This month, we're talking biscuits and bluesky (aka the horniest social network), exploding Ryzens, and answer questions about the most ethical meat, where we'd want to live, and super-fancy headph...
2023-05-01 03:30:07 +0000 UTC View PostJoin Brad and Will for a rambling fireside chat, where they solve technical problems, discuss the best ways to clean the grossest technology in the house, Brad inches closer to a mechanical keyboar...
2023-04-01 00:10:40 +0000 UTC View Post
First things first, here's the thing from the start of the podcast. https://twitter.com/McShirehamp...
2023-03-01 04:11:59 +0000 UTC View Post
On this wide-ranging conversation, Brad & Will discuss Stable Diffusion, new PCs, the benefits of patch blocks vs. crimping, Stable Diffusion again, and close the episode with a round of lightn...
2023-02-02 07:44:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Whoops, we recorded this one so early that we completely forgot to post it on time. We discuss our plans for the holidays, Will's shitty blog, and the ridiculous idea that you've now heard two epis...
2023-01-04 22:41:09 +0000 UTC View PostTis the season for extreme consumerism. Brad and Will talk about Will's new PC (shoutout to PC World!), strategies for moving from one PC to another, getting off Adobe for good, and the new iPad Pr...
2022-12-01 03:15:53 +0000 UTC View PostBrad's feeling a bit better, so we convened to talk about the best, most immediately relevant news in this exclusive Patron cast. That's right, Will loaded up The Force Engine and is playing throug...
2022-11-04 00:45:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Brad encourages a shockingly reckless method of laptop disposal, Will is going to Disneyland, and the guys have another rambler of a cast talking about everything from Linux permissions to adjustin...
2022-09-28 01:39:34 +0000 UTC View Post
On this month's Patron ep, Brad and Will enjoin in a wide-ranging, perhaps even rambling conversation covering topics including anime, iPads, hot TV hits, the right and wrong way to track power con...
2022-09-01 15:52:32 +0000 UTC View PostThis month's Patron episode is a tale of PiKVMs, power supplies, weird keyboard problems and hot dogs, with a side of BBQ oysters and we even answer a question or two. Enjoy!
2022-07-29 23:57:48 +0000 UTC View Post
This very special Patron episode started out with a whole lot of hardware failure talk, followed by a call for decisive action and some hot command line action. You can find the Windows dump inspec...
2022-07-01 06:21:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's Patron-exclusive pod is a roundup of things we've been working on. New NASes, VPNs on old routers, Powershell on the M1 Mac, a new keyboard, a super-glamping update, and an update on W...
2022-06-01 02:01:55 +0000 UTC View Post
In this concept episode, Will asks Brad to make a series of impossible choices. The results may surprise you. Topics include Kindle fonts, SMB configuration errors, and whether we should try to mak...
2022-04-29 22:36:27 +0000 UTC View Post
In this wide-ranging episode, Brad and Will talk about hot new audio interface technologies, PowerShell scripting, console game backend business, and Will's incredibly specific router situation. 2022-04-01 02:34:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Look, we talked about some stuff. Will's building LEGO, Brad's got new audio kit, general strategies for keeping your desk tidy (or choosing not to), first-order retrievability, ancient video cards...
2022-02-26 02:45:48 +0000 UTC View Post
This one's kind of a rambler. We discuss 2022's upcoming projects for both Brad and Will (there's a lotta NAS talk), take an ill-advised deep dive into Facebook's financials, talk about bile duct s...
2022-02-04 04:10:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, Brad regales us with tales of the 486 MiSTer core, Will gets a new watch, and the guys decide that Windows 3.1 kind of sucks.
2021-12-31 23:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello beautiful Patrons! This month, Brad and Will delved deeper into the question mines to extract more shiny answers. They talk about what tech to take on Brad's impending trip, the harmless jell...
2021-12-01 05:27:25 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time! The spoopy season is upon us, so Brad and Will turn Qs into As and talk about the true horrors of the technological world, self-closing doors. Enjoy!
2021-10-31 01:07:10 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, we turn bonus Qs into even more As, we disuss the perils of falling like an old man, driving back from the desert, and Brad's scripting dreams. Enjoy!
2021-10-01 02:46:59 +0000 UTC View Post
In another sprawling Patron-exclusive episode, Will and Brad discuss Will's first electric road trip and the plan for the next month's worth of Tech Pods, and then turn some bonus Qs into As. ...
2021-09-01 02:13:23 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a potpourri Patron-exclusive ep. This month, Brad & Will let down their hair and answer some bonus Qs that we didn't get to in the monthly Q&A episode, talk about a few of their in-pro...
2021-08-02 02:25:16 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, we delve deep into #questions-seeking-answers to turn the--hrmmm, how should we put this--less well-considered Qs into As. Topics include Waffle House, pancake shingling, the Go Pro fac...
2021-07-01 02:23:21 +0000 UTC View Post
It's another planning episode, and this time, It's Personal. Potential episode ideas include very good ones, very bad ones, and one profoundly unwise one. Let us know what you think in the comments...
2021-06-03 06:24:31 +0000 UTC View PostIf you listen to podcasts using Apple Podcasts, you may have noticed some of your shows went dark over the last few weeks. I'm here to tell you that they probably didn't. Apple has messed up their ...
2021-05-30 18:24:22 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, Brad and Will dig back into the well. Really, really far back. Into our earliest Internet history, Usenet and Ars Technica's OpenForums, respectively. Enjoy dramatic recreations of scen...
2021-05-01 00:08:28 +0000 UTC View Post
On this month's very special Patron Spotlight, we welcome TwinkleTwinkie to talk about Defcon, Badgelife, and soldering with the Discord's #1 soldering expert!
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2021-04-01 00:29:50 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, Brad and Will talk about setting up Valheim servers, containers vs. virtual machines, and the pros and cons of running a bunch of servers on Raspberry Pis vs. containerizing them. ...
2021-02-28 20:43:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, we talk about water mains, the pros and cons of home ownership, and our approaches to learning new levels of Hitman 3.
2021-02-03 03:11:39 +0000 UTC View PostWe're trying something a bit different this month--a Patron spotlight! We chatted with Doug Ellison to talk about taking photos ON Mars, data throughput from another planet, what it's like to work ...
2020-12-24 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post