This week Noah and Steve outline where you should leverage automation and rely on it, and when it's good to have a backup plan.

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02:00 Podcasting 2.0

• Podcasting is changing
• Thank you

05:00 Retro Tink

• RetroTink designed for retro gaming

06:22 Luanti

• Mine Test Blog
• $2.5B paid for Minecraft
• celeron55 took on the challenge of making a similar game
• MineTest took over in Noah's house
• MineTest expanded way beyond just a Minecraft clone
• Luanti
• Voxel Libre

16:00 When to Automate

• A different way to tackle the problem
• Automation vs by hand
• Nix
• Maintaining old versions
• Learning something new vs using what you know
• Shifting paradigms

38:30 Windows S Mode

• People have tremendous patience for MS but not Open Source
• Windows S mode only allows software from the MS Store
• Requires purchasing a key

43:30 Microsoft 360 Outage

• Service announcement delayed
• No one at Microsoft to communicate with

45:00 Windows Server Update Mistake

• Upgrade flagged as security update
• No license check

48:00 Windows Thin Client

• Box connects to cloud desktop
• MS pushing people off Windows 10
• Things are moving to cloud services
• ArsTechnica

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