That IT show

Working from home was supposed to give us freedom—flexibility, focus, maybe even lunch that doesn’t come from a vending machine. Instead, many of us unlocked a new achievement: being in three places at once and still disappointing everyone. One meeting overlaps another, a “quick call” eats an hour, and suddenly you’re nodding thoughtfully on mute while answering emails, Slack messages, and existential questions about time itself. Online availability made us reachable, but scheduling turned us into calendar acrobats juggling overlapping priorities, time zones, and notifications that never sleep. This episode is a short, therapeutic rant about how remote work didn’t remove chaos—it just moved it into your calendar.

Most companies didn’t rethink their cloud strategy because of one dramatic failure. It started quietly: cloud bills that became harder to explain, contracts that felt less flexible, and data that suddenly came with legal and regulatory strings attached. Over time, those details added up. In 2025, enterprises began shifting from cloud-first optimism to control-first design. Hybrid stopped being a compromise, private cloud became the baseline again, and data ownership quietly started dictating architecture decisions. This episode is about why that shift is happening—and what it means going into 2026.

Over the last three years, technology didn’t just move fast—it aged. AI went from a clever party trick to a fully employed adult with deadlines, responsibilities, and an alarming appetite for GPUs. Datacenters followed suit, transforming into glowing furnaces where power meters spin like slot machines and cooling became a first-class workload. Meanwhile, quantum computing is still “very promising,” just not emotionally available yet. In this episode, we look back at the short but chaotic era where intelligence scaled faster than infrastructure, power became the real bottleneck, and every roadmap quietly added more electricity and fewer guarantees. It’s a candid, slightly sarcastic recap of progress, hype, heat, and unanswered calls from the quantum future.

When we started this podcast, AI was a quirky sidekick—good for autocomplete, bad at facts, and mostly harmless. Fast-forward three years and suddenly it’s writing code, composing music, summarizing our thoughts before we finish them, and politely asking whether it should schedule the meeting instead. In this episode, we look back at how ChatGPT and other AI tools evolved alongside our podcast—from novelty demos and broken prompts to always-on copilots and mildly unsettling digital coworkers. We talk about what genuinely improved, what’s still gloriously flawed, and how our expectations quietly shifted from “this is fun” to “wait, this actually works.” A nostalgic, slightly sarcastic progress report on watching AI grow up—while our microphones, workflows, and existential questions remained suspiciously unchanged.

Education has spent the last three decades trying to upgrade itself, but somewhere along the way the installer froze and nobody noticed. In Rebooting Education… Error 404: Vision Not Found, we dig into how a system once built on curiosity slowly became a patchwork of outdated curricula, mismatched expectations, and copy-paste reforms. From tech that arrived too early to ideas that arrived too late, we explore why the classroom feels stuck in perpetual safe mode—and what it would take to finally hit “Restart.”

Last year felt like one long system crash disguised as “normal operations.” In this episode of Reboot Required: Our Annual Tech Therapy Session, we unpack the OS quirks that wasted our mornings, the hardware tantrums that ignored physics, and the AI models that confidently answered questions no one asked. It’s our collective debugging session—part therapy, part autopsy—where we revisit the updates that broke things, the devices that aged overnight, and the algorithms that tried their best… and sometimes tried our patience even more.

In this episode, we ask the question everyone keeps dancing around: has AI finally become useful, or are we still politely waiting for it to finish buffering? From chatbots that can pass exams yet freeze on simple tasks, to models that generate brilliant ideas right next to nonsensical ones, we explore the strange middle ground between hype and genuine help. Join us as we break down what AI can actually do today, where it still falls flat, and whether it’s ready to be trusted with more than drafting emails and arguing with microwaves.

In this episode, we dive into Microsoft’s newest brainstorm: turning Windows into an “agentic OS,” where every corner of the interface suddenly sprouts a tiny AI assistant eager to offer “help.” From File Explorer becoming a life coach to Settings developing its own opinions, Windows is starting to feel less like an operating system and more like a group therapy session with 47 digital therapists who never take a day off. So buckle up—we’re exploring what happens when your PC becomes chatty, self-aware, and maybe just a little too eager to intervene.

In this episode, we put three very different beasts into the same neural arena and see who comes out smiling from our perspective - or smoking. The NVIDIA DGX Spark flexes its data-center muscles, the Mac Studio arrives with calm M-series confidence, and the modern RGB-infested PC shows up like a caffeinated overclocker ready to prove a point. We test how each handles running local LLMs, feeding them PDFs, crunching embeddings, and surviving real workloads rather than benchmark fairy tales. If you’ve ever wondered which machine actually delivers the best blend of speed, thermals, and sanity, this is the showdown you’ve been waiting for.

In this episode, we unpack how artificial intelligence keeps tripping over its own marketing pitch. Every week brings another “revolutionary” breakthrough that turns out to be… just autocomplete with better PR. From chatbots that can’t stay factual to copilots that need copilots, we explore why the tech that was supposed to change everything keeps disappointing everyone. It’s not sabotage — it’s self-inflicted hype fatigue, where bold claims outpace real progress, and trust becomes the first true casualty of innovation.

Forget everything you've heard about “greenfield projects” and “starting fresh” — because in real-world IT, the only thing truly clean is the marketing deck. Every new system we build carries the fingerprints, ghosts, and existential dread of every system that came before it. Legacy data, legacy decisions, legacy “temporary” hacks that became cultural heritage. In this episode, we’re diving into the myth of the clean slate, exploring why every “fresh start” is really just a remix of yesterday’s chaos — and why pretending otherwise usually results in today’s budget crying and tomorrow's engineers filing therapy claims. Buckle up: reset buttons are fake, and tech baggage travels free.

Evidently, chewing gum, IAM policies, and blind optimism bind the world's most enormous cloud together. One sneeze in a single AWS AZ and half the planet suddenly remembers they never actually tested their DR plan—unless “panic refreshing the status page” counts as testing. A DevOps team is furiously marking "multi-AZ" in yellow, treating it as a novel innovation, while another CTO mutters, "But the slide deck stated we had high availability." Meanwhile, microservices that were supposed to be “resilient” instantly curled up like Victorian children catching a light breeze. So buckle up—we’re diagnosing yet another case of architectural pneumonia, caused by an unhealthy dependency on hope-driven engineering and the eternal belief that “it’ll probably be fine.”

Ever wondered what chaos fits inside an IT guy’s backpack? In this episode — “Portable pandemonium: Everyday carry for the every-day mayhem” — we unzip the madness. From cables that could start a data center to gadgets that probably shouldn’t be allowed on planes, we’re diving into the tech survival kit that keeps life running when servers crash and coffee spills. You’ll hear about the must-haves, the just-in-cases, and the “why do I even have this?” gear that somehow always saves the day. Whether you’re a sysadmin, tinkerer, or serial over-packer, this episode’s your backstage pass to everyday digital chaos — one adapter, one dongle, and one questionable power bank at a time.

Welcome to The Half-Speed Revolution—the episode where we question why 2.5 and 5-gigabit Ethernet even exist. In reality, "multi-gig" is more akin to a speed bump than a bridge connecting 1G and 10G. This "revolution" feels incomplete, with overpriced switches, overheating NICs, and cable runs that fail certification upon inspection. We’ll talk about flaky drivers, weak firewalls, pointless uplinks, and why the smartest move might just be skipping straight to 10G.

Welcome to The Update About No Updates — the episode where the most prominent tech headline is that there isn’t one. No earth-shattering iPhone redesign, no revolutionary CPU launch, not even a new USB connector to argue about. Instead, we’re stuck in that strange IT twilight zone where the “new” feels suspiciously like the “old,” and version numbers creep forward without anyone really noticing. So, what do we do when the industry runs out of drama? Simple: we update you on our own week. From small victories to questionable troubleshooting adventures, consider this episode less of a patch and more of a change log for life itself. Spoiler: it’s mostly bug fixes and coffee refills.

Who says you need a roaring server rack or a studio the size of a garage to sound professional? This week, we’re diving into the wonderful world of mini PCs — those tiny boxes that look like they should be running a cash register but somehow power full podcasts, video editing, and entire workflows without breaking a sweat. We’ll push buttons, twist knobs, and occasionally question whether we’ve downsized our brains along with our computers. From pocket-sized powerhouses to shoebox studios, we’ll show you how these pint-sized machines sneak their way into podcast setups and why sometimes the smallest box makes the biggest noise.

For more than a decade, Meta has been on a quest to glue screens to our faces, and the results have been pure comedy gold. From the puke-inducing Oculus Rift to the forgettable Oculus Go, from overpriced Quest headsets to the Ray-Ban Stories nobody asked for, Zuckerberg keeps promising the future while delivering awkward toys. Now, the Ray-Ban Display glasses arrive with Jedi-style controls and a cooking AI that forgets recipes mid-demo. Add a failed video call and the classic “bad WiFi” excuse, and you’ve got another chapter in Meta’s never-ending sitcom of AR/VR fails.

So, you’ve heard whispers about Linux, seen memes about penguins, and maybe even wondered if Fedora is just a fancy hat. In this episode, we unpack the Fedora Linux experience in a way that feels more like opening a starter kit than tackling a sysadmin exam. We’ll talk about why Fedora is often the go-to distro for trying out the cutting edge without slicing your fingers off, how it stacks up as a desktop OS, and what makes it both approachable and quirky. From the first boot to customizing your environment, we’ll explore how Fedora sneaks Linux onto your desk—and maybe into your daily workflow—without demanding you abandon everything you know.

What happens when you try to dress up your desktop with three decades of operating systems? You get a fashion show where Windows 95 struts in with its shiny Start button, Windows 10 insists it’s the only adult in the room, Windows 11 keeps rearranging the furniture, and Linux shows up in 42 different outfits to prove a point. In this episode, we delve into the decades of GUIs, crashes, updates, and “features” nobody asked for, asking the fundamental question: Did Windows 95 actually change everything? Does Windows 11 even know who it wants to be? And why does Linux keep laughing from the corner?

Picture this: your server room has turned into a disco floor, and every drive is demanding its own spotlight. Thirty disks whirl in perfect sync, but then a rogue 31st struts in, and suddenly your operating system starts sweating like it’s at a math exam it didn’t study for. This episode dives into the hilarious chaos of kernels that choke on too many spindles. These OS quirks make disk handling a balancing act, and why storage can feel less like engineering and more like herding caffeinated hamsters on a wheel. Buckle up—we’re about to spin straight into madness.