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• March 21, 2026Podcasts

  68 – Streaming Drivers

  We're all over the place on this episode. We start off with the abysmal state of media streaming. Majid and Eric get into a conversation about watches. We get into it about our experiences with Amazon as well as other online commerce offerings. Bill talks a bit about the sad state of affairs within his industry. Eric talks about a recent challenge trying to find a tech solution to a friend's photography storage problem. All this, and way more!

• March 8, 2026Podcasts

  67 – “Needs No Introduction”

  Yes friends, that time is finally here; episode "67." Much of the conversation is about the relevance of older technology in a time when up-to-date RAM and other parts are expensive, and scarce. We get into a conversation about compiling software that is not available in your repos verses using a containerized solution like Distrobox. We get into encryption and how to get the benefits of encryption on any cloud storage solution. Quantum computing is also covered a bit. All this and way more!

• February 21, 2026Podcasts

  66 – The Mountain Of Source

  Server rebuilds, Memory shortages, Energy prices, Compiling software, and the AUR. all that and way more!

• January 25, 2026Podcasts

  65 – “Wine-ers Of The World Unite!”

  Bill and Eric wax philosophical about technology and it's users. They get into Ad blocking, anti-virus, and the like. The nature of "free" software comes up. Gaming on Linux, Wine, virtualization, etc. They get into the concept of a software repository, and the associated package manager. The layers of effort that goes into every distribution. All of this and more!

• January 11, 2026Podcasts

  64 – The Eric Strikes Back

  Eric makes his triumphant return where we start off talking about some recent pc builds Bill had been working on during his time off. We get into some of the vagaries of hardware issues and what we've done in the past to deal with them. Majid talks about recent laptop purchases. Eric gets into some issues he experienced while using multiple versions of Handbrake. These topics and more!