665: My Basement Is Beautiful
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- John has some new Vision Pro treats
- In the defense of the CD-R (via Jonathan Goforth)
- Auto-generated chapters in Apple podcasts
- We’re dummies: ATP has a [chapter-free] bootleg
- Some more technical details (via Stephen Robles)
- New MacBook Pro design is for M6 Pro & Max only?
- Tahoe & Electron app fixes
- Discord is fixed (via Dayton Lowell)
- Microsoft Teams Classic is likely to never get fixed (via Adam Wunn)
- macOS Emoji Picker
- ⌃ ⌘ Space
- Rocket
- Pogo-stick robot
- A butt-dialing theory from Trey Carpenter
- iPhone Pocket
- iPod Socks
- New Steam Hardware
- Post-show: Marco goes to Home Depot
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Affinity graphics apps go free, and some people are upset
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, so let me just go on an apology tour right now, because we were supposed to record yesterday at the normal time. |
| 0:07.7 | And Tuesday, I woke up and I felt like a truck had ran me over. |
| 0:11.3 | Wednesday, the truck backed over me. |
| 0:13.3 | And I was like, fellas, I cannot do this today. |
| 0:15.9 | And so my many thanks to my beloved co-hosts for being flexible. |
| 0:20.2 | We are recording this on Thursday, |
| 0:22.2 | and we are doing it during the day, which generally speaking we don't like to do because oftentimes |
| 0:27.2 | there's like leaf blowers or in the summertime there's weed whackers or whatever in all sorts |
| 0:31.8 | of background noise. Barking dogs, don't forget, you're going to hear them soon. Yep, |
| 0:35.0 | barking, barking dogs, you'll probably hear penny pawing at the office store trying to get in. So all this to say, if the audio |
| 0:41.9 | sounds like garbage, Casey's fault. Not Marco's fault. Casey's fault. So that's my bad. That definitely, |
| 0:49.3 | we didn't want to record this time, but I begged my beloved co-host to do it earlier in the |
| 0:53.9 | day to ensure that I stayed awake for all of it, which my beloved co-hosts to do it earlier in the day to ensure |
| 0:54.6 | that I stayed awake for all of it, which they were gracious and kind enough to do. So if the audio |
| 0:59.0 | is not exactly up to snuff, again, my fault, not Marcos. I mean, it'll probably be fine because |
| 1:04.6 | first of all, isotope exists and it's awesome. But also, you know, in typical Casey fashion, |
| 1:19.4 | you are throwing yourself so far under the bus before there's even a problem and there probably won't even be a problem. So it'll probably be fine. |
| 1:27.6 | All right. Let's do some follow up. And a little birdie has told me because John did not tell me that John has received some new presence. Oh, yeah. In my continuing saga of Vision Pro stuff arriving at my house, a couple things. I did get my lens insert. So I talked about that on last episode. You mentioned you were going to get the lens inserts. I don't think we know that you did. Yeah. Anyway, I did get them. They work well. I'm actually kind of surprised that the balance between me trying it with my mismatch |
| 1:48.5 | contacts versus my correct lens inserts because the mismatch contacts are not quite right. |
| 1:53.7 | One of my eyes has slightly the wrong prescription, but they have the advantage of not |
| 1:58.2 | having a second pair of lenses in there. |
| 1:59.8 | And the second pair of lenses does add more internal reflections and also external reflections for light leaking through, which is another issue we'll get to in a second. So it actually is interesting. Like, I really have no choice. I can't do the contact thing because I'd have to put the contacts in and put the vision pro on and take them off when I take it out because I can't because my vision is bad and my contacts that are |
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