465: Lasers Are Great
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 β’ 2.5K Ratings
ποΈ 13 January 2022
β±οΈ 131 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- Fi dog-collar pronunciation
- Discount code
ATP100for $100 off (not a sponsor)
- Discount code
- New Ford Mustangs will be available in 2023β2024
- Sony did show PSVR2 controllers
- Mirrorless advantages and the longevity of Canon DSLRs (from Justin Krohn)
- TV technology
- WRGB OLEDs do have white backlights
- QD-OLEDs have RGB “filters”/diffusers
- Micro-LED
- On “Weird & Complicated” Analog TV (via Moe Rubenzahl)
- Apple will Allow Alternate Payment Systems in the App Store in π°π·, with a catch
- Fi dog-collar pronunciation
- John’s gross printer
- Theranos
- John’s printer
- Casey’s printer
- Marco’s laser all-in-one with the buggy networking
- Marco’s beloved giant printer (price is currently inflated; it cost $449 in 2016)
- Marco’s 11x17 inkjet all-in-one (also currently overpriced; it cost $249 in 2018)
#askatp:- What do we think about React/React Native? (via Asajz)
- How can there be a huge β between data in Photos and the actual Photos Library on disk? (via Todd Vaziri)
- Post-show: Some responses to our health/veganism/leather discussion last week
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Anyway, this is boring. Let's move on. I'm going to cuddle this although yeah, well, that's good because I only started recording four minutes ago. |
| 0:06.0 | All right, Casey, come on man. |
| 0:11.0 | All right, so let's move on to some follow up. We have some follow up from p5.5.fum. |
| 0:15.0 | John, would you like to tell us about this? |
| 0:17.0 | I got to undo my pronunciation here, but so we got an email from the dog collar people, the company name or the product name. |
| 0:24.0 | And I guess the company name as well is spelled fi and I was pronouncing it fee because that seems reasonable, but Lucy from the company it spelled fi tells us that it's pronounced like phydo or Wi-Fi. |
| 0:37.0 | So it's phi like p5.5.fum or f with the word i after it. |
| 0:42.0 | Lucy says many, many people go for fee first. |
| 0:45.0 | We should probably put it as the banner at the top of the website. You think every company that has a weird name should have the pronunciation |
| 0:52.0 | prominently placed on the website. Some people don't have it at all, which is bad. |
| 0:57.0 | But some people have it like, oh, if you dig and go to the about page and read all the text, we'll tell you how to pronounce it, right? |
| 1:03.0 | That's better than nothing. But if you have a weird name and people instinctively go for the the quote unquote wrong pronunciation first, |
| 1:10.0 | you have to like address that in an obvious way right in front of people. Otherwise, you're just going to be called fee forever. |
| 1:16.0 | It's going to be so hard for me to change this in my mind because I can't, I don't know if I can say five. |
| 1:21.0 | I think fee might be a better name. I mean, it makes sense with the Fido. I got to understand where it's coming from. Anyway, so there's that. |
| 1:27.0 | Also, I can't even, I'm like, Casey now, I go for the right pronunciation and I put the wrong. |
| 1:33.0 | The phi company created a discount code just for us. |
| 1:38.0 | I actually put it in the last week show notes because they got it to us in time for that. But it's ATP 100. |
| 1:44.0 | That's the $100 off thing. |
| 1:47.0 | There's a bunch of other codes. There's all the same $100 off this. If you go to their website at the bottom of the website is a $100 off code different $100 off codes. |
| 1:54.0 | This is not like a secret that you can only get through this podcast ball blah. They continued to not be a sponsor. This is not a sponsored spot at all period, whatever. |
| 2:01.0 | But if you want to end ATP 100, you can get $100 off their collar or you can send the code that's at the bottom of the web page that you go to buy. |
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