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Accidental Tech Podcast

463: No Indication of Progress

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm back on my LG 5K because I'm in that other location right now.

0:03.9

Every single time I come back to this, I feel like it gets smaller.

0:07.6

There's some jokes here, Marco.

0:10.7

Not only does it seem like it's smaller, which that's its own problem.

0:15.9

But the second I touch the keyboard on this desk, it jiggles.

0:20.4

The whole monitor jiggles with every keystroke.

0:23.8

Oh, and of course, because of the stand, I can never quite tell if it's level.

0:30.6

Like the rotation angle of the monitor.

0:32.8

It always seems like it's a little bit tilted.

0:34.5

And I try to tilt it back.

0:36.3

I haven't gotten to the point of getting on a level yet.

0:38.1

I probably should.

0:39.3

But it's just so mediocre.

0:41.6

And then there's some kind of weird buggy behavior where it seems to forget its brightness

0:47.2

setting every so often.

0:48.8

I'm not sure with what conditions exactly.

0:50.3

I don't use it enough.

0:51.3

Thank God to have nailed that down yet.

0:53.0

But it's like every time I come up to it, it's crooked and shaking and dim.

1:00.2

And I have to hit the brightness up button on the keyboard to make it.

1:03.5

And then it's blast with full brightness because I only adjusted it one square, but it

1:07.1

actually moved up nine squares.

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