270: Cat o' Five Tails

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

4.8 • 521 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The work of ages continues as we return (for the last time this month) to our tier list of every-ish cable and connector ever made. Such heavy hitters as DisplayPort, SATA, and USBs both mini- and micro- enter the fray this week, with digressions about obscure entries like the DFP (digital flat panel?) cable, powering bare hard drives straight out of the wall, the all-too-often overly stiff jacket on RJ45 ethernet cables, and more.

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0:00.0	I think we're just living in a post announcement, a post reveal future at reality at this point.
0:05.5	I don't think anything can stay secret anymore, at least as far as product announcements are
0:09.5	concerned.
0:10.2	Yeah, I mean, CS was full of things that we already knew about.
0:15.4	I mean, I guess the Nvidia stuff, they actually kept the lid on kind of.
0:18.7	Yeah.
0:19.0	Well, sort of, sort of not. Like the specs actually were pretty close to what had. Yeah. Well, sort of not.
0:21.5	Like the specs actually were pretty close to what had been rumored.
0:24.3	The prices, not quite.
0:25.5	But we're minutes since the,
0:28.0	uh,
0:28.3	the switch to announcement at this point or announcements on making shitty air quotes here.
0:32.7	There was literally nothing on that we didn't already know by the time that video hit.
0:36.6	And it looks like all of that Genki stuff from CES was, um, was just straight,
0:42.3	oh, it was straight real.
0:43.3	It was straight legit.
0:44.2	Like there was a story going around post CES that Nintendo lawyers have been in contact with
0:48.2	Ginky.
0:48.8	I mean, that's, it does seem like a pretty substantial mess up on, on their part.
0:53.1	Um, the Switch two thing looks like, it looks rad up on on their part. The Switch 2 thing looks like it looks rad.
0:55.7	I don't know.
0:56.3	I think it looks great.
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