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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

275: The Bottomless Q Hole

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Nice Segue, LLC

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

🗓️ 23 February 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

We had quite a PC-heavy Q&A this month, with multiple questions about Windows 10 and 11 with the former's end-of-support date looming in October, as well as Qs about pronouncing country-code domains, the latest Nvidia 50-series electrical-connector drama, why we haven't seen much Gallium Nitride in PC power supplies yet, ways to get e-books besides Amazon, combatting the dreaded bit rot, and what it would actually mean to print a podcast.

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0:00.0

Okay, that 2032 asteroid that had as of a couple three days ago, like a two plus percent chance of hitting us?

0:06.5

Is it going up or down?

0:07.7

It's been downgraded to basically nothing and I actually don't know how to feel about it.

0:11.6

I'm not sure how I feel about that.

0:13.3

And I was excited.

0:14.5

Yeah.

0:15.0

Look.

0:15.9

Okay, here's the thing.

0:17.3

Do I in this, the year of our Lord 2025, feel like we as a species could come together

0:24.2

to prevent a city slash region destroying asteroid from impacting some probably not entirely

0:32.8

identified place on the planet? Absolutely not under any circumstances. Do I think that could

0:39.4

that that is a thing that we as a species are prepared to deal with right now? Agreed. Would it be

0:44.5

really, really amazing to watch it happen, assuming you don't live in the potential destruction

0:49.0

path, probably less so than I think right now, but I was curious how it was going to go.

0:53.5

Sure. Yeah. I read Seven Eves. I know curious how it was going to go. Sure. Yeah.

0:54.7

I read Seven Eves.

0:55.6

I know how this works.

0:56.6

I'm not quite irony poisoned enough yet to think it would be fun to watch an asteroid impact the planet.

1:02.9

But yes, something about the scenario that you have just described was intriguing at least.

1:07.8

I mean, look, there's a global cooling aspect to it that could be really good.

1:11.3

That's true.

1:12.3

Yeah, we put a bunch of particulate in the air for a few years.

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