469: Tiny Toastie
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: The newest member of Marco’s family
- Follow-up:
- Casey replaces his FiOS set-top box
- AlDente
- Casey’s Email Woes
- Gmail “funnel solution”
- Google Workspace Email Storage (via Ashish Gandhi)
- Running your own mail server (via Daniel Nelson)
- Fastmail’s referral fees can be paid out! 💰
- Video evidence for Wi-Fi ↔ Cellular Universal Control (via Carlos Carpio García)
- Are phones being stolen to steal bank information? (via Gui Rambo)
- Siri attempts at music playback by year
- Apple’s attempt at “compliance” with the Netherlands dating app rules
- Microsoft’s “A Principled Approach to App Stores”
#askatp:- Why doesn’t anyone use Wi-Fi for audio playback? (via Steven J. Stutz)
- Do we use color calibration tools for our monitors? (via Chris Koerner)
- How do we prevent keyboards damaging screens on laptops? (via Priyansh Singh)
- Post-show: Marco’s car problems
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I choose to believe that it's a friendly troll. |
| 0:03.6 | But one way or another, I feel that Marco gets an unreasonable, |
| 0:07.8 | well, no, maybe it's reasonable, considerable amount of enjoyment |
| 0:11.8 | by writing extremely vague and very interesting peaking things in the show notes, |
| 0:16.4 | especially for pre-shows and after-shows. |
| 0:21.0 | So moments before recording, the following appears in the show document, |
| 0:25.1 | pre-show, the newest member of Marco's family. |
| 0:28.6 | I don't know if this is a very unexpected pregnancy announcement, which I doubt, |
| 0:32.4 | or if this is something like you found a Rivian to replace the FJ, |
| 0:36.4 | or maybe hops really needed a buddy after 10 years or however old he is. |
| 0:40.0 | So... Or he got a new USB charger. |
| 0:42.6 | Like really, the family is a very large, |
| 0:44.8 | a living, encompassing term. Indeed. |
| 0:47.8 | So is this a new jumpstart thing for your perpetually broken FJ, |
| 0:52.2 | or is this something else entirely? |
| 0:54.4 | I actually have a new jumpstart thing for my friends. |
| 0:57.0 | Is it part of the family? |
| 0:59.4 | No, I wouldn't say that. |
| 1:00.6 | Okay. Not yet. It needs to earn its spot. |
| 1:02.4 | Yeah, not yet. |
| 1:03.4 | It needs to earn its keep. |
| 1:04.4 | I will say that the Arment family has been expanded by... |
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