341: F2 Is My Most Used F

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Question time again! This month we discuss quite a wide range of topics, such as tracking down printer dots with a USB microscope, the dream of going to SIGGRAPH, the legality of scanning and uploading "lost" old magazines, how to stay objective about new stuff as you get older, steady fan curve strategies for CPU air cooling, how to cope when you find out that cool new open source project was made by AI, renaming files like a pro, and the enduring mystery of ICQ's event sounds.

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0:00.0	Hey, Brad, I got a dog yesterday.
0:01.8	Wait, I'm sorry, what?
0:03.2	Yeah.
0:22.7	What? Yeah. This has got to be going somewhere insincere. I don't believe that you just got a new dog. So, uh, we've been looking for a new corgi for like since the pandemic. Wait, did you really get a new dog? Yeah. We drove to Sacramento and got brought back a six month old puppy yesterday. What? Yeah. I thought you were going to tell me like,
0:21.1	ah, we went to Costco and got brought back a six-month-old puppy yesterday. What? Yeah.
0:21.4	I thought you were going to tell me like, ah, we went to Costco and I got a dog for a dollar 50. I did that on Tuesday. Oh, okay. It was delicious. I also did that on Tuesday. Wow, really? Yeah, we went to Costco on Tuesday and got hot dogs. We had Costco dogs and a pizza to celebrate the 400th episode of The Full Nerd and my last episode of The Full Nerd.
0:40.1	Man, that's a pretty good.
0:41.1	Oh, wow. dogs. We had Costco dogs and a pizza to celebrate the 400th episode of the full nerd and my last
0:38.9	episode of the full nerd. Man, that's a pretty good. Oh, well, that's been an eventful week.
0:43.0	I missed that part, but I was going to say, I do enjoy the idea of the Costco event celebration.
0:49.1	Yeah, it was pretty like the kids love the Costco pizza. It turns out for birthdays and stuff.
0:53.5	And I love the Costco pizza for birthdays and stuff because it's real cheap compared to like everything else pretty much. Wait, last full nerd, huh? Well, my last full nerd. Yeah, you're yours. I mean, they're going to keep doing it. Yeah. They just didn't want to pay me anymore, it turns out. I don't think I realize that. Yeah. Well, I, we did. So, okay,
1:10.9	there's a lot
1:11.4	going on here
1:11.9	to unpack.
1:12.7	Yeah,
1:27.3	this might be too many cold open. Yeah. This is a questions episode. It's not an oops all cold open. But, um, uh, so, you know, I started at the full nerd when our friend Gordon got sick. because they needed help to help cover him while he was recovering and then
1:28.5	unfortunately he didn't recover which was
1:31.5	all. when our friend Gordon got sick because they needed help to help cover him while he was recovering.
1:28.2	And then unfortunately he didn't recover, which was awful.
1:33.0	And I stayed on to help them with that and help them figure that out.
1:36.2	They've started replacing.
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