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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

552: Not a Saturated Year Sep 14, 2023

Show notes

Pre-show: Marco’s Wi-Fi Woes
- RealPlayer
🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
- The Marco Offset
Apple Event on September 12
Not in the keynote:
Post-show: What color is Marco’s car?

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551: Tickle Rock You Sep 07, 2023

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Pre-show: 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
Follow-up:
- iPhone 14 Pro 2× vs. cropping a 1× photo
- iPhone 14 Pro Dynamic Island
  - Flighty
  - Sports Alerts (App Store link)
- You can update TCL Roku TV via USB (via Pierre-Luc Gagné)
- Apple Park & garbage cans
Apple Event on September 12
Post-show Neutral:
- Rivian is canning their ugliest paint option

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550: A Wizard With No Choices Sep 01, 2023

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Pre-show: 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
Follow-up:
- Obscura 4 is out! (App Store link)
- Alternative TCL TV workarounds (via Chris Berryhill)
- Child Gmail Accounts
  - Children cannot set up email forwarding (via Henri Sivonen)
  - Child accounts are ripe for recovery issues (via Sriram Karra)
- Trouble in HomePod paradise
- iMac G5 perks (via Aaron Walker)
- Ads on the ATP YouTube channel
- Truck routing
  - Truck Map has a skip button (via Ezekiel Elin)
  - Garmin sells bespoke truck GPS units (via Jonathan Llamas)
  - Some recommendations (via Andrew Larson)
    - inRoute
    - TomTom/Garmin
Apple Event on September 12
Exit Interviews
- iPhone 14
- Watch Ultra
- Watch Series 8
- A special Exit Salute
Post-show: Casey’s new vibraslap
- DS1621+
- Western Digital Red 18 TB

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549: Unauthorized Trash Can Aug 24, 2023

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Pre-show:
- Marco’s box truck
  - TruckMap
  - Trucker Path
🗣️ New ATP Membership Survey 🗣️
(This is for everyone, not just members)
🗣️ New member special: ATP Tier List: Every iMac 🗣️
Follow-up:
- iMac Tier List
  - Intel Core vs. Core 2 ∆s (via Michael Gabriel)
  - Marco claims vindication
    - Core Duo Geekbench 32-bit: 2,327
    - Core 2 Duo Geekbench 32-bit: 2,423 (4% faster), 64-bit: 2,739 (17% faster)
    - How much faster is “2 Duo” than “Duo”?
  - 21” was (eventually) Retina, writes Max Wilkie
- More text editors
  - CotEditor (via Taher Rangwala)
  - Chime
- Pronouncing “Niléane” (and more)
- Apple can’t design for humans
- Photo editing on the Mac (via Ezekiel Elin)
  - (•••)
  - ⌘ ⏎
- Dumb TV workarounds (also via Ezekiel Elin)
- Apple, TV+, Disney+, and Games (via Aaron Thomas)
Marco’s review of Ubiquiti Security Cameras
#askatp:
- How do we handle kid e-mail addresses? (via Greg)
- What are our expectations for subscription apps? (via Michael)
- How do we prevent losing access to our password managers? (via Denis Čapkovič)
Post-show:
- Marco’s latest gift shipment to Casey
- Marco’s latest gift shipment to John

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548: Starting to Count Chickens Aug 17, 2023

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Pre-show: LG stand woes & Casey pronunciation woes
Follow-up:
- Casey’s fire hazard has been returned
- Text editors
  - Yes, we forgot about Nova. Our bad.
  - Zed (in beta)
  - vi
    - ls -l `which vi`
  - mg
    - README
    - /usr/bin/mg
  - nano
  - pico
- Neat Safari-in-Sonoma trick
- LLCs may not be the panacea we thought
  - Single-member LLCs can still be “real businesses”, says Ryan Roy
  - Single-member LLCs don’t necessarily protect the member, says Patrick Yan
    - FAQ from Denha & Associates PLLC
    - Blog post from Wolters Kluwer
- Callsheet week one & subscription dynamics
  - Installer from David Pierce & The Verge
Apple-buys-Disney Rumors
- The Hollywood Reporter
- Jason
- Upgrade #472: Step Aside, Bob!
- King’s Dominion Backlot Stunt Coaster
  (The poster in the hero image is not the one Casey was talking about)
- Cabel Sasser: Fantasy Meets Reality
- WWDC 2013 Intro Video
  - If everyone is busy making everything, how can anyone perfect anything?
  - There are a thousand no’s for every yes.
- Aaron Thomas’ #askatp
Post-show: Let’s have a fireside chat about the state of ATP. (Nobody’s in trouble.)

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547: Own Your Pricing Aug 10, 2023

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Pre-show:
- ⚠️ LAST CHANCE FOR HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ⚠️
Follow-up:
- Mophie 3-in-1 travel charger
  - Reported issues
  - Firmware update kit
- Casey’s fire hazard
- John’s Photos issues
  - He knows about modifier keys, y’all.
    - MacPaint
    - MacDraw
  - Odd behavior with iPhone camera app
  - Jason Snell’s crop macro (.ZIP link)
  - Keyboard Maestro
  - Gui’s spelunking around face detection
    - defaults write com.apple.photoanalysisd PhotoAnalysisCoreDuetSchedulingDisabled -bool YES
    - Running XPC on-demand
    - XPC
  - In-app non-destructive photo editing (the below are App Store links)
  - #caseywasright
🎉 Callsheet has launched! 🎉
#askatp:
- Is it wise for indie developers to make a LLC? (via Nate Silva)
  - Massachusetts Fees
  - Massachusetts Fee Schedule
- Could Apple go nuts with overclocking in a Mac Pro? (via Janne Ojaniemi)
- What text editor are we using these days? (via Edward Corcoran)
Post-show: Roku TVs are gross

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546: Re-Crop With the Wisdom of Age Jul 31, 2023

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Pre-show:
- Marco’s Overcast rewrite
- 🗣️ HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ARE BACK, BABY 🗣️
Follow-up:
- Synology Dynamic DNS
  - Alex Mazanov (of SwiftBar fame)’s interesting idea
  - CNAME
- Marco’s security camera update
  - Scrypted
  - Eufy
  - Cameras with HomeKit Secure Video support
  - John’s sailing channel
  - B&H is a Ubiquiti retailer
- Some interesting research on memory and caching from Akshay Narayan
App Store to require developers to describe API use
John’s annual post-vacation tradition
- FB12744158
- Face recognition
- When does Photos scan faces?
#askatp:
- What are we dropping down to UIKit for? (from Aaron Bushnell)
- What does John think of the α6700? (from David Campbell)
- Why is my experience of social networks so different from what I hear you describe? (from Ben Gunsberger)
Post-show: [Some] weird things that Casey does
- GL.iNet GL-MT1300
- Quinn’s video

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545: My Butler Can’t Use It Jul 27, 2023

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🗣️ HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ARE BACK, BABY 🗣️
Pre-show: Marco mended something!
- How-to video
- The good replacement part
Which one of us is which?
- Meet Your Hosts
Apple Vision Pro labs, developer kits, and more
Casey’s phone call with App Review
Rumor that the quad chip is canceled
- Upgrade #468: Nonstop Bangers Involving Saxophone Solos
Follow-up:
- Large SSDs & Apple Silicon (via Matt Rigby)
  - Asmedia
Threads is already tanking? (Apple News link)
The Ubiquiti Dream Router is slow
- …but the Dream Machine Special Edition is sold out
- …and the Dream Wall is pretty cool, albeit ridiculous
Long-term review of the Logitech Circle View & HomeKit Secure Video
- Correction: there are more HomeKit cameras
Post-show: Casey’s troubleshooting adventures
- WireGuard
  - (Try PiVPN if you’re using a Raspberry Pi)
- Tailscale
- Dyn
- No-IP

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544: Valid in a Marco Way Jul 16, 2023

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Pre-show:
- Blue Man Group
- 🗣️ HYPERCRITICAL SHIRTS ARE BACK, BABY 🗣️
Follow-up:
- EV thoughts from Sam Abuelsamid
- Tesla V4 Superchargers
- iPadOS 17 window management
- An extended aside about social networks, federation, and socialism
- iCloud Keychain 🤝 third-party browsers
  - Ricky’s 🍑💨
  - Chrome Extension
Casey’s no-good, very bad day 😭😬
#askatp:
- Is Time Machine really useful anymore, anyway? (via Dan Provost)
  - Synology Products Compatibility List
- Could a third-party ARM chip end up in a Mac Pro? (via Torb)
- Servers love large CPUs; could Apple use Apple Silicon in servers? (via David Loring)
  - Apple Network Server
  - Xserve
- Could Apple make a hyper-fast “drive” to sorta-kinda expand RAM? (via Patrick Melody)
- Why no dual-socket CPU in the Mac Pro? (via Aryan Aneja)
- Does the Mac Pro really have an “super car” attributes anymore? (via Jan Lehnardt)
- Is the Vision Pro now the “halo car”? (via David Saunders)
Post-show: Marco’s update

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543: 100 Million Tire-Kickers Jul 11, 2023

Show notes

Pre-show: Marco’s butt-crack update
Follow-up:
- Upgrade #467: The Least Important Mac Follow-out
  - The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor (2013)
- Vision Pro eyes
  - The Talk Show #378 (YouTube link)
- Listener Occupation Overview
- Statistical analysis and standard error (via Chris Rose)
Instagram Threads Version One
#askatp:
- If 1Password 8 still stinks when the carrot becomes a stick, where should one store software licenses? (via Wes Chamness)
  - Yojimbo
Ask Neutral:
- How do we feel about darn near everyone adopting NACS over CCS? (via Steve J. Stutz)
- What are some good & bad parts of EV ownership? (via yottalogical)
  - Technology Connections’s Primer
Post-show: Casey & John app updates

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