677: I Accept the Battery Cost
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Icepocalypse update
- Follow-up:
- Casey’s unit conversions are helpful… ish
- Other authentication options for John’s Cloudflare apps
- Per-pixel lighting and human perception (via David Schaub)
- The state of MicroLED
- Claude Code & AI ethics
- Top Dogs in Apple Vision Pro
- Marco’s experiment
- Apple adds agentic coding to Xcode 26.3
- Post-show: Tesla kills off the Model S and Model X
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| 0:00.0 | As I sit here tonight, the kids have a two-hour delay tomorrow, and they're finally going back to school on Thursday. They have not been in school since, what day was that, January 23rd? Wait, really? So this whole ice period, they haven't been in school since then? That's right. That's right. So we got the snow, I think, 24th, 25th weekend. |
| 0:21.7 | Then we were, well, snow and ice. |
| 0:23.1 | I shouldn't say the snow was really the ice. |
| 0:24.4 | That was a problem. |
| 0:25.2 | We're off all last week, 26 through 30, 30, 26 through 30. We're off Monday. We're off Tuesday. Well, I shouldn't say off. They did asynchronous learning, which means they did a bunch of busy work, Monday, Tuesday, and today, which is Wednesday. |
| 0:38.3 | It's Thursday the 5th. |
| 0:39.4 | They're finally going back after two-hour delay. learning, which means they did a bunch of busy work Monday, Tuesday, and today, which is Wednesday. |
| 0:38.2 | It's Thursday the 5th. They're finally going back after two-hour delay. And I feel terrible for Aaron in |
| 0:44.6 | particular, because I've been up here working in the office. The kids have been downstairs in the dining |
| 0:48.5 | room doing their busy work and asking Aaron questions incessantly all day long for the last |
| 0:54.1 | three days. |
| 0:55.2 | Aaron loves her children more than she loves anything in the world, including, I think, me, |
| 0:59.5 | potentially. |
| 1:00.4 | And I think she's very ready for them to go back to school tomorrow. |
| 1:04.5 | Yeah, I think, I don't know. |
| 1:06.5 | There's days that I do okay that she might like me to smidge more. |
| 1:09.0 | But don't ruin my moment here, John. |
| 1:10.8 | But anyways, the point is ice apocalypse is finally over, and I do okay, that you might like me to smidge more. But don't ruin my moment here, John. But anyways, the point is, uh, ice apocalypse is finally over and I am very thankful. |
| 1:16.9 | All right. |
| 1:17.6 | Uh, well, let's do some follow up. |
| 1:19.2 | And I would like to say that I've been vindicated and in congratulations to John, or maybe |
| 1:25.6 | not congratulations, but in thanks to John for putting this into the show notes, even though my conversions to metric are generally trashed, they at least get us in the ballpark and many people wrote in to say, hey, that's helpful. |
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