Re:Operating Systems
by qwertyuiop924 on Monday October 24, 2016 @08:18AM
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I recommend Welcome to Nightvale (Which is amazing, and you should be listening to it: http://www.welcometonightvale.com/), The Technical Difficulties (A trivia show starring Tom Scott (of emoji keyboard fame) and friends http://www.techdif.co.uk/, Radiolab (it's fricking Radiolab: what else do you want?), 99% invisible (loved Radiolab? you'll love this, too), Ask Me Another (trivia, and music by Jonathan Coulton: any questions?), and finally the recently ended YouTube series Let's Drown Out (Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw and Gabriel Morton play videogames of varying quality, and snark over them).
Every now and then, Reply All https://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/ has a segment that is Tech Support. Some of the items on there are down right bizarre but very plausible. Great listening.
For new readers: previously on hn
Re:Operating Systems
by PaulRobinson on Monday October 24, 2016 @08:35AM
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You can make that happen.
Get a channel going on YouTube, get a following. Pitch it to NPR. Watch it get picked up by a cable network after a few seasons, perhaps.
Sort of "Wayne's World meets Top Gear for computer geeks". I'd watch it. I might even pay to watch it.
Re:Operating Systems
by nathanathan on Monday October 24, 2016 @07:46AM
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FLOSS has a warm-hearted host with some good computer stories but it's not really a call-in show. They do answer some chatroom questions.
A computer help call in radio show as funny and warmhearted as Car Talk? Comp Talk? With crazy weird issues? Like email doesn't work over 400 miles? lol.
Esp. if the dudes seemed to know everything and had lots of old-timer computer stories from their old CP/M desktops and whathaveyou.
I'm bored with my lack of decent radio and podcasts. Feel free to recommend me stuff, readers.