231: I Am Not a Salad Power User
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2017
⏱️ 113 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
- Follow-up:
- Calibrating a TV
- Marco's discontinued small speaker amp: NuForce Dia. Some alternatives Marco has considered (but not tested!):
- Grace Digital GDI-BTAR513, $110
- SMSL Q5, $140
- NuForce DDA-120, $300
- Teac AI-301DA, $350
- NAD D 3020, $400
- Type-C Personality
- OLED image retention
- Apple's silence on Net Neutrality
- Send us questions! Tweet with the hashtag
#askatp! - 1Password kerfuffle
- Overcast UI Dilemma
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: Neutral: Casey's latest impulse buy
Sponsored by:
- AfterShokz: Headphones powered by bone-conduction technology.
- Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Get 10% off your first order.
- Hover: The best way to buy and manage domain names. Get 10% off your first purchase.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I'm never buying a car ever again. |
| 0:01.6 | I bet that's not true. |
| 0:03.3 | That's like me saying, I'm perfectly happy with my computer setup. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm never changing anything. |
| 0:07.3 | I mean, come on. |
| 0:10.8 | We know each other. |
| 0:11.8 | And we know ourselves. |
| 0:13.8 | This is entirely accurate. |
| 0:17.1 | Well done, sir. |
| 0:19.9 | We're traveling and, well, two thirds of us are traveling over the next three or four |
| 0:25.5 | weeks. |
| 0:26.5 | And as it turns out, as with all things, we accidentally scheduled our vacations in a |
| 0:33.4 | not terribly convenient way. |
| 0:35.4 | Basically in sequence. |
| 0:36.8 | Yeah, basically we are doing vacationing in serial and not parallel. |
| 0:41.4 | This is a single core, single threaded vacation operation here at the accidental tech podcast. |
| 0:46.2 | And so we're going to have to squeeze in like 17 weeks worth of shows in the span of like |
| 0:51.2 | three weeks, not literally, of course, but that's what it feels like. |
| 0:54.6 | And because of Gary, the privacy clown, I'm not going to disclose any more than that. |
| 0:58.2 | But suffice to say, yeah, we did not plan well. |
| 1:01.4 | Whoops. |
| 1:02.4 | It's almost like Adobe wrote our schedule. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Marco Arment, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Marco Arment and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.
