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Accidental Tech Podcast

399: Off the Pouch Lifestyle

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 149 minutes

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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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