484: Hot-Spare Price is Right
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Sick-kid TV
- Follow-up:
- Warnings about PoE splitters from Matias Korhonen
- Pro-fiber propaganda
- Ad-blockers on desktops (via Ryan)
- “Sign in with X” (via Brian Donovan)
- A concert-related Apple Music tip from Jonathan Dechko
- Amber gives us feedback on the Apple Fitness+ control room
- Apple, Google, and Microsoft commit to expanded support of FIDO standard
- Apple’s Self-Repair Program
- Post-show:
- The John Siracusa Podcasting Universe
- John’s headless Mac Studio 😢
- John is preparing the way for a new AV setup (‼️)
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| 0:00.0 | We now have purchased as a family our first Apple TV channel. |
| 0:05.0 | Remember that this was even a thing? |
| 0:07.5 | I do not. |
| 0:08.5 | Vagely. |
| 0:09.5 | So is this where you like sign up for like NBC or something |
| 0:12.8 | through Apple TV or something like that? |
| 0:14.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:14.8 | So in this case, so our kid was home sick today with a stomachache. |
| 0:20.8 | And we said, okay, well, you know, if you're going to stay home, |
| 0:24.7 | you're not going to just, you know, play video games all day |
| 0:27.0 | because you know, you want to make sure that it's like a real thing. |
| 0:29.0 | You know, so you know, I'm just like, you know, it's all my stomach hurts. |
| 0:32.0 | That could be a lot of things or it could be nothing. |
| 0:34.0 | And so you're like, well, you know, you're not going to just use as an excuse |
| 0:36.5 | to play video games all day. |
| 0:38.0 | But if you want, you can stay home and you can sit on the couch |
| 0:42.0 | and you can watch the prices right. |
| 0:44.0 | That is the requisite thing to do when you're sick and home from school. |
| 0:48.0 | Why would you pass on this suffering to a new generation? |
| 0:52.0 | What? |
| 0:53.0 | What do you mean suffering? |
| 0:54.0 | It's fine yourself. |
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