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The Talk Show With John Gruber

390: ‘The Blurry Edge of Acceptable’, With Nilay Patel

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

Nilay Patel returns to the show. Topics include the iPhones 15, journalism in the age of AI, and what it’s like to have Barack Obama on your podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Somehow Apple notes which has been rock solid for me for years is not sinking from my Mac to anything else.

0:08.0

That's why I had to disappear.

0:10.0

Yeah, and so I actually printed it out.

0:13.0

I had a weird one the other day where I realized I'm hopelessly dependent on being able to copy something from my computer and paste it on my phone.

0:21.0

Yes.

0:22.0

Or copy something on my phone and paste it on my phone. Or copy something on my phone and paste it to my computer.

0:25.0

And it stopped working.

0:27.0

I realized I had no idea how to do anything anymore.

0:32.0

I've had that exact same thing, the continuity feature, which also to me has gotten way

0:38.4

more rock solid in the years since they introduced it.

0:42.0

But because it's gotten more rock solid,

0:44.5

whenever it does break, I'm the same way.

0:46.9

I'm lost.

0:47.7

I'm like, wait, how do I do this?

0:49.6

Yeah.

0:50.6

And then I started doing incantations.

0:53.6

I found a terminal command on a forum from five years ago.

0:57.8

Maybe that worked, or maybe it was just the fact

0:59.5

that I restarted my computer.

1:00.6

It's one or the other.

1:01.9

But it's back.

1:02.4

I think I need to

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