692: A Thinking Hitch
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show:
- 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Her
- Immersive Inlet: Real Madrid: The Weight of Greatness
- Follow-up:
- Cut/copy/paste in Finder
- Terminal
- John’s Terminal.app state restoration woes
- Terminal apps for macOS with text-based config files
- Fancy shell prompts like Starship
- Some other terminal resources
- The Linux Field Guide by Uros Popovic (via Derek)
- The Secret Rules of the Terminal by Julia Evans
- Ignoring
node_modulesand the like- In Dropbox
- In Time Machine
pnpmas an alternative tonpm(via Paul Galow)
- 20th Anniversary iPhone curved display will improve a year later? 🤨
- Reminders
- Has Marco tried “alarm” reminders?
- Reminders snoozing (via Rob Howard)
- Updates in 26.5
- Flexibits
- Why does everyone hate AI?
- Pew Research
- The more young people use AI, the more they hate it
- Commencement speakers aren’t getting the hint
- Wearable AI friend
- Americans really don’t want data centers in their backyards
- Angine de Poitrine on KEXP
- Post-show: Marco gets geeky
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Googlebook & Aluminum OS
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, you got that colored bullet, Casey. |
| 0:02.3 | Oh, it's so hard. |
| 0:03.2 | You don't have to deal with it. |
| 0:03.9 | You don't appreciate what I do to edit this document? |
| 0:06.2 | Now what are you going to do? |
| 0:07.3 | Now are you going to style that bullet? |
| 0:09.0 | What are you going to do? |
| 0:09.5 | Nope, I'm just going to live with it. |
| 0:10.5 | Wait, how do you? |
| 0:11.4 | Casey doesn't know. I don't know. Neither do I. you're a google docs whiz john i'm not a google docs whiz what i am is i am i am a uh a victim of decades of word |
| 0:21.8 | processing programs that do not make |
| 0:23.5 | this task easy. That's what I am. Hey, so let's go into what I've decided to call immersive inlet. |
| 0:32.1 | Let's just cruise right into immersive inlet. Yeah, you love it. You love it. It used to be a corner. |
| 0:37.8 | What happened? |
| 0:38.3 | No, because everyone uses a corner. |
| 0:39.8 | I figured... You were copying everybody else. Yes, and now I'm trying to branch out on my own. Well, in the immersive world, there is no corner. Well, that is true. There's no corners in an immersive world, and thus it is an inlet. We have no boundaries, no attachment to physical spaces whatsoever. |
| 0:55.0 | We're just floating. |
| 0:56.1 | Except for where the video ends. Inlet. We have no boundaries, no attachment to physical spaces whatsoever. |
| 0:55.0 | We're just floating. |
| 0:56.1 | Except for where the video ends. |
| 0:58.1 | Except the fuzzy edge where the video ends because it's not 360. |
| 1:01.0 | Exactly. |
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