455: Your Yanking Force
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 138 minutes
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- Pre-show: Setup Woes
- Follow-up:
- What does Marco use for a Thunderbolt dock? (via César Cavazos)
- John’s AirPods 3 updates
- Monterey Status Report
- The Verge’s MacBook Pro review
- MacBook Pro Charging via USB-C
- MacBook Pro “Compatibility Mode”
Scale to fit below built-in camera- Tweet with video
- Notch codename was
Daisy? - 120 Hz scrolling on new MacBook Pros
- Marco’s Mystery Terabyte update
Disk Utility→View→Show APFS Snapshots- Purging files on iOS
- Marco’s experience with Lutron Caséta
- [More] MacBook Pro impressions
- Post-show: How does Marco unload old computers?
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| 0:00.0 | What when did we start this we started this in like March of |
| 0:05.1 | 2013 is that right so it's been like eight years that we've been doing this and we're still doing all this bullshit trying to get it to work |
| 0:12.6 | Usually it's only one of you that radically changes your setup and has things but now Marco wanted to get it on the action today too |
| 0:19.1 | You know it's not always me. I rarely mess with my setup. Marco's one that changes computers like underwear. Yep, that's me |
| 0:25.4 | How many computers have you bought in the last three weeks? |
| 0:28.0 | Kebt |
| 0:30.0 | Bought I didn't have my house |
| 0:34.0 | Well for my householder from me personally for your household he fosters computer is a lot |
| 0:42.0 | And then basically like when he has a foster fail that's that's how he gets the computers |
| 0:50.2 | Mark Marko is about 15 dogs and 35 computers all foster |
| 0:54.8 | Oh |
| 0:56.8 | All right, my office is a mess |
| 0:59.2 | Of the 32 minutes and seven seconds we've been recording how do you think we have six minutes of content? |
| 1:05.2 | It's all is all for the bootleg they need to get their money's worth. Oh my god. All these smokes |
| 1:11.8 | I've been doing computer setup stuff for the better part of the last week |
| 1:17.6 | For the most part I am still in like happy mode, you know for the most part. I'm still |
| 1:22.3 | Loving computers and you know computer new computer setup |
| 1:26.7 | I'll get to this in a little bit of like why this has taken me entire week short version as I did I did two clean installs |
| 1:32.8 | Instead of doing any migration |
| 1:34.8 | So that it just takes so much time for me to set things up |
| 1:37.3 | But I was happy until today because like I had this list of things I had to do you know for you know set set up |
| 1:44.8 | You know my you know backblaze and dropbox and time machine |
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