620: Mostly Cookies
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2025
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show:
- Holiday results
- Casey’s impending mess
- John needs technical support
- Follow-up:
- Satirical posts about gas cars from the perspective of EV owners
- FotS Spencer’s find (discussed on the show)
- The one we were actually thinking of (found afterward by K, thanks!)
- On
Recentsin the Finder sidebar- Michael Starke points out it isn’t new
- Odin points out it’s a default
- Joe Lion has complaints
- Possible next-generation Vision Pro displays (via Erich Jurgens)
- Be suspect of iPhone Mirroring on corporate Macs
- Original blog post
~/Library/Daemon Containers/{…}/Data/Library/Caches
- Satirical posts about gas cars from the perspective of EV owners
- iOS 18 Photos hate (via Quinn)
- Apple’s Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chip, and Magic Mouse update?
- Post-show: Casey has joined the YoLink bandwagon
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Fast Directory Sizing
- WWDC 2016 #701: Introducing Apple File System
- About Apple File System
- Apple File System Reference
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| 0:00.0 | We've been out of town for, I think about 12 days. |
| 0:04.0 | I just got back last night. |
| 0:06.3 | Everything in my life is a mess as a result of this. |
| 0:11.1 | Like, obviously, first of all, like, my schedule is a mess. |
| 0:14.6 | Like, that's a given. |
| 0:16.1 | Like, when you take 12 days away from town, when you get back, everything has to be crammed |
| 0:20.6 | before and |
| 0:21.5 | after that so hence why we were recording at a weird time sorry my fault uh my house is a mess like |
| 0:27.8 | there's boxes everywhere because this is our big like christmas and new year's trip and there was a |
| 0:32.7 | bunch of family events that we went to while we were gone for different reasons and so we had all |
| 0:37.3 | sorts of |
| 0:37.7 | prep, you know, to prepare for this trip plus Christmas stuff. So there's boxes everywhere. |
| 0:43.4 | There's a couple of returns stacked up. There's a ton of like unpacking on launderedies. |
| 0:47.6 | We just got back last night. My car, a mess also, like covered in dirt and mud and, you know, |
| 0:53.3 | the windshield washer fluids empty. Like everything, you know, that's a mess. I personally in dirt and mud and you know the wind-shel washer fluids empty like |
| 0:54.6 | everything that's a mess i personally like my body is a mess like i not only have i eaten |
| 0:59.9 | mostly cookies for the last two weeks um but like like it's the point where like i don't know if |
| 1:05.7 | either of you have a smart scale but you know one of the great things about a smart scale is that |
| 1:09.2 | it records you know all your entries over you can see them over time one of the bad things about a smart scale is that it records, you know, all your entries over, and you can see them over time. |
| 1:12.0 | One of the bad things about a smart scale is that it records, all your entries, and you |
| 1:15.8 | can see them over time. And so this creates an incentive where if you've just had a really |
| 1:20.6 | indulgent week and you get home and you step on the scale for the first time. It can cross a certain point where you're like, and you jump off. |
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