475: Shove It Out the Back
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 β’ 2.5K Ratings
ποΈ 24 March 2022
β±οΈ 121 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: We’ve got 99 problems and Apple Music is… most of them.
- On the Mac Studio’s extra SSD slot
- John’s heart shatters into a million pieces
(Mac Studio cooling and π± fan noise π±) - Why 5K?
- Apple Studio Display default resolution oddity?
- Studio Display foibles
- Very short Thunderbolt monitor cable? (~3ft/1m?)
- “Non-removable” monitor cords
- Panzer yanks out his cable
- Snell’s Review
- Studio Display Recovery Mode
- Gui Rambo’s Findings
- Firmware Updates
- Studio Display… Ethernet?
- Studio Display has 64GB onboard storage
- Running processes
- The Verge on the camera bugs
- Latest Mac Pro rumors/theories
- Post-show: Revisiting Synology backup
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So my play pop hits of every year took a very dark turn in the past week when we crossed roughly the year 2000. |
| 0:09.1 | Oh, are you gonna be that guy? Alright, tell me why it took a dark turn. |
| 0:13.5 | It became nearly impossible to listen with my child around. |
| 0:18.9 | Oh, okay, I'll allow it. I'll allow it. |
| 0:20.9 | Really? Was it a foul language? |
| 0:22.6 | Oh my god. Like, okay, so, you know, in the 80s, I mean, everyone's singing love songs in the 80s, |
| 0:29.9 | which was a creep and a stalker and potentially abusive, if you listen to lyrics. |
| 0:33.8 | Well, there's that. |
| 0:34.8 | I mean, in real life, we're just in the song. |
| 0:35.8 | In the lyrics, in the lyrics. |
| 0:36.8 | Yeah, but sometimes that was intentional on its artistic choice. |
| 0:39.2 | Right. But, you know, it was a little bit more coded and subtle. |
| 0:43.8 | And I feel like you could listen with, you know, an almost 10-year-old around. |
| 0:48.0 | And, you know, most of the creepiness would go over their head. |
| 0:51.3 | Whereas, when you crossed the year 2000, approximately, |
| 0:56.2 | F this, F that, constant swearing, the N word all over the place, |
| 1:01.5 | really explicit sexual stuff, it's like, wow, it's like you can't listen. |
| 1:08.0 | It's bad. |
| 1:09.5 | It's funny you bring this up. I'd actually like to slightly pivot if you don't mind |
| 1:13.8 | and talk yet again about how much I hate Apple Music, because I know that there exist |
| 1:20.8 | in Apple Music, clean versions of many, many, many albums that are explicit. |
| 1:26.4 | And maybe there is a way to say from the view of an album, like an explicit album, |
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