369: Brown Big Bear

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

Pre-show: Marco's Problem
- Marco's image-retention test
- Apple Cinema Display HD
Follow-up:
- The "coronavirus" virus itself is named SARS-CoV-2. COVID-19 is the disease it causes (formerly called "2019 novel coronavirus" or "2019-nCoV" in some places).
- Recommended info sources on COVID-19:
  - Flatten the Curve
  - CDC: COVID-19 (continuously updated)
  - Video: Exponential Growth and Epidemics
- WWDC still not canceled
  - Santa Clara County bans gatherings of 1000+
- John's internal storage situation
- Mac shortcuts
  - Ellipsis is ⌥ ;
  - Adjective order
    - ⌘ ⌥ ⌃ ⇧
    - ⌃ ⌥?
    - Command key
  - Xcode symbol popup: ⌃ 6
  - Drag and drop open/save dialog
    - DefaultFolder X
  - Screen shotting/screen capture
  - Hot Corners and modifier keys
    - System Preferences → Desktop & Screen Saver → Hot Corners...
- Casey's Computer Corner
  - Brian Ski's tweet
Huge rumor dumps
#askatp
- Is the 2015 15" MBP still the best laptop ever made (via James Scariati)
- Do we have hard-drive icons on our desktop? (via Rob Fiorendino)
- How does one get hardware to make iOS apps on the cheap? (via Marcos Petri)
Post-show: Marco's new adventures... deep underground
- Penny Arcade

Transcript

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0:00.0	The other night, I developed a condition that I have not had on any of my things in possibly over a decade.
0:10.0	If not ever, I'm trying to remember if I ever had this problem.
0:12.8	I'm sure you're gonna track bad.
0:14.2	I was waiting for it.
0:17.2	My television has a stuck pixel.
0:20.6	Oh no.
0:21.8	In addition to the image retention that you stubbornly don't see.
0:25.8	I don't see any image retention.
0:27.4	I've never seen that as a problem.
0:29.0	Have you put the Marko test pattern on it?
0:31.2	No, that's a good point actually.
0:33.2	I haven't tried that.
0:34.2	Don't try it.
0:35.2	I advise against this ignorance is bliss.
0:38.2	No, my LG C7 4K OLED has a stuck bright blue pixel and I can't stop seeing it.
0:47.4	Where is it?
0:48.4	It's near the top edge kind of off to the side.
0:50.8	It's not like right in the middle.
0:52.0	It is like near one of the edges, but it's bright blue.
0:56.6	And so on any kind of dark or solid colored scene, it's very visible.
1:01.6	This is a three year old TV warranty probably doesn't apply.
1:05.4	Yeah, I bought the extended one year additional warranty.
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