It's another year and another state of the hardware.

State of the hardware 2025.

No.

Yes.

Because it's May.

It's named like cars.

It's named for the next year.

State of the Hardware 2025.

2024.

2024 because that's the year we're in.

Yeah, we did this last year for the first time

where we spoke about a lot of the products that we use for getting our work done for entertainment

we have a bunch of categories and we're going to go through them with you talk about what's changed

what stayed the same and why but before we get started, we wanted to remind and let our listeners know that we are currently

producing a three-part membership event where Gray and I are watching. I'm watching for the first time Gray is rewatching,

the Lord of the Rings extended edition movies. And the Two Towers episode is now available

for more Texans. You can go to get more text.com and you can sign up

become a member you'll get longer ad-free versions of every episode of the

show plus you will get yourself a new feed of special episodes where you will now find both an

episode about the Fellowship of the Ring and also the Lord of the Rings to Two Towers.

I like you're using its full name, The Lord the Rings, the Two Towers. I've been just like thrilled to have this as an excuse to re-watch the movies. I haven't watched them in just forever. It has been real interesting to hear Mike as the total nube to the franchise discussing his thoughts on it and yeah I feel like you know we started with the fellowship and we did the two towers and boy I forgot how much is in the two towers

it's like when I haven't seen it for a while it's the middle movie it's easy to kind of

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