3x13: The Winter Of Our Content

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which the Magna Doodle makes a comeback, Stuart is discontent, and:

  • [00:04:50] Taco Bell have made their own wine, which we're sure is delicious... US customs seize a bunch of counterfeit Airpods which turn out to be completely legitimate OnePlus wireless earphones... and Dave Grohl is in a drum battle with Nandi Bushell, a 10-year-old girl from Ipswich, and it is delightful...
  • [00:13:50] Oracle are buying Tiktok. Or maybe they aren't. It's hard to say. Microsoft aren't. Maybe nobody is. And what's actually being bought? The US operations? Not the algorithm. Probably.
  • [00:19:08] Anyway, a more successful deal seems to be that Nvidia are buying ARM for $40 billion. What will this mean?
  • [00:33:28] Our main discussion: non-tech tech. Jono's been looking at the Remarkable 2, an e-paper-based note-taking tablet. But should we be just using paper instead? Is everybody already using paper instead? And is this nostalgia, the tech backlash, or none of the above? Are you a pencil or a keyboard person?

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News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution.

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I’ve been interested in the Remarkable Tablet, particularly because of its relative openness, but it’s still a bit expensive for me, so I have not yet acquired one.

But to throw something in for the issue mentioned about the Remarkable Tablet that it’s currently not great for actually reading ebooks, pdfs - there’s a fantastic bit of free/open software for ebooks, pdfs, djvus which runs on a variety of eink devices (& Android) including fairly recently the Remarkable: Koreader - https://github.com/koreader/koreader

I haven’t tried Koreader on a Remarkable, but I use it extensively on Kobo eink readers and it’s really quite brilliant.