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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for December 23 2025 - I Don't Know Why Any of You Maniacs Use Windows
On this show, I play a song from Jill Sobule; the one time I met Jill she was as lovely as could be; I remain not that into Xmas; I had a recall performed on the Audi etron and my range increased; I got serious about my email hygiene; it is a challenge to only get the emails that matter; I am eliminating Substack from my life; I am eliminating Amazon from my life; my System76 Galago Pro is worse for wear; all Windows installs shit themselves over time; Linux Mint made an unusable Windows laptop usable again; trying upgrade and fix things created a self-loathing spiral of inefficiencies and mistakes; it took two years for me to address my Synology NAS cache issues; the RAM was coming from inside the house; upgrading the RAM in the old HP laptop was non-trivial; the band NVMe drive is causing a lot of chaos; one step forward and one step back on fixes and upgrades; I managed to break most of my Docker containers in 5 seconds; I can only record this show in the morning.
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, December 23 2025.
Links mentioned in this episode:
- Support this show on Patreon
- The late great Jill Sobule's homepage
- The Grendel boardgame Kickstarter
- System76
- Synology NAS
- Heartworn Highways
- Guy Clark
- Kris Kristofferson
- My nerd persona Mastodon account
- My science fiction persona Mastodon account
- Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
- Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers
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