285: ‘Fahrenheit Truthers’ With Ben Thompson
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
3.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 144 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You ever have that thing, I said to you that link to the Tom Hanks story about the, or |
| 0:04.4 | the Tom Hanks movie being on Apple TV plus, and about three minutes after I sent it to |
| 0:08.8 | you, my computer sounded like a freaking jet engine was taking off. |
| 0:12.4 | It's so annoying. |
| 0:13.4 | You have these web pages that it's always, and it's like whack-a-mole. |
| 0:16.9 | Like most web pages are fine, and then when it comes along, your computer just blows |
| 0:20.4 | up. |
| 0:21.4 | It's not even browser-specific. |
| 0:24.6 | It's, I got my Safari. |
| 0:26.3 | We could talk about it, but I mean, you know, I'm a Safari diehard. |
| 0:29.7 | I really like Safari. |
| 0:31.1 | I prefer for a number of reasons. |
| 0:34.2 | But even in that regard, and even running like the content blocker, which I've sort of |
| 0:42.4 | switched between to it, which I think blocks a lot of the most obnoxious ads, and I kind |
| 0:46.5 | of like to keep mind, I don't want to block all ads. |
| 0:48.8 | I'm not like a diehard on it. |
| 0:50.0 | I'd be a hypocrite if I were in some ways. |
| 0:54.3 | But even with that, every once in a while, my fans are roaring, and I look, and I can tell |
| 0:59.2 | it's Safari from ActivityMondor, but ActivityMondor won't tell you which tab in Safari. |
| 1:06.5 | And I can just, and I have Safari set so that if I quit and relaunch, it opens all the tabs |
| 1:12.4 | I already had open. |
| 1:13.7 | And I can quit and relaunch, and it'll go from 100% CPU usage to, you know, whatever normal |
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