616: I Have No Grippers
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Marco [re-]discovers progressives
- Follow-up:
- Yet more football (🏈) news
- Seriously y’all, the Giants are so bad 😭
- TVEverywhere & Channels
- AVP immersive content tallies (via _)
- Cleaning a Mac keyboard while screensaver lock is on (via Paradise Pete)
- We are one again asking you to consider CleanupBuddy
- Another explanation for ballooning app sizes (via Alex)
- More thoughts on Mac SSD upgrades (via FotS Jonathan Dietz, Jr.)
- Yet apparently reverse-engineered upgrades are coming?
- Yet more football (🏈) news
- Threads tests allowing users to choose their own default feed
- Pat Gelsinger is out at Intel
#askatp:- What do we wish we could add to our apps, but Apple prevents?
- Post-show:
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- Tips from FotS Tyler Stalman
- Cropping isn’t always necessary (via Nicholas Gaffney)
- Psychology of photography (via Matt Johnson)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I've been having a bit of a confusing couple of weeks with my eyes. |
| 0:06.9 | Oh, no. Oh, no. |
| 0:08.4 | So it's nothing bad. |
| 0:10.1 | This is like, you know, compared to, you know, the reality that most people live with |
| 0:13.5 | with any kind of, you know, eye correction, this is nothing. |
| 0:16.6 | We're going to find somebody to blame this on the Vision Pro? |
| 0:18.7 | No. |
| 0:21.6 | Give them time, John. |
| 0:22.6 | Give them time. |
| 0:22.8 | Take it out of the drawer for one day. |
| 0:24.8 | Now look what happens. |
| 0:27.5 | No, I just, you know, so as I've, as I discussed, I think it like a year ago, I said I was trying different reading glasses and, and I had tried like some progressives from the internet. |
| 0:36.6 | My lack of close distance focus now with my, you know, 40s presbyopia, whatever that is called, |
| 0:44.3 | uh, is annoying enough in my life now that whenever I am wearing reading glasses and I see like |
| 0:50.5 | my phone or my watch, I'm like, oh man, that's so good. Why can't it look like that all the time? |
| 0:55.7 | So I've tried, you know, progressives, uh, which, you know, for those that don't know, |
| 1:00.6 | it's, it's kind of doing what bifocals used to do, but where you don't see the line that |
| 1:05.2 | differentiates between like the bottom part that magnifies and the top part that doesn't, which is kind of a smooth transition, |
| 1:12.5 | which results in lots of oddities. |
| 1:14.3 | And so anyway, I decided, like about a month ago, |
| 1:17.3 | I decided let me actually, like, |
| 1:19.7 | since it's annoying enough now my life not to be able to see sharp things very, |
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