376: Monogamous Gaming Lifestyle
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Casey makes his life [more] difficult for himself
- Dropping Dropbox
- Follow-up:
- COVID-19
Contact TracingExposure Notification - iOS 13.5 Improvements
- Google Making its own Chips
- ARM chips in Macs
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| 0:00.0 | I've had a dumb idea. |
| 0:02.7 | Oh, I can't wait. |
| 0:04.0 | I want to know when my garage door has been left open in the evenings. |
| 0:10.9 | It doesn't happen often, but it's something that does happen. |
| 0:13.2 | Isn't the whole purpose of your smart home garage door opener to alert you to this? |
| 0:20.1 | Like when you mentioned that you got one of these smart garage things probably three years ago, |
| 0:26.8 | I believe you specifically said this is what it's for us. |
| 0:29.2 | It's like alert you if you leave it open unnecessarily. |
| 0:32.3 | So is it not doing that like in its own app or automatically? |
| 0:36.0 | Well, here's the thing. |
| 0:37.5 | As with everything in my life, nothing can ever be simple. |
| 0:40.5 | It always has to be difficult. |
| 0:42.0 | So I did have the Chamberlain Myq add on almost daughterboard if you will. |
| 0:48.1 | And so what that is if you're not familiar is it's two pieces. |
| 0:52.0 | It's a I can't think of the term, but it's like a thing you stick to the back of the garage door. |
| 0:57.7 | So it knows whether it's up or down, right? |
| 0:59.8 | It has like not I don't know if it really has an accelerometer, |
| 1:02.0 | but it has like mercury switches in it or something like that. |
| 1:04.2 | It's chances are it's an accelerometer is probably cheaper these days than mercury. |
| 1:09.4 | Actually, you're probably you're probably right. |
| 1:10.9 | I don't even know, but you get my point, right? |
| 1:12.8 | It's something that sticks to the garage door. |
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