460: Desktop Laptop
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Christmas Conundrums
- Follow-up:
- Ubiquiti’s breach was from the inside
- Casey’s UltraFine 5K seems to be UltraDead
- Some wish-casting and predictions about the Mac lineup in 2022
- Apple Announces Self-Service Repair
#askatp:- How come the TouchBar failed where the iPhone succeeded? (via Todd Kaprielian)
- Why is Chromium’s dominance bad for the open web? (via Aryan Aneja)
- Why bother with a Mac Pro? (via Dave Saunders, who clearly wanted to torment Casey)
- Post-show:
- The continuing saga of John’s beeps
- Marco’s shifts to Neutral
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| 0:00.0 | It's the lead up to the holidays and there's a lot of projects in the air. |
| 0:05.0 | There's not only the typical holiday stuff of like, |
| 0:08.0 | well, better make sure we get gifts for everybody. |
| 0:11.0 | We also, unfortunately, I have been unable, as of yet, |
| 0:16.0 | to convince my extended family, that adults no longer need presents of Christmas. |
| 0:23.0 | In addition to giving you stuff like sending out Christmas cards, |
| 0:27.0 | unfortunately, my lovely wife Tiff does the vast majority of the work for that. |
| 0:31.0 | So that's good. |
| 0:33.0 | Let me just pause there. |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, I hope that you appreciate the amount of freaking labor that takes |
| 0:40.0 | because I am the de facto Christmas card person in my family |
| 0:45.0 | and it is so frustrating and takes so much more time and money than it should. |
| 0:51.0 | All four, as Aaron is off to remind me, people to look at and go, |
| 0:55.0 | oh, lovely, and then throw in the trash. |
| 0:57.0 | I really, really love the tradition. |
| 0:59.0 | I really do. |
| 1:00.0 | I find it very enjoyable and a lot of fun to think about what I want to send. |
| 1:05.0 | But the actual sending and working with these God-awful websites that you use |
| 1:11.0 | to generate these cards, I mean, maybe Tiff actually puts everything together |
| 1:14.0 | in Photoshop or something like that. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm not at that advanced. |
| 1:17.0 | No, no, no, she uses the God-awful websites and that's part of the frustration |
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