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Accidental Tech Podcast

330: A Rotation You Can’t Complete

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I got to say I'm a little bit scared of Skype right now.

0:03.8

Right now?

0:04.8

More than usual because for the last, I don't know, three, four weeks, Skype has popped

0:10.8

up the box about every few hours when it's open saying Skype to install a helper tool

0:16.0

enter your password to allow this.

0:19.0

And normally, my rule with Skype is, it's going to do whatever

0:22.4

it wants anyway, so just let it do it right. Just embrace it. Yeah. So, because I depend on Skype.

0:28.3

I need it to work. So normally, I just let it do what it needs to do. So the first couple of times,

0:32.7

I actually enter my password, you know, it's the system dialogue. I actually enter my password and let it install whatever helper tool thinks it needs. The problem is that that box just kept

0:40.0

coming up. And so eventually I got tired of entering my password and just started hitting cancel on it.

0:45.4

And it's coming up at the same frequency as when I was entering the password. And nothing seems

0:50.9

to be different or broken. Nothing seems to be happening,

0:56.2

and everything seems to be working fine,

0:59.2

but I feel like something's going to explode at any moment.

1:02.2

Yeah, this is ominous.

1:04.8

Or Skype has given me a virus, and, you know, it's, yeah,

1:06.4

like, there's no good outcome. Well, now you've given it to me!

1:07.9

Does that work that way?

1:08.9

Yeah, by virtue of the Skype call.

1:10.1

Now I have your virus. Thanks a lot. It's like a Microsoft Office prompts me to turn on auto updates and the choices

1:17.1

and the notification are turn on and not now. I get these on, I get these on other people's accounts

1:22.7

on the shared 5K Amac. And no matter what hit it doesn't matter you'll be seeing that notification

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