690: Turn Left at the Next Tree
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 115 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
- Pre-show: Two thirds of your hosts are sick 🤧
- Follow-up:
- Backblaze & cloud backups
- Carbon Copy Cloner & Backblaze (via Barry Rubenstein)
- Maestral
- Arq’s approach (via Daniel Luz)
- Neo-ing… other things
- Mythos
- What makes this different (via William Moran)
- GPT-5.5 is equivalent?
- cURL security/bug reports
- Severe Linux security issue uncovered using AI
- AI is still ruining everything
- An examination of Apple’s CapEx
- Backblaze & cloud backups
- Ultra all the things
- iPhone Ultra
- MacBook Ultra
- AirPods Ultra
- iPad Ultra
- Apple Watch Ultra 4
- Mac Ultra
- iMac Ultra
- Ask ATP:
- What size drive should one get for Time Machine? (via Pat Murphy)
- Post-show: Marco’s Great Saunter
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Adobe has also forgotten how to make good software
Sponsored by:
- Factor: Healthy eating, made easy.
- DeleteMe: Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online.
Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Oh, I'm a little sick. |
| 0:01.5 | You too. |
| 0:02.1 | Yeah, you too. |
| 0:02.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:02.9 | So what happened was, you know, last week as, as I'm getting ready to do the Great Sauter, |
| 0:08.6 | like the day before. Oh, I don't love this. Yeah, day before I wake up. And, you know, I'd been, I had a little bit of, you know, congestion for a few days. but it's also |
| 0:17.5 | you know my car was also |
| 0:18.5 | turning yellow last week |
| 0:19.6 | because it's pollen season |
| 0:20.5 | and right now |
| 0:22.4 | at this moment |
| 0:23.0 | for this particular |
| 0:23.7 | six month period |
| 0:24.3 | I don't own an ostensibly yellow car. But it happens sometimes. It can happen to you, Marco. Right, but this is not one of those times. So I figured, oh, it's just allergies. And then, you know, every day the congestion gets a little bit worse. I'm like, ooh, it's allergies. And then the day before the saunter, I get a sore throat. |
| 0:43.6 | Now, at this point, I was still telling myself, wow, the allergies are really bad right now. |
| 0:48.5 | To be so bad, it caused a sore throat. I mean, obviously totally in denial, right? Because I was not going to be sick and miss the saunter after, you know, training for it for like, you know, eight or nine months or whatever it's been. Like, I'm not going to miss it. So I willed myself into thinking I was not sick. However, as became pretty clear, you know, a day later, two days later, I'm like, oh, yeah, no, this is, I'm definitely sick. This is not an allergy. It's really just a cold. So, tis the season. Tis the season. So it's funny you say that because I'm sitting here doing some work in the evening time, which is unusual for me. But my boss is a jerk, so here we are. So I was doing work in the evening time. |
| 1:29.3 | And I was sitting here and I was like, huh, hmm, I don't think that's good. And I'm feeling like |
| 1:35.5 | just the beginnings of like the the zygote of a sore throat. You know what I mean? Like just |
| 1:40.6 | the idious, littlest bit of sore throat. And I'm like, oh, yep, that's probably coming for me, maybe tomorrow, certainly over the weekend, because the kids |
| 1:47.6 | both had, like, colds and light sore throats. Declan in particular is extremely susceptible to strep. And as far as we could tell, it wasn't that. But, yeah, it sounds like I'm coming down with the cold as well. I guess Marco and you and I shouldn't have been smooching over the last few days. |
| 2:00.7 | That's really what ruined everything. Yeah, you got it for me through last week's show, I guess. |
| 2:04.2 | Yeah, right. Well, with that in mind, let's get started. And let's start with some follow-up. With regard to Backblaze and Cloud backups, Barry Rubenstein writes, one of the best backup decisions I recently made was switching from Time Machine to |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 2 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Marco Arment, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Marco Arment and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.
