412: Love Batteries
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 β’ 2.5K Ratings
ποΈ 7 January 2021
β±οΈ 156 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- Accommodating hearing loss (via “Phredd Phlinstone”)
SettingsβAccessibilityβAudio/VisualβHeadphone AccommodationsβAudiogram- Example app from Maciej
- Big Sur Update
- Apple guidance on SMC reset via Tom Bridge
- Nintendo Famicom had a microphone built into the second controller
- PS5 controller weight and “following” games
- The galaxy’s largest black hole
sysdiagnose- Profiles and Logs
- Stack trace
- Casey’s MMS bugs FB8893003, FB8952395
- John’s bug FB8711530
- Accommodating hearing loss (via “Phredd Phlinstone”)
- Marco Equipment Update
- A brief
#askatpinterlude- How does Marco sell his unwanted computers? (via Brian)
- Marco’s other Christmas gift
- Post-show: New Liss
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey |
| 0:02.3 | America's still here because I can't tell this is a horrible day in the political slash American world and we're gonna |
| 0:09.5 | Glide right past it actually it started out pretty good |
| 0:13.2 | True we get a great morning. Yes, it's gonna roll a coaster |
| 0:15.8 | Yeah, we're gonna glide right past this because you all need a break |
| 0:19.2 | I'm sure and so do we and so we're gonna have a textual like usual |
| 0:23.8 | With that happy thing behind us, let's start with some follow-up and |
| 0:28.4 | Perred Paulinstone, which I believe is actually supposed to be pronounced Fred Flintstone, right? |
| 0:33.6 | Do you want to know how to transform 62-year-old years into 16-year-old years download one of the free hearing test iOS apps and then point |
| 0:41.5 | Settings audio visual headphone accommodations |
| 0:44.5 | Audio-gram to the resultant audio-gram. I didn't even know that you could do such a thing. That is extremely cool |
| 0:50.8 | Fred Flintstone continues this eq's the audio output to compensate for frequency loss according to the audio-gram |
| 0:55.8 | Even with relatively minor hearing loss this gave this 62-year-old his 16-year-old years back and |
| 1:02.2 | Newfound enjoyment of music |
| 1:04.0 | Using the audio-gram provides personalized and much more nuanced eq adjustment than the built-in iOS presets now |
| 1:09.6 | Just to be clear John you did just have a birthday, but you are not yet 62. Is that correct? |
| 1:13.5 | No, I think my hearing is actually pretty good |
| 1:15.5 | But this is really to someone suggesting that Marco look into the eq settings for |
| 1:20.8 | For the AirPods Max that he tried them. They all seem kind of extreme |
| 1:23.9 | Apparently, this is a a pluggable system so you can you know these these apps these hearing test apps |
| 1:30.6 | I imagine they're a plague on the app store like I don't know this for a fact |
| 1:34.0 | But I imagine if there's one of them there's probably a thousand test you're hearing free anyway |
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