The HotSpot - Episode 375

Someone please post that producer picture with the dozens (?) of monitors !!

Jeff has a Balisong. Jeff has a Balisong. Jeff has a Balisong.

I like my Buck knife. The Sheffield I had before was okay. But the Buck seems to have better steel, and notches on the handle for better gripping.

Edit, with what I hear on this show and other's what happens in Vinny's basement with sewage back ups, shoes might be advisable. Hopefully doesn't flood like I have seen a few times in the past in other basements.

The bad Seagate drives were from a Firmware Issue. I was working at NCIX at the time (In the RMA department) and Supermicro was trying to get us to upgrade the firmware on the returned drives at the time

I feel like this is not the first, or even the second time Alex has said "I prefer non-serrated, but in a pinch, serrated will do"

minecraft is big chunky voxels

for your Submarine pleasure might I suggest

Iron Wolf VR

https://store.steampowered.com/app/552080/IronWolf_VR/

Come to Chicago please.

Also we have a local body of fresh water. Just saying.

hey wheres the link to that dudes setup for the DNC switch setup?

The very start of the intro music of the Hotspot always, always reminds me of this piece of music, to the point where I usually have to listen to it again.

(I tried to embed this and it didn't work?)

Vinny thinks a 'deep country' school has a class of 75 people...mine had 30. Howdy, y'all!

HOT STROLLER TALK

One word, Minnesota

@chandoo: https://www.facebook.com/janfsvendsen/posts/10222461271870932

Yes. Minnesotan here!

I really really really hope you guys will keep doing this podcast post-corona. Really enjoying it.

Best cast on the site right now. Love it guys.

I may be from the "deep country." Grew up in Mississippi and had a graduating class of 30 people. I honestly wouldn't mind going back to that if I could still work in animation from there. Much better than spending $2200 a month on a small studio apartment in the east bay.

#RESCUEJOEY

Thank you for this advice! I'm in the "I must be terrible at this, I give up" camp with my piece-o-shit one that I finally threw away a year or so back. I'm going to get a little Hakko FX-888 kit and try again.

I find desoldering with a wick to be an incredibly satisfying experience

As someone who is fully paypal + apple pay (and similarly aged as these gentlemen) Vinny needs to join the life. I just have it always backed by a credit card with protection, but yeah.

Apple Pay / samsung pay is _THE BEST_.

Alex said “Toronto” properly. :D

That's pretty cool that he did all of that from his house. That's why he's an award winner.

@ancelotti said:

@chandoo: https://www.facebook.com/janfsvendsen/posts/10222461271870932

I can confirm that the West Edmonton Mall is indeed very big.

I'd love if the GB crew ended up in Chicago!

yo learn to patch a tube, that shit has saved me hundreds on kid's bike and stroller tires

I had to solder the rumble motors back to the board in an Xbox One controller that I knocked off when repairing another part of the controller. As my first soldering experience it looked terrible when I was done but totally fixed the rumble so whatever.

Speaking of old animals, whales can reach 200++ years. That means that there are whales out there who were around in the early 1800s or earlier. They were already old as hell during the civil war.. They existed for many decades before the first motorized boat hit the ocean...

Take care of the ocean, it doesn't actually belong to us.

Does anyone know what is the model of the headphones @mindcavity is wearing? I believe it’s Audio Technica, but couldn’t figure out the model. Thanks!

Anybody have a relatively simplified tutorial that can help me get a nas up and running? I rely really heavily on google drive but I'm a digital artist and my storage is getting very full. Appreciate any kind of input tbh this shit is super complicated lol

Chicago's great, come down here. Sure, it gets cold, but that's just a good excuse to stay inside for a few months. I'm in the suburbs by some quiet forest preserves, 30 minutes from a city that has a ton to do and see. Out here it's affordable, too!

I am a drummer and I wear my drum key on my key chain. Most drummers I know do as well; It's just convenient.

Hotspot continues to be awesome.

Come on out to the home of Roundhouse Studios (formerly Human Head Studios) Madison, WI. It's like a smaller Seattle, which a surprising amount of people in Seattle have told me when I visit there. And we, at least the people I know, don't wear shoes in our houses. So there's that.

Much like building PC's it's mostly as complicated as you want to make it.

I don't have a NAS and have only built PC's but this guide seems like a good starting point.

I can patch bike tubes but I have only used a soldering kit on broken headphones. I'm pretty slow/bad at tieing fish hook flies so I don't think I'm much better at soldering. Being slow is still sometimes better than having to pay someone to do it and it does make you appreciate the skill.

They had an e-mail on the Beastcast some weeks ago asking about their headphones.

Also this thread

It's helpful to know about those dodgy Seagate NAS drives. Seems I've been conned by Seagate, but only to the tune of one spare drive fortunately. The two drives in my NAS are the old, good type. But the spare I bought recently is now useless.

@alex Sorry for being THAT guy but David Icke's name is pronounced "Ike" like the American name rather than "icky" :P

Having said all that, your alternative pronunciation kinda makes sense. Icke and his theories make everyone feel quite icky :D

I remember playing Silent Service back in the mid-80s, I didn't have a manual and remember going through the whole keyboard pressing 1 key at a time to see what it did, games at the time didn't list keyboard commands in-game as they took up too much memory. One of the keys displayed a screen saying, "PROCESSING PLEASE WAIT", in green text on a black background. For the life of me I couldn't work out what it was, I sat and watched it for an hour once wondering what it was processing, it was only years later I discovered a proper keyboard list and discovered it was 'Boss Mode' and the idea was if you were playing at work you hit that key and it made it look like you were waiting for the computer to finish processing a job and not playing games.

Fidelity and Citi have 2% cash back cards, and you can just add them to Apple Pay

I sub to Premium for solder talk, so this was a timely podcast for me

i'm having a pretty hard time being mature with all this talk about studs, pipes and cavities.

Probably my favourite episode of HotSpot yet. tyty

So why would you tape pin 3 over just clipping it off with a pair of dykes?

Honestly... I'm all for Giant Bomb moving from San Francisco, if they want. The Bay Area is unlivable for all but the wealthiest Tech Bro's and Libertarian Billionaire Wackadoos.

If CBS has offices in Chicago, I'd move their in a heartbeat.

@peacebrother: Agreed. The Hotspot with the OG Giant Bomb Duders is their best podcast. It reminds me of the Golden Age of Giant Bomb, before Ryan (RIP) passed away in 2013.

DON'T CHANGE THE FORMAT OF (this incarnation of) The Hot Spot!