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Weekly Ramblecast 182: If They're Not Braided, They Get Traded
🕑 Added 2024-12-03 14:01:01 +0000 UTCWe're back from the Thanksgiving break with tales about Alex' big score at the casino (and at the retro game shop), Vinny's magical breakfast sandwich experience, Brad's very good shucking (and very questionable glasses), and more.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:21) That two-week magic
(00:01:40) The cables have to go!
(00:03:53) Not the hard drives though
(00:08:38) Those Giant Bomb archives are still out there... somewhere...
(00:12:05) The shucking was good this Black Friday
(00:17:54) Who's ready for 120TB drives?
(00:22:13) Vinny goes to the e-waste place
(00:23:56) Alex hits it big
(00:28:04) Let's all learn to count cards
(00:30:34) Alex is the cool uncle now
(00:32:12) Vinny gets a pop music education
(00:35:32) C'mon, ain't none of us need a record player
(00:37:08) Alex's NES score
(00:43:47) Rolling your own voice chat for the kids
(00:47:15) Those breakfast sandwiches came out of nowhere!
(00:51:55) Brad's glasses disclaimer (for the video version!)
(00:55:47) Content and bye!
Comments
Legion Vs Ninja
The archivist in me is bothered that this is episode 182, but the video is titled episode 181.. it hurts my soul..
Peter L Eldred
My NAS right now is ZFS +2 with 8 20tb drives, so 120tb usable storage. At the time (a year ago when I upgraded) you had to keep an eye out for deals but could get the 20tb Red Pros for $300 a piece. So, it's still pricey but you can use pretty high capacity drives at a decent price now.
Castor Troy
Glasses look like something a fighter pilot would wear. Not bad.
Joey
Big fan of those glasses, would go for them myself
Pixel Clock
I dig the glasses Brad. I really should go purge all my old HDMI cables as well...
M0 P5
Love the glasses Brad, very fetching
Mark Wilhelm
Vinny, the storage medium you're probably looking for is LTO tapes. Make a couple copies, one local and at least one other off-site, and just know it'll take a while to get the content back off whenever you want it. The tape drives are expensive and fiddly but the tapes are reliable and relatively cheap compared to hard drives.
Ben Hardy
Yes this! If you have anything TB1 or TB2 you need a cable for, getting a new one is really pricey so it's better to keep the old one. I had to get one a few years back and even a very short cable was super expensive. Also yeah those adapters work great. I use one to connect my ARM Mac to an old Thunderbolt Display.
Dorren Andrews
For the voice chat stuff, we use the xbox overlay to voice chat, the windowskey + G one.
Daniel F (fds)
Don't throw away your old Thunderbolt cables! They were, and remain, rather pricey. The Thunderbolt 1 & 2 cables shared the same connector as Mini DisplayPort, while 3-5 have USB-C connectors. But that's just the connectors — the cables are unique and cannot be substituted with anything else. To plug an older Thuderbolt 1-2 device into a newer Thunderbolt port all you need is an adapter cable, Apple sells it for $50: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MYH93AM/A/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-to-thunderbolt-2-adapter
Jesse Gamble
Also not seeing this one in my membership podcast feed.
James Krakowski
Is there a reason this one isn't showing in my membership podcast feed like it usually does?
Kevin Cormac Lenaghan
My favourite weekly notification!
