478: No Bum Cores
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 127 minutes
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- Pre-show: Marco has questionable media choices
- Follow-up:
- Tragic Original Gravity news (via Ari Badgers)
- The etymology of “decibel” (via Matt Rigby)
- Don’t forget the iPhone 12/13 mini (via Carl Rozas)
- An aside about House of Prime Rib
- Quinn Nelson’s observation about the Studio Display
- USB-C “KVM” (via abcd)
- On the crummy Ethernet speeds in modern Macs
- On using Canon EF lenses with mirrorless cameras
- Casey’s New Setup (yes, again. 🤫)
- John’s new thermostat
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're watching Severance. Have you seen Severance? |
| 0:02.4 | No, no, I'm not going to tell you anything about it except that it's really good. |
| 0:06.4 | And I strongly suggest a season one just ended. |
| 0:09.7 | It's been renewed for a second season. |
| 0:11.2 | It's, it starts out weird and you're going to think, what am I watching? |
| 0:16.2 | It's very, very strange. Where's the square footage going? |
| 0:19.2 | But trust me, it's worth watching this show. It's very, very good. |
| 0:23.2 | Actually, we also, we recently just finished the dropout too. |
| 0:26.6 | The one about Elizabeth Holmes and Theronos. |
| 0:28.2 | And we're trying to watch the WeWork one. |
| 0:31.0 | But I don't know if you guys, you guys, are you able to watch shows about Silicon Valley startups and enjoy them? |
| 0:37.6 | I was going to say you're making some interesting choices of all the things you can pick Severance. |
| 0:41.4 | Good. Thumbs up. Nice selection. |
| 0:43.0 | We work and the Theronos one. You're going to watch the Uber one next. |
| 0:46.6 | That would not be on my screen. |
| 0:47.8 | See, I don't, like, so the Theronos one I was happy to get through because first of all, it was very well done. |
| 0:53.0 | I made a safe read. It was amazing in it. |
| 0:55.0 | I wasn't really following the story when it was happening in real life. |
| 0:59.4 | So it was mostly new to me or at least I knew the high level of review, but didn't really know the details. |
| 1:04.2 | So that was nice. And it was just a very well done show. |
| 1:07.8 | But the parts that are more about glorifying Silicon Valley culture, |
| 1:12.6 | which so far, the WeWork one definitely is in that area. |
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