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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

208: Don't Be Mean to Racoons

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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Smart Phone, Society & Culture, Ios, Apple, Amazon, Smartphone, Tesla, Tech Pod, Tech, Phone, Technology, Space, Android, Google, Microsoft, Science, Videogame, Video Game, Games, Electric Car, Techpod

4.8521 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

We've been thinking about troubleshooting lately (because it feels like we've all been doing a lot of it), so in this ep we did a formal rundown of how we approach solving technical problems, both in PCs and otherwise. From the analytical joy of log files to A/B testing and eliminating variables, the dos and don'ts of both searching for and contributing to advice online, and other methods of stepping through the problem, hopefully this ep helps make your problem solving just a little bit easier. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0

My oven's working again, Brad.

0:01.4

I know.

0:02.8

It's been, okay, well, it's been kind of an embarrassing length of time.

0:06.6

I, I, we live in the Bay Area, as people may know.

0:10.8

What people may not know is that the cost of getting someone out to look at a appliance

0:15.1

repair just to have them hit the door, it has never been less than $300 for me in this house.

0:20.6

Ouch. Ouch.

0:21.2

Yeah.

0:21.7

Explain some thing. You know, I'm not as a renter. I'm not in a position to have to deal with

0:25.1

such things, but that illuminates certain behaviors on the part of my landlord, let's say.

0:30.1

Yeah. Like, it's generally set up so that unless you have a specific thing, it's cheaper to

0:36.9

just replace the, the cost of just biting the bullet and replacing

0:41.1

the appliance is such that you just, you just buy a new one often.

0:45.3

However, we bought a new oven, a new combo range stove a few years ago, about five years ago.

0:51.1

And when we bought it, we bought it at a place that likes to push

0:54.5

an extended warranty. And for big appliances that are going to last five to 10 years, more

1:00.5

than five years, I do tend to buy the extended warranty. I'm not sure what we're talking. Is it a

1:05.4

percentage or is it a flat fee based on the price? So the range listed it two grand i knocked them down to

1:13.2

sixteen hundred bucks and we split the difference on the extended warranty if i remember right

1:17.8

you know i started this i've never considered whether you would would be a haggler or not and i

1:22.8

started to say i hate it you didn't you didn't strike me as a haggler but then like no you would totally

1:27.0

haggle i i hate i hate the haggle. But you would still do it, right? I, I, I, I, I, I, of course, yeah. I mean, look, my wife

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