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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

328: Shared Resources, Shared Problems

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Nice Segue, LLC

Tech, Smartphone, Phone, Videogame, Microsoft, Games, Apple, Space, Science, Techpod, Society & Culture, Tesla, Technology, Android, Electric Car, Amazon, Smart Phone, Tech Pod, Google, Video Game, Ios

4.8555 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

It's another glorious bounty of listener questions for the monthly Q&A, touching on a bunch of subjects like modern HDMI switchers, enormous turn-of-the-century TVs, MikroTik network gear, Pluribus, why the PCIe retaining clip exists (and how to defeat it), Unix on the desktop, our wishlist ESP32 projects, and the exact moment when cell phones became widespread -- and whether phone numbers are increasingly useless, at least in the US.

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0:00.0

Brad, I had a really weird dream last night.

0:01.9

Hit me.

0:03.3

You're familiar with the humble hedgehog. The humble head? I mean, I'm familiar with hedgehogs generally. I think they're humble. I feel like a hedgehog is a humble animal. I was just making sure that wasn't a capital H. Like, there's a cartoon character called the humble hedgehog or something. Hold on. We got to stop talking about this. I just emailed it to myself. I'm saving that one.

0:20.7

That one's really good.

0:21.5

But no, I had a dream to myself. I'm saving that one. That one's really good.

0:21.5

But no, I had a dream last night that I saw a hedgehog in my backyard. And as far as I know, we don't have hedgehogs. Hmm. Hedgehogs are like a Europe thing. They're not endemic to California. Wait, they're not even endemic to the continental United States. I don't believe so.

0:36.7

Everybody, look, I've, you know, I, you know how I feel about animal influencers and the

0:42.3

fact that I do tend to follow, you know, like I have a chintilla person.

0:46.0

I got some guinea big people.

0:47.7

Got a bunch of corkies and doll and cats.

0:50.3

And I have a hedgehog person.

0:52.8

Okay.

0:53.3

And she does, she builds little hutches,

0:57.0

like little houses that are hedgehog size in her backyard and then puts things that hedgehogs

1:02.0

like to eat inside them and little cameras and they come in and they do hedgehoggy things inside

1:05.9

their little house, but only during certain times of a year, apparently for some reason, but I'm

1:10.1

pretty sure she's in the UK.

1:11.9

Yes, I mean, I'm looking at it right now. There are no hedgehogs native to Australia and no living species native to the Americas. Yeah, I mean, I think the closest we get is a porcupine, which also I've never seen in the wild. Oh, wait. Is there a distinction? Yeah, porcupines have spines and hedgehogs are just cute. I thought hedgehogs also have spines.

1:27.8

Well, they have spines, but they're not, they're not like barbed and pokey, like, like porcupines have spines and hedgehogs are just cute. I thought hedgehogs also has spines.

1:27.7

Well, they have spines, but they're not, they're not like barbed and pokey like like porcupine.

1:31.7

They're like a little prickly when you pick them up, not out. Get this thing away from me. I don't get the sense that they're prickly even. I think they're just like, I think they're just like, what, like, what's the least prickly, prickly thing you can imagine?

1:45.3

It's like, like, one of those succulents that doesn't have spines.

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