532: The Meat Part of Multitasking
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 β’ 2.5K Ratings
ποΈ 27 April 2023
β±οΈ 149 minutes
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Summary
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- Pre-show: Marco re-discovers reading
- Boox Nova Air C
- Kindle Oasis (2nd-gen.)
- reMarkable
- Jason’s e-Reader Roundup
- iPad Mini (6th-gen.)
- Tobor Robot
- PMN Caecilia (the original Kindle font)
- Follow-up:
- Mac Pro Believe Shirt
- Shirt ordered for John Ternus
- John continues to fight his window-dragging lag (FB12122106)
- Belkin Releases USB-C Hub
- Google Authenticator adds account syncing for 2FA codes
- Duncan Wilcock’s Photos.app duplicate management tale of woe
- John’s receiver isn’t the panacea he thought it was (via Stephen Brandon)
- Mac Pro Believe Shirt
- Reddit starts charging for API access
- Christian’s thoughts
- Apollo (App Store link)
app.net- Officially unofficial ATP subreddit
- What was it like before multitasking? (via Torb)
- Post-show: Casey has a special treat for members. π
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I have a very, very many topic that is so small, I decided to use it now as a pre-show because it's stupid. |
| 0:07.3 | Alright, everyone, look at the clock, let's see how this one goes. |
| 0:10.3 | Alright, carry on. |
| 0:12.1 | Alright, so I've decided that I should read more. |
| 0:15.6 | Oh, I'm here for this. |
| 0:17.6 | You read all day, you're always staring at the computer screen, there's words all over it. |
| 0:21.1 | Well, you know, it's funny, like, you know, for somebody who used to make a service that was primarily about reading things, |
| 0:26.1 | that was about reading things later, none of that. |
| 0:29.2 | Important distinction. |
| 0:30.2 | Yeah, well anyway, I haven't really used it in a long time. |
| 0:33.7 | And I just started again recently because I just have not really been reading web articles and stuff. |
| 0:39.7 | And I mean, frankly, the web is a dumpster fire and there aren't that many articles that I really intend to |
| 0:45.2 | save and read from the web these days, which is its own issue. |
| 0:48.1 | You should make an app that lets it make it easier to read those, but all the bads and junk and stuff. |
| 0:51.7 | You should do that. |
| 0:52.5 | By the way, God, like Apple News is such a crappy experience because |
| 0:57.4 | there's just giant horrible ads like every two paragraphs. |
| 1:01.4 | And even like I recently I mentioned in brief a while ago that I started paying for a New York time subscription, |
| 1:07.4 | because I was tired of like rationing how often I would click on their links and it felt stupid. |
| 1:12.2 | And it is also a terrible experience. |
| 1:15.2 | Like I pay for this. |
| 1:16.2 | I pay for that and I pay for Apple News through iCloud Plus or whatever. |
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