417: Sand and Water Interface
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show:
- RIP, Call Recorder
- On re-installing or transferring macOS
- If we had to leave the eastern seaboard, where would we move?
- Follow-up:
- DTKs are worth more now!
- iOS 14.5 Watch unlock
- Trying to
ls ~/.Trash(via Mike Vosseller) - SSD traffic
- Two month old SSD
smartmontoolssmartctl --all /dev/disk0- Casey’s computations
- Marco accidentally invents Docker
- Tesla recall 135,000 vehicles for touchscreen failures
- Mid-reboot turn signals in the Model 3 (via Michael Swindler)
- iOS 14.5 beta lets you specify Spotify/others as Siri’s default music service
- Marco rants about timers on the Apple Watch
- Dan Riccio’s new project
#askatp- Do we let our personal lives bleed onto corporate devices? (via Jordan Cosentino)
- What are our favorite or most obscure media files? (via Doc Davis)
- Is it rude to put another app’s name in your own app’s search keywords?
- Post-show: Pupdate
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Mark, I have two questions for you deeply unrelated to each other or to tech |
| 0:06.0 | deeply unrelated to each other. |
| 0:08.0 | First of all, how's your call recorder doing? |
| 0:10.0 | It's gone, man. I'm all M1. |
| 0:12.0 | John, how's your call recorder? |
| 0:14.0 | I have a question from Mark. |
| 0:16.0 | I call recorded before I tell you about my call recorder. |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, no. Oh, no. This must be quick. |
| 0:20.0 | Did you actually try call recorder? |
| 0:25.0 | Well, in your memory. |
| 0:26.0 | Yes, because I have to, because the stupid installation that I'm still on, |
| 0:29.0 | that it was imported from my iMac, call recorders on it. |
| 0:32.0 | And so every time I launched Guy, it popped up with things and saying, |
| 0:35.0 | Hey, you got to update me. |
| 0:36.0 | So I tried, I'm, you know, I humor it. |
| 0:38.0 | Oh, my God, sure. Go ahead. |
| 0:39.0 | Let's see what you got. |
| 0:40.0 | It's so much right to update. |
| 0:42.0 | And it instantly longs you. |
| 0:43.0 | And it's like, oh, I can't do this. |
| 0:45.0 | What am I talking about? |
| 0:46.0 | I can't run this architecture. |
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