282: You Can't Contest the Knob Feel

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

🗓️ 13 April 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

We've both gotten our hands on CRT televisions recently--Will's one from his youth and Brad's a much more modern set--and we've spent a bunch of time tinkering with them, getting our MiSTers to play nicely with them, and generally enjoying some warm analog video. On this week's ep we dig into our time reacquainting ourselves with what TVs used to be like, with a freewheeling conversation that touches on all kinds of minutiae like when it might be time to replace your aging set's capacitors, trying to understand signal standards from RGsB to YPbPr, remembering the time when the only inputs on your TV were a couple of screws, and a bunch more.

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0:00.0	Did you know you can run your own firmware on Kindles now?
0:03.7	I just weirdly the other day got a YouTube recommendation along the lines of it's time to
0:09.0	de-Amazon your Kindle.
0:10.8	So I guess I did know that.
0:12.5	Yeah, people were talking about in the Discord this morning.
0:14.2	And I was, when they first figured out how to jailbreak them years and years ago, I looked
0:20.2	at what you could do with the jailbroken Kendall.
0:22.4	And it was basically like you can put Linux on it and you can run a Sudoku app.
0:27.6	And there was some, there was like a version of snake or something.
0:32.0	And that was pretty much it.
0:33.4	Yeah, I also have been of the mind that it never really seemed worth it.
0:36.0	But when you mentioned the snake is on there, I might.
0:38.6	Well, so I was curious to see because there's this whole, there's a whole interface for like your DRM free audio, audio books and ebooks that you buy from places now.
0:48.1	Yeah, because that was the big thing, you know, the big, what do you want to call it, the DRM kerfuffle of a couple months ago, the way that they changed
0:54.4	your ability to get your stuff off of there? Well, and there's tools now kind of like Plex,
1:00.4	but for e-books and books and comics in audio bookshelf. And so I was looking at it. I was like,
1:07.6	oh, is this a thing? Is this a thing I can do? And then the answer
1:13.0	it turns out is no. But your model is not capable? No, no, my model's capable. There's no,
1:18.2	there's like no interface with any kind of external. Like what I want is the thing that I can put
1:24.0	books on my NAS and then pull them over under the Kindle and all the stuff
1:28.0	that they have are like, you know, you can use Libri and plug it into USB on your computer.
1:33.2	I'm like, I'm no, I'm uninterested in this as a concept.
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