341: F2 Is My Most Used F

About this episode

The episode covers a variety of tech-related topics including printer technology, digital rights, and CPU cooling strategies.

Question time again! This month we discuss quite a wide range of topics, such as tracking down printer dots with a USB microscope, the dream of going to SIGGRAPH, the legality of scanning and uploading "lost" old magazines, how to stay objective about new stuff as you get older, steady fan curve strategies for CPU air cooling, how to cope when you find out that cool new open source project was made by AI, renaming files like a pro, and the enduring mystery of ICQ's event sounds.

People in this episode

Hosts: Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith

Topics covered

• printer technology
• digital rights
• CPU cooling
• open source
• file management
• nostalgia

Keywords

• printer dots
• USB microscope
• SIGGRAPH
• open source AI
• file renaming
• ICQ sounds

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SIGGRAPH, ICQ

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