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231: What on Earth Would Ordinary People Want With Computers?
Episode 231
The 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 Micro…
1 year, 8 months ago
230: Maybe Gentoo Was Right All Along
Episode 230
This week we attempt to unpack the recent, historic security breach in the open source world, after the discovery of a secret backdoor that was inser…
1 year, 8 months ago
229: IMAX, the TikTok of Film Projection
Episode 229
We'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 la…
1 year, 9 months ago
228: Never Forward a Port to Your Brain
Episode 228
March'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 …
1 year, 9 months ago
227: A Donut of Good Internet
Episode 227
Inspired by what's probably the most common subject we see questions about on our Discord, this week we're doing an updated primer on home networking…
1 year, 9 months ago
226: shooter.exe
Episode 226
We've got a two-fer this week, with a pair of topics that might not have filled a whole ep on their own but turn out to be two great podcast tastes t…
1 year, 9 months ago
225: The Goldblum Conjecture
Episode 225
What makes a great tech demo? Besides killer tech, do you need theatricality? Stage presence? The risk of everything exploding at the seams at any mo…
1 year, 10 months ago
224: Heavy Metal Twenty-Something Swagger
Episode 224
Book club returns this week, now that we've both read id Software founder John Romero's memoir, Doom Guy: Life in First Person. Join us for an extrem…
1 year, 10 months ago
223: Our Favorite Corporate Besties
Episode 223
This month's Q&A features another bumper crop of great topics, including installing in-wall speakers and hidden audio systems, the final word on the …
1 year, 10 months ago
222: War of the Chatbots
Episode 222
News has been happening (when hasn't it?) and this week we're rounding up some of the stories that caught our attention in recent days. First, the la…
1 year, 10 months ago