Podcast Episodes

310: Target Has a GitHub Account

Episode 310

It's that time again for more of your questions, and this month we discuss medical equipment conducting secret data collection, dangerously fast CD-ROMs, what we'd want in a brand new operating syste…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

309: Tivoization

Episode 309

A bunch of products and services seem to be going end-of-life all at once right now, so we did a round-up of some notable ones this week. Believe it or not, the venerable TiVo line of set-top TV reco…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

308: NEW Lake???

Episode 308

It's been a bit since we did a roundup of tools and tricks that are making our tech lives a little easier, so we're doing that again this week! Will talks about USB-C-to-SATA adapters that can power …

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

307: I Hate Smishing

Episode 307

A handful of news stories have caught our eye recently, so we're rounding them up this week. We start with a pair of stories about everyone's least favorite subject, SMS spam, one involving an organi…

Published on 3 months ago

306: The Worst Thing About Bluetooth Is "Sometimes"

Episode 306

Question time is here again, and this month we attempt to provide answers about subjects such as homebrew on the Steam Deck, outsourcing the university network support, buying phones just to trade th…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

305: Hardly an Off-the-Shelf Knob

Episode 305

We've been tinkering with a lot of esoteric PC hardware stuff lately, so we're here with a roundup on what we've been up to this week that you'll hopefully find informative. We get into Microsoft's c…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

304: Gamify Your Sleep

Episode 304

Apple really brought the goods to its iPhone 17 event this week, with a freakishly thin phone in the new iPhone Air, major production-level video features and accessories in the 17 Pro, significant h…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

303: Spaceships Built for Cats

Episode 303

For years, Blendo Games has been releasing its unique brand of systems-driven games on open source id Software tech, most recently with this year's Skin Deep running on a modified version of the Doom…

Published on 4 months ago

302: The System Tray Is No Man's Land

Episode 302

A few links from this episode:

The musical No BS Podcast #100: https://archive.org/details/no_bs_podcast_100

A particularly cool cyberdeck: https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/1m9ufwz/rpi_dev_f…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

301: Will Ruined the Internet

Episode 301

Some handy links if you want to start playing with your own virtual Windows 95 machine:

https://86box.net/

https://winworldpc.com/home

https://www.vogons.org/

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Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago