Podcast #779 - XFX Mercury RX 7900 XTX with Magnetic Fans, Microsoft Makes Windows Worse, Optane Sale!, Seagate on eBay + MORE!

You will be pleased to learn that we did indeed get together on Wednesday night (at 10 Eastern) to podcast this week. Here is the edited version of that podcast recording session. Within you find side-quests, insights, food, camera lens talk - and tech. Lots of tech talk on such things like Microsoft making terrible decisions, bad security theater, and idle data. Join us.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:41 Food with Josh
03:29 XFX Mercury RX 7900 XTX Magnetic Air (false start)
06:08 The review actually begins here
17:21 Boring camera lens talk
19:31 Microsoft makes OneDrive backups automatic
22:40 Microsoft hides the local account option even more
23:31 PSA: you don't actually have to use Windows
26:46 The great Optane 905P fire sale of 2024
30:30 Amazon moves Alexa to a subscription model
33:19 Seagate opens official eBay store for refurb HDDs
37:26 Most stored data is never accessed again
41:28 (in)Security Corner
44:33 We interrupt (in)Security Corner to talk about seamless integration
46:12 Back to (in)Security Corner
54:27 Gaming Quick Hits
1:03:08 Picks of the Week
1:18:16 Outro