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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

338: Everything for Everything

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

🗓️ 10 May 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Somehow the news just keeps happening, so we're here to round up and chew over another handful of headlines this week. Discussed on this episode are stories about canary traps in political databases, AMD bringing true HDMI 2.1 support to Linux, Microsoft's latest efforts to open-source its history, the trend of small hardware makers releasing source assets for their devices, the long-awaited arrival of Wildcat Lake, and more, plus fun digressions into printer tracking dots, the era of DOS before MS-DOS, and more!

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0:00.0

Brad, I'm trying a new thing.

0:01.8

Okay.

0:02.3

We like new things here.

0:03.5

I'm living life to its fullest.

0:05.1

I got a great big mouse pad.

0:07.1

I've been eating truck habachi.

0:09.5

Whoa.

0:10.4

Hang on.

0:10.9

This is a lot to take in all of once.

0:12.3

Yeah, I know.

0:12.4

There's a lot going on here.

0:13.4

How big is the mouse pad?

0:15.4

You can hold it up?

0:16.9

Sure.

0:17.3

I had to clean off the entire right side of my desk. The fact that you can hold it up on demand tells me it's not like a desk mat. It's not underneath a bunch of stuff other than a mouse. So I still have the desk mat under the keyboard because I like how it kind of deadens the sound. Oh, I thought the whole point of a desk mat was to be a mouse pad as well. It is. But this bigger mouse pad is even bigger than that.

0:38.0

It's like, I don't know, 500 millimeters by 480 millimeters or 19.69 inches by 18.9 inches in America units.

0:49.5

All right.

0:49.8

Basically two feet by two feet.

0:51.4

It's big.

0:52.0

That's pretty big.

0:52.8

That's okay.

0:53.5

That's way bigger than mine. I finally bought a, I got a steel series mouth pad a year or two ago. Yeah. After using my very old funk pad for about 20 years. I, I loved a funk pad, but it wore out the skates too often. You had to replace your skates all the time. Yes. That was, that was my concern is that the abrasiveness that the midiveness, the mid-aughts were a time. Look, the kids do glass mouse pads now. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, I think the kids are. They love glass. The kids are unhinged. The kids are bordering on feral at this point. Did we talk about my goofy glass mouse skates yet? Yeah, we talked about that last week. So I got the sandpaper out. I got a real fine sandpaper, great sandpaper out last weekend. And I, uh, just did a little light scuffing. Oh, much better. So the skates you bought to speed up your mouse movement, you have now gone out of your way to slow down. I've split the difference. All right.

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