466: There’s Probably a Wizard for It
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Windows woes and the challenges of loading modern trucks
- Follow-up:
- Printer Murder Rooms
- LG UltraFine 5K Repair Video (via Brian Almeida)
- Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
- Wall Street Journal
- Activision Blizzard’s abhorrent culture
- Prior acquisitions (via Jon Erlichman)
- Activision Blizzard: $68.7b
- LinkedIn: $26.2b
- Nuance: $19.7b
- Skype: $8.5b
- ZeniMax: $7.5b
- GitHub: $7.5b
- Nokia (phone unit): $7.2b
- aQuantive: $6.3b
- Mojang (Minecraft): $2.5b
- Perfect Dark
- Green bubbles ruin everything 🙄
#askatp:- Will macOS last another 20 years? (via Daniel Begqvist)
- What game system for a casual gamer who hasn’t had a console in ten years?
- Do programming languages cause problems for people with hyphenated last names?
- Post-show: Marco’s Jerk-Store Moment
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Adam's gaming PC has started to regularly blue screen. |
| 0:03.6 | Oh, you don't say. |
| 0:04.6 | So it's been the Windows installation has been there for six months or more. |
| 0:08.1 | I have absolutely no idea what to do about. |
| 0:11.3 | Blah the dust. |
| 0:13.2 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:14.0 | All kidding aside, when I last regularly used Windows and we were talking before even the |
| 0:18.7 | bootleg started, Marco and I were, that I haven't regularly used Windows in like a VM |
| 0:24.4 | anyway since like 2018 and I don't think I've had a Windows installation since like the |
| 0:32.6 | early 2010s. |
| 0:34.0 | Like I think I went maybe even earlier than that like late AOTS early 10s. |
| 0:39.9 | So it's been a long time since I've used Windows for more than literally five minutes. |
| 0:44.2 | But when I was a dev out and maybe avid I guess I should say Windows user, it used to be |
| 0:49.4 | the rule of thumb was every six months, you destroy everything and put it back where |
| 0:53.4 | it was and you start to start a new so you would clean out all the craft and get all the |
| 0:58.6 | junk out. |
| 0:59.6 | Now it would not surprise me if that is not at all the case today. |
| 1:01.9 | But how long has Adam's computer been operational? |
| 1:05.1 | That was TIFF's first gaming PC from like two and a half or three years ago, something |
| 1:10.3 | like that. |
| 1:11.3 | And so there's a number of factors here. |
| 1:13.7 | So number one, it is, it was very well specced at the time. |
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