582: Can't Render, Fog It
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 149 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: SD-card failures
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- Follow-up:
- The “unpatchable” M-series exploit
- Explanatory video
- Hector Martin found the “chicken bit”
- DMP
- Y’all don’t read the show notes, huh? 😏
- An 🎵 accidental 🎵 rant about the state of podcasting today
- Would a M3-family chip really have no efficiency cores? (via Matthaus Woolard)
- Max Tech’s take on “M4 Ultra” rumors
- Reticle limits
- Apple laying off 700+ workers
- Apple 🤝🏻 Shutterstock
- Apple’s in-box iPhone “Presto” flashing machine
- The “unpatchable” M-series exploit
- Casey has tried Spatial Personas
- Upgrade #507: Differently Social
- Game Room (App Store link)
- Gucci (App Store link)
- Turok
- Ask ATP:
- How does one buy a car? (via Chandler Kent)
- What even is ownership, these days? (via Anonymous)
- Egghead Software
- SimCity copy protection (the red image on teh right-hand side)
- Overton Window
- This article says Catalyst is abandoned; is it? (via Jonathan Sibley)
- Post-show: Rivian Bluetooth & Fast-Charging Sitrep
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever had an SD card go bad? |
| 0:04.0 | Hmm. Don't think so. |
| 0:07.0 | I think what happens you either the capacity becomes so low that it becomes useless to you |
| 0:12.3 | or you lose them. I think those |
| 0:13.6 | are the two failure modes for me. I actually had one go bad for I for I think |
| 0:18.6 | the first time and it's it's a good one it's like a Sandisk Extreme Pro, you know, blah. It's like one of the really good, fairly expensive ones. |
| 0:26.0 | And it is, it actually went bad, like it's just producing write errors and any camera that tries to write to it. |
| 0:32.0 | Like, I'm like shaken to my core. |
| 0:33.6 | Like I always heard this was a possibility, |
| 0:35.9 | but I've never seen it happen. |
| 0:37.4 | Like I'm questioning everything now. |
| 0:39.2 | Is the sky blue? |
| 0:40.4 | I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often |
| 0:41.9 | because they are, you know, so inexpensive in the grand |
| 0:44.4 | scheme of things in terms of how many bits they hold, right? And they're small and flimsy and have those exposed |
| 0:48.8 | contacts, but you know. |
| 0:49.8 | I guess. |
| 0:50.8 | Yeah, you know, I think the only failure I've had which j j j j j a cooks in the chat has said the same thing |
| 0:57.1 | one where the plastic around the contacts broke and then that made it like super dodgy to continue to use because it was super duper like |
| 1:03.2 | structurally compromised. I've had that happen I don't think in terms of like what |
| 1:07.6 | you're talking about market where it's just a read or write errors I can't recall |
| 1:10.6 | that ever happening although I will say that there is a special place in hell for both the |
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