Microsoft has announced some... controversial new AI-driven features coming to Windows 11, so we thought it was time to dissect the Copilot+ PC spec and particularly its Recall functionality, especially in light of the new Qualcomm ARM chips that are bringing more efficiency and more machine-learning compute power to the portable PC space. Is this stuff something you need? Is it something you should worry about? We do our best to answer these and other questions.

Show notes and links for this episode: https://tinyurl.com/techpod-237-copilot-plus-ai

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It's another Q&A episode, and this month we get into a wide range of topics including our haul from the electronics flea market, our growing appreciation for SCART, Micro Center's rapidly expanding operations, the open-source automotive self-driving solution, a farewell to mini-USB, a quick Steam patching explainer, and more!

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We've got another two-fer of mini-topics this week around projects we've been tinkering with lately. First, Will has been investigating ways to get the SteamOS experience on hardware that's not a SteamDeck, with both the full-on SteamOS rebuild HoloISO and the more general gaming-focused Linux distro Bazzite. Second, we've both had Fallout New Vegas (and its many necessary mods) on the brain a lot lately, and have been looking into the open-source mod manager Wabbajack and some of the other stuff going on around automating mods these days. Lastly, uh, enjoy the podcast!

Stuff discussed in this episode includes:

HoloISO: https://github.com/HoloISO/releases

Bazzite: https://bazzite.gg/

Wabbajack: https://www.wabbajack.org/

Viva New Vegas: https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/

Tale of Two Wastelands: https://taleoftwowastelands.com/

Rounds: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1557740/ROUNDS/

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