Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for December 23 2025 - I Don't Know Why Any of You Maniacs Use Windows Download audio 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 You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.