Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

340: Like a Bong for Your CPU

Brad's tired of throttling his CPU due to an inadequate heatsink. Will's been spending a lot more time testing PC hardware of late. Between those two things, we thought it was a good time to do a chec...

2026-05-24

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339: Billionaires Versus Dinosaurs

After a couple years off, we're returning to our annual tradition of each picking a year for our birthdays that we want to review in-depth from a tech and science perspective. This time Will picked 20...

2026-05-17

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338: Everything for Everything

Somehow the news just keeps happening, so we're here to round up and chew over another handful of headlines this week. Discussed on this episode are stories about canary traps in political databases, ...

2026-05-10

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337: They're 3D-Printing Shoes Now

We've got a project potpourri this week of things we've been getting our hands on, literally in the case of Will and his brand new Steam Controller. We talk through the ins and outs of Valve's first n...

2026-05-03

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336: When Triple Redundancy Isn't Enough

After all these monthly Q&A episodes, you folks continue to send us great Qs every month, and this time around we dig into such topics as the MacBook Neo's target audience, Windows running on Linux, t...

2026-04-26

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335: With Craft and Focus

It's time to fix Windows 11. OK, that might be a little ambitious for one podcast episode, but it's at least time to step through the plan Microsoft unveiled recently for improving Windows 11 and addr...

2026-04-19

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334: We Nailed the Math!

Friend of the show and all-around science guy Kishore Hari joins us once again, this time to dig into humanity's return to the Moon in NASA's Artemis program. We explore everything from the astronauts...

2026-04-12

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333: I Used To Do a Podcast

Brad's out this week, so Norman Chan takes the guest chair to talk us through the current state of the art in 3D printing. We cover the latest in FDM printers, whether resin printers are right for you...

2026-04-05

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332: Shout Out to the 1979 Lady Kenmore

Is it time for another Q&A again already? How the months just fly by. This month we address everything from auto-generated podcast chapters and episode links to computer class-action lawsuits, corpora...

2026-03-29

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331: More Teddy Ruxpin, Less Chucky

It's been a while since we got down to brass tacks with a tips and tricks episode, so that's what we're doing this week with a new list of tech that's making our lives a little more pleasant lately. W...

2026-03-22

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330: Our E-Cores Are Better Than Your P-Cores

There's kind of a mountain of hardware news from the last week, so we're rounding it up this week, starting with Microsoft's Project Helix (a.k.a. the next Xbox), interrogating what exactly that box i...

2026-03-15

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329: A Plaid Decade

We just passed the 25th anniversary of the GeForce 3, which felt like a good reason to dust off the April 2001 issue of Maximum PC. We reflect on both a quarter-century of programmable pixel shaders -...

2026-03-08

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328: Shared Resources, Shared Problems

It's another glorious bounty of listener questions for the monthly Q&A, touching on a bunch of subjects like modern HDMI switchers, enormous turn-of-the-century TVs, MikroTik network gear, Pluribus, w...

2026-03-01

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327: Two Hours of War

There's... a lot going on lately, so we're rounding up some of that news this week, starting with Discord's forthcoming age verification policy rolling out globally, with cursory discussion of some of...

2026-02-22

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326: Quantumly Entangled Keyboard Switches

Magnets have been replacing potentiometers in a variety of places for a while now, especially as Hall effect and TMR joysticks have started popping up in fancy game controllers. Now magnetic switches ...

2026-02-15

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325: renderDEEZ128

It's been a while since we did a deep dive on our home networking and server infrastructure (what some might call a "homelab"), so it's time for the 2026 check-in to run down what we're working with t...

2026-02-08

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324: The Intel Batman

After two months of accumulated Qs, we felt we still had plenty of As to dispense, so we're wheeling back around to a supplemental questions episode this week, touching on such topics as generating ne...

2026-02-01

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323: Ignore All Previous Instructions

The questions piled up over the holidays and now it's time to answer them in this, the first Q&A of 2026. This month we touch on topics like the splendor Gateway 2000's cow boxes, the mystery of the E...

2026-01-25

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322: It Was DNS

We get into the nitty gritty this week with a grab bag of home computing projects that's really more like a set of cautionary tales. Will discovers the perils of hanging your entire household's Intern...

2026-01-18

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321: How to Charge Your Knife

Another new year means another CES means another roundup of CES news. This year we cover all the announcements from Intel, AMD, and Nvidia (or at least one of those), plus some legitimately exciting s...

2026-01-11

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