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274: A Little Bit Less Good
Episode 274
Will is trying on a new hat soon, with a newsletter about the ongoing enshittification of our collective computing experience, and some tips and tric…
1 year, 1 month ago
273: The Requisite DeepSeek Episode
Episode 273
It's been a couple of weeks since the Chinese firm DeepSeek released its new R1 large-language model and sheared an enormous amount of value off of A…
1 year, 2 months ago
272: Mac OSX Snow Leopard 2
Episode 272
Questions! The time to answer them is here again, and this month we do our best with such topics as the relative scarcity of nuclear energy, nested c…
1 year, 2 months ago
271: Big Honkin' Die
Episode 271
Will's gotten his hands on Nvidia's fancy new RTX 5090 in advance of its release at the end of the month, and he's spent the last several days feveri…
1 year, 2 months ago
270: Cat o' Five Tails
Episode 270
The work of ages continues as we return (for the last time this month) to our tier list of every-ish cable and connector ever made. Such heavy hitter…
1 year, 2 months ago
269: Comically Tall Laptops
Episode 269
It's the Consumer Electronics Show once again, and there's a lot to talk about this year, so we chat this week about all the most interesting topics …
1 year, 3 months ago
268: We're Pro-Thunk Around Here
Episode 268
We note the tragic passing this week of our good friend and tech reporting legend Gordon Mah Ung, with a short tribute and a bit of reminiscing about…
1 year, 3 months ago
267: Cold Boot, Fresh Browser
Episode 267
It's our last pod of 2024, and thus, another batch of year-ending questions meets our entirely professional and learned answers. This month we talk a…
1 year, 3 months ago
266: Connector Mouthfeel
Episode 266
As the end of the year is here again, we're finally doing it: we're ranking every plug and connector in existence, or at least all the ones we can th…
1 year, 3 months ago
265: Shuck 'Em If You Got 'Em
Episode 265
Will and family just got back from the final show of Taylor Swift's Eras tour, so this week we dig into some of the technical aspects of a modern are…
1 year, 3 months ago