAKERpolenta all bangers in the rice cooker real easy to cool yeah we've been talking about whole grains
35:01SPEAKERa lot around here recently really wanted we eat a lot of brown rice and a decent amount of oatmeal
35:06SPEAKERbut i would like to start stepping it up with like some barley's nice barley farrow quinoa yeah we do
35:13SPEAKERwe do quinoa once in a while yeah those all cook in the rice cooker yeah grain whole grain whole
35:18SPEAKERgrains it's good for you supposedly uh okay this question threw me for a loop okay andrew b i just
35:26SPEAKERread windows is getting rar support i got nothing did they just buy winrar doesn't that guy own the
35:34SPEAKERalgorithm source too bad i don't use usenet or ftpwares anymore also will it have native support
35:40SPEAKERfor checksums that's nuts every time somebody sends me a rawr file i just assume they're a pirate
35:46SPEAKERyeah sure that's probably safe essentially johnny depp uses i think apparently this just got
35:51SPEAKERannounced at build oh apparently there's only coming to windows 11 perfect yet another reason
35:57SPEAKERto have windows 11 somebody on the discord pointed out the other day they also just announced this
36:01SPEAKERmust have also come out of build they less than a week after last week's episode where i asked hey
36:07SPEAKERhow do you back up your user account from windows yeah they are rolling out a new tool on windows 11
36:12SPEAKERspecifically for backing up user accounts and your system thank god yeah i i looked into that after
36:17SPEAKERthat episode because i assumed that there was i assumed that that there was a windows backup tool
36:22SPEAKERbecause there has been a windows backup tool since like vista or xp and the one that was the windows
36:28SPEAKER7 one which was kind of lingering for a long time is questionable it's like it seems like it's still
36:35SPEAKERthere but it's lightly supported i think it's still usable but yes it's old i said this on the
36:40SPEAKERdiscord i deeply resent them developing features that would actually make me upgrade to windows 11
36:45SPEAKERwell i'm you know brad i got bad news for you because i think that's their whole business model
36:50SPEAKERalso windows 11 is pretty good these days i'm gonna say i know honestly it's just the the
36:56SPEAKERnagging little ui things that i don't want to deal with like the limits on the taskbar placements and
37:01SPEAKERthe stupid right click expansion i think they gave up on the taskbar placement thing did they
37:07SPEAKERmaybe not i just tried to drag it and didn't drag anyway um i i did look up this rar support stuff
37:13SPEAKERuh apparently they were using an open source library called lib archive okay um but i clicked
37:18SPEAKERthrough to the lib archive page and it looks like it has read-only support for rar i don't believe
37:23SPEAKERso like i use seven zip on windows and actually open yeah yeah i'm not do you seven zip i use
37:28SPEAKERseven zip and actually use seven zip command line on linux too and it cannot write rars either it
37:33SPEAKERcan only decompress them it's a it's an ip thing right it is a president patented yeah he's right
37:39SPEAKERthat yes the author the creator of rar does own that algorithm tim rar yes tim rar tim
37:47SPEAKERtim rar wants you to pay him uh for a rar license in order to write rars but also who's writing well
37:55SPEAKERyou know what i'd start saying who's writing rars these days but i bet a lot of people
37:59SPEAKERnow that isn't that is back i am sure that people are writing rars for some people rars never went
38:05SPEAKERaway are there still par files more like yar am i right yes good um i you know i broke brad i'm
38:15SPEAKERsorry it's probably a good thing to have in here to be able to decompress rar uh without having to
38:22SPEAKERinstall anything else in windows but i preferred i'd like so seven zip is one of the first things
38:27SPEAKERi install in windows anyway so it is it's like it's like one password and dropbox and then seven
38:33SPEAKERzip basically for me it was the first third-party thing i installed on this new computer so it's
38:38SPEAKERcool that this is in there but it's not really going to change the game for me i can't believe
38:41SPEAKERwe didn't talk about seven zip last week also i i feel like yeah so everybody should have it
38:47SPEAKERyeah so seven zips i i i um i compressed the archives sorry the project files of this podcast
38:54SPEAKERever been editing them every week i compressed them in seven zip because the compression
38:58SPEAKERis quite good pretty good what is it is it lzma i think is i don't even know i don't have to know
39:03SPEAKERthat's the beautiful thing about i just right click and like go make this small i like knowing
39:07SPEAKERthings like that from now on when we say win rar we have to say like win rar also that's a new
39:12SPEAKERpolicy uh yes it is lzma is the compression routine that seven zip uses anyway uh that's
39:20SPEAKERcool to see him doing cool stuff with windows it's a like i gotta imagine that that's one that like
39:27SPEAKERthe people who were decided who who make the decisions about what gets shipped in windows
39:30SPEAKERwere like on vacation or something and somebody was like hey man what if we what if we ship win
39:35SPEAKERrar this on on windows 11 that'd be weird right it's like isn't that the thing that everybody uses
39:40SPEAKERto pirate shit you're like yeah pan panos is on sabbatical right now let's just slip it in there
39:46SPEAKERand then meanwhile the the home office somebody's like yeah well okay so how how many knows on this
39:52SPEAKERone and everybody's like yar let me ship it yep that's what they say yeah yar uh question from
40:00SPEAKERzander uh as journalists or former journalists or whatever uh who have been deeply involved in the
40:06SPEAKERgaming community i just want to bring my business card former journalist slash whatever it's kind
40:12SPEAKERof where i'm at these days um how do we feel about big brands like logitech slowly absorbing
40:18SPEAKERsmall high quality brands like astro and then gutting the company and only keeping the brand
40:22SPEAKERname so like i was i was trying to think about like i didn't actually realize logitech had bought
40:27SPEAKERastro or i probably knew that and forgot it at some point i was trying to think of other
40:31SPEAKERexamples there's corsair bought algato yep um can you think of some others there's a there's it
40:37SPEAKERhappens like logitech has a long logitech bought harmony logitech bought slim devices yes harmony
40:43SPEAKERis a good one uh did somebody buy steel series steel series is still still series i believe
40:48SPEAKERokay corsair has corsair bought origin the pc manufacturer um has has razor bought up anybody
40:55SPEAKERrazor i don't i don't feel like razor doesn't buy people really they seem like one that would
41:00SPEAKERconsume i think that they i think that they mostly develop their stuff in house i don't think they
41:07SPEAKERspend money on external purchases you could be wrong um but yeah so this is a weird question
41:13SPEAKERright because i feel like usually when a small company so astro was a relatively small headset
41:21SPEAKERmanufacturer they had i think at the time that they were bought like two or three products so
41:25SPEAKERa kind of high-end um pc gaming centric headset and then um a handful of other things i don't think
41:34SPEAKERthat i like i don't think that so i i have one post logitech i had a pre logitech astro headset
41:42SPEAKERand a post logitech astro has that same same headset just the pre one eventually conked out
41:47SPEAKERbecause the um frankly the build quality was kind of bad it was the one of the launch ones
41:52SPEAKERand it didn't last particularly while the cable the connections got giant janky you know when that
41:57SPEAKERwas i'm looking for 10 or 11 it was when we were tested real before we were sold astro started in
42:04SPEAKER20 2009 or 2010 yeah they're older than i thought then i think that probably means i've used quite
42:10SPEAKERa few astro products i think literally all of them were post logitech then oh no no the purchase was
42:15SPEAKERin 2015 or something oh okay okay yeah yeah astro i i'd have to look it up but astro as a company i
42:21SPEAKERfeel like it was a tested thing and not a maximum pc thing maybe it was a little bit maybe it was
42:25SPEAKERright at the end of my time at maximum pc which would have been 2009 2010 but but they were the
42:29SPEAKERdesign they were design house they also did the um uh they spun off of the design house that did
42:34SPEAKERthe xbox 360 industrial design that's the same company which it's the astro headsets spun off
42:42SPEAKERfrom there yeah that's crazy when we did that episode and you said like some design house
42:46SPEAKERcalled astro did part of the 360 design i was like oh that's weird you mean like the headphone
42:52SPEAKERpeople you meant literally like the headphone people yeah literally the headphone people so
42:56SPEAKERthe thing the thing that happened with astro for me is that my needs outpaced what they were
43:01SPEAKERbuilding and i think this is the thing that happens a lot when a small company that's doing
43:05SPEAKERlike good stuff in a niche gets bought is you expect them as a person who's buying stuff to keep
43:12SPEAKERbuilding things in niches that hopefully appeal to you and often they the company buys them because
43:20SPEAKERthey want the niche that they're in and then they're not going to expand it in any new niches
43:24SPEAKERum the thing that i found is that the post logitech astro headset had a much better build
43:29SPEAKERquality but other than that was more or less identical and then the next time i needed a new
43:35SPEAKERpair of headphones i wanted something that was broadcast quality with a real microphone and not
43:39SPEAKERa like like ultimately the problem with most of like the gaming headset market is that the
43:45SPEAKERmicrophones suck so tldr is like if you want to talk about logitech killing somebody they
43:52SPEAKERfucked up harmony real bad but also harmony was doomed because hdmi cec was getting good to the
43:57SPEAKERpoint that you didn't need a universal remote with a bunch of ir blasters and stuff anymore
44:03SPEAKERand and like that that happens a lot yeah i mean it certainly is possible for a large company to
44:08SPEAKERgut and ruin a small company but yeah it's not it's not guaranteed necessarily yeah i mean look
44:14SPEAKERthere are definitely examples of it happening but i feel like i feel like like microsoft is really
44:21SPEAKERgood at buying interesting companies and then destroying them right to the point that like they
44:26SPEAKERit was a joke in the games industry that they were going to buy up your studio your game studio and
44:30SPEAKERshut it down three years later and and now they my understanding is they're pretty hands-off with
44:36SPEAKERgame studios that they purchase because they don't want it they don't want that to happen anymore
44:39SPEAKERyes so anyway um you you said you just have the same story you've told like three times here but
44:47SPEAKERi'm going to read this anyway okay lunchbox 700 because i think i have a new one oh what is the
44:53SPEAKERdumbest or most painful thing you've done dealing with any tech for example in high school i took
44:57SPEAKERrecording engineering and needed to change a fuse and a board and i asked another kid if it was
45:02SPEAKERunplugged and he said yes it was not and i got shocked into the wall details are a little fuzzy
45:08SPEAKERas you can imagine oh man you're lucky you survived that holy crap probably a lot of juice
45:14SPEAKERrunning through recording a recording board right here is scary yeah um hi brad i once loading in or
45:23SPEAKERout a computer monitor from the college dorm which was a relatively nice 17-inch trinitron
45:30SPEAKERoh no loaded into the back seats and somehow ground the screen up against the hinge where the
45:37SPEAKERfront seat uh tilts on yep put a nice fat like three three inch or more gouge right into the kind
45:48SPEAKERof lower right quadrant of the screen and it was not that old a monitor so i basically just had to
45:52SPEAKERuse this monitor with a very large deep gouge in the glass for the next several years i bought a
45:59SPEAKER36 inch panasonic crt tv in 1998 as a floor model i had best buy when it was when they were clearing
46:09SPEAKERout the old floor models and it didn't come with a box and because it was not a portable tv it didn't
46:15SPEAKERhave handles and i thought i could do it with two people and we needed three for sure because i
46:21SPEAKERlived upstairs in an apartment and we got about halfway up the stairs and one of us started losing
46:26SPEAKERour grip and we're like we got to set this down right now and we set it down the way we were
46:31SPEAKERholding it because it's so front heavy was to put it down on the glass and i got a it was about an
46:37SPEAKERinch scratch right on the front okay that sucks it wasn't that bad but like i was i was pretty
46:45SPEAKERdisappointed oh yeah it's a brand new tv that sucks but i thought i thought that was gonna go
46:49SPEAKERway worse oh no no yeah we didn't destroy the tv i thought you were gonna say that it shattered
46:53SPEAKERsomehow no that thing was so the glass on the front of that thing was so heavy it was it was
46:57SPEAKERscary because like it was on a tv stand and and the center of gravity was way too far forward
47:05SPEAKERfor for the amount of weight it was if it didn't fall on you would have killed you
47:08SPEAKERyeah crt glass pretty thick right in general real thick yeah okay i i don't know if i should be
47:14SPEAKERproud of this or not probably not but um my dad and i once gave a viking funeral to a little 13
47:22SPEAKERinch tv that had given up the ghost with a with a 12 gauge jesus look you live out in the country
47:28SPEAKERthere's a lot of space i know we fired into the side of a hill yeah 12 gauge jack it's fine but
47:34SPEAKERthe the i i remember even that little dinky little emerson 13 inch like it was harder to shatter that
47:40SPEAKERscreen than you would have thought the bigger the my understanding is that the bigger the tube the
47:44SPEAKERthicker the glass on the front has to be too so like when you get to those big 30 30 plus inch
47:50SPEAKERtvs that thing weighed 220 pounds or something insane it was so heavy that's rough it was
47:55SPEAKERliterally nothing to hold on to it with like it was it was like the only thing you'd hold on to
47:59SPEAKERwas the lip around the glass on the front god yeah you're reminding me of moving tv's back then now
48:04SPEAKERthat was oh such a like the the sony vegas like toward the end they finally started putting little
48:10SPEAKERhand holds into the side yeah you had to uh but it yeah i mean but also that tv would do the
48:16SPEAKERanamorphic squeeze so yes you got a full 480 ps i mean it was worth anything any amount of discomfort
48:23SPEAKERfor the anamorphic squeeze yeah i love an anamorphic squeeze um let's see here uh here's a
48:30SPEAKERcake batter question now you might think this sounds like your average happy-go-lucky whimsical
48:37SPEAKERcake batter question but i think it's fairly serious when do you think phones will switch to
48:41SPEAKERnvme storage well hon that could mean two different things right yes because like it
48:47SPEAKERcould mean are you able to put like a 22 30 nvme in your phone and the answer that is never i don't
48:52SPEAKERthink that's i i assume that's not what he means i i assume that nvme storage means the interface
48:58SPEAKERbetween the phone and the yes and the on the chip solder on the board is nvme it might already be i
49:03SPEAKERdon't even know that's what i assume he's talking about here is the the interconnect the data
49:07SPEAKERprotocol the whatever like not not not off the shelf replaceable nvme but using that standard
49:13SPEAKERfor the storage in the phone yeah because you know you're seeing it now like you know there are two
49:18SPEAKERtiers of steam deck now right where the cheap steam deck uses what is it emmc is that right
49:24SPEAKERyeah emmc is the is just it's like a it's like a app it's basically an mmc sd card size slot
49:33SPEAKERand doesn't doesn't the expensive steam deck use nvme the expensive steam decks use 22 30 nvme
49:40SPEAKERslots i think the emc one has a slot as well for the 22 30 but i'm not 100 of that i feel like they
49:47SPEAKERwent back and forth on whether it was going to have a slot for people to open up and put a drive
49:52SPEAKERin this this is probably i'm probably simplifying quite a bit but if i if we're judging purely by
49:59SPEAKERwhat is proliferating on the pc side in terms of availability and also pricing like nvme is taking
50:05SPEAKERover everything like nvme drives are cheaper than sata in the same form factor at this point
50:12SPEAKERso the prices prices have fallen on nvme storage on pc so much that i wonder if like is the entire
50:18SPEAKERworld just moving in this direction where like five or ten years from now like every new device
50:22SPEAKERis just going to use nvme in some form so according to this inan tech article that i'm looking at
50:28SPEAKERuh that the iphone 6s has an nvme oh has uses nvme storage wait the six s dude that's success
50:36SPEAKERthat's like a total phone pushing 10 years ago yeah 2016 right 2016 exactly is the year was it
50:43SPEAKER2016 yeah so um yeah yeah yeah so now 10 years ago is the answer yeah i guess uh but they're
50:54SPEAKERnot gonna have they're they're they're the the space constraints inside the phone are such that
50:58SPEAKERthere will never be removable connectors in like consumer grade phones because they they add so
51:04SPEAKERmuch volume that the would the phone manufacturers would rather use for battery well you know i could
51:10SPEAKERsee like what the the fair phone or the framework or something like that only fun yeah somebody
51:15SPEAKERmight try it at some point but i think he's probably asking more about the speed benefits
51:19SPEAKERhere but then that's also gated by the quality of the nand you're using right yeah so android
51:24SPEAKERphones use ufs uh for the storage controller which is a similar thing but uh not um nvme
51:35SPEAKERokay all right so the storage in your phone probably pretty fast already yeah we can say
51:41SPEAKERpretty fast okay probably fast enough i'm gonna say yes um what is our oh i know what the next
51:48SPEAKERquestion is let me find it oh i love finding questions benevolent brute yes the recent loss
51:54SPEAKERof waypoint has me thinking uh is there really a place or need anymore for corporate backed content
52:00SPEAKERsubscriptions like giant bomb tested and waypoint the corporate backing may provide some benefits
52:05SPEAKERbut it seems like the corporate need for growth always ends up harming the platforms and employees
52:09SPEAKERin the long run is patreon inevitably where this type of content is headed uh y'all are obviously
52:16SPEAKERmuch more intimately familiar with this than i am so i'm interested in hearing whatever insights
52:20SPEAKERyou'd be comfortable sharing shout out to waypoints their unique voice will be missed
52:24SPEAKERfuck capitalism go home so it's a complicated question this is probably more of a you question
52:30SPEAKERthan a me question i think but like as a person who pays for a handful of patreons i'm i'm happy
52:38SPEAKERand also makes a fair amount of money on patreon um i i like i i would much rather give my subscription
52:47SPEAKERmoney to the people who are doing the work than the company that pays the people that are doing
52:52SPEAKERthe work yeah absolutely i mean just just in case it's not clear or if anyone doesn't understand
52:58SPEAKERthis when when you pay a subscription to something like giant bomb that's owned by a big company
53:03SPEAKERthe company takes all the money it's not like even some of it gets shunted directly to the property
53:09SPEAKERparent company takes the money and then decides how much to give back to the property well yeah
53:14SPEAKERi mean yeah and part of that is like hey we we probably needed better deals when we were starting
53:19SPEAKERout or whatever oh yeah when we were whiskey media it was a little different situation because it was
53:23SPEAKERa startup and everybody was you know had a little bit of equity um yeah i mean i i guess you know i
53:28SPEAKERshould say if there's like some if there's some kind of talent contract in place which there was
53:32SPEAKERnot yeah uh you you might get a bonus or something based on subscription revenue or something but
53:37SPEAKERit's not like they are not offering that to your average employee of no of a corporate site that
53:42SPEAKERhas this kind of business model it's just like the money that that property makes even through
53:47SPEAKERsubscriptions is just rolled up as a line item into the the pnl the profit loss of the division
53:53SPEAKERyeah i feel like waypoint had a weird deal with their like twitch subs and patreon and stuff like
53:57SPEAKERthat because i can't speak for them and any unique arrangement they might have had yeah but or at
54:02SPEAKERleast at least potentially or the traditional way it would work is that parent company just absorbs
54:07SPEAKERall of that revenue and then doles it back out via budget yeah for the next year i mean and the
54:12SPEAKERnice thing about that is you get health insurance and you get a reliable paycheck yeah but the bad
54:17SPEAKERthing is is if you're making three million if you have five people and they're making you know three
54:21SPEAKERmillion dollars a year on subs then they're not getting three million divided by five right three
54:27SPEAKERmillion minus overhead divided by five right they're getting salaries right like if if so
54:32SPEAKERif the property is making x and then is only getting back like 0.4 x in budget for the next
54:39SPEAKERyear that's not great the the thing that's hard for me about this is that like this rewards people
54:46SPEAKERwho specialize really hard so like if you are if you are like really into f1 if you're really into
54:54SPEAKERracing games and you have a site about racing games then and you're the number one guy in
54:58SPEAKERracing games it's much easier for you to establish that than to to build a business around being like
55:02SPEAKERa general service gaming site or something like that yeah and that's sorry that i think that's
55:08SPEAKERtrue i've kind of heard talking to people recently that's kind of that's pretty true of substack as
55:12SPEAKERwell which is where yeah a lot a lot of these you know the crowd funded audience funded stuff yeah
55:19SPEAKERwriting and reporting is going on but like you need a beat there you can't just be a news person
55:24SPEAKERlike you need a pretty specified beat to cover to kind of stand out yeah and it's it's a hard
55:32SPEAKERum it's hard for me because like i want to i want general stuff like i liked giant bomb before i
55:38SPEAKERworked with you guys because like i liked having a place where i found where where like you talked
55:43SPEAKERabout all the games and you talked about the news and it was the general like i i got an overview
55:48SPEAKERrather than a deep dive into a specific category i don't want to pay for 25 sites i can't listen to
55:53SPEAKER25 podcasts um so like i worry that the general stuff is going to stop existing as much um but it
55:59SPEAKERseems like it's fine so far so yeah i don't know i i'm i'm always a fan of the people rather than
56:04SPEAKERthis than the brands yeah for sure the other the other thing that strikes me about that model
56:09SPEAKERthough is that i don't want to say it's easy but it's easier or it's less of a risky bet if you
56:14SPEAKERcome out of corporate media and you already have an established audience that is absolutely true
56:19SPEAKERit is it is certainly still a risk but it's certainly you can be a little more confident
56:24SPEAKERthat like you at least know that you have an audience and if you go do this independent thing
56:27SPEAKERthey might follow you it's going to be much harder if you don't already have that springboard
56:32SPEAKERyou know if if a lot of new never before heard of outfits are trying to launch similar things it is
56:38SPEAKERthe risk is exponentially higher that you will or won't hit and you know i mean nobody actually
56:44SPEAKERfully understands the alchemy of who gets big on twitch or who gets big in media generally right
56:50SPEAKERthere's a huge element of like right place right time yeah it's it's a it's a it's the grind didn't
56:55SPEAKERget lucky is the is the strategy so yeah like you know obviously it is great that these platforms
57:00SPEAKERexist to directly support the people that you follow but but i think there is going to be a
57:05SPEAKERdiscoverability issue maybe as that space gets more crowded and and and more people are coming
57:10SPEAKERup who again who didn't have that benefit of of having exposure through a different platform
57:15SPEAKERpreviously yeah it's it's kind of like the it's kind of like all the ai art and and writing stuff
57:23SPEAKERwhere hey this is this is great that they're cutting out a lot of low-end entry-level art
57:29SPEAKERand writing jobs but also if you don't have people doing low-end entry-level art and writing jobs
57:35SPEAKERthere's not going to be high-end there's not going to be people to do the the high the the
57:41SPEAKERhigh skill higher skill jobs later on yeah it's the same thing yeah honestly though i mean to be
57:47SPEAKERfair like people joining established media outlets and building their own brand and gaining an
57:54SPEAKERaudience making a name for themselves and then cutting loose and doing their own thing is like
57:57SPEAKERa tale as old as time right yeah that's true so like that's not going away i guess like that's
58:02SPEAKERisn't that kind of the bill simmons thing right like he got big at espn and then he got out of
58:05SPEAKERthere and yeah sure started started um i totally know who bill simmons is yeah the sports guy
58:12SPEAKERis grantland what he started after he got out of there or was that the thing he did at espn
58:16SPEAKERi don't know i probably could have picked an example that i understood better i'm just going
58:21SPEAKERto pick nate silver because then i then i'd be like oh yeah that guy yeah yeah anyway uh all
58:26SPEAKERright shall we do our last question here last question this month unprecedented move i'm going
58:34SPEAKERback to the emails oh wow adam from england yes uh adam from england it feels like over the past
58:42SPEAKERcouple of years the whole vpns get you around region locks has moved from an unofficial benefit
58:46SPEAKERto something that they actively promote how do you think streaming companies like netflix or more
58:52SPEAKERimportantly the rights holders feel about this it feels to me like all it will take is a rights
58:56SPEAKERholder complaining to a government before either streaming companies are forced to come up with
59:01SPEAKERbetter region locking or vpns have to block access to streaming sites i think that the kind of
59:07SPEAKERcompanies that run vp that sell vpns to people maybe don't give much of a shit what the
59:13SPEAKERgovernments care about yeah i also will say that when i wanted to watch eurovision a couple of
59:19SPEAKERweeks ago i was like oh man is i could just do this i could set up a vpn and then or i could
59:26SPEAKERkeep hitting tours until i get one in the right region to watch this or i could just give peacock
59:32SPEAKERfour dollars and not have to worry about it and be watching in like 30 seconds i get peacock four
59:37SPEAKERdollars then i immediately canceled my subscription you sell out i know i feel bad but also corporate
59:44SPEAKERshill look man there's only so it's exhausting okay sometimes you just trust me sometimes like
59:51SPEAKERsometimes you just want to sit on the couch and watch some weird music stuff and pay four dollars
59:55SPEAKERthat's what it turns out that's fair yeah um yeah you know i actually don't have a great answer for
1:00:01SPEAKERthis i'm not sure i understand quite all the legal ramifications of this situation enough to answer
1:00:06SPEAKERit it's not legal stuff it's this is all this is this is legal for them but not for you like it's
1:00:12SPEAKERnot on you to fulfill the terms of their content agreements no totally i just mean legal stuff
1:00:18SPEAKERbetween streaming services and vpns and governments that might force some change here i will say
1:00:24SPEAKERif all else fails there's always the um option of running your own vpn but that doesn't help you
1:00:31SPEAKERwhat you need is that you need vpn buddies you know like you need to hey no i'm not gonna say
1:00:37SPEAKERthis out loud but if you know people in other countries that have you know the content you
1:00:42SPEAKERcrave you can be a vpn buddy with them and connect to their vpn and they connect to your vpn and you
1:00:48SPEAKERknow to be clear i'm not talking about running a vpn like on your router for example and vpn-ing
1:00:52SPEAKERinto your house i'm talking about like renting of vps in another country and setting up your own vpn
1:00:57SPEAKERon that yeah which is like absolutely can do i mean it's probably some command line work still
1:01:03SPEAKERbut i have seen i've seen guides out there for like here's how to just get a vps for four bucks
1:01:09SPEAKERa month and run your own vpn on it just do all this and you're good and yeah i think i think
1:01:14SPEAKERthose guides are going to get easier and easier there may there may very well be open source
1:01:18SPEAKERpackages at this point that make it easy to set up your own vpn i mean yeah you could pay five bucks
1:01:22SPEAKERa month for a lino pick a region that you want it to be in and and run wire guard on it and you're
1:01:27SPEAKERdone yes um it's like it's it's it's a tilting it windmill situation the thing is the people who
1:01:33SPEAKERgive a shit about that are always gonna be able to figure out how to do it really easily and the
1:01:36SPEAKERpeople who uh the people who don't will pay five dollars and the 99 of a normal people who don't
1:01:44SPEAKERknow what a vpn is will continue just not watching shit that's not available in their region okay i'm
1:01:49SPEAKERgonna say this i actually i can't i can't speak to the quality of these guides but i just googled vps
1:01:54SPEAKERrun your own vpn yeah the first thing that came up were guides on both how to geek.com and make use
1:02:01SPEAKERof dot com yeah vps is a virtual private server yes yes so you're running a virtualized server
1:02:08SPEAKERinstance basically yeah but the point is if the point is the point is if sites that mainstream in
1:02:13SPEAKERterms of tech help are running guides on how to do this i'm gonna say this can become pretty
1:02:18SPEAKERaccessible over time yeah the the other thing is we live in the united states where the content
1:02:24SPEAKERwhere we mostly get the content we crave yeah um i feel like this is a much more common thing if
1:02:30SPEAKERyou live someplace that that has had like the number of requests we got for vpn stories from
1:02:37SPEAKERcanadians and people in the uk at maximum pc in like 2008 was very high sure as netflix was
1:02:43SPEAKERstarting to come online and it wasn't and and like canadian netflix had remember this is why netflix
1:02:48SPEAKERhas original content right it's because they couldn't get distribution rights that were
1:02:51SPEAKERworldwide for anything that they were buying so they just started making their own original
1:02:54SPEAKERshit so they could put it everywhere right um and and as a result people in canada in the uk and
1:03:01SPEAKERaustralian river else wanted to know how to do vpn stuff so they could watch us netflix which used to
1:03:06SPEAKERbe better and now netflix is just kind of meh all over so nice job netflix we finally dropped it
1:03:11SPEAKERafter like years of me saying i was going to cancel netflix i finally did it wow really but
1:03:16SPEAKERwhere are you going to watch such hit netflix shows as blown away or i mean i actually really like blown
1:03:22SPEAKERaway but don't even know what that is that's that's man okay i don't i don't need to know
1:03:26SPEAKERbrad it's project runway but they do glass blowing it's the highest drama reality show you've ever
1:03:30SPEAKERseen because people who blow glass they're just they're just used to heartbreaking failure at
1:03:35SPEAKERthe last possible second because it's inherent to the art it's very good it's worth watching
1:03:41SPEAKERdon't sign up for netflix again i won't i think it's on hbo now anyway all right sorry max yes
1:03:46SPEAKERi can't believe we got through this whole episode without talking about how fucked up the max thing
1:03:49SPEAKERwas let's just nod let's just not talk about making your own mistakes and anyway uh brad i
1:03:56SPEAKERthink we've come to the end of the page of the episode my my watch is telling me it's time to
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1:04:31SPEAKERincluding most recently hold on most recently ryan weaver thanks ryan uh we also uh it's the
1:04:40SPEAKERend of the month so we thank a lot more people than we normally do um including our associate
1:04:45SPEAKERproducer and executive producer to your patrons my watch is making so much freaking noise holy cow
1:04:50SPEAKERhold on really once you stand up be quiet watch no some of these people are texting like crazy
1:04:56SPEAKERmaybe your watch knows something you don't we we have uh uh friends are coming over in a moment so
1:05:02SPEAKERi've got to uh oh yes uh i've i there's communications as a result i don't see
1:05:10SPEAKERuh hold on my my patreon window is jacked up there we go do i have to fill no no i'm good i
1:05:16SPEAKERgot it i got it we're cool now uh so as always uh thank you to our eggs nope this is this isn't
1:05:25SPEAKERhelping our executive old tier patrons there we go wow i feel really attacked uh thank you as always
1:05:33SPEAKERto our executive producer tier patrons including octothorpe bunny crimes andrew slosky brad's
1:05:39SPEAKERmid-size hoodoo voodoo uh paddle creek games makers of fractured veil david allen james kamek
1:05:45SPEAKERjoel krauska just wedge nick johnston and twinkie says mike b is the gif lord uh also since it's the
1:05:54SPEAKERend of the month we want to thank our associate producer tier patrons including andre m burke
1:05:58SPEAKERarthur geese ben talman dave eulian eric klein graham banks jad rita jason runy the ref j maybe
1:06:06SPEAKERmatt walker parentheses walkman 8080 close parentheses nathan phelps sanchik kumar steve
1:06:12SPEAKERlin thomas j and tom hilton thank you all so much we appreciate everybody and and um i i
1:06:20SPEAKERlike i just love it's it's so nice open up the discord in the morning i don't even i'm just a
1:06:26SPEAKERlurker now mostly brad i just i just get in i'm like man people talk about cool stuff i don't have
1:06:30SPEAKERanything cool to talk about right now but maybe i should follow your lead sometimes i worry that i
1:06:35SPEAKERi'm in there a little too much with my weird stuff no i like i like your weird stuff i enjoy lurking
1:06:40SPEAKERon your weird stuff too so it's it's good it's a it's good it's a good place to lurk i learn stuff
1:06:44SPEAKERevery day which is always nice i wish honestly i wish i had a thing that i could just pull all
1:06:50SPEAKERthe links that people share in the discord general chat and dump them into like a google reader style
1:06:57SPEAKERinterface because i think i could probably get pretty good news out of that anyway i bet so
1:07:00SPEAKERi am on the hunt right now it's my most recent weird thing from the discord i'm on the hunt for
1:07:06SPEAKERa very specific available only in europe artisan finally crafted usb bracket what kind of usb
1:07:17SPEAKERbracket it's just the kind that you run to your motherboard headers why why do you need it because
1:07:22SPEAKERevery every you know what i'm talking about the little pcie slot usb bracket usb ports that runs
1:07:27SPEAKERbetter then you put it in the slot empty slot in your case every one of those that i own like half
1:07:33SPEAKERmy usb devices don't work with them which i assume has to do with like voltage drop in some cases like
1:07:39SPEAKERthe same device will work on one of the ports but not the other one they i think they are just very
1:07:42SPEAKERlow quality that's where and and i've found one made by d-lock it's got a straight up data sheet
1:07:51SPEAKERi didn't need to bring this into this podcast wow anyway i suspect that one might actually perform
1:07:56SPEAKERto spec based on looking at the huh item and the fact that they even publish a data sheet with it
1:08:02SPEAKERin the first place not available for sale in the united states so i'm on the hunt for functional
1:08:07SPEAKERusb bracket you need a vpn drop shipper you what you do is you set up your vpn you log in from
1:08:13SPEAKEReurope and they'll be like hey man i'm european just here's my electro card i'm cool right
1:08:17SPEAKERand then you have it sent to the drop shipper and he's never even going to know that he's not sent
1:08:22SPEAKERit to the to to europe he's gonna be like what i'm sending this to european person right in italy
1:08:27SPEAKERit's it's uh brad shoemaker you know in rome italy wait are there really like just third party
1:08:34SPEAKERdrop ship options yeah really you get all sorts of crazy shit set with drop shippers like i was
1:08:39SPEAKERactually close to emailing and now a retailer in the netherlands who has this item to see if they
1:08:43SPEAKERshipped to the united states this morning but are you saying i can just not even worry about that
1:08:47SPEAKERit's kind of expensive but yes you can do that how much are we talking i don't know man i don't i
1:08:51SPEAKERdon't i don't do nefarious shit i just keep it on the up and up over here i don't know that i can
1:08:55SPEAKERspend 200 for this usb bracket that's a stupid amount of money you can you could make a usb
1:09:00SPEAKERbracket there's also every possibility that this one will also have issues with my audio devices
1:09:06SPEAKERyeah i'm going to suggest here's a novel concept have you thought about a hub
1:09:11SPEAKERyeah that option had come up that's the that's the i would describe that as the normal solution for
1:09:16SPEAKERthis also not a perfect solution though i mean like hubs have their own issues but i mean but
1:09:20SPEAKERpower generally you get a good powered one the power is not one of them so i plug i plug do you
1:09:26SPEAKERwait hold on i didn't mean to turn this into my tech support but do you actually run do you run
1:09:30SPEAKERyour moto through a hub so what i was going to tell you is that i have everything except
1:09:35SPEAKERokay my keyboard and mouse run into a usb switcher oh that stuff's fine i'm not giving you i'm giving
1:09:41SPEAKERyou the map okay okay everything else usb plugs into a hub and then the moto and my webcam plug
1:09:46SPEAKERdirectly into ports on the motherboard interesting okay so i have four plugs total i see and actually
1:09:54SPEAKERi think that the usb switcher is probably plugged into the hub if i had to guess so the thing i've
1:09:58SPEAKERcome to find is that 80 percent of the usb ports on the back of this board useless for camera and
1:10:04SPEAKERaudio that's not great i would say that that is a i would that is the kind of thing i would take
1:10:08SPEAKERup with my motherboard manufacturer because that does not seem appropriate yes that it's it's a
1:10:12SPEAKERproblem are they all wired into some shitty ace tech controller or something they're all going
1:10:16SPEAKERwhy would they put the fucking ports on the back of the board into the ace tech controller so that's
1:10:20SPEAKERthe thing there are eight ports that run through the chipset on this board which i have tested
1:10:25SPEAKERenough to tell you audio video works fine with those they are only exposed through the
1:10:29SPEAKERmotherboard headers that is so fucking stupid the shitty ports are running through the third
1:10:34SPEAKERparty controllers on the board on the rear io the good chipset ports i need i need um header
1:10:41SPEAKERbrackets to access and the header brackets are unreliable because if i usb are you getting usb
1:10:46SPEAKER3 header brackets or usb 2 i'm trying i'm trying to get three so i so there are four ports on the
1:10:51SPEAKERrear io that are good yeah but they are the only four the red ports that's the easiest way to
1:10:57SPEAKERdescribe it they're yeah you know usb 3.2 gen 2 but they're the red ones so the burning three of
1:11:02SPEAKERthe four good usb ports on the back with like usb 2.0 device this really fucking sucks that's
1:11:08SPEAKERwhy i'm trying to get these brackets yeah well the most is a usb 3 device oh it's a two i look
1:11:14SPEAKERat the spec it has a c connector on the uphill and then the usb c can be 2.0 oh god okay i hate usb
1:11:21SPEAKERman okay good luck brad see you next week i just saw a piece on a motherboard one time it was a
1:11:31SPEAKERdisaster that sounds terrible i was i was literally sitting at my desk and i heard a
1:11:37SPEAKERand then a tink tink tink and then a fan made a real bad noise and when i dug the thing that
1:11:42SPEAKERhad fallen into the fan we shouldn't put this apart well we could but i might put this after
1:11:46SPEAKERthe end of the show yeah so when i when i when i dug the piece that had fallen into the power
1:11:52SPEAKERsupply fan out of the power supply fan i looked at it i was like this looks like a little it's
1:11:57SPEAKERlike a little smd uh uh resistor that solders on flat on the motherboard this is on an intel
1:12:05SPEAKERreference board for like a i don't know probably the first hexa core systems like a like a haswell
1:12:10SPEAKERmaybe no before haswell would have been um i can't remember ivy bridge no way before ivy bridge
1:12:17SPEAKERyears before ivy bridge um probably yeah inhale them uh so anyway also the moment that happened
1:12:26SPEAKERmy network connection dropped nice so i looked at it i looked at how to solder the smt
1:12:33SPEAKERmotherboard pieces the the components back on and this was before i'd done it at whiskey i think even
1:12:38SPEAKERuh and i was like ah man i don't think i can do that so i tried it it was a disaster
1:12:43SPEAKERnetwork port never worked again luckily that motherboard had two network ports so i just
1:12:48SPEAKERput a piece of tape over the one that wasn't working and never thought about it again
1:12:51SPEAKERproblem solved that's that's problem solving how does something just fall off your motherboard
1:12:55SPEAKERwith no intervention i can only assume that it was like it was a bad like there was a bad solder and
1:13:02SPEAKERit just like it was the where that component was it was near enough the cpu and the voltage
1:13:07SPEAKERregulators that that part of the board was probably warm okay and would get warm and cool and warm and
1:13:12SPEAKERcool and warm and sure warmer cool and warmer cool and next thing you know you got an xbox 360
1:13:17SPEAKERthe xbox 360 classic yeah