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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

302: The System Tray Is No Man's Land

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

🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The end-of-month question session is here, bringing discussions about the sudden retail disappearance of optical drives, the cyberdeck phenomenon, why some game-streaming services look better than others, inconsistent tray behavior and other user-interface pet peeves, periodic keyboard maintenance, pickle relish faux pas, that time Will turned a Maximum PC podcast into a musical, and more.

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0:00.0

Okay, I'm going to do podcast crossover here. I'm sorry. Wait, two weeks running. Yeah, but it's

0:05.0

different. Okay, well, first, go find do a book diary's wherever fine podcasts are found.

0:09.3

Second, yesterday over at PC World, we built in that teenage engineering free case, the plastic

0:14.8

one that they gave away. Okay. Friend of the show, Norman Chan, multiple, multiple time guests

0:20.1

over here, managed to get

0:22.8

an order of one of those. And he was like, I'm not going to do anything with this. Do you want it? And I was like, yes, I'll build a, I'll build a mini PC in that thing. Did he get the free one or did you get the $9 one? Well, there's a huge difference. Wait, what's the difference? one of them costs $9

0:18.8

well see he said his cost $16

0:21.6

shipped well I mean I'm huge difference. Wait, what's the difference? One of them costs $9.

0:38.3

Well, he said his cost $16 shipped. Well, I mean, I'm being facetious, but like what they did, if I understood correctly, because I just saw this from the sidelines, I think they, didn't they kind of like surprise, drop this and say, hey, free PC case, but we're only doing X number, and it was a very small number.

0:34.9

But then shortly after that,

0:36.6

they were like,

0:37.0

oh,

0:37.1

by the way,

0:37.4

we're going to sell these two,

0:38.3

they're $9.

0:39.1

So like,

0:39.5

I mean,

0:39.7

I'm, but we're only doing X number and it was a very small number. But then shortly after that, they were like, oh, by the way, we're going to sell these two.

0:56.9

They're $9.

0:57.6

So, like, I mean, I'm just goofing about whether he got in on that free drop or not.

1:02.0

I mean, it's $9.00, who cares?

1:03.2

But the one that we had had a big giant cardboard thing on the front that said this is a $9 PC case.

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