Podcast #779 - XFX Mercury RX 7900 XTX with Magnetic Fans, Microsoft Makes Windows Worse, Optane Sale!, Seagate on eBay + MORE!
06/28/24 • 78 min
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
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
Previous Episode
Podcast #778 - Snapdragon X Elite Reviews Reaction, AMD Data Breach, Fractal Mood Review, Inexpensive 360AiO & MORE
Five of us entered, but only one survived. This is one episode you won't want to miss!
In addition to all that, we discussed SFF specs, Copilot updates, the Fractal Mood, ARM speculative execution, and Intel CPU stability!
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:34 Food with Josh
03:00 We react to Snapdragon X Elite reviews
10:17 Intel issues microcode fix for 13th/14th Gen stability issues
16:02 NVIDIA's new SFF-Ready GPU standard
18:37 An ITX-sized RTX 4070 with a pink PCB
19:54 Windows 10 update brings "Open With" dialog box bug
21:23 ID-Cooling has a 360mm AiO with no RGB for only 60 bucks
24:48 (in)Security Corner begins
33:00 AMD data breach
35:41 Gaming Quick Hits
42:10 Fractal Mood mITX case review
59:12 Picks of the Week
1:11:07 Outro
Next Episode
Podcast #780 - Leveraging the AI Powered Blockchain Second Life Metaverse
It took a couple of days to get to the editing and posting (due to the July 4 holiday) but the wait will be 100% worth it, we assure you. Josh even had a burger. Including Z890, Gigabit forever, Win10 death and all your content belong to AI now.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:35 Food with Josh
03:51 Intel Z890 chipset leak
05:21 When will the industry stop using Gigabit?
09:38 More on the upcoming Intel parts
13:23 New Breaking Limit GPU benchmark is out
15:13 NVIDIA 72-core Grace CPU gets close to 96-core Threadripper
18:02 Will death of Win10 ignite PC market?
20:05 Microsoft CEO of AI says anything published online is free to use
24:38 AMD Ryzen 8000G processors discounted
29:41 Podcast sponsor - Green Chef
31:11 (in)Security Corner
47:44 Gaming Quick Hits
56:09 Picks of the Week
1:12:24 Outro
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