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May 2023
1h 27m

184: Not the Out-of-Box Experience

Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith
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Now that we're both on new PCs in the last six months, it's time for us to run through some of our experiences and offer a few (hopefully new) tips for anyone else building a machine. Join us as we talk shop this week about recent BIOS trends, our love of portable apps, unconventional cloud storage strategies, much handwringing about motherboard vendor drive ... Show More
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