Podcast #779 - XFX Mercury RX 7900 XTX with Magnetic Fans, Microsoft Makes Windows Worse, Optane Sale!, Seagate on eBay + MORE!

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You will be pleased to learn that we did indeed get together on Wednesday night (at 10 Eastern) to podcast this week. Here is the edited version of that podcast recording session.  Within you find side-quests, insights, food, camera lens talk - and tech.  Lots of tech talk on such things like Microsoft making terrible decisions, bad security theater, and idle data.  Join us.Timestamps:00:00 Intro01:41 Food with Josh03:29 XFX Mercury RX 7900 XTX Magnetic Air (false start)06:08 The review actually begins here17:21 Boring camera lens talk19:31 Microsoft makes OneDrive backups automatic22:40 Microsoft hides the local account option even more23:31 PSA: you don't actually have to use Windows26:46 The great Optane 905P fire sale of 202430:30 Amazon moves Alexa to a subscription model33:19 Seagate opens official eBay store for refurb HDDs37:26 Most stored data is never accessed again41:28 (in)Security Corner44:33 We interrupt (in)Security Corner to talk about seamless integration46:12 Back to (in)Security Corner54:27 Gaming Quick Hits1:03:08 Picks of the Week1:18:16 Outro ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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