411: Are My Instructions Not Clear?
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 β’ 2.5K Ratings
ποΈ 30 December 2020
β±οΈ 128 minutes
ποΈ Recording | iTunes | RSS
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- Casey’s MMS problems and Apple’s bug-reporting black hole (FB8893003, FB8952395)
sysdiagnoseSettingsβPrivacyβAnalytics & ImprovementsβAnalytics Data
- More on Fitness+
- HDR photos
SettingsβPhotosβView Full HDR
- Screen brightness
- iPhone 12: 625 nits typically / 1200 nits max
- iPhone 12 Pro: 800 / 1200
displaymate.comindicates 825 nits in full-white image
- iCloud Photo Downloader (via Matthew Smith)
- OWC Thunderbolt Hub requires Big Sur 11.1
- Big Sur Update
- AirPods Max audio settings (via Matthew Taylor)
SettingsβAccessibilityβAudio/VisualβHeadphone AccomodationsTune Audio for Brightness, Strong
- AirPods Max “fat lightning” connector
- AirPods Max Shield Case
- John’s iPhone 12 Pro case
- The ghost of Marco’s computing past
- Casey’s MMS problems and Apple’s bug-reporting black hole (FB8893003, FB8952395)
- The ghost of Marco’s computing future
- Siracusa’s Playstation 5 review
- Marco’s Christmas gift
- Post-show: More on the PS5
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know what's happening. Oh again. |
| 0:03.7 | Fix it. Why is happening? Plug it on plug. |
| 0:07.3 | Not the I'm echo Mike. Oh, what do you mean? I'm not plugged in. I don't know what did you do last time did John plug it and then plug it back in? |
| 0:14.2 | This is not good. Hold on |
| 0:17.4 | What do you think goes on over there and the what you get for adding to follow up in one minute before recording time? |
| 0:24.4 | Casey |
| 0:26.3 | Hold on all right. Not on the backside. Okay. All right. This is extremely not tall |
| 0:36.5 | Okay, just unplugged this ethernet cable |
| 0:41.0 | Just keep filling around back there. Yeah, it feels like audio |
| 0:46.4 | That's better. Hey, all right |
| 0:51.2 | I don't know what the hell happened. That was weird. I had unplugged and plugged it back in and I just rebooted my mat |
| 0:55.5 | That's what I just told you to do. All right. Stop adding follow up |
| 0:58.9 | The one over that is closed. No, it's happening. It's happening. Hold on. Let me hit record. Okay. It should be recording now |
| 1:05.8 | Huh, lock on on. Yeah, I mean, you know the holidays. I thought it was always busy time indeed and we have a lot to get through |
| 1:12.9 | So we should probably start but I feel like we haven't had any witty banter yet so far. Do we have any witty banter? |
| 1:18.9 | I can't have any witty banter until you include a cyst diagnosed. So my MMS bug that I am so in love with |
| 1:30.4 | It had struck me during the very last episode like literally as we were recording the very last episode of the show and |
| 1:37.2 | I |
| 1:38.4 | Talked to a couple people on the inside about it and basically was told both gently and not so gently |
| 1:44.2 | Look if you don't get us a cyst cyst diagnosed. There's nothing we can do. So what's a cyst diagnosed? So my |
| 1:50.2 | Extremely limited understanding is that basically there's a log file or like buffer ring buffer something that exists on iOS devices and |
| 1:59.7 | If you hold all three buttons on a modern iPhone so the volume up following volume down and lock buttons if you hold them for about a second |
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