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🗓️ 28 March 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Like Spring, emails are upon us once again, and this month we talk about such listener-provided topics as the stagnation of flash memory, a Starlink trip report, some of the downsides of PC-building, multithreading video games, TVs that are monitors that are TVs, browser containerization, and the things you find down at the water treatment plant. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	So I finally went to throw out the packaging for the multimeter that I bought two, three weeks ago.
0:06.4	Okay.
0:08.0	First of all, multimeter, multimeter?
0:10.2	Multimeter.
0:10.3	I've heard multi, really?
0:11.5	Multimeter.
0:12.4	I don't know.
0:12.9	I've been saying you wrong all this time.
0:14.4	Look, no, there's no shame in saying words wrong that you only know from reading.
0:19.7	Multimeter sounds cartoonish for some
0:21.6	reason. Look, is it a biopic or a biopic? Multimeter sounds like something from Looney Tunes
0:26.6	that would say Acme on it and it's like a ray gun that you pointed things and turn them into chickens
0:30.6	or something. Look, I would buy an Acme Multimeter. I have a fluke. My fluke is I love my fluke. I mean, I, dude, I, I looked at flukes briefly.
0:38.7	Yeah.
0:40.0	I also, here's why it took me like a year to buy a multimeter.
0:43.9	Yeah.
0:44.7	Oh, this is shocking.
0:46.6	I don't need to know what the answer is going to be, but I know I'm going to be like,
0:49.3	oh, yeah, you needed it a year ago and we're like, couldn't decide which one to buy. No, I didn't need it. That's why I did.
0:54.1	That's ultimately why I didn't buy one is because I, when I bought one a couple weeks
0:57.6	ago, it's because I finally actually needed one.
0:59.3	But I kept thinking about getting one for like a year.
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