305: Hardly an Off-the-Shelf Knob

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

🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

We've been tinkering with a lot of esoteric PC hardware stuff lately, so we're here with a roundup on what we've been up to this week that you'll hopefully find informative. We get into Microsoft's crackdown on the vulnerability in FanControl and other popular monitoring software, attempting to corral fan settings in UEFI as an alternative, and doing battle with the dreaded beat frequencies that can result from adjacent fan placement. Brad also gives a full trip report on his attempt to power a stack of hard drives with an external ATX power supply, with a detour into handy tips for de-pinning a modular power supply cable, stacking multiple hard drives, and more. And Will touches on his recent experience building a new studio PC in a rack-mounted case, plus some tidbits about the last electronics flea market of the year, Linux thread scheduling, Brad's first trip to Micro Center, Will's shiny new CRT (yes, another one), and more!

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0:00.0	Okay, I've put my hands on every one of the new iPhones.
0:02.6	Ask me anything.
0:03.3	Hey, me too. Oh, okay. I guess you don't need to ask me anything then. I mean, so I went to the AT&T store while I was waiting to pick up food last night. Okay. And I kind of put my hand. So they had the anti-theft things on them to the point that like you couldn't get good hand feel. Oh, okay. Well, so we went to the Chestnut Street Apple store yesterday.
0:24.0	Oh, okay. Well,
0:21.4	so I, we went to the Chestnut Street Apple store yesterday. Oh, boogie. In the midst of, yes, dude, I don't get me started on that Apple store. Have I talked about it before? I just don't like Chestnut Street at all. Look, I have an extreme love-have relationship with the Marina in San Francisco. like there is some really nice fun stuff in the marina.
0:39.3	I don't like Chestnut Street. extreme love-hate relationship with the marina in san francisco like there is some really nice
0:37.5	fun stuff in the marina i i don't like chestnut street the vibes of that area are not to my taste
0:44.9	look some of my good friends who i went to college with uh used to like going to a bar out there
0:49.9	to watch tennessee football games like, sometimes it was great.
0:56.1	Sometimes it just absolutely sucked.
0:57.9	So I'm glad we don't go there anymore.
0:59.6	It's,
0:59.8	I had the worst, probably the worst retail experience of my life at that Apple
1:03.8	store on Chestnut Street.
1:05.2	For folks who don't know, I don't know,
1:07.8	what's the, the marina is kind of like, it's,
1:10.0	it's like posh, but for 26 year olds yes it is the
1:14.2	bougiest poshest part of san francisco it's like it's like it's not really well yeah it's like high end
1:18.9	shopping district though but but it's but like the high end shopping district's like Pacific heights
1:23.5	or something like that like that's where the actual rich people is this is where the people who
1:27.1	think they're really rich but aren't probably live.
1:29.2	A lot of finance bros in the marina. Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly it. Anyway. Anyway, I had way better time at that Apple store yesterday to their credit. But I don't think I've ever been to an Apple store on iPhone launch day. That's the one that I used to go to to pick up stuff when we would, before they closed the loophole.
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