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Accidental Tech Podcast

87: Not an Accurate Representation of My Mousing Skills

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2014

⏱️ 145 minutes

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0:00.0

That's how long it takes me to reboot.

0:01.6

So nine minutes.

0:03.0

Yep.

0:03.7

Although I think there might still be some spinners on some Chrome tabs and some

0:07.1

Finder Windows. Finder Windows are usually the last things to get spinners off of them.

0:10.7

Are you talking, are you your friend of like those like Wake from Sleep spinners?

0:13.7

Like what, since a Mavericks or since Lionwinter?

0:16.0

No, the spinners that are in the upper right corner of a Finder window when it's trying to just

0:20.1

display the contents. Not the, I, here is a fake screenshot of a window and I'm going to put a

0:24.1

giant spinner or not those.

0:25.7

I've never even seen the ones you're talking about, I don't think.

0:27.9

I know because the SSDs, I don't seem to work either.

0:31.3

You get spinning disks in about four million files on them, literally.

0:34.5

And you get to see all sorts of spinners.

0:36.9

You get to see Chrome tabs die with the frowny face because they just assume the

0:40.5

the world is broken. They give up.

0:42.0

You get to see Doc icon stop bouncing in the doc.

0:45.1

Have you seen that lately?

0:46.7

No, it's something most people don't even know about.

0:48.6

Like it's so, it's so bogged down that they can't bounce.

0:51.9

No, this is, so there's a certain, I don't know if it's a number of bounces or a number of time,

0:55.2

but at a certain point the OS gives up animating the bounce.

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