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Welcome to The Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of Network Attached Storage.

I'm your friend David Pierce, and this is the fourth in our four-part series all about connectivity.

Over the last few weeks we've dug into the ways we connect to content, to each other, and to audiences,

and this week I want to talk about something a little different.

I want to talk about software.

How software connects us, how we connect to software, and how software connects to other software.

And that story, at least for our purposes today, starts with the computer I bought a little while ago.

I bought it on an Amazon with essentially no research, but I bought it.

It's called the B-Link Mini PC.

It has 12th generation Intel chips, 16 gigs of RAM, 500 gigs of SSD storage, to find the little computer.

And it's just this little box of a thing about the size of like two of the boxes the iPhone comes in.

It's pretty small, and I just hit it immediately off in the corner of my desk.

I bought this thing because I wanted to test a theory.

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