493: Downstairs Downstairs
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2022
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Last two weeks updates
- Follow-up:
- Custom 🇦🇺 emails (via Mark Vos & Brendan Ragan)
- BMW subscriptions (via Chris Church)
- Steve Stutz tells us you can get the mophie 3-in-1’s from Zagg at a discount
- 🇪🇺 & USB-C regulations (via Vern Johnson)
- Address & contacts (via Soluble Apps and Sherif Hassabo)
#askatp:- Can an indie app enter a crowded field? (via Abel Demoz)
- Why don’t we use cross-platform frameworks? (via Russel Bernau)
- Is Time Machine still the best feature ever implemented on the Mac? (via Guilherme Alles)
- Would John potentially void his TV’s warranty to prevent auto-dimming? (via Mark Vos)
- Has John decided on a backup strategy for his son’s MacBook Air? (via Brian Lazarz)
- Post-show: Casey’s HomeKit Adventures
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| 0:00.0 | It has been so long since we recorded so |
| 0:03.4 | Since we last recorded I have gotten the new MacBook Air already did an entire three-hour podcast about it with John Gruber the talk show at 352 |
| 0:12.6 | IDFU restored my 14 inch MacBook Pro which I think has fixed most of its problems and it went to two fish concerts |
| 0:19.9 | Two fish concerts, why are we going to do that? Yeah, we got we got a pull in that thread in the second |
| 0:24.6 | But since we're doing our quick updates |
| 0:26.6 | Meanwhile, I went to Cape Charles for a week and Michaela got her second shot |
| 0:30.2 | So the list family is as vaccinated as we can possibly be right now, and I'm very excited about that |
| 0:34.5 | All right, John. What have you been doing? I've been on my island just |
| 0:38.3 | hanging out at the beach. I'm back now though. My my most exciting upcoming news. Oh, I did get my M2 MacBook Air |
| 0:44.1 | Well some mine |
| 0:46.1 | I'm doing MacBook Air from my son. He's got that up on his desk and is using it as if nothing has changed from his M1 MacBook Air |
| 0:51.0 | So that's fine |
| 0:52.8 | But my exciting news is that my television and theory is arriving on Monday. Oh |
| 0:57.8 | Did you prepare the way the way is not yet prepared? I just got back from vacation literally today |
| 1:02.4 | So I really haven't I've just barely started unpacking stuff and plugging things back in |
| 1:08.1 | I had an ominous email for my Synology while I was gone too. Oh, it's saying what? |
| 1:12.4 | I tell you you ever got this one. Let me see um |
| 1:15.6 | Synology detected an abnormal power failure that occurred on drive-2 and volume one. Oh, that doesn't sound good |
| 1:21.7 | Are there normal power failures? What is an abnormal power failure that occurred on drive? |
| 1:26.6 | How can a power failure occur on a drive? Anyway, I I |
| 1:30.4 | Didn't do anything to it yet. I went downstairs and looked at it and all the lights are on and other lights are angry |
| 1:35.2 | It says to for more information go to storage manager storage and check the suggestions under the corresponding vibe |
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