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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

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714: Get the Bigger Pizza Oct 23, 2026

Show notes

Pre-show:
- John’s of Bleecker
- Marco and Casey at John’s
🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is here! 🗣️
Follow-up:
- HomeView
  - When was the HomeView hardware created?
  - Is it expensive? (via Paul Heering)
    - Amazon Echo Show 5: $99
    - Amazon Echo Show 8: $199
    - Amazon Echo Show 11: $249
    - Amazon Echo Show 15: $349
  - Wall-mount & regular HomeView pricing
    - Is it to prevent cheapskates? (via mvk)
    - Is it to prevent add-on dinguses (via Ben O’Matic)
  - Knock-offs coming soon?
  - Turns out, Jimmy is that guy. 😏
  - Phone screen vs. Duo screen
  - Will Marco be adding CarPlay support? (via Rick Allen)
- Apple TV
  - Price history
    - March, 2015: Apple lowers the price from $99 → $69 (timestamp link to 10m14s)
    - Glenn Fleishman’s chart
  - Microphones and HomePods
  - AV1 (via Michael Barnes et al)
    - Reddit feature comparison
  - What is “audio passthrough” (via Andrew Haglund)
    - Explainer from Caleb Denison
- The iPhone Duo has a replaceable cover layer
  - Interview with Kate Bergeron
iPhone Duo Creator Showcase
iPhone Duo preorder experience
iPhone Duo reviews
- MKBHD
- HTX Studio
- Tim Pan
- Joanna Stern
- Nilay Patel & Allison Johnson
- Gruber
- John also brought up Computer Chronicles
Apple “Pro and Tell” event next week
Post-show: Marco has something to share
- ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
- The thing Marco shared
  - 🚨 You will want to click this after Marco introduces it, but before John talks about his experience! 🚨
Members-only ATP Overtime: The people holding up the internet
- XKCD 2347

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713: I Have Medium Hopes Oct 15, 2026

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Apple’s New Home-Related Products
- HomeView
- Apple TV 4K gen 4
- HomePod mini 2
  - Newsroom
  - Intro video
- Home collection
  - Newsroom
  - MacRumors
  - (See also the Schneider press release above)
Post-show: Casey got a UTR-LR
- UTR
- Flex Mini
Members-only ATP Overtime: Regarding Passkeys are a Trap…
- Ricky Mondello’s response
- Scott Helme’s response

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712: Mildly Technologically Traumatized Oct 08, 2026

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Pre-show: Marco tries a Waymo
Follow-up:
- Casey’s MyBMW foibles
  - iMazing
  - Approov
    - BMW case study
  - Screen sharing
  - OBD-II
  - Home Assistant + Pushover + Shortcuts? (via Khaos Tian)
  - GL.iNet Comet Q
  - PiKVM
  - Lex Friedman: Claude writes code; I author the apps
- AirPower desk video was by HTX Studio
  - …who previously interviewed Tim Cook! (via Elijah Yap)
  - Original video (via Adeiko)
- Ubiquiti home Wi-Fi vs. Eero
- FiOS CableCARD discontinuation
  - RecDiffs #295: If I Adjust for Europe
- TiVo’s desperation
- One-AirPod vs. two-AirPod audio settings
  - Settings → Accessibility → AirPods → your AirPods
- M6/A20 Pro details
  - High Yield & SemiAnalysis video on A20 Pro
    - Timestamp link to cores discussion @ 9m37s
  - High Yield & SemiAnalysis video on the M6 vs. M5
Rumored October event
- See also, new home trinkets?
Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS
- Jason Aten on Muse reading his iMessages
- Meta calls foul
Post-show: Casey and Marco go Phishing
- Q Barbecue
- Capital Ale House
- Allianz Ampitheater
- Setlist
- Recording
- Cupertino’s
- iPhone Duo 3D-printing model (you want the variant labeled “Fixed the large black areas showing through.”)
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711: Hot Dog on an Actuator Oct 01, 2026

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Pre-show: Marco has M6 performance numbers
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
- Podcastathon on Friday October 2 @ noon eastern
- The Marco Offset™
Follow-up:
- John’s mouse pad (via Andy)
  - Rounded corners are, bad, maybe?
  - AirPower… desk? 🤨
- John’s weird AirPods 5 issues
- Finding Intel apps in macOS
  - System Settings → General → About → Intel-based Apps
  - Learn more…
- M5 Ultra Mac Studio GPU scores
- New Mac mini storage caveats
- 𝓍OS 27 Screen Time woes (Timestamp link to 8m50s)
- iOS 27 vs. Pi-hole
  - dazfuller
  - Aaron Vegh
- GM vs. CarPlay
Apple Watch is listening…
- Steve Riggins
- What about “Hey, Siri”?
- Nick Heer
- MKBHD
Ask ATP:
- What’s the highest mileage we’ve ever gotten to in a car? (via Elliot)
- What is John going to do to deal with Gmail policy changes? (via Mark Bramhill)
- Would Apple reuse the 2019 design for a phantom new Mac Pro? (via Ben Cooper)
Post-show: Casey tries to hack his car
Members-only ATP Overtime: Ternus’s “Intelligent Personal Hub” and Apple’s home AI hub
- Digital Hub strategy (Timestamp link to 1h29m46s)
- Intelligent personal hub
- Gurman

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710: That New Mouse Pad Feeling Sep 24, 2026

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🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
Follow-up:
- New treats
  - John
    - iPhone 18 Pro
      - John’s case
    - AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case
      - IP57
        
        Dust protected
        
        Immersion, up to 1m, for 30 minutes
      - Oddities
      - Volume control
  - Marco
    - Apple Watch S12 Ceramic
      - Apple Watch S12 bezels are bigger than S10?
    - Mac mini
  - Casey: Apple Watch S12 Aluminum
- How should Apple have handled iPhone Duo dev tools? (via Oscar Echeverri)
- Photos libraries on external drives (via Larry Fieman)
- Preliminary M5 Ultra GPU Geekbench scores
  - Chart
- Apple watch “Readiness Score” seem to be mostly bunk? (via Michael Katz)
iPhone Duo dev tools released
- Aaron Vegh’s video
Post-show: Marco’s Mac mini update
- Ubiquiti WAN Switch
- GL.iNet Comet Q and the PoE one
Members-only ATP Overtime: Ubiquiti’s new home Wi-Fi that does “full-duplex MLO
- Previously discussed on ATP #672: Wi Hyphen Fi
- The Disappointing Truth about Wi-Fi 7
- Introductory video

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709: Steel-Cable Insurance Sep 17, 2026

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🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Show Q&A
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
- The Marco Offset™
Todd Vaziri on James Bond homages in the event video
- Comparison video
- Previously, in 2018
Making of (via Techzha)
Preliminary Geekbench scores
- A20 Pro (iPhones 18 Pro)
  - CPU
  - GPU
- M6
  - CPU
  - GPU
- M5 Ultra
  - CPU
iPhone 18 Pro Max & Apple C2
Solar phone charging? 🤔 (via flanker)
- Pragmatic #38: Watch This Time and Space
Aperture blades on iPhone 18 Pro / Pro Max camera
iPhones 18 Pro Face ID (YouTube timestamp link to 13m34s)
iPhone Duo
- How will iPhone Mirroring work?
- No Action Button 💔
- The Duo does have a split keyboard
- An aside about our enthusiasm for the Duo
- Ternus & Joz interview part 1 & part 2
  - Thomas Ricker at The Verge
- Stephen Robles insights
  - iPhone side-dock example
  - MagSafe accessories will be… tough
- A Face ID complication (via Pedro Fernandes)
- Apple Pencil support
- Fake bezel
  - Benjamin Mayo at 9to5Mac
  - Demo video (Twitter link)
iOS 27 doesn’t include automated password changing
Photos libraries on external drives (via Mike Brogan & Jason Snell)
Optimize Storage (via Jason Snell & Fabrice Neuman)
John’s cheap S3 setup
- Configuration
- CLI invocation:
  aws s3api put-bucket-lifecycle-configuration \ --bucket my-cool-bucket-name \ --lifecycle-configuration file:///Users/yourusername/Desktop/s3-lifecycle.json \ --transition-default-minimum-object-size varies_by_storage_class
_DavidSmith on iPhone Air & 17e sales
- Gruber’s breakdown
  - iPhone 17: 36.5%
  - iPhone 17 Pro Max: 29.9%
  - iPhone 17 Pro: 29.4%
  - iPhone 17e: 2.5%
  - iPhone Air: 1.5%
Post-show: John needed Marco’s 3D printer
Members-only ATP Overtime: The triumphant return of the Genius Bar?

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708: Primary, Tertiary, and Third Cousin Sep 10, 2026

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🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
- The Marco Offset™
September 2026 event
Post-show: Jetty update
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s new business terms in the EU

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707: Haunting the Campus Like a Ghost Sep 03, 2026

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🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
- The Marco Offset™
Follow-up:
- Luz fooled me, Jerry!
  - Extremely convincing fake by Daniel Luz
  - Mea culpa
- Apple fooled us all
- Siri blobs fix
  - System Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy → Content & Privacy (turn the switch on) → Siri → Writing Assistance (turn the switch off)
- John is happy with new Macs timetable
- Are photo libraries on external disks supported?
  - Knowledge base
  - Iris
- Yankees / Sox in Apple Vision Pro
  - Dithering
- Motivations for SME adoption (via shac ron)
✅ Tim Cook exit interview
- AT 688: A Company Man at 1h8m29s (Overcast timestamp link)
Phil takes another step toward the door
- Emma Roth at The Verge
- Phil on ATP #317: We’re Customers Too
iPhone 17 / 17 Pro / 17 Pro max / Air Exit interviews
iPhone event preview
Post-show: John’s storage update
- Backblaze B2
- Amazon S3
Members-only ATP Overtime: Ternus & the Vision Pro
- 10 May: Mark Gurman
- 3 June: Juli Clover at MacRumors
- 21 August: Gurman
- 30 August: Gurman