289: Computer Shangri-La

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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4.8 • 521 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Will's here with a two-fer trip report this week, one of which was a literal trip to the grand opening of the brand new Bay Area Micro Center. We dig into what a big-box retailer oriented around building PCs is like in 2025, reflect a bit on the history of other screwdriver and computer shops past, and muse about retiring into PC-builder-helper status. Also, Nvidia has finally released a proper GeForce Now client for the Steam Deck, and we get into what Will's recent testing of the service has been like, whether the various pricing tiers are worth it, how viable it is as a replacement for owning an actual PC, and more.

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0:00.0	Brad, I don't know what Windows sounds mean anymore.
0:02.7	Did you ever?
0:03.9	Yeah, you used to have the little do-d-dut that was like something disconnected or the do-doot, something connected.
0:09.6	Yep.
0:10.2	Or you had Brian Eno coming on and be like, yo, Windows is booting up.
0:13.1	Yep, that's exactly how that went.
0:14.8	Actually, that would be kind of like we should make a Windows sound, like a Windows XP sound pack.
0:19.2	It's just like.
0:20.1	I've thought about that before.
0:21.6	Yeah, not music.
0:22.3	Just, yo, Windows is booting up.
0:25.0	But yeah, no, I don't, I don't know at any of the, I don't, because they change the chimes
0:30.4	every new version of Windows, I don't think I know what their new ones are supposed to
0:35.5	mean other than just like general vibes.
0:38.9	Yeah.
0:39.1	And like outside of USB device connected and disconnected, I feel like they're all used so broadly and generically that it's impossible to learn what they mean anyway.
0:46.3	You know?
0:47.5	Yeah.
0:47.7	Like I just got a one.
0:50.2	I don't know what that means.
0:51.3	I think that might be maybe that's a discord. Like a that almost sounds like recycled in emptying sound. No, no, no, whoa, I don't know. I also, I don't, oh, here we go, sounds here. Okay, so asterisk. That's the, that, I still know what that one is. Would have been really smart for me to set it up so I could just play these into the file it would have let me take two seconds okay so I just got another one I'm getting do do do do do do loon do loon all the time I think we've buried the lead here you're getting a bunch of phantom sounds as we have we as we have been setting up to record here yeah but i have the notifications
1:28.3	turn do not disturb oh oh no that's the problem windows turn might do not disturb off when it
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