399: Off the Pouch Lifestyle
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 149 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Marco’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.
- Follow-up:
- Facebook vs. Apple
- Merchants have been allowed to add surcharges for credit card transactions since January 2013 (via Jordan Ryan Moore)
- Adam’s watch battery update
- Cell tower “trees” (via Nathaniel)
- eFUSE
- Baby Monitors
- Eufy SpaceView
- Previous recommnedation: Infant Optics DXR-8
- iPhone 11 Exit Interview
- Apple Event
- Potential iPhone 12 Sizes
- iPhone 11: 6.1”
- iPhone 11 Pro: 5.8” or 6.5”
- iPhone 12: 5.4” or 6.1”
- iPhone 12 Pro: 6.1” or 6.7”
- MacRumors 5.4-inch iPhone 12 Size Estimator
- Thursday’s child has far to go…
- John’s “code”
- Apple stops selling rival earphones/speakers
- Potential iPhone 12 Sizes
- House Judiciary Committee antitrust report
#askatp- What’s the deal with disk images, anyway? (via Andy)
- What’s the reasonable lifespan of a phone? (via Ian Uymatiao)
- What’s the point in a “real” camera? (via Luke Shulman)
- Post-show: More on the Sony α7C
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I've had a terrible week for technology. |
| 0:02.7 | Oh, tell me more. |
| 0:04.5 | A few episodes ago, I described my choice to not get another |
| 0:09.4 | synology for the beach, but instead just get a couple of large |
| 0:14.4 | SSDs in an external USB enclosure and just use them as local |
| 0:18.8 | disks and host time machine for that and everything. |
| 0:21.1 | I got interrupted. Are you in a mental place where I'm allowed |
| 0:24.7 | to laugh at you for your misfortune or are you in need of me to |
| 0:28.8 | be sympathetic and understanding? |
| 0:31.6 | I have almost ordered a synology to fix the problem I'm having. |
| 0:35.3 | Well, you're really trying. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm not quite there to be here. |
| 0:38.8 | Okay, I'm going to try to be good. |
| 0:40.4 | To answer your question, you are totally allowed to gloat |
| 0:43.4 | about how. |
| 0:44.2 | Okay, good. |
| 0:44.8 | Right now, my solution is not working well. |
| 0:48.2 | All right, so I'll get east side. What's going on? |
| 0:50.7 | So, you know, so I got these big-ass SSDs in. |
| 0:54.4 | I had some weirdness where, you know, sometimes they would |
| 0:59.0 | unmount themselves or, you know, sometimes like after the first |
| 1:04.0 | time machine back up, it took a while. |
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