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**Accidental Tech Podcast**

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

Latest Episodes:

522: I’ll Just Keep You for Ten Years Feb 16, 2023

Show notes

Pre-show: Marco is living the true Land Rover experience
- TFL Offroad
- Your Daily Lex
Follow-up:
- The foibles of a 2.1 setup (via Samuel Polay)
- Sony HT-A9 & SA-SW5
  - Video review
  - Bundle on Amazon
- What’s the ∆ between Apple TVs? (via Andy Galletly)
  - An Unsolicited Streaming App Spec
  - Streaming App Sentiments
- Current vs. Previous-Gen Apple TV 4K
  - YouTube video
  - Identify your Apple TV model
- imessage-exporter (via Christopher Sardegna)
  - Google Takeout
Apple dropping Product Design Chief role
Mac Studio is one-and-done?
- Jason’s post
#askatp:
- Does subscribing to a dead show cause burden on Overcast? (via Scott Wright)
- Would a 8 × 64 GB MacBook read data 8× faster than a single 512 GB MacBook? (via John Susek)
- How do we handle unknown callers? (via b4rt0s1k)
  - NoMoRobo
Post-show: The Liss family has finally fallen (but are okay though)

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521: Dance Compatible Feb 09, 2023

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Pre-show: Marco relives his middle-school years
Follow-up:
- HomePod 2
  - Siri speed test video
    - And a related #askatp from Justin Saucier
    - Sonos Premium Entertainment Set with Arc
  - HomePod 2 power connector
    - IEC 60320
  - A fix for tapping the HomePod near an outlet
- Foo Fighters performed at iPhone 5 launch (via Sverrir Björgvinsson)
- Twitter shenanigans continue
Marco’s HomePod 2 Review
#askatp:
- Will large enterprises set up Mastodon instances? (via Gavin Whitaker)
  - Masto.host
- Why are Xcode downloads so darn huge? (via Nathan Roberts)
- How the heck do you search for code-related help for iOS/macOS stuff? (via Darin Kelkhoff)
- Queryable: iPhone photo search app
Post-show: Audio is difficult
- 🍌 🔌

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520: Bananas Ingestion System Feb 02, 2023

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Pre-show: Your hosts have a discussion about music. We’re… um… sorry.
- macOS: Settings → Advanced → Add songs to Library when adding to playlists
- iOS: Settings→ Music → Add Playlist Songs
Follow-up:
- Overview of US healthcare terminology
  - Ars Technica on the US healthcare situation
- HomePod updates
  - MKBHD video
  - 9to5Mac’s photo
- Marco’s charging woes (via Jonathan Dietz)
  - A kludgey fix suggested by Conrad Poohs
- M2 Pro/Max
  - MaxTech video
  - Vadim Yuryev
- Backing up iCloud Photo Library
- Khan Academy Kids & ABCMouse
Foldable iPad with carbon fiber kickstand?
Apple’s “Reality Pro” AR/VR goggles: 🎵 what is it good for? 🎵
Post-show: Marco is confused by his iPad
- M539 Restorations

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519: Paint My Wings Jan 26, 2023

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Pre-show:
- Frame Game
- ❗️ New Member’s special ❗️
- Belated observation of an anniversary
  - Casey’s ATP announcement tweet
Follow-up:
- The new Mac mini is the same dimensions as the old one
- But the base-model SSD is far slower… again.
  - Max Tech
- Twitter officially bans third-party clients
  - Diff (via Andy Baio)
  - Twitter Dev’s tweet
    - Jason’s thoughts, which are 😗👌🏻
    - Jason’s follow-up
  - Twitterrific Goodbye
    - Linea
    - Tot
    - xScope
  - Tweetbot Goodbye
    - Ivory
- Twitter does, indeed, seem to be crumbling
- Valentines Day at White Castle
- Unusual ways to listen to ATP
- Some Movie Club follow-up:
  - Regarding Hunt’s language change (via David Watson)
  - Some thoughts from Patrick Warn
    - The Whistle Blower
  - Smarter Every Day gets on the USS Toledo
Marco’s USB-charging question
Apple is exploring touchscreen Macs 😱
#askatp:
- Any app suggestions for young kids? (via Lee Jarvis)
- How in the 🤬 can you move or rename an open document on macOS? (via Brian Coffey)
- How do we handle health insurance [since 🇺🇸 sucks]? (via Nevin)
Post-show: Window-washing follow-up

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**518: Deconstructed iMac** Jan 19, 2023
Show notes

Pre-show:

Marco’s window-washing woes

Chicken hat dregs

❗️ Imminent members-only special ❗️

Follow-up:

Getty Images suing creators of Stable Diffusion

Stable Diffusion Litigation

One more from CES: solid-state cooling

PC World video

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)

Twitter kills (some) third-party clients

Craig Hockenberry

The Verge

Twitter’s sole “statement”, five days later 🙄 × ∞

The Verge on “🫡”

Upgrade+ 442: Filing bug reports with Apple

An entry from the we-have-the-best-listeners file

Apple’s Week of Announcements

New Macs

Dan Moren

Color-matched MagSafe cables‼️

iStat Menus

New HomePods 😱

Post-show: Casey got the Belkin Continuity Camera doodad

External Display Mount

Laptop Display Mount

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517: A Tesla Full of Kindles Jan 09, 2023

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Pre-show: Marco still has his red hat cursed car
Follow-up:
- Backing up iPhoto Libraries (via Jonas)
- Dell 5K monitor
- Dell 6K monitor
  - Teaser video
  - Dell resolution: 6144 × 3456
  - XDR resolution: 6016 × 3384
CES TV News
Qi2 is MagSafe?
Rewind.ai internals (via Kevin Chen)
#askatp:
- What would be important in a “3rd alternative” desktop operating system? (via Stephan Jacobs)
- Do we use RSS? Which apps, if so? (via Andy Clarke)
  - Reeder
  - NetNewsWire
  - Feedbin
  - Unread (App Store link)
  - ReadKit
  - TIN
Post-show:
- 🗣️ BREAKING NEWS 🗣️ Tesla Steering Wheel Retrofit
- Mercedes EQS SUV brake pedal (via James Russell)
  - Quinn Nelson’s thoughts: 1 & 2 & 3
  - Technology Connections enters the chat: 1 & 2

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516: One of My Fits of Rage Jan 03, 2023

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Pre-show: Vacations, illness, birthdays, and carrot cake
Follow-up:
- AI Art & Copyright (via Amy Lee)
- chkbit
  - True Life
  - Diary
Marco, CloudKit, and Overcast
- Under the Radar #258: A Less-Cloudy Outlook
Samsung ViewFinity S9
#askatp:
- How do we backup & store Xcode project folders? (via Eshu Marneedi)
  - Tim Bray on Mastodon search
- How does John feel about lossy streaming on his fancypants new TV? (via Sean Cameron)
  - HDTVtest
- What’s the best way to backup a Photos library to a Synology? (via Justin Fisher)
Post-show: John’s Earthworks Ethos adventure

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515: The Elder Programmer Look Dec 28, 2022

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Pre-show: Marco has decreed today is Christmas Eve.
- Project Highrise
- Don’t Starve Together
Follow-up:
- Butterfly Keyboard class-action lawsuit payouts
- Artists can now opt out of the next version of Stable Diffusion
  - Have I Been Trained?
  - Have I Been Pwned?
- A fun Twitter → Mastodon web app (via Ted Tschopp)
  - Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
  - macos9.app
- Rewind.ai is available
  - Lensa AI (App Store link)
John’s iPad Mystery
- iPad Pro (4th generation)
- iPad Pro (6th generation)
Casey’s AirPods Pro Mystery
Always-On Display Tweaks in iOS 16.2 (via Brandon Butch)
Apple car project hits [yet more] road bumps
#askatp:
- Why even bother with your own blog/domain anyway? (via Petar Petrović)
  - Fastmail
  - Squarespace
  - Hover
  - Linode
- What should I do about bit rot? 😱 (via Jeremy Nash)
  - Synology
  - ZFS
  - TrueNAS
  - Unraid
  - Btrfs
- Do we use native mouse acceleration?
  - SteerMouse
Post-show: Christmas Movies

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514: My Immense Softness Dec 22, 2022

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Pre-show: Period pieces about x2 and k56flex
- Superbad
- DIVX
Follow-up:
- Casey has fixed his Docker problems with Colima?
- Apple is considering dropping the WebKit requirement?
  - Blink
  - Gecko
- Some clarifications and feedback about the SR-71 (via Chris)
- Moisturizers are, indeed, real.
  - Cetaphil: Casey was right, according to everyone
  - O’Keeffe’s Working Hands Cream: Marco’s waxy-barrier pick
  - CeraVe Moisturizing Cream: Marco’s daytime-softness favorite
  - Eucerin Advanced Repair Hand Cream: Another highly-recommended option
Mac Pro, but less so
#askatp:
- Do any of us journal? (via Arthur Dickerson)
  - Day One
- What are the top-level folders on our home directory? (via Matt Toohey)
- How does Casey even use Spaces, anyway? (via Cai)
Post-show: So, uh, what the heck are we gonna do about our theme song?
- Jonathan Mann
- Descript

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513: Scribble on the Shared Placemat Dec 15, 2022

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Pre-show: Is moisturizer real?
- Orange Goop
The 🐔🧢 is back!!
Follow-up:
- Recovery keys & backup contacts
  - Apple’s information
  - Oliver Ames’ thoughts
- More on StoreKit 2 and Refunds
  - Tech Talk
  - Request a Refund
- The Sharrow is real, John.
  - WWDC 2017
  - Relevant clip
- Enabling Advanced Data Protection for “enthusiasts”
  - Apple’s support article
- Quitting the Finder
  - defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool true
- Apple Music Sing, Atmos, and ML
  - Example Goose album
- Tesla adds Apple Music support
Freeform
- Linea
- Definitely not John’s fridge
Advanced Data Protection and Convergent Encryption
- Stratechery post (requires login)
- Perceptual hashing
Apple will allow Third-Party App Stores in the EU
- The Digital Markets Act
- MacRumors
- Stratechery (requires login)
- Gruber’s take
- Jason’s take
- Apple considers dropping WebKit requirement? 🤨
Post-show: Casey’s [mis]adventures with Docker
- Raspberry Pi Supply Chain Update

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