470: Computers Can Do Things
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- AirTags anti-tracking update
- John has thoughts on streaming apps
- Akamai is buying Linode
#askatp:- Why do cars always steal Bluetooth connections? (via Chris Gleim)
- Is using
Reduced Securityokay for the purpose of audio capture? (via Chritopher Ward) - What’s the best “dumb” TV? (via Ava)
- Post-show Neutral: Toyota’s Faux Manual Transmission Patent
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| 0:00.0 | Alright we should move on before I get cranky again alright let's do some follow up have another donut move right |
| 0:04.5 | I don't know how to have another donut if you don't understand that ATP dot FM slash joint |
| 0:11.1 | movie right along we had talked last episode I think we were the context was you jump starting the |
| 0:17.2 | FJ via the model S and we were curious if that was possible you know what would the mechanism for that |
| 0:23.3 | the and Jasper Welts wrote in the battery yeah exactly so Jasper Welts wrote in and pointed us |
| 0:33.1 | to a video wearing you have to dismantle half the Tesla in order to get to the battery terminals |
| 0:37.9 | but it is possible big Tesla energy there and then somebody else whose name I don't have in front of |
| 0:43.6 | me I'm sorry Jameson sent us a second video each of these videos is like two and a half minutes |
| 0:48.0 | so they're quick to watch and this reminded me of like a year ago James may of top gear in the |
| 0:54.1 | Grand Tour he has a model S among his many other cars and and he apparently at the beginning |
| 1:00.8 | of lockdown basically stopped driving it is basically all of us did we just stopped driving |
| 1:04.8 | and especially in the UK where they really took lockdown seriously where they actually had |
| 1:08.5 | actual lockdown not what Americans think of his lockdown anyways so the model S sat for a long time |
| 1:14.0 | Marco and it was not on any sort of charger of any kind and if I recall correctly I watched |
| 1:20.4 | this video like a week ago he went to get in the car but because the door knobs the door handles |
| 1:27.0 | are inside the car until you walk up to it he couldn't get in the car because the door handle |
| 1:31.7 | knobby things wouldn't pop out so then he assumed that the key fob battery was broken or dead or |
| 1:37.4 | flat in Britishism and it was not so you know he put in a different battery and that didn't do it |
| 1:42.7 | come to find out that you know there's two different battery systems and a Tesla or at least in |
| 1:46.5 | the Model S there's the 12 volt battery and then the big big battery and it would appear if I |
| 1:51.4 | understand things right and now I'm gonna get everyone writing me trust me I really don't care |
| 1:55.2 | everyone but anyways one way or another the big battery doesn't exactly always totally charged |
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