398: The State of Your Baby
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 β’ 2.5K Ratings
ποΈ 1 October 2020
β±οΈ 118 minutes
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Summary
- Thank you for all your donations to St. Jude! π
- Pre-show: Desk Reconstruction Day
- Uplift Desk V2 C-frame with magnetic cable channel and mountable surge strip
- Follow-up:
- John’s Headphone Update
- Sony’s digital vs. plastic-disc profits
- Apple now allows returning only Watch bands
- Google’s Carbon-Free Plans
- Unity’s IPO filing shows the threat of app stores
- Apple blocks Facebook update that tells users about Apple’s 30% cut
- Apple Watch Family Setup
#askatp- What’s the right way for someone who knows filesystems (π) to back up a Mac? (via Mike Lee Williams)
- What’s the best baby monitor experience? (via Migirdich Karnigyan)
- Infant Optics DXR-8
Note: Modern models do not use USB power input on the receiver, as was stated on the show
- Infant Optics DXR-8
- Is Marco watching Tesla competition? (via John Metcalf)
- Post-show: How does USB-C even work?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Everything is a mess in my world right now. I want to miss different just your world |
| 0:06.6 | Yeah |
| 0:08.6 | so |
| 0:09.6 | first of all Aaron is |
| 0:12.6 | Having an outdoor socially distant book club meeting right now |
| 0:16.4 | So there's a very slim chance I might need to run away during the recording but more pertinently |
| 0:20.1 | To go like give your thoughts on the book. Yeah, exactly right now in case one of the kids wakes up |
| 0:24.4 | Which is extremely rare for them, but now you never know could happen |
| 0:27.6 | What what did you think was the theme of the book? Yeah, I don't even remember what book it was she was reading |
| 0:32.3 | But nevertheless I remember what themes mean |
| 0:35.4 | more pertinently |
| 0:37.4 | As Marco better than anyone knows I have had very sporadic problems with my genuinely beloved USB pre-2 and |
| 0:47.5 | Every great once in a while it will I can't figure out a more descriptive |
| 0:54.5 | Technical term then glitch out which is neither descriptive nor technical but every every great once in a while |
| 1:00.4 | It'll glitch out to the point that the only way to get it to work properly is to unplug it and then plug it back in like take out the USB |
| 1:07.9 | Connector and plug it back in which you know of itself from my perspective is not a big deal because it takes all but a moment for everything to write itself and everything's |
| 1:15.3 | You know good to go but from Marco's perspective it is a very very different discussion because |
| 1:21.8 | Everything becomes two to three to four to five times harder and so we've been talking about this Marco and I on and off over |
| 1:28.5 | God knows how long and |
| 1:30.5 | Somebody I don't think it was Marco, but somebody had said you know I had |
| 1:35.7 | This somebody says I had a bunch of XLR cables and the USB cable kind of all intertwined with each other and perhaps some sort of interference |
| 1:43.6 | Has caused that issue we are caused a similar issue and I don't think that's actually the problem in fact |
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