366: There’s Nothing You Can Fix in a Day
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2020
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Catalina. 🙄 × ∞
- Follow-up:
- Grasshopper
- Butterfly keyboards and ergonomics
- Finder toolbar bug... defeated?
- Mac malware getting worse?
- What does Apple need to make most?
- iOS 13.4
#askatp- What one trivial bug would you fix if you could? (via Louie Mantia)
- How should one partition an onboard SSD? (via James Irwin)
- Would you narrate your favorite author's audiobook? (via Brian Hamilton)
- Post-show: John's [continued] adventures in programming
- Post-post show: Cold medicines
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How do you feel? |
| 0:02.8 | That good a lot of coughing is happening delightful |
| 0:08.6 | I have known John for almost 10 years and I have known Marco for what one |
| 0:15.2 | Tish maybe a little more something like that |
| 0:17.7 | This is the first time I think the two of you have really and truly wronged me because you allowed me |
| 0:24.7 | To install Catalina on my iMac Pro and I have regretted it every every moment of every day since you allowed me to install on mine |
| 0:32.5 | I'm here to take responsibility for yourself |
| 0:36.0 | All time I was just about to say ultimately it was my own fault |
| 0:39.9 | But I'm gonna blame the two of you because I'm so angry at myself |
| 0:44.8 | For having installed this broke SOS on my computer. Oh, I'm so so angry at myself |
| 0:52.7 | So remember when I bought a new computer because my old one was having this ridiculous issue with its peripherals where it had like that machine gun trackpad |
| 1:02.3 | Which was like you know would get there would be a whole bunch of latency and then it would all catch up and |
| 1:06.7 | All the haptics would fire all of it once |
| 1:09.7 | Guess what's happening within a day of putting on Catalina all of a sudden the machine gun trackpad that had not once happened on Mojave |
| 1:17.9 | It's happening a lot on Catalina and I'm so angry on the plus side. I just ordered a Mac Pro |
| 1:24.9 | Crickets I'm kidding. Yeah |
| 1:27.2 | You there's no way there's no possibility of that |
| 1:29.5 | Are you sure it's not the trackpad? |
| 1:31.3 | Do we cover this before is it how could it be the trackpad? It didn't happen once in Mojave not once right? |
| 1:36.0 | Well, so obviously this something wonky with the OS, but like maybe there's something wonky with the track pad that this OS deals with less |
| 1:42.8 | Well than the previous one. I mean I am using the iMac Pro |
| 1:47.5 | Trackpad that I bought off on just off of underscore two years ago whatever it was so I do have the other trackpad |
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