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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

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621: I’ll Meet You Any Time You Want Jan 09, 2025

Show notes

Pre-show: Our AirPods are trying to talk to us but we can’t understand them
- 20k Hz
- statuslight.com
Follow-up:
- That gas car review post that Marco was thinking of
- The Find My app can make Macs make noise (via Miles)
- Maybe iOS 18’s Photos app isn’t all bad? (via Tim Luft)
- The Magic Mouse
  - The Apology Mouse did not have side buttons
  - The Mighty Mouse did
  - MKBHD’s blind ranking interview with Tim Cook
    - Editorialized reel
  - What will the new one be?
    - Ridiculous mouse rumor
      - Gurman’s take
      - Hello, Computer
    - Death to buttons?
    - Death to ports? (In the name of handedness)
    - Maybe ape the Logitech MX Anywhere? (via Karan J)
    - Perhaps a common charging approach?
- Apple already makes Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chips (via Ian Williamson)
- Meshtastic is another application for John and Casey’s new favorite thing, LoRa (via James Andrews)
CES 2025
- TVs
  - What’s John got his eyes on?
  - Sony 💔
  - Samsung’s new QD-OLED
    - HDTVTest
    - Digital Trends
  - LG’s flagship goes MLA → Tandem OLED
    - Microlens
    - Tandem OLED
  - Panasonic talks about the new LG panel
    - “Primary RGB Tandem OLED Panel”
    - HDTVTest on the Z95B
  - More “AI” coming to TVs ☹️
  - Big TVs are big
- LG Unveils UltraFine 6K Display with Thunderbolt 5
  - Recent ATP Overtime on monitors was in Episode #618
  - Dell UltraSharp 32 6K Monitor “U3224KB”
- Dell no longer makes XPS computers
  - Mocked at their own launch is not a great look
  - Engadget’s take
- Nvidia’s announcements
TestFlight access to John’s app is [likely] coming for ATP members only
Post-show:
- Thanks, Patrons 💙
- Marco bought something.
  - HDCP
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Intelligence summaries may get warning labels

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620: Mostly Cookies Jan 04, 2025

Show notes

Pre-show:
- Holiday results
  - Steven Levy: Gone, Without a Trace
- Casey’s impending mess
- John needs technical support
Follow-up:
- Satirical posts about gas cars from the perspective of EV owners
  - FotS Spencer’s find (discussed on the show)
  - The one we were actually thinking of (found afterward by K, thanks!)
- On Recents in the Finder sidebar
  - Michael Starke points out it isn’t new
  - Odin points out it’s a default
  - Joe Lion has complaints
- Possible next-generation Vision Pro displays (via Erich Jurgens)
- Be suspect of iPhone Mirroring on corporate Macs
  - Original blog post
  - ~/Library/Daemon Containers/{…}/Data/Library/Caches
iOS 18 Photos hate (via Quinn)
Apple’s Wi-Fi & Bluetooth chip, and Magic Mouse update?
- MKBHD asks Tim Cook about the Magic Mouse
Post-show: Casey has joined the YoLink bandwagon
Members-only ATP Overtime: Fast Directory Sizing
- WWDC 2016 #701: Introducing Apple File System
  - Direct video link
  - Slides PDF
- About Apple File System
- Apple File System Reference
- dirstat.h
- dirstat.c

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**619: Master Plan to Take Over the World** Dec 26, 2024
Show notes

Pre-show:

New member special: ATP Insider: Making The Show

Become an ATP Member to listen

ATP Gift Memberships

Follow-up:

“Hey, Future Marco” wasn’t discussed on the member’s special (via Martim)

Can Marco recognize waveforms?

Descript

Emo Siri

It started before 18.2 (via Dan Mielcarz)

She pahks heah cah… sometimes? (via Dave Martin)

Immersive video

More about the Blackmagic immersive camera (via videoalex)

Insta360 Titan

Software-based immersive video

Depth Anything

Immersive video prior art (via James O’Loughlin)

Welcome to Light Fields

Deep View Video

Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis (via Joseph Humfre)

Demo for the Meta Quest

John’s app

More on Smart Update and clones from Dave Nanian

Unexpected gains in software (via Peter Marks)

Why even bother, asks Harvey Simon

New Vision Pro content — again!

Apple and bootable macOS backups

Mike Bombich at Carbon Copy Cloner has thoughts

Original blog post from May 2021

Secure boot

`asr`: Apple Software Restore

Ask ATP:

Does the new `Recents` item in Finder conflict with Apple’s privacy stance? (via Cira Mazzola)

What’s the correct location to save random scripts? (via tuckerk)

`~/bin`

`/usr/local/bin`

Do we use the macOS firewall? (via Saul Sutherland)

What are we using for cameras these days? (via Torstein)

Fuji X-T5: black recommended for control legibility

27mm pancake (41mm equiv.)

16-50 zoom (24-76mm equiv.): small, light, great quality

16-55 f/2.8 II zoom (24-84mm equiv.): surprisingly small and light for f/2.8, great quality

Fuji GFX 100S (old version; this is the current one)

50mm “pancake” (40mm equiv.)

Olympus OM-D E-M10

Sony a7 III

SEL2470GM2 Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM II

Post-show: Erin’s Volvo XC90 PHEV, ~6 months on

*Including a detour to discuss professional Christmas light installation*

Members-only ATP Overtime: The Best & Worst of 2024

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618: Type System Says No Dec 19, 2024

Show notes

New member-exclusive ATP Insider: Making The Show
Follow-up:
- John’s [hopefully] (?) forthcoming app
  - A funny conspiracy theory shared by Thomas Alvarez
  - Christian Kent’s correction/joke
  - More app name ideas…
  - Experts have weighed in on John’s idea
  - Alternative space-saving idea from Timm Schoof
- Using self-service parts for upgrade is not really possible because ✨software✨
Pinstripes are back, baby!
- Jeff Johnson
  - Reddit post
Is Siri… emotional… now?
Marco’s new e-ink toy
- Integrations
- API
- Note that it’s backordered for a bit
New Wildlife immersive video episode
Blackmagic announces immersive video camera
Apple Vision Pro 🤝 PlayStation VR2 Controllers
- PlayStation VR2
- Steve Jobs quoting Alan Kay
  People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Post-show: John’s app progress
Members-only ATP Overtime: The Mac monitor situation
- 5K is 5120 × 2880
- Marc Edwards’ chart
- Samsung ViewFinity S9 5K
  - At the time of recording, on sale for $720
  - Jason’s review
- ASUS ProArt Display 5K PA27JCV Professional Monitor
  - Review by D. Griffin Jones
- BenQ PD2730S
- ASUS ProArt Display 6K PA32QCV
- Apple’s plans

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617: An Incredibly Dangerous App Dec 13, 2024

Show notes

Pre-show: Laundry tactics
Follow-up:
- Last (?) batch of football (🏈) news
  - Channels
- Simon B. Støvring on the Festivitas holiday lights
  - CGPath
- Casey’s phone could recognize his washing machine chime
- Apple has a self-service repair store (via Ricky Haase)
- FotS Jonathan Dietz Jr. on SSD performance
  - M1-M3:
    ioreg -lrw0 -d1 -c AppleANS3NVMeController
  - M4:
    ioreg -lrw0 -d1 -c AppleANS3CGv2Controller
M4 Extreme is allegedly canceled
John’s adventures in saving space
visionOS 2.2, macOS 15.2, and Mac Virtual Display
- Casey’s toots
- At the library
Post-show: Should Casey delay a Callsheet launch in hope of an App Store feature?
Members-only ATP Overtime: Macintosh emulator is forbidden from third party app stores 👎🏻

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616: I Have No Grippers Dec 06, 2024

Show notes

Pre-show: Marco [re-]discovers progressives
Follow-up:
- Yet more football (🏈) news
  - Seriously y’all, the Giants are so bad 😭
  - TVEverywhere & Channels
- AVP immersive content tallies (via _)
- Cleaning a Mac keyboard while screensaver lock is on (via Paradise Pete)
  - We are one again asking you to consider CleanupBuddy
- Another explanation for ballooning app sizes (via Alex)
- More thoughts on Mac SSD upgrades (via FotS Jonathan Dietz, Jr.)
  - Anobit
- Yet apparently reverse-engineered upgrades are coming?
Threads tests allowing users to choose their own default feed
- Ivory
- Reeder
- Tapestry
- Zuck’s post
Pat Gelsinger is out at Intel
- Ben Thompson’s take (Paywalled)
- Ben Bajarin’s take
- Larrabee
- Fairchild Semiconductor
#askatp:
- What do we wish we could add to our apps, but Apple prevents?
  - The Mac is the Model
  - Festivitas
Post-show:
Members-only ATP Overtime: Photography Corner
- Tips from FotS Tyler Stalman
- Cropping isn’t always necessary (via Nicholas Gaffney)
- Psychology of photography (via Matt Johnson)

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**615: A Mildly Brisk Walk** Nov 26, 2024
Show notes

Pre-show: All John’s apes gone

Follow-up:

Casey has found yet new ways to make himself miserable

Sunday Ticket updates

On sale!

It was free yesterday… kind of

TV Everywhere

An alternative approach

DAZN

NFL Replay

Tailscale and Exit Nodes

Concert for One: Raye

NPR Tiny Desk Concerts

NPR Tiny Desk Concert: Raye

Using large external drives with macOS

Photos library

An anecdote from Marc Wickens

Booting from an external

Downloading large App Store apps

`App Store` → `Settings`

Competition for the wall-mounted HomePad (via Alesh Houdek)

Apple Intelligence notification summaries

Steve Troughton-Smith

Chris Hancock

DOJ says Google must sell Chrome

Google’s spin response

Ben Thompson’s take

Gurman on a “more conversational Siri”

`#askatp`:

Can one push computation onto the performance cores? (via Andrew Hodgson)

iStat Menus

Why are apps getting so big? (via James Wilby)

Post-show: Thanksgiving logistics

Members-only ATP Overtime: Services on macOS

Łukasz Rutkowski’s toot in Sean Heber’s thread

Services on macOS

Making a system-wide service

`ThisService` (now defunct)

Github

In Automator

Save your `.workflow` files in `~/Library/Services/`

To assign a keyboard shortcut:
`System Settings` → `Keyboard` → `Keyboard Shortcuts` (button) → `Services` (sidebar) → `Text` (list section)

FastScripts

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614: Don’t Puke for the Show Nov 23, 2024

Show notes

🗣️ New ATP Members’ Special: ATP Movie Club: Kiki’s Delivery Service
- Kiki’s Delivery Service
Follow-up:
- The Weeknd: Open Hearts
- M4 vs. M4 Pro Mac mini SSD speed ∆s (via Thor Johansen)
- Quinn’s video on PC equivalents to the Mac mini
- Apple storage pricing
  - Mac mini vs. PlayStation 5 Pro
  - Apple vs. market SSD prices
  - Retailers are also hamstrung
- M4 MacBook Pro uses quantum dot technology
  - Graphs
- Alternative drag cancellation options
iOS Inactivity Reboot
- Wes Davis at The Verge
- 404 Media (Paywalled)
- Demo video
- Reverse engineering
#askatp:
- How is an M4 Ultra expected to outperform PC GPUs? (via Ammar)
- Should macOS-as-a-file-server people worry about bitrot? (via Yannic Boysen)
  - APFS in Detail: Data Integrity
Post-show: Casey’s adventures in remote television
Members-only ATP Overtime: Is complaining about Apple’s prices useful? Do we have any effect?
- Progressive vs. regressive taxation
  (Apple is the former)

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613: Dress for the Chip You Want Nov 14, 2024

Show notes

🚨 LAST CALL! 🚨 ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by Sunday!
Follow-up:
- Aperture was not a purchase; it was developed by Apple. (via Jason Sims)
- “Plain” M4 MacBook Pro and external displays (via Eric Roch)
- Mac mini
  - “Modular” storage
  - Other tidbits
    - Heatsink differences
    - 256 GB = 2× 128 GB
    - Wi-Fi & Bluetooth are their own PCB
    - #askatp: setting up external SSDs (via Peter Welpton)
    - Thunderbolt performance limits
- Geekbench scores across Apple Silicon (via Wes Campaigne)
  - iPhone Pro Clock speeds
  - Ken Case’s observation
Apple’s smart home ambitions
#askatp:
- Should users be worried that 8/16GB RAM is “claimed” by Apple Intelligence? (via andrewsleigh)
- Why can’t Apple make a Studio Display with MacBook Pro backlight technology? (via Henri Sivonen)
- What power user hacks can we not live without? (via Ryan Tierney)
Post-show: Marco’s Mac Mini setup
- Marco’s OWC drive enclosure
Members-only ATP Overtime: Vision Pro cheerleading
- Patrick’s original question

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612: Screen on Face Nov 07, 2024

Show notes

Pre-show: Politics later.
- #195: The Show Must Go On (Overcast link)
🗣️ ATP Holiday Store is open! 🗣️ Place your orders by 17 November!
Follow-up:
- Mac mini
  - Headphone jack placement
  - Quinn’s observation
    - Cruical 32GB DIMM
    - Samsung SSD
- iMac
  - Apple removes color-matched pointing devices option
- M4 vs. M4 Pro/Max SSD limits
- M4 Pro & M4 Max performance
- Walmart still sells a Mac with 8GB RAM
- Apple’s new USB-C Accessories require Sequoia
- Apple’s $69 Thunderbolt 5 cable (via Daniel Luz)
- There exists at least one dock with 10GbE (via Daniel Nelson)
- iFixIt’s iPad Mini (A17 Pro) teardown
- AppleTV gaming (via killvore)
- Keyboard Cleaning & MacBook Booting
  - CleanupBuddy by Gui Rambo
  - Alternative incantation from Daniel Pieper
    - Power the machine off
    - Left ⌃ and ⌘ as well as Right ⇧ for 7 seconds
    - While still holding, hold the power button for 7 seconds
    - This is not an SMC reset, but it’s close.
    - Only lasts until the next boot 😑
Apple buys Pixelmator
Apple buys stake in Globalstar
- Press release
- Globalstar
Vision Pro v2 changes?
- Ming-Chi Quo
- Mark Gurman
Post-show: Group therapy
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Intelligence experiences
- Photo cleanup shoot-out by Joe Rosensteel

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