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Accidental Tech Podcast

629: An Upsetting and Confusing Time to Be Me

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 141 minutes

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0:00.0

All right. I have two restaurant updates really, really quick. Number one, I finally, I'm using Dante.

0:05.6

We talked about it. Finally. Yeah. You've gone through the inferno. Yeah. It is so just like, it just works. Like, I mean, so far, I guess there's not a ton of traffic on the network, but like there won't be. Like, there's not that much traffic going to be on a restaurant network. Because restaurant because customers aren't even allowed to use it well they're allowed to use a tenth of one of the

0:24.8

connection anyway so like yeah so dante turns out this is this is the the audio protocol that

0:32.6

lets you just kind of send audio signals over the network that's going fantastically so far i will

0:37.4

report back later on in the summer once there's. That's going fantastically so far. I will report back

0:38.0

later on in the summer once there's like real use of it, but so far it's great. Well, once you get

0:42.7

your first sort of like someone using it in anger like the DJ thing for St. Patrick's Daywin.

0:47.2

The DJ won't know it's there. Well, you hope. That's what I'm saying. We're going to find out. Yeah. So, like, I have, like, the, the DJ input to the Dante

0:54.6

system is in, like, an attic above the hallway that the DJ usually sets up in. So what comes

1:00.7

out of the attic is just two XLR cables. So the DJ won't even necessarily know what those are

1:07.2

connected to and how. So to them, it just looks like XLR cables that they plug into,

1:11.9

which is exactly what it was before.

1:13.6

So we'll see how that goes.

1:15.8

But so far, that is a promising technology.

1:19.6

Secondly, today I had to get cash for the business.

1:26.0

I recognize this is going to sound ridiculous to anybody who runs real businesses, but I have

1:30.6

now run, what, four or five businesses so far?

1:34.6

Without touching any cash.

1:35.9

This is the first time I have ever had to deal with cash for a business, ever.

1:40.5

Like, I've never withdrawn cash from a business bank account so i and so you know because

1:46.6

we're about we're about to have like a st patty's uh weekend and that that's kind of our soft

1:52.2

opening and so i have to like get cash to put in the register drawers and i'm like first of all

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