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Accidental Tech Podcast

680: A Lot of Holes in That Cheese

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 155 minutes

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0:00.0

I just got a notification that my Mac minnie's offline in the garage.

0:04.4

That might be because I might have sprayed some snow on it today.

0:09.2

The snowblower, thrower, whatever?

0:11.1

We've been complaining that the laptop should be waterproof, but I don't think anyone

0:15.1

has really thought about the Mac Mini being waterproof.

0:17.6

Right?

0:18.6

So, I mean, you know, so me using the snow thrower snowblower what i i know snowblowing

0:23.5

is a dirty thing somewhere but that's what they call them here so i'm going to keep calling at

0:27.1

that do they not call them that somewhere else i understand snow thrower being the more technically

0:31.0

common term but i think i thought it was like nationwide snowblower is that common term some

0:35.6

some population is giggling and i just don't know which one and And I look, I know about it. I just don't care. Okay. So anyway, you know, I bought this thing, geez, five years ago at least. I've only used it a handful of times. I'm not good at it because it doesn't snow that crazily that off. I thought you meant the Mac Mini for a second. I was like, what are you talking about?

0:55.5

No, that one I use a lot, actually, which I'll get to another time. But, but yeah, so, and it's,

1:02.3

it has snowed so much in the last few days. Like, me trying to use this thing has been comical.

1:07.1

Everything is no mess and, you know, trying to clear the driveway. And like, I get about five minutes in and I'm and it just stops now this is a two-stage snowblower it's hundreds of pounds and it normally like you mean two cycle engine it's a four-cycle engine with two stages of stuff it does to throw snow around.

1:46.5

Got it. So anyway, it just stops. And I'm like, oh my God. And I'm trying to like, pull up my, what am I going to do? I'm in the middle of the driveway. This thing is huge and heavy. And then I realize, like, I'm like, wait a minute. It might just be out of gas. I'm so bad. It operates. This is my last gas powered thing besides Tiff's car's range extender. And so I'm like, I'm like, I don't know how I don't know how to deal with this.

1:51.6

Like I've never even bought like regular gas for it. I just use true fuel like the stabilized

1:58.3

gas you're supposed to keep in it all winter. I use so little of it. I've paid like 50 bucks total of gas. The thing is it has ever used. So like I'm just, I literally like have never even bought real gas for it. So I'm so disconnected from that process. But yeah, it turns out it just was out of gas. I just poured more true fuel in and it was fine again. on that topic, by the way, like I remember what this came up, maybe on this show or in some other,

2:21.4

no,

2:21.5

it was fine again. On that topic, by the way, like I remember this came up, maybe on this show or in some other.

2:21.4

No, it was probably like when we were, when we, the cultural we were watching like the first season of the last of us or something and debating how long gasoline in cars would last or whatever.

2:33.5

And I think I might have mentioned this then, but like I continue to think about it. Like we've had really mild winters for past several years here. Now, this one's not mild, but it's not the worst. But anyway, we had mild winters. And so I hadn't used my snowblower in literal years. It had been in the garage. And I also have, you know, there's no gas in it but I there was a you know a red plastic

2:52.5

you know I don't know how big it is a four gallon thing with gas in it that I filled at the gas station

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