221: ‘Slathered in Incompetence’ With Ben Thompson
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
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🗓️ 8 May 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My laptop, I had to get a new one inside, dropped my old one in a very unfortunate turn of events. |
| 0:05.8 | And I ran that one from scratch because I stupidly didn't get a big enough hard drive |
| 0:10.6 | to just copy everything over. |
| 0:11.9 | And man, it's awful. |
| 0:14.4 | It's awful just trying to get everything. |
| 0:16.7 | What a rookie. |
| 0:17.7 | Remember all the weird stuff you have installed? |
| 0:18.7 | Rookie move. |
| 0:19.7 | Well, no, because I had to buy it on emergency. |
| 0:22.7 | I was trying to get the one that's in the Apple Store and I only got like the 512. |
| 0:28.3 | They had one of 512. |
| 0:30.3 | And so I bought the biggest hard drive that I could get. |
| 0:32.6 | So yeah, I could see that. |
| 0:34.6 | And that's really where it sucks that you can't upgrade shit like that anymore. |
| 0:38.7 | I know. |
| 0:39.7 | Because I would just, I would just buy the one, you know, you should just sell the whole machine. |
| 0:51.1 | But what I would do is if I had to buy like an emergency one and got like 512 instead |
| 0:55.5 | of one terabyte. |
| 0:58.2 | And in the hypothetical world where you could swap it out, I would swap it out when I |
| 1:01.4 | could and tell myself, I'll just, you know, sell that 512 and then 512 will just sit |
| 1:06.8 | on a shelf in my office for 10 years until it's worth nothing because it doesn't fit in |
| 1:12.1 | any more computers. |
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