479: Never Mind, I’m Out

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

The ATP Store is live until 30 April at 8PM New York time. Order now, or Casey will haunt your dreams! 👻

Pre-show: Marco has HomePod problems
- Pop Hits: {year} (1955–2021)
- Rock Hits: {year} (1965–2021)
- Hard to Handle by Otis Redding
- Hard to Handle by The Black Crowes
- Creep by Radiohead
- AirPlay 2-Enabled Speakers
Follow-up:
- Hilariously, a third consecutive week of news about Original Gravity, this time via Jared Kole
- Which ethernet controller does the CalDigit TS4 use?
  - Intel I225 PCIe
  - Ethernet fix
  - Sleep fix
- Ecobee & HomeKit cooperation (via Eric Powell)
- Ecobee AC adaptor instructions
  - Step 3 → Scenario A → Alternative solution: 24VAC plug-in transformer
- Some thoughts about 🇪🇺 thermostats via Cameron Wood
- USB-C KVM dev boards do exist, as found by Victor Leung
- Mac Studios have different power supply… suppliers (via Joshua Prismon)
Ioniq 5 & Kia EV6 & Lucid Air
- Do better, Lexus.
RIP, Rob-ART Morgan
What is Elon Musk, anyway?
- Unsafe at Any Speed
- Chevrolet Corvair
Elon Musk and Twitter
- NOTE: We recorded this episode right before his ~~demand~~ “offer” to buy the entire company.
- Elon buys 9.2% of Twitter
- Elon delays filing with the SEC and “made” $156 million
- Parag Agrawal announces Elon joins the board
- Twitter says Elon won’t get special treatment
  - Nilay Patel’s take
- Parag Agrawal announces Elon won’t join the board
- Elon is sued for delayed disclosure
- Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor
#askatp
- As the M1 is based on the A14, might the M2 skip the A15 and instead be based on the A16? (via Darin Kelkhoff)
- How does Marco stream for Team Arment? (via Uncle Apple)
- Could/would Apple use OLED in laptops and iMacs? (via Simon Ejsing)
- If the Studio Display was released concurrently with the Pro Display XDR, would John & Marco still get the XDR? (via Jon Yergatian)
Post-show: John’s Sonos Roam

Transcript

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0:00.0	How much do I have to derail this show so we don't get to talking about Elon Musk?
0:05.1	A lot.
0:06.6	Challenge accepted.
0:08.2	I know.
0:09.2	You could probably do it by yourself.
0:11.2	You and me together, our powers combined, could absolutely do it.
0:14.5	What do you have against talking about Elon Musk?
0:16.1	We're going to say really mean things about him probably.
0:18.6	Oh, that's the last thing I want to do, though, because then everyone gets angry at us.
0:21.8	I'd rather just say nothing about him.
0:23.3	I just don't like him so much.
0:25.7	Here we go.
0:26.4	Let's derail.
0:27.2	Wait, we're talking about him.
0:27.8	Let's derail immediately.
0:30.2	I had to restore both of my home pods today.
0:34.6	Oh, gosh.
0:35.4	How does that even happen? So remember how I said a few weeks ago, you know, they've been working really well.
0:40.3	They seem to have stopped breaking and they've been working really well.
0:43.7	Well, that came to a screeching halt over the last week or so where they've been working
0:47.8	very poorly.
0:49.2	You know, it's a stereo pair and, you know, sometimes one would just drop out until I would
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