Darren, Jesse and Stuart are back with the sixth episode of WTF Tech show. Forever to be known as “the cursed episode”, this one took the best part of a month to record due to various technical and organisational difficulties! We discuss Apple’s decision to revisit the Mac Pro and what it tells us about the future of Pro computing, how we discover and consume news today, our first experiences of using hard disks, and then finish with a brief status report on our respective efforts to ‘cut the cord’… (Recorded Wednesday 12th April 2017)

Show notes:

Chitchat

* Jesse’s almost moved into his new house.

* Stuart has spent many many hours resurrecting posts from Domino-based blogs to new WordPress properties, including ibmconnections.news.

Pro Computing

Apple makes new Mac Pro pre-announcement, having been ‘backed into a thermal corner’ by their 2013 design 

Many posts from invited bloggers, including:

Daring Fireball: The Mac Pro lives

Techcrunch: Apple pushes the reset button on the Mac Pro

Rejigged Mac Pro product line:

MacRumors: Apple Refreshes Mac Pro Lineup, Says All-New Modular Model With Apple-Branded Pro Displays Coming After 2017

What does this mean for the wider picture of Pro Computing?

* SSD Improvements

* Linus Tech Tips: The FASTEST SSD Technology Explained – M.2, U.2, and MORE

* Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) 8k videos

* The State of 4K: 2017! (in 8K)

News Discovery & Consumption

* Do we still use RSS Readers?

* NetNewsWire, FeedWrangler, Reeder (for Mac)

* Traditional media subscriptions

* David Fahrenthold on Twitter

* Washington Post

* Stratechery (paid tech news from Ben Thompson)

* Read it later services

* Instapaper

* Pocket

* Podcasts

* The Incomparable

* Accidental Tech Podcast

* Top 4

* Discovery services

* Refind (invite only)

* Nuzzel

* Flipboard

* YouTube

* Saturday Night Live

* Twitter

* Tweetbot’s Mute features

* Following gaming streams

* Stampy Longhead

* Pewdiepie