533: The Beach Is the Beach

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

The ATP Store is BACK, baby! Order your merch ⚠️ before Saturday, 6 May ⚠️.

Pre-show: Marco has e-reader pre-show follow-up
Follow-up:
- Mac Pro Believe art update (thanks, Cristofer Cruz)
- Quick Callsheet Recap
  - Someone help Casey with focusing a .searchable() text field, please!
  - Introspect for SwiftUI
  - Marco’s SwiftUI error message
- Emil Jensen’s 2FA iOS shortcut for iCloud keychain
  - prefs:root=PASSWORD&search=2fa
- CarPlay
  - Rental cars (via Milad Cerkic)
  - At what cost? (via Dave Nicholls)
    - The Verge in 2019
  - Ford CEO doubles down on CarPlay
- More nostalgia via Michael Hannemann
Rapid Security Responses & Cryptexes
- Adam Engst at TidBITS
#askatp:
- Will consumers actually buy a 15” MacBook Air? (via Ben)
- Is HDR and Dolby Vision worth it? (via Torstein)
- What are our thoughts about standing desks? (via Nick from Toronto)
  - Fully Jarvis
    - 60” × 27”, Stone, Unpowered Grommets, silver legs, 3 stage, programmable handset, with cable management
  - Fully Jax Dual Monitor Arm
  - VariDesk
  - Fog Creek’s desks (2008)
  - Uplift
Post-show:
- People love their cars, too
- Marco went to Dave & Busters
- MAME

Transcript

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0:00.0	I have pre-show follow up from my pre-show last week about e-readers.
0:06.2	It'll be quick, I swear.
0:08.3	So a couple of little things.
0:13.2	We got a bunch of feedback on our e-reader episode, e-reader pre-show last episode.
0:18.6	It felt like an episode didn't it?
0:20.6	Anyway, I had gotten the latest Kindle Oasis, but apparently the latest Kindle Oasis is
0:26.5	from 2017 or something.
0:29.1	The newest Kindle that's any good is allegedly the new Paper White signature edition.
0:36.3	This is the first Kindle as far as I'm aware that has a USB-C port.
0:40.8	Although maybe the new Kindle scribe the handwriting one that might have, but I didn't look
0:44.1	at that one.
0:45.1	It's a little too big for me.
0:46.1	But anyway, so everyone said try the new Paper White.
0:48.3	It is much more modern and it's faster because my key complaints about the Kindle Oasis
0:54.0	is it just takes forever to do things like wake up from sleep or navigate to a different
0:58.6	book or whatever.
0:59.6	It takes forever.
1:00.6	It's very, very slow.
1:01.9	People said try the new Kindle Paper White.
1:04.8	It's much, much faster.
1:06.1	I got it.
1:07.1	It's not.
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