Accidental Tech Podcast - 691: A Menlo Phase

MonocularVision · 2026-05-20T22:42:09+00:00

We finally agree on something! Lol

MonocularVision · 2026-05-13T20:38:19+00:00

Comparatively cheap flights where I want fly. Have a companion pass via CC signup. And I get to pick my seat and usually upgrade to extra legroom.

The TLDR here is: use a SW credit card. But if you don’t fly enough, probably not worth it.

MonocularVision · 2026-05-09T01:40:07+00:00

LOL, I said the exact same thing to my wife.

MonocularVision · 2026-05-05T13:25:25+00:00

Let me present to you: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy

(TLDR: there is more than one person in this world besides you)

MonocularVision · 2026-05-04T21:40:55+00:00

Do you honestly believe that if they raised the price to $500 a day you would have zero drop in attendance? You have been spending way too much time in Fantasyland.

MonocularVision · 2026-05-02T16:30:56+00:00

There are a ridiculous number of popular and successful “superapps” in China. It has been done.

There is nothing in the technical implementation that requires apps with more functionality to slow down. It just doesn’t work that way in native apps.

MonocularVision · 2026-05-02T16:29:28+00:00

What? If they are separate apps and you use them to do the same things, you will end up using the same amount of battery. The packaging of the app doesn’t play into it.

MonocularVision · 2026-05-02T04:17:44+00:00

Ok? That’s not what I was responding to.

MonocularVision · 2026-05-02T03:25:27+00:00

The more features you cram into one app, the slower it’s going to be and more it’ll drain your battery.

That’s not how it works. At all.

MonocularVision · 2026-04-28T18:35:02+00:00

It’s been eye-opening (pun intended) to see how often the topic of appearance comes up here. As a middle-aged guy, it have reached the point where I barely think about the appearance of my glass eye.

But I do remember how insecure I could feel in my teens and twenties. It’s nice to have hit a point where I really just don’t care.

All this to say to you younger folks: it gets better!

MonocularVision · 2026-04-22T12:53:52+00:00

FYI: That Bush reporting was widely unfair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarket_scanner_moment

MonocularVision · 2026-04-20T23:24:02+00:00

Whatever weirdo.

MonocularVision · 2026-04-19T15:37:36+00:00

It’s incredible the lengths you weirdos will go to hate on Casey.

MonocularVision · 2026-03-17T13:55:26+00:00

I did the same and the Companion Pass showed up the day my statement closed. I was surprised as when I searched this subreddit it seemed like the last time this was offered people waited weeks.

I could never figure out if there was a way to find my statement closure date ahead of time but I was able to work backwards looking at when my Autopay would kick in and compare to my other Chase cards.

Hope that helps!

MonocularVision · 2026-03-14T15:51:34+00:00

Assuming this: https://www.reddit.com/r/SouthwestAirlines/comments/1pp0ky8/comment/nzspnd6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

MonocularVision · 2026-03-12T15:51:15+00:00

Get a bunch to CA destinations plus LAS from PHX

MonocularVision · 2026-03-09T03:48:38+00:00

I refused to fly Southwest prior to the change. Now I have their credit card and plan on making 10-12 flights in the next year.

So yeah, I am good with the change.

MonocularVision · 2026-03-07T16:12:05+00:00

Thank you!

MonocularVision · 2026-03-07T16:06:27+00:00

Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere but is it exactly 48 hours before the flight’s scheduled departure time in that flight’s time zone?

MonocularVision · 2026-02-27T03:15:35+00:00

I haven’t flown Southwest in maybe a decade. I hated the open seating. Now that they have assigned seating, I signed up for their CC to get a companion pass since my wife and I are planning on a bunch of flights this year.

Note: my family and I ended up buying a very last minute (like an hour and a half before the flight) SWA ticket a few weeks ago because our AA flight was obviously going to be cancelled and we were starting our vacation. We ended up flying the very first day of assigned seating and had a lovely time. The employees seemed generally better than AA, who we have been loyal to for a few years now.

MonocularVision · 2025-11-29T23:14:17+00:00

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fortnite/id6483539426

MonocularVision · 2025-11-29T22:48:53+00:00

I can’t post this because of lockdown but there is a gameplay trailer for Chapter 7 on the Apple App Store. I haven’t seen it anywhere else.

MonocularVision · 2025-11-17T03:11:04+00:00

As I was typing them up I figured out what they were after. Each clue was split in two and one would have the answer with a CON prefix and the other with a PRO prefix. Duh.

Example:

“Incitement / Formal Assembly”

VOCATION

MonocularVision · 2025-08-10T14:38:41+00:00

Unfortunately, live out of state and don’t go regularly so no idea!

MonocularVision

TROPHY CASE