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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

261: A Big Black Slab of Shame

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

🗓️ 17 November 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

We're back again with that floral favorite, the potpourri episode. This time it's a project potpourri, touching on some tech-related projects we've either tackled recently or are planning to get to soon. Learn the full story of how Will more or less Frankensteined his ultrawide monitor back from the dead, listen to Brad's plans for a virtual private cloud server and why Black Friday might be the time to jump in, scorn him for the utterly shameful state of his NAS backups, and more. 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

How do you store your USB cables?

0:02.4

Here and there.

0:03.6

Do you have like, do you like coil them up?

0:05.6

Do you have like Velcro ties?

0:07.3

Do you keep them segregated by type?

0:09.8

Like what's your strategy?

0:11.2

Yeah, yeah.

0:11.6

I thought we were talking like a junk drawer or, you know, like where do they all go kind of thing.

0:15.4

But you're talking in what form are they stored?

0:17.7

Like how do you configure them for storage? First one, then the other is what I'm

0:21.7

asking, I guess. I have developed a little technique that basically just sort of turns the cable,

0:26.6

like the cables are stored circularly. Yeah. Let's say it would be way easier if I could just hold up a

0:31.7

crossover loop. I do that. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. You just coil them in a round circle and then like each

0:36.9

end you sort of like braid around. You tuck it in. Yeah. So yeah. You just coil them in a round circle and then like each end you sort of like braid around. stress on the like no hard bends on the cable. Well also the figure like doing the figure eight like

0:55.0

doing it like I would do like a boat rope. Uh, you know, with the with the back and forth, back and

0:59.3

forth and then you wrap around. Yeah. Also leaves the ends usually poking out in weird ways because

1:03.8

they're like it's not good. Um, so I do that. I do that. I do the coil around and then I have a

1:10.0

dop kit that somebody sent me as a Chochie thing at some point that just holds. It's like my go bag for USB cables. I'm sorry, a what kit.

1:19.9

You know, a dop kit. I don't know what top stands for. It's what my dad always called them.

1:23.0

The dop kit. It's this DOP. Yeah, it's like you put your toiletries in it.

1:27.7

Yeah, okay.

1:28.1

Oh, yeah, no.

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